The deed has been done and the die has been cast! Today, in our monthly departmental meeting, I announced my impending retirement. A ...

For today's image, I have to thank Ted Treen, one of my regulars and fellow  Black country  lad. He saw this image and immediately thou...

Ken Pod with his proctology 'wand' Sir Ken, ‘How Pickled I Am’, Pod has died in pieces at a rest home in ‘Tipton on Canal’. Famo...

We live in uncertain times. Globalisation and fast-paced technological change make future predictions, even relatively short-term one...

Who's a pretty boy den? Sexual selection: now there's a thing. Most higher animals and some lower animals too (definition Fla...

I wrote a post about 'Dull News' in Newspapers about a year ago. It tackled the mind numbing banality and often vapid news stories ...

Britain entered the First World War with a small but highly professional army. The Germans, French, Austria-Hungarians and Russians rai...