The handful of people likely to form the socially-distanced audience at the last night of this year’s Promenade Concerts will be asked to bring kazoos, or a paper and comb, or else just hum along while the concluding anthems Rule Britannia and Jerusalem are played. [read...]
Economists and the financial press have been gobsmacked as reports have slowly begun to filter through of ‘somewhat less than positive recent growth in the prosperity and general economic wellbeing of the United Kingdom’ following months of lockdown, [read...]
There was immediate concern and widespread distress when an aircraft was seen bearing an offensive message. Almost half-a dozen people, with powerful binoculars, were just able to distinguish the sign when it was carefully pointed out to them, [read...]
‘At last, I can resume my retirement’ said a relieved Earnest Chamberlain, 71, this morning. ‘For weeks now I have been forced to loaf about at home in my slippers, feeling guilty about still not having got any gardening done, [read...]
Tom Moore has set off to Windsor to pick up his birthday telegram from the Queen, sources confirmed today. ‘I hope I get there in time’, said the vigorous veteran. ‘It’s over 60 miles to Windsor, [read...]
