You may recall the name Tony Blair.
He was the Awe-Inspiring Leader of these islands a few Awe-Inspiring Leaders ago, before the rise of our current Awe-Inspiring Leader, whose name is, of course (checks notes, scratches head, Googles ‘current UK leader’)… Sir Keir Starmer. Anyway, Blair is back in the news due to his meddling, sorry, invaluable guiding hand, in matters Middle Eastern.
He’s also one of the key advocates of digital ID, an idea fashionable with our ruling classes.
Reader Laura Jones happened to mention to her husband how surprised she was to witness the resurgence of Mr Blair after all these years.
“it’s not surprising at all,” shrugged her husband. “After all, the Daleks and Cybermen always return. Why not Blair?”
Brought to book
The other evening Bill Irvine from Hamilton was giving a lift to a colleague, as they were both going to the same conference.
As the colleague got into the passenger seat, he picked up Bill’s library book that had been left there and glanced at it.
“Are you a reader yourself?” asked Bill.
“Only audio books,” replied the colleague, adding: “That way I can know how the characters’ names are pronounced.”
Journeyman
Overheard in the pub by reader Joe Dallas.
An exhausted-looking bloke sighed to his pal: “I feel like I’ve got jet lag.” “Oh, have you been abroad then?” enquired the pal.
“Not this year,” conceded the first fellow: “Maybe it’s bus lag.”
The anatomy lesson
Mythology can be defined as a pack of lies that refuse to fade away, and the ancient Greeks were perhaps the best truth-stretchers there has ever been, with their glorious fibs about Zeus and the gang.
Reader Richard Murray admits he struggles with those tall tales of yore, and says: “Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules’ ankle.”
Love… actually?
A tale of romance.
Kinda.
Pauline Miller was in a tea shop in Edinburgh’s Morningside when she overheard two young ladies chatting.
One had recently bagged a new beau, and she was rather excited about it, for as she explained to her chum: “He’s the perfect guy for me. We’re both Type One diabetics.”
Where in the world
Come with us, faithful reader, as we travel back in time to the dusty classroom of youth, where we can enjoy some educational humour from reader Kevin Davies, who says: “A geography teacher once asked me if I could name a country with no R in it. I said, ‘No way’."
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