16 February 2017 Excusing The Soliloquy How to explain talking to yourself. By Chin Chin There are advantages to getting older. You become wiser for a start and the younger generation (who often believe that age and honesty march together) will listen to your recollections with increasing respect. “Did you really invent computers, Mr Chin? … Continue reading Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Excusing The Soliloquy (Chin Chin)
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Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Clothes Pegs (Chin Chin)
09 February 2017 Clothes Pegs A nasal approach. By Chin Chin People are remembered for different things: Churchill for oratory and leadership; George Washington for honesty; Turner for colour; and I, I am afraid, may be remembered for clothes pegs. That isn’t because I have invented a new type of clothes peg and will shortly… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Clothes Pegs (Chin Chin)
Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Finding The King (Chin Chin)
02 February 2017 Finding The King Detecting royalty at a glance. By Chin Chin It was an unnerving experience. There I was at an excellent New Zealand restaurant having a good look through the menu. I was still wondering what to eat when a young woman appeared wielding a pad and a pencil, presumably to… Continue reading Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Finding The King (Chin Chin)
Issue 89: 2017 01 26: The Tax System (Chin Chin)
26 January 2017 The Tax System A guide. By Chin Chin It is tax return time of year again and the nation disappears under a cloud of receipts and invoices as everyone participates in the general search for missing pieces of paper. There is also the excitement of trying to get the information into the… Continue reading Issue 89: 2017 01 26: The Tax System (Chin Chin)
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Just Among Friends (Chin Chin)
19 January 2017 Just Among Friends Favours must be returned. By Chin Chin MI6 is “briefing both ways”, deceiving both the Russians and Americans! “MI6 officers are never ex”! The Russian commentary on the British Secret Service following the revelation of the “dirty dossier” on Trump is worthy of John le Carré. So what is… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Just Among Friends (Chin Chin)
Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Bandits at 12 o’clock (Chin Chin)
12 January 2017 Bandits at 12 o’clock Killing mosquitoes. By Chin Chin “Buzz, Buzz, Buzz…” wrote the great ursine poet and philosopher W.T.Poo on finding himself surrounded by bees. Those of us who have had the pleasure of reading the story to a child (and what greater pleasure could there be) will recall that the… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Bandits at 12 o’clock (Chin Chin)
Issue 86: 2017 01 05: Taking the Cross (Chin Chin)
05 January 2017 Taking the Cross Has it changed so much? By Chin Chin “A wind of change” blowing across Africa, “a new broom” sweeping clean, “a cleaner floor” with Sudso. The thirst for change for the better is a strong one and it is at its strongest at the start of the New Year. … Continue reading Issue 86: 2017 01 05: Taking the Cross (Chin Chin)
Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Khan controlled from Manchuria – Autopay (Chin Chin)
22 December 2016 Khan Controlled From Manchuria Was Autopay designed by the Devil? By Chin Chin I don’t think it is the Russians, nor even the EU. None of them may like us very much but there is a deviant sadism here which takes the mind further east, perhaps to the legendary villain Fu Manchu.… Continue reading Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Khan controlled from Manchuria – Autopay (Chin Chin)
Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)
15 December 2016 Updateski SMEOD strikes at the West. By Chin Chin Down at the Quai d’Orsay, the successors to Maigret are lighting their pipes. “Mais pourquoi?” they ask themselves. MI5 have told them that a cybercrime is being planned but it seems so senseless that it is impossible to build up a picture of… Continue reading Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)
Issue 83: 2016 12 08: Getting Wiser (Chin Chin)
08 December 2016 Getting Wiser By Chin Chin René Descartes, the 17th century mathematician, philosopher and general wise-cracker, put his most memorable sayings in Latin. The words “Cogito, ergo sum” have been etched into the memories of every generation of schoolboys, the classical language adding further weight to an already profound message. “I think, therefore… Continue reading Issue 83: 2016 12 08: Getting Wiser (Chin Chin)
Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Black Friday (Chin Chin)
01 December 2016 Black Friday Buying a discount. By Chin Chin The word “black” has sinister connotations. The eponymous villain of the 1987 film “Black Widow” is a lady who marries rich men, murdering them once they have made wills in her favour. The black spider trout fly has proved fatal to many a feeding… Continue reading Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Black Friday (Chin Chin)
Issue 81: 2016 11 24: Rather A Jumble (Chin Chin)
24 November 2016 Rather A Jumble Are Christmas presents the front line in the struggle between the sexes? By Chin Chin The last thirty years have seen women burst into areas which were traditionally reserved for men: the military front line; the boardrooms of industry; the public bars of pubs. Now they kill, make decisions… Continue reading Issue 81: 2016 11 24: Rather A Jumble (Chin Chin)
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
17 November 2016 The Paxman Doll A tale of perversion? By Chin Chin Offended, and quite right too. The complaint (see Week in Brief UK) may have been a little late, but who could deny that Jeremy Paxman’s joke about Reading University’s University Challenge team taking a hand-knitted doll modelled on him to bed was… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
