The reviews are in for BBC2 “Newsnight” host Jeremy Paxman after the reader returned from “summer hols” or whatever those weirdos call it with a frisky white beard. The Paxman has no real U.S. equivalent: he’s basically like if you multiplied Brian Williams by…
by TG Gibbon
We didn’t quite believe it when we saw this on Kate Day’s Twitter, but here it is, in the Independent. Biggles George Fittleworth Jackson-Kew. And his sister. Posie Betsy Winifred Jackson-Kew. Who have an older sister. Named Tuppence.
“Thinking back he wasn’t a bad bloke, actually.” — “A convicted killer has told a jury how he strangled his neighbour with a TV flex after he flew into a rage following unwanted sexual attention.”
I thought British people were allergic to self-promotion or, indeed, any kind of reference to oneself that was not heavily caked in self-deprecation. Doesn’t it make you break out in tea rash? Now look at you, instructing your Twitter followers…
