Imperial Rome: Catastrophe during the Ovid-19 Pandemic when Emperor Trumpotus Narcissus announces the disease can be treated with fire.
Ah-ya-tolly Trump is hailed as God’s Vessel by the ultra-loyal Republican Guard
Donald Trump: “No Kurds took part in Washington’s crossing of the Delaware in 1776, so they can’t be considered allies or friends.”
“So I says to Adolf, ‘Oh yeah? You and whose army?'”
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Hamlet and Ophelia bomb badly in an early Danish episode of Strictly
On Martin Luther King Day, President Trump lays a wreath: “That Burger King guy was a really great American…”
Belshazzar was always getting text messages from Jehovah at inconvenient times.
For all your ideological needs, Marx & Engels: Purveyors of fine polemics since 1848.
“Now we’d like to do a medley from Fiddler on the Roof.”
St. Kilda 1922: Morag’s knocking shop was always busy the day before the Sabbath.
Banchory Royal Highland Games 1936. Scandal as Alisdair Farquharson, the King’s Chief Tosser, is caught smearing treacle-laced oatmeal on his caber to improve his grip.
Jehovah: “OK, Noah, a few changes are needed in your Genesis report. Take out all mentions of kangaroos and where you dropped them off. Also, llamas, alpacas, lemurs….”
Plus ça change – Hollywood 1929: Studio President, Donald J. Gropius and producer, Scurvy Winestain audition a young hopeful.
The Trump White House: A Pictorial Guide to How It Functions
When a tyrant develops man-flu…
On sale this week in Aldi’s Middle Aisle
Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg impersonators on their way to a Conservative Party Conference fringe event entitled “The Great British Union Jack-Off: Two hours of flag waving, imperial nostalgia and Brexit wishful-thinking”.
The residents of Tolerance Street, New Guildford in Massachusetts were not best pleased when they discovered that the Dekanawida family had moved in to number 17.
Historically the separation of church and state has sometimes caused a bit of friction.
Unexpectedly, from beyond the grave, a previous Republican president gives Donald Trump advice on his proposed “big beautiful wall” on the Mexican border.
Cannes 1902: a prototype burkini. “This shocking feminist outrage ended la Belle Epoque, caused WWI and nearly destroyed Western society” (Daily Mail).
The Parliamentary Labour Party meeting goes a little badly for Jeremy Corbyn.
Joe McCarthy 1953: “.. and this chart shows there are now more card-carrying homosexual Communists than Republican voters in 37 states…”
Diogenes: “I’ll tell you what’s wrong – my barrel has been assessed for Council Tax as a Band C property.”
Iain Duncan Smith’s cruel treatment at his prep school goes a long way to explaining his present-day malicious attitude towards the weak, the poor and the sick.
At a weekly film-night in the Chancellory in 1942, Hitler’s aide-de-camp begins to regret screening a bootleg copy of ‘Casablanca’.
