The Privy Counsel (A Bog Blog)

It is when you find yourself reading Machiavelli, genuinely hoping to pick up some advice on how to sort out your life, that you realise...

The inexorable juggernaut of Christmas draws ever closer. Today, all reputable news outlets assure us, is the second of Advent. We are, to ...

Our sincerest contrafibularities! We have no memory of what we were doing on the day (ranting, no doubt, and perhaps drinking rum - possibl...

Heigh ho, another religious festival is upon us. We woke up this morning feeling like we'd been hit by a bus - the phrase "death w...

The colour of the revolution is red. Red is also the colour, we've been told, of other useful things like love, ketchup, and British po...

As regular readers are aware, we have a hoard. A hoard not of dragon gold, but of fabulous toilet pictures from German Friend . We go round...

We have written before about Lucy Worsley , a British curator and historian, and her bathroom-related tv program me . Recently we happened,...

Intellectual Friend has, yet again, offered us a high-quality contribution. We frankly don't know what we would do without such a know...