The Privy Counsel (A Bog Blog)

You know how sometimes you end up drinking schnapps with three young men from the navy on Midsummer's Eve? And it turns out they know a...

Well, today is a sad day. Today, we found out the result of the Brexit referendum. Still. An upper lip as stiff as one's whisky, what? ...

Things are  dark. The problem with following mainly feminists on Twitter is you get a LOT of depressing news stories about rapes, and the...

We're not saying we haven't been productive today. We're just saying we have spent most of the day carpe ing the diem in no un...

The popularity of Jane Eyre is spreading faster than the clap in a Renaissance coastal town. A friend of ours (who shall remain mercifully...

We like, at the Privy Counsel, to be seen as competent people. When you are a self-professed intellectual, you set your standards high. As ...

We are not fond, as regular readers are aware, of religion at the Privy Counsel. We do however like churches, provided they are old and of...