Dixon of Dock Green is back on BBC Radio 4.
I used to love the television series when I was young. Jack Warner as George Dixon would appear on camera in his London bobby’s uniform and salute the audience with his warm ‘Ev’ning all’, then introduce the story for that episode; at the end there would be a few words of wisdom and a goodbye from Dock Green for another week.
It is amazing, in retrospect, to think that George Dixon was still on the beat in 1976, 21 years …
The news this morning reported that the bill for Taoiseach’s make up since the General Election in May 2002 is more than €70,000 – or over €550 per week. This was an astonishing piece of information!
How can Bertie Ahern cost the taxpayer €550 per week in make up? If it takes that much public money to make him presentable, what does he look like underneath? Why should a grey-haired, overweight, middle-aged male need make up?
The pair of radio presenters on Q102, a local station, were making light of …
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name” Revelation 13:16-17
Do I think that Mr Blair is the beast prophesied in the Book of Revelation? No, that honour belonged to the emperor Nero, who unleashed a violent persecution against Christians in the First Century. Mind you, if …
Today’s Irish Times says that Dublin is only the thirteenth most expensive city in the world; Oslo is top of the league.
I think the young American couple in the bookshop in Dun Laoghaire this afternoon might easily have been convinced that they were visiting the most expensive country on earth. They were sat on the big padded seats in the middle of the shops frantically going through a pile of travel books they had taken from the shelf. They gave no indication of having any intention of buying anything …
