The Joy of Curmudgeonry

An intellectual may not know much about the making of omlettes, but few men can recite more thoroughly than he the necessity of breaking egg...

If we were to reckon solely upon what many a man tells us, we should begin to believe that free will is found only in the good deeds of his ...

You might think it uncontroversial for me say that, if a man has one leg, he is a one-legged man ; and if indeed you were to find it uncont...

One ought to be charitable enough in one’s interpretations of the sayings of any man, such that, when he says he slept like a baby last nig...

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast” – so wrote Alexander Pope; though, if he had ever read the personal classifieds in the London Rev...

One ought to learn to appreciate well the comedic value of a world that puts us in sight of the narcissistic ignoramus who opines that educa...

Zoë Williams of The Guardian rues that many of us do not appreciate modern art, and believes that the reason for this disinclination lies i...

Some of our uneducated are qualified enough to mistake a qualification for an education.

The kernel of the idea that capital is not exclusively an economic concept, but also a social and a cultural one, has probably been around s...

It is considered the height of intellectual sophistication amongst our sophisticated flatheads to entertain equally a plethora of interpreta...

We usually deplore a man for his lack of reason, but given that he holds a set of self-righteous and false premises, one ought to be thankfu...

If there is such a thing as a Journalistic Code of Practice, it should include a protocol that states, When you tell a lie, at least make it...

When one learns that George Monbiot has murder, venereal disease and marital breakdown in mind, one would be well advised to lock up daughte...

In the shameless world of radical-intellectual chicanery, one tries not only to have one’s cake and eat it, but also to establish that “cake...

Blame entails moral responsibility, and the word requires of its legitimate use that the guilty party is not only part of the causal conditi...

One of the most widely misunderstood quotes is Samuel Johnson’s “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”, a presentment that many a jo...