Well, Christmas is a time for self-indulgence, so I’m not apologising. But that Captain Black, he really is a bad lot…

But why do the end credits for Stingray sound so much better (and almost not sucky at all) in French?

Pelutho – n. A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.

How long now before this becomes New Labour policy? With the addition of Local Authority inspectors, of course. [via]

HL Mencken once said that conscience is “the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking”.