In the year that David Bowie died, Brexit shocked us, 'Hiddleswift' was a thing and Trump trumped, we are all asking ourselves was 2016 really the worst year ever?
Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power.
THE THIRD COLLECTION FROM THE INSTAGRAM SENSATION @DADSAYSJOKESThe most followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @DadSaysJokes, returns with another collection of hilariously cringe-inducing gags for you to share with friends and family.
The Elis James and John Robins' Show has become cult listening, and that cult has registered for charitable status, published quarterly accounts and been given a full blessing by the Archbishop of Broadcasting.
Collected from her highly successful column in the Times - in which she seeks expert opinion to back up her own experience, Ask your Father provides succinct, on-the-button advice to every question from a child you could possibly have the misfortune to be faced with.
When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers.
While cats may hide their self-doubt behind dismissive 'you bore me' and 'I just sprayed the couch' smirks, underneath they are desperate to introduce meaning into their nine lives.
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times.
I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem.
Malcolm Bradbury’s humorous look at Britain’s transition to midcentury modernity After spending a year teaching in an American university in the 1950s, Malcolm Bradbury returned to England only to realize that his native country had become nearly as mystifying to him as the American Midwest.
Unter den landschafts- und dialektbezogenen Witzen sind die Witze aus Bayern besonders charakteristisch, genauer gesagt, die der Altbayern, die bayrische Mundart sprechen: Ober- und Niederbayern sowie ein Teil der Oberpfälzer.
Witz ist definiert als die »Fähigkeit des Geistes, in schlagfertiger Verknüpfung den Dingen eine überraschende Seite abzugewinnen und diese in schlagender Kürze anschaulich darzustellen«.
Hunde und Papageien, Affen und der Klapperstorch sind offensichtlich besonders geeignet, um menschliche Eigenarten humorvoll auf die Schippe zu nehmen; aber auch die Vorstellung, welche Probleme etwa ein menschlicher Tausendfüßler hätte, oder der körperliche Gegensatz zwischen Klein und Groß sind beliebte Themen im Tierwitz.
By the authors of Cool Names for Babies, and with over 50,000 hugely imaginative entries from around the world, this is the ultimate book of baby names.
