Peter Rhodes on fillings, comedy legends and the benefits of putting up a white flag
I suggested yesterday that the Government would probably spend money on diversity courses rather than munitions.
Bang on cue, Whitehall confirms £5 million funding for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds. I'd write a poem to mark this great logic-defying event but hardly anything rhymes with pillocks.
As Whitehall promises the greatest UK defence review for decades, my mind turns once again to the Household Cavalry. Those massive, twitchy, unpredictable stallions that keep going berserk in London. Will we be keeping them?
Incidentally, £5 million for a poetry centre would buy about 1,600 budget anti-tank missiles.
Not that I am advocating arming the citizenry with rockets and fighting the Red Army on the beaches, in the streets and all that heroic 1940s stuff. If the Russians sailed up the Thames tomorrow, I hope we would have the common sense to surrender immediately, before our cities and towns were vaporised, Ukraine-style.
