This video of a bear cub in peril will have you on the edge of your seat, roaring encouragement!

The Iranian treaty cancelled, Section 40 defeated, US prisoners freed by North Korea - Oh Happy Day!

I imagine my reaction would be...

Why the hell are we still having to make the case against communism? It STINKS!

A reader of this blog has emailed me a link to their new 15-minute YouTube video, "Communism Has Never Been Tried?". It's a clear-headed, un-ranty, entirely fact-based refutation of the oft-repeated claim that communism can't be judged on its track record because it has never been properly implemented. Given the amount of misery and death the supposedly ersatz version has caused, one shudders to imagine what horrors the real, actual, full-fat version might entail. The thing that really pisses me off about communism (apart from the death and misery aspects of it) is that we're still discussing it in anything other than a historical context. As we don't...

Having watched Cathy Newman's Jordan Peterson interview again, I have to say she put in a monumentally lousy performance

Yes, I know I'm late to this game, and that commenter David Moss has already provided a link to a Spectator article about the Channel 4 interview - but it's just been one of those weeks. I've now watched it again, and, while Little Miss Prim's failure to land a single punch while leaping into every logical elephant trap as it appears in front of her (each with its own large sign reading "Whatever You Do, Avoid This Trap Or You'll Look Very Very Silly Indeed")...

Sir Roger Scruton on the cancerous "shadow community of parasites" which pretends to govern us

My brain isn't functioning today - or, at least, it's functioning even more inefficiently than usual. This is the "payback" which often hits CFS/ME folk the day after the day after they've overdone it. Writing about Zulu on Friday took it out of me, because I hate the thought of not doing justice to the films or books I care about - I knew it would, but it's a price well worth paying. My mental haze worsened as I leafed through the Sunday Telegraph this morning in a vain search for anything vaguely resembling heartening news. It seems Mrs. May's government is failing on just about every front - no more money for the military, the new universal credit system about to be watered down/postponed/abandoned/whatever. The only whiff of uplift was the suggestion that the EU's negotiating stance is softening because of the groundswell of support here for a "No Deal" Brexit, which would, of course, leave Britain's fanatically dirigiste neighbours...

Definitive proof that Tom Cruise wasn't the first really tiny US secret agent...

...and I believe that Cruiser is slightly taller (by about 4ft 10in) than the hero of the 1959 science fiction/spy series World of Giants (which was also known by the acronym W-O-G - no, honestly). You can see the opening sequence of the series right at the start of this compilation:

In case you're wondering what a six inch spy looks like...

M-Squad, The Human Jungle, Highway Patrol, Peter Gunn - the wonderful world of old TV crime series title sequences...

Your starter for 10 - name the 1980s television series whose intro was a parody of the (slightly out-of-sync) title sequence from one of my boyhood favourites - M Squad, starring the great Lee Marvin:

Got it? Well, here's the answer..

Scotland Yard is showing on Talking Pictures TV - and I'm relishing every minute of every episode

I'm particularly enjoying the splendidly boastful sequence and presenter Edgar Lustgarden's borderline-salacious, lip-smacking, dead-eyed intros:

The 39 episodes of Scotland Yard were shot between 1953 and 1961 as programme-filler for...

Heartwarming - and terrifying!

In Switzerland a woman raised a pair of lions. The authorities confiscated them for a zoo. 7 years later the woman came to visit the zoo.... pic.twitter.com/T8bSyfLbmi

— Arie Shapira (@arieshapira1) August 26, 2017

What happens when you try to hold a sensible, rational debate with lefties...

A "Thank you" would have been nice, back in your box. pic.twitter.com/Am15h2xF8Y

— D Attenborough (@Attenboroughs_D) August 17, 2017

The Evian dancing baby ads and some Bassett Hound videos - because, after two HORRIBLE weeks, we all need cheering up (hat-tip:SVWG)

And another one...

A video of shape-shifting buildings, and a brilliant railways map

There's nothing quite like a truly great map. This one was created by...

Race the Tube - for some reason, this brilliant 2014 video is a thing on Twitter today. Good.

Not sure why, but this utterly delightful 30" video from 2015 was doing the rounds on social media yesterday...

Just when you thought virtue-signalling American entertainment industry lefties couldn't possibly get any more nauseating...

Just a tip before you start watching these astonishingly pompous, self-important pillocks - who nobody voted for - wagging their diverse little fingers at Donald Trump, who, you know, won the presidential election - and isn't even due to take office for another 12 days: liquid ginger extract mixed with water is an excellent cure for nausea:

An equally effective cure for nausea is this utterly splendid parody:

Videos of animals having baths - because that's what social media is all about. And, besides, it's Friday.

This rabbit (or is it a hare?) is, if possible, even more laid back (don't worry - it isn't dead):

When a dog's Gumby toy comes to life...

Mind you, I can't understand why we get so soppy about dogs. After all, what do they ever do for us?...

How typical of the BBC to try to make the SNP look ridiculous - that's Nicola Sturgeon's job!

Any white person who finds Jan Ravens' impression of Diane Abbott funny is a disgusting racist. Apparently.

Here's Jan Ravens "doing" Flabbott on ITV's Peston on Sunday yesterday - watch from 1'36":

This didn't go down well with...

Action Movie Kid - and all my son got was a visit to a couple of CBBC events and a lousy trip to my office!

In case you haven't seen this brilliant YouTube video (50 million page views so far), this is what you get if Dad's a Hollywood special effects wizzard:

Volume 2's good as well: