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Further Tales from Ruritania.....

Over here in Toytown, Larry the Lamb has yet again been pestering Mr. Mayor, "Oh Mister M-M-Mayor, Sir!....", with a rising tide of Dead Parrot-type tales.

The latest story simply beggars belief and requires no further comment from me - even Gilbert and Sullivan would have found it tough to parody: 'We want Blair to apologise' (IC Berkshire, October 19):

"Green Pirates for Peace landed outside MP Martin Salter's west Reading office to demand Tony Blair be keelhauled for caving-in on international efforts to avert climate change.

The pirates - from environmental action group Rising Tide - want the Prime Minister to declare an immediate state of emergency in a last ditch attempt to avoid 'catastrophic' climate change...

...But, after avoiding the plank over his captain's sins, Mr Salter said: 'I do not believe in engaging in childish gesture politics such as calling for sanctions against the USA, or merely shouting at those who take a different point of view.'"

I suspect you Captain Hooks who visit 'EnviroSpin' daily with your ticking crocodiles would just love 'to man' (oops! 'to person') a boarding party on to the Good Ship Rising Tide. So: "Avast Ye my hearties, and show 'em Yer iron! Why, thems look GREEN at the gills already, Smee!"

"Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part,
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King.

For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!"

[From where else but: the Pirates of Penzance.]

Philip, never avoiding a cliche if possible. The 'Great Global Warming Pantomime' continues daily. Carbon copy clowns all round. A Big Top Coffee? [Hat tip to Dr. Benny Peiser for the story; pirate picture by W. S. Gilbert(?), public domain]