Showing posts with label Gilbert and Sullivan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gilbert and Sullivan. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 November 2025

The Saints' Song

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Probably most readers are familiar with Tom Lehrer's "Elements" Song, which rattles through the chemical elements to the tune ...
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Monday, 19 February 2018

Pope Francis has got a little list

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It was time that someone set the Pope Francis book of insults to music, and it will now form part of Gilbert and Sullivan 's latest o...
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Saturday, 25 October 2014

I am the Archbishop of Westminster

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With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, yet again, for a rewrite of HMS Pinafore . To be sung by a rather undisciplined cardinal, together ...
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Friday, 25 July 2014

Something for Catholics to celebrate

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These are hard times for Christians who want something to celebrate, as Archdruid Eileen has pointed out. Our fellow-Christians in Mosul a...
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Sunday, 9 March 2014

An Anglican Service

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For reasons I won't go into, I had to attend an Anglican Communion Service this morning, somewhere in deepest East Anglia. This is what ...
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Monday, 11 November 2013

Annoying people to be banned

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Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is proposing to introduce legislation to ban annoyance , with the implementation of orders known as IPNA...
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Saturday, 1 June 2013

When I was a lad...

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If you didn't enjoy I've got a little list , I am the very model of a modern liberal Catholic , or The nightmare song , then you ce...
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Sunday, 19 May 2013

The Nightmare Song

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With further apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan. But there's always room for one more pastiche, isn't there? When you're sittin...
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Saturday, 6 April 2013

I am the very model of a modern liberal Catholic

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With apologies, once again, to Gilbert and Sullivan. All join in the singing, please. I am the very model of a modern liberal Cath-o-l...
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Sunday, 17 February 2013

I've got a little list

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With apologies to W.S. Gilbert. KO-KO As some day it will happen that the guilty must be found, I've got a little list — I've g...
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