“What freezings I have felt” Wm Shakespeare, Sonnet 97

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My Lords and Gentlemen, I must digress again from my chosen path. While the causes and effects of the beliefs of those who embrace Wokery is to be the subject of my Treatise, I must draw to your particular notice one peculiar sect of the Proponents of Sleeplessness whose origins are distinct from their Wakeful […]

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 ἢν δὲ πολλῷ ᾖ οὕτερος ἀγεννέστερος, προσπίπτων προσκυνέει τὸν ἕτερον. Herodotus, Histories, 1.134

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My Lords and Gentlemen, You will recall that in my last essay I recounted a joke told by some men of Upminster about the womenfolk of Essex. I had thought that I had done little more than to record the mores and disrespectful nature of the plebeian element of that countie. On the contrary, I have stirred […]

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