The World of Leonardo Morgado

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The Spoof is for anyone who likes to write funny stories about the world around us. It is a place where writers can create their own slant on the weekly news. The site was introduced to me by a friend who has written her own articles on the site. I have made [...]

The writers strike in Hollywood has reached it’s fifth week and most reports tend to focus on the issue as one of money.  For an insider’s point of view read Wil Wheaton’s comments on the issue.  It’s also worthwhile reading the United Hollwood blog.
Unless there is some resolution Sky will have to find different programmes [...]

"Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?" asked a sneering John Lydon of an audience during a Pistols gig.  It turned out to be one of the Pistols’ final gigs before their inevitable implosion and their inevitable reunion.

I am convinced that the same question is being asked by Premier Brown as he is attacked on [...]

Today is the day that the ban on smoking in enclosed public places begins. I’m not a smoker myself but personally, I enjoy coughing in public places. Those people who have pushed for the ban to happen are obviously agents of Al-Quaeda intent on undermining Western democracy, liberty and freedom by forcing us [...]

So the denizens of the United Kingdom have achieved a "monumental victory" over the scourge that is EU policy makers.  For those blighters across the channel were daring to inflict that most terrible of bureaucratic plagues across these dear and pleasant lands.  The plague of metrication.

The Metric Martyrs feel that today’s decision not to enforce [...]

It is inevitable that the poor sods that were used as political conkers are now no longer the victims of a callous, nefarious, insane regime but heartless media whores who have sold their souls to the highest bidder.  The young men and women who have decided to accept the many offers of dirty lucre by [...]