Discontent Provider

Episode 109: And You Thought YOUR Family Get-Togethers Were A Bit Awkward...

Amidst the falling leaves and frost of their Autumnal Happy Place, the chaps find themselves unexpectedly pleased not to be in a tropical island paradise. They may be cold, bitter, and unappreciated - but at least they're not having to face an extremely difficult conversation that's been brewing for seventy-five years.

Episode 108: Meddle and Dishonour (Get THAT up you, EA - That's English Spelling, That Is!)

While the Great and the Good blame each other for interfering in their affairs, the chaps in the Happy Place prefer to take the stance of Personal Responsibility and accepting their own shortcomings. Turns out it's surprisingly easy to do it - especially if you're as great as wot Foxy and Arkham are...

Episode 107: It All Gets Easier When You Get A Bit Sleazier

Is the Autumnal mist a little thicker in the Happy Place than usual today? Do the denuded branches of the trees seem to weep with that touch more melancholy? Hard to say - but certainly the chaps are feeling a touch under the weather. Inspiration may be at hand from an unlikely source though. Perhaps concerning themselves with a potentially massive shift in Constitutional affairs is just silly? Would they be better off dog-whistling and demagoguing? It seems that that Clacton Man might just be onto something...

Episode 106: Saying The Loud Part Out Loud

For reasons they feel disinclined to divulge, the chaps are a day late to the Happy Place this week - but are, nevertheless, almost painfully eager to point out other people's shortcomings. Today, they're looking at how politeness costs nothing - except possibly job security, human dignity, and other insignificant trifles of that nature...

Episode 105: Pedants' Revolt

Being a pair of careful, rather close-mouthed coves, the chaps are not perhaps as sympathetic to Prime Ministers who don't sufficiently distinguish one form of ordnance from another - especially when a hostile Nation is just aching for a self-righteous war-wank.  This episode also features a moment of self-doubt, a touch of shaudenfraude, a Song At The End, and a fascinating glimpse into a rift in the space/time continuum. You know what you are, cats and kittens? Spoilt - that's what.

Episode 104: What Is There Left To Say?

Neither the crackling of fallen leaves nor the invigorating sting of autumnal air in the Happy Place can cheer the chaps today as they ponder the dishonesty, insincerity, indifference, and cruelty of both those who promulgate and those who profit from the ever-growing horror of the Middle East conflict. Still; it's only a short one - and they both know that you, gentle listener, are a good and righteous egg.

Episode 103: The White Man's Tantrum (And a Fond Farewell)

While the Britain beyond the leafy tranquility of their Happy Place rings to the anguished howls of post-colonial cretinism, Foxy and Arkham ponder the idiocy of people who LITERALLY didn't know what they'd got 'til it was gone - and then kicked up the most fearful row about it. Also - and on the subject of great songs, the chaps pay musical (near enough anyway) tribute to an all-time country music great.

Episode 102: Snider With Rosie

Perhaps it's because Christmas is looming ever-closer and it doesn't hurt the more parsimonious to slim down their address books (even if they can claim the cost of cards and stamps back on expenses) but a lot of harsh words are being chucked around of late - or maybe some sort of Seasonally Affected Disorder is just making people say the quiet part out loud. Either way, today sees Arkham and Foxy's thoughts turning to the consequences of not sugar-coating it.

Episode 101: It's All An Allusion

Foxy and Arkham find themselves in the distinctly unfamiliar position of defending a British Prime Minister against the slurs of the uneducated lumpen herd. What many people have mistaken for a slip of the tongue was actually a damnably witty literary reference - or was it? Maybe he's just an idiot who hates the sick and disabled - though how likely is that? He is, after all, a committed Marxist - at least, according to unimpeachable sources...

Episode 100(!): Very First Century Boys

Foxy and Arkham are feeling dreadfully bucked to have arrived at their 100th Episode (give or take a couple of two-parters and "get-aheads" that don't count as canon). Needless to say, events beyond the leafy confines of the Happy Place may receive less than the chaps' usual forensic attention... It's Political Conference Time though - so comment isn't all that necessary.