Discontent Provider

Episode 93: A Moment of Riot Introspection

As the country - and the chaps in the Happy Place - enjoy a respite from the worst of the chaos and cuntery of the past week, we take a look at what drove hotel-burners and sausage-roll heisters alike to give so many of our towns and cities some new scars - and just as we hope those scars will heal, we also hope that greater understanding can lead to better handling of the baser impulses at play.  Mind you; that rarely works - but one's got to give it a go, eh?

Episode 92: Hair-Trigger "Heroes"

Before you download this week's offering from the Happy Place, perhaps you should think for a moment: do you really want to listen to the chaps' reflection on a week of slaughter and unrest? That's not to say that it's any better (or worse) than their usual offering - but just a reminder that it's probably best to think about ANYTHING before doing it. Sadly, that sort of thing isn't everyone's bag...

Episode 91: Summer of Love 2.0 - unless we missed a couple.

Hey there, you groovy cats and kittens; drop by Foxy and Arkham's Happy Place this week and dig the sweet sunshine and the good vibes, why don't you? It's all so cool and beautiful, baby - ever since Parliament tuned in, turned on, and dropped out into a Political Age of Aquarius, we're all a lot more mellow, man... Unless you disagree with somebody even slightly; then, we'll eat your eyes right out of your fucking head and shit them into your dead mouth. That seems to be what's happenin' in the Commons - so keep on truckin', OK?

Episode 90: A Right Earful

As the Chattering Classes and the Political Elite shout themselves hoarse in an attempt to make some sense of Saturday's events in Butler, Pennsylvania - or at least some form of sense in which they're absolved of any and all blame - Foxy and Arkham retreat to the Happy Place to escape the cacophony of cant and reflect that with everybody mouthing off, it's small wonder that they can scarcely hear their own lack of self-awareness. 

Episode 89: Turns Out It Really IS All About Football - Sort Of.

As the chaps twiddle their respective thumbs and paw-pads in the sun-drenched seclusion of their Happy Place - rather at a loss as how they might best tackle the recent seismic-but-probably-not-very-seismic changes in the UK, a remarkable thought occurs - and one from an even more remarkable source. Over to you, Brian...

Episode 88: The Party's Over

The Happy Place is (a bit) Happier than usual this week as Arkham and Foxy see in the formation of a new Government. Needless to say, it's not all larks and untrammeled merriment - and there's still plenty to grouch about. For all that however, it may still be that chaps' most Upbeat Episode Ever - and you'll certainly never see a ventriloquist in the same light again.

Episode 87: Squinting Through the Introspectoscope

After a brief absence - (relatively brief, anyway - in geologic terms) the chaps are back in the Happy Place. As the Nation gears up for the Election, Foxy and Arkham consider crises of conscience, unintended consequences, and the evanescence of a cornstarch coating. Also, exciting noises are made about LIVE election coverage. Doubtless Jeremy Vine is already shitting himself at the prospect...NB: Jeremy Vine is NOT shitting himself - that was a figure of speech at which even the most litigious presenter really shouldn't cavil.

Episode 86: I Don't Know Much, But I Know What I've "Liked"

A certain pre-election ennui has caused Foxy and Arkham to retreat to the pastoral splendour of their Happy Place with more alacrity than usual this week. Fortunately, the splendid isolation did both of the chaps the world of good, and provided time and space enough to ponder as to why the Twitters, they are a-changing - as well as realising that things could always be worse...

Episode 85: Warmed-over Warmongers

Even in the Happiest of Happy Places, the odd speck of ague and/or ennui can somehow insinuate themselves from time to time - hence the shocking lateness of this episode. This week sees Foxy and Arkham appalled - but not all THAT appalled - by the Prime Minister's French Leave, but decide that there are worse things about war-related ceremonies. 

Episode 84: Come Rayner Come Whine (Including an unprecedented apology)

Something of a chivalrous interlude in the lives of Foxy and Arkham this week as the chaps ransack the cupboards for tin trays, pots and pans, and a suitably massive colander in order to ride (well, ramble) to the defence of a lady whose temerity in not knowing her place has incurred the wrath of a bunch of cunts. They're about the most inept and bumbling Knight Errants imaginable - but they do close with a song. Even the Arthurian lads couldn't manage that.