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...Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...
...Once it was risky even to attend a Python event. I was at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival for the Holy Grail world premiere. As all Pythonistas recall, MP&HG begins in earnest with opening credits that keep breaking down, as the people responsible for goof-ups keep getting sacked. The last credit reads: "Directed by 40 specially trained Ecuadorian mountain llamas... and Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam." The story finally starts when they're done with the llama...
...political careers end in failure." Tony Blair is the latest proof of this well-worn aphorism by the right-wing MP Enoch Powell. Blair came to power in 1997 buoyed by a huge parliamentary majority and even bigger expectations of what New Labour could accomplish. He led his party to two more general election victories, the last only 15 months ago. Yet today he's on the ropes, forced by an overwhelming tide of opinion in his party and the country to say when he'll leave Downing Street - or face the humiliation of being forced out. In a public...
...same, if you ask a Labour MP why Blair's in trouble, the first answer isn't Baghdad but Brown - Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The two men have been allies and rivals for two decades. Brown's overwhelming ambition for the top job and contempt for Blair as an intellectual lightweight have been held in check only by his conviction, born of Labour's agonies in the 1980s, that inheriting a disunited party would mean electoral self-immolation. To get Brown's full-throated support during the 2005 election, Blair was forced to promise to quit before...
...report by Russian MP Yuri Savelyev contradicts the official history of the tragedy, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military never planned on assaulting the seized school, but only joined the fighting once terrorists' bombs went off inside. Savelyev states that the shots, allegedly fired by the Russians in response to explosions, could not be physically fired from their stated positions. Instead, he insists that the government forces shot first, using bazookas, flamethrowers, and then tanks and choppers, and it was in fact the first bazooka and flamethrower shots that led to the massive explosions inside the school...