The Sunday Best....

A Time for Thanksgiving by Jules Crittenden.

Nazi leader Hitler really did have only one ball. That's one more than Gordon Brown.

Brown's boomerang budget: VAT cut now but he will make you pay with higher taxes later. You cannnot spend you way out of a recession.

Britain wakes up to a blanket of snow as bookies slash odds on a white Christmas. Damn tricky thing, global warming. Yes it is snowing in Norfolk.

Police to get 10,000 more Taser guns to tackle violent crime. Oh whoopie. All the tasers in the world won't help until the police get back on the beat in proper numbers.

Border Agency's £140,000 beano (on the day it was revealed that 300,000 foreigners are wrongly let into the UK). Time for some heads to roll. Start with our joke of a Home Secretary.

As brigands hold the Sirius Star supertanker to ransom, we go inside the Somali pirates' lair. Time to bring back 'Q' ships.

Man down! How Gurkhas braved a hail of Taliban bullets to try to save Rifleman Yub. The bravest troops in the world. Great video.

Barack Obama accused of selling out on Iraq by picking hawks to run his foreign policy. Our enemies have been emboldened by Obama's win. Expect all sorts of trouble next year.

Islamic fighters enter Somalia pirate town and plan to attack. Hopefully they will wipe each other out.

Fewer than one in three of Britain's Apache attack helicopters 'fit for purpose'. That's what happens when you try and fight a war 'on the cheap'.

Schools fined for expelling violent pupils. Pathetic.

Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to get life saving anti-sniper device. About time too.

Two hundred public sector workers earn more than PM. And not a single one is worth it.

Israel fears US will dither while Iran goes nuclear. They are right to worry. We have been dithering over Iran for way too long and we will pay the price for it.

Mugabe tries to hide cholera death toll. Amongst everything else his odius regime does.

Hillary will be ‘mother-in-law the president cannot shift’. This is going to be fun.

Michael Jackson 'converts to Islam and changes name to Mikaeel'. Ok. Now he is nuts.

the Clarkypoos bit.

I’m a Tigger, he’s a Piglet, and you must be a Pooh.

Infiniti FX50S Clarkson’s Verdict: As pretty and agile as Jabba the Hutt.

and Captain Slow

Heating up the horizon.