Peter Rhodes

1 week ago | expressandstar.com | Peter Rhodes

Star columnist gives his opinions on wolves, hippos and a curious case of two-tier talkingAnother event I missed entirely. Tuesday was Pygmy Hippo Day. Looking at an image of a pygmy hippo, it seems about the right size to provide lunch for the three little dire wolves, extinct for 12,000 years and now successfully “de-extinctioned” by a Texas-based gene company. These adorable white cubs will grow to an estimated 10 stone. What will they eat then?

2 weeks ago | expressandstar.com | Peter Rhodes

In preparation for the upcoming Third World War (come as you are, date to be confirmed), “security advisers” across Europe are urging us to stockpile essentials such as tinned food, bottled water, a first-aid kit and a Swiss Army knife. Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or Freely 565If you've ever tried to open all the tools on a multi-bladed knife, you won't need telling what the first-aid kit is for.

2 weeks ago | expressandstar.com | Peter Rhodes

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and also dog poo. The fashion for ESAs, Emotional Support Animals which began, of course, in America, is causing all sorts of problems in British courtrooms with reports of dogs biting witnesses and fouling the floors.

2 weeks ago | expressandstar.com | Peter Rhodes

We live in an age when, if you utter the wrong words, write the wrong stuff or meet in a Quaker hall to plan your next demo, you can expect the cops to arrive mob-handed and cart you off to chokey. Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or Freely 565This is what happens when well-meaning fools, who claim to believe in free speech, create laws in which the only opinion you can express is their opinion and everything else is harassment or hate-speech.

3 weeks ago | expressandstar.com | Peter Rhodes

Great expressions of our time. “The world has changed,” laments Chancellor Rachel Reeves, trying to explain how, having promised us the New Jerusalem, she is actually delivering something like the seedier end of Albert Square, complete with shivering pensioners and the hard-up disabled. It's such a useful little phrase, ideal for many situations. Yes, I know I promised to mow the lawn, wash the car, give generously to charities and raise the kids' pocket money. But, you see, the world has changed. . .