Monday, November 07, 2016

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The fake fake sheikh

Today we glimpse Lord Bonkers in his role as a press baron.

Thursday

I spend the day at the offices of the High Leicestershire Radical, the newspaper which publishes my weekly column and of which I happen to be sole owner and proprietor.

There I learn some worrying news about my chief investigative reporter, an intrepid Arab fellow known to one and all at the paper as the ‘fake sheikh’: he confides that he really is a sheikh. How the Press Council will view my employing a fake fake sheikh I hate to think.

Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West 1906-10.

Earlier this week in Lord Bonkers' Diary:

1 comment:

Squirrel Nutkin said...

As one of the Red-Bearded Dwarfs revealed, his real name was Bogus