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Spring has arrived. The sap is rising. And I am a jumbled mess of regrets. In recent months, I've been hosting Rosebud, in which I talk to people about their early memories. I talk to them about their youth love lives, their adolescent adventures, the fun and games they played in their 20s. This week, as the distinguished guests arrive, I am finding myself increasingly dissatisfied that they have lived lives of high anticipation even though I haven't lived at all. They've done stuff that I never dared do.

Lucy Powell, Labour's Shadow Commons Leader, stumbled into the chaos box. Every week she takes on Penny Mordaunt. It's like watching a goat trot into a minefield. Ms Powell is just another one of banalities' nefarious peddlers. Every apology must be 'grovelling,' according to any dossier'dodgy.' Spell-checking programs are available on computers. Why has no one invented a similar device to remove hackneyed phrases from the Commons speeches of division-two duds? The little goat trotted past the DANGER warnings and neck-bell tinkling, as they do every week. And then, as always, a terrible kaboom and shards of goat meat were released in the air. Poor Ms Powell was obliterated by Ms Mordaunt.

No, missus. Titter ye not. How long before every re-run of a Frankie Howerd show has to come with a ­trigger warning? Missus, I'm not joking. Rolling your eyes is now officially considered racial. Yes, no, really. Francis, I said. I said Fran-cis. The act is over. You don't believe me? Please assist yourself. It's wicked to mock the inflicted, for example. But racist?

In the world of traditional British comedy, there are two specific genders - battleaxes and nubile maidens; that is, crones or tarts, ratbags, or nymphets; Hattie Jacques, the ward's pounding, is on one hand, but Barbara Windsor, 'joyous, earthy, funny,' on the other hand, said to Frankie Howerd, 'tittering on the brink,'. The Carry On Girls, as ours is a very consequential period of identity politics, has been on the verge of cancellation, but Gemma and Robert Ross, who played the films as social historians, are in danger of cancellation.

Daniel Cowling, a historian at the National Army Museum, delving into Foreign Office papers, private diaries, newspaper reports, and interviews.

Those who flocked to Shakespeare left Shakespeare at school, claiming that the performances were outdated and unintelligible, will now have to think again. The Bard wasn't cerebral or academic, according to Dame Judi Dench in her latest book, which swirls and dances with humor and mischief - he was saucier than Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. Judi speaks of Falstaff and the History Plays. "All sorts of things were going on in the Boar's Head Tavern's dark corners.' In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon and Titania are so randy. They're all at it for knives; all the fairies should be huming each other throughout.' Antony and Cleopatra 'just carouse and have sex and drink all night.' The sex will unquestionably be even better after a quabble,' according to the author.' Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, "wanted to get back to the bedroom." She's'very much' enjoying being carried along by this regal lady, who has a good deal of rumpy-pumpy' with Claudius, her brother-in-law, and the usurping new Danish king. 'Maybe there were issues with Hamlet's father,' Judi conjectures. 'Maybe he couldn't't, you know, get it up.'

ROGER LEWIS: In a flash, life will be changed in a flash. In a Morrisons parking garage last month, I had a cardiac arrest. A defibrillator was used. An Air ambulance is the closest to a hospital. A lot of drama has been created. Touch and go. If I had collapsed in a Waitrose parking lot, some people said it wouldn't have been all bad. People can be such snobs. According to the sheet of dos and don'ts I was given as I left hospital, sexual activity demands no more effort than when scaling a flight of stairs.' But what if I lived in a bungalow?And what if I don't have a partner or a willing partner? There are other items to be concerned about.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Despite William's vehement anti-ivory views, his stepmother Queen Camilla will be adorned with the Ivory Rod with Dove at her Coronation alongside King Charles. Chieftainess Rebecca Banika of Botswana gives Camilla a warm recommendation after confirming that the allegation is not universal. "It's certainly a good move for the Queen of England to advocate for the use of wildlife products such as ivory," she says.

A million-pound mansion known as 'Willy House' for its phallic-shaped topiary is still on the market almost a year after it was first listed. The property in Cross, Somerset, has six pieces of titillating topiary with bulbous bottoms, long shafts, and a large conical head. The Mendip Hills in Bristol has been on the market for £1 million, more than it was first listed in October 2021. The 17th century mansion has four spacious bedrooms on the first floor, another room in its 'west wing', which includes a living room and an en suite, as well as a detached cottage with bedroom, kitchenette, and shower.