2025-11-12
Browsing the net (as one does) I happened upon a Wikipedia page in honour of the Telegraph's satirical column of yesteryear (not to be confused with their current offering under the same title).
As a one-time dedicated Telegraph reader, Peter Simple's imaginary world of societal tragicomic over-earnest fashionably-deluded or simply bonkers characters would invariably bring a chuckle to contend inconveniently with ingestion of breakfast. His great facility in applying appropriate names to his inappropriate characters never ceased to amuse, names which effortlessly conjured the stereotype that we had never even considered existed.
If you too are of similar antiquity and like me never imagined that Peter Simple's make-believe Way of the World was exactly whither we were all inevitably headed, then this may bring it all back ...
(Warning - inadvisable to peruse whilst eating)
As always, if it's not for you, maybe best ignore this one 😎.
