call me ishmael

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
Are they putting something in the water? Or have blokes always been like this and I've just had a sheltered life?
This bloke is Mark Andrew Menzies, aged 52, Conservative M.P. for for Fylde in Lancashire since 2010. He was born and brought up in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, and bears the Proud Scottish name which Menzies Campbell, former MP for North East Fife, always pronounced...

Peter Morrell, former Chief Executive of the Scottish National Party, was arrested yesterday in connection with embezzling Party funds, under the 3 year police investigation dubbed Operation Branchform.
Media are advised not to comment as this is now a matter of Court process. So, just a quick reminder, then - an Independence activist badgered the Police into investigating the disappearance of funds amounting to over £600,000 raised for another referendum...

 Scratch a pacifist and a militarist peers out. My first emotion on hearing that Israel's Iron Dome had held firm and that Britain's Air Force had a significant part in the destruction of 99% of  the air borne weaponry launched by Iran against Israel...

The Jabberwock now lay deceased,  its vorpal head by sword struck true. The hero, praised by father's feast, was bid to seek for perils new. But hark! A rustling in the boughs, a flutter of unfamiliar wings - what new fell creature now avows its threat...