Give thanks for ingratitude! That glorious confirmation of every stereotype and prejudice ever nursed in the deepest corners of the ungrateful soul…. Brian said, and I was amazed. Brian Trainis he was called then. He said, when you do things…
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Last Thursday approximately 52% of British voters declared their preference for stepping out of the European project and turning Great Britain into Little England. Awwwww diddums! They’s so cute, these intellectually challenged ethically deficient people with their charming belief that…
Read MoreBye bye Great Britain, we’re Little England now We’ve dumped the Euros and de-standardised the cow We’ve resmoked the air and unstocked the Thames And put things all back together again! We can now go back to living in sin…
Read MoreJapan 1600: the Legalists under the Tokugawa end centuries of internecine warfare between clans and unite Japan, with the Emperor a powerless figurehead. Four hundred years followed of oppression by sword. Enforced by a network of samurai and informants. The…
Read MoreReady to leave? Yet? Put away Regret? Brushed the carpet? Fed the pet? Is your face scraped And your underwear clean? Licked the window? Packed away The Dream? Have you any idea Do you know How, precisely, you’re going To…
Read MoreWishing I were an exhibit An iconic one like Tipoo’s tiger Or a Rodin Immobile And Composed Receiving as my due A glance or two. I’m stuck. Alone, like you Unable to summon the pluck to say hello. You go….
Read MoreIn my journey From A to Z Now near the end of my alphabet at last (Or at least I hope so) Here where Everything is so much less (Even less clear) where maintenance is the only task, Repairs…
Read MoreHow the people stare! When you indulge in silly hair If gold or green Or something between Or cut and shaped like a soup tureen Or styled with dash Above the eye Or tortured with The latest dye Or tied…
Read MoreOne of a series of short short stories written about London’s sweaty Underground system, this story is on the darker side of the imagination and is especially poignant in these times….what would you have done? Straphanging on the Piccadilly line, near…
Read MoreApparently Omar Mateen visited the Pulse disco several times before he attended with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a .233 calibre AR-15 style assault rifle. On the occasions when he visited before, did he dance? Did he have a good…
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