Picture: thesixteen.org Sexist meets “rapist” Scene: a gold-plated conference room at the top of Trump Tower. Bright red curtains festoon the windows. A Louis XIV Boulle reproduction desk is at centre stage rear, side-on to the stage. A low gilded…
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Letter from America 7: who cares? Fascinating discussion over dinner. Who cares? I mean, why does the Facebook generation care more about cats than the rats who they have voted in to run the place? Miaow! “There’s nothing wrong with…
Read MoreThe Big Orange inspects his cabinet Lovers, Let us Laugh Outside, the moon in its seventy year cycle of attempting to land on earth once more fails and begins to leave. Most of America sleeps. The battle over, the conqueror…
Read MoreYour Essential Briefing on the State of Trumpton Today! 7pm on a Sunday night and the nation stares at their televisions. On 60 Minutes, a major current affairs programme on CBS, Lesley Stahl is interviewing Donald Trump. Outside, the moon…
Read More“It’s the best tacos in town” she said in her wonderfully Mexican-accented American, so I had to believe her. After all, she should know. Her family comes from Tijuana, just over the border. I’ll call her S, because I don’t…
Read MoreImage – bigphotophoria The temperature today is predicted to reach 26 degrees and there is a Beach Alert for high waves, rip tides, fierce undertow. You are advised not to swim unless you have gills fins and are in fact…
Read MoreThe Head Every attempt has been made to remove me from food. I arrived at Heathrow and did all the snake thing – start at the head, worked my way into the belly. (Eventually I will emerge at the tail…
Read More(Post Trump Stress Disorder) A Facebook History of History Posts from my Facebook friends – and some of mine, too. This is a picture of the end of a horrifying night….. I wish I had the technical skill to show…
Read MoreMap courtesy of the Guardian 7/10/16 ELECTION DAY Musing on Election mourning (beware – it’s pun time!) Don’t predict anything! The blokie on the Today programme has just said.HC has a 4% lead in the polls. Well, pre-Brexit polls misled…
Read MoreWHO ARE YOU CALLING AN IDIOT? Like so many of my fellow idiots, I have been held like a rabbit in headlights by the incredible (literally) buildup to the US election. Why “idiots”? Well, most British simply shrug and say,…
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