Report from Earth: Part 2

Sender: Agent 273536 27th of Glob year 222552 EVEN MORE TOP SECRET Project: Ascertain whether the primitives of Planet called “Earth” by their human inhabitants may become a threat to the Empire any time soon. All hail the Great Skong…

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REPORT from Earth: Part 1

Sender: Agent 273536 24th of Glob year 222552 TOP SECRET Project: Ascertain whether the primitives of Planet called “Earth” by their human inhabitants may become a threat to the Empire any time soon. All hail the Great Skong 0f the…

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PHARMACEUTICAL GIANTS – Extortion and Blackmail?

You decide. S is a good friend of mine, who suffers from a debilitating, life-threatening disease. I can’t give you details for extremely good reasons. Let’s just say, they’re partly personal, partly professional. So forgive me if I am a…

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The Return of the Blue Moanies!

…as if they ever really went away! In a deeply unfair process, the Red Coffee Box was denied a Street Trader’s Licence. This was due to the opposition of Tory Councillor Joanna Biddle, with the assistance of the owner of…

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ALBERT

Another story in the Nasty Little Things collection.   Albert was the personification, the exemplification, the ultimate stereotype of the cranky old loner. His clothes expressed it, declared it, celebrated it. His face, his stubble, the curve of his back,…

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Charing Even More Cross

UPDATE: The MESS in the NHS? Season 1 Revisited The NHS and me have had another run-in. You may wish to bone-up on the background, if so read http://jonelkon.com/nhs-crisis-what-crisis-this-one/ If not, don’t bother. Like a box-set, the story is easy enough…

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Break One Thing, Fix Another!

How to fix the world and profit on it George Monbiot in the Guardian yesterday was as thought-provoking as always. This is the Green Warrior who supports nuclear power, so he’s no mere twig on the green tree. In today’s…

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PILLION

Another Short Story in the Nasty Little Things collection On the back of a motorbike you feel everything  and you are at the mercy of everything. Wind, road, speed, gravity. And in control of nothing. The spitterspots of rain like…

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Trumpists and a Whole Load of Balls

(Apologies – pun unavoidable) Image: BBC Watching Ed Balls bump bellies with Trumpists (Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls BBC TV) was deeply unsettling. The joy with which they laud their Saviour and their and his  lifestyle is infectious and…

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A Coffee in Chiswick – from a phone box!

This is the lovely Bella, and this is her micro-mini business, on the corner of Town Hall Avenue and Chiswick High Road in leafy W4. Or rather, it was. Because from last Monday, it wasn’t. Not surprising!  Considering Hounslow Council’s…

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