Actually, I was just developing a theory which goes like this: it is probable that I died ten years ago and haven’t noticed it yet. This thing that just goes on and on may be what the ancients described as…
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…
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…
The 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…
Your 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…
“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…
Image – 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…
The 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…
Map 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…
So who says I don’t get comments? So many of them are just pure spam, people looking to sell plugins and telling me off for my naivety – hell, I really don’t care if my posts are forgotten, ignored, not…