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…
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…
(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…
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…
Legalisation Part 3: Who, you? I promised you that I would search out some Californian dope smokers if I can find them! I have hunted high (sic) and low. I went to that Grateful Dead tribute concert and could only…
In my quest to uncover the new dynamics of this new business, finding Mamacita was not difficult in the least. I only had to ask a man who asked a man who asked a man who handed me a phone…
PART 1 Greetings from San Diego, the southernmost city of the newly cannabised Republic of California where I sit on a balcony overlooking a sea which, until yesterday, lurked beneath dirty cottonwool skies, grubby with unshed rain. There is…
What most people know about Dallas; this is where President Kennedy was killed by a sniper firing from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository – this building. GUNS The stereotype: Dallas is the hub of climate-change denying…
Today’s New York is full of pricks, spears, ice pyramids, and the chimneys of crematoria, poking their geometrical penises arrogantly skyward, in defiance of God and challenging him to bloody get on with Armageddon once and for all. In fact,…