Arts
RIP Jen the Blue (Wankpuffin of the Year)
As you probably know Mrs JtB contacted me today to let me know her husband had passed away. ‘Jen’ enjoyed winding me up about sending him a mug and succeeded until I realised that was [more…]
Blog
America
Trump’s D-Day Landing – Changing Politics For Good!
As a Direct Democracy Party representative I am delighted to welcome the State Visit of President Donald J Trump to the United Kingdom. There is no greater historical bond between two nations shaped by an [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixteen
Ch 16 – Drinks and Disgust Joe and Vanessa are at the Reform Club. To meet with Lord Bixby’s dinner companions. Something that he had arranged in his diary, before his sudden and unexpected disappearance. [more…]
Elections
The Brexit Party and the Peterborough By-Election
Seven weeks and one day after the launch of the Brexit Party (BXP), 600+ activists registered to campaign in Peterborough (PBO) on Saturday 1 June 2019 and descended on the city, as well as many [more…]
Cooking
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Yes, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run there’s still time to change which road you’re on. – Lao Tzu There exists in nature a particularly blasphemous little organism [more…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 24
December 1st, 1810. We have crossed the Equator again, in the opposite direction. Our polar bears Boris and Beaivi must be the first of their kind to have ventured into the Southern Hemisphere, if only [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 17
Ferdinand Marcos having been deposed and his People Power successor Corazon Aquino having failed to control the country, an election was due in May 1992. In which, fortunately, no one from the Aquino clan wanted [more…]
Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th May 2019 Panel: Barry “Pip” Gardiner (Remainer) Jo “Squeak” Swinson (Remainer) Rory “Wilfred” Stewart (Remainer) Stephen Pinker (Psychologist and Remainer) Alex Phillips (Brexit MEP) Venue: Epsom, Surrey (52 Remain/48 Leave) Pinker is [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Epsom. On the panel: Rory Stewart MP, secretary of state for international development and Tory leadership candidate; Barry Gardiner MP, [more…]