A Bulwer-Lytton Prize Entry
The previously discarded coffee he drank through his disgustingly unkempt moustache on the filthy mattress under the railway bridge was not Lavazza, but some inferior brand which, in between his...
View ArticleWhy so much talk and so little trouser on riots?
Everybody seems to be wondering why the UK response to rioting has been so slow. There are also plenty of people asking why Boris doesn’t do something. The answer is pretty simple; the civil...
View ArticleIreland beginning to panic in search for unsuitable President
The Republic of Ireland was in panic this morning in its search for someone singularly unsuited to lead the country in uncertain times. Bucking the trend for exceptionally talented, unifying female...
View ArticleIreland and the Universal Periodic Review
Ireland today subjected itself to the most palpably insane political process imaginable. Taking part in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, faced...
View ArticleA nábídána response to all this ‘be part of Irelands solution’ bollocks.
To the lovely (and now engaged) @sharonashambles. Ireland is screwed. From the moment some moron decided to break away from the greatest nation on Earth, through the moment someone thought it’d be a...
View ArticleReturned
For some reason closely associated with the boring nature of the first half of any government, a novel I’m trying to write. SaveEd.org and the release of Battlefield 3 (a violent computer game) I have...
View ArticleAnger or calm.
In two days, thousands of Conservative councillors around the country will face the wrath of an electorate not quite sure what they stand for, but for whom protest, in the form of a vote for Labour,...
View ArticleWatching political porn
I sat up last night watching porn. Or rather, the feeling of self-disgust and shame I feel this morning makes me feel like I did. The memories of the actual contents of my nocturnal viewing are hazy,...
View ArticleA change in emphasis
This site has been dormant for a while for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s hard to shill for a government in power, particularly when things are a bit hiccuppy. Secondly, I am writing. I...
View ArticleMilk Snatchers Strike Again
London, 1 August 2012 Statement Shameful Tory cuts cost London gardener dear Milk depleted as fat-cats run riot ‘They may as well have poured it down the drain’ says Balls Ed Balls, shadow...
View ArticleWelcome to 2013. I’m blogging again.
Hello. I’ve been away for a long time. I’ve been writing a book and it’s almost done, so I thought I’d try to get back into the spirit of things, now my dalliance with blogging among more notable...
View ArticleLabour, predictably, is the enemy within. Let’s not abet them.
The UK is beset by an enemy within. The enemy is not the unemployed, it’s certainly not people with disabilities, the sick or immigrants. Twats. Nor is the enemy the businesses, large and small, which...
View ArticleLessons from Philpott? Unlikely, but let’s see.
I’m not putting a picture of Mick Philpott on this blog. When George Osborne waded into the tragic case of the Derby fire deaths today, all eyes turned to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to identify a...
View ArticleA shambolic week for Labour.
Advice Ed Miliband is not receiving. That the Labour Party has no formulated policy response to the government’s welfare reforms was predictable – that Red Ed’s shadow cabinet and war-makers within...
View ArticleLabour’s messaging and other catastrophic failures
Noting the continued push for the Labour Party to embrace the ‘One Nation’ absurdity in their branding, the party’s machine decided this weekend to launch a rather poorly thought through poster...
View ArticleThoughts after a funeral.
On the day Lady Thatcher died, people in Dublin spoke to me with worry on their faces, as if I might spontaneously combust or ascend back to my starship. “Here is a man”, they probably thought, “who is...
View ArticleMaking a playlist for a killer
An MP5 SD, disassembled yesterday, presumably in the opening few bars of Old Love. Pic stolen from griffinarmament.com because I do not have a silenced submachine gun. I have been taking advice from...
View ArticleLate to the party
That there are some men in social media who get their jollies from threatening strong, intelligent women online is not exactly surprising. Sick puppies abound. That the response of some feminists is to...
View ArticleWe’ve failed humanity.
Tonight the UK Parliament voted in favour of dictators gassing their people. I’ve never ever felt ashamed to be British before, but this is a terrible decision. When soman, tabun and cyclosarin starts...
View ArticleSometimes a view is just a view
Every so often I reboot this blog, and every so often someone comes along to give me a reason why I should constrain my blogging. I already do. I work for an organisation which has Political views in...
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