Essays & Opinion
Friendships from Afar
I have a friend, named Lucinda. She is 11,639 kilometres (7,232 miles) away from me. Fourteen years ago, we met in a place that is 4,925 km (3,060 miles) from where I now sit, and […]
Year: 2010
Essays & Opinion
Into the Blue with the Terminal Blues
Wait, hurry up, who are you? Belt off, hurry up, wait. There was a time when air travel was associated with glamour; a world of long-legged elegant women inviting you to converse with dashing uniformed […]
Poems
After The Voting Was Done
In celebration of the birth of a new style of British politics, and the overdue education of the British voter about how their constitution really works. I. On election day, the voters made their decisions. […]
Poems
The Ballad of Election Night
In memory of Britain’s anachronistic electoral system, which hopefully died on May 6, the evening of the 2010 General Election. I. He did not wear his azure tie, For blue is calm but sad, And […]
Essays & Opinion
The Real Bigot is Brown
Move on. Everyone makes a mistake. Nobody is perfect. There are three phrases you will not hear Peter Mandelson, Harriet Harman, or least of all Gordon Brown utter when talking about their rivals. “It’s the […]
comedy
The Rhyme of Kate-la-Dime
The girl they call Kate-la-Plate, Jumped right on to a roller skate. She rolled herself down the hillside, Shouting and screeching: ‘watch out, mate!’ But keeping her balance all the way, Until her wheels got […]
Essays & Opinion
Souled Out
Congratulations to GameStation, high street and online retailers of computer games, for knowing how to spot a bargain. It seems most of us would sell our immortal souls very cheaply. And when we are talking […]
comedy
Parallel Return of the Jedi: Calling on Jabba
An awfully long long time ago, in a place nowhere like here or wherever the heck you are, there was a story where knights fought with swords, battled strange monsters, went on long journeys and […]
comedy
Misanthropes of the World, Unite! (for as long as you can stand each other)
I was caught between a matinee and a dinner date, milling around the backstreets of London. My desultory early evening meandered like my walk until sharply interrupted by the crack of thunder and the most […]
art
Art + Data = Darta?
I arrived fifteen minutes late to the V&A’s Decode exhibition. As ever, my friend Meng Ni Beh was already there, patiently waiting for me. It is a real pleasure to have a friend who is […]