Essays & Opinion
Brexit Means Mass Starvation (or Something Like That)
The Observer’s restaurant critic has an opinion about international supply chains. It is as trivial as you might imagine. […]
Writing
Essays & Opinion
#FlushLush: The Tax, Pay and Profiteering Vices of a Virtue-Signalling Cosmetics Business
They get fined for not paying their taxes, they broke the law on dividend payments and their top director enjoys an enormously excessive pay package, but Lush is a luxury cosmetics empire that thinks justice requires them to engage in crude and divisive political campaigning to the detriment of thousands of public servants. […]
Poems
There Is No End
A poem that reworks and builds upon lyrics written by Jim Morrison. […]
Poems
Night Is Upon Us
Night is upon us,
So predictable, yet so unexpected.
We anticipated all would glow ever brighter until we were bathed in perpetual gold,
But now we are surrounded by absence. […]
comedy
Never Mind They Know It All
A poem about big internet businesses paying mind to the details when so many others did not. […]
Stories & Skits
Do the Airport Shuffle
There are many things you can carry on to an airplane so long as you are prepared to keep moving them from one pocket to another. […]
Essays & Opinion
Goodbye to Sci Phi Journal et al.
Sometimes it is easiest to thank people without letting them know. […]
Essays & Opinion
Brexit and Social Mobility
New research on social mobility is suggestive of a relationship with voting behaviour in the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. […]
comedy
A Brief Guide to Cultural Appropriation at Halloween as Written for Stupid Americans
Citizens of the USA find it increasingly difficult to know what to wear at Halloween parties. Some simple rules should help them understand that almost every costume is an insult to somebody or other. […]
Essays & Opinion
News Broadcasting Is Dying; Embrace the Narrowcast
BBC journalist Nick Robinson argues for more alternative opinions to be broadcast, but the best way to encourage alternatives is through many narrowcasters, not one broadcaster pretending to be all things to all people. […]