Build a wall, and build it of finest string! This is Priti Patel in Trump mode on discovering that bricks and barbed wire don’t float. As democracy burns in the UK, Prime Minister Cummings is determined we should keep our eyes firmly locked on displaced families floundering in the Channel, and there is no better … Continue reading Priti’s balls-up of string
Twenty-seven uses for bananas — don’t choke when you see the last one!
How many uses for a banana are there? I can think of a few. mimikaki ear cleaner for people with large earsif tied to the bottom of feet they are a cheap alternative to roller blades by virtue of the slippy quality of banana skinsa crutch for a small person a device for cleaning around the … Continue reading Twenty-seven uses for bananas — don’t choke when you see the last one!
Planetary announcement (or bloviating in the face of Karma)
Art: Nails Nathan
Window Shopping with l’Étranger
In a mall, pressing against those glass exteriors fronting numerous interchangeable shops; it could be an emporium dedicated to exclusive Provençal face cream- whatever, I stare inside like a piqued Martian. Part of the reason I’m outside involves exogenous factors: born into a small family flat, rented by unhappy parents, battling, blaming, adventurously polygamous, accusatory, uneducated, … Continue reading Window Shopping with l’Étranger
That UK-Japan trade triumph celebrated
From our man in Japan Congratulations to Britain on winning its first post-Brexit trade deal — and with mighty Japan, no less. The champions of the bill tell us triumphantly that Britain can now sell lamb and stilton in unlimited quantities with reduced tariffs to the eager gourmands of the far east. What the Brexit … Continue reading That UK-Japan trade triumph celebrated
Peter Hitchens: the obituary
Peter Hitchens is not dead. Yet, nor has he ever been properly alive. Thinker, author, journalist, columnist, Christian, medievalist, sophist, Peter is the renaissance man of the Daily Mail unenlightenment. A product of the best education money can bribe, the young Hitchens got off to a promising start, embracing reason and humanism. And then with … Continue reading Peter Hitchens: the obituary
Ten things you definitely shouldn’t do while holding scissors
Here are ten things you shouldn't do while holding scissors: 1) Use the toilet. 2) Attend the school dance. 3) Jump off the high dive at the public swimming pool. 4) Go skydiving. 5) Walk into the Louvre. 6) Show up at a hospital nursery. 7) Look your best friend in the eyes and say, … Continue reading Ten things you definitely shouldn’t do while holding scissors
Owning a Daughter
Owning a Daughter is, as every parent knows, a bittersweet experience. After crossing those magical Rubicons in your growing girl’s life, from cutting a first tiny tooth, through cutely speaking her first girlish words, bunching tresses, purchasing an inaugural grown-up dress, earnestly watching romantic Disney films, to stabling her first little pony, arrives the ‘awkward … Continue reading Owning a Daughter
God:
GOD: In the beginning there was a poem about a GodIn His once upon a time was His happy ever after.Emerging from the chrysalis of His own potentialityHe stood, immaculately conceived, top filled to bright brim with youthfulvigourLike a March calf amongst the buttercupsAt the solid base of His consciousness-And there He waited, panting with … Continue reading God:
Challenging situations no.02
Think of an occasion when you personally had to deal with either a challenging situation, or a difficult person. What was the main concern, how did you tackle it, & what were the consequences? Becoming conscious- that I was simply a landless, itinerant, fungible, expendable, within a suicidal society, feverishly cannibalising greed, fear, & malignant narcissism: one … Continue reading Challenging situations no.02
