Fishing in the Rivers of Life

Tag: Political Commentary

  • Suck My Glock: The Rise of the MAGMAs

    A reflection on power, fear and the danger of letting bullies set the rules. This piece explores what happens when authority goes unchecked.

  • The New Dark Satanic Mills

    A look at how free speech has never truly been free, how context shapes everything we say and how tech power has turned words into fuel for a new industrial revolution.

  • Trump and Circumstance

    A look at the strange mix of precision, pageantry and melancholy that turns British ceremony into something halfway between nostalgia and theme park fantasy.

  • Farage,The Joker’s on Us

    Uneasy Déjà VuI have an unpleasant feeling of déjà vu washing over me, and rather like seasickness, a bad curry or a good laxative, it’s making me feel rather queasy. It’s the same kind of feeling as having an endowment mortgage coming to term, around the time as all around you, the financial world burns.…

  • Plane Stupid or Stupid Plane?

    No Such Thing as a Free Plane There’s an old adage that states, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” and while that may remain true, perhaps it’s time to update the world-worn saying to: “there’s no such thing as a free plane.” Let me put it another way. It’s always been a dream…

  • Nigel and the Milkshake of Destiny

    A Screech at the Radio Christ alone knows what the neighbours are thinking. For about the tenth time, I scream at the radio. The venom and the message are the same: “You don’t speak for me, you fucking moron.” It’s not nuanced, not balanced, but that’s what you get from Nigel Farage. Well, not him…