Taking back control!
Over at TW&TW I’ve written a piece about the rhetoric of evil. Meanwhile here, I thought I’d make David Cameron’s Christmas card look a little more festive.
A few years ago, a relative underwent major surgery. It was a bad time but eventually came the moment when we could visit. ‘So,’ I said, once the greetings were done and tears shed, ‘is there anything I can do?’ ‘Yes,’ replied my relative, ‘you can turn that [flipping] TV off!’ A monitor on an […]
Such a grim morning. It’s 11am and all the lights are already on. Normally November is my favourite month but this past four weeks have been nothing but rain. Not that I dislike rain.
Drawn for The What & The Why.
I had another of those difficult days today when, for reasons that I just cannot fathom, the world went completely silent on me. Normally my inbox is alive with emails of one kind of another. Today: nothing. Not a single one, despite my sending quite a few. It feels like I don’t exist. Hello?
Over at The What & The Why, I’m talking about the Paris attacks and making broad points about the whole troubled mess. I accept it won’t be to everybody’s taste but that was deliberately so. My views are atheist, sceptical, but also, I hope, humanist. Despite being cynical about most things, I’m no nihilist. I […]
Subject to judicial approval, of course.
Can't always believe what you see.
Another terrible shooting at an American school. Hard to really understand how America can ignore a problem that affects them every single day. However, I’ve tried to do that over at The What & The Why, where I’ve written something about America’s gun culture and how it affects all of us.
Putin in Syria
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What he's really gunning for.
Over at The Spectator Coffee House, I’ve written about James Bond and China.
The problem with an old-fashioned egging is that it lacks political nuance. Last Sunday’s assault on Young Conservatives in Manchester has quite rightly been greeted with universal disapproval by the media and it doesn’t really matter that 60,000 people didn’t hurl eggs. One chose to vent their anger in yolk form and it was wrong, […]
Watercolours are bloody tricky… by
A Netanyahu Cartoon
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And watercolours are still a bugger to master…
Written a piece over at The What & The Why on refugees, patriotism and the rise of nationalism.