Open letter to Keir Starmer (Sir)
Fuck you. The hard choices will be between food and heat this winter, not between pandering to the tabloids and doing the right thing. Also noted: Are you aware of…
A night in the Norfolk Inn, Paddington. With added bed bugs
There was a bed bug; an actual bed bug on my actual body. In a hotel. In actual London. I know there is some reservation in the world about naming…
Bollocks to BoJo
Let’s not get excited now. Even if Johnson goes, the Tories will still be lording it over us; the chumocracy, the entitlement, the social and economic vampirism ain’t going away.…
BP Portrait award 2010
A painting of a dead woman wins the BP Portrait Award, 2010 … surely the winning image in a BP show should be of dead pelicans and fish and dolphins…
Armchair warriors
This image proudly adorns the front page of a US conservative web site — ArmchairWarrior — that claims to be putting an end to thinking everywhere. Very clever sign, this.…
No link between Saddam and Al Qaida: gosh!
In case you missed the interim US report into Bush’s bullshit, click here. If I lie to my friends and colleagues, people lose faith in me. When Bush and Blair…
The way cowards kill people
Saddam Hussein’s sons died fighting the US army. Their father seemed happy to be found alive. When the Israeli army battered down the walls to his compound, Arafat foretold his…
More Saddam bollocks
I have been inundated today by declarations of rapture (or declarations of rupture) at the capture of Saddam Hussein. Pookian rapture is dimmed by the knowledge that many other guilty…
Saddam Bollocks
It is good news that they have Saddam Hussein at last. However, what they don’t have are the WMD he was supposed to be threatening us with, the same WMD…