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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.…
Oh, what’s that sound? Oh, it’s you. Yes, it’s safe, you can come out of your hobbit hole, little hobbit. Yes, Littleshire has been made safe. The Sun is shining…
Thanks be to US defence secretary Ash Carter for bigging up Britain on the international stage. According to reports, Carter has said that the UK needs to keep its Trident…
By AN O’Bergine, special correspondent for purple things, Osaka, Japan So have you seen the ads for the very new, very fast, Shinkansen train? They are all over JR stations…
Mr Miliband — Ed, mate — Refounding Labour: it’s been done before. Tony did it. New Labour; scrapped clause IV, which formerly committed the party to, er, socialism, thus making…
Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…
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 war
That’s the post. Bollocks to war.
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.…
Going to the pictures, part one
Brexit: that fairytale ending
Oh, what’s that sound? Oh, it’s you. Yes, it’s safe, you can come out of your hobbit hole, little hobbit. Yes, Littleshire has been made safe. The Sun is shining…
Trident: corporate America milks British cash from nationalist woodies
Thanks be to US defence secretary Ash Carter for bigging up Britain on the international stage. According to reports, Carter has said that the UK needs to keep its Trident…
Travelling at the speed of purple: the design secrets of the 500 Type EVA Shinkansen
By AN O’Bergine, special correspondent for purple things, Osaka, Japan So have you seen the ads for the very new, very fast, Shinkansen train? They are all over JR stations…
Refounding Labour? Veni, vidi, dunnit before, innit
Mr Miliband — Ed, mate — Refounding Labour: it’s been done before. Tony did it. New Labour; scrapped clause IV, which formerly committed the party to, er, socialism, thus making…
Electoral Freud (without the Freud)
Elections are very much in the ether at the moment. Japan has just got over it’s local elections, the UK has just had its own with a referendum on the…
Tiny Britain
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, is a racist. I do not use the term lightly because it’s a big deal calling someone a bigot, saying that they are irrational…