Saturday. Wasted my morning. These bloody hayfever tablets are still ruining my days. I’ve been taking them for two weeks straight, during which time my eyes have gradually got better, I’ve been having some amazing sleeps – the kind where you’re out for seven hours and wake up in exactly the same position as you […]
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Dividing my time on this blog, as I do, between generaly ruminations on politics, life, and cartoons, I figure I should bounce from my morning meditation on Joe Biden to a thought about yesterday’s time consuming video. That thought is: 9 views after 24 hours! Yes. It will probably be a while before I try […]
Continue ReadingI wrote a piece yesterday for Reaction about Joe Biden’s strategy going into the November election. The article was part think-piece but also part genuine concern. It’s so easy to get distracted by the phenomenon of Trump that one forgets that the man running against him (and now likely to win) stopped being a great […]
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I thought I’d try something a little different today, though it took me all day to finish something that should only have taken me an hour. I’ve been wanting to make one of these speed drawing podcasts(?) for a while but a combination of problems got in the way. Primary among them is this PC’s […]
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I bought a book. In fact, I blew all my Waterstones points on this sucker. I couldn’t resist. I tried to resist. Believe me. I kept telling myself that I didn’t need this in my life… But come on, I’d reply. It’s by Oliver Stone: the guy who wrote Midnight Express and Conan The Barbarian, […]
Continue ReadingMax asked this in the comments and I thought it might make a decent blog post. The simple answer is that, in my eyes, American politics is still rooted in the big ideas of freedom and democracy. British politics, for all its complications, is mundane in its breadth of thinking. There are some big ideas […]
Continue ReadingI’m struggling to write today, though that has been true for most of the week. The vibe hasn’t been there, which often happens when I’m keen to get back to the drawing. Part of today’s indifference might be due to my just sitting down and watching some of Prime Minister’s Questions. It’s not something I’ve […]
Continue ReadingSo, it’s finally appeared and I’m not sure what to say… The Russia report surprised me but not in the way I expected. I thought the evidence of Russian interference in Brexit was obvious because… well, Russia has been involving itself in everything we do for at least a decade. I first wrote my judo […]
Continue ReadingI lost my internet (and hence my reason to live) for much of yesterday, throwing out my plans for the day… Virginmedia are generally reliable but they have lousy fault reporting. Their system status doesn’t actually pinpoint if their engineers are working on the local network, so when the system does go down, it’s too […]
Continue ReadingI’ve not followed the career of Ben Shapiro except by accident. He’s one of those people whose opinions pop up on social media and have generally led me to think of him as a walloper with spectacular means for self-promotion. Last night I only noticed him because he’d posted two maps of the US, challenging […]
Continue ReadingAfter a few stupidly long days, I’ve finally got the first of my two new cartoon collections live on Amazon. What’s more, if the technology is working, you should see an ad at the top of the page. I’m now finishing off the second volume whislt watching one of my favourite feel-good movies… Muppets Most […]
Continue ReadingMy brain must be particularly fogged today. I browsed the day’s headlines and I’m sure it said that Ian Botham is heading to the House of Lords. I know it can’t be true. His elevation has everything to do with Brexit, apparently, but Brexit doesn’t figure into why he’d be such a bad choice… I […]
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So, a question: are we at the stage when a person with a serious pre-existing medical condition should feel confident about heading into the great outdoors? I need advice because I’m really not sure… From the beginning of this crisis, I’ve tended to be overcautious. I didn’t trust the government’s reading of the science back […]
Continue ReadingDay 238 in the Big Brother hooose… The lockdown might be getting to me. Or perhaps it’s still my goddamn eyes. I thought they were back to normal, so I skipped the antihistamine tablet on Wednesday night. By the time I went to bed last night, however, my left eye was as bad as it […]
Continue ReadingWhy Dunciad.com?
It’s a cool domain name and it was available. Yes, I know. Available. Crazy, isn’t it?
Really?
Yes. It also helps that it’s also my favourite satire written by Alexander Pope, one of the most metrically pure English poets who also knew his way around a crude insult or two. If you’ve not read it, you should give it a try.
So this is satire, right?
Can’t deny it. There will be some. But it’s also an experiment in writing and drawing, giving work away for free in order to see how many people are willing to support a writer doing his thing. It’s the weird stuff that I wouldn’t get published elsewhere in this word of diminishing demands and cookie-cutter tastes.
