David Waywell

Thanks for all the kind messages yesterday. I’m feeling better than I have in days. A solid nine-hour sleep helped. It was my first proper night’s sleep in too long and if there’s one defining truth about me it’s that I need my sleep. Yet, yesterday, sleep wouldn’t come. Nothing I could do could stop […]

Political ideology can be such a crock of shit. This thought crossed my mind enough times in the past twenty-four hours that I thought I should write it down. Politicians often present their fundamental worldviews as though they are coherent, yet it’s so notable how so little of it makes sense. I don’t particularly like […]

Well, that was every bit as hellish as I feared it would be. I’m not fully fit having been a bit ill earlier in the week. I’ve also not been pounding out the miles for the past six months. So, though I managed to get us to the hospital in time for the appointment (half […]

I have a new piece over yonder, which is a profile of Kamala Harris, who was always my pick for the VP place on the Biden ticket. In other news… I’m badly in need of some luck. Not that I believe in ‘luck’ but it’s better to believe in some transcendental power balancing the old […]

Another day off today makes it sound like I’ve been doing nothing but this week has already been busy. Written two long articles (the second should appear ahead of tonight’s Vice Presidential debate) in addition to my other duties including pushing a wheelchair to a blood clinic. I’m still knackered and suffered a little yesterday […]

Donald Trump has just declared himself fit for the next debate. I don’t know what to say, except I guessed that he would. At the moment, the best way to anticipate Trump is to imagine the most ridiculous thing he could do in any given moment. That’s my conclusion, having done a lot of writing […]

I’m late to the blog, which is an indicator of my day being stupidly busy. Not just real world stuff but writing too. Politics is in a crazy place in America and Donald Trump is acting beyond the point where it can be rationalised as “disruptive” or “non-traditional”. Tonight he’s leaving hospital, telling people that […]

I’m sure I’m not the only person waking us this Sunday morning and watching that new Donald Trump video with a regretful degree of scepticism. I want to think good things about his recovery but how can you when you know you’re being played? First, the video was released alongside pictures of the President working […]

Rest day… I am knackered.

It had bothered me. I’ve spent my time today writing a longish piece (you can now read it over yonder) or putting together a short animation (purely as a bit of relief) and all the time I’ve been wondering why Warrington Specsavers no longer do home visits around here. I mean, this really bothered me. […]

Felt like more of a normal day. Just finished a piece on the latest development in Trumpworld… Fascinating stuff. Should appear later today over at Reaction. In other news: the Welsh male voice choir are still camped out beneath my mother’s bedroom window and she’s getting mightily pissed off with them. I must admit, I’ve […]

Hard to get going today. A bit of normality – the thing I’ve been dreaming of for days – but I find that my brain won’t work. I think it’s exhaustion but it’s also hard to break that sense that I’ll be dashing around doing something in the next five minutes. My Mum’s now taken […]

The first one has now disappeared down the hatch. It was the same hatch that subsequently scoffed a big plateful of Ravioli on toast and then proceeded to explain why Jimmy Carter was a much better president than people remember. We’ve had quips, sarcastic jibes, and lots of laughter. Two days ago, I had a […]

Here’s an unexpected twist in the tale. So, I paid for a private GP consultation which happened this afternoon. I explained the situation, the symptoms, the whole Enchilada (whatever that means). The doctor was totally understanding, thought it was sensible of me to push for the antibiotic since, she said, it’s the standard treatment for […]