The Card

Hearing test day today so Iā€™m rather nervous. Not for me, you understand. My Mum has never wanted a hearing aid and weā€™re not entirely sure how sheā€™s going to take to it. Her dad wore two most of his life after being left deaf after being a gunner in the Great War. Friends I […]

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La-di-da, la-la!

I read an argument today that Iā€™ve heard so often over the past few months. It amounts toā€¦ ā€œHuman beings are not meant to live like this.ā€ Itā€™s about COVID-19, of course, and itā€™s only a persuasive argument because it appeals to our vanity. We’d like to think we’re all above the grubby business of […]

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Narratives

Glossing over yet another Boris Johnson affair ā€“ surely the most non-story story thereā€™s ever been ā€“ I thought Iā€™d write a little bit about politics today. Life proceeds at pace otherwise but Iā€™m not going to dwell on that. Instead, I thought Iā€™d talk about the fact that Republicans are now splitting off from […]

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Blogging

Lately I might have given the impression otherwise but I do still love blogging. I know Iā€™ve not exactly been firing on both cylinders for a few weeks, but life remains complicated by my Mumā€™s recovery, which on some days seems right on course. On others, not so much. Today has been one of the […]

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So late!

I got distracted today, partly on account of editing a podcast yesterday and getting behind with other work… Otherwise, I’ve been pissing my time away today trying to get a VPN to work on a Asus router so I might still have access to one of my regular sources of US news which has now […]

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My Birthday

Well, Iā€™ve had better birthdays. Just off the top of my head, Iā€™d rank higher any birthday when my aunt didnā€™t die. Yep. You heard that right. Mid-afternoon I hear the doorbell goes. I assume itā€™s Amazon delivering somethingā€¦ Hey! Perhaps even something for my birthday! Except, no. It was a teary relative Iā€™d not […]

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It’s October 13th!

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Happy #NoBraDay too (Iā€™m not wearing one)! Happy #OralBDay too! Iā€™m sure there are a few more of these dumb hashtags we could celebrate, though if youā€™re in the party mood, itā€™s also my birthday, which I share with Paul Simon, Margaret Thatcher, and Sasha Baron Cohen! Very nice!!! There was […]

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Ten PM

Eek. It’s already 10pm and I didn’t blog today. Been really busy with two cartoons (possible commission!) and writing a piece for tomorrow, whilst also followed the Senate confirmation hearing. Not much of an excuse for not blogging but it’s the only one I have. I’ll do better tomorrow, I promise…

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Wolverine Thinking

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 itā€™s so notable how so little of it makes sense. I donā€™t particularly like […]

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Cheesecake

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 newsā€¦ Iā€™m badly in need of some luck. Not that I believe in ā€˜luckā€™ but itā€™s better to believe in some transcendental power balancing the old […]

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Jenas, Dimbleby, Lineker

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

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Trumpy

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 […]

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Trump

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 […]

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