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Hearing test day today so I’m rather nervous. Not for me, you understand. My Mum has never wanted a hearing aid and we’re not entirely sure how she’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 […]

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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…

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 […]