Christ! The day is weird and slightly yellow like somebody has scraped butter across badly burnt toast. It hasn’t stopped raining and… well… I really can’t be arsed. I have these days. I sit down, pause to look at what I’ve been doing, and think it’s all utter crap. Two or three cartoons out of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been watching so much sci-fi recently that I find myself wanting to watch even more sci-fi. On Saturday night, I almost started The Expanse but I realised I have far too many series on the go. I want to finish at least one before various free subscriptions run out. Instead, I thought I’d bite […]
Continue ReadingLate again. It would be shameful to specify the time I crawled from my pit this morning but, then, I was writing deep into the early hours to get an article sent off for the start of Monday. I now need to write myself out of my grogginess, induced by a deep and vivid dream […]
Continue ReadingHad a long lie-in since it’s Sunday, so I’m late to my desk. Late to the news as well and there’s so much to parse this morning. I’m not sure where to begin: with the rumoured government plan to give us all ÂŁ500 vouchers to get the economy going again or Kanye West running for […]
Continue ReadingWorked into the early hours, drawing that particularly unpleasant cartoon, which I decided to post because, honestly, I like posting cartoons even more than I like posting articles. I also suspect some of you enjoy the cartoons more than my written work and, if so, then these cartoons are for you. For me, that’s a […]
Continue ReadingI prematurely reviewed Picard earlier in the week because I’d enjoyed it so much. There’s not much I can add to that beyond saying: I still enjoyed it. The last two episodes were not without faults, however… I’d left it with the crew about to reach the planet where the synths were made and lived. […]
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As much as it is measured by affection, success is too often measured by hate. Hate proves a useful metric because it allows writers to test how successful they’ve been, positioning their selves on one side of the political divide. How much the Right or Left hates you often reflects how much the other side […]
Continue ReadingMy morning routine is always the same once I reach my desk but I should perhaps start to avoid that first hit of Twitter. It can put me into a foul mood and I’m already pretty tetchy. At the risk of turning this blog into a diary of my continuing and utterly frustrating struggle with […]
Continue ReadingEverybody has a nemesis. Mine just happens to be about forty feet long and about twenty feet across. It’s also green… I’m approximating. I have no idea how big the lawn is. I could go out and measure it, but I don’t like going near the damn thing. It makes me ill. I’m also not […]
Continue Reading[Mild The Rise of Skywalker spoilers ahead] Good news about the new hayfever tablets. I was awake all yesterday. I also drew some new cartoons and then took the evening off to watch the latest Star Wars movie. It’s the “latest” only in the sense that I hadn’t seen it but this week’s arrival of […]
Continue ReadingI’m all over the place this morning. The weather has suddenly changed, it’s chilly, and I feel like I’m coming down with a cold, though that’s probably just this persistent hayfever. Other than sore eyes and a cough, I’ve had three or four good days since stopping the Benadryl but now I’m back at square […]
Continue ReadingI have a new piece over at Reaction. It’s about the whispers that Donald Trump might quit before November. I look at the pros and cons of the argument; how it fits with the character of the man, how it doesn’t; and which option is probably best for Republicans. It’s over here [CLICKY] should you […]
Continue ReadingBoris Johnson continues to baffle me. It’s not that I wasn’t ready for his kind of Prime Ministership. We all pretty well knew what we were getting when a majority of us didn’t vote for him. He avoided all scrutiny except that of the police during the leadership campaign – Jeremy Hunt proved himself the […]
Continue ReadingSunday turned into a huge writing session. I finished my post about the Linehan story and then, instead of cartooning, I wrote an article about US politics, which was considerably easier than either. I’m in the writing zone. I should probably stop. However, whilst I have the energy and before I go binge on Brooklyn […]
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First of all, to avoid accusations of hypocrisy, let me put it out there that Twitter has every right to ban Graham Linehan from their platform. It would be wrong of me to argue that one rule applies to Katie Hopkins and another rule applies to people I generally agree with. Freedom of speech also […]
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.
