Tag: Prime Minister
Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel: but...
Bernard Trafford reckons he cannot be the first person to use that metaphor with regard to the Covid pandemic. The current lockdown seems at...
Curious cacophony in Crookham as Banksy goes ballistic: a tall tale...
What was that curious cacophony in Crookham last weekend? Don’t worry: it was only Banksy going ballistic at government’s labyrinthine Cummings and goings!
Was I...
IMPORTANT! If you read only one thing before you vote it...
THE VERY IDEA OF right-wing breakfast radio presenter Nick Ferrari hounding the Prime Minister on air is as likely as imagining one of the...
Omnishambles: no other word for it
Omnishambles. That splendidly descriptive term was coined in 2009 by the political satire, In the Thick of It. The word itself was uttered by...
Post-truth, post-irony, but not post-hope
It's a popular view, something about which we Brits tend to joke incessantly, that Americans just don't get irony. I don't think it's true:...
Not ashamed to be British: ashamed of our leaders
It’s time for a public retraction. When, to my horror, the UK voted for Brexit on 23rd June, and particularly when the result was...
Raising positive voices
My good friend and fellow blogger Keith Hann observed in a Tweet the other day that my last full blog for Voice of the...
