Issue 150

..and roost there? In the spirit of inquiry I paused under the first talking tree and looked up. Yes, there they all were. I couldn’t really tell what brand they were, and just as I was thinking that they started to get nervous and about half of them fluttered noisily from the canopy in some…

..has a great chapter on anarchism and the gross social inequalities that caused it. My research was brought on by a passing reference in last month’s blogette (which you have forgotten already you ungrateful Christmas hung-over swine!) to my antipodean romantic infatuation with the Black Flag of Anarchism. The sheer panic that was engendered by…

..dollars a year to launch ships, entertain foreign dignitaries, tour the colonies and open fetes. The Royals worth as an English tourist attraction is greater than Stonehenge – which has endured a lot longer – or Big Ben – which has the benefit of being somewhat more timely than the House of Windsor. Perhaps there…

..staggering Lear-like around a deserted caravan park. What legacy will he leave? Missed opportunities, doors closed that might have been opened, darkness where there should have been light. The opportunistic gall, the sacrifice of principle to expediency and the denigration of truth and transparency will rankle less than the utter mediocrity of the man and…

..a television for a week we had no idea what it meant. My French is adequate enough to cause confusion, invite strangers to go roller skating or to admire the buttocks of my neighbour’s goat, but collapses entirely when the speed goes above the very slow and deliberate pace which one uses when addressing the…