Nice and the Spectacle of Terror
- July 16, 2016
- by
- Matt
Yesterday evening I was driving to play a game of tennis and listening to the radio, when I heard the sounds of of screaming people being mown down by a truck in Nice. I immediately turned it off. This isn’t because I think I have some privileged right to ignore the escalating procession...
Mayday! Mayday!
- July 15, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’ve just returned to Brexitland after a week in the Aragonese Pyrenees with my daughter. During that time we continued to follow the tumultuous events that have convulsed our tormented island: Chilcot; the PLP’s viciously inept coup; the rapid extinction of the wretched Andrea Leadsom and the coronation of Theresa May; the ongoing racism coursing...
Labour Plotters: Stop your Sobbing
- June 30, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’m sorry to hear that some of the MPs who have turned on Jeremy Corbyn these last few days have been crying. Angela Eagle looks weepy every time she appears on tele, and now Margaret Beckett has cried on air It’s sad, but then there has been a lot of sadness and tears...
Taking Our Country Back: Brexit and the Seeds of Hate
- June 27, 2016
- by
- Matt
There was a time, in the country that so many Brexit voters would like to take ‘back’, when it was commonplace to have signs in the windows of rented accommodation that read ‘no dogs, no Blacks, no Irish. ‘ We have spent decades moving away from the society where such discrimination was semi-respectable; ...
Freaky Friday
- June 25, 2016
- by
- Matt
In the Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Freaky Friday, a mother and teenage daughter wake up to find themselves trapped in each other’s bodies as a result of a magic spell. Yesterday I underwent a similar but even more disturbing transformation. On Thursday night I dreamt that Remain had won the referendum....
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