September 19, 2020

Tree Waller-Bridge- The Mum who Raised the Amazingly Creative Phoebe, Iso and Jasper

C  Where Apples Fall Theresa ( Tree) Waller-Bridge raised Isobel, Phoebe and Jasper, all making their names in the creative industries.  Ms Phoebe Waller-Bridge is up […]
June 10, 2020

Priti Patel Pushes the Hostile Environment

When Priti Patel was appointed home secretary, innumerable Britons were scandalized. She’d been sacked by Theresa May for breaking rules of office. She’d been overpromoted just […]
June 10, 2020

Black Lives Matter To All Of Us

George Floyd died a horrific death. For nine minutes, Derek Chauvin, an officer paid to safeguard citizens, knelt on his neck. Other officers watched on. Dozens […]
October 19, 2019

The Far Right Threat

Do you know who David Parnham is? You should. He is a white supremacist who sent fake anthrax to the Queen, two Bishops, Theresa May when […]
October 19, 2019

Kamala Shamsie vs the Israeli Government’s Apologists

The award-winning novelist Kamala Shamsie is not prone to self-righteousness. I’ve met her several times over the years. She is still, thoughtful, measured and wise, manifestly […]
October 19, 2019

Bring Home Isis Orphans

When I read the two-page report in yesterday’s Mail about ten-year-old Amira and her two younger siblings, the British-born orphans trapped in a refugee camp in […]
October 19, 2019

How Six Men Destroyed the UK’s Old Parliamentary System

This week Boris Johnson – our very own Julius Caesar- has really got going. He is in a flurry, in a mad hurry to get out […]
October 19, 2019

Leftie Monarchists

Leftie Monarchists Not our Olivia Colman, not her too. She, who the supercilious High Tory Charles Moore disdains for her ‘distinctly working class face’, she, who […]
May 12, 2019

Men in Forced Marriages

(Names have been changed) Suhail Khan’s arms are nut-brown, hairy and muscular. He turns them over. No hair, but a crisscross of slashes- two bandaged and […]