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 […]
May 8, 2019

Democrats, your nation needs you

Last week I tweeted: “The nation is ungovernable. A stable old democracy is being demolished by populist politicians. It’s worse than an army coup… What will […]
April 6, 2017

Britain’s Horrible Histories

  The Viceroy’s House, a feature film by Gurinder Chadha, director of the joyous Bend it like Beckham,  is out on general release in March. It […]
April 6, 2017

White and Black Working Classes

  Not a week goes by without some right wing British politician or pundit bewailing the lot of the ‘left behind’ white working classes. Most of […]
April 6, 2017

Emma Watson and Women Today

  Having followed the Emma Watson furore, what I would really, really like is to go out on a sisterly date with this amazing young woman […]
April 6, 2017

Lies and Hypocrisy Over Asylum Attack

  Witness the rank British duplicity and hypocrisy as various public figures respond to the mob assault on a blameless teenager on a street in Croydon, […]
April 6, 2017

Misrembering Diana

  Hear ye all.  Kensington Palace has put on an exhibition titled Diana: Her Fashion Story and, ostensibly, tickets are selling out fast. For a mere […]