Discarded Pepperonis Inhale, exhale. Fantastic, joyous day. Eke out a living. Manic, sleepy, angry. I’m singing under my breath — It’s a struggle, to make ends meet — Under pressure, to express yourself… No one having the luxury of time anymore it seems. In the ramshackle gazebo, long on the…

Extinct / Extant Sunrise is here. Ukraine stands. Pope Francis pleads with the international community to truly commit to ending this abhorrent war: Rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation but a war which sows death, destruction and misery. Continuous Russian shelling of…

Turtle Game The doomsday clock ticks more audibly tonight. You are seeing the world and current events, simultaneously missing the life immediately around you as you stare into a screen. I read a tweet about someone’s visit to Auschwitz, scroll to the next, a video of a nice Russian lady…

Won’t Get Fooled Again Utterly despicable. Indefensible, goes way beyond regaining trust. People unable to mourn their loved ones. Rage. Garden as extension of office, technically within guidelines. Millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way. Patronising crap, spectacularly misjudged. Smirking at breaches of the…

The Party Mary and Joseph were turned away. It’s fair enough! There’s no room at the inn. Listen to the man, he said they’re full! It’s survival of the fittest, and well we can’t keep dragging our heels caring about the most vulnerable. …

Planning to Plan It’s so simple and stupid it makes it hard to understand. On vaccine and mask requirements contravening freedoms, you forget about the bigger freedom, the duty of individuals to contribute something to the collective. It’s not all about you, a society is not just a load of…

Rishi Sunak’s Age of Optimism You may be impacted by our upcoming improvements. You’ve got food banks and you’ve got food rotting in fields, the emergency slaughter of 120,000 Great British pigs, quality produce gone to waste. European workers, they’re not queuing up, they’re not waiting around for a job…

Mammoth Steppe Blessed day. Gavin Williamson may get a knighthood. In a Cabinet re-shuffle, Raab was relieved of the Foreign Sec post (gone fishing during Afghanistan withdrawal chaos, on top of whatever else), was then placated with the titles of Lord Chancellor and Deputy PM, meaning he must defend the…

Mission Creep Time passed. We’ll put it down to pandemic time dilation. Seem to be a lot of disasters happening at once all over the world. According to one tweet I read, today marks the end of western global influence. The baton has gone to China and Russia. I don’t…