Why parliament is paralysed
The problem with getting a decision on Brexit through parliament is that parliament votes on a binary voting system whereas Brexit requires a preferential voting system. On day to day Continue Reading
A history of dining at the House of Commons
Walking round the House of Commons, what strikes you isn’t what you see, but what you don’t see. All around you inside the gothic Palace of Westminster, icons and symbols Continue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn is even useless at being pro-Palestinian
Remember the time when Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest faux pas was that he didn’t bow to the Queen? He probably remembers those first family problems with affection. Now he is desperately Continue Reading
Short Story: Animal Magnetism
So I’m lying on the chiffon rug in the presidential suite of the Maynard Hotel, staring up at the shimmering chandelier dancing light across the vast universe of space surrounding Continue Reading
Love Island – we’ve all been there
I couldn’t work out where I had seen Love Island’s Megan before. Engrossed in her tragicomic lust triangles with Eyal and Dr. Alex; then with Laura and Wes; then with Continue Reading
Short Story: The Rose Garden
President Jack West is sitting in his red leather chair in the oval office, reading the file marked “Confidential” on his desk. Two star spangled banners flag him either side, Continue Reading
Poem: The Shop
We sell Alphatronic green platypus And beauty tonic gelatinous And candy-coated pithecanthropus And dizzy dynamite so hazardous And euphoric saints of Nazarus With felonies all so scandalous And gyrating girls Continue Reading
Annabel’s relaunched – can it recapture that old Mayfair magic?
If you weren’t wealthy, you wouldn’t have heard of it. In 1963, when Martin Luther King was having a dream and the Beatles wanted to hold your hand and the Continue Reading
Short Story: Droplets of Rain
Tiny droplets of rain are sunbathing on my bay windows, obscuring the view of the beautiful skies beyond. Through the glass, I can see a terrace of old England, redbrick Continue Reading
Poem: A Table of Silver
Delivering them Bewildering them The Table of Silver Quicksilvers them Jealousy draws a breath and sees to them Their greed for silver devours them A society in need of an Continue Reading