I generally don’t watch “reality TV”. I remember when British television launched Big Brother. It was baffling. It was as if the contestants were lab rats in a maze and we were watching them eat, sleep, and claw each other. The firm behind Big Brother, Endemol, apparently has gone in for an even more torturous […]
Charles may very well be the last King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The conditions which support monarchy no longer exist.
There has been a constant expectation that something would pop Trump’s balloon: backing Kevin McCarthy may be it.
Perhaps it was inevitable that Reverend Warnock would win the Georgia runoff. Reverend Warnock was by far the superior candidate. Warnock did not discuss the relative merits of being a vampire or a werewolf on the campaign trail. He had no stench of hypocrisy. He did not have the backing of Donald Trump. Whoever persuaded […]
Current policies focus on helping the wealthy keep more of what they have. At what point is this pure folly?
For years I didn’t think of myself as being autistic; I merely thought I was odd…I’ve been on a journey of self discovery.
I am old enough to remember the dot com boom. It was like the Palaeolithic Era. It was well before the “tech bros” had evolved, though the Neanderthal versions were there. At the time, I worked for a start up that was attempting to turn itself into a major corporation. The original owner was still […]
Author’s note: recent comments by Donald Trump’s spokesperson about other politicians being “half-breeds” reminded me of how the “Death Eaters” in the Harry Potter series focused on the necessity of having “pure blood”; apparently J.K. Rowling thought the same: Ironically, Trump’s mother was born in Scotland, hence he’s also a “half-breed”. The following story […]
The story could have had a different outcome. With an alternate set of policies and priorities, 3 year old Aylan Kurdi might have lived. He could have settled in Bedford or Peterborough, gone to school, torn holes in his navy blue jumper, gotten scrapes on his knees after falling off his bike, done well on […]
My black suit was clean and pressed. My white shirt with a herringbone pattern embedded into its weave had been ironed. A silk maroon tie was neatly tucked underneath my stiff collar, tied into a Windsor knot. The head of fresh red rose was pinned to my lapel. I had shaved around my beard that […]
I'm a Doctor of Creative Writing, a husband, a son, a brother, an uncle, a published novelist, a technologist, a student, and still an amateur in much else.
