Parts
This was written as part of the ’28 Plays Later’ challenge, where participants have to write a play each day for the month of February. For this one, we were asked to write about the body and its parts. As … Continue reading Parts
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Trump’s absolutely fine
A: You can say all you want about him, what I say is this: Donald Trump isn’t all bad. B: No, you’re right there. He isn’t all bad. A: I mean – he’s probably not the finest human being. B: … Continue reading Trump’s absolutely fine
Small parts
My love for my husband died the day small parts of him began exploding in bed. I remember the first occasion vividly. It was his right big toe-nail I believe, though of course I didn’t realise that at the time. … Continue reading Small parts
Sovereignty
I’m going to leap into the sovereignty thing, because people are saying things about it that I think are missing the point, or are based on misunderstandings or misleadings (a word I’ve just invented). For me, it is the most … Continue reading Sovereignty
Naz
Hah! Farewell then, to the appalling, despicable, terrorist-sympathising[i], holocaust-denying[ii] Naz Shah, from her role as parliamentary aide to John McDonnell, and let’s hope that she gets dumped from the parliamentary select committee on anti-Semitism too! Exposed in her opinions by … Continue reading Naz
Experience
There are three of them. Riding up the hillside in the evening, glimmering, shimmering almost imperceptibly. They think they can’t be seen or heard, but I see them. I know all about them. They don’t know I’m here. Now should … Continue reading Experience
World Book Day
Today it is World Book Day, so here is my list of a ‘top ten’ of books. It’s not a proper top ten, because they’re not in order – well, at least, they’re not in order of quality or preference … Continue reading World Book Day
Tatchell
So the latest victim of no-platforming is none other than veteran civil and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, proving that no one is sufficiently right-on not to fall foul of the current wave of student Stalinism, should it so happen … Continue reading Tatchell
Pornography – Upgoer 5 – 1
Upgoer 5 is a description of a Saturn 5 rocket created by xkcd.com artist Randall Munroe. See here: http://xkcd.com/1133/ For this, he uses a vocabulary that consists of no more than ‘ten hundred’ words. The following description uses no more than that vocabulary. People usually wear clothes, even when it is very hot. It is interesting that people who come from a place where it is always hot, and where the other people have all lived there for a long time, and where the people who come from other places have not made them change what they do very much, … Continue reading Pornography – Upgoer 5 – 1
Evolution – Upgoer 5
Upgoer 5 is a description of a Saturn 5 rocket created by xkcd.com artist Randall Munroe. See here: http://xkcd.com/1133/ For this, he uses a vocabulary that consists of no more than ‘ten hundred’ words. The following description uses no more than that vocabulary. Living things make more of themselves. It is one of the special things about living things that they make more of themselves. Some things make more of themselves all on their own. They are usually very simple things which are too small to see with your eyes. If you could see them, they would look like tiny … Continue reading Evolution – Upgoer 5
Stuff I Reckon 