Short Stories and Political Satire

Boris shut nothing. If he announced the reopening of pubs and restaurants, and a festival to celebrate the end of lockdown, we’d ignore him

I was moved to write this post because I woke up and realised that conspiracy theorists are as much a category of people as any other. I've been wasting my t...

This week’s award goes to John Allen Chau, who thought it was his duty to preach about a magic Jewish prophet to the Sentinelese people, a p

This corpulent man who grows fatter daily on the sweat of the poor, is not content with people giving what they can afford. He wants to forc

Call me a sceptic but I’m willing to bet that 99% of people who voted for Brexit argued among other things that it was to ‘bring back sovereignty’, and 99% o...

How to tell if you or someone you know is a geek or just a nerd.

Bob has an IQ of 140. This makes him very smart but not a genius. Jane, Peter and Paul have IQs of 100, 90 and 70 respectively. The average IQ of this group ...

Dear Donald, Thank you for your application for membership of The League of Dastardly Dictators. I regret to inform you that having conside

In an outbreak of mass lunacy the people of Malawi have been killing people accused of being blood-sucking vampires. Malawi police are reported as having arr...

Dear Bill, It’s been a while since we spoke and I’m sorry, I should have called or sent a text. I know you’ve been avoiding me because I lost my temper, but ...

When I was a boy I imagined the world of the future. Nowhere in my imagination were the wars, the famine, the brutality and mindless division of today’s worl...

It was back in the early sixteenth century that Nicholas Machiavelli wrote The Prince. It was a guide to his employers, the Medici rulers of Italy, on how to...

A wise friend said something to me that encapsulates the truth of so many who profit from religion. He said: 'Dele, if you believed in God the way you believ...

Here’s a confident prediction for you – sooner or later people will notice the Emperor is butt naked, has twenty trillion plus in unpayable debt, is running ...

So we have another Royal Wedding. Yaay! While I admire Harry and assume he’s made an excellent choice of bride, I now have to make space for the coverage suf...

The phone rings and for one of a dozen reasons I can’t take the call. I hit the kill button (as I call it) and divert to voicemail. Five minutes later... My ...

Michael Gove, a man whose face looks like a deflated balloon you’d find behind the sofa six weeks after a kiddie party, went on the Andrew Marr show to revea...

Donald Trump’s recent assertion - that he had a higher IQ than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson - got one group of software developers wondering – just how h...

Theresa May is too smart to sack Boris. She's taking him down with her.

Once upon a time there was a school bully called Donny. Born rich, and not bad looking, he epitomised the saying that the good Lord giveth, and the good Lord...