Books, Short Stories and Satire

I saw something on LinkedIn that really saddened me. Someone had posted about how he'd used Gemini AI to create a storybook, so now he...

It’s World Book Day, and at St Dastardly’s School for Wannabe Dictators the kids had turned up in mufti. The kids were always excited...

I read today that the US has paused military aid to Ukraine. I don’t know what the outcome of this will be, but I find it mildly...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...