Satire
Short stories and rants on global politics, sometimes featuring old men with small hands and bad haircuts.
Friday Rant - An antidote to the royal wedding
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 suffocating every media channel and…
Stop messing with my mind!
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 thumbprint rouses the phone from its…
It's official - Tillerson is dumber than a bag of hammers
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 high is that? Having drunk a couple of…
Why we'll have no second coming in Africa
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 arrested more than 140 people for their…
How to explain the N. Korean crisis to kids
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 taketh away, because Donny had less…