Tag: brexit
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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT
‘I beg your pardon?’ I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard. Who did this impertinent little person think they were? ‘I was just wondering if it wasn’t best to just admit we got it wrong?’ ‘Who are you?’ ‘Erm, I’m Nigel Billingsworth.’ I waited for him to say more. ‘Public Relations Assistant.’ Another pause. ‘Culture…
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SURMISE
Surmise: noun, to suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.”he surmised that something must be wrong.” See also: guess, conjecture, suspect. I surmise that there is intelligent life form other than ourselves somewhere out there in the universe. I surmise that there is a God, or some God or all the…
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THE MINISTRY OF DISTRACTION
‘What’s it to be today, Sir?’ ‘Options?’ ‘Well, we have the usual of course: immigration outrage, racial injustice, free school meals for the poorest children…’ ‘Stop, stop, stop. Are you mad? All of those can be linked back to me. What else?’ ‘Ah, you want something a bit juicier, more conspiracy theory. How about the…
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A FUTILE LIFE
It was time to give up. Admit defeat. Accept the desolation. The whole thing was futile. Life was futile. It was just another thing, on top of everything else, that made him angry about this year. A year of pandemic, riots, protests, more Brexit, more Trump, more Boris. Was it no wonder the country was…
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TRANSITION OF POWER
The transition from elected government to populist dictatorship had not been an easy one. Trying to convince people that they were moving from the dark ages of democracy to the enlightenment of an autocratic supreme ruler was a hard sell. The fact that the elected government he was replacing had been so ineffectual and weak…
Iain Kelly 