Tag: immigration
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STOP THE BOATS
The Home Secretary sat down to her meal in the grand hotel ballroom. The day had gone well. ‘STOP THE BOATS’: the perfect slogan to win back their core voters. Some of those irritating lawyers and activists and soft left-y socialists had bleated on about the European Convention of Human Rights, and breaking international law,…
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REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME
I’m breaking my own rule for once and writing something overtly political: an opinion piece, and it’s just my opinion, so feel free to disagree. Regardless of the eventual outcome of the US Presidential election, more Americans have voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016. Let that sink in. Half of…
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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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PROCESSING
He was happy with his handiwork. Sturdy cages, strong padlocks, each capable of holding two people, three if they were small. Business was booming, extra capacity was needed, the good times were rolling. It had been coming for a while. The overthrow was complete, the government was gone. Now they would experience the real life…
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ROOTS
Ma roots is in Barbados, so ma Mama tells me all d’time. ‘Yo was born there, Ah was born there, yo grandaddy was born there. Dat’s where yo is from.’ Funny ting is, Ah feel no connection to dat far off place at all. We left there when Ah wasn’t even one year old, part…
Iain Kelly 