February 2025

A Trumuskian world

“I was always under the impression the world is complicated. But not a Trumuskian world. It’s simple, beautiful and orange” I was so wrong about Trump. I thought he was going to do stuff but instead he just purses his…

Guardian Soulmates

Even writing “Yahoo” ages me. I was convinced, like everyone else who signed up to Guardian Soulmates in 2004 that I was diving into a pool of sexy lefties with angular jaws and splash! a man in red Speedos with…

Crazy

“Robert was a hedonist. He was a hedonist not because he was a fag but because he was a hedonist. The best kind” A crazy person said once that “everyone’s life is a form of psychosis in slow motion and…

Misery upon grim

The British don’t expect to be happy. On this small boot-shaped island miserableness is patriotic. The British are proudly miserable. In the depths of winter misery is a crackling fire in the pit of one’s gut. It’s the only way…