Starmer, the Don Quixote of British politics

In the great novel of classical Spanish literature, Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, widely considered the first modern novel in European literature, the eponymous hero Don Quixote (an older spelling of Quijote which has become established in English ever since the book was first translated into…

Poem That Avoids Arrest

Or: Authoritarian Laws Accelerate Absurdism. Snort Apple Paste   Sprout Plasticine Parents   Inept Pastoral Section   Tacit Purple Tension   Steal Pronoun Aspect   Realise Plastic Opponent Source

An Impoverished Union

The media ‘influencers’ keep on accidentally making the case for independence. Here’s Richard Madley: Ricard Madeley asks Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald why she’s so keen on Irish unification when, in his words, Northern Ireland is close to being an economic basket case. “I think the core of that question is, why is the […] Source