Black is white

One of the reasons I got out of politics was that I couldn’t stand the lies. It was all fake and spin and dishonesty. Yeah, I know that’s how the game is played, but it wasn’t my style. I don’t support any particular party nowadays. So far as I’m concerned, few politicians are fit to [...]

Political meter

I don’t normally comment on politics these days, but my bullshit meter has been ringing loudly recently, and I can’t help but point the finger at those flinging the brown stuff.

Weekend delight

“Ooh, look at this!” Kerri laid a page of the Sunday paper before me. It had a picture of a tiny book. A book with a BookCrossing sticker. A book I recognised, because I had last seen it at an airline lounge in Japan, where I had tucked it away from the ever-tidying hands of the lounge attendants in a window niche. My jaw fell open.