Attempting to salvage the frittered away year and a half of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, and deal an unlikely blow to the Conservatives in next month’s snap election called by Theresa May – has ever a task appeared more hopeless? But to their credit the Labour Party are at least trying, in their own characteristically dishevelled way. And having promised the…
Aries (20 March – 19 April) The conjunction of Mercury with Uranus seems to bear ramifications for your weekly grocery shop. * * * Taurus (19 April – 20 May) Last month you didn’t even know about curlicues, but this month with a pen in your hand curlicues keep cropping up. *** Gemini (20 May – 20 June) All your…
Given that the government’s own representative, Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris and the Minister of State for Universities and Science, described it as ‘the most significant legislative reform of the sector for twenty-five years’, you would be forgiven for presuming that the Higher Education and Research Bill just passed by parliament at least possessed some semblance of academic…
The Shimmering Ostrich just a few short months ago went to the awful trouble of putting together a template for any Theresa May speech. While her limited worldview and penchant for repetition shouldn’t have made this an especially onerous task, having to dwell upon and draw out her use of a few broad and middling, yet at the same time…
Wingletting with the goldenscrawl Of its finest sinews, The grasshopper loaded its trailer-belly With many coastal herbs and faiths. “Ping, ping, ping!” tra-lah-ed the zingzinger. O, swanderful! O, illuminate! 1908-1909.
As Theresa May decided after all to call a snap general election, which will now take place in just seven weeks’ time on 8 June, too few commentators called May out for what amounts to a brazen and deceitful display of political opportunism. Rather than questioning the strength of her leadership or calling her a liar, they simply threw up…
If I were fire, I would set the world aflame; If I were wind, I would storm it; If I were water, I would drown it; If I were God, I would send it to the abyss. If I were Pope, then I would be happy, For I would swindle all the Christians. If I were Emperor, do you know…
Dans l’adversité de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons quelque chose, qui ne nous déplaît pas. [“In the hard times of our best friends we find something that doesn’t displease us.”] As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature, I believe ’em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest…
So Braun Strowman rudely interrupted an interview with the taciturn Roman Reigns this past Monday on Raw, and boy did he ever dole out the punishment! He tossed him face-first into a wall, snatched him by the throat before throwing him headlong through a table, and as Reigns lingered forlornly in the venue’s entrance way, Braun powerslammed him onto a…
It is nothing new to note the paradox at the heart of our obsession with celebrity and pop culture, in so far as the objects of our desire, the faces who fill our thoughts and cover our screens and magazines, often times we’re quick to say we can hardly bear. Whatever your taste or inclination, whether it’s Kim Kardashian, Justin…
