Aries (20 March – 19 April) With a newfound swagger in your step, a fringed haircut bobbing lightly across your forehead, and that far-off fragrance in the air which somehow takes you right back to childhood while reminding you in rapturous moments of freshly cut daisies, truly it seems like spring has sprung. But it hasn’t, and for once in…
With Donald Trump continuing to rail against trade deals via his own brand of virulent protectionism, while Theresa May paints a blurry picture of a post-Brexit Britain becoming a ‘global trading nation’ precisely in order to make itself great, at first glance it might seem like the two leaders are separated by more than an ocean. In fact many of…
It was a throwaway line, meant to add nothing more than a shade of personality and a tinge of local colour – the merest of peeks, if you will, behind the Kardashian-West curtain, the briefest taste of how it might feel when tempers inevitably fray to reveal those few loose threads, which otherwise bind together the most sumptuous drapery in…
His personal website says that playing alongside Kenny Dalglish and later Peter Beardsley, he led Liverpool Football Club to glory after glory across the blistering 1980s. It even stresses that when compared to the dour Scot, it was he not the Glaswegian who season upon season ended up as the side’s top scorer. With authorial flair he recounts a delicate…
Exquisite torment, dainty Mrs. Hargreaves Trips down the High Street, slaying hearts a-plenty; Stricken and doomed are all who meet her eye-shots! Bar Mr. Hargreaves. Grocers a-tremble bash their brassy scales down, Careless of weight and hacking cheese regardless; Postmen shoot letters in the nearest ashcan, Dogs dance in circles. Leaving their meters, gas inspectors gallop, Water Board men cease…
Little over twenty years ago, out of the murky depths of a Macon, Georgia arena, a man emerged on the sidelines of a televised sporting event, clad in denim, flicking a toothpick between his teeth, and with slick black hair and a tanned, rugged complexion, and in a gravelly half-Cuban accent he uttered the portentous words, ‘You know who I am….
Before the 59th Annual Grammy Awards reached their poorly timed off-pitch crescendo – as Adele snapped her only-for-show Album of the Year award in half to figuratively feed Beyoncé scraps from the table – the lovely London lass attempted to pay tribute to the recently and dearly departed George Michael. Michael, the sultry and soulful R&B singer-songwriter, who attained superstardom with…
For a whole year now you’ve been gazing fondly at last year’s heart-shaped box of Valentine’s chocolates, fingering tenderly the hollowed out plastic insert and the curved piece of red card, and remembering how the treats tasted and the surprise on the face of your lover, and the night of tender romance which swiftly ensued. Of course your partner would never toss…
I am tired. I contemplate this town —a town like any other— where I have lived for twenty years. Nothing has changed. A child is uselessly counting the stars on the next balcony. I also try… But he is faster: I cannot catch up with him: One, two, three, four, five… I cannot catch up with him: One,…two.. three… four……
When the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly last week in favour of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, granting Theresa May the ability to invoke Article 50 and steam ahead with a hard Brexit, there was some muttering among members of the real and supposed opposition regarding potential amendments. The cursory bill, introduced by Brexit secretary David Davis after the…
