Windrush and the freedom we think nothing of.
Friday evening, Spring 2018. UK border control at Gatwick Airport. Long, long lines of people, of every origin and every creed, shuffling through the labyrinthine corridors of striped belt barrier that twist back and forth inside this vast, artificially lit chamber....
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The sacred cow of austerity inflicts madness on the NHS
I was struck by reports that hospitals are being forced to mothball beds due to a lack of staff and resources. Why, it only feels like yesterday we were being told that all our NHS problems were attributable to too many immigrants putting pressure on resources. Ergo,...
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The Brexit Sinkhole Beckons
It seems to me that the start of 2018 has been a watershed period marking a clear, unequivocal shift in the reasons and rationale behind Brexit. Until now, I think there has at least been a trace of intellectual consistency in the arguments of right wing politicians...
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Scaling Mount Coldplay
The path for any critically acclaimed artist with ambitions to become a household name must sometimes resemble a long hike up a mountain. You start your journey at the trailhead, the equivalent of performing to a few hardy souls in an old parking garage in Poble...
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Blue is the colour
Still feeling very annoyed by the ludicrous amount of coverage being given to the triumphant decision of the British government to do something they’ve been free to do at any point in the last thirty years: change the colour of our passports from burgundy to blue. The...
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Drink driving towards Brexit
So after years, and even decades, of campaigning to leave the EU, David Davis shocked us (but somehow didn’t shock us because that would imply we thought he was intelligent to begin with) with the revelation that nobody in the DeexEU had actually analysed the impact...
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