by Andy Dodd | Oct 30, 2018 | On My Mind, Politics
It’s hard to believe that there was ever a time before Brexit, when progressives like myself would routinely rail against the bad faith and dishonesty of the Tories and their blasted austerity policy. But yesterday’s Budget rolled back the clock to the...
by Andy Dodd | Sep 4, 2018 | Extemplo
Six former CIA directors, five former deputy directors and former director of national intelligence James Clapper. The admiral who led the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden. According to the current occupant of the White House, this list of people who in recent times...
by Andy Dodd | Aug 24, 2018 | Extemplo
Brexit. Immigration. Vaccination. Abortion. LGBT rights. MeToo allegations. Pick any controversial subject and social media is the carrier of a virus that is slowly metastasising to corrupt civic discourse and society’s sense of ease with itself. Free speech is not...
by Andy Dodd | Jul 2, 2018 | Sport
Al final, España en la casa. For all those who worried about the England manager’s judgement in kind of, sort of, with best intentions, managing to lose the dead rubber against Belgium, it now appears to be a masterstroke. Because even allowing for the traditional...
by Andy Dodd | Jun 28, 2018 | On My Mind, Politics
Remember the sparklers you played with on Bonfire Night as a small child? How brightly they burned? How sad and confused you felt when the flames disappeared. Remember how you clutched the tip before anyone could stop you, to try and understand where the wonder had...
