by Andy Dodd | May 6, 2015 | Extemplo
I think Ed Miliband will be PM this time next week. Since it looks like the Conservatives won’t have the seats even with the LDs in tow, a new Cameron/Clegg axis face getting voted down on everything to the point where nothing can be achieved. If...
by Andy Dodd | May 5, 2015 | Extemplo
Who are the British, really? Leaving the UK after my last visit before Thursday’s election and I have to say I feel a bit choked. The campaign has been such a negative, demoralising and often mean-spirited affair. I’d like to think that Britain...
by Andy Dodd | Apr 23, 2015 | Extemplo
Meanwhile, there was better news for the Tories after Morgan Stanley warned that a Labour government supported by the SNP would lead to an earlier than expected rise in interest rates. The GuardianThis being the same Morgan Stanley who predicted that loan...
by Andy Dodd | Apr 19, 2015 | On My Mind, Politics
A friend of mine who went to a minor public school once confided to me that the experience had been akin to a gladiatorial training camp, a regime where you either developed the ability to project total confidence and mastery at all times, regardless of your...
by Andy Dodd | Apr 18, 2015 | Fiction, Poetry
This poem was inspired by a visit to the war grave of my great-grandfather, Robert Twist, who was killed near Ypres in June 1917. It was our guide who said, “Do not dig in Flanders’ fields.” The dead should not be asked To yield their final resting...
