by Andy Dodd | May 30, 2018 | Extemplo
Will not be renting a Mercedes A-Class again. Aside from the fact that the seats are designed for drivers with limbs more flexible than Ken or Barbie, you seem to attract the attention of every dipstick on the road. The boy racers bait and block you because they could...
by Andy Dodd | May 1, 2018 | Brexit, Politics
Liam Fox is a free market fanatic who wants to use Brexit as an excuse to re-engineer British society on the basis of his partisan ideology. The things he believes in would mean more insecurity, more inequality and an acceleration of the transfer of wealth from the...
by Andy Dodd | Apr 24, 2018 | Politics
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....
by Andy Dodd | Apr 17, 2018 | On My Mind
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,...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 19, 2018 | On My Mind, Politics
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...
