Category Archives for politics
A message to Donald Trump from the Beatles
Tweet Four years that you’ve been lyingBut soon you will be crying and cryingFor you (oo-who? You-oo-hoo!)Four years that you’ve been cheatingBut now you’re gonna take a beatingPoor you (oo-who? You-oo-hoo!)You thought you were a great big manYou’re just a … Continue reading
Dump Trump
Tweet More free materials for this purpose. Any anti-Trumpers may use as they wish without attribution. Apologies for any repeats, but if they were good before they’re still good now. Some simple narratives for Biden-HarrisTrump is not fit to be … Continue reading
Campaign themes (and jokes) against Trump
Tweet These suggestions are a free resource for the Democratic party and anyone campaigning against the re-election of Donald Trump. Virus The world environment and economy have become a breeding ground for new viruses. It is highly likely that something … Continue reading
A Trump Second Term: should we accept catastrophe in silence?
Tweet Unpublished letter to The Spectator in reply to Sir Christopher Meyer Based on his experience of the 2000 election Sir Christopher Meyer recommends a policy of diplomatic silence to Boris Johnson if, as is now all too likely, the current Presidential … Continue reading
Poor Swift (from my lockdown diary for 28 May)
Tweet In my distant schooldays I read Jonathan Swift for English A Level. I read him again intermittently for pleasure and possible literary larceny, since he is of course out of copyright. Then and now, I would sometimes have to … Continue reading
Protesting Against A Trump Stolen Election: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Tweet How many people remember Seven Days In May? A best-selling political thriller of the early 60s, it was made into a movie. A liberal President (Frederic March) makes an arms treaty with Soviet Union. A popular charismatic patriotic general, … Continue reading
The Dirge And Downfall Of Donald Trump
Tweet The Virus does not know or care whether people are protesting in a good cause: it is dangerous and anti-social to hold any kind of mass demonstration in these times. Indeed, if the Virus has any political agenda it … Continue reading
Blair speaks!
Tweet From my 2005 play Waiting For Gordo a bleak existential drama of backbench life in the Labour Party. Spoken by my character Placebo Lackey MP, but all passages by Tony Blair I believe – passionately – that it is … Continue reading
Wanted: A Labour Leader (serious applicants only)
Tweet full text of article published in the Yorkshire Post December 16, 2019 (some zingers omitted) There is an old maxim in American politics: the best time to kick a man is when he’s down. It certainly applies to … Continue reading
John Donne anticipates the UK election results declared on St Lucy’s Day
Tweet ‘Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s, Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays; The world’s whole sap is sunk; The general … Continue reading
