Dropping the mask of democracy and going straight for totalitarian rule, the slower-driving campaign group 20’s Plenty for Us has suggested that councils should implement 20mph limits without public consultation. Consultation “creates a perception of indecision rather than leadership or…
we lit candles in the ruined church and wept – where is the God to save us from ourselves? wax spills outwards, accidental patterns on empty air: prayer fills the vacant space, sending unexpected love the emptiness of deep pits…
Read: caverns
Some people go for sandbags; others prefer money. Possibly sandbags full of money would do it. Is your home flooded? No problem. The Government has lots of money, so everything will be fine. Whose fault is it anyway? Perhaps the…
We spend so much time criticising bankers for being greedy at the highest level that we forget the incompetence lower down. I have just spent many hours over several days trying to get a very straightforward current account usable on…
I lie in a cooling bath on New Year’s Day thinking about redemption, unresolved Outside the streets are empty, reluctant to make a start: the sky is gallows grey, and a half-read novel slumps on the mat Downstairs scraps of…
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I enjoy watching sport for aesthetic reasons. I am almost as perplexed by people who treat football as if it were a kind of war game as I am by those who don’t like sport at all. If games are…