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Empty Homes
For the year of 2023, Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (which ranks countries by experts’ views of possible corruption in...
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The Plan part two
At the airport he is met by precisely no one. He doesn’t exit the car till he’s at the foot of some stairs leading up to a large unmarked aero plan e...
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The Plan part one
A basement room, five empty cans of Kronenbourg on an office table , two very basic chairs, as devoid of life as Hitler’s bunker. A man paces across...
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Cancelled in the afterlife
Maybe now she’s seen me in my own juice sat about picking my nose swearing at the news she doesn’t want to know me. The other year I bumped into one...
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Damp cloth
All cellophaned up in wraparound plastic nothing left of it, just dust and German Shepherds English-speaking watchmen. This weather’s like a damp...
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Cor this is so unusual and
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
Cor this is so unusual and funny. Got all the hallmarks of a top quality Radio Four play or better still keep going and get it to book size, then offer it up to agents. Reminds me of Victoria Wood and Julia Davis comedy
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you....Part 5
Gobstopping time capsule of
Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2016
Gobstopping time capsule of reminscent poetry crammed with all the creepiness of childhood woe and worldly wickedness.
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Grabbed by every word and
Posted on Fri, 05 Sep 2014
Grabbed by every word and gladly thrown around with an ease of language I haven't read for quite a while. Saying that, I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces at the moment. I see schizophrenia as a force of nature in itself, a sort of blessing...
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Hi Di, Passionate polemic
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024
Hi Di, Passionate polemic (had to look up that last word) is a much more satisfying summary than cantankerous rant! Thank you for the golden balls.
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Assange to be free would be
Posted on Mon, 19 Feb 2024
Assange to be free would be best for all
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Great fun again but wouldn't
Posted on Mon, 19 Feb 2024
Great fun again but wouldn't those two idiots get fired for such horrid behaviour? Maybe it's normal now I don't know. Ooh, one typo right at the end, 'on the world'.
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You can't beat a bath. It's
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
You can't beat a bath. It's by far my most welcome and invigorating ritual. I can't do with sitting in it for too long as I get bored very easily once I've shaved and washed everything but it's surprising how many ideas arrive from that warm...
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Another informative and
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2024
Another informative and comically scrolled travelogue in a country where customs are even stranger on the streets than in the airports. Almost a chuckle a paragraph is some feat but you've managed it here. Ending on a melancholy political note...
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Another scintillating swipe
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Another scintillating swipe at human frailty examined and laid bare by Spencer. Vanessa should reward him soon... with a nice day out, and I can't wait to see Stupot get his comeuppance
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Come on, chop chop, where's
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
Come on, chop chop, where's the next one? I'm clucking
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