“Broken and rotten, suffering collapsing public trust and guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia,” could describe, arguably, much of Britain in 2023. These, however, are the findings of March’s Baroness Casey Review into the Metropolitan Police (Casey, 2023).
What Fresh Hell is Woman? Part One
So here I am, enjoying this nice Dark Horse Malbec from Commiefornia as the world burns and coughs and shouts itself horse enough to require deworming. It’s a lovely bottle of red – good and rich, a nice return to that thick spicy flavour other budget Malbecs miss. Still quite a way off from better, more developed examples though and at seven quid I’ve had better. Bit flat with the aftertaste as well. In its defence it’s slow and relaxing, lending one to thousand-yard stares in the supermarket car park pondering the reasoning behind releasing the new Ghostbusters movie during Transgender Awareness Week.
CHRIS PARLETT 