D-Day 80th Anniversary Fenced Off from Peasants

Despite the vicious tag-team of Student Finance and the University of Portsmouth beating any passion for writing out of me like a bent copper extracting a confession, I didn’t want the last thing I posted here to have been ghost written by GPT-4. So, one more time larping as a journalist, because nothing says “I belong here” like an old SLR camera, an ill-fitting rum hat, and a thermos full of wine.

It was the D-Day 80^th Commemoration down in Portsmouth on the 5^th June. The news would report the world watching a glorious ceremony, but for most of us behind the fifteen-foot walls, we had no idea what the veterans and dignitaries were up to. The handful of tickets for us plebs had been quickly snatched up and we’d been told the best place to watch was on the BBC so to stay away.

Being British, we didn’t listen. Continue reading “D-Day 80th Anniversary Fenced Off from Peasants” →

June 7, 2024 0

Kingdom of the Sunak

Rishi Sunak outside Number Ten, his waving arm dissected by a Covid positive lateral flow test.

In the miserable year that the Tories regained power, a humble investment banker from Southampton joined a hedge fund called Theleme, which would go on to invest in Moderna. Yes, that Moderna.

Dishy Rishi Sunak became a Conservative MP in 2015, rising up the party ranks until, as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the COVID-19 pandemic, he brought in hedge fund partner, John Sheridan, as an advisor. Goodness knows whose advice he was taking when he axed the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit but it was our first proper indicator of his compassion for the poors. Continue reading “Kingdom of the Sunak” →

February 2, 2023 0

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