Category Archives: The Arts

Part Ten of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): Where truth may not be admitted, there is a naked desert. Similarly, when it comes to the big political issues, there are things that exist but cannot be publicly admitted. To admit such issues is to accept the blame,Continue reading “The Cold Hard Truth (#10 of the Pride Series)”

Part Nine of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): There is nothing new under the sun, so the philosophers say. And it is certainly not a novel idea that wars beget reasons rather more often than reasons beget wars. It is less than 200 years, since one Captain JenkinsContinue reading “Title Sponsors for a War (#9 of the Pride Series)”

Part Eight of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): The Cojones Crisis – as the Red Tops immediately christen it – limps on past Hour Sixty-Seven.  President Frussterer would like to close airports and put army on standby, but he has been advised that this might put hisContinue reading “The Special Relationship (#8 of the Pride Series)”

Part Seven of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ sees us resume where we were before Christmas.  If you’re addled by booze and brandy sauce, here’s what you’ve forgotten (or maybe, you missed the excitement of my story in the run up to the festivities): Firstly, in #1 Pride, More Pride and QuiteContinue reading “Think Simple, Stupid, It’s About Oil (#7 of the Pride Series)”

Part Six of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): The following day, the three Yeses are distracted, devising a ten-year plan for America’s production of orange juice preserved by the new deep freeze process, also Mid-Western pork bellies and harmful industrial emissions. Their mission is to ensure that,Continue reading “A New Hope (#6 of the Pride Series)”