Category Archives: The Arts

Part Five of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): In politics, there is a list of personal characteristics that one might possess but must never confess or profess for fear that the intolerant will not forgive such dysfunctions, or that the tolerant will see their mention as aContinue reading “The Possibility of a Saviour (#5 of the Pride Series)”

Part Four of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of misguidance and mis-intelligence.  In short,Continue reading “A Dickens of A Problem (#4 of the Pride Series)”

Part Three of My Christmas Series ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (See Part Two Here): So far, Frussterer has received the news more calmly than his advisors could possibly have hoped.  But that’s because he has not yet understood it.  Presently he becomes pensive. “Walk me through events once again,”Continue reading “A Question of Lost Anatomy (#3 of the Pride Series)”

Part Two of My Christmas Series ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (See Part One Here): “Exact numbers are all calculated alike; every inexact number is miscalculated in its own way.”  Such is the motto of the Department of National Statistics. The problem, it seems, lies in numbers and Frussterer struggles withContinue reading “Lessons in Economics and Theft (#2 of the Pride Series)”

Part One of My Christmas Series (as promised and previewed in my previous post): “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good army must be in want of a conquest…” Thus spake Zackary Frussterer. Zackary Frussterer has recently been elected the President of the United States, promising his electorsContinue reading “Pride, More Pride And Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice #1”