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Some people emailed to ask us for a complete list of the parts of the ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ story, our editor’s great work that was serialised over Christmas.  Some readers were clearly either too drunk or too full of turkey to keep up.  But now they are full Read more

The final part and epilogue of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’  “Fuck it, you can’t do this,” Marcie said, flinging my pages across the table. “I, like, love you, your stuff, but… Jesus… Fuck!” She always had a negative first reaction to my wilder ideas. Usually, she came around, but Read more

Part Eleven of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): Here’s the truth: as a war, the Middle East is not a winnable war. It’s a losable war. It’s a war in which it’s possible to make everybody lose and still there won’t be a winner. For Frussterer, the Read more

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, Read more

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 Jenkins Read more