Brexit Fiction Satire Westminster

CHEQUERS: THE LAST DAYS OF MAY

CHEQUERS: THE LAST DAYS OF MAY Disunity, disloyalty and hundred-foot-high turnstiles on the Irish Border The inside scoop on what really happened at that fateful meeting at Chequers   BREXIT DEBATE. CHEQUERS. FRIDAY 6th JULY 2018   (There is general hubbub and conversation around the table)   PM Yes thank you everyone, thank you for […]

Poetry

BLAKE’S WAKE

  Corridors and doors; strip-lighting; more corridors; fast-walking, important walking. Blake was escorted at top-speed. Blake was on his way to see God. They led him into a bullet-shaped capsule then followed him in… Whoosh of doors. The windows were tinted thus Blake could not see out. He knew they were travelling at great speed […]

Poetry

Vampire Limousine

  We are people of the world you and I Literally we are of this world Though the makers of this world despise us -We eat unremarkable food and agonise from time to time over the price of a piece of fillet steak Or some of us learn to content ourselves with non-nutritious chemical substitutes […]

Poetry

BLOOD MOON

I’m your master set in alabaster And though my self-aggrandising policies Are laundered and spun-dry through media machines There are always certain aspects that require The old distraction or filibuster schemes And if resistance hits my purse And the worse comes to the worse Then dare you even mention The tried and trusted strategy of […]