Category: Brexit

Sticking it to the man

April 28, 2020

Collage, from the French coller ‘to stick’, although an ancient practice is normally associated with the modernist movement of the 1900s, particularly with Braque and Picasso.  As such, it also carries the sense of collision, knocking elements together in unlikely juxtaposition. The above work by the collagist Cold War Steve brilliantly conflates the First World … More Sticking it to the man

Ovid-18

April 27, 2020

Just over 2000 years ago, in 18AD one of Rome’s greatest writers, Ovid, died in exile in Romania. This is the last year the UK will be able to rely on Romanian workers to work in our fields, as we exile ourselves from Europe. Not so much a quarantine as a life sentence. … More Ovid-18

Olympic hurdles

March 27, 2020

I have been silent for months as the Brexit tragedy has unfolded, the whole fiasco being driven by self-seeking  cynics who have a very contemporary aversion to the truth, which rendered intelligent discourse increasingly unsustainable. The mirthless joke is that those same charlatans are now in charge of the country as it faces its darkest … More Olympic hurdles

Guy Fawkes: Where are you now we need you so?

March 27, 2019

  As the callow chumps in Westminster duck and dive, working out how best to game the system in their own selfish interest, the public knows whatever outcome will be bad for the majority. That doesn’t stop the Tories apparently favouring that feckless fool Johnson as a replacement for the intellectually inert incumbent of 10 … More Guy Fawkes: Where are you now we need you so?