Off you go, 2023…
Maybe this blog got started at the start of the Difficult Times (do not blame me for any of it, I have no more power than anyone else, OK?) but a common theme in DSW end-of-year posts tends to be, … Continued
politics
A collared PM or power bottom?
Back when I was writing the Brexit porn book, which featured a spot of erotic humiliation along with other things, I remember feeling that everything was just going too fast to keep up: the minute I had a story idea … Continued
Big Dog’s Final Cock-Up
Remember (come on, it wasn’t even that long ago) we were told that the Tories – or at least Fucko the Clown’s own staff – had given the code name Save Big Dog to attempts to rehabilitate the bastard with … Continued
Jubiwank: were you naughty or nice?
Definitions are going to be enormously subjective here: participation or non-participation in this weekend’s four-day Jubiwank being nicer or naughtier depending on what you did and why. Though the number of people who would actually be pooing with rage at … Continued
Not so sexy sex scandals
Mate, couldn’t you have waited? Not so much for the ‘rules’ to change (because everyone knows that most of them are arbitrary nonsense rather than sensible public health guidance) but because if all the Matt Hancock Sex Scandal had only … Continued
Arts and Economics
It’s no real surprise that Fucko the Clown and his grisly crew are taking a swing or two at the idea of arts-based education for the lower orders; even less of one that they are dressing it up as founded … Continued
Flagshagging, Fiction and Fighting Back
Flagshagging should, perhaps, have frightened us a little more when it began its rise to prominence. Even now, it still seems a bit ridiculous to many people. Unfortunately, though many of its proponents are indeed mockable, it’s another alarming indicator … Continued
Misdirection and moral panic
The key thing to remember about any and every moral panic is that they are about misdirection. Misdirection is not, in itself, a terrible thing – just like sex, what makes misdirection good or bad is a matter of why … Continued
Writing, Ranting and Rage as the Days Go By
There are five or six unfinished rage-drenched blog posts sitting on the laptop right now. Some are just too incoherently furious to publish, others are about what was awful last week but has been diminished by the horrors of this … Continued
We Are People, All Of Us
Don’t know about you, but what struck me as the single most chilling moment of this morning’s TV coverage was Fucko the Clown standing in front of a sign announcing the ‘People’s Government.’ Don’t be silly, they kept saying, over … Continued