‘The video of your performance in Belfast has gone viral on Twitter,’ said Kaminsky with what Bunter thought was smug satisfaction. You’ve gained 22,000 followers and 82,000 likes. Of course, Siobhan made sure all the silliness was edited out.’ ‘I don’t have a Twitter account,’ said Bunter, attempting to…
Bunter and Kaminsky located Tempus-Fugitson seated in a vast oak panelled office in Tufton Street with his hands behind his head, humming Land of Hope and Glory to himself with a far away smile. A life-sized portrait of Margaret Thatcher dressed as Boadicea glowered at them from one wall. Everything…
‘Free Palestine!’ says Dave on Twitter. He has a tiny Palestinian flag next to his profile and 39 followers. Dave is from Norwich. I ask him which part he wants to free, to which he replies, ‘all of it,’ and I know instantly that he won’t be able to identify…
It was hot last month. The hottest September on record by a staggering 0.5c. If we want our staycations to get even hotter, we’re taking world-beating measures to guarantee it. Rosebank is a case in point. After the government issued development and production consent to the Rosebank oilfield last month…
Prologue October 1998 – Moscow Smoke drifted in the air like the aftermath of an artillery bombardment, presided over by the ghoulish features of a nightmarish Politburo of the dead and the damned. The busts of Lenin and Felix Dzherzinsky surveyed the nightclub with grim disapproval from their perches high…