There’s something to be said for monarchy. Not the kind that entails absolute power as enjoyed by the likes of Louis IV, Henry VIII, or Catherine the Great. I have in mind something rather different, something that bears greater similarity to what the Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms has today, that is,…

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 It’s often the case with psychiatric illness that the sufferer is the last person to notice the symptoms.  This was certainly the case with me, when I found out that I’d been suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Here I was, thinking that I was justified to be scared that a provably criminal idiot with the…

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Happy international women’s day! I feel cheap just bringing it up. Not because I have anything against women, international or otherwise, but because International Women’s Day has begun to feel like every other international day of equality; an empty gesture to be exploited by hypocritical megaconglomerates whilst everyone else makes zero progress on the issue…

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