Category Archives: News

Been Awhile, Ain’t It?

Feels like an aeon since I last wrote anything substantial here (i.e., other than a post of this vein), during which time, I’ve been occupying my time with the rigours of work, assisting in the proofreading and/or copyediting  of some … Continue reading

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Remember, Lushes and Reprobates…

….the current year may change, but the current year it always remains. And I’ll be emerging from hiatus to once again comment on the salutary and shitheaded shenanigans that’ll inevitably ensue—sorry, John Oliver! Catch you cunts in 2017! ~MRDA~

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Halal & Hypocrisy XV: Choads Out For Choudary!

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to … Continue reading

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Secularising Sharia: An Open Letter to Sadiq Khan

You first came to my attention in the run up to the election that put you in office, when you were pitted against your fellow vote whore Zac Goldsmith in a neck-and-neck PR rivalry. Being a bloke with a sliver … Continue reading

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Live and Let Die?

It didn’t help my sour mood two Sundays ago to read the story of the Chilean zoo lions killed to save a man who’d leapt into their enclosure in an apparent stab at suicide. According to reports, 20-year-old Franco Luis … Continue reading

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Once Again, Fuck the U.N.!

Amidst all the usual bombings, bigotries, and bureaucracies that characterise modern life, it’s nice to have the odd thing to smile, if not outright belly laugh, about. Hulk Hogan’s financial ravishing of the sex-tape-leaking hacks at Gawker springs to mind, … Continue reading

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Listen and Believe?

Seasons may come and go (and come again), but a timely convergence will never get altmodisch. Last weekend saw an outpouring of grief and obits in response to the death of Harper Lee, esteemed author of the acclaimed and adapted … Continue reading

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Obliterating Oblomov: MRDA@CurrentYear.com

A month into 2016 C.Y, and I finally see fit to relight the fire of this long-unkindled Inferno. I’d planned to knock something together a little earlier to mark the transition into the new 365-day calendar cluster, but a combo … Continue reading

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Halal & Hypocrisy XIII: Remove Kebab?

The south of France, and one man finds himself deeply disenchanted by the culinary delights on offer in his locale. So much so, in fact, that he took to the press, voicing his determination never to let another kebabish open … Continue reading

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The Cumberbatch “Coloured” Conundrum

Oh, how the mighty fall! Turns out that after years of being lauded as both an actor by the press and a heartthrob by his adoring fangirls, Benedict Cumberbatch finally let slip his fine-shined shoes, revealing the pus-packed warts of … Continue reading

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