Title Sponsors for a War (#9 of the Pride Series)

Part Nine of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): There is nothing new under the sun, so the philosophers say. And it is certainly not a novel idea that wars beget reasons rather more often than reasons beget wars. It is less than 200 years, since one Captain Jenkins

The Special Relationship (#8 of the Pride Series)

Part Eight of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (see previous part): The Cojones Crisis – as the Red Tops immediately christen it – limps on past Hour Sixty-Seven.  President Frussterer would like to close airports and put army on standby, but he has been advised that this might put his

Think Simple, Stupid, It’s About Oil (#7 of the Pride Series)

Part Seven of ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ sees us resume where we were before Christmas.  If you’re addled by booze and brandy sauce, here’s what you’ve forgotten (or maybe, you missed the excitement of my story in the run up to the festivities): Firstly, in #1 Pride, More Pride and Quite

A New Hope (#6 of the Pride Series)

Part Six of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): The following day, the three Yeses are distracted, devising a ten-year plan for America’s production of orange juice preserved by the new deep freeze process, also Mid-Western pork bellies and harmful industrial emissions. Their mission is to ensure that,

The Possibility of a Saviour (#5 of the Pride Series)

Part Five of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): In politics, there is a list of personal characteristics that one might possess but must never confess or profess for fear that the intolerant will not forgive such dysfunctions, or that the tolerant will see their mention as a