The Geecologist

Politics on the Edge

Politics on the Edge

Apr 4, 2026 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

‘David has decided,’ one of his aides explained, when I met him later, ‘that one cannot criticise a war when there are troops on the ground.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well … we have had that debate. But he feels it is a principle of British government.’ ‘But Churchill criticised the...
The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale

May 20, 2017 | Fiction | 0 comments

All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs, millions. It was considered the normal thing. Now it’s like remembering the paper money, when they still had that. My mother kept some of it, pasted into her scrapbook along with...