A day like today – I know it’s yesterday, but allow me please the time-shift, due to my night-owl habits – is one of those sad days almost by definition. Of all the million things I could write about, of all those trips and plans and life-changing moments and whatnot. There is one I want […]
International Affairs
Letter to the UK

To the subjects of the Queen Elizabeth Battenberg-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in light of your continuing failure to choose whether or not to creep away from the EU, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. The Dogger Bank shall be rebuilt in order to end your island status and continentalise Britain […]
The Rats

We first noticed the rat two weeks ago. These days it’s believable that winter is upon us. Grass and rooves stay covered in hoarfrost all day long, and we stay inside in front of the hot fireplace. The living room has got the last single-pane window in the house, a large panoramic one into the garden, […]