Category: Editorial

Is the UK’s population really predominantly made up of foaming at the mouth extreme right-wing bigots, as the media would have us believe? Or is the self-styled ‘silent majority’ really just a ‘very loud minority’ trying to drown out the voices of the decent majority? Should we simply put them all against a wall and shoot them in order to restore sanity?

Is New Year an instantly disappointing celebration? After all, everything that was wrong on December 31st is still going to be wrong on January 1st, despite all the celebrations, resolutions and euphoria. We say goodbye to our troubles only to say hello again a moment later….

When is a packet of chocolate covered peanuts not a packet of chocolate covered peanuts? An impulse purchase in Tesco Metro leads Doc Sleaze into the labyrinth that is the madness of modern shopping when the peanuts he tries to pay for turn out to be non-existent, according to the shop whose shelves they are on.

Plagued by idiots driving BMWs, the Doc ponders just why people driving German cars think they are the road’s ‘Master Race’, above such trivialities as speed limits , braking distances and road safety. And just how do those so-called ‘performance cars’ produce that irritating exhaust note?

Is the Doc getting old? It’s a subject that’s been preoccupying me somewhat of late – I’ve recently been referred to as ‘old’ by others, yet I don’t feel, or even look old. Despite this, I’m besieged by junk mail inviting me to move to a retirement flat or plan my funeral – I’m not even a pensioner yet!

Does the key to generating traffic lie in courting the online crackpots? Embracing crazy conspiracy theories might destroy your credibility but could it boost your visitor numbers? Who cares about the facts when paid clicks are at stake?

Can you prove who you are? With noisy neighbours disrupting his birthday, Doc Sleaze ponders the modern obsession with proving one’s identity and attitudes to age. Is he ready for the retirement home, or even the boneyard, as the junk mailers seem to think?

A New Year resolution to continue the old year’s campaign to purge the racists from my Twitter timeline. Elon Musk might be reinstating the banned Nazis and racists to Twitter, but they are being firmly evicted from my timeline – followers uncritically re-tweeting them will be out on their ear in 2023…

As news channels feature conspiracy theory ranting loons and neo-Nazis as ‘news commentators’, we ask whether it is time to start ‘cancelling’ the reactionary right wing nonsense like the ‘war on Woke’ or ‘cancel culture’, that prey upon the gullible and poison our political discourse. Should we be calling their promulgators out for what they are: traitors?