Sylvia Shawcross We’re not divided enough. Surely there are more things for us to fight each other over? We’ve got vaccines, gender, wars, race, food, ageism, mathematics, territories, immigration,...

Sylvia Shawcross Here in the northern hemisphere winter mourns its way to spring with tears that sometimes freeze on the ground and crystallize on the white snow still high...

Sylvia Shawcross Some days I convince myself that nothing is actually happening and all we have is a whole bunch of people convincing us that things are happening. I...

Sylvia Shawcross Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally brings us to the little understood but seriously important Philaenus spumarius aka the meadow spittlebug or...

…and we’re back. We know you missed this, even if you hated the memes before, you felt the lack. To quote the prophet Mitchell, you don’t know what you’ve...

Sylvia Shawcross In the ghastly world where the mooing herds furiously and fulsomely flatulate in the forever future fields of Blackrock the murmurs of discontent are rippling and snippling...

Sylvia Shawcross There are seven types of frogs in the Ukraine. So whenever you look at the map of the Ukraine to see how the war ”They” (we can’t...

And now, from an undisclosed location deep beneath the Earth’s surface, it’s the 6th Annual Fake News Awards! Shining the spotlight of ridicule on the dumbest disinformation, the silliest...

Sylvia Shawcross And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from...

Sylvia Shawcross Oh for heavens sakes! It took awhile but I finally figured it out. They have discombobulated their desires into a substitute agenda because they can’t face what...

Sylvia Shawcross In the ridiculous world of the New Abnormal where we apparently find ourselves it is critically important to add your opinion to the cacophony of why we...

The spooky season is upon us, and what does that mean? The same as most other mondays, of course: memes. I’ll be honest, the title pun is the major...

Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first type of person looks at the world and asks “Why?”...

Sylvia Shawcross Okay, to be honest, the title of this piece came from a comment by somebody on some forum somewhere which stuck in my head because it made...

Slightly delayed memes this week, due to technical difficulties and/or accidentally typing the wrong date. Nevertheless sit back and enjoy your Tuesday Memes (Tuesday Temes? Muesday Memes?) 1. It’s...

Sylvia Shawcross Is anybody else as worried as I am? THEY are not saying it anymore. They drove us crazy for at least a year when Covid arrived. There...

The Queen’s death has (predictably) become a meme-feeding frenzy, combine that with the anniversary of 9/11 and just…well…the general state of the world and you have a perfect storm...

Sylvia Shawcross I’m afraid to go out there now. In the world I mean. Not because it is getting more and more violent or because of the germs or...

It’s Monday, and ’round these parts that means memes. If you have a problem with that…well, that’s just fine I guess. There’s plenty of other stuff on here to...

John Griffin Abstract Global dissemination of a zoonotic virus pandemic narrative by the WHO, government and university scientists, the media, and the general public, has enabled the trialling of...