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Brussels Fines Google and Somehow the State Still Wants More Power Over Everything Else – An Isle of Man diary on regulatory overreach dressed up as accountability
India’s Cockroach Party Understands Institutional Failure Better Than Most Westminster Commentators – An Isle of Man diary on protest imagery, institutional resilience, and honest political frustration
Britain’s Justice Policy Confirms Numbers Exist, Which Should Not Be Newsworthy – An Isle of Man diary on plain language, public trust, and why simple honesty keeps making headlines
Burnham’s Housing Speech Was Long on Vision, Short on Bricks, Predictably – An Isle of Man diary on ambition rhetoric, delivery failure, and why voters are done waiting
France Bans the Internet Until Citizens Behave, Which Is a Choice – An Isle of Man diary on state overreach and why Britain should watch this experiment carefully
The Piece That Split My Readers Cleanly in Half – What a divisive response taught me about assumptions I did not know I was making
Writing the Correction I Did Not Want to Write – An uncomfortable follow up column, and what a reader’s grace actually taught me
Writing the Line Between Satire and Simple Mockery – An editor’s pushback, a rewrite, and the discipline of satirising your own side
Three Committee Meetings Over a Bus Shelter’s Shade of Grey – Why local council disputes produce funnier material than any national story
Finding the Joke Buried in a Trade Regulation Document – A demanding day proving the driest bureaucratic language can be the funniest