What Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng think of Indian children
by Rashmee
Posted on October 4, 2022
Ten years ago, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng wrote a book with three other MPs …
Read MoreLibrium Liz and Kamikwasi’s Britain: ‘You have to laugh or you’ll cry’
by Rashmee
Posted on October 3, 2022
The jokes about Librium Liz and Kamikwasi Kwarteng, the two agents of Britain’s self-imposed economic …
Read MoreHow to write (and illustrate stories) about ‘Africans’, while chanelling Binyavaga Wainaina
by Rashmee
Posted on October 2, 2022
Off the back of ‘The Mirror’ newspaper’s apology for mistakenly using a picture of …
Read More‘It’s not hard to be a political humorist when you have the whole government working for you’
by Rashmee
Posted on October 1, 2022
In his new book, humorist Andy Borowitz has a quote from satirist Will Rogers. There’s …
Read MoreTime for a British version of Andy Borowitz’s ‘Profiles in Ignorance’?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 30, 2022
Faced with Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz, respectively chancellor and prime minister of Britain …
Read More‘Librium Liz’ has been doing a good job of sending herself up
by Rashmee
Posted on September 29, 2022
When I heard Liz Truss, Britain’s prime minister for barely three weeks, on the radio …
Read MoreKamikwasi, Librium Liz: The great British joke factory
by Rashmee
Posted on September 28, 2022
The British joke factory runs on politicians’ blindness to their comedic aspects. Kamikwasi Kwarteng and …
Read MorePM of the Uneasy Kingdom: Liz Truss’s boosterism won’t help a Britain that matters less globally & is crisis-hit at home
by Rashmee
Posted on September 25, 2022 / The Times of India
This remains hideously relevant despite being originally published a couple weeks ago, when Liz Truss …
Read MoreBack to the other Liz’s world. Shtum, imperious, foxy
by Rashmee
Posted on September 24, 2022
In all the days that the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II lay in state in …
Read MoreHow and why Britain’s greatest inventions of royal ritual and pageantry came about
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2022
Historian David Cannadine begins his chapter in ‘The Invention of Tradition’, the 1983 …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK