The perils of KamiKwasi theories

by Rashmee

Posted on October 14, 2022


Could Kwasi Kwarteng, Britain’s chancellor or finance minister, have made a less dramatic return to …

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The markets know what Librium Liz and Kamikwasi don’t – Britain is not America

by Rashmee

Posted on October 5, 2022


On the last day of September 2022, a thinking Englishman wrote thus: “It is impossible …

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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 …

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Librium 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 …

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‘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 …

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Time 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 …

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‘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 …

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Kamikwasi, 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 …

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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