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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreWhat 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 MoreIs the Truss cabinet’s visual diversity any more than just that?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 7, 2022
To all those sincere campaigners for diversity, is visual diversity enough? Is it a sign …
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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