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 …
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 More2017 in a nutshell: You start with a joke then Trump’s White House seriously sends it out
by Rashmee
Posted on March 20, 2017
Have you heard of Alexandra Petri? She writes for The Washington Post but the White …
Read MoreTrump and the ‘very unfair’ US constitution: Satire fails when reality keeps pace
by Rashmee
Posted on February 15, 2017
Someone somewhere wrote a wonderful line the other day: “satirists, after all, are flummoxed by …
Read MoreRidicule, the ultimate takedown of Islamic State? Inshallah, one day soon
by Rashmee
Posted on July 27, 2016
Click here for The Bighdaddy show, a collection of short videos satirising the so-called Islamic …
Read More#Brexit: Mujahideen gallows humour & Egypt’s Bassem Youssef on empire
by Rashmee
Posted on June 27, 2016
Here’s a post-Brexit message from one radical Islamist to another. Transmitted via Telegram, a cloud…
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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