Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

“Papa, how do you know this news is true?” My friend looked at his twelve-year-old son, then at the WhatsApp […]

A fifteen-year-old girl uses abusive language while speaking about the Prime Minister. Immediately, the machinery of power allegedly swings into

I’ve been spending the last part of an hour proving to a machine that I am who I say I

As this government insists on building walls between people, here are two walls worth mentioning. The first belongs to an

A poem that fascinated me in my school days was Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade. “Forward,

“Did you always thrash your children?” I asked an elderly father. “Of course not!” he replied indignantly. “I only used

The White Bearded Chief and his deputy, the Bald Round Head, walked solemnly towards the edge of the village. “We

Many years ago, as a youngster, I watched a powerful priest praying in church. His eyes were closed. His hands

“Oh dear,” I whispered as the news came in, “the antinationals have won!” A gentleman sitting beside me nearly dropped

My neighbour bought a robot vacuum cleaner. “It cleans the house all by itself,” he announced proudly. The next week