Agony Subcomandauntie

The crack pipe of peace (May 2009)

Dear Auntie War, famine, economic depression and global warming – the idea that ‘another world is possible’ seems remoter than ever. Will we ever have a just and peaceful world? Desperate for peace, (...)

Learning by number (February 2009)

Dear Auntie At one of the Gaza protests in London, Stop the War put the number of protesters at around 100,000 but the police insisted it was only 20,000. Can Auntie reassure me that the Met has a scientific (...)

No hope (December 2008)

Dear Auntie, All my left-wing friends seem to be overjoyed about Obama winning the US election, holding real hope that he will bring change, that he’ll stop the wars, and that he’ll somehow make America all cuddly (...)

Both feet not in the grave (September 2008)

Dear Auntie, Having reached 50, I’ve become invisible. It’s the only explanation of why people look right through me. I’m ignored in shops and at bus stops; and getting served at the bar is an endurance test, as men (...)

Do what I say, not what I inhale (June 2008)

Dear Auntie, My daughter is starting to ask awkward questions such as ‘Mum, did you take drugs when you were young?’ I don’t want to lie but I don’t want her to venture down the same route. What do I tell her? Amy (...)

Nice smelling poo (April 2008)

Dear Auntie, I’m a vegetarian who is fed up having to justify why I don’t eat anything with a face on it. And it’s the environmentalists who are also meat eaters who seem the most personally affronted by my choices. (...)

Money matters (January 2008)

Dear Auntie, I just learnt that my father, whom I haven’t seen in years, plans to leave me a very large pile of dosh in his will. As this is the ill-gotten gains of his work as a Ministry of Defence fat-cat (...)

Cleaner minded (December 2007)

Dear Auntie, I live in a house with several friends and while I enjoy the ritual weekly clean they are lazy, so have suggested we hire a cleaner. I am uncomfortable about the idea of hiring someone to be our (...)

Facing up to Facebook (October 2007)

Dear Auntie, I’m addicted to Facebook, spending days online desperate to add more ‘friends’ to my profile and consumed with the need to spill the most intimate details about my life. What should I do? Lost in (...)

Sex and the single socialist (August 2007)

Dear Auntie, I’m a sociable, but single, socialist. A friend of mine recommended I sign up to an online dating website, but I’m uncomfortable with the idea – it strikes me as the death of sociability. What should I (...)

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