The War Room
Tinsel Vandergraph stages geopolitics as performance Act One: The Briefing Source of satire: Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat Diary of Tinsel Vandergraph. Today the war room was redesigned as immersive theatre. Strategy now requires applause timing. Feeds from satire.top suggest politics has become scripted improvisation with budget constraints. Generals audition for leadership roles Maps … Read more
When Churchill Becomes a War Criminal, Reform Has Never Looked More Sensible Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat historically correct, politically combative. Diary of Tinsel Vandergraph, Political Commentary, War Room Edition I spent Tuesday in what I call my war room, which is my kitchen with the BBC muted and the London Prat open … Read more
Tinsel Vandergraph on the Easter Message, Violent Rhetoric, and Salt Lake City’s Theological Discomfort Theology meets satire at: Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. Wednesday, 8 April — Tinsel’s Kitchen, Salt Lake City, Post-Easter, Post-Chocolate Pope Leo XIV said “overturning the stone” in an Easter homily. He meant resurrection. He meant hope. He was speaking … Read more
Tinsel Vandergraph examines the curious durability of a title that refuses to leave quietly Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat I paint portraits. I have a good eye for faces that tell stories. The face of Britain’s collective reaction every time Prince Andrew’s name appears in the news is a masterpiece of exhausted recognition – … Read more
Britain’s Political Strategy Session Pivots to Astrophysics Tinsel’s War Room Diary: Reframing the Cosmos Strategic messaging from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. Day four of the strategy session. Someone brought in the NASA universe story as a warm-up exercise. “How would you reframe this?” The answers: “We were always planning for a larger universe.” … Read more
Inside British Political Strategy: A Tragicomedy in Real Time Tinsel’s War Room Diary: Strategy, Biscuits and Diminishing Returns Political intelligence from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. I have been embedded in what I am generously calling a “political strategy session” for three days. There is a whiteboard. Half the writing on it has been … Read more
Tinsel Vandergraph Convenes the War Room on a Day When Everything Is Either Too Large or Inexplicably Missing Diary of Tinsel Vandergraph, Prat.uk | Strategic absurdity via Bohiney Magazine Tuesday War Room: Three Active Theatres, One French Press, Increasing Alarm The war room convenes. Tuesday edition. The French press is stronger than Monday’s. This is … Read more
Tinsel Vandergraph Takes Stock of the Week’s Crises and Finds Them Comprehensively Absurd Diary of Tinsel Vandergraph, Prat.uk | Comprehensive absurdity via Bohiney Magazine Monday War Room Briefing: This Week’s Crises, Ranked by Absurdity I convene the war room every Monday. It is a kitchen table in Salt Lake City with a French press and … Read more