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My Holiday Mousetivational Maxim
You are serving a life sentence on the sands of time. Are you just going to lie there or make a castle?

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Three mousetivational maxims from the world of golf
When you’re in a hole, think of all those behind you who have not even made it to the green. However bad your lie on the course, it will...

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Jun 15


Stand by for an important announcement
I am in talks, and not just talks about talks, about making the most pithy and popular of my motivational maxims available on a wide...

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May 18


Keir Starmer and Albania
Apologize for one of my fallow periods, just when we most need optimism, but happy to loan space to my landlord Richard Heller's take on...

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May 17


A Blairblast from the past
Happy to loan more space to my landlord Richard Heller to reproduce the speech by the Tony Blair character in his 2005 Beckettian drama...

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Apr 24


Three maturer mousetivational maxims
A full house of memories will always beat a flush of success – except for those who played it straight. Your life will sometimes be...

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Apr 14


Deriders On The Storm
My landlord and editor Richard Heller hopes to create a coalition of the willing to mock Dotard Trump on his (still) forthcoming state...

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Apr 1


Spring greetings for my friends in the northern hemisphere
Spring is here: take a gamble on a gambol. Spring is here: every worm has its turn. Spring is here: it lasts longer when you share it.

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Mar 21


My newest mousetivational maxim
Your dreams are an architect’s drawing. You have to lay the foundations and put up the scaffolding.

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Feb 25


A milestone mousetivational maxim
So it's your fiftieth birthday? Raise some L!

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Feb 19


A new mousetivational maxim
You are your own work of art. You don't have to join the dots or paint by the numbers of anyone else.

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Feb 19


My birthday greeting
Your birthday may be over but you still have 364 re-birthdays left if you want them. And you need not wait four years to leap.

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Feb 1


Another mousetivational maxim
You are an egg. You may be a good one or a bad one, but even in a bad one parts of you are excellent. No one will know that you are a...

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Feb 1


Another mousetivational maxim
Your mind is a hotel. You are the owner and manager. It’s your right and duty to keep out obnoxious and threatening visitors.

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Feb 1


My mousetivational maxims in support of CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably)
Cut All Low Moods Cherish All Light Moments

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Feb 1


My annual Christmouse message
My story, composed with the help of my poetic friend, kafkaa roach, in the year when four reindeer left Santa for better-paid jobs in...

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Dec 23, 2024


My newest Mousetivational Maxim
When rage and misery become your 'new normals' start an exercise programme and work on your abs.

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Dec 8, 2024


And three more Mousetivational Maxims
The milk of human kindness curdles only when you chill it. You are the captain of your soul. Your first mate may know better, but you...

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Nov 27, 2024


My Manifesto For Oxford’s Anti-Chancellorship by Richard Heller MA (Oxon)
Proud to support the bid of my landlord and editor Richard Heller to become the first Anti-Chancellor of Oxford University MM My...

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Nov 24, 2024


A Mousetivational Maxim For Trumpophobes
Donald Trump may have carried 31 states. You are not one of them. You are the President and Commander-in-chief of your Republic. Keep it...

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Nov 7, 2024
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