I write this post whilst feeling angry and aggrieved, on behalf of the Bear, who has provided so many intelligent, witty and evidence-led takedowns of…
There's a Meerkat in all of us
Month: September 2025
Time for something personal. A few years ago, between the curiosity of my daughter, and the fascinating work one of my aunts carried out on…
Recently, I provided information that ran contrary to the words and rhetoric offered up by US president Donald Trump. He had claimed that left-wingers and…
Five against one. Well, four against one, as Numerius was bleeding out slowly from several wounds, and struggling to remain on his feet, let alone fight. Praxites…
Nepos arrived back to his villa just before the sun had reached its peak. The heat was slowly baking the earth into what felt like…
Welcome one and all to the Meerkat Muse, where we start on a sombre note… The Flames of Rhetoric Back on the 10th of September,…
Titus Norbanus Nepos had held his suspicions that he might lose his most formidable warrior, but had quietly hoped the businessman Marcus Octavius Paulus would…
The hooded figure made their way down one of Rome’s many back alleys, past small market stalls, beggars and miscreants, all of whom tried to…
It is no secret that I am not exactly enamoured with the reign of President Trump, for a number of reasons. His approach to a…
(I’ve added some extra lines here, largely to push down the immediate bad language at the start of the chapter. In fact, just to be…