Hiroshi Sato — ‘Orient’

The year is 2018. Ed Miliband, having fought off David Cameron in the 2015 general election — armed with nothing but a sock, a BT Landline Telephone and two rather odd-looking pieces of macaroni, in front of an audience of around fifty thousand middle-aged skinheads, accompanied by their archives of Heat magazines, has chosen to retire, aged twelve.

In this alternative universe, things are very different. Families are no longer broken by varying political opinions, generational inequality means nothing, and the word exploitation isn’t included in the dictionary. Ah, this is a utopia…

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