People with apparently normal lives are being seduced by the biggest fraud in the UK. Reform/Farage seem to be able to convince them that hatred for other humans is ok if it is racist. Being one of the people is ok, whilst taking £millions from rich paedophiles and corporations; Denying climate change; Supporting the demise of the NHS into an American style system; wanting to abandon minimum wage and workers rights. Lowering taxes and the benefits that they give. Yes a lot of people in this nation are stupid – do not be one of them.
INFANTILE
He gets crazier every day. Today he threatens to block the opening of a new bridge between Detroit and Winsor, then claims that China will close down ice hockey in Canada!
Meanwhile in the UK the government has awarded contracts for 157 new solar farms, 28 onshore, and 8 off shore, wind farms. The cost is less than new gas or nuclear stations. Personally I would like to see more solar panels on houses not farms, and insulation of houses. 2 more weeks to Gorton by-election, both main parties must be backing themselves, Labour will probably lose the seat and the Tories their deposit. It appears to be a 3-way fight between Labour, Reform and the Greens.
It continues to rain, the 40 days of rain has been surpassed in many areas. And farmers complain – as usual. This is the 21st century and still food production is rooted in the last century. Reliance on pesticides has destroyed the soils ability to be sustainable. We cannot control the climate, but surely we can manage the vagaries of the climate. Replacing the trees may help, as would mini-reservoirs – Farmers and councillors need to have plans that are wholistic in there understanding of natural systems. Geography needs to be a key subject so that people know their adiabatic lapse rates from their infiltration rates!
WEATHER and Trump!
Met Office long range weather forecast is …. more rain for the next month!. Here it has been damp rather than downpours, but the garden is soggy! Climate change is happening, but it is not coming as a hurricane or heat wave, just little by little. Every year seems to be getting a little warmer and still we have fuckwits like Farage and his loopy crew in denial. Major events are no longer big news, floods in the UK are almost ignored – partly down to the Environment Agency’s efforts, but 6 million people in the UK are at risk of flooding. But the economy is more important than our childrens lives according to the fuckwits. In the last 25years counntries like UK,USA, Germany, France, Japan have all seen drops in emissions but their economies have also grown. But the argument that whilst China pollutes the rest of need not bother is a pathetic one. They have the fastest growing green energy sector anywhere, and have lifted 10’s millions out of absolute poverty.
Unfortunately politicians are preoccupied with the sleaze surrounding Epstein and his sordid mates. Even Trump has been relatively quiet, apart from an outburst about Bad Bunny’s performance at the Super Bowl (which Trump did not attend ‘because it was too far’, rather than that it was in California, a state he wants ICE to invade). he has also not ordered the bombing of any foreign country this week so far!
Just noticed this on p26 of the Guardian – Musk cuts Russian military access to Starlink – a revalation of who is in charge ? And although at No.4 in the list of richest, Larry Ellison of Oracle should be watched – his son controls major media outlets like Paramount Global and many others. and have pursued Warner Bros. Discovery, aiming to control major assets like CBS, Paramount Pictures, HBO, CNN, and potentially TikTok’s U.S. operations. I have no doubt that Musk was vying for a leading role in media with his acquisition of Twitter – but he seems to have been out manoevred.
I got give some eggs this morning – I love the countryside!
DURH!
I pay for my newspaper by token which have the date on them, and hand over one week at a time. So far so good – this morning I checked the date on them before handing over. Oh shit I maust have lost a weeks worth as todays date was 9 Feb! That can’t be correct – so I checked the date on he newspaper – 9 Feb. I had no idea it was even February!
Winter Olympics – I have watched a bit, the curling is a little adictive and also ridiculous with the broom bit; talking about ridiculous the luge is a person sitting on a kitchen tray feet first and hurtling down the bobsleigh course, apparantly the skeleton is the same except head first. Is there a theme here about using kitchen equipment? How about sitting in a saucepan or frying pan and hurtling down a course. Still on the theme – the snowboarding is also ridiculous in an awestruck way! How many times can a person somersault for whilst airborne and then not break every bone in their bodies; and also the downhill – they stand on a couple of modified floorboards with a couple of walking sticks for support and hurtle down a mountain side so steep they might be able to jump straight to the finish about a kilometre below at speeds approaching 80mph (fast enough to be prosecuted for speeding on UK roads. Despite its ridiculousness I am loving it.
Politics is boring at the moment, although the Daily Mail did manage to continue its love affair with Angela Rayner by putting a photo of her on the front page again. I asked google and Note: The results indicate a very high frequency of coverage, particularly in 2025 and 2026, with her appearing on the front page or prominently in the Mail’s online political section multiple times in early 2026.
PS. It is likely to rain on/off until Saturday when we might get a frost and no rain.
(“It’s not the despair, I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand”). Clockwork Orange
I am sure Labour and Starmer have reversed the dreadful mess that was left by Cameron, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, but they have not countered the despair. Utility prices rising, shopping costs rising, inability to see a doctor until terminally ill, The main stream tory press do not help as they revel in squalor and shit. NHS waiting lists are down but happened to the hope – of a better future and absence of sleaze. I am not sure anyone on the Labour side has the guts to make the changes. Abolish the House of Lords, nationalise water companies, tax the techno’s and Amazon; cut student loan costs. And get their head out of the fucking sand on migration. The simple demographic fact is that we need migrants or need to get some of the millions not working into employment. Raise the income tax threshold but make being idle less attractive! How can not getting a job be financially more viable than working? Single parents could be trained as childminders? Farage offers change but not hope (apart from racism and xenophobia and making the rich richer). Paying for the above – east – tax the richest. The list of highest tax payers was published recently – featured Harry Styles, JK Rowland and Haarland and Salah as amongst the UK’s 100 highest tax payers. Fuck me, there are a lot of rich bastards who are avoiding tax via pension funds etc. Please replace despair with requitted hope!
UNBELIEVABLE
This is true – Donald Trump posted on Truth Social a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes singing to the Lion Sleeps Tonight from The Lion King. This man has a finger on the button that could destroy life as we know it on Earth. The most powerful man on earth has less awareness than a rotting banana. I am actually dumbstruck as to how to comment on this racist shit. No child above the age of 5 with an IQ above 80 would realise this was wrong (even as an internal thought) let alone publishing it on social media.
Meanwhile at home all the papers had a photo of Mandleson’s front door being knocked on by the police (Photo by Isabel Infantes of Reuters). This may have been a fortuitous photo by someone camped outside his door,, or did the Police give the lady a whisper? It is not really important although the photo may have been sold to newspapers for a large amount of money? The Police and press should be independent of each other?
On this sordid affair I have noticed that American authors will often talk about men ‘owning’ a woman – not in a disrespectful way, or with malice, but it is a turn of phrase that is absent from UK/European writers. And yes some American writers do mitigate the comment by refering to woman owning a man, but this is just as bad?
I have also seen a comment about ski jumpers injecting their penis to help with aerodynamics – it is being investigated by WADA. Why would ?…. Oh fuck the world is off kilter – have they taught pigs to fly?
And just in – Trump has suspended work on the Gateway Project (a new rail link under the Hudson River in New Yory) making a few thousand people unemployed. Why? Because they would not rename Penn Railway station after him. How long will it be before the GOP realise that he is becoming more toxic, and senile/delusioned by the day or even hour. They are supporting him only because they fear for their own political lives – IMPEACHMENT NOW!
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES
My questions will be unpopular! But they are questions, not opinions – I do not have the facts! Firstly why has this beome a major issue recently? Has the funding for it changed? Secondly according to to the Guardian 26 of 32 councils with large deficits are in wealthy areas. I am aware that parents are desperate to help their children whatever, atomy secondary school in an affluent’ish area nearly 50% of parents applied for extra time for their children in their GCSE’s. So have parents got better at the appeals process? Is there some malaise affecting our children (possible culprit is social media). Or is it poor parenting – and here I am not pointing a finger with malice, the coast of living, especially housing means many more households with children have both parents working full time. Or has society changed for the worse? In my humble opinion it has become a lot more selfish and isolated. People like Farage and the gutter press preach animosity towards others whether it is minority groups like migrants, or blacks, or Muslims, or Jews, or unemployed, or disabled, or even people who have had the temerity to rise above their appointed (by birth) station in life like Markel and the Beckhams or Angela Rayner.
STARMER
should resign – he has no charisma and has made a very grave error of judgement in appointing Mandleson as Ambassador to the USA, when he admits knowing about his connection to the paedophile ring around Epstein. He also made the point at PMQ’s that disclosure would ensure state secrets were not divulged! This seems like an excuse for massive redaction! The plot thickens. What state secrets was Mandy selling, and to whom? Was Starmer just pandaring to the orange man child? However the only person I would like to see take over is Rayner and that is unlikely given the combined power of the Mail and Murdoch. And anyway it might take votes away from the Greens who are ascendant at the moment. Although anything toe keep Reform out. Farages day of reckoning will come – he is such a sleaze bag!
WELL DONE PEP!
Pep Guardiola spoke out about conflicts around the world, mentioning the genocide in Gaza, Russias invasion of Ukraine AND the conflict in Sudan; where the rebel side is bank rolled by Man City owners, the U.A.R. and thus his employer. He did not need to speak out, but like Gary Lineker he has. No doubt the press will be after him with a vengeance. But it also begs the question; ‘What is the UAR and for that matter Saudi Arabia as well, doing in funding wars in other places like Yemen, and I suspect the rebels in northern Nigeria and much of the Sahel region are also funded from Middle Eastern oil money. Yet more reasons why we need to invest in green energy and cut dependence on fossil fuels and even plastics.
DON’T PANIC
I nearly did – the Met Office issued an ICE warning for yesterday. I thought for a moment that the fuckers were coming over here, and then it was not even that cold! I am a believer in the old Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”! So when front page news is Epstein related I can relax. I am sure the exploitation and trauma is very real for the victims of the privileged bastards, but better than hearing that Israel has murdered more innocent people, or Putins rockets inflicting more suffering on Ukrainians, or any of the other taking place around the world.