The Jam Jam

I suppose a welcome should be made for the USA attack on Boko Haram. The abduction and use of young women should be worthy of several airstrikes! Bastards! But things are never this simple – the terrorist group obviously has copious funding from somewhere (Middle East States look to be most culpable). France has recently withdrawn militarily from the region – so there is a vacuum. Will China try to fill it? America despite Trumps isolationism seems to be getting involved in various places. Yemen, Venezuela and Nigeria – where next?

Hey it is Boxing Day – shame about lack of Premiership matches – Boxing Day used to the day of derby’s before the suits took over. I have fond memories of Ipswich Town versus WHU at Portland Road – the heavy scent of tobacco over the terraces where we stood against an iron bar. No idea of the year or the result!

So Trump is suing the BBC for $5billion – and the BBC say they will defend the claim. NO! They should just tell him and his lawyers to fuck off! If that means not reporting from the USA – so be it. His version of the news will be put out on social media anyway.

Basically all news is interpretive. GB News has been accused of false claims many times already. Who is the arbitor of what is fair reporting anyway? Did Trump say those words – yes! So if the BBC had cut to just the few seconds there should be no problem? This is all about press freedom – something supposedly dear to the him and MAGA; unless of course he disagrees. I am minded of the late Arthur Scargill – apparently he read 2 newspapers – obviously the Daily Worker but said he always read the Financial Times first so he could get the facts before comment! Some papers thrive on comment more than others. I am aware of the ownership issues but feel that the Times tries to report the news first and comment second; and I fervently hope the Guardian does the same. The Express, Mail and Sun are shameless in selective reporting and unsupported comment – I am ashamed that citizens of the UK are so crass as to read such bile. Unfortunately I should also include the ipaper (now owned by the Express, Telegraph (ownership is a fight between right-wing groups) and the Mirror (although on the left – still using biased discretion regarding news stories. The Star is just for laughs and some great headlines (Truss lettuce being the most memorable)!

Most of us veer towards echo chambers for our views – the rabid right towards the RWP and their own social media sites. I too have blocked those I totally dislike from twitter – yes I am still there!

19 indiscriminate deaths on Bondi Beach – all Jewish. 46000 deaths in Gaza – all Palestinian and a large number were children. Which gets the biggest headlines in the UK. Every death is regretable whatever their nationality, race, religion,age or sex.

I am English so therefore say sorry; for you bumping into me when you did not look where you were going; for being white skinned when so many like me are absolute arseholes; and so many things! However I will not apologise for our wonderful weather. I love it, rain, shine, snow, drizzle, fog, cloudy and whatever.

I am not sorry for being a nice person, for not slagging people off without knowing their circumstances, for looking for positives, for hating racisim and misogyny, homophobia and and any form of sexism. So if you disagree, debate with me of delete me!

£3120 for the CHEAPEST ticket for the FIFA World Cup Final. If England get to the final it will cost £5137 in total for the cheapest tickets. No doubt the streaming companies will hike their subs as well. Football is a game for the people – not te elite. No average fan is going to have £5137 in spare cash, let alone the cost of air travel (and between grounds in different countries), hotel costs and if lucky the occassional meal and drink! Infantino is being infantine. I recall a friends brother returning from the World Cup in France with tails of multinational games between fans in squares in France. Peaceful and friendly with exchange of addresses. And the profits will go to FIFA headquarters, Trump will glow ever brighter orange and the sponsor companies will grant selected board members admission to privideged seats. I will be interested to see how many tickets are granted to “fans’ who can afford the exorbitant fees. I hope the BBC has the guts to ignore the coming auction of broadcasters. TBH group matches have as much interest as group matches in the European Cup. Maybe the quarter finals onwards might be interesting, but less so than Barcelona of Real Madrid against Liverpool or Manchester City. Think more like Port Vale vs Exeter as an alternative in the early rounds – and even the excitement of the FA Cup is diminished by the ‘group’ stages. I should stop now! But why stop when on a rant!

Infantino gives Trump a peace prize so the C*** goes out and attacks Venezuela – I am sure they were threatening world peace! And has a rant against European Countries – which British Politicians with a few exceptions were too scared to respond too.

celebrates his FIFA award with an act of terrorism. Whilst tankers ply their trade with Russian oil and contraband against international law, with impunity, Venezuela seems to me on Trump’s hit list. Their offence – having a left wing leadership. I am not saying that Venezuela is a paragon of virtue – far from it, but in terms of evil I doubt that it is in the top 10 – but it does have the advantage of being militarily weak – ideal for a bully like the orange peril. The idiot was boasting that the tanker was one of the biggest in the world – with a crew of unarmed sailors. It appears that the boat may have visited Iran recently, thus breaching an embargo. However the raid appears to be targeted rather than a part of a co-ordinated attack on embargo breaching trade. This also follows armed attacks on Venezuelan boats – allegedly plying the drugs trade. This too seems to be an attack of a bully rather than a country enforcing world peace and stopping drugs. Whatever the facts – this has not made the world a safer place. This all begs the question “Has Trump lost it? If he ever had’it'”! Will Starmer call him out? Not a chance – having just stitched up the taxpayer ‘again’ with a deal that benefits ‘Big Pharma’, and failing to condemn DT’s rant about Europe, and then failing to develop strong ties with the EU.

We need another referendum on the EU – the last was obviously orchestrated to some degree by Russia and the right wing. We need Europe and Europe needs us! The rise of populism is not inevitable with a government that shows balls! 5 countries are now boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest – objecting to the genocide carried out by a non-European country! Oh to be Spanish, Dutch, Irish or even Polish! As for the world gurning champion – he has still not apologised for his racist comments as a teenager (does not apologising for being a racist twat as a young man – earn respect? Does not lying and saying sorry earn respect – No – he is a c**t.