Driest July on record for England and the 3rd warmest for the UK , wildfires across Europe and a leading Spanish politician states that climate change is an agenda pushed by ‘lobbiests’ and ‘communists”. How. to these people cope with life in the real world. Our own looneys were hard at work with Farage claiming that the storming of Ceuta was …. actually who cares what he thinks or says anymore??? Reform came 2nd in the Manchester mayoral election with less than half Labour,47% versus 22% and on a 25% turnout – I would assume racists were more likely to vote (as shown by the turnout for Restore) than solid British folk! Apparently their highest vote was in areas of poverty (financial and seemingly educational too!), after all why would anyone on benefits vote for a priveleged creep facing claims of sleaze and dishonesty? Or are they just voting to fuck the system that they perceive has let them down. The Green Party was on 12.2% which is solid and were ahead of Conservative and LibDem, whilst the racist beyond racist Party Restore got 8.7% So the Burnham bubble has not burst yet (at least on home territory!).
Infantino has had to backdown completely, this will not please the Trump family, whether he will get re-elected is now in a modicum of doubt (he still has many federations in Africa in his pocket due to the bribery conducted by FIFA. I even had someone complain that Burnham had got in on the story – peoples double standards/stupidity are amazing!
Iran continues to defy US bombing and attacks to restrict movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, will Saudi attacks on Houthis rebel positions be any more successful – their war has been going on, under the radar of international press for a few years, so I doubt they will be able to claim an outright win anytime soon. 5 months now and counting, Trump has blown it again and needs something desperate if he is to salvage the mid-term elections (that he has been trying to rig in his favour). He may be desperate, a Democratic biased Congress would possibly pursue allegations of paedophilia, sex trafficking, corruption and many other aspects of his hegemony with greater vigour? Cost of living has gone up in the US so expect something drastic!
EU new regulations stupefy that AI content must be clearly shown with a possible fine of unto 3% of global turnover. AI giants have seen their shares fall in recents days – it appears that it may not be the panacea for humanities woes after all.
New housing apparently continues to ignore geographical knowledge. New housing will need a water supply, and sewage infrastructure, concrete does not allow infiltration and increases runoff, concrete increases the albedo of most areas, wildlife cannot go on being repeled from suitable habitats. So, and I know this is a bit right wing, we need to limit the spread of urban areas into the countryside, not to protect farmland (that is a separate issue) but to maintain public services, including electricity. That means a movement to a different style of living based around flats and terraces, rather than the 3bed detatched lauded by various Conservative Housing Ministers.
Almost finished now – sharks are being sighted further north in our hemisphere – but only 65 unprovoked shark attacks were recorded worldwide last year, but humans killed 100M of them.