The Jam Jam

We watch Friends and Cheers, Hollywood blockbusters, but America is a foreign land. I have not travelled extensively but felt more comfortable in rural Spain than I did in Chicago. In Spain no one spoke English but we had an unspoken companionship of a common heritage and history – obviously different but similar in patterns. In Chicago everything was similar but somehow distorted – water waiters, only black performers in blues bars with only white customers, the richest country on earth with a subway system seemingly held together with chewing gum.

This government has now made it totally plain that most of the population are only useful for menial jobs.

Government advice for the poor is to eat the cheapest food possible with no regard to health.

Johnson blames left wing lawyers for delaying deportations – nothing to do with it being illegal then?

Johnson makes a bid to become President of Ukraine. Except the rhetoric collapsed when it turned out that £300 million (less deductions) was not much of a big deal.

Supreme Court to overturn historic case. Is Priti Patel mobilising to stop Americans coming here for abortions?

When did reporting get so lazy? Surely there should be a regulator? Maybe a league table of honesty in news reporting both the press and online – maybe a colour coding at 3 levels which ignores political bias. The Sun and Star could avoid this by being classified as comics! Hopefully the Times, Telegraph and Guardian would be top level – but then maybe the i, and the Mirror? But what criteria could be used? Named sources would be a good start, coverage of major issues and space/time commensurate with importance? Honesty is difficult, but Angela Rayner should have been able to sue the Tories who maligned her.

I wonder where the BBC, Fox News, etc. would come. It could get them to be more professional – cost? To the tax payer nothing as the organisations publishing news would have to pay a fee.