the rise of the ununserious
plus lots of things that vary from extremely ununserious to moderately seriousseriousserious
There is no substitute for a robust private sector, creating wealth in every community
Sir Haircut, committing a Labour government to trickle down economics.
A two-legged fox. Doesn’t look like it ever had legs, but who knows.
Cave art includes details that show the breeding and birthing times for the animals depicted.
So the Ukrainian parliament posted a tweet of a photo of their Commander in Chief of Armed Forces in front of a poster of Stephan Bandera, Ukrainian nazi collaborator and racist mass murderer in celebration of a Bandera anniversary. Then they deleted it again. Russian hack or Ukrainian oopsy-don’t-upset-the-liberals?
I am pleased to see that the Chinese experience of living with Covid is almost identical to the UK, except that they appear to be able to get Paxlovid and we can’t get it at all.
Today I learnt about a young working class woman executed for not being the epitome of femininity and the temerity of seeking happiness for herself. Even actual murderers were pardoned where she was not, and she never did anything other than have an affair! As an fellow working class Ilfordite, I can identify with her dreams and aspirations for something better than what she was expected to have.
XBB.1.5 is here and its going to be horrible. I went out to a social event for the first time in three years on Saturday. It was a drinks party full of lovely lefty people including people with various health issues that should make them more vulnerable. I was the only one masked (and boy did I learn that drinking wine through a straw in a social anxiety whirl was not a good idea for your sobriety). If I had read THIS article I wouldn’t have gone. We all need to wear masks. Our government is still running Operation: Let The Bodies Pile Up In The Streets; our medical advice has never been any good and always over optimistic about vaccination, mask-wearing without training people how to use masks safely; we’re still in complete denial about covid at all, let alone this variety and the coming varieties which will be worse; and we’re still in denial about the harm that covid does to the body if it doesn’t fuck you up at the time - if you’ve had covid you’re more at risk of later organ failure, and there is always the Post Covid roundabout…
A website for trying to draw a perfect circle. My best was 92.5%.
Here’s another in a long-running example of US Democrat Own Goals. This is a blinder. You’d think that someone somewhere would have thought the check the drawers of Biden’s spare offices for anything he’d put down and forgotten about but now. Massive gift to the Trumpers that undermines a major part of the anti-Trump case. This is another reason why I am opposed to these people - because they’re well-educated arrogant idiots who continually have rings run around them by racists, criminals, and children with massive head trauma. It’s an unequal playing field for US liberals and they don’t need their star players hoofing the ball into their own net time and time again. It’sabout 50/50 if Biden is re-elected1 (maybe even lives long enough to be re-elected), and there hasn’t been any attempt to push a Democrat successor despite the apparent urgency that pro-Democrats keep telling me exists for keeping Trump and the Trumpites out of the White House. If its so important stop telling me that I need to stop criticising Joe and start getting the Democrats to act like they are not giving away presidencies in the street.
Coming soon: A world without birds?
So how comes George Osborne is the man to return the Parthenon Marbles? Its not out of the goodness of his heart, because the British public can tell you that he’d throw a baby in the fire rather than put on a jumper. Indeed, his very appointment was a political appointment, a secure hand on the rudder with no need to worry about wokeness or anti-colonial tendencies. And I severely doubt it has anything to do with my Give It All Back Campaign.2 So what are we missing? A coked up bet? Took some really good DMT at Glastonbury and received a message from a passing machine elf telling him that the British Empire Was Bad And He Needs To Make Amends? Mary Beard caught him with his tiny rubbery phallus somewhere career destroying?
He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual
And finally, where’s your head gone?
Although to be fair, the whole problem of American politics is that there are two parties who get roughly 50% of the votes each at election time and rely on a small group of fiscally conservative and not opposed to social conservatism swing voters in a number of key marginals. It was less important once, but the Democrats didn’t do anything about Republican gerrymandering and election fraud for twenty years and suddenly found themselves fucked.
But I will be taking the credit because one needs all the help one can get these days.