Over the last few days of record-breaking temperatures, much has been mentioned (mainly by older folks who think they’re hard) about the famed summer of 1976. I was eight at the time and the only thing I really remember is my mother doing some bizarre pagan like dance when it rained. Oh, and the smell of the rain on dry surfaces. Even when I smell that now, it takes me back to that summer.
False Comparisons
Comparing the summer of 1976 ...
One look at the the list of candidates in the Tory leadership race is enough to send a shiver down the spine. It is so awful it makes you wonder how this will all play out.
Sunak and Truss
The fact that Rishi Sunak is the favourite tells you all that needs knowing. Sunak made a fortune out the 2008 banking crash and has overseen the haemorrhaging of cash during the pandemic that is incalculable. I just do not understand what attributes ...
I have needed to write this down as it is scarcely believable.
1/ Boris Johnson was warned about the predatory sexual
conduct of Chris Pincher.
2/ He went ahead and employed him anyway.
3/ Chris Pincher conducted himself in a way a sexual
predator would.
4/ Boris Johnson sent his MP’s out to say he knew nothing of
Chris Pinchers behaviour.
5/ It was proved in a letter from Simon McDonald, Johnson
did know about Pinchers ...
The British government is looking at the possibility of removing the UK as a member of the ECHR so it can deport people to Rwanda.
The first thing people do not seem to understand is that the ECHR is nothing to do with the European Union. It was established after the atrocities of WWII by, amongst others, lawyers engaged by Winston Churchill. This was when the appalling human tragedy in Nazi Germany was still becoming fully understood.
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Just the other day, I was trying to remember when I first
heard about Boris Johnson. I can recall a Youtube video of him going around showing
him rugby tackling a German chap in a charity football match and everyone
thinking it was funny. At that point, I just thought he was a harmless but
slightly embarrassing clown. That must have been at some point in the
noughties, I guess?
As the years passed, I heard more and more tales from those who ...
