The Deloitte/Serco test and trace is a great success – a world class success no doubt. Except that test isn’t working and neither is trace. And of course a mere 0.75 million people a day cannot even get an appointment…. The incompetents are firmly in charge…. Read more
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The Mental illness of current British politics
There is an impressive article in the ‘i’ from Ian Dunt on the everyday dissembling of Johnson and his – and actually our – government. What we’re seeing here is not standard-issue political cynicism. It is something qualitatively different: a conscious effort to eradicate the notion of objective truth as an operating principle in British… Read more
Convenience Foods
I’ll keep this short – but I would recommend this article in ‘The Grocer’ by food journalist, Joanna Blythman ‘Reformulation does not solve the problem of processed convenience foods.’ She is absolutely spot on – reducing a few select ingredients in what might be called ‘confected’ food, is useless. We need people to cook. And… Read more
Being wanted – even if only by the Police
The piece below is characteristically dishonest from Johnson – not only because he says he is investing in policing when he supported and was a member of a government that actually (should we say?) defunded the Police. However since he has promised to ‘refund’ them, then by all accounts there are now an extra 4,000… Read more
The barbarians are in charge
So, since yesterday’s vote in Parliament, we now have almost all Tory MP’s who were elected on the basis of the ‘Oven Ready’ Withdrawal Agreement and duly voted for it, who have now voted for their same government to destroy it. Unicorns are illusory and undoing what you did before means just that another reality… Read more
A Prime Minister to be a ashamed of
This clip via the editor of the ‘New European’ is worth watching. Ed Milliband, who is, as ever, an impressive MP, is completely slaughtering a Prime Minister who actually looks lazy and incompetent… Johnson is a Prime Minister we can be quite seriously ashamed of…. Read more
All for an arbitrary lack of money
Having listened to BBC Radio4’s ‘Front Row’ it demonstrates that the arts, whose members are supposedly progressive and original thinkers are, like so many others, completely brainwashed into the idea that they must find ‘other’ commercial sponsorship because government money is so limited. The theatre producer and owner, Nica Burns, has said she will endeavour… Read more
Current government seems indifferent, at best, to either human rights or peace
I can only endorse this informative and hard-hitting five minute chat about law from my favourite former Brussels resident:… Read more
Johnson’s government proves the truth of ‘perfidious albion’
This tweet from the BBC’s Europe correspondent provides another possible reason for Johnson’s Internal Market Bill: Katya Adler@BBCkatyaadler Opinion amongst EU diplomats is broadly that IF PM is talking about EU threatening integrity of UK endangering peace in NIreland etc IN ORDER to eventually sell idea to Tory party that doing a trade deal with… Read more
No light at the end of the tunnel…
If the the UK Internal Market Bill does not get thrown out by the Commons it surely will be by the Lords. In effect this means that the Bill suffers a year’s delay. But as the UK Internal Market Bill is time critical because the UK leaves the EU on 31st December, it is difficult… Read more