Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Of throngs, dots and pushbacks
Monday, 13 September 2021
Good, If It's 'Guidance' I'll Take It Under Advisement...
Stronger guidance on wearing masks is being planned in case coronavirus hospitalisations keep rising....but we all know it's not going to be guidance, don't we?
Ministers are now concerned by falling compliance in supermarkets, trains and buses amid rising infection levels. Yesterday there were another 37,622 Covid cases and 147 deaths. There are also 8,098 patients in hospital with the virus – a six-month high and a rise of 6 per cent in a week.
No doubt the Met Police can't wait to act like their Aussie counterparts...
Although government sources insist a mask mandate is not imminent, the fact it is being considered will concern Tory backbenchers.Not enough to actusally do anything, I expect. They proved supine enough on everything else, they aren't going to rebel over this.
They are already angry at being asked to renew the emergency Covid powers that allow ministers to impose restrictions.
Yoda says 'Angry they maybe, but ineffectual they also are, mmmm...'
Saturday, 11 September 2021
On 911
Friday, 10 September 2021
9/11: Afghan Aftermath. Failure It Was, And Still Is.
Protecting Our Borders..?
The number of foreign criminals released from prison on to the streets has reached a record high of almost 11,000.
Official figures show that at the end of June there were 10,882 foreign national offenders who had been released from jail but not deported.
All are subject to deportation because they were handed prison sentences of at least 12 months.
I wonder how many new ones we are unknowingly (or in the case of the 'Tory' government, uncaringly) admitting right now?
The latest total has rocketed by 176 per cent since 2012, when the number stood at less than 4,000.
Wasn't the Tory Party once the party of law and order? I'm sure I remember it used to be...
One in eight prisoners in jail in England and Wales are now non-UK citizens, or 9,850 of the 78,000 behind bars.
Will we see that figure rise in the future? I'm not a betting woman, but I'd have a flutter on that.
Saturday's post a day early
Call their bluff. Make them fire millions of us. Make them kick millions of us out of college. Make them fine your business for not complying and don’t pay it. Flood the zone with lawsuits. Their house of cards economy will collapse and things will get very interesting then.Trouble is, 'on the face of it' was factored in well before the push even started.
Thursday, 9 September 2021
The Great Pushback
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Vote for the voice that doesn’t promise very much.
They went fifteen times around O’Houlihan’s barn nitpicking about inconsequentials, and totally ignored the huge Elephant seated placidly in the corner. The name of that Elephant? Postal Voting. Only one MP bothered to really comment, but the Government ignored his voice.
A supporter of Postal Votes seems to want everything handed on a plate to the user, ignoring all the many pitfalls given air space by the fact that no-one, once that ballot paper leaves the issuing authority, knows categorically that the ballot paper has been completed, in secret, by the person to whom that ballot is addressed. To receive, to actually qualify for a postal vote in GB&NI, all you have to do is ask for it.
I would alter the requirements dealing with Postal Votes. A Postal or Proxy Vote would be only available if a Document was completed which would certify that:-
- the voter literally cannot physically move out of the home to gain access to the Polling Station.
- The voter has a Mental Illness
- The voter has a verified illness such as Agoraphobia, which precludes his or her movement into the open air.
- The voter will be out of the country at the time of the Election.
If you cannot bother your arse to get up and either walk or drive the short distance to a Polling Station, then you don’t deserve the rare gift of voting in any Election.
Bringing Back The One Drop Rule...
One of Britain’s greatest painters has fallen victim to woke culture, as art-lovers are being warned not to ‘idolise’ J. M. W. Turner because he once held a single share in a Jamaican business that used slave labour.
One share. One...
During his lifetime, the artist was a liberal and an abolitionist, and his iconic painting The Slave Ship captured the horror of the trade in human lives. But a new exhibition of his work at Tate Britain comes with a warning that some of his pieces could be considered problematic.
To whom? To the real 'general public', or to the tiny but loud minority of woke activists? And if tenuous slavery links weren't enough...
The gallery’s director, Alex Farquharson, even warns that Turner’s depictions of steam power are linked to climate change.
*sighs*
Mr Farquharson says: ‘We should not idolise Turner. His investment in 1805 in a Jamaican cattle ranch worked by enslaved labour suggests he had reset his own moral compass by 1840 when he painted Slave Ship as an indictment of the slave trade.’
The painting was inspired by the Zong massacre of 1781, in which a captain of a British ship ordered 133 slaves to be thrown overboard when drinking water ran low so he could claim insurance money.
Mr Farquharson describes The Slave Ship as salient today because ‘Black Lives Matter demands we confront histories of enslavement, exploitation and genocide whose legacies live on’, but says some critics ‘see its visual splendour as mitigating the horror of its subject’.
Probably the sort of 'experts' who fawn over modern 'art' like this...
Michael Daley, the director of ArtWatch UK, said it was wrong to impose modern values on historical figures, adding: ‘The trouble is that everybody in the arts wants to play politics and not talk about art.’
Spot on, Mr Daley, and it suffers as a result.
The episode could expose the Tate to allegations of hypocrisy – ancestors of founder Sir Henry Tate made their fortune from a sugar empire built on the slave trade.
Good. Let them be hoist by their own petard.
