Not that sunny

19 laps of Moto3 in Spain began all neat & tidy with 2 off the front after a couple of laps. There was a spectacular solo crash on lap 7 and another rider had a rare bike failure on the same lap.
    Red or Blue at the end? The lead group became 8 with a handful of laps to go. And it was Ortola, in purple, at the line.

Regichocicide?

What creepy cannibalism! Making a chocolate bust of King Charles that meant to be eaten!

Culinary Wisdom

Any recipe that sends you to a dictionary to find out what the principal ingredient is should be binned. Especially if the word, e.g. tahini, isn’t in your dictionary!

Accuracy hurts

What’s a good way to upset the mob making money out of illegal immigrants? Label them as compassion cannibals, who are hoovering taxpayers’ cash up at the expense of those who really need a place of safety, as the Immigration Minister did.

Dirty Tricks R Us

It’s rather rich, the looney left evicting the chairman of the BBC because he’s a Tory. That story about possible conflict of interest because he knew Boris Johnson is pathetic.
    Especially if the woman who was investigating Boris is trying to get herself into the Labour party machine.

Celeb subversion

That’s a very interesting idea – to feed the on-record burblings of a celeb into an A.I. gadget and cook up an interview about any subject of the moment.
    Wouldn’t work with politicians, of course. Much too shifty and they change their core, basic views every time the political wind changes direction.

Can’t wait to see this

It would be really great to visit New York after they redo the Statue of Liberty to replace the torch, with its image of combustion and planet-killing carbon dioxide production, by strapping on a giant LED energy-saver lamp.
    And there will have to be a wind turbine of the sort dippy Dave Cameron had on his suburban home to pretend that the light is wind-powered.

 

Pointless graphic distraction

What is the point of putting those spiky sound track graphs under a picture of someone who’s talking on TV? They contribute nothing at all of any use, informationwise.

Sounds a good idea

How do you avoid being killed by ultra-processed foods?
    Avoid sushi and lunchtime salads. So I’m safe.

Potential life preserver

One thing the US TV series featuring Walker the Texas Ranger and the murderous Jessica Fletcher teach us is that if you hear an Irish accent, don’t mess about.
    All their shows tells us it’s a bad guy and we should start shooting and keep on doing it until we run out of bullets.
    Saves a whole lot of messing about!

Confecting too much

Did Princess Kate ‘admit’ she doesn’t believe how fast her son Louis is growing up? As in admitting a criminal offence.
    Or did she mention it in conversation, which is an entirely different thing. You have to wonder about the motives of a journalist who uses loaded language like that.

Something worth remembering

If the smarmy leader of the Labour party had managed to get Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street, Diane Abbott would be our Home Sec.
    And pro-Semitism would be a criminal offence?

Right place to be

The British ambassador to Sudan was doing consultations and on holiday in London when the entitled generals started shooting. Which shows good political sense.
    Why anyone in their right mind would want to be in a place like that if it’s not their job is baffling.

Double Non-story

Who in their right mind would want to dunk a Jaffa cake in hot tea? Two days on the trot about a biscuit dunking survey plugged in the Daily Star, according to GB Views and its late-nite Headliners programme, tells us that the Star is really D*E*S*P*E*R*A*T*E for something to pad out the adverts.

Nice one, mate!

A bloke in Yorkshire came up with SNP = Scottish Naughty Party. Which works very well.

Really?

Is anyone going to buy this scare story that wearing a face mask for long periods, as we had to when the Chinese plague was doing its worst, is dangerous?
    If it really is damaging to the human frame, wouldn’t the medical profession have had to find an alternative for their members? Obviously not if doctors and nurses can wear masks all day.

On the move

Doomed to failure – a scam call claiming to be from the VISA fraud department if your phone shows that it comes from a number starting with 07 instead of a landline.
    Not having a VISA credit card is another dead giveaway.

Good idea

Serving good old British dandelion & burdock instead of wine with the veggie Coronation quiche.

It pads out the ads

Stories in which the mob who tried to sabotage the Grand National moan about the police brutality they got when they resisted arrest by people entitled to do it have had a bit of a positive effect.
    They have confirmed that not all coppers are useless. No doubt the mob who wanted to sabotage the Scottish Grand National will have the same whinges to offer.

What popularity?

70% of Americans don’t want Creaky Joe Biden to stand for a second term? Sounds like a lot of them still have some good sense. Not that they’ll get their way if the fix is in. Mainly because the Democraps don’t have anyone anybody has heard anything positive about.

Not news

The top bod at GCHQ, Britain’s electronic spiery, is worried that A.I. systems could be created to generate an explosion of fake news. But how would anyone tell?
    The internet is full of it. And so are what are supposed to be respectable news sources.

Icons don’t last

In an episode of The Saint, he arrived in South America on a Pan-Am flight; history. And in episodes of Murder, She Wrote, we keep getting shots of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, also gone.

Blob Rule

Is it really a sacking offence to describe woeful work by a civil service minion as woeful and inadequate? Only a QC** would think so.
    And only a QC would take 5 months, including the Xmas break, over petty quibbles.
    Blob Rule applies only when the Tories are in government. Gordon F. Brown (Labour) was notorious for chucking phones at useless minions but no one complained about him.

** see Rumpole of the Bailey’s version.

They all want to be special

Diane Abbott shock horror! She thinks only people like her experience racialism. Jews, the Irish and everyone else just end up on the wrong end of prejudice.
    A rush of entitlement or just race-specific racialism erupting in her?

I’m paying for this

Switched over to the BBC TV news channel while they were doing ads on GB Views at the top of the hour and what did I get? B bloody B bloody C ads and no bloody weather.

Left in peace

Not a flicker at the Mansion at 3 p.m. yesterday. Everyone has chosen to switch off their phone; and even remove the battery; to make sure the government couldn’t get at it.

Dumbed too far down

Printing a graphic of a corkscrew on the top of a cork in a wine bottle is worth a Colonel Obvious award. What else would you use? A hammer and chisel?

A Cliché Too Far

Is there some sort of rule that a fictional detective has to have some secret tragedy in their background, which makes them obsessed and driven . . . and bloody boring to the poor old reader/viewer, who is fed up with the scenario and the secret room papered with bits from the detective’s crusade.

Meghany Malice Confection

Is it a snub, not inviting the 94-year-old daughter of Earl Montbatten of Burma to the coronation?
    She’s 94. It’s probably a relief if she’s not required to haul her aged frame into the middle of London.

No cider Sydney!

“The following programme contains scenes of violence” we are told.
    Well, good. That’s why we picked a film shown after the sinister 9 p.m. threshold. Although, some of them have punch-ups which are no more violent than the ones which are obligatory in Walker, Texas Ranger, which is on at 8 p.m.

Not trying hard enough

Lots of fast forward through the start – 20 minutes – of AEW Dynamite. Then the ‘ladies’ gave a bit of value for money, urged on by the Terrible Towels. And that ending was rather terribly predictably terrible.

Good Ones

The best reason offered for why Megan the Merciless is staying in California whilst the King is being coronated is that she is too busy polishing her brass neck.
    Also, the King is having a hell of a job finding someone to hold Hapless Harry’s hand during the ceremony so he doesn’t get confused and wander off.

The real Battlestar

Them Cylons, eh? Pretty much a bunch of Putinazis. With Baltar in the role of President McRon? Still, it’s all good training for when Face-man joins the A-Team.

Another Fail

An advert shows 2 garments, both washed 20 times in either detergent or the miracle product. But the comparison shot is whisked off the screen before you get a chance to spot the difference.
    If there is one. Or maybe there ain’t!

Get a life!

Do people like the blessed Sarah Vine in the Mail really have so little to do that they sit around confecting silly stories about AI systems wiping out the human race?
    If humans are just clunky inferiors, aren’t AI systems just going to ignore them? Why go to all the trouble of wiping them out if they are so irrelevant to the machine world?

Great Joke

Well worth repeating: All the NHS dishes out now is Milk of Amnesia so that you forget there’s something wrong with you and you don’t bother your doctor.

Flying a bit higher!

Legend is the channel of flying machines. Tonite, it’s goodbye to Airwolf and hello to Battlestar Galactica, which should keep us going for a fair bit of time.
    Let us hope it’s the authentic version, not the remake.

Go Simpler

You do get the feeling that people who can’t switch off a phone to stop the government from messing about with it are not to be trusted with the technology anyway and would be much better off with something that just does calls without all the gadgets.

Life will go on

There’s an amazing amount of eco-fraud going on with the inevitable TV ad attached. Nature abhors a vacuum. Which means that if some species die out, others will fill the gap.
    The Planet didn’t exactly end up devoid of life when the dinosaurs had run their course, did it?
    So there’s no real point in giving the eco-scroungers ten quid per month or whatever.
    The Planet has another five billion years left to do its own thing  before the Sun goes nova and swallows it up. There’s going to be lots more evolution, despite the best efforts of the doombuggers to persuade us that only they can make it possible.

Nul Points

Crossword clue: putting peg (3). But you don’t use a bloody tee for putting. Sheesh!

They all go that way

Sacked PM Tony Liar was doing his Creaky Joe impression on the news last night, it looked like. Premature senility on the march?

Picks of the Day

BBC 1: a race across Canada; BBC 2: Wales’s Home of the year; ITV: the psychopath killer Raol Moat; Channel 4: a naked dating show; Channel 5: Heather Mills, sometime wife of P. McCarthy.
    Reaction: There must be a film on somewhere else!

Bragging Mode

How do you know if you’ve led a virtuous life? When you find that you haven’t heard of most of the people the newspapers consider to be in need of publicity; all them plastic celebs.

Circular Scam

Starmer, when DPP, changed the rules to keep criminals out of gaol so that they could continue to break the law and stuff cash into the pockets of lawyers . . . like Starmer.

Lacking Reality

The Mansion cat is unimpressed by the claims that domestic dogs and cats can spread drug-resistant superbugs based on just a handful of measurements made in Portugal.

Make your own amusement

When you see a newspaper report of a slagging off involving people called Davide and Ekin-Su, the brain switches the eyes off and starts wondering if people who know the female call her Flippin’ Ekin’-Sue.

Epic fail

Is there anything more useless than a ring-pull can with a ring that pops off in your hand as soon as you apply any pressure to it?

One small miracle required

What happens if you switch your pocket phone off and take out the battery & the SIM card? How is the government going to make it yell at you on Scare Everyone Sunday?

Fair’s Fair

Someone told the Mansion cat that Elon Musk put his dog in charge of his Twitter business. She wasn’t impressed as she considers herself to be in charge of the crew of human slaves here, and she thinks it’s nothing unusual for a superior species to be in charge.

Looks like but ain’t

I’m in the habit of breaking suggestive biscuits in half; both plain and coated on one side with plain chocolate; before I scoff them. Which is something that 27 to 42-year-old Millennials do, apparently. But I’m not a dunker, like Millis and GenZs.
    But hey, so what? My generation doesn’t really qualify for a cute nickname.

There’s a lot of it about

Do we care that some Yorkshire sheepherder woman destroyed her marriage with boozing and infidelity? Move on quickly to the next story and hope it’s not the latest garbage about Prince Hairy.

Not a given

“With great age comes great wisdom” Some misguided person was trying to apply that to Sleepy Joe Biden in my Sunday paper. This ‘expert’ had obviously never heard Joke making a blooper-filled speech.
    Four less years, rather than more, would be great if it were possible.

Late finish for us

Bagnaia was on pole for 20 laps of MotoGP with a 8 p.m. start here but only 1 p.m. in Texas. Martin wiped out Alex Marquez right away. Bagnaia fell off when miles ahead of Rins and in the lead.
    Brad Binder went off on the next lap. The field was soon down to 14 riders, so points for every finisher. Marini and Quateraro were well being Rins at the end.

No Advert

Jessica Fletcher versus a bunch of Amish oddities and a killer didn’t do the weird religious cult any favours! I don’t think I’ll be in any rush to join.

Track trouble

One of the Moto2 riders managed to crash on the warm-up lap. Another gone on lap 1/16, Sam Lowes back at 18th. Rat & bag at the front & lots of action. The 5th place guy went out with 9 to go.
    There was an actual retirement with bike trouble with 7 laps to go. SLow was 15th then and in the points. Arbolino and Acosta were well ahead.
    Acosta went ahead for a while on lap 14, and he made an overtake stick @ turn 12 on the last lap for the win. Sam Lowes finished 14th.

Give us someone non-useless

The last thing the so-called ‘leader of the Western world’ and president of the USA needs to be is a bloke exiting his 70s.
    The Republicans need to go with the Florida guy and the Democraps really, really need someone 5,000% less crap than VP Kamel A. Harrisment as their alternative.

Dinner-time viewing

Late afternoon MotoGP on the Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX – and lots of complaints about the track! Brilliant save! How did he stay on in lap 1/14 in the Moto3 race?
    The race became a long procession. There was a nasty crash at the back with 9 to go. The leaders tangled with 3 to go, one down the field, the other on the ground. A last lap battle gave Ortoca his first ever win.

No wonder they’re called DemoCRAPs

‘Charmless zombie’ is about the kindest thing said about Sleepy Joe Biden, friend of Gerry Adams and other IRA terrorists, who thinks the New Zealand national rugby team is called the Black & Tans.

Okay, it worked!

How do you slow down the wrestler Swerve Strickland? Darby Allin did it by ripping off his boots and biting his foot!
    Not much laughter from AEW’s Blackpool Comedy Club this week.

Good Point

The BMA is giving counselling to junior docs who get upset when they’re called nasty bastards on their picket lines for going out on strike despite their hypocritic oath to do no harm.
    Will the BMA also offer counselling to the relatives of the people who were killed by neglect due to the BMA’s members being on strike, as a newspaper correspondent suggested?

There is no perfection

Claiming that the Astra-Zeneca vaccine against the Chinese plague is ‘a defective product that isn’t as safe as consumers generally were reasonably entitled to expect’ looks doomed to failure after the lawyers have had their blood money.
    When you compare the number of doses given against the number of deaths from complications, ‘as safe as reasonable to expect’ is the only possible conclusion.

No foul

Was there anything wrong with government organizations letting the Irish psychopath known as Stakeknife torture and kill IRA stooges?
    Not if the ‘victims’ chose to join a gang of psychopaths who were into murder, extortion, protection rackets, smuggling drugs & arms and all the rest.

Not actually news

Does anyone care if an Albanian crap rapper is rude to the Home Secretary in a video on his website? You have to be really desperate for something to space out the adverts to print that.

Serious competition

Prince Hairy’s efforts to set world records for bending the truth out of shape are in danger of being eclipsed by those of that ludicrous hypocrite in charge of the Labour party. That bloke they’re calling the Todger Bodger.

Non-Think

Who’s going to believe that Sleepy Joe Biden, the Irish fanatic from a family of Anglophobes, is an honest broker for Ulster? Apart from the IRA, of course.

Double Think

One-man buses in parts of Scotland are to be replaced by driverless buses in the interest of saving money and also the planet.
    How this will be achieved if the buses have a crew of two; a safety driver to look at the dials and a ‘bus captain’ to help customers on and off; has yet to be revealed.

No crime in Essex

There can’t be that much if they can empty a couple of police stations to do a mass bust on a pub to stroll off with its collection of gollywog dolls donated by customers.

Just Scroungers

Surprise! The slave trade was just 3% at most of the British economy back in the day. Which confirms that all the hysterical claims that the Industrial Revolution and today’s society were found on it are plain dishonest.
    Which comes as no surprise when you take a close look at the sort of people who are making them.

Typical Trot

No picket duty for one of the evil sods behind the junior docs strike. He’s on leave and still getting paid whilst the rest of the stooges aren’t.

Truck Cluck Chicken

Trucking Hell on 5ACTION has been succeeded by a series called Trucking Heavy. They were clearly too scared to go for the obvious next step and make a series called What The Truck!

Somewhat brave

After all the dire warnings to do nothing risky while the junior doctors are on strike with a totally stoopid pay demand, some of the Mansion staff were wondering whether to stay in bed for the rest of the week.
    But nobody has thought the experiment worth trying.

More woke daftness

You have to wonder about the crew running Greenwich University. If they think it’s necessary to issue trigger warnings about Dracula, what sort of kids are they admitting? Clearly, it’s either dimwits who don’t know that this book is all about a scary vampire, or spivs who will try to sue someone if they don’t get warned about everything imaginable.

They’ll manage it

Is there anything dafter than someone who’s obviously a bloke with no wobbly bits on his chest doing adverts for female sports bras?
    Can we write it off as a one-off contribution to the gaiety of nations? Not if there is likely to be something dafter along in a minute.

Cute Crossword Clue

Almost three girls in Tolstoy novel (4,8)
    Answer: Anna Karenina

Political Nonsense

You really have to wonder why that Starmer bloke nailed his flag to the mast of what are totally ludicrous Labour lies about the prime minister.
    Is there something Sturgeon about it? Does he know something appalling is on the way and he’s getting ready for it?
    Or just taking the opportunity to do something daft before his ship sinks?

Interesting theory

That the 4-day doctors’ strike will be the thing that convinces people that the NHS isn’t worth all the cash that’s thrown at it and encourage them to stop paying the taxes that fund it.

Great job

Isn’t it great, being a teacher and having a union that wants drag queens to do classes for you and teach the kiddies all sorts of woke garbage, which will make today’s kiddies total laughing stocks when they eventually have kiddies of their own!

Do Both

I’m about two-thirds of the way through 2001: A Space Odyssey by A.C. Clarke and the thing to know is that if you’ve seen the film, you don’t know the story in the book.
    What they both say is broadly similar at times but there are big divergences.

Nice racket!

What do you get if you don’t bung the scriptrotter of Airwolf enough? Dead! And revived only if you cough up some extra dosh.

Disgraceful cultural appropriation

The Thin Red Line, a WW II film about Americans?!? What baloney. We all know who wore red coats in war and it most certainly was not the Yanks.

Stored Treat

Nothing much on TV, watched a recording of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds musical, which is 45 years old this year! And excellent. And will be revisited.

Over-egging it!

Crumbs! The Mansion chef, wearing a Kitchen Wizard star, told me that if you vary a recipe to adjust it to your own personal tastes, you’re not just tweaking it, you’re ‘telling your own food story’.
    Which is preciously creepy.

Too obvious

How could you tell yesterday was a bank holiday? Lots of rain and even a touch of thunder.
    And a few sunny spells to tempt you into the indiscretion of venturing out, of course.

Yecch!

There was some nutter telling us in the Sunday Post that he’d scoffed two molten creme eggs in a toasted bun.
    In search of the diet-buster of the month award, was he?
    Or just revelling in being disgusting as well as disgustingly greedy.

Another ‘If Only’

Big welcome back to Just a Minute, now on Radio 4 again, especially with Paul Merton on the show. But if only Sue Perkins could manage to be less smarmy.

Advanced maths

How do you decimate 3 wrestlers? I suppose breaking an arm or a leg is about as close as you can get.

ShockHorror!

When you look at the actual numbers, the slave trade contributed a maximum of 3% to the British economy back in the day.
    Which means that the claim that the Industrial Revolution and the wealth of the Empire were bought by slavery is just a deliberate black lie cooked up by repayment scroungers and bogus academics.

Just asking . . .

If the SNP knew the police were sniffing around 2 months before they pitched in, how likely is it that anything incriminating was left for them?
    Or is that why they strolled off with Wee Burney’s barbeque? Hoping to find ashes intact enough to process with the miracles of modern forensic science?

Nice One

It would be difficult to come up with a screen name that sounds more phoney than Taurean Blacque (real name Herbie), who was in last night’s creature feature on Legend; but, no doubt, the inventive keep trying.
    P.s. Not that we saw that much of the creature until the very end.

Quality Unstrained

According to an author of my acquaintance, reading your own books can be a double-edged sword.
    It can remind you how good you are as a writer and leave the next book you read by someone else having to meet a much higher standard.

Great Theory

The ludicrous veggies want to sabotage the Grand National to get back at all them horses what eat their grass!

If only

If the Democraps can trump up charges based on nothing at all to accuse Donald Trump of trying to influence an election result by keeping embarrassing stuff out of the news, then the Democraps who are trying to influence election results by putting anti-Trump stuff in the news belong in court too.
    Same offence, same deal.
    But not in New York, apparently, where justice is just a theoretical concept with no basis in reality.

Rogue nomenclature

“Rogue meteors,” the President of the United States (female and of colour, of course) told her customers in a TV broadcast. Which is tripe.
    Meteors are solid bits flying through space and they have as much right to fly through the bit occupied by the Earth as the planet.
    The only rogues are the twits writing the script and their American nutter characters, who think they have a diving right to kill anyone who gets in their way.

Good try but missed

I’m reading 2001: A Space Odyssey and there’s a wonky prediction on page 53. Six million humans on the planet, half of them Chinese, and not enough food to go round.
    There are 8 million now and more than enough food. And if there are any shortages, it’s down to distribution failures.

Blessed Hush

We don’t seem to be hearing anything about the Beeb’s personal Dr. Goebbels at the moment. Not that I’m complaining, mind.
    But, no doubt, gary bloody linkeker is brewing up something particularly offensive for Coronation Day or the run-up to it.

Yes, he gets time off

Walker, the Texas Ranger, was on a sports kick and a fan in another audience. The fake violence of wrestling was swapped for the real stuff on an ice hockey rink., with a robbery there at the start.
    Basketball, baseball or American Crunchball next?

Yeccch!

What, I ask myself, is the big deal about wilted salad leaves?  Mushy green stuff is no sort of alternative to real food.

Amazing!

On the Mail return night, there was a HUGE scoop in the overpriced Guardian. The assets of the Royals are HUGE! Well, who’da thunk that!!

Back again

The Daily Mail seems to have fallen back in again with the Headliners on GB Views. Maybe they stopped sending their front pages at the beginning of the week because they were embarrassed by having shoved the price up to a quid.

Great deal!

Does Rupert Murdoch’s fiancée get to keep the £2 million ring now that the engagement is off after a couple of weeks?

More shrinkflation

In the good old days, Sainsbury’s boxes of choc ices used to contain 8 of them. Just six now. And thinner choc?

Unwelcome News

One of my correspondents is feeling very ancient. He has just discovered that John Major, the former PM, who has just turned 80 is only a couple of years older than him after he’d spent decades thinking of Major as an awful warning of how people go in old age.

Reality Failure!

There’s an episode of Walker, the Texas Ranger, in which the local hero is a wrestler. After all the fake stuff that’s on TV, it’s amazing that the producers expected their audience to accept that the sensible people of Texas would take the antics in the ring seriously.

Cancel culture in action?

Has the Daily Mail fallen out with Headliners (23:00) on GB Views? Their front page is no longer being included in the opening medley.

Good point

It’s worth continuing the line of thinking of someone else, who was wondering if theGuardian is going to give any of its millions of pounds of guilt cash to the descendants of people who were exploited when working in Lancashire’s cotton mills when they were processing cotton grown by slaves.
    Or are they not black enough to score woke virtue points?

Sounds okay

Someone was moaning in the paper that there are stories only about boozy Brits rampaging abroad. Maybe it could be that they are stories in British newspapers and the editor doesn’t think the British customers would be interested in hearing about foreign yobs, which are nothing to do with us?

More joy!

More wonderful news – from my home insurer this time. They want to shove my premium up by one-third for the year to come.

If only

“Stop Electing Idiots” is the slogan most seen on the bags and boxes that people are putting on the spy cameras in London, which the cosmetic mayor is using to extract fines for access from motorists.
    One major problem with that. If all of the candidates are idiots, there’s not much of a choice on offer.

Crack!

People are already betting on how long the newly elected First Minister of Scotland will last. As Mr. Yousaf’s nickname is Useless, it’s not expected to be too long before plunges through the thin ice to joins Wee Burney in the dustbin of history, to mix a metaphor.

If you thought our politicians were idiots . . .

The governments in Holland and Belgium are trying to put an end of agriculture as we know it on planet-saving grounds. They seem to think their voters will go for a diet based on insects instead of proper food. Good luck with that!

Take your pick

“We warned lockdown would bankrupt us,” yell one gang of experts. But if it hadn’t, there would be another gang yelling an ‘I told you so’ about it.
    As Sir Arthur Clarke offered in his Fourth Law: For every expert, there is an equal and opposite one.
    And it’s always possible to find some expert or other to support every daft idea going.

Full value

It was still not raining so MotoGP was the full 25 laps. No Honda riders @ the Termas de Rio Hondo, dinged. Was that some bloke singing about Vera’s Dad before the race? That was Verdad, cloth ears! Then it started to rain. His fault?
    Bash! Bash! at the start but everyone got away with it. Bagnaia bit the dust from 2nd with 8 to go. Zarco carved past Alex Marquez for 2nd. Bezzecci was a MotoGP winner for the first time. Zarco was definitely Man of the Match.

Short-changed!

All practices done in the dry, just a 14-lap sprint race instead of 21 laps for Moto2 as it’s wet. A jump start meant 2 long laps for Canet. Sam Lowes was being SLow and 17th. Canet was still 5th after both penalties! Not that serious in the wet.
    Three well off the front claiming all the podium places; Lopez, Arbolino and Dixon. Arbolino went ahead on lap 12 and stayed there. Canet was a distant 4th, SLow 10th.

Way further West

You can get up in the middle of the afternoon to watch the Argentine MotoGP! Well mucked about by the weather; dry practice, wet race, elbows out for 18 laps of Moto3.
    Too much too soon on lap 3 for Öncü. Who’s going to be 2nd behind Suzuki? That’s where the action was. Not Sasaki, who crashed at half-way. More of the same to follow.
    Including two of the five in the chase group on the last lap.

Just stuck on?

The Saint in a film wearing the Hammer Films badge in the opening titles? If Michael Ripper wasn’t in it, it’s a false flag.

Lots of them!

Hitler was supposed to have had a dozen doubles to deploy in public when he was too busy for the appearance. Looks like Putin the Poisoner is up to the same trick. But not as well, if the double paraded in the wreck of Mariupol was obviously a fake.

Oh, joy!

Wonderful news from my gas and electricity provider: the standing charge is to become even more of a rip-off.

Brilliant idea

Sir Smarmer putting Corbynstein’s Monster in the House of Lords so that he can’t pinch a seat from Labour at the next general election!

Upgrade Needed

Someone needs to tell the Daily Disaster’s language-checker the difference between misogynistic and and mysogynistic. As any fule kno, mysos is Greek for contamination, defilement and it’s miso that’s the hatred prefix.

Taking the Michael

You do suspect that some local councillors have bought up shares in the companies that manufacture wheeled bins if they’re thinking of making the people who pay their wages sort their rubbish into SEVEN different bins.

20% anyone?

The pundits on the sidelines are blaming the Governor of the Bank of England for causing the present inflation. Which makes us distinctly nervous to read them ordering the Gov. to double his efforts.
    And also double inflation, if that’s all his efforts achieve?

Nonebrity

It’s difficult to get excited about a ‘Gino drugs bust’ story if you have no idea who this Gino person is!

We know, we know

Is it a revelation from the looney left Andrew Marr that he wants Labour to win the next election? Or an admission of how little contact he has with real life if he thinks that’s not the default attitude at the looney left BBC?