File under ‘U’ for Useless

Another part of the Jonah Burnbum catastrophe for Greater Manchester – yellow double-decker buses swanning around looking empty in the morning in the outlying areas.
    At great expense to the taxpayer.

In the Good Old Daze

Things you used to be able to do No. 971: From the mid-1960s to the 1970s, before we were invaded by IRA terrorists, we could go up to the public gallery near the top of the Post Office tower and enjoy a view over miles and miles of the London area, a correspondent has reminded me. One who’s dunnit.

Blatant threat

What does the hands pressed flat together gesture really mean? “We will crush you.” Not many people know that.

Punishment without a trial

Prince Andrew is getting pats on the back for challenging the police attempt to create a presumption of guilt against people who have Nett Zero criminal convictions. And also the police assumption that they have a right to stomp into a target’s home and grab anything that takes their fancy in the hope of being able to cobble together a façade of guilt.
● Prince Andrew is not the only target. There’s a history of believing the lies of fantasists and attempting to fit people up going back through Bier Smarmer’s reign as Dir. of Pubic Prostitutions.
    Remember when saintly Cliff Richard was a target?

Legal shoelaces tied together

We are warned that the government and the police don’t trust juries, and that’s why majority verdicts and making getting a jury trial more difficult were introduced.
    The next step is to encourage US-style plea-bargaining with threats of huge sentences. But does this strategy have any hope of success with Labour increasing sentence discounts recklessly in search of the criminal vote?

Legs don’t come deader

The euro is losing value at breakneck speed, France is on course to go bust, Germany is in decline and Spain is in turmoil thanks to the government there. So what does our prime cosmetic mayor want to do? Rejoin the EFU and throw tons of borrowed cash into its Brown Hole. No wonder they call him Jonah.

Improvisation

Supporters of the Hamas in Gaza; students and olders; didn’t wear face masks for a march in London to celebrate the October 7th massacre. They used umbrellas instead to hide their faces on a wet day in the capital.