Familiarity can have many forms. A 1987 novella in the Infinite Stars collection started on what felt like familiar ground. It began with a plot device which I remember from a collection of short stories written in 1980. And diverged almost right away. And the setting of the earlier story was rather grander.
Feet On The Ground
Monday, 24 August 2026
Brag hits buffers
What do you get when our Prime Fantasist pledges an end to rough sleeping in city streets? An almost immediate admission from Jonah that he doesn’t have enuff cash to pay for it and he was just shooting his mouth off.
● And the costa living is going up, not down. Fast punctures in inflated claims.
Quality deficit
The Home Office has felt obliged to give bogus asylum seekers a booklet telling them that rape is illegal in the UK and they are not allowed to beat up wives and other relatives. Such is the state of affairs created by the looney Left and the legal trade with their open door policy for the scum of the Earth.
Home team clean sweep?
The RoughRiders went to Vancouver to end Week 12. FG for the home team to start. One for the Riders. Rourke rushed to scoring range, BC sacked to a FG, 3-6.
A long FG got the Riders level in Q2. The Lions recovered their own fumble, on to a TD, 6-13. Close by the Riders but a pick at the BC goal line stopped them. Nowt from it.
Inside the RR 5 for the Lions in Q3, on to a TD, 6-20. Red zone for the Riders, stopped by a pick. A bomb pass by Rourke got the Lions close, To the 1 on a penalty, TD. 6-27. A pick stopped the Lions in the first minute of Q4. A bomb pass by Harris, TD with 12 minutes left, 13-27. FG for the Lions. A sack made the RR kick a FG, 16-30. Out on downs for the Riders, victory formation, 4 home team wins this week.
File under ‘D’ for Disaster
What do you get when Labour runs a council for one term before being booted out? In the case of Wandsworth, a £137 million Brown Hole dug, and a vindictive Labour government cutting the council’s funding by 40%.
Really dear do!
The legal trade has made a bomb out of Hapless Hairy and his Outraged Army. No massive damages from the Daily Wail for being spied on, £30-odd million to pay for their trip to court.