Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Industrial inaction

The staff of the strike-happy NEU teaching union are doing it too; walking out over bullying by the management. Things are particularly bad at the London branch.

Nutritional shift

Fat-jab users are spending the best part of £800 million/year less on groceries, a survey has found. Snacks like crisps and comfort foods such as chocolate are losing out. Sales of mouthwash, chewing gum, and smoothies and other products which don’t need chewing, are all up though.

Vexatiously woke

Police chiefs and Transport Police bosses are in trouble for trying to make female coppers do a strip search of a bloke who claims he’s a woman. And to hell with what the Supreme Court said last year?

Good only for the clerical class

The alleged inquiry into the response to the Chinese plague will drag on for another year for a total of 4 and cost £240 million. What will it achieve? Nothing much if the next pandemic creates totally different problems.
● Some countries, e.g. Canada, Portugal and Spain, didn’t bother with an inquiry. Sweden did one in months and the US took 2 years.

Surprise result

A survey by the More In Common pollsters found that two-thirds of people don’t think the police treat white people less favourably than ethnic minorities. In contrast, only one-third of those surveyed disapproved of the riots after the murders in Southampton and Belfast.

Today’s Question

Is a new Defence Minister ‘missing in action’ if he gets into his new job and doesn’t put himself at the mercy of the meeja on his second day? Especially if he was standing in for Bier, who chickened out of a trip to a drone factory after cutting Defence spending to one-third of the bare minimum needed.

Job bounce

Bier Smarmer is warning his ministers they’ll get the sack if they back Jonah Burnham. But will they see that as just a temporary pause before J.B takes over and puts them back in their job as a reward for loyalty?