Special attention

How, people are wondering everywhere, did Angular Rainer’s minions get through to HMRC for a rush job on her failed tax dodge? Not by phone, that’s for sure.
    Political pressure on the boss? More likely.

Past surfing

I’ve just started reading again a Readers Union edition of John Brunner’s oddity Stand On Zanzibar. No date of publication on offer but it’s 500+ pages in hardback and originally published in the UK in 1968 for a modest £2.10! So the RU edition must be dead old.
    It’s is all about the horrors of the 21st century, according to the blurb in tiny print on the front fold of the dust jacket. I wonder if the horrors include predictions of Bier Smarmer, Edstone Milipede, Jonah Burntbum and all the rest?

What’s the story?

A visitor to London from Israel was heard speaking in Hebrew to his phone and attacked by ‘five masked men walking nearby’.
    Not a word in the newspaper report about why the local police are letting gangs of masked thugs stroll around unchallenged in Golders Green.
    But with a Sadgeek as London’s combined mayor and police commish, no surprise.

More Schmeducation

School kids in Sheffield are being taught that black people, i.e. Afrons, being racially prejudiced against white people, i.e. Eurons, is not rachelism.
    Only Eurons can be rachelist. Afrons can’t. No one surprised.

Horizontal History

Mistreatment by the French has left the Bayeux Tapestry in such a frail condition that it will have to be displayed flat if it ever gets to the British Museum without being shaken to bitz by all the ignored potholes on the roads along the way.
    And anyone wanting to see it will be gouged with over three times the price charged in Normandy.

Trainee Yob’s Charter

What’s a good way to outrage the customers? The latest idea from our wonderful government is to revise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 to raise the number of pre-teen tearaways with a licence to get away with it.
    Softer on crime and a first step on the way to reducing the voting age from 18 to 16 to 12?

Left sense well behind

What sort of people are members of the Labour party? Ones who think Jonah B., Angular R., Edstone M. and Pixie B.-C. are all wonderful people.