A man of munch

The immediate impression one gets from watching Jonah Burnbum trying to justify an attempt to get Labour-voting criminals out of gaol is that he is definitely no stranger to the biscuit barrel; a real chubby chops.
    “A barrel a day is the Burnbum way!”

Quality will out

Which is the best story in the Infinite Stars collection of space opera and military SF? At page 630, it has to be the first contact story by Robert Silverberg. It will take a lot of beating!

Polyticks vs Reality

His critics are having a go at First Meenister J. Swinney for not declaring the Scottish wildfires a major incident. In fact, it’s the job of the boss of the local fire brigade to do that. But hey, when do facts ever get in the way of slagging off a political opponent?

File under ‘M’ for Maybe

The fashion industry is being blamed for causing drought and climate change in the poor parts of the world where clothes are knocked out. A culture here of sensible buying and mending might mean the out of work garment-makers might have some drinking water. Or not.

Slight problem

What happens when the Scottish government announces the opening of a collection of walk-in GP centres? Not that much as it can’t recruit enuff GPs to staff them.

Another returnee

Princess Fergiana is returning to Britain shortly. The nation’s gossip columnists are applauding her decision as it will give them something to write about when they run out of stuff about Henry and Rachel Spare.

Attention Seeking

Our Prime Fantasist is getting a booting for telling the world all about the military goodies he personally is giving to Ukraine. Which takes all the surprise out of things when they start landing on Put’nstan.