Another crossword clue

Irish bloke at planetary extremity (7).
    Polemic(k)! Groan.

Give it a rest

Don’t you just wish the Earth would open up and swallow all the Scoffoholics and their endless whinges? And the woke ITV bosses?
    Along with the stooges with their noses buried in the public purse who are pretending that their ‘inquiry’ into the way the Chinese plague was handled isn’t a total waste of time and our money.
    For someone who’s supposed to be gai, the Scoffer comes across as a really miserable, grumpy sod.

Oh, for some civilization!

Battlestar Galactica 1980 is a real hoot with the new guys stuck on Earth with a bunch of kids and having to cope with all the totally weird Earther locals in the rural United States.

Doomed?

Is there any escape from Poison Phill the Scoffer?
    Only if someone even more ghastly comes along.

Justice?

Why did the parents who killed their baby with sustained brutality get different sentences for their joint crime? The judge said both are monsters yet she gave the woman 27 years in gaol while the bloke got 29.

Demanding, not just asking for it

That bloke who smacked a car into the gates of Downing Street with a bootful of kiddy-porn sounds like a real head-banger.

Just a whinge

Was there anything “infamous” about President Reagan describing the Soviet Union as an evil empire?
    Of course, there wasn’t.
    It’s a fact that Reagan’s influence led to a brief lull in the evilness when Mikhail Gorbachyov was in charge.
    But Putin the Poisoner got the evil genes active again.

Real Deal

Scars of Dracula (1970) is a genuine Hammer film; Michael Ripper is in it! Also Dennis Waterman and Patrick Troughton. How strange the peasants burned the castle to the ground right at the start of the film, not the end. Clearly, no one had explained the rules to them.

Another one at it

Dr. R. Singh (about?) has joined the rush to get some personal publicity by slagging off the ITV show This Morning, which I have never watched so don’t care about.
    Another one biting the hand that fed him appearance fees.

Spot the difference

Is that an ad break on Film4? No, it’s actually teleshopping. Which is something else entirely.
    Even if the adverts are the usual suspects.
    “Flash! Cleans up the Galaxy!”

New normal injustice

Want to get rid of someone? Get a gang of stooges yelling that something trivial is a capital crime, even though it obviously isn’t, and watch the Powers That Be go along with it.
    You can’t trust no one on the public payroll to have even a milligramme of good sense any more.

Crossword clue

UK hit for Rod Steward in 1971 (6,3).
    But to be accurate, Maggie Did. Lots of times!

Holly the new Prince Harry?

Okay, that does it, I’ve never watched her show but I’ve had it with Holly as much as Poison Phill for her whinge about being terribly hurt that he didn’t give her chapter and verse on his extra-marital affair with a bloke.

Some Choice!

5Action, 9 p.m. The Dead Pool (1988), a Dirty Harry film.
TCM, 9 p.m. The Dead Pool (1988), an action thriller starring Clint Eastwood.

Not an issue

Does anyone care that Poison Phill and his BF kept quiet about their personal life when ITV got nosy?
    No, no bugger cares.

Career option

GB Views seems to be doing a good job of setting up a new career for that Scofield bloke as The Man You Love To Hate To Love To Hate.

Got one anyway

Terminal Velocity (1994) has a KG used to B agent (she was let go) worried about stolen gold being used for a coup in Russia.
    Not quite the way they thought it would happen, but Putin the Poisoner pulled one off.
    And are we grateful? Sure, we are!

A fair question

GB Views is excited to be the people’s channel, but what’s the alternative? How many alternatives to people watch TV? Horses? Cats and dogs? Spiders?

Enough, Dan

Don’t you just wish Dan Woottonn on GB Views would stop encouraging the Burrell bloke’s Princess Di obsession?
    And who cares if Burrell is worried about Prince Hairy? He’s long overdue to retire.

Yeccch!

Recipe of the Day: Braised Sesame Tofu that will be even worse than spinach golems.
    Some grilled smoked bacon and plum tomato in a virtuous wholemeal bun, anyone?

Get a job!

Is there anything sadder than being reduced to studying bonking diaries for a living and claiming you’ve spotted the best time to have a shag?

What Butter Ollocks!

Do photos of the late Rolf Harris grinning for the camera earlier in the year show he was devoid of shame at the end, as the caption invited us to accept?
    No, that’s was just him enjoying himself and the journalist is a dumbass confecter.

Pass!

Today’s classic recipe: Cheat’s Spinach Golems.
    What else is there?

Thanks a hundred zillion times

Don’t you just wish BBC bods doing the news would rein back on the excessive gratitude offered by the bucketful to reporters and weatherpersons who are just doing the job they’re paid to do and nothing more?

It’s what they do

No police vehicle near the electric scooter crash in Cardiff. The rioting was confected by the usual suspects on social media. Just yobs runing riot with no justification and never feeling the need for it.

Can’t take ‘modern’

The reason why BBC radio stations are losing vast shares of the listening audiences is nothing to do with the wokeness of the programming.
    According to the BBC, they are offering ‘modern’ programming and the useless British people just can’t take it.

Issue Extended

Apparently, the reason why the young need to indulge heavily in comfort eating is that Cultural Marxism dished out by the education Mafia leaves them thinking that everything about life in Britain and our values are no bloody good.
    There’s nothing positive on offer, and that’s why the snowflakes cram their faces. As good an explanation as any.

Generational Issue

I was amused to read that a study has found that older people are prepared to admit that being fat is all their fault but the young need something else to blame it on.
    Such as how easy it is to phone for some fattening food.

The Blob at it again

Looks like there’s plenty of agreement that the Get Boris campaign is in the hands of lunatics who belong in the black refuse bin.
    Same story for the Get Braverman campaign.
    What we really need is a Get the Blob strike force!

Zapped

Some character claiming to be from MicroSoft called me yesterday from 004721 951 609 about my computer. He started to give me some double-talk about something it was doing, so I asked which version of MicroSoft are you talking about?
    “Your current version, sir,” he said.
    “But I have several computers running different versions,” I told him, which happens to be true.
    Phone down at his end, no sale.

Great perk

If you’ve been the French president, no matter how currupt you’ve been, or how blatant you were about it, there is absolutely no danger that you will end up where you belong; in gaol for a long time.

There’s a word for it

More than one, in fact. People are no longer fat if they eat too much. They have, wait for it: Chronic Appetite Dysregulation.
    Like giving it a fancy name is going to make any difference.

The swindle continues

The weatherpersons have been threatening us with a killer heat wave for weeks and weeks. But not this week, they have announced.
    Are there enough tenterhooks available to go round?

Tick in the box

Successfully avoided watching Poisonous Pill Scofe’s TV show. Not even once.
    And only the looney left bloke defending him on GB Views last night – just to be awkward, of course.

Idle Propaganda

There has been a lot of moaning about nothing growing this spring. Don’t believe it. The Mansion gardens are rioting, there are about twice as many peonies on the way to flowering as last year and the wild area is crammed with pink, yellow and blue flowers.

Another Mystery

I saw a poster for a Secret Street Party on my travels, and then the flow of traffic moved on and I was left wondering what was being kept secret.
    Was it the name of the street where the party will be held?
    Or the date and time as well as the place?

Movie Miracle

There’s this head bad guy doing battle with R.V. Damme and his military general’s hat stays on his head through all the bashing.
    Nailed on?

Best alternative

The latest Indianabanana Jones film sounds like one to record off the TV so that you can fast forward through the boring bits as well as the ads.
    Fast-forwarding also snips off the sound, which sounds necessary due to incessant repeats of the series theme music.

What type of interest?

What is the real motive for all these characters who are demanding a pause in developing artificial intelligence; that’s here in the West only because they have no say where our enemies in the East are concerned.
    It would be nice to think they’re humanitarians with concerns about the survival of the human race at heart. But I can’t get away from a suspicion that it’s about setting themselves up in lucrative jobs as arbiters of what should and should not be done.

Well, did he?

Did the PM return from Hiroshima glowing in the dark?

Predictable

Why was I not surprised to read that the FBI’s attempt to ‘prove’ that there was a conspiracy between the Elect Trump team and Russia in 2016 was a shambles?
    Because it’s the usual outcome. And, no doubt, the 4-year investigation of the shambles turned out to be nice little earner for the bloke who got the job.

We can relax

Not much danger of Boris Johnson staging a come-back in the job of prime minister. Not with an enormous and growing family to cater for.
    He’s going to have to keep on pursuing the Big Bucks.

Not helping

Claiming having an electric heat pump could cut a home’s gas bill to £10 per year is all very well. But electricity isn’t exactly affordable to the non-rich and a heat pump needs a radiator as big as a sideboard in every room to be of any use.
    Not much use to anyone who likes to move about a bit!

Not needed

Do we really need a word for the incorrect use or excessive use of the letter ‘M’? Whoever came up with one back in 1913 should have been dropped down a deep, dark hole and left to fester.

Estupido

Is it fair to compare what King Charles did after his coronation with the dashing about his mother did after hers? For one thing, she was just a young lass, not an oldie who’s 74 years old.

Stirring up troubl

Has the late Queen Elizabeth’s dresser been banished from Windsor because she’s working class from Liverpool?
    No, she’s 65, she’s called Angela AK-47 because she’s stroppy and it’s time she retired.
    Do we really need journos Royal-bashing on her behalf?
    Nope.

Even less point

Why would Creaky Joe apologize to Japan for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima when he was at a junket there? Are we expected to believe a 3-year-old Joe gave the go-ahead for something wartime Japan had coming anyway?

Pointless make-work

What exactly was the point of bean-counting the cost of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral? The number produced is always going to be a crude guess and useless.

Nobility in action

I don’t go to my local pharmacist for prescription stuff that costs them more than the NHS pays.
    Ain’t I wonderful!

The most useless?

What’s the most useless gadget wished on us? How about a cartoon Albert Einstein sponsored kitchen display that’s supposed to tell you how much gas and electricity you’re using but which drinks overpriced electricity and shows zero numbers? Not even the date and time.

Droning drones

Surprise! Prince Hairy & Beer Smarmer have something in common. When someone mentions their name, I switch my ears off.

Non Sequitur

Should we be amazed if an actor who played Sherlock Holmes to get paid dresses up in a monster costume to get paid again?
    Or should we just point out to the journalistic nit writing the garbage that there is no connection between the jobs?

Do him joint-first

You have to wonder what’s going on in the world if so much TV time is devoted to Prince Hairy’s air-head claim of a two-hour car chase in New York. Especially the two main broadcasters here treating it as fact without bothering to notice that it just couldn’t happen.

Do him first

A good place to start would be the boss of the civil service who wants people to stop calling his shirk at homers idle and useless, even if they’re not doing anything much.

Would work!

We’re having a magnificent cash crisis thanks to all the cash the Blob blew during the main thrust of the Chinese plague. But there is a way to balance the books.
    All we have to do is make it legal to sack without compensation, all the characters who come up with daft ideas like cancelling the word convict, claim that people who paid the people smugglers to get them here are genuine refugees and all the other stuff.
    Getting rid ot them would safe the country a fortune.

Why not?

Of course, Dan Woottonn of GB Views does have the option of not giving Horrible Hairy and his spouse the oxygen of publicity. Shame he can never resist the temptation to join in.

One to catch

Hulk (2003) is a pretty good stab at the story but it could stand a bit of pruning with a TV time of getting on for 3 hours and it does drag in places.
    Recording and zooming through the ads gets it down to just over 2 hours. Shame about San Francisco, but it made a change from New York being demolished.

Rule No. 2

The guy who’s wearing a baseball hat and it’s on backwards – shoot him first. After you’ve shot the wimmin with guns, of course, in accordance with Rule No. 1.

Gone Guys

Some firms are telling their skive at homers that if their job can be done without their presence in the office, then it is liable to be outsourced to someone who’ll do it cheaper.
    Maybe that’s what should be happening to all the skivers in the civil service, who are failing to get anything done.

Unfit for office

You have to wonder about the character of a bloke who wants to be prime minister and who is prepared to wallow in the gutter with a campaign based on sleaze and smears.
    I suppose being a lawyer helps; they are notorious for being able to ignore inconvenient reality for a fee.

Strange Day

Wasn’t it weird yesterday, a May Monday that wasn’t a Bank Holiday!!

Priorities

There was a big plug for Liverpool’s Eurovision event on TV yesterday – the best ever, we’re told – but not a mention of who won it or where the UK ended up.
    Which confirms that it was all about shoving cash into the city’s pockets and nowt to do with the mugs who performed.

Really?

Why aren’t we getting warm spring weather? It’s all due to global warming. Maybe they need another name for it that doesn’t include warming.

I don’t buy it

Crossword clue: Fast monologue music (3). But rap is crap and not music at all.
    Cheat!!!

Lotsss of it

Steven Seagull was doing well last night. Under Siege (1992) was on Film4 @ 9 p.m. and the sequel, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) was on ITV4 @ 10 p.m.
    And A Dangerous Man (2009) was on GREAT! Action, also at 9 p.m.

Life is full of mysteries

How can the Daleks invade Earth after Peter Cushion as Doc Troo wiped them out in his previous encounter? It could be this time & space thing if the Doctor was a lot less dotty this time around but the Daleks looked exactly the same and they were getting their retaliation in early.

They’re all over

Well, some of them, such as Sharon of The Champions in “The Crime of the Century”, a series 3 episode of The Saint. But I’m not expecting to see Simon Templar in tonight’s helping of the Champions.

Death trap track

On to MotoGP. Bagnaia was on pole but some bloke called Marc zoomed into the lead. Is he back? Miller was second until lap 2/27. Suddenly, with 22 laps to go, 4 riders were gone. Viñales was being racy and took out Bagnaia. The other collision was a horrible accident.
    Bezzecchi took a turn in the lead. Alex Marquez was taken out by another crash. It was Marc Marquez vs Martin for second place. Marquez crashed out with a lap and a half to go. Groan! Zarco, of France, was 3rd.

Redness

Pole sitter Sam Lowes crashed out @ turn 2 on lap 2/22 in the Moto2 race. A major crash moments later at turn 5 had the commentators demanding a red flag, which they got.
    20 minutes later, SLow was down at 13th on a rebuilt bike, 14 laps only. Arbolino was leading fellow championship leader Acosta until Acosta crashed with 10 minutes to go! Lots of replays.
    Sam Lowes finished 15th and got a point. His team mate, Arbolino, had a comfortable win.

We knew

Beer Starmer admitting he’s going to go dirty and nasty during the next election campaign isn’t a surprise. Not if he’s prepared to admit that it’s in Labour’s DNA.

Over the way

MotoGP in France, 20 laps of Moto3 in Le Mans. There was a brief battle for the lead on lap 1, then things settled down. A crash from 11th place on lap 3 wasn’t worth a replay.
    Eight riders formed a lead group. A crash on lap 10 was worth a replay. The 7th place man went out with 9 to go, cue a flurry at the front. Holgado was leading into the last lap, his usual position in the race, and held off a challenge from Sasaki for the win.

Give it a rest

It’s a shame that Mark Dolan of GB Views doesn’t have anything more relevant to obsess about than Hapless Hairy and his ’orrible missus.

One way street

How equal and diverse is it for an actress of African extraction to moan that King Charles and Queen Camilla are terribly white? Imagine the fuss they’d have kicked up if they’d turned themselves into Black & White Minstrels characters in the interests of diversity.

Empty Barrels

Does the Archbish of Canterbury ever listen to himself? How about a few solutions to the boat migrant flood rather than moans about a government trying to do something about it? Same with the other bishop who was sounding off in the Lords.

Logic Binned

Bang! The sniper shoots from across the street at a bloke in a shop. What does our hero do? Rush out into the street to try to spot where the shot came from, making himself an easy target.
    That makes how much sense?

Anon, Anon

A 2-page spread in the paper about someone I’ve never heard of giving up botox was an instant page turner.
    Why no italic paragraph at the end telling the reader who she is? Couldn’t be arsed internetting her, myself.

Never, never to now, now

The U-turny Labour leader ruled out any sort of coalition after the next general election, especially not with the SNP. He’s now gone soft on the Liberals. Will he go softer on the SNP? If it gets him into Downing Street, sure he will.
    As Groucho Marx told us, if you don’t like these principles, I have lots more.

Justice seen to be done

Imagine the grief a film like Max Overdrive would give the Just Stoppers with all them diesel-powered trucks swanning around endlessly.
    Maybe they should be made to watch the film five times a day for a week in addition to their £1,000 fine for causing a public nuisance.

Death ‘n’ Daftness

If you want a really daft sciffy film with lots of gratuitous death and bloodshed, look no further than Maximum Overdrive (1986), which was on Legend last nite.
    It would have the self-censors fainting all over the place if someone offered a script like that now. Even if it was by Stephen King.

Predictable

The Kellerman book: On p. 236 I just knew the kid who’d had his hands & head blown off with a shotgun was still alive because the body that was cremated wasn’t his. And his missing landlady, who vanished 4 days after his ‘death’, just had to be with him.
    Surprise! Ike is still alive on p. 478 and Sophie, the old lady, is ga-ga on p. 479. Getting there took bloody long enough!
    Afterthought: there’s something about the eyes and the smile of the author’s cover picture that makes him look like an ideal psycho killer for an episode of Murder, She Wrote.

Back at it

Those Indian blokes who pretend to be from MicroSoft are back at it. What they need is an AI voice converter that can do an accent that isn’t such a dead giveaway.

Snappy response

“More is More” say Ben & Jerry in their TV ads.
“Over is Priced” say the people who buy something else.

Nice try

Clue: Crossword compiler (6)
Answer: Bastard? No, too long.

Not a good fate

Oh, Dear! The book featuring the shrink Alex Delaware, Time Bomb, degenerates into a lengthy neo-nazi fantasy with a survivalist overlay. Definitely one for the recycling bin.

No surprise

I’ve just read that Scouse fans did boo the national anthem at their home match with Brentford on Coronation Day. No wonder Scousers don’t have much of a reputation for being civilized.
    They do have this habit of pushing their human right to behave like scum to the limit and beyond.

Another one

Is it news that then PM Boris Johnson told the then Prince Charles to keep his nose out of politics a year ago?

Questions

1. Does Hapless Hairy have a plan B after turning himself into a royal was-been?
2. Does anyone care other than the people who make money out of writing about him?

A good bit of fun

Starsky & Hutch (2004) is as big a mickey munch of the TV series as the Doc Troo film with Peter Cushion. And why not?
    We need films that aren’t the same old, same old.
    Was that really supposed to be Huggy Bear with the bad haircut?
    I knew I’d seen it before but I remembered the ending and that was about all.

Historical repeat?

I was amused to read that the Tories with William ‘14 pints’ Hague in charge wiped out the Labour party in local elections in 2001 but got hammered by Tony B. Liar in the next general election.
    Next year’s scenario?

Revolution!

Meat is good for you, the experts are now telling us. Vegan sausages are unsaleable. Coronation chicken was preferred over the veggie quiche.
    A brief outbreak of good sense? Can’t be expected to last, of course!

Woke will out

Wouldn’t you just know it? The Metropolitan Police farce has gone all soggy for busting half a dozen of the coronation haters and spoiling their day by stopping them from spoiling things for everyone else.
    What a buncha beefers! But fairly inevitable.

Suspicion

I see the price of petrol and diesel fuels has dropped a few pence recently. Is that the oil companies giving us a better deal? Or just giving us a tiny slice of the excess profits to make us think they’re good guys?

More ain’t better

How does the American author Jonathan Kellerman create a 500-page novel about his psychologist character Dr. Alex Delaware? Relentless padding with lists longer than you can shake a stick at.
    Okay, there’s setting the scene, that’s fair enough. But I get the feeling that no blishon is being left unscradged, to borrow an expression from one of my favourite authors.
    Whilst wading through the lists, I get the feeling that the book’s essential content could be reduced to what used to be library-size, i.e. 200 pages.

Waxwork response

Was the coronation overshadowed by a furious row about China sending a thug instead of its president? Another non-story. No bugger cared.
    Prince Charles, as he was in 1997, was spot on with his description of China’s bosses as appalling old waxworks.

They should have got the cash?

Want to fill up a bit of space in your paper? Get a bunch of union leaders and opposition politicians to do a whinge about the cost of the coronation.

Fun film

Doc True & the D’aleks (1965) – you can rely on the Legend channel to dish up some really vintage pre-bank holiday sci-fi!
    The Peter Cushion’s version of Doc True reads The Eagle, so he must be okay. Even if he and the rest of the adult human characters were really daft. The little girl was the only sensible one.
    And what about that ending? Wiping the Daleks out totally? How did they manage to come back from that?

Move on, Mark

Gulp! Mark Dolan smarming up to the appalling Burrell again when I switched GB Views on early for the Headliners programme. Enough, already!

Dodgy Fame

What should fat comedian Jack Whitehall be more worried about – being fat or people not having a clue who he is and not being able to recognize him if they tripped over him in the street?

Real Justice!

It’s great when you’re a Texas Arranger like Walker. You can arrange for the bad guy to take a dive off the roof of a 10-storey building and save the cost of a trial and gaol.

Clichés Abound

Who the hell was sad enough to get up at 6 a.m. to watch the whole TV coverage of the coronation? And what was all that stuff about a day of destiny. Charles became king when his mother died. The ceremony was just dotting i’s and crossing t’s on an accomplished transition.

Time, Please!

Don’t you just wish someone would tell the Burrell bloke to boo bloody hoo get over it? The weepy dog & pony show about Diana is getting very ragged at the edges.

Next Question

What is a 59-year-old nutter doing with access to shotgun cartridges? Gross failure on the part of the nanny state.

Anyone else noticed?

There’s a rumour going around that someone is getting coronated today. I wonder who it could be?

Obvious con?

Is the Advertising Standards bunch asleep? Must be if we’re getting ‘Give us ten quid a month and we’ll save the planet for you’ adverts.

Where the cash goes

Some GPs are reported to be treating 60 customers per day. The NHS drinks bill where they live must be ginormous!

On and On

Prince Hairy’s loada garbage book got a hell of a lot of plugging from Desperate Dan. Was he on commission?

Surfing the edge of reality

Live from Buck House, Dan Wootton? Well, in a street somewhere near the place. Not actually in the palace or its grounds but near enough for a meeja fable? Apparently so.

The rest of us have moved on

The appalling Burrell was really pushing his meal ticket on GB Views last night. Is the coronation all about Princess Di?
    Princess who? is the correct answer.

Wot costa living crisis?

A coronation 50p coin for £4.99? What a wonderful bargain! And post-free, too!

Waaah, Waaah

Liverpool FC are scared to play the national anthem before their match on Saturday because their stroppy Scouse fans will boo it.
    Miserable lot.

Endemic failure

Dozy crossword compilers still think treacle (black or very dark brown) is the same as golden syrup. Obviously, they never go shopping.

Selective conscience

More Smarmer stuff: racialist attacks on the PM (Asian) in political advertising are okay because the PM is a Tory and Smarmer is Labour and entitled.

No interest like self interest

The Labour party, I read, is getting cash from a Stop Oil donor who’s making a bomb out of heavily subsidized green energy.
    No surprise there.

Sparing with the truth

“The Army of the future still needs you” claims the TV ad. But only if you’re non-white and belong to a diversity category that needs topping up, they don’t tell you.

Mixed Messages

A bloke was bloke busted for throwing shotgun cartridges into the grounds of Buck House(!), said the news.
    Was it a nutter, who doesn’t know you have to put them in a gun? Or are the police keeping guns out of the hands of nutters, but not ammo, as suggested on GB Views last night? We need to be told.

Spend more bucks?

The Six Million Dollar Man was in Walker, Texas Ranger last night as a crooked sheriff. And unable to do much against the flying fists and boots of a Texas Ranger!

Don’t get ill

The Royal College of Nurses’ union seems to be making noises about keeping the strikes going for years. Which is a very cheerful thought for the rest of us.

No rest for wicked

My correspondents report several incidences of phone scammers operating during Bank Holiday Monday. No doubt assuming that a day off would be a good time to find people at home and not too vigilant about computer security; even when they got a call from a bloke with an Indian accent who was claiming to be from Microsoft.

Space filler

Queen’s dresser forced out of tied cottage at Windsor is a typical confected whinge. The lady is retiring to the Lake Districts and no, the King isn’t under an obligation to provide a home for everyone who used to work for his gang.

Apt name

A civil service which thinks bullying is telling idlers they’re useless and wafflers that they’re talking drivel is having to be renamed the snivel service.
    Of course, what’s needed is a substitute for ‘service’. You don’t get much of that from people who think they deserve to be paid for 5 days for a 4-day week to cope with the stresses of having to shirk at home instead of being able to have the time of their life at the office; which they’ve probably forgotten where to find.

No days off

It’s a bank holiday. What do you get? Some Indian bloke calling using a mobile, yakking on 19 to the dozen about my computer and claiming he’s from MicroSoft.

Showing the way

King Charles is getting static from usual suspects about inviting the likes of a Chinese enforcer, an IRA apologist and Hapless Hairy to his coronation. But maybe he did it to show them how civilized people behave.
    Even if the message is highly unlikely to get through, at least he made the effort.

New Normal

Are we in danger of going into Bank Holiday fatigue? Or will the gang skiving @ home not notice much difference?

Dodgy Dealing

Will Spain ever be able to afford some words for its national anthem? Two gone at the back of the bunch at turn 2 on lap 1/25 of MotoGP. Red Flag. Warm-up then 24 laps after the restart.
    There was a routine crash on the first lap, and another a lap later. Miller, B. Binder and Bagnaia were at the front. Buckets of crap decisions from the stewards. Sack the bastards!!
    Zarko & Bezzecchi were gone with 8 laps to go. Bagnaia the champion took the lead from Binder on lap 21; and stayed out front. Miller was 3rd. Ducati’s day.

Won at last!

SLow was fast enough to be on pole for 21 laps of Moto2 @ Jerez. He was mugged at the start but leading into lap 2. There was a big crash @ turn 10 on this lap.
    Agura crashed out with 9 to go after tagging Arbolino’s rear tyre. Sam Lowes built up a good lead over Acosta, and had an easy win; his first for 18 months.

Not much foundation

What exactly does ‘based on’ the novels of P.D. (Police Department?) James mean? The main police character is a bit of a miserable git called Dalgliesh and that’s about all?
    I started watching the latest 2-parter but gave up when I decided it was too dull.