Great idea

Tens of thousands of people debanked indicates that a fine of £1 million per person excluded imposed on the banking organization responsible is necessary to make the shareholders start asking awkward questions.

Fantasy Island

The Sunday Post was also demanding that politicians stop promising things they know they can’t deliver, such as the SNP’s pledge to cut class sizes in schools to 18 or less. (broken) Like that’s going to happen with the likes of Bier Smarmer & Humbug Useless in charge of political parties.

Things to come; or not!

When Donald Trump is re-elected, will he issue Presidential pardons to the Bidens, Creaky Joe & Hunter, for all their financial antics? Or will he consider it a cheap political gesture that’s beneath him?

Panic!

A new scare story in yesterday’s Sunday Post – making flat screens for phones, TVs, etc. is pumping nitrogen trifluoride into the atmosphere and it’s 10,000 times more greenhousy than rotten old carbon dioxide!!!!
    But get to the small print and you find that the amount in the air around us is totally insignificant. Worse, the UK isn’t producing this new threat, it’s all being made abroad. Which means that nothing we do here will affect the climate. As with most of the green bollocks imposed on us by our brain-dead politicians.

Essential Goods

Where would Mark@GBViews be without Prince Hairy’s mental ’elf to agonize about?

Accurate template

I’m getting to the end of Rat Race by J. Franklin Carter, an el cheapo, rather tatty Galaxy SF edition dating back to 1947. The book is set in 1945 but the central character’s treatment from the FBI, the Secret Service and other authority figures is just the same as reported right now.
    They are entitled, invasive, grasping and obstructive. Which gives you an insight into the influences that gave us the Kennedys, the Clintons and the current Bidens.

Really scared

Donald Trump reckons that if he wasn’t making another tilt at the White House, none of the gangs of official dogsbodies would be after him.
    Which tells us just how terrified the Democraps are of losing their place on the gravy train – and how sure that they will lose it.

No progress

The Worst Thing In The World Award still goes to all them flaps that always get stuck in the zip mechanism.

Short-changed

You read these cute recipes in the paper and you end up asking “What the hell is a semifreddo and if you’re a real man, can you insist on getting a whole one?”
    That would be a fullfreddo, I guess.

Reward for perversity

What the government really needs to do is impose a stonking fine on Coutts and NatWest for business malpractice and let it be known that there will be lots more of the same if the people like the 5 million quid Rose continue their antics.
    5 million quid; that’s her rumoured reward for failure to do her job decently and legally.

Another message

The weather forecasters might cover their maps with red; apart from where we are, which is blue & wet, but the message is getting through that global warming isn’t increasing the number of wildfires in places like the Mediterranean region.
    That’s down most of the time to crazy humans with boxes of matches.

Long Slog

The message is starting to get through at last. The sausages no longer sizzle around the GBViews weather forecast. Some of the time . .

An outbreak of good sense!

In the wake of a bloke got up to look like a not at all attractive woman winning the Miss Netherlands contest, the organizers of the Miss Italy contest, I was amused to read, have declared that only female women can enter.
    One in the eye for the current cult of perversity.

Who’s that?

They’re all over the place; familiar female faces in really old TV shows. Lt. Ellis of UFO was in The Champions as a badgal on Monday and Jeanie of Randall, Hopkirk & Deceased was in an episode of The Prisoner last night.

Tell a lie, why not?

Typical of the left-wing liars to claim that King Charles is getting a 45% pay rise at a time when there’s a costaliving crisis.
    Actually, it’s a 52% pay cut as the Crown Estate is making lotsadosh. But when did the lefties ever tell the truth?

Non-cat

No doubt the Berlin police enjoyed chasing around for a couple of days, looking for a non-existent lioness. I was amused to read that the local criminals were having a thin time of things in that suburb until the daftness was quashed.

No sale

Are the people who claim I need 5 different sun creams this summer trying to make me feel guilty for buying none, as usual?
    If so, it’s not working. Especially with rain falling and a disgruntled cat sitting watching it.

Good riddance

It’s rather amazing that the right thing ends up being done occasionally in these evil times. Like that Rose woman getting the push from the top job at the NatWest bank for feeding lies about Nigel Farage to some BBC dupe.
    Did it take a charge of dynamite to evict her from a five million quid per year job? Or is there something on offer to sweeten the departure?
    That’s what us cynics always assume happens when some cancel clown gets the bullet.

Easily 2

How do you know the Chancellor is in trouble? When he tries to buy sympathy with his cancer story.

Easily 1

How do you know your newspaper is doing the right thing? When the Bar Council attacks it for exposing how corrupt solicitors are charging thousands of pounds for confecting bogus asylum claims.

Gone and not remembered

It rather takes the gloss off the occasion if while watching BBC bods doing a tribute to one of their own after his early demise you realize you’ve never watched his TV shows, you don’t consider him a voice of authority and a person of great significance, and you wouldn’t have known who he was if you’d ever been in a lift together.

Justice delayed

The legal system in the US can’t prosecute Donald Trump for keeping presidential papers until May of next year? What are the buggers doing with themselves? Having an extended summer holiday through the Christmas period and on to Easter?

Good question

Why are Labour MPs joining doctors on picket lines? Does their party hope that if they get their 35% pay rise, they’ll be able to afford much bigger political contributions to Labour?

Oh, dear!

Most of the wildfires in the Mediterranean are aren’t due to global warming. They are being set by idiots who think it’s fun to be a pyromaniac.

More tripe

The Andrex excuse for reducing the sheet size of its toilet rolls to make them five feet shorter is that it was done ‘as part of an ongoing investment in softness and quality’.
    Which is garbage.
    It’s shrinkflation done to screw more cash out of the mug punter customers for less product. Period.

A day to remember

23 years ago today, the bozos in charge of Charles de Gaulle airport failed to sweep the runway before one of their Concordes took off, causing fatal damage and a crash.

It’s everywhere

It might be ethnic for Injuns in Texas Ranger country to dance around going “Hey-yaa-yaa-yah, Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!” but it still looks daft to people on this side of the Atlantic.
    Just about as daft as the antics of the Just Stoppers. Same mentality in young, and not so young, stroppy Injuns.

Worth sharing

 

 Princess Kate discovers the challenges of doing the disabled round @ Wimbledon

I found this picture on the BlackFlag News website in Week 4 of July 2023, even though this month’s masthead is for BreMoan News, presumably just for a bit of a change.

Bright Spark!

There was some actual good sense from Mark@GBViews on climate change last night. He pointed out that nothing we do will make a difference while China, India, South America and the rest burn fossil fuels for fun.
    Nothing sensible from the ladies on his expert panel, who had been demanding lots of pain for us, even if it’s to no purpose.

An amazingly busy life

The secret of success for a newspaper columnist seems to be an ability to make everything in the news about themself.
    They had the disease/complaint. That same thing happened to them – and they overcame it magnificently.
    And they have to have seen everything on every TV channel and subscription service available, of course. And every film so that they can pontificate about it.

Rights & Wrongs

If people want to pretend to be a pussy cat or a moon of Jupiter, it doesn’t make them a feline or a planetoid. And they have no automatic licence to abuse the human rights of others by insisting that they have to take the fantasy seriously and may not mock mercilessly.

Great Mystery

AEW seems to have an FTW champion. We all know what ‘F’ stands for. ‘The World’ for the rest?
    If so, how do they get away with it?

Is that all?

A 1-0 win over Haiti via two goes at a penalty is not exactly encouraging as the England team’s start in the Women’s World Cup in Oz.

Not much of a win

How did the Liberals win that seat in the Somerset election? The Tory voters stayed at home and the turnout was around half what you’d expect for a general election.

Wrong sort of foreign

How strange that the bloke who phoned me out of the blue yesterday from an 01873 phone number (Abergavenny in Gwent) had a distinctly foreign accent but it wasn’t Welsh.
    I managed to fob him off before he could get into his sales pitch, thanks to a fair amount of practice.

No escape

Gulp! There were A.I. ancestors around back in the 1960s series The Prisoner. They’re unstoppable! No. 6 had no trouble rattling the cage of the one in The Village but, of course, he’s no longer around.

Sonic puzzle

It sounded like the continuity announcer said “expletive stories”! I wonder what she said really.

Just fanciful

“Your state pension may soar to £14,000" said the cheery headline. Unless you’re on the pre-2016 Osborne rip-off old pension, of course. And not if the Bank of England and the Treasury get their forecasts for 2030 as wrong as usual.
    And it’s not that impressive if greedflation makes the 2030 pound worth half what it is today.

Rock Steady

Am I getting excited about the much hyped film version of the saga of an American plastic doll?
    Not noticeably.

Some poverty!

The consultants of the NHS are pleading poverty because they can’t manage on a salary (average) of £188K including pension. Plus all the cash that rolls in from doing private work on people who won’t live long enough to get treatment from the NHS.
    Somehow, it’s ever so slightly difficult to feel sorry for them. Especially the one who lives in a million-pound country cottage and works for at least 7 private health companies.

No Good No More

A PEP used to be a Personal Equity Plan about pensions and savings and was a Good Thing. But now, the initials have been perverted by the evil left to represent a Politically Opposed Person.
    What’s that? Someone who doesn’t agree with the frankly ridiculous and/or grossly unfair political opinions of the evil left and therefore someone ripe for cancellation.
    With some help from the evil lefties of the BBC of course.

Well Overblown

Are/were yesterday’s by-elections crucial? They’ll all be forgotten by next week when some new crisis comes along and they will be totally irrelevant bits of history come the next general election.

No, it still ain’t!

“The temperature is rising”, that sizzling sausage ad before the GBViews weather keeps telling us.
    “No, it isn’t!” the audience keeps yelling.
    Not with that cold wind that keeps shaking the trees in full leaf in the gardens. Europe might be on fire and roasting but we sure ain’t.

In disguise?

With no MotoGP going on this month, I haven’t been looking at the BT Sport listings. I happened to yesterday and noticed they’ve become TNT Sports.
    Different name, exactly the same stuff on offer. Are we supposed to think it’s more dynamic?
    Sounds like a typical TV wrestling channel to me. I seem to remember there used to be one called TNA.

Woke Wasteland

Mollycoddled, woke schools now have a woke no-win sports day! When they do what? Kids & parents stroll around aimlessly for a while, no prizes are awarded, and everyone goes home feeling virtuous?

A big step back

That’s an interesting idea for the future: horses instead of electric cars. Lots of jobbies in the streets for the Just Stoppers to have to negotiate.

Nominate

How do they pick the names for drugs on trial? I noticed that the miracle one for Alzheimers can be read as donerkebab to a casual glance. Not something calculated to inspire the customers! But they’ll probably call it something else when it goes on the market.

Not Bovvered

When you look at the list of US film projects delayed by the strikes, the only possible reaction is: Keep it going!!
    Some yawnworthy woke clunkers not being made is no loss at all.

Another Sorted

How do chef ladies who give out recipes for deep-fried stuff line Bounty bars and strawberry jam sandwiches stay slim? asked the same pundit.
    Not actually eating any of the stuff described would work.

Today’s Tip

It does help to strike the correct end of the match.

Sorted

What about the poor wife and kids of Who Edwards? the newspaper pundit asked. No problem. They now have an enormous ‘poor little stinker’ card of their own to play thanks to Who’s antics.

Still there

The dreaded phone scammers don’t seem to be taking a summer break. One of my neighbours had a call from a young lady about a BT internet line the other day. Which warned him to be unhelpful as he doesn’t use BT for his phone service.

Unknown Stranger

The Sunday Post did a feature on reporting of the lives of celebs and used pix of Schofield, Who Edwards and a woman about half their age, whose crime remained a mystery at first glance, but there had to be one from the company she was in.
    Her name turned out to be Caroline Flack, which meant nothing to me. So much for the press trashing her reputation.

Hope for the future

1967. That’s when The Prisoner was first on TV. And it’s so far off the edge that it’s ageless. Full marks to whoever preserved the quality of the original pictures. Maybe there’s some hope for the human race with this sort of talent around.

Not a bad idea

Why did the Immigration Minister, R. Jenrick, order Mickey Mouse murals at a centre for asylum seekers to be painted over? Because they were thought to be too welcoming
    Which makes a lot of sense seeing that the majority are boguses, especially the 25-year-olds who claim to be 14.

Clunk!

The alibis are going into place. The BBC was investigating Who Edwards before the scandal broke, we’re now being told. But no one knew about it and that’s why no one could say anthing about the on-going probe. Believe that, or what!

Well, lucky us!

The Mediterranean is sweltering, we’re told. But what do we get? A good old window-rattling thunderstorm!

Me, Me, Me

Finding a new figurehead will be a bit of a job for the Beeb with the hopefuls squabbling like rats in a sack and devoid of dignity & gravitas. But you can be sure that whoever it is won’t be white and could well identify as some weird manufactured gender rather than male or female.

Just incredible

The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [Legend, 9 p.m. last night]
    I’ll believe it when I see it. Oh, no; you can’t see it.

Pitsville

York sounds a dreadful place to live. The council is wasting CTaxpayers’ money on manufactured claims that the city is hopelessly racialist.
    Worse, the local Archbishop is going all woke and proclaiming that Jesus got it wrong with his ‘Our Father’, which is too male-specific for the archbishop’s delicate tastes.
    No doubt through sheer ignorance and a shocking failure to anticipate the wokeness of the idiots to follow in 2 millennia.

When do we get our turn?

It’s 45 deg.C, or maybe even 49 deg.C, around the Mediterranean, according to the shock-horror headlines. Here, it’s wet and chilly. Probably all the fault of the E bloody U.

Net Zero courtesy

It’s rather dehumanizing to call Mrs. Who ‘Flind’, even if it’s her professional name. Not even a ‘Ms’. So much for the Age of Politeness. Just as well she has a job with ITV if Who is a busted flush and the BBC is going to have to find another venerated front person.

Dead End

Electric vehicles are looking dead in the water if rushed into service, as the idiot government wants. They don’t have much of a range, there’s HUGE a lack of charging points outside the London bubble, their insurance premiums will be seriously unaffordable for poor people. And zero second-hand value.

Net Zero Impact

Who Edwards is the voice of the nation? The only possible response to that is “Not my nation!”
    A nation in shock because of what he’s been up to? “Not this nation.” Just the meeja bubble in shock; or pretending to be.

Loada dosh

It’s quite amazing to read how many hundreds of millions of pounds have been swindled out of motorists via ULEZ scams; the ones which the Labour leader manages to both support and comdemn, depending on who he’s with.
    I shall definitely be on the streets rioting if the local council for my area tries to pull that stunt here.

Logically, No

Will Who Edwards be back on my screen? as the speculators are asking. No, he’s never been on my TV so being back is totally impossible.

Nice surprise

I switched on for an episode of UFO on Legend last night and found The Prisoner on the menu instead. Okay, darryl do. Bin a while since I last watched the series.

Switcheroo

It was quite amusing  the other night, to watch members of the expert panel on GBViews ending up supporting both sides of the move to decriminalize drug use because they’ve switched sides back and forward in the past.
    Which only goes to show that someone who can look presentable and talk fluently on TV doesn’t necessarily have all the facts and worthwhile, thought-out opinions.

One way forward

Are we going to blame all the Who Edwards witch hunting on Harridan Harperson, the embodiment of lack of shame, and then draw a line in the sand?

Major difference of opinion

“Temperatures rising . . .” said the voice-over for the sizzling sausage advert that’s currently sponsoring the weather forecast on GBViews.
    “Temperatures will be at or below average for this month,” said the actual forecaster last night, wrenching the wheels off the disinformation in the repeat of the advert after his spot.

Surprise!

The BBC’s latest scandal source has been exposed, he’s played the mental health card and disappeared off to a clinic and, amazingly, the sky hasn’t fallen in on us.
    It’s a bit wet outdoors after some overnight rain, which made keeping the Mansion cat in a wise decision, but life seems to be going on according to what passes for normal.

Intolerable

Kudzu? What the F.H. is that? There should be a rule against words like that being used in crosswords and other puzzles.
    Lagomorph? Akita? There should be an automatic death sentence for using stuff like this.

Browned Off?

No doubt the junior doctors are bent out of shape at losing the front pages despite starting their world record strike for a totally lunatic 35% pay rise.

Wibble Reduction

No danger of Mark@GBViews finding something else to do shock-horror about, I imagine.

Who Edwards?

As expected, the major scandal that was going to sink the BBC without a trace has fizzled out. Like millions and millions of TV viewers, I’ve never watched any of the shows he’s done, I wouldn’t know him if I stood next to him in a lift and his fate is of little interest to me.

Crossword Conundrum

Stretch of short grass (5). It’s not going to be ‘verge’ as councils don’t bother cutting them any more. They’re too busy wasting our money on virtue flagging & pointless diversity.
    The answer was ‘sward’.

Growth industry

How many more crackheads will leap out of the BBC’s woodwork? All guesses on a PC to the usual address.

Don’t be Straight?

“The Pride has arrived” is a rather unfortunate slogan for a FIFA women’s football event, given the way the word pride has been loaded with sexual deviance associations.

Today’s Dilemma

If you consider yourself to be peerless, how can you be tried by a jury of your peers?

Lack of focus

“It’s like the plane is on fire and the cockpit door is locked”, some BBC luvvie is quoted as saying. Which raises the question of how unlocking that door would put the fire out. Ditto a mob of passengers invading the cockpit.

Today’s Rant

The contemptible whinge of the weekend had to be about the crazy woman who chucked orange confetti @ Mr. & Mrs. Osborne. It destroyed their wedding day for all time. Really?
    It was only some confetti hurled at Osborne, who’s a twat, like the hurler. And so are the newshounds who pretended to be bent out of shape over bugger all.
    Shame there’s no real news around, like, say a small outbreak of World War III.

Just plain daft

Do we really have to accept that Prigozhin, the Vagner fantasist, nearly toppled Putin the Poisoner.
    Okay, bung me a million quid and I’ll buy it.

Crystal ball deployed

BBC in crisis? What a load of utter tosh. The BBC is going to vanish in a puff of blue smoke? Like that’s going to happen.
    All that will happen in the real world is the gang who make the Savile & Bashir scandals will get the job of telling everyone to move along, there’s noting to see.
    Maybe they can tell Mark@GBViews to calm down, dear!

Don’t hold your breath

“Patients are waiting 7 years for NHS treatment”, the headline almost said. Great news if you’re 80 and the average lifespan here in the UK is . . . 82.

Not that innocent

The crackhead ‘young person’ at the heart of the BBC’s latest sex scandal got paid, which makes him a pornographer. Let us not loose sight of that.

Purposelessness

Some members of irrelevant minorities feel a need to justify themselves & gain personal publicity by making ludicrous claims.
    Sadly there are a lot of people with nothing useful to do who have to latch on to a cause of some sort to acquire a licence to make trouble & victimhood by association status for them.

Just stop it

Why the bloody hell does a TV service provider have to keep messing about with the channel numbers, leaving us stranded when we try to do some regular viewing?
    There should be an automatic fine of £50 paid to every frustrated viewer every time it happens!

Misleading Question

“Why are we so in love with quiz shows?” is the proposition.
    Answer: We’re not. A lot of people never watch one from one year to the next.

Unknown celeb

What’s the betting that when the identity of the BBC’s latest sex maniac becomes public property, most normal people will look baffed and say, “Who?”

No more Missile

How do you wreck Mark Cavendish’s final Tour de France? Crash him out in stage 8.

Doom & Gloom

Shudda bin the Kazakhstan MotoGP event today, but it’s been cancelled and there’s nothing at all this month.
    None of the motorbike racing fans @ the Mansion appears to be interested in Bloody Wimbledon and they’re having to fall back on some Aussie football for entertainment.

No training needed

25% of people don’t know how to boil an egg? What’s the problem? You poke a hole in the shell with the spike on the measuring cup for the water, you put eggs and the right amount of water in the egg boiler and you leave it plugged in until the red light goes out.
    What could be simpler than that?

Bam in the direction of boozle

“Up to 100% discretion and protection”, the advert offers. Is that impressive? Not when you realize that ‘up to’ includes everything down to 0%.

No alternative on offer

It’s now fashionable to claim that the Tories will be toast after the next general election. But what are we likely to get instead?
    A Labour party run by that lying hypocrite Starmer is not going to be our salvation.
    As anyone who has bothered to read up on what Labour does in office will know.
    But that’s probably the problem. The electorate is mainly people who do what they’re told by the loudest voices on social media, no matter how little sense it makes.

Doing a grand job

Good for GBViews, giving publicity to the people who are trying to drag the country out of the gutter, into which it has been thrust by ignorant lefty wokists.
    They create division just for the sake of it and intrusion because they’re a bunch of exhibitionists.

More toughness needed

The Liberal-run South Cambridgeshire district council has been ordered by the government to stop swindling its CTax payers by giving council staff 5 days' wages for turning up on only 4 days just so a council boss can do a Ph.D. thesis about it the ‘benefits’ of more leisure and more pay.
    That’s obviously not benefits to those paying for it.

Ineffective Action

A bloke chains himself to the gates of Buckingham Palace and starts slashing himself with a knife.
    What do the police do?
    1. Shoot him with a tranquillizer dart so he can be hauled off to a looney bin?
    2. Twat about helplessly for ages?
    3. Shoot him with a lead bullet to put him out of his misery?

Moral low ground

It’s quite fun to watch the boss of the overpaid RMT train drivers’ union wriggling as he tries to justify sacking greedy staff for his union who are in the GMB boilermakers’ union.
    Behaving like a wicked capitalist boss is okay if you’re right on and a looney lefty. How strange that the GMB blokes don’t get that about fellow trade unionists.

Not a problem really

I’d rather have sugar in my tea than any artificial sweetener, said a ‘leading food health expert’.
    Hey, mate, what about having your tea with just milk in it and by-passing all the additive agony? [Unless you need something to fill up a newspaper column, of course.]

Way off track

Do we really think that Paul Burrell, Princess Di’s lapdog, is an expert on Hairy and his ’orrible missus? Mark Dolan of GBViews seems to think so. But like anyone else cares.

Spot the baby competition

 

Masochism Time?

If the Tory party is finished at the next election, what’s on offer that’s better? Certainly not a Smarmer-led Labour party.
    Are we going to end up with Prince Hairy in charge?

Strike Four?

And another thing; EVs come with a very large production pollution overhead compared to a liquid fuel car.
    Worse, they need to be driven for many tens of thousands of miles before they score any virtue points and they’re likely to be swapped for a newer model before they get close.

Strike Three

The Daily Wail’s science correspondent is put off buying an electric car as it costs twice as much as a petrol car of the same size.
    But owning an EV here is just virtue-flagging as our carbon dioxide emissions are insignificant on a global scale. Thus he must expect to pay a high price for the privilege of making a pointless gesture.
    And also causing increased road damage by using a heavier vehicle and generating more tyre debris pollution.

Not Panicking

Someone called Fiona who’s on the telly has Alzheimer’s. Never heard of her myself, which makes me unliable to join in the general shock of media luvvie. Especially if it looks like the very early stages and there are treatments.

Utter Tripe

“I Resuscitate Babies” a striker’s sign read.
    Not when you’re out in the bloody street in an electric scooter park on bloody strike, you don’t, mate!

Net Zero brains

Do we really need gary bloody linker pretending he can sort out the water industry? He must be really, really desperate for attention.

Cheating B*****d

Vindicates (7) Avenges? An obsolete usage? Swindle! Stick this crossword compiler in the stocks for a month.

Not the desired Net Zero

As far as integrity and applying the rules, the Labour party seems to be getting a free pass with Net Zero justification.
    No fine for Smarmer’s lock-in antics, boozing in areas where the police are in Labour’s pocket; apparently if not quite in fact.
    Then there’s the inside knowledge of that Gray woman being handed over overtly rather than covertly.

Accidental life saver

I’m going to live forever! After scanning the picture of the major brands that contain the sweetener aspartame, which the WHO is trying to position as a carcinogen, I realized that I never consume any of them.

Include me out

“Get to know shingles”, the TV ad orders us. My response is: “Thanks all the same, but I’d rather not.”

Thanks for that

One of my correspondents was looking through some boxes of family history the other day and reached an interesting conclusion.
    His mother was born at the end of World War One. He was born at the end of the Second World War.
    He now reckons that because he didn’t have any children, a World War Three was averted and we all owe him a really huge debt of gratitude.
    Which sounds quite logical, really.

Putin the Pee back where it belongs

Brilliant ideas in this week’s Sunday Post. Treat kids who want to pretend to be animals the way animals would be treated. A dish of water on the floor to lap instead of a bottle. No ‘animals’ in human eating areas. And if they need a wee, outside in the bushes.

Doh!

The Dairy Milk items in a box of Cadbury’s Roses carry a warning that they contain milk. No doubt for the benefit of those who were too dim to get the clue in the name of the chocky variety.

Net Zero Responsibility

Is being desperate ever an excuse for breaking the law? Not if you’re feeling desperate for a box of chocs, or a shot of your illegal substance of choice, and you feel entitled to steal some chocs to scoff or sell instead of paying for them.

Lost cause either way

Daily Mail pundit Stephen Glover is appalled that the PM and the Chancellor are unable to grasp the urgent need to spend more on our armed forces.
    I am appalled by his failure to grasp that there isn’t any money available and if there were, it would only be wasted by the idiots running the Army, RAF and Navy.

Heads up!

Message to the Tour de France organizers: don’t go anywhere near the big cities. The vermin are looting & arson about again. Stay in Spain and spray some signs on the road in French so you can pretend to be in the home of the rioters.
    That said, good luck to the record-setting Manx Missile in his last ever TdF.

Bloop!

ITV doesn’t seem to have scored many virtue points by letting what was obviously a bloke in a frock do a ‘poor me’ piece about the struggles of being a mother. Something he obviously isn’t.
    It’s easy to mock
        ITV’s bloke in a frock
            Who was hoping we’d be dumb
                    Enough to mistake him for a Mum.

Pragmatic approach

Two-thirds of Appeal Court judges are not up to the job. If that’s as good as we can get, we might as well close it down and spare the taxpayer all the dosh that goes to the wig-wearers.

Linkless

Is there any connection between the discovery of the wreck of Sir E. Shackleton’s shop Endurance 100 years to the day later and his burial date in 1922? Only to an idiot or someone desperate for something to put between the adverts would try to pretend there is.

Fame, yes, talent not needed!

What sort of people are running the likes of Spottyflicks & its competitors? Are they really unable to see that people like Prince Hairy & his missus are useless communicators?
    Or are they just cynics who think anything can be hyped to a profit?

Only slightly famous

Is it creditable to call a woman a top TV writer just because she created an ITV show that was seen by a minor fraction of the population?
    In my case, I never find anything interesting on ITV 1 (or BBC 1 & 2) or an evening and her name means nothing at all to me. Famous in the bubble, otherwise not.
    “Famous, but not as I know it, Jim.”

Another Yawn

Why does a pair of actor persons go into a 3-month sober pact will bells, whistles and publicity?
    To get noticed and written about seems about right.

Disconnect!

The president of France is keen to score points by sending the police after cannabis users and extracting huge spot fines from their victims. The cops, on the other hand, aren’t keen to do this extra job because they’re worried about being mugged if they have to go around with their pockets bulging with fines!
    But you’d think they’d have enough to worry about when they have to contain riots caused by some entitled young man getting himself killed by defying the cops.