The Imperial War Museum is getting a booting for claiming that World War II was won by soldiers in frocks and Land Girls pretending to be blokes. And that the agenda behind the advances in surgery to repair injuries received in the two world wars was really preparation for sex-swap operations. Yet another attempt to rewrite history by useless wonks.
Thursday, 1 January 2026
Hysteria disbelieved
We keep being told how terribly cold it’s become and things are getting worse. On the contrary, it has been much the same all week here; cold, yes, but not noticeably colder as the end of the week approaches.
Just tough
In the wake of the impending ban on trail hunting, one of them there has studies found that 35% of their respondents thinks Smarmer’s Army isn’t neglecting the countryside or even actively engaged in trying to destroy rural life.
No figures were on offer for how many of the ‘don’t cares’ are townies.
Another thing
There were a lot fewer bangs and crashes and whizzes than usual last night to wake up those who hadn’t bothered to stay up until midnight.
The usual suspect firework fanatics feeling the pinch and not seeing 2026 as having much worth celebrating?
Getting starting problems
Is a new year off to a bad start if you feel you’ve used up a week’s supply of the f-word during the morning of the first day? Or is it just that your expectation of the co-operation you’re entitled to receive from inanimate objects is set too high?
Sense absent
If six people were injured and the police arrested the bloke who clobbered them with an iron bar in a hospital A&E dept., then calling it an ‘alleged’ attack is an abuse of common sense and the facts. An obvious abuse. So why do it?
VFM for coppers
Police forces are becoming alarmed by a campaign to impose payment by results on them. This comes in the wake of a report that in the year to June, 5.3 million crimes were logged in England and Wales but a suspect was charged for just 7.6% of them.
That’s charged, not convicted. Which is leading to questions being asked about the value for money offered by the Can’t Prosecute Service.
Worse for the police, it has been suggested that logged non-crime, non-events should be deducted from the record of useful work done.
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