Today was our return. In the morning, after breakfast, we took another short walk, in a different direction, but this was mostly over roads katcha and pakka. Along the way we chatted about the potential downfall of global capitalism as sparked by the top football clubs in Europe deciding to form a mini-league of their […]
Fury at the races
The Times, 19 April 2021 Daily Mail, 19 April 2021
Fury at the clubs
The Sun, 19 April 2021 Express, 19 April 2021 Express, 19 April 2021 (added fury)
What I noticed
1. Pandering to the furious right in Pakistan 2. Coronavirus raging in India, Turkey, Pakistan 3. US troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan 4. Dodgy dealings in Whitehall 5. Trial for the murder of George Floyd 6. Blood clots, vaccines and the pill 7. Volcano in St Vincent 8. Buildup on the Ukrainian border […]
Suspicious happenings in the English countryside
An elderly millionaire baronet has been found stabbed to death in his country house in Dorset. A suspect has been taken into custody driving furiously through Hammersmith. A four foot long rabbit – which is also suspiciously long-lived – has been stolen from its Worcestershire kennel, but a pet detective is hot on its trail. […]
Glad to know
Glad to know there is always a patriarch. This is from today’s Guardian. Fuck me.
What I noticed
1. Unavoidably, Prince Philip died 2. Imran Khan digs in on jackassery 3. North Ireland, unsurprisingly, is not a happy place post-Brexit 4. More heartbreaking blasphemy accusations in Pakistan 5. Vaccine movements restricted 6. Myanmar ambassador locked out of his embassy 7. Infrastructure week happened in America again, but I was not really paying attention […]
Big news
You know the death of Prince Philip is big news when it displaces, in short order, from the top of the Guardian’s list of most viewed news articles both ‘Tui plane in “serious incident” after every “Miss” on board was assigned child’s weight’ and ‘A maggot hatched from my head’.
What I noticed
1. Vaccine passports 2. Attack in Mozambique 3. Jordanian thises and thats 4. A man, his plan: a very long canal 5. The reason for rape according to Imran Khan (skimpy attire) 6. Myanmar deaths 7. More talk of vaccine nationalism 8. Train crash in Taiwan 9. Deaths among the tribesmen 10. Coronavirus horrors in […]
A little prejudiced, perhaps
Was taken aback this morning at this facsimile of Life magazine from the 1940s. Not surprised, but a little shocked.