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My thanks to everyone who came to the launch of ‘The Bad Fire’, in Atkinson Pryce, my favourite book shop. Long live the independents. A special nod to Alex and Peter. Long time neither see.
Out today
Today’s the day for ‘The Bad Fire’ AKA Skinner 31, in which an old foe returns in a new guise. The event is marked by a interview with The Crime Hub. You can access it below.
As some are ….
How to be a deeply unlikeable Remainer
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/how-to-be-a-deeply-unlikeable-remainer-20191113190721
And there are more
Five possible explanations for Farage being such a twat
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/five-possible-explanations-for-farage-being-such-a-twat-20191112190695
True
Cat with five beds prefers laptop
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/animals/cat-with-five-beds-prefers-laptop-20191111190671
Understandable
‘I cannot stand that pr*ck a minute longer’ says Tom Watson
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/i-cannot-stand-that-prck-a-minute-longer-says-tom-watson-20191107190531
It was the third bottle of Rioja…..
Middle class drunks press-ganged into becoming Brexit Party candidates
— Read on www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/middle-class-drunks-press-ganged-into-becoming-brexit-party-candidates-20191104190370
Shame on you, Oliver. As if giving us the Poll Tax wasn’t enough.
I am not in Dis-United Kingdom at the moment. I am in Catalunya which has its own troubles but that doesn’t stop me from being outraged by the shenanigans in our Parliament this afternoon.
I worked in that environment in the eighties when it was populated by serious people and when Oliver Letwin was a twerp in Maggie’s policy unit in Number 10. He wasn’t any old twerp, though, for it was he who recommended to his mistress that she use Scotland as a test bed for the Poll Tax.
That goes to show, rather spectacularly, that he doesn’t always get it right, as he proved yet again this afternoon when the dimwit pulled a stroke which condemns us to yet more Westminster chaos, to the delight of the minority who believe that marching through London waving EU flags and demanding something that was rejected at a referendum is in any way democratic.
Revenge?
I reckon I am an unlucky flyer. I always seem to be in the row in front of the arseholes who don’t know how to behave on aircraft, the middle aged blokes travelling together who think it’s all right to take on a few bevvies of a morning and invade the privacy of everyone around them.
Today the arsehole behind me was around six four. He thought the my seat was a rest for his knees all the way to Girona, while his mates were telling their stories to the whole fucking plane.
My hope is that when we fly back next week he’s in the seat in front of me. I do not get mad, I get even.
Cleaver
In Sky’s lavish new epic, Catherine the Great, Count Grigory Orlov is played by Richard Roxburgh. My Aussie friends will know him from another successful tv series, Rake.
Having seen him in that role, I wouldn’t be too surprised to see the count snorting a line through a rolled up 100 rouble note.
Amateurs
I have two grandkids and it’s my earnest hope that they both see the 22nd Century. It’s also my hope that they live to see it in a sustainable planet. In that I have just as much interest as the pseudo-hippie anarchists, yummy mummies and attention seekers who are currently doing their best to screw up the traffic around Westminster.
Apart from being futile in that it alienates people like me, the majority I believe, it is also stupid because they are preaching to the reasonably converted, and because in the short, medium and long terms it will do absolutely no good at all.
Rather than chain themselves to manhole covers in London or join the hordes under the thrall of a criminal teenager, (Organising mass school truancy has to be against the law, surely) they should target the real enemy, the planet’s biggest polluters. Let them disrupt the traffic in Beijing, Washington or Delhi and see how they are treated there.
Or, if they are determined and selfish enough to persist, let them pursue a more effective tactic and contract the job out, to Edinburgh City Council, whose elected members have been fucking up the traffic in their city for decades.
Sainted
Sky’s production, ‘Catherine the Great’ is just that. My only small gripe is that Rory Kinnear and Kevin R McNally look so similar that I am having trouble separating their characters.
Gobsmacked
I have just seen an abject apology for mistakes made in the Beech case by the Metropolitan Police by its second in command, Deputy Commissioner Sit Stephen House.
I will bet that there are a fair few serving and former Police Scotland officers who are astonished as I was.
Marx-ist?
Rory Stewart: Ex-Tory leadership hopeful to step down
— Read on news.sky.com/story/rory-stewart-ex-tory-leadership-hopeful-to-step-down-11826934
I believe it was Groucho Marx who said that he wouldn’t want to join a club that would have him as a member. Rory seems to be taking that a couple of stages further by resigning from a party that had already kicked him out.
Bullshit
Looking at our Prime Minister on telly, I don’t believe a word he says, and neither does Ms Kuenssberg.
But I don’t want Corbyn!
Flesh or fishy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49890199
For the avoidance of doubt I regard Boris as a bumptious twat full of misplaced self-importance. He does strike me as the sort of bloke who might squeeze the odd thigh under the table halfway through the third bottle of Rioja, then forget all about it. I don’t have any trouble believing Charlotte Edwards’ story.
However I do have two pertinent questions. 1) Why has it taken twenty years for her indignation to surface? 2) Why did she choose to tell all to the Sunday Times precisely when she did?
Front line
I’m watching live a Sky coverage from Hong Kong, awestruck by the bravery of their correspondent Alex Crawford, and her crew. There are journalists, and then there are heroes.
More than a feeling
There’s a new series available for bingeing on Sky. ‘City on a Hill’ is set in 20th century Boston, and gives Kevin Bacon an opportunity to show his stuff on something more developed than those EE ads.
Grab it.
Stuffed
I have just seen an ad on telly, telling me to be prepared for Brexit.
Won’t bother because it isn’t going to happen. The majority voted to leave but the minority won’t allow it.
If that’s how it goes, I want my Scottish passport, Now.
