The wall-to-wall coverage of Russell Brand in the media continues apace today with news that the metropolitan police are investigating historical claims against the comedian going back as far as 2003. Frankly it's dull stuff, being used as a distraction from the important issues that we should reall...

Can I feel there's something in the air tonight, Oh Lord? Around a year ago an unmarked armed response police vehicle was tailing a vehicle flagged as being involved in an arms incident the previous day, and the officers decided to pull the vehicle over. The car was being driven by 24 year old const...

Elections are traditionally held in the autumn in the UK but Andrew Marr reports that there is increasing speculation in the corridors of Westminster that Sunak might opt for a spring one instead. Tanking in the polls, it might seem an odd decision but (he says) given the central place that immigrat...

Ahhh: I'm thinking it's like a real-time chat room of sorts then. I'll look forward to receiving my invite (hopefully) in due course.

Well wishes winging their way to you from 'old Blighty' as I post Menolly! Good luck and hope it panned out well for you.

That's good!

(But what exactly is Discord Steve? {he asked feeling a bit stupid}.)

Sudiksha Thirumalesh. That's not a name you will have heard before. The reason is that it was only yesterday that the High Court in London lifted the order barring her identity being revealed as the 19 year old who struggled against her doctors decision to end her treatment and put her on to palliat...

Contd from above.... In fact, this whole thing is wrong when you think about it. The climate crisis is not a political matter at all. It's far beyond that and includes each and every one of us, man, woman and child on this planet. And yet have the actual people been brought into this discussion at a...

Here's the thing. I believe in 'man made global climate change' - but I don't believe that in attempting to reverse/slow it down, that it's fair of governments to lump huge bills on everyday working people that they cannot begin to afford. There must be alternative ways of dealing with the problem, ...

I mean, I should have known shouldn't I?

What a crock of.....

Oh stop it Peter! I bet loads of people loved it. Fair play to them. Horses for courses.

PM'd Av in the hope of just establishing that all is okay with him.

No reply.



Anybody heard anything from him?

Right. The first thing to be said, straight away, is that Rishi Sunak's statement of yesterday is political. In fact more than that, it was campaigning. What it most certainly wasn't, was reflective of some new-found 'care for the little people', a sudden realisation that they were the ones bearing ...

I'll flesh out that last bit. Kier Stamer has reneged on every pledge he made in order to win the Labour leadership. He now claims that we will never,under a Labour government, go back into the EU, customs union or single market. We simply cannot know this to be true, based on his performance to dat...

Kier Stamer was out pressing the flesh yesterday and cementing his position as Prime Minister in waiting, by a very public display of friendliness in a meeting with French premiere Emanual Macron. It was a cordial meeting of equals that PM Sunak could only dream of in this late stage of his politica...

There is little doubt that the media had in their own minds, arrested, tried and convicted comedian and anti-establishment pundit Russell Brand before the stories of his alleged sexual misdemeanours were even printed in the Sunday papers, and such trial by media is unbecoming in any society, let alo...

Hi SD. :wave: Strangely enough, one of the Sunday morning political pundits was asking pretty much the same question briefly. It's not really a possibility, but these are odd times. Sunak is pretty much regarded as a washout, neither having pleased the right of his party (too high a taxing PM), the ...

My father once employed a guy who was a Seventh Day Adventist. He was a fantastic character and a genuinely good man, funny and highly intelligent, who took an active role in my early religious education. He used to take my sister and me to Sunday school classes from the earliest age, and remained a...

:lol: I had wondered at German car manufacturer BMW's decision to site a factory producing the all electric Mini in Britain, but on reflection I guess there is a certain logic to it. The car is unlikely to sell in huge numbers elsewhere, but has always held a place in the hearts of the UK public, be...

Odd little points of interest in this morning's papers: let's run through them. Good of American grandee Mitt Romney to engage in a rare bit of honesty from a politician. He's quite open in this morning's Telegraph that in his opinion (and probably I'm guessing, pretty much across the whole Biden ad...

Assessments of casualty figures in any war is problematic in the extreme, not least because of the understandable tendency for each of the protagonist's to play down their own figures while overstating the enemy's. But there are worrying signs that the figures of dead and injured in the Ukrainian co...