What has happened to the incisive political and social commentary for which this blog was justly noted?
I write to help sort out my thoughts on a subject. When I'm sure about my views, I have nothing more to say.
As opposed to newspaper columnists, who only write something when they are sure of what they believe. At least on that day.
And the matters of the day have not changed since about 2016.
So here's a quick summary.
The Trans stuff. They should be taxed, rejected for jobs, and stand on the rush-hour trains from Richmond to Waterloo like everyone else. Of course Trans women should not compete with ordinary women, and nor should they be put in female prisons.
The War in Ukraine. Other than pointing out that not one bullet, rifle or Leopard 2 tank that gets sent over there will ever come back, of course it's a tragedy and Russia should back off.
Working From Home. If you give them pleasant spaces to work in, they will return. But they ain't coming back to the horribly over-crowded offices of 2019.
Dinghy People. What part of you-need-a-passport-and-visa-to-enter-this-country don't they understand? We don't have jobs for our own people, let alone illegal immigrants. Of course the French are practically towing them to our side of the Channel.
Human Rights Lawyers. Strangely, not one of them represents the rights of the ordinary British taxpayer. It's almost as if the lawyers who aren't working for the people traffickers, or Islamic terrorists, are working for the EU. Oh. Wait.
Nicola Sturgeon. Will no-one rid me of this turbulent First Minister?
The Covid Enquiry. Put it in a tin, shake well, and you can paint your walls white with it. (And it hasn't even begun to report yet.)
The British Economy. Would be a lot better if the bankers didn't still want Gordon Brown as Chancellor, and the civil servants didn't still want to be in the EU.
Woke Training. It's a huge grift, which would go away if about ten hedge funds dropped DIE and ESG, which they have only adopted as a distraction from their predatory investment strategies.
The Climate Emergency. An even bigger grift. Al Gore is a multi-multi-millionaire. This BS has been going on since the mid-1980's. I'm still cold every winter.
The NHS. Has a quarter of the beds, ten times the number of doctors and three times the number of nurses it had when it was started in 1949. It takes 30% of total Government spending now as against about 10% in 1949. And you can't get an appointment for a year. I say, take off and nuke it from orbit.
ULEZ. Will no-one rid me of this turbulent Mayor of London? Someone voted for him - was that you?
Low Traffic Zones. Councils should confine themselves to collecting rubbish and mending street lights. Not trying to save the planet (allegedly).
Bullshit Diet and Health advice. Will continue to thrive as long as people want quick or easy fixes.
Woke Movies. Don't go see them. Let the studios go broke.
Woke Publishing. Don't buy the Woke stuff. The publishers are re-printing Real Authors from the pre-Woke days so they can make some money.
China. Needs telling where to get off. Just as soon as we re-shore the manufacturing they do for us.
Social Media. If you ignore it, it does not exist. Let other people get turned into hypo-attention zombies by Tik-Tok.
Mobile Phones. Give your kids dumb phones.
House prices. Totally out of control. Have been since 1972 / 3.
Woke advertising and TV. Let the advertisers go broke, and the TV programmes go unwatched. Read a novel by Dumas, Victor Hugo or Emile Zola instead.
British Education. When it's good, it's very very good, but when it is bad, it is awful. Woke. Staffed by people on contracts who weren't smart enough to realise they could earn three times as much in the private sector. Nobody needs to think anymore because the Woke Manual has all the answers.
Will AI do all our jobs? Oh come on. Remember what happened to Big Data?
But robots? Will be economic in large warehouses, in the same way they are economic on huge production lines. Totally uneconomic anywhere else.
3D Printing. Is already a Thing.
Declining population. In 1954 the population of the world was 2.7 bn. A lot of the world's problems are caused by having 8 bn people on a planet that can just about take 2.7 bn.
So there you are. I doubt my views will change in the next decade.
What you really want to ask is: why are these BS issues occupying the media channels? Would it be so the real issues don't get covered?
Maybe I'll do a thing about the real issues at some point. Here's a taster: Climate Change is not one of them.
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