Great night last night: first Premier League matches: big spenders Liverpool v Bournemouth: and then Virgin Media went into melt-down. Psychedelic images not seen since Ken Kesey set off in the Kool-Aid Acid Test Bus. Had to revert to taking TV through an aerial - how retro is that? And no Sky, Netflix or Amazon Prime there……
Winston Churchill once said...."jaw, jaw is better than war, war"...............unless it's Trump and his buddy Putin talking. Trump talked of his "fantastic relationship" with Putin....and described the meeting as "extremely productive".......Trump gave the meeting "10 out of 10" and said they were "pretty close to a deal" on Ukraine. In the meanwhile Putin continues to grind away in Ukraine....losing thousands of troops a week to death and serious injury.....because Ukraine should still be part of Russia he claims.......and also in Moscow we have been reminded that Alaska should be still part of Russia as well. What a total mockery this whole time has been. PS......the longest bit of red carpet ever seen....for Putin to walk down and be clapped by his buddy Trump......yuck pass me the bowl.
Well, the definition of a diplomat is someone sent abroad to lie for his country. This is diplomacy. However, Trump seems to see everything as transactional with no reference to principle or morals. That and some sort of willie waving competition. Unfortunately, the rise of the worldwide Nazi far right and response to it of a drift to the 1970’s far left makes you wonder what the world will be like in 10 years’ time. PS The Liverpool game was stopped last night while a spectator was ejected for shouting racial abuse at a Bournemouth player.
Today's Times reports that in recent weeks, unusually strong summer winds would have enabled wind-farms up north to generate large amounts of electricity. At the same time of course, summer temperatures mean there's less demand for heating with the bulk of demand being for industry. Unfortunately, the national grid lacks the capacity to carry this down south, where a lot of the industrial and commercial demand lies, so the wind-farm operators have had to be paid to stand their wind-turbines down. Meanwhile, in the south, gas-fired power stations have been had to be paid to bring their capacity on-line to service southern demand. During the last week, it was revealed that the majority of the new server-farms needed to service the exploding demand for artificial intelligence are expected to be built in South East England. Not only is this going to make electricity transmission problems worse, it's a golden opportunity to create well paid jobs in less well-off areas of the country missed. HS2 all over again? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68664182
I hope he was more than just ejected from the ground. The problem here is that the one person ejected becomes the news story and dominates the evening and the match beyond all else....which then makes him the story and not the match.
Denmark's Postal Service is to stop delivering letters......they will pass on their letter deliveries to a private firm......this seems to be what will be happening in many countries worldwide soon. PS.....My daughter on holiday with her husband... recently sent us a postcard from the Hebrides.......it took 9 days to arrive....it had a second class stamp on it. This is similar to the time span that in past years (1980/90's) it took postcards to arrive from Greece when we regularly had holidays in their islands.
satire /ˈsatʌɪə/ please log in to view this image noun the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
