People want answers about why two relatively unknown young people were peers

https://youtu.be/TIoj16NLUeM?si=5pXKKdj0Wpxj6AJZ

This morning, the president-elect was sentenced for his 34-count conviction on business fraud and other New York state felonies in connection with silencing a porn actress about their affair before the 2016 election. But despite his crimes, Donald Trump received no punishment.

It would be hard for a novelist to imagine a more telling scene in the larger story of our moment in which a privileged old man can’t say enough to be racist, can’t break enough laws to be incarcerated, can’t fail enough to be a failure and can’t be stupid enough to be stupid.

Van Lathan, Jr., wasn’t talking about the fact that impunity for pretty much everything is the point of Trump, but he may as well have been when he said in June that he’s “the whitest white man we’ve ever seen.”

With this sentencing, it’s official. Trump will be the first president to be a criminal president. This, of course, is only a minor accounting. Trump has been, in fact, a deviant and devious criminal mind for most of his adult life. He enriched himself when he was president the first time. He stole government secrets. He tried overthrowing an election.

With his third campaign, he and his allies, including a murder of billionaires and half a dozen justices on the US Supreme Court, set out to turn the republic against not only itself but against the rule of law.

They succeeded.

Civil institutions could not hold him accountable. The media failed. The law failed. The courts failed. The American people failed. Some still like to say no one is above the law, but it all sounds quaint to me.

The insurrection of January 6, 2021, has been institutionalized. It is now the establishment. It is now “the way things are.” Trump and his allies have achieved what historical figures like Joseph McCarthy, Robert Welch and George Wallace could only dream of: the restoration of “natural order of things” in America. Heads – I win. Tails – you lose.

Some deny it. They insist on the existence of some kind of immutable law, like the force of gravity, that will compel Trump to be presidential.

“There is one thing about being president-elect: You become president. And then you’re in charge. You’re responsible. You have to govern,” William Kristol said. “Beginning January 20, it will be Trump’s show. From the most trivial things to the most weighty, the power will emanate from and the buck will stop at Trump’s Oval Office.”

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/14/private-school-run-in-south-london-linked-to-27-per-cent-rise-in-air-pollution

The TV Licence is a disgusting, excessive and downright robbery in todays world where vast numbers of viewers watch or pay non-BBC providers.
I myself never watch BBC and am robbed of £174.50 per year to finance a service I have no interest in. My TV is provided by Virgin cable for which I pay £100 per month.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bbc-licence-fee-to-be-scrapped-by-2027-as-labour-plans-to-replace-it-with-new-tax/ar-BB1rjwVc

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace,

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

When the last part of a sentence is unexpected in a way that makes the reader have a re-think.

e.g.
Don't argue with an idiot, who will drag you down to his level, and beat you with his experience.

Hospitality is making guests feel at home, as you wish they were.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9mldjpdyo

They believe he would approve!

Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.

This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.

The Musk Ox is native to Greenland.

https://youtu.be/-WR8KpAr3Ss?si=kx9YdJVgkr0nUk7n

Just occurred to me that Tesla is an anagram of STEAL

I have just cancelled my subscription to Scrabble monthly.

Will they start sending me threatening letters?

😁

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/22/14960792/false-memory-psychology

https://youtu.be/hPKcmk5uOBo?si=3SZj1V3SI4MACM0J

https://youtube.com/shorts/93ntopzqz4s?si=SIjkyJUhjZks8j9t

Twitter sounds like the inconsequential chattering of birds.

And "X" is the signature of an illiterate.

Your thoughts?

We should look back and realise how much better off most of us are than back then. Not just financially

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk344depyo.amp

The 150+ voices of Wimbledon Choral with the City of London Sinfonia will be performing Haydn's Nelson mass on Sat April 5 at 7.30pm.
It was written in 1798 in Austria when they were threatened by the all conquering Napoleon. News arrived the day after its first performance that Lord Nelson had a stunning victory at the Battle of the Nile which destroyed Napoleon's fleet and left his army stranded in Egypt. In jubilation the piece became known as the Nelson Mass, arguably Haydn's greatest single work. Save the date - 5 April.

We often say a sad farewell

But not Farage

He just piles in with insults .

https://youtu.be/jHFfYrz7Asc?si=Wo_PYtU430RJg1JU

After the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says the wildfires were designed and lit 🔥 by opponents

Not taking global warming into consideration at all. Graphs towards the end show the changes over the years.

Interesting content and something we should all be taking notice of

https://youtu.be/IjECPqPXGK8?si=Ln4NP81M6w7OsKZk

This time it’s Shein avoiding the questions

https://youtu.be/hq-lj97_UeU?si=aaO3OAVBaix9UpbQ

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo

I can imagine it happening here in the future as someone else posted

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/32664271/britain-borrowing-high-fears-tax-hikes/

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/urgent-warning-as-major-network-provider-set-to-shut-down-mobile-internet-access/ar-BB1rfkB1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=93c0d4e952924c5dcec99d0b5e266b14&ei=27

On a piddling little island in the Indian Ocean.
Labour are a financial PITA, they will make us a third rate nation with living standards, individual wealth and quality of life in accordance.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/labour-offering-to-pay-mauritius-nearly-9bn-in-chagos-islands-deal/ar-AA1xb9eR

Like they complained Russia is or was?

https://youtube.com/shorts/cAuQG81cqVw?si=zl-jkCbgd7w65-lg

We should study the facts about those who are keen to promote it.

https://youtu.be/PU7QM3MZ2Vs?feature=shared

I have met people as stupid as that person

https://youtube.com/shorts/7-1MrtV-6Fo?si=BJB2pH9uyL8_YBkd

Look at the facts and this regarding Andrew North may be long but it’s so worth listening to

Instead of listening to a drug crazed, megalomaniac and diagnosed Asperger’s syndrome guy - narcissistic and dangerous (we don’t even have to name him)

https://youtu.be/AHntVVOQRGY

I love the fact William pops on his and his wife's account to post personal messages now and then.
https://x.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1877293096582402192

Trump will take office at the presidential inauguration on Monday, 20 January 2025.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdek713d0xo

https://youtu.be/_R19bBpUw-U?si=_SoyfQuWqRzgxbhX

His thoughts on Elon Musk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6pxdxe4j9o.amp

And his big surprise

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdSJDmHf/

But honestly this takes the biscuit

Animal from a different hemisphere saves, protects and even feeds another

https://youtube.com/shorts/dH_dH7QD2rA?feature=shared

Suspended sentences and a £1 a week

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/carers-who-stole-12k-from-pensioners-to-pay-back-1-each-318393/

Made me smile but on the serious side it’s worrying that someone who’s role it was to protect children never met one of the victims
of serious child sex abuse

https://youtube.com/shorts/LleV462sMGk?si=rEv1fTowL_ikVc50

Those who shout the loudest

More financial burden on the British people and soaring cost of living. More taxes and throwing money away by the £billions, this Government of brainless farts will destroy our country if they survive their term.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/motorists-brace-for-hefty-1-807-car-tax-hike-in-april-2025-with-van-drivers-hit-the-hardest/ar-BB1r8lXv

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-charged-as-part-of-investigation-into-fraudulent-covid-19-vaccination-records

The Tories, screaming their heads off , alongside an American megalomaniac call for action , after doing nothing for years, cause a current hardworking MP to receive hundreds of threats

I was moved by her bravery in this interview - and understand that one person has already been arrested for threatening her

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7r0pzz57vo.amp

For those who want them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c878d54y0r2o.amp

https://www.change.org/p/mandate-face-to-face-consultations-for-all-gp-appointments

https://atadvocacy.com/impeachscotus-7124?ref=dp

😂

Judge sets date for Donald Trump's sentencing in hush money case, but signals no jail time

Judge Merchan signalled that he would sentence Trump to what is known as a conditional discharge, in which a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids re-arrest.

But he's done NOTHING WRONG!

Your Thoughts?

Back in 2018 this bas*ard called the rescuer of children that were trapped a paedo

What a piece of sh*t he is

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-keir-starmer-cease-and-desist-letter-crashed-economy?utm

https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

To cover up the fact that one of their Hitler worshipping Nazi’s who helped arrange the riots of last July has been imprisoned for seven and a half years

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/key-organizer-of-far-right-uk-riots-last-year-jailed-for-7-1-2-years/3443922#