Oh look, 76,000 Covid-related deaths and counting.  Hospitals around the country are either FULL, or nearly full, with Covid patients with complications (as well as the usual selection of patients; always more at this time of year because Seasonal Illnesses, even with 'flu jabs being administered to more people than ever this year.)

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We have a young eejit at the top in North Korea making ever more threatening statements and launching ever more powerful missiles ( Read more... )

Recently the High Court in the UK ruled that it was ok for British arms manufacturers to continue selling Arms to Saudi Arabia,  even though there was substantial evidence that the Saudi-led coalition had breached international humanitarian law ( Read more... )

There now, Yahoo was hacked back in July last year by 'state sponsored' hackers.  They finally admitted the fact this August, but have only now gotten around to admitting that the breach was a whole lot bigger than they'd first thought.

1. Should you have accounts with Yahoo, Dear Reader, go change all your passwords.  I mean, that was the second ( Read more... )

After the recent spate of incidents of dogs attacking other dogs or people, eg: this one where a boy died, it's good to have a positive story about a dog.

Goofy is 'top dog' and valued staff member at Opn Advertising, an ad firm.

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So the Tory party leadership race has begun.  Canny George (Osborne) is sitting it out.  Not-so-Bumbling Boris evidently noticed the trap for the unwary and yesterday declared that he, too, is out of it.  This time ( Read more... )

The results of the General Election are, more or less, in.  It looks like the Conservatives are in with a definite majority.  oh dear!

Meanwhile have an XKCD take on something similar:-


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What do you expect, it's a Bank Holiday.  Yesterday was gorgeous, wall-to-wall sunshine.  Saturday was really quite chilly, with rainstorms.  As I said, it's a Bank Holiday, what d'you expect ( Read more... )

There in Red & White

It's that time of year again, as usual it's all rather complicated, and people would prefer it to be simple.  Hmmm, life isn't.  Anyhow, I wear a red poppy because I whole-heartedly support the work of the British Legion in all they do for ex-servicepeople - whether from WWI, WWII, Korea, the Falklands', Iraq I, Iraq II, ( Read more... )

Remembering

Regular readers may have realised that I am a bit of a pacifist.  Well, how can you treat people as people if you're going in with tanks, guns, bombs etc.   & what about the people who have to try & live throught all that, then rebuild their lives & countries because they live there.  They can't get shipped home - whether in boxes, ( Read more... )