Tag: Protests
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Toad Away
Well, Cossack hats off for the apparent chutzpah of our Russian chums. It was apparently straight faces all round in Moscow regarding that intrepid Ecuadorian Dart Frog, who apparently laboured 6,900 miles across the globe from the Chocó rainforest to Kharp in Russia, negotiated all that supermax security in the gulag and squirted some nefarious gunk into…
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It’s an Unfair Cop
You don’t need to be Jack Regan to know that nicking street dealers doesn’t quash a drug epidemic. That’s picking the low-hanging fruit and boosting arrest statistics, Guv’nor. Lazy coppering provides the flagging flatfoots with a rare opportunity to appear remotely competent at the expense of UK society dropping one notch to a par with 1973…
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Demon Strays
Another day, another protest. Is this a functioning country or a students’ union? Sometimes, it’s hard to tell. Now, I don’t have any allegience in respect of this Israel-Hamas dust-up. It’s all tragic, but I don’t really give a toss. And let’s be honest, who really does? But what is this pro-Palestinian protest going to…
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Proud
Well, it’s all kicking off, and the current world situation has been described as ‘one of the most dangerous periods in world history’. News outlets speak of Israeli ‘retaliation’, but is that true? A wider perspective might flip that. The incursion into Southern Israel could well be seen by others as the retaliation for years…
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D’You Wanna Be In My Gang?
You can throw glitter on a turd, but it’s still a turd. After something sparkly finally stuck to Keir Starmer yesterday, the nihilist knight remarked that the protester ‘didn’t know him’. That was evident from the fact that glitter had been launched, not acid. It’s not yet known whether the assailant will be charged with…
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Shittenhouse
When sections of the public express outrage at a court verdict, they’re not stating that the verdict was perverse. After all, they’ve neither examined the minutiae nor received the directions from the judge that might allow legally sound conclusions to be drawn. They’re expressing that it never went the way they wanted it to go,…
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Jester Politics
So England never made the grade, but some sort of political row was as nailed on as Italian on-field cynicism. Seriously, though, the Azurri deserved their victory. Over and above the match itself, it was always going to be the case that a Three Lions debacle would see a fringe of racist nutters having a…
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Loose Cannons
Boris Johnson has announced the imminent removal of most COVID restrictions and asked the nation to ‘exercise its own judgement’. Given that the nation had elected him as Prime Minister, that may well be asking for trouble. All of this sparks the old Johnson-is-a-libertarian discourse into life, which once again pumps spunk into the some…
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Cop-Out
I paid a flying visit to Bristol yesterday and encountered a sit-in in the middle of the road at the bottom of Park Street. They had a banner reading, ‘Priti Shit’, which does deserve some recognition for a new twist on an old gag, and another which read, ‘this is a peaceful protest’. This tickled…
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Brass Neck
President Biden has been banging on about George Floyd’s legacy and has invited the multi-millionaire Floyd clan to the White House for canapés and blather. Apparently, one of the members has snubbed the invitation because they are ‘not happy’ with the proposed policing bill. You couldn’t make it up. It’s like the Veruca Salt scene…
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