THE
CORRUPT SPANISH GOVERNMENT: The PP party is in power here, at least
until the elections of 20th December. And,sadly probably after as well. It has long stood
accused of quite unimaginable level of corruption at national,
regional, provincial and local levels. Despilfarro is the Spanish for
'waste' or 'extravagance'. So it was nice to see this clever banner
this week: DesPPilfarro.
GLOBAL
WARMING: Well, well, well – a 'successful' conference of the folk
who are sure this is man-made. Which it might be, of course. It's
just that not everyone is convinced that it isn't natural and that
the astronomical cost is really justifiable. Christopher Booking is,
of course, a sceptic and here's his comment this morning. I think
it's true to say that: The
scarcely noticed elephant in the room in Paris is that, whatever
clever words are devised to hide the reality of what emerges from
this conference, there is no way the world as a whole is going to
reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. As for my own cynicism, I reckon
the people happiest about the USD100 billion anual transfers to the Third
World will be the Swiss bankers.
ON-LINE
PETITIONS: Talking about cynicism . . . Are you as fed up of the
plague of these as I am? Sign one and you'll never hear the last of
the promoters. Happily, I used a separate email address. It seems
that today's young people are terribly easily hurt and angered –
perhaps because they're the second generation never to live through
war and are too far away from the tough lives of their grandparents
to have any empathy for the view that theree are things far more important than their
knee-jerk reactions to the slightest slight. Here's a bit of the
estimable Rod Liddle on this subject: It is not enough for these
jabbering maniacs to demand “safe spaces” in universities, where
they can be hygienically insulated from views that might diverge from
their own. Now it’s the whole country designated a “safe space”,
a place of unquestioning political conformity. The “ban Donald”
petition quickly garnered 500,000 names — about the same number as
a petition to stop more migrants coming to the UK, which was more or
less the point Trump had been making. One of these two petitions got
a lot of coverage from the BBC and The Guardian. The other was not
mentioned by them at all. Can you guess which was which? Go on, take
a wild guess. Yes, you got it right. How did you know? But what can
you expect from a leftie who's gone sour?
FINALLY:
BECOMING THE SHIT OF A CROC: Here's the heart-rending story of a
burglar who tried to jump the shark. But ended up in the jaws of
something else. As Oscar said, you'd have to have a heart of stone
not to laugh.
Don't
overlook my other blog here.
Today's
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