A contribution to the craze: A friend’s friend is on remand and has been having problems with the screws. He’s taken out to the yard – he’s in solitary – and is walking up and down when a baby seagull lands in front of him. He walks up to it and pets its head, whereupon…
Wikipedia says ‘Salafism takes its name from the term salaf (“predecessors”, “ancestors”) used to identify the earliest Muslims, who, its adherents believe, provide the epitome of Islamic practice.’ Brief research in my diseased brain establishes however that it refers to its adherents’ practice of iPhoning themselves with the severed heads of those with whom they…
Almost re Pablo Iglesias’ support for austerity in Greece: El pueblo, aquí como en el resto de España, rarísima vez ha sido vengativo en las conmociones puramentes políticas. Se ha contentado con un cambio infantil de los nombres y símbolos de las cosas, así como los primates apenas han sabido otra cosas que erigir nuevas…
My brain hurts: Pablo Casado: “Dos de cada tres empleos en Europa se crean en España” David Cameron: “We’re creating more jobs here than the rest of Europe put together.”
Vox populi, Waltham Abbey: So who cares if Greece leaves the Eurofuckingvision Song Contest? The Essex ~travellers were out in force with two-year-olds and what I’d call light gigs. Baldie Pevsner slagged off the C19th renovation of the abbey church, but it’s actually wonderful. The mural in the Lady Chapel reminded me of the SW…
