And So This Is Christmas

The world is now a more dangerous, more unequal, more unjust, more authoritarian, and more uncaring place. Peace is in short supply, except in the fevered minds of more of those Here Today And Gone Tomorrow Politicians. And you can forget goodwill. Where it will end we know not. But end it will, with the grim certainty of night following day.

Christmas tree in Lisbon's Praça do Comércio

Centre stage is the most corrupt régime of any modern and allegedly democratic nation, that of Combover Crybaby Donald Trump. This only occasionally coherent, rambling, terminally vain, and obscenely unpleasant being is about to start a war with Venezuela. Over oil. It will not end well for the USA. Meanwhile, Trump is driving the economy off a cliff.

Those cheering him on are an increasingly compliant media, and the ranks of the obscenely overmonied, who care about themselves, and not about the 98% who are becoming poorer by the day. The political and media class in the UK also cares, mostly, about itself, and not about the 98%, but imagines itself to be in touch with those hard-working people it likes to talk about.

But it isn’t: our media elite likes not-even-one-dimensional politicians like Wes Streeting, somehow unaware that the voters dislike him intensely. The media class likes political operators like Morgan McSweeney, unable or unwilling to confront the reality of Labour’s poll numbers, and that half Labour’s membership has got fed up and left since Keir Starmer became leader.

Fewer members means fewer people to canvass, leaflet, persuade uncommitted voters, and get the vote out. There were hints of that problem in the 2024 election results. Voters know that they are being taken for mugs by New New Labour; many are backing Reform UK and its self-appointed Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage. But here a problem enters.

The UK had a congenital liar, racist bigot and con man as PM before, and look where supporting the disgraced Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson got us. Farage, like Johnson, and like almost all the others in the political and media class, does not give a flying foxtrot about the proles. Some in that media class also treat their audience like so many mugs.

Santa driving his tram. Ho ho ho

Who might exemplify this approach? Step forward Gammon Broadcasting News (“Bacon’s News Channel”) to freely pump misinformation, and, indeed, disinformation, to an audience that can no longer tell fact from fiction. GB News’ approach was deliciously busted recently when their “host” Carole Malone, another deeply unpleasant being, was caught defaming live on air.

Sadly for Ms Malone, she had defamed Doria Raglund, whose better-known daughter is the Duchess of Sussex. The “please don’t sue us, we didn’t mean it, honestly” on-air sort-of-apologies were a thing to behold. But a serious point had been made: this illustrated the contempt in which the media class holds ordinary people. A contempt which has been exposed elsewhere.

And that is in the reportage, and associated punditry, concerning the actions of the Israeli Government and its armed forces, mainly in Gaza, but also in the illegally occupied West Bank, Syria and Lebanon. This time, though, smearing those opposed to slaughtering tens of thousands of human beings as anti-Semites is not working. Because the public can see what’s going on.

This, in turn, brings us back to Starmer and the Labour Together cabal that put him in power. They treat the voters with contempt, and are clueless as to how they get those voters to return. Meanwhile, the Greens make steady progress under Zack Polanski, because he is listening to voters, and cares about them. So it is that we reach Christmas 2025.

With a media and political class, many of whom want to pursue policies that will make the 98% yet poorer. A Government like so many rabbits caught in the headlights. An electorate battered by harsh reality, and a tsunami of bad faith media actors. And little prospect of improvement any time soon.

Feliz Natal e Boas Festas, as they say here in Portugal. Eat, drink, be merry, and hope for an end to the period of elite stupidity. That is all.

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Santa Drives A Tram

It’s that time of year again, when Zelo Street takes a break for the Christmas period to travel, meet, catch up, relax and recharge the batteries for the year ahead. As I’m no longer resident in the UK - something that the brains trust of trolls has yet to figure out, bless them - here’s some views of one recent tradition that happens every December across the river in Lisbon.

Ho ho ho - it's a Proper Tram™

The city’s operator of buses, elevadores and trams, Carris (pronounced Ka-Reesh) takes two Proper Trams™, as in genuine 1930s ones, and turns them into Christmas Trams, or Elétricos de Natal. A word in the ear of those thinking the tram they boarded to experience the crush on Line 28 (cos it’s in the guide book, duh) was all 1930s - those are not Proper Trams™.

Not really a Proper Tram™

Those trams you see in everyday service have been given 1990s electrical systems, trucks, motors and controllers. They have a pantograph as well as a trolley pole, and are known as Elétricos Remodelados (remodelled trams). But back to the Christmas Trams, which this year have been giving trips to school-age children, and later, families. The trips sold out. Very rapidly.

Another Proper Tram™, another Ho Ho Ho

Because of drainage works (don’t ask) this year’s trip has been from the Carris depot at Santo Amaro, west to Algés and back. The trams carry a green livery, and have Santa at the controls (honest). They were snapped passing Pastéis de Belém on the outbound leg, and with the backdrop of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos on the return. Another word in the tourist ears.

Premium tram tour. But not really a Proper Tram™

Look at all those standing outside Pastéis de Belém, eating the Pastéis de Nata they bought from the takeaway shop. The Pastéis cost the same if you go in the café and have a sit down. The coffee is excellent. And you can freshen up with a visit to the bathroom. Also, you get the Pastéis served warm from the oven. And that’s the only way to really enjoy them.

Return trip, and more Ho Ho Ho

Another tourist tip: if you want to visit the Monastery, go early doors. Later in the morning, all the coaches rock up and the queues get horrendous. In the New Year, I may write up more tourist tips, and maybe a Lisbon craft beer guide. Plus where you should visit, and more importantly, where you should avoid, when it comes to dining out. But, once again, I digress.

Feliz Natal to one and all

Arrangements for Christmas are already being made, the menu has been circulated, transport and hotels booked, and that will be that for blogging until after the festivities. It’s wall to wall sunshine here in Pinhal Novo, so a relaxing afternoon walk beckons. Have a relaxing Christmas, shut the horror show out for a few days, and hopefully I’ll see you all on the other side.

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So Farewell Then Brexit Britain

Why had the blog posts dried up? What was occupying so much of my time that it had to take precedence over all else? What was so important that it involved travel, meetings, form filling, lawyers, notaries, estate agents, removal firms, energy suppliers and engineers, a lot of visits from online furniture and electrical goods outlets, and lots of hotel stays?

Pinhal Novo - the bandstand ...

Well, as you will see from my Twitter bio (X or no X, that is the question), the short answer is that I have left the UK, and almost certainly for good. A country that is slowly, but perhaps irretrievably, on its way down the pan and into international irrelevance, the result of bad faith actors who thought Brexit was just a jolly game. So last year I decided to go. To Portugal.

Along the way there have been meetings with the folks who progress residence permits, which took me to Edinburgh in February and then a follow-up interview in June at the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras in the town of Viana do Castelo (the thought occurred that this was more an initiative test, as most Brits wouldn’t know where it was, or how to get there).

There was a lawyer providing a proxy so I could obtain a NIF (you can’t do much in Portugal without a NIF, folks), an estate agency person who accompanied me to the bank to get an account, a notary who oversaw the purchase of an apartment, an engineer who reconnected the gas supply (don’t ask), and a removal firm to take stuff from Crewe to Pinhal Novo.

Where that? Pinhal Novo, which literally translates as “New Pine Forest”, is on the south side of the Tejo. Like Crewe, you can get to lots of other places from there. Lisbon is half an hour to 40 minutes away by rail or express bus. It is a low rise town and growing at some rate (if you arrive by rail on the Fertagus service, the first signs of Pinhal Novo are the cranes).

... and nearby church

So will the blog continue? For now, yes, but not for ever. Will I be writing about the fun and games involved in moving from the UK to Portugal? A strong possibility. Will there be some stuff on the country’s politics? Could be, especially given the tendency of bad faith UK politicians, like former Brexit Party Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage, to lie about them.

Do they have inflation in Portugal? Yes, but it’s on its way down, with food inflation now below the all-important 10%? Do they have strikes? Ho yus. Do they have The Fash? Yes, a bad Trump tribute act headed by a gobshite called André Ventura. He’s got a twitchy right arm and an acute sense of victimhood. But they also have influence. Because they’re in the EU.

Why make the announcement now? Simples. Today I got my hands on a residence permit, from those nice people at the SEF in Viana do Castelo, an increasingly popular tourism destination which closes on Sundays (this is not so much of an exaggeration). That makes it official. So it’s hello to warmer and drier weather (no rain for a month and a half). And farewell to Crewe.

There may be visits to the UK. But it is no longer home. I’m aware that this can be a lose-lose in the eyes of paranoid Brexiteers: on the one hand, you are told “If you don’t like it, why don’t you go”, and when you take the advice and go, they bawl “TRAITAH” in your general direction. Well, up theirs.

So, finally, farewell, and thanks for all the fish. I may be celebrating later.

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Tis The Season, Once Again

 Christmas is upon us. But the season of goodwill to all men is short of goodness this year: instead, we have a Government, its entitled and rich allies, and most of the media class facing off against the kinds of people who keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed: nurses, ambulance workers, border guards and agents, rail workers, postal workers, all are engaged in industrial action.

The only difference between this winter and that of 1978-9, the latter so often used as a stick with which to beat the left, is that those emptying bins and burying the dead have yet to join in. Give them time; the Tories, backed by our free and fearless press, are deploying falsehood and misinformation while refusing to meet justified pay demands. They are the ones who are out of touch.

And this is only the beginning: Brexit, the subject which even broadcasters are exceedingly unwilling to discuss, has hobbled the economy, and will hobble it yet more. Like a slow puncture, its initial effects seemed trivial but, over time, are becoming worse. The response of the Government and entitled class is to deflect - look over there at refugees, those of insufficient respect for the monarchy, Trades Union leaders, public figures who dare put their heads above the parapet, and of course Haz’n’Megs.

It isn’t working. Twelve and a half years of increasingly inept economic management means the UK is becoming poorer relative to its nearest neighbours. Many who were promised that leaving the EU would bring freedom see only less of that freedom. They see less of the promised prosperity. And they see that the claim of more cash for the NHS was a flat-out lie that those formulating it had no intention of honouring.

The UK is not the only country to suffer strikes at Christmas. But it is the only one to experience the perfect storm of increasing poverty, anger, desperation, and the sure and certain knowledge that many who believed the unappealing convocation of corrupt and dishonest politicians at the time of the EU referendum now know they’ve been had.

Meeting the various pay demands would cost far less than the Tories and their press pals pretend. It would also, whisper it quietly, help the economy to recover, as most of that increased income will be immediately spent. The Tories, long believed to be the party of economic competence, are so short of economic competence that they are unwilling to take a course of action that may even ameliorate their lack of popularity.

There may be, for some, a brief feeling of euphoria on reaching Christmas without running out of money. But the hangover, exacerbated by steepling energy bills and the rest of Winter still to come, will make the aftermath feel so much worse. And there will be more strikes, more unrest, more poverty, and ultimately more adverse reaction to a political and media class that has failed us all.

Have a happy and peaceful Christmas. But don’t forget those who can’t.

Service Interruption

Gone are the days when Zelo Street put out the thick end of a hundred blog posts a month, and no, they’re not coming back. But even the more reduced and occasionally leisurely writing régime of 2022 is sometimes too much: the next few days, and maybe a few more periods of a few days after that, will most likely demand enough of my attention to interrupt normal service.

There’s going to be a lot of travelling, meeting people, getting to grips with as yet unknown ways of working, and lots of the kind of stuff that leaves folks in an ever so slightly stressed state. So the likelihood is that blog posts will be an occasional item until next week, and not much more than occasional for a week or two after that. Needs must. Some things you don’t do so often.

I may well reveal all some time after the dust has settled. In the meantime, there’s always the back catalogue, filled with observations and revelations from thirteen and a half years at the blog face. Yes, it’s really that long ago.

Maintaining radio silence does not mean I’ve gone away. Not yet, anyhow.

A Serious Sabbatical - Update

One emergency admission to hospital in Liverpool later, taken there and back by car as I was forbidden from using the train, a little light surgery, an overnight stay, and a week and a half (almost) to recover, and the news is that … there is not yet any news.

Everything seems to be going in the right direction following an enforced period of taking it even more easily than usual. Resting up has become the new seriously boring. Watching events while unable to post on them is doubly so. But that has to carry on until next week, when I get the thumbs up - or not, as the case may be.

I will post again in a few days’ time. Meanwhile, sit back and watch the live on-air disintegration of the worst Prime Minister ever. Remember where you were when the fall finally came.

A Serious Sabbatical

I have to take a break. It may be a few days, it may be longer. But a break has to be taken. So there will be, for the time being, little or no new content on Zelo Street.

Service will be resumed - well, when it’s resumed. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to look in on the thirteen years’ back catalogue.

 

A Partial December Sabbatical

This is one of those troublesome public service announcements.

All things, as the Buddha and Hari Georgeson have observed, must pass. Zelo Street is not yet over, but there has to be a lull in proceedings occasionally, given the production rate of blogposts has been maintained for a whole decade, even continuing during holiday breaks, usually with a pause only over Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

That pace cannot be maintained indefinitely, and especially as next month sees a significant increase in my personal workload elsewhere, something has to give.

So there will be blogposts in December, but not very many. I may be back, though …

Top Six - November 29

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 A Nurse In Manchester ISN’T An opportunist bot, probably not in the UK - and has now been closed down.

5 TalkRADIO “Expert” DEMOLISHED False positives, “just the flu”, don’t lock down - wrong, wrong, wrong.

4 Laurence Fox Diversifies Bigotry Portfolio He’s not just a racist - now he’s a raging homophobe, too.

3 Guido Cadwalladr Attack FAWKED Gloating sexist pile-on meets reality - another fine mess.

2 Daily Mail Promotes Covid Denier Wacko “Statistics Guy” pushing anon paranoid misinformation - force for good my arse.

1 Tracy Ann Oberman Treads Carefully She’ll go after anyone on the Labour left - well, almost.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - November 22

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Met Commissioner Won’t Back Priti Patel Bozo gives her his backing - but top cop won’t.

5 Gemma Bolton - Where’s The Anti-Semitism? Labour NEC member smeared - for having opinions.

4 Tommy Robinson’s Court Setback His belief and the truth may be different - what a surprise.

3 Lee Harpin’s Trope Search Failure Tries to smear a Labour MP as anti-Semitic - and fails completely.

2 Laurence Fox Told To Pogue Off Tries to score points kicking the Beeb - but gets handed his arse.

1 Rachel Riley - Pants On Fire Claims Corbyn honoured terrorists who murdered Jews - er, wrong.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - November 15

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Laurence Fox Reverses L’Oreal Effect His agent dropped him - because he wasn’t worth it.

5 Platell Leaves Mail With Big Libel Bill Defamation leads to racist pile-on - totally out of order.

4 Carrie Doesn’t Spin Here Anymore Bozo’s GF stops chicken man becoming No 10 chief of staff.

3 Darren Grimes Smears Combat Veteran Prince Harry attack backfires - maybe stick to form-filling, Dazza.

2 Twitter SUSPENDS Andy Wigmore Brexiteer slimeball given the boot - just rejoice at that news.

1 Daily Mail Smears Barrister AGAIN Not consulted before publication - it’s getting to be a habit.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - November 8

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Brexit Party Rebrand - The Con Is On Relaunch plus disinformation overload - will be literally deadly.

5 Bozo Ally Calls For Beheadings Steve Bannon kicked off social media for incitement - hello Tory Party.

4 Tory Anonymous Propaganda EXPOSED Party name left off attack ad mailshot - bang out of order.

3 Piers Morgan’s Son ROASTED Gobby lack of self-awareness meets reality - it must run in the family.

2 Murdoch Throws Trump Under The Bus No sentimentality, no hesitation - Rupe discards The Donald.

1 Tracy Ann Oberman Attacks Jewish Activist Young journalist in the firing line - for being on the left.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - November 1

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Drugs-For-Food Tory Has Bluff Called If he’s got any evidence - two broadcasters would like to see it.

5 Farage The Brown Nose Cowboy He’s back in the USA - kissing arse better than even Piers Morgan.

4 “Student” BBC Basher WORKS FOR THE TORIES James Yucel wants to expose others’ politics - but won’t reveal his own.

3 Bozo And Carrie Present Blue Peter Maybe the most insincere video ever - pass the sick bucket.

2 Bozo Admits Brexit Means More Migrants “Tens of thousands” target scrapped - you won, Brexiteers, get over it.

1 Ian Austin - A Cry-Bully Whines He was a shit when he was an MP - and he still is a shit.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - October 25

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Selaine Saxby - Another Tory Idiot She dissed her own business community - and then played the victim.

5 Manchester - Tories Taking The Piss Robert Jenrick was offering the city region less in financial support than he’d gifted his own constituency.

4 Dan Wootton Meets His Match Shouty pundit invites Labour MP on his show to shout him down - and gets handed his arse.

3 Ben Bradley - STOP DIGGING Did Mansfield MP make those crack den and brothel claims about his own constituency? Looks like he did.

2 Sun Darroch Euphoria Ended By Arrest Former Ambassador affair story is dead cat - the cables informant just got nicked.

1 Cambridge Analytica - Brillo Busted New revelations show that CA was a conspiracy, not a conspiracy theory.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - October 18

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Laurence Fox Meets Brown Person Another TV appearance, another argument lost, another exhibition of cluelessness.

5 Mail Covid Denialism BUSTED Straw Man “it’s not really happening” article is seriously irresponsible.

4 Polecat Stenography - Oborne Speaks Client journalism continues - with journalists filing to push back at the briefers.

3 Laura Kuenssberg - Polecat Stenographer BBC Political Editor caught recycling Tory propaganda - not a good look.

2 Piers Morgan, ITV, And Damaged Goods Broadcaster might not worry about him leaving - cos the net’s closing in.

1 Toby Young Facing TWO Lawsuits Tobes may be about to discover that his free speech may just have consequences.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - October 11

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Isabel Oakeshott Spreads Misinformation Did 15,000 distinguished doctors and scientists sign the Great Barrington Declaration? Er, no.

5 Why Gilligan Left The Telegraph Another Top Six appearance for this post from 2017 - he dumped them with a £650k legal bill. More of that defamatory Muslim bashing.

4 Laurence Fox Hit By SECOND Lawsuit Drag Race star Crystal became the second to sue, after Lozza called her a “paedophile”. Will Nicola Thorp follow suit?

3 Laurence Fox And Defamation Lozza smeared three individuals as “paedophiles”. That was inviting them to sue. Would his Tweet deletion come too late?

2 Free Speech Fans’ Legal Karma The lawyer they set on others … has now been set on their latest hero.

1 Katie Hopkins Grovels Before Muslims Too skint to be able to pay damages - her fall from grace is complete.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - October 4

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Nigel Farage Antifa Lie BUSTED Attack on anti-fascists shows just which side he would have been on in World War 2.

5 Twitter CENSORS Allison Pearson Urging young people to become infected with Covid-19 - that’s against the rules.

4 EU Lawsuit - Brexit Reality Want to break international law? There’ll be consequences for that.

3 The President Is Seriously Ill Donald Trump ignored the Coronavirus - but the Coronavirus did not ignore him.

2 What Now For Laura Kuenssberg? After Brillo jumps ship for GB News - will she be far behind?

1 Priti Patel’s New Spokesman Speaks Disregard for the rule of law - cheered on by client journalists.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - September 27

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Checkpoint Charlie Moves To Kent A land border in England - you won Brexiteers, get over it.

5 Hartley Dooda Covid Denial Shame Self promoting TalkRADIO host spreads a “false positive” scare - but convinces nobody.

4 Private Eye And Establishment Capture Its latest attack on Hacked Off - sounds like a press hit job.

3 Labour Fawkes Briefing Shame Briefing a Tory smear outfit before telling the MPs who were sacked - bang out of order.

2 Isabel Oakeshott - Oh What A Giveaway Among the Covid denial whining - giveaway moment on Brexit Party millions.

1 Bozo In Italy Did our alleged Prime Minister really have a sneaky weekend in Perugia?

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - September 20

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve now given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Teaboy Tom Totally Triggered Hitler Youth aside sets Fawkes teaboy off on one - why might that be?

5 Tom Newton Dunn - Famous Last Words Murdoch snob disses Angela Rayner’s PMQs ability beforehand - big mistake.

4 Murdoch Abandons Bozo Times says he’s unwell, Sun tells him to shape up - it’ll be his marching orders next.

3 Michel Barnier SCHOOLS Andrew Marr BBC host blindsided by Polecat spin - which happened to be totally untrue.

2 Mail Hugh Grant Interview WASN’T Paper doesn’t have access to actor - no problem, just invent it!

1 Tobes Abandons Bozo Allowed to talk about split without interruption live on Murdoch radio - this is not a coincidence.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!

Top Six - September 13

So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I’ve absolutely given up trying to find any more domestic stuff to do later. So there.

6 Camilla Tominey And The Far Right Using far right Islamophobes to smear the Grenfell victims and kick the Sussexes, and thanks from David Vance too.

5 Tory Law Avoidance Law REVEALED If this bill is passed - 1930s Germany here we come.

4 David Vance - Time For Twitter To Act A racist bigot who was still getting away with hate speech promotion (Twitter acted two days later).

3 Birmingham Stabbings - Somalian My Arse Not a Muslim, not a migrant - and not in the UK illegally.

2 Laurence Fox Ha Ha Ha Another social media fight picked, another sad failure.

1 Mark François Is Quietly Deposed Chair of ERG no more. And no publicity, either.

And that’s the end of another blogtastic week, blog pickers. Not ‘arf!