Being Honest About Ann Widdecombe

A 28-year-old white male suspect has been arrested after former Tory minister and Reform UK politician Ann Widdecombe was found murdered in her home in Dartmoor, Devon.
Absolutely awful but to anyone under 40 she is best known for her appearances on Reality TV where she came across as a fun old lady game for anything, but to anyone over 40, before she became the cuddly national treasure, she was firstly a Conservative and Reform MP with some awful far-right and homophobic views.
Widdecombe built a political career on bigotry and religious zeal and repeatedly used her platform to oppose same-sex marriage equality and during her 23 years as an MP, took every opportunity to block gay rights, including the repeal of Section 28.
According to vote monitoring website, Public Whip, Widdecombe opposed every single equality measure for LGBT people and supported 'gay cure therapy' for:  'gays who do not want to be gay' and said that trans-inclusive policies were 'lunacy'.
She recently stated that Israel's Genocide in Gaza was: 'A just War', compared being in the EU to Slavery,  opposed abortions, left the Church of England at protest at the CoE decision to ordain women as priests, supported the reintroduction of the death penalty and was a Climate Change denier.
Her views aside she didn’t deserve what happened to her, nobody does, but to only concentrate on the nice things she said and did and avoid mentioning the more controversial, wicked things she said and did doesn't paint a fair picture because in my eyes, if your wicked before they went, they’re still wicked after they’ve gone.

Your Own Fault America

I got sent this so it is nothing i have found myself and it has not been verified or checked but it does seem to ring true.

Iranian spokeman on Al Jazeara:

Donald Trump has nothing to be afraid of when it comes to Iran harming him.
Trump's Presidency has caused more damage and humiliation to America than any Iranian Bomb or nuclear program could ever have done.
Iran only wishes Trump good health and that America could have Trump as their leader for another decade
Trumps presidency has truly been a gift for Iran as we have never been more unified and strong as well as now having friends worldwide that we never knew we had.
The world is not laughing at Iran, they are laughing and mocking Trump and what America has become under his stupidity and arrogance.

As i said above, how true this is remains unknown and i have been unable to find another source for it but it certainly is true that America, under Donald Trump, has been damaged and humiliated by his idiotic words, lies and deeds.
The World is laughing at Donald Trump and America, we look over the Atlantic and think what the hell is going on there?
Can you not see the creeping totalitarianism and why are you allowing a man who was found liable for  sexual abuse and is almost certainly soon to be exposed as a pedophile to write his name all over the buildings on your country?
That would be like us Brits voting Gary Glitter into Office and allowing him to build monuments and stick his name all over them, which would never happen but it is there.
I guess once he is safely out of Office or dead, whichever comes first, all his supporters currently shielding him in the in the Republican Party will come out and condemn him although it will take a generation to repair the reputational damage he has done to his country around the World and that is how it should be because the first time he was voted it could be quite correct to say they didn't know how bad he would be but to vote for him again, and stand back and watch him ruin their country, that's very much on you Trump supporting America.  

Burnham Learning On Left's View Of Israel

The Genocide in Gaza by Israel with the grim death toll of at least 75,000 has been taking place with military, political and diplomatic backing from the US who continue to back the nation run by a War Criminal wanted for War Crimes while they ethnically cleanse the Palestinians and Lebanese from their land where the death toll sits currently at  4,300 people, 569 in a single day on 23rd September.
By not outright condemning the Israeli Genocide, the current British Prime Minister Keir Starmer set himself immediately against the Labour Party Members and supporters who called for the mass slaughter to be strongly criticised by the British Government but after appearing to approve the immoral actions of Israel, he was forced to walk this back after much criticism and said that he had merely meant that he was only backing Israel’s right to defend itself, not how it was doing it in what was an expression of mild criticism of Israel’s most violent actions.
What he did next further distanced him from his own Party when he made it illegal to support Palestine Action and watched as elderly protesters demonstrating against that ban dragged away as as terrorists.
There are many things you could throw at Keir Starmer, his delivery was stunted, his lack of Socialist policies after a decade of right wing austerity was galling for Labour voters and attempting to take away the Winter Fuel Allowance from pensioners but when questioned why so many Labour supporters were deserting, one of the top reasons was his lack of forceful voice on the Israeli actions were cited and damaged him among core Labour voters, driving many to defect to the Greens who did shout loudly about what Netanyahu was doing in the Middle east.
The PM Elect, Andy Burnham, has obviously noted this and was swift to apologise for Labour’s attitude to Gaza and to Israel under Starmer, saying this week that the party got it wrong and how he was: 'Absolutely appalled by what I’ve seen and read about the destruction of Gaza. There’s increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.' he said. 'There must be accountability for the depth of the suffering the people of Gaza have experienced.'
A good start but words don't amount to much unless they are backed up by actions such as sanctions on Israel and support for the ICC and ICJ in bringing Netanyahu and his warmongers to justice for War Crimes.
That would go a long way to bringing back into the fold the many who left in disgust that we failed to call out a nation who have been committing the most horrific Genocide since the Nazi's.

Special Guest Blogger: Greek God Hermes

Listen, I’m a man of brevity. I’m the god of the quick text, the short-range herald but I have notes. I have many, many notes.
First of all, let’s address the the wings on my feet. Being the Messenger of the Gods is not the glamorous gig the poets made it out to be. Homer really glossed over the chafing. Do you have any idea what kind of aerodynamic drag you get from a brimmed hat when you’re breaking the sound barrier? It’s a nightmare for the neck muscles.
And the sandals? Let’s talk about the Talaria. You think your fancy carbon-plated running shoes are high performance? Please. My footwear has a mind of its own. They don’t just cushion the impact but occasionally decide to chase a hawk mid-delivery because they think it’s a game. I’ve spend half of eternity trying to steer my own feet while Zeus screams at me to deliver a very important lightning bolt to some king in Phrygia who forgot to say bless you after a sneeze.
I’m basically the universe’s most overworked delivery driver, except I don’t get tips, and if I’m late, I get turned into a shrub.
Before we get to my main grievance, let’s talk about my resume. People see me and think, Oh, look at the cute guy with the wings, he’s like the ancient version of ther Royal Mail.
Excuse me? I am the God of Commerce. If you’ve ever bought something on sale, that was me. I’m the God of Travelers. If you’ve ever found a shortcut that saved you five minutes, you’re welcome. I’m the God of Language. If you’ve ever used a double entendre to make a colleague laugh, that’s my bread and butter.
I also invented the lyre out of a tortoise shell because I was bored at four hours old. Then I stole Apollo’s cows just to see if I could. I’m the patron of thieves, liars, and politicians (usually the same thing to be honest).
I have a legacy of speed, wit, and high-stakes negotiation. So why, in the name of my father’s lightning-scarred glutes, is my face, specifically my staff, plastered all over the American medical system?
It’s a lot of emotional labour which is why, when I finally get a break, I like to look down at Earth. And what do I see? I see my staff on your pharmacies. I see my wings on your health insurance cards.
America. We need to talk about the Caduceus.
You know the one. My beautiful staff. Two serpents entwined in a lovely symmetrical dance, topped with a majestic pair of wings. It screams elegance but it does not scream, I am a trained medical professional who knows how to remove an appendix.
Somehow, around the turn of the 20th century, the US Army Medical Corps looked at both and said, The one with two snakes and wings looks way cooler. Let’s go with that.
Guys. You picked the symbol of the God of Thieves and Merchants to represent your healthcare.
Do you realize how funny that is to us on Olympus? I’m literally the god who guides souls to the Underworld. That is my job. I meet you at the finish line and walk you to Hades. If I’m showing up at a hospital, it’s usually because someone is leaving.
When I’m not being misidentified by the Surgeon General, my life is a blur of high-speed errands. People think being a god is all ambrosia and harp music. No. It’s mostly logistics.
Zeus would tell me to tell Poseidon to stop making the earthquakes and I would zip down to the Mariana Trench and tell Poseidon who would send me back with a message to tell Zeus to stop letting his eagles poop on his dolphins.
Then there’s the Underworld shifts. Do you know how depressing it is to spend your Tuesday afternoon explaining to a ghost that, no, they can’t bring their emotional support peacock into the Elysian Fields and to leave it at the Styx and that happens more than you would think.

Iran Targeting Trump?

According to Israeli intelligence, Tehran is hatching an alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump and mourners at the funeral for slain Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, did call for the assassination of Trump with a banner that said, 'We Will Kill Trump' and others held signs calling for his death.
Trump and his group of sycophants had no grounds to justify their actions when they attacked Iran and in the first move bombed a girls school which killed 185 and also assassinated the Supreme Leader Khamenei which could very well create a precedent for other countries seeking to resort to force without consideration for the rule of law.
Donald Trump has often boasted of the assassination of the 86-year-old Iranian Leader but makes no mention of the killing by his side of his daughter, daughter-in-law and a 14-month-old granddaughter in the attack which is illegal under International Law which prohibits the: 'Targeted assassinations of political leaders in peacetime unless during armed conflict' and as the assault has been called 'Pre-emptive', which is also illegal as there was no armed conflict until Trump and Netanyahu decided to start it by assassinating the Leader so the legal ground is non-existent.
National leaders should quite rightly be hesitant to target their counterparts in other states, in case it leads to their own targeting and if Israel is to be believed, this is what is happening.
Obviously any intelligence coming from Israel should be taken with a whole bucket of salt rather than a pinch but if Iran does manage take out Trump, it would indeed be very, very wrong and should be loudly condemned but it would be hard to not say so without triggering objections of double standards and hypocrisy.

Count Binface

Facing increasing scrutiny and tough questions over his finances, Nigel Farage has made the decision to resign and call a snap by election in Clacton, seemingly frustrated by all the unwelcome attention and bad press over that fat gift of £5m from a billionaire supporter that he failed to declare on becoming an MP.
Obviously hoping to avoid the two investigations, he has thrown his toys out of the very expensive pram (paid for by someone else) but  what he wasn't planning on was all of the main parties agreeing to not standing any candidates against him which not only makes him look a wally but leaves him facing just one opponent, a man who is named Count Binface (a name which also works for Farage without that 'o' in the name) and who could soon find himself parking his bottom on the House of Commons benches as a newly elected MP.
To make it even more hilarious, the House of Parliament have said that even if Farage is reelected, the investigations will only be paused and would restart once he is back in Parliament meaning it would all would have been for nothing and the probes and questions into the millions he received will just carry on afterwards.
As he is friendly with the almost certain pedophile in the White House, maybe he should ask him to give Keir Starmer a call to get them cancelled like he did with that red card at the World Cup although the answer would be two words and the second would be 'Off' so if things work out, we could see a man with a bin on his head sitting behind the Conservative Benches and Nigel Farage sitting in the new home which he refuses to say how he paid for and crying into his pint about how it all went wrong.   
Got to love British Politics sometimes.

Norway V England

One of the most brilliant bits of Sports commentary came in 1981 after Norway beat England 2-1 in a World Cup Qualifier and the commentator, Bjørge Lillelien, went on a fantastically and slightly unhinged rant where he named a long list of England's most well known people such as Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper and Lady Diana and ended with....Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Your boys took one hell of a beating.
The joy of beating England with players like Bryan Robson, Kevin Keegan, Trevor Francis and Glenn Hoddle is understandable because back then Norway were just not very good and hadn’t qualified for anything since the 1952 Olympics but now it is Norway V England in the World Cup Quarter Final to play either Argentina or Switzerland in the last four.
It is a real shame we are playing our North Sea neighbours because i would be cheering for them if they were playing anyone else but it is the likes of Erling Haaland and Martin Ødegaard who will be standing on the other side tonight so we can only hope that by midnight we can say: 'Roald Amundsen, Edvard Munch, Morten Harket, Erik the Red, Ada Hegerberg, King Harald V, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Leif Erikson, Edvard Grieg...Your boy's took one hell of a beating'. 

Special Guest Blogger: Ivan Pavlov

I never intended to be a psychologist. In my day, psychology was seen as a bunch of people sitting in velvet chairs talking about their dreams of flying sausages. I was a physiologist. I cared about the guts! The juices! The magnificent, sloshing machinery of the gastric system!
I spent years studying the digestive glands of dogs. I wanted to know how the stomach knows food is coming. I was the King of Saliva. I was the Sultan of Secretions. I had perfected the art of the gastric fistula which is a fancy way of saying I put a little window in a dog’s stomach so I could watch the soup happen in real-time or severing the dog's esophagus and created a hole in the neck, meaning food would fall out instead of reaching the stomach.
But then, the dogs started being difficult. In a perfect world, a dog should only salivate when you put a nice, juicy piece of dried meat on its tongue. That is basic biology. It’s honest. It’s predictable.
But my dogs, bless their furry, misguided hearts, started cheating. They began drooling the moment my laboratory assistants walked into the room. The assistants weren't food. (Well, maybe to a very hungry wolf, but not to my lab pups.) I realised that the dogs weren't reacting to the meat,  they were reacting to the white lab coats. I called this psychic secretion.
It sounds like something a Victorian medium would sell you for five rubles, but it was actually the birth of Classical Conditioning.
I realized these dogs had learned a association and as any obsessive compulsive Russian scientist will tell you, when you find a variable you didn't account for, you don't ignore it, you lock yourself in a cold room for thirty years and study it until everyone involved is slightly traumatized.
Everyone thinks I walked around like a frantic butler, ringing a dinner bell while shouting, 'Dinner is served, Comrade Fido!' but In reality, I used a variety of stimuli. I used metronomes. I used harmoniums. I used whistles. I even used electric shocks (look, it was the early 1900s).
The metronome was my favorite. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. The dog hears the ticking, the dog gets the meat powder, the dog produces 4.5 milliliters of high-quality drool. It was beautiful. It was rhythmic. It was predictable and I was the conductor of a Glandular Orchestra.
Ironically I did win the Nobel Prize which should remind people I DIDN'T USE A BELL!
What I did in the early 20th Century has connections to you today. Look at you. You’re sitting there reading this. Maybe you’re on a bus, or at home on the sofa or pretending to work.
Suddenly, your phone goes Ding!
Your heart rate spikes. Your thumb twitches. A little squirt of dopamine hits your brain. You didn't choose to feel that way. You didn't sit down and think, 'Ah, the auditory frequency of a push notification indicates a 74% probability of social validation, therefore I shall feel excitement.'
No. You just did it.
You are conditioned. You are my greatest legacy. I did it with meat powder and metronomes but Silicon Valley does it with Ding and when your Pavlovian responses kick in every time you hear the New Email, text or notification, tip your hat to old Ivan, the man who turned drool into data.

Repairing The World Again

While the Earth roasts there are some real dingbats around trying to deny what they are seeing with their own eyes but they are in the minority and as we showed in the 1990's, we saved ourselves once and we can do it again.
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) are human-made chemical compounds containing carbon, chlorine, and fluorine which were once widely used in aerosol sprays, refrigeration, and air conditioning until scientists worked out they were destroying the Earth's Ozone layer which shields us fragile humans from the Sun's harmful radiation and the Worlds Governments got together to phase them out.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  projects that the ozone layer is responding by healing and by 2066 will be restored to it full, life saving glory.  
Unfortunately the CFCs were replaced them with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which don’t harm the ozone layer, but they are extremely powerful greenhouse gases with some trapping thousands of times more heat than CO2 but then Humanity always did have a knack for solving problems by creating even bigger ones but once again the Globe got together and decided to phase out HFC's in the same way that they did with CFC's.
By acting, humanity avoided a future of extreme UV exposure leading to widespread skin cancers despite the chemical industry who dismissed it and launched a PR campaign in defense of the compound which echoes today with the Fossil Fuel industry who try to deny that their products are responsible for the man made climate change causing us such problems today.
So if we are capable of a concerted global effort to tackle a problem no single country could ever hope to fix alone, why not now with Climate Change?
The science is clear to everyone and we are perfectly capable of repairing what we broke in the first place and as we have no second home or anywhere to escape to, we have no choice, we HAVE to fix it again.

Trump Saving The World

Is the FIFA Peace Prize winner Donald Trump going to accidentally save the World?
Not with the hilarious botched reflecting pool or his racism but with his continuing war on Iran which has done us all a favour and pushed up oil prices and nudged the World towards clean energy faster than we might have otherwise.
Yes we know all about how he has claimed victory against Iran for the 73rd time and says he will keep winning this war until someone tells Iran and they admit defeat but meanwhile all over the world, Governments are switching faster and more thoroughly to clean energy and away from dirty and polluting fossil fuels.
The war has been a fossil fuel own goal and some/all/or none of this is thanks to Donald J Trump who recently said Climate Change is a the greatest con job perpetrated on the world and was invented by and for China to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive although he did apply for planning permission to build large sea defences at his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland, citing on his application that the defences were necessary: 'Because of global warming and rising sea levels'.
It turns out the unintended consequence of the confused Americans who voted for Trump and more foreign wars and making things more expensive in America (oh, that's right they didn't vote for that) is the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel industry.
We all knew that Trump was an idiot (which isn't even the almost certainly a pedophile's worse trait) and literally everything he touches goes wrong but his buddies in the coal, oil and gas industry must be a bit annoyed right about now but thanks Donny, you and your supporters being unable to reach the benchmark for being stupid enough to be moron's has really paid dividends this time.