Silly news: Starmer was all gooey eyed over the female Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni and shopping for Armani suits whilst in Italy, his wife on the other hand had a personal dresser to help with her choice of clothes. And guess what? Someone else paid for the clothes - rich donors, tut, tut.
In the actual real world there are floods in Niagara and in Europe, Poland seems to be hit very hard.
So my inbox has once again become cluttered with NYT emails, perhaps I ticked too many subjects. As for news from America I will skate over that, though that mud stirring Elon Musk should be put in his place.
James Ravilious A World in Photographs. His father was of course Eric Ravilious and though James studied painting he liked the camera better.
I hadn't heard about flooding in Niagara. I remember seeing flood level markers on buildings along the Danube. The waters can go very high.
ReplyDeleteIt is called climate change Andrew and as for Africa its rating in news is way down. Trivial news is the name of the game now.
DeleteFor some reason Starmer always reminds me of Yogi Bear's friend Boo-Boo. It'll take more than an Armani suit to change that. Our Eurocentric news seems to have largely ignored the far more serious flooding (in terms of lives lost) in Myanmar.
ReplyDeleteHe is definitely different to the old socialists John and obviously doesn't know how to behave. But then the right wing newspapers are so deft at picking up every little nuance we shouldn't be surprised, Booboo the bear or not.
ReplyDeleteHere, I have not heard one word about the flooding in Poland. It is all about foiled assassination plots and shocking political stories. I cannot WAIT for this election to be over. We will either be past the nightmare or just beginning it.
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