Thanks Michael.
I was surprised by the luxuriance of the beard.
The shirt is a $10 - yes 10 - beauty and
The jumper is a 24 year old Hang Ten!
. . . and I am delighted with all three!
ear of the three Prime Ministers and the two monarchs began with Boris Johnson still firmly ensconced in Number 10, following credulous reporting in autumn 2021 of briefings that he intended to remain there for 10 years. It took just 10 days of 2022 for that idea to be made even more ludicrous than it already was.
On January 10, Partygate, which had kicked off with reporting by the Daily Mirror in November 2021, was shocked back into life after ITV News acquired an email from 2020 about a gathering held at the height of lockdown.
The least credible thing about Partygate was not Boris Johnson’s Withnail & I-style apologies – “I went to a party by mistake… Are you the farmer?” “No, Prime Minister, I’m your Principal Private Secretary.” – but the suggestion that political hacks had no idea what was happening in Downing Street during lockdown. The Sun’s coverage – which initially tried to ignore the revelations entirely – was particularly pitiful; its deputy editor James Slack was employed in Downing Street when the parties took place and attended some of them.
As former Sun editor David Yelland tweeted at the time:
I can easily name ten, maybe as many as 20 political journalists who must have known or should have known about this Johnson party. Their editors should fire them. Except some of those mates of Boris are editors…
Partygate was a product of tactical leaking; Pippa Crerar at the Mirror and Paul Brand at ITV News were given a series of smoking guns by people within the Tory machine who had decided that Boris Johnson’s usefulness was at an end. …
Added by Michael Grove at 11:00 on December 29, 2022
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In this excerpt from a lecture, Alan Watts plays the role of a "delusional patient" who thinks he's God. He gets his students to ask him any question they please. The results are fascinating.
crops. In his retirement career as a gardener he learned five or six years ago how the soil ecosystem really functions and have been preaching ever since. He find himself with a good knowledge of genetic engineering technologies surrounded by people in fear of being hurt by the food they eat. He found that he cannot ignore them anymore and has joined the campaign to educate consumers about the potential health problems reported in the recent scientific literature.…