It’s totally been the most, like, 100% bestest ever, like maddest, really insane week for Britain. Ever.

Because we’ve been in the Olympics and we’ve won gold medals in sports that until last Tuesday I never knew existed. Yet in just one week, we’ve excelled in the rowing, we’ve bounced on trampolines, shot things with rifles. If the Olympics was in America they would probably have schoolchildren shooting as an event but here we stick with clay pigeons. We’ve out-swum, out-run and out-horse-ridden absolutely everyone. We’ve been brilliant in triathlons, ridden bikes incredibly, had three gorgeous little girls murdered, watched 3 racially motivated riots orchestrated by right wing thugs with a promise of at least 30 morel!!! Oh, 30 more riots, I thought they meant 30 more medals. Anyway: what a week for Britain!!!! Every time I turn on the telly there’s either a gold medal coming in or a police car on fire.

I don’t know if these events are related. Does the Olympics produce levels of competitiveness and testosterone which are absent the rest of the time? The Games certainly produces unheard of levels of testosterone in a few women boxers. But this is not the place for gender issues at this time. It’s all a load of bollocks.

So as good a week as this has been for Simone Biles, it’s been even better for Nigel Farage. Because his ‘thing’ is not overt racism, no-one can get away with that any more, the Blazing Saddles days are long over. But Nigel can take an event, like the horrendous stabbing at the school in Southport, and turn it to fit his narrative. He lets others, or possibly gets others to, put out a few speculative stabs, just some fake news. Like, ‘the bloke with the knife was a Muslim boat-person’. Which then creates a narrative which falls beautifully in line with the hard-right, keep-Britain-white, stop immigration line. And by the time (about 24 hours) we know that the stabber was born in Wales to Rwandan parents, probably both Christian, its too late, the damage is done, The League of British Thugs are on their way to smash up a mosque and attack the police. And repeat and repeat and repeat.

So that’s where we are. Brilliant at the Olympic Games, not so great when it comes to controlling the streets. Can’t have it all.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx