It’s snowing outside my window. Remember snow? That white stuff we used to get at Christmas when Bing Crosby was still alive? Well, its mid-November, following the ‘mildest’ autumn in the entire history of mild autumnal things’, when just last week we were sunbathing on Tower Bridge and diving into the River to cool off (metaphor. BIG metaphor. Approaching hyperbole), and now we’re building snow men. Who look like Kier Starmer, particularly as they start to melt and lose their facial features. And then we go outside and KICK THE SHIT OUT OF THEM AND BEAT THEM WITH SHOVELS!!!

Sorry, where was I?

Oh yeah. Snow in November. Not unheard of but quite unusual. Like temperatures of almost 20 degrees in October. Unusual, but not unheard of. Floods in Wales. Ok, the water didn’t get all of it; they managed to play a football match in Cardiff last night, so it can’t have been that bad. Hurricanes in Jamaica, destroying half the country. Well, its hurricane season, what d’y’expct?

But when you add up all these things, you have a choice. Its either ‘coincidence’ that about 120 really rare meteorological events occur almost simultaneously, (remember, we’re talking geological time here, measured in millions of years, so ‘within a few weeks’ is ‘simultaneous’), its just ‘the cycle of the planet’. Or you can actually start to think that in some ‘small’ way, we are influencing the environmental changes in our planet to the extent that the weather is really shitty today. We (I’m speaking for all 8.1 billion people in the world) have created… global warming!!!! And it’s real and its here and…

And we kind’a have to learn to live with it. Because for all the Greta Thunberg shit, before she joined Hamas and is following a new agenda, trying to make ‘environmentally friendly suicide bombs’, for all the Ed Miliband bollocks about ‘net zero’, at some point you have to realise that humans produce carbon. We exhale the fucking stuff. And we want to keep warm in our homes and we need to drive around sometimes and don’t want ‘range anxiety’, and we like the idea of AI, the world’s most energy-consuming… thing!!! So really, pragmatic limitations aside, we’ll have to learn to live with ‘global warming’ and snow in November.

But other things change too. Like ‘truth’. That’s changing. In fact it changed yesterday.

The old version of ‘truth’, was ‘whatever Donald Trump believed’. But then Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) visited him yesterday and I realised that this ‘truth’, as opposed to all the ‘fake news’, which is what Trump doesn’t agree with, can in fact be bought. Because for just a $1trillion trade deal, MBS has bought absolution from a horrendous crime. Previously, after the horrible murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the American security and intelligence services declared that the ‘hit’ was approved, possibly originated, by MBS. Although that was only based on extensive research and physical proof and evidence. So fly a 12-digit sum in front of Donald and it becomes “MBS knew nothing about it. Things happen”. The new truth.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx