I note that this is one of my favourite titles for my postings. Because I like changes. And I like David Bowie. And right now, although unfortunately there is no change in Bowie’s status (alas he’s still dead), the world is shape-shifting once more.

France is crumbling. Arrogant, obnoxious tosser, Michel Barnier, the by now ‘ex’ Prime Minister, known to us for making Brexit as horrendous, contentious and onerous as he possibly could, lost his current job yesterday after a vote of no confidence by their parliament. Known there as ‘parrr-liamentt’ (French accent). He tried to push through a budget single handedly, without normal process of having it voted on. Because it wouldn’t have passed the vote. Because their parliament, however you pronounce it, is dysfunctional. But doing it alone is an issue in democratic terms. So he’s toast. He is a Gallic Gregg Wallace. Without the fun along the way.

Which is better than the President of South Korea. He’s been impeached. Also having failed to get his government to approve his budget, he suffered a total mental withdrawal from subtlety and declared martial law. It’s what you do; I’m struggling with this piece of legislation; call in the fucking army!!!! But South Korea has a long memory. Half of it, the shit half, including martial law. So ‘the people’, led by the president’s opposition, just took to the streets and sent the army away. And are going to arrest the President.

So we look to America for support, ‘special relationships’ and lurve. But unfortunately, the ‘new America’, the one that starts in January, fucking hates Sir Kier Stargazer. And who can blame them? It appears the US will be run by a mouth-watering (if you’re into cannibalism) combination of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Elon Musk. What’s the opposite of a ‘holy trinity’? A criminal who has just wiped his crimes off the slate. A recently released jail-bird and a dangerously insane genius. Who happens to be the richest man in the world. And has declared that only the super-rich should govern. Yup, not just the ‘rich’, they’re in fact a problem in Musk-world, but only the super-rich. Because the world needs the values which made them super-rich. Which all gets very Ayn Rand in outlook (if you don’t know her and her ‘objectivism’; just read one of her exceptionally long and insanely detailed books; which are totally brilliant).

Thus a Britain in which Allison Pearson gets charged with some ridiculous and irrelevant ‘hate speech’ crime, and the government is still ruled by a woke-ism which inhibits Musk’s sacred freedom of speech, is unlikely to become a willing bedfellow with the USA. Britain would need to resort to rape.

It’s all a shit-show. And, if I’m honest, I love a shit-show.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx