We were ‘cancelled’ last night. That’s always a big bonus. A night in. Ahhhhhh. So I had a long bath, with Robert Harris. Finished ‘Munich’. Not his best. Then Mel went in the bath. A different one. A clean one. With bubbles and oils and candles and ohmmmm. And Kill Bill was on. But, like, both of them. Part 1 and part 2. The holy grail. And oddly I’d been talking to a mate just last week about their brilliance, only to learn he’d not seen either. Ever. Too violent. Which I immediately dispelled. No, its not, like, ‘real’ violence. It’s stylised. It’s cartoon violence. It’s Tarantino’s ultimate homage to Kung Fu movies and so although there quite a bit of bloodshed, its a million miles from ‘real’.

Then I watched it last night and realised that I’d lied. It is incredibly violent. Horribly violent. Awfully, mercilessly, relentlessly violent. And the fact that most of that violence is perpetrated by gorgeous, sweet-looking women doesn’t lessen it. It just makes it a bit more… exciting. Uma Thurman biting the tongue out of a would-be rapist is fairly violent, I grant you. But that mass samurai fight; Uma vs the entire population of Hong Kong, all armed with swords (Uma 42,649; Hong Kong nil) was so extreme that it was amusing, as she slashed and chopped and hacked and stabbed her way through all the men in suits. And women in suits.

At which point I had an image of Parliament. And how much fun you could have with a samurai sword in there. I’m not talking acts of murder or terrorism. Just justice. Cold, hard justice, I grant you, but justice. For the fucking shambolic catastrophe that we’re currently ‘enjoying’ over Brexit. Because I’ve reached the point where I hate them all. For making MY country a laughing stock on the world stage. We’re a fucking joke. But a really unfunny one.

Which has led to the current status quo, which is not rocking all over the world. We’re almost at the point where a general election is possibly the only solution. Not that it will solve the problem at all, whoever might win such a thing. But everyone has lost all confidence not just in the government but in Parliament in general.

And Jeremy Corbyn is 5 points up in the opinion polls. Which is the doomsday scenario.

Even worse, Spurs play Liverpool this afternoon, another crisis.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx