How strange, you may think, that coming just a couple of days after Kathrine-Jenkins-gate, when the opera star lost her bag on a flight to Rome, we now learn of Bluebell-gate, in which Bluebell, a Labrador, was sent to Nashville to join its owners, but instead, arrived in Riyadh. Ooops.

But is it strange? Or is it that BA just lose about 3/4s of all cargo they handle but its only when it happens to someone famous, Like Kathrine Jenkins or Bluebelle, that it makes the papers? When its just my hiking boots, NO ONE CARES.

The consequences of this latest incident could have been tragic. What if the dog had been sent to Korea instead? She wouldn’t have made it outside the airport before some cunning restauranteur saw her potential.

Are female dogs allowed in Riyadh without a face covering? Headscarf, at least. Are they allowed out without a male dog’s permission? She certainly wouldn’t have been allowed to drive.

But its ok now, she’s safely in Nashville. Well, I say safely but she is a black Labrador. A golden one would be safe, but be careful, Bluebelle, watch out for the men in pointy hats.

Elon Musk. The most brilliantly clever and exhaustingly industrious asshole on the planet. Who so misjudged his ‘audience’ with delusions of his own amazingness that he simply failed to realise a massive truth. That people hate him. For being rich. For being smug. For being revolting, South African, obnoxious, successful, ugly and… that pretty much covers most of it.

So when he decided to ‘poll’ Twitter’s billions of registrants to vote for him just to ‘stay or go’ as the media platform’s chief person, they were always going to say ‘GO’. And they did. A shock to no-one, other than Elon. Leaving him with a… errrr… a ‘thing’ that cost him £36billion, with hardly any staff left, users leaving in droves and no-one there to run it. Plus, his promises to let free speech reign only seems to apply to free speech he personally approves of. Which is, kind’a, missing the whole ‘free speech’ thing really. Even though he chose to let Trump and Kanye back on board. Giving that freedom of speech only to right wing lunatics and followers of nazi doctrine. Which is not fair on the militant communists, conspiracy theorists, flat-Earthers and tree-huggers.

If I used Twitter I might be bothered, but I don’t know how.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx