Pfizer, the drug giant, have refused to sell any more of their ‘lethal injection’ stuff to American prisons. Its a stand. A moral crusade. Itself very unusual for any drug company that they even know how to spell ‘morality’, let alone act upon it in the face of potential profits. So without the Pfizer ‘super-dead!!’ meds, the entire death penalty thing will obviously collapse completely. Surely they won’t be able to come up with alternative methods for implementing death. I would say ‘bring ’em here and throw them in front of tube trains’ but it would be messy and they might use the Northern Line, which would indeed be awful.

So the debate now is ‘the death penalty’; right or wrong? Good or bad? Evil vengeance or proper justice?

We don’t have it in the UK so its not my immediate problem. Here we have ‘the death of hopes’, the murder of dreams, we have THE FUCKING END OF FUCKING EVERYTHING AT ST JAMES FUCKING PARK!!!!! and we have ‘life sentences’ (supporting Spurs). But we don’t institutionally kill people.

Its not British. Not any more. Used to be, then we stopped. 50/60 years ago. But its always an interesting debate. Because most people are not opposed to the death penalty. What they can’t tolerate is executing the wrong person. Killing an innocent man or woman. So the main objections aren’t about the morality of ‘taking a life’ under any circumstances, but more a total lack of confidence in the judicial system’s efficiency and accuracy.

And in reality a ‘life’ sentence is far worse than the death penalty. Well, it should be except ‘life’ means about 3 weeks, after time spent on remand, good behaviour and parole are factored in. Though when you hear about mass murderers, about child-killers, about serial sadistic monsters, about habitually condescending and patronising Arenal fans, it does bring out the inner hang-man in all of us.

Boris Johnson is someone else who doesn’t seem to learn from his and others (very) recent mistakes. Having seen Ken Livingstone, another ex-mayor, get kicked out of the Labour Party for making stupid ‘Hitler’ comparisons, Boris addresses a Brexit group by telling them that a federalised Europe was the dream of Napoleon and of Hitler. So the EU is basically a modern day version thereof.

On a scale from 1 (good person) to 8 (total tosser) Boris is a nein.

Football; me; we’re over. Finished. Its competitive pole-dancing or nothing from now on.

Happy fucking Monday

A xxxx