The Reform party are going to be the next government. Well, a bit of local government anyway. And their first move in power will be to get rid of ALL the DEI people. Those really important folk who enforce the laws of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. I’m speaking as a black, Zoroastrian, double-trans (I changed twice and I’m considering going for the hat-trick!!!), cross-dressing (in my case ‘double-cross’), non-trinary, sub-ethnic, one-legged (I actually have two but IDENTIFY as a monoped), gluten intolerant with multiple mental health issues and I’m congenitally illiterate. And I’ve been in constant employment since the DEI became law. Well, by ‘employment’, I obviously mean ‘sick leave’. If they don’t employ me, I sue. Then I get ‘signed off’ by some poor GP who loses the will to live when I turn up at the surgery.

It’s a travesty that DEI dudes are becoming a persecuted minority. If only there was still DEI departments to protect them.

However, it’s not all about DEI. It’s about phones. And the use/abuse of those little computers we all choose to carry around. Because the conversation is all about ‘children and phones’. At school. At home. Obsessing about being ‘liked’, or vilified, maybe ‘ghosted’ or ‘trolled’. And small kids, too young for their own phones but having their parents ones used as pacifiers. Videos, games, here; play with this for a minute and LEAVE ME ALONE!!!.

It all starts with the parents. If parents are always attached to and staring at their phones, this is the wonderful example they’re setting. They’re validating and recommending this as perfectly acceptable behaviour. Being ‘social’ does not include ‘social media’, which is totally personal and thus anti-social.

In the Times today is a great article about people in a restaurant, all on their phones. A very expensive and elite restaurant. And a young couple on a date were ignoring each other to spend some quality time on their phones. Awful.

There are many who can’t be separated from their ‘devices’. They bring them to the dinner table. As if, without phone evidence, what they might be saying won’t be believed. Needs ‘validation’ which only phones can provide.

But best of all are those walking, phone in hand, down the street. The ones who have single-handedly (you only use one hand to hold your phone) created an industry in phone stealing, making it so easy for some little shit on an e-bike (not me, I don’t nick phones and I’m a big shit on an e-bike) to just grab it and flee.

Next week we’ll discuss phone use by car drivers, but I need strong medication before I get on to that.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx