Where’s it written? That it has to rain all the fucking time? I’ve never seen that contract but it seems to have been implemented anyway. Yesterday was lovely, sunny, nice. Monday was the day from hell, weatherwise, and today looks like being its demon-brother. Or sister. Sorry for assuming that demons are male. Females have equal rights to everything. That IS in the contract. Played tennis in the rain on Saturday, in the drizzle on Sunday, we’re in May and it feels like February. Rachie’s in Berlin, far, far east of here, where you’d imagine it snows for about 8 months a year and temperatures never get above about 10. Yet she’s moaning she’s too hot to sleep, enjoying 25 degrees every day and we’re here freezing. And the heating’s not working. It was yesterday until we had a new valve put in the boiler because it wasn’t heating the water properly. Now the water’s hot but the heating non-functioning. And Lila’s coming to stay tonight. Lila doesn’t really give a shit about the temperature, well, she never mentions it, but her mother will take one walk round in the arctic house and take my baby straight back to her house where the thermostat is always set at ‘hospital/greenhouse/sauna’.

But enough about the weather, even though its my right as a British personage of British… things, to bang on about endlessly. Yet being British is something of a problem for some people. Which in turn has led to the downfall of Amber Rudd, former Home Secretary, former wife of AA Gill, she has lots of form(er).

I can’t even be bothered to get into the details and events that removed this… person from office. Too boring. Suffice to say; she fucked up. There’s only really one crime in politics and that’s telling fibs, both to the public (who put you there) and to Government committees. Ok, sexual harassment will get you sacked too but Amber wasn’t accused of that. The ‘Windrush’ scandal is a terrible thing, that as with all terrible things, has been embraced and highly politicised by the Opposition, which is their job, I begrudgingly suppose. Amber didn’t get sacked for the Windrush stuff, she got sacked because of her office’s policy on ILLEGAL immigrant removal. Windrushers were always legal but got caught up due to various cock-ups.

So in steps Sajid Javid to the role. And that’s quite a brilliant appointment. Because its hard to accuse the son of immigrants of anything racist or anti-immigrant. What’s more he’s the son of a bus conductor which makes him less Eton and more accessible than your usual Tory. Maybe his dad was conductor on the bus that Sadiq Kahn’s dad drove? Wouldn’t that be something??? Or not.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx