Say what you like about Boris, and most of it will be expletive, doubtless, but at least he knows how to speak in public. How to put on a show. Ok, he’s a back-stabbing, lying, cheating, egotistical narcissist who would murder his own mother to move half a rung up the career ladder, but he has ‘charisma’. And that, in the political world, is hard currency. Because in that world, appearance is sadly way more important than substance. Its wrong but that’s how it works. We live in a world full of tossers who shout loud to let us know they’re important. Well, not so much live in it as watch it. So when Philip Hammond and Jeremy Hunt stand there to address the Conference, there is lots of substance. But the delivery is so tragically dull that no-one hears it or heeds it. There is no emotion, there is no passion, its cold and sterile and factual and as rousing as a 0-0 draw at the Emirates. Watching the Tories speak makes you realise why they had to invent recreational drugs. Then up steps Boris and is immediately a ‘wow!’ due to what has preceded him. Ruth Davidson knows how to speak too. And today we’ll see how ‘rousing’ the Prime Minister can be. (Shudder).

Any political party, as we now know, needs to engage the youth and cater to the aged. Not always that easy to reconcile. University money or care homes? Can we have both? At least the young can walk to the polling stations, I suppose. Yet its the old that generally vote. Ruth Davidson can engage the young voters. I’m not sure Theresa May can. How the fuck Jeremy Sodding Corbyn can do it I really don’t know.

Busy week. We have the Aussies coming round tonight for dinner before they fly off back to Sydney. Then tomorrow the Canadians are coming over to stay the night, which is fab cos we see them even less than we do the Aussies. Then Saturday we’re going to Israel to stay with my oldest mate who has just moved there from France where he’s been holed up for the last 26 years. Fortunately its the ‘international break’ (how appropriate) so there’s no proper football around now. Otherwise we’d be missing all our friends due to ‘important events’. I mean, you can always make new friends, but if Spurs were playing Burnley…

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx