Morning music
Part of the soundtrack to my childhood in the early 1960s.
Saturday quiz
Well, this week another narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, my 5/10 trumping his 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 6, and 7, and also failed to immediately bring to mind the answers to questions 8 and 10, which I “really” knew (in the back of my mind)…
Tweets seen
More music
Telstar…perhaps the music, a short piece, that sticks in my mind the most from when I was 6 years old (it came out in December 1962).
More tweets
According to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] (adjusted to add-in tactical voting and Scottish voting), that would leave the Conservative Party with only 80 seats (Labour Party 483; LibDems 38).
The latest YouGov poll (9 January 2024) is even more stark: Con 72, Lab 514, LibDems 36.
Call me spiteful, but one of the aspects of all that I like the most is thinking about all those nasty and/or smug little careerists of recent years, in the 20-40 age range, willing to “throw under a bus” the poor, unemployed, disabled etc, and who thought that they had a future as Con Party MPs coming to them, and now face a less-pleasant future of having to work in a real job for a living.
“Army“? Do they mean “Navy“? Are the 20-something wannabee “journalists” of 2024 really that ignorant? Seems so…
Ha ha. The Kiev regime is toast.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 