We are rubbish. Arsene? Ivan? No sword to fall on?

Bouncebackinability

We're loaded with that at the Arsenal at the moment. The best-paid manager in the world. A £2.5m / year...what, exactly? Chief executive of executing chiefly spreadsheet success at the expense of teamsheet success. Brass in pocket, not silverware in trophy cabinet. As BLISS will attest (apparently they gather dust and are absolutely hideous) I've picked up more trophies in the last seven years than the cash-rich, win-poor club I support. They do include (among others, honest) the duck trophy, which is awarded for being rubbish, and is a brass umbrella-carrying duck, and is the only one that met with BLISS' approval: “can't you win that one again, I liked that one”. “No” (or words to that effect).

So at a nasty AGM it's doubly galling for Peter Hill-Wood to dismiss the shareholding fans with “thanks for showing so much interest in our club”, like it's some members only society run for the benefit of the great and the good.

Arsene has gone from the professor to the mad professor. The £2.5m / year what exactly Gazidis keeps on about how great we'll be in 2014 when the financial fair play rules come in. He sounds like that pay for two burgers tomorrow in return for a hamburger today character.

Meanwhile, on the grass where things matter, things are pretty bleak. Bank balance? Brilliant. Power balance? Falling behind. At an accelerating rate. League? Already gone, too far off the pace in October. CL? Forget it. FA ot League Cup? Here's hoping. Very faint hope though.

Lilley livered

Peter Lilley is one of three (that's one of 650-ish, and that less than 0.5%) of MPs who voted against the climate change act in 2008. He's been appointed to the climate change select committee.

He's a climate change sceptic (that is he's as mental as the holocaust deniers, the flat earth people and the creationists). He's vice-chair of Thetys Petroleum Ltd (no conflict of interest there then).

He was in Thatcher's cabinet. That's the Thatcher / Saville paedo cabinet soon to be revealed (my guess anyway). It's like appointing Simon Cowell to the good music committee, or Ghenkis Khan to the give peace a chance committee. It's like entering Charles Hawtree for Mr Universe.

One reason why I can't vote. Labour's record on climate change was equally poor, caving in to the money men. Another reason is this:

Dead whales

Killed by BP. Obama's government were, apparently “tightly controling information about whales and other wildlife caught up in the [BP] disaster”. I think that means “covering up”.

Politicians.

Slaughter the beautiful: whales, badgers, whatever. They'll sign on the dotted line to butcher them.

Support the devious, the nasty, the underhand. They look after their own. All parties. All the same.