Five star splatter-happiness

Don't, it only encourages 'em...

With all the humanity and compassion you'd expect from the breed, a Minister for something or other has said we must stop rescuing refugees in trouble on our seas...

...it only encourages others to set off on perilous voyages. Apparently.

Actually, by behaving in a decent and humane manner, we're only making things worse. It has to stop, he said.

Last year the Italian navy or coastguard or whatever, saved 150,000 people. That's pretty good going, isn't it? We're not helping any more.

I thought about this for a while...

...and...

...I think that, by playing the game and paying our taxes, we're only encouraging government overspending. Worse still, we're funding benefit fraud and similar heinous crimes. Worst of all, we're responsible, us dirty tax payers, for the expenses fiddles and snouts in the trough excesses of our political classes.

There's only one thing to do. Stop paying tax. Otherwise, you only encourage them.

Being for the benefit of Mr Keitel

Winston The Wolf Wolfe. Ex-Pulp Fiction, now in the insurance adverts. There's something horrible about that.

I wonder if anyone's called up Direct line and said:

“If it makes you feel better, “please”. Pretty please with sugar on top. Now. Repair my f*****g car.”

Books like buses

You wait and wait, then along they all come. Those ones that I never miss reading, those ones that I've read everything they've published, those very few cream of the elite. All in a row: Amis, Zone of Interest, Will Self, Shark, Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Ian McEwan, The Children Act. All within weeks. They must've planned it. I foresee a fortune in library fines (I'm 34 pence down already, and that was just on the Booker Prize winner – which wasn't the Booker Prize winner when I loaned it, but was when I returned it, two days into the red zone of shame).

The Walking Dead

Totally giving up on trying to retain any sort of timeline here, the new season Walking Dead (BLISS: “Walking the Dead” - “Just off out dear...taking the zombies out down to the park, have you seen their leads?”) has started really strongly. More going on, more tension than recently, and, and this can only be a good thing, a blood and gore upgrade to five star business class splatter-happy.

“That Gabriel, what's he in?”

DLL knows everyone and what they're in. “I don't know” she said. After much fretting...”The Wire”!!! I said. “Never watched it”, she said. See? That's where I've gone wrong. None of them've watched The Wire.