Current affairs

The news here continues grim, and seems to worsen by the minute. One disreputable group of politicians with extreme views has just done a dodgy deal with another disreputable group of politicians with extreme views, just so that the former can maintain its grip on power. And hey presto, the former have found a huge amount of money (which they had always maintained was not there, when it was needed for such things as hospitals), in order to stump up the appropriate bung. It really stinks. I have never been patriotic. One's nationality is an accident of birth. But what with this latest news, on top of the Brexit stuff and the forthcoming cuts to disabled people's benefits, I am feeling positively ashamed to be British. Oh, and by the way Brenda is to get a £600 million per annum pay rise, on top of the £300-odd million that she's been awarded for home refurbishment. And all this in times of austerity.