Meme for the day!

I don’t know. I started this substack with high hopes but I don’t feel like that some days anymore. I find it dispiriting to see so few people engage with what I say which makes me think it’s not worth saying. I do appreciate you few loyal supporters who do engage with me and who like my posts. If it weren’t for you I would be gone. I always do my best to post content here daily but it’s feeling like a grind. I don’t know why but a post on substack gets around 1000th of the reactions/engagement I get elsewhere. The irony is I love writing and always have done so. The growth here is very modest and it has the effect of making me think I am pushing water uphill. So what do you think?

If there is a chasm between the Leader of a Political Party and the membership, that does not augur well.

Well then, we have further developments in the ever-entertaining Rochdale by-election and I want to explore the broader significance this has for Labour in particular and the UK more broadly. The Rochdale by-election was brought about by the death of Labour MP

In the very first instance, we shouldn’t be even remotely surprised that the crescent of Islam flies over Westminster Abbey. This was the sight that greeted anyone in the Westminster area yesterday and if they looked up at the massive tower of Westminster Abbey, there they saw the Pakistan flag. The Pakistan flag features the crescent of Islam.

Going into the White House and demanding security guarantees was a fatal mistake for Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to make and he found this out this morning.

It is being signalled that the Trump administration plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institute for Health (NIH) and if true, this will seriously trigger the Big Pharma-Political axis as much as Bobby Kennedy becoming Health Secretary.