Current Affairs
The Weathered Wisdom of Boomers: When ‘Storms Didn’t Have Names’ and Nobody Warned Us About the Floods”
You can’t beat indomitable baby boomer generation. The folks who walked uphill to school (both ways), survived on dripping sandwiches, and, apparently, lived through a golden age when the weather was just weather. No names, no warnings, no fuss, they just got on with it. Last week, these stalwart citizens faced an entirely modern affront to their meteorological memory: the UK’s named weather warnings. Wednesday Warning On Wednesday, ...
Grifters Gather: British Grifting Conference Draws Big Crowd
Farmers and Followers Flock to Hear Familiar Faces The annual British Grifting Conference took place in London yesterday, with organisers thrilled at the impressive turnout. While a few members of the general public made an appearance, the event was dominated by several thousand farmers eager to hear speeches from the country’s top grifters. Veteran figures such as Katie Hopkins, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson, and Nigel Farage took to the ...
Met Office Braced for Inane Weather Comments
The Met Office is gearing up for three days of relentless inane Facebook posts as a chilly northerly airflow sweeps across the UK. Get Over It Overnight, autumn snow dusted much of the country, quickly followed by a flurry of “It’s winter, get over it” posts as men of a certain demographic rushed to showcase their unparalleled grit. The digital weather map is already lighting up with patches of “It’s called winter” and “So ...
The Bitter Cost of Austerity: How Closing Youth Clubs Threw London’s Young People Under the Bus
When the UK embarked on its grand experiment with austerity in the 2010s, few anticipated the quiet but profound impact on youth clubs. After all, how much harm could cutting a few “extraneous” services really do? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Across London, about 30% of youth clubs closed their doors between 2010 and 2019, leaving thousands of young people adrift—no small feat in a city known for its thriving youth culture. But ...
Rory Stewart – Ignorance over Knowledge.
I have been listening to a great podcast recently. It is by former Tory politician, Rory Stewart. It is about how alleged knowledge can cause hubris and bad decision making on the presumption politicians know human behaviour. Stewart discovers that Human behaviour is often unpredictable, especially when people become aware of policies designed to control their actions. They tend to adapt in unexpected ways, which can undermine the intended ...