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The Chair of Intelligence & Security

Posted on July 16, 2020

The voting in of Julian Lewis as Chair of Intelligence & Security should be big news. A week ago, Boris Johnson, presumably on the advice Dominic Cummings, tried to force through the appointment of Chris Grayling into this role. It is one Grayling has no experience of. Grayling Grayling has a history of disasters behind him and you could imagine the day after being told to organise a piss up in a brewery, he could be seen outside ...

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Health & Safety and Assessing Covid19 Risk

Posted on July 10, 2020

For those of you who don’t know, I supply management and contract staff in the commercial M&E (Mechanical & Electrical) industry. At a guess, I reckon I have had the inconvenience of having around fifteen projects cancelled delayed in my 23 years in this industry. These have either been because of fears of structural damage, or a suspicion that there may be signs of asbestos on the site. It is a pain in the arse because what ...

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Coming Out of Lock-down

Posted on July 9, 2020

It has been interesting seeing more people again and hearing how they have been coping with lockdowns and major changes to their lives. As someone who has done a 20-year apprenticeship working from home in preparation for Covid19, I have been affected far less than most. In the months between the cricket season, I am often isolated, and generally, that’s the way I like it. I walk with my dog to places where I am unlikely to see too ...

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Boris Johnson and Cricket

Posted on July 3, 2020

Anyone who plays or supports recreational cricket (and isn’t a total Boris Johnson sycophant) would have learnt over the last fortnight what a lying, blustering, cretin the Prime Minister is. For reasons I can’t explain, Johnson seems to be targeting recreational cricket as a way to prove he knows what he is talking about. He tries to explain, with faux authority, why cricket is unique and cannot go ahead. Blagging and Waffling All ...

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Whataboutism

Posted on June 15, 2020

The term ‘Whataboutism’ is something that came to my attention the other day. I had sort of heard of it, but I didn’t really know it was a tool used as a way of deflecting guilt. Nazi Germany and the USSR Apparently, it was well used in Nazi Germany and Cold war Russia. Germany would defend putting Jews in camps, with other European countries doing the same thing during the ‘Race to Africa’. Communist Russia would deflect ...

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