Vic Grout

He’s there on the list
A lot more than twice.
It’s clear to us all
He hasn’t been nice
Orange Man is going to go down

Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman' The advert seeks

A London family wants £180k a year tutor for one-year old child to help him become an English gentleman.

Tutor must have gone to "the right kinds of schools", knowledge of horse riding, skiing, the arts and music.

This is the real island of strangers where class wars are inculcated at young age.

Is there published rota for Southampton managers? I’ll need a few months’ notice when it’s my turn.

Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car finance compensation scheme Lender’s chief executive says redress proposals could affect jobs, supply chains and broader UK economy

Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car loan compensation scheme.

Resents compensating victims.

No one forced banks to sell another dud product to boost profits and exec pay, not tell customers of secret commissions.

Directors should personally bear some of the cost.

‘Breakfast’ is such a great word. Only the English could present the concept of going to bed and sleeping as abstinence!

The inability of domestic animals to deal with such a simple concept as the clocks changing never fails to astonish me.

There is nothing whatsoever left to the UK government except optics - and they don't even do that well.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

Wow! It turns out there’s a yoga position I can do! (Although I call it something different.)

Most Norwegians I know want to be a fly on the wall when he's told 😜

I’m no historian but wouldn’t outlawing opposition to fascism have had some effect on the outcome of WW2?

Just discovered that a ‘phone ringing off the hook’ doesn’t mean much to Gen Z!

I wrote this 8 or 9 years ago. It’s towards the end of the ‘Conscious’ novel. Not exactly spot on yet but who knows?

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

Messages from a journalist trapped in Gaza: Sami can't think for the hunger Mike Joseph is a Welsh Jewish journalist and filmmaker who was brought up in Cardiff and lives in Pembrokeshire. More than 40 of his relatives from Germany were murdered by the Nazis and later his unc...

The King has just entertained the only man in the world who can save Gaza and stop Israel annexing Palestine. What use is all the journalism in the world if government-imposed famine and genocide continue while we sit down to dinner? ✍️Mike Joseph

Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation

Revolving doors.

Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser.

The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private.

TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers.

Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.

Political parties very much like buses?

Should striking a contrast with Reform really be so much of a problem for a Labour government?

But he's been there years! He was on TV!! You elected him FFS!!!

Just took the cybertruck through its first car wash.

Getting ChatGPT to write me a new religion. Full text. Two objectives: 1. Draw together characters/threads/principles from existing religions to keep everyone happy. 2. As many public holidays as possible. (Yes, I know 2 is unrealistic.)

The ‘Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’ argument may be valid, but the corollary that there are no new problems, perhaps needing new solutions (or even old solutions that may have been attempted in a previous or different context) doesn’t follow.

For example, what AI ‘can do’ or ‘may do’ in an abstract sense is far less a concern that what those who own/control it may ‘choose to do with it’.

Why is futurism so hard? Because it depends less on technology, and more on decisions made by a handful of too powerful, often egotistical, perhaps insane individuals. That has to be challenged, but the evidence we can do that ‘conventionally’ gets weaker and weaker.

Awful lot of people out there bemoaning ‘the times we live in’ but apparently content to stroll down the slope to oblivion rather than embrace any thought of change actually radical enough to do anything about it. Yes, it’s crap. Yes, addressing it might be uncomfortable and difficult. So?

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Stone Cold Justice: Israel’s torture of Palestinian children" - ABC Australia — Palestine Museum US Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 18:00 Europe; 19:00 Palestine, run time,46 minutes, English language. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with film the audience. P...

www.palestinemuseum.us/events/2023/...

There’s lies, damn lies, statistics, and the last ‘minute’ of the wash cycle!

Apparently, this has to be 'defended' in today's Britain?