Roger Hutchinson

Eat the Rich sounds more each day like a moderate and sensible political programme.

Have so many prominent British political journalists, from so many major print and broadcast outfits, ever called a major story quite so badly as today?
They’d be fired from a self-respecting local weekly. Or at least put on sport and cattle sales for a year.

SpaceXit

Will nobody think of Rayan Cherki? That would have been his fourth EPL goal, and his first from 60 yards. Probably.

The fact that the crabs were live doubles her appeal.

12th century #Caturday

Most of the 404 Labour MPs are there only partly because of their own irresistible charms. They were elected as representatives of a party whose leader saw off three Tory PMs before winning a landslide. C’mon folks, a bit of solidarity? Three years is a long time in politics.

Trump and his cartel, his family and his administration are simply dirty. Sordid. Not a fragment of redeeming style, class or wit. Just filth, smeared on everything and everyone that touches them.

Hang on in there, Eddie and Keir.

Some people are suddenly exercised about the flawless operation of Labour governments, who last week didn’t give a damn.

Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,
Fast fading from our wistful gaze;
You mantling cloud has hid from sight
The last faint pulse of quivering light.

Before we hand Mandelson over to the press, politicians and public stocks, can we see right wing transgressors getting the same treatment.

In 2018 Musk defamed as “pedo guy” a British diver rescuing kids from a cave, then bought himself a not guilty verdict in court.
In 2026 Musk is revealed to be a wannabe or actual pedo guy. Hopefully it’s untrue, as it would then be the starkest manifestation of karma on record.

Having razed Eleanor Roosevelt’s East Wing, he’s now going to bulldoze the Kennedy Centre. All those tough-talking US pols and tycoons get to watch their capital city atomised because they’re scared of a demented paedophile with daddy issues.

Epstein papers evoke Chinatown… a movie about corruption in the 1930s USA.
The ending? As Jack Nicolson starts to protest the rapist paedophile John Huston leading his young daughter away from her murdered mother, he’s restrained and told, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

Along with the Roundhouse in London, the CCA (Third Eye Centre) was the last concrete survivor of the 60s/70s British cultural revolution. Salut, Tom McGrath.

So that’s why Musk wants his own principality on Mars. “Wild parties” out in the Solar System.

Imagine a Reform leadership election.
“I will deport them.”
“I will remove their children.”
“I will remove their fingernails.”
“I will send them to Antarctica.”
“I will make them row to Antarctica.”
“I will make them row to Antarctica with no fingernails.”
Probably best not.

Boris Johnson’s main legacy is his destruction of the Conservative Party. One of his many other bequests will be the soiled reputation of BBC news, and possibly of the corporation itself, unless Labour in government can save it from his henchmen. Nobody else will.

Reform’s next trick… exhume Enoch Powell, strap him to a saddle and ride him into battle like Charlton Heston in the El Cid movie. Confirm the Zombie vote.

This #Caturday more than most, we need reminding that the USA has also produced couples like this. On the right, Mark Twain. On his right shoulder, Tiddles.

Donald Trump gives a bad name to the previously honourable vocation of Vietnam draft dodger.

He has just been told that Mark will be washing his hair that morning.

Greenland/Iceland, who cares?Trump was always going to invade the wrong island. It’ll be Lewis next.

Pump jockeys and grocers in MAGA districts must be in physical danger from customers who are continually assured by their fuhrer that everywhere else in the USA, gas and food retail prices are a quarter their local cost.

50,000+ Greenlandic Inuit are the last natives of North America with their culture, language and independence pretty much intact.
They are also educated and know of such historical events as the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee.
A mystery why they won’t be subjected to the USA.

The FIFA Club World Cup (stolen from Chelsea FC). The FIFA Peace Prize (an invention of Gianni Infantino). The Nobel Peace Prize medallion (actually awarded to a completely different politician).
Trump’s trophy cabinet is straight from the black parade.

Jenrick being media washed as the new fresh future of the British right.
C’mon - he’s the guy who painted over Disney murals at detention centres in case they made six-year-olds smile.

Can we now have a more nuanced look at María Corina Machado? She’s not exactly Joan of Arc.

Jenrick sacking… why do rats in a sack jump to mind?