John Sharman

Now it's sleepy Donald!

even in MAGA, is to damn well release the files and get it all out in the open, has burst the flood: Trump has lost his visceral instincts: MAGA can now see beyond him; only a publicly-generated shame can turf the monster out. The Epstein Files are the radium beneath US politics & Trump's
mortality.

Trump is at his weakest, off his game, with the idea of con-jobs, it's the affordability crisis, stupid, he just doesn't see it: the Epstein declarations he made while out of power, " to clean the swamp", release the Epstein Files, now he' stubbornly refused to, when the mounting swell

arrested while in the White House despite Presidential
immunity? Just ask yourself, how can a man of such low
moral standards be President? Is he now more dangerous than ever? America must be in quick decline. Poverty, medical assistance destroyed, living standards, murder,
litigation.

became elected into the most powerful office? Are we now seeing the results of such an election? Strange deaths of major players, marches on the Capitol, the flagrant breaking of laws, breaching of codes, child molestation in high places. How come he was ever elected? Will he be

Everything practically in the news is about Trump or revolves around Trump, it's good copy: Trump is literally on fire throwing out sparks like on Guy Fawkes Night: this shows the decline in our world's standards. Corruption is so deep with so many tentacles: how come untruth

The dog that didn't bark:
the dog barks,
the caravan moves on.

religion and sex in modern language. He said Lawrence was a great writer, but not much liked by his countrymen. He married a baroness and rose in the world, but couldn't live in England. The English treated him & Frieda as foreign spies in Cornwall, where they lived in a cottage.

language to him. He said he's still learning new words every day, he loves language. He said he speaks in French to his Italian wife. Burgess was astounded 2 books sold on the same day: The Bible( modern version) and DH Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover: to learn about

Anthony Burgess on Terry Wogan makes you realize what a talent we lost: he said the English don't appreciate their writers, they have to give their language away to foreigners: Joyce had to leave Ireland to write the truth of Dublin. He said he's lived abroad so long, English is like a foreign

I'll miss Tess Daly going, just a beam of positivity, an upliftor of contestants; the one to greet the dancers as they came off the dance floor, she took over the Bruce Forsyth role, a hard act to follow; but I'll also miss Claudia, who effortlessly calms the nerves, and interacts like a rolls royce

Has somehow been able to muster the energy of survival at a low level, and charmed all the judges with her dance in sync with the music & partner, to find the grace to pull it off. The fact is the 2 bottom couples on the judges' table were voted out by the public. Balvinder got to Blackpool!

The Geordie lass Vickie was the person who left Strictly
this week: she, the one ray of sunshine in the crew, her flashing smile, her Geordie accent,ably supported by Kai, with Geordie in him too. This just wasn't her best dance, but she still had something. Balvinder 4th week in the dance off

An angry mess of a man full of malignant power,who shortly will fall due to the Epstein Files release. He might want this to go to trial and with a jury, this could cost 1$billion at least: a fifth of the annual licence fee. The BBC could fall like an ancient monastery into ruins: bare ruined choirs

Remember the story of the 3 little pigs and the Big Bad Wolf: this exactly describes the state our wonderful BBC has got itself into( though admitting errors) with a dangerous psychopathic President, who now wants $5 billion lawsuit. He'll huff ,he'll puff he'll blow the house down.

Godard at the start of the new wave of French films in the 60s. She was there an American visiting Paris and selling newspapers on the streets with Jean Paul Belmondo: this film was filled with new hope for a kind of street cinema done on low budgets. Both films were harbingers. Seberg
led hardlife

Jean Seberg acted in 2 very good films which define her career: St. Joan and Breathless, pulling off 2 very different parts: one for Otto Preminger, of the gifted peasant girl who hears voices from the saints, to rouse up French soldiers and drive out the English; the other for

They are both good, one better than the other. La Voix is hard to categorize, but is doing well. I'm not sure she/he should be aiming to get one of the judge's jobs. She/he pulls something off each week: showbusiness. Others just dance, enough for me. Amber, Alex, Karen & Balvinder are all stars.

Strictly was good tonight, we have the main runners & riders,
the dancers have now gelled with their celebrities, and are now falling over themselves in praise of them. Results now all on one table with 11 points between top & bottm. The females are stronger this year, with 2 male dancers still in.

can act drunk or show withdrawal symptoms. I like
having episodic narratives to tell a good story, beyond
what a film can do, but let's not have too many episodes, eh? We know she'll overcome her enemies and find the killer, don't we? The modern anti-hero.

act drunk or in drug withdrawal for a whole episode? We
get the message, please someone get her her fix, so we can get on with the story! The actress is fine in her role,
but to extend such series in the name of authenticity is
ridiculous: the story is the thing, not how well you

In The Ridge ( 4th episode)we have a young female doctor suffering withdrawal symptoms from some patch drug for the whole episode, yet she is after the killer of her sister and she is in trouble as an anaesthetist at home in UK( she's now in Australia). Why does an actor have to

lucky if they get 4.8%, they are the real backbone of the
NHS. The doctors who are striking say there's not enough jobs: there'll be even less if the costs of the strikes to the NHS take effect. To ask for the rises they are asking for in so large compared to normal public pay rises.BMA too radical.

Doctors on strike after getting 28.9% last year, shows that the doctor's union is no longer part of the public service ethos, with spiralling costs going yearly into the NHS. Doctors originally resisted NHS formation; now they are in danger of breaking it apart. The nurses are

Starmer in his responses to rebel MPs is saying what you could do is rock the Bond markets; Starmer is saying I have won the right to power/responsibility,be careful what you do. He's denying he had knowledge( we know he did). Now Starmer fears outcome of Budget & May elections. Starmergeddon?

While McSweeney is dictating all Starmer's directions and thinking he will never succeed as leader: he needs to cut loose from this incredibly powerful secret sharer. He needs to get a life, a backbone, a will. A party.

came from inside his govt. Starmer's time is limited: he reels out lists of achievements of Labour, but he's is totally tin-eared, lacking the courage to even do a John Major. He is no iron man, but a man of process only, with no recognizable political I.D. Why does nobody know him, nor know how to?

Starmer's time as a serious political operator is finished:
his calm, neutral tones persona will not wash when he shores up his govt. with agents he will not identify:
McSweeney's hands are all over the attempt to flush out leadership contenders, but Starmer is 'assured' nothing

Two things we learned today: 1) PM 'assured' no briefings from inside no.10;2) Rachel Reeves? PM will not be changing the fiscal rules for this budget after all, so no raise in income tax.
Now Morgan McSweeney, Starmer's henchman/fixer will not be moved: then Starmer would lose his shield.

In the words of Bob Dylan: " Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters". My advice: don't change your horses in midstream! Is Starmer up to the job? Does he really have the stomach for the fight? Why doesn't he communicate fully from his own centre? Reach out to his party? The disenchanted.