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Jan 15, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
I have only just finished the latest round of prescription codeine, and it will not be the last; I have also had tramadol in my time. The dosage of my antidepressant has been doubled, and my cognitive behavioural therapy was supposed to start this afternoon, but they cancelled it this morning.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Oh, the names that you called us for advocating a ceasefire in Gaza. You need not pretend now that you had ever been in favour of one before today. Until the moment that it was announced, then you were still trying to bully the Police into banning a march for it. You are being as dishonest about this as you are about the Chagos Islands, of which you had never heard a few months ago.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Ivor Caplin is back on Twitter, so the terms of his bail obviously do not preclude such things. And he is already sailing close to the wind. Doubtless for the edification of Rachel Reeves and of the other Labour grandees among his followers. After all, how else is Reeves filling up her days? Today's "unexpected dip in inflation" does not mean that prices are falling. It does not even mean that they are staying the same. It just means that they are rising by very slightly less than had been expected.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Sorcha Eastwood is suing Andrew Tate, so we now know which constituency he should contest. Lagan Valley. What is he frightened of?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
"The door remains open to you going forward," Keir Starmer assures Tulip Siddiq. There was none of that for Louise Haigh, who had merely had something with a mobile phone years ago, and whose resignation statement the House of Commons still awaits. But whatever else Siddiq may be, she is not, as Kemi Badenoch might put it, a peasant. I do not agree with unexplained wealth orders without a conviction. But they are the law. Let there be one against Siddiq.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Still no word either from Alastair Campbell or from Oliver Kamm in response to Tony Blair's remarks about depression. Nor from Luciana Berger, who also has to account for her ties to Ivor Caplin. More and more people are saying that Gillick competence, which ought to be called Thatcher competence after the woman who fought for it rather than after the woman who fought against it, has created a culture of sex with children. Some of us have been saying that forever.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
As the American-backed President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon appoints Nawaf Salam as Prime Minister, Salam is succeeded as President of the International Court of Justice by Julia Sebutinde, its only permanent judge to vote against all provisional measures against Israel. And as Fr Timothy Gardner pleads guilty at Newcastle Crown Court, he does so for the same reason as he did 11 years ago, namely because he just could not take it anymore. This time, he was supposed to have been tried in July.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Apparently joined by Traditional Unionist Voice, Reform UK wants to ban Quantitative Easing, and wants to return to the Gold Standard. Yes, you did read that second part correctly. But Reform is relying on two groups to turn out for it and dislodge Labour from scores of seats. One is outright racial nationalists, who have never quite trusted Nigel Farage, and who are already thoroughly annoyed with him.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
The British government has announced a new commission that it hopes will build a ‘national consensus’ on social-care reform. Yet despite Labour’s talk of the ‘critical issues’ that face the social-care sector, the commission won’t deliver its first report until 2028, which is around the time of the next election. In other words, despite decades of debates, commissions and reports about social care, Keir Starmer and Co are kicking the can even further down the road.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
davidaslindsay.blogspot.com | David Lindsay
Since becoming Italian Prime Minister in 2022, Giorgia Meloni has developed a notable rapport with Elon Musk. The tech billionaire attended the 2023 edition of Meloni’s political festival, Atreju, and she has defended his recent political comments.
