The body in the Landrover

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Human Rights vs politicians

When a Labour Home Secretary is praised by Tories and Reform UK, it should ring warning bells. 

If politicians attack the human rights of refugees, our own human rights will be next. 

It should be clear that Labour has abandoned any pretence of supporting the working class. A new party is needed.

The Seventh Son

Human beings tend to regard homo sapiens as the last word in evolution and as being superior to other iterations of humanity because we possess consciousness.

What if our consciousness is the very thing which leads to dementia? Without giving away the whole plot, a billionaire has the means to conduct an experiment which might just uncover this paradox. 

It is fair to say that he is not concerned with the human "subjects" of his experiment and when it becomes clear what he is playing at, he thinks his money will protect him and compensate his victims enough so that they don't mind.

The disastrous consequences for the prime subject of the experiment (the "seventh son" of the title) might make us think twice about playing with people's lives!

Labour and refugees

"Billionaires cause the problems, so let's attack the refugees." seems to be Labour Policy at the moment.

Are refugees easier to attack?

The enemies of the people arrive in private jets not small boats.

 #billionaires #refugees #Labour 

A modest proposal about the monarchy

More Racist than Thou

The Artist formerly known as Prince Andrew

So the grand old Duke of York is no more. And on purely spurious grounds he retains the title of ‘Prince’.

He was ‘born a Prince’ and could have stopped using the title. He chose not to and Charles let him. #princeandrew #kingcharles #epstein

The King can grant, revoke, or amend titles using a legal instrument called Letters Patent. Charles chose not to do so. 

It is time to get rid of the lot of them.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Worthing Musical Comedy Society production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert gives new life to songs we thought we had forgotten. The costume department are the unsung heroes of this show. Each time I found myself thinking, "They can't get more outrageous and extravagant than this." Each time I was wrong.

It was a hugely entertaining evening. The plot follows an improbable journey of three drag queens across Australia from Sydney to Alice Springs. En route they have a series of impossible adventures in a number of places with unlikely (but accurate) names.

Australia is not the worst place in the world for homophobia (That would be Saudi Arabia where gay relationships carry the death penalty) but at the time of the story it was a serious problem and it still is.

So to make light of it with some very good (and rather shocking) jokes is an interesting approach.

The improbability of the plot does not matter, the production of the musical numbers does. On that score it is a great success.