I am very Team David and Victoria rather than Team Brooklyn, but it’s time the Beckham parents left their wayward son to his new life. Last weekend, they were at it again, posting pictures of him on Father’s Day, despite him repeatedly asking them to leave him alone. They’re beginning to look like stalkers, not parents. Let matters rest.
Something for Meghan to think about
Also on the subject of Father’s Day, Meghan paid tribute to Harry – but to her own father? Not a word. When her own children grow up and discover the extent to which she denied them their Royal heritage, will they do the same to their own children? The punishment would certainly fit the crime.
Strange times…
What very strange times we live in. The people who look most likely to save us from the nightmare of Chancellor Ed Miliband are, of all people, the unions. They correctly see that his obsession with Net Zero is putting jobs and livelihoods at risk. They are also the people who made him the Leader of the Labour Party in 2010. Go figure.
They make the lasses down to earth up North, and no one more so than Cheryl Tweedy. Her late partner Liam Payne’s £21 million fortune is set to end up with their son Bear, but our Cheryl is fighting to ensure he doesn’t receive it until he’s 25. That is very sound. I know one boy who never bothered to try at school on the grounds that his father was rich and so why bother? He ended up being expelled for drug dealing. Best to shield young Bear for as long as she can.
The best of Britain
Has the BBC noticed the wave of sympathy and goodwill that has greeted the news that Jeremy Clarkson has cancer? Auntie clearly loathed him and couldn’t wait for the first opportunity to get shot of the presenter, but to the rest of us, he sums up the best of the UK. Stoutly anti-politically correct, refuses to moan, gets on with, likes a pint at the pub. He’s also probably the reason behind Rachel Reeves’s vindictive attack on farmers. Incoming Labour PMs, take note.
Labour rats left sharpish
Despite the fact that he was the worst Prime Minister we have ever had, and that includes Liz Truss, it’s hard not to feel a wee bit sorry for Keir Starmer. He became leader of the Labour Party because he wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn, and he became Prime Minister because he wasn’t Rishi Sunak. At least he left his office with dignity, although only four members of his Cabinet could be bothered to come out to support him. Talk about rats leaving a sinking ship.
This man’s MO could improve the world overnight
Amidst the jockeying to become the next Prime Minister, may I nominate Sir Stephen Watson? The Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable has said of his force, “We won’t take the knee, we’re not going to wear rainbow lanyards, we’re not going to dance around with environmental protesters.” Hear, hear. If every police force in the country followed suit, the world would, frankly, improve overnight.
This week’s quote
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupidity lasts forever.” – Aristophanes
Let’s hope this isn’t right
I hope I’m wrong, but the thought of Andy Burnham changing from a T-shirt into a suit in the loo of an Avanti train running late on its journey from Manchester to London seems strangely prophetic. Talk about the country going down the pan!
