BLOODY well done the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for ruling against the Tories’ unspeakable deportation policy. It tramples all over the human rights of some of the most desperate people in the world, so the ECHR simply did what it is there for.

Unexpected kudos for the Church and Prince Charles too. The Tories’ increasingly desperate attempts to please their cruel, thick, bigoted, fossilised Mail/Express/Sun “reader” base are creating a “distinguished” opposition outside Parliament.
 
Inside it I want to hear more from the “activist lawyer” of the Wapping era and less from someone who appears more concerned about offending the “opinions” of the aforementioned fossils. Worthing used to be crawling with them. We didn’t win the council by appeasing them, we did so by ignoring them and galvanising everyone else — and the simple passage of time is doing the rest.
 
Soon I will be writing a piece about how Worthing, and we next door in Adur applying the same principles, are developing a new approach to local government in opposition in the widest sense of the term.

Right now I am simply ashamed of the government which Old England voted for and in whose name it rules: a ghastly, pinched faced dinosaur in its own image, more concerned about tax cuts than refugees, more concerned about appeasing a similar minority in a small part of Ireland than playing a grown-up role in a modern Europe.
 
No bloody wonder that Johnson’s ethics adviser has just resigned. In other news, Sisyphus has put his boulder down, said “sod this for a lark” and gone to the pub.
 
As for me, I’ve waited three years for my first tour of Europe since Covid. It was due to start last Wednesday, but I caught Covid at our otherwise stupendously successful Glastonwick Festival here in Sussex the week before last. (For the first time we literally drank all the beer and the cider — we had to send out for more, and all of that got drunk too.)