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The biggest problem in the UK government's utter incompetence is a lack of diversity. In Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed writes that if you have a management culture full of the same demographics with the same backgrounds, educations and experiences, you are less able to adapt and change. Within these public school Oxbridge cabinet wankers, there is zero diversity. They are clones. In a crisis, they are particularly unable to make good decisions because they are not prepared (or indeed able) to think outside their narrow frames of reference. The Edinburgh wifie on Channel 4 News articulated the relationship between science and government. When we have wankers like Whitty and Vallance coming from the same pods as the arsehole politicians, they are totally fucked. That van Tamm cunt is just as bad as all the rest of the arrogant pricks.

Here's a speculation; Covid-19 is slowing in Europe because of warmer weather more than the lockdown, which some countries don't have anyway. Evidence? Don't have any. Call it a hunch. But the percentage increases right across Europe are dwindling daily. The UK will have a spike today in reported deaths due to our usual Sunday Monday weekend reporting syndrome and at some point need to include the non-hospital deaths in England which will be a HUGE spike. What sort of civilisation doesn't count them all? How big is their incompetence that they couldn't put in place a system to count properly? So much for protecting the most vulnerable. Care home workers still don't have PPE.

POTUS45 is having bigger and better meltdowns at the daily briefings. Compulsive viewing and tragically comical often. Greek masks.

Saw that one last night and whilst it wouldn't surprise me and would totally be in keeping with the psychopathic Cummings and cabinet, we need to guard against it being fact. I would guess it is true and would offer 33/1 or longer for it not being true but this is where we can expect independent free journalism to kick in. We won't hold our breath for Kuntsberg or Peston picking it up. The mainstream media are a sham in this country. Even Rupert crucifying Boris on Sunday was an act of political agenda and slut-like, following and reacting to social media rather than leading and exposing anything we didn't know.

This was him in 2017: - Disgusting to hear him refer to his Aberdonian roots today, twice on Marr.

I bought the Sunday Times today for possibly the first time this century, having been a regular for a long time. Would've bought it when the Cummings story broke but it had sold out. How is it possible to escape the online paywall?

This pressure on China following Trump's attack on the WHO is bearing fruit. Their figures didn't ring true before and unless they genuinely are experiencing a second wave worse than anyone could've imagined, yesterday, in one day only, we can't believe fuck all from them. The genius Ai Wei Wei was on Peston this week. Love that man.

Very interesting way to look at the stats TW. What I take from it is that Germany's greater testing rate is identifying those in the community for which being Covid-19 positive is not a big deal, which will be the same in every country of course if we had tested widely instead of mostly those who turn up at hospitals. What needs to be done is to understand what they (and others) did so well that we, Italy, Spain, France and the US got so wrong. For me the third question tonight was a fuck up and an opportunity lost. After the first two questions focused on the Liberate tweets and the protests that ensued, the media HAD TO stay on it and I'm sure he would've cracked. Changing the subject completely let him off the hook. Loved Cuomo today. He's a voice of reason and Trump has picked a really bad fight there. The NY governor is keeping his powder dry for now but he's going to crucify the fake POTUS one day soon.

If it's true that we paid up front for tests that didn't work - and I can strongly believe that this inept government did - then it defies the basics of business, negotiation and common sense, even with the increased global demand. There is no limit to their stupidity. Unsurprisingly given that none of them are of, nor have never been part of the real world. This is how a brazen street smart cunt does it: - https://www.businessinsider.com/fema-paid-bankrupt-company-no-employees-55-million-n95-masks-2020-4

I've been following Hitchens arguments for a while and heard both that interview on Monday and the one the week before. He's asking if the lockdown is proportionate given the devastating effect to not just the economy but the healthy old, to people who's other surgeries have been cancelled etc. etc. He's an intelligent man and after he was accused of having a humility-bypass and it being pointed out that his absolute certainty was "ugly" (as he is not an expert in the field), his arguments have been stronger.

If the wife didn't tell the major that Tecwin was involved in coughing, why did Tecwin cough at the correct answers?

I'm quite liking the fact that there's less stress and more time to do things. I'm missing the social side of life but saving money by not eating out or going to the pub. Then again, I've not had any income for a month as it was like a tap getting switched off but fortunately I don't have huge fixed costs, neither business nor personal and had a few quid in the bank. We could live off my wife's monthly NHS pay for the first time for decades so we appreciate that we are luckier than most but the economic impacts will be horrendous for many. Overall it's a big negative and I find the most depressing aspect of it all is twofold; the utter incompetence of the Westminster government and the sheer stupidity of the people, as evidenced not just by the fact they voted these cunts in but how many dithering fuckwits and little Hitlers there are amongst the customers in the supermarkets, plus some of the arsehole keyboard warriors on Twitter.

Brilliant again and so refreshing to hear intelligence for a change, the government providing none.

I love his "that fucking accent eh". He's not afraid to reveal prejudices and he'll know that many of us have the exact same prejudices. His cancer bands is my favourite. It's social observation only but delivered so intelligently, it just floors me in mirth. She's turned the weans against us is genius. We've all known losers like that. When he talks his mugger into not mugging him and then batters him with his laptop case, that was also very cleverly done and as with everything he does, extremely thought provoking. The double dildo sketch to sell the need to communicate was incredible. In the current series, he's just as scared as me was phenomenal.

I've been watching Quiz this week, which includes some very good actors. Thoroughly enjoying it. All available on stvPlayer, third and final episode tonight.

I watched the first on Friday and have since seen the other two. It's fantastic in my book but I know that the majority of people wouldn't like it, or wouldn't "get it" as the parlance might be. My two daughters with whom I went to see Limmy's Vines last year at the Fringe had a chat about what we liked about Limmy and why we agreed that the majority wouldn't like him. Of course these were just opinions (as the data showing what the majority think isn't available) but I saw something this morning that reinforced my views about Limmy, who I think is a total genius by the way. I happened across a Bob Mortimer tweet and then took a few minutes to see some of his other tweets in the last month which included some phenomenal video clips - have a cappachoochoo on me, ya. What I think that Limmy and Vic n Bob and Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield and George Carlin and Bill Hicks etc. etc. all have/had in common is two things. Their not giving a fuck ethos frees them to do what they like and what they like to do, or particularly how they choose to do it is highly original and totally innovative. I find those artists extremely funny not just for their anti-establishmentism but more so because they make me laugh out loud where the more popular "comedies" don't. Mrs Brown's Boys and Only Fools and Horses and Dad's Army and Allo Allo and numerous other sitcoms are formulas, and I despise every one of them. Monty Python was good in the early 70's when I first saw them but their appeal left me cold as I grew up. You need to have an open mind to watch Limmy (or any of the other originals who don't follow a time-honoured "script"). The formulaic comedy can include much funny stuff too but it is the formula itself that allows the masses to conjoin in mutual appreciation, unthreatened by anything they don't fully understand. I don't even know why half of Limmy's stuff cracks me up, it just does, every time. It's like surrealist art or cubism for me. I don't understand why Magritte painted what he did, I have no idea what Dali's images are supposed to be and I don't even know why I like Braque and Picasso and Klee etc., I just do. I know Vic did a piece on dadaism (which wasn't anything other than a slightly interesting offshoot of "real" art for me) and that there can be correlations between his brand of comedy and that but even analysing it too much defeats the purpose for me. Let it wash, let it flow. Limmy's flow of sketches on TV are as good as it gets for me and unlike his vines etc., he keeps his best stuff for these shows. I tuned in to his YouTube after his show on Friday but tuned out after 5 minutes. I don't care to hear him talking about his art, I just want to watch it, blissfully happy in my ignorance of what it's supposed to mean or trying to critically analyse aspects of it.

As proof of tangential discussions happening on different subjects despite the original post being on something else, I'm not sure that I need to be worried about data on all of our movements because it's already out there (if we move with our smartphones, which most of us do). Much as I distrust the deep state and the globalist agenda and I'm as convinced as David Icke that there are dark forces behind the scenes, I'm not as certain as him that they're clever enough to pull off what he claims. I also still believe in the power of dissent, although this may well be a rather old-fashioned view which hopefully won't be proved to be a great mistake on my part.

Rico I don't think the title needs changed. They are two totally separate subjects. I don't know much about 5G so wanted to have a thread to learn about it. You're talking about contact tracing in the fight v. Covid-19 for which the use of an App may be viewed as an imposition, which I don't (because they've already got the data of where we go anyway). One correction however. Holmes was NOT saying that 5G causes the virus. He said that the person refuting that couldn't possibly know this to be untrue, BIG difference. I've seen some wild theories in my time but I don't mind outliers, in fact they're incredibly useful. I see no link between Covid and 5G. They aren't on the same page.

The most defining moment in world history, live right now. Never have we ever seen a madman have this big a major meltdown. Just incredible. Edit: A bit of an overreaction last night whilst jaw agape. It will be the most defining moment in Trump's demise, or at least it should be but you never know with Amerikhuns, the stupidest race on planet earth but not the most defining in "world history". The men in white coats should come and wheech him off the stand tonight. That would be apt, and then televise the arrest, his plaintiff pleas and the interviews with him, all without him knowing that it's being filmed. That way, even the last remnants of his supporters will understand why he had to go, as well as giving the rest of us a reet good laff.

Channel 4 News once again picking up the baton that none of the MSM are interested in, nailing the Care Home issue. And well done Scotland for being logical in its counting, as well as being humane, open and transparent. I swear DimWhitty was making it up on the hoof in today's briefing.

Although I am starting to wonder if Peter Hitchens has been right all along.

In my opinion, Aiatair Campbell has been the best voice on Twitter over the last week. Frankie Boyle has nailed it of course, Piers Morgan gets too excited in his attempts to "hold the government to account" and whilst there are millions of us out there who see the utter evil incompetence of the "leadership", the measured and structured intelligent observations and criticisms that the old Labour spin doctor delivers are second to none.

Here we go again...

Priti Patel has a cold cruelty about her that's very disturbed. Her arse being the size of a small country wouldn't help her confidence and self image but there's some severe shit going on in her head. Another human misfit in a cabinet filled with nothing but.