This week was quite busy and yet it started with some depressingly routine news.

Prince Harry just released a 15-point action plan to defeat fake news, although he seemingly missed the most important one out: [1] get rid of Meghan

President Macron expressed sorrow at the death of 30 economic migrants who were trying to Escape France in order to get to England. But he told Boris not to worry because there’s plenty more where they came from.

But then of course Covid is back in the news with a new variant. Literally, the Greek letter ‘Nu’. To quote Jo Moore then a good day to bury bad news. Be prepared therefore for a litany of damning government reports and statistics to be quietly published safe in the knowledge that few people will pay attention. This however is only the tip of a fairly large iceberg, there are seemingly a lot of things going on in the world that the press are not mentioning.

On the Covid front alone, lets look at that variant’s name again. These have been getting named sequentially after greek letters and this one should have been called the Nu variant, I’m sure a number of tabloid editors already had pub-based headlines set to print, but as of this morning, the WHO have decided to skip a couple letters and they’re going straight to Omicron. Interestingly, “omicron” is an anagram of “moronic” and it seems that the WHO decided to skip Xi, written “X, i” in english, in order to not offend or embarrass the China’s dictator, I mean president, democratically elected president, who spells his name XI. Because the last thing the west would want to do would be embarrass are the Chinese government. I mean it’s not like they were responsible for Covid or anything, although lets give them some credit, most people didn’t think something Made In China would have lasted as long as it has.

On the China front though, there has also been a remarkable amount of military manoeuvres going on, all unreported in the West. This week saw the US congress introduce the “Taiwan Invasion Prevention Act” which is a stack of laws allowing the US to go to war in the China Sea without actually declaring war, it’s similar to how the US never officially went to war in either Korea or Vietnam, simply calling them ‘police actions’ instead. There’s been a lot of talk of stationing nuclear weapons on Taiwan, all as part of a last ditch retaliation shoud the island get invaded. Maybe they already have them, it’s fairly scary and Joe Biden was even explicitly asked: "Are you saying that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense if China attacked?" to which he replied, "Yes. Yes, we have a commitment to do that." And yet despite this, we stil lave the stuation where the US military is preparing to lay off literally hundreds of thousands of people. I’ve mentioned this a couple times but that clock is still ticking, the deadline is January 4th and on that date the armed forces will by presidential decree disband a huge vast number of personal, everyone from pilots to mechanics to civilian contractors. It would be somewhat ironic if the left wing president that gutted the armed forces, was the same one that later started a proxy against China.

Closer to home though, here’s an interesting question that hasn’t been see on TV, what is the deal with the Queen? She disappeared for several weeks and apparently all is well, the only story about the Queen I saw on the BBC was one about Freddie Mercury and LGBT rights. Nonetheless if you venture online the general concusses is that she has leukaemia and possibly had a stroke, there’s real shades of the Spy-catcher scandal here where things were widely discussed everywhere else in the world except from in Britain. The same thing admittedly happened in the US though recently: the governor of California gave daily press briefings for two years and then about a month or two ago he had a Moderna vaccine on live television. Then he canceled his trip to the climate change wokefest in Scotland and nobody saw or heard from him for 2 weeks until he eventually showed up to give a scripted interview where we only got to look at him from one side. He’s since been out of the public eye since and leaked reports all suggest that he suffered palsy down one side of his body and they’re trying to fix him before the day comes when he has to actually take part in active politics. He’s not up for election for another year so for now he’s largely hiding out in a bunker with a round the clock staff of doctors and experimental medicine, not to mention a complicit media reporting every press release as gospel truth.

I could go on with these stories, there are remarkable number of famous people who’ve died or disappeared from public life in the last 6 months but I do try to keep these videos short. And to be honest of all the stories going on the one I find saddest is the decision by Westminster council to allow Marks and Spencers to demolish it’s art-deco headquarters on Oxford Street in favour of something so generic it could be build anywhere in the world. Although at least everyone will be in agreement that it will be better than that ghastly mount thing that the council built round the corner at marble arch.