The disagreement between the PM and France continues to go on, although it could really just be settled if Boris gave a press conference and pointed out that if they’re our migrants then they’re also our fish.
Ghislaine Maxwell trial for human trafficking began in New York this week. Personally, I don’t see why they’re bothering with a trial, she’s clearly qualified to start the human trafficking job full time.
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, but if the white runs out I have a spare case of red in the basement

This week was once again dominated by talk about the Omicron covid story. I heard a politician on the news mentioning the old expression “one door opens as another one closes’ which I thought would have represented with some stock footage of an advent calendar, it would be no less newsworthy than watching the stock footage of people at airports, all of which only show peoples legs, or maybe the classic of a graph plotting numbers, with no numbers on the y axis.

The only truly newsworthy part of the story was Prof Mark Woolhouse, a government advisor, pointed out that it was too late to do anything and that there was nothing the government could do that would have any material impact on things. He also used an old expression: that it was like locking the stable door after the horse had bolted. That presumably means that the EU's response will be to call for more stringent legislation about the construction of horse stables and locks. All while abandoning any thought of restricting travel from Africa because that would be discriminatory. In America, travel bans are also being equated to racism although this was true 3 year ago. It’s worth remembering that 2 years ago President Trump tried to put in a travel ban from China and Italy and the likes of Nancy Pelosi claimed it was an act of white supremacy before welcoming in covid-tourists with a guarantee that none of the money set aside for border testing would be allowed to be used for such. Right now people arriving in the US have to have proof of a vaccination or test yet the rules are deliberately not applied to those arriving illegally from Mexico and this is genuinely being done on the grounds of not offending any one specific demographic.

A lot of effort is thus being used to hide the death toll in places like California or Arizona and suppress the possible reasons for the crisis. Except politicians (at least the ones in power) don’t use words like “crisis” - just like how they also don’t use words like “sorry” or “mistake” or “we made”