Weird Energy

There’s a very weird energy around at the moment. Maybe it’s because I’m focused on the small biting monster that has just come to live with us and I’m only getting news in snippets but there’s so much that just doesn’t make sense.

Putin has tied to make an ally of JK Rowling because she’s got a bee in her bonnet about transgender issues. Apparently, she’s been cancelled, even though she hasn’t (and thank God because by her keeping talking I have realised that I don’t agree with her)  This is despite her donating squillions to Ukrainian refugees and people are furious with her. They believe Putin. 

Nazanine Radcliffe was released after the government decided that paying the debt was necessary to get access to their oil and people were cross that she spoke. How dare she not be grateful? How dare she be cross that she’s missed 6 of her daughter’s formative years? How dare she look healthy?

Boris was criticised for standing awkwardly while being asked to wait for an awkward group photo. As much as I’d like a new Prime Minister this was a very unfair criticism. 

Rishi Sunak borrowed someone’s car to put petrol in for a photo (I hope he paid for it)  to show off his budget that highlights how none of us are going to be able to afford petrol or heating. He also bragged about all the different types of bread he has. His wife is also allowed to keep trading with Russia and no matter how skinny his trousers or how white his teeth, his popularity has plummeted. Now there’s nobody to take over from bumbling Boris, except Selfie-Truss and no one wants another woman.

Covid is over but everyone knows someone who is ill or has lost a grandparent to it in the last few weeks. Class sizes drop from 30 to 11 in a week. Hospitals, schools are impossible to staff. But it’s over. Ignore everything you were told at the beginning. 

In response to these difficulties, particularly as school attendance is at an all time low, the department of education have come up with a genius plan. Teachers will teach and help children who have fallen behind. Genius. If only schools had thought about that before. Maybe if they could deal with the number of people who are sick that might be possible.

Abramovich was poisoned when holding peace talks and keepie-uppie sessions between the Russians and the Ukrainians. Honestly, I don’t know. I’m as confused as you. 

It’s film award season where all of a sudden the tradition of gathering people in a room to tell them how shit they are, as human beings, before giving them something to dust has caused Will Smith to get caught out laughing at his wife, get angry and lamp the comedian around the head. The response from the world has been weird, as though it’s not possible for both men to be wrong. There are excuses for both of them. Will Smith stood up, cried, opened the abusers playbook and said, “It’s because of love.” If he didn’t love her so much he wouldn’t have had to get angry and hit out. Chris Rock has kept quiet but the world has decided that that one sentence, suggesting she could play a character with short hair was the most offensive thing said that night and he should be cancelled. I’m surprised that the couple weren’t more offended at all the digs about who each of them slept with outside their marriage but who knows which nerve a comedian might twang when the format is to ‘roast’ the people in the room. Angela Raynor is very excited because she thinks it meant that she can now slap Boris Johnson, rather than just shout at him. 

The metropolitan police have announced that they are going to issue the first fines for party gate to the low fruit. Did you know they had fruit at those parties? No me neither. That changes everything.

Just in case you are feeling overwhelmed by all this weird energy, I will leave you with a picture of a sleeping puppy.