Happy Friday!

Labour just doesn’t get it: workers feel poorer than ever. Is it any wonder Reform is rising? I do disagree about the Tommy Robinson marchers, they are not some naïve innocents who just want things to change, they are racists. There has been enough out there about Stephen Yaxley Lennon and his views to know that he’s a rabble rousing racist, preaching about England while living abroad (you know what they call people who do that – immigrants) with an Irish passport. There is nothing wrong with having an Irish passport or living abroad but doing so while shouting about English and British culture I think the word I’m searching for is hypocrite. Anyway, the point I’m making is that if you choose to be part of the rabble, then you are being racist. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the chances of it being a chicken are remote….I guess it could be a swan…

There are no good options at Thames Water. But temporary renationalisation is cleaner. Not temporarily, permanently.

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit

Dorset school urged to reinstate banned book about race to reading list. This is wrong. What the school should have done is offered the complaining parent a class in reading comprehension because I’ve read ‘The Hate U Give’ and that is not what the book does or is about at all. Honestly as a Tory councillor he should approve of the parents in the book, the father is a reformed gang member who runs the local shop in the community they live in, which is poor and black community but, at great personal sacrifice, send their children to a private school for a better education, what could be more Conservative? And if you haven’t read it do and then buy copies for children you know, it’s a great book.

How to Stop a War

It’s the art of the dodgy deal, Middle East edition: author Donald Trump, updated by Jared Kushner

Can the Trump Peace Plan Overcome Unprecedented Cruelty? Thomas Friedman is so wrong. I pray for peace in Gaza every day but this plan designed with little to no input from actual Palestinians anywhere, is not going to bring it about. Netanyahu talks from both sides of his face and won’t ever let any of this work (can we please remember that Hammas was in part funded by the Israelis as a counter to the Palestinian Authority.) Finally, threatening a people with more violence and death if they don’t capitulate to your demands isn’t peace, its surrender. If you want them to surrender say that but Hammas are terrorists and much like the Stern Gang before them that we

Hate your job – but can’t afford to leave? 20 ways to love your work a little more I really love my job, with all its frustrations but when I read this, I realised that when I’m functioning optimally, I do a lot of this anyway so maybe try it if you do hate your job!