of fig leaves . . .

+ I came across this joke the other day: Theresa May – she’s like crime in a multi-storey car park. It’s just wrong on so many levels. I thought it was quite funny.

++ For the record, I did once invent a joke myself. What do you get when you cross a conspiracy theory with a Leylandii? Hedge of Darkness. Perhaps you have to be of a certain age to understand the reference.

​+++ I normally consider daytime television to be a creation of the devil. Anyone who has had to endure Jeremy Kyle whilst sat in a waiting room will know what I mean. But this Wednesday I will glue myself to the parliamentary channel to listen in to the Labour Party’s Opposition Day debate on calling a ‘climate emergency.’ Could this be a significant shift? I hope so, and not merely as a politically savvy response to Extinction Rebellion, etc. I hope too that Labour’s leadership will recognise the Paris Agreement to be a political fig leaf, barely concealing an utterly specious and inadequate attempt at action. I fully anticipate the government’s response to the debate to include fulsome mention of the Paris Agreement. If so, that will tell you all you need to know about this ‘commitment’ to solve the climate crisis.