Pretty much sums them up

Guardian: Hunt and Fox’s Japanese fumble is a sign of UK’s weakness
It takes a lot to anger the unfailingly polite, anglophile Japanese. But Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, and Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, appear to have managed it with their ill-judged attempt to hustle Tokyo into a quick-fire Brexit trade deal.

Only the Tory Party could be so arrogant as to send negotiators to Japan named Fox and Hunt.

Was James Whale unavailable?

Displaying this level of arrogance, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Tories’ chief political strategist (or someone with access to their website) didn’t one day start retrospectively doctoring old blog posts to make themselves look far more prescient than they really are.

Now that really would be a very cheap trick.

Postscript (27-May-2020): Holy crap! I was right!

Carolyn is confused

A text conversation between Carolyn (grey) and Yours Truly (blue) yesterday and today:

Confused

Did you ever stop to wonder how people managed to communicate before the advent of modern technology?

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2018 in a nutshell

So that was 2018. The year we lost Mark E Smith, Aretha Franklin, and June Whitfield. The year a mentally unstable narcissist somehow remained in the Whitehouse. The year the UK Government continued to act like a petulant child with the EU. The year in which Her Majesty’s official opposition carried on doing sod all to oppose them.

On the plus side, I took some more photos. So here’s my eighth annual video slideshow review of the year:

(Click the arrows bottom-right next to the word Vimeo to view the slideshow in full-screen mode.)

Consistent as ever, as in the previous seven years, this year’s slideshow contains 97 photos.

Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Dumb and Base:

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