Life & Times

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #12 legend 📷 🏎

alonso

My Album of the Week is How Beautiful Life Can Be from The Lathums. 🎶


Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #11 hygge 📷

photo of a birthday cake

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #10 bridges 📷

tower bridge, london

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #9 safe 📷

photo of a bricked up door

Try getting in here!


Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #8 twilight 📷

christian malford church in the early evening

Matthew Lesh of the Adam Smith Institute gives a glowing(?) review of PM’s speech at the Tory conference.

“Boris’s rhetoric was bombastic but vacuous and economically illiterate. This was an agenda for levelling down to a centrally-planned, high-tax, low-productivity economy. He is hamstringing the labour market, raising taxes on a fragile recovery and shying away from meaningful planning reform. Shortages and rising prices simply cannot be blustered away with rhetoric about migrants. There is no evidence that immigration lowers living standards for native workers. This dog whistle shows this government doesn’t care about pursuing evidence-based policies.”

boris the clown

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #7 spice 📷

photo of a spice store in France

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #6 street 📷

venice street scene

Interesting article by Tom McTague on The Atlantic website today.

According to his onetime rival for the Conservative leadership, Rory Stewart, Johnson is “the most accomplished liar in public life—perhaps the best liar ever to serve as prime minister.”

Is Boris Johnson a Liar? - The Atlantic


Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #5 toy 📷 🐕

photo of a dog and toy

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #4 sharp 📷

weird fish sculpture

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #3 majority 📷

boris the dunce

You get this when the majority put their cross in the wrong box.


London petrol station charging nearly double the average price for fuel sells out - The Independent

Disgusted that this petrol station is charging twice the usual price


Boris Johnson condemned for saying ‘never mind’ about cancer outcomes

Johnson’s mask slips

Boris Johnson has sparked outrage on the eve of the Conservative Party conference after saying “never mind” about cancer death rates and the recent fall in life expectancy.

Grilled about his plans for Britain’s recovery from the Covid crisis, the prime minister chose to emphasis economic growth over health measures.

Pointing to the recent growth in wages, Mr Johnson told the BBC: “I’ve given you the most important metric – never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes – look at wage growth.”

Opposition parties pounced the prime minister’s remarks, with Labour accusing him of showing an “outrageous” disregard for the health of British citizens. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told The Independent: “Boris Johnson starts his conference with the most chilling words ever spoken from a prime minister dismissing the importance of cancer outcomes.”