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Unless Sir Keir Starmer is secretly a highly-trained exorcist, all we'll get from this Washington visit, is an application of Moscow's orders to talk the UK away from the European consensus.

In our regular Tarot session, today's card was The Devil:
The commentary says:

"...it portrays at the first level all the congealed sacrifice that has ever been in increasing aggregate of power (sacrifice in this instance being the giving up of what could have been)."

Remind you of anyone?

Imagine the Putin-Trump deal: Trump gets to annex Canada and Greenland and Gaza, while Putin is allowed a free hand in Europe.

Keep your winter woollens on until May Day, Comrades!

(2 of 2) and I was wondering at the same time whether this was at all justified by the possibility of my having been, in a past life, Lord Melbourne. And I'm still tired. No more absinthe before bedtime for me.

Last night I dreamed I was - at the urging of some unknown third party - embracing the dying Queen Victoria, who was in the process of turning into one of those Jubilee statues that were erected everywhere in the Empire (1 of 2)

And the damnatio memoriae (sorry, that's Latin and an elitist language used by slaveowners - I mean cancellation, mea culpa, sorry -sorry) blacklist grows daily. This is of course necessary to ensure our collective ideological purity continues uncontaminated by Sin and Incorrectitude. Selah.

Speaking of whom, we also excommunicate, execrate and vilify anyone who dares to muse speculatively on the promise the young Hitler's watercolours showed.

Eric Gill's work - even his fonts - is declared unclean, and listening to Wagner is mush hallal because he, too, was Not Nice and what's more, Hitler was moved to tears by his 'Siegfried', and we, the Nice and the Good, forswear liking anyone who likes anyone not Nice Like Us.

It is henceforth forbidden to like Neil Gaiman's work, or anything about or from or relating to Neil Gaiman whatsoever, just as it is unlawful to have anything good to say about J K Rowling.

Heard this live on Radfio4 this morning. Replayed it 3 times afterward, just in case I'd missed something very brief but profound. In my estimation this has to be one of the most disappointing interviews ever. Talk about missed opportunities.

Now let us see whether this is a viable alternative social medium to Farceborg...