Back To Being Unconnected

Cameron was booked to attend some sort of military thingy yesterday- and he's still Prime Minister in name so he showed up at it and stood on a rostrum in his suit while lots of soldiers marched past saluting. It was really rather sad.

Apparently there's a petition out there with 2 million names on it demanding that the referendum should be re-run because- oh- something specious. Apparently 2 million of our fellow citizens don't get how democracy works.

If Johnson becomes PM his endearing schtick- part Bertie Wooster, part Mr Tumble- will become unendearing very, very quickly.

Yes, it's a crisis, but we've had them before.

By the way, have you noticed how- as far as the media is concerned- all the world's other crises have gone into abeyance? 

A Resurrection In A Kentish Churchyard

This headstone- dated 1781- is in the churchyard at West Farleigh, near Maidstone. The design is not uncommon;  I've seen versions of it in churchyards all over Kent- but I've never seen one in such good condition.

The masons must have had access to pattern books- because the versions I know are all very similar,  Either that or we're looking at the work of a single mason or school of masons, active over a wide area.

In the centre a deceased person rises from a sarcophagus, on the left an angel blows its trumpet and a tower comes tumbling down, on the right a winged figure- who may be Father Time because it seems to have a beard- triumphs over Death- represented as a crowned skeleton. The winged figure has hold of Death's dart and is breaking it in two.

Dereliction Of Duty

The Tories are having a leadership contest and now Labour wants one too. The country is in the throes of the greatest political crisis of the postwar era- and so- obviously- the politicians are going off into corners to enjoy comforting and deeply refreshing circle jerks. Well, I hope they have a lovely time.


The Tories have the excuse that their leader has fucked up and buggered off but Labour still have a leader in place and happy to stay there. His parliamentary colleagues seem to think that they'd do better at the polls if they have a front man or woman who smells more like Tony Blair- which only goes to show how completely out of touch they are with the mood of the country.

This division between the nation and it's political reresentatives is one of the reasons- possibly the root reason- why the referendum went the way it did. For a lot of people it wasn't so much about quitting the EU as about grasping a rare opportunity to show the people up in London just how angry and alienated they feel.