Which means … I’m going to be finishing a review of Star Trek Discovery’s last ever episode, tonight.
So … ?
I’ll have it added to my list of series five reviews, later.
Feel free to leave a comment!
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You probably know there’s a general election due to take place in the UK: on 4th July of this year.
You’re possibly also aware that — if you have a criminal record — you’re generally not allowed to stand as a Member of Parliament.
I get the impression that similar restrictions apply in other countries.
Bar one.
The USA.
It’s something I found out, this morning: when news reached the UK, that Donald Trump had been convicted of various charges related to hush-money payments to a porn actress called Stormy Daniels.
As far as I can tell?
The USA is the only country on the planet where a convicted criminal, someone who’s shown themselves happy to break laws, can stand for office.
And — potentially — break laws in whilst in office.
That means I’m going to be watching “73 Yards”, the next episode of Doctor Who, tonight.
It sounds interesting!
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I’m assuming you keep your eyes on the news?
If you do, you probably remember the Uvalde school shooting, a couple of years ago: the shooting where police officers on the scene didn’t do anything to stop the shooter for around an hour after getting to the site.
I can’t imagine the parents of children killed that day feeling good about that.
Neither can they, I think.
It seems, though, that the families are to sue;
Meta, the owners of Instagram.
Activision, makers of the game, Call of Duty.
Rifle makers, Daniel Defense.
They hold all three companies responsible, in part, for the actions of the shooter.
And — according to the BBC News report on the matter — for grooming the shooter, and others like him, into thinking a gun was a good solution to a problem.
I don’t know if that would work, though.
I seem to recall that the British press made a huge fuss — in the days and weeks following the Hungerford Massacre — and blamed the shooter’s actions on the film, First Blood: citing it as a motivating factor in the shooters actions.
Despite any evidence or investigation to prove that.
I know similar claims were made about Dungeons and Dragons, at around the same time: again, with little evidence or investigation.
The Hungerford Massacre victims did not sue: I suspect because they had no legal grounds to do so.
I wish the Ulvade families well with their case.
But?
However laudable the attempt, I don’t think the case will prove successful.
It means I’ve got to pay my utility bills … and then pick up some interdental brushes.
I forgot those, yesterday!
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I’ve got to confess, there’s a general election due: on 4th July, 2024.
And?
I’m thinking I have two choices about where to cast my vote.
Last time?
I went for the Greens: even though I had my doubts about their figures.
And their ignorance about what benefits people get.
They wanted to replace Housing Benefit: seemingly ignorant of the fact that those of us on Universal Credit don’t receive it: it’s, effectively, been replaced already.
If they can replace that? I could happily vote for them.
If not?
I’d have to think about spoiling my vote, again.
Bar that, or leaving my ballot unmarked, or not voting at all?
I, and others who wish to abstain, have no other choice.
And yes, we ended up not making a video: but playing silly games.
It’s amazing, the fun you can have on a boys’ night in.
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Apparently?
Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, is to make a speech, today.
In which he’ll announce the party will — in the upcoming election — make six pledges on what he’ll do if Labour win.
It sounds a lot like something Tony Blair did, back in the day.
It’s something that reminded me, then, of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four: and still does, today.
At one point, the book’s main character, has to re-write a newspaper article: one that saw a leader make a ‘categorical pledge’ to not do something … only to break that pledge a few months later.
Personally … ? And as a result of reading the novel?
I can never hear the words ‘pledge’, or ‘categorical pledge’, from the mouth of a politician … without thinking the pledge will be broken, or ignored, the minute the politician get’s into office.
I was up late, last night, finishing the first of two reviews: of the opening episodes the new series of Doctor Who.
I say new series … as I’m still not sure about calling it series fourteen — it is the fourteenth series of the rebooted version of the show — or the first.
Which is pretty mush what Disney+, who are helping to fund the show, are insisting on.
At any rate?
This weekend saw the airing of the first two episodes of the new series.
You’ve hopefully noticed my reviews of “SpaceBabies”.
Noticed … and hopefully enjoyed!
With that said?
I’m writing this introduction on Sunday, 12th May, 2024, and will be watching “The Devil’s Chord” tonight, once I’ve had dinner.
I’ll be letting you know what I thought of the episode, late, tomorrow night.
