Gary Monro’s blog

Even if you think some of his ideas are a little eccentric (I don’t - but I understand others do) I would rather listen to something meaningful - life affirming, even -which I can ponder over for a while, than the tsunami of effluence pouring out of the mouths of our government:

“I just think we need to remember that we are a part of Nature and not apart from it, which I think has been one of the great problems of the 20th century. It’s a balance, it seems to me, we have to try to find, and I just feel we have got out of balance.”

In a comment that might well have been aimed at the current government, he added: “And this business of reflection and action: you have to have both, you can’t just endlessly act.

One of the Muslims the government consults with is convert Ahmad Thomson:

“Pressure was put on Tony Blair before the invasion. The way it works is that pressure is put on people to arrive at certain decisions. It is part of the Zionist plan and it is shaping events.”

The Daily Telegraph quotes a government source:

“It is by talking to people with varying views that we find out what the range of opinions is. It doesn’t mean we agree with what they are saying.”

Of course. Why bother with right and wrong - principle, in other words - when there are people like Thomson and co to appease?

Firemen free boy stuck in toilet
A six-year-old boy had to be freed by firefighters after getting trapped in a cubicle in a women’s toilet.

The youngster became stuck under the partition between two toilets at a pub in Bristol - with his head in one cubicle and his body in the other.

Fire crews called to the bar in Hanham High Street on Saturday evening first tried lubricating his head with washing up liquid and pulling him free.

When this did not work they chipped a hole in the partition to rescue him.

The boy, who became very scared and distressed while stuck, was unhurt and happy to have been freed.

I wonder how he explained this to his parents…