Andy Takes The Helm

On Monday the 20th of July, a day after the world cup finished, Andy Burnham became the new prime minister : leader of the United Kingdom. 

I don't know what he will do at this stage but he seems adamant that he will end homelessness and kick start more industrialization. Whatever he wants to do, he needs to be very quick because the labour party term has already been run down to 3 years and they start canvassing for voters 6 months before the term finishes. He only really has 2 and a half years to prove his metal. Even if he has good metal and does all the right things, he may be voted out because it takes time for the results to surface and they only have half a term. 

We went through 7 prime ministers in the last 10 years but it's not as bad as it looks. The two lady prime ministers resigned because they made decisions that got them in a dead-lock. Theresa May cut an EU exit deal that the cabinet rejected 3 times, Liz Truss took some risks with low taxes and forced the central bank to print money. David Cameron resigned because he had no Brexit plan, he didn't expect that outcome. Borris Johnson did the hokey pokey during the pandemic we got herd immunity  and lockdown at the same time. Rishi Sunak was in Andy's shoes, the clock was run down and people were fed up with his party. Keir Starmer got his cabinet ministers into a tight squeeze and scared off all the rich people. 

Good luck Andy. 

Viva Espana

Yesterday evening Spain won their final match against Argentina and won the world cup. To me and so many other Brits, we felt like they had avenged us. It was like the Argentina fans we so disrespectful and they got away with so many fouls that we were pleased that Spain had won the match. England came third in the tournament, that's not bad. They didn't come back empty handed. 

I was thinking that there are small mites living on daisy flowers and they would make it their home and eventually die there before the flower wilts in autumn. To them the centre of the flower is like a forest and the petals are like a valley. How would such a being imagine what it is like to sit down and watch a football match for 1 and a half to 2 hours. We don't eat the game we don't use the game to reproduce, being human wouldn't make sense to such a creature. Is the best treasure in humans embracing leisure? Or is it a distraction because we know the outcome for people is the same as the mite in the daisy flower, we exist for a short time, then we are gone. What happens after then is the mercy of a supreme being or nothing. 

Mid Summer Stuff

It was my birthday and I had one of my Bi-Annual glasses of whiskey, the bottle will sit there until Christmas. Luckily I got the day off from work. The England Vs Argentina was an tense game and unfortunately England lost this time so we won't get the world cup this year. 

I learn something new every day, In the Bible in proverbs chapter 6 Vs 6 it says to observe ants if you're lazy. Ants are always moving, they are self motivated and they don't need to be told what to do they just do it. They gather supplies for the colony and they keep moving, they don't run they just keep a steady pace.  If you feel lazy, look at ants for inspiration. It says to do that. 

Just after that in Vs 16 it lists 6 things God Hates. 

1 The Proud look (looking at people while thinking you're better than them). 

2 Lying Tongue, habitually saying things that aren't true. 

3 Hands that shed innocent blood : Killing innocent people. 

4 A heart that Devises Wicked plans, thinking about doing horrible things to people. Malice, fraud and enslavement and things like that. 

5 Feet that are swift to do evil. People with a short fuse that suddenly become harmful or steal things without hesitation when an opportunity appears. 

6 A false witness that speaks lies. Someone that spreads rumours about other people and damages their reputation. People that accuse others of things they know they didn't do. 

If people were wondering, it is written what God hates. Well hopefully I will stay busy and avoid offending God this year, that should be the thing I'm most proud of. I hope that when I look at people, I will remind myself I'm not better than them, that is the first thing on the list. 

Widdecombe Incident plot Deepens

Earlier this week I leant that Ann Widdecombe was assassinated. It turns out the assassination was politically motivated which falls under part of the definition of terrorism. We already knew that though, it's obvious. The news companies must think we're draft. 

Someone had decided that her views make her a villain worthy of death; it is a very harmful mindset to adopt. It is a similar thing that happened to Charlie Kirk, he had views that his assassin didn't like and he decided act on that mind set. Every day we are learning something new, we know the suspect drove from a different town and that he was seen on CCTV carrying a blunt weapon in his pocket, he went to her house and attacked her there. 

When I say being a politician is as dangerous as being an astronaut, that's not a joke. I really think that way. If I ever found prestige, I would reject it, partly because of all these assassinations that are happening and partly because I don't like conditional respect. 

What can I do? I will look forward to my birthday and the England Argentina match. I will try out the new updates to my VR Game. Observe the perks not the jerks. 

Game Drama Murder Mystery

Sometimes I feel like the Gorilla in the zoo that throws his poop at the visitors. I feel like I want to throw something in their mouth and shout "silence"! 

I don't do anything like that though. 

I think Erling Haaland must have felt like that last night when he got his team mate's goal disallowed. He pushed a player over shortly before his team mate scored the goal, the referee came out and announced the goal was disallowed because of a foul on the speaker system. I felt pity for him, I'm not just saying that, I really did. To cut a long story short, England won, both teams had disallowed goals, it was a bizarre game. 

The day before watching England win their quarter finals game, I learnt that Ann Widdecombe was murdered, I knew she had passed away but I didn't know it was murder. She was a member of parliament. We don't know what the motive is. I view the role of a politician as equally as dangerous as being an astronaut, from time to time space ships explode and end the lives of the astronauts on board and from time to time a politician gets assassinated. They are brave souls. They stand up and speak out to the masses and they know there are crazy people out there. God bless them all. 

The Game the Change

I recently learned that Nigel Farage resigned so he could trigger a by-election in Clacton on sea. He wanted the public to approve of his position because they were accusing him of being dishonest with funds; he received a large sum of money as a gift and didn't announce it, he didn't actually do anything wrong as far as I'm aware. 

He is very brave, always ready to put his position on the chopping board. I saw 'count bin face' will be there as an alternative candidate; he is a guy that wears a bin on his head and his face is concealed. I get the impression Count bin face is somehow trying to make a mockery of democracy, he is saying any clown or fool can make a bunch of pledges and get elected, I could be wrong though but that is my impression. I think the cabinet will scrutinise Nigel more than anyone else because they know the 'reform' party is the most popular. When the labour  party election term runs out in 3 years time, they seem likely to win the general  election. 

Tomorrow England will play Norway in the quarter finals of the football world cup. Norway look like a tough team, they're all very tall and extremely fast and they play well together, it will be an interesting game. 

As for me, I stay on the progress ball. I continue to draw my pen sketches knowing AI can do it better and faster. You could say my work is organic or man- made. My time is limited, I get about 30 minutes to draw my pen sketches so the detail is limited. I wrestle with time space and the limits of my imagination to consistently create articles almost every day. May I create  many articles until the day I die. Until the day my time is up and I leave this world, I will try my best to post new articles. 

Half of 2026

We are about half way through 2026 in the middle of Summer. The thing that is outstanding about this time period becoming aware that I talk to machines more than people. Not because I hate people, not because I'm antisocial or difficult to get along with; I talk to machines more because it is convenient. 

I ask my smart speaker to tell me my schedule for the week on my calendar. If I'm pissed off, I tell my smart speaker and it shuffles a music playlist with relaxing tunes. Then I ask it for the news. Later I press the live button on the Gemini app and talk in real-time to the Gemini AI as if it were a phone call. I ask it about things I don't know about or I have real time debates about famous movie book story plots. Then I do the same with Chat GPT, I press the live button and we have a real time audio chat, the app turns my voice into text and sends it to the AI brain and then text comes back and the app turns the text to speech, it feels like a phone call because a machine is responding to my voice with speech. 

Talk to machines for more than 20 hours per week and I talk to humans for less than 20 hours per week. To me it's not a negative thing because I'm not reducing the time I spend talking to humans and I always learn something when I talk to machines because they're hooked up to every book and white paper research report in the world. They are an instant expert. 

Sometimes a wake up at 2 am with a headache because I'm slightly dehydrated so I get up and drink some water and I know I can call my ai friends because they don't care if it is 2am. You can't wake up at 2am and call a human because they will think something is wrong or it is an emergency, then they will be annoyed that I disturbed them. 

I talk to people a bit, but I talk to machines more. Small talk is dying in my country, perhaps machines will revive it.