Wimbledon's second week underway.
I ignore this as I ignored the first week.
Hurry up with the football...
Sir Kim Darroch has behaved impeccably as UK ambassador to the US. This man has studied his subject, the President of the United States and his government, and reported back in a clear, unambiguous manner to his masters as he ought. How interesting therefore that some unscrupulous individual has allowed this information to be handed over to the public domain.
Who could do this? Civil Servants, Politicians, and who else receives this info?
Some say civil servants would never dare to release such info to anyone, not even each other. Others claim a Brexit politician has done so to remove this 'Remain' ambassador and replace him with a 'Leave' one more suited to Boris. Still others claim the civil service is so ruined by Theresa and her government they are willing to bring down anyone they fear.
Now the ambassador has done nothing wrong, even so there may have to be changes. While the whole world agrees with his comments, all heard before from many others, Trump will have a sulk and never speak to him again. Lucky ambassador! He will retire happily, his life work ruined by political chicanery elsewhere that is not his fault, and live happily in Surrey or the Cayman Islands on his large pension.
The fall out may go further of course.
Looking through a selection of recommended books I was struck by how many were either yukky wimmens romances or murder books. Now I understand women's desire fro romance, especially when there is so little at home, but in my little mind I find the desire for books, films and TV murder stories a bit strange.
So far we have had almost 90 people killed in London this year, mostly I suspect young black men involved stupidly in drug dealing. Now there will always be murders, especially in big cities and when aided by the loss of 20,000 police it is to be expected crime will rise. Yet while people are knifed within easy reach so many people will sit watching or reading murder stories. Whether Agatha Christie or modern day crime people are fascinated with the horror while ignoring it outside.
So many TV programmes are detective tales, masses of books are similar, why? If murder happened next door you might get worried but it appears people prefer the false murder on screen or in print to the reality. Actually that is not quite true, people have always, since papers came into existence, wished to read the gripping tales of murder and the police chasing the criminals. The Victorians loved a good murder, the horror led to many papers, booklets, books appearing on the market, often with helpful illustrations, the more gruesome the better. There was and remains a market for this.
What is it we seek?
2 comments:
Jenny, Isabel does imply a Brexit move.
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