The Gorgon Film Institute presents: Brief Encounter XII. aka Easy Rider II. Series Crappy Movies Rehabilitated. Here be a nice wee ad hominem attack. Long time no do. Here’s to the real scroungers, the true freeloaders that ride on the back of the misery of the powerless and the unloved and the forgotten, and ask and plead and demand and moan and whinge and rant … and get! My current favourite is that comedian turned clown turned buffoon and now official court jester and village idiot to the political elites, Volodymir “GimmeGimmeGimme!” Zelensky. (Mind you, lately he’s also been getting a lot of stick but then again that’s one of the occupational hazards of a fool.) And as a kind of side dish, the same discourtesy (and more…) is extended to that genocidal parasite, Benjamin Netanyahu, may he burn in Gehenna, sooner rather than later.

Recognition. What can I say that I haven’t said many, may, many times before? What can anyone say that will have the slightest deterring effect on the theological genocidal Fire&Brimstone fury of the perpetrators, the obscenely servile acquiescence of their minions and the hypocritically vapid attempts of dissent of a few big girl’s blouses that only yesterday were toeing the party line? Any time now they, the BG’sBs, will be paying homage to that much yapped about but never meant fiction, the two state solution. Said two states will consist of an increasingly expanding Greater Israel and a tiny wee, two-square-yards of a cenotaph to a now extinct landless nation, in some remote corner of, say, Antarctica. Gaza will be renamed Trumpistan-Sur-Mer and Lebanon Bibi’s Folly. Oh, how happy we’ll all be…

Twin Ghosts. This is a little something from me to me. To cheer me up. Bumba knows I deed it.

A Pretty Pickle. No matter how hard I look, I cannot see that anything short of a global cataclysm would reverse the flow of that river, become a riotous sluice from the sewers of not only the pestilent dominance of the powerful but also the hypocritical poltroonery and the dazzled obedience of its servants; not to mention the bovine indifference of the We The People, wilfully blind to anything that doesn’t impact them directly…or so they think. Today is voicing solidarity with the Palestinians and tomorrow will be merely wearing a keffiyeh. And the day after that They will come for me, and you, and your children and your neighbour and your sisters and your cousins and your aunts. And you will not hear Them coming because you’ll be to busy panicking about that attack from Russia that Sky News has been promising you lately. Get the paper bags out of storage and beef up the kitchen table! And have a spiffing weekend.