Time to get ill - but not in the hip hop sense...

Unfortunately I've been under the weather the last couple of weeks, so not able to give you your weekly dose of rambling witticisms.

Stay tuned next week, when I'll hopefully be back to full strength - although it is becoming increasingly hard to make light of the news as 2016 drags on to it's inevitably depressing conclusions.

Remember, if you're in a pub quiz at any point in 20 years time, and the question starts "in what year did..." just put 2016. And if the question starts "who was accused of sexually assaulting..." just put Donald Trump.

I can hear the Trumpets sounding...

It seems like the revelation about his "locker room banter", coupled with the fact is seems he hasn't paid tax for the best part of a decade, may be the final two nails in Trump's XL coffin.

My prediction is that unless there's a terrorist attack on US soil before election night, the world will be waking up to the first female leader of the free world. 

Hungary for change?

In a fantastic triumph of apathy over racism, a referendum on letting refugees into Hungary has failed due to less than half of the population turning out to vote.

In fact, it seems that the reality is perhaps more complicated than that. Liberal voices encouraged supporters to boycott the vote, to ensure the result was declared invalid. If only the Remain camp had thought of that before it was too late…

A terrifying 98% of those that did vote, voted against allowing any refugees into Hungary, as part of an EU wide agreement – although this may have something to do with the fact that the government paid for over a quarter of the billboards in the entire country to carry anti-refugee propaganda in the lead up to the vote.

Meanwhile, back In Blighty, MayBot 3000 has decided that denying access to anyone hoping to enter the UK without a doctorate is more important that being able to compete with other European economies, and trade on mutually beneficial terms.

Surely proof, if it was needed, that fear has replaced rationality as the driving force behind politics in the UK – where’s that Canadian visa form again…?