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As anyone who watches the news will know, it’s been unusually stormy here in the westcountry
I was in Devon last week and the rain was indeed biblical, and my plans for several invigorating walks were more or less cancelled.
A friend reported that his garden in the village of Topsham had standing water in it for the first time in the 15 years or so he’s lived there.
I had a train ticket for the return home on Tuesday but the line near Exeter was flooded. Fortunately I was allowed to use it for travel on Wednesday. The Somerset Levels were a near-continuous lake; all very picturesque from a train window, revelling in other people’s misery
Briish PMs from Teresa May on seem so deferential now, looking for scraps from the US, China and India. Since Brexit the big shots really do consider the UK to be small beans. As an influential part of the EU we carried some weight, but those days are gone.
A guarded welcome for Starmer’s attempts to renew relations with China: turn your back to the west and look east would seem a wise move henceforth
Pleasingly, Trump is annoyed by Starmer’s visit
China might have an appalling human-rights record within its borders and it might pose a cyber-security threat to us; but it doesn’t pose a physical armed-conflict threat, so a circumspect thawing of relations gets the thumbs-up from me
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