And so it continues (II)

Today, in the usually considered and understated tones of its sister paper, the DFM,  the Sunday Mail has a story about dog ownership, suggesting that the government is considering making people pass a test before they can own a dog.

In fact, not only is this an excellent idea, but it's worth considering whether it could be extended to parenthood. Perhaps it's about time that we restricted conception to those who are able to bring children up properly.

Yesterday we were inundated with EOTW (end of the world) warnings about torrential rain, 100 mph winds and the end of civilisation as we know it this weekend from a massive storm moving towards us destined to end all life on earth.  Turns out they were talking about London, which might get a strong breeze and an inch of rain. Of course, had it been Wales or Scotland getting battered, then we'd have been consigned to a footnote in the 'and finally' section of the BBC's news and weather.

Cameron is about to tell the party faithful that it's their 'Patriotic duty' to vote GB out of office.  In the past, when threatened, governments have looked for an outside cause or war to distract their critics. Perhaps Gordon should consider invading France? It could prove a popular move, as France is a nice size to accommodate all those asylum seekers who seem to like it over here, we'd get a nice holiday coast on the Med and we could use EuroDisney to offset the deficit.  Oh, wait;  Eurodisney is still £2bn in debt and made a loss of £50m last year.  Oh well, perhaps we should just invade London instead.  Then at least we could take over the BBC and get more balanced weather reports….