I have read that some people think that we shouldn't be mean to Russians just because their leader is a bit of a c#nt. I quite agree. That would be mean and just out of order especially if said Russian is not a stinking rich c#nt who works for Putin. I know this kind of hostility as I have been bashed for being British countless times. Too numerous to mention. Americans get it in the neck anytime their leader decides to invade somewhere else and kill loads of innocent people. Americans can always plead that they are Canadian and traditionally people back off. I have been on occasions refused service in a shop on account of the Iraq war for example. I've been held personally responsible for all the world's ills thanks to being born in the UK. I was once thrown out of dinner because a rancid, fascist decided I was the root of all evil due to the British empire and being a holder of a British passport. Without giving his nationality away the only retort I could think of was, ''you are just envious because ours ( ours!) was more of a success''. So, while sympathising with the Russian's plight, I can't help thinking that like the Americans and British before, the Russians can all go and fuck themselves. 

Beware the Ides of March.

This is how it's been and how it is and how it will be.

I am not a fan of Country and Western music...However.

There is one I guess

What's his name? 

(pause...for about a minute)

Rogers, definitely something Rogers

Ginger.

No.

Ted? 

Buck!

Ginger Baker.

For f#ck's sake!!!

Kenny Rogers!!!!!

When someone is talking about a famous person or a TV programme that I really ought to know about I often just say I was in prison when so and so was all the rage. For example, I really don't know what Ed Sheeran's music is like. He popped up in the news today so I thought I ought to give him the benefit of the doubt and well, what can I say? To me he seems like the personification of someone who thinks he is suffering from Imposter's Syndrome but has finally been rumbled. 

On the subject of evil, pure evil, I've just seen an old video of Vladimir Putin crooning 'I've Found my Thrill on Blueberry Hill' doing the rounds. Swingalong with Vlad. Kind of Springtime for Hitler without the Pizzazz. 

A question came up in the class which asked if the world would be a better place if it were run by women and all I could think of was, ''yes, so long as it doesn't involve Priti Patel, Julie Heartless Brewer or that evil cow down the Spanish immigartion office''. 

Farage must have been the cheapest asset. That's why he is reduced to doing birthday greetings and Republican conferences. After him Johnson. He will do anything for sex and biscuits.

So where are Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore? I remember when friends called me a traitor because I was against Brexit. Where are these traitors now, these assets? Why are politicians deleting their Twitter posts and accounts?

I'm sitting here by the window that looks out onto the land opposite where the old military hospital/pharmacy used to be. Where the council has threatened to put up flats for the last fifteen years. I look up from time to time and see a group of men in those overalls or suits that forensics wear and it obviously catches my attention being a nosy neighbour and all that. What now? Chemical warfare? Somebody chuck some Novochok over the wall that was erected to keep us all out? Gradually the scenario reveals itself. The mask starts to slip. They are all wearing the hoods up and masks on but one by one the masks come off and they all start smoking fags. One of them isn't wearing an overall. He seems to be a bit older and he starts having a bit of a friendly, son and dad scuffle with another bloke. Mainly they are standing around watching another guy start digging the earth with a pickaxe. Digging up or digging down. Who knows. The older guy chucks a can of something to one of them and he is laughing and making out he will open it and spray the others with its contents. More join in and one has been instructed to sieve the earth and chuck it into a wheel barrow. Geology students? Inmates on day release? There is a fat guy who is bossing the others around and now he is on the blower and the others stop working and wait for the next instruction. He passes the blower to the 'boss', looks down and starts dragging his foot back and forth through the earth as if he has done something wrong. All of them look concerned. Now not guilty. Now worried. The emotions are changing by the second. Now they are all furiously digging. A bunker by the looks of it. Maybe its the three minute warning. Watch this space....