2 main stories this week but first of all a quick sports news story after Novak Djokovic was barred from entering Australia due to not complying with their covid vaccination policy. In the process he became the first tennis player to be knocked out a on tennis tournament for just missing 1 shot. He's subsequently challenged the decision in court, lost the case and has now been banned from Australia for 3 years, which is pretty ironic because most of the Australian government officials are only there themselves because one of their ancestors *lost* a court case.

Anyway, the first big news story was the one that whilst the UK was locked down last spring the Prime Minister was really putting the "party" into "Conservative Party" and hosted a booze-up in his back garden. This was all of course at a time when many members of the public had visits from the police for having guests over, and the Beastie Boys famously 'had to fight for their right to party' There were initial denials, that it was a work event, and eventually it turned out that Boris was not handing out drinks but only due the technicality that it was BYOB and stories have since emerged about a booze-run to the Co-op on The Strand. As of yet it is unclear if they got value for money for the taxpayer by purchasing the wine as part of the dinner+wine meal deal. Another part of the story we're also still waiting on is when we eventually get to see the CCTV footage of a staffer dashing along Whitehall with half a dozen bags clicking away. The prime minister in response to all of this refused to resign and claimed that at the time he thought it was a work activity and therefore ok, and I actually even found myself agreeing with Kier Starmer for the first time, ever, when he described Boris' ignorance excuse as being so lazy as to be offensive, although in true Labour Party style he turned out to be a hypocrite after pictures emerged of him too having beers with friends at around the same time last year.

Someone else was also in the news though this week with stories about losing their job and that person was the Grand Old Duke Of York, also known as Randy Andy, also known as Prince Charles' idiot brother, also soon to possible be known as whatever number is on the piece of card he's asked to hold up when they take his picture. Earlier this week he was stripped of all his titles by the Queen, including HRH but also dozens of other things like "Colonel of the Grenadier Guards" "Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm" and "Royal colonel of the Royal Regiment of Scotland" Wowzers, the last time I saw someone lose that many titles they were managing Tottenham Hotspur. Anyway, having gone from Royal Highness to Royal Minus I suppose for now that all we can do is sit back and wait for the court case to start later this year. Presumably the lesson here is that if you really insist on hanging around with the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and commuting crimes and the like, at least have the common sense to do it in Australia, before not getting vaccinated and blaming your absence on pen-pushers at the airport.