Let's start off with a joke: Kier Starmer, goes to a pub and asks for a whisky and the bartender hands him gets a scotch on the rocks, and Kier says "I didn't ask for ice in it" and the bartender says "neither did them pensioners" That also reminds me of the one where Gordon Ramsey goes into a pub, orders a drink, demands to see the manager and asks him if the ice cubes are fresh or frozen.

There was the aftermath of the Israel attack on Hezbollah and you almost have to feel sorry for the blokes interviewing for the vacancies in the leadership positions, when by definition they were considered so irrelevant that Israel didn't include any of them in the 2000 or people they targeted the other week.

There's a quite astonishing pair of headlines in the Telegraph this morning. One is about R Kelly's daughter accusing him of sexually abusing her as a child. And right next to it is one where Meghan Markle is explaining how she was the most bullied girl in the world. In fact no, not just girl, "one of the most bullied people" so presumably even the boys had it better, and that by definition includes all the ones held captive by Diddy, another story for another day.

There have been a terrible pair of hurricanes in the Carolinas and more recently Florida and with a fear of looting, Florida passed a new gun law granting extended conceal carry laws for use in the event of a state of emergency. Those state of emergency include hurricanes, earthquakes, and living in Florida. This was all followed up by a Kamala Harris word salad interview on the show 60 Minutes which was telling in that even the legacy media are turning on her incompetence and her claim to be defending democracy after over-riding the vote, not risking letting the primary voters have a say, and using legal action to tilt the balance of power in various races. A tired and haggard Barack Obama was then trotted out to tell young black men to do as they're told and vote for the mixed race lady, and then there was then a viral and fairly blistering response from one of them explaining that the patronising attitude is exactly why they're all voting for Donald Trump in November - the candidate who favours 'reducing inflation' over the circus that is gender and identity politics. Talking of which, I've got a friend who let me know he's got a data with a girl who self-identifies as a wheelie bin, so I hope he remembers to take her out on Thursday evening.