I’ve had a bit of a Christmas and New Year break to see friends and family along with imbibing the stuff that I don’t go for the rest of the year, which in my case is some Port. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of this blog’s readers a very Happy New Year and hope that it is a good one for you all.

I’m not going to make too many predictions for 2024 on the grounds that there was stuff going that I failed to predict happened in 2023. I certainly didn’t predict that Islamic savages would invade Israel nor that much of the far Left in the West would engage in a passable recreation of Hitler’s Brownshirts by supporting Hamas. Nor did I predict that by gross intimidation, which the Metropolitan Police have studiously ignored, Leftists and radical Muslims would succeed in making places like central London unsafe for Jews or anyone else who didn’t want screaming socialists and savages taking over the city’s streets.

About the only prediction that I will make for the New Year is that 2024 is going to be like 2023 bit with bells on. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have elections coming up. These elections are likely to be a shitshow and a clownshow respectively. America’s electoral processes seem to be something akin to what one might find in an banana republic with courts intervening to decide who does and who does not stand along with rampant allegations, many clearly unproven, of electoral fraud. America is not going to the polls with any sort of public confidence in electoral administration and that might not end well. In Britain the main parties, Conservative and Labour, are merely offering the same shitty policies from every thing to border control to law and order and energy but with either a red or blue gravy poured over them.

We are certainly in for interesting times politically. America is likely to see an election that might not cure but might instead promote division. If Trump wins the Left and the Left leaning Establishment will go mad and if Biden runs again and wins then the fact that such an unappealing and clearly incapable character carries on as President will promote all manner of questions regarding the honesty of the election. In Britain it is likely that we will get a party that nobody who is in anyway patriotic would choose and which is led by a man who has all the charisma of a roadside bollard. This might not be the active choice of the British people but because the Tories have failed in just about every aspect of governance.

If nothing else I suspect that 2024 will be exciting politically and that such excitement will be of a sort that could bring more negatives than positives, at least in the short to medium term.

Happy New Year.