I Can Live With ‘The Arrogance Of A Few Billionaires’…

...it's the arrogance of activists that worries me far more:

Campaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree. The main reception for the wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist, was due to be held in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic 16th-century building in the city centre. But according to the No Space for Bezos group, the couple relented after activists threatened to fill the canals with inflatable crocodiles to block their celebrity guests from entering.

Disrupting a person's wedding simply (and everyone else in the vicinity) because you envy his wealth isn't 'arrogance', then, according to these clowns? 

The event will instead take place in Arsenale, a historic complex of shipyards surrounded by fortified walls that will be much harder for the protesters to penetrate.

According to local press reports, the venue switch was also due to security concerns after the US joined the war between Israel and Iran, especially because Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, arrived in Venice on Tuesday.

Time these activists were treated as the terrorists they are! 

“We feel as if we scored a victory,” said one activist, who asked not to be named. “The crocodile initiative would have given a bad impression of the city – this is why the venue was changed even if the authorities might try to claim it was because of the war.”

Claiming victory whilst recohnising there were other factors in play shoes you don't even have the courage of your convictions 

“Bezos embodies an economic and social model that is leading us towards collapse,” Greenpeace said, arguing that lifestyles fuelled by “the arrogance of a few billionaires” are devastating for the planet.

Meanwhile, these activists use the products and services provided by those billionairs to organise their pathetic displays with utter lack of shame. 

The Likely Story To End All Likely Stories

Post office operators yet to claim compensation of at least £600,000 each relating to the Horizon IT scandal have not been chased up by officials because the government did not want to “harass” them with letters, it has emerged.

Who believes that? If you do, I've got a bridge to sell you!

In a report criticising the speed and handling of payouts after the Post Office scandal, the House of Commons public accounts committee (PAC) said the government is taking “insufficient action” identifying all the operators eligible to claim some of the £1.7bn being paid out across four compensation schemes.

When asked by the PAC why it was not following up letters that had not received a reply, the government said that it was “concerned that individuals receiving letters would feel harassed if they had a series of letters asking the same thing”.

Oh, please! Is that really the best they can come up with? 

The Post Office made a pre-tax loss of £612m last year, while its debts have ballooned to more than the value of its assets, and is to close 115 loss-making branches, putting 2,000 jobs at risk.

If it was a horse, it would be heading for the glue-factory in the knacker’s van by now. 

Tweet Of The Month

I missed a lot of Twitter this month, being away on holiday, but this one stood out for that ‘Ooooof!’ Moment! 

Post Title Of The Month

 Longrider on the Co-Op's foray into acrivism:

Quote Of The Month

 From David Thompson, who skewers the progressives' hypocrisy on a daily basis, this:

"It must be quite strange to inhabit a milieu in which the normal meanings of words are either ignored or inverted. By people who aspire to be professional writers. Communicators of ideas."

Post Of The Month

 Bucko ponders whether the victory we all thought we had won on the 31st January 2020 really happened at all...

And Now We Get To Keep Him At Taxpayer Expense For God Knows How Many Years....

No real surprises here:

Jurors agreed it was the Brazilian’s insatiable drug habit that drove him to carry out the attack, and he alone was to blame and he was on Wednesday convicted of murder, three counts of attempted murder, possession of a sword, aggravated burglary and wounding with intent.

OK, maybe there's one: 

Indeed, so reliant is Monzo on psychoactive substances that, despite the carnage he knows can be caused, he admitted smoking synthetic cannabinoid Spice while on remand in prison.

I should be surprised by this, but I’m not - are any of our institutions fit for purpose anymore? 

He's Always On Target...

 ...that Matt, isn't he?

The Spanish Are Based...

 This little gem was sent in last week:

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H/T: CJ Nerd via email

Sunday Funnies...

 I have to agree, it's probably the best music parody video I've ever seen.