Sunday Morning Thoughts

There was a large fire in the very heart of Leeds last night, close to the museum but not, I am informed, reaching so far as that building.

It apparently started in an empty building currently undergoing renovation. According to one of the regulars in the queue outside M&S this morning, Anne, it may well have been her own school with the fire starting in what used to be the science labs. Since it has not been a school for decades, being council offices in the meantime and since standing empty, it is unlikely to have been caused by some chance chemical accident. I remain to see how it affects my route through Leeds.

Also according to the same person (I arrive early before the doors open and felt in a sociable mood this morning so I struck up a conversation) several M&S sites across the country may be closed in the next few years. We agreed that if this one is targeted we should mount a picket with burning oil drums.

The government of the UK is in disarray at the moment. It appears we must accept that the era of politicians being well educated windbags has moved to era of uneducated crowd pleasers. Imagine a farm being run by trained parrots where the one who can most clearly say “Pretty Polly” or “Blame the Immigrants” is allowed to drive a tractor. Ease with the first skill does not in any way guarantee competence in the second. My recent cold has lasted longer than the recent Chancellor and, I suspect, done more good for the British economy.