No, really; all this is true!

 

The Pope died (below)

Wealthy Tamara Ecclestone (daughter of Bernie) and her husband Jay Rutland went away on holiday on the understanding that their £75 Million Kensington mansion was well insured. Unfortunately, whilst they were away sunning themselves, some scallywags broke into their home and half-inched £25 Million quid's-worth of Gems, Watches, and Cash; in Britain's biggest ever domestic burglary. Of course they were very upset, but Tamara and Jay became philosophical about the whole affair knowing that their insurance company would reimburse them. 

Sadly when it came to the crunch, their insurance folk pointed to a tiny print 'exemption clause' that said Cash, Watches, and Jewelry, were NOT included. Oh dear. Moral: Always read the tiny print. Let that be a warning to you!

There has been confusion this year about the date of St George's Day (above). Most of us 'celebrate' it on the 23rd April each year, but this year The Church has decided that it should move to the 28th April. The reason being that no Saint's day is permitted during the week before, or the week after, Easter Day. I can confidently report that NO-ONE took any notice of The Church, and we all waved our little flags on the 23rd.

LOST & FOUND: Nothing surprises me about the things I find around Brighton. But an ERRANT KNIGHT? That's a first. He was sitting on a box that holds the salt for treating icy Winter roads. I wonder where the rest of the set is?

Here is Putin in church (below) at Easter. The patriarch of Moscow praised him for keeping Russia as 'a bastion of values'. I think that says a lot about the Russian church. Is wanton mass slaughter and destruction really a bastion of Russian values? I suppose we all have to agree that it is!

Back in 2014, the Tory/Lib Dem coalition government opened floodgates that they never could have imagined. They introduced a new law that said that the SHOPLIFTING of goods worth up to £200 wasn't really very naughty; and as a result the country's shoplifters went crazy, and they even came from abroad to take advantage. WHAT DID THEY IMAGINE WOULD HAPPEN?

She's known as a 'One Woman Crime Wave'; 44 year old Tanya Liddle (below) has been arrested 400 times, she has admitted to 350 crimes, and has had 180 convictions; all for shoplifting. Just over the recent Easter weekend alone she stole over £1,300 worth of 'everything imaginable'.

She's permanently in and out of prison for short terms, and her local stores in Northumbria dread her being released. No doubt she'll be back inside again very soon.

May I suggest that Starmer and Co change the silly £200 law, and make Shoplifting a SERIOUS CRIME again. Why make it easy for shoplifters?

I was just reading a paper by Prof Thomas Sowell about 'Slavery'. Sowell, who has spent a lifetime researching such things, tells us that the number of White People enslaved in N Africa by the Barbary Pirates, far exceeds the number of Black People enslaved in the USA. Make of that what you will. His point was that paying 'reparations' to families of victims could be tricky, if not impossible.

It's been a quiet week; it must have been the Easter effect.