[RedSparrows]

Watching the news and reading the papers over the last 6 weeks you would think that the country was in the grip of serious disorder but the reality is very different. Last night I was in Nottingham with my wife celebrating our 27th wedding anniversary, we had booked into a hotel for the night so I could do a Parkrun this morning.

After enjoying a really good Indian meal we decided to take a walk through the Cities main park just to check out where the Parkrun would start and what the course was like. At 7 o'clock on a Friday night there must have been between 300 and 400 people of different races and nationalities all get a long fine. There were people playing football and cricket, some people were enjoying an evening stroll and others were just sat in groups socialising. There was no trouble and no tension. This morning we headed back to the Parkrun and it was just the same. A football coach was setting up a training session that catered for a wide mixed of children, Parkrun itself also involved a wide mixed of participants including parents with kids in buggies, a group of runners recovering from cancer, a Nordic walking club plus runners from the age of 10 to 85. Everybody got on absolutely fine. This is probably much closer to the reality of multi-culturalism in this country than the news and the papers would have us believe.

'Go touch some grass' seems ever more applicable for columnists...

[Tubby Isaacs]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/epping-hotel- ... 30743.html

A lawyer who writes for the Spectator, and who appears to have no background in asylum issues, has submitted a complaint against the chief judge in the Epping Hotel case. To describe it, I think the word we're looking for is "vexatious".

Basically, Judge Bean is from Matrix Chambers. Yeah, Cherie Blair's gang! He's bias, and he's dun a hippocrasee!

Seriously, that's about all there is to it. Torygraph considers it news.

Ha ha ha. Steven Barrett. He's a Tory councillor. Surely we can disregard his complaint on the same basis.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I see he's also claimed that Lucy Connolly's sentence was partly down to the PM condemning the violence strongly. Did he make this argument in 2011?

[Boiler]

Sadly, the Hot Cross Roundabouts have arrived here Picking up a parcel from a neighbour this morning, she remarked that "we'll be having a civil war soon" and it was she who told me about the vandalism. My remark of "no we won't, it'll just be a load of fat old blokes who'll keel over at the exertion" didn't go down well. She said she was right-wing (and is ex-Forces) so my remarking that "I'm a leftie" was met with a surprised look...