If something goes wrong with your organisation it is all too easy to blame it all on Rachel Reeves. She is useless, out of her depth and now just an object of ridicule. I do hope that all those journalists who lined up to sing her praises a year ago specifically because she was “Britain’s first female chancellor” now realise that ability not diversity is what matters when hiring. But for once I write in defence of the CV embellishing Rachel from Customer Services.

Excuse the rather dirty porch windowsill but it is what is sitting on it that has caused me such delight.

Strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, dessert gooseberries and blackcurrants all from plants or bushes I planted on what was once an overgrown jungle came together in the first summer pudding of the year and it tasted as good as it looks.

The Mrs. and Jaya spent the weekend partying in Nottingham leaving my son and heir, Joshua, and I free to catch up on watching Downton Abbey repeats and to continue the fruit harvesting here at the Welsh Hovel. What you see below are:

Events in Iran overnight show just how irrelevant Britain is on the world stage for all the posturing by politicians of all parties. The same men and women seem unaware of just how, at home, Britain is spiraling into decline and despair. You may not like right wing journalist Matt Goodwin but can anyone say why this note from yesterday about a trip to London is wrong.

Norfolk council leader Kay Billing picks up allowances of more than fifty grand a year. Her husband made his money in property. The facebook post below indicates that she views poor people with contempt. Kay is the sort of Tory who leaves many of us with a tribal hatred of her party. I have voted Tory on occasion but have done so despite viewing a party containing folks like Kay as a party one should really despise.

About three quarters of the rhubarb is now harvested. Joshua and I have made two rhubarb and ginger crumbles and three rhubarb and ginger cakes. The remnants of number three are on the right.

Not all of the tests taking earlier this week by the local Shipman are back yet but those that are having been “all clear” leaving us all none the wiser as to the cause of various ailments. But one test will disappoint those who, on a daily basis, post defamatory remarks about me in financial chat rooms and on twitter as a “punishment” for exposing frauds which they have invested in.

The BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme is in multiple orgasm mode this morning as its co-religionists at the Met Office have released a report on global warming and it seems we are all going to burn to a crisp here in Airstrip One. The dishonesty behind the headlines is off the scale.

James is a speaker at Sharestock on September sixth. I recorded this wide ranging podcast a couple of weeks ago and it has just been published today by James HERE

Baroness Casey has blown the lid on how the Police, Local Councils and the Welsh and British Governments used dodgy data to, with the willing assistance of the mainstream media, to smear us all as racists. The evidence from those convicted of being part of child grooming gangs in 50 British towns and cities was clear: disproportionate numbers were of Pakistani origin.

According to our beloved Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer, just a few months ago anyone calling for a national enquiry into the rape gangs, who were disproportionately of Pakistani origin and whose victims were almost all white or in some cases black, was from the ”far right”. Now Sir Kier has ordered a national enquiry. Good. He and his colleagues who smeared those calling for an enquiry as racists might consider ap0logising for that but they will not.

When we are not in Greece we rent out the Greek Hovel via Airbnb. After, increasingly onerous, taxes and running costs I cannot say we make a fortune but it all helps. Our latest guest has just departed back to Germany and how is this for a review?