Here’s something I found somewhere online the other day, possibly even BBC news, although their website tells me that the content is no longer available:
- 9 August 2024, 11:02 BST
Updated 6 hours ago
Jeremy Corbyn is in talks with four other independent MPs to form a new group, potentially boosting their influence in Parliament.
Six independent MPs were elected at the 2024 general election - the most in modern history – including the former Labour leader.
The potential grouping of five independents – who all campaigned on a pro-Palestinian platform - would equal the number of Reform UK MPs and outnumber the Greens.
While nothing has been formalised, Shockat Adam - who unseated Labour's Jonathan Ashworth to become MP for Leicester South - told the BBC the group was "looking at options that would give us more access to the levers of power".
Another source tells me that the MPs concerned are Jeremy Corbyn, Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed. It would be good to see Zarah Sultana joining them; she is a good clear thinker.
Maybe if they did form a united party, with a NAME, the media would start to talk of Jeremy Corbyn as “one of our most important politicians”, as they have been describing Nigel Farage, who has a party with a name, albeit a small one in terms of MPs
Nigel Farage, by the way has been waxing indignant about being blamed for the riots:
“I’m pretty disgusted by certain individual calling these “Farage riots”. Nothing could be further from the truth and because of that level of incitement of hatred against me, I’ve had to have a significant change to my security.” Nigel Farage.
Oh dear!
Here’s a link to an article by Robert Windsor, a historian and the author of ‘Bloody Foreigners’ and ‘The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness’.
Here’s an extract from the article:
“After writing my book, I became a trustee and supporter of the Migration Museum, which aims to tell “all our stories” on the grounds that stories are more resonant than arguments. One tale I’ve been repeating a lot lately concerns Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, a child prodigy of languages born in Budapest in 1840. Thanks to his extraordinary gift he was appointed chief interpreter to the British army in Crimea, and since this carried the rank of colonel he returned to London after the war.
He became a professor at King’s College London, and then helped to set up the new University of the Punjab, where he made himself expert in Arabic and Urdu too. Back in England, he created the Oriental Institute in Woking, Surrey, thoughtfully commissioning an architect to build a mosque for his students.
And that is how, in 1889, the country’s first mosque came to be built by a British, Hungarian, Christian, Jewish immigrant. Quite a bit there for the good sociologist to think about. The rest of us too.”
An interesting combination of cultures!
I commented yesterday on Banksy’s animal pictures popping up in London. Then I found this:
“For a week now, the streets of the capital have been populated by a string of unusual animal sightings, courtesy of Banksy, including pelicans, a goat and a trio of monkeys.
The artist’s vision is simple: the latest street art has been designed to cheer up the public during a period when the news headlines have been bleak, and light has often been harder to spot than shade.
Banksy’s hope, it is understood, is that the uplifting works cheer people with a moment of unexpected amusement, as well as to gently underline the human capacity for creative play, rather than for destruction and negativity.”
It’s nice to see a bit of cheerfulness.
And finally, here’s a link to a fishy story which is ideal for our smallest grandson who is obsessed with looking for interesting things - mostly bugs and beetles but also odd shaped sticks and bits of sea glass. He also likes sharks. Back in 1997 a freak wave hit a cargo ship off the coast of Cornwall and a huge amount of Lego was lost in the sea - The Great Lego Spill of 1997. Buts of Lego have been washing up on the shore ever since and now a fisherman has caught a Lego shark! I’m surprised nobody has made a movie of it … yet!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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