I watched the Arsenal highlights. We were unlucky in that we did not score more, but we were lucky that Nottingham Forest did not take the chances that they had in the first half. But, we are top of the league again after being knocked off it for one day. Fingers crossed we keep winning.
One of my brothers came this weekend with his lovely partner for a wedding and stayed over. It has been a while since we saw the pair and it was great catching up before they went to the wedding yesterday and today before and after lunch at the Layer Fox. I am not sure when they are to come this way again, but we would happily put them up again.
There has been controversy over the comments that Trevor Noah has made about Rishi Sunak and racism in the UK. The simple fact is that racism is still an issue for too many people in the UK. Things are much better than they have been in the past in that we now have a non-white PM who Conservative MP's have voted on who they think is the best person for the job. There was a time that the Conservatives were the party of racism, and while many would argue that not much has changed with the policies on refugees, Rishi Sunak shows that a lot has changed.
The video of Jerry from Lowestoft actually shows how a racist changes the expressed views on Rishi Sunak from outright racism, to finding other reasons as to why they are against our first non-white Prime Minister. Many will not like him due to his skin colour, but this may be a sub-conscious issue, i.e. unconscious bias. It will be hard to discern which people who are against him are against him due to his policies, or if his skin colour is a factor because for them, they will cite the arguments that Jerry from Lowestoft finally resorted to almost eight minutes into the video of his call to LBC.
A way of looking at how our nation is still racist is not how we treat our Prime Minister, but how we treat refugees coming from Ukraine to those coming from other nations. We may have to exclude Albania from this as it does seem to appear that those fleeing Albania are more likely to be economic migrants than genuine asylum seekers. Put simply, refugees from Ukraine, despite being in safe nations have rightly been granted asylum, but many in our nation do not want to offer the same to refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iran Eritrea, Chad, Yemen, Sudan, Syria etc.
The children appear to be enjoying half term. My wife has taken time off to look after them, though she may need a holiday after this. On Tuesday they had gone shopping with her, which meant that Leia was at the dog sitters until yesterday when my son and wife collected her. Needless to say, the dog was very happy to be back home. I did go to the shops with my son so that he could cook dinner. Normally he is very good at making Katsu Curry, but his efforts yesterday were sadly not up to his normal standard. I have bought pumpkins for them to paint, but the condition of him having it is that his room is tidy, which has meant that his pumpkin is still in the back of my car! Hopefully that will change.
The picture is from my morning walk today with Leia. Finally, remember that in the run up to Halloween, a witch is not just for that one day, but is meant to be scary all year long!
Earlier on this year, Steve Barclay, the man now in charge of the NHS, was heckled by a lady who said that he had done nothing about the ambulance service. She was wrong. Under the Conservatives our ambulance response times have got worse. This is nothing to do with those working for the ambulance service, this is to do with paramedics having to wait at hospitals to hand over patients to hospital staff because there is no room in the hospitals for new patients to be admitted.
