Okay, every year is the year of the charlatan, but this is the time when we tend to reflect on the year soon to be history and the year soon to come. As always there are many questions still unanswered. The strange political phenomenon that is Zack "Hypnojugs" Polanski for example.
Inevitably it's old news, but as 2026 we have to ask again how obvious charlatans become leaders of significant political parties.
Zack Polanski hits back after UK Government minister brands him 'a con artist'
Housing Secretary Steve Reed made the comments while referencing comments the Greens leader made back in 2013 about hypnosis...
Reed's comments reference a report in The Sun in 2013, when a journalist from the paper asked Polanski for a hypnotherapy session to increase her breast size while he worked at a hypnotherapy clinic on Harley Street.
How will 2026 treat another two obvious charlatans. In their different ways they are surely no better than Polanski.
Rachel Reeves is Starmer's human shield - 'if she goes, PM will have to quit too'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been left in her job because if she is ousted from the Treasury then Sir Keir Starmer "will have to go", Kemi Badenoch declared as she launched a blazing attack on Labour.
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Neither is this chap.
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Sincerely hope I wished you and readers Merry Christmas ... please forgive if not.
I say, I say, I say, why is he called a guru?
Because it's easier to spell than charlatan.
If Keir Stumbler is like Mad Max (Headroom) then perhaps Rachel Reeves is like one of those strapped to the front bumper of the juggernaut. No wonder she appears stressed. Who would willingly replace her?
On the subject of gurus, your government loves you and so wants you to take the flu jab.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.25321421v4
I am tremulous when people call for the Starmer/Reeves Axis of Evil to be sent off to well-deserved obscurity.
With Millibrain/Rayner/Davey/Burnham all lurking, the expression ‘Devil you know’ takes on a new meaning.
Good Lord, they are awful, incompetent, mendacious ….. oh what’s the use?
James - I think you did, but Merry Christmas just in case I didn't!
Dearieme - although 'guru' sounds like the first word a baby might come out with. Maybe Ed Miliband's did and gave him the wrong idea.
DJ - nobody seems keen on the job, which might tell us something about having to deal with the OBR, the Treasury and Labour. A impossible job might be the gossip.
dearieme - thanks for the link, it seems to be more policy than prevention. As if the government is determined to shift a chunk of health spending towards mass medication and if it doesn't work, then policy offsets failure.
Chis - I agree, replacement isn't a cheery prospect because likely replacements could be no better and even worse.
Picture captions.
Surkier :- Look somebody who voted for us! RFA:- And there is the other one!!
Head Davey : Somebody shouted out "Hey, look! There is a floater in the water."
Where? Don't see any, and I am looking for a floating voter.
Head Millibrain consulting his entire compendium of scientific knowledge.
Reminds me of the Flanders and Swann song The Gnu.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw.
And a Guid New Year to all the Scriblerus orphans.
Lang may yer lums reek.
Doonhamer - a Guid New Year to you too. Gurus remind me of gnus too, maybe it's also something to do with their long faces.
I like the picture captions, suggests a new name for Ed "Floater" Davey.
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