In less than eighteen months Pluto will shift sign for the first time in sixteen years, moving into Aquarius from March 2023 and after a hover on the cusp will enter fully in 2024 to stay till 2043. Some random thoughts. In mythology Pluto was Hades, lord of the underworld and the realm of … Read more
Lax US gun laws, the wild-west spirit of vigilantism, and undertones of white supremacy all came together in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager who admitted to killing two white men but has been controversially cleared of all charges. He turned up in Kenosha, Wisconsin last August for protests against the police shooting of … Read more
Drawing attention to Princess Charlene’s absence from the Monaco celebrations to mark Prince Albert’s enthronement seemed a little off-colour given that she appears to be suffering from unspecified mental strain. She has been in South Africa for ten months with sinus problems requiring surgical intervention and only recently returned. Albert went out of his … Read more
Covid rates are surging across Europe, with infections sweeping in from the east where vaccination rates are low. Case numbers are rocketing in central and eastern Europe, as well as in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Angela Merkel described Germany’s situation as “dramatic”, but its infection rate is lower than Britain’s which remains 30% higher … Read more
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been found liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, over his claim the massacre was a hoax. 20 children, aged five and six, and six adults were killed in 2012. The 20-year-old gunman killed his mother before the shooting and … Read more
The Lunar Eclipse in late Taurus conjunct Algol this coming Friday comes at the end of a turbulent ten days with a bad-tempered, mishap-prone Mars in Scorpio square Saturn last week and then Mars in a disruptive, can-be-explosive opposition to Uranus this Wednesday. The alarm about Russia’s manoeuvring in eastern Europe will be part of … Read more
Rarely a week goes by without a Meh Again story hitting the papers. Part of which can be attributed to the total idiocy of suing the Daily Mail which was never going to end well – or indeed ever end at all. And the rest to a jack-in-the-box tendency of the Sussexes to pitch in … Read more
Geoffrey Cox MP is giving fat-cat politicians a bad name, appearing only twice in Westminster to vote in 13 months and reportedly using his Commons office for his £1m-a-year legal sideline which takes him off to the sunny tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. He evidently offered the Islands legal advice recently in a … Read more
US rappers Travis Scott and Drake are being sued for having “incited mayhem” after eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crush during a Texas concert. About 50,000 people were in the audience in Houston when the crowd started pushing towards the stage as Scott, whose company had organised it, was performing, triggering … Read more
Not a good week for the House of Commons as a different scandal tainted the other side of the aisle. Claudia Webbe, a Labour MP once a power figure on the far left, was given a suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of a campaign of harassment, including threatening to “use acid” and distribute … Read more