(0515) Question is … is it GMT or GMT +1? Ah, it’s GMT, as my wall clock plus mobile both say 0615, which is actually a pretty good sleep for me, from about 1130 GMT+1, no aches and pains, no bad dreams. Going to run the main post of the day at Jstack around 0630 GMT, not here. (0556 GMT)

 

3. Steve at 1183

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• Switzerland Goes To War Against Free Speech: Man Jailed For Claiming That Skeletons Reflect Gender
• Much more.

2. This, like DAD’s 1c, is a precursor to my upcoming post

1. DAD at 1183

Did you change your clocks?

a) How Macron became the anti-de Gaulle. The French president desired to be Jupiter; instead, he became Icarus.

b) Faith in the French political system has completely collapsed according to an annual survey: a stunning 96 per cent of the public are either “dissatisfied or angry” about the current state of France.

c) Union of the French Right: what are they waiting for? It is torture to see the country falling apart and the right wing unable to come up with a common winning strategy. (JH: My post coming up on this.)

d) The [US] teachers unions, who are rioting, have badly failed the kiddos they recruit to riot…