(0453 new time) Particularly difficult day chez Higham today with appointments and govt inspectors in the house … it might play merry havic with posting from around 0930 onwards, throughout the day. (0535)
2. DAD at 1526
a) French authorities arrested over 1,300 rioters and reported 53 injured police officers as violent unrest continues at the week-end….
b) Dijon (21): a man steals a goat from the Parc de la Colombière, ties its legs together, and locks himself inside a toilet with the animal; police intervene.
c) These people don’t belong in the West. They are not like us.
d) France’s ten-year borrowing rate (OAT) has soared this week, while the country is under strain after the riots of 17 October, which have added to investor unease. Moody’s nevertheless justified its stance in a statement, explaining that “the AA3 rating is based on the assumption that a 2027 budget reducing the deficit will be adopted, while funding costs and social tensions will moderate somewhat over the coming months”.
e) French police intercepted three buses carrying about 220 illeg@l immigr@nts to an anti-National Rally protest in Orléans, detaining passengers for hours and issuing deportation notices.
1. Lula
On a morning when the catalogue of criminality ranges from big crimes such as Lula’s swindle in Brazil and Danielle Smith’s major move on Albertans, to localised scandals in various countries, plus peripheral big moves such as Putin’s … best cunning plan might be to present post item by post item, then use a summary for the main post tomorrow at OoL, Jstack and on X.
That’s basically what happened … this commentary below is more widely worrying for us:
It’s his comment about Le Pen, as if she’s any different to Meloni, Smith or Farage … all controlled opp and you’ll see it at Mon 3 with Smith’s latest move.
