interesting times

I sit at table in the wee small hours of the night.

A howling wind sweeps across the fields, rattles the fittings on my old house and whistles in the flues.

It seems to presage something.

Donald Trump's second term of office as President of the United States has been underway for a month.

Some of  his policies seem good, some chaotic, some like comic opera, and some simply malign.

More specifically: His support for Israel is good. The appointment of Robert Kennedy as Secretary of Health and Human Services is good. Mr Kennedy is that rare creature, a genuinely principled critic of the power of large pharmaceutical companies. The new Health Secretary has in the past had the courage and insight to assert publically that mass vaccination programmes for the Covid 19 virus were unwarranted and caused still unmapped levels of death and injury in the general population. Mr Kennedy has also marshalled what I consider convincing evidence that the Mumps Measles Rubella vaccination programme for infants has induced a pandemic of autism across the world. President Trump's decisive attempt to re establish immigration law is good too as is his decision to release all government files relating to the assassination of Robert Kennedy's uncle, President John F Kennedy. President Trump's appointment of billionaire Elon Musk with broad powers to cut back on wasteful spending across the State sector, is what I mean by chaotic but may turn out to be good. Mr Musk made his fortune by persuading governments spooked by the fictional notion of climate change to move away from cars powered by the internal combustion engine which work and invest in his electric cars which don't work. I don't rate him. President Trump's threat to annex Canada, Greenland and Panama is what I mean by comic opera, as is his changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and expelling Associated Press staffers from White House press conferences for refusing to use the new term.

And the malign...

In my view President Trump is this week staging a quarrel with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky preparatory to betraying Ukraine itself to the resovietising dictator of Russia Vladimir Putin.

I counsel people of goodwill not to support Donald Trump.

I do not think he is mad.

The devil is in the detail.

And I sense evil.