Tonight, BBC Four viewers can watch the first of a three part series by filmmaker, Vanessa Engle, entitled ‘Jews’.

According to the BBC’s press office, Part One of the series, will look at the Hasidic community in Stamford Hill. Part Two, at the “…psychological inheritance of the Holocaust [that] the children of refugees and survivors find themselves carrying…in their everyday lives.” Part Three, at a 52-year-old millionaire philanthropist from Hendon, who formerly owned a chain of high street shops.

So congratulations to the Beeb for, in one fell swoop, fulfilling their entire official unwritten policy that ‘where one really must show British Jews on screen, it will be as religious extremists, victims of the Holocaust, or rich NW London merchants.’

In today’s elections for London Mayor.

It’s almost worth it for comic value.

…almost…

Last weekend, it was revealed that senior officers at RAF Wittering had advised their staff to wear civilian dress when visiting nearby Peterborough, because of fears that their uniforms might attract insults.

Sounds to me like what the flyboys and girls need is an armed escort…

British supermarket giant, Tesco, have their sites set on the US, where they are in the process of opening thirty stores. Modelled on the ‘Tesco Extra’ concept, the new stores are not so much supermarkets as very mini marts.

I predict the venture is doomed to failure. After all, how is the average 300lb American going to fit down the aisles?

Today, over 20,000 police officers marched through central London in a protest over pay…which raises the question, who policed the march?

No it’s not a new minimalist look…yesterday, my backend (the software powering this blog) was updated…and in the process, the database containing all of my postings, comments, links, etc., became corrupted. Talk about taking it up the backend…

Even as you read this, the entire computer division of Mossad is taking time off work to try to rectify the problem, so hopefully, normal service will resume soon…and in the interim, your favourite blog continues unabated.