Time and tide wait for no man; especially no man with a blog. Blogging has been lighter than usual as I’ve been trying to finish my latest project: Discmania. There are still hundreds of items to add, including many famous films.

So, what else has been happening? Some Belgian chap has been chosen to become Europe’s first president. Even stranger: some New Labour baroness is EU ‘foreign secretary’. No doubt both were chosen (not elected, naturally) by our betters for their own reasons.

Herman Van Rompuy has a plethora of nicknames in the blogosphere already. Cranmer likes Rompuy-Stiltskin, while Leg-iron goes with Rumpole of the Belgians. Simon Heffer, writing in the Telegraph, calls him Rip Van Rumpy de Pumpy, or something like that. Heffer writes,

Meanwhile, unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats will go on running the show as they always have done, with these people as stooges.

Exactly. Unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats doing whatever their globalist masters direct them to do.

This is the sort of Europe of which Dave, speaking on the Today programme on Thursday, wishes to remain a member, which is why he won’t call an in-or-out referendum. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of votes that will cost him next May?

Unfortunately, not enough to make a whit of difference, I suspect.

What about Tony Blair? He apparently wasn’t interested in the job, even though he seemed favourite at one time. I suspect he is being held in reserve for another brand new post: Inquisitor General! A man of faith who is prepared to rid Europe of anti-EU heresy.

...and this is for selling kiwi fruit 1mm shorter than EU regulations allow.

The caption won’t allow me to link to the pertinent information about the market trader who was ordered to destroy his stock of kiwi fruits, or face a £5,000 fine, because they were but a millimetre ‘too small’ for the lunatics in power.