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Playing Fast and Luce

Posted by Muntle on May 30, 2026
Posted in: Latest Blog, Where's that Handcart?.

Luce

A friend just sent me a review video of the new Ferrari Luce eSUV, mainly to introduce me to the numbingly-boring presenter who was more interested in it being designed by Apple, and spent most of his film wowing about the tactility (yes he actually used that word) of the interior switchgear.

For me, it looks like Ferrari’s equivalent of the Cyber Truck.  It’s too big (unless he was vertically-challenged), too ugly, too blue, too everything Pininfarina would never have even considered for a fraction of a nano-second. Who’s Ferrari’s next exterior design project going to – Jaecoo!?

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Minority Matters

Posted by Muntle on June 8, 2020
Posted in: Latest Blog, Where's that Handcart?.

I am British born and bred.  I am male. I have a belief.  I respect democracy.  I am law-abiding.  I am heterosexual. I am a pensioner.  I have underlying health issues.  I value all lives.  I am white.  I no longer matter

I was brought up by working class parents who taught me to respect all people regardless of their gender, creed, ethnicity, orientation or political opinions.  They both served in WW2 to give me, and you, our freedom.  I have always practiced what I was taught, and continue to do so.  I passed that teaching to my children, which they have followed and will pass to theirs.  But I no longer matter.  Neither do they. Continue Reading

It wuz the sheds wot dun it

Posted by Muntle on December 16, 2019
Posted in: Breaking News ..... not.


In a press conference earlier today, a shadow cabinet spokesman announced that the conclusion of the Period of Reflection and Contemplation Commission on why things went wrong last Thursday is that ‘It wuz the sheds wot dun it’

“It cannot be a co-incidence” he said “that the appearance of all of these festively-decorated wooden sheds on our high streets during the last two weeks of the campaign, and particularly on polling day itself, distracted voters from their main purpose of electing a Labour government.”

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Man shall never be enriched by Envy – Thomas Draxe 1608

Posted by Muntle on August 16, 2019
Posted in: Short 'n Sweet, Signs of the Times.

My new attention-seeking Envy printer from HP may not be quite as bad at using-up ink to preen itself before every print-run as the previous one was, but it does have an annoying habit of dropping its WiFi connection a couple of times a day so that I have to turn it off and on to reconnect it before it will print anything.  It must have had an update overnight, because the first reconnect today brought-up this new and informative notice:

Lies, Damned Lies & BBC Statistics

Posted by Muntle on May 28, 2019
Posted in: Latest Blog, Where's that Handcart?.

BBC Statistics

It is difficult to understand how a media organisation that, over the last few years, has consistently failed to correctly predict major election results can believe it retains any credibility.  Yet that’s what we have from a BBC statistics department that now has to go into full spin mode to cover its embarrassment even during a live results programme.

Such was the case on Sunday when it became immediately obvious that the Brexit Party were absolutely creaming the opposition, as if that hadn’t been widely predicted from the point, just six weeks ago, when Nigel Farage launched it.   But this article is not about the politics of these elections, it’s about whether our national broadcaster is fit for purpose in the field of political analysis.

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