Payments to police by editors of the Sun. Who would have believed it? I would never have believed they would be prosecuted, the payment thing I always assumed was going on all the time, although it didn't occupy my mind an awful lot. It's quite surprising to me that you (me) can get worked up so much about something that you knew was an issue, but was just out of your consciousness for years and years and then WHAM! it's in everybody's face and you have a really strong opinion on it - or not as the case my be.
Take vested interests. Yes, take them - that's what we're programmed to do, to better oneself by whatever means necessary tempered by one's moral code which in itself is merely a lifelong conditioning based on your upbringing and 'who you hang around with'. Lining your pockets with oil shares whilst pushing climate scepticism is one example (Peter Lilley), and there's countless examples in politics not confined to any one party, it's just, well, normal.
Talking of conditioning, what about the lady who (allegedly) stole £85 from my daughter's purse and then had the barefaced cheek to get the £85 out her own purse after she had swiped it, and say "It's not me cos I've got my £85 here". What sort of conditioning has she received to be able to give that sort of barefaced lie, keep a straight face and think (correctly unfortunately, in this case) that she would get away with stealing another persons hard earned cash. God job we don't all get that conditioning, that would make for a difficult society. Mind you, we'd all be more careful where we left our handbags.
Tuesday night is running night. I use the term 'running' now I've cracked the 9 minute mile barrier. I always think that anything over 9 minutes is jogging. It's a sort of athletic snobbery. Hopefully get 8 miles in, but we'll see. I felt tired all last week, and although I got 7 in on Tuesday, I didn't do anything the rest of the week except for a swim.
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