another one bites the dust

another one bites the dust!

cruella is gone and 

therese coffey has resigned too! (bonus).

will it cause civil war in the tory party? horsemouth does hope so.  go on my beauties!

'right wing tories have met after rishi sunak sacked suella braverman as home secretary, with one MP publishing a formal letter of no confidence in the prime minister.'

in other news the UK is set to have its seventh housing minister in under two years 

(and the just departed rachel maclean was the 15th since 2010). 

horsemouth will now pretend to be sad that the assorted tory intellects haven't had the time to devote themselves to becoming familiar with their brief.. 

'while rents have soared in recent years, local housing allowance rates, which determine housing benefit levels, have been frozen since 2020.

in june, analysis by the institute for fiscal studies think-tank found just 5% of new private rental properties advertised on zoopla were covered by local housing allowance rates, the lowest level on record...'

these were 'wildly inadequate a decade prior to 2020 too' a friend notes (in case anyone thinks government stinginess is a recent problem as people are driven to top up their rents driving them further down into poverty). . 

more depressing housing statistics here. 

outlaw bookseller has put up a link to vector (the critical journal of the british science fiction association) and in particular to a special edition on the notoriously grumpy keith roberts (pavane, kiteworld etc.). 

horsemouth used to have a copy of pavane (good book, awesome cover), he thinks he read the prototype grain kings in new worlds that and weihnachtsabend (or possibly some brian aldiss/ harry harrison thing). he has a a copy of the furies (keith roberts' first novel) somewhere.

horsemouth's friend worries about roberts being discovered by the folk horror lot (it would most likely feature in the pages of hellebore.)

three years ago the fall of the house of fitzgerald was posted up on youtube. horsemouth pronounces himself delighted with it (not that it couldn't be better but at least he got it done and out and people may view the result). 2020 may have been a peak year for horsemouth's creativity. sadly since then he has failed to keep up the pressure. 

horsemouth awaits the release of the triple negative book. he has retuned his guitar to standard and attempted some singing. next week horsemouth and his mum are down on the abbey rota (opening and closing the abbey) at the weekend his brother and his family are up visiting. yesterday a blind buying failure (most annoying). mum went off to visit a friend and deliver some eggs (that was a good thing). horsemouth sat around and fumed.