Forget Andy.. it’s Kim who will need the grape deuce
Eyebrows have been raised that teetotal Andy Murray has won planning permission for a wine cellar at his new home.
Surrey locals who objected were bemused as to why the super-fit tennis ace would need such a store.
He doesn’td like booze and only indulges when celebrating Grand Slam wins.
But that doesn’t mean wife Kim has to abstain.
And as she’s mum to a two-year-old and a baby, I’d venture that a good stock of wine is very much required. Better make that cellar as big as possible.
And that ’ s not a comfortable position as we await Putin’s full response to the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from countries supportive of Britain after the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
Anyone expecting reasonable, measured diplomacy from the newly re-elected Russian president? Anyone else fear this could blow up to catastrophic, megalomaniac proportions the likes of which Lex Luthor could only dream?
Folks, this is what happens when the wrong people are in charge. No matter how hard we try to ignore them, trust everyday life will go on despite them, they’ll always show their true colours in the end. It’s a form of insanity borne of hubris. And it’s us plebs who suffer.
I should add that I don’t include O’Grady in this. He’s clearly having his own personal X-Files moment and it’s a welcome diversion in an otherwise depressing list of April Fool-ishness. So we are left to digest
Don’t you wish this was an April Fool and not an indictment of the leader of the free world? Meanwhile, we’re reeling at an affront to democracy here with the arrest, at an Edinburgh police station, of St Andrews University professor Clara Ponsati, the ex- Catalonia education minister. European arrest warrants, like that issued by the Spanish government for Prof Ponsati, were introduced to tackle criminals who are a risk to the public, most commonly terrorists, not to crush legitimate political opposition. Who went mad and forgot Spain is meant to be a civilised modern democracy these days? Then there’s Corbyn destroying any hope of a once proudly inclusive Labour party ever seeing power before any millennials are as silvery-white as he is. Already wrong-footed in his reaction to the Salisbury attack, he’s now created a lamentable crisis where British Jews feel forced to protest outside Parliament over anti-Semitism. But it’s partly our own fault. The wrong people have been given power. If ever the world needed a lesson that our votes are too important to give over to reactionary candidates and unreliable characters, it ’s provided this Easter Day. Maybe we should all go alien-spotting in O’Grady’s garden. It could be the least foolish place in the world right now.