AS I watch in slack-jawed horror at the incredible devastation caused by the fires in Los Angeles, one question keeps popping up in my head: Those giant wedding cake houses where all the celebrities lived—what, exactly, are they made of?
At one moment there were huge, spacious “houses”, and then, in the blink of an eye, they became dust.
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James Woods breaks down after losing his house in the Los Angeles fires Credit: YouTube
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The Hollywood actor posted this picture on his social networksCredit: X
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The aftermath of the wildfires shows that entire neighborhoods have been leveled to their foundationsCredit: Getty
Actor James Woods won’t need a bulldozer to clean up what’s left of his gaffe. Just a vacuum cleaner.
I am not making light of this truly apocalyptic event.
I know there are socialists on social media who say, “They’re rich so it doesn’t matter,” but that’s nonsense.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have, it always hurts to lose your photo albums and your pets and your lifetime collection of fridge magnets.
My heart, and I really mean it, goes out to all those affected.
Of course, there will now be an investigation to find out why the fires got so big – but I’m not sure that’s necessary.
Because if you live in a part of the world where it rains little, the winds can be strong and the temperature is high, you don’t need an inquiry to tell you that you really shouldn’t be living in a house made of balsa wood and papier mâché.
Because if you do that, it’s not home, it’s burning.
One of the reasons why there are no ancient records in Scandinavia is that they were all stored in churches.
And in the old days those churches were made of wood. As London was mostly in 1665.
How a tiny garden fire and 50 mph winds sparked LA’s worst wildfires that destroyed 2,000 homes
Someone, then, needs to go to California and introduce them to something called a “breeze block.”
And then someone else needs to explain to peace-loving government officials that unbridled environmental work doesn’t help either.
Five years ago, huge chunks of Australia burned, and everyone said it was because of global warming.
The native aboriginal population, however, claimed that it was always quite warm in that part of the forest.
This is why they used to clean fallen branches and twigs and make fire escapes.
It was the same story in Zimbabwe.
When the land was cultivated by people who knew what they were doing, fires were usually small events that burned out when they reached a man-made barrier.
Now, those people are gone and the fires are just wandering around like hot orange clouds.
Nature takes its course
In California, they are obsessed with letting nature take its course and not interfering. And look what happened.
They are also obsessed, there, with showing off.
Which is why all those houses were so huge, and often built from wood, which they have in abundance.
And for that matter, I have a plan too.
When they are rebuilt, may I suggest that they spend their money not on enormity, but on expensive building materials that don’t catch fire so easily.
Your house will be smaller and less impressive, but at least it will survive the next fire that comes along.
Keir is not evil, just a clown in the garbage
ELON MUSK has described Sir Starmer as “evil”.
Well, I’m sorry, but he’s wrong.
Two Tier Kier is not evil. He’s just silly.
Rach is darkness and doom
THE TEN-YEAR yield on gilts now stands at 4.8 percent.
Of course, I have no idea what the gold yield is, but obviously 4.8 percent is bad.
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Rachel Reeves’ entire life so far has been a complete waste of timeCredit: Getty
Similarly, this week we were told that funds invested in British stocks had just had their worst year on record, that job vacancies had fallen to their lowest level in five years and that food prices would rise by 4.2 per cent in the second half of this year.
I’ve never been good at maths and I got a “U” in A-level economics, so I don’t understand any of this.
But it sounds dreary and I feel a little sorry for the increasingly jaded Rachel from the accounts.
Ever since she was an angry teenager, Ms Reeves has wanted Britain to become a high-tax state socialist paradise.
Then one day, after leaving her lowly job at a bank, she became Chancellor of the Exchequer, which meant she had the power to make her dream come true.
And now, just a few months later, he realizes that socialism doesn’t work.
If you tax business, business goes elsewhere.
Now she has to face the fact that her entire life so far has been a complete waste of time.
No wonder she looks so exhausted and sad.
Snap, snap, hooray
AS Slade, I’ve seen the yellow lights go down the Mississippi, I’ve seen the bridges of the world and they’re real.
I’ve traveled a lot over the years and encountered some spectacular views.
Northern Iraq stands out in the sunset.
So is the Atacama Desert in Chile, as well as the mountains of New Mexico, the tea plantations of Uganda, the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe and the hills of central Corsica.
But when I parted the curtains at home yesterday morning to be greeted by the sun peeking over the eastern horizon and bathing the ice-white frozen landscape in a misty orange glow, I have to say you can’t beat a cold winter’s morning in the English countryside.
Isle fix boats fiasco
I HEAR that one of the men involved in the groom gangs has renounced his Pakistani citizenship which means he is legally “stateless”. Therefore, he cannot be deported.
That’s always a problem. When a boat full of young men arrive on the beaches of Kent, most people think they should be sent back.
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The extremely remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha is technically BritishCredit: Getty
But where?
Rwanda was suggested, but that was always a crazy plan.
Because they would simply go back to Calais and two weeks later be back in Dover with a new name and claim to have become transgender.
Every political party says they have a plan to solve this problem, but if they want to stay on the right side of international law, I don’t see any of them succeeding.
So here we are. We cannot reject these people and we cannot keep them.
Or can we? The extremely remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha is technically British.
So let’s welcome these guys to our country and give them a nice house there.
I’m with Labour. I don’t believe we need a public inquiry into groom gangs.
Public inquiries are just rooms full of people joking in disbelief in the hope of ending up on the six o’clock news.
And we just don’t need a dusty old baroness to tell us what the problem is, because we already know.
A young girl goes to the police and explains that she was raped by a group of Pakistanis.
And then the policeman tells her that she will feel better if she goes home and has a cup of tea.
Because he knows that if he reports the crime to his superiors, he will be accused of racism and be fired.
This is what has to be solved.
We must remove the shackles of political correctness from the police.
We must explain that it is not racist to investigate a rapist.
Do that and we’re halfway there.
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