In due course, this post will be about tempting you to explore the pages of my music site, Salut! Live
The new year begins with Lord Frost of Brexit loudly cheering, and welcoming honours for, the negotiating team that brought us what Boris called his amazing oven-ready deal, leaving the rest of us to suffer the predictable and predicted consequences of the worst act of national self-harm in living memory. One that the unelected Lord Frost saw for what it was when actually involved in a business sector - whisky - that earned export money.
But I shall refrain from naming the guilty individuals and can but guess at what turned the heads of this esteemed peer and that other born-again Brexiter, Liz Truss.
And let us not whinge afresh about Brexit.
Maybe there will be Sunlit Uplands after all, however many decades away they may be. Not only will fishes be so much happier knowing they may be doomed but are swimming in British waters, musicians will one day be allowed to tour Europe again. Turing will not be the cheap, inadequate Erasmus replacement it seems and the UK may yet regain a shred of the international respect it has lost through threats of squalid, unlawful reneging on solemnly signed deals, the trashing of foreigners and a reckless attitude to what the late Mo Mowlam so astutely called the "flawed peace" in Northern Ireland.
My house-trained Brexiter friends and acquaintances will, in any case, shrug shoulders and say no pain is enough to crush the sheer joy and pride we should all feel on taking back control, re-establishing sovereignty and, er, breaking free from the shackles (and export market) of Europe.
Huge congratulations to everyone from the British negotiating team from 2020 who received an honour this New Year.
— David Frost (@DavidGHFrost) January 1, 2022
I'm very glad to see proper recognition for those who worked so hard and did such a brilliant job for our country. They really deserve it.
But if, like me, you crave a Brexit-free environment, pop over to Salut1 Live, the thoroughly Remoaner branch of the Salut! empire. It's about folk and folk-related music but don't let that put you off. The sounds you encounter there may challenge such prejudice.
Also, there's not that much about Brexit at Salut! Live anyway. It crops up in questions to interviewees - invariably answered correctly - and occasionally I'll add a gratuitous jibe. No one seems to mind.
If, still, you cannot really be bothered to explore that site, I wish you a happy new year all the same.
Is it a dirty word? I asked the question recently and it prompted lively debate at Salut! Live, on social media and at the Mudcat folk forum.
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