I am writing from Faro, on the Algarve, today where, for the last couple of days, I have been eating as many squid and octopus as I can. I don’t particularly like the taste, which I find a bit too bland and rubbery in texture, but it’s my own take on the great President Reagan’s saying that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The price of freedom is eating as many squid and octopi as you can to piss off Guardian readers, perhaps. I don’t know whether to thank Mrs. Raccoon for advising me how to irritate the politically correct, or curse her for encouraging me in my rather boring diet. I also think that I may need a plumbers mate – the instrument, not the person – on my bowels to get everything moving again.

It’s quite nice out here, although I leave today. It is particularly lovely to be able to avoid the EU referendum ‘debate’, which seems to consist largely of Dave running around like Chicken Licken and various economic colossi – John Major, Gordon Brown, and George Osborne amongst them – giving us the benefit of their thoughts. As each of these individuals has been responsible for increasing my tax bill while they have been in office, I am not really inclined to take them particularly seriously. I’d prefer to take advice from someone who reduced my tax bill, but the last person to do that left office in 1992.

Anyway, relying on the various internet websites that I use to get my news, my own eye was caught by the story of Jesse Hughes, the lead singer of the ‘Angels of Death’ a capella and string quartet, who was caught up in the Bataclan Muslim terrorist attack in Paris.

Here is a summary of his interview: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/19/imuslim-security-liberal-mentality-responsible-bataclan/

Here is his interview: http://takimag.com/article/surrendering_to_death_gavin_mcinnes#axzz4A1hveLV5

And here is the response to his interview: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/25/muslim-fan-jesse-hughes-is-ing-stupid-to-blame-bataclan-massacre-on-islam/

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