Today is my fifth wedding anniversary to the most wonderful woman in my life. My wife. She will say to me not a cross word said. Of course, this is preposterously untrue. The reason being we both love to discuss politics and contemporary news. We're news junkies. We used to be of a similar political bent. To the left that is, but I'm not so sure on my wife as she's gone down the rabbit hole of crazed conspiracy theories and even believes Trump was a good thing. Hence, the occasional heated discussion of an evening. Personally, I believe it is all down to Putin and the misinformation age we now live in. As the saying goes, a lie will be halfway round the world before the truth has had a chance to take it's pyjamas off. The truth needs to sleep naked to get a head start. The thing is, the truth is being denied as the truth by lies. By thousands of Putin bots sending out disinformation. By targetting ordinary Joe Blogs. Through every stream of social media there is misinformation. This is killing and dividing us as a society. A bit like what the Tories have done. Divide and conquer. To whose benefit? Putin's benefit. Or perhaps it's the other fella, the one who rules and runs China which has now become a socialist autocracy by any other name.
I love my wife so very much. To find she had slowly changed into this very different conspiracy theory person has been a voyage of discovery. In more ways than one. I've found she is not the only one. There are many people walking about who agree with her. You wouldn't identify it at first sight. Yet somehow they seem to attract each other. She makes friends with all sorts. Taxi drivers for instance when she goes on about 15 minute cities. Which I have challenged many a time as misinformation and she laughs in my face about. A kind of evil like laugh which comes from the two or three glasses of red wine she's drunk. She'll then tell the taxi driver that the royal "we" have to get active. We should not put up with this. And the royal "they" are corrupt. In many senses British politics lends itself to corruption and this is certainly evidence in the last 14 years of Tory governments. But I love her so have been through a somewhat challenging time. See I could not vision myself leading a better existence than I do now with my wife. Every day is an adventure. I got no idea what is in store for me but, it is interesting to say the least whether I have got the wits to get myself out of trouble, laugh with her and love her so much.
Sparkling Eyes, I love you to the moon and back, and even a little bit more.
