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MTTV are talking to a very intense lady from the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority (FSA) they are promoting something called ‘World Investor Week’. Manx news needs to be anything these days that takes people's minds of starving or fuel poverty and MTTV and Manx Radio are cornering the market:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zKCXqd0gY&feature=youtu.be

V&A Dundee opened its doors for the first time to the public on Saturday 15 September 2018. Scotland’s first design museum, V&A Dundee looks at the international importance of design and also presents Scotland’s design achievements. The museum's Scottish Design Galleries are a central feature, with hundreds of exhibits of Scottish design. Within these galleries is the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Oak Room, restored, conserved and reconstructed through a partnership between V&A Dundee, Glasgow Museums and Dundee City Council.

Do we really want ‘a ghastly Chamber of Commerce inspired feudal Statelet where the wealth of the Isle of Man continues to be stolen from its people by a small coterie abled assisted by COMIN (Council of Ministers)!’

As the Mec Vannin yesterday evening meeting drew to a close after several hours ruminating over the machinations of the Quayle government and its ‘Chamber buddies’ the direction for nationalism was tabled.

I had one of my weekly sojourns into ‘the northlands’ today to stock up at the farm shop most relaxing. I love their produce which is tasty - par excellence! Carrots you would die for plus eggs that for once don’t defy the title ‘large’ unlike some you see on supermarket shelves.

It's a ‘help yourself and pay up in the honesty box’ operation. The only concession to the modern age is a CCTV camera I suppose that's inevitable. It does though make you hark back to an earlier time in Mann when there was more openness and trust.

Zombies are quite frightening fictional creatures.  Dead people who have been brought back to life, but lose any of their old humanity. Popular in horror and fantasy genre works, they are often depicted attacking and eating human beings. Taking advantage of this fascination with the Zombie phenomana is the Zombie Infection company. They have decided to bring the TSS (Turbine Steam Ship) Duke of Lancaster back to life so that visitors can encounter the undead. The former passenger ferry used to sail between Heysham and Belfast in the 50s and 60s.

Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has made it clear that Ireland is committed to recognising a Palestinian state as part of a peace process. However, if negotiations between Palestine and Israel continue to prove fruitless “we may have to forget the second part of that.” He suggested that other European countries could do the same. His comments were during a joint press conference with Palestinian National Authority foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki. The Palestinian delegation visiting the Irish capital of Dublin this weekend, included the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Chief Minister Howard Quayle and his gaffe prone Enterprise Minister Laurence Skelly are at the Labour Party conference. It shows a kind of paternalistic side to Howard given that a previous time Skelly had a ‘gaffe’ Howard took him away from the limelight (was it Vision 9?).

Skelly has now presided over the Economic Development Fund, Vision 9 and the disastrous Manx Rally fiasco (are there any more - mail me). Surprised that Howard hasn’t sent him to ROOM 101 rather than taking him for an outing to meet ‘the brothers’.

Alf Cannan gets a further helping in the portal and Tim seems to have a brand new white shirt for the occasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=tT1R3sNIoqc

Although I’m caustic about these interviews it's not because they take place and provide me with an opportunity for cynicism but because they fail to realise any substance.

With the summer season drawing to a close, Isle of Man Railways once again organised the annual Island at War weekend, which attracted visitors to the steam railway - with events held at stations in Douglas, Castletown and Port Erin.

MTTV have nailed Howard Quayle MHK (Manx Chief Minister) down for the weekly press conference which is a relief. I was getting tired of seeing and hearing people like Alf Cannan MHK and Chris Thomas MHK who are kind of the Blackadder and Baldrick of Howard’s regime.