In Mathematics, we have prime numbers, Physics we have atoms, biology we have cells, in prose and language, I suggest irony.
A number of studies have been carried out with the ubiquitous conclusion being cells are the building blocks of life, prime numbers, well u would not have a credit card without them, but irony? I would love to dwell further on it.
It Monday I know, still too early in the week to be thinking deep, but spare a thought for me. I was awoken by my DAB radio blasting the French national anthem, I thought it’s a was a technology mishap, and was rubbing my naked chest with glee, a fault with the radio, a possibility of a refund perhaps… but no, it was radio five live. It was about the release of official secret documents that dated back to 1950s, where the then French prime minister proposed a union with England under the premiership of Eden. We could say it was gonna be a no way, for Churchill had proposed the same in 1944. I will not bore you with history, but the cabinet said no.
Where does Irony come into play? Well according to a poll, radio five’s, 70% of listeners said they would have like a union with France, it could be the property investors who would have wanted to settle in southern France, or the hedonists that would have loved the liberal lifestyle of the French, or the wine drinkers perhaps, imagine substituting real ale for champagne… anyway the majority were for a union.
Scotland, land of the kilt, 80% of the English would love a separation and Scotland as an independent nation.
This is where the irony comes into play. What have the English got in common with the French that would make a union so appealing that they do not have with the Scots that would make a separation appealing? Being an outsider, is that a correct phase, (well I am one despite what the commission for racial equality would want me to believe), being an outsider, I am amused about the complexity of the British nation, what exactly do you want?

I have another for you, will the Prime Minister intervene in the ongoing investigation on the radar system supplied to Tanzania by BAE systems and the 30% commission fees that were paid to the Indian middlemen to “smooth” the deal? But yet again Tanzania has no royals, and no oil? IRONY, it could be the holy grail.
Monday awaits!