Tuesday: So What IS Going On With Keir & The Arsonists? Bohemian Cards Take a Look Into The Murk...

Tuesday May 20th 2025

Bit of an odd story cropping up in the UK news at the moment, with two of PM Keir Starmer’s former homes and a car being firebombed. Disgruntled political activists you’d think? It wouldn’t be surprising as he is widely disliked by various members of the public both in and outside his own political ‘side’ at the moment, and his home has been targeted before by young activists protesting his initial stance on Israel among other things.

But rather than the more likely suspects and motivations, the men arrested so far for the crimes have all been young male E. Europeans including two Ukrainians, so seems unlikely to be even a pro-Russia thing (Putin is very much NOT a fan of Starmer from his days as the UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions and prosecuting Russian agents and poisoners). This is merely conjecture of course, but they’re very young, one is apparently a “male model”, another has just shown up on Grindr, and… well, let’s just be honest here about what it now very much looks like. These are almost certainly rent boys, two of them from Ukraine, one Romanian. Firebombing PMs, though, seems an odd activity for your average sex worker to undertake, although apparently this IS something low-level that the Russian secret service has hired people to do before in other countries.

So is this about personal grudges? Non-payment? Blackmail? A cunning trick by Putin to maximise the scurrilous rumours about Starmer’s private life? Something to do with Lord Ali instead? With those rumours about Starmer’s private life doing the rounds again (though it veers between him being gay and apparently simultaneously having a secret love child with a mystery woman), gleefully stirred by some of his enemies on the right (but curiously not reported by the papers beyond the news of the arrests which might suggest a D-notice), I wanted to see if the Bohemian cards could give us any clues as to whether there’s anything in that. What is this odd firebombing campaign of his former residences and cars and why would what looks very much like three Eastern European rent boys be the perpetrators?If Keir has set himself up for blackmail, it seems very very stupid and should have been easy to avoid. OR it’s just part of a disinformation campaign to destabilize him, but to be fair, he’s being doing plenty of that for himself anyway.

So! I’m using a Hungarian deck and the traditional “Gypsy’s” or Fortune Teller’s Answer spread to take a dive into the mystery. You can get a reminder of how to lay and read this one here.

Here’s how the cards fell for today. I’m asking the question “What’s the background to news of this firebombing campaign at Keir Starmer’s former residences” and to represent that ‘final result’, I’ve pre-chosen the Unexpected Joy to represent the surprise or the glee, the Misfortune cards for the actual firebombs and the Letter, to indicate the news. Other than that, none of the other cards were pre-chosen.

Subscribers can access card meanings for the Bohemian deck here.

But what’s it saying? Let’s take a look!