Saturday 30 October: The electorate will punish the PM for his poverty-inducing green agenda

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  1. Morning folks.

    Talking of ejections (sic), there has been a rather large Coronal Mass Ejection due to arrive at Planet Woke, today. If you would like to see a short clip of this baby click on the link below and then scroll down to the two minute video posted by Sean Doran. It ought to make the COPulators re-examine their beliefs…..

    https://twitter.com/_SpaceWeather_/status/1454079407799345152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3A_SpaceWeather_%7Ctwgr%5EeyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spaceweatherlive.com%2Fen%2Fsolar-activity.html

    1. Morning Stephen. Wasn’t there one last week that achieved nothing? Is this more scaremongering?

      1. From memory this one is rather larger. It may affect the quality of your ‘Strictly’ TV broadcast – but hey who knows I’m not an Astrophysicist!

        However, Mr Doran has posted a 10 minute film of the Sun doing what the Sun does best (light and heat our planet). It’s best viewed full screen and it kinda puts the La Palma volcano in the shade so to speak…..

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoAyo103j8

        1. Don’t be silly Stephen everybody knows the Sun has no effect on the Earth,ask any “Climate Scientist” they ALWAYS exclude the Sun friom their climate models
          (For the avoidence of doubt SARC)

          1. But how can we ignore a large star that circles round the Earth?
            (Yah sucks boo to Galileo.)

      1. They are probably confusing syphilis, AIDS and clap with covid. Easily done in mixed households.

    2. I’m with Charlotte here! As I understand it in the USA the FDA want to jab 5 to 11 year olds, who they say can have the virus, but with few if any symptoms and no real danger to themselves, to “stop them spreading the disease”. As the jabs don’t stop you being infectious, you have to wonder what the real reason is!

    2. If your teenage daughter in a fit of hormonal rage shouted that you had stolen her childhood would you…

      A. Ignore her
      B. Give her a good slap. Or
      C. Give her a standing ovation.

      ???

        1. I have agreed with Greta on one occasion.
          A few years back she appeared at the UN in New York and she stated “I should not be here”
          This I agreed with wholeheartedly.
          She is in fact a Bluetooth speaker for her parents’ views.

        1. Never a good idea to indulge a precocious child like that. It can turn them into narcissistic freaks…..erm….

  8. ‘Kremlin framed me’ says Russia’s anti-Putin Communist star caught with elk blood on his hands. 30 October 2021.

    A rising star in the Russian Communist Party tipped to be the next anti-Putin opposition leader has been allegedly caught poaching an elk in an incident said to have all the hallmarks of a Kremlin set-up.

    Hunting authority told Russian media that rangers headed to the woods outside the city of Saratov on Thursday evening to respond to reports of shooting only to find Mr Rashkin and two other men with the carcass of an elk inside their car.

    An axe and two knives with traces of blood were also found in the car, they said.

    The Communist Party says Mr Rashkin, seen as a potential successor to the party leader was framed, and the incident has triggered speculation that the Kremlin is trying to nobble a threat from increasingly intransigent Communists.

    Lol! Well it’s more convincing than either Salisbury or Navalny I’ll give them that!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/29/kremlin-framed-says-russias-anti-putin-communist-star-caught/

    1. Yo Rik

      I would have thought, that at least the teechers could spell the word “peedophilia”

      or for Nottlers:I would have thought, that at least the teachers could spell the word “peadophilia”

      1. That’s just Yankspeak, OLT. for pædophilia.

        I do like an occasional diphthong, don’t you. Yanks don’t understand them.

        1. Yo NTN

          Down our way, adiphthong, is a very skimpy pair of bathing trunks

          It makes a Mankini look like an overcoat

  11. The Queen advised to rest for two weeks, says Buckingham Palace. 30 October 2021.

    Doctors have advised the Queen to rest for at least another two weeks and not to undertake any official visits, Buckingham Palace has said.
    It means the 95-year-old will not attend the Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, though she hopes to be at the Cenotaph for the Remembrance Day service itself.

    It also means she will not be attending the Glasgow fiasco CRAP26 which gives you some idea what the unofficial view of it is!

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/29/the-queen-advised-to-rest-for-two-weeks-says-buckingham-palace

    1. Don’t spose she has a dose of the ‘rona and they don’t want to mention it, no surely they wouldn’t be so devious…..

    2. I suspect this is the start of a slow terminal decline in HM’s health following the death of her husband. Prince Charles waits in the wings.

    3. Good for Liz, she recognises that the most important engagement must be the service of remembrance at the Cenotaph

        1. I used the conditional because I hope HM lives longer than her mother and the Crown might skip a generation. Not that Wills isn’t woke as well.

  12. Kerr ching!

    Nefyn residents Nick Kerr and wife Judi said heavy rain over the last 24 hours had led to road closures further afield on Friday.
    Mr Kerr said: “The rain was very heavy this morning, there were quite a few roads closed when we ventured out.
    “And there were three police cars there this morning on Screw Road in Nefyn.
    “With climate change Nefyn has been quite exposed. Now people can’t get down to the beach, there’s no access and the cliff path is closed.
    “Nefyn cliffs are obviously quite susceptible as they’re mostly mud and clay, it slips off down the hill.”

  13. Near-live image of the sun:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0d0373bbd2f31c381f4dee78cb3860b4d5d00d986fd4bc99038a9bdee7ce6be3.jpg

    https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/the-sun-now/index.html

    Greta has eight minutes to put on a sweater:

    If the Sun suddenly disappeared from the Universe (not that this could actually happen, don’t panic), it would take a little more than 8 minutes before you realized it was time to put on a sweater.

    https://phys.org/news/2013-04-sunlight-earth.html

    1. Yo Angie

      Looking at the background, the picture was was obviously taken at night……………..

      1. Yep, the Abbotopotamus is going up to sort it out in one of Branson’s Rockets.

        It’ll be OK as they’re going at night.

      1. …and it has just 8 minutes to get over it before we feel the sneeze – called the climate emergency.

        BS x BS²

    3. I once did similar at a night shift. In the canteen I’d been talking to one chap about Betelgeuse and other stars. We went back and outside the factory, where the very clear sky was beautiful, when he piped up – “where’s that errr”?. I pointed it out, telling him the bits i’d heard from the tv program. (I love progs on science and astronomy.) He looked confused and baffled. Tried to explain more. Still baffled. Errr – Asked him – how far back do you think we are seeing that? – – had to explain that before he understood !! Told him we were seeing it, as it was, ??? yrs ago – another blank look – my heart was sinking – – had to explain how long light from there took to get here, so we were actually seeing it – as it was- then..THEN had to tell him the place could have actually blown up but we won’t see for ??? years. He looked TOTALLY baffled. He clearly had NO idea how anything moves/works/ etc etc.
      WHAT THE HELL IS ACTUALLY GOING ROUND IN THEIR HEADS? ANYTHING?

      i was gobsmacked – – how do they live?BREATHE? learn?know? ANYTHING???

  14. Tucker Carlson condemned over ‘false flag’ claim about deadly Capitol attack. 30 October 2021.

    The conservative Republican Liz Cheney and the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League led condemnation of Fox News and Tucker Carlson, after the primetime host announced a series about the supposed “true story” of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January.

    They denounced Carlson for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories in the latest scandal to engulf a man whose popularity belies his record of racist and untrue statements on issues from immigration to racial justice.

    “Fox News is giving Tucker Carlson a platform to spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on 6 January,” tweeted Cheney, a Wyoming representative on the dwindling anti-Trump wing of the Republican party.

    Carlson must really be getting to them to rate this kind of coverage. The Democrats are trying to sell the story about the Capitol as some sort of attack on Democracy and the Republic itself which is clearly not going down well. Desperation is setting in. Biden is an utter failure and Trump is on the horizon again. It looks like it might all have been for nothing! All hands to the bilge pumps!

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/30/tucker-carlson-condemned-capitol-attack-liz-cheney

    2. I tend to agree more often with Tucker Carlson than I do with those who disagree with him.

    3. Liz Cheney is to ‘conservative Republican’ as Diane Abbott is to anorexia.

  15. Awake early enough for a Good Morning to you all

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/asylum-seekers-in-uk-housed-in-converted-hostel-with-prison-cells/ar-AAQ5Ygi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
    Get to Europe, Get to UK, and if NOT getting life of luxury within 5 minutes – – complain, complain, complain. What did France give them to live in/on???? Here ???? As soon as they moan – – charge them DOUBLE for what they get/ cost us – – . Another moan from them – – deport them. . . Absolutely F***ing SICK of paying for the bas***ds.
    AND a group of LGBT here now – – from Afghanistan – – brought here because of what they are- How many ( millions ??? ) of these will suddenly “emerge/appear” over there – – OR ANYWHERE ELSE???- – knowing a full, free life – – in the UK – – at OUR expense of course – – will be the result.
    UK Govt – – FULLY intends to wipe out the UK. – and its people. AAAAARRRRGGGH.
    ———————————————————————————————————————
    -And – if i’ve NEVER mentioned it before – this site – and you lot – NOT scammers – IS VERY much appreciated THANK YOU ALL – FOR BEING YOU.

    1. Morning Walter. Nottl is one of the last refuges of the free. An Oasis of Truth in a Desert of Lies!

    2. 340679+ up ticks,

      Morning W,
      What has cost this country dearly is the ongoing of the
      political lab/lib/con close shop.

      Over the last near four decades the voting pattern has been of a vote in, to keep out mode, for the benefit of the party put well before the benefit of the country.

      Any credible opposition to the close shop
      suppressed / taken out.

  16. Thought for the day:

    In the UK we colloquially call an injection a “jab”. In the USA it is routinely called a “shot”. What does that say about a nation that is pathologically obsessed with possessing and using firearms?

    1. In Britain, a “shot” refers to a measure of alcoholic spirit. An example of our obsession with booze?

      1. Ayup, Paul, lad.

        Hibernation sounds gradely. I’ve been busy in the workshop and exercising on my stationary bike. Next week I take delivery of a proper bike for scooting around the village and nearby woodland. I lost another 2 lb last week and I’m getting fitter by the second. 👍🏻

        1. Yo Mr Grizzle

          Are you regaining your fitness, because you know that you are the Nottlers’ No One Choice to replace Ms Cranium-Head at the Met

          1. Yo, Mr Effort.

            The treasury does not contain sufficient funds (not even on its magic money tree) to pay me enough to sort out that den of iniquity.

            I just decided that, upon reaching my three-score-years-and-ten, that I would buck the trend to go downhill, health and fitness-wise, and become stronger physically and mentally. [I’ll leave the last part for others to judge!]

        2. Excellent! Makes me feel inadequate… I’ve been tasting a (case of) Polish beer called Fox. At 7% and a good central-Europe Pilsner flavour, a few cans go down very well!

    3. Good morning, Grizzly. It’s in England that an injection is called a “jab”. In Scotland, as Spikey will confirm, it is called a “jag”.

    4. In television people still refer to shots and shooting people and things, as if we were still using cameras with 16mm or 35mm film when in fact it isn’t even video tape any longer but rather digital recordings delivered as digital files. I always hear the double meaning but if others do, they don’t betray it.

  17. Morning all

    SIR – British Gas has informed me that “all good things must come to an end”.

    That my tariff will rise next year by £720 is due to the Government’s lack of a coherent energy policy: its reliance on an intermittent supply of sun and wind; its failure to invest in nuclear power, tidal currents or underground heat sources; a reluctance to use Britain’s oil and gas resources before alternatives become mainstream.

    Madeline Grant (“UK green policy owes more to Greta than Toryism”, Comment, October 27) highlights the irony of importing wood chips from North America for Drax power station, and says that a “baffling moratorium on fracking has exacerbated energy insecurity”, while we continue to import natural gas. We also import coal for the steel industry. No wonder public backing for a poll on net zero is gaining traction.

    The British people are realising that, because of the Government’s lack of foresight, the Prime Minister’s green agenda will cast people into energy poverty. We did not vote for this, and the Tories are in danger of losing the electorate’s support, mine included.

    David Ennals

    Toller Porcorum, Dorset

    SIR – Discussing climate change, Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s chief scientific adviser, says we cannot “rely on some magic new technology coming along in 2035 that’s going to solve the problem for us” (“Sacrifice meat and flights for sake of climate, says Vallance”, report, October 28).

    Isn’t that exactly what the Government is doing?

    Faith Scott

    Farnham, Surrey

    SIR – Apple will sell 250 million iPhones this year, which will generate 19.41 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions. If we are serious about reducing carbon dioxide levels, we should simply buy fewer of them.

    Britain’s net-zero target must consider the manufacture of consumer goods elsewhere in the world, as we produce very little but buy a great many foreign-made products.

    Rather than being encouraged to eat less meat, a better message would be for us to keep our cars, mobile phones and other devices for many years, as always having the latest gadget may literally cost the Earth.

    Jerry Etheridge

    Malmesbury, Wiltshire

    SIR – Isn’t it a shame that a great city like Glasgow, which has an opportunity to showcase itself to the world during Cop26, will greet its visitors with piles of rubbish in the streets (“Glasgow’s rats ‘result of SNP cuts, not Thatcher’”, report, October 27)? Is this what independence is all about?

    Stuart Geddes

    Tregagle, Monmouthshire

    SIR – Those who are familiar with standard revolutionary procedure will recognise it in SNP policy.

    First, isolate the target. Secondly, destroy its economy, and finally, while blaming it on bourgeois persecutors such as Margaret Thatcher, induce enough hardship, dissatisfaction and strife among the majority to support the change to the sunny uplands of single-party government that you want to make.

    Peter Wedderburn-Ogilvy

    Froxfield, Hampshire

      1. Many cargo ships still use “bunker fuel”—the
        sludgy dregs of the petroleum refining process. The noxious blend is
        dirt-cheap, making it possible to charge next to nothing to ship goods
        internationally.

        The dirtiest most polluting oil on the planet.

  18. NHS harassment

    SIR – Your excellent Leading Article on NHS Test and Trace (October 27) didn’t mention the astonishing levels of phone and email harassment and bullying that go with the unbelievable inefficiency.

    They have recently started on us (both double jabbed and isolating most of the time), with endless calls for no apparent reason, and there is no way we can phone back.

    Your figures suggest the scheme has cost about £500 per head of the population; so we have paid £1,000 to be harassed.

    Dave Meneer

    St Austell, Cornwall

  19. Morning again

    French fury over fish

    SIR – France is threatening a trade blockade in a fit of pique over fishing (“Johnson summons French ambassador over fish row”, report, October 29). This seems to be France’s default position in disputes with Britain.

    French blockades go back to 790, when Charlemagne ordered an embargo of King Offa’s Mercia (Offa being the ruler of England south 
of the Humber). The cooling of relations was due to Offa complaining to Charlemagne that he was harbouring Offa’s enemies.

    Charlemagne attempted a rapprochement by suggesting one of Offa’s daughters come to Francia and marry his son Charles. This would effectively have made Offa’s daughter a hostage. Offa signalled his agreement – on condition that Charlemagne’s daughter come to Mercia to marry. Charlemagne was enraged and imposed the trade embargo. This seemed to hurt Francia more than Mercia, as in 796 Charlemagne wrote to Offa suggesting a renewal of trade.

    If history does repeat, France may realise the error of its way. When it overcomes its current irritation over fishing (after the presidential election), normal relations can be resumed. But is it any wonder that after 1,200 years of unacceptable French behaviour, Britain turns to the rest of the world rather than to Europe?

    John Davison

    Port Underwood, Marlborough, New Zealand

    SIR – In 2017, Michel Barnier, then the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, said: “There are extremely serious consequences of leaving the single market and it hasn’t been explained to the British people.”

    It appears that the consequences weren’t explained to the French either.

    Philip Smith

    Old Basing, Hampshire

    SIR – It would seem that the French are more effective in preventing our fishermen from approaching their waters than they are at stopping asylum seekers from leaving their shores. Perhaps our fishermen should now use inflatable dinghies.

    Lovat Timbrell

    Brighton, East Sussex

    1. John Davison mentions King Offa which makes me think that Britain should honour his memory by placing a ban on all French charcuterie which contains any offal.

          2. The Baron Bigod ‘camembert’ is lovely. I’m taking one as a present to my cousin when we have lunch tomorrow.

          3. Bungay Castle (Le Terroir mentioned by Anne and https://fenfarmdairy.co.uk/cheese/ ) A little history of the Castle in the town I went to school in:

            Originally this was a Norman castle built by Roger Bigod of Norfolk, around 1100, which took advantage of the protection given by the curve of the River Waveney. Roger’s son, Hugh Bigod, was a prominent player in the civil war years of the Anarchy, and his loyalty was called into question during the early years of the reign of Henry II. Henry confiscated Bungay, returning it in 1164. Hugh went on to build a large square Norman keep on the site in 1165. It is not recorded how much it cost to build the keep, but Hugh Braun who led the excavations at the castle in the 1930s estimated that it would have cost around £1,400. Hugh ended up on the losing side in the Revolt of 1173–1174, Bungay Castle was besieged, mined and ultimately destroyed by royal forces.

            The site was subsequently restored yet again to the Bigods and was further developed in 1294 by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, who probably built the massive gate towers on the site. Roger fell out with Edward I and after his death the castle reverted to the Crown, falling into disrepair and ruin. From 1483, it was primarily owned by the Dukes of Norfolk until the 20th century.

            Today
            Restoration work on the castle began in 1934, following work by the amateur archaeologist Leonard Cane. The curtain walls and the twin towers of the gatehouse remain today, as well as a fragment of the keep. Bungay Castle was given to the town of Bungay by the Duke of Norfolk in 1987, and is now owned by the Bungay Castle Trust. The castle is a Grade I listed building.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7168de564ba7047a9c074ad8428224284f7191cec4a3d03405923c985703a5e8.jpg

          4. Bungay Castle (Le Terroir mentioned by Anne and https://fenfarmdairy.co.uk/cheese/ ) A little history of the Castle in the town I went to school in:

            Originally this was a Norman castle built by Roger Bigod of Norfolk, around 1100, which took advantage of the protection given by the curve of the River Waveney. Roger’s son, Hugh Bigod, was a prominent player in the civil war years of the Anarchy, and his loyalty was called into question during the early years of the reign of Henry II. Henry confiscated Bungay, returning it in 1164. Hugh went on to build a large square Norman keep on the site in 1165. It is not recorded how much it cost to build the keep, but Hugh Braun who led the excavations at the castle in the 1930s estimated that it would have cost around £1,400. Hugh ended up on the losing side in the Revolt of 1173–1174, Bungay Castle was besieged, mined and ultimately destroyed by royal forces.

            The site was subsequently restored yet again to the Bigods and was further developed in 1294 by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, who probably built the massive gate towers on the site. Roger fell out with Edward I and after his death the castle reverted to the Crown, falling into disrepair and ruin. From 1483, it was primarily owned by the Dukes of Norfolk until the 20th century.

            Today
            Restoration work on the castle began in 1934, following work by the amateur archaeologist Leonard Cane. The curtain walls and the twin towers of the gatehouse remain today, as well as a fragment of the keep. Bungay Castle was given to the town of Bungay by the Duke of Norfolk in 1987, and is now owned by the Bungay Castle Trust. The castle is a Grade I listed building.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7168de564ba7047a9c074ad8428224284f7191cec4a3d03405923c985703a5e8.jpg

    1. My father-in-law was a great enthusiast of Gibbons’s Decine and Fall of the Roman Empire and of the Diary of Samuel Pepys. He greatly enjoyed and frequently quoted an observation from the latter when the diarist saw a fleet of Dutch boats coming up the Thames: “My God, it’s sh*tting Dutchmen!”

  21. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    The NT appears to be embarking upon financial suicide if this example is any guide:

    SIR – My family and I went for a walk at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey (Letters, October 29), where one used to be able to pay a single parking charge. We were told that each adult in the car must pay £8, but that this was great value as it included access to the house. Access to the grounds only was not an option. The same policy applies at Lyme Park. We parked on the road and walked in.

    Is the Trust trying to recover lost revenue with these unreasonable charges?

    Tim Banks
    Knutsford, Cheshire

    2. Tomorrow, I am singing in a concert for the Elgar Festival, postponed from June due to Covid.

      Always in the past, we have done this booking at the Elgar Birthplace recital room, built in 2000 by the Elgar Memorial Trust, which originally acquired for the nation the cottage where the composer was born, and arranged in the 1930s by his daughter Carice. Attached to the new building was a library, music shop and research facilities for Elgar scholars.

      A few years ago, as the committee were dwindling due to old age and lack of interest from the millennials, thanks to “Safeguarding”, the Elgar Memorial Trust handed the place over to the National Trust, which closed the research rooms to open a tea room at Starbucks prices, and to remove all traces of Carice Elgar Blake’s conversions in the cottage in order to create the “1857 Experience” complete with plasterboard on the ceiling and LED security lighting “for health & safety”. They filled it with Victorian style tat from a junk shop and purged it of music. “People who come to places like this are not interested in classical music” they argued. This is “curating” in NT-Speak.

      They were particularly proud of the seven coats of authentic lime plaster on the renovated walls of the cottage. I had attended a weekend course in building with lime, led by Ruin Detective Marianne Suhr whom I fancy greatly, so naturally eagerly picked up knowledge from this director of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings. Plastering in lime requires three coats – a scratch coat, a float coat and a finish. The most stately homes ever got was four. A simple village cottage would get two. I don’t know how the NT arrived at seven, unless they were being diddled by contractors.

      I was invited to support a school concert organised by two members of the choir at the recital room, but was charged the £8 entry fee. At the end there was a collection for the school, since it seems the £8 went entirely to the National Trust.

      This year, the Elgar Society have abandoned the recital room as a venue. My concert will be in an old church in the middle of the city.

    3. Haven’t been to Dunham Massey since they had an exhibition about its use as a WWI hospital.

  22. I particularly like the last sentence:

    SIR – The reason that BBC Radio 4 interviews are often interrupted by a “bad line” (Letters, October 29) is that Voip (voice over internet protocol) is used, rather than a landline.

    We will have to get used to this, because BT is planning to rip up the landline system that has served us well for generations, and replace it with an internet one.

    The landline system has its own power supply so can be used in a power cut – something else we will have to get used to.

    David Pynn
    Hankerton, Wiltshire

    Presumably all part of the programme to damage this country beyond repair – or just more of a combination of short-termism and ignorance?

    1. Landline also does broadband so BT does?? No broadband?

      Also, recent phone in on radio – a caller, clear, intelligent etc but wasn’t giving the answers BBC wanted – got a “we have to go to the news – sorry” and cut him off. Then took four? more calls, before the news – all saying BBC/govt approved comments on Covid. Can’t have the truth broadcast can we?
      And recently, someone sent message to a different show about UK, size, population, immigration, cost of hotels, immigrants, their breeding rates, the 5/6? million Hong Kong coming and the main question ( ? I think it was) of – “when do you think immigrants will outnumber us, wiping the white UK people from their own country?”
      WOW – if I understood it correctly –the presenter seemed to blow up – – i THINK/?TOOK IT?/UNDERSTOOD IT? as a sensible honest question.
      78th? in Area – – and 21st? in population – surrounded by water – – and PP/BJ importing thousands of freeloaders DESPITE her original promise of cutting/stopping the illegals – – AND keeping her job, in the recent reshuffle – while being SO effin useless at it !!!

  23. A Good Morning to all. And what a wet horrible one it is here in Derbyshire. Dull, grey and 6°C, supposedly clearing up by lunchtime.

  24. The natives are not only restless; their loathing of this wretched government is almost palpable:

    Colin MacDonald
    30 Oct 2021 12:25AM
    Re the government’s lack of energy policy. There is not one scientist in the cabinet. Their thoughts are led by the unelected, unscientific spouse of an unscientific classics scholar who does what the last person he spoke to tells him to do. No wonder they have no energy policy.

    They would rather tax a joint of beef, the emblem of our nation, than provide a reliable power source for the good of humankind.

    Tom Archer
    30 Oct 2021 4:52AM
    The bottom line on the ‘net zero’ debate is that if we do not insist that all nations that export to us, notably China, also embrace net zero on the same timeline, the self-immolation that it entails will be utterly futile.

    Moreover, the climate ‘debate’ is being driven by an unscientific, quasi-religious intolerant obsession that insists that human activity must be the prime driver of climate change and that the outcomes can only be negative.

    None of its core tenets withstand scrutiny, and evidence that contradicts the narrative (such as Antarctica having just had its coldest ever winter) gets studiously ignored.

    This is no basis for making government policy, especially that made without express democratic consent.

    Carolyn Bates
    30 Oct 2021 2:47AM
    COP26 will be the platform for the Johnsons to grandstand their absurd and costly green-dream fantasy.

    That it will add an estimated one trillion pounds to our already record level borrowing, seems of no consequence to them as they are only too happy to become the Thunbergs of the UK. When your ideology is in line with an autistic child who has held world leaders to ransom over her man-made climate change fallacy, then you should seriously be asking yourself some questions; when you are the Prime Minister, then you should be seriously thinking of resigning before you place the country in bankruptcy.

    What makes this summit even more laughable is that the CCP will not be attending and yet our carbon footprint is a tiny fraction of China’s, and that would still be true if we went back to coal. It is a completely illogical exercise with Net Zero being unachievable and, unsustainable.

    Add to that the fact that there is an energy crisis and a hike in prices worldwide, because it has been proven that any energy source that derives from wind and sun, is not only unreliable but even when fully functioning can only provide a fraction of our energy needs, and the sublime then becomes the ridiculous.

    If Boris, Carrie and Stanley want to take a little jolly to Glasgow on the jet Mr and Mrs Johnson have also used to fly to the G7 summit in Rome this week as well, then I wonder what they will need to do to offset that from their personal carbon footprint.

    Hypocritical and lunatic springs to mind.

    1. We need a counter action group to be protesting these ridiculous plans, what about Energy Emergency,?

    2. Both good comments but Colin Macdonald is really getting to the main reason this government are so corrupt and/or inept – they lack any real experience of science and engineering, and don’t think of the consequences of their lunacy. On Thursday we had our boiler serviced – the heating engineer who did it had some wonderful tales about air source heat pumps! Suffice to say he won’t be installing one at his home!

      1. Spoke to a fellow dog walker today who was investigating heat pumps. He thought they were expensive to buy. I said, “wait until you look at the running costs” and he was surprised. “Are they expensive to run?” he asked. “Run AND maintain,” I told him, “never mind the need to have hypocausts underfloor heating.” Both he and I have wooden floor boards and he’d just had his hall carpeted, while I have Minton tiles in mine, so that’s a no, then.

    3. I never realised just what a repulsive man Boris Johnson’s father really is until I saw him pontificating as a panel guest on GBNews. Apparently his treatment of women, and especially Boris’s mother, was every bit as callous and foul as his son’s.

  25. ROFLMAO!!

    Just announced on BBC R3 News, Tonga has it’s first Wuhan Virus case. The victim was in isolation following their arrival from New Zealand and IS DOUBLE JABBED!

      1. I have always taken the precaution of shunning the Frumious Bandersnatch and have found this a far better defence against Covid 19 than any of the misnamed vaccines.

  27. 340679+ up ticks,

    Dt,
    Britain must be punished for Brexit, says France
    Brussels needs to make clear that ‘leaving union is more damaging than remaining’, says French PM in call for sanctions over fishing war

    The fat turks likely reply could very well be ” if this continues we will STOP helping you land your catch”.

      1. 340679+ up ticks,
        Morning B3,
        One would like to think so, but the real danger
        is the ” musta’s” must vote tory (ino) keep out
        lab (ino) must vote lab (ino) ……. brigade, inclusive of the best of the worst party voters.

        There are credible party’s in opposition to be built on but the electorate seem set in a self destruct mode.

      2. On the contrary, they are blaming us even more for leaving.
        It is a bit surprising that Napoleon is openly admitting that staying in the union is damaging.

    2. The French are like having pushy high maintenance next door neighbours, who decide they want a piece of your garden and your business, eventually you tell them to F off, move or just fence them off completely

      1. Our neighbours are cows as we are surrounded by agricultural land and our house is at the end of a a lane ‘sans issue‘.

  29. 340679+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,

    Saturday 30 October: The electorate will punish the PM for his poverty-inducing green agenda

    They WILL ?

    How about the mass murder,ongoing, mass paedophilia, ongoing, mass
    uncontrolled immigration clearly showing daily at DOVER, ongoing, would
    that have been three monkeyed via the polling booth at the next General Election, again.

  30. Good Moaning.
    Douglas Murray in the DT.
    On the plus side, Biden will have forgotten the visit and anything said to him the moment he leaves the room (“Excuse me, Mr. President, that’s the broom cupboard.”)

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/29/woe-betide-world-biden-listens-closely-pope-francis/

    “Woe betide the world if Biden listens too closely to Pope Francis

    The Pope may yet prove to have far more influence than Sanders, “the squad” or any of the other leftists pulling at Biden’s coat-sleeves.

    Douglas Murray29 October 2021 • 9:30pm

    President Biden kicked off his trip to Europe by meeting with one of the continent’s most prominent Left-wing leaders. Pope Francis. Their meeting at the Vatican went on longer than expected. It is thought that they spent at least part of the time talking about abortion. And in a perfectly Trump-ian way, Biden emerged from the meeting boasting to the press that Pope Francis had called him “a good Catholic”. That is a matter for the two of them. But the impact that this Pope has on this President on other matters is a cause for more concern.

    Earlier this month, the Pope marked something called “World Food Day” by saying that the fight against hunger around the world “demands we overcome the cold logic of the market, which is greedily focused on mere economic profit and the reduction of food to a commodity, and strengthening the logic of solidarity”. It is the sort of economically illiterate statement that might have come from the far-Left of Biden’s own party.

    President Biden himself is a political centrist, but he is forever being pulled to the farther Left by his own party. And for somebody who talks regularly about the centrality of his Catholic faith – and who wants to be seen as “a good Catholic” – the Pope may yet prove to have far more influence than Bernie Sanders, “the squad” or any of the other leftists pulling at Biden’s coat-sleeves.

    Pope Francis, like the Democrat left, seems to think that capitalism itself is the problem, rather than the engine which has pulled an unprecedented number of people out of poverty in this century so far. It is not “the logic of solidarity” that has done this. It is the logic, hot or cold, of the free market.

    President Biden seems to want the Pope’s blessing in regards to his views on abortion and much else. But woe betide the world if President Biden thinks he should go towards the Pope’s views on other issues. This pope is to economics what American presidents are to bashfulness.

    Kathleen Stock is a huge loss to academia

    Kathleen Stock is an unlikely figure to have become national news. She is an academic philosopher who in any normal era would have inspired her students and been lauded by her peers. But in academia these are not normal times.

    For Stock is a logical person. And the Academy is rarely any longer a home for logical people. Stock has written on feminism among other subjects. And while her own views have remained consistent, the age around her has not just turned but turned demented. So it is that perfectly sensible views (such as the idea that biological sex exists) have become so controversial as to ruin careers. And to cause people to be hounded for expressing such obvious truths. Stock has been consistent and polite in sticking to the evidence she sees. This used to be lauded in academia. No more.

    For years Stock has had to endure slander, lies, bullying and hounding at the University of Sussex and further afield. Primarily from “Trans activists”. This reached a particular fever pitch this year with increased threats of violence against her. After this latest round Stock’s university finally actually said something slightly supportive of her and even of the principle of academic freedom.

    But it was too little and too late. Yesterday Stock announced that she is leaving the University of Sussex. She has thanked the university authorities for their recent support but has said that recent years have been “an absolutely horrible time for me and my family.” I do not doubt it. Today the inquisition still comes for heretics. But it comes principally for women who believe that women exist. The campaign against them is orchestrated by some of the nastiest, ugliest, and most deranged people anyone could conjure up outside of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. The University sector was lucky to have Stock. It is shameful that they have lost her.”

    2. If a similar campaign of bullying had been conducted against an MP or a bearer of a protected characteristic, the organisers would have quickly found themselves in court and probably banged up. Mob rule anyone…

    3. There is an easy way to solve this behaviour on the part of students. All students who stir up hatred or attempt to silence other students or members of the faculty, should be immediately expelled. That would do it. Same goes for faculty that try to stir up bile, terminate their employment. If they have tenure, terminate that too.

  31. Meat taxes will make British farmers go greener, says George Eustice

    Government already working on new levies for parts of the food sector that contribute most to global warming, reveals Environment Secretary

    In the same way, that OGG the cave dweller and Inventor of the wheel, is responsible for all the pollution, anywhere ever caused by vehicles,
    the fact that we eat meat is also down to him.

    Coming up to Yuletide, one year Mrs OGG sent him out to get a nice succulent Cabbage from the forest………… but there were none,
    they had all been eaten by the Turkeysaurses

    In a fit of temper, OGG captured one of the thieving birds and took it home, where Mrs OGG cooked it over the *open fire, so we became omnivores

    *Mr OGG’s part in the invention of Fire, will be dealt with in a later post

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2021/10/29/meat-taxes-will-make-british-farmers-go-greener-says-george/

    2. I can remember being called a conspiracy theorist going back to when were all on the telegraph blogs for suggesting that they would be taxing meat and even an eventual ban would come in.
      The road map plans for this go back a long way.
      What ever happened to promises that we would not have taxation on food?

      1. I vaguely remember, back in the 50s, an article in a paper, probably the News of the World, looking into the future

        1 Footballers transfer fees would top £100,000.00
        2. A lady had been fined for burning coal in her grate… ie a coal fire

        I dread to think what today’s forecast would be

        1. National debt of UK paid off by Mr Ying Yang of China to transfer Grandson of Beckham to Peking Rovers
        2. Bert Smith given Life Imprisonment for eating a Ham Sandwich

      2. I vaguely remember, bagl in the 50s, an article in a paper, probably the News of the World, looking into the future

        1 Footballers transfer fees would top £100,000.00
        2. A lady had been fined for burning coal in her grate… ie a coal fire

        I dread to think what today’s forecast would be

        1. National debt of UK paid off by Mr Ying Yang of China to transfer Grandson of Beckham to Peking Rovers
        2. Bert Smith given Life Imprisonment for eating a Ham Sandwich

      3. I seem to remember that one Jacob Grease Smog promising that leaving the EU would make food cheaper, along with clothing and footwear. Whatever happened to that? Just another lying Socialist Tory shill for Bojo.

    3. 340679+ up ticks,

      Morning OLT,

      The cat is now wearing my morning tea, your post gave me quite a start.

  33. For those of us who have, since March 2020, missed the freedom to travel anywhere without restriction, here are three extracts from a short story by Evelyn Waugh published in 1946. Seventy-five years on – it now seems horribly familiar. And, in my view, this new stuff is here to stay:

    He had not been abroad since 1939. He had not tasted wine for a year, and he was filled, suddenly, with deep home-sickness for the South. He had not often visited those enchanted lands, but his treasure and his heart lay buried there. Hot oil and garlic and spilled wine; fireworks at night, fountains at noonday; the impudent, inoffensive hawkers of lottery tickets; the shepherd’s pipe on the scented hillside….

    He had left his hotel at seven o’clock that morning; it was now past noon and he was still on English soil. He had not been ignored. He had been shepherded in and out of charabancs and offices like a idiot child; he had been weighed and measured like a load of merchandise; he had been searched like a criminal; he had been cross-examined about his past and his future, the state of his health and of his finances, as though he were applying for permanent employment of a confidential nature…..

    “Passengers will now proceed to Exit D. Have your embarkation papers, medical cards, customs clearance slips, currency control vouchers, passports, tickets, identity dockets, travel orders, migration certificates, baggage checks and security sheets ready for inspection at the barrier, please.”

    1. I think we’ve lived through the best of times and the worst are going to be the ‘new normal ‘

    2. Scott King’s Modern Europe?

      One of my favourite EW’s short stories was Mr Loveday’s Little Outing. As you will remember Mr Loveday was a ‘guest’ at the County Asylum For Mental Defectives and the staff were fond of him so they organised for him to have a day out. Similar things are still happening today when such people enjoy a day out.

    1. Trying to get from the Internet unbiased, objective information about Covid 19 and the best way of treating it is impossible.

      I am sure that even people who would never have thought themselves capable of becoming conspiracy theorists a couple of years ago are becoming them now.

      1. Rastus. For me that is essential information because I fall into the category of “highly vulnerable”. What I have done is look at countries and what they are doing to overcome Covid. It boils down to keep your distance and wash your hands. Washing down surfaces or items, such as parcels or food is nonsense. Take Vitamin D on a daily basis is important, I am not clear about the science but apparently Vitamin D goes a long way to mitigating the effects of Covid. At the first sign of symptoms, start taking Ivermectin. India started dolling out Ivermectin after they tried the vaccine. The Ivermectin has stopped it in its tracks. Further more, Japan, on a second rise in Covid cases did the same thing. It also has stopped the infection in its tracks. There is no doubt in my mind, at this point, that Ivermectin is a cure and a preventative. There is abundant proof to that effect and enough experts who, willing to risk their reputations, are saying that to satisfy my mind.

        The question is not about a cure, but why governments in the Western World are deliberately backing a vaccine that only partially works and preventing the sale of Ivermectin. Also why are governments making people were masks, which have been described as about as effective in protecting people from Covid as scaffolding around a building staving off a swarm of wasps! . What is their agenda other than gaining power to control their populations and introduce dictatorial powers for themselves and destroy democracy.

        1. Wotcha JR

          It is the combination therapy that works

          Something to enable Zinc transfer into the cells

          HCQ,Quercetin,Ivermectin

          Zinc

          VitD&C

          A broad spectrum antibiotic against bacterial Pneumonia

          See Ziverdo kits for more details

          https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/ziverdo-kit.html

          All too many trials used the enabler alone and inappropriate dosages
          You may want to check out Didier Raoult one of Europs most eminent scientists who was demonised for his HCQ/Zinc/VitD protocols
          No dissent from the vaccine can be permitted

          1. Yes, you are right and I should have added that to my post. Who convinced me was Barry Marshall, the Australian doctor who discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by a bacteria. Apparently, since then he has specialized in the repurposing of old drugs for new problems and strongly advocates Ivermectin. Then there is, of course, the Frontline Doctors Group. If you haven’t already, you can find Barry Marshall discussing the subject at length on You Tube.

          2. Frontline Doctors do not post to the UK, so they told me. That was a few months ago, of course things may have changed. They are doing their best to keep us an Ivermectin-free island.

          3. Rik, by was of a PS. Can you vouch for the reliability of these Indian suppliers? I order books from India but that is an entirely different prospect from drugs. If you do vouch for them, can I ask you from which company, listed, you ordered from?

          4. Some people on Going Postal have used that supplier with no issues but I have heard the payment route has been cut to prevent sales to the West
            I have gone with Quercetin,Zinc,VitD&C which I take on a daily basis
            500mg Quercetin
            25mg Zinc
            4000 unit Vit D
            1000mg VitC
            All easily available from Amazon

        2. I suspect the West, supposedly ‘civilised’ world’s leaders, banned access to Ivermectin because it is cheap – their masters told them to to ban it because they can make fortunes from the jabs which we will be coerced to have repeatedly. In banning what has proven to be an effective treatment, they have condemned so many to untimely deaths. Pure evil.

  36. Our PM has flown to Italy today for the G20 meeting. He certainly has a massive carbon footprint. He does not practice what he preaches.

      1. yep – getting them by email doesn’t show off his popularity, position, power and his ” Rules are for those we control – NOT FOR US”

      1. So she could be close enough to squeeze his bow-locks if he deviates from her ‘gan’green agenda.

  37. Nicked from another Rick

    “Global Propaganda marketing seems to be staffed by disconnected idiots
    these days. They’ve misjudged the people rather badly and come out with
    some terribly dire projects.

    First they decided that Gina Miller
    would be a great idea as a rallying symbol for opposition to Brexit.
    Exotic former model turned business woman. Worked hard to get where she
    is against the disadvantages of a bit of a tinge and of being a woman in
    a patriarch world. The people were certain to love this plucky and
    intelligent lady working hard to save Britain from making a huge
    mistake. Wrong. We saw through all that. She’s a brassy little mercenary
    ethnic out to destroy democracy by order.

    Then Femi. A cool
    young black dude. Lawyer who’s forgoing the big bucks and putting in the
    time to campaign against the evil forces of Brexit which are going to
    steal the future of da yoot. “Not on ma watch, yo!”. A hip and
    happening intelligent negro icon that any liberal momma would be glad to
    take home and make her daughter join them for progressive uninhibited
    sex. Except the public can easily see the thicko dimwit puppet inside
    the packaging.

    EU Subgirl. Well, just look at it. 21st Century
    sex appeal for unspecific gender nomads. There can’t be THAT much soy.
    The talent and brains of a housefly.

    Steve Bray. A loudmouth
    irritating drone. Just what the silly little people, bless their hearts,
    are going to take to their bosom and trust implicity. Complete with
    hat, flag, megaphone and no flipping brain.

    Greta Thunberg. The
    marketing team’s gone balls out with this one. Fading show business
    mummy donated her to the cause and the team is working her harder than
    they worked Aled Jones in the recording studio to do one more album
    before his balls dropped. A creepy looking know-nothing reject Bratz
    doll lecturing us on the absolute necessity of allowing government to
    further overtax and regulate us for our own good. Or at least for hers.
    Because how dare we?

    And the latest star in the globalist
    propaganda constellation. Marianna Spring. The BBC has her billed as The
    Truth Fairy. Flitting hither and yon bestowing her sparkly wand of
    authenticity on the official New World Order narrative while cautioning
    innocent children not to talk to strange sources of information. But we
    can all see her approaching Tony Blair levels of bare-faced lie.

    Some
    rather isolated Millennial Madmen and Madcows are behind these failed
    advertising campaigns. If the mainstream media weren’t totally bought
    and paid for these pitiful goons would have been ridiculed to death in
    moments. Instead they’re splattered into our faces time after time. Long
    after they’ve been discredited.”
    Ain’t THAT the truth!!

    2. There’s no ‘seems to be’ about it and did Semi ever pass a law degree or merely attend the start of the course?
      As far as I’m aware, the Weather Potato has not been invited to Copulate26 and Miss Spring has been ‘upgraded’ to Rachael Schear (sp)…yet another vacuous muppet acting as the ‘voice of truth’ for the legacy meeja.

  38. Douglas Murray on good form ( as usual):

    COMMENT
    Weak Tories are taking us back to the seventies
    High taxes, rotten public services and cowardice in the face of the hard-Left was Labour’s legacy then. This time it will be Boris Johnson’s

    DOUGLAS MURRAY
    30 October 2021 • 7:00am

    When Boris Johnson sailed into Downing Street in 2019 it was on a wave of optimism. After a decade of hung Parliaments and weak governments, here was a Conservative who then won a real majority and a real mandate. And not just a Conservative but a Conservative who the country seemed to love, an optimistic figure who promised brighter days. A man who was not just going to do what the electorate told the politicians to do in 2016 but who believed in the British future.

    Of course, all politicians end up being the creation of events, but still there is something especially bitter about the fact that Boris Johnson would appear to be leading Britain back to the 1970s. Because it increasingly feels like it is that un-missed decade that the present government is returning us to.

    The recent fuel shortages were caused by many things. They are a global issue and have been worsened by a worldwide shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers. But the sight of cars backed up at petrol stations and drivers swapping rumours of places reported to have fuel supplies are not things that people are likely to forget.

    For those old enough to remember the 1970s, they were deeply reminiscent of the shortages which affected the country then. What the present crop of ministers seem to have forgotten is that it was only the genuine Conservatism of Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s that did away with such problems.

    Perhaps the greatest change that the Thatcher government enacted was that performed by her revolutionary chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson. Before Lawson, the UK had performed the experiment that so many flailing Leftists still try to perform: they believed that the country could become rich by taxing the rich.

    It was the insight of Lawson, along with a crucial collection of Right-wing economists, that if you lowered the tax rates not only would the tax pot increase but the fuel of the economy would go into superdrive. So it was. When people know they are working for themselves they work harder. But when a majority or near majority of their earnings goes to the government then a deep stasis beds in, one which affects the individual and then from the individual seeps out across the whole of wider society.

    The Conservatives of the 1980s got Britain out of that mire of a high-tax, low-innovation society. Yet it is the Conservative Government of today that seems to be returning us to it.

    Naturally, some aspect of this has been out of their hands. During the coronavirus pandemic the whole world was in a situation that proved very far from business as usual. Staring at the options, the Government in this country – as in developed economies across the world – chose basically to buy up the economy for a period of time. They opted to keep whole sectors afloat on borrowed money. That period had to end, but it also had to be paid for. And that is part of the explanation for Rishi Sunak’s budget this week.

    The Chancellor has been adept at hiding some of the bad news. Not least by adding complexity to an already complex tax system. But the bottom line is that those who do the most for the economy will be taxed even more. Tax-payers in the highest bracket – that is those earning over £150,000 a year – will be taxed at a figure very nearly nudging 50 per cent. At 45 per cent the Conservatives are getting perilously close to the point at which they make top-rate taxpayers spend more time working for the state than for themselves. They already are, if you include national insurance.

    Such taxpayers are not a popular group of people to stand up for. More demagoguery can be achieved by lambasting higher earners than by expressing any sympathy for them. But we have been here before. The politics that thought that higher earners were both the problem and the piggy-bank was the politics that brought us to the economic slump of the 1970s.

    Worse is that a Conservative Government should be instituting these tax hikes while all the time showering money on an entirely unreformed public sector. Every part of it exemplifies the lazy big-state problem. On matters grand and pedestrian the behemoth asserts itself in the old familiar way.

    For instance, the Civil Service has been unsurprisingly reluctant to return to normal office working patterns. Recent negotiations with them centred on the desire of civil servants to invert their post-Covid working week. Their preferred option appeared to be in favour of going into the office for perhaps a couple of days a week and then having five days at home in the garden to recover from the strain.

    With other parts of the public sector it is even worse. The NHS is the reason why this country went into endless lockdowns and stasis during the Covid era. Again and again it was explained to us that we needed to protect the NHS, rather than the NHS protect us. The reality was that a Tory government lived in terror of the health service buckling. All those Labour lies about the Conservatives wanting to destroy the NHS would have run on for several more generations if anything remotely like that had happened, and so they showered the health service not just with love but with cash.

    This week, Sunak committed yet more billions to the NHS. The old joke of Britain being an NHS with a nice country attached is coming to look perilously true. The Government behaves as though it is held hostage by the health service, just as the country was held hostage by the coal miners in the 1970s. Even the new money that is being committed is intended to address problems – like patient backlogs – which the NHS itself needs to explain.

    But it never does. Instead of accounting for its shortcomings, the NHS just gets another cash injection from a terrified government.

    When a government is this scared of making bold moves or is captivated by the arguments of its opponents then it is hardly surprising that the country looks like it is sliding backwards all these decades. Across the country in recent weeks a group of rabid and extremist protesters from Insulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, have been blocking major roadways, an echo of the disruption ushered in by the strikers of the 1970s.

    They are a pest and a menace. Yet these people who have been literally trying to block the economic arteries of our country have been getting away with it. Policemen stand around observing the pandemonium as though they are recording the events for some future purpose. Others negotiate with the occasional road-sitting granny, as though she were a jihadi with a suicide vest ready to blow.

    It has been members of the public who have had to do what the police will not do and haul these wretched nuisances out of the roadway. Often, happily, by the scruff of their necks. Why should the public have to do this? Only because this Government lives in fear of telling the police what they need to do. Just as they live in fear of telling the NHS what to do.

    So what, if anything, is the agenda of this Government? It appears that the aim is to become greener at all costs – even at the expense of soaring fuel supplies – and otherwise to be a high-spending, high-taxing welfare superstate. We will see what happens as the fuel bills keep coming in. And we will see if the fuel itself even does keep coming. But in the meantime we can say that the route this Government is taking is a route that cannot work. Because we have been here before.

    That time the Conservatives came in to save us. How strange it is that this time they are the people who have got us here.

  42. Electric Power

    I eventually re-found that ‘cartoon’ picture of the man with asphalt glued to his face.

    The reason I chose a petrol-powered jackhammer in my tongue-in-cheek Thursday’s post on removing Insulation activists from the road was because if the Greens have their way and everyone has electric cars there soon won’t be enough electricity to re-charge mobile battery-powered jackhammers or any outdoor tradesmen’s tool (or phones, or domestic cookers, microwaves, lights…)

    I’m already researching dual-fuel (petrol and propane-powered) generators. A big propane tank can run the gennie for much longer than the normal small petrol tank found on domestic generators and is much safer to store than multiple cans of petrol.

    I bet there will eventually be a run on domestic generators when the power cuts come and freezers start to melt. Don’t folk realise that newer Smart meters all have an internal circuit breaker that can turn off your supply remotely?

    To quote Scottie’s Tech.Info website: ‘The inclusion of the main breaker and the ability to communicate with the power company also means that service activation or deactivation can be done remotely.’

    1. I came across this earlier this morning while I was still in bed. I’m not into this sort of thing but I was taken by the title and then ended up watching the whole thing. Interesting alternative low tech. I wonder if one could use something like this to hear a house rather as the Romans did? Struck me as endless possibilities.

      How To Make A Rocket Mass Off grid Hot Water Heater DIY

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUnQVIlAn6M&list=TLPQMjkxMDIwMjGWvUHg5GEvRQ&index=50

    2. I suppose that Nick realises that to be paid that obscene salary a bit of rampant butt kissing is required from time to time! Every time I look at Zuckerberg I wonder if David Icke might have been right after all!

  44. Just back from town. Absolutely soaked! This must be what they mean by Global Wetting!

  45. I see that the Swedish Muppet is in London. There is no explanation about how she got there. Walk and swim I hope. I think we should be told….

    1. I agree Bill, it wasn’t by a nice ecological sail boat, was it? A gas guzzling plane is my bet.

      1. The interesting thing about the “nice ecological sailboat” that she used once before is that apparently the relief crew flew out to meet it, and the original crew flew home! And I bet there was a lot of high tech plastic in the boat too!

        1. I try to remember that she is a damaged child being manipulated by people who don’t care a jot for her mental health.

          1. I try that too, but more recently I’m failing! And don’t get me started on the adverts with the kids rabbiting on about the planet, and “when are you going to do something?” – sponsored by Amazon, it seems!

          3. I try that too, but more recently I’m failing! And don’t get me started on the adverts with the kids rabbiting on about the planet, and “when are you going to do something?” – sponsored by Amazon, it seems!

    1. That was interesting, but where on earth did he get that ancient 1970s paper from?
      I’m working with data streaming wifi devices at the moment, at a higher level, but it does no harm to be a bit more familiar with how wifi is different from bluetooth.

  48. Cop26 will be whitest and most privileged ever, warn campaigners. 30 October 210

    The global climate summit in Glasgow will be the whitest and most privileged ever, according to campaigners, who warn that thousands of people from frontline communities in the global south have been excluded.

    It’s obviously White, Racist, Colonialist propaganda. We must cancel it immediately!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/cop26-will-be-whitest-and-most-privileged-ever-warn-campaigners

      1. I don’t know about that. It is a rather lazy answer and tired at this point. It is the developed world versus the underdeveloped word. Nothing to do with race or colonialism at all. Everything to do with the developed world trying to impose its agenda on the underdeveloped world. The real racists in the modern world are not white at all. They are, in the main, Chinese and Indian, with a good number of black Africans sprinkled in. But we will ignore those inconvenient truths just so we can perpetuate anti-white hatred, don’t cha know!

        1. I was joking rather than analysing it. But there is definitely a strong element of White-Mama-Knows-Best about the Greens, as they lecture Africans on the evils of power stations.

          1. Robert Mugabe was good at lecturing white farmers and murdering them and look at the state of Zimbabwe now! He and his successors are first class racist, much worse than the white rulers who actually had the welfare of the natives in mind while they ruled. The native people of Zimbabwe were far better of under white rule than under the shambles that black rule has bestowed upon them.

          3. No, but neither is the behaviour of the Greens confined to Black Africans. Their behaviour has nothing to do with race but elitism. I would have thought that obvious. Have you listened to the apologists of Insulate Britain, dripping with condescension as they lecture the rest of us about what is good for us? So I go back to my original contention. It has nothing to do with racism or colonialism.

          4. Yes Citroen1, we are surprised that he was so highly thought of by the Left in this country.

          6. I still think of the very pleasant young Black lass I met at Olympia station some year back where she was acting as Relief Station Manager.
            Picking up on her accent, I asked where she came from and she responded that she was Rhodesian adding that she used Rhodesia to honour Ian Smith whose policies gave her her education.

    2. Er, wasn’t the whole purpose of the exercise to move production and wealth from the developed to the undeveloped nations?

      From 2015:

      “At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

      “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.

      Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

      http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

    3. Er, wasn’t the whole purpose of the exercise to move production and wealth from the developed to the undeveloped nations?

      From 2015:

      “At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

      “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.

      Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

      http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

    1. 340670+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Many of the lab/lib/con current supporter / voters mindset is tesco’s manufacture cows in a department out back.

    2. That’s a really poorly produced 50 minute waste of time.

      This is much more succinct and digestible {:^))

      Melanie McDonagh
      Giving up meat won’t make us greener
      27 October 2021, 6:00am
      From Spectator Life

      There was a nifty about-turn last week when the so-called Nudge Unit, the government’s behavioural policy advisory body, abandoned its proposals to get us to shift towards a plant-based diet and away from eating meat. Among other exciting initatives it suggested ‘building support for a bold policy’ such as a tax on producers of mutton and beef. It pointed out that the government could get people used to a vegetarian diet through its spending in hospitals, schools, prisons, courts and military facilities – you can just imagine how that would go down with soldiers, prisoners and patients – and declared that a ‘timely moment to intervene’ would be when people are at university. But it also acknowledged that an ‘unsophisticated meat tax would be highly regressive’.

      It may ultimately have been that factor that caused the unit to back off from this bovine – hah – move. Because an undiscriminating meat tax would indeed be regressive, and not just socially. Environmentally, contrary to what the exciting vegan movement woud have you believe, it would be unsustainable and counter-productive. This week four militant vegans scaled the ugly Home Office/Defra building to ‘send a clear message that we want an end to support for animal agriculture which is killing our planet’. Their banner read: ‘COP26: Invest in a plant-based future.’ And it seems the COP26 delegates are going to be fed a predominantly plant based menu. A missed opportunity, I say, to showcase sustainable Scottish fish, meat and dairy products.

      The obvious point, which should hardly need making, is that not all plant food is equally beneficial and not all meat, fish and dairy is equally problematic. In fact, locally produced meat from animals grazed on grass or salt marshes, kept in low densities on impoverished hillsides, is not just unproblematic; they’re part of the solution to a regenerative agricultural system that can increase the diversity of our plant, animal and insect life. By contrast, eating soya based proteins from crops produced on the other side of the world is actively damaging to the environment. Ditto much of the fashionable components of a vegan diet imported from far flung countries.

      Do you suppose the militant vegans who say they intend to stay up the Home Office building – what if it rains? –have brought some nice guacamole to eat up there, or almond milk for their tea? In which case they’re almost certainly doing more harm to more ecosystems than the carnivores that Defra’s cattle producers feed.

      This week Waitrose told us about the ’emergency avocado’ – that is, the demand for Deliveroo deliveries of tropical fruit, especially avocados. The demand is, as you’d suppose, directly correlated with the amount of wokery in the resident population: Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton are places where avocado toast is treated like bread and butter. Yet, avocados are notoriously problematic, requiring substantial amounts of water – 2,000 litres of water for each kilo of the fruit; transport from Mexico or Israel; and substantial pesticide use on monocultural plantations. Deforestation and ecosystem destruction with your sourdough toast, anyone?

      As for those tiresome people forever wanting almond milk with their lattes, they’re practically ecocides, and for much the same reason as for avocados…the crop takes a great deal of water and most of the world’s crop comes from non-rainy California – one much-cited New York Times article suggested it takes 15 gallons of water in California to produce 16 almonds – and certainly requires significant pesticide use. And even if the gallon per nut statistic is exaggerated, intensive production is often at the expense of other, more sustainable crops. If vegans want to be less pernicious, they could stick to oats, root vegetables, mushrooms and leeks, with perhaps blackberries, rhubarb, filberts and apples in season. As for their plant based milk, the good news is that Waitrose is now selling potato-derived milk to replace problematic nut milk; it retails on Amazon now for £11 a litre. I am fond of potatoes but something tells me this isn’t going to be delicious.

      The whole notion of environmentally friendly ‘plant-based’ diets ignores much of the methods of agrarian production: ploughing fields releases enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere whereas permanent pasture stores CO2; one report in the science journal Nature in 2017 suggests that most of the carbon in our cultivated soil has been lost to the atmosphere. There are ways of producing grain and vegetable crops sustainably – rotation, including grazing, is one way of doing it, no-dig systems are another – but by and large, monocultural agrarian plains are more environmentally damaging than extensive cattle or mixed farming which generate animal droppings that enrich the soil and its complex ecosystems.

      Most land in Britain is only suitable for growing grass; the best way of converting it into edible protein is via grazing animals. As for the poor soil on hills and uplands, that’s best utilised for grazing sheep. The key in both cases is low intensity stocking; high density grazing really does wipe out species.

      There is certainly a case for reducing our meat consumption and confining it to better and more expensive meat. And by better, I mean, meat from animals that haven’t been intensively farmed and routinely dosed with antibiotics, raised on mixed pasture – certainly not grain-fed, and have been raised if not locally, at least in the British Isles, including Ireland (lots of green grass there).

      There’s also a compelling case for eating the whole animal, including offal; if we only eat steak or the hindquarters of beasts, well, it means there’s an awful lot of it wasted. But the young who are most likely to be vegan are also the generation more likely to go yuck at the prospect of a nice devilled kidney or a cheap dinner of liver and onions. Admittedly, I draw the line at tripe (I blame a bad experience in Spain), but really, the ethical eater should start by reading Fergus Henderson’s Nose to Tail cookbook, which envisages eating practically every bit of a beast.

      Before considering good meat production, maybe we should see off the favourite vegan claim about cattle, viz, cattle farts, or rather, burps, are methane, and methane is an evil greenhouse gas. Even yesterday, the Prime Minister told a group of school children that ‘cows burp a great deal and emit a lot of gasses’. First off, the cows’ belches don’t hang around the atmosphere forever; after about twelve years they’re reabsorbed. And what’s now apparent is that the diet of the cattle is important: as Boris Johnson did clarify, methane production is reduced if cattle feed includes seaweed (don’t ask me what that does to the flavour) and similarly if they graze on mixed pasture including wildflower leys, where plants grow that contain fumaric acid which naturally reduces methane emissions. Come to think of it, meat is plant-based food; it’s just plants at one remove.

      So, what’s behind the notion of regenerative agriculture, with meat production as part of the mix? It’s based on the interaction of plants and animals, to the benefit of both. Pigs that are reared outdoors root around in the soil, stirring it up and fertilising it to the benefit of many insect and plant species. Cows that are extensively grazed are actually beneficial to meadow maintenance, for instance, that most endangered habitat. Salt marsh meadows are maintained by sheep, not damaged by them. It’s not always possible to graze cattle on pasture all the year round in some parts of the country; some good farmers shelter their herds indoors in winter, often on silage. But some native breeds are hardy enough to be outdoors almost all year.

      The emphasis in restorative farming is on outdoor grazing grass fed herds; a further component is pasture that eschews pesticides and herbicides with the cattle themselves not given routine antibiotics and anti-worming agents, just as necessary. Another factor is often the deployment of slow growing natives species that can digest rough grasses – including hairy pigs and longhorn cattle – and crucially the avoidance of over-grazing, packing more animals onto the land than it can sustain. Some farms deploy fun-sounding mob grazing, which is simply moving the herd regularly to herb-rich meadows. All this is a world away from industrial scale farming and the intensive animal husbandry which allows millions of people access to cheap meat, but which is impossible to square with animal welfare. The problems are especially acute with pigs. On that, vegans, I’m afraid, have a point. As for chicken, most of it is intensively reared in conditions that should make us look askance at Nando’s and KFC … cheap poultry isn’t cool if it’s underpinned by animal cruelty.

      With these principles in mind, where should we be getting our meat to make sure it’s ethically produced, environmentally beneficial? As I say, native breeds that are slow growing are particularly likely to be in high welfare herds that are farmed sustainably. So the Rare Breeds Survival Trust website which gives a tool for would-be customers to find suppliers near them is worth consulting. Another excellent body is the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, which supplies a list of farms where herds are fed almost wholly on grass; their list of producers is extensive, and some sound like animal nirvana, at least until slaughter time.

      It’s worth seeking out local producers from the suppliers but among those worth trying are Askerton’s Castle Meat in Cumbria, Knepp Wild Range Meat where the meat is part of a rewilding project; The Ethical Butcher (a consortium of like minded producers) and Piper’s Farm – a farm which is part of a West Country consortium of ethical producers. For lamb and mutton, there’s Caorach, a small family-run farm in Dorset, who do the mob-grazing thing in summer (info@caorach.uk).

      With any of these, friends, you can look vegans in the eye. And by all means, eat plants too: fruit and veg as well as meat fish and dairy. It’s good food we’re after…good for us, good for nature. But maybe give the avocados a miss.

      https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/giving-up-meat-won-t-m

      1. 340679+ up ticks,
        Morning C,
        I take it that is a personal view as there are those that would beg to differ,one mans meat etc,etc.

        Pointing out any views honestly should never be considered “a waste of time”

        1. As always, It is my personal view that it’s a poorly produced video that fails to get many valid points across because it’s constipated.

          1. 340679+ up ticks,
            C,
            All the same, to me it is expressed in an honest manner so surely should not be put down on ones personal view, although that is your prerogative.

      2. Excellent article – paper copies should be rolled up and force fed to anyone who suggests eating less meat to “save the planet”!

      3. Animals are essential to the environment. A good example of that is the disaster in the 1930 of the Dust Bowl on the American prairies. Its proximate cause was poor farming methods quite unsuitable for that sort of environment. But its basic cause was the destruction of the massive bison herds that roamed the area, ploughed the prairies up with their hoofs and fertilized the land with their dung. A symbiotic relationship between flora and fauna that, once destroyed, destroyed everything.

        1. Incredible that the planet didn’t self-combust as a result of all the CO2 the bison herds must have produced really, isn’t it. Oh, wait a minute…

          1. LOL. But as I keep pointing out the Green fanatics and their assertions about Co2 are outright lies. There is a critical lack of it, not a dearth. One would almost think that they want to kill life, not preserve it.

          2. There is a critical lack of critical thinking. This cannot be taught, a person either has it or has not. I reckon about 75% of people lack the ability to think critically.

          3. Probably because questioning the official line has been rigorously stamped out in education since 1997.

      4. Ireland? I spit on their sausages. If the French continue to be obnoxious and plain evil we can sell our steak, lamb and pork here.

    3. That’s a really poorly produced 50 minute waste of time.

      This is much more succinct and digestible {:^))

      Melanie McDonagh
      Giving up meat won’t make us greener
      27 October 2021, 6:00am
      From Spectator Life

      There was a nifty about-turn last week when the so-called Nudge Unit, the government’s behavioural policy advisory body, abandoned its proposals to get us to shift towards a plant-based diet and away from eating meat. Among other exciting initatives it suggested ‘building support for a bold policy’ such as a tax on producers of mutton and beef. It pointed out that the government could get people used to a vegetarian diet through its spending in hospitals, schools, prisons, courts and military facilities – you can just imagine how that would go down with soldiers, prisoners and patients – and declared that a ‘timely moment to intervene’ would be when people are at university. But it also acknowledged that an ‘unsophisticated meat tax would be highly regressive’.

      It may ultimately have been that factor that caused the unit to back off from this bovine – hah – move. Because an undiscriminating meat tax would indeed be regressive, and not just socially. Environmentally, contrary to what the exciting vegan movement woud have you believe, it would be unsustainable and counter-productive. This week four militant vegans scaled the ugly Home Office/Defra building to ‘send a clear message that we want an end to support for animal agriculture which is killing our planet’. Their banner read: ‘COP26: Invest in a plant-based future.’ And it seems the COP26 delegates are going to be fed a predominantly plant based menu. A missed opportunity, I say, to showcase sustainable Scottish fish, meat and dairy products.

      The obvious point, which should hardly need making, is that not all plant food is equally beneficial and not all meat, fish and dairy is equally problematic. In fact, locally produced meat from animals grazed on grass or salt marshes, kept in low densities on impoverished hillsides, is not just unproblematic; they’re part of the solution to a regenerative agricultural system that can increase the diversity of our plant, animal and insect life. By contrast, eating soya based proteins from crops produced on the other side of the world is actively damaging to the environment. Ditto much of the fashionable components of a vegan diet imported from far flung countries.

      Do you suppose the militant vegans who say they intend to stay up the Home Office building – what if it rains? –have brought some nice guacamole to eat up there, or almond milk for their tea? In which case they’re almost certainly doing more harm to more ecosystems than the carnivores that Defra’s cattle producers feed.

      This week Waitrose told us about the ’emergency avocado’ – that is, the demand for Deliveroo deliveries of tropical fruit, especially avocados. The demand is, as you’d suppose, directly correlated with the amount of wokery in the resident population: Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton are places where avocado toast is treated like bread and butter. Yet, avocados are notoriously problematic, requiring substantial amounts of water – 2,000 litres of water for each kilo of the fruit; transport from Mexico or Israel; and substantial pesticide use on monocultural plantations. Deforestation and ecosystem destruction with your sourdough toast, anyone?

      As for those tiresome people forever wanting almond milk with their lattes, they’re practically ecocides, and for much the same reason as for avocados…the crop takes a great deal of water and most of the world’s crop comes from non-rainy California – one much-cited New York Times article suggested it takes 15 gallons of water in California to produce 16 almonds – and certainly requires significant pesticide use. And even if the gallon per nut statistic is exaggerated, intensive production is often at the expense of other, more sustainable crops. If vegans want to be less pernicious, they could stick to oats, root vegetables, mushrooms and leeks, with perhaps blackberries, rhubarb, filberts and apples in season. As for their plant based milk, the good news is that Waitrose is now selling potato-derived milk to replace problematic nut milk; it retails on Amazon now for £11 a litre. I am fond of potatoes but something tells me this isn’t going to be delicious.

      The whole notion of environmentally friendly ‘plant-based’ diets ignores much of the methods of agrarian production: ploughing fields releases enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere whereas permanent pasture stores CO2; one report in the science journal Nature in 2017 suggests that most of the carbon in our cultivated soil has been lost to the atmosphere. There are ways of producing grain and vegetable crops sustainably – rotation, including grazing, is one way of doing it, no-dig systems are another – but by and large, monocultural agrarian plains are more environmentally damaging than extensive cattle or mixed farming which generate animal droppings that enrich the soil and its complex ecosystems.

      Most land in Britain is only suitable for growing grass; the best way of converting it into edible protein is via grazing animals. As for the poor soil on hills and uplands, that’s best utilised for grazing sheep. The key in both cases is low intensity stocking; high density grazing really does wipe out species.

      There is certainly a case for reducing our meat consumption and confining it to better and more expensive meat. And by better, I mean, meat from animals that haven’t been intensively farmed and routinely dosed with antibiotics, raised on mixed pasture – certainly not grain-fed, and have been raised if not locally, at least in the British Isles, including Ireland (lots of green grass there).

      There’s also a compelling case for eating the whole animal, including offal; if we only eat steak or the hindquarters of beasts, well, it means there’s an awful lot of it wasted. But the young who are most likely to be vegan are also the generation more likely to go yuck at the prospect of a nice devilled kidney or a cheap dinner of liver and onions. Admittedly, I draw the line at tripe (I blame a bad experience in Spain), but really, the ethical eater should start by reading Fergus Henderson’s Nose to Tail cookbook, which envisages eating practically every bit of a beast.

      Before considering good meat production, maybe we should see off the favourite vegan claim about cattle, viz, cattle farts, or rather, burps, are methane, and methane is an evil greenhouse gas. Even yesterday, the Prime Minister told a group of school children that ‘cows burp a great deal and emit a lot of gasses’. First off, the cows’ belches don’t hang around the atmosphere forever; after about twelve years they’re reabsorbed. And what’s now apparent is that the diet of the cattle is important: as Boris Johnson did clarify, methane production is reduced if cattle feed includes seaweed (don’t ask me what that does to the flavour) and similarly if they graze on mixed pasture including wildflower leys, where plants grow that contain fumaric acid which naturally reduces methane emissions. Come to think of it, meat is plant-based food; it’s just plants at one remove.

      So, what’s behind the notion of regenerative agriculture, with meat production as part of the mix? It’s based on the interaction of plants and animals, to the benefit of both. Pigs that are reared outdoors root around in the soil, stirring it up and fertilising it to the benefit of many insect and plant species. Cows that are extensively grazed are actually beneficial to meadow maintenance, for instance, that most endangered habitat. Salt marsh meadows are maintained by sheep, not damaged by them. It’s not always possible to graze cattle on pasture all the year round in some parts of the country; some good farmers shelter their herds indoors in winter, often on silage. But some native breeds are hardy enough to be outdoors almost all year.

      The emphasis in restorative farming is on outdoor grazing grass fed herds; a further component is pasture that eschews pesticides and herbicides with the cattle themselves not given routine antibiotics and anti-worming agents, just as necessary. Another factor is often the deployment of slow growing natives species that can digest rough grasses – including hairy pigs and longhorn cattle – and crucially the avoidance of over-grazing, packing more animals onto the land than it can sustain. Some farms deploy fun-sounding mob grazing, which is simply moving the herd regularly to herb-rich meadows. All this is a world away from industrial scale farming and the intensive animal husbandry which allows millions of people access to cheap meat, but which is impossible to square with animal welfare. The problems are especially acute with pigs. On that, vegans, I’m afraid, have a point. As for chicken, most of it is intensively reared in conditions that should make us look askance at Nando’s and KFC … cheap poultry isn’t cool if it’s underpinned by animal cruelty.

      With these principles in mind, where should we be getting our meat to make sure it’s ethically produced, environmentally beneficial? As I say, native breeds that are slow growing are particularly likely to be in high welfare herds that are farmed sustainably. So the Rare Breeds Survival Trust website which gives a tool for would-be customers to find suppliers near them is worth consulting. Another excellent body is the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, which supplies a list of farms where herds are fed almost wholly on grass; their list of producers is extensive, and some sound like animal nirvana, at least until slaughter time.

      It’s worth seeking out local producers from the suppliers but among those worth trying are Askerton’s Castle Meat in Cumbria, Knepp Wild Range Meat where the meat is part of a rewilding project; The Ethical Butcher (a consortium of like minded producers) and Piper’s Farm – a farm which is part of a West Country consortium of ethical producers. For lamb and mutton, there’s Caorach, a small family-run farm in Dorset, who do the mob-grazing thing in summer (info@caorach.uk).

      With any of these, friends, you can look vegans in the eye. And by all means, eat plants too: fruit and veg as well as meat fish and dairy. It’s good food we’re after…good for us, good for nature. But maybe give the avocados a miss.

      https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/giving-up-meat-won-t-m

  53. Rod Liddle
    Who owns the language?
    From magazine issue: 30 October 2021

    The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is giving local residents £25,000 grants to enable them to change the names of the roads in which they live. Some Londoners, I believe, find it uncomfortable to live in a street which has a name redolent of colonialism. Fair enough. I hope, though, that Sadiq will also give grants to right-wing white neighbourhoods of the capital so that the residents there can change the names of roads to make them more redolent of colonialism — such as Cecil Rhodes Avenue, or Zulus 0 British Army 5 Crescent. Or perhaps install a name which commemorates the mayor himself, such as Vacuous Dwarf Close.

    This war on history, tradition, rationality, logic and complexity (known in short as ‘woke’) continues apace. I wondered a couple of years ago if we had reached its peak, but I was being untypically optimistic. In truth, we are scarcely at base camp and the identitarian mountaineers with their corporate Sherpas are busy planning the next ascent. And so we come to Mr Joseph Anthony Barton, known popularly as ‘Joey’, manager of Bristol Rovers. Here he is expressing his exasperation after his team got stuffed again: ‘Someone gets in and does well but then gets suspended or injured. Someone gets in for a game, does well but then has a holocaust, a nightmare, an absolute disaster.’

    I think you’ve spotted the problem? A Jewish Bristol Labour councillor, Fabian Breckels, insisted that Barton should ‘consider his future’. A local Jewish journalist quoted the comedian and writer David Baddiel when coming to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what Barton meant when he used the word ‘holocaust’ — the only thing that matters is that people might find it upsetting. And there, in that chilling observation, you have almost the entire problem with wokery. It doesn’t matter what you say or mean, only what others might make of it.

    Let us look at the semantics for a moment. In the seven dictionaries I consulted for a definition of ‘holocaust’, every one cited as the primary definition ‘a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war or a fire’, or a variation thereof. From the Greek ‘holokauston’, then — meaning ‘everything burned’. The mass murder of the Jews by Hitler’s National Socialists was always cited only as a secondary definition and always with the definite article: the Holocaust. Barton did not use the definite article.

    In other words, holocaust has a meaning which both precedes and is different to the one prosecuted by Nazi Germany. I wonder if, after the consecutive exchanges of nuclear weapons, councillor Fabian Breckels will be on the glowing remains of Twitter objecting to the BBC correspondent, broadcasting from a bunker deep underground, describing the outcome as having been ‘a bit of a holocaust, frankly, Huw’.

    Of course Barton is guilty of overstatement. A footballer having a bit of an off day has not really endured a ‘holocaust’. It is an inapt metaphor. But then football is built upon overstatement and hyperbole and footballers and managers are not renowned for their glorious command of the English language — and perhaps as a consequence of this lacking, this stunted vocabulary, they have a tendency to exaggerate, to overstate the case. It is only a few years since the former manager Alan Pardew said, while commentating on Michael Essien’s tackle on Ched Evans, ‘he absolutely rapes him’. These footballing grotesqueries are par for the course, but nothing offensive is meant by them. It is simply a case of people for whom words do not come easily desperately trying to express themselves with a little colour.

    Should Barton consider his position? Yes, definitely, but not because he said the word ‘holocaust’. Barton took Bristol Rovers, a biggish club at that level, down from League One last year against the odds. They are now floundering very near the bottom of League Two. His win percentage is 22.9, which is shocking. But more to the point, Barton has continued to be employed both as a player and a manager despite serving a prison sentence for assault, for stubbing a cigar out on a young player’s eye, for repeated punches thrown at fellow players, for affray, for breaking gambling rules, for violence, for allegedly attacking a woman. Still employed. Are we really saying that his overstatement is worse than all these things, that this is the faux pas which requires him to lose his job?

    The past ten years have not been good for Britain’s gently dwindling community of Jews. Anti-Semitic attacks have risen markedly, fuelled by radical Islamists and the infantile middle-class British left which sees heroes in the genocidal racists of Hamas. Jews have been forced to suffer seeing a party for which they once voted en masse, Labour, riven with this new anti-Semitism (which, when you deconstruct it, isn’t so different from the old anti-Semitism). Jews are attacked verbally and physically on public transport and in the street. Obscenities are daubed on synagogues. Israel alone is singled out for hatred by the radical chic imbeciles of the left. It is scarcely a surprise that our Jews should feel beleaguered and under assault and deprived of the protection afforded to other, more fashionable minority groups.

    But the answer is not to retreat into the same place as the professional victims from other minorities, be they racial or gender minorities. You cannot corral language and prevent people outside of your group from using it. My editors aside, nobody has the right to tell me what words I can and cannot use because of the possible offence that might be taken if I use them, regardless of my intention and the actual meaning of what was written. The notion that what Joey Barton meant does not matter if people become upset with him is yet another small step on the path to totalitarianism. The language police have no time for nuance and context.

    ******************************************************

    Camper Van Beethoven • 2 days ago • edited
    Here’s an interesting use of language that demands some serious attention – and an actual explanation by the Mayor of London:
    George Floyd – criminal dying under restraint: “brutal killing”.
    David Amess MP – stabbed 17 times by a Muslim radical: “passed away”.
    What the hell?

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-owns-the-language-

    1. Once met a young woman who came from Cecil Rhodes Avenue, Salisbury, Rhodesia. All by then had been renamed but Cecil Rhodes Avenue had been given such an unpronounceable African name that everyone who lived there, including the black Africans, continued to call it Cecil Rhodes Avenue.

      1. Same with the village where my Polish friend’s family had their farm in Silesia (Schlesien). The German name is Ronau, which is easy to pronounce, but was changed to a complicated Polish name after the war. Everyone calls it Ronau to this day.

        1. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

          There has been talk of changing the names towns over here and adopting native names.

          Been to Kanien’keha:ka lately?

          1. Most of the rivers in North America already have native names? Spelt by Europeans because the natives didn’t have any written language of their own.
            Apparently the Allegheny becomes the Ohio at Pittsburgh not because it meets the Monongahela but because it changes from the Unami to the Seneca tribal language.

          2. Connecticut USA gets its name, state and river, from Quononoquett, which is a Mohegan-Pequot word meaning “long tidal river.”
            It has at least 3 nicknames; The Nutmeg state, The Constitution state and the Land of Steady Habits.

      2. Good morning Sue and everyone.
        I was chatting briefly last year with an interesting old lady who had spent much of her life in Rhodesia/Zim. Eventually I asked why she had returned to Britain some years ago. She replied “Because my husband was murdered”.
        (I may have posted this previously)

        1. A cousin of mine’s wife was murdered in Zimbabwe. And an aunt, my father’s sister, was murdered in Kenya.

          1. Two friends of mine, husband and wife were also murdered. In their case it was South Africa.

          2. Two aunts went to Africa, my mother’s sisters. One settled in Zimbabwe and the other in Zambia. Zimbabwe aunt ( who I never met) had 2 children of which one survives. She ended up destitute as her husband abandoned her. Other aunt settled in Umtali in Zambia and she and her husband came over once and she was a fun and forceful woman. I liked her.
            No idea what happened to her husband and she had no children. Some years later, my dad heard that she was dead and was thought to have been murdered. He tried to find out but hit a brick wall with every attempt. So, still don’t know and all the older generation are gone. One of my Scots cousins is in contact with our cousin who now lives in Harare.
            I guess I could try and find out but honestly, I have enough on my plate and maybe it’s better if sleeping tigers are left alone.

            Edited for missing “d” on settled;-)

      3. When I first visited Poland in 1974 I purchased maps from Stanford’s. Most of the German occupied towns and cities had both Polish and German names. Gdańsk was Danzig, Poznań was Posun and Toruń was Thorn.

  54. Jonathan Miller
    Emmanuel Macron is a clear and present danger to Britain
    30 October 2021, 8:19am

    Once upon a time, the insolence demonstrated by Emmanuel Macron in his fish war with the United Kingdom would have been met with a firmer response than inviting the French ambassador to the Foreign Office for a chat.

    Bombarding the ramparts of Saint-Malo hardly seems on the menu today, however – even were our navy capable. Boris Johnson has promised to do ‘whatever is necessary’ to protect British vessels but threatening ‘rigorous checks’ on French boats is as feeble as it is improbable, given that the Royal Navy has just eight small boats patrolling 756,000 square kilometres (300,000 square miles) of water, almost four times the surface area of Great Britain. It’s akin to two police cars patrolling all of England, Scotland and Wales. Britain is demonstrably incapable even of rigorously checking the English Channel.

    It’s still two days until the official kick-off on November 2 of Macron’s ‘rétortion’ for the denial of a handful of fishing licenses to French scallop boats. But as early reports trickle in, the latest conflict between the French and the British seems to be playing out well for the president.

    Macron has already seized one British fishing boat and threatened others. Ship trackers appeared to show a French warship manoeuvring in the Irish sea. He’s closed French ports to British fishing vessels unloading their catch. And he has threatened next week to impose intensive customs checks on the Channel Tunnel, obstructing thousands of trucks per day.

    To dismiss this as some kind of French farce, as initially I did myself, is misjudged. This conflict could cause severe economic disruption and might even lead to people getting killed or seriously injured, as happened in the notorious, now practically forgotten, British cod war with Iceland half a century ago (which Britain lost).

    That this has little to do with fish seems incontestable. This is about Macron’s re-election. The disproportionality of Macron’s aggressive response (there have even been threats to cut French electricity connectors to Britain) raises a fundamental question about whether Britain’s attempt to build a relationship with the current French president is even sustainable.

    A friend in Paris with connections to the Elysée tells me there’s a faction around Emmanuel Macron that truly, deeply loathes the United Kingdom. Whether Macron shares this visceral distaste might not be that important. He famously married his drama teacher, 24 years his senior, and knows how to play a part. He’s obviously convinced that tantrum diplomacy is likely to be a vote winner.

    He may or may not be right that this will be popular. Voters mostly dislike and mistrust him. Many are far less anti-British than advertised. A new poll shows 60 per cent don’t want him to stand for re-election. Fewer than 5,000 are occupied with scallop fishing. But some might be influenced by this manufactured drama and right now, Macron is running scared. Marine Le Pen, his preferred opponent in the second round of next year’s presidential election is fading. He could be facing much more formidable opposition in the shape of the rightist polemicist Éric Zemmour.

    The EU, with many other fish to fry, thus far has declined to get officially involved on Macron’s side, but commissioners are privately briefing for France and Macron’s diplomats and politicians are leaning on them. Macron is being solidly supported by the media in France, which gleefully reports every new threat from his ministers. Le Monde said yesterday afternoon that Macron has acted only after a series of provocations including the Aukus submarine deal, agitation over the Northern Ireland protocol and migration. It’s only a matter of time before Macron shows up in Saint-Malo and the first polls, albeit of dubious credibility, appear showing public support for the president’s hard line.

    This weekend, Macron will meet Boris Johnson at the G20 in Rome and it will be astonishing if the president doesn’t seize the opportunity to perform another theatrical gesture of some kind. He’ll have further opportunities to act out next week at the climate conference in Glasgow.

    What should the British government do? While the UK appears to have an entirely reasonable case, I can find no evidence that any attempt whatsoever has been made to explain it to the French. Menna Rawlings, the new British ambassador to Paris, whose embassy is a Remainer bastion, had, as of early this morning not even published a tweet for two days, other than a picture of the embassy on Friday night, wishing everyone a good evening. There are no Francophone British spokesmen on the French news channels. This isn’t just a fish war but an information war and here, Britain isn’t participating, never mind winning.

    French officials cranked up their threats against Britain on Friday afternoon, with prime minister Jean Castex demanding that the European Commission intervene on the side of France. Britain must be punished to show that ‘leaving the EU is more damaging than remaining,’ he said. Meanwhile, the British government appeared to have shut down for the weekend.

    Johnson is now going to have to do more than crack bad jokes in franglais. At the beginning of the week Johnson could justifiably keep a lowish profile, waiting for Macron to make an ass of himself. As the week ends, he is going to have to recalibrate. Macron’s deranged, almost Trumpian, diplomacy seems to be trumping British sangfroid. Johnson is supposed to be the great communicator, but seems to have stopped communicating.

    It’s a tragedy that Franco-British relations have sunk to this low, over so little. I disagree with the headline on the otherwise informative piece published earlier here by James Forsyth. British-EU relations are not now ‘threatened.’ They have collapsed. Britain and France should be looking for ways to grow richer together and meet challenges together. Instead, we have this.

    It’s time to recognise that Macron is a fundamental obstacle to any thought of a constructive, non-contentious relationship. It’s not an exaggeration to say that five more years of Macron, should he be re-elected, presents a clear and present danger to the future of the United Kingdom itself.

    A banner currently displayed outside the French embassy in Dublin proclaims France to be Ireland’s closest European neighbour. Northern Ireland is sure to be the next lever he will use to attack the union: stirring up Scotland will follow. Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is said to have cultivated a close relationship with the French in Edinburgh.

    The British response to the fish wars must be less pusillanimous. Macron’s re-election would be a disaster for Britain, not just the French. Strengthening him by capitulating would be a disaster. This time, it’s Macron who needs to be humiliated. The time has come for regime change in France.

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    1. Surely he’s become so much of an embarrassment by now the French have had enough of his puerile nonsense. He’s acting like a spoiled child at kindergarten.
      One might wonder whose orders he is following ?

      2. I did a long term substitute job in Kindergarten in CT. Those small children would run rings around this current load of posturing morons.

    2. “Britain is demonstrably incapable even of rigorously checking the English Channel.”

      I think they’d have difficulty rigorously checking the Serpentine.

    3. Earlier this week I sent another letter to Ms Trevelyan reminding her that I have not had a response to any of my previous letters highlighting the shambolic, deliberate and malicious Customs delays being imposed on UK trade with Europe.
      On the very same day the Sultana posted a letter to a company in Portugal on a business matter. A response was received yesterday.

  55. Morning all I don’t have long today, we have an overseas guest from SA arriving shortly. Got to brush up on my Afrikaans.
    But with reference to the headline article, Can some one ask our Idiot government how it is green to spend 2 billion of tax payers money building new homes on green belt and agricultural land for thousands of migrants whose carbon foot print would have been close to Zero before entry to an already over crowded England. He should be sectioned. WTF does Boris think he is doing and Who TF does he think he’s kidding.

      2. Yep……..We didn’t recognises each other and she went away. And all the way from Cape Town 🤔😷🥺

  56. 340679+ up ticks,

    It has come to something that if ONE man turned poof it would benefit the Nation immensely, and that Nation would be forever grateful, shown in an open ended dress allowance.

    JOHNSON CLAIMS MODERN CIVILISATION IS AT RISK OVER CLIMATE CHANGE…

    1. Modern civilization, at least in the UK, is at risk from him and his hare brained schemes

      1. Modern civilisation will be destroyed by the monoculture of Homo sapiens wiping out all other life forms on a small planet.
        This started well over a hundred years ago and its progress is accelerating rapidly.

        The problem is that H. sapiens has its head buried so deep up its arse that it cannot see its own idiocy.

    2. Modern civilization, at least in the UK, is at risk from him and his hare brained schemes

    1. META you say………..
      Make
      Everything
      Trump
      Again
      They really haven’t thought this through have they {:^))

          1. Ironic that there is no actual clock included in the above picture.
            I just leave my car clock, I have to admit.

          4. #metoo. What infuriates me is that the car is loaded with clever-clever computerised flashing warning signals about matters of no concern and, if one ever bothered to read the owner’s manual, there wouldn’t be any chance of remembering what they all meant or how to switch them off….but they can’t make the clock change automatically

          5. Our super complicated computerised car does not have instructions how to change the clock, you have to take it to the agent.

          8. My car manual is 480 pages. The SatNav / Radio /Telephone integration etc is an additional 240 pages manual.
            Far too much and as my car was top of the range at the time most pages apply.

            If I have an issue I consult
            Youtube and/ or Google gives you a 2 – 30 minute videp clip or a couple of paragraphs or maybe pages.

            Never mastered the voice dialling – the Youtube chap had a deep south American accent and everything worked. I never got it to dial more than 2/3 names – so gave up.

          12. Hashtag Me2. It’s easy enough to add on one hour, or subtract one hour. I forget which.

        1. Putting the clocks forward does NOT give us “extra daylight” – it just beggars up my internal clock for seven months 🙁

          2. It’s all the fault of the Hun – it started in WWI. The Krauts did it and we followed suit.

    1. I DO NOT FIND THAT AT ALL AMUSING

      Went there in June, awaiting the next one with that cowardly soul Treppy Dation

      1. I had mine done a couple of years ago. It hurts less than the dentist and is not to be sniffed at.

        1. yo Fizz

          When I was being treated for Bowel Cancer, so many folk seemed to want to go there, I borrowed a ticket Machine from Tesco’s Deli counter, to control entry

    2. A few years ago I had to visit my then decent GP with a sense of humour for a similar exploration . He said “I hope you’re not going to enjoy this”.
      I countered “I hope you’re not” !

      1. I remember having the finger wag for the first time in Ayr Horse Piddle.

        Like you, I facetiously said to the wagger, “And there are people who enjoy this.”

        1. For the first time i h was called in for a internal examination after apparently blood was found in my stool sample.
          They found harmless polyps which were removed. The Surgeon who was a very nice chap indeed, said after, “Okay we will see you in three years time I replied………….Sorry I have just remembered i’m washing my hair that day.

          1. I remained quite laid-back, insouciant and phlegmatic when I had my examination. When I realised that I was going to be finger-f***ed by a 7′-0″ tall Chinaman, I simply bit my lip and let him get on with it.

  62. BBC Radio 4 Any Questions: Chris Mason presents political debate from Chatteris Parish Church, Cambridgeshire with a panel which includes the Chair of the Committee on Climate Change and Conservative peer Lord Deben, the crossbench peer Baroness Fox of Buckley, the journalist and TV presenter Richard Madeley and the deputy chief executive of Renewable UK and former Labour MP for Grimsby Melanie Onn.

    Every single one involved in promoting (being paid) Climate Armageddon. BBC at its impartiality peak!

  63. One of the aforementioned R 4 panellists, Baroness Fox, deserves further mention:

    She was a lifelong member and core activist for the Revolutionary Communist Party. Supported Gary Glitter’s right to download child porn. Supported (perhaps still supports) the IRA. Was elected to the European Union Parliament as a Brexit supporter. Was co-publisher of magazine Living Marxism. Regular guest and panellist on BBC TV and radio. Against House of Lords and congratulated Liberal politicians who refused peerages.

    Was created Baroness Fox of Buckley October 2020 and life Peer in the House of Lords by Boris Johnson no less! Stinking hypocrites – both.

  64. Another member of a secretive Russian military-intelligence unit has been charged in a brazen UK assassination. 29 October 2021.

    Amid rising tensions with Russia, the British government has charged another Russian intelligence officer for his involvement in the brash but failed assassination of a former Russian spy in the UK.

    In 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer who defected to the West, and his daughter became critically ill after they were exposed to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, which Russian GRU officers are believed to have applied to Skripal’s residence’s door handle in order to kill him.

    Although Skripal and his daughter survived, a police officer fell seriously ill, and a British woman was killed a few months later when she sprayed herself with the perfume bottle that the GRU officers stored the Novichok in and then discarded. The bottle ended up in a charity bin.

    Subsequent investigations into the incident found that two – and now three – GRU officers had traveled to Salisbury to carry out the attack.

    Incredibly there are more holes in this account than the official version. The writer clearly has read nothing about the affair. It is utter twaddle. The “Third Man” did not go to Salisbury at all and was on the landing approach to Moscow Airport when the Skripals collapsed on the park bench in Salisbury. The “GRU Officers” never went to Amesbury and the perfume bottle could not have been used on the Skripals because it was still sealed when it fell into the hands of Charlie Rowley et al. It is these small details that give the lie to the whole story.

    https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/another-member-secretive-russian-military-121646308.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFbEHoKpsgculjK3DzwJwdU-RLGAEr3qr-wCN8Ucvdv8rSBbzJDTpZ916FMk6s-Gwfqb95vo6lmJpVoXomsESaiAsPIbN98jZxaiNXGvne7ufWmVWHDwDKS4dlv2CChOdWBDg4k7BPLBkGaF6Njua0Gy_VqV9hGb9zIww9saBpmo

    1. If Skripal was that much of a threat why didn’t Russia dispose of him when he was in a Russian jail for seven years?

      1. Why would they ever have released him! No one actually believes this story witness Boris ringing Vlad up last week and begging him to come to Glasgow. When he declined (since he’s not a fool) they made the excuse that it was all over Salisbury. One can only imagine the effect such duplicity has on Putin.

  65. Things are getting betterer and betterer…I suspect that Steerpike will feed a wider audience with embarrassing gossip throughout the jamboree

    Steerpike
    COP kicks off with another eco-quandary
    30 October 2021, 1:30pm

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    At long last, COP26 is finally here. Tomorrow, the world’s largest eco-jamboree will begin in Glasgow, with some 20,000 to 25,000 delegates expected to attend. For Alok Sharma et al, it must have felt at times that the ‘last chance’ to save the Earth was being damned by the gods themselves, with strikes, pestilence and vermin all plaguing the rat-infested city in recent months.

    And there was one last biblical surprise for long-suffering civil servants yesterday: torrential rain in north west England and Scotland forced the cancellation of all trains from London to Glasgow. This prompted the latest eco-quandary for attendees: should they fly there instead?

    Ministers have been advised against taking the plane in order to set an eco-friendly example but some of their desperate Whitehall underlings were seriously considering it last night. The Euston-Glasgow route has been horrendous all week, with three train switches in place of the usual direct route and hour-long delays each way.

    One disgruntled delegate fumed to Mr S: ‘Whether it’s flooded Airbnbs that are already costing delegates on average £6,000 for a two week stay, or overcrowded train services with no social distancing that pull into stations with signs saying “thanks for travelling by train to COP26”, the whole thing is starting to feel a bit comedy of errors.’ Another said that 24 hours ahead of travel they did not know whether they were going to Glasgow or Edinburgh, such was the extent of confusion around travel and accommodation.

    Organisers in both Holyrood and Westminster have had more than two years to plan rooms and journeys for the event, gaining an extra 12 months in April 2020 after the summit was delayed due to Covid. The lack of beds in Glasgow has seen MSPs priced out of their own hotel rooms around the Scottish Parliament, 40 miles away, with one cheeky Greenock resident charging £7,000 a week for his Inverclyde flat. Steerpike looks forward to getting his hands on the receipts…

    Still, the planning could have been worse. COP will take place across two sites – the Blue Zone at the Scottish Event Campus and the Green Zone at Glasgow Science Centre. But Mr S hears that the original plan was for the first of these to be titled an ‘Orange Zone.’ It wasn’t until the Glaswegian hosts gently explained why dividing a city with a history of sectarianism into ‘Orange’ and ‘Green’ sections that organisers quietly amended their plans.

    1. Tomorrow, the world’s largest eco-jamboree will begin in Glasgow, with some 20,000 to 25,000 delegates expected to attend.

      Jamboree just about sums up this ridiculous farce!

      2. That Sir, or Madam, is an insult to Boy Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell, Jamborees and Brian Rix.

    2. Why would the delegates have anything to complain about, they all claim everything and I mean everything on expenses anyway.
      All that planning and expense for what will be a nil achievement at the conclusion. Sounds like a familiar government policy, every thing they come into contact with they eff up at tax payers expense. ETGCICWIFUATPE “Countdown”…………..

    3. Brilliant. Let us hope for more catastrophe…would a very small earthquake be too much to ask of the Lord? Plus a week without wind, of course, and power cuts.

  66. Controlling One’s Temper

    A woman goes to the Doctor, worried about her husband’s temper.

    The Doctor asks: “What’s the problem?”

    The woman says: “Doctor, I don’t know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no reason. It scares me.”

    The Doctor says: “I have a cure for that. When it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take a glass of water and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish but don’t swallow it until he either leaves the room or calms down.”

    Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn.

    The woman says: “Doctor that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband started losing it, I swished with water. I swished and swished, and he calmed right down! How does a glass of water do that?”

    The Doctor says: “The water itself does nothing. It’s keeping your mouth shut that does the trick.”

    I’m not a misogynist, I just think it’s funny,

    2. I’m going to tell that one to my dearly beloved. I shall, of course, have my ears out on stalks for the depth and duration of his laughter….

  68. UK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26. 30 October 2021.

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    The UK government’s climate change adviser has launched a scathing attack on Australia’s net zero commitment on the eve of critical talks in Glasgow.

    Lord Deben, the Climate Change Committee chair, told the BBC on Saturday there was “no indication” that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, had a plan to deliver on the commitment to net zero that was “squeezed out of him”.

    In case you were all scratching your heads wondering who Lord Deben is I’ve attached a photo. Yes it’s our old friend John Selwyn Gummer famous for feeding his four year old daughter a burger in 1989. The chances of her contracting BSE/Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were probably less than Lagging your Pipes are to curing Global Warming!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/uks-top-climate-adviser-launches-scathing-attack-on-australia-on-eve-of-cop26

    3. Wasn’t Gummer in Snow White’s entourage, along with Colin Moynihan, John Bercow, Oliver Letwin and a few more undernourished (in stature and brain) and pathetic politicos? I wonder who the other three were!

    4. This squirt, Gumboil, was invited to dole out the prizes at Gresham’s on Speech Day when it was Christo’s last year. I am quite an expert at terrible Speech Day speeches and I can say that without doubt his speech was the very worst to which I have ever been subjected. He banged on about how the science was settled on global warming and how it was essential that Britain stayed in the EU.

      When we were having tea after the speeches Christo saw the Gumboil and accosted him and said, in perfect French that as he was such a keen Europhile he would speak to him in French. Of course Gumboil could not cope and tried to make his escape and we have this marvellous memory of a pompous but dwarf-like politician running away from a pursuing Christo rampant standing at 6′ 3″ and telling him that it was a disgrace that he should have used a speech to schoolchildren to try and corrupt them with thoroughly biased political propaganda.

    5. I can’t get the Jasper Carrott line out of my head: “Selwyn Gummer is a bummer.”
      Says it all, and rhymes, too!

  69. Good afternoon all.

    Well , the weather cleared up this morning , dog walks , and an annoying trip to the tip.

    Our household waste wasn’t collected yesterday .. We have 2 bins , one for recycling and one for waste ( like cling film and stuff from the vacuum ) .. then we have a green box for bottles and jars , and a small brown caddy with a handle for bagged food waste ( bones etc )… All very neat and clever , and every villager is in all the surrounding Dorset villages takes pride in keeping waste down … after all we only have a few holes in the ground for County waste to be buried / or sorted and re used !

    (We also use our compost bin for green waste , if food or bread was put in , rats would become a problem )

    Every week the bin collection alternates , yesterday should have been the large wastebin full of recycling … which should have been emptied …2 weeks worth of rubbish , milk bottles , cardboard, paper , crushed boxes, dog food tins , son’s beer cans , and other bits and pieces that accumulate .

    We have been told that quite possibly our household waste won’t be collected for another 2 weeks … a shortage of HGV drivers , and also a very big explosion of Covid … which has closed wards in our DCH, and laid up a dozen or so bods in ICU .

    So now , this morning , after the rain had moved on , Moh and I stood in our driveway and decanted the large rubbish bin into black plastic bags , bunged everything in the car including the green box with empty clean jars , bottles and other breakables and drove 6 miles to our local tip , it seemed that everyone else had the same idea .

    Many people also have a garden waste bin, they have to pay extra for that service , we take our own hedge cuttings and other garden stuff to the tip .

    Bonfires are frowned on and regarded as antisocial .

    We pay well over £3,000 Council tax , and there will be more increases next year .. We are just about coping now .

    1. Hi Belle.

      Do you crush your tins, plastic containers, cartons, etc.? I find it helps a lot.

      1. Hello Peter ,
        Yes we do , and of course always squashing things down .. especially cardboard etc .

        There are 3 adults living here , and 2 dogs … When we first moved here , there were containers placed in the village car park for things like plastic milk bottles, card board , batteries, tin foil and newspapers and magazines ..

        I think the market value dropped , sadly the containers were removed .

        1. I used to visit the bottle banks at the crack of dawn on a Saturday before shopping in Sainsbury – that was when S. was a reasonably good s-market. They got removed a few years ago, now all glass goes in my blue bin & I no longer dream of shopping at S. I prefer to make the 10km trip to w/rose.

          1. My late brother was once emptying his collection of empty wine bottles into the local bottle bank. There was a man standing, waiting, and watching in increasing bewilderment. As bruv finished his deposits, the man said, “Run a restaurant do you mate?”
            My brother slunk away…

          4. I’d have called him a cheeky bugger of a nosey-parker and told him to go waste oxygen somewhere else.
            Or, say, “No, I’m just helping out your mother – do this every week”
            }:-((

          6. Hmm, Peddy, S has never been a good (reasonably priced or otherwise) supermarket.

            They are backed by socialist principles and, as such, are anathema to me.

            I much prefer Aldi and Lidl who are honest about their offerings and, for oddmedods like Ox cheek, we will make a foray to Morrisons. Otherwise, there’s not much to choose.

          7. When I lived in Germany, Aldi & Lidl were favourites for me. Although we have both in town, they are too inconvenient to get to.

    2. MB and I loathe the 6.30 am dash to put the black bags out on alternate Friday mornings (pointless to put them out the night before unless you want the road to be scattered with garbage by the local cats and foxes).
      Since we live within a couple of miles of the tip, we incorporate a black bag run into our normal local buzzing around.
      An advantage of living in a ‘leafy suburb’.

      2. We have a black bin for waste, a small green bin for food waste, a blue topped bin for recycling and a green topped garden bin that we are charged for. They are emptied on a two weekly cycle.
        Where I’m digging out the surplus soil from the roadside verge to backfill up the garden, I’m also digging out bloody great lumps of tarmac dumped on the verge by assorted contractors over the years which are being fed into the black bin.
        A couple of photos shewing what I’ve been up to.
        Where I’m digging the soil out from. The bin is for the weeds:-
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        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83f26a29370675d77644203f5b76ec514ea5a1941cedec3fb627f174527c1f15.jpg

        A view of the lower wall that I started 20y ago and then left dormant. I’ve added about a foot onto the height of it and backfilled where the two composting bins are:-

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/01ab9470aa3d2f9c0152d1a9359765087031eec6cc4c9d5a522ac40ba58bf3f8.jpg

        And a view of the back of the small shed after I’d got rid of the plastic sheeting covering the bank and before I tipped a ¼ ton of soil to backfill behind the wall:-

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cee41bc1edb7e98fb2e5a6fb7438d0229404b8f479b6b454fcf53d5fd6530594.jpg

        1. Thank you, BoB, for your correct usage of the verb ‘to shew’

          Wow, I’m making inroads into the correct usage of our wonderful English language.

    3. £3,000 pa and they don’t collect.

      Submit a bill to the local Con dept for 100 times what it cost you to take this shit to the depot and, also demand a deduction of the same amount, citing, breach of contract.

      You can only try, Maggie.

      2. Indeed. In my experience if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Mind you, frequently, if you do ask you still don’t get when it comes to the council.

        1. But, at least, Connors you stood up against bureaucracy and that, by itself, gives one a feeling of, “See you, ye bastards.”

          1. I fought the council over their failure to empty my grey bin because it had ash in it. I even took it to the Ombudsman. Alas, I lost 🙁

  70. For anyone who feels that their blood pressure is too low, that poisonous little pinko, Tony Robinson, is on Channel 4 tonight talking about the Mau Mau “freedom fighters” and their struggle against British colonial and economic interests!

    1. I can’t get ch 4, but I would be interested to know if he mentions the fact that Mau Mau started as an intertribal conflict. Kikuyu v. Luo IIRC.

      1. Very typical African and Middle Eastern tribalism, Peddy.

        We should be exploiting these tribal differences, not only in Africa and the Middle east but here at home. Foment hatred between the tribes and it removes pressure on us.

        And NO, I don’t want them integrated, I want them OUT.

    2. Leftie twerp , isn’t he .

      When I was consigned to boarding school by my parents , and boarded with other girls whose parents were also overseas, one of the girls had parents in Kenya, her father was in the RAF , and many nasty incidents that involved skirmishes with the cruel destructive murderous Mau Mau caused great anxiety

      My parents were in Nigeria at that time , and that was also the time the Congo problems also caused mayhem .

        1. I had no choice OB , what made things feel better though , was that other girls were in a similar position.

          Parents in those days never asked you what you wanted .. they made hard and fast decisions , and that was it!

          2. My parents got me into a totally unsuitable day school for me (very Sloaney and rather pompous). From year 1 on, they paid no attention to anything, thinking that they had enrolled me there, so the rest was up to the school.

            I hated it and ran away from the school they had put me into. Then I ran away from home. Two of the best things I ever did!

          3. I ran away from home too. On two separate occasions. Once on a trip to France for a week that i didn’t tell them about and then again at 16 when they couldn’t stop me.

          4. I was barely at home – and so learned independence and self-reliance. Makes me a difficult person to manage, but SWMBO seems to have sorted it out!

          7. I applied to emigrate to Australia- my parents were astonished when the paperwork arrived. I was eleven!!

          9. A family discussion ensued and I was deemed too young;-) I had applied alone and not mentioned parents etc. Just wanted to get away from home.

          10. So did I, but I waited until I’d done my A Levels then I chose a university about as far away from home as I could find and didn’t come home for vacations 🙂

          11. I went to a boarding prep school at the age of 8 and took my common entrance at the age of 13 and was at Blundell’s, an independent boarding school until the age of 18. By contrast Caroline’s father worked for an international company and insisted that part of his contract included a clause that he would always work in locations where there were good international schools She never went to boarding school but to schools in Holland, India, Iran and Spain and then went to universities in England and France.

            Our 2 boys went to primary school in France but when they were 9 and 7 respectively we took them out of school and home schooled them as we sailed around the Med. They then went to boarding schools in England for their Sixth Form studies and on to British universities. They now both have good, well paid jobs in the UK.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1b99783e94ff8b0c089271d170e166bcb1bb14f2c91ce9ea0dd0c15a4cd5ca26.jpg https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3351975/One-hull-of-a-school.html

          12. Indeed, and I was there too. That there was no reasonable school for 8 year olds in Nigeria didn’t help, and boarding school fees were part of the expat contract.
            It made me certain that I didn’t want my children growing up somewhere else. I barely knew my Father, and in the case of Mother, it’s all too late anyway.

      2. My late brother in law was a white Kenyan policeman during the Mau Mau troubles in Kenya. I think you know Belle that they did the most unspeakable and depraved things to people and not just to the whites either but to other black Africans. If there ever was an embodiment of evil it was the Mau Mau and Kenyatta. Perhaps someone should show Robinson photos of the evil things they did. If he is not a psychopath he should be very disinclined to pretend they were “freedom fighters” because evil half mad semi humans from hell is what they really were.

        1. Johnathan,

          They are still committing appalling crimes , I go onto IOLZA for the news and some of the SA newspapers as well as all African news … heaven forfend .. they are brutal !

          One of the local Vets brought her family to the UK from the Pretoria area because of 2 unspeakable atrocious attacks on her parents and their farm workers .

          No one seems to care about the violence against SA White farmers who import their delicious fruit and wines to the UK .

          Anway , people like Robinson wont have to wait very long before they are robbed and trashed here in the UK

          1. Thanks for the tip, i.e. IOLZA, I don’t read that but I have bookmarked it for regular reading. I am, of course, well aware of the plight of SA white farmers. What disgusts me is the silence of our government and the lack of will in rescuing those people while people who are unwelcome and come across the channel illegally are let in with open arms by this government.

        2. Mau Mau was never an independence struggle because the UK had already signaled our intention to leave Africa before it started, but it was a power struggle against other tribes for supremacy in post independent Kenya.

    2. Who would ever have imagined that the former Communist East would have been standing up for Western and Christian values? Perhaps that’s it. They saw enough of this stuff under the Soviet Union to inoculate themselves against it?

    3. I think the poor guy had experienced it first-hand, under the Russian Commissars and did not wish to swap them for EU Commissars..

  72. DOUGLAS MURRAY Why do the French have to be so, er, French?

    EVERY country on Earth has a neighbour they love to hate.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16579222/douglas-murray-french-so-french/

    The Americans joke about the Canadians. The Australians like to trash-talk the New Zealanders.

    “”All the while, Macron holds in his hand a threat to the UK’s energy supplies. It is classic, cynical statecraft from Macron. It is also behaviour more typical of Russia’s Vladimir Putin than a country that likes to hold itself up as a pillar of international standards.

    These rows with the French come and go. With a bit of luck and a lot of tough negotiating from the British, we may find our way out of this particular round.
    But we should never expect the French to change.

    They are what they always have been. Our neighbours, our rivals, our enemies and our friends.”

      2. I used to Make a point of openly reading it on my daily journey from La Motte Piquet Grenelle to La Defense. au retour.

    4. One Thousand Years of Annoying the French 🙂 I would dispute that they (i e the French en masse) have ever been “our friends” (and I have many French friends)

    1. I noticed that they flew his helicopter all the way here in a huge plane. I imagine its now on charge for the big occasion.

  74. Hundreds of church bells across the UK will ring out to call for urgent action on climate change on the eve of COP26.

    Environmentalist Edward Gildea, from Saffron Walden in Essex, came up with the idea to use church bells to sound a warning to delegates in Glasgow.

    St Paul’s Cathedral and York Minster are among the churches taking part at 18:00 BST on Saturday.

    “It is time for the church to speak out on climate change, it has this voice, why not use it?” said Mr Gildea.

    “We are saying ‘we care for God’s creation, we are concerned about it, we are very passionate about the future we seem to be storing up for ourselves and need to change’.”

    I knew it was a replacement religion !

    https://twitter.com/spygirl_m/status/1454409194086535168

    3. Hope the Slammers don’t object.

      Perhaps all Chinese Take-aways could close for an hour…..

    5. There’s a very clear distinction between worshipping creation and expecting human beings to suffer to appease the earth goddess and worshiping the creator and being good stewards of the land, which the climate loonies are most certainly not.

      1. According to said Bishopette, the Gospel which said we shouldn’t worry about what we are to eat or what we should wear (because the Lord will provide) doesn’t mean what it says at all. We should be terrified that the planet won’t cope. Sorry, I look for comfortable words when I go to church, not eco-lunacy.

    7. The Bishopette of Birkenhead has already spoken out about climate change. At our “harvest festival” (I use the quotes because we didn’t have the traditional harvest hymns) she berated us in the sermon for using our “gas guzzlers” (and then got in her Porsche sports car to drive back to her urban See).

      1. If she owns a Porsche we are obviously paying Bishopettes too much – forsaking wordly goods anyone?

        1. She looked as though she was trying with the sack in sackcloth – untidy and unkempt was the impression I got.

    8. I came up with the idea of ringing church bells across the country on All Saints Day to remind the people that this was a Christian country. I wrote to the heads of the Christian churches in the UK and they all gave me the brush off.
      However, they are prepared to do it for a political fraud in the furtherance of the destruction of our civilisation. Quelle surprise!

    1. There’s a breathless hush in the Close to-night —
      Ten to make and the match to win —
      A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
      An hour to play and the last man in.
      And it’s not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
      Or the selfish hope of a season’s fame,
      But his Captain’s hand on his shoulder smote —
      ‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’

      1. Vitai Lampada!

        Sir Henry Newbolt’s poem was in the anthology we used at prep school and we all learnt this one.

      2. Thank you, Bill, a little research and the full poem now resides in my CommonPlace Book.

        Do you have such a one?

    5. Hmm, for me, last day of summer was September 21 – the Autumnal Equinox and the first day of (Brrr) Winter will be December 21st – the Winter Solstice, when our friend, the Sun reverses and starts heading back for the equator and finally, the Tropic of Cancer and another glorious Summer.

      I guess I’m just a SAD (Seasonal Adjustment Disorder) person.

      1. I have no problem with this time of the year , I don’t find the cold difficult , I am not some one who enjoys the heat of summer or late spring .. I feel more alive in cooler weather . Moh and are totally different .

        I love the windows open , he doesn’t , he shivers and makes such a fuss, and turns the heating up , I just feel half cooked .

        When the weather becomes really cold , which is rare , we have a coal fire burning .

        Years and years ago , I rolled around in the snow naked , how can I describe how I felt?

        Blue clear sky , but temp mildly cold is a lovely feeling .

        1. Ah, Maggie, you and Best Beloved will get on well together, while your MOH and I will be crowding the stove for all the warmth we can get.

    6. Where will the broad beans overwinter?
      I currently have some pathetic little spring onions in the leek bed, so was thinking of sowing next year’s crop at Christmas.
      But I only have the bathroom window sill for all overwintering plants.

  77. Dr. Michael Mosely discovers how a glass of water with every meal could improve your mood, and boost physical and mental performance.
    Did you know that even mild dehydration can have damaging effects to your cognition, mood, and physical and mental performance?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010wl7

    Water is the new Sherry…….WOW!

    1. I notice when I’m drying out now after my stroke – my eyesight gets all “dirty”, like a grubby window, and it gets worse the dryer I am. So, grubby windows – have a drink!
      Hic!

          1. Funny that, I seemingly go all day without peeing, but night time is a different story!!

        1. I find it hard to get through three. I am not a thirsty person, unless there us a glass of the old vino on the horizon. We are ‘trying’ to cut down, though. This evening is a non-wine evening, sigh.

          2. We are having salmon tonight with a glass of Aussie chardonnay, as it is Saturday, may stretch the glass to two!!! We gave up wine during the week a while ago.

          5. It removes all those nasty toxins, however too much water can be bad for you!
            The kidneys can’t get rid of the excess water. The sodium content of your blood becomes diluted. This is called hyponatremia and it can be life-threatening.

          7. Have you seen what it does to the bottom of a boat? – no thanks. Not to mention what fish do in it

          15. If you can cope with the dreaded Asda- they have 25% off 6 bottles of wine right now. The wine shelves are virtually stripped bare. We saved £12 today.

          16. Yo, Lottie. Hadn’t noticed that offer; must be losing my touch. My ASDA is out of Yellow Tail Shiraz 🙁, but I’ve just ordered 6 Trivento Malbec which works out at £4.50 a bottle, plus 5 reams of printer paper, which is rather heavy to take home on the bus & train. Thanks for the heads up.

          17. We found a very acceptable Cotes du Rhone in same place for £4.49 a bottle. It really is very nice. Have just taken a roast beefy out of the freezer so I expect we shall have a bottle of Cotes to go with.

          19. Somebody mentioned quercetin earlier – it’s found in red wine, so get drinking and fight the ‘rona!

    4. Water is an ingredient in making jelly. But no good for making Sherry Trifle taste good.

  78. Evening, all. Been a fantastic day today; dry, very sunny and even quite warm, especially for the time of year. Only had the heating on in the early morning to take the chill off and then after the sun went down when it started to cool again. Why the eco-loonies are so worried about global warming, I can’t imagine – it certainly saves on using fossil fuels! I did a fair bit in the garden, setting it fair for the long sleep (although, judging by the rate of growth of my lawns it isn’t even dozing at the moment!). I sincerely hope the electorate will punish the nutters in Parliament for their Green idiocy, but I fear they’ll forget that they ALL signed up for inflicting poverty on us all and will continue to vote for one or other of the cabal. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, unfortunately.

  80. 340679+ up ticks,

    One may ask, is the tory (ino) party bringing the backstop into play, just in case.

    They have been to the top of the hill once prior to the party name / leader change.

    breitbart,
    Mr Tice, who succeded Brexit leader Nigel Farage as the leader of Reform UK — formerly The Brexit Party — is hoping to mount opposition to the nominally Conservative Party from the right, with the Tory government essentially adopting many left-wing positions, thereby rendering the traditional opposition Labour Party largely irrelevant.

    The coalition rules OK.

  81. Just watched a programme on Ch 4 about the last 24 hours of the Bismark – very much a curates egg; some good comments from a few of the talking heads, and a few new bits of information, but the graphics were awful – the original Star Wars stuff was way ahead and that was done years ago! Some of the uniforms looked wrong too, and why were all the British unshaven?? Also broken by interminable advert breaks!

          2. Easiest script to earn of any film I’ve seen! It was the final scene that I wanted but YouTube have deleted it!

      3. When I was at grammar school we had a film show every Christmas. One of them was Reach For The Sky with Kenneth More.

        1. Yo Conners

          Ironically, if Bader had not crashed and lost the bottom bits of his legs, the later crash would most certainly killed him, trapped inside the aircraft, unable to escape

          3. Sorry Boss

            I read the Paul Brickhill book ‘Reach for the Sky’, way back in the late 50’s.
            as a schoolboy and that bit I remembered, but not in great detail.

            I was trying to find a way to say that the previous accident saved his life, in a manner which would not distress you.

            Sorry if I got it wrong

            Sorry as well, for not saying Fanx for the Nottlers, this morning

          4. No worries, OLT. Frankly, I was under the impression that DB was a bilateral above-knee amputee. I only looked into it as a result of your post, and was surprised to find he had one of each. From my stay at Roehampton, at the DB rehabilitation centre, it was clear that BK is much easier to live with than AK, if you see what I mean. So I’m lucky, in that I have a splendid, functioning pair of knees. Don’t ever worry about distressing me. My ‘extreme chiropody’ was elective, in the interest of a better quality of life. And there are no regrets. And the whole business was not lacking in humour…

            Oh, and – you’re welcome…

          5. Thanks Geoff.

            We live in a strange world, where what could initially be seen as a calamity, is infact a life saver, more than once

    3. Not only were the graphics rubbish, but the technical detail was awful. Since when did planes drop their torpedoes 100 feet from their target or take off from a carrier in formation?

      1. Torpedoes had to be dropped at a shallow angle (according to “The Ship Busters” by Ralph Barker) and it was a very skilled art. The pilot also had to estimate how far away he was judging by the size of the ship. Too close and the torpedo didn’t have time to arm itself. I found that a fascinating book and am amazed at the bravery of the crews.

      2. Yes – I’m sure the graphics showed a torpedo released [from quite a height] near the bows of Bismark which then hit the rudder!

    1. Pity, that there was not cameras to record the Grooming Gangs now.. or are the piccies just ignored?

    1. I have most of their records on vinyl. Sadly, James Griffin, Mike Botts and Larry Knechtel are now all long gone. Only David Gates survives.

    2. I only said that earlier TB what was it al about i think it lacked a certain provenance, let alone any interesting content.
      Still no mention of the mass murderer Mugabe, Edi Armin, or the Mau Mau, the Congo massacres etc. Oh well only another day to go, they better get their skates on.

        1. Nothing there Corim, but not unexpected No body seemed to remember hi at the College he was supposed to have attended in the US either.

          1. Taking of the Mau Mau:

            Obama was born in Coast Province General Hospital Mombasa British Protectorate of Kenya on 04 August 1961 at 7.24pm.

            Sorry, could not upload screenshot.

            Obama was not born in Hawaii as claimed and as such was not a legitimate POTUS.

          2. There was/is something very dodgy about him and his life and his wife Michael and their two adopted daughters.

    5. ….. and straight into a climate fortnight…..! Aren’t we lucky, the fun never stops!

        1. Good morning. I avoid the whole thing as much as possible – I feel sorry for people with small children in the school in Britain now.

  86. It’s really quite embarrassing, in living memory around 9 pm on a Friday evening I was only just arriving at my local or somewhere similar, but now i’m just popping orrf to bed but I will read a chapter of the Whistle blower. It;s the long pauses in his (Robert Peston) rhetoric that is quite annoying. Well eeeeerrr off I pop, good eeeerrr night all

    1. Good night Peter, Missy and all NoTTLers. After a very enjoyable final day of Summer” I’m off to bed an hour earlier than usual to make up for the hour we lose when the clocks go back at 2 am. Sleep well, everyone.

          2. Please ask them to stop! I don’t know which end is up right now, never mind the time or day ;-))

      2. If you set your clock an hour early at 8 pm on the Saturday – and go to bed as normal – you don’t lose anything!

          1. I think Bill meant to say “if you set your clock back at the earlier time of 8 pm on the Saturday [instead of setting it back at the proper time of 2 pm on Sunday morning]”. But who am I to correct Bill after the silly mistake on my earlier post? (Hangs head in shame.)

        1. Yes, Grizzly, I was referring to the end of British Summer Time in a few hours’ time.

          1. And that shows what a silly concept it is. “Summer time” begins at the commencement of Spring (!) yet concludes more than a month after the autumnal equinox. Why the hell can’t they just leave the bloody clocks alone on GMT. If anyone wants to work 8–4 (instead of 9–5) in the months of maximum daylight, then just get up an hour earlier; because that is what they are doing in any case.

          1. Hope they’re not in the bed – might be a bit lumpy. I don’t think the Princess had a good night with the pea.

    1. What a W⚓ he is, is the poor luv paying another missed penalty for having a white mother and an absconding father I wonder.

    3. Rashford has a very important part in my life, if I feel constipated, I look at his website and it just……….. goes

  90. The Telegraph quotes Alec Baldwin (an actor and motion picture producer) as saying:
    ““We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together when this horrible event happened,”.
    The USA and the UK continue to be two nations divided by a common language.

    1. He makes it sound like an earthquake or some other natural disaster. “Not my fault….I mean, sure, I was pointing the gun….and well, yeah, OK, I guess did cock it and pull the trigger – so two accidents, gee, I can see why that looks bad…..and sure, pointing a gun at anyone is the first no-no of gun safety…..but look, I hate Trump and I’m a high profile Democrat, so this is totally not my fault, right ? Hey, thanks, MSM ! Glad you guys agree.”

    1. Henry V was only king for 9 years; yes, he won the splendid victory at Agincourt ( which is why the French still hate us) but he died 2 years after that, leaving as his heir a baby. Henry VI was a weak simpleton who, possibly, had inherited the madness of his French grandfather. Henry VI’s youth and later incompetence brought England into a period of turmoil now known as the Wars of the Roses.
      The Shakespeare play is splendid but he is not one of my favourite monarchs.

      1. Yo LoL

        HM has been magnificent, helped tremendously by a true hero, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

        I have the feeling though, that Charles was Woke, before it became the ‘In Thing’

        I mildly dread what is going to come

        1. I think Charles will be OK; he knows, or at least I hope he does, that once he’s King he has to keep his trap shut. However, I guess we have to wait and see.
          Hopefully The Queen will be OK and survive whatever is ailing her; I sure hope so. She is a great lady.

          3. I had the same opinion of Charles until the last couple of years. Especially, when the politicians were bickering after the Brexit referendum, he visited Germany, spoke perfect German (which was noted in the press) and underlined the close relationship between our two countries. It was a very professional display of diplomacy that epitomised why we should have a monarchy.
            His unqualified support for everything in the WEF agenda since then has lost my goodwill. Support for Net Zero is more than an opinion, it is support for reducing the peasantry to digital serfs with their privileges confirmed by a covid pass on their phones, waiting endlessly for buses and eating highly processed vegan muck or bugburgers.
            That is pure class war politics being waged on the poor by the rich. As Charles gets nearer to inheriting, he is stepping up these politics, not stepping back from them as I had expected.

          4. I had the same opinion of Charles until the last couple of years. Especially, when the politicians were bickering after the Brexit referendum, he visited Germany, spoke perfect German (which was noted in the press) and underlined the close relationship between our two countries. It was a very professional display of diplomacy that epitomised why we should have a monarchy.
            His unqualified support for everything in the WEF agenda since then has lost my goodwill. Support for Net Zero is more than an opinion, it is support for reducing the peasantry to digital serfs with their privileges confirmed by a covid pass on their phones, waiting endlessly for buses and eating highly processed vegan muck or bugburgers.
            That is pure class war politics being waged on the poor by the rich. As Charles gets nearer to inheriting, he is stepping up these politics, not stepping back from them as I had expected.

          6. I also think Charles will be okay, anyone with a love of the Goon Show growing up, must have a good sense of humour!!

  92. Good night and God bless, good people. I’m anxious for my bed having spent most of the night virtually incarcerated at Ipswich Horse Piddle..

    Until the later part of the morn’s light.

  94. Good morning all.
    Sat up in bed next to the DT with a mug of tea each.

    An interesting pick up from Going Postal:-

    NEWLY PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC PAPER TEARS GLOBAL WARMING AND THE IPCC TO SHREDS
    DECEMBER 11, 2019 CAP ALLON
    A scientific paper entitled “An Overview of Scientific Debate of Global Warming and Climate Change” has recently come out of the University of Karachi, Pakistan. The paper’s author, Prof. Shamshad Akhtar delves into earth’s natural temperature variations of the past 1000 years, and concludes that any modern warming trend has been hijacked by political & environmental agendas, and that the science (tackled below) has been long-ignored and at times deliberately manipulated.

    https://electroverse.net/newly-published-scientific-paper-tears-global-warming-and-the-ipcc-to-shreds/

    And the paper referred to is available here:-

    https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/An-Overview-of-Scientific-Debate-of-Global-Warming-Akhtar/6933565bede5240f77a9075666fce6e150f28ffd?p2df

    An Overview of Scientific Debate of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Akhtar
    Published 2019
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Volume 1 | Issue 2 ScholArena | http://www.scholarena.com Journal of Aquatic Sciences and Oceanography

    1. The most worthwhile thing ever to come out of Pakistan? Or merely another example of non white people being allowed to question the orthodoxy while white people aren’t?

      1. This is a comment from under the Grahame Lineham article:

        ”
        Trick or Tweet7 hr ago
        They’ve been baaad for a while now. Two years ago my daughter was in Brownies, and her friend moved up to guides, being 10 years old. After her first session at guides, her mother noticed she was very quiet and teary. On questioning her, it transpired they had played ‘career charades’, and her daughter had pulled out, and attempted to act out, the profession of … ‘Stripper’ (she had no idea what a stripper was).

        And no, these weren’t slips put in by the girls themselves, but by the Girl Scout leader. Girl’s mother phoned the leader, received an apology and was assured it wouldn’t happen again.

        I didn’t let my daughter join guides.”

        My ex knew a man who had been seriously sexually abused in the scouts, and none of our children joined these organisations. It seems the same people are still attracted to organisations where children are, and now using the new decadent politics to further their evil agenda. Plus ca change…

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