Wednesday 25 January: The reckless pursuit of net zero is putting consumers’ health at risk

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719 thoughts on “Wednesday 25 January: The reckless pursuit of net zero is putting consumers’ health at risk”

          1. Tom doesn’t rely upon an alarm clock. He woke (there’s that word again) at 05:00 but decided more zeds were needed.

  3. Good Morning Folks

    No frost but still very cold.

    Funny how all you notice all the draughts in really cold weather

  4. The reckless pursuit of net zero is putting consumers’ health at risk

    Yes the globalist policy is working as planned.

  5. Volodymyr Zelensky dismisses several ministers in crackdown on war-time graft. 25 January 2023.

    Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday dismissed several ministers and banned top officials from travelling abroad in a dramatic crackdown on allegations of war-time graft.

    Almost a dozen ministers and administration officials lost their jobs in the biggest government shake up since the start of the war, which followed a series of public scandals involving figures at the defence ministry and prominent members of Mr Zelensky’s team.
    Ukraine has been under pressure from Western governments to demonstrate progress on graft as a condition of extensive foreign financial and military aid.

    Vietnam Mark II. A corrupt state and its despotic leader try to lead a war of national survival. How much of this is actually graft, and how much resistance to the war by the ethnic Russians? Like the old South Vietnam it’s impossible to say. Reading between the lines the Russians are being purged from the administration but are they being driven to fight for a regime they hate? Such a policy, will of course; like its earlier parallel eventually bring down the whole rotten structure but we won’t hear about it until it collapses!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/24/volodymyr-zelensky-dismisses-several-ministers-crackdown-war/

          2. But, Jules, that it is not history’s fault, that idiots will not learn, when the likely results are laid out for all to see.

    2. A corrupt and rotten to the core regime, Ukraine, underpinned by other similar regimes including the UK, must at some time collapse. If Biden’s ‘Documentgate’ isn’t suppressed and it destroys Biden then it’s almost certain that the whole Ukrainian edifice will collapse. It would be a bonus if the collapse of Biden had the effect of destroying the the British government and all those that support its demented policies of aiding Ukraine at the expense of the British people.

      1. Biden’s ‘Documentgate’ has the FBI and other intelligence acronyms hitting the panic button. State secrets are one thing; proof of Biden’s dodgy business deals over the length of his time in the US Senate are on a whole new level.

        It has been suggested that the various intelligence agencies are racing to hand the documents over to their legal friends, thus providing attorney-client privilege before the Republicans can gain proof of Joe (and Hunter’s) dodgy dealing.

        As suggested, it’s LBJ and McNamara all over again…this time with a longer screwdriver.

    4. For safety I expect VZ has boosted his personal body guards. People like him don’t usually last long in those situations.

  6. Has anyone noticed how the only government policies that work are the ones that are designed to wreck the country ?

  7. ‘Morning All

    Cracking article from the Critic exposing the lies and fantasy of the Greeniacs at the heart of the energy crisis I commend the whole thing to you all,a snippet……..

    “The CCC has also helped insulate the Government from criticism. When, in 2016 the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) sounded the alarm about the UK’s “electricity gap”, the ministers were able to point to their CCC-modelling to reassure the public everything was okay.

    So, that’s the backstory.

    Frankenstein’s energy monster is composed of an assortment of quango

    nonsense, bureaucratic head-burying and clueless ministerial direction. Legislation

    created a regressive feedback loop by which ministers forced civil

    servants to mislead them and then made decisions based on poor data. Job

    switching and an over-reliance on quango advice robbed the system of

    accountability and the ability to take a joined-up, long-term view of

    planning. State-funded activists behaved like activists.”

    https://thecritic.co.uk/british-energy-planning-a-horror-story/
    Edit
    And this
    https://twitter.com/latimeralder/status/1617791355375452160?s=20

  8. Good morning, all. I’m back in the land of the living. Much to do this morning, but will look in later to bore you all.

    I must say I NEVER trusted that slimy wog who “forgot” to pay £1 million in tax.

    1. Good morning, and welcome back, Bill. I hope that you have some haggis, neeps and tatties in the fridge (plus a bottle of whisky) to celebrate Burns Night this evening, which is what I shall be doing. When you return, can you let us know what you were up to over your long weekend? Surely you didn’t spend the past three days just shovelling snow from your front door?

          1. He could have easily transited in the opposite direction to Glos/Devon and explored Banffshire with a haggis gun.

    3. I think his error was not ticking the SA form box that asks whether you have any aggressive tax avoidance schemes. He put shares from YouGov into an offshore fund administered by his father. Their subsequent sale generated a potential CGT liability. Later the minister received a payment said to cover a debt to YouGov. Obviously, nothing dodgy at all.

  9. Good morning, all. Still dark and it’s overcast with no evidence of a hard frost.

    Andrew Bridgen opened the first crack in the Parliamentary dam of silence holding back information recognising that the jabs are not doing what their advocates are promoting. Quite the opposite in fact, data collection from around the World, especially from highly jabbed countries, and the subsequent analyses are indicating that the jabs are neither effective, nor safe.
    Now Esther McVey has dipped her toe into the controversy created by Bridgen. Sadly, the response to McVey’s statement was the usual obfuscation from the government official. The government minion mentioned that the phenomenon of an increase in excess deaths was occurring in a broad swathe of countries and gave reasons why this might being happening but very clearly omitted the jab from her response.

    https://twitter.com/EstherMcVey1/status/1617874878379565057

    3. All those countries and continents mentioned, have actively and gleefully followed the jabby jabberwocky.

    4. Why did the dreary woman who replied to Esther McVey fail to stand up? What is the best female term for yob -? Y.O.B is B.O.Y. backwards but lrig (L.R.I.G) is not an easy word to pronounce.

    1. Right from the start, I’ve have been saying that it’s nothing to do with us whatsoever.
      But……..

  11. Morning all. Two rants today.

    The first is the Terriblegraph’s continued insistence on referring to men as “she” (“Transfemale raped women while she was living as a man”) – page9.

    The second is the continued insistence that “black and brown” people are being targeted by US cops. Five offices have been dismissed after s black motorist was beaten to death. Unfortunately for the narrative, there are pictures of the five offices and i can tell you they are not white. Or “brown”. Or yellow or pink or purple of blue.

  12. Morning all. Two rants today.

    The first is the Terriblegraph’s continued insistence on referring to men as “she” (“Transfemale raped women while she was living as a man”) – page9.

    The second is the continued insistence that “black and brown” people are being targeted by US cops. Five offices have been dismissed after s black motorist was beaten to death. Unfortunately for the narrative, there are pictures of the five offices and i can tell you they are not white. Or “brown”. Or yellow or pink or purple of blue.

  13. ‘Morning, Peeps.  Dry so far but rain late this evening is forecast.  Still cold but at least not below zero.

    Today’s leading letter:

     SIR – A 73-year-old pensioner who was “reluctant” to turn on his heating has died of hypothermia (report, January 24). Welcome to Britain in the 21st century.

    On the one hand we are being driven towards an all-electric world of EVs and heat pumps, while on the other we are paying consumers to use less electricity because the grid is short of supply. Decades of energy mismanagement and under-investment in nuclear power has led to central heating – one of the greatest contributors to better health outcomes in the 20th century – now becoming unaffordable for many in the 21st. All in the cause of a hubristic net-zero future.

    Does nobody see the irony of a project that results in people dying today, to save lives potentially in 30 years’ time?

    Mike Bridgman
    Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    Got it in one, Mr Bridgman!

  14. What if Prince Andrew is innocent? Spiked. 25 January 2023.

    Despite the reams of column inches, hot takes and special investigations devoted to the abuse allegations against Prince Andrew, one possibility has been largely overlooked: what if Prince Andrew is actually innocent? What if the Duke of York never actually did the terrible things he is accused of?

    Ah. I see! First Moore in yesterday’s Telegraph and now Myers in Spiked. No doubt there will be others in the coming days. This isn’t Andrew himself; it’s Charles. Unlike Harry something can be done to try and recover the lost reputation of his brother and its effect on the RF! My guess is that this is more Public Relations than Judicial Review. If they can restore his reputation in the Public Mind he can be gradually allowed back into the fold.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/24/what-if-prince-andrew-is-innocent/

    1. What “terrible things”? Disembowelling babies? Stamping on ducklings? He just shagged a whore, entirely legally. Who wrote that crap?

    2. If the alleged cormorant activities actually took place, I’d still like to know what exactly he did wrong under UK Law.
      Yes, he may have acted as a totally arrogant and lecherous pillock, but, thank God, that is not yet illegal!!!

    3. If Charles wants to rehabilitate Andrew (I have little time for either), then why did he participate in the backstabbing that went on, rather than stand up with his Brother and face the world down? Expediency like that is shameful, what will he do if/when the going gets tough over other things?
      Treat family like that, treat us all like that.

      1. The King’s treatment of Lady Susan Hussey reveals something we have suspected for some time – he is not just a bumbling old fool he is also a total sh*t.

    4. ‘Judicial Review’!
      Epstein no comment, G Maxwell sends her regrets, Ms Maitlis has yet to opine.
      (sorry, a bit sharp)

    5. Unless and until a full and unabridged list of Epstein’s clients – including those who used the services his enterprise offered for free – then I shall not believe that the stupid Prince Andrew has been fairly treated by the MSM, the public or his dimwit older brother.

      1. Morning Richard. I suspect this business is Iceberg like. Most of it is hidden. Perhaps in ten or twenty years the truth will emerge!

  16. Good Morning all

    Foggy. We’ve delayed the start of the final haggis shoot of the year until 10:30am. Dogs getting very excited. Our specialist breed around here have two shorter legs on the left.

    1. Foggy here but last week’s snow is still on the ground so none too warm.
      Happy haggis hunting.

    3. Very unusual, but foggy here too.
      Burns Night, also Mother’s 94th birthday. Father’s birthday was 4th July. What are the odds of having parents both with birthdays (inter)nationally celebrated? And me with midsummer. Fame!

  17. Germany ‘agrees to send tanks’ to help fight Putin’s forces. 25 January 2025.

    Germany has reportedly bowed to international pressure and agreed to send tanks to Ukraine to bolster the war effort against Vladimir Putin.

    Berlin is expected to send Leopard 2 tanks to help fight Vladimir Putin’s forces following a plea from Volodymyr Zelensky.
    While there has been no official confirmation from Berlin yet, officials in Kyiv swiftly hailed what they said was a potential game changer on the battlefield.

    Reports say! Like this article. The German government itself hasn’t yet said anything. Like Scholz’s vilification this is all to strong arm them into sending the tanks. If it weren’t in such a tragic cause it would be comical. You first. No after you! It’s a farce!
    The Americans want, in fact desperately need the Germans to concede, the Germans are waiting for the same thing. If we are going to hell we are going together! This has all the makings of a catastrophe!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-vladimir-putin-nuclear-war-nato-b2267864.html

    1. ‘Morning, Maggie, your comment, “heavy frost again” put me in mind of the Goon Show, “…there was a heavy dew on the grass – he’d been thrown out of the Synagogue for eating Pork Scratchings during the sermon!“

  19. Morning, all Y’all.
    Lousy nights sleep, due to being coupled to a billion wires and a giant box on the chest. Nurses bursting in every 2 hours to measure blood pressure, or reconnecting the wires… Puh.
    Seems Turkey is being a spoiled brat over Sweden & Finland. Throw them out of NATO. And where’s Beaker, our wonderful Jens Stoltenberg, GS of NATO in all of this? Being ineffectual, as usual, just as he was when PM in Norway. See what I mean by my comment yesterday over small, unimportant countries get to be General Secretary, ‘cos they are easily bullied?
    Wheels seem to be slowly coming off the Vaxx story, and also the “Plucky Little Ukraine” story – see post earlier this morning by Minty, Korky & Rix. Excellent! Turbulent times ahead, but the course now seems to be veering towards truth and away from The Narrative.

      1. How long before NATO doesn’t need Turkey any more? Would they really rock up to a fight for, say, Denmark? I have my doubts.

  20. SIR – When the concept of net zero was introduced, politicians from all parties were quick to tell us that not only would we save the planet, we would also save money. That was never realistic. It is now admitted that the transition costs will be significant and the payback period lengthy.

    Despite this, and during a cost of living crisis, Chris Skidmore, the former energy minister, believes we should accelerate the compulsory phasing out of carbon energy sources (Comment, January 22).

    Rather than setting unattainable deadlines for switching off vital energy supplies, the Government should focus on making the transition financially desirable – then it might happen. This requires a restructuring of the energy market so the price of electricity falls relative to gas for domestic heating and petrol or diesel for transport. Given that the price of generating renewable solar and wind power has fallen significantly, this ought to be achievable.

    Dr Alan Hearne
    Woodstock, Oxfordshire

    Dream on, Dr Hearne. It isn’t going to happen, despite the fact that most normal people (people who are not MPs, in other words) would I’m sure agree with your suggestion. Our country is ready to go on committing economic suicide in order to ‘lead the rest of the world’.

    1. Some spleen-venting by a regular BTL contributor:

      Trevor Anderson1 HR AGO

      “The reckless pursuit of Net Zero.” In other words, the UK government plan for the destruction of the nation. This is well underway, ably assisted by the devotees of the WEF, Green zealots, mindlessly complicit politicians and bleeding heart celebrities who continue with the constant headlines of propaganda and threats with regard to the fallacy of the damage caused by carbon emissions. NB: There is never a solution offered in terms of alternative energy production other than the ugly, inefficient, unreliable wind and solar – that could not be created or continue to function without fossil fuels. Hypocrisy or what?

      As has been noted below, a recent presentation by Konatantin Kisin on climate change at the Oxford Union, who noted that with the UK emitting only 2% of carbon emissions (it’s actually less than that) we could sink and disappear without trace and it would make no difference to the planet’s atmosphere – because China, most of Asia and S. America don’t give a stuff about Net Zero,

      This deeply flawed science is, in the UK, a vanity project because all we do is export the Co2 emissions to other countries that we might be producing here if we dug up our own energy reserves and built our own wind tower platforms etc, etc, instead of buying our energy in and getting China to build, well, err….. everything.

      This insanity has to stop now – and we the people should be banding together to stop it.

      Please watch this powerful 5 minute presentation by Neil Oliver. It’s accurate, apposite and very concerning.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFTzdLLLOU

      Trevor Anderson39 MIN AGO

      When we have an article with content such as in these letters, we get around 1000 comments – 99% of which are anti NZ. We could start by writing regularly to 10 Downing Street through the Royal Mail with registered letters that have to be signed for on receipt, with our complaints such as we see on these pages. It would be tedious for us and the likelihood is that these may go into the recycling (if Downing St bothers with such trivia) but the effect will not be avoided. It may be worth demonstrating our frustration.

      Plus we should write in volumes to all our newspapers, radio and TV.

      This article by Lord Peter Lilley is worth a read and encapsulates the current state of affairs..

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/12/net-zero-puritans-dont-want-hear-truth/

      He adds: “But in climate change policy, people who tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, don’t always tell the whole truth. They shield the public from inconvenient facts which might weaken their willingness to have their lives micro-managed by the state. That this is their aim is highlighted by the alarming recommendation that the Government apply the lessons of the (temporary) pandemic to impose (permanent) lifestyle changes.”

      Such is the behaviour of many of our deceitful politicians.

      * * *

      Very well said.

      1. The truth, and nothing but the truth is a typical BBC tactic. Lies by omission of some key information. That’s why I don’t watch or listen to them, nor most of the MSM.

        1. Talking about lying by omission ——

          It appears that South Africa has really, really serious problems. Very newsworthy.

          Yet the BBC has totally ignored the news . I wonder why?

          1. Because, as in S Africa, Janet, the reverse apartheid is happening here as well and they must nobly ignore it while actually promoting it.

          3. Did you see anything about the Gilets Jaunes protests on MSM when that was a thing? Nope, me neither.

      2. It doesn’t make any difference. None whatsoever. 3 million people protested against the Iraq war and Blair ignored it completely. They do so because they can.

        Until they can’t – nothing will change. These useless wasters should be asking permission to pee, for goodness sake. They are staff. Servants. They think themselves our rulers but they are merely temporary hired help. They are ruining the economy, debasing the currency, hiking taxes, destroying society and provide absolutely no value whatsoever.

    2. I just wish politicians would stop lying, admit it’s a scam, openly say ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’ and let us sort it out – cut removing their limbs from their torsos and feeling them belly first into a woodchipper.

      In March, when Hunt announces more welfare, more market breaking ruin (such as the min wage going up – a tax hiking scam) and the globalist 25% tax hike, that will immediately be passed on to customers (I imagine by reducing the quantity per package) the country will moan and complain but get on with it, as we have always done.

      What we need to do is remove them – forcibly. Collar and chain the lot of them and kick them repeatedly until they learn their damned place, then make our servants repeal all the moronic legislation they force on us.

  21. 370356+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 25 January: The reckless pursuit of net zero is putting consumers’ health at risk

    That gives the whole campaign the political overseers have been running these past 24/36 months a veneer of niceness in point of fact they are trying to, selectively kill us off.

    The black beauty of this whole odious campaign is that a high percentage of the peoples are in collusion even to the extent of funding their own demise.

    Can anyone truly condemn the lone killer of “peoples en masse” we witness of late in the USA, while daily the political overseers of the United Kingdom are proving ( with peoples support ) there are multiple ways of skinning an unwanted cat.

    To die for ones Country is taking on a whole new meaning.

  22. Good morning all. A slightly less cold start of 0°C and a bright & dry start with light cloud.

  24. Good Morrow, Gentlefolk. Here is today’s story albeit late on parade:

    TV Channel Hopper

    An elderly married couple were at home watching TV.

    The husband had the remote and was switching back and forth between a fishing channel and the porn channel.

    The wife, becoming more and more annoyed, finally said:

    “For god’s sake! Leave it on the porn channel. You already know how to fish!”

  25. Morning Medley

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6e742f72ff231a403d0450436aab71692cd611665e424b14eee226c35ee9e851.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79af1eff6a4b21922c9a794179942149e97eec56d51970fae0870ad0bdf54693.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0c1ce8f093cf3cf35fbef99a6b8bc385edddf5e76cea50a841d24c00ef7f032.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3432bbcefd460820804a3b27758a653f379c98b86e9bc3946f1c87de0f14c2ff.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c60a005c823c54b048f1866159a0103da52f7fcf3a306142236e6bc07ff23f70.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0732d2c63cb9570c5491389ba4cfea26d832bd75aee744bac857ec2dffc63efa.jpg

    And a laff

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/50a7abbe983fbce19841250f1aeb17c97e7c19e443e355697dbe41d2a7d34576.jpg

    3. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a63a55ef580cf8c25e51d4c5606296084fa57f53e9ff3973624911d7bd89b3d5.png The BBC’s disdain for sport is matched by its contempt for proper news and all common sense reporting. The WOKE Left have taken over completely at Broadcasting House and Salford Quays. It is well overdue the time for a complete clear out, from top to bottom, and get the “Dear Old Auntie” Beeb back on track towards its original Reithian ideals.

      1. It would be interesting to see how they actually use and spread the compulsory raked in revenue they land.
        Pay to view would be a better option. They’d be bankrupt inside 6 months.

      2. Lord Reith? No thank you. Did you know that the forerunner of the BBC was originally a private company?

        1. Yes, it was the British Broadcasting Company. What do you have against the Reithian mantra of Inform, Educate, Entertain, none of which happen at the woke BBC any more?

        2. I could almost believe, Tim, that you’re a socialist.

          I say, almost, otherwise you wouldn’t be on here.

      3. Maybe golf fans could hint that this year there will be a “woman” amongst the competitors.
        Screeching U-turn guaranteed.

      5. I won’t miss it; I never watched it. The Bbc gave up on horse sports (show jumping and racing) years ago, so I gave up on the Bbc (there were other reasons, but those programmes were among the few I still watched).

  27. Finally…a clear and understandable interpretation of the term ‘net zero’:

    Simon Bell
    9 MIN AGO
    Everyone is getting this Net Zero thing wrong. The term is supposed to describe everyone’s bank balance after all the measures have been successfully implemented.

    2. The hypocrisy of it proves it is just a tax scam. We know it, they know it. There are useful idiots desperate to trough along the way. I’m sick of it all. They must be told to repeal it and if they won’t, be shot.

  28. Morning all 😉 😊
    Nips out side I had to go out and call doggo in, our tea was getting cold while she was sniffing around the back garden.
    Oh well not my lucky day, I didn’t win the lottery and I can’t buy 7 Silver Leaves Road.

  30. From the headline, of today’s page, “Net Zero (NZ)” has turned into “net zero” ie nothing special,
    well not in the written language of the MSM, which is their aim.

    In reality, it is crippling Britain and the world, all in the name of a misguided science theory

    If UK wants to follow this idiotic trail, the first thing that it should do is ban imports from ALL countries, China for
    example , that do not toe NZ Party line .

    1. The media should try asking the public what they think, not any of those D&ckheads in the green room.

    2. Followed up by the question: “When did you last work?”
      “1982”

      During Lady Thatcher’s tenure. Under a Conservative government.

    3. Cancel Westminster, then. No replacement, the bastards don’t follow democracy anyway. That worked well in Belgium for rather a long time with no elected government.

    4. To be fair, a lot of “Government” is done by Schedules (is that the correct term? – where Parliament passes top-level legislation but allows the detail to be executed later with no scrutiny. I know someone out there will know more about this than me).

  33. G’morning all,

    Bit late on parade today. Foggy at McPhee Towers and everything still frosted. I thought it was supposed to be warming up?

    While having my morning cuppa and trying to decide if that made me a racist, colonialist bigot I reckoned that since a.) I don’t take sugar and b.) I don’t take milk I have a clear conscience as far as the sugar plantations and the methane cycle are concerned. It did leave me wondering, though, when they are going to close down the Tate galleries, founded as they are on sugar profits.

    Such are the delights of ‘clown world’. What’s in store today?

    1. Good morning Captain, and everyone.
      May I ask if you prefer to make the brew with loose tea, or tea bags?

      1. Oh, loose leaf by preference but we do use tea bags. Not rubbish ones though. None of your Twinings sweepings off the warehouse floor. One strict rule: Assam in the morning, Darjeeling in the afternoon.

        1. I am Assam in the morning and at teatime. Espresso-based coffee at 1300hrs. I need milk in both my tea and coffee but I gave up sugar years ago.

          Although I live in Sweden I still buy my excellent tea from Wilkinsons of Norwich by mail order (as Johnny Norfolk, another NoTTLe regular also does).

          2. Excellent steer, Grizz! They do Indian coffee, but when I went to the page I got the message “No results found. Clear filters and try again?” – sounds like good advice!

        2. Wilkinsons of Norwich, tiny shop in Lobster Lane with a great mail order online business. Leaf tea must have 5 mins brew time.

      2. Bog standard Rington’s Breakfast teabags.
        Made in the mug and allowed to stand a minute or two before squeezing and removing the teabag and adding the milk.

        Oh, and it’s a pint mug.

    2. Cattle have almost nothing to do with pollution and are actually very good for farm land, providing fertiliser, ground maintenance (they eat grass!) and being perfectly natural parts of the landscape. After all, you don’t hear squealing from the greeniacs over the buffalo herds in America (before the yanks killed them all to carry out genocide on the natives).

      Although there is an irony and a parallel. Throughout history governments have said ‘I want it, I’ll take it and set about exterminating the locals., just as ours is doing.

          1. …and for the state to realise that they’re there to fulfil the will of the people, not the other way round

            They need to understand that THEY are the servants of the people, otherwise, how do they get elected?

        2. The vegan food put on by a council promoting a meat-free agenda was shunned by the (normal) guests – most of it had to be thrown away. Waste is us – saving the planet style.

    3. They’ve already rearranged the exhibits – the next thing will be the name change of the Tate.

    4. They’ve already rearranged the exhibits – the next thing will be the name change of the Tate.

    5. You drank a BLACK coffee? Surely that’s exploitation and evidence of your white supremacy? 🙂

    1. Due to disqus trying to track the URL to sell for advertising, and your unfortunate addition of the content at the front the link has broken.

      1. 370356+ up ticks,

        Morning Anne,

        No,far more serious, those you mention would have a say in becoming a PIE ingredient, whereas a child (genuine) will have none.

        1. No: social workers have discussed the matter with them and pointed out that they are hurtie things.

    3. Don’t worry, I’m sure we will pay enormous amounts of compensation to someone

  36. A guy rings up an escort agency and asks them to supply the thinnest girl they have. This ‘stick insect’ turned up at his flat and asked what service he wanted. He said “I want you to take all your clothes off” She did this. Then he said “get down on your hands and knees on the floor, doggie fashion” which she did. He then went out of the room and came back with this Alsatian which he made to sit behind her and said “This is how you’ll look if you don’t eat your Boneo”

      1. Look, while making a post, Fiscal, at the icons at the very bottom.

        Hover your cursor over each one and a little notice tells you what they do.

        The eye with a line through it provides the ‘spoiler’

      2. Click on Reply.
        On the bar at the bottom of the box is an eye with a line through it.
        Click Type the words, run cursor over them and click on the eye; the word ‘spoiler appears either side with various marks either side. You can see the words you’ve typed but once you’ve posted the comment, that area appears in grey and obscures the words.
        The reader can read the words by clicking on the grey area.

    1. Well said. Maybe there’s some hope yet for Merkin Democracy.

      It’s now obvious, how Congress, under Pelozi, was lied to and she helped spread the lies.

    2. How many rounds of voting did it take for him to be elected Speaker and how many concessions did he have to make to get the job? Perhaps that experience inserted some steel into his backbone and informed him that he has to do the people’s bidding.

    1. So, every time we cut taxes, revenue goes up? So we keep cutting taxes till we get to zero, by which time we’ll be able to pay off the national debt. Allez-y!

    2. No mention of that on our, ‘on the ball’ media.
      Football matches will have to delay the kick offs even longer for all the kneeling.

    3. Wait, they’ve managed to make whitey take the blame.

      “Ben Crump, a lawyer for Mr Nichols’ family, said the officers’ race was irrelevant and the incident showed that black motorists were treated differently.”
      Yesterday’s DT.

      3. Well, there’s an impressive bit of fact twisting to conceal the blindingly obvious.
        Oozlum Birds Я Us.

    4. I’ve read about being beaten “like a pinata” – to save me the bother of looking it up, what is a pinata that it has to be beaten?

  40. “A school liaison officer for the Metropolitan Police is facing jail after he admitted a string of child sex offences.
    PC Hussain Chehab, 22, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15.
    He also admitted three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and one of engaging in sexual communication with a child.”

    Obviously took the liaising part of his job very seriously.

    1. Quite acceptable in his ideology, and not to forget that god’s law comes before that of man. It would be an interesting defence in court..

      1. God’s law, dependent on one’s ideology.

        Certainly NOT as written in the Quran.

        We even suspect our own Bible, a lot of its translation was then modified by the then ‘woke’ version, as spouted by the medieval Catholic church.

  41. Japan and North Korea sound warning as deadly cold snap sweeps across Asia. 25 January 2023

    Weather authorities in Japan and the Korean peninsula have issued warnings over freezing temperatures and gales that have killed at least one person, and stranded thousands.

    Severe cold weather has already caused fatalities, havoc and record low temperatures across the region in the last fortnight, with at least 124 people dead in Afghanistan and record lows of -53C in northeastern China.

    Large parts of Japan are now in the grip of the severe cold spell, with some areas expected to experience their lowest temperatures for a decade. On Wednesday chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said one person had died as a result of the storm, and two other deaths were under investigation. In the Korean peninsula, temperatures of -25C were recorded near the border between North and South Korea on Tuesday.

    Global Warming strikes again!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/japan-and-north-korea-sound-warning-as-deadly-cold-snap-sweeps-across-asia

      3. I don’t think there is a politician in the country who’s willing to say put a stop to these perverted policies.
        They are all caught up with ‘I am their leader, I must follow them” attitude. A pox on all their houses.

        1. We had an animated discussion over coffee after church this morning, following the announcement of blessing same-sex partnerships (which I opined was a way to bring in performing “marriages” by the back door). The rectorette raised the prospect of what to do if one of the couple was trans. A “woman” who was really a man marrying a man. I said that if they were XX and XY it would be okay, otherwise no. XXY is so rare as to be a very unlikely occurance. I don’t think it went down very well.

      4. I hope that the real women catch him in the showers and remove his penis and testicles, ideally forcing him to eat them.

    5. This person has a rather nasty tattoo on the side of its face which is why it is always photoed with a blonde wig hiding it.

  44. Well, as the cold continues and the mist and misery goes on, I’ll give a brief resumé of the last few days.

    Saturday – very cold – drove to Tetbury where my elder son gave a belated birthday dinner for me. Brilliant. Bitterly cold on Sunday, as we left for Devon. Minus 3 all the way to the M4 – though very pretty – everything white, esp trees. On to M4 and within a mile (I kid you not) plus 5 degrees and green landscape. Stayed two nights at Dartington Hall where, from 1901 to 1919, my maternal grandfather ran the farm for the then owners. Extraordinary to go into rooms where we know for absolute certainty all my mother’s family lived and moved and had their being..

    In addition, weird coincidence, the MR’s grandfather worked for the Elmhirsts in 1926 as a weaver, ad she has the oldest known piece of woven material which he made. Which she has donated to their museum.

    Monday, to see my oldest cousin. A fantastic woman, Farmer’s daughter, wife and mother. She’ll be 89 this year. We have always had a very soft spot for each other. When I was a very sickly toddler – bedridden for months – Ann aged 10 would look after me, play endless games and read to me. The MR took a snap of the two of us – 170 years together!

    In addition, as a bonus, we visited four churches on our list of “must see”. Raunds (wall paintings); Doddiscombsleigh (15th c glass), Northleach (like, WOW) and Harberton (glorious rood screen).

    Then home yesterday – very cold but dry roads and sunshine.

    AND – in Totnes – petrol at Morrisons = 1.39 a litre PLUS a 5p a litre voucher!! Found the same price east of Peterborough so topped up!!

    Nice to be home – albeit the house was like a fridge. Heavy frost last night now all gone and temperature creeping up to plus 2….

    And have I missed anything?

    1. How lovely to (re)visit family and personal history, Bill.
      How were Gus and Pickles on your return? Aloof, or all over you?

      1. Cold – in both senses! Then clingy indoors. We let them stay in last night. They were pleased!

    2. Have you considered writing your autobiography, Bill?

      It’s a very worthwhile activity and is usually everybodies’ first book.

        1. Get a ghost writer in for all the hard graft, then you only have to make up a few stories for him to embroider. It’s done wonders for Harry.

          1. Found an ad in a magazine many years ago from a lady who would do just that. She’d ask questions and record your reply, then turn it into good English. Was minded to get her to do it for Mother, then forgot – now it’s too late, we’ll never know.

          2. A good ghostwriter costs between $40,000 to $70,000.
            Pricing per project depends on the ghostwriter’s experience level and
            the genre of your book. Based on 2021 data from Reedsy, ghostwriters
            charge upwards of 30 cents a word to write memoirs, while manuscripts
            for children’s fiction can see a rate of 24 cents a word.23 Nov 2021

          4. Why not? You already have several volumes on your CV.
            Was the client a pain in the butt, BTW? ;-))

          5. Mostly dead – it is my Paternal Grandfather, died in 1934. Very difficult to research his life from 1864.

          7. Robert Harris wrote “GHOST”, the Autobiography of a retired UK Prime Minister but ghosted. The time line is not right but Tony Blair seems to fit the bill.
            An excellent book with surprises.

      1. Nightmare. Doddiscombeleigh and the village where my fair Coz lives – barely a car’s width and steep and twisty. Must be very difficult living there because you need a car for everything.

        1. We were in Salcombe just over a year ago, loved it, but everytime we went some where, wits had be sharpened.
          I fell in love with Dartmouth.

    5. Where did you have your birthday dinner? At son’s home or out?

      Cold & grey here today – it doesn’t feel any warmer and we’ve lost the sunshine.

      Northleach Church in Gloucestershire? Or is there another one? Have you seen the stained glass at Fairford?

      Glad you were able to see your cousin.

      I had a bit of a family history realisation in Bristol some years ago when I realised I’d stayed in a hotel where my ancestors had lived when it was a private house – now flats.

    7. Price at the Texaco garage in Ellesmere (Shropshire) is the same, Bill. Unfortunately, I had a full tank when I drove past.

    3. https://www.infowars.com/posts/must-see-interview-we-have-been-lied-to-about-every-part-of-the-covid-pandemic-warns-dr-michael-yeadon/
      We Have Been Lied To About Every Part of the COVID Pandemic, Warns Dr. Michael Yeadon – former chief scientist & vice-president of the allergy & respiratory research division of Pfizer

      ‘ … “We’ve been lied to by government officials & corporate types about absolutely everything to deal with this so-called virus pandemic,” said Yeadon Tuesday. “The severity of the public health threats, the necessity to lockdown, asymptomatic transmission, the use of masks, mask testing, and finally, vaccines. Every single part of the narrative is a lie, scientifically proven.”

      Yeadon goes on to detail his findings and stresses the importance of anyone listening to this interview to personally spread the word.

      “They’re not frightened of me because they figure I won’t be heard. So please listen, what I ask is for you to memorize two or three of the powerful things I just told you & tell ten other people. The mass media is never going to tell them.”

      Additionally, Yeadon said the globalists’ system of full-spectrum control is ready to enter its operation phase – and the key ingredients, digital ID and central bank digital currencies are about to be implemented.

      “Digital ID is the heart of tyranny,” said Yeadon. ‘We are near the point where they’ll say: ‘If you don’t get your next jab, you won’t be allowed to buy gasoline, travel, or buy food.’ This system is ready to go.”

    1. The orthopaedic surgeons are going to have to get their fingers out, the majority of people over 70 can’t walk that far.
      At least Norfolk is fairly flat.

      1. …and I, in Moffat, Scottish Borders, who finds it difficult to walk 70 metres but the Pharmacy, that regularly delivers to the complex I live in, refuses to deliver my medication without a week’s notice.

        NHS, bah, humbug.

          1. I would, Sue, if I could – it appears to have a monopoly here in Moffat.

            It’s called ‘Well’ and that’s about the only comment I could make on it.

          2. Yes, I saw that! But there is an independent chemist!
            Ooh! Just checked the reviews! Avoid at all costs!

          3. You know more than I, Sue.

            I shall Google it.

            Google produces NO (Nil, bugger all) info’

          11. My pharmacy is “WELL”. I book the prescription on-line and get the date when it is available. When I go to collect the prescription on that day I am told it will not be available for up to 2 days. I had a bit of an argument with the pharmacist about that but lost the argument. I wouldn’t go to a pharmacist to discuss a medical problem. I look it up on the computer.

          13. How can it take 2 days to make a prescription? I go unannounced to the pharmacy & they give me the pills I need.

          14. Our surgery needs a week’s notice for a repeat prescription. And don’t try to collect it during their two-hours closure for lunch.

          15. How can it take 2 days to make a prescription? I go unannounced to the pharmacy & they give me the pills I need.

          16. If I were to order my refills today, I’d be able to go into Matlock tomorrow and pick them up with no problem.

          17. I order on line, and I usually get them in a couple of days. Probably the delay is at the surgery end.

      1. They’ll justify it the same way they justify all their other fascist ideology: ‘it’s good for you’.

      2. The mini powers, the council, all 48 members voted for it.

        Truly 48 members (all pricks).

    3. It’s idiotic for somewhere like Norfolk. You have to drive. There’s no choice in it. If you don’t, you cannot work. This woman should be sacked. This is not what people want.

      2. Similarly in Suffolk – the little village I lived in (pop 117) had no school, shop, village hall or pub and no bus service.

        To access it, you HAD to drive and the only way in, was via one of three single-track roads, with no council passing places, they were all made by local residents over many years of pulling over to let others pass.

    4. One of these two must have gone on a 20 minute walk to get water for her village but ended up in Calais, then walked to a a Cross Channel “ferry’ and then into our benefits system

      The world has become her Lobster

      https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/get-active/2020/in-your-community/what-is-a-20-minute-neighbourhood

      https://www.sustrans.org.uk/media/8362/two-women-with-planters-sustrans_hidden-gardens-planters_49-2020-jassy-earl-all-rights-reserved.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=730&height=410

    5. Absolute total lunacy! I see Oxford have woken up [no pun] and begun to threaten the idiots who want 15 minute areas imposed – good luck to the rebels!

    8. Attleborough in the EDP picture. At its northern end is Besthorpe, where my dear old nan came from.

  48. Royal Yacht replacement designed to be eco-friendly and multicultural
    Firm that made short list for competition for new flagship, which was scrapped last year, reveals what could have been.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/24/royal-yacht-britannia-replacement-designed-eco-friendly-multicultural/

    (Note the nice eco-friendly, multicultural helicopter landing circle on the poop deck of the newest design!)

    You would have thought that the man who decided that Poundbury was what new building should like would have preferred the old, beautiful Britannia (In the first picture) to these modern monstrosity alternatives. Hyperion to a couple of Satyrs!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/caa01dc7fdb29885b9a21c030e4f8d120641581ddfa04cde15c4ac96edcbdc40.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/71ab72c1cb2c36dc596c346468459fbee50b64bb81b2f4e44114532be121da95.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e421d4e48cb339bc119ffd53847e5255b3f45d7d419920c2f32de59343aee0b.jpg

    1. Royal Yacht replacement designed to be eco-friendly and multicultural

      So it’s a raft!

      1. The Galley Slaves will be

        Multi Sexed & Trans
        Multi Effnik
        Multi Colour
        Multi Languaged
        Multi Parented
        Multi Talented
        Right, Sinister”and Ambi – Dexterous

  49. The retirement age should be 70. Ross Clark. 25 January 2023.

    Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to retire at 60? They claimed that their carefully laid retirement plans had been thrown into disarray by the government’s decision to equalise women’s retirement age with that of men – even though they had been given two decades’ notice and their careful plans for retirement hadn’t, it seemed, quite extended to bothering to find out at what age they would retire.

    Yes Mr Clark and had I earned my living typing on a keyboard I would probably agree. As it was I spent the last five year functioning on will power alone. There was no way I could have continued beyond 65! I was literally knackered!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-retirement-age-should-be-70/

    1. I was bored by my job when I neared 60. And the next development upgrade cycle was about to start. So I decided to go, and my kind boss gave me permission to do so. Best decision I made in my life, alongside the decision to move into ‘academia’ and get out of London in my early 40s.

    2. It’s now 70 for men & women in Norway, too. I’m almost 62, and knackered; my male forebears all died early, and I’d like a bit of time before I join them in the great Valhalla of desk warriors, so I’m not convinced.
      Anyhow, with unemployment and robots taking over everywhere, why do we need to work until we drop? Might it to be to pay for all the gimmegrants?

      1. I was in full-time employment until 1st August 2017 at age 73.

        I wasn’t really ready to give up, but was convinced so to do until 5 years later, on the same date, I left (reluctantly) for good (or bad)).

        2. My Father was the oldest in my male line, and he died at 72. I’d like a bit of time to watch the world go by before I join him.

          Leisure – William Henry Davies, 1911

          What is this life if, full of care,
          We have no time to stand and stare.
          No time to stand beneath the boughs
          And stare as long as sheep or cows.
          No time to see, when woods we pass,
          Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
          No time to see, in broad daylight,
          Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
          No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
          And watch her feet, how they can dance.
          No time to wait till her mouth can
          Enrich that smile her eyes began.
          A poor life this if, full of care,
          We have no time to stand and stare.

          2. Mine too.
            Firstborn’s smallholding reminds me of that. Sitting there, with a cold beer or a glass of red… fighting off the cleggs!

          6. I learnt this poem by heart when I was at prep school. It was was in an anthology of poems which we used to have at St Christopher’s Bath, my now defunct prep school. It had plenty of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, John Masefield, Edward Thomas, Sir Henry Newbolt and others in it and we learnt a poem by heart each week.

    3. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2c5fd33dd06ff78da8b2100ddc4298187500257bf45af2f2dd773f49d70a7235.png Earning a living typing on a keyboard? Sitting in a comfortable chair? In front of a desk? In a centrally-heated (or air-conditioned) office? Having a kip whenever it suits? And all in “work” time?

      I wonder what the reaction of bosses would be if those who actually did real work for a living decided to “get their heads down” for a kip during the working day?

  51. Britain is on the brink of becoming an economic basket case. 25 January 2023

    Demographic trends alone may doom Hunt to failure.

    Wow imagine that! I would never have guessed! We import people to do nothing and put them up in luxury hotels. The politicians spend money like water while the country is disintegrating around us and Mr Warner has just heard about it.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/25/britain-brink-becoming-economic-basket-case/

    1. Meanwhile taxing those that work to oblivion and paying those of working age that could, but can’t be bothered, to sit at home…

    2. 370356+ up ticks,

      Afternoon AS,

      You have just outlined the skeleton of repress,replace,RESET.

      The people supporters are gearing themselves up for the May elections, the choice of candidate being lab/lib/con coalition or the muslim brotherhood.

    3. JW is a remainer, of the type that refers to the EU as ‘Europe’, not ‘the Continent’ or the ‘Union’.

    4. Add to all that, they off-shore productive economic activity so the economy is failing with what’s left.

  52. Briton arrested in Spain for allegedly helping Russian oligarch evade sanctions. 25 January 2023.

    A British man who is wanted by the US authorities for allegedly helping a Russian oligarch evade sanctions relating to his $90m (£73m) superyacht has been arrested in Spain.

    The Briton, named by the US Department of Justice as Richard Masters, 52, has been charged with facilitating a sanctions-evasion and money-laundering scheme involving Tango, a 255ft luxury yacht belonging to Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch under US sanctions who is an associate of Vladimir Putin.

    I see. He prevented them from stealing it! Bad news for him I’m afraid. There’s not the remotest chance of a fair trial in the US. Even worse he’s a Brit. He’ll get twenty years at least!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/briton-arrested-spain-allegedly-helping-russian-oligarch-evade-sanctions

    1. His business shows more than 20 employees on its website. Allegedly Mr Masters was using the codeword ‘Fanta’ for transactions involving the Russian owned cabin cruiser, which is named ‘Tango’. I suppose ‘Coke’ would have been a bit carbon risky, what with so-called climate change.

  54. I awakened (rather than woke) early this morning and listened to BBC World Service before Geoff put up today’s page.
    I looked up the background to this breaking story and found the following links:

    Professor Richard Holme https://ras.ac.uk/journals/Editorial-Boards-and-Team/prof-richard-holme has reported that the Earth’s magnetic core has stopped rotating and may even have reversed.

    Could such changes in our planet’s magnetic core have anything to do with the the major climatic and animal behaviour changes that we are observing at the surface?

    The rotation of the Earth’s solid inner core may have recently paused and could be reversing, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience this week. These findings indicate that changes in the rotation could occur on a decadal scale and could aid our understanding of how processes deep in the Earth affect its surface.

    https://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/14364

    1. “Could such changes in our planet’s magnetic core have anything to do
      with the the major climatic and animal behaviour changes that we are
      observing at the surface?”
      What changes?

      1. Good point.
        I haven’t actually noticed any changes myself but David Attenborough says there have been and also says that it’s all our fault – every one of us!.

        I’m sticking to core values – bit of reverse however!😉

        1. The sainted David Attenborough is now a globalist climate change shill. I’ve stopped watching his programmes because he can’t stop banging that drum.

          1. It’s very dull of him. I don’t watch either. There’s also only so many time one can watch wildlife mating, killing or eating each other. He’s done it all before, time to hang up his mosquito boots.

          2. I’d like to watch some of the old Armand and Michaela Denis films. Africa was still pretty wild then!

          4. Yeah! That’s it. Old Armand with an accent thick enough to stop a rampaging Rhinoscerous in its tracks!!

          6. Michaela was quite a character in her later years. A former colleague of mine received a hand written letter from her after a phone call to discuss use of some footage. I hope he still has it, as it was a priceless gem. She was very eccentric. Spent her final years in a country club in Kenya.

    2. What would make the core change direction?
      Newton’s law of motion: Action & reaction. If there was, say, a magnetic force on the core (coming from where? The crust?) then the source of that source would start to rotate or otherwise be affected by the force applied to the core. I don’t see the earth’s surface slowing, speding up or rotating in a different direction.
      Nobody has reported any changes in begaviour of celestial bodies round & about that might be the source of such forces, and believe you me, there are plenty stargazers around who would be the first to shout out.
      If parts of the core are affecting other parts of the core, causing turmoil down there, surely that would be noticeable in physical terms on the crust – earthquakes, changes in tectonic movement, and the like?

      1. The Sun’s background magnetic field is about to flip in the solar minimum just starting which it does every 11 years at minmum sunspot activity. Could that have something to do with it?

        2. But…but…sunspot activity is a natural occurrence! Nothing to do with man?? That can’t be right!

      2. What would make the core change direction?

        Being totally pissed off with all the Wokery on the surface?

      3. The Kola Superdeep Borehole was abandoned when the Russians found found it too boring and it was getting much hotter than expected down there and the drill broke in the sludgy rock.

        It looks as though it’s just too expensive to fathom out what was going on down there in the core but they didn’t think of building a telecope on the site to find the answer in the heavens. 🤔

    3. This seems unlikely to me Angie. Inertia alone keeps it spinning in one direction. For it to reverse would imply some braking Mechanism and a Power Source. I think the reviewer has misunderstood the research. The polarities of the poles have always reversed but that is a magnetic, not a physical change!

      1. Somethimg to change the subject today and being OT is saves having to think about NATO sending tanks to Ukraine’s front line.

        If the West really wants to wind up Putin it should paint rainbows on its tanks and use coloured exhaust smoke!

    4. This seems unlikley to me Angie. Inertia alone keeps it spinning in one direction. For it to reverse would imply some braking Mechanism and a Power Source. I think the reviewer has misunderstood the research. The polarities of the poles have always reversed but that is a magnetic, not a physical change!

    1. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
      &
      No

    2. Kill, kill, kill the old,
      Isn’t life a scream
      Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
      Life was but a dream.

    3. Guess the same sheeple will line up to be jabbed, followed by whining that those of us with more sense didn’t warn them vigorously enough.

      1. If they are stupid enough to accept 8 jabs, I think the world may be better off without them. I will shed no tears for them if they suffer the consequences of their decisions.

        1. It saddens me that my skepticism and mistrust of folk seems to have been the right thing. One would have hoped I was wrong, and the vaccines were actually at least good, and not dubious morally, to be kind about it. Sadly, this miserable cynic seems to have been proven right, and so many people taken for a ride (in the case of SWMBOs brother, a ride in a hearse).

          1. I quote the case of a neighbour of mine, I met him as he was off to get his fifth jab after just recovering from his fourth bout of Covid.
            You can’t cure stupid, nice enough as he is.
            BTW, his age range is 50 – 60 and he tells me he has no underlying health conditions. At least not yet as far as he knows.

          2. ooops! Sorry I repeated your”no cure for stupid” sentiment, but it is so sad that people have always been able to be brainwashed. It’s just that it is now so much easier with technology added to bread and circuses and deliberate dumbing-down of the population, to brainwash more people more thoroughly.

    1. Read somewhere that the UK contribution includes training and the like in the UK of the ukies. Can’t find it again.

      1. I have it on reasonably good authority that that has already been going on for quite a while.

        The assessment was that even with the training they wouldn’t survive long.

          1. Rather like the once invincible middle-ages knights in armour being killed by the invention of the bodkin headed armour piercing arrow.

        2. Oh right – so all their surviving family will come over here too, as WE have the moral obligation to house and look after them, it appears.

          That is not ignoring the despicable waste of human life by Z. and his backers etc. (HE’LL be alright in his luxury mansion). It’s just that the fall-out will affect us more than we have bargained for. And all for another war that wasn’t ours.

        3. According to RAF News, the RAF has been training Ukies for a while – not in tank handling, though 🙂

    2. They lost me when in the next paragraph they promoted house arrest. 45 tanks won’t help Ukraine. Unless they also provide spare parts, logistics, maintenance engineers and ammunition they’re just lumps of metal.

    1. The cynic in me thinks this is just a marketing ploy (albeit with deadly consequences for the combatants). If a particular model of a tank can do well against whatever the Russian forces can literally throw at it, then the oder books will boom. On the other hand if said tanks don’t fare well (to bust?) then Russia can look forward to an increase in anti-tank weapons sales in the future.

      1. I agree

        The military industrial complex must be satiated.
        Sacrifice more young men on its altars immediately.

  59. Just had dinner. Very respectable baked salmon with salad and potatoes, and an hollandaise sauce. Tub of yoghurt. Not bas, would have been better with a glass of cold dry white, though.

    1. A couple of el-cheapo Iceland sausage rolls that were even cheaper at half price, chips, mushy peas and a couple of mushrooms done in butter with garlic and herbs.
      Garnished with a couple of my home made pickled onions!
      Very tasty.

        1. Still moving very slowly but improving bit by bit. He’s eating well which will help. Plus, the specialist nurse at our nearby hospital has been in touch with our GP and a district nurse is coming tomorrow to change the dressing and again next week for blood work. Plus he has been given the phone no. of an occupational therapist who will be able to supply walking aids and, hopefully, recommend some useful exercises.
          We have achieved more in a few days than those oiks at the hospital managed at all. And we will keep going!
          Thanks for asking.

          5. Well done Ann. You’re proving that our own health and that of our loved ones in down to our own endeavours.

          6. The loving support of a good woman makes all the difference.
            Ann’s OH is a very lucky man. As are many of us.

          8. Indeed – keep the State (and the state institutions) out of our lives and we’ll all be the better for it!

          10. “Those oiks at the hospital”. Would that include the paramedics in the ambulance, the people who did the paperwork when OH arrived in A&E, the nurse or Doctor who did the initial assessment, the cleaners that he didn’t notice (foreign, poor and basically invisible), the radiologist and his/her team, the Path Lab staff, the porters who wheeled him along to a ward, the cooks who produced some sort of bland food that has to please everybody, the … ?
            And IIRC, at some stage your OH was vomiting blood, so with or without an endoscopy, someone prudently decided to keep him there for observation.

          11. I have no issue with the health assistants or the cleaners or the people who brought the food. I wasn’t there when he went in the ambulance, so can’t comment.
            However, the behaviour of the doctors and nurses on the ward was borderline neglect and not just for my husband.
            He was not vomiting blood; after the surgery on a couple of occasions he brought up some bile with a pink tinge. That was it.
            We have a more local hospital where my husband has been a few times and I cannot speak highly enough of the staff there. This hospital was not on a par with that and he’s better off at home. He will speak to his consultant and, if she thinks he needs an endoscopy, then he’ll go locally for it.
            There are times, Tim, when you have to go with your instincts and I think he made the right choice. That is also my opinion.

          12. I am sure you made the right decision, Ann. To be fair, however, it was you who claimed he was “vomiting blood” in one of your posts. Understandable in the stress of the moment and i’m glad it turned out to be less serious than at first thought.

      1. Old country ways. Middag, at about 16:30. Kvelds (supper) at about 20:00. And far too much bread!

    4. Made myself (admittedly from a mix) Chicken Korma with carrots and spinach. Threw in a chicken thigh, previously browned through, and it was quite tasty but too much for me, so that’s another lot of goodies from the freezer for another day.

      1. Keep it for breakfast. Breakfast curry is excellent, with strong coffee at the side. Wakes the tastebuds.

        1. Plenty of other good things in the freezer. Must go shopping tomorrow, I need Eggs and other good stuff.

          Entertaining 3 other NoTTLers at lunchtime in The Famous Star, so have t be sure I’m in fine fettle for that.

          2. I’m certainly looking forward to it.

            Next time you’re in Blighty, think of travelling to the Scottish borders.

            We shall keep a very warm welcome.

      1. I had steak and Old Peculiar ale pie with roast potatoes, parsnips and peas (NOT mushy!), washed down with a Cabernet Sauvignon.

          1. It was, rather. I can’t claim to have made the pie or prepared the veg, though. They were all frozen. All I had to do was stick them in the oven and open the wine 🙂

  60. I would hold out a lot more hope for our way of life in UK in the near future, if :

    The Doctor had recommended ” the possible benefits of orienteering in combating the start of dementia”

    and

    The ex Army Officer had recommended “That Britain should send more tanks to Ukraine”

  62. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at preventing insider trading by members of Congress by barring them from trading individual stocks.
    The Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act would require lawmakers and their immediate family members to use qualified blind trusts – a method of investing in which an independent manager buys and sells assets without the knowledge or consent of the owner in order to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest.

  63. Pro-Russia protesters storm Australian Open with Putin and ‘Z’ banners. 25 January 2023

    Pro-Russian demonstrators targeted the Australian Open on Wednesday with a fan displaying the controversial ‘Z’ symbol on Rod Laver Arena and flags picturing the face of Vladimir Putin paraded outside Melbourne Park.

    A section of supporters chanted “Serbia, Russia, Serbia, Russia” on the steps of the main show court here in Melbourne, while an image of Putin’s face on top of the Russian flag was flown by one fan amid the celebrations following Novak Djokovic’s victory over Russia’s Andrey Rublev.

    Oooher! Aren’t the Aussies swallowing the propaganda!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2023/01/25/pro-russia-protestors-storm-australian-open-putin-z-banners/

    1. On BBC Sport it says the stewards spoke to 4 people.
      Some storm.
      Four spectators at the Australian Open have been questioned by police after Russian flags were waved and security guards allegedly threatened.

  64. OT – ref my Devon trip. My cousin gave me a copy of the latest local history book she and chums have produced – about something of which I had absolutely NO knowledge. The forced removal in 1943/44 of dozens of farmers and their families and livestock so that the US armed forces could train for D-Day. The people were given just a few weeks notice – sometimes less. Seems shocking today….but it was just accepted then.

    I’ll report further when I have read the book.

    1. A few years back when visiting Mount Edgcumbe there were a pair of ‘young’ (well young in 1944) ladies waiting on the Electric Cart to take them up the hill to the house. The driver explained that the road they were about to travel on was built by the US Marine Corps in preparation for vehicles to embark from the landing stage on to boats to take them across the Channel. “We know” they said in their thick Devonshire Clotted Cream accents.. The driver went on explaining a few other points relating to the marines presence prior to D-Day. To each point the ladies replied in unison: “We know”. At this point I interjected and said: “It sounds like you knew the entire Marine Corps”. “Yes we did!'” they exclaimed and burst out laughing…..

      1. It was very agreeable to me to be able to talk Devon to my Coz. A curious feature of Dartington Hall was that virtually all the staff we came across were NOT local people. Only a couple of farm hands were “proper Devon”

          2. My ex went to Torquay Boy’s Grammar – presumably to an infants/junior in Paignton somewhere…OK moi bird!

            Edit – apparently while at Torquay BG he learnt to drink a scrumpy (the real “rough” cider stuff) and blackcurrant concoction which was locally known as Screech…(I never knew why but I can guess).

          3. Had some ‘screech’ when on summer camp down there when I was an RAF apprentice – believe me it is appropriately named

          4. As it said on the card I received from one of my Devonian relations: “Blowed if the road don’t seem bumpy – must ‘a been that there Scrumpy”.

        2. I believe that Dartington Hall went bust after the rather avant-garde private school that had been there failed (following some scandal or other). I guess many people who worked there then were not local, and since then it has not attracted many locals for work?

          1. There is still a school there. And lots of yogurt weaving enterprises. The estate is owned by the same Trust.
            In order to keep afloat, however, the Trust is starting to sell off land and properties – to raise money to survive. A fatal ploy because it will eventually run out of things to sell….

          2. It is a different school, I believe, as there was quite a big scandal at the time of the original head being given the push. This is only what my ex told me so I haven’t read about it – no doubt I could find the answer (or what has officially been given as the answer) somewhere.

          3. Indeed. The scandal was that the Headmaster and his wife had posed semi-nude for Playboy or a similar magazine.
            One of my best university friends went to Dartington Hall School and said that most of the pupils and staff there had a screw loose. (That being said, he did well out of it as he eventually got a PhD and is now a university professor in engineering.) There was no obligation for pupils to go to any lessons, no segregation of the sexes, no competition and no punishment. Drugs were rife, apparently. I remember a story my friend told me about one of his classmates who, in the Sixth Form and probably under the influence of something, went into the A level Art display just before the examiners were to come and judge the pupils’ work, and vandalised the lot.

          5. Yes, my ex- told me about some of the things like drugs etc. Also that the school was as you describe.

        3. I believe that Dartington Hall went bust after the rather avant-garde private school that had been there failed (following some scandal or other). I guess many people who worked there then were not local, and since then it has not attracted many locals for work?

      2. Read the bitz about the new Railway Children

        The work force of the US Army in WWII were Black

        White Snowdrops (MPs) Not the House of Crime ones went around local pubs etc and told the local landlords not to serve them. It was ignored, but we are still racists

        The colour bar was experienced by segregated African-American allied troops stationed in the UK during
        the Second World War who were ordered by their superiors to not visit various pubs and social facilities. Some British pubs refused to comply with this segregation, such as in Bamber Bridge.

        2. The Bbc had a problem with the US segregation when they filmed Wartime Farm. They had the bleks integrated, then had to explain that, actually, that wasn’t how it happened at the time.

    2. The same thing is happening with our Hotels now

      Brits being thrown out, to make way for the Soon To Be Invasion Force

      We have Caliphant in the room

        1. On open days it is very strange to drive across the edge of Salisbury Plain with burnt out tanks littering the edge of the road, the local traffic wardens must be very strict!😂

        2. Ah yes, the old battle Area, I used to drive across it when stationed at Watton on my way to Royston for the weekend. Tip don’t drive across it when the red flag is flying

          1. Like the ranges in Colchester! I used to ride across there as long as the flag wasn’t flying.

    4. There was a war on. People and places blown up, killed, bombed. Friends and family away fighting in all parts of the world.
      They trusted the autorities only to do what was necessary, and taht was basically what they did.

        2. There’s a war on and people and places are being blown up (Manchester arena, anyone?). The difference is, nobody trusts the government about anything now.

  65. The Russian take, from RT News…

    Arming Ukraine a ‘big business’ opportunity – Zelensky
    The Ukrainian leader touted ties to Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in another weapons plea
    Kiev is already working with some giants of the finance and military industry, offering “big business” opportunities to any American company interested in working there, President Vladimir Zelensky has boasted in a video message to an association of US enterprises.
    Addressing the National Association of State Chambers (NASC) meeting in Boca Raton, Florida on Monday, Zelensky argued that “American business can become the locomotive that will once again push forward global economic growth.”
    “We have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of international financial and investment world as Blackrock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs,” Zelensky said. “Such American brands as Starlink or Westinghouse have already become a part of our Ukrainian Way.”
    According to Zelensky, “everyone can become a big business by working with Ukraine, in all sectors: from weapons and defense to construction, from communication to agriculture, from transport to IT, from banks to medicine.”
    He also lavished praise on the weapons the US has showered upon Kiev.
    “Your brilliant defense systems, such as HIMARS or Bradleys, are already uniting our history of freedom with your enterprises. We are waiting for Patriots. We are looking closely at Abrams. Thousands of such examples are possible,” Zelensky said in the video.
    By the Pentagon’s own estimates, the US has sent over $20 billion worth of weapons, ammunition and supplies to Ukraine in 2022. However, most of that came out of the US military stockpiles. The Department of Defense did award contracts worth hundreds of millions to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and other manufacturers to replenish some of the depleted supplies.
    Russia has repeatedly warned the West that continued deliveries of weapons to Ukraine only prolonged the conflict and risked a direct confrontation between Moscow and NATO.
    The Ukrainian president revealed in December that his government had hired Blackrock – a major US asset management company – to “advise” Kiev on how to use reconstruction funds provided by Western governments. He has estimated the cost of rebuilding Ukraine from the ongoing conflict would be at least $1 trillion.

      1. Well certainly not us – however the US, and the Biden family in particular, will surely expect their usual percentage!

    3. “…the US has sent over $20 billion worth of weapons, ammunition and supplies to Ukraine in 2022. However, most of that came out of the US military stockpiles.”

      …and even now, most of it is in the process of sales to mainly African heads of State and other entrepreneurs.

  66. I watched Schindler’s list when it first came out and am watching it again now. I have had to pause several times because of the mindless brutality of thugs and monsters.

    I hope the Russians win in Ukraine to blot out the fucking depraved Nazis and their American allies who have never been friends of ours.

    1. I’m not prone to being fazed by blood & gore (except of course if it’s my own). However, I couldn’t watch Schindler’s List because of the depiction of man’s inhumanity. All too often the World produces monsters, lately Pol Pot & Mao.

      1. Saw that in the movie theatre in US and it’s the only time I have ever seen no-one leaving their seats until the final credit had gone up. Totally silent too. Very moving.

      2. Stalin,
        Turks against Armenians,
        Chinese Communists, especially against Tibet,
        Apartheid in USA,
        American torture, sorry I mean enhanced interrogation,
        and many more….

        2. Jacinda Ardern and Pierre Trudeau, Dan Andrews and the rest of the Oz contingent. Oh, and Biden.

        3. I only managed about an hour but that was depressing enough for me.

          I think I’ll go and watch, It Ain’t ‘Alf ‘ot, Ma.

      4. Try watching Sophie’s choice. It doesn’t get any easier but it shows us what to look out for. It is happening again.

    2. One or two movies I refuse to watch, and that’s one of them. Too much emotional load, especially having visited several of the camps.

          1. Indeed.
            Firstborn went with his class from school, aged about 15. Some parents, including me, also went as escorts. There was a bunch of cool girls, all dressing the same, all with long blonde hair – you know the type. We had a Polish guide on the tour at both Auschwitz camps, and at Birkenau (the extermination camp) these girls would sit in the grass and chatter every time we stopped to have a feature described to us.
            Down by the gas chambers, same thing happened when we stopped by some bright blue ponds. The guide stopped her spiel, and asked the girls if they could see small white flecks in the grass where they were sitting. “Yes”, they answered. Well, said the guide, those were bits of bone left over from the cremations of those who died in the gas chambers.
            The girls flew to their feet in horror, and it was at that point that the whole experience became reality. Not a shopping trip at half term with their mates after all. So, they did learn something.
            I was surprised (I shouldn’t have been) that the placard with the numbers of each nationality who lost their lives there – the biggest number were Germans. Jews, defectives, undesirables, whatever. Don’t know why that was a surprise, but it was.

          5. We were detached for a short time to Hahn, then a Luftwaffe base.

            Right outside was an area of seeming wilderness and we were told that that was where Birkenhau-Belsen was situated and the strangest thing was not a bird sang – in fact there was no evidence of the wild-life, one might have expected in an uncultivated wilderness.

            It seems that all the bird-life and the wild-life shunned the area, because it just reeked of death and destruction.

            Spooky.

          9. A similar tale when we visited Natzweiler-Struthof in the Vosges – a really bad feeling there and I’m not normally that sensitive to atmosphere! Wiki: About 52,000 prisoners were estimated to be held there during its time of operation. The prisoners were mainly from the resistance movements in German-occupied territories. It was a labour camp, a transit camp and, as the war went on, a place of execution. Some died from the exertions of their labour and malnutrition – there were an estimated 22,000 deaths at the camp, including its network of subcamps.

          10. I’ve not been, but the story of Mauthausen has similar atrocities; “workers” had to carry heavy stones up a long staircase from the quarry and many died of their exertions – if they weren’t thrown to their death at the whim of the guards.

          11. Never got that far. Dachau after 3 days of the Bierfest. That’s why I said it was very sobering.

      2. Though i wouldn’t suggest watching for entertainment they need to be seen. The inhumanity is appalling and should never be forgotten. Democrats and Socialists are responsible.

    1. My initial assessment of Lammy hasn’t changed one iota – fcuking idiot with no awareness of the real world – particularly sad dick k*nt’s real world.

      I’m so glad I neither live in Londonistan nor am likely to have to visit.

  68. Par Four today.

    Wordle 585 4/6
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      1. Alas double bogey today

        Wordle 585 6/6

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    2. Got lucky again. It’ll be a six tomorrow.

      Wordle 585 2/6

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  71. That’s me gone for this miserable day. Though the frost went – it has still felt sub-zero all day. Fog and drizzle, too. The Wet Office says it will be sunny tomorrow. Hmm. We’ll see.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain.

  72. OT I hope William Stanier is looking in as I’d like to apologise for disagreeing with him on Monday over the planet which was visible in a photo. I was sure it was Jupiter. William was quite right – it was Venus! Sorry William! It’s not often I’m right, but damn me, I’m wrong again!

      1. In days gone by, there was a DFDS ferry that went out of the Tyne to Norway which had a reputation for rolling a bit. It was known locally as the vomiting Venus!

    2. As SWMBO says: “When I’m right, I’m right. When I’m wrong, Rule 1 applies!”

      1. Advice to Husbands:

        To keep your marriage brimming
        With love in the loving cup,
        When you are wrong admit it-
        When you are right- shut up!

        Ogden Nash

        2. Advice to wives:

          To keep your husband grinning
          With sloe-eyed love and such
          When he is lustful give it-
          But only a gentle touch!

          sosraboc

      2. “When I’m wrong”?????

        In this household that would never be suggested, I hope to live a little longer…

  74. From https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/wine/perfect-red-wine-winter-evenings/
    The perfect red wine for winter evenings
    A grand Italian wine with serious clout, Amarone is intensely delicious – you just have to know how to drink it
    One drinks the stuff by pouring it into the hole in the front of your face.
    It’s great on a cold day, indoors, and on a hot day, outdoors, from the fridge with Shock! Horror! an ice cube. In the same way as a sweet sherry, the wine has enough flavour to tolerate being chilled, and is really good as a result.

        1. Agreed
          Full bodied is the term, I believe.
          I particularly like those matured in the oak barrels. Hereabouts they call it élevé en fût de chêne and 99/100 it means better, for my tastes!

        2. Try a decent full-bodied claret – it doesn’t have to be a first growth.

          Saint Emilion is always good, provided it’s at least 5 years old.

          4. Their hands are chilly
            ‘Coz he’s a Brit
            And rubbing his willy
            Would make them split

            There is a rumour
            I doubt it’s true
            They shrink him down
            To avoid a screw

            His heart’s on a monitor
            A type of machine
            That tells them he’s randy
            And not to be seen

            They’re sad that he’s going
            Because he’s good fun
            But they know that the threat
            Is in oven, a bun!

          6. A chilly female hand, in those nether regions will quickly excite what is already excitable.

  76. Just seen an advert for “government” help with all sorts of expenses. It is NOT government money, it is YOURS and MINE. They make me furious. It’s HMG fault the energy costs are rocketing upwards, that prices are rocketing skywards and they are still trying to scare us out of our wits with warnings of emerging covid variants. And MORE bloody gene therapy injectates. Bastards all of them. And the 15/20 minute neighbourhood idea is spreading, to Norfolk now. Apparently 48 councillors voted for it. A complete sweep of them. The news is just not good.

    1. The billions they borrowed aren’t yours and mine. Just the debt. Time for some street presence?

    2. The billions they borrowed aren’t yours and mine. Just the debt. Time for some street presence?

  77. Thought for the day.
    If tomorrow suddenly Putin ran America and Biden ran Russia, which would be the more prosperous country two years from now?

    2. No comments allowed unless you sign in.

      I only wanted to say that, “From the state of the intro’ pic, he must be black.”

    1. Wait until you start trying to hack me. I shall reply with a fcuking great axe and hack you to pieces.

    4. Interesting that it was from a conference in 2018 but only just come to light..
      I sincerely hope that him and his followers have had a fatal accident.

    5. People who speak like that know absolutely nothing about family life, or anything about humanity.

  81. Thinking about my late and much missed Scots uncle. Tonight he would have been giving the toast to the Chieftain o’ the Pudding Race at the Golf Club Burns Night dinner. Hope they raise a wee dram to him.

  82. Final snifter and then I’m saying, Goodnight and God bless you, Gentlefolk. We shall meet again in the morning’s light. Sleep well.

    2. Just the sort of place i have been looking for. My goto restaurant in Fareham closed recently. Is the Ivy related to the one in London?

      1. Yes, same branding but maybe not quite the same quality as it’s not in any way exclusive. Pretty good though. Called the Ivy Collection, there’s one in Marlow, Chichester and Edinburgh. They’re just the ones I’ve been in.

        1. I have just been looking at the Winchester one on Tripadvisor. They seem to run hot and cold. Just 2 or 3 reviews in the last 2 months were singing their praises. The rest were dire.

          I like Chichester. Might give that one a go.

          Thanks for the heads up.

          1. One thing I have noticed over the years is that whenever a new gastronomical venture opens it always starts very well but goes down as the managers seek to cut costs. Cost cutting equals detectable quality drop. People stop going. Marco Pierre White’s various ventures in my area all followed this trend. All closed. The Winchester Ivy was just the same – very good at first. – but it’s miles better than the likes of Brasserie Blanc and still very popular. You could try Rick Stein’s place in Winchester. That’s good if you’re a sea-foodie

  85. Evening, all. The reckless pursuit of the unattainable net zero is putting everyone and everything at risk! We shan’t be able to heat our homes, nobody will be able to transport food stuffs and the economy will have completely shut down. Our brainless MPs won’t be affected, of course, so that’s alright, then. It’s like the Scottish MSPs who have just tinkered with the (hitherto workable) Scottish Hunting Act. People with an agenda who will not be affected by their meddling.

    1. When I was working full time I had little time to look closely at world events both historical and current.

      Since retiring I have done nothing but read avidly and search for information about everything under the sun on the web. I suppose this has made me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ although I believe it has simply awakened me to the iniquities of this world, in particular its politicians, bankers and globalists in general.

      I am quite sure that I am not alone in my generation of retaining critical thought about both historical and current events.

      I now believe, for example, that placing an entire fleet in Pearl Harbour was a deliberate provocation of the Japanese designed to start a naval war, that JFK was assassinated by CIA operatives, that 9-11 was an organised and premeditated (inside-job) demolition of the twin towers with no regard for lives lost and that the war in Ukraine is planned to escalate by the US government, again showing complete disregard for the hundred of thousands of lives to be lost.

      We live among purely evil people, many in power or aspiring to such.

      The arguments for Covid vaccines are well worn and most now know that the pandemic was a scam from the start and designed to benefit the already super-rich and the big Pharma corporations. The programme was of course designed to depopulate and otherwise harm productive economies with the killing of small businesses, the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest, the desire of a few to control billions of people and to strip them of bodily and financial autonomy.

      We are dealing with evil people. None can be trusted and all shall be brought down in due course.

      1. The government is preparing a defence against people like us; it’s called the On-line Harms Bill. It’s a snoopers’ charter that will give TPB complete control over what’s said (or allowed to be said) over hitherto free platforms.

  87. For those with the stomach for it on BBC2 is Surgeons: At the edge of life doing brain surgery. Incredible

          1. I had an AAA scan about 10 years ago to determine if the aorta had a swelling. If you have an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm it is likely to be instant death. Yes the aorta does go through the abdomen.

          6. He’s a consultant vascular surgeon and I’m sure he was on the programme. I’ve known him since he was about 3!

          9. That’s a great series written by Robert Galbraith aka J K Rowling. Really worth watching especially for Holliday Grainger but Tom Burke is also excellent.

          11. There was a surgeon called Greaves who played for Tottenham Hotspur. At least he should have been a surgeon, his goal scoring was clinical.
            😊

          13. Wonderful player, but I saw him miss an open goal at White Hart Lane against Man Utd, a score draw result for the football pools.

          15. I had an acquaintance who suffered that, he had numerous surgeons work for hours on him, he pulled through but was never the same again.
            Months in hospital and then he lasted a year at home before he passed on, inflammation in the heart saw him off.
            A few months after that I was invited to go for an ultrasonic scan of the aorta which showed it to be normal. I was told that the swelling develops over a long period of time and if the 1st test shows no concerns at the time that is the end of testing, old age is more likely get you than aorta swelling.
            Of course this was pre Covid jabs, who knows these days.

          16. A friend of mine, a builder and carpenter who has done excellent work for me over 20 odd years died a few months ago. His wife found him collapsed in the garage in early morning. The autopsy stated he died from an aeortic aneurysm and that he would have died almost instantly.

            I know he had taken the jabs out of a combination of fear and because he trusted the medical profession. I told him that I would never take the jabs because I had experience of designing laboratories including a large Immunology and Signalling laboratory at Babraham Institute near Cambridge.

            My experience taught me that animal testing was a prerequisite to bringing a medicine to market and that the process took upwards of seven years.

            My friend’s last remark to me was that he wanted another twenty years. He died aged 57 fully jabbed.

            His eulogy at the funeral was read by a partner at Fosters (Norman Foster’s International practice) whom I had coincidentally introduced to Chris, my friend, about fifteen years ago. The top London architect and studio manager had formed a close bond with the carpenter from Glemsford.

            I remain of the view that Chris succumbed because of his trust in the Covid jabs.

          17. Sad to hear as some from the same profession.
            One of fathers brothers worked for Norman Foster International.

          18. I wouldn’t let a doctor near me if he didn’t know the aorta did pass through the stomach.

    2. I’ve Just been watching Palin in Eastern Europe. Quite an eye opener.
      I’m taking a swig of cough syrup now hoping I sleep until at least 3 am.
      Good night all.

    3. They’re using an awful lot of plasticised material for the repair! Eco loons – loom away and hope you never need this op.

      ETA: Coz you’ll decline it, won’t you!??????

    4. Nah, it would remind me of an ethnic Chinese lad from North Borneo who told me that his grandfather still attends dinners where the main course is a live monkey whose skull is carefully sawn off and they tuck in with spoons.

        1. My mum was born in Jesselton, British North Borneo, and she used to tell us kids some pretty horrendous tales.

  89. Just spent the last hour having an internet meltdown and had to reboot and restore all my tabs. Going to bed now!

      1. Nearly. It’s very frustrating! Our internet connection has been dropping in and out for the past couple of days.

        2. If your wifi signal has to travel through internal walls that will weaken it. Try repositioning it near a window facing where the main wifi tower is. You can google where your nearest one is if you don’t know.

          1. This is a stone cottage of irregular shape with thick stone walls. We have network boosters, and the signal in here is normally a steady 54mbs. The last couple of days it’s been fluctuating wildly and dropping out.

  90. I signed this petition this morning. I was no. 320. Twelve hours later it is 11,054.

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628188

    I think it is important to keep the pressure on these people now, to keep the profile high so that they know we are on to them and that we won’t give up. When they are rattled, they will make mistakes.

  92. 370356+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12h
    I think that is the plan.

    And the mysterious & unexplained excess deaths are helping out.

    https://apple.news/AjpGCBI7VTaqtrf… thousands more will die without picking up state pension as Govt row breaks out over raising retirement age to 68 – LBC

    Fears thousands more will die without picking up state pension as Govt row breaks out over raising retirement age to 68 – LBC,
    Fears thousands more will die without picking up state pension as Govt row breaks out over rais
    Fears thousands more will die without picking up state pension as Govt row breaks out over rais

    Fears that thousands more people will die before they can get their state pension have been raised as the Government plots to raise the retirement age.

    apple.news

    https://gettr.com/post/p267kxcf317

      1. 370373+ up ticks,

        Morning N,
        I really do believe that the hillock under the carpet consists of the lab/lib/con & current supporters coalition and really must be “levelled out” (crushed) via people power & for want of a better name the
        “Steam Roller Shite levelling Alliance party”

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