Wednesday 8 March: Locked-down citizens deserved better than Hancock’s political games

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Blood Donor

    An Arab Sheik was admitted to Hospital for heart surgery. But prior to the surgery, the doctors needed to store his blood in case a need arose as the gentleman had a rare type of blood, and couldn’t be found locally, so the call went out.

    Finally, a Scotsman was located who had a similar blood type. The Scot willingly donated his blood for the Arab.

    After the surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman as appreciation for giving his blood, a new BMW motor car, diamonds and a substantial sum of money.

    A couple of days later, the Arab had to go through a corrective surgery.
    His doctor telephoned the Scotsman who was more than happy to donate his blood again.

    After the second surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman a thank-you card and a box of Quality Street chocolates. The Scotsman was shocked that the Arab did not reciprocate his kind gesture as he had anticipated.

    He phoned the Arab and asked him: “I thought you would be generous again, that you would give me another motor car, diamonds & money… but you only gave me a thank-you card & a box of Quality Street chocolates.”

    To this the Arab replied: “Aye laddie but I now have Scottish blood in ma veins”.

      2. 🎵Happy Birthday🎵, Geoff! Make today special! 🎉🎉🍰🍰🥂🍾🎉🎉

      3. Happy birthday little Bro’. Have a great day.
        It’s my nephew’s birthday also- another organist!

      4. Happy birthday Geoff, your ongoing efforts are much appreciated. I hope you enjoy a relaxing day.

    1. The Boss’s birthday?
      We should have wine and cake …… ooops.
      Happy Birthday, Geoff.

  5. Good Morning Folks,

    Snow has been falling since I looked out the window at 4am, easing off now.

  6. Morning, all. Light snow here in N Essex.

    One to smile at, three to ponder.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/895038445de4aced77c536fd9c8ee5bcb548ec86f1741b37b720bd4376fc0aa1.png
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      1. Morning, Elsie. I’ve noticed the snow flakes are larger now. I’m off to look for my shovel, just in case. 🙃

    2. Which reminds me……………..

      Last year there was a suggestion that civil servants from the Ministry of Education would discuss their sexuality

      with all six year olds.

      It’s all gone completely quiet about this.

      Does anyone know whether the silence means that this is in progress, or whether the proposal has been quietly shelved?

  11. The official Covid inquiry is turning into a ruinous, out of control monster. 8 March 2023.

    How can it cost £85 million to set up an inquiry into the Covid pandemic that will not even begin its public hearings for months? We are used to things being inordinately expensive in this country, from transport projects to defence procurement, but this is surely pushing the boundaries. It will be the biggest inquiry in British history, dwarfing the Iraq War saga or the Bloody Sunday investigation.

    Some 60 barristers have been appointed to sift through mountains of documents and a phalanx of KCs represent a bewildering variety of organisations, pressure groups, employers and officials who had a part to play in the drama. This is all of a piece with the way such inquiries are handled here. They have become less a forum for finding out what happened, in order to avoid the same mistakes being made again, than an attempt to find scapegoats and provide “closure” for those impacted by the event.

    The purpose of this enquiry is to obfuscate, mislead and postpone judgement until it fades from the Public Memory! There is no intention here, like the two examples cited, of anyone being held to account!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/official-covid-inquiry-turning-ruinous-control-monster/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    3. £85 million? Will the whitewash contracts follow the PPE model?
      CV-19, a great little earner for those in the know.

      1. Aaaannndddd ….. 12 years later (if they rush it), a doorstop containing blacked out pages apart from the occasional ‘the’ or ‘and’.
        Oh, and the taxpayers stiffed for a minimum of £200 million.

    1. Since I’ve had no reply so far from Viktor Orban, is de Santis free on alternate Thursdays to nip over and run Blighty?

    1. The FX markets are deep, but finite. China was happy to build up huge USD reserves, getting rid of them in a hurry might prove tricky. Meanwhile, what’s happening to the price of gold? Still horribly overvalued by historical standards?

      2. I don’t think gold is overvalued, because gold is money. If it looks overvalued, that’s only because the fiat currencies have lost value, surely.

        1. In days of yore, silver had a much more important part to plat as money. The gold (monometalic) standard was a crazy British which took a while to carch on.

          1. I read that the last major economy to abandon the silver monetary standard was Germany in the late nineteenth century. I do wonder if it will make a comeback, backing any country’s digital currency when the fiat scam ends.

          2. The newly formed German Reich’s constituent members had been on the bimetallic standard, but Bismarck was having none of that, and followed Britain’s example and created a new currency on the gold standard (1873). The last places on the silver standard were Hong Kong and China WW I put paid to that.

          3. I saw a chart today of gold/silver ration bought by various countries in the last couple of years. China was very heavy on gold – someone pointed out this could also be a consequence of many people living in small high rise flats – the silver lovers were the US, India and Germany.

      1. I think this new BRICS currency is designed to be a new reserve currency, i.e. only used for international transactions.
        The CBDCs are designed for domestic use.
        So they’re different products.
        I think our lords and masters are stupid enough to launch a fiat CBDC, which will crash and burn. They will try to sell it to us as a “cure” for inflation, but all that means is that they can carry on using interest rates as a control mechanism, only now they will be able to impose negative rates by making your capital shrink if you haven’t been a good little consumer and spent it all by the end of the month.
        In order for people to accept that, inflation will have to be pretty bad.
        But if China and the east are using gold backed currencies, perhaps even as domestic money, then the west will have to do the same at some point.
        I suppose they will try a gold-backed CBDC at that point.

        Lynette Zang has done some great videos on this.
        She explains that the original four uses for money are an accounting tool, a tool for barter, a fair reward for labour and a long term store of wealth.
        The fourth function has gone if you have a fiat currency, because the government always over-prints it, so it loses value over time.
        The third function will go if we have a CBDC, whether it’s gold-backed or not, because it’s not a fair reward for labour if they dock 20% of everything you haven’t spent at the end of the month.

        But humans being humans, they will figure out an alternative system.
        In Venezuela, they avoid the CBDC and use dollars.
        In Nigeria, they avoid the CBDC and use Bitcoin.
        Silver and gold coins and notes are fairly widely recognised and accepted in the US, though still a small minority.
        What will we use?

        1. My reading of it is that the gold backed currency will avoid CDBC, keeping some honesty in the financial system. However, the ponzi scheme currently masquerading as banking in the West will continue to avoid reality by any means possible. If they do manage to finagle our system to a controllable digital system, we’ll be up the proverbial creek without a paddle…or a boat.

          1. You can have a gold-backed CBDC though. The presence of gold in the system would force them to be more honest, which central bankers wouldn’t want – but they might have no choice.
            But I do not want the loss of privacy that digital money would entail.
            Also, if it were gold backed, people would start to accept physical gold and silver, as they would think Why not cut out the middle man?

  15. Front page news is that Lineker has been sounding off against the proposed (illegal im)migrant bill, likening it, obviously, to an infamous German regime of the 1930s and 1940s.

    He was also in the paper recently for “allegedly” dodging tax to the tune of £4.5 million.

    We know that it “costs” £128 a day to house, feed and entertain each undocumented, illegal immigrant. So his £4.5 million would look after approx 35,000 illegals for ONE DAY.

    Come on, Lineker. Put your (or rather, our, as you owe it as tax) money where your mouth is.

    1. I’ve seen tweets suggesting that Britain will be in contravention of UN rules, which might result in our expulsion from that organisation!
      They speak as though that would be a bad thing!

      2. Bring. It. On.
        Throw in leaving the WHO as the other part of a bonus deal.

  17. Proof positive that China has been meddling in Canada…

    Trudeau Pledges ‘Disinfo’ Crackdown Amid Claims of Chinese Election Meddling on Behalf of His Party

    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/03/GettyImages-598015646-2-640×480.jpg

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his government will be setting aside $5.5 million to combat “disinformation” as he struggles with accusations of benefitting from Chinese Communist Party election interference.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/07/trudeau-pledges-disinfo-crackdown-amid-claims-of-chinese-election-meddling-on-behalf-of-his-party/

    1. How much is he setting aside to spy on dissenters and block their bank accounts?

  18. Pro-Ukrainian group blew up Nord Stream pipeline, new intelligence suggests. 7 March 2023.

    New intelligence reviewed by US officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

    There was no evidence that President Volodymyr Zelensky or his top lieutenants in Ukraine were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials, the newspaper reported, citing US officials.

    The attacks on the pipelines fuelled speculation on both sides of the Atlantic over who was responsible, with Russian officials in particular accusing a host of Western powers of being behind the incident.

    Yes they probably looked remarkably like US. Navy Seals!

    This is where the West’s Elites have gotten to! The denial of what is perfectly obvious to anyone with half a brain!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/07/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-bakhmut-zelensky-putin/

    1. Serve them all right if Europe reacted to the energy shortages caused by this by refusing to supply any further support to the Ukraine.
      If the Yanks and for that matter the British wish to supply they can go direct.

  19. Just a general message of thanks for all the birthday wishes. I’m going to step away from the laptop now, so don’t be offended if I don’t respond…

    2. Happy birthday. Have a good one, it’s International Women’s day so don’t take any on!

      1. He’d better not take me on, or I shall swear at him and call him a Very Silly Sausage. Lol.

  20. CONVICTED SNP MP CAN PAY BACK “ESSENTIALLY NIL” OF £130,000 PROCEEDS OF CRIME

    A former SNP MP, convicted on a 20-month sentence for embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups, has said she won’t be able to cough up cash for confiscation. Natalie McGarry – who was previously bailed out by Humza Yousaf – faced a proceeds of crime hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court, where prosecutors were requesting £130,000. Responding to the Crown’s plan for a fourth statement of information, McGarry’s defence said “the available amount [for confiscation] is essentially nil.”

    A new date has been set for early April, as McGarry has been ordained to appear in the meantime. If Natalie can’t pay up, and assuming Humza is otherwise occupied, Guido’s sure someone in the SNP could sort her out with a loan…

  21. Morning all, snow overnight. The grandkids stayed overnight and will stay today as their schools are shut. A little bit of snow and they shut FFS!

  22. Good morning all.
    -4°C with a grey sky but, as yet, no snow though it is forecast.

  23. Happy birthday, Geoff, and many thanks for maintaining this oasis of sanity.

    1. Ocean of sanity?
      The very reason I visit is because the contributors are …. um …. quirky.

  24. Good morning, all – especially to Geoff on his birthday. The much vaunted frost never came.

    1. We had snow – a sprinkling washed away by rain.
      Should be fun up at the tip today.
      (I’m getting rid of as much as possible before next week when ECC’s booking system will foul things up.)

      1. Are they introducing booking? Gosh…you never mentioned this before…..(yawns – and also takes cover)…!!

        1. How soon before they query what you are dumping.
          Would there be a tick box for “Grannie’s skeleton”?

      3. Drat and double drat, Annie. And here’s me thinking you were getting as much as possible in order to make room for your (new house)-warming party. Lol.

        1. Morning BB. Any organisation whose primary function is the suppression of the legitimate views of the people is no friend to either Freedom or Democracy!

      2. He’d better start praying that his side wins. It’ll be bad news for him if we win.

      1. Military from where in the world, though? It’s obvious that in a small country like the Netherlands, they won’t be able to pitch the country’s army against its farmers.

    3. Anything to distract the population from the cockup that was the ‘management’ of Covid

  26. EU will never accept Russian threats, says Von Der Leyen. 8 March 2023.

    European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing Canada’s parliament on Tuesday during a visit to bolster support for Ukraine, said Europe would never accept Russian threats to its security.

    “We will never accept that a military power with fantasies of empire rolls its tanks across an international border,” she said in a speech more than one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    The 27-nation bloc, she added, “will never accept this threat to European security and to the very foundation of our international community,” she added.

    Von der Leyen urged “steadfast military and economic support” for Ukraine while also renewing calls for Russia to “pay for its crime of aggression” after proposing in November to set up a specialised court to prosecute such crimes.

    The EU played a considerable part in creating the present situation with its support of the coup that overthrew Yanukovych and with its encouragement of Ukraine to join it and NATO; you can see why Vlad is not one of its admirers.. There is also the point that Fond a Lyin possesses even less democratic legitimacy than the last of her countrymen that Russia had to deal with. No citizen of the EU has ever voted for her. She is quite literally the Globalist Representative. Viewed from this perspective Putin’s suspicions appear all too real!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/mar/08/russia-ukraine-war-live-kremlin-calls-nord-stream-reports-a-distraction-eu-will-never-accept-russian-threats-says-von-der-leyen?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-6408207b8f085cc80327cf16#block-6408207b8f085cc80327cf16

    1. Yo Minty

      The only way that the French could stop a Russians advance is if their White Flags got tangled up in the Tank Tracks

      1. Who will surrender at Twickenham on Saturday?

        Sunak gave in – will the English rugby team show that it is made of sterner stuff?

      1. Is Northern Ireland irrevocably now tied to the EU with hoops of steel which cannot be loosened?

        The gullible think that Sunak has made things better but the truth will slowly emerge that, as usual, British politicians are so helplessly and hopelessly naïf and wet behind the ears that they will always be outwitted and out manoeuvred by the EU.

    3. “We will never accept that a military power with fantasies of empire”

      Look in the mirror, bitch.

        1. No, it behaved its self today.
          I suspect yesterday’s problems were external.

  28. 371895+ up ticks,

    Wednesday 8 March: Locked-down citizens deserved better than Hancock’s political games

    If this were the case we would be denying the best of the worst,
    must vote tory (ino) party, keep out lab (ino) party ( reversible) their reason for supporting a segment of a treacherous pro eu COALITION.

    Peoples really do deserve ALL they are getting as viewed in retrospect they are well aware of the odious pedigrees of both politico’s and parties having witnessed / suffered from their actions over the last three plus decades.

    Verdict,

    NO, to lock down peoples,

    YES, to lock up politico’s.

    1. The Beeb is championing the UNHRA’s pronouncement that Britain is wicked to stop refugees. I’m wondering why Britain and the rest of the World even bothers to have (leaky) borders….?

    2. Once again line acre has taken the opportunity to show the people of Britain what an absolute DH he is.

    3. The twat has to keep peddling the BBC’s commie rhetoric so they’ll keep paying him his hyper-inflated salary.

  33. Good morning everyone ,

    No snow , drizzly rain, no wind and 1c..

    Moh and his pals cancelled their Wednesday golf game after listening to the weather preamble last night .

    Huh, groans and moans this morning .. frantic phonecalls , so they will probably play sooner than later in the morning if the weather behaves .

  34. Moaning all,

    Whiteout at McPhee Towers. Very pretty. 0℃. I can’t remember when we last had snow in March although I do remember a ‘dump’ of about a foot of the stuff on the 1st of May when I was a braw laddie.

    1. “I’m dreaming of a White April”. (With apologies to Irving Berlin.)

    2. Over here, near Costa del Skeg, we had Six Flakes of snow

      All roads closed,

      RAF Coningsby closed,
      Grims by Fishing fleet recalled to port,

      RAF search and rescue teams on high alert
      All buses cancelled
      Trains cancelled

      We strolled along the beach!

      1. Gosh – you took a risk! I am surprised that “safety officers” didn’t escort you away from that place of (obvious) danger…

    4. 10 to 12 here and still no snow!
      Still bloody cold out though. In for a mug of tea & a warm up.

    1. Grattis på födelsedagen, Geoff. Hope it’s a good day. 🍺😊🎂👍🏻🥃

      [PS I hope you can play Route 66 (the lyrics contain my name.😉]

          2. I take it, Sue, that you use an Apple laptop, ‘cos their emojis only appear as squares.

          4. I knew it was an ‘i’ something ‘cos George’s (Grizzly) emojis appear in a similar – unreadable – fashion.

      3. Stirring up trouble again!

        Why did you come between Winona, Kingman and San Bernardino?

      1. Thanks, Sue. A pleasant enough day, doing indoor chores, avoiding the snow. Will mark the occasion with a meal out on Friday. The postman is missing in action, and I haven’t had a single physical card. I know some are on the way, though.

        Best thing is that today is State Pension Day 1…

  36. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1d393cddab94ef313600c93577028744505418032b04265d5bbee5c20dc84da1.png Toast racks? I could never get my head around this infernal contraption, which guarantees that your toast will be stone cold before you get around to buttering it, let alone eating it.

    The expression “hot-buttered toast” signifies one of the most joyous experiences of mankind. Eating cold toast, with unmelted hard butter upon it, is very far from being a ‘joyous’ experience.

    1. Nowt wrong with cold toast, Grizzly, especially if spread with butter and Elsie’s home-made marmalade. Lol. (Similarly, I prefer my mince pies cold – but not spread with marmalade.)

      1. Mince pies … cold.
        Toast… hot-buttered (with or without marmalade).

        Personal preference, Auntie Elsie. To me, cold toast is nasty!

    3. I like cold toast with unmelted butter and marmelade actually. It’s a different experience from hot buttered toast. I usually eat the former in the morning and the latter at teatime.

      1. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0db9d417495cda28c10e273ed80c4bac809eda34c305cc69c75fba6e9b8217a4.jpg My maroon-coloured Conway-Stewart ‘Nippy’ (with matching fountain pen) was bought for me as a Christmas present in 1961 by my grandmother.

        In April 1962, I was leaning over the side of a ferry on the Thames (between Charing Cross Pier and The Royal Observatory, Greenwich) when it slid out of my jacket pocket and fell into the river!

        I wonder if it is still there, buried in the Thames mud; or whether one of the local ‘Mudlarkers’ has discovered it.

    5. My homemade rye sourdough needs the longest setting in the toaster and then a quarter setting more. The butter literally sizzles as butter is applied.

  37. 371895+ up ticks,

    Some places sanity still prevails,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12h
    Well done to these kids for standing up to the lunacy of those in authority. There is hope for the future

    The parents & school governors should be the ones demanding to know why this is being imposed by headteachers.

    People are now being appointed to roles because of their willingness to carry out the Globalists’ sick policies to turn societal norms upside down.

    34 pupils suspended after unisex school toilets protest shared on Tiktok
    34 pupils suspended after unisex school toilets protest shared on Tiktok

    Pupils let off fire alarms and left lessons during the protest posted to the social media platform as part of co-ordinated action in other schools

    http://www.walesonline.co.uk

    https://gettr.com/post/p2arrxqc137

    1. I am in a book group which comprises many well-intentioned women (#be kind! Save the planet! Adopt a Ukrainian!) but they read the Guardian and support the Horse (Non-Lib Non-Dem MP). Several still have children in the range 3-13. When I mentioned on Saturday about the schools teaching years 10 and 11 about (all sorts of sex stuff kids at that age shouldn’t know) – as reported in today’s Terriblegraph, at first they a) told me it couldn’t be true b) told me that if it was true, it is only an isolated incident and c) said that in any case, kids need to know about this stuff because it is “out there”. Also, apparently there is nothing wrong in their opinion with Drag Queen Story Hour.

      I really hope in 5 years time when their kids have gone through “the programme” that they don’t have the gall to complain. Because I might just lose my temper.

      Just glad my kids didn’t have to go through it.

      1. 371895+ up ticks,

        Morning MIR,

        Good post, the way I see it is that without their input & mindset we would never have got, as a nation, where we are today.

      2. A few years ago when they were teaching some stuff about giving birth, the tallest boy in the class (year 5, IIRC) fainted and fell to the floor.

  38. Well, ten minutes after my morning greetings – there was a vague film of white on the “lawn” which lasted about half an hour. The Wet Office still “advises” catastrophic weather as cold as minus 1ºC….. I take it all with a pinch of ice breaking salt.

    1. You’re not allowed to make your own assessments and decisions any more Bill. 😉🤔

    3. The Met Office’s predictions are all deeply weighted to assume climate change is real. That’s why it’s medium and long range forecasts are always wrong.

      It has the same problem as the OBR does inn accepting that lower taxes raise more revenue. If government continually refuses to accept basic facts, of course, it will be wrong. Worse, it makes decisions based on false information.

      1. Don’t be silly. Haven’t you heard of slave labour?
        Raw minerals and plastic tat don’t just produce themselves, you know.

    2. The Left happily ignore black and middle eastern countries. Their doublethink gets in the way of reality.

    3. Hush-a-bye, babby,
      Be still with thee daddy,
      Thee mother has gone t’mill.

      But when she gets back,
      She’ll give thee some pap.
      Hush-a-bye babby, be still.

    4. Caroline says that this gives an accurate picture of our marital relationship

    5. International women’s day.

      Yet Britain is importing Muslim men whose culture is —

      What does it mean if someone is misogynistic?
      Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women. It is a form of sexism that is used to keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the social roles of patriarchy.

    6. Until the first time I visited Russia, I’d never heard of International Women’s Day.

    1. Mid Hertfordshire, a light dusting not settling on the road surfaces.
      But More towards North London.

    4. Nope, not here in Hampshire. Just rain. Don’t mind that, it’ll re-fill the water butts.

    6. Cold here Johnny and plenty of snow on the ground. It’s also quite dark, so going to snow again, according to forecast it will start at 1pm. Temperature is 0c right now.

    1. Wonderful post, Still Bleu. I will make a note of the phone number and visit when next in that neck of the woods.

    2. Location noted for future reference.
      I’ll, hopefully, be in Nottingham this weekend for a concert on Saturday evening.
      That reminds me, I need to book a room for the night!

      1. I was wondering if they might be (rude word)-shaped but I think you have nailed it.

        1. Thank you Grizz.
          Seems we’ve also produced the worst political class and wasters since the beginning of time.

  45. I see the race-baiting Fulani woman is stirring it again! Do you imagine she’s short of dosh after her ‘charity’ was investigated?
    Can’t paste the article, for some reason! It’s in the Express!

    1. Good morning Susie

      Good to see you wide awake after your celebrations on the 5th!

      This is what is the Fullanus is getting up to now.

      https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1743695/ngozi-fulani-steps-down-sistah-space-palace-race-row

      Ngozi Fulani reignites Palace race row and asks ‘why is it so hard so say sorry?’
      Ngozi Fulani was one of the guests at a reception hosted by Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace in late November 2022.

      Ms Fulani, however, told the TV hosts: “Who were they apologising to? If you are sorry, tell me you are sorry, if you are not, it speaks for itself.”

      She later added: “If you have to ask someone for an apology, it’s not an apology. I am just making the point so that everybody understands.

      “I don’t see what is so hard to say I am sorry. You sent me an invitation, you know where to find me, you know how to say sorry. If you are sorry then say sorry, if you are not, I get it. But when you make this apology to everybody, I don’t know who you are apologising to.”

      The charity leader went on to claim her organisation has suffered as a result of the online abuse and threats of violence directed at her after she decided to speak out about what happened between herself and Lady Susan Hussey.

      Ngozi Fulani during her appearance on GMB

      Ngozi Fulani attended a reception at Buckingham Palace in November 2022 (Image: GMB/ITV)
      The Palace, she said, not only didn’t apologise to her but also didn’t do anything to help her.

      Referring to the reception she attended at Buckingham Palace last year, Ms Fulani added: “When you think that this was supposed to be [an event] against violence on women and girls, and because of this incident the violence has been directed to me, the Palace hasn’t intervened and I think they could have.

      “So what I had to do, I have now temporarily stepped down as CEO.”

      This decision was taken as the charity itself was negatively impacted by the row, Ms Fulani added, claiming her the service users and the community can’t access Sistah Space properly and that the organisation had to pay for PR to fight back against the online abuse directed at her.

      Sistah Space provides support to victims of domestic abuse with African and Caribbean heritage.

      1. Thanks Rastus! Don’t know why it won’t paste!
        I expect the silly bitch doesn’t really understand what an apology is.

        1. Considering she actually had a face to face meeting with Lady Susan, with a sincere apology, and a statement of apology from the Palace, it’s clear she’s just a publicity-seeker.

  46. BBC under pressure as Suella Braverman criticises Gary Lineker after migrant Nazi jibe
    The Match of the Day host compares the Home Office’s newly announced Illegal Migration Bill with ‘Germany in the 30s’
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/08/suella-braverman-criticises-gary-lineker-bbc-pressure-nazi-jibe/
    BTL

    Percival Wrattstrangler again

    If the UK wants to stop the boats‘ then forget getting out of the ECHR – we need to get out of the EU altogether and we haven’t done so yet!

    It is a bare-faced lie to say that Brexit has happened when the UK still allows the plunder of British fishing waters and where the EU can order British people about with a court, the ECJ, which has more authority in Northern Ireland than British Law has.

    3. Cartoonist giving too much credit to Starmer for knowing the difference between the business end of a shovel and the handle.

  49. I have a solution for faux women when they need to be imprisoned

    Send them only to Male Dominated prisons

    My reasoning, if they are ‘women’ they like men, or even love them, therefore, they will have a captive audience on which to
    practice their womanly skills and wiles.

    Then, they will leave prison, knowing that their choice to trans was the right one

      1. Yo Ol

        I think, that they may prefer a more ‘backward’ approach, al la Kray Twins

      1. Once they have been ‘In the Pubic Eye’ [sic] they become addicted to the ‘fame’ and will moan ad infinitum to keep the drug coming

      4. “Bosun, fetch me a harpoon and flensing blade, I’ve spotted a couple of keepers amongst ’em.”

  52. The Met Office have just removed all the weather warnings for my part of the world as they were just so wrong.

      1. A light covering of snow here, too. Still coming down, but it’s wet stuff not settling on the road surface, and seems to be retreating where it did settle.

      3. At 12:15, as I went to pump bilges, we had a brief flurry.
        It had stopped by the time I got downstairs.

    2. Encouraging even more experts to apply for the non responsible (it’s not our fault) positions.

  53. Had a decent evening out at the pub last night.
    Sadly found out that another of our once group of ten had passed away. Two are unable to leave their homes.
    Just the three of us able to turn up now. But believe me, we put the world to rights.
    Even at £4:50 a pint.
    58 years ago it was only just over a shilling.

    2. Are the housebound ones still allowed to drink? You could all go there and keep them company on beer night.

      1. No it can’t happen Phizz one is over 92 ….and another is isolated in hospital with a nasty illness.
        We formed a share club around 30 years ago when we were all still working.
        We were featured in the Telegraph financial section once. Photographs and all.

    1. I’ve known for a long time that the government is comprised of a load of self-seeking charlatans. I was moderately alarmed until I saw the outcome of the Diamond Princess death rates. If a load of oldies confined on a cruise ship resulted in so few deaths, then the virus was nothing to fear.

      The treatment of the old in care homes was far worse. Midazolam Matt should swing for the deaths from that.

      2. I tracked the government statistics in a spreadsheet for several countries. Pretty soon, it was clear that it was less severe than the 2018 influenza outbreak, yet that didn’t attract the same hysteria.

        1. All the serious flu outbreaks from 1957 onwards, passed me by. I was quite poorly at Christmas 1972, not apparently a bad flu year, but I survived. I had another dose in March 1984 – nasty but at no time did I think I was dying. Ok, I was young then and it’s worse for old people. I know I’m not immortal, but it was always thought of as the “old man’s friend” and a better way to go than some.

          1. I had ‘flu at the beginning of 2020 (I’d had a ‘flu jab), then I had Covid in February that year. It put me in bed for a week and the first day I couldn’t walk my dog because I felt too ill. At no time did I think I was going to die. Had I had it after project fear, I almost certainly would have thought that – and who knows, it may have depressed me so much I did?

          2. You were weakened by the flu when you caught the second lot – there was no covid testing then so are you sure that’s what it was? I remember after the flu at Christmas 1972 I had a second bout a month later. I was a healthy young person at the time. You also had the worry and stress of looking after your OH.

          3. I ticked all the boxes for covid. Fever, persistent dry cough, sore throat, shortness of breath – you name it, I had it! I probably went down with it (I might have fought it off, otherwise) because I got caught up in Storm Brian and got very cold, wet and stressed trying to get back from Haydock Park on the train. Trains were cancelled so I was hanging around and the cafes were shut. Add to that the worry about MOH because I’d said I’d be back about 18.30 and I was still stuck on Crewe station with no prospect of getting home at 23.45! I had to phone a friend to come and pick me up.

  56. Just back from having taken SWMBO’s car for its MoT (it passed). Main roads clear but side roads tricky. It’s snowing quite heavily again.

    Now I know some of my fellow human beings are quite mad. I observed one middle-aged woman out jogging on the snow and slush-covered pavement with bare ankles showing above her trainers. Also one young man strolling along in teashirt, jeans and trainers. Que?

    1. Firstborn always wears just T shirt as upper body clothing. And we get winter here, -14C at his place this morning, for example. Some people run warmer than others.

      1. It’s not a question of warmth while jogging, Herr Oberst, it’s the grip or lack of it in slippery conditions. She was running up a slope too.

  57. Medley Time

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  58. They think we are idjits the politicians and MSM that gaslighted us over the last three years running for cover

    “Yes,yes,I was always in the resistance.Milice?? no,no not me”………….

    https://twitter.com/Duchess314/status/1633260238970208258?s=20

    https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1631963290422108160?s=20

    https://twitter.com/Short2Cjs/status/1633048574626869249?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RogerV52/status/1633217953117216769?s=20

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    Two words………Diamond Princess

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    1. Fauci does the same as Whitty – he will say stuff that sounds quite reasonable, but somehow when push comes to shove, the interests of the big pharma companies always seem to prevail. Perhaps it’s their defence?

      1. At the end of the day pharmaceutical companies are just businesses. If government and the EU are so corrupt, so on the take, so easy to buy and free from democratic control and sanction when uncovered that those companies have power over them then the problem lies solely with the politicians and bureaucrats. Not with the businesses.

        1. No!
          The businesses are inseparable from the flow of money to members of the government, the media and the “public” institutions that licence pharma products.
          The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation makes many research grants for example, and Gates himself is a huge pharma investor.

      1. Simon Case considering an early exit is funny. He should be tried for malfeasance in public office, jailed and sacked, all pension rights revoked.

    3. When the media and politicians blithered that the vaccine stopped transmission it was clear they were either stupid or lying.

      Regarding the last one – I think the virus response in the first instance was probably the right one. There was concern and fear. Folk didn’t know what to do. The state stepped in and said ‘do this.’.

      However, the second time around, when it was clear what would happen to either the mathematically illiterate, that testing would return more positives.. that was when it became dubious. The third round, over Christmas when the restrictions were lifted was the point of stupidity when even the thickest person should have realised how pointless it was. That’s ignoring people wandering around in supermarkets blindly following lines – despite the aircon humming overhead.

  59. I was just now preparing Savoy cabbage for lunch, and ate a little piece of the raw stalk as I always do…it was so obnoxiously sweet, it tasted like a carrot. It was from the supermarket. Am going to see how the ones I grow this year in my garden turn out, and if they are also sweet, then I’m going to look for an old variety.

      1. I’m cooking it with onions and bacon….the bitter one is better for you anyway isn’t it.

        1. Yes. The darker green leaves are best i think. I like to finely slice it. Stalk as well. Superb with roast pork.

          1. I’m eating it now, with potatoes, and the Savoy is noticeably sweet. Not an improvement.

          1. As in school dinners and how my mother cooked it.
            Going to make soup now.

          4. Yes, I can tolerate steamed and some cabbages are nicer than others. We make our own coleslaw in warmer temps which is nice.

      2. Brassicas are good for gut health. I have bored everyone in the past with my tales of chronic poor gut health woes. Cabbage stays on the menu!

        1. “…chronic poor gut health woes…” Gosh there’s a phrase you see every day!!

          2. Reminds me – I must get some natural yoghurt after my course of doxycycline while I was away.

          3. brassicas
            stone fruits
            walnuts
            dark chocolate
            red wine
            asparagus
            pulses and legumes
            kiwi fruit
            pomegranate
            sunflower seeds
            anything fermented

          4. I’m allergic to Kiwi fruit, but I eat (and enjoy) everything else in your list.

          5. Seems to be a fairly common allergy – I am always a bit careful not to eat too many kiwi fruit.

          7. I was given one in my packed lunch just after I started working at Norwich airport. Within a couple of minutes of eating it I was writhing on the floor, my throat had constricted and I was unable to breathe (anaphylactic shock). First-aider were called but I managed to gasp some air prior to their arrival. I don’t want to go through that experience again.

          9. They don’t seem to be suffering too much, but I’ve probably killed off the biome and it needs replenishing.

          10. I had IBS for ten years. Then, when I was in hospital in August 2020 – it just went away. I suddenly found I could eat salads, mushrooms, tomatoes – and all the other things that would have been impossible during the ten years.

          11. Much sympathy. A healthy gut is like balanced hormones – you just want it to work, and you only notice when it doesn’t!

          12. Not half… I remember early on discovering why Rocket was called “rocket”!!

          14. So do I – love it. But with the IBS I had – it went through me like a, er, rocket…!

        2. Make sauerkraut. Get the salt right, you have tasty, crisp cabbage shreds. Lovely!

          2. I’ve got loads of that in jars. I do want to try making it myself, but need to buy the jar with the air lock.

        3. Well… it’s the cabbage making you unhealthy. Your poor tummy is probably still trying to digest the first leaf you ever ate.

          Burn the cabbage!

          2. Yep – well, sort of. My colleagues tell me I make a mess and tie cables together.

      3. Rubbish. You’ve evidently never had one cooked properly.

        Steamed, with a grating of fennel bulb in the steaming basket; or shredded and sautéed in butter. Utterly delicious.

      1. I read that too much curly kale can give you kidney stones….can’t remember who said that though.
        Cavolo Nero looks VERY interesting…did not know about that. I will look out for the seeds!
        Thank you.

        1. Certainly since starting to eat more vegetables while I’ve felt better it’s played havoc with my kidney stone.

        2. And don’t forget TROMBETTI. Very good indeed for troubled guts. I have saved seed from last year – so have plenty to spare. I am not sure how well it would grow where you are – as I don’t know where that is!

          If you have difficulty with CAV seeds, let me know.

          1. I’ve got three different kinds of squash seeds – kombucha, a delicately flavoured small pumpkin and some seeds that I saved from the Halloween pumpkin last year. They are all long trailing ones, so I was thinking of planting them round the bottom of a large covered wood stack in the garden, so that they can grow all over it and save some space!
            I saw the picture you posted of your trombetti frames last year – very impressive, but I fear my construction skills are not that good…it would collapse in the first breeze…

          4. During the war (Dig for Victory) they used to put cucumbers (also trailing) on the slopes of Anderson shelters.

          1. Ditto with kale. That’s why I never buy it from supermarkets. They will chop it up and make it next to impossible to remove the stem.

    1. I am pretty sure that Whitty and Vallance were perfectly well aware of their loophole for escape, as they took part in the mass culling incident that the government’s covid response turned out to be.

    2. They never stood there at the daily briefings raising concerns at the restrictions being imposed on us for no good scientific reason then.
      This will not wash, they should be in the dock with the rest of them.

      Never forgive, never forget what the bar stewards done!

      1. They had to sing from the same hymnsheet in public. But they appear to have dissented in private.

        1. Singing from the same hymn sheet in public but knowing it was a lie does a great disservice to the public. Inexcusable behaviour, they should be made to suffer the consequences of their actions.

      2. Mike Yeadon always insisted that Vallance new very well that he was lying in those briefings. They used to work together and Yeadon challenged Vallance to debate with him in public but of course Valance declined.

  62. Does anyone know who legally owns coins of the realm?
    Is it the person who has the coins in their possession, or is it the government?

    1. Coins circulate as legal tender but I would assume you own what you have earned legally.

        1. Clipping of silver or gold coins was always illegal.
          Nobody would bother to do that with our worthless modern alloys.

          1. Not all coins are worthless. For example, gold and silver coins that are legal tender are sold by the Royal Mint as investments.

          2. What are the face values of the gold and silver coins that they sell, or do they not have a face value?

          3. They have a face value, which is always much less than the value of the metal. IIRC, one ounce of silver has a face value of 2 pounds, and the gold one is perhaps fifty?

          5. I’m just thinking that as its intrinsic value can be vastly different to its face value, and as you say it’s an investment, it’s yours to do with as you will.

          6. I read an article recently with a throwaway comment from Egon von Greyersz that a lot of the gold held by banks has more than one ownership claim on it. He sees it as a real risk that people who buy gold from a bank could be subject to ownership claims from other banks, even central banks.
            I don’t know how it works, but apparently a lot of gold is leased, in order that companies can demonstrate they have a particular amount of capital?

            “much of this gold has more than one owner”
            https://twitter.com/MacleodFinance

            So I am just wondering if that could apply to gold issued for example by the Royal Mint, if the Bank of England needs to raise gold in the future.

          7. If you have possession of the gold then I don’t see how the banks could get it back from you.

          8. Lots of people store it in the bank…possession is nine tenths of the law though!
            It’s quite popular to store it in private vaults in Switzerland or Singapore too.

          9. MoH bought some gold coins a couple of years ago, but they’re stashed somewhere in the house.

          11. Not all coins are worthless. For example, gold and silver coins that are legal tender are sold by the Royal Mint as investments.

          12. There was the Irishman who ground all the corners off a 50p piece to make florins

    2. Coins circulate as legal tender but I would assume you own what you have earned legally.

    5. Promise to pay the bearer the sum of…

      Which is rather meaningless as money has value only because we share the fiction it does.

      Thus I’d say the money – the reference of value – is yours. However the item it represents is the bank’s. Thus the bank promises to pay the other party when you exchange the item for the good or service.

      1. It’s been a real thrill here- made a big pot of soup, washed up, washed the bath mats, put the recycling out and put the bins back where they’re supposed to be and other stuff.
        This international woman is now having a sit down;-)

        2. I’ve just been tidying up my overwintering geraniums and fuchsias in the conservatory. And the Oleander. They needed a bit more attention than they got from OH.

        1. We are in South Carolina at the moment, so no pythonesque Canadian lumberjacks around here.

          Lots of trees being slaughtered though, no big trees so it is either paper or wood chips that they are making.

  64. Just had my Ocado M+S delivery. Charlie Bighams chicken tika masala reduced by 60% from £9.50 to £3.80. Also their beef lasagne is reduced too. £3.30 for a 1.5 kilo lasagne is cheap.

        1. I went off Waitrose. Their customer service was second to none then something changed. If you complained about an item they just refunded you.

          I had a leg of lamb for Easter Sunday and on the morning i was going to cook it it was a day out of date. They refunded the whole joint. Not that there would have been anything wrong with it.

          Had some Nottlers visit and i had ordered in afternoon tea. The rectangular cake had been stood on its end and needed reassembling. They refunded the entire lot.

          Another time i was peeling potatoes and most of the flesh had gone black. I emailed them and they wanted me to send a photo. That was the end for me if they can’t get potatoes right.
          Not had a single problem with Ocado and never any substitutes either.

          1. I find Waitrose prices across the board tend to be higher than all the other supermarkets (including M&S)

      2. Changed a year ago i think. Ocado own range is quite cheap and the quality is good.

  65. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11834725/Gary-Lineker-laughs-Nazi-jibe-MPs-demand-BBC-sack-him.html

    This Lineker bloke: is he aware that the Nazis invaded other countries, consumed their resources and returned nothing except a brutalist authoritarian regime under the jackboot of national socialist ideology?

    Has he the slightest idea that he’s so utterly twisted up that he’s inverted reality to suit himself? I wonder if he even thinks about it. I wonder, when he was busy avoiding paying tax if he thought… hang on. I keep squealing for all this Left wing stuff yet I’m refusing to contribute toward it. That means someone else – someone genuinely poor – has ot pay more. It’s truly astonishing the knots champagne socialists tie themselves in.

    2. I can’t really comment, as technically the Warqueen and I both are, but he’s a corrupt waster seeking power over others. The Warqueen just refuses to pay 70% of her earnings to a greedy, incompetent state.

      1. I don’t recall any Kinnock doing a day’s useful work, and that is the difference.

        1. Oh I don’t know. Neil spoke volumes and that in itself persuaded the British Electorate that they didn’t want him as PM. Just think how bad it could have been if he hadn’t opened his mouth!

        2. Oh I don’t know. Neil spoke volumes and that in itself persuaded the British Electorate that they didn’t want him as PM. Just think how bad it could have been if he hadn’t opened his mouth!

    3. “Kinnock, Kinnock.”

      “Who’s there?”

      “No one -Try Switzerland…”

    4. He has absolutely no right to be interferring with Britain’s politics.
      Just because his horrible old father is famous for falling over on a beach.

      1. The now defunct Harpers & Queen magazine once snuck that in to their “Advice for Debutantes”. “Don’t discuss politics, your host might be rich enough to be a communist”.

    6. Son of Neil Pillock.
      Born a Pillock.
      Will die a Pillock.
      And spawn many more Pillocks.

    7. Is it allowed to be an MP and not domiciled here? Well clearly it is, but should it be?

  67. West warns against hasty claims after Nord Stream reports. 8 March 2023.

    Berlin has warned against making premature accusations amid reports that intelligence reviewed by US officials indicated that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind last year’s attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines.

    “It may just as well have been a false flag operation staged to blame Ukraine, an option brought up in the media reports as well,” German defence minister Boris Pistorius told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.

    After long months of absolute silence there’s this sudden rash of speculation about who the saboteurs of the Baltic Pipeline might be. It’s in all the MSM outlets and even the Spectator has regurgitated it and drafted in 77 Brigade as back up. The question is why? Well Scholz went to visit Biden last week. Did he say something? Did he say; I’m getting gyp off my voters. They think you did it and they don’t want to go to war with Russia! Solution! CIA starts producing alternate reality explanations for Teutonic consumption.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-soldier-executed-update-b2296239.html

          1. Funny you should say that. Grenfell is just behind the lower tower in the middle, where it dips.

    2. At some point, it will dawn on the migrants that it’s not worth coming to Britain any more. The money will have run out, and they will find themselves poor in a cold, wet country.
      It’s that moment when the money runs out that is going to be dangerous.

      1. There were threats of riots from “asylum seekers” last Summer, and the government promptly gave in

        and increased their cash allowances.

        BB2, what makes you think that the government won’t do the same next time threats are made?

        1. I mean, that at some point, they won’t be able to keep printing money any more.

          1. This is why we have inflation at the level we do. The state doesn’t care. To them, a devalued currency is a good thing. Means the debt is worth less and they can keep borrowing. Returns on investments? The things that go into pensions? Irrelevant – they’re held by private individuals.

          2. Yes, I am guessing that they will let the pound inflate away once they’ve launched the Britcoin.

          3. Yep. It’ll still exist, but the state will ensure it’s made worthless and force people to use their new, debased, devalued, unbacked fictional currency that they can control to ensure you only spend what they allow you to.

          4. Or it could be gently devalued until it is equivalent to the Euro.

            In preparation for……..?

          5. I agree with you bb2, however in the real Britain it is more likely that the government would find the money

            by cutting down on some other benefit, such as state pensions, or education.

          6. It infuriates me that people who have paid into the NHS all their lives when they didn’t need it are now being denied treatment or it’s inferred that they are “bed-blocking” or taking too many resources. Socialism!

          7. Many years ago there was a small country called Rhodesia.

            They couldn’t afford lots of bedblockers, so every major hospital had a convalescent home connected with it

            for those patients almost recovered.

            This way they could keep their hospital beds available for those really in need of serious medical treatment.

            Efficient little country, I wonder what happened to it?

          8. Convalescent hospitals still exist on the Continent. They are brilliant when they work
            A friend from Zim told me recently that while there are still many excellent private medical practices there, in the government hospitals there are only student doctors or no hopers, because all the rest are in Blighty.

          9. Plenty of travellodges around the country that would do nicely.

            Now that the government are into spending your money on hotels for invaders, what is wrong with a few million on second rate hotels for sick people.

          11. Oi!
            We use TL a lot when travelling in the UK.
            They’re not great, but they are relatively affordable, we can’t stump up for gimmegrant level accommodation.

          12. Us too! Perfectly OK for an overnight or two, clean, and often associated with a pub serving good ales. What’s not to like?

          14. I remember my sister having her appendix removed, back in the 60’s, a week in hospital, followed by two weeks in a convalescent home, times have surely changed in the NHS!!

          15. We used to have them here, too. Now the patients get sent home to recover, or into ‘care homes’.

      2. The government will always force the tax payer to fund them, and the welfarists. They’re clients of the state, the reason the state has to keep expanding, keep taking more. The only group big government doesn’t give a fig about is the worker.

    3. They need to stop the pull factor – all the freebies and benefits they get. Lock them up in removal centres till they beg to go home.

    5. Government have known about the problem, have made promise after promise and have effectively done nothing. They have no excuses.

  69. The protests in Iran still go on although it is not publicised very much in the West. So I wanted to post this. A reminder of the depravity of the Islamic regime there.
    By the way, Mahyar Tousi himself is under threat of assassination by the regime

    Iranian Regime TARGETS School Girls With Chemical Substance 😡 😢
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKjtLfoXjw&t=253s

  70. 371895+ up ticks,

    May one ask,
    Say if 500 volunteers turned themselves in to the authorities say on every

    Monday A tranny really is a dick in a petticoat

    Wednesday A tranny really is a willy in cami

    Friday A tranny really is a penis in pink twin set

    Would the current trend explode from over exposure and the numbers of abnormal return to normal ?

    There are genuine exceptions with medically understood reasons.

    Christian Preacher Reported to UK Terror Police After Calling ‘Transwoman’ a ‘Man in Woman’s Clothing’

    1. What I find funny is that these trans people take a stereotype of what they think a woman is rather than what a woman is. ‘All women do that’.. err, no, they don’t. You want licence to behave that way and want an excuse.

      1. A Catholic organisation did some research that came to this conclusion years ago, that transwomen are copying what they think a woman is like. It is not always a sexy stereotype; sometimes they seem to turn out like their mothers.

      2. They’re obviously misogynists – thinking that women are tarty, over made-up, empty-headed sex maniacs.

        And before you naughty men on NoTTLer go “fwoar”, you can button it – ‘cos beneath all that, when you get to it, there’s only a d!ck.

    2. That’s the way to do it. Almost. Whether they resign or not charge them anyway!

  75. Freddy Gray
    Tucker Carlson is right to release the January 6 tapes
    8 March 2023, 2:40pm

    Everybody knows free speech is protected in America under the First Amendment of the nation’s constitution. It’s quite striking, then, to see the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding that a major television network stop its leading anchor from airing footage he doesn’t like.

    ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen a primetime cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night,’ said Schumer, referring to Tucker Carlson, the Fox New host, who this week began showing new security camera images from the Capitol building on 6 January 2021.

    ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain,’ he said. ‘Fox News, Rupert Murdoch: tell Carlson not to run a second segment of lies. I urge Fox News to order Carlson to cease propagating the big lie on his network and to level with their viewers about the truth — the truth behind the efforts to mislead the public. Conduct like theirs is just asking for another January 6 to happen.’

    Pundits have been queueing up to echo Schumer in attacking Carlson

    What exactly is so ‘shameful’, to use Schumer’s word, about what Carlson is doing? He’s been given thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance video by the new Republican House Majority Speaker Kevin McCarthy – and he’s using it to show that what happened on 6 January 2021 is not the simple story of a ‘deadly insurrection’ most US politicians and journalists have had us believe.

    Lots of very peculiar things happened that day. As the Tucker Tapes reveal, Jacob Chansley, the so-called ‘Q-Anon Shaman’ – the absurdly dressed man who became the face of January 6th and who was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his part in the riot – was, in fact, escorted around the Capitol by police officers as if they were giving him a tour. The footage also appears to show Officer Brian Sicknick, who reporters and politicians repeatedly claimed was beaten to death with a fire-extinguisher, walking around healthily after he was involved in an altercation with protestors. Sicknick, it turns out, died on January 7 from a stroke, though his family yesterday criticised Carlson for ‘ripping wounds wide open.’

    Pundits have been queueing up to echo Schumer in attacking Carlson for being sleazy and dangerous. But Carlson has gone to some lengths to avoid being irresponsible: he ran the footage he’s used past Capitol police and complied with their requests to avoid security risks.

    Last night, Carlson further explored the biggest and most mystified question around January 6th: how did the Capitol’s security forces, then presided by Democratic House Majority Speaker Nancy Pelosi fail quite so spectacularly? All sorts of intelligence analysts had warned that January 6, the day the 2020 election result was confirmed in the Senate, was likely to be an occasion of angry protests. Yet the Capitol police were unprepared and some of their behaviour was perplexing. Asking questions about their failure isn’t shameful. It’s good journalism.

    There’ll be plenty more in the coming days, and more backlash against Carlson and Fox. But the upshot of it all is to confirm what most observers already suspected: the Select Committee on the January 6 attack was a sham. The Committee, which was nominally bi-partisan, was really just a group of politicians on a mission to condemn Trump and brand his supporters as ‘domestic terrorists.’ The people now accusing of Carlson of ‘selectively editing’ the security footage for political purposes are themselves clearly guilty of the same crime. They had access to all the same footage and they showed nothing that went against the ‘deadly insurrection’ narrative they clearly wanted to push. The videos they released to the public were little more than stylised propaganda. That was propaganda, and that’s truly shameful.

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

    Bob3
    6 minutes ago
    In every day and in every way, as time rolls on, us tin foil hat conspiracy theorists are being proven right.

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

    https://youtu.be/Uo8y8zSr090

    2. Well Trump wasn’t exactly complementary about CNN either.

      What they need is a nice internet control bill like Trudeau is trying to bring into Canada – censoring any misleading/ false information out there. No more awkward outbursts and surely nothing could go wrong with this scheme, after all Trudeaus minions will define what is acceptable.

  76. I would be banned from the internet for excessive expletive use if I expressed my views of this man a ‘Democrat’ and Senate Majority Leader:

    https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1633194727322288128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1633194727322288128%7Ctwgr%5E96dcaab6034af7b5ce3c94e944f661ee2f6b68d2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fschumer-demands-murdoch-pull-foxs-tucker-carlson-air-because-our-democracy-depends-it

    1. That the truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
      [Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra]
      “Truth’s a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out
      When Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink”
      [The Fool in King Lear]
      But I remember now I am in this earthly world; where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime
      Accounted dangerous folly,       ”
      [Lady Macduff in Macbeth]

      No wonder they want to ban the study of Shakespeare in schools: he sees things rather too clearly and he might make young people think.

      Mark Steyn and Tucker Carlson can see through the dishonesty and mendacity of those in power so they must be silenced.

    2. Sounds like the Demoncraps are worried about Tucker Carlson shewing them up, again and again.

  78. International Women’s Day:

    Theoretically and Realistically
    A small boy has a school homework question to answer, so he asks his father
    “Hey Dad, what’s the difference between ‘theoretically’ & ‘realistically’?”
    His Dad thinks for a while & then says; “Right-o son……go & ask your mother if she’d sleep with David Beckham for a million quid.”
    The boy trots off and comes back saying “Dad, dad, she said she would! She would sleep with David Beckham for a million pounds.”
    “OK son,” says his dad. “Now go & ask your sister the same question.”
    The boy toddles off, & comes back saying “Dad, dad, she said she would too!”
    So then his dad says “Right, son, now go & ask your elder brother if he’d sleep with David Beckham for a million pounds.”
    The son comes back excitedly saying “Dad! Dad! He said he would too!”
    “Well there you have it, son,” said his dad.
    Theoretically we could be sitting on three million quid.
    .
    Realistically we’re living with two tarts & a poof.

  81. Never mind the dusting of snow in the UK, our car is now covered in a nice yellow dusting of pollen.

    At least snow doesn’t bring on allergies.

  82. With all of these messages over the covid fiasco being released, has anyone seen references to coordinated responses with other countries?

    Canada followed along and outdid some of the UK restrictions, it 2ould be a shame if it can be shown that they knew that they were misleading us.

    Shame for Trudeau that is!

  83. One million shells needed to hold off Putin’s troops. 8 March 2023.

    Ukraine needs one million shells urgently to fight back against Vladimir Putin’s forces, the country’s defence minister has said.

    Oleksii Reznikov said his country’s armed forces need the one million 155-millimetre and 105-millimetre shells “as soon as possible” to save Ukrainian lives.

    I thought Vlad was beat?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/08/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-putin-zelensky-kyiv/

    1. So did I. The press and tv tell me the Ruskies are so heavily beaten they are having to retreat further and further towards Kiev.

    2. Perhaps the Ukrainians should not have sold off so much of what they were given, on the black market?

      1. I think it is meant to make you angry – it does me. For some people, the pandemic represented a large percentage of their remaining time on this earth – and there were the people who died alone, because of the machinations of the evil elite and their self-serving slave drivers

          2. I liked the picture of the man on the beach fishing. He was the only one there so it was perfectly safe. The police found the resources to send a couple of plods.

            Turned out to be a scarecrow someone had put up to entrap them. And photographed it.

    3. That is why there is no “outrage” because people believed what they were told – and now do not wish to expose themselves to ridicule.

        1. So do I – it seems logical to put the units in size order, as in “hours, minutes, seconds”. However, in the case of dates, the numbers are ordinal, not cardinal, numbers: the eighth day of the second month of the two-thousand , and twenty-third year, for example. (Yes I have better things to worry about, but there’s always room for more.)

      1. Turbulence caused injuries – unconfirmed reports she died on way to hospital….

        1. Just shows – one should always remain strapped in. Oh, she was – so that they could inject her….?

    1. Presumably all these people have medical records which must be retained for a period, which show drugs administered?
      Why can’t the police investigate how many had been treated with the drug? Apart from cover up, of course.

      1. Tut tut – far too busy arresting white people who are praying. “Data protection” would be the excuse for not looking at records…

      2. 50mg is known to be a lethal dose. It would be good to see how many were administered. But just now murder is only a crime of the governed, along with several other serious crimes. The prosecuting authorities have leant on the judiciary and blocked reports of crime wholesale. I belive the judiciary remain in great part uncorrupted but to get a case before them needs a passage through the oubliette.

  90. My opinion on GaryGate – for what it is worth:

    Mr Lineker is, of course, entitled to his view (so long as he doesn’t express it while actually at work for the BBC).

    However, he ought to remember that the value of his view is no more or less than that of any other crushing old bore who pontificates in the pub.

  91. Self-inflicted Double Bogey Six today!

    Wordle 627 6/6
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    1. My usual. No complaints.

      Wordle 627 4/6

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  92. Nord Stream II attack would be the biggest blunder of the Zelensky regime. 8 March 2023.

    Since the Russian invasion began more than a year ago, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has shown remarkable political and diplomatic skill in winning and maintaining the trust of his western allies.

    So the claim that a Ukrainian team may have destroyed the Nord Stream Two gas pipelines – the biggest attack outside of Russia and Ukraine since the war began – raises potentially damaging questions.

    If he knew about and authorised the operation, what does it say about his judgment?

    My word they’ve had their orders to muddy the waters. Is there anyone they haven’t accused. Oh yes. The people who actually did it. Lol!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/08/nord-stream-ii-attack-would-biggest-blunder-zelensky-regime/

    1. It is such a farce – laughable that anyone takes these clowns Biden and Zelensky seriously.

    3. “remarkable political and diplomatic skill in winning and maintaining the trust of his western allies.” – How do the Telegaffe write such drivel? We know how he maintains American support – 10% to the old man

    4. “remarkable political and diplomatic skill in winning and maintaining the trust of his western allies.” – How do the Telegaffe write such drivel? We know how he maintains American support – 10% to the old man

  93. Went to a funeral earlier. CofE church. Ukrainian vicar. No English (Cross of St George) flag. But displaying Union Flag and Ukraine flag on steeple.
    Just about everything that wrong with CofE.

    1. I guess it depends on whether the deceased had strong Ukrainian connections.
      From your comment I suspect not.

      1. He was not really a churchgoer as far as I can understand. He’d also suffered a stroke 4 years ago. Although one does not affect the other.

        1. I believe that when one donates the body for medical science that the hospital/medical school often organises a final service when they have completed all they wanted to do, so it may have been down to them how the memorial service was conducted.
          Were there a lot of people who might have been students there?

          1. Our grandson, in one of his seminars, had to identity various arteries, veins and nerves on a torso then secondly on a head. Not certain they were from the same donor.
            I don’t think the family has any say in what happens.

            I think I got the description wrong, it was a memorial service.

          3. As in the Monty Python “Medical Love Song” – “I left my body to science, but I’m afraid they turned it down”

          4. You do know that they have more than enough cadavers and you will end up as a crash test dummy, dummy.

          5. If that means some obsequious misses out on a £7,000 fee – that’ll be fine by me!

          6. My daughter did a degree at Sheffield in Biomedicine. They used the bits of the same lady cadaver for 3 years. You’re probably correct in thinking that they have a huge surplus, but if you cheat the undertaker, who cares?

      1. I wouldn’t vandalise the church as the Church synod or whoever purports to be in charge is doing the job without my help.

  95. Matt Hancock should be arrested for wilful misconduct in public office
    The slithy tove can – and must – be dragged before a Select Committee and made to answer for his actions and the vast hurt they have caused
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/03/07/matt-hancock-should-arrested-wilful-misconduct-public-office/

    ALLISON PEARSON

    Too much gyring and gimbling in the wabe and too much outgrabing has gone on since Brillig when we needed a proper Brexit!

    BTL Percival Wrattstrangler.

    We hoped Reform would be the answer but Tice has shot himself in the foot by supporting the Conservatives in their shocking treatment of Andrew Bridgen. Tice tripped up again with his uncritical support of the government’s absurd Net Zero policy. We want an alternative to the Lib/Lab/Con stitch up – Tice just offers more of the same.

    4. “I know the boy and he is often around looking for a bit of food or a bit of loose change and he gets by and is always smiling and is always polite.”
      Poor little mite was already fending for himself.

      1. As are most in that part of the world.
        From my viewpoint:
        OK Lineker, why don’t you spend your millions there?
        You won’t be missed here.

  98. After my recent ‘agit prop’ emails, that were really Pleading for further information, regarding my current cardiology condition. Out of the blue as it were, I had a phone call from the main man.
    Wow, it was rammed with more information than a stick might be poked at.
    I had to spend an hour looking up the possible alternative Solutions to get the best effects.
    Still not sure if I should go for another ablation or a pace maker. He’s going to send me the info and I’ll have a face to face.
    Marginally with my limited knowledge the ablation comes out on top do far.
    It just shows what can happen with a bit of agitation.

      1. I’m still very confused but quite proud of my achievements.
        There are masses of available information out there, but it’s all very confusing. Far Too technical for the average NHS punter.
        But I’ll get there. Pass the paracetamol.

    3. Well done you. My consultant chose to go and hide and had a consultant from another hospital who i had not met tell me they were not going to perform the operation which would have made my walking anywhere pain free. I may just take affirmative action.

  99. Friend (see last evening’s posting from Loch Lomond) has progressed through Glen Nevis https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dd9acfef141be66309fb5799679dd69c7d414e8d939bdce4f1fb639e477edab3.jpg
    [Roast black lamb for supper?]

    to her son’s place on Skye where this is the view from her ‘Pod’,
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b290cf7980e7679388cc0b3af81e01d0939dc2b23b3bac4d41fbb1541505d520.jpg

    Note the continuing intensity of the forecast blizzard.

    5. I’ve been to Skye twice but I’ve yet to see it – always shrouded in mist and fog.

      Damned if I’d live there.

  100. Speaking with a French friend who is very political, she suggested that the only Europeans that Macron likes are the Germans.

    She stated that the Merkel approach to German-Franco EU overlordship suited him perfectly.

      1. Mutti is an uncompromising, East German communist, a chemist by trade and as thick as two planks.

  101. That’s me for today. The day of NO SNOW – despite all the hopes of the Wet Office. May be chilly tomorrow when we go to the market – but we have our love to keep us warm.

    Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain.

    1. There was early snow here, which turned into spitting sleet for much of the day, but the snow returned at about 5 pm and began to settle once more. Now it’s snowing gently. It’s been cold throughout with a keen wind. It has been an odd winter, though, with snow in both December and March but none in January or February.

    2. It’s snowing here determinedly now, for the last two hours. Very fine stuff at first, snow drizzle. Larger flakes now, it is lying but seems wet rather than dry, it’s more on the slushy side.

      The expected boiler didn’t turn up today. Hopefully Friday now. Fingers crossed.

      1. Wet snow makes great snowballs for throwing- just in case you feel the need to pelt someone ;-))

          1. No idea. But wet snow is good for effective snowballs- experienced gained in CT USA.

          3. Bad night’s sleep and trying to keep busy means I am not as sharp as I could be.

    3. As our cousins (some of them) across the water would say, it was a No Show Snow.

  103. Whoa!
    Violent thunder and lightning here, on the plus side it’s so warm that the central heating has turned itself off.

    1. “Archie will be called prince.” Might it not want to be a princess in the near future?
      As opposed to the Artist formerly known as Prince.

    2. Impossible to know the truth, but my suspicious mind reckons it was a ploy to give them an excuse not to attend Charles’ coronation. (“If they can’t come to our kids’ christening, then we won’t go to his coronation. So the fault is all Charles’.”)

      2. Surely they won’t pass up an opportunity for more publicity? On the other hand, Charles has cleverly fixed it on Archie’s birthday, making it impossible for Meghan to attend.

        1. The Royal Family didn’t want to go to California and be involved in another of Meghan’s media circuses.

          Would you?

          1. I meant that the Sussexes won’t pass up the opportunity to try and show that they are still relevant by attending the Coronation.
            The media hasn’t commented on whether Eugenie, who is supposed to be close to them, attended.

  105. Evening, all. Been snowing all day here. Glad I was riding indoors. Now the temperature has dropped it’s starting to stick, so it will be interesting to see what it’s like tomorrow.

        1. I do have a share in a horse that’s entered at Cheltenham, but it remains to be seen whether he’ll be declared or will actually run.

      2. Oscar seems to; he was in and out like a fiddler’s elbow. Mind you, it could just be a ploy to get a biscuit when he comes in 🙂

  106. Of Mice and Men……

    “A Japanese researcher has told a major genetics conference that he has created eggs from the cells of male mice.
    The research, still in its early stages, involved turning male XY sex chromosomes into female XX ones.
    Prof Katsuhiko Hayashi from Osaka University is working on developing fertility treatments.
    The development, which he has submitted for publication in the scientific journal Nature, raises the prospect of male couples having their own children.
    Prof George Daley of Harvard Medical School, who is not involved in the research, said that there was still a long way to go before society was faced with such a decision”

    2. The best laid schemes of mice and men…..and leave us nought but grief and pain…..
      Rabbie Burns.

      Which led to the title of the Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men.

      1. Steinbeck was my favourite author as a youngster. I avidly read everything he had written and still have all his books.

          1. No, but I wrote him a fan letter in my early teens and asked his advice about writing. He sent me a postcard saying that he didn’t give advice but wished me well. One of my cherished possessions which I sadly lost during house moves over the years.

          2. Keep it safe Elsie, it is You
            I have moments in my life that are memorable: they are what makes us into what we are NOW

  107. Well, we’ve had a light splattering of snow all afternoon which never really turned to anything, almost as if the weather could not make it’s mind up what to do, though this evening we now have a light layer over the cars and a very thin covering on the pavement.
    I wonder what the morning will bring?

    And with that, I’m off to bed. Good night all.

    1. Hi Bob,

      The overnight snow here looked alarming, but it was only around 5 cm deep. There was very little wind, so the snow settled on washing lines, fences, and whatever else was available. It’s mostly gone, now.

  108. I too am going to say, Goodnight and God bless.

    I hope to be here in the morning with another funny but I’m oh, so, tired.

    1. I won’t be late either tonight- horrible night for both of us last night. Am also very tired.

  109. 44years have passed!!!

    in 1978 – BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,

      2. Jet Morgan, Lemmie and ……Whittaker. I used to listen to every episode.
        The Red Planet followed and another one which escapes me.
        Where can I get the CD?

        1. Yo F_A

          Off Ebay, j

          Journey Into Space – 53 Science Fiction Radio Shows MP3 DVD

          I doubt if you can afford it though

          £1.99

    1. Yo Elsie,

      may I fiddle

      Good night, chums. I hope you all sleep well and awaken refreshed.

    1. The role of snivel serpents in all walks of life is to come with a reason why you can’t do something. If we are to survive we need people to come up with reasons why we CAN do something.

    2. The role of snivel serpents in all walks of life is to come with a reason why you can’t do something. If we are to survive we need people to come up with reasons why we CAN do something.

    3. Thank you for posting. I’ve watched both series on Amazon Prime. The amount of Min Ag Red tape is unbelievable…..

  112. Can’t stay up any longer. Need to get to the shop tomorrow so must try and get a night’s sleep.
    Try and be good Y’all, I know how tough it is ;-))

  113. Talk about putting your Foote in it:

    “Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888) was an American inventor, women’s rights campaigner, and the first scientist to conclude that rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) could impact climate. In 1856 she published a paper demonstrating the absorption of heat by CO2 and water vapor, hypothesizing that changing amounts of atmospheric CO2 would alter the climate. Foote died in 1888; her contributions were largely unknown before being rediscovered by women academics in the late 20th century. The American Geophysical Union instituted the Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science in 2022.

  116. 371895+ up ticks,

    Two little items to ponder on the pillow,

    Post
    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    1h
    Tyre Tax on the way?

    The UK Dept for Transport have hired consultants to review how Govnt can crack down on tyre emissions as part of meeting their 2050 ‘Net Zero Target’. This would inevitably mean a tax on tyres.

    Such a tax would be a further hit on families amid the cost of living crisis & could impact on safety as drivers may delay replacing worn tyres.

    The Govt will seize every opportunity to increase taxes, & the

    For more information go to the RAC

    website.https://gettr.com/post/p2ava6p5d20

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    Mar 7
    ·
    Edited
    The Guardian is now defending Hancock – a Tory. Why? Because the leaked messages are further proof that the ‘conspiracy theorists’ were right all along about Covid & the Lockdowns.

    In 2020 the Guardian received $3.5m from the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation. Without Globalist financial support the Guardian would go broke. The Guardian is a stalking horse for the Globalist narrative, & gives the BBC stories to comment on.

    The MSM is under almost complete Globalist control.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/06/defence-matt-hancock-leaders-policy-private-whatsapp-message…more

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