Monday 27 March: The future of a school should not turn on a one-word Ofsted judgment

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616 thoughts on “Monday 27 March: The future of a school should not turn on a one-word Ofsted judgment”

  1. Expand Your Vocabulary

    Just a reminder for all you folks that we are never too old to learn and continue to be polite to others.

    How to say “I Love You” in 10 Languages
    English I Love You
    Spanish Te Amo
    French Je T’aime
    German Ich Liebe Dich
    Japanese Ai Shite Imasu
    Italian Ti Amo
    Chinese Wo Ai Ni
    Swedish Jag Alskar Dig
    Lithuanian As Tave Meliu
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  3. Good morning, chums. Only slept for four hours last night (10.15 pm to 2.15 am) so got up and tackled several jobs, including baking another apple crumble. Now I’m back to bed for another hour and a half – hopefully.

    1. Urgh… early -morning crumble sounds good, but those hours are for zedding, not baking. Or, did you move to Oz?

  5. 372647+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Is this new ruling taking on an old historical odious action look,Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, people with disabilities, and others were imprisoned

    Dt,
    Rishi Sunak to crack down on begging in anti-social behaviour measures
    Prime Minister will hand police new powers to target ‘nuisance’ beggars and rough sleepers.

    The dangerously dismissive “No it could NOT be so”

    lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition members MUST recognise the fact with the GREAT RESET ( terror org.) everything odious is possible.

    1. 372647+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      May one ask,

      What is the route of the political Odessa line
      AKA the rat line out, for when the shite finally hits the scatter fan.

    3. 372647+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Would this give leave to the government kapos
      when they come upon veterans sleeping under viaducts to dish out a beating ?

  6. Sunak must stick to his promises on crime. 27 March 2023.

    Rishi Sunak wants to put paid to anti-social behaviour “once and for all” – a laudable ambition shared by all law-abiding citizens. Whether it is possible is a matter of political will.

    Placing a crackdown on crime at the centre of his political message is astute because it resonates with voters who have to put up with vandalism, graffiti and a general decline in order. Sir Keir Starmer outlined similar promises last week for a future Labour government.

    Some neighbourhoods, so-called crime hotspots, are more prone to this than others. Everyone who lives there knows it and so do the police. Moreover, they have known this for years.

    “…a matter of political will.” It’s not really! It’s a matter of political bull. In a country in which people are stabbed in the streets every day they are going to stop them being littered? I don’t think so, and neither does anyone over the age of ten ! The truth is that the political classes no longer rule the UK. Their pronouncements; where they are not actual lies, are meaningless gabble. We are entering an age of chaos where the PTB can take us to war but are helpless against the descending domestic anarchy!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/sunak-must-stick-promises-crime/

    1. “Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime!” … Oh! Sorry, that should have been “Educashun, educashun, educashun!” … Oh again!

    2. You know, I wonder if he really does. As his tax policies have further alienated the family, making it harder for parents to stay at home with their children.

      That’s what stops anti social behaviour. Yet he’s a big state socialist. In fact, I don’t think he believes in anything. I think the civil service tells him what’s going to happen.

  8. The future of a school should not turn on a one-word Ofsted judgment

    Do they have a one-word judgement for too much wokery or is it compulsery ?

  9. Grattis på födelsedagen, Spikey.

    Hope you have a terrific day, mate. 👍🏻🎂🍷😊

      2. 🎵🎶Happy Birthday 🎶 Alec, enjoy your own day, and own it! 🎉🍰🎂🍷🍨🎉

  10. German Report Says Russia With Mini-Subs, Spy Vessel & Combat Swimmers Had The ‘Right Combo’ To Bomb NS Pipeline. 27 march 2023.
    .
    An alternative theory has concluded a possible Russian hand behind September 26, 2022, Nord Stream gas pipeline attack, based on the Russian Navy’s exercise in the Baltic Sea a week before the explosion.

    The drills involved naval special forces, combat swimmers, mini-submarines, tender ships with cranes to lift them, a smaller ‘spy’ vessel, and a communications ship.

    The underwater pipelines on the sea bed are located northeast of the Danish island of Bornholm and are regularly patrolled by Swedish air assets. They closely track Russian naval movements, which were not particularly being watched at the time due to a host of operational and weather-related issues.

    The CIA story about five Ukrainians and their dog blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline on their day off having gone down like a lead balloon someone has dreamed up this piece of propaganda fluff. The difference is noticeable, this time it’s a full on naval operation that was somehow missed by the Swedes who have a nervous breakdown if a Russian submarine even leaves port.

    There must be large numbers of Germans; or at the very least their NoTTL equivalents, who now know that it was the US that destroyed the pipeline. At the moment the Chancellor, Scholz; having just been elected, can ignore them but as the knock on effect of the loss of cheap Russian Gas on the German economy becomes increasingly apparent it will weigh more and more heavily on him and his successors. Like the British destruction of the French Fleet during WWII which helped lead to Vichy and De Gaulle it will become an item of faith to those opposed to the US Hegemony.

    https://eurasiantimes.com/nord-stream-attacks-german-report-says-russia-with-mini/

  14. A very happy Birthday wish for both Spikey and Maggie.

    Then tomorrow, settle down with your 365 happy unbirthdays to follow.

  18. Happy Birthday to assorted NoTTLers now for

    Monday Medley

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        1. There is a market for anyone that can design a laptop whose trackpad can be nose-operated.

          1. Shhh.. don’t tell anyone, but almost any body part can operate a trackpad if it’s capacitive.

    1. I think you are being far too charitable to the man by calling him a “Lefty”. He had no principles then, and has none still. He is a lawyer doing a job. Principle doesn’t come into it, any more than there is any correlation between law and justice (it is actually all about procedure), and even less of a link between law and morality.

      This is how New Labour elects to govern the nation; I won’t be voting for them.

      1. Remember Terence Rattigan’s distinction in The Winslow Boy?

        It is more important that right be done rather than that justice be done.

      2. Starmer’s reply to Maitliss regarding Westminster vis-à-vis the eu disgusted me.

    2. Henry IV, Part 2 Act IV Scene 2. Dick the Butcher…….

      A Lawyer’s first duty is to the ‘law’ and procedure as invented by themselves, not justice. Hence Shakespeare’s suggestion through the mouth of Dick.

    3. Henry IV, Part 2 Act IV Scene 2. Dick the Butcher…….

      A Lawyer’s first duty is to the ‘law’ and procedure as invented by themselves, not justice. Hence Shakespeare’s suggestion through the mouth of Dick.

  21. ‘Someone could end up dead’: New Zealand police stand by as trans mob attack Posie Parker

    ‘There were no police in sight. Despite widely publicised threats of violence, the police were nowhere near the protest front lines to prevent the event from deteriorating into chaos as it did. I had to call the police from the middle of the screaming crowd! And even then they weren’t particularly concerned that a woman was trapped in the midst of a mob determined to get to her.’

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/someone-could-end-up-dead-new-zealand-police-stand-by-as-trans-mob-attack-posie-parker/

    1. The Kiwis have learnt well from the mother country.
      Justice is anything but blind.

    2. This type of action is typical of the New Zealand police who appear to think that they are the warriors for Socialism.

      They didn’t hesitate to show hostility and brutality to the families peacefully protesting against Jacinda.

    3. I thought the police had escorted Parker away? Yes, it’s the wrong way around – it is the Lefty rabble, the ‘liberal progressives’ (HAH!) who should have been removed.

  22. ‘Someone could end up dead’: New Zealand police stand by as trans mob attack Posie Parker

    ‘There were no police in sight. Despite widely publicised threats of violence, the police were nowhere near the protest front lines to prevent the event from deteriorating into chaos as it did. I had to call the police from the middle of the screaming crowd! And even then they weren’t particularly concerned that a woman was trapped in the midst of a mob determined to get to her.’

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/someone-could-end-up-dead-new-zealand-police-stand-by-as-trans-mob-attack-posie-parker/

  25. I’m really bored. I think I’ll go to the Hungerford butchers for something to do. Chop, chop.

  26. Good Moaning.
    How very dare it be sunny on a Monday morning?
    Especially when I’m off to have my spine tortured.

  27. Rishi Sunak set to open ‘safe’ routes for 20,000 migrants a year. 26 march 2023.

    Up to 20,000 migrants could be offered a new safe and legal route to the UK each year, with Tory moderates set to force a government climbdown.

    Ministers are finalising plans that would see thousands of migrants from around the world offered a new home in Britain each year as part of a scheme developed in partnership with the UN’s refugee agency.

    Toldya! These people couldn’t lie straight in bed!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/26/rishi-sunak-set-open-safe-routes-20000-migrants-year/

    1. It’s the 20,000 that bothers me.

      Why can’t each case be examined individually for merit and a decision made and binding within the timescale shown in the Aussie show ‘Border Security’? For example, if 50,000 refugees turn up and warrant visas (such as the Afghan interpreters who helped us out there or Iraqi Christians facing torture by Islamists), then each one should be counted in properly.

      Arbitrary targets decided by box ticking some protected identity group is not the way to police our borders.

      1. The state isn’t interested in individual needs. It just wants to bring in a set number.

      2. Arbitrary targets decided by box ticking some protected identity group is not the way to police our borders.

        I’m surprised at your naivete Jeremy. There is absolutely no intention of policing the borders!

      1. However no free luxury accommodation, no free sim cards, no family allowances, no free health and dental, no free

        clothing, no regular money for the rest of your life, no free pension.

        Quite discouraging really.

  29. Happy Birthday, Maggie and Alec.
    Did you spend the past weekend whooping it up, or are you going to spread the joy throughout the coming week?

    1. Thank you Anne – speaking purely for myself it was the same weekend as the other 82 😘

      2. Happy birthday, aging nicely towards maturity, treat yourself to something pleasant.

        1. I imagine they can’t afford one.

          It’s just two people having a bit of fun. I imagine as soon as folk laugh at them they’ll be ashamed and upset. How does that help anyone? Heck, I’m no Michael Angelo’s David.

  31. Good morning, all. Bright and dry in N Essex.

    More evidence about the “vaccine” is coming under the spotlight and it is not a good look for the advocates of the Safe & Effective potion.

    In his video, Dr John Campbell’s all-round demeanour gives away how disappointed, maybe angry, he is with the revelations from the Australian TGA. Of course, if the latter knew then it is safe to assume that other similar bodies around the World knew, too.

    The CDC in the USA are also in the frame again.

    What is being revealed should be calamitous for the bodies and individuals involved along with the governments that continued their support with the ‘Safe & Effective’ mantra. Sadly, ignoring the facts seems to be the order of the day and on the surface nothing appearing to change being the outcome.

    Conservative Review – They Knew – Government Anticipated Mass Vax Injuries

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-xss9K7kwQ

  32. Good morning, all. Bright and dry in N Essex.

    More evidence about the “vaccine” is coming under the spotlight and it is not a good look for the advocates of the Safe & Effective potion.

    In his video, Dr John Campbell’s all-round demeanour gives away how disappointed, maybe angry, he is with the revelations from the Australian TGA. Of course, if the latter knew then it is safe to assume that other similar bodies around the World knew, too.

    The CDC in the USA are also in the frame again.

    What is being revealed should be calamitous for the bodies and individuals involved along with the governments that continued their support with the ‘Safe & Effective’ mantra. Sadly, ignoring the facts seems to be the order of the day and on the surface nothing appearing to change being the outcome.

    Conservative Review – They Knew – Government Anticipated Mass Vax Injuries

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-xss9K7kwQ

  33. Good morning, all. Bright and dry in N Essex.

    More evidence about the “vaccine” is coming under the spotlight and it is not a good look for the advocates of the Safe & Effective potion.

    In his video, Dr John Campbell’s all-round demeanour gives away how disappointed, maybe angry, he is with the revelations from the Australian TGA. Of course, if the latter knew then it is safe to assume that other similar bodies around the World knew, too.

    The CDC in the USA are also in the frame again.

    What is being revealed should be calamitous for the bodies and individuals involved along with the governments that continued their support with the ‘Safe & Effective’ mantra. Sadly, ignoring the facts seems to be the order of the day and on the surface nothing appearing to change being the outcome.

    Conservative Review – They Knew – Government Anticipated Mass Vax Injuries

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-xss9K7kwQ

  34. Reposted from late last night

    Monday 27th March 2023

    Fallick Alec

    (aka Spikey)

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    Keep making making your beautiful music!

    Much Love from

    Caroline and Rastus

    We are very envious of your talent! Here’s something you should get your hands and feet on!

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Happy+Biirthday+played+on+the+Organ&oq=Happy+Biirthday+played+on+the+Organ&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l4.15735j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5e899947,vid:wu1Altb1N6A

    1. Thank you both very much, I’m envious of that organ – mine must be sixth :o)

    1. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Belle! I hope you’re being spoiled and that the sun shines on your day! 💐💕🎂🍾

    6. 🎶Happy Birthday🎵, Belle! 😘 Have a lovely day, spring is here! 🎉🎂🍧🥂🍾🍮🎉

    2. Thought my pad died yesterday when the clocks changed. Turns out that it was just very slow in waking up (bit like me, then) – it was fine yesterday evening.

        1. 3.9C here at present. Not car washing weather, even it looks nice from a cosy sitting room.

        2. Sunny here, too, but car washing not rrecommended – it was -10C when we left home this morning.

  39. Yo and Good moaaning all

    Riski Sunhat and Co whistle whilst UK Collapses

    Tough on anti-social behaviour

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/26/rishi-sunak-get-tough-anti-social-behaviour/

    New recycling laws
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/seven-bins-per-house-could-needed-crazy-new-recycling-laws/

    Safe routes for 20,000 (IM)migrants a year

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/26/rishi-sunak-set-open-safe-routes-20000-migrants-year/

    1. Problem is if I try to look at anything on the telegraph website, unless you sign up, there is a major rebuff.

      1. Try clicking on the article – then, when the story appears, promptly press ESC key several times, Works most (but not all) of the time!

      2. Use the 12foot ladder lark? Does that still work? Their site uses a matchtech? Martech? site to do all the overlays and blocks. I’ll dig to find out, as if that’s blocked you can read the articles – and comments.

        1. I did click on one of the articles worded in italics and was able to follow it. But I don’t have an escape button on my phone.

      3. Use the 12foot ladder lark? Does that still work? Their site uses a matchtech? Martech? site to do all the overlays and blocks. I’ll dig to find out, as if that’s blocked you can read the articles – and comments.

  40. Russia may demand compensation over Nord Stream pipeline explosions. 27 March 2023.

    Moscow may seek compensation over damage from last year’s explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, news agency RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing a Russian diplomat, who also said that the future of the projects was unknown.

    The pipelines, which connect Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, were hit by unexplained blasts last September in what Moscow called an act of international terrorism.

    I’m surprised that the Russians haven’t taken the United States to court over the Pipeline business before this. It’s true that they would have little hope of success due to the lack of hard evidence but it would at least give them some political leverage.

    Nevertheless the question of compensation will inevitably arise, this being one of the reasons for the choice of Ukraine as the Fall Guy in the recent story because they can claim it as act of war between two belligerents. Anyone else would be up for the full amount!

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-may-demand-compensation-over-nord-stream-explosions-diplomat-2023-03-27/b

      1. Morning McPhee. Indeed, probably greater, since they could claim for damage to the German Economy!

    2. Good can we also have a refund and compo for the excessive rises in our costs of living?

  41. Morning all 🙂😉
    What a lovely sunny day.
    But unfortunately rain has been forecast for the rest of the week.
    Not sure what today’s headline is about I’ll have to take a further look at this.

    2. It was where Gerry and Kate McCann – who are not under suspicion – were staying with their family.

      Get that in before the Writs arrive!

    3. So what will different from everything they were doing before?
      Of course we all hope she is found at long last and the person or person’s responsible for all this is also found and charged.

      1. I was under the impression that the German bloke (in custody for other paedo crimes) was now known to have abducted and killed her but that conclusive evidence is sketchy.

        1. I had the same impression Bill.
          But of course the ‘They’ know better. I remember there was a problem with the Portuguese authorities when the initial investigation was started. As in, they were not very helpful.

          1. “…As in, they were not very helpful…”

            Understatement of the year, Eddy!

          3. Bet the Met police wouldn’t like Portuguese police coming here to carry out an investigation.

        2. Does he exist? After 9/11, covid, the ‘war’ in Ukraine – anything is possible. I think the truth about MM lies closer to home.

    4. The Metropolitanish Perlice Holiday Fund just Keeps on Giving’

      I have sent them an e-mail, asking them to put me on the list

      There are still Seven UK coppers who have not yet taken advantage of the holiday fund, they come from Bradford and think taking advantage of a possible child grooming of a white girl may seem a bit ‘iffy’, when they ignore the happenings at home

  43. Happy birthday to you Maggie have a lovely day today 🍾🥂☺️ best wishes from another oldie.

    1. Banking’s a bit of a mess around the world. Folk don’t understand it, banks are unhelpful and obtuse and when you need them, they don’t want to talk to you.

  47. OT – cooking tip.

    Last night, we had fish pie. For the toppiing, the MR uses grated potato (rather than mashed) and the end result is like having rösti covered mixed fish. Gorgeous.

    2. Funny Trash is nowhere to be seen. The amount of whatever gas it is that we are not supposed to use he must, er, use, in flying round the World.

    4. What is it now? I do wish he would just P off to the USA and Lala Land and stay there. David Starkey called him a traitor to his family and the country. I agree.

      1. Maybe they will not let I’him back in,they take a dim view of lying on visa applications.

    1. Chances are Greta we just won’t get there. You and your ilk are retarding human progress to such a degree the vaunted discoveries of technology that would normally drive humanity forward simply won’t exist.

      Your big state, control freakery utopia may come about, but the world will be poorer for it. Millions will likely die and you’ll still say ‘how dare you’ as they blame you for a lack of food, fuel and energy.

      But you, in your rich bubble will be fine. This has all happened before. Of course, being ignorant you won’t know this.

    2. Amusing but not true.
      Alexander Wynaendts, a Dutch former insurance executive, was voted in to succeed Achleitner for a four-year term as chairman at Deutsche’s (DBKGn.DE) annual general meeting in 2022
      He succeeded Paul Achleitner, (which is rumoured to be pronounced Cashlightener.)

  51. Perhaps we people of the UK should copy what is happening in Israel. To insist our own government make the changes the public and obviously urgently require.
    Interesting the Israeli police are not out using tear gas and beating up the demonstrators.
    Probably in agreement.

    1. Would be more effective if we emulated the Dutch and the stunning rise of the Farmers Party. Apparently there is another election coming up in the Netherlands and they are predicted to become the majority party according to the Polls. Just wonderful!

  53. Just enjoying a mug of tea after doing a bit of tidying up and getting started on swinging my chopper at the ash logs that need splitting.
    I’ve also got one comparatively small log of elm that the axe just bounces off of. Might have to get the sledge & wedge down for that one.

    Weather’s quite pleasant so my shirt is coming off when I restart!

    2. Do your balls hang low
      can you swing ’em to and fro
      can you tie ’em in a knot, can you tie ’em in a bow
      do you get that funny feeling as you slap ’em on the ceiling
      that you’ll not be Bob of Bonsall, if your balls hang low….

    3. IIRC elm does not split well, which is why it was used for the hubs of wagon wheels.

    3. What a pseud, not a scrap of litter or graffiti in sight. These people think this is the norm, they need to get out into the real world, see the closed and hoarded up shop fronts, get under the arches, into the cardboard boxes and torn tarpaulins, the smell of urine and cannabis, the graffiti.

  56. IMPORTANT CULINARY CORRECTION

    For the rösti</b> topping for fish and other pies:

    Parboil potatoes for 5 to 10 minutes – THEN grate.

    Sorry for earlier lies.

    1. Is this saga known as Pie Gate?

      Thanks for that but i’m going my own way.
      Peel, grate, butter and seasoning, Mix. Chuck on top of cooked mince, onion, carrot and gravy. Bake.

      2. Refresh, dear boy….all will be revealed.

        But I am grateful to you for yo intervention…

  57. IMPORTANT CULINARY CORRECTION

    For the rösti</b> topping for fish and other pies:

    Parboil potatoes for 5 to 1 minutes – THEN grate.

    Sorry for earlier lies.

  58. All UK honey fails EU authenticity tests. 27 March 2023.

    In AA Milne’s children’s classic, there was nothing Winnie-the-Pooh loved more than a jar of “hunny”.

    But now honey fans may need to be more cautious about the product they are buying after every sample of UK honey failed an EU authenticity test.

    An investigation by the European Commission found that all 10 ordinary honey samples from the UK failed adulteration tests, with the honey, while blended or packaged in Britain, probably originating from overseas and mixed with sugar syrup.

    Moral: Grow your own bees if you want real Honey!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/uk-honey-fails-eu-authenticity-tests/

      1. That’s my preferred option.

        Anyway, how does a bee commit adultery 😂😇🐝

        2. Worker bees cannot since, although ostensibly female, they are effectively sexless!

          They are female because they can multi-task. If they had been males they would spend all their lives sitting on their arse in the hive watching football! 🤣

          1. Not totally true
            Drones are male and they sit on the porch watching the world go by

    4. Bee-herding is very rewarding, and occasionally spiky.
      There aren’t enough bees in the world, they need protected and encouraged, plus the honey is good!
      Firstborn herds bees, and his honey is very sought-after. Sells for huge amounts. What’s not to like?

    5. There is plenty of local honey for sale.
      It’s the commercial stuff that MAY be suspect.

  59. There is a children’s book called Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. It is a little lad who is flattened so he is literally paper thin. But he finds out he can get into locked rooms by sliding under the door and so on.
    Everytime I see a photo of Fishy Rishi, that’s who I think of.

    2. The comments are interesting. Almost none address a bloke pretending to be a woman. The really odd bit is that 2-3 years ago, no one cared. It was up to you. I suppose once the activists got their hands on a victim group it was inevitable it’d stop being accepted and compliance demanded.

  61. Apparently a tanker plane was circling above Ottawa for the entire 27 hours that Biden was in town. This was just in case a war broke out and Biden had to leave town in a hurry.

    If they must be ready to refuel his 747, couldnt they have just parked the tanker at the airport and had it take off immediately the warning sounded?

    And they lecture us on our carbon use.

    2. For the same reason the EU made private jets exempt from fuel axes. These people are hypocrites.

  63. SNP leadership election result: Humza Yousaf wins contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon

    God help Scotland

    1. Well, he’s a racist, so they can have what they deserve. Hopefully it’ll end the SNP forever.

        1. The little sod swore his oath on the Koran, and in whatever God-forsaken language he uses!

    3. 70,000 members, 70% turnout, so Humza Yousaf’s position relied on some 26,000 votes in a population of 4 million.

      All to play for then for Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat. All need to up their game to win over Scotland.

      There seems nobody right now socially conservative and economically on the Left.

  64. Happy Birthday to you both: T_B and Alec

    And may you have even Happier 365 Unbirthdays, til your next event

        1. Yep, my pension is minimal amount , because I didn’t pay for the stamp years back and Moh thought it didn’t matter .

          I would be well and truly stuffed if the earth fell in .

          1. The “Married Woman’s Stamp” was a con trick that a lot of women fell for. All it entitled you to was the extra paid to the man if he was married.

  65. The Physicians Union of Israel announced the suspension of the entire health care system
    Medical services will not be available from Tuesday until the announcement of the abolition of judicial reform.
    The Tel Aviv District Police Chief also joined the demonstrations. https://pic.twitter.com/NbHxmsIPCQ

    1. OK, I don’t know much about Israel’s government, (MSM keeps referring to it as ‘Far Right). The Judiciary has too much power says PM Netanyahu. He and his coalition, some of it is religious based apparently, want to reform it. Anyone know the ins and outs? Is the Judiciary and all the protesting and striking by left wing elements?

      1. I saw a post elsewhere that said the judiciary has too much power in Israel – Netanyahu’s reforms are an attempt to remove some of that power. This could be a good thing…. or a bad thing, depending where on the leftist scale is the population.

        1. I think Netanyahu’s objection was that judges kept on convicting corrupt politicians.

          And we all know you can’t allow THAT in a democracy.

          1. He’s already charged with corruption. Maybe politicians, in general, have reached some sort of nadir world wide.

      2. Don’t know much about it, but just seen the coverage on Twit, and it does seem to have riled the country up. They are still smarting from being used as a test lab for the covid vaxxes, I think too.

    2. OK, I don’t know much about Israel’s government, (MSM keeps referring to it as ‘Far Right). The Judiciary has too much power says PM Netanyahu. He and his coalition, some of it is religious based apparently, want to reform it. Anyone know the ins and outs? Is the Judiciary and all the protesting and striking by left wing elements?

  66. Yousaf is the only one who could keep a lid on this

    SNP cars among high-value purchases investigated by police

    It is understood that detectives have questioned senior figures about items of spending and also gifts dating back to 2018

    By Simon Johnson, SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
    26 March 2023 • 9:06pm

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/03/26/TELEMMGLPICT000330226537_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqek9vKm18v_rkIPH9w2GMNpPHkRvugymKLtqq96r_VP8.jpeg?imwidth=680
    Nicola Sturgeon says that she and Peter Murrell, her husband and the SNP’s former chief executive, have yet to be spoken to as part of the investigation
    *
    *
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/26/snp-cars-among-high-value-purchases-investigated-police/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    1. BTL@Speccie

      GUBU
      30 minutes ago
      52:48!

      Surely, what we now need is a People’s Vote….

      *Krankie declared that the Brexit vote margin was so thin as to be ‘only advisory’

    2. I think he will be so awful that the SNP will be voted out next time.
      The fools will just vote Labour again, giving Keir Starmer the keys to 10 Downing St at the next election….

      1. I wouldn’t bet on that.

        It is astonishing the number of people who continue to vote for the most corrupt party in Scotland. It is as though they have a death wish.

  69. “Rishi Sunak’s Illegal Migration Bill: Tory rebels back down”

    There’s a surprise…..

  71. This man is infuriating. Getting a deserved roasting here and BTL

    Samuel Rubinstein
    Dan Snow is the ultimate midwit historian
    27 March 2023, 11:44am

    Dan Snow, the TV historian, is anxious about his ‘privilege’. One of many ‘nepo babies’ in the British media, Snow’s debut came when he was 23 years old, fresh out of Oxford, co-presenting with his father Peter. Having benefited from his well-heeled upbringing, Snow now excitedly foresees the end of ‘inherited monarchy’ and ‘organised religion’. In an interview with the Times, Snow makes a confession:

    ‘Yes, I myself am a privileged white guy who went to Oxford and read history. Once upon a time the world was made for English-speaking white guys like me — the challenge is how I act now.’

    Snow appears to express disappointment that Prince Harry, in Spare, didn’t try hard enough to expose the monarchy as ‘racist’ and ‘dangerous to those within it as well as its subjects’. His wife, the Lady Grosvenor, was Princess Diana’s goddaughter. Is he trying to compensate for something?

    Intoning the usual liturgy about how we must ‘find our place in history’ (‘No one is blaming you for the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade,’ he says), Snow swerves randomly into musing about the Second World War:

    ‘You can love your country but also be aware that the story is not as simple as the Battle of Britain pilots were defending freedom; they were defending a British imperial system from an ambitious German imperial system’.

    Snow launched History Hit, his streaming platform, partly because he fears that coverage of history is being dumbed down. But his comparison here is hard to comprehend. To frame the Second World War as being just a clash of ‘imperial systems’ is the stuff of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact-era Soviet propaganda. It should be met with the same suspicion that greets those who say the American Civil War was about ‘states’ rights’: the ‘ambitious German imperial system’ was ambitious to do what?

    To a historian like Snow there simply is no greater thrill than slaying the most sacred cow you can find

    So why did Snow go there? A genre of internet meme might offer an answer. The Midwit Meme depicts three familiar figures on the intelligence spectrum. On the left is an unthinking troglodyte: the Oaf. On the right, is an enlightened, hooded, darkly monkish figure: the Savant. In the middle is the butt of the joke, the eponymous Midwit. The conceit of the Midwit Meme is that the Oaf and the Savant often have more in common with each other than either of them does with the Midwit: it is, in other words, the intellectual spin-off to horseshoe theory.

    Take a broad-brush historical statement of the sort that might be known to your average Oaf, insofar as he thinks of any of these things at all. ‘The Dark Ages were a Dark Time in history’, say, or ‘Richard III was a Bad King’, or ‘Nero was also bad’. The Savant is unlikely to phrase these things in quite such a manner, but he would probably have to say that they are, in a basic and rudimentary sense, correct. Yet the Midwit, anxious to distinguish himself from his intellectual inferiors, finds his greatest thrill in quibbling such statements.

    ‘Well, actually,’ he begins, before dismantling ‘common misconceptions’ or ‘questioning the traditional narrative’. Another myth debunked, he smiles to himself as he gets into bed that night; another consensus smashed. (And, given the overlap between Midwittery and a certain type of politics, ‘another fascist owned’).

    To the Midwit historian, like Snow, there simply is no greater thrill than slaying the most sacred cow you can find. Saying that the British Empire was bad will no longer cut it. There’s always more to revise, to subvert, to demolish. An Oaf might think that the Battle of Britain was a battle between Goodies and Baddies. Midwits know that, well actually, it’s a lot more complicated. The Savants know that everything in the world is complicated. But they also know – even if they don’t phrase it in quite such a manner – that the Battle of Britain was, in the end, a battle between Goodies and Baddies. Historians of Nazi Germany and the Second World War are often hyper-anxious that their subject-matter will be distorted by bad-faith actors on the political right. The real threat, however, comes from the Midwits.

    Midwittery has always existed, but it’s finally having its moment. If you watch Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation you will find no trace of Midwittery. Clark came to delight in the sharing of knowledge, not to ‘debunk’, so almost everything he says is at once Oafish and Savantish (‘What is civilisation? I don’t know, but I think I can recognise it when I see it’). Some of the best passages in E.P. Thompson’s 1963 classic, The Making of the English Working Class, occur when Oaf and Savant join forces against Midwittery. Writing against R.M. Hartwell’s ‘well actuallies’ about the Victorian workhouses, Thompson concludes one of his most affecting chapters, after pages of highfalutin economic analysis, by reaffirming the ‘more traditional view: that the exploitation of little children, on this scale and with this intensity, was one of the most shameful events in our history’.

    There is no greater manifestation of this wave of midwittery than TV historian Dan Snow. Snow’s intervention shows how the genre of popular history has been taken over by the Midwits. There are, of course, some holdouts of the Old Regime. But, by and large, popular historians, not to mention academic ones, conceive of their vocation as nothing more than pedantry masked as ‘subversion’.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-trouble-with-dan-snow/

    1. I couldn’t read past this;
      “Snow now excitedly foresees the end of ‘inherited monarchy’ and ‘organised religion’.

      Except one of course.

      2. Looks as though he hasn’t changed a bit!

        The rest of us wouldn’t mind having a bit of that privilege before he merrily throws it away.

        1. “Check your privilege you Oxford graduate, you! ” I wouldn’t mind betting you’re white as well! Pale, stale and female……… like me.

    4. Look at any TV credit list . and you know darn well that nepotism rules the roost .

      That type are channel 4ists and are trying to change the face of history .

      1. Happy Birthday! I said it this morning but couldn’t see you then! So I’m saying it again! It’s the Trombones one this time! Well done and have a super day! Did he take you out for lunch?

        1. Moh bought me an outdoor waterproof camera to put in the garden to watch the comings and goings of the hedgehogs and other garden visitors .. 2 appeared last night , a big hog and a smaller one , the dogs were very curious .

          The camera appeared today and darned if we now how to set it up !

          Thank you for my birthday greetings .

          No meal treats , just grilled fish tonight ..

          We did the meal and wine thing decades ago, and as we don’t indulge for various reasons , I am quite content to do with out my wretched IBS.

          1. My OH has just found a spare camera which he’s about to set up in the bluetit box. It will involve a lot of trailing wire……… still it’s his chief interest these days. We noticed that bluey seems to have stopped roosting in the bluetit box on the house wall (which already has a camera in) but he suspects that is one of the pair which has started nesting in quite an old box on a post that we can watch from the conservatory.
            So he’s now checking the camera works.

            Over the years he’s installed 16 boxes for swifts. Some are left accessible for starlings and other birds, and boxes 9 & 10 appear to have been taken over by starlings. Box 8 was used throughout the winter by “Sparkles”, a starling, who seems to have now deserted box 8 – boxes 9 & 10 are now full of nesting material. So he might have moved next door.

            Sorry to hear about the IBS – most unpleasant I would think. It’s not something I’d want to experience.

      3. Hoppy Birdie, Belle!
        Hope it was the best ever! and that you have many more to come!

        1. Getting older is an absolute nuisance OB.

          I fell as if I am now a walking history book .

          But living in an alternative universe ..

          No proper Tartan Jock as a first minister , and no cockney lad as Mayor of London , and oh dear , a Ghandi type fellow as our Prime Minister .

          Gawd help us all.

          1. Know what you mean about getting old. Reckon my clockwork is running down – no energy left, too much stressful work to do.
            Ah, well.
            Crocuses by the house are out! That’s lovely, so it is, and indoor daffs out too. Could be worse.

          6. And if you need help from quite a few well known companies as in ‘customer service’ we now need an interpreter, because most of the helpers seem to live in south asia. As in it’s very difficult indeed to understand what they are trying to say.

          7. This afternoon I spent quite a while on the phone to a chap named Patel (actually very polite and spoke proper English with no accent) as we’d been notified by the Fundraising Preference Service that somebody wanted to be taken off our database. What a rigmarole to go through – when this person could have just told us she no longer wanted to hear from us.

            So we’re now registered with this quango organisation – a third party organisation, no doubt costing taxpayers a fortune, with offices in London, and a well-spoken young man with a non-English name as Contracts Manager, on a good salary. He was very helpful, I have to say.

    5. Sorry but I got as far as “His wife, the Lady Grosvenor”. His wife is not Lady Grosvenor. She is not a peer in her own right nor is she married to a peer. She is the daughter of a peer and married to a commoner. She is Lady Edwina Snow. When writing about someone else’s ignorance and idiocy, it helps to not expose your own.

      1. Akshully, because she’s the daughter of a Duke (same would apply were Daddy a Marquis or Earl) the correct address is The Lady Edwina Snow.

        1. To correct myself further, it also occurs to me that Lady Surname could be a knight’s lady or the wife of a baronet as well as a peer or wife of a peer.

    7. ‘Yes, I myself am a privileged white guy who went to Oxford and read history. Once upon a time the world was made for English-speaking white guys like me — the challenge is how I act now.’

      So Snow only “challenges how he acts now” after he has benefitted from his self-confessed privilege with a large dose of nepotism thrown in. How gracious of him…

      I watch loads of history documentaries on YT but any with Snow in, I just pass by.

    8. ‘Yes, I myself am a privileged white guy who went to Oxford and read history. Once upon a time the world was made for English-speaking white guys like me — the challenge is how I act now.’

      So Snow only “challenges how he acts now” after he has benefitted from his self-confessed privilege with a large dose of nepotism thrown in. How gracious of him…

      I watch loads of history documentaries on YT but any with Snow in, I just pass by.

  72. Putin and his allies love buying art. To help us win the war in Ukraine, confiscate it. 27 March 2023.

    Western allies of Ukraine seeking to put pressure on the Kremlin over the war crimes extravaganza unleashed on Ukraine could ban sanctioned Russians from their prestigious art markets, including auction houses. More stringent regulations about beneficial ownership could be introduced, which would help to clean up the real estate market as well as the art world. An international taskforce should be established to recover priceless works of art looted from Ukrainian galleries and museums by Russian occupiers. And western authorities should confiscate pieces bought by sanctioned individuals and their proxies. The money should go towards the reconstruction of Ukraine.

    How could the Russians loot what they have never had access to? The Ukrainian attitude here is more commonly known as thieving!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/putin-allies-expensive-art-confiscate-paintings-sculptures

    1. This is just depressing.
      Russian art is actually rather good – they still have the classical training that is lacking in western art colleges.

    1. A ghastly birthday present but even so, I hope you have had, and continue to have a lovely day.

    2. Good evening Belle, Happy Birthday. vw and I hope you’ve had a stiflingly good day.

        1. “They’ll be dancing in the streets outside the mosque in Peebles”

          © (as edited) the estate of the late Bill Mclaren.

    1. The problem with bankrupting the bastards is that they will then live off the taxpayer, and that’s assuming that they have any assets that the victims can have confiscated on their behalf.

      Even so, I hope they go for every single one of them in the hope that they will flee back to whichever pigshitistan that they and their families originate from.

    2. Who will pay though? The welfare dependent muslim or the state? When he applies for – and receives – legal aid, it’s yet more money out of our pockets protecting and supporting a rapist who’s been released 5 years early.

      A just society would have the scum tortured, flogged, and castrated using a blunt knife. 10 weeks of rape of a child and he’s out in 4 years? Hell, my niece is 14. If he’d laid a hand on her I’d smash every bone in his body with a sledgehammer and hang the still screaming remains as a banner in the centre of Rotherham.

      Then I’d start on the police and the sodding council who were equally supportive and protective of the rape of children.

      I’m sick of these vermin. Douse them in napalm, set fire to them and kick them into the sea.

    3. Judgment overturned on appeal. “Quite inappropriate, ” says Lord Justice Abdul Mohammed, “He has suffered enough. The woman was gagging for it.”

      You read it here first.

    4. Too lenient. He should have gone down for 30 years. And of course i’m not disputing the money the poor young lady was awarded. But once more from the tax payers. But why not from the community that POS shit comes from, they should pay for their sins not the British tax payers

    7. GB News have got it wrong. They are not grooming gangs they are Pakistani rape gangs. ‘Grooming’ sounds too kindly sounding.

  76. Par Four again today.

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    1. A little birdie.

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  78. Good evening.
    Clif High, who is a batsh*t crazy American software developer is on a mission to wind up ChatGPT by asking questions that show up its limitations. If you have any fears that AI will take over the world, the stupidity of ChatGPT’s replies may be reassuring. They are published on his twit account.
    Content goes into fine detail about body parts – consider yourself warned.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d00b2019cacc0987ec30bc5e5b2f8074738fea03d4469464940ff8149df05728.jpg

    1. It could be a fake man (previously a woman) who a got a strap-on of the wrong colour………..

  79. There is an article in the Mail that makes out that hoarding food is a sign of mental illness. Makes me want to go out and buy another ten cans of beef stew.

    1. I have at least a dozen cans of everything that can be canned. A dry store full of pasta, rice and flour.

      2 kg of powdered egg. 48 litres of bottled still water.

      3 freezers always kept full.

      Iodine and water purification tablets.

      It is called being prepared given the disruptions we have seen.

      3. The SHTF Handbook, by Serco Begovic if you are a really hard-core prepper (European style).

    2. Ah so that is what that article is all about. They don’t want us preparing, nor being prepared, for the Great Famine.

        1. I have been squirrelling things away, a bit here and a bit there for over a year now. I am running out of space now.

  80. Woke up this morning with a pain in my chest. Left hand side behind the nipple. I have a lump. Called the surgery first thing. No appointments to be had. They said they would triage me and call if a space became available. Luckily they did manage to fit me in and am now on antibiotics. Another appointment in two weeks to see if i need further treatment. It don’t half sting.

    1. More bad luck, stop looking at mirrors and stepping on cracks.

      It’ll need a walletectomy.

      Good luck!

          2. I had some of that during my boob wars 26 years ago – still alive to tell the tale and I did have a glass of wine on an evening out that week. It was a hospital acquired infection in the wound.

          3. Worryingly my records show i was prescribed Tamoxifen 12 years ago. Don’t know how that happened. That’s a hormone treatment for breast cancer.

          6. I did go to the Spire Hospital for a scan on my chest. I’m wondering now if the Spire wrote to my GP to prescribe Tamoxifen for me.

          8. No, and i would have remembered as it is normally for 5 to 10 years. I am going to have to follow this up.

    2. That sounds very ouchifying. How long with antibiotics? Hope they work very quickly, don’t like the sound of an abscess.

        1. No! I called the hospital twice to try and move my appointment earlier…not a chance. Phizz is lucky he got seen promptly. I do not smirk about those in pain or trying to find help regarding it.

          2. Me too, plus me mush. Pain is a daily companion.
            And I would never, ever smirk at someone who is in pain or suffering.

        1. Make sure you take care of yourself- pain is no bloody fun. At least you have doggies so have a little dog therapy.

    4. So sorry to see that, never mind, look on the bright side, you were able to get seen and antibiotics prescribed. Good luck and take care.

    5. Oh Phizzee! That sounds nasty! Glad you managed to see someone so quickly and get treatment! When they say don’t drink with antibiotics, ignore them! It’s a ploy! 😘 Unless it’s the metrozinadole!

    1. What is it with the U.K. that we can’t find a decent a) Scotsman/woman and b) England/Wales/Northern Ireland can’t find a decent Englishman/woman to be PM and Home Secretary. What a mess we’re in.

      1. 372647+ up ticks,

        Evening VW,
        The mess ris sad to say is in the peoples making.
        Behind the party lab/lib/con banner you could have joe mengele, joe stalin & tojo,
        would make no difference tis the party
        name that holds the power over fools.

        We really never could have got into such a mess without their continual input these last three plus decades,

  82. That’s me for today. Lovely sunny afternoon – but chilly. The MR’s toe needs to be taped for a month – complications from arthritis. She is – as all women are – stoical. More chilly and cloudy weather tomorrow. Then Wed – improvement.

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

    1. My toe still aches from when I stubbed it while I was away – hopefully it won’t develop arthritis.

        1. No – it’s still attached to my foot. I stubbed it in the dark on the way to the loo in the night.

          2. It could have been worse it might have been:

            Me, you thought I was going to say Lego

  83. Scotland is now f*cked – the muslim twat is first minister. How long before we are a caliphate?

    2. Par for the course.
      Wherever they go they do their damnedest to break up the new location.

    5. There hasn’t been a coup replacing him with one of the other candidates yet, from which we can deduce that he is the candidate that TPTB want in the job.

  84. A guy dies and at the pearly gates St Peter is waiting for him,
    “OK, you been a bit naughty down there you have to finish a task before we let you in. ”
    “Alright, let’s get on with it, ” the bloke replied. With that St Peter got an old bucket with a hole in it and said,
    “See that ocean down there, you have to empty it using just the bucket. ”
    “Are you taking the piss?” said the bloke, “is there anything else I can do?”
    “Well let’s have a look, yes, the Spurs managers job has just become available, you can do that until they win a trophy. ”
    “Fucks sake, “replied the bloke, “pass me the fucking bucket. “

  85. A guy dies and at the pearly gates St Peter is waiting for him,
    “OK, you been a bit naughty down there you have to finish a task before we let you in. ”
    “Alright, let’s get on with it, ” the bloke replied. With that St Peter got an old bucket with a hole in it and said,
    “See that ocean down there, you have to empty it using just the bucket. ”
    “Are you taking the piss?” said the bloke, “is there anything else I can do?”
    “Well let’s have a look, yes, the Spurs managers job has just become available, you can do that until they win a trophy. ”
    “Fucks sake, “replied the bloke, “pass me the fucking bucket. “

  89. At least when our great nations leaders meet up for a get together people will think they are watching the adverts.

    1. The separatists who planted the bomb said the crash was not their fault.

      When the gimmegrants attack the locals the politicians say it’s not their fault.

      Cause and effect

        1. I think you’re missing my point.

          The crash almost certainly would not have happened had the separatists (terrorists in my book) not set off their bomb in the terminal causing people to panic and try to depart the airfield to get away.

          In my view, creating the background for such an event makes one as culpable as being the pilot or ATC person who is blamed for the crash, if not more so.

      1. WIKI:

        Tenerife airport disaster
        27 March 1977
        The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run while Pan Am Flight 1736 was still on the runway. Wikipedia
        Date: 27 March 1977
        Location: Tenerife Norte Airport
        Number of deaths: 583
        Summary: Runway collision caused by pilot error
        Injuries: 61

        1. It’s where all the holes in the swiss cheese lined up. And nearly 600 people died that should not have.

      2. 46th at the end of the 46 years, not the beginning. There wasn’t the noughth anniversary in 1977…

  92. Drip, drip, drip and so it goes on. This is from a relatively MSM newspaper.

    Certain Covid vaccines might TREBLE risk of sudden cardiac death in women under 30, official data shows
    Covid jabs, while overall safe, are linked to rare, and sometime fatal side affects

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11906431/Women-20s-given-AstraZenecas-Covid-jab-3-5-TIMES-likely-die-cardiac-arrest.html

    Hancock should hang, Fauci should fry and all the rest should attached to anchor chains and dropped into the Marianas Trench.

    1. And when one looks at the article they still can’t bring themselves to hint, let alone accept that the downside might outweigh the gains.
      Gains? I hear you ask, of course there must have been gains, /sarc the vaccines don’t stop one getting the disease, nor do they prevent one from transmitting the disease and multiple applications make no difference.

      1. “Gains?”

        Not to discount those massive gains made by big pharma to their balance sheets!

    1. A taxi driver in Cardiff once told me that BBC Wales is known there as The North Wales Embassy because no one else bothered with Welsh and he wished his children had been taught French, German or Spanish instead, as he considered those languages far more useful.

      1. Welsh is a joke even for those in most of North Wales. It dying language which is past resuscitation.

      2. My grandfather wouldn’t allow Welsh spoken in the house…
        Consequently I had just one Welsh speaking cousin.She went
        to her mothers home in Cardigan during the war and the family
        there only communicated in Welsh.By the way she’s a lovely girl.

  96. Stewed reindeer shavings for supper, with mashed potatoes. Lovely! Healthy, as fried initially in butter, and with a few juniper berries – and some brown cheese to add flavour to the sauce.

    1. Pork tenderloin in black bean sauce here with Chinese noodles and stir fry veg.

      1. It was! Easy to make:
        Melt butter in pan. Add some chilli flakes.
        Fry reindeer shavings in the butter until sealed.
        Add about 1-2 cups water, small handful juniper berries, slices mild cheese, vegetable or meat stock cube, and maybe finely diced carrots.
        Boil/simmer until spuds are ready to mash. Mash, with lots of butter. Mash. Serve with reindeer meat and the liquor as gravy.

        1. Reindeer shavings a bit thin on the ground in Buenos Aires…. ahhh, but a girl can dream. 🤣

          PS Recipe memorised for return to reindeer-rich lands. 🙂 Thanks!

      1. Perhaps “planed” would be a better description… like the shavings from a doner kebab.

  97. BBC4
    Woke, woke, woke.
    I wonder whether the presenters stop to ask themselves if in 200 years, after they have facilitated the destruction of the nation and society they live in, they too will be treated with the patronising contempt they treat their ancestors, judging them by new standards after the event.

  98. Little par 4 today

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    1. Some Wordlers met at 5.00, Bob3.

      I too, got a Par Four.
      Today’s Wordle is an apt description for politicians near and far?

    2. My “current streak” went up to 2 today.

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    1. Yet another “Things you should know about flying…” that lazy journos recycle whenever that have nothing sensible to report on.

  101. Another shooting in Nashville Tenn. 6 killed. Why oh why do these nutters go after the little guys? It breaks my heart. There are two places where children should feel safe- at home and at school. All too often nowadays, that is not the case.

    1. This time, apparently a woman shooter. Children dead, and by the reading of of it, teachers too.
      Why would somebody do such a thing?

      1. The woman shooter was most likely a bloke. These people are seriously deranged and in days of old will have been incarcerated in Mental Hospitals, not left to roam the streets among us with license to purchase guns.

    2. I read it was a teenage girl at a Christian school! What is wrong with these people.? Horrifying stuff and every time it brings back memories of Dunblane and those tiny little children.

      2. America is different. Dunblane, athough tragic and the involvement of its other participants suppressed for political Masonic reasons, was used by Blair to ban general gun ownership in the UK. Blair realised that if we the people held arms that we could resist the government.

        Too many top politicians were implicated in the child abuse aspects of the Dunblane shootings hence it was given the protection of a 75 years D-Notice.

        Our politicians are essentially evil and I pray will answer to God.

          1. You really think people should have weapons in primary schools? There are too many gun owners in the US who are total nutters. That is the age level I worked with and if someone had said all teachers must carry a gun, many of us would have walked out.
            Contrary to what many here think, there are many sensible and law abiding US citizens who are as horrified by all this as many of us are.

  102. From the DT Letters, this jumped out at me:
    SIR – One of the most delightful aspects of The Muppet Christmas Carol is its faithful adherence to Dickens’s original text. It still manages to be one of the most original retellings of the story.

    Gareth Burnell
    Hindringham, Norfolk

  103. UN Security Council have voted down the Russian proposal for an independent investigation into the Nordstream pipeline destruction. Only Russia, Brasil and China voted for.
    Wonder why that might have been?

  104. According to the Standard, Heathrow security guards and lots of civil servants due to strike in the next weeks.
    Edit: Junior doctors, too.
    Pay and/or conditions not acceptable? Get a better job, more to your liking.

  105. Have youse read this utter bollox?
    https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/27/ukraine-russia-war-news-putin-nuclear-weapons-belarus-latest/

    Two major southern Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation have been rocked by powerful explosions that injured several people including a Russian-appointed police chief and damaged army barracks, writes Nataliya Vasilyeva.

    In Mariupol, Mikhail Moskvin, the Russia-appointed police chief, sustained injuries after his car blew up on Monday morning. Senior separatist leader Eduard Basurin told RIA Novosti he already spoke to the man who confirmed he survived the attack with light injuries.

    What if he hadn’t survived? Ouija boards?

  106. After a bit of tidying up, a fair amount of large ash logs chopped & stacked. Over a dozen between 12 & 15″ diameter with a couple from a smaller tree and I actually managed to split that elm that caused a few problems.
    Half a dozen large ones to split, then it’s get the saw horse & electric chain saw out to start on the van load I picked up yesterday.

    And with that I’m off for a quick rub down with a wet rag and away to bed.

    G’night all.

    1. Glad you had an enjoyable day TB.
      ABBA were such a lovely group. Their song lyrics had meanings in most people’s lifes. They really came from nowhere, winning the Eurovision song competition. But were faithful to their millions of their fans and superb performers despite the breakups.

    2. I remember my parents grumbling when Vera Lynn sang this song – not supposed to do modern stuff – but the lyric was actually a perfect fit.

    4. I must have missed that, Maggie. (Either that, or you are really Fallick_Alec!) But a belated Happy Birthday to you.

    6. A belated Happy Birthday to you T-B.

      We all need constants in our lives and your posts every day of every year are a sort of constant for me whenever I check in to this site. Hope you had a great day because you deserve it.

    7. I recall a BBC documentary about Abba many moons ago. It was presented by..wait for it…John Peel, master of new innovative radical music. He defined Abba as the finest Middle Of The Road act ever. Quite an accolade.

      1. 😊😴
        Do you know, I very rarely dream, what does that mean I wonder ?
        I’m usually asleep within 5 minutes of my head resting on the pillow.
        That’s it lights out…….

    2. I think most people thought it odd that a woman would have committed the atrocity as these murderous acts are almost always perpetrated by men.

      No surprise that the supposed woman perpetrator is a bloody bloke. When will this transgender crap end.

          1. Just set the alarm clock so that you are up in time to post tomorrow’s story.

            Nighty bye.

    2. The man is a racist and unfit to hold any office even in the wee pretendy Parliament. I trust someone in England will arrange his prosecution for ‘hate crime’. Then again, the whole skip-load of the bastards failing to represent us will doubtless rub along with this Paki in a Frock.

    3. The man is a racist and unfit to hold any office even in the wee pretendy Parliament. I trust someone in England will arrange his prosecution for ‘hate crime’. Then again, the whole skip-load of the bastards failing to represent us will doubtless rub along with this Paki in a Frock.

  112. OK – not all funny [although maybe 07 is true?], but I thought it was worth nicking from FB! …

    ADVENTURES OF LIVING AFTER AGE 60
    Someone had to remind me, so I’m reminding you too. Don’t laugh…..it is all true…
    Perks of reaching 60 or being over 70 and heading towards 80!
    01. Kidnappers are not interested in you.
    02. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
    03. No one expects you to run–anywhere.
    04. People call at 9 pm and ask,”Did I wake you?”
    05. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
    06. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
    07. Things you buy now won’t wear out.
    08. You can eat supper at 4 pm.
    09. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
    10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
    11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
    12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
    13. You sing along with elevator music.
    14. Your eyes won’t get much worse.
    15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
    16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
    17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.
    18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
    19. You can’t remember who sent you this list.
    20. And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience.

    Forward this to everyone you can remember right now!

    Most importantly, never, ever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

    1. Well thank you! I needed a good laugh. Sadly, too many of them are true or becoming true.

    1. All natives of Northern Europe are white. Cold climate, evolution and stuff. The need to absorb UV to make Vit D.

      1. This is so true. I read that Vit D deficiency is blamed for more cases of multiple sclerosis in Scotland – even among fair skinned people. There is no way that a darker skinned person is going to not be deficient if they live there, without taking supplements.
        Still, the Coudenhav-Kalergi agenda must go on regardless!

        1. Didn’t see a soul Lotl, day was ok thanks to messages from friends on this great site and a couple of phone calls from family – ending with a glass of cold Guinness

  115. Goodnight Y’all.
    Just suggested to my husband that starting tomorrow he should do the washing up etc. He is currently in shock.

    1. We have a rule that the cook doesn’t do the washing up. Split the workload.

    1. …and it was Starmer who in 2003, forced benefits to be applied to illegals, through the courts.

          1. I’ve had two already, one Irish and the other Swedish.

            I guess I can handle a bit of grief and let’em fight among themselves for my favours.

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