Tuesday 11 July: NHS consultants must be given a greater say in how the service is run

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  2. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story – a reply to yesterday’s, Barbie Letter

    A Letter From Ken

    Dear Santa,
    It has come to my attention that one of my colleagues has petitioned you for changes in her contract, specifically asking for anatomical and career changes.

    In addition, it is my understanding that disparaging remarks were made about me, my sexuality and some of my fashion choices. I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of issue concerning Ms. Barbie, as well as some of my own needs and desires:

    First, I, along with several of my colleagues, feel Ms. Barbie DOES NOT deserve the preferential treatment she has received over the years. That wench has everything. Neither I, nor Joe, Jem, nor The Raggedys, Ann & Andy, have dreamhouses, Corvettes, dune buggies, evening gowns, and some of us do not even have the ability to change our hairstyle.

    I have had a limited wardrobe, obviously designed to complement but never upstage Ms. Barbie. My decision to accessorise with an earring was immediately quashed, which I protest, for it was my decision and reflects my lifestyle choice.

    I would like a change in my career to further explore my creative nature. Some options which could be considered are “Decorator Ken,” “Beauty Salon Ken,” or “Broadway Ken.” Other avenues which could be considered are: “Go-Go Ken,” “Impersonator Ken” (with wigs and gowns), or “West Hollywood Ken.” These would more accurately reflect my interests and I believe, open up markets that have been underserved.

    As for Ms. Barbie needing bendable arms so she can “push me away,” I need bendable knees so I can kick the wench to the curb. Bendable knees would also be helpful in other situations of which you are aware.

    In closing, further concessions to the Blonde Bimbo from Hell, while the needs of others within my coalition are ignored, will result in legal action to be taken by myself and others. And kindly tell Ms. Barbie she can forget about G.I. Joe. He’s mine; at least that’s what he said last night.

    Sincerely

    Ken

  4. NHS consultants must be given a greater say in how the service is run

    yes, pay us more for doing less

      1. We have a consultantvwho never works on the fifth week of a month. Just doesn’t, that’s it.

        1. I recognise that. It means the person has done their hours for the month and doesn’t want to do more!

  5. ‘morning All

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  7. Good morning all!
    A damp 11°C start to the day with a light drizzle and with more heavy rain forecast, my trip to Derby might be in the van rather than by bus.
    Will decide later.

    Mr. Wood does not appear to realise that America’s reputation is already irreparably damaged under Biden.

    SIR – It is very wrong for America to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. The modern world requires a victor to win the peace as well as the war.

    America’s reputation will be irreparably damaged and Joe Biden’s career defined by this assault on civilised values.

    Dorian Wood
    Castle Cary, Somerset

          1. It has crossed my mind to wonder whether this dementia thing is faked so that he won’t have to face charges for election rigging!

          5. It was the second clip I was showing, sj, not the adrenochrome one. Unfortunately they came as a pair, and I can’t delete the first one. The purpose of the second one was to show a possible latex mask, with photoshopping and cgi these days everything is questionable.

            The ‘Turkish’ clip was confirmed in the comments to be Germann dubbing Turkish.

          6. I just don’t know – anything is possible nowadays. Never thought I would see a blatant fixing of the US presidential election either, or a first lady whose microphone slips.

          7. Thirty/forty (?) years ago, a Mr, Saunders discovered that dementia is reversible.

    2. Health and Safety in action. Moving the protesters from the scaffolders’ work area, for their own safety, of course.

  9. More than 10,000 migrants to be spared deportation to Rwanda. 11 July 2023.

    More than 10,000 Channel migrants will be spared automatic deportation to Rwanda under concessions designed to save Suella Braverman’s flagship illegal migration legislation.

    The Home Secretary has abandoned plans to apply the new powers of automatic detention and deportation to any migrant who arrived after March 7, the date when her Illegal Migration Bill was presented to Parliament.

    Instead, the powers will only come into force once the Bill has passed through all its Parliamentary stages and been granted Royal Assent, which ministers hope will be later this summer.

    I see. They’ve been spared a non-existent threat!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/10/migrants-spared-rwanda-deportation-suella-braverman/

  10. Good morning, all. Overcast and breezy. The rain forecast materialised as a very light drizzle around 06:00 hours.

    Boris Johnson sabre rattling once more. I thought he’d gone away but here he is tweeting his heart out about why Ukraine should be admitted to NATO. Is he, or is he not aware of the consequences of NATO admitting Ukraine? And as for Ukraine being innocent and not provoking Putin’s action, tell that to the ethnic Russians that were being slaughtered in the Donbas(s).
    As my father would have described Johnson, “as a statesman he would have made a good cook”.

    https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1678442901691408393

    1. As with most politicians Johnson lacks the vision to see the possible (probable) outcome of Ukraine in NATO.

      They don’t learn from History – think Cuba 1962, and how America reacted at the thought of Russian Missiles on its doorstep.

    2. Putin invaded “an entirely innocent country without provocation” – so the seven years of shelling in the Donbas was nothing then.
      The man’s a warmonger.

      1. Yes. Absolutely irresponsible rhetoric. His family isn’t going to die in the war that he is merrily stirring up.
        Hopefully the reality of the gold-backed currency will beat the dollar before they can escalate the war. The Russians seem to be playing that card for all they’re worth.

    3. Putin invaded “an entirely innocent country without provocation” – so the seven years of shelling in the Donbas was nothing then.
      The man’s a warmonger.

    4. This kind of crap is very scary. It leads to the West being at war with Russia, and who can predict where that will go?
      The man is a dangerous buffoon.
      According to Aftenposten, the admitting of Sweden to NATO is “another humiliation for Putin”. Really? More carp.

      1. compromised? simple past and past participle of compromise. AdjectiveEdit. compromised. Having been compromised?

        1. Compromised? That is, as compared to the 2010-24 version of promised: conpromised.

    2. Reminds me of a headline in 1964:

      “Woman killed on zebra crossing was taking the Pill”

      1. That’s what happens when not paying attention. She should have taken it before or after crossing the road. Today’s woman would be reading text messages while on the zebra crossing.

    4. Yes, I know of a hairdresser, aged in her early forties, who died of cancer. Non smoker, so the trigger could have been excess exposure to hair dressing products, especially aerosols.

    2. I do hope the reason why that thing has its hands behind its back is because of hand cuffs.

      1. They are the 10-15% who are so hardline that they would happily see us punished, even killed.

  14. 374354+ up ticks,

    The solution,

    Kick these type political tosspots into touch, especially now they have gone into killing mode, tell old sniffy ( the daily tripper) NOT to return to these Isles, and very strongly TELL king Lottalugs
    to straighten up and fly right, or else, sunak to go back to shoe polishing along with his cabinet, then form a new government from the victors of the by- elections, this MUST be inclusive of
    a number of PKS scaffolding chaps.

    Keir Starmer isn’t the new Blair: he’s Labour’s answer to David Cameron
    Far from implementing a new agenda, he will revert to the traditional, and perilous, socialist playbook

    That pair are in their political death throes,

    In this instance
    If a person is in their death throes, they are politically dying and taking violent, uncontrolled actions, usually because they are suffering from TK, ( treachery kickback )

        1. Sorry, Ann. Your ordeal is a horrible one. There must be something better out there for pain management. You shouldn’t be expected to suffer like this.

      2. Yep, it reads, blah, blah, BS, BS, same old, same old.

        That’s why he’s blocked on my site.

      3. 374354+ up ticks,

        Evening DW,
        I do believe you are the only fan kneel starmer has..

    2. Oh goody!

      That means we won’t get any more of these whiny commercials begging for money for various Muslim states

      who are unable to get money from their co-religionists.

      2. She’s a fanatic. She has an agenda and logic, common sense and reason don’t come in to it.

    4. Problem is she’s is a fanatic. The Lefty keeps raising nonsense about energy and deaths while ignoring the millions saved from energy, the job created, the lives improved. But hey ho.

      Like all this sort they complain about what government is doing but it is doing what they want. This is why energy is so expensive, it’s why the economy is tanking. It’s why everyone is getting poorer.

      Of course, at heart this isn’t about energy or the environment. It’s about Lefties demanding to control society.

  18. Good day all,

    Grey skies at MPhee Towers this morning, heavy rain around midday into the mid afternoon. Wind Sou’-West, 16℃ with 18℃ forecast. Remaining cool for July. Off to see offspring and grand-offspring today in Chichetsre where it’s going to be – wet.

    Bit of a slow news day today and a boring bunch of letters in the Gatesograph so I thought I’d cheer us all up with a 3 minute clip from “My Dinner with Andre” made 42 years ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc

    Prophetic or what?

  19. In today’s Conservative Woman

    Within hours of the Covid jab I had brain damage
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/within-hours-of-the-covid-jab-i-had-brain-damage-2/

    BTL

    To its eternal shame GB News has been battered and silenced into submission on the two topics which Mark Stein was eager to bring to our attention: the victims of the Covid jabs and the rape of white girls by Muslim gangs.

    Since sacking Mark Stein GB News has been too craven to continue serious examination of either of these topics.

    1. As long as the currency is backed by something and that link couldn’t be removed there’s no problem. As it is, the state has devalued our currency nearly 100%. This is why inflation is so high, why no matter what is earned it is harder and harder to ‘get ahead’.

      The state should be held criminally negligent or this wilful intent of devaluation. The digital currency is simply a last ditch effort to remove any possible ownership the earner has over their money. It won’t work. It will create a black market.

      1. Any suggestions for currency in the black market?
        I’m looking at small bits of jewelry, small coins etc.

  21. Well, FINALLY managed to get in touch with step-son and he appears to be ok and will be visiting here tomorrow, so no need for the run to Derby and I’m having a quick bus trip to Matlock instead.

    See you later.

  23. Rose put this link on last night. https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Frwmalonemd.substack.com%2Fp%2Fjudge-doughty-rules-to-deny-bidens%3Futm_source%3Dsubstack%26utm_medium%3Demail%3Aq5MbIzl91vcypT26mxYAwQ-9uTY&cuid=5852343

    This is one of the BTL comments

    A seasoned stock analyst colleague texted me a link today, and when I clicked it open, I could hardly believe what I was reading. What a headline. “Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64”. This headline is a nuclear truth bomb masquerading as an insurance agent’s dry manila envelope full of actuarial tables.

    People frequently write to Jill and myself. People we have never met. They call, they arrive at the farm by appointment or unannounced, they fill our email in boxes with their inquiries. They all want something; time, attention, an interview. Many want to tell us about their fear, illness, nightmares, or (what often seems like) outright paranoid conspiracies. And then, over time, these fears and “conspiracies” keep getting confirmed. As Jan Jekielek (a senior editor with The Epoch Times) recently said to me, it is getting harder and harder to tell which ones are mere conspiracy theories and which are true reality.

    One farm visitor told me of his foreshadowing massive numbers of deaths within three years consequent to the genetic vaccines, and that this was all about the “Great Reset” and the depopulation agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF). I tried to reassure him that, in my opinion, this was highly unlikely- while privately thinking about how easily people fall into this type of conspiracy ideation, and how I need to be careful to avoid going there when confronting so many public health decisions that appear either incompetent or nefarious. At the time, I only knew of the WEF as the host of a big annual party in Davos Switzerland where the uber rich and the hoi oligoi of the Western nations went to watch Ted talks, drink the best wine, see and be seen. Silly me. What a long, strange trip this has been. I doubt that even Hunter S. Thompson could have imagined it in his most drug and booze addled state. Suffice to say, I nominate Ralph Steadman as official illustrator of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Or a resurrected Hieronymus Bosch.

    But I am wandering from a point that I am afraid to clearly state.

    It is starting to look to me like the largest experiment on human beings in recorded history has failed. And, if this rather dry report from a senior Indiana life insurance executive holds true, then Reiner Fuellmich’s “Crimes against Humanity” push for convening new Nuremberg trials starts to look a lot less quixotic and a lot more prophetic.

    Here is what lit me up in this report from The Center Square contributor Margaret Menge.

    “The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

    “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

    OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.

    Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

    “And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

    “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.””

    So, what is driving this unprecedented surge in all-cause mortality?

    “Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths,

    Davison said.“What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.””

    Take a moment to read the entire article. Now. Then let’s continue on, assuming that you have.

    AT A MINIMUM, based on my reading, one has to conclude that if this report holds and is confirmed by others in the dry world of life insurance actuaries, we have both a huge human tragedy and a profound public policy failure of the US Government and US HHS system to serve and protect the citizens that pay for this “service”.

    IF this holds true, then the genetic vaccines so aggressively promoted have failed, and the clear federal campaign to prevent early treatment with lifesaving drugs has contributed to a massive, avoidable loss of life.

    AT WORST, this report implies that the federal workplace vaccine mandates have driven what appear to be a true crime against humanity. Massive loss of life in (presumably) workers that have been forced to accept a toxic vaccine at higher frequency relative to the general population of Indiana.

    FURTHERMORE, we have also been living through the most massive, globally coordinated propaganda and censorship campaign in the history of the human race. All major mass media and the social media technology companies have coordinated to stifle and suppress any discussion of the risks of the genetic vaccines AND/OR alternative early treatments.

    IF this report holds true, there must be accountability. We are not just talking about running over the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States and grinding it into the mud with an army of artificial intelligence-powered heavy infantry. This article reads like a dry description of an avoidable mass casualty event caused by a mandated experimental medical procedure. One for which all opportunities for the victims to have become self-informed about the potential risks have been methodically erased from both the internet and public awareness by an international corrupt cabal operating under the flag of the “Trusted News Initiative”. George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

    I hope I am wrong. I fear I am right.

    3. Here is a typical fact check trying to debunk this.
      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/11/blog-posting/no-covid-19-vaccines-arent-responsible-increase-de/

      The key to showing this one way or the other will be if excess deaths continue for 2022, 2023 and 2024.

      The fact so many people were supposedly dying of rather than with Covid and within a silly timescale of a positive test makes me suspicious of the numbers.
      The fact that so few Covid deaths were in the 18-64 age range, unless there were underlying significant health problems, is also significant in my view.

          1. I think a lot of the deaths are of younger people rather than the elderly some of whom would have been culled by the virus and the care home scandal.

          2. That doesn’t change my point re what is likely to have been a “backlog” of very old people.

            What I find disturbing is the apparent lack of statistics genuinely comparing like with like.
            In the younger age groups I strongly suspect that deadly, but curable diseases were being left untreated due to the closure of hospitals and face to face medical appointments and by the time those suffering were seen, what might have been treatable no longer was.
            Yes, I am very suspicious about what the vaccines may be doing long term, but at the moment for me the jury is still out.

          4. I suspect so, and exacerbated by the way the politicians were panicked by the likes of Ferguson.

          5. I think a lot of that ‘backlog’ was dealt with by Midazolam Matt and sending the elderly back to care homes, where they either infected other elderly people or were seen on their way by the chemical cosh.

          6. Which is another reason why I will hold judgement until after we get sufficient statistics where we can compare like with like,

            I am best guessing third and fourth quarter 2023 and all 2024

      2. When our government continually fiddled the stats so they couldn’t be compared week to week it was obvious they were lying. The media was complicit though so I don’t know why they lied.

        1. It was the extreme difficulty in obtaining statistics where like can be compared with like that moves me to side to the view that we were being manipulated.
          And I think that we still are.

    4. I believe that this was one the first, if not the very first, report from a company that was ‘experiencing’ an unusual rise in deaths.
      Ed Dowd, former Blackrock fund manager, along with data analysis experts, has published more recent figures for deaths and disability in the USA: the figures are terrible to behold.
      Here is Ed’s latest graph showing disability numbers and rates of change.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/de56536cf7dc012556f8dbfdd43d6b7429d9d37ac500d9dd5c450d89c4086429.png

    5. I’m unsure of the context but is this a refusal of the state to obey Biden’s muzzling of social media during the pandemic? What is the hoped for result?

    6. To be clear, Davison himself did not suggest that Covid-19 vaccines were responsible for the surge in death rates of 18-64 year olds.

      “CDC data indicates that 65% of 3Q excess deaths can be directly attributed to COVID,” Davison said. “Our own claims data is consistent with that as well. Based on the data and our analysis, we believe that a significant portion of the remaining excess deaths are driven by deferred medical care and individuals who recover from COVID but later die from the toll COVID has taken on their bodies.”

      https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-692312045885

      It benefits life insurance companies to ascertain the true reasons for a spike in deaths. It does not serve their interests to make mistakes or – and I cannot emphasise this enough – to wilfully misattribute causes of death as active participants in a worldwide plot to conceal the deliberate extermination of millions of people. If the industry ever concludes that Covid-19 vaccines are a significant factor in premature deaths, it will up the life insurance premiums of all those who have had the vaccine.

    1. I disagree with the practice but I respect their traditions. You’d think they’d grow out of it though.

      1. Like the Prods in Norn have “grown out” of their obsession with the Battle of the Boyne?

          1. I saw an Orange Day parade in London once. There was none of the depravity of recent prideful events. It was one of the largest and most wholesome and joyous displays. All ages, 17th C costumes, music and dancing. A happy and positive occasion free of any vulgarity or any whiff of violent intent.

          2. I think in NI it does tend to attract the anti Orange people who see it as a provocation. Probably fewer of those in London. Having said that there does not seem to have been much of the same level of violent protest in NI that we used to see.

        2. GB News have got a special Orange Day programming schedule tomorrow. Should be worth at least 5 Ofcom investigations for celebrating their culture and heritage.

    2. Actually they are not real bulls. A five year old Miura would go through that lot like a dose of salts after chips and mushy peas. .

      1. He probably is,…………. they only bring him out for short trips.
        It’s very worrying when such an important country has such a problem with its leadership. And they still blame Vald for everything.

        1. Anyone else remember those halcyon days when we mocked the Soviets for wheeling out the moribund Brezhnev?

    3. I see a clearly ill man forced into a role that won’t let him go because of the fear the political machine has of losing.

      Biden should be allowed to retire, with honours for his years of service in a dignified fashion. Not kept pushed like this. Imagine if this was your Dad, knowing he’s ill and seeing him humiliated in this manner. The mockery of his opponents, the embarrassment to his nation yet remembering the man he was.

  26. Morning all 😙😀
    I’ve just had a 40 minute conversation with the admission people for my Op. It Covered so many things and previous letters. Lets hope it all goes ahead as planned.

    4. Wish you the best Eddy! Like the other Anne, this Ann’s fingers are firmly crossed.

      1. And here is the other Ann. I do hope you are having a better day today. Have you managed yet to try getting your appointment brought forward?
        My appointment went well. I was in with a lovely nurse for almost an hour. Steri-strips and some fairly thick ”gunge’ removed, and stitches trimmed. It actually feels somewhat more comfortable now. Shown how to apply Vaseline (yuk!) to keep the area protected. Still no bending or lifting allowed. What a shame – MH will have to continue doing everything. 🙂

        2. No better, can’t eat and have dozed/slept a lot. Tried calling the hospital but got a recording. Will try again soon.
          It’s always good to get the other halves doing their share;-)))

          1. What a miserable time for you. I wish there was something I could do to help. Keep plugging away at the hospital.
            Where would we be without our other halves?
            As soon as the rain stops, mine will be ‘requested’ to get down to the greenhouse. I’m sure he loves the job – really….. Tomorrow, I will introduce him to the idea of using the vacuum cleaner. That should go down well.

          2. Thanks- our vacuum is called Fang for a reason;-)
            Have called the hospital twice and left 2 messages- no response but we have an early start as MH has an appointment at 8.30.

          3. Fang! I like it.
            Is the appointment at the same hospital? It can often better to ask/beg for an appointment/appointment change in person, especially if they can witness how much pain & distress you are in – remember to lay it on with a huge trowel! Let’s hope you can get some progress with changing the appointment.

          4. Hope it goes well for him. You’ve enough on your plate without being worried about him.

      2. 26th is the day.
        Thanks for your best wishes.
        I hope someone sorts your long standing problem as well. Keep on banging on Ann.

      1. Cheers Bob, I had an email back and it’s all set up now. I’ve just got be able to get there. Strikes will effect it.
        We will take the train from Harpenden to Farringdon and a bus from there to St Barts.
        10 am check in.

        1. Flaming strikers. They neither know nor care about the damage they cause to individuals.

          2. But…. but these strikes aren’t about pay, dontcha know. They are all about patient/pupil/passenger etc safety. Only in the best interests of the public themselves

          3. I’m not a planner i more act on instinct. But I just couldn’t bring my self to stand on our doorstep to clap the nurses. They same way I never give a tip to the barber.
            It’s just something that makes me feel uncomfortable.
            If your nice to people they will always come back.

          4. But…. but these strikes aren’t about pay, dontcha know. They are all about patient/pupil/passenger etc safety. Only in the best interests of the public themselves

    3. 374354+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      instead of board games at Christmas we can have “name that rapist in one”, “ring around a paedophile”, jollys all round.

    5. They should be allocated compulsorily to all the “hope not hate”, “antifa”, “refugees welcome” supporters, and all those politicians and judges voting against immigration controls and deportations.
      Such allocations should take into account the families of the pro refugee people, eg young men to go to those with teenage daughters, Muslims to go to LGBT partnerships, etc.

      1. 374354+ up ticks,

        Morning FA,

        The first has multiple choices but the second is assuredly OFF.

    7. Brandon Lewis MP obviously drew the short straw on this debate. Clearly, 5,000 hotel beds on a retainer are not sufficient for the planned influx.
      Is this a ‘little nudge’ to start a ball rolling that will become an initial small push at compulsion? Eventually, compulsion pressure could rise with the advent of UBI and certainly with CBDC i.e. don’t do as instructed and forfeit everything. Underestimate these globalist shills and useful idiots at your peril.
      I’m off to the shop for more aluminium foil. 🤦‍♂️

      1. 374354+ up ticks,
        Morning KtK,
        As I have posted before compulsory
        lodgering will be on the cards
        rogering will at first be by consent then become compulsory via
        invading victors rights.

    8. Next, a compulsory inspection of elderly house-blockers’ residences, swiftly followed by a bus-load of refugees?

    9. 374354+ up ticks

      O2O,

      Following the governing parties lab/lib/con
      coalitions age old treachery, first create the problem then rhetorically solve it, no action required.
      The lower voting class will not notice the repeat pattern if there is a week between usage.

  28. Good morning everyone. Weather is rather nice, cool and sunny.

    I’m not able to participate much at the moment but, if it is OK with people, I will continue posting things that may be of interest without saying much. It’s a bit of an effort. So, to start with Colonel Macgregor latest comment on the war.

    Douglas Macgregor – Cluster Munitions: A War Crime or a Tactical Necessity?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTKdz6AO1o

    1. It’s a pity the Beeb won’t invite the Colonel to give his views on Ukraine….

  29. Does this mean that if we return to the trees, there will be no more TERFs?
    Obviously, moving into caves was a bad idea. Gave females ideas above their station.
    There was Boss Apeman about to assert his authority, and Mrs. Boss insisted he moved that rock into a better position for cutting up the woolly mammoth steaks.

    “Most male monkeys swing both ways and are bisexual, a study has found.
    Analysis of wild macaques in Puerto Rico found that males mount and exhibit homosexual behaviours more often than they do towards females.”

    1. Perhaps that’s because only the dominant male gets to mate with the females?

    2. Isn’t this a form of ‘projection’, the idea that a particular type of behaviour in humans can be observed in other animals? I don’t suppose they have observed in monkeys the most notable aspect of homosexuality in humans…

    3. It’s a dominance thing rather than that they are bisexual. A dominant monkey mounts a submissive one.

    1. And a lot of comment of the Headingley decision. Punishment for you-know-what?

    1. Why do they make mockery so easy? Why not go to greater lengths to conceal the fraudulent theatrics?

        1. It’s probably because they are almost unassailable. They don’t mind the mockery because there’s virtually nothing else the minions can do. “Yes, it’s pantomime. What are you going to do about it?” is the unspoken taunt.

      2. They get away with it every time, is the answer I suppose.
        There’s probably a lot more that they are getting away with that we haven’t cottoned onto.
        The headlines in the papers in Spain will show her arriving on a bike, and most people won’t bother to look past that.

    2. She looks ridiculous. Her saddle is too low, making her look slouchy, and she uses the pedals with her instep instead of the ball of her foot, her feet are flapping around untidily. It makes her look as though she has never cycled in her life before. Appalling optics.

  32. Got back from Matlock just before 11. Now had a mug of tea so feel better.

    The woman in the GMB clip I posted earlier has made a video of her explaining what she was trying to say.
    I will leave it to yourselves to judge:-
    https://youtu.be/bDQ0bI5SWJM

    1. Thanks, Robert. Everything is now absolutely crystal clear. She is round the bend.

  33. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/10/women-voters-derail-tory-party-conservative-election/

    I read this with interest and it highlights the ignorance people have.

    They complain about sewage, yet don’t understand it is an EU controlled area. They then proclaim to vote Labour – who would force us back in, or the Lib Dems, who would definitively. Same for dredging. These are EU policies. Pro EU parties haven’t kicked DEFRA or environment agency into proper divergence to have our own water policy and stop the sewage dumping, build reservoirs and dredge rivers to encourage water flow.

    There’s also a big point to make that cleaning sewage requires lots of energy, thus the fines are higher than the costs. Lefties don’t like to admit that.

    On the environment the state continues the same policy of house building – not removing child benefit to stop funding breeding.

    Yes, the Tories have deliberately wasted Brexit but suggesting voting Labour or Lib Dem solves the problem is like saying petrol is a good way to put out a fire.

    1. You and ogga are on the same page.

      Elections will not change anything. There simply aren’t enough people willing to vote in favour of change. Perhaps most people really do prefer the way things are.

      1. They learned to conform during the plague – and found it comforting to be bossed about and constrained.

      2. Seems to me that people are so wrapped up in getting on with their lives that they have no time to look further into these problems. I know I was not much interested in politics when younger, too much going on. But now …

        1. Folk aren’t told. They take what the press returns and make a decision on that. The press lie by omission. The BBC, being so dominant and, annoyingly, trusted more than the rest (as as you trust a cat not to bite you) spins stories to a big state, high tax line.

      3. 374354+ up ticks,

        Afternoon DW,
        In this instance a unified political body supporting a credible fringe party would
        be very advantageous instead we have an electoral voting majority that if paedophilia was in the manifesto they would go for it.

        In point of fact the treacherous bastards
        STILL favour mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophilia umbrella parties, closing their eyes to rotherham plus, check the voting pattern.

    2. “Catherine Houston had mixed feelings around the Brexit referendum – she could see the good and bad in the EU and didn’t feel qualified to make such an important call; eventually, she decided to vote Remain once she saw that men like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were pro-Leave.”

      Daft Dickie Dawkins raised the blood pressure of much of the nation by suggesting that the decision was too difficult for the average voter and should be left to the experts. Reading this tripe, you could almost see his point.

      1. Of course the hoi polloi don’t want the public making decisions that affect their bank accounts. Far better that ‘experts’ make the decisions for them. After all, they know best how to keep troughing.

        Although, equally I don’t think everyone should be allowed to vote. The franchise should be earned in the same way a state pension should or by doing social good.

      2. A leader writer in our local paper also claimed the question was too difficult for the lectorate and should be left to MPs (yes, really!). What he and Dawkins, along with many others., don’t seem to understand is that it was a constitutional question (‘who governs us and how we’re governed’). The only legitimate people to answer that is the electorate.

        1. “…who governs us…”

          Quite. Too often the debate was bogged down by discussions over money (£350 million a day for the NHS), immigration (apparently no one born in the UK worked any more), and trade (the UK’s economy was entirely dependent on the one-eighth of GDP that was trade with the EU).

    3. “There’s also a big point to make that cleaning sewage requires lots of energy, thus the fines are higher than the costs. Lefties don’t like to admit that.”

      Are the fines higher that the costs of cleaning up?
      Or did you mean to put Lower?

    1. Just when you think things can’t get any more insane, the insanity takes an even more malevolent twist.

    2. That’s been floating around for some time. Every tree, every stream as well as every human and animal…evil, evil people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  36. Oh dear! Yesterday was International Pronouns Day. Who knew and who, other than the wokest of woke, cared?
    Is policing misuse of pronouns high on Cheshire Constabulary’s agenda? It would appear so as they’ve wheeled out a very senior officer, if her adornments of office are anything to go by, to announce their recognition of this remarkably forgettable day of celebration.

    https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1678319841403387904

    3. I wonder ‘personal pronoun’ what that vinegar-titted bitch uses?

      Rug-muncher?

    5. If this silly woman had been in my class and had used plural pronouns such as they and them instead of the correct singular he, him, she and her then she (or should I say it) would have been put in detention! She or it would also have been in trouble if found to be unable to distinguish between its and it’s.

    7. If I was a betting man, I might guess that that police officer could well be a tranny and only got to that position of seniority as a sop to LGBQT.

      It probably made the move knowing it would get no further if it remained as a man.

    8. Can’t be bothered to watch all of it. The man presenting it clearly has a bonus hole in her non-binary head.

    9. Rainbow lanyard – check
      Rainbow ‘star trek’ badge (no I don’t know either) – check
      Rainbow epaulettes – check
      Pronouns on name badge – check
      Any ideas on crime prevention? Er, ooh no.

    11. I wish they would concentrate on stopping theft. That would add some value to our lives. Goosestepping to Stonewall’s dog whistle doesn’t
      .

  37. Just Stop Oil’s apocalyptic beliefs could lead to a terrifying escalation

    How can you reason with people who believe the world as we know it is coming to an end

    SAMUEL MACE • 10th July 2023 • 12:16pm

    Just Stop Oil activists have found their way back into the headlines, and onto our sports pitches. After being removed from the field at Lord’s by Jonny Bairstow, activists interrupted play twice at Wimbledon. Underneath the orange powder and the inconvenience of their slow marches lies a deeply troubling worldview – and one that could lead to significant trouble.

    Read into the group’s core beliefs, and it quickly becomes clear that its actions are driven by visions of a near future doomsday. Representatives throw terms such as “genocide” around, making it impossible not just to take them seriously but to engage with them meaningfully. How can you reason with people who believe the world as we know it is coming to an end, or that billions will die? How can you talk people out of averting an apocalypse?

    It is this worldview that drives their actions. While Just Stop Oil claims to represent humanity, it pays little attention to popular reactions to its protests. This isn’t particularly surprising; if you genuinely believed the world was on the absolute brink of collapse, blocking a road seems like a small step in response. If an ambulance can’t reach a patient in time, that’s deeply sad. But the potential death of billions is an unimaginably vaster tragedy that must be averted.

    These apocalyptic warnings provide space for something much darker to emerge. How far would you go to prevent something truly terrible from happening not just to your family but to all of humanity? Groups with a simple black and white vision of the world are often willing to cross significant boundaries to achieve their goals. The January 6 rioters who broke into the US congress to stop a “rigged” election are a good example; they were “saving the country” from “corrupt elites”; interrupting a vote was surely worthwhile.

    No doubt any Just Stop Oil supporters reading this will be quivering with rage at the thought of being compared to Trump’s supporters. Indeed, Trump’s Q-Anon-adjacent supporters probably wouldn’t be very happy about being compared to Just Stop Oil activists. But the common ground is there nonetheless; an unwillingness to compromise on their beliefs, even if it brings them closer to their supposed goal and apocalyptic visions of what might come to pass if they don’t win. These trends make both groups infuriating – and sometimes, potentially dangerous.

    There is no indication that Just Stop Oil intend to go beyond splashing paint around, sitting in roads or generally making a nuisance of themselves. But there is a heady mixture of apocalyptic beliefs and calls for action beginning to coalesce, which should be a warning sign for potential escalation. If these ideas spread beyond the well-meaning activists currently manning the organisation, the consequences could be dire. Rarely do people fighting “genocide” stop at the boundaries of polite political debate.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/10/just-stop-oils-apocalyptic-beliefs-terrifying-escalation/

    1. QAnon makes another appearance in this article, I see. As far as I can see, it is mainly a figment of the mainstream media’s imagination. You just don’t see any links or references to it among sceptics.

      1. The BBC ran a series on R4 on the subject of the Steele dossier and QAnon. It correctly reported on the former being fiction but spent too much time on the latter. It didn’t stress enough how much the former came from within the establishment (or, at least, figures previously connected to it) while the latter were largely outside it.

      2. It has in fact been proven that no “insurrection” took place on Jan 6, 2021. It was an establishment set-up. JSO are not sceptical about the doomsday scenario because their terms of reference are so narrow. They’re unaware of the long history of doomsaying and don’t have any scientific or biblical knowlege that would provide context.

    2. Every decade/year the Left come out with some prognostication that unless we obey them the world will end. Oddly, it is only in those nations where they do hold sway that millions die.

  38. Well yesterday/this morning was fun! Having had some discomfort for a few weeks, I went to the doc. He suggested an ecg which could be done in the surgery. Duly booked the earliest appointment (1 August) and later headed out to a meeting. Just got there and got a phone call from doc saying he had reviewed the advice and decided I should go to A&E straight away, do not pass go, do not collect £200 etc.

    Duly arrived at 8pm. Ecg at 11.15 and bloods taken. Saw doc at 5.30am this morning. Ecg okay and discomfort should be controlled with painkillers. No mention of any issues with the blood, which I suspect was the reason for the six hour gap. Slept half the morning away, so probably an early night tonight.

      1. Doubt it, there were others there before me who were still there when I left.

    2. Is it heart trouble? My OH was taken ill quite suddenly last autumn and ecg tests and others led to a triple by pass op in December. He still has a very rapid and uneven heart rate which doesn’t seem to respond to the cocktail of drugs he’s on.

      1. That was my concern, but its inflammation of the cartilage between the ribs – costochronditis.

          3. Reminds me of the instructions for tradesmen. If it doesn’t move and should, use WD40*. If it does move and shouldn’t, use duct tape.

            *other releasing agents are available.

    3. One good thing. When I arrived last night, I took the ticket at the barrier for the car park. It wasn’t recognised when I went to pay (there were no times printed on it) an I got out for free!

      1. Get out of jail free card! Lucky ticket! Maybe because you’d had it since the day before.

  39. I received a rather cynical observation this morning from a friend of mine which says rather a lot about the futility and ineffectiveness of politicians:

    “It took 20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands of lives and four presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.”

    1. During those 20 years the focus of those promoting the conflict was on the $,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$.

  40. Huw Edwards is BBC’s highest earner to receive pay rise in salary list. 11 July 2023.

    Gary Lineker remains the highest-paid star on £1.35 million, followed by Zoe Ball on £980,000-984,999. Neither received a pay rise last year.

    The third-placed presenter, Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer, received a pay cut to £445,00-£449,999.

    Edwards bucked the trend by rising from sixth to fourth place, with his salary up by £25,000 to £435,000-439,000.

    It makes extortion and looting look respectable. There is absolutely no case, moral or financial, for making these people millionaires with money extracted from the poor by legal coercion.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/11/bbc-salary-list-huw-edwards-pay-rise-gary-lineker-zoe-ball/

    1. Sammy Davis Jnr – Sweet Gingerbread Man

      https://www.google.com/search?q=Fresh+out+of+the+pan+sweet+Gingerbread+man+song&ei=UFStZKnXCpSfkdUPyPepgA0&ved=0ahUKEwipv5He3IaAAxWUT6QEHch7CtAQ4dUDCA8&oq=Fresh+out+of+the+pan+sweet+Gingerbread+man+song&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQDDIECCEQCjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoKCC4QigUQsAMQQzoKCAAQigUQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToPCC4QigUQyAMQsAMQQxgCOhIILhCKBRDUAhDIAxCwAxBDGAI6BAgAEEc6BggAEAcQHjoHCAAQDRCABDoHCC4QDRCABDoICAAQCBAHEB46BQgAEKIEOggIABCJBRCiBEoECEEYAEoFCEASATFQ-wZY4nBg1IoBaAFwA3gAgAHDAYgBuxaSAQQyLjIwmAEAoAEBwAEByAEI2gEGCAEQARgJ2gEGCAIQARgI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:bd16a9da,vid:Tis8oIEULaU

      1. Sammy Davis Jnr was the first to fly the Atlantic (or was that Alcock and Brown?)

        1. Very few people are aware that Jack Jones became a recording artist after finishing his job as secretary general of the TUC

          ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKw3c_48r8

  43. The L-Ego Cluster Weapon

    Information has been leaked about UK’s secret weapon which, much like Wallace’s inventions, was based on children’s playschool materials.

    Obviously details about the implementation of the weapon are top secret but the principle can be revealed here.

    It is naturally a long range missile with a fragmentation explosive in the nose but it is not banned by any international treaty.
    It is highly effective because following its deployment a battlefield is rendered virtually untraversable as illustrated here:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/561793911953925ed6a1ff7b610d34e48bfa94bacdd8ac9f619c83535620327e.gif

    This is a prototype model that can be published showing the complete devastation of the terrain following deployment of the L-Ego:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6071d9c02c9623823220729d8e2edba585d46dcb683d59114b0320ef98a6ee0e.gif

    Here is also an illustration of how the device’s warhead releases its fragmentation components as it appoaches the target:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d3cd9cdb8bda7bd7f239d2d577ebaebdafaa7a3b72d99d1ffdbb59751b20f7b2.gif

  45. Cnut also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035 …

    His anagram came to the throne of a diminishing United Kingdom in 2022 – a thousand years later!

    1. What is the difference between King’s Canute & Charles

      Canute is famous for showing the folly of trying to hold back the tide single-handed to prove he wasn’t a god, while Charles uses his subjects instead.

    2. The Royal Family and the Armed Forces. We knew they’d be the last to fall.

        1. I bought some Armageddon Cheese yesterday. On the packet it said ‘Best Before – End’

      3. Just about or slightly over 70° F.

        Singapore’s natural daily temperature was 86°F if I remember correctly..

    2. In similar news, the media are pushing the line that Canadian forest fires this year break all records.

      They conveniently forget to mention that they only started keeping records in 1959. If you go back just one or two hundred years, extreme forest fires were common place events..

      Facts cannot upset the climate change rhetoric can they!

      There fixed it facts not fats!

  48. Easing off now, but we’ve just had an absolute downpour!
    A river running down Clatterway again.

    3. We’ve just been having a steady drizzle. Nothing to speak of, not enough to fill the pond or the butts.

  49. Easing off now, but we’ve just had an absolute downpour!
    A river running down Clatterway again.

    2. I would like to see the really really fat bastard Police running down the street in rainbow lycra. Not only a big laugh but an easy target for empty beer bottles…

    3. It’s a good article. I planned on sharing it with you all but i have been detained by work

  54. Lava and smoke pour from erupting volcano. 11 July 2023.

    Icelandic police have restricted access to the volcano that has been spewing out “life-threatening toxic gas pollution” since it began erupting on Monday, the department of civil protection and emergency management said.

    Residents of the Reykjanes peninsula have been encouraged to sleep with windows closed and to switch off ventilation, the department said in a statement.

    “The police, after counsel from scientists, have decided to restrict access to the eruption site due to enormous and life-threatening toxic gas pollution,” the department said.

    Where’s Greater Thunderbird when you need her? They should be fining and taxing this Volcano until it begs for mercy and a Clean Air Bill!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/11/volcano-iceland-reykjavik-litli-hrutur-fagradalsfjall/

    1. Oh please pretty please can the volcano interrupt trans Atlantic flights and strand Trudeau in Latvia after the NATO lovefest.

      1. I got stranded in Rio about 13 years ago when the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano closed down European air space for a while.

    2. We need a goblin to sacrifice to the gods. The Indonesians toss chickens and goats into the caldera, not sure they had much success. Now just one human (for the sake of the planet) can not be tooo much to ask dear Greta..

  55. Same could be said for any type of smuggler. Including people smugglers…

    A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling

    IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet,

    Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street.

    Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie.

    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.

    Five and twenty ponies,

    Trotting through the dark –

    Brandy for the parson, ‘baccy for the clerk.

    Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,

    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!

    Running round the woodlump if you chance to find

    Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,

    Don’t you shout to come and look, nor use ’em for your play.

    Put the brishwood back again – and they’ll be gone next day!

    If you see the stable-door setting open wide,

    If you see a tired horse lying down inside;

    If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore,

    If the lining’s wet and warm – don’t you ask no more!

    If you meet King George’s men, dressed in blue and red,

    You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.

    If they call you ‘pretty maid,’ and chuck you ‘neath the chin,

    Don’t you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one’s been!

    Knocks and footsteps round the house – whistles after dark –

    You’ve no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.

    Trusty’s here, and Pincher’s here, and see how dumb they lie

    They don’t fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by!

    ‘If you do as you’ve been told, likely there’s a chance,

    You’ll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,

    With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood –

    A present from the Gentlemen, along o’ being good!

    Five and twenty ponies,

    Trotting through the dark –

    Brandy for the parson, ‘baccy for the clerk.

    Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie –

    Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!

    Copyright permission by courtesy United Artists, London

    2. Substitute Jihadist for Gentlemen throughout and you’ve brought it bang up to date!

    3. brushwood. Any remaining Kipling copyright belongs to the National Trust, not United Artists, IMHO.

    4. “Five and twenty dinghies,

      Cutting through the sea –

      No passports amongst them, nor young family.

      Come to build a Caliphate and kill the infidel –

      Let’s welcome in these refugees while England goes to Hell!

      With apologies to R Kipling.

  57. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/513b6719a3492219ca4e4d19ed5f275d7410cc18a6fba9ef9986d08d071fcdd8.png

    This reminds me of Blair who seemed to find it difficult distinguishing between what is wrong and what is illegal.

    Blair stated unequivocally that his minister, David Blunkett, had done nothing wrong when he had an affair and then tried to claim paternity rights when his mistress and her husband had decided to repair their marriage and to treat the child Blunkett had fathered as part of their family. This was not illegal but to my way of thinking it was morally wrong.

    On the other hand if I park on a double yellow line for a couple of minutes to help an aged person get out of the car near the retirement home it is is illegal without being morally wrong.

    I have no idea about the legal status of asking a 17 year old to send you pornographic pictures but it is certainly inappropriate and morally wrong to do so.

    1. Mr T,

      Ever heard of child poorn? The alleged activity (no sign of any evidence, just like Salem, witchcraft in) would have involved a ‘young person’ who was not yet an adult.
      Old enough to marry, not old enough to be employed in the poorn movie business.

      Let’s not forget that the whole affair could be fictional.

    2. But don’t forget B liar set about fiddling with and changing the treason laws with his old flatmate lord legal something or other.
      He’s long avoided being arrested for his dastardly deeds.

    3. The Protection of Children Act 1978 says that it is a crime to take, make, share and possess indecent images of people under 18.

      1. Its an interesting law considering the legal age of consent, homo or hetro, is 16. So its ok to screw kids but just dont take any photos. I am told by a friend that there are plenty on tinternet, absolutely free. I’m shocked…

      2. But it did not originally say that.
        Prior to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 a person was considered an adult for the purposes of sexual offences at the age of 16.
        This meant that a 16 or 17yo could legally take part in not only Page 3 style glamour shoot, (and in fact more than a few appeared on Page 3) but could also take part in pornography and even prostitution.

        The SOA 2003 raised that age to 18 as well as bringing in the concept of Abuse of position of trust to cover teachers etc with persons over 16 but under 18.

        Scroll down to the textual amendments below the main text.
        https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37/section/1

  58. Shocking moment Russian soldier viciously kicks and beats woman on the floor after she shouted ‘Glory to Ukraine’ on his return home from war. 11 July 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/522c009e6e2588618d3d31747db789a5caf39582b249de380fb8af7de490a74f.png

    This is the shocking moment a Russian soldier viciously kicked and beat a woman while she cowered on the floor after she shouted ‘Glory to Ukraine’ on his return home from war.

    Video shows the woman, a neighbour, greeting one of Vladimir Putin’s men on his return home to the southwestern city of Voronezh by shouting ‘glory to Ukraine’.

    The soldier, dressed in military fatigues, can be seen yanking the woman by her hair down the steps of an apartment block.

    One suspects here that the whole thing was a set up. There is a camera that is in a fortuitous position to record the entire incident.

    It is not a demonstration. All those present appear to know each other. The woman speaks (it doesn’t look like Slava Ukraine) to the man who is wearing military fatigues and who then follows her up the steps and drags her down. He appears to have an injury to his left arm that prevents him using it during the melee. It is difficult to believe that as a neighbour she didn’t know this. There is a certain dismissiveness to her demeanour that suggest conscious provocation. Obviously goading someone who has returned from the front with a perhaps permanent injury is going to result in some form of unpleasantness.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12286749/Shocking-moment-Russian-soldier-viciously-kicks-beats-woman-floor.html?ico=livefeed#comments

    1. The flagship soap opera BBC Eastenders has been losing viewers like shit going down a drain. Obviously the news networks need better plot lines. Sorry…i think i confused my reality with a confected reality.

        1. Silly bunt!…I just had to put my fag out to type a bloody response !

          Nah ya stupid twit…..All the market stalls are now selling chinky crap. Ukes don’t make ennthin cept pleas, the fakkin’ cants.

  59. Looks like another accuser has appeared to add to the Hue and Cries from Auntie (DT for those with money or the ladder). Much more interesting than Fishy promising that UK will supply shells to the Ukes to help prolong the war and ensure the complete destruction of that country.

    1. I see that Fishi has shoved his oar in.

      Why doesn’t he stick to trying to run the country instead of getting involved in trivial side issues?

      1. Let me understand this.
        Ukraine is beating the Russians.
        Does this mean Zelensky is going to invade and replace Putin?

        1. I don’t think there’s any logic involved, just a desire to have “a good war” against Russia.

      1. I would imagine that the residents of Pompeii could have told the Beeboids a thing or two about natural phenomena.

      4. It’s all your fault.

        Too lazy to walk up the steps to your flat, and so pissed in the sea instead, heating it up. Allegedly.

    2. Ah, but, but…electricity is too expensive because there aren’t enough wind turbines and that’s why old people freeze.

    3. The state doesn’t care. It is dedicated to the lie of climate change. It just wants the taxes.

      1. Actually, it isn’t. It’s a separate country. They made a devil’s pact with the Anglo Saxons in the eighth century. Excise duty was payable on Cornish tin being imported into England until the 1840s and then suddenly in the 1880s,maps were produced showing Cornwall as an English county. But in law, it’s still a separate country.

  61. Victor Orban holding the moral high ground at the NATO summit
    You need Twitt to watch it, I think, as it’s a video. He’s just saying that defence is good, but NATO should not be agitating for the Ukrainians, Hungary wants peace, and that Hungarians are in danger if the war escalates (in Transcarpathia – not sure where that is).
    https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1678788530200354816

    1. Trans Carpathia – clearly a ship that no longer wanted to be referred to as a ‘She’

      (RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.)

      1. Didn’t it pick up Titanic’s survivors? Or am I getting it confused with a vessel with a similar name?

    2. Transcarpathia – the western tip of Ukraine that is the home of 150,000 ethnic Hungarians.

      1. Interesting – so do they have Hungarian passports, I wonder? If not, then a bit cheeky of Orban to claim them as Hungarian, perhaps…does Hungary have ambitions on that piece of land, perhaps?

        1. Perhaps he views them in the same way that Putin regards Russians in the east of Ukraine.

          To discover how Hungarians came to be there you will have to wade your way through the mass of treaties and carve-ups that followed WW1.

          1. Our government should lay claim to the Costa del Sol then…like they would care in the slightest about British people…

          2. I can back that up, BB2 having lived just in Estepona for 5 years, among mostly Brits.

        2. No, it’s an historic connection from when it was part of the Habsburg empire. Remember Ukraine has no history. All of it once belonged to someone else.

    3. Orban is a beacon of sanity.
      What has the world become when that’s the case?

  62. Victor Orban holding the moral high ground at the NATO summit
    You need Twitt to watch it, I think, as it’s a video. He’s just saying that defence is good, but NATO should not be agitating for the Ukrainians, Hungary wants peace, and that Hungarians are in danger if the war escalates (in Transcarpathia – not sure where that is).
    https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1678788530200354816

  63. With regards to the transwoman winning the Netherlands beauty contest, not the least astonishing aspect was how the losing finalists kept sweet, gracious smiles plastered onto their faces while a male person, who is in no way more beautiful than any of them, carried off the award.

    1. The poor girls are probably hoping their sponsors and future engagements won’t be cancelled if they go along with it.

    2. How stupid the organisers are.
      They ruined a half decent occasion.
      Nobody with half a brain cell will be interested in taking part in the future.

          1. A high IQ doesn’t necessarily produce rocket scientists.
            I know numerous such individuals, starred firsts, PhD’s and even a few with international prizes in their fields, and the common-sense of kangaroo.

    3. As I observed at the time, how can those poor women feel knowing that the judges think they are uglier than the winner?

        1. I certainly hope so, but what a slap in the face to be ranked behind someone who makes even me look handsome as a bloke.

          I fell out of the nest in the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down and he looks uglier than I do.

    4. “…who is in no way more beautiful…”?
      Say it properly, “who is

      totally bloody* gopping…”/blockquote>

      *Other more offensive expletives are available.

  64. Bogey Five today.

    Wordle 752 5/6
    🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
    ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
    🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. Par four for me. All the right letters in the wrong order.

      Wordle 752 4/6

      🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
      ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
      🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. Me too, Sue.
        Wordle 752 4/6

        🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
        ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
        🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      3. Same issue. The order of the letters was not obvious
        Wordle 752 4/6

        ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
        ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
        🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  65. The BBC presenter scandal gets curiouser and curiouser; perhaps this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?

    1. The whole thing smells, to me. None of it adds up. The mother not noticing that her offspring had suddenly become very wealthy; going to the Sun not the beeboids. To my pore brane – there is a hint of blackmail – and the “family” may now be regretting letting the cat out of the bag.

      1. I really don’t think a national newspaper would print this type of story without a reasonable evidential basis. Particularly after Levenson etc

        1. I’m sure the evidence is there, but whether the back story turns out to be an “it’s our truth” Meagain and Harry I don’t know.

      2. It’s just a giant squirrel so that we don’t tax our poor little brains wondering whether to buy gold or not.

      3. Exactement, mon cher !
        My comment on TCW this morning :

        I smell BS.
        £35K to a crack addict who’s mum then blames a BBC presenter for paying the boy to send nud1es?

        You could probably buy half a dozen crackheads for that, let alone pictures.
        £35K? into whose account? – in cash? audited?

        I might be wrong but in my recent experience, when the entire media is piling into a narrative, it tends to be a load of tosh.

        Let’s see how it plays out.

        Withoug the media it should have been reported to the police and nothing would have been known until the trial if the CPS considered there were the evidence to justify that.
        Now we have pre-trial by media fed to a prurient public. In the meantime, our leaders and media continue to ignore
        – the real-world global damage caused by Hunter Biden’s very well documented apetites;
        – the client list which Gizelle Maxwell has been imprisoned for servicing with under age girls;
        – the involvement of local authorities in supressing the Rotherham scandal for as long as they did;
        – the involvement of parlaimentarians in fiddling, now supposedly debunked by the Beech trial.

        I could go on.

        1. The client list for Epstein/Maxwell has been extensively published. I’ll repeat it though.

          Prince Andrew
          Er, that’s it

          1. And even then, given that the alleged guillemot* activity took place in the UK before the 2008 Sexual Offences Act updated what age a prostitute had to be where it was legal to consort with her, he did nothing illegal.

            *Other seabirds are available

          3. Exactly.
            One B-list Royal.
            And Clinton, and Gates but no-one is going after them.

    2. It is certainly making the Daily Mail even more boring than usual.
      Is the BBC reporting on it, or are they studiously ignoring it in favour of Real News about climate catastrophes?

  66. That’s me for this sultry day. What rain that fell overnight soon dried up. Fresh thi afternoon for a while – then muggy. Visited the goats at the farm along the road. Cute little chaps! Very good at escaping from their enclosure – but scooting bck under the wire when told off!

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

  67. In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Robert F Kennedy Jr, suggested that the Biden administration is not interested in punishing China for covering up the lab leak because it would expose National Institutes of Health funded bioweapons programs.

    “I think the CIA was involved certainly in this research,” Kennedy proclaimed, adding “They were funding it through USAID. And NIH, I think, in the end gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan lab. But USAID, which was functioning as the CIA surrogate, gave over $64 million. The Pentagon also gave a lot of money.”

    RFK Jr also slammed Anthony Fauci, the subject of an entire book that he was written, noting “I think he caused a lot of injury. I think that he particularly by withholding early treatment from Americans we racked up the highest death count in the world. We only have 4.2% of the globe’s population but we had 16% of the COVID deaths in this country and that was from bad policy.”

    “There was countries that did the opposite of what we did that provided Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, other early treatments to their population, and had 1/200th of our death rate,” Kennedy continued.”

        1. A number of folk have actually asked me for more details about the meeting……

          3. That’s the same kind of people who, when told I had twins: a boy and a girl then used to say “are they identical?”

    3. From today, the 11th, Next Saturday will be the 22nd and the 15th is this Saturday.

    4. I wouldn’t use the term ‘next Saturday’. I would say ‘this Saturday’ for Saturday of this week, or ‘Saturday week’ for the Saturday of the following week.

    6. This Saturday – the Saturday at the end of this week.
      Next Saturday – the Saturday at the end of next week.

  69. According to the Mail, Boris and Carrie Johnson have had a third child!
    A baby is always a cause for celebration, so I will only say, perhaps that sheds some light on Boris’s return to the fray pushing the WEF line…

    Edit: three babies in three years! Carrie is a sucker for punishment 🙂 I wonder if she will want to go for Nr 4?

    2. May I refer nottlers to Johnson’s Oct 2007 article in the DT on overpopulation, and how nobody was prepared to grasp the nettle of overpopulation? It seems perfectly acceptable if it is someone else’s children he wishes to extinguish.

    3. I’ve been trying to track your ‘Female of the species’ comment, BB2 but Disqus appears to have lost it.

    3. In France, the neighborhood boulangerie is a tradition.
      It’s a bit of a pain for French bakers!

      2. … Baguettes, I’ve had a few
        But then again too few to mention
        I ate what I had to do
        I chewed it through without exemption
        I planned each chunk of course
        Each careful bite along la bouche way
        And more, much, much more
        I ate it, I ate it my way….

    4. I doubt that Cllr Katherine anticipates her own life being restricted. She’ll cage the plebs but if her own favourite bakery happens to be in Paris, she’ll just hop on the Eurostar.

    7. If folk boycott the local ’15 minute shops’ the concept will collapse in very short order….

    8. Fantastic! I was about to write “In Oxford, they’ll succeed in poncy Summertown, in Blackbird Leys they’d be fire-bombed” but I clicked on her account first and what did I find? She’s a LibDem councillor for …. Summertown!

    10. People don’t want ‘artisan bakeries’. They want supermarkets where they can do a week’s food shopping and load it into the car to take it home within a couple of hours.

      2. This is Oxford, though. I used to visit it fairly regularly from the early 80s until about 15 years ago. It always had a shabby charm to it with some splendid old pubs and the wonderful indoor market, although the Westgate Centre was a blot even then. It may have reeked of snobbery but it lacked the monied pretension of towns and cities (like Brum) that replaced brick with glass and steel. Well, until recently. Arab money began to spoil it in the 90s, starting with the Said business school.

        For the well-off it’s a great place to live. We might laugh at Katherine Miles’ cake shop but the university has always attracted many well-off students whose money supports the myriad independent traders of which Cllr Miles is so fond. Many of them will deliver. If you can afford that kind of produce and service, you don’t need a supermarket.

        Four pints of Young’s Special at the King’s Arms and Ian Gillan at the Apollo was my kind of Oxford.

  71. One of the people smugglers responsible for the group of Vietnamese who suffocated in the back of a lorry has been sentenced to 12 years. He’ll be out in six! For 39 people dying slowly. Whatever that is, it’s not justice.

    1. It’s manslaughter – not much of a business model if you keep killing your clients.

  72. GB News carried a banner on Sunday about unrest in Thames Ditton/Surbiton in what appeared to be a hotel accommodating “migrants”.

    I’ve just checked the local paper and can’t find any mention of it. Odd.

    1. Just watching a live report about it on GB News. About a dozen coppers standing in front of some pro-refugee group of course.

      1. Lol I have had a busy week and have just been catching up with yesterday’s Terriblegraph (on PressReader courtesy of my local library). I notice it was mentioned in there. But not the local rag. Will probably get round to catching up with GB News next week….

  73. The DT seem to have lost Richard Kemp and Richard Dannatt as columnists on Ukraine. I think that even they couldn’t keep up the pretence. de-Bretton Gordon still going strong of course.

    2. The entire UK military, past and present, maintain that Russia is militarily and politically weak and fragile. The defeat of Ukraine has proven the precise opposite to be true.

      Russia has not as yet declared war but are carrying out merely a Special Military Operation in order to protect Russian speaking populations and secure traditional Russian settlements. Russia has stated its intention to rid Eastern Ukraine of the Nazi Azov battalions of the Ukrainian Army, people who have wrought significant damage on those Russian speakers for a decade and more with constant shelling.

      Biden admitted recently that the US are out of ammunition, specifically that they are unable to supply the 155mm artillery shells required for the type of warfare being conducted.

      Russia will not stop its operations whilst the threat of Ukraine accession to NATO is on the table. It is a Russian absolute red line.

      1. The accession of Ukraine as a member of NATO – against the rules as a current protagonist – would amount to a de facto declaration of war between NATO and Russia.

        1. Precisely. Ukraine will not be admitted to NATO any time soon if ever. Were Ukraine admitted at any time then NATO would be finished.

          I read today that the combined forces of all European NATO members would be insufficient to fight a conventional war with Russia. We have armchair generals and fictional warriors in non-existent barracks, the Russians have real ones and lots of them fully equipped with armaments and the latest technology.

          It is obvious that the US hope to drag the Ukrainian conflict out until the US elections in November 2024. Fat chance in my view and that of genuine military commentators such as Colonel Macgregor.

          1. “It is obvious that the US hope to drag the Ukrainian conflict out until the US elections in November 2024.”

            Nail on head.

          2. A helicopter evacuation of the last Yank advisors from a tower block in Kiev two months before Biden stands?

          4. That would be fine by Biden, he’d be re-elected.
            A Kabul/Saigon repeat would sink him

      2. Indeed. And if Sunak thinks the UK is in any position to supply any significant amount of artillery ammunition then he needs to look at where the decimal point is on ASTRID.

        1. Zelensky is deluded. Even a State Department under Biden must have reservations about fuelling a proxy war where the Russians are no pushovers but a most effective fighting machine.

          Those advising Biden, the likes of Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken must shudder at the thought of a continuation of this proxy war with Ukraine.

          Regrettably Biden is a mere vegetable with attitude and as such one of the most dangerous idiots in power today. This fact is in itself shocking, that we could be catapulted into WWIII by an incoherent, evil and decrepit dolt in the White House.

          Americans, for God’s sake wake up!

  74. Thank you, Tim Stanley. I need a laugh.
    On today’s refugee debate in the House of Dead Commons (Portcullis Branch).

    “The Government cannot bring itself to show “common decency” to “vulnerable children”, said Labour’s Yvette Cooper. Why did Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, order the removal of Mickey Mouse and Jungle Book murals at a reception centre in Kent? Because our services must be age appropriate, Jenrick explained, and most of the visitors to that centre were “teenagers”. We wouldn’t want adolescent asylum seekers to think the images were embarrassingly uncool, yell “You ruined my life, Great Britain!” and storm off to their bedroom in Syria.”

  75. Thought for the day:

    I wonder how many of the countries who were so keen to join NATO are quite so enthusiastic now they realise that they might have to go to war with Russia and that the Yanks might just step back and let Euro-NATO get on with it?

    1. In the Jack Reacher mode:
      They put up their biggest policeman,
      Someone who knows what they were doing and took him out would have resulted in the rest melting away.

    2. I thought Police Officers were obliged to carry their official numbers on their uniforms? None seem in evidence in the first video….

          1. Probably. Who do you raise it with? The PCC? Nope, bought and paid for. The Chief Constable? Nope, bought and paid for.

    3. The protestors should have said they were JSO or Extinction Rebellion – then they wouldn’t have been troubled!

  77. Utterly off topic.
    The temperature of the water is now beyond my idea of pleasant swimming, 31° +, but HG is happy as a clam.

    On the plus side, I’ve spent two hours, yesterday and today, wall washing with a pressure nozzle.
    The pool as a whole now looks magnificent.
    Time to do some vacuuming soon, to extract the bits and bobs.

    1. I’ve noticed that a lot of video presentations which go against the ‘official narrative’ tend to suffer from lip synch problems making it very difficult to watch —- almost if there was some deliberate interference to stop the alternative versions being heard….

      1. That is shocking. Rumble is uncensored. You might find Robert Barnes on Locals, GETTR, and any number of alternative media.

        Your little Emperor is a truly nasty yet vulnerable piece of work. He would have sat well in Vichy.

  79. Re the beebo-voyeur.
    The fanny flouter was almost certainly doing it for money and struck lucky with the beeboid.

    If truth be known there are thousands of pay per view perverts accessing the services of her and similar.

    If the PTB really cared, which they don’t, every single subscriber to these things would be named and shamed.
    Is that likely? I don’t think so.

    1. The fanny flouter was referred to as ‘the youth’ in one report I saw today. Curiouser and curiouser.

  80. I simply cannot stand any more so am off to bed.
    There is no way this will sodding end. Goodnight Y’all.

      2. Back down for a while- sleep doesn’t want to help. God it hurts. Still, will persevere and see what happens.

        2. It’s a vicious circle. Being overtired then makes more sleep harder. Have you tried Nytol or asked for sleeping tablets? Even just using either for a night or two can help.

          1. Yes, I will ask for sleeping pills when I next get to see someone. I am glad that you are doing better- gives me hope.

          2. Hope is a good thing. I hope you can get some sleep and relief.
            I’ve a way to go yet, and more of the same in August – by which time I hope the nose has stopped hurting as the next job is right next to it.
            But mine is trivial and, as far as I’m aware, nothing like you are facing.
            With the shine from the Vaseline and redness from the surgery, I could audition for Rudolph if it was closer to Christmas 😁.
            I’m off upstairs now for some zeds.
            Goodnight.

  81. Another thought for the day:

    If a universal law was passed, that stated that all owners of any private jets/yachts were to be executed if temperature rose on average by 1°C, do you think that the ecoloons amongst those elites would have so much support?

    1. By wind or solar powered electric chair? Perhaps a length of home grown hemp would be more suitable.

  82. Damn Radio 3! I’m feeling drowsy and ready for bed but am enjoying the performance of Dream of Gerontius they are broadcasting.
    Managed to get a 4½” dia. ash dropped and cleared away this evening after the rain stopped.
    Another couple of night’s firewood

    1. You, Bob of Bonsall, are Greta’s worst nightmare!

      (Keep up the good work!)

  83. Ah! It has finished!
    Not a piece I’m familiar with, but I am rather taken by the music in it.

    And so I’m off for a bath and bed.
    G’night all.

    2. I had a house once where the previous owner had sprayed wool fibres onto glue on every wall in the lounge because it was better for his Hi-Fi (so he thought), It took me a month with an air chisel to remove it and numerous filling ins of damage so caused

    3. My late FiL was very fond of woodchip. Every single year he painted all through the house. A big job for the young couple who bought the house.
      In the 80s, in our 2nd house, we had to remove gaudy vinyl paper. Under that we found a further five layers of paper. Lazy beggars.
      Before hanging our new paper, I wrote a message along the lines of. ‘You may not have liked our paper but at least we removed all six layers from previous owners before hanging ours.’

    4. We once lived in a house that had been wood-chip wallpapered throughout. I must confess, I did not grapple with the task of removing it, but just painted the horrid stuff instead.

  86. Evening, all. The weather app claimed “cloudy”, but it rained all day, so my dress rehearsal for putting up my drive-away awning has been postponed. I need to have a dry (geddit?) run before I go off on holiday. It says it’s a two-man job (other sexes are available) but I’m going to have to devise a way to do it on my own because the dogs are no use at all when it comes to matters of that sort as they lack opposable thumbs.

  87. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.

    I have a very confused time in the morning’s light

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