Tuesday 29 July: The Lionesses’ roaring success has inspired a whole generation of girls

Posted on by Geoff Graham

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  2. Good morning, Geoff and chums.

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    Hugh Janus
    5h
    Sir Kweer Squirmer humiliated by Trump – the latter obviously well briefed by NF. Whoever thought it was a good idea to send Squirmer to Scotland for the usual photo-op may now be regretting it. Trump seems to me to be back on form, even commenting very negatively on the wind farm near his golf course. He didn't miss a trick. And full marks to GBN for this evening's coverage…Squirmer's days must surely now be numbered.

    3. The express missed cheap energy as well. Starmer is doing the exact opposite on all of those. The exact, diametrically opposed opposite.

  6. Norm
    7h
    Apparently there are 54 African countries including some tiny states, islands etc and the current Foreign Office advice is effectively not to travel to 31 of them. Yet this what what we're importing.

    Ernest Nowell
    Norm
    7h
    Where is the UK on Foreign Office No Travel List?

    Captain Sensible
    Ernest Nowell
    6h
    One place above Luton.

    1. A good choice, Ndovu. A cup of coffee and a slice of drizzle cake for breakfast. Lol. (Good morning, btw.)

        1. Hopefully when the tea arrives you will see my "Lol" more clearly, Ndovu.

    2. Doesn't mean to say it's not open, jus hidden. It's likely gone to private presses in muslim.

    1. I wonder if all parties knew this was already in place and that's why cursed harmer surrendered so much to the EU, to compensate.

    3. The EU will get the difference in tariff+ back from Starmer, one way or another.

  10. Hugh Janus
    5h
    Sir Kweer Squirmer humiliated by Trump – the latter obviously well briefed by NF. Whoever thought it was a good idea to send Squirmer to Scotland for the usual photo-op may now be regretting it. Trump seems to me to be back on form, even commenting very negatively on the wind farm near his golf course. He didn't miss a trick. And full marks to GBN for this evening's coverage…Squirmer's days must surely now be numbered.

    Dissident
    Hugh Janus
    5h
    I've never seen a "world leader" look so weak, and uncomfortable. Not even Treason May's dancing was that cringeworthy.
    Even Macron bluffs well enough.

  11. Good Morning!

    Today we stray from the beaten track, to Rhodesia which K.M. Breakey, in Rhodesia: The Brief History of a Magnificent Country , laments the loss of and reminds us of what happens when a country is destroyed in the name of 'progressive' ideology – and that the British Establishment does not hesitate to betray its own people.

    In Should I stay or should I go? Graham Bedford asks the question many have pondered on; should we flee police state Britain, while giving his impressions of various continental countries following his recent motorbike tour. He asks where would you go, and readers who do live abroad, where they are and what it's like.

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 23.5%; Solar, 9.6%: Wind 15.1%; Imports, 26.3%; Biomass, 8.2%; Nuclear 14.9% and Miscellaneous, 2.4%. We are, idiotically, importing more electricity than from any other source, over 25%, while our gas power stations run on half load or less.

  13. Lord Farquard
    6h
    Which side is likely to be better prepared, equipped and ready to fight in the coming civil war… the invaders, whose number includes many sleeper cells and semi active t#rr0rists and jee-haddies who have already fought against the West 's armies and know their way around an AK or jolly b#h#*ding..

    Or the indigenous, persecuted by a two tier legal system that treats their legitimate concerns as jailable "hate speech", and who hope the politicians will fix the mess they've made before it gets worse and just want to get on with their lives in peace?

    1. It is obviously Starmer's aim to cow the population. Eventually, the worm will turn.

      1. It already is, to a degree, but the gimmigrant rapes and murders won't stop, Starmer will get ever more oppressive (it's all he knows) and life will get far worse until the cover ups, deceit, blatant lies, hysterical abuses, enforcement, suppression boil over and there's nothing the wasters in Westminster can do except kill those who want a safe country.

    2. As art imitates life, life imitates art. Starmer will do what he knows: suppress, oppress and destroy those speaking out against his pathetic spite. Eventually someone will go too far and then things will get really ugly, with the public actively turning on the police. Then Starmer will use ever more force, determinedly ignore the problem he has created and he won't stop until there's a bloodbath or the military turn on him.

      Why do you think the political class are so desperate to force the unwanted diversity into the military?

      1. Yes – seen a bit fuzzy it looks very like the work of an illiterate peasant with a large following.

    2. And here I was, I didn't even know BMWs had indicators. Never seen one yet!

  15. Colin Macinnes
    6h
    NI is crucifying Pubs.
    Almost 50,000 British companies are on the brink of collapse as higher taxes and global economic turbulence take their toll.

    The number of businesses in “critical” financial distress rose by just over a fifth during the second quarter of this year compared with a year earlier, Begbies Traynor’s latest Red Flag Alert report suggests, and was 9 per cent higher than the first three months of the year.

    Bars and restaurants have been the worst hit by mounting economic pressure. Just over 40 per cent are suffering a worsening in their financial health according to the report, followed by the travel and tourism industry, where 39 per cent reported an increase in their financial distress.

    1. I and my friends do our best to keep the pubs alive – we meet for lunch each month in a variety of local pubs which all seem quite busy at that time of day.
      I still travel too – Switzerland in September and Kenya in November.

    2. I support a local pub by meeting friends once a month for a meal. Nowadays I only travel within Britain because of the dogs.

  16. Good morning all.
    A dull and damp start after overnight rain with a cooler 14°C outside.
    I might get some brash burnt today, I've a couple of mini bulk bags worth to get rid of.

      1. Unfortunately I have to leave in 15 mins to go to US embassy, Nine Elms. Taking an armed guard with me. {:^))

  19. Morning, all Y'all.
    Lots rain promised for today. Otherwise, it's pleasantly warm, and quiet.

    2. Lego head waffling that the most important thing for the UK is an independent energy provision. Yet, as seen above on the FSB dit, currently (no pun intended) the largest percentage of our energy is provided via interconnectors, i.e., NOT an independent source.

    3. Could someone say 'interconnects' to that gormless moron? How are we energy independent when most of the wind farms are owned by foreign companies? How are we independeent when they're reliant on subsidy, paid from massively high bills?

      Starmer cannot actually believe these things. He knows he is lying. It's obvious to anyone with a passing flicker at the data.

      1. Lies are so natural to Starmer, he does not even recognise them as such. It's not that he knows and ignores – he simply doesn't see them.

  23. Beebsplaining
    3h
    2tier is recalling his cabinet, for borders🤔 due to the economy 🤔 because of the cost of energy🤔 because businesses are closing🤔 because of the Doctors🤔 because of nonce rings🤔 because of the loss of our streets to crims?🤔

    NO, because of Palestine 😳 over 2000 miles away😳

    You could joke and say does he think all of the above are resolved then, but watching his omnishambles of a Donald TV performance he clearly does🤔 or says so😳

    We are into Joe Biden realms of denial, has he been examined medically 🤔 or is he just weapons grade obtuse putting his party position before country🤔 another post election promise that turns out to be b0llocks 😡
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    1. Third option missing; Not our country, not our business, the question should not even be asked until we have fixed the problems on our own streets.

    2. The Sooner we can get rid of that DH the better. He's an absolute and catastrophic wrecker.

      1. In their minds Lefties are all heroic characters, saving the world from 'evul'. They haven't the ability to understand how evil they are.

        Most of them are a step away from invading Poland, after all.

    3. Starmer doesn't care about this country. As far as he's concerned, it's resources as his to plunder to give to his favoured groups. Lefties don't give a stuff about the damage they cause as long as they get what they want.

    4. Given "The Balfour Declaration" you can guarantee that if Britain recognises a Palestinian state then we'll instantly be on the hook for trillions in compensation, which will naturally be used for weapons to attack Israel.

      1. The muslim wanted to build a water pipeline. The EU said OK, here's 200 metres of plastic pipe, 500mm diameter and some digging stuff.

        muslim came back with no, we want metal pipe and 500 metres and this bore… err, diameter – 70mm. Keep the digging kit.

        Utterly corrupt and incompetent, the EU gave them metal pipe. And 500 new rocket launchers.

    5. TwoTierKeir is a human rights lawyer gone rogue. Much like his sidekick Sad Dick, happier to be seen to be doing something on the WEF stage, rather than deal with the omnishambles their governance has created.

      1. …. sidekick Sad Dick ….
        No. No. No.
        Stoma has stated in public that Sad Dick is his FRIEND.

  25. Michael Deacon
    Smearing the migrant hotel protests as ‘far-Right’ isn’t working – and here’s why

    There’s a gaping flaw in Left-wing attempts to dismiss the concerns of local families

    Left-wing pundits and activists continue to insist that the ongoing protests in Epping are “far-Right”. I find this a curious claim. As has been well documented, even by the BBC, the protests in this Essex town were specifically prompted by the news that a 41-year-old asylum seeker staying at the local migrant hotel had been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Hence the placards reading, “Protect our kids”.

    These are not, therefore, protests about race. They’re protests against the sexual assault of children. And surely revulsion at the sexual assault of children is not an exclusively Right-wing stance. There must be at least some people in progressive circles who agree that sexually assaulting children is wrong, and who don’t believe that, in the interests of preserving our vibrant 21st-century multicultural utopia, underage girls should stop moaning and take one for the team.

    None the less, many Left-wing pundits and activists seem to think the stuff about sexual violence is merely an excuse, a cynical far-Right ploy to justify hatred of foreigners. They will no doubt have been delighted, then, by a story in the Guardian at the weekend.

    Two out of every five people arrested for the post-Southport riots last summer, it stated, had previously been reported to police for domestic abuse. These findings, the Guardian continued, “come amid a growing debate over the legitimacy of protests outside asylum hotels”.

    An intriguing sentence. What exactly are we supposed to infer from it? That the people protesting outside asylum hotels this summer are only pretending to care about the safety of women and girls, because lots of them are bound to be dangerous, violent misogynists themselves, like those rioters from last summer?

    Such an inference, I think, would constitute an outrageous smear against the Epping protesters, not least because so many of them – as photos make clear – are women. Purely for the sake of argument, though, let’s say that it’s true. Let’s say that the protests in Epping, and other towns across the country, are absolutely rife with white British woman-haters.

    If so, such a point is of absolutely no use to Left-wing defenders of our generous asylum system. Quite the opposite, in fact.

    After all, if Britain already produces lots of dangerous, violent, horrible men, why on earth would we wish to import even more?

    Logically, the Guardian’s findings should convince its readers that this country must do all it possibly can to minimise the numbers of such men. To that end, they should examine the statistics for certain crimes in England and Wales – and, in particular, the conviction rates by nationality.

    When it comes to sexual crimes, for example, the highest conviction rate is of immigrants from Afghanistan (59 per 10,000 in 2021-23, compared with 6 per 10,000 for those who were British-born). And when it comes to violent crimes, the highest conviction rate is of immigrants from the Congo (187 per 10,000, compared with 16 per 10,000 for the British-born).

    So, if Left-wing pundits and activists really do deplore crimes of this nature, they should be demanding tighter border controls. They should be saying: “We’ve got quite enough nasty and abusive men in this country as it is. So we certainly don’t need more of them. Especially not if they’re from cultures where men are statistically likely to be even nastier and more abusive than British ones.”

    In short: they shouldn’t be smearing the Epping protesters. They should be joining them.

    Trans mania still grips Scotland’s lanyard class
    Ever since Superman was created, in 1938, countless people have asked the following question. How come other characters don’t realise that Clark Kent and Superman are one and the same? Are we seriously supposed to believe that Superman is able to conceal his true identity, simply by putting on a pair of glasses?

    I used to ask that question myself. Lately, though, I’ve come to think that the scenario is actually quite plausible. Or at least it would be, if Superman were ever to visit a Scottish museum.

    According to the people who run Museums Galleries Scotland, the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling that women are female will cause serious problems for museum staff. This is because “every single person” who wishes to enter the women’s loos will now have to be “checked” – and “what proof will be acceptable, given Gender Recognition Certificates are not, nor are altered birth certificates?”

    Some of us might reply: “Can’t the staff just use their eyes? Isn’t it really quite obvious which visitors are genuinely female, and which ones are actually male, regardless of how they might dress?”

    Not to the staff of Scottish museums, it would seem. They would never have spotted that Clark Kent is Superman. In fact, if he’d put on some lipstick, they’d have taken him for Lois Lane.

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    Stephen HB
    1 hr ago
    The smear of “far right” isn't working because it simply isn’t true. Folk know this just as they knew the Stockport disorder was over the suppression of the suspects true identity by Two Tier Keir and his terrified mob of woke wonders.

    It is no longer seen as racist to discuss mass illegal immigration and I for one have not met a single person in favour of it. Quite the opposite.

    It’s time to start building detention camps for anyone entering the UK illegally and to start ramping up deportations. Change the existing laws to expedite rapid deportations if necessary and abolish those laws that leave our political class paralysed in the face of this crisis. Our society is beginning to fracture under the strain.

    Illegals should not be given a single penny from the government nor should they ever be granted British Citizenship.

    Housing needs to be prioritised for our own young folk who are constantly being pushed to the back of the queue, not given to those who choose to break the law.

    1. Nick Griffin was campaigning on protecting children thirty years ago, and guess what? his concerns were justified. The left managed to kill any investigation into mainly muslim rape gangs for a generation with the far right smear, so I guess they haven't yet caught on that it's stopped working.

      2. They'll keep using it though, as slandering your enemies is all Lefties have. They can't play the argument as that has them openly encouraging the rape and murder of children (which they do seem to endorse and encourage, mostly I assume because they're demented perverts), so they play the man. It's all Lefties ever do.

        Destroy the messenger, destroy the message. Except this time their irrational mania isn't working. We're sick of what they've done to this country.

    2. It's obvious that our useless government has only one preferred aspect to the many terrible problems they alone are causing and those three words in use are so boring, but convenient nonsense that suits only thier purposes. Blame everything on everyone else except the obvious culprits, themselves.
      Disgusting people.

    3. The Left desperately have to control the narrative which they then spin deliberately to push their view. If they can demonise their enemies they denigrate their cause.

      However, they're unstuck at the moment as the usual Left wing lies are undone by the facts, so all these Lefty wasters have is violence and rage. Unable to control, unable to destroy their enemy wit the usual tired slurs they rely upon a compliant Left wing media to paint the picture they so frenziedly want: and it's not working.

      The response by Lefties when they don't get their way is usually mass slaughter.

    4. Michael Deacon is the best satirical journalist the DT has!

      Does the humourless Guardian have any amusing columnists?

    5. "Two out of every five people arrested for the post-Southport riots last summer, it stated, had previously been reported to police for domestic abuse. These findings, the Guardian continued, “come amid a growing debate over the legitimacy of protests outside asylum hotels”.

      "Reported" is not the same as a conviction. And whatever the outcome of such "reports", it does not invalidate their concerns for the safety of their children.

      1. Now they are not only far right racists but also domestic abusers.

        Would the Guardian like to pour more fuel on the fire?

    6. I wouldn’t be surprised if some lefties thought that children being sexually assaulted was. a price worth paying to “be kind”. Collateral damage in the struggle for diversity and multiculturalism to “enrich” our hitherto successful and homogeneous society.

  26. Unsafe in Afghanistan

    SIR – I am writing to express my deep concern, dismay and sense of betrayal after reading your report (July 27) about individuals with connections to the Taliban allegedly being relocated to the UK.

    This is particularly painful for those of us who put our lives at risk by working in close partnership with British forces and have since been left behind.

    I am a former officer in the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. I received extensive training in camps affiliated with the British military, and I still retain some of the certificates and evidence of that cooperation. My role made me a direct and visible ally of British forces on the ground.

    In addition to my service, I belong to the Hazara ethnic minority and follow the Shi’a faith, both of which place me at even greater risk under the Taliban.

    Since the collapse of the republic, I have been living in hiding under extremely difficult and dangerous conditions. Even though I submitted a full application under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) with supporting documentation and evidence of my service and the threats I face, my request was rejected. No meaningful reason was provided.

    This is a grave injustice and a moral failure. I urge The Telegraph to continue shedding light on this issue, and to help amplify the voices of those who have been wrongfully abandoned.

    We placed our trust in the British Government. Today, we ask that this trust not be forgotten.

    Name and address supplied.

    We know what is going on. Reject the worthy and bring in the troublemakers. Even Syrian Christians have received rejections. And they are also in mortal danger.

    1. I suspect that more than a few 'Baddies' have got themselves into positions in our Home Office where they can reject and target Afghani 'Goodies'.

        1. Yes. That's why they want the British taxpayer to pay for a new airport in Pakistan.

    3. Why hasn't he left already if his life is in such danger? Why wait for us to do something, with an unreliable, treacherous government intentionally importing violent muslim savages he may come here thinking it safe but the reality is it's as dangerous as Afghan. Certainly plod will do nothing to help you if you're attacked by muslim.

          1. If he is who he says he is we will need people like him for when it kicks off here.

          4. He says what his faith is and it isn’t one of the rabid ones. He was taken into the fold and well trained. I expect our soldiers trusted him. Good enough for me.

      2. Why not go to another country then. India? Kazakhstan? Georgia? Or any one of dozens closer than Blighty.

        1. They were promised.
          Also, i expect it is difficult to exit the country while trying to hide. Just my opinion.

          I know nothing.

          1. We have also been promised – and those promises have been broken. Two-tier promises to add to the collection.

          1. Not allowed to say Bennies. You have to say Stills.
            Oh no, that’s in the Falkland Is.

    4. Should have got rid of his papers and rocked up in a rib. Job done. Edit for autocorrect making no sense.

    5. Should have got rid of his papers and rocked up in a rib. Job done. Edit for autocorrect making no sense.

  27. I'm as enthusiastic as the next Nottler about the recent success of our female soccer players; it strikes me as unambitious that their victory parade will only go down The Mall.

    3. Don’t get me started. Had a massive detour on my way into work this morning because of the Women’s Wendyball parade and presumably will fall foul of it this evening too.

      Some silly woman in the Terriblegraph saying they should be paid more. I say, let market forces work it out. Personally i would rather pole my eyes out with sharp sticks…

      1. Professional sport is a branch of show-business. The bigger the crowd you draw, the more you get paid.

        1. I'd wager that the gate receipts for a full house when Arsenal play a Premier League match far outweighs the income garnered from Arsenal Ladies playing to a full house (reportedly the Ladies team regularly fill the ground but I suspect the tickets are much cheaper).

        2. If all the year were playing holidays,
          To sport would be as tedious as to work.

          [Prince Hal]

          Not all work is tedious – even drudgery can be divine but it is still work

          “A servant with this clause
          Makes drudgery divine;
          Who sweeps a room as for
          Thy laws Makes it and th'action fine.”

          But if sport is an escape from work then the term professional sport is not sport it is the players' work from which he/she gains his/her livelihood so the term is an oxymoron.

      2. It would be interesting to see how the prize money women tennis players would be affected if the Men's and Women's tournaments at Wimbledon were completely separated events and the prize money paid was based on market forces.

        This begs the question:

        Are women sports people parasites feeding off the backs of men?

        [Runs for cover!]

        1. Not in the One True Sport. I suspect others too (e.g. rowing, sailing). It’s just the “modern ines”

        2. I would rather watch Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graff any day than some giant powering tennis balls down to the back of the box faster than the eye can see. The latter is boring!

        3. I quite like women's tennis and no, not because of the women and short skirts but simply because it's a better game rather than 'whack' point, ' whack ' point'.

          1. Too much determined by the serve in the men's game. Hate the grunting from both sides.

    4. The brouhaha is all about the masculisation of women and not really about sport. Women and girls have always had access to and played sports although the present narrative would have you believe that none had set foot on a pitch before the Lionesses had led the way.

      1. When I was about 10, the girls in my class challenged the boys to a game during break. They enployed the Moscow Dynamo tactic of surrounding the player with the ball and stopping us getting near. Being aspiring gentlemen, we laid off the rough stuff and they won 1-0.

    5. Are you being sarcastic? (genuine question) I am managing to ignore it quite successfully.

          1. At least they’re not saying they are men, but that’s the acid test isn’t it for the trans màlar,ey. How many trans men are demanding rights to play in men’s teams? None, because they understand there is a strength and size difference. Funny how trans women (aka men) can’t realise that

    7. When will MOTD start including matches rom the women's league in its highlights?
      It's refreshing to watch a match with few fouls and no arguments with the referee.

      I should be careful what I wish for, however. Increased exposure may serve to develop the nastier traits of the male players into the women's game.

    1. If all these people like palestine so much, why aren't they living there, instead of here?

          1. Hasn’t he been cancelled? Plod never identified who threw paint on his portrait so i assume we no longer care about him.

    2. New Policy Announcement

      At protests the police will outnumber the demonstrators.

      1. Except at Lefty ones where Lefties, because they know how reviled they are, pay for thugs to keep them safe.

        You have to look at that and think… how long before this escalates into the usual Left wing violence?

    3. Have a happy Birthday Lewis and of course 364 Happy Unbirthdays, 'til tht next anniversary

    4. Thankyou Caroline, Rasmussen (Sorry, Rastus, look what autocorrect did ….. you sound like a character from a Joseph Conrad story), and all Nottlers. Despite periodic absences caused by news-fuelled blown gaskets, NoTL remains the first port-in-a-storm where I head in search of sane, commonsense, company. Thanks everyone.

      81 and I'm starting to wonder how much sand is still to drop before my time is done … Right, back to that novel, I'm really enjoying from its first 50 pages: Robert Goddard, 'The Fine Art of IInvisible Detection'

      2. Happy Birthday Lewis, keep enjoying life. It really winds the Leftwaffe up.

        1. I confess, StormyD,: nearly polished off a bar of milk chocolate (first for weeks) …. gosh, did that hit the G-spots in my brain …

      5. Happy birthday Lewis! I hope you're having a great day watching Trump destroy the Kneeler. Oh sorry– that was yesterday! Happy birthday!

      6. Have a lovely birthday, Lewis! Enjoy your read, it is so pleasurable to be able to enjoy a good book.

      9. Happy birthday and many more of them! Keep drawing your pension and put taxpayers’ money to good use for once😀

  32. I hear that Parliament is to be recalled so that they can debate Gaza.
    I was just thinking that if Trump is still here, perhaps he will be allowed to address Parliament and give them the Cromwellian dressing down that they all deserve for letting our country drift into the parlous state it is now in, all through following globalist agendas against the wishes and the mutual benefit of the British people.

    3. It makes me smile when Stoma thinks he can cook up a peace plan when Hamas and Israel have been meeting for months and still cant agree to anything.

      1. He didn't care about a massacre in South-port, what makes you think he would care one farthing about Gazan children, let alone the Israeli hostages?
        It's about Mohammedan votes in Labour marginals, remember there will be Council elections next year.

    4. I know all NOTTLers are well acquainted with this speech; but you can't have too much of a goof thing.

      It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
      Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
      Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
      Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do; I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out!
      Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

      2. They earn a lot, they don't cause problems, they return money to the economy, they make efforts to avoid tax (which I approve of). Don't care what colour they are. It doesn't matter. These are not the diversity.

    1. 410313+ up ticks,

      Morning TB,

      ALL ruling parties had support ALL the way,until of late realisation and truth took a hand.

    1. Mr Trump is expected to deliver a traditional speech at the state banquet held in his honour by the King and Queen when he arrives. LOL

      King Charles is "very concerned" that US President Donald Trump could launch into a massive rant about a "horrible invasion" that is "killing Europe".

      1. Well, Charlie boy, perhaps you could acknowledge that it is rather than merely be 'concerned about someone telling the truth'?

      2. And what bit of that "rant" would be incorrect, I wonder? Maybe not the right time and place, but the JWK needs to realise just how concerned "his" people are about the situation.

      3. And what bit of that "rant" would be incorrect, I wonder? Maybe not the right time and place, but the JWK needs to realise just how concerned "his" people are about the situation.

      4. I hope he does. Hopefully shaming the King into doing what is right for OUR country and putting the indigenous first rather than last.

    2. Starmer is a serial liar. A man desperate to control everything. In his mind, he probably believes he isn't. In reality, it is just a manipulation of the truth that he very clearly is.

      The Left wing mind is a tangle of doublethink, hypocrisy and spite.

      1. Starmfuhrer couldn't conceive of that. He relies on these creatures for votes.

        1. Getting them through the (nominal) procedures as quickly as possible so as to ensure their votes for the future…

    3. Stayed there a number of times as it was up to the standard to be our crew hotel for Gatwick.

    3. I hesitantly put forward that that might represent the one positive about the burqkha – if there is one – that Miss Whatever contests judge women on their character not the firmness of thir skin (With apologies to MLK)

  38. Yo and Good moaning to you all, from a sunny(ish) C d S.

    I have been checking our 'energy' account again, cum October our usage may exceed the Standing Charges

  39. How the left obscured the truth about grooming gangs
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-the-left-obscured-the-truth-about-grooming-gangs/

    BTL from "I'm Old Fashioned":

    Just when is this website going to stop playing its role in helping to perpetuate the myth that these criminals were 'grooming gangs'?

    Response to 'm Old Fashioned from Rastus C. Tastey (which has been taken down)
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ba835b82d7d8ea8aec48b2e094aff4a6bc3b4411c667a15cfd82c297f94ac7c.jpg

    Politicians always use euphemisms.

    A grooming gang sounds like a group of people who are out looking for hairbrushes, combs, aftershave lotions etc or a group of young people who are about to marry and become bridegrooms or a team at workers in horse stables.

    These savage monsters are not well-kempt – they are rough and ugly and rape young vulnerable white girls: they are rape gangs not grooming gangs..

    If The Conservative Woman is frightened of using the word 'rape' then Starmer really is winning his battle to kill free speech

    1. Spot on. I hope you don’t mind but I’ve just reposted your comment with the”a” in one particular word replaced by “4”. I wonder how long it will last.

      Edit: it’s gone into “Pending”. What a surprise.
      Edit 2: And it's gone.

    2. Tbf, they do groom the girls before raping them. Triggernometry had a good vid recently with one of the cictims (Jade?) and Maggie Oliver. They do a good job of exposing politicians’ and Plods’ complicity in the scandal.

      Of course, TR was calling this out early-doors too (he came out in 2014). And has been in trouble ever since. Good vid of him on Andrew Gold’s Heretics.

      Raja Miah (2018) also persecuted by Plod but not as much as TR.

      I suppose Andrew Norfolk and Anne Cryer should be pleased they were just ignored. Maggie Oliver had to resign her job to be able to whistleblow.

    1. Of course he is. They're both repellent, useful, vile chancers.

      Both rely on an violent, savage voting base, both hate the country, both hate our values and principles and neither has any moral scruples. Neither is able to tell the truth and both are corrupt to the core socialists – except where their own troughing applies.

    3. Two human rights lawyers who have diminished the rights of the indigenous.

  41. Lennie Henry says he needed therapy after appearing on the B&W Minstrel show,…poor dab.

    if you can, read the comments. Not one in his support, most expressing my own opinion that he has never been very funny.

    2. I thought Llenny Henry was quite funny until he started hectoring people and taking himself too seriously. Maybe Dawn French sat on him and squeezed all the humour out of him

      Ian Hislop ceased to be even remotely funny when he stopped being a satirist and became a dull, dreary old left-wing bore.

      Even William Hague used to have a quick wit and outshone Blair at PMQs but he is now as dull as ditch-water and speaks in clichés!

      John Cleese started trying to analyse humour and almost lost the thread completely. Indeed people used to refer to the 60s and 70s as the time before John Cleese stopped being funny. I think that John Cleese has now recovered but the others are beyond all hope.

  42. I was a bit disappointed when Trump failed to score in the open goal Starmer had offered him.

    Trump was talking about the erosion of free speech and looked very hard at Starmer while talking about it.

    Starmer, said:

    "We've had free speech here for a very long time. We're very proud of it."

    Trump should have replied: "If you're so proud of your history with free speech then why are you killing it?

    Just look at the first 30 seconds of this clip:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddUhnwKx1E

    1. Poor Vicky Sponge just looks embarrassed and as if she'd like the ground to swallow her up……….

      1. Not clear why she was dragged along. Thought she had an "important" career in the Envy of the World.

      2. Did she deliberately choose the frumpiest outfit that Lord Alibungo could afford?

  43. The comments on this piece are comedy gold!

    24 min ago

    If Starmer didn't hate Trump before, he sure does now! Trump has shown the world just how incompetent this appalling man is. And he's done it really cleverly, by pretending to offer friendly advice. A masterstroke! Don't let anyone tell you Trump is stupid.

    Go away and lick your wounds, Starmer. And think on the advice you've been given.

    Reply by Suffolk Farmer.

    18 min ago

    Love it. Well put.

    Comment by A Subscriber.
    25 min ago

    The ringmaster and his performing seal TTK.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/28/trump-starmer-meeting-scotland/

    Donald Trump told Sir Keir Starmer how he should slash taxes and stamp out illegal immigration if he is to beat Nigel Farage during an extraordinary hour-long press conference on Monday.

    The two leaders held talks at the US president’s Turnberry golf course on the Scottish coast before flying together to Aberdeen.

    But when journalists were invited in for a quick chance to take pictures and ask a few questions, Mr Trump seized the opportunity to offer Sir Keir some advice.

    “You know, politics is pretty simple,” he said. “I assume there’s a thing going on between you and Nigel, and it’s OK. It’s two parties.

    “But generally speaking, the one who cuts taxes the most, the one who gives you the lowest energy prices, the best kind of energy, the one that keeps you out of wars… a few basics.”

    “Keep people safe and with money in their pockets and you win elections,” he said.

    “And in your case a big immigration component, because I know that your attitude has become strong on immigration, strong on the toughness of immigration,” he said.

    The Prime Minister offered no reaction to the advice at a time when he lags behind Mr Farage’s Reform UK party.

    Mr Trump also addressed his plans to end the war in Ukraine, setting out a 10 to 12-day deadline to impose secondary sanctions, and deliver aid to Gaza.

    1. “Strong on immigration, strong on the toughness of immigration” – love it. Starmer is a second rate Blair.

  45. 410313+ up ticks,

    More stitch up being woven into the Tommy Robinson tapestry.

    Dt,

    Tommy Robinson filmed shouting ‘he came at me bruv’ near injured man
    Social media footage shows far-Right activist appearing agitated after incident at St Pancras station

    1. Who is the far-right activist?

      TR is not far-right.

      I am getting tired of the Lamestream Media’s irresponsible reporting about him.

  46. President Trump has criticised the UK for its high taxes on North Sea oil “that make no sense” on the final day of his “private” trip to Scotland.

    Trump said there was “a vast fortune” to be made, describing the resource as a “treasure chest for the United Kingdom”.

    Posting on his Truth Social network on Tuesday, Trump said: “North Sea Oil is a TREASURE CHEST for the United Kingdom. The taxes are so high, however, that it makes no sense. They have essentially told drillers and oil companies that, ‘we don’t want you’.

    “Incentivize the drillers, FAST. A VAST FORTUNE TO BE MADE for the UK, and far lower energy costs for the people

    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/north-sea-oil-is-a-treasure-chest-for-the-uk-says-donald-trump-bd8mfqdsv

    1. He's done a good job stirring! I wonder what gems he'll come out with to the King?

      1. Like Starmer, but for different reasons, KFC is too thick for anything other than a brutal home truth to register.

  47. The online safety petition is now on 382,602 signatures and still ticking up nicely.

  48. Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage

    Nigel Farage has urged Technology Secretary Peter Kyle to "do the right thing and apologise" after he suggested that by opposing the government's online safety law, the Reform UK leader was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile.

    Reform has said it would scrap the new law, arguing it does not protect children and suppresses free speech.

    Kyle told Sky News: "Make no mistake if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he would be perpetrating his crimes online – and Nigel Farage is on their side."

    Farage called the minister's comments "disgusting," while his Reform colleague Zia Yusuf said the claim was "one of the most appalling things I've seen in my political life".

    Kyle refused to back down after Farage's criticism, saying on social media: "If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo

    1. Another LieBore moron! Does he think all of the 383,233 people who signed the petition [at present] are on the side of predators??

    2. Oh give over. We didn't need the online harm bill to see that pakistani muslim paedophiles were raping children. The Left tried to hush this up. The online harm bill is designed solely, specifically to do just that: to ensure there is no information except what the Left want. It's a tool of repression, as they all are.

      Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn > Quotes > Quotable Quote

      Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

    3. Kyle should look to his own side. There have been dozens of convictions for rape and child abuse from Labour MP's and councillors over the last few decades.

      1. It's the 4th form debating logic that raises the hackles: if you're against the Act, even in part, you're in favour of what it is intended to prevent.

  49. Lefties and the corrupt establishment require TR safely locked up.. way before London free speech celebration on 13th September.

    Forensic team swarm St Pancras. Taped off.
    Footage circulating online shows right-wing activist Tommy Robinson pacing back and forth beside the unresponsive man lying face-down on the concourse.

    Job done.

      1. First Class seats, eh? Assume the champagne service didn't get that far in the cabin?
        As a child, stayed in the Copthorne on the way to/from Nigeria with BCal.

  51. The typical government response to a petition.
    Dear Prat,
    Thank you so much for signing the petition, but you needn't have bothered because we couldn't give a stuff about what the people in this country think and we have even less intention of taking any notice of them. We are just going to keep on lying, and doing exactly as we please so b*gger off, pleb.

    Dear xxxx,

    The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Repeal the Online Safety Act”.

    Government responded:

    The Government is working with Ofcom to ensure that online in-scope services are subject to robust but proportionate regulation through the effective implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023.

    I would like to thank all those who signed the petition. It is right that the regulatory regime for in scope online services takes a proportionate approach, balancing the protection of users from online harm with the ability for low-risk services to operate effectively and provide benefits to users.

    The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible to enable UK users to benefit from its protections.

    Proportionality is a core principle of the Act and is in-built into its duties. As regulator for the online safety regime, Ofcom must consider the size and risk level of different types and kinds of services when recommending steps providers can take to comply with requirements. Duties in the Communications Act 2003 require Ofcom to act with proportionality and target action only where it is needed.

    Some duties apply to all user-to-user and search services in scope of the Act. This includes risk assessments, including determining if children are likely to access the service and, if so, assessing the risks of harm to children. While many services carry low risks of harm, the risk assessment duties are key to ensuring that risky services of all sizes do not slip through the net of regulation. For example, the Government is very concerned about small platforms that host harmful content, such as forums dedicated to encouraging suicide or self-harm. Exempting small services from the Act would mean that services like these forums would not be subject to the Act’s enforcement powers. Even forums that might seem harmless carry potential risks, such as where adults come into contact with child users.

    Once providers have carried out their duties to conduct risk assessments, they must protect the users of their service from the identified risks of harm. Ofcom’s illegal content Codes of Practice set out recommended measures to help providers comply with these obligations, measures that are tailored in relation to both size and risk. If a provider’s risk assessment accurately determines that the risks faced by users are low across all harms, Ofcom’s Codes specify that they only need some basic measures, including:

    • easy-to-find, understandable terms and conditions;
    • a complaints tool that allows users to report illegal material when they see it, backed up by a process to deal with those complaints;
    • the ability to review content and take it down if it is illegal (or breaches their terms of service);
    • a specific individual responsible for compliance, who Ofcom can contact if needed.

    Where a children's access assessment indicates a platform is likely to be accessed by children, a subsequent risk assessment must be conducted to identify measures for mitigating risks. Like the Codes of Practice on illegal content, Ofcom’s recently issued child safety Codes also tailor recommendations based on risk level. For example, highly effective age assurance is recommended for services likely accessed by children that do not already prohibit and remove harmful content such as pornography and suicide promotion. Providers of services likely to be accessed by UK children were required to complete their assessment, which Ofcom may request, by 24 July.

    On 8 July, Ofcom’s CEO wrote to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology noting Ofcom’s responsibility for regulating a wide range of highly diverse services, including those run by businesses, but also charities, community and voluntary groups, individuals, and many services that have not been regulated before.

    The letter notes that the Act’s aim is not to penalise small, low-risk services trying to comply in good faith. Ofcom – and the Government – recognise that many small services are dynamic small businesses supporting innovation and offer significant value to their communities. Ofcom will take a sensible approach to enforcement with smaller services that present low risk to UK users, only taking action where it is proportionate and appropriate, and will focus on cases where the risk and impact of harm is highest.

    Ofcom has developed an extensive programme of work designed to support a smoother journey to compliance, particularly for smaller firms. This has been underpinned by interviews, workshops and research with a diverse range of online services to ensure the tools meet the needs of different types of services. Ofcom’s letter notes its ‘guide for services’ guidance and tools hub, and its participation in events run by other organisations and networks including those for people running small services, as well as its commitment to review and improve materials and tools to help support services to create a safer life online.

    The Government will continue to work with Ofcom towards the full implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023, including monitoring proportionate implementation.

    Department for Science, Innovation and Technologyv

      1. Worse, badly understood nonsense. It's all a pack of lies to disguise a big middle finger.

        We are not a democracy.

        1. We haven’t been a democracy for som time. It’s just now becoming harder to conceal.

      2. They don't even try to address the concerns that are reasons that people have petitioned. It's just "this is what we're doing and we are right". Full stop. Such a "response" is a complete insult.

        For these purposes, what are "children"? They want 16 years olds to have the vote.

    2. We, the public have instructed the government on what we want. It's response: "Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act"

      Just whom do they work for, because it isn't their employer.

      At this point the public should have the power to recall parliament, demand the act be repealed (along with anything else we want) and government simply forced to do it. That is democracy. Not the farce of dictatorship we labour under.

      1. Unfortunately the numbers do not support that – otherwise we would have had the second referendum on leaving the EU that Starmer wanted. The system needs complete change (as well as the political parties, Parliament and the civil service – just for starters).

        1. The Left wanted another ref to get their own way, ignoring there had already been a referendum where they could have their say. They were beaten.

          This should be the same – a choice to say no to the state and demand a repeal as all legislation should be open to such challenge.

          The problem with the Brexit vote is that MPs immediately set about ways to destroy, stop and reverse it. That's got to change, else they cease to be the servants they are.

          The whole edifice needs to be brought to heel.

    3. Has anyone still got the link, I have not signed it yet. may as well put my name on the blacklist, I'm sure it's there already.

        1. Thank you! (I asked instead of searching because in the past duplicate petitions have been started).

  52. They're worse than children, they're dangerous idiots with unfettered power over others.

    1. And the stupid voters and the ridiculous electoral system in this country put them there.

    1. Net zero is a prestige project, regardless of the expense (borne by others) to show just how zealous we can be in reducing the CO2 output by even a chaffinch's fart – regardless of the cost, or even that the cost is even greater, because that demonstrates even more virtue.

    2. Net zero is a prestige project, regardless of the expense (borne by others) to show just how zealous we can be in reducing the CO2 output by even a chaffinch's fart – regardless of the cost, or even that the cost is even greater, because that demonstrates even more virtue.

    1. Known in Norwegian as "Spissmus" – "pointy mouse".
      Cute – many get scoffed by the cats, then bits left in the house, and sometimes regurgitated just where you want to step at the bottom of the stairs. :-((

      2. Our cats aren't into hunting, but when we had younger ones, they always left the shrews and didn't eat them like they did mice.

    1. As someone who ended up owning a (small) piece of the Potomac River bank here in the US, as my property's western boundary is the river, I really don't want strangers strolling across my land. And I know my neighbours feel the same way. The owners here (all 12 of us) agreed that we could all walk along the riverbank, but the last thing we would want is "right to roam".

      And given the local area' residents predilection for hunting, I would certainly not risk strolling across land belonging to anyone I did not know…

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4c234f3745de5c1baf646f897f4499c0a9b86074a2e7dc1121bf62697420f061.jpg

    2. Here Here !!!!!
      Spartie and I spent his walk discussing the reissue of Magna Carta in 1225.

      2. 'bout time is was reissued – our governments are breaking all our (still extant) rights under it and the Bill of Rights…

    1. We lived in central Bournemouth for 30 years. This is the reason we moved out 10 years ago.

      1. We are shocked by the decline of Bournemouth, and we lived when the boys were younger in the Canford /Wimborne area, I used to take the boys to the ice rink, swimming pool and other interesting events.. in Bournemouth ..

        We used to meet people and have tea with friends . take our visitors , watch the green bowling , attend conferences , and I remember my elderly retired Aunt coming to a nursing conference at the old BIC , , during the late 1960's and she suggested that I should not forget my gloves and polish my shoes , as if I would ever forget, drat , I never even leave the house without a clean handkerchief even now and of course a splash of perfume!

      2. We are shocked by the decline of Bournemouth, and we lived when the boys were younger in the Canford /Wimborne area, I used to take the boys to the ice rink, swimming pool and other interesting events.. in Bournemouth ..

        We used to meet people and have tea with friends . take our visitors , watch the green bowling , attend conferences , and I remember my elderly retired Aunt coming to a nursing conference at the old BIC , , during the late 1960's and she suggested that I should not forget my gloves and polish my shoes , as if I would ever forget, drat , I never even leave the house without a clean handkerchief even now and of course a splash of perfume!

      3. I lived in Southbourne when i worked at Hurn Airport. It was bedsit land then. Lord knows what it is like now.

    3. Many tourist destinations are struggling with the numbers, not just urban favourites like York, Bath and Edinburgh but coastal locations, big and small. Of course, it's the latter where the behaviour is often the problem. Even inland sites have had their problems, notably Loch Lomond with wild camping. And that behaviour is definitely age-related…

    5. My home town, this decline hasn't happened over night, just the drip effect, one small thing follows by another and get another etc. And this is now it becomes a shithole. Still got a couple of children there, but the rest of us have moved on. So very sad.

    1. Well worth a read [you need to see the whole thread], especially the "favours" to donors!

  62. https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1949932277661659284 Hard-right political activist Tommy Robinson has fled Britain after an investigation was launched into an alleged assault on a man at St Pancras Station, police have confirmed.

    Detectives have launched a manhunt for the 42-year-old, from Luton, Bedfordshire, after he boarded a flight out of the country in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

    His flight out of Britain comes just hours after footage circulated online showing him pacing back and forth beside the unresponsive man lying face-down on the station concourse.

    Paramedics rushed to St Pancras Station, in central London, at around 8.40pm last night and the alleged victim – whose head appeared to be covered in the video – was taken to a major trauma centre with 'serious injuries'.

    In footage shared widely online, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, appeared to be walking in the background as security were called to help the unconscious man.

    As stunned bystanders watched on, one Good Samaritan could be heard urgently shouting: 'Can we get some help over here!'

    But Robinson, visibly agitated, threw his arms in the air before turning and walking away down a staircase, repeatedly protesting his innocence. 'He f***ing came at me, bruv,' he yelled. 'He come at me bruv, you saw that.'

    The English Defence League founder had earlier posted footage of himself handing out flyers inside the station for an upcoming 'free speech' protest on September 13.

    The English Defence League founder had earlier posted footage of himself handing out flyers inside the station for an upcoming 'free speech' protest on September 13.

    A spokesman for British Transport Police (BTP) told the Daily Mail today: 'Following a report of an assault at St Pancras station last night (28 July), officers have confirmed that the suspect, a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire, boarded a flight out of the country in the early hours of this morning.

    'Detectives are continuing to work closely to progress the investigation and bring him into custody for questioning.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14950637/Tommy-Robinson-flees-Britain-station-attack.html

    Sounds as if he was provoked .. what a terrible mess he is in now .

      1. Pretty much. Turns out the British public don't really take for such positions. Same reason the brown shirts? never caught on. We're just not by nature fascist.

        The Left, however, love that and blatantly are.

      2. Yes, and some time after having left because he didn't want to be associated with it.

    2. Is he Right wing, or just labelled that way? Not wanting the country to be flooded with gimmigrants is an economic, social and public safety reason. It doesn't make one 'right wing' except on a media label as the Left demonise it.

      Of course, it is Left wing that is truly evil.

      1. He has mellowed but i don't believe he was ever extreme right wing. Just a footie hooligan who grew up. Isn't that what we want for all young people?

        Tommy also has Black and Asian friends. He wouldn't have them at his back if he was a racist.

    3. 410313+ up ticks,

      Afternoon TB,

      The whole defective dept. of the met are now working on the Tommy Robinson far right ex leader of the EDL party, got that ? the EDL party, stitch up tapestry

    4. Well here's to you Mr Robinson:
      Can't help yourself, a violent thug you are.
      ha ha ha

      Even if you're the victim here
      All you've done is your pitch queer
      ha ha ha

      This guy is his own worst enemy.

  63. Afternoon all. I am pleased to report that I am still mobile after my equine exploits yesterday. I managed to walk the dogs into town to have a coffee.

    I don’t know about inspiring a generation of girls, but surely something more productive than football would have been better?

    Did anyone else have a problem logging in to Nttl? For ages there were no comments visible and no means to log in.

          2. To me the Conservative Party in Parliament is a distant memory – a bit like the Battle of Bosworth.

          3. They haven't been conservative for such a long time. When people challenged me, when I was campaigning for UKIP, I used to say, "I was a Conservative once, but the Party left me".

    2. I think it will inspire girls. Don't forget these women are at the top of their game.

      A bit like Frank Bruno inspired a generation of young black men to box rather than rob.

      Both sports instill discipline which has to be a good thing.

      1. Something kept very quiet and under the radar by Bruno. Lennox Lewis, if memory served; tried similar.

    3. It's always been difficult to get girls (especially teenage girls) to participate in sport. Anything which attracts their interest in any sport is to be welcomed.

      1. Much less chance of weight problems leading to more serious issues like bulimia if they are playing sports all the time.

      2. Girls are well represented in horse sports. You only have to look at the makeup of any Pony Club camp 😀

  64. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/29/young-people-reject-low-paid-work-who-blame-them/

    Given the UKs demographic it is obvious that many 'shoppers' spitting and abusing shop workers are Britons. I'm ashamed of that. The local Tesco now doesn't open 24 hours. It's too risky for staff.

    Mass welfare, the shredding of work ethic, the 'rights' culture, the lack of police enforcement (broken window syndrome), the willful desrtuction of the nuclear family, high taxes on workers (so a single breadwinner cannot support a family) – it's all an enforced decline of society. So easily avoidable, yet forced on us anyway, just like the gimmigrants.

    1. 410313+ up ticks,

      Afternoon W,

      We are a great deal to blame for putting up with this types odious agenda, time & time again then some.

      1. I don't see how, Ogga. Case in point, a little shop selling high end suits and ties has our new camera thing put in. In comes Mohammed Diversity and picks five off the rack and goes to walk out. Owner stands in front of him and asks him, politely to return them. Mohammed Diversity refused and pushes owner aside so owner takes his arm, locks it and takes the ties from him.

        Mohammed Diversity then screams and wails and shouts and plod arrive and interview the owner. Under arrest for restraint, or whatever it is. Owner plays back the camera footage to show the course of events and plod insist on arresting him and ignore Mohammed Diversity.

        Tell me, what sort of deranged world is that?

        Thankfully, because Soton plod are not total gooseberries they also took Diversity with them 'to make a statement' but it is wrong that the owner was even bothered. Plod should have shook his hand.

        1. 410313 + up ticks,

          W,
          The blame surely lies with tribal voters consistently, GE after GE, refusing to open their tribal eyes to the treachery they were building on, whilst at the same time putting good peoples down

          1. The public have pushed against massive unwanted gimmigration at every election. Brexit was verry much a rejection of the state machine.

            The machine stuck two fingers up and spitefully ensured the public would never get what they wanted. Voting numbers are down every single year. People have rejected the status quo of big state, high tax, Left wingery. The state doesn't care. It just carries on, making everyone miserable.

          2. 410313+ up ticks,

            Evening W,
            After Brexit they, the tribal, returned post -haste to the pro eu assets lab/lib/con coalition party.

            I can still hear the echo’s of fools saying
            ” job done no need of UKIP…………”

        2. One possible solution is that the shop's street door is open for incomers, but outgoers need to be buzzed from a control point (cash till, counter staff etc).
          Some banks in Spain have a set of double doors, (think airlock) no entry until the outer door has closed.

    1. When he moves away, leaning away and plays with his ring he is looking for support. The fidgeting is pain, and a need to run away. He's a pathetic waster. If, IF he said 'yes, they are heavily subsidised and yes, they are expensive and yes, they're owned by foreign companies and are responsible for costing you a fortune' then I might respect his honesty.

      But it's just lies.

  66. The online harm bill is making us money. We sell a VPS circuit, a connection to a dedicated box (prob just a virtual machine) that is lightly used most of the time. We've had to deploy 3 more and our traffic is at the limit so are looking to re-sell a partner option.

    Laddy (I shouldn't call him that as he's a mid twenties fellow) suggested offering a router/wifi/VPN jobby to home users, so we're pushing that out. For those interested, it's a unifi router with VPN pre configured. He wrote a guide on policy based routing (which sounds technical but isn't – basically if you want to go to nottle using the VPN, you add a domain based policy rule for all/some traffic). We've done rather well out of it, with about a dozen installs over the week and a growing list of enquiries from others. It's immediate rather than recurring revenue, but these days every little helps.

    And I am screwing over the Left's offensive censorship which is a good thing.

    1. I hope it makes you very rich. You are doing a favour to the Nation in providing this service.

      1. As one 80 year old chap said 'Why are they doing this?' and I kept quiet because that's a sure fire way to lose a customer.

        It won't as I'm an idiot and waive the fee for those really obviously struggling but still.

      1. I find it infuriating that the response of the state to problems it has created is more oppression. It is deeply wrong.

        We're giving people an option around it but we shouldn't have to. The state shouldn't have created the problem inn the first place.

      1. We're replacing people's routers with ones that can bypass the state censors.

        It does have to be a replacement. I can't learn every config going and we know the unifi stuff works and, if the user wants, we can administer it remotely.

    1. Must be a Septic headline. Don't they know Prime Minister is not a title, its a position.
      The Prime minister, Sir KS

      2. The Americans have been getting that wrong for decades. I reckon they think it's the equivalent of President, which in US-speak can be both a position and a title.

  68. Here's another useful petition [yes, I know they'll ignore it but …]

    Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data
    Place a statutory requirement on councils, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and all other related institutions to collect, record and publish the nationality, ethnicity, immigration status and religion of child sexual offenders, including gang based crime.
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730605

    1. Isn't it already mandatory? The religion part might not be, but anyone not British is going to be muslim.

      1. Lots of “British” muslims.

        Telford, High Wycombe, Oldham, Rochdale…every major town (except, apparently, London)

        1. One of my best mates converted to Islam, so he could marry the love of his life, a lovely Malay girl.
          She sadly died of some horrible cancer, but he's kept with Islam – the Malay version, not the choppy choppy Arab & Paki version.

  69. I'm delighted for the Lionesses and think they have provided an excellent example to other girls to get involved in Sport.

    However, I hope that the disproportionate number of LGBT players (at least 6 and possibly more in the squad) is also not held up as something aspirational for young girls. To be fair, I dont think it has happened to date, but time will tell….

  71. I parked up in Babraham Park & Ride on a recent visit to Cambridge and was relieved and gratified to see the entire car park area covered with solar panels.

    The panels had the benefit of not despoiling Grade A agricultural land (as elsewhere in Cambridgeshire) and the additional advantage of providing both weather protection and shade to the vehicular and pedestrian routes.

    We need more common sense than presently offered by Miliband Junior. Our friends in Germany have solar panels but not mounted on attractive tiled roofs but upright on pillars against the exterior walls. They also have promoted the covering of car parks in supermarkets and elsewhere as my Cambridge example.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/347f261acebe8e708ee1ac7db33a7c28c9585e06af02279e1a522117aa2ef196.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dee1cab38102c6cefd6ef8b677cfbe2e7b722c3fa00225ca25c319fd022798df.jpg

    1. Yep, it seems an obvious idea. 'Personal' solar installs are fine. Whack them in a supermarket carpark and you have more power for the store so it costs less to run. On homes again, saving on the bill .

      It's a he grid level where solar is completely pointless.

      1. Precisely. The German panels simply plug into the house supply.

        Wind turbines are problematic for the reason that they must connect to the grid. This inevitably requires power lines and pylons given that they are located far away from points of connection.

        As ever President Trump is spot on in his dressing down of Starmer.

        1. As I understand it, you need inverters and a control panel before you can use the electricity that the panels produce.
          And a mains supply, or a seriously large battery pack.
          As for wind turbines, I tried to price a domestic version, but the payback period would have been in excess of ten years and that's without any maintenance costs.

          1. You can't apply logic like ROI to "green" projects, otherwise there would be a lot fewer of them. I went through the same process here with solar panels. It makes no sense as electricity is cheap here and my bills are not high, due to the house being properly insulated. And I am not going to spend a big pile of money to feel good about myself. Plus, many of these systems have no ability to incorporate an automatic whole house back up generator, which I am not about to give up.

            Many of the installs I see locally are where a company has put them up and the home owner has signed a long term contract with that company on a "profit sharing" basis. Problem is, lots of complications if you want to sell your house, as these companies will want their pound(s) of flesh. Such contracts have turned out to be deal breakers in a number of cases, and estate agents consider them a liability.

        2. As I understand it, you need inverters and a control panel before you can use the electricity that the panels produce.
          And a mains supply, or a seriously large battery pack.
          As for wind turbines, I tried to price a domestic version, but the payback period would have been in excess of ten years and that's without any maintenance costs.

  72. TR flees country..

    Hopefully the entire affray will have been caught on camera.
    If he did attack someone unlawfully he'll undoubtedly face the full force of the law..
    If he didn't attack someone unlawfully he'll undoubtedly face the full force of the law..

    1. It is odd that the man faking it lying on the ground was not put in the recovery position.

    1. They're going to be let off, the police officers will be charged. The kangaroo court for muslim has already decided the outcome long before the trial began.

      1. I'm not certain they'll be let off but I am certain at least one of the police will be charged

    2. Jury sent out to consider verdicts in Manchester Airport police assault trial as judge issues social media warning

  74. Wordle No. 1,501 3/6

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    Wordle 29 Jul 2025

    Climax for Birdie Three?

    1. Surprisingly…

      Wordle 1,501 3/6

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    2. Well done – I'm a bit annoyed as I changed my usual second starter word, if I'd stuck with it it would have been a nailed on birdie. Just a par….

      Wordle 1,501 4/6

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    4. Too hot to golf, closest to par is here.

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    5. Well done, been wrapped up with daughter ant 8 month old granddaughter for most of the day. Just a par here.

      Wordle 1,501 4/6

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  75. I cannot believe that POTUS bullied the EU into accepting his deal. Had the EU even prepared? The prep is simple:
    1. What do we want out of it?
    2. What's the minimum we can accept, and how to we not exceed that? Wlak away?
    3. What's the negotiating strategy?
    And then get someone who actually can negotiate with hard men, not just roll over for a tummy tickle.
    Trump has negotiated many deals in the past, so has lots of experience, and is clearly prepared and ahead of the opposition. Ursula vondoflying was clearly unprepared, and was bent over the table to be taken from behind. Why:
    On Trump's home ground?
    Timing according to him?
    He has all the advantages – she should have been "too busy" painting her nals or somehing. And, used a professional negotiator with oceans of high-level experience of tough negotiations. Instead, she reckons it's a tea-party on a golf course and it royally rogered – together with the rest of the EU.
    Another good reason to stay OUT! Run by incompetents and amateurs.

  76. Whatever the ultimate truth behind the TR incident, he was our last-but-one hope. Rupert Lowe must be very careful

    Edit. I am very upset by the allegations against him. I only listened to this, this morning.

    “Islamists Have Taken Over Our Prisons – And No One's Talking About It

    Tommy Robinson joins Heretics to reveal shocking firsthand accounts from inside the UK’s most secure prison units – where convicted jihadists enjoy travel-lodge-style cells, private kitchens with cookers and air fryers, and total segregation from other inmates. Meanwhile, political prisoners like Tommy endure isolation, surveillance, and state harassment for simply speaking out.”

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heretics/id1515932214?i=1000719521749

  77. Seriously uneven policing and repercussions:

    A man who said he planned on bombing every synagogue in Toronto to “to kill as many Jewsas possible” was sentenced to house arrest Monday after a sentencing hearing that heard of the terror and fear his vivid threats caused.

    Waisuddin Akbari, 41, was ordered to stay at home for 60 days, followed by three years of probation.

    Hardly worth bothering.

    2. Soon, citizen panels will be administering justice, if the state will not.
      And it will be much less pleasant.
      I think I'll buy shares in shops that sell rope.

  78. "Starmer tells Israel: Make peace by September or I’ll recognise Palestine"

    Gosh – I bet that has the Israelis shaking in their shoes….

    2. That would leave Sir Keir in the awkward position of dealing with Ham-as in Gaza whilst banning it within the UK.
      Traditionally only the Liberals could hold two opposing views simultaneously.
      Someone should explain to him that as a man of Jewish heritage, he is never going to be regarded as kosher by the Ummah.

    3. Which Palestine? The Palestine of the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire or the British Empire and will it be given to the militant Arabs who only arrived there in the 20th century or the Mizrahi Jews who've been there more than 3000 years? The militant Arabs have decided that they're really the ancient Canaanites displaced by Moses. Yeah, right.

      1. Many years ago, I had the pleasure of working alongside a couple of men who had served in MELF after the war. They were certain that the place they had been sent to was called Palestine.

        (An aside: one of them returned to what had become Israel and worked in a kibbutz. One Christmas, he treated us to a rendition of Hava Nagila in Hebrew.)

  80. 'Night All
    Look at this nasty tweet from Peter Kyle MP.

    1/ It is demonstrably untrue
    2/ It's such an outrageous statement he must know it isn't true
    3/ It appears designed to cause offence and harm

    He appears to be in breach of the very law he is defending. Maybe he should be arrested?
    Grok's summary of S179 of the Online Safety Act:

    Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023 in the United Kingdom creates a false communications offence, which criminalizes the act of sending a message containing information that the sender knows to be false, with the intent to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and without a reasonable excuse.
    https://x.com/peterkyle/status/1950092871614230571

  82. Starmer tells Israel: Make peace by September or I’ll recognise Palestine
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/29/gaza-starmer-palestine-cabinet-meeting/

    What makes the pathetic little Starmer think that he has any influence on the world stage or that Israel is likely to pay any attention to him?

    Starmer is a man who has surrendered the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and paid vast sums to so.

    Starmer is a man who has surrendered to Spain and the EU over Gibraltar

    Starmer is a man who has tried to reverse Brexit by complete capitulation to Ursula von der Leyen

    ON THE WORLD STAGE STARMER IS THE MAN WHO WILL ALWAYS GIVE IN!

    BTL

    The only way that Palestine should be recognised would be:

    I) If all rocket attacks on Israel should stopped immediately;

    ii) If all the tunnels used by Hamas in Gaza were filled in and destroyed;

    iii) If all the hostages were released immediately or their bodies identified and returned to Israel;

    iv) If Hamas and ALL Muslims permanently withdrew their policies stating that all Jews should be killed.

    Any violation of these conditions would mean that Israel, backed by the USA, would recommence their bombing of Gaza.

    3. For Palestine to be recognised as a state it must have borders – so where are they?

    4. "For the fundamental truth of the Gaza tragedy, one that the legions of anti-Israel protesters across the globe wilfully ignore, is that Hamas does not want peace."

      Con Coughlin Telegraph

  83. Tom Jones
    Some of Britain’s judges make even David Lammy look sensible on immigration

    Members of the lanyard class have become utterly detached from the views of the public on asylum

    29 July 2025 12:07pm BST

    “I have never made but one prayer to God,” wrote Voltaire; “a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”

    One can rarely hope for more in politics. But what Voltaire neglected to mention is the darker irony; that someone may yet come along who is so jaw-droppingly awful that your enemies begin to look sane by comparison.

    Nobody believes Labour is effective – or even especially dedicated – to solving Britain’s ever-increasing immigration problems. According to YouGov, just 11 per cent of people believe Keir Starmer’s party would be best at handling asylum and immigration – an all-time low. Reform, who have only recently been added to the survey, currently stand at 36 per cent.

    But as untrusted as they are, Labour may yet prove to be a restraining force on the worst excesses of Britain’s immigration system. Foreign Secretary David Lammy – who once told The Guardian that it was “morally wrong to take the view that anyone making their way across the Channel is illegal” – is currently playing the part of immigration hardliner after deciding to block a family from Gaza from settling in the UK under the Ukrainian refugee scheme.

    Earlier this year, in news broken by The Telegraph, Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor permitted a Palestinian family of six to settle in the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme. In January last year, the family submitted their application using the Ukraine scheme’s form, arguing that it best reflected their circumstances and that their case was so “compelling and compassionate” it warranted approval outside the scheme’s formal rules.

    A lower-tier immigration tribunal initially rejected their claim, stating that it fell outside the scope of the Ukraine programme and that decisions about which countries qualify for resettlement schemes rest with Parliament. However, upper tribunal judge Hugo Norton-Taylor overturned that ruling, allowing the appeal and granting the family entry to the UK based on their Article 8 right to family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.

    Since then, Lammy’s Foreign Office has denied the family the consular support they need to leave Gaza and travel to a neighbouring country, where they could apply for UK visas at an application centre.

    In a ruling on Monday, High Court Judge Mr. Justice Chamberlain sided with the family. He stated that the Foreign Office’s June decision to withhold consular assistance was “flawed” and “irrational” and must be reconsidered, as the family had “very little food and no effective sanitation” and remained “at constant risk of injury or death”.

    The rulings of judges such as Chamberlain and Norton-Taylor show how detached from the British public Britain’s “lanyard class” has become – the self-congratulatory bureaucrats and elites who inhabit a liberal bubble insulated from the practical consequences of their decisions. Labour, however, are not so lucky.

    In such circumstances it’s hard not to see the parallels with Voltaire’s ridiculousness; the judiciary’s positions have become so absurd that they have forced Labour to become the hardliners.

    As dangerous and heart-rending as the situation in Gaza is, the answer is not – as it has never been, to any humanitarian crisis – to allow huge flows of refugees into Britain.

    Yet the decisions of these judges seem to be setting a precedent for Palestinian refugees to enter the UK – despite there being clear and repeated indications from Government and politicians that this is not their intention.

    As I wrote recently, our immigration rules are collapsing under a combination of legal activism and political cowardice. We must hope Lammy shows courage instead.

    2. The idiot judges should stop and take a moment to consider why none of the Middle-East Muslim countries will take refugees from Gaza.

    1. Why, when I see that picture, does Chris de Burgh's 'Lady in Red' always flash through my head?

  86. Breaking News –
    Trumps speech to Parliament has just been leaked to the press

    It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
    Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
    Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
    Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do; I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out!
    Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

        2. Sorry to be so late, LD! Been out all day, but I hope you had a wonderful Happy Birthday! 🍺🎂🥂

    2. Is this about some famous young person? If so, famous for what? (please include illustrations in your answer to this question)..

      1. The ad is for jeans, the very pretty lady implies that her genes are tops. Good pun eh! Her being blue eyed white and blond has set the DIE mob into hysterics.

    1. Cut off his thumbs and sew them into his anus, cut an alternative slit via his bladder.

    2. I’m surprised our a wonderful state doesn’t mandate all indigenous girls between the age of 9 – 16 to be rounded up and distributed to our new overlords.

  89. CLICK BAIT ALERT!

    Stop moaning, Nimbys – wind turbines have made Britain more beautiful

    For some, Britain's wind turbines are a delight to behold – others, like Donald Trump, believe they spoil otherwise green and pleasant lands

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf192cb44396a816462b93ae945e96780543a494f368a848b59035acf0931c10.png
    Greg Dickinson, Senior Travel Writer
    28th July 2025, 4:00pm BST

    On a recent drive to Cornwall, my toddler in the back seat suddenly spoke up in excitement. But what was he trying to say? Win termites? Whip Turnips?

    "Wind turbines!"

    Dozens of them had appeared alongside the A30 around Carland Cross. As each bladed white spire emerged like a Channel 4 ident, he called out in excitement. From the front seats we repeated the words, helping him to wrap his mouth around the sounds.

    It seems it would have been a different scene if Donald Trump was at the wheel. This week, the president of the United States condemned wind turbines as blighting the Scottish landscape and described them as a "con job".

    Speaking at his Turnberry Golf Course in South Ayrshire, he said: "It's probably the best course in the world. And I look over the horizon and I see nine windmills at the end of the 18th. I said: 'Isn't that a shame.'"

    Putting all paternal biases to one side, I am still going to side with a two-year-old over the leader of the free world on this matter.

    Wind turbines became Britain's leading source of energy in 2024, contributing 30 per cent to the national grid. This is an energy source created on home soil, not reliant on shaky geopolitical shipping lanes. Granted, they are reliant on unpredictable weather patterns, but this doesn't seem to be the main reason they get so much grief.

    One argument I often hear is that wind turbines are visually intrusive manmade blots on our countryside. "I'd rather look at an ancient oak or a willow, than a wind turbine," my colleague just said to me. Our green space is shrinking. Should we not leave the precious acreage that remains untouched?

    OK, well here's an experiment. Think "countryside" and what do you imagine? Hills, rivers and forests, sure, but also dry stone walls. Barns. Hedgerows. Country lanes. Hay bales. Cottages. Bridges. Church spires. Viaducts. Kissing gates. The British countryside is very much a manmade landscape.

    These modern windmills are an extension of our millennia-old history of commanding the land for our needs, just like how the animal kingdom builds nests, mounds and dams to suit its needs, too.

    Another colleague pointed out that the wind turbines off the coast of Norfolk have an unsightly red light at their tip, a requirement of the aviation industry to prevent collisions. These, he argued, mean that Norfolk's coastal residents can no longer look out to sea at night and enjoy the darkness of the sky.

    If you relocated to Norfolk decades ago for peace and dark skies, I appreciate this would be frustrating. But positive strides are being made.

    Radar-activated lights called "aircraft detection lighting systems" (ADLS) are being introduced at new wind farms, notably in the Netherlands and parts of the US, meaning the red lights will only come on when a nearby aircraft is detected. Perhaps we will, one day, utilise similar technologies off Britain's shores, and our nighttime sea views will be (mostly) dark once again.

    Another counter argument is noise pollution. But context is needed here. The decibel count of a wind turbine is around 35 to 45 decibels from 300m away, which is broadly equivalent to the ambient decibel level of a typical countryside setting. (The dawn chorus can often rise above 70dB, for comparison.)

    The noise of a wind turbine is tiny compared with that created by a fossil fuel plant, which generates noise from multiple sources including cooling systems, machinery and fuel handling infrastructure. It's a different sort of sound, too. I like David Attenborough's description: "It's beautiful, the noise is like a gust of wind, not machinery," he said in 2011.

    One particularly worrying argument I've heard against wind farms is that they kill birds. Which is true. And bats. Nobody knows exactly how many birds die due to hitting wind turbine blades per year, but we have a broad idea. A report from the London School of Economics in 2014 estimated that by 2020 it would be around 9,600 to 106,000 per year, in the UK.

    By comparison, house cats kill 55 million birds in the UK each year. So you should only sign that petition against your local wind farm on "bird death" grounds if you're willing to sacrifice Tibbles, too. Some people don't seem to like the fact that the energy-producing benefits of a wind farm are distributed nationally rather than locally. I suspect this is the crux of many "not in my back yard" arguments. Why here, and not somewhere else?

    Well, what they do create is local jobs. In a recent report, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) estimated that the offshore wind sector could support up to 100,000 jobs, and onshore wind farms could support as many as 45,000. I wonder how many Nimbys' children will end up working in this industry in the future?

    I am not alone in my admiration for wind turbines. Off the coast of Brighton, tour guides are now selling boat trips around the 90 turbines that make up the Rampion Wind Farm. One tour guide, Paul Dyer, told the BBC that the outings are "surprisingly popular", particularly with residents. Fishing trips around the wind farms are also on the rise, as the sites can protect marine life and help to act as artificial reefs, away from trawlers.

    I can empathise with all of the counter arguments to wind farms and turbines. We are, and should be, fiercely protective of our countryside and shores. But when I drive along the A30, or see the Glyndebourne turbine near where I live, or sit on Brighton beach gazing out to Rampion offshore wind farm, I do not see something "blighting the landscape" as Donald Trump does. I see a graceful, elegant monument to the future.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/wind-turbines-britain-beautiful

    1. I think the old fashioned term for such aesthetic ignorami was Philistines.

      Entirely appropriate in our Hamas worshiping world.

    2. Huge factual error a few paragraphs in- “Wind turbines became Britain's leading source of energy in 2024, contributing 30 per cent to the national grid” (my highlight of “energy”). It should of course say”electricity”. And I’m not convinced even that is right, but don’t have the figures to hand.
      As electricity is less than a quarter of our energy usage, then the windmills are contributing at best 6 or 7%.

      2. 90% of news reports use 'energy' instead of 'electricity'. It's been like this for years.

        Electricity is about one-fifth of total energy consumption. Official figures claimed for wind generation for the last three years:
        2022 – 24.7%
        2023 – 28.7%
        2024 – 29.5%

        6-7% of all energy is correct.

    3. That's because the child knows nothing and hasn't had time to develop a sense of aestheticism.

  91. Yep, here we go.

    A jury in the trial of two brothers charged with assaulting armed police at Manchester Airport have been given a majority ruling by the judge.

    Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 25, both from Rochdale, deny assaulting police at Manchester Airport on July 23 last year.

    The jury was sent out to consider verdicts on Monday and today (Tuesday), following a note by the jury, Judge Neil Flewitt KC told them he would accept majority decisions. After one juror was discharged on Monday due to a pre-planned holiday, 11 jurors remain.

    After the remaining panel of jurors sent the judge a note the contents of which were not read out in court Judge Flewitt told them: "It's always better if you can to reach verdicts on which you are all agreed. But I'm going to ask you to continue your deliberations for a while longer."

    However, he added that if they could not reach unanimous verdicts then he would be able to accept a majority verdict of 10 jurors.

    The jurors were sent out to continue their deliberations before being sent home for the day.

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jury-manchester-airport-police-assault-32161741

        1. Confronted by belligerent and very violent police officers (clearly high on drugs) they tried, simply to defend themselves and their poor mother – who, despite living in Englanistan for 40 years, didn't understand a word of English ….

          etc etc etc

      2. What is interesting in this case is we are not hearing much or anything from the officers involved.

        Obviously it needs to run its course. Sub Jub and all that.

        We are already hearing news reports these officers handled the situation badly.

        For such vicious brutality in the coffee shop then the parking area where they were confronted by police to the final boxing match beggars belief.

    2. Was the "pre-planned holiday" a trip back home to Pakistan to pick up a child bride?

      1. What is missing from this is the 'mother' being insulted on the flight that enranged her sons. They came ready to battle.

    3. "After one juror was discharged on Monday due to a pre-planned holiday, 11 jurors remain."

      So why the FOXTROT did they allow him to remain on the bloody jury then?

    4. Is this the spark that is supposed to kick-start a civil war?
      They were caught on video, it shouldn't even be controversial.

  93. That's me for today. Bus. An hour of ladderwork cutting back one of the wisterias AGAIN. Sorting out jigsaws for a church fete. Gosh – how awful some of them are… Then there is the endless discussion about "pricing". I want to get rid of them; others remind me that the event is to raise funds….

    Have a spiffing evening. Tomorrow I have to see whether I can still wear one of my only two suits – my step grand-daughter (she of the "surprise baby" 18 months ago) is marrying her beau on Sunday. Watch out, Wiltshire – here we come…

    A demain – on espère….

    1. Like Manuel "I know nothing" but my gut-feeling is that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been set up yet again.

      Fleeing the scene is not a wise move but staying to be traduced when he is innocent is not much better.

      1. He's his won worst enemy.
        I repeat an earlier post

        Well here's to you Mr Robinson:
        Can't help yourself, a violent thug you are.
        ha ha ha

        Even if you're the victim here
        All you've done is your pitch queer
        ha ha ha

        This guy is his own worst enemy.

      2. Has he fled or just gone on holiday? Last year they followed him on his family trip.

    3. Uncharacteristically clunky from Matt, as unpleasant feminists have been pushing that line for years.

  97. I noticed more Slammers than usual pouring into the Park tonight. Before i managed to mention it to hubby, he said he saw loads of Slammers heading to the Park. I wonder if there is some kind of Eid thing going on (but not enough to look it up)

    1. It isn't Eid. That coincided with Easter. It's just dogs marking their territory.

    2. That's why the government want to get rid of farmers, they might rightly spray then with liquid pig shit.

  98. We are having a lovely time in Southwold. It's such a lovely place for a few days holiday. A lot of walking are making us both suffer. But seeing all the lovely houses and lovely streets are worth the effort. Now in two attempts we have walk the whole length of the sea front with its superb sandy beaches. And on the way back had a drink in a pub near the
    Adnams brewery. 17:50 for a pint of Ghost ship and a glass of chardonnay. No wonder so many pubs are closing down.
    Oh well back to the Tesco 10 quid bottle of red,
    nothing wrong with it.
    Worn out old boy might be back tomorrow.

    2. 10 quid???
      I get 4 bottles, and change, here.
      Admittedly it's "box" wine, but none the worse for that.

    3. Tesco are doing 25% off six or more bottles (over 5 quidish) if you have a Clubcard

  99. A useful morning.
    A bit of a damp morning after last night's overnight rain, so gave the local fire brigade control room a ring to warn them that I was about to burn some brash I'd accumulated during the dry spell and got rid of about 4 or 5 mini-bulkbags worth of stuff.
    Then finished off digging out what I could for the next bit of wall-building I plan doing and have another two mini-bulkbags full of soil for backfilling.

    As DT & Grad.Son were in Matlock, I did something for dinner. Fried onion, diced bacon, a couple of packs of precooked chicken, chucked in a pack of stir-fry vegetables, several tomatoes that were on the edge of usability and a cheap Lidl tomato past sauce.

    It tasted ok!

    2. I'm not musical in any sense, Paul – can't play any instrument, can't hold a note…but every single time I hear pipe and drum, I cry. No idea the reason, a mix of happiness and sorrow.

      2. I can’t sing in tune, nor hold a note, nor can I stay on the beat nor plan any musical instrument – I tried piano, pipes, and violin – all didn’t respond.
        So, I play YouTube, CDs and otherwise shut up!
        As a youth, I worked as a farm labourer, and found that singing at full volume on a hard-working tractor was fine – nobody, not even me, could hear me!

        1. Very similar here, I did actually play guitar at one time but not for many years. I still love to sing (when I’m on my own!), currently playing Robert Cray, always good company. Yeh, tractors pretty noisy 😀

  101. I've seen a number of Stigenance's posts have been deleted.
    I hope my fellow Nottlers have not "persuaded" him to leave.

    It would be our loss.

    2. I don't know why he keeps deleting them. I have composed thoughtful replies to several, only to find that these cannot be posted because the original has been withdrawn. Very irritating.

      1. Agreed.
        BUT
        If one is constantly attacked for trying to present an alternative viewpoint it is understandable.

        I often add responses that I don't necessarily totally agree with, just to hear/stimulate other viewpoints.

        1. Don't we all. It seems counterproductive to not allow replies to deleted posts, though,

          1. Depends on how one looks at it.
            He gets a lot of hostile response to posts that I think are reasonable perspectives.

          2. Perhaps people see his posts as hostile, too? When one consistently takes the contrary view, perhaps people think, "not again"?

    3. I don't think so. He said he was tired of it – presumably because people didn't agree with his views and posted opposite opinions.

      1. I don't know how long you've been exchanging opinions with Stig in his various guises, but he is one of the most reasonable, in the proper sense of "reasonable" people, on any of the blogs I frequent.

        1. He was the one who said he was tired of it. The presumption was mine alone, but why else would he be tired of engaging?

  103. I've always thought that he tries to provide "balance", you might regard it as contrariness.

    Nottle is very vulnerable to becoming an echo-chamber.

  104. Ahhh – so it's Stig's (or Mr.Wainwright to me!).

    I'm sure it's nothing serious – he's a wonderful counter to a lot of stuff on here (but not all of it!) and he helps prevent this place from just becoming an echo-chamber!

  105. Yes, but you must know who they are – you were in 'conversation' with them…….(PS as above I'm now assuming it was DW)

  107. I see the NHS is now pushing the RSV vaccine – only for a very narrow age band – 75 – 79. does that mean over 80s don'r need it, won't get infected or won't be ill?
    I have no qualms in ignoring this invitation. G-BS is one of the side effects that can occur……….

      1. Nor will I. The blurb said symptoms were similar to a cold – and also that nearly everyone has been infected by RSV at some time. Doesn't really sound like anything to worry about.

        1. That’s what it is, Ndovu – a common cold virus. Only ones to watch out for are the same as other viruses – the very young (babies) and the elderly (not there yet:-)

    2. I don't have long to go before I'm exempt – or perhaps they hope I will have FOADed by then.

  108. UK will recognise Palestine – but not just yet.

    BBC R4 news at 8pm:
    Israel said Britain's decision amounts to a reward for Hamas. A trade envoy for the Israeli government, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, said she can't see what the UK will achieve: "Much ado about nothing because ultimately you can recognise a Palestinian state all you want, but he [Starmer] doesn't know the borders. Is he going to recognise Hamas as the legitimate governing force in Gaza? It seems to me very performative, to quell an ever-growing problem of Islamism in the UK and ultimately has zero, zero significance."

      1. It is more than that. It is encouraging further bloodshed and terrorism. Cowardice is never neutral.

    2. There's some guy whining at a Lectern now.. about a humanitarian catastrophe and need for ceasefire, and of course Israel to surrender.

      1. Maybe if they were to get the hostages back, they might be more inclined to do so? Just a thought.

  109. Wonderful, thank you! I was going to post along the lines of – 'I love all things Bach (darling)' but decided I might end up in 'Pseuds Corner'

  110. Sadly, he's closed his account. All his posts are automatically deleted. He does get a bit scratchy at times.

    1. A great shame.

      I prefer Stig's balance over a significant number of other Nottlers.

      But then again, I suspect that I get right up the noses of a significant number of Nottlers

      1. You're waiting for somebody to say – 'No you dont sos!' – arent you? Well, fwiw, you dont get up mine!

        Shame about David W, though, I do hope he returns soon – I agree with him far more than I disagree….

        1. Perhaps on holiday for a week or so, somewhere with poor connection. You know, like we used to be 🙂

          3. No – he's flounced off before. But he's been with us on this site and its predecessor since the beginning.

          4. Maybe just needs a social media break time to time. I know I do for more than an hour or so each day. Geoff and I knew each other from Spectator days, he’s one of the good guys. I came here following Peta when Nelson had some kind of hissy fit on Spectator.

  111. It's not the first time…… I hope he'll be back. But he's very anti-Trump so it probably got a bit much for him.

    1. I'm going through very focussed x-ray treatment. I sympathise totally.
      I have to lie completely still.
      Difficult, with arthritis, regular muscle cramping, and chronic wind!

    3. Oh yes. I sleep for about 45-60 minutes at a time then rotate a few times and cough a bit. Muscle cramp in the legs and pins and needles in my hands too.

    4. I'm great on my left hand side but you have to turn over every now and then – and my right shoulder is a bit arthritic (I think) due to a couple of collar bone breaks from Rugby (that's the sport, not the town) – so I tough it out as long as I can and then roll back over to the left – bliss!

      1. I do wonder, should they get their "state", whether there will ever be peace. They don't seem like a peaceful sort.

  115. Sometimes I think he provides an opposite opinion just for the sake of it. It isn't necessarily either true or relevant.

    1. Sometimes, just sometimes, that is exactly what is needed on Nottle.

      It's that type of contribution that stimulates debate.

      If you really want everyone to agree with your viewpoint, why not just shout at a mirror?

  116. No, I don't necessarily want everyone to agree with my viewpoint, but I do prefer people to consider the pros as well as the cons.

      2. He’s certainly a lot kinder than I am, on occasion! And I’ve told him that, because he makes you think.

  117. It is a sign of being civilised that one remains polite with people with whom one disagrees.

  120. Well, yes and no. I find it quite entertaining reading the responses to those who have blocked me on other sites (not on here, I hasten to add)

  121. Back an hour or so ago from hospital where I had a SCC removed from my scalp and stitched up all in 50 minutes. Follow up in 6-8 weeks then 2 more check ups within the next 12 months. Not to put my head down, take paracetamol as it will be painful when anaesthetic wears off. Possible bleeding, mustn’t bend my head down and no heavy lifting.
    A relief it’s all over.

    3. My husband had that done a couple of years ago and it healed well. He wears a hat a lot nowadays!

    5. Take time in recuperation Alf. Invest in a decent bottle of Single Malt and treat it as medicine!

    7. Sorry, Alf, I do wish you a quick recovery. But what on earth is SCC – a Single Cancer Cell?

  122. He's further to the left in his views than most of us – but always polite and reasonable. I'm sorry he felt he had to close his account again. He does provide a balancing view to the rest of us. We don't all have to agree.

    1. We don't. Neither do we have to flounce off when others do disagree with us. Personal abuse would be quite different.

    1. I'm not accusing him of being impolite. If responses to his posts are considered hostile, I just wondered if those whom he opposed found the constant opposition hostile – that, in itself, is an opposite view!

    1. Basic rule here is anyone over 75. Younger if a doctor sees a need – normally weakened immune system or lung function.

    2. To the NHS it could be a way of moving on elderly bed blockers? When my grandmother was in her 90s my father and uncle tried to persuade her to go and live in a block of flats reserved for the elderly. Her response ‘I’m not going there, it’s full of old people’. Like to think I’m made of similar material to her 🙂

      1. We’re not old yet Kate! It’s an attitude of mind……. One of our hedgehog trustees and stalwart helper at all events is Ken – he’s 91. He’s as strong as an ox and full of energy. Will be seeing him tomorrow and all weekend at the steam fair where we have a stall. Won’t be on here much over those days.

        1. Yes, some days better than others – exercise helps, including dog walks. Thanks for uplift, N. Send me a link/post your website plse – would like to send donation? Ken sounds like a keeper 🙂

          2. Thanks Ndovu, have kept the link and will look out for the calendar – I remember I missed it last year :/-

          3. I’ll let you know when it’s on general sale. I usually send out an email to supporters in September. I’ve just checked the online proof from the printer this morning and ok’d it after a couple of bits. All the photos are of hedgehogs that have been through our care ( Annie’s anyway, as we retired from active hands on caring a while ago) A few from the archives but most are new this year.

  127. I did too. Sadly missed, although I like the Wales family very much. Charlotte almost a mini version of QE2.

  128. Comments below Black Belt Barrister video say TR was on his way on holiday and hasn’t “fled” anywhere…

  129. Well now after all the excitement and noise from thousands of little girlies and and teenage girlies who are congratulating the female soccer team who really did rather well, all things considering .

    I reckon no one will want to become nurses, social workers , teachers , airline pilots , politicians , chefs, nursery nurses, mothers etc policewomen , service women clothes designers, architects accountants, journos blah blah … WHY ?

    Because all little girls will want to become football players ..

    There will be a huge shortage of the above professions / trades.

    My goodness , the competition for more playing fields will be very much in demand !

    1. You have spelled out what I alluded to with my thoughts that there might be more than just football to inspire the generation of girls.

    2. Being mothers would be the most valuable thing for them to do, because otherwise the Western civilisation will not survive.

    3. Not helped yesterday by the BBC OB presenter in Cowbell Land proclaiming it to be 'the greatest night in English football history'.

    4. I feel sure that their parents will explain the difference between a proper career path and a leisure pastime.

    5. It is the fashion to get women to emulate men. The women haven't quite got it yet, not too much spitting, diving or shoving but it will come. There are plenty of women's sports and the olympics shows the best of the crop, It is portrayed that women never step out on a sports pitch.

      1. I watched the Spain-England match. You may be assured that the Spanish girls wereeerynit Addis honest and histrionic as the European men.

        To their great credit our English players showed visible annoyance and dislike of the Spanish antics.

        The referee was of course biased as is the norm whenever a European team is playing England.

        William the Woke and his daughter were present, so too apparently was The Kneeler but I saw no evidence of that prize cretin nor of the debonair King of Spain who might have made a swift exit.

      2. I wonder if the support for women’s football will stay the course. From what I’ve seen I think it may have peaked.

    6. I remember that at my Technical School we had several boys who aspired to becoming professional footballers. One such managed to obtain a contract with Bath City back in the days of Malcolm Allison and Tony Book.

      The lad in question, though a good player at club level, played less than a half dozen senior matches and eventually obtained alternative employment.

      I mention this because it is very difficult to achieve a position in professional football clubs. If it was difficult for my friend in men’s football in the late sixties early seventies , I imagine it will be equally difficult in women’s football if not moreso.

  131. Bid to save Cwm Rhondda chapel raises enough dough to buy building

    Campaigner Rhian Hopkins said: "This isn't just any chapel, this is the home of Cwm Rhondda, the home of Bread of Heaven. This is a really important part of not just local heritage but Welsh heritage and potentially worldwide heritage from the response we've had."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm219nyk79jo

    Make it secure, Ms Hopkins…

    1. Be a terrible shame if, after all that effort, it were to spontaneously combust.

      1. If, as increasingly is happening here with allegedly defunct public buildings, it is earmarked for mosquehood, then I do agree with you Connors x

    3. Good.
      Working round South Wales 20odd years ago, I was shocked at how many independent chapels were lying derelict after the congregations had died out because, apparently, there was no one with the authority to put them up for sale.

  134. Well, chums, it's bedtime for me. Good Night all, sleep well, and see you all tomorrow morning.

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