Friday 1 August: How Britain’s tired towns can recover their sense of civic pride

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  2. Happy first of August, chums. A Pinch and a Punch – and White Rabbits. Thanks also, Geoff, for today's new NoTTLe site. AND I got my first EAGLE with Wordle in a long time. AND I was also ALMOST first today, but Bob3 beat me to it.

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    2. Good morning Elsie and all
      I confess, I wouldn't have tried this wildcard had I not seen your post!
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    3. Well done Elsie!! – you should re-post this at 5.00pm for the rest of the 'Five O'Clock Club' – just say that I insisted you did it!

      1. Sorry, GGGG, but I’ve had a very busy day today and wasn’t around at 5 pm. I have just seen your post now and it’s 10.40 pm.

        1. No problem Elsie – if you get another birdie/eagle (or even hole in one!) it would be good to see it at the Five O’Clock Club!

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  3. Happy first of August, chums. A Pinch and a Punch – and White Rabbits. Thanks also, Geoff, for today's new NoTTLe site. AND I got my first EAGLE with Wordle in a long time. AND I was also ALMOST first today, but Bob3 bet me to it.

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  4. Happy first of August, chums. A Pinch and a Punch – and White Rabbits. Thanks also, Geoff, for today's new NoTTLe site. AND I got my first EAGLE with Wordle in a long time. AND I was also ALMOST first today, but Bob3 bet me to it.

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  6. How Britain’s tired towns can recover their sense of civic pride

    Fill them all up with young men from a third world culture while defunding the police appears to be the plan

    1. They wouldn't be tired if the gates hadn't been opened to mass migration for the last 28 years.

    1. For the hard of hearing in his King Charles' Christmas Speech he made his choice and basically declared war on his people.

    2. For the hard of hearing in his King Charles' Christmas Speech he made his choice and basically declared war on his people.

  17. Captain Sensible
    10h
    Before I could work for an Indian restaurant, I had to sign a contract not to give away their flatbread recipe. It was a naan-disclosure agreement.

    1. I think I'll go for the second comment rather than the worn out excuse for failure made above.

  21. Good morning all, a dull start with a tad under 14½°C on the thermometer and a very light drizzle with more rain forecast for this afternoon..

    1st load of washing I've just put on will have to be hung up on the airer in the kitchen.

    1. Nah. Do what yer Millenials do and put the lot in the tumble dryer*

      *Worst invention of the C20th

      1. Good for towels.
        I have never managed to get towels soft enough with any other form of drying.
        So the tumble dryer is used once a week. Otherwise, other methods are used, even in mid-winter.

        1. I’m not so keen on soft towels. I Don’t think they dry as well as towels that are air-dried.

      1. Obviously against, otherwise he would be talking about far-right narsties instead of single, fighting-aged men.

        1. But when did we adopt the Americanism of not specifying whether we are protesting for or against?

          2. Same as debating – you used to debate a subject with another person, but the Americanism of debating a person has crept in.

      2. Communism – genuinely transformative 'you will own nothing and you will be happy' (apart from the few who will own a lot and be even happier).

    2. I am sure he is sincere and equally sure that the real transformative politics of which he speaks will be a transformation to sharia.

      1. He's always been a demented socialist. The raisin woman is a communist. Their policies will be soemthing like 'massive NHS expansion, universal basic income of £25K, free school breakfasts and lunches and dinners, free bus tickets for all, state pension to £500 a second, farms to be made public property, mass nationalisation, huge union expansion.

        And the collapse of the economy in the next minute. Corbyn is one of those childish Lefties who does not understand anything because he has never had a job. He has never worked for or earned anything. He's a parasite living off a far bigger host, one he is so used to he can no longer see – or cares – about the damage he is causing.

        He is, simply, a pig ignorant, childish, hypocritical, immature Lefty. One who while wanting to force communism doesn't actually want to live in a communist country.

  27. Good morning all,

    Kick and a punch for the first day of the month ..can't believe it is August already .

    Some sunshine some cloud , 14c.

    This is a busy time for our locals , the whole area turns into a massive glamping site this weekend https://dorset.campbestival.net/

    Thousands are attending from all over the country , usual pop festival crowds and families .. and those weirdy beardies who seem stuck on flower power .

    Annoyingly , a broken down ancient wagon is parked half on and half off the pavement near next doors driveway , so the bets are on that one of the traveller types has cleared off to the Bestival!

  28. Morning all 🙂😊
    Grey, rain later it said.
    Not much time today we have to be out of the accommodation by 10 am. A very nice week away. Hope to be back here later, after we get home.

      1. Just before we left it started raining and we drove through extremely heavy downpours until we had reach Baldock and Stevenage. It’s bone dry just north of St Albans..
        The usual Traffic jams roadworks…but arrived home safely around 13:30.

        1. I think the summer may be on it’s last legs for now, Eddy. Autumn around the corner, rains on the way, country lanes likely to have even bigger potholes – always something to look forward to 🙂 Good you got home safely, always glad to do that.

  30. We have had no significant rain, just some drizzle yesterday lunchtime for an hour .

    Son and his partner live in Cowes .. the rainfall was tropical , and the pics of the downpour were spectacular .

    Where we live must have a little micro climate .. dry as a bone here , very thirsty garden .

    1. We had a fair drop of rain yesterday, especially in the late afternoon/evening, but we managed to set up the gazebo in a dry spell. Sunny here at the moment.

  31. 510469+ up ticks,

    Far from being thick, he understands only to well, the TOOL is secretly thanking the British tax payer for supporting via the lab/lib/con coalition party his orchestrated replacement campaign.

    900 last illegal crossing, lest we forget indigenous,
    head down arse up, nine day working week on the near horizon

    https://x.com/patriotnews_1/status/1951123874881356237

    2. He's in the employment of Evil Spectre…..Blair Schwab Soros Gates etc, the well known global wrecking crew.

    3. He understands only too well.
      Either that, or his freebie glasses are blurring his vision.

    4. There is a theory that the Amsterdam (17th C) – London (18th – 19th C) – New York (20th C) axis is now moving to Qatar/Dubai/KSA because who has the oil will get all the gold, and also they can whip up young muslim men to fight wars and make lots of lovely profits for them whereas young Westerners are tapped out and tired of war after a century of it.

    5. He is definitely following the colour shift , no more blue eyes , fair hair etc.. I mean even the adverts are full of mixed marriages / dark skins , they seem to be the ones to have the lifestyles and the money , whereas poor whitey is portrayed as poverty stricken , old , toothless , drab looking and very crumpled with cigarette hacking croaky voices , stuck in a wall paper / candlewick cover time warp .

      1. 410469+ up ticks,

        W,
        Well that’s something, tas only been building for nigh on forty years.

  32. Morning all! Just having a quick bite to eat and then it's off to the Steam fair. Got to cram a few more boxes into the car……

  33. Good morning, all. Mixture of blue sky and broken high cloud here.

    Now, here's a real coincidence or maybe not if the PTB are monitoring my X reading list.🤔

    I picked up on the following yesterday morning. Controversial Professor of Physics, Denis Rancourt, has published work on the CV-19 saga and has upset a number of people on the other side of the argument. The following isn't his data but clearly he accepts what the data indicates.

    https://x.com/USMortality/status/1949915183641743817
    Later on yesterday I received a text from my GP's surgery urging me to book an early flu jab appointment. Spooky or what?

    The text ended up in the same place as all the other pleas for me to receive dubious jabs: the virtual wastebasket.

    1. Morning. KtK.
      I also had a flu jab text yesterday.
      It has gone to the great cyber bin in the sky.

    2. Not only that, but the flu jabs are nothing but elderly people being injected with potions often developed using cells grown from tissue from aborted babies in the hope of living longer.
      Any age more spiritual than our own would have spotted that as satanic child sacrifice a long time ago.

        1. Yes. There is a huge market in body parts of aborted babies.
          I recently read an article about experimental computers that use human brain cells.
          Not hard to figure out why dead babies with fully developed brains might possibly be of high value. I have no proof of the last sentence, but abortion up to term is thoroughly evil and opens the doors to this trade.

          1. I have suspected as much for a while, hence the insistence on late abortions

  34. Mr Blue Sky
    Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said warnings that the recognition of a Palestinian state could breach international law are "missing the point".

    So somebody who pretended to be a solicitor is telling some of the country's top lawyers, such as former Supreme Court judge Lord Collins of Mapesbury and Lord Pannick KC, that they don't know what they are talking about……….

  36. Are English towns with hotels now full of illegal immigrants becoming garrison towns for the forces of globalism ?

  37. Good Morning!

    Today in The AI Illusion: Convenience, Catastrophe, and the War for Young Minds Roger Crawford warns us that constant use of AI rots the brain, especially in the young, and prevents its normal development. AI is with us and will not go way, so maybe we all need to read this and learn how to live with AI and prevent it turning us all into obedient zombies.

    Sudo Nonym tells of his venture into front line politics in ReformUK: Herding cats . His efforts to drive the party forward had mixed results, so if you have advice or experience, please leave a comment.

    If you haven't read what we consider to be an important article The Online Safety Act: A Critical Look at the UK’s Expanding Digital Censorship Regime , please do so. We will only survive this attack on free speech and liberty if we all pull together.

    freespeechbacklash.com

    1. Not many in yer sea. I don't think they are fans of swimming. Never any in the Olympic swimming events except for Eric the eel.

      1. I read somewhere that it is because black people have a different body type from Europeans – bone density/muscles/fat? The same reasoning behind why negroes excel at sprinting, and Ethiopians are good at long-distance running (I don't know why this should also be the case about Kenyans).

        1. Not true about swimming, but Eastern Africans may be faster runners (possibly) because their trees are spaced further apart; in prehistoric times, there was a need to climb a tree to avoid four legged predators.
          Plenty of dense forest in West Africa.
          Edit: lack of African Olympic swimmers may be due to fewer training facilities in Africa.

        2. But but but.

          we are all equal.

          And to imply otherwise is racist.

          I know, because the Leftards and AlBeeb have said so as nauseum for the past 20 years

    4. I agree with Lord Talbot. I think that every day when i see our peaceful people piling into Richmond Park. I am clearly on my way home from work. These 20 – 40 year olds do not loom like they have been at work.

    1. Milioaf said about farm machinery and heavy industry that they could stop to recharge.

      As recharging a battery suitable to power a combine can be recharged in 5 minutes! The man is a dangerous, stupid wanker and must be stopped by sectioning himm, destroying the department and abolishing the entire green tax scam to the pages of history as a moronic idea presented bygreen, bitter Lefties sharing a braincell and never, ever considered again.

      Energy should be so plentiful, so abundant that you could run air conditioning and heating whenever you chose to, year round – living in a fridge or furnace as is your choice.

  41. The end game of all the OSA/VPN/verification nonsense is licensed internet access. This will be charged for, obvs, mandatory, bundled in with the beeb so that they can continue the unique way it's funded and collected by your internet provider at point of purchase to increase opacity.
    Purchasing such services will be dependent, of course, on presenting your digital ID. If there is any true clarity in this world the ID will be known as the Blair Card.

    Papiere bitte.

        1. As if the Left would ever give us a the choice. They're already demanding it for some sites to 'protect the cheeeldren' which is the usual tired lie.

          Eventually they'll get fed up with allowing the other to apply workarounds (and some are, by proxying your IP to another country) and they'll simply do it themselves. Then they'll set about demanding a back door to encryption – on the quiet initially then openly- but only for the proles, of course. For 'safety', of course.

          Once they've broken encryption (as something either is, or isn't. There's no middle ground) they'll demand proxies be applied and set search algorithms to monitor and control traffic, so words like gimmigrant, Dover, invasion, horde of violent savages, muslim will all be flagged and the writer black bagged, tortured and disappeared.

          Because the Left do not understand liberty, freedom, choice. They're evil, bitter, twisted fascists. They're causing every problem and lying to us that it doesn't exist.

    2. I don't think it's money they're after, but simple control. The hard Left have always hated freedom and they seek to destroy it at every turn.

      What is more free than people being able to say what they like, discuss what they like, share facts and information amongst themselves?

      The secret police censors hate that.

      1. "We have had free speech here for a vey long time. We're proud of that."

        Starmer said this to Trump a few days ago. He did not add that he was determined to end this long tradition of free speech just as he was determined to end whatever was still left that is good and laudable in the UK.

  42. JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER Starmer wasn’t elected to virtue signal on Palestine – it was to fix these very real problems HERE
    If Starmer can’t fix potholes or stop a dinghy, why does he think he can solve the Middle East's issues?

    That would certainly explain why the British PM chose to call an emergency Cabinet meeting this week to discuss an urgent issue of great import which turned out to have nothing to do with this country at all. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36104989/starmer-uk-problems-palestine/

    Instead, after the ministerial meeting, Sir Keir pompously strode to the No10 podium and announced to the world that Britain would recognise a Palestinian state in September, unless Israel agreed to abide by key conditions, such as allowing more food aid into Gaza and signing up to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.

    Let’s forget for one moment that the PM was delivering yet another U-turn in a bid to appease his leftie backbenchers.

    And let’s leave to one side the abject immorality and absurdity of placing conditions on Israel while having no requirement that the Hamas terrorists release their remaining hostages and lay down their weapons.

    Let’s even ignore the fact that Sir Keir’s pledge was so mind-blowingly wrong that it was cheered by Hamas leaders while condemned as “shameful” by their former hostages, or that it will not save a single life in Gaza or bring about an end to the war one day sooner.

    Putting ALL of that to one side, the most striking thing about Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement was that it wasn’t about Britain, the country he is supposedly in charge of.

    You know, the one he was elected to run, the one where he’s supposed to be busy delivering “change” with a steely-eyed focus on growth.

    Yes, that one.

    Yet there was no emergency Cabinet meeting about any of the myriad problems back here in Blighty.

    Does the Prime Minister really believe there is so little that needs to be done at home?

    After all, there are no end of items in his “in-tray” that could merit an emergency Cabinet meeting.

    He could start with immigration — both legal and illegal. Yet again, we’ve had new official figures showing that almost all of a 700,000 increase in our population in just one year came not from births but from new arrivals.

    And once again we saw boatloads of thousands of illegal migrants, mostly undocumented men of fighting age, coming to our shores to lap up the free hotels, the handouts, the black market jobs and the near-certain promise that they will never be deported.

    Did Sir Keir and his Cabinet ministers have anything to say about the growing protests outside asylum hotels spreading across the country?

    Starmer, Angela Rayner and their mates might even want to talk about the cost-of-living crisis still hitting millions of families who face prices, bills and rents going up…

    And what about having an emergency Cabinet meeting about the rising tide of crime after a report revealed that offences in London have rocketed by 86 per cent in the past ten years under Labour Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan?

    Didn’t ministers wonder why only one in 20 muggings in our capital city ever results in a prosecution?

    Or why so many grooming gangs have yet to be prosecuted?

    Or is that just not worth a few minutes of their time during the summer recess?

    Maybe they might also want to discuss the chaos in our NHS after another five days of strikes by junior doctors, with nurses and GPs likely to follow suit, while millions of patients sit on waiting lists.

    Starmer, Angela Rayner and their mates might even want to talk about the cost-of-living crisis still hitting millions of families who face prices, bills and rents going up while Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes even more money in taxes out of their hard-earned wages.

    Indeed, they might want to wonder where all the jobs have gone since the employer National Insurance hike, or why we have millions of people languishing on welfare, many claiming mental health issues, or why hundreds of thousands of children are now routinely absent from school.

    Tackle the very real problems at home
    What about an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss why we are a country where it rains half the year, yet we face hosepipe bans most summers and, despite being an island surrounded by North Sea oil and gas, we have some of the highest energy bills in the world, with the threat of blackouts thanks to the folly of Net Zero?

    They could even have a chat about why, whether it’s planes, trains or automobiles, we can’t get anywhere in this country any more thanks to technical failures at air traffic control, or the wrong leaves on the line or the one million-plus potholes on our roads.

    Frankly, if you can’t work out how to fill potholes, run the NHS or stop dinghies crossing the English Channel, I’m not sure why you’d think you’re up to solving one of the most intractable conflicts of the past century…

    Or perhaps they could ponder why we don’t have the Armed Forces or the military hardware to defend our own nation, let alone any of our allies, despite the growing instability in the world.

    Every single one of these issues — and there are countless more — would be worthy of an emergency Cabinet meeting.

    Yet it is the plight of the Palestinian people that concerns our PM, not that of the people he is supposed to represent.

    Frankly, if you can’t work out how to fill potholes, run the NHS or stop dinghies crossing the English Channel, I’m not sure why you’d think you’re up to solving one of the most intractable conflicts of the past century in a far-flung region halfway across the world, but there we are.

    1. When I was at school we had a VIth Form subsid class in which we looked at political plays so that we could think about the issues they raised. One of these was Les Justes by Albert Camus which raises the question of whether it is morally right to assassinate a malignant tyrant.

      Starmer is certainly malignant; he is certainly a tyrant. Would it be morally right to assassinate him? Would it be morally right not to assassinate him?

      1. No it would be repugnant, not morally right. If you commit an evil act you become evil.

        1. As some bloke put it "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

        2. So are you saying, Tim, that armed bodyguards should just sing "Kumbaya" and not use their weapons when the people they are paid to protect are approached by armed assassins?

  43. Reposted from late last night

    Friday 1st August 2025

    DATZ

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e143a9aa0bf24dc0099de87ce44087d23afc9695ae41eb5f6fe3055c971b428f.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b0ae038a556729bdaf337e8d1005bb5d468ed3f4dc7137b1414d5f5a3b91de6b.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d827fa8adcd43546b6d76d7d30aa7e86accd36ada4f968b141e57c1b5b4db3bf.png We hope all is well – we haven't seen you here recently.

    With very best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

    1. Many happy returns, hope all's good with you, Datz, and that you have a magical birthday!

  44. Yo and Good moaning all, from a wet and soggy C d S

    Just looked out over our estate, well the paved back garden: there is enough standing rainwater for the whole of what remains of the Royal Navy to do a Sail Past!

    1. After decades of supporting the RNLI, I have deleted my standing order after seeing pictures like the above, and reading that they even go into French waters to bring the buggers into the UK.

    2. I do not understand why the vermin are brought here. They're useless, a massive waste of time, money and effort. The vermin must be deported and the invasion halted. I do not understand why the stat aids and abets their criminality. Is it only spite?

      2. 410469+ up ticks,

        Morning W,

        Power,every ones a potential vote,
        and a potential political protective army in the daily making.

  46. Good letter here !

    SIR – In November 2023, you published a letter of mine pointing out that Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran only want a one-state solution which precludes the existence of Israel and any Jews.

    Whenever Israel accepted the principle of a two-state solution, it was the Palestinians who walked away from negotiations.

    Sir Keir Starmer is clearly so desperate to appease his hard-Left backbenchers that he is willing to risk the safety and security of the entire Middle East with his impetuous offer to recognise Palestine as a state without any reciprocity, or requiring the release of all remaining hostages as an explicit condition.

    David Miller
    Chigwell, Essex

    We will all agree he is quite correct!

    1. "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
      The quote is widely attributed to Abba Eban, who was an Israeli diplomat and politician. He is reported to have said it (or something very similar) in 1973, after the Geneva Peace Conference following the Yom Kippur War, to express his view that Palestinian leaders repeatedly failed to take advantage of political opportunities to advance toward peace.

      It’s worth noting that the exact wording may differ depending on the source, but the essence of the remark has been quoted often in discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

      1. Didn't Yasser Arafat have more than one opportunity, possibly prior to the rise of Iranian mullahs (there's the real problem Israel faces imo).

      2. The mistake is in thinking the muslim wants peace. They don't. They want to kill Jews.

        1. And they are happy with collateral damage, as it furthers their cause in the wider world. Just look at the fools waving Palestine flags all over the place.

        2. Not just a few Jews – all of them.

          Starmer and the left wing of his party know this but they don't care.

        3. "They want to kill Jews"
          No, not a clean death.
          Torture rape mutilate and allow to die slowly, including babies and pets.
          Mutilation of enemies is traditional within Muslim culture, because the chopped up remains of an unbeliever will have a psychological effect and is particularly unbearable for those of the Jewish faith.
          IMHO anyone who tortures a dog or a baby has forfeited the right to life.

        4. "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” – Golda Meir.

    2. Starmer is dangling a carrot thinking it'll get Israel what it wants. He is dangerously naïve.

      1. Starmer has an inflated view of his own importance on the global stage. He would do well to wind his neck in and concentrate on domestic affairs, starting in Dover.

          1. Millions of potential Labour voters, what's not to like? Of course, when they can vote for an Islamic party he will be long gone and anyway is entitled to lifelong armed protection.

          2. I wonder if that law will be repealed out of a basic sense of fairness.

            After all, socialists are all for 'fairness', aren't they?

          4. Millions of potential Labour voters, what's not to like? Of course, when they can vote for an Islamic party he will be long gone and anyway is entitled to lifelong armed protection.

    2. As if Colchester's "city" centre wasn't a dump before these incursions. I go there for two reasons only, when I need to use my bank's facilities and/or when my hair needs cutting – English hairdresser, Terry, very good at her job and a nice lady to boot.

    1. Basic morality should say it is wrong. Put a noose around it's neck and hang it. Rinse, repeat.

    3. In this case the age is immaterial – rape is rape whether the victim is 15 or 50. If rape is not illegal in the country from which he comes then surely we do not want more people from there!

      Some British teenage children have sex before the age of consent. This is often entirely consensual but it is still rape : statutory rape.

      What was it that got Ted Ray sacked from the BBC?

      2. Good morning Rastus and everyone. Grizzly pulled me up on this topic, as 'statutory rape' is an American expression.

      1. People are always eager to point out Starmer's lies and U turns. This is easy – there are so many of them. It is low hanging fruit.

        Perhaps a penetrative, insightful journalist should try to find some rare instances where Starmer has actually told the truth.

        1. Rastus: (1) – Where would you find such a journalist, and (2) – Are there any such instances?

    2. Well, yes. The Left hate people being able to say what they want. They don't really care about real terrorists because they're muslim, and clients.

    4. Department of Science Innovation and Technology? Isn’t there something beginning with H to insert between Science and Innovation?

  51. Did you know that yesterday was National Orgasm Day? No, nor did I. Got to wait another year now!

    3. Ha. I thought you were just being you, naughty step again. But no…you are correct, amazingly :-DDD xxx set your alarm……..

    1. Starmer is very proud of this. He will be ever prouder when the tally passes 50,000 before the end of the year..

    3. That’s just this year. What about from 4th July 2024 – 31 December 2024?

        1. No room at the top table for the likes of Cooper and Starmer, I would have thought. Perhaps they are putting their faith in private security, who presumably would lay down their lives to protect those two and others like them…

    5. Just listening to a Nick Buckley podcast, pontificating on both the Manchester Airport brothers getting off/suspended sentence.

      Then it will kick off.

      1. Can't we return to the times when suspended sentence meant …. well, not just promising to be good for a while?

      1. Freely available for inspection along Bournemouth East cliffs.
        A marketing plan worthy of Edmund Blackadder.

      2. Camels being too high off the ground and they're so backward they haven't invented step ladders.

    2. Even the Arab owned horses don’t feature the M name. Although as they’re Arabic who knows what their name means?

  54. We are constantly told by the Left that we can’t do something because of “international law” and that it would be absolutely catastrophic for the UK’s reputation if we were found to be breaching it.

    And yet.

    Today it is reported that Our Gracious Lord Hermer (pboh) does not “agree” that recognising “Palestine” (sic) as a “state” would be in breach of “international law”.

    ”it’s different when we do it”
    Copyright the Left.

    1. Exactly so – it seem Hermer thinks he has a better understanding of "international law" than the 40 peers, who include 7 KCs? This is the man who apparently considers that a recommendation on the future of the Chagos islands was legally binding, and who tells us that we cannot deport people despite the fact that France and Greece seem quite able to do it despite the ECHR?

    1. Was Farage's state intent, Korky (or so I read) to destroy the CP when he was disallowed standing as a candidate. Whatever, Reform is in the ascendancy now. I follow Jenrick, Philp, online, also the blogger Chris Cork. Badenoch seems tougher now but I suspect too little, far too late.

      1. Anyone who has the slightest link with the WEF, Trilateral Commission etc. must be treated as hostile to the survival of the UK. Politician, whose loyalty to the British people is in doubt must be exposed and deemed persona no grata.

  56. Ed Cummings in the DT.

    The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of Gary Neville’s money

    As a footballer Gary Neville was not known for his versatility. He was a one-club man who trundled up and down the right flank like a plough-horse. So it is heartening to see him switching things up politically. This week he became the latest Labour supporter to turn on them over tax.

    “I honestly don’t believe […] companies and small businesses should be deterred from employing people,” said Neville, who owns several businesses alongside his punditry gigs. “So, I think the National Insurance rise was one that I feel probably could have been held back.”

    Leaving to one side the fact that Sky viewers might not mind living without his rabid commentary, there is a delicious schadenfreude in watching Neville, a noisy Labour fan, change tack. Last June, he even proved his commitment by taking Keir Starmer up the Langdale Pikes for a campaign interview, in what must have been the most tedious man-marking job of his life.

    Until recently Rachel Reeves has been blessed in her enemies. When she and Starmer broke a manifesto promise to whack farmers with inheritance tax, they couldn’t have hoped for a better opponent than Jeremy Clarkson. Here was not some sympathetic turnip-tender on the breadline but a celeb who was on the record as saying dodging IHT was a reason he bought a farm.

    Number 10 must have rejoiced again in March when Alexander Armstrong, arguably the pre-eminent primetime posho, complained about VAT on private school fees. His quip that he was feeling “extremely poor” did not land well with those who were actually feeling extremely poor.

    Now, even Labour’s fans are rethinking. Neville was not the first. In February, the Iceland boss Richard Walker, who had supported Reeves’ Budget, warned that, while it was right to look at “levelling the playing field on tax”, the Government had “parked its tractor in the wrong place going after hard-working British farmers”. The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Even Gary Neville’s.

      1. There is another challenge waiting in the wings: cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, allow holders to move funds across borders free of capital controls. No need to sew jewellery into underwear, all you need is your access code.
        I don't understand the push for central bank digital currency, but I imagine that it is partly about Control of individuals' assets.

        1. Thank you for making me laugh. Writing your access code inside your knickers will certainly be much more comfortable than having diamonds stuck up yer bum.

          The problem with Bitcoin is how to translate it into a means of payment for goods and services?

          CBDC confers absolute control, right down to what brand of knickers I buy and sharp objects to sew into them will be completely off the menu with only digital currency available to make payment.

          1. Ah ha!!! Morning Sue. Always wanted to know where you kept yer diamonds. Hope morale is holding up.

          2. Payment will be digitally, as it is now. Have a chip implanted (as dogs do, recorded pet/vet details). Chips will be controlled centrally. Been talked about for years, Sunak raised the odds, and Starmer likely love the idea.

          3. It's been written about for centuries.

            Revelation 13

            16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

            17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

            18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

          4. There's going to be a point where because govenrment has so utterly debased Sterling with inflation, tax and waste (all the same thing, really) that people move to Bitcoin, which cannot be devalued because expansion is carefully controlled.

            Then when M&S sit down and say 'we can't buy these goods, let alone sell them they'll reference a bitcoin (satoshi) cost below the dozen zero Sterling cost. Then government is finished. And not before time.

        2. It's definitely the control of money (and assets), your debit/credit card writ large. BofE been producing fewer new notes for a while, cash not used as much as it was.

          2. Good for you. Some esp tradesmen prefer it, latest figures seem to suggest plateau rather than outright decline.

        3. I bought £100 of Bitcoin out of interest a couple of years ago. It's now worth £2800.
          I can't decide whether to cash it in or buy some more.

    2. The best thing Labour could do is apologise, repeal all legislation since Blair and publicly commit sepukku using a broken plate.

  57. MasterChef contestant from upcoming series claims Gregg Wallace 'eyed up and ogled' her and hits out at BBC for then editing HER out from the show

    Really?

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4c367ac336a8e837c441513d37d4096c11758572e69bbceb0422b5f752705969.png

    Sarah Shafi, (pictured) who was set to appear on the show's yet to be aired season, said Mr Wallace, 60, made her feel 'uncomfortable', describing MasterChef as a bad experience from the outset.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14961511/MasterChef-contestant-series-claims-Gregg-Wallace-eyed-BBC.html

      1. I suspect the only reason she's making a noise is in the hope of getting picked for another TV show.

        I suspect Wallace and I have different ogling standards.

        1. Yes. She wa likely selected as the winner – gotta have the diversity win, don'cha no?

          1. A chum who applied raised that when the casting came she was clearly the 'wrong colour'.

            Masterchef: for brownies.

    2. So in addition to Mr Wallace's list of crimes can be added lack of taste and judgement?

    3. Ugh!

      Bet she's never been 'eyed up and ogled' in her life…which is why she made up the story.

    6. The race card clearly didn't work.

      I asked the Warqueen if she was ever bothered by men oggling her. Her reply? 'Be dumb if they didn't'.

      Unlike this bintish Lefty though, she isn't a dindu whelp looking for a payout from Al Beeb.

      1. My mum said she always enjoyed being wolf whistled.

        I expect it's only the permanently offended who don't like it. And fat ugly lesbians hate it not happening to them because they are fat ugly lesbians.

          1. Thanks Rik – should be shown in all schools. Alcohol abuse similarly. Both easy enough to get drawn into, when young, depending on associates.

          1. Yes, there are several clips of her wiping her nose, allegedly after snorting the stuff.

          3. And who was the SNP cow who was, apparently, caught on camera snorting in the chamber off her finger?

  59. They tried to break Lucy Connolly, but the decent people of Britain will never desert her

    A year on from the Southport massacre, the childminder who dared to express her anger over immigration is still in jail

    Allison Pearson
    29th July 2025 7:54pm BST

    So maybe Lucy Connolly was right after all. It is exactly a year since the Northampton childminder tapped out a nasty tweet that would change her life and which may, in due course, alter British history. Three little girls had been murdered most horribly that day at a Taylor Swift dance club in Southport; several more children had grievous injuries. Lucy, like millions of us, did not believe the story being put about by the authorities that the heinous massacre was "not terror related", nor that the killer had conveniently been a "Cardiff-born" choirboy.

    The blood-curdling savagery of the attack and the choice of target – young girls dancing to a pop singer who had been singled out for death threats that summer by Islamic State – told anyone who cared to think about it that Axel Rudakubana had spent time in Islamist chatrooms. (This has never been confirmed, but parallels with the 2017 suicide bombing of young pop fans at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena are undeniable.)

    In their haste to deny any Muslim involvement (always their worst fear) and refusing to disclose what they did know, the police and the Government allowed an information vacuum to develop into which flooded online conspiracy theories. One theory was that the Southport killer was an illegal migrant.

    So distraught was Lucy Connolly, so enraged by the massacre of the three angels (Lucy had lost her own small boy to gross NHS negligence and suffered from PTSD) that in her tweet she called for "mass deportation now" and added: "Set fire to all the f—ing hotels full of the b—–ds for all I care, while you're at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what those families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it."

    Less than four hours after writing that post, having taken the family dog for a walk and calmed down, Lucy deleted the tweet. She said she was disgusted with herself and 24 hours later tweeted in support of peaceful protest because "violence is not the answer". Nonetheless, she was arrested eight days later, as part of Sir Keir Starmer's brutal crackdown on the "far-Right", and was charged with publishing material intended to stir up racial hatred. Every part of the criminal justice (ahem) system was stacked against her.

    Denied bail twice, even though she was a perfect candidate, like so many of the Southport online hate posters Lucy found herself railroaded into a guilty plea – indeed, lawyers have suggested that that may have been a tactic deployed under the influence of Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, who personally approved Lucy's prosecution, even though he had the power to prevent it.

    Her prison sentence of 31 months caused shock in legal circles, as did the judge's partial and finger-wagging remarks on our "diverse and inclusive society". No one believed that a mother of a 12-year-old child with no previous convictions deserved such a hammer blow of a sentence.

    Lucy's role was to be a cautionary tale: a deterrent to anyone thinking of giving voice to their fears about migration.

    For their part, the police provided a wickedly misleading account of their interview with the then 41-year-old, who is the wife of a Conservative councillor. "Lucy Connolly… told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them" was a statement that the Crown Prosecution Service later withdrew (I've previously written about how the beloved childminder had so many glowing testimonials from immigrant parents).

    But the demonisation of Lucy Connolly as a "Tory councillor's racist wife" was in full swing by then. We can see how well it suited the state at that moment, terrified rioting would get out of control, to deflect blame away from the uncontrolled immigration it had overseen and onto members of the public who did not want young men from barbaric backgrounds butchering British children.

    I sat through Rudakubana's sentencing hearing in Liverpool and all the "community pulled together" platitudes are a mere sticking plaster over the horrors revealed in the pathologist's report. It was satanic.

    Today, 12 months since the Southport massacre, Lucy Connolly, unbelievably, is still in jail and counting down the days to her scheduled release on August 21. Although, as prison authorities have shamefully denied her every bit of temporary leave to which she has been entitled since November (including, most cruelly, a day out for her daughter's 13th birthday last week), there is understandable concern as to what tricks the Home Office may play to prevent "Starmer's political prisoner" from telling her story.

    "They are scared to death of Lucy," a probation officer, who maintains Lucy doesn't belong in prison, told her husband Ray. With requests to meet Lucy now coming in from around the world, including a concerned overture from the Trump administration, no wonder our free-speech-averse Government is worried about Lucy being free at last.

    What is interesting, I think, is to consider how Lucy Connolly's tweet was uncannily prophetic. The national temper has not cooled since Southport. On the contrary, Britain is angrier than I have ever known it. Parents, grandparents and concerned residents are gathering outside migrant hotels from Bournemouth to Norwich expressing their anger at the threat posed to women and children by undocumented young males from backward, misogynistic cultures. Exactly the point Lucy made to police on the day of her arrest.

    In Epping, an Ethiopian named Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu is accused of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl a mere eight days after he landed illegally on our shores in a small boat. Twice a week, mums and dads, grandparents, aunties, uncles and even children are gathering outside The Bell Hotel where a hundred young males were dumped "almost overnight" on that peaceful Essex village last year. Crime started going up. Women who work in the City were suddenly too scared to walk home from the station at night.

    Many Epping residents are descendants of the "white flight" which escaped the "diversity" that turned their beloved East End into an outpost of the subcontinent. That doughty cockney stock has no intention of surrendering its home to foreigners ever again. A married couple, Pat, who is in her 80s, and John, aged 91, have turned out to every single protest. "No way, I'm going down without a fight," says John. This is their last stand.

    Yesterday, I spoke to Orla Minihane, mother of three teenagers and a Reform UK council candidate, who gave a magnificent, impromptu speech in Epping saying that the protesters were not "far-Right", as the media and the authorities like to allege. It was a peaceful demonstration by normal British people who had had enough and were going to protect their kids come what may. Addressing the issue at a press conference in London, Nigel Farage took the bold step of saying that immigration was to blame for the sharp rise in rapes and sexual assaults in the UK.

    Orla, who has been trolled online as a "Nazi Barbie" and a "moronic fascist", was disgusted with Essex Police for escorting counter-protesters from Stand Up to Racism (far-Left agitators with placards apparently paid for by the Socialist Workers Party, as the media and authorities don't like to allege) to clash with concerned locals like her. "If you were in Dover in these numbers, stopping hundreds breaking into our country every day, we wouldn't have this problem," Orla told officers. One Epping single mother reported an incident involving a migrant to the police and an officer replied: "Be careful what you say, you know what happened to Lucy Connolly."

    "Outrageous," says my senior source in Essex Police, "but a true reflection of the woke culture the chief constable (Ben-Julian Harrington) has spent so much time and money on. Officers aren't taught about free speech in relation to cases like Lucy Connolly's – all they know is hurt feelings."

    The tide is turning fast on that deluded, self-loathing culture, in no small part due to the scandal of Lucy Connolly. Just consider how things have changed:

    Lucy's defiant assertion of her right to criticise the UK's immigration policy is now echoed up and down the land, from pubs to dinner parties. Starmer's Stasi could silence people with the stigma of being racist or "far-Right" a year ago, but the people have wised up to their tricks. The British will no longer be demonised for defending their women, their children and their culture against illegal migrants. Call us what you like, we are right and they are wrong.

    The UK has become a free-speech pariah with Lucy jailed for two-and-a-half years for a thought crime no one has ever linked to actual violence while a (now former) Labour MP Mike Amesbury, who admitted punching a constituent repeatedly, had his laughable 10-week prison sentence suspended within a few short days. Meanwhile, suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones, captured on video apparently calling for far-Right protesters to have their throats "cut", only a few days after Lucy's tweet, has been out on bail; his case will not even be heard until later this month. What the hell?

    Little wonder the Connolly case has made astounded headlines around the world. Last week, Le Monde quoted me on the scandal, saying it had "brought shame on the UK". See also the Prime Minister's embarrassment as President Trump schooled him on the way to deal with illegal migrants. An ashen Starmer looks as itchily uncomfortable as a seven-year-old boy with worms. "You better get your act together or you're not going to have Europe anymore," Trump warned on his arrival. "But you're allowing it to happen to your countries and you got to stop this horrible invasion that's happening to Europe. Immigration is killing Europe." And so say all of Epping!

    While ordinary protesters are accused of acting on and spreading "misinformation", the state is already using (and abusing) the new Online Safety Act to censor public discontent with immigration while denying that posts have wrongly been taken down from X. In fact, since the new rules came into force last week, the platform has blocked users from viewing a clip of MP Katie Lam speaking about grooming gangs in the House of Commons until X has verified their age. So the state is not prepared to protect children against rape, but instead "protects" adults from hearing about it.

    At the weekend, The Telegraph revealed that an elite police unit will monitor social media for signs of "anti-migrant sentiment". That's the same state which used a superinjunction to hide from the British people the fact that it had smuggled in thousands of Afghans at a total cost believed to be around £7bn to the taxpayer. And some of those Afghans were Taliban who had fought against British troops, and are now occupying Army quarters next to squaddies' wives and kids. Surely, the most outrageous piece of "misinformation" in our history. But apparently the real problem is with mothers and fathers who don't want their daughters hissed at and molested on the way to school.

    Lucy's contempt for politics is nigh on universal now. Successive governments are increasingly viewed as traitors to this country, having ushered in more immigration since 1997 than in all preceding centuries in our history combined. "Diversity is our strength" rings hollow when foreign-born men are responsible for some 40 per cent of sexual crime against women in London. Opposition to immigration now stands at 75 per cent, which is why Reform UK, the party that is the most trusted opponent of immigration, is at 34 per cent in the polls.

    I could go on, and on. It was truly appalling for Lucy Connolly to call for people to set fire to migrant hotels; even if it was a throwaway remark in the heat of the moment, no one could condone it. The burden of her tweet, however, has only gained salience over the past year. As Nigel Farage said, when he insisted that Lucy did not belong in jail: "Millions of mothers at that moment in time were feeling exactly the same." They were, and fathers too, and they will no longer keep quiet. The safety of their children may depend on it.

    "Lucy will be a national hero when she gets out," Orla Minihane told me, and that is why our Government fears her. One ordinary woman, a bereaved mother herself, enraged by the massacre of little girls, has acquired a talismanic force because she articulated the furious anguish of millions, and had to be punished for it.

    What if Lucy Connolly were to run against Yvette Cooper at the next general election and the patriotic people of West Yorkshire chose to vote to protect British children and showed what they think of a Labour government that is allowing our country to be invaded so there is no Britain anymore? Don't rule it out. We know it now, don't we? This is our last stand.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/29/allison-pearson-lucy-connolly-southport-decent-britain

    1. I've read that both LC and TR have been placed on the most violent wings of their respective prisons, don't know if this can be verified or not.

    2. The violent muslim thugs had their conviction delayed for months because the CPS was worried the dindus would kick off and destroy things and when normal people get angry and repsond to the slaughter – sodding slaughter – of their children by a muslim savage the entire state machine leaps to protect them, Starmfuhrer deploys plod in riot gear to crush their dissent.

      Why is the muslim savage so feted? They're vermin. They keep damned well proving it.

      Why, why is this damned country so back to bloody front? Why is the vermin murderer protected? Why is the feral muslim thug defended? Why? Why, when there's a justified, rational anger does the state set out to crush it and yet when there's assault, rape, murder by muslim that same putrid state defends it?

      It's utterly wrong. It's hypocritical. It's evil. The vile slammer is a client of the state. It guarantees it's expansion and need and the tax paying decent people are those paying for it and in the Left wing state's eyes must be suppressed lest that income stream dry up.It's disgusting.

  60. Pensioner arrested after children ‘poisoned’ at Christian summer camp
    Eight taken to hospital from youth centre after feeling unwell

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/man-76-arrested-suspicion-poisoning-children-summe-camp/

    Another Plungar resident said: “It’s a terrible thing to happen, and like something from a horror story. These kids from underprivileged backgrounds are treated to lovely holidays in the countryside , as an escape from their tough lives, and then are poisoned, allegedly by someone they trusted.”

    So what on earth is that all about?

    2. "Assistant Chief Constable James Avery said: “Following initial assessment, I can confirm that eight children were taken to hospital as a precaution and have since been discharged. Officers have been in contact with the parents and guardians of those children taken to hospital".

      It reads like another pathetic attempt to prove relative values. See, Christians do nasty things too! No comments.

      1. I imagine the feral brats were foul mouthed, rude, vicious and damaged the place – it's what the underclass do. The fellow likely just got sick of being spat on – and I fully understand that.

        1. What possible justification do you have for that statement and your response to True_Belle above?

          There are times that you are what many people would regard as extremely rude and vicious, if Nottle had the following Lucy Connelly had you could well have been facing an even heavier sentence.

          Bu you would not be alone, I know I would be in the firing line.

    3. Underprivileged backgrounds – so… chavs. They have less because they've earned less. They are not under sodding privileged because there is no such damned thing as 'privilege'. If some have more it's because they blasted well earn it and it is theirs to keep and enjoy because they worked for it.

      Why should they have to pay for chavs, thugs and wasters to have something they most likely are forced to go without because the worker's earnings are confiscated by the state and given to the dross?

      1. I agree that adults shouldn't be described as underprivileged but I think it's fair to describee a child.

      2. Not h the kids’ fault though, Wibbling. We have to hope at least some of them can be saved.

  61. Police have arrested 10 men over historical child sexual abuse allegations in Bradford.

    West Yorkshire Police said the men, aged between 49 and 71, were arrested from addresses in the city.

    They have been interviewed and bailed pending further enquiries, the force added.

    The alleged offences took place between 1994 and 1997 and relate to six victims aged between 13 and 15 at the time.

    List of names:
    Smith
    Jones
    Brown
    Atkins
    Robinson
    Wright
    Bell
    Watson
    Johnson
    Featherstonehaugh

      1. Actually it's Featherstonehaugh-Babblington-Smythe, but he didn't wish to be pretentious.

    2. Well, if you will live in Norfolk with only the North Sea between you and Siberia, what can you expect?

  64. Leon
    14h
    Yet again some lefty was on GB news saying the boaters are fleeing wars. What wars are these then?..AFAIK 99.99999% are economic migrants and there certainly aren't any wars in France.

    Basket of Deplorables
    Leon
    13h
    Fleeing wars but leaving their women and children behind? Right…

    1. Stop their access to benefits, full bed and board, free travel, free medical care, freedom of movement, and 'war-torn' France won't look so bad.

      2. I was in “war torn” France a few weeks ago. Nobody shot at me, no buildings were destroyed, all was peaceful. Send the invaders back.

    3. O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
      And men have lost their reason.

      [Julius Caesar]

      Keir Starmer never had much judgment and he has lost the little he did have.

    4. She's a Paki Stani from a family steeped in Paki Stani politics.
      Comes with the territory.

      1. It does. It is endemic and has been imported here, wholesale. We now accept corruption in all our institutions, including law enforcement, which is also subject to said corruption.

    5. Imagine if she were an eeevilll tttooooaaaarrriiiiee and had eaten a piece of cake – or, worse, been in the same room as a piece of cake and NOT eaten it. When that place was her home!

    1. It would be a start.

      The Left don't want that though. Their hatred is for those paying for everything. The law abiding, decent citizen. It doesn't care what it's clients do.

      1. They also hate the countryside, rural life and people in general. Their concern is the urban and alien.

    3. UNICEF often use library photos in their campaigns. The same cute babies and starving kids pop up in numerous campaigns. There have been suggestions that photos passed off as suffering children in Gaza are actually Yemeni. Difficult to prove but certainly feasible.

    5. Most of us here knew that it was fake news.

      But why did the BBC and the MSM believe it?

      It seems they have all been taken by the short and curlies by the pro-Isslamists.

      1. 410469+ up ticks,

        Afternoon R,

        I believe the need to spread it overpowered the weak kneed need to believe it,

  70. https://order-order.com/2025/08/01/revealed-entire-hmrc-inheritance-tax-analysis-team-is-fewer-than-five-junior-officials/

    What – please, someone – do 66,000 civil servants in the treasury do? That's just one department. It ignores that huge amounts is outsourced to the OBR. What are they for? What purpose do they serve? If there were 6000 of them would anyone really notice the difference? It'd still be an appallingly inefficient, overmanned, wasteful group.

    IBM globally – sodding globally, including it's distribution hubs and manufacturing doesn't employ 40,000 people so what, in the name of blasted hell do 66,000 people do all day apart form cost money and push paper around?

  71. https://youtu.be/LtwY3PleBow
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e06471a179dc7055ab1f3d15a83c0d44daa95fd2c30fdde5d17e8e781a1c3d4c.png
    Notional Trust
    2h
    I'm ѕurе thе Whіtе Ноuѕе rесоɡnіѕеѕ thаt рrо Раlеѕtіnіаnѕm іѕn't drіvеn bу саrе fоr thе dеѕеrt ѕсоuѕеrѕ, lоvе оf Наmаѕ оr іtѕ lrаnіаn bасkеrѕ but ultіmаtеlу bу lеftіѕt аntі Аmеrісаnіѕm аnd dіѕIіkе оf іtѕ mіddlе еаѕtеrn рrоху lѕrаеl.
    Тhе ɡlоbоhоmо еurо еlіtе (Саnаdа іѕ сulturаllу еurореаn) lеаrnt thеіr роlіtісѕ іn іnѕtіtutіоnѕ lоnɡ ѕіnсе ѕurrеndеrеd tо thе thіnkіnɡ оf thе Frаnkfurt Ѕсhооl. Тhеу аrе ѕо іmmеrѕеd, ѕо сlоѕеd tо оutѕіdе іnfluеnсе аnd nоrmаl humаn dіѕсоurѕе, thаt I dоubt thеу аrе еvеn аwаrе whу thеу dо іt, thеу јuѕt dо іt bесаuѕе іt іѕ thе 'rіɡht' thіnɡ tо dо.

    Сlеvеr fооIѕ.

    UK Legislation
    2h
    This fake govt that nobody wanted needs to be removed
    Starmer will recognise the state of Palestine while Hamas still runs the place, is dedicated to killing all the Jews and still holds Israeli hostages. This is so morally bankrupt and evil I don’t know what to say. Although I said something yesterday.

    2. We live in France.

      We love Stilton cheese.

      We have to buy it when we go to England and smuggle it in when we return.

      1. When we lived in France (pre and post Brexit) Stilton, mature cheddar and other English cheeses were always available in LeClerc and Carrefour.

        1. Still are around here, but very expensive.
          Heresy, maybe, but I now much prefer French cheeses.

  73. The government has been accused of creating a ‘spy’ unit in order to censor videos criticising migrant hotels and ‘two-tier policing’. Officials working for Technology Secretary Peter Kyle – he of Online Safety Act fame – have been flagging videos with ‘concerning narratives’ to social media companies, according to the Telegraph, which splashes on the story.

    A year ago, during the Southport riots, the government’s National Security and Online Information Team complained about a series of posts critical of mass migration. The government may not know how to stop the boats, but at least they’ve got a good idea about how to stop the tweets.

    https://i4.cmail20.com/ei/j/AF/7FE/0D1/csimport/Screenshot2025-08-01062220.062656.png
    ‘That wasn’t very Online Safety.’

    1. Shut down Britain's Ministry of Truth

      In an open and functioning society, the state does not use its powers to curb free speech on matters of national importance

      Telegraph View
      31 July 2025 7:47pm BST

      There is a tendency in British political discourse to overuse the word "Orwellian". But there can be no better term to describe the behaviour of the Labour Government in deploying a secretive "spy" unit to monitor social media for posts critical of asylum seekers or "two tier" policing – and then request that this content be concealed from public view.

      Two years ago, the Telegraph revealed that the "Counter-Disinformation Unit" (CDU) had turned its attention towards those expressing scepticism over the restrictive measures implemented during the pandemic. Its former head stated that it had been in "hourly" contact with tech companies to "encourage… the swift takedown" of content. The Government eventually conceded that these firms acted on more than 90 per cent of requests, suppressing views through the use of algorithms or even deleting them entirely.

      In an open and functioning society, the state does not use its powers to curb free speech on matters of national importance. It does not force healthy debate – including over the actions or competence of those in charge – underground under the guise of shielding citizens from misinformation.

      Yet when this mission creep became public knowledge, the Government did not change course. Instead, it appears to have doubled down.

      The CDU – or National Security and Online Information Team as it is now known – spent last summer targeting social media posts that risked "exacerbating tensions".

      These included observations that asylum seekers were "undocumented fighting age males", a photograph of a rejected Freedom of Information request over the location of asylum hotels, and "concerning narratives about the police and a 'two-tier' system".

      The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology – where the unit is based – is currently facing criticism for its oversight of the Online Safety Act, with further accusations of politicised censorship emerging. A spokesman said that the Government made "no apologies" for flagging content "which can result in violent disorder on our streets", while conceding that "free speech is a cornerstone" of Britain's political system.

      It is past time that the Government started acting as if it believed in these words. As things stand, the gradual erosion of our freedom to criticise the state could begin to undermine the proper functioning of our democracy.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/07/31/shut-down-britains-ministry-of-truth-free-speech-uk

    3. They do know how to stop the invasion. They simply refuse to do so. It's how the Left operate. Rather than solve the problem – which they want to continue – they use force to suppress dissent.

      The online harm bill will very quickly morph into a logging system, then a control system until it is full blown authoritarianism.

      The only way to stop it is to destroy those pushing it.

  74. That's 2 x 900ml ice cream containers filled with blackberries and put into the freezer.
    But why to brambles have such horrible thorns and why do so many nettles grow amongst them.

    1. There is something wrong with a country that prevents the union flag being displayed on private property.

      If a diversity doesn't like it then they should leave.

      1. I would like to see some group try to have the Stars and Stripes removed here in the US. The reaction would be severe – and that would just be the cops…

  76. I think I've just committed myself to spending a lot of money. I'm gong to need convalescent care after the surgery and the nearest nursing home venue in Hammersmith has not responded to my emails but the Loveday care home in Kensington called straight back and say that they can definitely help me and will provide nursing care to check the wound, monitor infection, do physio etc. I'm going to see them next Friday. Apparently it isn't a problem to confirm when I'm actually in the hospital so cancellation won't worry them. All this will come at a price of course. I don't know exactly how much yet but I have an idea and it ain't cheap. Ah well, it'll keep a chunk of my savings away from Rachel Thieves.

    1. This will hardly help your plight or mood; there used to be convalescent homes run by NHS or charities in resorts like Clacton and Frinton.
      There used to be Passmore Edwards convalescent homes. I'm unsure whether they still exist but it might be worth checking. If nothing else, it may lead you to other avenues for investigation.

      1. Passmore Edwards are history I'm afraid and the NHS are not offering anything at all beyond the assurance that they won't discharge me until I can walk and keep myself clean. Yes, I remember my mother going to an NHS convalescent home after having her varicose veins removed. Social services won't help either. They won't class me as in need. I own my little flat and I'm not on benefits.

      2. When I worked for the Wellcome Foundation, the company had its own convalescent home for employees (free of charge) – Conning Tower in Bournemouth. Needless to say, it was closed down and sold when Glaxo took us over.

      3. When I worked for the Wellcome Foundation, the company had its own convalescent home for employees (free of charge) – Conning Tower in Bournemouth. Needless to say, it was closed down and sold when Glaxo took us over.

      4. There used to be a sanitorium I cycled past regularly when I was a child. I expect it’s a housing estate now.

      5. Sister in law had an emergency op for a burst appendix back in the 1960's. This was folllowed by a couple of weeks recovery in a convalescent home.

        Similarly, when our two children arrived, the local maternity home kept Jill in for a week – considered normal at the time.

      6. I have a suspicion the old system pre-NHS wasn’t so bad, with proper Charities picking up the problem locally rather than expecting “the State” to do everything

        1. Many towns had medical services provided by a combination of Friendly Societies, Employers and workers organisations, especially the Unions.
          Some towns had better facilities than others and when the NHS took over, rather than bring everyone up to the same standard, the better facilities were allowed to decay to bring them down to the common standard.

    2. Let us know when you are well enough for visitors and we will come and eat all your grapes.

  77. Anthony Albanese in Australia iches closer to social media verification using biometrics & government IDs.. all in the interests of protecting children. LOL

    1. But on the plus side New Zealand is apparently set to overturn the race horse's ban on oil drilling?

  78. Adios Germany..
    Germany’s Association for Education and Training (VBE) has called for the introduction of comprehensive Islamic religious education in schools across the country

    Adios Spain..
    Spain now leads EU Aslum request with 12,800 applications, mainly from Venezuelans fleeing the “severe economic and political crisis” in their country — a trend the agency partly links to U.S. deportations.

    1. Venezuelans are Spanish speaking Catholics though? Spain is getting a better deal than Germany.

    2. Venezuela has been turned into an economically-failed state by a hard-line socialist government. No wonder people want to get out.

  79. Tariff-Day finally arrived.
    Hang on a minute
    Some smaller states, however, were hit with the highest rates.. Falkland Islands 41%!

    1. The Falklands are (potentially) about to be rich in Oil and Gas income, therefore a threat to US exports!

  80. Been working at home today – have a detailed report on design of an offshore process monitoring system to write.
    Big mistake.
    The carpenter, who has been absent the last 2 weeks, truned up this morning and is now working like a man posessed, making the devil of a racket – and now he's started the air compressor for his nail gun…
    So I give up. NoTTL it is!

    2. Nail guns are wonderful devices. Used them a lot when finishing out our bare basement. Driving 4" nails at the pull of a trigger. Really tempted to get one that used the cartridges instead of compressed air, but they were about double the price.

      Lovely scene in one of the Lethal Weapon films where Danny Glover is shown struggling with an attacker. He finally grabs the nail gun holds it to the guy's head, pulls the trigger and says "Nailed him".

      1. System Control And Data Acquisition?
        I’m working with specifying which instrument shall be used in what way to monitor the system and/or process equipment for efficiency and how hard it’s being pushed. Takes a while, looking for the tags across lots of drawings, and then writing it down. This monitoring is something that COMPANY will be buying – not sure what, yet, but it will be reading its data from the SAS system.

        1. Close! SupervisoryControlandDataAcquisition. Such as InTouch from Wonderware or WinCC from Siemens.

  81. Afternoon all. Going to bed early was counterproductive as I slept really badly when I did eventually get to sleep. Nightmares and disjointed dreams. Have walked the dogs and cooked lunch of fish and chips (it’s Friday).

    I think the best hope for Britain’s tired towns is to stop being unBritish.

    1. Sorry to hear that.

      They say peanut butter is good for getting off to sleep…Peanut butter may help with sleep due to its tryptophan content, an amino acid that aids in the production of serotonin and melatonin, both crucial for regulating sleep. Additionally, the healthy fats in peanut butter can help stabilize blood sugar levels, potentially preventing nighttime awakenings.

      Might be worth a try.

        1. I very much doubt our resident jockey needs to worry too much about a teaspoon full of peanut butter.

    2. Britains tired towns,

      Suggest decent clothing should be worn in public , no vests and tattooed legs , and bulging bare middles

      Close tattoo shops, and that ghastly pastry chain , close a few tatty charity shops , bring back antique shops , places to browse, bring back good old fashioned hardware stores , art shops , linen / fabric shops, old fashioned pet food shops , proper butchers, bakers, decent cheap parking , proper coffee cafe's ..

      Keep book shops , don't close places like Smiths, a few clothing shops perhaps, to suit all ages ..keep a few banks open .. and local post office .

      Clean tidy pavements, no buskers or beggars .. a couple of pop up market stalls selling fruit and veg ..

      Plenty of litter bins , and a few seats to rest and chatter ?

      Silly or not

      1. In other words, roll the clock back about 50 years. No issues with that. I still can't get over what has happened to England in the 45 years since we left. Although, I have to say, today's government is Wilson/ Callaghan redux – complete with public sector unions being greedy (Mick Lynch is straight out of the '70's), and government waste. The civil service was definitely more competent then, as it had not yet become infused with left wing "groupthink".

      2. I’m with you on the clothing and tatts. There are a lot of tattoo shops (as well as nail bars and Turkish barbers) in my local town, but the charity shops are neat and tidy, clean and well run. We have an antiques emporium (and a coffee shop that sells trendy clothing and restored items of furniture), a picture restorer, a craft shop, a pet food store (which also sells birds), a jeweller and a post office. There are, as I discovered when I was recovering from the ‘flu, lots of seats. There’s a weekly market that sells fruit and veg plus a farmer’s market once a month and a reasonable amount of litter bins (doesn’t stop all the litter, though). We occasionally have buskers and beggars, but they aren’t permanent. We have several proper butchers and decent parking (free, if time limited, at the supermarkets). It is, in fact, a traditional market town, only spoiled by the influx of dindus who turn it into Mogadishu some days.

      1. Thank you for that, Maggie, but I only occasionally don’t sleep well. I take a magnesium supplement (a side effect of Esomeprazole is it depletes the magnesium in one’s body – the reason, I think, I broke some ribs before I discovered that).

    4. Could be the heat, Conway – I never sleep well after hot weather. Hope you drink sufficient water 🙂 Northern towns are tired but not yet given up.

      1. What heat? It isn’t warm here. I’ve been wearing a woolly for the last couple of days!

        1. Been in the 20s, bit cooler today at 16, but 19 or 20 due tomorrow, as is rain. Do you wear a woolly hat too 🙂

    6. I was up a ladder in the holly tree, in my dressing gown and slippers at 11 o’clock last night! Phoebe, our 14 year old decided it was a nice evening for a stroll and I went to bed early. Then she came across an old adversary, the language was appalling and she must have shot up the tree! She was in a bit of a state – growling and hissing at me, and swiping at me. Tried to get her into a cardboard box, then, with my penlight in my teeth, I attempted to get her into my dressing gown! About half an hour later she came down by herself, and had a couple of prawns! Dobbie the naked cat, was very jealous he’d missed all the fun!

  82. GB News Beats Sky News and BBC News Across Whole of July

    THE THIRD ROUNDEL
    2h
    Congratulations GBNews. Well deserved! Keep up the good work.

    Leon
    2h
    I hope GB News can hang on to Bev Turner, President Trump took quite a shine to her.

    Boni
    Leon
    53m
    GBN are opening a studio in Washington DC. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she’s offered her own show on prime time tv.

    jonathan
    2h
    Incredible results from GB news especially considering the well funded campaigns from thuggish Unions and the hard Left OFCOM to bully advertisers.

    Steve Crook
    2h
    Impressive given the all out effort to kill the channel at birth.

    Ernest Nowell
    Steve Crook
    2h
    And still coordinated pressure is being put on advertisers not to use them.

    1. I wish more companies would advertise with them. I listen to GBN in the radio and the same three adverts are played over and over and over. Drives me up the wall.

      2. Indeed! But at least we know the companies that are advertising!!!!

  83. Ten men are arrested in Bradford 'for sexually abusing six children aged between 13 and 15' over three year period

    No speculating.. LOL
    Just because it's Bradford doesn't mean anything..

    1. The Guardian warns..

      This could also risk smearing Asian and Pakistani males as potential paedophiles, despite evidence to the contrary.
      The available data is patchy, but a November report by the child sexual exploitation taskforce suggested that a higher proportion of perpetrators of all forms of child sexual abuse are white.

      Yep. Defo whitey. Trust the Leftie interpretation of Leftie data.

        1. There was a comment about journalists in Africa during a period of unrest – most were advised to get a gun, the Grauniad's man got a gnu?

      4. What "evidence to the contrary" would that be, then? All non-white crime is hushed up and only white crime is recorded?

        1. I was just about to post something similar, Conners! There is no "evidence to the contrary", is there?

          1. Not as far as I know. Surely it would be trumpeted loud and clear (not hushed up like the Taliban) if there were.

    2. I was reading a report today about crimes committed on churches (the figures are horrendous – over 9,000 in three years) and West Yorkshire is the worst place, followed by Kent. Hmm, what do those two areas have in common, I wonder?

    2. Donald Trump pays for his suits and looks better in them.

      Look at the state of the drop on Starmers trousers !

      That's what you get for accepting your clothes free from queers.

      2. Starmer could afford Savile Row but looks as if he buys off the peg. Is it background and up-bringing, d'you think? I mean, I don't have a million pounds to buy a bigger flat but I could afford a Chanel handbag as well as paying for a few weeks nursing care. I just wouldn't and I've lived this way for so long that even if I was given that million pounds tomorrow, I'd probably not change my ways.

        1. Unlike you every decision Starmer makes is wrong.

          I'll have the Chanel if you don't want it, sweetie darling.

          Nods to AbFab.

        1. So he can take it from behind, you mean?
          Urghh… mental image… pass the mind bleach!

      5. Equally, Trump's jacket is too wide across the shoulders for his body, hence the "droop" either side of the neck. Trump is quite spherical these days, and obese people often wear jackets with an overly broad cut of the shoulders to try to hide that.

    8. Is Starmer asking 'Where's the cheddar for not saying how all your policies are failing?'

      To which Trump looks at him askance and says – 'that's my line, Pier.'

    10. D: Do you mind if I grab your wife by the pussy?

      K: Errrr, no, what is that anyway?

    11. I would guess that in real life President Trump can be quietly charming and that Sir Keir is almost human when he can relax for a moment. As a teenager he was a music student and is still a Beethoven aficionado.

  85. Michael Dobbs
    Norman Tebbit was one of my closest friends. This is the eulogy I delivered at his funeral

    We are here to say goodbye – and thank you – to Norman Tebbit.

    Norman, you were my friend for almost 50 years. Always incredibly loyal. Inspiring. And didn’t we have a lot of fun – you had such a wicked sense of humour.

    You were one of the bravest men I’ve ever known, morally as well as physically. You were also a man of extraordinary tenderness.

    Do you remember, we first met in Margaret Thatcher’s office, when she was Leader of the Opposition, and you were a member of the Gang of Four – backbenchers whose job it was to help her hone her political thinking and sharpen her teeth.

    You were the best political thinker of that group. You also had the sharpest teeth.

    Even as a backbencher you caused havoc. We all remember what an exasperated Michael Foot said of you.

    You didn’t mind; you rather enjoyed a little mischief and mayhem. You even incorporated polecats into your coat of arms – I assume they were polecats of the semi-house-trained kind?

    And, my dear Norman, that motto you chose – Qui tacet consentit – he who remains silent gives consent. Well, as I recall, there weren’t many things you ever remained silent about. Your brother Arthur said you didn’t express opinions, you were simply giving statements of obvious fact.

    You rather liked your Spitting Image character – although that wasn’t the real you, not all of you. Because you cared – oh, how you cared, deeply, passionately – about many things, and many people. You fought for the underprivileged, because you knew first hand about poverty and hardship, from your childhood squeezed between the years of Depression and war.

    Yes, you told people to get on their bikes. Because that way, they might go as far as they wanted. And in whatever direction they chose.

    When Margaret Thatcher gave you the task of bringing the trade unions back within the law, you knew the importance of what she asked. “If I fail, you will fail”, you told her, “and they’ll bring you down.”

    But you didn’t fail. You revolutionised workers’ rights. You reshaped this country. You said it was your proudest achievement.

    There were many more triumphs. You led the privatisation reforms, you helped give birth to the Big Bang that made London the financial centre of the world.

    You became one of the most extraordinary figures in British politics. A national icon, a man of conscience and controversy, of biting wit and down-to-earth wisdom, qualities that you wrapped up in the sort of personal courage that few people are ever called upon to show in peacetime.

    I remember three pictures hanging on your walls that I thought went a long way to summing you up.

    In your office was a colourful picture of Concorde and the Red Arrows in flight. They were symbols of your pride in Britain. Your love of being a pilot. And your ambition always to reach for the sky.

    In your hallway I remember a signed photograph of the crew of Apollo XI on the Moon, a reminder of humanity’s capacity to reach unimaginable heights.

    But always closest to you, above your desk, was that image of you with your beloved wife Margaret, at the Mansion House, all white tie and sequins, as you helped wipe a tear from her eye.

    That, of course, was after the bomb.

    While you and Margaret lay for hours, buried in the ruins of the Grand Hotel, you didn’t think you would make it. You held hands, said your goodbyes.

    But you did get out. Margaret paralysed; you also injured, far more seriously than many know, or you would let on about.

    I remember how it left you in pain every day. But you carried on. You would not be beaten.

    You became Party chairman. I know you didn’t like the job. But you did it, of course, magnificently, and you delivered a huge re-election victory for Mrs Thatcher and your party.

    But the prime minister was changing. She began to doubt many things – even you and your unquenchable loyalty. She listened to whispers that you wanted to replace her.

    It simply wasn’t true.

    When you became Party chairman and asked me to come with you, you told me it would be your last job. You’d already decided to leave Cabinet at the next election because your priority had become to care for your beloved Margaret.

    Yet, despite the painful whispers, you didn’t flinch, or complain – not once.

    Most other men would have turned on the prime minister, become Brutus to her Caesar, brought her down… But you weren’t most other men, were you? Not ever.

    Instead, when she finally fell, you were the last man left fighting to defend her and her legacy. You were truly a man – the man – of those magnificent times.

    Yes, you lived for two Margarets, but there was never any doubt which Margaret came first. Your devotion to your wonderful wife was total. You were skinhead turned saviour; bruiser turned carer.

    The tenderness you showed was awe-inspiring, maintained every day for 35 years.

    The last time I was in this beautiful cathedral, almost five years ago, was to say goodbye to Margaret. Now you and she are together again, as you always insisted you must be – the ultimate team – as William [the Tebbits’ son] has said.

    There was a time when you might have been prime minister, perhaps a very great one – but not after the bomb. I know you regretted not having the opportunity to try. But I never remember you complaining.

    You came from a generation that grew up with little other than hope. All your life you were a fighter – you fought for your family, for your country, for what you believed was right and true.

    You fought for ordinary men and women, no matter what class or colour, wanting to give them the opportunity to be upwardly mobile, as you had been. And in their turn they admired, respected and often loved you for it.

    At Margaret Thatcher’s memorial service you were on the steps of St Paul’s, and the crowd broke into sustained applause.

    You looked around. “Who are they clapping?” you asked.

    “You, you daft old Norman.”

    They were just some of the ordinary folk whose lives you’d helped transform, and who had come to say thank you to a man of outstanding character and courage.

    As we, too, have come here today, to say thank you.

    Norman, you were a giant. An inspiring leader who helped our country renew a greatness that we had all but forgotten.

    You’ve had many extraordinary tributes, from friends and old foes. But one tribute I think is particularly apt, sent by the government of the Falkland Islands to Alison and John and William [the three Tebbit children] . This is what it said about you.

    “He will always hold a special place in the hearts and memories of Islanders, for his commitment to ensuring we were liberated from occupation and the Islands restored to British rule.”

    It went on: “We will always be grateful to Lord Tebbit for his friendship and support, in good times and in bad. We will keep him in our thoughts and prayers.”

    All I can say to that is, Amen.

        1. I think it's every one of them – Reform included. The political class are an embarrassment.

  86. Brendan O'Neill is on a roll over at Spiked! with another cracker of an article:
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/28/how-the-wests-israelophobia-has-made-life-hell-for-palestinians/

    A few extracts:
    "Have we got so used to the sight of women and children in this hottest of warzones that we have become blind to what a grotesque and preposterous situation this is? Women and children leave warzones. That’s the one nod to civilisation man makes even in the hell of war. Almost eight million souls have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, most of them women and children. Around seven million Syrians fled fighting over the past decade, some seeking refuge in safer parts of Syria, others in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. They were mostly women and children. And yet in that bloody limbo of Gaza, women and children stay.

    The truth – the jarring truth – is that they are there because the moral institutions of the West have all but forbidden their fleeing."

    "Let’s put it plainly: Palestinians are dying as a consequence of the anti-Israel bigotry of Western institutions. Courtesy of this borderline racist suspicion of the Jewish nation, Palestinians are being brutally deprived of the tragic but essential right to asylum that is enjoyed by all other people swept up in war. Women and children are locked into the hell of Gaza because the international community’s wariness of Israel carries more moral weight than their concern for Palestinians. They hate the Jewish State more than they cherish Palestinian life."

    [My comment in response to the last sentence of that paragraph is that this attitude is identical to that of Hamas – they too hate the Jewish State more than they cherish the lives of their women and children. I'm sure there's a quote by Golda Meir very much along those lines.]

    "Then there’s Hamas’s truly sick role. Hamas has killed Gazans who work for the GHF. It has fired rockets at GHF facilities. Why? Because it is experiencing a calamitous financial crisis and is desperate to return to the old system where it creamed profits off the UN-led aid system. Last week, in one of the vanishingly few informative pieces about the Gaza crisis, the Washington Post reported that Hamas’s coffers are almost entirely depleted, meaning it can ‘no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters’. The GHF, by monopolising the distribution of aid, has been a key cause of Hamas’s ‘revenue tumble’. So Hamas furiously targets the GHF, even where that means it becomes more difficult for the GHF to distribute food."

    "The Israelophobes of the Western establishment have dutifully played their part in Hamas’s despicable morality play and pointed a collective finger of judgement at the Jewish nation. They have obediently marshalled the hungry of Gaza to the end of further criminalising Israel. They are recklessly incentivising Hamas’s barbarism. Hamas now knows that dystopic images of hunger work to its apocalyptic advantage. In using the nightmarish vision of Gazan hunger to further harry the Jewish State, the West’s media elites witlessly goad Hamas to further thwart Israel’s distribution of food. Once more, Israelophobia intensifies Palestinian suffering. "

    1. The women and children are still there because they are a propaganda tool. That and human shields.

  87. Brendan O'Neill is on a roll over at Spiked! with another cracker of an article:
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/28/how-the-wests-israelophobia-has-made-life-hell-for-palestinians/

    A few extracts:
    "Have we got so used to the sight of women and children in this hottest of warzones that we have become blind to what a grotesque and preposterous situation this is? Women and children leave warzones. That’s the one nod to civilisation man makes even in the hell of war. Almost eight million souls have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, most of them women and children. Around seven million Syrians fled fighting over the past decade, some seeking refuge in safer parts of Syria, others in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. They were mostly women and children. And yet in that bloody limbo of Gaza, women and children stay.

    The truth – the jarring truth – is that they are there because the moral institutions of the West have all but forbidden their fleeing."

    "Let’s put it plainly: Palestinians are dying as a consequence of the anti-Israel bigotry of Western institutions. Courtesy of this borderline racist suspicion of the Jewish nation, Palestinians are being brutally deprived of the tragic but essential right to asylum that is enjoyed by all other people swept up in war. Women and children are locked into the hell of Gaza because the international community’s wariness of Israel carries more moral weight than their concern for Palestinians. They hate the Jewish State more than they cherish Palestinian life."

    [My comment in response to the last sentence of that paragraph is that this attitude is identical to that of Hamas – they too hate the Jewish State more than they cherish the lives of their women and children. I'm sure there's a quote by Golda Meir very much along those lines.]

    "Then there’s Hamas’s truly sick role. Hamas has killed Gazans who work for the GHF. It has fired rockets at GHF facilities. Why? Because it is experiencing a calamitous financial crisis and is desperate to return to the old system where it creamed profits off the UN-led aid system. Last week, in one of the vanishingly few informative pieces about the Gaza crisis, the Washington Post reported that Hamas’s coffers are almost entirely depleted, meaning it can ‘no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters’. The GHF, by monopolising the distribution of aid, has been a key cause of Hamas’s ‘revenue tumble’. So Hamas furiously targets the GHF, even where that means it becomes more difficult for the GHF to distribute food."

    "The Israelophobes of the Western establishment have dutifully played their part in Hamas’s despicable morality play and pointed a collective finger of judgement at the Jewish nation. They have obediently marshalled the hungry of Gaza to the end of further criminalising Israel. They are recklessly incentivising Hamas’s barbarism. Hamas now knows that dystopic images of hunger work to its apocalyptic advantage. In using the nightmarish vision of Gazan hunger to further harry the Jewish State, the West’s media elites witlessly goad Hamas to further thwart Israel’s distribution of food. Once more, Israelophobia intensifies Palestinian suffering. "

  88. Musk’s X Blasts UK Government Over Online Safety Act Censorship

    Elon Musk’s X has attacked the UK government for threatening free speech and encouraging censorship with the implementation of the Online Safety Act. In a statement released this afternoon, the social media giant said:

    “To date, regulators have taken a heavy-handed approach by rapidly increasing enforcement resources, adding layers of bureaucratic oversight and signaling an aggressive approach to ensuring compliance. Instead of specifically and collaboratively addressing a problem everyone agrees needs to be solved, many are now concerned that a plan ostensibly intended to keep children safe is at risk of seriously infringing on the public’s right to free expression.

    This risk is not a surprise to the UK government. When lawmakers approved these measures, they made a conscientious decision to increase censorship in the name of “online safety.” It is fair to ask if UK citizens were equally aware of the trade-off being made.”

    The company goes on to say that “without a more balanced, collaborative approach, free speech will suffer“, and the government’s timetable for meeting mandatory implementation measures “has been unnecessarily tight“. Just yesterday, the Act caused a benign, parodic image of Keir Starmer’s head on a baby’s body to be blocked entirely from X…

    Read the full statement below:

    1 August 2025 @ 15:37

    Professor Barbie
    35m
    Remember kids, protecting children is such an integral part of the government's policy that they refuse to have an inquiry into decades-long gang-related organised CSA.

  89. Wordle No. 1,504 4/6

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  90. More social engineering: From https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ez3v9v8jqo
    Civil service interns must be working class, government says
    Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.
    Not focus on quality or expertise, just on someone's savings.
    Interestingly, the BBC website now insists that I have an account, and sign in.

      1. Odd that, when one considers that the secondary modern/grammar school system, along with the 11+, O and A Levels, and of course assisted place schemes, were put in place by Attlee's government in order to make sure talent was identified and nurtured.

        3. It is indeed odd. Bearing in mind though that Attlee's administration was quite Right-wingish (for Labour) when compared with the Left-wing detritus that the Labour Party has progressively plunged into in the time since then.

      4. Ey opp, Grizz! That was behind the drive to abolish grammar schools; it allowed bright, working class children to rise above their station. Can't have that.

    3. If a large company in the private sector declared that it would only employ people who had been privately educated in independent private schools schools what would left wing politicians say?

      1. See if you can slip my youngest in.. he'll be back from his gap year in Peru around Christmas.

      2. I think I prefer this to employing people based on what shade of brown they are though. At least a lot of white bits will get a shot at working in the tedium and dissonance that is the civil service. And a nice unfunded pension to boot.

    4. I don't think it's even savings that define the working class. It's education, background, speech and appearance. They want chavs that can't string a sentence together (togevver?) and don't know how to be assured in social situations. Those were the marks of the working class when I was growing up.

      1. They don't mean "working class". They mean brainwashed people, dependent on the Big State, who will always toe the Party Line.

        The working class is a completely different beast now.

    5. So, how do they define “working class” (when they can’t even define who a working person is)?

  93. 'Night All
    Blood Pressure need a boost??
    "Almost one million NHS “free passes” have been given out to asylum seekers in the last five years.

    The HC2 certificates give low-income residents the right to freebies not afforded to most of the public, including free prescriptions, dental care, eye tests, wigs, and discounts for glasses, contact lenses, and travelling to and from appointments.

    But new data released by the NHS Business Services Authority under freedom of information laws, reveal that the majority – 59 per cent – of the 1.56 million issued across the UK in the last five years, 920,199 were awarded to asylum seekers.

    Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said the figures “are another illustration of the costs of illegal immigration”.

    “Those crossing the Channel invariably claim asylum, and then receive housing, bills paid, free money and full healthcare – despite never having paid a penny in tax and having entered the country illegally,” he said. “No wonder illegal immigrants from across Europe are flocking to the UK.”

    1. Philp is correct, Rik – and so are many other politicians who say similar. What are they going to do about it, and when? Perhaps they will say 'ECHR', we can't leave it because embedded in NI Agreement' as I've heard too many times previously. If that's true, they may as well just shut up and go away. Or do something about it.

  94. Stephen Pollard
    The Charity Commission’s laughable approach to radical Islam
    1 August 2025, 6:35am
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/iStock-172309014.jpg?resize=1536,1021
    It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally realised the purpose of the Charity Commission. I’d always thought its role was to regulate charities – to check that they comply with their charitable aims (and with the law) and then to take action if they don’t.

    But it’s finally dawned on me that the real purpose of the Charity Commission is satire. Once you realise that the Charity Commission exists in fact to satirise how pathetically weak we are in the face of radical Islam then everything falls into place – especially its otherwise inexplicably pathetic response to the hate preaching that is commonplace in mosques up and down the country.

    On Wednesday, the Charity Commission issued a press release over its action in response to two mosques which it found had promoted ‘inflammatory and divisive’ language. Let’s look at one of them, the Mosque and Islamic Centre of Brent. As the Commission put it, it ‘opened a case after concerns were raised in the media about speeches held at the charity’s premises. The sermons were promoted on the speaker’s social media channel.’

    In November and December 2023 Sheikh Babikir Ahmed Babikir gave a series of sermons in which he said that ‘any Muslim who speaks against the Palestinians, any Muslim who stands against even Hamas, you are a hypocrite.’

    In another sermon he compared the proscribed terrorist organisation with Nelson Mandela, saying he was ‘shocked’ when asked about Hamas at a meeting: ‘I said to the person that was asking me, “what did you used to think of Mandela?” … Yesterday he was a terrorist but tomorrow he’s the best leader in the world.’

    Discussing the ‘Gaza mujahideen’ in a sermon on 29 December 2023, he said: ‘These are people whom Allah has chosen, Allah has empowered. They make their own weapons, with the least they have, with all the difficulties in front of them, and they are managing to destroy the most hardest, advanced weapon man be proud of… Your job and my job is to support them and to help them.’

    As for Zionists: they plot to ‘control the world’ by manipulating banks, media organisations and regimes. They are in league with the Dajjal – which in Islamic theology is an evil false prophet like the Antichrist: ‘Zionism is like a political party, preparing for the Dajjal to come to rule the world, and their main function is to make sure that all the organs of states across the world and the national and international bodies will be in their hold. They hold the media, they hold all the financial institutions, they control a lot of the political regimes around the world and once they have that they will try to control the world.’

    In another sermon he said that Zionists bribe UK politicians to ‘use their false narrative and fabricated stories to push their agenda.’ They are, he said, ‘soldiers of the devil’. Videos of his sermons were then posted on YouTube.

    On Wednesday, over 18 months after its investigation began, the Charity Commission found that ‘of five speeches given at the charity’s premises in November and December 2023, four included inflammatory and divisive content, two contained content that could reasonably be interpreted as encouraging support of Hamas, a proscribed organisation, and one could be reasonably interpreted as discouraging worshippers from engaging with democratic processes.’ You don’t say.

    Let me hazard a guess that it took you all of a second to reach that same conclusion about the sermons. But for the Charity Commission, that was 18 months’ work. And that’s not even the most ludicrous aspect of all this.

    Wielding its big stick in response, to ensure that charities don’t spread hate (or, if we are being technical, don’t ‘have effective policies in place to manage risks related to speakers at the charity’, as the Commission put it), the Commission sanctioned the Mosque and Islamic Centre of Brent and another mosque, Central Oxford Mosque Society, which it said posted ‘graphic cartoons…just three days after the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. The Commission considered that the sharing of these cartoons could create community tensions in the context of the conflict in the Middle East.”

    The sanction for both? An official warning. Not just any warning, oh no, but an official one. That’s them told.

    Pathetic doesn’t even come close. Which is how I’ve realised what’s really going on. I refuse to believe that sentient, intelligent humans can seriously think that the way to deal with radical Islamic preachers and the mosques that host them is to tell them they’ve been naughty and ask them not to do it again.

    So it simply has to be satire – and a rather brilliant one at that, since it unambiguously exposes how, as a nation, we refuse to act against the preachers who turn our freedoms against us and who use the platforms we give them to spread their poison. Well done, Charity Commission. Superb work.

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

    Septic Sceptic
    10 hours ago
    The Charity Commission is a quango. Quangos are stuffed with lefties. The left are in love with Islam. It really is that simple.

    Spectator User Septic Sceptic
    10 hours ago
    . . . Perhaps they think they will be left alone in the islamic takeover, it will cut no ice though, as they are still kaffirs. Hence, they are like turkeys voting for Christmas

    Mark F. Nowland Spectator User
    10 hours ago edited
    It’s worse. As liberals in an ultra conservative Caliphate, it’s the leftists that’ll be marched off the NCP first. They’re just too thick to understand that.

    Bill Rees
    9 hours ago
    Sheikh Babikir Ahmed Babikir is free to continue preaching hatred while Lucy Connolly festers in jail.
    In what sort of ridiculous society could that happen?
    And no doubt any criticism of this evil man will in future be regarded as islamophobic.

    2. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “Hate not Hope”.

      And that Fulani woman.

      And the Batmanjelly woman.

      And thousands upon thousands of others.

      The scamming in the charity sector is unbelievable.

  95. That's me gone. Just back from arranging 100+ jigsaws in the church for a mini-fête tomorrow. Plus CDs. Plus "games"….

    As soon as that ends, we'll be off to Wiltshire (in the rain) for THE wedding on Sunday. Back Monday.

    Have a jolly evening and weekend.

    A mardi.

      1. A good thwacking with their night sticks seems to have had the desired effect. Good on the by stander who floored the madman.

          1. I am generally anti violence, but I'm now at the point that, yes, I would happily shoot the animals

        2. There is no doubt about the perpetrator, should be treated the same as rabid animals.

          1. He would certainly, and happily, kill you and me, if given the opportunity.

            Rule one of violence:

            get your retaliation in first!

    5. Of course he’s been granted legal aid. Why wouldn’t he be?

      You wouldn’t ge5 it. I wouldn’t get it. But an illegal immigrant who’s paid nothing into the system – well, he deserves it.

  98. Just arrived home…….knackered but we had a good day. It stayed dry apart from a few spots in the afternoon but it was pretty windy. Will post a few photos later.

    1. "If Labour are still in power sosraboc predicts there will be no need for airports…"

      1. I recall back under Wilson/Callaghan, Labour was contemplating not allowing university graduates to leave the country and not allowing emigrants to take any money out of the country, what with all the moaning about the brain drain. We were very relieved when the bank said our application to move funds to the US was approved.

        So, no-one should be surprised if they try to pull that dtunbt again.

        Interestingly enough even at that time of economic chaos in Britain, the pound was a lot stronger against the dollar than it is today – around $2.10 IIRC.

    1. Don’t they only cut off their hands if they steal from their fellow Mohammedans? It seems to be acceptable to do as they please with everyone else.

      2. They are allowed to do almost anything to "unbelievers". Plus there is no requirement to tell the truth to an unbeliever, even under oath. A medieval cult at best.

  101. Off topic.
    Apologies for rubbing it in but NHS, envy of the world, I don't think so.

    Week one of my French healthcare treatment.
    Every appointment started at the time given. ON THE DOT, one could set ones watch by it.

    Hospital transport there and back was like being a VIP.
    They picked me up at home and were waiting by the door of the hospital to take me home after every session. One driver was a whole minute late, having had to collect some paperwork, apologised as if I had actually noticed, I hadn't.

    I'm hoping it will continues for the next four weeks.

    Two hours each time. The journey is roughly 30 miles each way!

      1. I hate to tell you.

        It's all covered by my French Carte Vitale, and to rub salt into your wound, the French re-bill it all to the NHS.

          1. The CV is similar to your NHS number.
            There is a reciprocal agreement that the UK pays France and France pays the UK for treatment for their citizens.
            I believe the NHS is so inefficient that they fail to do so for French treated in the UK

          3. When one looks at the numbers treated who have NO connection to the UK, have never paid a penny into the system, arrive, get treated, leave; what would one expect?

          4. The International Health Service. I can't get treatment without paying for it! What did they do with all the NICs I paid in while I was working? Spaffed them up the wall on people who didn't contribute.

          5. Yes I can believe that! I’m assuming it’s all a lot more difficult since Brexit?

          6. In most parts of our life in France Brexit has changed very little.

            There were lots of bureaucratic hoops to jump through, but once cleared one would hardly know Brexit had occurred.

          7. Not least because it hasn't! All that's happened is the paperwork has increased to make life difficult.

          8. I believe that the unions, specifically the BMA (those who continue to value pay rises that cannot be afforded above the human lives they are trusted to protect) have declared themselves to be above grubbing around for money from those not entitled to use their NHS without payment. Hence the International Health Service, funded by the British poor for the benefit of the whole world. Rainbows!

        3. I can confirm that this is correct, for those that doubt. The French health system works, even for expat Brits. It is wonderful and saves and values human lives. If only "the Envy" came close.

    2. An example of the sort of thing we have to deal with:

      Our appointments are usually 15min.
      On Wednesday I had to book an hour's appointment for a trans female, HIV and syphilis diagnosed, non-English speaking asylum seeker, staying in a local Holiday Inn who refuses to take his* meds.

      I have to say 'her' in work but bo**ocks to that.

      We have to pay for a taxi to ring him to clinic, otherwise he doesn't turn up
      We have to pay for interpreters for the appointment
      We have to have two chaperones because of his tendency to violence when he doesn't get what he wants.
      He is demanding contraception* and has made a formal complaint that we won't provide it saying he doesn't want to get pregnant and that we discriminate against trans women

      *I've suggested we fit a coil up his ….

      He is demanding private accommodation because he doesn't feel safe in the asylum hotel
      He has complained that our staff don't speak Spanish

      2. Horrific for you.

        I don't know, but I strongly suspect that here, he/she/it would be given VERY short shrift.
        Can't speaka da linga?
        Tough, bring an interpreter. You pay.
        Violence to hospital staff?
        Good luck with that; you'll need serious repair work after the police have dealt with you, just pray that it's not the same staff to treat you!
        Asylum hotel? ha ha ha.

        1. When I was passing through Alsace recently, I was told that there is an asylum hotel locally. Perhaps the hotels are only on the route up from the south?

          1. Around here there are certainly areas where it is obvious there are migrants/asylum seekers, but no hotels being used as in the UK ,as far as I’m aware.
            The number of Muslims has increased significantly in the 15+ years we’ve lived here.

      4. Further on from my earlier reply.
        My radiotherapy treatment itself only lasts about 5 minutes and they push the patients through almost as if it's a conveyor belt.
        You're called to the cubicle, strip off and head for the machine.
        You're then placed on the "slab", underpants down to your ankles, modesty towel applied, (dignity? forget it!) targeted and zapped. The equipment that revolves around you is very impressive.
        Once finished, off the slab, modesty towel off, pants up, and leave to dress in the cubicle.
        You go, next one replaces you.

          1. They certainly do.

            They are removing the paper sheet and spraying disinfectant on all the surfaces and wiping down, even before the patient has left the machine area. It is very impressive and highly professional.

      6. Can't you take the view that if said person does not turn up, tough?

        One of the normal things here is that if you miss a booked appointment, you will get charged for it – and insurance will not reimburse you..

        1. That would never happen here, Jack. Unless, of course, you are guilty of being a white taxpayer.

        2. Public health – you have to remember that third parties will be at risk too if he doesn’t take meds.
          It’s not like a broken leg which isn’t catching.

    1. The bitch who thought the idea of a debate to discus men's problems, including the huge and tragic suicide rate of young men, was so funny she burst out laughing in the parliamentary committee where it was proposed.

        2. Bull dyke with a nasty attitude. Would not like to meet her down a dark alley on a dark night.

          2. I had to look up polyphagia, KJ, but neither of those conditions excuse her nastiness

          3. Maybe excuse her bonkersness …brain starved or over fed. She’s definitely an odd one. I only know polyphagia because someone told me 🤣

      2. I remember that. She did actually laugh and jeer when the male suicide rate was mentioned. A bit like her sneers over the little girls industrially raped by her voter base. What a disgusting human being and what a disgrace to womanhood.

  103. Look at this carefully!

    Man charged after children fell ill at summer camp
    Jon Ruben, of Landmere Lane in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, has been charged with three counts of wilful ill treatment of a child, relating to three children. He has been remanded into custody and will appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Saturday.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/01/man-76-charged-after-children-fall-ill-at-leicestershire-summer-camp

    Very carefully and then look at this . VERY VERY STRANGE.

    READ the link below …

    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07021720/officers

    1. An old vet? The company was dissolved a year ago. What am I missing?

        1. Most peculiar.
          We mustn't comment because the man has been charged, but his cv indicates that he was a veterinary surgeon, followed by a career as a primary school teacher (less stress, or perhaps due to family circumstances).
          Still working at 76 indicates that he is not wealthy and/or enjoys working with children who come from a Christian background. I wonder if there were allergy / intolerance issues, eg dairy & peanuts.

          1. They certainly were not poisoned if they were discharged so quickly. If there was a chance of poisoning they would at the very least have kept them in for observation.

            Perhaps he made the curry too hot.

          1. Yeah, the more diversity we import, the stronger they get.
            Talk about a suicide wish…

  105. The garden this evening: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3384ec442faeb65b2996f01073e7ee1257adc79c4f27612926a5ba85ab3791e5.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a990b4824ce1b2046197c10b4f62f044a2bd122b5ee1c8222a34aa50fcddbfc.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e712e25f538776e53efe44a36f3012c657d40dedb81df0269c294b46a3b1098d.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ec05f40a6d6bcff313bb6f65dceb5066003ce4f7edb242f5eb94a81d457830e4.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9092df3d5b534ccf6ccd817836869c3e28dee4fe9d31245f0a6d31dc2e4ced41.jpg

    2. Beautiful.
      How do you get your pictures to feature?
      Whenever I try, I get a message that there are too many something or others to allow it to upload

      1. Disqus won’t let you upload pictures above 5 megabytes so I have to edit them by trimming the edges off.

        1. That's actually a relief.
          I've been forced to do that, but even so, your pictures are much, much clearer than my posts.
          I would love to have been able to give them same level of detail for my orchids.

      1. We are no longer united and our supposed King is in thrall to evil, hostile foreign interests. We are governed by lying traitors. We've had it.

      2. The Left have burrowed in, via teacher training and education in general. When all the teaching staffs and faculties are left wing, they turn out left wing graduates. Don't ask me why Britain should be so afflicted, but it is certainly not like that in the US.

        The life lesson our kids come out of school with is, No Workee, No Money.

      3. The Left have burrowed in, via teacher training and education in general. When all the teaching staffs and faculties are left wing, they turn out left wing graduates. Don't ask me why Britain should be so afflicted, but it is certainly not like that in the US.

        The life lesson our kids come out of school with is, No Workee, No Money.

  107. Message to Sue Edison:
    I apologise for my French health service posts, particularly as I'm acutely aware of how much better you would be treated here in France.
    We have friends here in a very similar situation to you.
    They get nurses/carers on call, visits three times a day to change dressings, clear stitches, and anything else needed.
    The rehabilitation homes/step down are available for everyone, they might be a few miles away from home but they try to minimise travel.

    What really saddens me from your posts is that the NHS appears to be letting you down.

    Good luck

    1. Actually, that's not very different from the way the NHS used to be. I remember when we had our kids (1969 and '72), the district nurse made regular calls to make sure all was well with mother and baby. Births occurred in the local maternity home and mothers and babies stayed in for a week to get their strength back.

      We had a neighbour who was a retired District Nurse who had dealt with lots of locals who were sick and/or had been injured. Hilarious stories she had to tell, needless to say.

      1. Yes Jack the same here .

        I had our children in 1969 and 1973, and the district nurse visited after I was discharged from hospital, and then the health visitor one up from the district nurse visited up until baby was a year .. to check on progress , growth and hearing , eyesight etc, and then there were also clinics to visit for first injections etc.

    2. Actually, that's not very different from the way the NHS used to be. I remember when we had our kids (1969 and '72), the district nurse made regular calls to make sure all was well with mother and baby. Births occurred in the local maternity home and mothers and babies stayed in for a week to get their strength back.

      We had a neighbour who was a retired District Nurse who had dealt with lots of locals who were sick and/or had ben injured. Hilarious stories she had to tell, needless to say.

    3. If the NHS have a bed, the surgery will be done by a top surgeon and the initial care will be top notch but then they’ll discharge me with a long list of directions that are simply not achievable living on my own in a tiny flat. The rule is that if you have £23k in savings, nursing home convalescent care is “self-funding”. The place in Kensington where I’ve been offered a place is swanky but pricey. I figure I need three weeks there so that I get past the night and day pain killer period with assistance. I may decide that I like being there but long term that isn’t viable.

      1. May the Lord be with you, Sue, and keep you safe. There will certainly be many appreciative well-wishers on here cheering you on xx

      2. It could be as bad as out Canadian health service.

        I actually managed to see my real doctor yesterday after maybe a year of locum stand ins. He spent time checking through the notes those temps had left – did you get this CT scan, did you get this test? Nope, not a word – they had made notes, not mentioned the recommended tests and just left me hanging.

        Half an hour with him and I now have two CT scans, an ultrasound and a corticosteroid scheduled.

        I believe that I am supposed to be thankful

  108. Other than the ice cream tubs filled with blackberries, not a lot done today.
    Off to a railway event at the Litchurch Lane carriage works tomorrow that t'Lad's got tickets for, so I'm off to bed.
    Goodnight all.

    1. The ongoing issue is that all the sproggs wil be in thrall to allah (pbuh) who enabled them gain the house for free. The taxpayer can run and take a jump for all they care. Nice car by the way, I expect one of the claims a PIP.

    2. The ongoing issue is that all the sproggs wil be in thrall to allah (pbuh) who enabled them gain the house for free. The taxpayer can run and take a jump for all they care. Nice car by the way, I expect one of the claims a PIP.

      1. 410533+ up ticks,

        Morning A,

        I have a strong feeling that foreign elements are being housed in social housing properties ahead of
        any indigenous waiting lists.

        1. Quite possible, but this particular story was entirely fabricated. The family has actually claimed asylum and are living in Canada. The picture was photoshopped.

      1. 410533+ up ticks,

        Morning LiR,

        Seemingly a put up job via photo shopped but my post still stands regarding foreign elements gaining social housing ahead of the social housing indigenous waiting list.

      1. 410533+ up ticks,

        S,
        I posted same to A, photo shopped, still doesn’t alter the fact that foreign elements are being housed prior to indigenous on the social housing waiting list.

        1. I agree with the principle that it’s wrong to give them so much when “natives” get nothing like as much.
          But the fact the picture is untrue undermines the point.

  112. Well, chums, it's "Bedtime for Bonzo" as a former US President used to say in one of his Hollywood films. So I wish you all a Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all early tomorrow morning.

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