Saturday 20 September: Trump is right to say that Britain should make the most of its own energy reserves

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  3. busy old day yesterday. I drove 2 1/2 hours up the M40 up to my folks’ at the crack of dawn and did my nine-hour work day. At lunchtime my daughter and her boyfriend – who had hoped to be cycling in France, long story, spoiler alert – they were back in Southampton- decided to come up to the Midlands and stay. She has brought a whole of grapes to take to the vineyard at Halfpenny Green (Bobbington): you give your grapes, they collectivise them and sell you bottles of the collective wine next year for £4.50. They are going to the airport (Bobbington); maybe to the Black Country Museum, ,maybe Ironbridge, maybe Bridgnorth, depending on time, weather etc. the boyfriend is a Londoner so doesn’t know the Midlands at all.

    My mum and dad and I are going to Dublin via Holyhead, and wending our way down to Killarney and then back to Pembroke via Rosslare. A quick trip to Yeovilton to the Fleet Air Arm Museum where we have an appointment with the archivist at 10:30 on Thursday. A very busy week!

    1. Good morning LIR

      Looks as if you are going to have an energetic week ahead.

      Me just being nosey, why are you visiting the archivist at the FAA museum? Do you have some interesting photos?

  4. Saturday letters:

    Police with guns

    SIR – Like David Platts (Letters, September 19), I carried a firearm during my police service. I was in the Metropolitan Police.

    Unfortunately Mr Platts, who believes there should be more armed officers, has underplayed a very important point. The fact is that the professional standards of a significant number of Met officers render them totally unsuitable to carry firearms.

    Frederick Crowley
    Bishops Nympton, Devon
    ________________________________________

    SIR – On six tours of Northern Ireland I never left a base without being armed. Most of the time I carried an assault rifle. I'm sure it did not endear me to local populations – but, in exclusively hard republican areas, I don't think they were very fond of me anyway.

    There are plenty of places in this country where the job of the police is not about being popular and creating a jolly rapport with the public: it's about preventing hardened criminals from committing murder, theft, assault and drug-running. If officers need to be armed in order to feel safe and deter criminals, we should not hesitate to equip them accordingly.

    When I see an armed officer (normally at an airport), I see a decent human being doing their [sic] job and keeping me safe.

    Colonel Mark Rayner (retd)
    Eastbourne, East Sussex
    ___________________________________________________________

    Disunited Right

    SIR – I could not disagree more with Christopher Baker (Letters, September 17), who defends Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives. He suggests that they alone will support businesses, deal with immigration, and enforce law and order – but these three themes feature heavily in Reform UK's plans.

    Mr Baker appears to have convinced himself that the Conservative Party he describes is completely different from the one that failed in government for 14 years. Having voted Conservative all my adult life, last year I joined Reform. Danny Kruger was right to do the same.

    Jack Hay
    Tunbridge Wells, Kent

    ________________________________________

    SIR – I am president of the Conservative Society at a Russell Group university.

    The freshers' fair stall that I ran last year only managed to attract six people. This year we presented ourselves as Tory and Reform UK together, with a larger emphasis on Reform, and easily attracted 60.

    We later received a phone call from Conservative Campaign Headquarters, complaining about our favourable treatment of Reform – the first time CCHQ has ever taken an interest in us.

    A lot of people came over to debate with us, which I enjoyed. A few were rather hostile, though to some extent we had expected this.

    I am desperate to maintain a space for students on the Right of politics. My sense is that the only way I can do this is by shifting towards Reform UK. I think it's only a matter of time before Conservative societies go extinct at British universities – and we may hasten the Tories' demise unapologetically, because they have let us down.

    Henry Bateson
    Alnwick, Northumberland

    1. When I was younger (I'm a war baby), the arming of police never even occurred to us..Armed police were for uncivilised countries.

      4. Watching how police deal with crowds, especially when The National flags are flown, I would not trust them with a water pistol.

    2. Hurrah for Henry Bateson.

      “people came over to debate with us”.

      If i were 35 or so years younger, I would seek him out and marry him.

  7. Good grief, Geoff, your alarm clock seems to be out of kilter these days! Anyhow, I am now off to bed, and hope to see you all tomorrow morning.

    PS – I just got a Par with Wordle: 4/6. And, incidentally, congratulations to everyone on here who got yesterday's (Friday's) Wordle. I did try to upvote you all but was unable to do so. Perhaps not surprising since several posts kept being repeated by Discus – once it even happened five times.

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  8. My word some people are up early…. I had to go to the loo and then open the bedroom window it's so warm….or is it just me.? 😊😉

    1. Some good news at last!
      As long as Starmer and Milliband stay in power, Britain will be the last refuge of the self harmers.

    2. Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
      Reg: Fuck off! 'Judean People's Front'. We're the People's Front of Judea! 'Judean People's Front'.
      Francis: Wankers.

    3. Who is backing this financially ?
      No political creatures on this earth will do anything at all unless they have financial support. Greed and power motivates all of them.

  13. Good morning all , another mild morning , last mild Autumn weather of the year before real Autumn appears later .

    The Lib Dem weather looks fine in Bournemouth , what will they say when the beach below them fills with trouble , as has been happening recently.

    Bad night here , Moh woke up yelling with cramp in his leg.

    Is it true that Britain is a failing state with a strong Muslim incursion, I guess it is .

    4. Ovaltine helps before bed. Drink sufficient water during day…tea/coffee/alcohol (the drinks we like) all dehydrating.

  14. Good morning all.
    A better nights sleep despite being up 3 times to pump bilges.
    A tad under 16°C, dry and overcast with light mist in trees up the valley side.

      1. Starmer has been obeying the WEF since his days as a budding Human Rights/immigration lawyer. Many people would like to see him taking his cues from USA. I doubt he will.

        1. From the EC, which is where he's headed. Witness the meeting with Tusk. Is Burnham making a move…or not….

  18. From the DT's Peterborough column:

    Jagger’s pension
    Film producer Laurence Myers, 89, who worked as an accountant for both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, once offered pensions advice to a young Mick Jagger. “Laurence, I’m not going to be singing rock ’n’ roll when I’m 60,” the singer told him. Myers was also an early financial backer of David Bowie, he told The Jewish Chronicle. The singer was apparently taken by a sign on Myers’ desk. “Art For Art’s Sake – Money For F—’s Sake,” it said.

    Morning Folks….

  20. Good morning. I think I slept a bit more last night than the night before. Woke up stiff and achey but sitting up now and feeling better. Dreams were on a familiar theme last night. Catching trains and finding I’m going in the wrong direction.

    2. 'morning x…sound to be gaining on it, old yoga saying 'listen to your body'…(I can't sleep at all without a hot water bottle :-D)

  21. Tomato tip
    SIR – I have never tried cooking green tomatoes (Letters, September 17). In my experience, however, if you wrap them individually in newspaper and put them in a cardboard box in a warm room, they gradually ripen over the coming weeks, providing a steady supply.

    Derek Cheeseman
    Broadstone, Dorset

    Tomatoes ripen in a drawer or a brown paper bag.

        1. True – there are a lot this year. We have several of the beaded gauze coverings in various sizes that the ladies make in Kenya. They are great for keeping the flies off.

  22. National Trust gardeners ‘forced out after clash over values’

    Managers claim some of group’s behaviour did not align with ‘inclusive culture’ but gave no examples

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/09/19/TELEMMGLPICT000440821402_17582883113880_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRo0U4xU-30oDveS4pXV-Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=1280
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/19/national-trust-gardeners-forced-out-after-clash-over-values

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    Richard Procter
    13 hrs ago
    perhaps management noticed that the volunteers turned up on time and worked hard, which as we know are both symbols of white supremacy

    Howard Long
    12 hrs ago
    Reply to Richard Procter
    “To promote inclusivity, we’re excluding you”.

    Orwell would be so proud.

    2. They're all white and experienced gardeners so obviously racist, to be replaced by young Jamaicans growing/smoking ganga…..

  23. Visit to the vet yesterday, with Big Cat, as follow-up to his tooth extraction s feew weeks ago. He's lost a lot of weight and become thin, as he couldn't eat cat biscuits with his bad teeth. Ultrasound reveals kidney stones and there's possibly something else. He's now on three times the ration of wet cat food o try & build him up a bit. But, he's old for a big cat, but still lovely, if bony. Poor old boy, hopefully he'll pick up with feeding and drugs.

    1. You can add a little water to the bikkies to soften them. Also cooked veg like carrots and cooked rice mixed in to the wet food.

        1. Only nine? But I guess that's a good age for his breed. Our little Ziggy, of indeterminate age but possibly about 12, is drinking more water, which indicates her kidneys are getting stressed. She's in good health though so I won't trouble her with a visit to the vet just yet.

          1. It's a tough call, I've had a dog (or more usually dogs) since pre-school. Smaller dogs generally live longer. Don't know about cats, but next door neighbour had a b&w one (not pedigree) to 21. Pets give comfort in times of stress, hope similar for you x

          3. Our two cats were a gift from my Mother to her grandsons, before she lost her marbles and had to move to a care home. Both Forest cats, Little is orange and white, and weghed less, whilst Big is grey & white, and used to be really meaty. When Firstborn moved out, he didn't take Big with him, as then Little would be alone (they grew up together), so we kept both at home. Second Son moved out about 2 years ago to an apartment block, so cats weren't practical – result: we have both of the furries still.
            Meanwhile, Firstborn has got himself the smallest ever farm cat with a purr like a tractor, so called Purrkins…

    3. Yo Ol

      You are fulfilling your position, of being his servant, very well.

      When three cats had us, we would try very hard to make sure they were well, when new Land Rovers came out, as the Vet we used always seemed to need one

    4. 😿🐈‍⬛Fingers crossed for the big lad, Paul.

      Ours goes back to the vet tomorrow to check up on his teeth.

      1. He’s 9. Lost about 4kg weight over the last months, now his teeth are removed, he’s eating like it’s going out of fashion. Poor old cat, he’s skin n bone, but the improved appetite is very encouraging.

        1. Very much so. Teeth/gums likely painful, if infected likely affect digestion/stomach too. Good boy! My dog likes ‘cat’ food…fish ..but also chicken, beef/lamb bit too difficult for her to eat but she laps up the gravy. Little of what you fancy etc…:-D

          1. Gave him 4 sachets of cat meat yesterday – first one, his favourite (the one that needs a bank loan to buy), thereafter ever-cheaper varieties.
            We'll see how damp cat biscuits fare today, but he's clearly feeling better, as he was desperate to go out into the weather (being an indoor & outdoor cat), so we'll see.

        2. Rumpole, our Boxer, weighed 35 kilos. He lost a third of his body weight out of grief when Chaucer, our cat, died.

          However the vet produced some canine Prozac and he finally put the weigh back on.

    2. Good morning m'Dear.
      Grey here with rain forecast later and I can't say I blame you for taking it easy after the worry, stress and boredom of yesterday.

    3. Is John feeling better today? Hope there is treatment for the infection. You must both be feeling exhausted?

      1. We slept well I think but we’ll have a quiet day today. He had a week’s course of antibiotics for the infection but I was worried yesterday because it seemed dementia had set in overnight and he really wasn’t himself. The A & E doctor was great – she was very thorough with various checks both physical and verbal for his responses and she came back after checking his blood samples which showed an infection had been present.
        The Dr surgery told me yesterday that the urine sample came back clear but I guess that’s not as sensitive as a blood test.

        1. Take a rest if you can, Jules. These things are very stressful… nothing puts my bloodpressure up as when SWMBO is unwell for whatever reason.
          I'll keep my fongahs croxxed for you both.

          1. Good clean cider helps… reduces the pain, as well as hydrating and encouraging the flushing of toxins.

        3. It was a blood test that confirmed MB's infection.
          I had had my suspicions for a good fortnight beforehand, but there's none so deaf as …. well, the deaf.

  25. Good Morning!

    If there's one Islamic word most of know it's taqiyya, and we all think we know what it means. However, in The Trouble With Taqiyya Maryam Gholami gives a patriotic British Muslim’s perspective on it. You might be surprised.

    This month the US military has killed fourteen people by hitting their boats with missiles in international waters off Venezuela breaking all the laws of the sea. In Pirates Of The Caribbean , Has The US Gone Rogue we look at those laws and the implications of the US acting like the Houthis in the Red Sea. Please let us know if you think the Trump administration is justified in carrying out many see as murder on the high seas. (Most of you do!!!)

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's average power requirement was 30.1 GW, sourced from Gas, 23.2%; Solar, 3.4%: Wind 34%; Imports, 15.4%; Biomass, 8.4%; Nuclear 8.4% and Miscellaneous, 3.4%.

  27. 413102+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Telegraph View
    Sir Keir’s catastrophic plan is a gift to Hamas
    The Prime Minister should take a moral stand against the terror group instead of pandering to the Left.

    The last time morality entered the equation was when M Thatcher (RIP) settled the Falklands issue.

    since then and her sad treacherous demise as PM, it has all been of a designed downhill nature, in the main party before Country with the three treasonable
    toxic parties forming a coalition.

    We are now witnessing the ultimate in terrorist leaders, no one, but no one can be so woefully inadequate without clever design and staged management via the WEF / NWO, with royal seal
    backing.

    1. There is more than one terror group operating in Gaza, and by no means Hamas is the most powerful and the most aggressive. That group of terrorists is eagerly supported militarily by the Special Relationship.

      Sovereign recognition of a UN protectorate seems about the only honourable course to follow.

      1. Yes. There's also the Al-Nasser Brigade, Al-Aqsa Martyrs, and of course Al-Quds. An awful lot of vermin to be eliminated by Israel. I take it you mean Iran by "Special Relationship" when you are talking of terrorists. The same ones who massacred more than 1,300 Syrians in just 72 hours in March and the hundreds of Druze murdered in April. Thank God the Israelis stepped in and fought for them otherwise thousands would have been massacred.

        1. You mean the terrorists that have massacred more than 50,000, nearly all innocents and including women, children, medics and journalists (presumed all to be “vermin”), in less than two years? When I talk of a ‘Special Relationship’, I think of the one that was splendidly celebrated over the last week in my own country, and has the military and financial support of a nation many times more powerful and richer than Iran or even Britain. Tomorrow, I attend a family party in North London shamefully associated ethnically and religiously with these terrorists, but like Basil Fawlty I shall endeavour not to mention the war. It is not their doing.

          You are right though, there are more than two terrorist groups operating in the region, but none as powerful as the one to which I refer.

          Most nations, including my own, can claim a bloody civil war in their history. None of these are pleasant, and all involve massacres of human “vermin”, be they on the side of God, or of the Devil. Most nations get over it – ask anyone from Rwanda or Cambodia whether they still live in fear of their lives.

          1. Someone who is dimwitted enough to believe false figures given out by Hamas really should not be commenting. Those of us who do know something about Islam from first hand experience know very well that it is par for the course for them to lie in order to gain sympathy. As for the professional frauds in Gaza who have been given more than 2 Billion in aid from the USA alone, never mind the other billions from various contributors, they deserve all they get for being professional parasites since the founding of Israel and the Arabs slumming it, literally, in refugee camps since then. We only did a little genocidal massacre on October 7th. What's the fuss?

            As for people from Rawanda, Don't know any. As for people from Cambodia, I have known quite a few. That was a real massacre perpetuated by a left wing government infected with the very disease I mentioned above. The disease of Socialism which seems to perpetuate and try its best to maximise human misery wherever it gets a footing. A disease supported by wet individuals like you. The bleeding hearts who perpetuate this sort of thing by refusing to deal with reality. See a "starving" child with a well nourished mother and you will shovel money into the fire perpetuating the cycle of, idiot liberals will pay.

          2. Hamas stops Gazans from leaving, using them as human shields.
            Hamas thinks dead women, children and medics, caused by Hamas' actions, is excellent propaganda.
            Hamas steals aid.
            Hamas would kill every Jew in Israel.
            Hamas has never honoured ceasefires.
            Israel warns Gazans about where they are proposing to attack
            Israel does what little it can to get aid to Gazans without Hamas interfering.
            Israel treats non Jewish Israeli citizens, even Muslims, with decency and respect

            Morfey would choose Hamas over Israel.

            Enough said.

      2. Yes. There's also the Al-Nasser Brigade, Al-Aqsa Martyrs, and of course Al-Quds. An awful lot of vermin to be eliminated by Israel. I take it you mean Iran by "Special Relationship" when you are talking of terrorists. The same ones who massacred more than 1,300 Syrians in just 72 hours in March and the hundreds of Druze murdered in April. Thank God the Israelis stepped in and fought for them otherwise thousands would have been massacred.

  28. If you've got £55 to spare, perhaps, you'd like to join along with 20,000 others Zarah Sultana's new party.
    One problemo.
    Jezza says it's not the official web site, and she's run off with the £1,1 million. LOL

        2. A month ago, I proposed setting up an alternative Loony Party, since the Top Hat official monsters were getting far too sensible, and more concerned with going to Glastonbury than being truly silly. I even came up with a draft manifesto, and not to be accused of usurping the leadership, the Leader would be renewed annual and elected Best in Show at Crufts in March. The March of Progress.

          I am now considering an appeal for subscriptions. £50 notes would do nicely. Look for the bearded fellow singing in a concert around Worcester. I have deep pockets.

          2. Indeed. It was in my manifesto to make pointed hats mandatory for anyone in positions of authority.

      3. In fairness it has not really collapsed just yet. Sultana is saying she has been subjected to a "sexist boys club". Fancy that.

  29. I feel a bit chuffed today. My sister-in-law E moved into her new house yesterday after months of delays. Ten years ago she had an acrimonious split from the bloke she lived with, M – in his large house. It was agreed that the house would be sold, and E would get half the equity. That would enable her to buy a very small house with a mortgage. When that was paid off, she'd have a house but not much savings.

    I suggested a different idea. That E bought M out and kept the house. She had a good salary and was able to fund a large mortgage – though it was tight. The upshot is that this morning, she woke for the first time in her new, modern, eco-friendly house – all paid for, no debt or mortgage – plus £120,000 in the bank. She has stopped working full time – and on Monday her new university pension starts. She is pleased! I am chuffed.

      1. The former partner got exactly what he would have got had the house been sold. He lost nothing by the deal.

          1. It was he who left for another woman. . He who wanted to sell the house. He who was well off. He had no family. He did very well out of the deal – getting exactly what he wanted.

        1. Bill ,

          I wish the advice you gave to me a few years ago re equity release being a bad idea , had been taken on board by Moh , yep seriously anxious me re all the drop in house prices etc

          I think that was the reason I developed a TIA a few years ago, I am a natural worrier

    5. I was the opposite with my first – I got everything but lost it all in a bad business deal aided by dodgy lawyers

  30. Well that bit of morning exercise got a bit sweaty!
    4 x bags filled with sand and, along with half a dozen blocks hoiked up onto the wood shelter roof, then carried up to the worksite.
    In two minds whether to get the mixer going or not as the forecast is for heavy rain in a couple of hours and I do not want to get caught in it with half a mix of mortar to use up.
    Mug of tea is brewing so off to sort that out.

  31. I was watching an episode of Roberta Leigh's puppet series 'Space Patrol, which I last saw when I was seven. It was about an automated defence cannon that had gone rogue and had to be destroyed. All standard sci-fi fare.

    Over breakfast, I was thinking about First Contact with aliens, eager to respect human protocol and to respect host cultural traditions. They would take their cue from observed human behaviour. Would their first words be to us "take me to your leader' or even "live long and prosper"

    What would happen if they, or more to the point an artificial intelligence from Earth, programmed to take their behaviour by observing and analysing humans, landed in Gaza and were duly instructed in the correct protocol when interacting with neighbours?

      1. Something for the pub quizzers here.

        What is the London building that appears both in the closing credits of ‘Space Patrol’ (when it was still under construction) and in the Thames TV logo?

      2. I can remember nearly every programme on telly in the 1950s and 1960s but, for some reason, that one passed me by.

        I do remember Roberta Leigh's other programmes though, especially Torchy: The Battery Boy, which she made along with Gerry Anderson before they parted ways.

    2. Simple answer. If a cosmic intelligence was able to land in Gaza. It would obviously be intelligent enough to land in other places in order to get an equitable picture of life on earth.It would then come to the conclusion that one of the imperatives on earth would be to eliminate Islam and its poisonous influence, along with Communism and the fellow travellers of both those ideological nihilistic systems.

      1. Would a cosmic intelligence know what Islam was, unless it was instructed by whoever in a head covering got there first?

        1. I would assume an intelligence with the ability to travel the galaxy or somewhere else in the universe would have the capacity to gather information needed almost instantaneously considering that the advance in human made computers are very close to having that ability already. It would not need to be told it would seek out the information itself from start to finish and in all aspects that have existed and do exist.

  32. See bigots.. Labour really is working.

    Clever stuff. Posh progressives in posh progressive Hampstead & Highgate perpetually vote in Tulip Siddiq who does nothing about latest crime wave craze of stealing expensive parcel shelf from parked Audis & Mercs.
    It's a self perpetuating crime. Victims can buy back own parcel shelf off ebay for next day delivery.

    However the Police are on the case.. MetEngage, an online service says.. 'It is sensible to park in sight of a camera, if available, and one possible way to beat the current spate could be to keep parcel shelves indoors for a few weeks and of course not to leave anything valuable in your car.'

    See.. Labour's: Get Britain working. & Labour: Tough on Crime.

  34. Morning all again 🙂😊🤗
    Grey warmish and rain later.
    Number ones 46th birthday today, born in Adelaide after 10 hours in hospital.
    Back to almost reality. Home again, a lovely feeling. Yesterday morning just after daybreak two 15 stone each, aggressively loud African nurses came on to our ward of four white elderly gents, saying they were going to be checking our whole bodies for skin infections especially in the groin area's.
    I told them to go away. I'd only been in there for 3 nights. And they had wanted to make the same checks when I arrived.
    WTF is all that about ? Another way to humble white people to show that they are not as important in their own minds and their own country?

    1. How demeaning. I have to say the Indian nurses who looked after us yesterday were very good and kind.
      I bet you're glad to be home. I was worried they'd keep John in but the doctor was great ( after a long wait) and very thorough and she gave us the all clear to go home.

      1. I was given two swabs while on the ward and told to push one up each nostril and insert the other into my rectum – and be sure not to confuse the two!

          2. I remember dissecting a bull's eye.
            Very messy; very interesting.
            Usual girlie "yuks' from the wimps.

      2. Yes that’s been the usual process.
        Not virtual and forced intimidation.
        I wonder what happens when muslim women go into hospital.

  35. Good morning all. 'Tis a dark and stormy morning here. My first action of the morning is to let the cat out. Today, no thanks says he, I will just sprawl on the carpet.
    I'm listening to The President and the 'Festering Syphilitic Pustule, that took place at Chequers yesterday. I'm enjoying Trumps various backhanders that are obviously designed to increase the frauds discomfort. Very enjoyable. I thought I should listen to the press conference due to todays letter to the Telegraph. Certainly don't mind listening to The Exalted One, from the USA. But, jeez, listening to Gollum really grates on my nerves. But yes, along with Trump on suggesting what to do at the North sea, drill baby drill.

    And as for recognizing a Palestinian state. Only Islamic fanatics and truly malicious anti-Jewish Socialists want that. It is not a solution but a guarantee that Israel by attacked perpetually into the future by Islamists who simply can't except a Jewish state because of Islamic ideology. Best solution is Israel chucks out all the Palestinians and gets on with building a proper Jewish state out of Judea/Samaria, as it should. And level the Al Aqsa mosque while they are at it. That symbol of the lies that Islam perpetuates in order to falsely claim land.

    1. Funny – our first action is to let the cats IN! Having eaten (or not – according to their whim) they then sprawl across the floor exactly in the place where they cause the most inconvenience.

        1. Yes. They decided that was their preference four years ago. They have access to three beds in the porch where they are generally to be found at 7 am.

          1. My cat would be appalled at such treatment. Before he decided to adopt me as his provider, I think he was an out door cat who decided he had found a comfy home and was going to make the most of it. I think if I left him out at night he would disown me and go elsewhere.

          2. Our two are the offspring of two feral cats. Despite living with us from six weeks – they very much prefer their own company and to be outdoors. They do, of course, have a dozen comfortable places to sleep indoors – right now Gus is on the settee. Pickles, on the other paw, is in his comfortable bed in the porch. Apart from taking food from us, they seem not to care about human contact. A pity – because our last three cats were all "lapcats". If we disappeared, they would live quite happily in the vicinity. We are in deep countryside with plenty of prey available.

        2. Three old maids had a she cat
          Kept her indoors night and day
          Kept her away from the he cats
          Thought she'd like it better that way.
          Then one old maid went and got married
          Next morning to she hastened to write
          To the others which simply said
          Let Kitty out tonight!

          When I was a student the socially pretentious pseuds looked down their noses at Benny Hill and the Carry On films which I greatly enjoyed!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptqhjyykW0

    2. Trump tried to pretend that he thought Starmer had got the better of him in the new trade deal and praised his skill as a negotiator. Starmer squirmed with pleasure and clearly did not understand that Trump knows as well as everybody else that Starmer is by far the worst negotiator Britain has ever had.

      It is staggering that Starmer lacks all self-awareness. Trump may mispronounce the word irony (by saying eye-on-ee) but he knows how to use it against the hapless Starmer who is so out of touch that he does not notice.

    3. And as for recognising a Palestinian state……But think of that lovely muslim vote harvest to come!

    1. Even though I applaud her courage and her determination to talk lucidly and objectively about illegal immigration and the fact that Muslim rape gangs have thorough discredited the whole of Islam I wonder where she would stand in the final analysis were it to come to: Either Western values or Islam? She was born to Egyptian parents and is still a Muslim even though she is critical of the way many Muslims behave.

      She makes a very good point in this video: "If you were a terrorist or had a criminal record you would not eve attempt to come to Britain passing through the normal airports or ferry terminals where there are passport checks and controls. The only way for such people to come is by rubber dinghy."

      1. Why,m if they'd be returned for not having lawful reason to enter the country at the usual points are they not treated the same when they invade the country illegally?

        They're nothing but trouble. They have to be got rid of.

      1. I really don’t understand this Richard having replied several times to your similarly posed question before, my computer skills may have deserted me. Please let me know if this attempt succeeded?

        You refer to my 48’ Barens Sea Trader, cutter rigged ketch, a mid- life crisis from 2009, with which I had 10 wonderful years of escape from all of the craziness that ‘grown up’ living forces us into. A Caribbean island hopping lifestyle as the vessel’s name, Bimbling, suggests.

        See; bimbling.co.uk

        Now on the beach once again, despite rapidly advancing years still
        ‘Dreamin’n’schemin’

        Yours aye.

        Vince

  37. Good morning, all. Wet.

    Von Der Leyen planning to extract close to a €Trillion from EU citizens' savings for investment?

    https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1969107732541161699
    Over here in faux Brexit UK Reeves is contemplating using pension funds for "investment in Britain".

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    Two cheeks of the same arse vying to raid the people's wealth?

    2. I'm afraid it's all true. I've seen many financial 'models' where it is clear 'savings are considered bad'.. in an electric economy. Here are some current sound bites coming to & fro from those that will decide the fate of your do$h.

      Saving has the same effect as taxation – it slows down the economy.

      You just have to get over your hang up about 'borrowing' and realise that it is people 'saving' that is cause. Saving is always matched by an equivalent amount of 'borrowing' as a matter of accounting. That's why your bank account is in 'credit'.

      It really isn't something that should be encouraged – since it suffers badly from a fallacy of composition. A few people saving is great. Have a lot of people saving and you end up like Japan.
      "We need to start altering the discourse and the first candidates for change should be the phrases ‘taxpayers’ money’ and ‘government borrowing’. Taxpayers are not and never have been the source of currency. Similarly, government doesn’t borrow when it issues bonds; instead, it provides a safe place for us to store our savings."

      Primarily that is because people are saving too much.
      There is a belief that savings and investment equalise in an economy. They don't naturally without a depression destroying good capital.

        1. Funny you should say that.. that exact criticism has now been introduced & built into the next model.

          People need to feel safe. You have to accept people will stash & collect things and may not trust the system. Even though savings are bad. Confiscation is even worse.
          China is seeing a total breakdown in trust of the CCPs system and not bothering to be productive any more.

      2. This is the assumption from Lefty money theorists but it's fundamentally wrong.

        People deferring spending do so when the economy is in a slump, where they don't know what tomorrow brings, when they know, full well that prices will rise and times will get harder.

        The problem, in either case isn't people saving. It's state spending.

    3. Summary.

      Everybody knows that the neo-classical or neo-liberal model of economics is dangerously drawing to a close. (Warning shot across the bow.. The 2007 financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) or Panic of 2008).

      The next change will be as dramatic as the last one when Bretton Woods collapsed in March 1971.
      Some will be ahead of the game. One thing you can be sure of.. socialists just like Jim Callaghan's Labour govt.. will be clueless and convinced it signals the end of capitalism.

    4. Summary.

      Everybody knows that the neo-classical or neo-liberal model of economics is dangerously drawing to a close. (Warning shot across the bow.. The 2007 financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) or Panic of 2008).

      The next change will be as dramatic as the last one when Bretton Woods collapsed in March 1971.
      Some will be ahead of the game. One thing you can be sure of.. socialists just like Jim Callaghan's Labour govt.. will be clueless and convinced it signals the end of capitalism.

      1. 😉

        If so, then where will the money be invested wasted, do you think? Filling black holes as tax revenue falters, Ukraine, HMOs, carbon capture machines etc.? The list will be quite long.

    6. A sniff of the government raiding people's savings and the Germans, Austrians and eastern Europeans will rush to put all their savings into gold. Germans still have the folk memory of Weimar, and to this day, more German citizens have a stash of gold than any other European country.

    3. I still have to get mine planted…….. might not be today though. I was going to do them yesterday.

      1. TBF to yourself, events have rather overtaken you.
        MB finished the job yesterday. When it comes to gardening, I'm the quartermaster; I source the supplies, MB actually does the gardening. He has always loved gardening.

        1. I do the sourcing and planting………he does the mowing, tidying up and jobs that get done in the shed.

    1. Talking of which…. I had a very pleasant hour or so yesterday afternoon in the warm sunshine with the entire archery field to myself……..

    2. Starmer does not represent the people of Britain but the vast armies of human rights lawyers acting against our national interests.

      With the recognition of the mythical Palestine the flood gates will be open to compensation claims for British actions almost 65 years ago. Hermer, Starmer, the Blair’s and their chums will have a field day.

  42. What a difference a day makes. Yesterday 25ºC, bright sunshine – a gorgeous day. Today, grey sky and decidedly chilly. I fear shorts may be an error…

    1. Grey and slightly drizzly here today. I just fetched yesterday's washing in which had been out all night.

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      1. And in the master's chambers
        They gathered for the feast
        They stab it with their steely knives
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        1. "Relax," said the night man,
          "We are programmed to receive.
          You can check-out any time you like
          But you can never leave!"

    2. And it won't have the slightest effect on the illegal gimmegrants.
      Even if they are allocated a D-iD it won't show who they are nor where they originated

      2. That is not the point of digital id. The point of digital id is to have all the information in one place (which it is not currently) so that they can apply punishments and sanctions.
        eg get debanked for naughty posts on the internet, or your card refusing to work more than two miles from your house because you haven't had "your" flu jab.

        1. I realise that – but I still don’t want or need one. Eventually we will all be forced into it I suppose. And people will say how convenient they are.

  47. ‘He’ll be prime minister one day’: The meteoric rise of Darren Jones
    The saxophonist from a Bristol council flat who has become Starmer’s new right-hand man
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/20/the-rapid-rise-of-darren-jones-starmers-new-right-hand-man/

    BTL

    He's the chap who said on 'Question Time' that the majority of people arriving by rubber dinghy are women and children.

    He is practising mendacity as he knows he will need to use it the higher he gets up the socialist greasy pole.

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    1. A truly Rs licking sycophantic diatribe from the Daily Snivelgraph. There isn't a single right-of-centre reporter to be found in Fleet Street nowadays.
      Szu Ping Chan, Economics Editor and Fiona Parker, Senior News Reporter, obviously enjoy Jones' musical skills and share his passion for saxophone sessions and extended fingering in the back rooms of the Duchy of Lancaster – when he's not otherwise engaged with Starmer as his personal and intimate 'Right hand man'. What he does with his right hand I leave to your imagination.

  48. At Holyhead getting on the ferry. ALL cars are being searched; boots and a mirror under the car.

  49. The Left destroyed free speech culture. Now it’s reaping the whirlwind
    Jimmy Kimmel is being portrayed as the victim of a ‘fascist’ Right. But ‘liberals’ hold ultimate blame for the decline of free expression
    Poppy Coburn: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/09/19/the-left-destroyed-free-speech-culture-now-its-reaping-the/

    BTL

    Freedom of speech should be neutral rather than political.

    If we accept that the cost of stopping Islamophobia being formally defined and made into a criminal offence is that we must also accept that some left wing people will always come up with most repulsive comments then we must agree to it. Laws against Islamophobia are an attack on free speech as restricting what people with whom we disagree are allowed to say.

    But this means that we can reply firmly to these left wing bigots who are glorifying the murder of Charlie Kirk and not be restrained or inhibited in what we say about such monsters.

    1. Let people say what they want. Then everyone will be able to make a judgement of the commentator's character.

  50. I’m ‘monitoring the situation’, Transport Secretary says
    The Transport Secretary said she is aware of an issue affecting flights at Heathrow and is “monitoring the situation”.

    Heidi Alexander said: “I’m aware of an incident affecting airline check-in and boarding, impacting flights at Heathrow and other European airports.

    “I’m getting regular updates and monitoring the situation.

    ”If you’re flying at Heathrow today, check with your airline before travelling.”

    No shiite, Sherlock.
    Oh well, as long as I can potter round the fields with Spartie, wot do I care?

      2. They are loaded onto a lorry and delivered back to France for reuse. They don't even bother to deflate them.

        Someone posted a video the other day showing this happening.

        Same with the life jackets.

        1. I saw the video. Mine was a rhetorical question to keep reminding everyone that the government is organising the boats.

          3. They have been flying them in to secluded RAF bases for years. Then taking them by coach at night to the hotels.

        2. Could they not be useful? The should be shredded and put into incinerators which would generate electricity.

          2. But they might sink as the prevailing wind in the English channel is South West which makes the trip from Dover to Calais more hazardous than from Calais to Dover.

    1. Oh great………work all your life and save for retirement and have it all confiscated to pay for the non indigenous incomers.

      1. Just been told someone calling soon, works in financial fraud unit…I remember him as a little oik….:-)

  53. As forecast, the rain arrived, but luckily when I was close to finishing laying the last couple of blocks.
    Got a bit wet using up the last of the mortar with the stone facing to the bottom wall and when cleaning up afterwards though.
    Now for another mug of tea and an omelette!

    1. So if we have an emergency GE, and Reform/Fage elected…it will still take time, UK will need a force to ferret out the ones disappearing into the areas where migrants (whatever generation) live. To say nothing of the CS, thwarting every effort. A start would be leave the ECHR asap (no matter the NI Agreement).

        1. Sunak took VdL to see the Queen, who was in NIreland, to sign the deal. I was still (reluctantly) voting Conservative up to that point.

    2. Those letters are sent out every year.
      Nowadays there is a rolling register, as opposed to a fixed date (Feb/March time I seem to remember).

    3. But we must remember that we need a legally enforceable definition of islamophobia and only white people are racists.

    5. Excellent. Crank it up. You may as well deal with it now, than later.

      1/ A glimpse of the future.
      2/ Low IQ Muslim hill-billy mob from the tribal north of Pakistan. No discussion. Immediately chant.. Kill Kill Kill.
      3/ As Nick Tenconi says.. the crusade has already started.
      4/ Twitter X spreads the information instantaneously in real time.
      5/ Farage has lost control of the narrative.. he's now behind the curve.
      6/ What was it Elon Musk said? “We Either Fight Back or Die”.
      7/ What was it mid-wit centre-right "journalist" (LOL) Camilla Tominey said? “They are white supremacists who want to impose Britishness over everyone. That's white supremacy of a kind isn't it?”

      1. We can't really tell from the video what actually happened. Perhaps the white guy instigated it and they responded.

    7. Stop paying benefits/finding accommodation.. Turn boats around in the Channel, tow back to France. Never happen, this country is finished.

      1. We all know what to do.

        It is not that the politicians don't know what to do – it is just that they don't want to do it.

  57. Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧🎗
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    This Is How a Nation Dies…

    What's coming across the Channel is not "migration." It is invasion. If tens-of-thousands of fighting-age men attempted to land on our shores with rifles, the Navy would sink them. Yet when they come with empty hands, we're told it's "humanitarian." The weapon isn't guns – it's numbers. And numbers can topple nations as surely as bullets.

    The boats are not full of widows and orphans. They are full of young men from cultures totally at odds with ours. Each one is the spearhead for dozens more through chain migration. Every dinghy is not fifty cases – it is five hundred futures planted here without consent.

    They know it. They laugh at Starmer's "one in, one out" gimmick. They boast they will cross again and again. Why wouldn't they? They have lawyers, NGOs, and charities arming them with paperwork and preprepared soundbites. The state bends, the courts stall, the government wrings its hands. This is conquest by lawfare – and Britain's own institutions are the enemy's greatest ally.

    And the government? It shrugs. Peter Kyle says guarding our borders is "not the best use of the Army." Then what the hell is the Army for? To fight wars in faraway deserts while Britain itself is surrendered? If tens of thousands of unarmed men can walk into a country unchecked, the country is finished.

    This is not asylum. This is colonisation dressed as compassion. The French wave the boats on. Our leaders stage token deportations to fool the public. And the flood grows by the day.

    The truth is brutal: Britain is being dismantled from within, one dinghy at a time. Not with bombs, but with demographics. Not with armies, but with our own government's cowardice. Every crossing is not just a breach of the border – it is the theft of Britain's future.

    A state that cannot or will not defend its borders is no state at all. A government that surrenders its people to demographic replacement is not "compassionate." It is treacherous.

    Call it what it is. Not migration. Not crisis. Not "challenge." Invasion. And unless we act like a nation under attack, we will cease to be a nation at all.

    "Each one is the spearhead for dozens more through chain migration. Every dinghy is not fifty cases – it is five hundred futures planted here without consent."

        1. Not bad thanks Kate – just returned from an afternoon tea 60th wedding anniversary of some neighbour friends. Blood sugar is bound to have risen 🥺. How are you x

          1. Take it easy then!.:-) doing OK, thanks…thought of you earlier, found one of my books back of the shelf …Bird Art by Alan Woollett, lots of info xx

    3. TR's 'Million Man March' (which turned out to be much, much higher in number) drew a lot of people's attention to what's actually happening now and has happened in the past. Starmer can do nothing, so he will do nothing (ECHR). Farage/Reform may be able to, but by the time they are ever in power the numbers will be even higher.

      1. The initial fallout between Farage & Yusuf and Lowe was because Lowe said that every single person who had entered the UK illegally should be deported. Farage and Yusuf said this was completely unrealistic and then the whole thing descended into dirty tricks.

        What is Farage's view on this now?

        1. It used to be said, Richard – a weak man will be blown by any wind…(or possibly money). I like Lowe, and Pochin. Zia likely to continue funding, for the time being. Still not heard anything from Advance. Can’t see any reason why boatloads not deported. Apology for brevity, someone had a burglary recently and police expected……

          1. My favourite MP is Katie Lam – but she needs to get out of the Conservative Party and join Advance.

    4. TR's 'Million Man March' (which turned out to be much, much higher in number) drew a lot of people's attention to what's actually happening now and has happened in the past. Starmer can do nothing, so he will do nothing (ECHR). Farage/Reform may be able to, but by the time they are ever in power the numbers will be even higher.

    5. As The Goons had it…
      “I want political asylum”!
      “Well take a number eleven bus to the House of Commons. It’s the finest political asylum in the world”.

  58. Just looked at couple of pictures of sir ed davey at the opening of the lib dum shIt show.
    talk about an idiotic exhibitionist, this clown wins all the prizes. To think amongst all the brain dead that that party could have as a leader, they chose him!!

    1. You don't have to go to Oxbridge and get a first class degree to be a complete moron – but it helps!

      "After leaving school, Davey attended Jesus College, Oxford, where he was awarded a first class BA degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1988."

      [wikipedia]

    2. Surely at his peak Davey when waterboarding on and falling in Lake Windermere, houses around the lake empty sceptic tanks directly into the lake. Some dogs have even died/made very sick by the blue algae forming in summer months.

  59. If we fracked, built nuclear and coal then the climate change tax scam collapses. Oh, they'd argue that we have to pay for the coal and the gas and some nonsense 'carbon' levy but the simple reality is the hard Left want to destroy this country and they're using energy to achieve that result.

    2. Paul Homewood ('Not a Lot of People' blogger) been saying very similarly for many years, so well known by now. Question is…why do politicians persist in claiming otherwise…answers on the head of a pin….

    3. Their idea of utopia is a mixture of science fiction and medievalism a la Ottoman Empire. They want a small population under feudal rule and living in pods in the style of Forster’s The Machine Stops.

      1. I have read that book. But what use would we be to anyone except 'useless eaters' of resources.

        Would we be the food supply?

        1. Do you remember the Celestial Omnibus in the collected edition of his short stories?

          I must have read all Forster's novels just as I have read all the novels and collected short stories of William Somerset Maugham who, like Forster was a homosexual at a time when you didn't brag about it.. I certainly prefer Maugham.

    1. athy Parr
      @KathyParr101
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      6% of the UK population are Muslim at this moment in time. That means that 94% of the UK population are deliberately being forced to consume halal meat without their knowledge or consent.
      How can that be right?

      1. 413102+ up ticks,

        Afternoon TB,

        Good question,

        The waitrose & ilk are banking on 45% more
        joining the 6% in the near future,and the witnessed treachery so far via the masses polling actions makes that a viable possibility.

    2. I never buy lamb from supermarkets. I suspect they go along with the halal thing for convenience.
      The only meat I ever buy from them is pork and pork products.

      1. Even if it isn't halal it is still not that good. Real lamb is expensive because it takes a lot of effort to get a quality product.

  66. Yay!!!!!!!! I KNEW gossiping with chums while Spartie rootled around was better for me.

    "Separate research, which saw people complete supervised exercise sessions, confirmed this finding and highlighted that exercise was particularly ineffective at helping women lose weight. “There are almost as many women who gain weight in the process as lose weight,” Dr Hall says. It’s thought that this finding, at least in part, is due to the body adapting to a higher activity level and restricting the overall number of calories it burns. “Men tend to do a little bit better – there is weight loss, on average, but it’s not an impressive amount – they’re losing a few pounds,” he says.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/weight-loss/exercise-not-the-key-to-weight-loss-this-is-what-works/

    1. The only way to lose weight using exercise is to burn more calories than you consume. Though you do end up with more muscle mass than fat. You will still be the same weight.

      The body adjusts itself from the secondary nerve complex behind the stomach. If you stop eating carbs/cake it alters the body chemistry which makes you crave them more.

      It is why women yoyo diet for years and at the end of it are unhappy with the results.

      People witter on about will power but our hormones dictate what the body needs/wants.

    1. Disgusting. I never buy so called 'lighter' cheese.

      I wonder where that is, certainly nowhere in Cornwall that I've come across.

    5. I wouldn't take it if it were given away. Bland is too exciting a word to describe Cathedral City.

          1. Probably emigrated. If I hadn't already, I definitely would. We went in the Callaghan era. The Starmer era is much worse as the underlying economy is not strong enough to withstand today's foolishness.

          2. We left late 1990s. Blair times. Even going back to visit rellies is giving me stress.
            Sad, 'cos there's a lot to enjoy, not least pork pies and Thatchers cider! Paaasties…

      2. In fairness to Labour the 14 years of Conservatives digging the National Debt pit even deeper whilst fiddling GDP growth through mass immigration needs a little acknowledgement too.

    2. How will pay per mile work? Older cars don't have mileage, etc., recorded in their ECU's. Go back a few more years and you can disconnect the speedo cable…or reclock the odometer readings.

    6. Yet if they call it a different tax….. Then there's drivers. Shopping deliveries. haulage. Logistics. All those would have higher costs then even now, further increasing inflation – has this dumb bint not realised that inflation is the direct driver of inflation?

      The Left have always wanted to destroy individual, private transport.

  69. "The Lib Dem party conference has descended into a transgender row after members shut down a vote on biological men taking women’s roles.

    Gender-critical activists had intended to force Sir Ed Davey into banning trans women from taking female positions with a debate and then vote on the issue.

    However, it was struck off the agenda after a rival campaigner warned it would be used to “legitimise bigotry”, calling the proponents an “extremist faction”.

    The row erupted within the first hour of the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth on Saturday, threatening to overshadow the party’s keynote announcements on policing and migrant hotels.

    It came hours after Sir Ed claimed that his party was the most united political faction in Westminster.

    The internal spat will pile pressure on the Lib Dem leader to clarify his stance on gender-based definitions after he repeatedly refused to say that a woman cannot have a penis."

    My stoney heart is in pleats.

    2. But his wife is Jewish and the Jewish faith passes through the woman.

      Reports – like opinions and recollections – may vary.

      I have read that the Starmer children are being brought up in the Jewish faith and go to the synagogue each Saturday and that Starmer likes to be home by 7 o'clock because the evening is a special family time for Jews.

      More recently he tells a different story because, with his sycophantic attitude to Muslims, he wants to distance himself from all Jewishness.

    3. I was christened. I can point to the church where it took place. It will remain the church where I was christened for the rest of my life and beyond as a documented fact, yet I, too, am not of faith and don't believe in God. Is there, perhaps, a sense in which St. Peter's in Stevenage is my church? Football fans speak of the club they support as their team, yet most haven't even a scintilla of ownership of the club, although they have a strong sense of belonging. Can we spin Starmer's contradictory statements in ways which both could be true?

    1. The Algerians fought off islam in the 1990s. They cancelled elections when it became clear that the islamists would win.

      1. Algeria is very much an Islamic country, with Islam embedded in its legal framework. The issue as in otter places is the degree of Islamist doctrine..

    2. "Why is this invasion being allowed to take place?"

      I thought everyone knew the answer. It is all part of the WEF's New World Order. Their Great Reset.

    3. "Why is this invasion being allowed to take place?"

      I thought everyone knew the answer. It is all part of the WEF's New World Order. Their Great Reset.

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  77. Here is Elizabeth Nickson talking about left wing women:

    "Women, because of their vulnerability during the early years of child raising are particularly prone to the lure of the collective, the tribe, wherein they can find safety. And since, for the past hundred years or so they have been protected by the modern economy from seeing their neighbors starve or sicken without help, they don’t actually understand the real world anymore.

    The government takes care of that; their only responsibility to vote for more government. So they become trivial people, shorn of agency, reduced. They have no idea how government works, how agencies work, how money is raised and spent, how people are hired within government for what reasons. They don’t how regulation, or even legislation works, its costs and liabilities. They don’t know how to build anything real in the real world. The most they do is work for a non-profit or vanity business or within an organization so large it is unknowable. They are cogs. They have never, ever read a policy paper on any subject. They don’t even know policy papers exist. They are immured in their own little world filled with upscale versions of knitting and cookery magazines: ie Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Style sections of broadsheets, New York magazine, etc. And of course the tsunami of garbage from literary publishing. Which is, weirdly, the most violent murderous literature you can imagine.
    And they must be able to kill babies in the womb.
    That’s their politics. Chapter and verse.
    They are, in effect, pre-conscious. They have become the enemies of civilization."

    Part of a long piece on her Substack "Welcome to Absurdistan" entitled "The Stupidification of Women? The Hate on Campus? Look no Further"
    I don't agree with everything in it, and I am not sure what to make of Elizabeth Nickson – she is one of those people who has been very close to power and is apparently now rebelling against it. But her work is always thought-provoking and well-written.

    1. Most of the world since time immemorial has never read a policy paper on any subject. Outside Elizabeth Nickson's rarefied world, it's the norm.

  79. Doc Malik has set up a debate between a man who believes that viruses cause illness and a man who believes that viruses don't exist. (Germ theory vs terrain theory essentially, I think).
    This is a very interesting rabbit hole – I haven't watched the debate yet, but here it is.
    Germ theory has been so extensively promoted during the last century or so that most people don't even realise that there ever was a debate.
    Doc Malik says in the introduction that both sides were seeking truth, which promises an interesting discussion…
    https://docmalik.substack.com/p/352-dr-james-hill-question-everything

      1. “What struck me most is that both sides of this debate are genuinely searching for truth. My hope is that by putting these conversations out in the open, we can reclaim honest science, demand real transparency, and keep learning together.
        Much love, enjoy the podcast.
        Doc Malik”

      1. Can anybody be simply murdered any more? They're often contested, these days. There seems to be a presumption that there's more to it than meets the eye. Oh, for an assassination where there are no competing claims to muddy the waters.

    6. If he got in the lift he'd never get out. He'd be identified from dental records – once they dug them out of his eye sockets.

  82. Afternoon, been dry, if a little cooler today. Went into Sheringham for their 40s weekend. It was rammed. We met five beagles! I managed to catch my finger in the door of the motorhome before I left and sliced it open. I am not having the best of luck! I put a dressing on it before I covered everything in gore.

    Only a lunatic would fall to make best use of natural resources. Step forward Milipede.

        1. There is a walk in unit for minor injuries at Cromer Hospital – a few miles from S'ham.

          "Cromer Hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) is open seven days a week, from 8am to 7.45pm.

          If there is doubt over whether a patient’s needs can be met by the unit we encourage patients and health professional to phone us and we can discuss and will always help if we can on 01603 646230.

          Cromer’s Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) is run by emergency nurse practitioners, experienced nurses who can independently see and treat all forms of minor injury."

          Just in case you need something more than a plaster.

    2. Oh dear. You're not having a good time I fear.
      Five beagles sound fun, were they a pack or just pets?

      1. Just pets. A couple and two singles, plus mine. Last time I went to Norfolk, things went wrong, too! The wind is getting up, so I hope I don’t find the awning has disappeared when I get up tomorrow!

      1. Rather that she wanted the invading muslim in. I don't understand the SNP. There they are, incompetent, stupid and gormless blaming England for everything yet not taking advantage of the tax powers they have except to make life worse and raise even less money, they demand 'independence' yet invite the entire third world in and want to chain themselves to the hated EU.

        They're just… if you looked at the exact wrong things to do for an independent nation, they're doing it.

        1. Agreed.
          But they could never have survived on their own.
          I once read that there are more people who support Scotland and its established culture living outside of the country than actually live there.

  85. Marcon has just released 35 extra boats because England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 has just beaten France in the rugby semi final.

      2. The Red Roses are very good – I dont generally like Women's Rugby but they disport themselves very well, and if they encourage more girls to play sport then that has to be a good thing.

          4. You would be surprised.
            Pakistan has a good number of women playing.
            Pre Taliban even Afghanistan had women playing.
            Not sure of the current situation, but suspect it will have been banned.

  88. The chinks in the Islamic takeover begin to appear..

    First it was the potential threat of banning halal being used against Mo.
    Now Andrew Gold reveals in his latest podcast that..
    The Media Elites in the Islamo-Woke DEATH CULT – Spiked Editor Tom Slater

    ..he lives in a very.. er.. enriched area of London.. and has a very cute dog that attracts great praise from all the brown people Hindus & Sikhs etc.. with the stark exception of one key demographic that move away/ spit on it/ appear horrified.

    Tom Slater reckons that may be the one key & unlikely ishooo that will turn mid-wits against Mo.

      1. You are just the type of back of the class smarty pants that sniggers when the HK Govt issues their six monthly warnings to look out for..

        Unstable Slopes.

    2. That muslim don't like dogs is a screaming sign there's something wrong with them.

      But then, that they're putrid is obvious from their goat shagging.

  89. Bright sunshine, thunder and lightning, torrential rain and hail, bright sunshine again.
    All in 15 minutes.

  90. That's me for this very autumnal day. Did a mile walk mid-afternoon. OK but one needed a puffer – the wind had a sharp edge to it. Getting cooler from now on. So much for global boiling.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain.

    1. Sounds.a good day. I continude to get frustrated with a comp problem and despite the Warqueen pushing me to go out it was only to take the dogs.

      On the upside, the washing was got in before the rain started.

  91. The Times on the women's match:

    "England saw it out though, with Megan Jones seizing the ball and diving over after Holly Aitchison’s grubber kick had come back off the post to give the scoreline a lopsided look that did not truly reflect the balance of the game."

    At least Stephen Jones is consistent: he dislikes England Women as well as England Men!

    2. Jones is a one-eyed idiot who knows nothing about the game.

      If you ever check the BTL comments after one of his articles you would wonder why on earth the Times perseveres with the prat!!

    1. Representative democracy works when the public are represented, when the political class are servants rather than thinking themselves our masters. When the civil service were small, efficient and effective and knew it's place as the servant of the servile elected representative.

      That has been inverted: the state thinks it master of the politico, the politico the master of the proles.

    1. The crap thumping noise accompanying this and the far too rapid change of picture just cost them an upvote.

  98. Miffed. We're really low on shampoo, toothpaste and cleaning stuffs, so got in the shower to find the viakal was nigh empty and the bathroom spray nearly gone too.

    Yet it's not that they're used up. It's that replacing them used to cost £5 for both. Now it's £8.

    1. Funnily enough, I noticed from the shower this morning that there's a bottle of Viakal on top of the bathoom cabinet, No idea why, but at least it bodes well for my slowly returning eyesight…

    1. I don't want Labour to be removed. I want them to be forced, by democratic mandate to undo the endless legislation they've forced on us, piece by piece. Squirming and fighting, trying to resign but being unable to until they have finished undoing the damage they, and Blair have done.

      1. I have no idea as to whether Keir Starmer is homosexual, heterosexual or any other type of sexual However I do wonder why his sexuality – or lack of it is a topic of such speculation,

    3. Not a fan. I get the idea, like Ben Habib said to get it out of your system. But it's more green lights for what's acceptable in public discourse for the mad-Left when it's their turn.

    1. I've seen him live and he's great fun – this is one of his more thoughtful songs and is very good for it.

      His Rugby songs are generally hilarious – The Pontypool Front Row, Asso Asso Yogoshi (about the Japanese Rugby team) etc

      I'm a big fan……

  101. YouTube has made a music compilation for me that's actually hard to listen to… music that reminds me of both positive and sad events. Can be hard to listen to.

        1. Yeah, but can she sing all eight parts? Thankfully, four will suffice. Best version of this I've done was a few years ago, when the former Rector's Brother in Law rocked up with his oboe. Which is exactly true to Bach's original instrumentation.

          Voces 8 keep popping up in my Youtube feed, lately. They deserve success. My former Assistant Organist sang Tenor with them for several years, and I met all of the original line up. Only Andrea remains (she once offered me a sandwich – eventually, I reluctantly had to wash that hand). Barnaby Smith seems to be involved, but perhaps in a management rather than a singing role.

          Thanks for posting, Paul.

        1. There are new music artists I have never heard of with over a billion views and it's utter tosh.

    3. Reminds me of Oedipus.

      Yes, he loved his mother like no other
      His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
      One thing on which you can depend is
      He sure knew who a boy's best friend is

      When he found what he had done
      He tore his eyes out, one by one
      A tragic end to a loyal son
      Who loved his mother

      [Bridge]
      So be sweet and kind to mother now and then, have a chat
      Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat
      But maybe you had better let it go at that
      Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex

      [Tom Lehrer]

  103. Invasion gangs ramp up business.. they're lidderally running out of clients.

    Nearly 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the UK in one DAY as Nigel Farage rages at Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal and claims 'invasion is getting bigger'

    Just done a quick tally that's 1,100 minus 1.. so that's 1,099 extra brekkie for tomorrow.

      1. Her Muslime Faith is the most important thing in Shabana Mahmoud's life.

        She does not deny it – but such a statement makes it perfectly clear where her priorities lie.

  104. Invasion gangs ramp up business.. they're lidderally running out of clients.

    Nearly 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the UK in one DAY as Nigel Farage rages at Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal and claims 'invasion is getting bigger'

    Just done a quick tally that's 1,100 minus 1.. so that's 1,099 extra brekkie for tomorrow.

  105. Invasion gangs ramp up business.. they're lidderally running out of clients.

    Nearly 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the UK in one DAY as Nigel Farage rages at Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal and claims 'invasion is getting bigger'

    Just done a quick tally that's 1,100 minus 1.. so that's 1,099 extra brekkie for tomorrow.

  107. Because of people he seems to get on well with?
    I give you, in no particular order:
    Zelensky, Macron, Mandelson, three Ukrainian rent boys, (allegedly), Blair, Darren Jones, Uncle Tom Knobbly and all.

  108. Good point Rastus. I don't care one way or the other, but he's such a nasty individual that it's good to take the p***.

  109. Paris Has Fallen… ANTIFA Riots Takeover the Streets LOL
    80,000 riot police.

    Protesters demand more tax. LOL
    Protesters don't like retirement age of 65 from 62. LOL

  110. 412103+ up ticks,

    This invading foreign force must surely be met with justified indigenous force, they have the scent of easy victory and the reaping of victorious spoils in the nasal channels.

    The foreign element has been given the impression via
    overseeing politico's and police, that if they are not granted a commodity then they are "at liberty" to take it.

    https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1969383226960417127

  112. Farron drapes himself in flag as Lib Dems seek to reclaim patriotism

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b227eb8493e2ba099e1472af2025cf3fc6221c35d8387f6f86ae13255c7f930a.png

    Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron draped himself in an England flag and declared his love for his country at the opening night rally of the party's conference in Bournemouth.

    "We will not have our history, our heritage, and our home stolen by the poison of nationalism," the MP roared as he called on members to "reclaim patriotism" from the far right.

    Confetti cannons rained glitter over him as the brass bombast of Land of Hope and Glory rang out and a giant union jack appeared on the screen behind him.

    The theatrics seemed to work, as a membership sometimes mocked for its mild-mannered approach got to its collective feet and filled the air with whoops of approval and the flutter of hundreds of mini flags.

    Read the rest here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd11n14zz1o

    2. They are gross. Idiots with no grasp of history, reality and philosophy. I'm sick of it. It's the sort of foaming misrepresentation we have seen so much of in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk RIP.

      1. Are you sure he's been murdered and not abducted, then imprisoned in a compound by a sinister mob of extremely wealthy plutocrats seeking to double their wealth while halving that of the rest of us by profiting from this devious deception?

    4. He "loves his country" but thinks nationalism (i e patriotism) is poisonous. He can't love this country very much.

    5. Unfortunately he is 'my' MP – I really dont have a lot of time for him.
      He resigned from the leadership of the LibDem party stating that he had become "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader" – he was largely praised for his 'principled' stance but I fail to see how the two positions are mutually exclusive, rather sums him up.
      He tends to be popular in Westmorland and Lonsdale (bottom half of the Lake District) by being consistently hostile towards 'incomers' (second homeowners and tourists) which appeals to the parochial attitudes of most Cumbrians…..

      1. "…by being consistently hostile towards 'incomers…"

        The Dalton development will test him. Has he bought his honorary prayer mat?

        1. He’s been remarkably quiet about that one – although to be fair it’s not his constituency (Barrow in Furness).

          2. It's the constituency next door – the MP used to be John Woodcock, one of the few Labour MPs I had any time for.

      2. I'd imagine the Christian values of charity, honesty, decency and what not don't really work in Westminster which is, bluntly, a snake pit.

        1. Well yes, but he sort of knew that when he became LibDem leader – not sure what changed to make him step down?

  113. Well, I did get a bit wet doing it, but have finished off laying the blocks on the couple of bits of wall I've been doing and now have the stone facing for the lower wall to get done. As the weather is forecast to be fine tomorrow I'm planning to get 5 bags of sand up to the mixer and do another batch of mortar.
    Also need to get a start on backfilling both walls which will use up some of the surplus stone I've collected.

    Some time next week I plan getting the mixer down into the yard to start on sorting out the ledge I was working on last month.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96b7e67ab09f056d0e86586d40b0ac2811d3807baf81c8bda1840ac760aeeada.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/27fed185ba973f3c76bc27a4ba3794f1bd12f89f3d838969f1125f686ed4a5bf.jpg

  114. Well, I did get a bit wet doing it, but have finished off laying the blocks on the couple of bits of wall I've been doing and now have the stone facing for the lower wall to get done. As the weather is forecast to be fine tomorrow I'm planning to get 5 bags of sand up to the mixer and do another batch of mortar.
    Also need to get a start on backfilling both walls which will use up some of the surplus stone I've collected.

    Some time next week I plan getting the mixer down into the yard to start on sorting out the ledge I was working on last month.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96b7e67ab09f056d0e86586d40b0ac2811d3807baf81c8bda1840ac760aeeada.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/27fed185ba973f3c76bc27a4ba3794f1bd12f89f3d838969f1125f686ed4a5bf.jpg

  115. The Wibbling household is having mother problems. She with hers, mine with mine.

    I can manage her mother – isolate, immobilise, inebriate. My mother – my mother is just a force of evil. I've been distracted walking the dogs, angry that a flippin' network card doesn't 'work' and fallen behind on the domestic stuff. Didn't get washed until gone 7pm. Clothes still hanging around, comp stuff all over the kitchen table.

    Hadn't even noticed the Warqueen's new hair or that she's spent all day in her yoga gear and one of my t shirts.

    To cap it all off, my mouse is having a moment so will need a new one. May as well get both mouse and keyboard.

  119. The headline to an article on the Guardian
    Hos aim they complained was to verbally defeat them Not a difficult task apparently but what impress is that they should be so upset about this. Of course he wanted to secure victory over his opponents. That's why he went. Would he have gone to endure multiple defeats. Of course not. Once again the Guardian twists everything like a mother who must always be right.

    The students who debated with Charlie Kirk: ‘His goal was to verbally defeat us’

    1. But by debating with him, they had the chance to refine and hone their arguments and improve their debating skills.
      His murder means they have lost that chance.

      1. Like learning to play chess with an expert chess player?
        Some of the people in his videos were really ignorant and not just young students. There were quite a lot of daft history teachers amongst them.

    1. Quite so. I will never forget the machinations of these stupid people.

      Apart from any other consideration the fact that the ruling class and its political minions made false claims in unison and around the world simultaneously stank to high heaven for anyone with more than one brain cell to detect a shit show.

  121. Well, chums, it's turned midnight – well past my bedtime. So I wish you all a Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all early tomorrow morning.

    4. Good evening, Geoff…somehow manage to keep missing you…hope you had a good day, and sleep well. Thanks again for all you do x

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