Friday 26 June: We must face it: our freedoms have been taken away with no end in sight to this emergency

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/06/25/letters-must-face-freedoms-have-taken-away-no-end-sight-emergency/

695 thoughts on “Friday 26 June: We must face it: our freedoms have been taken away with no end in sight to this emergency”

      1. Often thought that those rotting hulks could be used as prison ships. Give them seeds to grow and leave them be.

  5. Mr Wynter will be denounced for something or other…

    SIR – I am a descendant of slaves, but have gone through life as anything but a victim. I have experienced both successes and reversals, like everyone else I know, black or white. Now, at the age of 59, I watch as our institutions and corporations suffer a collective emotional breakdown, self-flagellating about things done more than 150 
years ago.

    For whose benefit are these apologies, prostrations and self-abasements being effected? I feel neither better nor worse than I did before the outpouring.

    I am greatly offended, though, by the casual imposition, as a corollary of the apologies, of victim status on me and those like me. Platitudinous apologies simply underscore the tired trope that the white man is forever responsible for the black man – which he isn’t.

    We should be left alone, afforded equality of opportunity, and allowed to get on with our lives. It really is that simple.

    Colin Wynter QC
    London EC2

    1. SIR – I was born, raised and educated far from the British Isles, and have been exhorted to adopt “British values” to aid my integration, which has never been a problem.

      But what are British values today? We have seen rampaging mobs reminiscent of the Red Guards attacking historic monuments and statues. Leading members of community and educational establishments, meanwhile, seem happy to endorse the traducing of those who gave this country its heritage, without regard for the different times in which they lived.

      Institutions such as the Church of England and leading places of learning have adopted “woke” philosophies, which are intolerant and damaging to racial harmony. I do not find these values among my social or work contacts, and so I intend to stick with the values I was brought up with – even if it means that the establishment regards me as an alien once again.

      Bryan McGee
      High Peak, Derbyshire

      1. “… adopted “woke” philosophies, which are intolerant and damaging to racial harmony. I do not find these values among my social or work contacts…”

        Got it in one. The Left are promoting racial division. The black lives don’t matter want racist attitudes to resurface because it suits them to have an enemy. No one truly holds these opinions. They are the preserve of spiteful, bigoted, deeply racist, nasty little people – like that Cambridge professor Priyam Gopal who seems to despise the people of this land yet refuses to leave it because she is a hypocrite.

    2. If you are made a victim then someone can ‘do something’ to make themselves feel better. It’s far more rewarding *for them* to label you as such.

      Mr Wynter, you are truly representative of what is great about Britons. An intelligent, self aware, successful erudite fellow. In a short letter you sum up the stupidity and racism of the black lives are racist movement and the arrogant self righteousness of the hate fuelled Left.

  6. SIR – When the Supreme Court last year held Boris Johnson’s Conservative administration to account for the tactical prorogation of Parliament, some protesting against the Government described it as “fascist”. I thought this absurd at the time.

    In March this year, the Government authorised the largest curtailment of British freedoms since Cromwell. We were told that extreme measures were justified by a public emergency; that measures would be temporary; that our rights would be protected; and that – above all – this was to save lives.

    Today, as the Government clings on to our stolen freedoms, we are led to believe that this “emergency” might never be over. Temporary measures stretch into the realm of permanence.

    Our rights are discarded – such as the right of the accused to trial by jury, or our right to see the Government held to account and legislation scrutinised in Parliament. There are lists and registers, and talk of badges to indicate our status in public. One has the distinct impression that – above all – this has become about saving face and maintaining control.

    This is how fascism takes hold. I didn’t believe it last year; I certainly didn’t believe it could come from the man who fought for Brexit and who has long championed British liberty. Nevertheless, here we are.

    Iwan Price-Evans
    Croydon, Surrey

      2. Yes, it certainly is, Sos. Pity I can’t decipher the name of the cartoonist.

  9. BTL@DTletters

    Edward Arthur
    26 Jun 2020 12:16AM
    Assistant Commissioner of the Met Police told Channel 4 News he would have probably joined BLM protests. Not a great message to send to the numerous officers injured in protests over the last few weeks and the 22 injured in Brixton last night. How can anyone have trust in an individual who openly admits split loyalties between the law (The Police) and BLM (anti police)?

    https://www.channel4.com/news/met-police-assistant-commissioner-would-have-probably-joined-blm-protesters-if-he-was-not-an-officer

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

    Neil Basu of the Met and Cathy Newman of Ch4 love-in

    1. Glad I missed it, Citroen. Besides, what business is it of an AC Special Ops? He seems rather fond of commenting on subjects for which he has no responsibility. It’s about time Cressida’s Dick reined him in, particularly when he is clearly after her job. By siding not with the law but a rabble that is out to smash capitalism, and to ‘defund’ the police, ought to be a sacking offence.

      1. Morning, HJ.
        How sweet. Sadly, you need to catch up with C21 Blighty.
        Reading the Paston letters will give you some idea of what’s ahead of us.

        2. I think I may have a copy of the Paston letters amongst my parent’s books – I must dig it out (we lived not far from Paston and my brother’s first secondary school was Paston School – probably renamed since going comprehensive).

  10. Good morning folks,

    Lots of early risers today.
    Thunder here and a bit of rain so far

  11. Royal Navy’s ÂŁ3bn aircraft carriers will end up ‘for display purposes only’, MPs warn. 26 June 2020.

    The National Audit Office (NAO) said the Navy has just one supply ship able to keep the Carrier Strike force stocked with food and ammunition while on operations and that its new Crowsnest airborne radar and surveillance system, which monitors the skies, land and sea around the Navy’s aircraft carriers, was running 18 months late, further diminishing its capabilities during its first two years.

    Morning everyone. These things were only ever intended as vote winners for Brown and will be sold off as soon as politically viable.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/25/royal-navys-3bn-aircraft-carriers-will-end-display-purposes/

    1. A parting gift to the EU navy perhaps, that’s what they were always intended for I suspect

      1. Ideal Calais – Dover ferries with Farage discouraging abilities ?

        After all, Gordon was one of George’s PAs so p’raps they could be renamed accordingly.

      2. 320648+ up ticks,
        Morning B3,
        ” A parting gift” a part of the submissive gift package on partial re-entry more like.
        Only one politico leader for 27 years has ever called for total severance and his enemas in opposition tagged him as a far right racist omitting to add “so” as a prefix.

    2. If Brown wanted to win votes, he’d just stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and throw out bundles of ÂŁ50 notes for the plebs.

      This Defence Procurement gigascandal, like the many other cases of public money misspent was rather a nice little earner for associates of Brown, who duly attached themselves to the teats of Cameron, May and Johnson to suck on, and certainly have plans to make money from the vulnerability of Starmer to concerted lobbying when his time comes.

      2. 320648+ up ticks,
        Morning JM,
        In reality he had a following even after the rodent latch lifter, and his type are still playing a major part in the politics of the toxic trio.

    3. The daft thing is that the Navy needs ships, so allocating ships to yards was important. The notion of them being vote-winners is exaggerated. Building the right kind of ships would have served that purpose -even if it was real. Many of the workers on the carriers had to move to the area. (Thales is a French company.)
      The real disappointment in this story is that they are the wrong ships. We need frigates and commando carriers* as well as attack submarines, and offshore patrol boats. A light aircraft carrier could be useful, but a large fleet carrier is more of a liability, even if we had the right planes.
      *These are the major warships that have been of most use in the last 40 years.

      1. Problem is, a Fleet carrier requires pretty well a whole fleet of vessels in support. Just look at how many vessels travel with Nimitz class carriers – even submarines, as well as surface warships and supply ships.
        Just a carrier on it’s own, with or without aircraft, doesn’t cut it.

        1. Exactly so. I think I said that at the time. If I can see this as an amateur observer (for 60 years) how is it that we have come to this point where our entire fleet of destroyers and frigates is only just sufficient to provide the escorts required for these carriers?

      2. 320648+ up ticks,
        Morning HP,
        On par with HS2 then ?
        A governance with serious pro United Kingdom
        intentions would have a serious build on fishing protection NOW.
        At the same time as putting the Dover Beach area under serious proven loyal military, true to the UK control, I would personally suggest the Gurkha’s,NOW.

    4. 320648+ up ticks,
      Morning AS,
      Inpatient for the next General Election it is certainly going to throw a spanner in the electoral works in judging WHO is the best of the worst.
      Give the presiding politico’s credit they have rarely had to retreat since the 24/6/2016.

    5. The carriers bought votes in Scotland and propped up an industry crushed by EU high taxes and regulation. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.

  12. READING THREE.

    RIP

    20 JUNE 2020.

    Cruelly murdered by Jihadist terrorist.

    Just put that up for their friends in case they thought they had imagined it all!

  13. When we return to normal, that is, when shops and other premises fully re-open – this has still to happen in Scotland – we will see the full extent of the damage done to small businesses. I expect that many will not re-open. Some, I know, have “for sale” signs up already. Councils will be eager to make up for lost income, so we can expect a hike in council tax and business rates. Small businesses do not have resources to fund a four month cessation. They will all be stretched to the limit to restart and restock. Customers have amended their buying patterns by buying online rather than on the High Street. They may well not return.

        1. 🙂 The chap and his wife had been quietly running their business for 14 years.

    2. “…for lost income, so we can expect a hike in council tax and business rates…”

      The very reason that so many businesses are shutting down. Councils are run by utter morons.

    3. I’ve been doing my bit to try to patronise small local businesses. As soon as the gallery opened I went in to get some framing done 🙂

  14. Good morning, all. An overcast start to the day – some rain expected later. Very humid night.

  15. Marxism, the cruel creed that has only ever blighted lives
    By David Kurten
    June 25, 2020

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/david_kurten-117×117.jpg
    David Kurten – Brexit Alliance London Assembly Member.

    THE last two weeks have seen an attempt at a cultural Marxist revolution in both the US and the UK, which has been fabricated using the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis as a cover.

    Floyd’s death was a shocking event. The police officer who allegedly killed him has rightfully been arrested and will face trial for murder. He is entitled to a fair trial, but given the general outrage, this is uncertain.

    This outrage and media response is selective and unrepresentative, as was detailed in yesterday’s TCW. But one example of the media’s mindset is the case of a white man, Timothy Coffman, who was killed by a police officer in exactly the same manner in Florida in 2016. Most of the mainstream media and the Twitterati found it unworthy of even a mention.

    Institutions and businesses as well as the MSM of the UK, the US and other Western nations have been successfully used to generate a false narrative of systemic racism. This is straight out of the playbook of Saul Alinsky, the father of modern Marxist activism. Rule No. 13 from his 1972 book Rules for Radicals says: ‘Pick a target, freeze it, personalise it, polarise it.’

    George Floyd’s death has been frozen and used in a deliberate attempt by a determined minority to polarise society in order to undermine it and to feed a frenzy of discontent with, and guilt about, Western civilisation.

    Classic Marxism aims to generate class consciousness in the proletariat so the ‘intellectual’ leaders of the revolution can use their dissatisfaction to overthrow the bourgeoisie.

    The aim today is to create class consciousness among the ‘black community’ and to use them to tear down history and rip apart the fabric of civilisation, so that the far Left intellectuals can replace it with their Marxist utopia – preventing Brexit in Britain and plunging the US back into the hands of the dark forces of illiberal-Leftist ‘progressivism’.

    The Black Lives Matter movement is at the core of this current attack, along with Antifa. The very name is deceptive. Black lives, of course, do matter, along with all lives.

    But the clever branding of the movement enables its supporters to level the accusation that if you do not agree with their aims, if you are not sufficiently outraged and if you do not support tearing down the statues and monuments they wish to tear down, then you are a racist who supports slavery.

    This is abject nonsense, but the useful idiots (in the Church of England and at Oxford University to name two) who, to display their virtue, are marching to the Marxist drumbeat, have cast aside all reason and logic.

    Many have already been brainwashed at universities. Although they are largely privileged and live in a nation where there is equal opportunity and freedom for all, they have been convinced that the UK and the US are bad countries which are responsible for systemic injustices against a grand coalition of the minorities.

    Thus black people are victims of systemic racism, homosexuals are victims are heteronormativity, transgenders are victims of cis-normativity, and women are victims of the patriarchy.

    In cultural Marxist thinking, all of these imaginary systems of oppression need to smashed so that the oppressed minorities can be liberated. Thus the slogans often end up calling for facets of Western society to be smashed: ‘Smash white privilege’; ‘smash heteronormativity’; ‘smash the binary’; ‘smash the patriarchy’; ‘smash the family’; ‘smash Christianity’, and ‘smash capitalism’.

    This has been manifested in reality with the vandalism of monuments such as Winston Churchill’s statue. It has accelerated into real violence perpetrated against police officers, such as the poor policewoman who was knocked off her horse and suffered severe injuries after a thug at a BLM / Antifa demonstration threw a bicycle at her horse by the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

    The silent majority look on in horror at this violence and vandalism perpetrated by BLM / Antifa, but they are ignored as usual by the MSM, who are complicit in spinning the narrative of systemic racism.

    It is a false narrative. The UK is one of the best places in the world to be a black person or other ethnic minority. There is equal opportunity for all and there is a long culture and tradition of freedom, although this is being eroded steadily by the political correctness of the ‘progressive’ Left and their practice of repressive tolerance: Tolerance for ‘progressive’ ideologies, and repression for those with conservative, Christian and traditional values.

    This silent majority includes many black and ethnic minority people as well, but it does not suit the MSM to give conservative ethnic minorities any airtime: That would burst their current narrative that all black people are uniquely oppressed by a systemically racist society.

    It is of course, not always easy to grow up as a black person in the UK, particularly if you come from a poor area of Inner London. Yet, neither is it easy growing up as a working-class white person on a council estate, or as the child of a single mum in one of the many men deserts, or the back end of a forgotten post-industrial town.

    The politics of resentment will not help their plight. Neither will they be uplifted by raging Marxists shouting insults at the police in London or ripping down statues in Bristol, before retiring to their local coffee shop to post pictures of themselves on Instagram.

    The aims of Black Lives Matter are to defund the police, close prisons, disrupt the nuclear family and smash capitalism. The exact opposite is needed to improve all lives, including black lives.

    The police are vital to keep our streets safe and would be able to do so far more effectively if they were not hampered by the politically correct posturing of their top brass and political leaders, who ask them to ‘take the knee’ before the crowds which want to abolish them.

    Capitalism has raised hundreds of millions out of poverty. Children who grow up in families with a mother and father do better in general in every measure. It is not anarchy or Marxism which will improves lives, it is conservatism.

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

    BTL:

    SiberianRhod • a day ago • edited
    The recent events in the UK had nothing to do with the death of George Floyd or BLM matter they were just the fig leaf covering the real agenda of the Far Left.
    They watched as the police danced with “Gay Pride” skateboarded with “Extinction Rebellion ” and decided to see how the police would react in the face of them stepping up their action into violent protests.
    The protests were well organised and funded,they were not spontaneous,they were set up to challenge the police and see what their response was.What they saw was appeasement (taking the knee) or the police running away.The police stood by as they desecrated the Cenotaph,vandalised and deface statues, they even stood by and allowed these Marxist Thugs to pull down a statue and throw in in the docks.
    Not one of these Thugs has been arrested ( despite the photos being out there) They now know that they will not be punished just appeased as the silent majority looks on in horror.

    The Media has also supported these thugs and the Govt has also been guilty of appeasement,I am glad I left the UK and will not be coming back to live.

    https://conservativewoman.co.uk/marxism-the-cruel-creed-that-has-only-ever-blighted-lives/

  16. Donald Trump says Chicago ‘like living in Hell’ and ‘worse than Afghanistan’ in attack on ‘radical’ Democrats. 26 June 2020 • 5:40am.

    During a town hall in Wisconsin, a key swing-state, Mr Trump repeated his attacks on Mr Biden’s age and health, questioning his ability to be president.

    “Whenever he does talk, he can’t put two sentences together,” Mr Trump said. “I don’t want to be nice or un-nice. The man can’t speak.”

    “He’s a candidate that will destroy this country,” Mr Trump added. “And he may not do it himself. He will be run by a radical fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country.”

    This is almost certainly true. Biden is a shell. This will be confirmed if Kamala Harris is nominated as his running mate. The Democrats have aligned themselves with the forces behind the Woke Revolution under the impression that after the election they will be able to do as they please. One is reminded of the agreement between the Scorpion and the Frog!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/26/donald-trump-says-chicago-like-living-worse-afghanistan-attack/

    1. Wow pot and kettle. How much older than Trump is Biden?

      As for stringing two sentences together, I used to think that Trump was intentionally talking down at the level of his Yahoo billybob supporters, but does he ever speak in coherent well constructed English?

      1. The people did not hire Mr Trump for his grammar or fine and precise usage of standard English. They rejected the opposition and hired Mr Trump to get things done for the people.

        1. Well they certainly did not get a politicians way with words.

          I think that it was about 35,000 new CV cases in the US yesterday, some states are trying to bring in mandatory mask rules. Trump is almost ignoring the issue.

    2. He could have added that single-parenthood is common in the white underclass (at least three times as many, IIRC) but rioting isn’t (though the incidence of anti-social behaviour and low-level criminality is high).

      1. Single parenthood in itself does not lead to this kind of thinking – my mother was widowed when I was four – she managed to bring me up as a law-abiding member of society, and not as part of the underclass.

        1. I think there is a difference between widowed/divorced single parents and those who never married in the first place. There needs to be two differnet categories so that people such as your mother and I are not tarred with the same brush as the feckless.

          3. No. But these days so many do not bother to get married, they merely cohabit, and expect the same legal benefits.

        2. There’s a gulf of difference between widowed single mothers of your generation and the vast majority of the never-married, welfare dependent of today.

      2. But is that three times as many as the black population? In which case it’s lower by far considering their percentage pop.

        However that would also account for widows and older parents who were divorced rather than parents who have simply never known a father at all.

        Of course, the white chav parents are the highest group and are the other biggest cause for low attainment amongst white boys.

    3. I thought the chap actually had quite an opportunity to make his point. If that’d been the BBC as soon as he said a word they’d have interrupted to set their narrative.

    1. Some of the people commenting below evidently don’t understand what “white privilege ” means – so they have been corrected. Evidently it doesn’t mean what we might think it means.

      1. Such American zealotry imposed on compliant foreigners wrecked my own relationship with my 4-year-old son during an acrimonious divorce.

        I took him to Towersea folk festival, where there were many parents with children and a campsite monitoring scheme, where the tents were patrolled by camp stewards, who would alert the parents of waking children, so they could go to evening events, but quickly return and settle them down if needed. My son’s mother on handover would always say “he’s tired after a lot of activity yesterday, so you’d better get him to bed early and bring him back sooner than agreed”. She had advice from the women’s group about how to handle inconvenient discarded fathers, and of course being a childcare professional, she knew the ropes.

        What I was not told was that they had a couple of days earlier an American-trained child protection consultant to teach the playgroup about “Stranger Danger”, with an emphasis on child abuse. When the camp marshal arrived at the tent, finding my son awake, the 4-year-old started screaming about abusive strangers and could not be reconciled when I left the dance next door and went to see to him. I had to take him away from the festival, and we have never done anything like this together again. He is 30 now, and we are totally estranged.

        The Americans and the child abuse industry professionals are very pleased with themselves, and of course they have the backing of the Establishment.

        1. Jeremy – I’m sorry your acrimonious divorce led to complete estrangement from your now adult children. I guess your ex knew exactly what she and the child protection consultant were doing. It’s very sad that your children have not gained any insight into this as they grew up.

          My own children are in their forties and one is rather leftie and the other even further to the right than I am – so I think, in spite of divorce when they were in their late teens, that some kind of balance was achieved.

        2. I think mothers behaving in such a way is absolutely reprehensible. It is very sad your son, having reached adulthood, hasn’t been able to see how the situation was manipulated, but I suppose he has only ever been fed one side of the story.

        1. Apparently so. Some of the commenters thought if they were brought up in poverty it meant they weren’t privileged, but of course, if they were white, they were, no matter how poor. No matter that our ancestors were all white. This is how these people twist our language.

    1. No need for that. All they need do is to amputate his right leg at the knee, and he will then be in the correct media-approved posture.

  23. Another right wing news site has bitten the dust thanks to left wing censorship:

    “The editorial staff at Voice of Europe’s regrets to inform you, our

    readers, that we will be ceasing our news publishing operations

    indefinitely. Our decision, of course, comes with the heaviest of hearts

    and follows months of increased censorship from Google, Facebook, and

    Twitter”

    “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”

  24. The BBC and most MSM getting into the realms of Python farce now by equating people travelling to the seaside and having a good time with rioting in Brixton and now another in Notting Hill last night.
    I assume they realise the whole country is laughing at them, but they don’t seem to care.

    3. The black rioters were limited to ’27 police officers were injured at an ‘unsanctioned street party’. No mention of the hard Left agenda promoted by black racists.

    1. The corporals bearskin must be a new one , it’s still got the sales ticket attached

      1. Well, it is the Grenners….(a lesser corps or regiment! – that’ll get the Brown Jobs going…)

          2. By George you are right.

            I withdraw any aspersions.

            One of the finest regiments in the British Army….

          4. Had National Service not been abolished 16 days before my birthday; and had I not had a different career laid out for me, I would have done my two years in the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards.

    2. A fine advertisement for UK industry? We made the wings. France, Spain, Germany, China and the USA made everything else.

      1. You can’t fly without the wings 🙂 I’m sure we make some of the electronics and fly-by-wire bits, don’t we?

    3. It is impressive. Was it worth almost ÂŁ1 million? Yes, I think so, given that it’s a flying advertisement for the UK, to be seen all over the world.

    4. If only it were a Concorde. (Concorde: A supersonic airliner that went out of service because the USA blocked its use.)

        1. Caused by debris on the runway, rather than any fault of the aircraft.

          The debris fell from a “Continental” aircraft so the Yanks were at fault.

          }:-O

          2. Once the Yanks “lost” a large part of the advantage of SS flights it was never going to be viable.

        2. After the Concorde struck a bit that fell off an American airliner. But that was long after the USA had torpedoed the project. Jealousy. Economic warfare. There is virtually no aeroplane technology that the USA did not get free from the UK.

  28. More Delingpole

    “As time goes on, the more angry and less restrained or timid among
    us, are going to start taking matters into their own hands. I really
    don’t want there to be violence, still less do I want anything
    approaching civil war.

    What I cannot see though, is how
    there can be a happy ending to the current state of affairs, in which a
    narrow ruling elite takes the side not of the decent, law-abiding and
    fundamentally majority but of a needling, cry-bulling, destructive
    minority bent on destroying everything the majority believe in.

    Under
    those circumstances, what exactly does the narrow ruling elite think
    the abused, put-upon and ill-considered majority are going to do? Carry
    on, lying down and taking it? Or moving on to demonstrations of anger a
    touch more forthright than merely pulling banners behind aeroplanes?”
    Winter is coming………………………………

    1. Revolutions seldom take place in winter (the Russians are an exception). Hot days are what trigger it. July is a good month …

      1. Nice one, Grizz! B-))
        We have the 30C as well, and it’s great! after bellyaching all the last year about being cold, at last I can top up with warm.
        About to go farming this weekend, with a shooting competition tomorrow (last place is already reserved for me), so better look out the sunblock & solar topee.

        1. Thanks, Paul. Have a great weekend and tell us all about it on Monday. :•)

    1. Yet another totally partisan failure in the US.

      Everyone rightly mocks Mr Rashids voting services as a license to fiddle the result but the US has an issue with voter suppression. Partisan state legislators are renowned for controlling where voting stations are placed, the same legislators have been tweaking registration requirements to omit many from the polls.

      Free for all postal ballots are not the answer but there again nor is disenfranchising parts of the population that disagree with your views.

      1. Democrats place voting stations close to graveyards………………….
        Wouldn’t want the dead to have to walk far to vote………….

        1. And Republicans closed voting stations in Democrat areas, they are both failing badly.

  31. Morning all

    SIR – My sons may play golf, but their children may not play cricket. Cinema buffs will soon be permitted to indulge their passion, but there is still nothing for us live-theatre lovers.

    Coronavirus has become a bureaucrat’s paradise, with our supposedly libertarian Prime Minister as its chief cheerleader.

    Michael Brotherton

    Chippenham, Wiltshire

    1. SIR – Let me get this clear. I can eat myself silly, drink myself legless and sit in a dark, still cinema, but may not visit my light, airy gym for exercise or Pilates to maintain my health.

      My granddaughters may go to a theme park, the beach and the zoo, but they may not hug me in a sunny garden or go to school for their educational, psychological or social benefit, even though they are the least likely to have the virus or to transmit it.

      Which bureaucrat thinks up these illogical rules? I live in an area where there have been no cases for a week, and only 82 cases in all. I resent being treated like an unintelligent fool.

      And who is the Government to tell me how to be sensible and manage risk when I have been doing that for more than 70 years?

      Anne Passman

      Wembury, Devon

  32. SIR – Having read the appalling rules for entering a public house as of July, as far as I’m concerned, they continue to remain closed.

    John Kennedy

    Hornchurch, Essex

  33. BBC Breakfast :Professor this morning talking about effects of COVID-19 on brain.

    From videos I’ve seen reporting on post COVID autopsies I note that the virus has little effect on the integrity of the brain.
    Most dysfunction arises from the hypoxic effects due inability of the blood to carry oxygen to the vital organs.

  34. Morning again

    SIR – My mother has been shielding for three months and has now been informed she can resume her chemotherapy. She was told she must have had a negative Covid test first.

    The NHS 111 website will only let you book a test if you have symptoms or are a key worker. On telephoning 111, she was harangued for daring to ask for a test when she was neither symptomatic nor a key worker. She has no wish to falsify symptoms to get a test, but there is no other way.

    The systems needs to be joined up quickly if the urgent medical treatments that so many have waited for are not to be delayed further.

    Nicholas Higgs

    London W1

    1. The denial of cancer treatment and diagnosis is a scandal which demeans those whose medical responsibilities and ethics would never have allowed them to desert the sick on the instruction of managers and politicians.

      1. Trouble is, you need the whole thing to be working. You can’t just march in and operate on people, or administer chemotherapy, if the said managers have told everyone else to stay at home. The hospital doctors I know are beyond frustrated.

    2. Good luck with getting the systems to be joined up. The government hasn’t done joined up thinking for decades.

  35. Rebecca Long-Bailey sacking reignites Labour turmoil over antisemitism. Thu 25 Jun 2020 22.03 BST

    In a swift move, Long-Bailey was summarily dismissed as shadow education secretary for sending an approving tweet about an interview in which the actor Maxine Peake said the US police tactic of kneeling on someone’s neck was taught by the Israeli secret service.

    In actuality it appears that the claim about this being an Israeli technique appears to be true. Why US Police would be travelling to Israel to learn methods of restraint resides one suspects more in the realm of Freebies; no one after all is travelling to Manchester to learn the art of Ecky Thump! Why this is anti-Semitic lies in the realm of identity politics where Israeli sensitivity to any accusation borders on paranioa. Starmers response is merely cynical. He has disposed of a political embarrassment and gone some way to healing the rift between Labour and the Jewish Vote.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/25/keir-starmer-sacks-rebecca-long-bailey-from-shadow-cabinet

    1. Not maybe so bad. I think it was a political error to accept any position in the Shadow Cabinet. Kier S may have wanted to keep his enemies closer, but he’s blown it.

    2. I note the pathetic words used by Sir Ikea – she was “asked to step down”. Wot if she’d said “No, bog off”?

          1. He has a clear mission – to stamp out Christianity and destroy the Church of England. I suspect that Cameron was given instructions by Soros to appoint him.

          2. Anti European and anti Christianity. Bleks are probably OK, even if they are Christian

      3. You’ve got to hand it to the Common Purpose mob; they set out to replace the heads of every part of the British establishment with their trained and primed agents and it looks like they have done a most thorough job.

      1. I think that’s Puritans. Anyway Canterbury Cathedral was Catholic long before it was Protestant.

        1. May we have it back please? Along with the monastic lands and some compensation for the Tyburn martyrs?

          2. There were both Catholic and Protestant martyrs during the Reformation. They all were willing to die for their faith. Contrast this with Islamic ‘martyrs’, who want to kill others as well as themselves.

          3. Heretics all. Perhaps they will be in Heaven now. That was the purpose of an auto-da-fe.
            We’ll find out later.

          4. I don’t think the RC Church would want the buildings back – they would cost too much to maintain.

          7. When the Catholic Church in France was disestablished in 1905 it turned out to be an own goal as the state now owns the churches and is responsible for their upkeep.

          8. We went to Mass in Nice and the very large church was closed off internally on one side with scaffolding and plastic sheeting as there was ongoing work on the roof. That is, repairs had been requested and it was hoped that would be completed started within the decade.

    3. I think it was Steve Turley in one of his talks who showed a clip of some 4th century representations of Christ from Egypt showing him as pretty white individual – presumably already being represented as a typical ‘Roman citizen’ rather than a real life Jew.

    4. If Welby wants accurate historical depictions he should have a word with the BBC which plants Africans and Asians in the most unlikely dramatic scenes.

    5. Is there no end to the stupidity of this reclusive offensive idiot. We joked yesterday that he’d probably want to take down all the crucifixes and ‘black’ out all stained glass windows depicting Jesus and the what about the disciples and let’s not forget Mary. In fact why not make all stained glass windows black.

      I’m not at all religious and HMQ must be tearing her hair out and DoE laughing his head off.

        1. Sadly Uncle Bill, I don’t think he’s mad. I think he knows exactly what he is doing by alienating his congregations and replacing them with lefty dogma-fed robots. As I said last night I was confirmed by Ian Ramsey the then Bishop of Durham, and he was a wonderful and inspiring man. I was 12 and he really spoke to me! I can’t imagine the wet and waffly Welby inspiring anyone!

          5. And when that comes how many practising Christians (as opposed to nominal) will accept martyrdom like some of those in Nigeria & the Near/Middle East. Will atheists make a stand or just convert?

          7. My point was that many being being persecuted elsewhere stand by their principles and refuse to convert. I was wondering how many in this country would stand by their beliefs if it meant martyrdom or instead choose to fall under the yoke of Islam.

          8. I fear martyrdom is out of fashion, these days. Unless you belong to BLM, of course.

        2. “Madman found in charge of Church of England – police to act assist in the lunacy.” more like.

    7. We use our artistic vision, whether we live in the Roman Empire, the courts of Florence, or post-war Britain. We know, of course, that Christ was a Middle-Eastern Jew, and not a blue-eyed Nordic. Of course we do. The statues, the stained glass, are about story-telling and involvement in the story.
      Passed down to us through history, these artworks, whether simple or ornate, remind us of the story and our shared Faith. They remind us that we believe what the artists believed down the centuries. We are one with them in the Faith.

      1. Moreover an artist working in NW Europe in the medieval period may not have had that much contact with people from the E Med and would have been inclined to portray Christ in the same style as the people he was familiar with.

        1. Just so. The propaganda tells us that there were blacks all over the place throughout recorded time. Even now. (I saw a young black man in a local town three weeks ago. First this year.)

        2. Probably with more than a passing likeness to the rich person who paid for the work.

          1. That was certainly the case in many religious pictures such as the “Visitation of the Magi” type of thing, where the patron’s family would be assigned roles as Magi, servants, shepherds, donkeys… A few months ago there was an art programme about an artist who had been commissioned to do a portrait of a lady. He went round quite a lot of people to procure payment for including them in the painting. By the time the “portrait” was finished it looked like a very large crowd.

            Although not many as blatant as this more recent effort:

            https://denverartmuseum.org/object/2001.741

      2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BilV-ruL9w

        BLM Activist Wants to DESTROY ALL ‘WHITE JESUS’ ARTWORK! You WON’T BELIEVE Russia’s RESPONSE!!!
        Steve Turley

        I watched this a couple of days ago, and can’t remember if he explains that the images are European to sell Christianity to Europeans.

    8. Very wise.

      Islam forbids statues, and if he is going to make amends to the Muslims it seems very sensible.

      1. Probably a wise move on the part of the Muslims as Mohammed is described as white in several instances in the koran – really would fit the agenda having to portray him realistically.

        1. He’s done his 3 score and 10.

          He’s probably given up on the way the CoE has moved.

          Ali stood down years ago too, but either would do a far better job than Sicby

    1. Morning Peddy, morning all.

      Sunny again here. Going to go and bask while it still lasts.

      My sister and her boys are coming today. I will get to touch a living human for the first time in three months. Bit overwhelmed.

      3. Don’t go to the beach. Matt Handycock will leap out from behind a dune and arrest you.

        1. There was a punch up at a local beach last night, it was rather serious and involved large gangs of youths. So the headmaster in the Welsh Gov has told us all that we will be kept locked up for longer if we don’t behave. I’m sure that all the yobs are listening carefully!

      5. Grab all the hugs you can and then some. So sorry to hear you’ve not hugged anyone for so long. Enjoy.

        2. I give myself self hugs and smile at myself in the mirror.

          Perfectly normal and nothing to do with lockdownomania….

          1. Everything normal now is totally different so you go right ahead, no one will bat an eyelid! 😹😹😹

    1. No doubt they’ll then get arrested.

      Comedy bit is this young thug being chased off by unfit chaps with walking sticks!

      Cripes they’re pathetic. Snivelling little worms.

    3. No doubt they’ll then get arrested.

      Comedy bit is this young thug being chased off by unfit chaps with walking sticks!

      Cripes they’re pathetic. Snivelling little worms.

  40. Cambridge defends academic who said ‘white lives don’t matter’. 25 June 2020 • 11:55pm

    Dr Priyamvada Gopal, an expert in postcolonial literature, claimed her tweets were ‘speaking to a structure and ideology, not about people’

    She’s lying! She has “form”. She hates white people!

    Dr Gopal, who is from India, has previously gone on strike after claiming that a porter’s refusal to call her “doctor” is racist.

    In 2018 she refused to teach students at King’s College after experiencing what she described as “consistently racist aggression and profiling” from the college’s porters.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/25/cambridge-defends-academic-said-white-lives-dont-matter/

    1. Morning, Minty.
      Since Dr. Gopal is patently so unhappy in this country, why doesn’t she return to India?
      Surely, there must be a university or nursery school in the sub-continent that would appreciate her wit and wisdom.

        1. Morning Minty! I wonder when these people will realise that deleting things and obfuscating does not make them disappear!

      3. I was recently treated to a rant by an American BLM activist which was shared by one of our school’s mothers. This ‘lady’ was talking about how her ancestors were transported to America on slave ships. I couldn’t help but think that we now have these things called ‘aeroplanes’ and if America is such an awful, racist country which does she not just get on one? I am sure that many UK/US citizens would be happy to see a proportion of our vast aid budget assigned to re-location grants of say ÂŁ10k each, to assist with flights, initial accommodation costs and setting up a business. One-way trip and cancelling of all US/UK citizenship of course. This would genuinely be a better use of our aid than doling it out to dictators, and would allow all the oppressed former slaves to escape the racist West and make a better life in the mother country.

        Come on now, form an orderly queue – let’s be having you!

        1. In the aftermath of the American Civil War it was envisaged that large numbers of blacks, now freed, would wish to return to their homelands, particularly as much of the United States was still hostile to them. Very few obliged. An America ruled by White Men was far more appealing than an Africa ruled by blacks! The same rule pertains today!

        2. I’m sure our biassed media is at fault. They just will not tell us the truth.
          In reality, there are millions of Caribbeans and Afro-Americans high tailing it back to the ancestral lands to enjoy the traditional culture and benefit with their accumulated cash and wisdom, the descendants of those unfortunates left behind in the jungle.

        3. In the aftermath of the American Civil War it was envisaged that large numbers of blacks, now freed, would wish to return to their homelands, particularly as much of the United States was still hostile to them. Very few obliged. An America ruled by White Men was far more appealing than an Africa ruled by blacks! The same rule pertains today!

          4. Between the time when the the white colonialists had left and before Mandela and Mugabe were in power there was a vast amount of movement of people from the north of Africa to South Africa and Rhodesia in the south which were prosperous and governed by whites.

            The truth would appear to be that however much the black activists wish to foment hatred of whites most blacks are very happy to profit from white economic successes.

            (This rather reminds me of the people who said they would leave Britain as soon as Britain left the EU. Why are all these people still in Britain.)

        4. Spot on JK reparations by the way of repatriation. The only sensible solution to their continuing whining.

      4. 320648+ up ticks,
        Morning Anne,
        Precisely, old shaky super quill himself could not have penned it better.

    2. She’s obviously good at one thing…and that’s playing the race card.

      ‘Morning, Minty.

    3. The people of a country are the structure and ideology.

      She is a racist. By her own words she said ‘white lives don’t matter’ The University can complain about personal attacks on her but she made a personal attack on every white person. The comical hypocrisy that she can be abusive but shouldn’t have to accept it is typical of the Left.

      The police should be investigating her for her ‘hate crime’. The law they want to use to hurt their enemies should be used against them first and always but then, that’s not how our legal system works, is it?

      1. Could we stop this please? The sight of that vile bag of effluent sickens me.

        Worse we all know she’ll be rewarded rather than punished for her endemic racism.

  41. Failed again:

    SIR — The front page of today’s Daily Telegraph shows a photograph of tens of thousands of holidaymakers crowded together on one of many beaches in the UK.

    The same edition reports that club cricket will be banned for the entire season. Where is the logic for this? Are we lamenting the death of common sense?

    A Grizzly B.

    1. Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.

      No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

      – Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
      – Why the early bird gets the worm;
      – Life isn’t always fair;
      – And maybe it was my fault.

      Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
      His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
      Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
      It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
      Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
      Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
      Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot . She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

      Common Sense was preceded in death,

      – by his parents, Truth and Trust,
      – by his wife, Discretion,
      – by his daughter, Responsibility,
      – and by his son, Reason.

      He is survived by his five stepchildren;

      – I Know My Rights
      – I Want It Now
      – Someone Else Is To Blame
      – I’m A Victim
      – Pay me for Doing Nothing

      Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

    2. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries a poet and playwright of some promise wrote a play or two plays set in Roman times.

      Some of his lines could just as well have been set in Britain in a time 2,000 after the Roman Empire had started to crumble!

      For example:

      O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
      And men have lost their reason.

      1. I don’t think it’s so much that the current generation of politicians have lost their reason, it is more like they never had any.

        They all hail from a generation that never knew hardship; didn’t fight in (or endure) any war; and have been mollycoddled from birth by parents with much too liberal attitudes. They are completely out-of-touch with reality.

    3. Yo Mr Grizzle

      If Beach Volleyball* is an Olympic ‘spectator’ sport

      Can we not have beach cricket

      *No red blooded male has ever watched the ball in Beach Volleyball, they study the retention power of |Lycra

    4. 320648+ up ticks,
      G,
      It would have been a different picture if the same amount of peoples were stepping ashore from small boats.
      The submissive pcism & appeasement unwritten rulings would say being foreigner they were not aware of the
      countries dictatorship rules.

  42. I note that nothing has come of Priti Flamingo’s purported chastening of Ms. Dick so I assume that she has found out that the chief of the Met is as bulletproof as the Home Office. Poor Priti. Does she quit or go along with the pantomime?

    2. A reply from Cambs police. Other reports received and case being investigated. I expect that she will be told she is a very naughty girl, but they like her.

    3. I would have said that this was unbelievable – but the tragic truth is that it is entirely believable.

      1. 320648+ up ticks,
        Afternoon R,
        As in a prior post conspiracy theories are no longer the thing every odious issue is real and must be faced.
        This has gone far past keep in / keep out, party first mode of voting this is NOW the life or death of a once decent nation.

      2. I’d happily contribute to the price of a ticket back to India – perhaps she’s not aware of just how respected women are over there . How does she have the nerve to even think that let alone write it.

    2. 320648+ up ticks,
      Afternoon Rik,
      So, 1 Down leaves only about 23000 plus roaming the streets courtesy of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration coalition party, topped up daily via Dover.
      Are there really peoples who believe their lives are safe in them there party hands ?

  47. Major incident at Park Inn Hotel in W George St, Glasgow today; multiple stabbings , armed police involved.

    2. 320648+ up ticks.
      TB,
      Lest we forget we must NEVER confuse weakness with
      orchestrated treachery.

    3. They have faith that the Home Secretary will do what she says on the tin, ie provide them with a home.

  50. It sounds as though it was merely a misunderstanding over the queuing arrangements for after-prayers brunch.

  51. This is just marvellous, marvellous, marvellous

    Delingpole: UK Parliament Rebrands with Wokest Logo Evah

    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/06/Parliament-new-logo-640×480.png

    JAMES DELINGPOLE 26 Jun 2020

    Britain’s parliament has rebranded itself with possibly the wokest logo evah: a rainbow flag which invokes simultaneously the racial harmony of South Africa, the quiet dignity of Black Lives Matter, the modest restraint of the transgender movement, the subtlety of LGBTQ and the scientific and economic integrity of the green movement – all in one multicoloured vomiting splurge of rainbow-hued diversity.

    The lockdown-afflicted economy may be a basket case; the government may be a dead-administration-walking led by blond-mopped serial shagging zombie who has finally been found out; the Conservatives may have surrendered every last joint of ideological backbone to the forces of Social Justice, identity politics and weaponised resentment.

    But never let it be said that if you were a gay, transgender, BLM-supporting unicorn who was also an activist for Extinction Rebellion, that this isn’t EXACTLY the logo you would have chosen to rebrand Britain.

    2. Cringe. Presumably the poo colour in the gay rights flag is in reference to…

    3. 320648+ up ticks,
      They reckon the Queen has a wicked sense of humour
      could be she has granted this with the gates of incarceration & matching manacles with politico’s in mind, past time and well deserved.

    1. It isn’t about racism because really, that doesn’t exist – except amongst black thugs.

      These riots are about forcing an agenda and randomly destroying society because they’ve been told they can.

      1. 320648+up ticks,
        Seemingly they have been given carte blanche
        via the polling booth and the lab/lib/con submissive pcism & appeasement coalition party,
        it has been growing worse daily for decades, via the ballot booth same all round suspects political & electoral.

  54. Good morning all

    Re the major incident on Bournemouth beach , rumour has it that there was a very nasty fight between blacks , 3 badly injured by stabbings and a death.. no mention on the news . Funny thing the media is!

    1. Chaotic scenes at Bournemouth beach. 25 June 2020.

      MULTIPLE fights on Bournemouth beach left one man with cuts to his face and another with injuries after he was headbutted.

      A woman was attacked on an approach road to the beach, teenagers jumped into the water off Bournemouth pier and police were called several times to altercations.

      Morning Belle. Well they could suppress news of a murder in the MSM Belle but I doubt it here. It’s almost certainly rumour!

      https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18541462.chaotic-scenes-bournemouth-beach/

      1. It’s madness, i don’t think the majority of nottlers will ever again see this country as we all once knew it. It’s done for.
        As the toilets are still shut, everyone knows what goes on in the water.

        1. No it’s finished. We here on this blog are among those few who can remember it how it used to be.

        2. A psychiatrist will tell you that the P is silent as in bathing.

          Apart from carrying special urine bags what are people supposed to do if there are no lavatories? reminds me of the song where passengers are requested to refrain from their natural functions of peeing and flushing when the train is in the station at Crewe.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PsOX0hjnI

    2. ‘Morning, Belle. The meeja was obviously in awe of the declaration of a ‘major incident’ but apart from making some council officials feel very important what, in practical terms, happened then? Was everyone running around like headless chickens? Was the beach flooded with emergency services? Were the local hospitals on standby for huge numbers of casualties? Or was it just a case of wee Jock McPlop having lost the key to the one and only bog?

      1. 320648+ up ticks,
        Morning HJ,
        The only service on 24/7 standby and under daily pressure is the incoming alien department
        of the welfare state, especially in the Dover area
        where we are taking on pirate boarders en masse.

          1. 320648+ up ticks,
            JM,
            Most likely but in saying that also highly likely that the product in question is made by the incoming pirates countrymen.

  55. Sky has just reported that the copper is critical so he’s probably already dead!

  58. Passing through the home gym this morning, there was some bloke, apparently Supreme UK Envoy to WHO, or similar on TV, who said that people need to be aware it is still all very risky and Covid 19 has not gone away. Actually, there can hardly be anyone in the UK who is unaware of the risks.
    If the British people are flocking to the beaches they will have made that decision being fully aware of the risks. The British people are increasingly showing that they will ignore lockdown and take their chances and live normally.
    After all, if massed protests are not declared “major incidents” a paddle in the sea cannot possibly be wrongdoing.

    1. Over the past few months there have been many comments about how the government needs to stop the pandering baby talk and just give general advice and let people get on with it.

      Just as everywhere else, that’s working out well isn’t it.

      After weeks without a case, we have ten new cases reported locally, all traced back to a nail salon that was ignoring all guidelines. We will se how that works out over the next few weeks.

  59. Delingpole – Not my Spectator Column:

    One of the pleasures of joining the great right-wing exodus from Twitter to Parler is being allowed once more to follow blacklisted naughty-steppers like Sargon of Akkad, Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson. I like and admire them all in different ways. But definitely the one most likely to cause you reputational damage if you state this publicly is Tommy Robinson.

    “Toxic Tommy, that’s me,” he told me on one of the several podcast interviews I’ve done with him. And he’s right. He is yet another of the reasons I lost my column at a certain magazine. When the editor called to give me the boot, he said: “Unfortunately times have changed and there are pieces that we ran in the past that we could never run now. One is Rod Liddle’s column where he said that he could never have been a school teacher because all he would have wanted to do is shag the girl pupils. Another is your interview with Tommy Robinson.”

    What the editor objected to about the interview most of all I’m sure, was the fact that I admitted to liking Tommy Robinson and that I thought he had been unfairly maligned. My suspicion is that ever after it was a source of resentment both to the editor and chairman (Andrew Neil) because it gave opportunist leftists like Owen Jones a chance to stick the boot into the magazine by shrieking that it endorsed the ‘far right’.

    But even though, yes, Tommy Robinson possibly did help cost me my column, I really don’t resent him for it and I remain loyal to him. Partly it’s a matter of principle: one of the weaknesses we have on the right is that we’re often far too eager to sacrifice our slightly more right-wing comrades in order to feed the leftist crocodile. Mainly it’s because I don’t honestly think Tommy Robinson has done anything wrong. Sure he’s a bit handy with his fists on occasion, and I do wish he didn’t have this reckless urge to put himself in positions where he gives the police an excuse to arrest him, and the Crown Prosecution Service to throw the book at him. But in terms of moral character I’d say he’s a lot more principled than a lot of the Establishment figures who’ve made it their business to destroy him. In fact, as I’ve argued before, Tommy Robinson is our Emmanuel Goldstein – the universal hate figure in Nineteen Eighty-Four created by the oppressive state in order to deflect the public’s rage from its more obvious target the oppressive state itself.

    By chance this morning someone tweeted a quotation from an article written in 2007 in the Express by Leo McKinstry. It would never get published now because the Express has changed and so has the media climate. (Read the article here while you still can. It’s bound to get memory-holed).

    Here’s the quote:

    England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population.

    Yes. We’ve seen this most recently in the case of Jake Hepple, the Burnley FC football fan who chartered a plane to pull a banner over the Etihad stadium in Manchester saying: ‘WHITE LIVES MATTER BURNLEY.’

    What shocked me was the Blitzkrieg alacrity with which the political and cultural and corporate Establishment piled on to him. Within moments of the story breaking, leftist opinion formers like Piers Morgan and Gary Lineker were tweeting their disapproval. In came the Mail with a story about his ‘racist’ comments on social media and the Telegraph with one linking him to football hooliganism and another to the ‘far-right EDL’ (naturally, to show how evil and dangerous he was, the papers all ran photos of him posing with Tommy Robinson’). Blackpool airport ordered a ban on flights pulling banners; Burnley’s captain said he was ‘ashamed and embarrassed’; Burnley FC banned Hepple from ever coming to the club again; Hepple’s girlfriend was sacked from her job as a beautician; Hepple lost his job as a welder at Paradigm Precision; Lancashire Police said they’d be investigating to see if a crime had been committed; and so on and on.

    And for what? For displaying a banner that almost every one involved in all the above named institutions almost certainly agree with, especially after the brutal murder of three white men in a reading park by an asylum seeker from Libya on the intelligence services’ watch list.

    I say that the Blitzkrieg alacrity of Hepple’s persecution shocked me. But it didn’t as much as it could have done because I’d seen it before, having followed quite closely several of Tommy Robinson’s court cases. Up until I did so, I’d had great faith in the English justice system which I believed to be quite rightly the envy of the world. Not after seeing how it treated Tommy, though. Clearly the order had gone out from on high – some say as high as Theresa May – to get Tommy. He could not be allowed to win. He had to be made an example of. He needed to be silenced. Not literally silenced – though I think quite a few Establishment figures wouldn’t have minded this if it could be achieved without too much civil unrest afterwards. But definitely put in a position where he wasn’t able to act as a figurehead for all those white working classes sick to death at what’s happening to the country they love and not able to bear it for much longer.

    Just remind yourself how the English Defence League started and why Tommy Robinson became Public Enemy Number One. The EDL arose, initially, as an ad hoc protest group trying to raise awareness of – and ideally discourage or prevent – the systematic grooming and rape by organised gangs of mostly Muslim men, mostly from Pakistani Kashmir, of mostly underage white and Sikh girls in mostly working class areas. The police, the authorities generally, just didn’t want to know – sometimes because they were themselves complicit in the mass sexual abuse. So the indigenous population took matters into their own hands.

    Now here’s where the story starts to look like a conspiracy theory. And I wish it were otherwise because I don’t want to find myself relegated to tin foil hat territory. But it seems to me the facts speak for themselves: instead of responding to the EDL’s protests, the political, media and judicial establishment effectively took the side of the rape gangs. They shot the messenger. The EDL were branded ‘far right’ (as no doubt some of them were, but then you can see the temptation under the circumstances) and Tommy Robinson was successfully stigmatised as a hateful thug so toxic that it merely to write about him approvingly – see above – could prove deleterious to your career prospects in mainstream civilisation.

    Only connect. Why do you think it is that the Metropolitan Police’s head of counter-terrorism Neil Basu keeps banging on about the ‘right-wing’ terror threat rather than the much more clear and present Islamic one? Why do you think everyone from BBC Panorama to the supposedly conservative Mail laps up and promotes this arrant nonsense? Why have our media, our politicians and our institutions been so keen to kowtow to the race-baiting hard left Marxist thugs of Black Lives Matter but so quick to vilify any counter protests?

    I think it’s fairly obvious that Britain has long been in the grip of a form of institutionalised racism which is so deeply embedded in the system at all levels that it is now unconscious.

    It’s just not the same kind of racism that BLM keeps banging on about or that the Daily Mail keeps warning us about or that Boris Johnson insists it’s his mission to do more to prevent.

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      2. I have – but I’m struggling to find my way there. Look for Ndovu with the same image as here. I only have one follower so far.

        1. I just attempted to follow you and was told it’s a private account. Mine isn’t private and I appear to have 27 followers without having posted anything at all! I do a lot of up-ticking so maybe some people follow anyone who seems to like them.

        2. I just attempted to follow you and was told it’s a private account. Mine isn’t private and I appear to have 27 followers without having posted anything at all! I do a lot of up-ticking so maybe some people follow anyone who seems to like them.

          1. I think I’ll edit that then and make it not private. I seem to have to approve followers. Will have a look for you.

          2. It’s now a public profile – you were there as a “pending” follower so you’re now “approved”. I’m getting there! Slow progress. I made another attempt to get Twitter to unsuspend my account but not holding my breath.

        1. It sells itself on its freedom of speech – but so far I have found it’s very Trumpian.

    4. If his employer has sacked him then they will be sued, same for his partner. He committed no crime, his statement was nothing more than what looters and rioters have already done, his was peaceful.

      What this exposes is the inherent hypocrisy of these people so crush them. Make them pay and pay and pay.

    5. I’ve long said that TR is a political prisoner because he dared to expose the grooming gangs scandal and, more dangerously to the establishment, the cover up.

  60. In the 1960s, the then powers-that-be (powers-that-were?) fulfilled a commitment to abolish capital and corporal punishment.

    What you are witnessing, right now in the streets where you live, can be traced directly back to those appalling decisions.

  63. The BBC have said that they were going to make the stabbings in Glasgow their main news item on tonight’s BBC News this evening, but alas a Far Right white man has since been caught parking on a double yellow line for fifteen minutes in order to get some medicine for his sick dying mother in Tunbridge Wells, the condemnation from all around the world has been coming in from world leaders all afternoon.

    The Prime Minister has sought to calm down the media frenzy by asking for a full public enquiry.

    1. What about cauliflowers, then? Even worse, the green bits are chucked away! Discrimination against the Greens!

          2. Many things need celery as a base: from soups (and stocks, of course) to casseroles.

    1. Window dressing to convince the gullible, that’s all. Unfortunately there are far more anti-semitic votes than Jewish votes.

  66. Racism has been the grinding backdrop to my life. Is a different future now possible? Hanif Kureishi. ri 26 Jun 2020 12.19 BST

    What is usually left out of accounts of racism is the enjoyment it gives to those dishing it out – that hit of power and privilege, so easily obtained, telling the other who is boss, who would want to give that up? My father and his family, who came to the west, were soon aware that the white master wanted it both ways, to use immigrant labour to build their economy, and to enjoy their share of colonialism – racism. To do that, we had to stay in our assigned place and acknowledge that nothing is deeper than skin. But that is over.

    It would be possible to write a book on this article and its author (he is himself half white and his children are three quarters so) but suffice it to say it is like most of Kureishi’s stories about his family, complete tosh. He comes from a very privileged (this is surprisingly common among Asian whingers about racism) background. The paragraph above is a symptom more of his vanity than of any actual suffering.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanif_Kureishi#Personal_life

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/26/racism-future-mixed-race-child-london-suburb

    1. In 1975 at my secondary school all five years were gathered for a grand assembly. We were informed that the following term a boy and a girl would be joining us. A brother and sister. We were told that they were from Jamaica and under no circumstances would any form of racism be tolerated.

      We were also told that expulsion from school would be considered for any infringement. The riot act in brief.

      The assumption by the school was that there would be trouble.

      There wasn’t any. Though the newcomers were probably a bit uneasy about being stared at a lot.

      1. We had an Ethiopian pupil.

        He was praised to the rafters about how well he did in all sports and to be fair he was stylish.

        He didn’t make any of the first teams. Latent racism?

        No, he just looked good, he wasn’t remotely fast enough or skilled enough to make the grade. The stopwatch is colour blind.

    2. I know a couple at work. Both privileged, one a well-to-do Asian and the other half-caste and promoted to a senior position beyond her experience. Both now playing the victim and wallowing in grievance culture. It’s obscene, frankly.

      1. “… promoted to a senior position beyond her experience.”

        Ah, the Peter Principle is still alive and kicking.

    3. Tosh is too mild a word for the little whinging shit. Would his family have done better staying where they were? Were they held in bondage and manacled here?

      If he and his ilk want to see real racism in this fine country of ours all he needs to do is keep distorting the reality of his priveleged position and one day someone will nut him.

      My money is on Belle.

    4. As one of the alumni I get regular email updates from my old alma mater, Nottingham. The title of the latest was “systemic racism and what do do about it.” I deleted it before I blew a fuse. Most of the pictures in the alumni magazine show non-whites anyway. They won’t be happy until we have been eradicated.

      4. Good evening Mr C. They won’t be happy even when we are eradicated. What they want, what they really, really want, is our skin and dna. That is what it is all about.

    1. 320648+ up ticks,
      We will also be presiding over the renaming of keel square to be known in the future as KNEEL square.

        1. 320648+ up ticks,
          Morning T,
          The one knee kneeling position is the prelude to the double knee bike park position.

    3. That is what happens when a city goes left, Harrisonburg used to be solidly Republican. I suppose that the snow on the nearby ski hills is a bit too white.

  68. “Relax in our colorful hotel in the heart of Glasgow” (sic)
    Yes, it is the front-page of the Park Inn, Glasgow, website. Probably more colorful (sic) than one would like, as it is full of asylum seekers. No rooms available till August. Other useful information: “Our event staff can help visitors make the most of our 2 well-equipped meeting rooms, perfect for hosting small events for up to 40 people.”. Hmmm.
    https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/park-inn-glasgow-city-centre#

    1. I wonder how much it will cost the Radisson Group to clean it all up afterwards and whether the Govt (us) will pay?

      These people are not noted for how well they look after other people’s property.

      1. Room-only rates are (from) ÂŁ409 a week. Wonder if we’ll ever get to know how many guests arrive via ‘unconventional’ routes.

          8. The least I could do, given that for a few years you have skulked behind the scenes generously donating up votes to both the worthy (me) and the unworthy (BT) causes.

          11. We had that in Norway. Not enough meat… Then the internet was too slow, the camp too far away from the city, the bus too expensive, pocket money too little, bla bla fucking bla. It was all free, ffs.

          12. Norway is known to be a soft touch, like the UK, Germany and Sweden. I heard about a guy living in Germany who drove his brother all the way up to Norway so that his brother could claim asylum.

          13. I was going to say “unbelievable” but sadly, it no longer is. All too predictable. What a world.

          14. Lots of push-back, though. A famiily went on holiday to the country they apparently couldn’t live in any more because their lives were in danger… and were refused re-entry to Norway, as they had obviously lied on their refugee application.
            Squareness can pay off!
            :-))

          17. My only experience of Radisson (Blu, in Liverpool, four stars), would bear that out…I was somewhat surprised to find that their idea of a cooked breakfast was served at ambient temperature.

          18. Hi Geoff! We have used the Radisson Blu at Manchester several times when taking early flights and although it’s not cheap! the food and accommodation have been excellent! Sorry to say that their breakfast is superb!

      2. I think they get paid a lot, and they get a complete refit after the guests have departed (from what I’ve heard).

    2. Hospitality has a history of not treating staff well and has a high turnover. I wonder who is serving the labneh and krista at breakfast.

  69. One for Willum
    “Just suffered the well known problem of every basset owner ie – flat
    basset, 2 in fact. They just go totally flat when they want you to carry
    them. It wasn’t a hot path either it was on grass. When it happens you
    can do nothing until they decide to get up. Flat basset is a thing you
    just have to put up with if you have one there is no cure. Back now
    they’ll be like this till food appears.”
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b305942baab22a5ed3d27f2c419056cd6c49de5aad59ad4d3b3fada38c18f67a.jpg

  70. 320648 + up ticks,
    Is there any truth in that the northumbria police are renaming Keel square
    Kneel square with the BLm in attendance ?

  71. Mrs Murrell tells Schotland that the stabby stabby gent in Glasgae was NOT a terrorist.

    Gosh – I am just so relieved that it isn’t a Friday related slammer killer….. Just a friendly bit of banter that got out of hand.

    And on that positive note, I shall leave you in order to have a glass of medicine.

    A demain, prolly.

  72. Before democracy in Europe there was benevolent despotism.

    We seem to be rapidly returning to despotism but without the benevolence.

  73. Choke Hold

    If someone is being restrained by a choke hold and says they cannot breathe this is not evidence of a compromised airway by virtue of being able to speak. Indeed in a post mortem, asphyxiation would not be likely to figure in a cause of death.

    However rendering a subject temporarily unconscious using neck compression using a carotid artery hold needs little but carefully directed force as used in the shime-waza move used in judo.

    No fatalities as a result of shime-waza have been reported in the sport of judo since its inception in 1882.

    https://judoinfo.com/chokes6/

    If the carotid artery hold is properly applied, unconsciousness occurs in approximately 10 seconds (8-14 seconds). After release, the subject regains consciousness spontaneously in 10-20 seconds. Neck pressure of 250 mm of Hg or 5 kg of rope tension is required to occlude carotid arteries. The amount of pressure to collapse the airway is six times greater.

    1. True.
      As an aside, the difference in it being a sport rather than street fighting is that the person being choked generally taps the opponent to acknowlegde submission and the hold is released and the “fight” is over.

      1. Yes. However if a17 stone policeman is sitting on your chest while his colleague grasps your throat, you may well gasp “I can’t breath”, as you expire. Usually, judging from photos there are 4 or 5 officers restraining a person. Look at the video clips of Sheku Bayo being killed by Police Scotland.

    1. Mayor Sadiq Khan announces ÂŁ110m police cuts just hours after Met chief Cressida Dick vowed to crack down on London’s illegal raves in showdown talks with Home Secretary Priti Patel
      Mayor Khan revealed scale of cuts just hours after pledge from Dame Cressida
      Met Commissioner spoke out after talks with Home Secretary this morning
      Mrs Patel had demanded a ‘full explanation’ after violence exploded in London
      The commissioner said force staff being hurt was ‘utterly unacceptable’
      She vowed Met would stamp out the illegal events and called for public tip-offs

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8462845/Met-police-chief-Cressida-Dick-vows-tough-Londons-illegal-raves-Priti-Patel.html

    2. Money saved on police cuts could be invested in virus busting water cannons laced with an appropriate level of bleaching agent for dispersing people who are socially distance challenged. 😉

      1. Boris when Mayor bought a couple but Khan sold them for scrap because he didn’t like them

  75. Well what was most upsetting about yesterday was that all the white people went to the beach, they spent a peaceful day on the sand, although there were a few worrying moments when things could have gotten out of hand, two fat kids are reported to have run along the beach kicking down sandcastles and throwing frisbees into the waves and being a general nuisance, the Mayor of Bournemouth even had to make a public announcement to calm things down,

    So we really need to keep a balanced even judgement on these matters, perspective is the key, we all to easy blame black people for street raves, smashing up police cars, attacking police with rocks, swords and knives, when white people are just as bad in their own way,

    Note, I haven’t even gotten on to all the CO2 pollution that white people cause driving to the coast.

    1. Matt Hancock: “We might have to close the beaches.”
      George Eustice: “We will be very reluctant to do it.”
      The man who pretends to be in charge: “People are taking too many liberties…so that you have really serious spikes in the disease…on July 4th, we must get this right…blether, blether, blether.”

      Brain dead, the lot of them.

      A nation defeated by a cold virus.

      1. The disgusting amount of rubbish that humans leave behind on beaches is just unbelievable . What a filthy species people are.

        I was taught from a early age…..take nothing but a photo, leave nothing but a footprint.

        2. Litter is returning to our park here in Wellingborough. It doesn’t help that there are hardly any bins – along a half-mile stretch of well-used footpath, seven have been lost to vandalism in recent years and not replaced – but that doesn’t excuse the slovenly behaviour of the guilty, almost exclusively teenagers.

        3. no – the disgusting litter than *some people* leave behind is unbelievable. I’m bothered by squashing grass. Junior and I regularly go on litter picks to clear the park but we’re never going to keep up with a vast mass of utter scum who don’t care. Such people should be flogged. Same for people who smoke and throw the butts down whereever. They should first put it out in their eye and then carry it in their hand.

          What do you mean it’d burn? So?

  77. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson has just said…”the incident is not being treated as terrorism”. Oh, good!
    Labour MSP for Glasgow, Anas Sarwar, has urged the public.”It is really sad and really distressing and I’ve seen on social media already people trying to dehumanise them and label them as asylum seekers, etc, “But these are, first and foremost, human beings and human beings who are going through horror today. They are fellow Glaswegians who are going through horror today.”. Oh, really?
    A spokesperson for the Home Secretary said,“this has been an unfortunate incident. It is not an indicator that peaceful diversity doesn’t work or that our policy of letting all sorts of people into the UK, under the guise of asylum seeking, without any kind of screening, is not coping.”. Well, the TV pictures don’t look too peaceful.
    A spokesman for Harun Khan of the Muslim Council (Government in Waiting) said that “these things happen in cities. We have a programme of forthcoming incidents. However no one has asked us for it.”. Very helpful.
    A random Kurd was interviewed and he said, possibly allowing for an accent, “this is what happens when you put lots of all sorts in a hotel together”. Seems sensible.
    Some or all of these comments may not be true. Can you tell which ones?

    2. When my neighbour mentioned there had been a stabbing in Glasgow, I said I could write the script; “nothing to do with islam, lone wolf, mental issues and no mention of the perpetrator’s country of origin”. Seems I wasn’t far wrong.

      2. Just a friendly falling out – followed by terrible over-reaction by the police. Three days mourning (and looting) ordered by Mrs Murrell

        1. Probably driven mad by all the racist white people treating them so badly. Really, it’s all our fault when you think about it.

      3. Depressing mantra that we’ve become cynical about it yet the lies never change.

        1. I ended that recitation with “I’ve become so cynical”. It’s no wonder, is it?

        1. Refugees welcome and this is the result. If nothing else the stabbings in Glasgow have given wee Krankie an opportunity to like the sound of her own voice all day long.

          I have often pondered why immigrants flock to this country from shitholes in Africa and the Far East only on arrival to complain about the conditions here. Were they promised palaces and servants, half a dozen young girls to take as wives and large sums of money to splash out on exotic foods and a Ferrari?

          These ‘refugees’ should never be allowed to gain footholds in our country. They should be deported immediately and stuff the Human Rights Charter for making dodgy lawyers wealthier at our expense.

    3. Sounds as though the Muslim Council is planning more stabbings or are the forthcoming incidents going to encompass a greater range of activity. A few bombings and vehicles driving on pavements perhaps.

  79. Glasgow: ‘Several dead’ in stabbing incident. 26 June 2020.

    Several people are believed to have been killed in an incident in Glasgow city centre, Sky News understands.
    A male suspect was shot by an armed police officer.

    A male police officer is among those who have been injured and has been taken to hospital with knife wounds, police said.

    Whoops! Put another dent in the Black Lies Matter Agenda!

    https://news.sky.com/story/armed-police-deployed-after-several-injured-in-serious-incident-in-glasgow-12015385

        1. If Sturgeon wants independence and immigrants why not give her a deal whereby Scotland is given both its independence and all the illegal immigrants who have come in the past, are coming now and who plan to come to Britain in the future?

          .

          1. And ensure that Orkney and Shetland — who have no truck with wee Krankie’s Scottish independence fantasy — remain in the UK and keep their oil and gas revenue.

    2. According to the BBC the Copper is merely injured so he’s either been resurrected or they are lying! Take your choice!

      1. Looks like the BBC have gone into Damage Control Mode. Leak it slowly. Lots of assurances about the General Public not being at risk etc.

        1. 320648+ up ticks,
          AS,
          A great many indigenous innocent peoples have been endangered since the political rodent lifted the latch and other politico’s followed suit, getting worse these last two decades on a daily basis.

      1. I suspect the majority of Scots would not agree with Nicola. Scotland is renowned for the number of qualified people who leave Scotland and take up residence in many countries of the world. They still love Scotland.

  80. LAST POST.

    By accident I saw the beeboid tv “news” headlines – which suggest that Mr Stabby merely accidently cut six people; he didn’t kill ANYONE.

    Yer the perlice shot him dead.

    Gross and grievous over reaction by Perlice McScotland. Heids must roll. I am calling on Our Bleck Lives Bruvs to cause carnage in Glasgow over the weekend.

  81. From the Speccie……’Former government adviser Professor Neil Ferguson said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic’.

    This is worrying. Prepare for another lockdown.

    2. Another national lockdown would be a disastrous mistake. We know the risks and sensible people will do their best to avoid becoming infected.
      The government will never control all the people and they must allow businesses and people to get back to some normality.

  82. BBC news readers need to take care with their enunciation – in the lunchtime news on R3 the item on Brixton rioting appeared to make reference to Pressed a Dick.

  83. In the last week alone 100’s of illegal migrants have risked their lives to make the journey across the channel. The numbers are now so overwhelming the UK government has had to lay on a coach service to transport them onto other parts of the UK to be processed before being found places to stay.

    The risks these migrants are willing to take were highlighted this week as one group of 4 had been spotted attempting to make a crossing in a paddling pool.

    “When a patrol came closer they discovered it was four migrants in a paddling pool, using road signs to propel themselves and steer.”

    The French police said “To be fair to them they’d put in a hell of an effort to get so far.”
    The men nearly made it out of French waters, around 14 miles off the coast when they were stopped and dragged back to Calais.

    https://ukupdates.co.uk/100s-of-illegal-migrants-at-dover-are-being-escorted-onto-taxpayer-funded-coaches/?fbclid=IwAR1EzRQfZF1_W2VAQgdPvsbvR3FmRNvfcH6QZEgHHyqTm7GYWAMq7gDI2FY

    1. 320648+ up ticks,
      Afternoon TB,
      You seem to forget a salient point methinks TB in so far as how many paddling pools get through and what, when bringing them ashore in England gives this governance mob the right to endanger indigenous peoples, by that I mean the ones that did not vote lab/lib/con to be precise.

  84. 320648+ up ticks,
    The boris is deeply sad about the latest multiple fatal stabbings in Glasgow, will boris & co admit many of these peoples come to these Isles
    carrying their homeland grievances with them to be fought over here on welfare.
    Watch out behind you boris more coming up at Dover, still, you know that don’t you .

  85. Just tell pubs thay can open when they like from today. that would spread the openings out and stop the government playing little hitlers..

      1. “It is so frightening, and the police have lost respect and control.”

        Nearly right. The police have had control wrested from them by successive governments who do not have the national interest at heart.

        Is that better?

      2. “It is so frightening, and the police have lost respect and control.”

        Nearly right. The police have had control wrested from them by successive governments who do not have the national interest at heart.

        Is that better?

      4. I don’t think they’ve waited for the pubs to open before law and order has collapsed, Maggie.

  86. (Apologies to Rik Redux.)
    Ahem:
    Researchers at the University of Barcelona have detected evidence of Covid 19 in fecal samples (frozen sewage) taken on 12th March 2019.

          3. Lots of chemical data hidden within sewage. A University spin-off team in Granada has been working on commercialising their fecal analytical technology. The report from Barcelona, if confirmed, indicates that the PTB have been lying at intergalactic level.

  87. I know it’s supposed to have been cancelled but I wonder whether the BLM people will insist that the Notting Hill Carnage-evil will go ahead to riotous applause.

    1. The police wont be able to get their nails done in time with all the salons closed.

  88. Denial isn’t just a river in Africa……………….

    Just look at all the frothing virtue signalling fuckwits desperate for it not to be an asylum seeker

    Plus not MY fault guv nothing to see here…………….

    https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1276518885672574978
    You all wanted these people here,own the responsibility for your actions you cowards

    1. Don’t be daft. They don’t bother themselves with trivia like consequences.

  90. Good point made on the Speccie FB page. White folk flocking to the beaches in sunny weather are clearly trying to get a deep tan.

  92. I had to chase the GP about my plague test.

    As the excellent doctor who took it told me, I have NOT got it. One thing I don’t have to worry about. Unless the result was wrong, of course.

    1. Great speech, but if Biden and co get in I wouldn’t bet the ranch that they won’t attempt it.

      1. My pleasure Grizzly, it’s nice to see a politician who is prepared to stand up to the loony left in a calm and fact based way. Not heard of Nick Freitas until I saw that video clip. I think he was a Green Beret. Looking on YouTube I also found this clip that shows he has a good sense of humour as well.

        https://youtu.be/MaPnMiweH7w

    1. Welby needs looking at very carefully to see if he should be there. After all, he is white.

    2. Bloody hell. This Oilwellby fellow is a danger to our society. It is impossible to rewrite history. Henry VIII tried it and destroyed thousands of historical artefacts and fine mediaeval buildings.

      At this rate many CoE folk will elect to return to the Catholic Church. Welby exhibits a sort of death wish for the Church of England. We need a new Archbishop of Canterbury. May I suggest a heterosexual man of the calibre of Queen Anne Boleyn’s chaplain and Archbishop of Canterbury to Elizabeth I viz. Matthew Parker.

      1. 320648+ ticks,
        Evening C,
        I am a practising RC but have always found unlike Scotland / Ireland in England there was no segregation in a neighbourhoods, pubs etc,etc.
        ones religion was of a more private nature.

          1. 320648+ up ticks,
            Evening N,
            Seems to be the current fashion within the hierarchy of many an office of state, years of it tells me that the peoples are content with the status quo there does seem there is a great reluctance to change things.
            I do not go a great deal regarding enry, but that is another matter.

          4. I think that our many churches would be better maintained had they remained Catholic.

            The current Archbishop of Canterbury and his predecessor would appear to be happier worshipping in a Mosque, and prostrate before our future oppressors.

            These are not leaders but useful idiots serving a corrupted political class bent on destroying our culture and identity as free people.

            Edited.

          5. I am beginning to think that Cameron is as evil as May and that he deliberately appointed Welby to destroy the Church of England because Soros told him to do so.

        2. Before it self-destructed one of the great strengths of the CofE was that it did not wish to pry, As Queen Elizabeth 1st said:

          I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls.

        1. Yup. Parker was a founder of Corpus Christi along with Francis Bacon. Their statues are incorporated in the entrance facade designed by William Wilkins, a Cambridge architect in the days when Cambridge actually had architects.

          Wilkins’ buildings include the National Gallery in London and my old college University College London.

          Matthew Parker was ‘nosey’ for the reason that he looked in detail into Corpus accounts and exposed accountancy errors. Matthew Parker was a great man. He married in an age when priests were celibate.

          His fabulous collection of silver plate and early bibles, including the Bury Bible drawn on vellum (ironically used at the investiture of the prick Welby) is housed in the Parker Library at Corpus. I have seen it and can testify to the exquisite art it encumbers.

          Edit: Matthew Parker is commemorated by a stone in the floor of Lambeth Palace Chapel. I was involved in the restoration of its interior in the late eighties. We cleared the crypt and refurbished it for the 1987 Lambeth Conference, the Chapel being scaffolded internally at that time.

          We restored the great oak Laudian Screen (named after Archbishop Laud) and the artist Leonard Rossoman was commissioned to paint the vaulted plaster ceiling in a liturgical theme (hands).

    1. That cow is probably thinking “Nice and peaceful here. Usually this time of year there’s a bloody awful racket”.

    8. Aw, there’s a full size and very realistic model of a cow standing in the entrance hall at Television Centre. She belongs to the Glastonbury production team. No summer hols for Daisy this year. She’s staying at White City,

  97. Interesting programme on PBS America about the Greatest Knight, William Marshal. I’ve never heard of him.

      1. Yes. The presenter is at the Bodleian library looking at Magna Carta. We could do with a few copies of that to remind our government and police about our liberties not the taking of our liberties they are doing now.

        1. Magna Carta, did she die in vain? Looking at what’s happened, I think we can safely say yes.

  99. You can tell the mad Glasgow knifeman wasn’t white as the Bbc didn’t lead with that story.

  100. Police Scotland have reported to The Krankie, that “There is No Evidence of Terrorist Involvement …”

    Good shot, Sir …

    1. Is it a Lone Wolf attack? Mental health problems? Has he been radicalised in prison? Decisions! Decisions!

      1. No one was involved. However as precaution there is a huge police presence at the hospitals where the injured were taken.

        1. Reading between the lines, the victims INPO, are:

          A male receptionist at the Park Inn Hotel;

          Four young male residents at the Park Inn Hotel – presumably ‘refugees’ – of unknown origin;

          An unarmed Glasgow Constable, in ‘serious but stable condition’.

  101. Maxine Peake vs Laurence Fox reveals the double standards of the chattering classes

    Where was Equity, the actors’ union, when Peake told an out-and-out lie?

    DOUGLAS MURRAY

    The trouble with double-standards in the age of mass communication is that everybody can see them. Where once an individual, institution or movement might have hoped to conceal their hypocrisies, now they are there for everyone to witness. So it is with the case of Maxine Peake. This week, the actress made headlines because of an interview in which she alleged that the Israelis taught the US police how to kill George Floyd. The problem is that it is a lie. Even the far-Left, anti-Israel group Amnesty – widely alleged to be the source of the story – has denied that it is true. It is simple anti-Zionism reheated to suit the current moment.

    So perhaps it isn’t surprising that a Jeremy Corbyn protĂŠgĂŠe like Rebecca Long-Bailey should have retweeted the interview in which Peake made this claim. Apart from its racism, the interview included the standard actress stuff about the wonders of Corbynism and the importance of bringing down capitalism. They aren’t fools, these actresses. They know that if there’s one way that their profession will be reinvigorated, post-lockdown, it will be through the obliteration of the market economy. But Labour is now in new hands. And Keir Starmer swiftly sacked Long-Bailey. While his predecessor said there was no place for racism at the top of Labour, Starmer has done something to prove it.

    But the question I want answered is: where is Equity, the actors’ union? Earlier this year, after the actor Laurence Fox appeared on Question Time, the union (of which he is not even a member) denounced him. Fox’s crime was to say that he didn’t think Britain was a racist country. For this, Equity branded him a “disgrace”. Actor after actor lined up to condemn him and lobby to make sure he never worked again. After Fox took legal action and forced an apology out of Equity, the entire “race equality committee” of the union resigned.

    Perhaps this is why Equity have been so silent on Peake. Because there is no one left to do the full witch-dunking denunciation act. Or perhaps the silence is explained in another way. The same way that one might explain the silence of the actors and celebs who clambered over each other to denounce Fox. Could it be that most people in the acting and celebrity worlds are happy with someone who promotes conspiracy theories, so long as it is wrapped up in the fashionable idiot language of anti-capitalism and “equality”?

    I suspect so. In which case I would strongly recommend that Peake and her colleagues mull on something. What Fox said on Question Time reflects the sentiment of the vast majority of the British public. What Peake said reflects the views of a small group of malcontents who the public has rejected at the ballot box every time we have had the chance. So here is the thing, my actor-y friends. It’s not the public who are living in some hyper-partisan, out-of-touch bubble. It’s you. And we can see you very well.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/26/maxine-peake-vs-laurence-fox-reveals-double-standards-chattering

    I think it’s simpler than politics and ideas of virtue, Dougie old chap. As an actress, she’s gone from the perky, bright-eyed, blonde high-flyer to the scraggy, wizened old office cleaner in a very short time. Any publicity will do.

    1. I thought that, apart from the swearing, Laurence acquitted himself well in his interview on Trigger nometry. I would have been tempted to bang my head on the desk when they start spouting about “white privilege”.

    1. It worked perfectly. The computer central processor detected an error on the clock, ten seconds of variation from central processor time, and immediately brought the car to a standstill in order that the problem could be rectified.

    2. Whoosh!
      :-((
      Never much rated Lambos. Now, Ferrari… a much better tractor.

          1. Saw one at the 1980 Motor Show at the NEC. I’ve still not stopped drooling. Best looking Ferrari ever.

      2. If I had the money I would support my local car manufacturer, McLaren. Unfortunately I doubt I would get into one and if I did I doubt I’d be able to get out again. :-))

        1. Always been my problem. I could have had a MG Midget when I passed my test, but it was too small.
          Probably just as well.

          1. When I was coming up 18 I went to Spain at the invitation of a friend who had a Mini. There were 4 of us, 4 lots of luggage and a frame tent. I could only go for 2 weeks as I was working and was dropped off in Gibraltar to fly home. I’m 6’6” and there was great amusement when I unrolled from the car. That was 1964.

  103. Oh my goodness me….. wheels within wheels…………

    ”In May 2017 the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) granted Cameron’s appointment as a Director of U2 Frontman Bono’s One Foundation which is also supported by Bill Gates and George Soros’s Open Society”.

    https://powerbase.info/index.php/David_Cameron

  104. Evening, all. Been another scorcher here. Last night was far too hot and sultry to sleep. The dog was beside himself trying to get cool. Here it starts to get light about 03.20! As a consequence, when I did get to sleep I overslept. Panic stations because I was going to a neighbour’s for a quiet drink and some laughs. I just about made it. When I came back I discovered none of my phones was working and when I tried to report it on my mobile, the call rang and then was ended. I finally worked it out that the answerphone has gone wrong and I have got the other phones to work now. If it isn’t one thing, it’s another 🙁

    1. Given that Spartie’s forebears came from Mexico, he has certainly adapted to the English climate. He’s been absolutely flat out – sometimes really not knowing what to do with himself.
      Thank goodness. An energetic dog nagging for walks would have finished me off.

      1. I remember that when on the boat from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The sun went down on the left side and almost immediately rose on the right. I carried on reading throughout.

        1. Beliye nochi. I suppose they’ll be pressed to rename that now as White Nights don’t matter 🙂

      2. I know I’m towards the north of England, but I am nowhere near that far north 🙂

  105. A short play.

    “Are you the receptionist?”
    “Yes”
    This knife you’ve issued me isn’t sharp enough. See?
    “nggrhh”
    Are you part of the reception team?
    “yes”
    This knife isn’t sharp enough”

    “ngaahhas”
    “Oi wot you looking at? Allahu Akabar”

    “Ngggrhhhs”
    “OK Who’s next?”
    “Nnngrrhh, Nnnnngrhhhs”

    “Hey! you! Jimmy! See this?”

    Bang!!!

    What a pity, never mind.

    1. Wonder how long before MSM magically makes this story disappear? Already nowhere near lead item in the Express, Mail and Mirror.

      1. Headline news tomorrow, when it turns out he was a white Russian fleeing Chechnya

  107. I have been rather busy today but I have just seen a headline; “Glasgow attack: Probe launched into police shooting of stabbings suspect”. You all know what I think, so there’s no need to say anything, is there?

    But all is not lost for those planning to travel to other planets because that epitome of relevant news, the Daily Express, reports that a boat has been spotted on Mars.

    I am now going to partake of some very special medicine! Good night!

  108. Sky News cuts off ex-Met Police chief after he says officers have ‘given up’ trying to stop young black men carrying weapons and accuses BLM of aiming to destabilise society
    Ex-chief superintendent Kevin Hurley said BLM was driving ‘misinformation’
    He was giving punditry on Sky following ugly clashes with police in Brixton
    Anchor Adam Boulton cut him off in full flow, sparking accusations online
    But Boulton insisted he was restrained by rigid time slots and rubbished critics

    Ex-chief superintendent Kevin Hurley claimed senior figures in the movement were waging a ‘misinformation’ campaign to ‘destabilise and disrupt’ society.

    He also suggested the ugly clashes in Brixton on Wednesday night were products of Afro-Caribbean single parenting and said constables had ‘given up’ enforcing the law on young black Britons for fear of jeopardising their careers.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8463977/Sky-News-cuts-ex-Met-Police-chief.html

  109. Sky has just reported that the copper is critical so he’s probably already dead!

    1. BBC Radio News at 5 pm changed the toll to stabber dead and Policeman critically ill but stable

  111. Sky News: ‘Desperate’ Migrants In Glasgow Stabbing Hotel Unhappy with ‘Limited WiFi’, ‘Poor’ Food

    Sky News reporter James Matthews said that asylum seekers staying at a Glasgow hotel where multiple people including a police officer have been stabbed were unhappy with the “limited WiFi” and “the quality of food”.

    Matthews, the Scotland Bureau Chief at Sky News, said he had spoken to an asylum seeker “who was in the [Park Inn Hotel] when this incident took place” and that “he’s told me about limited WiFi which made it difficult to get in touch with relatives back home, the quality of food was very poor, there was little to no money given to the asylum seekers” — leading to “a great degree of unhappiness”.

    Matthews added that “campaign groups” speaking “on behalf” of asylum seekers in Glasgow had said they were “desperate people getting more desperate with time”, claiming that one had committed suicide because he had “reached the end of the road in terms of his ability to cope with conditions he regarded, and many like him regard, as untenable and unacceptable”.

    An April 2020 report by the left-wing Guardian newspaper says that the “untenable and unacceptable” conditions faced by migrants moved into hotel accommodation in Glasgow as part of the government’s coronavirus containment measures included “three meals a day, basic toiletries and a laundry service”, in addition to the aforementioned WiFi. A report in The National published only yesterday about the death of the asylum seeker last month — said to be a drug user — cited by Sky News in their report noted that his death was unexplained and had not been ruled as suicide.

    As of the time of publication, the police have confirmed few details of the stabbing spree other than the fact that the suspect has been shot and six people injured, including a police officer who has been hospitalised — although many outlets including the BBC have reported that there are at least three fatalities.

    The suspect’s identity, background, and motivation have not been disclosed at this time.

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

    BTL:

    Jack Smith • an hour ago
    So they’re supposedly fleeing from unimaginable horrors, but a bit of slow WiFi sends them over the edge? Seems legit.

    1. Don’t like the conditions – significantly better than those for many of the natives – then the door is over there. Don’t let it smack your arse as you leave.

    2. They should acquaint themselves with an old British saying – “Never look a gift horse in the mouth”.

    3. “An asylum seeker was having difficulty contacting relatives at home.”

      He’s the scouting party, I assume.

  113. Mail to a Conservative MP………..

    From the ”Daily Telegraph”……….

    ”The Telegraph has been told, however, that Mr Mandelson had at least one paid interest which he has not declared, or not declared fully. The most important, it is alleged, was with a company called Medley Global Advisors (MGA), founded by Richard Medley, the former chief adviser to the financier George Soros”.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7883304/The-mystery-of-Lord-Mandelsons-finances.html

    There appears to be an incredible quadruple coincidence here.

    The financier who part funds Transparency International where David Cameron gave his presumed $125,000 half hour speech is the same financier whose former chief adviser allegedly employed Lord Mandelson, who is the same financier who entertained Tony Blair to a ”getting to know you” meeting at the New York Plaza Hotel in April 1996, and the policies of all three politicians look virtually identical to the policies of the financier !

    What a small world it is !

    Do you have any views about the approx $1,250,000 reportedly received by ex Prime Minister May for just 8 speeches ?

    Polly

    1. No, but I have some choice words to describe our erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister, who, forgetting his leftist principles, is now “Vice-President, Global Affairs and Communications” of Facebook on a seven-figure salary. How is it that the leaders who damage our country the most, are rewarded so handsomely? Dare I mention T. Blair in this context?

    2. No, but I have some choice words to describe our erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister, who, forgetting his leftist principles, is now “Vice-President, Global Affairs and Communications” of Facebook on a seven-figure salary. How is it that the leaders who damage our country the most, are rewarded so handsomely? Dare I mention T. Blair in this context?

      1. I think it’s often for political services rendered.. but unfortunately short of Project Veritas it’s really hard to prove.

  114. Oh that’s so cute……..

    Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May….

    All signed up to the globalist Washington Speakers Bureau.which has strong links to the former Obama administration.

  115. Not been on here much today.
    After a late start & my walk to Cromford & back for the paper, I have, despite the horrendous temperature, been busy putting shelves up in the new shed.
    To keep cool in this weather, I fill the bath with cold water and lie in it for 5 to 10 minutes before bed.
    I leave the water in the bath so that, should I feel uncomfortably hot when waking up in the night, I can have another dip.
    Now sat with a glass of Clynelish. Rather an unusual flavour, but still very nice.

    https://www.malts.com/media/1105338/clynelish_14yr_bottle_200x500.jpg

    2. What was that programme where the kids would ask, “Can I have a ‘P’, Bob?”

          3. Spooky or what, Russell! I was just wondering today where you’d been and how you are – all OK?

          4. Yeah I’m fine John. Been spending time with my daughter. She’s going back to Huddersfield next week for a few weeks.

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