Monday 1 Noveember: French sabre rattling over fishing rights betrays a grave lack of proportion

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  4. Cop26 summit at serious risk of failure, says Boris Johnson. 1 November 2021.

    The Cop26 climate summit is at serious risk of failure because countries are still not promising enough to restrict global temperature rises to below 1.5C, Boris Johnson has warned.

    Morning everyone. We can only hope that it falls flat on its face and dies like a dodo!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/31/cop26-summit-at-serious-risk-of-failure-says-boris-johnson

      2. Like all shows, a bunch of actors get up, read their lines, the audience applauds and people who don’t benefit are forced to subsidise it.

        For theatre, I don’t mind that too much. For the green twaddle I do.

      3. Well your hopes are beginning to bear fruit, Herr Oberst. A tree has fallen on the overhead lines above the rail track from London to Glasgow, thereby cancelling all trains for the rest of today. How will those COP26 travellers get to Glasgow on time? Perhaps they should have been less green and flown there!

      2. Failure by the politicos isn’t actually affecting the climate though. It’s not scamming the public into allowing them to rob us blind.

  5. 340740+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    EU chief accuses UK of seeking Brexit clash
    Writing in The Telegraph, Maros Sefcovic says he is concerned the Government will refuse to engage with proposals put forward by Brussels

    By who ?

    1. Same old story. When we don’t do what they want, they accuse us of seeking confrontation.

  6. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    First letter:

    SIR – Between 2002 and 2008 I served in Brussels as Britain’s deputy military representative to the EU, and then as defence attaché in Paris.

    It was a turbulent time for our defence relationship with France, principally because of our opposing visions for the role of Nato and the EU and the fallout from the war in Iraq. There were other disagreements, for example over working hours and (even then) migrants attempting to reach Britain from Calais.

    However, I can recall no instance when these disagreements spilled over into the sort of vindictiveness displayed by the French prime minister in his recent letter to Ursula von der Leyen. The idea that it should be French policy to “damage” the UK in the long term for having the temerity to exercise its democratic right to leave the EU goes well beyond the often robust positions taken by either presidents Chirac or Sarkozy.

    French politicians do not seem to appreciate that the decision to leave the EU was not taken by the British Government, but by the British people.

    It is disheartening to see the fishing issue, which could surely be resolved with less aggressive sabre rattling, become the catalyst for French proposals for what amounts to a trade war. It also demonstrates a serious lack of perspective and proportion on the part of the French.

    Air Commodore John Thomas (retd)
    Pitney Langport, Somerset

    I suggest a wholesale boycott of everything French (in place at Janus Towers for some time now) in the hope that our natural enemy will have cause to regret their petty vindictiveness. The EU’s ‘punishment beatings’ merely confirm that our decision to leave was the right one.

  7. SIR – It is inspiring to see how many young people are embracing the idea of a greener society, the speed of change they seek and the enthusiasm with which they are supporting the promotion of green principles. I wonder, however, whether they are also aware of the huge cost burden that will hang over their heads for, probably, all their lives.

    If costs are explained clearly, along with the implications, perhaps a gentler and more balanced push to zero emissions might be encouraged.

    Chris Lambert
    Tadworth, Surrey

    Only because they have been brainwashed and lack the maturity and common sense to realise it…

  8. SIR – I was saddened but not surprised to read that Professor Kathleen Stock is to leave her post at Sussex University (report, October 29). Having faced death threats and demands that she leave, Prof Stock has, understandably, decided her position is untenable.

    Prof Adam Tickell, the university’s vice-chancellor states that the intolerance towards Prof Stock “is now, and will always be, in direct opposition to even the most basic principles of academia”.

    I wholeheartedly agree with that statement, and I want to know why the university has not done more to protect and support Prof Stock.

    Surely those who have threatened, bullied and frightened her into making this decision have committed a crime? Why are they being allowed to get away with it?

    Both the police and the university appear to have failed Prof Stock and, shamefully, the bullies have been allowed to prosper.

    I can’t bear to believe this is the kind of society we now live in.

    Deborah Williams
    Preston, Lancashire

    Good old soshal meeja…it seems that no one can control this monster.

    1. Someone in a newspaper article comment suggested that she has a case for suing her employer for not protecting her against workplace harassment. That would be a whole new circle of hell though, and she may not want to do it.

      1. Does Blighty – or any other western country – have a university that still believes in freedom of speech and thought? One that would ‘dare’ to employ Dr. Stock.

        1. Buckingham’s not too bad, I think.
          Officially she had support from Sussex, and it was her own decision to leave.
          She is another hardline lefty herself.

  9. SIR – Why do the standard screening questions for Covid-19 still ask only about a new cough, fever or loss of taste or smell, when the most common symptom in double-jabbed adults who contract the illness is a headache?

    The Government has been informed of this but has for some reason chosen not to publicise it.

    Dr Mick Nielsen
    Salisbury, Wiltshire

    I reckon the current batch of headaches come from a clot called Johnson…

    1. Yo HJ

      I reckon the current batch of headaches come from a clot called Johnson, who is also a pain in the rectum…

    2. What on earth would the Government have to do with medical decisions in a functioning healthcare system?

      1. Government, decisions, functioning, healthcare, system

        You on about the Welsh Exspurt (and his extended family) Dai Kotomy,

  10. Putin ‘rubbing his hands’ as Macron ‘behaves like spoilt child’ over Brexit fishing rights. 1 November 2021.

    VLADIMIR PUTIN is “rubbing his hands” with delight as French President Emmanuel Macron “behaves like a spoilt child” over Brexit, a defence expert has told Express.co.uk.

    “Rubbing his hands” must be a metaphorical expression since the “defence expert” is hardly in a position to see for himself. I think it much more likely myself that he occasionally buries his face in his hands and wonders, “What the f**k? Are they all morons?”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1513570/putin-rubbing-hands-nato-split-macron-brexit-fishing-row-boris-johnson-rome-g20

  11. Good morning from a bright & sunny Derbyshire. The sun, as yet not visible from where I’m sat with my 1st mug of tea, is lighting up the trees over the road quite splendidly!
    But the downside is a distinctly chilly 4½°C on the yard thermometer and I’m afraid rain is forecast for later.

    1. Blimey, Bob, is your climate broken? We have 11,5+ here just now, and I’m way north of you!

      1. Morning Oberst. Bob lives in a very chilly spot. Humidity and the Cold combine to make it truly biting! I had one of the coldest days walking there ever and I’ve walked the Highlands in Winter!

        1. 21 degrees Centigrade here. (But then I’m sitting indoors with the central heating on!)

          :-))

          2. No, Mr Grizzly. But I was wearing a very warm woollen jacket. And an hour later, when the morning CH cut off and fell to 15 degrees, I went outside and did some gardening (adding a covering of compost to mulch the borders and raised beds) for just over an hour. I’ll do the same on Tuesday and Wednesday, after which I will need to go and buy some more compost to complete my goal of putting the garden to bed for the winter.

      3. I live on the bottom of the junction between two valleys and the cooler air drifting down from both directions has a distinctly cooling effect.
        In fact the drift of the cooler air down the main valley often carries with it the aroma of frying bacon from the Woodside Cafe, a good 200 yards up the road!

  12. In order to keep my circadian rhythms intact, I went to bed an hour earlier (measured by the artifice of the clock that is used by modern humans to ‘mess’ with time) and rose one hour earlier too. This is in order to keep my body in tune with its natural chronobiology; something that is taken for granted by all other living organisms: plant, animal and microbe.

    This means that the routine eight-hour pattern of sleep from 2300 to 0700 each night during the period of messing about with clocks (i.e. “summer time”) is now 2200 – 0600. And do you know what the difference is? Nothing! I’m keeping the same daily routine every day of the year. It behoves my body, my brain, my constitution, my whole system to keep to a solid “GMT” (or, in my case, “CET”) throughout the whole year. After all, that is what all other living things do.

    Sod messing about with clocks and interfering with natural time. I’ve endured an artificial life of shift work, jet-lag and all manner of barbarous buggering about with my internal time clock. I’m now reaping the benefits of living a natural life.

    1. I never used to care about the changing clocks, but as I get older, I feel the hour’s change more. Still have to go to work by clock time though.
      I remember reading about an Englishwoman in the days of the Empire, who returned from India and refused to change her routines, so lived on Indian time for the rest of her life in Britain.

      2. When I sailed across the Atlantic I kept the ‘Ship’s Clock’ on Raua on GMT but changed my wristwatch to local time when we got to the other side. MInd you, crossing the Atlantic at an average speed of 6 knots (c. 7 mph) gives you time to adapt.

        Now that winter is a cumin in I shall use it as an excuse to put up a photo of Raua competing in the Royal Fowey Y.C. regatta in the summer of 1983 before climate change and Covid were even a gleam in megalomaniacs’ eyes.

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    2. “...the benefits of living a natural life”
      and with good, unbuggered-about with food, too.
      You should live for ever, Grizz.

        1. Great dates in history. Christ in the Temple. Foundation stone of Charles bridge laid in Prague. Final warning issued on Climate Change

    4. There used to be nurses who worked nights – full time – for 20+ years.
      I never understood how they did it.

      1. It is, apparently easier to cope if one is permanently on nights, rather than chopping and changing.

  13. The elites are laughing in our faces. Spiked, 1 November 2021.

    COP26 is gearing up to be a grotesque spectacle. We are about to witness Versailles levels of extravagance and hypocrisy. The rich, the powerful and the full of puffed-up virtue will gather in Glasgow to pontificate to the rest of us about how much we are harming the planet with all our waste and hubris. They’ll arrive in their private jets to bemoan the scourge of air-industry emissions. They’ll tuck in to five-star meals in between wondering out loud if the little people should eat less meat. They’ll rest their weary, virtuous heads on plump, silk pillows after long days of discussing how to rein in the material aspirations of the masses. It promises to be one of most nauseating displays of oligarchical conceit of recent times.

    Brendan’s cooking on gas here. (Whoops!) He’s clearly on side with Nottlers though he does fail to point out the more sinister aspects of this gigantic scam. The whole article is well worth the read.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/01/the-elites-are-laughing-in-our-faces/

    1. …and I imagine that the resumption of the binmen’s strike (bin people’s?) reported this morning will have caused some panic for the Jamboree organisers. I suppose the Fishwife will merely pay them whatever they demand, no matter what the cost.

  14. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e11fee10a5ba81fea2010349eada853d77dbb89161bb8aaf2a56c704d819e7d.png Ye’re spot-on there, Wee Joy.

    Aal through the 50s and 60s, Oor Wullie (an’ The Broons) spent every Halloween guisin’, knocking on doors for pennies, and goin’ to parties where they ‘dooked’ for apples in a tin bath; and ate a scone covered thickly wi’ treacle, hangin’ from a string; aal the while wi’ their hands tied behind their backs.

    American import? Awa’! Let a Yank try and carve a proper jack o’lantern from a rutabaga and see how far he gets!

    2. My childhood was spent in total ignorance of Halloween. I remember seeing something about it in Mad Magazine, when I was aged about 18, with Alfred E Neuman in spooky attire and wondering what on earth that was about.

    3. I argued, in an American court that Halloween was the oldest British holiday there is. The Court would have none of it. Historically illiterate as the Americans are the Court asserted it was an American holiday and not British at all.

    1. I wish we didn’t live in such corrupt times.
      And ifwhen the WEF’s prediction of an internet shutdown comes true, and governments take control of the internet, we won’t even have this channel to hear about things they don’t want to publicise.

      1. Well BB2 we have lived through one of the best times ever for people like ourselves! It looks as if that is as far as it’s going. The Darkness is gathering and we will be best out of here.

        2. Yes, but my very dear boys are still in their 20s. What sort of world are they going to have?

          1. The one that they will fight for. My children the same. We are descended from people who survived the last Dark Ages, our families will make it again.

          3. I remember when vw was pregnant with our daughter my mother said she wouldn’t like to bring a child into the world today. That was 1968/69.
            I had to remind her that she had lived, in London, through two World Wars.

      2. Well BB2 we have lived through one of the best times ever for people like ourselves! It looks as if that is as far as it’s going. The Darkness is gathering and we will be best out of here.

      3. Government has tried repeatedly to control the internet. it fails because there are always ways around their censorship.

        The only way to manage it is to set only one ISP can be used and to block at the national level as China does. Even that’s not fool proof.

    2. ‘Morning Rik. Thanks to Jon ‘Feck the Tories’ Snow I gave up on Ch4 News a long time ago. Mind you, his bully-boy Guru-Murthy and the awful Cathy Newman also played their part.

      1. Don’t be so hard on Cathy Newman, HJ. She gave us lots of laughs when she (tried) to interview Jordan Peterson.

        1. ‘Morning Rose. Yes, that was a classic, and a permanent reminder of her inadequacy. Of course, she is not alone; most of today’s interviewers haven’t got a clue. So many of their ‘questions’ turn out to be thinly-disguised statements, in the hope that their superior knowledge impresses us all. The opposite is usually the case.

          1. Now look here, HJ. I know the month has changed its name today from October to November, but I am still Elsie!

      2. Channel 4 is part funded by the BBC.

        GBNews was complaining about people tweeting them with opinions to get their names read out. Examples being Mike Oxlong and Hugh Janus. They said to stop it as it was childish. I laughed.

    3. Lord Bamford sees a business opportunity by using ‘little’ yellow things to bury discarded green junk.
      JCB has found a way of bypassing the electrical solution for ‘saving’ the planet by developing a modified diesel engine to run directly on hydrogen to power heavy industrial and agricultural machinery.

      This explains his deal with the Australians who are frantically raising capital for the production of hygrogen.

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    4. Lord Bamford sees a business opportunity by using ‘little’ yellow things to bury discarded green junk.
      JCB has found a way of bypassing the electrical solution for ‘saving’ the planet by developing a modified diesel engine to run directly on hydrogen to power heavy industrial and agricultural machinery.

      This explains his deal with the Australians who are frantically raising capital for the production of hygrogen.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/50b9144483288299b424c4bea70901ec07979d7b6d7a0d6853c739c03607dcf7.jpg

    6. He’s daft.The reason the branches have fallen is because IT’S FECKING AUTUMN, YOU SPANNER!

      That they’re on the rails is because we, as humans need to better manage our environment. Throwing trillions at the state isn’t going to stop a blasted storm.

      Yes, we must change. We must ignore twits like you wittering on tripe.

      1. Ah, but we need to electrify all of our railways, whatever the cost, to get rid of those dirty diesels. Lots of all-day line closures throughout the autumn and winter is a small price to pay to save the planet!

  16. Good morning, all. Pinch and a punch. Blue sky but strong winds.

    End of the World nigh – I gather. A minute to midnight. What bollox these people talk.

  18. Train approaching Salisbury station ‘derailed SEVEN MINUTES before second locomotive smashed into it in tunnel’. 1 November 2021.

    Emergency services rescued more than 100 people, including a three-week-old baby, from the two trains which collided in a tunnel as both approached Salisbury station in Wiltshire at around 6.45pm last night.

    Novichok on the rails?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.html

        1. Good morning, Rastus, and thank you for that.

          I think that is probably the best version of the jazz classic that I have yet heard.

      2. Sod all to do with leaves, reportedly, the last carriage of a Pompy-Bristol on the down line struck something and the following service, a Waterloo-Exeter, on the up road, struck it. Luckily it was at the tunnel just before the station where the Pompey and Waterloo lines converge so it would have been a fairly slow speed collision.

      1. After Train 1 derails, it takes a while, perhaps 1 or 2 minutes to work out what has happened, by which time the other train has passed the last signal where it could have been stopped.

        The Great Heck derailment and collision was in very similar circumstances, except of course, a much higher speed involved.

          1. The initial derailment may not have been noticed by the signalman and the driver of the train with the derailed carriage may not have been fully aware of the problem in time to give a warning to the box.

          1. The driver of the train with the derailed carriage has to find out what has happened first and yes, there is a radio in the cab, but was he in a dead spot for reception?

  20. I wonder if I can get a refund on my tele licence and DT subscription? Because I won’t be using either for the next 2 weeks if this hysterical coverage of CRAP 26 continues as it has begun.
    The Nudge Unit is clearly in overdrive and the uncontested propaganda that they are spewing out is beyond belief.

    1. Morning Iffy. BBC coverage yesterday was like, ClimateChangeRUS There was not one dissenting voice!

      1. Morning Minty. Yes, agreed. It has turned into a religion, dissent is not tolerated and heretics are screamed down.

        Hard to see what can be done about it though. Move to Russia maybe.

        1. I suppose they could start burning heretics; plant a tree afterwards, naturally, to atone for the increased emissions.

          1. I think that’s the next intent.

            A greeniac – who I respect hugely – said that if I didn’t believe in climate change i should ‘get the hell off my [his] planet.

            It’s not yours, kid. Other people have the right to live as they wish to as well. You might not like it, but have you considered that they might not like your views?

          1. Green has become a religion, it’s not a science, it’s a farce. A giant scam.

            The worst bit? As with the trans nonsense, the gays silliness, it’s made the situation worse. Folk did care about the environment (unless you are a chav and don’t give a stuff about anyone and litter everywhere). With the massive tax hikes – that we know will make no difference whatsoever, because they’re not designed to, they’re just theft, with the destruction of our economy folk are angry and now opposed to it.

            Same for the trans weirdos. No one cared. You were just a bit weird. However importantly we just couldn’t care less. SAme for being gay. It’s your choice. Now the vocal, aggressive, abusive ‘you must notice me!’ nonsense all we have is a population annoyed at being lectured.

            The forcing has created opposition.

        2. I do wonder how Romano Brits and our mediaeval ancestors coped with the warmer temperatures.
          And how on earth did our Tudor and Stuart Great+++++ relatives live through the Mini Ice Age?

      1. The joke of science not being challenged is perhaps the best one going.

        Unless it is questioned, repeatedly, brutally and can stand up to that scrutinty; then it is not science it is merely theory.

        1. I’m sure many if us who did A Level Physics er, a few years ago, have noticed that quite a few things seem to have changed as science is certainly not settled!

        2. “A theorem is a statement that can be demonstrated to be true by accepted mathematical operations and arguments. In general, a theorem is an embodiment of some general principle that makes it part of a larger theory. The process of showing a theorem to be correct is called a proof.”

          Pythagoras had some ideas about the length of the hypotenuse in a right angled triangle. When it was easily proved it became a theorem and not just a theory.

          BUT Man-Made Climate Change is only a theory – Not a theorem which can be proved..

          It certainly is not a fact.
          The ignoramuses don’t know the difference

          1. I’m fortunate to know a rocket scientist – he actually makes satellites. He’s adamant that gravity doesn’t really exist and demands proof.

            That’s science – a demand for information to support a theory without blindly accepting the theory.

        3. Anyone claiming “The Science is fixed” is simultaneously talking out of their arse and paradoxically telling the truth!
          What they are following is not real science, but selection of Scientific Opinions fixed and filtered to remove anything that goes against the preferred narrative.

    1. At least the Krays maintained law and order.
      Well – to be more precise – the order bit of it.

  22. Good morning all

    “So dull and dark are the November days.
    The lazy mist high up the evening curled,
    And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze;
    The place we occupy seems all the world.”
    – John Clare, November.

    Heinz sells out of tinned Christmas dinners in HOURS after turkey shortage warnings
    HEINZ has sold out of its new tinned “Christmas dinner” soup in hours following warnings of turkey shortages this winter.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1514480/heinz-sells-out-christmas-dinner-tin-turkey-shortage

    2. Easy way to make ‘Christmas’ soup’

      Make a vegetable/chicken soup and stuff some stuffing mix (from a packet) in with it

    3. Easy way to make ‘Christmas’ soup’

      Make a vegetable/chicken soup and stuff some stuffing mix (from a packet) in with it

    1. They have already f**ked the fish and the pigs. They are after f**king the cows and sheep now.

    2. Keep it up Lineker, you are costing Walker’s Crisps £1,000’s of pounds in lost sales.

      1. Sadly yes – many of the replies are from devoted acolytes of both the Doom Goblin and her wing nut supporter!

    6. Is Gary actually laying on the sarcasm with a dump truck? Or is he really that stupid?

    8. It’s just wrong that anyone that stupid can have been so successful in life! What was the Almighty thinking about??

    1. Yuk, with knobs on.
      Or is it?
      I don’t like turkey, so possibly this is the best thing you could do with it. It might give it some flavour.
      (And yes, I use ‘proper’ turkeys and have tried different roasting methods. At the end of the day, all I can say is – no wonder it came from America. Like pumpkin, it needs a lot of hard work to produce anything vaguely flavoursome.)

        1. When in Chicago, I practically had to take out a second mortgage for half a pound of Montgomery cheddar.

        2. Cheese is, it is tasteless and has the texture of wellingtons. However, if you get the chance, try Ghirardelli chocolate, it is really good.

          2. Are you talking about Velveeta? That’s not cheese. God knows what it is but it certainly isn’t cheese.

      2. Remove legs and wings then brine the breast for 24 hours. Dry off. Slather with butter. Cover with foil and roast for 15 minutes per pound.

        Moist and succulent.

      1. We stopped buying all Heinz products since I lost an argument with them 20+ years ago. They provided salad/sauces to a University freshers buffet free of charge. The small foil packets were got up as “packets of three”, deliberately very similar to condoms. I wrote to Heinz UK to complain and they said, “Tra-la-la. Push off”. I then wrote to Heinz HQ in the USA. Their website is decorated with cartoons for five year olds. They said, “The UK office does what it likes. Tra-la-la. Push off!”

        1. It used to be delicious, John. Unfortunately the last batch I bought tasted of its main ingredient (rapeseed oil), which cannot eat, so I chucked it away.

  25. #CovidDangerousClownWorld

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    2. It’s not even that.

      The reality is that if the state shuts down our economy on the altar of green then we are left dependent on other nations for food and fuel (although goodness knows how we’ll be able to afford it) all we do i smove pollution elsewhere.

      Worst case scenario our entire way of life collapses into a hellscape dystopia. Best case? This hard Left green misery ends, Boris is told to permanently, irrevocably reverse course, to behave like an adult rather than a spoiled child.

    4. I learnt today that China pollutes more than the entire developed world. Russia is not great but people tend to forget that they have the mess left over from the Soviet era to deal with too. The Soviets were notoriously indifferent to the environment. I found this too, interesting. Pollution index by country.
      https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/rankings_by_country.jsp

      P.S. Unless I’m misreading. It seems we pollute more than the USA!

      1. What do they include as ‘pollution’? Co2 isn’t pollution, it’s a natural trace gas which is essential for plant growth.

        1. I know that. I was going on about that yesterday. There is a dearth of Co2, we need more of it not less. See William Happer talking about that. He also points out that the way Co2 works is that it reaches a saturation point in the atmosphere and then goes no further no matter how much is pumped out. He uses as an analogy, a red barn. The first layer of paint you put on is not enough and it requires that a second by put on, then a third. After that no matter how much paint you add, the colour remains the same. Happer is generally regarded as the foremost expert on Co2. He also thinks that climate change as proposed by the laughing hyenas in Glasgow is nonsense. Which is why, of course, you never hear about him. And by the way, Freeman Dyson, perhaps the greatest scientist while he was alive, also thought it was rubbish. And you never heard from him either. Another one silenced.

          1. In my opinion, pollution includes all the plastic waste that has been produced over the last century or so – greatly exascerbated this last couple of years by the masks, other PPE and all the rubbish generated by the so-called pandemic. Everywhere you go, the bloody masks have been thrown on the ground. If the virus was so deadly, why are they not classed as ‘hazardous waste’?

          2. They are a severe pollutant. Apparently they will take hundreds of years to decay. A fact that only goes to confirm, to my mind, that it is all for show anyway, and all this song and dance about Covid and the joke in Glasgow are nothing but an excuse for the powers that be to subjugate the people even further and remove that pesky thing democracy altogether.

  29. This is what we are up against….

    A small boy named Arthur lived in the local village .
    None of his classmates liked him because of his stupidity,
    especially his teacher, who was always yelling at him
    “You are driving me crazy Arthur!!!!!”

    One day Arthur’s mother came into school to check on how he was doing.
    The teacher told his mother honestly, that her son is simply a disaster,
    getting very low marks and even she had never seen such a dumb boy in her entire teaching career!!!!
    The mother was shocked at the feedback and withdrew her son from the school & even moved to another town!!!!!

    25 years later, the teacher was diagnosed with an incurable cardio disease!
    All the doctors strongly advised her to have an open heart operation, which only one surgeon could perform……
    Left with no other options, the teacher decided to have the operation, which was successful……

    When she opened her eyes after the surgery she saw a handsome doctor smiling down at her!
    She wanted to thank him, but could not talk, her face started to turn blue,
    she raised her hand, trying to tell him something but eventually died!
    The doctor was shocked and was trying to work out what went wrong,
    when he turned around he saw Arthur, working as a cleaner in the clinic,
    who had unplugged the oxygen equipment to connect his Hoover !!!!!
    Don’t tell me you thought that Arthur became a feckin’ doctor!😝

    1. Good ol’ Arthur would fit in well with the zeitgeist in this day and age. Stupidity is now de rigueur.

    2. Back in the days when we actually had offices in Television Centre instead of open plan cattle farms, we would regulary turn up in the morning to find everything in the fridge ruined because the cleaner had unplugged it for their hoover.

      2. Are you sure the cleaner wasn’t a proto-Nottler with an intense dislike of the Beeb and all who sail in her?

  30. As the MR went back to bed after breakfast, I am unable to listen to the Swiss Classique radio. (She plays it through her laptop).

    So I put on beeboid Radio 3. An irritating totty is presenting (or, as they say these days, “hosting”) the morning music programme. She started on about CRAP26 and how it will be mentioned throughout the prog. I switched it off.

    1. One or two Radio 3 ‘hostesses’ now refer to the programme they present as their ‘show’: On my show tomorrow….etc”

    5. I fear turning on the telly or radio as it will cause uncontrollable rage. As there are no ‘trigger warnings’ for the goblin, I am avoiding heart attacks as well. A darkened room and unplugged router may be the only solution.

    6. Snap! I usually put it on about 8.05 so that I miss the news and it’s usually Petroc Trelawny but this morning there was a girlie wittering on about copulate26 so I hit the off button.

  31. “We must be on a war footing to save the planet”, warns Prince Charles.
    “The world is ‘one minute to midnight’ on climate change”, screams Boris Johnson.

    No mention, I see, of advising your fellow humans to ‘keep it in their trousers’, then?

    1. What about your private jets, Chas.
      What about homeopathy – that you espoused and “sold” endlessly?
      What about Laurens van der Post- the charlatan you worshipped?

      Don’t think that we have forgotten.

      1. He really is a jug-eared fool! What does he think about the volcano (5 weeks and counting!) spewing trillions of tons of stuff into the atmosphere? How does he intend to train nature?
        He is as bad as the dreadful bloke who doesn’t believe in God, posing as a Christian!

        1. No, sorry, it didn’t occur to me. Like, I suspect, most, I just plunge headlong into peoples comments.

    2. November
      byThomas Hood

      No sun — no moon!
      No morn — no noon —
      No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.

      No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
      No comfortable feel in any member —
      No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
      No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —
      November!

      3. January brings the snow,
        Makes your feet and fingers glow.

        February’s ice and sleet,
        Freeze the toes right off your feet.
        Welcome, March, with wint’ry wind,
        Would thou weren’t not so unkind.

        April brings the sweet spring showers,
        On and on for hours and hours.

        Farmers fear unkindly May,
        Frost by night and hail by day.

        June just rains and never stops,
        Thirty days and spoils the crops.

        In July the sun is hot,
        Is it shining?
        No it’s not!

        Both: August, cold and dank and wet,
        Brings more rain than any yet.

        Bleak September’s mist and mud,
        Is enough to chill the blood.
        Then October adds a gale,
        Wind and slush and rain and hail.

        Dark November brings the fog,
        Should not do it to a dog.

        Freezing wet December, then…
        Bloody January again!

        1. That is someone’s whimsical (and erroneous) take on Sara Coleridge’s unimprovable original:

          January brings the snow,
          Makes our feet and fingers glow.

          February brings the rain,
          Thaws the frozen lake again.

          March brings breezes, loud and shrill,
          Stirs the dancing daffodil.

          April brings the primrose sweet,
          Scatters daisies at our feet.

          May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
          Sporting round their fleecy dams.

          June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
          Fills the children’s hands with posies.

          Hot July brings cooling showers,
          Apricots and gillyflowers.

          August brings the sheaves of corn,
          Then the harvest home is borne.

          Warm September brings the fruit,
          Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

          Fresh October brings the pheasant,
          Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

          Dull November brings the blast,
          Hark! the leaves are whirling fast.

          Chill December brings the sleet,
          Blazing fire and Christmas treat.

    3. November
      byThomas Hood

      No sun — no moon!
      No morn — no noon —
      No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.

      No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
      No comfortable feel in any member —
      No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
      No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —
      November!

  33. Morning all, sunny here but cold. Starting the day off with an article from the Australian Spectator that I hope you find interesting. Got another one to post but I will do that in half an hour or so, don’t want to hog with columns of type. The first is topical to the nonsense going on in Glasgow, the paradise of the North!

    Prime Minister, just how reliable are 30 year climate models?
    David Long

    I am not sure that there are many people over the age of 30 who are wildly rejoicing at the Morrison Government’s decision to go to the UN climate conference COP26 in November to pledge a net-zero emissions target by 2o50. Net-Zero emissions will be both inflationary and industry ending. Barnaby Joyce was hardly clicking his heels in the air when he supported the Prime Minister’s policy and there are many others in the National Party who do not and their supporters in the rural sector are not happy.

    Let’s look objectively at the difficulty. Can the government finance the changes with a net-zero budgetary impact? The answer is no. Still, the pledge to a zero-emissions target can be made palatable for the rural sector, provided sufficient funds are available to sustain the sector during the transition. Isn’t the real question, the reliability of climate science, as a science?

    What if climate science and the computer models relied on by the scientists for their catastrophic forecasts are not reliable, either of themselves or in respect of their results so that their forecasts are not a suitable scientific basis for policies.

    The real issue, therefore, is whether the causal relations between the very large number of factors, both man-made and natural, that determine both climate and weather have been accurately identified and functionally related in accordance with well reliable mathematical principles; for it is from those functional relations that the models will forecast the future effects in some 10, 20 or 30 years; ie when the climate crisis will appear.

    I have read a number of climate reports and have to say that they do not convince me of an impending climate catastrophe of regular violent, raging storms, cyclones and tornados, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, landmass inundations, dying polar bears and dying people, that is, the perfect storm, which is man-made and carbon-based.

    The reason I am unconvinced, is because the methodology by which climate scientists ascertain yester-year’s and today’s climate and weather data, determine the climate (or is that weather) relationships and generate predictive models whose 20 or 30-year forecasts demand immediate corrective action may be mathematically correct but still bear no relation to reality. That is the nature of mathematics. But if the opinions of other earth scientists are to be believed, they too have doubts about the methodology; after all, GIGO is a valid rule of thumb for all predictive models.

    Climate science is reliant on certain statistical methods to obtain data from scant historical sources in order to determine the correlative relationships that are necessary for predictive models. One of the first things that you learn when studying statistical methods is the necessity for careful consideration of a large number of qualitative, or non-mathematical considerations both prior to data collection and afterwards.

    It is often claimed that climate science papers are peer-reviewed in dedicated scientific journals. “Peer review”, however, means what it says, a review by an equal, one of those who accept the overall veracity of the methodology of a particular branch of investigation, be it economics, psychology, law, nuclear medicine or sexuality.

    Here is not the place to explain in detail the effect of subjective considerations on the results of a purported objective science. However, it is worth knowing that the effect of statistical methods means that ‘true’ now means ‘probably true’ as further qualified by levels of confidence. In economics, the use of statistical methods is very important for generating preliminary results when not all data is available; eg, unemployment or GDP. But every economist knows that in one, three or six months, all the provisional results will be changed to reflect the extra available data.

    The decision by the government to declare Australia net-zero emissions by 2050 may be a clever political move; but if climate science can not be shown to be reliable then the net-zero decision is fool-hardy with both economic and national defence ramifications.

    Scott Morrison is correct in making his pledge to the COP26, but domestically, that pledge must be subject to the reasonable verification of the climate science methodologies in order to ensure the forecasts are dependable. On his return from the Conference, therefore, the Prime Minister should establish an independent commission to examine and report on climate science methodologies and their dependability.

    The Commission’s first step would be to obtain evidence from climate scientists, both domestic and foreign, regarding the methods for the collection, extraction, adjustment and management of historical and current data; the statistical methods by which the functional relationships between the variables are established and the methods for testing those relationships, and the methodologies with which the computer models are generated, with particular attention to the statistical and mathematical methods employed. The Commission’s First Report would be a manual for climate science containing all of that information.

    The Commission’s second step would be to circulate that document among eminent members from the wider scientific community, including but not limited to geosciences, hydrologists, ocean sciences, nuclear, solar sciences and mathematics. They would be tasked to provide robust and critical critiques of the various methodologies and assumptions where their areas of expertise overlap those of climate science.

    The Commission’s third step, when in receipt of the expert reports, would be to prepare a final report containing all expert reports, together with a summary of those criticisms which attack the validity, dependability and any major deficiencies or theoretical anomalies in the methodologies that would impinge on the accuracy of climate science, the accuracy of forecasts and hence the practical usefulness of climate science.

    The final report would be circulated among all climate scientists who contributed, whether voluntarily or under subpoena to the Commission’s enquiry and any criticisms subsequently provided to the Commission would be published as a supplement to the final report.

    If governments are going to make policy decisions based upon forecasts by a relatively new science, decisions that will mean major, orchestrated changes to our lives, it is fundamentally important to establish if that science can be trusted.

    1. Morning all. Thanks for posting Jonathan. It is such a reasonable article in every way. But it will never happen – the politicians have decided the science is settled. It is just another step along the way to the great reset (only for us, though, of course).

      1. When future historians show clearly that whole climate change nonsense was a complete confidence trick the obsession with it of Prince Charles and his son and heir will bring the hereditary principle of the monarchy into great disrepute.

    2. It is the unthinking, unquestioning general apathy of a fairly uneducated population, that has allowed the so-called ‘scientists’ to drag us into a nightmare future. This is weather – it happens – climate change has been happening for millions of years and will continue, no matter what the loonies say. We cannot change nature.

      2. If climate change did not occur, the slight warming and the cooling, the earth would be in dying mode. Check out mediaeval literature, the peaches, grapes, nectarines that get mentioned. There are many allusions to these fruits being grown here.

      3. I have come to the conclusion Sue, that the “fairly uneducated population” has been a deliberate strategy in order to make the population compliant. It is why we oldies are regarded as a nuisance. We were taught how to think and be critical. The faster we die off or are killed off, the better for the lefts dystopia to be realized.

          1. Yet my Mama – born in 1903 – was sent to school in Scotland because the education was better.

    3. It’s fundamentally important to keep democratic oversight on overweaning government. And it is almost as important to recognise that anyone who says any science is settled is not a scientist at all but a charlatan, or worse.

  34. Who said poetry is dull?

    When me prayers were poorly said
    Who tucked me in me widdle bed
    And spanked me till me ass was red?
    Me Mudder!

    Who took me from me cosy cot
    And put me on the ice-cold pot
    And made me pee when I could not?
    Me Mudder!

    And when the morning light would come
    And in me crib me dribbled some
    Who wiped me tiny widdle bum?
    Me Mudder!

    Who would me hair so neatly part
    And hug me gently to her heart
    Who sometimes squeezed me till me fart?
    Me Mudder!

    Who looked at me with eyebrows knit
    And nearly have a king size fit
    When in me Sunday pants me shit?
    Me Mudder!

    When at night her bed did squeak
    Me raised me head to have a peek
    Who yelled at me to go to sleep?
    Me Fadder!

  38. I just happened to see on BBC Morning Live the end of a discussion about saving the planet by cutting down the time you spend in the shower.

    Viewers were being advised to put a water flow limiter on their shower hose to cut down their water consumption.
    Combi gas boilers are renowned for already wasting water by virtue of the time it takes for the boiler to sense hot water demand from a flow sensor in the boiler and then diverting the cold supply water though a special heated chamber called a plate. This allows water to only be heated by a limited amount depending on the incoming water temperature and the water flow rate. The user is instructed to meet their hot water flow and temperature demand by adjusting the flow rate at the tap.

    This system doesn’t work with a shower when the flow rate to the shower is regulated by a thermostat because the shower will not necessarily deal with how the boiler regulates the gas flow to the heat transfer plate.

    Even without the addition of a flow restriction in the shower feed, I reckon that gallons of water are already being wasted whilst people taking a shower are wrestling with the shower controls to get an adequate shower.

    I’ve heard of people who, being aware of such water wastage, collect the unusable water in a bucket for use elsewhere.

    In the worst case, a flow limiter will reduce the water flow through the boiler to such an extent that the boiler’s hot water demand flow sensor will not even trigger the boiler to fire up and provide hot water thus wasting even more water until the user has figured out what is happening and concludes it’s a boiler fault.

    1. I will start taking shorter showers when the water companies stop wasting millions of gallons of potable water through their leaky pipes.

    2. I have a conventional boiler with a hot water tank in the airing cupboard. There’s more than half a gallon of cold water in the pipe between the tank and the kitchen, a bit less to the bathroom. That’s often wasted waiting for the hot water to come through.

      Isn’t it time plumbing engineers came up with a solution to this?

        1. I see there was an article today in the dm about how cold showers were soooo good for you… people who had cold showers had fewer days off work. What a load of old malarkey. In our old house I need a warm-hot shower to get warm in the morning.

          These pontificators and their proxies are so transparent.

          Good morning everyone, a cold, blustery but sunny one here on the southerly edge of the fens and over the hill.

      2. We have two hot water systems – an oil -fired combi boiler in the kitchen which heats the water and radiators; and an immersion heater above our bedroom which heats the water for the shower and taps.

          2. I’ve just been outside to fetch something from the car & put the wheelie bins away. The gusty wind is bloody cold.

          3. I got quite warm hacking at the undergrowth. It’s a bit windy but not really cold here, and the sun still has some warmth.

          5. Not quite what it used to be but still alive. Hopefully will flower a bit better next year than it did this time.

      4. Plumbing engineers left it too late when they discovered that the condensate coming out of a combi boiler would freeze when the drain pipe went outside.
        Insulating to prevent your boiler working in winter is one thing but wasting water and fuel isn’t really their problem unless there’s a Government grant involved.

  40. OK my second post from the Australian Spectator: If this succeeds in becoming law look forward to it being our future too. Sorry, failed to add video which I have now attached and to which my remark is relevant.

    Net Tyranny by 2050
    Vale democracy
    Maurice Newman

    In a democracy near you, using Covid-19 for cover, and without due process, a government has delegated authority and accountability to unelected bureaucrats who shamelessly manipulated computer models to panic you into surrendering your precious freedoms. No compelling scientific evidence has since been presented to justify the oppression which followed.

    After spending eighteen months pursuing an impossible virus eradication policy, economic reality and a fraying social fabric demanded a rethink. Exemplifying the hollowness of government ‘health advice’, Victoria, holder of the world record for the longest and meanest lockdowns, was forced to ease restrictions with infections ironically at their highest. But while kids’ playgrounds were reopened and shopping could be conducted outdoors, the government kept its tight grip.

    Throughout this pandemic, few nations have exhibited the dictatorial tendencies of Australia’s governing class. Its true menace has now been exposed. Virtually overnight, it has confiscated an inalienable right of the people and made it a political gift. Elites now determine how much freedom to allow. But their trust in the people doesn’t run deep.

    Victorian police inspect coffee cups to ensure empty ones aren’t a mask-avoidance prop. In New South Wales, Police Minister David Elliott encourages the public to dob in anyone who disobeys ‘health orders’. And Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller, tells his officers they won’t be held to account for wrongly issuing Covid-19 fines.

    This shouldn’t happen in free societies. Nor should defenceless elderly women be crash tackled to the ground by burly black-shirted police. Or demonstrators be fired on with rubber bullets. In real democracies heavily pregnant women are not carted off in handcuffs in front of terrified infants, simply for exercising free speech.

    Genuinely free societies don’t require citizens to seek permission to leave the country or wilfully divide people into vaccinated and unvaccinated classes. Nor do they disenfranchise voters by banning from Parliament unvaccinated MPs or those who refuse to disclose their status.

    Businesses have been quick to get the ideological drift, with many large firms mandating vaccination as a condition of employment. They have realised their future is inexorably linked to big government and are paying close attention to the new doctrine. They understand that defending personal choice risks being labelled an anti-vaxxer, a conspiracy theorist or an alt-right trouble maker.

    Milton Friedman would describe them as ‘unelected government officials’, ‘unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society (for) decades’. But today’s professional rent-seekers tolerate the extra demands social responsibility make on their businesses even if it does mean undermining the very foundations of capitalism. They rationalise it’s better to join the consensus than take risks.

    Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote about this cowardice two hundred years ago. ‘Tolerance,’ he said, ‘will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles’.

    ‘Tolerance’ is Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s middle name. When it comes to free market capitalism and socialism he is shamelessly agnostic. He doesn’t care how woke you are or how much freedom you have lost. He tolerates police brutality and the undemocratic behaviour of state premiers. He just cares about jobs, whatever that means.

    As the son of a policeman who has reached the nation’s highest political office courtesy of a free society’s upward mobility, he now seeks refuge in the crony capitalist consensus, seemingly oblivious to the developing fascism and the tyranny which inevitably accompanies it.

    With this in mind, Mr Morrison should feel at home among the 25,000 government officials, media representatives and other global warming devotees gathering in Glasgow for the UN ‘climate’ summit. There, he will dutifully commit Australia to ‘net zero 2050’ and join the chorus determined to consign coal and meat to history.

    No doubt the Prime Minister will be targeted by activist central planners whose outrageously biased computer modelling confirms the coming climate apocalypse. They will argue the need for a Beijing ‘social credit’ system to micromanage every aspect of our lives. Their ultimate objective is to have national governments and globalist institutions introduce ‘personal carbon allowances’ which will decide what food we eat, what homes we live in, what cars we drive, how many flights we can take and so on. It follows there will be no privacy and that breaching the authorised budget will likely lead to penalties.

    This is not Orwellian fiction. Covid has already conditioned people to accept government coercion as a necessary evil. And apps are now available to track household emissions right down to the CO2 released in the growing and transportation of the apple you ate for breakfast. As President Dwight Eisenhower prophesied sixty years ago, ‘public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite’.

    To this power-hungry coalition, it matters little that net zero is an un-costed, untested experiment. Nor that at present the mechanism for achieving it does not exist. But, like Covid medical advice, people are expected to trust the experts. And like Covid, the poor, the elderly and other vulnerable groups will be hit hardest. They will find, once again, we are not ‘all in this together’.

    That net zero is even an issue is not due to real science or an aberrant election or two, but a calculated campaign waged by intellectuals who, for decades, have been hostile to the competitive nature of capitalism. They want outcomes they control not those determined by people exercising their rights in a free market. They have formed an unholy alliance of reckless central bankers, university bullies, greedy rent-seekers and naive mainstream journalists to push a manufactured threat which will precisely achieve that aim.

    As Milton Friedman observed, ‘Freedom is very far from being the natural state of mankind… the natural state of mankind in most periods in history has been tyranny and misery’. By 2050 people may better understand what he meant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPAKoVCmxHk&list=TLPQMzExMDIwMjFY2U0L88eRMQ&index=12

    1. Most of us here will have passed on by 2050 – but what a world they are making for our children and grandchildren.

      1. Did you look at the video? Dan Andrews, their Premier, is plotting a dictatorship now. My remark ‘ If this succeeds in becoming law look forward to it being our future too.’ Referred to his behaviour which is little more than an attempt to seize power like a tin pot Stalin

        1. I’m afraid I seldom do play the videos – I prefer to get information from print. I made an exception yesterday for the Neil Oliver one, but in general my attention span is lacking for them. Not sure which video you meant here.

          1. The one I just appended to the article because I forgot to add it in the first place. My fault entirely. Do watch because if Dan Andrews gets his way the future will arrive while we are very much alive.

        2. All done and dusted in Scotland. The “Anschluss” of the Greens into the Scottish government was the equivalent of the “Enabling Act ” in the jolly old Third Reich. The first minister now has as absolute power to pass any law that does not refer involve “reserved” areas that are reserved to Westminster, such as foreign relations.

          1. The sooner that woman goes the happier everyone will be. She is like a cloud of midges in a peat bog.

    4. It seems that Victoria has already become a fascist state. The only question now is how long before the camps are opened.

  41. OK my second post from the Australian Spectator: If this succeeds in becoming law look forward to it being our future too. Sorry, failed to add video which I have now attached and to which my remark is relevant.

    Net Tyranny by 2050
    Vale democracy
    Maurice Newman

    In a democracy near you, using Covid-19 for cover, and without due process, a government has delegated authority and accountability to unelected bureaucrats who shamelessly manipulated computer models to panic you into surrendering your precious freedoms. No compelling scientific evidence has since been presented to justify the oppression which followed.

    After spending eighteen months pursuing an impossible virus eradication policy, economic reality and a fraying social fabric demanded a rethink. Exemplifying the hollowness of government ‘health advice’, Victoria, holder of the world record for the longest and meanest lockdowns, was forced to ease restrictions with infections ironically at their highest. But while kids’ playgrounds were reopened and shopping could be conducted outdoors, the government kept its tight grip.

    Throughout this pandemic, few nations have exhibited the dictatorial tendencies of Australia’s governing class. Its true menace has now been exposed. Virtually overnight, it has confiscated an inalienable right of the people and made it a political gift. Elites now determine how much freedom to allow. But their trust in the people doesn’t run deep.

    Victorian police inspect coffee cups to ensure empty ones aren’t a mask-avoidance prop. In New South Wales, Police Minister David Elliott encourages the public to dob in anyone who disobeys ‘health orders’. And Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller, tells his officers they won’t be held to account for wrongly issuing Covid-19 fines.

    This shouldn’t happen in free societies. Nor should defenceless elderly women be crash tackled to the ground by burly black-shirted police. Or demonstrators be fired on with rubber bullets. In real democracies heavily pregnant women are not carted off in handcuffs in front of terrified infants, simply for exercising free speech.

    Genuinely free societies don’t require citizens to seek permission to leave the country or wilfully divide people into vaccinated and unvaccinated classes. Nor do they disenfranchise voters by banning from Parliament unvaccinated MPs or those who refuse to disclose their status.

    Businesses have been quick to get the ideological drift, with many large firms mandating vaccination as a condition of employment. They have realised their future is inexorably linked to big government and are paying close attention to the new doctrine. They understand that defending personal choice risks being labelled an anti-vaxxer, a conspiracy theorist or an alt-right trouble maker.

    Milton Friedman would describe them as ‘unelected government officials’, ‘unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society (for) decades’. But today’s professional rent-seekers tolerate the extra demands social responsibility make on their businesses even if it does mean undermining the very foundations of capitalism. They rationalise it’s better to join the consensus than take risks.

    Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote about this cowardice two hundred years ago. ‘Tolerance,’ he said, ‘will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles’.

    ‘Tolerance’ is Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s middle name. When it comes to free market capitalism and socialism he is shamelessly agnostic. He doesn’t care how woke you are or how much freedom you have lost. He tolerates police brutality and the undemocratic behaviour of state premiers. He just cares about jobs, whatever that means.

    As the son of a policeman who has reached the nation’s highest political office courtesy of a free society’s upward mobility, he now seeks refuge in the crony capitalist consensus, seemingly oblivious to the developing fascism and the tyranny which inevitably accompanies it.

    With this in mind, Mr Morrison should feel at home among the 25,000 government officials, media representatives and other global warming devotees gathering in Glasgow for the UN ‘climate’ summit. There, he will dutifully commit Australia to ‘net zero 2050’ and join the chorus determined to consign coal and meat to history.

    No doubt the Prime Minister will be targeted by activist central planners whose outrageously biased computer modelling confirms the coming climate apocalypse. They will argue the need for a Beijing ‘social credit’ system to micromanage every aspect of our lives. Their ultimate objective is to have national governments and globalist institutions introduce ‘personal carbon allowances’ which will decide what food we eat, what homes we live in, what cars we drive, how many flights we can take and so on. It follows there will be no privacy and that breaching the authorised budget will likely lead to penalties.

    This is not Orwellian fiction. Covid has already conditioned people to accept government coercion as a necessary evil. And apps are now available to track household emissions right down to the CO2 released in the growing and transportation of the apple you ate for breakfast. As President Dwight Eisenhower prophesied sixty years ago, ‘public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite’.

    To this power-hungry coalition, it matters little that net zero is an un-costed, untested experiment. Nor that at present the mechanism for achieving it does not exist. But, like Covid medical advice, people are expected to trust the experts. And like Covid, the poor, the elderly and other vulnerable groups will be hit hardest. They will find, once again, we are not ‘all in this together’.

    That net zero is even an issue is not due to real science or an aberrant election or two, but a calculated campaign waged by intellectuals who, for decades, have been hostile to the competitive nature of capitalism. They want outcomes they control not those determined by people exercising their rights in a free market. They have formed an unholy alliance of reckless central bankers, university bullies, greedy rent-seekers and naive mainstream journalists to push a manufactured threat which will precisely achieve that aim.

    As Milton Friedman observed, ‘Freedom is very far from being the natural state of mankind… the natural state of mankind in most periods in history has been tyranny and misery’. By 2050 people may better understand what he meant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPAKoVCmxHk&list=TLPQMzExMDIwMjFY2U0L88eRMQ&index=12

    2. Which I understand would be contrary to EU law!? Would his “blockade” stop the illegal migrants though?

    3. Bring it on. Maybe then we will take Brexit seriously, and face out to the wide world.

  43. COP commences with chaos. 1 November 2021.

    COP26: no time for delay’ scream the signs at Euston station. But for hundreds of desperate delegates yesterday it proved to be a cruel irony after dozens of rail services to Glasgow were cancelled thanks to a fallen tree and severe weather sparked rail chaos. Members of HM lobby took to their WhatsApp group to complain about the chaos, with Britain’s finest hacks forced to engage in an undignified game of Planes, Trains and Automobiles to race across the country to reach the UN eco-jamboree.

    The impeccably-connected Paul Waugh had his Glasgow-bound train turned back at Milton Keynes while Red Lion regular Eleanor Langford was one of many forced to board domestic flights, as Mr S predicted on Saturday. Others hired cars from Watford for the seven hour drive while Sky’s Samantha Washington was quoted for £870 for a taxi for the 42 miles from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Veteran broadcaster Jon Snow meanwhile blamed the collapse of branches on climate change – something, presumably, he has never seen before in his 74 windy autumns on this earth.

    It couldn’t happen to more deserving people!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/cop-kicks-off-with-chaos

          4. Vlad is protecting you. My 150,000 plus “thumbs” disappeared months ago – and, apparently, I am now minus several million!

  44. Well, so far cloudy sunny sky, no rain yet .

    Bed linen in washing machine , and perhaps a good drying day.

    Moh has been clearing the fallen leaves , they are crisp and colourful, and whirl around on the ground creating their own little piles.

    We didn’t lose any tiles yesterday , we have what is called a Rosemary roof clay tiled roof , pretty, and different shades because it is now weathered .

    In past bad weather years , some of the tiles slipped . Real palavar slotting them back in again .

    I hope Nottlers haven’t suffered too badly with this wonderful seasonal weather .. Now described as climate change by the Railway wallahs. Baaaah

  46. Majority of Britons do not trust Government’s environmental plans. 1 November 2021.

    More than 50 per cent of people polled said they would not trust the Government’s decarbonisation solutions, with 54 per cent sceptical of home heating plans, 55 per cent of air travel and 52 per cent of road travel, including electric cars, according to a survey by Opinium for The Telegraph.

    Commenting on the results, Philip Dunne, the chairman of the environmental audit committee, said tackling climate change had clear widespread public support.

    Obviously he’s not a climate sceptic!!! Lol!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2021/10/31/majority-britons-do-not-trust-governments-environmental-plans/

      1. You beat me to it!! It goes to show just how much mathematical and scientific knowledge these morons have!

  47. Just picked another pound or so of raspberries. “September” variety. Goes on and on Worth having in a spare corner of your garden.

    Gale continues. Rain expected about 1.30. Cats sleep.

    1. Not surprising it’s 15 quid to park in the car park at Carbis Bay and he had 25 limos with him.

      1. I can’t imagine Boris has the testicular strength to swat the arrogant little prat, even given his weight advantage!

        1. Macron wouldn’t be able to move he’s still mentally stuck in the historic mud of Agincourt.

    3. Boris: Let me go, I want to kiss his árse.

      Attendant: No, no, Boris! Wait your turn, President Biden is before you, and half a dozen others.

    1. I have been posting this fact everywhere I can, for the past month. The Beeb and sundry MSM outlets have ignored this natural event as though it wasn’t happening! We cannot control nature no matter how much the Eco-loons want to have you believe otherwise!

      1. I have probably missed it on here Sue I’ve not been too well recently, not spent as much time in-front of the PC as i could and can’t seem to log in on my phone.
        Strangely I read a few years ago that if part of the island fell into the sea it could send a huge tsunami across the Atlantic that could devastate the east coast of the states. They can’t blame that on Climate change can they.
        But they could start by mentioning the obvious. If mankind hacks down billions of trees on 3 continents over the past 70 years the weather patterns will change as the cloud was usually attracted by the moisture rising from (school boy knowledge, the lungs of the planet) the carbon collecting ‘Rain forests’. There’s a bit of a helpful clue for the many ‘experts’ who seem to have missed that fact as well.

        1. Sorry Eddy. I didn’t realise you’d been so unwell until I saw your post about spending a long night in hospital, I hope you’re on the mend and feeling more like yourself!
          I am so sick of listening to this drivel about how we can make a difference in any way, apart from population control. My father was a physicist and a meteorologist and listening to him 50 years ago saying that weather is not climate, and the cyclical nature of climate means we are completely impotent. The planet looks after itself and we are a tiny speck on its surface. The pathetic rhetoric spouted about settled science is a wicked lie and no one has the gumption to challenge it!

          1. I discovered that the flu jab has caused my latest outbreak of AF. 4 times I’ve had it this year Obs it’s beginning to become very very tiresome and is wearing me down. This time it was my own GP ( ironically he is originally from Norway) who performed the jab, you might have thought he would have been able to have given me some info or the choice.
            But I have just spent two hours chopping red onions and green tomato’s for making chutney tomorrow.

        4. Yes Eddy.

          The latest is that the eco-loons want more forests cut down so that more soya can be grown to feed the Vegan masses.

          1. You couldn’t make it all up could you ?
            China had a row with Australia over their beef they cancelled their orders, went to south america had thousands of trees cut down and turned the land in cattle pasture. And now import the beef from there.

  53. Queen seen outside for first time since illness as she drives herself around Windsor estate
    Her Majesty was alone at the wheel of her Jaguar estate, and the outing will prove a welcome sight amid increasing concerns over her health
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/11/01/queen-seen-outside-first-time-since-illness-drives-around-windsor/

    Come on, Liz, if you’re going to pull a sicky to get out of attending COP26, at least make it look convincing!

          1. That rag with the very unpleasant sanctimonious hypocrite Ian Hislop. Another one, no experience of life, magazine handed to him on a platter straight from University. And with people like that we are supposed to pay deference.

          2. It used to be funny, and good. Particularly the columns in the back, after the cartoons and silliness – they were quite hard-hitting.
            Then came Hislop, and then Brexit, and it became a dull rag filled with unscientific panic-ridden, propagandist hogwash.

    2. The world would be well served by a bout of virulent flu that lasts, ooo, 6 years?

      Ensure the meddling morons can’t get out of bed, let us live without the abuse of government.

        1. Similarly as were the youngsters dressed in Halloween costumes gathering food for the food banks in Hackney as shown on early evening BBC London news Saturday. I imagine it was the same Hackney that has Diane Abbott as MP, but strangely enough and most unusually a missed opportunity, not a single sighting of a black person helping out any where and at any stage of the filming.

          1. The blecks are takers not givers, black and Asian people don’t help themselves it’s down to us white racists to do that – and what do we get for it? Answers on a pin head in capital letters

          3. The blecks are takers not givers, black and Asian people don’t help themselves it’s down to us white racists to do that – and what do we get for it? Answers on a pin head in capital letters

    2. Why did I have to pay to have branches removed from some trees in my garden

      Am I not entitled to have mine removed by Climate Change, or is it like the Mask mask thing ,different Rules for
      (those who think they are) the Great and the Good

  56. The fishing rights nonsense is “controlled debate” writ large. While we are tempted into it we are not focussing on the main event.

    If we had one MP in the House who would actually have the backbone to make a speech along the lines of this one made to the parliament of Victoria by Steph Ryan it would be a relief. We don’t.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VOXbMpeus

    1. I agree, I have that feeling of watching a theatrical performance that happens so often these days.

    2. That’s funny. I’ve met and worked with a few eastern Europeans like this young man, they are very forthright on politics.

  58. Well the Maldives have jumped on the Glasgow bandwagon with exactly the same song they were singing in 2009, I looked up the date. That’s when they held their famous government meeting under water. Since then, I know, they have been selling water front property for building hotels. Some scam they have going there.

    Time is running out for the Maldives – as not one but three existential dangers threaten its survival

    The Maldives is fighting for its very survival.

    As an archipelago of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean, it faces not one but three existential dangers, all driven by climate change.
    The rising sea levels threaten to submerge some of the islands, with some scientists warning this disaster could happen within the next decade.
    The under-pressure islands also face another threat. Seasonal weather patterns have become severely disrupted.

    Monsoons and tropical storms are more frequent and more violent. They are exaggerating natural coastal erosion and making it happen much more quickly.
    It means the islands are literally shrinking. But one of the most pressing emergencies is the drastic loss of the atoll coral.
    Rising sea temperatures are killing the coral reefs and that is having a devastating impact on life, both on land and sea.

    The reefs are crucial to the island’s survival, not only are they an essential part of the entire marine ecosystem, but they provide protection for the coastline.
    Azim Musthag is a marine scientist at the Small Island Research Group based in the Maldives’ capital – Male.
    He has been measuring the health of the archipelago’s coral reef, and his findings are troubling.
    “It is quite serious,” he said. “The reefs aren’t recovering as fast as we would like.
    “A large proportion of the reefs are still dead, or they are recovering too slowly, and this is bad for a nation like the Maldives.
    “The coral reef is the basis of life here. We are a country in the middle of the Indian Ocean and there are no other sources of nutrients around the reef, it’s the home for nearly all of our marine life.”
    Mr Musthag has no doubt what is killing the coral. He said: “Sea temperatures related to climate change are definitely the main cause of such destruction.”

    The warnings over the impact of climate change on the Maldives have been sounded for years.
    Mr Mushtag added that it is time for action, saying: “We need to commit to reducing the amount of greenhouse gases, actually we need to bring it below zero.
    “We need to find ways to put carbon back into the earth and invest in or restore blue-carbon ecosystems like mangroves, seagrass meadows, and natural forests.
    “We don’t have that many years ahead of us. We need to take action really fast, and I don’t think the major countries, the major players, are doing much about it. It’s not as fast as we would like.”
    As our planet heats up, the sea level rises, and data for the Maldives shows a 3-4mm increase in the last year alone.
    That means these low-lying islands could be completely submerged within the next decade, but there is another, perhaps, even more, urgent crisis: coastal erosion.

    Dr Abdullah Naseer, the country’s Minister of State for Environment, is a coastal marine scientist who has been gathering data from across the islands.
    “We are very worried about it,” he said, stressing they need to find a solution for the people living on these islands.
    “There are 186 inhabited islands and each and every one, almost 90% of them now, complain that the islands have been eroding away and to help them out in some way.
    “So we are spending more than necessary on coastal protection. We have to find alternative sources of funding for coastal protection and also to find solutions to the current rate of erosion.”
    If a solution is not found soon, then the Maldivian government may be forced to take extreme measures like forced evacuations.
    Dr Naseer added: “We are concerned that we may have to move people around, you know, consolidate people to a different island.”
    The red flags about the future of these islands have been ignored for too long. Time for the Maldives is running out.

    1. Yes, it is fairly tragic. This has been happening everywhere for decades. We were warned about this a very long time ago. Who can forget that Fiji and Tonga both disappeared below the Pacific waves? Sometimes on a calm day the shape of those lost islands may be discerned just below the clear blue waters of the South Pacific ocean.
      Happily the carefree sun-loving islanders have made their homes here and the big fuzzy-haired menfolk now play rugby instead of going out to sea in their outrigger canoes to catch fish and missionaries.

    1. Please would you give us more information about what sort of organisation tarableu is?

  60. CNN’s COP capital confusion. 1 November 2021.

    American network CNN appears to be bringing the same rigour and insight to COP26 that it displayed throughout the Trump administration. The broadcasters rocked up to the UN climate change summit in Scotland this weekend, brimming with their usual brio and bumptiousness at the chance to cover Biden, Boris et al rubbing shoulders. There’s only one problem – their staff do not appear to know which city they are actually in.

    Celebrated CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer fired off a beaming photo of himself this morning, grinning in front of Edinburgh Castle with the caption ‘I’m now reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered.’ Unfortunately COP26 is not actually happening in Edinburgh but rather Glasgow – some 40 miles away.

    What can one say? This is beyond parody! I rest my case. They are morons!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/cnn-s-cop-capital-confusion

  61. Unsurprisingly, Bbc News seem to be siding with France over the fishing licence debacle. Absolutely no mention of the cause, namely lack of proof of prior fishing in UK waters, and simply implying both sides are at fault.

      1. I am very pleased to say that dear old Alistair has mental health problems. I hope they keep the murdering lying bastard awake at night.

    2. Can’t the BBC be taken to court for actual treason? Of course it would take a prime minister with testicles to do so and we don’t have one.

  62. 340740+ up ticks,
    Inclusive of themselves 650 can be accounted for straight off.

    breitbart,

    UK Home Office Admits to Losing Track of Over 900 Foreign Criminals

      1. Those are just the rapists and murderers that they know about which we can’t deport because they all have a homosexual cat.

        60,000 jihadi on the watch list. They only admit to ‘actually’ watching them when one of them goes boom.

        So very reassuring….Not.

        1. My calculations suggest that the 60,000 (or whatever) are being “watched” by around 12,000 security people who work a 35 hour week.

    1. This need to be publicised greatly – but too many of the PTB have their own skeletons in the cupboard so it won’t happen.

  65. Liz Truss sets France 48 hour deadline to back down in Brexit fish wars
    Liz Truss has insisted the UK will not ‘roll over’ in face of French threats to UK and Jersey’s energy supplies
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/01/france-has-48-hours-back-fishing-threats-warns-liz-truss/

    BTL Comment:

    “Jersey has offered France 49 temporary fishing licences in an attempt to prevent Paris carrying out its threat to the Channel Island’s energy supplies.”

    Why did we get such a pathetically bad deal with the EU? Surely it was because we kept on and on giving in and the more we gave in the more we were driven back. Do we never learn.

    That sounds rather like Jersey rolling over completely. They were in the right but they still gave in! We now can have no further doubts about Boris Johnson – he is as weak as water.

    1. ‘Why did we get such a pathetically bad deal with the EU? Surely it
      was because we kept on and on giving in and the more we gave in the more
      we were driven back. Do we never learn’.

      Same with the Arabs. Give them half a goat to feed their family and they demand the rest of the herd.

      Metropolitan France is mostly Muslim now. Just as our town councils in the north are.

    2. Cheers! How wonderful to find that the ally you are defending has rolled over and surrendered. Jersey today, France in 1940. How closely related are they? Could we offer the Channel Islands to France, possibly in exchange for Calais??

      1. Calais would become Melilla in northern Europe!
        Horrible thought – the dinghy passengers don’t seem to have thought of the Channel Islands. Mmmm, Lampedusa and Lesbos in the English Channel.

        1. When no-skill 3rd worlders know what they can get for arriving and doing NOTHING, then they will continually come, with multiple wives, multiple kids, wanting multiple houses, NHS – – EVERYTHING – – PAID FOR BY US.

          SEEN PRITI STOP THEM YET?
          SEEN BORIS SACK HER BECAUSE SHE’S SO BAD?

          1. They are still allowed to cross because that’s what the government want. Since they get border farce to expedite the invaders over, that’s the only conclusion that can be drawn.

    3. Oh yes, this is the same Liz Truss that did not respond to the Dutch Customs holding up imports and exports at their border. The saga continues.

    4. It’s so f predictable.

      Conservative leader looks weak.
      Conservative challengers start acting all tough and right wing.
      Election / new leader
      Conservative voters saying “X will sort the country out”
      Same old globalist policies.

  66. John Selwyn Gumboil aka Baron Deben, Mad Cow specialist, anti-Brexitier, Chairman of the UK’s independent Committee on Climate Change guest speaker on BBC News about the COP26 conference (why would they select a Tory?) does not think we are doing enough to combat global climate catastrophe. Close all the power stations, deny permission to open new coal mines, refuse to import anything produced in a country that generates pollution – and on and on and on.

    With people like him, and Boris and the rest, we will be reduced to starving wretches within years, if not months. Is there no one who can save us (Vlad?)

    1. Gummer has always been too boring to attract the negative publicity that he deserves. Even his barony seems to be named with the most forgettable name possible. Almost as though he wants to slide under the radar!

      1. Gummer maybe dull, uninteresting and forgettable but the river Deben and the area around is anything but. Sitting on the terrace of the Maybush pub in Waldringfield and looking out across the river one can imagine the Angles in their longboats moving up the river centuries ago. Sutton Hoo, a burial site from the time of the Angles that revealed great treasure, is just up river and a bit further up is Woodbridge, a delightful town. North of the river is Rendlesham forest where further important finds from the time of the Angles have been uncovered.
        Odd that you mention radar as down river at the estuary is Bawdsey, where much of the early radar development took place.
        Gosh, an Essex boy defending Suffolk. Whatever next?😉

          1. I’m not at all spiritual but Sutton Hoo on a misty and dull October day is very atmospheric, eerie even.

    2. As I mentioned in posts in the last couple of days, as a schoolmaster I have had to endure very many school speech day speeches. I can say, with no fear of successful contradiction, that the one Gumboil gave at Gresham’s in June 2011, in the final year at school of my son, Christo, was by far the worst I have ever heard. It was all pro EU propaganda and Climate Change alarm. At least Christo managed to accost him during tea on the lawn and tell him that his speech was a disgrace and an attempt to influence and corrupt young people’s minds. Gumboil literally fled with Christo in pursuit – it was a marvellous sight.

  68. I’ve just looked in on BBC News. It’s Wall to Wall stuff! Non Stop. There’s a sort of manic desperation about it all. Even Welby was there! It’s a toss-up who they are trying to convince; themselves or the serfs!

    P.S. There’s another ten days of this!

    2. Follow me – Minty. Watch and listen to no news, current affairs, politics. Wonderful. Breath of fresh air. Blood pressure normal.

      1. I limit the amount strictly Bill. One of the reasons I think that I haven’t succumbed to the fear that I see around me!

        1. Everyone I know who watches the BBC claims they don’t believe everything it says. Then they tell me that they’re having their booster jab as soon as it’s open for the under 50s..

          1. I was asked today at the RAFA meeting if I’d had my booster – I smiled and said, “I’m fine”.

    3. BBC radio start of his 1am till 5am show – topic – people lying to you. ?????? REALLY??? ERRRR – – from the VERY station that doesn’t know what the truth is???

      Just after 1am this morning, Dotun Adebayo had a caller on his show. asking about all the big cars at Glasgow, while they are on about climate etc – – Dotun’s reply – – due to how many American Presidents assassinations – –

      if any of you can get the replay thing – – – please prove me wrong – – i was NOT on anything

  69. Point to ponder.

    As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

    ― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

    1. I think it’s Geoff’s Hat tips to the Rome Summit & COP26 and global warming Nove (Italian for 9) and Ember… Nine Embers and the dying of the light….

    2. I think it’s Geoff’s Hat tips to the Rome Summit & COP26 and global warming Nove (Italian for 9) and Ember… Nine Embers and the dying of the light….

  71. ‘Pierre Castex, France’s lacklustre PM, called on EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to impose “sanctions” on Britain. His arguments? Nothing about the terms of the post-Brexit agreement on fishing rights (which, in fact, the Jersey authorities were following to the letter). Simply that the EU “needs to show leaving the Union is more damaging than remaining in it.” ‘

    That’s an interesting statement. It seems to acknowledge that remaining in the EU incurs damage, and that the Commission needs to demonstrate that it would be worse to leave. In the absence of any such demonstration will M.Castex not be convinced?

    1. It also flags up their intent never to play fair (only the deluded surely thought they would). They are out to punish us for daring to want to be free.

  73. Sleepy Joe can’t keep his eyes open. 1 November 2021.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2ca39b30af1313692fb8e9e9083984c00c568decfa8ed901301ac74e85edff07.jpg

    That didn’t take long. It’s less than four hours since America’s septuagenarian president landed in Scotland and already he appears to have fallen asleep at the summit. Joe Biden was spotted shutting his eyes during one of the many, many speeches this afternoon, not opening them again until an awkward apparatchik ran over to disturb him. in fairness to the aged Democrat, sleep might have seemed like the most diplomatic option when faced with Brian Cox, David Attenborough and Prince Charles producing various outpourings of hot air in their efforts to curb global warming.

    Judging by Steerpike’s output this morning he doesn’t appear to have bought into this scam either! As to Joe, they obviously have someone watching him, and if it looks like he’s dropping off they send someone to wake him up!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/watch-sleepy-joe-can-t-keep-his-eyes-open

      1. That anything of importance could be achieved in such circumstances seems highly unlikely! It’s just an ego trip is it not?

    3. For the first time ever I find myself sympathising with him. I expect the speeches he had to listen to were so boring that I too would have fallen asleep if I had had to be there.

      1. Agreed – the amount of drivel being spouted is enough to make anyone sleepy, especially in what I suspect is a warm room!

        1. Lucky i’m a prepper. Though an air rifle isn’t much use, but as a last resort a shot in the eye or their balls might make them think …was it worth it? Then smack them over the head with the stock.

          1. Get a bayonet. Longer reach.
            Or, nip down to Lunnon and buy a shooter in a pub. Plenty about.

          3. Get a crossbow. But I was told by my next door neighbour who has several guns that there are air rifles that are pretty lethal.

    2. I assume that this “transition” will not involve any changes to the Royal Lifestyle!

      1. There is nothing new on the planet. In the 14th C, 1314, 1315 and most of 1316 England suffered from almost constant rain. Crops rotted in the ground, harvests failed and much livestock either drowned or starved. As you can guess, food prices soared and the result was the Great Famine which is said to have claimed over 5% of the population. It was the same or worse in mainland Europe. By 1315 many peasants were eating the seed grain they had stored for future planting.
        Even the King had to do without bread, poor soul 😉

        1. Any records of volcanic action in the Northern Hemisphere just before those years?
          Edit: I hadn’t seen TB’s tweet before posting.

          1. I had to look for that and there was an eruption but it was in NZ- Mount Tarawera which is believed to have blown in 1314. There may have been others not recorded. Also, this bad weather did, according to some sources, occur at the end of the Medieval warm period and the beginning of a little ice age.
            The climate over Europe was changing with cooler, wetter summers and autumn storms. Not ideal weather for agriculture and it doesn’t take much more than one failed harvest for things to get serious.
            This was also, possibly, another cause for what ended up as the Peasants Revolt in 1381.
            I know Hallowe’en was yesterday but some historians believe that the tale of Hansel and Gretel emerged around this time. Rumours of cannibalism were rife and one source I know of suggested that H&G had been abandoned by their parents in the woods as they couldn’t feed them. They were taken in by an old lady who herself had nothing to eat so she is going to roast and eat the children. This has all been slightly sanitized in more recent times but who knows…
            ( I sang The Sandman at school when I was 15 so know H&G well and am fond of it. )

          2. How easy would it be to have a failed harvest nowadays, I wonder?
            It’s a very long time since we had a really bad summer where it just rained all summer.
            Or a “year without a summer” event, could that cause low enough harvests to threaten the food supply?

          3. Next time a large volcano (not the puny little one in the Canary Islands – which causes more pollution per minute than the UK in a year)) goes “bang” and fills the sky with debris for months.

        2. Any records of volcanic action in the Northern Hemisphere just before those years?
          Edit: I hadn’t seen TB’s tweet before posting.

        3. There has always been rain and floods, what is new is a vast population which thinks it can live in twee houses built by rivers on flood plains. Maybe the homeowners should ask what cut the river valley from the rock of the mountain, cos whatever it was it predates the industrial revolution. Tw@ts, the lot of them.

          1. Too right. When we go to pub, occasionally now, from the back deck where the reprobates sit, we can see a fairly new housing estate. The houses are packed in and are tiny. Have never been in one but one wonders where (and how they get it in) they put furniture. I grew up in a semi-detached in south London and when I think about the size of my mother’s oven compared to the one we have…it seems huge. Those houses look like glorified rabbit hutches and I bet they cost a small fortune. Not all that far from a river either.

          2. They have reduced size furniture – I kid you not. That’s what happens in the show house so that it looks as though everything is okay.

  78. Is Russia’s president Vladimir Putin attending COP26 as world leaders arrive in Glasgow. 1 November 2021.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d4fc6f1a47b742fc22182068acbcf391725602baf3689991aea72be827fc5580.jpg

    On October 20, the Kremlin announced the no-show without giving a reason, saying that climate change was an “important” priority to Russia and “one of our foreign policy’s most important priorities”

    No he isn’t because he has more sense than the rest of them put together. Still here’s a picture of him for the Daily Record archives. You could file it under World’s Only Sane Leader!

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/russian-president-vladimir-putin-attending-25348765

  80. Rain started after lunch. So I made a loaf – just out of the AGA.

    I wish I knew the Swedish Muppet’s e-mail address to ask her how she managed to come from Sweden to Scotland without using any Carbon (or whatever it is that is now banned – except in China, India, Russia, USA…)

    1. Have you ever made bread with yeast from potato’s? Came across it the other day on You Tube. Fascinating because I had no idea you could do that.

    1. Clearly he’s obsessed with Spherical objects and there will be plenty of those spoken at the Conference….

        1. I greatly admire the courage of the bomber crews who flew over heavily defended Chermany for several miles at 50 ft….

          1. I do, too. Going out, time after time…
            A relative was tail gunner in a Sunderland. He didn’t come back.

          2. Not just the Dambusters, all air crew. Over 55, 000 of them failed to return – and they were ALL volunteers.

  82. 340740+ up ticks,

    breitbart,

    From the Capo dei capi,

    COP26 Reset: Prince Charles Calls for ‘Vast Military-Style Campaign’ to ‘Radically Transform’ Global Economy

    The second word of the two word reply is still echoing around the valleys
    of olde England …. OFF.

  83. We watched a film last night,”the Rewrite” with High Grant and Marisa Tomei. Amusing, gentle and well-acted. Nobody died, happy ending. Not on the BBC.

    Elsewhere on Freeview what we have noticed is that some programmes are now incorporating a voiceover. Railway journeys” with Michael Portillo: “Michael is getting into the carriage now that the train has stopped. He has seated himself by the window. He is holding his guide book.”
    Later, the film “Manhunter” had similar: “The man is sitting on the log on the beach. Behind him is the blue sea. Another man is talking…”

    Is this for blind viewers?

      1. I had no idea such a thing existed. Duh! Oh, boy. The sum of all fears. I have no idea how to turn it off.

      2. I had no idea such a thing existed. Duh! Oh, boy. The sum of all fears. I have no idea how to turn it off.

      3. I had no idea such a thing existed. Duh! Oh, boy. The sum of all fears. I have no idea how to turn it off.

    2. His own words apparently [In September 2013 he commented] : “If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop. But I’m not. I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.”

    3. His own words apparently [In September 2013 he commented] : “If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop. But I’m not. I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.”

    3. Surprising number of BTL comments speaking favourably of her, although they’ve all been heavily voted down. My comment ‘Thunberg – a ‘know-all’ who knows nothing’ doesn’t seem to have made it past the mods!

  86. Kremlin: Putin won’t address COP26 climate summit via video link. 1 November 2021.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin will not deliver a speech at the United Nations climate change conference, also known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, Kremlin said on Monday.

    Well he was going to! I can only assume he’s been watching the BBC coverage and decided he would rather cut his toenails instead!

    https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-11-01/Kremlin-Putin-won-t-address-COP26-climate-summit-via-video-link-14PUWFYZiDe/index.html

    1. He reads NOTTL and has correctly guaged public reaction…..!

      So embarrassing. Our country is led by perpetual teenagers without morals.

      1. BB

        Boris is copying the little Moomintroll’s expression .. Blah blah blah ..

        Then I heard 23 minutes ago , Boris waffling on the radio about James Bond films and the ticking clock .

        What effect will this this knee jerk reaction have when the Climate summit wraps up ..

        I will tell you what .. we as a first world country.. God’s little kingdom, will be ruined , and crushed.

        All for what?

  87. Scottish owned boat with a Dutch name, skippered by an Irishman, working for largest shellfish processing plant in Europe which has changed its name several times in the past. Impounded by the Frogs. Something fishy going on.

  88. Aaaarrrgghhhhhhhh …….
    Why, oh why can computer nerds not express themselves in plain English?
    As a belt and braces measure, I have spent half an hour trying to burn my latest Christmas card design onto a disk; the first time I’ve done it with this particular machine.
    Would it do it? Would it heck.
    Each time, an unintelligible message told me that something was stopping the successful burn.
    Eventually, I cracked and tried a new disk. Bingo!!!! Instant success.
    If the original message had said something along the lines of “This disk is crap. Bin it and use another one.” I would have not have expended blood, sweat and swear words on a futile exercise. And the air in Allan Towers would not be a deep shade of blue.

    1. Throw the disks away and get a USB stick!
      There are two reasons for the useless error message…
      1. it was written by a software developer like my colleague, who appears to believe that all users have the same knowledge that he has, or
      2. The problem could have 6 different causes, so we genuinely can’t give you more information. But in this case, the message should give a list of suggestions for the user to try, like Re-start the computer, Eject the disk and insert it again, Try another disk.

      I understand your frustration, and I am on a mission to try and educate developers to provide more helpful messages.

          1. Alt for dyrt for en pensjonist

            BTW – the website showing those excellent cards – does reveal your surname….

          6. Thankyou! All the hedgehogs pictured went through the care of the hospital. There are mini bios of each one.

          12. Don’t think I am being weird (or weirder) but it took me only a few minutes to find what I believe to be your address.

            As you post under a false name – I assume you don’t want people to know….

            Just saying.

          17. I don’t think anyone here has the remotest idea whether I am really called Richard or whether I am really called Rastus! But I can assure you I am NOT : Richy, Rickie, Rick, Rich, Dick, Dickey or Dicken or Winston, Wayne, Mohammed or Beryl.

          23. I was being serious – if I can locate your home – and your firstborn’s – in under three minutes – just think what a clued up person could do….

            Just saying…

          24. It’s normal for Norway: it’s very easy to find somebody, if you want to.
            Not overly concerned, but thanks for the heads-up. I’ve lost the link from the post.

          3. I’m cheating. Using my own photo but Snappy Snaps are doing the printing. No-one’s getting any pressies though. Spent it all on the cards.

        3. The easiest option! Last year I started buying the really cool ones that have lights and pop up things. Lots of fun.

        1. I have little tin boxes that used to contain luxury soap to keep my USB sticks in. I write the approximate contents in permanent marker on the sticks.

      4. If you can get developers to use English – rather than NerdTalk – all power to your elbow.

        1. Some developers just put the log message (which is meant for other developers) on the screen. I was lucky to work on a very prestigious project for a household name, where everything was done properly, and got my training there.

    2. Throw the disks away and get a USB stick!
      There are two reasons for the useless error message…
      1. it was written by a software developer like my colleague, who appears to believe that all users have the same knowledge that he has, or
      2. The problem could have 6 different causes, so we genuinely can’t give you more information. But in this case, the message should give a list of suggestions for the user to try, like Re-start the computer, Eject the disk and insert it again, Try another disk.

      I understand your frustration, and I am on a mission to try and educate developers to provide more helpful messages.

        1. blackbox2 is right, get rid of your discs, they are in terms of computers, antiques. USB sticks are far superior and you wouldn’t have gone through so much pain. A USB stick will tell you straight away if there is something wrong with it.

          3. I’ve forgotten how to. Everything was transferred to sticks and that is all I use now. Do use external hard drives but that is for films and things that take up a lot of space.

          5. The problem comes if the drive fails, or the software that opens the pictures can’t cope with one so old…

          6. Yes – that would be a problem – but I still have the cards with my Africa pics on. Just not sorted how I want them, as they are on the drive. The things on my laptop are networked and backed up in Basel.

          7. I have several hard drives but after a particular disaster in which I lost several hundred films I now make sure to have films backed up on another external hard drive that I don’t use or play. It’s only purpose is in case of disaster to take out and put contents on another hard drive for regular use. Apparently after 2 and a half years they are no longer that reliable if in constant use so it is wise to buy another and transfer data to that every now and then, insurance. I would strongly urge you to do the same if you don’t want to lose your photos.

          12. Aren’t they becoming hard to find? It’s rather like using LPs rather than CD’s.

    5. CD-R v CD-RW. The first you can write to once (but read many times), the second you can overwrite. My money is that your 1st was a CD-R….

      Edit – but having just seen JonathanR’s note below, I fully agree with him.

      1. The discs were identical; both new.
        They are DVD-R.
        I just wanted the work away from the laptop in case anything went wrong. (Paranoia is my middle name.)

        1. If they were both brand new then the first one should have worked…

          Dunno, but a USB dongle is much easier (and probably cheaper)

  89. Leaving all the pointlessness and razzmatazz aside, I cannot for the life of me understand why The Ponce of Wales is pontificating in Glasgow. Or in Rome over the weekend.

    Anyone know why? Whom does he speak for – apart from his dim wokeness?

    1. He admires the little Moomintroll.

      He also believes he represents the Church of the World .. and it is his Kingly duty .. despite his many cosy homes and freezing castles and spoilt brat sons .

  92. That’s me for the day. Sun followed by rain. Sunny tomorrow and, when it gets dark (just after lunch) I’ll turn on the storage heaters. Always a bad sign…’cos they tend to stay on until Easter…

    Apropos Copulate26 (© Our Susan) – my brother-in-law working on the sound etc at the event told me that one of the many, many ludicrous things that they have had to do is recreate an exact replica of the General Assembly of the UN. Presumably so that the thousands of “delegates” can feel at home….

    Have a jolly evening.

    A demain.

    1. Can’t afford to heat your home – but our govt ensures you can afford to permanenly heat the hotels that are the homes of those arriving by dinghy.

      1. I won’t look – – but know I couldn’t afford that amount of your question marks Bill.

      2. You can get really cheap ones from China……………. if the container ship can dock

      3. I watched a short Youtube video in the small hours yesterday morning of a guy making a dining table from a slab of redwood about 10′ x 5′ x 3” thick. Cost of the slab of wood $2,900. Price of the beautifully finished table $8,000. I relayed this to Designer Daughter. “That’s nothing”, she said, “Very rare New Zealand (?) Kauri wood preserved in a bog approaching $100,000 a slab…./ table…

        1. One of the recent projects I detailed was for Roka, a Japanese charcoal grill restaurant, specifically their outlet at Canary Wharf. They have others in Central London and some with different names.

          The bar had to be constructed in some imported exotic waney edged planks some 4” in thickness. Their Japanese designer would place Ebony dovetail wedges where the planks had split. Needless to say we were obliged to kiln dry the timber in the UK in order to stabilise the timber.

          Even the charcoal for the grill was imported from Japan.

  97. I may have missed something here but
    I am taking no chances …… I have been
    busy all day and have recently returned
    home, on turning on my interthingy I note
    one of my e-mails is from a:
    ‘gretathunbergavaaz:
    this under-educated, illiterate, assuming,
    entitled, lacking common-sense child told
    me I lacked understanding of the ‘dire-
    happenings’ which will ensue … if I fail
    to follow her!!

    Bollox.

    BT….WTFAYA??

        1. I have only signed one online petition and that was to have Richard III reburied in York Minster. I do not sign anything online nowadays. Why should we trust these sites etc to be honest? Don’t trust anyone these days except MH, my son and my close friends.

          3. I used to sign lots – not so many these days. I use a separate email address for petitions and various other things but not my personal one.

    2. Good evening G
      Each NoTTLer has more common sense than all those attending the Glasgow love fest.
      Hypocrites all of them.

    1. My final words today,……….. you Effing tosser Boros, you utterly useless Effing W⚓.
      And it’s good night from me.

      1. Is Boros standing as a candidate in the King Toad oop French President Elections
        He is working harder to please them, than support us

        The Barsteward

    3. Boris is no Churchill as advertised. He is more a Quisling.

      I never thought that this fat Turk would prove to be such a dishonest and corrupt wretch but there we have it. The man is a dishonourable liar and a monster.

      May he rot in Hell.

      1. He is now openly pursuing a scorched earth policy.

        He knows he will never be elected to office again and will be happy to go away with plenty of moolah to some overseas fornicatorium with his current wife and any potential future bonkies he can get to join them.

        But until he does, he wants to to inflict as much damage on Britain and the British people as he possibly can.

  99. While none of us are going to live forever, but under climate change dystopia it will feel like it.

  101. Evening, all. Happy 1st “Noveember” 🙂 Or perhaps it should be Brumaire? Late on parade because I’ve been at the Parish Council meeting. Now I’m no longer chairman, things tend to finish later. As for the headline – when did the French ever show a sense of proportion?

    1. Evening to all late-comers. The French are always patriotic and if it means trashing their oldest enemy, all the better for them!

      1. In the French Navy, it’s considered unlucky to have the number 5 in a ship’s name…
        Because all of the ships with that number in their name… cinq

  104. Archbishop of Canterbury says sorry after comparing climate inaction to ignoring the Nazis
    Most Rev Justin Welby made the comment as he called for urgent action to tackle global warming at Cop26 summit in Glasgow
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/01/archbishop-canterbury-says-sorry-comparing-climate-inaction/

    This bastard is an excuse for a human being. He should be defrocked and sent into exile and never allowed ever to enter Britain again. He is sheer filth and evil to the very core of his being.

    1. We are in danger from people ignoring the new Nazis, but it’s not quite as Welby said it….

    1. Why not just employ black cops, or are they afraid they would behave in exactly the same way as white cops?

  107. 340740+ up ticks,

    I have a horrible feeling the fat turk has today taken the top foreign arse kissing contest award in Glasgow.

    1. I fear we have all been done over , Ogga.

      We have fallen for an enormous con trick , and we are now prisoners of a globalist madman and his crew of snivelling serpents

      1. The blessed Trudeau has already apparently committed canada to a freeze on gas and oil production.. as well as donating billions to third world countries to help them fight the dreaded co2.

        What a damned idiot. The country is deep in debt, we have enormous gas and oil reserves but instead of using them, he tries to shut the industry down.

        God knows what the oaf will get up to next in his efforts to look good.

      2. 340784+ up ticks,
        Morning TB,
        In the nicest possible way, I and at last count before the treachery that, via
        it’s nec/ farage befell the real UKIP, 30000
        members & I had NO hand in it.

        We, for the most part were never taken in.

  108. My wife and I have received nothing despite both having the maximum holdings in Premium Bonds.

    This is a sure sign that the NSI is lately rigged.

    We do not expect winnings every month but in recent times we have won nothing.

    1. I received a £25 consolation prize this month, making 13 prizes in the past year. The DT, admittedly with a much smaller amount in PBs, got her first win in the past year with 2 x £25 prizes.

  111. I am not a religious man but I do, very sincerely, hope and pray that Glasgow suffers a complete power failure and all the lights go out and heating fails in all the hotels occupied by the COPs and robbers.
    Nice for them to suffer what their jamboree is deciding for us plebs.

    1. Nice thought, but they’ll have diesel generators on standby for just such an event. The ‘Show’ must go on.

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