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Good Morning, all
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Good morning, Citroen1.
Build more prisons!
Preferably off shore near a windfarm so the inmates can be lulled to sleep by the whirring of the blades.
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And prioritise them for the indigenous native English people!
Good morrow, gentlefolk. Today’s (recycled) story
THAT PET CROCODILE
A Drover walks into an Outback bar with a pet crocodile by his side.
He puts the crocodile up on the bar and turns to the astonished patrons.
‘I’ll make you a deal. I’ll open this crocodile’s mouth and place my manhood inside. Then the croc will close his mouth for one minute. Then he’ll open his mouth and I’ll remove my unit unscathed. In return for witnessing this spectacle, each of you will buy me a drink.’
The crowd murmured their approval.
The man stood up on the bar, dropped his trousers, and placed his Credentials and related parts in the crocodile’s open mouth. The croc closed his mouth as the crowd gasped. After a minute, the man grabbed a beer bottle and smacked the crocodile really, really hard on the top of its head
The croc opened his mouth and the man removed his genitals unscathed as promised.
The crowd cheered, and the first of his free drinks were delivered.
The man stood up again and made another offer. ‘I’ll pay anyone $100 who’s willing to give it a try.’
A hush fell over the crowd. After a while, a hand went up in the back of the bar.
A blonde woman timidly spoke up, ‘I’ll try it – just don’t hit me so hard with the beer bottle!’
Good morning, Sir Jasper.
Nicola Sturgeon was sent flowers by the SNP after ‘traumatic’ interrogation at Covid Inquiry
Gesture branded insensitive by people who were unable to say goodbye to loved ones because of policies she put in place during pandemic
Daniel Sanderson, SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT
11 February 2024 • 8:05pm
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An emotional Nicola Sturgeon at the Covid Inquiry
Nicola Sturgeon was sent flowers by the SNP following her “traumatic” interrogation at the Covid Inquiry, in a move branded an insult to grieving families.
The former first minister, as well as John Swinney, her former deputy, were sent large bouquets by the SNP group at Holyrood, following several hours of questioning about their handling of the pandemic.
SNP insiders said the gesture was a recognition that the politicians may have been left “deflated and traumatised” by the experience.
Ms Sturgeon was on the brink of tears several times as she was accused of politicising the pandemic and hoarding power and challenged over the deletion of all her WhatsApp messages.
‘So angry flowers were sent’
However, the gift was branded insensitive by relatives of the deceased, who in some cases were unable to say goodbye to loved ones due to the policies put in place by Ms Sturgeon.
“I’m so angry flowers were sent to them,” Jackie Marlow, who is part of a group of relatives suing her late mother’s care home following her death in April 2020, told the Scottish Mail on Sunday.
“During my mum’s last weeks in that care home, I would have loved nothing more than to visit and take her flowers, but I was repeatedly denied that opportunity.
“There was no compassion shown by the Scottish Government when they made rules that kept families apart.
“And there was certainly no compassion when Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney deleted their messages to cover their own backs.”
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The former first minister was accused at the inquiry last month of politicising the pandemic CREDIT: JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
It is understood that the decision to send the bouquets was taken by SNP politicians in the Scottish Parliament.
They also sent Ms Sturgeon flowers last June, following her arrest as part of the ongoing investigation into SNP finances. She was released without charge and denies wrongdoing.
Humza Yousaf, who succeeded Ms Sturgeon, has so far rejected calls to distance himself from his predecessor.
He said last week that he found it “very hard” to watch her evidence session, and spoke to her afterwards to “see how she was”.
‘Repugnant decisions’
However, Craig Hoy, the Scottish Tory chairman, said grieving families would be right to feel “appalled” about the flowers.
He added: “This is a crassly insensitive insult to the bereaved and those who suffered as a result of repugnant decisions made by Nicola Sturgeon and her government.”
Ms Sturgeon insisted she deleted all her WhatsApp messages, meaning they could not be handed to the inquiry, as she was following Scottish government policies.
She strongly denied that her government had politicised the pandemic to boost support for independence, though the claim was contradicted by some evidence unearthed by the inquiry.
An SNP spokesman said: “Our deepest condolences go out to every person who suffered a bereavement throughout the pandemic.”
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Robert Thomson
8 HRS AGO
A vile, divisive harridan who is now completely irrelevant in Scottish politics and hopefully at the next election SNP will join her on the junk heap.
Tony Tween
8 HRS AGO
It’s not uncommon for actors to receive flowers after a fine performance…and this is what this was, a performance by an accomplished actor.
Hue Control
8 HRS AGO
Venomous cow
She’s either an accomplished actress and a cow, or else an accomplished actor and a bull. It looks like education, once highly praised in Scotland, is now the pits.
Nicola Sturgeon was sent flowers by the SNP after ‘traumatic’ interrogation at Covid Inquiry
Gesture branded insensitive by people who were unable to say goodbye to loved ones because of policies she put in place during pandemic
Daniel Sanderson, SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT
11 February 2024 • 8:05pm
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An emotional Nicola Sturgeon at the Covid Inquiry
Nicola Sturgeon was sent flowers by the SNP following her “traumatic” interrogation at the Covid Inquiry, in a move branded an insult to grieving families.
The former first minister, as well as John Swinney, her former deputy, were sent large bouquets by the SNP group at Holyrood, following several hours of questioning about their handling of the pandemic.
SNP insiders said the gesture was a recognition that the politicians may have been left “deflated and traumatised” by the experience.
Ms Sturgeon was on the brink of tears several times as she was accused of politicising the pandemic and hoarding power and challenged over the deletion of all her WhatsApp messages.
‘So angry flowers were sent’
However, the gift was branded insensitive by relatives of the deceased, who in some cases were unable to say goodbye to loved ones due to the policies put in place by Ms Sturgeon.
“I’m so angry flowers were sent to them,” Jackie Marlow, who is part of a group of relatives suing her late mother’s care home following her death in April 2020, told the Scottish Mail on Sunday.
“During my mum’s last weeks in that care home, I would have loved nothing more than to visit and take her flowers, but I was repeatedly denied that opportunity.
“There was no compassion shown by the Scottish Government when they made rules that kept families apart.
“And there was certainly no compassion when Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney deleted their messages to cover their own backs.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2024/02/11/TELEMMGLPICT000364719403_17076803338120_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq0xCxaHs0uU-ytAiMd-7XpLi5v_BddnGcIfEAz5GD2WA.jpeg?imwidth=960
The former first minister was accused at the inquiry last month of politicising the pandemic CREDIT: JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
It is understood that the decision to send the bouquets was taken by SNP politicians in the Scottish Parliament.
They also sent Ms Sturgeon flowers last June, following her arrest as part of the ongoing investigation into SNP finances. She was released without charge and denies wrongdoing.
Humza Yousaf, who succeeded Ms Sturgeon, has so far rejected calls to distance himself from his predecessor.
He said last week that he found it “very hard” to watch her evidence session, and spoke to her afterwards to “see how she was”.
‘Repugnant decisions’
However, Craig Hoy, the Scottish Tory chairman, said grieving families would be right to feel “appalled” about the flowers.
He added: “This is a crassly insensitive insult to the bereaved and those who suffered as a result of repugnant decisions made by Nicola Sturgeon and her government.”
Ms Sturgeon insisted she deleted all her WhatsApp messages, meaning they could not be handed to the inquiry, as she was following Scottish government policies.
She strongly denied that her government had politicised the pandemic to boost support for independence, though the claim was contradicted by some evidence unearthed by the inquiry.
An SNP spokesman said: “Our deepest condolences go out to every person who suffered a bereavement throughout the pandemic.”
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Robert Thomson
8 HRS AGO
A vile, divisive harridan who is now completely irrelevant in Scottish politics and hopefully at the next election SNP will join her on the junk heap.
Tony Tween
8 HRS AGO
It’s not uncommon for actors to receive flowers after a fine performance…and this is what this was, a performance by an accomplished actor.
Hue Control
8 HRS AGO
Venomous cow
This British industry is in rude health – let’s hope the NHS doesn’t crush it
After a decade of being overshadowed by tech, a sleeping giant is growing again
MATTHEW LYNN
11 February 2024 • 11:00am
The tech industry has stalled. There is little sign that the UK will ever become a major force in electric vehicles, or in green energy. The City is so dead that the one IPO of any significance so far this year will be a Kazakh-based airline. There is not very much to make anyone feel optimistic about the British economy right now.
Yet, with excellent results over the last few weeks from AstraZeneca and GSK, it is clear that we still have a world-class life sciences industry.
This is surely the time to double down on that global lead, especially as the pharmaceutical industry is growing again – and most of all to make sure it does not drift into irrelevance in the way so many others have done over the last decade.
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PJ Spiers
16 HRS AGO
“The UK has a fantastic base in life sciences. We have to make sure we hold on to that lead.”
That might well be true Matthew.
Unfortunately we are also world leaders in the Woke, LGBTQ, Net Zero. Illegal-Immigration and Self-Denigration industries – and until that changes we are doomed to decline and serious civil unrest – if not outright civil war.
Good morning Michael and all.
Remind me which industry has been handed out humungous fines in recent years for behaving very badly over marketing its products?
Good morning, chums. I’m feeling the joys of Spring today, unlike this time yesterday. I hope that you all slept well and will enjoy your day today. Now to read the posts so far and then tackle Wordle. Then it’s time to do some washing whilst the weather forecast is for sun and light breezes.
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‘A Touch of Spring’: a lost story by Richmal Crompton – unseen in a century
This comic sketch proves that there was more to the author than Just William
Richmal Crompton
11 February 2024 • 3:00pm
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English author Richmal Crompton, the creator of ‘Just William’ CREDIT: Keystone/Getty Images
Richmal Crompton, who died in 1969, remains best known as the author of the many “Just William” stories, published throughout her lifetime.
But, in the 1920s, she was also a prolific writer of comic sketches for Punch, London Opinion and other literary magazines.
The below – one of many that slyly sets up its arrogant male narrator for a fall – is seen here for the first time since it was published, as A Touch of Spring, in The Humorist in April 1924.
‘Spring cleaning,” I said, “is merely a bad habit. It is the result of that restlessness and craving for change and excitement that is one of the most vicious characteristics of your sex.”
“That sounds really well,” said Clare, critically. “Are you going to put it in an article?”
“Yes, I’m calling it ‘The Psychology of Spring Cleaning’.”
“It’s not psychology that worries me,” said Clare. “It’s dust.”
“Dust,” I said, “is indestructible. Nothing can be destroyed. When all is said and done, what are we all but dust?”
“Yes,” said Clare, “but we don’t all spread ourselves over the top of the piano and in the chinks of the furniture. It’s that sort of dust I dislike. I don’t mind you and me. I think you’re quite a nice bit of dust.”
“Don’t try to turn me from my subject,” I said severely. “You cannot destroy matter. Nature abhors a vacuum.”
“Does it?” said Clare. “I rather like one myself for the spring cleaning. Janie’s going to lend me hers.”
“You go into a room,” I said, warming to my subject, “and flick about with a brush and a duster, and the dust jumps up into the air and stays there till your back’s turned, and then simply sits down where it was before, laughing at you up its sleeve.”
“It will make a beautiful article, darling!” said Clare affectionately. “Mrs Jones can come next Monday, and we hope to do the whole house in the week.”
“Except my study,” I said firmly. “I forbid you to touch my study. You promised to obey me in the marriage service, and I hold you to it.”
“Y-yes,” admitted Clare meditatively, “but you promised with all your worldly goods to me endow, and you simply refuse to buy me half the things I want, though I know you’ve got money in the bank which, according to the marriage service, is mine. I don’t consider that you have with all your worldly goods me endowed, and I consider that lets me off the obeying part.”
“You sophist!” I said.
“Please don’t use language like that in the drawing room,” said Clare, “and, considering that you’re away all day, I don’t see how you can stop me doing out your study.”
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Author Richmal Crompton CREDIT: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
“I shall lock my study door every morning,” I said.
I did.
The rest of the house became uninhabitable. Clare and I sat in my study every evening. Every morning I locked my study before setting off for work.
The week passed. The danger passed. Mrs Jones, our corpulent and wheezy Spirit of the Spring, passed on to fresh fields and pastures new (or, in plain terms, to Mrs Jenkins in “The Limes”), and our house breathed again.
My brother came in to dinner the day after she had gone.
“I’ve just been reading that article of yours, ‘The Psychology of Spring Cleaning’,” he said. “Jolly good!”
“Wasn’t it?” I said modestly. “And I lived up to it, too. I didn’t allow them to touch my study. It’s the only un-springcleaned room in the house. Now come and see if you can discover any difference between my study and, say, the drawing room.”
He came. He was impressed.
“Well, honestly,” he said, “I think that your study looks, if anything, the cleaner.” When he had gone I told Clare.
“It’s what I’ve always said,” I remarked. “Spring cleaning annoys the dust. It puts its back up, and the last thing – you know, John said that he thought my study looked cleaner than the drawing room.”
“I dare say it does,” said Clare. “The drawing room was done at the beginning of the week, and your study was done at the end.”
I gasped.
“My study? But I locked the door every day!” Clare carefully threaded her needle.
“Yes, darling,” she murmured, “but you left the key each day in your old jacket pocket.”
© Edward Ashbee and Catherine Massey 2024. This story appears in Oh, Clare! and Other Humorous Sketches by Richmal Crompton which will be published by David Schutte at £25 on Thursday
Excellent.
That’s a birthday present for Caroline sorted out!
We have the complete collection of William Stories to which we frequently return. They are especially comfortable reading when one is stricken by flu and has to go to bed.
…and written in clear concise English – a boon for your foreign students, I imagine.
Morning everyone.
Grant Shapps: Woke culture is rife in the Army. 11 February 2024.
The Army’s time and resources are being “squandered to promote a political agenda”, the Defence Secretary has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.
Grant Shapps said a “woke” and “extremist culture” had infiltrated the British Army and the military needed to focus on being a lethal fighting force.
He said that, amid the threat from Russia and the conflict in the Middle East, it was “inconceivable” that he would allow the standards for security clearance to be relaxed after The Telegraph revealed military personnel wanted to relax checks to promote ethnic diversity among officers.
Help! Help! The children are setting the house on fire. What shall I do?
We have learned something from these two articles. Things are much worse than even I suspected!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/11/grant-shapps-army-resources-squandered-political-agenda/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/11/ministry-of-defence-93-diversity-networks-gender-lgbtq/
Has Schapps only just noticed? He could take a closer look at his civil servants. That might give him a clue.
Woke is prevalent everywhere. It is part of the reason the country is in a total mess. Worse, the state has forced this.
It is a last desperate gasp of the Left collectivist state to control people and force how they want people to think. A last gasp of identity erasure before they are rendered utterly irrelevant.
Woke is prevalent everywhere. It is part of the reason the country is in a total mess. Worse, the state has forced this.
It is a last desperate gasp of the Left collectivist state to control people and force how they want people to think. A last gasp of identity erasure before they are rendered utterly irrelevant.
Good Morning Folks
Dry mild start here
What’s his percentage?
NATO Chief Warns Conflict With Russia Could Last ‘Decades’, Demands West Increase Arms Production
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The West needs to prepare for the conflict with Russia to last for “decades” and therefore must ramp up arms production quickly, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“NATO is not looking for war with Russia. But we have to prepare ourselves for a confrontation that could last decades,” Stoltenberg warned this weekend in an interview with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Thus, the NATO chief called for Western nations to increase production of weapons and ammunition, claiming that this is the only way in which Europe’s safety can be guaranteed and for Ukraine, which is not a member of the alliance, to continue its war with Russia. European market economies need to ink more deals with defence contractors, Stoltenberg proclaimed while urging that “they need to be signed faster”.
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Were we not told that the next war would not be fought with guns and bullets? The reason why our standing forces didn’t need to be so large.
The only thing i can reason out of Stoltenberg’s statement is the body count and defence contractors becoming ever richer.
The drugs didn’t have the desired effect so let’s kill all the men of breeding age.
Good morning.
Breaking News – Church has admitted being hoodwinked into converting cultural marxists into Christianity
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Lol. That squirrel has been busy lately.
Diabolic is the word that springs to mind looking at this anti-Christ.
Backpfeifengesicht.
Ein Gesicht, das viele Fäuste braucht.!
Backpfeifengesicht.
Labour refuses to stop Rochdale by-election campaigning despite candidate’s slur against Israel. 11 February 2024.
Labour has refused to stop campaigning in Rochdale despite a furious backlash over its candidate’s “disgraceful” claims that Israel deliberately let Hamas massacre its citizens.
Senior Tories have urged the party to stop rallying behind Azhar Ali after the aspiring MP accused the Israelis of paving the way for the slaughter of their own people on Oct 7, in order to get the “green light” to attack Gaza.
But it is understood Labour plans to continue campaigning as normal ahead of the by-election on Feb 29, with Mr Ali remaining its chosen candidate.
This of course tells us the reality of the Labour Party. Its leaders no more control it than the government controls the Civil Service.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/11/rochdale-by-election-labour-azhar-ali-israel-allowed-attack/
There is a small doubt in my mind as to why Israel was unable to defend its borders. What of their famed intelligence agency? I know a surprise raid can be successful but why did it take them so long to respond. Every one at home enjoying the holiday? On a day that in previous years they had been attacked…
Good morning.
As the song went, “Remember Pearl Harbor”.
Come on, what sort of government would deliberately allow invaders into their country whilst pretending to defend it?
A government in favour of global governance, like ours.
Funny how selective the morons have become when it comes to obvious ‘Hate Crimes’.
Labour refuses to stop Rochdale by-election campaigning despite candidate’s slur against Israel. 11 February 2024.
Labour has refused to stop campaigning in Rochdale despite a furious backlash over its candidate’s “disgraceful” claims that Israel deliberately let Hamas massacre its citizens.
Senior Tories have urged the party to stop rallying behind Azhar Ali after the aspiring MP accused the Israelis of paving the way for the slaughter of their own people on Oct 7, in order to get the “green light” to attack Gaza.
But it is understood Labour plans to continue campaigning as normal ahead of the by-election on Feb 29, with Mr Ali remaining its chosen candidate.
This of course tells us the reality of the Labour Party. Its leaders no more control it than the government controls the Civil Service.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/11/rochdale-by-election-labour-azhar-ali-israel-allowed-attack/
Clear sky, going to be a sunny day 4C.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bn25
The West should not negotiate with a murderous tyrant like Putin. 12 February 2024.
IR – Does Nigel Farage believe it is acceptable for Russia to grab another country’s land at the cost of thousands of lives and the forced migration of huge numbers of Ukrainians, who are fearful of the deliberate targeting and massacre of civilians – as happened in Bucha.
Negotiation on his terms would be a reward for Vladimir Putin, who also appears to care nothing for the deaths and injuries of conscripted Russians.
Bill Todd.
Well Mr Todd do you care nothing for the fate of tens of thousands of Ukies who have been conscripted by their government?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/02/12/letters-west-should-not-negotiate-murderous-tyrant-putin/
Good morning, all. Mottled sky. Not raining. Chilly.
Bright and clear here. Looks cold out there.
Intermittent rain and sunshine here
4°c and supposedly sunny here in The Borders. more like murky, I’d say.
Good luck with the eyeball.
Good morning, all. Bright this morning with a light breeze. I’m going to follow Elsie and put the washing on followed by some work in the garden.
Sometimes there’s nothing better to shake one awake in the morning after the first coffee than listening to a good political rant; one reason being that so many western politicians are fair game due to their disastrous and many times corrupt performances.
Here, Steve Bannon goes off on one and especially lays into the RINOs. We do not have a Bannon but we do have the marvellous Neil Oliver, Bannon to shake one awake and Oliver for later in the day when contemplation, for me, is more effective.
Steve Bannon – Taking No Prisoners
Exhausted Ukraine struggles to find new men for front line. 12 February 2024.
When Pavlo Zhilin and his patrol hit the streets of Cherkasy, men often swerve to avoid them.
Pavlo is a conscription officer looking for soldiers for Ukraine’s army.
But almost two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, there’s no flood of volunteers to the front line anymore.
Most of those who wanted to fight are either dead, injured or still stuck at the front waiting to be relieved by new recruits.
In the central town of Cherkasy, like elsewhere, finding them isn’t easy now that the first burst of enthusiasm and energy has faded.
Ukraine is exhausted.
No amount of cash is going to produce soldiers willing to fight!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68255490
Success of EU farmers’ protests shows how it can be done
Time we took a leaf out of the revolting EU farmers and staged our own revolution.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/eu-farmer-blockades-represent-a-serious-setback-for-eus-climate-agenda/
The farmers will manage to bring down the EU at the same time as the Remainers get us back into it!
With a little bit of luck!
As the intent is control remoaners won’t care – as long as they get their own way.
As the intent is control remoaners won’t care – as long as they get their own way.
Last night on Country File.
It seemed to me that there was a bit of ordered skullduggery going on with our farming industry.
I couldn’t quite follow it, too much coughing and too many deliberate obscurities in the practiced language.
My take was that farmers are going to be allowed to sell their land, but whilst still using it to produce crops or for grazing. But developers will have the first choice on what is done with the land, when they decide to build in the future.
That sounds more than crooked to me. It’s probably something our kreepy greedy political classes had set up.
There was a bit a fuss about this policy a few months ago when the government suggesting relaxing the controls because it was making new housing more expensive and delaying its construction. Like the madness of Net Zero, any legislation that depends on ‘targets’ is simply costly bureaucratic nonsense that solves no problem and usually creates more.
“The West should not negotiate with a murderous tyrant like Putin”
So, what about murderous tyrants who, for example, bombed Libya back to the stone age? Should we talk to them?
…and the murderous tyrant Zelensky whose Azov Brigade slaughtered over 14,000 Russian speakers. and the rest.
About one-third of the dead were Ukrainian.
Which is why I identified them as ‘ Russian- Speakers’.
About one-third of the dead were Ukrainian speakers.
In that (Donbass) region many spoke both languages – there may have even been some English speakers!
Writing ‘14,000 Russian speakers’ implies that all the dead were victims of the Ukrainians, a sleight of hand worthy of the BBC or the Guardian (although they of course would imply that a majority of the victims were Ukrainian and the Russians started it).
The same murderous tyrants who destroyed Belgrade and killed some two and a half million Iraqis. All on false pretences. Yep, that was my first thought too.
Morning Sue. Not Belgrade. Baghdad.
No, I meant Belgrade. They claimed that the Serbs were conducting a genocide against Bosnian muslims, which was untrue. The lies are still out there despite the UN quietly admitting years later that there was no genocide. NATO forces subjected Serbia to intense bombing which destroyed infrascture and targeted civilians.
I ask myself why they are so defensive of muslims. Do they want a caliphate?
Seems like the only logical conclusion.
Not to mention handing Kosovo over to the Albanian thugs in the KLA. Kosovo, which is festooned with Serbian memorials to those who had fought the mohamaden scourge over the previous 800+ years. All because Bill Clinton needed a foreign squirrel (much like Operation Desert Fox in 1998) to divert attention away from the fact he couldn’t keep it in his shorts. I wonder how many of the memorials have survived the Albanians invasion?
Morning all 🙂😏 lovely sunny day.
But what a terrible night I’ve had.
I never stopped coughing and clearing the masses of mucous. I won’t go into that but I just didn’t sleep at all.
I tried to Speak to someone at my GP practice the closest I Managed was number 7 in the call queue. And that after 20 minutes.
I can’t go there I’d be as infectious the idiot who stood the reception desk coughing his head off last Tuesday. Not once did the idiot cover his mouth.
And Quite possibly passed it on to the staff.
Perhaps that’s why I can’t get an answer.
Take extra vitC &D & a hot whatever you fancy and go back to bed.
Call 111. They might have more luck getting you some treatment.
Am I the only one among us who turns off the radio at the sound of “BCE”?
I don’t listen to the radio anyway apart from short snatches of R3 in the car.
Ditto!
I only ever listen to the local news for Highlands and Islands on Radio Scotland which is 6 minutes long
Keeps you up to date on Ferry News?
Ha ha – what ferries?
I don’t even have the radio on in the car.
Nope.
I stopped listening to the radio when they got rid of Steve Wright and Ken Bruce.
I stopped listening to the Radio when I got rid of the TV.
Finished this puzzle last night. Last space. One piece to put in – wouldn’t go. Took half an hour to find the “rogue” piece. Phew!
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Bottle of Bass in bottom left-hand corner.
And (famously) another in the bottom right-hand corner.
Ah yes – I missed that one (bit blurry). I knew there was a bottle of Bass in the original painting.
Even the Frogs back in Manet’s day knew that the only way to obtain decent beer was to go to Burton-on-Trent.
My brother, on holiday in Brittany, got chatting to a local. The local chap said to him, “You Eengleesh, when you go on ‘oliday, you come ‘ere to sample the best wine in the world. Me, when I go on ‘oliday’, I go to Eengland, to sample the best beer in the world.”
Was it the wrong sort of pie?
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet, Bill?
The top-hatted chappie, whose reflection is seen in the top right-hand corner of the picture, is popularly supposed to be Manet himself, ordering a drink as he stands in front of the barmaid, whose back is also reflected in the large mirror behind her.
Comme c’est intrigant, Griz!
It was pointed out by the late Sister Wendy Beckett, the art-historian Nun, on her television art programme.
In perspective?
In perspective?
Good morning Bill ,
Wow , that is a brilliant jigsaw .. well done .
Just asking , do the cats interfere with the bits and pieces , or do you keep them away from your jigsaw table, out of bounds room?
Not now. When they were babies they thought it a great game to jump on the boards with the pieces on – and, Pickles in particular, would pinch pieces. Once I found three in the sitting room (the puzzle room is upstairs)!!
When we started running our courses we used to take our students to an excellent little restaurant called l’Auberge du Val de Rance which had a reproduction of this picture hanging on the wall.
We used to use I spy with my little Eye as a French vocabulary game. The students had to pick something they could see around them and give its initial letter and challenge everyone to discover what the word was.
When it was my turn I sometimes said that my word stared with an M. A good proportion of the students got the answer.
(I sometimes gave an additional clue saying the answer was not quite homophonically used three times by Abba)
(Artist: Manet. Abba song: Money, Money, Money)
When we started running our courses we used to take our students to an excellent little restaurant called l’Auberge du Val de Rance which had a reproduction of this picture hanging on the wall.
We used to use I spy with my little Eye as a French vocabulary game. The students had to pick something they could see around them and give its initial letter and challenge everyone to discover what the word was.
When it was my turn I sometimes said that my word stared with an M. A good proportion of the students got the answer.
(I sometimes gave an additional clue saying the answer was not quite homophonically used three times by Abba)
Finished this puzzle last night. Last space. One piece to put in – wouldn’t go. Took half an hour to find the “rogue” piece. Phew!
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About to go out logging. Plucking up courage. Back later. Probably!
Don’t forget doctors orders!
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Britons are planning an American pancake day, according to Waitrose, as demand for the thicker variety rises.
Searches for the small, dense pancakes popular across the pond are up 57 per cent when compared to 2023, the supermarket said, before pancake day tomorrow. Sales of pancakes and crepes are also up almost a quarter ( 24 per cent) compared with February 2023.
American pancakes are a staple of many restaurant brunch menus. The Breakfast Club chain of cafes offers options, including the All American, which features bacon, sausage, potatoes, eggs and maple syrup.
Waitrose said searches for its Scotch pancakes with hot- smoked salmon, crispy sprouts, avocado and egg recipe were up 163 per cent.
Pancake day, or Shrove Tuesday, marks the beginning of Lent, the 40- day period before Easter. Pancakes emerged as a way of using store cupboard staples such as eggs, milk and sugar before the period of abstinence.
Bestsellers include Scotch pancakes, also known as drop scones, and buttermilk American- style pancakes, the supermarket said.
American- style pancakes are made with baking powder to achieve a thicker base instead of traditional crepes’ combination of flour, milk and eggs. They are often stacked rather than plated singly and are more likely to be garnished with berries and cream than sugar and lemon juice or Nutella.
Are the majority of British people now far too stupid to make their own food items from fresh ingredients. Cretinism is rising rapidly and is being accelerated by the pathologically-high obsessive consumption of highly-processed “food” items.
Mac ‘n’ cheese for me, please, with kettle chips.
If you do like Mac ‘n’ cheese try the authentic dish Cacio e pepe.
Or macaroni cheese, as we call it over here in the UK.
Now now our Grizz who are we to deny the Great British Public their hit of Rapeseed Oil,Vegetable Glycerol and Potassium Sorbate (yes I just checked the ingredient list)
I couldn’t agree with you more………
Thinking about it, Rik, maybe a lot more of them need to consume more seed oils in order to keep their high levels of imbecility up.
There are places that will serve you the finest quality olive oils and balsamic vinegars with just some bread. The simplest ingredients can be the tastiest. People who scoff all that UHP Frankenstein foods have dead palates.
Try some thick slices of a crusty fresh baton, then dip them into a bowl containing an emulsion of good balsamic vinegar mixed with good E.V. olive oil, then into a bowl of freshly-prepared dukkah. That is a flavour sensation.
Dukkah
250g white sesame seeds
140g coriander seeds
190g ground almonds
70g ground cumin
1tsp sea salt
0·5tsp freshly-ground black pepper
Toast the sesame seeds on a small baking tray in a preheated oven at 175ºC for 8 minutes until aromatic. At the same time toast the coriander seeds for 4 minutes on a separate tray, and the ground almonds on a separate tray for 5 minutes.
Remove from the oven as they are ready and place them in a large bowl. Add the cumin, salt and pepper and mix well.
Blend the ingredients together in a food processor until they are finely crushed, but not as fine as a powder. The dukkah should be a crushed dry mixture, so don’t over-process or the oil from the sesame seeds and almond will turn it into a paste!
Store in an airtight jar — it will keep for 3–4 weeks.
Try sprinkling dukkah on grilled fish and serve with leeks, butter and lemon. It is also a good accompaniment for grilled asparagus, soft egg and croutons.
I would use a pan to toast the seeds and nuts. More control.
Thanks Dukky. :@)
I have seen balsamic served as a digestif.
The recipe comes from The Golden Flavours of Summer, by Peter Doyle, chef/patron of Celsiusº restaurant in Sydney. I met Peter when I dined at his restaurant in 2002. My brother was head chef there at the time.
Peter also introduced me to another flavour and texture sensation: a slice of lavash crispbread with a slice of pave d’affinois on it, smeared with some guava jelly. Utterly delicious.
There are places that will serve you the finest quality olive oils and balsamic vinegars with just some bread. The simplest ingredients can be the tastiest. People who scoff all that UHP Frankenstein foods have dead palates.
Thanks goodness we don’t have a trade agreement with America. All that poisonous toxic rubbish they call food should be kept out of the country.
I used to shop at Waitrose. Not anymore. They used to have the best customer service. A complaint to them now comes back with the intimation that their faulty goods were somehow my fault for buying them.
Thanks goodness we don’t have a trade agreement with America. All that poisonous toxic rubbish they call food should be kept out of the country.
I used to shop at Waitrose. Not anymore. They used to have the best customer service. A complaint to them now comes back with the intimation that their faulty goods were somehow my fault for buying them.
Even I used to make my own pancakes!
How Odd! 😉
Amazing considering how culinarily challenged I am! I’m giving it a miss this year in the hope I shan’t pile on any more pounds than necessary.
😊 I cook them for others but not for me.
After the poor publicity re the UK Military that includes poor recruitment, senior ranks posing with ‘rainbow’ flags, lack of trained personnel to crew warships and unseaworthy very expensive floating airfields, Shapps is ordering a:
Note, Shapps has his target as EDI, I prefer the USA’s Diversity, Inclusivity, Ethnicity that creates an appropriate acronym DIE.
A waste of space initiating another waste of taxpayers’ money.
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DIE = Delusional, Idiocy, Euthanasia or Eugenics.
DIE = Delusional, Idiocy, Euthanasia or Eugenics.
Thank you, Korky, I also prefer the acronym, DIE
The military ‘Core Mission’ is the same now as always, Defence of the Realm.
‘Morning All
I note much comment on the “Tyranny” of Russia I wonder when we will have a letters page about the US troops still in Syria
No.thought not
Medley
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The top one shows me.
The second one shows the abysmal standard of teachers’ use of English these days.
Good morning all ,
It is a beautiful morning , we had a mild frost . Car windscreens icy, and Moh has cleared off to play golf with his group.
Letters
BBC interruptions
SIR – Like M James (Letters, February 10), I’m irritated by the proliferation on BBC Radio 3 of trailers for other programmes. Mercifully, we are spared these during live concerts or operas.
In the morning they can come at roughly half-hour intervals, which is maddening. I complained to the BBC and received a rather lofty response that it does not regard its promotional content and trailers as advertising, but rather as direct communication and information to and for licence-fee payers, which forms an essential part of its public service obligations.
It ignores the point that most listeners to Radio 3 wish to hear predominantly classical music without frequent interruption by trailers for other unrelated things – such as rugby, thrillers and soaps. And besides, repetition of the same advertisements rapidly becomes very tiresome, to the point where one is probably more likely to switch off altogether – presumably not what the BBC wants.
Roger White
Sherborne, Dorset
Frequent interruption by trailers on most BBC stations are annoying .. I used to enjoy BBC radio 4 , 5 and the rest .
I have changed my listening habits slightly , and quite happily listen to Wave 105 , on my half hour road trip to wherever I happen to shop / walk the dog etc .
All I want these days is easy listening , nothing heavy . I used to love R4 afternoon story , broadcast after the Archers . Both have become rather Woke .
Wave 105 is an Independent Local Radio station based in Fareham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to South Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex, Wiltshire, and a small part of Dorset.
I gave up on livestream tv a few years ago, which followed my giving up on radio around the time Wogan left his morning slot on bBC R2. The need to factcheck any newz bulletin or put up with repetitive adverts made it a simple choice. I have bought CDs over the past 30 years (ongoing, the latest was the new ‘Florence Black’ album last week), some of which repeated my vinyl choices of the previous 20 years. My car is stuffed with CDs, to avoid the wireless weirdos and I have fed all of my CDs into my Brennan B2. It holds 10000+ songs and I put it on shuffle to ‘surprise’ myself with songs I haven’t heard in a while. An eclectic collection ranging from Sinatra to Marillion via the likes of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Yes, Toby Keith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Theory of a Deadman and Miranda Lambert…yes, I like both types of music.
I have a collection of several thousand albums on my NAS drive and I reguealy rotate a thousand of these on my phone for use in my car so I’m never reliant on the radio. As you say, Shuffle pulls some interesting stuff sometimes. Dives SWMBO mad as she considers my musical taste to be ‘weird’, Cant’t I like Stockhausen as well as the Beatles?
I have a collection of several thousand albums on my NAS drive and I reguealy rotate a thousand of these on my phone for use in my car so I’m never reliant on the radio. As you say, Shuffle pulls some interesting stuff sometimes. Dives SWMBO mad as she considers my musical taste to be ‘weird’, Cant’t I like Stockhausen as well as the Beatles?
I don’t agree, Belgian Beer is far better and doesn’t hang on your gut like bitter. Affligem @ 6.9% is my beer of choice and it certainly is NOT piss water.
You are welcome to your choices, Tom. However, my palate finds cask-conditioned English best bitter to be a far superior beer to anything produced by the Belgians (or anywhere else for that matter).
Harvey’s of Sussex produce a wondrous beer that I would put up against any in the world.
You are welcome to your choices, Tom. However, my palate finds cask-conditioned English best bitter to be a far superior beer to anything produced by the Belgians (or anywhere else for that matter).
Harvey’s of Sussex produce a wondrous beer that I would put up against any in the world.
After seeing the massive street celebrations for the dragon and the Chinese New year.
I wonder what is planned for our own countries traditions and on St George’s day ?
Certain counsel’s have previously banned the St George’s day parades due to invented H&S BS and public liability insurance. Also BS.
St George was apparently the one who slayed the dragon.
That won’t go down well.
Can’t celebrate St. George’s Day – that would be racist.
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Powers to police protest aren’t being used
There are opportunities in politics that should never be turned down and the 2015 Conservative conference was one of them. For several years the Countryside Alliance had been campaigning for powers for the police to order the removal of balaclavas and other face coverings which were being used by animal rights activists both to intimidate and to hide their identities to avoid prosecution for criminal acts
Activists were increasingly adopting a “Shankhill chic”, paramilitary-style black and camo uniform topped off with a black balaclava or face covering.
Police powers to remove face coverings were limited to events where a senior officer had issued prior written authorisation, which was useless to counter their use during pop-up protests at farms, trail hunts or research centres.
We proposed a simple solution which was to allow a senior officer to verbally authorise the order to remove face coverings which attracted sympathy amongst MPS, but the usual roadblocks in government. That was until the protests at the 2015 conference in Manchester which attracted large demonstrations against everything from austerity to badger culls, and which included an extreme element dressed in full activist uniform, including face coverings, who staked out the entrance to the conference centre.
Journalists were spat on and anyone entering the building was condemned as scum and worse. Delegates and MPS railed against this behaviour and the failure of the police to act. They could not escape the conclusion that wearing face coverings actively promotes anti-social and illegal behaviour by giving activists the impression, and often the reality, that their actions will have no consequences.
Taking that opportunity we pointed out that we had been reporting on this sort of activity in the countryside for years, and that we had a solution.
Fast forward 18 months and the legislative roadblock had been navigated and amendments to Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act were passed. They gave the police flexibility to order the removal of face coverings after verbal as well as prior written authorisation. Failing to comply with such an order is a criminal offence with a penalty of up to a month’s imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £1,000.
The then policing minister, Brandon Lewis, wrote to all chief constables in early 2017 highlighting the changes. In his letter he said: “The Government is committed to ensuring that the police have the powers they need to detect and investigate crime, but also to prevent it. This power will enhance their ability to do so in many public order situations, including large public events, protests and demonstrations.”
You can imagine my surprise to wake up to headlines last week that police chiefs were warning that some protesters are using face coverings to conceal their identities, not only to intimidate the law-abiding majority, but also to avoid criminal convictions.
As a result, the Government is to introduce a new offence which will empower officers to arrest individuals who disregard their orders to remove face coverings, with those who flout the rules facing a month behind bars and a £1,000 fine.
Something is clearly awry. If police chiefs are warning that protesters are using face coverings in this way then they are either being disingenuous or incompetent, because they clearly have powers to order their removal.
Sadly, this mirrors our experience of the past seven years. Despite the change in the law the police have remained reluctant to act to remove face coverings whether in relation to animal rights extremists, political demonstrators or football hooligans.
We receive regular reports of police officers being harangued by masked activists as they disrupt grouse shoots, invade livestock farms and sabotage trail hunts. It is not only rural people who are being let down by the failure to authorise the removal of face coverings, but also officers on the ground who are left powerless to act against criminal behaviour by activists they have no way of identifying.
The problem is not that the law currently does not give the police sufficient powers to deal with maskwearing protesters, but that the police are not using those powers.
Recent pro-Palestinian protests in London have brought this issue out of the countryside and back on to politicians’ radars.
I never had any problems with masked individuals. I would simply tell them, “Are you going to remove that mask yourself, or shall I do it for you?”
As we have seen the police are now so woke they agree with the protestors. Tea and vegan biscuits anyone?
Heat pump fiasco SIR –
When I moved into a rural house built to the Government’s Code for
Sustainable Homes, I felt pleased that I was doing my bit for the
environment. However, living in it is challenging.
The ground-source heat pump has failed (Comment, February 9).
The installer – a well-known national manufacturer of boilers – has
surprisingly stopped doing “renewables”, and its recommended service
engineers think that they might have to dig up the array of pipes buried
underground. Neighbours who were faced with the same problem have
ripped theirs out and installed an oil-fired boiler – ironically, from
the same manufacturer.
Green solutions sound good, but the
technology is not yet ready. All I can do is wrap up warm and listen to
the beetles eating the sheep’s wool insulation while pondering what to
do.
Jonathan Yardley
If we all did as Mr Yardley did it would make zero difference to the enviroment. Perhaps he should admit his failure of logic and do what his neighbours have done. Fool.
“Green solutions sound good ..….”
No, Mr Yardley, they sound bloody awful!
They only sound good to the intellectually challenged virtue signallers who have no scientific or engineering background.
“Green solutions sound good ..….”
No, Mr Yardley, they sound bloody awful!
When Lefties call them green I laugh at the fools. They’re just another control system to force a change in behaviour.
A chum signs up to these energy reduction things. I asked him what he would do when it wasn’t an offer, but mandatory.
When Lefties call them green I laugh at the fools. They’re just another control system to force a change in behaviour.
A chum signs up to these energy reduction things. I asked him what he would do when it wasn’t an offer, but mandatory.
“The technology is not yet ready”. Ha ha ha ha!, Mr Yardley. The technology that would make pigs fly will never by ready.
Mr Yardley has “form” in the DT letters page from memory. I’ve always wondered why he doesn’t take the Grauniad.
Why do people install domestic heat pumps. People must never do any research or just like taking bribes off the government. You never get somthing for nothing.
In this case you don’t get something for nothing if you pay taxes.
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It happened because they villainised the wise man, Enoch Powell, who told them we were mad and what would happen if we did not control immigration not only in terms of numbers but in terms of compatible ideology.
Judaism and Christianity are philosophically compatible in terms of morality and values; Islam is incompatible with both Christianity and Judaism.
Beg to disagree; in certain circumstances Muslims will team up with Catholics. They object to Protestant and Orthodox Christians.
It’s an alliance of convenience; they hate the kuffar, of whatever denomination, with a vengeance in accordance with their holy book.
Islam is incompatible with pretty much everything, especially civilisation. It can’t even live peacefully with its own kind.
Labour wanted a voting block, the Tories burned the doors Blair kicked off. Now we have the diversity threatening people on buses.
We were given no choice, no we’re the ones paying the price.
I am on a webinar right now. Some bod from the DSIT (Dept. for Science Innovation and Technology) has literally just said that the Govt is working hard to ensure we have lots of “diverse” (sic) cyber-security professionals, to protect our digital economy.
Ffs. They cannot help themselves. They are literally that stupid that they believe skin colour = diversity of approach, to mitigate against the risk of group-think. How way-cist can you get?
Labour wanted a voting block, the Tories burned the doors Blair kicked off. Now we have the diversity threatening people on buses.
We were given no choice, no we’re the ones paying the price.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1756979497755131969
No doubt immediately branded trouble makers, annoyances, backward and a host of other labels the Left so love.
Far-right has-beens.
No doubt immediately branded trouble makers, annoyances, backward and a host of other labels the Left so love.
Twitter ‘X’s are very irritating, True_Belle!
Wow. Just wow. Great letter – thanks.
Wow. Just wow. Great letter – thanks.
As with the rundown of the forces, once these commanders retire, they seem to find their powers of expression. But were these people not in charge when all this carp was being introduced. All to little too late. Once the cancer of woke has invaded it is impossible to remove.
I gather that it’s an unwritten rule that serving officers do not publicly criticise government and the Ministry of Defence. Whether they express their concerns in private is not revealed to us.
Military coup in the offing? Thought not.
Retired senior commanders continue to mention the ‘King’s enemies but it’s the people that are at daily risk from enemies deliberately imported into our midst by the demented politicos in Westminster. And as for national security, the importation of hordes of unknown, unvetted young Third World men of fighting age is a huge problem made worse by the desire of the government and current senior military people to force DIE and other extreme tenets of woke on to the military.
Consciences assuaged by authoring and signing a letter, retired senior officers/commanders?
Late on parade, I’m afraid.
“Where’s the service for the Sunday next before Lent?”
At the Inn of the Sixth Happiness?
383298+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Monday 12 February: The West should not negotiate with a murderous tyrant like Putin
In the order of priorities my belief is that this
governing criminal cartel are going to continue
beating shit out of us mentally / physically with Mr Putins, used as deflection and having no immediate intentions of casting a clout the United Kingdoms way.
Living on the edge currently really is supporting / voting lab/lib/con coalition, seeking more of the same plus conscription.
As for the King, I find sympathy for him via his health problems and his openness showing the peoples the necessity to get checked out.
I want it to be first & foremost indigenous peoples as seen through patriotic eyes, and not as seen
via the invasion forces coming through the Dover WEF bridgehead as in ,the rest of the world.
Call the hospital. Get bounced around. Tell them I’ve not had a letter from them as they’ve not kept up with my address. I get asked to read the letter. Eventually I speak to someone with very broken English who suggests coming in early to have an X ray. I’ve already had an x ray. Do I need another? Yes, for x ray, I am told.
Aaarggh!
I was expecting a CT scan and i got a colonoscopy. Now i have to go back to the GP and start again.
Next time, don’t pick up your keys if you drop them in front of the nurse.. ooh matron!
The love of my life, while on the waiting list for a catheter ablation, had a heart attack on Saturday. Called for an ambulance and spent 10 minutes answering questions read from a script by the operator.
She was eventually admitted to A&E and is now in the Coronary Care Unit. She will have angioplasty later today.
`I am nervous and the Springer is pining for her.
Her younger son and his wife have been very supportive, particularly in walking the dog. Although I am fit and well I can’t quite manage two hour long walks a day so I do one and they do the other.
I wish you and your wife the best of luck. I’m sure the ambo is in the process of being despatched while you answer all those questions.
I’ve just been through similar and I hope her treatment is as good as mine was.
With every good wish for you all.
So sorry to hear that, Delboy. Sending good wishes to you and the family, and the Springer.
So sorry to read that Delboy.
Sorry I didn’t look this far back as I, not long ago, sent you a message asking after her.
Wish her well for me and hope she has a speedy and successful outcome to all her cardiac problems.
Best wishes to you and your family
Not nice. Hope it goes well and hope the springer manages to cope.
Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery, Delboy. Hope the springer settles down, too.
Sorry to hear of your and your wife’s very alarming experience, Delboy. I wish her a speedy recovery and a rapid return to peace of mind for you.
Anyone notice anything about this photograph? Suspiciously LGBTQ+ diverse but hardly racially diverse. Leftards
The Wildlife and Countryside Link team which tells us the countryside is waycist and not good for diversity.
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But they all identify as black.
Trying for jobs in advertising.
I would certainly ‘negotiate’ with the redhead in the mustard-yellow jumper.
She might have a penis.
I would certainly ‘negotiate’ with the redhead in the mustard-yellow jumper.
Hideously white!
I wonder if any of them live in a rural setting.
I doubt it. Clapham Common is probably as “rural” as it gets.
All working towards a Common Purpose by Leading Beyond Authority.
The three at the front appear to be kneeling down.
383298+ up ticks,
I bet none can top this for brassneckedness.
https://x.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1756989049582002217?s=20
383298+ up ticks,
O2O,
Be more suited coming from the condemn cell.
He’s so right, our political idiots have created an absolute shambles.
If they originally set out that they were trying to prove something, they now have, they are all completely useless and have put us all in danger.
383298+ up ticks,
Afternoon RE,
The political cartel can now
confidently say Game,Set & Match, they have achieved what has been their intention since Mrs Thatcher was politically put down.
Now they wait/watch the party before Country / best of the worst brigade, revving up, & going into action shite grading in the polling booth.
Russia no longer perceived as top threat by Germans. 12 February 2024.
Russia is showing no signs it plans to wind down its unprovoked assault on Ukraine two years after launching a full-scale invasion — but Germans now view issues like migration and the threat from radical Islam as more immediate concerns than the menace in the Kremlin.
That’s according to new research published Monday ahead of the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of top political and defense officials which kicks off in Germany on Friday.
I have never thought Russia a threat to the UK at all except in the sense that it provides a distraction from the real invasion that is happening.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-no-longer-top-threat-germany-g7-munich-security-conference-concern-ukraine-war-fades/
Of course Russia is no threat to us. They would much rather be our friends. You will rarely find criticism of the English amongst Russians and nothing like the animosity that our government tries to whip up against them. One of the most popular people in Russia is Prince Michael of Kent who not only resembles the late Tsar but has close family ties to the Romanovs. He also speaks Russian.
As for the Germans. Well, they are simply coming round to their senses and realizing that Russia and Putin are not the enemy and that the top priority for us all is Islam and the migration problem that facilitates it.
Russians are not easily parted from their faith and their heritage, even after seventy years of communism? That poses a threat to the plans of the One World people. I noticed that in the Carlson interview Putin referenced Ekaterina at least twice and possibly more but without a hint of an apology for her empire building and successfully shutting down the Crimean Khanate.
Personally, as a Russian Orthodox, I believe that much of the animosity toward Russia and to Putin is that the Russians will never relinquish Christianity and therefore represent a major obstacle to the globalists.
I have pointed it out before that Putin is in fact deeply religious a favourite activity for him is visiting churches and monasteries. One of his nicknames is, “The Monk.”. He is not the monster the West pretends he is. And, if you watched the interview, his remark about the Orthodox Church in Russia and Ukraine at the very end of the interview with Tucker, was highly insightful.
Under Communism, the church went underground. It still kept going.
When the wall came down there was a chance of accepting Russia into the Western fold, I’m sure most their young would have welcomed the chance. It could have been done slowly and by consent. But it seems that apart from accepting their gangsters, oligarchs and other sundry dodgy dealers, there was little done to accept and encourage our significant and proud neighbour. Now all has been sacrificed for some pretty sketchy reasons and a whole generation of young men slaughtered in a proxy war. Having served on a front line nuclear base at the end of the cold war and watched the entire process first hand, I believe that the whole thing stinks.
The first assistance the West gave to the former Soviet Republics was to allow the bankers and money men to go in and help the former apparatchiks and nomenklatura rob their former fiefdoms by money laundering their ill gotten gains.
German people have realised for some time that the invasion of their country by radical Muslims and assorted dross from the Third World is the principal threat to their well-being. But as in the UK their press and media are dishonest and refuse to tell the Truth.
Russia is no threat to Europe or anywhere else. The Special Military Operation in Ukraine was blatantly provoked by the Nazi element of that population.
Empires including the British and the US have long feared Russia, not because of any actual threat but because it is a very large country with vast resources and a capable educated population. This hostility has become deeply embedded in the Deep State and the 3-Letter Agencies of the US and its equivalent in the UK and EU. Until this status quo shifts to a more positive relationship with Russia we will see more and more carnage around the world.
Hopefully the present US government will be replaced and sufficient resources found to clear out the Deep State actors in those corrupted Agencies in particular the CIA.
Good Moaning.
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What did folk expect from Labour? These are the same people proclaiming they are pro-business yet have a pile of pro union, pro DIE, big state nonsense planned.
They state they are not at war with the countryside, but all their policies will be disastrous for rural England.
How stupid can (scuz pun) our politicians get ?
Good morning! The Mail surpasses itself with Boris. https://open.substack.com/pub/tarableu/p/quisling-johnson?r=10qzvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I just thought I’d let you know that I managed to get through to my GP practice and I’m on the Triage list.
I’ve got the bedroom fanlight open to try and blow the germs Away. And I was fast asleep after a very uncomfortable restless night. And little doggo next door was being taken for a walk and she just had to bark four times and wake me up🦮
Keep the phone next to you.
Got it.🥐😉
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This is our new house mate ruling our lives and lifting our spirits.
She’s lovely. They certainly cheer life up.
She’s beautiful, Nagsman! I love Staffies. Enjoy the wonderful times!
Good to see you here Nagsman! And the new housemate!
Good news indeed.
Awww. Lovely. What’s he/she called?
Monkey see……..Monkey do……
https://twitter.com/RonEng1ish/status/1756924943323791553?s=20
Scroll down to see YAY the UK is no1……………..for acid attacks
If the Met can’t confirm his visa status that confirms what it is.
They think we’re as thick as them.
Refused not can’t.
And yes they do think we are thick.
Well, it stands to reason. Don’t forget, diversity is our strength.
“He’s not getting off the bus…”
Next.
Passengers were not held captive for many hours. After being threatened by a man with an unknown substance – harmless, as it turned out, although alarming at the time, no doubt – passengers were free to leave the vehicle. A standoff with the Met Police then ensued, after the passengers had disembarked.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/man-corrosive-substance-bus-croydon-thornton-heath/
He’s lovely. What is he?
A dog.
SHE is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier pup – 8 weeks old. Just a joy and a delight. Definitely a depression buster.
WE call her Taggie.
What’s the penalty for mis-pronouning a doggie?
They certainly do lift the spirits.
I remember once going to hear a monologue/play at my local theatre and I can’t for the life of me recall the title of the piece or the name of the actor but I do remember a line in it about a staffie dog being “built like a piano stool”. I gues this is the kind of stool the writer had in mind.
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I have a piano stool like that. Queen Anne legs.
You don’t say !
Well, you didn’t seem to know! :@))
I know enough to recognise when someone is being facetious. That’s my job !
You’ve taught me well.
Whilst I don’t come here often these days I was in at the beginning and Phizzee and I are well acquainted 🙂
I’ve known Phil for a number years and he’s a good laugh and we get on well.
I know you don’t comment as often as you used to.
We have only had lunch once ! :@)
Catering for foreigners?
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A pause in the wood splitting.
My electric chain saw needs a new cutter-bar and chain so I’m off to visit Twigg’s in Matlock after finishing my mug of tea.
Could do with a new sharpening file too.
Not sure what’s worse, trying to cut wood with a blunt chain or trying to sharpen aforesaid blunt chain with a knackered file????
I spent a bit extra for a “diamond” chain.
It cut brilliantly (ho ho) and needed far less sharpening and lasted for years.
Does your wife wear it around her neck when you go out to dinner?
Close, she puts it around mine, sharp side down…
A ha. A control collar.
Be wary. Blunt tools cause more damage !
Get one of these Bob – I have a Draper one and it’s saved me more than it’s cost
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I’ve tried using something similar and, whilst it worked, it wore the chains out quicker than I like.
It will if you take too much off at a time
BTDT. (been there & done that)
#MeToo!
So it would seem. Neither my starter word nor the answer are English, even if they’re in common usage among English speakers.
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Very cruel surely….
Dunno about cruel. It’s bluddy terrifying!
Hello Delboy.
Has your wife had her cardiac ablation yet or do you have a date.
I would feel sorry for Biden if there was not so much evidence of what a vile human being he has been all his career. As it is, living by the sword springs to mind.
“I keep forgetting I’m president.”
I simply can’t believe that you are!
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Very cruel surely….
Now What’s what I call a Crispin!
Naughty !
Some interesting information about election possibilities.
Sadly the constituency I live in would still be lumbered with one of the P.Ms. lickspittles, Gillian Kegan.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tories-face-mauling-in-countryside-as-rural-areas-turn-on-them-see-your-area/ar-BB1i9j5r?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=3ca98aff995c480fadcc1fc693ec6831&ei=7
She should be sacked for allowing groups like Stonewall to peddle their filthy sex “education” at our schools.
100% agree with you vw
If the countryside goes Labour, they really ought to step on that rake. Repeatedly. Saves Labour whacking them in the face.
I think the countryside is more likely to go LD, although they aren’t much better.
I know. They could vote Reform and turn the countryside for that party, but seem determined to shoot themselves in both feet.
Today you are proving my hypothesis that in your case your birthday was the golden triangle where your age, weight in kilos and IQ coincided.
I bet you didn’t make that up yourself. Far too cutting and sharp. Doesn’t sound like you at all.
Wasters. Literally.
This is what happens when politicos at all levels slavishly follow ideologies, in this instance decarbonisation, and do not address the real issues than concern the people.
The latest distraction buzzword is sustainability and the strategies being driven by this word are guaranteed to cost enormous amounts of money and ultimately fail.
My local council are all for electrification of all council vehicles etc. They have had the human cost of African children mining some of the minerals involved and of the very dangerous risk of fire/explosion explained to them. At the presentation some looked uninterested and others shocked when they were informed of their responsibilities by the people leading the presentation. If ideology wins over common sense and decency we could be in for interesting times.
https://twitter.com/somersetlevel/status/1757008990792286625
Our late Queen remarked that the further you go back in history then the further you can see into the future.
The electric car, over a century ago, promised a bright future over the horse drawn carriage. However, the advent of Henry Ford’s mass production of the low cost internal combustion engined (ICE) vehicle saw the death knell of the evolving EV industry and existing electric vehicle stocks were destroyed through lack of demand.
The same forces of supply and demand are still in train today with the vehicle manufacturing lobby opposing governments’ distortion of the market in an attempt to achieve net zero:
https://youtu.be/zdqw1wCMz4I?si=cIwvxH275wUDrXV8
Our late Queen remarked that the further you go back in history then the further you can see into the future
Just as Putin started his response to Tucker Carlson.
A remarkable story!
Well it was interesting- except for the fact the lunatic presenting it is a fully-paid member of the Woke/NutZero Club.
He needs to change sides.
I’m not sure it was mass-manufacture, rather that the limitations of battery power were too great relative to the internal combustion engine. Fast-forward a century or so and it’s still the same story today. Though I’ll admit that the gap is a little closer these days.
Perhaps the breaking point for the EVs this time will be the battery source elements. That was a good video, despite the Net Zero stuff, which he didn’t appear to be pushing as strenuously as the pollution side.
I can’t wait to hear what they’re going to do with all these expired EVs. The cost involved in disassembling them will be enormous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwh2ShJ6A&list=WL&index=55
That made me burst out laughing
Metoo. 😂😂😂
Not just moving to a computer. Also from an old, very heavy, manual typewriter to an all electric IBM typewriter. Considerable restraint was needed, especially at speed!!
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‘Chin up, Methuselah – the state pension can’t be far off.’
HMS Prince of Wales has just left Portsmouth harbour. Let’s hope it can get by the Isle of Wight this time.
Who’s closest for a shove.
I’m washing my hair.
All my own work.
I was actually saving it for your 65th, so that your height in inches would fit too.
But just in case we don’t live that long, I got it in early
Sorry, this is a Twitt video, but you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh…
https://twitter.com/ediz1975/status/1756705889845670231
It’s certainly a video of a twit…
Crazy, it would be even funnier if it had been Jeremy Vine.
If only…
And a deep ravine.
Too quick.
And a deep ravine.
Oops!
I was impressed that he lifted his bike out before himself.
Very expensive kit. He would sooner risk drowning.
Well, well. To my astonishment – coupled with the amazing help from the MR AND a gorgeous day – ALL the logs have been moved AND stacked. I know it is the sort of thing that would only take Robert half an hour…. but we are both reet choofed.
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I knew that I would not be able to deal with this after tomorrow and was worried that the pile would just sit there until mid March.
So I can now – with a clear conscience – relax.
You might yet survive:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13073449/Gulf-Stream-plunging-Europe-deep-freeze.html
Gosh – not Global Freezing? What will the eco-freaks say…or cope?
What the hell am i supposed to do with all those palm trees and cacti they told me to buy !!!
Send them down to the Antarctic, they will probably end up getting our global warming.
“We told you so…”
It isn’t melting though is it. They are recording ice formation. The only bits melting are above the volcanoes.
BTW if the gulf stream were to collapse it wouldn’t just be Europe. We would see a new planetary alignment in weather systems. I’m sure i heard that somewhere.
The Age of Aquarius, when Jupiter aligns with Mars? Let the Sunshine In!
You getting all mystic on me?
I was going to mention something about sunshine and Uranus but I’m too polite.
Don’t know about your anus but mine is playing up like buggery.
Don’t know about your anus but mine is playing up like buggery.
SW England would certainly lose its Temperate Maritime climate appellation.
Edited for spelling.
You mean they would have to stop growing grapes and Tea on the smallest smallholdings on the planet because of a change in weather?
Project Fear?
Nature-ally…
Do they name the scientists and their methodology or are they just paid mouthpieces for the globalists?
Yer pays yer money, yer takes yer choice.
They weren’t making any headway with the glowball warning BS.
So they’ve invented something else..
This one’s a side effect of glowballism.
It’s Global Warming/Climate Change/The CLIMATE EMERGENCY!/A CLIMATE CATASTROPHE!!!!!/CLIMATE CLIMATE ARMAGEDDON!!!!!/GLOBAL BOILING!!!!!!/{insert latest panic & scare mongering catch phrase here}
I think I heard a weather presenter say 13 c is hot.
Wattsupwiththat.com has an article debunking this latest tipping point on the Arctic melting down. Basically, the water added to the model is seven times greater than the Arctic ice field contains; https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/12/amoc-to-collapse-scam-is-back/
Think of a number
Double it
Multiply by the angle of the moon
Divide by the square root of the number of teeth in a pregnant crocodile
Get another scientist to swallow that with a few drinks et voilà, a scientific consensus…
Ferguson is your man.
Nah, he’d quadruple the first number.
So global warming will result in everyone freezing to death.
OK I understand now.
Look on the bright side, the tidal wave of gimmegration will wash out with the tide.
Hang on a second Sos ,
When I was a small impressionable child at school, my geography teacher told us we were entering another ice age period , at that time my family owned a home in Surrey , near the Thames , wild imagination and old paintings of skating and ox roasts on the Thames and of course Shakespeare’s poem made us shiver …
WHEN icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
WHEN all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian’s nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
I remember the Thames frozen over above Teddington weir in the winter of ’62 ’63.
I remember that southerly migration was the name of the game in the film. We could move down to Spain or perhaps even N Africa.
The zealots’ response to this.
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Oh No!
It’s already started!!!
Well thank goodness we will have plenty of renewable energy by then.
You mean BT’s wasted all that effort?
‘Could’.
Well done, best wishes for your cataract surgery.
Thank you – everyone tells me it is a doddle. Makes me even more anxious!
Mother was done about 12 years ago, and regretted waiting. Needed new specs was the only downside.
Seven years on from mine, my eyesight has never been sharper.
It is a serious procedure but they have done thousands of times and the technology is proven.
It’s a doddle.
You’ll wonder why you were worried.
Good luck Bill.
I’m fairly sure mine will need sorting in the not so distant future, and I feel the same. Good luck!
Thanks.
It is a doddle.
Have you been tangoed?
Congrats boss!
Wow you can’t see the trees for wood
Very impressive!
I have heard that councils are looking for suitable accom as the Bibby is now full.
Impressive Bill are you expecting a siege ?
It is one of the few sensible ideas I have had. I bought the house in June 1984. That November, I planted out 70 beech “whips” with the certain knowledge that in my dotage, there would be ample wood. There is a cost – I pay a chap to fell trees every other year – but that is minuscule compared to the cost of a load of wood around here.
Wow! My husband is very jealous! He only has a pair of 3 and a half year old twins to help with the stacking!
That is a lot if wood. Have you gone into business selling firewood as a net zero refusenik?
You’ve saved a couple of thousand by not having to buy them……
Well done, both of you.
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Israel should ‘think seriously’ before launching ground assault on Rafah, says Lord Cameron. 12 February 2024.
Lord Cameron has urged Israel to “stop and think seriously” before launching a ground assault on the southern city of Rafah, saying the people there had nowhere to go.
Benjamin Netanyahu has brushed aside international alarm over Israel’s plans to invade the southern enclave, where around 1 million displaced civilians are sheltering, insisting Israel’s military operations will continue until “total victory” is achieved.
On Monday the UK Foreign Secretary said Britain was “very concerned” amid reports of a ground invasion and reiterated calls for a “sustainable ceasefire”.
This is the moron that destroyed Libya for no discernible purpose whatsoever. It posed no threat to anyone. It had the highest standard of living in Africa. Its leader was another moron but that is not a crime as we can see here in the UK. It is now another migrant pathway from Central Africa to Europe and the UK!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/12/israel-launching-ground-assault-david-cameron/
No-one’s listening to Cameron. Or indeed any other British politician or talking hat. We have absolutely zero influence or respect anywhere. Only the US counts in this instance.
What is worse – Cameron not thinking at all or Cameron thinking seriously about something!
I’m not sure Cameron is capable of thinking, except about how to feather his nest and that of his inlaws.
The dozy lord is too stupid to realise that now the IDF have hamas cornered, they are not suddenly going to stop the pursuit of terrorists on the advice of an insignificant politician.
A cynic might argue there are lots of muslim votes to be had by taking that position……
A cynic might argue there are lots of muslim votes to be registered by one Muslim by taking that position……
The stacking is the best part. Best done alone but with a comely spouse handing the logs to you two at a time!
I cut the logs; Caroline stacks them.
I enjoy stacking the logs too, I thought it was just me.
There’s a whole book about it, called “Hel ved”.
In yer Weegie. It’s all about stacking wood…
https://kagge.no/produkt/hobby-og-fritid/sport-og-friluftsliv/hel-ved/
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To wit…
Hard to put down I’m sure.
I wish i could pass one.
Two illegals found in the luggage bay of a school trip coach. “Police attended but no one was arrested.”
What a relief.
I expect they offered them a packed lunch and tickets to Alton Towers. The bastards !
I expect they offered them a packed lunch and tickets to Alton Towers. The bastards !
From the DT: A spokesman said: “We were called … to reports that two people, who were possibly illegal immigrants (my emphasis). Possibly????
A couple of elderly Muslim ladies. They blended in with the other baggage.
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USA themed but their problems chime with ours.
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Britain no longer has a military
Recruitment processes are under assault from faceless, woke people. We are now resorting to desperate – and dangerous – measures
TIM COLLINS
12 February 2024 • 2:44pm
A well-organised and targeted attack is underway against our national defence, and few seem to care.
With military procurement and equipment in complete disarray – through sheer incompetence – faceless people have embarked on a three-pronged assault to further disarm us by preventing the capable from joining and persuading those who are effective within to leave. In the last few days, we have seen the Defence Secretary beginning to question who, and with what mandate or authority, has decided to change the face of the defences of the United Kingdom. It is his job after all. Any government’s primary responsibility is to defend the nation.
The vital elements of this attack are first, to block recruitment by discouraging the majority of the population (who have defended the nation for centuries). At the same time, there is the focus on diversity, targeting recruitment on sections of the nation who have no interest whatsoever in joining the military, culturally, for religious reasons or because they are assured that any show of patriotism is a manifestation of white supremacy.
Prong two: demoralise, isolate and shame the undesirables – those who, under Air Chief Marshal Wigston, were described in an email as “useless white male pilots” – so that they leave in droves.
Prong three: lower security clearance standards to make it much easier for our enemies to infiltrate our military. One of the last missives was clear that it wished to, “challenge SC [security clearance] requirements” to boost representation in the intelligence and officer corps, positions which have “uncontrolled access to secret assets”.
This last element is perhaps the most dangerous. On Saturday night, a number of Emirati officers and a Bahrani officer were, with others, slaughtered at the General Gordon in Mogadishu reportedly by those they sought to train. Security clearance standards had been lowered. The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab has since claimed responsibility.
Ships which have just been refurbished at great expense are being decommissioned. The Navy can’t take part in Nato exercises, much less deploy effective assets to the Red Sea to protect our own and international shipping from missile and interception attacks by the Iranian backed Houthi Rebels because of a lack of sailors. It has sought to reinforce failure by redeploying marines and sailors to become diversity and inclusion officers to enhance the “lived experience” of personnel amid ongoing recruitment challenges in manning its ships, rather than actually manning the ships.
What remains of the Army is barely workable – of the 72,000 in its workforce around half have been medically downgraded. The drive to introduce females into frontline units carrying combat loads over long distances has, not surprisingly, taken a shocking toll on their frames. The state of Army equipment is perilous, too. We effectively have no artillery systems since the AS 90s were given to the Ukrainians along with a lump of the ammo and the new system is not in service. A disastrous defence procurement programme has reportedly seen just 44 of an ordered 589 armoured fighting vehicles delivered to the MoD – a decade after bosses signed the £5.5 billion contract.
But it is the lack of tanks that worries me. Last year it was disclosed that the UK has just 157 Challenger 2 main battle tanks (MBTs) either on or available to undertake operations within a 30-day work-up period, out of a theoretical fleet of 227 vehicles. The figure was disclosed during a UK Defence Committee session on March 8. But now it is believed to be much worse. It has been announced that the Ministry of Defence has 93 diversity networks. Today, we don’t have that many working Challengers 2s!
The RAF is a glimmer of light. I attended the Chief of the Air Staff’s Conference late last year. They are recovering from the woke policies that rocked them and I found them confident and focused under the new leadership of Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton.
The nation demands answers and for these subversive networks to be dismantled. Recruitment is achievable. I took command of a battalion of 250 men under strength of its paper strength of 700. In the Royal Irish we did our own recruitment and with two years were at full strength – with Irishmen. Today that is not possible, due to the contract we have with our outsourcing specialist. They have admitted that they will not reach their targets yet again this year and have suggested recruiting people with visible tattoos, hayfever and eczema in their desperation. I despair. We are as a nation, defenceless. Over to you Grant Shapps.
Colonel Tim Collins is a former British Army officer who served with the SAS and as commander of the Royal Irish during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when his before-battle speech to his soldiers made headlines around the world
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Richard Long
2 HRS AGO
It’s disgraceful what the military have become under the Tories. I’m ashamed I was taken in by their lies and used to vote for them. And their record high, open door immigration policy has damaged the country beyond repair. Under the Tories, the country now hates the white male, so why bother fighting for it.
Lynda Tschaikov
1 HR AGO
There is absolutely no reason why the armed forces who, by their very nature, will fight for the nation abroad, should ‘reflect’ the ethnic/gender make-up of the population. Unless, of course, someone is planning to use them in this country at some point, against that population…
Liberal elites – not Trump – will bring Nato to its knees
Europe fooled itself into believing all disputes could be resolved at international tribunals. It must prepare for what comes next
STEPHEN DAVIES
12 February 2024 • 1:00pm
Donald Trump has once again caused a media storm with remarks made on the campaign trail. This, however, is more serious than some of his previous statements in terms of its implications and what it reveals. He argued that the US was being taken for a ride by its European allies because of their failure to deliver the required level of military spending and capacity. His threat was that should an attack on a Nato ally take place while he was President, the US would not honour its obligation under Article 5 of the Nato treaty, to provide military support. If this were to happen, it would be the end of the alliance.
How seriously should we take this? Very, is the answer. These views are not novel; Trump has expressed them before. Moreover, these remarks are calculated rather than impulsive and reflect his judgment that there is a large constituency for this position in the US electorate. Should he win in November (he is the increasingly strong betting favourite) we should assume this will be his policy.
If that happens we, and all of Europe, would be left in a highly exposed and vulnerable position. It would mark the definitive end of the current international order and the project associated with it since 1990, of creating a rule governed liberal global system. Nor should we think this is all down to one person, no matter how disruptive. Donald Trump is taking advantage of a major shift in attitude among a large part of the American population.
How has the West got itself into such a situation? The answer lies in the hubris and overreach of Western elites since 1989. In the aftermath of World War II, an international order was created to buttress and underpin western liberal democracy, in the face of the Soviet threat. Among the key institutions were Nato and the EU. In 1989 both American and EU elites hit upon the idea that this system could be globalised and made into a true world order with liberal capitalist democracy becoming a truly global system. This was ramped up even further after 2001, with a series of interventions in parts of the world that were not complying with that vision.
The hubris was firstly to assume that the West had this power and secondly to assume that the rest of the world would simply accept this imposition of rules and ideas that they did not accept. The assumption was they lacked agency, the capacity to resist or follow their own agendas. The outcomes of these policies have been bad, particularly for that part of the US population which provides much of its military capacity. They have seen their young men sent abroad in a succession of failed wars.
The distinctive hubris of the EU, meanwhile, was to forget the centrality of armed force and military power in world affairs and to believe that all international tensions and disputes could be managed and resolved by legal means at international tribunals. This meant most of the heavy military lifting for the global project was left to the US. And this created the growing feeling that the Europeans were freeloading and taking advantage. Trump is tapping in to this and the reality of the sentiment cannot be denied. At the same time, the US military is having a crisis of recruitment, as indeed we are here. In addition, the economic results of globalisation for large parts of the American working class are perceived as disappointing, with the benefits seen to have accrued elsewhere, to the professional middle class. This also fuels the discontent with the global system and America’s role in it.
Nato has been a central feature of world affairs for all of our lifetimes. In politics, though, nothing last forever. It rested upon the power of the US and a democratic will to use that power in a particular way for particular ends. That will is about to be withdrawn. Everyone in Europe should now be thinking very hard about what to do if and when that happens.
But by the same token Europe should then no longer support America in its undermining and destabilising of countries all over the globe to feed America’s military armaments producers.
Oceania Eurasia and Eastasia here we come.
The RAF is a glimmer of light? Our RAFALO (RAF Association Liaison Officer), who is a serving Sdn Ldr, told me last week that they are losing people faster than they are replacing them. Where will that end? Not in a good place, that’s for sure.
A plump Par Four?
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That ‘s me for this long and busy day. Very satisfactory log clearance and stacking. Six hours in the gar den on a very pleasant day. Sunshine all the way.
Have a spiffing evening.
I will try to see (geddit?) if I can login tomorrow afternoon. Fingers crossed.
A bientôt
S.S. Blink.
Complement:
30 (24 dead and 6 survivors).
At 02.40 hours on 12th February 1942 the unescorted Blink (Master Sigvart Ulvestad) was hit on the port side by one G7e torpedo from U-108 (Klaus Scholtz) about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The torpedo went straight through the hull at hold #2 without detonating, so another torpedo was fired one minute later that hit amidships in the engine room, destroyed the radio station and caused the vessel to sink at 03.34 hours. The ship had been sighted at 14.49 hours the day before and was attacked the first time at 16.11 hours, but the G7e stern torpedo was a dud and a second G7e missed. The U-boat then had difficulties to overtake Blink again due to heavy seas and four hours later almost collided with her during a second attack attempt, avoiding by diving underneath the ship when only 50 metres from her.
The torpedo explosion apparently killed four crewmen and a gunner and two men that were seen to abandon ship by a raft were never seen again. The starboard lifeboat was launched with 23 survivors, but it capsized the next morning in bad weather. One crewman drowned and they lost all bread and water. They managed to right the boat, which capsized several times during the following hours. The survivors were forced to sit in it with cold water up to their chests and on the next day, only 11 men were left. One by one the others had died, including the master and a gunner. On 14th February, only six survivors were picked up by the American steam merchant Monroe (Master W.W. Clendaniels) in position 33°34N/71°41W and taken to a hospital in Baltimore on 17th February.
Type IXB U-Boat U-108 was sunk on 11th April 1944 in pontoon dock at the U-boat base in Stettin by bombs during US air raid (8th AF). Raised and decommissioned on 17th July 1944.
Scuttled on 24th April 1945 in the Oder River near Swinemünde. Wreck raised by Soviets in summer 1946 and probably scrapped at Stettin.
https://uboat.net/media/allies/merchants/nw/blink.jpg
Horrid way to go.
Indeed. A couple of days in an open boat, in the North Atlantic? Awful.
383298+ up ticks.
The only imminent real, no nonsense, danger to our segment of the planet currently, is the lab/lib/con/current ukip pro eu, paedophile umbrella coalition party & active members,
ogga1.
https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1756770451362066676?s=20
He might be right – indeed he is certainly right. But he’s has come up with the wrong answer so we shouldn’t pay attention to what he says – even if is true!.
Indeed. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone making a very nice living out of “the climate crisis” and they won’t thank him at all for showing the scam to be what it is.
He might be right – indeed he is certainly right. But he’s has come up with the wrong answer so we shouldn’t pay attention to what he says – even if is true!.
https://twitter.com/UKAndNIasOne/status/1756613639497285636/photo/1
I suspect that Muslim MPs will hold the balance of power in parliament within the next 20 years and that they will use that power to establish major changes to our way of life, making the UK completely unrecognisable from today.
https://twitter.com/made_63/status/1757098920662970594
Probably staying with Hamas billionaires.
How many ‘battle buses’ would that buy?
Perhaps they’ll let us have the representation they allow in Pakistan, if we’re lucky.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68271462
“The National Assembly has a total of 336 seats, of which 266 are decided by direct voting and 70 are reserved – 60 for women and 10 for non-Muslims – and these are allocated according to the strength of each party in the assembly.“
Well..I’m glad that’s fixed the problem.
Perhaps they’ll let us have the representation they allow in Pakistan, if we’re lucky.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68271462
“The National Assembly has a total of 336 seats, of which 266 are decided by direct voting and 70 are reserved – 60 for women and 10 for non-Muslims – and these are allocated according to the strength of each party in the assembly.“
Where have you been? Anyone would think you had a heart attack and weren’t accessing Nottle. Sheesh !
Next five years. They already have quite an influence in the Labour Party.
I’m being optimistic.
}:-((
….hoping that we are gone.
They will not live peaceably with us, and all the rights that we take for granted, those that we think are written in stone, such as the right to own property, will disappear. We will be driven from our homes. Interestingly that will coincide with the WEF’s UN agenda for 2030 – the abolition of property rights.
Over our dead bodies.
I am hoping that the nation finds its national spine once again. It went missing circa January 1946. Along with its stoicism and stiff upper lip.
Before my time then! But I know what you mean……
Just before mine, too! I don’t know where the years have gone to.
Before my time then! But I know what you mean……
Before my time then! But I know what you mean……
Them or us?
};-O
Dunno, really, I know I am hoping I will be gone before it all kicks off but I come from a long-lived family. Another part of me is curious to see (like a fly on the wall) how it all pans out. Our adversaries no doubt can’t wait to c*t our throats at 2.00 am so they won’t want us gone!
These people are an effing nightmare.
Another one was caught recently after stealing money from the budget at St Albans hospital.
I expect there will be hundreds of them out there getting away with it.
These people are an effing nightmare.
Another one was caught recently after stealing money from the budget at St Albans hospital.
I expect there will be hundreds of them out there getting away with it.
All done at the docs, I saw the same lady who sorted out my ablation appointment at St Barts.
Three tank busting amoxcillin tabs per day. For four days.
Always worked quickly and well in the past.
Good news. I would say though that strong antibiotics also kill the good bacteria in the stomach. Live yoghurt will help balance things. Though it might give you the shits.
I’ve had an ear infection for months it might clear that up for me as well.
Good news. I would say though that strong antibiotics also kill the good bacteria in the stomach. Live yoghurt will help balance things. Though it might give you the shits.
Good if you can take it. I was once prescribed amoxicillin for an ear infection. The rash lasted six months. Started around my neck and shoulders and worked its way down till it disappeared off my toes. My GP at the time predicted its progress accurately and there was no itching so some consolation.
You were unlucky Sue. I’ve never had a problem with it.
Usually for me two days 6 tablets and I’m okay. But I always finish the course.
Good to see.
May a speedy recovery be repeated.
I hope you’re in clear now Sos.
So do I !
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Eggsactly.
It could have been worser. It could have been gammonesque.
It could have been worser. It could have been gammonesque.
One of the benefits of putting “no Muslims”?
I could liver with that.
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Norfolk, England
Thousands wading birds flock over the Wash as the tide recedes in an event known as the Snettisham Spectacular
The Snettisham waders in that photo are 99% red knot Calidris canutus.
Sometimes augmented by a few dunlin, grey plover, oystercatcher and a few more.
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Every crowd has a pink lining……
I knew it had to be good for something.
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WTF is Roseanne Barr? A bloke?
RB is on the left.
If that’s Madonna on the right, my arsehole is better looking.
I’ll take your word on that.
It’s from bending over and hiding his head that he forms that and, to be fair, most of his opinions on such things.
All that hate and bile has a cost.
Only to Phizzee…
Ok. This is from today’s Terrible Features’ article on sleep/pillows.
please let me know if I a alone in thinking there is a grammatical howler in the first sentence (or not).
“ If you are a side sleeper (around 70 per cent of us are), when you lay down your pillow should fill the gap between the tip of your shoulder and the tip of your ear. This supports your head and keeps your spine in that all-important neutral position.”
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzEsb2tNbI
Hmm I was never convinced about Bob Dylan either!!!
Grammatically?
I used to like his music.
An era when a soft C&W style flowered, as far as I was a listener.
Cash, Stevens et al.
He was before my time. Thank goodness.
Almost all pop musick after “my time” is poor.
Which is why I listen to Angel Radio these days, Sos. Serenade Radio also has some good programmes, as does Radio Swiss Jazz and Radio Swiss Classical.
Yes surely. Lay down your arms. Lie down to sleep.
A jihadi writes:
“Lay down your arms, lie down and be ravished.”
A comma or two and a semicolon would assist the understanding of the sentence as well.
Was Cleopatra one of the Lays of Ancient Rome?
Did Ancient Romans call all of their chickens “Cleopatra”, Annie. Lol.
Should be “lie down”.
“Lay down” is probably an Americanism.
When I LIE down, my pillow does exactly that.
Hannan-Barbarian has utterly lost it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13074841/DANIEL-HANNAN-Russia-broken-thousand-years-tyrannical-land-purge-gulag-Ivan-Terrible-Conquest-wired-psyche.html
One could put the same arguments about China, America, India, France, the UK .
Break them all up and why not fill them all up with gimmegrants while about it.
Russia has a vast resource of mineral and other natural wealth which is why the West wants regime change and the country broken up (divvied up between themselves?) so that it can get its greedy paws on it. Russia also stands in the way of the ambitions of the WEF and globalists. I don’t know who we think we are to say that a country should be broken up. Such arrogance. The US and sadly its poodle the UK are the baddies in all of this.
Agreed on all counts.
Baron Hannan writes that Russia (ie Putin) murdered a British citizen; who was that?
The Novichoker?
https://twitter.com/Senior_Dicky78/status/1757133064289779789
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13075527/Labour-WITHDRAWS-support-Rochdale-election-candidate-Azhar-Ali-criticism-remarks-Israel.html
Rats and a
sinking shipstinking shit…He’ll probably get in as an independent. 😏
Experts on Antiques Roadshow in 2024 will be at the following sites in 2024:
Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery in Walpole Park in Ealing, West London
Cromford Mills near Matlock in Derbyshire
Firstsite visual arts organisation in Colchester, Essex
Thirlestane Castle in Lauder in the Scottish Borders
Beaumaris Castle on the island of Anglesey in Wales
Botanic Gardens in Belfast, Northern Ireland
I told Bob.
I tend to avoid events like that!
I know exactly what you mean Bob. Yawn 😦 🥱
Whenever I catch a glimpse of Antiques Roadshow I question whether the valuable items were actually heirlooms from some distant great aunt but more likely stolen from some defenceless old person unable to prevent the theft.
As for the “picked it up for a fiver at the car boot sale”, sorry, no, you nicked it from some unsuspecting vulnerable person for whom you were doing a spot of shopping or else gardening.
Of course the actual purpose of the plethora of “Antiques” shows is to churn valuables for the exploitation of experts and their bedmates, the auction houses.
I don’t know that it’s necessarily true that people didn’t pick it up cheaply from car boot sales. I’ve got some nice signed prints from charity shops that cost less than a fiver. They priced them, I knew they were worth more, but I paid the asking price. Does that make me a bad person or just a knowledgeable buyer?
it makes you a knowledgeable buyer, Conners.
I have a Malcolm Coward and a Lionel Edwards, both signed numbered prints. I also have a Frank Algernon Stewart.
Not a bad person. We have caveat emptor so i don’t see why caveat venditor shouldn’t also apply. Unless either party is acting in a devious manner.
Yes, “knockers” who’d ask if an old person has anything to sell and would give a pittance for something they’d later sell for hundreds or even thousands.
Well, what a lovely day! It got quite warm working outside today.
Trip to Twiggs in Matlock to order the chainsaw bits I need then, after a bit of shopping, back home.
Got the petrol saw sharpened with the decent file and ripped through several large chunks of sycamore that it had refused to cut earlier!
Then got a start made on splitting the resulting logs. 10 left from 12″ dia. downwards and a decent pile of split logs for Grad.Son to stack.
Evening, all. I’ve had quite a productive day. It was fine and sunny so I planted a lot of bulbs and tubers as well as doing some weeding. I also bought a new hod to replace the one whose handle came off when I was trying to stoke the Rayburn yesterday. I tried to get the info off my old sim, but didn’t manage to do that; I’ll need to buy another phone and get the old sim cut down. I’m still thinking about that, since I’ve had a lot of expense lately. I’ve also noticed that Oscar’s nail seems to be ingrowing, so that will be another vet’s bill. I’ll phone them up tomorrow and get them to look at it. No wonder he was limping, poor soul. I hope I am not a bad dog-parent for not having spotted it earlier.
Apropos the headline, who says Vlad is a “murderous tyrant”? Seems to me he was trying to protect ethnic Russians from the murderous Ukrainians.
Poor old Oscar. Wishing him and you all the best.
Thank you. He’s had his nails clipped and is on antibiotics because he’d got an infection. I have had yet another big bill 🙁 As I said to him, greater love hath no man than that he should empty his bank account for his dog!
The pile of party political bumf stuffed through my door is now half an inch thick. On this basis, Labour appears to have spent the most. The nice, polite young woman who knocked on the door a few nights ago asked me the likelihood of my voting Labour on a scale of 1 to 10. “A low number,” I replied. Off she went with a smile while probably thinking “Ageing fascist Tory git…”.
Reform are second in the litter stakes but at least present something of an air of professionalism. The Tories aren’t really trying. This is from their latest flyer: “Let’s be frank. The Labour candidate just isn’t local. They live in East Ham in London…”
“A scale of 1 to 10 doesn’t cover all the chances, young lady. You’ve missed a zero option, along with Lib, Con and Green!”
Well, chums, it’s Good Night from me now. I hope we all sleep well; I hope to see you all tomorrow. Don’t forget that it is Shrove Tuesday. Really a Christian event, but to me it means I get to enjoy pancakes with either syrup or lemon and sugar (probably a couple of each).
Or with minced beef and chilli kidney beans as a savoury meal.
Good night 😴 all.
Goodnight, everyone.
Good morning, all – Tuesday’s new page is here.
‘ Morning, Geoff and thank you.
Thank you and Good morning.