Monday 18 July: Why is Rishi Sunak only now promising to make the most of Brexit?

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777 thoughts on “Monday 18 July: Why is Rishi Sunak only now promising to make the most of Brexit?”

    1. I don’t cope well with heat or glaring sunshine.
      But I get on with it; I don’t try to frighten everyone else out of their wits.

  4. Bill,BILL,get out the shotgun the filth will be coming for Gus and Pickles…….

    Kitten ‘traumatised’ after police mistake it for endangered species

    An animal charity says the young tabby has been subject to

    ‘psychological trauma at the hands of his captors’ which they label

    ‘abuse’

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/17/kitten-traumatised-police-mistake-endangered-species/
    To say btl are scathing of both the police response and sense of priorities is putting it mildly….

    1. Morning all.

      What on earth does everyone think we’ve been subjected to since March 2020?

    1. Good morning Rix,
      The new government seal is spot on.
      The final image is yet more proof that those creeps are devious and mentally warped creatures we all need protecting from. They need psychological or psychiatric help.
      Sheer madness that they are allowed to interact, in officially sanctioned positions, with children.

  6. Deep Joy,what could possibly go wrong…..

    National Geographic reported on March 19 2022:

    “Imagine a cure that’s as contagious as

    the disease it fights—a vaccine that could replicate in a host’s body

    and spread to others nearby, quickly and easily protecting a whole

    population from microbial attacks. That’s the goal of several teams

    around the world who are reviving controversial research to develop

    self-spreading vaccines.”

    https://hatchardreport.com/self-spreading-vaccines-are-coming-for-you/
    Don’t want the clotshot?? Unlucky you’re going to “catch” it like it or not……

  7. Zelenskiy fires Ukraine’s spy chief and top state prosecutor. 18 July 2022.

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired the head of Ukraine’s powerful domestic security agency, the SBU, and the state prosecutor general, citing dozens of cases of collaboration with Russia by officials in their agencies.

    Sunday’s abrupt sackings of SBU chief Ivan Bakanov, a childhood friend of Zelenskiy, and the prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, who played a key role in the prosecution of Russian war crimes, were announced in executive orders on the president’s website.

    In a Telegram post, Zelenskiy said he had fired the top officials because it had come to light that many members of their agencies had collaborated with Russia, a problem that he said had touched other agencies as well.

    Is there something rotten in the State of Denmark? The image of Ukraine as propagated in the MSM is as fake as the stories they used to tell us about South Vietnam. It is pretty obvious that there’s a powerful pro-Russian element, not just in the administration but also among the people.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/17/zelenskiy-fires-ukraines-spy-chief-and-top-state-prosecutor

    1. Is there an assassination, either deadly or political, in the offing? Pi$$ing off your enemies is not a great idea, pi$$ing off your ‘friends’ can have disastrous consequences.

    2. Strange that this happened just after the aircraft carrying munitions from Ukraine to Banmgladesh crashed.

      What a coincidence !!

  9. BBC Breakfast just now – medical expert giving advice about today’s heat wave referring to ‘pregnant people’.

  11. Why is Rishi Sunak only now promising to make the most of Brexit?

    Um because if he gets in the final showdown where the party members vote he thinks that is what they want to hear.
    Of course he has no intention of doing that if he wins.
    We’ve just had six years of doing the least for Brexit, why would that change now?

    1. VAT on domestic fuel? He has had a long time to get to grips with this but has done nothing!

      The whole of the UK will not be able to trade freely and benefit from Brexit until Article 16 of the N Ireland Protocol has been invoked.

      The alternative – which is what the EU wants – is to cede Northern Ireland to Eire.

  12. So why is Kimi coming across as the most genuine candidate?

    I think she would be the best thing for the Conservative party.
    As a black person she is allowed to talk common sense, white people have been cancelled for talking common sense for generations.
    The Left do not know how to handle it
    All the white population can offer up is retarded woke fakes because everyone with any sense has been purged or frightened off

    1. It is the same with Candace Owens in the US.

      People like these are the best response to racism because they are intelligent and rational and are not cowtowed.

      Has any organisation deliberately tried to stir up racial hatred as much as Black Lives Matter?

  14. ‘Morning, Peeps.  During the night we had RAIN, the first for many weeks!  And just for good measure it was accompanied by a brief storm.  Temp this morning was still a disappointing19°C at 06:20, with a tiresome 29° later.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Britain had already left the EU when Rishi Sunak became Chancellor .

    He therefore had the opportunity to guide our independence in a way he felt fit. So why is he only now promising that by the next election he will have “scrapped or reformed all of the EU law, red tape and bureaucracy that is still on our statute book and slowing economic growth” (report, July 17)?

    Dr Andrew McIver
    London

    Quite so, Dr McIver.  Have the scales fallen from Sunak’s eyes?  Or is there an election for leader in progress??

    1. Morning, Hugh J, and all Nottlers. Barely a puff of breeze at the moment but still cooler outdoors than indoors.

      Sunak’s economic policy starts with the truth. The remainder will be the same, as surely as night follows day.

    3. These are the sort of questions that any and all of the arseholes seeking to become PM could not reply to in any believable manner.

  15. SIR – I live in north Cardiff, where the Welsh parliament’s proposed nationwide 20mph urban speed limit has been on trial for some months (“The insidious spread of 20mph zones is about to backfire badly”, Comment, July 14). I can report that 20mph is clearly an unnaturally slow speed for most vehicles. To maintain it I have to monitor my speedometer constantly, taking my attention away from the road and its other users, including cyclists and pedestrians.

    At 20mph, even a slight incline requires a change of gear, thus consuming more petrol and producing more pollutants.

    As a result the majority of vehicles now travel at a more natural 25-27mph, reducing to 20mph only for speed cameras or when a learner driver or occasional delivery van heads the resulting nose-to-tail queue, leaving no gaps for side-road vehicles entering or pedestrians attempting to cross.

    It is therefore clear to us here that the proposed scheme is pointless, frustrating, and retrograde. But it seems this matters little to our would-be Marxist Senedd, where common sense is clearly in short supply.

    Peter Hancock
    Cardiff

    This is Wales for you, matey.  You know what to do about it – get rid of the dangerous socialist idiot at the next election. All the while the English taxpayer is feather-bedding this lunatic nothing much will change…

  17. SIR – Calls for Britain to be braced for a heat health emergency should indeed make us all fearful. While there are undoubted health risks associated with extreme temperatures, requiring common-sense precautions, how long will it be before there are calls for a lockdown when the weather goes above a certain temperature?

    The precedent for protecting the NHS has already been established during the pandemic. It would not be a quantum leap for health officials to decide that there are many other situations where the public must be told how to conduct their lives.

    Dr David Walters
    Burton Bradstock, Dorset

    Very good, Dr Walters, but please don’t give them ideas.

    SIR – The Met Office has issued its first ever red warning because we may experience temperatures as high as 40C, which many countries experience every year. I have two donkeys, eight sheep, four chickens and a cockerel, all of whom will seek shade and drink plenty of water and survive. I can only assume that the Met Office is working on the assumption that people in this country are less intelligent than these animals.

    Mark S Davies FRCS
    Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

    Another Doc who may not be taking the ‘national emergency’ all that seriously…

      1. They’ve already got them! As soon as the lockdowns, work from home and suchlike worked so fantastically well, TPTB rubbed their hands in glee and quietly made a note in their little black book of things to do in future.

    2. With excess mortality running at around 1,600 deaths per week it’s on the cards that government agencies and by the way, that includes the MSM, will attempt to use the upcoming forecast of two days of unusual temperatures over parts of the UK as the reason. Grasping at any straw to deflect from the truth is de rigueur in the current political climate.

      1. Morning Korky.
        Don’t worry, some GP surgeries are closing for the 2 hot days, probably to keep them ‘safe’. Not that many of their patients would notice any difference.

    3. The Met Office is now part of the government’s nudge unit. They are promoting the rubbish science generated by the charlatans at UEA and other unworthy and dishonest institutions.

      The weather maps have suddenly turned the deepest of scarlets and the constant alarmist predictions about climate change are both senseless and risible.

  18. Would an Indian wife who has the ear of a British PM go along with Alok Sharma or Narendra Modi?

    Alok Sharma, who led last year’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, has threatened to quit if the new prime minister ditches the current commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

    https://news.sky.com/story/cop26-president-alok-sharma-threatens-to-quit-if-new-pm-ditches-net-zero-commitment-12653601

    At the opening plenary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed India to achieving ‘Net Zero’ emissions by 2070 and strengthened the country’s 2030 commitments

    https://www.ey.com/en_in/climate-change-sustainability-services/india-inc-on-net-zero-path#:~:text=At%20the%20opening%20plenary%2C%20Prime,strengthened%20the%20country's%202030%20commitments.

  19. 354380+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 18 July: Why is Rishi Sunak only now promising to make the most of Brexit?

    Because he wasn’t in UKIP when it was really needed to be said,and ACTED ON as in total severance.

    Being a long term UKIP member I was hearing from UKIP day trippers “WE have won now leave it to the tories (ino) plus no need of UKIP now” then the very dangerous cretins returned to supporting
    the very political @rseholes that prior to the
    24/6/2016 were determined to keep these Isles within the eu, unbelievable.

    The very party that constructed & triggered the Brexit referendum was NEVER given a hearing because to have that could very well damage the electorates political pals in the pro eu lab/lib/con country killer coalition.

    If ever a nation deserved a great deal of what we are about to receive we must be very near the top.

    From the major era it was as clear as day the odious route this coalition was taking,
    getting worse by the day before your very tight shut eyes now with what looks very like the closing down of a once decent nation the horrors can be seen that befell all but more importantly the children / elderly.

    Via the polling booth, via supporting a phony party name.

  20. Good Morning all. When we planned this years tin tenting ages ago the beginning of July seemed a nice time to hitch the van to the CRV tank and head northwards. So it is today that we are heading off to Chester and thence to the Lake District. SWMBO spent much of her early years in Kuwait so can cope with the heat better than I, a born brummy lad whose experience of the sun was limited to a vague yellowish thing doing it’s best to fight through the boiling cabbage fumes and industrial effluvia .

    1. Enjoy your trip, Datz. Presumably your bank manager has agreed to your obscene expenditure at the filling stations along the way?? Apart from that, Chester is a delightful city and one we enjoyed exploring on a tin snail trip a few years’ ago.

    2. Have a good trip! I’m further south, but finding it perfectly comfortable in the van, blinds drawn during the day if needs be, pleasanrly cool in the evenings.

  21. Good Morning all. When we planned this years tin tenting ages ago the beginning of July seemed a nice time to hitch the van to the CRV tank and head northwards. So it is today that we are heading off to Chester and thence to the Lake District. SWMBO spent much of her early years in Kuwait so can cope with the heat better than I, a born brummy lad whose experience of the sun was limited to a vague yellowish thing doing it’s best to fight through the boiling cabbage fumes and industrial effluvia .

  22. Good morning all – especially those who are still alive and not burned to a crisp.

    Agreeably cool right now.

          1. I must not start a fishy thread.
            I must not start a fishy thread.
            I must not start ……
            Oh, Cod. The temptation’s killing me.

    2. Portaloo? That’s a posh festival.

      The ones I remember it was just a couple of offset scaffolding poles over a ditch.

      Edit to hide it from sensitive souls!

      1. A friend made the mistake of going to a local barn dance in a white jump suit.
        Her visit to the outside loos involved keeping her outfit clear of the floor; contortions not mentioned in the Karma Sutra were needed.

  24. Good morning all. Bright and 14°C outside with a cloudy sky.
    34°C forecast for early evening.

  25. What is happening to the Daily Mailygraph?  Just a few of the headlines from today’s edition:

    “Heatwave meltdown brings Britain to a halt”

    ” Your essential guide to surviving the heatwave”

    ” Money Makeover ‘How do I turn a £190k cash pile into enough to pay for private school?’”  (How much of a private school do you get for £190k??)

    “A Germany without Russian gas will be forced to put the breaks on its electric car dreams”  (Give me a brake!!  Surely their plans for electric cars will be completely irrelevant as their lack of gas will force them back the Stone Age?)

    “‘Three strikes and you’re out’: Middle-class drug users to be banned from nightclubs and bars”  (Bouncer: I’m sorry Sir, I believe that you are middle class, so bugger off.)

    “Fresh loans for businesses to be unleashed as recession looms” (Stand back there, I’m about to unleash a fresh loan!”)

    And so it goes on.

    3. …lack of gas will force them back the Stone Age

      I hear that the Neanderthal Valley is very nice at this time of year.

    4. Good Lord. No mention of some previously harmless food or behaviour giving you cancer?
      The Wail is losing its touch.

      1. Prob my fault if you thought the headlines were from the Wail, Annie. We are talking about a former quality broadsheet, none other than the DT ☹

  26. Editied for obvious errors…

    The idiots in charge of this country have, once again and quite effortlessly, made us a laughing stock.  A few BTLs on this pathetic non-emergency

    Leslie Ayre 3 HRS AGO

    Just about to write something similar. Heard on Sky this morning that Net Zero policies must be accelerated if we are to stop extreme weather. These ecoloons think they have a sure fire way of dictating weather patterns by banning internal combustion engines and hydrocarbon in all its forms.

    Warren Sheehy3 HRS AGO

    It is not the British people who are afraid of the hot weather, it is the political scene along with the MSM to constantly remind us of climate change. We have it here in Queensland too, any flood, fire or drought is due to climate change, never building on flood plains, poor land management and lack of dam building.

    Steve Jones2 HRS AGO

    100% agree Warren. The posts in this newspaper on every report I have read about the pending hot weather all [and I haven’t read one contrary] laugh at the stupidity of the stories. The outrageous predictions, the childish melodrama, the idiotic expectations of the number of deaths.

    It’s so ridiculous as to be funny – except the MSM and the political and bureaucratic fools in the west are no longer funny they are truly dangerous – dangerous because they are the problem – not the solution.

    As for Queensland, well Warren as I think you agree that female premier and her government are as dangerous as any in the west and even more so – if we can ever imagine that being possible – than the fools that run Victoria.

    1. The human population has gone up 4 fold in a century.
      That’s an awful lot of people living in previously uninhabited areas witnessing events that would once have gone unnoticed.

  27. Morning, all! Yesterday fulfilled its promise. Exploring a few of the Marsh Churches on Romney Marsh with a couple of pianists in tow is fun if you’re a singer. Haddock eaten with my fingers and chilled Mumm on the sandy dunes at Dungeness. Watching the sun go down in the garden of an eccentric little pub in the middle of nowhere. Good times!

    1. Sounds idyllic. I’ve only ever been in that area when doing NI training in ’79 and need to get down there with the van for a few days.

      1. That was the Cliffe & Hoo Marshes on the Thames Estuary where I spent a couple of days last month:-

      2. Yes! And I visited E. Nesbit’s grave, rather envious of the blurb in the nearby pub which made reference to her “rather intricate bohemian lifestyle” 🤣

      1. Story dates from 2014.

        I often agree with our friend ogga but he does seem to circulate old stories as if they are the latest news.

        I cannot understand why ogga’s hatred of Nigel Farage is so much more important to him than Britain being completely free from the shackles of the EU.

        I also agree with ogga that all the main political parties are useless but The British people need other options than spoiling their ballot papers, not voting at all or voting for an Independent with views with which they do not agree.

      2. 354380+ up ticks,

        Morning M,
        Every time, that beaded @rsehole will be used as a role model as to what can be achieved & rewarded via kiddy
        fiddling.

        They are queuing up at Calais blackboard duster in one hand, dick in the other, awaiting consent from the lab/lib/con coalition voter.

    2. Chances are they’re all on benefits. Firstly, ban that get up. If he wants to dress in his pyjamas than he can bug off to foreign.

      Just launch him from a catapult at a concrete block. Save everyone the bother.

      1. 354380+ up ticks,

        Afternoon N,
        Duly noted, as Mo said it needed an airing the bearded ones ilk do not go away but are teachers in paedophilia to a new batch awaiting in Calais.

  29. Hunter Biden and the corruption of the liberal media. Spiked 18 July 2022.

    We need to talk about Hunter Biden. Yes, we’ve all seen far too much of the president’s son in recent days, courtesy of the latest leaked videos from his various computer devices. And yet we have to discuss this because the Hunter story – or rather, the fact that the Hunter story took so long to come out – tells us a great deal about the media elites of the 21st century. This isn’t really about Hunter anymore, or his tragic crack habit, or his genuinely sad inability to do anything without filming it on his phone or his laptop. No, it’s about the media’s abandonment of objectivity in response to the populist moment, and their craven willingness to bury stories that have the potential to harm the political elites.

    How things change! When we used talk about what liars the MSM where and how the Trump Dossier was as fake as a £3 note we used to get slagged off something terrible by the Government Trolls. Now there are signs that this is becoming the accepted view. Still a way to go. Another ten years maybe!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/18/hunter-biden-and-the-corruption-of-the-liberal-media/

    1. Yo Minty

      Prince Andrew did not enjoy protection from being castigated and robbed as a criminal, whenall he doene was be
      “A very silly boy”

    2. The press hated Trump bitterly, but they love Biden. It is a relentless campaign to promote their man at any cost. Almost shameless.

      Why? Because Trump didn’t want them. He didn’t sway to their egos.

  32. UK set to roast in ‘ferocious heat’ as temperatures could hit above 40C. 18 July 2022.

    Britons have been urged to stay inside as the UK braces for “ferocious” temperatures breaching 40C, and swathes of the country are now covered in the first-ever red warning for extreme heat.

    A national emergency has been declared amid the threat of severe disruption as schools close, hospitals cancel appointments and events are scrapped.

    The blame for the extreme heat roasting the UK has been levelled squarely at climate change by various scientists.

    Climate attribution scientist at the Met Office Dr Nikos Christidis has said Tuesday’s above 40C prediction is a result of our changing climate.

    Climate Attribution Scientist! Lol! So Nik what do you think is the cause of this Heat Wave/Blizzard/Flooding? Well I think it’s Climate Change Fred. You should all turn your Central Heating off!

    Actually it’s very pleasant sitting here at the moment. I have a nice cup of coffee and a breeze is stirring the blinds and cooling the room

    https://news.sky.com/story/red-alert-uk-set-to-roast-in-ferocious-heat-as-temperatures-could-hit-40c-and-bring-widespread-disruption-12654097

    1. Just got back 30 minutes ago from a nice walk with Oscar along the wooded banks of the Tamar. Very pleasant. I’ve just seen, obviously too late and obviously Oscar will now go down with heat prostration, that Battersea recommends not walking your dog today.

      1. Too late for my Oscar, too, then! We went out at about 08.00. He seems to have suffered no ill effects, though.

    2. Good morning, I expect – much like the bBC – Sky Newz didn’t have time or space to explain that it is ‘the first-ever red warning for extreme heat’, as the warning levels were rejigged and lowered last year. A Tweeter under the DavidBellamyUK name tweeted the story this morning.

  33. Good Moaning.
    Hooray, hooray …. it’s a jolly housework day.
    On the plus side, Spartie gets two hours with one of his bestest friends.

    7. Happy birthday Lacoste, hope you’re enjoying plenty of chilled drinks as we apparently plummet into the Sun.

      1. With his current seeming fervour for ‘making the most of Brexit’ and reducing inflation it would seem that Sunak is just an opportunist.

        However, I firmly believe that the Treasury drove all the tax hikes and waste through. It is the stupidest thing to do at the stupidest time for the stupidest reason therefore could only be the actions of a government department.

  37. Trans inmate impregnates two other prisoners
    Demi Minor, 27, who is serving 30 years for manslaughter, has now been moved to another prison
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/17/trans-inmate-impregnates-two-prisoners/

    This is in the US but it will soon be here.

    Perhaps Sharon Davies and other people who are keen to protect women could organise a movement that pressurises the political class to bring in legislation that says that biological men who wish to transgender will only be regarded as any sort of women – regardless of what the think or say they are – if they have had their penises and testicles surgically removed?

    Nothing is said about this in the hustings and especially absolutely nothing from Penny Mordaunt.

    1. We’ve already had a trans man get into a women’s refuge and rape a woman. The state doesn’t care. They are mentally ill. It’s as simple as that. They shouldn’t be lauded, praised simply acknowledged as needing psychotherapy and certainly not permitted separate toilets, laws or any other nonsense.

      2. The case that has particularly appalled me is an educational establishment that sees nothing wrong in a menstruating handicapped teenage girl being given personal care by a male assistant.
        It doesn’t matter how ‘caring’ he might be – it is just Plain Wrong.

      3. A public information campaign should be run with this message;

        Womanhood or Willy – You can’t have both : you must decide.

  38. 354380 + up ticks,

    DT,
    Tory leadership rivals accuse Rishi Sunak of ‘plunging Britain into recession’
    Former chancellor forced to defend himself as opponents confront him about economy during second televised debate

    Truth be told they are ALL, that is ALL guilty as sin, ALL that is ALL along with supporter / voters having a hand in the Country’s very,very near destruction.

    The political cretins are building mosques instead of reservoir’s then telling me to save water, many a street has a water feature.

    They are rewarding paedophilia with welfare payments ( foreign type teacher, 11 year old)

    Indigenous housing waiting list bypast
    The surgery waiting list gets daily, longer on account seemingly those waiting in calais
    take precedents.
    Think who gave us these little gems within every day living then vote accord

  39. Morning all 😃
    So far None of the above seems to be the only solution to the next PM.
    But what next ? Surely there is better than what we have set before us.

    1. Essentially, if you are a true blue conservative, you are stuffed. Its going to be one of Schwab’s place-men or Sir Beer.

        1. It’s all comparative. is he honest? Is he a patriot? Are the actual candidates either of those?

          1. I don’t think any of them are honest. HP It seems to be part of their make-up.
            The acceptance of certain aspects of behaviour have long been taken for granted in politics.
            As I have already mentioned, they are paid around the same as train drivers, but on the surface they all appear to be pretty wealthy. Perhaps they take home too much in expenses and or have too many contacts and interest out side of politics.

  40. A question for learned friends: has an ex-prime minister ever taken a seat in the Cabinet?

  41. Sunak is the only one promising to make the most of Brexit .

    Kemi who is a bright star and with potential – and for many the Nigel Farage replacement new hope has said ” People are fed up with talking about Brexit and we should move on from it ” – hmm .

    Another point if I make – all this is about getting Rishi into No 10 – he always has been the politicians choice ( but not the members of the Conservative Party ) the fact that only 2 candidates do before the party members proves what a fix this is . They could put 4 candidates through using STV and let the members decide – but the members might chose the wrong one .

    I’m concerned about Conservative Homes ‘ mysterious polls of leaders – which seems to change every few days.. everyone has their own agenda’s- but what do the party members actually think .

    Whoever does win is drinking from a poisoned chalice- many I suppose are keeping their powder dry. But be sure whoever wins will be destroyed by the media and press who now know they have the power to unseat Prime Ministers ( what beast has been unleashed that can have such malignant power) .

    Speaking of the media. Why on earth is the process of finding a new Conservative Party leader not done in a better manner, instead of used as a reality TV show with a anti Tory Media hack instead of being lead by a Conservative will ask what its party members want to hear . The only ones these TV debates please are Labour and anyone who hates the Conservatives – these debates are about humiliation and a disgrace with no value.

    But at least the candidates tick the diversity boxes –
    there is a brown candidate, a black candidate, a wokiest rainbow flag waving candidate, a EU loving half French devoted Remoaner candidate and a robot called Liz .

    1. Yes, but Sunak became chancellor after we had voted to leave so all the opportunities were there. The Treasury refused to permit a low tax, small state economic policy and insisted on hiking taxes for their own ends.

      He had the choice then. Why would he suddenly perform a volte-face?

    2. I have always thought that 4 candidates should be presented to the Conservative membership and the election should be a two stage event.
      Few MPs are representative of the membership.

      1. Given that too many constituency parties are all too willing to do the bidding of Conservative (in name only) Central Office and will accept any shite palmed off onto the, your 2nd comment is hardly surprising.

      2. I’m rather dubious about these ‘ polls ‘ that ConHome put up and I think they are more about the preferences of MPs then membership of the party. Indeed few MPs represent the membership .

    3. With apologies to W.B. Yeats:

      And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
      Slouches towards Westminster to be born?

  42. Great news. The GOATS are back – and are producing young ‘uns.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0afdb4118e6b26b032ca2b5916d1f3df3ff570dc6a2327990bc579d108e2ff1f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00aecc6afbf271f8bcb4cd347bc015228d1db12e3569164f76e627a803c31563.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b1c4990f19b08e6b039cf38157409219c857fbc46ea52354c37f035755ccc9a.jpg

    The Billy goat looks just like something out of a Victorian child’s book of animals! Huge beard.

    2. How lonely is the goatherd who cannot be high on a hill as Norfolk is renowned for being flat.?

  43. What is Net Zero?

    The UN
    Put simply, net zero means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance.

    Transitioning to a net-zero world is one of the greatest challenges humankind [sic] has faced. It calls for nothing less than a complete transformation of how we produce, consume, and move about. The energy sector is the source of around three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions today and holds the key to averting the worst effects of climate change. Replacing polluting coal, gas and oil-fired power with energy from renewable sources, such as wind or solar, would dramatically reduce carbon emissions.

    https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/net-zero-coalition

    Friends of the Earth
    The Net Zero Strategy is a UK government strategy that sets out plans to reduce climate-wrecking emissions and decarbonise all sectors of the UK economy, from transport to agriculture. These plans are needed to meet its target of net zero emissions by 2050, and the shorter-term targets that ensure action starts now, and isn’t kicked down the road.

    https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/whats-net-zero-strategy-and-why-are-we-trying-fix-it

    Read through both pages and the difference in tone is obvious. The UN is at least measured, the FoTE strident yet naive. Neither has any real idea how the world will cope without fossil fuels nor do they really provide a satisfactory answer to the question ‘What is Net Zero?’.

    The FoTE page doesn’t mention mitigation i.e. the ‘reabsorption’ to which the UN refers. This is an admission that it’ll be OK still to produce some ’emissions’ so long as they are offset. To its credit, the FoTE site is dismissive of carbon capture and storage (though probably only because there is no such technology, rather than the practicability or usefulness of it).

    The UK’s stated ’emissions’ have been reduced largely because it has closed coal-fired power stations and exported many thousands of jobs. We’re still importing ’emissions’ in terms of imports of food, manufactured goods and energy. I suspect that if it were possible to measure the CO2 content of everything imported, the stated reduction would be very much smaller. This appears to be the basis of Johnson’s Net Zero strategy. It is as though the government had announced that there are no unemployed people in the country because the number of all of those out of work was balanced by the number of workers imported.

    1. The ‘humankind’ nonsense is evidence of how idiotic this is. Let’s see UN officialdom change their way of life first.

    2. I suspect that the emissions would actually turn out to be higher, because those countries where the industry and jobs have been exported to will have much higher levels of emissions because they use “dirtier” fuels and the workers will also use dirtier fuels for heating, cooking etc.

      1. As long as we can buy our cheap cookware, cosmetics and wind turbines from the other side of the globe, everything is ticketty boo.

  45. I’ve just seen a large and noisy aircraft heading north-eastwards over Wellingborough. It was accompanied by eight escorts which I assume were fighters, arranged in an untidy V.

    Is there a bigwig making an unannounced visit to the UK?

      1. Gosh – Farnborough. That takes one back….. In 1947, my Father took me to the Radlett Air Show – first of its kind after the War. I can still remember the Lancastrian two props – two jet engines. That’s the future, Father sad. He was wrong about most things!!

      2. Just seen another, probably a Galaxy, heading unaccompanied in the same direction.

        1. If it is the one shown on FlightRadar24 as “unknown” (KNIFE75) – it flew from Northern India to Madrid – then on its present route

          EDIT – I’d say it was going to Lakenheath (or Mildenhall).

    3. It was the US president’s ‘Airforce One’ Boeing 747. It took off from Brize Norton at 9.56. I don’t know whether or not he was onboard, but I don’t suppose he knows either.

    2. Pleasantly warm. Just heard the creak of the bin lorry compactor working so they seem to be working.

      1. A couple of hundred yard away the builders are continuing to build the houses we need so desperately. Nothing, not even predicted deadly heat, is allowed to halt progress.

      2. We got a message to say that, due to the expected killer temperatures heat, the bin collections would start at 06.00 for today and tomorrow. It doesn’t actually affect me; my bins aren’t emptied until Thursday (by which time, no doubt, we’ll be freezing to death).

    3. Pleasantly warm. Just heard the creak of the bin lorry compactor working so they seem to be working.

    4. It’s now 28° C in my study/office (1120 CET) – but here in Brittany we are an hour ahead of you in Britain!

      Is it too hot to Nottle or does a real Nottler go on Nottling come hell or high water, ice or inferno, fire or brimstone?

  47. Good morning all

    Cloud, still and very warm . 25c so far

    Took the dogs for a run at 7.30.. Lots of people had the same idea .

    I expect a few idiots will take risks and cook their dogs .

    Moh was out of the house at 7am to hit a few balls , he is now home saying he is hot.

    2. We were out at half 6 and it was too hot then. Thankfully we walk past a stream and a pond which had Sir Fluffalot leap in oh so elegantly. Getting him out again was a lot harder.

    3. Good morning Maggie.
      Just touching 20°C here at 10:20 and the cloudy sky appears to have cleared.

      1. Good morning Bob

        Crept up to 20c at 7.30 when I took the dogs out .
        Now 25 c and cloudy … air heavy and still.

        Yesterday was warm with a lovely sea breeze ,, we had a great experience viewing Nothe Fort Weymouth . you would have enjoyed that.

        Lulworth and Durdle Door was full of Indians .. I mean full .. car parking was OTT , everywhere. Like another country, and they have flash expensive cars and many of them (drivers) are so small they can just about see above their steering wheels, and poor driving manners .

        They are one section of society who must be incredibly wealthy, how , I have no idea , but everyone comments on their flash clothes .. especially as they walk down to the beach via a very chalky uneven path.. and their cars immerge from the chalky car park absolutely covered in dust .

        The are so into themselves , no eye contact with us .

    4. When I walked Oscar at about 8.00 I met loads of people I never normally see, all coming out early to beat the heat.

      1. 354380+ up ticks,

        Shiver me timbers R, I do believe you have it in one, splendid.

  49. Good morning NoTTLers, I’ve survived a weekend of three rounds of golf in the Dumfries area – Lochmaben GC, Colvend GC and Thornhill GC – with a couple of nights spent in the Woodland House Hotel. VG, Tick for any NoTTLers looking for accommodation in the area.

    Sadly, I was briefly exposed to some livestream tv and therefore astounded by the Cassandra-like wailings of the newz muses as we apparently plummet into the Sun over the next two days. Cracking days on the course, and a dab of sunscreen on my white knees was more than enough to withstand the Solar onslaught.

    It’s a lovely day out there so Laundry is the priority as I talk myself out of cutting the grass…I wouldn’t want the extreme heat to scorch the new growth.

  50. Unbelievably I got laid off this morning just two weeks after starting work. Back to square one.

      1. Live over an hour away and don’t have a car, so nope, back to indeed and hours looking for work.

      1. The company is run by Americans who have the idea that people are disposable commodities to be used and exploited. Why pay a 52 year old man 25k per year when you can get a 16 year old apprentice for 4.19ph. Just wish they had made that decision before wasting my time and giving me hope only to rip it away again.

        1. The reason for paying the older person more is you get more effective work from them, and they don’t need so much instruction.

        2. Yes, it’s an utterly false economy. Have you thought about contracting in the short term?

        3. Yes, Thayaric, the general American company policy is just hire and fire.

          Consider Wibbles’ thought on contracting – I did it for many years at about £500 per day. The only problem was tax avoidance.

      1. They decided they want to pay someone 4.19ph for three years. It’s quite a saving.

        1. If £/hour is the only metric, then yes. But work done effectively / £, no.
          There’s a reason why it’s still cost-effective to have industry in Germany – the German worker is about the most productive in the world, with excellent quality. It wold cost bugger-all to set up & pay staff in Central Africa, but I don’t believe that VW cars would be as good as they are if they were made there.

    5. Bu**er. I’m sorry to hear that. Console yourself that you would not want to work for an employer that treats people like that.

      What kind of work do you do?

    6. That’s appalling. Did they explain why? And two bloomin’ weeks? We disagree politically, but that’s just horrible. I’m so sorry mate.

      1. You can’t do that after just 2 weeks in the job, Phil. They can show you the door without explanation.

    9. On the positive side, would you want to be working for a company like that?

    10. Oh, for goodness’ sake. I am sorry.
      It may not be your scene, but would a job in the service industries tide you over? There are huge staff shortages in those type of jobs.
      It would mean being nice to boorish customers, but if my sons can manage that – anyone can.

    11. Sorry to hear that, Thayaric. I wish you all the best with getting another job soon.

  52. ConservativeHome have said choosing a new leader and Prime Minister needs to be done as quickly as possible as to avoid suggestion corruption. Now who’d have thought that they want to get their choice into No10 as quickly as possible – and without the membership having a real choice between more then the 2 they decide – the 2 really meaning the person they have already decided. Party members cannot be trusted to chose the right one ..
    not that any of them are suitable .

    1. None of us voted for people like that .. and even putting it out to just 200,000 members is an absolute joke .

      I wish Raab would take over , and then we can have an election in the Autumn.

          1. There was nothing to stop other people joining before they ditched Boris.
            I’ve never been a member of any political party.

          2. Boris Johnson was also Prime Minister who won by a vast majority,
            If a Prime Minister is to be replaced- then the country should have that say .

      2. Those MPs don’t represent the party members of which are more then that amount . They have the person they have chosen .
        Raab I think wants to keep his powder dry and see what will occur – but yes he’d have called an election in the autumn . The politicians removed Boris but arnt brave enough to call an election .

  53. Sometimes it seems things conspire to make you feel it’s not going to be a good day! My little wife is braving the extreme heat [!!] to travel to Margate and continue tidying up her late mother’s affairs. The local rail company cancelled alternate trains but two sections of their website seemed not to know which ones! A careful examination got us to the station in time for the right one – next snag the ticket machine wouldn’t let us collect the pre-paid tickets as the card reader was jammed. Of course I had paid with my card, which was needed to retrieve the tickets so I bought a ticket [with cash] and got on the train with her – usually the conductor can issue pre-paid tickets but today her machine was not working! Luckily the next station along had a working ticket machine so I retrieved my wife’s tickets there, while the conductor held the train! Our research yesterday also warned us that the fast trains from Derby to London had also been cancelled – only the slower ones are running – a long day for Mrs Bleau I fear.

    As an aside I walked back to the car from where I’d got the tickets, along the canal – nicely shaded and actually extremely pleasant! Currently 24 degrees!!

  54. Just done an hours chainsawing before it got too hot and clammy – the 15 pack of draught Guinness I got yesterday is calling me from the fridge. I think the rest of the day will be spent resting

    1. Good plan – OH has just arrived home from the tennis court – he’s a bit hot and bothered.

  55. Just done an hours chainsawing before it got too hot and clammy – the 15 pack of draught Guinness I got yesterday is calling me from the fridge. I think the rest of the day will be spent resting

  56. All this complaining about the heat, everyone should be thankful it’s not snowing. Imagine having to shovel snow in this weather.

          1. ‘Ere. Wot you sayin’? Oi ain’t never ‘ad sysiphus. Oim a good girl oi am.

          2. She was only a fisherman’s daughter but she had crabs on her plaice poor sole.

    3. I don’t mind the heat but I’ve got four (and counting) bites – looks like mosquitoes to me. I recognise them from Mediterranean holidays in days of old. Definitely the same. A big one on each arm and two news ones appeared on my face overnight that are still small enough to cover with make-up. Not happy.

      1. Nasty, Sue. I have noticed a lot more big flying things around, mostly at night though. The PCs keep catching and bringing in some very big moths, too, which they either then eat (eeugh) or leave to fluster around the lights and my head.

      2. You know the best antihistamine for bites? Saliva. A bit gross but spit soothes insect bites better than anything from a chemist.

      3. You obviously have a very desirable body, Our Susan. The MR is the same. Any biting insect within 200 yards will home in on her and bite like mad – while ignoring me almost entirely.

      4. Antisthan cream is very effective – and for really nasty ones – Piriton tablets. I’ve had some corkers over the years. Some of them came up in huge pustules. I once saw a cleg bite me and that came up pretty big.

  57. If, by any remote chance, Keri Badenoch becomes prime minister she must immediately re-instate Lord Frost as her minister for getting Brexit finally and fully done.

    Indeed, if she gets to the second round, she must express her intention to do this straight away as it would be a sure vote winner.

    1. Frost is a dangerous charlatan. That he could even THINK for a second of supporting Untrussworthy damns him in my eyes.

          1. And as a lawyer, you will defend to the death my Voltairian right to say it!

    2. Not so sure about Frost. Badenoch is the stand out character from the crap on offer. She appears immune to the petty infighting and quite untainted by the obvious incompetence and corruption promoted by the other candidates, all of whom are obvious WEF globalist markers.

  58. It’s nice and warm here – we have been warmned.
    If this hot sunny weather is a result of global warming, are the ferocious record-breaking low temperatures in the Southern hemisphere also a result of global warming?
    If so, could someone please explain how a tiny dash of CO2 can cause both global warming and global cooling simultaneously?
    If not, then what is happening?
    I know nothing and need help.

  59. Just in from watering the vegetables. Pleasantly warm – with an agreeable breeze. Picked another pound or so of the excellent and very reliable “Cobra” beans.

      1. Like the Cobra meetings, designed to induce diarrhoea in the great unwashed, as a result of beefing up ‘Project Fear.’

  60. The Sky News debate has been cancelled for tomorrow night due to Reshi Sunak and Liz Truss pulling out saying these debates are a disgrace .. well done to them both .

    1. I’d have more respect for them if they had never agreed to take part in the first place. These so called debates are nothing more than a cheap media circus. The media have turned what should be a serious business of running the country by Cabinet and Parliament into a soundbite game show.

    2. Meanwhile the Telegraph shows Tom Tugengdhat in central position of all the candidates.

      They obviously want him to do best.

      Which reminds me. By the way, it’s Quisling’s birthday today:

      “Happy Birthday Vidkun, I’m pleased for you that you have so many faithful followers”

    3. I believe the Police in West Mercia are doing very little to combat the rape of underage white girls by Pakistani men. Is this the region where you live?

      [I remember that when the Welsh rugby team was beaten by West Samoa a few years ago a very disgruntled Welshman said: ” Thank God we weren’t playing the whole of Samoa – we would have been obliterated.”]

      1. That’s unfair Rastus. They’re doing a lot. When the girls complain and go on TV they make sure to intimidate them into not doing so again.

      2. West Mercia covers the West Midlands, Hereford and Worcestershire, plus the whole of Shropshire. No wonder we never see a policeman!

    4. Those two have the most to lose. The ‘debate’ should proceed without them.

  61. I’ve just had a bash at Quordle for the first time. Failed first attempt – didn’t really get what was needed – but have just tried again and got it on the last go. Must try harder.

    Practice Quordle
    4️⃣6️⃣ BOWEL – CARAT
    8️⃣9️⃣ NOMAD – DISCO
    quordle.com
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    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩
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    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. If seems that I get stuck on the last word most times that I try quordle.

      There is another letter game called waffle. It is different in that the required letters are there in a matrix, you just have to rearrange them.

    2. Just tried first time also. Daily Quordle 175

      3️⃣6️⃣

      8️⃣7️⃣

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      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      Don’t understand why it’s come out like that but won’t bother next time, just the numbers.

  62. Wordle 394 5/6

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    1. Very sorry to hear your news Thayaric, not good. Hope you’ll find something much better instead, very soon. Do you use “Indeed”? That’s how our son found himself another job after first the lockdown caused him to be “let go”! Anyway good luck in your search.

      Wordle 394 4/6

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      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. Based – urban dictionary – “someone/something that is cool and/or speaks the truth.”

    2. Get guns, old chap. My sources tell me that you may buy any kind of gun you like in Lvov, from pistols to anti-tank and ant-aircraft missiles. Bring your own container lorry and lots of cash in US dollars*. You can load up and then slip over the border to Poland and thence to the Netherlands, with the appropriate TIR paperwork. Just don’t call it fertiliser in the customs documents.

      *That or gold, the ideal lubricants of bribery.

    3. One wonders how many farmers in England could tell the story, so clearly and lucidly, in another (not native) language.

  64. 1816 (Annual / Summer): THE ‘YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER’ A violent volcanic eruption of Tambora, in the East Indies (Sumbawa island / modern-day Indonesia) in April of 1815, threw enormous amounts of dust & sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, which spread around the globe, not only cutting out direct insolation, but leading to a distortion of the global wind circulation [via stratospheric / high tropospheric temperature changes]. In Europe, grain harvests were late, and in western areas of Britain and across Ireland, continuous rain / low temperatures led to total failure of crops with much distress.
    Notably cold periods June to September). In particular, summer 1816 had a CET value of just 13.4degC, putting it firmly in the top 2 or 3 coldest summers by that measure.
    The annual (estimated) CET for 1816 = 7.9degC, about 1.3degC below the ‘all-series’ mean. (NB: however, that Scotland was apparently drier/sunnier than elsewhere – this is taken to imply depressions taking a much more southward path. ) [ See also 1883/Krakatoa ]

    1825
    (summer) A dry summer – probably across a good part of Britain.
    > July 1825 was exceptionally dry by the EWP series: with a value of just 8.2 mm (~12% modern LTA), this is the driest July in the England & Wales Precipitation [EWP] series (up to 2014 update), and the 10th driest any month in that series.
    > With the extended drought (see above), it is not surprising that this month also experienced a hot spell; we only have records for the London & Home Counties area, but in central London (Somerset House) there was a sequence of days from the 12th to 20th (9 days) with the maximum temperature >=80degF (>=27degC), with the highest value on the 19th at 89degF (~32degC). At Datchet (then Buckinghamshire, now Berkshire, near Windsor), on four days (15th, 17th, 18th & 19th) the temperature in a ‘shaded’ area of a garden was recorded between 90 and 96degF (latter is ~36degC); these values are probably too high by modern standards but give an idea of the intensity of the heat. [Phil Trans Royal Society]

    https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-1800-to-1849-ad/

    1. Has anyone noticed how ‘hot’ has changed over the decades? In the 1970s and 1980s, it meant something well into the 80s Fahrenheit. Now, a warm day is often ‘hot’ so that when it’s really hot there’s nowhere to go.

      I cannot provide the evidence but I’m fairly certain it was one of the Bert Foord/Jack Scott generation who said the Met Office’s general rule was:
      20C (68F) – warm
      25 (77) – very warm
      30 (86) – hot
      35 (95) – very hot

      My rule:
      65F – lovely
      70 – a bit warm
      75 – too warm
      80 – definitely feeling under the weather
      85 – fly me to Tromso

      1. People have short memories, or they are too young to remember hot weathr in earlier years. Few people under 50 would remember 1976.

        I’m sure they have changed the categories for ‘hot’ as you say. How do they think people manage if they go to hot places on holiday?

  65. Have MPs been too harsh on Boris .. Boris who has a hide as thick as a rhino.

    I have mixed feelings about him , but he is twice the strength of character and bull then any of the feeble 5 candidates .. those who cut him down to the core …

    I visted Nothe Fort in Weymouth yesterday, and started chatting to a historian .. He was talking about Lord Palmerston and the good he did as Prime Minister of GB, and how he built up the defences around our Southern coast line to ward off the French . https://nothefort.org.uk/

    Palmerston took a hard line on the war; he wanted to expand the fighting, especially in the Baltic where St. Petersburg could be threatened by superior British naval power. His goal was to permanently reduce the Russian threat to Europe. Sweden and Prussia were willing to join, and Russia stood alone. However, France, which had sent far more soldiers to the war than Britain, and had suffered far more casualties, wanted the war to end, as did Austria.[106] In March 1855 the old Tsar died and was succeeded by his son, Alexander II, who wished to make peace. However, Palmerston found the peace terms too soft on Russia and so persuaded Napoleon III of France to break off the peace negotiations until Sevastopol could be captured, putting the allies in a stronger negotiating position. In September Sevastopol finally surrendered and the allies had full control of the Black Sea theatre. Russia came to terms. On 27 February 1856 an armistice was signed and after a month’s negotiations an agreement was signed at the Congress of Paris. Palmerston’s demand for a demilitarised Black Sea was secured, although his wish for the Crimea to be returned to the Ottomans was not. The peace treaty was signed on 30 March 1856. In April 1856 Palmerston was appointed to the Order of the Garter by Victoria.[107]

    History has a habit of repeating itself .. I have only read the Wiki write up on Palmerston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston

    There are a few qualities there that I think Boris may have ..

    I do believe the traitors have commited a huge error by kicking Boris out.

    1. He was a complete and utter disaster – who lied and lied and lied – and then lied about lying. A man with neither morals not ethics.

      3. A liar and cheat in office is a given. They’re all deceitful. It’s what they do.

      5. His character is and always has been completely deplorable but his failure to implement any of his election promises is what damned him completely to everlasting perdition and penal fire.

  66. The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool. 18 July 2022.

    There’s no getting around it, the UK’s once equitable climate is falling apart. We are now firmly on course for hothouse Britain and the signs are all around us. Just three years ago, the mercury hit 38.7C (101.7F) in Cambridge – then an all-time record. A year later, meteorologists at the UK Met Office mocked-up a weather forecast for 2050, showing 40C-plus temperatures across much of the UK.

    But the speed of climate breakdown is such that this future is already upon us. On Monday, the Met Office’s first ever red extreme heat warning comes into force for much of England, as ferocious 40C-plus temperatures threaten to overwhelm ambulance services and A&E departments, and potentially bring about thousands of deaths.

    Aaaagh! We’re all doomed! Thank God I’m seventy five.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/18/britain-hothouse-extreme-weather

    1. Probably the only place in the country where they will actually record that temperature will be on the tarmac at Heathrow.

      1. Or in the unhappy airport queues of steaming humanity, huddled masses yearning to breathe free and cool.

      2. I seem to recall that there was some doubt over the position of the gauge in the Cambridge botanical garden, when that record was established.
        It’s a nonsense that buildings can be put up that affect the local temperatures yet no allowance seems to be made.

        1. Inside the glasshouse, so that the person reading it won’t get wet when it rains?

        2. Of course it is – just because they were desperate to break the previous record set in Cheltenham in 1990. I remember that day well, because we were stuck in traffic, while cars were boiling over, on our way to a service to bury my mother’s ashes. It was pretty warm. Nice and cool in the church, though, when we finally got there.

      3. Slightly more devious here.
        They changed the paint on the weather stations, just a small temperature increase resulted.

        They also closed many of the far north weather stations when they shut down the manned radar stations. When they no longer have readings from Toktyuktuk that certainly increases the average temperature.

        1. I wonder how many times the native had to repeat Toktyuktuk to the European trying to transcribe it in the Roman alphabet?

    2. As I understand it this is the “first ever red extreme heat warning” only because it was only introduced last year? I’m not convinced that the temperatures are going to be a record either – it depends where it’s measured!

      1. It is the way the politicos now do things. The privatisation of the Royal Mail was sold to us on the basis of volume figures for the previous five years. A slight dip after decades of huge growth. I published a true picture but nobody cared.

        1. Since they no longer belong to the nation, how may they retain the ‘Royal’ title?

          They’re run by the Krauts, ain’t they?

          1. I don’t know. I do know that DHL has the Royal Warrant. ” UK Mail” is owned by DHL.

      2. Not sure what the current temperature is here. My laptop says 30c and my phone says 34. In the office, it’s about 21.

        1. Just got back from a dressing change at the surgery and the car thermometer was identifying the outside temperature @ 35°C.

    4. Yes , hundreds of new housing estates, acres of concrete , glassskyscrapers / office blocks / no front gardens , homes built so close together , huge metal factory units.

      Thank God I am now 75 as well.

      1. This is why climate change is an invented fiction. If it were a serious issue government would be building for it.

          1. If you want some facts, Maggie, CO² consitutes just 0.04% of the total atmosphere – in other words it’s a trace gas.

        2. It Climate Change were real, WEF etc would be hiding it,
          Ther would be no profit in it for them

    6. Then we should build homes suitable for that temperature, shouldn’t we? But they’re not. This time last year it was raining.

    7. So that’s why all the illegals are flooding in – just like their home shitholes they’ve come from and we’ll soon be down to their dumb level.

    9. Proof that paying all these hideous green taxes, subsidies for wind and solar power just don’t work.
      If we’re all going to fry can’t let us fry in peace, reduce taxes and let us all die in peace.
      On the other hand I’m determined to live as long as I can just to show I ain’t gonna be fooled by them.

    10. Where, exactly, in Cambridge? Not, perchance, at the airport, alongside the runway as a jet aircraft took off?
      Yesterday BBC Suffolk were quoting temperatures from Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Wattisham aerodromes all of which have long exposed runways. No bias there, then?

    11. I remember them saying the same in 2003 – in twenty years’ time 2003 would seem like a cool summer!!!
      I don’t think we’ve had a lovely long hot summer like that since.

  67. 354380 + up ticks,

    Bloody,bloody mess, next doors donkey has melted, I just tripped over it’s willy while reaching for the ears to hollow out and send to charlie as close fitting ear muffs for the coming winter.

    Ahh well, me intentions were good……..

    1. But messing with a neighbour’s donkey could be construed as having a deviant motive, a la sheep.

      2. 354380+ up ticks,

        Afternoon tom tom, you would know more regarding wooing sheep than I, my knowledge is net zero.

        The donkeys status was post meltdown
        the only remains as stated being the ears & the nudger.

    1. 19c here. I have all the curtains and windows facing the sun closed. The conservatory doors are all open but the inner patio doors are closed. I also have my dehumidifier running on a low setting. Dolly is snoring in her basket. I’m not letting her out.

        2. I just went to check my green house the gauge was off the top end 50c, it’s in full sun this time of day. Windows and vents all open. Back in doors by the fan now with an iced drink.

          2. Oh yes and she’s very busy being nanny to our little two and a half year old grand son. ☢ her biggest fan.

          2. Even that’s now over 30.
            Downstairs it’s cooler in the house than the pool, upstairs is a completely different matter.
            But as BT noted it’s not that unusual here to be averaging out at over 30 for weeks on end.
            With low humidity it’s not really that bad.
            It’s when it goes over 35 that it ceases to be pleasant and over 40 is getting to be unpleasant.

  69. For info purposes….high temp here is predicted to be 83- ditto tomorrow and in the 70s after that. I am not feeling any discomfort.
    Had the reminder today for my DBS renewal. Think I will keep it up even though I’m not working just in case I want to volunteer in a library when I feel up to it.
    Great nephew has been named and his middle name is my brother’s name and the little guy’s grandpa.
    We are going to ignore all the hype and put the umbrella up outside and sit out there. Watch the flying squad appear….

  71. The temperature in the sitting room is 24ºC – exactly the same as the sea at Cap d’Ail – though the room is less damp!!

    Quite warm outdoors. Even G & P are seeking shelter.

    1. Good afternoon Bill – My office/ sitting room is 33.2 c on my max/ min thermometer for indoor use. I put it out on the lawn on a plastic seat and the max temp recorded was 46.5c. I don’t think the indoor max/min thermometer is for outside use so I won’t claim a record.

    1. It’s why he was sent to Wales. They couldn’t cope with sensible, intelligent people.

    6. …More home grown food…

      Whilst I agree with Sir John, I do not think that he has been paying attention to what Johnson, Rutte, Biden et al. are proposing and doing. Food shortages are part of the narrative: “vaccine” take-up has dropped off and food shortages/starvation are in. I cannot believe someone as intelligent and worldly wise as Sir John doesn’t know what really is going on.
      Sir John is a true Tory but if he spoke the truth his beloved party would implode. Sadly, party before Country and people still rules, even with a ‘sensible’ Tory like Sir John Redwood. Disappointing!

  73. For those suffering a bit from the heat….lick your wrists. Also a breathing technique that works is to roll your tongue into a tunnel shape and breath out through your nose.

          2. I can 👅I’m just pointing out that it’s inherited whether you can or not.

      3. Some languages (notably those from the Indian subcontinent) require a reflex tongue movement to produce some of the sounds. We had to practise when learning phonetics.

    2. From each side to the middle? Or from front to back? I can do the former but not the latter.

    3. It is 32’c inside. I am too hot, I am sweating. In fact, I am wringing out already scrappy t shirts.

      The hands and feet in cold water does work, but then there’s the rest of me. It isn’t forever and I’ll survive, just be uncomfortable.

      As a family holiday many decades ago mother dragged us to Malta. I hated every minute of it. It was – for me – like being electrocuted.

  74. Priti Patel targets well-off cannabis users with plans to confiscate passports and issue nightclub bans in new anti-drugs policy
    Home Secretary plans ‘three strikes’ policy to escalate action against drug users
    It could see repeat offenders ordered to wear electronic drug monitoring tags
    Even first-time offenders caught with class B cannabis will face tougher action https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11022957/Priti-Patel-targets-cannabis-users-plans-confiscate-passports.html

    1. That would be all well and good if the government weren’t actively pushing equally dangerous drugs themselves. A more honest approach would be to tax it. Let’s not pretend they care about the damage it does.

      1. The Pot Song

        I smoke a lot of pot, man
        I helps me to keep sane
        I sometimes have a snort of cocaine
        Just a little puff
        Helps me to unwind
        And when I’ve have enough
        Well I really blow my mind
        Ring a ring o’ roses
        A pocket full of pot
        Hash and cannabis resin –
        I smoke the lot.

        Well a lot of people ask me why I smoke the stuff, the marijuana or old bed socks as it’s sometimes called, but the truth of the matter is I’ll smoke anything.

        Hash a bye my baby
        High on the tree top
        When the wind blows your mind you’ll be safe on pot.

        Well one thing it’s done for me – I must say – it’s broadened my perceptual horizons – I mean that hole in the ceiling that lets the rain in it used to be just a hole – but now it’s a whole scene, man, it’s groovy, far out, got a soul. Still lets the bloody rain in though.

        My vision is amazing. I can make things fit
        People see me gazing and say I’m a stupid twit
        But I’m thankful to the time for helping our campaign
        To legalise cannabis and help me to keep sane.

        [Jeremy Taylor]

        The burning question for Nottlers: How broad are your perceptual horizons?

    2. Isn’t Priti supposed to be focused on something else? Like the daily invasion.

      3. Some one on TV this morning suggested that it’s about time the question was asked of all the candidates. As in what are they going to do about it all ? It’s an absolute insult to the electorate. And is costing us billions. And For what ?

      4. Some one on TV this morning suggested that it’s about time the question was asked of all the candidates. As in what are they going to do about it all ? It’s an absolute insult to the electorate. And is costing us billions. And For what ?

      5. The Home office has clearly made sure there is nothing she can do about it. No doubt some obscure and infallible gimmigrant thing that cannot be undone, and the department is funnelling millions into ensuring the tide of vermin continues. It is plain, simple revenge for Brexit

    3. Sod the druggies – give them as much crack as they want – even pay for their funerals but your main job, which you have failed to do, is to stop all these bloody immigrants and deport all those who have made it here. Of course she won’t because a) she’s under orders not to and b) she’s one herself

    4. Stone me! We are the country that went to war to force China to buy opium. The country where the middle and upper classes from 1850 to 1950 were stoked to their eyeballs in cocaine. In the 1960s half of our under 30s were smoking marijuana. None of it mattered a jot. In a free country we could choose.

    1. I’ve got ice cubes going in the freezer for Mongo’s pool. I get hot, I sweat. I get fuzzy. He gets hot, he can die.

      I might bundle him in with the other half. There’s only 3 hours of day left. See? 3 hours! Where the feck did the time go?

        1. Oscar has a couple in the camper (he inherited them from Charlie). In the house, he lies on the tiles in the kitchen or hall.

  76. Let us hope and pray that whoever becomes “leader” – they SACK Priti Awful within minutes of taking over.

    1. Let us hope and pray that whoever becomes “leader” comes to their senses and immediately gives the go-ahead for fracking and oil drilling.

      1. And thorium salt reactors. We need to double our gas output, triple of electricity output and just tell the green tyranny that if they don’t like it to go live in a cave.

  77. IEA warns Europe must slash gas consumption immediately. 18 July 2022.

    European leaders are being urged to urgently slash gas consumption ahead of winter in order to make up for cuts to Russian energy supplies.

    The International Energy Agency’s executive director Fatih Birol said in a report on Monday that the gas crisis had put Europe in a precarious position:

    The situation is especially perilous in Europe, which is at the epicentre of the energy market turmoil. I’m particularly concerned about the months ahead.

    Birol said he had seem some progress, particularly in terms of Europe’s attempts to diversify gas supplies, but warned that not enough had been done to curb demand. he said the next few months would be “critical.”

    Judging by the complete lack of “We hate Putin” articles in the Spectator and the dearth of comment about the Progress of the War Vlad has them by the goolies and he’s squeezing hard!

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/jul/18/oil-prices-saudi-biden-economy-brent-crude-heatwave-inflation-latest-live

    1. Scotland. has vast reserves of natural gas (and oil and coal). If only there was a way of using it…England could have some as well.

    2. No, there will be no shortage of natural gas.

      If there had been the prospect of a shortage the Government would not have cancelled the exploitation of

      the Cambo gas and oil field a few weeks ago.

      1. How touching! To think the government a) plans ahead and b) cares what happens to us!

      2. Ha haa haa haa! Ha ha! Oh you sweet summer child.

        And I assumed you were being sarcy!

    3. The Guardian is stuck as the evil communists are fighting the nice and kind (and not at all corrupt and complicated) Ukrainians who wanted to join the beloved EU!

      The obsession with climate change will see us ruined.

  78. IEA warns Europe must slash gas consumption immediately. 18 July 2022.

    European leaders are being urged to urgently slash gas consumption ahead of winter in order to make up for cuts to Russian energy supplies.

    The International Energy Agency’s executive director Fatih Birol said in a report on Monday that the gas crisis had put Europe in a precarious position:

    The situation is especially perilous in Europe, which is at the epicentre of the energy market turmoil. I’m particularly concerned about the months ahead.

    Birol said he had seem some progress, particularly in terms of Europe’s attempts to diversify gas supplies, but warned that not enough had been done to curb demand. he said the next few months would be “critical.”

    Judging by the complete lack of “We hate Putin” articles in the Spectator and the dearth of comment about the Progress of the War Vlad has them by the goolies and he’s squeezing hard!

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/jul/18/oil-prices-saudi-biden-economy-brent-crude-heatwave-inflation-latest-live

  79. No one talks about having Air Con to solve the heat do they.i winder why.

    1. The war queen has it on in her office, but it’s just too expensive to run generally.. Even before the psychotic sadism of green hit it’d be £3 an hour.

      I have to admit i am incredibly soporific, my brain simply isn’t working properly.

  80. The TV debates show the Tories are in bigger trouble than they realise

    This protracted and uninspiring leadership campaign is a final insult to the public

    NIGEL FARAGE • 18 July 2022 • 9:08am

    It is no surprise that the insults were thrown in last night’s debate. After all, the prize of becoming Prime Minister is great. This is a bizarre election where each candidate has to be able to appeal to three different electorates at the same time: Tory MPs, party members and the great British public.

    Those candidates with policies that are most likely to win votes in a general election are virtually unknown and will not make it through to the last two. What we are witnessing here is the Conservative Party making itself unelectable.

    To have any chance of holding the Red Wall, it is going to need a Prime Minister with personality, integrity and a radical programme to change lives. Of those left in the contest, only Kemi Badenoch has the genuine conviction to talk about legal and illegal immigration, completing Brexit by leaving the ECHR and ending the poison that has been taught to our children in schools. Her manner is refreshing in comparison to what we have become used to in Westminster politics.

    Whilst polling shows her platform would be hugely popular with party members if she made it to the last two, she has very little chance of making the cut. At least Rishi Sunak looks like a Prime Minister should do and is capable of speaking for sixty seconds on a platform without referring to notes. But although he did back the Leave vote in 2016, albeit in a very low-profile way, he has done his best as Chancellor to pursue an EU-style agenda.

    His appeal in the Red Wall seats would be limited at best and disastrous at worst (a recent poll of the Red Wall said 63% agree the former Chancellor is out of touch with working class people). I’m quite sure he would leave the Conservatives to a resounding election defeat at the next election.

    A couple of days after Boris Johnson resigned, I was told by a wealthy Tory donor that the big business backers had decided they wanted Liz Truss to win. Why? Because she’s the one they think would be easiest to manipulate. I was slightly shocked to hear this – which probably does explain, of course, why I’m not a billionaire.

    I now look on with incredulity as prominent Eurosceptics from the ERG group endorse the Truss campaign and their friends in the press launched an all-out assault on Penny Mordant, whose inconsistencies have proved to be her undoing. Whilst predictions are a difficult game, I think that the party is repeating its mistake in 2016, when Theresa May was appointed.

    Given that we have a Stop Rishi campaign, it seems clear to me that Truss will make it through to the last two and will subsequently win with the membership. Just think of it. A Remain-voting, former card-carrying and conference-speaking member of Liberal Democrats, who once endorsed Republicanism, a woman who voted for May’s disastrous deal three times, will likely lead the Conservative Party and post-Brexit Britain. You simply couldn’t make it up. It is possible that she now believes in dealing with the Northern Ireland protocol and genuine conservatism, but I doubt it. All I see here is a careerist. How did it come to this?

    Her public performances are weak to the point of being laughable (just look at her reading out her closing statement last night) and she will not connect with working-class Britain. I think that the Conservative Party is in much bigger trouble than it understands. If only Boris Johnson had told the truth and fulfilled his manifesto pledges. Alas he did not, and the final insult to us all is 6 more weeks of this protracted and uninspiring leadership campaign.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/18/debates-show-tories-bigger-trouble-realise/

    1. “At least Rishi Sunak looks like a Prime Minister should do and is capable of speaking for sixty seconds on a platform without referring to notes.” Oh dear, Nigel! Cameron had those attributes and look what happened when he got the job.

    2. “At least Rishi Sunak looks like a Prime Minister should do and is capable of speaking for sixty seconds on a platform without referring to notes.” Oh dear, Nigel! Cameron had those attributes and look what happened when he got the job.

  82. 354380+ up ticks,

    Global warming via Spanish forest fires could, in most instances, be carried in he pockets of Mr Bryant & May, discarded
    glassware among forest debris must account for much of the problem, as a political scare scam, a perfect storm.

    As for them experts telling us what is going to happen in year 2050 when they have great difficulty in telling us honestly what has happened at 2022 ( 22 past eight) am.

  83. Prince Harry is set to lecture the UN General Assembly on poverty, climate change and Nelson Mandela’s legacy as he flies with Meghan from his $13M California mansion to New York City

    The Duke of Sussex is also understood to be preparing for to lecture delegates on climate change and poverty.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023901/Sculptor-87-created-iconic-Bull-statue-sued-sons-cutting-will.html

    I am thinking of sending Harry a copy of my outline draft for his speech which might restore a bit of his credibility amongst ordinary people:

    Why the hell have you invited me to speak here? Everybody knows I am as thick as pig excrement …..

    Climate change has always happened but man-made climate change and global warming are myths which are used by greedy multi-billionaires with vested interests to deceive and exploit those who are just as plain dumb as me, my wife, my father and my brother.

    Poverty is something I know little about – what I do know is that my wife can’t get enough money for herself.

    Nelson Mandela – apart from the joke about Winnie Mandela sitting on Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square but not being arrested for gross indecency all I know about the dude is that he used to be a terrorist.

    3. Yes, Nelson Mandela, the convicted murderer and terrorist. He was on the point of being sentenced to death, but was imprisoned instead.

        2. Of course they are her lines, he will be practicing the lines that she will need when she announces her run for president.

      2. They probably have to slum it now and use netjets or some other rental company rather thankiwning their own jet. That is poverty in some eyes.

        1. Many years ago my mother’s cousins used to pass on some of their clothes to her as the poor relation. My aunt, being not so poor, had to pay something for them. She remarked one day that the cousins would think themselves poor if they were down to their last few grand…….. of course they never reached that stage.

  84. Prince Harry is set to lecture the UN General Assembly on poverty, climate change and Nelson Mandela’s legacy as he flies with Meghan from his $13M California mansion to New York City

    The Duke of Sussex is also understood to be preparing for to lecture delegates on climate change and poverty.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023901/Sculptor-87-created-iconic-Bull-statue-sued-sons-cutting-will.html

    I am thinking of sending Harry a copy of my outline draft for his speech which might restore a bit of his credibility amongst ordinary people:

    Why the hell have you invited me to speak here? Everybody knows I am as thick as pig excrement …..

    Climate change has always happened but man-made climate change and global warming are myths which are used by greedy multi-billionaires with vested interests to deceive and exploit those who are just as plain dumb as me, my wife, my father and my brother.

    Poverty is something I know little about – what I do know is that my wife can’t get enough money for herself.

    Nelson Mandela – apart from the joke about Winnie Mandela sitting on Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square but not being arrested for gross indecency all I know about the dude is that he used to be a terrorist.

  85. It’s 32C outside and a very comfortable 24C indoors: glorious weather here in the East Riding.
    I’ve had lunch and regardless of the time, about to open a bottle of Shiraz and start a new book. Bliss.

    1. Snap , 32 c outside and 27c indoors ..

      So warm.

      Moh went outside to water the plants .. I was so shocked .. I said what on earth are you doing …. the temp is going up a notch every 2 hours .

      He then sat there on the garden bench tring to sun tan his white feet , because his legs and the rest of him are as brown as a berry… I wish he would clear off and play golf , he really is a liability, his head and skin are covered in lesions , and will not slap the cream on .

      1. Watering plants in between 09:30 & 17:00 in this weather, only if you want to kill them. No wonder you want him playing chase the ball.

        1. He gets very bored very quickly and agitates around .. one year/ summer he was so bored that he chopped a favourite tree to bits , he is very handy with loppers and the snippers and weed killer etc

      1. We live in a Georgian house with big windows and high ceilings, but they knew how to position a house in those days. Sun in windows early morning and late afternoon, the rest of the day it shines on blank walls.

          3. Just a nice natural one. The granite batholiths are a heat source that could power a lot of the country for hundreds of years, imagine a ground heat pump that actually has a viable heat gradient, writ large.

          4. 354380+ up ticks,
            M,
            I didn’t see the comments above when I cracked on about nuclear.

            I really do believe that the answer to many of our problems are on the planet now awaiting putting the right peg in the right hole.

            Cancer research should be given unlimited funds instead of the NHS hierarchy, stop ALL overseas aid unless emergency issues, plough it into medical research, everybody wins.

            KILL reset in the womb, incarcerate ALL lab/lib/con politico’s and current hard line members for services rendered,inclusive of treachery, aiding & abetting paedophilic mass rape & abuse etc,etc,etc, sorry I went into one, now about this tan…..

      2. It’s 29 in the kitchen and 30 in the conservatory, but much cooler in here where I’m sitting. Our house is an old cotswold cottage with stone walls.

        1. 20 in the coolest part of the house. I’ve got the blinds drawn. Cat has just gone out no doubt to find a cool spot

  87. I’ve been out for a few hours and the temperature is fairly bearably.
    The sun was moved round to the yard, where the thermometer was up to a tad below 30°. moved it into the shade round the back of the house and it’s dropped to 34½°.

    1. Agreed, Robert. I have just strolled round the garden. It is the same sort of heat that we enjoyed for a couple of months every summer when we lived in Laure. Very agreeable.

      As a person who feels the cold dreadfully (and hates winter for that reason) it is bliss for me.

      1. I’m not keen on the heat although I experienced it (and terrible humidity) in the Malayan jungle. We only worked mornings. I find it easier to get warm when cold than to cool down when hot

    2. We have been sitting outside, under the umbrella, for a while. I admit to changing out of my jeans and into a sundress. But it’s not too hot for me or MH.
      If it was cold and pissing it down can you imagine the moaning?!

      1. Unfortunately I can: it’s either hot and everyone’s going to die, or cold and everyone will freeze to death.
        Brits and the weather 🙄😔 but mostly our MSM and what now passes for a MET office.
        I shake my head in despair at what I see since coming back to UK.

          1. See a previous post.
            An excuse for opening a bottle earlier than I would normaly (honest) and reading volume 3 of Ada Palmer ‘Terra Ignota’ a complicated but enjoyable SF series.
            https://www.adapalmer.com/

          2. No reason why you shouldn’t open a bottle- we did.
            Don’t like SF although MH does. Am rereading a Pat Conroy novel right now.

          3. I have just finished rereading The Prince of Tides and The Citadel, somehow Pat Conroy always comes to mind in the summertime!!

          4. It’s a lot warmer outside than indoors here. When I opened the door I felt a blast of hot air – it reminded me of getting off the aircraft in Athens at midnight during their “killer heatwave”. Mind you, I survived walking up to the garage to collect my car after its MoT.

          5. I hot weather, I open the van door, put the key in the ignition and turn the electrics on and drop both windows before I even think of climbing in.

  88. 354380+ up ticks,

    May one ask , to put any doubts to rest
    regarding global warming, could not the Global Warmist start a bucket chain campaign involving Mount Stromboli say,
    now that would be a spectacular showing of put up or shut up strength of conviction .action

    2. I noticed that the press is saying people who have drowned are heat deaths.

      That strikes me as little different from saying pedestrians who get run over today are heat deaths.

        1. They’ll be accurate. Just placed near things that absorb and radiate heat.
          e.g. The paving slabs around my pool are far too hot for bare feet; much much hotter than the air temperature.

    3. Local stations: Pitsford 36.2C (97.16F), Rushden 37 (98.6).

      Also nearby is Raunds, where the national record was set in 1911 (36.7, 98.06). That lasted until 1990 when it was broken in Cheltenham (37.1, 98.78).

      Mere fractions…

    4. I must admit, I did try the egg thing on the bonnet of a Series 3 Landrover, it was 50C+ The Musandam Peninsula Oman. Being stupid (as it turned out) I thought I’d give it a go.
      All it did was make a mess that took me a bit of effort to clean up.

    5. After 1976, and the buckling of railways, it was suggested that British Rail hire a few managers from the Indian rail system as

      they manage to keep their railways running for months in over 40C heat.

      The Government agreed.

      They obviously just didn’t do anything about it.

      Until they do something about it we can’t believe that they think that Global Warming is here to stay.

    6. Tch tch Korky, don’t you know that extreme heat causes blood clots, heart attacks, spontaneous miscarriages, neurological disorders…

    7. Erm, ‘recorded history’. I’m pretty sure it was warmer than this before the atmosphere formed.

      1. Recorded history?
        No, cannot be.
        Choose Black History, Gay History or Feminist HisHerstory. No other versions allowed.

      3. It was probably warmer than this before they acquired thermometers and started writing down the temperatures.

  92. 354380+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    1h
    Tommy’s expose on Hope Not Hate premiered on Gettr tonight at 8pm.
    TommyRobinson1
    @TommyRobinson1
    ·
    7h

    ⚠️THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BECAUSE IT’S IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST TO DO SO!!!⚠️

    https://gettr.com/post/p1is8anc766

  93. Looks as if Britain has lost it’s kind moderate climate.

    I guess many people feel really at home in it .

    I still believe the planet has shifted slightly on its axis .

    1. Nope. We are simply going though a warmer period. In 50 years, there will be a cooler period and eco-freaks then will moan about “climate change”

      1. Another thing: this may be the highest day recorded in the UK, but we didn’t have thermometers in the Medieval Warm Period. Indeed, accurate temperature measurement started in the depths of the Little Ice Age

        1. Given that the Romans grew vines in Lincolnshire and elsewhere in Britain, and that vines also grew in Greenland, I would guess that temperatures somewhere in southern Britain would have seen far hotter days than those of this week.

          I am so sick and tired of reading the phrases “experts are warning” and “experts are saying”, about everything from illnesses, to records, to the royal family, to cattle farts. Experts? ha! ha! Jackasses more like, hee haw.

        1. I’m a bit confused (not hard these days) I selected the link because among other contributory factors, it did confirm T.Bs thoughts about an axis change and weather patterns.

          2. Throw out the anthropogenic variable (not a major long term factor) add plate tectonics and an earth axis shift, combined with a maunder minimum and we have global temperature change.
            Modeling a system full of entropy is never going to give a conclusive answer. Unless of course you want to make funding for your next research project.

          3. Are you saying that global warming is a mulivariate function represened by:

            GW = ƒ(plate tectonics, earth axis shift, maunder minimum)

            in which anthropogenic factors have no long term influence and because entropy by definition means that world order can only get worse then trying to spend money in making life on earth better is fruitless?

          4. I would suggest that the sun and its sunspot activity has the most influence on earth surface temperature.
            No amount of Co2 reduction will make a difference: in fact as far as plant life is concerned it would be detrimental.
            No, I’m not saying we should not spend money trying to improve people’s ability to cope with climate change.
            But it would be better spent, giving people the ability to adjust, rather than making life miserable by high taxation.
            This ‘net zero’ is a classic example of (dare I say) government trying to run before they can walk.
            It’s making some people a lot of money!
            We could spend hours debating this subject, but nothing will change until government stops thinking it’s a money making machine.

          5. I agree.
            Nature, particularly humankind, must adapt to what the earth’s climate and events from space throw at us on this planet.

  94. Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[11] She is the daughter of Femi Adegboke and Feyi Adegoke who are of Nigerian origin. Her father was a GP and her mother is a professor of physiology. Badenoch’s childhood included living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States, where her mother lectured.[12][13]

    Whilst in Nigeria, she attended the fee-paying University of Lagos staff secondary school: International School Lagos (ISL); she described herself as a middle-class Yoruba school girl.[14] She has two siblings; a brother named Fola and a sister called Lola.[15] She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.[16] Although a British citizen through birth in the United Kingdom, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.[17]

    She seems okay to me .. and very clever .

      1. I don’t believe any one now , I have as much chance of being a white woman politician in Nigeria or India as I have of reading the news and relating a weather forecast and staying cool and unflustered .

        1. I don’t believe a word of anything these days. We here, at Lake Lodge, make our decisions and ignore the BS.

  95. Kemi has now said she agrees with Net Zero by 2050 .
    Oh dear, she blatantly lied in the last debate.
    She also doesn’t think that the public want to hear about Brexit anymore
    She also worked with Rishi in the treasury and generally agree with his policies ..
    But as shes the Nigel Farage new hope candidate – I think a few cracks have appeared.

    1. 354380+up ticks,

      Afternoon LotM,

      With that farage chaps backing she cannot fail to lose.

    3. She’s always been pro net zero. The difference is she wants to reach it in a sensible manner that won’t bankrupt the Country. IMO, that’s impossible and would also be a Pyrrhic victory anyway, given China and India’s position on reducing CO2 emissions.

  96. 354380+ up ticks,

    There is a great deal riding on it being 41C
    plus tomorrow to give global warmerists claims some credence, otherwise a rousing “piss orph” will echo throughout the Kingdom.

    1. TV news presenters sounding disappointed this evening because the magic figure hasn’t been reached. They are having to content themselves with ‘Highest recorded temperature in Wales and Cornwall’.

      Still, better luck tomorrow…

      1. 354380+ up ticks,

        Evening A,

        As a race the indigenous should be well acclimatised with regional warming as far beck as 1666, then the blitz, real killers.

        I can see these global warmerist being
        introduced to a rotten egg ambush.

  98. I asked my ex for his wife’s phone number (to arrange a visit to Sissinghurst 🙂) and he’s obligingly just shared her contact details.

    They’re filed under “She Who Must Be Obeyed” 🤣🤣

    I taught him well . . .

  99. You can understand why Boris wouldn’t have had anything to do with such a policy.

    Tory candidates must realise a small state will need stronger families

    If we ever want to slim the state, we need to stop future generations from relying on taxpayer’s money – it’s as simple as that

    FRANK YOUNG • 18 July 2022 • 6:12pm

    A sizzling summer of tax cuts is on its way if the last few days are anything to go by. Over the next few weeks, huge sums of our hard-earned money will be dangled in front of us with the promise of keeping more of what we earn.

    The next occupant of No.10 is likely to be a tax cutter and will go in with grand ambitions to shrink the state. What isn’t so clear is how any government will pay for this tax-cutting largesse and still dole out inflation-busting pensioner pay rises.

    There will be no shortage of economic wisdom, but the truth is the long-term vision for a smaller state will only ever be achieved by families raising future adults who are less likely to rely on the state in years to come.

    If ordinary Brits ever want to keep more of their money, it is time we get serious about our record-breaking levels of family dysfunction and separation. Where the family fails the state always ends up picking up the pieces.

    This was once a familiar tune for politicians of a certain type. Even Tony Blair used to call welfare the cost of social failure until spin doctors stepped in to stop him banging on about the family. We pay a heavy price for the bizarre elective mutism among our political class on this issue.

    Being afraid to mention family is also out of date and out of touch. The latest polls show young Brits still want to get married – it’s an aspirational idea for an “aspiration nation”. These are Gen Z Brits, not your gran and grandad 60 years ago.

    If we ever want to slim the state, we need to stop future generations from relying on taxpayer’s money – it’s as simple as that. There’s plenty of evidence to show nervous politicians what happens to the children of family breakdown, it’s a fast track to trouble at school, even more trouble with the police and problems later on that will lead to taking more from the state than you put in. If we want to put the stabilisers on relationships we need to look towards marriage, not look away.

    Marriage is by far and away the most stable relationship type. Three quarters of parents married when their children were born are still together when their children sit their GCSEs. Compare that to just under a third for parents who stayed together having cohabited but never married.

    The latest round in the tax cut bidding war promises to give families bigger tax breaks to look after children. Some Westminster smoothies think the best way to do this is to junk the Cameron-era marriage allowance, a £250 a year tax break for middle-earning married couples, and extend this to unmarried couples with children.

    This is the opposite of supporting families, it makes separation all the more likely and the misery that comes with it – especially for children who seldom get a say. It’s a seductive idea for the Westminster class, they loathe marriage because it reminds them of a certain type of politician they are desperate not to be. The problem is the evidence doesn’t back this up and they are badly out of touch with most ordinary Brits they rarely encounter.

    Our next prime minister might want to cut tax, some sooner than others, but the surest way to do it is to get really serious about the family.

    Frank Young is editorial director and head of the children and families unit at Civitas

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/18/tory-candidates-must-realise-small-state-will-need-stronger/

  100. You can understand why Boris wouldn’t have had anything to do with such a policy.

    Tory candidates must realise a small state will need stronger families

    If we ever want to slim the state, we need to stop future generations from relying on taxpayer’s money – it’s as simple as that

    FRANK YOUNG • 18 July 2022 • 6:12pm

    A sizzling summer of tax cuts is on its way if the last few days are anything to go by. Over the next few weeks, huge sums of our hard-earned money will be dangled in front of us with the promise of keeping more of what we earn.

    The next occupant of No.10 is likely to be a tax cutter and will go in with grand ambitions to shrink the state. What isn’t so clear is how any government will pay for this tax-cutting largesse and still dole out inflation-busting pensioner pay rises.

    There will be no shortage of economic wisdom, but the truth is the long-term vision for a smaller state will only ever be achieved by families raising future adults who are less likely to rely on the state in years to come.

    If ordinary Brits ever want to keep more of their money, it is time we get serious about our record-breaking levels of family dysfunction and separation. Where the family fails the state always ends up picking up the pieces.

    This was once a familiar tune for politicians of a certain type. Even Tony Blair used to call welfare the cost of social failure until spin doctors stepped in to stop him banging on about the family. We pay a heavy price for the bizarre elective mutism among our political class on this issue.

    Being afraid to mention family is also out of date and out of touch. The latest polls show young Brits still want to get married – it’s an aspirational idea for an “aspiration nation”. These are Gen Z Brits, not your gran and grandad 60 years ago.

    If we ever want to slim the state, we need to stop future generations from relying on taxpayer’s money – it’s as simple as that. There’s plenty of evidence to show nervous politicians what happens to the children of family breakdown, it’s a fast track to trouble at school, even more trouble with the police and problems later on that will lead to taking more from the state than you put in. If we want to put the stabilisers on relationships we need to look towards marriage, not look away.

    Marriage is by far and away the most stable relationship type. Three quarters of parents married when their children were born are still together when their children sit their GCSEs. Compare that to just under a third for parents who stayed together having cohabited but never married.

    The latest round in the tax cut bidding war promises to give families bigger tax breaks to look after children. Some Westminster smoothies think the best way to do this is to junk the Cameron-era marriage allowance, a £250 a year tax break for middle-earning married couples, and extend this to unmarried couples with children.

    This is the opposite of supporting families, it makes separation all the more likely and the misery that comes with it – especially for children who seldom get a say. It’s a seductive idea for the Westminster class, they loathe marriage because it reminds them of a certain type of politician they are desperate not to be. The problem is the evidence doesn’t back this up and they are badly out of touch with most ordinary Brits they rarely encounter.

    Our next prime minister might want to cut tax, some sooner than others, but the surest way to do it is to get really serious about the family.

    Frank Young is editorial director and head of the children and families unit at Civitas

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/18/tory-candidates-must-realise-small-state-will-need-stronger/

  101. Tories must take on the liberal-Left consensus that runs Britain regardless of who is in power

    The winner of this contest is going to face a huge backlash from the Left, the media and the civil service.

    TELEGRAPH VIEW • 16 July 2022 • 10:00pm

    The Tory leadership fight has given us the first serious discussion of Conservative ideas for years. The 2016 contest was cut short when Andrea Leadsom pulled out; 2019 was mostly about the technicalities of Brexit. It is only now, with candidates competing to rebuild the country post-Covid, that we are hearing compelling arguments about tax, the size of the state, Britain’s role in the world and the culture war. And the competitors are not only offering an alternative to Labour: this battle of ideas must challenge the liberal-Left consensus that dominates our institutions, regardless of who is in power.

    A lot of what went wrong with Theresa May and Boris Johnson boils down to a reluctance to make the case for conservative principles. They failed to challenge elite orthodoxy; the blob took control. Why has it taken so long to hear frontbench Tories argue with conviction that cutting taxes generates revenue? Or that there is no such thing as government money at all? It is yours.

    Only now is it being recognised that the political class has been illiterately soft on inflation; that productivity is dangerously weak; spending must be controlled and public services reformed. Plus, we’re going to have to invest in the military if we’re serious about detering the dictators. Writing in these pages, Penny Mordaunt, who reveals she has been hosting a Ukrainian refugee, pledges to strengthen Ukraine’s military and economy, and to create a Royal Navy-led taskforce “to lead communications and de-mining in the vital strategic waters of the Black Sea.”

    Rishi Sunak acknowledges that we have left the EU but retained its regulatory burdens: he wants to scrap the EU financial services regulations, for a start, triggering “Big Bang 2.0”. Mr Sunak believes that a bonfire of rules, including on GDPR and clinical trials, can help make Britain the richest country in Europe within the next 15 years. Liz Truss, meanwhile, would look at lifting the moratorium on fracking and sees gas as an essential transitional fuel. There’s a growing realisation within the Tory ranks that net-zero might be a noble cause, but we cannot impoverish the consumer to get there. We need market and technology-led solutions.

    Tom Tugendhat puts his finger on another devastating problem: young people can’t afford a new home, while older Britons cannot afford to downsize. We need to build new homes, he argues, but local voters don’t trust Whitehall not to saddle them with ugly estates with insufficient services. We must build beautifully and empower locals. Kemi Badenoch believes that infrastructure must be laid down first, and suggests that demand can be reduced by controlling immigration and encouraging stronger families.

    Ms Badenoch has captured the imagination with her willingness to take on liberal-Left shibboleths that the Tories should have confronted years ago but were nervous of being called “nasty”. Her critique of Critical Race Theory has been courageous. Conservatives need to rebut bad ideas. Ms Truss, for example, says that levelling-up shouldn’t be top-down but encouraged by tax cuts. Taking the Docklands Development Corporation as her model, she would reform planning and inaugurate “low tax building zones” to encourage investment – a brilliant idea that contradicts the Treasury orthodoxy that tax rates should be the same everywhere. Having clawed back independence from Brussels, the next battle is to give people greater freedom from Whitehall, to allow them to innovate and grow.

    Whoever wins, if they remain loyal to their promises then they are going to face an almighty backlash from the Left, the media and the civil service. Earlier this month, Suella Braverman, who also ran an excellent campaign, told us that when she became Attorney General, she was surprised to discover that some of her biggest arguments were not in the Commons but with Whitehall, where a “Remain bias” threw up “resistance” to government plans.

    Bearing this in mind, MPs and Tory members will be looking not just for strong ideas but evidence of the character traits necessary to implement them, such as intelligence, perseverance, the ability to build a team. Tories must not chase a triangulated consensus, a middle-way, much less continuity: Britain needs a transformational programme, and a prime minister who will fight to save us from decline and socialism.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/07/16/tories-must-take-liberal-left-consensus-runs-britain-regardless/

    1. Penny Mordaunt, who reveals she has been hosting a Ukrainian refugee,
      pledges to strengthen Ukraine’s military and economy, and to create a
      Royal Navy-led taskforce “to lead communications and de-mining in the
      vital strategic waters of the Black Sea.”       Another reason to fear for the future if she wins!

    2. 354380+ up ticks,

      Evening WS,

      The genuine UKIP was saying / fighting the lab/lib/con coalition for years on the same points .
      T he leadsome person was just a bit actor in the may placement farce along with co actors gove the pm candidate / assassin putting paid to the fat turk then ALL laying down for the treacherous treasa and her 9 month
      delay.
      Truth be told the real patriotic party never got a say.
      We are now witnessing the
      odious fallout via the lab/lib/con coalition.

  103. That’s me for this nice summer day. Off to do some watering. The MR is going to a Parish Council meeting…lucky her…(sarc)

    Have a jolly evening – thank God there are no “debates”.

    A demain.

    1. Here one of the meetings has been cancelled (not the PC, but another Local Government get-together) because of the extreme heat.

  104. Worry not, Nottlers! By mid-week the warnings will be for thunder and lightening, along with strong winds and stormy weather, bringing flash flooding!!

  105. Not seen Plum or Lacoste, hmmm.
    Happy birthday, Lacoste.
    Par 4 for me.
    Wordle 394 4/6

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    1. Rotten Bogey five for me, mola …

      Wordle 394 5/6
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      No help and bad choices; but enjoying sunshine and Birthday Fizz!

      1. 🎶Happy Birthday, lacoste. I hope you have had a wonderful, sunshiney 🌞🌞🌞 day.

      2. Same here.

        Wordle 394 5/6

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        Many happy returns..

  106. Tip of the Day
    To avoid damaging fingernails (and unnecessary uttering of rude oaths) here is a tip to open ring pull cans. Instead of using a fingernail or trying to squeeze a finger under the ring, here’s what I now do. I place a stainless steel metal teaspoon across the top of the can, from side to side and under the ring pull. The teaspoon should rest on the rims of the can and be at right angles to the direction of the ring pull. Then just lever up the spoon and the trng pull will come up as well, breaking the seal. The ring pull may then be gripped with fingers and the can fully opened.
    I thought of this all by my self, and I’m quite pleased.

    1. If you press down on the bit of the ring-pull opposide to the ring across the rivet, it lifts the ring a tad, enough to get the corner of a finger under, or the bowl of a spoon, and lift!

      1. Yes, I cut myself on that once. I now use Gillette,made in Russia, strangely.

          4. Ah, penny has now dropped. I use simple blades in old Wilkinson Sword razor handle, not one of the multi bladed gadgets as demonstrated by your darkies in TV adverts

    3. I have a special gadget to do it (a present from a helpful friend one Christmas or birthday). Works a treat.

    5. If you’re married the beer should be brought to you already opened (exits stage left – running!)

      1. Good point! I shall mention that to the Sultana next time she calls me on the phone.

  108. I note that the pine forests south of the Arcachon basin are ablaze. Rich in resin they go up like sparklers or eucalyptus.

    Remind me:
    1 We’re planting confers like crazy to offset carbon footprints
    2 The planet is heating up like mad
    3 We will then have long periods of drought
    4 Those plantations will burn like billy-o

    Err, something doesn’t seem quite right…

    1. We used all the oak trees to build warships. Government wheezes to plant trees (tax breaks for Wogans) were aimed at pines and other softwoods that would grow quickly and provide a quick profit.

      1. A couple of years ago, a tree farmer sent a letter to the King of Sweden, advising him that the oaks planted for his ships (about 300 years ago) were now ready for felling…

    2. They’re chopping down all the conifers up here – yes they plant new ones but they won’t be contributing anything for at least 10 years

      1. They are a substantial crop around here.
        Arsonists set one off that the sapeurs pompiers managed to put out, just across the road from our property. It was a hairy evening to say the least.
        We still have a significant risk of fire, but not as bad as the one when we first arrived.

        TOUCH WOOD!

      2. Apparently. the young tree captures more CO2 than an elderly one.
        Firstborn is a tree herd; has about 300 acres of them. Long-term crop: those he felled a couple of years ago have een replanted, but he won’t see these new ones felled, he’s too old at 31 already.

        1. Maybe after a certain size Paul – most of the trees coming down would fall at the next high wind anyway I guess

    1. Literally just listened to his interview with Lawrence Fox, on Fox’s podcast/video whattsit (I only do podcasts). From c. feb this year. Just discovered Lozza’s “ReclaimPod” and have binge-listened today. Also nice to hear a Midlands accent!

  110. Film 4 tonight at 11:45 “Hear My Song”, a film involving Joseph Locke. A good film it is too, quite amusing and engaging.

    The PBS America programme about the benefits of eating crickets was on at 7:35 so you have missed it, although if you hurry, it does not end until 8:45

  111. Evening, all, from a balmy 32.5 degree C Salop. We all know the answer to the lead question, don’t we? Because he thinks it will get him the top job – he has no intention of actually delivering on it. A word of warning for roughcommon – Bison have been released near Canterbury. More “rewilding”, so he’d better drive carefully if they get to stray on the roads; one wouldn’t want to hit a beast that size! As it’s been so hot, I’ve spent a bit of time reading – a biography of someone who lived during the thirties in Italy and it discussed the rise of Fascismo. The similarities with today struck me: more and more interference in daily life, a manufactured war (Abyssinia) to take people’s minds off the situation at home ending in sanctions which damaged the economy, journalists who tried to tell people what was actually going on were mostly sent to the consigne (exile in remote villages), anti-Fascist talk was suppressed (for “anti-Fascist, read anti-climate change/net zero/woke ideas on gender etc), a special police force was set up to prosecute anti-Fascists (cf the “hate laws” and the persecution of TR), denigration of Roosevelt (substitute Trump) and appointing the aristocracy to important positions to secure their support (windmill subsidies?). Sound familiar, folks?

    1. I thought that the red hot temperature emergency was supposed to take your minds of the mess. I wonder what they will distract you with when temperatures go back down.

      Go for moose instead of Bison. They weigh less but their bodies are the perfect size to fly over the hood/bonnet into the passenger compartment when they are hit by a car.

      1. Believe me, I am NOT in favour of rewilding! Meddling with the native animal population by introducing aliens never works out well – look at mink and coypu, plus grey squirrels for a start.

      2. Yup, straight through the windscreen. Then, thrash around in the driver’s lap…

  112. So with the outside temperature reduced to a tad under 19°C, I’m off to bed.
    Good night all.

    1. Cool! I’ve just let Oscar out and it’s 24C outside. It feels positively cool after the heat of the day.

    2. 26 outside here. peaked at 35. Now 28.5 indoors. But I happened to be in Robert Dyas today, looking for a hose connector that won’t fail within a year, and noticed a JML product (I know) called Chillmax Air, which is basically a small fan with a reservoir, which uses evaporating water to cool the output.

      Air conditioning it ain’t, but it churns out much cooler air than my conventional fan, which just moves hot air around…

  113. IMHO, the Sir Graham Goon show (The 1922 Committee of current backbench MPs) will select two inappropriate candidates to be contenders for leader of the Tory party – one of which will be bumped into No 10 as interim PM by Tory party members.

    The nightly pantomime has disgusted conventional Conservatives – and will ensure decades in the wilderness for the Conservative Party.

    Long term, Kemi Badenoch may well arise …

      1. He needs to. Carrie is carefully removing Lulu Lytle’s effort.

        Me – I’d buy a roller and a gallon of Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt and overpaint it. Only one room at the last place had wallpaper. Anaglypta, to be precise. When I stripped it, much of the plaster came off with it, which is prolly why it was there in the first place.

  115. Goodnight Y’all. Warm but not too bad. I think I shall sleep OK.
    I wish you all well.

    2. Good night, Ann.

      PS – Today I dreamt went to Manderley see The Railway Children Return. And I saw the Bronte parsonage (where Emily wrote Wuthering Heights) instead.

      1. Haworth is worth a visit if you’re up that way. They used to have a dress of Charlotte’s on display there- I was amazed at how tiny it was!
        Some good pubs too- or there used to be.

  117. Turning in as well, been entering one of our two grandsons nearly all day. Two and a half, Such a dear little fella. Cheeky as well which is nice.
    Night all, fan on.

      1. He’s flat out most of the time, mainly on the tiles in the hall or the kitchen. He lay in the shade this afternoon when I sat out for a while (and I put some water from his paddling pool – which he ignores! – on his fur to cool him).

  119. A nice pleasantly warm summer day, I thought those that know best said I could be dead from hyperthermia by now. Maybe it was the Shiraz that saved me.
    Good night and happy dreams.

  121. Good night, everyone. “Last night I dreamt of Manderley…” and tonight I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s film version. Excellent.

    1. When I read Rebecca the first time, I did it in one afternoon. There is a mini series with Diana RIgg as Mrs. Danvers- scary is an understatement.

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