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Morning everyone.
Good Morning, all
70 years ago today. The first 4 minute mile
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I can remember watching that on our little telly-box in the corner.
We had a massive 17 inch Murphy. Everyone said it was like being at the cinema – nowadays they have laptops nearly as big as that.
I remember my father telling me about a Father’s race during sports day at my brother’s school. My Pa had been an athlete and was quite good, so he thought he had a good chance of winning the Father’s race, However, that was not to be – he was beaten. Surprised, he asked my brother whose Daddy that was. “Oh” said my brother, “that’s Martin Bannister’s father.”
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A Good Morning. chums, to all my NoTTLe friends, and a special Thankyou to Geoff for today’s page. I do hope you all enjoy your extra Bank Holiday. And an early message to Korky to say that my plans for today have unfortunately changed, so I shan’t be phoning you today as promised. Anyhow, here are my Wordle results for today, although it took me all six attempts to find it:
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Ooo… No need to shout! Can you turn the volume down a bit?
Lucky with my first go.
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Ghanaian king wants to keep golden treasures. 6 May 2024.
An African king is seeking to permanently keep golden treasures loaned to him by the British Museum and the V&A in a landmark deal.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the ruler of the Asante people in Ghana, negotiated a historic deal to have ancestral artefacts temporarily repatriated by the two museums. They were handed over last week as part of a three-year loan.
The king wants to avoid handing back the Asante gold and is hopeful that a future government would change the laws which currently ban museums from repatriating artefacts abroad permanently.
They managed to sneak these out then and thus presented everyone with a fait accompli? The staff of the British Museum and the V & A had no authority, either legal or moral, to make such a deal, which lays the doors open for a repeat.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/ghana-king-hopes-labour-asante-treasures-repatriation/
“Possession is nine tenths of the law”.
Looting Britain’s museums is no way to right past wrongs
Our public collections should be careful about ‘lending’ works when there is seemingly little prospect of their return
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Gone for good? Gold objects ‘lent’ by the British Museum to the Mulholland Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana
Britain’s museums are the envy of the world. Nowhere is it possible to find such a wide range of artefacts from such a variety of cultures. They are a precious inheritance from our forebears and one which should be zealously guarded for our children.
Today, this inheritance is at risk of being dismantled. Across the country, carefully assembled collections are being chipped away at, with integral parts sent overseas under the mantle of “decolonisation”. Little scrutiny is applied to the logic of this process.
In January, the Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum agreed to “lend” back 32 objects originating from the Asante royal court to the current Asante ruler. Despite the return of objects being restricted by statute, the framing of this as a “loan” allowed the museums to circumvent the relevant legislation, denying the Commons its say.
It has now emerged that, as this paper warned at the time, there is little prospect of their return. The current Asante ruler is said to be optimistic that an incoming Labour government will change the law to gift him the objects. Alternatively, the V&A could simply extend the loan indefinitely.
The history of the world is a history of conflict. Advocates of repatriation do not in fact wish for everything to be restored to its place of origin. They have no interest in the conflicts which raged within West Africa, or indeed with the repatriation of artefacts taken from Britain in earlier periods. Their concern is wholly partial, and driven by guilt at what they see as a uniquely monstrous Western historical legacy.
Tacitly allowing the pillaging of our museums under the mistaken belief that they are correct is little short of a scandal.
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David Farnsworth
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Use of the phrase “pillaging from our museums” is yet more heat than light.
We need proper historical research on how these artifacts ended up here.
The only way to counter the shallow ignorant far left racist “decolonisation” narrative is through rigorous examination and communication of the facts.
Only then decisions can be made about these items.
This battle of ideas needs to go deep.
Trouble is we don’t do rigour in this country anymore.
I wonder what they expected to happen? Gratitude? 🤔
No doubt they will be melted down, sold and end up as bullion in Fort Knox. Worth a few shares in Mercedes and Range Rover.
“32 objects originating from the Asante royal court to the current Asante ruler.”
Probably gold paid by Arabs for hundreds of children and adults rounded up by his warriors to be marched away as slaves.
Maybe they could put the ‘treasures’ back to their original use; after all, recycling and make-do-and-mend is all the rage.
I believe there is a gold bowl that was used to catch the blood from sacrificial victims.
The directors and staff of the various museums and other organisations responsible for this, and many other instances, should be forced to go and live in the mud huts outside the palaces of the snivelling moaners who are demanding their murdering ancestors ill gotten gains back. They are mostly reparations/compensation for the lives lost suppressing war and slavery or preventing the destruction of irreplaceable historic artefacts. Another step in the Marxist/Maoist/Woke path to the denigration and erasure of Britain’s role in the suppression of slavery and the advancement of civilisation worldwide.
Simples.
Build a Ghanaian branch of the British Museum / V&A, and keep them there. Prestigious building in Ghana that permanently houses Ghanaian history – what’s not to like?
It would only need to be the size of our garden shed.
Morning all.
Reading the front pages today it looks as though the Conservatives are using mandatory single sex public toilets as a vote winner for the forthcoming general election. Does this mean that Labour is seen as the shared unisex toilet party? Well that doesn’t go down well the Palestinian local election party who prefer to hang out at Alan’s Snackbar where there are no toilet facilities at all.
Perhaps George Galloway has the right idea as leader of the Hung Parliament Party. 🤔
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/george-galloway-keir-starmer-labour-havoc
Surely it depends on which part of its anatomy is hanging before setting which toilet it is to use?
Ding, dong!
Oh it’s the division bell – can’t lold it anymore! 😟
George Galloway ‘We want a hung Parliament’
We want a hanged Parliament, George.
But a hung parliament depends on which way its members swing.
SIR – Heaping the blame for the local election results on to Rishi
Sunak is unjust. He has had to deal with scandals, warring factions and a
crashed economy, thanks to Liz Truss.
It is highly commendable
that, in the face of all these challenges, he remains calm and
determined. He deserves support, not criticism.
Anthony Haslam
Farnham, Surrey
Liz Truss didn’t crash the economy. The globalist bankers did.
If what you say is true, then the blame leads to Nigel Lawson and his successors by deregulating the globalist bankers and enabling them to control the fate of the economy on their terms.
All Liz Truss did was to attempt to expoit this situation by pushing for yet more excessive borrowing from their taxes by promising to cut the taxes of the globalist bankers, but she stretched the credibility of that rubber band too far.
The so-called Truss crashes economy is a false.
Truth be told.. the US dollar topped on 28 September around lunchtime.. across the board.. the Yen euro £.. in the aftermath of a whopping 3/4 percentage point interest hike by Janet Yellen on 22nd September 2022. The BofE rate hike response put the Leveraged up to their eye balls pension funds on the wrong side of interest rate swaps.
Unfortunately for Truss on 6 October the US then reported a huge collapse in full-time jobs which eventually filtered through the markets as meaning the Fed would probably weaken the $ (and conversely strengthen the £).. which coincidently aligned with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor on 14 October 2022.. who was then hailed as the saviour of the economy from the bad evil useless Liz Truss.
Summary; the real world tends to follow The Fed.
Summary: the anti-right Fake News Media have happily pushed the “Liz Truss crashed the economy” narrative from Sept22 onwards.
By Haslam’s argument Soros, Gates and Schwab – who are determined to ‘build back better’ by destroying the West’s economy -ought to employ Truss on a mega salary because in just a few weeks she has achieved what all the others have failed to do!
By Haslam’s argument Soros, Gates and Schwab – who are determined to ‘build back better’ by destroying the West’s economy -ought to employ Truss on a mega salary because in just a few weeks she has achieved what all the others have failed to do!
Anthony Haslam?
Abdullah Islam more like.
He seems to have flip flopped on Truss. From 2022…
SIR – Tory MPs need to rally round Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt, and
stop all talk of leadership bids. It is their only hope of avoiding
meltdown at the next election.
It would be political suicide to try to remove the Prime Minister at this challenging time.
Anthony Haslam
Farnham, Surrey
How much did Sunak spend on Covid? How many have been complicit in elevating Sunak?
Good morning, all. Grey skies. Dry.
Good day all and 77th troops,
Cloudy overhead at McPhee Towers, wind in the North, 9℃ rising to 13℃, rain again this afternoon. Still not May but it’s supposed to be coming later this week. Spent yesterday afternoon away from it all trying to tease a trout or two out of the River Lambourn.
Back to clown world, and it doesn’t get much more clownish than this:
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Here’s the original story.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/29/airlines-hit-back-brussels-eu-monitor-contrails/
Let’s be clear, these are not chem-trails. They are condensation trails, ice-crystals in fact because it’s cold at the levels the aircraft are flying (-57℃ or below in the troposphere).
I don’t see how contrail-forming jet engine efflux can make any contribution to global warming through carbon dioxide content because the CO2 molecules will very quickly become COLD at that altitude and, being so far removed from the surface, they cannot absorb the re-radiated infra-red energy from the surface which is the mechanism that is supposed to be at the heart of greenhouse-gas theory.
They may add to the Earth’s albedo a miniscule amount as the trails disperse and reduce the amount of solar energy reaching the surface by an infinitesimal, almost certainly unmeasureable, amount. Besides, there are vast swathes of the planet over which no aircraft flies.
I realise that by even talking about this I am lending credence to the absurd idea that CO2 controls the climate.
Such a good use of tax-payers’money. I’m glad it’s not ours but we are still giving billions to this lunatic organisation.
From someone on the ground, looking up at these trails joining up throughout the morning on a clear day, they most definitely do blot out the sun by midday creating what looks like a smog
That’s the nub of the con-trails vs chem-trails argument. Are they con-trails? Or are they the work of some clandestine operation spraying weather-altering chemicals in the sky. Genuine con-trails, even persistent ones, don’t spread in the manner you have described and tend to disappear over a few hours.
Depends on how the air is moving up there.
Morning all from a damp Dublin Airport, off to Madeira for a fortnight of fun and frolic and hopefully some sun!!
Lovely place. Have a good time.
The weather forecast looks good. Have a great time.
I sailed into Funchal in September 1984 on my way to the Caribbean via the Canaries and had a very pleasant week there.
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We enjoyed reading the signatures and comments on the harbour wall written by sailors who had travelled thousands of miles to reach Funchal.
Use the cable car up to the botanical Gardens.
We went on that.
The only other passenger was a German tourist who was frankly petrified. I haven’t seen anybody sweat so much.
I talked with him; the talking – and having to use English – partially took his mind off the vista endless feet below us.
My wife felt the same, it was windy coming down and the car was swaying and very close to the side of the platform as the car docked.
Even when we arrived near the airport the pilot ‘went round again’ as it was very windy. He landed in the opposite direction, the airport is very close to the hillside.
But I loved the levada walks near Funchal.
Good morning, all. Bright at the moment with showers forecast for later today. Rain radar shows an area of rain moving up from northern France.
As the threat of covid wanes – booster take-up in the USA is reportedly down by 90% – the PTB have to use a new scary story in their attempts to maintain fear and control. Naturally, these control freaks have turned to the climate, a subject that unlike the time-limited fantasy of an alleged pathogen spreading death and destruction, could, if people fall for the hype, last indefinitely.
Screen shots from Jefferey Jaxen’s report on this week’s The Highwire.
With Labour the prospective government and Miliband minor probably in the chair attempting to promulgate his views on the climate it appears we could be heading for turbulent times.
IMO covid was the catalyst that ensured that the Tories were exposed for what they are, a a complete and utter shambles led by shameless liars who care nothing for the UK and its people. Will Miliband and his climate mania do the same for Labour? The people mustn’t fall for the hype however relentless the MSM propaganda.
Here is a series of screenshots giving an indication of how the story could be concocted even though the actual data doesn’t support the narrative.
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They’ve missed out the Swine ‘Flu that was going to kill millions, and
the acid rain that was going to destroy all forests by the 1990s.
Good Morning Folks,
Cloudy wet start here
Overcast but dry here.
Good morning all!
A second celebration for
Dave Sergeant
( whose unofficial birthday was yesterday but whose actual birthday is today!)
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and many more joyous birthdays to come!
With best wishes,
Caroline and Rastus
Does that make him older than his years?
Happy Birthday, Dave! 🙂
Ben Houchen’s success in Tees Valley contains a crucial lesson for the Conservative Party
What did he do?
Cut out the postal voting?
Our voting system has been captured and corrupted.
Any political party that actually believes in democracy would make it far more difficult for a person to get a postal vote.
(But I very much doubt if any party would dare to do this!)
Good Moaning.
Thunder, lightening and persisting down forecast for norf Essex.
I’m running out of indoor jobs.
Curses: just checked and the exciting predictions have gorn; just the usual wet and grey.
Morning Anne
Indoor jobs … yikes , I have so many , it is similar to spinning plates , the tasks are endless, but when the fine weather eventually appears , the carpets will need cleaning with the washing gadget , and kitchen curtains de poled to be laundered , and OMG , where did those spiderwebs come from .
Dull weather here , I topped the bird feeders up last night , empty by 7am this morning . Another endless expensive task .
I was looking at the Blackpool South by-election, which was reported as a great victory for Keir Starmer and proof of his reinvention of the Labour Party being supported by the public.
Recent by-elections delivering huge swings to Labour revealed in their actual vote being moribund at best and actually dropping back considerably since 2017, when Jeremy Corbyn was the Leader, and before he was stabbed in the back by the Blairites.
The collapse in the Tory vote is well understood. Traditionally, disgruntled Tories sit at home during by-elections to get their leadership to buck up their ideas in time for the General Election. We’ll see if they turn out when it really matters.
The Labour vote in Blackpool South was as follows:
2005 – 19,375 (Blair)
2010 – 14,449 (Brown)
2015 – 13, 548 (Miliband)
2017 – 17,581 (Corbyn)
2019 – 12,557 (Corbyn)
2024 – 10,825 (Starmer)
Not exactly a landslide victory.
A bit like standing on the cliff edge and the ground behind falling back faster than the cliff itself.
The “I don’t give a shites” have it.
Good morning Nottlers, a damp start to the day. Little wind to clear the skies this morning. Walking football will be moist. On the golf course yesterday, the overcast start ended up as a sea haar. I’m pleased to say it didn’t affect my game, as we headed back to the clubhouse for bacon rolls and coffee.
I’ve purposely ignored last week’s elections. Suffice to say, I don’t think anyone should be elected on a share of a 30% turnout.
Four putted on a very fast green
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Muslim group issues Starmer with demands to win back lost votes over Gaza
Campaign tells Labour leader he must commit to ‘real action’ if he wants to rebuild trust with pro-Palestinian voters
There you have it, old kneel has gone and upset a goodly portion of the lab core membership, the islamic brotherhood.
Just to be clear on where the lab voters kiss of consent X is heading,
Muslim Brotherhood | Definition, History, Beliefs, & Facts
topic › Muslim-Brotherhood
11 Apr 2024 — Muslim Brotherhood, a religiopolitical organization founded in 1928 that advocated the application of Islamic law in all aspects of society.
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Getting stoned on a Saturday night takes on a whole new meaning.
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Morning TB,
the only way to add to that truth is to say very,very.
And these are going to be in charge of this country soon?
Horrible people. Politics is full of them.
It might be helpful to separate out two factions here.
One are those opponents of the war in Gaza, and the other are the Muslims.
Most Muslims are against Israeli punitive bombardment of Gaza, and this vote is being harnessed by Galloway. It could deny Starmer one core component of the Labour vote, making him even more reliant on disgruntled Tories not turning out on polling day.
However, there is also a large section against Israeli punitive bombardment who are not Muslims. A lot of these are Quakers, Methodists, peaceniks of various creeds, many of them Christian, who are also victims of Israeli bombardment, and not terribly well protected by the Muslims. In 2005, in a similar conflict in Iraq, they rallied behind the Liberal Democrats, then led by Charles Kennedy. Today, Ed Davey’s trite and rather cheesy campaigning style does not carry the clarity on his issue that the Highlander whisky lover had. Where do they go now?
I doubt the peaceniks have much time for Galloway, and even less for Muslim domination. Where do they go?
I don’t think the peaceniks have the slightest understanding of Muslim domination. The very fact that they think Hamas would honour a ceasefire proves that. They imagine that Muslims are people just like us, who only want the best for themselves and their families.
The very fact they don’t remember there was a cease fire before 7/10 which Hamas broke…
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O2O,
On the backs of the lab/lib/con coalition member voters, until the river of NO return is crossed
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1787350156452532246
Some are blaming the Conservative Party’s collapse on Truss who, in her very short premiership, managed to destroy the British economy.
If this is the case then Soros, Gates and Schwab – who are determined to ‘build back better’ by destroying the West’s economy – ought to employ Truss on a mega salary because in just a few weeks she achieved what all the others have failed to do!
I am no great supporter of Tice but surely even the dimmest Conservative voter must now be able to see that The Conservative Party is dodo dead and they must not vote ever again for a decaying and putrid corpse.
So until something better comes along Reform is the only possible party for whom they should now vote.
There is still time for the Tories to stop the boats.!!! and move from the far left to a centre position.
If the Tory MPs would only make Sunak reverse and cancel Net Zero I think they may do it. Seems to me they’re acting like rabbits, mesmerised by the oncoming headlights, and can’t do anything to avoid the inevitable.. They surely must all realise what Net Zero is doing to the U.K. That’s the only action they could take that may help in a G.E. imo.
If the Tory MPs would only make Sunak reverse and cancel Net Zero I think they may do it. Seems to me they’re acting like rabbits, mesmerised by the oncoming headlights, and can’t do anything to avoid the inevitable.. They surely must all realise what Net Zero is doing to the U.K. That’s the only action they could take that may help in a G.E. imo.
It would be better to get our armed force’s into Westminster and Whitehall and drive out all of those inside. Ban them from participating in politics for life. And with the help of present patriots run the country as the people expect it to be run.
Some are blaming the Conservative Party’s collapse on Truss who, in her very short premiership, managed to destroy the British economy.
If this is the case then Soros, Gates and Schwab – who are determined to ‘build back better’ by destroying the West’s economy – ought to employ Truss on a mega salary because in just a few weeks she achieved what all the others have failed to do!
I am no great supporter of Tice but surely even the dimmest Conservative voter must now be able to see that The Conservative Party is dodo dead and they must not vote ever again for a decaying and putrid corpse.
So until something better comes along Reform is the only possible party for whom they should now vote.
A belated good morning to all.
Was up to pump bilges earlier and misread the clock. Thought it was 6:23 and not 5:23 so got up, realised my error and went back to bed!
I was 4°C when I first got up and is now 6½°C with bright sunshine.
No sunshine here.
Nor here
Heavy rain on the Sussex coast at 13C.
Good morning all,
Dull mild morning here , 10c.
I like this DTL comment .
John Kirby
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Re Miriam Cates article on local election results,,,,,
After the past 8 years I cannot forgive the
stupidity/treachery of the party.
I would rather have a Labour government
than see such behaviorr rewarded.
In case you don’t realise why we are so angry,,,,,,
Theresa May,
2 years Lockdowns,
Net Zero,
mass immigration,
coup d’etats against Johnson and Truss,
The highest taxes in 75 years,
soaring street crime,
6 million fit for work being paid to not work,
The Conservatives have betrayed the very people
who are working and paid for these 8 years of misrule.
As far as I am concerned the party is finished.
Re the 6 million fit for work being paid to not work , the small local supermarkets in Wareham have self checkouts .. staff have been laid off , these are people / youngsters/ not so young staff who have been reliable good people who are now jobless, what can they do , what and where can they retrain?
Dog walkers are charging £15/25 per hour , strange obscure jobs are far and few between apart from the care industry , care in the community , not very well paid , seasonal jobs like gardening are competitive , and any job has a long list of applicants .
£25 per hour for walking the dog? Where do I sign up?😁
Window cleaners come in from other areas and charge £35 for cleaning the windows !
My windies charge £12. Standard bungalow lay out and a conservatory. I told them after this year to not bother coming through the Winter. Don’t see the point really.
Good morning all,
Dull mild morning here , 10c.
I like this DTL comment .
John Kirby
5 MIN AGO
Re Miriam Cates article on local election results,,,,,
After the past 8 years I cannot forgive the
stupidity/treachery of the party.
I would rather have a Labour government
than see such behaviorr rewarded.
In case you don’t realise why we are so angry,,,,,,
Theresa May,
2 years Lockdowns,
Net Zero,
mass immigration,
coup d’etats against Johnson and Truss,
The highest taxes in 75 years,
soaring street crime,
6 million fit for work being paid to not work,
The Conservatives have betrayed the very people
who are working and paid for these 8 years of misrule.
As far as I am concerned the party is finished.
Re the 6 million fit for work being paid to not work , the small local supermarkets in Wareham have self checkouts .. staff have been laid off , these are people / youngsters/ not so young staff who have been reliable good people who are now jobless, what can they do , what and where can they retrain?
Dog walkers are charging £15/25 per hour , strange obscure jobs are far and few between apart from the care industry , care in the community , not very well paid , seasonal jobs like gardening are competitive , and any job has a long list of applicants .
You may indeed be right. There is a facet in the Kumbaya mentality that thinks, Pollyanna-style, the best of humanity.
Could have done better:
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it’s actually 20 demands.. they left off the list; RN naval blockade of Israel & online refugee status app for all of Gaza.
endorsed by LGBT+ & Owen Jones.
it’s actually 20 demands.. they left off the list; RN naval blockade of Israel & online refugee status app for all of Gaza.
endorsed by LGBT+ & Owen Jones.
it’s actually 20 demands.. they left off the list; RN naval blockade of Israel & online refugee status app for all of Gaza.
endorsed by LGBT+ & Owen Jones.
The current situation regarding the insurgence of Islamic political influence in this country reminds me of an Islamic saying: ‘We will be your friends until we are strong enough to be your enemies.’
Starmer is going to struggle if the RoPers have the wits to form their own Party. Either way he’s in trouble, as Muslims vote as a bloc and he needs their votes, but amongst the rest of us they are already deeply unpopular and becoming more so all the time as the threat they pose to our country becomes ever more obvious.
I think these two memes sum it up perfectly. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cf7d01765bc23ab27b8edfb6e2a17be1e47ca19c64b0e8a9e59d0ef9b42fdaa.png
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Hello from Terpsi on Olympus today 🙂 you’ve hit the nail on the head !
Islam using Labour as useful idiots. The new Labour Islamic councillors up North have already given Starmer a list of pro Gaza demands. Just wait they have Muslim MPs in government. The elephant in the room that’s ignored happens to by the House of Commons being full of more Muslim Labour MPs then indigenous Labour MPs. Muslims making our laws, using Labour as their useful idiots until they create their own party- Muslims will always vote for Muslims and their own Islamic political agenda.
Galloway’s ‘Workers’ Party’ is such a beast.
At the moment, it is shaping up to be the place for the Muslim bloc. Only if Jeremy Corbyn comes out of retirement and forms a genuine indigenous universal Left Wing alternative, can this be prevented.
Starmer’s own vote base is pretty moribund, and vulnerable to a Tory revival. Not just that, but if the Lib Dems can find their mojo and credibility by returning to pavement politics, integrity & ethics and honest open debate, and find a leader not tainted by Post Office maladministration, the student doublecross, woke authoritarianism or vassaldom to a foreign power, then Starmer’s path to the English shires is blocked. This leaves Scotland. With Swinney pledging to give the sensible Kate Forbes a prominent role rather than sacking her, as his predecessor did, this may restore the SNP’s fortunes, which might otherwise have been gifted to Starmer by default.
Here’s the list of demands demanded of Starmer by the Islamists
‘1. Apologise for your comments greenlighting a genocide and for not backing the ceasefire in Oct/Nov 2023.
‘2. Sanctions on companies operating in occupied territories. Sanctions on settlers.
‘3. Recognise Palestine state
‘4. Travel ban on all Israeli politicians that prosecuted this war and support illegal occupation.
‘5. End military ties with Israel.
‘6. Issue guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray at school.
‘7. Implement findings of people’s review of prevent – not Shawcross.
‘8. Remove ‘extremism’ definition [Michael] Gove introduced.
‘9. Commit to full implementation of Royal charter re media regulation.
’10. Adopt APPG definition of Islamophobia.
’11. Commit to review of public sector equality duty.
’12. Increase council and public health funding for the 10% most deprived areas in the country to finally address systemic and chronic health inequities as detailed in the Marmot Review and revisited by the Health Foundation 10 year later.
’13. Deliver alternative student finance.
’14. Ensure sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace. So the 1/3 of Muslims without a pension get one.
’15. Ensure insurance quotes don’t cost more for someone called ‘Muhammad’.
’16. Commit 7% of the LGPS/ public sector pensions to ethical and Islamic funds.
’17. Oppose BDS bill. Kick it out of law.
’18. Remove the archaic ‘spiritual influence’ offence from statute.’
Houchen won in Teeside for a few reasons. First, he believes in growth and has a decent track record of working hard for the area and bringing investment, most famously in the form of the Free Port and Teeside Airport. Second, local lad Houchen distanced himself from Sunak and his wet southern wokey cokies and gives the impression at least of being a normal, genuinely social conservative patriotic sort of a bloke.
And even then his majority was very much reduced in a turn out of just over 30%, so toxic is the Tory name now.
I was going to say the same thing.
It points to the power of the personal vote, and the importance for all parties, however toxic, to put up candidates of good character and excellent calibre, rather than any non-entity whose arm can be twisted.
The other fellow in the Midlands who lost by a narrow margin is, apparently, gay and another net zero one nationer. No wonder he lost.
Looks like he is just a normal politician after all:-
Ben Houchen, Baron Houchen of High Leven Age 37
In 2023, Houchen was criticised after it emerged that a 90 per cent stake in the company that operates the vacant Redcar Steelworks site, teesworks, was transferred to two local developers, Chris Musgrave and Martin Corney, without any public tender process. It also emerged that the private developers have received at least £45m in dividends and hold £63m cash from the project despite not having invested any direct cash in the project themselves. Wiki
That’s the way politics works the world over Ped. And while not defending it, I must say that the usual public tendering is as bent as a nine bob note, and operated by corrupt and incompetent civil servants. Neither way works in the public interest.
All these Northern voters ( and London ) who vote Labour in reality will be voting for Muslim Labour MPs – ( Islam first ) the new Councillors are already making demands to Starmer – they’ve sent a bloc letter to Starmer in relation to Gaza. Just wait until the Muslim Labour MPs have their foot in the door for Islam and outnumber indigenous Labour MPs in Parliament . As said below, the true danger is the elephant In the room- Islam using the Labour Party to turn it into the party of Islam until they have their own Islamic party of the UK.
True, while the Tories import as many of them as they can.
Blair started us on that road after the Iraq War, they always vote Labour. Thick Northern ‘ we hate the Tories ‘ and moronic cowardly Tory MPs and Labour Muzzie loving MPs will soon give us Muslim political control via the House of Parliament.
Scratches head: one might almost think there was a plan……
Looks like he is just a normal politician after all:-
Ben Houchen, Baron Houchen of High Leven Age 37
In 2023, Houchen was criticised after it emerged that a 90 per cent stake in the company that operates the vacant Redcar Steelworks site, teesworks, was transferred to two local developers, Chris Musgrave and Martin Corney, without any public tender process. It also emerged that the private developers have received at least £45m in dividends and hold £63m cash from the project despite not having invested any direct cash in the project themselves. Wiki
Excerpt from Times article ! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mayors-are-the-political-disrupters-we-need-hjrjd0860
The energy in British politics is coming, not from widening the political choice horizontally into the extremes of left or the right but from the changing balance of power between the centre and the rest of the nation. These mayors have started to establish what on the face of it seems a contradiction in terms: democratic fiefdoms.
There is, of course, a danger. The politics of place can all too easily fall prey to tribalism and ethnic rivalry, putting power in the hands of extreme factions. In Tower Hamlets, east London, the sitting Labour mayor was unseated by a breakaway from Labour — an almost exclusively Bangladeshi faction placed a man convicted of vote-rigging back in the mayoral office.
Some Labour activists are fretting that the Israel/Gaza conflict has driven support for malign sectarian interests, such as George Galloway’s Workers Party. In the West Midlands such a candidate amassed some 70,000 votes.
386975+ upticks,
TB,
As I have repeatedly requested for years join the
foreign mayor leadership dots together countrywide, and a giant mosque silhouette appears.
Really, goodness the plot thickens Ogga.
Do you have a map like that?
I think it’s illusory.
386975+ up ticks,
TB,
No map, but I would imagine that given the number of islamic mayors I’m just putting fact to thought.
Aren’t there plans for a mega mosque in London? I suppose under a third term of Khan it would get done.
Morning all 🙂😊
Well it’s Bank Holiday we don’t expect sunshine.
Lovely day yesterday with our old friends. Finished off with a pint in the very crowded local. A walk across the road to the venue and the ‘gig’ to see the band our son plays lead guitar 🎸 in. Due to a long day, us oldies left at half time. Eric Clapton…..who’s he ??
Tees Valley, let’s face the facts, our current idiots have already destroyed our country. They take no notice at all of public opinion.
It’s bound to happen. And if Labour get in our long established culture and social structure are Finished.
The election of Labour candidates is, to a certain extent, an indication of public opinion. Yes, I accept that, with a small number of exceptions, they are elected with less than half of the electorate in their constituency having voted positively for them, but that would be even more true if any of their rivals had succeeded. It’s a fact, an unwelcome one here, that a large minority of the public actually like what Labour has to offer. Either they don’t believe that the next Labour administration will finish off the long established culture and social structure of this country or they actually desire just such an outcome. Just how sure can we be that popular opinion is in favour of the long established culture and social structure? Is it through the findings of opinion pollsters, the same people who are found wanting when they present findings that we either dislike or disbelieve?
One of the factors in voting is that we have a long, deep tradition of being tribal. It is apparent in our football clubs, Army regiments, county affiliations and area loyalties. Within those “tribes”, there is culture that accepts criticism by the tribe’s members but will defend with vigour any criticism from outside. Politics is also very tribal with unthinking loyalty to the tribe being more important than the tribe’s policies. Thus, large numbers will view their party with disdain but still vote for it at election time.
https://twitter.com/RossBank3/status/1787399097386676378
😂😂😂 Africans!
386975+ up ticks,
Common sense at long last creeping in, enough to scare the shite out of the trannie brigade.
Single-sex lavatories to be compulsory in restaurants, bars and offices under new laws
Building regulations will be changed later this year to make it compulsory to provide separate facilities for men and women
The Royal Albert Hall has had single sex toilets for as long as I’ve been going there, which is a fair few decades and for much of that time a man I know has been using the ladies loos there. He’s recently been castrated but prior to that he just put on a dress and brazenly went in and out unchallenged.
Strange conversations you have with men in frocks, Sue!
;-))
Typically in Norway, one enters a unisex vestibule, with stalls labelled for men or women. It doesn’t seem to excite comment. Urinals will be in their own room, typically, behind a door off the vestibule, or individually set up like the stalls.
He’s been a regular Gallery Prommer for many years and very obviously a transvestite. No one cared that he’s a man in a frock. Prommers are a very liberal minded lot but I’ve watched him go in and out of the ladies toilets and noted that he was never challenged. Calling them single sex loos makes not a jot of difference.
Within my circle there are 2 blokes who dress as women. I wont call them trans because they are so not women. You never see either without full makeup – immaculately turned out and wearing heels, One is mid 50s the other in his 70s.
I asked the son of the 70 year old on one occasion if his father owned a pair of scruffy jeans or a jumper with a hole in it.
He laughed me out of the room.
I don’t know of any women who are turned out like this every day. I am certainly not. The number of times I wear makeup i a year can be counted on one hand.
They are just playing at being women.
Gave the game away by leaving the seat up, did he..
The trouble is that men who pee standing up miss the target even when they have urinals which is why Gents’ facilities stink if they haven’t been recently cleaned. Some imaginative descentants of Thomas Crapper have had the idea of having a realistic picture of a fly incorporated into in the porcelain to give men something to aim at so they spray the floor less.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6580613fa1dab43d3f88bcac90c0259c55cb8581c1cee991d078173d09967a2c.png
The unisex loos at work are cleaned throughout the day but I still occasionally see that tell tale drop on the floor. (Autocorrect keeps changing loos to Lois. I don’t know her!)
Lois is a tranny who pees on the floor … even when squatting!😉
Sounds like the first line of a song.
Still used in Delftware.
386975+up ticks,
Morning R,
Good thinking or maybe a replica of a current politico, one in particular being anthony charlie lynton, who would prove to have a strong magnetic urine pull i’m sure.
I hope they have him smiling!
386975+ up ticks,
Morning JM,
Your’re disgusting , but I like you.
With his mouth open.
I don’t know what’s wrong with men who make a mess like that – I can hit the target in the dark using only my knees against the seat as a reference – on the other hand it could be that the spout is below the level of the seat 😂 I wish!
I once worked in a branch new building in the US where all the urinals were about 12 inches from the floor. The story goes that all the toilets and urinals were installed soon after the room had been almost completed, and were at the right height above the solid floor. Then all the electrical wiring for computers and other power uses was installed at floor level and covered with a false floor that was now only 12 inches below the urinals.
I would feel putting electrical wiring under a false floor beneath a urinal quite shocking. 🤔
Notice placed on the door of a men’s lavatory block by the cleaners:
“Gentlemen, we aim to please. We would be very pleased if you would aim,”
Regards,
The Cleaners.
…and in the ladies (so I’m told):
If you you sprinkle
When you tinkle
please be neat
and wipe the seat!
If, due to “internal pressure” I have to use the Ladies stall, I always leave the seat up!
Morning to all NOTTLERS. Pleased to declare that here in West Sussex the weather is back to normal, damp, dull, dreary drizzle. All is still right with the world or, at least, in this small corner of Jerusalem.
A great speech by Eva Vlaardingerbroek
The Great Replacement is not a theory – it’s reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywTjt3PQwD0&list=TLPQMDYwNTIwMjT2_Gj0NCceNg&index=1
All absolutely true. But what the hell can we do about it. The Muslims, in particular, are using our own laws against us by being elected to all sorts of powerful positions. It seems so insidious but we need a prominent figurehead to rally around.
Well, I think the least we can do is donate to Tommy Robinson who has been making documentaries to raise awareness of Islamic activities. that costa a lot. The more people support him the more he will be able to carry on the good fight and the more cautious the establishment will become in attacking him.
Making people who will listen aware of an issue is one thing; doing something about it is another. TR, one of nature’s scrappers, has one method, but it cannot be the only one.
I shall point my finger at the Conservative Party. How is it that there is so little indigenous talent of any calibre in the Party that even the diehard faithful must concede that their most impressive future leader is a lady whose parents both originated in Nigeria?
Edit – while I am about it, I am a Roman Catholic, having been baptised in 2002 by a gentle Benedictine monk from Downside Abbey. Then, the congregation reflected the ethnic makeup of Malvern. After this, the Poles came and went. Nobody noticed them much, apart from that they made better tradesmen than the Brits, who were constantly trying it on, according to Thatcher/Blair principles of aspiring for No.1 and no such thing as society.
Today, the parish priest and all the altar servers have brown faces. Every one.
To answer your question, I guess that in Nigeria the education system and family environment have not been as infiltrated and corrupted by Leftist ideology as they have been in this country.
That’s true. They still have what we gave them in our heyday.
Exactly my thoughts.
It is also often the case that non-natives appreciate what they have got in the country of their adoption. It is certainly the case in the USA where immigrant families are often more pro American than a person who’s family has been there for several generations and see themselves as ‘real Americans’
‘The Tories have actively cultivated stong leaders out of their ranks. Once you get a couple of failures at the top they promote other failures to their ranks to make themselves look better; to have a like minded group around them. Kemi has broken through because they cannot attack the token.
Facebook has just informed me that today is the 255th birthday of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, though it was actually May 1st. When he was prime minister, the windows at Apsley House were regularly shattered as mobs hurled rocks at them. Wellington shrugged and accepted that there was a rabble who didn’t like him. What would we give though to have someone of the same calibre in office today.
“Publish and be damned” was another one to treasure.
“I may have been born in Ireland but I am English. If I had been born in a stable that would not make me a horse.”
I was not born in Ireland but my DNA reveals that I am 48% Irish – am I half Irish or half horse ?
The latter would make you well centaured.
VG!
In your case, as a dyed-in-the-wool proud equestrian, I would think that you wouldn’t mind.🐎👍🏻😊
BTW: My left leg, below the knee, is pure Irish!
I recall some years back a UKIP branch being taken over by a bunch of tories. They used our rule book against us. Someone said to me – that is what they do – they live by rules and know how to manipulate them to their advantage. Do the same – fight fire with fire.
Islam is all about rules – Sharia etc. If we want to defeat them we have to play them at their own game – manipulate their co-called rules to our advantage. Time to stop just accepting stuff and push back,
Why do you think the British have been effectively deprived of any firearms?
Nowadays, only agents of the state and criminals have easy access to guns.
Yep. Hungerford and Dunblane were set up to provide the excuse to do just that.
Why do you think the British have been effectively deprived of any firearms?
Nowadays, only agents of the state and criminals have easy access to guns.
70% Brussels = Gone.
54% London = Gone.
56% Amsterdam = Gone.
58% Hague = Gone.
60% Rotterdam = Gone.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
0.00000001% Nigeria = how come?
Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups. The killings have been referred to as a silent genocide. Nigeria is suffering on a scale that we barely comprehend. It should be a matter of public and political outrage in this country. But all the Christian Nigerians get from us is silence. Our Islamic problems, at present, are petty compared with theirs.
My first reaction, even before I heard her speak, was as what would have once have been considered normal for a red-blooded male – wow, what a beautiful woman!
For someone of my ethnicity, culture and age now, this sort of crimethink would get me a bang on the door from the morality police. Maybe this is the nub of the problem – whilst alien settlers are encouraged to breed, and have the right to bring in their extended families to breed according to their religion and cultures, amongst the indigenous population, any sexual attraction between male and female has been deemed a form of abuse. There is a whole lexicography in the English language to vilify what once was taken as normal. There are notices all over London warning the indigenes against this sort of thing, and “Pride” marches set up to provide an alternative outlet to our sexuality that does not involve breeding.
She is very beautiful. She is beautifully clear in her diction and thought processes, in short, she’s brilliant!
White Europeans remained rooted with their thumbs up their arses, looking gormlessly on, while all this is taking place.
White Europeans, from when time began up to the early 20th century, would have taken up arms and used them, effectively.
White Europeans of today cannot be bothered to get off their arses. They do not possess sufficient intelligence to do so. Their balls and their brains have both been castrated by the omnipresence of socialism.
I think they prefer avoid being; debanked, cancelled, abused, beaten up, down-ticked, unliked, arrested, fined, demonetised, fired, de-amplified, shadow-banned, marginalised, black-balled, gaoled.. and uninvited to the Davos Man’s lair.
That’s because the modern generations have been emasculated. They have become so attached to an online virtual reality that they have lost all sense of reality and proportion.
This does not prevent them from rising up, like their forebears would have done, and taking direct action against the members of those institutions and their buildings.
The choice is simple: either fight back, or continue being a puppet pussy.
Suggesting to people that welfare should be scrapped and taxes radically cut sets people off screaming. They seem to think it acceptable that people be robbed to pay for their egos.
However, as soon as it’s suggested that they pay… suddenly they change their minds. Seems everyone’s a socialist until they’re sent the bill.
Grizzl – there is nothing we can do. What do you suggest? Getting out there and killing the foreigner on the beach? I don’t see you there. We are not given a choice. The Left simply force the invaders on us and then protect the scum carrying out the rapes.
What did Naz Shah say? These girls should get raped in the name of diversity. Why is she not in jail? Because she’s in the cabal. Khan’s London is an over run sewer full of brown filth. What can be done about it? Nothing. Because we cannot reject the alien. The state forces laws – incredibly powerful laws with almost no end or judicial process – to protect the brown and black invader.
So tell me. Where are you? Where are you, who keeps calling others gormless. We want them go. We all do. That’s why we voted to leave the EU in the main and the astate’s response? To pour ever more effluent on us and proclaim ‘there’s nothing we can do’ as it sniggered at us.
One man doesn’t make a difference. Wat Tyler, George Loveless, Robert Catesby, Robert Kett, Robert of Locksley (three bob, there) all knew that. To raise a mob there must be enough anger, a collective will, and a collective determination to do something positive to right wrongs. Unfortunately the Nanny State has ensured there will never be a collective will. This is precisely what the Welfare State set out to achieve.
To shut their mouths, not get raped. They were not Naz Shah’s words. She mistakenly and briefly ‘liked’ a tweet that parodied Owen Jones. I’m more than satisfied that they do not in any way represent her views.
https://fullfact.org/online/naz-shah-diversity-quote-tweet/
That told me nothing I didn’t already know and, if she didn’t agree with the spoof Owen Jones post, why did she like and repost it?
I’ve no idea and. frankly, I think it unimportant. Her track record indicates it’s not representative of her views.
You appear to be right, Grizzly. But. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. I hope that it is a matter of the hour has yet to arrive.
I’m afraid that ‘the hour’ has already cometh and has now long wenteth.
The ‘man’ missed the bus!
We will see.
White Europeans remained rooted with their thumbs up their arses, looking gormlessly on, while all this is taking place.
White Europeans, from when time began up to the early 20th century, would have taken up arms and used them, effectively.
White Europeans of today cannot be bothered to get off their arses. They do not possess sufficient intelligence to do so. Their balls and their brains have both been castrated by the omnipresence of socialism.
The problem is, we “left” but nothing has changed
Good morning.
Interesting video clip of the President of the Congo being interviewed in France.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786968298636423210
Crikey.. anyone been to Congo? It’s truly terrifying. I did a project in Angola, go up north of Luanda and ask the locals about that hell-hole of hell-holes.
I was in what was Zaire, now DRC, in 74 – 75, when Mobutu was President. Interesting experience to say the least. Music (steel guitar) was unique.
Heart of Darkness?
Interesting! HMG have not cottoned on to the way the African countries do business. Strange! Just proves how stupid they all are.
The usual miserable wet bank holiday here
Still avoiding it in the East in Suffolk at least. It did get heavy this morning for half an hour earlier before it lifted. Which would have been a bummer, since I was erecting a tepee for the runner beans at that point.
Dull but at least dry up here – bit of a chilly wind though
This ceremony takes place every year on Easter. The flame is supposed to be lit by the Holy Spirit at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It appears in the form of a blue flame, from which a candle spontaneously bursts into flame. The flame is then used to light other candles and lanterns which are then carried to the Seat of every Orthodox Country in the world
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Here also is a documentary about the Holy Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5KHmlgJq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyzCFZO0VY
In 1994 I was in Jerusalem for Orthodox Easter and saw the flame passed from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre down the via Dolorosa. It happens at incredible speed.
I visited Jerusalem more than 40 years ago. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was almost deserted. I crept under an altar and put my hand in the hole where the cross was reputed to have been. When I emerged there was a Greek Orthodox priest with his impressive headgear sitting at one side of the altar. He held his hand out asking for money. I didn’t bother.
Did you go down to Jesus’s ’empty’ tomb? Very ornate.
Yes. Dangled my hand in the hole too and as I tried to get up, someone almost came down on top of me. A bit too keen!
It is a ceremony I would love to witness. Especially be in the church. But, apparently, that is almost impossible because certain people and groups take precedence. Or so I have read.
Free in London on 1st June?
https://rumble.com/v4t5zzt-london-june-1st-lawfare.html
S.S. Oakdene.
Complement:
35 (0 dead and 35 survivors).
6,222 tons of coal.
At 10.52 hours on 6th May 1941 the Oakdene (Master Ernest Hart), dispersed from convoy OG-59, was hit aft by one G7e torpedo from U-105 (Georg Schewe) and sank northwest of St. Paul Rocks. The master, 31 crew members and three gunners were picked up by HMS Dorsetshire (40) (Capt B.C.S. Martin, RN).
Type IXB U-Boat U-105 was sunk on 2nd June 1943 in the Atlantic west of Dakar by depth charges from a one-of-a-kind French Potez-CAMS 141 flying boat named “Antarès”. 53 dead (all hands lost).
https://uboat.net/media/allies/merchants/br/oakdene.jpg
Hello folks.
A bit late on parade but I do have a good excuse. My oldest friend died last year in Australia – having been trapped there by Covid whilst visiting her brother – and her cancer erupted. Well, said brother is here visiting friends and family and I got a visit. And another one is planned.
To add to that I am introducing a dear friend to my horse and my pup this afternoon. I hope she is brave enough.
AND – I rode the horse for 20 minutes yesterday! Might need a crane shortly to get on 🙂
PIck of Taggie being good. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc2d975c41668a530bdf4dd7022b9f5a2c0e90fe55d32248698f64fd75a25d22.jpg
What a sweetie.
The very thing for you, Naggers:
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We ‘did’ Henry V for “O” level.
The only thing I remember about the film was the French knights being craned onto their horses.
Sweetie pup , and so focussed. Enjoy your ride , and the mild air .
She is absolutely gorgeous, Nagsman! Have a wonderful afternoon! 🐶
What a sweet expression! Thank you; made me smile.
It’s the ‘where’s my biscuit look’.
Actually it is crisps she is after. She loves lightly salted crisps
She’s beautiful! Lovely colouring.
Just been chatting to the neighbour. As she is working from home now she decided to take on two rescue cats. One of them got hit by a car. He had a lot of surgery to reconstruct his face and jaw.
All better now. Good as new.
The insurance paid out £7,500. My neighbour paid £11,000.
I would have had to think long and hard about that. She has only had them a few months.
I am sorry. A lethal injection would have been my decision. I honestly think it is ridiculous to pay that sort of money.
I’m afraid that even as a lifelong cat-lover, I agree with you. Paying out that kind of money which is outrageous, only encourages vets to charge it. Also, all the surgery would have been very painful and stressful and the cat would not have understood why it was happening.
Some years ago one of my cats was hit by a car which smashed her pelvis. My (French) vet told me that he could operate and pin it but it would be very painful and stressful for the cat, not to mention expensive for me, but nothing like £11,000! As the cat was quite young (six) and otherwise fine and still eating, he recommended keeping her inside in one room and letting it heal itself. He gave me painkillers/anti-inflammatories for her, and also a laxative to put in her food so that she didn’t strain to defaecate. She was a good as gold and literally healed herself, doing nothing but eating, sleeping and moving only to go to the sand-tray. She gradually moved around more and more and a three to four weeks later was making determined bids for freedom! She lived a healthy, active life and eventually died of old age at 19.
The bill was negligible – two consultations and two Xrays, one at the at the beginning and one at the end, plus the medication. Trust in Nature.
Many years ago, our kitten broke a leg and the vet was quite honest about the remedy. He could operate and put titanium pins in the leg to strengthen it, or at considerably lower cost he would just put a cast on the leg and let it heal itself.
We opted for the simpler option even though it meant that the cat might have a limp. It was still limping fourteen years later.
Aunty Mary’s cat got its tail trapped in a door and had it broken. No vet required and his name was Kinky for ever after!
I’m afraid that even as a lifelong cat-lover, I agree with you. Paying out that kind of money which is outrageous, only encourages vets to charge it. Also, all the surgery would have been very painful and stressful and the cat would not have understood why it was happening.
Some years ago one of my cats was hit by a car which smashed her pelvis. My (French) vet told me that he could operate and pin it but it would be very painful and stressful for the cat, not to mention expensive for me, but nothing like £11,000! As the cat was quite young (six) and otherwise fine and still eating, he recommended keeping her inside in one room and letting it heal itself. He gave me painkillers/anti-inflammatories for her, and also a laxative to put in her food so that she didn’t strain to defaecate. She was a good as gold and literally healed herself, doing nothing but eating, sleeping and moving only to go to the sand-tray. She gradually moved around more and more and a three to four weeks later was making determined bids for freedom! She lived a healthy, active life and eventually died of old age at 19.
The bill was negligible – two consultations and two Xrays, one at the at the beginning and one at the end, plus the medication. Trust in Nature.
A disgraceful rip-off – must have been able to afford it though.
Much as I love cats I’m not sure I do that
The scan alone cost £1000.
Most of the old family vets in the UK have been taken over by multi-outlet firms; and prices to treat your pet have correspondingly gone through the roof.
Yes. I cancelled my pet insurance some time ago. I deposit £100 per month into a separate savings account to cover any bills
Yes, for £18,500 she could have bought a new car.
A new car and a new cat.
Funny old day. Not hot: not cold. Sun in and out.
Took 18 inches off the top of the blue wisteria (shown here the other day) because it is invading the roof. Very dusty job. More gardening after lunch. Tomorrow – praise be – there is a NORTH wind so we can have a quick bonfire.
What?? One of my cats had a scan a few months back and it cost €160!
“Are you insured?” = Kerching…
Indeed, and no, I’m not! Other than for race-horses, valuable livestock or expensive breeds of domestic pets, few people in France are.
From the Telegraph
The villagers using an 1857 law to beat the developers
Joe Wright 6 May 2024 • 8:05am
Former councillor Ashley Clark photographed at Gorrell Valley Nature Reserve in Whitstable Kent, which has been designated as a village green
Ashley Clark helped to make the Gorrell Valley Nature Reserve in Whitstable become a Village Green to protect the area
When visualising a village green, an idyllic square with a pond, cricket pitch and war memorial will most likely come to mind.
Small strips of scrubland, concrete quaysides, disused quarries and car parks will be far from the imagination.
Yet thanks to a law dating back to 1857, the most unlikely of locations can officially be classed as a village green – the highest form of land protection in the UK.
They’ve become the holy grail for Nimbys, who strive to secure classification for local plots of land, however big or small. Once granted this golden status, spaces are shielded from development indefinitely, regardless of their ownership.
Last month, a resident in Bristol – where more than 40,000 people are on the housing waiting list – was blocked from building a home at the end of his cul-de-sac after neighbours secured village green status for the plot.
They argued the land is used for summer picnics, the occasional tea party and that it had simply become a “place to stop and chat” while taking a shortcut to the nearby Tesco.
For land to become a village green, residents must prove it has been used for either “sports, pastimes and recreation” for at least 20 consecutive years.
Elsewhere, residents in Ashford, Kent, recently bagged village green status for a narrow 1.25-acre plot close to the town’s Sainsbury’s, while campaigners still await a decision on a field in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Walking the dog, kicking a ball about, flying a kite or picking blackberries are examples applicants can cite as evidence.
Ashley Clark, who masterminded the successful bid for Britain’s biggest village green stretching 52 acres in Whitstable, Kent, said they are the pinnacle symbol of land protection.
“Village greens are the Rolls Royce as they cannot be topped,” he said. “They are indefinite and protected in perpetuity.
“There are various other forms of land protections, but they don’t come near to village greens. Sites of Specific Scientific Interest, ancient woodland and local wildlife sites are still subject to the planning process, so they don’t have the same level of protection.
“Once somewhere is registered as a village green, no one can develop or enclose it.”
Ashley Clark photographed at Gorrell Valley Nature Reserve in Whitstable Kent
‘There are other forms of land protections such as ancient woodland and local wildlife sites but none are as watertight as village greens,’ says Mr Clark Credit: Daniel Jones
Landowners can fight back by challenging the decision in the courts, as is the case with an ongoing feud over a recreation ground in Stoke, yet deep pockets are needed to cover the lengthy process.
In 2021, transport company TW Logistics lost a 13-year legal battle against residents in Mistley, Essex, after campaigners secured village green status for a concrete quayside.
But the Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils, previously said the nationwide application process was welcoming “malicious, vexatious and incomplete proposals” for “clearly ridiculous” village greens.
It said the vast number of bids was hitting taxpayers in the pocket and blocking housebuilding. The Telegraph approached the LGA for its current viewpoint, but it declined to comment.
Defra previously published figures showing the number of submitted village green applications each year, with 377 put through between 2011 and 2013. Of these, 107 were successful.
The government department told us it doesn’t have up-to-date figures, but Rico Wojtulewicz, of industry body the National Federation of Housebuilders, said: “We are hearing people saying it’s coming up more often”.
Such action can frustrate developers, prevent councils hitting house building targets and scupper even the smallest of planning applications, as seen with the Bristol case in the suburb of Henleaze.
One objector to the village green proposal, who was in the vast minority, expressed how they were disappointed that neighbours “feel some kind of entitlement to demand access to someone else’s property and to determine what they may, and may not, do with it”.
“I feel very sad that the narrow-minded ‘Nimby attitude’ being demonstrated here is all too common and I believe it to be entirely without merit or justification,” they wrote on the local authority’s planning portal.
Rosgill
A bid to turn a tiny grassy triangle in Rosgill into a Village Green has been thrown out
Other applications haven’t been successful. A bid to turn a tiny grassy triangle in the remote Cumbrian village of Rosgill into a green has been thrown out, and the same goes for a 40-metre stretch on a Horsham estate used by the community for Clap for Carers and VE Day parties.
Mr Wojtulewicz says the village green law is “fragmented” and doesn’t take local housing needs into account.
“We broadly welcome the opportunity to safeguard community land, which can be fantastic, but it’s a fragmented approach that gets abused by people who haven’t thought about the broader community needs,” he said.
“You’re giving a few people more power, which then means development can be blocked and there’s no plan for where else it can go to address the housing need.”
Mr Ashley Clark, a former police officer who sat on Canterbury City Council for 12 years, warns that developers have got wise to village green applications.
“They buy land and immediately put signs up saying ‘private land’ or ‘entry is permission only’. Once they do that, it effectively prevents a village green application,” he said.
“As access is denied, people can’t then prove they’ve used it continuously for 20 years.”
village green horsham, Collingwood Road
Horsham residents had their bid to secure ‘village green’ status for their green was refused
Local authorities give guidance to landowners on how to blockade village green attempts from locals.
Isle of Wight Council, for example, states on its website that a “landowner could do several things, fence the land off so securely so that it is not used ‘as of right’, or if he doesn’t mind people using the land he can display notices so as to give permissive rights which can be withdrawn at any time, or restrict access and maybe charge people for using it”.
What makes a village green bid fail?
A clause in the Growth and Infrastructure Bill 2013 states that locals can’t register a piece of land as a village green if developers have applied for permission to build there.
Applications will also fail if the land in question is identified for potential development in a local or neighbourhood plan.
Where most fail, however, is in the 20-year rule. The law states if it can’t be proved that the land has been “used by local people for lawful sports and pastimes ‘as of right’ (i.e. without permission, force or secrecy) for at least 20 years” then the bid will be rejected
None of these addresses the fundamental problem. Too many people. Specifically, too many foreigners.
Specifically, too many uneducated foreigners.
Too many uneducated foreigners unwilling to work
CT scan. Costs the same to operate for humans.
No, it doesn’t.
I don’t see why a scan costs anything other that the power it takes – the equipment is paid for , the operators are being paid anyway. It doesn’t cost any more than if the equipment is standing idle
I suppose there are maintenance costs. Though these machines are often donated.
The donation of the machine is just the start. These things take up a lot of space that has to be paid for. Installation is a major cost as it’s not just moving bits of kit from the manufacturer to the destination and assembling them but building the room for the scanner (CT scans give hefty radiation dose so the walls are plastered with Barium). Then the manufacturers’ maintenance contracts are very expensive – and so it goes on, and on.
The “being paid anyway” argument doesn’t work for whoever has to pay the operators.
Not a lot to do really. Press button. Send scan to Vet/Doctor.
Err…. EBITDA.
You’re paying for the machine itself – as the cost will be arranged over it’s expected use and eventual replacement, the training of the staff, the staff salaries, the opportunity cost of those staff and profit. Oh, and the vets taxes.
From our own stats – if I charge £40 an hour, I have to add on corporation tax at 25%, business rates Call it 10%, building rental (and it’s taxes), VAT, the cost of energy, my employer’s NI taxes, if outcall the cost of fuel (and it’s taxes), vehicle depreciation, equipment costs and depreciation.
Long story short, the taxes on my time add up to more than my hourly rate. We pass these costs on to our customers, as every business has to. We’re just stupidly up front about it because most people don’t understand just how much tax they pay isn’t on the product. It’s everything associated with producing the product.
Understood!
Where to begin on this? The fee for a scan will reflect an appropriate share of the the capital and maintenance costs as well as operator time and the veterinary radiologist’s report.
Capital cost of CT scanner probably iro £750K
Installation cost maybe £200K (£2M if done by NHS but assume not in veterinary hospital) –
Then:
Opportunity cost of space used
Radiation protection compliance (bound to need inspections by physicists as these are machines giving a substantial radiation dose)
Maintenance contract for scanner
Contrast agents,, needles, syringes
Staff to interpret the images as well as those to operate the machines
Cleaners
Probably loads of other incidentals
All those are costs whether the scanner is in use or not (except for the consumables)
Gosh
So, on that basis, if you run a restaurant, the meals should be priced at the cost of the ingredients plus the fuel to cook them. After all, the restaurant and its kitchen already exist. The staff are paid, regardless of whether they have 40 customers or 0 on a given day. The fees for various council inspections are paid. The heating and lighting are paid for etc.etc.
I see your point
Okay.
It’s a different machine and vet’s overheads are (or should be) much lower than those of hospitals.
My mistake. I thought it was the same machine.
The principle is the same, but the machine is much smaller and less complex.
Why I will join Queers for Palestine in turning Eurovision off this year. 6 May 2024.
Lefties are boycotting this weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, and so am I – though for subtly different reasons. The protesters are turning off because they say it elevates Israel, giving primetime to the “racist” state, even as it commits “genocide” in Gaza. I just think the whole show is pants.
I have a vision in my mind of what “class” is, and it’s Eurovision circa 1964: a pretty tune sung by a duchess and accompanied by a string section. The conductor wears tails. Alas, Europe has since been culturally colonised by America – disco was probably the beginning – and even as the definition of “European” expands (g’day Australia!) the music has homogenised into thumping, nightclub trash.
Taste and subtlety are dead. It’s as if, after two decades of eating nothing but curry, we can only be aroused by a piping hot vindaloo. Britain is sending Olly Alexander, who promised to take on Eurovision in “the gayest way possible” – previous contestants mostly sang hymns – and the choreography of his song Dizzy evokes an athletic orgy in a leisure centre changing room.
I won’t be joining them either not least because I’ve never watched it anyway. I think that you could only have something like Queers for Palestine in the Modern Age where Critical Thinking has largely disappeared. Jews for the Fuhrer would never have caught on in 1939. It seems quite obvious to me that the Modern Mass Mind has gone off its rocker. It is quite simply unhinged. The reasons for it are tenuous but real. The consequences have yet to be realised but the Apocalypse does not seem unlikely.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/06/why-i-will-be-turning-eurovision-off-this-year/
Why I will join Queers for Palestine in turning Eurovision off this year. 6 May 2024.
Lefties are boycotting this weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, and so am I – though for subtly different reasons. The protesters are turning off because they say it elevates Israel, giving primetime to the “racist” state, even as it commits “genocide” in Gaza. I just think the whole show is pants.
I have a vision in my mind of what “class” is, and it’s Eurovision circa 1964: a pretty tune sung by a duchess and accompanied by a string section. The conductor wears tails. Alas, Europe has since been culturally colonised by America – disco was probably the beginning – and even as the definition of “European” expands (g’day Australia!) the music has homogenised into thumping, nightclub trash.
Taste and subtlety are dead. It’s as if, after two decades of eating nothing but curry, we can only be aroused by a piping hot vindaloo. Britain is sending Olly Alexander, who promised to take on Eurovision in “the gayest way possible” – previous contestants mostly sang hymns – and the choreography of his song Dizzy evokes an athletic orgy in a leisure centre changing room.
I won’t be joining them either not least because I’ve never watched it anyway. I think that you could only have something like Queers for Palestine in the Modern Age where Critical Thinking has largely disappeared. Jews for the Fuhrer would never have caught on in 1939. It seems quite obvious to me that the Modern Mass Mind has gone off its rocker. It is quite simply unhinged. The reasons for it are tenuous but real. The consequences have yet to be realised but the Apocalypse does not seem unlikely.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/06/why-i-will-be-turning-eurovision-off-this-year/
Eurovision is nothing more than a political whipping stick. We would be far better off saying ‘sod off, we’re done laughing at you.’
I stopped watching it when Terry Wogan stopped compering it!
I haven’t watched it since Waterloo (the song not the battle)
Sunset for Eurovision?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
I stopped watching it when Terry Wogan BEGAN compering it…
Your dulcet tones on the radio always offered good advice but you weren’t the talent. Wogan was very popular.
As was Jimmy Young…
Poor Terry – he was actually very good, and very funny 🙂
On TV and on air. But…
Ditto. He never took it seriously. Nor should anyone.
I seem to remember that Ken Bruce on R2 used to do an appropriately sardonic commentary.
Are you sure it was Ken?
Ken worked with talented impressionist and comedian Rob Brydon to fool listeners on April Fool’s Day in 2011, with Rob pretending to be Ken on air. Rob impersonated Ken for his full two-hour show and he was able to carry off Ken’s voice pretty well – but die-hard listeners could tell something was up.
I was a regular listener and thought something was wrong with Ken. It was hilarious.
https://youtu.be/SU7uRA4UVY4
I last watched it when our Cliff was done down by the dastardly cabal of anti-British voters who let in a Spanish song that was clearly a rip off of ‘Let’s all drink to the death of a clown’
Good morrow, gentlefolk. Today’s (recycled) List.
V late on parade – after 3 nights without sleep, I couldn’t get out of bed this morning
SHORT AND SWEET
Now on sale at IKEA – ‘lesbian’ beds: no nuts or screwing involved, it’s all tongue and groove…
A Muslim has been shot in the head with a starting pistol; police say it’s definitely race related…
Due to a water shortage in Ireland, Dublin swimming baths have announced they are closing lanes 7 and 8….
Paddy thought his new girlfriend might be the one but, after looking through her knicker drawer and finding a nurse’s outfit, a French maid’s outfit, and police woman’s uniform, he decided if she can’t hold down a job, she’s not for him.
I got sacked from my job as a bingo caller the other day apparently, ’A meal for two with a terrible view’ isn’t the best way to announce number 69.
After 100 years lying on the sea bed, Irish divers were amazed to find that the Titanic’s swimming pool was still full.
Unfortunately the Parliamentary Conservative party seems to be firmly in the hands of the “One Nation” Tories (aka LibDems who are wetter than a haddock’s vest).
You get the impression that these people would far rather lose an election than actually do anything remotely conservative. They seem to believe that such a thing is beneath them; that this is socially unacceptable.
So saying “What the Conservatives need to do is….” is more or less a complete waste of time; because they won’t.
As I said before, when the Brexit vote was counted there were a number of “Conservative” MPs who made
statements along the lines of “I’d much rather see the Tories lose their seats than leave the EU”
It appears that they may well get their wish.
What Brexit exposed was the utter democratic deficit in this country. The Left are entrenched and need to be burned out and the whole thing made to serve.
The only recourse is assassination. Hoping for different voting patterns will take far longer to have the desired effect. You have to start murdering politicians you dislike and continue to do so until it becomes apparent to those in the wings that expressing certain opinions runs too high a risk of being a death sentence, Only repeated murder on a sufficient scale will terrify out of running for public office those holding opinions you dislike.
Expect a knock on the door at 3 a.m.
I don’t agree with it but, for those who do, it’s the quickest recourse. Of course, those carrying it out must be prepared to martyr themselves in what they will have to believe is a self-sacrifice worth making.
As I have said very often here: Farage was mad to stand down his Brexit Party candidates in the 2019 general election in seats held by remainer Conservative MPs.
This has led to the House of Commons being far too full of remainers who have tried to ruin Brexit at every turn.
Yes Sossidge, not only are they nannying ninnies with superiority complexes, they’re completely unrepresentative of vast swathes of the people they nominally serve. I’m not voting Conservative ever again until, a) they act like Conservatives doing Conservative things, b) the Wets are cleared out forever. They should go over to the Lib-Dems where they belong, frankly
My MP is Suella Braverman. She is a good constituency MP and gets things done. Difficult not to vote for her.
I think if I was in your position I’d vote for her as one of the few decent Tory MPs. After all, we’ve got to keep the few truly conservative MPs in the HoC to show that they are the ones who get our support.
My chief objection to PR is that you’re forced to vote for the party and not the person and so I sympathise with that. I’ve done the same myself in times past despite my antipathy to the party, notably when I actually voted Liberal for Clement Freud as a callow youth. Hated Liberals and all they stood for, but he was an excellent local MP.
The chances of my voting today for Dan Poulter on the basis that he’s a good representative of the constituency, however… Not even if Hell were to freeze over.
As he won’t be standing you won’t have to make that choice.
I daresay that he’ll get a peerage and become a minister of state for Health from the Lords.
He will get just that Lola, I agree. Had he been standing then it still wouldn’t have mattered though, since we are officially in a brand newly formed constituency for the next GE, due to boundary changes.
We have received a piece of market research through the door from the new hopeful, it must be said. The way the questions were worded though, I’m afraid to say he sounds like he’ll be just the sort of approved clone CCHQ have been serving up of late. It’d nice to be wrong but either way, I know nothing about him. I’d never even heard of him before last week and so I won’t be exercising my special right to go against the grain by supporting someone I believe in.
This is the sort of Haddock the Conservative Party needs to recruit!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d0288c111c32804f02ccce191d5b9b11ff1c5723262c53b8f49a14e7c0f972eb.png
They don’t c are because they can easily imagine themselves crossing the floor. They’re that wet.
I think they know that the S is about to HTF, and they want Labour to get the blame for it.
Unfortunately the Parliamentary Conservative party seems to be firmly in the hands of the “One Nation” Tories (aka LibDems who are wetter than a haddock’s vest).
You get the impression that these people would far rather lose an election than actually do anything remotely conservative. They seem to believe that such a thing is beneath them; that this is socially unacceptable.
So saying “What the Conservatives need to do is….” is more or less a complete waste of time; because they won’t.
We need to wash the bedlinen, however it’s raining (because there’s a Y in the day). That means it won’t dry. So…. do we put off the wash until later on, hoping the weather will clear and warm up or do we hang it around the house and turn the dehumidifier on?
Its meant to be reasonable weather for the rest of the week. Aunty will be stocking up on red crayons for the weather map.
I imagine they’ll be going for gloss red soon.
What will they do when it’s really genuinely unpleasant? 30’c+ ? Just paint the map black?
A dehumidifier is a lot cheaper to run than a dryer. Use it in the smallest room possible so you have a smaller volume of air.
That sounds like a case for hanging it in the greenhouse, summer house or porch.
I would just hang it inside and light the woodstove to suck all the wet air out.
From the Telegraph
Of course Daniel Radcliffe doesn’t agree with JK Rowling, a woman old enough to be his mother
This is not a column about trans women, just in case you’ve clicked on it in the hope of being able to froth with indignation. It’s a column about the lost art of conversation, and living in a society where it seems all nuance has been abandoned under the desperate rush to be right (or left, depending on your political persuasion).
If the Romans had the Colosseum, we have X (formerly Twitter), and what a shame that in years to come, people won’t even be able to visit its remains to admire the grand architecture.
Perhaps it’s Pollyanna-ish of me, but I have this notion of another ending for the Harry Potter franchise, which involves Radcliffe and Rowling coming together and having a proper conversation about these issues, politely – perhaps even in private! – instead of baiting each other from afar via social media and press interviews.
It used to be that debating was a skill taught at school – the art of disagreement was encouraged; respected, even. Grown ups did not cut people off because they happened to hold different views. You did not refuse to work with someone, or kiss someone, just because they looked a bit like a Tory.
You didn’t demand someone’s head on a block because of their politics. And you didn’t dismiss a human being as a talentless ingrate simply because he refuses to simper to his first boss for the rest of his working life.
Today, there seems to be a prevailing notion that people with opposing views are not just wrong, but somehow inherently evil. Is there another way? The writer Africa Brooke certainly hopes so. She has written an astonishing book called The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Tolerance.
Brooke is from Zimbabwe, and resents being told by – mostly white – people that she is oppressed, or that her race is a burden. “You have your story, they have theirs,” writes Brooke in her book, “somewhere in between lies the power of The Third Perspective [which is] a compass for connection, in a deeply divided world.”
Africa Brooke
Author Africa Brooke challenges polarised discourse – and offers a solution Credit: Tyler Miller/Sportsfile via Getty Images
The book is a powerful manifesto to help those who are either “overly cautious and silencing every word before it leaves your lips” or “lacking nuance and shouting every thought without discretion”.
Brooke describes cancel culture as “a form of collective sabotage” and points out that “while it’s a breeze to spot intolerance in others, catching it in ourselves? Not so much.” Reading her words is a balm for the exhausted 21st century soul, forever being pressurised into joining the left or the right, while secretly trying to hide the shame of being somewhere in the middle.
“Some of us are super cautious, afraid of saying the wrong thing,” she writes. “Others let everything out, sometimes without thinking of the impact. Finding that middle-ground – that Third Perspective – where we can be true to ourselves, but also kind and considerate, that’s the challenge of our times. It’s the challenge we’re here to face.”
Whether we are up to it or not remains to be seen. But in the meantime, I am glad that voices like Brooke’s are beginning to break through and be heard.
We would all be wise to listen, because the alternative – where we shout each other down and ostracise one another for different views – only ever leads to deafening silence.
All very good and undoubtedly true in principle; however, I fear the damage to people’s attitudes is already terminal in many cases. They’ve already had half a lifetime since childhood days learning to shake off the constraints of civilised conversation, or consideration of others’ positions. There have always been Jewish haters, for example, but have we ever seen antisemitism paraded so openly and with such bigotry on the Palestine demos as we have now and with so many voices?
I fear that the writer’s plea is somewhat late in coming.
Don’t overlook an entire upbringing where the kid always won a prize for competing, never criticized or punished for bad behaviour and generally got away with anything.
Tosuddenly be told NO goes against everything they have ever experienced In their sheltered lives.
Oh yes indeed, some might call that sort of upbringing a form of child abuse.
I agree in principle, but antisemitism was a bad example because muslims in my experience have always been widely openly antisemitic.
I don’t think it is a bad example, since I’m talking mostly about the non Muslim no nothings swelling the ranks by many many thousands on those marches.
Muslims are antisemitic, of course they are. They always have been, but it’s only of late they’ve come out of their corner in Britain. In days gone by they’ve generally fallen back on the deceptive trope that they’re the religion of peace just trying to get on quietly as paragons of niceness. Now, they openly chant about the extermination of Jews everywhere.
Yes… but the Left don’t want debate and discussion. They want you to adopt their ideology and to erase your own.
There. Frothing completed.
https://twitter.com/Motabhai012/status/1787379070868861391
Yes. The edges are bevelled and when they are turned over they fit tighter together creating the extra space.
Ooh! Me Miss! She turned the big pieces over, and the edges were chamfered!
Beat you. Go stand in the corner in your dunce hat.
I was typing….and the word is chamfered!
I was typing….and the word is chamfered!
Do dunces hats have corners? Who knew?
Been on the cidre have you? ?
I wish!
Oooh well i have (a) read all the comments below and (b) learnt a new word today!
Just having a tropical down-pour in the West Berks/Hants borderlands. May?
Early season rain means my tomatoes and chillies are going to be epic.
You are only about an hour away from me. Fancy coming to a party?
Think very carefully before you answer, Fiscal…
That is unkind of you. Fiscal might get a false impression of me. Quite a lot of Nottlers have met me and think i’m lovely.
You on the other hand with your reverse Dorian picture in the attic is another matter.
I have seen a photograph of you. Several (too many) in fact. Enough to keep me far, far away from Fareham!!
Again i think you are being unkind. Is this because i gave you a downvote for rubbishing a previous post of mine or because you have run out of the decent wine from your stash?
Edit..forget that….piss off.
There’s a Y in the day.
I was typing faster. :@)
Do you have 3 yr old twins ‘helpin’ ?
No but i do have the terrible twosome.
40 words per minute me.
Ah that explains engaging fingers before brain.
Do you have 3 yr old twins ‘helpin’ ?
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1787399635885052177
One of my followers is Turkish, he wrote to me about Muslim immigration & how we must stop it.
“Hi, I am secular & left Turkey because I did not want to live in an Islamic country, but now the UK has become Islamic as well.
“How can the UK authorities not see the danger? Islamits never leave when they rule, look at Erdogan in Turkey. The rules should be simple – if they wear a hijab, do not accept them as citizen, if he has long Islamic beard, just do not give them visa & deport.
“I am secular & started going to church, hoping Uk will remain Christian. Do not let your beautiful country be destroyed.
“This will not be enough, do not give visas to countries Like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, African countries, & Syria, do not take risk.
“Deport or cancel their citizenship if they attend supporting terrorist Hamas protest. You need to battle for your country. In Turkey as a secular state we have been battling with Islamic Erdogan & his party for 22 years, he destroyed our all gains of Turkey, he destroyed Turkish economy and society.
“Please watch Iranian islamic ‘revolution?’ And you see they have no mercy.”
Wise words indeed.
Junior is watching silly cartoons. In it, the baddie is always easy to identify and attacks with guns and daft tanks while squealing ‘Cobbbwwwwaaaaaa!’
What you do’t realise, until you get older is that the enemy is within. It’s the government refusing to do as the public want, the state consuming ever more money.
From The Spectator Coffee House
Daniel Radcliffe has dug himself a hole on trans rights
Debbie Hayton2 May 2024, 1:11pm
When you are in a hole, it is always best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed in his ongoing spat with JK Rowling over transgender rights. The Harry Potter star has said the row makes him feel ‘really sad’. Despite the impact Rowling’s work has had on his life, he told the Atlantic in an interview that it ‘doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life’.
Radcliffe would be wise to listen to Rowling
It’s the first time Radcliffe has commented on the gender row since JK Rowling’s challenge to critics to apologise to ‘traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces’.
That was 10 April, when Rowling had been commenting on the Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people. Four years after she had first opened her mouth on the egregious impact of gender identity ideology on our society, Rowling expressed her anger about the consequences on vulnerable children who have been ‘irreversibly harmed’.
Make no mistake, Rowling is right. But her willingness to stand up and be counted has cost her dearly. Early on, she returned her Ripple of Hope Award to the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation amid accusations of transphobia. She has been routinely condemned as ‘anti-trans’, a bigot and worse.
In 2020, Radcliffe joined the public critics announcing that ‘trans women are women’. He even had the gall to apologise on behalf of Rowling after she posted social media comments about the importance of biological sex. In a statement that has not aged well, Radcliffe added:
Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.
Dr Hilary Cass has expertise – plenty of it. After all, she is a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. If Radcliffe couldn’t bring himself to admit that he had been wrong and apologise to Rowling, then maybe the best he could do was sit at the bottom of the hole that he had already dug.
It would have been a sad ending to a relationship that once mattered to him. Without Rowling’s books there would have been no Harry Potter, and probably no fame or fortune for Radcliffe. Fortune smiled on him when he was cast in the starring role as an 11-year-old boy.
But the digging has recommenced. In his interview with the Atlantic, he declined to acknowledge the psychological and physical damage that has been done to children who have been lied to by those peddling this pernicious ideology. Instead, he doubled down, ‘I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that.’
Is that what he thinks? That he must choose between supporting ‘LGBTQ people’ and the protection of children from harm? But there again, Radcliffe is an actor who is paid to read the words that someone else has written. That may be what he is used to in his professional life, but if he chooses to apply the same principles in his private life then he needs to be far more careful who writes the scripts.
Radcliffe leans on ‘The Trevor Project’ – an American nonprofit organisation for LGBTQ+ young people. British readers might be more familiar with Stonewall but the way of thinking in these activist spaces is much the same. He told The Atlantic:
I’d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don’t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something … I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by [Rowling’s] comments.
From her first ‘dress however you please’ statement on the matter in December 2019, Rowling has been firm in what she knows to be true – things like biological sex – but she has also been empathetic towards trans people. In June 2020 she wrote, ‘I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection.’
Rowling offers far more to trans people like me than those banging drums and chanting slogans. Radcliffe would be wise to listen to her or he might find himself in what the followers of the ideology worry might be the worst place possible – the wrong side of history.
He’s in the cult – one of the rules is that you can’t leave it.
An afternoon laugh.
A Muslim dies and finds himself before the Pearly Gates…
He is very excited, as all his life he has longed to meet the Prophet Mohammed.
Having arrived at the Gates of Heaven, he meets a man with a beard.
“Are you Mohammed?” he asks.
“No, my son. I am Peter. Mohammed is higher up.” And he points to a ladder that rises into the clouds.
Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than Peter, he climbs the ladder in great strides, climbs through the clouds, coming to a room where he meets another bearded man.
He asks again, “Are you Mohammed?”
“No, I am Moses. Mohammed is higher still.”
Exhausted, but with a heart full of joy he continues to climb the ladder and, yet again, he discovers an even larger room where he meets another man with a beard.
Full of hope, he asks again, “Are you Mohammed?”
“No, I am Jesus… You will find Mohammed higher up.”
Mohammed is higher than Jesus!
The poor man can hardly contain his delight and climbs and climbs, ever higher.
Once again he reaches a larger room where he meets a man with a beard and repeats his question:
“Are you Mohammed?” he gasps as he is, by now, totally out of breath from all his climbing.
“No, my son…..I am God. But you look exhausted. Would you like a coffee?”
“Yes, please!” said the man.
God looks behind him, claps his hands, and calls out:
“Hey Mohammed, two coffees!”
Oooh. You’re in trouble !
Love it. Where he should be. Under the
thumb.heel.Similar one;
A Muslim dies and finds himself at the Pearly Gates.
St. Peter takes one look at him, turns round and shouts ‘ ‘Anybody order a taxi?’…..
Or the Indian that turned up at the gates and St Peter said “Piss off we’re not making curry for one”
Indian says – “Hey I’m a Christian, I’ve been to church every Sunday and raised more that £10,000 for the church – surely I can come in?”
St Peter says “Wait there, I’ll go and ask God”
10 minutes later St Peter comes back and says “Here’s your £10k now fuk off”
Of course Daniel Radcliffe doesn’t agree with JK Rowling, a woman old enough to be his mother
The feud between Radcliffe and Rowling just shows how we’ve all lost the art of disagreement – but there is a ‘Third Perspective’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/mental-health/daniel-radcliffe-jk-rowling-transgender-potter-women-sex/
BTL
I am 77. Many people young enough to be my grandchildren agree with my views on this transgender rubbish.
The trouble with slebs such as Radcliffe, Grint and Watson, is that they they want to be trendy. Rational, intelligent people – of whom there are a few – use more sensible criteria when forming their opinions
They acted their roles well enough. But i can’t give a fig for their political views. Bandwagoning.
Radcliffe was an engaging child but an ugly adult. I would be very surprised if he continued to get leading man roles.
He’s at the beginning of his career in a very, very Left wing dominated nutcase industry where being weird is celebrated. You couldn’t find a bunch more obsessed with race, genitalia and ‘the diversity’ as Hollywood. I imagine he is just saying things for his future.
Oxford and Cambridge students launch pro-Palestinian occupation of university lawns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/06/uk-university-protests-pro-palestinian-oxford-cambridge/
BTL
A provocatively dressed young female undergraduate ought to parade herself in Palestine in front of Hamaz supporters and see what happens to her!
A sure bet she would be sexually assaulted. They can’t help themselves.
Or rather they can and do.
Yet endless legions avoided raping women when the miniskirt came out. Why is it muslims have so much difficulty simply behaving like adults rather than savages?
Uneducated and indoctrinated.
New low for Lefties.. with their new besties..
Protesters wave Palestinian flags as the annual Holocaust remembrance event, the ‘March of the Living’ in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, on May 6
386975+ up ticks,
🎵,
Tis the same the whole world over,
Foreign children = mineral slaves,
English indigenous children sex slaves,rotherham,rochdale etc,etc,etc, courtesy of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled, paedophile umbrella construct ongoing, and supported & voted for via the majority of voters.
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1787409032602390798
Poor little sod.
386975+ up ticks,
May one ask,
How in hells name did this creep get the nickname “miranda”
in uni ?
“You have the right to”……….
He never shuts the frik up.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1787161760337703385
He is Bill Gates’ bag carrier. Uncle Bill has a lot of money in vaccines, so Tony is sent out to rep for him.
Tony Bliar is a fact lite extremist peddling his own minority views. About time something was done about extremism. Another broken promise by Sunak, looks like 😇
We have ‘the tools’ but not the gumption to do the job. And so everything we see before us continues to rot away.
386975+ up ticks,
O2O,
He still has followers, they walk among us.
https://x.com/JECPDS/status/1787180303041057184
His following is almost certainly big enough to secure him victory in a Sunak vs Blair contest at the present time.
The stinking turd in the shitpan that will just not flush away.
Only one? There’s a whole sewage farm of them.
True.
But he is the most prominent of them.
This is terrible. Nobody could have predicted it!
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Oh, how sad. I expect it was insured….
So, Al thinks he can control Nature? I think Nature just swatted Al there.
Talking of crucial lessons for the Conservative Party, it appears Labour has learned a few of its own. ITV headline: Starmer says he is determined to win back voters who snubbed Labour over Gaza.
As Sir Kneeler said, “I have heard you. I have listened. And I am determined to meet your concerns and to gain your respect and trust again in the future.”
Well, didn’t take long for the Muslim machine to school him then. I wonder if he’s realised yet that his party is actually dead now and that it’s only a matter of time before it’s eaten away completely.
Cur Ikea Slammer converts to slammerdom. Slays wife.
Grand Mufti or Grand Muff Diver?
Explain that to your four wives…
Simple Diver-sity!
Well, he went down on one knee for BLM. Now he’s going down on both knees, bum in the air for Muslims.
Were I to see this:
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what I would like to have is this:
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OR
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A great place to park https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b264c699cc89aaae20a3bc7d881888474f0840e628359c94a7e5a39233ec76b6.jpg
That is a state-of-the-art device for persuading Pikeys not to set up camp in your locality.
I’d venture that breaking those windows would be very risky.
Not if you bribe a gang of street urchins to do it.
Driving past the and of Glengall Road SE15 there was a young black man sprinting out of the traveller site carrying a scottish terrier puppy.
From the angry looks of the ladies in hot pursuit, he had just purloined aforementioned pup.
He was running very fast.
As though his health depended on it.
Personally I wouldn’t go round there faffing around with window breaking equipment.
…
Or might demand a significant fee.
If I recall correctly, didn’t someone on here do that????
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A bit late for a piccy holding a beer at Alan’s Snackbar.- after all it won’t be licensed!
Perhaps he’d better go for an Indian takeaway.
For goodness sake. Burn them out.
And what about Starmer’s Jewish wife – what does she make of his caving in to the anti Semitic barbarians.
Talking of crucial lessons for the Conservative Party, it appears Labour has learned a few of its own. ITV headline: Starmer says he is determined to win back voters who snubbed Labour over Gaza.
As Sir Kneeler said, “I have heard you. I have listened. And I am determined to meet your concerns and to gain your respect and trust again in the future.”
Well, didn’t take long for the Muslim machine to school him then. I wonder if he’s realised yet that his party is actually dead now and that it’s only a matter of time before it’s eaten away completely.
Akio Toyoda was asked to step down from his CEO position in Toyota because of his conservative views that full electrification of vehicular transport had no future in trying to save the planet – turns out he was right.
It is a lesson to the West that EVs have no place in any scheme to save the planet and it’s time to work out how the human race can survive the intrinsic instability of the planet we live on and just accept that we cannot control ourselves let alone the changing climate of our globe.
https://youtu.be/uA5vdBnNje4?si=w7wXxLbmRgUsQ_ql
But that’s the great thing about being a hoomahn. We CAN control our environment. We build houses, fill them with heat generators and coolers. We have hot running water when we want it (sort of). We can go where we want, when we want because we first harnessed other animals and then later invented the motor.
When Mongo goes outside all he has to protect him from the rain is his fur. A smaller dog with shorter hair has even less protection. In contrast the warqueen swaddled herself in a top, a shirt (one of mine), a jumper, coat and that coat has 5 linings.
What the green agenda wants is to remove that advantage and control over our environments – technology. The only way forward is technology. Technology makes better insulation materials, better clothes, better, more efficient heating systems. It creates more efficient motors, fuels power generators. A coal power station is not burning coal like an open fire. It is vastly, vastly more efficient.
That technology is down to our brains. If the Left wing greeniacs want to throw away the massive advantage our intelligence gives us for an ideological obsession then they should set the example. A few days in the open in winter will kill them off. This used to be called evolution, where success is rewarded and failure punished.
Toyoda is simply stating a fact of logic. To dismiss it is stupid.
There is much we need to do for our planet: stop feeding poor countries is a start. Re-use and recycling at 95% or higher is the next – currently we pack it in a shipping container and send our waste to Africa who dump it – in the sea – for us. However, these things require masses of energy, fuel and time. The state keeps removing all of those from us.
Yet again, the Left hold back the human race and create waste and pollution in their wake – and call themselves virtuous for doing so.
Private Richard George Masters VC (30th March 1877 – 4th April 1963), Royal Army Service Corps.
On 9th April 1918 near Bethune, France, owing to an enemy attack, communications were cut off and the wounded could not be evacuated. The road was reported impassable but Private Masters volunteered to try to get through and after great difficulty succeeded, although he had to clear the road of all sorts of debris. He made journey after journey throughout the afternoon over a road which was being shelled and swept by machine-gun fire and once he was bombed by an aeroplane. The greater number of wounded (approximately 200 men) were evacuated by him as his was the only car which got through.
He was gazetted for the VC on 8th May 1918. After being demobbed as Private Masters, he returned to being a private chauffeur.
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Respect!
His moustache is fabulous.
One of our former students has married a rather eccentric chap called Geoffrey who sports a moustache on which he uses beeswax to turn it up at the ends.
Not many people do that nowadays
Salvador Dalí springs to mind.
Salvador Dalí springs to mind.
This is a good thing. It’s a sign of madness.
Good man. I hear he went on to drive Lady Penelope.
Good man. I hear he went on to drive Lady Penelope.
I have a confession. Dumbing down doesn’t always bother me. I went to the Radio 3 lunchtime concert at the Wigmore Hall today. It was the solo recital debut by Hugh Cutting, countertenor, whose programme was bookended with songs by John Denver. “Thought of You” (1983) and “Poems, Prayers and Promises” (1971) which I discovered I still know by heart. I like John Denver’s sentimental melodies. Of course there was inevitable hypocrisy in him being a wealthy globetrotting celebrity promoting the simple life but I can still take the songs at face value and it turns out some of them are well suited to solo voice, harp, guitar and viola. The meat of the recital came from Renaldo Hahn, Ernest Chausson, Claude Debussy, a new commission and some folk songs.
Although I am not usually a folk music fan, I don’t think songs written by John Denver necessarily ‘dumb down’ a concert, more like showcasing a different time and genre.
“A String through Time” was the theme of the concert.
Sounds about right!
With James Galway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgPmSlBpDSg
Always thought there was something a bit odd about Galway.
Strange eyes.
I’ve just googled him, and he has an eye condition called nystagmus which causes involuntary movement.
Didn’t know that.
Me neither! He always reminded me of a chirpy leprechaun!
https://youtu.be/HgwhIfJCsyc
Well, that’s my ear worm for the day!!
Debussy, eh? There’s modern!
Goodness me Sue ,
I am way out of my depth with your blue stocking musical knowledge .
Your description of the recitals you listen to is so on board , with the volume set perfectly for readers like me .
Very enjoyable , thankyou .
Not all that keen on John Denver though , but I will Google and find out for myself .
See, I have bared my limited musical ear to you.
I always enjoy your observations as much as I enjoy Anne’s clever history quips .
Wet weather here , heavy and 15c.
It’s been dry here but not particularly warm.
Me too, but I still like reading her comments 🙂
Is Tim Davie aware that you abandoned your desk?
It’s May Bank Holiday Monday in the UK, Grizz.
Caught me off guard, too.
Bugger, and I was just about to grass you up, Sue!🤬
Bugger, and I was just about to grass you up, Sue!🤬
A pruned Par Four?
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Show us yer divots, Richard!
Don’t be chippy!
I’m more Chip & Pin, Bill!
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That’s me gone. Turned out nice – eventually. Though there is still a chilly edge to the wind. OK for working but not for sitting outdoors.
Have a spiffing evening.
A demain. Prolly.
I don’t know how he can go home and face her.
Starmer does it backwards.
Dave † 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇮🇪🎸🎶
@daveguitarjones
I’m really fed up with shops that give false promises:
You can’t buy a curry from Curry’s.
You can’t buy boots at Boots.
And Superdrug has always been a massive disappointment.
Does Selfridges sell fridges?
Should prosecute them under the trade descriptions act!
You’ll find that Tess goes to…..wait…Rose.
According to Genesis Tess co-operates.
It’s a mystery to me how that comes about. I think the truth of it is that Starmer and most of our political class are living in fear of the muslim effect. That vote amendment which Starmer pressured the Speaker over was borne out of fear, no doubt in my mind. It wasn’t just political manouvring to keep diverse factions together in Labour. Jews feel unsafe in Britain and Starmer’s other half I’d guess is likely uncomfortable. They have left in droves, as it becomes ever clearer that the UK has at least fostered antisemitism, if not officially embraced it.
Starmer is now voicing the wishes of the Muslim elements in the country, today telling everyone that Israel must not move into Rafah. There are Jews who don’t want Israel to do that of course either, but they have their own reasons, which aren’t to do with perceived threats by Hamas.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=746128&post_id=144318459&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=129gwh&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NDI2NzIxNywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQ0MzE4NDU5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTUwMDA2MDgsImV4cCI6MTcxNzU5MjYwOCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTc0NjEyOCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.03EGJwxi4lafB1EOw2swojFV9RNVx063pfoGxNyxaqI
Good evening, everyone. Hope that you have all enjoyed some sunshine in between the other stuff. The anti-semites throwing tantrums at our great universities are very well funded and co-ordinated, aren’t they?
I was thinking that this morning, also the weekly incitement-to-murder marches. Now we have them infiltrating local government via the smaller parties like the Greens and I don’t for one moment imagine that it is because they are concerned about potholes and refuse collection. So the question is – who is organising and funding them?
Iran. Off the record. They will make no overt move to “support” the Philistines- just supply their military chums with materiel – and external propaganda – eg, “protests”.
Yes, that is what I thought too, but I also think that they have some western accomplices with a slightly different agenda but in whose interests it is to have a cowed and fearful indigenous population.
I agree. I would imagine the usual suspects will be sponsoring through the usual cuddly-sounding proxies.
The Green Palestinians?
Fluffy Bunnies for Peace.
“My enemy’s enemy is my friend”
Someone’s going to have a very rude awakening before too long
Unfortunately the rest of us ‘normies’ get caught in the crossfire!
Starmer….and his lefty pals.
You mean Blair/Starmer and their lefty pals.
I noticed that the tents in one of the recently set up university protests were all of the same colours and those of the Palee flag. Someone has done some planning and not just nipped down to a camping shop and rustled up a few cheap bivvies. There are influential players behind these demonstrations all helped by the network of mosques, quietly marshalling the resources necessary for the best effects.
Exactly that. It is actually more than a bit sinister and ineffectual government combined with a supine, if not complicit police force doesn’t fill one with confidence about the future.
The Open Foundation (Soros).
Certainly one of the suspects.
BDS was on the cards with my mad-Left local council before October 7th. I recall the Greens spurting their anti-Semitic bile and thinking “Do these people even hear themselves?”.
I noticed the seemingly ever present Socialist Worker placards.
I have a chaise that has been stained by odd specks of Amarylis. Any advice?
Don’t invite Amarylis round again.
Sticky tape might lift it , no damp cloths … no no no , your stain will remain forever.
Is this the way for Amaryllis?
Groan…..
And more groans!!
🙂
Too good to miss!
Yes, or the pointy end of a hoover, so long as the pollen hasn’t already taken on water.
Move the Amarylis
A chaise long?
I don’t know why this makes me laugh – but it does.
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Re-reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
I last read it in the 1950s and have always been impressed, particularly now, when we need a new John Galt.
Brilliant book…..
Have you read “Anthem”? It’s a novella but in its own way as powerful as Atlas Shrugged and also very relevant today.
No, I havent, only Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I long ago had a slightly loony girlfriend who insisted I read them – but I did enjoy them. But if you think it’s worth it I’ll have a look!
I read The Fountainhead first and found it quite heavy going, and the film even worse, but still wanted to explore more. Not long after I read Atlas Shrugged I had a boyfriend who had also read it and thought I was quite loony for enjoying it and taking it seriously!! I’d love to know what he thinks now, if he is even still alive :D!
I would recommend “Anthem”, and also “We the Living” which is also short but with a very sad ending.
There’s a thread developing here vis-a-vis loony women – Ayn (what’s wrong with Alice?) was a bit loony herself!
The above exchanges brought to mind The Goon’s ‘The Bridge on the River Wye’
English Senior Officer: “What about the Geneva Convention?’
Japanese Commandant: “Have not read book, nor seen film…..”
That’s up there with Tony Hancock’s;
‘Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain!!’
Indeed she was, but most very clever people are loony! I like Ayn better than Alice – it is actually my second name, well Ann is 🙂
I’m extremely clever and I’m not loony at all! Quiet at the back, there….
She pronounced it ‘Ine’ as well – I’m sure you dont pronounce your second name ‘Inn’ (maybe you do?)….
No, I don’t 🙂 In fact, between the ages of seven and twelve I used it as my first name. I got horribly teased at school for having a “boy’s name” so decided to use Ann instead. My parents said I couldn’t do that but I said I could. I told them that all they had to do was to ask the headmaster to announce in assembly that I wished to be called Ann and would no longer answer to Peta. They all went along with me not believing for one moment that it would work – until I immediately stopped answering to Peta so it did😆 I was still called Peta at home though, just to confuse the issue further! Then when I got to 12 I decided that I rather liked being different so announced that from then on I was reverting to Peta. Fortunately we moved from northern to southern Rhodesia at the time and I was persuaded to wait until I got to my new school 😁
I’m not loony either….. 🤣
And my family name, Tracey, was not a girl’s name when I was at school where everyone addressed each other by family names. There was a boy whose family name was Jane and we all felt sorry for him when we called him Jane.
Johnny Cash’s song comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ3tFPTUhAE
I remember that song well, and as you can imagine could identify!
Excellent – you could record ‘A Girl named Peta’ by the Woman in Black…..
You really wouldn’t want to hear any song that I might record…..😂
Oh, I dont know – I’m a huge fan of discordant singing – you should hear my Rugby songs!
I think on balance I should probably not hear your rugby songs….. 😆
Oh, I dont know – some are really funny and clever – some are just downright coarse and crude – I’m guessing you might prefer the latter?
That’s why I don’t think I should hear them 😀
Hang on – you’ve been married to/lived with a couple of Rugby players, havent you? Did you never hear any from them?
Just the odd snatches….. :))
Slightly unfortunate choice of words but I get your drift … 😉
Snatches full of sand, like the Sphinxl?
Well done! You were ahead of your time self-identifying as a different name!
Spurred on by your example I think I might just self-identify as Brett Dangerfield……
Might be pushing your luck a bit there…
In fact, I was actually identifying as a girl because I was a girl, I could have got cancelled for that these days 😕
Was?
Might be pushing your luck a bit there…
In fact, I was actually identifying as a girl because I was a girl, I could have got cancelled for that these days 😕
Dangermouse – more like!
Only if you’re prepared to be Penfold!
OK providing you don’t insert an ‘is’ into the middle of the name!
Pis en fold?
That would be a slightly soiled napkin….
Would that be BBBBrett?
Sorry, Sue, I’m being stupid again – dont get it!
GGGGGaspar?
D’ohhhh! (see 4 h’s!)……
I thought you were reading a different page! And I really don’t think you’re stupid! 😛
Well, as the luminary Forrest Gump would say – Stupid is as stupid does….. guilty on all counts….
Did you live next door to her?
Hope not, she died ages ago…..
Edit: Just realised what you did there (24 years etc) …. I’m being particularly dumb tonight…..
Alice, who the xxxx is Alice?
Not read Anthem but will continue with Ayn Rand and The Fountainhead.
Um, Ayn Rand wrote “Anthem” :))
Thank you, Peta, I didn’t know that.
About time all the World Leaders were forced to read it, in order to understand where their totalitarianism is leading both them and us!
I suspect that a lot of them will have read it but are assuming, correctly, that most of us haven’t. They don’t want us to understand where all this is leading.
I read it first in the mid-70s, then again in the mid-90s, and finally again in about 2010. It never loses its relevance but it is much more relevant today than it was when I first read it. I like to think there are a few John Galts out there biding their time while laying their plans.
See my response to GGGGasper.
Been revisiting JG Ballard just lately
I remember he covered climate change, with The Drowned World and The Drought. Many other novels, there’s a lot to revisit.
It is, but the fundamental element is that there is somewhere for the Atlassians to go where they cannot be forced. They are free. The globalists want to remove that because they know that if freedom (from) exists somewhere, people will head there.
I could be paranoid, or simply noticing it more than most around me, but the efforts the state is going to to destroy freedom from is immense. Tried moving £10,000 from one country to another these days? Banks stop it. There’s not even a question of security, it is simply forbidden.
No, you aren’t being paranoid. But remember that the Atlassians opted right out and had the technology to make sure they couldn’t be found, even though they were still in the US. That has to be more than possible today.
You are right about the limit on inter-country bank transfers too, though I am sure there are some who have no problem at all…..
Meanwhile….
“Shares of the Toronto-Dominion Bank have fallen nearly 8% since last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal report that revealed the bank’s involvement in a $653 million drug money-laundering scheme. ”
I did that recently. Try a Wise account.
After a dry but chilly day we now have torrential rain – we were promised thunderstorms so I think it’s arrived.
It’s been stair rods here in East Dorset.
“Ben Houchen’s success in Tees Valley contains a crucial lesson for the Conservative Party”
Yes, have a go at being Conservative perhaps.
It’s that simple.
Which begs the question, why haven’t they?
Dunno. Could be that everyone wants free shit, and there’s nobody left to supply it?
If we could solve that, we’d be able to start the most successful party in the UK.
Remember Margaret Thatcher’s stream of successes – and some of the fights she had on the way.
The Conservatives lost the battle for public opinion. People are embarrassed to admit they are conservative. It is trendy to be “Progressive”. People who know nothing and whose parents weren’t even born in the 1980s revile “Thatcher” (or, the late great Mrs Thatcher). They have been taught to hate conservatism. It is a real issue.
Yes its called brainwashing.
Absolutely charming:-
https://youtu.be/vSq-K8QEtHk?si=8siDuxKFiwO-UhTC
I’ve been binge reading the Torygraph today – getting some value from my £25 subscription for a year. Haven’t tried commenting yet – I couldn’t find a way of commenting as Ndovu instead of my real name.
The Elephant Lady?
Babar’s wife was Celeste
Login to your account, then ‘Manage your details’, ‘Update your details’. You can change your name, which will then appear in any posts, but will also be how the DT knows you from then on.
Yes, I have found the same problem, so if you do find a way around the problem, post it here.
Richard made a suggestion – I’d have to use a two word name I think.
This week’s “Diasaffected” podcast by Josh Slocomb from “dystopian Virginia”. In the first part, he gives a very good analysis as to the reason for the problems we are seeing, namely the epidemic of narcissism and its enabling by the weak. Well worth a watch.
https://rumble.com/v4tl5hr-291560463.html
Wasn’t Joshua Slocum he first man to sail single handed around the world? (I have the book in my library)
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f47da99130ab3aa6f87ced71565cef7da11ab5c370f17fc10d46092806652c2f.png
Yep!
Do you know (of) Dee Caffari? My company sponsored her in one of the round the world races, and I understand she went on to great (Ellen MacArthur level) achievements – she was a lovely girl as well!
🙂 i’m not sure this one is much of a sailor!
I highly recommend Mr Slocum. I am a weekly listener.
I tried that but it wanted my surname, even if I made Ndovu my first name.
Surname Ndovo ,first name The Lady
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Reminds me of the story of when the Queen Mother had an Admiral, a general and and American air marshal round for drinks at Kensington Palace.
All was going well until the QM let rip an explosively loud fart. The admiral who was used to encountering hurricanes at sea knew what to do. He bowed humbly to the old lady, apologised profusely and left the room.
Five minutes later there was another thunderclap. The general who had served in the bomb disposal unit in the Gobi Desert knew what to do too. He apologised even more profusely and left the room.
This left just the American air marshal and once again the QM let fly with a thunderous emission.
“Gee ma’am,” said the Yank, “you can have that one on me,!
I’m reminded of the Queen Mother at a formal dinner farting (she must have had a bit of a problem) loudly, and, in an effort to deflect the embarrassment, she turned to the footman behind her and snapped;
‘James, stop that!!’
Came the reply…..
‘Certainly Ma’am – which way did it go?’
I was in a pub years ago when this big fat guy at the bar let out an enormous fart. I shouted “I’ll name that tune in one” – brought the house down
Nice one, I hope he didnt whack you!
No he laughed like everyone else
That would be even funnier if the Americans actually had “air marshals”.
Well, they do but not in their armed forces.
Can one fart after a colostomy?
I had an ileostomy for 4 months 25 years ago and yes you can fart through the loop of intestine the bag is attached to.
The story goes that the Queen and President Eisenhower were riding down the Mall in a horse drawn carriage, when one of the horses let rip an enormous one.
The Queen was embarrassed and said, “Mr President, I do apologise.”
The President said,“That’s all right ma’am, I thought it was the horse”.
The version I heard involved General Gowon of Nigeria.
386975+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
This is the politico / pharmaceutical elites telling their
supporters / voters that they, the supporter / voters, are even more stupid than they the elites gave them credit for.
https://x.com/Hazbeen66/status/1787508403708813320
The sheep are going to love being terrified by this as well:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13387265/terrifying-100-day-cough-sweeping-Britain-pregnant-women-young-babies-risk-urges-action.html
I saw that and I really couldn’t believe it. Effectively what they are saying is that they will create a virus which will kill you unless you have the vaccine. Chilling stuff.
I doubt they will risk injecting themselves with any of their witches’ potions, so the chances of them unleashing a really dangerous virus are low, because it would catch them too.
The magic fairy spell that preempts the witch’s curse. Lewis Carroll would give up. He couldn’t match this.
Well, chums, I hope you all enjoyed the first of your May Bank Holidays this month. I will now bid you all a Good Night as I head to bed. Sleep well and see you all tomorrow.
Good night.
Another day is done so, I wish you a goodnight and may God bless you all, Gentlefolk. Bis morgen früh.
Good night Sir.
Good night to you and everyone else – I’m off as well.
386975+ up ticks,
The common denominator of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration, mass paedophile umbrella coalition party, you cannot get any better at being horrific.
https://x.com/GDarton28708/status/1787522825890283555
386975+ up ticks,
O2O,
As he rides into the sunset to the echo’s of
” we love you Miranda”
And that is me off to bed.
Goodnight all.
Night night all , sleep well .
https://twitter.com/thad_cthad4/status/1787446956190535817
Sadly, after pumping bilges over an hour ago, sleep has slipped from my grasp.
The second picture is just an empty oil or milk container!
Pumped bilges over an hour ago and continued sleep has eluded me.
DT is still peacefully asleep so I’ve come downstairs for a while.
Will be heading back up soon.
Nearly 8°C in the yard.
I know the feeling, BoB, but I’ll have to wait until today’s page is put up. Hope you grab some zeds.
Just posted this comment onto the Letters Page:-
As Polly would point out, this change coincidentally happened at the same time as the rise of one George Soros, who appears to be Area Manager for UK politicians among other things.
And, as I go back to bed, I leave this behind:-
https://twitter.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1787536073947484377
Good morning, all – Tuesday’s new page is here.
‘ Morning, Geoff and thank you for all your efforts on our behalf.
Thank you.