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First! Happy New Year everyone!
and from me.
Happy New Year (I hope) Everyone, and to Geoff of course, who makes it all possible!
A very happy New Year to Geoff and his Nottlrs. (Today is 1.1.22, is that a good omen?)
Edit: Bliar is to be knighted. This is very definitely NOT a good start to my year! My revulsion is unbounded.
It’s the first day of 2022, Hugh. “Things can only get better!” Lol.
Aaarrrgh! It gets worse – his ghastly missus will be Lady Bliar. Two for the price of one…
Oi, that’s Lady Slot-gob to you, you oik.
It’s the first day of 2022, Hugh.“Things can only get better!” Lol.
Gongs galore: the New Year’s Honours List. 1 January 2022.
But it’s the political honours that always draws Steerpike’s eye. This year Tony Blair finally received his knighthood – and was made Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the highest possible ranking in the new year’s list. Blair has been waiting to be knighted for over 14 years – with only one of the Queen’s last nine prime ministers not receiving the honour.
War Criminal and Traitor finally receives recognition by the Country he destroyed! It’s going to be a truly dreadful year!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/gongs-galore-the-new-year-s-honours-list
‘Morning, Minty. I suspect that Bliar would have preferred a peerage, as was once the convention for former PMs . He could then have swept into the Palace of Westminster with his taxpayer-funded security team to collect his tax-free daily allowance of £330. This would be even more sickening.
Morning Hugh. Like most corrupt political systems they all look after each other since to do otherwise might see them facing similar fates.
I seem to recall something about members of the HoL having to record their financial interests. Not something the likes of this odious specimen would want exposed to daylight.
Additionally, yhe only reason he ‘had to wait’ for 14 years is, due to the number of Garters being restricted to 24, it’s a case of dead mans shoes for such an honour.
As a Scot the war criminal could have been made a Thistle before Snotty McDoom had time to rearrange the furniture but I suspect the slot-gobbed maven would consider such an award as below her status.
Good morning, Minty, and all our fellow NoTTLers, with a great wish for a happy and prosperous 2022
Ironic Minty, that the motto of the Garter is, “Honi soit qui mal y pense”. Evil to him who evil thinks – apt for this evil little megalomaniac.
Wishing all Nottlers a very happy and prosperous New Year! In the words of d:ream and the newly-knighted Blair creature “Things can only get better!”
Oops! You beat me to it by a couple of hours, Sue Mac. (Great minds think alike?)
HNY Elsie! I was up early!
Indeed you were, Sue Mac. But after a very early post from me (the first one – see above) I went to read my emails and when I returned I worked my way down from to top, commenting on the first Tony Blair knighthood post before reaching yours.
I saw your early post and raised it! 💕
SIR – There are roughly 175 steam railways in Britain. In order to run them, we are forced to import coal from Kazakhstan (report, December 17), over 3,000 miles away, while sitting on top of plenty of our own.
I for one would be happy to invest in a charitable company set up to continue mining at Ffos-y-fran in Wales, one of our last coal mines, which is due to shut this year.
Nick Rose
Selsey, West Sussex
SIR – Steep energy-price rises are imminent, due mainly to supply difficulties for gas and electricity.
We blame the Russians and a lack of wind, but surely, having banned fracking and coal-fired power stations, the Government is at fault.
Anthony Brookes
Charlwood, Surrey
SIR – It is ludicrous to liquefy gas and transport it round the world (report, December 23) when there is a plentiful supply in the North Sea.
Ian Bell
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The first of these letters is particularly relevant because we took our grandson on the Kent and East Sussex Railway yesterday. They are all perfectly good points, but Johnson and his eco-nutjob missus doesn’t ‘do’ logic.
That folk can’t seem to realise the entire reason for the high gas prices is because of intentionally, deliberately throttled supply is astonishing. It’s like putting four beans in front of someone and them saying ‘three – and that one’.
A couple of BTLs on the subject of Bliar’s ‘K’. No further comment required from me!
Martin Selves
34 MIN AGO
We should start off the New Year in an optimistic way, but the Knight-hood of Tony Blair is an affront to everyone in this Country. Theresa May rewarded Ollie Robbins, a Civil Servant, unelected and secretly working behind David Davies, this extraordinary honour as well. for deception and the writing of the dreadful WA She, in that one act condemned herself to ignominy. Boris Johnson had to approve this reward to Tony Blair, and the Queen had to sign it off. I am speechless.
This means Boris respects and admires the work done by this man, who I believe may be genuinely certifiable. He worked behind the scenes with the EU to stop Brexit, and when that failed he tried to convert it into a Brino. Does this not point the finger at our Prime Minister and what he really believes in. He believes in Tony Blair. Well the Country doesn’t, and would prefer he is locked up.
This reckless and imho incomprehensible action is another Red Line under Boris Johnson, and it is added to the Fishing fiasco he signed off last month. He gave away to Macron, under pressure, fishing licences that should not have been signed off. He bent at the knee, in the hope France would be kind. Northern Ireland maybe be next dreadful mistake by signing the Protocol off instead of respecting our Constitution and the Good Friday Agreement.
But hey, Boris an admirer of Tony Blair has been rumbled in his Party and across the Land. When Leaders come up against the reality of their actions, they often do something extraordinary, and we see that in this Knight-Hood. Bercow will be next for sure.
K Brown
48 MIN AGO
I hope the sword has been sharpened !
No one wants Blair locked up.
We want him hung, drawn, quartered, flayed, flogged, beaten and chained in a sewer.
SIR – Is there ever going to be a time when Covid is treated in the same way as other virus infections? It was reported on Friday that a woman developed a sore throat on a flight, and happened to have a lateral flow test with her. She used it and tested positive. She was then terrified of giving Covid to other passengers, so isolated in the lavatory for five hours.
We have all caught infections during air travel – colds, coughs, even flu. There must surely come a time when testing for Covid ceases and we accept the risk of infection.
I am a retired GP. In the past we all carried on working while suffering from colds and coughs. I can only remember taking time off once when I had genuine flu. Now, symptomless people are forced to take time off work because they test positive. There appears to be a mania for testing, resulting in fear – of death, illness, infecting others, social disapprobation. This has to stop.
Dr Hilary Murray
Bala, Merionethshire
Carolyn Bates
1 HR AGO
In response to Dr Hillary of Merionethshire.
How refreshing to read an opinion from a doctor, expressing the same views as many of the British public over the hysteria in this country over what now amounts to a common cold.
The continued insanity that the Prime Minister is imposing on us is not only absurd but totally unwarranted and the testing fiasco and the resulting millions who are off from work because of it inexplicable, scientifically, or otherwise.
As a retired medical professional myself, I have questioned the advice that is being given to the Prime Minister for over a year, and yet, it continues, despite all available statistics and scientific data not supporting the measures.
South Africa announced yesterday that Omicron has peaked and they are no longer testing or imposing restrictions. This means their crisis is over and it therefore follows, that ours should be coming to an end as well; that, however is not happening, in fact there is now a strong possibility that we may be back in lockdown soon.
We cannot go on like this, neither socially or economically because the cure is now damaging us far more than the virus. It is time for this Prime Minister to wake up, find some courage, and announce to the British public that our crisis is over, and move on, as we are in desperate need of a return to normality, while we still have a country to save.
If he cannot, or will not do this, then he must be replaced by someone who will, and soon.
Well said Carolyn.
Good Morning Folks & a Happy New Year
Already had the pinch and the punch with Blair & Whitty’s knighthoods.
Clearish skies and breezy start here
Repeated from late yesterday:
Some may recall the debacle of the Imperial War Museum’s Remembrance Day service:
‘We read the reviews of the Second World War displays and having arrived in
time to observe the Act of Remembrance stood with others in the main
hall. The entire event became horrendous with the inclusion of a Rap
which was nothing more than a vile attack on (among others) Churchill
and a rant about race. Both are legitimate subjects for debate, but NOT
on Remembrance Sunday. My wife who served in the RAF was deeply upset by
such a disrespectful charade. We spoke to a member of the staff who was
clearly as shocked as we were and said they would pass on our
reactions. We left without viewing the exhibition. The whole episode
making us question the wisdom of the organisers.’
War Museum Director-General, Diane Lees, has just been awarded a Damehood in New Year Honours. P45 would have been more apt.
‘Morning, VOM. That is truly awful, and I’m glad I wasn’t there. I trust that you will acquaint your MP with this, and go on doing so until you receive a detailed reply.
Yes, previously sent letters to MP, Department of Culture, Media and Sport (who fund the War Museum) and Museum’s Trustees. Clearly made no difference!
Honours are just a back-slapping club for some of the most vile and out of touch people in the country now.
Yep, completely dishonourable, utterly unworthy bunch of chancers, liars, thieves, crooks and sewage.
Those with honours need a kick in the privates.
Happy New Year fellow Nottlers.
I see there is confirmation that the honours system is not fit for purpose with the war criminal being awarded a knighthood.
All those awarded such an honour in the past who were worthy recipients must surely feel just a little bit tainted having him in their “club”.
Final confirmation that it is a “DisHonours List”.
Very good Anne, I must try to use that in future.
I’m thinking that there might be some method in the Queens madness with Blair’s knighthood.
She most obviously doesn’t have many more honours lists to sanction.
This has brought Blair out of the shadows where he has been lurking for years as an emissary for world government and certain billionaire plutocrats, now he is back in the limelight as it were and the people can have their say.
I think the pressure just got too big. There is a queue of ex Prime Ministers who can’t be given honours because Blair hasn’t been given anything. Of course, none of them deserve anything.
Lord Gordon Brown of the Sold Off Gold?
Lord Gay-Marriage Cameron of Cockups?
Baroness May of Migration?
Not forgetting the latest one, Earl Johnson of Vaxxtopia.
A queue for honours may not seem much to you and me, but I think it’s still a big deal for them. They floated the idea of a peerage for the B.Liar last year, and got near universal loathing in the Mail comment columns. So I guess they’ve compromised with one of the devalued Knighthoods. At least it wasn’t something hereditary.
Perhaps Baroness May of No-Brexit?
Signing the UN Migration Pact was the single worst thing she did.
It was interesting to note that the Duchess of Cornwall was also appointed to the Order of the Garter, alongside Blair.
It is an appointment supposed to be in the Queen’s personal gift and the most senior of the Orders.
Perhaps Blair’s is a smokescreen to make Camilla’s look better and to pave the way for Queen Camilla, at Charles’s request..
Just devalues that one as well.
The Duchess of Cornwall gets hers as a Knight Companion, for services to the Queen.
Blair’s is like drain cleaner, clearing the way for the likes of Brown and Cameron.
None of them deserve honour. They’re all scum.
I still don’t understand why there is a backlog; it’s supposed to be an honour, not an addition to your P45 as you are forced out of office by the voters.
Charles Moore in today’s DT:
Boris faces the same fate as John Major if he persists with the elite dogma of net zero
When we crashed out the ERM, it demolished the orthodoxy of the time. Johnson’s climate agenda has to reckon with reality sooner or later
CHARLES MOORE
31 December 2021 • 9:30pm
As this New Year dawns, I am struck by a parallel from 30 years ago. At the beginning of 1992, the pound was in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (the ERM) of the European Monetary System.
According to the then prime minister, John Major, membership was essential to stabilising sterling and controlling inflation. In fact, however, the ERM’s insistence that the pound must be worth at least 2.7780 Deutschmarks kept interest rates fearsomely high, hitting businesses and mortgages and inducing recession.
Eventually, the markets disbelieved the government’s increasingly shrill promises to do “whatever it takes” to keep the pound in. On September 16 1992 (“Black Wednesday”), they tested Major’s commitment. For a few mad hours, interest rates rose to 15 per cent. Then the government admitted defeat. Britain fell out of the ERM that evening and for ever.
This humiliated Major and demolished the orthodoxy of the time, but reality returned. The pound found its natural level, the British economy recovered. The chances of Britain ever entering the European single currency receded.
Thirty years on, the parallel is with net zero. As with the ERM, which sterling entered with fanfare in October 1990, the Government is proud of its policy. In late June 2019, the dying days of Theresa May’s premiership, Britain became, in its words, “the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050”. Under the new law, greenhouse gas emissions would have to reduce to net zero by 2050, compared with the previous target of at least an 80 per cent reduction from 1990 levels. Boris Johnson, who succeeded Mrs May, has boasted, notably at Cop26, of this legislation and is acting on it, seeking applause from elites otherwise hostile because of Brexit.
In the course of 2021, however, the measures required to fulfil this edict have grown unpopular. Policies such as banning pure new internal combustion engines by 2030, the imposition of low emission zones in big cities or talk of new mortgages only for energy-efficient homes have caused alarm. Energy costs seem the worst – the impracticality and expense of green technology like heat pumps to replace gas boilers, and the dizzying rise in gas prices.
There is also resentment that our Government is not protecting us from global bad faith. Although net zero pledges have risen in two years from covering 16 per cent of the global economy to 68 per cent, these look highly dubious. Countries such as China, India and Russia are most unlikely to comply with the 2050 timetable. This saddles Western countries with policies that cannot achieve the sole purpose of net zero – a universal reduction of carbon emission levels. So they will hit our consumers and businesses even worse. We are the victims of the attitude satirised in the Beyond the Fringe Battle of Britain sketch: “We need a futile gesture at this stage!”
During 2022, these problems can only increase. Probably the Government can avoid one spectacular day of disaster like Black Wednesday 1992 – although even that might not be true if, for example, there are suddenly drastic power cuts.
Under present policies, detestably high price rises are unavoidable. A recent poll for Net Zero Watch recorded three out of five saying they would not be willing to pay higher taxes on their energy bills to meet net zero targets. As with the ERM/European issues 30 years ago, Tory rebels are picking up on discontents which ministers – and all the Opposition parties in Parliament – ignore.
In April, the energy price cap is expected to rise to £2,000, doubling what it was a year ago. And price caps – which drive smaller firms out of business – are no solution to price hikes, only delaying their impact.
Some price rises are attributable to temporary market problems, but we are trapped in high prices because government has deliberately eschewed alternatives. In the United States, natural gas prices are ten times lower than in this country. Britain’s shale basin is far thicker, and therefore potentially more productive than America’s, but the government’s shale fracking moratorium has left it untapped 10 years after its possibilities became available.
For similar reasons, we are not fully exploiting our offshore drilling capacities, or digging out coal needed for steel production. Yet the absolute need for fossil fuels, because of the intermittency of wind and solar power, remains. Environmental dogma simply raises the prices to distress levels, thus rewarding less green countries.
The economic costs to us ought to be obvious – the loss of competitiveness, of energy-intensive manufacturing and of key advantages which Britain gained from the Industrial Revolution; the vulnerability to foreign politics; the retrograde inconvenience of many green technologies.
So should the psychological damage. The idea that your long-term investment in equipment to keep your house warm is being undermined by vain attempts to meet arbitrary targets (there is nothing scientifically special about the date 2050) is frightening, especially for the old, as is the fear that you could not afford to heat your home or run your car.
At the Greta Thunberg end of the environmentalist spectrum lies a belief that the Western way of life should be destroyed. It is disturbing that a Conservative government seems to toy with such ideas.
Surely it is time to ditch the dogma and coercion and find friendlier ways of controlling emissions. There are signs of this happening in the EU, where the European Commission is changing its “taxonomy” so that natural gas and nuclear power can be treated as sustainable forms of low-carbon energy rather than the work of the Devil.
Why is it that a Government skilled, as we learnt at the general election of 2019, at appealing to public opinion, is so out of touch on these issues?
Again, the ERM comparison is instructive. It is a great feature of the modern world that bureaucracies want to build institutions that increase their power by transcending national borders. It is a founding principle of the European Union that it should be forged not through referendums or elections, but through systems above democracy. The ERM was part of this. Although usually presented in Britain as a technical question of monetary management, it was always intended as the transitional method of creating a single currency and a European central bank, thus stripping each nation state of the right to its own currency.
As the ERM developed in the 1980s, a parallel process (though not a specifically European one) was developing over global warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the Conferences of the Parties (Cop), sought to build a new global order. This has involved great deference to “experts”, not unlike that paid to Sage over Covid, and misrepresentations of what the conferences have actually agreed. The tax-paying, energy-using public have been ill-informed about how it will affect them.
As with the ERM, so with net zero, a weird unanimity took over the process, backed by a largely compliant media. John Major repeatedly lamented after Black Wednesday that “everyone” had supported ERM. It was not so, unless by “everyone” he meant most people holding senior official positions. Such people are most likely to be wrong when they are nearest to unanimity. They need watching. As a journalist, Boris Johnson was a genius at detecting when the official orthodoxy ignored the facts of most people’s lives. He will need to recover that skill in 2022 if he wishes to avoid the eventual electoral fate of John Major.
* * *
Hear, hear. And all that Johnson can come up with today is yet another promise to ‘make Brexit a success.’ More distraction politics, with lie after lie after lie…
Net-Zero! Lol! The Eldorado of the modern age!
“a weird unanimity took over the process, backed by a largely compliant media”
And Charles Moore, writing in that largely compliant media, goes along with the lie that it all happened by chance or as a result of incompetence.
Perhaps the extent to which our institutions are globalist-pwned is too horrifying to admit to.
If Johnson seriously wants to make Brexit a success he must scrap the N Ireland Protocol, honour his pledges to the fishermen, restore our borders and remove the ECJ’s authority in any of our affairs.
But does anybody believe – even remotely – that Johnson gives a damn about these things. The sooner he goes the better – but who will replace him?
Brexit was a vehicle to get elected.
Net zero is a nosense to soak tax.
Police release image of woman wanted over Milton Keynes anti-vaxx protest. 1 January 2021.
Ch Insp Graham Hadley, of Thames Valley police (TVP), said on Thursday: “We are carrying out a thorough investigation into the protest that happened yesterday. As part of our inquiries, we believe the woman pictured may have information that could help our investigation.”
In a later update, TVP said 38 witnesses to the protest had been identified and officers will obtain statements, while more than four hours of footage will be reviewed. The force is investigating offences of theft, assault, criminal damage, public nuisance and violent disorder. No arrests have been made.
Well it’s a good job they weren’t Muslims carrying out an attack on a bus filled with Jewish teenagers or we’d still be waiting!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/31/police-release-image-of-woman-wanted-over-milton-keynes-anti-vaxx-protest
Bearing in mind how long it took the police to charge a few eco-terrorists (sorry, Insulate Britain nutjobs) I’m not optimistic. Call me old-fashioned but would it not have been easier and quicker to round up some or all of the protesters while they were still there? Their failure to attend – I’m sure they would have been called – just reinforces the idea that you can do much as you please with little chance of being caught.
This action will be swift and aggressive with fast arrests and trials. You see, these people are defying the state and that cannot be permitted.
Ah! That’ll be the right-wing terrorism, then!
Flattery Becomes You
Just as his favourite bar opens for the day, a guy walks in and to his surprise hears a voice saying, “Those are really nice shoes you’re wearing.”
He looks round but he’s the first customer. No-one else is there but the bartender. Again this voice is heard, “That suit you have on is real sharp, too!”
The customer asks the bartender, “Say, Mike, did you hear that? Who said that?”
Mike points to a bowl on the bar and replies, “It was the complimentary peanuts .”
I don’t think I have ever owned or worn a sharp suit.
Be uncomfortable to wear.
My friend, Marlene, in Phoenix Arizona, sent me this:
I know someone whose husband won’t let her visit friends or family. He’s made her stop all contact with them unless it’s by phone or computer. He reads and censors her comments on social media. He makes her feel like she’s going crazy for thinking that he’s controlling her and that she’s being ungrateful, after all he’s only doing this because of how much he cares for her.
He doesn’t want her going to the gym anymore so she doesn’t go. He doesn’t want her going to work anymore, so she doesn’t go. He told her, you gotta rely on me for income. He doesn’t let her go out anymore unless it’s for necessities, and when she does he makes sure he has people in place to guilt trip her about it.
He wants her to have a medical procedure done and if she does she’ll have more freedoms. And to top it all off he’s always telling her he’s only doing this because he cares.
Oh wait!!
Did I say husband?
I meant Government. Here’s the funny thing in society: We are all rightfully outraged if someone does this to a spouse, it’s Domestic Violence…. but when the government does it many (most?) people are completely OK with it.
But many of us are not.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Since it’s heading that way here, WAKE UP UK!
That was us a year ago. We can only hope this year will be better.
Good morning and a Happy New Year to all!
7°C in the yard and it’s dry & mild outside.
So will I be recognising Tony Blair’s knighthood?
Will I Foxtrot!
I hope to never meet the verminous toad. If I did I don’t think he’d last very long. He is the epitome of corruption, fraud, a toxic, poisonous monster. One of the cancers pouring through Westminster.
Kneel before him, Robert. Your Hero…
Happy New Year.
The announcement of Blair’s knighthood should mean it can’t get any worse. If it does we’re in serious trouble.
Has he really got one or was it an ‘ugly rumour ‘?
It’s real.
I was afraid that was the truth. The Queen must have been got at.
When Prince Phillip said “Blair gets one over my dead body”, perhaps the Queen took him literally.
You took the words out of my mouth! Bonne Année. Bonne santé
Bonne santé aussi.
She has no say in the Honour’s list.
Good Morning and Happy New Year
Mild and a fine sunrise
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2021/12/31/DAVEY01012022_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqXLf5rZYUXGKwZgSx01hvqAjj8ErxbDGRAuacUwyQXO0.jpg?imwidth=640
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From today’s DT:
The BBC needs New Year’s resolutions – here are six from me
2021 was a disaster for the Corporation. If it wants to restore its reputation, there are some obvious fires to extinguish – and fast
ROBIN AITKEN
31 December 2021 • 10:18am
As the old year dies, it is the moment, hallowed by tradition, to make our pledges of self-improvement. Personally, however, I think it might be more salutary for us to ask our beloved others what our New Year’s resolutions should be, so that we can correct our real faults – the ones that other people see.
And so, with this in mind, I offer the BBC some suggestions about how it might do things differently in 2022. In theory, at least, I expect the Corporation’s High Command to be in full agreement about the need for radical change: they can’t possibly want a repeat of 2021, which will go down as a stinker, dominated by the publication of Lord Dyson’s report into how Martin Bashir inveigled Diana, Princess of Wales into her fateful 1995 interview.
So, dear BBC, here are six modest suggestions. I hope you find them helpful.
1. Tell the truth
It was bad enough to learn the full, unexpurgated details of the deceitful lengths which Bashir went to get Diana into his confidence. We, the licence-fee payers, do not expect BBC reporters to fake bank documents and prey on the neuroses of vulnerable people. Worse was the discovery that a raft of senior BBC managers, including then-director of news and later director-general Tony Hall, had penalised whistleblowers and maintained a decades-long cover-up.
And, it seems, the instinct to secrecy lives on. Andy Webb, the investigative journalist whose Channel 4 film started the ball rolling, says he’s still finding it grindingly difficult to winkle documents out of the Corporation. With a series of Freedom of Information requests, he recently forced it to hand over a series of heavily redacted emails from November 2020, when Storm Bashir was gathering strength. Webb believes they indicate an attempt to “obscure some aspects of the scandal”, and is continuing his investigations.
If there’s one thing we’ve all learnt, ever since Nixon and Watergate, it’s that the cover-up is worse than the scandal. Once you’re rumbled, the only answer is to confess in full. It’s a rule the BBC should immediately impose on itself.
2. Give us all a laugh
BBC comedy is in dire straits. The humour-department gauleiters now seem to spend most of their time plastering “trigger warnings” on comedy classics while ensuring that current output stays firmly in the Wokey Corral. As a consequence, it has become stale and predictable.
Watching Have I Got News For You, for instance, one realises that the BBC has pioneered an entirely new genre: Establishment Satire. These days, the show targets political underdogs and outsiders – but why not target our liberal-progressive overlords? Could anything be funnier than hysterical catastrophists glueing their heads to roads to “save the planet”? Or student “intellectuals” who wet their pants when their delusions collide with reality? Or feminists tortured by the absurdity of gender self-definition?
Ample scope, I’d have thought, for a few belly-laughs.
3. Trim the fat
Nothing gets the juices of the BBC’s enemies flowing more quickly than tales of its lavish salaries. There are now scores of people in the Corporation’s employ who earn multiples of what the Prime Minister is paid. Not all of them are even stars: some are humble drones in the many-tiered splendour of the BBC managerial beehive.
The BBC would be doing itself – and the licence-fee payers – an enormous favour by making some high-profile salary cuts. For Gary Lineker to pull down over £1 million for fronting a few sports-highlights shows is an affront. If the Corporation wants to preserve the licence fee at all, it’s time for some good housekeeping.
4. Allow genuine debate
It’s good for us, you know. The “Overton window” theory describes how society is controlled by ensuring that debate is kept within rigidly prescribed boundaries. Within this heavily supervised space, we’re party to a simulacrum of unfettered debate, but it’s a sham: unfavoured viewpoints are simply not given any air-time.
The BBC plays a full part in this charade by screening out any opinion it finds objectionable. The apogee of this approach was on view during Cop26 last month. I am no “climate-change denier”, but it seems to me that there are unanswered questions about the validity of all those terrifying scientific models, which forecast the end of civilisation if we don’t turn off our gas central-heating. And yet, throughout the Glasgow eco-fest, the BBC allowed minimal words of challenge to be spoken. Instead, day after day, the pronouncements of the climate clerisy were relayed at ever-increasing volume. The effect of this is to turn “The World’s Best Broadcaster” into a massive propaganda outfit.
The point about free debate and free speech is that they strengthen democracies by allowing bad arguments to be tested by better ones. It would be a public service to allow on the airwaves those distinguished scientists who happen to believe the scientific establishment has got this one wrong. (And there are plenty out there, though if you confine yourself to the BBC you won’t have heard them.)
When a consensus goes unchallenged, the worst mistakes are made. The BBC has one overriding duty: to facilitate free debate. And on climate change – and many other important topics – it no longer does that.
5. Admit that ‘impartiality’ isn’t working
The entire justification for the BBC rests on the assumption that it is – unlike all its competitors – a news organisation free of bias. This is – let’s put this politely – balderdash.
The Corporation was loyal to the pro-EU camp throughout Brexit; it was subservient to the Marxist revolutionaries who dreamt up the Black Lives Matter campaign; it campaigns for a socially liberal view of the world. And still it protests: “We are impartial, we are fair, we are decent, honest and unbiased.”
But more and more of us can see that it is not. And the reason is that “impartiality” is an inhuman quality; it cuts against the grain of human nature. We are right to demand it of judges – all are equal in front of the law, in theory at least – but not of journalists. The answer is to drop this increasingly threadbare pretence; admit that the BBC’s journalists have strong views of their own, which colour their output, and then do something about it.
And that “something” is, per my final resolution…
6. Get rid of the groupthink
Not all new appointments have to be card-carrying progressives. I have argued consistently for the BBC’s definition of “diversity” to embrace diversity of political opinion. The Corporation’s bias problem stems from groupthink, which is unavoidable when an organisation is a political monoculture.
In 2021, old habits died hard. In September, the BBC confirmed the appointment of Jess Brammar as “executive news editor”; she had been an outspoken critic of the Johnson government, but her appointment went ahead despite warnings from one of the BBC board’s members, Sir Robbie Gibb, who said that giving Brammar the job would damage the “already fragile” trust between No 10 and the BBC. As I wrote at the time, the BBC would do well to listen to advice from critics such as Gibb: they have its best interests at heart.
In future, the Corporation must work on achieving proper diversity of opinion within its newsrooms. Were it to do that, its range of opinions and tone of questioning would widen. Soon, everyone in Britain, including people on the Right, could begin to feel that their views were represented by their “national broadcaster”. A BBC that, in 2022, dropped its attachment to dogmatic progressivism and fostered full-throttle debate might stand a better chance of regaining the nation’s affections.
So there you have it: my six easy steps for the BBC to start restoring its reputation. Happy New Year.
* * *
This BTLr has saved me the trouble:
Andrew McDonald
20 HRS AGO
The BBC doesn’t want to change. It’s employees want Starmer to win the next election, believe we should all get heat pumps through grants and that Gary Lineker is worth the money now that he’s a fully paid up Tweeting progressive.
Without a desire for change you won’t get change.
It’s history output is fronted by David Olowuso an activist who sees all history through the prism of being black. Nature is through Chris Peckham another activist with some quite radical views he doesn’t try to keep secret.
Frankie Boyle ( comedy ) has some very unpleasant views of his fellow man but as he hates the right ones he gets his own show.
Jess Brammar ( news ) is partisan, on record as being an activist and should never have got the job but she did.
The BBC won’t change and the Tories just refuse to enter into the argument but instead allow themselves to be bullied and by extension allow a large fee paying chunk of the public to be hectored too.
The BBC! It must surely be Orwell’s most inspired insight that he visualised it as the Ministry of Love with Room 101 at its centre!
* The BBC does not lie. It simply does not tell the whole truth.
* It is impartial. It ensures equal air time to both sides. With one allowed an uninterrupted monologue and the other interrupted.
* The salaries are entirely justified as those people could get more in the commercial sector – which would never offer them a job.
* BBC comedy is amongst the best in the world – the Left wing world, where humour is strictly proscribed and carefully managed.
* There is no groupthink. On this they are all convinced.
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The benefits expand as the institution contracts! A typical Ponzi scenario!
I say, did you have too much to drink last night.
No, just seen the New Years honours list
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‘Morning B3. I somehow doubt that ‘a conversation with God on the big white phone’ about Bliar’s ‘K’ will assist, even allowing for His omnipotence. The establishment has made its decision…
‘Morning B3. I somehow doubt that ‘a conversation with God on the big white phone’ about Bliar’s ‘K’ will assist, even allowing for His omnipotence. The establishment has made its decision…
Thank you, Bob, nicked for Ar5ebook.
“Now where did I put that medal?”
At least the spectacles are safe…
Mr. Blair has been knighted and becomes
a Knight Companion of the Order of The
Garter …… an honour granted directly by
the ruling Monarch.
Your Majesty, who pressured you into
awarding this, now smeared, honour?
Do you really believe this charlatan deserves
to be a member of this exclusive order whose
previous members include Winston Churchill
and the Duke of Wellington?
No, but he can’t really do any harm.
Oh, I dunno. Make a political come back, depose Cur Ikea Slammer – and start another war.
The top post of 2021: Why have we doctors been silent? Lucie Wilk. 15 November 2021
As an NHS hospital doctor, I have had a front-row seat as the drama of the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded. It has been a year and a half of confusion, frustration and anger for me as I’ve watched our profession drawn into complicity with what I anticipate will be regarded as one of the most egregious public health disasters in history.
I have watched as ‘the science’ has been presented on the national stage flanked by Union Jack flags as an unassailable truth. For something so apparently inviolable, it seems to shift and change disconcertingly from week to week, and for those of us looking beneath the pomp to the plain data, we see the rather unexciting (and unchanging) truth: the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as it turns out, has a much lower infection fatality rate than early predictions. It is less deadly than the seasonal flu in children. The Office for National Statistics has reported the mean age of a Covid-attributed death in the UK to be 80.3 years, slightly older than deaths from other causes (78.2 years over the comparable time period).
What has been most upsetting for me has been the unquestioning compliance from the medical community as increasingly draconian, non-evidence-based and destructive virus control measures have been implemented. Some of the overt corruption, financial conflict of interests and politicisation has been laid bare in editorials in prominent medical journals such as the BMJ. But the vast majority of doctors have had no interest in asking questions or looking further.
My concern over our professional passivity turned to alarm as our compliance required us to support the roll-out of an experimental vaccine to a trusting population.
Contrary to the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine, pronouncing an experimental medical intervention ‘safe and effective’ now does not seem to require any peer-reviewed evidence of safety or clinically meaningful efficacy. The vaccines have not been shown in clinical trials to reduce transmission, hospitalisation or death. The phase 3 trials are not over and the safety data is not complete; the earliest trials will run into 2023.
The consent form for the Covid-19 vaccine does not disclose its status as an unlicensed experimental product. The risks remain largely unknown, although it is becoming clear that the vaccine has resulted in death or injury in a rising number of healthy people. A growing number of vaccine-induced syndromes are being recognised, including immune thrombotic thrombocytopaenia, myocarditis and menstrual irregularities, among many others being published in the literature. At the time of writing, there have been more than 380,000 reports, 1.2million injuries and 1,700 fatalities submitted under the MHRA Yellow Card scheme.
The Prime Minister himself has communicated the latest evidence, that two doses of the vaccine do not stop one contracting the virus, nor do they stop person-to-person transmission, they merely reduce the severity of symptoms. Despite this, it is clear the public are being subjected to a relentless media campaign of shame and coercion, that they must take this experimental product ‘for the greater good’ lest they be viewed as selfish cowards. A vaccine passport is now likely to be rolled out under ‘Plan B’, which proposes to return unlawfully usurped fundamental human rights and freedoms to only the vaccinated. Workers in the care home sector have had their livelihoods tethered to their compliance with the vaccine mandates, and a recent announcement confirms that this will soon include NHS employees. Not only is there no scientific basis for these mandates, these coercive actions breach the Nuremberg Code, as does the unprecedented lack of animal safety data for a novel medical product. A betrayal of the Nuremberg Code constitutes a crime against humanity.
It does not end there. The campaign marches on, and now includes the vaccination of children against a disease that has a statistically negligible chance of harming them. In the world of evidence-based medicine we doctors must weigh risks and benefits, we must ensure the risk of harm is far exceeded by the potential for protection or cure. In this case, with no real risk to healthy children from the infection, any harm is utterly unjustifiable. And the risk of harm is very real and measurable. Vaccine-related myocarditis is now a recognised injury, the risk inversely proportionate to age. Although rare, myocarditis can be fatal, and fatality is more common in the younger population. For reasons that have nothing to do with health, and despite the JCVI advisory board concluding that the health benefits do not outweigh the risks to children, the government is advising that we administer a medicine that carries a risk of serious injury to children who are healthy and who have no significant risk from the disease it purports to protect them against.
Despite all this, and despite our training to look at scientific literature and data with a critical eye, the silence from the medical community in the UK has been deafening. Yet we are the ones who should be shouting all of this from the rooftops. This is a duty of care and an oath we have forgotten.
It is typically those of us most conditioned by the expectations of society, utterly obedient and deferent to authority, who gain entry to medicine. One can see the path: we were good, compliant children and then good, compliant students. Now we are good, compliant doctors. I’m beginning to understand that goodness is measured in a different way, and obedience is not a virtue.
Obedience is learned through fear, threat and intimidation; it is in fact trauma programming and achieved through small control gestures when we were young and helpless. Now we are adults but still operating under these childhood programmes of beliefs and fears. We still feel helpless and beholden to a higher authority. We still submit to an authoritative decree even when it overrides our inherent moral compass.
The horrors of the classic Milgram experiment demonstrated that we live in a deeply traumatised culture, and the same conditioning, in my view, has shaped the medical community and its silence.
Even on the occasion when my counter-narrative evidence cannot be denied by a colleague, the usual response is: ‘It’s coming from the government; our hands are tied.’ But the truth is that most of the time doctors don’t want to see the evidence; their subconscious has prevented them seeing that the parent-like authorities of government, Sage and the MHRA, upon which we project a childlike trust, might be misguided, corrupted or dishonest.
And so we comment to each other on all the changes we are witnessing months into the vaccine roll-out: the unseasonal surge in hospital admissions, the post-jab autoimmune conditions and coagulation disorders, the numbers of ‘double-jabbed’ patients admitted with severe Covid infection, the numbers of lives ruined by lockdown and other Covid control policies. I challenge any doctor to deny that all of this simply feels wrong. To avoid this uncomfortable, authentic, human feeling – important information that should be acted upon – we will reach for something rote. ‘Anecdote is not evidence’ and ‘association is not causation’ will be the justification for carrying on, no questions asked, even though most of the damaging control measures implemented from on high were not based on any evidence at all. Meanwhile, an already struggling NHS has been damaged beyond repair by many of these policies. We are overwhelmed by the demand that we cannot meet, and the complexity of the crisis feels far beyond just one hospital Trust. The locus of responsibility to investigate remains above us and we wait for someone with more authority to come round and make sense of it.
And as we remain silent, the destruction continues.
Most of us went into medicine for the right reasons: to help the vulnerable, to reduce suffering. I know my colleagues are kind and well-intentioned and that their faith in our unelected public health policymakers is the result of a lifetime of conditioning. For those of us who have looked at the data and see the truth, I understand the fear: the risk of non-conformity is immense; careers, reputations and livelihoods are at stake. I recognise an even larger threat: a threat to our chosen profession, our life purpose, the possibility that we have been following a false god in our honest intentions to help the ill. We are at a difficult crossroads, but the choice for me is clear.
Although I am not on the front line in the ‘fight’ against coronavirus, and have had nothing to do with the vaccine campaign, I feel complicit in this public deception. I can no longer hide within a system that has proved itself to be weak-willed and unwilling to stand against the irrevocable erosion of inalienable human rights and freedoms in the name of public health safety. It is past the time for us to grow up, stand up and speak out.
I pinched this off of AW from last night! I thought it was worth a full read!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-have-we-doctors-been-silent-2/
She’s right. Why don’t the others speak out? Are they all complicit or paralysed by fear?
Because big government is vindictive, abusive and threatening. You get passed over, then sidelined, then pushed out. The state does not tolerate dissent.
When your Trust management team are coining it with a few million quid contracts from the covid debacle they’re not going to take kindly to that theft being interrupted by an uppity doctor telling them truth.
Government lies. We all know it does. It does it all the time – climate change, the Iraq war, Afghanistan, the national debt, gimmigration figures, state spending – it lies habitually.
Although, like the BBC it is a lie of ommission, so they pretend it’s all right.
Good morning, all and a very Happy New Year. I fear it will not be a prosperous one for the likes of us.
The last thing I saw before falling into bed was the useless spamhead slammer telling us to “learn to live with covid” – something which NORMAL people such as you find here have been saying for over a year, only to be dismissed as mad.
Happy New Year to you all.
And to you, Delboy!
Happy New Year, Delboy.
A rueful BTL Comment:-
Not just any knighthood, the most senior.
Perhaps it’s HM way of declaring how debased the whole honours system has become.
They are saying on the radio that Blair not getting an honour was preventing those PM’s that came after from getting one.
Not sure any of them deserve anything to be fair.
They get their rewards from the people they serve.
Being kicked out.
Draino, clearing the shit so even more shit can flow more readily.
I wonder if the death of Prince Phillip has anything to do with the timing of the honour?
Hmm,more likely the greasy swine threatened revelations about Andrew and the Lolita Express
It’s a bizarre way to mourn.
Look at those around the Queen influencing a 95 year old widow. Not exactly in tune with the country, are they.
Perhaps Prince Philip had the measure of the repulsive Blair and said that he should only ever receive a knighthood over his dead body. So the gutless slimeballs grabbed the chance to give the evil monster a knighthood at the first opportunity?
The honours are not controlled by her Majesty. Her Majesty’s *government*, that bunch of crooks, charlatans and scum write it and enobled chums, troughers, wasters and return favours and back handers through the year.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR NOTTLER FRIENDS
A very depressing read through the honours list (Blair, Whitty, Harries are amongst the most despicable to be ‘honoured’.) The system must be swept away it rewards sheer nastiness, incompetence and failure.
I mentioned a week or so ago that John Wayne, the Hollywood actor, was honoured in the USA for the roles he played. And now Daniel Craig has been awarded a CMG for playing a fictitious character!
I think the criteria for a knighthood must be for taking part in mass murder
The reward for corruption and fraud is a Lordship – look at Chakrabalti. Why hasn’t that sewage been struck off?
She gets a peerage and £300 a day for lying that Labour are not Jew hating scum. What else would a Pakistani Muslim do? Find the truth?
‘Morning All
Reading the comments The Black Swan speaks for all of us
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Several other utter swine on the list as well,I wonder if many “Honours” will be handed back in protest??
No,thought not……….
Edit
The internet is swift and merciless
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Thomas Cromwell was give mega titles only weeks before Bluff King Hal had him offed.
Since we seem to be returning to that corrupt era in so many other ways, one can only hope.
Bloody optimist!
🙂
A letter and another BTL Comment:-
People have been brainwashed into using these things for a cold or coming into contact with someone with a cold.
A chum has allowed their Christmas to be completely ruined by a covid diagnosis. I’m all for free will, but it seems somee people like making their lives difficult.
They feel good because of their suffering. Don’t deny them their pleasure.
Good Moaning.
Am I cheesed off or am I cheesed off?
This country has returned to the era of jobbery.
Obviously I am too good at my non-existent job to get a gong, let alone a title.
Note to self: this year be really, really useless and eff up as much as you can.
Good morning, Dame Allan….{:¬))
Ooh! That’s a school in Newcastle! I used to swim against them….and win!
Ah, pet – you have winning ways…{:¬))
💕
A Tw@ter post:-
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1477209845279383555
What do you mean, “spoof”? Your sort just won’t do as the government – in YOUR best interests – tells you….
343372+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Giving the bog man a knighthood is surely showing the common denominator regarding the rest of the resident sh!te within.
The dangerous thicko’s that have supported these political illegal immigrant / foreign pedophile importers
lab/lib/con coalition should have some thoughts for the innocents that have to shell out £300 a pop for when a political turd signs it’s name.
Advice, you can always try putting what’s left of a country before “the party” and the finishing touches of the final solution.
Wishing a very Happy New Year to all NoTTLers.
I hope that this year will be a vast improvement on the previous two and that this finds you all hale, hearty and very well. Skål! 🍷
Don’t hold yer breath.
Ah, the greatest evil kept in the box: hope.
343372+ up ticks,
Morning W,
As I have often posted, last out & fickle.
A crutch for
lab/lib/con coalition voters.
Thank you, Grizz! I am feeling optimistic! It really has to be better than the one we have endured! Best wishes to you and yours! HNY!
343372+ up ticks,
We’ve gotta lotta learning to do.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1477199856611598336
343372+ up ticks,
Shades of Dunblane,
The PIE secret ingredients must be protected at ALL cost the peoples have already given their consent to Dunblane
via the polling booth and their continuing party support.
https://twitter.com/SOCBubbah/status/1477131626702323712
I see in the print edition a series of letters from Full Covidians about the lack of “tests”. What is it with the brainless f*ckwits? If they have a sniffle or a cough, why not just take a paracetamol and go to bed with lots of fluids to drink? Or just keep calm and carry on? Why this mania about testing yourself?
Perhaps they are the minority – and we don’t hear about sensible, normal people who just get on with it. I hope I am right…*
* Pursuing my resolution to be less pessimistic (for a week).
Your glass is only half empty because you drank the other half – have a top-up!
Don’t you start…!!!
I give it two days at the most…..
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That there’s a shortage despite the LFT boxes’ having 6 tests in each is only to be expected. Lore as old as the hills says that if you give something away for free then demand will eventually exceed supply.
In defence of people with colds, we’re told Omicron has all the symptoms of a cold so anyone meeting others should at the very least test themselves so know if they may be passing Covid on. Here I must declare an interest, as having had what I thought to be a cold I used one of my wife’s LFTs, partly out of civic duty and partly so I can bat off any challenges when I’m out and about.
If you’ve got symptoms – stay at home – if you’re well – carry on as normal.
Radio 3 is on in the background… I gather the Viennese Nazis are on parade again.
Snap
Happy New Year and good morning to all Nottlers.
Morning all – Happy New Year! Sadly my sense of optimism and well being has suffered a huge blow by a brief look at the NY “Honours” – FFS! Witless and Co are bad enough [waste £37Bn and get an honour?] but the Blair creature made a knight – words almost fail me.
He’s certainly a creature of the night.
Yo SB
I would not like to hazard a guess whether Blair or The Sage Monsters have been responsible for the greatest number of British Deaths
343372+ upticks,
May one say,
The Queens place in history would have been assured as “the greatest ever” had she redirected the sword from vertical descending to left / right lateral.
She will delegate that to P Charles.
I suspect she wouldn’t trust Anne not to do the right thing.
He’d only swither about it!
The MR has just informed me that we are going to Hunstanton to have a brisk walk on the cliffs. With a picnic.
I gently pointed out that rain is forecast for Hunstanton at 1 pm… She declines to change the plan!
I’d better take a LF test…just to be safe…{:¬))
Back later – possibly!
Take a pacamac with your picnic.
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Good morning everybody and I wish you all a Very Happy New Year and all that you wish yourself. Sadly the news that the reptile B Liar has been awarded a knighthood has somewhat dimmed my determination to be upbeat and less sarcastic.
I’ve been readin Charles Moore’s piece about parallels to the ERM debacle and the following is a quote:
Some price rises are attributable to temporary market problems, but we are trapped in high prices because government has deliberately eschewed alternatives. In the United States, natural gas prices are ten times lower than in this country.
Can someone please explain the “ten times lower” bit to me? Does it mean one tenth of something E cause, if so, ten times lower seems such a clumsy way of putting it?
Perhaps the concept of fractions has been lost in an age of calculators and percentages.
Certainly my estimation of Boris Johnson is 10 times lower than it was formerly … No doubt, my then estimate was inflated by experience of David Cameron and T.May.
Also he repeats the lazy journalism of “the price cap rising to £2000”.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-new-years-wish-to-have-ordinary-life-back/
First off, I’d like to see an end to lockdowns, restrictions, mandates
and state-induced fear propagated by government, MPs and media. I think
that might be a wish too far; Big Pharma have made an awful lot of money
out of Covid, politicians too, and the power accrued will be too much
for our leaders to give up easily. They’re riding the crest of a wave
and they won’t want to see it crash.
That part of The Left which hates Big Pharma with a vengeance has been curiously quiet of late…
That part of The Left which hates Big Pharma with a vengeance has been curiously quiet of late…
But this can often happen and the sooner the better:
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Not drastic enough!
I’m a dreamer.
I’d plump for a government that actually likes this country and its history.
To paraphrase the lad himself: “I’ve done my bit for my country. I rinse the milk bottles out before I put them on the step. Why aren’t I on the honours list?”
343372+ up ticks,
Morning JS,
First up are you a fully paid up member of PIE.
Apparently there are 69 meanings for the acronym PIE, which one did you have in mind?
343372+ up ticks,
JS,
The underage forbidden fruit that is in every pedophile’s eye, PIE.
343372+ up ticks,
May one ask,
Will the toilet once visited by one anthony,charlie, lynton in cottaging mode
be seen as a lab/lib/con coalition “must see” site by current members.
The bog man in ermine, proving political sh!te is might left to the stupidity of the
electorate, Capo Dei Capi, is really becoming fact.
HNY ogga
“must see” site by current members.
Many members have been seen at that location
343472+ upticks,
Afternoon OTL,
The order of the garter attached to the full stocking top rig will have the rotherham concealers
foaming at the gob, triggering much a ball play in many a toga.
HNY all
As part of Johnson’s Net Zero Policy, he is going to introduce legislation to
A. Ban all boats etc that are wind powered, as they are ‘stealing’ the wind from Wind Turbines, thereby reducing their ability to produce electricity
B. To ban sun bathing as it reduces the sun available to Solar Panels
Read that as “…Nazi Policy”.
I have just had a note from Johnson, hand delivered by an MI5 Agent, demanding me to name the whisleblower in his government
Don’t give NutNuts ideas.
https://twitter.com/truthbeforepc/status/1477240742196224002?s=20
Good morning Mr D, and other Nottlers.
I have no idea if ‘long covid’ is real, but I have heard from an NHS participant that many of those who suffered severe symptoms have long term damage to their lungs.
A friend of mine still hasn’t recovered her sense of smell and taste.
Probably an advantage with my cooking.
How many of those were damaged by being put on ventilators?
It’s an interesting debate, like that of ME/CFS. A large proportion of those claiming to suffer from Long Covid have had no symptoms of Covid and test negative.
I think post viral syndrome is relatively common and with some people carries on for a long time due to their general debility.
And Myocarditis – which fit young men get from the jabs – damages the heart muscles forever.
Which country – if any dares to do so – will be the first to admit that the
vaccinegene therapy is a complete dud and the prograame cancelled immediately and replaced with treatments which work and have been banned by Big Pharma because they do work and there is no money to be made out of them.BTL Comment:
Britain leads the world….in proudly displaying the virtue-signalling stupidity of its political class. Lead on!
Reply to it:
Forget the Mac – Johnson is Duff enough without it.
BTL Comment:
Britain leads the world….in proudly displaying the virtue-signalling stupidity of its political class. Lead on!
Reply to it:
Forget the Mac – Johnson is Duff enough without it.
Has anyone seen anything definitive on how the number of daily infections is calculated? Are they the number of actual cases reported or are they some factor of that, based on the assumptions that the higher the number the better for Johnson et al (remember, he loves Policy-Based Evidence-Making) and many people won’t report a positive test for the pain it causes?
Probably a high degree of modelling involved.
Boris wants high numbers, modellers make sure they satisfy his requirements.
You invent a large figure – then multiply by 10 and ten add 50% for the amusing “Fear Factor”.
It is so simple that I wonder why you waste our time asking such questions…..
Happy New Year!!!!!!
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A new year and how it starts…..!
Dear flippin’ life. How appallingly badly written.
Par for the course now.
That’s a bit rough!
At least your club is open.
Only carrying? That leaves two seniors at our Club who could play, just me and my gym instructor.
On a course that is built on clay Richard, the restriction to trolleys fitted with winter wheels is nothing new here, it is justified to prevent unnecessary damage to the grass, perfectly reasonable in my view, but having to present medical certification is not, for any reason?
I thought that a lot of your courses only allowed buggies if you could present a doctor’s note, it’s nothing new. You are right though, expect a lot more unnecessary intrusions.
Nothing beats carrying your bag with only six or seven clubs, that’s real golf to me and it helps my score.
The image I intended to post, accentuated for the source of my anger.
Anger dissipated now, response sent to the Club Chairman.
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I assumed that the medical exemption related to the buggerment of covidiana.
Gee… it’s 13:30 here, and we’ve just had breakfast! Gigantic belches from 1st & 2nd sons upstairs, washing up done, now a post-brekker coffee… Be suppertime soon!
I got home from school in CT to discover that my son had four friends over; they were in his room playing some game- Dungeons and Dragons, I think. All about 17.
Opened the fridge and it looked as though there’d been a Viking raid. Nothing left. I braved my son’s room and asked if they’d like pizza…duh. Lived in a state forest and no-one delivered to us so I went to the local pizza place and picked up 2 extra large pizzas. Threw them into the lions den. A little later there was a belching contest; I am surprised the windows didn’t shatter- what noises!
When the visitors left they all thanked me for the pizza- nice lads. I expect when they got home they had another meal;-)
NYE Pavlova…..https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d3de95040adb0dc545a691105a2ed22380f9a01a29c0e1702c1d7118e0c2a119.jpg
Nice!
Any leftovers?
None. Completely demolished it.
Bugger!
:-((
Hope it tasted as good as it looks!
It came out just right. The meringue inside was chewy. Hairy Bikers recipe.
Shame – you should have used the Jamie Oliver one…{:¬))
Nah. Not keen on garlic in my Pavlova.
Oh – but but. He could have given you some pukka, mega tips…
I doubt that. He’s not even a Chef. He has an NVQ in Home Economics !
I heard it was a Tops 706/1!
You fall for this every time, Young Philip!
I am on the spectrum don’t you know.
Sounds Smershing!
Damn, that’s the problem with arriving five hours after everyone else.
Did you share it or was the fancy jacket just for Dolly?
We were at the neighbours next door. Other neighbours popped by for Champagne throughout the evening. A very happy party.
You wear it well, Phil! The jacket – obvs! HNY pet!
Happy New Year !
We’ve turned back for home. We were on our way to help you eat it when I read that it’s all gone.
Better luck next time.
Happy New Year Philip.
HNY.
That looks scrumplicious. I would say save some for me but I’ve just read further down. HNY Phizzee, love that famous jacket ❤️🥳🍷
HNY
That is amazing! Love the jacket, too!
Edit: Aaaaand, I also love the tiles on the kitchen wall! Each one is different!
Happy New Year to you !!
Happy New Year !
Why do you have gravy with Pavlova?
Strawberry Vodka sauce. Not Bisto !
You old dog you!
Three weeks old but worth an airing. It’s spoilt only by its reference to CO2 emissions.
If Johnson really cared about CO2 emissions he would ban bottom trawling tomorrow. If he doesn’t then he’s a f***** hypocrite.
I wonder which option he has selected?
It should have been banned years ago and not just because of co2.
If Johnson really cared about CO2 emissions he would ban bottom trawling tomorrow. If he doesn’t then he’s a f***** hypocrite.
Well – that was a nightmare. A neighbour had told us how quiet and pleasant the Hunstanton cliffs were past the old lighthouse.
On arrival, it appears that the whole of eastern England – in their overlarge cars and with the many dogs had decided t go there too. No paring spaces. Hundreds nd hundreds of cars thousands of people. All along the north-west coast. IN the end, we gave up and are about to have the picnic in the kitchen!!
Still, it didn’t rain…
HNY, Bill & MR!
When I was young, the family used to have summer holidays at Hunstanton, or in a rented caravan at Brancaster. Cold & windy in both locations, more sand at Brancaster.
I loved the funfair at Hunstanton. Once, a couple of punks were rocking one of the enclosed cars in the (not very) Big Wheel, until they got it inverted – at which point, it jammed!
Cue huge guffaws as they screamed for help!
Is the pier still there?
We didn’t dare venture into the town and the beach. The traffic was extraordinary.
A walk eastwards along the clifftop from Weybourne is much more pleasant, with fewer people.
We nearly went to Overstrand where it can be very quiet – but decided against as we feared there would be too much traffic…!!
West Runton used to be nice, Bill, and not too far from you either.
Th whole north Norfolk coast was just heaving with hundreds of thousands ofpeople. It was a nightmare.
Luckily, it is NOW raining – so they will have a great deal of fun trying to move their Chelsea tractors from the tree in ch deep “car parks”.
Oh, Shame. I mentioned West Runton because my Great Aunt Olive lived in Aylmerton and introduced me (at the tender age of 14 -1958) to the Barclay’s Bank Manager (and his daughter) of the W Runton branch.
I was instantly smitten (with the daughter and NOT Papa) but, alas, it wasn’t to be.
I have friends who live in Weybourne – the lucky devils!
It is the same on our village green… it is 22 acres… it wanders around the village. Cars everywhere. Lining the sides of the road, parked on the green. Hundreds of people! I could see huge groups milling around all over the place near the pub. It must be doing a roaring trade. We usually have the place to ourselves.
As I explained to SWMBO – I would make a very bad ant.
Oh Bill. I’m sorry but couldn’t help laughing. Such a shame when you were both looking forward to blowing the cobwebs away. Sounds as though people feel they’ve been “let off the leash”. Better luck next time.
We have decided to wait a couple of weeks then, on a fine mid-week day, when the children are back at school – have another bash!
Back at school – you mean, in 2025?
That soon?
That is night school. Regular school starts at around 8:30.
The only time to visit the Mont St Michel is on a cold wintery February day and even then it is too crowded.
It wasn’t so bad in 1967……
Poor you Bill, all the best plans are laid to rest, very frustrating and upsetting for you both .
We face the same problems here in these Dorsetty parts.
Moh played golf yesterday , and I went out with the dogs and my son a few hours before the car broke down ( suspension spring ) , to glorious heathland near Corfe Castle .
Everyone was out and about , and people are so shouty and noisy and they never EVER wave a hand of thanks when I allow them to drive their monsterous brand new huge cars whilst I wait in a passing space .
Son and I visited our usual farm shop to buy some bits and pieces , bags of garden bird food and a couple of new bird feeders, and when we left , the stream of flowing traffic was really excessive on the main road.
My poor old car , the spring is in contact with off side wheel , so it will have to be trailered to the garage we use . Drat and double drat !
Or as recounted by one of the townies:
Oh look a grumpy old local in her quaint run down jalopy. Best not make eye contact, the locals have strange habits.
Yes, Richard, we know how to cast spells, so that their v expensive SUV will break-down some 50 miles away, preferably on a ‘Smart’ Motorway, resulting in the complete wreckage of their pride and glory.
Don’t mess with us country-folk.
Happened to SWMBO a few years ago. Very pesky!
Edit: Happened to her little red car, not SWMBO herself, you understand.
Thanks, Maggie, “…they never EVER wave a hand of thanks when I allow them to drive their monsterous brand new huge cars whilst I wait in a passing space .”
We have similar here in our little Suffolk village – only accessible by just 3 single-track roads with passing-places, carved out of the side of the road over years, and certainly not by the Highways Misagency, only the locals will acknowledge as we also acknowledge the giving of way to pass.
I was told that those passing spaces were originally D-Day tank parks prior to action.
Aha, you were easily misled, Anne.
Had I known you then…
See? Never get out of the boat. Or dressing gown.
The war queen is walking the mare. She seems to want to trot. The woman, not the horse.
Thought I’d welcome our MP to the new year.
We wish you a Happy New year but our feeling for it has been marred.
Another nail in the coffin of our heritage with the dreadful news that Blair has been given a knighthood and, therefore, destroyed any sense that honours are for those who excel in doing good for mankind. This should be the last time they are used. It is beyond embarrassing.
This ‘government’ continues to make the most bizarre decisions totally removed from any sense of reality. When will the public be put out of the misery of this shower of political jokes.
Do tell us what reply you get…!!
Johnson only gave Satan a gong so as to clear the decks, a necessary prelude to he and the goofy carrieon getting gonged when he is turfed out this year (hopefully)
Your New Year’s resolution
is to become an optimist?
….. Am I close?
Good afternoon, Citroen.
Happy New Year, dear lady.
That was my resolution – but only for a week. It was sorely tested, already, today!!
Wishing you and the MR
a Happy New Year, Bill.
His reply is
I believe that Blair’s knighthood was a specific gift of the Queen and that the Government had nothing to do with it.
My response
HMQ must have a wicked sense of humour. She probably did so that his head would swell so much that it wouldn’t fit through any door in any of the Royal Palaces.
Were the awards to Whitty and Valance for services to Gaslightling. Then there’s the rest of the unworthies from acting and sport. Now, they were given by the government. As has become the norm now most are given to people who were only doing their jobs.
Hey ho! The world has changed but not for the better.
I would have added, Alf, “And you’re part of it.“
Desperate headline in the Times:
“Climate change triggers race to snap up world’s great vintages”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/race-to-buy-fine-wines-before-climate-change-wipes-them-out-j8fznvw6p
Plonkers.
VG bb2!!
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….. :-)))
Hello my lovely.
MOH doesn’t do irony.
If it needs ironing, I don’t need it;-) I don’t do ironing.
OH does the ironing in this house.
One for Uncle Bill. :@)
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I think if you go and see the latest Matrix film you’re a wally. It’s dreadful. Almost deliberately bad.
There’s a point at which I thought.. ok, they’re going to play on the mid-life crisis and need to change bit but… no. It’s just confusing, muddled, exposition heavy nonsense.
I thought the same about the new Bond movie.
Am I alone in thinking that Whitty et al have been given knighthoods and other gongs now, before Covid shenanigans are over, as:
1. Come this time next year people will have woken up to the damage and costs they have dumped on us, making any award impossible.
2. Johnson is buying their continued silence on what’s gone on and he may not be around this time next year to reward them.
As an aside, I said to my wife a few weeks ago when these honours suggestions came up that awarding gongs to Whitty et al over Covid and Test & Trace would be like knighting Blair for services to Iraq, enriching the U.K. and improving Muslim-Christian relations and a sure sign that our elite really have lost the plot. Is there any way back?
Edited for Whitty, not Whitby. F*** cutocollect.
Yes, there’s always a way back. It’s all in the Guardian. If you read their articles, and do the exact opposite, you’ll be on a path to common sense.
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UK Atlas well and truly Fu(ked 2021!
Hope 2022 turns out better for you than the last one!
We KBO. Happy New Year but what a brutal start judging by the Johnson creature’s choices for honours.
HNY!
Completely OT, Corim, but a question that I have been puzzling over that your professional expertise might help with.
How is it, that Cathedrals from a very long time ago, and small churches as well, have such good accoustics, yet more modern buildings often have appalling accoustics, even with the benefit of time, experience and even computer modelling.
I’m thinking especially of Guildford Cathedral, where SWMBO sand once years ago. Dull accoustically, except for one particular note when it lit up! So, it looks like a cathedral inside, but it doesn’t sound like it… so how is it that the modern stuff doesn’t sound anythung like the old? Can you comment?
Acoustics is a fascinating subject especially in understanding why certain buildings work well for music be it choral or instrumental.
Some of the best venues are mediaeval churches because they are often highly ornate with ribbed vaulting and intricately moulded columns. This gives great scope for sound to reflect off surfaces.
When restoring the interior of Christ Church Spitalfields I found that the rich acoustic came from ornate fibrous plaster aisle ceilings, the deeply coffered ceilings to the body of the church, the ornate oak galleries and oak column claddings and the glass in the windows. So anxious were the musicians to retain those qualities the Friends declined secondary glazing.
Another component is to have furniture which absorbs sound and of course a congregation wearing coats as clothing is absorbent.
I have long thought that the Architecture generates the style of music. Mozart would have been a different composer but for the Baroque churches of Austria and Germany with their particular acoustic qualities.
UK Atlas well and truly Fu(ked 2021!
Hope 2022 turns out better for you than the last one!
A book I was brought up on and have adopted as my mentor.
343372+ up ticks,
This is a treble must,
https://twitter.com/TrevorCoult_MC/status/1477310216572178443
NOBLE……….?
Oops Plum another typo? Surely: Knob all!
Nobble.
Apparently the government in Austria banned setting off fireworks for new year because of covid (yes, me neither).
Daughter says there were a lot of fireworks last night…!
Chum went to try on a watch. Apparently banned due to covid.
I despair.
The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for an answered prayer. Suzie stood and walked to the podium.
“I just want to tell my wife that the word is sternum.”
She said, “I have some praise. Two months ago, my husband, Frank, had a terrible bicycle accident and his scrotum was completely crushed.
The pain was excruciating and the doctors didn’t know if they could help him.”
You could hear a muffled gasp from the men in the congregation as they imagined the pain that poor Frank must have experienced.
“Frank was unable to hold me or the children,” she went on, “and every move caused him terrible pain.”
We prayed as the doctors performed a delicate operation, and it turned out they were able to piece together the crushed remnants of Frank’s scrotum, and wrap wire around it to hold it in place with metal staples.”
Again, the men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncomfortably as they imagined the horrible surgery performed on Frank.
“Now,” she announced in a quivering voice, “thank the Lord, Frank is out of the hospital and the doctors say that with time, his scrotum should recover completely.”
All the men sighed with unified relief. The pastor rose and tentatively asked if anyone else had something to say.
A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium.
He said, “I’m Frank.” The entire congregation held its breath.
PHEW! He says wiping his brow.
Polar Bears forced to migrate from America to Russia because of climate change. 1 January 2022.
“Without a doubt, polar bears are struggling and will struggle with the change in ice. They have to adapt and they are. But unfortunately, some of these groups that are promoting that bears are in trouble aren’t giving the bears enough credit for how they can adjust to the change in environment.”
That doesn’t mean that Alaskans are happy to lose their bears. “They are incredible animals,” said Mr Ahsoak. “But they are nomadic like us. Many have gone now and moved towards Russia. That is a shame because they really represent this area and who we are.”
No doubt having read the Net-Zero report they will be crossing the Channel shortly!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/01/polar-bears-forced-migrate-america-russia-climate-change/
The true reason is they are pi55ed off and can’t stand the Woke West!
Afternoon Stephen. Being creatures of fine discernment they have thrown in their lot with Vlad!
Afternoon Minty. I think we should really worry when the SA Impalas head North. I can see the headlines now: “Vlad & the Impalas….”.
Yet again the climate change religion zealots are trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Polar bears are territorial and their increasing numbers – some 30,000 now compared to 5-10,000 in the 1970s – mean they are increasingly nomadic.
Disney World meets Net-Zero. The anthropomorphisation of the bears. Kodiak island has a micro climate that is not susceptible to Global Warming. The cuddly cubs battling the waves bravely to a new life. The whole thing reads fake.
I remember the photo of the polar bear on a mini ice berg drifting around. The comments were rather ridiculous.
”’Oh can someone save the poor thing…
The damn things are expert swimmers !
HNY Minty.
HNY Phizz. According to this article Mum’s a Surfer!
HNY Phizz. According to this article Mum’s a Surfer!
Perhaps they didn’t like the cold…!
Call me a bit soft, but if an animal viewed me as food I wouldn’t be too upset if it moved away.
HAPPY HOUR
Just returned from a day out in Mowzel with friends. Not many people taking in the sea air….no-one wearing masks.
A few dog walkers along the harbour greeted us with a Happy New Year….aided by the local fishermen.
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PS….Don’t even think it………….we’re full up….!
Love the phonetic pronunciation Plum! Happier New Year to you (including Sundays!)
……three Sundays in a row!
Thanks Stephenroi HNY to you too…x
And a full 52 in the year ahead! X
51 after tomorrow….!
Think of Sundays as extended Saturdays.
They must have all been up Kit Hill this morning, very busy when I walked Oscar.
HNY Plum.
“Not many people taking in the sea air.”
No. They were all in North Norfolk.. {:¬))
Busy day DIYing over at the new abode. In what is left of the front garden is a 50 year old Mahonia approx12 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. It was literally humming with bees earlier….
https://twitter.com/truthbeforepc/status/1477319787260919814?s=20
According to the photo it’s a game of two (Chest) halves!
This looks like a propaganda response to the Myocardial Collapse stories.
The proprietor is willing to give your wife a bath twice a day (Hoffnung):
https://twitter.com/onlineeventhub/status/1477323305929490432?s=20
Happy New Year NOTTLERs
Has anyone been on Conservative Woman today?
None of the articles show BTL comments for me. Has Disqus cancelled them?
I’ve got them.
They were there last time I looked.
Thanks. I can see them from DuckDuckGo without logging in but not from Chrome, logged in.
Veery queer.
Wes seems a flexible sort of chap – a useful quality for an MP:
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1477216332118646785?s=20
V Amos was where she was for one reason and one reason only.
Guess.
A colourful character?
Colourful = yes. character = none.
Think a thin Abbototamus….
Impossible!
The woman was fingered for lavish decorations or some rip off when at the Commonwealth Institute from memory.
Wrong one – that was the equally inept and over-promoted woman called Scotland.
A McDuff?
Ah!
And a former UN Pigtrougher.
HNY everyone. Only 358 sleeps til Christmas !!!
For you youngsters, maybe
Us oldsters need morethan that
Only 1,432 getting up in the nights till Christmas…{:¬((
Just keep a bucket handy.
Now that’s what I call Peesistance!
Your turn will come, young man…!
I can’t wait [so to speak 🙁 ]
As few as that,
Oh Lucky Man.
It’s a bugger, n’est-ce pas?
Indeed.
But I’ve learned that there is a lot to be said for peeing sitting down!
Especially when you have chronic back-ache!
What title does the wife of someone who has been knighted command? …. Just asking on behalf of that greedy cow Cherie Blair.
She’s no Lady – just his wife.
In that particular case:
Ladywipe.
Robber Baroness?
343372+ up ticks,
Evening LD,
Lady Pony & Trap of course.
https://twitter.com/truthbeforepc/status/1477336987317293065?s=20
Just received news of a young, very fit, very healthy woman we know who was jabbed yesterday.
Now in serious ill-health.
Fine before, now suffering.
Yeah of course they’re safe, it was only a coincidence.
Complete coincidence. “These things happen. We all die sooner or later”….
“To be expected when you live in a multicultural city… er… “
My beautiful Polish friend suffered from myocarditis after being jabbed. Mostly recovered now, but lost a lot of weight in the process, and off work for months.
Sorry to hear about this, it must make you very angry. Some idiots would say she would have been even more unwell had she not been jabbed.
That’s the party line.
Thank you.
It is doubly disturbing because her child isn’t well and the jabberwocks are after the child. Fortunately the parents have resisited and this has strengthened their resolve.
Gypsey1. Not a name I recall, welcome to Nottle.
Like the three boys from the famous public school who all ended up in hospital with Myocarditis after having had to have the second jab. I know I have mentioned it before but statistically 100% jab illness = too much of a coincidence.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action, Mr Bond.
Goldfinger, Ian Fleming.
So Johnson has knighted a War Criminal and Shitty and given baubles to several pseudo scientists all of whom have perpetrated Crimes against Humanity.
We will have justice. More and more of us understand that there is no SARS 2 virus because it has never been isolated and purified. The entire shitshow is a fraud of epic proportions based on the fraudulent PCR ‘test’ which purposely generates ‘cases’.
The seasonal common cold and flu infections have been expropriated and relabelled as Covid.
The vaccines are unnecessary and appear to be designed to cause death and harm to recipients. We have to put a stop to this medical tyranny and prosecute Johnson, Hancock, Javid, Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam, Cummings (remember Barnard Castle and Glaxo Smith Kline, the purpose of his visit) Farrar of Wellcome and Ferguson of Imperial College London.
IIRC the PCR test was never intended as a diagnostic tool. A respiratory disease has been used as a psychological weapon against the U.K. population. They should be charged under the Nuremberg Code crimes against humanity.
And if found guilty:
The sentence of this court is that you will be taken from here to the place from whence you came and there be kept in close confinement until next Monday, and upon that day that you be taken to the place of execution and there hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul.
If only Lord Denning was around today.
Not just the UK population, VW.
You’re right Oberst, of course, the whole western world. But what is it they say, the bigger the crime the lesser the punishment? It’s never going to happen is it. People are too willing to obey the ridiculous restrictions. Like wearing a mask “because others do/expect it/feel more comfortable.
Some months ago in a local park where Alf and I were walking there was a group of 3 young people wearing masks handing out “free” LFTs, and Alf stopped and engaged in conversation for a few minutes. I had to turn away after a while but asked “how long are you prepared to wear a mask” and the answer was “as long as it takes”. To do what? …. I see very little sign of rebellion in supermarkets. Last time I’m Sainsburys on Wednesday I think it was we were the only maskless people.
It seems different here. The mask less outnumber the masked in Asda by quite a lot and last time we went to the pub- before Xmas- only two people were wearing masks. The cab company still says to wear a mask but we don’t and not one driver has got upset by it.
Well done you.
I’ve mentioned before that my home town is ‘mask central’ and last night the stupidity ‘virus’ was confirmed present in the area. Last evening I went to a NYE social event and some people were walking across the car park in masks before taking them off in a small hall containing around 40 unmasked people and joining the unmasked at small tables. On leaving, these people put on their masks before walking across the car park to their vehicle. Their ‘logic’ defeats me. It’s madness!
Precisely.
Is there any fool-proof way of proving whether leading figures in politics, the Media and business have actually had the gene-therapies themselves. They may pose before the camera being jabbed – but this does not necessarily mean they actually have had it.
The politicians habitually lie. They have not had the jabs.
That’s me for this eventful day. Just skyped my son and his wife…lovely to see them.
Two more days of warm weather – then down to earth with wintry Tuesday. To Wivno – briefly – on Monday in the sun (allegedly).
Have a jolly evening.
A demain
We look forward to corresponding later this evening…….. :-)))
Barge off…{:¬))
343372+ up ticks,
AKA Sir Pony & Trap,
https://twitter.com/cold957/status/1477111129025437700
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I had an instinctive dislike for JS from his earliest days on Radio and TV.
Apparently, my instincts were well-founded …
Many similar.
I’m sure most are fine, but my cringeometer goes into overdrive for too many of them.
At the risk of annoy the bargee:
I think today’s “Honours” List revealed (at least) two fundamental flaws with the system.
The highest order of chivalry for a multi-murderer, liar and fraudster and tax dodger..
An MBE for an unknown teenager who – all credit – won one tennis competition where most of the strong women players were not taking part.
Shambles. I am glad I refused my life peerage.
HG has her hereditary title, and because we only had sons it dies out with her.
It didn’t give me any courtesy title, more’s the pity.
At least when Duncan the Second granted it, to go down the female line, he was centuries ahead of his time.
It’s very strange knowing that my wife is the last of a series that passed back over 1,000 years and that the surname has changed probably 40 times.
Is it Newburgh?
Predates that by about 700 years.
Sad that it will die out, but I suppose it was fun when it belonged to nobility, rather than commoners.
Ah!
What Ho Old Bean. It will take far more than that to annoy a Bargee!
Agree wholeheartedly, I seem to remember Virginia Wade was honoured after her very successful career and winning several Grand Slam championships.
She got an OBE the new girl has been given an MBE.
She won Wimbledon, once.
There is a very simple way to devalue titles and that is to address everyone you know as ‘Mi Lord’, or ‘Mi Lady’ as appropriate (especially in public!)
I find “Oi you” werks (sic) well too.
Little Lord Fauntleroy works for me or Lady Muck.
Lord Love-a-duck!
Always trust those instincts.
Me too – and this was also evident to many of the guests and audience members of Jim’ll Fix IT, but it never got publicised. Even Esther Ranzthen had more than suspicions, but did SFA (wot are you telling me a lot of media types are insincere?) … a lot of BBC people sat on this.
You weren’t alone. It seems incredible he got away with his abuse for so long, but it was the BBC he worked for.
I think that people are so star-struck that they won’t believe anything wrong about their “heroes”.
I’ve always been surprised, in the few cases where I’ve been with someone “special”, by how people react when they meet them.
I might know that XYZ/whoever is a genuine bloke with faults that they would admit to if asked, but when Joe public meets them they are assumed to be something out of the ordinary.
I’m surprised they weren’t well-fondled given the history of the bloke…
Well Her Majesty has played a blinder here, giving her highest accolade to the most evil PM to ever lead this country, it has united the country behind the majority that now believe enough is enough.
No more world government puppets for us, well done the Queen,
They’re just rubbing our noses in the fact that it matters not a jot what the public thinks of their actions.
It does matter, or they wouldn’t expend so much effort trying to trick us
Unfortunately, under our system it matters only very much once every 4 or 5 years.
There will be a socialist government voted in at the next GE, regardless of what party wins.
Blimey, as right wing as that?
Gawd help us.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
“Frightening new Covid data shows Boris Johnson’s omicron gamble may be about to implode.” By Paul Nuki, Global Health Security Editor, London 1 January 2022 • 5:37pm.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/frightening-new-covid-data-shows-boris-johnsons-omicron-gamble/
343372+ up ticks,
Three times he was returned to office by the electoral imbeciles he, on his own, is
bad enough to make the torys (ino) lib/ dems (ino) ” green” with envy.
https://twitter.com/cold957/status/1477111129025437700
Happy New Year, ogga
Too true to be good!
Best wishes from Rastus
Don’t tempt them.
Cool Britania….
Just when we thought 2022 ….things can only get better ….Blair pops up!
Scum always floats to the surface.
You beg the question, sweetie: ‘Who approves the recommendations for high honours’?
I doubt that Brenda has the power to overrule the advice of Civil Serpents …
Would she have approved of Tony Blair for high honours?
I cannot believe she would have approved of his / George Bush’s Iraqi shenanigans …
Closer to home, TB ‘sank’ the – treasured by all the family – Royal Yacht ‘Britannia’ …
I think I’ve had enough for this year!
Already so soon?
KBO, Tom. Nil illegitimi carborundum.
;-))
They did award Jimmy Saville for services to children. Stoke Mandeville came into the equation.
343372+ up ticks,
Mind you the “patient” is a big boy,
https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1477211363952906241
The person probably broke their leg and tested positive for covid after a week in hospital!!
https://twitter.com/truthbeforepc/status/1477360500107358214?s=20
Sorry…….someone had to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QhAZckY8w
Why did “they” have to?
Where is Prof. Brian?
This poor chap is likely to have died because of Covid..
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1477241691274768387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1477241691274768387%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fhis-skin-was-burning-melbourne-man-sets-himself-fire-screaming-about-vaccine-mandates
An unvaccinated Chinese woman committed suicide because she couldn’t stand the stress any more last year. I wonder how many others have been driven to breaking point by the constant tests and having to avoid being fined.
I’m worried about the restrictions on Nursing Home visits. My MiL is going stir crazy incarcerated like a felon.
It’s horrible the restrictions that have been put on nursing homes.
Need special arrangement to visit Mother in hospital – apart from getting to Wales, of course…
It is so much harder for you being so far away.
That really is sad.
Poor sod.
The Tony Blair petition on Change.org has been advertised in the Mail. I just signed it and it’s over 44 000 signatures.
I don’t normally bother with petitions on Change.org, but it would be amusing if this one went sky high.
https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded?redirect=false
Now approaching 50,000
Now over 51,000!
The man is despised in spades…
Which one is it please? I have found two on that topic but both are only in the mid 4,000s!
https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded?redirect=false
Many thanks – just found it! Edit: I have “signed” several of these but so far absolutely no emails to confirm??
I’ve just tried, once again, to sign this using a different browser – still no email to click!
71,990 at 9:45p.m..
See edited post!
A better petition would be for Princess Anne to perform the honours, with Anne Boleyn’s sword. Right to left, with full swish, to honour his heritage.
I was just reading an amusing piece, from the Mail I think, that said that when the Blairs were staying at Balmoral, Mrs B invited Princess Anne to call her “Cherie”. PA replied that she preferred calling her “Mrs Blair.”
The royals really did not like the Blairs, did they. Can’t blame them for that!
What greater insult could one bestow than to align someone with Tony Blair?
My sister in law is a barrister and QC. She told me a tale about the Blairs after he won the first election. They were in the limo heading to Downing Street and Tony turned to his wife and said, “What the f**k do I do now?”
Barristers gossip too…
My sister in law is a barrister and QC. She told me a tale about the Blairs after he won the first election. They were in the limo heading to Downing Street and Tony turned to his wife and said, “What the f**k do I do now?”
Barristers gossip too…
5,088 @ 22:09
Which petition are you looking at, NTN?
Happy birthday 🎂 Poppiesmum for tomorrow 💓
He’s found the right one now! It’s passed 87000 now.
??
It’s 80,600 now (10.30 pm). No, just checked again, it was 81,600+ – I can’t keep up with it.
83,954 signatures when I signed it just now.
People really hate him and this knighthood is really taking the piss.
The government has been gaslighting the people for years and people have had enough of it.
I hope they have got to the point where they have had enough of everything else as well!
It’s 80,600 now (10.30 pm). No, just checked again, it was 81,600+ – I can’t keep up with it.
Over 92,000 now at 23:25
Just to lighten the mood?
https://twitter.com/BurnsideNotTosh/status/1477051816139444230?s=20
They only gave Blair his because Savile and Harris were unavailable
But when she realised Tony Blair was to be a Knight she declined?
Well, that’s immediately improved the moral standing of the list.
A pantomime dame,no doubt.
Probably far more worthy than most of the recipients!
‘Night All
Happy New Year to all
Just think how bleak things would be without the mutual support we all find here so ten million upticks for Geoff
Many others feel the same way………
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As you move into the New Year, a word to the wise:
However awful something appears to be, always console yourselves with the fact that it might be worse, it could be happening to you.
https://twitter.com/viscount800ok/status/1477337446044086280
Only thousands?
With all the Chinese and all the Indians, they can have a war all over the UK without damaging their own place.
The tories are doing a load of damage to the UK.
I expect that head bobbing , hands clasped , and bowing down will be another habit to replace handclapping and cheek kissing and hugs .
We are losing our identity , aren’t we .
I suspect that’s partially what all this BS has been about.
Yes
For heavens sake why?
Whats wrong with training our own people?
1.Govt doesn’t want to put its hands in its pockets
2.Govt wants the immigrants to be in higher positions than the indigenous of these isles, no doubt to teach them a lesson for being so ‘racist’ – a little like all the adverts we see around us on tv, magazines, everywhere.
343372+ up ticks,
Evening TB,
It really does make one wonder why mass controlled illegal immigration party’s finds such continuing support, time & again & again.
It really, really does.
I seem to remember reading a while ago that the only way India would accept a trade deal was for the UK to allow them to send over their brightest and best, in return for letting the UK deport illegal Indians back to them. Not sure India’s quite got the hand of negotiating…
Those of us with a fascination for architecture might enjoy the latest Going Postal offering.
https://going-postal.com/2022/01/mystery-album-part-sixteen/
But do not read the comments!
And a good night to all.
‘night, Bob.
Shades of things to come !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7PHK94WKY
Good night, everyone.
‘Night, Elsie.
One of our lovely Nottler Ladies will be celebrating her birthday tomorrow.
We know it is a bit early to post our best wishes but:
On Sunday 2nd January 2022 we wish our First Birthday Girl of the the New Year
Poppiesmum
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and oodles of very joyful returns of the day
With affectionate best wishes,
Caroline and Rastus
Thanks so much, Caroline and Rastus! Yes, I will be 75 tomorrow. I don’t know how this has happened, the years fly by ever more quickly. We will be celebrating en famille with our two sons and their wives and our two little grandsons at a nearby restaurant, and later, in the early evening a visit to the NT Wimpole Hall Christmas Lights event. This involves a walk, sturdy shoes, warm clothing and the recommendation that a torch is brought along as well. I am agog.
A terrifically happy Birthday to you, Mum.
Thank you, NTN! I was feeling migrainey a short while ago, but hopefully it is passing without too much ado. I will go to bed with a Kool ‘n’ Soothe strip across my forehead tonight.
Happy birthday Poppiesmum! 🥳🍷🥂🍨
Have a very happy day tomorrow – hope it is all fun and the weather obliges.
Thanks again for your help re Peddy; you’re a star!
Thank you Lotl – I have had a lovely day, all of our little family were in attendance. The weather started off well but was torrential by the time we left the restaurant, the roads were flooded. However, it magically cleared (I didn’t think it would) for us to get the the Wimpole Hall Christmas lights fantasy walk, although we were sloshing around in the mud with huge puddles.
I was pleased just to be able to put everyone’s mind at rest re Peddy, it wouldn’t have happened without Elsie’s input.
So pleased you had a nice, albeit wet day. Many happy returns and enjoy the rest of your day.
Happy Birthday for tomorrow, I hope you have a great day. 🎂
Thanks so much vvof! I have had a lovely day.
Many happy returns for the morrow, pm. If it’s anything like the Light Trail at Bolesworth or Warwick Castle, it will be a magical experience.
It was, despite the mud – torrential rain before we left which magically cleared in the nick of time. It has been a lovely day.
Happy birthday for tomorrow , Poppiesmum. 🎈🥂💐
I will be catching you up in March , where has time gone to .. Age is just a number .
I expect you will have a lovely day , how exciting , especially so for the Christmas light event .
Remember , we were youngsters in the best era ever , and that is what matters .
Sleep well, and dream about happy things x
Many Happy Returns, pm. Enjoy your day.
Thanks so much, DinK, I have had a lovely day with our family. Best ever.
Have a lovely day, poppiesmum.
Thanks so much, molamola, I have had a lovely day, despite torrential rain (after a promising start) and sloshing around in the mud and cold on a fantasy-lit woodland walk…!
I’m glad. It was certainly a foul day here.
Have a wonderful day!!
Now it’s tomorrow, Happy Birthday, Poppiesmum!
Hope it turns out better than you could wish for yourself! 🎉🍻🍷🤗🐻
I have had a wonderful day, Obersleutnant (Paul, if I may…). And it did turn out better than I could have wished for myself…. often it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive, but today the family warmth and love was more than I could have imagined.
That brings a tear to the eye, PM. Glad you had such a good experience for your day – the one day in the year that is a celebration of yourself!
:-D)
(and yes, you may! I’d be honoured!)
75? Blimey! You certainly don’t look it in your photo!
Happy Brithday & have a good’un.
Happy Birthday. Have a wonderful day.
I hope you have a great day and continue on to the century.
Thank you! Several members of my family have lived to 100+ and more than a few into their mid-late nineties. I had an aunt who was baking for her own birthday party at 97. I intend to outlive them all…
I have had a truly lovely day.
Many happy returns, poppiesmum! Hope you have a lovely day.
Thank you bb2! I have had a truly lovely day.
Have a super day with your family.
Happy Birthday.
Thanks so much, Alf, I have had a truly lovely day. As I have just replied to Ndovu, I felt enveloped in family warmth and love.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1476543530604580870?s=20
How many insurance companies are lining up to offer life assurance to Ms Maxwell?
Evening, all. The Government needs to stop project fear and start project reassurance. Then we might get back to some semblance of normality. It was heartening to see so many people at Cheltenham today, but devastating to see the empty grandstands at Musselburgh and realise just how much money had been poured down the drain by Wee Krankie’s delusions of grandeur in making regs that stopped people going. The staff had put so much time, effort and cash into making it work, only to be slapped in the face.
Goodnight, everyone.
Good morning all – Sunday’s new page is here.
Thank you.