Sunday 10 August: The Government’s migrant deal with France is unlikely to make a difference

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    1. It's all a bit sad, isn't it? They couldn't get the truth to align with their manipulation so resorted to lying about it.

  3. 'Morning All especially the NTTL Laydees
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    1. Reply to Konstantin: Oslo police stopped a car in the south of the suburbs. Driver got out and assaulted the female of the two, and was then shot as he wouldn't desist. Not badly injured. Hooray for armed police!

        1. I'd say it was pretty good. Made him desist, and he's still around to be prosecuted.

      2. Lucky for him they weren't American cops. Both would have emptied gtheir Glocks into him.

    2. I understand the cookie one. Got a tray of sausage rolls out of the oven – despite having put down some doggie sausages – and all three sit there drooling like Niagara.

    3. I love the top picture of the Swedish lass looking grumpy because someone used a kettle to heat the coffee.

      1. I thought someone had crept into my kitchen this morning ….. well, every morning, actually.

  6. The Government’s migrant deal with France is unlikely to make a difference

    Are there any people left out there that believes our government past and present has any intention of stopping the migrants coming, they would rather arrest and outlaw British people that complain

  7. Good morning Geoff and chums. Today's Wordle was a Par.

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      1. Thank-you all! Was driving home yesterday from a family holiday in the Austrian Alps so unable to say hello. Still very busy working and chasing around after my girls. The youngest graduated (BEng in Mechanical Engineering) this year so I am waiting for them to find gainful employment and set up life independently!

        Hopefully only 2 more years to retirement dependent on how much damage the current muppets in charge do to my pension planning.

    1. Is this a response to being told they're not welcome? Then good, as it shows how appalling the muslim is and how important it is they learn their place – somewhere else.

  13. Ladz
    8h
    The Quran has been blocked by the Online Safety Act right?? It was created to keep kids away from violence and pedos…

    1. The sad thing is we cannot get rid of them. So many things would be vastly better if the public could, on demand rid themselves of moronic, spiteful politicians and their appalling ideologies.

    2. It was a typical Lefty rentamob, a bunch of spoiled, ignorant children bleating about the things they dislike because they can.

      As they behaved toward GB News, we see they're just a tedious, intolerant, bigoted hypocritical cowards.

  16. Good Morning!

    Today Graham Bedford is back with the final part of his Should I Stay Or Should I Go series, this time looking at the tax implications of moving, only to find that either way, it's a taxing business. Please read it, and let us know how you feel about tax and where you would consider moving to.

    We Should Not Trust Our Elites , says Iain Hunter, in a fascinating and thought-provoking article, based on four books and a set of -papers, and in similar fashion Elizabeth Nickson's How Oligarchs Steal America's Public Lands tells of the anti-farm agenda still playing out in the US

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 15.6%; Solar, 10.9%: Wind 39.1%; Imports, 15.8%; Biomass, 5.1%; Nuclear 10.9% and Miscellaneous, 2.5%.

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  18. Morning, all Y'all. Brilliant sun, but need to wear a jumper, the temperatures just cracked 10C. On the 10th August… effin' freezing, clear sign of global warming.

    1. I stood outside in my shorts and t shirt and was still hot. The Warqueen suggested there was 'something wrong with me'.

      I do not jest. I put the washing out and this sudden bloom of heat flowed through me and I felt all funny. She pootles out with the coffee and asks why I have a pair of pants on my forehead.

      2. I'd love to be warm, sweaty, even. It's past midsummer, should be the hottest time of the year, and I'm wearing a medium jumper 'cos I'm cold. Puh!

      3. Indeed, it seems a daft time of year to be wearing underpants on your head, rather than outside your trousers like Superman.

        I was once caught with a dodgy alternator at night in the Cotswolds in October, and had to sleep in the car to get home on what was left in the battery. Most heat is lost through the head, so in a fit of inspiration, I put my underpants there, and was nice and toasty till morning. I recommend it for the Winter Olympics.

        1. " Most heat is lost through the head…"

          That's simply because the head is mostly uncovered most of the time.

      5. I used to be hot all the time, then I developed diabetes and contrilled my sugar intake (= none). Now, I’m cold all the time… thinner, too.

    1. It really is long past time that these creatures were dealt with – by deporting all of them.

    2. And we thought it was sheep the Welsh were primarily interested in.

      My Welsh ancestors had the surname 'Thomas', but perhaps that name is unfashionable in Wales these days.

    1. This is where the state must simply be refused. It cannot be permitted to enact these destructive and stupid policies. Knowing they will simply be refused will stop the power crazed Lefties from trying to ruin this country with their moronic socialist ideology.

    1. Yep. Now, why can't we get rid of them after forcing them to undo the dreadful laws they've forced on us?

      That is the fundamental problem. We, the public, their masters cannot stop them from making our lives worse.

        1. I think you're looking at the response rather than the cause.

          The low turn out is due to the appalling anti democratic nature of government. Voting makes no difference to the decline and impoverishment of this country as the state is forcing that.

          The solution to low turn out is to impose referism, recall and direct democracy on the statists. When we, the public can simply refuse their stupid idiocy they can't do anything dangerous. Heck, Labour wouldn't be able to do anything.

    2. While I agree that is was wrong for Britain to destroy most of it industrial base, we have the unions to thank for that.

    1. It's an indicment of the Left how desperate they are that they label such as 'Far Right'.

    1. It's already in a death spiral. Sunak guaranteed that. Reeves just shoved a brick on the accelerator and pointed the car at a cliff.

      The state thinks itself the centre of the economy rather than the parasite it is. The Treasury, OBR and BoE are all desperate to continue the doom loop because their political ideology is that of a cancer: to grow, unthinking. They don't understand or care how destructive they are.

    2. It is the Spending Review that really bothers me.

      How does creative accounting help, kidding the nation that interest on capital borrowing is nothing to worry about when justifying cuts in essential public services rather than bling project?

      Money is money, however it is accounted. The same monarch on a currency, which is now worth pennies thanks to creative accounting, and a fiddle whereby a tax on inflation is not counted, but is certainly levied.

      Much as Nick Clegg should never have made this pledge to the students he was incapable of honouring in Government, Starmer should never have made the pledge not to raise the rates of Income Tax, when it is blindingly obviously the fairest way to share out the burden.

      2. Not sure it is the "fairest way", when a significant segment of the population does not pay tax. It just puts an even higher burden on the minority who already pay all the bills.

    1. Hypocrisy is the defining characteristic of the Left. It's why they're so completely insane.

    1. Every single one of the dindu mopeders speeds, none indicate, they all pootle along as if the law doesn't apply to them – I imagine because they're all from pakiland where basics like law are optional.

      I'm for law abiding citizens who see these dindus speeding and driving dangerously being able to run them off the road, with the dindu forced to pay for repairs.

      1. I believe you can past your driving test in India by driving a few hundred yards along a dirt road. You pass if you manage not to kill a cow.

        1. When I was working there, an Indian colleague asked me if I wanted to get an Indian driving licence. I asked him what it took. Oh, just some rupees to the guy we use who will take it for you, was the answer.

      1. We should pack them into transport aircraft and kick them out the other side.

        If they won't go willingly, open the bay door and begin a climb. If any are left, shoot them.

  28. Rick B
    19h
    "They bring so much!"

    "Refugees welcome here!"

    "Diversity is our strength!"

    "We're in a climate emergency!"

    "I won't come in your mouth."

    "The cheque is in the post."

    "It's a religion of peace."

    Can you spot the TRUE statement?

    1. The cheque is in the post? Who writes cheques these days?

      Well, that said, I tried to tell computashare to pay dividends into my account and it ignored it and made me fill in a form. By post.

      Just proves how bad it's UI is if I can't understand it.

  29. Morning all 🙂😊
    Sunny again could reach 24c later.
    Interstellar comet reaches record speed of 130,000 miles an hour. No one seems to know where it came from.
    Starmer's deal with France is unlikely to make any noticeable difference to the invasion. Just add it to the growing list of our political idiots effing something up.

    1. The deal with France was never intended to. It was a sop to silence Starmfuhrer's critics.

      He doesn't want the invasion to stop at all. He doesn't care.

      1. It's not possible to get a satisfactory deal with a French government, inwardly they still hate us for helping to rescue them from the Nazis.
        Their preferences on European politics stands out like dogs dangly bits.

        1. It's such a contentious topic, with a truly obvious solution. The problem is the entire state machine refuses to leave the useless ECHR. That would unravel countless other laws and policies the Left have knotted together to ensure the destruction of this country.

          1. Hear you, wibbling. However, ECHR embedded in the NI Agreement to ensure parity with the Republic, you likely remember Sunak taking Vonderwhatsit with him to see the Queen, who duly signed us up. A cluster wotsit.

    2. Yo Ol

      Shirley, you only need Insurance on a motor bike if you are using on public roads.

      1. It has to be Sorn(ed) to avoid the need for VED and insurance. In which case you can use it on private land.

      2. Used to be a 'dads and lads' dirt bike annual event near here, didn't return post lockdowns.

    2. It's also interesting that muslims all over the place kill people but there's no bothering with that. It's only when Jews are involved do the Left get uppity.

      Honestly, there is something desperately wrong with a group who seem to hate Jews so much, for so long. What is the Left's problem with the Jewish people? They tried to exterminate them from 39-45 and still hate them now, 80 years later.

      I suppose, given the attitude of globalist institutions they've never really stopped fighting WW2 and continued their progrom. How evil they must be.

      1. Jealousy.
        The percentage of Jews in the higher reaches of art, science and politics far exceeds their small numbers.
        In short, they make others look thick.

      1. Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was of the House of David in Judea. The name Palestine was invented by the Romans more than a hundred years later. When He walked on earth, Palestine didn’t exist. Also, He was a Jew.

      4. Well, he came from heaven, at the Incarnation. Born of Mary, (the betrothed of Joseph), in Bethlehem in Judaea. Judaea being named after Judah, one of the tribes of the People of Israel (who was previously known as Jacob).

    1. I hate to say it, but that's an EU policy that the Tories enacted. Banks are already required (and have been for years) to collect and send earnings to the state for this practice.

      They want to know who you're paid by, how much and use this to determine any measure of tax you might owe that they're not already stealing.

      It's argued as a 'fraud' measure, but is obviously simple theft.

      1. Yes, HMRC decided last year that I was paid too much interest on my savings account and took the tax they claimed I owed via PAYE.

        2. Same here, the banks have to send HMRC the interest you have earned so they can calculate the tax you owe as interest is paid gross. This has been so for a few years.

    2. Wastemonster needs flushing the damage they have done and are still doing has to be stopped now.

      1. Yes, it does. It's intrusive, abusive and spiteful nature , because it has no restraint knows no bounds.

    3. The banks already send interest details. Many with savings will be dragged into taxation with half reasonable interest rates and fixed thresholds but your unlikely to have to submit a tax return. The revenue will adjust your tax code .. Just like that!

          1. No worries, Alec, none at all. I only just got the alert from you 🙂 so possibly a blockage somewhere …that looks really good, light and dark nicely contrasting. I must find out how to post one of mine…currently a face in graphite…are you still using watercolour? I gave up on it after a while – typical, caving in 😀

          4. No, not an airhead; sometimes these things are complicated!

            I only look at Nottl on my phone. If I want to post a photo I have taken, I can just add it from my gallery.

            If you only use a laptop, you have to somehow transfer the photo into it so you can attach it. Maybe tale a photo on your phone then email.it to yourself, open the email on the laptop and save it locally.

            Good luck!

          5. I mostly use the laptop and the photos I've taken on my camera are there or on an external hard drive. If I want to post a photo from the phone I have to use the phone to post it.

          7. I have done – they go on my Samsung T7 hard drive – but it’s laborious and they take a lot of sorting.

          8. I’m currently trying to do something like that :-DD not going especially well….I’m no techie!

      1. At some point, anne – all cash – coins, notes will be declared persona non grata, replaced by CBDC. Sunak was already looking into it when he was in office.

        1. The changes in notes is a deliberate ploy so people have to cash them in.
          Back to the Jewish practice of keeping gold and jewels.

          1. We have no bank branch near us, many areas similar. Cash machines ripped out of wall local petrol station, and also local supermarket – neither reintroduced, but will give cash back (to a limit) with purchases using debit cards. Cash – use it or lose it, seems many have made their choice – will they/we notice when CBDC introduced?

          2. I can still get cash from local supermarkets. Nearest bank is Lloyds but I bank with Barclays.

          3. Been with First Direct (HSBC offshoot, the last bank to have a local branch) for many years. No problems, no hesitation in recommending.

          5. Yes, think cash back still available. Never went back to ‘real’ shopping after lockdowns…now I don’t know how I found the time 😀

          7. They always used to ask if you wanted 'cash back' but they never do now.
            But the cash machine outside usually still works and I can also get cash from the post lady in the van on Mondays and Thursdays.
            My taxi driver who takes me to Heathrow when I go to Kenya prefers cash.

          8. Many cashpoints abandoned UK, but I think still possible in supermarkets/post office. Interesting re taxi driver:-)

    5. Government likely already know the NI numbers, doubtless snivels going through them right now.

  33. Wonderful day yesterday Lukefest at the Elephant and Castle Amwell, (St Albans).
    It was packed, met up with lots of people I haven't seen for a long time.
    Live music from 1 pm to 10 pm. All in a good cause. The Isabel Hospice, in memory of an old friend Luke, who was far too young to be taken from his family.
    Eldest son plays lead in one of the four bands. Parking was a bit tight. So we walked most of the way there and back. I slept for over 11 hours last night.

    2. 7 sodding boat loads of vermin. When does this end? When are those here removed? We cannot, should not take them.

      If Starmer won't get rid of the vermin then he and his cohort of scum must go.

  35. "Meanwhile, contributors to the Red Cross may wish to consider what it is that they are actually funding"

    I did the same to the RNLI and National Trust.

    I still support the Sally Army, as my parents (and theirs) did

    1. Supported 'Save the Children' many years ago, used to receive letters purporting to come from the children who benefitted. Now, I only support local charities (school is a favourite, eg hockey kits).

      1. Some money likely does go to children being helped. 'Charity' has become a financial instrument, not a moral one.

        1. Also used to support wildlife charity, until I received the glossy mag complete with pics of new offices/new cars parked outside. There’s me thinking they might buy wetland area or similar.

      2. Local ones plus the Sheldrick Trust. I ditched Save the Children after the scandal in Haiti.

      1. It's like the Monarchy. I might not like it, but as long as it pays for itself and doens't cause any trouble, I don't care. I truly don't.

        The problem is the country is so overrun with the 'diversity' that decent, legal immigrants are tarred with the same brush. It's sodding annoying. For every drug pedaling dindu bulgarian or vile pakistani paedophile rapist, every nigerian muslim murderer there's a decent, hard working chap who changes the bed sheets when you've crapped blood and pus all over them.

        The simple problem is there are too many of the wrong amongst the right.

      1. Where does who we are become where we were born? There were plenty of Leftists clearly hating the UK yesterday. They might be British by birth but they hate this country.

        2. The Duke of Wellington nailed it; being born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse (he was born in Ireland).

        3. I was born in England as were my parents and grandparents – for many generations back. All English except the Welsh ones. I had a Welsh Gt Grandfather.

    3. It's a question of culture and attitude. Sunak's not a problem and more, I don't care. He's paid his way, even accounting for his PMs salary.

      My respect for him rose when he was asked about his daughters and said 'they're not a poltical discussion. Please do not involve them'.

      1. I believe he may well have kept Boris Johnson in check, otherwise UK in even worse financial position than we now find ourselves.

        1. "Eat out to help out"…… I had lunch out with my old schoolfriends and saved a tenner.

      1. British citizenship is practically handed out in a packet of Cornflakes. It is even more meaningless than a Knighthood.

    2. A bit sad that they re-open oil fields then sell the gas to someone else, then we buy it at huge mark up.

      That's the result of breaking markets. Milioaf doesn't care. The bill payer takes the hit. He has his bills – double those of an equivalent property – slapped on expenses.

      1. Same Applies in Alberta. They can drill all they want but the only market is the USA who are buying at a discount, shipping it down to their southern coast and flogging it as US American gas.

        Trudeau era green mania is still biting us.

        1. I only recalled the name as I believe they were the first known set of quadruplets where two were identical and the others weren't.

  40. The parallel universe of Leftiedom News reporting..

    Reality..
    African drops his trousers to take a sh1t traveling on the Hammersmith and City line in east London

    Leftie parallel universe..
    A half-naked man in a “mental health” crisis has been beaten up by passengers on the District line near East Ham station.

    More from Mirror owned MyLondon
    ‘Croydon feels a bit lawless’ – Traders divided over police bid to curb Surrey Street shoplifting LOL
    London Underground photos from 90s will make you think twice about criticising it now     LOL

    1. It should have been dropped through a trapdoor, and I'll put my name forward to pull the lever.

  43. Oh the hilarity! The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the lefties being interviewed on Talk Radio is an absolute joy! Those poor little pally lovers who were arrested yesterday didn’t know they were doing anything wrong!! This will impact their sad little lives, and their employment (if they have any) and their travel plans! It was an over reaction by plod!!
    I’m so upset I’m crying…🤣

    1. They won't be able to get a visa for the USA – not that they would go there, of course, because they hate Mr Trump.

      2. And there are multiple states in the US where "lefty" ideas are definitely not welcome. All the old Confederacy states for a start. Best not to espouse lefty ideology in any of them.

      3. And there are multiple states in the US where "lefty" ideas are definitely not welcome. All the old Confederacy states for a start. Best not to espouse lefty ideology in any of them.

        1. A bad law is one that sweeps up the good with the evil as is the case with the free speech issues.
          It is particularly bad when it can be used for political rather than justice reasons.

    3. What sickens me is their constant use of the word "genocide" being undertaken by the Israelis (Jews).
      It's a strange "genocide" where the number of "Palestinians" is increasing exponentially.

      1. Organ Harvesting from Uyghurs: Evidence Grows, the U.S. Reacts

        Now that really is.. liderrally gennycider
        Not a squeak from social justice warriors.

        1. Or Muslims killing Christians all over Africa, some in the most appalling ways, for the sheer pleasure of it.
          How many Pally-Pals are protesting about that?

      2. Especially as it's muslim who want to eradicate Israel.

        Lefties are competely bonkers. They keep insisting that up is down.

      3. The Holocaust decimated the Jewish population. Palestinian is not even a genetic identity and the Jews have never expressed any desire to annihilate the Arabs.

        1. Correct using the modern take on decimate, but far more than one in 10 were killed.
          Agreed on both counts and it needs to be stressed time and time again that if the Palestinians could they would kill or enslave every Jew they could get their hands on.

    4. Good article in the Telegaffe today about Pallywood – we have the paper version and can't access the online copy! The "reporter" who takes many of the photos of "starving Gazans" which the Western media lap up is apparently a rabid anti-Israel campaigner! Goebbels would be proud of him!

      4. We had the woke woman doing the intercessions this morning. She surpassed herself. The first prayer was for “the starving children” said in a “concerned” voice. I put my head in my hands and refused to make the response. What? I thought, the ones who have been rehearsed for the propaganda photo opportunity? Never a word about why the aid is going astray.

  44. Creative Tax Accounting

    HatanakaHacker
    Rough Diamond
    16h
    Buss Aldrin tried to put in a mileage claim to the IRS for his moon trip, they rejected it, but top thinking on his part.

    1. Creative accounting and politics.

      I would not be surprised if RR lowered the rates of employer and employee's NI and take a penny or so off income tax levels; but in exchange applied NI to all income, with no upper limit. To include people on benefits etc. ex-EU and other employees who get tax free pensions.
      After all, NI isn't a tax it's insurance /sarc.

      She could make it applicable to bank interest, dividend payments, betting winnings etc etc and apply it to all incomes above the State pensioner's minimum.

      She would claim to have reduced NI and income taxes but raise far more in total as it would be difficult to avoid.

      2. European Commission pensions have 'community tax' deducted at source (ie Brussels) and are protected from extra taxation by Treaty.

      1. And never will be, Ndovu. Another time, might even be the real deal, and people won't listen but drop dead in the streets as previously with genuine flu pandemics (1914 etc).

  48. I see the ghastly dwarf Mrs Murrell is all over The Sunday Times (as she was in the DT yesterday). The ST have snapped her dressed in "pauch" clothes (the kind she'd never choose in a million years) and made up her ugly mug to try to make her mean little mouth look less mean. It didn't work!

    Interestingly, she laughs off her non- affair with some horse faced Euro woman (if they are a woman) – but makes no reference anywhere to the famous injunction….

    Funny that.

    1. FCs say it isn't so. More lectures from Scots, usual subject 'It's all the fault of the English!'……post-note…..her book out in a couple of days, around £20..Amazon..

          2. Yes 🙂 noticed my friend more well, friendly…now. He's sad and angry, but not as much as he once was. Anyhow, different topic…managed to get a drawing on my phone but now no idea how to transfer it here…? looks like I may have done it? see above?

          3. When you write a post, there's a little icon of a photo at the bottom of the b0x. Click on that, find your photo, wait until it loads, and… fingers crossed!

          4. Kathie, try above your post, see what you think – can you find/see it?….need a lie down now :-DDD

          6. Thank you, Kathie ..means a lot, rarely show my scribblings, have been asked to take commissions, exhibit etc..just not my scene, purely hobby and no pressure (had enough of that working for a living half a century)…off for a choc ice now :-DDD

          10. Is this someone you know, know well? I can’t draw anyone I know, especially not family. He does look a tough nut, good for him 🙂

          12. I think nearly all my stuff from photos, work too slowly to expect someone to sit for hours…:-D

          17. I'm so glad you can see it, Alec…it is difficult, everything on a human face can be related to the size of the eye..this one looks to be in ink, from 2014..far too long ago, where's my life gone…

          19. This one is good, Alec..eyes in line with nostril line, mouth more or less there..the line right side of face is top dollar, head correct shape and placed correctly… he's pretty darned cute, is it you? xxx

          20. You're too kind – no it's son of a family whose portraits I took when I had a photographic business when I lived in England x

          21. Can never be too kind…:-) how long ago did you live in England (don’t say if you’d rather not…) x

          23. Good for you, guessing you love it 🙂 wish I had – started full time shortly after 16th birthday, worked 50 odd years following…….

      1. I think it's an Afghan girl, from a Steve McCurry photo, scrawl looks like ink, either Rotring (very good but now too expensive) or perhaps a Tikky throwaway. With ink, no changes possible…aaaarghhh…date looks to be 2014

        1. I think the eyes are the legacy of Alexander the Great's invasion.
          Just as blue eyes crop up in the Middle East because Vikings were serving with the Ottoman Empire.

  50. Afternoon all. The government’s deal with France will make a difference to their balance of payments. It won’t do anything to stop the invasion.

    1. The whole point is to look like they are trying to reduce the numbers while actually deliberately increasing them.

  52. Just in from an hour's watering – filling 1000 litre cubi and drenching the trombetti (and other veg).

    Recently, I had a brainwave and splashed out (I like it!!) on another length of hose. I now have 75 yards which reaches to the further part of the garden which needs irrigation from the well. MUCH less effort than lugging 10 litre watering cans….. Only took me 40 years to work it out!!!

      1. Oh yes you could – I have a piece that is fifty yards long – 1 inch bore. Trouble is – for my non-existent muscles, it is too damned heavy to handle. It was OK 40 years ago when I was younger and, er, fit….

    2. I have 100yds of hose so can reach the end of the drive to pressure wash round the cattle grid and the same length of extension lead for the washer and for the compressor when I spray paint the fence or use the electric chain saw

  54. Obviously it's all right to use the word "scumbag" as long as you're not talking about shoplifters.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/10/stop-posting-about-gaza-police-tell-abused-jewish-woman/

    Stop posting about Gaza, police tell woman with Jewish family

    Campaigner whose husband lost relatives in Oct 7 attacks says she was ‘victim-blamed’ over anti-Semitic insults

    Robert Mendick10 August 2025 9:00am BST

    Heidi Bachram was shocked to be advised by police to stop posting about ‘controversial subjects’

    A woman subjected to anti-Semitic abuse on social media says she was advised by police to stop posting on controversial subjects such as Gaza.

    Heidi Bachram, who had Jewish family members murdered and taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct 7 attacks, was the subject of anti-Semitic posts by another user on X.

    The account was eventually suspended for violating X’s rules with the posts, which contained anti-Semitic comments and cartoons showing stereotypically Jewish figures.

    But Ms Bachram, from Brighton, said that instead of investigating who was responsible for the abuse, Sussex Police suggested she stop posting about “controversial subjects” such as Gaza.

    Ms Bachram has been prominent in raising the plight of hostages still held by Hamas. On Oct 7, Tsachi, the cousin of Ms Bachram’s husband, and his wife and two children were held at gunpoint on the floor of their home on Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

    Mayan, Tsachi’s 18-year-old daughter, was murdered and Tsachi taken hostage. His family received confirmation in February that he had been killed in captivity.

    Cruel jibes about Oct 7 victims

    An account operated under the name NJimmytree is accused of bombarding Ms Bachram with abuse, calling her a “scumbag”, “ugly Zionist” and “ugly faced pig”.

    One message stated: “You have a face only a genocidal Zionist pig could like. Your brother-in-law should thank Hamas, because of them he never has to see your monstrosity of a face again.”

    Another of NJimmytree’s posts showed a photograph of Mia Chem, a young woman kidnapped by Hamas at the Nova festival, with the jibe “check out the beak on this one”.

    One particularly offensive post in November last year showed two images of a young woman’s profile and the comment: “Imagine getting a nose job because your captors made you feel ugly because they didn’t want to rape her.”

    The material posted also included stereotypical cartoons of Jewish men with large noses rubbing their hands, together with the comment: “Why do you all look like this?”

    Ms Bachram told The Telegraph: “The constant abuse was scary. He seemed obsessed with posting my face and being nasty about my appearance. It just felt relentless.

    “When he posted about my husband’s murdered relative, I felt sick. We are still in shock from Tsachi’s death and it’s a very painful time.

    “I couldn’t believe someone would be so deliberately cruel.”

    Ms Bachram says police were reluctant to investigate the abuse. Instead, she says, she was told by a sergeant that what she tweets was “politically sensitive” and asked: “Why don’t you stop posting about it?”

    She added: “He said I was making myself a target. I feel like I’ve been victimised twice. Once by this cruel troll and secondly by the police. It was classic ‘blame the victim’ stuff.”

    Ms Bachram said the Sussex force’s attitude to anti-Semitic posts appeared inconsistent.

    Just two weeks before she reported the NJimmytree posts, an officer contacted her in order to alert her to an anti-Semitic message posted by a far-Right troll.

    In response to a photograph shared by Ms Bachram of a memorial to Gaza hostages erected in Brighton which had been smeared with faeces, a user called NoticeBanned wrote on X on June 23: “None of these people died in Brighton. F— off Jew.”

    Sussex Police invited Ms Bachram to make a complaint about this abusive post, which she did, and officers are understood to have asked X to provide the ID of the NoticeBanned account, which has a history of anti-Semitic and racist abuse.

    Force is reviewing complaint

    Alex Hearn, of Labour Against Antisemitism, said: “The inconsistency in policing these cases beggars belief. How can they be so proactive in one case and dismissive of another?”

    A Sussex Police spokesman said: “We are aware of concerns which have been raised by Ms Bachram, and we can confirm that we have received a formal complaint.

    “Officers will review this complaint, and we are unable to comment further at this time.

    “Sussex Police takes a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime and there is no place for hate across the county.

    “We urge anyone impacted by hate crime to report it to Sussex Police, and remain committed to ensuring any reported offences are fully investigated in line with relevant legislation and taking all factors into account.”

    3. Not in any way supporting the troll, but how do the police know it's "far right" when they apparently don't know the actual ID?? It's Labour that seems to have the worst problems with such views and they aren't far right!

          1. Using the word "Right" to indicate hate-filled, intolerant, bigotted, nasty, and all things unpleasant, where as the opposite, Left, is implied to be all things wonderful.
            So, everyone hates the Nazis, so they care called Right-wing, when in actual fact they were/are Left wing, and nasty with it.
            Doublespeak, following Orwell.

          3. Using the word "Right" to indicate hate-filled, intolerant, bigotted, nasty, and all things unpleasant, where as the opposite, Left, is implied to be all things wonderful.
            So, everyone hates the Nazis, so they care called Right-wing, when in actual fact they were/are Left wing, and nasty with it.
            Doublespeak, following Orwell.

      1. 90-odd% males, similarly attired, Phiz. No women, no children, no oldies…chucking their papers in the Channel. Bennies all round. Government could stop this virtually overnight – no benefits for three months, and only then if no job, rigorously policed – paying NIC/PAYE.

        1. 90-odd% males, similarly attired, Phiz. No women, no children, no oldies…chucking their papers in the Channel. Bennies all round. Government could stop this virtually overnight – no benefits for three months, and only then if no job, rigorously policed – paying NIC/PAYE.
          Fixed it for you.
          In the country illegally, they should be a non-person, locked in prison camps and deported ASAP. No fun, no work, no money, just OUT!

          1. "No papers, Sir?

            We must assume you're Taliban, so you're on the next flight to Kabul.
            Good-bye."

          2. Hear you, Paul…hear you. More UK support for Gaza than anything else. No thinking space for the Channel/UK generally.

          3. I surprised they are fast tracking Gazans in to the country but ignoring the slaughter by muslims of Christians all across Africa.
            I would have thought Kemi Badendoch would have something to say about that as she is of Nigerian heritage.

        2. The only problem with stopping their benefits is they would either work illegally or turn to crime to get money for food etc. The only answer is to deport the lot (starting with their lawyers) x

          2. Good plan, Alec. Unfortunately, all political parties, most politicians…happy to turn a blind eye, a deaf ear, or pontificate. If Trump can do it with his numbers in America, I’d have thunk even our lousy system could do similarly here. Probably a good job I’m not in charge of anything other than my own supper, as Alison Steadman’s mother would say ‘where’s yer gun when yer need it’……..early whisky calls……
            …

    6. And had that happened in Birmingham, the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police would have accused the Officer of "showing disrespect" to the Paki Stani tw@ and sacked him.

      1. Not on this occasion methinks.

        It has taken him forty years to come up with this latest nonsense!

        1. I'm sure you are right but i don't believe he would be convicted if it happened today. The police cocked up the investigation. There were other irregularities.

  58. My God.
    Just imagine how bad it would be if they weren't all doctors, scientists, architects and engineers. /sarc

    The shocking array of crime committed by migrants living in taxpayer-funded hotels can today be exposed by the Mail.

    Rape, murder and assault are among the offences at least 300 asylum seekers have been charged with in just three years – as well as arson, robbery, dangerous driving, fraud, possessing indecent images of children and supplying drugs.

    However, the true toll of migrant crime blighting neighbourhoods across Britain may be higher, given our investigation only looked at around 65 hotels known to have accommodated migrants as part of a £3billion Government scheme.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14980585/common-offences-migrants-hotels-accused-analysis-Mail.html

    Edit for bold

    2. The most obvious but sidelined offence committed in this country has been by our our 'king useless successive government's.
      I saw a clip on FB earlier of a street scene somewhere in the UK and hardly a local to be seen. Gutters and footpaths filled and covered in litter.

      1. You mean most of the people to be seen were white?
        New locals tend not be when the situation is as you describe…

          1. I was explaining it for our more literal readers.

            Of whom there are many.

            Admit it, you thought I was going to say Phizzee

          2. It depends what you mean by literal.
            Less exaggeration and distortion plays on words 😇😊

  59. Wordle No. 1,513 3/6

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    Wordle 10 Aug 2025

    Fresh Birdie Three?

      1. Wordle 1,513 4/6

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    4. Wow. Bogey for me.

      Wordle 1,513 5/6

      ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
      ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
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      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        1. I’m a bit busy tomorrow , I hope it’s not the full two bob one that takes about an hour…. I’ll hopefully get some time to have a go!

          5. When I went out with the harriers I saw the hare (puss) running in a circle and a distance behind her (obviously following a scent) was a lone hound. If he'd looked up he could have seen his quarry.

          6. Delgany Beagles, County Wicklow c.1965:

            I recall seeing a hare doing a 180-degree turn and run through the pack; the sniffing beagles continued to advance to the point of the hare's about turn before changing direction!

        2. Fit looking doggo…especially like the ear pricked up, ready to listen to doorbell/knocker, fridge door opening etc…

          2. Similar here…door knocker which is very loud but dog (small Border) tries to out perform….even after door answered and visitor invited in, to then be assaulted with licks, trouser rubs (hairy), running round in circles alternated with jumping up, suddenly deaf to my voice…on and on….

          3. Mine start creating when they hear the gate open and close. People don't need to get near enough to the house to ring the bell (which is a proper bell, not a bell push). Then you can't hear a word that's being spoken until they've settled down.

          4. I picture (and hear) the scene, one familiar to me. Old lady I knew, neighbour of mine, her house had much furniture and other things – so full she lived in a caravan parked outside the front door with an alarm supposed to sound like a dog barking but so old more like a duck quacking…she bought hens’ eggs from me for a long time, said ‘among the best I’ve ever eaten’…hmmm…

    1. That must be one of the most prescient/pertinent and at the same time awful posts that I have read here.

  63. That's me for today. A very agreeable one. Lots of useful garden work. Read half a novel (I am re-reading Len Deighton – master craftsman – still with us at 96 (an example to us all).

    Tonight for "proper" music fans – BBC4 (spit) has three hours of the late, great SELF TAUGHT Alfred Brendel. Slightly weird chap – but WOT a pianist….

    A demain.

    PS I am soooooo glad that Mrs Murrell has a devoted fan in Val McDermatitis. Warms yer cockles…

      1. XPD

        I have all the early ones – never got on with the "trilogies". Some I know almost by heart!

        Rather like Le Carré – small is better…

    2. I should imagine they warmed each others cockles? Or is that a subject of another superinjunction?

  65. This is brilliant, courtesy of Robert Malone:
    A State Department of Fish and Wildlife sent a letter to a home/landowner asking for permission to access a creek on his property to document the decline in a certain species of unheard of frogs.

    The letter is as follows:

    > Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife:
    >
    > Dear Landowner:
    >
    > WDFWR Staff will be conducting surveys for foothill yellow-legged frogs & other amphibians over the next few months. As part of this research, we would like to survey the creek on your property. I am writing this letter to request your permission to access your property.
    >
    > Recent research indicates that foothill yellow-legged frogs have declined significantly in recent years and are no longer found at half their historic sites. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated and will help contribute to the conservation of this important species.
    >
    > Please fill out the attached postage-paid postcard and let us know if you are willing to let us cross your property or not.
    >
    > If you have any concerns about this project please give us a call. We would love to talk with you about our research.
    >
    > Sincerely
    >
    > Steve Nemel
    >
    > Conservation Strategy Implementation Biologist

    ***************************** ******************************

    RESPONSE FROM THE LANDOWNERS:

    > Dear Mr. Nemel:
    >
    > Thank you for your inquiry regarding accessing our property to survey for the yellow-legged frog. We may be able to help you out with this matter.
    >
    > We have divided our 2.26 acres into 75 equal survey units with a draw tag for each unit. Application fees are only $8.00 per unit after you purchase the "Frog Survey License" ($120.00 resident / $180.00 Non-Resident). You will also need to obtain a "Frog Habitat" parking permit ($10.00 per vehicle).
    >
    > You will also need an "Invasive Species" stamp ($15.00 for the first vehicle and $5.00 for each add'l vehicle) You will also want to register at the Check Station to have your vehicle inspected for Non-native plant life prior to entering our property. There is also a Day Use fee, $5.00 per vehicle.
    >
    > If you are successful in the Draw you will be notified two weeks in advance so you can make necessary plans and purchase your "Creek Habitat" stamp. ($18.00 Resident / $140.00 Non-Resident).
    >
    > Survey units open between 8 am. And 3 PM. But you cannot commence survey until 9 am. And must cease all survey activity by 1 PM.
    >
    > Survey Gear can only include a net with a 2" diameter made of 100% organic cotton netting with no longer than an 18 in handle, non-weighted and no deeper than 6' from net frame to bottom of net. Handles can only be made of BPA-free plastics or wooden handles.
    >
    > After 1 PM. You can use a net with a 3" diameter if you purchase the "Frog Net Endorsement" ($75.00 Resident / $250 Non-Resident).
    >
    > Any frogs captured that are released will need to be released with an approved release device back into the environment unharmed.
    >
    > As of June 1, we are offering draw tags for our "Premium Survey" units and application is again only $8.00 per application.
    >
    > However, all fees can be waived if you can verify "Native Indian Tribal rights and status".
    >
    > You will also need to provide evidence of successful completion of "Frog Surveys" and your "Comprehensive Course on Frog Identification, Safe Handling Practices, and Self-Defense Strategies for Frog Attacks."
    >
    > This course is offered on-line through an accredited program for a nominal fee of $750.00.
    >
    > Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you. Otherwise, we decline your access to our property but appreciate your inquiry.
    >
    > Sincerely,
    >
    > The American Citizens!

    FB post by: Steve Worthy

  66. lat the turk’s head on st agnes. Unfortunately tech not permitting me to upload photos if beautifull bay

    2. Is that the one with the steep-ish hill from the cove? I remember one pub, the cricket pitch was a bit soggy from the tide. Could easily be remembering one of the diffferent isles, I loved them all!

  67. I was just thinking, all these fast food delivery drivers being caught for working here illegally, why don't they send them to work for the UN in Gaza.
    If they can survive riding a moped with food on board around our most crime ridden council estates, Gaza will be a walk in the park for them.

  68. Sat on the north side of church this morning but back on the south side at Evensong. I like to be where I can see the tomb of Prior Rahere and wonder sometimes if the appearance of the effigy of King Henry I having brown skin leads any foolish people to believe the Normans came from Africa. Rahere is revered as a saint in London, as he founded Bart’s Hospital.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b848c5f93438759866cc931d5ba7a45fdafcdd699cc27f4262d84f6c45ea9bf.jpg

    1. They probably did, Sue…but it would likely just be the pigment used, which would also darken/change shade as it aged. It looks grand, is it by any chance one of those statues where the hand is shiny due to countless people having touched it, praying for a change in health or other miracle?

      1. Possibly. The bones of one foot are missing from Rahere’s remains and that’s likely because someone stole them as a relic. I’ve found a description that refers to an angel at his feet. I’ve always assumed that it’s the king, as he wears a crown and is holding the coat of arns known to be associated with him. But he does also have wings.

        1. Aren’t some people just the pits, Sue. Other works of art maimed similarly. I wonder how large the angel would have been, any ideas? And which king? (I understand each hill once had it’s own ‘king’ or leader pre-Alfred)

  69. Well back on dry land following a short cruise from Bradford on Avon to Claverton, via Bradford Lock, Avoncliff Aqueduct & Dundas Aqueduct:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c559a10edeb6a1d866f3f1256876b483607cddc04238fa6fc36004c00f6e9c11.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6325643dbfc4d4cd5d01c25bae5a467571d8d3eef8683a9b3f3402578ee40dc3.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5385b3f54053f9ad0091b567fb32c518add8acd021b8bbcfa25cea553e466819.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bfaf3f76f1c3dafeed7782a94c49b2c7f2a8f59d706ea6c18198a502d5672582.jpg

        1. So, it's time to choose:

          Either yer an ultra Right Wing Fascist pig or a Left-Wing Commie Bastard.

          Or, you go the full circle, meet, and yer a Nottler

  70. Oh well a quite Sunday installed our new desktop it doesn't have a mind of its own like the old one. Such a relief.
    Off to bed, I've got to get a photo tomorrow for my driving licence renewal no posing, all other questions answered honestly.
    Good night all Nottlers, sleep well. 😴

    1. If your PC has a camera you've probably got an app on board that will take an official photo….

    3. 'Night Eddy, you sleep well too 🙂 Daughter took my photo on mobile phone, think you can even send it in digitally now (for some years anyhow, depending on age)?

  71. Yet another earthquake.
    Sorry people, but I believe that these, and volcanic eruptions, are far far more dangerous than "man-maid" (sic) glowballs warming.

    1. Where was the quake? The earth didn't move for me (although I've experienced three mild tremors since I moved here).

  72. Arrests from the Palestine Action demo have now reached 532 – well done the Met! (it's not often you hear that)

    Surprisingly, the largest cohort of the arrested group were the 60-69 year olds, at 147 individuals…..

    How depressing is that? Have these people not bloody grown up??

      1. Well, I'm in that cohort as I'm sure many on here are. I simply cant (dont want to) believe there are that many anti-semites in that group…..

        PS Only did dope once and was very sick…. never again.

        1. I was once persuaded to take an amphetamine tab, Vlad….awake for two days, that taught me….

          2. Taught me a lesson, couldn’t see what the heck good it was for. Lucky it wasn’t something worse. Dylan always my favourite poet, liked Tom Petty too. And also The Band….those days, Vlad…glad to be around then xx

          4. Definitely something or not so much. Liked his earlier stuff but not so much with Baez. ‘Night, Vlad..hope to see you tmrw 😊

          7. Never touched any drug in my life (I even gave up smoking) – can't see the attraction. Off to t'pit now G'night Kate sleep well x

          8. Never have since, although I like Asahi now and again. Me2, Alec, sleep well hope to see you tmrw x

          11. I used a little 'speed' for a couple of years in my late teens, but grew out of it. Smoking dope made me brain dead. So just alcohol for the last 50 years. Cheersh!

          12. I have terrible taste in alcohol – Japanese beer and whisky. Cheersh to you mola! Glad you stopped smoking, I stopped around 50 years ago to save, but I reckon I’d start again if I could.

        2. I was at school in the sixties, but went to university at the end of the decade. I was offered dope but I turned it down. Whatever would Biggles have said? 🙂

          1. James Bigglesworth would have been fine with it – although Algy and Ginger may have begged to differ….

            The whole drugs issue was covered in Captain W E Johns seminal oeuvre 'Biggles flies as high as a kite' …….

            PS The above was a notable sequel to 'Biggles flies undone'.

    2. People who genuinely think that they are being balanced, fair, and reasonable.

      I hope their children and grandchildren don't discover the hard way how very wrong they are.

    4. They're probably retired so they wouldn't have to go to work in the morning if they were kept in custody. Also heading for their second childhood.

    5. They'll be fined then, in a couple of weeks, when the law is found to be illegal they will get their money back and compensation

      2. I'm not actually that bothered what happens to them Alec, throw the effing book at them for all I care, or indeed let them off scot free.

        I'm just disappointed (?) that people of an age similar to mine can be so bloody stupid…….

          1. Well yes, N, but I've always hoped that lefties gradually drift right as they get older…. and wiser!

            The odd one yes OK – but 147 of the bastards???

    6. Apparently Stoma's chum Hermer is involved in the prosecutions (as in whether they can be arsed).

      1. As I've said below Annie, I really dont care if they're banged up forever or let off scot free – it's the fact that they are involved at their age (my age) which inflames me so much….. effing idiots!!!!

      1. He's tight, no need to worry on that score, unless you think he's also sniffing lines…

  74. Discussion on GBN about the failure of centrist government. What centrist government? The faux conservatives were left wing and the faux workers party are extreme left. There’s a woman on the panel with her head wrapped in a blanket. I keep hitting the mute button.

      1. Yes. Good looking and articulate Moslem girl. Talks ignorant rubbish but has style. Can’t stand her.

        1. We've just watched most of a David Attenborough episode of Africa….. wonderful photography……. i shut my ears to his climate change propaganda.

  75. Having a job to stay awake……..didn't sleep well last night.
    Chicken for dinner, veg, wine and Bach.

      2. Which island are you on? My OH lived on St Agnes for a couple of years in the early 1980s…..with his first wife. They kept the post office shop there – till he couldn't stand living with her any longer. He upped and left on Christmas Eve – caught the last boat out and went to his parents'.

  78. Visiting cat appeared yowling with a mouse in her mouth through the open patio window , mouse was very much alive , cat dropped it and then the mouse ran around the living room ,

    Moh was watching golf , and screeched at me , "Maggie do something ", Pip spaniel and cat sprang into hyper action , Moh still yelling ," get my garden gloves " , I fetched a mug and a cloth , bent down and coaxed a little mouse into the safety of the mug , poor little thing , and covered the lid then walked down the driveway and deposited the trembling wee thing into the hedge .

    That cat is a real mouser , and how she knows where they are , goodness only knows , but she is so pleased with herself when she brings us a present ! 🐭🐍

    1. Well done! I hate killing anything (I must be a secret Buddhist) – my wife doesnt get it when I catch spiders and flies and other creepy-crawlies in the house and set them free outside. Karma…..

      1. Spiders……!!!!! I can't touch them – but I don't want to kill them. My OH is well-trained and he catches them and releases outside. I'm a true arachnophobe – this house seems to attract them.

      2. I feel guilty about killing any rats I've trapped, but it has to be done. I'm a hard-hearted b'stard when I have to be. Now if only I had a terrier that would do it instead of a wimp …

        1. Rats are a bit different – but only because they can carry horrible diseases. I had a pet rat when I was young – he was called Sparky, he was very attractive and I was very fond of him (only problem was his tail tbh).
          Killing wild rats that impinge upon your property is OK in my book.

          1. I have a .177 air rifle to deal with our rats. If you keep fowl, or feed wild birds, then rats are not far away. A good shot to the head gives a clean kill.

          2. I was feeding the birds. I left the birds to fend for themselves (I have plenty of shrubs that bear berries) and the rats went underground (probably literally) because I didn't see them any more.

          3. Yes, I had a .177 but I always wanted a .22
            We had to stop putting food on our bird feeders as the rats were attracted inexorably to it….

    2. Well done.
      Personally, I'd have switched off the telly and made the mouse catching a joint effort.

    3. Jessie brings them in very occasionally………in nearly two years only a couple of live ones that she let run. Last week she brought in a little shrew, but it was already dead. Ziggy doesn't hunt – she's a bit older than Jessie.
      You did well to catch it. Last summer we had one running under the fridge.

  80. Well, chums, I'm off to bed now. So Good Night to you all. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all bright and early tomorrow morning.

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