Sunday 13 July: Resident doctors risk losing the goodwill of the public by taking further strike action

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  3. SIR – The most recent study into public perceptions of the Hippocratic Oath in the United Kingdom showed that 70 per cent of universities still insist that medical students swear to act in the best interests of their patients, both before and after they qualify.

    How, I wonder, does this sit with the proposed strike action by resident doctors? This will inevitably delay vital operations for patients who, in many cases, have been waiting for some time – in varying degrees of distress – for the procedure to take place.

    Taking an oath used to mean something; regrettably it seems that those days are over.

    Edward Aitchison
    Corbridge, Northumberland

    I don't think they understand the oath ,simply put "Do no harm"

  7. Good morning all ,

    Yes , another warm night . Unbearable at 0300hrs ..Why at that time of night?

    Interesting comment on DT letters

    Sue Donnelly
    45 min ago
    As our nation slides into Apartheid, rural communities are where the British people who flee cities are coming. Increasingly we will become little enclaves of the last of England … ignoring the cities, the Government and the rules, and managing our own affairs. It is already happening.

    1. Some years go I wrote in the DT comments that the English would end up like the Red Indians (non-PC)/native Americans/First People or whatever they're called today, living in rural reservations. It was an idea treated with some considerable hostility by the trolling Marxists and internationalists who infested the column back then.

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  10. And now for a later post. I shall be away from this site from now (Sunday morning) until Thursday afternoon, because I am off to Canterbury. No, I have not been shortlisted to possibly be the very first female Archbishopess of Canterbury. The reason for my absence is because I shall be attending this year's Dickens Fellowship convention. What larks, eh? Toodle pip!

    1. Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
      The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
      And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
      Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
      Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
      Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
      The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
      Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
      And smale foweles maken melodye,
      That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
      So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
      Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
      And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
      To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
      And specially, from every shires ende
      Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
      The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
      That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

        1. I found Chaucer was pretty easy to read as long as you read him phonetically.

      2. Sadly, I did not have the chance to study Chaucer, nor indeed any more than a token amount of poetry.

        1. We read The Prologue in class and then The Pardoner's Tale was a set book for O level or A – I forget which now.

          1. We did the Pardoner's Tale.
            I remember his hair was "yellow as wexe" and he sold "pigges bones" as sacred relics. Chaucer did not have much time for him; I assume he was stating the general view of such religious leeches.

          2. A bit like Cardinal Basil Hume's (and my) view of the Vatican. [see earlier posts {:^))]

    6. Have a lovely time. And remember to keep a spare sixpence from your spending.

        1. We have a complete set of Dickens books in a box in our loft space. And I have Sketches by Boz.

    8. Two friends visited the CD house in Portsmouth many years ago; there was a not particularly communicative guide on the top floor, dressed in Victorian clothes.
      When they left the building, the couple mentioned the man upstairs, and the person at the ticket desk was non-plussed as my friends were the only other visitors present that afternoon.

    9. Two friends visited the CD house in Portsmouth many years ago; there was a not particularly communicative guide on the top floor, dressed in Victorian clothes.
      When they left the building, the couple mentioned the man upstairs, and the person at the ticket desk was non-plussed as my friends were the only other visitors present that afternoon.

  11. And now for a later post. I shall be away from this site from now (Sunday morning) until Thursday afternoon, because I am off to Canterbury. No, I have not been shortlisted to possibly be the very first female Archbishopess of Canterbury. The reason for my absence is because I shall be attending this year's Dickens Fellowship convention. What larks, eh? Toodle pip!

    2. Is this the Party List system, favoured by A List Conservatives and CHANGE aka New Labour?

      Buried below the scrolling system is a comment I made a while back about David Hallam.

      He was a rather good Labour MEP, elected under the FPTP system for the huge constituency of the Welsh Marches, and within the constraints of European democracy, did rather a good job.

      Then the system was reformed into the regional Party List system favoured by New Labour. Under the rules of the Party, Hallam was placed eighth below a coven of Coventry lesbians, and was duly unseated as only the top six chosen by the Party centrally got through.

    3. "National Emergency" brewing up nicely.
      It will explode in Autumn 2028; so a general election would be an unnecessary use of national resources.
      If this benighted government lasts that long.

    4. Imagine of Boris had suggested this. The meedja wouldn’t have shut up Bout it

  14. What is the record length of time before the 'Sunday' programme on Radio 4 comes out with a trigger phrase that leads me to turn it off, sick of its indoctrination? This morning, we had barely seconds into the first feature when I heard "male dominated space", and I could stand no more of this. At least it was feminism this morning, rather than equating religion with homosexuality, which is their other preoccupation.

    1. I no longer listen to any radio except R3 in the car. No telly either – it's all a big turn off. I'd gladly stop paying but OH watches the sport.

    2. As I say in my post above, had you tuned into R3 you'd have had the relaxing delight of Gerald Finzi, perhaps the most under-rated British composer of the 20th Century.

      1. The Elgar Chorale did a concert recently, largely of music by Finzi. 'My Spirit Sang All Day' was one of my mother's favourites.

      2. Ahhhh. 🙂 Now I shall have Dies Natalis running through my head all day. What joy! Thanks, Bob x

    1. Gun that load on the float there down, and see the invasion pause. No loss tp humanity.

  17. Good morning all.
    Another boringly clear sky and bright sunny start to the day with a tad below 17½°C and expected to get a bit warmer.
    A warm night and after pouring the water into the mugs for the teas, I just went out to check the temperatures and was struck at how dead calm and quiet it is without the usual traffic.
    Then came in and put Radio 3 on to hear Gerald Finzi's Eclogue, Opus 10. A VERY pleasant start to the day.

    I sat scanning a load of b&w negatives last night from my time in Hameln.
    By the banks of the Weser fair; https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0971db2157724b0ccafec7d78a4c9d9e7f6a32615f6c3ada24f56441d1d3cd5a.jpg Just finishing the build https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/645816fa377019019700e55e7cb0bc1f222bce1eb112b7378c3150b60f28a9fd.jpg And in the squadron bar; https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1c93a5b152a4ab0afe0b2781626d70b98ec82b98acf032f4bcdc080f35a5e0f4.jpg I had terrible taste in jumpers https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1b9e2c3e932c4f064832ebd1eb1076e8bc374389a3b20994d5276e6a42f9772f.jpg Some serious drinking going on https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf776caf559d8bb3c08ef8b8a8b2a9ad820541dc8b00a4f2f221a077b43af3d5.jpg And a group shot https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92d8b1a2471f1e04c399941ed1ea70130b9c6d0221c15c926880fc566ae6ec28.jpg

    3. I drove over the Weser on a bridge of M2s on Ex Lionheart in 1984. Most impressive.

  18. 409324+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    Tell me do the English really know and acknowledge that the Farmers, the constructors of the bread of life
    are in a life /death war with the WEF / NWO political overseers ?

    Seemingly many would be happy with a reform / tory (INO) party coming into being resulting in high grade treachery with odious amendments, and so the wheel will continue to turn until its time to mandatory attend the mosque.

    On reflection the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled / party controlled / paedophile umbrella coalition party and its many tribal drivers was the political vehicle used for getting us into this eyebrow deep shite marsh so one would think radical change is on the cards.

    As a safety net party is surely required for when reform goes, as it surely will, TITS UP may one suggest
    the Farmers Food and Freedom Party gets, as the true guardians of the land, the support it deserves.

    https://x.com/wolsned/status/1944115950707781632

    2. When they drew up the list of human rights 80 years ago, they forgot a very important one: the right of the people not to be insulted by their own governments.

      Did anyone in that era even dream that tax money, squeezed from those who actually work, could be used to buy pizza and pay for circus trips for illegal immigrants? Of course not.

      In those days socialists were serious people who did not fool with public cash, and knew where it came from.

      But they have gone, replaced with a new generation of radical liberals who use the old labels but who seem to despise the respectable, the thrifty and the hardworking, who have repeatedly voted for them.

      Well, now the joke is over. Seeing that their leaders openly despise them, voters are turning elsewhere.

      The revelations unearthed by Nigel Farage's new efficiency audit, in local authorities recently captured by Reform UK, are teeth-grindingly, wall-punchingly, shout-out-loud infuriating.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14900505/MAIL-SUNDAY-COMMENT-tolerance-tested-limit.html

      Very few of us worked those long hours, went on the long commute, sacrificed precious hours with children, to pay for local authorities to feast illegal migrants (often posing as children when they aren't) in Nando's, or fork out for them to order in from Domino's at their free accommodation – which we also paid for.

      These details are enough to make a maiden aunt curse out loud.

      1. The HRA is not a definition of rights. It is one to control and define what you can do. The state witholds the rest.

        This is, in a free society, the wrong way around.

    4. You're deliberately wrecking our country starmer, it's social structure, culture, countryside and now the economy.

    5. No, it must not be an 'integrated society'. The gimmigrant culture must be erased and those moving here thoroughly adopt our own. Failure to do so results in confiscation of assets and deportation.

    4. Perhaps she should have had protection of a different sort when she was at school!

    1. I think we might have been one step ahead of them on that one.
      A turd is a turd, that's life.

  25. Uncle Bob
    13h
    Headline "Trump ‘denied chance to address parliament’ during UK state visit to meet King"
    .
    Because our London elite who Rule by decree inside this failed vassal Parliament

    A gang who Gave France our Fish with a King who gave NI to Europe, in the Windsor giveaway

    While the whole sold out lot, ignored the UK’s Democratic Brexit Vote to leave the EU

    Says "Trump is not democratic" ,

    Thats Irony on Steroids

    1. Stair rods might be the answer shoved into where it will make them take notice.

  27. I often wish I was able to get onto the New Statesman or the Guardian or even the Morning Star, and ask the loyal traditional Socialist readership, including the new party Jeremy Corbyn is too old to lead:

    When running Birmingham City Council, whom do you favour – the dustmen or the dinnerladies?

  28. The dinnerladies and their lawyers bankrupted Birmingham City Council, forcing it to sell off its municipal buildings and to close down all but statutory public services. Whilst this was a triumph for feminism, it was a catastrophe for everything I once believed Labour stood for, including in early childhood when my mother actually stood for election under the Labour flag.

    The dinnerladies will not stop in their drive for "Equality". The moment the dustmen get a fair settlement, they will be out like enraged wasps with another round of litigation, leaving the Council with no money left to pay the dustmen, since they are not in a "protected category" according to the Equality Act.

  30. Morning, all Y'all. After two blistering sunny days, there's now some rain.

  31. I find myself getting a tinge of nostalgia for the Truss Government that, among other things, killed off Britain's longest reigning monarch. She was very old, but then so is British democracy.

    Its one saving grace, and one which redeems it today, unlike the present one elected on a 20% landslide, is that it did not outlast the lettuce. Zarah Sultana's party, with Corbyn's approval, has my blessing if it can do to Starmer's Labour what the renegade pro-EU floor crossers did to the Conservative Party. There must be well over 100 Labour MPs who are wondering why they are sitting in the Commons, whipped into being proto-Tory zombies.

    1. What's more comical is that throughout the article the Wail manages to not once say that these are exclusively muslim and that they're bringing their vile behaviour here.

  34. More subsidies to try to get us into electric cars, I read. Good job the govt has plenty of money to spare.

  35. Good Morning!

    New today is Zhang Ying Yue's article on the horrifying slave camps of modern day Burma and other parts of South East Asia, where hundreds of thousands are duped into making on-line scams under threat of torture, forced prostitution, death and, perhaps most sinister of all, illicit organ harvesting. Read The Jungle of Fraud and Fear: Organ Trafficking, and the Chinese Connection and wonder at man's inhumanity to man.

    Psychologist Xandra H's theme of the Globalist Cabal's mass brainwashing campaign for nefarious ends in her ' You Really Do Need a Faraday Cage ', neatly follows Iain Hunter's important piece The Curtain Has Been Pulled Back of the Globalist End Game of subjecting us to a rising crescendo of fake bad news designed to scare us all into accepting serfdom and poverty.

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 21.6%; Solar, 14.3%: Wind 12.7%; Imports, 22.3%; Biomass, 11.2%; Nuclear 15.1% and Miscellaneous, 2.8%.

    Once again, imported electricity is the biggest component of our supply.

    freespeechbacklash.com

    1. Wind of course collapsing as there isn't any. Odd for solar, but then it's unreliable. We're getting about 1.6 Kw from our panels at the moment.

    3. Will be coming by to read later, Tom – ZYY always has something interesting to say – she's a window into a very different life.

    1. Perhaps the judges in the French court should have asked themselves why none of Gaza's near-neighbour Muslim countries will take any Palestinians as refugees.

    2. Perhaps the judges in the French court should have asked themselves why none of Gaza's near-neighbour Muslim countries will take any Palestinians as refugees.

      3. Think I remember Rumsfeld visiting and being aghast at the short distance, couple of decades or so ago.

    4. Is this a European court, C1 …in which case they can stay in Europe. Turn the boats around, tow them back to France.

    1. The EU already does. This is why Trump has levied these tariffs.

      Good grief, the deceit is desperate.

    2. She'd run out of track 20 years ago when Brown massively expanded welfare to give ever Sharon a free house for getting pregnant. All to build a voter base.

  39. Morning all, stumbled on this on Youtube last night – it's where I did my RAF apprenticeship, may interest the ex-brats here. Probably made around 1956 as the Swifts had been replaced by Hunters when I was there in '58. Brought back a lot of memories (mostly pleasant)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AUA6w_uqPI

    2. My father was in the RAF ww2.
      His eyesight wasn't quite good enough for flying. But as a sergeant in admin he was stationed in Egypt Algeria and parts of Italy he especially liked Sicily. I remember him saying how much he enjoyed the Italian job. And one of his long term observations was "Never trust an Arab son".
      I've still got his discharge booklet and in it his boss spoke very highly of him.

      1. We should never forget, Eddy. My dad parachuted into France, a red beret. Twisted his ankle on landing, others carried him out. I never knew anything about this, until told at his funeral – people turned up I'd never known about.

        1. We should never forget.
          But they will be forgotten.
          My father in law was in the Durham light infantry. He and his fellow’s were captured in Belgium and made to march to Poland were he was a POW for over 4 years. The rest of his regiment were lined up by the gestapo and shot.

          1. ' Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
            But he'll remember with advantages. What feats he did that day:
            [Henry V]

            We are all prone to embellish our stories and maybe pepper them up by adding things we should have said and done but did not!

            Many of the people who have fought valiantly in wars are reluctant to talk about their experiences.

          2. It is awful, and sad, but their bravery and tenacity was something else. Hopefully war on the same level won’t return to Europe, but it seems to thrive other places – money to be made. I wish I’d known about my dad’s war experiences, whilst he was still alive – but I doubt he’d have ever talked with me about it, possibly if I’d been a son rather than a daughter. Your father in law and his fellas sound real tough nuts – guessing in their 20s? similar to my dad (he would say no jobs why he joined up, and no jobs when demobbed).

          3. Mine was also in the DLI but lucky,

            He was posted to the 8th Battalion DLI in Sicily. After the
            conquest of Sicily, 8 DLI, as part of the 50th Division, was ordered home to prepare for
            D-day and the invasion of France.
            He landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944 with ‘B’ Company 8 DLI .
            He fought with 8 DLI across Normandy and France and into Belgium.

    3. My uncle was in the RAF, survived the war, came home and married – my grandfather (his father) …always referred to my uncle's wife as 'the white man's burden'…All the men (seven) in my family served one service or another. Dad ended up in Java, my mother refused and took her pals together with their savings on a weekend trip. Wimmin eh..luckily for me tho' he came back to Blighty otherwise I may not even exist……

      1. My uncle was in the RAF, father was in a reserved occupation but served in the Home Guard, brother was in the RASC. I was in a hole in the ground (ROC).

        1. Many served, Conway – could we say similar today…we’re fortunate in that no WW/Europe since, although we seem to be edging closer. Royal Observatory…bet you were good at that 🙂

    4. There are ex-apprentices but no ex-Brats – once a Brat, always a Brat. Last week, I went to the Halton Apprentices Reunion at the National Memorial Arboretum and it was superb with about 500 Brats and partners attending. The memorials around the arboretum are a reminder of the sacrifice of so many in the defence of the country and stark evidence of how much successive governments have degraded our defences as so many of the memorials are to units that no longer exist.

    5. Good morning, I only had the joy of RAF Halton once, in July 2000, on my Flt Sgt promotion course (Advanced Management and Leadership Course). I remember the time period as Concorde crashed whilst I was there.

    6. Ah, the joys of bungee cord launches for gliders! A reminder of what we’ve lost. No. 1 radio school is now at Flowerdown House RAF Cosford. Had to laugh at the “latest technology “!

    7. It's amazing howquickly aviation developed in such a short time. From Meteors, Vampires, Sabres, Swifts and Hunters to Lightnings in one generation.

    1. What are you going to do about it then? No good complaining. Set out a plan. You've nothing to lose. You'll leave the ECHR, yes? What then will you do about Northern Ireland and the Windosr agreement? What about all the equalities act legislation? Companies will have to retrain all* their staff to not be rude to Darkies.

      Entire policy documents that incorporate the HRA and Equalities act will have to be rewritten.

      1. That will never happen, wibbling, with either this government or any future one. You saw the footage of Sunak and VonDerWhassherface in NI with the Queen. We didn't get a vote then and we won't ever get one. Well and truly helically wotsit.

    2. It should be called DOLE, Department for Local Efficiency, as it’s about local councils.

  41. Those were the days when the people of our country were well organised and had a future.

    1. Heart is now beating normally and quality of life has improved no end. Not out of the wood yet as she has a leaking valve in her heart and has been diagnosed with OECD. Although I am 14 years older, the fact that I am fit and well has meant I have been able to look after her. If I was typical for my age we would have been in trouble.

      2. Glad to hear she is much better than she was.

        Yesterday one of our team – Ken, who is 91, opened up about when our dear friend Pam died 18 months ago……..she was 10 years younger than him and was only 79 when she died. Apparently it was gallstones that was the culprit – the stone had moved and caused a blockage. She was put in a coma and was then on life support until Ken was ready to say goodbye.

        1. So sad to read, Ndovu…far as I know many of us have gallstones (me included). If only she'd had an MRI. Many people UK now realise they really have to badger to a) get past receptionists and b) see a doctor they trust – one who will actually physically examine, and not just start tapping out a prescription. A&E packed because GPs not doing the job they're paid to do. Another Brown special.

          1. Yes. We never really knew why Pam died so suddenly. She was a lovely person and I do miss her. Ken is amazing at 91 – strong as an ox. Shortly before Pam died they replaced both their cars – and Pam chose a red one with a black roof. She died before they were able to take possession of it. Ken drove it for a few months then got rid of it – he said it was jinxed. He's got another silver one since then – not sure what make.

          2. I know a lot of people UK think the NHS is a wonderful thing. Me, I’m not so sure. I know from experience one has to be pro-active, and question – consultants are not gods. Shame Pam never got to drive her car, hopefully driving something similar or even better in the afterlife. I drive a white Zoe EV (chosen by guess who not me), I had a lovely little red VW complete with disc player and gearbox, swapped for the Zoe EV by guess who…it takes several hours to fully charge (plus it can lose several miles on dial just going out of drive after initial start), compare that to filling at petrol station. We have a Tesla battery here to store spare electricity from roof solar panels…should have see the two Tesla drivers who came to check, in their black EV, smart as anything. Those are EVs that do seem to work.

          3. When OH's Toyota hybrid died on the drive towards the end of last year (I guess because he wasn't doing enough miles to keep the battery charged) eventually he got someone to start it and take it off his hands. We kept my old diesel 2007 Peugeot 206 – it's a reliable workhorse. We can't justify having two cars these days. We just have to juggle things if we both need to go somewhere,
            Yesterday, he was wilting in the heat and needed to go home and watch the tennis – so I took him home and went back to the event. I was lucky to find a parking space as the car park was full and people were parked on the grass and everywhere. I must have just caught my space as someone had just gone.

          4. It’s everywhere, Ndvou. Population much higher now, world/wife/sprogs all want their own vehicle. No wonder public transport is so expensive – hardly anyone uses it to the same degree they used to. Plus, I hate to say this, but I’ve been abused on public transport and if that’s a factor others will also not use it unless they absolutely have to. Hope your event was successful 🙂 lucky with that space, must have had your name on it!

          5. Plan A was for him to catch the bus home. Then he realised that as neither of us use the bus, we had no idea what number bus he'd need or where the stops were. So plan B was for us to both go home and then I'd bring the car back. Fortunately it was only three miles or so.

          6. I don’t think there are any buses locally…people seem to get a taxi, or lift from neighbour etc (often for hospital/dental appt, or shopping although that’s often delivered). I remember my dad in Yorkshire, with a hospital appt…hospital provided transport, I told him let me take you but he insisted. Took over two hours to get to hospital with all the stops pick up/put down. He didn’t do it again…:-)

          8. There are some housing projects locally, very small and so are the drives. Built close together at sometimes odd angles. A small roundabout for children to play – not seen any using it. Solar panels on all the roofs. Many new house builds – schools the same size, but pupil numbers increased, teachers the same number, as are GPs, no hospital new builds/extension/s etc. Doubtless repeated length and breadth uk.

  43. Morning all 🙂😊
    Grey damp and even misty earlier. Very little rain. At least the grass hasn't needed cutting for at least 6 weeks.
    But what are these doctors actually trying to achieve? Why can't they just carry out the jobs they have been paid for and trained to do.

    1. Why did they study medicine to be a doctor. They must have known the salary and promotion structure.

  44. Well, that wasn't pleasant. Complete degrease and deepclean in the dishwasher… some of that looked prehistoric, and coated everything. NOw, machine is rinsing itself, and will hopefully be cleaner than new afterwards.

    1. Crikey, how did it get to that state?

      I run a clean cycle every month with Tesco dishwasher cleaner. Also a good time to top up the salt and rinse aid.

      1. The result of too many cold rinse cycles before running a wash. Nearly done now.

          1. Yes I think you’re right (after consulting with the resident expert, who also tells me our water is ‘fairly neutral’.) All I know is that something clouds shower tiles, and it’s not soap/shampoo which is always rinsed away:-)

    3. Mine is due today, Paul ….Digesta dishwasher 70 degree cycle…if the water's still available, that is..

        1. My only experience of London involves travelling from Euston to St Pancras for the Eurostar. That's enough for me.

          1. I have done that, too. I used to take the motorhome to Crystal Palace then bus in to Westminster Abbey for the Battle of Britain service. Even the police and Abbey functionaries weren’t indigenous.

    1. I’ve got some photos somewhere of my to be father in his summer uniform, smoking his pipe and sitting at a table having a drink.

  47. The Doctor's strike is wrong because of earning potential. A checkout lass is going to earn at most 22k his entire working life. His pension will be quite small, as it is contribution based.

    A doctor will start lower, but their earning potential rises rapidly very early. Eventually they will comfortably be earning well over six figures, with a defined benefit pension and an early retirement. I do not begrudge this. They have a specialist skill that attracts a higher wage.

    Striking is demanding that the lower paid suffer for them to have a higher starting point. This is not fair.

    1. Correct me if I'm wrong, wibbling, but I think it goes something like this: doctor training is five (?) years long, paid for by UK taxpayers (?) when qualified doctor/s can immediately emigrate to eg Australia/sunnier climes, without having to refund said UK taxpayers….what say you….

      1. I think they should have to sign up to practise in the U.K. for at least 5 years. Not sure if they get free tuition. Grandson, just achieved a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacy studies for 4 years and now has a further supervised year before out in the big wide world, left university with approximately £60,000 debt. Lord knows how he will repay it.

        1. It was in the UKIP manifesto a few years ago that STEM degrees would be free provided the graduates worked in the UK for a certain amount of time. Seemed sensible.

          1. That happens in the Army – anyone attending a long technical course is obliged to serve a minimum period afterwards, especially as the courses often include civilian qualifications.

        1. If you met some of the younger teachers, you would be horrified. In years gone by, many would have struggled with O Levels, never mind being capable of staying at school or college for A Levels.
          But given that modern teaching is so heavily dictated by box-ticking, a heavily prescribed curriculum, and other such features, and there is often little room for using professional judgement, it is hardly surprising they have such low standards.
          A school can employ a greater number of young teachers at lower salaries than experienced teachers who have progressed to higher pay levels.
          I knew a young woman who had left school at 16 with a handful of mediocre GCSEs, including English and maths at grades below C, who was 'recruited' by a head teacher from behind a bar in a local pub. Initially, she worked as a classroom assistant. After a few years, she decided to take a school-based course to train as a teacher. She repeatedly failed to pass the required English and maths tests, but somehow she eventually qualified as a teacher. Even her spoken English was poor – 'Oh, was you?' was one of many errors.
          From what I have heard, she lasted about 3 years, and is now back behind a bar.
          The job was simply beyond her capabilities.

          1. I am regailed by a teaching assistant chum lamenting that the children in her class are not only of lower ability, but also rude, nasty and crass.

            Then you look at the demographic of the area and the proliferation of welfare as the badly behaved would be just one pupil in the school, then in the class, then two or three. Now it's all of them, entitled, spoiled, nasty brats of entitled, spoiled, nasty welfare dependent waster parents.

          2. Teaching is anything but simple, although a lot of people with no experience of it think it is.

        2. If you met some of the younger teachers, you would be horrified. In years gone by, many would have struggled with O Levels, never mind being capable of staying at school or college for A Levels.
          But given that modern teaching is so heavily dictated by box-ticking, a heavily prescribed curriculum, and other such features, and there is often little room for using professional judgement, it is hardly surprising they have such low standards.
          A school can employ a greater number of young teachers at lower salaries than experienced teachers who have progressed to higher pay levels.
          I knew a young woman who had left school at 16 with a handful of mediocre GCSEs, including English and maths at grades below C, who was 'recruited' by a head teacher from behind a bar in a local pub. Initially, she worked as a classroom assistant. After a few years, she decided to take a school-based course to train as a teacher. She repeatedly failed to pass the required English and maths tests, but somehow she eventually qualified as a teacher. Even her spoken English was poor – 'Oh, was you?' was one of many errors.
          From what I have heard, she lasted about 3 years, and is now back behind a bar.
          The job was simply beyond her capabilities.

      2. Don't like the terms or conditions – find a better position somewhere else.

        1. The NHS is the biggest employer. I'd imagine there's clauses whereby they have to work for the NHS even if they're taking on private work.

  48. I remember when Climate Change used to be called Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

    1. A chum spent yesterday bellowing about the 'heatwave' and how it was all part of climate change.

      He became so strident, so loud I lost my temper and said 'it's July. It's summer. The weather is controlled by the tilt of the bloody earth. How is paying more tax going to stop that, let alone the damage it would do to the planet?''

      He refused this and continued his rant. Eventually, fed up, his wife spiked his drink with a sleeping tablet. Then we all complained how hot it was and drank long Island Iced tea and ate cheese pastries.

          2. Another drink, Phizzee?

            He was boring, annoying, and ruining a nice (ish, despite it being too hot) day.

      4. There seems to be a lot of that sort of opinion 'about theses days'.
        The Dopey Wokey propaganda seems to have sunk into the soft spots. I'm quite certain that 1976 was much hotter. But the forecast 'experts' will change anything to suite their adgenda.
        Have you noticed how often the phrase 'mental health issues' is used now ?

          1. It did in 2003 as well. But it was fairly newly spread, not old stuff that had been there for years.

          2. I certainly remember a general water shortage and stand pipes in the streets.

    2. Ach, you're obviously old, sentimental and correct, Johnny. Perhaps too much sun? at least your Vit D levels OK:-)

    1. We had a customer, dim n distant past, who published their journal/s. He said very similar, almost neurotic. Anyhow, good morning Alec – sun shines on the righteous does it not.:-)) x

        1. Not for me..still night-time here, off to my cot just now, very tired and dizzy with heat xx see you tmrw …….

  50. From: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/10/ofcom-costs-hit-46m-after-losing-gb-news-legal-battle/

    Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom’s chief executive, saw her total pay increase by 5pc to £455k last year – boosted by a £10k annual bonus.

    The salary is obscene. What was the bonus for? What additional value did she add for her customers – the TV watching viewers?

    But of course, I am confused. Her customer is the state, and the more problems her organisation causes for dissenters from the state line, the happier her customer is.

    2. From Wiki: "Dawes joined the Civil Service in 1989. After two years at the Department for Transport, she spent 15 years at HM Treasury, ending her time there in the role of Europe Director from 2002 to 2006. Then, from 2006 to 2011, she worked at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). She was Director General for Business Tax at HMRC from November 2007, replacing Dave Hartnett. From October 2011 to 2015, she was Director General of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office.

      On 1 March 2015 Dawes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government, succeeding Sir Bob Kerslake. She was the first permanent secretary to be appointed under a new scheme in which the Prime Minister has the final say in the recruitment process; the PM now chooses from a list created by the Civil Service Commissioners, rather than only having a veto over the Commissioners' preferred candidate. In 2015 Dawes was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999 pa by DCLG, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector. On 12 February 2020, Dawes was named as the new Chief Executive of broadcasting, telecoms and postal services regulator Ofcom." Sounds like she never had a real job?

      1. Climbing up the greasy pole. What does she know about real life and how the rest of us live?

      2. A bureaucat or a bureaurat?

        Either way, just a career administrator who would appear never to have had responsibility for making a profit, merely taking from business and the taxpayer.

        She would appear to have gone straight into the public sector from university.

        Other work
        Dawes was Chair of the Alcohol Recovery Project from 2003 to 2005.[1] She was a Member of the Council of Which? between 2011 and 2015.[1] She was the Civil Service Gender Champion from 2015 to 2019, when she was appointed as the overall Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Champion. She was a judge for the 2015 Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Awards.[10] Dawes is a trustee of the Patchwork Foundation.[11]

        1. A complete non-achiever, the typical civil service bed hopper never staying long enough to get anything actually done except collect an obscene salary.

          She is a useless non-jobber we should be doing away with.

  51. To Fallick_Alec: this is not a spoiler!

    It was a bit niggly at Lord's yesterday evening when Zak Crawley imagined movement behind the bowler's arms and then suffered a spontaneous and agonising spasm in his hand, all this in order to prevent the openers having to face a second over. The Indians were furious. The umpires were powerless.

    The match so far has tested the patience of the spectators. The over rate has been little more than 12 an hour, with endless delays, not least for ball changes. There has been genuine concern recently about the quality of the Dukes ball, made in England. The Indians have shown their disgust more than once, though in reality the pitches are to blame for the lack of 'action' with the ball (Bumrah excepted). And then I found this:

    The ball used in England is made by Dukes, a British company. Dukes is competing for a BCCI contract to become official ball supplier to Indian cricket. Their chief competitor is Sanspareils Greenlands, or SG, who have been the monopoly suppliers since 1994.

    This is a massive deal for a sports manufacturer, the key piece of equipment in the game's undisputed honeypot. Little wonder Dukes and SG are keen to secure it. There are fortunes to be made and retained here. And here's another thing. Take a guess who SG's most visible brand ambassador is? Yes. It's Rishabh Pant.

    The guy tearing apart the ball also happens to be a paid employee of the other guys. The player describing the ball as "a big problem" and "not good for cricket" is on the payroll of the company Dukes is threatening with its planned expansion into India.

    When Pant threw the Dukes ball on the turf in disgust he was wearing a pair of SG gloves. The next day he was posted on the SG Instagram account cradling an SG bat, looking chic and sultry and loved-up. This is the vice-captain of the India team. Good luck with that contract, chaps.

    In reality, nobody is seriously suggesting these two things are linked [get away with yer!], that Pant is involved in some kind of plot to defame the Dukes just because the BCCI contract is huge and because SG pay him to promote their products. It is seriously reaching to imagine any kind of conspiracy angle here. Stuart Broad has also been hugely critical of the Dukes. Is he also in the pay of Big Ball? Has the lacquer-industrial complex got to Broady?

    To put this in context, Pant is sponsored by at least 35 different brands. There's a Pant noodle supplier, a Pant meat delivery wholesaler, Pant chocolate, Pant soap, Pant-approved toughened glass. Can he even remember all of them off the top of his head? Does he have any idea Dukes and SG are in a hard-edged commercial face-off (answer: come off it)?

    Still, though. It doesn't look ideal from a distance. It would perhaps be good just to be aware of potential conflicts of interest and how this could be seen to the outsider. On the other hand where does this end, in a world of big money, intertwined interests, and only a few really stellar names.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/12/cricket-dukes-ball-england-india-test-series

    1. Dukes manufacturer addresses controversy

      Given all the talk about the Dukes ball, it was intriguing to hear the owner of British Cricket Balls Ltd, who manufacture the ball, address the controversy.

      Dilip Jajodia was asked by RevSportz what he thought about Stuart Broad’s comments calling the situation ‘unacceptable’.

      'All I can say to Mr Broad is that he did take a lot of wickets with the Dukes ball,' Jajodia responded.

      ‘I take what he says on board. I must reassure people that we don’t set out to make a ball that fails… we are not negligent.

      ‘My responsibility is to produce a ball that fits through the ring when it’s new. Not when it’s old.’

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-14819749/test-match-breakfast-england-india-lords.html

      1. Judging by his rotundness, he takes his sponsorship duties seriously…

  52. Well – that's got the car unloaded – bit more breeze today. Just having a drink of water and a coffee before I finish stowing the stuff away. OH is busy trying to mend the shed door. He apologised for hiding away some of the things that live in the car………the banner, the folding chair and cards rack – all live in the car – but he took them out when we loaded it up for the tip on Friday……and didn't mention he'd put them in the woodshed till I couldn't find them yesterday.

      1. We did – yes thanks! Very hot and there were lots of people there – spending their money. Lots of stalls, hopefully they all did well. It was our first outing of the year, as we didn't do Charfield as the forecast was for thunder and heavy rain – which didn't materialise, but we had to make a decision on the Thursday evening.
        Yesterday our card reader machine didn't work but everyone had cash which was good.
        We had time to sit and chat as well, so that was good too. It was too hot to be rushed off our feet.

    1. Don't mind a four day week if there's a 20% pay cut AND a 20% reduction in staff – starting with the idiots presenting this nonsense and the management team.

      2. If companies are saying that their staff can get the same amount of work done in a four day week as they did in five days they were clearly employing too many staff in the first place.

  55. Revealed: the full, devastating impact of Labour’s VAT raid on private schools

    Shut schools, displaced children and lost communities are immediate results of a damaging policy

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/devastating-impact-labour-private-school-vat-raid-revealed/

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

    Sara White
    1 day ago
    The damage done to this country, by this appalling Government in 1 year, will never be surpassed.

    simon warren
    1 day ago
    Reply to Sara White – view message
    You bet that they will be eyeing these closed schools up to house all those women and children who have arrived across the channel.

    All those closer boarding schools with beds and facilities, it couldn’t have worked out better for Labour

    Leah White
    1 day ago
    Reply to Sara White
    When you realise how much they hate us everything makes sense.

  57. The worklessness crisis ravaging Corbyn’s North London enclave

    Despite Islington’s obvious wealth, young people are struggling to find work

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2025/07/11/TELEMMGLPICT000431094688_17522538505060_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=1280
    Jeremy Corbyn won over young workers during his time as Labour leader with policies such as higher minimum wage Credit: Belinda Jiao

    Emma Taggart
    12 July 2025 12:00pm BST
    Often lauded as one of London’s most middle-class hubs, Islington seems an unlikely place for high unemployment.

    Yet the numbers don’t lie.

    According to a new report, young people in the borough are more likely to be unemployed or out of education than almost all other parts of the country.

    In fact, only four other local authorities have a higher likelihood of young people becoming Neet (not in education, employment nor training).

    That is despite Islington boasting the ninth-highest level of household income in the UK at £38,638, well ahead of the national average of £21,259, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/12ce7c77fddfc154bb8d70016020c53bc6df0f669b6f21dffae46208fb1e4316.png
    This disparity is encapsulated by Islington having the second-highest number of pupils on school meals in England, demonstrating the stark divide between Islington’s rich and poor.

    This wealth gap has been cited as one of the drivers for soaring worklessness in the borough, which has ballooned post-Covid.

    “You have these pockets of extreme wealth next to these pockets of relatively severe deprivation,” says Ben Gadsby, the head of policy and research at the charity Impetus.

    “There will definitely be some bits of Islington that will be noticeably more deprived than people are expecting.”

    Barriers to work
    Cavan is just one of many young people in the borough struggling to find work.

    After leaving school, he had hoped to land a job in retail and even applied to the Army – but he remains unemployed.

    To boost his chances of employment, Cavan recently enrolled in Spear Islington, a six-week scheme for 16 to 24-year-olds aimed at getting them into work, training or education.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2025/07/11/TELEMMGLPICT000431926129_17522459953200_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=680
    Cavan and Hailey are among the thousands of young people in Islington who have struggled to find work Credit: Belinda Jiao
    The Spear programme, led by employment charity Resurgo, was found to have reduced a young person’s likelihood of being Neet by 17pc, offering coaching and interview advice.

    However, initiatives such as Spear are few and far between in Islington, as well as in areas nearby.

    Ayesha Baloch, a senior policy adviser at Impetus, says there is a wide range of barriers that prevent young people from finding employment.

    One such obstacle is a lack of awareness of what’s out there, she says, particularly for poorer households.

    “Part of the reason that work experience, internships and representation is so important is because it gives young people the opportunity to see someone like them working in sectors that they maybe wouldn’t have heard of,” says Baloch.

    “You have some communities where they’re predominantly working in hospitality or they run restaurants so they maybe wouldn’t have as much of a concept of working in a bank.”

    Ironically, Islington’s worklessness crisis has emerged despite Jeremy Corbyn, the constituency’s MP, previously winning over young workers by championing radical Left-wing policies. During his time as Labour leader, he vowed to abolish university tuition fees and introduce a £10 minimum wage for under-18s.

    However, since splitting from his former party and serving Islington North as an independent, Corbyn has increasingly focused on more geopolitical issues such as the Israel-Gaza conflict.

    Meanwhile, thousands of young people in his constituency struggle to find work, like many others elsewhere in the country.

    There are 923,000 16 to 24-year-olds classed as Neet in the UK, according to the ONS, up from 793,000 in 2020.

    As well as Islington, other local authorities affected by the crisis include Middlesbrough, Knowsley, Nottingham and Hartlepool.

    Soaring Neet figures have prompted charities to take action.

    Gadsby says that reducing the rate of Neets is “about understanding different people’s needs and a programme that works for them”.

    “Different young people are going to have different challenges, which I think is part of the reason this has been a perennial problem, because there probably isn’t a simple one-size-fits-all scheme that solves everything,” he says.

    Rise in mental health complaints
    Another barrier facing young people is a lack of preparation.

    A recent report from IPPR found that fewer than half of young people (47pc) felt ready for work after education.

    Mangala Nanda, chief learning officer at Generation, a charity that runs job-specific boot camps to get people into work, says “the link between education and employment is not strong enough”.

    “We see that there are lots of people who go into university, they’ve taken on all of that debt, and then six months go by, one year goes by, two years go by – and they’ve not managed to get a job,” she says.

    Resurgo is one of the charities attempting to help Neets in Islington, working with youngsters who face barriers such as poor qualifications, a family history of unemployment or special educational needs.

    Pete Bacon, the deputy chief executive of the group, said a sharp rise in mental health complaints post-Covid has also fuelled unemployment.

    “The number of young people we enrol who are now reporting mental health issues of some type feels really significant,” he says.

    “The amount of young people we now speak to who, day to day, are just not leaving their house, sometimes, no exaggeration, for years they won’t have actually left their building”.

    One of Resurgo’s most successful offerings is the Spear programme.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2025/07/11/TELEMMGLPICT000431926183_17522452606620_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdLdu0TL-Cg_AMOUqySXmFgU.jpeg?imwidth=680 Spear Islington's centre manager Anna says the borough’s deprivation is often overlooked Credit: Belinda Jiao
    At Spear Islington, its six-week programme is in full swing. Young people are hearing from coaches about professionalism in their workplace, phone communication skills and practising interview techniques.

    “I’ve personally learnt to be more confident and to know it’s not just me that has a hard time looking for jobs or looking for studies, it’s a community of people that struggle,” says Hailey, one of the participants.

    The programme also works with local companies to create a network between young people and businesses.

    However, others claim a complete shift in perception is needed to help Islington’s unemployed youngsters.

    Anna, the centre manager of Spear Islington, says: “We need to myth-bust that Islington is just a wealthy borough because it’s got wealth.

    “It also has great deprivation, and I think that can often get overlooked depending on where you go and what circles you mix in.”

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

    Mr Sensible
    23 hrs ago
    According to a report by Tower Hamlets council nearly 80 % of Somalians are benefit dependent.

    Just about all Somalians in the UK were originally asylum seekers , yet flights from UK airports to Somalia are full of former asylum seekers going home on holiday while fresh Somali asylum seekers arrive.

    Similarly Kabul had 10,000’s Afghans with British residency / passports in August 2021 , many of whome were found to have gone home on extended holiday with their UK benefits being paid into their bank accounts and council housing sublet.

    We are blatantly and openly being taken for mugs and our politicians won’t do anything about it !!!

    A Hoffmann De Visme
    22 hrs ago
    Reply to Mr Sensible – view message
    Once a country has been lulled over decades into signing up to various treaties and agreements with supranational entities like the EU, UN and WEF, and their placemen weedle their way into major political parties, voting soon become essentially meaningless because the power to govern has effectively been transferred to unelected foreign elites. We are boiled frogs essentially. All we can now do is watch as we are openly abused and robbed. This is what has happened. The Globalist agenda is to herd the masses – regarded as units of profit at best – into subjugation. Ireland is currently fighting back against its own government because 1.7m new arrivals might not sound much here but there it adds 40% to their population overnight. The Globalists might just have overegged the pudding there and it will probably boil over. We are simply expected to benignly accept and pay for this woke Marxist Globalist utopia – which nobody voted for and virtually nobody asked for.

    Mike Re
    18 hrs ago
    Reply to Mr Sensible
    Surely if someone comes over here as an asylum seeker because the country they are fleeing is "unsafe", then goes back there for an extended holiday, the country must be safe again, so why allow them back?

    1. Double posted but I'll let you off.

      Maybe here's the reason why there's high youth unemployment (and high unemployment generally) : "…[Corbyn] as Labour leader with policies such as higher minimum wage …"

      Make something expensive you buy less of it.

  58. The worklessness crisis ravaging Corbyn’s North London enclave

    Despite Islington’s obvious wealth, young people are struggling to find work

    Emma Taggart
    12 July 2025 12:00pm BST
    Often lauded as one of London’s most middle-class hubs, Islington seems an unlikely place for high unemployment.

    Yet the numbers don’t lie.

    According to a new report, young people in the borough are more likely to be unemployed or out of education than almost all other parts of the country.

    In fact, only four other local authorities have a higher likelihood of young people becoming Neet (not in education, employment nor training).

    That is despite Islington boasting the ninth-highest level of household income in the UK at £38,638, well ahead of the national average of £21,259, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

    This disparity is encapsulated by Islington having the second-highest number of pupils on school meals in England, demonstrating the stark divide between Islington’s rich and poor.

    This wealth gap has been cited as one of the drivers for soaring worklessness in the borough, which has ballooned post-Covid.

    “You have these pockets of extreme wealth next to these pockets of relatively severe deprivation,” says Ben Gadsby, the head of policy and research at the charity Impetus.

    “There will definitely be some bits of Islington that will be noticeably more deprived than people are expecting.”

    Barriers to work
    Cavan is just one of many young people in the borough struggling to find work.

    After leaving school, he had hoped to land a job in retail and even applied to the Army – but he remains unemployed.

    To boost his chances of employment, Cavan recently enrolled in Spear Islington, a six-week scheme for 16 to 24-year-olds aimed at getting them into work, training or education.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2025/07/11/TELEMMGLPICT000431926129_17522459953200_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdP4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=680
    Cavan and Hailey are among the thousands of young people in Islington who have struggled to find work Credit: Belinda Jiao
    The Spear programme, led by employment charity Resurgo, was found to have reduced a young person’s likelihood of being Neet by 17pc, offering coaching and interview advice.

    However, initiatives such as Spear are few and far between in Islington, as well as in areas nearby.

    Ayesha Baloch, a senior policy adviser at Impetus, says there is a wide range of barriers that prevent young people from finding employment.

    One such obstacle is a lack of awareness of what’s out there, she says, particularly for poorer households.

    “Part of the reason that work experience, internships and representation is so important is because it gives young people the opportunity to see someone like them working in sectors that they maybe wouldn’t have heard of,” says Baloch.

    “You have some communities where they’re predominantly working in hospitality or they run restaurants so they maybe wouldn’t have as much of a concept of working in a bank.”

    Ironically, Islington’s worklessness crisis has emerged despite Jeremy Corbyn, the constituency’s MP, previously winning over young workers by championing radical Left-wing policies. During his time as Labour leader, he vowed to abolish university tuition fees and introduce a £10 minimum wage for under-18s.

    However, since splitting from his former party and serving Islington North as an independent, Corbyn has increasingly focused on more geopolitical issues such as the Israel-Gaza conflict.

    Meanwhile, thousands of young people in his constituency struggle to find work, like many others elsewhere in the country.

    There are 923,000 16 to 24-year-olds classed as Neet in the UK, according to the ONS, up from 793,000 in 2020.

    As well as Islington, other local authorities affected by the crisis include Middlesbrough, Knowsley, Nottingham and Hartlepool.

    Soaring Neet figures have prompted charities to take action.

    Gadsby says that reducing the rate of Neets is “about understanding different people’s needs and a programme that works for them”.

    “Different young people are going to have different challenges, which I think is part of the reason this has been a perennial problem, because there probably isn’t a simple one-size-fits-all scheme that solves everything,” he says.

    Rise in mental health complaints
    Another barrier facing young people is a lack of preparation.

    A recent report from IPPR found that fewer than half of young people (47pc) felt ready for work after education.

    Mangala Nanda, chief learning officer at Generation, a charity that runs job-specific boot camps to get people into work, says “the link between education and employment is not strong enough”.

    “We see that there are lots of people who go into university, they’ve taken on all of that debt, and then six months go by, one year goes by, two years go by – and they’ve not managed to get a job,” she says.

    Resurgo is one of the charities attempting to help Neets in Islington, working with youngsters who face barriers such as poor qualifications, a family history of unemployment or special educational needs.

    Pete Bacon, the deputy chief executive of the group, said a sharp rise in mental health complaints post-Covid has also fuelled unemployment.

    “The number of young people we enrol who are now reporting mental health issues of some type feels really significant,” he says.

    “The amount of young people we now speak to who, day to day, are just not leaving their house, sometimes, no exaggeration, for years they won’t have actually left their building”.

    One of Resurgo’s most successful offerings is the Spear programme.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2025/07/11/TELEMMGLPICT000431926183_17522452606620_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdLdu0TL-Cg_AMOUqySXmFgU.jpeg?imwidth=680 Spear Islington's centre manager Anna says the borough’s deprivation is often overlooked Credit: Belinda Jiao
    At Spear Islington, its six-week programme is in full swing. Young people are hearing from coaches about professionalism in their workplace, phone communication skills and practising interview techniques.

    “I’ve personally learnt to be more confident and to know it’s not just me that has a hard time looking for jobs or looking for studies, it’s a community of people that struggle,” says Hailey, one of the participants.

    The programme also works with local companies to create a network between young people and businesses.

    However, others claim a complete shift in perception is needed to help Islington’s unemployed youngsters.

    Anna, the centre manager of Spear Islington, says: “We need to myth-bust that Islington is just a wealthy borough because it’s got wealth.

    “It also has great deprivation, and I think that can often get overlooked depending on where you go and what circles you mix in.”

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

    Mr Sensible
    23 hrs ago
    According to a report by Tower Hamlets council nearly 80 % of Somalians are benefit dependent.

    Just about all Somalians in the UK were originally asylum seekers , yet flights from UK airports to Somalia are full of former asylum seekers going home on holiday while fresh Somali asylum seekers arrive.

    Similarly Kabul had 10,000’s Afghans with British residency / passports in August 2021 , many of whome were found to have gone home on extended holiday with their UK benefits being paid into their bank accounts and council housing sublet.

    We are blatantly and openly being taken for mugs and our politicians won’t do anything about it !!!

    A Hoffmann De Visme
    22 hrs ago
    Reply to Mr Sensible – view message
    Once a country has been lulled over decades into signing up to various treaties and agreements with supranational entities like the EU, UN and WEF, and their placemen weedle their way into major political parties, voting soon become essentially meaningless because the power to govern has effectively been transferred to unelected foreign elites. We are boiled frogs essentially. All we can now do is watch as we are openly abused and robbed. This is what has happened. The Globalist agenda is to herd the masses – regarded as units of profit at best – into subjugation. Ireland is currently fighting back against its own government because 1.7m new arrivals might not sound much here but there it adds 40% to their population overnight. The Globalists might just have overegged the pudding there and it will probably boil over. We are simply expected to benignly accept and pay for this woke Marxist Globalist utopia – which nobody voted for and virtually nobody asked for.

    Mike Re
    18 hrs ago
    Reply to Mr Sensible
    Surely if someone comes over here as an asylum seeker because the country they are fleeing is "unsafe", then goes back there for an extended holiday, the country must be safe again, so why allow them back?

    2. How does that structure stay upright? Obviously that's a photoshop, but even then, not overlapping the pallets would make for an incredibly unstable structure.

    1. Captain Hindsight
      3h
      On Tuesday John Mann and Penny Mordant are going to release report into the rise of antisemitism.
      It will point out it is now riffe amongst the NHS, teaching and the middle classes, so short hand for the Labour voting base.

      Nobby
      Captain Hindsight
      3h
      "middle classes" is Labour's voting base? Only the public sector part of that

  61. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF_MiaAlsDg

    Not true. We gave government the ability to do whateever it liked. The state intentionally perverted that.

    What she means is 'without doing what they don't want to do, they won't do anything. But the Left have a distant relationship with the truth at the best of times.

    1. If they can send military equipment to Ukraine to foment a proper war with Russia, they can stop the boats.
      What they mean is, they WON'T stop the boats. Different meaning.

    2. Says a woman who is doubtless not living next door to thousands of single young men who have a proven record of breaking UK law, with no jobs, no property and no families in the UK.

    1. 409324+ up ticks,

      Afternoon C1,

      Every GE these last four decade's crying out " for more of the same"
      so loudly it drowned out the cries of
      the rape & abused children of rotherham, rochdale, etc etc after the JAY report was revealed.

  64. Captain Hindsight
    3h
    So one year on and Labour have smashed the economy and fixed the foundations to facilitate illegal migration.
    They are well ahead with net zero growth and all the key metics are rocketing, unemployment, gults, businesses closing and millionaires leaving the country.

    Even by Labours standards, they've successfully trashed the country in record time.

    Rick B
    Captain Hindsight
    3h
    That's what labour governments are for. Conservative governments are supposed to repair some of the damage so labour can wreak more havoc.
    But Cameron/Clegg, Cameron Solo, May, Johnson and Sunak were just continuity Blair/Brown. I don't count Truss because she wasn't the Davos Choice like Sunak.

    So Starmer got a head start on the destruction.

  66. 409324+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    ‘Is that what net zero should be about?’ Farmland falls to solar gold-rush
    Tenant farmers are being thrown off prime land as their landlords sell up to net zero developers this is on top of their sons and daughters being eligible in the age range, for rape and abuse ,that being cradle to grave.

    They won't get social housing on account of the
    current housing shortage emergence with them having
    bone fide ID and family tree going back to the year dot
    puts them at the back of the daily invading queue.

    If any had just cause for triggering a civil war tis them.

    Would they find support ? hard to tell, in today's social climate with too many only too willing to enter the slave market as "goods."

    1. I believe that is always what net zero has been all about – the reduction of food-producing land.

  67. I hope you’re enjoying the tennis if you’re a fan. Surprisingly, I’ve never been to watch the tennis live, but our editor was sitting behind Russell Crowe in the Royal Box the other week. The latter made it to our list of best dressed, but the former didn’t. Brave from the Fashion team, I thought.

    There’s a surprise for your unseen cartoon this week! I judged an internal caption competition for some photos from Wimbledon. The below was Elise from the Pictures Desk’s winning caption, which rather made me chuckle.

    Until next time,

    Matt

    PS: I might be out of a job…

    https://telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/newsletters-2-0/matt/july/Judymurraycaptioncomp.png.png
    "Flawless point by Judy Murray wows Wimbledon crowd!"

    1. I was just saying to hubby, it’s outrageous the women get paid the same bit are only required to play 3 sets

  68. Middle East specialist Andrew Fox joins The Winston Marshall Show for a haunting, firsthand account of the horrors unfolding in Gaza—and the global narratives that refuse to face the truth.
    Fox, recently returned from the region, describes scenes of unspeakable brutality—massacres, ch*ld soldiers, and war crimes ignored by much of the international press. He explains how Hamas manipulates both civilians and the global media to fuel its propaganda war, while using human shields to mask its operations.
    They discuss the international community’s moral double standards, the weaponisation of victimhood, and the psychological toll on those who witness the atrocities firsthand.
    All this—media distortion, humanitarian tragedy, Hamas war tactics, and the unseen horrors the world still refuses to look at…

    “…“They were effectively pushing an open door to demonize Israel to an even greater extent weaponizing these images of destruction and damage. Completely absent from this conversation is the imagery from 7th of October, of course, which is by some measure far worse than anything that's happened in Gaza. I have seen footage far and above the video they show people.

    I've seen evidence way beyond that. And it's so horrific, I can barely talk about it without the hair on my arms standing up. What Hamas did to Israelis.

    Worse than the… I saw the 47-minute video. It was the most horrible thing I've seen in my life.

    So if you see the sexual assault evidence on top of that, it's shocking. And it's not a level of detail, I think your listeners particularly want to hear, but it is enough to make me lose my voice over it, as you can tell, probably. Horrendous.

    I can't even begin to describe how bad those pictures are.

    On that, The Times of London just reported that indeed, there's new evidence and testimonies describing the sexual assault carried out by Hamas on October 7th. This has been weirdly a sticking[…]”

    From The Winston Marshall Show: Andrew Fox – 'I went to Gaza and This Is What I Saw' Middle Expert On Unseen Horrors Of Gaza, 12 Jul 2025
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-winston-marshall-show/id1727337401?i=1000716968978&r=2737
    This material may be protected by copyright.

  70. Well, that put me into my place!
    Needed a couple of extra mini-bulk bags for garden waste, I had a wander round to the mill as the machine shop there had told me to help myself to their used bags.
    Seeing some activity at "Netty Reddish", a little craft place run by an obvious Masticator of the Axminster, I thought I'd pop up to say Hello and was greeted by a very suspicious "Can I help you? Are you after anything?"
    It turned out a children's party was going on so chatting to the adults I asked who was providing the music and then did the old Morris rigmarole, "Old Woman Tossed Up" and followed on with three verses of "Coulter's Candy", both of which seemed to be enjoyed.

    Then, trying to chat to the proprietor, I was effectively told I was not welcome and to push off!

      1. Relating the story to the DT, she reminded me that her ex-“wife” (god how I hate using that term in that way) fled because of constant abuse, so with hindsight, it seems she’s just a nasty old dyke.

  71. Rip-off Britain is alive and well
    My shower is dripping, problem traced to a leaking cartridge – replacement £272 + whatever plumber would charge to fit. I've ordered a set of seals from MIRA for £13.27 and will fit them myself

    1. Looks relatively straightforward, Alec – even an idiot like me possibly do it. so you'll be fine…good luck x

    2. Infuriatingly, the cartridges are all different for each device, making it impossible to have a generic, cheaper one.

      It's plumber's printer ink.

  73. From Coffee House the Spectator
    12 Jul 2025
    Coffee House
    Neil Clark
    Why I’ve changed my mind about climate change
    13 July 2025, 7:30am

    Text
    Comments

    Here we go again. Another blistering heatwave. Just a few days after the last one.

    Like many, and probably like a lot of Spectator readers, I was a moderate climate change sceptic a few years ago. The whole ‘climate emergency’ thing came across as hysterical and alarmist. There seemed to be a clear agenda to get us to do things which would adversely affect the enjoyment of our lives. So the natural reaction was to go the other way and dismiss it as a load of hot air about hot air.

    But after yet another scorchingly hot summer – and we’re barely in mid-July yet – I think such positions are no longer credible. We still get hardcore sceptics tweeting that ‘it’s called summer’, and not really that hot, but come on, who are you kidding?

    Yes, before you can ask, I can remember the long hot summer of 1976 – in fact I remember it very well – but it seems like every summer is like 1976 now, only without ‘Sunny Jim’ Callaghan, Bjorn Borg and the Minister for Drought Denis Howell.

    I suppose my epiphany came in the summer of 2022. On 19 July, 2022 to be precise. That was the hottest day since records began, with the temperature actually exceeding 40 degrees for the first time.

    I remember the day well as it was quite a traumatic one. My 95-year-old father, who had been released from hospital nine days earlier following a bout of double pneumonia, was poorly again and in a state of collapse. We had an agonising one hour wait for an ambulance. When we finally got to hospital the emergency area was full. I later spoke to an ambulance driver and he said it was the busiest day he and his colleagues had ever experienced with so many call-outs because of the extreme heat. While my Dad thankfully survived – and lived for another two years – the death rates for these very hot days in July 2022 back this up.

    Yet later when I looked at Twitter I saw the usual, ‘it’s not really that hot, it’s called summer’ comments. Clearly from people who hadn’t been in a hospital that day, as I had.

    When you still keep believing something, even though the evidence is right in front of you, that’s not being smart or ‘edgy’, it’s being dogmatic. The trouble is that ‘climate change’ has become part of the Great Culture War and people feel obliged to pick a side and keep to it. No acknowledgment that the other side might have had a point is allowed. Because people thought Greta Thunberg and co. were going over the top with the dire warnings of climate catastrophe, they tended to go the other way and totally downplayed or denied what was happening.

    But surely we can reach a sensible consensus.

    Clearly, the climate is changing. The Met Office has found that the number of ‘very hot’ days when the temperature reached 30 degrees or higher has trebled compared to the average of the period 1961-90. Days when it reached 30 degrees used to be very rare – for instance there was only one June day in 1961 and 1968 when any weather station reached the 30 degrees mark. This June was the warmest on record for England, while July said ‘hold my beer’ and began with a temperature of 35.8 degrees recorded at Faversham in Kent.

    The point is not that we didn’t get ‘very hot’ days before, but that their frequency is greatly increasing. And it’s not just in Britain. Continental Europe has been roasting too – with Spain recording its highest ever June temperature of 46 degrees and Portugal surpassing that with 46.6 degrees.

    We need to have a proper debate on what if anything can be done but there’s no use denying that it is happening. It is hot out there. Britain has morphed into North Africa, and not because of immigration. Saying that this is normal is no longer credible.

    Written by
    Neil Clark

    1. If climate change is real (I think it is), two questions come up – is it man-made, and what do we do about it? If it is not man-made but natural, money spent on trying to reduce CO2 emissions would be better spent ameliorating the effects of a warmer climate.

      The UK is responsible for only 1% of global emissions (having halved those produced in this country) and countries like China are emitting far more than we do, so our attempt to reach Net Zero is futile.

      1. You know that, we know that, some of the politicians even know that – but there are too many $$$ to be made by some, to acknowledge it.

      2. Do you accept that variations in temperature over 50-100 years are a positive indication of a change in climate which varies over thousands of years. Or might that change just go into reverse over the next 100 years and what we are seeing is small changes in the weather. In reality, we will not know until after the event! However, one thing that really bothers me is how and where do they measure this 'global temperature' in such a complex climate system. Remember, satellites have only been around for 70 years ish if its them that's making the measurements.

        1. I am not basing my opinion on any measurements taken by any meteorological bodies but on my own perception – summers seem to be getting hotter and winters not so cold. It’s not based on any science.

    2. I couldn’t read past the admission that a decent summer was proof of Armageddon.

    4. I remember 19th July 2022 very well as it was my birthday. That record temperature taken at Conigsby was just after three jet planes had taken off – so of course it was hot there. The rest of the summer was nothing special.

      This summer has been quite warm – we could certainly do with some rain – but otherwise it's a proper summer.

    5. Met Office records – 1884 (was 1910)
      Central England Temperature record – monthly from 1659, daily from 1772, some of it of questionable accuracy.

      That's it. We have no other evidence of any kind to tell us whether the recent warming is unusual, let alone man-made. Even if we did, it doesn't excuse the energy and environmental hysteria, which is what angers so many people. The two can be separated.

    6. Met Office records – 1884 (was 1910)
      Central England Temperature record – monthly from 1659, daily from 1772, some of it of questionable accuracy.

      That's it. We have no other evidence of any kind to tell us whether the recent warming is unusual, let alone man-made. Even if we did, it doesn't excuse the energy and environmental hysteria, which is what angers so many people. The two can be separated.

    7. Not aware of a huge number of people saying the climate doesn't change.There is a huge number of people who say that carbon dioxide has no connection with any change in the climate. It is the carbon dioxide connection that governments use to make our lives a misery. Neil Clark needs to do a bit of research, particularly where the thermometers are that record these high temperatures.

      1. Exactly. I was watching a video yesterday in an old Roman port museum on the river Ebro. 2000 years ago the Ebro could be navigated and goods from the Roman Empire found their way into the Spanish interior by river The climate was much cooler then, conditions very different from today.
        That we can accept but what I don't believe is that weather conditions are affected by bovine flatulence or air conditioning.

    1. Bit odd to be at the beach with a tent, wearing a tent. muslim dress really should be banned. It is incredibly antisocial.

      1. We were all so shocked .. They just spread themselves out , expanded their space with no regard for other beach users . The tide was fully in by 12noon.. lapping at our feet virtually, and people were squeezed in tight .

      2. That’s the point , surely . It’s an in your face up yours to the indigenous culture.

        1. Not even that – they simply don't care if we don't like it. It isn't deliberate – it's "when you're in our country you respect our norms. When we're in your country you respect our norms".

          2. It’s not even bothering to do that. Two fingers is a deliberate act. It’s entitlement, by people who shouldn’t be here, pure and simple.

      4. Bet they wouldn't have been out preparing to lie in the sun in their lands of origin – they've obviously been assimilated into the English way of thinking.

        1. Of course diversity was thrust in front of you – normal, sane people don't exactly go out of their way to find it.

          1. There were hundreds of you and I types on the beach, happy families , tax payers , good people , not the tattoo crowd , no boozers , whingers , whiners, just happy people enjoying the cramped conditions , the sea , sunshine and their paddle boards and canoes , and watching the tide creep in rather quickly , so things became even more cramped as people moved back up to the top of the beach .. all of us respecting limited space … then that happened .. people were genuinely surprised and cross.

    4. There used to be a pillbox right there.. just at the beach/road junction.
      Just sayin..

      1. There aren't any more prison spaces for rapists and murderers – but one can always be found…

  75. Afternoon all. Another scorcher. After church I intended to take the boys to a fun dog show locally, but despite having looked it up (I forgot to take the postcode with me and I didn’t want to leave the dogs in the car while I went back for it) I failed to find the place. Maybe it was cancelled because of the heat and I hadn’t heard. Anyway both of them survived the short trip. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb6816b683aa17f1d1484fb1c6cbbce3f63b2d1a89990dc6774eb6efdcbcc071.jpg

    One might be more sympathetic if the medics hadn’t already had a pay rise.

    1. Is this Khadi?…perhaps dreaming of moving his head/hind leg a little, out of the sun, but too hot to bother…my border terrier moving one place to t/other, flopping down and panting…hopefully cooler weather tmrw.

      1. Yes, this is Kadi, making the most of the space (I moved a desk and replaced it with a sideboard).

        1. Looks like what my grandmother would call ‘a little love’. Sorry for misspelling his name. Looks as though approved the move.

          2. Excellent description. First vet I encountered was a middle age spinster, she often swore. Good vet, I really liked and respected her. Not so much modern ones.

          1. I wish when they get homesick that the tickets were one-way – now we are being asked to pay for an airport to be built so that they don’t have to travel so far when visiting “home”.

          2. Of course. "Your ancestors you came to our country and gave us irrigation, schools, roads, electricity, a legal system, stopped women being burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre, etc. etc. etc. took all the wealth out of it . So now we have the right under your liberal laws (which we don't have in our home countries but never mind about that) to be here and do as we damn well please. Or else you are racist.

            Never mind that apparently Indians in India are the most racist people on earth, let alone their caste system.

    3. My Moh has got his hat on
      Sing hip hip hip hooray!
      My Moh has got his hat on
      And he's coming out to play. xxx

    1. Apart from all the other reasons to loathe him, I can't stand men who carefully "style" their hair…..

    1. I'm not doing it again, nor vaccines (been asked minimum ten times by GP practice, all ignored).

    2. “I suppose I’d get in trouble if I were to melt them down.”
      or
      “Do people trip over you?”
      or
      “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!”

      ©Prince Philip

        1. It jerks my chain to have that brain-dead idiot giving away our taxes.

          But our stupid electorate either didn’t vote or voted Labour at the last election. I just hope the morons are the ones who suffer, as well as the rest of us.

        2. It does. But I wasn’t one of the cretins who voted this shambles in. TBH some people have a lot of answering to do.

    1. Not very. The not diversity immigrants are moving away from the diversity and into the shires.

      I am sick of this country. On the one hand, we have my best friend, a gangly spinal surgeon and his wife, doing everything they can to fit in to the point of elocution lessons to soften her heavy accent and a complete wardrobe change from the bright colours she likes to the more muted trousers and jacket of her surroundings.

      These two are damned hard working, kind, generous people who foster difficult black kids and turn them around through discipline and consistency. Then there's darryl the diversity, a dreadlocked black savage knifing whoever he can for a rolex and it is wrong that one is feted and the other crushingly penalised in tax.

      2. Sadly, the one hand is very short of content. The other hand is a fist full to bursting.

  85. After a weekend of tiling, the whole house is under a layer of grout dust. In the cupboards, every place. Good thing we planned a whole-of-house deep clean once the jobs are done.

    1. You have to ask people like 'Matty Be Rad' if they have ever read a history book. Or read the simplest of economics texts.

      It is terrifying that these people are so incredibly stupid, ignorant and mindless.

      Of course, they don't mean what they say. They just hate the fact that they have so little for so much effort. Then they don't put 2 and 2 together to make 4 and realise the government is keeping them poor, but 649303 and blame capitalism, the system that is letting them have something.

  89. On a happier note – thank God! – across the valley, there is a family party where they have set out a temporary paddling pool. Lots of happy children sounds, giggles and shrieks, sploshing, with background adult voices. The road just here, the kids trying to pet the cats, giggling.
    It's really summery and happy, the sound of children playing. Very restful, and quite different o reading about Hamas and he appalling murders, reading about the UK goinf full-on Jihadi… Another cold Guinness will make it perfect!

  91. Wordle No. 1,485 3/6

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    1. Well done, par again here.

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    3. Well done – just a par here….

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      1. #metoo.
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    5. Late to the party on Sundays. Par for me.

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  92. Paleface
    5h
    Are Plod still busy pondering whether the chants were sufficiently hurty to require an arrest?
    They seem to be able to come to a decision much more quickly when the suspect is not tinged

  93. Heidi Alexander: BBC Need to Do a Rapid Investigation Into Glastonbury Coverage
     https://youtu.be/GPJ-qOStMyo

    AP Brewster
    5h
    I'm of the opinion Heidi is on a promise of a double pie and chips supper if she survives the interview
    with Labour intact…..

    Inspector General in ordinary
    3h
    I sincerely hope Reform have already ordered in the 'under new management' banners for the BBC when they take government and they are stored in some room somewhere just waiting for the day…
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ef51bb42e096fbf0fdf1c116d1c2395b9055d67e9d6d82d092da720c6c106dd5.png

        1. On the contrary, I agree with Bill that she's a rather presentable lady of a certain age.

  95. ref the speculation about the Air India crash.

    Could an aviator tell me how long it would take a pilot to turn the fuel supply off – given that the step apparently requires separate actions?

    The airliner was only airborne for less than a minute.

    1. a couple of seconds I would think if a deliberate action but after realising the mistake (?) after a few seconds and reversing the switch the engine might have slowed sufficiently to make re-lighting too late to establish sufficient power to avoid the ground.
      The only way the switch could be operated accidentally is if it hadn't engaged the detent properly when they started the engines which meant a knock could move it to the cut-off position

      1. The RAT deployed. The engines had spooled down too much to make restarting feasible in the time allowed.

    2. Try Captain Steeeve (YouTube), I haven't watched it but am reliably informed he's correct.See what you think, Bill 🙂

      1. Yep. All pointing to suicide.. with the clever red herring of “why did you shut off the fuel?”

    3. The most-liked BTL comments on a Telegraph article yesterday implied that the Air India mistake was not a mistake.
      The switches are guarded against accidental use, and one has to lift a small 'gate' to throw them.
      The pilot or co-pilot can reset them, within seconds, from CUTOFF to RUN, but there is an inevitable delay as the engines then have to re-ignite.
      That would be OK at high altitude, but not enough time during takeoff.
      The non-guilty person in the cockpit would have known that a crash was inevitable. A YouTube personality called Captain Steeve explains all this and more, and has pointed out that a psychologist is involved in the crash investigation…

      1. Plus one of the pilots asked “why did you shut off the fuel?” To which the other replied, “I didn’t “. Lying? We don’t know which one (pilot in charge- ie First Officer or the monitoring pilot, the Captain).

        1. Yer Indians are not doing themselves or their aviation industry any favours by letting stuff out in dribs and drabs.

          1. That was from the preliminary report. A more detailed version will be issued later which presumably will reveal all.

          2. But not for a year.…plenty of time for "other conclusions" to be bribed for reached.

          3. It struck me that the primary concern of the preliminary report was to exonerate the aircraft. There had been some minor (i e advisory) issues that didn’t have a mandatory directive attached that hadn’t been sorted, but the servicing had been carried out on schedule. It was a relatively old aircraft (2013), so a lot of air miles on the clock.

          4. Boeing also have a vested interest in a VERY low profile after their recent “incidents”…..

    4. There is only one action for each engine needed to shut off the fuel. The procedure is almost instant and the two switches are next to each other. They were reselected to run after a few seconds and one engine was responding but alas not quick enough. The curious thing is that during take off your hands should be nowhere near those switches.

    5. There is only one action for each engine needed to shut off the fuel. The procedure is almost instant and the two switches are next to each other. They were reselected to run after a few seconds and one engine was responding but alas not quick enough. The curious thing is that during take off your hands should be nowhere near those switches.

  96. Polly On The Shore
    1h
    Вut іt'ѕ nоt уоur јоb tо "ɡіvе bl*сk bоуѕ еquаl lіfе сhаnсеѕ" уоu tоtаl рlаnk.
    It'ѕ уоur јоb tо ѕtор thеm dесеаѕіnɡ еасhоthеr аnd tеrrоrіѕіnɡ thе ɡеnеrаl рорulаtіоn.

    Аnd whіlе уоu'rе аt іt, уоu саn ѕtор іmрlуіnɡ thаt іt'ѕ ѕоmеhоw thе fаult оf whіtе реорlе уоu rасіѕt lіttlе рірѕquеаk.
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    2. Well if he did his job properly and instigated stop and search of the most likely demographic to be tooled up, perhaps black youths might have a better chance of getting past 18.

    3. Proud to be black but not British? Ok, then emigrate, or refuse any benefits which the state may award you. Loyalty is a two-way thing.

    4. The darling enrichers stab each other. Who are we to interfere with their time honoured customs?

    5. That hat is wearing him. What a fucking twat. Get out on the streets. Do stop and search of the highest criminal stats. Stop anyone on an E bike wearing a balaclava. You pathetic little scrotum !

  97. Yesterday Jeremy Morfey posted that the 1980s/90s reorganisation of Royal Mail (letters delivered separately from parcels, etc) was disastrous; as Charles Moore wrote, re Mrs T, it's important to look at the whole picture.
    For example, there is a stumbling block with the design of battery-powered aeroplanes: when a large airliner takes off, it carries a heavy (and carefully calculated) load of fuel, possibly representing 40% of the total takeoff weight. But when the plane reaches its destination its fuel tanks are nearly empty, which means that landing is thus not too stressful on the airframe and undercarriage.
    However that is not the case with designs for battery powered airtaxis etc, which would have to touch down with a full load of (combustible) batteries. This means that the airframe etc has to be made stronger which increases weight and reduces range.
    Just mentioning this because there seem to be some massive EVs cruising hungrily around the countryside this weekend.

      1. Designers are currently thinking about hybrid (ICE and electric motors) planes; the internal combustion engines on board would be powered by … hydrogen.
        Hydrogen atoms are wee tiny beasties, even better at escaping than Welsh mountain sheep, and liquid hydrogen needs to be maintained at about -253 C, or 20K(elvin).
        A new type of solid state batteries, about to go into production in Japan, might solve that burning issue.

  98. Well, if we are comparing yesterday’s a Wimbledon women’s final with today’s men’s, i have to say, the women’s are totally worth the equal prize money. (Sarc).

      1. I wonder how long in total the ball was actually in play from the point the server hit it to the point the point was lost.
        Less than a quarter of an hour would be my guess.

  99. Fortunately, I didn't see any of it. Tennis (apart from doubles) ranks for me alongside wendyball.

    3. I am with you normally bit this men’s final is a corker. I am only watching it because i’s too hot to be outside

      1. Hot? What do you mean, hot? It is overcast and chilly here – I am wearing a pullover.

      2. When was the last time that finalists in both men's and women's championship had previous bans for drug misuse?

        A puzzled pensioner writes….

  100. Fortunately, I didn't see any of it. Tennis (apart from doubles) ranks for me alongside wendyball.

  104. That's me gone for this grey, chilly day. No rain, worse luck – though it seemed likely at one stage.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain.

      1. Made famous in Rugby circles when Billy Steele, the Scottish winger, sang it on the 1974 Lions tour of South Africa – it took off from there – I actually quite like it!

        2. It is bad enough when being "sung" by thousands of whinging Scots at Murrayfield….

          3. I saw him live once – he was excellent, very funny and seemed a genuinely nice bloke!

      1. Protection of our country's culture social structure and our family life is racist and illegal is it.
        Who are these morons ?

  109. No no no Paul! That ghastly dirge, and nationalistic claptrap should never be heard again! Ever…

    1. To me, It's quiet and reflective in tone.
      Don't forget, I come from nowhere, "home is where my hat is", and so this kind of romantic claptrap provides some kind of focus on a root.

        2. He looks like that weird, hairy Scot who whinges away to the GB telly screen. Dreary voiced bloke – can't think of his name. Just pisses me off.

          The sort of 50+ year old who thinks that looking like an unkempt teenage tearaway is "coooool".

    2. My favourite, Sue (forgive me if I've posted this afore) are pipe n drums….cry every time, no idea why. Whoever's with me at the time thinks I'm ridiculous. Welcome any theories :-D!

      1. Love the pipes, me.
        One time, on the side of the loch by Ullapool, just as the sun went down, there was a piper playing outdoors, in the distance. Truly romantic, so it was, and very precious.

        1. I lived in a small village, decades ago, with a steep hill known as Scotgate…my house was half way down the hill, rumour was from there could see both the highest point and the lowest point from where Scots could invade. Opposite the house was a field known as ‘hanging field’ where apparently hangings used to take place. Was never sure if I was being kidded……anyhow, I love the sound of the pipe and drum, although I likely wouldn’t have if they signalled the Scots were on their way to rape, pillage, murder….:-))…be looking for a fast horse….(I love Ullapool, too, thanks Paul).

  110. Sherborne Abbey, visited today: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d6a41bf1aea1098a0c5c4f3978ae29f7ba7ae24775690300ece7397d6912f82.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7685a2f553d718c01c50f2ff74e47e078199699b96301f1fa62d33d7cc8f3d87.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0ca07751e489459420a8d810160073a406c28a37ad288d3bb354e321e476c447.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/572be197f6814363082f0067c3c8dd37cc172a4074c19f2220f536e4134ae883.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/21b857ef916235961ddd8c8aa2b5ccc7511a82b166009bbfcee4158ff06ddaba.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bf36a13c838c2b97d3ebdcf9bc32a141c431c16faf935fd99009f9384856d3b8.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f596dba719b302fdc91e3828cb661ef3ead53db3cb4f03d1efe97c9e10488bf1.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9bc811057cc709e109ed112ecd889b79844958d904ddf1f79cab259918fcc249.jpg

        1. I suppose it is Gothic but is not really structural so is a departure from the basis of most Gothic architecture, thin walls and structural ribbed vaulting supported by external buttresses and so on.

          I take the view that although the fan vaulting supports nothing but itself it still provides visual support so by that measure it is probably qualifying as Gothic.

          Your question is though a most interesting one.

    2. Was in a church on Friday that had a pulpit dating to 1451. The oldest in Cheshire, apparently.

    5. My sisters both went to Sherborne Girls' School and both married young men who had been to Sherborne School.

    2. The barley field that Spartie and I walked beside today looked very sparse and parched.

    1. Jannik Sinner's (Italian Tyrol) mother is in the stands and looks as if she could let out an almighty yodel.

    2. Haven't watched tennis for many a year. The cricket is a better watch, for me at least.

  115. Instagram News

    An illegal immigrant has just been stabbed on a Blighty bound rubber dingy.

    A Starmer success?

    1. July 14th tomorrow – Bastille Day. Ah, ca ira, ca ira! Long hot summer of discontent. That's when revolutions kick off.

      1. That was in April last year. The bishop lost the sight in one eye. The 16-year-old attacker was on the terrorist watch list of the New South Wales police. He was charged with attempted murder but claimed mental illness as a defence.

        Riots followed, which quite upset PM Anthony Albanese who called on Australians to "unite, not divide, as a community, and as a country."

      1. It took Ferdinand and Isabella about 10 years but 300 years for leaders of that calibre to emerge. It was meticulously planned, including housing and hospitals for their troops. Who do we have?

  120. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b01cda7ead329b96d0d5d14b6cd35e1c2709f39ecae4f8ec25f57af911ac9eb9.jpg Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing demands to ditch a new government edict that bans senior health officials, military leaders and even the head of the civil service from speaking openly in public.

    In a letter in today’s Times the leaders of more than a dozen think tanks, including the Royal Society, the Nuffield Trust and the Institute for Government, warned the prime minister that the new rule was having a “chilling effect on public discussion” with some events already being cancelled.

    In private, several former cabinet secretaries are understood to have made their concerns clear to Downing Street.

    The new rules have even been condemned by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former head of communications, who was himself not shy about controlling the messaging of No 10.

    The edict, issued across Whitehall by Downing Street last month, orders public sector officials not to talk at open events where their comments have not been vetted in advance. They have also been barred from taking part in any public question and answer sessions even if they are part of an industry event.

    John Brown
    1 hour ago

    Orwellian, draconian, Stalinist, Goebbels, take your pick, any or all could be apposite.

    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/no-10-warned-against-gagging-officials-from-speaking-in-public-9ggwvtbwk?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawLg5XVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBVYzdseHh5VzJxd1hFUmp1AR5s_gjWso4EnD7DIUIyp1UGPlurqId9VZX5w4_GUALzOR8aPP_Xk7DBwDSRDg_aem_xFBztnZHmSsgQXnwgV-Skg#Echobox=1752427979

      1. And one of Rachel from Customer Services should come with a government wealth warning!

    4. I think Starmer has missed the boat ! We are well aware the news is filtered. We know full well whatever he says is damage control.
      Gagging others won't restore trust.

    5. To be honest, I am surprised that people in those jobs are allowed to give their opinions in public. This privilege has been used in the recent past to tell us all to prepare for war with Russia. Was that a warning that wasn't supposed to have been given out, in the hope that the public would reject war? Fat chance if so, sadly – I don't see any peace demonstrations planned.

    1. When we had a Prime Minister and a government who were on the side of this country and respected its history and culture.

      1. Just over a WEEK after illegally crossing the Channel, an Ethiopian boat migrant has been charged with THREE sexual assaults in Essex.
        Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, allegedly committed the offences between Monday and Tuesday in Epping. He’s also accused of inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity and harassment without violence. He denies all charges.
        This isn’t just a one-off — it’s not just what they do, it’s how they treat their women and girls. Many arrive with zero respect for women, because they know no different — it’s “fresh meat” to them.
        How many more warnings do we need before action is taken to protect our communities?

        1. Who are we to question a culture that sodomises little boys and marries six year old girls to sixty year old men?
          Besides the 250,000 groom,rape and torture of vulnerable girls in the UK over the last 50 years by Paki muslim men there are nearly 400 million girls under the age of 18 in arranged marriages. It is normal.

    1. Stupid woman – and to see an Iranian saying Israel understands only the language of force shows that irony is not dead! The UN is completely unfit for purpose.

    2. Stupid woman – and to see an Iranian saying Israel understands only the language of force shows that irony is not dead! The UN is completely unfit for purpose.

  124. What a lovely party we had this afternoon. Lots of youngsters and young parents enjoying themselves. With a few of us oldies (well two) looking on.
    Met some of our sons and DiL new friends.
    Including a lovely couple from Cape Town. Wife Came here to work 6 years ago and both stayed.
    Great win by the Italian player, they both seem to be nice guys. Someone has to lose.
    I'd better make my way up stairs before I fall asleep😉🙃. Goodnight all Nottlers 😴

  125. Well that was fun.
    A village function where great grandparents, grandparents, parents and children were all enjoying the evening.
    Music, chatting, and for the children, lots of running around together.
    Excellent food and drink at very reasonable prices.
    I had a filet mignon brochette, a large container of freshly fried chips, an even larger container of braised peppers and was stung for less than £10.00
    A bottle of good wine was £6.00, a VERY good bottle of wine was £12.
    Apart from our group I doubt there was another group of Anglais. there.
    Spoke to many villagers, the mayor and lots of farmers.
    A thoroughly splendid night out

    1. A lack of crash bollards and stabber/Rolex snatchers/rapists suggest a white majority.

      1. Oddly enough, there were many "diverse" attending, but integrating properly.

        The woman who is the official flag raiser at memorial functions is African heritage.

        She's been here for at least ten years..
        We're lucky, the non-French have tried to integrate and been made very welcome.

    1. Rather dictatorial behaviour to simply change the electoral system if you don't win…

  128. Goodnight, folks. I've got a busy week in prospect, so I'm going to try to start it with a decent night's sleep (although it's hot and sticky, so maybe not).

    1. Little reminder: if you are still paying the TV tax, this is what you are funding. How much televised sport is worth this injustice?

  132. Mr Blue Sky
    8h
    Bill Rammell on GBN now blaming the public for the Labour sh!tshow because they demand too much.

    You couldn't make it up……

    It’s only Me
    Mr Blue Sky
    7h
    The contempt that the left show voters is disgusting! I don’t think the left know what voters want. They have the wrong diagnosis…they don’t want more left wing..they want the end to channel crossings and to be better off. Labour will deliver neither!!!

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