Sunday 6 August: Taking on the anti-motorist lobby could bring Rishi Sunak election success

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story, good for Sunday School:

    Believe In The Lord,
    Two nuns were driving down a country road when they ran out of petrol. They walked to a farmhouse and a farmer gave them some petrol; but the only container he had was an old bedpan. The nuns were happy to take whatever they were offered and returned to their car. As they were pouring the petrol from the bedpan into the tank of their car, a priest drove by. He stopped, rolled down his window and said, “Excuse me, sisters. I’m not of your religion, but I couldn’t help but admire your faith!”

    1. Postmenopausal nun pee used to have a commercial value, because it was sold to pharmaceutical firms. For a drug named Pergonal, if my memory internet serves me correctly.

    2. Postmenopausal nun pee used to have a commercial value, because it was sold to pharmaceutical firms. For a drug named Pergonal, if my memory internet serves me correctly.

        1. Sadly, not today Minty. It’s been a totally exhausting three weeks, so today I decided to chill out. Hopefully, back to a more sensible routine from tomorrow.

  5. West African bloc prepares for military action as Niger coup deadline looms

    The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has given Niger’s coup leaders until Sunday to step down and reinstate the elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.

    The bloc has taken a hard stance on last week’s takeover, the seventh coup in west and central Africa since 2020.

    Given its uranium and oil deposits and pivotal role in the war with Islamist rebels in the Sahel region, Niger has strategic significance for the US, China, Europe and Russia.

    The bloc is supplying the troops and the US is supplying the cash to pay for it! Unlike Ukraine this is not an approved coup.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/05/west-african-bloc-gives-niger-coup-leaders-until-sunday-to-end-revolt

    1. It looks as though it may have been stirred up by the Russians. The great powers may be using west Africa as their playground again.
      It would be nice if the world were run by good people instead of psychopaths.

  6. I would describe yesteray as a wet windy day, it was not much of a storm. Met office way over the top with their forecast where I live.

  7. Morning all 🙂😊
    More than a glimmer of hope for our family get together. A Cloudless blue sky.
    And lets be honest it’s all Rishi has got after all the cock ups the government has made. Except for the wild card. Stop the boats, we have had enough of it !
    Just do it !
    And 57 athletes suffer from stomach and intestinal problems after swimming in the recent competition off the coast at Sunderland.
    Oh dear.

      1. Me too JN. With the rainfall we had yesterday I have little doubt that Southern Water will have discharged a vast amount of raw sewage into the sea, thanks to years of inadequate spending and lots of lovely bonuses for staff snd shareholders.

        2. Nothing, of course, to do with thousands of new houses being built without the developers being required to ensure that the water, gas electricity and sewage disposal facilities are upgraded to cope with the added demand!

      2. You’d get collected by the RNLI and forced to live in a hotel room, all exs paid, and given pocket money.
        That would be awful!

      3. Good morning JN, and everyone.
        May I politely disagree? East Sussex is not a county endowed with gentle sandy beaches, but other areas of the UK can offer safe and excellent sea bathing. For old and young, an occasional (or frequent) dip in the ocean is invigorating and the sea air can have a similar effect.

    2. I do not like to criticise the good burghers of Sunderland, but had the athletes been dining locally?

      Competitive swimmers tend to train in chlorinated water, so even germ free saltwater might upset their racehorse physiques.

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps. The big yellow thing in the deep blue sky has made a welcome return today, after the howling wind, lashing rain and mountainous seas of yesterday.

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – At last Rishi Sunak is taking on the sanctimonious anti-motorist lobby (“I am on motorists’ side, says PM as he orders review of anti-car schemes”, report, July 30).

    This relatively small group of politicians and planners seem to live in a fantasy land, where everyone is able to use public transport or ride a bike or walk. They appear oblivious to the fact that there are very many people whose only way of getting anywhere is to use a car – and it has to take them from door to door, not half a mile away from their destination.

    There are over 12 million adults over pensionable age in the UK, and of these six out of 10 have mobility issues. Many can walk only short distances, and the idea of asking them to ride a bike is a joke – which leaves public transport.

    According to surveys, six out of 10 rarely or never use public transport, and you can understand why. Three out of four have difficulty getting to a bus stop and two out of three struggle getting on or off the bus. Even the young need door-to-door transport much of the time – in bad weather or carrying heavy loads.

    Most adults in the UK are motorists, for good reason – the car is the most efficient and convenient way of travelling and a necessity for many.

    Mr Sunak: this could be a vote-winner.

    Peter Rusby
    Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

    Well now, that’s all fine and dandy Mr Rusby. Sorry to disappoint but Blair Mk 2 has been spraying around all sorts of promises…something to do with an election maybe? Or more mere words in the hope of reducing the scale of the defeat that is heading his way??

  9. Illegal migration undermines the values of the UK. Oliver Dowden.6 August 2023.

    And yet people are still attempting to make the life-threatening illegal journey across the English Channel. They are doing so in dangerously small boats arranged by the vile people-smuggling gangs who are exploiting them for a quick buck.
    Men, women and children have died making this trip. We must end this illegal and pernicious trade, so this Government is throwing everything we can at the problem.

    First, we have ensured that our new laws to tackle illegal migration are tough but fair. In Britain, we back those who play by the rules. The Royal Assent of the Illegal Migration Act will allow us to do exactly that. Those who come to the UK illegally will not be able to stay. If you break into our country, you won’t be afforded the same rights and privileges as those who follow the rules.

    No they have to go to work and pay rent and taxes! It’s best not to read this article if you have high blood pressure though the BTL comments are considerably more acerbic than mine. It is by the Deputy Prime Minister which gives you some sort of idea of their values and the self-serving lies that they tell each other.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/illegal-migration-undermines-the-values-of-the-uk/

    1. Why do they all want to come here? According to some, we are racist, sexist, misogynist, white supremacists etc. etc. so, could it be … drum roll … the benefits? .

      In one move HMG could stop all illegal immigration. As we are no longer in the EU (hah) HMG should have no compunction in at least halving the rewards given to these people. What’s to stop them?

  10. Morning, all Y’all.
    Mist rolling out of the trees; real autumn weather. Heavy rain yesterday, worse predicted for Monday and Tuesday. It’s not helping the farming, and the bees.

    1. Don’t. MB looked out of the window and muttered something about September lighting.

      1. It’s been autumn here since the end of June. Lovely fine day today but the rest of the event was cancelled due to the mud and conditions on the cross country course so all we can do today is pack up.

    1. I bet the little weasel will think of some wheeze to overturn that ruling.
      Shame he trained as a lawyer; his father actually had a useful job.
      (Apologies to our resident Liberty bodice aficionado.)

  12. Mr Trump is alleged to have sought to prevent the democratic outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. If he and his allies did so, this was a disgraceful thing. If you believe that power in free societies is decided by votes, then you cannot support such a thing. Your own politics cease to matter. It goes to the very root of law and power.
    So why did major Western nations accept without protest the violent, lawless overthrow of Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014? This shameful event, achieved by a yelling mob, was led by people who make Mr Trump’s supporters look like Greenpeace and who openly threatened violence if they did not get their way.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12376823/PETER-HITCHENS-Meet-liberals-condemn-Trumps-failed-putsch-happily-condone-real-one.html

    Several interesting bits here.

      1. And the MSM give 90% of the coverage to Trump and with an anti Trump slant, and if Biden appears at all, it is generally off the front pages.

  14. Good morning all.
    Overcast and dull but at least it’s not raining yet. 8°C outside and a trip to the Cromford Steam Rally is a possible.

    1. This time last year it was close to 35’c here. Utterly intolerable heat. The advantage was that clothes dried within the afternoon.

      1. A reminder of a year ago. These were taken on the 8th of August:-
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  15. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/jk-rowling-airbrushed-museum-of-pop-culture-seattle/
    Museum cancels JK Rowling over ‘super hateful’ trans views
    A museum has airbrushed JK Rowling out of its hall of fame and Harry Potter exhibits because of her gender-critical beliefs. The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, accused the author of holding “super hateful and divisive” opinions in a lengthy blog post explaining its decision.

    Rowling has received online abuse for her opinions on transgender issues after arguing that women should not be ousted from their jobs for believing biological sex is real.

    She strongly denied accusations of transphobia in 2020 after mocking the use of the phrase “people who menstruate” in place of “women”.

    While MoPOP continues to display memorabilia from the Harry Potter films, which are adapted from Rowling’s most famous novels, an article by its exhibitions project manager confirms references to the franchise’s creator are no longer included.

    She has regularly spoken out about her concerns that making it easier to legally change gender would threaten the safety of biological women, and was one of the most prominent critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s ill-fated attempts to change the law to allow trans people to self-identify without a medical certificate.

    2. I find it ironic that the trans mob are desperate for everyone to accept their views, but never extend that to people who disagree with them. They are the most intolerant and bigoted group around.

  16. 374211+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Now there’s a question that needs an answer,

    To my way of thinking too many a voting mindset “A childhood as was” has been erased, currently being seen as mini guinea
    pig units by the pharmaceutical brigade and their supporting minions, also as seen via the voting pattern as paedophile
    play things.

    If you are supporting mass importation of illegals parties then
    you are condoning the fact that children are paedo. fodder..

    Lest we forget, one day, soon, they WILL come for your kids.

    https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1687860229147607040?s=20

    https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1687860229147607040?s=20

    1. 375211+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      But you gotta vote tory (ino) party to keep out lab (ino) party, aincha ?

      If you are seeking repeat treacherous shite Og most definitely YES.

    2. Essentially, what these perverted medics and their supporters are doing is lowering the age of sexual consent to seven.
      Victory for the paedophiles.

      1. 375211+ up ticks

        Morning S,

        This has been their aim since A 1970s campaign to lower the age of consent has returned to haunt Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and Jack Dromey.

      2. I can see that the long term intent is the normalisation of child rape.

        The Left want to force the unnatural and perverted on us all to undermine their greatest enemy : the family.

    3. Why is it that a child needs a parents permission for any sort of surgery except the trans nonsense?

      Junior has thought he’s a dog, a prince, Zorro, a train, a Rhino, Batman and Superman (in Mummy’s red boots – that character will never come back). He’s a child. Trying on identity is part of growing up.

      The trans are ill. They’re living a fantasy.

  18. Good morning, all. Sunny with light broken cloud and an autumnal chilly breeze.

    Article from the OffGuardian on climate change. Final paragraphs are a good short review of the recent boiling scare, where we are and where the enforcers may try and push us.

    R S Lindzen PhD is mentioned in the interesting comment section and I’ve added a piece from Wiki re Dr Lindzen.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b0d58a7b92589e306f7abba970c82574b97579836306c672408f29f04989eb05.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8d7c73ce841225db6d1c37b79b0ef4ade8c2eeecaac2a790dabf4cb4d91ea8e4.png

    OffGuardian – War on Climate Change is Coming Again

    1. Projecting a single parameter based on past performance is a real problem. The factor causing it is the thing of interest, not the symptom, as the cause may go away, get worse, or be totally random.
      The projection of future temperatures must have huge bands of uncertainty associated with it, with the lower band showing a reduction… after all, if the cause is solar activity and not CO2, then that seems to be tailing off, for example.
      LIkewise, what about the effects of measurement on the findings? An increasingly concrete-covered world would be expected to be warmer than one that’s covered in trees, for example (never mind making measurements at airports…). And, there haven’t been many volcanoes recently, chucking enormous ash clouds into the sky to reflect the sun and cool the world (I believe the weather was bad for a long time after Krakatoa blew up).
      And that leaves out the political aspect and desperate desire for control. What was it the man said? “In the absence of religion, people don’t believe nothing, they believe anything.”

      1. Morning Oberst. I caught a piece on the BBC News last night about temperatures in Karachi and the locals complaining about their increase over the last thirty years. An aerial view of the City devoid of any greenery was sufficient to convince me that it was mostly self inflicted!

        1. According to Google, the population of Karachi in 2023 is 17,236,000 and 30 years ago in 1993 was 7,912,000.
          So, heat generation will be greater due to twice as much housing, twice as many factories, many more vehicles, fewer trees, and more roads and concrete generally.
          So, who is surprised that it’s hotter?

      2. Don’t forget Eyjafjallajökull in 2010. It halted many airlines flying in and out of Northern Europe

        1. It also emitted more CO² than Europe and America combined over 50 years.

          Another climate scam uncovered.

        2. Indeed, and one of my team was he wrong side of the plume. It took a week or so to get him home.

    2. Projecting a single parameter based on past performance is a real problem. The factor causing it is the thing of interest, not the symptom, as the cause may go away, get worse, or be totally random.
      The projection of future temperatures must have huge bands of uncertainty associated with it, with the lower band showing a reduction… after all, if the cause is solar activity and not CO2, then that seems to be tailing off, for example.
      LIkewise, what about the effects of measurement on the findings? An increasingly concrete-covered world would be expected to be warmer than one that’s covered in trees, for example (never mind making measurements at airports…). And, there haven’t been many volcanoes recently, chucking enormous ash clouds into the sky to reflect the sun and cool the world (I believe the weather was bad for a long time after Krakatoa blew up).
      And that leaves out the political aspect and desperate desire for control. What was it the man said? “In the absence of religion, people don’t believe nothing, they believe anything.”

    3. Well they are not wrong only the timing and the cause are way out. It will happen when the sun is dying and turn into a red giant and expand to swallow the planets. It will take a few billion years.

  19. China ‘will use electric cars to spy on Britain’. 6 August 2023.

    Chinese electric cars imported to the UK to help hit net zero targets will enable Beijing to spy on British citizens, ministers have warned.

    With car companies facing quotas for zero emissions sales from next year ahead of a ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles in 2030, China is predicted to dominate the UK market because of its prowess in providing cheap electric cars.

    However, sources at the heart of government have raised concerns that technology embedded in the vehicles could be used to harvest huge amounts of information, including location data, audio recordings and video footage, while also being vulnerable to remote interference and even being disabled.

    I’ve never been a fan of the Peoples Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, though admittedly this began, when they and we were very different. Now of course the differences are much less and they haven’t moved. Still this doesn’t mean that I am going to follow every dopey propaganda idea that the MSM can dream up!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/05/china-will-use-cars-to-spy-on-britain-ministers-fear/

    1. Just cars?
      Where do they think telephone exchanges, mobile phones and the mobile systems come from? The electronics that control your washing machine? Radars, VHF radios, in fact pretty well every electronic component that, with a chip in it, can be programmed to do what the Chinese tell it to do. Switch off, for example, or record transactions.
      You have to admire their application over the long term – suddenly, it seems, everything manufactured is Chinese. And the West actively participated, because it reduced their CO2 emissions – as well as the jobs and data security. Hooray for electing people with hatred of technologists, folk who actually know something rather than how to quote Shakespeare or taste a bottle of overpriced grape juice.
      Edit: Spulling.

    2. Just cars?
      Where do they think telephone exchanges, mobile phones and the mobile systems come from? The electronics that control your washing machine? Radars, VHF radios, in fact pretty well every electronic component that, with a chip in it, can be programmed to do what the Chinese tell it to do. Switch off, for example, or record transactions.
      You have to admire their application over the long term – suddenly, it seems, everything manufactured is Chinese. And the West actively participated, because it reduced their CO2 emissions – as well as the jobs and data security. Hooray for electing people with hatred of technologists, folk who actually know something rather than how to quote Shakespeare or taste a bottle of overpriced grape juice.
      Edit: Spulling.

    3. The CCP fails in its purported ambition to control 1.5 billion Chinese and really cares very little about the rest of us as long as we continue to buy Chinese products. Hence China has no issue with her conservative neighbour, Christian Russia. It’s the lunatics of the world banking establishment and their ideological minions who imagine they can control 8 billion people.

    4. As long as it’s only people with EVs, then I’m not sure I care if they’re spied upon.

    5. “China is predicted to dominate the UK market because of its prowess in providing cheap electric cars”.
      Cheap? I don’t call £20,000 cheap.

  20. Bugger. Cromford Steam Rally is cancelled.
    T’Lad is now up and dressed, so logging off from laptop and heading down to use the main PC.

    2. You did well to avoid it, sad though that might be after all their efforts to get it set up. I happened to walk past earlier and the field is an absolute quagmire in places. The volunteers are diverting traffic as the road past the car park is pretty much blocked by the big tractor which is towing cars out, on by one!

  22. The globalists have decreed that Western civilisation must end and be replaced with a global one. No nations, no countries, no roots. A shiftless forced migratory population without history or culture. To that end the people who define those nations must be destroyed – physically through massive uncontrolled gimmigration or enforced poverty via crippling taxes and massive transfers of wealth – to the gimmigrants.

    Sunak could stop and reverse all of this quite easily. He chooses not to and instead encourages the decline.

    1. The globalists even have a spy on Nottl. What do you think ogga1 stands for?
      One Global Government = A1
      They walk among us

      With apols to ogga1……..😊

    2. The globalists even have a spy on Nottl. What do you think ogga1 stands for?
      One Global Government = A1
      They walk among us

      With apols to ogga1……..😊

    3. The globalists even have a spy on Nottl. What do you think ogga1 stands for?
      One Global Government = A1
      They walk among us

      With apols to ogga1……..😊

  23. Bore da pawb.

    Have I missed something? Can anyone tell me the significance of the TV programme?

    SIR – Like Jeremy Clarkson (report, July 23) and Dr D C Spooner (Letters, July 30), I have experience of exploding bottles.
    In my childhood it was not an infrequent occurrence that, when watching the latest episode of Z Cars with the family, the excitement was added to by a small explosion coming from our kitchen pantry. It was caused by a bottle of my mother’s homemade ginger beer, and the method of closure could be distinguished by either the loud pop of a cork or the more dramatic crack of a screw top.
    Scott Clapworthy 

    1. Perhaps it’s similar to someone saying “BOO” when you are concentrating and they’ve crept up behind you.

      I don’t recall whether Z cars was particularly exciting, to the extent that a sudden unexpected noise would make one jump.

    2. Maybe it just happened at that time of night (7.30, I think it was on). Heat during the day had caused the build up of pressure.

  24. Letter:-

    Too many houses
    SIR – Regarding Raymond Short’s concerns as to whether the infrastructure exists to support incoming residents where new houses are built (Letters, July 25), the answer is no, it doesn’t.

    The village I live in has had three major new housing developments built since 2015. To date there has been no change to the village infrastructure, leading to chaos on the narrow roads, an over-subscribed school and long waiting times to see a medical practitioner.

    John Kerry
    Fleckney, Leicestershire

    And there is the reason for so many sewage spills in bad weather.

    1. It will only get worse what’s happening is proof our infrastructure is failing and that country is now over populated.

    2. It’s exactly the same round here; no work locally, roads already chock-a-block, no new schools, no upgrade to the creaking foul water systems, impossible to see a GP or a dentist … I could go on.

  25. ‘Morning chaps! We have a UCI cycling race going past the end of the lane today! I’m just away out with the drawing pins!

    1. Ha ha you sound like the person who threw nails into the wheel rutts being used by ‘off roaders’ on a local countryside walking track.

      1. There’s a tree that grows in Oz that has spiked seeds bit like that. I had one go through the sole of my flip flops (thongs) and puncture my skin. 😒

    3. I see there’s been a protest at the start of Crow Road that has interrupted the race.

  26. How victory in the Battle of Britain hinged on one man. 6 August 2023.

    The Battle of Britain has always been dedicated to the courage of The Few – but victory may have boiled down to the tactics of just one man.

    In a new book exploring the alternative outcomes of pivotal military events, a team of mathematicians and historians have modelled the battle and claimed that triumph was by no means assured.

    The authors suggest that success largely hinged on Sir Keith Park’s views on how to fight the battle, which proved to be the best way to grind down the Luftwaffe.

    No mention here of Dowding, who was the Architect of Victory in the Battle of Britain.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/victory-in-the-battle-of-britain-victory-hinged-on-one-man/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    1. There was an excellent documentary about the big wing many years ago.

      Tongue in cheek;
      Identifying one individual, perhaps the German pilot who gave the command to release and inadvertently bombed the East End should be credited for us winning the Battle of Britain.

      Churchill was seeking an excuse and ordered Berlin to be bombed. And then the Germans went for UK cities instead of continuing the attrition of RAF bases, which might well have given them air superiority. On such small matters battles can be won or lost.

      1. Indeed.
        Stopping the bombing of the southern airfields was the key to RAF and finally UK survival, as the RAF were on their knees by that point. Getting a respite was all they needed to get back in the fight.

    2. AVM Sir Keith Park went on to reprise his Battle of Britain success in Malta. He clearly possessed something that other men lacked when fighting air battles.
      Leigh-Mallory moved on to bigger things despite the failure of his Big Wing tactic and ended up worrying about the casualties that the airborne forces would incur during the Normandy landings and hence the value of those forces in the landing phase. General (at the time) Montgomery was not impressed.

      1. Leigh Mallory (and his wife) died in an aircraft crash – I believe he over-ruled the pilot who said that conditions were unsuitable and the flight should be delayed.

    3. Mathematicians and their models have lost all credibility since Professor Shagger Ferguson was let loose on the taxpayer four times this century. Not once have his models been on the same astral plane as the unfolding events. To suggest that ‘triumph was by no means assured’ is a masterclass in understatement.

    4. Funny that Minty, I live in Dowding House, the house he was born in. He’s mention all over the place – it’s now a RAFA home.

    5. Without the Dowding system (Chain Home stations reporting to filter stations, then to sector stations and plotters, co-ordinated at Bentley Priory) Park, good as he was (he also served in Malta), wouldn’t have been able to scramble his pilots and husband his resources by not having to fly standing patrols. Needless to say, neither Dowding nor Park got the credit due to them. Leigh Mallory and his Big Wing would never have worked from Kent; the flight time from France was too short to assemble a Balbo. I’ve flown over the Cliffs of Dover in a Spitfire – the Channel is very narrow at that point.

  27. 375211+ up ticks,

    Currently in far too many cases too much emphasis is put on material things, cars,political parties (ino), bank accounts, etc at the expense of children’s welfare & well being.

    At this moment in time we are living through the “once again” product of the polling station and shortly the majority voter could find themselves visiting their children in mental homes or, the likes of Belmarsh. when the truth is the positions should be reversed.

  28. The British media seem to be unaware of the huge success of the Lisbon World Youth Days.

    Whatever your view of religion may be, or of the Catholic Church, it is surely newsworthy that a million and a half people between the ages of 16 and 30 came together with the Pope in Lisbon last night for prayers and a vigil. This number of people was surprising as they were “only” expecting a million.

    The World Youth Days end later this morning with a final Mass celebrated by the Pope.

    https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/jmj-de-lisbonne-1-5-million-de-personnes-pour-la-veillee-avec-le-pape-20230805

    1. The Christian religion does not fit the agenda any more in this non-Christian, mainly Muslim country.

    2. Caroline, the Left wing media are not interested. They would much prefer to laid muslim. Christianity is the bedrock of this nation. Ironically the conflict between catholicism and Protestanism is fundamental to an awful lot of the laws that make the UK such a free country. The Left hate that. They would prefer freedoms were derived from global legality, not historical precedent, monarchy and culture.

    1. The let’s stop bothering to teach’ brigade are everywhere in education. It would far prefer to tell people what to think that to teach them how to think.

      How you can teach without directly referring to those who made it is beyond me.

  30. A near-neighbour of mine works for a well-known government department. The staff there were recently given a guided tour of a new building which will soon be their place of work. They were than invited to submit feedback, but they were told not to mention the toilets and showers, as that decision had been taken. The ablutions were, in case you hadn’t guessed, unisex. God be thanked for our Conservative government!

    1. I’ve probably mentioned it before but a trans man – a man in a dress – started using the ladies at our old offices. The women complained as he was leaving the loo in an utter state.

      He was told to stop using the women’s loo. Nowadays that would be overturned and the vast majority of women ignored.

      The Warqueen has an ‘admirer’ at her offices and having unisex loos would simply have him stalking her in there. If he tried anything she’d deck him, but still, it’s not something women – OR men – should have to deal with.

      1. Our department is quite close to the hospital post room. The posties – all males – use our toilets and always leave them in a filthy state. 😡😡

        What’s going on fellas? You even face towards the toilet! Can’t males see mess?

          3. I’m the boss 🙁 . I’ve already contacted their manager to have a friendly word. Trouble is, it’s not something that’s easy to prove if they deny it’s them

      2. The unisex loos at the office where I am working are effectively the male loos. There is only one ladies’ room near the reception, and that does for all the women in the building.

  31. Niger rebels seek Wagner mercenary support as military ultimatum looms. 6 August 2023.

    As many as 50,000 troops from countries including Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast could be deployed to restore civilian rule, a military source told the French newspaper Le Monde.

    Troll farms run by Wagner have often sought to stoke anti-French sentiment in the region, with its armed mercenaries providing security and training for local military juntas.

    Maps shared by the group would often feature African countries alongside the flags of their former colonial overlords, making clear that Russia or China were not involved in their oppression.

    BELOW THE LINE.

    Anna Bramwell.

    I dont understand the super powers claimed for a small bunch of mercenaries. How many troops do they actually have on the ground, and how do the troll factories operate in such a poor country? Has Wagner set up excellent internet connections and handed out smart phones to the entire population? I fear this our Grudge unit at work.

    A perceptive remark by Ms Bramwell. Most of what is being written about this affair in the MSM is disinformation and propaganda!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/05/niger-junta-wagner-group-mali-mohamed-bazoum-ecowas/

    1. The Wagner group seems to have the capability of being on the verge of invading a NATO country, sorting out Niger’s problems and fighting the Ukes simultaneously. Amazing really!

  32. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0ea53b69831948d55a818d8c8c29335b0c751ebdf1b1ee2ed5be06e05c78404b.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/wrongly-convicted-prisoners-no-longer-pay-jail-living-costs/

    BTL

    Why on earth were innocent people ever expected to pay for their board and lodgingin the first place?

    Maybe having lost this source of revenue the government should draw up bills for board and lodging for all those who are guilty of entering the country illegally and given full board in 4*hotels and pocket money?

    1. That’s completely different! The welfare shopping criminals are there to undermine the country and empower the state machine. The wrongly convicted are an annoyance that proves the incompetence of the state.

      When you see how many dangerous criminals are allowed out, how many have so many offences and are wandering about it’s blatantly obvious that justice in the UK is a joke designed to favour political correctness, Left wing wokery and farce.

    1. He also failed to deliver so people were out of pocket. When they complained he threatened them.

    2. I know someone who used to buy cheap Tescos carrots, cover them with mud then sell them as locally grown organic carrots, luckily they were found out and they stopped

    3. My son’s first work experience was in an organic shop, and one of his tasks was removing the labels from pots of flowers that the owner had bought at the supermarket.
      I’m only surprised that the Mail thinks this is headline news!

      The farm shop where I buy meat, fruit and veg labels everything with the name of the farm where it was produced.

  34. Trump’s assault on American justice gives inspiration to authoritarians everywhere. 6 August 2023.

    Last week’s outburst against his prosecutors is part of a long campaign that many fear is in danger of subverting democracy.

    Lol! I’ve stopped worrying about Democracy. It is finished. The Political Elites have killed it. The future is various forms of Authoritarianism. You can have either the Beijing or EU model. Not a great choice! This will mostly be a matter of luck.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/06/donald-trump-assault-american-justice-gives-inspiration-authoritarians-everywhere

    1. Oh, it’s from the guardian. Their hatred of democracy is well known. How does the Left wing mind function? The doublethink would drive a man insane.

  35. A Below the line from Keith Calder:

    3 hrs ago

    How did us baby boomers do so well?

    It wasn’t like this in the old days. Things were a lot easier; e.g. secure, reasonably paid, full time jobs; free university
    education; affordable housing …… etc ….

    Young people are getting the full benefits of neoliberalism.

    1) Sky high housing costs have created generation rent

    2) Student loans

    3) Low wages and precarious part time jobs

    4) A minimum wage specified at an hourly rate that won’t pay a living wage in a part time job

    5) It’s all about investors, so people with money can make more money, and young people haven’t got any.

    All the cards have been stacked against today’s young people.

    Neoliberalism was always designed to tilt the playing field in favour of the wealthy and against the poor. This also tilts the
    playing field against the vast majority of young people that don’t start off with any money and rely on earning money to get anywhere. Neoliberalism, a set of ideas that initially sounded good, but then you find what they mean in reality

    The elephant that Mr Calder doesn’t mention is immigration. When you massively increase the supply, you get higher costs for goods because demand soars and at the other end you get lower wages because supply massively increases. Labour’s malice, in deliberately forcing over 20% more useless mouths into the country to create a voting bloc was the greatest, most malicious act of national savagery ever.

    Far too many simply don’t understand the basic economic threat the Left present, squealing ‘bigot’ racist or other twaddle when the real issue is solely economic and has made us all poorer by about half in 25 miserable years.

    1. Too much state involvment in all things. I look back and see the state interfearing everywhere. Took us into the EU on lies.was the worst one. Then slowly made people wear crash helmets and seat belts when it should be the person that decides. its just endless since then.

      1. Those sort of safety measures I can understand but yes, it is merely a ‘this is good for you’ attitude that underpinned the enforced vaccinations.

          1. As long as it’s just you who suffer the consequences of your decison, I agree.

          2. Well of course if I do not wear a seat belt it does not affect you in any way. so many people like being told what todo.

      2. I have always found it incongruous that the nanny state has insisted on us wearing seatbelts and crash helmets while, at the same time, permits us to smoke tobacco.

        It has nothing to do with safety or health, it is all to do with taxes.

  36. ‘Morning All

    Sunday Medley

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    1. Matt’s has been happening with Range Rovers, Ferraris and other high end cars. Obviosly trickle down economics.

    2. There are pockets in a cycling suit for the storage of nutritious energy foods. That cyclist evidently keeps his sausage roll somewhere handy.

        2. Southern cyclists (like monkeys) nibble on bananas. Northern cyclists gnaw on sausage rolls.

          1. Not keen on nanas unless they are soaked in rum and set on fire. You can’t do that with a sausage roll !

          2. Why would you want to? ‘Banoffi pie’ is the single most disgusting dessert ever concocted. I don’t mind bananas and I quite like toffee … but they should be kept on separate continents!

    1. It is being assumed that the politician listened to the question before answering.

      In fact all he probably heard was “do we have enough” before his political instincts kicked in and framed the positive answer.

  39. WARNING: Australia is going “cash free”

    W/out warning all 4 major banks began limiting cash withdraws in various cities

    Making some branches “cash free”

    Gov took $1 billion worth of notes out of circulation

    People are unable to withdraw more than $500

    It’s happening

    3. We’re well ahead. To prevent a run on the banks during a manufactured crisis – such as incompetent, stupid politicians telling banks to over lend then seeing them collapse (Brown) Labour enforced a no more than £250 withdrawal amount.

      Try moving a significant sum around. It’s become ever harder, taking often days to complete when it should take seconds.

      1. I can withdraw £500 from my ATM. Other banks (now departed this parish) limited it to £300. If I want to put up with the third degree (what do you want it for, has anybody forced you to withdraw it, etc, etc) I can get up to £3k.

    4. A report on 30 March said this has quietly been introduced. It seems to apply to over-the-counter withdrawals with cash still available at branch ATMs, although daily limits hinder larger withdrawals. It’s said that larger sums can be withdrawn o-t-c but booking ahead is required. For most people this is of no consequence because cash transactions are rapidly shrinking in frequency with many preferring cashless payments, but many older people and those with disabilities will not welcome this change.

      https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/banking/major-australian-bank-quietly-stops-handling-cash-at-some-branches/news-story/1eda8600723b60c1567828eb8f72186d

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12269623/Banks-ANZ-NAB-no-longer-permit-large-cash-withdrawals-customers-told-book.html

  40. 375211+ up ticks,

    No place for honesty & integrity in the 2019 GE.
    this chap was always rhetorically warning against approaching dangers plus in book form “The road to freedom”.

    Currently via the polling station his like would NOT be tolerated
    due to fear of political damage to the lab/lib/con coalition party.
    https://gettr.com/post/p2nl7in120b

  41. Good morning dear Nottlers

    Cloudy but sunny breezy morning .

    I completed 2 loads of washing last night , duvet covers , pillow cases towels and clothing , and put everything on the rotary line at 07.30am .

    Everything was dry by 10.30 am … and another load is due to be pegged on the line . Blue sky, but huge thunder clouds on the horizon, and we can hear thunder somewhere , maybe B’mouth area .

    I like this Twitter comment .

    https://twitter.com/chilternbear11/status/1688062639790768129.

    1. Bloody ignorant savages – the lot of ’em.

      I think our call sign should be FM (Eff ’em). .._. __

  44. Nicked Comment

    “Ain’t THAT the truth”

    “Britain’s economy isn’t going to recover. It can’t. You can’t wage a war on fossil fuels and personal mobility and expect growth. You can’t demolish power stations and replace them with windmills then expect energy prices to stabilise.

    You can’t keep keep driving up costs and then borrow money to fund mitigation schemes and expect inflation to slow. You can’t keep importing tens of thousands of economically inactive illiterate migrants and expect to retain the kind of high trust law and order society that makes commerce possible.

    You can’t keep ramping up taxes and the cost of motoring and expect a consumer led recovery. You can’t transition to a mineral intensive energy system, making yourself entirely dependent on Chinese imports – and then put up a carbon border tax, and then expect to be able to build new energy infrastructure.

    You can’t pile on energy efficiency and eco-regulations on to landlords and homeowners and expect the housing market not to implode. Doing any of this was absolutely insane even before covid lockdowns and the war in Ukraine. Doing it now is absolutely suicidal.

    When you’re heaping all this on voters and you deny them a choice at the ballot box, don’t be surprised if the social contract evaporates. Don’t be surprised if Greek style corruption and tax evasion creeps in.

    But don’t whinge about it. It’s your fault. You keep voting for these deadbeat virtue signalling cretins. Vote the same, get the same. It’s all on you.”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f977aa2492e31b7f14de92ddd7eeb7fafec3a6f9730f257d447b067dc9787e7e.jpg

      1. See my ‘I am an MP’ response above. They couldn’t give a toss. Those who aren;t behind it can do nothing about it and risk their cushy after office jobs if they show that. Those who are in on the con are getting very rich.

      2. See my ‘I am an MP’ response above. They couldn’t give a toss. Those who aren;t behind it can do nothing about it and risk their cushy after office jobs if they show that. Those who are in on the con are getting very rich.

    2. Rik, where did this come from originally? I’m about to send it to Jonathan Lord but I’d like to know where you found it.

    5. As has so often been expressed and now completely exposed, our habitual and pathological lying political classes, have totally effed up millions of people’s lives.

    8. I am an MP. net zero will create tens of millions of green jobs (paid for from taxation) and new technologies (that don’t work and aren’t wanted) and anyone who says otherwise I will completely ignore because I’m getting rich off your taxes (because I’ve invested in the green lies you’re forced to pay for). Do you know what? There is NOTHING you can do about it.

    9. In short, you can’t have socialism without economic collapse, as has been proven many times.

  45. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a80b28e4dadb7b77c8ad22ba42d097d2290ef3998ddd6f14b479992b70a16d5d.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/82f481566dbba310783e99ad34975768cd77c39882df45346e6e69ccb55da34d.jpg
    Yesterday Billy asked, “What is a trackpad (on a laptop)?”

    Answer: it is the 21st century improvement on the ‘mouse’. You don’t have to grasp it (a boon for those with arthritis); you simply move your fingers across the surface or press down on it to ‘click’. It does far more things than a ‘mouse’ can and is much easier and more intuitive to use.

    Laptops have one installed a standard. With desktops they come as an optional (but desirable) extra. I wouldn’t be without mine.

      1. They even thought of that and yes you can. Bottom right on the pad equates to right click.

        Personally I hate the track pads and use a wireless mouse but the mouse doesn’t allow stretch and shrink images.

        1. My large wireless trackpad is 6¼” x 4½” [160mm x 114mm] and is a delight to use. My fingers skate, effortlessly, over the surface and it can perform many more tasks than the ancient ‘rat’ was ever capable of.

        2. I do the finger stretch and shrink on my phone but much prefer a mouse with the laptop. Also a proper keyboard and monitor. I plug everything into the laptop as if it were a pc. Some laptops have touch screens of course.

          1. As I explained to you, above, I certainly can. A double click on a trackpad is precisely the same as a ‘right’ click on a rat.

          2. Mine, you press the right-hand lower corner – but it depends on how you configure them, I believe.
            till better than a maus.

        4. Hold down the Ctrl key on the keypad and scroll e muse – it zooms in and out

        3. I’ve essential tremor, and I use a heavily weighted mouse with a scroll wheel that’s a clicky rather than free scrolling one. Without it I couldn’t click the buttons needed these days.

          Although, a lot of that is down to appalling accessibility controls.

    3. I get arthritis, which can make a mouse uncomfortable to use.
      Unfortunately, my fingertips don’t work well on touchpads and particularly mobile phones, so a mouse, for all its faults, is far and away the best option.

      1. My PC has a touch screen as well as the trackpad, so I can use fingers on the screen as well as a stylus, or a bluetooth mouse.

        1. It’s the fingers that are the problem.
          For some reason my fingertips don’t work well on touch screens.
          Probably because the tips were removed when I joined the (I’m not allowed to say) service, many, many years ago.

      2. Have you tried using a vertical mouse, Sos?

        https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-22885-Vertical-Ergonomic-Mouse/dp/B07FLZ3XSK/ref=asc_df_B07FLZ3XSK/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=418882063345&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14218196219626059951&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046130&hvtargid=pla-637216536893&psc=1&th=1&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=100579743531&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=418882063345&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14218196219626059951&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046130&hvtargid=pla-637216536893

        1. No, but thank you for the link.
          When current mouse gets caught by a cat, I’ll look into that alternative!

  46. Afternoon all,

    MOH’s Subaru hasn’t been driven very far lately so I tested the 12 volt battery with an Ancel B101 battery tester:

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    Well it checks out as being 100% healthy but it shows up as only 6% charged.
    So how did it know what the State Of Charge was? – I would normally use a graduated hydrometer after removing one of the cell caps but this was a sealed lead acid battery.

    I thought I’d ask BingAI Chat to print out a table of % charge vs voltage for a lead acid battery and heres’s the first screen I got

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/642d9444387785bf2af4b6fa7a77224ff65495cb978c5e7bde59151961925d86.jpg

    I realised that the initial response had been made from an internet search but because I hadn’t specified if the battery was being charged or not it came up with data for a batter on charge.

    However, I found that by clicking on the Bing icon at top right of screen my query was specifically addressed by a column on the right which when scrolled down gave me the answer I was looking for:

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    1. If you read the table you will see that if a 12 volt lead acid battery reads 12.04 volts then the state of charge will be between 0% and 25% meaning that Ancel readout of 6% SOC is confimed by an Artificial Intelligence second opinion as quite believable.

    2. The battery waa put on charge in the vehicle using a 4 amp Ring charger all morning until full and the new Anceln

  47. Afternoon all,

    MOH’s Subaru hasn’t been driven very far lately so I tested the 12 volt battery with an Ancel B101 battery tester:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d0359afcaf1086024f2929a8a71993061e22e5ae59f1082a350698197dd592d.jpg

    Well it checks out as being 100% healthy but it shows up as only 6% charged.
    So how did it know what the State Of Charge was? – I would normally use a graduated hydrometer after removing one of the cell caps but this was a sealed lead acid battery.

    I thought I’d ask BingAI Chat to print out a table of % charge vs voltage for a lead acid battery and heres’s the first screen I got

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/642d9444387785bf2af4b6fa7a77224ff65495cb978c5e7bde59151961925d86.jpg

    I realised that the initial response had been made from an internet search but because I hadn’t specified if the battery was being charged or not it came up with data for a batter on charge.

    However, I found that by clicking on the Bing icon at top right of screen my query was specifically addressed by a column on the right which when scrolled down gave me the answer I was looking for:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/63c57ccd4a1d5e8c7c2a221c74e22ab2f05228fc11523bb5e07612ab39a95915.jpg

    1. So basically there’s a Northward ocean flow of warm water from the equator running AMOC through the Gulf Stream which won’t actually affect it much but if it carries on like it’s doing it’s going to melt all the ice at the North Pole and drown all those poor polar bears floating on icebergs.

      Thankfully European wine exports to the New World won’t be affected.

      P.S. Global Warming?
      Computer models aren’t good enough to predict what will happen to our planet but if you become a BRILLIANT subscriber you might learn enough maths to work it out.

      1. I’ve watched a few of Sabine’s excellent scientific presentations on many topics. She is quirky and lots of fun as well as being very intelligent and informative.

    3. Wow that’s a better explanation than I’ve hitherto ever had – thanks for posting

    1. Pretty sure many of the work from home brigade don’t do a five day week, though there will be exceptional people who work longer hours at home.

    1. That’s conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and can result (and has – Chris Huhne and his wife Vicky Price) in a prison sentence.

  52. Captain John Niel Randle, VC (22nd December 1917 – 6th May 1944), ‘B’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

    The citation from the London Gazette reads:

    On the 4th May, 1944, at Kohima in Assam, a Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment attacked the Japanese positions on a nearby ridge. Captain Randle took over command of the Company which was leading the attack when the Company Commander was severely wounded. His handling of a difficult situation in the face of heavy fire was masterly and although wounded himself in the knee by grenade splinters he continued to inspire his men by his initiative, courage and outstanding leadership until the Company had captured its objective and consolidated its position. He then went forward and brought in all the wounded men who were lying outside the perimeter. In spite of his painful wound Captain Randle refused to be evacuated and insisted on carrying out a personal reconnaissance with great daring in bright moonlight prior to a further attack by his Company on the position to which the enemy had withdrawn. At dawn on 6th May the attack opened, led by Captain Randle, and one of the platoons succeeded in reaching the crest of the hill held by the Japanese. Another platoon, however, ran into heavy medium machine gun fire from a bunker on the reverse slope of the feature. Captain Randle immediately appreciated that this particular bunker covered not only the rear of his new position but also the line of communication of the battalion and therefore the destruction of the enemy post was imperative if the operation was to succeed. With utter disregard of the obvious danger to himself Captain Randle charged the Japanese machine gun post single-handed with rifle and bayonet. Although bleeding in the face and mortally wounded by numerous bursts of machine gun fire he reached the bunker and silenced the gun with a grenade thrown through the bunker slit. He then flung his body across the slit so that the aperture should be completely sealed. The bravery shown by this officer could not have been surpassed and by his self-sacrifice he saved the lives of many of his men and enabled not only his own Company but the whole Battalion to gain its objective and win a decisive victory over the enemy.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/John_Neil_Randle_VC.jpg/220px-John_Neil_Randle_VC.jpg

    1. ‘When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,

      For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’

  53. The fact remains, if Sunak returned the blue part of the Uni-party to true Conservatism they would enjoy a landslide the like of which has rarely been seen. The first step would be to draw the nasty Marxist fangs of the ‘B’BC by making it a subscription only service, and then actually leave the EU rather than the Brexit in name only we currently have to endure.
    It is just unfortunate that this will never happen whilst the party is contaminated with LibDems and Greens parachuted in by the Central Office.
    Meanwhile I will continue to be disenfranchised.

  54. For those of a mathematical bent, I asked ChatGPT the following:
    What is the mathematical equation that relates atmospheric carbon dioxide level to global warming?
    and it answered:
    The relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and global warming is described by the greenhouse effect. The primary mathematical equation used to represent this relationship is the logarithmic radiative forcing equation. It quantifies the increase in Earth’s average temperature due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration, also known as the climate sensitivity to CO2.

    The equation can be written as follows:

    ΔT = λ * ln(CO2/CO2₀)

    Where:
    ΔT = Change in global temperature (in degrees Celsius)
    λ = Climate sensitivity to CO2 (in degrees Celsius per doubling of CO2 concentration)
    CO2 = Current atmospheric CO2 concentration (measured in parts per million, ppm)
    CO2₀ = Pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 concentration (typically around 280 ppm)

    The climate sensitivity parameter (λ) represents the amount of warming caused by a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration. It is estimated by climate models and observational data. Different climate models and studies have produced a range of values for λ, but the most widely accepted value is around 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius per doubling of CO2.

    The logarithmic relationship in the equation indicates that the impact of additional CO2 on global warming diminishes as CO2 concentration increases. In other words, each doubling of CO2 concentration leads to less warming than the previous doubling. This relationship is a fundamental aspect of the greenhouse effect, which is critical for understanding the link between atmospheric CO2 levels and global warming

    1. WTF is “CO2₀”?

      The algorithm can’t print the correct chemical abbreviation for Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), but it can print an erroneous one ‘CO2’ with a subscript ₀!
      If it can print a subscript ₀ why can’t it print a subscript ₂ ? “CO2₀” is utter nonsense whichever way you look at it.

      1. CO2 sub 0 is the level of CO2 at a selected date from which you want to calculate the temperature increase due to the CO2 increase. So, a baseline level.
        Had quite a long chat with ChatGPT. In the end, as I asked it why the high CO2 in the carboniferous period didn’t cause the same problem, it basically said “things were different then”. So that’s OK, then. Physics was different. Hmm…

        Sorry, don’t recall how to markup for subscripts.

        1. No apologies needed, Paul. I wasn’t complaining about you, just what appeared to be an alogorithmic print out.

        2. …and then I heard this strange sound that went above my head, I’m sure it said , “Woosh”.

      2. CO2 sub 0 is the level of CO2 at a selected date from which you want to calculate the temperature increase due to the CO2 increase. So, a baseline level.
        Had quite a long chat with ChatGPT. In the end, as I asked it why the high CO2 in the carboniferous period didn’t cause the same problem, it basically said “things were different then”. So that’s OK, then. Physics was different. Hmm…

        Sorry, don’t recall how to markup for subscripts.

      3. CO2 sub 0 is the level of CO2 at a selected date from which you want to calculate the temperature increase due to the CO2 increase. So, a baseline level.
        Had quite a long chat with ChatGPT. In the end, as I asked it why the high CO2 in the carboniferous period didn’t cause the same problem, it basically said “things were different then”. So that’s OK, then. Physics was different. Hmm…

        Sorry, don’t recall how to markup for subscripts.

    2. WTF is “CO2₀”?

      The algorithm can’t print the correct chemical abbreviation for Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), but it can print an erroneous one ‘CO2’ with a subscript ₀!
      If it can print a subscript ₀ why can’t it print a subscript ₂ ? “CO2₀” is utter nonsense whichever way you look at it.

    3. Does the climate sensitivity to CO2 factor equate to fiddle factor?

      About the only hard fact is surely current CO2, everything else is an estimate or best biased guess. The formula would also appear to imply that pre industrial CO2 was level.

    4. A previous post today suggested that that an Atlantic AMOC current collapse would result in melting of the Arctic ice cap.

      I asked BingAI:

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/430a78bd0261bae634987fc87ab0e64451b7fe7bd8b3131dccabbe7eb055c672.jpg

      and it came up with something that could happen much faster than global warming resulting in Europe becoming very cold:

      https://phys.org/news/2023-07-atlantic-circulation-collapse-greater-climate.html

      If the Amoc collapses we can expect larger extremes of heat, cold, drought and flooding, a range of “surprises” to exacerbate the current climate emergency. The potential climate impacts—on Europe in particular—should add urgency to our decision-making.

  56. How Nigel Farage helped expose the state of Britain’s unchecked banks. 6 August 2023.

    In a testy exchange over banks’ soaring profits last Tuesday, a senior director at the City watchdog floundered after a series of elementary questions.

    Sheldon Mills, head of consumers and competition at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), refused six times to say how much the watchdog could fine lenders over inadequate savings rates.

    “I can’t go into the range of fines,” Mills told BBC Radio 4.

    All of these watchdogs, committees etc, are simply sinecures for the Elites. It gives them a position (often times a peerage of some description goes with it) and a boost for their pension.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/06/city-banks-fca-coutts-nigel-farage-debanking-savings-rates/

    1. Sheldon Mills is the sleeper Stonewall agent responsible for pushing the DIE woke nonsense at the FCA. Bet Al Beeb didn’t bother mentioning that!

  57. Well we had a day of sunshine and showers at Gatcombe today but in between downpours we managed to get everything packed up and back in cars/campervan and under cover. The showground was a sea of mud but there were helpful, nice young men with big tractors ready and willing to pull us out of the mud! That was a new experience and Annie was there ready to record the scene on her phone…….

    1. We also had some generous donations which went some way to make up for the missed day at the show. Thankyou Rik and Tom!

      1. What’s “sunny & hot”? We’re promised over 3″ rain tomorrow… 🙁

  58. An excruciating double Bogey Six.

    Wordle 778 6/6
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    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
    🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. Par four, as guess three was lucky. Odd word.

      Wordle 778 4/6

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      🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. 375211+ up ticks,

        Evening WS,

        Could very well be but, if so it is very small change
        ( sticks & stones) to what has been / is being , in reality, dispensed by the
        ” government”

      1. 375211+ up ticks,

        Evening W,
        Did people really do that?

        By the same token,
        Young & old alike died via allegedly an untested vaccine, the same could be asked of those who ordered its use.

        Resulting in far more dire consequences.

  60. https://twitter.com/NemesisDivina5/status/1688174717289586688

    We have come back from a very pleasant Sunday drive to Abbotsbury.

    Drove there via Hardy’s Monument , along so pleasant narrow roads , the views of the crystal blue sea and coastline below , and the Fleet , stretch of water within Chesil beach where Barnes Wallis used the area for Bouncing Bomb practise

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chesil+Beach/@50.6284393,-2.7564129,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x4872f51460aeec7b:0x9684efd6ca88f181!8m2!3d50.6266703!4d-2.5605472!16zL20vMDFueDUz?entry=ttu.

    The roads were very busy , probably because the Abbotsbury road is on the tourist trail.. and the Swannery and Sub tropical gardens are a tourist magnet , as are the clear stunning coastal views all the way to Devon .

    We didn’t go any further, took more pics , had a walk and came on home to feed the dogs , we were gone about 3 hours .

    People have money to spend .. no lies, but the roads are seething with visitors , the fields full of camper vans and tents , and all the tourist spots are bustling with people .

    Who earth has been talking down our economy?

    The more our cities fill up with unproductive asylum seekers and benefits claimers and ghettos of non indigenous Muslim arrivals , that is what is a strain on the the tax payer.

    We observed many Chinese (Hong Kong fleers)and lots of Indians . all driving top of the range cars and quite happy well dressed people , also lots of Germans , Italians and Yugoslavians , and on the way back to the Purbecks , many more Asians in their amazing cars streaming out of Lulworth and Durdle door .

    What is going on and is the country really broke ?

      1. Hello Ped , wow , that is so interesting , the whole coastline is awash with fossils .

        Do you have a nice collection of fossils? I have a few , but haven’t a clue apart from ammonites .
        Re the bouncing bomb fragment, that was a lucky find .

          1. Ped

            Can you identify mine please .

            I didn’t acquire them from the beach.. just rocky fields and ox droves around this Purbeck area.

          2. The top and bottom ones look like corals. The middle one looks like a stone age axe. Got to go now, the pub is calling.

        1. Washing machine salesman named Jim (but not a Muslim, which is implied in the twitter post).

      2. Some Catholic.
        ‘In March 1989, Vaz, a Roman Catholic, led a march of several thousand Muslims in Leicester calling for Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses to be banned,[19] describing the march as “one of the great days in the history of Islam and Great Britain”.[20] According to Rushdie’s autobiography Joseph Anton, Vaz had a few weeks earlier promised his “full support” to Rushdie, describing the fatwa against him as “absolutely appalling”.’

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Vaz

    1. We can look for updates from Tom (SirJasper) on how well these por visitors integrate into the local society.

    3. Send them all to Scotland. After all, the SNP (which Scots voted for) want to be part of the EU, so are buddies with France.

    2. Yet we have now got a luxury accommodation barge berthed in Portland Harbour which will be receiving the first tranche of Asylum illegal immigrants .

    3. Yet we have now got a luxury accommodation barge berthed in Portland Harbour which will be receiving the first tranche of Asylum illegal immigrants .

  65. I see today’s BBC Prom ‘on the road’ was staged in Dewsbury Town Hall. That was brave. Thankfully, it didn’t include a version of ‘Scarborough Fair’…

    (That’ll cause some scratching of heads on here!)

    1. I am so perplexed, my scalp has lesions. I know that Bridge Over Troubled Water became ubiquitous in 1970 but are Simon & Garfunkel despised to this day?

      1. The Scarborough Hotel in Savile Town, Dewsbury, was the focus of a race riot in June 1989. The area had a very high population of Pakistani Muslims. There had been friction in the area for some time and white people were leaving – only the the poorest remained in an already poor area. The Satanic Verses affair was still, quite literally, a burning issue. The BNP was very active and held a rally in the area. In the rioting that followed, the pub was burnt out.

      1. Looks very much like him….. fortunately he gets what he’s given for now. He’s busy chewing an antler from the pet shop.

  69. Evening, all. Actually delivering some conservative policies might bring Sunak electoral success, but I can’t see him doing that. It’ll be all talk and no action as usual.

      1. The people have voted for it? How very dare they? They’ll get what’s given them and like it! 🙂

  70. https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

    It’s quite a long essay discussing the inevitable consequence of systems failure when diversity is pushed above competence. A sort of ‘what if Atlas were forced to give the burden to a short, weak black woman’. The Warqueen used to get lectured on such quotaing but found those people incompetent and being sacked. She was blamed for their failures.

    When expertise and skill – merit – are not the drivers of civlisation then we get carnage. Quality falls to nothing. Look at who makes and builds everything. It’s not the blacks. It’s not muslims. Lowering standards so they can catch up is a recipe for disaster because it dumbs everything down. Look at how appalling the Commons and Lords are now. Nepotism, corruption, fraud, theft – Sunak being a prime example, Farage being the victim of this attitude.

    Lower down we’re told that the population is now 25% ethnic. More in cities. Then look at the horrors of those areas.

    1. ITV had a feature during the racing on getting young people into the sport. Apart from one white girl (who was foreign, from her accent) ALL of them were black and some of them were muslims judging by the headscarf. Enoch was right.

    1. Do the same as a Christian there, and your head would be removed from its shoulders.

    3. I wouldn’t decorate my street with Christmas decorations. I can barely be bothered with it at home. If this is a Christian country, it’s up to Christians to make it so.

      1. Shower is not an adequate word for describing commonplace weather. In today’s world showers are torrents or deluges. If you experience a misty drizzle or a handful of raindrops, rest assured you will be told that your experience is unprecedented, akin to that which befell Noah and his family. Should you feel a gentle zephyr on your face, it will be reported you are a lucky survivor of a catastrophic hurricane, one which will very soon become a daily occurrence unless we adopt the lifestyle of our ancient stone age ancestors.

    2. But the Brit tradition is to have a celebration after the baby’s born. Why do women all follow the Septics’ system now of having a ‘shower’?

    4. Lass in pink dress is elegant. Not convinced by the two with the massive white trainers, though. Looks clunky.

    2. I absolutely understand Farage’s concerns but he asks that governments act very quickly to halt the cashless society when it’s almost certain they welcome it. Governments will not be allies in his campaign.

  75. Right, I’m off to bed.
    Did a bit of strimming of the verge by the road this morning and will probably start digging out the surplus soil to backfill behind the wall tomorrow.

    1. All I did was move and stack some logs from the tree that fell down while I was away (and which was chopped up by a friend with a chainsaw).

  77. Just reflecting on charging the Subaru 12 volt battery today i was impressed after trying my first use of AI by using Bing AI to create a table of state charge versus battery voltage to verify the data presented on my battery tester.

    I’m a Google fan myself but I reckon that Google’s AI extensions involving ChatGPT are better suited to my desktop rather this tablet I’m using.

    As I’ve already explained in previous comment posts interrogating AI Chat applications requires a careful formulation of a textual request in the form of a prompt as illustrated earlier today.

    I’ve only just scratched the surface in using Bing AI that has some advantages in respect of having the whole internet at its disposal in framing a solution to your request for information.

    I found this video useful in composing prompt inputs for Bing AI that I can in future for a variety of purposes:

    https://youtu.be/qxiDA6as_RM

    Edit:
    P.S. I have already been using the latest Bing upgrades described here which are compared with using ChatGPT4 directly:

    https://youtu.be/HB0bfstxU5c

  79. Good night, chums. I hope you all sleep well (especially you, Ann [Lotl], you are in my thoughts) and awaken refreshed tomorrow.

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