Thursday 15 July: On transport who will enforce masks, which are already in a minority?

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736 thoughts on “Thursday 15 July: On transport who will enforce masks, which are already in a minority?”

  1. Britain is sleepwalking into a state of perpetual Covid tyranny. 15 July 2021.

    While the US fights for freedom, we hear barely a peep as our country is turned into a land of ID cards and endless mask mandate.

    Morning everyone. Freedom has been extinguished in the UK. It is now a disguised totalitarian Marxist State. This concealment will not be for long! Its demands will become ever more extreme. Its rule ever more oppressive. Tyranny know no limits!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/britain-sleepwalking-state-perpetual-covid-tyranny/

      1. Norman Hunter……… a lot for wendyball

        Norman Wisdom………… made ThePpeople happy (Boros only likes his VIPs happy

    3. Morning, Araminta.

      I was going to post this as an OP but I think it sits well as a reply to you.

      This is a first glimmer that maybe, just maybe people are starting to wake up. This is the initial reaction to the Johnson Cabal’s threat of covid passports: more people must learn and understand that the threat of restrictions on freedom will only escalate if they sit idly by. All those people who accepted the jab as a “pass” to travel freedom etc must now see that it was no such thing: it was a trap to allow the Johnson Cabal to extend their power grab.

      When the “boosters” are offered the jabbed must decline en masse, this will throw the Cabal into a flat spin. How will the Cabal deal with many more millions of the non-jabbed? Not all protests require marching or the threat of violence: non-compliance with unfair, unjust and divisive laws is a powerful method.

      https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1415353354348290054

      1. The figure that shocks me is that two thirds of people ever installed it!

        Government: we want to track you and trace who you’re having contact with, but it’s for the benefit of society
        Two thirds of the population: Ok!

        1. Two thirds of those with smart phones?

          Even that figure is a surprise although the initial fear generated by this morally bankrupt Tory government had a huge impact on many people.

      2. The figure that shocks me is that two thirds of people ever installed it!

        Government: we want to track you and trace who you’re having contact with, but it’s for the benefit of society
        Two thirds of the population: Ok!

  2. good morning all, here we go: “Jeremy Dearling will soon be out of his online job with 77 Bde:

    SIR – Travelling on the London Underground early last Saturday, heading for Lord’s, I noted that, of the nine others in my carriage, five were not wearing any form of face covering.

    I do not know when the Mayor of London last travelled on the Underground, but there is precious little point in his getting Transport for London to keep face coverings as a condition of travel after lockdown, unless he is prepared to enforce it. Such enforcement will waste more time and money that TfL can ill afford.

    If wearing masks gives some people reassurance in using public transport, that is fine, but no reason for it to be mandatory. Vaccination, not masks, is the key to the return to normality.

    Norman Macfarlane
    Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

    SIR – When so-called Freedom Day comes, it will be the councils in different areas that will decide how services can run, whatever Boris Johnson says.

    I am hoping to see my brother and sister-in-law in Essex later this month. However, I am not building my hopes up, after last Christmas.

    Greg Chapman
    Sheffield

    SIR – What was the point in getting vaccinated?

    Jeremy Dearling
    King’s Lynn, Norfolk

    SIR – I sympathise with Katherine Shone (Letters, July 14), who has no smart phone and fears she will not be admitted to venues without a Covid passport.

    I too am double jabbed, and do have a smart phone, but I cannot get a Covid passport because I am Welsh.

    David de Lloyd
    Cardiff

    SIR – Like the poor Hardys, turned away from their flight to Malta (report, July 14), my husband and I both received the “Indian AZ” vaccine as our first doses back in March. A straw poll among our friends scattered around Britain found many of them in the same boat.

    We (apparently there are up to five million of us) need urgent clarification as to exactly how and when these vaccine batches will be accepted in Europe and the United States. If they are not, then how do we go about quickly receiving a third dose instead?

    Helen Layzell
    Hockley Heath, Warwickshire

    SIR – I read with sympathy about the British citizens denied a flight to Malta because their Indian-manufactured vaccine was not recognised.

    But imagine what it is like for us, British citizens living abroad, who have been vaccinated with vaccines not only approved by Britain but also in many cases manufactured there. Yet our vaccination is not recognised for travel to Britain. Our children have not seen their British family for more than two years.

    Professor Eleanor Spaventa
    School of Law, Bocconi University
    Milan, Italy

    Pride and prejudice

    SIR – Apparently prejudice is acceptable as long as it is the “right” sort.

    Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust – whose report claims that England is “systemically racist” (report, July 14) – seems comfortable calling the Prime Minister an “entitled Bullingdon Club brat”, which is a negative, subjective opinion on his social origins and background.

    What hope, then, for the rest of us?

    David Pearson
    Haworth, West Yorkshire

    Afghan intervention

    sir – In 2010 I wrote to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, asking why Britain was intervening militarily in Afghanistan. A reply from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “We judge that if the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, this would once again provide al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups with a permissive environment from which to operate.”

    That “permissive environment” seems poised to return. Hopefully the architects of this failed policy will learn some valuable lessons.

    Ivor Morgan
    Lincoln

    The robot wars

    SIR – Commander Vernon Phillips (Letters, July 13) asks whether robots might be programmed to tick the “I am not a robot” box.

    The process is not to do with ticking boxes but with time for the website to check your history and cookies, and ensure that it is dealing with a personal computer, not a bot.

    Steve Cattell
    Hougham, Lincolnshire

    Caged car wings

    SIR – One reason DeLorean failed was that you could not even open its cars’ gull-wing doors in a standard-sized Californian garage (Letters, July 14).

    Neale Edwards
    Chaffcombe, Somerset

    Rock-bottom banking

    SIR – My bank sent a letter telling me of plans to offer “an even better banking experience”. Since my last experience was being told that interest rates had been “revised” down to 0.01 per cent, while I would be charged 20.93 per cent to borrow, this should not be hard.

    D L Shears
    Botley, Hampshire

    Mobs running riot

    SIR – The scenes we have witnessed outside Wembley Stadium and in city centres across the country, with the police seemingly overwhelmed, are horrifying.

    No attempt was made to save West End theatres from mob rule – as seen in the photos of drunken crowds smashing the beautiful glass canopy of Wyndham’s Theatre and throwing beer at queues of people waiting to go into socially-distanced performances.

    The Government has a duty to protect city centres, never more so than at present when their recovery is in intense jeopardy. It is a fact that theatres are the beating heart of first-class cities, as has been recognised by the United States, Australia and Japan; indeed Britain is the only major country in the world where commercial theatre has been virtually ignored.

    For more than a year, we in the commercial sector have demonstrated every possible measure to the Government to keep our audiences safe. We have subsidised government pilots that proved our point. By allowing mass crowds to gather over the past few weeks, the Government has spoken volumes about its priorities.

    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Cameron Mackintosh
    Sonia Friedman
    Nica Burns
    Michael Harrison
    London WC2

    Cell, street, repeat

    SIR – The report “Drug addict offenders ‘should not be put in prison’ ” (July 9) highlights Dame Carol Black’s government review recommendations that
    all prisoners on release should have ID, a bank account and the ability to claim benefits.

    At Nacro, a national charity and one of the country’s biggest providers of services for people leaving prison, we know that, if they left with these things in place, people would be set up to be able to re-engage with society.

    However, what was not mentioned was the importance of leaving prison with somewhere to live. About 1,000 people are released from prison every month with nowhere to go. This makes maintaining or starting drug rehabilitation virtually impossible.

    Homelessness is also a barrier to getting a job, building positive relationships and integrating into the community. Two thirds of people released from prison re-offend within a year. We call this process “cell, street, repeat”.

    Giving all people leaving prison a guaranteed place to stay when they are released is the first step to giving them a second chance. Otherwise you are simply setting them up to fail.

    Campbell Robb
    Chief executive, Nacro
    London EC2

    Pension lock-picking

    SIR – I read with disappointment the suggestion that the state pension triple lock might be abandoned or deferred.

    Britain has one of the lowest state pensions in the OECD, equating to 29 per cent of average earnings, against an OECD average of 63 per cent of average earnings.

    With 1.9 million pensioners over 75 below the poverty line, maintaining the triple lock seems to be an ideal mechanism for getting back up the OECD league table by (say) 2030.

    Keith Appleyard
    West Wickham, Kent

    Show them the money

    SIR – Just how do the police “seize” virtual cryptocurrency (report, July 14)?

    William T Nuttall
    Rossendale, Lancashire

    Drones are revolutionising modern warships

    SIR – I am surprised your article (July 12) on the new Type 26 frigates only made a passing reference to the possible inclusion of drones in the weapons systems.

    Their addition to warships will make the biggest advance to warship weapons systems since the cannon.

    They give a fighting range of hundreds of miles and cover an area of thousands of square miles for surveillance, all without putting the ship or its crew at risk. Drones should be an essential part of any modern warship’s armament.

    Peter Wells
    East Haddon, Northamptonshire

    It’s the existing C of E parishes that need help

    SIR – As a long-serving churchwarden, who occasionally leads services, I have the utmost sympathy with the views expressed by the Rev Simon Douglas Lane (Letters, July 10).

    The Church of England’s plan for 10,000 new lay-led churches is ridiculous. In the face of the financial emergency confronting many parishes, and a shortage of trained clergy, a sustained effort by the Church is needed to encourage and finance lay involvement in existing parishes – whose church buildings will remain a Church responsibility, no matter how many “new churches” are set up.

    Jolyon Grey
    Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    SIR – The see of Portsmouth is vacant, and in the neighbouring diocese of Winchester the position of the present bishop appears to be under threat.

    This presents the Church of England with an excellent opportunity to reduce the number of bishops by at least one, together with a raft of diocesan officials, thereby freeing up scarce resources for parish ministry.

    Portsmouth diocese was carved out of Winchester less than 100 years ago when there were far more parish priests than there are now.

    Reuniting the two dioceses would be a small step towards reducing the burden placed on parish ministry by the financial demands of those at the top of the Church’s hierarchy.

    Edward Giles
    Ryde, Isle of Wight

    SIR – I am one of those “annoying old parishioners” whom Allison Person wrote about in her excellent article (Features, July 14), but I doubt that I am alone in despairing at the impact of the rambling intercessional prayers that often oust the beautiful, albeit somewhat archaic, language of the Book of Common Prayer.

    The latter’s prayer “for the whole state of Christ’s church militant here in earth” succinctly sums up everything that those long-winded supplications strive to do.

    Andrew Blake
    Marlborough, Wiltshire

    1. Poor Norman Macfarlane, he has really fallen for the nonsense hook, line and sinker; “Vaccination..is the key to the return to normality”

      No Mr Macfarlane; the return to normality is achieved by stopping all mask-wearing, vaccination, lockdowns and other fake measures, and stopping reporting fiction about variants, waves, rise in infections etc. Stopping all talk of “climate emergencies”, “carbon footprints” “sustainable development” and other meaningless concepts and fantasies will also be necessary.

    2. What is wrong with Eleanor Spaventa? Travel to the UK is not forbidden. I know people who have spent the lockdown travelling multiple times between Britain and the Continent. You just have to take tests and quarantine.
      What is wrong with people?

      1. the usual trouble of writing from the Islington Wine Cellar and trying to imagine what it’s like to be / live abroad

      2. She is correct. The entire system is a mess. It depends on your status and circumstances. I know from personal experience having been ‘trapped’ here for nearly a year. I mostly resent the enforced ‘imprisonment’ in government nominated hotels at exorbitant cost and the endless form filling, jabbing and nose probing that MPs seem to be exempt from.

        1. Italy isn’t a red list country though – all they need to do is take tests and quarantine at home to visit the UK. UK tests are done in the privacy of one’s own home, rather than having someone else jabbing one’s nose.
          In Germany, the PCR test for travelling is only swabbed from the throat, not the nose.
          She is completely wrong, she could have visited at any point in the last year if she and her family have Italian passports!

    3. A decade has passed, Mr Morgan, and “al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups” now have a safe and “permissive environment from which to operate” that is far from Afghanistan. It is called the United Kingdom.

  3. Food strategy calls for £3bn sugar and salt tax to improve UK’s diet. 15 July 2021.

    Ministers are being urged to levy a £3bn sugar and salt tax as part of a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to break Britain’s addiction to junk food, cut meat consumption by nearly a third and help tackle climate change.

    The government-commissioned National Food Strategy, drawn up by the restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, says the UK population’s “malfunctioning” appetites and poor diets – fuelled by consumer and manufacturer’s reliance on processed food – place an unsustainable burden on the NHS and contribute to 64,000 deaths each year.

    Ahhhh! The Command Economy in all its hideous glory! The sure and certain sign of the Marxist State! It knows what is best for you. What you should eat. What you should wear. But best of all what you should think!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/15/food-strategy-calls-for-3bn-sugar-and-salt-tax-to-improve-uks-diet

      1. mng, agree, it’s “annual jabs, living on cabbage soup but with a smart phone for QR Code”. On the bright side, Diane Abbott’ll be the size of a cotton bud in a month

      1. Norway has had sugar tax for over 20 years, so it’s not the first time this has happened.
        Recently increased for sugar fizzy drinks, to encourage drinking of sugar-free fizz by it being cheaper.
        But – surprise – the supermarkets just added the cost of the tax to all fizzy drink. Result: Higher profits on the chemical brews.
        Nobody saw that coming .

  7. Boris has managed to position himself just a tad to the right of all the far Left mayors and devolved governments in the run up to freedom day, a cunning trick and the left keep falling for it.
    They get the blame for all the mad hysteria while he gets to look like he is against all the totalitarian authoritarianism.
    The Left play their part well and keep falling for it, or just maybe they are all in it together.
    Instead of scrutinising the government and the globalist great reset the Left want more extreme measures and it done faster.
    While those that consider themselves towards the centre right think that it is all happening against Boris’s better judgement.
    Boris ins’t the bumbler that everyone takes him for, fooling the public and not getting caught out is the art of politics.

    1. Correct. Boris learned his craft in the devious corridors of the Oxford Union – an institution shunned by Cameron, who thought he was above it – and his inexperience showed when he was Prime Minister (a job for which he was never qualified).
      Boris’s campaign to be elected leader of the Cons was faultless – he probably knew which way every MPs’ vote was going, and allocated enough of his own votes to weaker candidates to ensure that a candidate that might beat him was eliminated early on, leaving him facing the easily beaten Jeremy Hunt in the final vote. That wasn’t an accident!

  8. TRAVEL INDUSTRY FURY AS LATEST ‘TRAFFIC LIGHT’ CHANGES PUT BALEARICS BACK ON AMBER. 15 JULY 2021.

    Travel industry figures have reacted with fury after Spain’s Balearic Islands were downgraded to the UK’s “amber list”.

    Just two weeks after Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca gained quarantine-free status for returning holidaymakers, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has moved the islands back to amber.

    Tim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK – representing British-registered carriers, said: “Today’s announcement reinforces the belief that the current government framework for international travel is not working as it was designed to.

    Lol! Haven’t these dummies yet figured out that this is deliberate? That the intention is to create doubt? To encourage fear? To discourage Foreign Travel? That the UK economy is being deliberately crushed?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/red-amber-green-travel-industry-b1884083.html

    2. Morning Minty. It occurred to me a while back that the PTB have worked out that with the news of the Delta Variant (nasty DV) foreign tourism to Britain will be through the floor, so if Britons can be encouraged to ‘holiday’ at home the Exchequer will be that much better off.

    3. That’s why we made no plans to go anywhere. Situation and restrictions change more often than my underwear, too uncertain.
      Then you have to come home – another challenge!

    3. If it is the Virgin balloon look up and shout “Nobby”
      That was the pilot’s name when I flew across the city, lovely experience.

      1. I’ve tried three times (in two different continents) to have a balloon flight and no luck. Maybe I’ll manage it next year.

        1. It was a birthday present. We had to ring 24 hours before the scheduled take off time to check if the weather was within parameters for flying. We eventually flew after waiting over 12 months for the conditions to be right, although part of that time was the winter which I expected to be unsuitable.
          Because we had a flight over nearby Bath, only 15 miles from home, it was no big deal to wait. It was well worth it.

          1. It was lack of suitable weather conditions which stopped me flying. I ran out of time and had to fly (by airliner) back home 🙂

          2. Yes, I can understand that, the parameters are quite narrow to allow flights.

    4. If it is the Virgin balloon look up and shout “Nobby”
      That was the pilot’s name when I flew across the city, lovely experience.

    2. If you exclude the generally svelte and petite Filipino nurses (both M &F), the statistics look worse.

        1. Better. The potassium worked wonders. I wonder if that is what they have been missing all along.

  15. 335411+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,

    Thursday 15 July: On transport who will enforce masks, which are already in a minority?

    Many of those who are asking this question, do they really want to know ?

    For enforcement one would in reality, need a force of young fit men who would feel they owe their benefactors some sort of allegiance there is such a force building daily courtesy of the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration, potential kapo,coalition, conspiracy theory ?
    check out the hotel / welfare bill of those on arrival and here already in waiting.

    If one is still a toxic trio supporter / voter one should ask oneself WHY does my party deem it necessary to have them here from the start ?

    I really am of the belief that we are suffering a very british political how do you do, coup, reset, replace,repent at leisure, ” we won, leave it to the tories”(ino) seems to have lost some of its charm.

  16. The mask divide. Spiked. 15 July 2021.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f1abb2b5b25105eae9df176557d46a0c88726ea7949fad390acf19894562e91b.jpg

    We have all seen those photos of the great and the good hobnobbing and mingling while displaying their mask-free faces to the world.

    There was Tom Cruise and David Beckham at the Euros final, Patrick Vallance and Jonathan Van Tam at Wimbledon, Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen at the G7 – all maskless and proud. But if you look closely enough, in the background you’ll see that the people serving them – topping up their drinks and canapés – have their faces covered.

    When the mandatory mask laws are lifted next week, this mask divide will become even more obvious. In some cases, it will be formalised.
    Take the House of Commons. MPs will be ‘encouraged’ to carry on wearing masks. But parliamentary staff will be ‘required’ to do so. It is quite literally one rule for them, and another for the rest. It marks out ‘the help’ as people who should be seen and not heard – whose faces, gestures and identities can be effaced to help their betters feel more safe.

    The mask divide is a class divide.

    Yes. Masks will be compulsory wear for the new Serf Class. They will denominate their New Status as distinct from the Technocratic Elite!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/14/the-mask-divide/

      2. There’s a bloke at the pub who always wears his mask. He tells people he washes and irons it after each use. He’s known locally as the man in the ironed mask.

      3. There’s a bloke at the pub who always wears his mask. He tells people he washes and irons it after each use. He’s known locally as the man in the ironed mask.

    2. If the picture above was a group of NOTTLERs I would have no objection to it other than to encourage the young lady in the background to remover her mask.

      1. she must be a an ‘umble aide or some such and thus required to wear a mask to remind her of her status. Please note she stands back so as not to contaminate her betters.

        1. Exactly. She is carrying all the paperwork for her betters. And is 6 feet away so her plebeian breath doesn’t touch them.

    3. Interesting how Princess Nut-Nut has that inane and simpering “I’m may be as thick as two short planks, but I’m such a NICE person” smile on.

      1. I think it is more a: “I am now running the country – my dickhead husband does as he is told. And I didn’t even have to be elected” look, Robert.

      2. She reminds me of one of the Tellytubbies, the yellow one – Laa-Laa. She likes to play with orange balls. Did you know that one of them transmogrified into a ‘bleck’? Dipsy by name – ‘Dipsy is the most stubborn of the Teletubbies, and will occasionally refuse to go along with the others’ group opinion’. Fancy that!

    4. Interesting how Princess Nut-Nut has that inane and simpering “I’m may be as thick as two short planks, but I’m such a NICE person” smile on.

    5. I wish Boris’s wife would buy him some pyjamas to save him sleeping in that suit

  18. Good morning all. A bright start at 12°C.
    During my trip to Matlock yesterday I got chatting to a very pleasant lady as we got off the bus and it turns out she & her husband had lived in Kenya for 12y!
    If I meet her again I’ll point her in this direction.

      1. I did tell her that we not only have several Old Africa hands, but one person actually in Kenya now.
        Question.
        What are the chances of a spill-over of the South Africa problems into Kenya, and indeed the rest of Africa?

        1. currently none bob. sth Africa’s opened it’s old tribal wounds [Zuma -Sulu support]. Here, the increased likelihood of no Presidential Election next year as Uhuru’s been bought off by Western banks and probably remain in power. Ruto wants to be President, but being Kalenjin, all Kenyans remember too well the Moi era. And moneywise, Uhuru and his cadre don;t want Ruto in the “Western money club”.

          Zimbabwe may go similar to SA. And expect Rwanda via US mil support to stir up problems in DR Congo [re rare earth minerals that US companies want for telkoms]. Expect wider problems in Ethiopia over Tigray [Eritrea incursion] and Somlaia due elections. Ethiopia and Somlaia currently have US proxy puppet leaders, so same old game. That’s a snapshot. I liaise with various entities in regional network and well connected / placed, off radar. But Kenya going SA route, unlikely to happen.

    2. Ah yes. The big question is why those hubristic, blinkered tarts come up with such a risky acronym as SAGE? Their suggested solution to an epidemic of very nasty flu is to close the whole country down, (apart from airports of course) without having given a thought to the general debility resulting from the average person’s being cooped up at home for 18 months.
      If we are now more vulnerable to flu and other diseases it is a result of the advice of SAGE and the stupidity of our politicians.

      1. 335411+ up ticks,
        Morning HP,
        Please let us keep in mind there is a difference betwixt political stupidity, to err is human,and politically planned, orchestrated,stupidity as used as fodder for the herd.

  20. Report to Demented Joe they should accommodate “millions of refugees” who will be forced to flee “effects of a changing climate” c/o Soros-funded Refugees International advocacy group https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2021/7/12/task-force-report-to-the-president-on-the-climate-crisis-and-global-migration-a-pathway-to-protection-for-people-on-the-move welcome to the next variant https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0fbab524632216d107a99906c3ac08076f4806e62d146aed4dcdb1ee684999a3.jpg

    1. “The” Max Wall Joke

      “For my holidays, I went mountain climbing in Northern Spain. I was working my way along a two-foot ledge, with a vertical rock face on my
      left and a sheer drop of several hundred feet on my right. Then I rounded a corner and saw a blonde bombshell coming towards me. What
      should I do? Block her passage or toss myself off…”

    2. “The” Max Wall Joke

      “For my holidays, I went mountain climbing in Northern Spain. I was working my way along a two-foot ledge, with a vertical rock face on my
      left and a sheer drop of several hundred feet on my right. Then I rounded a corner and saw a blonde bombshell coming towards me. What
      should I do? Block her passage or toss myself off…      ”

    1. We never were racist. It has been thrust upon us by whiners, politicians, and immigrants. We have been besmirched for something we never thought, something we never did. It is a lot like throwing dirt on a Greek statue. White marble. Western civilisation.

      1. Why are white people being called racist just because they disagree with black culture and politics?

        Aren’t we allowed to disagree with bad decisions anymore .

        Why are blacks importing their tribal politics on to our shores .

        Just read

        The Tribe That Lost Its Head
        (The Tribe That Lost Its Head #1)
        by Nicholas Monsarrat

    2. Yes, they publicly support the Conservatives. The party that used to believe in wealth creation, freedom, individual liberty.

      It’s funny, this Peter Beal fellow betrays how thoroughly nasty he is with such posts.

      1. That depends whether Islam, BLM, China or Western civilisation eventually comes out on top.

      1. When one reads what comes out from the WEF, the G7/20 and the Climate change lobby one wonders whether a tinfoil hat isn’t a bad investment.

  25. Well, well, well….it seems that Southgate believes that Brexiteers are racists. This points more and more towards his wanting darkies to take the final three penalties which makes him a racist pig.

    GARETH SOUTHGATE was blasted by a BBC panel after he claimed there were “racial undertones” in the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (EU).
    By CALLUM HOARE
    PUBLISHED: 10:00, Mon, Jul 5, 2021 | UPDATED: 10:05, Mon, Jul 5, 2021

    The England football manager has received heaps of praise after he secured a ticket to the Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark at Wembley this Wednesday. It came after the Three Lions put on an emphatic performance on Saturday, dominating Ukraine 4-0 to feed the nation’s hopes of reaching a final for the first time since 1966. But Southgate previously risked sparking the fury of many England fans who would have voted Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum when he claimed there were “racial undertones” to the historic decision.

    Speaking during ‘Out Of Their Skin,’ a 2018 ITV documentary on the rise of black footballers, he said: “I didn’t like the connotations around Brexit.

    “There were some generational opinions about what modern Britain should look like. We felt that young people, in particular, would connect with our guys.

    “They must have been confused after Brexit. Because for me a lot of the undertones of the voting on Brexit were racial undertones.”

    Many responded with messages of support on social media at the time.

    https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/590x/Gareth-Southgate-came-under-fire-for-the-comments-1458425.webp?r=1625475907109

    But debating his comments on the BBC’s Politics Live, Brexiteer and Chief Executive of ConservativeHome Mark Wallace blasted the suggestion.

    He said: “There is a huge difference between people being concerned about immigration and having the right to control borders and racial undertones.

    “One thing a lot of Leave voters have had the experience of since the referendum, is being told by people who did not vote Leave exactly what their motivations were for doing so.”

    And comedian Matt Forde, who voted Remain, also felt the comments were unfair.

    He said: “We’ve got to stop characterising Leave voters as racist.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1458425/gareth-southgate-brexit-news-racial-undertone-euro-2020-england-denmark-spt

    1. Gareth Southgate? A wimpy pinko footballer turned wimpy pinko manager (I’ll not call him a ‘coach’ since he has outsourced that part of his remit).

  27. It’s a serious subject but I still laughed…

    I was tried by social media, says BBC journalist fired for ‘Hitler was right’ tweet

    Tala Halawa blames pro-Israeli pressure for her dismissal following an investigation into comments posted online in 2014

    A BBC journalist who was fired after tweeting that “Hitler was right” has claimed she is a victim of “trial by social media”.

    Tala Halawa, who worked as a Palestine specialist for the corporation’s BBC Monitoring Service, was suspended when the comments, posted in 2014, surfaced in May. She was dismissed three weeks later following an investigation.

    In July 2014, during the seven-week Gaza War between Israel and Palestine, Ms Halawa wrote on her Twitter profile: “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler … IDF go to hell” along with the hashtags “#HitlerWasRight” and “#PrayForGaza”.

    The conflict saw Israel launch a military operation on the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas rocket attacks.

    Ms Halawa’s tweet was widely criticised on social media after it emerged. Making comparisons “of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is included in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.

    In a new Twitter post, Ms Halawa, who reports from the city of Ramallah, said she was “a young Palestinian woman tweeting in the heat of the moment”.

    “The offensive and ignorant words I posted at the time do not reflect my political views then as much as they do not today,” she wrote. “I take pride in the fact that during my four years at the BBC I was always known for my impartiality and professional journalism, even during the most difficult times.”

    Ms Halawa accused the BBC of having “opted for trial with social media”, and claimed it was “capitulating to pressure from external pro-Israel interest groups”.

    “I recently published a video report for the corporation about celebrities being criticised, trolled and cancelled for supporting Palestinian self-determination. What happened [to me] seems familiar to me both as a Palestinian and as a woman of colour,” she said.

    Ms Halawa joined the BBC in 2017 and covered the recent violence between Israel and Palestine. This included an explanatory video for BBC Monitoring about the situation in Gaza, which saw clashes between opposing groups.

    The BBC was contacted for comment.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/journalist-fired-hitler-right-tweet-says-bbc-opted-fortrial/

      1. I think that the Left are very poor allies for anyone to have. You would have thought that as an icon of the Left Hitler was on a power with Stalin and Pol Pot but the Left have deserted him and try to pretend he was Right wing.

        Another politician who is branded as being extreme Right is Marine Le Pen. If you look at the policies she espouses you can see just how Left wing she is.

        1. She’s actually pretty conventionally left wing for French politics, it strikes me. The difference between her and most is that she is a French Nationalist. For the Glory of France and not the EU, and all that.

          1. She is left wing, but my French friends cannot be convinced of that. She is, in their eyes, forever “extrême droite”. I don’t know if they will ever vote Le Pen, they’d probably rather voter blanc, no matter how much they complain of the way things are going. It isn’t just over here that people vote for the same old, same old and expect a different result!

    2. “What happened [to me] seems familiar to me both as a Palestinian and as a woman of colour,” The perpetual excuse of the wrong. And, by the way, there is no such thing as a Palestinian people, most of them are from Egypt and other Arabic countries. Palestine is a left wing myth.

    3. Anything that might, at any stretch, be possibly, even if completely irrationally, construed as a criticism of any action that might possibly have involved a Jew in any way is considered anti-semitic. Even if true.

        1. Yes, and there’s a lost tribe somewhere as well. That’s a joke by the way. However, in modern parlance anti-semitic refers only to Jews.

          1. Thanks, Horace, you’ve just highlighted what’s wrong with modern parlance.

    1. Lefties more concerned over a word than black people getting killed (“No doubt . . flesh”)? Who’d have thunk it?

    3. Actually Johnsons remarks seem to be right on the mark, it’s sardonic humour that the humourless don’t understand. My late brother in law would certainly have had plenty to say about Pangas since he was a policeman in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. Most people have little idea of just how savage those people can be. It was censored even back then for public consumption in the UK.

      2. The workshop supervisor at Cranfield when I was there was an ex policement from Kenya in the Mau-Mau period. He had a few things to say about it, too.

        1. I wonder if he knew my stepbrother? That would be interesting. His name was James Hooper.

          1. Dick Hardwicke was the supervisor. Bigm heavily-built man.
            I don’t recall any tell of a Hooper, I’m afraid – but this was in the mid 1980’s, so my recollections are somewhat hazy.

  29. Despite a litany of failures Cressida Dick wants to extend her rein but if the Yard’s Dame of Disaster doesn’t quit, she MUST be decommissioned, says NAZIR AFZAL

    What an unlucky police commissioner Cressida Dick has proved to be. She has suffered a litany of catastrophes during her time as head of the Metropolitan police – and to hear her tell it, not one has been her fault.

    No: the fact is that her failure to take responsibility is the root of all her problems.

    Because she will not accept blame or set an example as a leader, she has lost the confidence of both the public and her own officers.

    Her mantra seems to be: ‘It’s not my responsibility, guv. Nothing to do with me.’

    She is weak, indecisive and, on the evidence of her own record, incompetent. The time is long past for her to fall on her sword.

    Yet astonishingly, reports yesterday claimed that she intends next month to attempt to extend her five-year fixed contract, which is due to expire in April.
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    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/14/21/45431491-0-Disaster_prone_Met_Police_chief_Cressida_Dick_has_been_made_a_Da-a-5_1626293901545.jpg

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/14/22/45453047-9789277-image-a-20_1626297185809.jpg
    The accident-prone commissioner makes a convenient human shield. As long as she is absorbing all the flak, senior politicians are out of the firing line

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9789277/NAZIR-AFZAL-Met-Police-chief-Dame-Cresida-Dick-doesnt-quit-decommissione

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    How can she demand to go on? Outcry as disaster-prone Scotland Yard boss Cressida Dick suggests she won’t step down next year… but wants FOUR more years
    Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick wants to stay on as Britain’s most senior police officer despite a number of significant controversies under her watch
    She was made Dame Commander by Prince Charles after her 38-years of service
    But presided over the botched VIP paedophile ring and Daniel Morgan inquiries
    And Met Police has faced criticism over Wembley breach and Sarah Everard vigil
    Find out the latest Euro 2020 news including fixtures, live action and results here

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9789251/Outcry-Met-Polices-Dame-Cressida-Dick-says-hopes-stay-four-years.html

      1. How horribly true. At least she’s useless. The next might be effective in ways that we’d rather not contemplate.

      2. To continue the trend, the successor must be

        Bame
        Blind
        Illiterare
        Unable to speak write or read English
        Paraplegic
        Deaf
        Asexual

        1. That would be the long list. There will be quite a few suitable candidates.

      3. They probably will be. Every successive appointment in every sphere of influence that you care to mention, worldwide, is getting progressively worse than before. This progressive deterioration in the standard of humanity will lead to the demise of the species sooner rather than later.

      2. Maybe the author of that line is just a poor, illiterate Blackamoor, daunted by white supremacy.

    4. She is not alone but, the very epitome of everything that is wrong with this country in the 21st century.
      4 more years of what, where’s and why’s ?

        2. Supposedly, It reflects what they eat but I don’t recall a plague of flamingoes in Seville.

          1. The shrimps that they eat turn the plumage pink, not orange. I have seen flamingos in the wild in Africa & S. America & nowhere were they orange.

  31. Britain is sleepwalking into a state of perpetual Covid tyranny

    While the US fights for freedom, we hear barely a peep as our country is turned into a land of ID cards and endless mask mandates

    DOUGLAS MURRAY
    14 July 2021 • 9:30pm

    Britain and America always had a lot dividing us, including our national sports, diet and language. But in the last year one particular difference has asserted itself. Our differing national attitudes towards freedom.

    In the UK, ever since the start of the coronavirus, the political class has demanded ever more of our freedoms. Things that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago have become routine. Stay in your house when the Government tells you to? Check. Allow the police to visit at any time of the day or night to see that you are where you say you are? Check. Carry papers to allow you to be permitted certain activities? Check. In Britain all this and more has flowed by without any significant political opposition.

    The only line that those opposing the Government have been able to take is one that tries to outflank ministers for not being strict enough. Throughout the pandemic, Labour and the SNP have had nothing to say except lockdown longer, quarantine longer, ban flights for longer, and more.

    By contrast the US, throughout the pandemic, has seen the government challenged not only from the point of view of greater security but also from that of greater freedom. Partly as a result of state laws, the US was able to go through a different experience. Some cities and states shut down severely. Others – notably Florida – tried to stay as open as possible. And people were then able to make their own choices. They could judge for themselves what element of risk they wanted to take in their own lives. Under two different administrations Americans have been able to make decisions for themselves that would have been unthinkable for most British people.

    Here we have a one-note discussion (with a few notable outliers such as the Tory MP Steve Baker), always favouring greater restrictions and greater caution. And as ever it is hard to know whether the politicians are following the polls or the polls following the politicians. But the polls in the UK keep showing a terrible caution on the part of the British public. We remain strangely in favour of restrictions even after vaccinations, in favour of mask-wearing and much more. Everyone up to and including the Prime Minister seems to be caught up in this ultra-cautious national mood.

    In the pages of this newspaper not so many years ago, Boris Johnson could be found railing against the idea of ID cards. When Tony Blair’s government looked at introducing such a thing, Johnson and others on the liberal wing of the Conservative party insisted that it was fundamentally un-British to allow a situation in which a state apparatchik could demand to see your papers and make you meekly hand them over.

    But what the Government that Johnson heads is now suggesting is far more intrusive than that. The creation of “vaccine certification” means that we now face the prospect of having our papers demanded not just if we dare to think about leaving the country for some reason, but if we just want to go to almost any public gathering. Only by proving that you have had the vaccine or a recent negative test will you be allowed to take part in activities which we didn’t even question as among our rights before 2020.

    Perhaps our phones and other devices have made us change the way we think about personal data. We live in a world where we have volunteered to have ourselves monitored by private companies and corporations. But still there is something sinister about the speed with which we are rushing into an existence where the Government can restrict our activities to such an alarming extent.We are walking into a state in which the Government has a permanent mechanism of control of the populace. Where instead of asking “Who are you?” of anyone in authority we turn instead into supplicants asking, “May we?”

    It does not stop there. The Government’s track and trace scheme may have been a patchy business, to say the least, but it has still proved capable of causing chaos. Worse, there is every reason to think that the technology will improve and that in time we will all be able to be pinged on our phone to tell us that we were recently in the vicinity of someone who hasn’t had their vaccine booster shot. And back inside we’ll go.

    What do most of our politicians have to say about this? Again, nothing but attempts to outrun the Government from the ultra-safety side. Sadiq Khan, for instance, has tried to look super responsible by insisting that even after the rules for mask-wearing are relaxed masks will be compulsory on public transport in London. Obviously, throughout the pandemic, there have been the rules and there has been what people do. I have seen plenty of people get on the bus with their mask on and then pull it under their chin as soon as they are in their seat. We have become used to the theatre of masks.

    But the Mayor of London has ordered Transport for London to enforce mask wearing after July 19, making the prospect of a journey on the London Underground even more enjoyable. Citizens of the capital not only have to pay the highest fares of any commuters in the world for one of the world’s worst services, but must now mask up under threat of the London Transport Police if they do not. What a wonderful way to get the capital moving again.

    It is inevitable, perhaps, that politicians like Khan want to score some political points. But again what is so strange is that all the points are scored from that side. Putting aside a few MPs on the Tory benches there is no political pressure on us to go the other way. To do so – to advocate the path of greater risk and greater freedom – is still presented as though it is somehow irresponsible or otherwise risky.

    But society is risky. Life is risky. The biggest leap towards normal life has already been taken. It is the success of the mass vaccination programme which this country has rolled out so well. But after that we do not need politicians and private companies policing us ever more. We need to take a different leap. Not into greater safety, but into greater freedom. Our allies and competitors are up for that. The question now is whether Britain is. An awful lot rides on the answer.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/britain-sleepwalking-state-perpetual-covid-tyranny/

  32. It is possible to find a more absurd distortion of the truth?

    Boris Johnson and co [sic] chose to start a culture war. Now they’ve lost it after public backlash against racist abuse of England players

    Ian Murray MP

    By the end of the week, we will have had the shameful vote to reduce the overseas aid budget, a bill to implement another reorganisation of the NHS an immigration bill that repudiates our obligations to those most in need and in danger, and a “freedom of speech” bill designed to allow those who wish to stoke division and hate the ability to take organisations to court if they are not given a platform. Not to mention the new law to make it more difficult for the public to vote.

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/boris-johnson-and-co-chose-to-start-a-culture-war-now-theyve-lost-it-after-public-backlash-against-racist-abuse-of-england-players-ian-murray-mp-3307554

    1. Which side is winning the Culture War in South Africa? Is it the Looters, Arsonists, Rapists or the Murderers or have they all joined forces together?

    2. Ian Murray MP is perfectly within his right to step up and make charitable donations, as much as he likes, but many people are fed up with all the aid money (how much has been given this last 30-odd years?) being stolen and wasted. I know I have, and have stopped donating to charities in Africa for that very reason – good money after bad, their governments should step up and fix the problem, not their bank accounts and those of Mercedes and Toyota.
      Mr Google was asked the question, and at the top of the list is https://www.quora.com/So-far-over-500-billion-US-dollars-has-been-donated-to-Africa-in-the-form-of-aid-so-that-Africa-can-develop-but-it-has-failed-Why
      This site indicates that “So far, over 500 billion US dollars has been donated to Africa in the form of aid, so that Africa can develop but it has failed.”
      Discussion BTL generally blames the West for giving with one hand and taking much more with the other, and for babying Africa. So, Lammy was right, they don’t need our money.
      One of the arguments is a failure of education in Africa. The DFID (or what it was before) sponsored at least 2 universities in Nigeria, and among others, engaged my Father to teach Nigerians so they could start businesses and participate in technology, the arts, engineering. Wonder where all those high-flyers are now? Bet it isn’t places like Katsina, Kaduna in Nigeria, building waterworks and upgrading the internet structures (in fact, the early students will now be long retired, being 63+ years ago they were undergraduates).
      You can lead a horse to water…

    3. Ian Murray MP is perfectly within his right to step up and make charitable donations, as much as he likes, but many people are fed up with all the aid money (how much has been given this last 30-odd years?) being stolen and wasted. I know I have, and have stopped donating to charities in Africa for that very reason – good money after bad, their governments should step up and fix the problem, not their bank accounts and those of Mercedes and Toyota.
      Mr Google was asked the question, and at the top of the list is https://www.quora.com/So-far-over-500-billion-US-dollars-has-been-donated-to-Africa-in-the-form-of-aid-so-that-Africa-can-develop-but-it-has-failed-Why
      This site indicates that “So far, over 500 billion US dollars has been donated to Africa in the form of aid, so that Africa can develop but it has failed.”
      Discussion BTL generally blames the West for giving with one hand and taking much more with the other, and for babying Africa. So, Lammy was right, they don’t need our money.
      One of the arguments is a failure of education in Africa. The DFID (or what it was before) sponsored at least 2 universities in Nigeria, and among others, engaged my Father to teach Nigerians so they could start businesses and participate in technology, the arts, engineering. Wonder where all those high-flyers are now? Bet it isn’t places like Katsina, Kaduna in Nigeria, building waterworks and upgrading the internet structures (in fact, the early students will now be long retired, being 63+ years ago they were undergraduates).
      You can lead a horse to water…

    2. I wonder if his wife, whom he betrayed with the Egg Woman, has the same very deep contempt for this nasty little man as the rest of us have?

      A walrus is making a nuisance of itself in the Scilly Isles at the moment. This calls to mind John Lennon’s song I am the Walrus in which he says he is also the Egg Man. I wonder if Edwina Currie considers herself to be a female Walrus?

  35. You do see some strange headlines these days.Look at this one.

    “George W. Bush is HEARTBROKEN over Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, frets over dangers to women and girls”

    1. My first thought reading that was that he was fretting over Biden’s sniffing habits.

      1. Sounds reasonable to me, despite Dubba being a clot over words. ” The French don’t have a name for Entrepreneur.“

    1. Good morning.

      I learned today that Champagne/Cremant/Sparkling wines has Potassium, Zinc and Magnesium.

      A Reading University study showed that drinking one or two glasses a day helps in the fight against cardio-vascular disease.

      Bottoms up !

        1. I’m always serious. Except for when i am not…

          The potassium has done its job. Bloods at the AMU on Sunday morning but i know levels will have stabilised.

          Thank you.

  37. Wedded Bliss
    Our last fight was my fault: My wife asked me “What’s on the TV?” I said,
    “Dust!”

    In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

    Do you know the punishment for bigamy? Two Mothers-in-law.

    Young Son: “Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries her?”
    Dad: That happens in every country, son.

    The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

    Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful!!!!!!!!

    1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some of us still think our men are beautiful with a beer gut and a bald head!

    2. The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
      And the wedding anniversary 😍

        2. Not sure if that’s good or poor planning… one present covers two occasions, and the same with one bunch of flowers.

          2. Oh 🙁
            Well, consider a (virtual) hug from me, anyhow.
            Real one will be delivered, including interest, at a later date once travel becomes less than a pain in the arse.

          3. My planning really – he asked ; I accepted; when I went to see the registrar there was a vacant slot on my birthday so I booked it. We had a great day – the hottest day of the year. Lunch and barbie later in the garden and no wet weather plan. Silver wedding will be next year.

          4. Sounds like it was an enjoyable day, without all the kerfuffle of a “standard” wedding. Maybe you can do it again next year?
            We did away with brides & grooms side in church. Groom’s side would have been pretty well empty (only 1 pew occupied, with enough space for 1 metre separation), bride’s side would have to have stood outside. And the angst involved in all the arrangements – my role in that was just to carry the credit card.

          5. One metre separation? Was it during covid? There wasn’t much angst to our preparations – all done in a few weeks but it was a great day. I wore a hand-me down two piece and he wore a suit from Ooxfam.

            We haven’t thought as far as next year! Let’s hope we won’t still be subject to these restrictions – it might be nice to go away somewhere……

          6. I liked the sound of your no-frills wedding. By choice or otherwise, focus was on the bits that matter. Do that again for the celebration!
            Next year is our 40th. I’d like to do something like go with what remains of family to a cosy hotel in Sicily to have a weekend party, but who knows what will be possible? (Hotel Posta, Ortigia, or Grand Hotel Villa Politi, Siracusa). TBH, I’m losing hope that there will be anyone apart from SWMBO & the two lads, TBH, and even travel may be impossible.
            We hoped to celebrate 170 years birthday this year, but that didn’t work.
            :-((

          7. I didn’t realise you were tahat old!!
            Travel just seems off the menu infdefinitely at the moment.
            My trip to Kenya, postponed from March to October, is looking increasingly unlikely at present.

  40. I have always thought that the Prince of Wales was a boring muddle-headed man who sucks up those who, he hopes, will bring him kudos. He is also perhaps the worst public speaker I have ever heard – he is long-winded, slow in delivery and his attempts at humour are pitiful.

    He has now revealed another side to his character – he is mean-spirited, jealous and spiteful.

    His father and mother both wanted his younger brother, Edward, to inherit his father’s title: The Duke of Edinburgh because, of all their children, Edward has always shown the most support for the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme for young people. Charles is determined to overrule his parents’ wishes on the matter of Edward getting that title out of pique, envy and resentment of the fact that his brother’s wife has become so much loved by his mother.

    1. Actually that is based on the comments of one of those “royal commentators”, Charles has said nothing one way or another. Your opinion of the Prince of Wales is subjective as is mine and I think him to be a very decent and clear headed person. Not the caricature that people seem to spend a great deal of time trying to do character assassination on. I also like his second wife far more than the bimbo he was married to.

      1. Good morning jonathanrackham

        Are you, perhaps descended from Red Rackham the pirate whose treasure was searched for by Captain Haddock and Tintin?

        Is it not splendid that on the Nottlers forum we can disagree without being offensive!

        I agree with you about the Duchess of Cornwall who is very much better than his first wife – it was a personal tragedy for him that he did not marry her in the first place.

        Of course Prince Edward was the only one of the Queen’s children who married the right person first time!

        1. I agree with your first sentiment most heartily. I also agree with the other two remarks.

          But perhaps as a horticulturist I have rather more sympathy for Charles than most, on the score he really is a genius and recognized as such in the field. And I’m not talking necessarily of his organic fetish which I do not share. But I do feel he is constantly denigrated to the point it has become a habit amongst people and I think it very unfair.

          1. I think it might be admitted that the royals on such (and all) matters have the best known advisers available.
            I often admire the horticultural sector and enjoy watching the the programs on TV, but the overuse of the word ‘I’ is a bit of an irritant.
            Especially when there is a huge expanse of finely layout garden shrubs and flowers behind the presenter or the land owners.

          2. May I suggest you visit Poundbury , which was originally going to be a village of 250 homes , now it looks similar to a giant grave yard , Highgate cemetery springs to mind … Grey buildings of various heights and totally unappealing ..

            Poundbury is destined to be larger than Dorchester .. neighbours.

          3. Unfortunately, much as I would like to, I can not travel anywhere now a days, it is far to dangerous for my health. A common cold would put me in intensive care. It’s particularly vexing because I love travelling and there are many places that, if I had a choice, I would love to go to. Japan being top of the list.

          4. That’s not fun, Johnathan. My sympathies. Any prospect of recovery? Not that travelling is much fun tehse days, with restrictions, internments, and so on.

          5. No, no change of recovery unless I’m given a new pair of lungs, that’s first illness. Then there is the big “C”, so a double whammy. But then I don’t mind, I still think life is fun and that as long as I’m alive I’m fortunate. I think insatiable curiosity helps. So I still think I will last a considerable time as long as life doesn’t get boring and, for me, it doesn’t, there’s to much to argue about 😁

          6. Something to read, Jonathan, whilst contemplating life, Not A Bad Life on Kindle – my autobiography.

          8. OK I will have a look. I have often been asked to write my autobiography because I have led a very unusual life. So much so that people think I’m making it all up! Thus it goes. I doubt that I ever will write anything. After all it all ends in dust and I’m quite happy with that thanks to that God awful thing that makes people cringe, religion. But I’m no proselytizer, people can think and believe what they want as far as I’m concerned. I happen to be Russian Orthodox because my stepfather was a White Russian. Besides I do not anticipate pushing up daisies for at least a decade, because I’m a difficult sod!

          9. Well, there are things we would all like to do, but you sound really inconvenienced by bad health .

            The thought of long haul air travel these days sounds like a nightmare..

            I would love to see whales migrating , and that sort of thing, but now I just enjoy armchair travelling, the family in South Africa keep saying visit them , but now one’s travelling choices are limited.

          10. ‘Afternoon, Mags, “…but now one’s travelling choices are limited.”

            …and not just by Covid. I wouldn’t visit SA for all the gold in Jo’burg.

          11. If they are in South Africa Belle, they must get out now. See what I posted just now. The Black Politician telling his people to go murder Indians and then the whites.

        2. Sorry, ignored your first paragraph. No not a relation. The name Rackham originates from these parts, Sussex but also a lot in Norfolk, apparently, why I don’t know. so although it is an uncommon name it has history here. At least I assume it is uncommon because apart from relatives I have never met anyone else with the name.

          1. There was a Rackhams shop in Cirencester – an old-fashioned department store. It was taken over by House of Fraser and closed down.

            I went into Cirencester the other week for the first time in months and the once-prosperous town is now full of empty shops.

          3. Yes, of course. Herge Asterix and Cleopatra, great fun! She arrives “incognito” in a massive cloud of dust on an enormous sphinx dragged by 5000 slaves. Wonderful comics, one of the very few I enjoy.

          4. RR was ancestor to Captain Haddock, in Tintin books (I’m pointy-headed enough to have them all, from mid 1960s when I was a child). Star billing in “The secret of the Unicorn” and “Red Rackham’s Treasure”.
            :-))

        3. Irrelevant comment:
          In Scandiwegian and some other languages, the sentence construct used by Rastus: “Is it not splendid that…”, being a negative question inviting a positive answer, does not get the answer “Ja”, but “Jo”.
          Not sure if that works in German or Dutch.

    3. I don’t know what his reasons are, but it doesn’t look good that he wants to deny a Dukedom to his brother, while apparently being quite happy that his own younger son got one.

    4. but is it all true. You cannot trust any of this , it may well be the media just casusing trouble. is there ant REAL proof.

      1. Morning TB, I doubt very much if any of the royals and ‘their attached’ would survive in the real world. Most if not all of the hierarchical and political classes wouldn’t not have a clue if the lost their financial support, other ‘entitlements’ and all long preserved connections over night.

        1. I don’t dislike him, he is so unusual , a bit of an antique despite being a couple of years younger than me , reminds me of an Aspidistra in a precious pot .

          I worry about his health, his fingers are very pudgy and he always looks as if he has drunk a couple of glasses of gin and tonic.

    6. For as long as I have been posting on this site you have been conducting a campaign to denigrate MFK*. I’m fed up with it.

      I first met him when he was eight and have occasionally dined and partied with him in years past. My Dad’s favourite 1st cousin knew him from birth and taught him how to drive. You are utterly myopic – he is much more fun and clued up than you are. He’s aware of many, but not all, of the mistakes he has made. I have no firm ideas as to whether he might make a good King but it seems likely that he will fail in public perception by comparison to his mother.

      “MFK = My Future King, the term invented at Trinity, Cambridge after a pronouncement from the Master’s Lodge and Charles that he didn’t want any bowing or curtseying or HRH rubbish. It was entirely intended to take the piss out of him and he told me to bugger orff.

    1. Morning all ………….well wadda u know ??? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ is it bed time yet ??? 😉🤔

    2. The girl is called Pearl? I would have thought that Furnish would have named her ‘Olive Oil’.

  42. To my taste, this Liddle rant is especially worthy…

    Rod Liddle
    What did the Romans ever do for us?
    From magazine issue: 17 July 2021

    https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf04078f3cf7a9c30/blt1e6def85b9ea2c66/60ef01762a120025e5846d0d/Rod-Gertty.jpg?format=jpg&width=1920&height=1080&fit=crop

    The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is planning to install a statue of John Chilembwe in Trafalgar Square. Mr Chilembwe was a Malawian Baptist famous for, among other things, leading an uprising where the head of a Scottish farmer was chopped off and put on a pole. He is much revered in his home country for all this and his face has appeared on banknotes. In truth, Mr Chilembwe didn’t incite the murder of many people, in the great scheme of things. If the mayor is searching for a murderer who did punch his weight, he could do worse than hoist up a statue of Francisco Macías Nguema, the former dictator of Equatorial Guinea. I do not have the exact figures of how many people he murdered, but it is impossible not to be impressed by his ambition to have everybody who wore spectacles killed. I think Francisco would look splendid standing next to Horatio Nelson.

    This plague of self-flagellating obeisances, which has ripped through many of our institutions since the Black Lives Matter business last year, has now afflicted the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Like a lot of other colleges, it has decided that it is time to ‘decolonise’ its curriculum and indeed its staff and students. The subjects taught will be re-worked so as to avoid racism. Staff have been told that if they are white, cis and heterosexual, they must accept that they are privileged and there’s an end to it. Making people feel bad about the race they were born into seems to me the very essence of racism, but there we are. Eight posts have been created for people who will be enjoined to discover racism in the nooks and crannies of the LSHTM and stamp on it with a vengeance. Eight posts! If you ever wonder what the great growth industry in Britain might be right now, look no further.

    More specifically, staff will be told that they must avoid at all costs perpetuating the ‘white saviour myth’. The big problem here is that the white saviour myth is not a myth but a clear and incontestable reality — and there is no institution on Earth which better demonstrates that fact than the LSHTM. If you look at the list of the top 20 ways in which Africans die, other than at the hands of other Africans, you will largely find a list of ailments for which white people have found effective cures, palliatives or vaccines.

    For example, a vaccine for yellow fever was discovered by the Nobel prize-winning South African/American virologist Max Theiler. The identification of malaria and the long list of treatments developed to combat the disease involves white people from a formidable array of countries, but especially France. It was Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou who first started treating patients with quinine back in 1820, and Alphonse Laveran who discovered the malaria parasite in 1880. The most effective treatment, chloroquine, was invented by the German Hans Andersag at Bayer IG in 1934. Sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis? A Brit, David Bruce, discovered the causative agent and the vector, the Tsetse fly, and a Swiss bloke, Ernst Friedheim, the best cure for late-stage patients, melarsoprol.

    An ebola vaccine was created, against all the odds, by researchers largely from Winnipeg in Canada (and was at first shunned by the idiots in the World Health Organisation). Aids continues to wreak destruction in Africa south of the equator, and while some African heads of state were denying a link between HIV and Aids, or denying the disease existed at all, as victims were forced to recourse to the local witch doctor, the American group (with German roots) Merck, Sharp and Dohme were busy discovering the retroviral drugs which now make the condition not merely survivable, but liveable with in some comparative comfort.

    None of this, none of it, should need to be said. It is so patently obvious. Not least the stuff about ebola, because the disease was discovered in 1976 by a Belgian bloke called Peter Piot — who is now the director of the LSHTM. It may be unfortunate and politically uncomfortable that just about every single medical advance made in the past 300 years has been by white people, but it is nonetheless true. For sure, colonialism helped to facilitate, both directly and indirectly, whitey’s ability to create large pharmaceutical companies and universities which provided the forum for research. (The various African empires somehow did not have quite the same result.) But there is no doubt that in the area of medicine (and in many others too), whitey was and still is a saviour, and it is therefore no myth.

    Trouble is, this runs counter to the current liberal thesis — comprised as ever of non-sequiturs and flagrant denials of observable reality — that everything the white man has done in relation to Africa is entirely malign and that white supremacy and capitalism are to blame for pretty much all the evils of the world. And yet it is capitalism which enabled those drugs and treatments mentioned above to be developed on a mass scale, so that impoverished Africans might benefit from them. And it is capitalism which has lifted so many billions of people out of poverty.

    Liberals will also wave a bit of cultural relativism in your face, insisting that there is nothing in white culture which makes it inherently superior to indigenous African culture. Nothing — except for a means to stop people dying in their millions from preventable illnesses. Oh, and education and democracy, the rule of law, female emancipation etc ad infinitum. Yes, we are back with: what did the Romans ever do for us? Racism is foul. But what the LSHTM and others are doing is not its antithesis. It is a delusion and just more of the same.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us-?utm_medium=email&utm_so

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

    Timog • 5 hours ago • edited
    Great article Rod. The Romans sketch in Life of Brian would of course now have Reg (played by Will Smith) smugly shutting down the debate with a concluding quip of “who cares they’re still slave trading imperialists”, which would be followed by a crowd scene of racially diverse Judeans taking the knee. Thank Brian it was made in 1979 (what a year that was) rather than the joyless self-flagellating dystopian thought policed nightmare of 2021.

    Damaris Tighe • 2 hours ago • edited
    Just imagine that those eight – eight! – posts at the LSHTM were dedicated, not to ‘decolonising’, but to improving hygiene and tropical medicine. There’s a revolutionary thought.

    1. But, without evil whitey’s intervention, the blek South Africans have found a cure for AIDs; you just rape a baby and you’re instantly cured.

        1. Tottenham/Croydon, 2011.

          Funny that on the spell-check, Tottenham comes up with Hottentot as a suggestion. Close but no cigar.

      2. Another once bustling profitable thriving country becomes another shite hole.
        They got the Vote and took everything they could get their hands on.
        I expect the sales of firearms has risen quite dramatically.

        1. I expect the owners of the businesses destroyed are white slave dealers. So it serves them right…(sarc)

    1. Are they promoting the ancient joys of going for a roll in the hay? (Actually it looks like straw)

      2. Judging by the wheat behind them, the bales are the previous year’s left overs.

    2. But , but they are living out here in the sticks , bored as hell.
      Seducing the thatchers , sheep shearers, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all

    5. Perhaps these daft bints (and the “team” that “curated” the photograph) do not know how dangerous those great big haybales can be.

    9. Reminds me of an incident in a travel book by Patrick Leigh-Fermor, ‘A Time of Gifts’ (I think).

  44. Pictures showing crowds “Taking the Knee”, in front of the wall mural of a Black Footballer . .

    Kneeling – an act of obeyance, in front of a painting [craven image]?
    “Oh well . . .”
    Goodness knows what the future holds . .?

      3. I’ll have to collapse that, it makes me feel sick to see it.
        Bradford, Rochdale, Luton ?

  45. Good morning all

    We’ve been watching Rise of the Continents (recorded) on BBC2 – 2.15 pm – this week. Yesterday was the turn of Australia and how fascinating it was. Australia and Antartica were joined millions of years ago and when they separated their climates changed incredibly. Should be required viewing for the climate change nutters.

    It’s really worth watching and if you’ve missed the first two hopefully it’s available on iPlayer.

    You may want to look up the mating habit of the Southern Right whale. Eye watering information.

    2. During the ‘Fall’ of 1999 my good lady and I were visiting New England, we were ‘whale watching’ from a boat off the coast of Provence Town. The American guy on the deck in front of us was leaning forward hands on shoulders quietly and meaningfully explaining to his young son what we might see and how the whales’ had already been seen in the area today. Out of the blue literally, a huge humpback whale breeched only about 15 yards off the side of the boat and the guy was so taken by surprised he shouted “HOLY SHIT” ! I doubt if his now grown up son, would ever forget that moment in time.
      Neither will we.

  46. Back from a busy Fakenham market. Lots of people in short despite the weather failing to comply with the forecast. It is grey, overcast and very, very windy. Horrid blustery gusts.

    I was unmasked and no one said anything. About half the people outdoors WERE masked. BUT – and this amused me – NONE of the stall holders.

    1. ‘Morning, Bill, “Horrid blustery gusts.”

      …and that was just from under the shorts!

        1. mng, please do. I had the “family delight” of sending it to my younger bro. Zero reply of course, none was expected

    3. Much the same with the stall holders of Devizes market – bloody minded Brexiteers to a man and woman

    2. They’re laughing – he must have opened his mouth and his teeth fell out!

    2. Waam, baam, thank you ma’am??
      WE are promised 30C here, and 100% humidity… ugh.

    4. I could see that happening, he wasn’t quite getting the pushing power even.

    5. Fortunately there was a wooden platform below which broke their fall and they escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
      “The young women were riding on the bench-like Extreme Swing, which overlooks the Sulak Canyon in the Dagestan region of Russia”.

      2. Well – I am relieved to learn that! It can’t have been very comfortable, though.

  51. BBC Radio 4 presently broadcasting a pro Scotch Nationalist propaganda programme centred on Hugh McDiarmid. McDairmid was a communist supporter as well as a Nat who was was expelled from the Communist Party for being a Scottish Nationalist, and from the National Party of Scotland for being a Communist. He was also a supporter of Italian Fascism and believed that a Nazi invasion of Britain would benefit Scotland. His son, Michael, was a conscientious objector to post-World War II National Service and became vice chair of the Scottish National Party.

    He may have been expelled a couple of times but it appears his beliefs and aims are deeply embedded in the SNP psyche – and its southern counterpart… the BBC.

      1. Shirley that’s Senior Hillter on his escape holiday in Peru and his Great grand daughter Angela. Olga Krankie’s grand mother. All manged by Josef Mengele.

  52. 335411+ up ticks,
    You would need a strongly constructed peoples reset ratchet ( party) to straighten out and level not just johnson, but ALL of the governance overseers and a good % of the electorate.

    Dt,
    Live Politics latest news: Boris Johnson’s levelling up speech won’t wash with ‘disillusioned’ Blue Wall voters, claim Tory MPs – watch live

  53. Funny thing. Lots of demonstrations and marches in yer France yesterday. “Violet clashes” with the Riot Police.

    Not a word in the newspapers. Usually the cover story after Bastille Day is all about the “manifs” which took place on the 14th July.

    Bit like the UK MSM ignoring similar events.. Can’t imagine why…..

      1. Indeed – but my point (badly made) was that it is barely mentioned in yer French press.

        1. I assumed that was what you were doing.
          The protests are normal, if there were no protests that would be news.

    2. I saw it earlier but perhaps the BBC are struggling trying to find a situatable excuse for it happening. They are not familiar with honesty and the facts.

      1. As a matter of interest is there any country in Africa that is now better run than it was before the whites stopped running things?

        And if not, why not and who is to blame?

        1. Lybia apparently runs a very effective migration service, wannabe economic migrants can find transport to various offshore ferry services.

          1. Its as if the US/NATO wanted the ferry service so they got rid of the Ruler who wouldn’t allow it.
            Its a long way in a rubber dinghy to the US but not many have noticed yet.

          2. Didn’t I read that the slave trade is still very much alive and well in Libya too? US$400 buys a slave there if I remember correctly.

        2. Algerians are better off than under the French. But they’ve got masses of oil to fund their country, and they STILL all want to come here!

        4. The whites are to blame for trying to help them into a better viable future than they were heading for. (sarc) And now they hate white people even more because of their own inbred failures.
          The only country that seems to have taken any benefit from so called colonialism seems to be India. But they might have considered better forms of birth control. The standards of education are quite high with many Indian people.

      2. They were protesting about the climate emergency, clearly. When they said “Non aux passeportes vaccines” they were clearly begging to be incarcerated instead, in order to benefit the climate.

    3. The UK MSM is more interested in the South African shenanigans, especially that woman who managed to loot a small child. Poor wee mite is probably in the pot by now.

  54. Belgium and West Germany have serious flooding with 20 deaths and many missing. Cars and houses getting swept away.

    1. So not as bad as the disaster on the silvery Tay then, when: “The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
      Because ninety lives had been taken away,
      On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
      Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

    2. Please pass this location to the local Thor and Rain Gods:

      Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

      We know that it will soon be deserted when the EU implodes but it would be nice to see the HQ washed away first.

  55. Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House. 15 July 2021.

    Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.

    More commonly known as The Steelski Dossier!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

  56. So the long term effects of being vaccinated are not known and if there are ill effects the pharmaceutical companies are not liable.

    Being vaccinated does not stop you getting the disease or spreading it.

    Ergo: Everybody must have the vaccination and have a certificate to show that they have had it.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/covid-outbreak-aboard-hms-queen-elizabeth-strikes-100-sailors/

    A Covid outbreak on the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group has struck down around 100 sailors.

    Four of the nine ships, including HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s new aircraft carrier, have been affected.

    The Telegraph understands no service personnel aboard USS The Sullivans, a destroyer from the US Navy, or HNLMS Evertsen, a Dutch frigate, have been taken ill.

    The MoD said “routine testing” of personnel had picked up a number of positive Covid results but that all personnel had received two doses of vaccine.

    2. Just heard that double-jabbed in-laws of a friend of mine have both caught it, as also their daughter, but not all at once, so three periods of 10 day isolation, which has delayed planned medical treatment. They were not particularly ill. They had hay-fever-like symptoms and a headache.

  57. The Daily Human Stupidity.

    “The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organised to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.”

    Christopher Hitchens.

    1. There are videos on YouTube of Burqa-wearers squatting down in supermarket aisles for a No 2.

    1. St. Swithin’s Day is on July 15th.

      St. Swithin was the Bishop of Winchester, England. He was buried on July 2, 862. He asked to be buried outdoors where his grave would be exposed to the rain. (Later his grave was moved indoors to a shrine).

      St. Swithin’s Day, If Thou Dost Rain
      Proverb
      St. Swithin’s day, if thou dost rain,
      For forty days it will remain;
      St. Swithin’s day, if thou be fair,
      For forty days ’twill rain na mair*.

      This proverb goes back at least to 1599.

      I investigated further and found this interesting link, worth a read , Sue

      https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/behind-folklore-st-swithins-day-does-rain-today-really-mean-ruined-summer

  63. 335411+ up ticks,
    I bet they are mad ALL that potential blackmail material appertaining to digit dick given freely to the herd.

    Dt,
    The raid follows a complaint by EMCOR Group, the CCTV services provider for the Department of Health and Social Care, which alleged that the images were taken from the system without consent.

    2. Is that ‘from’ or ‘with’ covid injections? After all, covid deaths are defined as any death occurring within 28 days of a positive test result.

      1. Government website quotes “Deaths within 28 days of positive test” AND with COVID on death certificate (a bigger number).

  65. One of the benefits of Freedom Day

    The golf club has just emailed all it’s members to say that the ball washers will be back in operation.
    I must admit mine were getting a bit crusty.

  66. Holy moley…33C now but the clouds are starting to form.
    Thunder storm predicted for 6;00pm. but it may not last long.

  67. That’s another 3″ ash dropped & logged.
    A good dozen 2½’ logs off it tapering down to 1″.

    Now feeling knackered!

        1. I’m no lumberjack, BoB, so ’twasn’t clear to me.

          Thanks for the update clarity.

    2. What do you do with all the logs, Bob.
      Are you building your own power station?

      1. Stacked to season for next winter. Once I start burning this coming winter I’ll start cutting ready to stack as soon as the 1st shelter is empty so they’ll have a good year under cover before use.

  68. Popped off to the hospital this morning to pick up my Meds.

    Noticed they had closed one half of one of the car parks and were building new office space.

    Went past two skips full of virgin wood. Obviously offcuts of all different widths and lengths.

    Will it be recycled?

    1. Sounds like they’re blowing the budget on more offices = more staff = more admin = less healing.

      You could always some good offcuts – that way they get recycled.

    2. Given the price of (usually crap) timber – the waste by builders makes me furious. No one ever thinks of ways of reusing it.

      Years ago, I had a porch built – and carefully accumulated a large quantity of half bricks. I returned to find the builder chopping WHOLE bricks in half…..

      1. These were ready made lego style units dropped into position by crane. The wood was from all the interior trims. Good quality.

  69. Yeah!!! Guess who’s Top of The BTL Comments today??

    Robert Spowart
    15 Jul 2021 1:28AM
    Am I the only person to think that The Runnymede Trust is a fully paid up leading member of the Race Relations Industry with a vested interest in exaggerating and exacerbating race problems, thus justifying their own existence?

    Anyone in government office taking notice of this Marxist shower deserves a good kick up the backside.

    3. Anyone in government office taking notice of this Marxist shower deserves a good kick up the backside.
      Think that’s better.

    4. Anyone in government office taking notice of this Marxist shower deserves a good kick up the backside.
      Think that’s better.

  71. Fifth world UK. I sent my tax return in May. Heard nothing. Wrote on 1 July – asking them to get on with it – because HMRC is inept, that can’t get the right tax code for me – so I overpaid £400 odd.

    Letter today confirming the return was received – and it will be “processed” by 26 October… It really is a scandal. I have written to the bloke at the top – who will eventually pass it to a minion who will “escalate it down” to a pleb – and eventually I’ll get my money.

    Just imagine if the boot was on the other foot…. “Yes, I agree I owe you £400 in income tax – I’ll let you have it before the end of October – probably.”

    1. They changed the system here to a type of PAYE based on the previous year’s income, as I suspect you know.

      Because Covid slaughtered our income from the gite, and we can’t travel we have not drawn down pension income either.

      I received my notification of a sizeable rebate here a couple of weeks ago. They’ll pay it in September and then I’ve nothing to pay until next April having already paid all last year’s and all this year’s estimated tax. Hooray!!

      1. Given the massive price hikes for staycations in the U.K…How much would you rent out your gite for?

          2. Lunch and dinner for two is about £100 . Lunch being more leisurely the large part gets spent on wine.

          3. Accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, cultural trips, entertainment , transfers to and from Brittany airports, stations and ferry terminals, new dedicated course book written each year, detailed course journal and reports sent to parents and schools, expert tuition from Caroline, no extras to pay for – everything included , etc, etc. all for about £150 a day.

            And the combined governments of France and England are trying to make it impractical for us to do business though the demand is as high as ever.

          6. You have to study for 8 hours every day, and it’s a booze free zone, can’t have those teenagers out on the lash.

          8. I have got out of Lauro’s on a bill of £80 for two plus wine for dinner but i like all the little extras.

            Lunch is normally more expensive because of the time i take going through the drinks list…:@(

        2. Same as we have since we started doing it. We don’t change the price during the season and I’m damned if we are going to be rip-off merchants.

          1. A man for all seasons.

            I still don’t know how much or where though.

            Do i book a magical mystery tour and hope to turn up at your place?

          2. Under £500 a week and the cottage is in the grounds of the house.

            Knowing what I’ve posted previously on Nottle you can find it on Trip Advisor.

            BT managed to do so.

          5. ‘B&B is far too much like hard work’. Tell me about it. 20 hours a day which is why i refused to do any more. It wouldn’t be so bad if people tipped properly but in a B&B even the tax man isn’t much interested in staff tips.

            No problem with ‘no pets’. Dolly goes to a Spa.

          14. Bill sent me the link. Thank you.

            Now i cannot log in or access my Tripadvisor account. I think my computer needs a wash.

          15. Just managed to view the gite.

            I can see why young families love it.

            All so idyllic and tranquil. It reminds me of the Lake District and the Broads.

            Though i have no problem with self catering i do like to eat out on holiday and for me that is a little too rustic.

            You have a little piece of heaven.

          17. £500 a week, you can only just get a small self catering place for a day round here at that price. If you go for somewhere on the lake you are looking at thousands.

          18. It might sound silly, but we priced it so that couples with small children could afford a place that we think is fun. We remember watching the pennies with our small boys.

            It isn’t to everyone’s taste, but the region is interesting, and the cottage is usually very quiet. We get guests coming back year after year.

          21. Funny thing, the internet… Once I knew the name – there it was.

            Before you reminded me (I had remembered it) I searched and zilch.

          22. We’re far too small to be close to the top of search engine results.
            We actually think the entry shows it in a fair light.

        3. Years ago with Mater and Pater we would stay at Weatheral Cottages in the lake district. I liked those holidays. Fell walking, getting completely lost, usually raining.

      2. That’s new since the MR was working in Monaco and taxed in France. Took them long enough! I always found the Trésor Public simple and straight-forward to deal with – and they replied to e-mails within 48 hours.

        1. We find they are pretty good but can be extremely fierce.

          A friend got hit with a massive fine for undeclared UK bank accounts.
          And another acquaintance ended up in prison for a few days over a business misunderstanding. The authorities were completely wrong and he was exonerated, but no compensation was given as far as I’m aware.

        1. Indeed. It shows how much we spend going to and from the UK and Oz that even with the loss of gite income we’re OK.

    2. In Norway, late refund of overpaid tax is paid with interest at about 12% annual rate.
      Late payment of tax due incurs interest at the same rate.
      Seems fair to me.
      Rarely is there a delay from the tax authority side.

    3. In Norway, late refund of overpaid tax is paid with interest at about 12% annual rate.
      Late payment of tax due incurs interest at the same rate.
      Seems fair to me.
      Rarely is there a delay from the tax authority side.

    4. You are right about when you owe them.

      I submitted our returns several days before the deadline and within a few hours I received an email telling me how much we owed, they added a late payment penalty just in case I missed the payment deadline.

      We do have a option on our returns to donate any refund to the government. I have never tried it on a refun, I tried the option when I owed money but it did not cancel the debt.

      2. It’s like the DWP; I have just spent nearly an hour on the phone (fortunately, it was a free call) being told “all our operatives are busy, this MAY cause delays”. No, you stupid bint, it WILL cause delays! After all that, the answer to my query was, you’re not eligible 🙁

      1. I don’t think that we will leave the summer lockdown before the winter lockdown begins. Trudeau has just refused to consider opening the border and I think that Johnsons comment about opening up now or never will apply to us. We will never be allowed out of Trudeaus socialist wonderland.

      1. It won’t happen, there is too much money and global influence involved. The b*st*rds will get away with it.

        1. Not only that, Dukke, the modern-day public have had the fire bred out of their bellies. No one has the balls or the brains any more to take them on. We are all compliant pussies.

          2. I understand your point, my dear, but even most (if not all) NoTTLers are more likely to tip-tap away in disgust on a keyboard than to take up arms and storm the Bastille.

          4. Has the law that requires archery practice on Sunday afternoons been taken off the Statute books?

          7. One of our village churches (Wanborough, the Saxon one) still has ridges in the stone window sills, where the proles sharpened their arrows, before compulsory archery practice…

          10. My hobbling days are now over – I can’t walk for more than about 20 minutes without my back giving me big grief.

          11. Hmm, no can do these days, my love, the back and the lungs (both knackered) prevent me.

            It’s a hardship to take the wheelie bins from the house to The Green for emptying and that’s a little more than 100 yards.

    2. Don’t be a wally. Nothing will change. The state will go on lying and cheating like a crappy husband with no morals. There will be no recrimination, no changes, no one will face any consequences. The entire lot will go on claiming their 6 figure salaries and continue to pontificate gibberish.

    1. There have been other building bricks that fit lego; I remember from when my children were young, 25 years ago.

    2. I thought Lego were offering a DIY Coffin Brick set…..

      [I understand the manufacturers have withdrawn the gun from sale…]

      1. This is olds. First reported a year or more ago, but it’s colourful & fun, so I posted it here.

  75. Today’s geography lesson courtesy of the US announcers at the Open.

    Dover is the closest point in England to France, it is where the English gather at dawn on new years day to catch the first rays of the sun.

    Eh? Yes it is closest to France but wouldn’t Lowestoft catch those rays a few seconds earlier?

    2. There was a long discussion on this thread a number of years ago on the same topic at the time of the change of the new millennium.

      It was shown that, although Lowestoft Ness is the Easternmost point of the British mainland; due to the tilt of the earth on January 1, the sun actually touches Dover a few minutes before it does Lowestoft.

      However, in July I would put my money on Lowestoft as the first point to meet the sun each day.

    3. ‘it is where the English gather at dawn on new years day to catch the first rays of the sun’.

      They do? I’m English and live just along the coast. Never heard that we gather there. Possibly just a few locals.

      Dover was a shit town long before the Islamic invasion.

      1. I think the castle is well worth a visit. We spent an interesting day there, many years ago.

        The ferry port has ruined most of Dover.

          3. Your place is one of the very few that I’ve seen on the blog that would really appeal to me.

      2. The Louis Armstrong pub is also worth a visit.
        Or at least it was a couple of decades back, good ale and jazz go together rather well.

        1. Just had a look. I can see the attraction. Especially from your point of view.

          Real Ale. Live Music. Karaoke. Food.

          Not me though where going out to dinner is concerned.

          If i wanted to go out and have a sing song and a few nice beers in a group that place would hit the mark.

    4. It crosses my mind that Dover is only 150 miles from Stonehenge and that is commuting distance for many Americans. Add in the fact that more than a fifth of Americans think Scotland is a district of London and the confusion is understandable.

      1. SWMBO’s nieces proclaimed to us, long and hard, that Stonehenge WAS in Scotland

        1. Scotland does have quite a few stone henges. But they are all a bit far away for the middle class hippy benefit scrounger Druids of England.

    5. Lowestoft would have England’s earliest New Year’s Day sunrise were it not for the Earth’s axial tilt. At the March and September equinoxes, the isochrones – lines on a map joining simultaneous events – of sunrise and sunset very closely match the Earth’s lines of longitude, but at the solstices, they are at their greatest divergence. I don’t have the UK’s sunrise isochrone for New Year’s Day, but maps for mid-December and mid-January – with sunrise isochrones visible as green lines – show that Dover’s sunrise – about 15 days either side of New Year’s Day – is earlier than that of Lowestoft, England’s easternmost point.

      http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/UK_SRSS/uk_dec.html
      http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/UK_SRSS/uk_jan.html

      http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/UK_SRSS/uk12.png
      http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/UK_SRSS/uk01.png

    6. Norfolk, born and bred, yet it was not until I was in my 20s that I learned that Lowestoft was the furthermost easterly point in Great Britain.

      1. Until relatively recently (10ish ys ago) I thought Lowestoft was in Sweden 🙁

  76. Evening, all. Judging by the responses to a poll in my local rag, no one will need to police the wearing of masks in shops or on public transport; a large majority (70-80%) are in favour of keeping them compulsory! The sheeple have been thoroughly frightened.

    2. And 6 ft apart for ever, too, apparently.

      Good evening, Conwy. “Your call was important to us – because of Covid, there may be some delays”.

      One thing I have discovered during the plague – if you want buy something, and someone wants to sell it – the deal can be done and delivery made within 48 hours – often earlier. Private enterprise has shown up the Govt, Snivel Serpents, Banks no end.

      1. ‘Twas ever thus, Bill. The non-private enterprise get paid anyway and there are no come backs for poor service.

    3. The most frightened appear to be those wearing masks, walking in fresh air with no one else around

        1. I saw some daft bint wiping the door handle of her OWN car with that fluid stuff we are supposed to use all the time.

          1. One of the unfortunate aspects of the disqus system.

            I often reply via notifications only to see later that someone has posted similarly earlier.
            Still, great minds think fools seldom differ!

          2. I do that all the time, Conners. I just tell myself it is a ‘senior moment’. 😶

          3. Usually when I do it, it’s because the same comment is hidden after “Show more comments” and doesn’t appear until I’ve clicked on that. In this case, it was in response to a reply that I read in Notifications, so I didn’t see the main list of comments at all.

    4. That may be misleading. Take myself for example. I have largely been against the wearing of masks and haven’t done so unless forced. However I do support the wearing of masks in the cattle train environments of public transport. That is the only place though and even then only when crowded. Masks in shops or hospitality venues? Not unless it’s the January sales. Where does that leave me in your local rags poll?

      1. Deutche Bahn did a study of their entire network. They found transmission rates to be so low as to be negligent wether you were a mask wear or not.

      2. Pretty much in line with the trend. 70% wanted to keep masks mandatory in shops, but 80% wanted them still compulsory on public transport 🙂

    5. The news, local or otherwise and being in the pocket of the PTB, will only tell you what the PTB wants you know and think.

  78. That’s me for the day – a dreary day of grey skies, and strong north wind and not that warm Obviously caused by the plague.

    They say it’ll be better tomorrow, I wonder.

    Have a jolly evening – planning the foreign trips which you will never be able to take.

    A demain.

  80. Driving along the road in yellowbellyland (Lincolnshire) I saw what must be the best Road Sign ever, in a Layby

    Don’t be a Tosser: Take your Litter Home

    1. It should read ‘Don’t be a tosser, resign from the BBC, the Guardian and from managing the England team’.

    1. There is an annual show in the commune where hunting, shooting and fishing activities as well as the working dogs that support those pastimes are displayed.

      One year we had a demonstration by a Dobermann.

      It was chasing and capturing men (dressed as if they were heading for the poles to avoid nasty injuries).

      One display had the fugitive clambering over a wall. Seeing that dog going over a ten foot high wall faster than Colin Jackson covered hurdles and then dragging down the “fugitive” made one respectful..

      Very impressive, you would not want to be trying to escape that hound.

        1. The theory is that you split them at the fore-legs.
          Mr Darwin says:”Good luck with that.”

    2. In response to a girl being savaged by a dog a yank once said ‘Y’all, id shud im dun wiv ma guhn’.

      Clearly a moron, I explained how his primitive brain worked. The dog is 30 feet away. You’ve about 4 seconds before he’s on you. In the first second, he starts moving. Your brain sees the threat and reacts… slowwwllly. A signal is sent to your primitve brain ‘threat!’ It is useless and thinks ‘run! Fight!’ The dog is now 20 feet away. That’s your first second.

      Now your primitive monkey brain goes ‘teeth! claws run!’ and you’re still frozen as that naked ape, terrified of the noise and the fangs which your eye has magnified ten fold to perfect detail. Your sympathetic nervous system responds now, with a huge dump of adrenaline. Your hear trate increases, your muscles are stronger… and the dog is ten feet away in 2 seconds.

      Your thinking brain isn’t there. It’s asleep at the wheel. The monkey in you is doing all the work. The dogs on you, you throw up and arm and it’s practically chewed off.

      Yankee doodle with his guhuh guhnz didn’t seem to understand how biology functioned. It was nice kicking him and his tool using ego into touch as a reminder he was just a thick, stupid monkey.

      1. The human species’ divergence from monkeys has now come full circle and has now morphed into a convergence.

        Anyone disagreeing with me please show me your evidence to the contrary.

      2. You’re assuming that he engages brain before shooting. Not sure this assumption is justified.

    1. Being against the vaccine out of fear is daft. Being unwilling to get it due to a lack of solid information is not. It’s daft to simply accept ‘state say vaccine good, get vaccine’. That’s the attitude of a child.

      Believing that the vaccine is some sort of universal panacea is also idiotic.

  84. Sometimes you wonder how much lower the BBC can go. Read this rambling report on terrorism. The headline is the ‘far-right’ threat but it covers racism, Islamism and Russia (the Salisbury ‘poisoning’ and disinformation about the AstraZeneca vaccine) before finishing with a little homily from a Scotsman about England’s rainbow nation football team.

    I still think it would be scarier to hear one person shout ‘Allahu akbar’ than a thousand chanting ‘Ingerland’.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57829261

    1. There is no ‘far Right’. The BBC no doubts counts pseudo Nazis as Right, but this is drivel. The Nazi’s were Left wing. Economically and socially.

      A Right minded group wouldn’t conceive of invading another country. It just isn’t in the mindset.

    1. we are idiots, we keep voting the bar stewards back in. Of course have no real choice, for they are all the same no matter which rosette they wear, is a bit of a handicap for us.

      1. Please, please, For Britain, Reclaim, and Reform, amalgamate and give we voters a viable alternative to vote for and rid us of the current evils.

    2. Two things have created a confluence of events. Technology – allowing us to live longer and wealth, which allow us to give money away to other countries which allows *them* to live longer when normally they would have faced a natural limit on their birthrate.

      More people means more activity (industrial or otherwise) which means more heat. More heat, specifically concentrated heat does unbalance our ecology as more and more is taken to ever more concetrated areas.

      Comically, it is only our advanced, industrialised economy that permits cities to exist and those people to not starve but hey. Let the metro liberals face their entire way of life ending.

      1. As to the latter, I disagree.

        The amount of real heat that man produces, relative to all other sources, and the sun in particular, is a fart in a thunderstorm.

        1. True, but gather 20 million in one place, add in the industrial activity and you do affect the environment.

          At a simple level, pollution.

    3. “Starting in the mid-2030s, however, the combination of rising sea levels and the lunar cycle will cause a dramatic increase in flood numbers across US coastal cities, the new study found.
      Published by Nature Climate Change, NASA’s sea level change science team, it is the first to consider all known oceanic and astronomical causes for floods.
      High tides will exceed known flooding thresholds around the country more often, researchers found.
      The floods will sometimes occur in clusters lasting a month or longer, depending on the positions of the moon, Earth, and the sun.”

      They aren’t even saying ‘possibly’ or ‘likely’ or ‘may’. Since when did climate science become a hard science?

      2. See “The Life of Brian.”
        Prophecy has always been a very Prophetable business!

      3. At least, Mola, they recognise that it is a natural phenomena and not man-made.

  87. ‘Night All

    Zil up

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0927a82fa9054404bcdc6d4b8a4e9f88b65993c9e5eb0ab38beb7760a7ad39bf.jpg

    Ahem

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/81417644b54670d9632e824b3c293f8ceb048e7b01030a78a64b5c263b89e426.jpg

    Whitty Vallance,etc etc…..

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f8974d023612c3e1c24ef002bcc6fbdca75b6c7d1290b8284d06ee2edfdc3b6.jpg

    Double Awkward……

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d132c075f93caf195df6e7d4dfe848c9239b647b528f05a5744ba83d8f18a12d.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f315d32af490fa909195add1bf370d326b5820b6344517a90b7cd3f59188dc08.jpg

    Orban…….

    https://is2.4chan.org/pol/1626358273810.jpg

    1. I would like to understand why the South African fellows are looting a warehouse – is it just greed?

        1. Tell you something, it’s really, really difficult to get to the facts from a Google search. The first four pages are Left wing drivel spam sites. WSJ, guardian, bbc, huffpost. All full of nonsense that ignores the reality.

          Whereever you go, the same mentality is present. The black looting mob fully deserve their name.

          Yep, as expected theey didn’t get what they wanted under the law and so threw a tantrum, then set about looting, burning and destroying. Savages.

      2. Here is your answer
        “Rushton found that on the Raven IQ test, the average black university student in South Africa has an IQ of 84 (U.S. norms), though this might be reduced to 83 since the test norms may have been inflated by the Flynn effect (the students were tested about seven years after the Raven’s 1993 norming).” They are, in other words, so dim they will destroy their own nest because they can’t think beyond immediate gratification.

        The average I.Q of an ordinary Englishman is 100

        1. I’ll bet the average IQ of a university student in Britain is under 100 though!

          1. Some of the courses on offer though – dear life. What a waste of money and time!

            You now, like classics (which I studied) and psychology (err….)

        2. At university some 20 years ago we did these sorts of tests – I came out about 125 or something. I don’t consider myself especially bright, nor posessed of tremendous intellectual hardware.

          Then the warqueen did one for her works and was something off the scale. She is literally the brains of the operation.

          1. SWMBO the same.
            And she can work in several languages – I barely work at all, being all broken and rusty 🙁

      4. Must be a knock on effect I should think – once you know the supermarkets are going to be empty, you’d better get down there and grab your share before it’s all gone.

      1. Funny how he and the fat fatuous Abbototamus have been quiet lately – and the equally fatuous but hypocritical Oluwoso

    1. Before they do that they should play “spot the non Olympian black man” in Tokyo.

    4. Double down and continue the division, why don’t you…
      The BBC will be telling us that we love them and support their BLM salute.

    5. How bluddy thick can these morons get! Why can’t someone inform them that this is not a racist country and the more they try to tell us it is, the more we? are going to push back! If there was a proper debate/discussion about it then fine, but the bozos come at us from the starting point that they are in the right and everyone else is wrong!
      I am very cross!

      1. If there is a rational debate it will be obvious that we are an incredibly tolerant, generous country.

        Thus the Left lie. It’s what they do.

        1. Unfortunately they seem to be quite good at it! And they appeal to the dumbest of the dumb!
          I’m sure Mr. Grizz will agree!

      2. BLM want the defunding of the police, the destruction of capitalism and the break up of the family.

        I would have thought that current events in South Africa – where the police actually joined in the looting – might suggest that kneeling to the memory of a dead, black, American criminal was not a good idea. At least 70 black lives have been lost so far – did their lives matter or not?

        Why are our politicians so afraid of telling the truth about what BLM is?

  91. Phew! Another short but heavy stint up the garden putting the brash & ivy off the tree I dropped earlier through the mulcher.
    Very sweaty when I finished, so I’ve just had a cold bath and am now enjoying a bottle of Ridgeway Brewery’s “Hamster of Doom” brown ale with bite!

    I’ve got 8 ash over hanging the road to drop, ranging from 3″ up to about 10 or 11″ and a couple of dozen smaller saplings that have already died off.
    The larger trees will need to be roped and pulled away from the road which considerably adds to the work load.

    1. There are so few ash left, I always hate to fell one.
      Beautiful wood, excellent burning when dried.

      1. They burn beautifully wet or dry.

        “Beechwood fires are bright and clear
        If the logs are kept a year,
        Chestnut’s only good they say,
        If for logs ’tis laid away.

        Make a fire of Elder tree,
        Death within your house will be;
        But ash new or ash old,
        Is fit for a queen with crown of gold.

        Birch and fir logs burn too fast
        Blaze up bright and do not last,
        it is by the Irish said
        Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
        Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
        E’en the very flames are cold
        But ash green or ash brown
        Is fit for a queen with golden crown

        Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
        Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
        Apple wood will scent your room
        Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom

        Oaken logs, if dry and old
        keep away the winter’s cold
        But ash wet or ash dry
        a king shall warm his slippers by.”

          1. Grizzly posted it years ago. I have since learnt of its veracity after we had to cut our decent sized ash down because of its leaning over the wall above the track past our house.

          2. Burning ash was viewed as a waste of good timber, even though ash was claimed to be the original Yule log. However, ash possesses the peculiar quality of burning well when green, as recognised by Walter de la Mare.

            ‘Of all the trees in England,

            Her sweet three corners in,

            Only the Ash, the Bonnie Ash,

            Burns fierce while it is green.’

            From: ‘Trees’ by Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)

            https://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/features/18662048.dying-ash-comes-alive-poetry-pictures-prose/

          3. “But ash green or ash brown
            Is fit for a queen with golden crown”
            Precisely, Maggie.

          4. Ash is a useful timber in furniture making. It has great flexural strength and will be found in the undercarriage rails of tables made with other timbers such as Oak and Elm.

            For this reason Ash was used in the frame construction of motor vehicles such as Morgan and other vehicles. Unfortunately Ash is not very suitable for use in outside environments and when used as such in Morgan motor vehicles was heavily impregnated with bitumen. On a warm day the smell was distinct.

            Ash was also used for the ‘timber framed car’ viz. the Morris Traveller. It had to be coated with a thick layer of lacquer or boat varnish for protection.

          5. Ash is a useful timber in furniture making. It has great flexural strength and will be found in the undercarriage rails of tables made with other timbers such as Oak and Elm.

            For this reason Ash was used in the frame construction of motor vehicles such as Morgan and other vehicles. Unfortunately Ash is not very suitable for use in outside environments and when used as such in Morgan motor vehicles was heavily impregnated with bitumen. On a warm day the smell was distinct.

            Ash was also used for the ‘timber framed car’ viz. the Morris Traveller. It had to be coated with a thick layer of lacquer or boat varnish for protection.

          6. Lady Celia Congreve The Firewood Poem! I did it for my Grade 6 Speech and Drama exam!
            Fabulous words and glorious images!

          7. Here’s another on the same theme:

            LOGS TO BURN!

            Logs to burn! logs to burn!
            Logs to save the coal a turn!
            Here’s a word to make you wise
            When you hear the woodman’s cries.

            Beechwood fires burn bright and clean,
            Hornbeam blazes too –
            If the logs are kept a year
            To season through and through.

            Oak logs will warm you well
            If they’re old and dry.
            Larch logs of Pinewood smell,
            But the sparks will fly.

            Pine is good and so is Yew,
            For warmth through wintry days.
            But Poplar, and Willow too
            Take long to dry or blaze.

            Birch logs will burn too fast,
            Alder scarce at all.
            Chestnut logs are good to last,
            If cut in the fall.

            Holly logs will burn like wax,
            You should keep them green.
            Elm logs – like smouldering flax –
            No flame is seen!

            Pear logs and Apple logs
            They will scent your room.
            Cherry logs, across the dogs,
            Will smell like flowers in bloom.

            But Ash logs, all smooth and grey,
            Burn them green or old.
            Buy up all that come your way –
            They’re worth their weight in gold.

    2. Amazing technology from the geniuses who brought us mathematics and other sciences (well, according to the BBC).

    3. Quite often it’s on the female’s side that the rope frays/the knot slips first.

    4. TB, they are human beings and Russian citizens living in Dagestan. They have never done you any harm.
      As I wrote earlier, the two women survived with cuts and bruises, probably because Allah had inspired his servants to place a wooden framework just below the edge of the Sulak canyon.

      1. It is a pity Allah did not inspire his servants to place a guard rail on the seat, similar to the ones on ski lifts, to stop people falling out, and also to maintain the swing properly. Glad they survived though.

    1. Sorry to hear you weren’t well – I wondered this morning where you were. Hope you feel better now.

    2. Thank you for your brilliant musical interludes and please look after yourself, Mr. Hat!

      1. Thank you Sue, glad that you & others appreciate my humble selections, as for my health, its old age & as Charles de Gaulle wrote ” Old age is a shipwreck”

    3. Good night, Mahatma, sleep well and I hope you wake up wake up refreshed and well.

          1. Charles: I don’t have the words for it.
            Fiona: I know.
            Charles: I know you know.
            Fiona: I know you know I know.
            Charles: Yes, I know

    4. Sorry you’re not well, Elfin.
      Hope you make a swift recovery.
      Take it easy, man.

    6. Yo Hatman, get some kip and take more water with it in future. :@) Best……

    10. Thanks for another great Avalon Jazz Band clip, Hat. I hope that you have a good night’s rest tonight and a much better day when you awake.

  95. Just watched a TV advert by ClimateChallengeUK, which uses children to complain about environmental pollution. One obvious question: why are they conflating it with ‘climate change’?

  98. Time for bed, Good night and God bless, I leave you with…

    Night-time Prayer

    The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
    The darkness falls at Thy behest;
    To Thee our morning hymns ascended,
    Thy praise shall sanctify our rest.

    1. This is of course is sung at many funerals along with Abide With Me.

      Both were sung at my most beloved father’s.

      1. The sooner we return to the sanctity of the church and the teachings of Jesus the sooner we might restore our pride and dignity as a nation.

    1. The computers they need to seize are those of Matt Hancock and those advising him when he was acting as a Minister for Health.

      I reckon most of us would also be interested in his bank accounts, particularly those based in the Cayman Islands.

    2. I had trouble last night as well. Couldn’t log on to Tripadvisor. Even the trick of using an old link to get in wouldn’t work.

  100. Aston Martin unveils its first hybrid supercar – but it needs a recharge after 10 miles
    The 217mph Valhalla, which was expected to have a cameo in the delayed Bond movie, No Time to Die, will cost around £700,000
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/15/welcome-valhalla-aston-martin-unveils-first-mass-production/

    One BTL comment said that we shall all be reduced to getting around on a milk float like Ernie.

    But Ernie didn’t use a milk float he used a cart and a horse called Trigger and Trigger’s ‘exhaust’ helped to cultivate the growing of vegetable for the vegans.

    1. So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state, or that appears to where we’re headed currently. We appear to be heading there at breakneck speed.

      Morning AW. Difficult to argue with that!

      1. Araminta mng. Agree they’re in their own “variant” [no pun intended] mode now of going warp speed and in open public

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