Thursday 2 June: Returning to imperial measurements would be to take a step backwards

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    2. ‘Morning, Elsie, though consider yourself included in my greeting earlier.

  2. Good morrow NoTTLe Gentlefolk, something to ponder:

    ‘Obsessed’ Nicola Sturgeon says £20m for new referendum ‘a good investment’
    First Minister urged to focus on the cost of living crisis and get a grip on public finances rather than another independence vote
    Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that spending £20 million on a new independence referendum offers good value for taxpayers, despite plans to impose “brutal” cuts to public services and warnings that Scots face “the ultimate stealth tax”.
    The mad Krankie shewing more signs that she’s lost the plot.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/01/obsessed-nicola-sturgeon-says-20m-new-referendum-good-investment/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

      2. I wish! Complete with cyanide, strychnine and every other nasty poison! She is a poisonous, demented harpy!

        2. Not too realistic – even with all the disguise Tracey Ullman is far too good looking to be Krankie!

    2. What is it exactly that comprises the cost of £20m?
      Printing ballot papers, getting the little pencils out of storage and repairing the strings, hiring school halls…what else?

          1. That would be taking the pi55 – but she’s good at that, she’s been taking the pi55 out of the Scots for years and many wallow in it – present company excepted.

    3. She could ask the Scots people to donate the £20m cost for the referendum – with a maximum of £50/100 per person.. It would also give some indication of the support for the division of the Union.

  5. Good Moaning.
    Life is a Bed of Rosé.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/02/women-partial-tipple-happier/

    “Women who are partial to a tipple are happier

    Study of patients undergoing elective surgery finds females who drink at least twice a week have better quality of life than those who don’t

    By Laura Donnelly, Health Editor2 June 2022 • 6:00am

    Older women who enjoy a regular tipple have a better quality of life than those who abstain, or drink at very low levels, research suggests.

    The study of 628 patients undergoing elective surgery found that women who drink at least twice a week were happier with their lot than those who had little or no alcohol.

    The research looked at quality of life of patients aged 60 and over before and after surgery, checking for mobility, anxiety and depression, and levels of comfort.

    The study found little difference between men, regardless of their drinking habits, before surgery.

    But afterwards, those who enjoyed a drink fared better for quality of life, compared with peers who avoided alcohol as they recovered from operations.

    Women who were regular drinkers had a higher quality of life both before and after surgery, compared with those who avoided alcohol.

    The study compared those whose consumption hit a threshold classed as “medium to potentially hazardous” with those who were teetotal, or drank rarely.

    The threshold for heavier drinking was reached if women were drinking alcohol at least two to three times a week, or if men were drinking four times a week.

    Those who drank more tended to be slimmer

    Researchers said the findings were observational, but said alcohol might help to reduce stress and elevate mood.

    However, other differences were seen between the groups, which may also have contributed to their quality of life.

    Those who drank more tended to have higher education levels, and to be slimmer. Those who rarely or never drank alcohol weighed significantly more than the regular drinkers, with a difference of nine pounds among women.

    The study by Vera Guttenthaler and Dr Maria Wittmann from the University Hospital Bonn in Germany is being presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia Congress in Milan, Italy.

    Ms Guttenhaler said: “Our study finds that older patients with potentially unhealthy alcohol intake report that some aspects of their quality of life are better compared to those who abstain from alcohol or drink at very low levels.”

    “One explanation may be that higher alcohol consumption may lead to elevated mood, enhanced sociability and reduced stress.”

    Low-risk drinkers may be ‘sick quitters’

    But Dr Tony Rao, a visiting clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience said the conclusions appeared “flawed.”

    He said they did not consider that quality of life might be higher in those who drank more alcohol because they were generally healthier, able to socialise and able to drink at these levels without consequent harmful effects on health and wellbeing.

    And he said a major flaw in the study was that even low risk drinkers may be those “sick quitters” who gave up alcohol because of health problems.”

    1. Brought to you by the Drink more Wine Association.

      I know when i left hospital the last time the first thing i did was pour a large Scotch. And that was before i took the canula out.

      Good morning.

  6. It was all a fairy tale’: Lina Heydrich’s description of the Holocaust. 2 June 2022.

    This is a historical document in its own right, opening a window on to the intimate life of one of history’s villains, and on Lina’s emotional efforts to salvage recollections of that intimacy by rejecting the judgment of history. The book is filled with photographs of Heydrich’s subordinates and colleagues, all smartly dressed in their uniforms, hair slicked back like Heydrich’s, the model of respectable professional life. Yet they indulged in history’s greatest crime. Reading this beautifully written twin biography gives many clues to the moral blunting that permitted these men to commit crime and still think of themselves as anything but criminals.

    This ability to ignore reality in favour of a fantasy and/or a quiet life is innate to all human beings not just Nazi’s. We can see here in the UK an Intellectual and Political Elite that is as morally corrupt; as wilfully blind to the truth, as anything in the Fuhrers Germany and without the excuse that they know no better!

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/-it-was-all-a-fairy-tale-lina-heydrich-s-description-of-the-holocaust

      2. I wonder where one should put Bob Geldof?

        One might suggest that Live Aid started the ball rolling for millions upon millions of deaths by creating a famine rescue that allowed far more survivors to breed leading to far more people dying of famine and wars as the population has grown.

  8. Good morning from an Anglo Saxon Queen and happy jubilee to the present Queen .

    A bright sunny morning but chilly, we shall attend the villiage picnic later and the husband and I shall be having a clotted cream tea with wild strawberry jam tomorrow.

  9. Good morning from an Anglo Saxon Queen and happy jubilee to the present Queen .

    A bright sunny morning but chilly, we shall attend the villiage picnic later and the husband and I shall be having a clotted cream tea with wild strawberry jam tomorrow.

  10. Good morning all.
    A bright shining morning shines over the hills,
    With blushes adorning the meadows and rills.

    Another bright start to the day but a slightly cooler 4°C outside.

    I’m off to Helpstone, just North of Peterborough today to pick something up for t’Lad and I might stop for a B&B tonight.

  11. Good morning, all – and a very happy Coronation Day. It is sunny and warm. No rain until Sunday.

    To market.

    2. I was six years old and my parents took my sisters (aged respectively 17 and 15) to London to witness the occasion. I was considered too young and could not be trusted to behave myself so I was left at home in St Mawes with an elderly aunt. As we were not proletarian enough in those days to have television set I did not see any of the pageantry.

      1. My parents opted for a few days camping holiday.
        In a field belonging to a farmer my father knew.
        Possibly “character building” is the kindest comment I can make.

  12. 352856+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 2 June: Returning to imperial measurements would be to take a step backwards

    Thursday 2 June: Returning to imperial measurements would be to take a necessary step backwards, that’s far better.

    That step backwards is sorely needed on many an issue brought onboard these last near four decades by leaders that
    lack / lacked in honesty , decency, integrity & most importantly patriotism, & supporting cast of dangerous idiots.

    The toxic close shop, pro mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella voting pattern favoured by the electorate again & again fly’s blatantly in the face of decent peoples, ALL done supporting a party ( ino)
    party that politically murdered it’s genuine parent party decades ago.

    Seeing as people power has successfully succeeded in building a nation of complete shite & there is always a POSITIVE to a negative how about a peoples
    reset / replace as in mass supporting a patriotic fringe party for starters combined with replacing ALL this political piss taking tripe.

  13. Western fatigue over Ukraine war risks handing victory to Putin. 2 June 2022.

    If Putin were to succeed, the world we live in would be terrifying. And no matter how appalled you feel at the human results of the war, the Ukrainian people, by an overwhelming majority, want you to allow them to go on fighting it.

    They do? I’ve heard this story from the beginning. That they are united in their resolve; that they are fighting for Freedom and Democracy. Mostly from Johnson and Biden! But is it true? Prior to this war Ukraine was already divided, not just in the East but through its entirety. There is a large Russian speaking minority in the mass of the country. The present Regime has made things difficult for them. Do they support Zelensky’s vision? One imagines that they keep quiet more often than they cheer!

    https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2022/06/western-fatigue-over-ukraine-war-risks-handing-victory-to-putin

    1. Too much pandering to the supposed underdog they’ve been led to believe is The Ukraine.

      No word about the putsch performed by the West to remove the lawfully elected president in 2014 and to replace him with a drunken comedian, who will agree to the Great Reset so long as he gets loadsa wonga and weapons from the West, while sending his neo-nazis into Donbas to slaughter 14,000 Russian speakers, merely for being Russian speakers.

      1. Many years ago, my father who associated with the Polish Resistance during WW2 told me that the most appalling activities were visited upon the Poles who lived in the part of Poland- Galicia, absorbed into the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Eastern Poland in September 1939. The man that masterminded these activities- which were also made against the Jews and Russians was honoured with a statue in 2010- which led to protests from the Israeli, Russian and Polish governments at the time. It is a complex history but the narrative delivered by the MSM suggests it is simple- a Good V Evil scenario that ignores any complexity and compromises the truth.

        1. The sheeples don’t do history or reading or thinking or….whatever.

    1. Check the link, Anne, and you can see from the interactive map what time to expect them over Colchester.

      Over Flowton between 12:30 and 13:15 so I expect they’ll be over Colchester shortly after.

        1. I watched that airshow from my balcony by the grand harbour. If i had known you were there you could have bought me a drink. :@)

    1. Daily Sceptics’ comments have a link to this.

      Apparently, it is reported that the pharma chief, and many others, paid an undisclosed fee to a nursing assistant to allegedly falsify jab records. The sum of $200,000 is what the nursing assistant allegedly received from all of the clients. Fee payable depended on the client’s social standing, the report states. Differences due to ‘something lost in translation’?
      Still, not a good look for all concerned.🤡🤡🤡

        2. Ah, I was waiting for your appearance, Old Chap, have a bloody good Birthday and take a dram for me.

          1. I wish you and all other Nottlers thanks for the pleasure and support I get in these comments. We are in hard times with no way out with the policies our government is pursuing.

    4. Thank you for your best wishes. I have been out of sorts for over 6 months with a bad hip. I am now 4 weeks into recovery after a hip replacement which was quite an experience when the anesthetist had a job finding a way through my spine to give the anaesthetic. He eventually found a way through but sedation was minimal’ I did not like the bottom half of my body feeling solid as if I was encased in cement but the loud hammering as the surgeons got to work amused me. It seemed to be a heavy job. It was my first overnight stay in hospital.
      I do comment on occasion and uptick when I approve of a comment . I watch GB News and listen to BBC radio 4. It has been a pleasure to share the BBC Radio 4 UK National Anthem at the start of Radio 4 News on this official Queen’s birthday over the last 70 years.
      I was pleased to hear this morning that one of my favourite authors, Ian Rankin, is now Sir Ian Rankin

      1. Bless you clydesider! Lovely to see you here, and hope your recovery continues, to give you a pain-free future. I cannot imagine how I would have coped in the last 2 years without my new hip!
        Wishing you a very Happy Birthday! 🎉🍾🎂

      2. Happy Birthday, Clydesider, and may your hip work perfectly in future!

      3. Happy Birthday.
        Blimey. You’re tougher than I am.
        I wimped out and opted for being fully unconscious.

        1. I only had a local for my op. As i was laying on the slab i felt relaxed but then my teeth began to chatter. My mind was okay but my body had other ideas.

          1. Precisely why I chose the coward’s route.
            My imagination is active enough without experiencing the sounds and smells of a procedure on the other side of green sheets.

          3. My second face thingy and I was shaking like a jelly. Have to say though that the only thing I felt was the local going in.

      4. Happy birthday Clydesider

        So sorry you have been through a few ups and downs , and I hope you will now be able to enjoy the glorious countryside around you in N Yorkshire , my favourite part of our lovely country .

        1. Thanks T-B. I am looking forward to getting back on my bike and enjoying the local views. Sutton Bank and its views were glorious last week when I was driven up for a short walk. Best wishes.

          1. I feel so nostalgic , but driving huge distances now for me is a nightmare .. the major roads from Dorset to North Yorks are terrifying , as I discovered a few short years ago when I travelled up on my own to my dear Aunt’s funeral , who you might have known , she was well known in the gundog world . hundreds turned up for her funeral , everything was relayed outside ( little Church not far from Harlsey )

            Thought you would enjoy this , Clydesider .

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_WIgzRXOo

          2. Thank you for posting that, Maggie. It reminded me of my walk many years ago on the walk from Bucks to Stonehenge. I can’t remember the name of the Way, but this enables me to enjoy walks from my armchair as I reckon a daily 10 mile walk would be my absolute maximum. Perhaps I will watch the rest of this likeable chap’s trip on the Cleveland Way and I might have a go of shorter walks in the future. PS – It’s just come back to me: it was The Ridgeway Path.

          3. Thanks for the upvote, Maggie. It’s just come back to me: the walk I did in my younger days was The Ridgeway Path. I must have a look to see if this chap has walked and filmed it.

      5. Hope you’re having a wonderful day.
        Wish you good luck and a full recovery from your operation.

      6. Happy birthday, Clyde.
        Hope it turns out better than you could wish for yourself.

      7. Happy birthday, clydesider. Sorry to hear you’ve had hip problems (I feel for you!), but hope it’s all sorted now.

  21. Just seen this over at Daily Sceptics:

    Cecil B 31 minutes ago

    Our local Diversity Manager has just made her 34th appearance in the Queens honours lists

    Cecil B 12 minutes ago
    Reply to Cecil B

    Seeing as you ask, four times as a man, six times as a woman, twenty two of undisclosed denomination and once each as a cat and a dog

    1. Worst must be Blair’s son, whose name escapes me. Cronyism at its worst. His company lost £11Million last year apparently… A conman, like his father. Would you buy a used car from anyone in that family…

    2. Worst must be Blair’s son, whose name escapes me. Cronyism at its worst. His company lost £11Million last year apparently… A conman, like his father. Would you buy a used car from anyone in that family…

  23. ‘Morning All

    Day 2 of “Pride” month and I’m already sick to death of the faux virtue signalling by gutless companies……

    https://twitter.com/ARmastrangelo/status/1532047518170812416?s=20&t=LKt34SpVsUKrpDgI6D3W2g

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b0bcf94834e58734d92bd5aacee9b33a10f395519b5a64e355d5999a0c57b49f.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9366390d3a7b6be605f9d2c45225e2ca20c1b81e9c55718838922999e5ff5267.png
    I may become a hermit for the rest of the month……
    Edit
    Bet Grizz would love this……..
    https://twitter.com/ourcountrysgone/status/1531942023862882308?s=20&t=REDp7hZZdOgzP7Kz3MfzRw

    1. We don’t want this shyte any more than the middle east does…it has gone way beyond the basic freedom that most Europeans are comfortable with.

      1. He boasted of XXX.

        His wife, Miriam, refrained from giving her score.

  28. Yo All

    I understand, that in 2042, a Law will be passed in WUK (Wokist United Kingdom) the makes
    Heterosexuality no longer illegal

  30. I saw the TV as I walked through the living room (Lounge/drawing room/front room). Chakra Munchatty was sitting on a sofa. The sofa was draped with a Union Flag. Blood boiled. I am aware that cushions were made with the flag in the 60s, but considered it a childish aberration. The Radio Times has a big article on some female trooper in the Household Cavalry. Maybe if we go to war with Russia we can throw the sofa at them.

    1. Good morning HP

      Moh and I boiled up a little when we saw the Munchetty bint wearing Ukraine colours .. Blue and yellow … bringing her politics into a grand state occassion .

      I hate the BBC and their lack of gravitas … casual clothes no neckties etc etc

      My mother took my younger sister and I to view the Trooping of the Colour in 1957.. My father was working overseas then .

      My mother took many photographs .. We had a central position , we weren’t in the Mall but in the main centre of things and at the front … we were so lucky..

      I am certain we are in that film clip near to where she inspected and took the salute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRTBXkKCNts

  31. The Russian expedited global energy crisis has accentuated the fallacy of trying to maiintain living standards by the premature abandonment of burning fossil fuels through the UK Government’s net zero

    Despite its many iterations, the Government’s net-zero strategy is currently upside down and is only speaking to the ‘energy elite’, and even then, this group is confused about which technology they can trust to help them save costs and have no idea where to start.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1618577/energy-crisis-poll-heat-pumps-replace-gas-boiler-spt

    Well I made a start from an idea from Back to the Future with the prof’s fusion reactor featured in this clip:

    https://youtu.be/7EXOxilOi7Y

    Plenty of people worldwide have got the idea of burning rubbish but in an entirely planet saving way whilst generating sufficiently high enough temperatures for the hot plate on an AGA.

    Most people are basing their design on the Top Lit Up Draught TLUD stove but my latest idea is to avoid the premature lighting stage and force air downwards through a pyrolysing gas generating char layer:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/def09e25275cebdd5e7204022c207b822b510130469a508162ab3e43e641eeb7.jpg

    https://youtu.be/dM47gtKpGYY

    1. Green isn’t about energy or ecology. It’s about the massive transfer of wealth from the worker to the landowner. Windmills are a horrific method of generating energy. Everyone knows this. They are also not remotely environmentally friendly, sustainable or ecologically sound in any fashion whatsoever.

      They’re there because rich politicians, and rich friends of politicians looking to get richer get paid hundreds of millions from tax payers. It’s a scam, a fraud and nothing but the frantic theft of private wealth. That’s all climate change has ever been.

    2. A patented low emission stove, without any need for sensors, generates pyrolytically generated gases and this guy.explains the issues surrounding this technology whilst explaining how they are overcome in his invention:

      https://youtu.be/1maX3o4174k

  32. Good morning all. The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham put a £150 “energy rebate” in my account this morning. The irony is that our communal hot water in my building has just gone on the blink. Perfect timing all round.

    1. Think of it as the future, except add sewage into the water. That’s where the state is pushing us.

  34. Today marks the 70th year, 4th month and 28th day of Her Majesty’s reign. God bless her and keep her safe.

    (69 years exactly since her coronation)

        1. Blimey and I was at a street party and have been wrong for 70 years.
          Don’t tell my children, they think I know everything.😂😂😂
          Thanks Tom

  35. These quirky items make papers worth reading.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/02/immortalised-worlds-oldest-school-yearbook-class-ad41/

    Immortalised in world’s oldest school yearbook, the class of AD41

    “Marble tablet was signed by Athenian teenagers 2,000 years ago to create ‘camaraderie and comradeship’, historians reveal

    By Max Stephens 2 June 2022 • 6:00am

    A marble stone signed by teenagers in Ancient Greece shows that the idea of school yearbooks has existed for thousands of years

    A marble stone signed by teenagers in Ancient Greece shows that the idea of school yearbooks has existed for thousands of years Credit: National Museums Scotland

    School yearbooks date back to Ancient Greece, historians have discovered, after they translated a 2,000-year-old stone signed by Athenian teenagers.

    The marble relief, dating from between 41 and 54 AD, bears the names of 31 18-year-old men who had undergone the ephebate – a year of “rigorous” military and civic training designed to prepare them for adult life.

    Researchers believe the cadets may have hung the small plaque inside their gymnasium and etched their names on to it to create a sense of “camaraderie and comradeship”.

    Historians from Cardiff, Durham and Manchester universities examined the artefact after it had languished in a collection housed by National Museums Scotland since 1887.

    It forms part of a wider project from the universities to publish English translations of Athenian inscriptions stored across the UK.

    ‘Ancient equivalent of a graduate school yearbook’

    Dr Peter Liddel, professor of Greek history and epigraphy at the University of Manchester, who led on the discovery, said some of the names found had never been seen before in Greece.

    He said: “It was made to create a sense of camaraderie and comradeship among this group of people who had been through a rigorous training programme together and felt like they were part of a cohort.

    “It’s the ancient equivalent of a graduate school yearbook, although this is one which is created by a number of individuals who wanted to feel like they had come together as friends.

    “What’s interesting is that they clearly knew this would be preserved for a very long time. Ancient Greeks used wood and they used parchment, they used leather to write things down.

    “But sometimes they monumentalised things in the knowledge that writing them on marble would preserve them for a very long time.

    “This is not just a yearbook, it’s a time capsule.”

    The cadets listed on the plaque would have been a subset of the total cohort numbering more than 100 young men.

    None of the “co-ephebes” had written their full family name on the stone – suggesting the teenagers were trying to break down social barriers between themselves, which would have been usually strictly enforced in Athenian society.

    Other cadets wrote shorthand nicknames of themselves, such as Theogas and Dionysas rather than Theogenes and Dionysodoros.

    A carving of an amphora of olive oil on the relief suggests the plaque would have been hung in the gymnasium, as cadets would baste themselves in oil before wrestling.

    At the bottom of the list of names, written in larger letters than the others, is “Ceasar” – referencing Tiberius Claudius Germanicus Caesar, who ruled as Emperor Claudius between AD 41-54.

    In the Roman period, many of the cadets’ activities emphasised veneration of the Roman emperor, as it formed a central part of Athenian identity.”

    1. Except I don’t patronise Starbucks, that could have been me in my local coffee shop this morning!

    4. Yes, I noticed Boots was closed when I went into town this morning. Tesco is open pretty much as usual (which isn’t much help if you need prescription drugs).

          1. Just die – quietly, unobtrusively and without frightening any horses.

          3. Hence my request – in two countries – to leave what’s left to medical science.

          4. #MeToo, Bill but only here in UK – we have to give med students something to laugh about.

      2. Still waiting for my repeat precriptions to be delivered; requested Saturday last but not actioned until Monday

        1. I made a boob this month. I have two lots of drugs on repeat prescription and ordered one, but thought I’d ordered both. Oops! Fortunately, I had a week’s supply left over in a travel bag and found those so it should tide me over until the chemist opens again.

  39. Well just set off to go to the Supermarket and was informed by a neighbour before I arrived at the Stop that there are no buses either Today or Tomorrow. Bank Holidays! How did I miss this?

  40. I wonder if Amber heard that Johnny Depp is now the face of the #MenToo movement Psychobitch.

    1. I don’t think there is much to choose between them, though I must admit I haven’t followed the details. They both sounded absolutely ghastly.

      1. Depp drinking a pint of red wine for breakfast then smashing up his kitchen.
        I agree with you.
        Though men do get attacked by women but it rarely makes the news.

  41. Old soldier’s obituary in The Grimes yesterday:

    Academy Sergeant-Major Raymond Huggins MBE

    “When Raymond Huggins completed his time as regimental sergeant major of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in 1970, he was offered a commission. To the surprise of the regimental lieutenant colonel and assembled staff, he turned it down. The staff were hastily dismissed and the lieutenant colonel proceeded to berate him: not exchanging an RSM’s bearskin for a cocked hat — turning down a commission — had never happened before.

    Still Huggins would not be moved. “Tell me what you do want to do,” demanded the exasperated lieutenant colonel. Huggins asked to be posted back to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, as the academy sergeant major. Grenadiers have a way of getting what they want (and few would question their right to do so), and so Huggins began a ten-year posting as the British Army’s most important warrant officer (sergeant major), the man who was the key to the formation of its future officers, 5,471 in all during his tenure.

    Although the academy sergeant major presides over Sandhurst’s non-commissioned instructors and the day-to-day discipline of the institution, his impact is foremost and famously on the parade ground. Here his eye is like the eagle, his voice like Homer’s Stentor, “as powerful as 50 voices of other men”, and his repartee a match for any northern comedy club audience. Huggins maintained that army life was 90 per cent fun and 10 per cent character building, with a fine line between the two. Cadets nearing the time of their commissioning parade are inclined to exploratory ventures on the parade ground to display their originality and test the boundaries. “Idleness”, the catch-all offence on parade, usually meant a cadet was doubled-off to the guardroom for incarceration at the sergeant major’s pleasure. On one occasion, two cadets trotted onto parade in the costume of a pantomime horse, coconut shells simulating the clip-clop, with a third cadet astride in imitation of Sandhurst’s adjutant, who commands the passing-out parade mounted. Huggins did not miss a beat, ordering both “horse” and rider to be galloped off to the stables — and shut in with just hay and water for the rest of the day.

    When Huggins spoke words of advice on parade, however, with the huge heraldic badge of rank on his tunic sleeve betokening years of hard-won experience and his imposing physique adding force, the words tended to stay with a man. One officer cadet recalled how, addressing one particular cohort the evening before commissioning in 1976, Huggins put the fear of God into them with the words “Gentlemen . . . [long pause] you have now entered the top five per cent of the nation . . . [long pause] and with that comes responsibilities.” Then after an even longer pause, “Gentlemen, I would not wear jeans to do my gardening in, and I never want to see any of you wearing them either.”

    None had failed to understand the greater message, but 40 years on, visiting Huggins in retirement at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the cadet reminded him of the “advice” and told him that it had taken a long time before he did acquire a pair of jeans. As Huggins laughed, his eyes glinted. He still disapproved of them, he said, especially the expensive “designer jeans” he had read about recently in his newspaper.

    Raymond Pearce Huggins, known as “Flash” to those who dared, and “Ray” to his friends, was born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1928, the only son of Frederick Huggins, a publican and former chemist, and Emma (née Johnson).

    When he was eight an aunt took him to London where he saw the Guards at Buckingham Palace and from then on decided he wanted to be one too. After leaving school at 14, too young even for the Home Guard, he worked initially as a debt collector. His father had served in the First World War, and in 1942, just three weeks short of passing beyond the upper age limit for conscription, he was called up and offered a commission in the Royal Army Service Corps, leaving his wife and son to run the pub. Tall and broad-shouldered, Huggins proved an able barman, but it was to be his undoing in his scheme to get into the war. In 1944 he tried to enlist, giving his age as 17. All was going well until the sergeant dealing with his papers, who happened to be a regular at Huggins’s pub, put two and two together. As a result he had to wait another six months to get into uniform, by which time the war in Europe was over.

    Basic training at Fox Lines, near the main camp at the Guards Depot in Caterham, Surrey, was still on a wartime regime, however, and Huggins joined the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards in Hamburg in early 1946, still just 18. The place, he said, “was rubble”. One of their least pleasant tasks was to guard the internment camp at Neuengamme, a former concentration camp run by the SS where nearly 43,000 prisoners had perished and where the Grenadiers now guarded the former SS guards.

    His platoon commander was Lieutenant the Honourable Iain (later the Lord) Erskine, whose turnout, he recalled, was always immaculate and who interviewed each of his guardsmen individually, “carefully recording his notes in his leatherbound book and writing personal letters to their parents with a gold-nibbed fountain pen”. Erskine, Huggins said, had all the qualities that he wished his officer cadets to emulate.

    The following year, on the disbandment of the 4th Battalion, raised for the duration, Huggins was posted to the King’s Company of the 1st Battalion, the senior company of the Grenadiers, all of whose guardsmen were over 6ft and traditionally provided the pallbearers for deceased monarchs. He was part of the guard of honour for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten RN in November 1947, and at 6ft 1in was the shortest guardsman in the guard.

    Active service with 1st Guards Brigade in Palestine followed. Keeping the peace between Jew and Arab was a severe trial, with both sides also hostile to the British, and devious. One day an “absolutely gorgeous woman” approached him at a roadblock. Whatever his other thoughts, Huggins kept them under regulation, which was just as well, since she was carrying a Schmeisser sub-machinegun.

    On return to England, in 1950 he became the regimental light-heavyweight boxing champion, later qualifying as an army boxing judge, and represented the regiment at fencing, swimming and water polo as well as playing for the army rugby team. In 1952 he married Sheila Vaughn, a civil servant and former Wren whom he had met through a family friend. Sheila died in 2010, and he is survived by their four children, all now retired: Jayne, an administrator with a medical supplies company; Katie, an officer in the Women’s Royal Army Corps and instructor at Sandhurst; Sally, an administrator in social housing; and Tim, a musician.

    Subsequently, besides public duties, he served in Libya, Berlin and the Cameroons, rising rapidly through the ranks. In 1966 on promotion to Warrant Officer Class 1 he was appointed RSM of Old College at Sandhurst, where the former two-year commissioning course was run, in his words, as a “military boarding school” with its prefectorial system of under-officers and where cadets received a rounded education based on military training, war studies and sport. After Old College he became RSM of the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadiers at Chelsea Barracks, who after receiving new colours carried out an emergency tour in Northern Ireland. He then returned to Sandhurst with the lion and unicorn on his sleeve as academy sergeant major.

    Huggins was appointed MBE (Military) in 1973, and the following year received the Meritorious Service Medal, instituted in 1845 by Queen Victoria for “good, faithful, valuable and meritorious service”. Occasionally, in awe of his appearance, newer cadets at Sandhurst would salute him: “No, gentlemen,” he would say, “you don’t salute me, I salute you. But not yet.”

    He is regarded as one of the all-time “greats” of the appointment, where a measure of greatness is one of the qualifications in any case.

    On leaving the army in 1980 after his ten years at Sandhurst, the longest continuous tenure of any academy sergeant major, he became first deputy administrator at Blenheim Palace then master of ceremonies. After the death of his wife, who worked also as Blenheim Gardens secretary, Huggins decided to apply to enter the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an in-pensioner. “It is a good place to be,” he reflected, “and there is a great camaraderie here.”

    As for turning down a commission, reflecting on the thousands of cadet careers he nurtured, he had no regrets: “Had I accepted that commission, who would have remembered me now?”

    Raymond Huggins, MBE, Grenadier and academy sergeant major, was born on March 22, 1928. He died on May 13, 2022, aged 94.

    Extraordinary to think that someone aged 94 was too young to fight in the War.

      1. #MeToo, Spikey, on two occasions, once in Boy Service and again whilst on 85 Squadron.

        1. Yes I actually turned it down twice , turned down a Cranwell cadetship when a Brat as I wanted the engineering branch and later after getting a couple of HNCs the Mod asked me again – this time in the engineering branch – I told them they were 10 years too late

      2. Oh, I dunno. GSM Stokes, Coldstream Guards (of course) is in the same mould.

  42. Too much on today to sit and make comments. But I know one thing for sure, that weather wise, tomorrow will definitely be another dusty delta day.
    It’s hard to believe that 70 years ago with my parents and two sisters we walked to the bus stop some mile and a half from our home in Mill Hill. caught the 240 Red RT and went to Hendon to my mothers brother’s house who had a TV. And sat and watched the celebrations and parade for most of the day. My younger sister would have been in her pram and my little legs would have been aching. The day after my father took me and my elder sister to London from Mil Hill East Underground to see all the bunting.

      1. I don’t remember it raining in Skipton area. The adult women had some sort of race in the adjacent field. A young woman fell and broke her leg or ankle. All the other women were tut tutting cause it turned out she wasn’t wearing any knickers. I didn’t see it – dash!
        I saw a tiny bit of the coronation on a neighbours tiny tele – through a window. I was at the fence looking across the garden and the tele was at the back of the room. Just a few flickering black and white images – not the best viewpoint.

        1. Console yourself that it wouldn’t have been much better had you been inside! We had a telly (a massive 9″ screen!) for the Coronation and invited the neighbours in. In order to see anything we had to draw the curtains as light just blotted out the picture.

    3. A poor 4 for me.
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    1. They are all building up over the North Sea and elsewhere. FlightRadar24 Rules!!

    2. I had hoped to see them flying over Mid-Suffolk but I think they must have hugged the coast more.

      By the way, jdgar, I went to Bungay Grammar School from 1955 to 1959, When I left to join the Royal Air Force.

  45. Utter bastards.

    Minutes later they proudly tweeted: ‘Animal Rebels disrupt the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations demanding that Royal Land is Reclaimed.
    ‘This summer, we’re taking bigger action against the Dairy industry than ever before, and we need you.’
    Beau King Houston, amongst those taking action, said ‘The Royal family has had decades to lead the way on a just transition to plant-based farming and has failed to do so.
    ‘This transition is common sense and simple, we all win. 76% of currently farmed land could be rewilded and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
    ‘This would restore nature, spare billions of animals, and present a solution to the climate emergency, all in one act.’

    Stupid too.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10878109/Royal-security-alert-police-tackle-four-men-floor-break-barriers-at.html

      3. Charles won’t last as long as his mother and grandmother. Wrong mental attitude.

    2. Vit B12 deficiency. Impairs cognitive function. Ignorance helps too of course.

    3. There won’t be any animals if they are no longer farmed. No cattle nor sheep in the fields.

      1. They are clueless about farming. If all the available land were turned over to arable crops, there would be no manure, and the land would rapidly become even more impoverished than it is, dependent upon fertilizer to produce anything.
        In any case, that couldn’t feed all the people crammed on this island. Their real agenda is people dying – there is no other logical conclusion to their ideas.

      2. Yes. God gave us dominion over the Earth and everything in it. We are meant to take care of it thoughtfully and gently, and it will provide us with everything that we need, including lamb chops and fillet steak, chocolate cake, and good wine and beer. Cruelty and brutality is unacceptable. Misuse of nature is immoral – using pesticides that kill bees, for example – and the loonies don’t understand.

    4. Dangerous idiots with the full backing of the establishment. When other people are starving somewhere in the world, they’ll be saying it’s collateral damage.

    5. Dangerous idiots with the full backing of the establishment. When other people are starving somewhere in the world, they’ll be saying it’s collateral damage.

    6. Idiots but watching the video of them being run over is enjoyable.

      The blessed cbc is still saying that they have no idea what they were protesting.

        1. Marching soldiers- shame they didn’t let the horses trample them! I just knew some bloody idiots would try and spoil this wonderful occasion.

    7. Did the BBC show this? I didn’t really see it and I was watching the whole thing. (Very sad. I remember watching when all four sides of Horseguards were lined with Guards.)

      Poor old BBC supports the loonie protestors but does not want to show them spoiling their Outside Broadcast of the Year.

      1. There was commotion in the background and it appeared on the news. Apart from the commotion, I didn’t see it at the time.

      1. I would enjoy letting the soldiers affected to be given a few minutes with them, to show their appreciation.

      2. Wibbs, I don’t think they were kids- the short video I saw indicated that they were old enough to know better. Twerps.

    9. Where do they expect to grow the food plants if the land is returned to the wild? The millions of animals provide manure to grow the food we eat, as well as meat. All those animals would be dead and gone in their utopia. Crazy morons.

    10. These, no doubt, are the morons who think the countryside is “completely natural”. It isn’t; it’s man-made and a working environment.

  46. Just seen The Queen with the Duke of Kent on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. She looked lovely. What a gal!

      2. Yes, he looks rather haggard. I’ve seen him up close a few times at the Wigmore Hall (where he’s Royal Patron and attends concerts informally) in recent years but never looking like that.

      3. He looked in a right old state I thought. Seeing the Queen and a lot of the Trooping the Colour I felt very emotional. What a wonderful occasion. Never to be repeated I feel. Don’t think there will be the same feelings when Charles accedes the throne.

        1. I had forgotten that he was given my (small) office in a barracks in Omagh, Northern Ireland, when my unit departed after a four month tour in 1970/71. I believe he didn’t stay there very long. I never saw him.

          Just found this:

          A new book about the Queen has revealed that, in 1971, the monarch intervened to prevent the kidnapping of her cousin, the Duke of Kent. The then 35-year-old Duke, an Army officer with the Royal Scots Greys, was sent to Northern Ireland with his unit but the Queen alerted Edward Heath, the prime minister, during her private audience, and he relayed a warning to his ministers. Commanding officers were told the Duke was not to be sent to Belfast without special orders. A few weeks later, he was posted back to the mainland. Wiki

  48. The letters in favour of the relaxation of restrictions on imperial weights and measures outnumber those against by 3:1 yet it is the latter that gets the headline. Here it that letter, demonstrating the peculiar mix of loftiness, conceit, contempt and prejudice that lurks inside every ‘progressive’ and ‘rationalist’.

    SIR – The intention of returning to imperial measurements (report, May 29) is regressive, irrelevant and unnecessary. It means reintroducing a system that is totally alien to at least a generation and will bring no added value to our lives apart from a degree of nostalgia to some of the over-50s. There are more important things with which the Government needs to concern itself.

    The decimal system is at the core of industry, science and education in every country in the world apart from America. Its beauty lies in the simple relationship between volume and weight – that a litre of water weighs exactly one kilogram. The biggest clue to imperial’s irrelevance is in the name.

    Paul Bendit
    Arlington, East Sussex

    The second sentence of the last paragraph is the giveaway. The ‘beauty’ that the writer describes is in fact the arbitrariness of metric. That this mathematical relationship, logical though it might sound, should be the principal on a which a whole system should be based demonstrates the writer’s utter detachment from the reality of life and all its practicalities. I doubt that a civil engineer thinks much about that relationship when designing a steel bridge girder.

    1. I’m pretty sure that a civil engineer thinks about exactly that when designing a steel bridge.

        1. Sure! As well as the other benefits of a interconnected and more logical system.

          I don’t think civil engineers really care about culture, history or nostalgia when it comes to doing their jobs.

          The NHS has been metric for over50 years… did you ever wonder why?

          2. Because you can screw around with bananas by the lb or peck or bushel but you shouldn’t screw around with medication.

          3. err, then why was the NHS able to cope pre metrification?

            As long as the measurements are exact and consistent, the base shouldn’t matter two hoots; a base of 12 gives easier and more whole part sub-divisions than a base 10.

          4. What “base 12” are you referring to?

            16 drams = 1 oz

            16 oz = 1 pound

            14 pounds = 1 stone

            8 stone = 1 hundredweight = 112 lb

            20 hundredweight = 1 ton

          5. The number itself.
            12

            10 is whole number divisible by 1,2,5 and 10.
            12 is whole number divisible by 1,2,3,4,6 and 12.

          6. Ah… and what is the advantage of having a system based on a number with more devisors as opposed to a number equal to the number of fingers on our hands?

            Aside from inches, eggs and hours?

          7. Ease of use in day to day transactions.

            Decimal has many advantages but dividing in “whole parts” it isn’t the best.
            I wouldn’t choose imperial for most things but it has a useful place.
            Computing will have changed but in essence it’s base 2 to do all the decimal calculations.
            Ultimately what really matters is accuracy and consistency

          9. There have been plenty of cases recorded of deaths caused by medicines being wrongly administered by factors of 10.

            The idea that metric is safer than imperial is absurd. Safety is a matter of competence, whatever the setting.

          10. So… Britain stands alone with a medical system dispensing medication in ounces (which are different to US and Liberian ounces apparently) and a military that measures distance in rods?

            You don’t get how this might lead to some problems?

          11. Missing the point again.

            Tell me where I or other members of this forum or the government have said that the UK should return wholly to imperial.

          12. I never implied that this is the case, I employed hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of advocating for a system of measurement based on the twin pillars of 12 (kinda) and cultural resentment.

          13. Bullshit. Everything you have written here today is contemptuously dismissive of the idea of imperial W&M. You gave yourself away when you wrote “I don’t think civil engineers really care about culture, history or nostalgia when it comes to doing their jobs.” I doubt very much that a civil engineer will be thinking of the beauty of Paul Bendit’s ideologically pure kilogram of water. He’ll just be designing a bridge and today he’ll do it in metric.

          14. You think that a system of measurement is or is not “ideologically pure”?

            See, that’s your problem right there!

          15. No. It’s some of the supporters of metric who do. Did you even bother to read Paul Bendit’s letter?

          16. “I don’t think civil engineers really care about culture, history or nostalgia when it comes to doing their jobs.”

            You have utterly missed the point I was making. Have another go.

          17. The engineers I have worked with have had a profound knowledge and appreciation of the works of their predecessors. You will find the same with the great architects and scientists.

          18. I would hope that Bridge Engineers take into account that bridges grow and shrink according to OAT (Outside Air Temperature)

          20. So, if they know that, they know that metric fallibility is present at every other volume?weight calculation

            Concord used to lgroe in lengthe by 2 Inches, when Supersonic

          23. History is important – remember what was tried and failed, and learn from it.

          24. So they can give completely the wrong dose, out by a decimal place? It’s been known.

    2. 352954+ up ticks,
      Afternoon WS,
      This Bendit chap seems to me to be somewhat of a twisted twat, how about many other issues & ways of life we must return to the past to pick up again where we carelessly dropped them.

      Common sense, compassion for others as in foreign elements in
      natural disasters, putting them first,otherwise the indigenous treat the indigenous first & foremost always.

      That should be the measure of things at the moment,

    3. Yo WS

      A litre of water weighs exactly one kilogram.

      But only when subjected to a Standard Atmosphere of 15 Degree C and 1015 millibars Air Pressure

      The actual weight of the ‘litre’of water will totally depend on its’ density. which is dependent on Outside Air Temperature

      If the temperature drops, the water gets more dense, until it freezes.

      Then the water will expand whn it turns into ice.(if Ice did float, the two Poles would just grow across the seas, from the bottom up
      and life on earth would be extinguished

      Heating water, makes if expand, therefore less dense

      Lowering the Air Pressure will also make it less dense: water heated at altitude will ‘boil’ at below 100 deg C.

      So apart from the odd day, when the outside condition come together, a Kilogramme and Litre of water are not the same.

      So, we may as well stick with weights and measures being disimlilar.

      Remember, the 19 Century Version of G a t e s, Napoleon tried to introduce a Metric Time

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

      1. Best mates with my neighbour who was Commanding officer Sea Cadets Gosport.

  51. Delighted that there was no sign of the mid-atlantic pair on the TV transmissions!

    2. They ordered enough vaccine for ten doses each, any relaxation of their “we follow the science” rules would cause embarrassment.

  53. Didn’t Trooping the colour, the parade and the fly past go like clockwork,
    Why?
    Because no bloody politicians were involved.
    Saw the sh1t from No. 10 there looking like a sack of potatoes tied up with string around the middle. What an embarrassment he is.

    1. I thought the same at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. Would have been a woke shambles if civil servants and politicians had been allowed anywhere near it!

    4. By thr time he got to the shop Moss Bros had already rented out such items as might have fitted him.

      2. Ah! Moss Bros! It’s our 39th wedding anniversary on Saturday and I’ve got to say, MB delivered brilliantly! 5 morning suits with top hats etc and a tiny kilt and shirt for my nephew! The only blip was a full length tartan tie for nephew! My mum had to rolli up under his kilt and pin it!

    5. Johnson and Carrie looking at each other and accompanying body language as if they are Charles and Diana.

      1. They know they are in trouble. Carrie’s texts are coming out soon re partygate. That should bury them.

  54. Didn’t Trooping the colour, the parade and the fly past go like clockwork,
    Why?
    Because no bloody politicians were involved.
    Saw the sh1t from No. 10 there looking like a sack of potatoes tied up with string around the middle. What an embarrassment he is.

  55. Wow, what a boy.. look at this .

    Moh watching cricket on his laptop .. so pleased with young bowler Matty Potts.

    Matthew James Potts (born 29 October 1998) is an English cricketer.[1] Potts is a right-arm pace bowler and lower order batter. He plays first class cricket for Durham and received a call up to the England cricket team for the first time in May 2022. He made his debut for England the following month.

    Domestic career
    Potts made his first-class debut for Durham in the 2017 County Championship on 8 June 2017.[2] He made his List A debut for Durham in the 2018 Royal London One-Day Cup on 18 May 2018.[3] He made his T20 debut on 19 July 2019, for Durham against Northamptonshire, in the 2019 t20 Blast.[4]

    In April 2022, he was bought by the Northern Superchargers for the 2022 season of The Hundred.[5] Later the same month, in the 2022 County Championship, Potts took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, with 6/58 against Leicestershire.[6] A month later, Potts took seven wickets in the second innings, and eleven wickets in the match, to help Durham to a 58 run win against Glamorgan.[7]

    International career
    In May 2022, Potts was named in England’s Test squad for their home series against New Zealand, his maiden international call-up.[8] Potts made his Test debut on 2 June 2022, for England against New Zealand.[9]

  56. From Takimag today:

    They’re Replacing You, Black America
    Ann Coulter, June 02, 2022

    “Whether true or not, the left has decided that black people are as easy to play as Donald Trump. While frantically replacing African Americans with immigrants, they announce: “Replacement” is a white supremacy theory! Pay no attention to the Latino immigrants doing construction and Indian immigrants getting all the “diversity” jobs…

    For the past quarter-century, black academics, intellectuals and activists have been screaming from the rooftops about the devastating impact of mass third world immigration on African Americans…

    No matter what you say or do, no matter what I say or do, the Anti-Defamation League just needs to call us “white supremacists,” and 90% of black people will line up to vote for the Democrats…

    Civil rights hero Barbara Jordan, appointed by President Bill Clinton to head the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, thunderously concluded that there is “no national interest in continuing to import lesser-skilled and unskilled workers to compete in the most vulnerable parts of our labor force. Many American workers do not have adequate job prospects. We should make their task easier to find employment, not harder.” ”
    “Black workers didn’t need to wait for the reports. In 2006, black day laborer John Henry Ford was interviewed by The Washington Post while he was standing on a street corner in Washington, D.C., looking for work amid a crowd of Hispanics. His verdict: “They came over here, in a sense, to replace us.”…

    You bet they did! If you doubt me, bring up immigration with any doyenne of the upper crust, sit back and wait for the heartfelt speech about her landscaper — so cheerful, so hardworking, so willing to “do the jobs Americans just won’t do!”

    Tough luck, black folk! Latinos are a more powerful voting bloc now. (Also, African Americans will vote Democrat no matter what, so who cares?)…

    Indeed, the entire story of black people in America from slavery to civil rights has been replaced in toto by the “diversity” regime. Don’t look now, but Hispanics, Asians and Muslims are filling all the “diversity” slots in corporations, universities and the media. You know, to make up for the legacy of — WHAT ON EARTH? WE DID NOTHING TO YOU!…

    Wow, have you guys been replaced! So has the white working class and increasingly, the white middle class. But nothing like the industrial-scale replacement of black Americans….

    I say all this not to join the chorus of white Republicans futilely sucking up to black people, but for only one reason: It’s true. To the extent that anyone’s being replaced, it’s you, black Americans.”

    https://www.takimag.com/article/theyre-replacing-you-black-america-2/

    I’m not sure how I feel about this. Obviously it’s happening here as well, especially with Afghans, Syrians, muslims of all types etc. plus of course more people of colour. And they are replacing the established Indians, Sikhs etc. over here. As well as replacing us, but then we should be used to that idea by now. Just look at the TV.

    Part of me feels, not exactly schadenfreude (because there is no laughing element in all this) but perhaps a certain “well now you know what it feels like for us” kind of feeling.

    Admittedly their place in our history is not like the blacks in the USA. But I wonder what side our more established immigrants will be on in the Great Reset (and incidental Islamification) that we are going through. Bearing in mind that several of our incomers hate each other, while we are supposed to welcome all and sundry without discrimination, it will be interesting (in the Chinese “Interesting TImes” sense) to see who fights whom in this country. We are not allowed to fight anybody, of course. Plus that discounts blacks who just fight each other anyway.

    1. I’ve just read your post and I have to tell you about a conversation we had yesterday with our daughter. As you know, she is married to a black man, whose parents were from Guyana. The twin boys (mixed race) are nearly 2 and their daddy wants to warn them that they will be ‘different’ ‘cos they is black! There are a lot of people in this world who wish to cause division, for whatever reason, without adding any extra cause. Making them a ‘target’, particularly in Nikeliars sectarian Scotland, will help no one. Sticking a label on anyone is nota great idea!

        1. Simon was brought up in Germany then Croydon. His mother is a very down to earth woman and really doesn’t do the ‘poor me’ race thing. And really, neither does Simon. Vic is a mixed race chid as well!

  57. 352954+ up ticks,

    This Batten chap & the party he was successfully building was the last decent political group that stood between decency and a seemingly . unscalable wall of shite.

    Be warned the treacherous downfall of Gerard Batten & a very successful party building was brought about by the uKiP party’s nec, still in residence. & farage.

    https://gettr.com/post/p1ccy9nc9a4

  58. After watching The Troop; a little perspective on the Ukraine war for all the political zealots who are rooting for greater and greater British involvement. Truss and Johnson in particular.
    If the propaganda is to be believed, there have been 30,000 Russian casualties. That is over 1/3 of the total British Army and more than the entire Army Reserve.

    1. It seemed to me that the majority of our “troops” were “trooping the colour!”

      1. Ideal for a surprise attack from the rear. By the looks of things in Pride month, our security forces would be more than obliging….

          1. but according to that daily mail article, from the back is the way to go nowadays – certainly no face to face kiss kissy!

    2. It surprised me there were no Welsh Guards there as they’re in Iraq.
      What on earth are they still doing there. Have they just been forgotten?

      2. Could be that there are none left. Looking at the tiny number of guardsmen on parade – I just thought back to the 50s and 60s where the Horse Guards was FULL of soldiers AND more Foot Guards lined the route from Buck House to the Approach Road.

  59. Russia is winning the economic war – and Putin is no closer to withdrawing troops. 2 June 2022.

    It is now three months since the west launched its economic war against Russia, and it is not going according to plan. On the contrary, things are going very badly indeed.

    Sanctions were imposed on Vladimir Putin not because they were considered the best option, but because they were better than the other two available courses of action: doing nothing or getting involved militarily.

    The first set of economic measures were introduced immediately after the invasion, when it was assumed Ukraine would capitulate within days. That didn’t happen, with the result that sanctions – while still incomplete – have gradually been intensified.

    There is, though, no immediate sign of Russia pulling out of Ukraine and that’s hardly surprising, because the sanctions have had the perverse effect of driving up the cost of Russia’s oil and gas exports, massively boosting its trade balance and financing its war effort. In the first four months of 2022, Putin could boast a current account surplus of $96bn (£76bn) – more than treble the figure for the same period of 2021.

    Vlad’s not going to settle until he’s reached the culminating point of his present military objective which is the acquisition of the Donbass. He will then have to wait for and defeat the American sponsored Ukrainian counterattack so it will be the Autumn at least before any negotiated progress can be expected. By then of course we will be in even worse shape than we are now!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/russia-economic-war-ukraine-food-fuel-price-vladimir-putin

    1. By autumn, Europeans will also be feeling the chill of winter and looking at their empty bank accounts.

      1. Yes Kaypea, but we’re surprised that the Government recently banned the exploitation of Cambo gas and oil field.

        They must know that Britain does not need any more gas or oil.

    2. One of the quirky pubs in the local town has a similar take on the Queen jubilee.

  61. The Queen’s weather? We finally put the cushions out and MH brought down the parasol. The sky was a gorgeous cloudless blue and the sun was warm. I sat outside with a glass of Pinot and my book and enjoyed the warmth. I hope it stays like this for a while.

      1. Blast! Sunday you say? 20 of us probably won’t care! Bunting up and waiting for the bricks…

          2. Do you fancy coming? We have bunting! I must nip out and take a photo before we get the yobs round!

          7. Actually Sue, I can’t stand gin- was asking for Phizzee;-) Next time I’m in Scotland will let you know but it ain’t likely anytime soon. My family are southern Scots- Ayrshire.

      2. It’s only Thursday, the forecast may get shunted along a few hours. On the other hand….

    2. Hope so too. 50 neighbours invited invited to my and my neighbour’s front drives. So that will be 100 people. At least !

      30 lbs of ice. One dozen bottles of fizz plus beers. Sausage rolls, Kalamata olives and cheeses + Bikkies.

      I’ll get me Throne. :@)

      1. We are having steaks tonight and I have put my mini Rose prosecco (courtesy of the staff etc here.) in the fridge to drink with dinner. Doing mash with fried onions and steamed spring greens for MH and a side salad for me.
        MH is watching 663 Squadron movie on TV as well as keeping an eye on the cricket.

          1. Change of plan- son and daughter in law gave us a bottle of Pinot Noir when they visited so we are going to open that instead.

    3. I have watered the garden Lotl, which has taken me a long time , Moh fell asleep watching the cricket , then went out and lay in the chair in the garden .

      I rarely sit in the sun , and if I do , only for ten minutes or so .

      1. MY OH went next door to watch the French Open on their telly as he couldn’t figure out how to get it on ours. They were busy hanging the bunting and left him to it……

    5. While it wasn’t particularly sunny here, it was warm, so I lounged on the chaise longue and read a book. No wine as I’m driving up to the beacon lighting later.

      1. Try to avoid playing the part of the wicker man, I’m told it’s a hard act to follow.

      2. I’m going to watch the beacon lightings on TV later. If we were up to it, we’d go down to the beach and watch the fireworks- but we’re not and are now full of food!

  62. I see the papparazzi had telephoto shots of Brash and Trash INSIDE the Horse Guards.

    I wonder if any of the children asked some awkward questions. “Are you the one Mummy says is horrible?”

  64. Net Zero is a Stalinist fantasy. Spiked. 2 June 2022.

    As energy prices soar, behind the scenes, the UK government is planning to make it even harder to heat our homes. The government is threatening to force manufacturers of gas boilers to switch to making heat pumps. From 2024 onwards, Whitehall plans to levy severe fines on UK-based boiler manufacturers that fail to meet production targets for heat pumps, hitting them with a £5,000 penalty for each failure to deliver a unit.

    These Stalinist reprisals are the latest absurdity to result from the government’s hell-bent pursuit of Net Zero. To meet Net Zero carbon targets, the number of heat pumps installed in homes each year will have to multiply 12-fold over the next six years – from about 50,000 today to 600,000 by 2028. This would be a remarkable feat, given that to buy a heat pump and install a complete system currently costs between £8,000 and £28,000. Meanwhile, a working boiler system comes in at just £2,000 to £3,000.

    The idea for a £5,000 penalty came out of a consultation held by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with a convenient set of respondents – including 24 unnamed organisations and private individuals, 15 NGOs, eight heat-pump manufacturers and just seven makers of gas boilers. As BEIS puts it, having got the answer it wanted: ‘We share the view of the majority of respondents that payments or penalties for shortfalls against targets… will need to be sufficiently substantial to ensure that the policy will be effective and support a transformation in the market.’

    ‘Transformation’ is an apt choice of word. The switch from boilers to heat pumps is among the most fantastical of all the Net Zero aims. Aside from heat pumps being far more expensive than conventional boilers, the installation is far more expensive, too. To work properly, heat pumps also need up-to-date home insulation, new pipeworks and larger radiators – work which is extremely disruptive. Even after all that, heat pumps can take hours to heat your home and are incredibly noisy. Plus, the 15 per cent of the population who live in flats will have to opt for an ‘air source’ heat pump, as opposed to the standard ground-source model, which is more expensive to operate than a gas boiler.

    Of the 1.7million gas boilers that are installed each year in the UK, most are made domestically by firms like Vaillant, Worcester Bosch and Baxi. Yet the new government policy means their future (and that of their employees) is now uncertain.
    The policy also lays bare the undemocratic logic of Net Zero. The British people have never been asked if they want to trade in their trusted boilers for more expensive, less efficient heating systems.

    The heat-pump policy began life at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the unelected quango that advises the government on how to reduce carbon emissions. In 2020, the CCC called for 2.2million heat pumps to be installed in new homes and another 3.3million to be retrofitted in old ones by 2030 – seemingly without any regard to the cost or feasibility, not least given the lack of trained fitters.

    Whitehall later put forward the target of 600,000 installations per year by 2028. We won’t come close to achieving this based on current installation trends. Yet instead of rethinking the planned heat-pump revolution, BEIS is threatening more drastic measures to try to meet the target, including criminalising conventional boiler manufacturers.

    Alongside the stick, is the carrot. The UK government plans to spray money at the comfortable and the virtuous to encourage takeup. Through its newly announced £450million Boiler Upgrade Scheme, a modest 90,000 homeowners in England and Wales will now be able to get £5,000 off the costs of the unit and installation of an air-source heat pump, or £6,000 off the unit and installation costs of a ground-source heat pump.

    According to Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, heat pumps ‘need to come down in price’. These giveaways are intended to help ‘kickstart an industry so that sooner or later we won’t need subsidies’, he says. But the numbers behind this wish are simply not credible. The government ‘expects’ heat pumps to cost between a quarter and a half less than they do today in just three years’ time. Can we really see this happening, at a time when inflation is about to reach double digits?

    It is all hot air. Most people will be unwilling or unable to find the thousands of pounds needed to switch to heat pumps, even with government giveaways. In any case, gas boilers do the job better and for far less money.

    But in its dogged pursuit of Net Zero, the government is apparently willing to ignore any practical considerations that stand in its way.

    Stalinst is a literally true description since the old Soviet Union he ruled over was a Communist Command Economy. Net Zero holds a similar position in the minds of the UK’s Marxist Elites as collectivisation did to the Bolsheviks. It’s an Act of Faith. It will follow the same path! The apparatchiks in Moscow figured out what was needed and then sent out the orders. That these were almost invariably wrong made no difference and disagreement or argument was not only unwise but positively dangerous. Here it will probably collapse into chaos!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/02/net-zero-is-a-stalinist-fantasy/

    2. Where will all that ‘leccy come from? How will it get to he heat pump? There isn’t enough generating capacity even now, not transmission capacity either.
      From t’Web: “According to Ofgem, the average British household has 2.4 people living in it and uses 2,900 kWh of electricity and 12,000 kWh of gas. This works out at 242 kWh of electricity and 1,000 kWh of gas per month. ”

      So, to replace the gas, you will need to add 4x the current demand on electricity.

      1. Is there enough generating capacity? No

      2. Is there enough transmission capacity? No

      3. Is the wire from the pole in the road to the house capable of taking 5x the current load? No.

      So, the entire generating and transmission system in the UK needs replaced. Hell, you roosters can’t even build a new power station in 30 years, let alone renew the whole system.

    3. This is the best article on Net Zero I’ve seen. Stalinist fantasy describes it perfectly – pushed by clueless wokes in Whitehall, in thrall to their Common Purpose masters.

    4. The Tories continue to sign and re-sign their death warrant. When will the dozy devils wake up to what Johnson is up to and get rid of him. Any politician foolhardy enough to continue along Johnson’s desired path will fall at the same hurdle i.e people being forced to pay huge sums of money for an inferior product or go cold, blackouts because the both the delivery system, the grid, and the generating system are not capable of handling the extra demand. Oh, nearly forgot, going hungry.

      Political mastermind, our Johnson, or Schwab’s wet dream: take your pick?

      1. At least Trudeau doesn’t pretend to be a conservative, he is just a two faced self centered idiot.

      2. To achieve a dream that is totally unnecessary, given that the total ‘carbon’ (CO²) emissions of the UK, is an infintesimal amount compared to the world-wide total for ‘carbon’ (CO²) emissions which, anyway, amount to just 0.04% of the atmosphere and are no danger to anyone or anything.

    5. Most heat pump adverts show a box outside the house with a big fan and a couple of insulated pipes coming out of it which then disappear through a hole in the wall.

      But what is there on the other side of the wall?
      Here’s a 26kW heat pump boiler replacement:

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/40fe2a31ebeb0792ae29374ad45e0f1e4434c8f938d3e09dced5d0a49f5f5d8f.jpg

      https://ohmenergy.co.uk/project/ground-source-heat-pump/

      What is noticeable is the amount of copper needed for the increased complexity of such a uniit.

      It is now becoming realised that the drive to replace fossil fuel powered vehicles with electric ones will shortly result in escalating copper prices which will confound the adoption of EVs.

      Likewise, the copper demands for heat pump installations may well limit the planned conversion of gas boilers to heat pumps not just because of cost but due to the inability of the copper mining industry to meet the Government’s optimistic boiler conversion programme.

      1. Yep, that looks feasible for each tiny house/flat in the UK. Good to know we are leading the way in saving the planet.

    7. Heat pumps need regular maintenance.

      In this part of Sussex there is only one qualified engineer.

      If the government think that they can produce enough engineers to maintain that number of heat pumps they are crazy.

      ….and where is all this extra electricity going to come from?

        1. That is very generous of you. I would expect them look at available food and whine about how everyone should be vegan

    3. Oh no ! Men with ladders ! I hope they learned Bill Thomas’s lesson. Let the women do it !

      1. Especially that third photo. Is he expecting it to stay upright when he scales it.

    4. No ladders were involved in putting up these decorations:

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/460a3e148b48e70f2006f440092f46259abef70c0a44477237f1ae0d63bb62af.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1442b3d926a8adf24ea68d2dca43ea7cd6e0bf97bbb8f7771dc203e374e2c89b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/71a26e65a4a4b06955858eb68451aa87b5c10753572ae54563647cbf05f313d0.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b5bd814378ced96f9759e304c23af27d5e02269b91d203462bc13684a3f09907.jpg

        1. Vagina Giuffre was too. He was set up. He let his own standards let him down.

          1. I am no great fan of Prince Andrew but I think the way Prince Charles and his elder son, William, have treated him is shameful and a disgusting disgrace. He has not been found guilty of anything and they should have stood by him.

            He is certainly guilty of crass stupidity. Having anything do to do with scrubbers of Giuffre’s ilk (if indeed he did have) is a great mistake.

          2. Birds of a feather. She was in no way a scrubber, but a teenager way out of her depth who was being exploited by a svengali.

          3. Wasn’t she a scrubber? I thought she was allegedly supposed to be quite used to being hired out by the time she was supposed to have met Andrew.

          4. Set up by her father. She’d been available for several years – so I heard!

          5. Scrubbing a family trait, then…she didn’t sue her father though, did she?

      2. That depends. If he has not been vaccinated gene-therapied he will be completely better in a couple of days as Caroline and I were when we had Covid. But on the other hand if he has been triple jabbed he will probably be quite ill.

        1. It was a flippant comment alluding to his claim of innocence in the case brought by Virginia Giuffre. He claimed that he had a medical condition which meant he couldn’t sweat, thus rendering her testimony as a lie.

    1. And a jolly Jubilee to you and Mrs Pea. She is lovely BTW. You……….not so much… :@)

          4. I’m feeling my age, any other ages are gladly accepted on a sale and return basis.

          5. I suspect like most older guys such as yourself , you have loads of dosh .

            We have known many friends who made decisions such as yours , often or not with successful outcomes .

          6. Taking someone out of their culture is something to be done with care. We knew each other for 5 years before getting hitched and she visited the UK several times before coming over permanently. In the long term she will return to live amongst her family, I will be taken along to be cared for or as a box of ashes. We get on very well, but chaps should remember that despite outward appearances, women the world over are running on the same hormones and will bite if not treated correctly!

          1. Some dishes are a bit ethnic for me. Fish heads are good for yr hormones apparently.

    2. Very jubileeic! Does your good lady ever read what we say in NoTTLand? The MR thinks we are all mad – and has nothing to do with it at all!!

      1. Her english is limited except when under the influence of alcohol. Sadly she is under the spell of FB and can be found in the Welsh Indonesian ladies group for anyone willing to make me an offer….

  68. It is rare – very rare – for me to say anything complimentary about Toy Boy Macron – but he made a very gracious tribute to the Queen (available on YouTube) and, tonight, just now, he received the British Ambassador (who was wearing an unsuitable frock) at the Arc de Triomphe where there was a joint ceremony of lighting the flame. Apart from the execrable French TV coverage (camera in wrong place, pointing at wrong people), coupled with the traditional French inability for anyone at a ceremony to know where to stand or what to do – it was very moving.

    1. He also gave her a present which I am certain she will greatly appreciate. A beautiful and docile horse.

    3. I hope the British Ambassador is actually an Ambassadress, or the frock would have been completely unsuitable 🙂

  70. That’s me for this remarkable day. Despite my incipient dementia, I can remember with great clarity Coronation Day. This morning we had a good trip to the Market; Put up the bunting; watched the excellent Trooping. (I hope some of the bandsmen managed to give heavy kicks to the criminals who tried to disrupt the parade). The flypast much have used all the aircraft that the RAF has. (Flightradar24 crashed!!) A very useful couple of hours in the garden. Now supper and the bonfires to look forward to.

    Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain and the Service at St Pauls….

    I wonder what they’ll do when it gets to 75 years on the Throne?

  71. Evening, all. What do they mean, “returning”?. This morning I saw a piece of furniture I liked and asked the chap (youngish – early twenties, I would say) to measure it for me to see it if would fit (it wouldn’t). He gave me the measurement in inches. I may say, his sister (who also measured something for me a while ago – and that did fit) told me she couldn’t cope with metric. She’s young, too.

    1. What do they mean, “returning”?

      It’s how it’s being interpreted by many in the media, as though to lift the petty restrictions on their usage and display is to reverse the entire process of metrication and send the nation back to the dark ages.

      It’s the ‘I’-word that appears to upset some. TBH, they should be called ‘customary’ because that’s how they evolved.

      1. It amuses me that when shopping at the Bergerac market that it is completely normal to buy things by the pound (livre).

        2. The pound and the foot go back to Roman times and were in common use in Europe until the Great Decimal Terror burst out of the chest of La Révolution française.

  73. Just before supper – a brief “retour”. BFMTV (one of the very few, sort of, non-governmental TV channel – discuss) is carrying a live programme about “Why we French love the Queen so much“.

    Any NoTTLer living in France – have a shufti….

    Ils sont vachement bizarre, les francais….!!

    A bientôt

  74. Oh horror- never buy NZ Pinot Noir- gawd it’s horrible. Lovely and thoughtful gesture by MH’s son but it is awful. We bought a bottle of NZ Sauvignon Blanc in north London- ditto and we used it to unblock a drain.
    Oz wine is great but not the NZ stuff…like Drano.

  75. A bientôt mes amis. I shall be off shortly to get ready to take part in the torchlight parade and watch the lighting of the beacon. I may, or may not, log back in, but have a good rest of the day anyway.

    1. I am back! Lots of people waving torches and lanterns (and some youngsters decorated with string lights) paraded through the village and the chairman of the Parish Council lit the beacon to cheers. We had a Scottish piper and we gave three cheers for HM and sang the national anthem. I saw very few people I knew from church, but at least lots participated.

    1. And, excluding Churchill, worth more to the UK than all of them put together.

      1. I don’t agree. I recognised them all and I think he’s a good acquisition for the Standard.

        2. 1.When did you last visit SpecSavers, srb?
          2. The standard of the Standard is poor.

          1. I like cartoons where it is easy to see/guess the participants and the cartoonist doesn’t have to labour the point nor is grotesque.
            Brookes, Garrison, Bell et al. dreadful.
            Matt, Moran; Adams enjoyable

  78. The Cricket has been terrible ,

    I have the TV on , and have just watched a prog that I NEVER watch,, but my word am I glad that I did.

    Camilla and Prince Charles have taken part in an episode of East Enders … they were brilliant , and were so natural and entertaining , it was a lovelyy common touch..

    Well done to the BBC.

        1. Wot, no pearly king or queen? Gorblimey, I’m orf up the frog to me rubadubdub.

          1. I’m so very sorry to read that molamola.
            The monkey pox diagnosis must have come as a terrible shock.
            I hope the dubrub cures, or at least ameliorates it.
            Good luck.

          2. He meant he’s off for a pig’s ear.

            That’s probably caused more confusion.

        1. But what possessed them to think it was a good idea?
          Thank gawd the ghastly Babs Windsor is no longer about!
          Sorry Belle!

          1. I have not watched it for decades , but I was lucky to catch this episode whilst Moh was in the garden practising his golf swing , and I laughed with delight as the pair of them bimbled and bumbled around .

            They were natural, kind and gracious considering their exhalted Royal position .

          2. I’m sure they were lovely – but why on earth do it? Not awfully regal is it?

          4. I respect them, and love what they are and do! Eastenders? Not so much!

          5. Ah yes – Barbara Windsor, the ‘national treasure’ who had five abortions and consorted with gangsters.

        2. I caught the end of it while waiting on I-Player for the beacons. No sound but it seemed genuine and real.

    3. Charles and Camilla? Natural??????????????????

      You still on them pills, Mags???

          3. I’m referring to the second trollop! As you well know! The one who consorts – apparently!

          4. Had society’s attitudes to divorce etc been what they are now, and had the DoE not been such a bully, I suspect Charles and Camilla would have married and the scheming Spencer’s would never have had a look in.

            I would put very good money on Ste Diana having been fucked by far more men than Camilla.

          12. Since the Church of England would never have come about if Henry VIII had not divorced Catherine of Aragon it always seems rank hypocrisy for the CoE to take exception to divorced people remarrying.

    4. What is it with royal children and sailor outfits? Have you ever seen any other child wear one?

  82. Good evening, dear NoTTLers,

    While African states may have have given us a moratorium in the case of the odious WHO proposed PandemicTreaty, it is still there in the pipeline, with our Government and other PTB just waiting to inflict it on us. So while this response from the Government has been temporarily overtaken by events, this critique by The White Rose is still informative, and shows the charlatans and their lies:

    Government Response to Pandemic Treaty Petition – Read Between the Lines!
    Posted By The White Rose UK On 01/06/2022

    The Government has responded to the petition ‘Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum’ which has reached over 151,000 signatures. Let’s read between the lines of the -government’s answer:

    Government response, given on 27 May 2022

    To protect lives, the economy and future generations from future pandemics, the UK government supports a new legally-binding instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

    The lockdowns didn’t ‘protect lives’, in fact they caused more deaths than covid. Mask-wearing has also done more harm than good, and we all know by now that the vaccines are causing an avalanche of adverse reactions and deaths. The lockdowns also had a hugely negative impact on small and middle-sized businesses. Everything indicates that it wasn’t the intent of the government to protect lives. Such decisions were made by the WHO in collaboration with our government under the pretence of pandemic response.

    COVID-19 has demonstrated that no-one is safe until we are all safe, and that effective global cooperation is needed to better protect the UK and other countries around the world from the detrimental health, social and economic impacts of pandemics and other health threats. The UK supports a new international legally-binding instrument as part of a cooperative and comprehensive approach to pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

    ‘No-one is safe until we are all safe’ is another false statement. Firstly, it is impossible and secondly it only induces more divide. People who do not do something ‘for the safety of others’ will be deemed selfish and evil—even if the ‘safety measures’ are unlogical and harmful. Under the guise of protecting health, we are being overrun by the a world order which has been in the planning for decades.

    At a World Health Assembly Special Session in late 2021, the 194 countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to launch a process to draft and negotiate a new instrument, through the auspices of WHO, to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The negotiating process will be led by member states, including the UK.

    This gives the false impression that the idea for an international response to pandemic prevention was something that emerged as a result of covid. But there is enough evidence to show that the pandemic was orchestrated long before with the intention of launching the great reset.

    The instrument aims to improve how the world prevents, better prepares for, and responds to future disease outbreaks of pandemic potential at national, regional and global level. It would complement the existing international instruments which the UK has already agreed, such as the International Health Regulations. It would promote greater collective action and accountability.

    This is not the real reason for the treaty, but the way it is presented makes it more acceptable for the general public. They are hiding the true intentions of a one world order which will lead to digital enslavement.

    A treaty is an international agreement concluded between States or with international organisations in written form and governed by international law. The UK is party to a large number of multilateral treaties, including many through the United Nations (UN) and its specialised agencies such as the WHO. These instruments reflect obligations states have agreed to enter into to further common goals.

    The WHO and the UN are made up of rich oligarchs who are not elected by the people, yet are making arrogant decisions over our health and lives, promoting dangerous vaccines and causing worldwide atrocities. The traitors (governments), who are supposed to represent our country, are signing a pact that the people have not agreed to. This is not a treaty (agreement) between the WHO and the people.

    The current target date for agreeing the text of the new instrument is at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Over the next two years the UK aims to work towards building a consensus on how the global community can better prevent, prepare for, and respond to future pandemics and will actively shape, develop and negotiate the text. The new instrument would only be adopted by the World Health Assembly if the text achieves a two-thirds vote of the Health Assembly (Article 19 of the WHO Constitution). The Health Assembly is made up of representatives of WHO Member States.

    More positive terms to delude you. The same tactics have been used throughout the last two years to make everyone believe that their intentions are good.

    Once adopted, the instrument would only become binding on the UK if and when the UK accepts (ratifies) it in accordance with its constitutional process. In the UK this requires the treaty to be laid before Parliament for a period of 21 sitting days before the Government can ratify it on behalf of the UK.

    The Government always carefully considers whether domestic legislation will be required to implement the UK’s international obligations when negotiating a treaty. Not every treaty requires implementing legislation and it is too early to say if that would apply here. However, in all circumstances, the UK’s ability to exercise its sovereignty would remain unchanged and the UK would remain in control of any future domestic decisions about national restrictions or other measures.

    What difference does it make if our government representatives are all bought into the great reset? It doesn’t matter if they do it through an international treaty or at a national level. The globalists will pursue their goal and will not care about your freedom.

    If changes to UK law were considered necessary or appropriate to reflect obligations under the treaty, proposals for domestic legislation would go through the usual Parliamentary process and the UK would not ratify the treaty until domestic measures, agreed by Parliament, were in place.

    This process of ratification allows scrutiny by elected representatives of both the treaty and any appropriate domestic legislation in accordance with the UK’s constitutional arrangements. The Government does not consider a referendum is necessary, appropriate or in keeping with precedent for such an agreement.

    The powers-that-be have betrayed, threatened, bullied and murdered/have been complicit in murder for the past two years… do you want to entrust them with your health, your freedom, your children?

    Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    https://thewhiterose.uk/government-response-to-pandemic-treaty-petition-read-between-the-lines/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-latest-news-from-our-blog_11

  83. Ah! a connection at last!
    Pick up t’Lad’s purchase, a larger than expected tool cabinet intended for Crich Tramway Museum workshop, and have booked into the Bluebell Inn in the rather pretty village of Helpstone.

    A fairly pleasant day with gorgeous weather.

    1. I hope there will be a pleasant Jubilee event for you to attend nearby: you could volunteer a Morris demonstration

  86. Why can’t they just show the beacons? All sodding BS and “stars”.
    Also, given the wonderful comments from ordinary people all around the UK- why is this government and others previous so determined to destroy this country?
    All the crowds in the Mall today and who roared when HM appeared- there is some hope I think.

    1. God! I’ve just glimpsed the ‘stars’! Bluddy screechy Lulu, Gloria bleeding Hunnyford and some gay wimp! The beeb want shooting!

      1. My Scots aunt used to call Lulu ” a wee Glasgow keelie.” Being young I didn’t understand it. Quite honestly, Lulu was the least offensive- no idea who the other two were.

        1. Her whole musical (and I use the word very loosely) career has been based on one scream/yell. A truly talentless wee woman.

  87. I’ve been enjoying the celebrations of the Queen’s Jubilee.
    I strongly suspect that when she dies, huge numbers of those in her generation will also feel their time is past and that there will be a big blip in the mortality statistics.

  88. Good evening. I post Paul Craig Roberts’ commentary on Ukraine today here:

    Decision Time Has Come for Russia in Ukraine

    Paul Craig Roberts.

    “I suspect the Kremlin has concluded that the limited intervention in Ukraine was a mistake. I don’t mean that the Kremlin will fail in its effort to drive all Ukrainian military units out of Donbass. The mistake the Kremlin made was in thinking that the military intervention could be limited.

    The US and NATO are now involved in the conflict. Ukraine is being supplied with heavy weapons and with training in their use. Washington has now arranged to send missiles capable of hitting Russian territory. Clearly, there is nothing limited about the conflict.

    The dilemma for Russia is that by confining its military operations
    to the Donbass region in east Ukraine, Western weapons are accumulating
    in west Ukraine where it is possible to raise an army to replace the one
    the Russians are destroying in Donbass. Whereas
    the Kremlin will succeed in liberating Donbass, it will fail in its
    goal to demilitarize Ukraine and turn Ukraine into a neutral state
    unless the intervention is expanded to all of Ukraine.

    Additionally, the conflict has also expanded by the request of
    neutral Finland and Sweden to join NATO. The addition of Finland to NATO
    would greatly expand the presence of NATO on Russia’s borders, which
    the intervention in Ukraine intended to prevent.

    The Kremlin warned that countries that intervene in the conflict
    would be treated as combatants, but has failed to take any action. The
    Russian threat is so disregarded that even militarily insignificant
    Denmark openly sends weapons to Ukraine. The consequence will be more intervention by the US and NATO.

    A dangerous situation has been created by the Kremlin’s declaration of red lines that it does not enforce. Delayed
    and limited Russian responses to Washington’s provocations are the
    reason for the present conflict, and delayed and limited responses are
    the reason the present conflict is likely to spin out of control.

    It was obvious that the Kremlin needed a quick and total conquest of
    Ukraine to prevent the expansion of the war by Western intervention and
    to intimidate non-NATO Europe from abandoning neutrality. Instead,
    the limited Russian action has given Washington months to widen the
    conflict and to keep the conflict going after Ukraine’s defeat in
    Donbass. Western propaganda has even succeeded in convincing the Western populations that Ukraine is winning the war.

    The Kremlin, it seems, is unable to comprehend that there is no peaceful or diplomatic solution. It
    was the Kremlin’s false hope for the delusional Minsk Agreement that
    gave Washington 8 years in which to train and equip a Ukrainian force to
    retake the Donbass republics. The
    entire conflict could have been avoided if the Kremlin had accepted the
    request of Donbass to be reunited with Russia like Crimea. This
    strategic error by the Kremlin followed a larger and earlier error when
    the Kremlin stood aside and permitted Washington’s overthrow of the
    Ukrainian government and installation of a puppet regime hostile to
    Russia.

    I admire the Kremlin’s restraint and disinclination to resort to violence. The
    question is whether this behavior encourages Washington to move more
    aggressively with the Wolfowitz doctrine against countries that are
    obstacles to Washington’s hegemony.

    Russia can again sit on her hands, as she did during the previous 8
    years, while Washington raises and trains yet another Ukrainian army, or
    she can deliver a quick knockout blow to Ukraine, replace the
    government, and hunt down and terminate all Nazi and CIA elements, or
    she can call it quits. Otherwise, the chances are high that increasing Western intervention will spin the conflict out of control.

    The Kremlin sees this itself and warns of the prospect of nuclear
    war, but does not take the necessary action to foreclose this prospect”

  89. Off to bed- am tired out and can’t eat, for some reason. Oh well, tomorrow is another day to quote Miss Scarlett.
    Goodnight y’all.

    2. Good night, Ann. I seem to have the opposite of your complaint: I can’t stop snacking.

  90. Britain still has a chance of avoiding the terrible fate of America and France
    Monarchy gives the UK in-built advantages over the powerful authoritarian forces now battering the West.
    Allister Heath

    Time to cleanse the Augean stables of all aspects of Common Purpose and Marxism from the highest in the Civil Service to the lowliest teaching assistant in our Primary Schools and every single Public Sector Organisation in between.

    Cometh the hour, cometh the man – the hour is here, where is the man?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/01/queen-has-done-politician-save-britain-decline/

  91. Well, I’m off for the night now. Be good – and if you can’t be good, be careful! 🙂

  92. Joe Biden set to send refugees to Spain as migrant crisis worsens

    Washington and Madrid close to securing a deal to relocate immigrants currently on the US-Mexico border

    Well, ain’t that peachy. As soon as they get to Spain they’ll buy a compass and resume their northwards journeys but to the White Cliffs instead of the Empire State.

    1. I bet Sleepy Joe now wishes he’d continued Donald Trump’s building and strengthening the Mexico Border Wall.

      1. Nope. Biden is a tool of Obama.

        Obama hates America and the open borders are designed to allow free access to the USA of drugs destined to incapacitate American youth and cause social unrest.

        Biden is merely a front for the Obama and Clinton crime families. He merely reads scripts given to him by Obama. Biden is yet another massive fraud perpetrated on the American people, just as Obama was.

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