Thursday 31 July: Keir Starmer’s plan for a Palestinian state ignores Gaza’s hard realities

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  1. Good morning chums – and Geoff. Just made Wordle today in 6 without looking at the Hints page.

    Wordle 1,503 6/6

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    1. Good morning Elsie and all
      Rather luckier here due to using a wildcard as the second guess instead of the logical next option, and thus eliminating four letters. (My wildcard guesses usually end in sixes btw!)
      Wordle 1,503 4/6

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    2. Phew! #metoo.
      Wordle 1,503 6/6

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    2. Considering the genuine suffering and deaths of real hostages in the middle east all my life, I think that cartoon from Blower is a bit tasteless.

  6. Stuart Robb
    14h
    You watch him get a six month suspended sentence and 4 hours community service because he’s not from the far right! Meanwhile, in other news, evil tweeter Lucy Connelly rots in prison.

    Cliff Langdon
    14h
    Said it before, but it IS worth remembering that this was first presented on the news as an episode of police brew tality.

    fred finger
    Cliff Langdon
    14h
    Until some unnamed hero, released the internal airport CCTV, which showed the truth and NOT the brothers fabrication.

        2. Noe imagine you are a white working class girl in Telford or High Wycombe or Rotherham or Oldham or any one of the 50 plus towns and cities where the girls were predated upon by men like him (i.e. Muslims of Pakistani heritage).

          1. No wonder they have to go for arranged marriages – what woman would choose to marry someone with a face like that?

  7. And here is another post concerning yesterday's Wordle word which was "ASSAY". Totally baffled at the time, I started to read the Hints page for help. First of all it said that it contained the letter S "back to back" – was this an Americanism? Did they mean "Side by side"? And although they said that there was only one vowel, which I knew to be an A from my starter word, never in a million years did I imagine that the letter A would in fact occur twice. Nor that the letter Y, a non-vowel often used because it sounded like an I (a capital i) would also occur. It was at this point that I accidentally spotted the answer below out of the corner of my eye.

    Today (Thursday the 31st of July) I just managed a Double Bogie without once looking at the Hints page.

    1. Sadly, the final statement is not correct. Starmer had a mandate because not enough people voted for another party. (Good morning, btw, Citroen1.)

      2. But only 20% of those eligible to vote voted for his party.

        Is this a record low for a government victory in a FPTP system?

    1. And they keep having to top up the CO2 as it's taken up by the plants and turned into, amongst other things, cellulose. Thus, reducing the atmosphere CO2 level. When the CO2 level goes down, the plants slow down – a perfect self-regulating process.

      1. …with after-burners ablaze so as to exceed the sound barrier in reverse gear.

      1. I remember it being reported a couple of days ago there were about twenty.

        It seems the deal is that it requires a permanent ceasefire and a withdrawal of the IDF to warrant the return of the hostages. Otherwise, returning them would then remove the last obstacle to total annihilation of the province and its people, which I doubt would be acceptable, even to Hamas.

    1. Yes, yes. I know all about international law. And so does my other friend Harmer.
      But votes, dear boy, votes.
      Peace and Love.
      Cur Queer.
      xxx

    3. He probably passed this shyte knowing full well that he would have to backtrack but just giving a message to muslim voters, "we support muslim causes."
      What a complete rat.

  16. Good morning all.
    Another somewhat dull and damp start after overnight rain but brightening up with a pleasantly cool 17½°c on the thermometer.

      2. For my first ever Christmas in BAOR, I went to visit my sister (Ex QA) and her husband (RCT ) in Rheindahlen, He took me to 68 Sqn bar where I met many such delightful ladies. What an eye-opener…

        1. The classic look was short cropped hair, Ben Sherman shirt, Brutus jeans with a very pretty and feminine looking girlfriend beside her?

    2. Wrong length of trousers. Ankle high ones only make your legs look shorter. Sam Cam got away with them because she has a model figure.

  19. Jonathan Sacerdoti
    The leaked email that blows apart the BBC’s impartiality claims over Gaza
    28 July 2025, 4:00pm

    Aleaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The memo, titled ‘Covering the food crisis in Gaza’, amounts to a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality, elevates one side of a deeply contested narrative, and imposes a specific anti-Israel legal-political framing as settled fact. The existence of this email is a telling sign of how the Corporation works to ensure its journalists stick to its own ideological angles.

    The email, which was sent to BBC staff on Friday, begins by declaring that ‘the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant’ and instructs staff that ‘we should say’ the current distribution system ‘doesn’t work’. It explicitly favours a particular explanation of suffering in Gaza: one that blames the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a relatively new aid body established with US and Israeli cooperation, while glossing over the role of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza and a proscribed terrorist organisation under British law.

    But the quantity of aid entering Gaza is not irrelevant. If Hamas is hijacking, obstructing, or reselling aid, as Israeli and independent reports suggest, and as documented footage and testimony have supported, then the location, handling, and efficacy of aid delivery become vital indicators of where the problem lies. Blaming Israel alone for the humanitarian breakdown while exonerating or ignoring Hamas is not responsible or fair journalism, especially as Israel argues it is going to extreme lengths to try to mitigate the jihadi terrorists’ efforts to persecute and deprive Gazan citizens.

    The BBC’s memo labels the GHF system a failure and instructs staff to say so. Yet the evidence is far from conclusive. Hunger and deprivation levels in Gaza remain unclear, with wildly varying estimates depending on source and political posture.

    The BBC – which declined to comment on the email – appears content to accept casualty figures and starvation claims from Hamas-linked bodies or sympathetic NGOs as definitive, while dismissing or omitting Israeli data and counterclaims. The email directs staff to reference ‘mounting evidence’ of starvation and deaths around aid centres, yet makes no mention of Hamas operatives looting convoys, obstructing access, or even firing on civilians attempting to collect food – allegations which have been made publicly by Israel and backed at times by video and eyewitness testimony.

    Even the photographic evidence used by some UK newspapers has been limited and uncertain: photos clearly taken in the same photo shoot, by one photographer linked to a far from impartial Turkish photo agency, show an emaciated child, but tragic as that is, one child does not indicate a famine. Indeed, it has been speculated by some that the child in question demonstrates visual signs of other pre-existing health conditions which would potentially cause wasting and malnutrition, a possibility backed up by the presence of other healthy and well-fed children appearing alongside him in the same photo set, apparently living in the same family home.

    Nor is the GHF model simply an improvised, amateur system as the memo suggests. On the contrary, it is a tightly managed, military-grade distribution network designed to ensure aid reaches civilians directly and safely. Operated by vetted personnel with logistical oversight, GPS tracking, and on-the-ground medical and security staff, the GHF has reported a zero aid diversion rate. By contrast, the UN system the BBC nostalgically defends saw multiple convoys looted at gunpoint, with documented losses reaching 90 per cent in some cases. It is therefore tendentious to assert that the older model ‘did work’ when, in fact, the BBC itself breathlessly reported widespread hunger under that very system well before the GHF system was in place: on 10 February 2024, for example, the BBC’s Lucy Williamson reported that in northern Gaza, ‘children are going without food for days’ and that some residents had resorted to ‘grinding animal feed into flour to survive.’

    Most egregious is the email’s declaration that it is ‘indisputable’ that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza and therefore legally responsible for preventing hunger. This claim is presented without qualification, despite the fact that the status of Gaza under international law is disputed. Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, removing all settlers and military presence. It argues, with some legal backing, that it does not meet the criteria of occupation, since it neither governs Gaza nor maintains a permanent presence. Even under post-October 7 operations, Israel maintains that its actions constitute temporary military engagement, not sovereign control.

    International legal opinion may be divided on this. The BBC’s own editorial guidelines insist that politically contested labels such as ‘occupation’ should be attributed and contextualised, not asserted. That rule has been disregarded. The internal memo presumes a singular legal reality, eliding complexity in favour of moral indictment.

    The BBC memo mirrors the line taken by BBC presenters, including Nick Robinson, who recently interviewed the Israeli government spokesman David Mencer. It sounded like institutional ventriloquism, from the body which insists it won’t call Hamas terrorists, but has no room for debate over whether Gaza is ‘occupied’.

    In asserting the infallibility of its chosen narrative, the BBC omits basic journalistic standards: to interrogate all sides, to distinguish between fact and allegation, and to treat political and legal claims with appropriate scrutiny. Instead, it has opted to police language internally, enforce ideological conformity, and condemn without due diligence.

    When the Corporation insists that only one party bears responsibility, and instructs its reporters accordingly, it is no longer informing the public. It is persuading them.

    Why is it our national broadcaster seems so desperate to attack the one non-Israeli body which is doing the most to undermine the Hamas stranglehold over Gaza and its people? The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children. They have trouble believing a self-declared Islamic jihadist dictatorship might have designed this level of suffering and torture, but none in believing the Jewish democratic state did so.

    The BBC is publicly funded and legally obligated to remain impartial. This latest leaked email suggests it is failing in that duty. As ever, there is virtually no chance the organisation will admit, redress or be penalised for this failing. They never are.

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    Anthony Declan
    3 days ago edited
    The photograph of the child, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al‑Matouq, circulated widely as an emblem of "famine in Gaza".

    It appeared on the BBC, The Guardian, NYT, the Daily Express and others, accompanied by captions describing “life-threatening malnutrition” but did not mention his genetic and health conditions, including cerebral palsy, hypoxemia, and a muscular disorder.

    This omission led critics – including his mother – to clarify that his condition stemmed from illness, not starvation. Yet few media outlets corrected their initial framing.

    And yet the BBC, among other parts of the MSM constantly lecture us all on the evils of "misinformation".

    Trojan
    3 days ago
    It’s good of you to go through all this, but I don’t know anyone who trusts the BBC to be impartial on any subject. In no particular order, they hate
    1. Brexit
    2. Trump
    3. Farage
    4. The Tories
    5. Normal people or, as they put it, far right
    6. Israel
    7. Climate change “deniers”.
    There is no question of impartiality on any of these topics. They give a complete pass to Labour, the EU, immigration, Hamas, pro-Palestinian marches chanting to destroy Israel and Democrats in the USA.

    1. The first casualty in war is… the truth.
      We see it here.
      There are two wars: Israel – Hamas, and the right-on media vs the rest of us.

    2. I treat this long comment in the same light that blames the Ukrainians for being invaded by Russia or Poland for having the affront to resist the pincer invasions of Germany and the USSR. Sometimes, all this victim-blaming sticks in the craw, especially when the bully is cheered on by cronies, eager to be in with the popular kid and humiliate the nerd.

      I have little doubt that law and order has broken down in Gaza, and that gangs of organised criminals, some of whom Hamas members, are stealing aid to make huge profits in the market. Who then is responsible for maintaining order, and why aren't they doing their job. Being shot at each time one ventures out of the bunker is no excuse, although I think our police might struggle under such conditions.

      One only has to consider how the BBC approaches feminism, Gay Pride, Black Lives Matter and (on this topic I am sympathetic) environmentalism, to know that, contrary to its Charter, BBC Management does indeed set a political agenda. The show 'Have I Got News for You' amply presents the various prejudices no doubt laid out in a series of memos, and rigorously policed in the Green Room. Over Gaza, best to refer to my comment above about denying foreign reporters access to the place.

      Sometimes, there is enough evidence to support their position. Going down the list:

      1. Brexit was betrayed by the vagaries of British elections that return one flaky MP for 4 million votes, and then wonder why Parliament is hopelessly unrepresentative.

      2. Trump, by his own admission, is a law unto himself. It's how he got elected.

      3. Farage is a brilliant and charismatic politician capable of building from nothing a successful political movement, and then trashing it because he cannot stand anyone around him with as much talent.

      4. The Tories were humiliated at the last election, largely because they could not sustain a prime minister in office for long.

      5. "Far Right" – see my comment above about HIGNFY.

      6. Israel does not help its cause by steadfastly refusing to present its good sides. Hamas is all they talk about.

      7. The problem I have with climate change denial is that glaciers are melting at a faster rate than since the ice age, which long pre-dates human civilisation, let alone the time when there were only 1 billion human mouths to feed, rather than eight times that number. Far too much bluster and dodgy statistics responding to raw and palpable evidence. Really they should do better, or concentrate their efforts in pushing mitigations that actually work, rather than make things worse. AI data centers (sic), the darling of those that are pushing for "Net Zero", are massive consumers of energy and fresh water, and will make a bad situation much much worse. And yet, all we get is talk of "growth" and a token nod to climate change, mostly by driving their competitors out of business and the public into penury.

  20. Stephen Pollard
    The real reason two Jewish comedians had their Edinburgh shows canned
    28 July 2025, 11:05am

    Two Jewish comedians have had shows cancelled by venues hosting the Edinburgh Fringe. Whistlebinkies told Rachel Creeger that she and her show Ultimate Jewish Mother were no longer welcome, while Philip Simon’s Jew-O-Rama, a rotating line-up of Jewish comedians, was also barred. Another venue, Banshee Labyrinth, followed suit, cancelling Simon’s solo show, Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way?

    The reason? ‘Safety concerns’ for staff. Those of us with the Jewish mothers of Creeger’s title can certainly understand why others might have concerns over our mental safety, but I don’t think that’s quite what the venues had in mind when they banned a Jewish son and a Jewish daughter.

    You don’t have to be a comedian or an expert in decoding sophistry to understand what’s going on here. You just have to have a basic knowledge of history, because it’s what has been going on for millennia. Jews have been banned for being Jews. Here we go again. They can dress it up in any drivel about health and safety they want, but when you translate ‘concerns over staff safety’ into reality it means, ‘Jews are banned unless they manage to sneak in because no one has realised they are Jews’.

    The excuses used by the venues to justify the bans gave the game away. Creeger was told it was because of a supposed ‘vigil for IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers’. The only problem with that is that there was no such vigil in either of their shows. As Creeger – an Orthodox Jew, who is open about that in her act – said at the weekend: ‘They initially said that they believed we’d held a vigil for an IDF soldier, a fallen soldier, which is a thing that just hadn’t ever happened in either of our shows. The shows are not political, we’re not political performers and the IDF is not a relevant subject in either show. They later withdrew that and said they understood that that didn’t actually happen.’

    Simon added that the venue had trawled his social media and then told him that his ‘views concerning the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine…are in significant conflict with our venue’s stance against the current Israeli government’s policy and actions.’ But just as the objection to Creeger was spurious, so with Simon: ‘I have never expressed support for anything other than freeing the hostages and finding a way for peace…I’ve never posted about the Israeli government. I’ve posted about the situation because we’re all horrified about what’s going on in the Middle East but there’s been nothing positive that I put out really about the Israeli government.’

    It could hardly be more blatant: two Jews have been cancelled because they are Jewish. The rest is noise. The fact that neither Creeger nor Simon have expressed anything other than a desire for peace and freedom for the hostages is irrelevant, because one of the strongest lessons of Jewish history is that they come for the ‘good’ Jews too. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re behaving as they want you to behave: in their eyes, all that matters is that you’re a Jew.

    Politicians are wont to repeat the phrase, ‘There is no place for antisemitism in [add the name of a city or country]’. In reality, however, in Britain in 2025 there is every place for antisemitism. Always and everywhere.

    1. I'm afraid it was only a matter of time in the current climate… also a matter of shame that it's happening in Edinburgh. Where's all the Enlightenment now?

    2. Thanks for that perspective.

      I have often been accused of "Jew Hate" for my criticism of the current regime in Israel, an example of which I posted today under an Aussie Spectator article (the British edition is protected by a paywall). Yet in reality my sympathies are entirely with the enlightened Jews, such as these two banned by the Edinburgh Fringe. I find the Jewish perspective on the human condition to be hilarious and very well observed, and I have nothing but admiration for Jews prepared to stand up to Netanyahu and his cronies. What has Scotland come to since the SNP went woke?

      ———

      Israel goes on and on about Hamas, as being the only people in Gaza and the West Bank they are prepared to acknowledge. All others are a sort of amorphous nothing whose lives are utterly expendable. It is shameful and shocking that those purporting to be Jews, of all people considering their history, behave in this manner.

      Today there was a piece about a Christian village near Bethlehem that is being attacked by Israeli settlers on the grounds that the churches and their congregations have no right to the land, since the Christians are recent migrants. The parish priest responded by saying that his church has been there since the time of Jesus Christ and can claim 2000 years of heritage. He cannot do better than this. How many of these "Jewish" settlers, vandalising this village and encroaching on the Christian olive groves with housing development for the favoured and aggressive migrants, and all his thuggery escorted by the IDF, can have any justification to their land-grab. All they can do is to keep squawking "Hamas", as if Hamas has any relationship with a Christian village near Bethlehem.

      The neo-Nazis that pervert and bring into utter dishonour the legacy of Moses and the name of the Jews moan about those who wish to wipe the name of Israel off the map. They say that this means a nuclear strike from Tehran, as if Iran has any relationship with Christians near Bethlehem. No, it means that Israel, set up by the UN after the horrors of the Third Reich, has disgraced itself and no longer deserves nation status. This is why most of the world now proposes the recognition of Palestine.

      1. If the BBC and much of the MSM did not get their 'information' from Hamas and Palestinian sources I would be more likely to believe in the guilt of Israel.

        But:

        Hamas still holds hostages which it refuses to release.

        Hamas still repeats its mantra to kill every Jew and remove the State of Israel from the face of the earth.

        Hamas has won the propaganda war with lies.

        1. Rather makes my point. Justify Israeli atrocities against Christians by pointing exclusively to Hamas! Hamas has no authority in the West Bank, and only a tentative hold on power in Gaza, which seems mostly to have descended to anarchy, the sort of grab-or-die mentality of the Warsaw ghetto or the concentration camp.

          The Israelis do not permit the entry of independent news reporters into Gaza, so the BBC can only source their information from Hamas, the IDF, aid workers or freelancers actually living there.

          I would like it very much to be a lie, and that behind the Damian Day staging, there is a province of reasonably contented people going about their daily lives in battered, but still functional surroundings. Where is the evidence for that though?

        2. Some of the information comes from Christians, who are not Hamas nor even Muslims. Christians have long got over Jews getting the Roman Governor to kill their founder. Jesus himself is reported to have said “forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they are doing”, and who are Christians to discredit the gospel truth?

          I have explained elsewhere that Hamas are only holding onto the hostages to avoid opening up the entire province to a total massacre. It is electorally unpopular in Israel to kill twenty Israeli hostages as collateral damage, but does little damage to kill 50,000 Palestinians and counting. Netanyanhu cannot risk being voted out, or even losing the support of his extremist and terrorist coalition partners, or he’d end up in prison for charges he is currently avoiding for as long as he is running the country. I believe the Tel Aviv intellectuals are after his blood for what he’s done to their nation.

          I doubt Hamas has the capacity to kill every Jew or even a tiny fraction of the number of Palestinians the IDF has already killed, so their mantra has all the plausibility of a political promise.

          As for removing Israel from the face of the earth, the simplest and most effective way to do this is diplomatically. What the good Lord giveth, the good Lord taketh away. Yes, this requires good propaganda, but lies are sooner or later found out and defeat the spin entirely.

          1. No-one will try to remove a nuclear armed nation from the face of the earth. Especially one well prepared and with those weapons distributed, not centralized. In fact, Hamas are pushing their luck, in that once Israel understands that the "remaining hostages" are actually dead, a biblical level of retribution will surely follow.

  22. Morning, all Y'all.
    Feels like autumn… cool & humid. Better get the tweed jackets out again.
    Had a grand eveing yesterday: YouTube and a couple cans of 6,5% beer. Watched videos from The War Museum about the Falklands War: So many ships lost, so many killed, such a united UK – it was really nostalgic, and what a contrast to these days. Slept like the dead, woke refreshed for the first time in ages.

  23. BlackBelt Barrister reckons psycho will get 2-3 years.. already remanded.
    and tubby mummy Shameem Akhtar a very stern DWP warning over her benefit fraud.

    1. Oh well that’s alright then. Glad to know justice is working in England

  24. BlackBelt Barrister reckons psycho will get 2-3 years.. already remanded.
    and tubby mummy Shameem Akhtar a very stern DWP warning over her benefit fraud.

    1. Good morning J,

      I slept horribly as well, and it didn't help when the cat jumped through a window with a mouse , live mouse , the mouse then escaped and hid under the hall table .. the cat rattled everything and Moh then tried to catch the mouse , mouse ran into the kitchen , hid behind the dog water bowl , Moh opened the back door , mouse sensed freedom and made a dash for the great outside .

      I didn't sleep because my back was aching / we both had a walk through a densely packed broadleaf wood .. which at some point was too far to turn back , and hazardous , our smart watches told us nearly 3 miles and over 8,000 steps .. the wood was smelly sticky and full of badger sets , upturned trees , decaying things , dark and dismal apart from when rays of evening sunshine flickered through..

      Not keen on woodland , prefer heathland, moors and glades .. My memory of a Noddy book when the golliwogs crept out and ambushed Noddy , or Red Riding Hood , or all the other stories from childhood , Brothers Grimm stories that made me shudder… and the becoming lost factors into it as well !

      1. Sounds as though you you overdid the walk – remember he does that each time he has a round of golf. Back ache is uncomfortable for sleeping.
        I think in my case my mind was focused on the busy few days ahead. Three day steam fair weekend coming up.

        Naughty cat didn’t help did she!

        Jessie has brought a couple in since we had her but Ziggy doesn’t hunt at at all. She’s probably about 12 but of course we don’t really know. Jessie is a little younger but not really a hunter now.

        1. I had to get up at about 03.20 to go to the loo. Then couldn’t get back to sleep.

  27. 410412+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    DT,
    Feeble Starmer is stoking a febrile Country

    Should read,

    Treacherous, lying, deceitful starmer (the tool) is stoking an orchestrated, raging high temperature,coup 't
    on behalf of the WEF / NWO.

    If the indigenous population doesn't fully wake up shortly they will find their bedspace is shared by 2/3 /4
    unchecked foreign elements.
    What has occurred is that the starmer chap has deceitfully triggered the coup WITHOUT fully informing the gullible herd, who echoed en masse
    " we don't believe it"

  28. Good Morning!

    Sudo Nonym tells of his venture into front line politics in ReformUK: Herding cats . His efforts to drive the party forward had mixed results, so if you have advice or experience, please leave a comment.

    If you haven't read what we consider to be an important article The Online Safety Act: A Critical Look at the UK’s Expanding Digital Censorship Regime , please do so. We will only survive this attack on free speech and liberty if we all pull together.

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 27.4%; Solar, 8.7%: Wind 14.1%; Imports, 22.4%; Biomass, 10.7%; Nuclear 14.6% and Miscellaneous, 2.1%. We are, idiotically, importing over 25% of our electricity – almost as much as that generated from wind and sun combined – while our gas power stations run on half load or less.

    freespeechbacklash.com

    1. Is anyone else finding things slower to load? You click on it and just see a spinner?

      It loads eventually, but it just feels deliberately suppressed, as if it's being logged or something.

      2. Me2, wibbling. Insufficient bandwith perhaps, or provider down/doing some work…..or could be the video has been /is being censored.

      1. Maybe looking at it from the angle that government consists of many (many, many, many) people.
        But I take your grammatical point.

  31. 410412+ up ticks,

    Lets cut out the pretense if action takes place especially during winter, "family" is of no consequence, in point of fact the doctors will be colluding with the political overseers in the selective culling campaign.

    Dt,
    GPs threaten Streeting with winter strike
    Family doctors set out six demands they want met by mid-September to avert another round of industrial action

    1. Maybe this would be a good time to start to change the NHS.
      Make doctors self-employed practitioners, who can band together into surgeries (or not), and they can take private or NHS patients – an agreed tariff for the NHS work, from ordinary GP-ing to specialisation, use of consumables, tests, etc. Patients could be charged a fee to see the doctor / nurse etc, waived if under 16 or over 70, pregnant, chronically sick. This is how it works in Norway, and it's pretty good. They can then sort themselves out with renting premises, buying equipment, hiring nurses, working however many hours suits them… and if they strike, there will be an instant reduction in income, as they won't be seeing patients.

      1. I think most GP practices these days are owned by the partners, and the NHS pays them according to the numbers on their lists. Ours has a lot of nursing and other staff, and all the doctors work three or four day weeks.

        1. The US model actually works, in that I can get to see my GP quickly when needed. He and his partners own the practice, but the business model is strictly one of paying for services. No concept of lists. They do more admin than a UK practice because they have to bill the insurance companies (including Medicare and Medicaid) for their services.

  32. The UK’s first female and lesbian archbishop has been announced.

    The Bishop of Monmouth, the Rt Rev Cherry Vann, 66, has been revealed as the new Archbishop of Wales.

    As well as being the 15th person to hold the role, she is also the first woman and the first non-heterosexual member of the clergy to do so.

    Her appointment marks a break from centuries of tradition in both the Church of England, and the more recently established Church in Wales, where the role of archbishop is always assumed by a heterosexual man.

    Archbishop Cherry’s biography on the Church’s website describes her as living with her civil partner, Wendy, and their two dogs.

    Her appointment comes at a turbulent time for the Church in Wales.

    She replaces the Rt Revd Andrew John, who retired last month after just three-and-a-half years in the role following the publication of a safeguarding review at Bangor Cathedral, which identified “a culture of sexual misconduct, bullying, excessive drinking and in which sexual boundaries seemed blurred” and “promiscuity was acceptable”.

    Dea Glasson
    4 hrs ago
    In the eyes & words of her Creator she is neither a Christian or Bishop or Priest . She is an Apostate & pagan priestess blasphemer . Christians need to pray for her.

    Reply by Aloysius Nosey Parker.

    AN

    Aloysius Nosey Parker
    3 hrs ago
    My pretend imaginary sky god can beat up your pretend imaginary sky god

    Comments
    TW Rogers
    1 hr ago
    If the Church cannot adhere to its traditional teachings and moral values then what is it? A dressing up club ? It has become irrelevant at a time when it is needed most. The march of foreign religions goes on while Church in Wales and CoE congregations dwindle into obscurity. It will be dead within ten years if something isn’t done. It might already be too late.

    1. They have some wonderful buildings and gorgeous music, but what otherwise is the point?

    2. My own grandfather (1896-1970) was an ordained clergyman with a long family association with the Church of Wales around Carmarthen. He died when I was a teenager, and I have long regretted not having the opportunity to discuss religion with him from an adult perspective.

      I suspect that the concept of being led by a lesbian would have utterly flummoxed him. Despite having a dreadful time of it in both world wars (lost an eye at Passchaendale, and posted to Burma), he might well have felt he lived in better times. He might well have converted to Catholicism as I did.

    3. The Church in Wales has missed a trick there. They could have ticked a few more boxes apart from 'Female' and 'Lesbian' e.g. 'Disabled', 'Black', 'Non-binary' etc.

      1. Morning Aeneas..

        The Church of Wales .. blooming pagans .. dancing with the Devil ..

        A half woman with virile male thoughts dressing up in ancient clothes , saying prayers but hoping people are wondering where her dildo is !

        Why do people like that have to flaunt their particularities in public ..

        The C of E should know better .. and yes be careful because the next Arch Bish of Cantab could well be black , gay and half woman !

        1. Here you go, Belle….'While the final decision rests with the Crown Nominations Commission and the monarch, Dr. Guli Francis-Dehqani is currently seen as the frontrunner by many, including bookmakers, to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. She is the Bishop of Chelmsford and would be the first female Archbishop of Canterbury if chosen.'……..place your bets now………

          1. ABofC to be an Iranian! Are there no qualified vicars in the CofE called Smith, Jones, or whatever?

          2. We’ll see what happens. Building a large mosque just over the border in Dumfries, despite local protests. CofE like an old soldier, slowly fading away.

          3. Not aware of a new mosque in Dumfries. There is one being built in South Lakes near Barrow in Furness that is the centre of many protests.

          4. Thanks for correction, yes I got it wrong, recently been in both, should have got it right.

          5. Firstborn's Godfather is an almost-retired vicar of C of E, and claims he is the last vicar who actually believes in God. I'm beginning to believe he is right!

          6. There is still a church in my village…in summer when the grass is dry I can still make out the path trodden over the years goes directly to it. Vicar is on a three church rotation. I can’t complain because I don’t attend, and haven’t for years. CofE is one thing, God an entirely different thing, for me.

          7. I would not be at all surprised if the Wales appointment is a deliberate testing of the water to see how much outrage there is.
            If there's relatively little, your bet is odds-on.

          8. Neighbour of mine attended church for many years, upped and left for a more modern church, where they sing and clap etc…numbers growing there so possibly the CofE re-inventing itself in some places, and attendees increasing there ………I think the CofE may have been heading this way for some time, sos. Whether that’s a good way, time will only tell. Meantime, huge mosque being built in Dumfries, and also reported one in Wales. I remember going with my dad to Bradford one Friday, decades ago, and seeing the men streaming out of the mosque …numbers only grown since.

          9. Young people are attracted to the traditional services. Happy clappy is what decimated the services at my last church.

          10. Since relatively few in England take any notice of the CofE, I doubt there will be much.

            A few years back, I had an elderly English relative who basically said she thought it would all be over "soon", as it was only her generation who still went to church. And she was in her 80's at the time.

          11. You may be right, but we know a number of much younger regular churchgoers who might well make their feelings known to their PCCs etc

          12. Since relatively few in England take any notice of the CofE, I doubt there will be much.

            A few years back, I had an elderly English relative who basically said she thought it would all be over "soon", as it was only her generation who still went to church. And she was in her 80's at the time.

        2. "hoping people are wondering where her dildo is !" – awfully crude, Belle. 🙁
          I'm sure she's a wonderful lady, but with all the fuss made about her appointment, one does wonder if the lesbian part of her persona isn't the most important factor… rather than the ability to minister and administrate. Sadly. I hope she shows that she was the best for the position.
          If you are right about the next ABofC, as long as that's the best person for the position, then fine. If it's DIE appointment, then not fine.

          1. I won't apologise for being crude , OB.

            Why should people obtain high positions in the church who have dubious alternatives.

            They should be pure of heart and mind , and there should be no doubts, ever .

          2. There appear to be certain professions which attract lesbians, like when there was a WRAC, certain branches, such a Postal and Courier units, were full of them. We had a girl in 16 Sigs who had transferred from the posties because she was getting bullied by the butch ones.

          3. Best for the position? You have been abroad too long! She’s been appointed to tick some boxes.

    4. We used to have a Bishop of Colchester.
      Other than he smoked like a chimney, so the front of his cassock resembled the slopes of Mount Etna, I knew little about him. Certainly not his sexual preferences.
      (His impressive bishop's house now belongs to some sort of state organisation and contains myriad "lurking" people.)

    1. That lad needs to wise up quickly otherwise he will find himself owning nothing and not being happy.
      This kind of clip just keeps the masses happily grumbling instead of realising that their energy has been harvested and when the debts are called in, their 'wealth' will vanish.

  35. It seems to me that the best way to impose Islamic culture on their country would be to import hundreds of thousand of young Islamic men then billet them all over the country where their activities will frighten the local population into changing their way of life.
    Women in particular will have to change their lifestyle to stay safe and behave more like women from Islamic countries behave.

  36. Comment of the week in response to these headlines goes to Matty Taylor..

    "Online Safety Act protections are the biggest step forward in child safety since the internet was created." Peter Kyle

    Migrant Osamah Al-Haddad caught with child sexual abuse and beastiality videos on his phone gave a thumbs up and laughed at the UK justice system outside court after being spared jail and avoiding deportation.

    He's brought 40,000 of his mates in this year, and even I can't clasp my arse cheeks that tight.
    Matty Taylor

    1. I suggest we ask Peter Kyle is he would read his email in public for us. It's that Alexander Solhen.., the Russia dude who wrote the Gulag Archipelago said. They know they're lying, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but it has become so prevalent, so common place that lying is all they have.

  37. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-eugenics/

    The Left are utterly deranged.

    As for are white people superior – well, look at our culture, society, engineering. Now look at the (called so for a reason) third world. We've been pouring money into that place for decades. It's not improved one bit. As for muslim – they live in stone huts. We are better than them. Case in point, Lefties: you don't want to go there, but you want them to come here (mostly because it ruins the lives of decent people you hate, not out of any consideration for the foreign savages). Funny how utterly evil and spiteful Lefties are.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d136af32fbb89a7c1c6797948bbac62601c8c49714c7ee31ab65b3651713a2e1.png

    1. Morning Wibbling ,

      Forgive this , but in a twisted sort of way .. this is it!

      And did those feet in ancient time
      Walk upon England's mountains green?
      And was the holy Lamb of God
      On England's pleasant pastures seen?
      And did the Countenance Divine
      Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
      And was Jerusalem builded here
      Among these dark Satanic mills?
      Bring me my bow of burning gold
      Bring me my arrows of desire
      Bring me my spear, O clouds unfold!
      Bring me my chariot of fire.

      I will not cease from mental fight
      Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
      Till we have built Jerusalem
      In England's green and pleasant land.

  38. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-eugenics/

    The Left are utterly deranged.

    As for are white people superior – well, look at our culture, society, engineering. Now look at the (called so for a reason) third world. We've been pouring money into that place for decades. It's not improved one bit. As for muslim – they live in stone huts. We are better than them. Case in point, Lefties: you don't want to go there, but you want them to come here (mostly because it ruins the lives of decent people you hate, not out of any consideration for the foreign savages). Funny how utterly evil and spiteful Lefties are.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d136af32fbb89a7c1c6797948bbac62601c8c49714c7ee31ab65b3651713a2e1.png

    1. Shame.. the vid clip at 0:01 just missed the spectacle of the public hanging from crane.

    2. "it seems that you’ve already established a Palestinian state in the middle of Paris. Bravo." Israeli minister Amichai Chikli

    4. Need to be clear about what that photo represents. If it's the quay at Marseille where families camp out in summer waiting for the boat to leave, then it's just normal and has been for donkey's years.

    5. We should annex Calais. Make it a UK protectorate and save the invaders the hassle. Then, when Calais is packed solid with dindu invaders – and the border has a thousand machine gun towers – we give it back to France.

  40. 410412+ up ticks,

    I do believe England will put in a shelter bid for the exiles,there's very little of that regional unity stuff here as in, linked in countrywide unity, under one Banner.

    Dt,
    Hamas could be forced into exile by Arab states
    Rare display of regional unity could isolate movement and force it to comply

    1. The words "Hamas forced into exile" strike a chill into every British person's heart…

      1. HAMAS WELLCOME HERE

        I can just see the Lefties with banners at Dover greeting them – unless, of course, Starmer allows them to come here legitimately.

        1. Oh Starmer would probably send the RAF to airlift the poor dears straight into the UK!

  41. Off to play with my big drill.
    I've a large lump of rock to get rid off!

    TTFN

      3. Who has? What a nasty, petty, vindictive, self-aggrandising little man the KnightMayor is

    1. I doesn't matter how much evidence there is to show that man-made Climate Change is untrue and Net Zero is a con – the politicians don't give a damn whether it is true or not – they just want control.

      1. No it’s all about money. The transfer of it from us to them and their donors.

  44. The LibDems who joined the Tory party because they wanted power and then destroyed the party are defecting to the Reform party for the same reason and will achieve the same result.

    1. The Lib-Dems in the Tory Party should go back to the Lib Dems and the Tory Party should shut up shop. Any residual Tories should join Rupert Lowe rather than Farage.

    4. Not "quite" Peak District. It's just off the Darley Dale – Chesterfield Road.
      If I had a couple of Israeli flags I'd be VERY tempted to adorn the van with them and have a drive round there!

  46. The top baby names in England and Wales were revealed today, with Muhammad taking the top spot for the second year in a row.

    More than 5,721 boys were given the specific spelling of Muhammad in 2024, a rise of 23 per cent on last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),

    The second most popular boy's name was Noah (4,139), followed by Oliver, Arthur and Leo.

    It marks the second time just one spelling of the Islamic name has topped the charts, although when all thirty-plus iterations are grouped together it has been the most common for over a decade, the Daily Mail's analysis suggests.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14958149/The-baby-names-England-Wales-Muhammad-takes-number-one-spot-second-year-row.html
    We're doomed

      1. Because we pay them to.

        It is like a watching a nation build its own funeral pyre, as a wiser man than me once observed. And was pilloried for it.

      1. I think you may be correct, but look down longer lists and you'll find plenty of girls with Arabic sourced names too.

      3. My sister-in-law was a midwife.
        Years before she retired, they were not allowed to mention the sex of the foetus because of the imbalance in sex-linked abortions.

    3. No, we're not. They will be removed and will leave willingly when they stop getting paid.

      3. Many are second, third generation, wibbling – UK citizens, possibly difficult to remove. If you mean 'the boat people', have to find them first, and secondly the will to remove them. I'm not hopeful, especially not with Labour government – many are Labour supporters/voters.

    4. I know.. been said a thousand times but i's true.

      2nd place.. Mohammed
      3rd place.. Mohammad
      4th place.. Muhamad.

    1. The state simply spends too much on things we do not want or need. Welfare consumes 400bn a year. 400, 000,000,000! the state continues to expand it because it's the easiest way for it to buy votes. It's latest weapon is the pointless waste of 'climate change'.

      2. 21% of the tax i pay is allocated to “welfare”. This does not include state pensions, which are a separate line item. It is wrong to organise a society like this.

        1. IF – IF it were going to those genuinely in need I don't think anyone would mind.

          However it goes to wasters claiming their badly behaved child has autism. It goes to buying chavs cars, giving them houses for having a brat they cannot support. That's utterly wrong.

      3. Gives away too much in Foreign Aid and, in order to do so, we have to borrow it first!!

    2. Perhaps this shows just how out of control our useless lying political idiots actually are.

      1. That's the fundamental problem. There's is no way to stop them. Until we, the demos can tell them what they will do and will not do we do not live in a democracy.

        What nonsense we could repeal and stop completely: the climate change twaddle, net zero, the communities act, Raynor#'s nonsense bill, Brown's pension raid, the online harm bill all because we do not live in a democracy.

    3. Matt Le Tissier

      A very good chap and a rare thing: a footballer with a brain for things other than football.

  48. Right…..off out in a minute – coffee with the girls, shopping then loading up the car for the event. Catch you sometime.

    2. Have fun!
      We've got Y Not starting tomorrow so the campers will be starting to arrive this afternoon.

    3. Will you post the link to the Hedgehog calendar again, plse, when you have time ….got a couple of orders:-)

        1. Thanks Phiz, I kept the link – 2026 calendar not on sale yet, will order when it is x

      2. Oh good! I have just a few that I picked up from the printers this afternoon……will see if I sell any over the weekend, then I might be able to fulfill your orders! I’ll have to ask Tracey to put the new calendar on the website as it just says “coming soon” at the moment.

        1. Thanks Ndovu, just two at the moment, have the link so will look out for it. Both excited!

    2. Back from Halfords, Andover with a replacement glass for the wing mirror on my ancient Skoda. Allow two weeks for reading the instructions, then discovering that I bought the wrong size or the wrong side of the car, finally retreat to Great Bedwyn Motors to get them to do it properly (and expensively). Rain stopped. Perfect timing.

  50. Morning All 🙂😊 I'm a bit late today after our recorded (on Erin's phone) 10,000 steps in two days, my poor old legs were killing me, with the expected bathroom breaks I slept for almost 12 hours. I had to make some ear plugs at day break from tissues. Seagulls are so loud. It was either that or suffocating closing the windows.
    We had planned to park at a beach car park and walk to Walberswick across the pedestrian Bridge today. It's a long time since we stayed there for a weekend. But it's just started to drizzle.
    Our government are still more stupid than anyone could imagine. They only seem to have respect for land and natural resources grabbing Arabs now.
    And the football ladies are apparently about to be robbed of some of their winnings. Taxed on their earnings.

  51. I posted below a link to a podcast (also available on YouTube) with Andrew Fox on the Gaza/Israel conflict. Definitely worth a watch/listen.

  52. Phew!
    3 x 20mm holes drilled, 3 x feather & wedge sets put in and each given a sound tap with a rather scrappy 2½lb engineer's ball pein hammer I recovered from being scrapped at next door.

    Then up to the bit of hillside above the yard shed where a mini bulkbag was filled with brash which was then dragged up to and emptied beside the repurposed oil-drum incinerator.
    The wedges given another couple of taps and a pair of gloves & my hand pick put into the bag, dragged up to the other end of the garden and left there while I have a mug of tea.

    It pays not to force the wedges into the holes too quickly as the stresses built up will not dissipate properly through the rock.

    1. All NoTTLers know what it's like to dissipate – we've been doing it for years, properly or improperly.

      We're all cheering you on with beverages in our hands.

  53. Double whammy.. two birds.. two punani one johnny.

    Jesuit [1] day and boarding school [2] Mount St Mary's College in Spinkhill has suddenly shut down, blaming financial pressures of Labour's tax raid on fees.

    1. Actually triple whammy. An extra heritage whammy for serving the community for nearly 200 years [3].

    2. Actually triple whammy. An extra heritage whammy for serving the community for nearly 200 years [3].

      1. It has long ago occurred to me this is a reason to shut private schools. All that lovely land.

        I mean, who cares if we no linger have an educated population in the future? Out “great and good” will have long moved on to Davos, WEF, California…

      2. It has long ago occurred to me this is a reason to shut private schools. All that lovely land.

        I mean, who cares if we no linger have an educated population in the future? Out “great and good” will have long moved on to Davos, WEF, California…

  54. Double whammy.. two birds.. two punani one johnny.

    Jesuit [1] day and boarding school [2] Mount St Mary's College in Spinkhill has suddenly shut down, blaming financial pressures of Labour's tax raid on fees.

    1. Fair play..
      "Hasnen Iqbal's previous convictions were when he was aged 18 or 19. (and that was months ago).. He is now a father, a husband and a valuable member of the community. You are assessed as being a low risk of re-offending. The incident that took place, although very serious, was completely out of character in the last nine years of your life. It can and will be suspended."

      'extremely unusual' case
      Iqbal said he attended the mosque as he'd been told the EDL (English Defence League) was attacking businesses.

      Ah.. unusual. He was Muslim and got caught. Makes sense.

      1. Hang on – the slammer got away with it on the basis it wasn't likely in future… so why did the muslim savage go this time? Hmm, judgyboy?

    2. 2T justice you scream?

      Kenneth Fern, aged 21, was jailed for 27 months who picked up a piece of wood as a riot gripped Hanley.
      Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard he did not throw anything towards the rival group or the police and there was no evidence of him making any racial comments. But the judge said there was religious hostility during the disturbance which was an aggravating feature.

      Colin Miller was jailed after he threw missiles towards counter-protesters.

      Ricardo Ferranti, aged 41, was jailed for 25 months after he chanted, shouted abuse during the Hanley riots.

    4. Judge Smith said Iqbal's case was 'extremely unusual'.

      He said: "Apart from one isolated incident in the middle of your time in Hanley all of your attendance appeared to be for the purpose of preventing disorder and encouraging others not to take part. You told a person the police were only doing their job. And you went to the aid of someone who was injured by somebody not directly linked to you. You were going to help someone on the other side having been injured by someone on your side.

      "You did throw missiles in the direction of protesters and there were police in between. Those most at risk of injury were police officers. Your decision to do that is very difficult to understand given your general attitude on that day.

      "You have shown clear and genuine remorse. You are assessed as being a low risk of re-offending. The incident that took place, although very serious, was completely out of character in the last nine years of your life. It can and will be suspended."

      https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/dad-throwing-bricks-hanley-riots-10376742

      So, he was really a peacekeeper.

      Rather like Hamas are in Gaza?

  57. While in the Sqn bar, one lady came up and asked who I was.
    “I’m B’s brother in law”
    “Where are you from?”
    “1 Div Sigs, Verden”
    “Scaley, F’kin Scaley”

    And she was one of few straight ones.

    1. Just more euro fascism. Of course, the political class will exempt themselves.

    4. We got out of the uk to avoid this surveillance (among other reasons)

    5. As I'm mostly travelling alone all the black box will record is my swearing at other road users and the occasional belch or fart

  59. Well, the Online "Safety" Act petition is now over 450,000! [450,179 when I last looked!]

      1. Sad, but true. Until they're forced to do as we command them they'll do whatever they like. The Left want a weapon. The online harm bill is it.

  60. Advice please.

    I get on well with my next door neighbours…But…

    Some time ago i told my neighbours i would no longer cat sit and feed their cats because it was happening every week.
    Between the two of them they asked me three times in one week.
    The straw that broke the camels back was she decided as i was at home all day any parcels she ordered she put my address on them. Without asking my permission.
    This morning she emailed me and asked if her Able and Cole veg box had been delivered as her vidcam didn't show it on the front door step.
    He had delivered to the back garden and left the gate banging open which i then secured.
    She then texted the neighbour on the other side to retrieve it as rain is forecast.
    He had trouble securing their wonky gate which bangs in windy weather.

    She considers herself to be an independent woman. She obviously isn't if she cannot arrange her own life without a posse of willing neighbours.

    I think she is taking the piss. The trouble is, in her mind, as we are available, it is perfectly all right to utilise us in this way.

    For myself…If i ask someone to do me a favour i thank them for it. The bigger the favour the bigger the thank you. Even up to a bunch of flowers. From her…nothing.

      1. She is a RN Commander and used to bossing people about. In future i just won't open her emails.

        1. She is an RN Commander ?

          What a lot of nonsense .. Did she command a ship ?

          Look , pretend you are an Admiral .. and tell her to swing her hook!

          2. Might well have commanded a ship, these days! There have been women of Commander rank [and above] who have commanded warships!

          3. Commander may be just her rank so she could have been 'in command' of supply, physical training or other non ship posts

          3. Exactly that. I don't mind doing the odd things for neighbours but she is reliant on the goodwill which is draining away. Then she will just find some other mug.

    2. I explicitly told my neighbour if they went on holiday I would take parcels for them – as theirs were getting ruining because their 'adult' children were not bringing them in (or putting the bins out, or cleaning up after themselves or – I'm untidy, but our kitchen and loos are spotless. The parents came home to an utter mess…).

      But you say you will. You don't get it forced on you. I said no to cat sitting as well as it was too much of a commitment. A long drive to a dodgy neighbourhood twice a day, looking after 4 different types of animal. It was too much. I've my own family and two humans to feed.

    4. It's a difficult one. Could you approach her about building a more sustainable solution before it comes to boiling point?
      Bottom line is that it's not sensible to order a bunch of stuff on the internet that one is not going to be there to receive!

      Or you could start Phizzee's Parcel Receiving Service and offer to receive parcels for the whole street – for a small fee! Tell her that you got the idea from all the practice you got…

      1. Regarding the cats and watering the garden it got to the point where i told them i wasn't prepared to do it any more. I said that i was doing stuff for them so often that my focus was removed from my own needs/chores.

        She could easily designate the local shop as a drop off and pick up but that would be less convenient for her. So she doesn't.

        I have given people the heave ho in the past for less but i do have to live next door to them.

          1. It won't make any difference. I have been there before. She got another neighbour to take the package in because it was going to rain. 'Harry barks at anyone who comes down the alley) so i knew he was there. I said to him oh ! she has two of us over one delivery now. He said he didn't mind. He said he also does any printing she needs doing.
            She could of course buy her own printer but why do that when you can rope in others!

            There is a name for people like her.

            I will just become less malleable. Ignore her messages until the following day.

          2. At least your neighbour isn’t abusive (physically and verbally) to you and your guests. Unfortunately that’s the problem with my neighbour to the south.

    5. For the record, may I point out that you have never sent me a bunch of flowers. Any other NoTTLers feeling similarly neglected?

      1. I have neither asked nor done you a favour. Though i did pay for your wine at Rules !

        Aspinalls silk scarves are more my metier. At least three Nottler ladies have received them. Jill on several occasions.
        Neither a favour or a promise concerned.

        Would you like me to send you some flowers, Michael?

    2. 410412+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      ogga1
      @ogga_1
      ·
      4m
      Expect the worst if it is covered by a continuing revolving curly
      circle.

    3. Something is going on with these videos that paint muslims in a bad light and won't play.

      1. 410412+ up ticks

        Morning Pip,
        Then one will strongly assume with past justifiable evidence
        the worst.

    4. When you visit the twitter feed there are plenty of videos depicting muslim behaving appallingly – practically all of them.

      X lacks the censorship (deliberately) to 'age check' so it could be they're just being hidden from the UK. I will find out, as I don't see why muslim should ever be allowed to hide it's revolting nature.

  62. In his plan to recognise a Palestinian state, Sir Keir Starmer has managed to — again — land on a decision that pleases almost no one. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-palestine-israel-gaza-ceasefire-9ccbv6k8f

    He has promised to recognise Palestinian statehood by September unless a ceasefire is reached, but has not gone far enough for those who have been pushing the Palestinian cause.

    Those who have been campaigning for Palestinian rights are furious that what they say is an inalienable right to self-determination is being used as a “bargaining chip”. They say the eight-week deadline allows Israel to continue the war in the same fashion until September, and then change tack and allow the Palestinian state not to materialise.

    These include senior Labour MPs such as Sarah Champion, the chair of the international development committee, who said she was “troubled” that recognition appeared conditional on Israel’s actions.

    Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on the other hand, has accused Britain of siding with terrorists. Supporters of Israel have criticised Starmer for failing to impose any conditions on Hamas.

    The mood music from the US is also not encouraging. Tammy Bruce, the spokeswoman for the US State Department, said it was a “slap in the face” for the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas. President Trump seemed more relaxed but said the issue had not been discussed during his visit and suggested he did not agree with the move.

    The key question now is what next? All signs point towards Netanyahu continuing along the same path, which will make the move for Britain clear — joining France in recognising Palestine.

    But what if Netanyahu does back down? Unlikely as it seems, this would arguably leave Starmer in a more insidious position.

    • What does recognising a Palestinian state mean in practice?

    It will be extremely difficult for Starmer to row back on his recognition pledge. He would face questions of whether he fundamentally believes Palestine should have the right to exist.

    Such a move would not only be embarrassing for the prime minister, who regularly faces questions over shifting beliefs, it would also further raise tensions with the left of his party who have long been pushing for him to be stricter with Israel.

    It could even push MPs or voters towards the new venture launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.

    Starmer will spend the next few days trying to rally western leaders and encourage the US to get to the same place on recognition — and given Trump is the only person Netanyahu appears to be willing to listen to, his buy-in would be key.

    But if he is successful the prime minister will be creating a new divide at home, where he will open himself up again to questions over where his beliefs truly lie.

    M Durrani
    22 hours ago

    He cannot do anything really. Imagine if Israel says "by September you must comply with all the demands of the SNP and if you can't the State of Israel will recognise an independent Scotland". It is all hot air and he will find an excuse anyway to reward this State in September because now the far left in his party is so empowered. All they have to do is rebel or write a letter and he will convene an "emergency meeting" and fold. Hamas can prolong the conflict and will for sure hold on to the hostages if it can stay in power. Starmer should look at the Arab States who have explicitly asked Hamas to leave and lay down its weapons as a condition for a state. It is incredible that they are saying what needs to be said but our virtue-signalling PM can't and is terrified of "offending".

    He is so scared of losing power and Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband are not going anywhere. It is just virtue signalling by him and many of his MPs have just about narrowly won their seats, the far left and the Islamists will try and keep demanding things. Next up, he will be bringing in the blasphemy law. You will see. He has no power.

    Paul Leigh
    22 hours ago

    In a 96 hour period in Syria, Islamists have murdered over a thousand innocent civilians, including rape, beheadings, and torture. Why isn't this being reported? No Jews involved?

    2. Starmer has no idea. To threaten to recognise a Palestinian State without specifying its borders is one thing. To say that this recognition of a Palestinian State is contingent upon a ceasefire at some future date compounds the idiocy.

      Presumably the promise to recognise a Palestinian State will be null and void if fighting continues past the date set by Starmer. Starmer is an idiot.

    3. Philistia was a defined area of Levant and was home to the Philistines. Almost every country conquered Philistia at one time or another until it no longer existed. Philistines blamed their susceptibility to being conquered on the Jews who they didn't like very much.

    4. Allows Israel to continue the war? What about Hamas and their attempts to destroy Israel?

      1. Hamas must return the hostages, both alive and dead, lay down their weapons and surrender unconditionally. Then is the time to talk about the future of their previous fiefdom. That is also the only path to peace.

  63. Along with the uniparty political toolbox of initiatives to prevent driving and bully people out of their cars as part of the globalist save the planet agenda, there now appears to be one designed to put off the masses from holidaying / traveling abroad by air.
    We now have tourist taxes, protest movements in countries against holiday makers, talk of rationing the amount of flights we can take, I can only guess at who is funding them and now it seems every time peak travel season starts there is some technical failure that makes visiting an airport a misery.
    I'm wondering if these are not mistakes at all, but done deliberately to put people off flying.
    I wouldn't put it past them, anything to make lives our more miserable.

      1. In the past I've heard people saying things like "if small family farms can't compete, they have to go under"
        The fools don't seem to understand the difference between small herds of properly cared for animals and factory farms where the cows never see sunlight or grass.

    1. It's not ruled. They're not 'in power'. They're in government.

      Power derives from us, the public.

    2. 410412+ up ticks,

      Afternoon TB,

      Correction English, they have succeeded in having our woman and children raped & abused on a major scale, and also succeeded in covering it up in ONE instance for sixteen plus ongoing years.

      1. I think Labour and the Left have covered up more than one rape. About 25,000 at last count.

    1. Well there's a waffle-burger reply.. with, of course, a deflection away from Pakistani Muslims to the Catholic Church & other white male institutions over there.

    2. Well there's a waffle-burger reply.. with, of course, a deflection away from Pakistani Muslims to the Catholic Church & other white male institutions over there.

    3. Anne Cryer MP (I think it was her) said a number of the girls in her constituency would go to take-aways (Fish & Chips, and also Curry Houses) and would initially meet the men working there…how the whole thing really kicked off. Some of the girls either lived with a single parent, or were already placed in a Home due to parents unable to control them, make them attend school. I would guess a good number of people were aware of this, talked about it initially amongst themselves, hushed tones, not wishing to get involved for various reasons.

    4. Why are they bothering with the Catholic church is not to make it a smear?

      Err… then why did the Left try so hard to cover up pakistani muslim paedophile rape then? Why are Labour taking so long to put it off?

      Moreover, why are the Left insistent on bringing more pakistani muslim paedophile criminals here rather than defending our borders and removing the vermin?

    5. Police participation is just the inevitable consequence of DEI recruitment, yet the comments all dodge the issue.

    6. I notice that Cooper referred to the Church of England and the Catholic Church, but, strangely enough, no mention of the religion of the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs. I wonder why that is?
      Edit: I see Kowloonbhoy has made the same point before I did.

      1. She can't admit theproblem because she's complicit. Her party is also dependent on muslim.

    7. A barrel load of obfuscations and evasions. But what do you expect.

      Her maiden name suggests her family made barrels; her married name suggests they were rubbish.

    8. Muslimes in the British police force as well now, double protected, no chance of a prosecution.

  69. TTFN, Moh watching crickeeeeeeet on TV and me , I'm of to the hairdresser .

    Nice new salon to visit , after my much appreciated hairdresser of over 40 years retired last year .

  70. Well, that's that job jobbed!
    went up and as I gave the wedges another tap with the hammer, realised the rock had split.
    Here's the rock before I started:-
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dcef0ed2056dc60510e64d603169023ccf6eb156fee67a94b2850dc460de9726.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/36ef6c141e50f8fb1cd3e6ab94b914327106de0371be702a3578ab4ce2f86c24.jpg A view of the bit I want to concrete https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/79157bc2b3cf32fd78f01a44987041e8eeb22dc7593da635f8c4cce9ff8ab61b.jpg And then drilled and the feather & wedge sets put in place; https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b17d938d2315b6e949d5d063c8378c4baaab0d1b2bc117f95f91faabc5469f3.jpg And given three or so firm taps;
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6d8ab7112e66ffa5892a0db51a33fd9f2cbe0ead1e83d77b0726b0399f3fe28.jpg And after doing another job for an hour, being given a couple more firm taps and being left for another hour:- https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/557e4aba8eb63fe07169af3bd766120408c97ec35b803c6839a9ca8f71be016d.jpg And after the split off lump jamming my left ring finger and knocking the skin off the knuckle, I got it out of the way! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7ee3f9c1e0b85bae1e2b11c29d232693e4a7d2bd014d6c8b6918efa950101a7a.jpg Somewhere over 1cwt but less than 1½!

      1. The bit was a 20mm Bosch rock drill, the actual drill its self is a non-descript SDS machine with drill & hammer, non-rotary hammer and simple rotary functions.
        I say non-descript as I bought it as a Kango hammer drill, which it is quite plainly not, though of a similar type to some models of Kango.
        Bought of E-bay well over a decade ago, it's certainly earned its keep over the years!

        1. Much obliged. I need to drill some holes into concrete outside and my little hand drill isn't sufficient. The bit keeps slipping no matter how tight it is.

          1. If you are drilling more than a ¼ to ½" diameter, I would advise an SDS type drill.
            You should be able to pick one up 2nd hand quite reasonably.

    1. I strongly suspect that if one adds in second generation and new British PP/citizenship holders the proportion will be much higher.

    2. To cause trouble, strife and mayhem. Over which the NWO/WEF One World Govt will offer to wave a magic wand and solve all our problems. This is why the Starmer government is so truly awful – drowning men will clutch at straws.

  73. THE GREAT HUM IS A DEATH RATTLE
    Fuck the Autist Lords and Their Silicon Cathedrals

    The Great Electric Hum is modern tinnitus. A phantom hangover in the world’s skull.
    Trapped in this hamster wheel, I stare at our new gods: machines.
    Plastic & metal golems. Whining, socket-sucking infants. Vampires of voltage.
    We pretend they’re alive. Like painting faces on a volleyball & calling it human.
    Strip the lie? Cold dead junk. Deader than a technocrat’s heart.

    Electricity? That ghost-snake in your walls.
    It powers the screens we pray to. Gadgets we clutch like holy charms against the void.
    A CONJOB.
    Glowing trick hiding the truth: we’re sentient meat in cosmic mud.
    Pull the plug? Gone. Back to the nothing it came from.
    We call it “progress.” I call it atrophy.

    WORDS. The OG con artists.
    Ink ghosts. Pixel smoke. Hot air we grunt.
    We treat them like scripture. Build empires in our heads.
    Reality? They’re drunk promises.
    I’ve bled words onto paper. They never fed me. Never held me.
    Tools—NOT masters. Bow to them? You’re already carrion.

    REALITY?
    The thud in your chest. The ache in your bones. The animal hunger to SURVIVE.
    Stars that don’t care. Oceans that don’t blink.
    The warmth of another body in the dark.
    Everything else?
    Ghosts. Distractions from the cage: we’re beasts waiting for the lights above the sky to die.

    So let the machines rust.
    Let the power die.
    Let words crumble.
    They’re SERVANTS—not kings. Worship them? You sold your soul for slavery.
    Me? I’ll take the bottle’s burn. The split knuckle. The raw sky.
    The rest is noise.
    And this beast?
    Going profoundly fucking deaf.

    From the best ranter of our age: https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/the-great-hum-is-a-death-rattle?publication_id=858260&post_id=169748076&isFreemail=true&r=28gmek&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

  75. Richard
    5h
    Hermer is a traitor, he is only exact about "international law", when it is destructive of the UK, as with Chagos.

    He will be perfectly content to disregard international law, when it has the occasional opposite effect.

    Bruce Everiss
    Richard
    5h
    2TK likewise.

    Colin Fisher
    4h
    Perhaps they should recognise the Chagosians and their state instead of imposing "Mauritius Occupation" (to use their favourite words) on them.

    Mr Blue Sky
    5h
    Oh dear. seems the rule of international law only applies when it suits.
    Like giving away sovereign territory or controlling our borders…………
    I knew this would start to unravel, just didn't expect it to happen this quickly.

    Dissident
    5h
    The Montevideo Convention is the second reason not to give statehood. The first, and most important, is that you do not appease terryism.

  76. 410412+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    Will President Trump dust off the Lend / lease act when it comes to crunch time, as it surely must, in the
    United Kingdom.

    1. Corbyn started his own party because he refused to adopt the international definition of antisemitism. Labour itself is still deeply, feverishly antisemitic.

  79. Labour U-Turns on Whether Hamas Hostages Must Be Released to Recognise Palestine

    Starmer said in his televised speech on 29 July:

    “Meanwhile, our message to the terrorists of Hamas is unchanged and unequivocal. They must immediately release all the hostages, sign up to a ceasefire, disarm and accept that they will play no part in the government of Gaza. We will make an assessment in September on how far the parties have met these steps.”

    That has now changed. He said today the release of hostages is a “long standing demand, and we are working with others to do everything we can to get those hostages released… We are going to have to assess, in September, all of the factors in relation to recognition, but this is effectively a pathway to recognition.” Jonathan Reynolds was more stark on the BBC:

    “Hamas is a terrorist organisation and we don’t put conditions on them because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

    That is a complete U-turn and also nonsensical because the UK regularly makes demands of Hamas. Falling apart…

    31 July 2025 @ 14:17

    Dissident
    58m
    "we don't negotiate with terryists"
    No. This government appeases, rewards, and gives them financial support via aid.
    This government is atrocious, revolting.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/db4d7da11a2fb6f55194343060bc8a7ff8a78518107aed43f9db851a1ce0104e.png

  80. Low water pressure. Again. Before that, the power went out. Before that, they dug up the road to lay more electric cables – after having done that in April.

    This simply isn't good enough. The works needs to be done better, properly once, not continual bodges.

  81. Something I'm a bit interested in:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbqqeUU7js
    Bionics and cybernetics are really moving forward. With processing capacity and size of chips also accelerating we're finally getting something positive. Obviously, there's military elements here but knowing an amputee who lost his right arm and leg in a bomb true bionics are a a genuine and necessary tech to pour cash in to.

    What with miniaturised robotics to repair tissue (of course, I'm interested in that!) progressing down to the size of a pin head (still hugely too bit for internal wounds) medical tech is actually useful.

      1. Only when Churchill did. Otherwise someone else was wafting around a piece of paper declaring 'Peace in our Time'. Do you see a modern day Churchill anywhere, sos..I don't.

        1. Chamberlain gets an awful lot of stick.
          He may be denigrated but it bought Britain valuable time.

          As to a Churchill, I can't imagine modern society would tolerate such a creature.

          1. Thanks sos…you know more than I…didn’t it buy Germany/Hitler time, too? I guess the only modern-day Churchill version for some is Farage (and to a lesser degree Tice) – who seems to be an acquired taste for others. I find Hopkins/Habib/Lowe quite interesting…I’m not jumping either way as yet.

          2. We couldn’t have won the Battle of Britain at the time Chamberlain waved his piece of paper. There were insufficient modern fighters and pilots to fly them.

          3. There were behind the scenes negotiations between Hitler and Stalin.
            Hitler tried to subvert Stalin and eventually launched "Barbarossa", which lost Germany the war.

            As to the Farage crew and the various contenders I don't really trust any of them.

          4. Thanks for information. I gave up on politicians some time ago, with a few exceptions. It makes no difference, Civil Service is permanent. I’ve read whole villages starved in Russia during the war, closed off due to massive snowfalls..the sort of thing you wouldn’t forget.

          5. I read a number of history books. The more I read, the more I fear for the future.
            History is repeating itself.

          6. Repetition of war, certainly. The fear of it is all over social media, combined with ‘the other’. Seriously thinking to take a break from it.

          7. Lowe/Habib would be my dream ticket. Not a great fan of Hopkins, which isn't to say i don't agree with her on more or less everything. Just find her irritating – but then I'm a very irritable old bag..

          8. I like Lowe/Habib too. And KH but she gets on my wires with all the jumping around etc. And, I’m an irritable (and irritated) old bag, especially when I read some of the comments on social media. Time to take a break. Perhaps.

          9. The last one out of that mould was Powell – an officer in WWII and a patriot. Just look what the country did to him.

          10. But most of us wouldn't even be here if it hadn't been for Winston Churchill.

          11. We would – we would just be speaking German. And definitely not posting negative comments about the government.

          12. I think you probably didn’t have parents …fathers who were serving in the armed forces and eventually saving our country from the attempted German invasion. Churchill and his tactics beat them off and a lot of our to be father’s came home again.

          13. What makes you think that? My father was in a reserved occupation, but volunteered anyway. One uncle was a Lancaster pilot, another went ashore in Normandy. Another was captured at Dunkirk and spent the war in a POW camp.

            I was just pointing out what probably would have happened had the Germans successfully invaded.

          14. No. There would have been other people here speaking German. But, hey, what does it matter? Because now we have different other people here speaking Arabic and Urdu. I think I would prefer German, even though I dislike the language.

          15. The same could equally be said about Chamberlain and the time he bought us.
            Look at the timing of PIOT and the true Spitfire assembly lines.
            The battle of Britain, if fought in 1938, might have had a completely different outcome.

      2. Only when Churchill did. Otherwise someone else was wafting around a piece of paper declaring 'Peace in our Time'. Do you see a modern day Churchill anywhere, sos..I don't.

  84. Being blunt, I know a teaching assistant who'd feel no qualms about poisoning her entire school.

    Having met the children I wouldn't blame her. They're revolting, nasty kids.

  85. Tommy Robinson is believed to be in Spain, having flown out of the UK a few hours after the incident at London's St Pancras station.

    British Transport Police have confirmed they used the same editor as Greater Manchester Police used on Airport attack press releases.
    Released footage carefully curated shows unconscious innocent citizen laying infront of fa fa faaaaaaaar right thug Tommy Robinson.

  86. Tommy Robinson is believed to be in Spain, having flown out of the UK a few hours after the incident at London's St Pancras station.

    British Transport Police have confirmed they used the same editor as Greater Manchester Police used on Airport attack press releases.
    Released footage carefully curated shows unconscious innocent citizen laying infront of fa fa faaaaaaaar right thug Tommy Robinson.

  87. Michael Deacon
    At 60 JK Rowling is a national hero. What have her spineless critics achieved?

    The mega-selling author possesses something that makes her unique in the current cultural landscape… guts

    30 July 2025 5:13pm BST

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/07/30/TELEMMGLPICT000420570579_17538736614190_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?imwidth=1920 Unlike so many of her artistic peers, Rowling exhibits zero desire to keep in with the in-crowd Credit: @jk_rowling

    Tomorrow is JK Rowling’s 60th birthday. So, as well as wishing her many happy returns, I feel it’s the perfect time to reflect on the qualities that have made this monumentally successful author stand out from the crowd. Obviously there’s her epic imagination, her mastery of plot, her flair for page-turning prose. Above all else, though, she has something that makes her practically unique in the current cultural landscape.

    It’s called a spine.

    Nowadays, such an item constitutes a rare and unusual gift, because – from publishing to comedy, and from theatre to pop – 21st-century culture is dominated by cowardly conformists. People who obediently parrot the latest fashionable mantras about politics, history and “social justice”, while traducing those who dare question them. As a result, the arts world has effectively become a kind of private members’ club, from which anyone who voices the incorrect opinions about current affairs will be automatically blackballed.

    This, I believe, is a key reason why so much of today’s art and entertainment feels stale and predictable: it’s commissioned and produced by people who all think the same. Who have identical views and values. In short, they promote every form of diversity, except the one that matters most: diversity of thought.

    What makes their conformism all the more pitiful is that they’re utterly blind to it. They invariably see themselves as fearless rebels. Take Kneecap, who appear to think they’re brave for flying Palestinian flags in front of thousands of people who agree with them. Sorry, dears, but if you want to do something truly rebellious at Glastonbury, try flying an Israeli flag. In today’s stiflingly homogeneous cultural climate, that would be greeted as the most shocking act of subversion.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/07/30/TELEMMGLPICT000418656159_17538736944700_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=960 An ‘I Love JK Rowling’ poster placed outside Edinburgh Castle by the campaign group For Women Scotland

    Which brings me back to JK Rowling – because, unlike so many of her artistic peers, she exhibits zero desire to keep in with the in-crowd. Politically, we know she’s on the Left (she used to donate to Labour). Yet she doesn’t toe the Left-wing line. On the contrary, she’s been happy to enrage the Left by mocking Jeremy Corbyn, lampooning idiotic efforts to legitimise “sex work” – and, most scandalously of all, refusing to kowtow to trans activism.

    That, in particular, took real courage. Genuine independence of thought. And it’s why she should be saluted today by anyone who believes in free speech. Because, over the past few years, she hasn’t just been campaigning for women’s rights to single-sex spaces. She’s been campaigning for what George Orwell recognised as the single most important right that any of us can have: the right to say that two plus two makes four. And rarely has that right been under greater threat than in the 2020s, a period during which so many politicians, employers and broadcasters have insisted that two plus two makes five – and tried to crush those who won’t comply.

    Of course, some might argue that JK Rowling’s got it easy – because, thanks to her mind-boggling riches, she’s beyond cancellation. But if anything, that makes her interventions all the more remarkable. Being so fabulously wealthy, she didn’t have to bother. She could have ignored the whole trans row, and just sipped cocktails on her private yacht, blissfully oblivious to the vastly poorer and less powerful women being persecuted for the crime of defending their own rights.

    Yet she intervened anyway, knowing full well how this would be received. How many other super-rich celebrities would willingly risk endless abuse, threats, and the concerted trashing of their reputation by speaking out for a cause deplored in high-status circles? How many would choose to bring all that grief upon their own heads, for no personal gain?

    Miserably few. But JK Rowling did. And now, unmistakably, it’s paying off. Her financial support helped the group For Women Scotland bring the appeal that ended with the Supreme Court ruling that, under the law, women are female – and therefore do indeed have the right to single-sex spaces. More than the money, though, I think her most crucial contribution has been moral. Her speaking out has emboldened countless others to speak out, too.

    This is why, as she turns 60, JK Rowling has become more than just our biggest-selling novelist. She’s become a national hero. And what have her spineless critics achieved? Obviously they’ll never have her success. But more importantly: they’ll never have her guts.

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

    Michael Deacon
    Telegraph
    22 hrs ago
    Evening everyone,

    Since I've written so many columns criticising the wilder excesses of trans activism, it feels like a good time to express some gratitude to the person who's arguably done more than anyone, over the past five years, to help defeat it. Which, in my view, makes her one of the few true rebels that our cowardly culture has left.

    Miss Scarlet
    22 hrs ago
    Happy birthday Jo

    And thank you for all that you do for women

    I have no words for the spineless Potter stars – rich well beyond their talent level – who have done their very best to try and cancel her

    And the put down of Stephen "Luvvy" Fry was priceless!

    1. Rowling reminds me of the good samaritan story. No one would remember him if he didn't also have money.

      She is, largely, insulated from negative feedback. She has no mortgage, no costs, a life of incredible luxury and wealth (which she has earned). She can afford the best lawyers and no one suffers if she speaks out.

      However, if she were writing today and wanted to get published she would be forced to bow to the hateful Lefty cult.

    1. "Well, I can't call myself a 'great black', because I'm a killer, and DEI doesn't like to get the truth"

  90. Wordle No. 1,503 3/6

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    Wordle 31 Jul 2025

    Trim for Birdie Three?

    1. Double bogey for me today. Like Elsie, I resisted the hints pages and got there in the end.

      Wordle 1,503 6/6

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    2. First letter was key on this one – I made a silly error on guess 3 when I reused a letter that had already been excluded. Probably would still have just got a par though…..

      Wordle 1,503 4/6

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    3. I guess that I can join Sue playing guess the first letter – lots of divots today.

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    4. Well done, par today.

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  91. Afternoon all. Been for a walk round a local garden and thought, yes I must get some of those and plant them in my rose garden. Mind you, I thought that last time I went and haven’t. Winston is shattered. He’s asleep in his crate. Kadi is stretched out on his blanket. When we got back to the car, Winston lay on his back and had to be lifted onto the seat. We called at a dog friendly cafe afterwards and they had a puppacchino each. Then we went to the butcher’s so I could stock up on meat.

    Starmer doesn’t have a plan. He just says what he thinks will appease his voting bloc. That it’s ill thought out and won’t work never crosses his mind.

  92. From the BBC – "Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said warnings that the recognition of a Palestinian state could breach international law are "missing the point". So, as others have pointed out – as far as our "government" is concerned, it seems that "International Law only applies when we want it to!". Incidentally, isn't Reynolds the one who claimed to be a solicitor when he hadn't qualified??

    2. The Russian press pointed out at the start of the Ukraine debacle that the "Rules Based Order" is about making it up as you go along. Mind, they're rabidly anti-Israel too and not much more inclined to self-awareness than our lot.

    3. It seems to be a common trait among Labour ministers to have overegged the pudding on their CVs.

      2. Here’s an interesting thing – as I understand it [and this response is AI derived, apparently] “In England and Wales, falsely claiming to be a lawyer, specifically a solicitor, is a criminal offence. It’s illegal to pretend to be a solicitor or to act as one if you’re not on the official roll of solicitors. This includes misrepresenting yourself on social media or in any professional capacity. While the term “lawyer” itself isn’t protected, “solicitor” is, and falsely claiming to be one can lead to prosecution”.

  96. That's me for today. Good market. To farm for eggs. Haircut. Still sorting jigsaws….

    Have a jolly evening. Rain tomorrow…morning, anyway. (Depending on which false forecast you read).

    A demain.

  98. BRENDAN O'NEILL asks why was a selectively edited and grainy mobile-phone clip, lasting just 44 seconds, emerged within hours of the incident?Also.. frankly bizarre that it was not until just before Christmas that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) even authorised charges against the brothers. The conviction took more than year.

    Not so fast.

    Judge Neil Flewitt KC has fixed a retrial for April 7 next year. (This relates to assaulting Pc Zachary Marsden, causing actual bodily harm).
    And what..! a bail application for Amaaz, who was remanded in custody after the verdicts were returned, was adjourned until August 26. FFS.

  100. MSN told under no circumstances to report on this..

    Demonstrators outside LBC's central London headquarters last night chanted 'Shame!' in protest at presenter James O'Brien,

    1. James O’Brien’s reading of a message from a listener claiming Jewish children are taught that “one Jewish life is worth thousands of Arab lives” and that “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed” at non-existent “Shabbat schools.”

      This was no mistake. Made sure it was posted on X.

      1. Back in the eighties, an Israeli rabbi(?) said that in public (one Jewish fingernail is worth more than five thousand Arab lives).
        It was my first introduction to actual real middle eastern politics.

        1. Because of inflation and increase in global trade.. it's more like fifteen thousand now.

        2. And Churchill, who mentioned that Arabs never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity…

  101. Back now for a cuppa and a sit down. Dinner is last night's leftovers. Catching up on here with today's chat. Early start tomorrow for the next three days.

        1. Me, meatballs in gravy with sauerkraut & potatoes. Some chilli in the gravy.

    1. Am I the only person who seriously wants to get our country back and running in line with the overall population in mind.

      2. There are millions of us – there's a reason we're the silent majority.

        The Left are a small group of nutters who need dealing with and that means managing the police who protect them, then dealing with the Leftists.

        The starting point is cutting off their funding and flushing out their communication networks – as none of these wasters work, so someone is paying them to destroy this country.

        1. Yet another positive aspect of taking an axe to the benefits system. Trouble is, of course, most of them would be unemployable.

          1. In those cases, deport back to France and Monsieur Macron – let him deal with them. Madame can make a few sandwiches to hand out.

    2. Burning their passports is what makes them vulnerable. They know from ones already here, the UK will look after them. Patrick Chrystys go so fed up with them defecating on the pavement outside his flat, he went to Calais and asked the ones waiting to cross the Channel 'why the UK'…answer…you know it…Benefits!

  104. On the bbc news a few minutes ago they made a big issue about the 900 invaders that have recently arrived. But I didn't see the whole item but nobody to this day, with all the violence and dusting behaviour murder and all the horrible other things that they are bringing with them, has ever publicly made a single statement condemning the ruination of our British way of life. All these political idiots do is a form of protest is to continually shrug their stupid thick as several planks shoulders.

    1. They don't care. There's a fifth column of Leftists who hate this country: it's past, present and future. They hate that we said no to the EU , they want a globalist, unaccountable government and they utterly refuse to acknowledge our greatness, our successes.

      These people hate democracy, they hate your freedoms and most of all they hate that you, some annoying, unapproved 'citizen' can refuse them – so they're making sure to destroy everything you have built, to tear down all that is good and erase the good and decent to replace it with their own hateful hellscape.

    1. Logic, reason and truth don't work on Leftists. They're insane. If they thought rationally they wouldn't be Lefties.

      1. She’s out a of her tiny mind. Pity about the language of the protester, swearing doesn’t help really. A reasoned argument may be better?

        But then I thought to myself, don’t be silly, the do-Golders just have no idea, do they. ‘ No sage and legal route for them to come to this country’ – what utter rubbish. Hasn’t she heard of passports?

        1. By entering the UK illegally, they show their utter contempt for British law, and demonstrate that they cannot be trusted.

          1. As we say in the US, when your first act on American soil is to commit a crime, why should we let you stay?

    2. Perhaps some illegal entrant could rape you, pet – then let us know your views.

    4. Always young women, no steady boyfriend (if a boyfriend at all), no signs of marriage (WimminsLib), having a baby (Abortion Act) etc…that would keep them at home, caring for family………I'll get me coat……

      1. A satirical song from the days when I used to write perform satirical songs!

        Women's Lib's Destroying My Libido: Richard Tracey

        Women's Lib's destroying my libido,
        And I just won't stand for it any more!
        My macho's getting mangled; my morale is sinking fast;
        My self-esteem's not been so low before.
        I used to wear the trousers in my happy little home;
        I used to rule the roost in kingly style;
        But Women's Lib's destroying my libido:
        And I find it hard to even raise a smile!

        I married Sue: a perfect little angel –
        She cleaned my house and cooked just like a dream.
        When I came home from work I'd find my slippers by the fire:
        No effort was too great so it would seem.
        She used to say that I was all she wanted out of life;
        I had her adoration and respect.
        But Women's Lib's destroying my libido.
        And playing havoc with my intellect.

        Alas, one day I was too democratic –
        I said: "My love you really should unwind.
        The local tech is putting on a social science class –
        Why not sign on: it might improve your mind?"
        To please me she set off at once and that's where things went wrong:
        Her tutor was a lesbian feminist
        Who told her she'd been cheated and degraded
        By a churlish and a shallow chauvinist.

        Women's Lib's destroying my libido:
        The home is now a woman's place no more;
        My wife now feels exploited when she's told to wash the stairs,
        Humiliated when she scrubs the floor.
        She says she's found her real self and that she now can see
        That cooking for a man is infra-dig.
        So I get spare ribs from the local Chinese take-away.
        For she won't pander to a pompous pig.

        Women's Lib's destroying my libido.
        I don't know if I'll get it back again.
        At first my wife had headaches every time we went to bed –
        In retrospect that wasn't so germane:
        Her headaches soon gave way to a voracious appetite,
        Demanding that the earth moved twice a day;
        I lost two stone; my hair fell out; I grew extremely pale –
        I felt inadequate in every way.

        Women's Lib's destroying my libido.
        I can't stand for it as I did before.
        My wife has got a job and earns three times as much as I –
        She doesn't need my money any more.
        She won't be known as Mrs – she prefers to be called Ms
        I once was virile, butch and quite all right.
        But Women's Lib's destroying my libido
        And my ardour's growing softer every night!

    1. You can guarantee some miserablist snivelling Lefty is right now squealing in their little hidden pig pen about how many wasters they'll make sure to bus there to cause trouble. The Left hate – absolutely hate – that others have a right to refuse them.

  109. My javascript blocker is reporting a thing entitled blob: which is greyed out and cannot be stopped. It infects a number of sites including this one. Any idea what it is?

    A search tells me it stands for binary large object, and is used to encrypt and parcel up large amounts of data, which can only be decoded by the creator of the blob. I suspect it may be used by hackers for surveillance purposes.

    Am I being somewhat paranoid, or is this a form of malware?

    1. I don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps you've got a malignant virus on your computer.

      1. I don't know what anyone is talking about when they get onto this, Ndovu. Just let them get on with it. Don't let them see the whites of your eyes.

    3. You need to phone your local computer store and ask for advice, they'll likely put you in touch with a local blogger who will fix it for you (in exchange for payment).

    4. It could be the encrypted data for the website (because it's encrypted locally, the forwarded). The state censorship (at this point) is on the companies providing those services which has meant a huge number now have to age verify. Later on of course that will be expanded to monitor where you visit.

      If you're using your providers DNS they can monitor that traffic but it's unlikely that's encrypted unless you've deliberately turned it on.

  110. Q – How do you run a just about managing small business under a Labour government?

    A – You first have to start out with a successful large business.

    1. Sure as hell Labour want to destroy everything. A front bench that has never had a job outside of the state, that is full of liars, cheats, thieves and the corrupt, who happily swindle the tax payer (Raynor), who are so eager to avoid tax they demand law be passed to protect their own avarice (Starmer) are now spewing out endless law that will do nothing but destroy the economy.

      The sad thing is they just don't know why.

  111. Just catching up on today’s posts. Not many will go back to what was posted at breakfast time. Re the appointment of the Archbishop in Wales comments, I’m not aware of a new mosque in Dumfries. There is one being built in South Lakes near Barrow in Furness that is the centre of many protests.

    1. I'm in the South Lakes – the mosque is being built in Dalton, near Barrow, apparently because some Muslim doctors at Barrow General Hospital complained that they had nowhere to worship – f*ck off back to wherever I say…
      It's very strange as you see virtually no Asians in Cumbria anyway…. at least for now…..

      1. AI, G4…'There are an estimated 40-50 Muslim doctors and clinicians practicing at Furness General Hospital in Barrow, according to a July 2021 report. The report also mentions a need for basic Muslim facilities, including prayer, burial, teaching, and community spaces, as the closest mosque is in Lancaster, 50 miles away. The report suggests this lack of facilities contributes to high attrition rates among Muslim families.' (NB: from 2021). I await your comments with interest, as usual. K

        2. It's just another part of the wider Islamification process that's strangling our country…. we're being murdered in our sleep…

      2. When numbers were small and they were just getting a foothold, they used to meet in a house. Now they have to have an in-your-face alien blot on the landscape.

          1. It is outstandingly ugly in design. Looks like an upright urinal floor. Many mosques at least have beauty on their side.

          2. Just an ugly brick. Trees in front of it would be a start. In fact, trees where it is would be even better.

          4. It's a disgusting eyesore and I cannot believe they got planning permission for such a ghastly, ugly building.

          5. I quote from the planning process;

            The Dalton-in-Furness Islamic Centre, also known as the South Lakes Islamic Centre, was granted planning permission because the local authority deemed that the proposed development aligned with relevant planning policies and rules. Specifically, the planning committee addressed concerns about noise and privacy by noting the building's distance from the nearest homes and imposing conditions regarding Japanese knotweed removal.

            Nothing about the azan then……..

          7. Probably scared s***less of the backlash if they said no. Some years back, the Saudis tried to fund and build a school and cultural centre in Maryland, whcih would have required support and approval fom the local town council. There was a huge fight with bags of Saudi money on the one hand and the citizens of a rather conservative town on the other. In the end, the Mayor, who knew he would get it in the neck whatever he did, called for a referendum, in which the proposal was soundly defeated.

          8. Referendum – now that’s a very good idea! It would be stopped dead in its tracks….

            PS there wouldnt have been any backlash – as I said previously, there are no real numbers of Asians in Cumbria.

        1. Pretty but if you’re going to do paganism, in their day the Parthenon and the Temple of Artemis were in a different league.

      5. An acquaintance from South Asia worked at Lancaster Hospital. (definitely not a mossie)

      7. I did a lot of work at Barrow gas terminals over the years. A great place to work though I always stayed in Ulverston.

        1. Barrow can be a bit rough, but Ulverston is a lovely place and not far from us – we're in Cartmel – my wife likes shopping at the Booths supermarket there.

      8. It's all bollocks. They don't need a building to pray. Someone's front room can be a mosque.

    2. You wouldn't be, because I got it wrong. Still apologising, must start grovelling…….:-DD

    1. Because they're not interested in 'blending in' – they want to dominate and subjugate, it's two fingers up to the rest of us!

    2. it doesn't. But one of the many fronts of the wars being waged by our betters in order to immiserate us is a primary war against beauty.

    3. When Nana Mouskouri retired she sang her last concert in New Zealand and at the final curtain call, the audience began singing to her. She said in her long career, that had never happened before. They sang the Māori song, “Now is the hour when we must say goodbye, soon you’ll be sailing far across the sea, wherever you roam, please remember me”. She just stood there and cried.

    4. My father was Welsh, born in Newport. His mother was born in Cawnpore, India.

      I confess I have never felt particularly welcome in Wales, quite the reverse, similar to Scotland in that regard. I hope I get to visit India before I die.

      My father loved India having served there and in Burma with the Royal Artillery in WWII.

      1. Don’t hang around – you may want to go again!
        Visited Mumbai for work some years ago. Loved it. Much respect for Indians, too.

  115. Bill for Oscar's treatment is due. Our usual outgoings, including foods, domestic larks and the odd evening out are about £3.6k. This month the credit card is a lumpen £4500. New washing machine included and 3 of that for Oscar – that's also accounting for the years payments on his pet plan. water, which was £60 is now over £100. Council tax up an effective 10%.

    It is, by rough calculation either exactly what we both earn or more so have moved some from savings.

    When we moved in to the farmhouse our bills were £2000. Yes, we have two more dogs but the sheer cost of living has, for us, gone up at least 20, maybe 30%. I looked at a Tesoc food shop from 2013. Cost about £60. The same stuff today is double that.

    In all, bit fed up.

    1. Similar here, I cobbed Pet Plan and more or less straightaway dog got liver problem, turned out to be cancer, then euthanasia. Several hundred pounds later. Agree with doubling of other costs.

    3. You need a water meter if you havent got one already. And maybe fewer dogs! If you can afford the luxury, your earnings are yours to spend as you wish but £3.6k a month is quite a bill, but with mortgage payments not unreasonable for 2 professional earners.

  116. Last full day today in Southwold.
    And after a little drizzle this morning we decided to drive to Walberswick. And re visit. It hasn't changed at all since we visited many years ago. We stayed at the Bell back then. Sun came out after an hour and we walked over the bridge and through the dunes.
    On our way Back home tmz after 10 am.
    Good night all Nottlers sleep well.
    😴

    1. I had some wonderful holidays there in the mid 60's.
      Got into terrible trouble from my best friend's mother after he and I and a couple of other friends had a toothpaste fight and all the sheets and pillowcases needed washing.

    2. My Mum was ina residential home in Southwold, looking out over The Common – St Barnabas House. It was a lovely place with only 12 residents, they also provided apartments for those who were not ready for residential care, but needed someone to call upon if necessary. The staff were lovely to her. She is what is called 'a difficult lady' but Mum did confess to poppiesdad that she 'liked it there'. She had a stroke after two and a half years at the age of 93 and was transferred to the local Cottage Hospital which was in fact a hospice. I cannot praise them highly enough.

      2. We hadn't been there for a long time. But we loved it, what a lovely town it is. One thing in particular I found very interesting was the hundreds of thousands of small remenderance plaques fixed to the hand rails all the way around and back on the pier. Marvellous.

  117. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/exposed-labour-plot-silence-migrant-hotel-critics/

    Yes, there is anger at muslim because they're the problem. They keep raping and stabbing people so obviously no one wants that – except the secret police, apparently.

    However against Jews – now that's interesting, because the state really here just wants to silence the mob, so conflates the anger at muslim with Israelis, however it's fundamentally different. It's muslim and Leftists who are abusing Jews. The groups are completely diametrically different. One is a group of concerned Mums and Dads, the other an organised mob of Leftists, muslim and vile pallywhack savages.

    I hate the bloody government. It's lies are towering, desperate and pathetic.

    2. 'Despise' might be a more appropriate word, what with the enormous spread of hayte cryme legislashun.

  119. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14959441/BRENDAN-ONEILL-things-no-one-willing-say-savage-Manchester-Airport-attack-brutes-trial.html

    So what of the fact that it took so long for this saga to reach its conclusion? It is frankly bizarre that it was not until just before Christmas that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) even authorised charges against the brothers. The conviction took more than year.

    What did the CPS do for five months? The case was open-and-shut; CCTV footage was available from the get-go. To put things in context, according to its own data, it currently takes an average of 44 days for the CPS to bring charges against a suspect. In this case, it took three times as long.

    No clear explanation for this delay has been offered by the outfit Keir Starmer ran before he entered politics – but I have one theory.

    Tensions, as I said, were running high among local Muslims in the aftermath of the incident. Swiftly charging the brothers, however compelling the evidence, could have risked things turning uglier.

    There is also the crippling fear of being accused of ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’ that afflicts our public bodies, and especially the police.

    Who cares what muslim 'feel' They're violent savages. The case should have taken 3 days. Day 1, arest, day 2, charge, day 3, hanged.

    The state cannot waffle on about muslimphobia when these vile creatures are like any other criminal. It was assault and they should have been jailed within 2 months. To do otherwise is blatant 2 tier policing. muslim must be punished. It should be humiliated. If they kick off, beat them until the damned wretches learn their place. They're unwelcome and should be removed: all of them.

  120. It's got dark early tonight…… an autumnal feel. Off to bed shortly – busy weekend ahead.

    1. Yes, we commented the same tonight round about 9.00 pm. The nights are drawing in and there is a tinge of autumn there. Summer is slipping away.

  125. Britain's 'rights' culture is being exploited by the industrial grievance complex

    Personhood for rivers is an absurd example of a grim trend: the politicising of our fundamental principles

    David Frost
    31st July 2025, 6:36pm BST

    The country is on a knife edge. The small boats keep coming.The authorities live in fear of asylum protests. Crime festers in our big cities. And the Online Safety Act might be stopping us talking about it. A long hot summer is apparently in prospect.

    Not if you are in the Test Valley, it isn't. Things are going so well there that the Tory council found time last week to vote to recognise the "Rights of Rivers" – the "right to flow", "to perform essential functions within the ecosystem" and "the right to feed and be fed by sustainable aquifers". The council will work with "community groups" and "experts" to "support the legal and practical recognition of these rights", apparently including the ability to take legal action. Coming to a court near you soon: The River Test v. Southern Water.

    How fortunate are the citizens of the Test Valley Borough Council area, to have councillors who have solved all their big problems and thus can spend time on this. It's hard sometimes to have sympathy with Kemi Badenoch, but I felt for her this morning when I read that she had told the Tory party this week to take more "authentically conservative positions". Clearly the message has not yet reached darkest Hampshire. I know conservatives are meant to want to wind the clock back, but still, reverting to paganism by recognising the "personhood" of the Test river god might be going a bit far.

    Sadly, Test Valley is not the first council to do this. Like all bad ideas, it started with the crank Left. Basingstoke's council granted "personhood" to the River Loddon in May, and the council in Lewes did the same for the Ouse in 2023. The former is run by a ghastly collection of "independents", originally from Labour, the Greens, and the Women's Equality Party. And the latter is entirely made up of Labour, Lib Dem, and Green councillors – red-yellow-green, a "Mali flag" council, though one imagines that the rulers of even that unhappy country take more interest in fostering economic growth than those of the unfortunate citizens of Lewes.

    And it is not just nutty British councils. There's a whole movement behind this, with a "Universal Declaration of River Rights" and dozens of international NGOs signed up. The otherwise admirable nature writer Robert Macfarlane has written a whole book on the idea. It won't be long before there is a UN resolution on river rights, a European Court judgment on them and Lord Hermer instructing us to obey.

    Of course, none of this will do anything to solve the actual problem, which is how to protect our rivers and stop them getting polluted. But these doubtful activities are still revealing of something going awry in our politics: the increasing use of a "rights-based approach" as a way of dealing with complex issues. It's dangerous – and this is why.

    Most people probably think of human rights as fundamentally connected simply to being human. As the US Declaration of Independence puts it: "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

    By the time of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights, it was generally, if cautiously, accepted that economic and social rights, the right to work, to social security, to education and so on, should be counted in too. And by the time I was working in this area at the UN in the late 1990s, the fashion was for dubious Third World-advocated collective rights, such as a country's "right to development".

    This continued expansion of the concept of human rights has come at a cost. It is that we have come, gradually, to think that human rights are not just recognised in law, but actually defined or created by it. As Lord Sumption put it in his 2019 Reith lectures: "To say that rights are inherent in our humanity without law is really no more than rhetoric … Rights do not exist in a vacuum. They are the creation of law."

    The problem is that once we move away from the "givenness" of certain fundamental principles, such as human equality or the right to life, and come to think they are merely political in nature, we have no solid foundation for them at all. And then we are led astray.

    Led astray morally – for once you start believing that it is wrong to kill, not because it just is wrong, but because we humans say it is, then it becomes very tempting to qualify the right to life for reasons of convenience, and you end up with abortion up to birth or state-assisted suicide.

    Led astray politically – for once you come to think that rights can be created by people and by laws, rather than being a fundamental component of reality, then it becomes tempting to create new rights for political reasons: the right of a man to become a woman, say.

    Led astray diplomatically – because it's those made-up collective rights which justify demands for slavery reparations or compensation for colonialism.

    And led astray economically – for once you can invent or expand rights, doing so becomes a convenient way of pursuing your political ends. After all, if you can establish a "right" to something, then you can get it enforced in court, and then it must be given to you, whatever the cost. That's why it becomes more attractive to give a river the "right to flow" than engage with the complicated trade-offs in water supply. That's why it's more effective to go to court for the "right" of teaching assistants and catering staff to be paid the same as dustmen, and bankrupt Birmingham Council on the way. The "right" is the important thing, not the affordability.

    This way madness lies, as we all compete with each other to define and enforce rights in line with our own political preferences. We need to step back, and bring rights-based politics back to a more defensible core.

    But until that day comes, what can we do but join in? So I'm starting my own campaign. If rivers, why not roads? Aren't they entitled to the "right to a smooth surface" and the "right not to have potholes". Perhaps this way I can finally get Greenwich Council to do its job.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/britains-rights-culture-exploited-by-industrial-grievance

    1. We should get a lot more worried about this – it's the yoke of slavery to be put around our necks – "ecocide". Breathing can be declared a crime because it "contributes to global warming."

  126. Well, chums, it's bedtime for me. So Good Night all, sleep well, and I hope to see you all early next month (tomorrow morning).

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