Thursday 5 June: Western democracies have a duty to resist growing Russian aggression

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  5. Right, that's me off to pump bilges then I'm off.
    Should be back just after mid-dayish.

    1. So, no answer, and frankly having a lecture on financial incompetence from TTK is even more of an insult!

    2. So, no answer, and frankly having a lecture on financial incompetence from TTK is even more of an insult!

    3. "They're English too," says Christopher Hope, a man obviously unaware of the Arthur Wellesley dictum.

  8. Good morning, chums. And thanks, Geoff, for today's NoTTLe site. Got a "Birdie" with today's Wordle.
    Wordle 1,447 3/6

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  11. Beebsplaining
    10h
    Let's clap the NHS and put the Doctors in charge🤔 what could go wrong🤔
    "She forged a degree certificate and a letter of verification in 1995, with the word verify misspelt, the court heard.

    Despite that they were both accepted as evidence by the General Medical Council (GMC) who registered her as a doctor."

    Originally from Iran🤔
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f29cabc8a62c14b092eded830b81048238930382fdae3b0cc350aec122e5d0fd.png

    1. The beauty about psychology and psychiatry is that you can never be definitely proved wrong.
      Unlike on an operating table or a wrongly prescribed drug there is always the get out excuse that human nature is unpredictable.
      It is a cliché, but psychologists in particular are as mad as a box of frogs.

    2. And it took them 20 years to find out!
      Presumably she must have been getting some good results.
      I wonder how many patients are permanently off work and claiming benefits for mendel elf ishoos.

    3. "Alemi was born in Iran but in the early 1990s was in Auckland, where she failed to complete the bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery degree required to practise as a doctor and was refused permission to resit."

      May 1997, Dept of Health:
      "If only we could sign foreign doctors to save having to pay to train our own people."
      "Great idea!"

  12. 406792+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 5 June: Western democracies have a duty to resist growing Russian aggression

    That would be the deceptive Russian aggression the western home turf politico's are pushing in trying to conceal the very
    real, in your face and minds aggression being currently daily sampled, via starmer , use England as a prime example.

    1. 406792+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Thursday 5 June: Western democracies have a duty to resist growing Russian aggression

      If this were so I do believe many would find
      "Russian aggression to have a great deal more compassion when put alongside, as witnessed, English governing aggression.

    2. The aggression put forward by Starmer, about going to war with Russia, you mean?

    3. The rhetoric coming from Starmer is symptomatic of the basic irrelevance of our political class. Starmer was put in place by our own labyrinthine deep state solely in order to put us back under EU control. Our votes count for little or nothing and never have done.

      Russia is painted as the threat and aggressor to EU “democracy” and the much discredited western rules-based values. Russia is no threat whatsoever at present. That will change should these mad warmongers succeed in provoking Putin with US support.

      Ultimately I suspect the energy crisis in Germany will bring an abrupt stop to the present disorder. Merz is opposed to the restoration of Nordstream whereas German industrialists are desperate to see Nordstream restart for the survival of their own industries.

    1. Paul
      A Irwin
      8h
      Thankfully/hopefully not quite as it seems. The figures quoted look as though they are based on the gross salaries paid to those expected to be recruited over four years, on which a recruiter is paid a commission. What would be interesting to see is what the actual commission paid is. Interestingly, the Council also has its own recruitment portal.
      Some careful fact checking DOGE works needs to be done to understand what is going on and why.

  16. Good morning, all. Raining. Funny to think that today might have been D-Day…but for the weather.

    1. To think that it was some years until historians discovered that the yes/no decision depended on a barometer measurement in a lighthouse on the west coast of Eire (supposedly neutral).
      R.I.P. Maureen Sweeney, postmistress and lighthouse keeper at Blacksod Point.
      It would be interesting one day to know the identity of the English lady who called Ms Sweeney for confirmation, presumably from somewhere within Ireland.
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/18/maureen-sweeney-irish-post-d-day-overlord-eisenhower/

      1. Dateline 2105
        To think that it was some years before real scientists discovered that the yes/no decision for net zero was based on measurements from broken systems.
        Rest in torment all you clowns who created it, supported it and used it to break down western civilisation.

          1. If the numbers don’t add up, employ Lammy, Abbott or Miliband and they soon will, and they won’t even need to be changed.

      3. Mrs Sweeney recalled to the Irish Independent that she had received a phone call from London asking for the readings to be checked again.

        1. On an ordinary landline? I wonder if they routed the call via a female civil servant in Northern Ireland.
          Suppose we will never know.
          Admiral Canaris once visited Eire during WWII, for some reason or other.

    2. To think that it was many, many years until historians discovered that the yes/no decision depended on a barometer measurement in a lighthouse on the west coast of Eire (supposedly neutral).
      R.I.P. Maureen Sweeney, postmistress and lighthouse keeper at Blacksod Point.
      It would be interesting one day to know the identity of the English lady who called Ms Sweeney for confirmation, presumably from somewhere within Ireland.
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/18/maureen-sweeney-irish-post-d-day-overlord-eisenhower/

    3. The original date chosen for theD Day invasion was 5 June 1944.

      But at 13:00 on 3 June, 21-year-old Maureen Sweeney was first to forecast a severe storm approaching Europe from over the Atlantic Ocean. She and her husband Ted worked at a coast guard and weather station in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo on Ireland’s west coast.

      She live to the grand old age of 100 and she passed away peacefully at the Sonas Tí Aire Nursing Home, Belmullet in 2023.

  17. I'm just listening to Louis Armstrong on the radio singing "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you". Watch out, Louis, Plod will be round shortly to arrest you and put you in jail for incitement to violence. The past, as they say, is a different country.

    2. That man has cojones.
      Imagine doing that in an autocracy; he , his entire family AND the acquiescent workers would be in some Gulag by now.

    3. Grinning and scratching his crotch, Calvin steals the Chancellor’s thunder

      Mystery bus factory worker speaks for all of Britain as he rolls his eyes at Reeves’s never-to-materialise £15bn transport investment

      Tim Stanley
      04 June 2025 5:39pm BST

      Politicians are a right nuisance. You’re in your place of work, quietly doing the crossword, when a minister shows up – and by some strange convention, you’re required to stand around them for an hour while they lie to the TV cameras and dodge questions from the press. Why?!

      Well, someone has finally taken a stand. Let’s call him Calvin (he looks like a Calvin).

      The latest stop in Rachel Reeves’s Magical Misery Tour was a bus factory in Rochdale, where – as per usual – local workers were expected to semi-circle the Chancellor as she announced £15 billion for transport links we know we’ll never see (put it this way, the service from Calais to Dover is cheaper and more reliable than Brighton to Victoria).

      Naturally robotic, she recited “to serve Halton, St Helens and Woodchurch” as if announcing the service would leave in five minutes from platform three. “Spades in the ground”, she said, losing herself in the rhythm of the words, would “link up Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield, Pudsey and Leeds. If you see something that doesn’t look right, speak to staff or talk to British Transport Police. See it, say it, sorted.”

      The pre-recorded Chancellor grinned her way through the Midlands, via a rail replacement bus, to Didcot Parkway, and around her the workers listened grimly but politely, with their arms folded as if bouncing outside a nightclub on a slow Tuesday in the pouring rain. Except for Calvin, standing to her immediate right in a grey jumper and “not bovvered” beard.

      He looked unhappy to be there from the off, and dropped subtle visual cues. “Secureonomics,” said the Chancellor: he rubbed his eye. “Not prepared to tolerate a situation in which steel is undermined”: he bit his lip. “Growth made in Britain”: he sighed deeply.

      When she arrived at her rhetorical terminus with “This Government promised change and we are keeping that promise,” the bus workers applauded politely – but Calvin did not. Perhaps because he knew what they didn’t. The journey wasn’t over.

      “I’ll take questions”: the workers looked horrified. There’s more?! One could see the precise moment that the soul left the body of a boy in a blue jumper and disappeared into Heaven, screaming for release. Like an unscheduled stop at St Leonards, these poor creatures were forced to endure 20 extra minutes of mind-blowing tedium – without the bonus of seeing Calvin’s commentary.

      The boy is clearly an economist. As Reeves said her policies were fully funded, he nodded and rolled his eyes. When she justified her decision to raise taxes, he grinned and scratched his crotch.

      Social media fell in love. The Tories, who have nothing better to do, dashed off a video of his highlights (they’d better pray he doesn’t turn out to be a nutcase or, worse, a Lib Dem).

      His performance captured both the madness of expecting the public to act as a backdrop for politicians they probably don’t support, plus the widespread feeling of being trapped with Labour – as though the Great British train had broken down, the aircon won’t work, the windows are stuck and Rachel from Complaints is on her phone shouting about her “manifestow”.

      This, Mr Miliband, is why so many of us prefer to drive.

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

      Andrew Graham
      13 hrs ago
      Top bloke. I think he understands more about this country than she ever will.

      J Chapman
      10 hrs ago
      Reply to Andrew Graham
      This article deserves a 2025 award, and we are only 5 month in.

      Jane Sloniowsky
      13 hrs ago
      Excellent analysis Tim. You couldn’t have read ‘Calvin’ any better.

      These captured groups are starting to look like hostages.

      Night Owl
      6 hrs ago
      Reply to Jane Sloniowsky
      The whole country is a hostage to fortune at the moment

      Steve Phillips
      4 hrs ago
      Reply to Jane Sloniowsky
      There's a pic of Hillary Clinton in Afghanistan and the soldier she is shaking hands with is using the crossed fingers symbol for "I'm under duress".

      1. He is Calvin DeCline -Tobyapartytothiscrap and I claim my £5!

        Morning Michal and all

        1. It’s OK, Anne – electricity comes out of a socket in the wall, so i don’t understand what your problem is.

    5. That video is comedy gold. It will, in a manner of speaking, run and run.
      As it is now stored away on millions of lap tops and phones, the current bunch cannot escape it.
      The jerkiness, is I assume, due to editing to show the "highlights".

  20. Morning, all Y'all.
    Brilliant sunshine today – lovely! Pub visit scheduled after work – lovely!

    1. We moved out of central Bournemouth ten years ago because of the immigrant problem. It's a helluva lot worse now.

  22. Good morning everyone, wonderful sunshine this morning.
    Whoops, I am well fibbing; please Sir, can I be an MP now?
    There is a video of Princess Harry gyrating whilst apparently in the later stages of pregnancy. Comments allowed, for now.
    Who filmed her?
    Why and where? The delivery room should. be possible to identify.
    Was the video made four years ago, or a while later, with padding?

    1. Fake truth. Trash was never pregnant nor did she ever deliver a "magic" babee

      1. I know much has been written in the papers, but I am surprised at your certainty. The bump in the vid was very odd and rather high for a baby that would be engaged lower down ready to be born. Do you have a secret source or just drawn a conclusion from what we have all heard! One of them is ginger which gives a chance of him being conceived by this pair, perhaps the conception and birth are the questionable elements.

        1. It was her demeanour hours after the “birth”. I am not unfamiliar with the aftermath of a baby arriving. No woman of my knowledge has ever appeared s bouncy a short while after giving birth.

          1. It’s an interesting one and the sketchy release of family photos will keep the pot boiling. Not sure we have seen a colour pic of the daughter yet.

      1. Conspiracy Theory or is there truth in it?

        The disgusting video of the Duchess of Sussex with her strange looking pregnancy bump is fuelling the concern that her children are surrogates and she never has given birth.

        DNA tests should be obligatory for any person who is, or will be, in the first 100 in line to the British throne.

    1. 406792+up ticks,

      There will be a period ( the eye of the storm) when starmer AKA the TOOL,and KIT, AKA the cabinet march off to the war zones, any will suffice.

    1. Good morning, Bob3. Well, that's because we live in the UK where the weather is a constantly changing pattern of rain and sunshine. We need to accept what arrives and act accordingly. For example, here in Colchester today it is raining, so Korky the Kat has switched from gardening to housework. When the sun comes out, he'll no doubt be back in his garden. I was due to have my gardener spend some time in my garden this afternoon, but clearly I believe he will have to postpone his visit to another day. That's life and it's no good wishing it to be different.

      1. I have a pile of ironing and a biscuit recipe to try.
        And Colchester's answer to the Bayeau Tapestry to progress.
        And bloody paperwork; I just do not remember this amount of paperwork when we were first married.

    1. Very good.
      When the locals called me a pom in Oz I always asked them how they got there.
      And strange how none white indigenous people seem to have strong priority theses days, but nothing like the same for white indigenous people. The modern prisoners of mother England. Trapped and ignored.
      Perhaps that's why another 'expert' has come up with the silly idea that black or brown people were the original inhabitants of our islands.

  26. 'We don't want 'em,' says Trump.

    Neither does Scotland.
    I reckon Reform is in with a chance at the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election.

    1. 406792+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Keep in mind, lest we want to forget, we could NEVER have got to where we are today as a nation without the indigenous peoples input especially these past forty years.

      1. The thing is Ogga , culture is now between the devil and the deep blue sea.

        I had a few things to do in Weymouth yesterday late morning , sunshine , chilly wind, but my goodness , I have never seen so many ugly looking women covered in body art, women wearing shorts , legs covered in tattoos , necks, breasts, backs, arms , why?

        Many of them were adult parents , accompanied by their children , no joke, if you look up the cost of tattoos , they are so expensive , yet the government are screeching stuff about poverty in childhood .

        So me being judgemental says that , hang on a moment , expensive lifestyle choices are not to be taxpayer funded .. tattoos, vapes and junk food are must be a terrible drain on finances.

        Dress code , yep , society has changed horribly ..

        1. Tats and fats we call them and that's including pumped up lips and even bottoms.
          What are the trying to achieve, they look absolutely awful.

    2. The Danes have banned it.
      Let's put our hands together for the Jarlsvikings.

    3. And the men wear skirts so when they are causing trouble they can't be kick in the privates.

      2. That text Starmer merely reads from pre-prepared notes. No fluency and none of the oratorical skills needed in a leader. Starmer is an utter disgrace.

        1. I have glasses for reading and close work.
          While we were up in Edinburgh, as we followed granddaughter round IKEA, I spotted a tall floor standing lamp; after some internal debate (roughly 20 seconds) I bought it.
          The difference to my neck and shoulders when I work is phenomenal. I hadn't realised how much I was contorting myself to see when using a small table sized working lamp.

  30. Morning all! 🌞 made up for lost sleep and slept till gone 8 today. Looks as though we had a drop more rain overnight.

    1. Morning J,

      Glad you have caught up with your sleep requirements .
      I just need an extra hour , I don't think 5/6 hours sleep is enough, but having said that , we both snooze in the evening .. in arm chairs , maybe an hour or two . Wake up to find the curtains still open , dog begging to go out in the garden with his ball, and the adopted cat yowling for food, dishwasher bleeping finished , and Moh fussing about his Winchester trip this morning .

      He left the house after 7am , I hope the traffic is kind , usually builds up after Ringwood , and he should arrive before 9am .

      Golf .. people travel miles for a competition . I think the Winchester course will be demanding , a bit hilly !

      1. But he enjoys it and it keeps him fit.
        Did your cat have a home before? It's funny how they will move on and find somewhere better if they're not happy.
        J has been feeding our neighbours cats this week but they are now home.
        Tilly next door has really come out of her shell now – she was a rescue from a home with lots of cats and children and was extremely shy. It was a couple of years before she'd even let them stroke her. This week she even came here for a cuddle.
        Jessie is stretched out on my legs – she's heavy!

      2. Golf eh, I use to travel all over in a group of 12 or 16 to play golf. Even Ireland. Two rounds each day.
        No wonder my joints are worn out now. 🤔

  31. Morning all! 🌞 made up for lost sleep and slept till gone 8 today. Looks as though we had a drop more rain overnight.

    1. I can't read those mail clips something about a teacher being bashed by a large male pupil.

      1. A very large boy smashed the teacher's head on the floor causing her permanent scarring and she's now afraid to go back to work. He should be locked up but he isn't.

        1. He'll do it again, N…then get juvie…rinse and repeat, each time worse than the one previous.

      2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14781115/schoolboy-female-teacher-unconscious-blood-avoids-jail.html

        Hulking schoolboy who left female teacher unconscious in a pool of her own blood in horrific attack after being asked to change separately from other pupils avoids prison

        A schoolboy with ADHD who slammed his teacher onto the concrete ground and left her in a pool blood has avoided prison.

        Carol Shaw was subjected to a savage attack by Kieran Matthew, 17, that left her unconscious in a pool blood after she asked him to change separately from other pupils.

        Shortly after carrying out the vicious assault on March 22, 2024, at St Paul's Academy in Dundee, the teenager put his feet up on another teacher's desk and said: 'The stupid cow deserved it.'

        Matthew, from Dundee, now aged 18, has been handed a community sentence and ordered on a 'Mentoring for Men' course.

        The court heard Ms Shaw had been left 'permanently disfigured' with a 'significant scar' and was too traumatised to return to work.

        It comes as she had 'dedicated her life to vulnerable school children like [Matthew]'.

        Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith added: 'It is difficult to imagine a more serious assault, having regard to the consequences of your attack for Ms Shaw.

        'It is not over-egging the pudding or exaggerating to say your attack has affected her life in every aspect. She is permanently disfigured. Photos show an extensive, significant scar on her head.

        'Until her promotion, she was the safe person for you to seek sanctuary with if you felt overwhelmed. She has dedicated her life to vulnerable school children such as you.

        'You have robbed her of her career as she has been unable to go back to school due to panic attacks, nightmares and night terrors as a result of this assault.'

        He told Matthew the offence merited 18 months in custody, but said it would be reduced for an early guilty plea. He said it would then fall within the sentencing rules on avoiding short-term sentences [under 12 months] for first offenders if an alternative is available.

        Matthew has also been placed under social work supervision for three years and ordered to attend Mentoring for Men and Designer Skills courses including anger management.

        And he has been placed on a Restriction of Liberty Order for 12 months from 9pm to 7am each night.

        Dundee Sheriff Court heard how Matthew, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] and an 'extremely low' IQ range between 47 and 59, admitted attacking and injuring the teacher.

        The horrific assault took place after the pupil, who was in S5 at the Dundee school, refused to get changed separately from other pupils before a PE class.

        This measure – agreed by Matthew, his foster mum and the school – had been put in place because of previous aggression towards other children.

        Fiscal depute Laura Bruce said Matthew was described as a 'couple of years behind' in his development and was educated outside mainstream classes.

        On the afternoon in question, six foot tall Matthew was said to have been 'agitated and heightened' over the pre-PE changing.

        Ms Shaw had been deemed a 'safe' person for him and had previously succeeded in de-escalating volatile incidents.

        She took the decision to have two other teachers and pupils placed in a locked classroom away from Matthew, who sat with his head down at a table.

        Mrs Bruce said: 'The accused then realised they had gone to the ICT class and moved towards the door and said "I'm f***ing going in there too".

        'He tried to exit to the corridor where Ms Shaw had her back to him.

        'She recalls him gripping her in a rugby-style grip with her arms pinned to her sides and the next thing she felt was the horrific impact of her head striking the floor.'

        The court heard the teacher blacked out momentarily but regained consciousness and made a bloody handprint on the wall as she tried to get to her feet.

        Staff came to her aid after she screamed for help while bleeding profusely.

        'She was blinded by her own blood, which covered her face and top with a large amount of blood seen on the floor,' Mrs Bruce said.

        'Another teacher had witnessed the accused lift her completely off her feet, throwing her to the floor deliberately and landing headfirst.

        'Another said she appeared to be like a ragdoll flying through the air.

        'The accused sat at a teacher's desk, with his feet on the desk and using his mobile phone.

        'He told a teacher "Sir, it wasn't an outburst of anger. She deserved it".'

        During a phone call to tell someone he hit a teacher, Matthew again said 'she deserved it'.

        He later banged on the desk and said: 'The stupid cow deserved it.'

        A colleague took the injured teacher to Ninewells Hospital because of an expected 20-minute wait for an ambulance.

        She was given ten stitches and had to return for a CT scan because she was confused and unable to finish sentences.

        The woman was diagnosed with concussion and plastic surgeon Dr Ketki Kaushal said the assault could have been life-threatening.

        After being cautioned and charged, Matthew, of Dundee, replied: 'I am sorry.'

        He pled guilty to seizing the teacher's neck and body, throwing her to the floor, causing her to strike her head and be rendered unconscious.

        He admitted the assault was to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and the danger of her life.

        Solicitor Theo Finlay, defending, said Matthew had moved to foster care as a young child after being subjected to abuse in his biological family home.

        Mr Finlay said: 'He has had longstanding issues managing his emotions. It is likely he was already in a heightened condition. He experiences nightmares and requires to be medicated.

        'That is attributed to childhood abuse. He needs prompts to eat and struggles in noisy or busy environments. He was not being allowed into the changing room and had feelings of unfairness.

        'He described becoming agitated. The teacher moved others away, which made him feel more agitated and singled out. At school he felt intensely disliked and frequently provoked by his peers.'"

    2. He should be castrated and both arms removed – then tied to a post in a river which rises with the tide.
      I know, I know, I'm just a softy but you have to have some compassion for a violent 6 ft tall 16 year old child with ADHD.

  34. Morning all 🙂😊
    Rain again, not much else to say about the weather.
    I'm not sure that the Russians are at all interested in attacking Western democracies.
    They will have a huge task trying to find a democracy in this era. Democracy means people power. Not jumped up politicos poking their noses in all over. And the Brussels mafia (spectre) shoving old democracticts where they want them.

  35. 406792+ up ticks,

    So very true as witnessed these past thirty plus years via the
    polling stations and the tribal / tactical voter in England.the electorate continued to forge bigger and better sufferance rods for the indigenous back at every given voting opportunity bar
    one, the referendum, then proceeded to successfully screw that up

    https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1930311219740651737

  36. A house down the road has an owner who has so many cats, she says they are flea'd , inoculated and fed!

    Her front lawn has empty feed dishes , she has about five cats , one of them decamped to us , another is a young long lean cat with a small head , probably some Siamese x. The poor thing looks blind in one eye , is always starving and yowls for food , and demolishes a dish of food in seconds

    If the cats are competing for food , the young one can't be getting enough!

    The cat that has taken up residence with us is clean, cute and loves the dog !

    Blindy cat just appears at feed times .. what on earth should I do, I cannot ignore him , he literally screams for a meal .

    People say they love their animals , but they just haven't a clue about diet and frequency of feeds .

    1. Ours get food when they ask usually and Iams dry crunchies for in between times. Ziggy loves those. Jessie is big and strong.

  37. EU paymaster in trouble.

    Allianz Trade sounding the alarms bells for Germany with continued surge in major insolvencies throughout 2025.
    Germany (+23%) and Italy (+45%). The UK saw a reduced number of cases (-5%).

  38. I see why frog face Andrew Marr is beating the war drum for his Siamese twin Sir Keir..

    Bloomberg is reporting Wednesday the US has effectively vetoed a plan to provide American air defenses to back a "reassurance force" for postwar Ukraine.

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been insisting that US-backed air defenses are key to any future permanent settlement plans..

    One of them is wrong or fibbing.
    .
    https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/1930249923351482627

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    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 13.3%; Solar, 6.9%: Wind 52.4%; Imports, 17.7%; Biomass, 2.3%; Nuclear 15.1% and Miscellaneous, 2.3%.

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  40. How awful, it's obviously GBH an assault, how has he been able to get away with that.

    1. Special needs and every letter of the alphabet used to excuse his thuggery.

      1. Special needs pupils should be in special needs schools – as they used to be.

        1. They were call asylums. The politicians and snivil serpents who conspired to close them down should be the first through the cell doors of a new series of secure control centres.

    2. Had this conversation (no rude words obvs) with grandchildren several years ago, it had been mentioned by a teacher. Also, it seemed the CofE was pushing this agenda, a different conversation this time with an adult.

        2. Excellent, Alec…very well rendered…hope you’re happy with it, you should be 🙂 I’m still stuck…might try watercolour pencil, draw it/dampen it/coloured pencil (what we used to call ‘crayons’) If you have Utube, might like to check out Claire Milligan, one of my favourite artists and a really lovely person, for the process. Hoping to get another dog soon, number of friends/relatives on the lookout for me 🙂 xx

          1. Thanks Conners – my only problem is trembles in my hands which make fine work hard

    2. Obviously not the time when he signed us back in under the control of the Brussels mafia.

  43. 406792+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    Henry Hill
    French attempts to ‘stop the boats’ are too little, too late
    This is cold comfort to British politicians facing mounting public anger at the unacceptable level of crossings

    To get our monies worth they must now accept after their stopping campaign, a British " return load"campaign.

  44. “What's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be?

    The Islamification of Africa, it's someone no one talks about and it really concerns me. If you take a country like Burkina Faso, which as you know is north of Ghana and Sierra Leone….

    But Burkina Faso, last generation was 80% Christian and 20% Muslim.

    This generation is 80% Muslim and 20% Christian. And there's a powerful Islamification of Africa moving south. And if you assume rough numbers, the 10% are radicals of 1.4 billion Muslims.

    If only 10% are radicals, that's only 140 million to the hell of a lot of people. And Africa's got some real problems ahead. Already in Nigeria, already in Kenya, with radical Islam moving south.

    And no one talks about it.”

    From TRIGGERnometry: The Reality of South Africa's Farm Murders – Rob Hersov, 4 Jun 2025
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/triggernometry/id1375568988?i=1000711192800&r=4322
    This material may be protected by copyright.

    1. And if you think Africa is already a basket case, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

    2. President Donald Trump has announced widespread bans and restrictions for visitors from 19 countries while simultaneously issuing a chilling warning that Egypt could be next. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14781963/trump-travel-ban-12-countries-united-states-access.html

      Nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be barred from entering the United States under the new order, which goes into effect on June 9.

      Citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted from traveling, removing access to all immigrant visas and several non-immigrant travel options.

      'In light of recent events, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall provide me an update to the review of the practices and procedures of Egypt,' he wrote in a Wednesday proclamation.

      Trump said he hopes their efforts will 'confirm the adequacy of its current screening and vetting capabilities.'

      He said the tragedy in Boulder 'underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted.

      'We've seen one terror attack after another from foreign visa overstayers… thanks to Biden's open door policies today there are millions and millions of these illegals who should not be in our country.'

      Several of the nations facing bans have been targeted because their screening and vetting capabilities are not up to the president's standards, putting Egypt on high alert.

      Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Sudan and Yemen were all placed on the banned list in part due to limited screening and vetting measures, Trump noted.

      White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson wrote on X: 'President Trump is fulfilling his promise to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors that want to come to our country and cause us harm.

      'These commonsense restrictions are country-specific and include places that lack proper vetting, exhibit high visa overstay rates, or fail to share identity and threat information.

      'President Trump will ALWAYS act in the best of interest of the American people and their safety.'

      Trump cited the recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado as an example of why such a ban is a necessary step to keep Americans safe

      Trump cited the recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado as an example of why such a ban is a necessary step to keep Americans safe

      Nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran , Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be barred from entering the United States under the new proclamation

      Nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran , Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be barred from entering the United States under the new proclamation

      During his first term in office, Trump announced a ban on travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations, a policy that went through several iterations before it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.

      Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat who succeeded Trump, repealed the ban in 2021, calling it 'a stain on our national conscience.'

      But Trump touted the successes of his initial 2017 travel bans in his proclamation.

      Trump admin opens bombshell investigation into aging Biden's final days in office
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      'During my first Administration, I restricted the entry of foreign nationals into the United States, which successfully prevented national security threats from reaching our borders and which the Supreme Court upheld,' the president wrote.

      Trump also issued a warning that Egypt could soon join the no-fly list in the wake of the Colorado terror attack in which an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa allegedly set fire to pro-Israel demonstrators.

      'We don't want 'em,' Trump said bluntly in a video released shortly after the ban was announced.

      'Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen.'

      Mohamed Soliman, the Egyptian national suspect charged with firebombing pro-Israel demonstrators, was residing in the US illegally with his wife and five children.

      The president has directed several of his top national security chiefs to investigate whether Egypt should also be added to the list of restricted nations.

    3. Crazy Bill Gates intends to donate most of his Foundation's assets to Africa.

  45. Yo and Go Moaning from a cold, wet, dank and dark C d S.

    Apart drom that everythink is F I N E

    'Fine' for the Swansea Ladies Cancer Club

    F F'''ddd Up
    I Insecure
    N Neurotic
    E Exhausted

      1. Everything hunky dory here. Just except for the fact that, having got to exchange level on our sale (we were only waiting for us to find a place – we lost a lovely but very old house because the survey indicated that we would have extremely large initial and maintenance costs) – on the same day when we have had an offer accepted on another house, our buyer pulls out. No explanation except that they have found another "lovely" house in a cheaper area.

        So, after four months we are back to square one, several £££s worse off in terms of surveys, legal costs, hotels, petrol etc. Apart from the hassle of having to put the place back on the market again.

        1. The Scottish system is much better and avoids "gazumping" and housing chains. It's about time the law in England was changed.

        3. Oh no – it's such a hassle moving. I hope we can stay where we are but it it's not really a house for old people.

          2. We've got no plans to move and we're ok at the moment – but it would be difficult if we could no longer drive, for instance. We don't go far but we do need the car to get anywhere.

        4. Sympathies. We experienced similar two years ago. The property market is stagnant in North Essex-Sudbury Suffolk border at present.

          The occasional bungalow sells.

          Horrible new housing developments around Linton, Haverhill and now in nearby Clare are the only things moving. I would go mad if I lived in one of those modern estates composed of so-called “Executive” style monstrosities with their double garages and lack of gardens. Who buys them I wonder?

          3. Yes. We still live in our ancient thatched dwelling. We have carried out several improvements such as inserting a shower room into one of the bedrooms, installing handrails on the trickier staircases and making the place more comfortable for just the two of us.

            Our insurers NFU Mutual caused us to upgrade our electrics with new fireproof fuse boxes and an ADT alarm system which includes smoke alarms. Even after submitting certification of the systems NFU hiked our monthly premiums from £130 to £160. We have been with NFU for over thirty years!

          4. Sounds like a good move though, to make your home more comfortable rather than have the hassle of moving. And it sounds as though your alarm system has made it safer, even if the insurers still upped the premiums.

          5. Councils – to put in the gimmies? Houses may be executive styles but that doesn’t mean executive people would live in them.

          6. Around our bit of Colchester, several lateVictorian/Edwardian style houses have been shoe horned into spare plots.
            The houses are huge; the gardens barely have room for a wheelie bin.

        5. Bugger, what a performance for you. Sympathies.
          House-buying in Norway is easier. The vendor commissions the survey, which is then available to all. The law makes the surveyor responsible for accuracy of the document. It's also used to raise the mortgage. You then make the offer in writing; once accepted, you have to complete. Pulling out is expensive, typically 10% of the offer price.
          This means that people don't cruise the country making bids on places, and if all your ducks are in a line, the time between offer and ownership can be a day or so.
          I hated the English system.

          1. The deposit paid on exchange of contracts is typically 10% which is forfeited if the buyer pulls out. However, up until exchange nothing is binding. I just wish the buyer had been honest and told us a bit earlier. I can’t help hoping that the survey on their new property finds something (the survey on ours was very good…) ;o(.

          3. I wish! The trouble is now our house is tainted: it was on the market than back and people may think “what’s wrong with it? There is absolutely nothing wrong with it – we just got the wrong buyers…

          5. Quite – but it is also there to operate as a penalty. It can be anything the parties agree it to be.

          6. It isn’t a token of good faith – the other person in the chain is often entering into a similar contract to buy/sell. It is a penalty if the purchasing party doesn’t complete the transaction.

        6. Oh, Hell. To say you have our sympathies is the understatement of the year.
          We really have the worst house buying system on the planet.

    3. I've said it many times I'm not a fan but I fully support what he stands for.

  51. Good morning all. Cold, damp and gloomy out there today. This is not a sunny West Sussex at all.
    Todays letter is the usual nonsense about Russia. What aggression is there against Europe, am I missing something? And why do we have a moral obligation to Ukraine? I certainly don't see it. Let them fight their own battles. They were stupid enough to provoke the bear and should pay the consequences, not anyone else.

    1. I think they have paid with their young mens' lives but nobody else should join them.

    1. Liberia-flagged vessel, Morning Midas. Carrying a cargo which includes EVs, from China to Mexico. Crew have been rescued.

      3. Imagine the insurance paperwork.
        Would they get a courtesy vessel while the other was repaired/scrapped?

      1. Like the woman who married Mr Right and found out his middle name was 'Always' :o)

        1. Could equally apply it to the missus, Alec. Often told how wrong I am but I don’t care 😀

  54. An unusual word. Two random starters then another threesome.
    I didn't think it would be a winner:
    Wordle 1,447 3/6

    ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
    ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  55. Quiet at the market – possibly because of the sudden heavy shower just as we were most exposed! It stopped as we sloshed our way back to the car.

    The MR made an appointment at the Tip. Turned up half an hour early – no one asked to see the "appointment notice". And they DO take car batteries. So that was handy. We took it with us on the off chance.

    Now it is just damp and grey and very breezy. A good day to stay indoors…. That's clearly what G & P think.

    1. Bossy time; the Tip probably has a number plate recognition camera, and generally the staff are happy if one arrives early, but less happy when one arrives late. Gratuities, aka tips (e.g. comestibles), are acceptable especially at Christmas.

      1. I suspect some dickhead thought up a "Let's bugger up the rate payers" idea….

      2. A while back, I unwittingly rocked up at the tip a day early.
        The Guardian at the Gate barely glance at the paper and let me in.
        It was only when I got home and discovered a reminder about the following day's appointment that I realised what I'd done.

    2. Bossy time; the Tip probably has a number plate recognition camera, and generally the staff are happy if one arrives early, but less happy when one arrives late. Gratuities, aka tips (e.g. comestibles), are acceptable especially at Christmas.

    3. You took a CAR BATTERY to the tip??
      Why not the local scrappie? At least you'd then get paid something towards your petrol costs!

    1. Funny that; I thought there was a black (sorry, diverse) hole of £40 billion.

    3. Makes no sense. The existing line across Chat Moss – the original line where the Rocket was tested – is straight and flat, once out of central Liverpool, and is electrified. Northern service needs fixing from Manchester across the Pennines, where it is not that reliable or frequent.

      1. Fascinating engineering challenge back in the day, what with Chat Moss being a bottomless swamp*. Bundles of twigs IIRC.

        *Similar to the demands of a Labour Chancellor.

        1. Amazing it was built to handle locos like the Rocket, but in the BR era it had cope with heavy Stanier passenger and goods locos. Saw a recent video on Utube, where they pointed out that there were areas still soggy enough that the overhead line supports had to have extra large foundations.

    4. In steam days, the fastest trains between the the cities ran from Liverpool Central (High Level) to Manchester Central (via Warrington). Most of the line is still open but trains run from Lime Street to Oxford Road/Piccadilly, a longer journey.

      Lime Street to Manchester Victoria (the original route) is shorter and faster today.

  59. Chicks hatched to rare osprey ‘love triangle’ starve to death
    Tears have been shed among the experts keeping watch on the nest via a live cam, as they rooted for the infant birds to survive
    George Mair
    Wednesday June 04 2025, 5.45pm, The Times

    Three ospreys at a nest with four eggs.
    Hopes were high for the trio of ospreys in the Tweed Valley before the eggs hatched
    FLS/PA
    Four chicks hatched to an osprey “throuple” in the Scottish Borders have died.

    The rare polygamy saga, involving one male and two female birds, had been captured on a livestream camera for the first time which experts said would help them better understand the behaviour.

    The avian love triangle attracted widespread attention after the male known as Newboy mated with two females on the same nest in the Tweed Valley. Rather than attempt to oust each other, the resident female known as Mrs O accepted the younger bird dubbed F2 and they took turns incubating their four eggs, while Newboy provided fish for the nest.

    All four chicks hatched successfully last week, but the saga took a twist when Newboy abandoned the nest, in a secret location near Peebles. Although F2 brought a small number of fish back, she was unable to prevent all four chicks from starving.

    Diane Bennett, the project officer for the Tweed Valley Osprey Project, which monitors the raptors via a camera positioned over the nest, said on Wednesday: “It’s so sad. There’s been a lot of tears shed.

    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/chicks-osprey-love-triangle-die-starve-vcqkbfb9c?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawKuU1VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETByRGNuMldZTHVxRTN6TXFtAR4M_rsd8SvlJh2CTDVTQukG2_4RiI0o3V5TxZkjgv8ut9VYxlJaHkOvoLpIfA_aem_Swx7Uc4H2oKP6QrOVPF3FA#Echobox=1749117021-3

    1. The Poole Harbour ones are looking a bit soggy this morning – I hope that smallest one is getting enough food.

    2. The male has been watching the behaviour of some of our immigrants and their propensity of leaving the nest after sproggs arrive. Just joshing! if MI5 are looking in…..

    4. Newboy wasn't a newbie from another continent was he? Just asking. Woops Kaypea, just seen yours too.

  60. Good morning all, just returned from walking football. Played under grey skies with a light breeze, around 13°C. Western democracies? I seem to remember when they existed, before the rise of the mythical 'far right'. Of course it helped when the only information provided was via the legacy media. I remember reading a series of GP articles on LBJ by Cato? ( not now!) and the electoral chicanery he indulged in from his school days onwards. Nothing new under the Sun, but, unfortunately, for the likes of #TwoTierKeir and his chum Hermer, those days of the controlled message are history.

    As an aside, I wonder how long that chap standing behind Rachel from Complaints will remain employed should two-tier pressure be applied. His attitude spoke volumes. 👍

    1. Is he the chap Charles Moore was talking about the other day in the Spectator?

      Edit. Late May, he reports from Kyrgyzstan:

      “love the power of coincidence. On the third evening, we bivouacked by an astonishingly lovely lake, inaccessible by road. Into the camp walked a young man, uninvited. He was wearing a kilt and carrying backpack and bagpipes. I knew him. The last time I had seen Sacha Murray-Threipland, a student at St Andrews, was in Kharkiv two years ago. As I reported at the time, he had played his pipes to the empty auditorium of that city’s opera house, closed by Putin’s war: ‘Then, standing on the roof beside an unexploded (and disabled) Russian missile, he played “Highland Cathedral” to the crowd below.’ Sacha had been due to meet one of our party in Kazakhstan but had decided instead to try his luck in our region of Kyrgystan. As he passed our camp, he heard English voices. Having walked 25 miles that day, he stayed”

  65. DT Letters comments ..

    I had to re read this , but wow.. yes!

    Perigo Minas
    1 hr ago
    I just came across this, it was in The Times iirc five years ago. My thanks to the O.P.

    I regularly let my children starve as I spend all my spare money on vanity projects.

    I invite complete strangers into my home who sexually abuse my family – but I keep inviting them.

    Every five years I promise the family I will do better, but never actually do.

    I haven't bothered to lock the doors or windows of the house and as a result we get stuff stolen all the time.

    I like to talk about doing things but never actually do them.

    I often tell everyone what to do even though I don't do it myself

    I don't bother to educate my children well, I'd rather spend the money on guns.

    When I buy computer equipment for the family I always buy the most expensive and outdated I can get.

    In the winter I let my children go out in the cold without a proper winter coat.

    Even though I am rich I let my parents and grandparents struggle and some have died from the cold in the winter.

    When my grandparents get dementia I steal all their money and give it to foreign people or buy more guns with it.

    I am the UK, I believe I am an amazing parent.

    Reply by Olivia Wilde.

    OW

    Olivia Wilde
    1 hr ago
    Well said Perigo!

    We don't go out leaving our doors and windows open do we, or just allow anyone to walk Into our homes, but that's exactly what this lot are doing in effect!!!!

    Delusional, that Is what they all are and all have no shame

    Reply by Perigo Minas.

    PM

    Perigo Minas
    1 hr ago
    Thank the unknown O.P. not me.

    Reply by Olivia Wilde.

    OW

    Olivia Wilde
    1 hr ago
    Then thankyou O P!

    Now , how many are coming in through our gate today , well entering by aircraft , bus , train , car , not boat today because of the bad weather .

  66. DT Letters comments ..

    I had to re read this , but wow.. yes!

    Perigo Minas
    1 hr ago
    I just came across this, it was in The Times iirc five years ago. My thanks to the O.P.

    I regularly let my children starve as I spend all my spare money on vanity projects.

    I invite complete strangers into my home who sexually abuse my family – but I keep inviting them.

    Every five years I promise the family I will do better, but never actually do.

    I haven't bothered to lock the doors or windows of the house and as a result we get stuff stolen all the time.

    I like to talk about doing things but never actually do them.

    I often tell everyone what to do even though I don't do it myself

    I don't bother to educate my children well, I'd rather spend the money on guns.

    When I buy computer equipment for the family I always buy the most expensive and outdated I can get.

    In the winter I let my children go out in the cold without a proper winter coat.

    Even though I am rich I let my parents and grandparents struggle and some have died from the cold in the winter.

    When my grandparents get dementia I steal all their money and give it to foreign people or buy more guns with it.

    I am the UK, I believe I am an amazing parent.

    Reply by Olivia Wilde.

    OW

    Olivia Wilde
    1 hr ago
    Well said Perigo!

    We don't go out leaving our doors and windows open do we, or just allow anyone to walk Into our homes, but that's exactly what this lot are doing in effect!!!!

    Delusional, that Is what they all are and all have no shame

    Reply by Perigo Minas.

    PM

    Perigo Minas
    1 hr ago
    Thank the unknown O.P. not me.

    Reply by Olivia Wilde.

    OW

    Olivia Wilde
    1 hr ago
    Then thankyou O P!

    Now , how many are coming in through our gate today , well entering by aircraft , bus , train , car , not boat today because of the bad weather .

  67. Ben Holt, for the Crown Prosecution Service, tells the court: It is alleged M'Lord this guilty defendant has been speaking truth thoughts through the use of a Twitter or X account.

    Tommy bailed to appear at London's Southwark Crown Court on July 3 for a preliminary hearing.. then trial by [drumroll] jury.

    Hope Not Hate Nick Lowles disappointed.
    Judge says No reason the public cannot indulge in Truth Thoughts.

    1. I watched the TR vid about his doxing that was put up this morning. Absolutely shocking behaviour by the DM. Despite his Luton accent, he presents very well and makes his case with well argued points. Now, whether there is a completely different part of the story that has been missed out, I do not know. The abuse that he receives online from our darker compatriots (the Somali pirate epitomises the reaction) is revolting and would see the average whitey banged up for a long stretch.

    2. Most of these schemes are all about the councils raking in a lot of money from fines, rather than safety or traffic flow improvements.

    3. "Reports suggest the council must now pay £35,000 in legal fees to campaigners who successfully challenged the controversial traffic restrictions." i.e. the council will now get the residents to stump up the money to pay for its pig-headed actions. Nothing changes.

      1. The fines should be paid by the perpetrators, not the victims.
        I see you’ve had a disappointing experience in your planned home relocation.

        1. Fines are never paid by the perpetrators – if they were, they might would be more careful with other people's money.

          Yes. I'm fed up with dealing with people whose moral compass is set at a different North to mine. We were honest about what we were doing or not doing, throughout. The same can't be said for our erstwhile buyers, sadly.

          1. Opopanax
            I have always liked Joni Mitchell’s voice but never saw any film of her actually performing.

            75 years ago at University I once heard recordings of guitar virtuoso Andres Segovia (aged 77) and then attended a classical guitar concert by the talented 19-year-old John Williams (same age as me). I had never heard such magical playing and was galvanised into buying a classical guitar (so did a friend) and we took guitar lessons for about a year. Academic work alas took over and my practising faded away (though I still have the guitar).

            To watch Joni just now and realise that it was HER superb playing to accompany her voice and not a backing musician was a revelation. (I looked carefully but couldn't see another guitarist, unless he/she was far out of shot).

            Thank you Opopanax for finding and posting that clip.

            EDIT: Darn – just watched that youTube to the VERY END and saw the session guitarist at last!

          2. She had some sort of disability which affected her hands so that she made up all sorts of open tunings that were easier for her to play. It contributed to her unique sound.

  70. Fingers crossed, Ndovu…service cost sufficiently high to say nothing of any parts..🤞

    1. Gotta keep it going though…… I think it's about nine years old now. We won't be getting a heat pump anyway.

      1. Definitely. Plumber/electrician here today..not recommending them at present, although saying future models may be worth looking at. He’ll go where the work is. Our oil fired one around 20 years old…….yikes…

        1. Ours is oil fired….. no gas here. We're on the third boiler since we moved here 30 years ago. Don't know how old the first one was as it was here when we came.

          1. No gas here either. Everyone on oil. Boiler serviced annually otherwise furs up or something…..think make is Vaillant.

          2. Vaillant is supposed to to be boiler engineers' favourite as it is easy to service and the parts are easy to get, according to Which?

            We are gas, and have Worcester Bosch, which comes out top for users.

          3. That explains it, thanks Hertslass. Decision wouldn’t have been anything to do with me, either one…….:-D

          4. Worcester Bosch comes out top for Suppliers/Service Engineers too 'cos they rarely have to fix problems, just check 'em over once a year.

          5. Worcester Bosch comes out top for Suppliers/Service Engineers too 'cos they rarely have to fix problems, just check 'em over once a year.

          9. Country areas UK …not always gas unless you have your own Calor tank, been there done that….always seemed a bit scary…

          10. We used to have a cooker here that used calor gas in a bottle in the cupboard next to the cooker.

          12. We must have used it for five years or so before we bought a new one. We replaced that one last year…..

          13. We first off had a really old ‘van…a lot of fun, kids loved it. Kept replacing, last one a motorvan….too noisy/uncomfortable. Liked it at New England Bay before it got really popular.

      2. A properly serviced boiler should last a long time. Worth the money. Like a car.

  71. The retired officers seem to be out in force in the letters today. Armchair generals all.

    1. Yesterday I read online that falling raindrops are not shaped like the traditional teardrop. More like hamburgers. (but healthier)

    3. Lots of rain going and for part of the return, but stopped on the return along the M18 between the A1(M) Jn and joining the M1.
      By the time I came off the M1 at Jn. 29, the sun was out.

  74. Reform UK chairman hits out at his own MP's 'dumb' question on banning the burqa amid confusion over party's stance on face coverings

    Zia Yusuf questioned why Sarah Pochin, Reform's recently-elected MP for Runcorn and Helsby, had challenged the Prime Minister about the issue on Wednesday.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    Is the Reform Party deliberately committing suicide?

    Soft on expelling illegal migrants already here.

    Soft on banning the burqa

    It seems clear that the Chairman of the Reform Party is happy to put his fellow Muslims ahead of The Reform Party's pretence that they would be tough on immigration and illegal immigration.

    Farage must sack Yusuf, bring back Lowe and beg Katie Lam to join the Reform Party as she is wasted in the Conservative Party.

    1. Farage won't. Mohammed Zia Yusuf is the traitor in plain sight. What an unfortunate coincidence that the former leader of Boko Haram was called Mohammed Yusuf.

    2. 406792+ up ticks,

      Afternoon R,

      May one suggest we build on a proven, solid core of patriotism, with all round deep rooted in time vested interests as in the
      Farmers Food and Freedom Party, as a safety net, fall back, anti treachery party for when things go TITS UP.

      We are leaving our bare English arses unprotected to all abusive elements
      ONCE AGAIN, in keeping all the eggs in one basket.

      1. No other party will get enough of the popular vote at this stage, to avoid letting the uniparty back in. There are too many foreigners and brain-dead idiots in this country to whom the effort of thinking is too much effort.

        1. 406792+ up ticks,

          Afternoon HL,

          By the same token the referendum result was a success story.

        2. I fear Reform is rapidly becoming part of the uniparty.

          I don't know what Yusuf has on Farage but Farage is terrified of upsetting him.

  75. This morning the dream ended. I woke up and the Warqueen was gone. The weather was grey, damp, cold. I reached down and there was Lucy. The warmth of cuddling another body faded as I rose to consciousness.

    No noise in the house. I rolled over. Checked the telephone and the bank account. Yep, just into double figures.

    I couldn't even smell her on the pillows. Nothing on the bedside table.

    As my sleep addled brain came to I thought… no, why are there four wardrobes just for you?

    Then Alexa went off at full volume 'Taken Junior to school. Get out of bed.' I thought: I don't remember setting that (but that's not unusual).

    I get up, get in the shower. Still can't see any of her stuff (and this is actually impossible, as wimmin seem to require 11 tons of stuff every day).

    Washed. Sat on edge of bed. Made fuss of Lucy. Thought about life on my own.

    Plonked down on the bed. Hear this whuff whuff whuff and the movement of something big, heavy and panting. A blur and Mongo leaps up with his front paws landing on my chest and his rear paw using the goonies as a step.

    Oscar follows behind waddling in to his bed by what would have been her bedside.

    Then she appears. Something angelic, a cascade of blonde, swaying hips and cashmere. An orange nailed hand pushes Mongo off and she sits astride me and I push at her as she's not real.

    'What are you doing? I got up at 6 as Oscar knocked all my stuff on the floor. You slept through it so I set the alarm. The dogs've been walked except Lucy who wouldn't go. Get the porridge on.'

    And she got off and flounced downstairs and what hoves into view from above but a giant drooling head panting doggy bad breath.

    So began my day.

    1. Gosh, that was a bit of a nail-biter! Glad the Warqueen is still putting up with you. I do like your writing style.

      1. Have you a photo of the war queen which you would like to post here?

        Do you remember a Fawlty Towers episode in which Basil, behind Sybil's back, gets an Irish builder called ) O'Reilly, to do some work because he is cheap.

        When she comes home and sees his shoddy work Sybil goes for O'Reilly verbally and, before she attacks him physically, he says:

        "I do like a woman with spirit!"

        https://www.google.com/search?q=Fawlty+Towers+Sybil+attacks+O%27Reilly&oq=Fawlty+Towers+Sybil+attacks+O%27Reilly&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigAdIBCTE5MzYxajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fa1644ce,vid:aaDjSiuKO-o,st:0

  76. Well that weren't bad! Out and back in 4h and it would have been 3½h without the tea & toast stop I made. Even earlier without the shopping stop at North Wingfield Co-op.

    Raining when I left home, it had got a bit worse when I got onto the M1 and when I came off the M18 onto the M62, it was hammering it down.
    Skirted round Beverley onto the Hornsea Road, then to Brandesburton where I pickup a backroad towards North Frodingham, stopping a couple of miles South of that village for the auction venue.
    And what did I buy?
    3 x unused wall lights for £4.00

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b7aedbc7a393892e38fecd3e917b299e8489cbf6ec1cb5baa31cb568147fade5.png A pair of Hilka Farm Jacks for £75, less than half price which will be useful for hoiking out smaller tree roots.
    Also came with a Survey Pole. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/46402077d9cdba5203fc32226bb397593f05ebf9f86b2073e0aaad682ef2c7b2.png And a tatty old water tank for £4.00 that will be linked in to the one I already have by the big shed to collect rainwater.
    It comes with a useful amount of ½" diameter cordage. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6920b48f8c701d5a27cb36783e0c9ef1685d381bbee9ad0d771c474e5ff493d4.png

  77. 406792+ up ticks,

    One mans meat is …….

    Allister Heath,

    Starmer is on his way out, and could bring Britain down with him
    As the Prime Minister’s problems mount, he will adopt Corbynite policies to appeal to the far Left

    OGGA1,
    Starmer is on his way out, and could bring Britain down with him
    seen by many as the successful concluding episode in the
    WEF / NWO story.

    As the Prime Minister’s actions mount, he will adopt Corbynite policies to appeal to the far Left.

    He is after all piloting the the UK / eu re-entry drone, give him credit he has established a mini pro eu base in a multitude of hotels in the Country.

    1. Hugh Culp
      18h
      Is there anybody Keith won't screw?

      Shaitan 👿
      Hugh Culp
      17h
      Mrs Starmer.

    2. Starmer is quite obviously using the fantasy of war with Russia in order to justify reversing Brexit. Thus he speaks constantly about strength and solidarity with his beloved EU.

      The import of a million Muslims into the UK will most likely backfire. They will form their own voting cabals and never vote for Labour as anticipated. This is already occurring with some councils where we see foreigners occupying Mayoral seats and so on.

      1. 406792+ up ticks,

        Afternoon C,

        Agreed,
        As I said in a prior post, join the dots of islamic mayors countrywide and reveal a giant mosque.

      2. National emergency c. late 2028.
        All elections cancelled. This year was a dress rehearsal.

    3. Götterdamerung.
      Except that the snot is an atheist. (Or possibly, no self respecting god would want him as a believer.)

  78. 406792+ up ticks,

    One mans meat is …….

    Allister Heath,

    Starmer is on his way out, and could bring Britain down with him
    As the Prime Minister’s problems mount, he will adopt Corbynite policies to appeal to the far Left

    OGGA1,
    Starmer is on his way out, and could bring Britain down with him
    seen by many as the successful concluding episode in the
    WEF / NWO story.

    As the Prime Minister’s actions mount, he will adopt Corbynite policies to appeal to the far Left.

    He is after all piloting the the UK / eu re-entry drone, give him credit he has established a mini pro eu base in a multitude of hotels in the Country.

  79. Good day, Nottlers all!

    This morning's little spark of joy. Part of an ancient shoe stretcher I bought from a market stall (I always need to stretch one shoe). The nail had got stuck so I couldn't reassemble the mechanism. I'd tried hammering, gentling it out with pliers, WD40, snipping it off, all without success.

    I was thinking somewhat despondently that I might need to ask my plumber for the help he so eagerly offered.

    Then I decided to try putting it in the freezer overnight. A bit of fiddling just now, and… success! 🙂

    Ah, the sheer satisfaction of solving little problems!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e51a2ff7e1fb4b30428beb1edb6253bd00ff3f90c38d866ba058d2568f5d730.jpg

    2. Cripes. That's a serious bit of kit!
      No scrap of leather is going to argue with that.

      1. Tight shoes have always been a problem.

        When talking of marriage Chaucer's Pardoner says:

        "I woot best where wryngeth me my sho."

        (I know where the shoe pinches)

      1. So did I!

        (OK, it was my sister ‘borrowing’ my shoes, but… 🤣🤣)

  80. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e5be157da95fcbe68741a00521b9ebba3fbf4e9d/0_786_2641_2113/master/2641.jpg?width=880&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=5983670abd56eac82824b4c33c17e54d Fitz Roy, Patagonia
     https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0adb28deac00a37fe0faa94b98978b67c0fcb25f/128_0_1920_1536/master/1920.jpg?width=880&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=6757ce8494387002e80b6f88da1781ff Banff National Park, Canada

    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0e45f0f0eeced75a3d792c4750898b9b0de01647/120_0_1807_1445/master/1807.jpg?width=880&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=5030782737e45461dd944e860edfeef6 Vicars Close, Wells, Somerset

    2. My sister's second husband was a vicar choral at Wells Cathedral who sang in the choir and they lived in Vicar's Close. (Two houses from the far end, left hand side)

      Eventually they bought a house next door to St Thomas's Church.

      I suppose you could say that the bright blue garbage bags detract from the scene – they were not on such prominent display when Mary and her husband lived there.

      There is a narrow street in St Mawes where my brother in law now has lived since he was widowed fifteen years ago. It has double yellow lines on each side and there is more yellow paint visible than black tarmac.

  81. Lovely pics by Citreon1.Here's one that isn't – Rushden, Northamptonshire, 23rd May. Almost a fortnight on, locals are being told to 'wash food and shoes'.

    Less than four miles to the east from me but thankfully there was no wind, just a very gentle northward drift.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5af6700d901a4e532a2ceefd70c7d8b0b45dc4b1ba0e8f765928c30f15878325.jpg
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c706527kjkjo
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6290l2w9z5o
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz015np7zj8t

    1. The fire safety standards in the UK are pretty high. So high in fact such a fire is incredibly unlikely.

      What went wrong? A bent inspector? Recycling done by incompetent/untrained 'diversity'?

      1. Who knows? There have been other fires at depots in the East Midlands in recent years. Piles of baled rubbish can easily overheat internally and self-combust.

      2. Who knows? There have been other fires at depots in the East Midlands in recent years. Piles of baled rubbish can easily overheat internally and self-combust.

      2. Far more likely to be some idiot bystander mown down as the action gets hot.

    1. To this day, when there's a stabbing in London (there's two or three a day) I always lose. I say muslim, the Warqueen says black.

      Invariably the feed proves the attacker is black. It's sad. There seems to be no interest in halting the insanity.

        1. Rather depressingly the Londonites say 'As long as they're stabbing each other who cares?' whereas I rather wish they weren't stabbing one another at all, and my country were a safe, comfortable, low crime place to live.

          But the Left didn't want that.

        1. Norman Stanley Fletcher….. you will go to prison for three years! Clang!

        2. Afore ye go …. send us a good recipe for a cake that will effectively conceal a file.
          We'll all visit and bring you a change of sparkly underwear.

    1. Perhaps it is the teachers that can't tell the time and, thus, cannot teach children how to.

          2. Thank you. That's better. I will try that next time there is some garbage in the Fail that I want to read!

          3. I have no idea what happened there. I haven't tried it on other paywalled sites but it probably works as the site takes a snapshop of the page.

  85. Exc: Ministry of Justice Expands Team to Recruit ‘Diverse Judges’

    The Judicial Appointments Commission of the MoJ is out hiring for a Diversity Policy Manager to “implement and develop our diversity policy activities.” The JAC is responsible for selection of judges in courts and tribunals up to the High Court as well as non-legal tribunal members..

    The successful candidate will have “knowledge of the diversity issues affecting the judiciary and legal professions” and will help the JAC’s commitment to “promoting diversity within the judiciary, ensuring that it better reflects the diversity of society” in recruitment campaigns, which the organisation runs every few weeks. That includes “diversity reviews of JAC selection materials and responding to diversity-related enquiries.” For that you get a £42,019 salary and gold-plated Civil Service pension…

    The judiciary’s repeated questionable decisions on asylum cases and continued imposition of two-tier sentencing guidelines have finally been dragged to the public’s attention this year and forced Labour into defensive action. A beefed up woke recruitment team is one way to deal with the judge problem…

    June 5 2025 @ 13:46

    Rogerborg ⬛🟧
    37m
    Related, the "racist" teen murderers of Bhim Kohli are being sentenced today. The media request to name (or draw, or describe) them was denied. You'll just have to make your own assumption about why, bearing in mind that a description is a description, and a lack of description is also a description.

  87. A nuclear strike on Britain is a real possibility. We must accept that calmly. Hamish de-Bretton-Gordon. 5 June 2025.

    But when I say there is no call for panic, I am confident. I have dealt with real world chemical attacks and I am well versed in the realities of dealing with nuclear strikes. All threats can be mitigated. It is the threat we miss, or think too difficult to counter, that is likely to cause us strategic upset.

    Yes Hamish has dealt with all those previous Nuclear attacks. You do now realise that he is stark raving mad?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/05/tactical-nuclear-strike-uk-protection-putin-russia-ukraine/

    1. You mean HdeBG will personally nip round to the Dower House and cover the garden shed with an old door?

    3. Hamish, shut up. It isn't. The only danger we face is from the government destroying our socety and culture.

    5. This Hamish character reminds me of the character in the sketch featuring the immortal Scottish question: “you’ll have had your tea?”.

      This Hamish character wrote about the Russians retreating at the sight of our Challenger II tanks. Instead of fleeing, the Russians simply obliterated our tanks with their precision missiles.

      I have a suggestion for dear old Hamish the Cretin viz. forget about tank warfare it is well past its sell by date. Instead return the vast tracts of Salisbury Plain and the forests of Norfolk to the British public for our recreational use. Scrap the tanks and put a few that might still run into museums and out of harm’s way.

      It astonished me that the Telegraph still publishes the puerile rants of the antique military buffoons who suppose that their antiquated opinions are fit for anything but the scrap heap.

    6. Putin has said that civilian deaths are unacceptable and the British people have no need to fear his seeking retaliation. Of course, one id dependent on the integrity of the translator.

  88. If I were a psychiatrist (a real one, not some Balkan pretender) I would prescribe a course of lunch time visits to Wetherspoons to my patients rather than some bloody pills that make them fat/lethargic/spotty/bu88er up their bowels or merely exacerbate the problem.
    As SBS and I sat in the local 'Spoons, it was heaving; all ages and types, meeting up or merely gratefully eating a cheapo meal and at least making human contact with a waitress and the people at an adjoining table.
    Quite frankly, that atmosphere would do more for the depressed than any number of "therapy" sessions and a barrage of pharmaceuticals. If only such a place had been available when I took patients into town.
    (Though I still have fond memories of a burnt out schizophrenic causing maximum embarrassment to the cashier in M&S.)

    1. Quite agree, Anne, but there's a real danger that people talking to each other would find out that their anti-government, anti-woke, anti-global-boiling opinions were widely shared. The state can't have that, hence all the obstacles put on pubs and clubs. How many thousands of pubs have closed this century?

    2. A few decades ago I was interviewed by a bunch of clowns in suits who represented the Health Trust looking into developing the grounds of the mental asylum at Fulbourn near Cambridge. I think from memory it was, curiously, the Oxford Trust and the suits were London Estate Agents, the Saville, Knight Frank, Richard Ellis types with the local firm of Bidwells thrown in.

      After the interview, which was atrocious and poorly organised, I visited the local Tesco nearby for a coffee, something my interviewers never thought to offer during their interminable grilling. I was discomforted in the Tesco cafe by the sight of mad people making a nuisance of themselves, a young female was banging her head against a wall, another bloke was wandering aimlessly until settling on hovering on my shoulder.

      I suspect Wetherspoons might have been a more congenial outlet for the poor wretches from Fulbourn Mental Hospital as was. The inevitable B1 Business units sprang up in the grounds and the old Victorian hospital buildings have most probably been converted into flats for migrants.

      1. Many of the developments on the old Severalls grounds (they were truly an asylum for the mentally disturbed) are blocks of flats, eerily similar to the oldoutside wards known as "villas".
        I suspect many house social housing tenants, are of the same ilk that once lived in the old villa wards; only without the regular care that the former residents received.

    1. Unless Farage gets rid of Yusuf , the Reform Party is going to die even sooner than expected.

      What is it that Usuf has on Farage? Sexual misdemeanors or fraudulent financial activity? It must be something that Farage cannot afford to come out into the open.

  90. Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain
    Douglas Murray

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    Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious. ‘The world will be a better place,’ he said, ‘when privileged men like me stop seeking a place in history.’ I’m not sure who Lord Hermer thinks should be seeking a place in history, though I assume he was just paying lip service to the spirit of 2020 and wanted to be read to mean that in future most of the running should be done by underprivileged transsexuals.

    While I cannot agree on the substance, I can agree on one specific. The world would certainly be a much better place if people like Lord Hermer stopped seeking historic roles. For although he is now the Attorney General of England and Wales, there is little to suggest that his noble lordship has any love for this country. Indeed, he appears to have spent his career defending anyone who literally wants to attack us.

    In their recent efforts to explain the Attorney General’s unfortunate list of past clients, Hermer’s defenders claim that as a barrister he had to obey the ‘cab-rank’ rules of the job. It was for this reason, they say, that Hermer spent his career defending such clients as Gerry Adams and almost every variety of Islamic terrorist. Yet the claim is demonstrably daft. To have represented one al-Qaeda terrorist might be a duty, but to represent at least five would seem to be a habit. Never mind that your other clients include the families of Isis members and so on.

    Even if his client list wasn’t a giveaway, Hermer’s history of political pronouncements tells us everything about where his prejudices lie. Over recent years he has said that if there was one law he’d enact it would be to take Britain back into the EU, and he has called the British empire ‘deeply racist’. He has collaborated on a writing project with the Electronic Intifada: a group who are not as nice as they sound. And he has repeatedly praised Phil Shiner, the shyster lawyer recently given a two-year suspended sentence for fraud after spending decades using lies to persecute British soldiers through the court system.

    But then Hermer, like Shiner, is one of those lawyers who pretends that recently invented international laws and human-rights laws are the most important of all, far exceeding such things as laws enacted by the will of the people.

    Consider the advice Hermer has given on the Chagos Islands. There is no world in which handing over billions of pounds and strategically important territory to a foreign state is a good deal. But Hermer’s argument is that the government has no choice because of ‘international law’.

    In fact, with the Chagos Islands, as with so many other issues, ‘international law’ and ‘human rights law’ are simply political warfare by other means. People like Hermer defer to the principle of international law only in order to push their existing agenda. And if you don’t approve of it then you are a Nazi, as he so brilliantly argued last week.

    Another friend of Sir Keir Starmer’s, Philippe Sands – who’s been happily enriching himself by representing the government of Mauritius in the Chagos case – also holds himself out as a moral advocate of immutable laws. And yet the advocacy of people such as Sands and Hermer only ever goes in one, anti-British direction. During a recent talk at Cambridge university, Sands even boasted about how he had ‘humiliated’ Britain in the international courts. He went on to crow that it is a ‘special’ thing to be able to humiliate your own country and be celebrated in that country because of it.

    It is true that the same courtesy would not be extended in Mauritius – nor communist China, the power most likely to benefit from the Chagos deal. But Hermer, Sands and, indeed, Starmer have sussed out the system as it is – or as they have helped make it. Only in a country like this one could someone spend a career advancing the cause of the country’s enemies and then be enriched and ennobled for doing so.

    After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Hermer could be found asking: ‘How can courts, when patently motivated by politics, command public respect?’ It’s a good question. He went on to assert that the Supreme Court was making decisions ‘in the face of public opinion supporting contrary views’.

    So which is it? Hermer and co are perfectly happy to warn of ‘politically motivated courts’ when a court does not follow their own political bent. But when it does, its decisions are apparently sacrosanct. And while everyone – even lawyers – doubtless has their biases, one of the great mysteries of our age is why these people’s biases should always be against us.

    It would be understandable if the British government ignored the decisions of international courts when they act against our interests. One rather hopes that the British government would favour the interests of this country over any others. But why should there be a legal and political elite which seems to approve of court decisions only if this country comes out worse?

    I would, for instance, expect the government, and its legal advisers, to try to work out how to use international law to stop our borders being invaded on a daily basis. What’s confounding is that we should be run by people who have spent their careers caring for those who have most abused those borders – and all the other laws and courtesies that used to exist in this country.

    Still, perhaps the day will come when privileged men like Hermer stop seeking a place in history. That day cannot come soon enough.

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

    Charlieray15
    13 hours ago
    Trump has just banned nationals of dubious countries from entering the United States. It must be wonderful to have a government that actually looks after the national interest (or even knows what it is).

    Cyclops Charlieray15
    6 hours ago
    The Danes seem to achieved the same outcome operating within the ECHR, Shengen & other obligations. Can't we just copy them?

    Diprotodon
    11 hours ago
    Hermer, like Nick Lowles, is another insane, white- and Jew-hating Jew who'd do well with a spell in the IDF. What on Earth do they want that they work so assiduously against their own (and our) safety and interests?

    The caveman Diprotodon
    2 hours ago
    My wife has pointed out that these men follow all the behaviours of the "unjust steward" in the parable that Jesus told.
    Feathering their own nests with those who will look after them when they are removed from office.

    1. A teflon turd – who clearly has "stuff" on Cur Ikea Slammer, and thus cannot be removed.

  91. This month I checked our mortgage and we had a hefty overpayment on top of our usual one. I asked the Warqueen if she knew about it and apparently it was a bonus from her works.

    I've asked what she's doing in the studio she asked for and the response is 'a podcast on accounting'. It's her life, and she has a right to privacy.

    I know she was enamoured with the autograph and selfies she got when we went to Games Expo and it's really none of my business but I'd like to know she's safe – which of course she is.

    Ah, dunno. It's just odd. If she's getting her boobs out that's entirely her choice. She did it before we met and it paid for her first house – the proceeds of which (and my flat) went into our next one and left us with a 300k mortgage instead of the sale price of 800, so it's not for me to quibble.

    1. You live an interesting and unconventional life Wibbs, but each to his own if you are happy!

  92. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o

    Yeah, play the 'oh woe is me, for Israel is evil!' but you're one of the same crowd who created that appalling film demonising Israel. That you were held at gunpoint is a desperate slur. In truth, you mean those who detained you had guns.

    Newsflash tosser: the same happened to me at the Swiss border. They had sub machine guns too. I wasn't detained at gunpoint. My details were checked as is standard practice for bringing my tool kit and a silly number of laptops with me.

    You're just another deceitful Lefty spinning a lie.

  93. Wordle No. 1,447 3/6

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    Info for Birdie Three?

    1. Wordle 1,447 3/6

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      2. Jeepers, Sue….when I see the wordle crowd I think 'oh no, 5pm already where's the day gone, again!' Well done, in three. I had to stop, often couldn't get it at all!

        1. I have tried to work out what the Wordle thing is all about – without success. It does seem clear, however, that it is something to do with golf….!

          Give me The Times crossword every day. Much simpler.

          1. It certainly was today, didnt you think? I managed it in under 10 mins – just – (that's the Times Crossword I'm talking about!), that doesnt happen very often, my par time is about 18 minutes….

          5. C'mon dont be shy – what was your time today? (The 'Snitch' was 78 so I did a little better than expected…)

          6. I never time myself. I regard it as a daily intellectual challenge. Keeps the little grey cells slowly turning.

          7. Fair enough, although the app does that for you and presents your time when you finish – I’ve always been very competitive, perhaps I should calm down a little.
            But you are right, I consider all the puzzles that I do as ‘training the brain’ and no different from physical activity to keep the body more healthy…..

          8. I like to aim to finish in the hour after washing up breakfast. I have never been competitive in anything!

          10. Wordle has nothing to do with golf, Bill ….!

            You have six guesses each day to find a five-letter word, chosen by Tracy Bennet of the NYT.

            There are approx 2,500 words to choose from.

            Its a game of elimination.

            As a wordsmith, you should excel, Bill!

          12. Wordle does not include any words ending with 's'.
            Tracy B avoids words of obscure foreign origin.
            Tracy B tries to avoid Americanisms eg: words with o rather than ou.
            She also avoids words that are potentially offensive.
            These measures greatly reduce the number …

          16. The golf ref was a joke, mon ami. Everyone talks about birdies etc etc.

          17. My husband and daughter are very competitive – I don’t stand a chance, so I keep out….I read Daily Sceptic whilst scoffing porridge…

          18. Talking of newspapers, at the table next to us in 'Spoons was a builder chappie; reading a paper as he supped his cheap pint.
            His paper was the Times.

          20. You were in 'Spoons? And the person next to you had a hard copy of the Times?

            I'm sorry. I don't understand what you mean.

    2. #MeToo! My regular second starter word really nailed it today ( OPIUM if you're wondering – it gets out all the remaining vowels after my first word). Made for a very easy birdie!

      Wordle 1,447 3/6

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    4. Good one, a lowly par here.

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    5. Just because I am late, it doesn't mean that I managed my normal par
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    2. Nope – didn't work….. no sympathy. Why doesn't he just catch a ferry as a foot passenger?

    3. Nope – didn't work….. no sympathy. Why doesn't he just catch a ferry as a foot passenger?

      1. I wonder what Labour voters think of him. His comment about Truss today when his first effort was to hammer the country into debt, while she would have brought us out of it was just the ranting of a petulant child.

  96. Dan Wootton dissects the Zia Yusuf kerfuffle.

    Should Reform heckle Labour's over position on burka ban, or anything to do with Islamic issues such as grape gangs & terrorism?

    2. Has Farage gone, too? Tice next, I imagine.

      Shame that the outfit is disintegrating before our very eyes.

    3. LOL
      Wootton says.. Farage told his troops last week it was just a matter of time.

  99. Michael Deacon
    Our two-tier justice system is turning Lucy Connolly into a martyr

    Keeping a childminder locked up over a tweet while people avoid jail for far worse is eroding public faith in how we deal with criminals

    05 June 2025 7:00am BST
    Michael Deacon
    Court of Appeal judges may believe that they were right to deny early release to Lucy Connolly, the 42-year-old Northamptonshire childminder who is serving 31 months in prison for an offensive tweet about asylum seekers. But even if they maintain that her sentence was just, I think they would have been wise to let her out anyway – for a simple and pragmatic reason.

    Keeping her locked up is eroding public faith in the justice system. Because almost every single day now, we read of criminals being convicted of what seem like far worse crimes than hers – and yet somehow avoiding jail.

    Indeed, some of them manage to avoid it more than once. In 2022, a paedophile in South Shields admitted three charges of “making indecent images of children” (as the law calls it), as well as one charge of possessing extreme pornography (which involved bestiality).

    As the judge at the time noted, however, “You identify as transgender and that has caused issues for you and anxiety for you in how you would cope with that if you were sent immediately to prison.” Well, I suppose it would, although why we’re meant to worry about prison being unpleasant for paedophiles, I’m not sure.

    But at any rate, he wasn’t sent to prison. And nor was he sent there this week, when he was hauled back to court after breaching a sexual harm prevention order. On this occasion, the judge (a different one this time) said: “You would undoubtedly be at risk of physical or sexual assault in custody because of your presentation in a male prison.”

    These words are, of course, wonderfully kind and compassionate. But, just for a moment, let’s set aside questions of “identity”, and ask: which do we think is the worse crime? Writing something horrible on the internet about asylum hotels? Or downloading images of children being sexually abused – thus boosting the market for such images, and ensuring that more children will be sexually abused in future?

    Now, I haven’t conducted a nationwide opinion poll on the above question. But I’m fairly confident that I can guess what the result would be. And I’m equally confident that I’m not alone in remembering the name “Lucy Connolly” every time I read about some thug or pervert sauntering off with a suspended sentence.

    I don’t for a moment deny that what Mrs Connolly wrote was awful. Nor do I deny that she broke the law. Yet our two-tier justice system is contriving to turn her into a martyr.

    So, even if the powers that be have no sympathy for her, they should at least look after their own interests. Which means letting her out.

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    Andrew Dale
    4 min ago
    Pensioner Robert Price from Dagenham spent years being harassed by local immigrant mobs, having his windows bricked so frequently his front window was permanently boarded up. Then one day Nathan Otitodilchukwu climbed onto Mr Prices garden fence, punched a small window through with his fist and dropped into Mr Prices front room a lit firework. The ensuing fire roasted Mr Price to death and he died in agony.

    Otitodilchukwu has just been sentenced to 6 years in jail for the lesser charge of manslaughter. He’ll be out in 4 years. So he’ll serve just 6 months longer than Lucy Connolly for murdering a pensioner in the most appalling of circumstances.

    One wonders what the tariff would’ve been if the arsonist was a white skinned conservative and the victim was of colour.

    Douglas Brown
    10 hrs ago
    Your article is spot on.

    Lucy is what a significant amount of people in the UK consider to be a political prisoner!

    PJ Spiers
    9 hrs ago
    Reply to Douglas Brown – view message
    "Keeping a childminder locked up over a tweet while people avoid jail for far worse is eroding public faith in how we deal with criminals"

    There is no doubt Lucy Connolly is a political prisoner – and that the rational majority are appalled at how Starmer's gang of Marxist revolutionaries have hijacked the police and judiciary to further their extreme policies.

    1. Connoly is in prison because she was badly advised. The judge then sentenced her as he could, to the minimum amount. However the refusal to adapt that and release her is simply punishment for disagreeing with the state line.

    2. She might have “broken the law” – but if she did, the law is an ass.

  100. 'Night All
    Ding dong the king is dead
    "Zia Yusuf has announced he has quit as the chairman of Reform UK, hours after criticising some of the party’s MPs for calling for a burka ban…"

    1. He may appear to be very Westernised but he is still a Muslim. I have no idea why Farage appointed him.

      3. I am convinced that Yusuf must know things about Farage – sex scandal? fraud scandal? financial irregularity?w.h.y?

        If Yusuf is not longer in the Reform Party I wonder what will come out?

        1. You old cynic you, Alec …usually my first thought, follow the money. Have read he bankrolled Reform to the tune of around £20m, wonder what the ts n cs are, if any.

          2. Thanks….social media eh…just finishing watching Fargo…:-) goodnight Alec x

    3. Hmmm, religion before party, and certainly before country. Maybe he just fears for the safety of his family?

      1. Which, if that is the case, underlines exactly why this pernicious creed must not be allowed to flourish in the west (or, preferably, anywhere on the planet).

  103. Bruce Everiss
    5m
    Sarah Pochin did not go far enough.
    What about?:

    Shariah Law.

    Cousin marriage.

    FGM.

    Halal slaughter.

    Inability to work for a living.

    Etc etc

    1. David Williams
      17m
      The responses within my Reform branch suggest people feel Reform has dodged a bullet with the departure of Mr Yusuf.Some feeling he alone inflamed the situation over Lowe beyond recovery.Strong feeling Pochin speaking for many when she nailed the burqa question.

  104. Mel Stride, who once or twice recently had shown promise, has given a kicking to Liz Truss for "undermining those stable foundations we had built" and went on to "she will get better".

    The BBC has led with the flounce of Zia Yusuf, clearly thinking it's a setback for Farage.

    1. The BBC has led with the flounce of Zia Yusuf, clearly hoping thinking it's a setback for Farage.

      1. The bbc ? I wonder who they believe they represent in this day and age ?

          1. Their paymasters. And by that i don't mean the suckers that pay the licence.

    2. Mel Stride is an idiot who refused to acknowledge the BoE admitted it was responsible for the carnage over LDIs.

      The OBR is consistently wrong. The Truss budget would have recovered the country. Stride is a Lefty who'd happily see the country ruined.

  105. 406792+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    Reform chairman Zia Yusuf resigns after burka ban row
    Announcement comes on the eve of a crucial by-election in Hamilton

    Surely this calls for a safeguarding party running parallel to reform, IMHO reform solo is NOT to be trusted as a safe pair of hands carrying this nations final batch of eggs.

    This could very well be the sign of perspiration in regards to political nitro, when we need stability.

    1. Wake up on this.

      This is orchestrated demolition of any party that threatens to disrupt the status quo.
      I would have thought that you, of all people posting here, could see that.

      1. 406792+ up ticks,

        Evening S

        Well spotted long ago, last time was the take down of Gerard Batten, successfully building UKIP in 2019.

        1. Given the main contenders i believe it is all choreographed. It's all timed.

    2. A popular move as the full face covering is an insult to this country's culture. If Zia Yusuf's not happy about it becoming a Reform UK policy, that's him nailing his Muslim colours to the mast.

      1. I agree on principle but there are bigger problems: excessive taxation, appallingly high welfare spending, zero growth, massive government over reach, a bloated, corrupt state.

        If we resolve the welfare issue then the muslim will leave by default. They're here because we're weak, because socialists have wrecked this country.

      2. 406792+ up ticks,

        Evening Mo,

        I would never agree to that partnership in the first place, in my book, party body good party hierarchy suss, that is why I believe we should have a fall back, safety net, anti treachery party because, I also believe we will NEVER get another shot, peaceable shot that is.

    4. I wonder what Habib, Lowe are making of this, and if they'll issue statements. Best not to preempt what they may say, if so.

      1. 406702+ up ticks,

        Evening KJ

        Lowe is still in the rhetorical "thinking of starting a party stage" Habib has the Integrity party but I see no major recruitment drive.

        I would like to see major support for the Farmers Food and Freedom party, the founder members certainly have a dog in this coming fight and also the contents of animal farm, besides their homeland turf.

        Build on what we have witnessed over many a decade as proven patriots, we have IMHO reached the "in for the final kill time" terminus.

        1. I subscribed to F3 earlier this week, I think Morrisons supports that party (I once met JM in the supermarket, looked & dressed like a gentleman farmer:-) I hope we’re not in the final kill time terminus, but then I’m generally an optimist, too optimistic perhaps. Seen a lot of changes last several decades.

  108. That's me for this cold, wet day. More to follow. Stove going nicely.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain – perhaps.

  109. SWMBO said nothing about the need to build a cabinet for the new bathroom until we get home froma moist dinner this evening. I'm not capable, due to exhaustion and alcohol, so, bad-temperdly, she's doing it.
    I'd have built it before the booze, if only she'd said. We'd be done by now.

    3. Do you really get cabinets asked for and assembled immediately after dinner?

  110. I wonder if Yusuf left because he was afraid for himself, his family and his business interests to be associated with a Burqa ban, we have seen what happens to brave teachers and authors that take Islam on.

    1. Frankly, the more uncomfortable and unwelcome muslim is made to feel the better.

    2. I felt uneasy voting for Reform while Yusuf was Chairman – I might it might encourage more ordinary people to vote for them.

    4. I wonder ……Could this be the very beginning of the coming civil war ?

  111. It is good news for Reform. Yusuf may have resigned as Chairman, but what is his position now?

  112. From Coffee House, the Spectator

    As Israel continues to wage a defensive war against the terrorists who invaded and slaughtered hundreds of Jews on October 7, the Jewish State is under attack as never before in the West. I found this out for myself when I was invited on to Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss the situation in Gaza.

    What my appearance and censorship on the ironically named “Uncensored” show demonstrated was a refusal, perhaps even a fear, to hear the reality, the facts and the law when it comes to the war against Hamas. This is in stark contrast to the disinformation and falsehoods about Israel that have been freely disseminated on that show – and elsewhere in the media – by those who oppose Israel.

    When I called into question why artificially-generated imagery was used to promote this story, I was shouted down

    My crime was to suggest that we should wait for an investigation to take place into the alleged deaths of a number of children in Gaza. On May 23, the home of two doctors and their children was reportedly hit by an Israeli air strike. Several children, we’re told, died in the raid. Yet when I called into question why artificially-generated imagery was used to promote this story, I was shouted down. Here’s the full exchange:

    Piers Morgan: Wait a minute, you don’t believe that those children were killed?

    Natasha Hausdorff: I have seen conflicting accounts and I want that story to be properly investigated…

    PM: Wow.

    NH: –before the international media runs with it.

    PM: You think those two parents — one of whom, I think, operated on one of the children — you think that those two doctors, the parents, they just made it up–

    NH: Why are those children there?

    PM: –that nine of their 10 children had been blown to pieces by an Israeli air strike?

    NH: If this is true–

    PM: You don’t believe it?

    NH: Why on earth was artificially-generated imagery used to promote this story when it first happened? We’ve seen time and time again–

    PM: I gotta say, I think what you’ve just said about that family is despicable. I’m sorry. It’s despicable.

    Being interrupted and harangued, or even having my volume turned down or line cut, is not a new experience for me in “interviews”. It has always been a clear indication that the individuals involved in this unprofessional conduct were out of their depth and at a loss as to how to engage with the evidence I had presented. Nor, indeed, am I the only one experiencing such treatment. Any individual who does not subscribe to the virulently anti-Israel agenda, and who is asked to comment on broadcast media, will have experienced similar playground antics. It is demonstrative of a catastrophic failure by the media to do its job and an abject absence of journalistic integrity.

    The pathetic display this week by Piers Morgan demonstrates that he is a significant part of the problem of disinformation about this conflict. Morgan should be well aware that there have been repeated stories emerging from Gaza which have subsequently been debunked only after they spread around the world. The predictable result has been the poisoning of many minds against Israel, on the basis of fabrications and blood libels. My simple entreaty was that the matter should not be prejudged, especially where fake AI generated images had been deployed to support it. Cue frenzied outrage and bile from Morgan.

    Defence of fake images in pursuit of a “good story” is, of course, old ground for Morgan. He was dismissed from his role as editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004, following the publication of photographs that purportedly showed British soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. The images were later determined to be staged and not taken in Iraq. Morgan stood by their publication and refused to issue an apology on the basis there was no firm evidence that they were fake, though the newspaper did, acknowledging that it had been the victim of a “calculated and malicious hoax” and expressing deep regret for the reputational damage caused to the British Army. Morgan’s defence of his decision to publish those fake pictures stemmed from his opposition to the Iraq war in a disgraceful example of “the ends justify the means”.

    Did he learn anything from that shameful incident? The way I was treated on Uncensored suggests not. At least when Morgan was in the employ of a national newspaper, he could be held accountable. But this no longer appears to be the case. He is now free to shout down his guests without consequence.

    The problem doesn’t stop with Morgan. The unfair way in which Israel is presented in the Western media, and the refusal to treat Hamas’s claims with scepticism, misleads the public. It increases the threat of violence to Jews around the world, but also, crucially, props up and encourages Hamas, thereby prolonging the war and the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians alike.

    WRITTEN BY
    Natasha Hausdorff
    Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister

    1. It's more 'goodies and baddies' posturing without ever wanting to think it through. Morgan won't countenance nuance because it doesn't make for good TV.

    1. I don't either of them are stupid. I think the separation is intentional. Outwitting the witless.

        1. Maybe. Don't forget who they are up against. If the enemy thinks they are divided they expose themselves.

  114. From Coffee House the Spectator

    When the White House uses a press briefing to lambast a foreign broadcaster by name, something seismic has shifted. That’s exactly what happened today when Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, publicly accused the BBC of treating ‘the word of Hamas as total truth’ and challenged the White House’s description of the broadcaster rushing out anti-Israel claims only to later bury the corrections.

    Holding up printouts of BBC headlines that morphed from ’26 dead after Israeli tanks open fire’ to ’31 killed in Israeli gunfire,’ then ‘Red Cross says at least 21 killed’, before publishing another piece admitting ‘claim graphic video is linked to aid distribution site in Gaza is incorrect’, she put the world’s most recognisable public broadcaster on notice: ‘We’re going to look into reports before we confirm them,’ she said, ‘and I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same.’

    When it comes to Jews and Israel, the BBC’s failures have become not just frequent but predictable

    This was a blistering callout of a problem that has been festering for decades. For many who cover Israel, and for Jewish communities across the world, it was not only justified. It was long overdue.

    For years, the BBC has seemed to betray its royal charter commitments to accuracy and impartiality when it comes to Israel. And British citizens are forced to pay for it: every household with a television who watches or records live TV is legally obliged to fund the corporation through the licence fee. That makes this not just a media failure, but a democratic scandal. Thank goodness for the Trump White House calling it out.

    Time and again, the BBC seemingly rushes to publish Hamas’s version of events, only to be contradicted later by evidence. After the Al-Ahli hospital blast in October 2023, the veteran BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen declared Israel had ‘flattened’ the hospital: Hamas’s narrative broadcast globally. Within hours of the false reports, including by the BBC, synagogues were torched in Berlin and Tunis. By the time the IDF, the US, and British intelligence had proven the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket which, in fact, only struck the parking lot, the damage was done. Bowen later admitted the hospital had not been flattened as he claimed, but obstinately declared he had no regrets.

    That episode was no outlier. It seems to be a pattern. A BBC anchor falsely claimed Israel was ‘targeting medical teams as well as Arab speakers’ in the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza – a grotesque inversion of the truth, which was that the IDF had brought Arabic-speakers and medics with them to minimise harm when they had to operate to target Hamas, which was using the hospital for cover.

    Elsewhere, they wrongly translated the Arabic word Yahud (‘Jew’) as ‘Israeli’ in a documentary, sanitising open anti-Semitism. Their Gaza special, How to Survive a Warzone, featured a child narrator who turned out to be the son of a Hamas official – it was later revealed the production company paid his family, too.

    In another sequence, a child portrayed as a volunteer paramedic was shown in what claimed to be a single day’s events, yet his shoes changed four times, and his hair visibly varied in length between scenes. This crude montage stitched together footage from multiple days to fabricate a seamless, emotionally manipulative narrative, misleading viewers into believing they were witnessing a real-time account. Despite this grotesque ethical collapse, the BBC only pulled the programme after intense public pressure.

    Did they learn? Of course not. They aired a Louis Theroux documentary on Israeli settlers that abandoned even the pretence of balance, painting cartoon villains and flattening real lives into ideological clichés. Ari Abramowitz, one of the participants, told me he felt the BBC twisted his words and worldview, omitting the parts of his personality that didn’t fit the ‘fanatic’ mould. He described the film as ‘twisted propaganda created with the explicit agenda of portraying the settler movement as caricatures’.

    The BBC’s Arabic service is worse still. Journalists there ‘liked’ and shared posts celebrating the 7 October massacre. One guest described the massacre as a ‘heroic military miracle’. One BBC employee referred to Jews as ‘Zionist apartheid parasites’ and said the Holocaust was a hoax. Only when it was revealed publicly did they get rid of her. BBC Arabic made more than 80 corrections in the first five months of the war – averaging one every other day, including calling Hamas ‘the resistance’ and describing Israeli civilians as combatants. This is not occasional bias. It is systemic rot.

    Even French President Emmanuel Macron was misrepresented. The BBC clipped and headlined an interview as if Macron had accused Israel of ‘killing babies’. He hadn’t. French officials were forced to clarify his words and call out the distortion.

    The BBC has repeatedly broadcast misleading or false claims during the war, often echoing Hamas’s narrative without scrutiny. It ran the headline ‘Half of Gaza’s population is starving, warns UN’ – yet the actual UN report spoke of ’emergency levels of hunger’, not starvation. In November, it claimed Gaza had become a ‘polio epidemic zone’ due to Israeli actions, omitting the fact that the virus had been detected months earlier and that vaccination rates had already declined under Hamas. It also cited fatality figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry – controlled by Hamas – without caveats, only later adding qualifiers under pressure. And when it put out a story suggesting a nine-year-old boy with cerebral palsy had become severely disabled due to Israeli actions during the war, the BBC omitted that he had a lifelong neurological condition: a serious distortion it only corrected after the article was quietly pulled and rewritten.

    This pattern of distortion is nothing new. Years ago, I appeared on the BBC to provide live analysis of a precision strike that had eliminated a senior terrorist. Unbeknownst to me, as I spoke, the BBC aired b-roll footage purporting to show wounded Palestinian civilians – including one man dramatically carried away as if unable to walk. Moments later, the same man appeared in a separate shot casually strolling about and scratching his groin. It was theatre disguised as journalism, broadcast unchallenged beneath my commentary.

    The BBC cannot plead ignorance any longer

    During the Covid pandemic they invited me on BBC World to discuss Israel’s world-leading vaccination rollout, only to twist the story into a criticism, wrongly insisting that Israel was obliged to vaccinate Palestinians under the Oslo Accords. When I corrected this on air, pointing out that the Accords in fact assigned healthcare to the Palestinian Authority – which had rejected Israeli vaccines and failed to equitably distribute those it did receive – the anchor insisted on moving on. Only after a formal complaint from a viewer did they quietly admit their error on a little-seen corner of their website.

    Each of these falsehoods was corrected only after public outrage or political pressure forced the BBC’s hand. Never proactively. And by now, nobody is surprised. When it comes to Jews and Israel, the BBC’s failures have become not just frequent but predictable. We expect the sloppiness. We anticipate the bias. We know they will lead with allegations sourced from Hamas-run authorities or its affiliates and only days later, under duress, walk it back.

    What once might have shocked is now routine. A pattern so ingrained it has become farce. The BBC’s coverage of Israel is no longer just flawed – it’s a punchline. A wheezing, bloated, publicly funded relic that still sees itself as the gold standard of journalism, even as it parrots propaganda. It still won’t even call Hamas a terrorist organisation.

    A long line of critics – from former BBC heads like Danny Cohen to MPs, Jewish groups, foreign governments, whistleblowers and journalists – have warned of this decay. But the corporation remains stuck in its own ideological bunker: defensive, deluded and disdainful of accountability.

    The BBC cannot plead ignorance any longer. It has been called out – now, even by the White House. Its reputation lies in ruins. The only question left is whether it will continue gaslighting the public or finally find the humility to change.

    A version of this article originally appeared in The Spectator’s world edition.

    WRITTEN BY
    Jonathan Sacerdoti
    Jonathan Sacerdoti is a broadcaster and writer covering politics, culture and religion

    1. I actually bought some in Sainsbury's (spit!) today! They’d better be good!🤣

      1. You no like, I eat the remainder!
        The idea originally is that you put them on the top of your cup of tea/coffee until soft, then eat. Leave it too long, and they slump in…

  117. I'll be orff once more, been in touch with number three who is in Bali with old friends.
    Another dear lady I've known since we became friends on a youth club visit to Prague in 1966.

    Dan Snow on TV in Machu Picchu, what stunning and fantastic Inca craftsmanship.
    Hard believe that those people back then must have really struggled to build such marvellous constructions.
    And so it goes on until 22:30.
    Good night all Nottlers. 😴

        2. Early in time the local explorers found the frozen body of a young girl that was sacrificed to 'the gods' on the top of a mountain. They now have the body in storage as a mark of respect for her. They showed her to Dan Snow. She would have been around 13-14 years old.
          Worth a watch on catch-up TV.

      2. It might have been a predecessor of this labour government in planning more new builds using the wrong coloured Ink ah…..

      1. I'm jealous…..🤗
        It always looks so marvellous.
        Obviously all the timber roofs are missing and also what ever they used to cover them and make them water tight.

        1. We spent five weeks in Peru and Bolivia that year…..it was a great trip. I enjoyed it more than OH did as it was quite a large party – all friends and/or family of our Bolivian friend. His brother had his 70th birthday during the trip so we had a big party for that with some amazing Bolivian dancers.

      1. I thought that, recently, Labour had said all ‘refugees’ would be treated as asylum seekers?

          1. Perhaps it would help if we all just left, Phiz…..hang on, is that the plan……

      2. Never ending same old story Phizz.
        Everything single thing they come into contact with they eff it up.

    1. Elon Musk called for President Trump to be impeached as simmering tension between the two escalated into an all-out war across their respective social media platforms.

      The two men traded barbs for several hours on Thursday afternoon, with Musk at one point suggesting that Trump was withholding documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring because the president himself was implicated in them.

      Trump fired back at Musk’s flurry of posts by calling him “crazy” and suggesting his government contracts and subsidies be cancelled.

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      The hostility erupted after Trump expressed that he was “very disappointed” with his former adviser, who left his job as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) last week after a friendly joint press conference at the White House.

      https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/why-trump-musk-fighting-m2sd08hxm

      “Elon and I had a great relationship,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Thursday. “I don’t know if we will any more. Elon knew the inner workings of this bill. He never had a problem until right after he left … I’m very disappointed in Elon.

      “I think he misses the place … People leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly … some leave and become hostile.”

  122. Mike Graham
    If we do not control our borders, Britain will not exist in the next century
    For too long, our political elite has gaslit us on the impact of immigration on our society.

    It is the truth that dare not speak its name. The daily reality for millions of people in this country. Britain is changing before our very eyes. And, for years, our two-faced leaders have been pretending it isn’t happening. Even now, as the Prime Minister throws off the cosy blanket of immigration denial and embraces the brave new world of “smashing the gangs” and “strangers” in our own land, I get the feeling that Westminster still doesn’t get it.

    Countless politicians continually pitch up on TV programmes and radio shows branding anyone who wants to safeguard our borders as far-Right. Just this week, when newly elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin dared to ask during PMQs whether our illustrious leader might consider banning the burqa, a collective groan rose from the Chamber.

    There was also a sharp intake of breath as the incumbents of the Commons realised just what exactly was going on. Of course Sir Keir Starmer refused to even consider answering the question.

    Along with the majority of MPs he finds such questions all rather distasteful. They would rather declare war on Russia than admit that immigration has changed the fabric of our country forever. Never before have our elected representatives been so out of touch with the British public.

    They have been gaslighting us for years. Boris Johnson supported globalism and immigration. He never really meant it when he promised to reduce net migration. Theresa May was useless whenever she went to negotiate with Brussels on freedom of movement. And when she tried to create a hostile environment for illegals, she was painted as some kind of cross between Attila the Hun and Pol Pot.

    No government has been truly honest with the electorate about immigration. Time after time we have been told not to be bigoted. We’ve been encouraged to embrace a multicultural society. We’ve learned that kebab shops and Turkish barbers are enriching our society.

    After all, diversity did build Britain, didn’t it? And it’s our greatest strength, isn’t it? Well now the chickens have truly come home to roost. I’ve been telling my audience at Talk for years that mass immigration – which has allowed millions of people to come and settle here in the past decade or two – is unsustainable.

    And this week that same audience has signalled that enough is enough. Entire towns, cities and neighbourhoods have been transformed – and not for the better. But does your MP care? Does your local council worry about what might be happening?

    We have come a very long way from the time when local administrations from John O’Groats to Lands End decided it would be a great idea to rename the local High Street Nelson Mandela Way.

    Now, thanks to a fascinating study by Professor Matt Goodwin, we know that the effect of mass immigration on this country means that we are losing our identity. According to Goodwin, white British people will become a minority by 2063. The foreign born and their children will be a majority by 2079. And, incredibly, roughly one in five people will be Muslim by the year 2100.

    This news should come as no surprise to anyone who has been listening to Talk since 2015. Visit parts of Birmingham, Rochdale, Blackburn, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds: what you will find are communities which are not British. English is not spoken as a first language by many. British mores of conduct, behaviour and politeness have gone out the window. And yet, despite what we see before our very eyes, our politicians are busy trying to convince us that this is all good.

    Heaven forbid you should question government policy. Make no mistake; the Tories were no better than this current lot. In fact, on their watch, immigrants became ever more bold in their attempts to come here.

    No one with a brain will think that immigration is all bad. Of course there are brilliant things that different people from all round the globe bring to a country like Britain. We can wax lyrical about amazing restaurants, cool festivals, convenient food delivery and the joy of learning about different cultures. But please, don’t pee down my back and pretend that it’s raining.

    There is a world of difference between people who come here to make a new life for themselves and those who are connected to criminal gangs. There can never be a justification for welcoming young men who brandish swords and machetes in our high streets. And families who arrive on our shores while refusing to integrate or learn our language should not be welcome in our future.

    The gaslighting is over. The die is cast. If we do not reverse the current state of play on our borders, we won’t make it to the next century.

    Mike Graham presents Morning Glory every weekday morning from 6-10am on Talk

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/05/if-we-do-not-control-our-borders-britain-will-not-exist/?recomm_id=a59a300e-b6fb-42d5-9c67-e596df31a3e4

    1. Yes, yes, yes, we all already know this and have done for years.

      The question behind it all is …. why? For what purpose have HMGs over the past few years allowed this invasion?

      And who is/are behind it?

      Who/which organisation/body is behind it?

      How has so much influence beeen brought to bear on all our politicians?

      And, most of all, what can Joe Public do about it?

  123. Reform UK declared Scottish politics was now a “three horse race” after the party finished a close third in the Hamilton by-election.

    Labour won the contest with 8,559 votes, gaining the seat from the SNP which finished second with 7,957.

    But Reform was a close third with 7,088 votes while the Conservatives languished far behind in fourth place with 1,621.

    The result will be viewed as a clear demonstration that Reform can pose a serious electoral threat at the Scottish Parliament elections scheduled to take place in May 2026.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/05/hamilton-by-election-live-updates-reform-labour-snp/

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