Tuesday 24 January: Does the sticking-plaster NHS have a plan to prevent doctors leaving?

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  1. Good Morrow, Gentlefolk. Here is today’s story:

    Consider the following:
    1. If you refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.
    You may be a Muslim

    2. If you own a £3,000 machine gun and £5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes. You may be a Muslim

    3. If you have more wives than teeth. You may be a Muslim

    4. If you wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean. You may be a Muslim

    5. If you think vests come in two styles: Bullet-proof and suicide. You may be a Muslim

    6. If you can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against. You may be a Muslim

    7. If you consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing. You may be a Muslim

    8. If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs. You may be a Muslim

    9. If you have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four. You may be a Muslim

    10. If you find this offensive or racist and don’t forward it. You may be a Muslim

  3. Morning folks.

    Way back there used to be a TV program -‘The Untouchables’ . it seems in recent years the spirit of the ‘Untouchables’ appears to have been corrupted to mean those in power are confident that they are untouchable….

    “A former top FBI counterintelligence official – in fact, the guy who received the tip that supposedly kicked off the Trump-Russia investigation – has been arrested and charged with violating US sanctions on Russia by taking secret payments from a Russian oligarch in order to investigate another oligarch.
    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI’s New York counterintelligence desk, with taking secret payments from Oleg V. Deripaska – which violated US sanctions by agreeing to help the Russian billionaire, who himself was indicted last year on sanctions charges. McGonical notably retired in 2018.

    During his days in counterintelligence, McGonical was responsible for supervising and participating in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska.”

    2. Eliot Ness, US Treasury agent in the Prohibition Department, assisted in the arrest of Alphonse Capone and his gang for tax evasion.

    1. Does it matter, Elsie?

      I nearly stayed in bed this morning but a lack of tea drove me up.

      1. Hoping for coffee, but when is breakfast? I don’t like this hotel.
        Just went into the patients lounge & switched on the light. There’s some poor sod sleeping (well, not any more) in there!
        Yesterday, had to shout as some cunts breaking up cardboard cartons, very loudly, just by my bed (in the corridor) – does nobody think that a person asleep in bed might like to remain so? The shouting used the word “FUCKING” rather a lot. Gee…

        1. Use of fcuk is common in Scandyland as they have no decent sweary words in their own languages.

  5. Good Moaning.
    It just gets betterer and betterer.

    “On his journey from Afghanistan to Bournemouth, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai travelled through at least five different countries, became a convicted drug dealer, and was sentenced to 20 years in a Serbian prison for murdering two of his countrymen with a Kalashnikov.

    The asylum seeker, who on Monday was found guilty of murdering an aspiring Royal Marine, was able to board a ferry in Cherbourg, France and travel to the UK despite his criminal record, and having an asylum claim rejected by the Norwegian authorities a few weeks earlier.

    In December 2019 he claimed asylum in Poole, Dorset after falsely telling a Home Office interviewer he was just 14-years-old when he was in fact at least 18.

    The court heard that after his arrival in the UK, Abdulrahimzai posed with a knife on TikTok, was filmed on Snapchat assaulting a man in the street, got into street fights for money, and scared his foster carer with his love of knives.”

    ttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/23/machine-gun-wielding-murderer-accepted-uk-child-asylum-seeker/

    1. Am surprised that he was not recruited to the Metro Police, or as a Parliamentary researcher.

      1. Remember the Home Office was found to have emplyed illegal Nigerians as security… that’s the kind of incompetent that roams the civil service these days.

        1. Good morning, around 20 years ago I was parked in Westminster and upon returning to my car 5 min too late (free parking ended at 08.30) found it had a parking ticket under one of the wipers and an A4 notice fixed to the driver’s window stating ‘Do not move, due to be clamped’.

          I ignored the notice, and the ticket, as I drove off.

          A few days later, I saw a squad of traffic wardens walking along the surrounding streets checking parking permits from around 07.30, in preparation for handing out tickets to any stragglers without permits at 08.30!

          A week or so afterwards, ‘Private Eye’ exposed Westminster council’s employment of 20+ Nigerian illegal immigrants as traffic wardens!

          I looked forward to my day in court lax parker v illegal warden. Alas, it was not too be and I’m still on the run.

  6. Putin is betting on the West’s self-immolation – and he may be right. 24 January 2023.

    Still, the West is not mentally prepared for anything other than a Ukraine victory. We don’t want to contemplate the unsettling fact, for example, that even if the final outcome of the war is murky, the myth of American hegemony will be shattered. With a perma-war in the former Soviet Union, perhaps spreading next to the Balkans, the world fragments into warring spheres of influence. With Russia committed long-term to its medieval rebirth through total mobilisation, a new era of civilisation states – not just in Russia, but also China, India and perhaps even Shia Iran – could be upon us. Not to mention the threat of a Third World War. And with a mercurial conflict on its borders, Europe would be on a permanent conflict footing.

    Putin, despite his shortcomings and the ineptitude of the Russian army, is the last hope of the ordinary native peoples of the West. Without him the final victory of the Globalists is assured. It is already too late for the UK which is now ruled by a Davos cabal but who actually give us a glimpse of that future world that the WEF and the American Hegemony have planned for everyone. Democracy destroyed. Freedom abolished. Serfdom in everything but name.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/23/putin-betting-wests-self-immolation-may-right/

    1. It is a hollowing out of the ‘middle class’ alongside the traditional ‘working class’; the super rich cohort is growing, and the underclass is forging ahead, well, downwards.

    3. It was telling that as Sunak commits electoral hari-kari Sir Beer Korma ventured to Davos in his place. It’s almost as if Rishi Washi needed no further instruction before handing over the country.

  7. Morning, all Y’all.
    I hate hospitals. Overnight, assessed why:
    1. Lack of communication &/or planning. Nobody seems to know what the plan is for today regarding tests, meeting with consultant, whatever. I assume this means that the Consultant either hasn’t decided, or hasn’t bothered to tell anyone. When is breakfast? Who knows. What happens next? When do I go back to work? Since I am in receipt of no information, I have decided that I am leaving this afternoon at the latest.
    2. Lack of workflow management. Each time I get my blood pressure checked and pulse / =2 done, the nurse scribbles it down on a scrap of paper, not even a notebook. Is it written against my name? I assume they then go & type it into a computer teminal somewhere, with all the opportunities that gives for finger trouble and jumbling one set of results with another, let alone double work. Since they have an excellent wifi, why not change the process to:
    1. Scan the wristband QR code.
    2. Carry out the measurements
    then the system can log them in the patient journal, with date & time stamp, with les opportunity for mistype error and the inherent doublework of writing & typing.

    If I see the consultant today, I will tell him this.

    1. Sounds more like the NHS, Paul.

      Useless computer systems not hooked into one national database .

      If you live in Scotland (Heaven forfend) and are taken ill in England, Wales or NI, those health boards will have no access to your previous medical condition.

    2. Sounds familiar Paul. My OH was in for five weeks of that and never did the right hand know what the left was doing

      1. Gee…
        Just wrote the CEO an email with the above, translated, in the hope that something will happen and the expectation that nothing will change.
        My first take is that both Weegie and UK systems are government-provided and not run as businesses, so the pressure for improvement isn’t there until there’s a catastrophe. Since I have no experience of other health systems, and certainly not at this level of detail, that’s only a hypothesis.
        Still, with my management systems hat on, it seems a pity to pass up giving feedback.

          2. One would hope that by providing the information that the CEO, or whoever gets to read it, might appreciate that the letter comes from someone who might know what they are commenting upon rather than merely a patient who got out of bed the wrong side!

    3. A friend was in hospital in West Germany in the late eighties, and your suggestion is exactly how the Germans did it then.

      It’s sad that 35 years later that the NHS hasn’t caught up.

  8. Morning all

    Just when you thought the Conservative fcukwits could not find any new way to earn our contempt……..

    Tory candidates given lessons on ‘white resentment’ before standing for Parliament
    By Steven Edginton

    Conservative candidates for Parliament are given lessons on “white resentment” in diversity and inclusion training sessions.
    Would-be Tory MPs are told white resentment is a “significant problem” for ethnic minorities and is defined as “when white employees suggest equality and diversity training is no longer required, as it provides ethnic minority employees with unfair advantages”.
    Despite efforts by ministers to ban “woke” diversity courses for civil servants, similar workshops are being offered to Tory candidates via the Party’s online training platform.
    Tory candidates are offered unconscious bias training, a practice the Government promised to “phase out” across Whitehall in 2020.
    The Conservative Party’s training platform describes unconscious bias as being when you “discriminate against one group, or person, without being aware of your actions”.
    The lessons refer to microaggressions, such as asking a black colleague “why does your hair not look like ours?” and “Are you able to sit out in the sun as long without any sun cream?”.
    Mispronunciation of names is ‘unconscious bias’
    Another example of unconscious bias cited is the mispronunciation of colleagues’ names.
    One slide offers a case study: “I’d prefer for you not to shorten my name. It means God’s gift and my parents named it to me for a very specific reason. I’ve actually done you a favour and I’ve already shortened it. It’s Onyinyewchuckwu, can you please call me Onyinye?”.
    Candidates are also given a list of terminologies and their definitions to study, including gender fluid, non-binary, affirmed gender, pan-gender and poly gender.
    Ed Barker, a member of the Party’s candidates list and the chief executive of Conservative Way Forward, said: “I don’t want the state, or the Party I love, breathing down my neck telling me how to think.”
    “I hope this can be stopped immediately, otherwise we’ll have a whole new generation of Conservative candidates who think this is normal.”
    “Before Christmas, we published a report which found that £7bn of taxpayers’ money is being wasted on politically motivated campaigns that are dividing us and making us all poorer, including millions on unconscious bias training.”
    “It would be devastating if CCHQ was wasting Party members’ money on divisive and contentious schemes like these.”
    On Sunday, Suella Braverman ordered a review into “politically correct nonsense” in the Home Office after an internal note told staff to not use words such as “homosexual” or “mate” for fear of causing offence.
    A Home Office source told The Telegraph following the revelations: “The Home Secretary has made her views very clear — she doesn’t want to see this kind of politically correct nonsense in the department”.
    Meanwhile, Conservative candidates are provided with a series of online lessons on everything from emotional intelligence, self-responsibility, social media best practices, being resilient and building a team.
    Under the diversity and inclusion section there are courses on race, gender reassignment, sex discrimination and sexual orientation.
    MPs quizzed on what they have learnt
    Aspiring MPs are given videos to watch and slides to read and are then quizzed on what they have learnt.
    One question asks if the following statement is true or false: “Your organisation can recruit from a wider talent pool and gain a broader perspective by promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace?”; The answer required is “true”.
    Another question asks candidates to fill in the blanks in the following statement: “As well as experiencing racial discrimination ____ ______ is also a significant problem for BAME employees”, with the correct answer being “white resentment”.
    When asked how to respond to a colleague pointing out your unconscious bias the quiz states you should “react positively and thank the person”.
    In a section on racial discrimination it is stated that “a requirement to conform to White British cultural practices, such as anglicising names in the workplace” is part of “a system of domination and oppression”.
    Under a course on gender reassignment, candidates are urged to use gender neutral language such as “they” and “their” and the use of gender neutral bathrooms are encouraged in workplaces.
    In a course on religion and belief it is “recommended that organisations follow good practice procedures to ensure everyone is treated equally”.
    These practices include ensuring employees are not discriminated against if their religion requires them to behave with modesty, with immodest behaviour including “shaking hands with a member of the opposite sex, undergoing a security search even when conducted by a member of the same sex, [and] being alone with a member of the opposite sex”.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/23/tory-candidates-given-lessons-white-resentment-standing-parliament/#comment

        1. In the Civil Service there is no reward for common sense, and it could possibly hinder your career.

    2. “ The lessons refer to microaggressions, such as asking a black colleague “why does your hair not look like ours?” and “Are you able to sit out in the sun as long without any sun cream?”.”

      Seriously, has anyone over the age of 5 ever asked these questions? And even those under 5 probably never have. We are not living in 1823.

      1. 370333+ up ticks,

        Morning Mir,
        We were talking tribal scars myself & a local lad in Uganda ,he asked had we tribes in the UK, I pointed out chickenpox scars, holes in the forehead and added crib tribe 15/2 15/4 & one for his hat as the tribal motto.

    3. 370333+ up ticks,

      Morning VVOF,

      The parliamentary political reptiles are looking at stocking up on the Quran prior to the May elections.

      I do believe the electoral majority have their prayer mats at the ready for a seamless take over.

          1. Morning Oggy. Like the Spectator. The more downvotes the better. They tell you that you are on track!

    4. “a requirement to conform to White British cultural practices,” – such as receiving payment, is that also part of oppression?

    5. ‘They’ should be conforming to our society. Not the other way round. By bending over backwards to accommodate all this nonsense they will just expect more. If you don’t like it fuck off.

      1. Agreed, BoB. (Good morning, btw.) PS – Was the lady wanting to ride to the local Food Bank? (Sarc.)

  10. Morning all. Love this letter today – implicitly on the dangers of PR as an electoral method:

    “ Colonel Hamish de Brettongordon (Letters, January 23) is right that Germany’s hesitant approach to Russia may be partly to do with the horrors of the Second World War, but I suspect it has more to do with the Greens’ influence on German politics.
    These people have controlled the balance of power in Germany for 30 years. They are pacifists, with little appreciation of the consequences of appeasing Vladimir Putin.
    Additionally, because of their distorted view of nuclear power, they have succeeded in shutting down the only clean and reliable power resource currently available to Germany.
    The result is that Germany is having to burn filthy coal to compensate for the loss of gas from Russia, when it could have been relying on Co2-free nuclear energy to meet its needs.”

    1. ,,,and the loss of cheap gas from Russia may be laid directly at America’s door, since they destroyed the Nordstream gas pipeline, in order to sell their own gas to Germany, at a much inflated price.

      1. I confess to not having followed that story, but it would not surprise me in the slightest.

    2. Appeasement – or a strong desire not to be on point when Russia and the US go to war? I vote option #2

  11. Don’t assume that Prince Andrew is in the wrong. 23 January 2023.

    I said this without any special inside knowledge, but I had three reasons. The first was just the doctrine of “innocent until proven guilty”, central to civilisation but now gravely threatened by the fashion for denunciation.

    The second was the nature of American legal proceedings, in which the “shakedown” is treated almost as an article of the US Constitution. It seems wise, in such a culture, to question many claims made.

    The third was that I could not believe that the Duke of York, though not the brightest tool in the royal shed, could have been so stupid as to lie on television about such a serious matter. It was easy to agree he had behaved foolishly, perhaps seedily, in his association with Jeffrey Epstein, but it stretched credulity that he could have dared borrow Buckingham Palace and give his ill-judged BBC interview to Emily Maitlis if he had committed the crimes of which he was accused.

    Good grief. He’s as guilty as sin. If he was such a model of propriety what was he doing hanging around with the likes of Epstein and Maxwell? As to the interviews it was the sort of entitled blustering one would expect from this moron. His culpability was apparent in his shifty looks and phony words!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/24/dont-assume-prince-andrew-wrong/

    2. But guilty of what exactly, Minty? Granted the man is an arrogant arsehole who ought to have known better, but did he actually break the law?
      Here’s what I posted on an American site discussing the case:-

      A few important points.
      The alleged cormorant* activity took place in the UK.
      What people fail to realise that under UK Law as it stood at the time, nothing illegal took place.
      First, she was 17, the UK Age of consent is 16.
      Second, Prostitution in the UK is a legal occupation.
      Third, The age of being legally allowed to partake in the sex industry at the time of the alleged incident was 16. It was raised to 18 a couple of years later.

      Unless one subscribes to the opinion that American Law should be applicable to US Citizens anywhere in the world, then from what I can understand, the only law that could possibly apply in this case is the American Legislation regarding crossing state boundaries for immoral purposes.

      *Other seabirds are available.

      1. I don’t know enough about the circumstances, but would it make a difference if she was a sex-slave rather than a prostitute?

        1. As I understand it, under UK law at the time, no.
          Strict liability, where ignorance of the trafficked/forced nature of a prostitute is not a defence, was only implemented at the same time the legal age to be engaged in prostitution was raised to 18.

      2. Morning Bob. I agree that he is morally guilty. He collapsed under Civil not Criminal law. I am as you know not an admirer of the Americal legal system, which is even worse than ours, but he did concede!

      3. Beg to differ. Have a glance at the scope of the United States’ Federal law known as the Mann Act, or White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910. Somewhere in immigration records there will be evidence of Ms Giuffre’s trip(s) to the UK, and I doubt that she travelled with Epstein to visit the British Museum.

        Also, in England and Wales it is an offence for an adult to pay for cormorant activities with anyone under the age of eighteen. A minor offence (no pun intended) and sorry, I’m not going to look for the actual details in a statute.

        1. in England and Wales it is an offence for an adult to pay for cormorant activities with anyone under the age of eighteenNOW. However, the offence is alleged to have taken place BEFORE the law was changed.

          As for the Mann Act, that is, essentially, what I referred to regarding crossing state lines for immoral purposes.

    3. But guilty of what exactly, Minty? Granted the man is an arrogant arsehole who ought to have known better, but did he actually break the law?
      Here’s what I posted on an American site discussing the case:-

      A few important points.
      The alleged cormorant* activity took place in the UK.
      What people fail to realise that under UK Law as it stood at the time, nothing illegal took place.
      First, she was 17, the UK Age of consent is 16.
      Second, Prostitution in the UK is a legal occupation.
      Third, The age of being legally allowed to partake in the sex industry at the time of the alleged incident was 16. It was raised to 18 a couple of years later.

      Unless one subscribes to the opinion that American Law should be applicable to US Citizens anywhere in the world, then from what I can understand, the only law that could possibly apply in this case is the American Legislation regarding crossing state boundaries for immoral purposes.

      *Other seabirds are available.

    4. I cannot say whether he is guilty or not but it is clear to me that he has not been proven guilty of anything and has been treated abominably.

      The RF – especially its menfolk – are renowned for their stupidity and Andrew is certainly almost as foolish as his elder brother, Charles, and his nephew, Harry.

    5. The easiest thing is to blame people for how they look. This is why justice is blind. All that matters is if he did break the law and that’s a matter for the police and judiciary. What worries me is the outrage mob. They don’t want justice, they want their own way. Once we head down that path we’re completely stuffed.

  12. Good morning all. Not QUITE -5°C outside, but a bright morning and fairly clear with only a light touch of mist outside.

  13. Ukraine to receive 100 Leopard 2 tanks if Germany agrees deal. 24 January 2023.

    Ukraine will receive 100 Leopard 2 tanks from 12 countries once Germany gives them the green light, under an agreement reached behind closed doors.
    A senior Ukrainian official told ABC News that the deal was made last Friday at the US air base at Ramstein.

    Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Spain, are reportedly willing to send some of their tanks to assist Ukraine but would require German consent.

    Assuming this is true and not some gambit to force Sholz’s hand it shows how absolutely determined they are hang this round Germany’s neck. They could send these tanks themselves! It’s not as if someone is going to arrest them for it! The need for Germany to be involved is paramount. Without their involvement the whole thing may collapse if the going gets rough!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/24/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-leopard-tanks-germany-tymoshenko/

    1. Article in Aftenposten taking the piss out of the UK for promising a whole 14 Challenger 2s. Since half of them will immediately break down (as is typical of tanks everywhere), not exactly overwhelming force. Plus the logistics, from rifled ammunition (atypical, most are smoothbore) through all the spares, special tools and cranes etc needed, skills in fighting the vehicle and maintaining it in less than 3 months, and it looks very much like a very expensive gesture.

      1. Morning Oberst. I hope that you are feeling better. The tanks were of course just a gesture to try and shame the Germans into action!

        1. Germans made of sterner stuff.
          Quite a bit better, thanks. I’m out today, regardless of what the medics think. If they can get ther arses in gear and do the Consultants round first, all well & good, but the plan for today is, like yesterdays, and likely all days, wrapped in fog.

      2. Your experience in hospital sounds just the same as this country.
        Conspiracy theories are freely available.

        1. State monopoly on provision…
          They should pay your insurance and you can use it, with extra payment, elsewhere.

      3. The Johnson buffoon has his PR opportunities to work on, reality or logical conclusions are of no importance.

      4. Of course it is. Most people don’t understand logistics and maintenance so they shout and clap when one of our morons stands up and says ‘we are giving Ukraine 10 helicopter gunships! but don’t realise that not only are these clapped out ancient versions but we haven’t provided fuel, training, crews, missiles, ammunition, software, or even rotors (as this is the UN approach to logistics).

        It’s all utter farce. They don’t want the war to end, as that really means the big Western nations getting involved and, bluntly, the utter morons infesting Westminster have made us dependent on Russian gas, even by proxy.

    2. I don’t understand what is trying to be achieved by Nato.
      They are ramping up the whole problem. They must know this, that more people are likely to die as a result of their efforts.
      It’s much easier to cease fire with out extra armaments. But what they are now doing is very sinister and very dangerous.
      I expect Nato have been throwing their weight around via the advice of the hierarchy at the White House.
      It stinks of the usual political insanity.

      1. Have you noticed that the top man in NATO has always been from a small country, when not the USA? Robertson, Stoltenberg, the Dane, and so on. Easy for the US to pressure them into making NATO do what the USA wants.

      2. Its an American war with little chance of the homeland or their troops being affected. So they are happy to stoke up the conflict leaving Europe to take the flack.

      3. NATO is mostly led by the americans. America under Bidet don’t want to actually do anything directly as that’s intervention and really expensive and Bidet can’t afford a war as he’s ruining the US economy.

        As arms makes money for the US economy he’s going down that route to get his kicks.

    3. Just seen this in the job Vacancy Page of Daily Wail

      Wanted: 100 crews for Leopard Tanks
      Have travel prospects
      Free board and accommadation (especially if tank breaks down)
      No previous experience neccesary

    4. What if Germany doesn’t give them the green light? Why should it? Germany is [beeped]. It is completely reliant on Russian gas, as Trump told them. They sniggered then, but now.. well, as with most things he is right. It seems politicians are utter morons.

      In fact, let’s have a national catharsis around the world and have a week where, around the world we can beat up politicians. Doesn’t matter if they get seriously injured, no criminal sanctions. Hmm. maybe needs a month.

  14. Morning all 😉 😊
    Slightly better weather it’s only 0 c.
    Climate change has kicked back in.
    Doctors leaving the NHS ?
    I think many of them have already moved over to the private sector. Hence the real reasons for such long waits to see specialist.
    Certainly in my experience, as in I emailed my cardiology department Sunday the automated reply was the secretary was out of the office until after the 25th.
    As was the boss last time I tried to make contact. Out of the country.
    Meanwhile I struggle with my ticker and the problems it’s causing ever minute of the day. I believe that FOAD is still the catch phrase being used by the NHS.
    No change at all for the past two years.

      1. Totally agree Sue.
        As things stand now I am no better than I was after the first and second Covid jabs.
        I am fed up with it. But I think that is part of the plan.
        I simply don’t believe a word anyone from the NHS tells me unless there is progress involved.

        1. Your experience, Eddy, underlines my reasons for refusing any of the so-called Covid gene-therapies.

          With ⅓ of my heart dead, I’m also very aware of the deleterious affect any of the jabs may have on me – not least, death.

          1. I always find it difficult to have a conversation regarding current affairs with my elder sister and BiL. He’s ex public school and ‘something in the city’.
            They have had every covid jab available and he has myocardial problems and both have had Covid twice. But he as usual, suggest his heart problems are far worse than mine.
            But they won’t hear a word for all the supporting evidence and all the now emerging proof, that’s been produced since all the side and after effects started.

    2. If we don’t provide cover for our customers they stop paying me. The idea that if I’m busy I simply stop replying to emails, or cut off a telephone would be comical, as that customer would simply withdraw their cash.

      The NHS must be pushed into a market where it is paid by outcome, not volume.

  15. One wibbling will enjoy
    https://www.takimag.com/article/its-official-trumps-tax-cuts-paid-for-themselves/

    How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) berate the Trump tax cuts as “a giveaway to the rich”?
    Biden and congressional Democrats now want to let expire major planks of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, former President Donald Trump’s signature domestic achievement, particularly the incentives for American businesses to invest more here at home.
    We now have incontrovertible evidence that after five years since they took effect, the Trump tax rate cuts of 2017 raised revenues over this time period. For full disclosure, I should note that I worked with fellow economists Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer and Kevin Hassett together on that plan, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
    “We got higher growth and higher tax payments with lower tax rates.”
    The latest Congressional Budget Office report released earlier this month calculated that the federal government collected $4.9 trillion of federal revenue last year. This was up — ready for this? — almost $1.5 trillion since 2017, the year before the tax cuts became law.

    2. And the man himself working on the issue proving his own theory (which he doesn’t like) true!

      I do find Biden a miserable, petty little man. Maybe not him, but his party’s attitude, as if they’re virtuous and righteous by saying they’ll make ‘da wich’ pay when they know full well – from their own tax avoidance – that it always falls on the poorest, least able. It is that cynical, smug arrogance that disgusts me about Lefties.

      2. Biden’s far worse than petty; he is far worse than nasty – but he has that very worrying combination of senility and evil. The only thing that can be said in his favour is that he could have done even more harm if he had been competent.

        1. I’ve long thought that Biden would be ousted for Harris so she could qualify for nearly 10 years as President.
          So far I’m wrong, but I will be surprised if he lasts the next two years.

          The only thing protecting him is the gross incompetence of the woman in question.

          2. I thought that one of the essential qualities for Democrat presidential candidates was incompetence.

          5. Agreed re the token both colour and sex, but she’s easier to puppet even than Biden and I think she would stand more chance as an incumbent than as a fresh starter.

        2. Be thankful that the Yanks didn’t choose the Lefty scumbag, ‘Bernie’ Sanders instead.

  16. G’morning all,

    Climate change continues at McPhee Towers but at -2C it’s positively balmy by recent trends. Thank goodness for all that CO2 I say.

    I think we’re probably all agreed that the child gimmmigrant found guilty at Salisbury Crown Court should hang but sadly our present statutes prevent it. Maybe if we had adhered to the real constitution he would be being measured up as I type.

    Who knew there was such a thing as a “National Association of Legally-Qualified Chairs”? I’d like to think of myself as a leather-padded armchair but at my age I’d probably be a rocking chair. Or one of those Parker-Knoll thingies which catapult you across the lounge.

    1. Isn’t there a Scottish law progressing that lets you self-declare what kind of furniture you are? With appropriate pronouns, entilements and offeded expressions?

      1. Today I is mainly going to be a tall boy! ‘Morning Paul! How is the hostipal treating you?

        1. Hi
          See above. Good coffee, nice nurse from St Kitts… what more can one want (except freedom). Now shackled to a heart monitor.

          1. West Indians from St Kitt’s and Nevis are, in my experience, some of the nicest people I have ever met.

          2. That reminds me of another cracker joke. Old age is when your chest falls into your drawers.

        1. Cole isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I think he writes some good articles, even those I sometimes disagree with.

  17. G’morning all,

    Climate change continues at McPhee Towers but at -2C it’s positively balmy by recent trends. Thank goodness for all that CO2 I say.

    I think we’re probably all agreed that the child gimmmigrant found guilty at Salisbury Crown Court should hang but sadly our present statutes prevent it. Maybe if we had adhered to the real constitution he would be being measured up as I type.

    Who knew there was such a thing as a “National Association of Legally-Qualified Chairs”? I’d like to think of myself as a leather-padded armchair but at my age I’d probably be a rocking chair. Or one of those Parker-Knoll thingies which catapult you across the lounge.

    1. Why is a purveyor of crap software (a spiv salesman, nothing more) invited by governments to speak on topics that are:
      A. Bollocks?
      B. Way outside his sphere of intelligence?

      1. He’s said to be worth 103 billion USD. Dead from the wallet up but that’s so much the better.

  19. Morning Medley

    How the grid survived

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cfad80ca4bf2a05a8744aba06daafd890bae9a18dd80c948253253ab731cb6f8.jpg

    £189,000 for this change

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aca1d747fd1f7a244025230641e8336012307e7e14c5b468c13aa686768b19ec.png

    Me too……

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/df41aaf6f4d5965b4b67bb15cab809a4458befe871acd932932569ece306d541.png

    Danger! Will Robertson

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5922a9a89971a6fc8e3ccc56336aea1d3cb0b6ce596493855a818ffeaad6bcbf.jpg

    “Ain’t that the truth”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/403454011bc26cc91dfc4ecd341bcbe74b760097a1b6b1f587ec9d2d7b7143e6.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f593fd6df423b1f6eacd8cff726ced48826d1be965031b728e360aa2c3b978d5.jpg

  20. General question: Does anyone know how to turn off the sodding auto-correct in Disqus? It’s the reason for 99% of my edits.

    2. It is almost certainly your PC/phone/iPad or whatever you are using, rather than Disqus.

      Try entering settings on whatever you are using and there should be an option regarding spelling, auto-correct etc.
      It might not be in what you think of as the logical place, eg I have one under “languages”. The most likely will be a specific spelling and grammar link.
      You may need to experiment to find the right bit.
      Here’s a link to doing it on Android and iPad
      https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/03/10/how-to-disable-ios-autocorrect/
      Good luck.

      1. Many thanks. Found it on Safari on my iMac and auto-correction on my iPad. Hopefully there’ll be fewer edits now.

  21. Queues of Drs and similar all come to give me the same tests… strength, and tickly feet… Since, so far, they have all been female, blonde & cute, I’m not arguing – except the cold hands! What is it with women & cold hands?
    To be fitted with a heart monitor this afternoon, so muct stay in until tomorrow. Bugger. But at least I know the plan, and got to speak to the Consultant about the improvements I already noted here. She accepted the advise, as she was a consultant in an earlier life, now a Consultant (Overlege).
    My nurse is from St Kitts – lovely lady, who speaks English with a delightful accent, but learned medical in NOrway, so doesn’t know the English words for medical things… 😀 (I have the same for a lot of wildlife – don’t know the English for it).
    They seem kind and concerned – one gets the feeling one isn’t just a case number or “the male stroke patient”.
    Coffee is good & plentiful, so I guess I’ll stay for now.

    Last night, sitting in the patients lounge, there was an old couple. Man in a wheelchair, obviously the patient, and a similarly-aged lady, likely his wife. Her concern and love for him was so strong, you could feel it across the room – it was moving to see. What a lucky guy to have a lady like that!

    1. “one gets the feeling one isn’t just a case number or “the male stroke patient”.”
      They’ve been on the course then…

        1. Thanks! So far, the worst thing is the irritation of confinement…
          Lunch was good – spring rolls, chili sauce and salad. Excellent!

        2. Thanks! So far, the worst thing is the irritation of confinement…
          Lunch was good – spring rolls, chili sauce and salad. Excellent!

  22. Last night I discovered that there really is a product called a carcoon, and a friend of an acquaintance has a black version. It’s designed for car storage.

    2. Guess the son has no choice in the matter.
      Poor boy. Aren’t the peripheral Royal Family complete shits?

        1. The arrogance – deciding what your child will be, likely before the bairn can talk! I’d like to be there when he expresses his own opinion about his future.

    3. She had better check to see if any of their windows are UPVC.
      But she probably won’t be able to tell.

    5. Junior wants to be a Transformer. I suggested Optimus Prime but apparently no, he wants to be Bumblebee.

    7. Ditched all polyethylene derivatives? So no plumbing or electrics. No medications or cosmetics and no cleaning products?

    1. Tax avoidance is a necessary, legal and righteous act. Tax evasion is different.

      Personally, both should be praised, with HMRC paying twice the tax back to the evader, abjectly apologise and state as mantra ‘in the desperate urge to rob the worker of every penny, taxes are too high and too complicated.’

      1. It is my duty to myself, my wife, my daughter and grandchildren to do everything I can to avoid as much tax as possible.

  25. Another great article on Spiked.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/24/the-wef-is-a-menace-to-democracy/

    Extract below.

    “ It’s not often I feel grateful to Keir Starmer. But I did last week when he gave the game away about Davos. Where would he rather be, a journalist asked him: Davos or Westminster? ‘Davos’, Starmer said, without missing a beat. Westminster’s too ‘constrained’, he moaned. It’s ‘just a tribal, shouting place’. Davos, on the other hand, the luxury Alpine resort where the world’s tycoons gather every year to quaff booze and put the world to rights, is a place where you can ‘engage with people’; people ‘you can see [yourself] working with in the future’. Ouch. If I were a British MP, I’d be feeling pretty bruised right now. Starmer wants nothing to do with you noisy tribalists – it’s the world’s woke rich he wants to mingle with.…”

    1. And in all probability he’ll be our next PM.
      I know he’s denied it, but EU here we come and on worse terms than we had when we voted to leave.

      1. So stark a denial of democracy should lead to revolution and, if necessary, civil war.
        It’s what I couldn’t get over to a previous boss, that disregarding the democratic choice is much more serious taht whether the UK voted in or out, because it negates democracy entirely. Why ask the People if the elites have already decided what’s good for them? He didn’t see it. Arsehole.

        1. The same type who will say we need more gimmegrants, refugees are welcome and when challenged on “How many and where do we stop?” never ever give an answer.

      2. The whole lot of them are pushing for it. The entire state edifice has fought the democratic will from the outset.

        The intent is to do so much damage, so deluge the nation in poison – economic, social, political that they present rechaining as the only option. This is how democracy dies. It is inevitable. They cannot permit the public a say in how they are controlled.

      3. Do you mean to say that we won’t get back the £40billion that we

        paid the EU “for a satisfactory trading agreement” ?

    2. Westminster is what they make of it. Most of it is done in backdoor meeting rooms, discussions and argument over law and policy. Which explains why most law and policy is utterly idiotic.

      Starmer, like all politicians and bureaucrats is desperate to reach a point where the public have no say and they can just do what they want. The popularity contests must annoy them intensely. They get about a year, maybe 18 months of time to govern before the whole circus rolls around again. It must really get up their nose, all those people they have to lie, cheat and steal from.

      As it is, almost all of them agree about the same dribbling nonsense. They’re all demented greeniacs, they’re all frenzied gimmigrant importers, not one believes in low taxes, individual freedom, the family. They’re tiresome, brattish children. Of course he prefers the rarefied, undemocratic, decision making consensus – because they’re told what to say – air of the WEF.

      1. Direct democracy is the future. Now “everyone” is on the Internet, when an issue arises, let the for and against sides make their case in limited length – eg 2 sides A4 equivalent at 12 point font, with 2 more sides for max 6 diagrams, then everylone gets to vote usinf a unique log-in ID, where the answers are “Agree” or “Disagree”. 50%+1 decides. Less than 40% of adult population voting = no change from the present situation. In other words, a short summary of the cases for and against, including the implications of both, and the people decide. Debate as much as you like outside of that, but the proposal as written must become the law – and if it doesn’t the courts must strike it down.
        Then we don’t need MPs, just people to make the cases + & –
        We have pretty-well bullet-proof intenet ID using different devices, very difficult to hack, so maybe UK could use that?

        1. Wouldn’t work. Professional Nudge groups would ensure the result was what they wanted.

          1. There would be + and – nudges – should cancel out.
            But clearly the current system is broken, and something needs to take it’s place that ensures as far as is possible open debate and everyone gets to vote.

        2. Good idea in theory – I ised to think it was the way to go, but I’m damned sure they’d use it to impose digital ID, with all that entails.

        3. Like the suggestion however implications would be a whole other debate. Remember EU membership? No loss of sovereignty!

    3. you can ‘engage with people’; people ‘you can see [yourself] working with in the future’.

      And get yer pre arranged leg over.

    1. This is the opposite of what we were led to believe was his position. If he never attacked those who wanted the bad effects of Covid 19 vaccines gene therapies properly examined then somebody has published fake news against him for political ends.

      Has anyone got a link to show Tice ‘throwing Bridgen under the bus’ and supporting the government’s and MSM’s orthodoxy on the Covid 19 treatment scandal?

      1. There was a lot of condemnation regarding Bridgen’s covid vaccines and holocaust comments and I believe that Tice joined in that condemnation. I believe it was the Holocaust comparison which Tice was condemning.

        1. It is absurd to say that Bridgen was being racist in mentioning the Holocaust. Indeed his statement implied that the Holocaust was one of the severest blots on human history.

          I am more interested in what Tice actually said about Bridgen’s drawing attention to the dangers of the Covid gene therapies.

        2. But, but, this is a holocaust in the making.

          Mass murder is the WEF, Gates, Soros, WHO, UN & EU order of the day.

    4. It’s frustrating, as he’s behaving like a politician: say the groupthink, realise it backlashes amongst his supporters, then back track.

      If he hasn’t the courage to say what he believes and to keep to it, what’s the point?

    1. I dread to think what a Parliamentary waiting room might look like considering most of them are ars……oles.

    2. I am around- helping my husband and it takes time. He’s more mobile but can’t move fast so it all takes a long time.
      Don’t tell Phizzee but I am planning a raid to dognap his doggies.

          1. All seems OK, thanks. Radio-controlled heart monitoring on now for 24 hrs, then… who knows?

        2. Oh yes. And milking it for all it’s worth- jaffa cakes, mini Battenbergs and custard for breakfast:-) He is doing so much better but it’s early days. He looks better and is eating well and is totally OK to be left while I go to the supermarket in a bit.
          How about you? Started that tunnel yet?

          1. Biscuit and cake aren’t breakfast, they are tea! Glad he’s improving – that’s a relief to all!
            I might be allowed out tomorrow, once they have stopped monitoring my heart. Some radio controlld gadget hung around my neck… for 24 hours.

          2. As long as he’s eating, I don’t care what he eats or when. The most important thing is that he gets well- and that goes for you also.

          3. Feeling pretty good at the moment, ta. Just bored with the place. And with being wired up…

          6. You can imagine how bored my OH was after four weeks of being wired up – then he finally got his op.

          8. He did a bit! But he had plenty of reading matter (and he’s not really a reader) but he was somewhat institutionalised when he came home. Fortunately that wore off quite quickly.

          13. Hungrier, at least.
            “Dinner” yesterday was fishballs – white blancmange boiled in milk, and totally disgusting. So, I did without. Lunch today was A spring roll, with salad. Bread n cheese for breakfast. Could use a huge plate of fish ‘n chips…

          14. If they’d served me fishballs in blancmange, I’d have told them that I am here to recuperate so bring me some proper food!

      3. Would you like two more? One drools like a waterfall but is very fluffy. The other one is less fluffy, drools a bit less but may have to come with bad tempered wife. Dogs require feeding, wife not so much.

        Package deal – free to a good home for 4 weeks at a time.

        I’m bally serious. The great beast did his hospice thing today and before hand wouldn’t sit still in the car and afterward demanded to sit in the front seat where he kept eating the blasted gear thing.

        1. I would love a Newfie but we’re not allowed pets here- more’s the shame. I love big dogs.

  30. From https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F01%2F23%2Fmachine-gun-wielding-murderer-accepted-uk-child-asylum-seeker%2F
    Killer had asylum claim rejected in Norway before UK accepted him as a ‘child’
    Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was a convicted drug dealer who had murdered two fellow refugees before he was accepted into Britain
    On his journey from Afghanistan to Bournemouth, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai travelled through at least five different countries, became a convicted drug dealer, and was sentenced to 20 years in a Serbian prison for murdering two of his countrymen with a Kalashnikov.

    The asylum seeker, who on Monday was found guilty of murdering an aspiring Royal Marine, was able to board a ferry in Cherbourg, France and travel to the UK despite his criminal record, and having an asylum claim rejected by the Norwegian authorities a few weeks earlier.

    In December 2019 he claimed asylum in Poole, Dorset after falsely telling a Home Office interviewer he was just 14-years-old when he was in fact at least 18.

    The court heard that after his arrival in the UK, Abdulrahimzai posed with a knife on TikTok, was filmed on Snapchat assaulting a man in the street, got into street fights for money, and scared his foster carer with his love of knives.
    He was placed with a local foster carer – who became so terrified of him she was forced to keep all the knives in the house locked away – and was also granted a place at a secondary school where he was taught alongside children.

    The litany of missed opportunities and failings in the case illustrates the mammoth task facing the Government as it tries to reform the asylum system.

    When Abdulrahimzai arrived in the UK, Home Office guidance at the time stipulated that he could only be treated as an adult if his physical appearance and demeanour “strongly suggested” he was 25 or over.

    It is believed that immigration officials did not accept his claimed age of 14 but, under the rules, had to give him the benefit of the doubt and allow him to be treated as a child until a more thorough “Merton” test of his age could be carried out by expert social workers.

    Sources said Abdulrahimza, now supported by immigration lawyers, dragged out the process and “messed around” officials by failing to attend interviews and delaying the submission of his statement of evidence to support his asylum claim.

    It is understood a Merton test was only carried out in February 2022, more than two years after his arrival in England and just a month before he murdered Thomas Roberts.

    1. “The litany of missed opportunities and failings in the case illustrates the mammoth task facing the Government as it tries to reform the asylum system.” – it’s not mammoth at all. Stop letting them in, stop actively importing these murderous bastards.
      There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

      1. That is not their agenda though.
        Perhaps STOP VOTING FOR THOSE WHO LET THESE MURDEROUS BASTARDS IN is a message that needs to be shouted loud and clear, especially on voting days.

          1. I agree but just watch some try to spin a positive view on it with the message vote for us, the others are a lot worse.
            NOTA on present performances.

      2. Ah, but you see the ‘mammoth task’ is to stop the public finding out about it while ensuring they do.

    2. Surely there are already laws to prevent this. “Reform” in this context will not lead to the relevant laws being acted upon. That could happen already if there was the will to do it?

    3. How come he wasn’t listed as an undesireable after being rejected by Norway? I thought there were systems to identify criminals?

    4. How come he wasn’t listed as an undesireable after being rejected by Norway? I thought there were systems to identify criminals?

  31. I’m almost disappointed. A fluke like this removes all the fun.

    Wordle 584 2/6

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    1. An eagle 2 – well done. An albatross tomorrow?

      It puts Caroline’s par 4 today in the shade.

    2. Just a par for me.
      Wordle 584 4/6

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    3. Eagles are fun, Sue – much more so than my Bogey Five.

      Wordle 584 5/6
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        1. Last time we were up that way, there was a decent fish and chip shop at Wells Next To Sea.

        1. Looking at that, now i’m REALLY HUNGRY!
          Chips, mushy peas and pickled onions, too. That piece of fish looks wonderful.
          You bugger, Grizz! ;-))

          1. Living just 10 miles from the coast (at Simrishamn) where there is a large fish market selling freshly-caught cod, is a boon, Paul.👍🏻

          2. Now I’m doubly hungry… haven’t felt like eating this last two day, but I sure do now – even hospital food!

          5. Yes – especially when i fart!
            (a regular and fragrant occurrence, aided by mushy peas)

          8. I didn’t imply that either Paul or you were Northern Devils.

            My gripe is the tasteless mushy peas, which are the Food of The Northern Devil (whoever he identifies as)

        2. Looks magnificent….just how I remember it! But personally, prefer without the mushy peas!!

          2. Thanks, Jill. My home-soaked mushy peas are a million miles from the rubbish they sell in cans.

          4. As Paul will tell you, up in Yorkshire they are known as caviar.

            And in Hartlepool, Peter Mandelson thought they were guacamole!

          7. Hmf.
            I use a VPN, escapes that problem. It’s Hale & Pace, Yorkshire Airlines sketch from 199?
            Involving slapping ladlefuls of mushy peas on to a piece of fish.

        3. Too many mushy peas. Batter is too dark. Chips too blond. And it should be a wedge of lemon not a slice! See me after class.

          3. Mmmmmmm mushy peas mmmmmmmm

            Edit. Made the mistake of persuading my kids to eat them and like them, which they did so now there are fewer (is less?) for me. School child error.

    3. In the early 70s I spent about 6 moths working in London near Chapel market, off Pentonville road. There was a small cafe on one of the corners Called Sylvia’s. We used to go in there for our tea breaks and lunch. And she always had ‘Soup of the day’. Every time we asked her what sort of soup it was she always said “Soup that you’ll like dear”. And it was.

    4. You’ll have to explain that one to me, Mr Grizzly, Sir.

      PS – I’ve just read the explanation below by NoToNanny, Grizzly. I didn’t spot the missing Shoe.

  34. My wife is blaming me for ruining her birthday.
    That’s ridiculous, I didn’t even know it was her birthday!

  35. 11 years ago today, my pal James came running out shouting “It’s a boy”, with tears in his eyes.
    Last time we visited Thailand.

          4. I was on the last RN ship to leave Singerpore, before we gave it to the Singerporeans

            An RAF Sergeant crossconnected all the plugs in his workshope, he was not happy with their attitude

          7. Oh, I spent much time in Singapore in the 1980s as we had a factory populating PCBs for us.

            Even spent time in N Malaysia (Khota Baru) when they opened an assembly plant up there.

            Happy days at The Terror Club on Sundays – used to be the RN base I believe.

  36. Singing in a music class

    It should be enshrined in Law, that any Primary/Junior/Secondary School ‘music teacher’ who forces their pupils
    to stand-up and sing Solo, infront of the class, must first:

    Operate a lathe to ‘turn metal’

    Make a Tenon Joint from wood

    Play a full game of Rugby

    Carry out a Chemistry Experiment

    Speak in German

    etc

    All things which some pupils will be able to do, but not “Sir etc”

    My musical skills are such that when I join in the National l Anthem (do we still sing it) at a rugby match, I get sent
    off.

    Teacher’s actions embarrassed and belittled me and other students.
    Letting the tyres of his/her car did bring some revenge

    1. With you on this. I only sing when there’s very loud machinery operating, and there’s no chance of anyone hearing.
      Also, I was always awful at sports – the ones required at school, so there was the 3xweekly humiliation on the sports field. As a result, I hate them. I’m quite good at others not approved of at school – like dynamic pistol shooting, parachuting, for example.

    2. Learning to sing and appreciate music is good. Forcing a child to stand up and sing solo is not.

    3. It should be enshrined in Law, that any Primary/Junior/Secondary School ‘music teacher’ who forces their pupils
      to stand-up and sing Solo, infront of the class, must be hanged

      I don’t like teachers on principle from my own experiences. There’s no doubt that some teachers take a delight in humiliating their pupils. What could be easier or safer? Children are smaller and lack the experience to defend themselves.

      1. We noted in Firstborn’s school that one of the teachers was a real bully. Nasty piece of work, she was.
        One of my own experiences was of teacher who liked to humiliate the pupils – ie, me. Bastard.
        Also, when as a class you had “fun”, it was always Teacher’s was of having “fun” – never any alternative.
        All this leaves me cold when we have Compaby gatherings that start with “fun” – oh, yes, like Teacher’s “fun”? Bah! Basta!

    4. It should be enshrined in Law, that any Primary/Junior/Secondary School ‘music teacher’ who forces their pupils
      to stand-up and sing Solo, infront of the class, must be hanged

      I don’t like teachers on principle from my own experiences. There’s no doubt that some teachers take a delight in humiliating their pupils. What could be easier or safer? Children are smaller and lack the experience to defend themselves.

    5. I stopped singing the National Anthem, they changed the words recently and I haven’t learnt the new ones yet!

    6. We had a blind music teacher who I fooled into letting me into the choir by getting another lad to sing instead of me as the man played the piano. This was so I could go on the choir’s outing to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. The next performance of the choir was at Richmond Theatre, and being a bit bored I thought I’d sing along. He brought his wife to the next choir practice and got us all to sing one at a time.
      You’d have thought I’d murdered someone the way the headmaster and music teacher laid into me.

      2. I missed the school bus on purpose so i could go into town as Parallel Lines had just been released by Blondie. I arrived 10 minutes late for the lesson and the music teacher let me play it. Cool dude.

  37. Start training on Leopard tanks, Germany tells Ukraine forces. 24 January 2023.

    Kyiv’s allies can start training Ukrainian forces to use Leopard 2 battle tanks, Germany has said, raising hopes of a breakthrough in deliveries of the vehicles.

    Germany confirmed it has received Poland’s request to transfer 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and will urgently examine the application.

    Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he was counting on a “quick” response from Germany.

    Lol! That’s not what they said on my earlier post 5 hours ago

    Ukraine will receive 100 Leopard 2 tanks from 12 countries once Germany gives them the green light, under an agreement reached behind closed doors.

    There’s a significant difference between 14 and 100. If I didn’t know better I would say that the Germans were sticking it to the Americans. They know that it was they that blew up the Baltic Pipeline and that they are trying to get Germany involved in WWIII

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/24/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-leopard-tanks-germany-tymoshenko/

  38. From https://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/23268219.south-wales-police-force-moral-new-low-officers-want/
    Police don’t feel respected by the public as damning report shows officers want out
    … Additionally, 83 per cent said they do not feel respected by the public.
    Well, maybe if they didn’t dance with road blockers and paint their cars stupid rainbow colours, and go on with arresting criminals, then there would be respect. You reap what you sow – disrespect for the law-abiding results in disrespect in return.

    1. Police don’t feel respected by the public as damning report shows officers want out

      If that is the case they need to stand up for their rights.

    2. Plod have both the worst job and the easiest going.

      All respect for them went when one of them reprimanded a driver for honking a horn while he supported the criminals.

    3. Oh, I so agree, Paul.

      Any respect I had for Plod, growing up from childhood through adolescence to maturity, right the way through to the 80s, when they started all the rainbow shite and followed on, by bringing coffee and biscuits to twats sticking themselves to the road, any ‘respect’ has drained away and I now view them with deep suspicion.

  39. When I said I had bought a battery (BEV) some Nottlers said it was better to stick with old petrol or diesel (ICE Internal Combustion Engine) car or at least a self charging plug-in hybrid (PHEV).

    Well the problem with both BEVs and PHEVs is that the 12v battery ( which powers the traction battery contactors) may either go too low and stop the car from moving or possibly run completely flat and require a jump start to power the contactors).

    In eithrr case you get locked out of the car and the only way to get back in is use the mechanical key and follow a specific procedure to get going again.

    Here’s the low down on what happens whem a hybid decides to stop working and you have to gain entry to get it going:

    https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/story/CONT0000000000002069

    1. What’s a traction battery contactor? We’re looing at getting one purely because a lot of our journeys are short (school, vets, shops) and the car is getting to the point of being uneconomic to maintain.

      1. Breaker/solenoid between the traction battery and the motor.
        Typically, the traction battery charges the accessory battery, but the accessory battiery is needed to energise all the control systems before the car will move itself. It works in the same way as the battery in an ICE car – if it’s flat, the car doesn’t start, the central locking won’t relese, and so on. So, when you use the key/starter, it closes the breaker / contactor.

          2. It does. But just as with a petrol or diesel car, if the battery is dead, nothing works.

      2. I faced the same situation with my 14 year old diesel when it reported diesel particulate filter (DPF) soot and ash warning light flashing. I was only doing small journeys and a proper DPF regeneration would cost a tank full of diesel to burn off the deposits.

        The big advantage of a battery EV (as distinct from a PHEV) is that it doesn’t use much energy to move short distances frequently because it just requires an electrical contactor to engage the high voltage electric traction motor to the wheels – i.e. the traction battery contactor.

        However the control circuits have to use a conventional 12v car battery to control the contactor circuits and this takes more power than a conventional ICE car with the ignition off and key operated starter motor activation.

        This problem has led to manufacturers developing the self chatging plug-in hybrid where a petrol engine is used as a fallback to the unavaiability of charging points.

    2. Which reminds me – in addition to the other strange experiences my granddaughter has endured today – she’s travelled in a Noddy car that plays CDs, not Bluetooth.
      She was even more discombobulated when I started expounding on Viking kings.

      1. If you don’t travel far would it be less expensive to go by bus or taxi and hire a car for longer journeys.

        1. Yerst; bus and taxi are delighted when you rock up with black bags of rubbish and rusting paint tins.
          Especially when they go nowhere near the tip.

          1. Sorry Anne my response was meant for Angie, I think, implying that rather than the expense of buying a new car travelling by taxi/bus for local journeys.

    1. Be fair Wibbers,in these enlightened times we should help him achieve his goals
      Castrate the bastard!!

        2. I’d normally agree. I keep going back to Ghandi on that one. Sadly his enemy was the British. Ours is a far more savage animal.

    2. This creature should not be held in a women-only jail, unless in solitary confinement and locked in its cell. Otherwise should be held in a male prison. Should also be castrated.

      1. He needs a willieoscopy as well as castration.

        Indeed no man who wants to change sex should be considered to be a woman until his genitals have been cut off.

        2. Actually, the White Hart was the badge of Richard II; the badge of Richard III was the White Boar.
          Got frozen waiting for a cab so my brain froze.

          2. I have a lot of sympathy for Richard II and you already know my opinions about R III. Richard I was a waste of space.

          3. Yup. In his 10 year reign, he only noticed Blighty when he needed money.
            So unlike our modern poli …. um ….. er …….

          4. I think he only spent 10 months in England in his entire reign, and as for his poor queen, Berengaria- well, one wonders although there were rumours at the time…

    2. LOts of fluff in the Standard about haters and racists… 😉
      I expect they don’t know who Rose was (and that he’s black), no more than the changers know why it’s called Black Boy lane.
      Not racist, just resistance to woke change.

  44. Another par 4 here

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  45. Well, that was dinner.
    Mild chicken curry & rice, followed by fruit salad and cream. Not bad, but a bit tame for my jaded palate – Norwegians aren’t typically so used to high-chilli foods, so likely to have suited the crumblies I’m here with.
    At least I have a belly-full, desperately needed after Grizz’ pictures of good food below!

    1. I hate chillis and anything which attempts to disguise poor meat which they, or their derivatives use. It’s very third world.

      2. Tabasco squirt or two lifts a soup, and a few dried chilli flakes makes gravy more interesting.
        Not so there’s a heavy chilli flavour, just a little warmth.

      1. Nice!
        Looks better than the one here did, but that wasn’t setting the bar very high.
        A comment I saw in relation to Jamie Olivers Egg fried rice: Too many ingredients, including olive oil. There should only be three ingredients in egg fried rice – egg, fry and rice!

  46. Well, ain’t I a sweet li’l ole fashioned thing!
    Granddaughter and I have been trundling back and forth to the tip. On our last visit, we had claggy old paint tins, but we couldn’t find the numbered bin.
    GD whipped out her phone to check where it was; I suggested she asked the bin man about 5 yards away. The look of horror on her face was priceless. She might have to talk to a human being – and admit ignorance.
    Granny nipped put of the car and had a chat; to my amusement, bin man was checking the books and was reading Hamlet. He was jolly helpful. (And I learnt that if the paint has solidified, it goes in the general rubbish skip as the manufacturers can’t recycle it.)

    2. You probably made his day….first human being to talk to him!! And I’m just a li’l ole fashioned thing too!!

      1. Apart from one fat, grumpy sod, we have found our local tip people to be very helpful.
        (And there is a reason why he’s fat! Unlike the rest, he does the square root of bu88erall.)
        MB gets on very well with one particular chap and takes him a bottle of wine every Christmas.

    3. Ooh! Scary stuff! The last time I went to the tip I showed my cooncil bus pass to the young guy at the entrance, and he said it must be a forgery, as I looked far too young to have a pass! Honestly, I could have kissed him!

        2. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the price of Ball and Farrow (an outrageous fortune), Or to take the Albany and a sea of bubbles,……

  47. US ‘leaning towards’ sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine. 24 January 2023.

    The US is “leaning toward” sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, US officials have told the Wall Street Journal.

    An announcement on the deliveries is expected to come as soon as this week.

    Lol! The Yanks must be pulling their hair out! Their plan to inveigle Germany into their War against Russia has fallen flat. Now they are having to take up the slack themselves and supply their own tanks. This is rapidly becoming a Coalition of the Unwilling!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/24/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-leopard-tanks-germany-tymoshenko/

    1. I presume they will be shipped.

      If Russia sank the ship would that be a declaration of war any more than supplying the tanks is an act of war?

      1. A good point Sos but this is not a world of equal measures. Russia = Bad. America = Good.

        1. That was purely passenger, Sos is talking about a ship bearing armaments, meant for use against Russia.

          Russia would have every justification for sinking her.

          2. …and their justification for using gas in WWi was that WE started it. The Germans have a history of lying to justify their crimes.

        2. There was a suspicion that that ship was “misbehaving” but it made a great excuse to join in.

          I wonder whether there were conspiracy theorists in those days who thought: “false flag”?

        1. I see the Telegaffe armchair warriors are still whining about the Germans not giving tanks away – it’s not their business!

          3. Is this any good my German is kaput, God knows what I copied!

            Deutschland schickt Leopard-Panzer in die Ukraine
            Nach monatelanger Debatte hat sich Kanzler Scholz durchgerungen, Kampfpanzer an die Ukraine zu liefern. Auch die Verbündeten wollen offenbar mitziehen. Aus den USA könnten Abrams-Panzer kommen.
            Von Christoph Hickmann
            24.01.2023, 18.31 Uhr
            Artikel zum Hören•2 Min

            Kampfpanzer der Bundeswehr vom Typ Leopard 2A6: Intensive Abstimmungen mit den Verbündeten
            Kampfpanzer der Bundeswehr vom Typ Leopard 2A6: Intensive Abstimmungen mit den Verbündeten
            Foto: Philipp Schulze / picture alliance/dpa
            Die Entscheidung ist gefallen: Deutschland wird Kampfpanzer vom Typ Leopard 2 an die Ukraine liefern. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen geht es um mindestens eine Kompanie Leopard 2A6.
            Weitere Verbündete, unter anderem aus Skandinavien, wollen demnach ebenfalls Kampfpanzer vom Typ Leopard 2 an die Ukraine liefern. Die Bundesregierung will die Genehmigung zur Ausfuhr solcher Panzer erteilen, die im Besitz anderer Staaten wie Polen sind.
            Das »Wall Street Journal« hatte am Dienstagnachmittag berichtet, dass in den USA die Lieferung von Abrams-Kampfpanzern in nicht unerheblicher Zahl erwogen werde. Auch in Frankreich gibt es die Erwägung, Kampfpanzer an die Ukraine zu liefern.
            Der deutschen Entscheidung waren offenbar intensive Abstimmungen über mehrere Tage mit den Verbündeten insbesondere in Washington vorausgegangen. Scholz hatte stets betont, Kampfpanzer nur im Verbund mit anderen Nationen wie den USA liefern zu wollen.
            Zuletzt hatte es Berichte über Verstimmungen zwischen Deutschland und der US-Administration gegeben, über die sich Scholz intern verärgert gezeigt hatte.
            Die deutschen Leopard-Panzer sollen nach SPIEGEL-Informationen aus Bundeswehr-Beständen kommen. Mittel- bis langfristig könnten weitere Kampfpanzer aus Beständen der Industrie für den Einsatz hergerichtet werden.
            Zuletzt erhöhten die Regierungspartner Grüne und FDP den Druck auf Scholz, der Ukraine Kampfpanzer zu liefern. Erst vor Kurzem hatte der Kanzler entschieden, der Ukraine Schützenpanzer des Typs Marder zur Verfügung zu stellen.

        2. Well you can ot blame Trudeau this time.

          The Canadian forces have about a dozen working tanks, the rest are broken, mothballed or seriously outdated.

          Boy blunder might talk the talk but the canadianforces have been run down to the extent that no one dare what the preening philanderer says.

          1. Don’t think our armed forces are in much better shape, our army personnel wouldn’t fill Wembley stadium!

        1. How many tanks make up a German Battalion?

          1, 10, 100, 1,000? Who knows. Daily Fail being coy.

      4. It is already too late. Ukraine is mired in corruption such that these tanks will more likely be sold to some despot in Africa than ever see the front line.

        In addition it is obvious that the youth of Eastern Ukraine are being sacrificed in a proxy war aimed at inciting Russia. Soros is on record as suggesting these ‘Untermenschen’ counted in body bags would be more palatable to Europe and America than Western Europeans in body bags.

        The emergent links of the partisan and corrupt US Department of Justice and FBI with the crooked Biden family (links to CCP, Ukraine, Albania and Russia) are explosive and will lead to chaos in the Federal Govrnment which will put a stop to any more wastage in Ukraine.

        1. As I pondered earlier re sinking a ship full of Abrams tanks being an act of war:

          Presumably all these tanks are not going to be driven so they will most likely arrive by rail.

          If Russian planes strafed the trains to destroy those tanks is it any more a declaration of war than the fact the tanks are being transported to Ukraine?

    2. I was wondering that – but it seems to have sprung back to life a few minutes ago – I thought it was my lousy internet connection. But nobody seems to have made a new post ( rather than a reply) for two hours, since your last one.

          1. Grr… not you, too, after Grizz.
            Could use some more food here, starving 🙁
            Hopefully, they serve supper, as dinner was at 16:30.

          2. The meal times in Gloucester Royal were rather strange as well.

            I’m just going to use some of Sunday’s chicken to make a risotto, so nothing too fancy.

          3. Traditionally, Norwegians followed old countryside practice of having dinner early, as soon as getting home from work, so around 17:00 or so. I guess horsepickle follows traditional practice in that as well as so many things else – like handwriting, use of fax…

          4. Can’t your lady wife bring you in a hamper? I took my husband in some sarnies and contraband beverages when he was in Stalag.

    5. I had problems yesterday but ’twas t’internet.

      If you suspect t’internet, this is what you do, do:

      1. Switch off the router, disconnect the mains and any other (telephone) inputs.

      2. Wait at least 10 seconds (I recommend at least 20) before plugging everything back in.

      3. Check that your router has fired up, all the way.

      4. BT hubs start at green, flash red for 10 then steady red before turning blue.

      5. When it’s blue, check the signal strength. if ‘Excellent’ you’re good to go.

      Hope that helps.

        1. Just trying to help…

          Gift horses in the mouth…

          I can’t be responsible for Disqus fcuk-ups.

    1. 1.4 million people in the UK are suffering from AF already, that’s not to mention the cases of Myocarditis.

      2. I can’t help wondering if my OH, who was always so fit and healthy, was damaged by the three Pfizer jabs he had.

        1. I would agree totally with that.
          After my catheter ablation 6 years ago. I had a normal life. Until the two jabs. It’s been hell for two years now.
          Some people, even close family, don’t agree. Even my elder sister and BiL don’t. They had every jab and booster available. He has myocardial problems and had spent several weeks in hospital. Both wore masks everywhere and have had covid twice.

          1. I find people are still convinced the jabs work and nothing will shake them from that belief. This morning my neighbour (an ex nurse) came for coffee – she’s had all the jabs of course and so has her man, and next door to her went away at New Year and came back with a dose of covid which lasted for weeks. It’s quite evident to me that the people who are getting it now are the multi-jabbed and they still think the jabs have saved them from hospital admission.

  52. ‘Night All

    What a way to go……..

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    2. So that’s where MOH goes on the weekend. I thought she said she was a professional moaner, now I find out she’s a professional mourner.

    3. Huh. Typical. Now it’s the unvacced fault – even after being called rude names and legislated against.
      Well, we did tell them, and they pooh-poohed the advice.
      Who is this asshole blaming others for his poor decision-making?

  54. That’s me. Bite of supper now swallowed, time for bed.
    Night, all. Been good to chat.
    Bis morgen!

    4. Good luck with the ward rounds, the shouting, the wake’n’test’n’track, and fish blancmange for breakfast, and particularly the very pretty blonde nurses to raise your …..

      numbers so you have to stay yet another day…

    6. In Addenbrookes a nutter from the adjacent bed would stand motionless at the foot of my bed.

      I found this most annoying and disconcerting. Thankfully the poor soul was transferred to Fulbourn one evening, although it took a lot of persuasion to get him to sit in the wheelchair, four staff being deployed, two nurses and two ‘removal’ men aka Ambulance drivers.

      When I designed hospitals for Lister we always had separate rooms for difficult patients, a line of rooms away from the main wards. By this means those actually suffering or recovering were enabled a good nights sleep. The nutters I observed sleep peacefully during the day only to awake at night and disturb everyone else.

      Jesus, it is not rocket science to isolate these anti-social drug and alcohol addicts or otherwise mentally impaired folk.

    2. That is the picture I tried to re-fined on FB the other day, it suddenly vanished. And below that were series of other similar double takes about modern life.

    5. Bride of Wildenstein comes to mind, I hope I don’t have nightmares of the time I worked for the ghastly couple.

    7. Looks like a very nasty case of Herpes*

      * The disease currently on everyones’ lips….

  56. Since I was reluctant to leave my bed this morning, I shall wish you all, Goodnight and God bless until the morning’s light.

  58. One of my neighbours, who I think is only in her 70s but possibly 80ish, has dementia and has taken to wandering about the building screeching. She was a good friend when compos mentis but it’s now almost impossible to hold a conversation. Sad. There are day carers feeding her meds poor luv and hopefully making sure she eats. She needs company but she’s increasingly difficult company!

    1. It’s a tad childish but……..don’t the police realise yet why so many people dislike them.

      1. Football fans have chanted various “unacceptable” songs for years; times change, so do the songs.
        The more fuss that is made the longer those songs will last.
        Police and administrators should have more important things to do with their time.

        1. I know Sos I use to go to White Hart lane.
          That name would probably upset some wokie DH now.

    2. At the bottom of that page;
      “Everything Liverpool – go straight to all the best content“

  61. Well, that’s me for the day. Good night everyone. Sleep well. I shall be back tomorrow, as will Uncle Bill and the MR.

  62. Okay it’s a long shot but if I win the Euro millions tonight I shall be buying a property coming up for sale on Phillip Island Victoria.
    My old work mate Bruce his Wife and one other have spent on and off, two years renovating it to a high standard.
    It should be coming onto the market Tomorrow, at around 2 million Dollars. It has access straight onto the beach at the bottom of the garden.
    After staying there only once a few years ago, it’s the sort of place I could spend the rest of my life at.
    If I can get there of course.
    Wish me luck. 😉🤗🤞🏽
    I think i’ll dive off and find another book to read. Good night all.

  63. 370333+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    10h
    UKIP under my leadership had a plan to revitalise these coastal towns. They had been devastated since 1972 because of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy.

    The CFP had caused the loss of our fishing waters, & saw the run down of fishing fleets, massive job losses, & the destruction of ancilliary industries.

    The solution was to leave the EU & its CFP & return prosperity to the coastal towns. We are supposed to have left the EU but we still do not have full control of our territorial waters & our Exclusive Economic Zone.

    Brexit was a massive opportunity that has been betrayed by a political class, across all parties, that never intended to implement it.

    …more
    Inside the ‘wasted’ UK harbour town where bouncers guard Poundland — The Sun
    Inside the ‘wasted’ UK harbour town where bouncers guard Poundland — The Sun

    EXCLUSIVE

    apple.news

    https://gettr.com/post/p2640167693

    1. Far from not implement it, they are actively fighting our leaving.

      As regards the forgotten towns: I’m from one originally. Population about 40,000. I remember there was 1 murder 30 years ago and people talked about it 20 years later. It was poor, but proud.

      Then the council imported over 30 thousand dross. Foreigners from Birmingham. The population exploded, housing demands soared. A high unemployment, no jobs location suddenly found huge numbers of people competing for social services. The foreigners got everything first. The council didn’t care. The slug of cash went on some daft roads scheme which was really the back pockets of the council chiefs.

      That’s why the country is suffering. For every 1 worker we import, we put one local out of work and on to welfare. The problem is, Labour imported tens of millions who didn’t work – who had no intention of working.

      Blair should be strung up for the malicious damage he did to this country.

    2. That should be shouted from the rooftops.
      Everywhere they move children are being indoctrinated, and every day families are beings split.
      Damn them all to Hell!

    3. It’s been a strange journey hasn’t it. Tolerance taken to its logical conclusion first tolerates evil then comes to despise any challenge to that position and refuses to tolerate decency.

      1. I think it’s more that decent people tolerate the intolerant, the twisted who then set about controlling what can be said and thought – all in the name of tolerance. Decent people, not wanting to be rude are then forced to tolerate the intolerable.

        And so does evil win. Usually they start another war, get defeated and the mess begins again. However, each time they lose. The problem is to not be like them, we allow them to exist. Next time we can’t. The Left must be cut out like a cancer.

  66. So tired I can barely keep my eyes open. Got to get my husband upstairs and then we shall sleep. I could sleep for England tonight, well, someone has to.
    Goodnight Y’all and let’s cross our fingers that Paul escapes tomorrow.
    Sweet dreams.

  67. So it seems the US and Germany are sending tanks to the Ukes. Any bets on how long it is before Vlad starts attacking the supply lines. I recon it might be sooner than later, unless the battle tank is considered a relic of past conflicts. The war mongers have it, let battle begin.

      1. Quite, we remember Vietnam. I have that rather excellent series recorded about the American war that took place.

      2. Quite, we remember Vietnam. I have that rather excellent series recorded about the American war that took place.

    2. The carrier based aircraft rendered the battleship obsolete and the question is, have modern anti-tank weapons done the same for tanks?
      In WWII the German’s tactic was to lure the enemy’s tanks onto a screen of well supported anti-tank guns. It took the British Army in North Africa some time to realise that the anti-tank gun was the real tank ‘killer’, not the enemy’s tank. The tank was better used for exploitation after a breakthrough when the enemy was disorganised e.g. in Northern Europe after the breakout from Normandy.

  68. So it seems the US and Germany are sending tanks to the Ukes. Any bets on how long it is before Vlad starts attacking the supply lines. I recon it might be sooner than later, unless the battle tank is considered a relic of past conflicts. The war mongers have it, let battle begin.

    1. Whilst running home did you drop one of your shoes? If so, don’t bother looking in the fridge for it; Grizzly has probably found it and put it into his “Soup Of The Day” pot. Lol.

  70. This is a revealing interview concerning our very own Jeremy Farrar, buddy of Fauci and Gates, head of Wellcome Institute and now Chief Scientist at the WHO. Ferguson also has a post at WHO.

    https://rumble.com/v26y20q-the-kim-iversen-show-live-january-24-2023.html

    For the most part I had alteady worked out that Farrar was evil but until this read I had not realised the connections between Wellcome Institute and the Eugenics movement, nor that they hold the archives of such and that Aldous Huxley’s brother Julian Huxley was a founding member of the Eugenics Society.

    The WHO organisation is truly planning our demise as a species.

    In the eighties I worked on several projects with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi and his assistant ‘Maker’, Ray Taylor. At the time of our collaboration Paolozzi was working on a sculpture to be placed in front of Euston Station called The Head. The project was funded by British Rail and the full size model for transmission to a Scottish Foundry, was prepared on a disused platform at Marylebone Station.

    The Maker used thick polystyrene to produce the segments from which the foundry would make sand moulds for casting. The segments would then be bolted together.

    I viewed the finished sculpture. As an ‘architectural’ aside, despite being cast in iron the surface texture suggested it was made of polystyrene.

    I digress, but The Head was a human head where a city consisting of buildings of varying heights rose from the scalp. Paolozzi was a genius and I think in retrospect he knew his bio-mechanical sculpture was across the road from The Wellcome Institute. I venture that he was referencing the transhuman activities of the Jeremy Farrars of our world.

    Of course at this time Giger had produced those transhuman images for The Alien film.

  71. This is a revealing interview concerning our very own Jeremy Farrar, buddy of Fauci and Gates, head of Wellcome Institute and now Chief Scientist at the WHO. Ferguson also has a post at WHO.

    https://rumble.com/v26y20q-the-kim-iversen-show-live-january-24-2023.html

    For the most part I had alteady worked out that Farrar was evil but until this read I had not realised the connections between Wellcome Institute and the Eugenics movement, nor that they hold the archives of such and that Aldous Huxley’s brother Julian Huxley was a founding member of the Eugenics Society.

    The WHO organisation is truly planning our demise as a species.

    In the eighties I worked on several projects with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi and his assistant ‘Maker’, Ray Taylor. At the time of our collaboration Paolozzi was working on a sculpture to be placed in front of Euston Station called The Head. The project was funded by British Rail and the full size model for transmission to a Scottish Foundry, was prepared on a disused platform at Marylebone Station.

    The Maker used thick polystyrene to produce the segments from which the foundry would make sand moulds for casting. The segments would then be bolted together.

    I viewed the finished sculpture. As an ‘architectural’ aside, despite being cast in iron the surface texture suggested it was made of polystyrene.

    I digress, but The Head was a human head where a city consisting of buildings of varying heights rose from the scalp. Paolozzi was a genius and I think in retrospect he knew his bio-mechanical sculpture was across the road from The Wellcome Institute. I venture that he was referencing the transhuman activities of the Jeremy Farrars of our world.

    Of course at this time Giger had produced those transhuman images for The Alien film.

  74. JohnathanA said patriotism is in decline. I agree 100% with JohnathanA. Conservatively Speaking blocked my response him.

    1. Seems the moderators of Disqus would want to know every comment made by all responders to every topic being discussed. Conservative Speaking does not allow open discussions.

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