Wednesday 10 September: The assisted dying Bill is fraught with danger – and peers must resist it

Posted on by Geoff Graham

An unofficial place to discuss the Telegraph letters, established when the DT website turned off its commenting facility (now reinstated, but we prefer ours),
Intelligent, polite, good-humoured debate is welcome, whether on or off topic. Differing opinions are encouraged, but rudeness or personal attacks on other posters will not be tolerated. Posts which – in the opinion of the moderators – make this a less than cordial environment, are likely to be removed, without prior warning.  Persistent offenders will be banned.

Today’s letters (visible only to DT subscribers) are here.

643 thoughts on “Wednesday 10 September: The assisted dying Bill is fraught with danger – and peers must resist it”

  3. Good morning, chums. And thanks, Geoff, for today's new NoTTLe page. A tough Wordle today, but managed a Par.

    Wordle 1,544 4/6

    ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
    🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. It's my standard 2nd word when my 1st totally blows out.

      Wordle 1,544 2/6

      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. The problem is a creation of our countries own making.
      It's not all about money or polished accents, it's more about being sensible and down to earth.
      And working hard raising a family and paying taxes not avoiding paying tax and getting on with life in general.
      let's be honest the so misnamed 'upper classes' are not very good at 'running even a bath' successfully between the lot of them.
      The general public 'working classes' are always the victim's of their continuous and often horrendous activities and mistakes.

        1. Broken Cloud would be my Indian (native american) name, as it rains wherever I go, including Sodding Arabia on every visit.

  8. Morning, all Y'all. Cloudy.
    Big event in Oslo today – the museum are to move the Osebergskipet – the well-preserved but very fragile Viking longship to it's new home. Lots of tension, as the wood is very crisp – like a cream cracker, so easily broken!

    1. Hope all goes well then. I remember seeing the longships when we were in Denmark in 2014. Sadly my dear friend Sheila died in May and her husband is in a care home.

      We have to live while we can.

  9. Bill asked me to post some photos so here goes: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/116cee6d0e932e4f9e5925549002c05b6bbc95dacffc22f20694a0029a14ff4f.jpg The rather nice carved front door. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3c17be58a29337077a534b83964fd6e5a4935518c6a870d426f3baee0b8bc645.jpg The house https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/988a5d7a7f3158292ba1d0dc2ee7bcba96389e62955342828d4079fbb7cb283b.jpg Back of the house from the little garden. My room upstairs behind the geraniums on the balcony. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc5b51145c82b3fe5106aab40bcfde7eacb4b46aa214c8d33ac3a0734a04e9fd.jpg The kitchen https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f8247d9e3e512f69d69dd60199cb7585bbce4f18ac3413a72a27156159e01083.jpg and dining area. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/90b0c1195449bbe89e9aa74a3b996b3de558986e4c9761d7c2f69536ab8670c7.jpg Wood stove in sitting room.

    1. Nice! lovely and uncluttered – photos of our place would look "homely" – in the US sense of the word, as we're still in the process of clearing after the disruption of the building work.

      1. He's still got a few packing cases unpacked and a lot more space than before. He's now got a shed for his bikes and room to spread out.

  11. 412564+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    Wednesday 10 September: The assisted dying Bill is fraught with danger – and peers must resist it

    Well we have encouraged them via the polling stations these past thirty plus years to destroy a decent Nation
    be no surprise whatsoever to take this encouragement further and assist them with what will morph into the culling campaign.

    LEAVE AS IS, AS IS,

    Concentrate on the freedom to live campaign as in get a firm grip on the FRENCH COATTAILS.

    1. The usual stupid letter in the Terriblegraph. Can't remember who, but along the lines of "who is Charles Moore to tell me i can't have a dignified death at a time of my own choosing".

      I'm sure we are all reasonably afraid of death, and worried it might be an unpleasant experience. But allowing the state to murder people is a disporportionate response. And I'm far from convinced it's "dignified", from what I've read.

      Either way, the writer of the letter does have a remedy – he can take a one-way trip to Switzerland. But no, that's not enough for people, apparently – we need to allow it in this country too.

  13. Epstein brokered billion-pound deal with Mandelson

    Exclusive: Ambassador to US negotiated sale of UK taxpayer-owned banking business with paedophile financier

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/09/09/TELEMMGLPICT000439183115_17574295770550_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?imwidth=1280 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/PortalPictures/september-2025/439227317__.jpg Robert Mendick
    Chief Reporter.
    Connor Stringer
    Deputy US Editor.
    Ben Riley-Smith
    Political Editor
    09 September 2025 9:48pm BST
    Jeffrey Epstein brokered a deal with Lord Mandelson over the sale of a UK taxpayer-owned banking business after he had been convicted of child sex offences, emails have revealed.

    The £1bn deal was negotiated while Lord Mandelson was Business Secretary and only months after Epstein had been released from prison.

    Sempra Commodities, a joint venture between the taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Sempra Energy, was sold to JP Morgan in a deal on which Epstein gave advice to both Lord Mandelson and to Jes Staley, a senior executive with JP Morgan who has since been banned from the City over his relationship with the disgraced financier.
    *
    *
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/09/mandelson-billion-pound-deal-epstein

    simon warren
    9 hrs ago
    Nice to see some proper journalism by the DT – great work on Angela Rayner and now on Mandy.

    Hopefully a few more stories in the the pipeline to keep the pressure on this dreadful Government.

    Michael Gove Integrity
    6 hrs ago
    Reply to simon warren
    What's astonishing is that after Mandelson was chucked out of government twice over his mortgage fraud and the sale of British passports, even Starmer can't claim not have been warned about Mandelson. He was so corrupt even Blair thought it was a bit much. He is a loathsome, venal cesspit on legs and always has been. His repellent character has been public knowledge for 30 years.

    bbertson Woolfardisworthy
    9 hrs ago
    If Sir Keir Starmer appointed Lord Peter Mandelson ambassador to Washington knowing his links to Epstein, shouldn’t they both be resigning?

    Carol Scott
    9 hrs ago
    Reply to Ibbertson Woolfardisworthy
    Another case of ….. “never crossed my desk “, hey?

    2. Absolutely correct Carol Scott.

      IMHO Epstien never did commit suicide in jail, he was too wealthy to go to waste. It was all rigged and he's nicely set up for the rest of his existence on an island somewhere in the Pacific ocean.

    2. Countries are not 'stupid'. The only life form in the history of the universe that has invented stupidity, and routinely use it, is Homo sapiens sapiens.

      Stupidity did not exist prior to our emergence from H. erectus.

  15. James Price
    Farage is right, it is time to ban the Muslim Brotherhood
    9 September 2025, 1:40pm

    Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform party conference may have been, for the most part, heavy on spectacle and light on detail. But one crucial policy was offered: a pledge to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain.

    The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 with the goal of bringing about a universal caliphate under sharia law through political and non-violent means. Perhaps surprisingly, countries across the Middle East have already proscribed them, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. So why has no action been taken to deal with the group in the UK? To answer this question I will employ a phrase I heard many times from the ‘blob’ during my tenure as an adviser: it’s complicated.

    David Cameron came close to proscribing the Brotherhood in 2015 after commissioning a review of their activities. The government found that ‘aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and activities…run counter to British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs’.

    Despite this, they were let off the hook because ‘the Muslim Brotherhood is not the only movement that promotes values which appear intolerant of equality and freedom of faith and belief’. Cameron was unable to identify a reason to ban just this group, and not a whole slew of other organisations. This sort of ‘luxury belief’ – ‘luxury tolerance’ in Cameron’s case – has spelt disaster for Britain in recent decades.

    To understand the Brotherhood’s goals, we should turn to its foundational texts. In 1964, Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual godfather of Islamism and a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, published Milestones, which set out how political Islamism can be advanced through every institution of state to achieve an Islamic world.

    Qutb believes that ‘[non-Muslim] societies do not give [Islam] any opportunity to organise its followers according to its own method, and hence it is the duty of Islam to annihilate all such systems, as they are obstacles in the way of universal freedom’. The book is such a potent manual for extremism that it is banned in British prisons. It can, however, be purchased from shops and handed out for free at street stalls (I got mine from Amazon). Cameron’s government review found that Qutb’s views ‘have never been institutionally disowned’ and ‘continue to be explicitly endorsed by many senior Muslim Brotherhood figures’.

    The review also notes that Hamas’s founding charter claims they are the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and ‘the Muslim Brotherhood treat them as such’. They found that between 2005 and 2015 ‘support for Hamas (including in particular funding) has been an important priority for the MB in Egypt and the MB international network’.

    Farage no doubt has quite the fight on his hands. Reform is rejecting tepid relativism and blank-slate liberalism. He is the first leader of a major party to oppose this Islamist group which seeks to usher in a caliphate under sharia in Britain.

    Whether or not Reform can formulate policy in this area remains an open question. It will be hard to point to specific activities of the Brotherhood and demonstrate that they should be banned in a free society. Adherents to their philosophy have got very clever at working within the law, spreading the so-called dawa by perfectly legal means.

    Back in 2015, when the Cameron government almost attempted to take them on, representatives of the Brotherhood were very clear that they were ready to sue the UK. In 2020, after French president Emmanuel Macron refused to condemn depictions of the Prophet Mohammed, the Brotherhood contacted their members praising the ‘intifada of the people of the Muslim world and the defence of their sanctities’.

    Reform may have made its trickiest promise yet. Yes, they are making policy commitments that are incredibly difficult to legislate and enact, but if Britain thinks that defending itself from being replaced by a radical Islamic state is too difficult to bother trying, then we really are doomed.

    ********I***********************

    Trevor
    18 hours ago
    The Muslim Brotherhood is banned or designated as a terrorist organization in countries including Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan (most recently), and Austria.
    I think these Arab Muslim countries would have a greater knowledge and understanding of the activities of the MB than the Home Office, and have banned them accordingly.
    What is the UK waiting for?

    Veritas numquam perit
    18 hours ago
    There is no place for the Islamic faith in the UK just as there is no place for National Socialist Workers' Party because both would overthrow democratic choice as soon as possible.

    Captain Detterling Veritas numquam perit
    17 hours ago
    Humour and ridicule would once have kept them down and out, but of course we're not allowed to laugh at fanatics of any sort any more in case they kill people.

    SD.
    18 hours ago edited
    Go further. A very hard and careful look needs to be had as to how Islam is impacting UK society. The Muslims don’t hide it. They are very explicit that they want to take over.

    Amanda
    17 hours ago
    Are we conveniently forgetting the Muslim brotherhoods role in grooming young people to go fight for the Islamic state among many other terrorist activities ?? They are banned by Saudi and the UAE for a reason. They literally think we are idiots for not just tolerating them but protecting them, they have warned us and we do not listen.

    2. One can say many similar things about the WEF and the Fabians.
      The MB probably represents what all Muslims would like to see, they'll just keep quiet about it, until they get their chance.
      The world his heading to Hell.

    4. An organization who's founder was a friend and admirer of Hitler. Nothing else needs to be said other than it is shocking it was not banned decades ago.

    1. When I was on the hustings, it was very young women who virulently defended the trns madness.

          2. My wardrobes are the same fitted ones from when i moved in 40 years ago. And the previous people had had them for 20 years. No room for a walk-in.

          4. My house is an old, converted cowshed and barn. It was refurbished into living accommodation around 30 years ago. It is a quirky but delightful place to live.

            On the ground floor is a large conservatory; then a laundry room leading to the dining kitchen then a small room used as a pantry leading into my huge workshop/studio area. That workshop was originally the cowshed/barn before becoming (among other things) a cobbler’s shop and forge at various points in its history. The dining kitchen has a lavatory off it, as well as a mirror-doored cupboard for coats and shoes.

            Upstairs is the north-facing large lounge; then a passage room (used as an office) that has the bathroom (shower-room), walk-in clothes’ storage room off; finally the large bedroom is at the south end.

      2. It is because most women, the exceptions are gems to be treasured, are guided by emotions and their feelings rather than logic. That is abundantly demonstrated in divorce. It is amazing how many perfectly good marriages are destroyed by women who feel vaguely dissatisfied. They can't possibly attribute dissatisfaction to themselves and that is why they blame others, as these two imbeciles do whilst being 100% wrong in their thinking.

        1. I don't regret the end of my first marriage. It started off well enough and I certainly don't regret having children. However I was more than "vaguely dissatisfied" and no woman needs to put up with violence, either sexual or physical.

          1. That goes without saying. However if you look at reasons that most people get divorced it is for the most intangible reasons that basically boil down to not feeling happy. What seems to have happened is they most younger women think they can do it all, due to feminism, find they can't because they have been sold a false bill of goods so think the solution is to divorce. I got to learn a lot about this and the consequences for children when I worked for a group in California called 'Live Beat Dads'. In terms of children and men, modern divorce laws have been an unmitigated disaster. You wont hear much about that because the divorce industry is dominated by women and pushy feminists who don't want the truth to come out. When men start to articulate the truth they are almost always shouted down, literally, or branded as misogynists.

          2. Well my "vague dissatisfaction" led to violent attempts to control my life. No woman needs to put up with that and eventually I escaped.

          4. Good morning, as witnessed on one the morning TV shows a year or more ago (as a non-livestream viewer i caught on an X post, so don't recall which show/channel). A man was brought in to talk specifically about male victims of domestic abuse. A topic that doesn't often make the headlines. As soon as he began to state the problem, the other three 'talking heads' (all women) began to berate him for apparently diminishing the problems faced by women in domestic abuse cases. He tried explaining that he was well aware that reported domestic abuse against men was in a comparative minority, to no avail as the other participants continued arguing his comments, but that he'd been invited onto the show to discuss such abuse.

    2. I find the uppercut to be a most effective silencer.

      Trouble is, when consciousness returns, so does the strident imbecility.

    3. Thick as s h one tee.
      If hoisting the flag of a country is a racist act in that country, you need to consider why it could ever be considered as racist. It's not actually possible in any given circumstances.

    6. And as Rudyard Kipling observed:

      The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

      (Some Nottlers probably know from personal experience that old Rudyard would not be one of those in Grizzly's Catalogue of Idiots)

  17. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4f9a63b5493975d9eaa32d93b5728ae740424a57a458caf2c1e808d033ed099c.png I wonder how far stupidity will go before it causes the extinction of the entire species?

    The idiot on the right seems to think he needs earplugs to prevent his hearing being destroyed by the sound of that little killing machine. Trouble is, his mate at the back didn't advise the imbecile that the wearing of goggles, when standing just a few inches from the flash, might also be a good idea!

    1. I think the idiot on the right is one of the demonstrators. The person test firing has been given goggles.

      1. Er … I am fully aware of that!

        The shooter in goggles is at the opposite end of the weapon from the flash. The instructor/demonstrator at the side is a foot away from that flash … and completely unprotected! That was the whole point of my comment!

    3. According to the blurb it is in London. All well and good but I think it is a bit of a cheek when we, the people, don't have the right to defend ourselves let alone have the right to buy arms for our own protection.

    4. Having been qualified to conduct live range firing, I would suggest that the man on the right is acting outside range safety rules. Pure idiocy.

  18. Madeline Grant
    When Labour’s best bet is Bridget Phillipson
    9 September 2025, 6:30pm

    It’s always nice when the muses of tragedy and comedy seem to be working in perfect sync: nowhere is this truer than the Labour deputy leadership contest.

    It would genuinely be difficult to relate how many people have indicated that they are standing for the role so unceremoniously vacated by Big Ange. Candidacies have come and gone like a thief in the night. There are bugs which breathe the sweet air of earth for only 24 hours which have longer lifespans than some Labour deputy leadership bids. Quite possibly higher IQs as well.

    Clearly a consensus has arisen that, with a greying man in his sixties as their dear leader, it is necessary for his deputy to be a woman. This is classic Labour – skill or suitability or even political opinions are irrelevant in favour of surface-level diversity. It’s doubly delicious coming from a party that has, until recently, barely been capable of saying what a woman is. Either way it means that anyone with two X chromosomes and a red rosette has been ‘taking soundings’ as to their viability.

    Some of the more worrying candidates come from the interminable swathes of dross on the party’s back benches. Enter Kim Leadbeater, the MP for Hades-on-Styx, who is said to be taking time out from her scythe-sharpening to ‘canvass opinion’.

    Then there’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy, whose main parliamentary obsession seems to be slavery reparations. I know the Labour back benches have a track record for being out of touch with the mood of the country, but this seems a little on the nose. With the state of public finances as it is, electing someone who wants to spaff unnumbered billions to gain some ‘soft power’ with allies of the Chinese is like electing a well-aimed rock to be deputy queen of a hornet’s nest. Also in the running was someone called Alison McGovern. I don’t know who Alison McGovern is and I’ve been doing this job a while.

    Among the more probable candidates we have Lucy Powell. Recently sacked from the Cabinet for being – even by the standards of that body – useless, Powell is mounting a comeback by way of the deputy leader’s office. Emily Thornberry is also running and was also passed over for office in favour of Starmer’s lawyer pal Lord Hermer, a fact she is not-so-secretly furious about. Either of these figures would pose Starmer a double challenge: being both gaffe-prone and with very good reasons for hating him. Truly, this set of crises couldn’t have happened to a nicer Prime Minister.

    All that leaves the only candidate from the Cabinet (and therefore, some will assume, Sir Keir’s preferred choice): Bridget Phillipson. That the woman in charge of the mendacious and vindictive past year of education policy is considered by No. 10 to be their best bet is a sign of just how bad things really are. Comedy and tragedy elide once again. You laugh at the clowns until you realise how depressing the whole affair actually is: sometimes sketching this government is like watching a Big Top get napalmed.

    ‘Philistine’, as some in the teaching profession have christened her, was out and campaigning hard. Unlike other candidates who were making appeals to their parliamentary colleagues, she was going straight to the puppeteers rather than the limp pieces of goggly-eyed cloth which they control: the Education Secretary had scuttled straight from Parliament to address the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.

    The speech was a string of platitudes about what a radical and wonderful job she’s doing; the government were ‘building a cycle of hope, not hostility’, creating a Britain that was ‘strong and fearless, yet kind and compassionate’. Every so often she’d bare her teeth at the audience. Had one of her minders reminded her to smile? Part Lenin, part Barney the Dinosaur but with less charm than either.

    Tragicomic the whole affair may be, but when the answer to something is ‘Bridget Phillipson’ you know that things are headed to a very mad and very bad place indeed.

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

    deebee1000
    13 hours ago
    From knowing her from her school days she is everyone's worst nightmare writ large. A nasty and vindictive Marxist ideologue that you wouldn't want anywhere near the levers of power of any kind. It makes me shudder to think that if she were to be elected and Starmer stood down she would hold the reins. May the good lord preserve us.

    Anthony Declan
    11 hours ago edited
    Phillipson is a dangerous, malevolent, swivel-eyed political commissar from the Soviet era, and indeed the current CCP. She holds the title of Education Secretary, but little else. She has never taught a lesson, run a school, or grappled with the realities of a classroom. Her stock-in-trade is far Left politics – a loyalty appointment by Starmer, armed with 1960's class war slogans about "posh blazers" and "embossed stationery", as if sneering at perceived "privilege" were a policy. No, this is the language of neo-Marxists.

    Meanwhile, proven educators like Katharine Birbalsingh, who turned a struggling, deprived school into one with a 100% pass rate in English and Maths, are brushed aside with visible contempt because they don’t fit Labour’s tired and atavistic ideological narrative.

    Phillipson isn’t in office to raise standards – she’s there to revive class war; a race to the bottom – and Britain’s children are her collateral. The fact that this ghastly fifth-columnist is now in the process of consolidating her power as Labour's Deputy Leader comes as no surprise to anyone. And among the murky Lefty candidates crawling out like wood lice from beneath the rotting floorboards propping up the Labour Party, Phillipson is among the very worst.

    1. Starmer will get what he wants and the MPs will all fall obediently into line and vote for Phillipson.

      No MP with any judgement at all would have voted for the Chagos surrender. As the House of Lords is also stuffed full of traitors it will sail through there as well.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2bd36bf7285b82aba28f5189567dd22f11ea1fb772ebdb28bf7cafd5bc330f7.jpg
      MPs voted by 330 to 179, majority 151, to approve the Bill at second reading.

      The UK Government signed an agreement in May to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

    2. Starmer will get what he wants and the MPs will all fall obediently into line and vote for Phillipson.

      No MP with any judgement at all would have voted for the Chagos surrender. As the House of Lords is also stuffed full of traitors it will sail through there as well.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2bd36bf7285b82aba28f5189567dd22f11ea1fb772ebdb28bf7cafd5bc330f7.jpg
      MPs voted by 330 to 179, majority 151, to approve the Bill at second reading.

      The UK Government signed an agreement in May to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

    3. I do like Madeline Grant! This bit is lovely – "There are bugs which breathe the sweet air of earth for only 24 hours which have longer lifespans than some Labour deputy leadership bids. Quite possibly higher IQs as well."

      1. 412564+ up ticks,

        Morning Bob,

        I believe the proof is that the labour party is still in existence after being elected.

      3. I'm lost, BoB. Can you explain that 12 second clip of Oggie to me? What exactly is the red item the man is holding?

        1. It’s what we called in the Sappers a “monkey”, also called a post driver and, no doubt has other names.
          It is a steel tube, blocked off at one end with a pair of handles on each side and is no light, usually about 20 or 30 pounds in weight.
          To use it, you slide the tube onto the post/angle iron picket you want to drive into the ground, lift it by the handles and drop it down onto the post which will be driven an inch or two into the ground.
          Repeat the process as often as you need to to get the post far enough into the ground.

  22. Morning All 🙂😊
    High cloud 15c it doesn't feel that warm, more rain on the way. It must be what was forecast yesterday 🤗🌧☔️
    Assisted dying must be considered at least the equivalent to man slaughter.
    Perhaps it should be tested within the confines of Wastemonster. For at least a couple of years.

  23. What to do when $€£ trillions of commercial real estate debt, credit cards and car loans needs refinancing… but the buyers are gone, the buildings are empty, and the interest rates have tripled?

    No problemo.. at least in the US.. the FT reported that new reporting rules set to take effect in the autumn will allow banks to hide troubled loans and conceal signs of distress in their lending portfolios.

    Have the Neocon liberal bankers actually changed anything since.. What they said could never happen but did happen in 2007?

  24. What to do when $€£ trillions of commercial real estate debt, credit cards and car loans needs refinancing… but the buyers are gone, the buildings are empty, and the interest rates have tripled?

    No problemo.. at least in the US.. the FT reported that new reporting rules set to take effect in the autumn will allow banks to hide troubled loans and conceal signs of distress in their lending portfolios.

    Have the Neocon liberal bankers actually changed anything since.. What they said could never happen but did happen in 2007?

  26. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/088aa440baa7ab372dc2cb9152a42fadb3b89a23b975c0c4357a96713d6dbe9b.jpg
    On this day… 24years ago 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift. None of them saw past 10:00am Sept 11, 2001. In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted.

    1. It is sobering how, amongst the hurley-burley of everyday life, the anniversaries of major events can so easily be forgotten.

    2. We had just been arranging my father in laws funeral. And stopped of on the way home for lunch. And saw what was happening on the TV in the pub.
      We couldn't believe it was happening.

      1. We were in a taverna on the beach in a bay on the Greek island of Poros. We had chartered a boat to visit some of the places around which we had sailed on our honeymoon as we wanted to take our sons, Christo aged 7 and Henry aged 5, for a sailing holiday to see if they would like to live on a boat being home-schooled as we sailed around the Mediterranean.

        Our boys were chatting to the taverna cook and waiters and watching their television. Suddenly in great excitement they ran to us proclaiming: "America's been blown up!" We thought they must have been watching an adventure film – but no, they had just seen the sight of the twin towers being destroyed.

    3. And since then millions of people of the same religion – and in many cases the same political aspirations – as the perpetrators of this outrage have been allowed – nay encouraged – to come and settle in Europe.

      Our civilisation has decided to commit suicide.

      1. Not really, Rastus. A select few members of said civilisation have decided to kill it off.
        Quite different.

    4. I was in Philadelphia on a business trip when I saw the news coming through in my hotel room. At first I thought it was a tragic accident, but then the second plane crashed and everything changed. The meeting I was due to attend in the hotel was cancelled, obviously, and attendees sent home. I was due to fly back on the Thursday (9/11 was a Tuesday) but didn't get back home until the following Monday. Very scary times.

    5. I was asleep in California, it was very early in the morning there. I was woken up by the announcement that the towers and the Pentagon had been attacked. Concluded that the bearer of bad news was drunk and went back to sleep again. Was woken up again to chaos and people believing that WWIII had broken out. There was no work that day. No one bothered to call in. We just stayed glued to the TV watching the horror of Islamic fanaticism unfold.

      1. I was standing amid the rubble of my front lounge in Briston, Norrfolk. I was renovating the cottage back to its former glory and revealing a hidden inglenook fireplace that had been incongruously covered by some former occupiers. The floor was covered in bricks and mortar dust when my telephone rang and a friend told me to switch on the telly!

        That was a surreal moment in my life.

        1. We had just come home from Weymouth , we had been to the Post office to have photos taken for renewing our passports.

          Moh put the kettle on , I let my aging previous spaniels , all 3 of them out into the garden , and said Hello to Happy parrot , he whistled back and clicked his beak , I switched the TV on .. and Moh came into the living room , with our mugs of coffee, and as the TV sorted itself out .. we both saw and heard the incoming news and nearly collapsed with shock ..

          Tragedies just stay in the mind , just like the dreadful news when Piper Alpha blew or the Falklands tragedy of our sunken ships, especially HMS Sheffield , yes and the procession of hearses with fallen soldiers arriving Brize Norton from the stinking murderous middle east.

          Worst of all was Lockerbie .. yes remembering the shock and horror there .

          3. Worked with some of the guys from Piper A – one with burns all up the side of his face. Also worked with the last guy off the Aleksander Kielland – he was actually pinned by his foot by a container that shifted as the rig went over, but then the container fell off, releasing him from several 10s of metres deep. He was a weird guy…

          6. I think an experience like that would leave its mark on anybody.

            I think it must have been based on that event – a series we watched on telly a couple of years ago (Maybe a Norwegian film) that started with the exploration and ended with the catastrophic event. We hardly watch any telly these days but they used to put some good Scandi films and series on BBC 4.

          1. It really was. I was standing there in a boiler suit, mask and goggles, covered in brick, mortar and plaster dust and holding a Hilti-gun; while watching the events in New York City on the telly in the next room!

    6. I was at work and it was early in the afternoon. One of my customers at the JobCentre came in for his interview and told me what had happened……….I could hardly believe it but it was all on the telly when I got home later.

      Several people told me they'd never fly again after seeing that, but we had a flight to Namibia already booked and we weren't going to cancel that. it was my first trip to Africa and it had me hooked. We went a few weeks later.

    7. 41 years ago I was standing on the roof of the right-hand bulding (south tower) having a panoramic view over NYC.

      The previous day I sat in the co-pilot's seat of a Bell jet-ranger helicopter getting even more impressive views over the city, including hovering directly over the TV mast atop the Empire State Building.

    8. Good advice.
      We're going to visit Mother in a couple of weeks, and bearing in mind her age (96) and reducing condition, it may well be the last time. Not sure how to handle it, TBH,

    9. I used to be a regular visitor to the World Trade Center as we had a sales office in one building, and a couple of major customers in the other.

      Had an old friend who worked there, but had called in sick that day. I finally plucked up courage to call his home, expecting to be talking to his widow, but instead ended up talking to someone who had dodged the Grim Reaper. He was in shock over what happened, even though his immediate colleagues had made it out – they were on a lower floor of the second tower hit.

      On the day, I was in the car listening to the local news radio station when the first plane hit. I pulled over and called Jill who turned on the TV in time to see the second hit. Later there was the Pentagon crash, and the one that was crashed in Pennsylvania when the terrorists realized that the passengers were about to break into the cockpit.

      We lived in the Washington suburbs at the time, and the air force was flying CAP missions. We heard a terrific roar a couple days later, followed by a couple of fighters coming over our place at tree top level – turns out some private pilot had been "escorted" back to the local airpark after having breached the DC no fly zone. But there was humour – Jill was out on our deck and when the fighters appeared; she was waving and jumping up and down – and was rewarded by a "wing wave" from the lead F-15 pilot.

    2. A neighbour climbed through the window and allegedly saw the 32-year-old defendant and the 5-year old girl, both with their lower clothing around their ankles, a prosecutor said.

      2. So one just happens to be crawling through a neighbours window, as one does, a casual weekend activity or just anytime the fancy takes you!

        1. Mohammed Abdulraziq was allegedly holding the girl in the downstairs room of his home in Winson Green when her mother heard her cries. She then tried to smash in the window of his home with a piece of wood, a jury has been told.

          When she was unable to do so, a neighbour tried climbing through a window. He found Abdulraziq, 32, and the girl both in a state of undress with the bottom halves of their clothing around their ankles, prosecutors say.

          The neighbour was allegedly struck by the defendant before other locals managed to get inside the house and remove the little girl. The youngster is said to have told her mother "he hurt me" in the moments after she was saved.

          2. When I lived in Brum, WInson Green was an area inhabited by a lot of West Indians – or Afro-Carribeans as they are now called. It's only claim to fame is that's where HMP Birmingham is located.

    3. A neighbour climbed through the window and allegedly saw the 32-year-old defendant and the 5-year old girl, both with their lower clothing around their ankles, a prosecutor said.

    1. It's a wonderful place to visit, it still seemed to have the atmosphere of the past and the people who worked 24/7 to save our country from the invasion from Germany.

    1. Serious question: "This is trending now!"

      What the hell does that mean when translated to standard English?

          5. Whatever makes you think such a thing?

            He’s far too intelligent not to be able to work out something so obvious to ordinary people like most on Nottle.
            He tells us this every day.

      2. I think, Grizzly, that you have to give the benefit of the doubt, Bear in mind that You Tube is a site where people from all over the world post using English when it is not necessarily their native language. It gives us the privilege of watching huge amounts of information from all the corners of the earth that is not afforded to the majority of non-English speaking people.

        1. I have printed this quotation and have it on the wall just behind my computer screen.


          “But man, proud man,
          Dress'd in a little brief authority,
          Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
          His glassy essence—like an angry ape
          Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
          As makes the angels weep."

        2. Lots of comments on stuff I watch from non English speakers. French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish (a bit of a challenge, that).

      3. I think, Grizzly, that you have to give the benefit of the doubt, Bear in mind that You Tube is a site where people from all over the world post using English when it is not necessarily their native language. It gives us the privilege of watching huge amounts of information from all the corners of the earth that is not afforded to the majority of non-English speaking people.

  32. Also another video. I find it odd that the Telegraph makes no mention of this. I wonder why? You would think that the destruction of a Communist government would be news. Especially when that Communist government is an expression of Chinese communist intimidation against India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ZoryJ-OPY

    1. We've been to Nepal a couple of times – first time was when they still had a king. I don't know much about their government, but the people we met were gentle Buddhists and very kind and friendly people.

      1. I spent quite a bit of time on my own in Kathmandu at the end of our first trip there – my OH was ill as he'd picked up some sort of bug and I had to walk to the airline office to try and get an earlier flight to get him home.
        On the way I ran into a chap who wanted to show me the Kumari – a child goddess who looked out of the window at a certain time. The poor girl was a prisoner. I was not that keen but he was insistent and so we duly waited for the little girl to look out. Of course, he wanted some money, so I gave him the few notes I had left which wasn't very much. It had to do.

      2. The majority are Hindus and not as gentle as the Buddhists by a long shot.
        I know some Tibetans who live there and some Gurkhas in Aldershot. Gur is a tent in Tibetan and kha refers to a tent peg. In short the original Gurkhas were Tibetan nomads who settled in Nepal. The Tibetans are refugees who fled from the Chinese.
        I have read about the goddess. Odd, she is removed once she menstruates but in the meantime she is not allowed to touch the ground but is carried everywhere. I suspect she lives a rather tedious life.

        2. I met a couple of Tibetan ladies when I went for an early morning walk in Pokhara. They were both squatting on their haunches and laughed their heads off when I attempted to squat in that way and fell flat on my back in the mud. I still have the woven strap I bought from them. We have a small rug too which we bought from a Tibetan refugee workshop.

        4. Gurkha(n.)
          member of a dominant race of Nepal, 1811. They are of Hindu descent, famous as warriors. Said to be ultimately from Sanskrit gauh "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + raksati "he protects.

          1. I beg to differ, they are most certainly Tibetans and they themselves will tell you that. I speak some Tibetan due to my late brother who was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. and “Gur” is the Tibetan word for Tent.

            https://philologia-tibetica.blogspot.com/2013/08/blog-post.html

            གུར། སྒར། སྒེར།
            While lying down in a tent in a Mongolian camp recently, I began to wonder about the Tibetan words gur, sgar, and sger, particularly if these words are etymologically cognates, and if these were derived from the Mongolian ger. To be clear, gur in Tibetan means “tent,” and sgar “camp” or “encampment,”

      3. Love Nepal and the Nepalese.

        Working my way around the world in 1966, I went to stay with a cousin who was one of the two secretaries at the British Embassy in Kathmandu. They shared a bungalow in the Embassy compound which was 'Party Central' for expats. At one such event I met an Old Etonian Nepali called Birendra who turned out to be the Crown Prince. He showed up at the Embassy next day to give me a conducted tour of Kathmandu on the back of his Harley-Davidson. This was very uncomfortable because, at that time there was only about 400yds of tarmac road in all of Nepal and the rest was pot-holed dirt roads (much like the UK today). We took it in turns to 'burn rubber' along the 400yds.
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b9c461e5f098f7aeb33c3e58efeae129ae3b4eaa42b93b2d865f4468098761e1.png
        Unfortunately, Birendra's eldest son went bonkers in June 2001.

        From Wikipedia: The Nepalese Royal Massacre occurred on June 1, 2001, when Crown Prince Dipendra shot and killed his father, King Birendra, his mother, and five other royal family members at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace before shooting himself. Dipendra slipped into a coma from the self-inflicted head wound and was declared king while in this state, though he remained in a coma until his death. The motive remains unknown, though theories include parental objection to his relationship with Devyani Rana and unhappiness with the country's shift from absolute to constitutional monarchy.

        My 2nd daughter spent much of her gap year teaching in a village school up in the foothills and has some wonderful stories of how the Nepalese children would mercilessly 'take the piss out of Miss'.

        2. Our army staff sergeant nurse was out there for 6 months assessing Gurkha recruits for fitness and health. She told me that in-country travel could be quite hair raising. She brought me back a lovely kukri though.

    2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/09/gen-z-protest-fire-prime-ministers-house-nepal-social-media/

      Gen Z protesters have stormed government buildings, chased and attacked ministers in the street and set fire to the prime minister’s house as mass violence gripped Nepal.

      The violence erupted after a social media ban was imposed, sparking an uprising against the communist prime minister which left 19 dead and 500 injured on Monday after police opened fire on the crowd.

      Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned today but that did little to quell the unrest as protesters stormed his house, Nepal’s parliament and government buildings.

      1. Yes. A couple of day late though. It always seems to be the case in the MSM. The PM fled the country.

    1. We had Alistair Darling to thank for getting our money back from the Icelandic bank crash some years ago.

    2. Summary:
      Grand Plan = It's a start.. this will be 'Normal' for all. A prelude to what is coming.
      New restrictions on all withdrawals hidden in internal risk protocols. Try taking out £500-£2,000. Will trigger a Vulnerability assessment. Staff will demand an explanation. Additional verification. If you refuse.. or wrong answer = frozen accounts irrespective of mortage dd etc.

      If you recall.. when Starmer was asked What is working class? He replied.. "Those without Savings."
      So… any savings over £25k isn't yours anyway.

      Lastly the bogeyman of fractional reserve banking myth.
      One recurring theme relates to the role of deposits in the banking system. Mainstream economic theory considers banks to be institutions that take in deposits which then provides them with the funds to on-lend at a profit. Accordingly, the ability of private banks to lend is considered to be constrained by the reserves they hold. While students find it hard to think outside of this construction, the reality is very different. Banks do not operate in this way. Private bank lending is unconstrained by the quantity of reserves the bank holds at any point in time. We say that loans create deposits.

      1. I'm spending my funds while I can…….. I didn't have any trouble transferring the money for my upcoming trip to Kenya.

          1. There’s already a limit on cash withdrawals from the machines. My taximan who takes me to Heathrow likes cash so I’ll have to draw it in parts.

      3. Don't tell anyone but I always keep about a thousand quid in my wallet, and top it up on a weekly basis.

  34. Gaza genocide they say.
    An AI response to a question I posed.

    It's impossible to provide an exact global death toll from jihadist violence since September 11, 2001, as data is incomplete and definitions vary. However, over 106,000 terrorist attacks have occurred worldwide since 9/11, leading to significant loss of life, with groups like the Islamic State (IS) being the world's deadliest terrorist organization in recent years.

    Even at only 1 death per attack it shows the jihadists for what they are.

    1. Population Gaza 2000 1.13 million.
      Population Gaza 2021 2,106,745.

      It's lidderally genocide.

      Population Gaza 2026 0.
      It is now.

      1. The key question, should that happen, is where will they go?
        I doubt there are many places that will take large numbers willingly.

          1. That, to me, is the oddest thing. That other slammer regimes refuse to welcome their homeless "brothers".

          4. Maybe, but in the Arab world, the Palestinians are very much at the bottom of the pecking order. In the rich Arab countries they provide the "indentured" work force and are kept in their place.

          6. Bill you have to realise there is no point in letting them into a country that is already muslim. The whole point is to conquer non muslim countries and force them to become muslim.

          9. It's mutual, immigrants don't go there – why would they when they can get to the UK and claim benefits of all manner. I think if the UK said 'no benefits for six months, live with relatives who will guarantee your expenses, no access to housing for one year minimum, no access to NHS/proof of PI req'd, present yourself together with your papers at a designated Police Station….otherwise deported to country of origin (or France and let the French deal with them) could go on, but you get the drift….

          10. The government could bring in those rules – but they don't. We have to ask why. If we went to live in another country we would have to support ourselves.

          11. I suspect the government has insufficient inspectors/monitors. And some abattoirs likely not allow them on the premises – both halal and kosher. At one time, independent butchers would verify – not sure if that’s still the case. I think advertised online non-hala for sale (expensive or was last time I looked) – but how verifiable?

          13. Hear you…it may well come to that, as there are reportedly fewer inspectors currently. Or, more likely, stay open and hobble on.

          14. Add in no wearing nightdresses or letterboxes and learn to speak English which must be used at all times when out and about.

          15. I actually disagree with your last point. Out of respect, I use the language of my host country when talking to other English speakers in enclosed public spaces (work canteen, crowded buses, erc), but whilst I know you're irritated hy it, I don't find it unreasonable to natter in my mother tongue whilst in the open air. It's sometimes a huge relief, especially when one isn't yet fluent.

            I also have to own up to wearing a nightdress in winter. 😉

          16. I see and hear mothers jabbering away to their children in a foreign language and they are clearly resident here. What message does that send? How will a child integrate? How disadvantaged will the other children in the class be because this child doesn’t get the Bain linguistique necessary to be fluent before it goes to school. By all means keep the linguistic skills alive at home, but that’s where they should stay. Translation and interpretation costs the taxpayer a fortune.

          17. I don’t disagree with that. If one lives in another country, one needs to learn the language, and children are put at a massive disadvantage if they only encounter English at school. I do not expect, nor receive, translation paid for by the state.

            Just saying that a blanket ban on speaking one’s mother tongue in public is a bit draconian!

          18. I have no objection to visitors speaking their own language but if you live here and receive all the benefits you need to make the effort. I apply that to expats as well.

          19. They would be in serious trouble with the menfolk/mosque if that happened. I think Johnson once referred to them as such, was quite the outcry. We can possibly look forward to his return now Dorries has joined Reform (mistake on Farage/Tice part, I think). If they accept Johnson, that will be final straw for me.

          2. The enemy is not at the door – it has already broken the door down, come in, and is sitting in one of the best chairs.

        1. Did you watch the video I posted today? The Saudi is literally begging the IDF to erase them from the earth.

      1. If by that you are suggesting that in the case of Gaza the victims are the so-called Palestinians, I think you're wrong.
        Unless you believe a group that constantly attacks you is a victim rather than an enemy.
        Edit
        PS I apologise if I've misinterpreted your post, it can be read either way.

    1. If the www was policed, we likely wouldn't see as much of these posts. Where's Musk when you need him……..or Tim Berners Lee, he seems to be currently involved in quite a few projects.

      1. Asked someone in catering about halal, told me he can order both halal and non-halal meat (I suppose it could be the same item, but labelled differently…I'm just an old cynic).

          1. I agree…my offspring would say 'coulda woulda shoulda'. Abbatoirs not the nicest places to spend time.

          2. Absolutely not – but gratuitous cruelty to the animals is wrong. I've seen some horrendous videos filmed by animal rights people and they should be frequently inspected.

          3. Ditto. Some of the smaller ones have been closed down, but I suspect not all. And are there sufficient inspectors to keep assessing them all, doubt it.

          4. Small, local abattoirs have all been closed down, leading to long journeys and more stress for the animals. i doubt if there are enough inspectors.

          5. Agree. We had one here, which also had butcher’s shop attached. Both closed. Tried to open an abattoir nearby location – protests and so no planning. At one time, some supermarkets used to sell frozen meat, imported from NZ. Not sure if they still do that. I think, Ndovu…a lot of things slipped through during lockdowns – we just didn’t always realise it at the time.

          8. All animals slaughtered in NZ must be electrically stunned and unconscious at the time of slaughter, which puts it on par with UK slaughter. I will not (knowingly) eat halal in this country, but I will eat NZ produce.

          9. I’ve nothing against NZ – but English lamb is far better quality. They export a lot of lamb to Arab countries so it has to be halal.

          10. I’m aware of that. Being stunned but still alive fulfils the halal requirement so the obvious question is why can’t this apply in the UK too? The authorities are to scared.

          14. I’m finding as I age, I remember incidents from when I was very young, sometimes seem more ‘real’ than current ones. Sorry to read abput your uncle dying young – my dad had several brothers, I loved them all, always laughing and messing about.

          15. I worked as a meat porter (known as a humper) during a university summer holiday in a local abattoir.
            Ended up with tremendous upper body strength.

          16. The carcasses look huge when hung, what do you think average weight sos – guessing even more than you as a young lad…

          17. Everything was given a weight code so you had an idea what you were in for. The largest pigs were rated at K3, weighing in at around 300lbs.
            Most were in the 150lb region They came down to the main floor, from the slaughtermen, having been stripped of hair, gutted and cleaned
            Beef came down to be moved onto the chandeliers on hooks having been quartered, similar weight to the K3s
            Most lamb was around 70lbs or thereabouts.
            90% of the heavy lifting was down to technique, get it wrong on a big lump and it could take four men to get it on to the chandelier.
            Each chandelier supported 4 animals and they were shifted on overhead rails into very large cold stores, ready for moving to local delivery/butchers or once a week large lorries for Smithfield. Thursday was Smithfield day and we clocked on at 6.30 and clocked off when the last lorry was full, usually around 23.00. A very long and very hard day’s work. Most days were 60.30 or 7.30 to 16.30 or 17.30.

          18. Well done indeed, sosraboc. Good narrative, have the pictures in my imagination. I recall reading about slaughter houses in NY, sounds similar. Do you mind me asking how old you were, at the time of doing this job – and how long you did it for? What made you go for it, was it the pay, or perhaps not many other jobs to apply for? It sounds only young, fit men should do it.

          19. 20.
            Roughly 12 weeks.
            It was unskilled and paid reasonably well for a short term job and was in biking distance from where I had lodgings.
            The interview process went something like:
            “Can you lift that 56 lb weight over your head with each hand?
            No, not like that, bending your arm, lift it straight armed only.”
            It seemed an odd request, but what it demonstrated was that one would be able to move the carcasses from their hooks onto the chandeliers.

          20. I imagine they’d learnt that the hard way – no wimps need apply. Probably not something you’d want/or could do long term.

          21. One great aspect was that we could buy meat on a Friday at wholesale prices, generally one large joint, but because most went out in very large lumps the choice was limited. There was an onsite butcher’s section but most customers were local butchers rather than supermarkets.

          22. Sounds good for family dinner. Supermarkets have changed everything…our attitude to food, what we buy and at what cost, how we cook it etc. Another thing changed with Women’s Liberation movement. Almost (but not quite) glad I’m no longer young.

          23. As an aside to the tale:
            The four women who shared the flat where I was living at the time insisted I left my work-clothes outside. The smell, apart from my sweat was appalling.
            They absolutely loved the roast dinners and all, or nearly all, was forgiven.

          24. Ooo you are a one, sos…dining sans clothes, sweaty, four women, roast dinner….what’s not to like …seriously, sounds a good evening for all 🙂

      2. Both Halal slaughter and Sharia Courts should be made illegal in Britain.

        Britain is constitutionally a Christian country but only Anglicans – and not Roman Catholics can become King or Queen. So if some Christians cannot succeed to the role of Head of State why should any non Christians be allowed to hold political office?

        Is there a single officially Muslim state which allows Christians to hold political office?

        The 23 countries where Islam is declared the state religion are:

        Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

        4. The Anglicans usurped the Catholics (who were previously all-powerful).

          It won't be long before the Anglicans are usurped by the Moslems. This will be relatively easy to achieve since the Anglicans will remain dozing in their complacent stupor, with their thumbs stuck up their arses, while Abdul and Co simply waltz in and take over.

        1. It should never be legal practice here. But it is already in practice for the Muslims already here. We need no more of them. This is our country, not theirs. They have infiltrated government and professions.

          1. Tough on those here who want it all their own way. They can learn to conform like the rest of us. After all we’ve had to accept compulsory helmets on motorcycles (except for sikhs of course and they shouldn’t have been given special treatment) and the wearing of seatbelts. When in Rome springs to mind.

    3. Historically gambling was illegal in Pennsylvania due to conservative Christian objections but that began to change in the late 1950s and today the full range is available. All that happened prior to the law changing was that people placed their bets in neighbouring states.

  36. Just been watching yer French BFMTV (available online) to see the handover between Bayrou and Lecornu. Due at 11 am (UK). Still waiting!!!
    Any NoTTLer who is familiar with France will know that nothing ever takes place on time….!

    Meantime, lots of things being set on fire on this "Let's Block Everything" day. They do like arson, yer French.

    1. Afternoon Bill and everyone. When I was doing the exchanges and the French set the timetabled I used to tell the pupils “ heure française”. Nothing ever ran to time. After a week of this I spent longer than allotted on an unescorted visit. When I turned up late my French colleague was shocked. You are always so punctual, she exclaimed. I shrugged and said, heure française”. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

      1. Conners, Katy (Ashes Than Dust) in Buenos Aires will tell you that Argentines have an expression "Hora Inglesa", which means exactly on time. Why? Because the natives are regularly hours late.

  37. Two children die in crush on small boat crossing Channel
    Three other migrants are ‘missing’ after incident in dinghy with 38 people on board off French coast
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/10/two-children-die-crush-small-boat-channel-crossing-calais/

    BTL

    But why should Macron want to stop the boats? The French do not want the illegal migrants any more than the British do.

    And as far as rules and agreements are concerned the French only apply the ones they want to apply as they have always done in the EU.

    And if the British are so stupid as to pay the French hundreds of millions of pounds to do nothing then – more fool them!

    2. When this popped up on GBN, I commented on it being sad if children had died and the nice lady cleaning my room advised me that’s it’s best to stop watching the news. She’s right of course.

    3. 'Incident'? No more details as to how the children died? Were they crushed to death? suffocated? Yes – it's sad but we don't need or want them here. Send them all back.

    4. I M sorry but i actually don’t care. If they were genuine asylum seekers they would come the correct route. As far as i am concerned they get what they deserve

      1. The children didn't deserve to die but they must stop these people getting here. Stop all the benefits and reason for them to come. Send them all back.

        1. Yes, and definitely also stop the payments to France – wt* is that all about – Starmer intent on UK ruination, question is why? he's not a totally stupid man, it must be intentional.

      2. There are plenty of safe countries they have ignored to get here where they wouldn’t have had to risk their lives.

  38. Not very satisfying Wordle today:
    Wordle 1,544 4/6

    ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  39. From the Telegraph

    The BBC’s anti-Israel bias kicked in before the dust in Doha had settled
    For over an hour and a half of its coverage, not a single soul sought to explain the motivation behind the strike in Qatar

    Stephen Pollard09 September 2025 6:21pm BST
    I know you’re not supposed to laugh when the BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, does his “Israel is a reckless threat to the world” shtick, but I have to confess that was my reaction this afternoon.

    Commenting on the Israeli strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar, Gardner told us it was “exactly what many feared would eventually happen, given the determination by some in the Israeli government to continue a campaign of ‘score settling’ for the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led raid into Israel”.

    There comes a point when the blinkers are screwed on so tightly that you can see only what you want to see. Gardner appears to have passed that point. Yes, “many” will indeed have feared Hamas terrorists getting what they had coming: oblivion. And they will doubtless indeed also dismiss it as “score settling” – as if it is so very petty of the Israelis to be interested in hunting down those responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Why can’t they just turn the other cheek, like decent chaps?

    So yes, I know I shouldn’t be laughing now; this is serious. But Gardner and his ilk are so predictable that when they trot out the lines so perfectly, you can guess every word of what they are about to say. It’s amusing.

    I happened to be watching the BBC’s news channel when news of the strike broke, and carried on for an hour and a half. Not once in that time did they have anyone – not a single soul – who sought to explain why Israel might have been trying to take out the latest group of Hamas leaders.

    Israel has repeatedly vowed that this is what it will do, and did it in July 2024 when it assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. On August 31, Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of staff, said that “the bulk of Hamas’s ruling leadership that remains is abroad, and we will reach them too”. Could that be any clearer? Israel believes – and who can seriously suggest they are wrong? – that Hamas needs to know there is nowhere on earth it should feel safe. Israel will get them. Always and everywhere.

    And if the IDF chief of staff isn’t good enough, how about Donald Trump, who put it like this at the weekend in a social media post: “Everyone wants the Hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end! The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning, there will not be another one!”

    It took nearly an hour and a half for the BBC to speak to anyone who might explain any of this to its viewers. Before that, it was Frank Gardner droning on about “peaceful…neutral” Qatar, and then Tom Bateman, the BBC’s State Department correspondent, bewailing how Israel has “literally blown up” the chances of peace. In between all this, a British ambassador to Qatar kept popping up, just in case viewers still hadn’t got the message that Israel had done a terrible “reckless” thing, blah blah blah. Reckless Israel this, reckless Israel that.

    And then, when someone who actually had some insight into the Israeli mindset appeared – the always excellent Yaakov Katz – the host, Matthew Amroliwala, seemed unable to comprehend that Katz did not think this was an outrage. “You’re killing the negotiators!” he yelled at Katz, as if the Hamas leaders were a bunch of peace-loving diplomats whose efforts to make everyone happy had been rudely interrupted.

    Israel isn’t finished. We know this, but the BBC seems shocked that when it says it will act, it acts. There are a large number of Hamas leaders in Turkey, and a Houthi base in Oman. Don’t be surprised if they are next.

    1. From ChatGPT, for context:
      On **October 7, 2023**, Hamas and allied militant groups launched a devastating surprise attack into southern Israel, resulting in the deaths of **approximately 1,180 Israelis**. This figure includes both civilians and security personnel. Casualties were spread across multiple locations, including:

      * **Nova Music Festival**: around 360 fatalities
      * **Beʼeri massacre**: 132 killed (101 civilians and 31 security personnel) ([Wikipedia][1])
      * **Kfar Aza massacre**: between 60–80 killed ([Wikipedia][2])
      * **Re’im (including the IDF’s 143rd “Gaza” Division HQ)**, **Sderot**, **Alumim**, **Netiv HaAsara**, and others collectively accounting for additional casualties ([Wikipedia][2])

      One comprehensive estimation by Israel’s 2023 annual report places the total deaths around **1,180**, comprising approximately **797 civilians** and **379 security personnel**, with roughly **3,400 Israelis injured** ([Wikipedia][2]).

      Scholarly sources similarly affirm this figure: a research paper noted that terrorists “murdered close to 1,200 people,” with hundreds abducted and thousands injured ([Lippincott Journals][3]).

      [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27eri_massacre?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Be'eri massacre"
      [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_Israel?utm_source=chatgpt.com "2023 in Israel"
      [3]: https://journals.lww.com/aosopen/fulltext/2024/09000/october_7th_mass_casualty_attack_in_israel__injury.27.aspx?

    2. Mmmmmm. Was there any mention of Qatar harbouring terrorists? Is the BBC trying to tell us Qatar didn't know?

    1. I find it hard to believe that, in the vastness of the universe, the human race is the only manifestation of intelligent life. That leaves the problem of the speed of light. Maybe they're cleverer than us..

      2. The human species is not an intelligent life form. Far from it.

        All other species of animal life are intelligent species that use and rely on natural instincts for survival. They do not habitually destroy their living environment, poison their water sources with chemical effluents or pollute the oceans; nor do they breed in massively inconsiderate and unsustainable numbers or destroy the vital balance of nature.

        Humans, on the other hand, routinely commit all these atrocities and many more. They have decided to ignore instinct and rely on superstition and stupidity instead. They may well be the most clever, resourceful, inventive and imaginitive species to have ever evolved. Unfortunately they are the least intelligent life form … ever!

        The very fact that some believe that alien life forms can visit the earth (and possibly take over) gives them a degree and level of stupidity previously not experienced.

        1. Don't you think, Grizzly – that's modern humans, didn't we used to live more with nature when we were still ape-like (yes I know some are still ape-like….)

          1. Indeed, Kate. My copious research show that to be very much the case. To encapsulate human history:

            Early hominids emerged between 20,000,000 and 15,000,000 years ago.  

            Our common ancestor rose between 8,000,000 and 6,000,000 years ago.  

            Australopithecus (the earliest human-type) roamed the earth between 3,300,000 and 2,100,000 years before now.  The first stone tools were used around 2,600,000 years ago.  

            Homo habilis was the dominant species between 2,400,000 and 1,400,000 years before the present. 

            H. erectus — quite simply the most successful and longest-lived human species ever — ranged between 1,890,000 and 110,000 years before the present time. They mastered the use of fire for heating and rudimentary cooking. A massive increase in humanoid brain size developed between 800,000 and 200,000 years ago during the reign of H. erectus.  

            H. sapiens emerged just around 300,000 years ago [alongside other, shorter-lived humanoids such as H. neanderthalis, H. longi (Denisovans), H. heidelbergensis and a few others]. The Neanderthals were bigger and more powerful than sapiens and examples of their hybrid genes survive until today.  

            12,000 years ago brought the birth of animal husbandry (as opposed to just hunting).  

            10,000 years ago brought the advent of agriculture.  

            Organised religion is no older than 5,000 years.  

            H. sapiens may well be intellectual with a cleverness, insightfulness, resourcefulness and inventiveness never seen before. But they are clearly the least intelligent species ever to have evolved. Intelligence equates to the innate use of natural instincts, a feature that clearly serves well every other species of animal. They know which food suits them best for their health and vitality. They do not suffer from a plethora of ‘modern’ diseases and ailments.  

            Only dim-witted, weak, physically feeble, brain-deranged and mind-controlled H. sapiens does that. It is my fervent view that H. sapiens has — within the period of the 20th century — morphed into a new species, one that I shall call Homo imbecilus. Anyone not convinced by my argument should read every page, of every newspaper, every day, for conclusive and irrefutable proof.

          2. Excellent evaluation of timeline, Grizzly. I’ve read quite a few writers, Holmes, Hariri among them…they say similar things. What do you make of the Aquatic Ape Theory (Elaine Morgan), please? Seems plausible? I like the idea of living as groups in order for the men to kill larger animals, the women staying behind to look after babies/young children, picking nuts/berries/killing small animals – seems one of the earliest structures of symbiotic relationships. Sebastiao Salgado has recorded many images whilst living with indigenous tribes S. America. Sometimes these tribes come in from the jungle life – as some in NZ finally did, wanting to stop their women from dying whilst giving childbirth, and modern medicine for children suffering measles.

          3. I’ve not read Elaine Morgan (nor Sebastio Salgado), Kate. I must look them up.

            I watched a short video a couple of years-or-so ago about an Amazonian tribe that still lives in its traditional way despite wearing modern clothing. They still eat meat and fish and very little in the way of vegetation. When the narrator asked one of them (a very lean and visibly fit individual), “What have you eaten today?”, the tribesman looked puzzled before answering, “Why on earth would I eat today, I ate yesterday?” This clearly illustrated the satiation that is provided by his healthy diet.

          4. Good one, Grizzly. They look as fit as fleas, and only get sick if introduced to modern diseases. (Salgado more a photographer, I like his work. Not fully on board with Morgan or Hariri, to say the least.) I suspect three meals daily, or two and a nap, or whatever – introduced by way of farming, and more so by Industrial Revolution.

          5. The three-meals-a-day régime (especially the bit about 'breakfast being the most important meal'), Kate, was introduced in the early 20th century by John Harvey Kellogg, who wanted people to start buying and eating his ultra-processed, high-carb crap marketed as 'food'.

            Kellogg was also a crackpot religious fundamentalist who maintained that a regular supply of his pseudo-food would stop young men from masturbating. Yet people in their multi-millions still buy and consume this man's pretend food and cannot understand why they suffer from a catalogue of conditions and ailments that did not exist before 1900.

            Trouble is whenever I attempt to explain these historical facts to anyone they simply carry on regardless and regard me as a crank! Despite the fact that I do not eat such crap and I am fitter, stronger and more mentally sharp at age 74 than I was at 34 (when I was getting ill and fat by consuming a 'recommended' diet).

          6. Probably one of these tribes the The Kayapó or the Matsés:

            The Kayapó diet consists primarily of fish, along with hunted game such as coati, monkey, and turtle, supplemented by Brazilian nuts, wild fruits, and harvested vegetables. The Matsés diet also features fish as a main protein, along with game meat from animals like monkey and capybara. Their diet is based on foraging, hunting, and a practice of horticulture, growing crops like plantain and manioc (cassava), which are staples in their diet and can be made into drinks like Chapo .
            Kayapó Diet
            Protein: Primarily from fishing.
            Meat: Hunted animals like coati, monkey, and turtle.
            Fruits and Nuts: Brazil nuts are a significant cultural and dietary component, along with other foraged wild fruits.
            Vegetables: Harvested vegetables are part of their diet.
            Matsés Diet
            Protein: Fish is their main source of protein.
            Meat: Game meat such as monkey, sloth, and capybara.
            Staple Crops: Cultivated plantains and cassava.
            Other Foods: Wild foods such as fruits and tubers are gathered from the forest.
            Drinks: They consume Chapo, a sweet drink made from plantains.
            Similarities
            Both groups have a diet centered around fish and other hunted game, which provides essential protein.
            Both rely on horticulture (farming) and gathering wild foods as part of their subsistence strategies.
            Their diets are rich in fruits, which are foraged from the surrounding rainforest.

      3. Aristotle developed the earliest known system of classification for intelligent life. He came up with two; plants and animals.
        It took us until 1665 for Robert Hooke to make it three by discovering bacteria. Then in 1729 we added another when Pier Antonio Micheli first published descriptions of fungi as a lifeform.

        Now we have the technologies to identify UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). We're seeing objects being subjected to 2000 to 3000G forces well beyond the comfort zone of anything biological.
        Something capable of hypersonic velocities without signatures. Objects that are apparently resisting the natural effects of Earth's gravity, yet without the normally associated aerodynamic means for lift and thrust.
        These objects have no obvious signs of propulsion (engines, propellers, exhaust plumes, etc.) or flight surfaces (wings, rudders, ailerons, fins, etc.), but yet they are able to move in a very precise manner in our atmosphere despite not having any of those characteristics.

        1. The question is.. will Trump demand a peep into to the info on unidentified aerial phenomena? The first President since Bush senior & Carter to be granted access.

      5. If the universe is infinite as we're told, then the life forms in it must also be infinite. That we haven't seen them yet doesn't mean that they don't exist.

        1. The observable universe isn't infinite. The evidence that it isn't can be seen on a clear night – the sky is dark. If the universe were infinite, the sky would be as bright as day. The diameter of the observable universe is estimated as 93 billion light-years; if there is more of the universe beyond what is observable, we can't know anything about it.

          1. One winter moonless evening at Firstborn’s farm, I looked at the sky at about 23:00. eautifully clear sky, but it wasn’t dark, it was in fact milky white, there were so many stars.

      6. You had better ask Grizzly – he is the Nottlers' expert on the level of intelligence of the human race!

      1. Yes, Eddy…and for a long time, I think. Although my family made similar fun of me…out walking my dog last call one night around 11pm, summer time, a few years ago – skies were clear, many stars…saw something odd on the horizon which seemed to be a large more or less triangular object with points of light at each point and moving very slowly from north to south. I was advised to take more water with it 😀 but I've never forgotten it. More things on earth etc…Kate x

  42. 412564+ up ticks,

    Surely when you set out to deceive, manipulate and unjustifiable punish the peoples the world over, this is a consequence that could very well occur, in England's
    case the shot across the bows could very well have been portrayed on the starmers doorstep.

    Dt,
    Nepal protesters beat and burn ministers in their homes
    Social media ban that provoked riots lifted after 19 killed in police crackdown, prompting PM to resign

    May one ask could the burning door be a warning to mean, potential boiling political frog lives here.

    1. As much as I dislike the current political farce, violence just means a bigger bully. The only rational, long term solution to anything is democracy. However, democratic power must be restricted to those paying for the system.

      Does that risk a two tier society? Yes. It creates one, as should be. If you have contributed, you have a say. If you do not, you are beholden to those who do. This is fair. It encourages everyone to contribute.

  43. Strange happening chez Korky. Early on I noticed something odd on the meadow towards the top of the garden. When I finally went out I found the following:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7d78f0761e9bc88e9eb98115bb525474f9000c301fa2e6f75f2b1461c3fc543.jpg
    Three walnuts, almost certainly from my neighbour's huge tree, neatly arranged on the recovering grass. As of this moment they remain as photographed.

    Do I have a squirrel suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

    2. The squirrel must have been disturbed Korky, they usually bury the walnuts. Perhaps the ground was too hard still.
      We have had several walnut saplings pop up in our garden. I love the smell of the huge leaves. But given the size of the mature trees I've had to get rid of most of them. We have one growing very rapidly right alongside one of our sheds. Unfortunately I'm going to have to cut it right down over winter before it tips the shed over.
      One other with two oaks and a couple of fir saplings is now doing well amongst a tree planting scheme in the North Pennines.

      1. I love fresh walnuts while they're still white inside. The flavour is so much nicer than the brown ones, even though they do need peeling.

      2. Thanks, Eddy – timely post, him indoors thinking of planting some. We already have a lot of hazel – grey squigs love them, bury many, dig up early part of year, before they start robbing nests – carnivores that they are.

        1. We have a local tribe of greys. They eat everything they can get hold off.
          My grapes, Hazel nuts, tomatoes, Gooseberries and usually my olives.
          This year I’ve netted my olives tree it’s in a large pot so unlike the afore mentioned it’s easy to net.

          1. They’re a nuisance. Rumoured to take lambs but I doubt it – probably find a carcass (and if kites/sparrow hawks don’t get there first). He planted some chestnut trees, all died – difficult to get roots down in limestone. How wonderful to grown your own olives..yum!

      3. My first thought was disturbance, but three walnuts at once? Plus, there's plenty of soft disturbed soil nearby e.g. where I'm lifting potatoes.

        Years ago I re-planted a walnut seedling at the top of my garden; my thinking being it would take years to grow to to some size. Wrong! I had to remove it after about 8 years. Quick growing trees, walnuts.

        My neighbour had his walnut tree trimmed right back about three years ago: he might as well not bothered. It should be in a wood and not in a suburban garden with an adjacent home coming under the shadow of its rapidly expanding foliage.

        2. I have three my neighbour gave me, they are joined together by their natrual sprouts on the top perhaps that’s why there are three.

  44. Just back from an auction pickup, a bit disappointing though, was out-bid on everything except one box of gin, though I did manage to pick up a rather nice tool bag that had not received any bids.

  45. 412564+ up ticks,

    What is the truth is that this meddlesome mandleson
    has brought every active daisy chain within the house into high disrepute, if he is denied PIE access in the future he has brought it upon himself

    Dt,
    Bell Ribeiro-Addy, a Left-wing challenger for the job, said the US ambassador should face an investigation by the prime minister’s ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus.

    Her call came after it was revealed by The Telegraph that Lord Mandelson worked with Epstein on a £1bn business deal after his conviction for child sex offences.

    Advise, trust none.
    Check out old laurie as well, ethics is, I believe, to be latin for swearing.

      1. I think most English people would say skeleton in the cupboard and not skeletonin the closet which sounds American to me.

        I suppose a very tall skeleton, would have to be kept in a chifferobe, armoire or wardrobe. Many old houses in Brittany have une armoire bretonne.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49e864a9cc7255776b7fb3fd95eea04117c44f01a250c1e9242530d5c8498cbd.png

        The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture. – The word cupboard is also frequently used in British English to denote what North Americans would call a closet. A closet (especially in North American usage) is an enclosed space used for storage, particularly that of clothes.

        British English doesn’t much use closet as a noun, though the verb still has common currency. Water closet for toilet, lavatory or loo is archaic. Our closets are nearly always figurative. We have borrowed the American phrase to come out of the closet, though we couldn’t imagine being in one to start with (come out of the cupboard doesn’t have the same portentous connotations.) We also have closet racists and other closeted types with skeletons in their cupboards.

          1. According to the The Urban dictionary guacamole is: Money. Cash. Refering to the green ink used on most U.S. currency bills. "dude, this place doesn't take credit cards. Do you have any guacamole?" Apparently guacamole is slang for cash.
            https://www.urbandictionary.com ›

    3. I can't copy and paste Richard but see if you can find John Flemings blog on line. It opens up quite a few not very well known facts regarding Blair.

  48. A BTL comment in the DT from a chap called Drew Anderson:

    Re-reading Starmer's pre-election quotes is such fun. Without fail, he has delivered the opposite of what he promised.

    Here are some of my favourites at the moment…

    "It's time to clean up politics."

    "We will have a total crackdown on cronyism."

    "It is not just sleaze and scandal that have eroded trust. Just as corrosive has been the inability of politicians to keep promises made to the British people."

    "Labour will restore confidence in government and ensure ministers are held to the highest standards."

    "Labour has been transformed from a party of protest to one that always puts the interests of the country first. Now we are determined to do the same with our politics, returning government to the service of working people."

    I could go on but I'd be in danger of repeating everything he has ever said.

  49. Suella Braverman, the ex-home secretary, and Lord Frost, Britain's former chief Brexit negotiator, are set to join a press conference on Thursday with Richard Tice.

    As if they'd join Reform.. however, they are the kind of heavy artillery Farage needs.

    1. They should have joined the Reform Party well BEFORE the 2024 general election.

      As it was too many people went on voting Conservative. Also with such people joining Rupert Lowe would not have been so disgracefully treated by Farage.

    2. The question is how to differentiate between right thinking survivors from the sinking ship and the rats pouring from the bilges.

    1. Can you imagine the surplus that is produced inside of that huge building in Wastemonster every single day of the week. And that's only the air they breathe out.

      1. It was once the case that the stench from the Thames was so bad Parliament acted and got it cleaned up.

        Now the stench is emanating from Parliament.

      2. It's pretty bad, Eddy – they should use it to heat the Lords, make 'em even sleepier. (I'm in favour of an elected upper chamber).

        1. Already far too many of them.
          They had to put up a barrier where the bishop’s sat because they kept sliding off seating and falling on the floor.

          1. I read, many years ago, a large number sign in to claim their daily allowance, beggar off and possibly return for lunch and afternoon snooze. Titles inherited and repeated…..ah..democracy…

        2. Ah, I’d return the hereditary peers. Brownie points for lineage traceable to the Doomsday Book. The illusion of merit has merely bred greater tyranny.

          3. Northumbria was a great loss but yeh, pro-Norman is more practical. It’s a shame the Duke of Beaufort is as much a waste of space as the Mountbatten Windsors.

        1. I know on of the current retired Bishops he’s a very nice down to earth guy.
          I don’t think he spends much time there, If any. I haven’t seen him for ages.

  52. Going back to todays headline, around 12 years ago my mother in law was in hospital and had been for some time. Amongst several problems she also had a cancer growth. Well into her eighties she was rarely fully conscious.
    We were visiting her one afternoon and as usual she wasn't aware of us. The nurses told us that they were going to make her more comfortable in bed. They asked us to go outside of the room while they did it.
    When we returned she was suported by her pillows still not conscious. Within 15 minutes she had passed away……
    At least we were with her when she died.

    1. That's how it's done Eddy……..end of life care – Midazolam and morphine. Were you expecting it that day? Did you have time to say Goodbye?

      1. The anaesthetist for my operation said that he was giving me a sedative. I said, “Midazolam”? He replied, “Yes, how did you know that”? I wasn’t awake long enough to reply. Together with the fentanyl, these drugs do have their place, even allowing that it’s played merry hell with my digestive system!

        1. I've had fentanyl too, walking around like a drunk even after leaving hospital – I wanted to leave, I'd been put in a mixed bed ward, not great to wake up and see some unknown random bloke leering at you.

          1. Not good. At Hammersmith they had a mix of single rooms and four bed rooms. Who went where depended on the numbers of men and women. They were careful to keep us separate.

          3. As a care patient, I’m doing well. How much normality I could cope with is another matter. I’ve asked how I’ll be getting to and from the hospital tomorrow to have my stitches out and am told there is a trusted taxi firm they use.

          8. Years ago, my aunt had a hip replacement and she was in a mixed ward when I went to visit – I thought it was wrong then and still do. OH when he was in for his heart op, was in a men only ward.

          9. Good to read OH experience. Problem we currently have as a country – too many people, too few hospitals/staff.

        1. That's odd…my dad was in a care home, they told me every step and kept in touch with me. Quite a few years ago, though. No wonder you were upset about it.

    3. The words to be beware of "we're going to make him/her more comfortable". Time and time again these words are reported on 'X' and their relative has passed away shortly afterwards.

      1. We have lived in our street a private cul de sac for around 33 years and so far I have counted approximately 26 of the residents who have passed away since then, most were elderly.
        I wonder how many times the phrase “more comfortable was used”.

  53. Did a mini shop – went to Tescos for a change from Morrisons. My Clubcard is very old and won't scan but the checkout lady was very helpful and keyed in the number. I wanted some underwear and there wasn't much in my size but I did find something I can wear. And some towels.

    1. I very much hope that the need for underwear is NOT connected to your requirement for towels…{:¬))

      1. No……… the towels in the en suite have got very thin and faded and lost their fluff. These are a darker blue but ok.

        1. They also had a nice selection of fruit……..and some runner beans! Morrison's vegetable selection is very limited.

          1. Morrisons has gone downhill very rapidly since the French bloke took over. Far fewer staff on the tills. Quite often gaps in shelves of normal stuff – there were no 1 litre milk "bottles" on the last two occasions. Shop has a gloomy, uncared for feel. Pity.

            During the plague, Morrisons was brilliant and did all (and more) than we expected. Tesco was dire.

            Now, however, we have gone back to Tesco.

          2. Pre lockdowns I always shopped Morrisons, and have stayed with them. I like the staff there (even had a chat with old Mr Morrison, years ago). They have a loyalty scheme, same as other supermarkets. Were very good during lockdowns – I hated how staff many shops etc got no credit or reward for carrying on working, wearing masks and behind plastic screens. Hate Johnson & Co with a passion – if Farage takes him into Reform, they will be over far as I'm concerned.

          3. The screens only came down last week in our Morrisons – it was as if they'd been set free! A few months ago they ran a points offer for Pyrex dishes and although I didn't buy anything extra I had enough for three dishes of useful sizes. I'll probably use one this evening.

          5. The ones I got have plastic lids and apparently I should have also got a vacuum pump but I missed that. I use them in the oven – just cover lightly with a bit of foil.

          16. The staff are nice in our local Morrisons but the selection of fresh produce is quite limited compared with Tescos.

          20. Used to go there – stopped 25 years ago. Been in twice, I think, because it was handy to another store I needed. Found it very disappointing.

          21. Me too. Don’t much like the staff – I’ve been told they rotate young managers every few months, perhaps that something to do with attitude.

          23. To our great surprise we found that Aldi is the best supermarket for vegetables in the Dinan area far better than Lidl, Intermarché, Leclerc or Super U.

          24. We have a very good greengrocer in our village. Fresher fruit and veg than anything you can buy in any supermarket we’ve been to.

          25. #ustoo.
            Run by coffee-coloured immigrants, it's the most interesting shop in the county.
            So much fresh fruit & vegetables, so much choice of pastas and pickled whatever in jars… utterly wonderful.

    1. This was posted by someone yesterday. My feeble attempt to reply was: "I can see no obstarmers in my way."

        1. You're right – could have done better. It got a couple of upvotes yesterday which it has failed to do today.

    2. I wonder if they have checked his previous records. He's not been the most pleasant person in public life.

      3. Or, conversely, what dirt Starmer has on him, as he (Starmer) had on Nick Brown. For the same purpose.

        1. Starmer is merely the dirt under Mandelson's foreskin.
          assuming he had one, either removed or worn away by overuse.

        2. Ah here you are ‘mum….think it was True Belle (Maggie?) looking for you a day or two ago, asking if anyone had seen you 🙂

          1. I am around, Kate – I just don’t have a lot to say at the moment, I’m right out of words – what is going on all around is so wearying with no end in sight. It’s exhausting. I pop in every day and do some gentle upticking! – so I do leave a footprint here and there if a mod wants to check.

            I’m sorry I didn’t reply to your comment to me about the McCanns; nttle replies had closed by the time I saw it. Yes, I think the most likely explanation is that the child was dosed to allow the parents to go out for a meal, and she awoke and found they weren’t there – suggestions were that she stood on the back of the sofa to look out of a window and fell, hitting her head on the tile floor. Dogs don’t – indeed cannot – lie. As the ‘cuddle cat’ was washed I wonder if she vomited. There are also undercurrents swirling around of something else going on. I have often thought the eye defect mentioned was a red herring, didn’t exist, invented in order to protect them from perpetually wild-goosing it across the world – especially as the Portuguese police specifically requested they didn’t mention it as an obvious identification could be a danger to the little girl. It’s strange, because every theory one follows eventually turns into a blind alley. Sometimes I have wondered if she ever existed at all.

          2. Good to hear from you ‘mum…take it easy, I know what you mean about the mad world we inhabit. No problem on not replying earlier, you’re here now. I think the McCann case came up as it’s 10th anniversary. Dosing does sound plausible – who the heck does that with their children – I suppose medics are able to. There were no signs of a break in, it seems. One thing I noticed – Cameron in the House, saying ‘the parents had nothing to do with it’…reported recently Jerry McCann had done some work for government, no details given. It seems the Portugese police weren’t the idiots portrayed and suspected the parents from the start. No body ever found, so you could be correct if she ever existed – reported locals said they never saw her out with the family at a local swimming pool. It’s bizarre.

          3. I think the Portuguese were made out to be dolts and idiots and unprofessional in their approach as a distraction from the truth of the matter. I think they were bang on from the start. It was odd because G. Was reported as saying on the coach from the airport on their arrival in Portugal that he ‘hadn’t come here to enjoy myself’ so exactly what had he come for? All so odd. I’ve rather lost track of it all over the covid years and when I went back to the Jill Havern site it wouldn’t let me in, it said it didn’t recognise my password, but it recognised my email which said it was already in use – it wouldn’t let me change the password. So I couldn’t be bothered after that! I’d have to try again with a new email address. Thank you for your reply, btw. Awful news tonight regarding Charlie Kirk. Just awful.

          4. There were quite a few investigators recently, some on YouTube agreeing police professional and suspicious from the start. One day the truth will come out. It is indeed dreadful news about Charlie Kirk so very young with a great career ahead. I hope the truth comes out about his death, too. Condolences to his family. RIP.

    5. He's already preparing the ground for an exit with a bang

      Mandelson: More embarrassing details of my Epstein relationship will come out

      Labour peer says paedophile financier didn’t introduce him to any women ‘perhaps because I’m a gay man’

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/10/mandelson-more-embarrassing-details-epstein-to-come

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2025/09/10/TELEMMGLPICT000439200205_17574884526700_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?imwidth=680
      Marcus Vaigncourt-Strallen
      6 hrs ago
      pinned
      How on Earth is it all right for him to stay in place? We know he does not have an ounce of decency in his body and therefore will not resign, but on what planet does Starmer think he should remain our Ambassador to the USA?

      Suzanne Mcloughlin
      5 hrs ago
      pinned
      By his own words he has admitted he has terrible judgment and he’s our ambassador to the USA. He needs to go.

      Luke Chapman
      7 hrs ago
      Why on earth is he our US ambassador?

      PJ Spiers
      7 hrs ago
      Reply to Luke Chapman
      Mandelson's past form should have meant his permanent exclusion from any official post – let alone as our ambassador to the USA.

      There is no way the intelligence services were not aware of his dealings with Epstein – and there is no way that our corrupt PM should have appointed him.

      But Mandelson knows where the bodies are buried, so once again he gets away with it.

      Maybe he should think very carefully about what befell Epstein.

      Simon Foster
      7 hrs ago
      Reply to PJ Spiers
      It's beginning to look like only compromised people get anywhere near positions of power and influence

      Mr Sensible
      7 hrs ago
      Reply to Luke Chapman – view message
      Stays on private islands and yachts for the multimillionaire Labour champagne socialists who call ordinary home owners with a semi the “wealthy elite “ who they believe must be hammered with 40% inheritance tax.

        1. Russian billionaire yacht affair shakes UK politics
          By Reuters
          October 22, 200812:02 PM GMT+1Updated October 22, 2008

          By Luke Baker
          LONDON (Reuters) – A Russian billionaire, a yacht on the Mediterranean, allegations of secret donations and betrayal — all the ingredients the British media needs to start a feeding frenzy.
          After being exposed by an old friend, a senior British opposition politician has admitted he met Russia's wealthiest man on his $150 million yacht in the Mediterranean.
          The Conservative party's chief spokesman on finance, George Osborne, says he has done nothing illegal.
          But the admission he met Oleg Deripaska several times last August, including once on his yacht, has revived an image of the Conservatives as elitist that they have long sought to shed.
          The meetings were revealed by an old friend of Osborne's from his days at Oxford University, when they were both members of the Bullingdon Club, an elite dining society.
          Nathaniel Rothschild, a fund manager who is heir to a $1.5 billion banking fortune and helped set up the meetings on the island of Corfu, says Osborne used them to try to solicit a large donation to the Conservative party from Deripaska.
          Osborne denies seeking any such donation, which would have been illegal as it would have come from a foreign citizen, but has confirmed almost everything else Rothschild says occurred.
          Rothschild revealed the meetings in a letter to the Times newspaper, apparently irritated that Osborne had given details to the press of conversations he had on the yacht with another guest, Peter Mandelson, a senior Labor politician.
          Rothschild, who is also friends with Mandelson, felt Osborne violated an unwritten code by revealing what was said in private, and decided to point that out in the papers, aggravated that Mandelson was being tarnished for meeting Deripaska.
          "Perhaps in future it would be better if all involved accepted the age-old adage that private parties are just that," Rothschild said in a letter from his home in Switzerland.
          "It ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances."
          REVENGE?
          But in exposing Osborne's presence on the yacht last summer, Rothschild also made allegations about what Osborne had been doing there, raising the issue of political donations.
          "I am surprised that you focus on the fact that one of my guests, Peter Mandelson, is a friend of another, Oleg Deripaska. Not once in the acres of coverage did you mention that George Osborne, who also accepted my hospitality, found the opportunity … to solicit a donation," he wrote.
          Rothschild's revelations sparked a storm of tabloid and broadsheet headlines Wednesday asking what happened really happened on the Mediterranean yacht between the Conservative party politician and the Russian oligarch.
          The Financial Times, which carried a two-page spread on the 'Deripaska affair' Wednesday, said Osborne's real mistake was to breach a Mafia-style code of silence on private meetings.
          "Mr Osborne committed the cardinal sin of revealing details of his agreeable weekend spent in northern Corfu," the newspaper wrote. "Yesterday, Mr Rothschild got his revenge."
          The political repercussions of the scandal are hard to gauge. But it comes at a time when the Conservative party, whose leader David Cameron went to Eton and was also a member of Oxford's Bullingdon Club, is trying to appear less elitist and make itself appealing to ordinary working-class voters.
          As the Financial Times pointed out: "At a time when Britain is tipping into recession, Mr Osborne's free holidays in the villas of millionaire financiers and evenings spent with a Russian oligarch … may not help the Tories connect with 'hard-working' families struggling with their daily bills."

    6. He could then move south and live with his in-laws in Brazil as this is the home of his 'husband' Reinaldo Avila da Silva.

  57. A must-read, just out on the Speccie. Another absolute corker from our Madeleine.

    "Statute 343.36 in the US state of Minnesota reads thus: ‘No person shall operate, run or participate in a contest, game, or other like activity, in which a pig, greased, oiled or otherwise, is released and wherein the object is the capture of the pig’. I hope, for the sake of the integrity of their state laws, no Minnesotans were watching Prime Minister’s Questions today. There was one little piggy very much at large, greased and squealing, trying to avoid capture. Its name? Sir Keir Starmer, KCB.

    It started badly. The first big bad wolf to come a-knocking was Dr Luke Evans. He did so in a calm and collected manner, simply listing all the scandals the government has successfully crammed into the last 12 months. It was less a question and more a coroner’s report.

    Sir Keir was initially ebullient – though the best he could do was drench up the Priti Patel bullying scandal which occurred three ministries ago. There were not many cheers behind him and next to the PM his new frontbench sat there with the stoniest of faces, like rejected models for the heads of Easter Island.

    Next came Mrs Badenoch. She has a track record of allowing this little piggy to slip through her fingers and squeal another day. Today, however, Mrs Badenoch had Sir Keir’s number. Did he, in light of the Epstein allegations, still have confidence in Lord Mandelson?

    First there was a standard procedural answer about the import of the Special Relationship and the role the ambassador plays. Whenever he doesn’t want to answer a question – which is always – Sir Keir invariably resorts to this garbled rehashing of basic principles. It’s like listening to a sat nav rescued from a road crash site read out Wikipedia. Mrs Badenoch pushed again. The grease began to fly; ‘Full due process was followed!’, he squealed. And there it was, the failed technocrat’s answer to everything.

    ‘I wasn’t asking a question about process, I was asking about his judgement.’ Wriggle, wriggle! Did Sir Keir still have confidence in the ambassador? We barely got an oink in reply, just a mumbled expression of his confidence delivered to the carpet in the House of Commons.

    ‘I think it’s embarrassing that the Prime Minister is still saying that he has confidence in a man who brokered deals with convicted child sex offenders.’ Again the reply came; ‘full due process’, ‘procedure’, ‘independent elements’. By this point his own benches were so still and silent that they might as well have been dead – or at least wished themselves in Minnesota where such piggy-chasing is illegal.

    Mrs Badenoch then brought up the strikes, she brought up the deputy leadership debacle, she brought up the economy and she brought up the forced reshuffle. The link, she said, was ‘his bad decisions, his bad judgment and his total weakness’. This little piggy had been well and truly sent to market and returned, cured and packaged in rasher form. When even Rachel Reeves looks on you with pity then you know it’s been bad.

    Even Sir Ed Davey, who normally asks a question so soft-ball that it might safely be entrusted to a teething toddler, went after our little piglet on the question of Mandy’s Epstein links. ‘Due process has been followed’, the Prime Minister repeated again, devoid of emotion, now resembling one of the more traumatised patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

    There came little support from the cavalry, save for a few planted grumbles about Reform UK and an embarrassingly fawning question about R’NHS. Proceedings ended with Liz Twist reminding the House that it was World Suicide Prevention Day. Just down the corridor another ghoul from the Days of Blair – Lord Falconer – is attempting, with the obvious connivance of Number 10, to stop the House of Lords from having any real say on the Grim Leadreaper’s Assisted Suicide Bill. With no trace of irony the PM said that he would work across the House on suicide prevention.

    So it ended. Labour MPs shuffled out like they’d just been on a Ghost Train. Which they sort of had. In the midst of them, off waddled our little piggy, doubtless to see if Lord Mandelson can arrange for him to be in the state of Minnesota at about midday next Wednesday."

      1. The problem with self-deletion is that there are, inevitably, a surprising number of people who will be absolutely devastated by the act – even if they aren't readily visible.
        My friend in Sicily, Second Son's mate who jumped off a local cliff… devastating to those left behind.

  58. "Bloquons tout" en France: pas de pays à l'arrêt, mais nombreuses actions, certaines émaillées d'incidents

    "Bloquons tout"
    That's the way to do it.
    Block everything.
    Of course the French have everything upside down.. and demand more socialism. LOL

    1. fiscal justice. not trickle down but redistrubution. not recession but recovery. LOL Starmer type magic words.

      Meanwhile.. public spending cuts. budgets. Macron will never resign LOL

    2. It is all a bit haphazard – the organisers' spokesman said that there were no organisers or centralised plans.

  59. Wordle No. 1,544 4/6

    🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Wordle 10 Sep 2025

    Petulant Birdie Three?

    3. Tricky today – I thought I had it with the planet name, but considered they dont seem to use proper nouns….. Par.

      Wordle 1,544 4/6

      🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
      🟩⬜🟩🟩🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. Snap.
        Wordle 1,544 4/6

        ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
        ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
        ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        Used a different starter today – interesting result.

    5. Posted earlier, my regular 2nd word when my 1st one is totally naff. Now I'll have to find a new one. Already worked out what it will be.

      Wordle 1,544 2/6

      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  60. Michael Deacon
    Comparing Farage and Trump to Hitler is the mark of a moron

    Such extreme claims are an insult to the victims of the Holocaust – and prove their critics are losing the argument

    10 September 2025 3:00pm BST
    Michael Deacon

    Godwin’s Law famously states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one”.

    Very true. I would, however, suggest one small but crucial amendment. Because this is no longer a purely online phenomenon, as we know from the surging number of imbeciles who make such comparisons in public.

    Take what happened to Donald Trump the other evening. On sitting down for dinner at a restaurant in Washington DC, he was harangued by a mob of female anti-Israel protesters, who screeched: “Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!”

    No, dears. Trump is not like Hitler. Since you appear to be a touch confused, allow me to explain: Hitler was a man who wanted to kill all the Jews. You know – like Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that has doubtless been delighted to hear so many gullible Westerners responding to its massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023 by screeching, “Free Palestine!”

    Extraordinary, isn’t it? Trump’s foes are hardly short of things they could attack him on. From his approach to Ukraine to the chaos caused by his tariffs on free trade, there are countless criticisms of Trump that are perfectly reasonable and legitimate. Yet these nitwits have chosen just about the only one that isn’t.

    Mind you, political debate is no more sensible in Britain. Speaking at the TUC conference on Tuesday, John McDonnell – old friend and acolyte of Jeremy Corbyn – declared that Reform is “a proto-fascist organisation”.

    “We’ve seen it in the ’30s,” he said. “What they do, they have a demagogue speaking for them, they target a particular group, in the ’30s in Germany it would have been the Jews, here it is asylum seekers…”

    Mr McDonnell later insisted that he wasn’t likening Nigel Farage to Hitler, or Reform to the Nazis. But how else are we supposed to interpret the comments above? If you throw around a phrase like “the ’30s in Germany”, you can’t then turn around and say, “Oh no, I wasn’t thinking of the Nazis.”

    What else did you have in mind? The architectural innovations of the Bauhaus? The cabarets of Weimar Berlin?

    Whatever Mr McDonnell meant, let’s get one thing straight. Likening Trump and Farage to Hitler is the mark of a moron. To call for an end to illegal immigration, as both those men have done, is not even faintly comparable to the industrial extermination of six million Jews.

    And to attempt such a comparison is an insult to every one of Hitler’s victims.

    So why do these idiots keep doing it? The reason is obvious: they know they’re losing. And this is all they’ve got left.

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

    PJ Spiers
    1 hr ago
    Reply to Lesley Snell
    John McDonnell is a typical Marxist revolutionary – long on irrational hatred and short on common sense – and, like Corbyn, he appeals to those who are similarly afflicted.

    Anna Rossi
    1 hr ago
    Reply to PJ Spiers
    And a supporter of the IRA blowing up UK citizens during the troubles.

    Roland Butter
    1 hr ago
    I seem to recall Hitler, a national socialist, railing against capitalism and the Jewish people – now which folk from which ideology do we have today who rail against capitalism and also display overt antisemitism? Oh but that’s just a coincidence isn’t it !

  61. Aethelstan has featured in the media in the last week. Here's some of the correspondence from the DT that may have passed some by.

    SIR – The present interest in Athelstan reminds us here in Ireland that the Irish were not in fact colonised by the English but by the Norman French.

    Every schoolchild knows of the conquest of England by William of Normandy at Hastings in 1066. In consequence, the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy was systematically eliminated in the following years by the Norman invader. By the time of Strongbow, who led the invasion of Ireland in the 12th century, England was governed by the Normans. A myth masquerading as history has thus been perpetuated in our schools and in public life. It is a myth that has served neither England nor Ireland well.

    Professor Sarah Alyn Stacey
    Director, Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
    Trinity College Dublin
    __________________________

    SIR – It was marvellous to read Professor Sarah Alyn Stacey's letter (September 9) noting that Ireland was invaded, not by the English, but by the Normans.

    However, that's not the full story. The Normans were themselves descendants of the Norsemen who invaded France under King Rollo in the 10th century, even though by the time of the Irish invasions they were the leaders of the Angevin Empire.

    After the initial "invasion" of 1169 (the deposed Irish king of Leinster paid England-based Normans to fight for him), subsequent invasions focused on Dublin and Wexford, both of which were Viking settlements, as were many of the Irish coastal settlements at that time.

    Thus, instead of the Irish being invaded by the perfidious English, the Irish invasions were arguably just a punch-up between disparate groups of Danes.

    Richard Hughes
    Googong, New South Wales, Australia
    ________________________________________

    SIR – I note the various letters showing interest in the formation of England.

    I spent some 20 years living in an isolated house overlooking Blood Field, which was reputedly the site of the last battle between the Saxons and the Danish Vikings.

    Despite the fact that this field is just across the river from Sutton Hoo and has an ancient barrow site adjacent to it, I never saw any archaeological interest being taken in the area, even when wind farm cables were being buried in the land a few years ago.

    Keith Phair
    Felixstowe, Suffolk

        1. Nope! Not a chance…ever since my MiL used it on me I vowed never to use it, as it’s just revolting

          1. My apologies.

            My eldest half sister though she had gay friends called me a 'dirty little fucking queer' as she was screaming in my face and slapping me around the head. She did manage to alter the shape of my nose at the same time.
            Of course the gaslighting bitch got in first and said i had attacked her.
            I reserve the right.

  64. Just noticed yesterday's headline:

    Rail unions can’t be allowed to keep holding the public to ransom

    Forgive an old cynic, but this has been being said since I was a child in the 1940s…..

    1. It wouldn't surprise me if Epstein fucked Petie up the back end.

      Epstein was a sexual predator with a big appetite.

      Also, for a man to do that to another man is an act of power and control.

      I wouldn't even say Epstein was gay or bisexual.

      It would have been showing who was Boss.

        1. It Was suggested years ago that blairs daughter had caught him and meddleslime at it in a downing Street off and she then attempted to commit self harm.
          Kept out of the news obviously.

          1. Epstein already had his finger stuck in there.

            Interesting isn't it that Petie suggests there are far more embarrassing revelations to come.

            Damage limitation?

    3. I've met Ghislaine a couple of times, she was about 15 – I know Ian Maxwell very well, he had the room opposite mine in our first year at Balliol, although he was very rarely there (they all lived down the road at Headington Hall), and Kevin when he turned up a couple of years later.
      Ian is a very pleasant individual, Kevin less so, and Ghislaine was very attractive (I was only 18 myself!) and charismatic.
      I tried to chat her up and got nowhere….she clearly had higher aspirations, dont blame her, really.

      1. Very often when one meets such people, not that I've met many, they are pleasant at the individual level.

        1. Well yes, but at the time they werent that remarkable – we only vaguely knew of Robert Maxwell as the head of Pergamon Press, it was well before his time at the Mirror.
          You must have met similar at Cambridge (was it Downing or am I confusing you with someone else!).

          1. Indeed.
            Pembroke.
            Several, but the one who went furthest was probably Chris (my partner's waterbed punctured) Smith.

          2. Apologies, it's an old buddy of mine that was at Downing – in fact I do recall you were at Pembroke but I get confused as there is a Pembroke at Oxford also……

      1. I am far too old and jaded to take any offense at that remark. Especially from one of our most revered elder Nottlers.

        Have you watched the film ' Personal Services' Wing Commander?

        Honestly !!!

        1. No offence meant at all – sorry if you thought it was. You are more worldly wise than I am.

          1. Open goal, irresistible.

            Worldly wise???
            Who do you think taught Mandelson?
            sorry Phizzee, just too tempting

          2. Yes, but not very amusing.

            Worldly wise as in having to survive in it. Without the benefits of benefits.

            When i left home at 17 i had nothing. I slept under South Parade Pier for two weeks before someone offered me a hand up.

          4. I don't take offence from kindly folk.

            Besides…Mrs Tastey would take me to task. For the second time !

  70. That's me for today. Sunny morning – sowed some grass seed just after lunch to make one bit of the garden easier to manage. Steady drizzle – just the ticket. Sawed up some gash wood for small fires of an evening. The MR off to her Keep Fit class bearing apples – we have a huge crop of eaters this year.

    Have a spiffing evening

    A demain.

  71. That's me for today. Sunny morning – sowed some grass seed just after lunch to make one bit of the garden easier to manage. Steady drizzle – just the ticket. Sawed up some gash wood for small fires of an evening. The MR off to her Keep Fit class bearing apples – we have a huge crop of eaters this year.

    Have a spiffing evening

    A demain.

  72. Bridget Phillipson passes Labour MP threshold in deputy leader race
    Education Secretary gains ‘huge momentum’ as she receives over 80 nominations in run-up to hustings
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/10/bridget-phillipson-passes-80-labour-mps-deputy-leader-race/

    She will win – after all she is emblematic of everything The Labour Party stands for: envy, malice, class hatred, sadism, spite and contempt for personal aspiration and private enterprise. In short she is a monster.

    One can only hope she does even more harm to her party than she has done to the schoolchildren of Britain.

  73. LOL of the week.

    Sky News discussing the candidates for the deputy leader race.
    Bridget Phillipson mentioned as a Far Left.. only to be swiftly interrupted by Anna Botting.. then corrected.. Of the Left. LOL

    1. Our media like our politicians are worthless scum and should have all their properties and wealth confiscated and sent to the fields to harvest the crops to feed the 'working class' who they pretend to represent.

      Their houses providing accommodation to the actual working classes who have been made homeless by their policies.

      And they can take Gen Z and the Uni Prostitutes with them.

      I'm thinking of buying a whip. Mao stylie.

    1. It seems that predatory paedophilia is presently protected by our police "service" and in parliament.

      1. Possibly more widespread than that, opo – children's care homes , for one (see 'Grooming Gangs, ' 'Starmer as DPP', and the inimitable Mark Steyn.

  75. https://order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Featured-Images-20-2.png
    Mandelson Encouraged Blair to Meet Jeffrey Epstein in Secret Memo

    Peter Mandelson urged Tony Blair to meet Jeffrey Epstein while he was still Prime Minister. According to the Times, Mandelson suggested the meeting in 2002 in a secret note sent to “key aides“. Apparently it would have been “helpful” to the then-PM…

    Mandelson stressed the supposed value of Epstein’s business interests and contacts. Whitehall officials blocked the release of the memo because it would be damaging to Britain’s diplomatic relations with the US. The scandal deepens…
    UPDATE: There’s more. Now The Sun reports Mandelson coached his pal Epstein through his “years of torture“… after his arrest. “Your friends stay with you and love you…”

    September 10 2025 @ 16:43

    The ghost of a certain UN weapons inspector would be laughing.

    Mr Anthony Nesbitt
    1 hour ago
    The paedo and the gay. How queer.

    Paleface
    25 minutes ago(Edited)
    God, you’ve reminded me about the hateful Hutton Inquiry.

    The former Labour MP, Baron Hutton, said in his conclusion: “There was no underhand government strategy to name David Kelly as the source for the BBC's accusations.”

    Of course not!

    The merest suggestion that Bliar, Mandelslime and Alki Campbell could ever have done anything underhand would be utterly absurd.

    Starmer is again dithering in the face of overwhelming evidence that he has picked the wrong person for the job.

    Mandelslime was, is and forever will be an embarrassment for the Labour Party and by extension as our American ambassador, Britain.

    Spanner cannot possibly continue to protect Mandy, whose astonishing lack of judgement and integrity has fucked it all up yet again

    2. Betting this is one item won't appear on Tony Blair Institute website. Someone asked me earlier today about PetaJ – wherever she is I hope she can see/read this – she loathed Blair.

        1. Yes I know Geoff thanks, she wrote to me just prior. We had many chats, although different backgrounds much in common. Reminded me of a couple of old ladies at the guillotine..eating our rough bread drinking our rough red wine, gossiping. I’ve kept her messages, the last one looking forward to meeting again. I was very happy to discover the large number of people she corresponded with, sitting at her desk typing away with cat on her lap – which would cling on as she stood up to move away. Lovely memories of her xxx

    3. Mandelson has been a walking scandal for years, including when he kept rebounding back into the Cabinet. Why is this being picked up now at this late stage? It looks like more diversion.

      1. It looks more like a rearranging as those supposedly in power are taken off the board rather than having a fatal accident.

        Not that i feel sorry for them.

    1. Just coming to the end of the 8th week. It’s exhausting! Very lucky to be living in daughter’s house in Crowthorne 15 miles from bungalow. Go back every day, ?s for us from installer, ?s for installer, so works very well. Can’t wait til we’re back and all finished. Pretty much a complete remodel but once done we won’t need to redecorate ever again! All we’ll need to do is put everything back in their rightful place. And dust. An awful lot of dusting needed.

  77. Typical Labour, they have spent years trying to smear Trump over the Epstein scandals and all along their top man from the Blair era now our ambassador to the USA and Epstein were bosom buddies.
    As I have been saying for years.
    The Left gets away with everything by accusing others of being exactly what they really are.
    We hear it all the time, Farage now being accused of being a proto fascist, when from their first year in power we have seen people imprisoned politically on a two tier basis and people arrested at airports for on line hate crime.
    This is the way they work.
    Keep slinging the same mud at people and waiting for it to stick whether true or not

    2. Trump likes adult women. He has had a series of beautiful, mature wives, and they all defend him now (even after dreadful lawyer induced accusations since rescinded following their sought financial settlement). I don't believe that he was any part of the Epstein Island child abuse stuff. His "grab'm by the pussy" comment was obviously a joke. I don't believe that any of his accusers have either any evidence, nor do they understand what the word "misogyny" actually means. Trump is neither a child abuser nor a woman-hater,for all his human frailties.

      Sneaky Pete, on the other hand…

  78. I'm feeling very disappointed with the way our country is being wrecked by all these horrible selfish political morons. Its not all about them, it's about the common sense and the communities who keep life afloat.
    Something needs to be done about them all, they are absolutely vile.
    I'm popping orff now, cooked a lovely spagbol, drank too much red wine, a nice comfy feeling I don't want to spoil it.
    Slayders 🤗🤠👍

      1. Can't beat a good sausage. I've got some chorizo sausages from the pub and I'm thinking of some sort of cassoulet dish to make with it.

        1. Go for it, a cassoulet is a great meal and it freezes brilliantly.
          We also regularly have butternut squash and chorizo soup over the winter.
          Delicious.

        1. The sausages here are generally freshly made and when cooked stay the same size with very little fat run-off from cooking.

          Back to the earlier meat theme:
          My mother had friends through the local church who were struggling with admin and physical assistance at their butchers' shop.
          She sorted out their accounts and sent me to be the butcher's boy.
          I delivered meat, made sausages, stripped tendons and cleaned chopping benches and floors: moved blood and guts, and had a great time, I would have been 14/15.
          Great fun.
          The worst bit was delivering meat to a farm where the blasted geese chased me from the gate to the door and back again!

          The best bit was that they got on their feet and eventually ran a very successful family business.

          1. Good to read, paints a great picture…she book-keeping, head down…you delivery boy, and making sausages..moving blood and guts as Dracula would :-DD my grandson is an outdoor lad, dry stone walling and so on…aren’t we lucky not all men want to be accountants (I have worked with them, dull doesn’t cut it). Yes, I’ve kept geese too, was gifted some untrainable, they soon got the hang of it (as you do, grabbed by the neck and put under one arm)…glad they made a success of their family business.

          2. For all the intro, I ended up doing office jobs that I hated.

            The only plus point was lots and lots of international travel.

          3. You did better than I did…accounts, no international travel or indeed any travel. Always been a home bird, in any case:-)

          5. One advantage was trips to places where a made to measure suit could be purchased for a fraction of the UK off the shelf price.
            I had to go to a posh memorial service recently and was delighted a suit I must have bought 20+ years ago fitted perfectly.

          1. Dog? She will eat anything I offer her on my hand. Reckon she’d eat me too, given half a chance if she found me dead and had no alternative 🙂

        4. Hmm… I have a couple of links of Traditional Cumberland Sausage in the freezer, from my last foray to the Great Border City and beyond. They're a bit elderly now. Full English tomorrow. If I die, I die…

          1. Cook them thru’ and you’ll be fine. If not we’ll all attend your wake and have a high old time and think of you with great affection..enjoy your full English, Geoff…sleep well tonight x

      3. Are you out of your mind?

        It is not possible to make a Stroganoff as you describe.

        There are Master sauces and then there is Bisto.

        I am reporting you to the Grizzly Monitor for Hate Crime.

          1. Then you should have made a Cassoulet rather than a Stroganoff !

            What about the toppings?

            I can send you some tins of soup if you are struggling !

            Now where did i leave that trabuchet…ponders…

          2. I first had a French Cassoulet in Carcassonne and we were hooked.
            HG now makes an excellent one a couple of times a year, which gives us 6 portions, it freezes very well indeed.

      1. I have every Saturday night. With a glass of Chilean Merlot and some crumble (currently Bullace) with double cream.

    1. On the same day in 1683, at the Gates of Vienna Jan Sobieski and the Winged Hussars prepared for battle. The Ottoman Turks outnumbered them four to one but on the day they issued their customary battle cry, “For Jesus and Mary” and charged to victory.

      1. 'Scratches head'…

        Wasn't the attack on the Nova festival where young people were slaughtered and raped and mutilated and taken hostage on the same date as a previous atrocity?

      2. We're doubly indebted to King Jan Sobieski (Gates of Vienna) and Charles Martel (Battle of Tours); they deserve equal credit for defending civilisation.

        Also, Martel makes a good Cognac and Jan Sobieski, a good vodka!

    2. They are not forgotten. The state would prefer we did, but no, they are not forgotten. Nor are the people murdered by muslim on the 7th of July.

    4. They were killed by the Bushes (George H W Bush, George W Bush and Jed Bush) and their governmental allies in order to justify an engagement in a war with Arabs of various persuasions.

      The buildings collapsed in the way that they did because they were detonated in a calculated demolition procedure. The colliding aeroplanes were a mere diversionary tactic.

      1. Let’s assume for one moment that your ludicrous theory is right. It would have taken truck loads of explosives, detonating cord and detonators. Using home-made explosives would never have been possible; military or commercial grade items would have been essential. Where did all these items come from? They would be stored separately from each other type and subject to strict security and accounting procedures. To have somehow acquired enough to destroy the twin towers, transported it to the sites, spend days laying the charges and destroying all traces of criminal action would have involved many hundreds of people. Yet not one of them has for reasons of conscience, ego or financial gain come forward with irrefutable evidence to support the conspiracy theory.

        1. Fingers crossed, but a 2nd video on X-Tw@ter from a closer viewpoint looks VERY bad with a lot of blood spouting from his neck suggesting a hit on the carotid.

      1. The X/Tw@ter post I included had a video of the shooting but it appears to have been deleted.

  82. From the Telegraph

    Comparing Farage and Trump to Hitler is the mark of a moron
    Such extreme claims are an insult to the victims of the Holocaust – and prove their critics are losing the argument

    Michael Deacon10 September 2025 3:00pm BST
    Godwin’s Law famously states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one”.

    Very true. I would, however, suggest one small but crucial amendment. Because this is no longer a purely online phenomenon, as we know from the surging number of imbeciles who make such comparisons in public.

    Take what happened to Donald Trump the other evening. On sitting down for dinner at a restaurant in Washington DC, he was harangued by a mob of female anti-Israel protesters, who screeched: “Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!”

    No, dears. Trump is not like Hitler. Since you appear to be a touch confused, allow me to explain: Hitler was a man who wanted to kill all the Jews. You know – like Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that has doubtless been delighted to hear so many gullible Westerners responding to its massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023 by screeching, “Free Palestine!”

    Extraordinary, isn’t it? Trump’s foes are hardly short of things they could attack him on. From his approach to Ukraine to the chaos caused by his tariffs on free trade, there are countless criticisms of Trump that are perfectly reasonable and legitimate. Yet these nitwits have chosen just about the only one that isn’t.

    Mind you, political debate is no more sensible in Britain. Speaking at the TUC conference on Tuesday, John McDonnell – old friend and acolyte of Jeremy Corbyn – declared that Reform is “a proto-fascist organisation”.

    “We’ve seen it in the ’30s,” he said. “What they do, they have a demagogue speaking for them, they target a particular group, in the ’30s in Germany it would have been the Jews, here it is asylum seekers…”

    Mr McDonnell later insisted that he wasn’t likening Nigel Farage to Hitler, or Reform to the Nazis. But how else are we supposed to interpret the comments above? If you throw around a phrase like “the ’30s in Germany”, you can’t then turn around and say, “Oh no, I wasn’t thinking of the Nazis.”

    What else did you have in mind? The architectural innovations of the Bauhaus? The cabarets of Weimar Berlin?

    Whatever Mr McDonnell meant, let’s get one thing straight. Likening Trump and Farage to Hitler is the mark of a moron. To call for an end to illegal immigration, as both those men have done, is not even faintly comparable to the industrial extermination of six million Jews.

    And to attempt such a comparison is an insult to every one of Hitler’s victims.

    So why do these idiots keep doing it? The reason is obvious: they know they’re losing. And this is all they’ve got left.

    1. McDonnell, you forget you're doing it yourself – you're labelling, desperately to push their own view. You brand everyone you hate 'far right'. We don't. Reform don't. Reform discuss the problems asylum seekers cause. You're the ones labelling. As usual, het fascists are just repeating their tiresome playbook. Label, insult, deride then kill.

      Gods, I hate them.

  83. Things not good here. Before class had to lecture Junior about mistreating Mongo, the MIL is around and making the Warqueen crazy – MIL is no drunk enough to be funny and is just acerbic.

    Took the dogs out and it poured with rain. All of us soaked. Got in 2 hours ago and MIL on her feet and banging on the study door. Junior really upset at Mongo circs.

    I lost my temper and shouted at the bloody woman to go home. Mongo bounded up to see son. Warqu – the wife shaking in either rage or upset.

    Sodding family.

    1. Oh wibbling! The sheer joy and pain of family life. Sodding family indeed! We’re here to listen and try to help.

      1. If you've any arsenic…. I could do with an alibi in bumping off the mother in law.

        I've seen my glorious wife face down a room full of men and tell them they are wrong. I've seen her explain complexities of tax code as if she were reading the hungry caterpillar. I've seen her drinking coffee with multinational big wigs.

        Yet that bloody 5'2, stick thick, drunken bint of a mother can reduce her to tears.

        1. Sounds to have a good husband tho', wibbling….hold on to that thought 🙂 ….and call a taxi to take the drunken bint home…good luck.

          2. Aaargh, that means wrestling her into the car, and out again at home. Means she’s not staying the night tho? Good luck!

          3. My mother, a normally rational and lovely woman, is, for some unknown and irrational reason, really quite unnecessarily critical of my husband. O know she thinks she is just defending me, and I appreciate and love her for it, it I wish she wouldn’t- there is no need! Well, mothers!

        4. Many high achieving women can relate to that…I have heard the confessions of others.

          For myself, I once drove my four children across Europe to visit my parents. I was driving a large, expensive, new car bought by me with my own money. I organised all the children to shower, wash their hair, wear clean clothes on the morning of our visit. I had just lost two stone and was wearing a new and very expensive coat.
          When we arrived, the first thing she said to me was "you need to lose weight."
          I could never turn on her the scathing response she deserved.

      1. I chose the Warqueen. I love her like nothing else. I even like her more than the dogs. I love Junior equally and differently and I get that he's growing up, but I will not have him hurt Mongo.

        1. It's a lot easier just to lift her off her feet and carry her to the car to take her home. She only weighs 50 kilos all in.

          (The mother in law).

    3. Do you have a balcony MIL could unfortunately fall over?

      I am way beyond the time of putting up with any shit from family.

      If they cause such disruption tell them to fuck off.

      1. I've stopped them from fighting another before. Usually the plan is plant her on the sofa in the living room. Put large dog on her and say 'stay' (to both parties).

        Then come back with a bottle of gin and a glass and make sure the MIL has drunk enough to be either incoherent or passed out.

    1. Charlie Kirk RIP. He was a great speaker and involved his young audiences in constructive debate. I have followed him for years and weep at his death. America is a sick society.

    2. A new low for the BBC to put a gloating Democrat on saying that the assassination of a young politician "doesn't matter."

  87. just got back from going out with our Dublin CEO to a text from my son re Charlie Kirk. Will see what my faithful friends on this site have to say, I can already see you have a thread. What would I do without you?

  88. Starmer's betrayal of Israel disgraces Britain

    There is only one country that can never do right in the eyes of the Left. This impulse is now risking the security of the entire West

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/670f33b1df2e6bdd153acc3a1f8b5a41587242fb96118d056384354e8f557025.png
    Keir Starmer meets the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, this week.
    [Credit: TOLGA AKMEN]

    Allister Heath
    10th September 2025, 6:51pm BST

    What is happening to our country? When did we give up on truth, democracy and Western values? When did we choose to reward terrorists, butchers, kidnappers and barbarians? Why is Britain turning its back not just on Israel, a democracy on the front line against Islamism, but also, increasingly, against its Jewish citizens?

    The explosion in anti-Semitic sentiment and crimes in the UK is a national emergency, an existential threat to the liberal society painstakingly constructed since the 1850s, yet, unlike other kinds of racism, it is dismissed or ignored. Why? Is it elite prejudice of the sort Emile Zola exposed in France all those years ago? Is it electoral politics? Can't Labour see that it is making everything worse with its unfair, mendacious attacks on Israel?

    The double-standards are sickening. There was anger that Isaac Herzog, Israel's Left-wing President, is in Britain meeting Sir Keir Starmer; yet the PM's tête-à-tête with the Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud Abbas, holder of an anti-Semitic PhD from a Soviet university and proponent of pay-per slay support for the families of Palestinian terrorists, was uncontroversial. How can this be right?

    And why doesn't Starmer not put maximum pressure on Hamas to release its hostages and quit Gaza, and make the case for a multinational, Arab-backed temporary government to rebuild it, rather than promising to unconditionally recognise a virtual Palestinian state that would still be committed to Israel's obliteration? Does Labour only pretend to care about Gazan civilians?

    Britain, courtesy of a ruling class that has lost its moral bearings, home of Left-wing broadcasters that no longer pretend to be objective, is now among the global centres of Israelophobia. The Jewish state is always on trial, guilty until proven innocent, its motives inherently suspect, its claims reflexively disbelieved, its every faux-pas, real or imagined, triggering an atavistic eruption of "I told you sos" from obsessive haters.

    Israel's enemies, by contrast, are able to plead lack of agency. The savage Hamas blackmailers who were targeted in Qatar rebranded themselves as "the negotiation team", even though they were the terror group's most hardline leaders. Each one of their blood libels, of their incendiary calumnies, goes around the world, lapped up by a gullible audience that never learns. A little more mud sticks every time. Israel isn't committing a genocide, as the Foreign Office has quietly admitted, and yet 45 per cent of voters believe, absurdly, that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.

    Israel needs to fight anew for its legitimacy every day, unlike every other country. It is never given the benefit of the doubt. Britain, America, France: all have made terrible errors in wartime, all are plagued by their fair share of rogues, and yet few believe that these nations have forfeited the right to exist as a result.

    Israel, uniquely, can never stumble without its very existence being called into question – as we saw earlier this year when it sought to control the supply of food entering Gaza to cut off a key source of Hamas funds, a move that backfired by hiking prices and causing hunger.

    There is no empathy, no contextualisation, no historical knowledge, no interest in all the times Israel sought to agree a land-for-peace swap but was rejected. Israel must be perfect, more moral than anybody else, or else it will be demonised, vilified and sanctioned. The West projects upon Israel all of its own demons, every pathology of its own history, every one of its nihilistic ideologies. Our Western-centric, secular intelligentsia refuses to accept that Palestinian elites are rejectionists. They don't want a two-state solution: they want control, from the river to the sea, with the Jews ethnically cleansed.

    The West has forgotten just how destructive wars of national survival, such as the Second World War, inevitably are. We have even memory-holed recent urban conflicts like Fallujah, and view the war in Gaza through inane, semi-pacifist lenses. Hamas pioneered a new form of warfare, squandering billions in aid to build a network of tunnels under homes, hospitals and mosques. This will be studied by military historians for centuries; Israel has so far only destroyed 35-40 per cent of all these tunnels. Gaza's population is used as human shields, in the hope that as many as possible are killed to score propaganda points, while the terrorists hide in tunnels. It's an obscenity, and the West falls for it.

    There are still those who maintain that the grotesque campaign of defamation against Israel isn't the latest manifestation of anti-Semitism. That is delusion. Yes, we can and should criticise and scrutinise every country. I slam Starmer's Government: this does not mean I hate Britain. But the campaign against Israel is something else.

    Anti-Semitism is a virulent, ever-evolving pathogen. It is the original conspiracy theory, a demented theory of everything, a shift-shaping scapegoating to bolster the egos of inadequates. As a form of social contagion, it is ideal for social media, with its fake or misleading viral images, incendiary accusations and propaganda campaigns. A world where critical reasoning has been superseded by short-form videos is an ideal ecosystem for the resurgence of a medieval hatred based on rumour, gossip and hearsay.

    Anti-Semitism weaponises the moral norms of every age, making wildly false claims to accuse Jews of the opposite of whatever is deemed right and proper. When the West was Christian, the libel was that Jews killed Christ; when the West was racist, Jews fell foul of purity laws. Jews have, at times, been too capitalist or too communist, too "oriental" or too "white", too introverted or too assimilated, too rich or too poor, too religious or too atheistic.

    In today's post-Protestant woke world, which worships a certain form of weakness and glamourises the oppressed, Israeli Jews are too strong. Their country represents everything the woke detest: a patriotic, demographically healthy nation-state that believes in strong borders and military virtues, all with a biblical backdrop.

    The Left, which used to see Israel as a case study in decolonisation and anti-imperialism, a beautiful story of the return of a dispossessed people to its indigenous homeland, has switched sides. It now falsely categorises Israel as a "settler-state", like the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, countries that it deems to be axiomatically racist and guilty of "white supremacy" and "genocide".

    To the woke, the Balfour declaration, a great moment, was Britain's original sin. The Labour Government should be fighting this tidal wave of madness; instead, it is trying to ride it. The scale of its betrayal is off the charts.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/10/labour-betrayal-british-jews-historic-disgrace

    1. I thought Blair and May were the two most evil prime minsters Britain has ever had.

      I must revise my opinion: Starmer is.

      1. Blair was genuinely twisted and malevolent. May was just, well, odd, a misfit lacking real empathy but prone to hyperbole ('burning injustices') to show she was sensitive. Both were capable of slyness on a grand scale. Amber Rudd was set up ruthlessly over the Windrush affair.

        Starmer is just plain thick. That's why he's dangerous.

        1. Starmer is as you say thick or stupid. He is devoid of human empathy and thus inhumane. He cares nothing for our country and will bend to the will of his globalist masters in all matters.

          We might just as well have an inflatable dummy sitting as head of the Cabinet table. He would have to be prodded from time to time and would occasionally wobble but always comply with the directions of his masters via his minions.

        2. Everything starmer says he reads, as it has been printed on to a piece of paper. That's why he's obviously on some sort of predetermined mission and so disingenuous.
          Even the replies he makes at QT in the commons.

  89. Was just getting into bed……horror! A big black spider sitting just where I needed to be. OH caught it and put it outside but I'm still shaking.
    I don't think I can turn the light out yet.

    Bad news earlier on – my friend next door had a heart attack this morning and is in hospital now. She had a pacemaker fitted some weeks ago and was due there for a node? to be adjusted so she already had an appointment.

    1. Poor spider! Probably more scared of you than you of it.

      Bad news about your neighbour though. hope she recovers.

  90. Well, chums, my bedtime has now arrived. So I wish you all a Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all early tomorrow morning.

  93. I am listening to the most interesting episode of Triggernometry which i would recommend. It’s with a guy who seems to see clearly what we all instinctively know. Communism, how China is using us to destroy ourselves, our chronic risk aversion, lack of leadership, what will happen when the internet is taken down for months and months as we have no ability to repair it. Worth listening to (or reading the transcript; or seeking out the video and watching). Anti-EU, anti-Lockdown – what more do we need to lnow?

    Declan Ganley is an Irish entrepreneur, telecom innovator, and political activist best known for founding Rivada Networks and leading the Libertas movement against the EU’s Lisbon Treaty.

    Excerpt at about 48 minutes:
    “And you know, it's interesting you mentioned the lawfare because, and the way you explained it made me think of something else because you talked about the fact that the laws of Western countries are being used against them by hostile forces. And I look around at our country now and I go, well, the laws of the ECHR, for example, are being used against European countries to flood the country with illegal immigration that nobody wants.

    So nuts. I mean, the right thing is on the wall, to use that Biblical term. We are the authors of our own destruction.

    It's not that anybody is doing this to us. We are ultimately doing it to ourselves. If you do not prepare, I mean, this is not even a matter of not being prepared.

    We are inviting our own. This is civilizational suicide that we're going through right now. And the chronic risk aversion that is allowing it to happen is, it exists all the way through the system, right down to the private individual.

    People don't want to get married. People don't want to have children. Oh, I'll defer it.”

    From TRIGGERnometry: The Technology War You Don’t Know About – Declan Ganley, 10 Sep 2025
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/triggernometry/id1375568988?i=1000725938529&r=2869
    This material may be protected by copyright.

    1. Yes, he is right but external forces are pushing both the invasion and the lack of children. It's like the clot shots, people did it to themselves, but they were heavily propagandised and threatened.
      These seem to be the rules of the technocrats' survival game which we are all playing, even those who deny and scoff at its very existence – there is always an escape route if you are lucky enough, clever enough, strong enough, aware enough to choose it.

  96. Usual slow start but good result:
    Wordle 1,545 3/6

    ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Comments are closed.