Wednesday 2 October: The murderous intentions of Iran are now plain for the world to see

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619 thoughts on “Wednesday 2 October: The murderous intentions of Iran are now plain for the world to see”

  1. Who knows what Iran wants. I think the muslim terrorist killing of civilians on trains is going to come here.

      1. It would appear that the incident at Gatwick last Saturday when a khaki gentleman was arrested by armed police whilst

        driving an old car into the terminal building was a message that further attempts will be made to bomb overcrowded

        terminal buildings. What was in the car that the police wouldn't touch it?

        PS: We haven't seen any report about this in the media, have you?

  2. Good Morning everyone
    Today's Tales
    It was the young couple’s first night of wedded bliss. They undressed each other tentatively, he admiring her beautiful body and she his fine physique. When she removed his sock, the last item of clothing, she saw that he had no toes on his left foot.
    Shocked at this terrible deformity, she ran sobbing into the night, back to her mother.
    “I told you what to expect," said her mother. “I’ve given you good sex education. What’s the problem?”
    “It’s not that,” she cried. “When he stripped off, he only had three quarters of a foot."
    “Oh!” said Mother. “Why don’t you finish the dishes and go off to bed. I’ll be back in the morning.”

    The eighty-year-old man had gone to see his doctor for pre-marriage tests.
    “I’m marrying a twenty-year-old,” he said.
    “Why are you doing that?” asked the doctor.
    “I want a son and heir. Can you give me any advice?”
    “Yes, get a lodger,” said the doctor, smirking.
    A few months later, the old fellow returned to the doctor.
    “Is your wife pregnant yet?” queried the doctor.
    “Yes.”
    “So you did take in a lodger?”
    “Oh yes,” replied the old man, “and she’s pregnant too!”

    2. Oh Wibbles, you have a pure mind. Perhaps it should have said "I'll be back DOWN in the morning".

  3. It really is quite staggering. We have the greediest, most obtuse, stupid government going – Lammy, the moron whinges on about 'climate change' while a free nation is at war. Why? Because he has a foreign office that hates Israel, a home office policy devoted to bringing those same violent, savage terrorists here and a police force that ignores muslim violence preferring to attack those who point out this criminality.

    We have a chancellor actively destroying the economy, aided by a Left wing mindset big state tax and waste central bank that did in a genuinely pro growth PM in favour of a malevolent one.

    We've a complete moron in the small minded socailist Milioaf – and he is – actively ending our energy market and forcing up bills, making us ever more reliant on those very regimes that the other moron is insulting.

    The worst bit of all this? The Tories would be doing exactly the same.

    1. 'Morning Wibb and Peeps.

      Allison Pearson has let rip at Minibrain in her column today. It's with both barrels and well worth a read. Here's a paragraph at the end of the article:

      "What an ignoble, impoverished fate awaits us. We are well on the way to ending up as Theme Park Britain. All our heavy industry gone, our proud history of manufacturing gone, our steel, our coal, our skilled workers sold out, our prosperity castrated, the stuff we buy made and brought in from overseas. The one thing we are left shipping abroad is our CO2 emissions.

      This is one of the most disastrous mistakes in our history. I mean that."

      Spot on!

    1. Supposed to be an OK ish day today. Not warm, but not too cold. If it's dry, with little wind then the heating can be postponed a few more days.

    1. Folk did. Plod arrested, jailed and keep jailing them for no reason. All because they tell the truth.

    2. The muslims are not our biggest enemy. The 'War on Terror' was created by the luciferian predator class to replace the Cold War when it ended – it gave the criminals in charge of the dollar the excuse for more endless wars and looting the currency.
      The only reason islam is a problem to us is because the sociopaths who work for the predator class dismantled our borders and told incoming muslims that their culture was as important as ours in our country.

    3. 393515+ up ticks,

      Morning JN,

      I believe we are seeing the British spirit of fair play being acted out in allowing them mass entry, some sort of "leveling UP"
      Then the whole nation will rise as one and SHOUT, this must stop.

      1. I do not think they will ever change. The west has tried enough and totaly failed.

  8. 313515 + up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 2 October: The murderous intentions of Iran are now plain for the world to see

    Get your bloody eyes back on the ball,

    Wednesday 2 October: The murderous intentions of of the English political overseers are now plain for the world to see

    deflection is winning the day as the British realm burns, we have every chance of beating Iran to the land of ash via other peoples wars and OUR orchestrated destructive war mongering, profiteering, political meddling.

    England on home turf is truly seeking a place in the land of ash
    led by the political WEF /NWO /RESET agents, and supported by a multitude of dangerous tactical voting idiots.

    2. 393515+ up ticks,

      O2O,,,
      My view is that Israel is proving it is well able to
      take care of, and protect the nation and its peoples, and there lies our difference , we as the English Nation are NOT.

  10. Good morning all,

    Dull and drizzly at Castle McPhee – again. Wind North-East, 11℃ going up to 15℃, showers this afternoon.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/153dc1248e735368cdcba9faeba7163f8e8467fd791cc509df44270f0a1c0f66.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/01/were-not-being-told-the-full-truth-on-migration/

    No, Annabel, it isn't. What you are not reporting is that the whole invasion is orchestrated. It is deliberate, in order to change the face of Western nation states forever so that those nation states can be abolished to pave the way for a One World Government with a One World digital currency and social control through digital surveillance.

    1. Only when the invasion is halted and reversed, the welfare dependent muslim removed, the criminal welfare shoppers deported will things improve.

      Then we radically expand stop and search and instead of being nice to those thugs found with knives we just arrest, collar and chain them.

      In the meanwhile, the whinging gaza lefties need to be removed and sent there. The muslim needs to be controlled, all the drug fronts shut down and the borders permanently closed. If Lefties don't like it, get rid of them.

      Put the greeniac nutjobs into a reservation where there are no tools made within the last 300 years. If they want to live in an energy free world, let them.

  11. Good Moaning.
    I hope this ineffable shit is banged up for the rest of his – preferably short – natural life with Bubba in the dankest, filthiest gaol this country can rustle up.

    "Once upon a time, Phil Shiner was the superstar Left-wing lawyer feted by civil rights groups Liberty and Justice. After all, he was the man daring to accuse members of the British armed forces of the murder and physical abuse of hundreds of Iraqi civilians during the Second Gulf War. Both Liberty and Justice named him as their lawyer of the year in 2004.

    But now, in the space of just a few short years, 67-year-old Shiner has been declared bankrupt and disbarred from the legal profession. The accusations against British troops were false, and Shiner illegally pocketed millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money pursuing them.

    He has now pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud relating to applications made in 2007 for public funding for legal action against the Ministry of Defence. When he is sentenced in December, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Suffice to say, few will shed a tear for a man who is seen by many as the embodiment of the arrogant, corrupt, grasping lawyer. "

    2. They didn't send Huw Edwards to jail for child pornography. A lawyer who attacks the military? The Left will probably send him to the Lords rather than prison.

        1. There's no success like failure
          And failure's no success at all.

          (Bob Dylan: Love Minus Zero/No Limit)

    3. Perhaps the Government would consider suing him for the return of taxpayers' funds?

      The millions must have been concealed somewhere for him to be "bankrupt".

      1. BTL Comment:-

        R. Spowart
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        "When he is sentenced in December, he faces up to 10 years in prison."

        Considering that they didn't send Huw Edwards to jail for child pornography, I'm not going to hold my breath.

        I wonder if his "bankruptcy" merits closer examination? The millions he stole from the taxpayer must have been concealed somewhere.

    4. "Corrupt, grasping lawyer…" I can think of another who is happy to be on the take for all he can get, and who was incompetent when it came to prosecuting Savile, the Pakistani rape gangs…

      1. 393515+ up ticks,

        Morning Pip,
        The wording could be controversial
        but the fact remains a fact

    2. Perhaps if she returned to her country of origin she might be able to stop all the morning. And then she wouldn't be of an ethnic minority.
      It's really that simple.

  13. Ian Hislop 'targeted in gun attack' after his taxi was 'shot at' near his offices during rush hour

    Firstly, Dean Street has the most number of CCTV cameras per square inch outside of Shun ming era shopping Mall in Xinjiang. (That's why every drug dealer serving Groucho Club has been nabbed).

    Secondly, couldn't have been an aspiring rapper.. far too early in the morning.

    Hislop is far too woke to upset the Mostly Peaceful Ones.

      1. His partisan, self-satisfied smugness has completely destroyed any facility he used to have as a satirist.

  14. Ian Hislop 'targeted in gun attack' after his taxi was 'shot at' near his offices during rush hour

    Firstly, Dean Street has the most number of CCTV cameras per square inch outside of Shun ming era shopping Mall in Xinjiang. (That's why every drug dealer serving Groucho Club has been nabbed).

    Secondly, couldn't have been an aspiring rapper.. far too early in the morning.

    Hislop is far too woke to upset the Mostly Peaceful Ones.

  15. Head of Met’s Black Police Association faces sacking over ‘racist’ texts. 2 October 2024.

    Insp Ehikioya, based in the professionalism command, could be dismissed without notice if his behaviour is found proven at a gross misconduct hearing, beginning on Jan 6.

    The officer, who has served for 26 years and previously claimed he was racially harassed by two white colleagues when he was stopped while driving home from work, has denied the claims.

    The details of the alleged WhatsApp messages have not been disclosed but they are said to be “misogynistic, racist, violent and otherwise inappropriate”

    I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you. Lol.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/01/met-black-police-association-chair-racist-misogynistic/

    2. Who do I complain to when my feelings are hurt?

      Rhetorical question, that, because they are never hurt. Sticks and stones, etc, plus, I have balls!

        1. You have now hurt my feelings, you bullying headmaster. I shall now report you to The Guardian.
          So there!

          1. Nobody's Perfect. I have been known to lose sight of the main verb when I write over-convoluted sentences with too many subordinate clauses.

            (Some Like It Hot)

    3. It could very simply be pointed out that the very existence of 'black police association' is inherently racist, but hey.

  16. This is URGENT, folks. We have until 14th October. Read this Substack from Doc Malik, watch the podcast if you have the time and respond to the survey in the way described. This pernicious, unforgivable piece of proposed health legislation has NOTHING to do with health and EVERYTHING to do with abolishing our fundamental, inalienable rights. It may be for Northern Ireland but, if it becomes legislation there, it will come here.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2c58b1b8d628e37307dbf2aa423f02c2346a031f191548260936495d32d8d0ba.png
    https://substack.com/@docmalik/p-149621307

    Share it.

    1. Summary:
      The Psychopaths that run the world are scrambling to pass legislation regionally then globally Bills that remove basic freedoms one by one in the name of some emergency or another.. climate, pandemic, financial.

      They are using the wordies "for your protection" in the same way as any racketeer like the mafia.. or else.
      Give up yer.. or else.
      Freedom to travel.. to "protect you from.."
      Biometric data.. to "protect you from.."
      Financial freedom.. to "protect you from.."
      Freedom of speech.. to "protect you from.."

  17. Never had a teacher who looked like me….

    That's because you're a dindu muslim. Neither Ireland nor the UK are dindu countries. If you wanted an african muslim teacher, stay in an african muslim country.

    Dear life, the entitlement of these sewage is disgusting. Just bugger off you loathesome whelp!

  19. Who do I complain to when my feelings are hurt?

    Rhetorical question, that, because they are never hurt. Sticks and stones, etc, plus, I have balls!

  20. Yo and Good Day all, froma wet, wet, Costa del Skeg

    We were driving through the lowlands of Lincolnshire yesterday and the were many fields awash with puddles, after the intense rain

    A new word for the mess sprung to my 30 year old + 1 day mind: Floodle

    1. Morning OLT ,

      Lincolnshire countryside is prime ag growing land .. I wonder how other flat lands cope , especially those who have been sacrificed for Solar farms ,now flooded.

        1. Up to 6 months in jail or £5,000 fine if you fail to register that you keep even one chicken in Scotland.. I kid you not.

          2. How to stitch up your enemies. Drop a chicken in their garden then call the chicken police.

          4. There are 650 dead ducks in Westminster which have been contaminating the entire UK for years. They should all be swept up and dumped off the French coast as a warning to others that this country is heavily infested with foreign pollution.

    5. I was super happy that ERNIE hadn't forgotten me (as I'd thought) £425 Kerching

      1. Yes. That annoys me, seeing everything now in metres when it should be in yards. And yes, knowing imperial is important, especially if you ever visit the US

        1. Aren't all our speed limits still shown in MPH? How do the poor youngsters cope with that?

    2. The message is clear (that clarity is shown in the colouring of the respective banners).
      In the 1970s, Labour MPs and supporters ate meat, which gave them strong bodies and intelligent brains.
      In 2024, they munch on weeds, which enfeebles the body and atrophies the brain.

      1. Just chopped up a big steak and made Goulash. The only vegetable in it is an onion. With all that paprika and cayenne it certainly clears the throat.

        1. Yesterday I pulled a 6-month old lamb curry out of the freezer. That only had lamb and onions in it (as well as a plethora of spices).
          Today I’m roasting a mass of pork bones (for some trotter jelly) and I’ll just nibble all the excess meat off them, when they’re done, and before I put them into the pressure cooker with the trotters.

          1. When you have the sauce right curry doesn't need anything else. Though i do like mixed peppers in a Jalfrezi.

          4. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac6ec32c842065cabb48d95f6d7074c0e53ee3ba2c6e6da1f2a1d4778ce1121b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/374010e00d5c2f2abe456fed7d9a9dfa6873b6b81453c3ac3837dcd7acc03852.jpg Here are my spare-rib bones after roasting, and here is one of the deglazed pans ready for the pressure cooker to make the initial porky stock. Tomorrow I shall strain the stock then add the trotters and an onion to make the deeply-flavoured trotter jelly.

            I bought three racks of baby pork belly ribs for £8.

          6. Indeed, but I’d prefer a beef broth for that (I have a large bag of frozen beef broth ice cubes in the freezer). My porky stock will be filling some pork pies.

          8. Beef ‘spare ribs’ are called short ribs. I wouldn’t put a beef stock in a pork pie.

          10. Asafoetida is an excellent addition to a curry but it is a bit stinky, it smells a bit like violin-bow rosin.

    3. And they blamed Thatcher for the pit closures. But Wilson and Callaghan closed more pits than Maggie did.

  26. Couldn't sleep. Up all night. Overslept until now – just before 8 am. Thanks, Geoff, for today's NoTTLe site.

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    1. Good morning Elsie
      My wordle guesses today were so outrageously stupid, they do not deserve this result!
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  27. Good morning all.
    A dull, overcast morning with 6½°C on the Yard Thermometer, but at least the rain has paused.

    1. Morning Bob – sorry to bore you but it's another cloudless sky so the electric chain saws will be out again

      1. I'm too unsteady on my pins to use a chainsaw so I do the job by hand using a bowsaw.

        ( However, my brother-in-law brings a chainsaw with him when he comes to stay at Christmas and tackles the wood with a diameter of more than 6".)

        1. I have a small, one-handed Stihl chain-saw.

          A bit like a pistol to the rifle that is a standard chain-saw.

        2. I have, annoyingly, mislaid my bow saw. I shall have to ask a friend for help with his chain saw. Like you, I'm not steady enough to risk using my own.

    1. How will we bake the bread for the "rounds of sandwiches"? Or transport the lemonade to the corner shop?

      1. Not necessary – there will be piles of dung cakes and rivers of golden gnats p*ss on everyone's doorstep when the Greens get in with Labour.

    2. The public were never given the choice. It was forced on us. Notably as soon as the pointless 'climmate change act' went into being, energy prices climbed.

      It's nothing more than the latest desperate grasp at forcing socialism.

      1. That can't be right; I clearly remember the nasal twit (typo, sorry) telling us that they would fall by £300…

  29. "The chairman of the Met’s Black Police Association faces being sacked from the force for allegedly sending racist and misogynistic WhatsApp messages."
    Thank goodness he's not the chairman of the White Police Association ….. What do you mean "there isn't one"?

  30. Because we will call catch a cold covid when the dollar sneezes, American domestic politics are unfortunately not irrelevant to us…
    So we have the US elections coming up in November and the world financial system looking increasingly shaky.
    Currently there is a giant strike of dock workers in the US, which is clearly going to disrupt imports/exports in a way not seen since covid lockdowns. Also the south east of that country has been devastated by an enormous and unusual hurricane (note that many of the 180 or so patents on weather modification revolve around creating rain or hurricanes). Postal services have been suspended to parts of three states, and the US government appears to be ignoring swathes of the country underwater or lacking basic services. Whole streets and main roads have been washed away.
    Plus in the same week that these two things happened, the middle east conflict has ramped up.

    None of these three things that all happened in one week are clearly what could be called an act of God – they all could have been directed from on high. It stretches coincidence a bit far to believe that all three just randomly happened.
    Of course, the US election could be the target. But all these three things are similar to the covid response in that they will potentially provide the opportunity for a lot of extra money creation.

    So, 2008 -> financial crisis temporarily 'solved' by printing dollars
    August 2019 -> Repo crisis -> paper from Blackrock recommending pumping money directly to companies -> economy put into a coma and money pumped directly to companies
    September 2024 -> Repo record -> 3 unrelated events that will require huge amounts of money creation

    When you create a lot of extra debt-based currency, there has to be somewhere to put it. And each wave of currency creation keeps getting bigger. During covid, it was said that the next wave will be too big to hide behind a pandemic.

    Just theorising.

    1. The state firehosed cash over covid, mostly to grifters who'd set up shell companies.

      The not funny at all comedy was when big fat state then, having wasted hundreds of billions due to it's own incompetence said 'Righty, now we want that money back' and set about colossal tax hikes (mostly to align with the EU) and crushing legislation to hinder employment and the recovery, which was doing ok, was snuffed out.

      The state then looked around and said 'well, we've got to spend money to regenerate the economy, let's pour a few million useless eaters into the system, hike taxes and print money and lo! We had soaring inflation!

      Worse is that rather than admit it's own stupidity and malignancy had caused the problem, big fat state then set about blaming covid!

      1. In Germany,I am told that the covid money was given to companies and then later the rules were changed and they demanded it back. Savvy business owners had expected something like that, but I believe many small businesses went to the wall.

    2. Trump has already visited some of the devastated areas and got involved in distributing supplies. Kamala is on the phone. Probably to her hairdresser and Biden said he would visit sometime later.

      1. Trump is only doing what any Presidential candidate would do. Why Harris sees no need to help her fellow men is open to speculation. Perhaps she knows that she does not need their votes.

  31. I didn’t like Frank Gardner much before, but now i know he’s a typical Leftard narcissistic cry-bully:

    “The disabled BBC journalist Frank Gardner has said he was forced to crawl down the aisle of a Polish airliner to use the lavatory.
    Mr Gardner posted a picture of himself sprawled on the floor of the aircraft on X, with two other people standing next to him. It is the latest in a long line of discriminatory incidents suffered by the security correspondent, who requires a wheelchair after being left partially paralysed when he was shot by terrorists 20 years ago.
    Mr Gardner wrote: “Wow. It’s 2024 and I’ve just had to crawl along the floor of this LOT Polish airline to get to the toilet during a flight back from Warsaw as ‘we don’t have onboard wheelchairs. It’s airline policy’.
    “If you’re disabled and you can’t walk this is just discriminatory.”
    In a follow-up post, he added: “In fairness to the cabin crew, they were as helpful and apologetic as they could be.
    Not their fault, it’s the airline. Won’t be flying LOT again until they join the 21st century.”
    It is not the first time the security correspondent has suffered discriminatory treatment while travelling by air.
    Two years ago, Heathrow Airport apologised after Mr Gardner was left on an empty airliner when ground staff failed to deliver his wheelchair to the door. In 2022, he lambasted the “consistently crap” performance of UK airports with wheelchair delivery to airliners’ doors after being stranded on his arriving flight at Gatwick airport.
    LOT, Poland’s biggest airline, said it was “deeply sorry for the distressing experience” on Monday’s flight.
    “We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience and discomfort caused by the lack of an onboard wheelchair,” an airline spokesman said, adding that because of “limited space” there are no such devices aboard any of its short-haul fleet.
    He added: “We understand the importance of accessibility and are actively testing solutions to equip our short-haul aircraft with onboard wheelchairs in the near future.” Addressing LOT’S apology, Mr Gardner said: “These things fold up so small they can fit in the cupboard or even in an overhead locker so there’s really no excuse not to have them on a shorthaul flight. Why should some passengers be allowed to go to the loo in mid-flight and others not?
    “If BA, easyjet and everyone else I’ve flown can manage it there is no reason for this airline to still be flying in and out of Heathrow with such a discriminatory policy towards disabled passengers in 2024.” Mr Gardner has used a wheelchair since he was shot six times by al-qaeda while reporting on terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia in 2004.”

        1. Possibly, possibly not, but in this day and age (cliché cliché) why should he need to?

      2. Yes and no. He could have asked beforehand whether they could support him, and if they said they couldn't, he could have looked after his own needs. That is what I would do.

        It is not impossible that he did check beforehand and staged this event with publicity in order to shame them. At any event, he clearly made the most of it. If you read whiny entitlement rants on social media, they all sound like this, and all use the same phrases. My sympathy is short.

        1. He is still making a valid point. Even the least observant crew at check in and boarding should surely be able to see there was a problem.

          1. Perhaps they assume that passengers are capable of assessing and providing for their own needs?
            It seems to be a mismatch of expectations on both sides. But unfortunately, the onus is on the person with the problem to at least find out whether the equipment he needs is in place or not.

            Presumably he wouldn't expect a mountaineering club or a ski resort to provide for his needs without any effort on his part?
            It's not unreasonable to request the airline to carry a specially adapted wheelchair. But it is unreasonable to expect it to be there without asking and then indulge in a pity party on social media because it isn't.

      3. Indeed. If you don't have a disability, count yourself lucky. And don't count on it lasting forever!

    2. A disabled person booking a flight on an unfamiliar airline might have been wise to ask about disabled facilities.

    3. Surely he could research all this before making a journy. Its not a perfect world and never will be. like I cannot understand people with life threating peanut allegy eat out its just far too risky. i would take my own food.

  32. Elon Musk asks school kids what they know about Thomas Jefferson Founding Father & author of the Declaration of Independence.. all they can tell him is "he owned slaves.. lots of them."

    Brexiteer Jonathan Gullis, former MP for Stoke-on-Trent, banned from teaching job interviews because, he says, there are "too many activists in the classroom."

    This should be the topic at Birmingham Conservative Party Conference.. but it isn't and never will be because they are too many Wet Tory activists.

    1. "……. they are too many Wet Tory activists."

      This was the case after the 2019 election when Boris Johnson did not deselect them and Farage stood down Brexit Party candidates.

      The result, unsurprisingly, was that Brexit became a damp squib and in the pathetic leaving deal UK surrendered Northern Ireland and UK fishing.

      Farage has learnt from this and he is quite right to want to have nothing more to do with the Conservative Party. Our only hope is that all right of centre Conservatives will leave the party and join Reform.

  37. They want to throw Jordan Peterson out of his professional body because of his political views.

    Meanwhile being a paedophile is perfectly acceptable in a child psychologist.

    Psychologist, 53, who works at Tavistock clinic remains FREE to practice despite being caught grooming a schoolboy, 15, for sex in a park.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13914025/Psychologist-works-Tavistock-clinic-remains-FREE-practice-despite-caught-grooming-schoolboy.html

    1. The hated the Left have for different views is hilarious. They really are nasty, evil people who don't seem to understand: they've tried this before in 1940.

  38. Netanyahu shows us how to win in Ukraine – hit your enemy ruthlessly. Ben Wallace. 2 October 2024.

    Whether you agree or don’t agree with the Israeli prime minister’s methods (I don’t), Israel is showing the world that UN talk and asking people nicely doesn’t work.

    Benjamin Netanyahu is showing that if you want to see your plans through nothing beats determination and unilaterally sticking to national interest come what may. He knows that to achieve your aims you sometimes have to risk international popularity and not hide in the niceties of the diplomatic cocktail circuits.

    It is marvellous what being out of office does for these people. From being barely able to say boo to a goose they become bloodthirsty monsters overnight. In his four years as Defence Secretary Wallace presided over a Department of State that barely functions and made absolutely no effort to cure its many ills. One suspects that his new found bravado is directly linked to the earnings from articles like this.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/01/netanyahu-shows-how-to-win-in-ukraine-hit-enemy-ruthlessly/#comment

    1. GBN Breakfast interviewed de Cretin Gordon this morning. If I knew nothing about him, he comes across as credible.

    1. 'Welcomed'? Forced on us, more like. Massive unwanted invasion immigration has been nothing but destructive.

      Poles, Lithuanians – no problems there. Met a Hungarian lass the other day. Works in a school as a teaching assistant. Husband is a crane operator. No problems with them at all because they're staunch Catholics and love Britain.

      The middle easterners? No. They need to go.

      2. Ahem, that’s the one. But I always had it named as the engineer’s song, with a chorus of… ahh hum diddy hum..

    5. Round and round went the bloody great wheel!

      The whole device was powered by steam and you know what pistons are.

    6. Old idea, there are a number installed around the world.

      OK for short term supply stabilization, not a viable alternative for when the wind don't blow and the turbine doesn't go round and round.

  41. "at the same time we are importing electricity from France, Norway and Holland."

    and Denmark, via the Viking Link.

    The Viking Link is a 1,400 MW HVDC submarine power cable between the United Kingdom and Denmark, which was completed in 2023. As of 2024, it is the longest land and subsea HVDC interconnector in the world

    The cable has a total length of 475 miles, (765 kilometres) of which 400 miles (650 km ) is undersea, passing through Danish, German, Dutch and British waters.[ It crosses the 360 mile (580 km) long NorNed submarine power cable.

    (Quoted distances reversed to put Imperials first)

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

    2. And we're paying 20% more for their energy than we would if it were generated locally. We're literally subsidising their energy.

      Milioaf needs to be sectioned, the department shut down – nuked, ideally. Send those in it to a camp where there's nothing since 1700.

      1. I've been thinking that for some time. A colony should be built (there must be space in the far north of Scotland) with really nice apartments containing and serviced with nothing that didn't exist pre-industrial revolution. For instance, they could have lovely cotton, wool and silk furnishings but no detergents or washing machines. The textiles would all be in muted colours because natural veggie dyes don't produce bright hues. The brilliant purple, turquoise and ochre dyes popular in the mid 19th century were a product of coal processing and known as "coal tar" dyes.

        1. They'd have to use peat and wood, too, for heating. Oh, wait. Those are "fossil" fuels which produce CO2. Tough, boys, it's going to be very cold.

  42. Morning all 🙂😊
    Particularly nasty weather and getting worse as the day goes on.
    The leaders of the Muslim world need locking in a pit. There are no excuses for what they are doing. None whatsoever in any shape form or circumstances.

  43. Just been reading a long email from friends in Victoria Oz. My poor old mate Bruce is in a terrible state of health, not even compos mentis most of the time, painkilling drugs have sent him doolally and he keeps falling asleep.
    His family are just waiting for his last moments.
    I've known him for over 50 years and it's very distressing to know I will never see him again.

    1. Oh, man. I'm sorry, Eddy. That's hard. I hope Bruce is just sleeping, not awake enough to realise the situation.

      1. Please Bill, leave Ikea out of it.

        The company serves a useful purpose, which is something Stammer, will never, never, ever, ever do, as long as his A*rce
        points forward and he speaks out of it

    2. The public won't be given a say. Starmer will do as he's told because he isn't affected. He doesn't see any of the problems massive uncontrolled gimmigration causes, more, he simply doesn't care about them. His only interest is in forcing this country to cow to the hated EU.

  45. 393515+ up ticks,

    I see this as collateral damage via our need for foreign scientist,
    brain surgeons, nurses etc,etc, we must prepare for many more issues of this nature on the moon, and tidal actions at Dover.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021

    ·
    20h

    Not a word about the physical description of the attacker.

    We can be reasonably sure be wasn’t a bald-headed, white man wearing a football shirt.

    Gerard Batten,
    Gettr,
    Acid attack at west London school leaves girl and boy in hospital – The Standard, https://apple.news/AuzGASn__THSR_ …
    Westminster Academy acid attack: Girl, 14, and boy, 16, in hospital after 'acidic substance' th

    The 14-year-old girl is in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries, police say

    1. I saw a report last night, maybe the DT or DM, attacker described as blick. I was shocked, I tell ye..

    2. I saw a report last night, maybe the DT or DM, attacker described as blick. I was shocked, I tell ye..

  47. I know little about Phillip Schofield and I have very little interest in him. There is an article in today's DT which I skip read jumping to the final sentence.

    "In what may not be an unrelated matter, he says he also had not remained friends with any of his schoolmates."

    This made me think about old friends. I am still in very regular contact with my studymate from school and many of my best friends when I was a child, then at university and then as a schoolmaster are still best friends. I met my best man when I was 8, our children's godparents are friends from way back.

    We do not see our old friends as much as we used to and we have many firm new friends – but our old friends will always be a part of us.

    The lines of Belloc's poem strike a chord:

    And the men that were boys when I was a boy
    Shall sit and drink with me.

    1. I can't say I have either. We've drifted apart. I moved away, some stayed. I met with some a while back and realised I had higher ambitions than they did.

      I don't really keep in touch with university folk. I tried, but the discussions became myopic and tired. Some went completely corporate and parroted nonsense (one works for Apple and you'd think their every product blessed by Christ to hear him).

      I have plenty of chums who I've met through either work or hobby or gym. Even some of those demanded I change to suit them and I moved on. Likely I've abandoned people as I've changed and realised who I am and what I want but that's their loss for not accepting me. Many people I thought friends left when I married the Warqueen. They found her refusal to bow down to their sanctimony frustrating.

      I meet people through school and mostly get on with them but few I'd call friends simply because they're 'the school mum' crowd and that's a gossip shop of tattle and back stabbing over trivia like hair cuts.

      1. Never kept in touch with school-friends since I joined the RAF as a boy at 15½.

        Now 80 and alone.

        1. Friends are made as you travel through life though. You can't keep them all because you change, they change.

      2. The majority of my friends are Nottlers. Guaranteed a fine pedigree and of like mind.

        They all think i'm wonderful which is the very least i would expect from them. :@)

        2. And you've laid bare most if not all of your secrets ….the memory of which reminds me to take another dose of mind bleach…..!

          1. I find that if people can cope with me when they know all the rough and raw edges then i can cope with them. And relax.

            I haven’t shown my bottom yet on Nottle ! Erm..actually i think i did once… :@(

    2. Both our sons are in contact with school friends.
      In fact, both meet up with them on "boys'" get togethers. (Sensibly, somewhere away from homes.)

      1. I've stayed in touch with many old school friends (class of 1967).We always try to get together around New Year in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where the school was located. Sadly, several have died but last December we numbered about 14. Long may it continue.

      2. I've stayed in touch with many old school friends (class of 1967).We always try to get together around New Year in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where the school was located. Sadly, several have died but last December we numbered about 14. Long may it continue.

    3. I know little about Phillip Schofield..

      Daughter & wife stand by smug national treasure Phillip Schofield even though he lied about his sexuality for 40 years and plugged rent-boy Matthew McGreevy the day after he became 16.. because Molly the daughter just happens to be his PR through her own firm called MMS Projects, with her father its top client and C5 smell easy money.

      1. Schofield , well , I didn't watch any of the progs he was in because I couldn't stand him .

        That man and his dark secrets is the type that all mothers worry about , and then some of us feel we can't protect our sons from predatory men similar to him

        His slyness and pathetic narcissism is disgusting

        With all honesty , I do wonder whether my much loved 2nd son fell under the spell of a man like that .

        I had no idea , and still even now I wondered about neighbours , Cub group, teachers , older pupils , work place colleagues, my pregnancy when he was in utero , and a bad birth , the food I fed him . Why?

        He is trusting , strong , but rather naive , so I felt appalled when the mobile phone rang over 20 years ago , outing him , with spite and malice another person told me .

        Moh and I nearly collapsed with shock .

        He has a partner, I like him , they have been together a long time .. they now live on the IOW.

        Modern life is what it is.

    4. I was in contact with old school friends , found them on the Old Friends Reunited site .. which is no longer , it was an amazing search engine .

      I am still in contact with some the student nurses I trained with nearly 60 years ago ( September next year).

      Forgot to mention Moh , he is in contact with a few chaps from his early RN days.

    5. Trouble is that my closest school friends all moved to distant shores, we stay in touch through Facebook but don't really have an opportunity to meet.
      I do have some incredible friends that I met through work and some of those friendships have now lasted over forty years

    1. It's disgusting to indulge the psychoses of these mentally ill people, even worse to have a child involved. No wonder mental illness is soaring.

      2. Imagine how this might be combined with Bluegrass favourite ‘I’m my own gran’paw’

      1. 393515+ up ticks,

        Morning TB,
        Without doubt a master tool maker.
        Result,
        Entering the world via a back passage, abused cannister, and only fit currently for political overseeing governing duties.

        Verdict,
        More of the same governing political units in the pipeline.

  49. Checked last nights French Lotto – won about 10 euros. Lost about 20.
    Hoping for better result on Friday – This should be a good luck omen.
    Wordle 1,201 3/6

    ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
    🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  50. I pity the poor fellow. A child needs two parents, male and female to instil different values and rational boundaries. A boy needs to learn how to be a man from mirroring and a girl to be a woman, while also understanding who they are in opposition to their other.

    1. Frankly, my reaction is that the child should be taken into care. Indulge your own fantasies by all means, but don't drag a defenceless child into it.

  51. Israel to launch ‘significant’ attack on Iran within days. 2 October 2024.

    Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli prime minister, has urged Israel to “destroy [Iran’s] nuclear project, destroy their major energy facilities and critically hit this terrorist regime.”

    The United States has expressed solid support for Israel, warning that there would be “severe consequences” for Iran and that Washington was “well postured” to defend its interests in the Middle East.

    We’re doomed. These are the policies of Genghis Khan. Sensible people try to restrict the damage that they might do in conflicts even to their enemies. The United States has tried to control the Middle East for the last twenty five years in a series of wars that have been utter failures; though the fallout has mostly been on Europe. This one will be no different except in its severity. Those with the means should make some preparation. Those without should still do so as far as is possible.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/02/israel-hezbollah-war-lebanon-invasion-gaza-latest-news/

    1. Genghis gave his opponents three opportunities to surrender. The first day there was the promise of no harm. The second, of the death of every fighting man. The third complete destruction.

      I think muslim have made it clear they won't ever stop trying to kill Jews so what choice does Israel have?

      1. When it is necessary to write to the rebels and to send envoys to them, do not threaten them with the strength and great size of your army, but say only: If you will submit yourselves obediently you shall find good treatment and rest, but if you resist— as for us, what do we know? The Everlasting God knows what will happen to you. Genghis Khan

        1. He was a clever chap was ol' Genghis – or Temujin, o give him his proper name.

          The only problem is once he died, his empire went with him, such was the strength of his charisma.

      2. Israel has been here many times before, and possibly (probably?) will again. I recall as a young child my mother freaking out about some incident (possibly 6 day war?) and my grandfather saying something along the lines of 'no worry, t'jews 'll 'ave 'em.

        1. The very first time “t’jews ‘ll ‘ave ‘em” does not happen will be the end of Israel, for their enemies will quite happily slaughter each and every Israeli they can lay their hands on. October 7th showed that to be true.
          As much as I wish peaceful coexistence in that area, I fail to see any other alternative that is open to Israel if they wish to continue their existence.

          2. A hungry polar bear would finish off any Israeli it lay its paws on. It doesn't justify shooting all the polar bears just in case it eats a Jew.

            One alternative I suggested the other day is to take a business approach, making Israel the Switzerland of the Middle East. One reason Switzerland was never occupied was because the conquerors were stashing their loot there, and valued it being in a safe place for after the war.

            One thing that can be said about the Muslims is that they have been at each other's throats since Fatima fell out with Aisha. The wrong sort of Muslim is regarded as even more of a devil than a Jew or even a Christian, and they can be relied on to cut one another's throats if there are no Jews or aid workers handy. Where then do they stash the loot that is well guarded?

            Traditionally, the Jews missed out because they charge interest on deposits whereas this is haram under Islamic practice. Surely one only needs an ounce of ingenuity to get round that.

          3. Nobody is suggesting shooting all the polar bears, just those who have spent loads of money financing and supprting those who would slaughter any Israeli.
            Let me know when you find any polar bears willing to coexist with Israel, until then I understand their need to defend themselves.

          4. A hungry polar bear must be primarily concerned with where the next meal is coming from. Israelis are edible.

          5. But these “polar bears” you refer to are not hungry, they just have an all consuming desire to slaughter any and all Israelis they can find. If you cannot see this and the reason Israel fights for its very existence I feel any further discussion on the matter is pointless.

    2. Why are we doomed? The Ayatollahs are terrified of an attack. If it is done properly the regime would have to cope with a population that will take advantage to topple them. Only 5% of the population supports the Ayatollahs. The government is suffering, at this time, from internal divisions that are destabilising their rule. I think they attacked Israel because they believed they would kill hundreds of people and thus demonstrate their power. Instead they have shown themselves to be impotent and look foolish. For all their bravado they kill one person and that man was a Palestinian. So now the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is in hiding a fool to the Iranians. You are aware that in Iran, the people have been celebrating the victory of the Israelis by the old custom of handing out sweets to one another?

      1. One thing the Israelis are not, and never have been, is stupid. They know precisely what they are doing. Netahyahu knows that in the present climate in Iran, there is nothing to be gained by bombarding Iranian civilians, who may well turn out, as in the past, to be stalwart allies against a common foe in Arabia, but held back by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with the heirarchy of elderly clerics and their morality police. "Morality, shmorality" I hear Jews mutter… Precision is key therefore. It is something lacking in their enemy, who seem more guided by divine hope that one rocket in a hundred may actually get within five miles of its target. Now that is stupid.

        It may turn out that Israel's strategy against Iran and their proxies must be quite different to that against the Palestinians, which is widely seen as a form of biblical ethnic cleansing and really rather dreadful.

        I also said years ago that the most likely scenario for a nuclear armageddon would not come from Russia, who despite their well-warranted paranoia, are opportunists more than they are crazed lunatics and understand deterrence. It would start with a pre-emptive strike by Israel (who, unlike Iran, never signed any non-proliferation treaty nor pledged to restrain their military nuclear intentions any more than the US did during WW2, and Hitler would have done had he not got rid of his Jewish nuclear scientists) on Tehran. What happens then?

    2. What does Welby have to say about the burning of churches and the persecution and murder of christians in muslim countries?

      2. Perhaps he attends the discos? There was quite a long piece on Unherd (Damian Thompson) a while ago, about all the fun they get up to in the Vatican.

          2. I was being flippant. Centuries ago popes and cardinals frequently philandered with women but the resulting offspring were always called "nephews"…!

      5. It is rude and hurtful to criticise other religions. They only want to make their God the master of the 'uman' race and they only kill and burn to remind people that they are better than you. Christians must be tolerant and learn their place.

        1. About sums it up, but if you'd added something along the lines that true Christians should feel guilty about every small act they carry out every day, especially ones involving people from abroad, then that'd be all of it.

      6. I am not Anglican. But I do not understand how it is that Anglicans have not got together to demand his resignation. He is a disgrace to his religion and a traitor to his country.

        1. I'm not sure we can get rid of him, johnathan. We haven't been able to get rid of the wrecktorette despite all the damage she's done to our church.

    1. 393515+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Our political overseers can no way be seen as domesticated political animals on account they shite ALL over us with gay abandon, and GAY is truly descriptive.

    2. I suspect Mr Anderson said something more tasty, in private if not out loud:-) his speech at Reform Conf went down very well (including with me).

    3. When you come here you don’t have to be like us.. because we never had a passion for enforced identity like the French, like the Germans.. like even the Americans.. That's because all European states are inventions put together at different moments of time and for different reasons, and one of the key instruments in this forging is education. So they used a single version of the language and single interpretation of history and a single set of values. We never did that because we never had a single set of education. Scotland has its own set of entrenched education.. Wales did.. at the same time we had multiple faith schools, local authority schools. We had charitable schools, public schools. We never had this uniformity. We could absorb a huge number of immigrants without tearing the structure apart. Which is why it's coming apart in France because you have this brittle model. It means there is only one way to be French.

      In UK we had no revolution because we had a flexible system with immense elasticity. There was no nation of Britain, that was for export only. However, it relied on this unspoken assumption.. One dominant political & behavioural culture that accommodated the good & ill the radical.. a very complex arrangement.. (damaged by Blair). We gave state recognition to Catholics Jews Quakers and incorporated them into the establishment. Which is why wokery attacks the dominant unspoken assumption.

      Actually what you are doing here when you get that passport & acquire citizenship you become a subject of The Crown. You are effectively subscribing to 1,000 years of history. The central embodiment of that overarching identity wasn’t nationhood it was the Monarchy.

      which is why wokery is determined to edge out the Monarchy.

      David Starkey.

      1. And why I take exception to constants denigration/criticism of the monarch. It is the ultimate target of the woke to topple it, and those who participate in this activity are attacking the very foundation of our history and our existence as a nation. If the monarch falls then this nation falls. People who believe in our existence as a distinct people should think very carefully and go through the effort of understanding the function of the monarch in our history. And if they believe in England should bolster, support, defend the monarchy because, with out it, we are no more than another bunch of Europeans interchangeable with the rest. The true English are a tribe, and as tribe we do not rally behind a flag but behind the leader, the monarch, male or female.

        2. It took quite a bit for people to rally behind a female monarch in the 16th century. Mary alienated the plebs, but Elisabeth won them back.

      2. And why I take exception to constants denigration/criticism of the monarch. It is the ultimate target of the woke to topple it, and those who participate in this activity are attacking the very foundation of our history and our existence as a nation. If the monarch falls then this nation falls. People who believe in our existence as a distinct people should think very carefully and go through the effort of understanding the function of the monarch in our history. And if they believe in England should bolster, support, defend the monarchy because, with out it, we are no more than another bunch of Europeans interchangeable with the rest. The true English are a tribe, and as tribe we do not rally behind a flag but behind the leader, the monarch, male or female.

  55. Morning all,

    For those of us who prefer not to risk having a COVID jab, like Dr John Campbell, here is his take on a case study from Harvard where a lady who previously had had COVID suffered fatal consequences soon after having had a mRNA jab.

    Dr John discusses in detail all the unsuccessful treatments that the patient went through after finally dying following a COVID zaccination that was recorded as a possible contributory cause:

    https://youtu.be/OLD3JIWqr6w?si=24xisnuwr5HhiWNd

    1. Bone of skull… there are multiple layers of bone in the human skull, it's not one single lump – that'd be silly. It's multiple plates. It's a well designed crash helmet. https://www.britannica.com/science/comparative-anatomy

      I get he's making it easier for folk but still. The human body is amazing. It's a fantastically efficient life support machine for the brain.

      2. The Pathologist who supervised my Doctorate commented once that " The human body has a Design Life of about 70-75 years, and don't forget that it is produced by Unskilled Labour". So at nearly 84 I am definitely living on borrowed time.

      3. Dr Campbell makes the point that even medical prifessionals can’t explain how an individual patient will react to mRNA systemic vaccination treatment.

        What concerns him is that the human body is so complex with individuals responding to treatment according to both their DNA and health history that it’s not worth taking the risk (particularly for himself) of any systemic form of drug injection.

        Humans can’t evolve fast enough to adapt to evolving modern environmental anthropogenically induced changes. Historically human civilisations couldn’t even adapt to global climate changes induced by La Niña and El Niño.

  56. Morning all, (just). It seems some lines are at last being drawn in the sand:

    "Foreign Minister Israel Katz announces that he has designated UN Secretary General António Guterres “persona non grata,” meaning the Spanish diplomat cannot enter Israel.

    The Foreign Ministry says the decision is a reaction to Guterres’s response after Iran’s missile attack last night, “in which he failed to mention Iran by name and did not unequivocally condemn its grave aggression.”

    Israel [said] Guterres’s policies throughout the war have “provided backing to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and now to the mothership of global terror, Iran.”

    In a statement, Katz says that “anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as nearly all the countries of the world have done, does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil.”"

    It's a great idea. Perhaps Sir Kneelalot could do the same for the UK.

    1. "…the decision is a reaction to Guterres's response after Iran's missile attack…"

      Guterres is wrong on just about everything but especially climate alarmism. No nation needs to make up an excuse to ban this stupid man.

      1. Yes indeed he is. He's just a deluded power hungry despot really.

        When it comes to climate alarmism, he needs only to feast upon the following sentence to understand that, even if he really does believe in anthropogenic climate change the solution he's planning on enforcing upon us is sheer fantasy:

        "Atmospheric winds and solar radiation at the surface of the earth are of high entropy and low free energy, rendering them incapable of the work required by the modern world."

        I suspect though that, a) he ain't listening, b) if he were then he would be incapable of understanding it in any case.

        Bet he never did physics at school.

        1. https://thecritic.co.uk/dont-bet-on-green-energy/

          "To borrow from The Matrix trilogy, the orthodox blue pill is everywhere, ensuring conformity and obedience to perceived group-wide beliefs. Yet, funnily enough, the transformational red pill is also everywhere, right in front of our eyes — though sadly in a cognitive blind spot — and unlocks straightforward, robust reasoning grounded in fundamental physics. It can be encapsulated in a single sentence:

          Atmospheric winds and solar radiation at the surface of the earth are of high entropy and low free energy, rendering them incapable of the work required by the modern world.

          What does that mean? As plentiful and appealing as wind and solar may be, these sources and the physical processes that comprise them are highly disordered, with very little free energy, making them all but incapable of doing useful work. This is the reason there are no organisms that derive their metabolic energy from wind, a truly notable fact given the widespread availability of this fuel at temperatures that are unthreatening to organic tissue. Plants do use solar radiation — narrow bands collected by specialised cells — but their needs are modest. Tolkien’s Ents are a fiction; trees cannot move rapidly or engage in rational thought.

          Wind and solar flows are chaotic, whereas oil, coal and nuclear fuels are very richly ordered, low entropy states of physics, with high levels of free energy. They therefore have a far greater potential to do work and create the improbable states of the world that we call wealth."

        2. Heard some idiot say "We've got to do something about it now because not doing anything would have catastrophic consequences"

          Then "the freedom of individuals should be balanced against the good of society…"

          That's how they think. Fascism. Do as we say, you'll have to pay because we know best. You get no choice or say in it.

          It is irrational, illogical and plain stupid.

          1. They really have no clue what they’re saying. Everyone chatters in sound bites getting nowhere.

      2. Yes indeed he is. He's just a deluded power hungry despot really.

        When it comes to climate alarmism, he needs only to feast upon the following sentence to understand that, even if he really does believe in anthropogenic climate change the solution he's planning on enforcing upon us is sheer fantasy:

        "Atmospheric winds and solar radiation at the surface of the earth are of high entropy and low free energy, rendering them incapable of the work required by the modern world."

        I suspect though that, a) he ain't listening, b) if he were then he would be incapable of understanding it in any case.

        Bet he never did physics at school.

        1. What a ninny…unless it was an ‘on-purpose’…what was that Kenny Everett character..’all in the best possible taste!’

          2. Taken aback there James, for a heartbeat. I’ll forever associate with Ms Rayner…my eyes, my eyes….

          4. According to Kenny's memoirs, the character was originally going to be called Mary Hinge…

          5. Made me giggle. Both are brilliant and when I first watched it, it took me ages to see the joke.

  57. We might laugh at the Guardian but there are some things it does well. I discovered this only today. It might confirm your opinion that there are some places to be avoided (Croydon, Cumbernauld) but there are some hidden gems in here as well, although I disagree that Ket'rin's one of 'em. It's flattered by its photo, the only picturesque corner of the town, even if it does feature one of the county's magnificent church spires.

    Where tourists seldom tread
    Celebrating unheralded corners of the UK
    https://www.theguardian.com/travel/series/where-tourists-seldom-tread

        2. Everywhere there's dindus. Every mopeder is a foreigner. If you visit the big Tesco off J8 at the time they're putting the reduced stuff out it's surrounded by foreigners who are simply savages. It's truly disgusting to see.

          1. As i said below i sometimes go to the Mayflower but now you have told me about Tesco i might go there for free theatre. What time do they put out the discounted stuff and would you like to meet for coffee sometime?

    2. All the cities have fallen, and most provincial towns. The UK is turning into a hybrid of East Germany and Mogadishu.

    1. Good luck with that.

      When a respite nurse phoned my mother to introduce herself, she was met by a torrent of F off, I am not dead yet rather obscene rants, who knows what would have happened if the nurse had then asked if she wanted to be treated as a he not a she!

    2. A nurse acquaintance was working in palliative care. A problem with a female patient in her nineties, so they phoned 111111. The male operator insisted on asking the old lady if she might be pregnant. Her answer included the fact that she was dying of lung cancer and that her last session of you-know-what was in the 1990s (or 80s) . My acquaintance was impressed that her patient could recall the exact date.

      2. My former NHS dentist used to ask me at every appointment to fill in a form declaring if I was pregnant. The only answer I could give was "not yet". My gender therapist is working on it.

  59. Someone fired a gun (apparently) at a taxi in which Ian Hislop was travelling. He wasn't injured.

    Oh well….

  60. Robert Jenrick… really? Spiked. 2 October 2024

    It seems that a majority of Conservative MPs actually think that Robert Jenrick should be their next party leader. He has come out on top in each round of the leadership contest so far, repeatedly seeing off the other proverbial bald men battling over the Tory comb.

    By some unintentional fluke I caught this guy’s speech to the conference. It did solve some of my doubts about him. From its content it was clear that he and I have been inhabiting different countries for the last fourteen years.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/02/robert-jenrick-really/

    3. Great!
      Just what floating Reform voters were gasping for..
      A personally ambitious ‘full-fat subscriber to David Cameron’, trimming ‘his sails to suit whichever political wind is blowing who naturally voted Remain in 2016.

    5. Saw him at the hustings a couple of weeks back; he seemed over eager. Rather like teacher's pet, frantically waving his arm to be first with every answer.

    6. The prediction is that Jenrick and Badenoch will be the last two the MPs choose and that the members will then vote for Badenoch.

      1. I can't believe anyone in that party is standing with a slogan that spells Bad Enoch!

  62. Net Zero: Only fanatics fail to see the hopelessness of the ruinous policy
    Every Wednesday in this weekly series, Waste Watch will expose the shocking ways in which taxpayer money is abused

    [Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband addresses delegates during the Labour Party Conference 2024 Getty News]
    Dia Chakravarty 02 October 2024 10:00am

    It only took a near-wipe out in a general election for the Conservative politicians to wake up to the perils of “Net Zero”, judging by the noises coming out of this year’s Party Conference.

    Just over five years ago, in June 2019, Theresa May’s government proudly declared that the UK had become “the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050.”

    Before that, the UK had a target to achieve at least 80 percent reduction in all its greenhouse emissions from 1990 levels, so there were already significant controls in place.

    But this new ambitious target committed the country to bring emissions to net zero by 2050. An Office for Budget Responsibility report published in July 2021 estimated the net cost of this ambition to be £321 billion or over £10 billion a year.

    When, by the Climate Change Committee’s figures, the policy was estimated to cost £1,700 a year on average for every household, Boris Johnson remained enamoured with it, promising us a green Nirvana, complete with a customarily outlandish claim that “China and Russia [will follow] our lead with their own net zero targets, as prices tumble and green tech becomes the global norm”.

    A year after that, when Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak And Penny Mordaunt were setting out their policy positions as they sought to replace Johnson in No 10, all three – albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm – committed themselves to the policy.

    Rishi Sunak carried on the tradition of putting taxpayers’ money where the government’s Net Zero mouth is. There was, for example, the £25 million package through the UK Research and Innovation Agency to help local authorities across the UK “tackle the barriers to climate action projects” and “speed up their progress to net zero”.

    Then there was “up to £142.8 million” to “support up to 955 more zero emission buses (ZEBs) and associated infrastructure across 25 local transport areas”.

    There has been no shortage of grants and subsidies such as these throughout the tenure of the last administration.

    Now, with a fanatical Ed Miliband leading the UK’s Net Zero efforts with a zeal of which his predecessors could only dream, the Tory leadership contenders this time around appear to have worked out that there’s no way to reasonably park their tank on Labour’s green lawn and while still winning over the party faithfuls.

    Kemi Badenoch, the darling of the grassroots who topped the first YouGov poll of Conservative members for the current leadership contest, has been direct in her concerns about blindly chasing the green dream.

    “There’s no point being the first country to reach Net Zero if we are also the first country to be bankrupt, nobody is going to follow,” she told the Conference on Monday. She also warned against “setting a target without a plan”, making the country “reliant on dangerous regimes” for energy.

    Worryingly, the current government seems wholly unconcerned about veering the country away from energy security. Back in July, barely a week after being appointed the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband overruled his own officials and ordered an immediate ban on drilling in new North Sea oilfields.

    Given that according to industry experts the UK spent almost £27bn on imports of crude oil and over £21bn on gas imports last year, this decision will drive those costs even further, inevitably hitting people in their pockets with higher energy bills.

    On that same week, Miliband also overturned the planning inspectorate, allowing the energy firm Sunnica to build a 2,792-acre solar farm and energy storage infrastructure around several villages in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

    Critics have accused the Energy Secretary of sacrificing vast amounts of farmland on the altar of Net Zero projects, endangering the country’s food security and exposing the nation to the volatility of the international markets as well as to the whims of foreign dictators.

    Tom Tugendhat, another Tory leadership hopeful who is more sympathetic to the concept of Net Zero, has been scathing in his attack of Ed Miliband personally at Conference. Calling the Energy Secretary “the worst Secretary of State this country has seen since Lord North”.

    The former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee accused Miliband of “trying to destroy this country”.

    “[Miliband] is going to make us economically weaker, energy Security is going to be undermined, agricultural security is going to be undermined, and our national security is going to be undermined.”

    “Not only is he going to close down important industries in Aberdeen and Teesside [oil, iron and steel] but he’s actually going to destroy the opportunity for growth and employment in this country and send jobs to China,” warned Tugendhat.

    And that is surely the fundamental problem with the concept of Net Zero: no matter how many British jobs are sacrificed as we destroy our coal, gas, oil industries or shut down our steel plants, the environmental impact globally will remain unaffected as those jobs simply move elsewhere in the world.

    The closure of the Port Talbot steelworks in September became the latest example to illustrate this.

    The country’s biggest steel works in Wales ended production after almost a century’s operation, with 2,800 people losing their jobs as a result.

    UK taxpayers have already had £500 million of their money promised to the Indian owners of the plant, Tata Steel, towards a £1.25bn Net Zero- friendly electric arc furnace at Port Talbot, though it is now reported that only around 100 extra jobs will be saved as a result of this deal.

    But what truly drives the hopelessness of the Net Zero doctrine home is the fact that less than two weeks ago, Tata announced that it has successfully commissioned India’s largest blast furnace, just as it shut its furnace in Port Talbot.

    British taxpayers and consumers are endlessly sermonised by politicians of all colours that accepting higher tax bills and energy bills is the price we must pay in order to protect the planet. But it is abundantly clear that setting arbitrary, unrealistic targets really only serves to threaten our national and economic security, no matter how morally superior it makes our policy-makers feel.

    1. I have my own strategy. Everything these Con / Lab / Libs say on the subject leads me to conclude that they are putting me and mine in danger; therefore, I'll be ignoring them.

  63. Just as the bower bird attracts a mate by the quality of the offerings in the nest, and a frog attracts a mate by the sonorant beauty of his singing, so a man is supposed to attract a mate according to how good he is in the kitchen.

    Alas, I had high aspirations for lunch time, cooking up this thing with eggs, cheese, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, chopped cabbage, yoghurt and a small aubergine (the only one that grew in my garden). How best to describe it visually but vomit on toast? I am trying to cover it up using Worcestershire sauce, but I doubt I could even fool my mother.

    It's a very long time since there have not been cobwebs in my kitchen.

    Bon appetit!

    2. Keep it simple. An omelette with a little cheese is okay.
      The other stuff except for the cabbage would have made you a babaganoush which you could eat with toast.

      To throw it all together is to guarantee a throw up.

      1. All the other stuff would feed a pig, which, when fattened gives you meat — real food — (and bacon) for a year.

  64. Cleverly digging a hole for himself at the conference, I note. He "apologises" to the British people apparently. Then says he's going to do all the things they said they'd do during the past 14-years but didn't. Personally I can't say I was much enamoured of those things, in any case.

    A simple, "I resign" would have sufficed.

    1. Stupidly we call him. Thick as planks. Fervent supporter of previous, ruinous Tory government. Waste of space (as are the other three)

      1. Another firm but fair assessment, Bill. He's a fairly recent newcomer on my radar I suppose but the more I see of him the less I'm impressed.

      2. Another firm but fair assessment, Bill. He's a fairly recent newcomer on my radar I suppose but the more I see of him the less I'm impressed.

    1. All over small town USA a sudden arrival of a 1,000 Haitians flown in.. wearing same kit, same luggage and in possession of a large sum of money.
      .
      When MSN blab on about false claims.. you know there's something to it.
      .
      https://youtu.be/pAYeP1zXzV4?t=10

      2. The old part of Pittsburgh has a very central European feel. It was settled by Poles and Hungarians. Civilised people. My folks live just outside, in North Allegheny county near the Ohio river. Allegheny and Ohio have the same meaning – Great River in different injun tribal languages. The Monongahela river also flows through Pitt. The name references its unstable banks. Leads me to wondering what the Delaware and Iroquois Nations make of this latest invasion. As for the immigrant kit, it's government issue, shurely?

    1. I'm just wondering which group will be activated in the UK. Will it be Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad or the Revolutionary Guard? They are all here.

      2. I truly hope all of them.. gradually, then all at once.
        Then perhaps, just perhaps the wet Tory will grasp the seriousness.

  67. Afternoon All
    Belated Medley lighter side as it's so grim out there
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    https://x.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1840901975178686894

  68. Father of London Westminster Academy schoolgirl, 14, hurt in acid attack reveals 'shock'..
    What is the world coming to? This is so very, very sad.

    It's not exactly rocket science.. is it?

  69. Father of London Westminster Academy schoolgirl, 14, hurt in acid attack reveals 'shock'..
    What is the world coming to? This is so very, very sad.

    It's not exactly rocket science.. is it?

  70. Off fishing. Hard going on the Wordle.

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  71. A woman asks her husband at breakfast time,
    "Would you like some bacon and eggs, a slice of toast, and maybe some grapefruit juice and coffee?"
    He declines. "Thanks for asking, but I'm not hungry right now.
    It's this Viagra," he says. "It's really taken the edge off my appetite."
    At lunchtime, she asked him if he would like something.
    "How about a bowl of soup, homemade muffins or a cheese sandwich?"
    He declines. "The Viagra," he says, "Its really spoiled my need for food."
    Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants anything to eat.
    "Would you like a juicy rib eye steak and some scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a rotisserie chicken or tasty stir fry?"
    He declines again. "No," he says, "it's got to be the Viagra. I'm still not hungry."
    "Well," she says, "Would you mind getting off me? I'm bloody starving."

          2. When I was at boarding school our post was delivered to the housemaster's side of the house and he used to place the mail for the boys on a window ledge on the boys' side of the house.

            My best friend – who was at Eton and subsequently became my best man when I married – used to get condoms and 'dirty postcards' from his school barber and he used to send postcards like this to me in the post with a Durex sellotaped to them.

            I don't know what the Slug (as my housemaster was called) made of this but he never said anything about it to me!

  72. "Lord" Comical Alli under investigation by Lords' watchdog…..

    Wonder how soon he'll be cleared of all wrong doing?

    1. Will the lords be wearing brand new designer clothes and cast their votes from expensive holiday homes?

      1. There is an old horror film where the hero (or anti-hero) is at a ball and a large mirror is in shot, whereupon the viewer realises that none of the other dancers have a reflection. Hence the trend for personal shoppers.

          2. Is that the one where the woman, in an attempt to repel the vampire, holds a cross up to him, at which Alfie Bass comes out with the line: 'Oi vey, have you got the wrong vampire!'?

            Mind you, he couldn't have been an orthodox observant Jewish vampire because consuming blood is forbidden in the Torah (see Leviticus 7:26-27). Maybe that's part of the joke.

      2. 350 quid a day and a free lunch just for signing in. Even caught dozing on the red leather.
        Potentially over 80 thousand pounds per year for doing absolutely nothing.

      1. To get an honest and clear picture i would like to see Keith Vaz as part of the investigation team.

  73. And another thing…..

    Why did these Tory Tosser candidates have to have their wives on show? What has a spouse to do with a person's ability to be a good politician?

    3. Marketing. Appeal to demographics. Get the women's vote. 'Look, I'm married, I've all the traits you attach to a married man!'

      And yes, it's pathetic but people are stupid.

    4. When I married Caroline some of my best and oldest friends told me it was the best thing I had ever done – I did not dispute it.

      Many of us here would also claim that marrying his or her spouse was the best thing he or she had ever done.

      Some politicians would be happy to keep their wives and husbands well out of sight!

    6. They show their wives much like hamas parade their sausages.
      Look ! See ! these beautiful people have value. I must have value too.

        1. Lethal fodder , OLT .

          Moh has Type 2 Diabetes .

          I enjoy a slice of lemon drizzle cake, but not really all that keen on others, apart from a good juicy fruit cake ..

          Drat I am denying myself a treat… Battenburg cake , a chocolate eclair , Victoria sponge , Coconut macaroon, yes I dream about a sliver of cake and a custard tart , bread pudding cake,
          carrot cake , cheese cake , chocolate cake , vanilla slice !

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    4. The choice would be hard because I have lost my sweet tooth over the years, I can't remember when I last ate anything like that. And are those chips on the lowest tier? Chips and sandwiches! However, all delivered with great panache.

        1. It does look an interesting place, I have bookmarked it for future reference and family will be interested.

  75. An explosive Par Four!

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    1. Five today, though I entered a four on my phone. During the week I do it first on the work laptop as a lunchtime activity and then copy it to the phone to keep my streak going.

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    1. And like Yasser Arafat and Edward Said, most of those "Palestinians" are of Egyptian origin. Egypt doesn't want them either.

    1. So what does the NHS say about temperatures for homes in which the elderly live?

      NHS England recommends 21°C for living areas, while 18°C seems to be fine for bedrooms

      https://personalalarms.org/blog/advice/what-is-the-ideal-room-temperature-for-an-elderly-person#:~:text=Along%20with%20the%20World%20Health,lower%20than%2018%C2%B0%20Celsius.

      According to this link the WHO recomends that the elderly should not live in rooms heated to less than 18 degC.

      Variations from these ideal temperatures have more serious implications for the health of the elderly and by implication also for the viability of the NHS during the winter period. This can only rebound on the incumbent Government after withrawal of the availability of the winter heating allowance for the majority of pensioners.

      2. What constitutes elderly?
        Even this evening I doubt anywhere in this house is over 15°C, as I write; the upstairs rooms will be half that overnight and in mid winter the wood burners are all that keeps the house from freezing, unless we keep the oil heating on 24/7

          1. Lucky you.
            The chateau is great to live in, but designed to take heat out in the summer, It does the same in the winter, so it’s often warmer outside than in.
            Tonight is a case in point.

          2. Occasionally it's warmer out than in here. It's only single brick (no cavity). Wet and windy days suck the heat out, unfortunately.

  79. A couple of days ago I mentioned watching an archer shoot arrows in the centre of a 50p size target at 20 yards and then 30 yards. I learned today that he's a member of the TeamGB Archery Squad…..

  80. When a newspaper with Trump derangement syndrome as bad as that at the Evening Standard makes such a "comment", you know it was bad.

    That was awful for Tim Walz: he flubbed his VP debate against JD Vance
    Walz struggled during his vice-presidential debate, with several missteps and moments of uncertainty

    https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/tim-walz-jd-vance-vice-presidential-debate-b1185413.html?lid=5fos39gcxgvu&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=News_email_2024-10-02&utm_term=ES_News_Daily_CDP

    1. Over on ZH there's a Post Mortem report on Walz's historical dealings with the CCP – it ain't pretty…..

  82. 393515+ up ticks,

    Dt,

    More shite being created for the future
    The ‘world and his wife’ cannot come to Britain, says Jenrick
    Tory leadership frontrunner tells conference ‘mass migration’ is putting immense pressure on housing, hospitals and roads
    OK for paedophiles, rapist, killers trannies wooly woofters etc,etc,etc, BUT NOT Mr World and his wife, to straight.

    The ‘world and his wife’ cannot come to Britain, says Jenrick
    Tory leadership frontrunner tells conference.

    This political tripe is rhetorically dishing out the fodder for fools as in the membership and polling station voters.

    A re-run is about to follow, same old, same old tactical in play, once again, must vote tory "IN NAME ONLY" keep out labour, after all, they are a better class of shite.

  83. A poem by Dawn Butler MP for Brent East (35% of her constituents are white)

    You wanted to see me broken

    Head bowed and tears in my eyes?

    More for you; you didn’t realise

    That my strength is powered by your lies.

    You are the wrong one, the violent one, the weird one;

    Where was I?

    I am the Chosen One

    Because I am of the First Ones.

    You see this skin I’m in

    This beautiful mahogany brown

    This skin you don’t like [shot of Kamala Harris], I believe.

    So why you try so hard to achieve [shot of Dawn with a bemused fruit juice seller]

    By burning yourself with the sun?

    For me there’s no need

    Because I am the Chosen One

    For I am of the First Ones [another shot of a pharaoh like African figure].

    I know I’m black and beautiful

    An African freedom fighter [shots of US civil rights figures, including Martin Luther King]

    My skin is my protection,

    And you, my friend, don’t matter.

    Because I am the Chosen One

    For I am of the First Ones.

    You created a structure

    That made you seem great

    But the simple reality is [shot of Dawn speaking in the Commons]

    It is all fake.

    Because I am the Chosen One

    For I am of the First Ones.

    So you wanted to see me broken?

    Head bowed and tears in my eyes?

    More for you, you haven’t realised

    My strength is despite your lies.

    According to the Equality Act 2010 on the government website: 'It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of: race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin'

    It also says: 'The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society.'

    Further: 'Discrimination can come in the following forms,' One of which is: 'harassment – unwanted behaviour linked to a protected characteristic that violates someone’s dignity or creates an offensive environment for them'

    According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission: 'It is against the law to discriminate against someone because of a protected characteristic'

    It goes on to state: 'There are nine protected characteristics. One of which is race. A race is a group of people defined by their colour, nationality (including citizenship) ethnicity or national origins. A racial group can be made up of more than one distinct racial group, such as Black British (or white British – my words in brackets).

    I am highly offended by Butler's poem. It truly attacks my dignity and attempts to make me feel lesser. She is 'chosen' and I am not. It is clearly anti-white. She says that white people's words are, 'lies'. And that because of the white colour of my skin, I, 'don't matter'. All white people don't matter. (how can an MP get away with saying that her constituents don't matter if the colour of their skin is different?) How can she possibly remain an MP when she perceives the 'structure' of our country and history as being 'fake'? A country which her party represents on the world stage. She, as an MP, is meant to represent all the diverse people within her constituency and respect all cultures, within Britain, at large.

    This poem is highly offensive to me with its blatant discrimination of white people. She must be sacked at once. There is no way that anyone can represent our country and its many diverse peoples, when they hold such offensive views of people because of the colour of their skin.

      1. Her position is utterly untenable. It's unbelievable, especially when members of her party are so quick to decry others as racist.

      1. The first life on earth was microbes called prokaryotes. She doesn't even get that right.

        I recall she attacked Jamie Oliver for appropriating jerk chicken from the Caribbean. Well Jamaicans can therefore be accused of appropriation too as jerk chicken was brought to Jamaica originally by Peruvian immigrants.

        1. The same with perceived Caribbean dishes – rice and peas, curry goat. All made from ingredients not native to the region.

    3. Dawn’s contribution to Black History Month. Racist drivel.. However, as a poem right up there with Rik.

      Oh, Cliff Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
      You really are a Cliff
      When fascists keep trying to push you over it
      Are they the lemmings?
      Or are you Cliff?
      Or are you, Cliff?

    5. TRY THIS:

      You can contact the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to make a complaint in a number of ways:
      Phone: Call the general enquiries line on 0161 829 8100
      Post: Send a letter to the Correspondence Unit, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Third floor, Windsor House, 50 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0TL
      Online: Fill out the complaint form on the EHRC website
      The EHRC's office hours are Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. They usually aim to respond within 20 working days.
      The EHRC's complaints policy states that they treat complaints as expressions of dissatisfaction that require a response.

      They also state that they will not tolerate threatening, abusive, or unreasonable behavior.

    6. If Blacks really were as superior as they claim, they wouldn't need to tell the world.
      Everyone could see it with their own eyes.

        1. Perhaps because it's full of Blacks?

          But seriously, it has the potential to be by far and away the richest continent, given its natural resources.
          If every white European moved to Africa and every black African moved to Europe the new European Africans would be deserting the Europe they destroyed and trying to head back within 20 years.

          1. But, but…Whitey was only there around 150 years. Sub Saharan Africa had thousands of years of complete autonomy and did fuck all with it.

    8. OK, let's give this a wee whirl for White History Hour:

      You wanted to see me broken

      Head bowed and tears in my eyes?

      More for you; you didn’t realise

      That my strength is powered by your lies.

      You are the wrong one, the violent one, the weird one;

      Where was I?

      I am the Chosen One

      Because I am of the First Ones.

      You see this skin I’m in

      This beautiful ivory white

      This skin you don’t like [shot of Donald Trump], I believe.

      So why you try so hard to achieve [shot of me with a bemused fruit juice seller]

      By bleaching yourself with the sun?

      For me there’s no need

      Because I am the Chosen One

      For I am of the First Ones [another shot of Boudicca)].

      I know I’m white and beautiful

      A European freedom fighter [shots of WWII soldiers, including Winston Churchill]

      My skin is my protection,

      And you, my friend, don’t matter.

      Because I am the Chosen One

      For I am of the First Ones.

      You created a structure

      That made you seem great

      But the simple reality is [shot of me at Speakers Corner]

      It is all fake.

      Because I am the Chosen One

      For I am of the First Ones.

      So you wanted to see me broken?

      Head bowed and tears in my eyes?

      More for you, you haven’t realised

      My strength is despite your lies.

  85. Latest Breaking News –
    In keeping with Starmer returning all his freebies as a goodwill gesture.
    Boris has now agreed to give back a cake.
    Will he now be allowed to come back as PM?

  86. That's me for today. The rain stopped about midday – Sun came out later and I went for a quick bike ride. Market tomorrow.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain.

  89. Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank
    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/10/GettyImages-1228367837-2-640×480.jpg
    3:20
    The European Union (EU) is being hindered by “whiteness”, according to a report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

    Despite young people in many European countries, including Germany and France, opting for the populist right in recent elections, the think tank alleged that the preponderance of native European politicians in the EU Parliament could undermine backing from “young people” in the bloc for the globalist political project.

    Young voters will be put off supporting the bloc unless the demographics of its Parliament look more like national football teams of Europe, some of which are largely comprised of players of African descent, according to a report from the think tank, which is funded in part by cosmopolitan billionaire George Soros.

    Titled ‘Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections’, the report compares the EU to the titular location in Greta Gerwig’s 2023 film as “a place prone to regard itself as more perfect than it really is”.

    But rather than pointing to policies causing anger in much of Europe, such as lax external border controls and programmes to disperse third-world migrants throughout the bloc, or the perception of Brussels as too bureaucratic and elitist, the ECFR claims that more ethnic diversity among the continent’s elected representatives is the way to restore trust and build confidence in the EU.

    “The EU’s ‘whiteness’ – which some observers have critiqued for some time – was on full display” at recent European elections, said the report, claiming that this represents a “blind spot” for Europhiles who wish to draw the bloc’s nations into ever-closer union.

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    As well as praising the heavy diversity in European football tournaments, the report also commended EU nations which sent non-white singers to represent them at the most recent Eurovision Song Contest, and hailed the demographics of the 2024 Paris Olympics in which native Europeans made up a small proportion of athletes overall.

    “Olympians such as Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands, Teddy Riner from France, and Rashidat Adeleke from Ireland, have served as important role models for their multicultural national publics,” author Pawel Zerka writes.

    In a section entitled ‘Beyond “white” Europe’, he alleges that there are “barriers to political participation” for people from non-European ethnic backgrounds, complaining about countries like Italy refusing to grant birthright citizenship, as well as many nations’ failure to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants and temporary workers from outside Europe.

    Previously Breitbart London reported how an “expert” from the ECFR claimed that Russian and Syrian intelligence agencies could initiate sex attacks on German women in a bid to make the electorate more prone to vote for politicians who oppose open borders.

    ECFR ‘senior fellow’ Gustav Gressel’s comments, made to a German tabloid, came at the height of the 2016 migrant crisis, after leader Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders to millions of migrants from the third world — an action which set off a wave of alarming sexual assaults by groups of newcomers across the nation.

      1. Put her in a flat above a Rochdale kebab shop for a few months, to consider her position?

    2. The Kalergi Plan. The man of the future. A rootless dark skinned low IQ mongrel who’ll do the manual jobs AI can’t do. With the elite class breeding only among themselves, as if they’re not mad enough already. Kalergi was clearly an ignorant narcissist, as are his followers.

  90. The only people who welcome Palestinian refugees are the British – no one in the Middle East wants them

    Yasser Arafat was one of the nastiest of the tribe and he did everything he could to impede any peaceful settlement with Israel and his legacy still poisons everything.

    Hard to find any laughs in the Godforsaken area but one of The Sun's better headlines when he got married was:

    Yassir, that's my baby!

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    1. The dinghy people now know there is no longer any threat and are waiting for prices to drop?

          1. If someone else is paying, does it matter? It would be cheaper to buy a rail or air ticket but they don’t. Could they not claim refugee status at Heathrow or St Pancras.

          2. Their problem under that scenario is that they can't get on the plane/ferry/train because they get checked before they leave.

    2. There's been a northerly wind for the past few days . Even Cesar had to wait for favourable winds before crossing the channel….

    1. Perfect, as a Reform supporter I am happy with the favourite candidate according to the Daily Fail.
      In actual fact any one of the four will do, the party is as good as dead, who leads the funeral service is of no consequence. That will be one half of the Uniparty consigned to history, 2TK is well on the way killing the onther half.

  93. from Coffee House, the Spectator

    If Spain doesn’t impress you, what will?
    Ignore what the tourists say – there’s no place better to live in western Europe

    Mark Nayler2 October 2024, 5:00am
    As a Brit who has lived in Spain for almost a decade, I must take issue with Zoe Strimpel’s recent article arguing that it’s the ‘worst country […] in western Europe’, at least as a holiday destination. My four years in Granada and almost five in Malaga have shown me that it’s the best place in western Europe to live – but not because of anything to do with ‘progressive’ politics or a Gen-Z dating trend.

    I find it hard to imagine what city would appear beautiful and romantic to someone who’s unmoved by Granada, Cordoba, or Seville
    The ‘buzzing terraces’ that Strimpel praises for distracting customers from horrible tapas aren’t just for tourists – they’re an integral part of the Spanish lifestyle. Life in Spain is lived outdoors, not shuttered away in heated rooms, hiding from the cold and rain. This means that people aren’t isolated in the way they tend to be in countries with harsher weather. Spanish streets and squares are noisy, friendly places, where you hardly ever see violence or drunkenness. And because the cost of living is generally low, especially in the south, you can live well without the pressure of having to pull in a huge salary.

    It is often said – usually by northern Europeans, Brits, and Americans – that Spaniards are lazy. And they seem to have a point. Employees in shops, banks, and even hospitals leave their stations for breakfast around 10 a.m.; high street shops close on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and for three hours in the middle of every weekday; banks, administrative buildings, and post offices are never open past 2 p.m., and local bus services often don’t operate at weekends. Most towns and villages are deserted between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., during which period everyone knows to respect the siesta hour.

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    Such things can be frustrating, especially for expats accustomed to cities where anything is available at any time. But these customs aren’t due to laziness. They show, rather, that Spaniards don’t prioritise work above everything else. Equal importance is accorded to socialising with friends and family, especially during the week-long festivals in summer. Spaniards are experts in extracting pleasure and connection from the most humdrum aspects of daily life, which is one of the main reasons living in Spain is so enjoyable.

    I do agree with Strimpel on two points, though, the first of which regards politics. Spain is, as she says, ‘nasty’ in this respect. As in many other European countries, a so-called liberal left postures as a moral guardian and defender of democracy against the march of the ‘far right’ (that is, absolutely anything right of centre). But if we’re talking about politicians who thrive on polarisation, swapping reasoned debate for pointless hostility, Spain is no worse, or at least not much worse, than anywhere else, including the UK and US.

    The lamentable state of Spanish politics won’t make any difference to a holiday in Spain, though. If you’re inwardly fuming at Vox or Pedro Sanchez as you trek through the mountains of Granada’s Sierra Nevada, swim off the wild beaches of Cadiz, or wander amongst the arches of Cordoba’s Mezquita, it’s not because political nastiness has contaminated every aspect of society. It’s because you need a serious break from reading the news.

    I also agree to some extent with Strimpel about Spanish food. Yes, it can be oily and carb-heavy. Bread and potatoes accompany most main courses, and vegetables, especially of the green variety, rarely appear on menus. Many dishes are deep-fried and very dry, as sauces aren’t really a Spanish speciality. To a large extent, though, food is a matter of personal taste. And in cities such as Madrid, Malaga, and San Sebastian, the culinary scene is world-class. San Sebastian, in fact, is ranked third in the world for Michelin stars per capita, behind Luxembourg and Kyoto.

    Speaking of cities, Strimpel says she finds Spain’s offering ‘dire’. Even allowing for the subjectivities of taste (and the presence of foul-smelling drains outside hotel rooms), I find it hard to imagine what kind of city would appear beautiful and romantic to someone who’s unmoved by Granada, Cordoba, or Seville. What criteria of aesthetic appeal is at work here? Surely a highly specific one that would also exclude most other major European cities.

    Finally, I sympathise with Strimpel’s dislike of bullfighting. But of course, if you’re opposed to it, you don’t have to go. One reason I moved to southern Spain was to be able to attend bullfights frequently – although, like everyone else who regards themselves as an aficionado, I go to witness art, not ‘bay’ for blood. Whether I am thrilled or disgusted by what occurs in the ring, though, it always makes me feel; and sometimes on those strange, intense afternoons, I love Spain more than ever.

    1. Excellent to see you posting these as thread starters rather than non-sequitur attachments.
      I take it that you're home again.

    2. We English don't have the weather to live life in the open air. We did have the pub, though, until the puritans tried to wreck it.

      1. Depending where you live, it gets pretty cold in winter in Spain too. When they banned smoking in bars they opened up the terraces all year round instead of just in summer which was nice. Now they want to ban smoking on terraces.

    3. Zoe Strimpel wasn't writing about living in Spain but Spain as a holiday destination.
      Her article didn't give the impression that she was very knowledgeable about the country or its customs but certainly she had been on some package type trips to holiday resorts.
      In fifty years I have visited these kind of places only a few times. My wife is Spanish and we learned very quickly that any reservation had to be made in her name. A whiff of an English name will have you transported to some naff hotel, Viva España in the dance hall and trifle as a dessert after two miserable dinner courses; one of them may be a greasy paella.
      The food in Spain is almost always well prepared and served in portions large enough to satisfy most appetites. Lots of salad and vegetables on the menu. Mark's wrong about that. Difficult to be served bad wine even cheap wine is palatable.
      Spain is a great place to live as Mark points out. But if you'r going on holiday avoid any place where the Zoe Strimpels of this world congregate. Overpriced and horrible. If they're speaking English all around you get out quickly.

  94. From Coffee House, the Spectator

    Why hasn’t Trump congratulated J.D. Vance?
    Steerpike2 October 2024, 11:28am
    Even the most ardent Trump-loathers are admitting that, last night, the Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance easily won his debate against his opposite number, Tim Walz. ‘Vance is going home with Walz’s wallet,’ said the veteran Never Trumper David Frum.

    It’s curious, then, that – at time of writing at least – Donald Trump still hasn’t congratulated his running mate over his resounding victory, at least not publicly. Last night, on his Truth Social media account, Trump posted a rude meme about how stupid Tim Walz is, but no applause for JD.

    Even more mysteriously, as the debate finished, Trump posted on Twitter/X a tribute not to Vance but to ‘one of the most magnificent baseball players ever to play the game’ – the late Pete Rose.

    Does Steerpike detect a whiff of lèse-majesté? Vance defended Trump against a number of attacks from Walz in the course of the televised discussion. But he was not quite as a sycophantic to his dear leader as he has been in the past. Perhaps Trump, a proud man to put it mildly, felt insufficiently revered.

    Or it could be that the Donald, having given such a rotten display in his head-to-head with Kamala Harris last month, is peeved at Vance for doing so much better. Vance, after all, showed that you win televised debates by mastering details, which is something Trump has never quite been able to do.

    Vance also criticised Republicans for not doing a better job of defending the party’s pro-life position on abortion, an issue Trump has been much attacked over.

    Worst of all, perhaps, Vance went to great lengths to be polite to his opponent, which is not quite in keeping with Trump’s preference for ‘killer’ spokesmen who articulate his greatness by endlessly trashing enemies.

    What we can say almost for certain is that, by tweeting out his admiration for a baseball player rather than congratulating his VP, Trump made it clear that he does not think the Walz-Vance contest matters. It’s all about him, after all.

  95. A view from Israel:

    Rafi Farber
    Oct 2

    Spent an hour in the bomb shelter last night, but Iran isn't actually trying to destroy anything, just make some noise. No damage, almost no casualties.

    I'm Fine, Thanks
    I'm sure you all heard about the big bad ballistic missile attack by the terrible scary Iran yada yada. Yes it was scary to a point (looked like an alien invasion from here in the Golan actually), and yes I saw the fireworks, and as we saw them in the sky we all calmly strolled over to the bomb shelter until it was all over. Nobody was hurt, and there was almost no damage. Yes there is a military censor which hides any news of damage to military infrastructure, which is understandable during wartime, but everyone in the country has connections to someone high in the army by 2 degrees at most and we all know there is no serious damage to anything vital.

    (This is where you normally get a motivational sentence urging you to take out a paid Substack subscription)
    All free EGI subscribers get a full refund if I get hit by an Iranian ballistic missile.
    Upgrade to paid

    The truth is Iran is specifically trying NOT to damage anything or kill any Jews. They're too afraid of us to do anything serious. They're just making the necessary bombastic noise out of fear for their own lives within their own theocracy. The difference between a Muslim revolution and a Jewish one is that in a Muslim revolution, the leaders get massacred in the streets and every female member of their families, adults and children both, also has the distinction of being gang-raped by an angry mob first.

    In a Jewish revolution the farthest we'll go is screaming at one another and the old regime and maybe a few slaps in the face and the old guard will get a very long Time Out in the Corner to Think About What They've Done. (I know that in the Bible it was worse, but we were just a young nation then and we're a lot older now and we haven't massacred one another in a civil war for 2,189 years and counting, so pretty good streak and I don’t think we're going to be breaking it anytime soon.)

    We'll see what we do to Iran in response in the next few days, and then maybe Iran will try to actually break something over here. By then maybe the monetary plumbing will break down. Speaking of that…

    SOFR Breaks Through Fed Ceiling
    (teh next part is about finance)

    2. Apparently a lot of the Iranian missiles fell in the desert. Israel doesn’t waste resources trying to stop those.

    3. While everyone focused on the missiles, some barbarians went on a murderous rampage in Israel and killed innocent bystanders, people like Inbar Segev-Vigder, a new mother who died protecting her six month old baby.

      Their latest missile attack might have been thwarted but there is plenty of hatred going Israel's way.

      1. It goes in both directions. Everyone from that region has a similar culture, regardless of religion. Some will live peacefully side by side, but plenty won’t.

  96. I disagree.
    As I commented earlier today: as "Black" the noun, ie a Black, it differentiates between the adjective, the colour of what one is describing, a black man a black flower. As "black", standalone what is being referred to?

    By putting "Black" the reader knows immediately it refers to a person.

    A personal choice.

      1. Was Guy's dog spelled with a large or small "n"?
        If the dog's name was "-lack " would it be B or b?

          1. He is buried at the former RAF Scampton, outside Gibson's office window. Whether his headstone still has his name on it, I don't know; I haven't been back for years.

  97. Evening, all. Went to a coffee morning this morning, only to find that there are "no dogs" notices everywhere on the hall. Not that I take my dog, but it's very off-putting and unfriendly.

    I find it hard to see why it's taken so long for people to wake up about muslim countries (in the ME or anywhere).

  98. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13917583/Unconscious-mother-raped-died-park-bench.html

    Taking advantge of her. He raped her to death. Can you imagine the horror that woman went through? All because soem twisted, evil Lefty squeals about refu-f wording-gees.

    Let the damned scum die in the channel. Let them drown. Then let's do the same to the entire political class and then the home office and then the wretched fools who bring the disgusting, revolting, evil creatures here in the first place.

  99. Thought for the day.
    If everything ever invented by Europeans and those of European descent suddenly disappeared throughout history what would the population of the planet be, and where would it be technologically?

    Now, ask the same question of Far Eastern Asians, Middle Eastern Asians, and North African Mediterranean's and then sub Saharan Africans.

    Which groups would have made the greatest and least contributions to the advance and prosperity of mankind.

    One might argue that from the planet's perspective that the greater the advances the worse it is for Gaia.

    We are all interdependent.

    1. And for balance, apply that to Eskimos, Aborigines, North American Indians, South Pacific Islanders etc etc

    2. As our civilisation has advanced so too has our efficiency. We don't shape car panels by hand, we use a machine. A machine works far faster, more consistently. That lets the human brain do something more productive, such as design more fuel efficient engines and body shapes. Science has made us more efficient. We no long get through an entire tree to heat half a dozen members of the tribe, we burn a hundred trees to power a thousand homes with a myriad of demands on them.

      The far east would be ok. China and Japan were using gunpowder long before we were even using crossbows. While they didn't invent the car – why would they when labour is so plentiful? but they would eventually develop the engine. Heck, Top Gear pointed this out: they've gone from half a cylinder rickshaws to a Bentley equivalent.

      Africa? Who cares. Let them starve. They are any way regardless of how much we help them. The only upside is muslim would have been eradicated. Heck, without the West they'd be throwing rocks against Israeli missiles.

    1. It's what the Left want London to be like. Poisoned with filth and sewage – human and material.

    2. I follow an outfit – Sungai Watch – they clean up a lot of rivers/streams, in Bali and other areas – everyone chucks their waste into local waterways which gets blocked so they have no clean water, and also waste eventually gets into the ocean – witness the Great Garbage Patch. They also have a deep sea trawler, picks up a lot of waste thrown overboard from ships and boats. I know someone works in refuse collection, very little is recycled, most gets burned, buried, or even dumped at sea.

  102. Mother in heaven ,

    Save us from this Miliband twerp..

    Ed Miliband reveals plan to prevent net zero blackouts
    Giant metal ‘flywheels’ to be installed across Britain to help stabilise electricity grid

    Giant flywheels are to be installed around the UK to minimise the risk of blackouts as the power system goes carbon-free.

    Flywheels are energy storage systems that use surplus electricity to accelerate a massive metal “wheel”, thereby turning it into mechanical energy. To avoid energy losses, the wheels are kept in a frictionless vacuum.

    If the grid needs a boost of electrical energy, the spinning disk can be used to generate power via magnetic induction – just as happens in the steam turbines of a traditional power station.

    The flywheels, some weighing hundreds of tonnes and spinning up to thousands of revolutions per minute, will store energy that can then be converted back into electricity within fractions of a second. This is designed to help the grid counter the fluctuations caused by renewables.

    They will be installed at key points around the electricity grid to stabilise the net zero electricity transmission systems and minimise the risk of blackouts.

    The plans drawn up by Ed Miliband’s new National Electricity System Operator (NESO) will help to minimise the risk of disruption as the UK increases its reliance on wind and solar farms, the output of which can fluctuate from minute to minute with the weather.

    It follows warnings that the removal of coal, gas and nuclear power stations from the system will leave the grid without the secure steady baseload needed to maintain stability.

    Grid instability is a known cause of blackouts: more than 1m people across the UK were plunged into darkness in August 2019 during one of the worst power blackouts in more than a decade. The cause was a small change in grid frequency, caused by lightning hitting cables.

    Studies show the risk of a repeat will grow with the amount of renewables.

    NESO, which was officially launched on Tuesday, said the plan followed 57 “pathfinder” projects around the country to see if flywheel and other technologies could work.

    A spokesman said: “The trial projects have proven successful and now we want to establish a network of flywheels and similar grid-stabilising technologies around the country. This will be put out to tender.

    “Spinning flywheels are one of a number of technologies needed to deliver inertia [stability], control current frequency and other services to manage the physics of the network.”

    Read more

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/02/giant-flywheels-to-be-installed-in-britains-grid-blackouts/

    2. It hasn't occured to him that far cheaper is to build coal, gas and nuclear plants to you know, just generate more electricity?

      Cretinous fool. He needs to be kicked repeatedly .

    3. I notice it says "minimise" not eliminate. Buckle up for a bumpy ride and a dark winter.

    4. "Flywheels are energy storage systems that use surplus electricity to accelerate a massive metal “wheel”, thereby turning it into mechanical energy. The flywheels, some weighing hundreds of tonnes and spinning up to thousands of revolutions per minute, will store energy that can then be converted back into electricity within fractions of a second. To avoid energy losses, the wheels are kept in a frictionless vacuum."

      That sounds like a highly dangerous, near-explosive device that would require a highly expensive containment building. It would require a colossal amount of electricity to 'charge' the device. The productive life of the spinning charger would be limited to minutes rather than hours – producing limited quantities electricity at huge cost.

      The Millipede Spinning Wheel concept belongs to Alice in Wonderland.

    6. It's a mental illness. Or is it….I understand his plans if enacted would benefit his brother and the business he currently works in.

    7. Flywheel boosters were installed in some British Railways Southern Region electric locomotives of the late 1950s but only for very short trips off the third-rail.

  103. A dry day today that turned into a rather pleasant afternoon, so got more tidying up done and this evening I took the Husqy up the hill and began tacking some of the heavier logs.

    Just had a well earned bath and am now off to bed.
    Good night all.

    4. I have one of those. The smallest one (apart from the tiny toy one). I got it on special offer because they were trying to persuade people to buy it as a second chainsaw. It's slightly too heavy for me, but I need it for bigger logs!
      It's quite frighteningly powerful.

      1. Looking at the standing ash trunks they have left I could do with a larger saw, perhaps 24", myself.

  104. Then perhaps it needs to be. Ministers should be personally responsible for the damage their departments do under their purview.

  106. Back from seeing the consultant in Edinburgh. Mrs Bee not clear of cancer but some progress made. Going on drugs now and probably more chemo in the new year.

    7. Let's pray the progress continues.
      Look after yourself as well, she'll need your support.

    8. I do not wish in any way to give false hope but anecdotally ivermectin plus fenbendazole seem to turn things around for many people with differing locations of cancers within the body. I feel you cannot have too many strings to one's bow in these cases, even if you just keep in mind information for future reference and support. There is also information on the web regarding this, but you have to dig deep for it, with patience. You cannot obtain ivermectin within the UK, unless you get it from pet and animal suppliers, you have to get it online from the US. I have heard of it being intercepted at customs on occasion. It is political; it is not a money spinner for pharma. The thread continuing below the X-post is interesting. I wish you and Mrs Bee all the best, it is a difficult time.

      https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1841252461425615250

    2. Wading into the middle east with recommendations about what should be done is the height of stupidity!

    2. I despair at the state of this country, especially the education of those approving public websites.

  110. From Coffee House, the Spectator

    J.D. Vance dominated the VP debate
    Freddy Gray2 October 2024, 8:23am
    To manage expectations in the run-up to last night’s debate, Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, let it be known through anonymous sources that he was nervous. He didn’t want to let Kamala Harris down.

    Well, he was tense and it showed. The first question was, inevitably, about the big story of the moment, the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Walz, speaking first, fumbled. He said ‘Iran’ when he meant ‘Israel’, twice, which hardly suggested a mastery of international affairs. He then rambled through various points about the ‘fickleness’ of Donald Trump in foreign affairs.

    The Republican came over as straightforwardly intelligent and perceptive – the Democrat, less so
    Vance, by contrast, sounded authoritative, composed, more professional from the off. He began with a little of his own extraordinary biography then pivoted neatly into saying that Donald Trump will address the concerns of everyday Americans about ‘chaos in the world’ by establishing ‘effective deterrence’.

    From then on, the Republican came over as straightforwardly intelligent and perceptive – the Democrat, less so. For people paying attention, Vance established quite clearly why, contrary to popular perception, he might prove to have been a shrewd vice-presidential choice.

    He supported Trump without sounding sycophantic. Better still, unlike the Donald, he showed a tight grasp of details across a wide range of topics. That enabled him to dominate the conversation. Walz arguably improved as the evening went on, but he slipped up and Vance didn’t.

    Still, the debate was not a disaster for Team Harris-Walz and will therefore probably fit the pattern for most vice-presidential contests in not mattering very much. The fact that, according to snap polls, a strong majority of viewers felt Vance won on the night has already been obscured by the far more dramatic news coming from Israel.

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    Which is a shame, in a way. In stark contrast to the Trump vs Harris live horror show last month, this vice-presidential debate was a healthy and wholesome political discussion – even if there was, intriguingly, no mention of the war in Ukraine.

    Vance and Walz took pains to stress their points of agreement. ‘I think there was a lot of commonality here,’ said Walz, towards the end. ‘Me too, man,’ replied Vance. It was almost sweet –the civility giving the audience a glimpse of what politics might look like after the age of Trump.

    That said, the CBS moderators could barely contain their left-liberal contempt for Vance, repeatedly picking up on things he said – ‘to clarify for our viewers’. That led to the only real flashpoint, as Vance rebuked Margaret Brennan, one of the hosts, for fact-checking him about Haitian immigrants. He shouted over her to explain how ineffective the current ‘CBP One app’ system has been at keeping out dangerous illegal immigrants. ‘Thank you Senator for describing the legal process,’ replied Margaret, cattily, as she cut off the candidates’ microphones. But Vance had already proved his point.

    To their credit, the moderators did introduce an interesting fitness-of-character section, which Walz again fudged. He couldn’t adequately explain why he said he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 when he wasn’t. ‘I’m a knucklehead sometimes,’ he said, feebly.

    Vance, for his part, was challenged as to why he is now standing with a man he once compared to Hitler. His reply was more effective for being frank. ‘I was wrong about Donald Trump,’ he said. ‘I was wrong, first of all, because I believed some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record.’

    Vance also tended to be more nimble and astute on the issues – from immigration to climate change to the economy to gun rights to healthcare.

    On abortion, widely thought to be his weakest point with an increasingly post-Christian electorate, he gave an eloquent defence of his conservative position. ‘We’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust,’ he said, before reframing the issue away from the narrow feminist terms which the Democrats prefer to use.

    ‘So many young women would love to have families,’ he said. ‘So many young women also see an unplanned pregnancy as something that’s going to destroy their livelihood, destroy their education, destroy their relationships… that’s why Donald Trump and I are committed to pursuing pro-family policies.’

    According to polls, J.D. Vance currently has the lowest ‘likeability’ rating of any of the four candidates on both major party presidential tickets. But in this debate, the biggest moment of his political career so far, he did well enough to suggest that his poor reputation is unjustified. Whether enough people were listening is another question.

  111. Well, chums, it's just coming up to my bedtime at 10 pm. So Goodnight all, sleep well, and see you all tomorrow. I sincerely hope I sleep much better than last night.

  112. Thought for the day…

    "John Hope-hawkins
    3 HRS AGO
    all students are marxists until they get a job and become socialist and when they get a house they become tory unless they live in the west country and become liberal

    1. I'm not so sure that that is true.
      If you look at each generation since the sixties, when they have got into power they have implemented the stuff that was talked about when they were at university.
      Blair and Brown – university was all about tearing down traditions – they dismantled the country's stable constitution.
      In the 80s, it was all South Africa (racism) and gay rights at universities – Cameron was filmed saying he hoped the next Prime minister would be muslim and he pushed through gay 'marriage'.
      We are in big trouble when the students of the last ten years or so get into power – the ones who banned free speech on campus and implemented 'safe spaces'. The dominant culture among young people since the turn of the century is to hate or mistrust freedom.

  113. BBC confronts neo-Nazi who gave UK rioters arson tips
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l9gpp8yro

    All the way to Finland to meet one man. With very little effort or expense the BBC could pop out onto the streets of England and interview thousands of people who'd like to wreak death and destruction across the nation. Of course, they wouldn't be of white European descent…

  114. Over on Order-Order and probably other forums as well, Angela Rayner is known as “Crayons”. Would a kind Nottler please explain this name as i can’t find its source.

    1. "They gave her a pack of crayons and let her sit, quietly chewing them in the corner."

      [Google]

      1. I did indeed google your quote and all it provided was a single Twitter (ok, X) remark. It didn’t seem to be much to support “Crayons” but thanks for your reply.

    3. Crayons are used for ‘colouring in’ where some other fucker has drawn the outlines and the idiot with the crayons is invited to ‘colour them in’.

      Obviously it also makes reference to children who are given ‘colouring in’ books.

      It infers that Rayner has a childish mentality and unable to think independently. A clever child would dispense with the ‘colouring in’ books and draw from scratch.

      Then again the reference might be to Rayner’s colourful character but all I see in her is colour blindness and dullness.

      1. Thanks, I can see how that would apply to Angela Rayner but, under that reasoning, shouldn’t most of the Cabinet also be called “Crayons”?

        2. Angela Rayner is female and working class, both of these traits expose her to more ridicule for stupidity than if she were male and middle class.

          1. I am working class; however, I have more nous than most pretentious middle class buffoons. I can dance intellectual rings around most of them … and they know it, much to their own personal chagrin.

          2. I am sure that there is an element of what you say but it is possible for someone to be female and working class AND thick, aggressive and ill-informed.

      1. And they probably can't even define what a woman is anyway. It's pointless to point out their hypocrisy because they are shameless…

      1. Hope so, Maggie. Three of us caught nothing. A wave caught me and I fell back over a pile of kelp and broke my rod tip. So I just watched my 2 friends fish for an hour and a half. The whole beach had been changed by Monday’s weather. On the way back up in the almost dark I whacked my head on an overhanging branch, which is when I realised I must have lost my hat earlier.

          3. Only if there was a tree elf nurse sitting on the branch. I’m just leaving it all alone. It’ll heal quicker with no dressing .

  120. Look , I have just let Pip out into the garden for a last minute wee, and he found something in the dark .. I ushered him indoors , and saw a tail hanging out of his mouth .. I demanded he leave it , drop it , open your mouth .. etc , he growled at me and ran over to Moh who was asleep on the sofa and jumped on top of Moh , in protect me mode .

    Moh woke up as I was hovering over the crime scene, and with a biscuit in one hand and a wadge of kitchen roll in the other ..

    Dear husband stirred from his deep slumber , and said what has Pip got in his mouth , I replied .. a mouse , a large dead mouse.. Moh held the dog and prised Pips jaw open .. I grabbed the tail , out came the mouse , quickly consigned it to the wadge of kitchen roll, dog growled at me , and the mouse was put in the dustbin outside .

    I do not need such theatrical acts before I go to bed ..

    The visiting cat always leaves a present by the back door , I usually find the poor dead thing ( mouse or rat) to the bin before Pip sees it.

    Moh moaned , "why can't that damned cat catch the mole " which of course has been popping molehills all over the garden , front and back lawn!

    Goodnight everyone , sorry I have rambled on.

  121. Justice for aspiring Architect Chris Kaba..

    At the point at which the defendant trigger-happy Martyn Blake shot Chris Kaba in the head the vehicle that Chris Kaba was in was not travelling towards the defendant but instead it had just reversed a short distance backwards then forwards, then backwards again innocently striking the front of a police vehicle. Chris Kaba’s previous attempt to escape and kill the surrounding officers by driving forwards had failed and now he posed no threat whatsoever to anyone including the wider community.

    Guilty as charged.

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