Wednesday 21 July: The Government coercing the young with Covid passports is disturbing

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/07/20/letters-government-coercing-young-covid-passports-disturbing/

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  2. Women urged to report harassment ‘they may not be aware is a crime’ in new campaign. 21 July 2021.

    The multi-million pound campaign to target perpetrators and challenge misogynistic attitudes will tell women there are already laws under which they could report to police men who harass them in public.

    Police will be told to investigate, and ministers will also consider whether a new specific offence of street harassment should be introduced to plug any legislative gaps so women are protected from verbal and sexual abuse in public.

    Morning everyone. If we keep on the present path there will come a point in the near future (we may in fact already have passed it) where rational analysis of Government activity will have to stop. This is not because they are right but because Rational Critique can only work against rational ideas. The Political Elites, not to put too fine a point on it have run mad; their beliefs like most cultists; in this case Cultural Marxism, have sent them off the deep end. This can be seen most obviously in the denial of reality about mass immigration. They say that they are limiting it when it is obvious to the most uncritical observer that they are actually assisting it. The Covid Scam is another case in point. The measures against it are not simply in disarray but defy understanding. They are the utterances of the deeply neurotic believer!

    The above article is yet another symptom of this distorted view of reality. The nature of harassment is dependent on the view of the harassed, not some Feminist Ideologue. Men have been “harassing” women since the beginning. It is the very opposite of misogyny. If women like it. It is good, and if they don’t they usually make their views known. So it has always been and so it will always be. That a few Lesbians dissent from this view does not invalidate it. No law is going to prevent it and if it did women would be the first to complain. Not the Feminists of course or the Trans but Real Women. The illusion that Human Beings can be modified by the state is essentially Marxist. It has been the basis of all communist polities where it was thought that the creation of a New Man would usher in the Ideal World. It never did. It always ended in tragedy.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/women-urged-report-harassment-may-not-aware-crime-new-campaign/

    1. There is no particular legislative gap. Harassment is a course of conduct (so two incidents or more) that a person who knew or ought to have known was unwelcome has continued to engage in.
      So: “Hello, you look nice.” Woman shrugs and turns her back without answering – now the bloke ought to know a further compliment is unwelcome and should desist.
      It needs to be documented to be proved – recorded on someone’s phone for example, or witnessed by someone who is willing to come forward to police – neither is foregone.
      Personally, I have little time for the unsophisticated Lotharios who think women should have time for them. Should it be a police matter? Maybe. There are warnings and community resolutions that can be issued before convictions at court are in question. This could also be dealt with under public nuisance legislation (the old ASBO or whatever it is called nowadays).

      But I think that given that this suggestion is part of a multi-million pound drive, the whiff of BS is rising – the virtue-signalling while govt continue to screw us over with vaccines and social control.
      And yes. People have stopped thinking.

      1. My Mother, who in her youth was a remarkably good-looking woman, was perfectly capable of sorting harassment out on her own – I guess she got plenty of practice. She looks upon the #metoo movement and those women who whine about how unfair the world is, with contempt. But then, she didn’t sit back and wait to be pandered to: she went to Nigeria with my Father to start a university, and had all kinds of things to deal with as a result. A similar story applies to many on NTTL – Africa, war, hardship. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”.

        1. I agree that this coddled generation could do with a spine – men and women alike, though the very existence of such categories is being eroded.
          No doubt your mother would and could stick up for herself – so could mine and my own wife is no pushover. But all could rely on their male family and friends to stick up for them, and even passers by, if the warnings to stay away were ignored by the pest.

          But this is where we are at. Passers-by often do not want to get involved, and if the police do not step up where brothers and husbands and fathers used to be counted upon, then there is no-one.

          1. When seconds count, the ploice are only hours/days away, or totally absent. Sigh
            If one gets involved, one usually gets arrested, not the perpetrator.
            A good example of modern life: About 25 years or so ago, SWMBOs maternal Grandfather, Pat, one of the nicest men you could meet, saw a little girl fall over and hurt herself in the concrete pavement by the beach in Bexhill. So, he goes over to her, stands her up, brushes her down, then helps her to find her parents – who come rushing over, screaming and shouting about him being a paedo, how the’ll have him arrested, and otherwise being extremely unpleasant. Poor Granddad Pat, he was very upset. That’s the kind of society the UK has become.
            Incidentally, it is the law in Norway that you MUST stop and help someone in need. TBH, I don’t see why a law is needed, yer average Weegie would stop anyway.

          2. It is the ideal Left wing world – thoughtcontrol, make and keep everyone afraid.

          3. When seconds count, the ploice are only hours/days away, or totally absent. Sigh
            If one gets involved, one usually gets arrested, not the perpetrator.
            A good example of modern life: About 25 years or so ago, SWMBOs maternal Grandfather, Pat, one of the nicest men you could meet, saw a little girl fall over and hurt herself in the concrete pavement by the beach in Bexhill. So, he goes over to her, stands her up, brushes her down, then helps her to find her parents – who come rushing over, screaming and shouting about him being a paedo, how the’ll have him arrested, and otherwise being extremely unpleasant. Poor Granddad Pat, he was very upset. That’s the kind of society the UK has become.
            Incidentally, it is the law in Norway that you MUST stop and help someone in need. TBH, I don’t see why a law is needed, yer average Weegie would stop anyway.

    2. Wow. Telling the young and woke that they are free to imagine crimes. What could possibly go wrong?

    1. I think there have been deaths and injuries, but linking them to the magic vaxx is taboo. It doesn’t matter whether celebs get a saline or not if you control the media.

  4. morning all. Today’s offerings:

    SIR – It is disturbing that the Government is reneging on its promise not to force nightclubs to demand Covid passports (report, July 20).

    I’ve had the jabs, but if I were younger I would be infuriated with the Government for trying to coerce me into having the jab by denying me access to clubs, then maybe restaurants, pubs, shows and places of worship.

    The government introduced ID cards during the Second World War. The war ended in 1945 but it kept the cards until 1952. Our “nothing to hide
    nothing to fear” complacency means that we are sleepwalking into a Chinese-style social-credit dystopia.

    They said there would be no Covid passports. Why can’t this Government keep its word for once?

    Barry Tighe
    Woodford Green, Essex

    SIR – Which dictionary does Boris Johnson use? I can’t find his definition of irreversible in any of mine.

    Max Sawyer
    Stamford, Lincolnshire

    SIR – Boris Johnson wagging his finger at the 18-30s for not getting vaccinated while he is isolating having had both doses isn’t very convincing. They may look at him and think, with some justification, why bother?

    David McCarthy
    York

    SIR – The Government has delegated its mandate for looking after the population to shopkeepers and café owners. Waitrose and Tesco have written to me using a mixture of emotional blackmail, coercion and bullying to try to ensure that I continue to wear a mask in their shops.

    I knew the Government would not stop interfering in our lives once it got a taste for it. I never thought that this would extend to grocers.

    John Smith
    Great Moulton, Norfolk

    SIR – Lord Sumption’s concerns about “making policy on the hoof” (Comment, July 19) are rational enough. Yet those of us deeply concerned about ending restrictions aren’t simply “selfish people”.

    We know that lockdown cannot go on forever, but have loved ones still at significant risk from Covid. As we move into the next stage of existing with this disease, can we not have our desire to protect them incorporated into the national debate, rather than simply being dismissed as puritanical crusaders against liberty and leisure?

    David Singeisen
    Cookham, Berkshire

    SIR – The fake outrage over the Prime Minister’s comments on the over-80s is frustrating (“PM joked ‘get Covid and live longer’ as lockdown loomed, alleges Cummings”, report, July 20).

    The economy is not an abstract entity, it concerns real people and their physical and mental well-being. The Government is right to balance the damage done by lockdowns to wider society with the interests of the over-80s and other vulnerable groups.

    Andrew Brown
    Allestree, Derbyshire

    South Africa’s demise

    SIR – Peter Hain (Comment, July 16) writes of the deadly disorder in South Africa but maintains that it will not end up like Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

    South Africa has seen a steady decline in its fortunes since the transfer of power to the African National Congress in 1994. It has suffered devastating corruption, peaking under the rule of Jacob Zuma, and its once-booming economy is on its knees. The national airline is bankrupt, and over the past 25 years the country has seen an exodus of young white professionals to Europe, Australia, or America.

    More recently, armed mobs have attacked immigrants from Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Farmers are under threat, particularly in the Free State, where about 50 a year have been murdered and where the government has appropriated land, as it did in Zimbabwe. Many have emigrated, reducing their numbers to about a third of those during white rule.

    The ANC promised black South Africans what it could not deliver, and President Cyril Ramaphosa, a former boss of the miners’ union and now one of the country’s richest men, will be hard pressed to recover the situation. If Julius Malema’s radical Economic Freedom Fighters were to gain control, the future would be grim for the white population.

    I worked in a factory to the north east of Johannesburg for three years in the late 1980s and most of my workforce came from the Tembisa township – an area affected by recent disturbances. I also worked in the country in the late 1990s, when lawlessness had increased noticeably.

    I wonder whether Peter Hain and other zealots will apologise for the part they have played in South Africa’s demise.

    David Norris
    Quorn, Leicestershire

    20mph limit penalties

    SIR – I have tried driving at 20mph (Letters, July 19) on wide, straight roads with no schools or shops and have been tailgated, hooted and flashed at, with cars passing if possible. This is encouraging road rage, not safety.

    Linda Read
    London SW14

    SIR – Vehicles travelling at 20mph will have to stay in a lower gear, causing inefficient use of fuel and the emission of more exhaust gases. This leads to an increase in air pollution and associated health problems.

    Ted Shorter
    Hildenborough, Kent

    Prince Harry’s lament

    SIR – Just as I had started to enjoy the lack of news from California, along comes the latest episode in the saga (report, July 20) – “an accurate and wholly truthful” memoir of Prince Harry’s life.

    Surely something is either truthful or not? Or is this another version of “my truth”? Focusing on his two young children would be so much more fulfilling.

    Sue King
    Sidmouth, Devon

    SIR – Our is a planet struggling to cope with wars, famine, disease and floods, so perhaps the heart-wrenching memoirs of a young and privileged individual will not be well received. As a committed royalist, I find Prince Harry’s behaviour sad and immature.

    Ann Elder
    Timperley, Cheshire

    SIR – As a retired child psychiatrist and family therapist, I used to encourage my patients to discuss their family problems and, if helpful, to put their feelings on paper. These would be contained within the privacy of the therapy session.

    I imagine that Prince Harry is being encouraged by people who will make money from his sufferings being made public. This is not going to end well for Harry or for the family he has left behind.

    Dr Tony Saunders
    Otterbourne, Hampshire

    Responsible rewilding

    SIR – In the name of rewilding, it seems that many land owners and managers are not maintaining the footpaths and by-ways for which they are responsible (Letters, July 14).

    In this area, North Somerset, popular paths are getting congested with brambles and bracken, and becoming impossible to use. This will force walkers on to other paths that are not capable of sustaining the increased footfall; witness the quagmires generated this winter, much to the annoyance of farmers.

    The concept of rewilding is laudable, but if the result is that the public are denied access to the countryside, surely that is an environmental own goal.

    Nik Perfitt
    Bristol

    Howzat for inequality?

    SIR – You report (July 20) the disparity in remuneration of men and women competing in the new cricket tournament, the Hundred.

    It is beyond belief that the England and Wales Cricket Board can justify this after its sanctimonious dealing with the teenage tweets of Ollie Robinson and its trumpeting about equality and diversity. It seems intent on confirming that it is unfit to run our glorious game.

    Nick Bird
    Whiteley, Hampshire

    Blue Badge defence

    SIR – I have a Blue Badge and am fed up with people criticising me for being able to “spring” in and out of my car unaided (Letters, July 20).

    I have had to learn to do this to avoid falling over. Once upright, one can lean on the car to lock it and limp to mobility equipment or a trolley.

    Those of us who have been awarded a Blue Badge have a duty to complain for those who cannot, and to improve facilities that fall short of need. I find it odd that property managers think I am moaning until they are told of this condition of Blue Badge use.

    Sue Doughty
    Twyford, Berkshire

    Identifying antiquities that are on sale legally

    SIR – I was fascinated to read the article (“Meet the British Museum’s Monument Men: the team tracking down looted artefacts”, telegraph.co.uk, July 5)
    which featured input from curators and academics but included no comment from the trade.

    The antiquities issue is complex and long-standing because of the central problem of what are known as “orphan objects”: those without sufficient paperwork to identify when and where they came from originally. Some may well have been looted and trafficked, but millions will have come out of source countries over the centuries through legitimate trade, as gifts or partage items from sanctioned excavations.

    Problems arise because there was no record-keeping at the time or the standard of record-keeping was not good enough to identify the objects today from their original export licences. The paperwork may also have been lost or discarded over the years. Even now, few countries require importers to retain their export licences once used.

    Much of the objection to the legitimate trade in antiquities arises not from fear of crime but on the ideological premise that no cultural property should be traded. Mexico and Egypt state this overtly as they demand the return of anything on the market, labelling them illicit for that reason, rather than because they have been shown to be stolen.

    Ivan Macquisten
    Adviser to the Antiquities Dealers Association and International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art
    London EC3

    Silence surrounds the genocidal war in Tigray

    SIR – As a British-based African group, which works not only to provide an independent platform for constructive debate about immigration, but also to raise the alarm on the man-made causes of African mass migration, we couldn’t agree more with Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda (“Oxford dons should stop ‘throwing tantrums’ over statues”, report, July 19).

    Currently, there is no African man-made problem more deserving of our collective moral outrage, nor a call more urgent, than to end the nine-month genocidal tribal war in Tigray, Ethiopia.

    Millions of people, including children, have been ethnically profiled, blockaded, bombarded, denied access to humanitarian assistance and used as targets for sexual violence and starvation.

    Rather than respond to the global call to allow unfettered access for humanitarian assistance, Ethiopian authorities are reportedly mobilising the Amhara, Somali, Sidama and southern tribes to go and clear out the “weeds”, which are the Tigray tribespeople.

    Sadly, Oxford dons who are “throwing tantrums” over statues are unaccountably silent on the genocide in Tigray.

    Sam Akaki
    Executive Director, African Solutions to African Migration
    London W3

    1. “Ethiopian authorities are reportedly mobilising the Amhara, Somali, Sidama and southern tribes to go and clear out the “weeds”, which are the Tigray tribespeople.”

      There’s you problem, Sam Akaki, and not just in Ethiopia but right across and through and through continental Africa – Tribalism.

      Rather than learning to live together as white, Western ‘tribes have, after many bloody wars, the African tribes are at the stage we were at, up until the end of WWII, when finally the enlightenment and the Industrial revolution were allowed to flourish, with the resulting upturn in the economy.

      Until African learns this, South Africa and Zimbabwe will be as nothing, as to what is to come.

      1. NtN mng. Where Akai won’t go is the Western funding propping up such puppets and use the only tool in the box under “Lead From Behind” approach and that’s fighting with supplied weapons, knowing it’s going to end up pear shaped. Then “Western Govts” [US, UK etc] then change face and claim to helping sort the problem they created via “Humanitarian Aid via Western INGOs” which starts another cycle of divide and rule. But Akai’s already taken his “30 pieces of silver” so pens a note which ensures he still exists in the utopian matrix

    2. Max Sawyer.

      It’s called Having your cake and Eton it – A fibbers guide to fooling the trusting. It’s available on Oxbridge Press for £75000.

    3. Mr Norris, I was stuck behind a van determined to drive at 25mph on a 40mph limit.

      He just liked holding people up.

  6. Good Moaning.
    “For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the lies of politicians ….”

    Dear Anne Allan,

    You recently signed the petition “Do not rollout Covid-19 vaccine passports”:

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/569957

    On Monday 19 July, MPs questioned Nadhim Zahawi, the Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment, on the Government’s response to Covid-19, including plans to make full vaccination a condition of entry to venues where large crowds gather, following a ministerial statement.

    In his statement, the Minister said that the Government were “supporting the safe reopening of large, crowded settings such as nightclubs […] and music venues through the use of the NHS covid pass as a condition of entry to reduce the risks of transmission”, and said that he “encourage[d] businesses to draw on this support and to use the NHS covid pass in the weeks ahead.”

    The Minister went on to say: “By the end of September, everyone aged 18 and over will have had the chance to receive full vaccination and the additional two weeks for that protection to take hold. At that point, we plan to make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.”

    Watch the Government statement and MPs’ questions: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/9b8f813c-e5e4-4a2a-9c61-bcc3f4e6c762?in=16:37:06

    Read the transcript:

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-19/debates/64EACE0F-A4FD-45C9-BCAF-CD14132B5366/Covid-19Update

    1. Yep. I got that one and the one about vaccinating children. They’re not listening, are they?

      1. #MeToo – they need to beware the civil disobedience, leading to an uprising and culminating in Civil War.

        A frightening outlook but maybe a necessary one.

    2. Good Moaning

      I’m sure that letter makes you feel really, really important…..which, of course, you are {:<))

    3. I got that one too. Blatantly translates as “You signed this petition; we completely ignored your wishes and don’t even feel you need a proper response”. Arrrgh!!

  8. Today is D-Day,the Lords after 90 mins debate have approved mandatory vaccination and the Fataturk is doing his globalist master’s bidding on Covid Passports

    Pat Condell

    https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/1417451361998938124

    Julia H-B

    https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1417516482561511426?s=20

    https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1417582268982472707

    https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1417582268982472707
    Delingpole
    https://twitter.com/JamesDelingpole/status/1417482749926166539
    Where does this end……………
    http://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ce47fdfccbd208180d40ba82719418363b7cc15884212c5fbad0d654d6d08631.jpg

    1. A lot of people still seem to think the main issue is vaxx passports for nightclubs, when of course, it is mandatory vaxx passports for everyone, to do anything.

    2. Truly chilling. Mind you, not surprised the lords passed it unopposed – they are /soon-will-be in their dotage and think if their nappy changers and drool-wipers are jabbed it will ‘keep them safe’.

    1. Back off, Froggie. If you end up paying their food bills, you’ll be wailing.

    1. Well we all went into the pandemic as proud free brave people, we are coming out of it shackled by the biotech vaccine app, they say the disease originated in China, it has travelled around the world Chinaficating our free and democratic cultures as fast as it came and went.
      If it was created in a lab then it certainly has done what it set out to do.

    2. All those 65+s wanting to be checked when they go clubbin’. You have to admire their energy and commitment to the public weal.

      1. Self-preservation.

        Check those idiots when they are going to get up close and personal with masses of people in case they bring something home to the grandparents.

        The very people wanting it are those that it won’t affect, and won’t have to bear the cost of it.

  13. Russia unveils new fighter jet with stealth capabilities and AI features that is designed to compete with the F-35 Lightning II. 21 July 2021.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/17e545bcd3262242c1a49b9bf61ae4d11409acb79db14afe56d6c7b0eeb2f74b.png

    Russia has unveiled a prototype of a new fighter jet featuring stealth capabilities that can cruise at supersonic speed and is set to rival the US F-35 Lightning II fighter.

    Vladimir Putin inspected the warplane known as Checkmate at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon today.

    Here’s Vlad having an ice cream in yesterday’s hot weather. I just thought that you would all like to be reminded what a normal leader looked like!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806643/Russia-unveils-fighter-jet-stealth-capabilities-AI-compete-F-35-Lightning-II.html

      1. Hope he doesn’t spill ice cream on it.

        Actually, I imagine the ice is for show – and it will be carefully discarded once the photographer leaves.

    1. Mary had a little lamb,
      She also had a duck.
      She put them on the mantelpiece
      To see if they would … fall off.

    2. Mary had a little lamb,
      She also had a duck.
      She put them on the mantelpiece
      To see if they would … fall off.

  15. Good morning from an overcast but hot & muggy Derbyshire.
    15°C in the yard.

  16. Of course the Left are against easing lockdown restrictions. They’ve had a good crisis

    For these harbingers of doom, what circumstances would make ending restrictions acceptable?

    BEN OBESE-JECTY
    20 July 2021 • 1:59pm

    As a classicist, the Prime Minister will undoubtedly be aware that Alexander the Great once solved the intractable problem of the Gordian Knot with a single decisive stroke. After nearly eighteen months of restrictions curtailing our basic freedoms, ranging from mild inconvenience to draconian, the decision to lift the remaining restrictions draws a fitting parallel with the legend of antiquity.

    There are however those on the left for whom the opportunity to resume a semblance of normal life has become an occasion of unbridled pessimism rather than cautious optimism. Across print, radio, television and social media we have repeatedly seen politicians and social commentators alike use hyperbole to weaponise the lifting of restrictions, catastophising every aspect of the pandemic. A daily drip-drip of anti-Government performative vitriol within an echo chamber that revels in infection rate spikes and unfavourable comparisons of international death tolls (despite not being intra-comparable) for the chance to leverage another oh-so-clever tweet prophesising the demise of the nation.

    Any setback in the fight against the virus is seized upon as a Pyrrhic victory, framing problems faced internationally as unique to the country. Sir Keir Starmer is no stranger to this tactic. Never one to miss an opportunity he gave his obligatory contrarian soundbite, branding the lifting of restrictions as “reckless” whilst offering no tangible solution. A hypocritical stance to adopt for a man who had no such concerns whilst benefitting from the easing of restrictions to attend the Euro 2020 Final with 60,000 other fans and foreign visitors less than a fortnight ago.

    For these harbingers of doom, what circumstances would make lifting restrictions acceptable? How is a post-pandemic future achieved with perpetual restrictions in place, as unwelcome as they would be unfeasible? Zero Covid is all but realistically impossible, no country successfully keeping the virus at bay, merely temporarily successful in halting its inevitable advance.

    The coterie of Left-wing opposition to a return to normality appears to be rooted in the feverish ideological commitment to the support of the big state they have long wished for. The caution of those who continue to push for restrictions to remain in place and see any relaxation as irresponsible are the same individuals who have no truck with the idea of personal responsibility, who can look only to a central authority to inform their decision-making, providing it is one with which they already agree.

    There is a certain irony in that the same politicians and social commentators who so often describe the Government as fascists are equally critical at their restoration of liberty and the removal of restrictions that have dictated so much of our lives; Schrödinger’s fascists, if you like.

    The impact of 18 months of restrictions upon the education and development of children, to stalled careers and to struggling businesses, to the mental health of so many has been immense; a burden that will be shouldered for years to come. To continue to wilfully inflict such a costly and extreme solution to a country where such a significant proportion of the population is partially or fully vaccinated would be nonsensical. The hidden cost is already too great.

    The Gordian Knot was solved by Alexander the Great’s bold and direct solution to the problem. Given the success he went on to achieve, perhaps one Alexander can serve as inspiration to another.

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

    Carl Sanderson
    20 Jul 2021 3:49PM
    I’ve been saying it for months. The pandemic has created a vacuum into which the Left have plunged. It has been an opportunity that would have been beyond their wildest dreams in December 2019. The furlough scheme has given these middle-class self-haters the time and money to make their banners and build their online profiles and indulge their egos.

    Ending the furlough scheme as well as the restrictions will, it is to be hoped, put these bores back in their box.

    Great article, by the way.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/course-left-against-easing-lockd

  17. UK to pay £55m to French border patrols to fund migrant clampdown. 21 July 2021.

    The UK taxpayer is to hand over a further €62.7m (£55m) to France to fund another clampdown on small-boat crossings of the Channel, the Home Office has revealed.

    The home secretary, Priti Patel, agreed to pay the sum as part of a deal reached with the French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, on Tuesday.
    At least 430 people crossed the Dover Strait on Monday, a record for a single day.

    There is of course no clampdown. There has never been a clampdown and there is not going to be one in the future short of revolution. This is the reality of the present; the demented Political Elites pander to Public Opinion and carry on. Mass Immigration is the Policy of Westminster regardless of Party and the will of the people is nothing. It helps as here, that they enrich themselves as they do so since what can this payment be for other than peculation? This blatant corruption destroys their moral sense and assuages their fears for the future.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/uk-french-border-patrols-migrant-clampdown-priti-patel

    1. Churchill was a racist because he kept foreigners with ill intentions out.

      They’ll be toppling his statue next and chucking it in the Thames.

    2. Is the only deterrence going to be a bunch of us practicing archery on the beachfront?

  18. Recycling

    A man goes to the barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a good, close shave around the cheeks.
    “I have just the thing,” says the barber, taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer.
    “Just place this between your cheek and gum.”
    The client places the ball in his mouth and the barber proceeds with the closest shave the man has ever experienced. After a few strokes, the client asks: “What happens if I swallow it?”
    “No problem,” says the barber. “Happens all the time! Just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does.”

    1. Wash your mouth out with sop and water 😉😂🤣🤩

      I have a haircut book for Tmz arvo, i’ll tell him that one.
      I’ve got a good barber joke i’ll post it later.

  19. 335655+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,
    Wednesday 21 July: The Government coercing the young with Covid passports is disturbing

    It has been the way of things for decades insidious / in your face carrots / blackmail.

    Repress, reset, replace, campaign and if there was a General Election
    it would be supported ALL the way by the electorate.

    Herd manipulation with the herds consent via the polling booth.

    The tory ( ino) party’s success in open treachery regarding guarding the Nations coastline is staggering in its audacity, audacity,& more audacity.
    The (ino ) party will still receive the peoples support / votes, herd manipulation with the peoples consent.

    The frog chaps via priti treacherous have been handed £54 million to employ extra police, the UK is STILL funding the eu,fictionally channel related in reality employing more french uniformed crowd trouble quenchers, seemingly the UK tax payers will be financing crowd control in gay paree.

    Yet still the peoples support / consent is there.

    There are NO pro United Kingdom indigenous winners in any GE
    vote, that being to ” vote in to keep out mode regardless of consequence” the only winners are the politico’s, every time.

    2. Is there any way of getting through to this self-obsessed, stupid piece of excrement that he is now held in contempt by most rational British people?

      I think that a group of people with whom he served in the armed forces should do something dramatic to give him no escape from the realisation that he has betrayed his country, his family and his friends for a thoroughly worthless trollop. He certainly will not listen to anyone else.

      Both Migraine and Nut Nuts have used giving birth as a reliable insurance policy. Archie, Wilfred and Lilibet will become vital assets when these two scheming women have no further need of their puppet spouses and they decide to ditch them while keeping hold of the meal tickets.

    1. The only bright spot in this clip is that it reveals that the Australian Elites are even more unhinged than those in the UK!

    2. For God’s sake don’t give them the chance to tell you how pissed off they are with me and the rest of Government.

    3. Is it my imagination or does that woman look a little embarrassed at the drivel she is spouting? Is there a mite of shame there?

    4. While the man in the background fiddles with his mask and appears to scratch near his eye.

  22. Covid has rescued Blair’s reputation. Now Boris must start listening to him. 21 July 2021.

    The letters page of this newspaper is invariably a paragon of good sense and proportionality, so it was startling to read the following from Trevor Jones of Sidmouth in Devon on Monday. “I had the most unsettling Sunday lunchtime. I agreed with everything Tony Blair said in his interview on The World This Weekend.”

    Are we witnessing his redemption after years in which his reputation was effectively trashed because of the Iraq invasion and its aftermath? It was disconcerting to read previously confidential papers released by the National Archives yesterday covering the early years of the Blair government not because of what they contained, which was pretty inconsequential if truth be told, but because this is now seen as historical material.

    This sycophantic article reads like the beginnings of a campaign to get Blair back into power. This most evil man should of course be in gaol for War Crimes not Westminster where his offences against the British People rank as Genocide.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/covid-has-rescued-blairs-reputation-now-boris-must-start-listening/

    2. 335655+ up ticks,
      Morning AS,
      In today’s political climate I can think of NO better leader of lab. and an all round asset to the mass uncontrolled immigration (ongoing) / paedophile umbrella, close shop, lab/lib/con coalition than
      anthony, charlie, lynton, Bow street will confirm.

    4. Rule of thumb – if you find you are in agreement with Tony Blair, check out your judgment.

    1. Morning Korky. I’m not a supporter of organised religion myself but there is an almost Satanic quality of evil to what is happening!

    2. It’s easy to solve: send them back. Don’t even let them get here. France should be processing them, or deporting them backward, not onward.

      The law is relatively straightforward. They’ve no right to be here, the French have no right to let them get here.

      1. 335655+ up ticks,
        Mornin==============================================================[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[

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        335655+ up ticks,
        Morning W,
        Really it is only filling the needs of the mass uncontrolled immigration parties member / voters wishes over the decades, but I do believe enough is enough.

  25. This isn’t incompetence by a useless cabal led by Johnson, as many people appear to think. Add in reports of NHS Trusts being at 50% staffing levels, maternity services affected and transport services reduced or cancelled. This is being done deliberately to increase chaos and uncertainty. Why else would SAGE be packed with behavioural “scientists”?
    I’m not a religious person but I do believe in evil and evil is stalking this land.

    https://twitter.com/SuzanneEvans1/status/1417722693588242435

    2. Happy Birthday, Tier5, have a very, very, good day – without perusing the news.

        1. And especially don’t read the comments on TCW before going to bed as I did last night. I have decided it is a place to be avoided.

    3. Wishing you a very happy birthday, Tier5Inmate! Hope it’s a good one! 🎉🍾🎁

    9. Happy Birthday, Tier5. Somehow, I don’t think Grizzly will be sending you his ubiquitous ‘gratis på födelsedagen’ [no, I really can’t imagine why not 😉 ], so here it is instead.

    1. Don’t read the bally gaurdian! It’s a hate fuelled nonsense rag filled with nonsense.

      It suffers from that Left wing disease of not wanting to look too far in case the real, unpalatable truth pops up.

      1. I do trundle over there occasionally just to keep up with the mindset of my younger daughter and nephew, I will say though that the Guardian seems like a well balanced ,reasonable and worthy read after I peer over the parapet of the Socialist Worker, ye gods that is an evil ,venomous and just outright foul piece of work .

  29. Presumably these large lumps of money we give to France enable yer French to build bigger and better vessels to transport the illegals across the Channel.

    1. No need, Bill.
      The Coastguard/Border Farce/RNLI go to France and collect them.

      1. OK – what do the Frogs do with the dosh? Oh, I suppose put it towards their “We hate England” (as they call the UK) campaign.

    2. I have to say that I thought it a joke that we are going to give the French yet more money to have more of their useless policemen patrol the beaches. I would imagine their instructions will be to assist the illegals in coming to England, judging from the behaviour of the French navy. Still, I suppose it gives the pretence to the gullible that our government is actually doing something and that Petal is in control.

      1. It is two years since that daft bint took office – when she promised to stop the arrival of illegals “overnight”.

        All mouth and shalwar khameez, she is. Little Miss Soundbite.

    3. Surely the sensible thing to do is to agree to pay the French on results – i.e. they don’t get the cash until the supply of immigrants reaching the UK on boats dries up.

  30. Right, I’ve a load of soil to shift so it’s boot & overalls on and I’ll see you later.

    Bath is already waiting and full of cold water for when needed!

      1. I don’t. That why each bag, loaded by t’Lad is part emptied into a smaller bag.

    1. 335655+ up ticks,
      Morning KtK,
      For & against but as one, they play both attack / opposition all within the political group.

  32. 335655+ up ticks,
    Does this mean you cannot have your cake and eat it ?
    Dt,
    Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism
    Parkin is to be reviewed along with other local favourites like Yorkshire Tea over their potentially problematic ingredients

    1. How soon before the sale of treacle is forbidden? Treacle will only be available via the black market…

  33. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/34dcd89a6e101f8daf93154ba960053811ed3edf84d64620d378ec0c52fa8e3e.jpg Wow! Worldwide over-excitable and hyperbolic headlines celebrate the fact the Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, has become an astronaut by hurtling up in his rocket 62 miles to the ‘edge of space’.

    Let’s put this into perspective. 62 miles is one/sixty-third of the radius of the planet Earth (3,963 miles). It is the distance the crow flies between London and Northampton, i.e. an everyday trip up a small part of the M1. This hardly makes Bezos a ‘space pioneer’.

    1. But, but, but he’s an extremely rich “elite”, praise be upon him.😒

    2. Morning Grizz. There is a technical definition as to what qualifies as Space. Though I cannot recall the actual number it is certainly more than 62 miles!

      1. Morning, Araminta. In my haste to produce that diagram, I inadvertently placed the ‘orbit’ line twice the distance from the surface that it should have been (schoolboy error). 62 miles, in true scale, is only half the distance shown! ☹️

    3. Exactly Grizz and the point of these flamboyant acts of “do you know who we are” was ???
      And joint carbon foot print of both his and Branson’s folly was ???

  34. Morning all.
    And from what I have seen of the Dominic Cummings ‘interview’ with the hate filled Laura Juliet Kuenssberg, i have a feeling Cummings might have a landslide if he set up a political party.

    2. I have never had the venom for Cummings with which others seem to be possessed, in fact I like him. He appeared to keep Johnson on the straight and narrow as much as was possible. Earlier this year his Wiki profile claimed that he had no particular political allegiance and that he had sympathies with the people. That seems to have been removed (I wonder why??). As a young man he was quite handsome.

      1. Mariner Warner – Johnson’s previous wife – also kept him relatively sane. She must have the forbearance of a saint; he wouldn’t have lasted five years with me, let alone twenty five.
        She is a successful lawyer, so she didn’t hang onto him for a meal ticket.

        1. He is lost in a wilderness of his own making. Did the globalists engineer a break-up with Marina, I wonder. She was a possible threat to their scheming.

  35. Good morning all

    Another warm day ahead .

    No2 son , who lives in Worthing , has been pinged twice in a month, and is now isolating again untill next week . Companies are now operating in reverse gear , businesses and even the police are in a dreadful state .

    The pandemic ping is causing so much anxiety .. and the country is grinding to a halt again.

    1. My younger son, a school teacher, followed all the rules . HE has been pinged once, he has had Covid and is fully recovered and is now more than 3 weeks from his second vaccine. Now that the school term is coming to an end he has cancelled the App and intends to enjoy his UK holiday unhindered.

    2. ‘Morning TB. This is the final paragraph from Philip Johnston’s article in today’s DT:-

      ‘It’s not a legal requirement to have the app let alone isolate if it pings you as even a Government minister correctly observed before being inexplicably slapped down by No 10. Most people never downloaded it in the first place. Everyone else should just delete it.’

      I deleted it two weeks ago. The sun still rises, the birds still sing…

      2. Quite simply I don’t do apps in any shape or form. I had to ask my younger son exactly what was an app a few months ago. I assumed ‘app’ was short for ‘application’.

    4. Flick the bluetooth off switch is what to do if you have to have the App for work, I say it is draining my battery if asked.

    5. I honestly don’t understand why people place any credence in what software tells them to do.

  36. I saw a comment somewhere but cannot find it now.
    It was about the treatment of illegal immigrants after arrival in the UK.
    The comment was that these invaders should have their smart phones confiscated for inspection. It would be valuable in determining their place of origin. The phone would be returned after inspection which could take several days. The protocols of the checks on these invaders should require photographs, fingerprints and DNA samples which would be related to the phone details to enable to return the phone to the rightful owner .
    The Home secretary seems quiet on the reception the illegals get as far as ensuring that we have enough details about them to be able to track them when necessary.

      1. Morning Bill. MI5 could follow them [if they are not doing it already]
        We need to put more pressure on them and the gangs who are helping them

        1. But if the “secret” plan is that the bastards are to be allowed to come and stay – no one will do that.

        2. ‘Can you describe what the trafficker looked like Sir?
          Yes officer…..He was black’.

    2. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7180225f6443bd0d7eaf3bd56f913d5808415b3113de22bedcdba8c6896eb064.jpg

      Good morning Clydesider.

      I don’t think the government have a clue!

      Sudan is about 719.71 miles wide and 559.29 miles long.

      Libya is the fourth-largest country on the continent, with an area of 1,759,540 sq km (679,362 sq mi), extending 1,989 km (1,236 mi) SE – NW and 1,502 km (933 mi) NE – SW . Comparatively, the area occupied by Libya is slightly larger than the state of Alaska.

      1. Morning T-B – France has a lot more room than the UK has to house these invaders. Africa has a lot to give to the world but the inhabitants can’t get on with one another and yes, I have never in my lifetime witnessed a more useless UK Government. We must fight back.

        1. Moh and I were shocked to see a large group of delicate looking small women , they may have been Syrian or even Ethiopian , I don’t know , pushing prams with hordes of young children , along Weymouth seafront , attractive faces , but so out of place .. and groups of very black men , maybe Sudanese .

          There is no one to ask what is going on, and our councils continue to raise council tax , we are paying over £3,000 +, and we are pensioners , the cost of living is becoming an absolute joke .

          2. I suspect the hotels won’t be nice when the guests move on. The government will no doubt spend £billions on the cost of repairs and refurbishment of these nice hotels.

          3. Taxes go up, services decline and the only thing that gets better is the bank balance of the useless troughers infesting the council maangement office.

            No product. No risk. No need to advertise. No costs. A fixed, force back income – and they think they deserve 6 figure salaries, plus the same in pension to do nothing more than put numbers in a spreadsheet.

      2. If the gimmigrants had a planet to themselves they’d still want to come to ours.

        It’s time to simply say no and keep them out.

  37. I saw a comment somewhere but cannot find it now.
    It was about the treatment of illegal immigrants after arrival in the UK.
    The comment was that these invaders should have their smart phones confiscated for inspection. It would be valuable in determining their place of origin. The phone would be returned after inspection which could take several days. The protocols of the checks on these invaders should require photographs, fingerprints and DNA samples which would be related to the phone details to enable to return the phone to the rightful owner .
    The Home secretary seems quiet on the reception the illegals get as far as ensuring that we have enough details about them to be able to track them when necessary.

  38. More drivel from Philip Johnson.

    Covid has rescued Blair’s reputation. Now Boris must start listening to him
    The former PM is right to call out the madness of the pingdemic, and our unbalanced attitude to risk

    BTL Comment

    We are rather shy and embarrassed by words such as ‘evil’ and the ‘Devil.’

    However both Mrs May and Tony Blair tried to exploit their religion for political purposes. If the Devil exists both May and Blair are his disciples and they are both evil by any meaningful definition of the word.

    1. 335655+ up ticks,
      Morning R,
      AKA the bog man, an asset to the lab/lib/con coalition.

  39. As I kneaded today’s loaf (“Give us this day…etc”) I reflected on Priti Awful’s latest garbage.

    I don’t believe we have “given” yer French £54 million – or any other sum. It is just yet another meaningless bit of lying drivel.

    1. Morning Bill. I don’t think so. They are paying each other off. It’s their Pension Fund!

    2. I’m beginning to wonder to which ‘safe’ country can I flee to, to seek asylum from the tyranny being visited upon this old, white, anti-vaxxer?

  40. I watched Nigel Farage, on GBNews last night . . excellent…
    Just happened to catch on to one thing he mentioned . . The population of the UK has increased by 9 million since the year 2000 . . . and there seems to be no way of stopping it?

      2. Perhaps someone more patient than I could explain to this wazzock that any true asylum seeker, fleeing from tyranny or war, would kiss the ground of the first safe place he reached and pray to be allowed to stay.

        1. I wonder exactly how much money has been paid by the UK taxpayers, both in fighting such cases, and how much has been received in total by the “human rights industry”.

      5. They;re illegal gimmigrants. Don’t like the term? You can be on the boat sending them back Khan, you bloomin’ foreigner.

    2. 335655+ up ticks,
      Morning SA,
      Bit late in the day but it could be done as in stop supporting, giving succour to, the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration / foreign paedophile importing close shop coalition.

      Currently it would hurt many of the electorate that vote for more of the same but children of the future will thank us.

    4. And then those breeders have more brats, and send us the bill.

      We must end child benefit and housing benefit.

    1. And what on earth did his wives, mistresses and his current paramour see in him?

    1. The slant they are putting on it is obvious too. BBC R3 News refers to “…the hazardous crossing…”

      1. Well, to be fair, Robert, it IS hazardous. The Straits of Dover are among the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

        Frankly, I am amazed that many small boats have not been run down by very large vessels.

        1. They’re probably delivered 3 miles off the coast by French Navy who have advised Border Farce where to pick them up.

          1. …the French having been paid £millions to stop this. Cheats, fraudsters, cowards…and so on.

          2. I was thinking more along the lines of the Border Farce, the Royal Navy and the RNLI.

      2. Sickening, isn’t it?

        It’s beyond a joke. Let’s just send a flight of arrows into these dross and solve the problem outselves.

      2. Hey , I am here , and a nice protection racket will be coming your way , show me your catalytic converters , show me your dope snorters , hey show me your daughters , I will provide what you need .. I can drive, I can shave you, cut your hair , buy up your properties …

        Now show me where your nearest Audi dealer is, I need wheels!

    3. No change of law is needed. Will the BBC raise that?

      Will they reiterate that they’re here illegally?

      Or will the BBC ignore the invasion and just attack the government for both doing something in unnecessary legislation and not doing anything?

      1. The Bbc has its own agenda. There was a Panorama about slaughtering racehorses in an inhumane manner (in Ireland). Conspicuous by its absence was any mention of the thousands of racehorses that are retrained for different careers.

  44. 31 bags of soil moved up the garden.
    The job’s a good’un.

    Now off for a cold bath, mug of tea, breakfast and

  45. Self-employed to be hit with income tax raid
    Digital plans for tax returns mean one in five will pay more to submit

    Harry Brennan : DT – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/self-employed/self-employed-hit-income-tax-raid/

    I think that Bill Jackson (aka Jill Backson) is now working freelance for the DT after stopping making comments on this site. If you remember, he used to work for the tax authorities and he had a sadistic desire to punish all those having the necessary get-up-and-go to set up their own businesses.

    BTL Comment

    While those in the public sector have kept their pay in full many of the self-employed running their own businesses have been ruined and gone bankrupt.

    The solution of politicians and the tax authorities – all safely employed in the public sector – is to hit the self-employed yet again.

    When we also see that Boris Johnson has agreed to raise Corporation tax very substantially in 2023 we can only conclude that the Conservative Party is the enemy of free enterprise and business.

    It is time that all businesses removed their support completely from these fraudulent politicians in this completely dishonest and dishonourable political party.

    1. BTL Comment:-

      Robert Spowart
      21 Jul 2021 10:12AM
      If this does not convince the Rank & File Tories that it is time to get a grip of their party at a constituency level and kick out the Blairite clique that has grabbed control of their once proud party, then the party deserves to die away.

      1. I said a few years ago the Conservative Party needs to die so the country can have a conservatived mind political party.
        Nothing I have seen since has caused me to change my mind.

          1. I agree strong government depends on a strong opposition, I would like to see the existing Conservative Party die and be replaced by a true conservative minded political party first. Killing off Labour can come afterwards.

          2. In their current form, I suspect that political parties are going the way of the dinosaurs.

  46. I’m avoiding the necessity to create new digital accounts particularly as it raises issues of inaccessibility should someone with Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) need to submit a meter reading.

    Today I was forced to create a British Gas digital paper free account in order to submit a gas reading.

    So I used this link instead as if I had an LPA:

    https://www.britishgas.co.uk/identity/meter-reads

    1. In trying to administer my Mother’s affairs, one major problem is finding where she banks her money. Her main account I know and have control of through the LPA, but what about others? Shares? Premium bonds? I tried MyLostBankAccount.org, and as yet few banks have responded. One has, and I suspect in error, and the bank I know she banks with came back with a no-find!
      This doesn’t address shares… I know she has quite a few, but there doesn’t seem to be a central enquiry point for them.
      Are there documents kept in a bank vault, maybe?
      What about overseas money? Father used to route his pay from Nigeria through Jersey and New York, but where/how? Is there any left?

      The moral of the story is: Keep a record of all these, in a location where your loved one’s can get access. Keep it away from prying malware, though!
      It’s not so easy with websites/internet banks and passwords, as the password changes so often, but you could consider having an (electronic) record of passwords (good for memory too!) saved in a location where the loved one knows the password to.

      1. I was lucky that my father and I went through his accounts before he lost his memory. There have been letters that have arrived from companies I did not know about and I have to write to them and ask his interest. So long as your mother was not internet savvy, then most account holders/share registers will write once a year and you have to pick it up from there. Its not easy and I am not aware of any smart system to solve the problem.

        1. Beware the bank statements kept with baking papers and building society books stashed away with the nightdresses. Oh, and check every birthday and Christmas card; they often contain cash presents – though you may have to take the notes to a bank if they have been re-issued with a different design.

          1. So, what you are saying (© Cathy Newman) is that in a kitchen emergency, bank statements can be used to replace baking paper.

          2. 🙂
            Speaking from experience! In Elderly Chum’s house we even found a built-in wardrobe that we didn’t know existed because there was so much clothing piled up in front of it.
            Her brother had died some 11 years before we began clearing the house. Her niece and I had a joint first prize discovery of his unopened medication and his false teeth.

          3. Did you use the teeth to open the medicine? A bit like finding a sardine can with its key.

        1. I have a list of my banks/investments for old me to keep track of what’s going on. My son also has that list so at least he knows where all my assets are should I go gaga. Even if that document were to be kept in a sealed envelope by Toh, its a very helpful item should the worst happen.

        2. OH has a very tidy desk drawer with most stuff labelled – we do bank online and he deals with the electricty and oil deliveries. But most stuff I have access to.

      3. See if you can discover any records of her/your father’s stockbroker. The firm may have been taken over but it is unusual for people to change their brokers and you might get a lead for further investigation.

        If you see any dividend income on statements or find old dividend counterfoils you could write to the company secretary or whatever the modern equivalent is and they can tell you the holdings.

        Her tax gatherer should also be able to tell you what dividend income has been declared, although you don’t want to stir up a hornet’s nest if they think income/capital gains hasn’t been being declared

      4. It’s more difficult in your case as you haven’t been able to physically go through the documents and folders and she’s probably not capable of telling you now.

      5. MB has made a point of telling our sons where he keeps the important paperwork.

        1. I have copied SWMBO on the links to my investments and the broker, so she should be able to access the pension fund when I croak or lose what’s left of my mind.
          Passwords is another issue…

  47. I note that team GB ladies wendyball all submitted to marxism at the start of the game. No one in authority seems to have courage to point out that its against the rules and send them home.

    1. It must be me. It looks soulless, horrible. Public spaces next to housing are simply locations for antisocial behaviour, football, skateboarding, gang fights etc.

      1. I have just been delivering leaflets in council owned area. For several years after WWII, it contained prefabs which have now been replaced with quintessential local authority buildings.
        Quite frankly, you have to seriously despise your fellow man to think that soulless accommodation is acceptable.
        And this is in a ‘decent’ area of the town and a world away from the workers’ flats of the big cities.

  49. A small triumph. Sky News reporting that an Albanian man and others have been arrested in Croydon in connection with smuggling hundreds of illegal immigrants into the UK. The main suspect was arrested in a smart tapas restaurant near Croydon town centre as he drank beer with friends. The National Crime Agency made the arrest.

    1. Later:

      ” Released on bail …police unable to trace…”

      (I made this up – but it is 99.9% accurate)

    2. Hundreds of illegal immigrants are now regarded as trafficking victims, given fast track citizenship and allowed to have families join them. Only, joking, they will all be sent home like those coming from France… Well, maybe, sometime…

      2. Well, it is time for their summer holiday. Would be handy to have the British Government paying the fare back home.

  51. The Daily Human Stupidity.

    “He who harnesses the power of other people’s stupidity rules the world.”

    Robert Chad Canter.

    1. anf boy are people stupid. So many have just not asked themselves any qoestions abot the corvid flue scam, they have allowed themselves to be scared witless by it. Sorry to say that is most people.

      1. Indeed, Johnny, including people who I thought were robust, independent types. Suddenly reduced to a quivering blob of jelly, desperate to be locked down and terrified of an unmasked face. It’s amazing, and utterly dispiriting.

          1. Of course it does, or they wouldn’t spend time & money on it.
            Dr Göbbels showed how.

    2. 335655+ up ticks,
      G,
      the johnson, kneel starmer,davey are doing rather well then with the peoples consent via the polling booth.

    1. Will the Canadian Human Rights museum be displaying photos of the hundreds of unmarked graves recently found at Catholic homes for First Nation children?

      1. Well it will not be any first nations leaders displaying the pictures, they are the ones saying “Hang on a minute, they are not all first nations, that is a community graveyard where everyone was buried”.

        The detested Trudeau (bah, spit!) still has Canadian flags at half mast in a neffort to show his woke electability.

      2. And what is your take on that?
        Me?
        Well, given the way infections would rip through such establishments in days long gone past, diphtheria, smallpox, dysentery etc. such discoveries are not surprising.
        That they appear to be undocumented is, on the face of it, reprehensible as was the forced concentration of children in such schools its self, but it is certainly not the sign of deliberate genocide many have presumed it to be.

        1. Happy Wednesday Bob, whatever killed them is less important now than to as to why they were buried in a secretive manner & not given a decent funeral by a so called Christian church.

          1. Probably a pauper’s funeral, as normally happened in Britain at the same time for workhouse inhabitants. Read what the Call the Midwife author has to say about an old lady that she knew, whose children had all died in the workhouse.

        2. That is a point. My family are boring, middle class English – not rich, but clean and comfortable with enough to eat; I have an aunt – born 1901 – who was left mentally damaged by a mastoid. My father, at the age of 15, spent weeks in an isolation hospital with diphtheria – where we suspect he caught pulmonary TB. Apparently, although Marlow was a wealthy area, the drains were pretty crock in the 1920s. A twin cousin, born in 1935, died of a mastoid when he was 18 months old.
          I can remember my junior school being closed for 2 weeks because of a scarlet fever outbreak and, during the last serious polio outbreak in England, an entire town a few miles from Colchester was effective sealed off.

        3. It’s been written up as though they were murdered. In fact, the same was happening in children’s homes in Britain, and of course, in the workhouses too. But nobody’s interested in unmarked graves of white people.
          Just goes to show though, that the state interfering rarely causes more good than harm!

      1. 335655+ up ticks,
        Afternoon PA,
        And a BIG mi stake at that judging by its opening agenda.

    3. Make sure that they’ve got their Covid passports when they go out night-clubbing.

  54. In early July, Hungary, an EU nation, introduced a bill preventing the distribution of LGBT-related content at schools, drawing ire from Brussels. The European Commission hit the nation with a lawsuit over the measure, which it views as encroaching on European values and principles.

    Hungary is set to hold a referendum to estimate the nation’s support for a recent piece of legislation that bans materials “promoting” homosexuality and gender reassignment at schools.

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the public vote as Brussels targeted Budapest with legal action against the bill, which the European Commission sees as discriminatory and contrary to the bloc’s values.
    Hungary has been tightening laws targeting the LGBT community under Viktor Orban, who has been in power since 2010. At present, same-sex couples are legally barred from adopting children, and gender change is also prohibited by law.

      1. Thank you. The sight of those poor beagles in cages just turns my heart inside out.
        Edit: I should add all the other creatures that lost the lottery in life too, it is just that the beagle was the last I saw with the cage door slamming shut on him, no love or affection there. His life exploited.

        2. Done.
          I use to live near the (now demolished for housing) National Medical Research Institute on the Ridgway at Mill Hill NW7.
          Most nights we could hear the caged dogs howling. Not nice.

      1. Jambo Ndovu. 747 is very appropriate – Jumbo (about December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan.

    3. I’m with you about smoking beagles, PM, but what about research on a vaccination / cure for, say, scrapie in sheep? That would need tested on, well, sheep, in the same way that the Covid vaccine was tested on people – but people can give consent, and sheep cannot. How would that be handled?
      EDIT: There could be a distinction between “necessary” and “unnecessary” research, but how would that be defined? It’s rather opinion-based, like “fair level of taxation”, “Rich”, “Luxury”…

      1. Whatever the animal, or the use made of it, they need to be treated with care and compassion. Sheep don’t choose to be killed for meat – certainly not by halal slaughter.

        1. With you 100%, N.
          Max care, minimum suffering, minimuim waste when you kill & eat it.
          But the difficult bit is the research for animal welfare. Is it to be stopped? Where is the boundary? What about non-invasive medical as well as invasive medical research (and we could use a vaccine for scrapie in the wild reindeer on Hardangervidda – latest plan was to shoot the lot of them to try to stop the spread…) for the good of animals generally or specifically.
          If the law creates a requirement to develop a Research Plan, stating what’s to be done and why before any research can be carried out, then I can live with it, but otherwise I fear that the baby will be flung out with the bathwater.

      2. I know, I know. It’s such a difficult one. This may sound shallow but dogs especially reach into my heart. I feel bad that all these creatures lives are exploited on our behalf (and for the profits of the pharmaceuticals)and I am part of that.

    4. I’m with you about smoking beagles, PM, but what about research on a vaccination / cure for, say, scrapie in sheep? That would need tested on, well, sheep, in the same way that the Covid vaccine was tested on people – but people can give consent, and sheep cannot. How would that be handled?
      EDIT: There could be a distinction between “necessary” and “unnecessary” research, but how would that be defined? It’s rather opinion-based, like “fair level of taxation”, “Rich”, “Luxury”…

    5. I’m with you about smoking beagles, PM, but what about research on a vaccination / cure for, say, scrapie in sheep? That would need tested on, well, sheep, in the same way that the Covid vaccine was tested on people – but people can give consent, and sheep cannot. How would that be handled?
      EDIT: There could be a distinction between “necessary” and “unnecessary” research, but how would that be defined? It’s rather opinion-based, like “fair level of taxation”, “Rich”, “Luxury”…

    6. The lab that cloned Dolly the sheep uses tens of thousands of mice every year for testing purposes, for example. That’s for research. Cosmetic companies likewise.
      Animals suffer in this testing, as their function is to show up harmful effects amongst other things. If animals cannot be used for testing then we move to different kind of world with no new skin creams, no new cosmetics, no new medicines, no new clothing materials, no new washing powder, and so on. We cause harm to test animals in order to avoid harm to ourselves. Disease and illness are created in animals to test cures and pharmaceuticals. Some are awful, sores, tumours and so on. We could stop testing, of course, but the consequences and repercussions would be widespread and some might be bad for humans.

      1. If so many animals are used for testing cosmetics, etc., why does shampoo always sting like blazes when it gets in my eyes?

      2. It is a tricky one.
        Firstly, using animals is not that accurate for drugs and ingredients to be used for human beings.
        Secondly, many other animals benefit from that research. (Would one of our Jack Russells have lived an extra 3 years without Vetoryl being developed? How many of us have given antibiotics to our pets?)
        I believe they are developing sheets of human skin for experimenting with cosmetics.

        1. I am not defending this research. I am ambivalent. Finding new and better treatments, cures and preventives is probably good.
          How we get to them ethically and morally is the question. As a Catholic I will not be getting vaccinated against Covid. (As well as their untested nature). As far as I can find out all the vaccines were developed and/or tested using stem cells from a murdered child. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church is tying itself up in sophistry to make it seem that there is distance between the murder and the vaccine. The only distance is time, and time does not change morality, or ethics or criminal conduct.
          The Bishops have so far gone over to supporting the secular rulers that they now treat them more respectfully than the God they represent.

          1. Organised religion smacks too much of political control, hierarchies, careers and riches to be attractive to me.

          2. Yes. Martin Luther had some valid criticisms. Others not. Humans are frail. Offer them a bribe and they will take it.

    7. But now the Government has decided that we have no option other that to live with COVID we have become laboratory animals.

      When farmed animals that we rely on for food are tested positive for such a virulent and harmful pathogen the whole herd has to be slaughtered.

      Welcome to the laboratory. Ping!

  58. Global warming summer floods….

    A few years ago I asked a Met Office scientist if man could interfere with the weather…the answer was…”Yes, but with catastrophic consequences”.

    Here’s a headline from the DM…. Dubai makes its own RAIN to tackle 122F heat: Drones blast clouds with electrical charge to produce downpours

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9809529/Dubai-creates-RAIN-tackle-122F-heat-Drones-blast-clouds-electrical-charge.html

    There’s nothing more convincing than highly dangerous floods like in Germany this week to focus the gullible minds!

    1. Rain-making is not new technology though, it’s how Zimbabwe used to produce so much food.

    1. The Latest release from Dominic Cummings ?
      Who as I mentioned earlier, I actually warmed to as he told the truth of what actually does happen behind all those closed doors.

    2. I first came across Orbison’s music in any quantity way back in 1992, when I had an extended tour in Azerbaijan as a Marine Warranty surveyor. Got to like his songs. And the Gypsy Kings.

      1. I had all his records when I was an adolescent at boarding school between 1960 and 1964.

  60. The would-be BBC boss damned by her biased tweets

    You would guess, on the basis of the evidence, that Jess Brammar sees it as her job not to be impartial

    CHARLES MOORE

    How would you classify a person who tweeted as follows:
    • arguing that the term “woke” is a “dogwhistle”;
    • promoting a job advertisement from one of her own staff which sought only “non-binary” applicants;
    • promoting, in 2019, an article which claimed that black people were considering leaving Britain because of racism, “particularly if Boris Johnson wins”;
    • promoting “the group of young women behind the #FCKBoris posters” on the Tube;
    • promoting, on the day before Britain’s formal departure from the European Union, an article about how we could rejoin;
    • endorsing the view that “transphobia is rife in the gender-based violence sector”;
    • accusing Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, of being sexually insecure on the grounds that he had said he was “probably not” a feminist;
    • mocking someone who had been at university with her for defending the Union flag in the culture wars;
    • describing a shortage of home-testing sexual health kits as the “reality of austerity Britain”; and calling herself “atheist and republican”?

    In an interview in 2019, the same tweeter said: “It’s important that we maintain a completely reasonable level of outrage. If we stop reminding people that some of the events that are happening with the British government or with Donald Trump in the US are unprecedented, then I don’t think we’re doing our jobs properly as journalists … as an editor, I am always careful to remind my team that just because we’re covering this stuff all the time, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that a lot of what we’re covering is, frankly, outrageous.”

    I think any reasonable person would conclude that the tweeter had strongly Left-wing views which she thought right to deploy professionally and was particularly combative over “identity politics”.

    What would you then think on learning that the same person produced over a few years roughly 16,000 tweets, since automatically deleted, and that she is favourite to become the next executive news editor of the BBC?

    Apart from wearily feeling no surprise at all that such a person is the front-runner, you might want to ask how her appointment would square with the firm commitment to impartiality and diversity of opinion made by Tim Davie, the newish director-general of the BBC?

    You would wonder what she was trying to hide by getting rid of her tweets. You would guess, on the basis of the evidence, that she sees it as her job not to be impartial, but to maintain, as she says she does, “a completely reasonable level of outrage”.

    To turn her own phrase against her, you might find her promotion, in an organisation renewing its commitment to impartiality, as “frankly, outrageous”.

    This is the current situation in relation to Jess Brammar, formerly deputy editor of BBC Newsnight and most recently editor-in-chief of HuffPost UK.

    Sir Robbie Gibb, the member for England on the BBC’s board, texted Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s Director of News, to say that the promotion of Ms Brammar to the vacant news position would be very bad for the trust which the board were trying to establish between the Government and BBC. Sir Robbie’s private text was leaked, presumably by someone in the BBC, but with consequences which can only be bad for the corporation.

    If Mr Davie now does not appoint Ms Brammar, he will be execrated for giving in to the Government. Sir Robbie, who used to be Theresa May’s communications director when she was prime minister, has been put on the board with the support of what Ms Brammar sees as the outrageous Boris regime.

    You can be certain that the misleading phrase “speaking truth to power” will be trotted out.

    It will be said – though it is the opposite of the case – that the BBC board is not supposed to express anxieties about appointments. Actually, that is exactly what it is there for in relation to journalistic standards – to ensure the impartial balance which is so often lacking. Poor, leaked-against Sir Robbie was only doing his job – speaking for England.

    On the other hand, if Mr Davie does appoint Ms Brammar, he will be showing, yet again, that the BBC speaks differently when it comes under pressure for bias and losing touch, but always acts the same. He has admitted that the BBC somehow lost touch with opinion over Brexit, yet he will have promoted her.

    Her opinions are, almost in caricature form, those with which the BBC is associated in the public mind. Anti-Brexit, anti-Boris, pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-trans activism etc – she has the full house.

    And she speaks with a vehemence that never shows a chink of understanding for other views or even a recognition that other views should be covered fairly.

    It crosses my mind that she may not know what diversity of opinion is, given the volume of noise in her echo-chamber.

    If any power needs speaking truth to (and most do) it is the BBC. It continues to see its licence fee income as its sacred right to do what it wants, rather than its sacred duty to deal fairly with the millions who are forced by law to pay.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/would-be-bbc-boss-damned-biased-tweets/

    1. In other BBC news – the Telegaffe reports that Sue Perkins will be the next presenter of “Just a Minute” rather than Gyles Brandreth – anyone remotely surprised?

      1. Since most in the “entertainments industry” seem to be homosexual, finding a hetero presenter could be somewhat of a problem.

      2. Another unfunny performer – comedienne? – much beloved by the modern Al-Beeb. Once the bastion of some excellent comedy, how the mighty are fallen.

    3. People might say how on this planet did Muz Jess Brammar ever become a candidate for the positing. Apart from the obvious of course.
      Well done Charles Moore for bringing it to the public attention

    4. promoting, in 2019, an article which claimed that black people were considering leaving Britain because of racism, “particularly if Boris Johnson wins” Pity that its not true as millions more of them have arrived since !

  61. The would-be BBC boss damned by her biased tweets

    You would guess, on the basis of the evidence, that Jess Brammar sees it as her job not to be impartial

    CHARLES MOORE

    How would you classify a person who tweeted as follows:
    • arguing that the term “woke” is a “dogwhistle”;
    • promoting a job advertisement from one of her own staff which sought only “non-binary” applicants;
    • promoting, in 2019, an article which claimed that black people were considering leaving Britain because of racism, “particularly if Boris Johnson wins”;
    • promoting “the group of young women behind the #FCKBoris posters” on the Tube;
    • promoting, on the day before Britain’s formal departure from the European Union, an article about how we could rejoin;
    • endorsing the view that “transphobia is rife in the gender-based violence sector”;
    • accusing Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, of being sexually insecure on the grounds that he had said he was “probably not” a feminist;
    • mocking someone who had been at university with her for defending the Union flag in the culture wars;
    • describing a shortage of home-testing sexual health kits as the “reality of austerity Britain”; and calling herself “atheist and republican”?

    In an interview in 2019, the same tweeter said: “It’s important that we maintain a completely reasonable level of outrage. If we stop reminding people that some of the events that are happening with the British government or with Donald Trump in the US are unprecedented, then I don’t think we’re doing our jobs properly as journalists … as an editor, I am always careful to remind my team that just because we’re covering this stuff all the time, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that a lot of what we’re covering is, frankly, outrageous.”

    I think any reasonable person would conclude that the tweeter had strongly Left-wing views which she thought right to deploy professionally and was particularly combative over “identity politics”.

    What would you then think on learning that the same person produced over a few years roughly 16,000 tweets, since automatically deleted, and that she is favourite to become the next executive news editor of the BBC?

    Apart from wearily feeling no surprise at all that such a person is the front-runner, you might want to ask how her appointment would square with the firm commitment to impartiality and diversity of opinion made by Tim Davie, the newish director-general of the BBC?

    You would wonder what she was trying to hide by getting rid of her tweets. You would guess, on the basis of the evidence, that she sees it as her job not to be impartial, but to maintain, as she says she does, “a completely reasonable level of outrage”.

    To turn her own phrase against her, you might find her promotion, in an organisation renewing its commitment to impartiality, as “frankly, outrageous”.

    This is the current situation in relation to Jess Brammar, formerly deputy editor of BBC Newsnight and most recently editor-in-chief of HuffPost UK.

    Sir Robbie Gibb, the member for England on the BBC’s board, texted Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s Director of News, to say that the promotion of Ms Brammar to the vacant news position would be very bad for the trust which the board were trying to establish between the Government and BBC. Sir Robbie’s private text was leaked, presumably by someone in the BBC, but with consequences which can only be bad for the corporation.

    If Mr Davie now does not appoint Ms Brammar, he will be execrated for giving in to the Government. Sir Robbie, who used to be Theresa May’s communications director when she was prime minister, has been put on the board with the support of what Ms Brammar sees as the outrageous Boris regime.

    You can be certain that the misleading phrase “speaking truth to power” will be trotted out.

    It will be said – though it is the opposite of the case – that the BBC board is not supposed to express anxieties about appointments. Actually, that is exactly what it is there for in relation to journalistic standards – to ensure the impartial balance which is so often lacking. Poor, leaked-against Sir Robbie was only doing his job – speaking for England.

    On the other hand, if Mr Davie does appoint Ms Brammar, he will be showing, yet again, that the BBC speaks differently when it comes under pressure for bias and losing touch, but always acts the same. He has admitted that the BBC somehow lost touch with opinion over Brexit, yet he will have promoted her.

    Her opinions are, almost in caricature form, those with which the BBC is associated in the public mind. Anti-Brexit, anti-Boris, pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-trans activism etc – she has the full house.

    And she speaks with a vehemence that never shows a chink of understanding for other views or even a recognition that other views should be covered fairly.

    It crosses my mind that she may not know what diversity of opinion is, given the volume of noise in her echo-chamber.

    If any power needs speaking truth to (and most do) it is the BBC. It continues to see its licence fee income as its sacred right to do what it wants, rather than its sacred duty to deal fairly with the millions who are forced by law to pay.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/would-be-bbc-boss-damned-biased-tweets/

  62. Right Tom NTN here’s the other barber joke.
    The local florist pops into the village barbers at opening time. He has his hair cut and as he pays, the barber tells him i’m cutting the first 6 customer free of charge this week and donating the money to a local children’s charity. Oh that’s a lovely gesture the florist says and off he goes off to work. When the Barber arrived next morning there is a lovey mixed bunch of flowers on the door step. His first customer that day is the local baker. Same thing, free hair cut and money to charity, next day a bag of 6 hot jam doughnuts were on the barbers door step, the local butcher was first in and same thing happened, next day a lovey bag of 6 freshly butchered lamb chops on the door step.
    The first customer arrived as the barber picked up the chops and put them in his fridge. The local politician sat in the chair as he had ‘a surgery’ at his village office.
    He was amazed at the generous gesture by the barber and left. (probably still claimed it on his expenses).
    Next morning the barber arrived to open his shop and he found 6 politicians standing on the door step.

    1. There were 3 other people using our local post office this morning. All dutifully wearing masks.
      Watch this space (the one between their ears).

      1. Yesterday the Lidl near me was awash with masks, even keeping them on as they walked across the car park. Inside I counted one youngish woman and five men, me included, who were not masked. All staff were duly muffled. Exactly what the BPAPM wanted.

    2. I went to Aldi in Hall Green this evening. About 50% of the customers masked, no staff with masks!

  64. Conversations with my Daughter:

    Mother, “I see there’s still a shortage of sherry in the supermarkets.
    I tried again this morning and the shelves were bare! ”

    Daughter “Other shelves are empty too mother but
    you didn’t look did you?…..

        1. Now there’s an idea, how about a sherry smuggling gang from Spain out of Calais in rubber boats, not a chance of being stopped.

          2. Great stuff………I’ve still got the remains of a fancy dress pirate out fit some where, I haven’t heard the parrot squawking for ages.
            Not sure where the wooden leg ended up 🦯

        1. The trouble with pre-mixed gin and tonic is that they don’t get the proportions right!

        2. Don’t touch it!
          Friends took me to see Momma Mia 2 and the wife kept giving me cans of that which they had smuggled in. Not chilled, flavourless and no kick. Ugh!

          2. A very good friend of mine brought me two chilled g&t’s just after I’d had my first daughter! Brilliant they were!

      2. As Jonny Depp, as Captain Jack Sparrow may opine…’but the rum…where’s the rum gone…?’

  65. As if we needed any more reminding of the chaotic nature of the ‘rules’…

    Freedom day flop

    So-called Freedom Day was supposed to be when state diktat ended and personal responsibility took over. Yet that’s not what’s happened

    TELEGRAPH VIEW

    Paul Scully, the business minister, has been denounced for stating on television that it is not a legal requirement for people who have been “pinged” by the Test and Trace system to self-isolate. He was called a “bungler” for failing to understand his own Government’s laws. But Mr Scully understood them very well. He is right: people are not legally obliged to isolate unless they are contacted directly by the Test and Trace team.

    Unless it is mandatory to download the app, which it is not, the law cannot treat those who have it on their smartphones differently from those who have not. Moreover, since many workers in “key” posts are now to be exempted to stop the NHS falling over and food supplies being imperilled, it cannot be a legal requirement.

    Downing Street nevertheless upbraided Mr Scully for giving the impression that this is a matter of personal choice. It was “crucial” that people self-isolate when instructed by the app, but not so crucial that it should be enforced by law, it seems.

    So-called Freedom Day on Monday was supposed to be the moment when state diktat ended and personal responsibility took over. Boris Johnson framed Stage Four of the road map in precisely those terms. Yet that is not what is happening.

    Legal sanctions are being replaced by ministerial tut-tutting and panic-stricken guidelines. “Here is your freedom to act sensibly but we do not actually trust you to use it” seems to be the message. So keep wearing a mask even though you do not have to, stay away from crowded spaces and self-isolate when pinged even if the law says this is not necessary and your business may suffer as a result.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/freedom-day-flop/

  66. Some of you will get this.

    On this day, 21st July 1981 – Bob Willis 8-43

        1. Unless we buy a satellite subscription, not available here.
          And there’s a forested hill between the house and the satellite… which is, naturally very low on the horizon. Satellite dishes not advised.

          1. Other methods are available but its not up to me to recommend what they are.
            In a nutshell…..i steal all international sport output.

    3. Headingley.

      Many years ago we (volunteer umpires) were called into the office and presented with a Yorkshire Cricket Club towel – and a pair of heavy woollen grey socks – as a token of appreciation by the club committee. Who else can claim to have been presented with a pair of socks by the most revered cricket club in the land? Eat your hearts out!

    4. I can remember where I was, West Mersea telephone exchange; what I was doing; I was supposed to be installing the new electronic exchange but in reality was huddled by the radio with my team listening and cheering as Willis destroyed the Aussies. Thanks for the memory, WS.

      1. I had no idea what was going on. I had a lunchtime bar job for the summer vacation. I drove to the pub and when I left the car, Oz were 30-something for one. When I returned to it after the session, I didn’t turn on the radio immediately because I assumed England had lost. When I did switch it on, I couldn’t make out what the TMS crew were on about at first but then one of them read out the England bowling figures and then I realised because I knew Willis had never taken 8 in an innings. I did an emergency stop!

    5. I can remember where I was, West Mersea telephone exchange; what I was doing; I was supposed to be installing the new electronic exchange but in reality was huddled by the radio with my team listening and cheering as Willis destroyed the Aussies. Thanks for the memory, WS.

    6. Assuming you are referring to “Botham’s Test”.
      I always thought Willis deserved even more credit than Botham, for that victory.
      Didn’t a couple of Aussies place bets at some ridiculous odds 500-1 or something?

      1. In the end it was Willis’s bowling that won it but only because Botham (supported by Dilley and Old) gave him something to bowl at.

        1. Indeed, but I still think Willis’s was the greater performance. 8 wicket innings are rarer than 150’s.

    2. December the 6th 2019 I don’t remember that being mentioned by ‘Auntie’ or any other news channel.

      1. Trial in progress.

        It may have been reported on the Beeb but who takes notice of stabbings these days.

  68. Now that the Wokists ergo the BLMers, have decreed that Parkin is a Slave Originated Food,and life has not moved on

    :https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/parkin-probed-council-links-cake-colonialism/

    I think it is about time that we had a Nottler sterotypical description of a BLM

    Intransigent ( or is it intransiperson) in their views of Whitey in history

    Llots of kids, with different fathers and/or mothers
    Rapists
    County line drug dealers
    Gunmen/gunperson
    Not Lawabiding
    Machette and knfe wielders
    Benefit cheats

    This is as true as all whites in UK being Slavemasters

    1. And so all this stupid dopey wokey BS goes on and on and on………..when are the woke dopes going to admit that the worse people in the history of mankind for capturing and abusing slaves especially young children with white complexions were the muslims in Grenada. They had as many as 6 thousand children locked up at Alhambra. Those they had no ‘further use’ for were thrown to the pride of resident African lions. All of those children were captured by ‘barbary pirates’ plucked from the shores of Britain, Ireland and France. It took 400 years to get those terrible people out of Spain and now once again, they are everywhere.

    2. I liked this BTL, one of many thinking that the loonies are running the asylum …

      I must visit Yorkshire again. If they’ve got money to waste on this sort
      of infantile nonsense their roads must be wonderful. Their public
      conveniences pristine. Their libraries, theatres and museums luxurious
      and abundantly stocked. Oh lucky people to enjoy such wealth.

    3. I liked this BTL, one of many thinking that the loonies are running the asylum …

      I must visit Yorkshire again. If they’ve got money to waste on this sort
      of infantile nonsense their roads must be wonderful. Their public
      conveniences pristine. Their libraries, theatres and museums luxurious
      and abundantly stocked. Oh lucky people to enjoy such wealth.

    1. I remember driving from Rhyll (visiting a cousin) down to Cardigan Bay. One part of the road was completely overgrown with trees making a magical tunnel. A great big owl was making use of my slipstream.

      As the vista opened up i caught sight of the bay with dolphins frolicking.

      1. Driving through tree tunnels is magical. There are a couple of roads near Masham, England*, where there is a fine avenue.

        * For the information of our American readers.

        1. There is (or was) a fine avenue of 365 beech trees at Badbury Rings in Dorset. We used to gallop our hoses along the parallel track.

        2. Punting through tree tunnels is even more magical (can be done on parts of the Cherwell in Oxford).

        3. Punting through tree tunnels is even more magical (can be done on parts of the Cherwell in Oxford).

    2. I lament that you have a Lamont as an MP.

      Did he arrive by parachute from CCO – con central office?

    3. 335655+ up ticks,
      Afternoon HP,
      Has the heat got to you that is so bloody obvious
      tis the pakistani porg in the green shirt.

  71. Over the past couple of days I have been receiving replies to my posts made on 15th July. Nothing more recent.

    Is anyone else experiencing the same. I use ProtonMail.

  72. Seems that the vast majority of Sainsbury’s shoppers who have been given freedom have said no thanks and still wear masks.

    What is wrong with people.

    2. They think they are safe because the government does their thinking for them…

      ‘A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.’ O.Wilde…

      1. We’re using them ‘cos we’re transferring all our Avios to Nectar points and it’s ‘free’ shopping.

        1. I did some free shopping this week. I won a £100 lifestyle voucher usable in Waitrose. :@)

  73. Proof that Johnson is an establishment mule….

    It’s long been known that the MSM is the propaganda wing of the elite and from what I have seen of the Dom Cummings interview and fallout simply confirms that notion.

    The BBC and the papers concur that Cummings is simply getting his own back on Johnson while most of what he says mirrors what most of us have been saying since Johnson took office following a barrage of election lies. I predicted Johnson being booted out of office within six months of being elected while more and more prominent people are now calling for him to go.

    Yet the BBC and the rest of the media support him which confirms that he is the perfect establishment tool and is not working on behalf of those who voted for him.

    1. 335655+ upticks,
      Afternoon H,
      The johnson actions certainly threw ” nige” who built up a whole party then stood down a good % of his candidates in support of the turkish delight.

  74. Good afternoon all.

    Kurt Westergaard, cartoonist who provoked rage among Muslims and was forced into hiding ….

    his obit in today’s DT. … but .. but .. but no comments allowed. BAH !!

    1. Afternoon Anne. It keeps getting talked down in the MSM but one suspects that’s propaganda!

    2. It will appeal to many people who’ve cancelled their tv licence so YouTube, Twitter etc video plays will of course compensate for lower live tv viewing. Fewer people watch tv now. That’s the logic behind extending BBC iPlayer catch-up from 30 days to 12 months.

      1. Pesky Fish are very good.

        Garlands sent me two live giant Lobsters. Took ages to prepare them properly.

  80. 335655+ up ticks,
    May one ask, after hearing the pritti treacherous one on the one o’clock news & her rhetorical crap concerning the DOVER governance orchestrated, taxpayer funded, invasion fleet will this tory (ino) party still find funding via the membership ? these particular overseers are without a shadow of doubt now quite openly taking the piss by the shipload,and the only w(h)ine to be seen in the main is from peoples financing them.

  82. Communist China ‘Directly Threatening’ Former Conservative Party Leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith

    The former leader of the British Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed that he is being directly threatened by Communist China as a result of his work to expose the malign influence of the brutal regime in Beijing.

    The former Tory leader told Parliament that he has been made aware of intelligence from the Five Eyes (the intelligence-sharing network comprised of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S.) which warned that members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) are being targetted by the communist nation for cyberattacks.

    Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “I understand now there is intelligence from the Five Eyes sources that there is now a very active and direct threat from the Chinese government aimed directly at the co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
    *
    *
    *

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

    George • 3 hours ago
    I have spoken to many Chinese people, and they all say the same thing about the West: We don’t need to destroy you, they say. You are destroying yourselves with Muslim immigration and surrender to black culture.

    The Chinese know the future is theirs, because they look at Britain and America and laugh. We are no longer a country, but a dumping ground for the world’s welfare deadbeats.

    Just look at what’s landing on our shores, and we are paying them to do it.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/21/communist-china-directly-threatening-former-conservative-party-leader-sir-iain-dunca

  84. A cultural Iron Curtain separating east and west threatens to tear the EU apart. 21 July 2021.

    Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, may have spoken for many in western Europe when he recently asked if a new EU could be created without Hungary and Poland. The cultural Iron Curtain within Europe threatens to tear the continent apart, with countries of the former Warsaw Pact jealously guarding their sovereignty and culture, becoming more a thorn in the side of the Brussels elite than an asset.

    The cultural division erupted again recently with fresh legal battles between the EU on the one hand and Budapest and Warsaw on the other – this time over LGBT rights. While the EU has no mechanism to kick member states out, Article 7 of the EU Treaty allows for the removal of voting rights, and both Hungary and Poland are subject to Article 7 investigations. While identifying a breach requires unanimity (which will be prove impossible), sanctions require only a qualified majority.

    Well he wasn’t speaking for me or I suspect large numbers of ordinary Europeans whose sympathies lie with Hungary and Poland and not the Wokeys of Brussels. If Europe does split and another Iron Curtain descends, I shall ironically be living in the same place but this time on the wrong side!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/cultural-iron-curtain-separating-east-west-threatens-tear-eu/

      1. The trouble is: where will those countries (Netherlands, France and Germany) go to? Hopefully nowhere near the UK.

      2. The trouble is: where will those countries (Netherlands, France and Germany) go to? Hopefully nowhere near the UK.

  88. We must renegotiate Northern Ireland Protocol, UK tells EU
    The Government is now proposing a number of major changes to the Protocol, which was agreed before the UK left the European Union
    Ben Riley Smith: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/21/must-renegotiate-northern-ireland-protocol-uk-tells-eu/

    Surely experience should have taught us that whatever we try to negotiate in good faith the EU will cheat and distort. The only answer surely is to scrap the WA and the deal completely and go for WTO terms as we should have done five years ago and not go on wasting even more time.

    BTL Comment

    The brace of idiots: Johnson and Gove, were so keen to ‘get a deal’ with the EU rather than go for WTO terms that they agreed to the Northern Ireland Protocol in spite of the fact that before the election Johnson had promised categorically that there would be no border in the Irish Sea.

    The shock for many of us who wanted a proper Brexit was that, even after so many years in the EU parliament, Nigel Farage – who knew all about the EU’s Machiavellian duplicity, said that the ‘deal’ was acceptable.

    1. We could just tell the E.U to eff off but we can’t because we haven’t left. We are still paying them £800 million a week

    2. 335655+ up ticks,
      Afternoon R,
      There is the reason the real UKIP under Gerard Batten wanted total severance, controlled immigration etc,etc And that is the very reason treachery was triggered via the party nec & pro johnson farage.

    3. Stupid buggers have painted themselves into a corner. Amateurs, the lot of them. The EU will eat them for supper, and most certainly are not amateurs.

      1. Unlikely.
        Begum is not a name but an honorific for a married woman akin to Mrs.

        2. How come they’re not all Begums? Four per man = loads of Begums.

          Also, Shamima was not married when she left this country, and her name was Begum.

      1. Wrong colour.
        Wrong sex.
        Wrong religious affiliation.
        Wrong political party.
        Apart from that – yup, she’s heading for the slammer.

      2. She won’t go to prison and i very much doubt she will be ordered to pay the money back.

          3. It does, yer prosecution service just don’t realise she’s a Parliamentary Parasite.

    4. I wonder how much housing fraud was involved in Grenfell Towers , and of course after the terrible event as well?

      I suspect millions went walkabout.

    5. The House of Commons has sunk so low that it would be more surprising to find that she wasn’t committing some kind of fraud. After all, getting into politics is just an opportunity to fill one’s boots, right?

  91. Internet down…

    In the past I have worried about what might happen if the Internet went down and the chaos that would ensue. I imagined access to the plebs blocked while the security services could still monitor everything. Years later and only this week I watched the latest video by Dr Vernon Coleman who warns about the grid going down.

    The establishment could still use the Internet having generators and many gallons of fuel but what would happen if there was no electricity? Computers and TV’s would not work. Petrol pumps would not work. Mobile phones would not work and carrier pigeons would be eaten by hungry people as fridges and freezers would not work either. Imagine the unrest and looting whereby homeowners would have to take drastic action to protect their property.

    Bet very few people are prepping by stocking up with tinned food as most think it couldn’t happen. But are they certain it wouldn’t happen?

    1. Water won’t be pumped. Lights will be off. Alarms will be off.
      Mobile networks have alternative power supplies, but you won’t be able to charge the handset.
      Central heating will be off. Needs electricity to power the circulation pumps, and in the case of my Mother, the fuel oil pump.
      But it would take something special to crash the whole grid. You’d have to attack the control systems through a virus or similar.
      After the storm in 1987, there was a complete re-evaluation of the grid and many changes made, after the branch to Kent went down. Despite having their own local coal power station, they couldn’t get power from the grid to start up! Now, they all have standby gas turbines, so they can start autonomously.
      Edit: Appalling sentence structure… 🙁

      1. During the Great Storm of 87, we were off power for 5 days !!

        Similar situation in the 1990 storm, off power again for five days .. by then I had learned to stock up with stuff , gas heaters and lamps and calor gas camping rings!

        Good Girl Guide Motto , Be Prepared.

        1. I don’t mind when there is a power cut. I get to restock my freezers for free. I take pics of all the stuff i have lost. I don’t tell them that i have already eaten it.

          1. In a Build up Better scenario, there may not be insurance companies to pay or bank accounts to receive, any compensation. That’s if the PTB haven’t already killed you anyway.

        2. Just like Africa of one’s childhood, all over again. Now the population looks that way, too.

    2. Water won’t be pumped. Lights will be off. Alarms will be off.
      Mobile networks have alternative power supplies, but you won’t be able to charge the handset.
      Central heating will be off. Needs electricity to power the circulation pumps, and in the case of my Mother, the fuel oil pump.
      But it would take something special to crash the whole grid. You’d have to attack the control systems through a virus or similar.
      After the storm in 1987, there was a complete re-evaluation of the grid and many changes made, after the branch to Kent went down. Despite having their own local coal power station, they couldn’t get power from the grid to start up! Now, they all have standby gas turbines, so they can start autonomously.
      Edit: Appalling sentence structure… 🙁

    3. We used to get regular power cuts here – not so many now. We have candles and a woodburner. We did go out for fish & chips one time when the power was off for a couple of days.

    4. It could happen any time.
      https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/electromagnetic-pulse-could-knock-out-us-power-grid/

      The Carrington Event was a geomagnetic storm in 1859 that struck at the dawn of the electricity age. The Northern Lights were seen in the Caribbean. The fledgling electricity grid was knocked out.

      If that happened today, as you say, everything would go out. Frankly, I don’t give much for the chances of anyone who couldn’t defend themselves, well, that’s pretty much everyone in the unarmed UK. Because guns are criminal, so nobody has them, right?
      Would the army use precious resources to defend the bunch of shills in Government? If they had any sense, they’d have a military coup.

      Not that I want to scare people…..!

      Linda Howard wrote a light novel imagining this scenario, and I read it last year. I now have a “non electricity” box in the boxroom, containing useful stuff that doesn’t require electricity (like old-fashioned alternatives to modern power tools). I have also added matches and a few more candles to my stash.
      I am not a serious prepper, but I do keep a couple of months’ supply of basic rations.

      1. I have a little rucksack packed for emergencies, tools, torches, medical dressings etc. I also have a holdall pre-packed in case I end up in hospital – toiletries, medication, radio, chargers etc.

  93. 335655+ up ticks,
    Any answers ?
    Tell me, as a nation would we recognise in this Country which is, in the main, still in the hands of the indigenous, a political coup as has surely been triggered or are the electorate fully in compliance ?

  94. It really comes to something when the Conspiracy theorists and the tin foil hat wearers are the only people with their credibility and integrity left intact all through this pandemic.

    1. 335655+up ticks,
      Afternoon B3,
      Plus ALL the UKIP Batten brigade put down via treachery.

  95. 335655+ up ticks,
    A brass neck demand from the Zatopek of politics,

    ‘Boris Johnson: Leader or Cheerleader?’ Nigel Farage Calls on PM to ‘Show Some Leadership’ in Prime Time Debut

      1. Glad he can afford to smoke. I wonder if the RNLI and Border Farce do duty frees….

          1. Nor here – but then all our front doors face into the garden rather than the street.

          2. I only heard the racket once when I happened to be in the garden at 8. It came from my neighbours who have children. Their house was festooned with rainbows and had them chalked on the drive for good 0easure.

          3. There are few children round here now – all grown up and gone – but the one little girl down the hill decorated the old red phone box with rainbows and grew a tomato plant inside it.

    2. For one awful moment, I thought you were saying that the Scots harridan had returned…{:¬))

      2. I was just thinking about JSp today when I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 Farming News. She was very good on agricultural matters and our farmers are in difficult times now with politicians trying to control them.

        2. When you have been slandered and attacked as many times as she did me …..

  99. President and Mrs. Coolidge toured an experimental government farm separately. Shown a chicken yard, Mrs. Coolidge observed a rooster mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often the rooster did this. “Dozens of times each day,” he told her. “Tell that to the President when he comes by,” she said.

    When her husband visited the chicken yard, the attendant delivered the message.

    “Same hen every time?” Coolidge asked.

    “Oh no, Mr. President, a different hen every time.”

    “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”

  100. Afternoon all. Scorching hot here. Oscar has been much admired and even let a woman stroke him on his back without so much as turning his head, let alone taking her fingers off! It seems wire haired fox terriers are a bit of a rarity. Off to channel my inner Dambuster tomorrow with tea on the terrace at the Petwood.

    1. Scorchio here, too, Conwy. Enjoy your freedom – while it lasts. Wave No 14 and Lockdown No 27 on their way.

        1. That’s the East of England for you. When I was in Fakenham last Thursday it was about 50-50. I’ll be going there tomorrow morning and will see what (if anything) has changed.

          1. To be fair, people came from all over; spoke to a Welsh chap and a woman from Hungerford. I didn’t get to find out where the others came from.

    3. Mongo attracts a lot of attention from pretty girls.

      The wife says together he and I balance out.

  101. Starmer is self isolating as one of his daughters has tested positive for Covid. Sky News

  102. Had lunch at the local garden centre with four ladies I used to work with – we sat outside in partial shade but it was pretty warm, and the sun moved round. The staff were masked. Some of the guests were as well, and two of my friends put theirs on when we got up to go.

    It doesn’t seem to take long to change people’s habits.

    1. I am completely bewildered by it all. It seems to get worse, rather than better.

    2. I’ve heard so many people say that we should keep masks for shops and public transport, most of them were the one’s that hated Trump and wanted to Remain in the EU.
      One person said the other night that wearing masks is a small price to pay for freedom,
      It’s like they have all been body snatched by aliens.

      1. One person said the other night that wearing masks is a small price to pay for freedom.

        I’ve heard this too often from people who I would otherwise regard as intelligent and sensible.

        1. My friend said it was to protect other people – I said it made not a hap’eth of difference…..but we didn’t fall out over it.

          1. And, in Oz, a lot of other people should be locked up to protect “freedom”.
            What next?
            Maybe they should “take a shower on arrival at the camp, down there by the end of the railway tracks” to protect “freedom”?

      1. I’ll see what it’s like in Morrisons on Friday – I did see one maskless shopper there last week.

      2. We went out today as well for some shopping at ASDA.
        Mrs VVOF had to keep reminding me not to call every nappy covered face “Sheep” when I walked past them.

        1. I bought myself a new riding jacket. Not that I needed one,but it was reduced from three figures to fifty quid, I can’t resist a bargain.

          1. Don’t you know riding is due to be banned by Boris in the autumn, can’t have people enjoying themselves, it could cause zillions dead by October.

            Seriously, I hope you have lots of use out of your jacket.

  103. Had lunch at the local garden centre with four ladies I used to work with – we sat outside in partial shade but it was pretty warm, and the sun moved round. The staff were masked. Some of the guests were as well, and two of my friends put theirs on when we got up to go.

    It doesn’t seem to take long to change people’s habits.

  104. Vaccine passports are a conspiracy against freedom

    Turning Britain into a ‘papers please’ society is a slippery slope that ought to worry us all

    MADELINE GRANT

    They denied it vehemently. For months, it felt like half the Cabinet was busy quashing rumours that domestic vaccine passports would ever feature in English daily life. Again and again, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi ruled out the introduction of a system he branded “discriminatory”. “That’s not how we do things. We do them by consent,” he declared loftily in February.

    The PM scoffed too, before inserting the mandate into his risibly named “Freedom Day” address, delivered from captivity at Chequers. From September, double vaccination would be required to enter nightclubs and other “crowded events”. “Proof of a negative test will no longer be enough.” It also proved that his Government’s aims now stretch beyond merely “protecting” the NHS during a pandemic and into the realm of long-term coercive control.

    Those who warned against vaccine passports; whether on grounds of discrimination, ethics or practicality, were repeatedly told not to worry, that the whole thing was a madcap conspiracy theory. Even now, many are convinced the move will never happen – it’s just a bluff to get the young double-vaccinated, copying Emmanuel Macron’s interventions in France.

    Certainly, to see this policy enacted, the Government must know that it would encounter serious resistance from Parliament, plus legal challenges elsewhere. An unlikely coalition opposes the idea: Corbynistas, Greens, Lib Dems and Shire Tories. Some Conservative backbenchers have supported the Government so far; but only on the understanding that things like domestic Covid passes wouldn’t happen. So ministers may never follow through on this cynical ultimatum. But what a rotten way to conduct politics; lying to the public, treating them less as rational citizens than credulous lab rats to be “nudged” (or shoved) into compliance. It may achieve short-term aims, but at a price: the erosion of trust.

    If the alternative is true, however, and ministers’ intentions really are to push this policy through – and previous form in goalpost relocation suggests we should take the Government’s words seriously – the consequences could be unthinkable. For the first time in living memory, we would be granting domestic privileges based on health status; transforming the relationship between individuals and the state. Everyday activities would become contingent on a medical procedure. Free association would no longer be a right, but a government-conferred privilege. It would usher in a “papers please” mentality previously unheard of in peacetime.

    No 10 has provided worryingly little detail so far, but the PM’s intervention raises big questions. How would such a scheme operate, and where would it end? History suggests that having snatched powers during an emergency, governments are reluctant to relinquish them. It seems highly unlikely that after assembling a vast certification infrastructure at great cost, it will simply be dismantled when the “crisis” is over. More likely it would be used for further data-sharing schemes; perhaps even ID cards, something Britain has always resisted.

    What would stop it being extended to other health conditions? Once Covid status is relevant, why not other infectious diseases that kill thousands each year, like flu? Will the state, or whichever firms run the app, be able to track our movements? The existing NHS app already demands personal data with no relevance to users’ vaccination status. How would they protect our privacy, a pertinent question given the NHS’s history of data breaches? Throughout the pandemic, legislation has come into force without debate or parliamentary vote. How quickly this too could become Orwellian, with little proper scrutiny.

    It’s a slippery slope. Nightclubs are an easy starting point; young clubbers bopping until dawn will be low priority to most, but once established, the principle will become harder to resist elsewhere. Places of worship, weddings, and busy pubs might not be far behind. Just yesterday Tory minister Paul Scully insisted Covid passes would never be required for pubs, only for No 10 to issue a speedy contradiction, confirming it “hadn’t been ruled out” – so watch this space.

    As a low-risk 20-something, I was pleased to get my first jab last month, seeing it as a small (and voluntary) contribution towards herd immunity. But I certainly didn’t do so in order that a small, unvaccinated minority could be excluded from the public sphere or browbeaten into compliance. And to what end? Though vaccines are brilliant at protecting against hospitalisation and death, they are less effective at reducing transmission – hence why some double-vaccinees have since been reinfected. We’d be upending social and public health norms on an illogical premise.

    The Government may not be staging some grand conspiracy to turn Britain into a Chinese-style social credit system, zealously monitoring citizens’ behaviour to permit or prohibit basic rights. But sometimes weakness and incompetence can send a country in a similar direction. People may not care about clubs, or the young who frequent them. But they should care about a paradigm shift that undermines all our liberties.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/vaccine-passports-conspiracy-against-freedom/

    Surveying any number of comment columns shows many people saying “What’s the fuss about night-clubbing? It’s hardly crucial to the economy or society? Are we to run the risk of serious illness just so selfish young people can enjoy themselves?”

    I’d agree on nightclubs as places to avoid but the critics miss the point here. The government needs an experimental subject. What better than a dispensable part of the hedonistic end of society?

    1. Income tax was a temporary measure from a long time ago.
      The UK is on the slippery slope to fascism.
      And, the tourist industry will be destroyed, since none of these apps can talk to each other.

    2. It seems the majority of people can not see further than their noses. Coercion and blackmail are now the order of the day to make us all comply with government diktat. What on Earth will it take for people to wake up.

    3. When i read the article about nightclubs i automatically thought that they were chosen as there wouldn’t be so much of a fuss.

      Just like Nazi Germany.

    5. Which young sector of our “communities” dn’t drink and don’t go to nightclubs?

  105. US gives go ahead for Nordstream 2 pipeline to end long-running row. 21 July 2021.

    The US and Germany have reached a deal agreement to allow the completion of a gas pipeline from Russia, removing a long-running source of tension between the allies.

    Nord Stream 2, which runs beneath the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, will double Russia’s natural gas exports to Europe once it is completed next month. The agreement could be announced as early as today and will allow the pipeline to be completed without attracting further US sanctions.

    There’s generous for you! They made every effort to prevent its completion. Mind you if I were Vlad I would keep one eye open for an American Sub running into it accidentally on purpose!

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-gives-go-ahead-for-nordstream-2-pipeline-to-end-long-running-row-hb72hfx6c

    1. He won’t be worried about American subs.Like the Black sea,there’s only one way in and one way out.
      Foreign subs will be monitored from the minute they enter until they leave.

  106. Shriek. Double shriek. Triple shriek, even.
    We are looking for a painting firm to freshen up the outside of doors and windows at Allan Towers. So far, no luck. If anyone around these here Norf Essex parts know of reliable – RELIABLE – painters who are up to decorating a Victorian townhouse, please let me know.
    Meanwhile, back to my evening G&T.

    2. Be prepared to wait, pet. Trevor who did our house was booked 2 years ago – and won’t finish until November – he is doing it in bits to suit HIS calendar.

      Bitter experience say that if a painter is available quickly – he ain’t no good.

      Will ask Wivno sister in law.

      1. A friend of mine found that out the hard way, many years ago. The painter was the husband of a friend of hers ( and ex-friend of mine) and he did a rotten job so she reduced the payment of his bill – he took her to court and obtained an CCJ against her. Meanwhile the ex friend divorced him.

    1. Are you sure they were all women and didn’t have any men in skirts on the team,?

  110. Good Evening all – having been despatched to Tesco to do the messages I was passing the dairy section when I was beguiled by a piece of French cheese bearing a name of which I was unaware , at £3 I thought it was worth a punt as it looked interesting. Langres was the name and the packaging was engaging. I’ve now returned home and asked the internet about it and the answer seems to be if you like the smell of farmyards and feet this is the one for you. I will report back .

      1. Firstborn makes his own cheese – so far, only Caerphilly, as he’s in the trials mode and needs a cheese thats ready to eat quickly. Next stop: Cheddar.
        BTW, fresh milk, straight from the cow by wy of the cooler, works a lot better than supermarket milk.

        1. “Firstborn makes his own cheese. Caerphilly.”

          Well, it makes no sense to rush! 🤣

          1. It doesn’t have a long maturing time, so you can fairly quickly tell if you have bolloxed it up or not – technique, cleanliness, salt levels, pressing, and so on.
            The supermarket milk didn’t do too well, but apparently the straight-from-the-cow milk is quite different, and much more successful.

          2. My comment was a pun on the word Caerphilly, Paul. “Carefully”? 😉

            Joking apart, I’d love to have a go at cheesemaking.

    2. I’ve just finished a Camembert that I had to scrape down off the ceiling.

    3. I’ve just enjoyed a couple of crackers with a smidgeon of stinking bishop and a dollop of red onion marmalade.

    1. Food lines …. Let’s remember how many white farmers have been killed …. A case of revenge is a dish best served cold …

      1. Any fool can farm, apparently, and do it effectively… Oh, what was Clarkson saying about his Diddley Squat farm?

    3. Good. The reap what they sow – or, in this case, they haven’t sown and hav enothing to reap.

      Problem is, these wasters then get on a boat and the stupid gormless government of ours forces us to pay for their mistakes.

  112. Unfortunately I missed out and never get round to fixing my own house:

    Property sales in June surged to their highest level in 33 years ahead of the stamp duty deadline.

    HM Revenue & Customs recorded 213,120 residential transactions last month, a jump of more than 216pc on June last year, when the market had just reopened after the first lockdown.

    The number was 109pc higher than the level recorded in May, as homebuyers rushed transactions through before the impending stamp duty holiday deadline at the end of the month. Buyers had until June 30 to save the maximum amount of £15,000 in tax.

    It is the highest monthly figure recorded since October 1988 and the sixth highest in the past 40 years, according to analysis from estate agency Savills.

    Lucian Cook, of Savills, said the numbers showed how a pre-announced stamp duty measure distorted market activity.

    UK residential property transactions in June hit 213,120

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    He added: “That impact has been magnified because of an urgency among buyers in the middle to upper part of the housing market to upsize given their experience of successive lockdowns, further fuelled by an ability to lock into low mortgage rates.”

    Borrowers are now able to access Britain’s cheapest-ever deals after lenders slashed rates for those with large deposits. Earlier this month TSB and HSBC launched deals at 0.94pc – the cheapest mortgages since records began.

    Sales in June exceeded the surge recorded ahead of the initial stamp duty deadline in March of this year, and experts predict another spike before the final deadline closes in September.

    Anthony Codling, of property website Twindig, said: “The tapered tax break figure of £250,000 is more in line with average house prices across the UK, which means there are lots of homebuyers who will still benefit from the stamp duty holiday.

    “We therefore expect to see another spike in transactions in September, although given the reduction in the stamp duty holiday benefit we expect the spike to be lower than those seen earlier this year in March and Property sales in June surged to their highest level in 33 years ahead of the stamp duty deadline.

    HM Revenue & Customs recorded 213,120 residential transactions last month, a jump of more than 216pc on June last year, when the market had just reopened after the first lockdown.

    The number was 109pc higher than the level recorded in May, as homebuyers rushed transactions through before the impending stamp duty holiday deadline at the end of the month. Buyers had until June 30 to save the maximum amount of £15,000 in tax.

    It is the highest monthly figure recorded since October 1988 and the sixth highest in the past 40 years, according to analysis from estate agency Savills.

    Lucian Cook, of Savills, said the numbers showed how a pre-announced stamp duty measure distorted market activity.

    UK residential property transactions in June hit 213,120

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    UK residential property transactions, non-seasonally adjusted
    View as data table, UK residential property transactions in June hit 213,120
    The chart has 1 X axis displaying Time. Range: 2005-01-31 22:48:00 to 2021-07-30 01:12:00.
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    He added: “That impact has been magnified because of an urgency among buyers in the middle to upper part of the housing market to upsize given their experience of successive lockdowns, further fuelled by an ability to lock into low mortgage rates.”

    Borrowers are now able to access Britain’s cheapest-ever deals after lenders slashed rates for those with large deposits. Earlier this month TSB and HSBC launched deals at 0.94pc – the cheapest mortgages since records began.

    Sales in June exceeded the surge recorded ahead of the initial stamp duty deadline in March of this year, and experts predict another spike before the final deadline closes in September.

    Anthony Codling, of property website Twindig, said: “The tapered tax break figure of £250,000 is more in line with average house prices across the UK, which means there are lots of homebuyers who will still benefit from the stamp duty holiday.

    “We therefore expect to see another spike in transactions in September, although given the reduction in the stamp duty holiday benefit we expect the spike to be lower than those seen earlier this year in March and June.” ….

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buy/house-sales-hit-highest-level-33-years-ahead-stamp-duty-deadline/

    1. If I had the choice I would probably move to Ayrshire.

      I have seen some beautiful properties with loads of outside space fr a fraction of the prices here , and I remember from years ag the quality of life was far more superior than here … Another place I loved was Morayshire .

      3. “Glenrothes, Fife. First for business, first for life”. An old advertisement.
        The West Coast, up where Fallick lives, is a lovely place to be, as long as you don’t miss City life.
        I like North Yorkshire.
        Norway is best, though. That’s why we live here.

      4. Ooh, but the cold in Winter, Maggie. Plus think of being in the country of Wee Crankie – Boris and his cronies are bad enough!

    2. The state has no business taxing private sales. it is just greed and theft. It really is disgusting. The entire state edifice needs smashing to pieces.

      1. You pessimist. Some of the Ruperts who passed out from Sandhurst know how to read.

  115. Police are hunting a sex fiend who raped a 15-year-old girl in the sea in front of thousands of unsuspecting bathers.

    The teenage victim was approached by her attacker when a ball she and her friends were playing with in the sea landed close to him.

    Although he threw it back he began talking to the schoolgirl before pulling her out into deeper water close to Bournemoith Pier, Dorset.

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    Despite there being crowds of people in the water and on the pier, the young man then raped the girl under the cover of the water.

    The teenage victim was approached by her attacker when a ball she and her friends were playing with in the sea landed close to him (file photo) +1
    The teenage victim was approached by her attacker when a ball she and her friends were playing with in the sea landed close to him (file photo)

    The shocking incident happened at about 3.30pm on Sunday and what was the hottest day of the year when Bournemouth beach was packed.

    The girl later reported the attack to the police who are appealing for people who took photos and video around the pier area to come forward in the hope they captured the fiend.

    The attacker told his victim that he was aged 17 and had travelled to the Dorset coast from Birmingham.

    He is described as possibly of Pakistani descent and with tanned skin, between 5ft and 5ft 7ins tall and of a thin but muscular build with short dark hair that was pushed back and looked freshly trimmed.

    He was wearing black or grey swimming shorts at the time.

    Detective Inspector Wayne Seymour, of Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team, said: ‘A full investigation is underway into this incident and we are continuing to support the victim while we carry out enquiries.

    ‘I know that the beach was very busy on the day of the incident so I am appealing to anyone who was in the area and may have witnessed what happened to please come forward.

    ‘Also, I would urge anyone who was on the beach in the vicinity of the Oceanarium to check any photographs or video footage taken to see if they have captured anything of relevance.

    ‘I am particularly keen to speak to anyone who recognises the boy from the description given or may have seen him on the beach on Sunday.

    ‘This incident will understandably cause concern for the wider community and we would like to remind the public that officers from the local neighbourhood policing team will be carrying out patrols in the area and can be approached with any concerns.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9811331/Police-hunt-rapist-attacked-girl-15-sea-packed-Bournemouth-beach.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

    1. “Possibly of Pakistani descent ..”

      Now there’s a surprise.

      Where are the thousands of “good” slammers out protesting against and searching for this criminal…”Not in our name” etc etc?

      Thought not…

    3. For crying out loud. The government continues to spout that white males are rapists. It’s a lie. It’s a damned lie. Even per capita, it’s nonsense. All to get them off the hook of admitting the problem.

  116. That’s me gone. Just finished half an hour’s watering. In the last week, I have taken 1500 litres out of the well – and the water table is still so high that nearly 1000 have returned.

    Have a happy evening.

    A demain – Market Day.

  117. France is finally realising the cost of the EU dogma of ever closer union

    A controversial ECJ ruling has exposed the French elite to the difficulties of ever-closer union

    ANNE-ELISABETH MOUTET
    20 July 2021 • 7:00pm
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    What made him so incensed was a ruling by the ECJ, despite considerable delaying tactics deployed by the French government, that the military within EU member states should be subjected to the Working Time Directive. In other words, French soldiers aren’t, er, soldiers; they are employees, and so subject to “individual timekeeping, severe limitations on night work, rigid activity planning including prior agreement from each individual to any change, precise calculation of time off, mandatory 11-hour daily rest time,” and on and on.
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    Chris Rawson
    20 Jul 2021 9:04PM
    Yes Prime MInister ” The Button ” ….

    Jim : Well what about the other NATO armies ?

    Bernard : Oh they’re alright, on weekdays anyway …

    Jim: What do you mean weekdays ?

    Bernard : The Dutch, Danish and Belgian armies go home for the weekend

    Jim : So what you’re saying is that if the Russians are going to invade, we’d rather them do it on a weekday ? Is this widely known ?

    Bernard: Well if I know Prime Minister, I’m sure an awful lot of other people know ..

    Martin Woodville
    21 Jul 2021 4:33PM
    As one US general said before the 2nd Gulf War when France declined to join – “going to war without the French is like going bear hunting without an accordion”.

    1. This has to stop. Those here MUST be deported.

      Any future invaders must have the boats destroyed and those in it told to swim for it. End this nonsense.

  120. It’s not surprising that this piece by Ross Clark is closed to comments. He starts well then stumbles badly late on.

    Jailing illegal immigrants won’t solve the crisis

    The crossings could be stopped instantly through the systematic return of migrants to other side of the Channel

    ROSS CLARK

    Priti Patel’s tough talk on migration has offended and upset many people on the left, but it didn’t seem to bother the migrants given a lift by a lifeboat to Dungeness yesterday, nor any of the 700 or so who made it to Britain on other boats on Monday and Tuesday alone. So long as we continue to operate a taxi service for migrants I guess they will continue to judge Britain by its actions rather by the Home Secretary’s words. Indeed, given the bungling bureaucracy over amber and red lists, by far the quickest and least bothersome way of crossing the Channel at the moment seems to be by rubber dinghy, with the aid of HM Coastguard and the Good Morning Britain team. I wouldn’t be surprised if British holidaymakers soon start skipping the queues at Dover and Heathrow and taking the Calais-Dungeness dinghy-lifeboat relay instead.

    What is the point of condemning people-trafficking across the Channel when you are simultaneously doing everything you can to aid and abet it? If the UK and French governments really wanted to stop the passage of migrants across the Channel they could do it in an instant through the systematic return of migrants to other side of the Channel. There would be little point in attempting such a journey then. No-one genuinely fleeing from persecution – nor the plethora of activists who claim to support them – could object to automatic return of migrants. Internationally-agreed rules clearly state that asylum-seekers should make their claim in the first safe country in which they land. Unless there are people fleeing from Emmanuel Macron’s regime – and I wouldn’t blame them if there are – then it would not breach anyone’s human rights to return them to France. On the contrary, by deterring economic migrants it would make the whole asylum system work better. As for refugees who have family connections in Britain and so on, there are legal channels to switch countries after making an asylum claim.

    Instead of quietly returning migrants to France the UK government seems determined to up the nasty talk even more. The latest wheeze – the threat of four year jail sentences for people who enter Britain illegally – threatens to be another farce. All it will achieve is to give migrants a foothold in Britain, access to legal aid and so on – and we know how bad the criminal justice system is at deporting foreign criminals after they have completed their sentences. Needless to say, the UK taxpayer will be stung for the cost of keeping all these people in prison – while burglars and rapists are no doubt released early to make room for incarcerated migrants.

    For once, I agree with the charities supporting migrants: people who attempt to enter Britain in search of a better life (but who are not fleeing persecution) are not, for the most part, criminals and should not be treated as such. They are opportunists who are taking calculated risks and who are prepared to use every loophole to further their interest. Some of them might even employ their entrepreneurial spirit to the great benefit of the UK economy – which is why I have supported an amnesty for those who manage to evade capture for a number of years.

    But we can’t put out a welcome mat to the entire world – the potential numbers of economic migrants who would like to come here would quickly overwhelm public services and our benefits system, as well as leading to even greater overcrowding. There is only one way to deal with this problem, which is efficiently and dispassionately to return every migrant who is caught trying to cross the Channel back to the other side. Instead, Priti Patel is doing the opposite – dialling up the rhetoric so as to make Britain sound a nasty and unpleasant country, while simultaneously sending out boats full of polite immigration officials to help bring migrants safely across the Channel. No wonder they keep on coming.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/jailing-illegal-immigrants-wont-solve-crisis/

    1. “…arities supporting migrants: people who attempt to enter Britain in
      search of a better life (but who are not fleeing persecution) are not,
      for the most part, criminals and should not be treated as such. They are
      opportunists who are taking calculated risks and who are prepared to
      use every loophole to further their interest….”

      And should be deported immediately. They are illegal invaders. No sophistry, no pretending, they’re criminals.

    2. It’s about time that our defunct and useless PM and Home Secretary remember that our reasons for leaving the EU were very clearly identified as:

      First – regain our Sovereignty – Done
      Second – reduce the immigrant population – woefully lacking.

      Mid-term report – abject failure.

    1. Clucking bell. Thieving, corrupt scum. This isn’t her country. She – and the Nadim zahwee person who suddenly made his wife a medical ppe wholesaler – despite never having been before – just as Zahewe was giving out the contracts..

      Just deport them all.

    1. Call it Wednesday, Conway. If you wake up in two hours’ time, you can call it Thursday. Anyhow a good night’s sleep to you – and to all NoTTLers.

  124. No Londoner can understand the English love of our counties

    Leicestershire’s glorious new flag is the perfect embodiment of the history and sense of belonging contained in our ancient counties

    LEANDA DE LISLE

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e28eeda7dfbc819a4a06e1144325b14d061ca7d244e63d0932a0ed9c168d3c8.jpg
    While others may have been driven by lockdown madness to put in a new kitchen or bathroom suite, here in Leicestershire I am to adorn my home with a flagpole. We have just become the last county in England to have an officially recognised flag and we will be proudly flying it over our battlements – or, at any rate, the porch.

    The new Leicestershire flag, which came into being only this month, boasts a red and white dancette background taken from the arms of Simon de Montfort, the thirteenth century Earl of Leicester. Some consider him to be the father of parliamentary democracy. It also has the cinquefoil flower of the de Beaumont family, who arrived in Leicestershire as Norman conquerors. Best of all, it has a running fox – the symbol of the county.

    A Leicestershire fox used to have good reason to run. There are five hunts here. These days our fox hounds follow a trail and the road signs that greet you as you enter the county depict a fox sitting quite calmy. It reads “Leicestershire – the heart of rural England”. With the family in the car we cheer when we see it, but Leicestershire is much more than this suggests

    We are the home of pink coats and saris. We produce two world famous cheeses, Stilton and Red Leicester, but also the world’s finest socks – Pantherella. We buried Richard III under a carpark, but also raised Sir David Attenborough, Britain’s greatest Englishman. [Pft! Is the space in the car park still available?] Yet I didn’t always feel as warmly towards Leicestershire as I now do.

    I was raised in Berkshire which seemed to me, when I arrived decades ago, to be a sunnier county, as well as being conveniently nearer to Mayfair. My new husband retaliated against my complaints by claiming Berkshire was irredeemably vulgar with its “Royal” pretensions. In his mouth, “home counties” became dirty words. I fought back against his jibes, just as the inhabitants of other slandered counties do.

    Think of the sturdy men of Yorkshire, who are said to be exactly like Scotsmen, only with all the generosity squeezed out of them. Or the interesting people of Norfolk, whose inhabitants are dismissed as so peculiar that their doctors describe the loopy and inbred as Normal for Norfolk. These county men and women stand proud against the slings and arrows from rival counties – and the sneers of smug urbanites for whom the term local covers only a few miserable streets.

    I defended Berkshire – which has a beautiful county flag inspired by the story that its men marched to Agincourt under the symbol of a stag and an oak. But in time Leicestershire won my heart. With familiarity comes affection, pride and a sense of belonging. For many their loyalty to their county is more fixed than loyalty of any political party. They are certainly dearer to us. This is underappreciated in the megacity that is our capital, but one incident brought it home to me.

    I broke my foot in London after a fabulous authors party at Hatchards bookstore (champagne, stilettos and stairs can be a dangerous combination). In some pain and feeling very foolish, I took a taxi to the Leicestershire hospital where my children were born. I wanted to be back in my county, home, a place worth celebrating by flying its flag, even if it is a very long taxi ride from Mayfair.

    Leanda de Lisle is the author of ‘Tudor, The Family Story’ and ‘White King: The Tragedy of Charles I’

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/21/no-londoner-can-understand-english-love-counties/

    1. “We are the home of … the world’s finest socks ”
      My maternal Grandfather ran one of those factories.
      The Masons invited him to join, but he was against secretive societies, and declined.
      So, they interrupted spares and supplies for his knitting machines until he went bankrupt. Fine revenge, eh, boys?
      I hate those bastards.

    2. I think Leicester is a great city. I was impressed with the buildings in the Market area when working on the former Parr’s Bank in St Martins, a wonderful building which I researched, measured and worked on when converting from a much neglected Nat West branch into a vibrant Middleton Steak House and restaurant.

      I stayed for the duration in a lovely hotel (now called Hotel Mercure) which had the most wonderful marble and gilded ballroom and a restaurant run by the Marco Pierre White company.

      Leicester has a distinguished cricket team, once led by Ray Illingworth, it has a superb Rugby Union team and premiership football team. Lineker aside with his Walkers (Leicester) crisp endorsement, also had the great Peter Shilton the England goalie in its side.

      The only drawback I saw was a proliferation of women dressed in black burkas with an assortment of unruly children clogging the pavements. That, and a load of lager louts drinking from tin cans and littering the streets.

      Nonetheless Leicester remains a great city and was such when the Romans occupied.

  125. That was excellent.
    A night market, which is really all about food and drink, singing and dancing. Live band.

    Lots of children having fun, parents talking and grandparents supervising.
    The locals were out in numbers and the tourists were enjoying themselves; it’s an event we attend every Wednesday in July and August and it’s always great fun.

    2. Been to a few similar dos on holidays with the kids and before the kids. Ended up with a live duck once I recall.

  127. First ever wild albino chimpanzee is spotted in Uganda – shortly before it was killed by its pack
    The first wild albino chimpanzee was observed at a reservation in Uganda
    Scientists say the chimp was no more than 19 days old when they spotted it
    Just four days after the initial sighting, the infant albino was brutally killed
    by its own pack that ripped off its limbs and gnawed at its head until it died
    Scientists believe the different color of the infant is what caused the attack
    By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9811231/First-wild-albino-chimpanzee-spotted-Uganda-shortly-murdered-pack.html

    Gawd help us all!

    1. The animal world just can’t tolerate community members who are not compliant with the implicitly accepted norms.

      1. That’s what happened to Sasha Johnson the Black Lives Matter activist who was shot in London by her fellow Blacks, she wasn’t pushing drugs which is the implicitly accepted norm in her neighborhood so they shot her in the head !

        1. I strongly suspect she was involved, possibly using her political activities as a cover.

    4. Chimpanzees are not very nice people, or should that be, people are not very nice chimpanzees?
      It’s always shocking when an animal does something malicious – I suppose we have it fixed in our heads that animals aren’t capable of malice. But they are.

      Can you imagine the sanctimonious BS that would be spouted if it were a group of white animals killing a black animal!

  128. Goodnight all Nottlers. Bedtime music: Despacito – Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Bieber (Broadway Style Cover) ft. Mandy Gonzalez & Tony DeSare. We brought Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez (‘Hamilton’ & ‘Wicked’) and singer & pianist Tony DeSare to NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below to film this special Broadway style remake of “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2Tp1IcoQQ

  129. An open letter from a real Conservative when the Conservative Party truly worked for the UK, of course the buffoon will just dismiss it.

    Prime Minister
    You are now entering what may well be the defining period of your time in No 10. The risk is that your Government will go down in history as a mess of contradictions and inconsistency for want of control at the centre.
    Freedom Day has come and gone, though it has felt more like parole under house arrest for thousands who may or may not have Covid but have been pinged by the Government’s test and trace app.
    This is doing potentially more damage to the economy than Red Robbo ever managed in the days of motor industry anarchy.
    This is not what the doctor ordered when the urgent priority is to get the economy moving full blast to produce the resources required to pay off debt and finance many much-needed social improvements.
    The lack of central control over our governance is being laid at your door because of your reputed inattention to detail and tendency to busk it.
    Worse still, you are surrounded by people who are thought to want your job – Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Michael Gove in Cabinet Office.
    You have no substantial wise old owl like Lord Whitelaw who does not want your job to clear up behind you. Margaret Thatcher never spoke a truer word when she said: “every PM needs a Willie” – and control and consistency were her trademarks.
    At the same time we hear of further plans for the Americanisation of Britain’s Parliamentary system with the formation of a much enlarged Prime Minister’s office controlling the Treasury. Don’t they know that the dispersal of power among Cabinet Ministers is fundamental to our system?
    More important at this juncture is the undeniable fact that the last thing Government needs is a further shake up after the efforts of your resident oddball, Dominic Cummings, to fight the system. We need a period of healing and co-operation.
    I would also argue strongly that the last thing the country needs is the Treasury under your thumb. With a budget deficit of £300bn and a soaring national debt of over £2trillion (thousand billion) we need a strong counter-weight to the tendency for Ministers to spend. And that is before we even get into your own reputation for a relaxed approach to money.
    The first thing you need to do is to recover political control over the pandemic. It is not as though the scientists have distinguished themselves with their advice.
    With a good third of the population double jabbed, two thirds inoculated and relatively low hospital admission and death rates, this is surely the time, given the seriousness of our national finances, to get Britain moving again and learning to live with covid as we have learned to cope with ‘flu.
    You cannot “level up” Britain on thin air.
    Second, test and trace is producing such a shambles of contradictions, inconsistencies and unnecessary expense that the Government will become a laughing stock unless the whole thing is tidied up. If ever a government needed a policy doctor to make sure that its measures add up, this is it. Does anybody vet measures for their consistency, anomalies and likely effect these days?
    Third, your reputation for loving big projects, however expensive, and talking big is all very well but again it is the last thing you need in present circumstances. You are going to have to harden your heart or your legacy will be a mass of debts that hang over Britain for generations.

    https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1465766/Boris-Johnson-Margaret-Thatcher-Willie-Whitelaw-everybody-needs-a-willie-conservativeparty

  130. 23:39, so I’m saying Good night and God bless.

    INR blood test in the morning so will probably be late on parade.

    I’ve had my medical chit signed.

      1. I happened to be awake after the witching hour, so an early post afforded me the possibility of a lie-in. I was still up by 5 am, though…

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