Wednesday 3 August: It’s not just the economy – Liz Truss must take a stand on cultural values

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  5. Shark attacks swimmer off British coast for first time in 175 years. 3 August 2022.

    In a statement released through Blue Shark Snorkel, the woman said: “I just wanted to say that despite how the trip ended, it was amazing to see such majestic creatures in the wild and I don’t for a second want this freak event to tarnish the reputation of an already persecuted species.

    “Wanted to thank everyone for their amazing actions. What was a very scary incident was made so much easier by the kindness and calmness of the people around me.

    “Thank you to the trip team for getting me back to shore quickly and carefully and making me feel as safe as I possibly could.

    Obviously it was just a nibble.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/02/shark-attacks-swimmer-cornish-coast-first-time-175-years/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget

      1. Sung by the supporters of, and to MsTruss:

        “You shall have a Rishi
        On a little dishy
        You shall have a Rishi
        When the vote comes in!”

    2. It may well have been just that, the shark was probably testing to see if the potential food was worth eating.

      1. Yo sos

        Have the WEF, Net Zero and Greens not told them that they must not ‘eat things’ anymore but convert to Plankton.
        Let us send Greta to sea with the message

    3. Shark attacks swimmer off British coast for first time in 175 years.

      I diid not realise that they lived that long……

  6. It’s not just the economy – Liz Truss must take a stand on cultural values

    How does one make a stand on cultural values in a country that has many diverse incompatible cultural values and where one side’s cultural values are more respected and more equal the others.

  7. Re the headline.
    Didn’t Bore-us manage to be voted in on similar promises ?
    But because BJ and his previous political collaborators have wrecked most of long standing British culture and moving rapidly forward with wrecking our social structure. Ms Truss might need to make a more formal approach and promise to deport all non doms. And without delay, oh hang on…..none of our countries political wreckers so far even seemed to acknowledge the presence of the hidden thousands. No wonder all our bills have risen and still rising so fast.
    Face the facts Ms Truss and get on with it.

  8. ‘Morning, Peeps. 

    SIR – Your report fails to acknowledge how we strive to work with our tenants to help them create and run sustainable businesses that produce great food.

    We are driven by our ambition, as a conservation charity, to respond to the nature and climate crises that Britain faces. We want to help tenants access new government payment schemes to make farming more environmentally friendly, and to improve habitats with measures such as planting trees.

    We live on a small island with a large population, so we need to manage land in ways that deliver multiple benefits: locking up carbon, helping nature to recover, protecting communities from flooding, and enabling people to access the countryside and cherish our environment, as well as supporting nature-friendly food farming.

    Harry Bowell
    Director of Land and Nature, National Trust
    Swindon, Wiltshire

    Well, Harry Bowell (love the name, by the way) it’s back to basic school science for you with your ‘locking up carbon’ wish…and it’s the first thing on your otherwise sensible list.

    1. Good morning Hugh J and all Nottlers. Overcast early on in N Essex but cloud now slowly dispersing.

      “Nature friendly food farming”, an all embracing phrase clearly lacking any detail from Mr Bowell. Does this idea include doing away with the use of manufactured fertilisers and force our producers to adopt ‘organic’ farming practices? If so, then Mr Bowell should read and digest the reality of Sri Lanka’s recent demise in food production.

      1. Closer to home, Mr Bowell would be well advised to take a look at what has been happening in the Netherlands over the past few weeks, following Mark Rutte’s plans to follow Sri Lanka down the organic privy hole. I’m sure all those old NT buildings would burn as well, if not better than the Sri Lankan ‘leader’s’ properties..

        1. Leave the NT buildings in Norfolk alone until I’ve got back home, please! I’m off later this month for a tour of lots of NT properties.

    2. Never mind the “locking up carbon”, all the other things depend on not increasing the population to unsustainable levels. Strange he doesn’t seem to mention that.

  9. Is Pelosi trying to stir up a war with China as a distraction from the great reset and the midterm elections coming up?

    They are that evil.

    1. Morning Bob. This was quite simply a deliberate provocation of the Chinese. It could have no other purpose!

      1. I thought it was a great way to deflect away the awkward unanswered questions put to her about insider trading….

        Morning Minty and all.

      2. Yo Minty

        When Chinese was mentioned, Biden got his knife, fork and chopsticks out for his takeaway

      3. I think the cruel Chinese will spare Pelosi and let her return to inflict herself on the US.

    2. She’s certainly stupid enough. Who does Biden send? The bloke in a dress, the bloke who wears a dress, Cortez, who is so monumentally ignorant she’s comical, his vice president who seems to know nothing or himself, who is senile?

  10. 35832+up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 3 August: It’s not just the economy – Liz Truss must take a stand on cultural values

    The economy is easy sorted just draw from the Bank of England much the same as ALL meat comes from tesco’s ( on day release from incarceration )

    Surely it depends on which ” culture” she favours if she follows the tory (ino) party line, as she must, prayer mats & burkas could be the order of the day.

    The Koran is in place and halal nosh is on the parliamentary canteen menu.

    By the by,
    One to ponder,

    May one ask, is the price acceptable of fruit picked by foreign labour ?

  11. SIR – Penny Mordaunt has endorsed Liz Truss as the “hope candidate”. For which Cabinet post is she hoping?

    Adrian Charles
    Enfield, Middlesex

    Quite right, Mr Charles. Those who fail in their quest for the top job but who are then very slow to endorse another are, in my view, no better than self-serving opportunists. They do themselves no favours in taking time to weigh up their own prospects.

    1. Yup. New batteries, needed after a few years, are fabulously expensive, and the old ones cannot be disposed of or recycled, as nobody has the technology.
      A fossil-fuelled car – everything can be recycled, even if it is to grind up the tyres and incorporate them into asphalt.

      1. A fossil-fuelled car will last for 20, 30, 40 years if properly maintained. Then the bits can be recycled. Not only that but the building of ice cars is proven technology, simple but developed to a sophisticated level. No rare earths required. We have everything needed just under our feet; coal, iron, copper, tin, oil, sand.

        1. A fossil-fuelled car can last for 20, 30, 40 years even if maintained by an idiot and patched up for the MoT each year. My 1987 2CV is testament to that.

        2. Well, they do have them – in the electronics and motors. Then there’s the main battery.

          In reality, every part of anything is recyclable. It just requires energy and time. The question is is it economical to do so for the return. Often the answer is no, but that’s because we haven’t bothered to invest in recycling, manufacturing specifically to recycle. We build to be disposable.

          There’s been some efforts, but much like housing and massive, uncontrolled gimmigration it’s clear the state has no real interest in ‘climate change’ because if it did it would be changing fundamental elements, not simply soaking tax.

          3. I’m always grateful that the Noddy car is pretty basic.
            Less stuff to go expensively wrong.

          5. It’s pretty bloody dangerous to recycle lithium ion batteries. They can explode when opened to the air, or combust fiercely. If they get wet they will leak hydrofluoric acid which trust me you don’t want getting anywhere near you. A small burn caused by that can kill.

        1. Unquestionably true and I believe EVs should and will join CFLs, Betamax et al , Lobotomies to cure waywardness and medical bleeding in the history of man’s woeful aberrations . I do however like to see accuracy in outrage. 😁

          1. Heh, I can understand that. It is a monumental waste of material though. The steel could be re-used if nothing else but I suppose in China it’s easier to build new than repair.

        1. Very pleasant thank you , offset a tad by the back discomfort but that’s improving slowly. All family at home so I could do ” a counting” ©Stella Gibbons

          2. Yes, slowly day by day, there’s a little bit of me that’s tempted to prolong the”agony” as I could really get used to being waited on hand and foot at the level I’m enjoying at the moment😇

  13. Morning, all Y’all!
    Warm and humid. Much rain to come, together with warnings about forest fires!

  14. Morning, all Y’all!
    Warm and humid. Much rain to come, together with warnings about forest fires!

    1. It is disgusting. They should be deported, immediately. All of them. If the state refuses to enforce our borders then it should be shut down, permanently. If the Home office will not ensure Britain remains inviolate them it’s chiefs need to be sacked and replaced with those who will do their damned job.

        1. The RNLI must be feeling the effects of lower donations from the general public. Sadly, I’m sure the replacement ‘funding stream’ will mean that the UK taxpayers are now supporting yet another horse on the quango carousel.

  16. Good Morning. Cool, cloudy, dismal. Another day in the Scottish Borders.

    Mr Moghal, who lives in the Stretton Hall area, says. “… many Uganda Asians came to Leicester to see what was so special about Leicester that they were being debarred from coming here. “So when they came to Leicester they saw the nucleus of an Asian community.
    “There were temples, mosques, gurdwaras, Indian fashion shops, Indian community and they liked it because that’s how they wanted to live, not among strangers but amongst people of their own kind – and that’s how people are all over the world.”

    Gosh! Immigrants choosing to live in separate unBritish communities in our country. From the horse’s mouth…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-62306155

    1. Why is it that immigrants can be facilitated to live amongst their own kind, but not the indigenous people?

    2. And the BBC continues to force intolerance by promoting di-worse-ity and rather than forcing this demographic to vanish and evaporate, it remains distinct, causing all sort of problems.

  17. Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine. 3 August 2022.

    Jeremy Corbyn has urged western countries to stop arming Ukraine, and claimed he was criticised over antisemitism because of his stance on Palestine, in a TV interview likely to underscore Keir Starmer’s determination not to readmit him to the Labour party.

    “Pouring arms in isn’t going to bring about a solution, it’s only going to prolong and exaggerate this war,” Corbyn said. “We might be in for years and years of a war in Ukraine.”

    Corbyn gave the interview on Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based TV channel that has carried pro-Russia reporting since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

    “What I find disappointing is that hardly any of the world’s leaders use the word peace; they always use the language of more war, and more bellicose war.”

    I suppose that even someone as determined to avoid the truth as Corbyn must; much like a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day, be occasionally correct. The provision of arms to Ukraine can never lead to them winning, only to extend the killing.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-urges-west-to-stop-arming-ukraine

        1. I thought I had passed through a wormhole into a parallel world… better get more coffee!

      2. He might be right but we shouldn’t have armed Ukraine, but equally NATO – the West generally – needed to force Putin to the table and say ‘you’ve ten countries with vastly superior militaries on your doorstep. Back the feck off.’

        1. Everyone poured scorn on Tony Benn (aka Lord Stansgate) until he was no longer an MP when everyone then said how charming, witty, perceptive and intelligent he was.

          I am not sure that they will say the same about Corbyn when he leaves the HoC.

      4. I’m unconvinced that Corbyn is talking sense. It’s just that his view aligns with the idea that ‘saving’ the current money laundering centre for Basement Joe and co. by providing military supplies, is more likely to extend to open warfare.

        Whilst open warfare may suit the WEF/WHO desire to curb the number of humans on the planet, once the gloves are off it may be harder to stop the fighting than they hope.

        Perhaps a direct hit with a ‘tactical’ nuke on Schwab’s hollow volcano HQ will be necessary to calm their thinking down a bit.

    2. Neville Chamberlain was a good and conscientious prime minister, and perhaps one of the finest of the 20th century. The undoing of his reputation “Peace in Our Time” was done with the very best of intentions, and for the cause of world peace and an end to the bellicose madness that was threatening to engulf Europe. It was utterly the right thing to do.

      Like someone waiting for the pretty tune in an anthem by John Rutter, readers will be creaking, waiting for the “but”… Here it is.

      When madness prevails, so too does normal logic, especially political logic. Warmonger Churchill, who failed catastrophically as First Sea Lord, joined in the madness and refused to submit to peace, which to him and to history was just an illusion.

      It was stupid to prod the bear by threatening to align Ukraine with the EU and NATO. It would also have saved many lives just to let the Russians have their quick, clean coup. Such like spared Budapest destruction in 1956 and Prague in 1968. By resisting the Soviet invasion in 1980, Afghanistan was subjected to decades of mayhem from which it has not to this day recovered. So goes normal political logic,,,

      Yet, in the brutality of the invaders in the suburbs of Kyiv, madness took over, and the idea of a quick, clean coup leading to peace was a lamentable illusion. What would have happened, had Russia tasted victory, finding it so easy? Would such madmen capable of such brutality stop there? There are other grievances to redress, starting with the Kaliningrad corridor. Then Poland. Then Germany. Before we know it, we are back to the time when Churchill moved into 10 Downing Street.

      Therefore I do not agree with Jeremy Corbyn here, despite having no doubt about his earnest sincerity to stop war in Europe. Arming Ukraine now prevents something much worse engulfing Europe again. I want those”Shock and Awe” missile carriers targeted on civilians taken out now,

          1. Twirly = too early. It’s what the bus pass holders ask the driver – is it twirly? Bus passes cannot be used before, I think, 09.30 or possibly later.

      2. That’s a really good analysis Jeremy. You’re right, if we had just let them roll over then we’d be asking ‘who’s next’ until they were at our doorstep.

        However I do think there’s a third route: the strong Western powers of NATO combine and say to Putin ‘push off’. However, Biden is clearly ill, Boris was floundering, France is unreliable, Germany impoverished playing bent banker to the EU. Australia is run by lunatics, New Zealand a demented Left wing harpy.

        1. Are Australia and New Zealand part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation? If so, why is it still called that?

          1. It’s a saving on the cost of replacing all the headed notepaper at NATO HQ.

      3. The one good thing about Chamberlain and his “Peace in our Time” was that it bought us time to beat the Germans. We could not have won the Battle of Britain in 1938. As it was, it was a “damned close-run thing” to echo the Duke of Wellington.

  18. SIR – In a news broadcast on Monday, a BBC reporter said in shocked tones that only three players in the women’s squad were from an ethnic minority background. A representative of the FA said it was working hard to increase “diversity”.

    Ethnic minorities make up 13 to 14 per cent of the British population. The squad contained 23 players. Three out of 23 is 13 per cent, so it seems that the squad precisely mirrored diversity within the UK – although not, of course, that within the M25 or Broadcasting House.

    Joe Cobbe
    Bisley, Gloucestershire

    I’m afraid your entirely logical point will not satisfy the race-baiters, Mr Cobbe. They are never satisfied until the ratio is much closer to 100%. In the process they are turning perfectly normal people into other than tolerant and open-minded individuals, for whom race used to be well down the list of considerations, and for whom simple ability was far more important. Our state broadcaster has a lot to answer for. Sad, isn’t it?

    1. Yep, spot on. By forcing ethnics on us we’re all becoming racists. As it is, I asked some Iranian fellow yesterday not to park in the disabled spaces as – they weren’t disabled. All I got was a load of verbal. He still moved his car. Laziness isn’t a disability.

  20. There’s one letter in the DT from a doctor who reckons Ken Clarke was the best potential PM that Britain never had. I assume that was the same Mr Clarke who wanted to enslave us in the EU despite the wishes of the majority of the electorate.

      2. 354832 + up ticks,

        Morning B3
        And they necer will ALL the time they have support, and they have that in spades, the current majority voting pattern in Oliver mode, “more of the same please”

    2. He was certainly the best Chancellor of the Exchequer in my lifetime.

      He had his vices, and his blind fidelity to Brussels was up with them. He may enjoy the devil’s music, but we shouldn’t all have to dance to its tune!

      I agree with the doctor though. I also suggest the reason that he never became PM was because of his attachment to even greater union with an organisation that was in the pockets of the global corporate lobbyists, and anything but accountable to the public.

      2. Hi Jeremy he could have been a really great Chancellor if there hadn’t been a requirement to send (net) £Squillions to the EU every year…

    3. If I remember correctly he admitted he had not read one of the major treaties changing our relationship with our European partners. He still supported it.

      1. Yes, I believe it was Maastricht. He was just as sloppy as Boris Johnson but without – so it seems – any of the sex appeal!

        And wasn’t he also a keen supporter of Bilderberg and the WEF?

      2. I believe his EU pension is dependent on on-going support of the EU and all its inane policies….

        1. As far as we understand, all EU pensions are dependent on continuing support of the EU.

          You might bear this information in mind when listening to certain MEPs/ex MEPs and other

          apparatchiks when they discuss the EU.

    4. I hope that he will be placed on a pyre of old Hush Puppy shoes and incinerated.

    5. The same one whoboasted about signing the Maastricht treaty without reading it.

  21. 354832+ up ticks,

    Does this pose the question will honky en mass ever fight back…….

    Gerard Batten,

    Here’s an interesting development in the race baiting industry. Lady objects to assumption she is oppressed.

    Some enterprising employees might consider this. If you are white & subjected to ‘diversity training’ that suggests you are ‘privileged’ & ‘unconsciously racist’, could you take your employer to task for ‘racism’? They are, after all, making assumptions based on race.

    I think they might gave a good case.

    Translate post
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    Mixed-race Sky engineer, 50, wins £14,000 discrimination claim

    Jane Bradbury, 50, was left ‘distressed’ after Rosemary Cook – an ‘Inclusion Advocate’ at Sky – insisted she must have experienced prejudice due to her Latino heritage.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11073493/Mixed-race-Sky-engineer-wins-14k-white-colleague-claimed-oppressed.html

  22. SIR – If our wonderful women’s football team are called Lionesses, why do the media persist in calling them heroes and not heroines?

    Myra Robinson
    Newcastle upon Tyne

    Probably for the same woke reason they call their manageress a ‘manager’. It is also the same reason why female ‘actors’ clamour for attention when posing in the queue to win an Oscar for best actress.

    Being non-woke and chivalrous, I invariably and routinely refuse to refer to a woman in the male sense.

    1. Addendum to the above: Those women won a footballing competition. They did not put their lives at risk to save others. In that case they are neither ‘heroes’ nor heroines. Simply ‘winners’.

      1. Seemingly trying to outdo each other, our media are on a mission to over exaggerate this wonderful win. And I think the public will, as often happens in the UK become throughly fed up with them banging on about it.

        1. The quality of English used, these days, in the DT and ST is deplorable. Routine Americanese, which invariably makes the user come across as retarded, is now seen in every report. Only yesterday, one DT “journalist” used the vapid Americanese word ‘alternate’ when he meant alternative. Standards are plummeting by the second.

          2. Tudor and Jacobean English.
            Can we think of any other historical practices that the Yanks still adhere to?

          3. Even i was fuming yesterday with Nigel, who was “enthusing” about something rather than simply being enthusiastic.

        2. Already happening; I’ve seen a few messages over the past few days pointing out that the England women’s rugby team are multiple winners of the 6 Nations and have a couple of World Cups sitting in their trophy cabinet.

          I’m ambivalent about women’s football. Good luck to them. But I’m so glad I no longer suffer the blanket coverage from ‘livestream’ meeja about their matches. I suppose that it’s understandable that the bBC keep banging on about females playing football, as they no longer cover any major sports coverage outside of SW19.

          1. Can you imagine how the coverage and interest might have been even more overwhelming if the winning team had contained more black players.

        1. ‘Morning, Hugh. No apologies needed. I’m the worst culprit on here for not ‘reading down’.😉

          1. Me too – as they say. (But shouldn’t the pronoun be the nominative I rather than the accusative me?)

    2. Unless they put their lives on the line for others, they are not heroes or heroines, Myra Robinson.

    3. Apparently Plymouth Council cancelled the term ‘manager’ on the grounds that it was sexist when the etymology of the word is that it probably comes from the French word ménager (or mangeure).

      I suppose some people could argue that the thing that ages a man most – the man ager – is a woman!

      1. Councils are dangerous bodies that need cancelling. Wannabe politicians at the lowest level.

  23. Good Moaning.
    Look – I have nothing against grey skies. I just prefer them to do something more proactive other than not be blue. How about raining???? Just a suggestion.

      1. That was something our son noticed when he was in Bristol; warm rain.
        Unknown in yer Essex.

    3. Grey skies here too – but no rain.

      Why are the weeds in our lawn bright green and yet the grass is brown?

    4. Good morning Anne!
      After our early mug of tea at 05:00 it appears to have rained here this morning, though the bright sunshine is rapidly drying the road out.

    1. Maths, you halfwitted oaf! Maths! You don’t teach mathematic, do you, you wombling babboon!

      1. Morning Phizzee – The stuff was more liquid yesterday and seemed to be coming from the stem end of the tomato. I am considering my options. I am not looking for compensation. I am thinking about calling the environmental officer as I would like the tomatoes tested in a laboratory. It may be harmless but it doesn’t look nice. I survived the night.

    2. I never store tomatoes in the fridge. Nor do I with lettuce, cucumbers, eggs. They all stay perfectly fresh in the pantry or kitchen-top.

    5. Grattis på födelsedagen, Mr Sunfish. 68? Crikey, you’re catching up with me! Have a good ‘un. 👍🏻🎂🍺

        1. I didn’t feel much a of a lad, yesterday, humping huge concrete paving slabs all over the garden! I should have got an experienced sprog, like Bob of Bonsall, to give me a hand!

    6. Happy birthday Mola Mola,

      Be careful whilst you are fishing down there in Cornwall, you don’t know what is lurking in the deep x

      1. Have a great day, avoid too much sun as you move on to a surf ate of soixante neuf.

    13. A Very Happy Birthday to you molamola (“So good they named you twice”). A a good morning to you, as well as Rastus and Mrs Tastey.

  29. Good morning all. A bright morning, but from the wet road outside, it appears to have rained sometime between being up earlier and now, with the temperature down to 14°C.

    1. It is much nicer outside. That said, it did this bait and switch yesterday: cooler morning, then a burning hot afternoon. Going to get the shopping in while the nice weather (cold, gloomy) lasts

  30. Margaret Hirst must have more money than sense to pay 18.5p each for cherries. There’s only one cherry I’d pay that for

  31. I think we have seen enough of the Cambridge moppets to last for many years. The sooner they are packed off to boarding school in a far away country of which we know little (Scotland, for example) the better.

      2. Considering his complaint isn’t the kneeling but that no one is doing anything about ‘waycism’ in the UK… perhaps the rich, celebrated football would prefer to play elsewhere?

        Dear life, these people are spoiled, arrogant brats.

          1. It’s a pointless and meaningless gesture which seems mainly designed to inflame racial tensions.

            The policeman who has been jailed for his’crime’ was merely following the instructions he was trained to do. The man died because he was sick and unhealthy, overweight and drugged.

  33. Technical info question. Flex on the electric iron get VERY hot just where it emerges from the iron. It is carefully designed so one cannot get at the innards.

    Any tips on what the problem might be?

    My solution is to buy a new one.

    1. Heat in the flex is likely to be caused by fractures in the copper wires at the high stress point where the flex emerges from the iron. The ensuing increase in resistance at this point heats up the cable.
      For safety reasons the flex should be replaced by a qualified electrician but even so such a high wattage domestic product should be tested afterwards with PAT tester at the full test load and confirmed for adequate earth continuity.

      1. Thanks. The iron is designed to be inaccessible. There is a screw on the back plate which I assumed would give access to the electrical gubbins. Not so! Doing what you suggest would cost more than the price of a new iron!

        This was bought in Holland in 1986 and so owes nothing!

        1. You’ve made the right decision to buy a new one which will be under warranty. I’m surprised the old iron has worked for so long and is only now destined for the great ironing board in the sky.

        2. You’ve done well. Hard water areas are hell on irons. You can soften the water; you can flush the things through regularly. Makes little difference.
          But I do object to repair jobs being made deliberately impossible to increase sales.
          The scam started with sealed on plugs and has ‘progressed’ from there.

          1. Never put water in it. Well – perhaps twice a year – when the MR irons something “special”.

            Can’t be doing with all that steam malarkey, me.

          2. Problem was, when anybody could get at the doings, many incompetents would, leading to a botched job and folk being electrified against their will, also fires and the like. Bearing in mind how utterly stupid most people are, its better they can’t mess with things.

          3. True – but you could say the same about letting so many incompetents drive cars….

          5. There are lots of people on the road who have never taken a test. A young woman was recently prosecuted for taking tests on behalf of others. Over 200 of them. All ethnics.

          6. I wonder if those she stood in for were also prosecuted & had their licenses revoked?

    2. Unplug
      Cut off wire where it enters iron

      Put iron on hot AGA,

      heat it,

      use it
      heat it
      repeat
      Send money saved, with bank details to Mr Rashid

    3. Unplug
      Cut off wire where it enters iron

      Put iron on hot AGA,

      heat it,

      use it
      heat it
      repeat
      Send money saved, with bank details to Mr Rashid

      1. And don’t stand him on the wet floor. Butlers are difficult to come by these days I’m told.

        1. Missed you there after my morning browse. Making a cake and looking for a laptop for student to be daughter. All well. Been quite wet here despite not much getting over to the east. Met office still threatening a heatwave, that will be a spell of summer weather in August, but its too cool or wet to sit out at night. A fine few days ahead…

          1. We’re threatened with snow in the hills around here this weekend!!! Global warming, you say??

    5. Remember the odious Gove urged us all to get our electrical goods repaired rather than buying new ones?

      The idiot has no idea. Replacement parts are very expensive and the manufacturers deliberately try to make it impractical to repair them and, of course, a repaired item is no longer under guarantee. I am also convinced that most goods are programmed to break down a couple of weeks after the guarantee has expired.

    6. Likely the conductor has been bent too many times and is cracked. Less cross-section for the 230V = warmer. It’ll fail soon, possibly with smouldering or a small fire. Bin it now and get a new one.

          2. You have to remove the plug otherwise the recycling yard will refuse to accept the appliance (as I recently discovered when disposing of old vacuums and heaters).

          4. When I scrap electricals, I cut the cable off and strip the insulation off for the scrap copper!

  34. 354832+ up ticks,

    Non agreement with this comment must surely put you among the 48% ters.

    Twitter post,
    we obey a bunch of parasitical scum that only have money and power and absolutely no trace of what makes a human human. Fuck em😊😊

  35. ‘Morning All

    Modern life…….

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  36. I had an interview last night at 8pm.

    I was offered the job this morning at 8 am.

    42 hours per week, 4 nights on 4 nights off, 1st line IT support for a company with 12 teams and 3500 clients.

    2. Good. Well done. I hope they are a decent firm that gives you a proper job and a high degree of certainty.

    4. Congratulations, Thayaric. Well done! (and a Good Morning to you and all NoTTLers). I am still having busy, busy days but am steadily making progress which is improving my sleep patterns and I don’t feel quite as exhausted as in recent weeks.

      1. I think he might be used to that from running a care home. At least he won’t be changing nappies and bed pans.

      2. Nights are fine if you do them all the time and become nocturnal. It is shift-work that is killing to the system. I’ve worked shifts most of my working life and you never get used to the constant “jet-lag”.

          2. So is the Last Dog

            Without the Dog Watches you would work the same hours, ad infinitum, as you only have two wtches, so it is 4 on, 4 off

      3. That we’ve all done them shows the need. Work is work. I put a kibosh on 24 hour support for customers after the first 2 weeks after install.

        1. Ten day teams, 2 night teams. All other offices except Milwaukee close overnight. So everything nearly gets filtered through to Peterborough.

    12. Great stuff, Thayaric! The company seem to know what they want and go for it! Good luck!🤞🏼

  37. BBC News presenter just now:- ‘Taiwan is self-ruled.’

    What a strange thing to say. By the same token I suppose Great Britain is self-ruled, but it would sound as if that were by the generosity of a higher power. Still, it was the BBC I suppose…

  40. Europe’s looming coal crisis. 3 August 2022.

    The problem is that the EU will soon be deprived of its biggest supplier: The bloc slapped sanctions on Russian coal in April, forbidding further imports starting August 10.

    That means the 2 million tons of coal it is set to receive from Russia this month will be the last such shipment, said Alex Thackrah, a senior coal analyst at the market intelligence firm Argus Media.

    Add to that serious logistical challenges in sourcing and transporting the fuel from elsewhere, and “it’s certainly going to be a challenge to get enough coal this winter,” he said.

    Indonesia, South Africa and Colombia are all potential suppliers, but EU countries will face “extremely high prices” due to the particularly high-calorific type of coal normally used across the bloc, according to Thackrah. Coal prices on the API2 Rotterdam hub, a European benchmark, hit $380 per ton last week, already a more than fourfold increase on this time last year.

    The EU will also face “stiff competition” from players such as India and South Korea, which have existing coal supply agreements with many of these countries, said Mark Nugent, an analyst at the shipbroker Braemar.

    Make no mistake my friends. The Perfect Storm is on its way!

    https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coal-crisis-shortage-war-ukraine-russia-gas-reserves/?itm_source=parsely-api?itm_campaign=parsely_recommended_widget-3&itmMedium=site_widget&itmSource=parsely_recommended_widget&itm_content=widget_item-4

          1. Grizzly bears riding elephants. Good vantage point. Easier to herd the humans for food.

          3. As a fellow plantigrade omnivore, I would canvas them for a position as human ambassador.

      2. Politicians live and die by their media image.
        Nothing to do, no media image
        Politicians meddle to show they’re doing something to set their media image.

        Rinse, repeat. Get rid of the human element. Run the country via AI and the entire world would improve dramatically.

    2. Don’t worry, Araminta and others.

      Britain is going to restore it’s coal fired power stations this winter, and only the most crazy

      of you would think that they would do this without being assured of adequate supplies of coal.

      1. That’s wonderful. They have spent 7 years just thinking about building a nuclear power station at Hinckley Point C, the last five years in building (12 years in total), and they have not yet finished. Building new coal fired stations by Christmas this year would be impressive. Finding a supply of coal for them would be even more impressive.

        1. Ther are 147 Heritage Railways who can tell HMG where in the world that they can coal

          They have been using lotsa places for years

        2. According to the Sunday Times there are a number of coal fired power stations mothballed which will be brought back

          into use this winter.

          As this nation just sits on a bed of coal I can’t imagine any problems in obtaining coal…..unless the greenies in the

          Civil Service have done something really, really stupid.

          1. I wonder how many civil servants realise what reinstating mothballed power stations entails? Or do they think it’s just light the fires, turn on the steam and throw the switch?

          2. I assume someone left them an instruction manual.

            With all these Oxbridge graduates in the upper echelons of the Civil Service there must be at

            least one who can comprehend the manual.

            Their families would also be without electricity if they fail.

          3. Keeping a coalfired station on standby usually means keeping the furnace burning with light steam in the boiler and the turbines turning over on low output. When a greater output is needed you still have to increase the feed to the furnace and wait for the boiler pressure to increase before winding the turbines up.

            Bringing a mothballed station back into use from cold is quite a massive task!

          5. I imagine the operators of the stations already are getting geared up to restart.
            I wonder who is paying the bills for the work though?

          9. I wonder how well the preservation was applied – if at all. Removing that, testing, fixing stuff will take years, not days.

        3. Seven years for Hinckley C? No! I was part of the safety case development for the place when working at the CEGB, and I left them in 1990!

        1. Action Stations Action Stations Action Station

          Airborne Porcine Squadrons incoming

    3. Don’t worry, Araminta and others.

      Britain is going to restore it’s coal fired power stations this winter, and only the most crazy

      of you would think that they would do this without being assured of adequate supplies of coal.

      1. No wonder the German girls’ wendyball team lost – they learnt how to play dirty but not how to stop own goals off the pitch.

    1. Re the first one; a dog has escaped from a local kennels and the police have been out in force – nearly typed ‘farce’! – looking for it. As my cleaner said, the police didn’t bother when somebody was robbed the other month.

  42. France SCRAPS £115 TV licence fee to tackle cost of living crisis. 3 August 2022.

    France has scrapped its £115 TV licence fee in an effort to tackle the growing cost of living crisis, in a potential blow to public broadcast models in other countries.

    France’s senate agreed to pass President Emmanuel Macron’s election promise to scrap the fee in a heated debate that ran into the early hours of Tuesday morning.

    The country’s annual fee, currently set at €138, has provided public broadcasters with the majority of their income since it was introduced in 1933.
    In place of the licence fee, the senate approved the funding of public broadcasters using VAT revenues until the end of 2024.

    We should also scrap our licence fee and we should also scrap the organisations that feed off it. Otherwise as here it will be funded by some other means drawn from the taxpayer!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11076007/France-SCRAPS-115-TV-licence-fee-tackle-cost-living-crisis.html

    2. I think the hierarchy would prefer funding from general taxation, which no-one can avoid completely. My boss thinks that would remove editorial independence but I don’t believe editorial independence exists anyway. We agree to differ.

      1. You are right, Sue. Editorial independence disappeared some years ago now and, as such, the BBC is frequently in breach of its Charter. Strangely, no one seems capable of holding them to account.

        1. They also agreed to fund licences for the over 75s and then reneged on the deal; the government should at once have taken back what the BBC got in return, but f course they didn’t.

      1. I have a load of 90 year old groupies who are after my body but don’t remember why.
        Some of the residents are younger than me – still a lot were up dancing with the staff

  44. Wordle 410 4/6

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    Now for quordle.

      1. Sadly today…
        Daily Quordle 191
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        Really screwed myself with the second one taking too many guesses.

    2. Birdie Three today!

      Wordle 410 3/6
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    3. Wordle 410 4/6

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    4. Wordle 410 4/6

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  45. Phoned the doctor today as am increasingly worried about swollen feet and ankles. Not good for a formerly very strong swimmer. Got another receptionist from hell; can I make an appointment to see Dr. T at the end of this week. No, you have to call at 8 am on the day you want the appointment. We have never had that here. So I told her that was helpful- not.
    Husband was cross and called a few mins later and obviously got a different one…I now have an appointment on Friday at 4. Not my usual GP but it doesn’t matter.
    This sh*t is spreading across this country. They are supposed to be there for us- not the other way around. So much damage has been done to the people of this country by this useless and incompetent government.
    As I said earlier this week- the last two years + have totally compromised my health and that of MH.

    2. Sorry to hear this Lottie, these receptionists are a right pain in the proverbial. Sometimes it seems they are more helpful if a bloke phones them. Anyway. Just a thought. Are you taking new BP pills? I’ve just been prescribed am.odipine, as well as 10mg Ramipril, and was warned it may cause swollen ankles particularly.
      Edit: Pain

          1. I have done some research and can’t really see anything that applies. Maybe just a lack of swimming? Not possible during lockdown and since for me because of me mush. At least that is doing much better.

          3. I try- but legs don’t want to cooperate at times. Anyway, am off to the shop soon.

          4. Argos are selling exercise bikes for £45. I bought the £70 one. Every morning on i hop for 30 mins. Tea time too.

    3. At that recent ‘thought police’ arrest conducted by Hants plod, I thought I spotted a Pride lapel badge on the uniform of the woman copper. If so the oath now needs to be changed to ‘…without fear but with plenty of favour…’ or something similar. Having worn the light blue uniform for nearly four decades I find it incomprehensible that members of a uniformed, and (allegedly) disciplined service are allowed to wear any kind of badge that takes their fancy. Discipline seems to have deserted the police, which is deeply worrying. The very moment police officers thought it was fine to cavort at Pride marches, instead of policing them, they should have been given just one warning and then dismissed after any repetition. If independence is a dead duck then respect also dies with it.

      1. It isn’t a uniform if they customise it. I wonder how that would play in court if you said you didn’t believe they were a police officer.

      2. They’ve been acting stupidly at such things for years, qv the Notting Hill mayhem and mugging beastival

    4. At that recent ‘thought police’ arrest conducted by Hants plod, I thought I spotted a Pride lapel badge on the uniform of the woman copper. If so the oath now needs to be changed to ‘…without fear but with plenty of favour…’ or something similar. Having worn the light blue uniform for nearly four decades I find it incomprehensible that members of a uniformed, and (allegedly) disciplined service are allowed to wear any kind of badge that takes their fancy. Discipline seems to have deserted the police, which is deeply worrying. The very moment police officers thought it was fine to cavort at Pride marches, instead of policing them, they should have been given just one warning and then dismissed after any repetition. If independence is a dead duck then respect also dies.

  47. Seems things are getting interesting over in the Pacific….

    “Pelosi Departs Taiwan After Whirlwind Tour As China Declares “Median Line” No Longer Exists…..

    1. Wonder if she knew where she was….

      There are times when she makes Gormless Joe seem amazingly smart…

    2. The West has become weak and decadent, inward looking, arrogant and lazy. The irony though, is all those moronic Lefties who whinge and wail about socialism and communism are now having the societies that espouse those traits rising up, yet they don’t like them now.

      It must be odd being a Lefty – to have to hold two completely opposing views and believe both of them.

        1. I remember reading my niece’s Guides worksheets. All dreadful rubbish from left wing hate groups like stonewall and the green party.

          Not only were the ‘games’ badly written tosh, but they were so heavy handed moralistic tripe that they deserved binning – so we did, and invented our own which were much better.

        2. I remember reading my niece’s Guides worksheets. All dreadful rubbish from left wing hate groups like stonewall and the green party.

          Not only were the ‘games’ badly written tosh, but they were so heavy handed moralistic tripe that they deserved binning – so we did, and invented our own which were much better.

    1. That’s good. The more hysterical and back tracking these people do the more comical the whole farce is. I get it, they just want the job but at this point I expect them to promise everyone a bloody pony.

        1. We’ll all need a pony and trap to get anywhere when they stop us driving. A fellow parish councillor has a hybrid car; his wife was telling me this morning that they have only managed to charge it up once and that was in Scotland (they holidayed in Aviemore). Either the recharging points weren’t working or didn’t fit. She said they’d never have a fully electric car.

  49. Bonsoir les amis.
    A cool 37° outside Toulouse.
    To the title: if anyone is relying on Truss to have any conservative values they are truly paddling up the effluent in a barbed wire canoe.

    1. 38 in the shade near Bergerac, with a hot breeze to make it seem even hotter, at least the humidity is sitting at 21%.

      Thank goodness for the pool, although even that is over 30.

        1. It was similar here this morning, overnight temperatures didn’t go below 20, it might get as low as 19 early tomorrow, just before sunrise.
          Your humidity must make it very unpleasant.

          2. I know someone – a lady from West Yorkshire, who lives in WV – who complains that the song Country Roads gets it wrong because while it may be almost heaven, the Shenandoah River isn’t in WV. But shurely part of it is?

          4. About 15 miles is in WV so the majority of the Shenandoah is in Virginia. When river borders on state lines, it can be confusing where the boundary actually lies. Where we live, our property edges the Potomac river, but the state boundary with Maryland is actually where our bit ends.

          5. Look at Whittaker’s Almanac and you may learn that the the River Tyne passes through Durham!

          1. It is. But when you are greeting a roomful of people that you may know , that’s still what you say.

            Un pinailleur écrit…..

          3. It’s because of all those revolutions they have. To pretend the great unwashed are all one group.

          1. When one turned up to play boules (or at the allotment) and some of the gang were there – one would say, “Bonjour, les gars...”

          4. I see. I have now been educated. Hope you didn’t think i was trolling. Just being ignorant. :@)

          5. You weren’t to know the local linguistic idiosyncrasies. Bill will confirm they stretch the French language beyond immediate recognition.

    3. Not surprised. California is becoming lawless. The rich are leaving. Lots going to Texas and Florida. They will still make the mistake of voting Demoncrat though so those places will also turn into shitholes.

    6. The Governor, Newsom, is an aficionado of the WEF and its policies. He is turning California into a literal lawless shit-hole and decent people are leaving in droves, taking their businesses and taxes with them. Little wonder that Clegg has left and returned to the UK. Where will he, and others, run to if Truss/Sunak try the Newsom gambit here?

  51. Well people, how does your spouse get out of coming shopping? Watch out for this one- mine managed to explode a bag of chocolate chips all over the kitchen floor as I was waiting for my cab. Told the cabbie and he said that guy didn’t want to go shopping. Left husband with bum in air sweeping up chips from the floor.
    When I came in, another disaster had occurred- he’d moved the tub of chives outside as we had discussed. He dropped it and had to sweep up all the soil etc
    Wish I’d bloody stayed out!
    Then we watched the finale of Carousel on TV and both ended up blubbering like babies. What is it about romantic music?
    Such fun….

    1. Don’t want to go shopping – just say “I don’t want to go shopping”.
      The easiest ways are usually the best.

      2. Unfortunately, if I need stuff to eat, clean, etc, I have no choice but to go shopping 🙁

    2. Sudden onset of clumsiness – is he OK? Without intending to alarm, one result of my stroke is increased clumsiness…

  52. SNP Anglophobia isn’t just petty, it’s sinister

    It’s tempting to laugh at the Nationalists’ grievance-mongering, but it is poisoning political debate

    MADELINE GRANT

    ‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.” This was the battle cry of Miss Jean Brodie, tragically fulfilled at the end of the novel. But for years Scottish nationalists have attempted to take a leaf out of her book – by taking numerous leaves out of the history books.

    You could imagine few things more innocuous than a children’s commemorative book about the Platinum Jubilee. Yet a recent FOI request revealed that Scottish Government officials lodged numerous complaints about the book, which SNP ministers ordered to be withdrawn from circulation in Scottish schools. Officials pushed for passages about Brexit and the 2014 independence referendum to be removed, and dismissed mentions of England’s 1966 World Cup victory as Anglocentric. They even objected to a section on smart thermostats, claiming it might be “triggering for anyone experiencing poverty”. Instead, they demanded new stories be inserted on everything from the Jacobite rebellions and the deportation of Commonwealth immigrants to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

    Not all their recommendations were ridiculous; referring to the Queen as “Elizabeth I” rather than “Elizabeth II” in a Scottish edition makes sense. Yet others defy belief, and raise serious questions about the impartiality of Scotland’s Civil Service. I mean no disrespect to Benazir Bhutto’s memory, but there is something grimly amusing about insisting that a book of children’s cartoons include the murder of a Pakistani leader (not classic bedtime reading, perhaps).

    It’s tempting to laugh – in fact, it would take a heart of stone not to – but it would be a mistake to ignore the sinister repercussions of all this. Nationalists have long tried to poison debates about Scottish identity by hijacking the very concept of Scottishness to mean unconditional support for independence. And complaints about the Jubilee book are surely hypocritical given the proliferation of often blatant propaganda in Scottish schools.

    Earlier this year, North Lanarkshire Council issued a “study aid” containing numerous pro-independence slogans and a factsheet on Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish educator Neil McLennan recently complained that nationalism had “infected” education, rendering aspects of it “parochial”. In one example, he said that the curriculum guidance offered only examples of English slave ports such as Liverpool and Bristol. He’d even petititoned the Scottish Government to add Glasgow to the list, given its own prominent role in the slave trade, to no avail.

    Of course, nationalist movements always seek to revise the past for their own veneration – he who controls the past controls the future – and Scotland’s is no different. Theirs, among other things, seeks to separate Scots from any culpability in the British imperial project and recast them as another victim of colonialism (now invariably blamed on “England”). A complex past is too often distilled into a series of grievances – Culloden, the Highland Clearances – and long ago “glories” such as Bannockburn, which have taken on a mystical significance in some sections of the Nationalist community. Yet Braveheart was a Hollywood blockbuster, not a documentary.

    According to this partial reading of history, the Act of Union merely served to smother Scotland’s culture and economy. Ian Blackford, one of the propagandists-in-chief, claimed in a Commons debate that the Act of Union unfairly cut off Scotland from its continental links. Yet far from clipping Scotland’s wings, the Union gave it access to prized trading routes and prosperity.

    Scots were keen participants and enthusiastic beneficiaries of the Empire, and ended up running large swathes of it, after Scots engineers had built much of its infrastructure; roads, bridges and railways, from Canada to the Indian sub-continent. Nor was imperialism the sole preserve of Anglo-Britain; in fact, it was the loss of money and morale from a failed Scottish imperial venture – the ill-fated Darien scheme – that paved the way for the impoverished Scots to seek the merger with England in the first place.

    The Union helped stabilise political life, creating the conditions for the extraordinary creative surge of the Scottish Enlightenment. Scotland, boasting more universities than England at the time, was certainly no backwater, but it could also be a hotbed of tyranny and superstition. The decade before the Act of Union saw, on Scottish soil, the last mass executions for “witchcraft” in Western Europe, and the last execution for blasphemy in the UK, when in 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, an 20-year-old student, was condemned to death after being overheard “mocking” the Old Testament outside a tavern in Edinburgh. Despite his contrition, the Kirk refused to pardon him.

    As it turns out, Scottish Nationalists are as adept at glossing over their present failures as they are at rewriting history, whether it’s their appalling record on education, health, Scottish life expectancy – now the lowest in Western Europe – or the international scandal of drug overdose deaths.

    Of course, all countries need their founding myths – they are essential for unity and social cohesion. Yet while anti-English grievance may boost the separatist movement in the short term, no healthy nation can base their sense of self on victimhood alone.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/snp-anglophobia-isnt-just-petty-sinister/

    BTL:
    Carpe Jugulum
    Nicola Sturgeon is the elected leader of Scotland and is therefore an entirely valid representative for their views. The fact that she has presided over a national decline in educational standards and healthcare outcomes and is completely inept merely underscores the importance of her core beliefs to the Scottish electorate.

    Unfortunately the core belief is based in small minded bigotry and cultured hatred of the English. A belief that is utterly puerile and steeped in grievances only the intellectually challenged could cling to.

    I have considerable sympathy for the Scottish people who find themselves tied to a horse ridden by witless, benefits dependent bigots and led by Sturgeon but that sympathy has limits.

    Scotland is now the source of a constant and truly irritating tinnitus like whining. Give them their ‘independence’, build a very big wall and tell the new neighbours to now ‘shut the …. up’.

    David Farnsworth
    Fundamentally disagree. We English have to stand with the silenced majority of Scots who are growing to detest Sturgeon and the SNP.

    Carpe Jugulum
    I would have agreed with you at one time.

    A Allan
    How much is the convoluted two vote system to blame for the current problems? I have always thought that the United Kingdom is greater than the sum of its parts; joking aside, I find the current situation very sad.

    Steppen Wolf
    Please also remember that there is and always will be a majority for the union up here in Scotland. The long suffering majority up here has to live with these SNP lunatics everyday. However their relevance is decreasing by the day. The SNP are a busted flush, and hopefully we will soon see the back of Sturgeon. We can then get back to trying to repair the damage these hate mongers have done to our union which has served all the nations well for hundreds of years, and hopefully will continue to do so.

    1. “Tied to a horse”. That’s what happened to William Wallace, between the Tower of London and Smithfield. Ouch!

      1. He’s just trouble in spades. Self-opinionated. If he was a “woman” – you could call him pushy.

          1. I think you may be confusing her with a fellow professional, The Lady of the Lamp, Florence….

          3. Aladdin did indeed have a lamp and found out the password to open the cave “Open Sesame”
            Anne Allan on the other hand (aka the pushy nurse) followed in Florence Nightingale’s footsteps (The lady with the lamp…)

    3. If David Farnsworth is correct, how come the Snats keep getting re-elected? So, he’s wrong.
      That AAllen writes sense.

  53. SNP Anglophobia isn’t just petty, it’s sinister

    It’s tempting to laugh at the Nationalists’ grievance-mongering, but it is poisoning political debate

    MADELINE GRANT

    ‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.” This was the battle cry of Miss Jean Brodie, tragically fulfilled at the end of the novel. But for years Scottish nationalists have attempted to take a leaf out of her book – by taking numerous leaves out of the history books.

    You could imagine few things more innocuous than a children’s commemorative book about the Platinum Jubilee. Yet a recent FOI request revealed that Scottish Government officials lodged numerous complaints about the book, which SNP ministers ordered to be withdrawn from circulation in Scottish schools. Officials pushed for passages about Brexit and the 2014 independence referendum to be removed, and dismissed mentions of England’s 1966 World Cup victory as Anglocentric. They even objected to a section on smart thermostats, claiming it might be “triggering for anyone experiencing poverty”. Instead, they demanded new stories be inserted on everything from the Jacobite rebellions and the deportation of Commonwealth immigrants to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

    Not all their recommendations were ridiculous; referring to the Queen as “Elizabeth I” rather than “Elizabeth II” in a Scottish edition makes sense. Yet others defy belief, and raise serious questions about the impartiality of Scotland’s Civil Service. I mean no disrespect to Benazir Bhutto’s memory, but there is something grimly amusing about insisting that a book of children’s cartoons include the murder of a Pakistani leader (not classic bedtime reading, perhaps).

    It’s tempting to laugh – in fact, it would take a heart of stone not to – but it would be a mistake to ignore the sinister repercussions of all this. Nationalists have long tried to poison debates about Scottish identity by hijacking the very concept of Scottishness to mean unconditional support for independence. And complaints about the Jubilee book are surely hypocritical given the proliferation of often blatant propaganda in Scottish schools.

    Earlier this year, North Lanarkshire Council issued a “study aid” containing numerous pro-independence slogans and a factsheet on Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish educator Neil McLennan recently complained that nationalism had “infected” education, rendering aspects of it “parochial”. In one example, he said that the curriculum guidance offered only examples of English slave ports such as Liverpool and Bristol. He’d even petititoned the Scottish Government to add Glasgow to the list, given its own prominent role in the slave trade, to no avail.

    Of course, nationalist movements always seek to revise the past for their own veneration – he who controls the past controls the future – and Scotland’s is no different. Theirs, among other things, seeks to separate Scots from any culpability in the British imperial project and recast them as another victim of colonialism (now invariably blamed on “England”). A complex past is too often distilled into a series of grievances – Culloden, the Highland Clearances – and long ago “glories” such as Bannockburn, which have taken on a mystical significance in some sections of the Nationalist community. Yet Braveheart was a Hollywood blockbuster, not a documentary.

    According to this partial reading of history, the Act of Union merely served to smother Scotland’s culture and economy. Ian Blackford, one of the propagandists-in-chief, claimed in a Commons debate that the Act of Union unfairly cut off Scotland from its continental links. Yet far from clipping Scotland’s wings, the Union gave it access to prized trading routes and prosperity.

    Scots were keen participants and enthusiastic beneficiaries of the Empire, and ended up running large swathes of it, after Scots engineers had built much of its infrastructure; roads, bridges and railways, from Canada to the Indian sub-continent. Nor was imperialism the sole preserve of Anglo-Britain; in fact, it was the loss of money and morale from a failed Scottish imperial venture – the ill-fated Darien scheme – that paved the way for the impoverished Scots to seek the merger with England in the first place.

    The Union helped stabilise political life, creating the conditions for the extraordinary creative surge of the Scottish Enlightenment. Scotland, boasting more universities than England at the time, was certainly no backwater, but it could also be a hotbed of tyranny and superstition. The decade before the Act of Union saw, on Scottish soil, the last mass executions for “witchcraft” in Western Europe, and the last execution for blasphemy in the UK, when in 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, an 20-year-old student, was condemned to death after being overheard “mocking” the Old Testament outside a tavern in Edinburgh. Despite his contrition, the Kirk refused to pardon him.

    As it turns out, Scottish Nationalists are as adept at glossing over their present failures as they are at rewriting history, whether it’s their appalling record on education, health, Scottish life expectancy – now the lowest in Western Europe – or the international scandal of drug overdose deaths.

    Of course, all countries need their founding myths – they are essential for unity and social cohesion. Yet while anti-English grievance may boost the separatist movement in the short term, no healthy nation can base their sense of self on victimhood alone.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/snp-anglophobia-isnt-just-petty-sinister/

    BTL:
    Carpe Jugulum
    Nicola Sturgeon is the elected leader of Scotland and is therefore an entirely valid representative for their views. The fact that she has presided over a national decline in educational standards and healthcare outcomes and is completely inept merely underscores the importance of her core beliefs to the Scottish electorate.

    Unfortunately the core belief is based in small minded bigotry and cultured hatred of the English. A belief that is utterly puerile and steeped in grievances only the intellectually challenged could cling to.

    I have considerable sympathy for the Scottish people who find themselves tied to a horse ridden by witless, benefits dependent bigots and led by Sturgeon but that sympathy has limits.

    Scotland is now the source of a constant and truly irritating tinnitus like whining. Give them their ‘independence’, build a very big wall and tell the new neighbours to now ‘shut the …. up’.

    David Farnsworth
    Fundamentally disagree. We English have to stand with the silenced majority of Scots who are growing to detest Sturgeon and the SNP.

    Carpe Jugulum
    I would have agreed with you at one time.

    A Allan
    How much is the convoluted two vote system to blame for the current problems? I have always thought that the United Kingdom is greater than the sum of its parts; joking aside, I find the current situation very sad.

    Steppen Wolf
    Please also remember that there is and always will be a majority for the union up here in Scotland. The long suffering majority up here has to live with these SNP lunatics everyday. However their relevance is decreasing by the day. The SNP are a busted flush, and hopefully we will soon see the back of Sturgeon. We can then get back to trying to repair the damage these hate mongers have done to our union which has served all the nations well for hundreds of years, and hopefully will continue to do so.

  55. Neither of the Tory candidates can defeat the devolution monster

    If Sunak and Truss want what is best for the Union, they will have to take back control of all corners of British Conservatism

    KARA KENNEDY

    Neither candidate is in good standing for the hustings in Cardiff later today. Liz Truss might face tough questioning over her willingness to “just ignore” devolved leaders – even if many understand that Sturgeon is a particular case. Rishi Sunak has gone too far in the other direction with a feeble appeal to Welsh identity in his latest attempt to catch up with his opponent.

    Writing for Wales Online, Sunak said that he aims to “bring everyone back together” and that as prime minister, he would change his approach to Wales because it “deserves better”. Music to Wales Online readers’ ears, perhaps. But anyone with a smidge of interest in Welsh politics knows that these empty buzzwords that resemble a monthly “check-in” email from HR mean absolutely nothing for the people of Wales.

    As the poorest nation in the Great Britain, Wales does need change. But as Sunak celebrates his Welsh counterparts for “doing a fantastic job to hold Labour to account” he appears neither brave nor radical enough for true reform. In reality, Andrew RT Davies, the current leader of the Welsh Conservatives, has been steering a sinking ship for quite some time. Such is the dire state of affairs that some have assumed he is holding on for his chance of a knighthood.

    What Wales needs from the next Tory leader is vision and strength. The Welsh Tories are undoubtedly split. The infighting in the party has become more and more toxic since Boris’ downfall, as half of the party have decided that the only way to win seats is to kowtow to the overwhelmingly Left-wing majority in Wales, taking a more centrist approach to policy. The true blues in the party have rightly dug their heels in, hoping for a genuine Conservative force to return to Wales once more.

    Sunak’s lack of imagination is being matched on the other side by needless gaffes from Truss. Her proposal yesterday to link public sector pay to local living costs was perceived to be particularly unfair to Wales, which would presumably have suffered a large relative decline in pay. Simon Hart, a Sunak supporter, claimed 430,000 workers in Wales, including police officers and the armed forces, faced a “near £3,000 pay cut”. The plan was soon ditched.

    Yet whoever wins, if they can get their act together, can benefit a great deal from low expectations. Towards the end of his time as leader, Boris had begun to ignore the problems piling up in Cardiff. After devastating results that saw Conservatives lose control of their only Welsh council and tens of seats in councils all over Wales, disgruntled Welsh Tories didn’t even get so much as a text from the Prime Minister, never mind a long-awaited invite to number ten.

    An injection of energy would be welcomed by these Welsh Tories. And it had better come quickly. Devolution is a breeding ground for nationalism and socialist policies. If either Sunak or Truss wants what is best for the Union, and to embody Thatcher, they will have to take back control of all corners of British Conservatism.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/neither-tory-candidates-knows-how-control-devolution-monster/

    BTL:
    I don’t believe it
    England is the only nation without it’s own nationalists in parliament. We do however have them from the other 3 nations. English votes for English matters needs to be reintroduced and extended.

    Daisy Belle
    They squealed pretty loudly when that was suggested a few years back – English people managing their own affairs was apparently racist, fascist etc, even though they arrogantly expect to do exactly the same whilst living on hand-outs from us.

          2. That’s a dindu.

            A rabbi, a Hindu priest, and a politician went on a hike

            Night fell and they were exhausted. The hotel on the map was nowhere to be seen.

            They knocked on the door of a farm and asked if they could spend the night.

            The farmer said, “Of course, but I only have a small room with two beds. One of you will have to sleep in the barn.”

            The Hindu priest said, “I need no material comforts. I will gladly take the barn.”

            The
            rabbi and the politician were settling in when they heard a knock on
            the door. They opened it to find the Hindu priest standing there.

            “So sorry, my friends, but there is a cow in the barn, and I cannot sleep beside such a holy animal.”

            The rabbi said, “No problem, my brother. I’ll take the barn.

            The
            Hindu priest and the politician were settling in when they heard a
            knock on the door. They opened it to find the rabbi standing there.

            “So sorry, my friends, but there’s a pig in the barn, and I can’t sleep beside such a filthy animal.”

            The politician said, “OK, let it be remembered that I sacrificed my comfort for the greater good.”

            The
            rabbi and the Hindu priest were settling in when they heard a knock on
            the door. They opened it to find the pig and the cow standing there.

    2. I haven’t seen one journalist mention the elephant in the room re Truss and Sunak. That elephant is the spectre of the WEF and Schwab and Gates’s influence. The journos prattle on about conservative values and policies but they cannot be unaware of the baleful influence these two, and others, have on government policies. Shutting down ‘Net Zero’ would be a signal that the new PM isn’t in lock-step with the WEF: I’m not going to hold my breath.

  56. Neither of the Tory candidates can defeat the devolution monster

    If Sunak and Truss want what is best for the Union, they will have to take back control of all corners of British Conservatism

    KARA KENNEDY

    Neither candidate is in good standing for the hustings in Cardiff later today. Liz Truss might face tough questioning over her willingness to “just ignore” devolved leaders – even if many understand that Sturgeon is a particular case. Rishi Sunak has gone too far in the other direction with a feeble appeal to Welsh identity in his latest attempt to catch up with his opponent.

    Writing for Wales Online, Sunak said that he aims to “bring everyone back together” and that as prime minister, he would change his approach to Wales because it “deserves better”. Music to Wales Online readers’ ears, perhaps. But anyone with a smidge of interest in Welsh politics knows that these empty buzzwords that resemble a monthly “check-in” email from HR mean absolutely nothing for the people of Wales.

    As the poorest nation in the Great Britain, Wales does need change. But as Sunak celebrates his Welsh counterparts for “doing a fantastic job to hold Labour to account” he appears neither brave nor radical enough for true reform. In reality, Andrew RT Davies, the current leader of the Welsh Conservatives, has been steering a sinking ship for quite some time. Such is the dire state of affairs that some have assumed he is holding on for his chance of a knighthood.

    What Wales needs from the next Tory leader is vision and strength. The Welsh Tories are undoubtedly split. The infighting in the party has become more and more toxic since Boris’ downfall, as half of the party have decided that the only way to win seats is to kowtow to the overwhelmingly Left-wing majority in Wales, taking a more centrist approach to policy. The true blues in the party have rightly dug their heels in, hoping for a genuine Conservative force to return to Wales once more.

    Sunak’s lack of imagination is being matched on the other side by needless gaffes from Truss. Her proposal yesterday to link public sector pay to local living costs was perceived to be particularly unfair to Wales, which would presumably have suffered a large relative decline in pay. Simon Hart, a Sunak supporter, claimed 430,000 workers in Wales, including police officers and the armed forces, faced a “near £3,000 pay cut”. The plan was soon ditched.

    Yet whoever wins, if they can get their act together, can benefit a great deal from low expectations. Towards the end of his time as leader, Boris had begun to ignore the problems piling up in Cardiff. After devastating results that saw Conservatives lose control of their only Welsh council and tens of seats in councils all over Wales, disgruntled Welsh Tories didn’t even get so much as a text from the Prime Minister, never mind a long-awaited invite to number ten.

    An injection of energy would be welcomed by these Welsh Tories. And it had better come quickly. Devolution is a breeding ground for nationalism and socialist policies. If either Sunak or Truss wants what is best for the Union, and to embody Thatcher, they will have to take back control of all corners of British Conservatism.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/neither-tory-candidates-knows-how-control-devolution-monster/

    BTL:
    I don’t believe it
    England is the only nation without it’s own nationalists in parliament. We do however have them from the other 3 nations. English votes for English matters needs to be reintroduced and extended.

    Daisy Belle
    They squealed pretty loudly when that was suggested a few years back – English people managing their own affairs was apparently racist, fascist etc, even though they arrogantly expect to do exactly the same whilst living on hand-outs from us.

  57. My wonderful 100% record of it always rains when I go on holiday is intact.
    After driving past Stonehenge on the A303 I sent my old buddy a photo of the ancient monument and asking “Where are we” ? He sent us a message in response say drizzle here. And sure enough with in the next 30 minutes we had the winscreen wipers on.
    After an arrival cuppa with a biscuit and a later doze were looking forward to meeing our old friends in the bar of the hotel and dinner Bower Hinton Somerset.

    1. Yes we too have had a spot of rain (I posted that just to make those east of Watford slightly envious!)

      2. It’s incredibly dry east of Watford.
        I’m amazed it hasn’t self ignited yet.

    2. looking forward to meeing our old friends in the bar

      Don’t they get fed up with you dominating the conversation, instead of fulfilling your real role?

      Getting the drinks in

    3. We woke up to rain this morning. Not much but every little counts.
      Have a lovely holiday!

  58. More from the provinces.

    Drakeford gets a roasting BTL.

    Mark Drakeford’s 20 mph Welsh speed limit is mad

    The First Minister’s virtue signalling anti-car measures are not faring well in the principality

    What is it about devolved assemblies which makes them the bossiest bodies in the country, and the most resistant to listening to the people they are supposed to represent? I am sure that Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford felt virtuous when he pushed through a blanket 20 mph speed limit in built-up areas to take effect from September 2023. Look, I bet he thought to himself, if I can get this imposed by next year I’ll trump Nicola Sturgeon, who is planning the same measure in 2025 – I’ll be the greenest and most progressive leader in Britain, if not the whole world!

    Alas, things do not seem to be going well. Monmouthshire, which thought it would get even further ahead and impose a blanket 20 mph limit in Abergavenny and surrounding villages ahead of the deadline, has just had to backtrack and reverse the measure weeks after it was introduced, after a backlash from residents.

    I’m no Mr Toad. I’m all in favour of 20 mph speed limits where appropriate – and on many streets they are an appropriate limit. Indeed, where you have narrow roads and no pavements, even 20 mph is too fast. But a blanket limit defies all sense. In Abergavenny, the limit even applied to wide parts of the A40, the main road through the town, on which people and businesses rely to reach Brecon and a huge area of central Wales. To impose the same limit on a through-road, with traffic light-controlled junctions and a good degree of segregation between traffic and pedestrians as you would impose on a narrow residential street is preposterous. Just to underline how brainless Monmouthshire’s blanket 20 mph limit was, one photograph emerged of a 20 mph sign erected on a stretch of residential street, just a couple of yards before a set of bollards erected to block off all vehicular access. You would have to be a crash dummy to want to contemplate driving along it at any speed.

    It seems to be lost on Drakeford and his colleagues that people need to get about, that businesses need deliveries, that patients need to get to hospital appointments – and that slowing down all traffic on every road is going to increase costs for consumers, destroy jobs and make it more difficult for people to seek medical attention. What a sensible highways authority does is to create a hierarchy of roads – from fast roads where traffic can be kept away from pedestrians and cyclists, to zones where the latter have priority. But a blanket speed limit – set at whatever level – works against that. It slows down essential traffic and encourages motorists to take short cuts on unsuitable rat-runs because there is no time penalty for using small roads.

    What Drakeford is pursuing is a kind of environmental populism, which works on the principle that anything anti-car will impress green-minded voters. But it is no way to run a country. Even people who possess no car and no driving licence are ultimately reliant on road traffic to deliver food to supermarkets, get people to work and everything else on which a wealthy society relies. Motor traffic can be unpleasant, but it is also the lifeblood of our economy. It needs to be civilised and accommodated within our towns, cities and countryside, not banished by degrees. Sure, let’s have slower traffic where appropriate, but blanket limits will just strangle the economy.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/dont-have-mr-toad-think-mark-drakefords-20-mph-welsh-speed-limit/

    1. News from the Principality, surely 🙂 The village in Wales where a 20mph limit was tried wants it lifted. They said it just led to congestion and more pollution (well, whoda thunk it? Most people other than politicians, I’d say).

      1. The fact that the great unwashed WANT something will ensure that the PTB become even more unyielding.

          4. We’ll not hold it against you, Conners!
            My Father was Director at the School for Home Economics, UC Cardiff, some decades ago. By choice, too!

      2. I don’t think they care. The statue of Nye Bevan in Cardiff is covered in guano….

    3. Colchester has just had a 20mph limit removed – not sure if it was a trial – around the approaches to its main railway station and the Turner Rise shopping area. A secondary school and the Colchester Institute feed pupils and students through the area. On the other hand the village where my son lives has recently had a blanket 20mph limit imposed. The latter is sensible as the village has narrow roads and a high proportion of on-street parking.

  59. Prevening, all. Liz Truss is a politician, she won’t take a stand, just spout words to pretend she’ll do something about the destruction of this country, while facilitating its demise. Cynical, me? Damn right!

  62. Good night…

    Confucius say, woman who sink in man’s arms, soon have arms
    in man’s sink

    2. A narcissistic pyschopath? Are you quite sure sos.

      For the avoidance of doubt, when I said on one occasion: “I blame society” I was told by a psychologist, 3rd Class, that I was “an incipient sociopath”- I demanded to know why I couldn’t be a full red blooded one!

  66. That’s me gone for another unpleasant, clammy day. Just watered the veg. Again. The promised “drizzle” this arvo never materialised.

    Have a jolly evening learning Chinese. You never know…..

    A demain.

        1. Don’t let the hot air blow through the house…
          Here, Granny, some eggs to suck… 🙁

        1. Welcome!
          Basement is Mongo-sized so plenty space, cats might be a tad peeved, though…

        2. Ref your swollen feet. Could be the heat. I am taking no medication of the kind that causes that ishoo. But this wretched heat AND humidity is making my ankles swell – even though I go sockless and shoeless most of the day.

          Just a thought.

          3. No, Ann is not on heat and those feet posted above are not mine either…. where is that David?

          4. Bill, I lived in the USA for years where it is much hotter than here in the summer. No, summat else is up.

          5. You were younger then – just saying. I never had this problem when I was young.

        3. Swollen feet? Oedema is the catch all term.
          Bill Thomas is correct, in that the recent hot spell will have increased any tendency to fluid retention. It’s all to do with salts, according to the web, and consumption of alcoholic beverages may contribute to the phenomenon.

  68. I suspect he might be right!

    Man, 23, with rare condition who can ‘smell, taste and feel’ words reveals he can never date a Kirsty because the name has a ‘urine aroma’ – while Jennifer Lawrence is like ‘sniffing a shoe’
    Henry Gray, 23, from Newcastle, has rare neurological condition synaesthesia
    Can taste, smell or have a feeling associated with words, for him, mainly names
    He used to think everyone was the same, and only discovered condition in 2009
    Worst names include Kristy, which smells of urine and Rupert which is like a burp

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11077165/Man-rare-condition-smell-taste-feel-words-reveals-stink-urine.html

  70. OT

    The English Channel Invasion.

    The future Tory Leader/ Prime Minister must have a plausible policy to stem the tide.

    ‘Follow the Money’ – Al Capone was found out that way.

    Some 500 migrants a day – mostly young men of military age – are paying approx £4,500 for the trip.

    That is serious money; why can’t the Government/ Home Office/ Treasury,’Follow The Money’?

    1. As soon as they arrive, slap them with a £45,000 fine and tell them they get NO BENEFITS until the fine is paid or they leave of their own volition.

    2. Where are the boats being made? Who sells the outboard engines? Basic policing on the part of the French would cut off the supply.

      1. If you could remove parasites at the rate that the French are, why would you stop it?

      2. 354832+ up ticks,

        Evening A,

        The lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration/paedophile umbrella coalition / members / voters would NOT allow it.

      1. His woke desire to present the young black plyers (sic) as the heroes of the penalty shoot-out probably cost England the trophy.

          2. At the time the trophy was secondary to the VS, because he probably thought they would produce the goods.

  72. OK. I am off to sleep- yes, it’s early but am tired and don’t want to stay up any later.
    Sleep well y’all.

  74. The collapse of the ‘diversity’ industry can’t come soon enough

    Far from promoting racial cohesion, hyper-political HR activists have normalised racism in the workplace

    INAYA FOLARIN IMAN

    Many black people will attest that it isn’t unusual to fall prey to “well-meaning” assumptions about our supposed “victimhood”. There are those, usually on the Left, who think that we ethnic minorities are always suffering and that we therefore require their support and counsel, whether we know it or not.

    That is what seems to have happened at the broadcaster Sky, where a diversity officer told a colleague of Latina heritage that she must have been “oppressed”. The colleague rightly objected and she later won a claim of race discrimination at an employment tribunal for the comments.

    Whatever the merits of that particular case – and I, unlike too many woke activists, am willing to give those involved the benefit of the doubt – it speaks to a much bigger problem. A new ideology is being imposed on corporate Britain, promoted by over-mighty HR managers. What were once straightforward personnel departments have been taken over by highly-organised activists who are successfully exploiting moral confusion on questions of race with dispiriting consequences.

    Despite claiming to be “anti-racist”, their worldview perversely rehabilitates racial thinking – arguing that seeing race and judging by race is not unjust but a virtue so long as it is done by the right sort of person. They have attempted to delegitimise colour-blindness, which argues for equality under the law. And they spout all the usual fashionable lingo – including hierarchies of oppression, “white fragility”, and “white privilege”. The result has been the opposite of inclusive: it has stoked divisions between groups and encouraged patronising attitudes towards ethnic minority employees who just want to be judged on their ability to do their jobs.

    We can hardly expect the corporate HR activists – the footsoldiers of the Diversity Industrial Complex [DICs, obviously] – to wake up to the fact that they are inadvertently normalising a form of racism in the workplace.

    Even the savviest of corporate executives have been blind to this. Out of a combination of fear and PR opportunism, they have fallen over themselves to jump on the bandwagon, forking out millions of pounds on diversity “tsars”, “fellows” and “officers”.

    In boardrooms, only the bravest souls have been willing to state the obvious: that stereotyping should be rejected no matter who it comes from; that making negative assumptions about people because of their race is racism; and that ethnic minorities are not all the same, but indeed have a wide range of experiences and political views.

    These truths are the antidote to the Diversity Industrial Complex – which, incidentally, has a financial interest in rejecting evidence that Britain is in fact a good place to get on if you are from a minority background.

    So the onus now is on corporate leaders to take up this fight. They should distance themselves from this industry and replace their ideological “working groups” and implicit bias training with robust complaints systems to deal with individual accusations of racism. Not only would this free employees from the burdens of politics, it would surely save a great deal of money too.

    In this age of staggering inflation and rising interest rates, they would be fools, and bad businesspeople, to not take that up.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/03/collapse-diversity-industry-cant-come-soon/

    2. These DICs are the racist ones as they don’t believe the ‘ethnic minorities’ can look after themselves.

      1. An observation made too infrequently in the media for whom the only ‘racists’ are those who point out the dangers of increasing the population by more than 10 million in a period when it would have otherwise have grown by about 3 million.

      1. 354852+ up ticks,

        Evening SiadC,

        Back in normal times that was a regular request, “saveus the cor e”

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