Just the Brit news this morning

... coming into winter:

We’re faced, this Saturday morn, with a plethora of US news, mainly due to the midterms being 11 days away, some Brit news, around privations and arrests, plus some Canadian/Albertan news. Thinking the way to proceed is run the Brit headlines at Orphans, some American at Jstack, the bulk of the American at HQ for this a.m.

Brit issues which in various ways relate to the global

How to view all these? We could argue ad infinitum about blackpilling (we’re all doomed, I tell ye) and Data Republican (small r) in the States is saying just that (start praying) … while WW2 type Brits are saying stay calm and carry on … I’m thinking that the monsters above (govt, civil service, corporatists) are at best devoutly hoping for collapse, therefore the planned for civil war being hijacked, meanwhile inverting all decency in the public space … but at worst and more likely … planning for collapse and the aforementioned once we’re nearly into winter.

There is, of course, the naive explanation that it’s just sheer incompetence with no malice aforethought, just a whole load of richard crania above us and riddled throughout society in every key position, quite by accident … plus the great unwashed are simply as dumb as F and should not be let out unattended, let alone have the vote.

I’m assuming that you yourself have your winter and early spring sorted, enough of the folding stuff to pay and your B and C plans in place. I’m assuming that you are not going to freeze up, collapse, go out of your tiny … that you will at least keep your wits about you in this coming winter of discontent.

Have a lovely weekend of bliss, reader … you and yours.

Like Lyndon B Johnson Said, This Will Flush Out Some Interesting Responses From MPs... 

Killers and serious sex offenders detained in hospital are among the criminals who will no longer receive benefits under proposals called for by victims' families.Regulations due to be laid out in Parliament on Tuesday seek to end the "double provision" and prevent serious criminals receiving up to £800 a month in universal credit over several years.The new regulations are expected to come into force early next year, subject to parliamentary approval.

And when we see who votes against this measure, and so  show themselves in favour of mentally ill murderers getting benefits while incarcerated, well, we'll know just what sort of people they are, won't we? 

Webber said she believed the funds should be directed to the victims of serious crime so families "are given the support and the advocacy they need".Webber said: "I beg and I plead, and - actually, I demand - ministers now consider the appropriate reuse of those funds."

They won't, of course - the money will go back into Treasury funds and be used to pay off their union and public sector paymasters... 

The change in regulation is expected to affect about 2,500 offenders already in hospital and approximately 200 a year in future, the government said, with the full financial impact of the move due to be published as part of the 2026 Budget on 28 October.

Can't wait for some to show their true priorities over this.  

How legit is Politics on X

Meaning the name of the account, not politics in general. Contrary to possible expectations, I do not plan to call out Politics on X, whilst legitimising our own blog … but all the same, let’s see why. This was how it was presented:

Screenshot only

… and this was the text and a good graphic of DR(sr):

DataRepublican @DataRepublican just confirmed the quiet part out loud: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker@GovPritzker is explicitly named in the videos as one of only two governors willing to green-light the “illegitimacy memo”—a playbook for declaring a duly elected President illegitimate after the midterms so Democrat governors can claim they are the only legitimate U.S. authority.

This isn’t abstract “resistance.” NSL4A (the retired military and national security officials operationalizing the plan) and Pritzker’s own Governors Safeguarding Democracy group have been working the same sequence of redlines, including treating lawful federal pushback against coordinated protests as proof of illegitimacy.

Add the funding layer—his sister’s role in the Democracy Funders Network—and the coordination stops looking coincidental. Imported regime-change tactics, billionaire governors, and ex-military networks drafting the conditions under which states nullify federal authority: that is the actual document trail. DataRepublican has the receipts.

First off, I’ve seen footage a fair while ago of DR(sr) and it’s a pretty good likeness. Then Mike Engleman and others … consistent, legit MAGA or America First types.

The profile pic of PonX is irrelevant, except it suggests male, not female, it’s clearly supportive of “our side” in citizen journalism (antiWoke, pro-freedom of thought, word and deed, pro our own people).

It is followed by many, follows few (double-edged sword) and could be accused of “empire building”, as I call it, on the back of the current warrior out there. Big deal … “he” quotes her accurately, says he’s a “commentary account”.

Again big deal … so am I, so are our commenters. Nothing to see here. We call it getting the message out, also promoting her book, which I did via X retweet and like.

Any notes of caution?  🤔

Maybe … if you click on this X item, you’re not giving clicks to DR(sr), you’re giving them to PonX. Is that bad? Not necessarily … depends on the overall history of the account … started 2021.

Go to the profile, scroll down his content … cheeky chappy, similar topics overall … seems legit. Only thing I’d say is do explore who is saying it, not from what is put up front but through the sort of content over time, also the types of commenters. How does he handle conflict, will he incorporate later evidence?

And The Number's Only Going To Go Up Thanks To Demographic Change

This one was a little too close to home for me, it's a street I cycled down as a child on my way to a library (now sadly closed) and drove down many more times, a sleepy little backwater but having the unfortunate location of backing onto a park and so now the hunting grounds of the urban black youth:

Two teenagers were taken to hospital with “life-threatening” injuries after stabbings recorded minutes apart in east London. Police are treating the stabbings in Dagenham as linked as investigating officers appealed to the public for more information. 

A man aged 19 and a 17-year-old boy were taken to hospital after being found on Friday evening at two separate locations just streets apart. They were also both arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive weapon.

Interesting to see the police arresting both for a change, instead of arbitrarily declaring one a ‘victim’ deserving of sympathy. 

The borough with the worst knife crime rate in the past year was Newham, with 824 offences logged. Southwark and Lambeth ranked second and third on the list, with 697 and 691 knife related offences recorded respectively. 

Barking and Dagenham, the borough where the two people arrested were found injured, had 485 total knife offences last year. 

Why..?. Simple - it’s been subjected to population moment over the last 10 years from…Newham, Southwark and Lambeth mostly. Do you think they are safer as a result?

Unsensational news from France

... and from around the world while we're there.

Were you to start a new blog now in 2026-30, it might be advisable to call it “unsensational news”, as that is what we, meaning all regulars contributing to our range of blogs in this corner of the sphere, are trying to get to … the “real” situation afa we can find that out … the complication being that there’s wide divergence in angles.

Take Steve’s youtube on the aftermath of the Paris riots and add IYE’s (he lives in France):

Bollox! Was in the heart of the town centre y/ day and not a protest in sight. Nada! Two National police cars circled the town square and one gendarmerie car was in the car park. The two gendarmes got out, locked up and strolled across to a cafe and had their lunch. Protesters were there none. The National police disappeared into the afternoon sun. Alt meejah is no better than the lamestream for trying to create fear and unrest. Shame on whoever plays that game and those numpties repeating it ad nauseam when they should be using the brains the Good Lord gave them.

Meanwhile, DAD wrote:

My village was quiet, the two local small towns also; BUT at Poitiers (according to my friend who lives there) was very “hot” in many senses of the word. At Limoge, the very beautiful listed town hall was burned.

That Telegraph pic, in contrast to this of the interior before:

A Day When Our Head Of State Thinks He Has Something To Add To A Modern Topic?

...must be a day with a 'y' in it?

King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other "hostile online activity" pose to trust and security in the digital age. The comments, made in a letter to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to mark its 10th anniversary, spoke of "malicious actors" continuing to "evolve their tactics by using automated technologies"."

Who's writing these speeches for him? Because I doubt he's ever used a computer or even a mobile phone in his life. Someone's putting words in his mouth as surely as they are putting toothpaste on his toothbrush in the morning. 

From threats to our international order, to the need to balance the risks and opportunities of powerful new technologies, strong cyber security is fundamental to making the online environment safer and more resilient," he wrote.

The King said he was "acutely aware" that much of the work done by the NCSC cannot be praised publicly and that he was filled with "profound gratitude". The NCSC was established in 2016 as part of the Government Communications Headquarters to protect the UK against cyber threats

If it can't be stated what they are doing, how do we know they are doing it at all, never mind doing it well?

Last month, the King warned AI executives of the "existential dangers" posed by the technology falling into the wrong hands.

The technology is already out there, and clearly already in the wrong hands so once again, you are superfluous to requirements.

The Alberta Referendum Questions

 The Alberta Referendum Questions

Good reader, leave aside for now whether Alberta has a hope in hades of doing it … the point is the progress of the process versus evil karney and globopsycho. That’s the true point here.

When those outside of Alberta start speaking of it, that’s good. Again I say, where it ends up is in the lap of the Lord. Our job is to do our part, as one small cog each, that’s all.

Going to open here with an X post from some days back …

Remember that Alberta officially votes on October 19th but people I know have already early voted … I presume by mail-in. These are the ballot and other papers, sent by Sarah @shankarita .

Give us this day our daily (unfortified) bread

Three possible topics this Saturday morning with much incoming on them:

• The Katie Zacharia ousting, Susan Wiles etc. (goes on nearly forever)
• The food additive tale in the UK (we discussed at UHC yesterday)
• Doctors’ appointments through NHS now (only one item)

I’m thinking the most useful for Orphans and Jstack readers might be the food additive avoidance ideas, assuming you know about the December 13th mandatory adding of folic acid, not folate, to non wholemeal flour in the UK, though I note it’s already in breads I saw in the US.

Contra-indications, medically, are a few, inc. those with stents (inc. moi) and those it’s meant to help are apparently pregnant women. There’s the aspect of the govt messing with our food of course, plus major commercial industrialising of food, inc. seed oils, palm oil … ain’t good.

Steve suggested this:

The petition: End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately | https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769589

Also:

Automatic Mini Breadmaker SD-PN100 | https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-appliances/breadmakers/sd-pn100.html

My own (came from Rossa) is still operational:

However, I’ve been examing the Jason line at Morrisons:

IYE suggests: Flour of the unfortified type. 🍞🥖

Unfortified Flour, Unenriched Flour, Non-Additive Flour & Pure Flour

They also sell French flour which is unfortified. Ooh la la! If we make bread for the freezer we cut it into toaster sized slices first then it is always ready for breakfast or snacking. Nothing worse than fancying a piece of toast and having to wait to defrost the whole loaf.

Andy wrote: I’m getting spelt flour from Morrisons. M&S also don’t fortify their flour or bread mixes yet, or just aren’t telling us. I hand made a white loaf the other day from a bread mix, yeast etc added. Turned out nice. Next time I’ll bake two or three, good way to fill up corners of the freezer.

Isilme: Another place in the UK to get flour without folic acid (white or wholemeal) is . https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/
But I like the look of Ratton Pantry too. I will have to investigate fully as they seem to have a range of unusual flours. I’m enjoying making bread but I’m unhappy with the breadmaker now because the loaves have a hole where the paddle goes. So when I have a bit of time I might try making a no-knead bread and see how that gets on.

JH: Ratton Pantry, by the way, is in Eastbourne. Also, if I missed your suggestions here, pls forgive, not intentional, do tell us.

I Hope They Succeed In Suing The Driver Into Penury

Wiltshire Police decided not to prosecute the driver – despite concluding there was sufficient evidence.

So they don’t even have the usual excuse of laziness for not prosecuting the bastard who killed a event winning horse and so very nearly its young woman rider too… 

The family have launched their own legal proceedings for the injuries to Tinks and for the value of 10-year-old Benny, said to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. 'He was the equine equivalent of an Olympian,' said Tinks, who has been riding horses since she was a toddler.

I hope they get a lawyer who is an absolute shark, but the driver should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law! 

'My daughter could have been killed, we have lost her best horse and have another one that is so traumatised we can't ride her on the roads.'

So is it our old friends, the Couldn’t Prosecute Satan (CPS) to blame? No, it seems not…

After a five-month inquiry, Wiltshire Police wrote to Tinks and said that while 'there is sufficient evidence to bring a prosecution against the alleged offending driver', the woman had instead been offered a 'safe and considerate driving course' to 're-educate' her.

Funny handshakes, perhaps? Family friend of the Chief Con? What else explains this baffling decision?

Meanwhile a friend of the driver told the Daily Mail she was very distressed by the terrible accident and was adamant she had been driving at low speed. A spokesman for the driver and her company, which owned the car, said: 'We are deeply saddened by the death of Benny following this tragic accident and our thoughts are with all those affected. The incident was a terrible accident, and our team are extremely distressed by what occurred. As this accident is the subject of legal action, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.'

We all know how company cars are driven, don’t we?  And I hope the family can go after the company too, as a result!

Make sure you step outside

… like performing seals.