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 .

Afterthoughts

(This will remain open for me to add to from Sarah, X, elsewhere, through today and tomorrow.)

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.

No, It's Vital That They Have Access To Enjoyable Books

The number of children’s books featuring Black main characters fell by almost 8% last year, according to research into diversity in UK publishing.

...not books chosen by committee because they tick a particular box! 

Just 47 – or 2.1% – of the 2,189 books published for under-10s in 2025 featured a Black main character, a 7.8% fall from the previous year, according to Inclusive Books for Children (Ed: another fakecharity). Black children make up about 8.5% of that age bracket in England and Wales.

So what? It's utterly ridiculous to reduce reading for pleasure to a numbers game. Great characters are great characters, and can be enjoyed by anyone. 

Representation of south Asian main characters fell by 14.3 percentage points to 1.4%, despite children of south Asian heritage making up about 12.4% of the population of under-10s. Just three books featured main characters of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) heritage, down 50% from the previous year. This represented 0.1% of surveyed books, compared with the group’s 2.2% share of the population.

The author Serena Patel said: “At an age when children are figuring out the world around them and where they fit in, it’s vital they have access to funny, inspiring, adventurous books that reflect both the lives they live and the ones they don’t. We must do better.”

You should have stopped that sentence after 'books', what you added after has no bearing on it. 

The survey also highlighted what it described as a lack of “incidental representation”: stories in which a main character’s identity does not explicitly drive the plot of the story.

Make up your minds! 

Dr Stella Louis, an early years consultant, trainer and author, pointed to this “continued reliance” on books where identity itself was the story. “Why can’t a child simply be south Asian, disabled, neurodivergent or bilingual and also be the hero of an ordinary story about friendship, adventure, loss or joy?” she said.

Apparently it;s both bad to have characters who are refugees and also  good to have them, at the same time, which just goes to show how impossible it is to please these people. So why does anyone ever try? 

“As an  Arab author, it is painful to see the number of children’s fiction books representing our region decline from six to only three in 2025,” said Nadine Kaadan. She said the fact that all three books published were focused on refugee experiences risked reinforcing a “single story” about the region, defining it through “war and displacement rather than our rich cultures and heritage”.

What heritage would you like to see, your heritage of antisemitism and slavery and misogyny? 

And if you're an author, isn't the answer in your own hands?  

Jake Hope, a children’s book consultant, said: “When children’s enjoyment of reading is at a significant low, it’s more important than ever that the stories children encounter reflect their lives, identities, experiences and emotions.

Why? Isn;t part of thr pleasure of reading based in learning about other lands or world, and other culture? It alway was for me. 

“These figures need to be more than mere statistics and a call to action for continued change and improvements.”

And as this is 'The Guardian' it wouldn't be complete without the obligatory 'Ooops':

This article was amended on 5 October 2026. In an earlier version Serena Patel was misidentified as Sheena Patel. This has been corrected, and an image of Sheena Patel removed. The first name of Jake Hope was also corrected.

Why does anyone believe anything they print? 

The moral imperative, social safety and certainty

Nick Dixon, the online pundit, has written:

The Screwtape Letters is one of C.S. Lewis’s most enduring and prophetic works. Adopting the voice of the demon Screwtape, Lewis predicts everything from virtue signalling, to porn addiction.

He also shows us the folly of political utopianism, and, as is typical of Lewis’s oeuvre, exposes how the modern world has dispensed with truth and reason in favour of fashionable ideas and materialism.

At the personal level, we are implicitly warned (by taking the opposite view to the evil Screwtape) of how an obsessive focus on the future causes anxiety, and how the pleasures, though divine in origin, can be corrupted and perverted.

Lewis also makes it clear that our thirst for novelty and concerns about social status are further avenues for evil to exploit.

Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, first wrote a version of this thought in his 1864 prose poem "Le Joueur Généreux" ("The Generous Gambler"), writing: "La plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!".

The stance itself has existed since time immemorial. Every possessed person in the public eye is well aware of it ... Madonna, Swift, Diddy, Amanda Bynes, let alone, going back, Anton LaVey, Albert Pyke ... the possessed have not the slightest problem with the concept ... it's just the Eloi, the normies of the society, deliberately miseducated, who continue the "eyes wide shut", standing in that river in Egypt.

Philosophers are there to invent clever alternative notions, once people are duped into thinking there can be no personification of evil, that it's only human nature, that no one created humans that way at the dawn of time, that it all happened as a big bang or through evolution from the amoeba.

One pesky concept is the moral imperative. We see it in the society we once had (the majority being too young to have experienced it) ... it was going to work each day, newspaper in hand, having had a safe, folic acid and bovaer free brek, with cuppa ... modestly dressed, chatting to the usuals with no fear of being stabbed, raped or both, ordure and rubbish everywhere on the streets, pitholes.

It was civilised and based on a code of precepts none dare mention the source of ... because then you'd be a far right fascist or Jesus freak.  To becsure, it was also Plato, Aristotle and those lads, John Stuart Mill (yes, a philosopher), David Hume et al.

You can see that society in the remaining architecture, the art, in the natural civility in our dealings, instead of the obline potty mouthed abuse of the net today.  It was in gentlemen's agreements ... your word is your bond.

It (largely) worked, always remembering that there were major enemies who had snuck in through portals, from Them behind the pollies, to the Chinese, to middle-east fanaticism, to the sub-continent, to darkest Africa and the Caribbean, to Net Zero and Agenda 30 etc.  The banksters.  Blair, Obama.  Some say Donny, the Vatican ... no end to the accused foes.

You can't revese societal decline ... there's the duping of the people, the enemies causing that and playing the people.

In lucid moments, think back to what the hegemony actually was in the west at the point of its greatest security, domestically, its philosophical underpinnings.  But the bstds behind, in the shadows, still got in and started pointless wars ... slaughtered millions.  WMD, MAD.

No powerful theocrat, no Paisley, no C19th bible thumper is going to be able to reverse this steep decline now ... against the juggernaut ... and yet I see thousands of ordinary folk, mainly American, on X, calling out to soc-medders ... and yet sidetracked by denominational cults, you can tell them by their rainbows.

The change starts within ourselves. Politically, yesterday I was debating with a friend, past fellow blogger, on holding the nose and voting with the controlled opposition ... just to get rid of Labour, as if the other Uniparty branches would be any better once in power.

Descending into their clever political game ... that's going to lead us out to some sort of political nobility? Hardly ... it just changes the rosettes ... red to blue, light blue, green, yellow.

Civil war?  Who leads it?

Oh, just adding this from our DAD at Unherdables today:

UK. 20-year-old British free speech advocate and Restore Britain party operative Montgomery Toms was attacked by an angry mob during one of his public debates in Brighton, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday, 10 October.

He uploaded multiple videos of the incident to his X feed. The footage shows him being swarmed by a mob of mostly young men who tore down his tent.

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/montgomery-toms-free-speech-attacked-brighton/

Do we stand firm on our principles these days ... or do we fall for this "strategic" ... that is, morally bankrupt voting, that clever foolushness which Them wish us to eternally remain within?

Local Councils Should Refer To The Police...

...not be expected to investigate themselves.

A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested.

In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After his conviction, prosecutors described him as a “prolific sexual predator”.

But as a man, and one with an ethnic identity, he was a valuable hire for the nursery, no doubt

The Guardian can now reveal that Chan was the subject of an earlier safeguarding investigation, carried out by Bright Horizons, with the oversight of Camden council. It followed what were described as “significant concerns” raised with the nursery in 2021 about Chan’s conduct and behaviour by the parent of a young girl, including concerns about what her daughter was saying to her about Chan.

Bright Horizons referred the matter to Camden council, which advised the nursery to investigate. Chan was put on duties that involved no contact with children while the investigation by Bright Horizons took place. After it was completed, Chan was cleared to return to his role caring for young children in the nursery.

And must have thought he could get away with it - because he could, as the nursery and council were allowed to mark their own homework, in effect.

The revelation that Camden council and Bright Horizons were aware of concerns about Chan three years before his arrest, and that there had been an investigation into his behaviour, will raise questions about whether there were earlier opportunities to stop him.

Local authorities have the ultimate responsibility for managing allegations raised that relate to adults who work with children. LADOs can recommend that a matter be referred to the police if they believe it meets a criminal threshold. It is understood that the Metropolitan police did not receive a referral in 2021 regarding Chan, and were only notified of the concerns subsequently.

All allegations that suggest criminal behaviour should result in automatic referral to the people who we pay to uphold the law, and not the people we pay to empty the bins and fix the potholes. 

This goes back a long time before folic and bovaer

There’s much about on folic just now … word is getting out …

… plus IYE has the bovaer story (Arla) over at Unherdables … but if we think for one moment that that’s all it is … sorry but that’s looking increasingly naive:

Once more and more people start waking up, then the more the owners of the clowns in parliament will feel the pressure to go to their next stage. Same goes with invaders and us uprising or Eloi-ing or sleepwalking to oblivion. To my mind, the solution must be lateral, not the way they’re designing it to turn out. Our framing, not theirs.

Folic acid and bovaer free recipes ... part two ... Flour-less Rich Fruit Cake

Thanks IYE:

1 cup dried apricots roughly chopped
1/2 cup medjoul dates roughly chopped
1/2 cup dried figs roughly chopped
1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional)
1/2 cup currants
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup stoned 🤪 prunes roughly chopped

1 large orange – zest and juice
3 tablespoons coconut oil
3 large eggs, beaten
2 heaped teaspoons mixed spice
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
1/2 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
2 cups ground almonds
Pinch of salt

A generous 1/4 cup brandy 😇

20 cm loose bottom tin lined with greaseproof paper, baking parchment or whatever it is called in your neck of the woods
Oven temp 150 C or gas equivalent?
Cooking time 1 hour 15 – 1 hour 25 mins.

Method

Day before you want to bake put all the dried fruit in large bowl together with zest and juice of the orange and the brandy. Stir well, make a wish, cover with a plate or cling film and leave overnight. (No nibbling now!)

Day after, gently melt the coconut oil – don’t over heat. In another large bowl mix ground almonds, salt, spices, beaten eggs and the melted coconut oil. Mix well. Add the dried fruit and any remaining liquid ( won’t be much!) and mix thoroughly. Add the chopped nuts if using at this stage too.

Empty into prepped tin and bake. Check after 1 hr 15 – stick a skewer in the middle – should be cleanish and the cake firm.

When done leave it in the tin to cool completely then wrap in grease proof paper and then in tin foil. Keeps well for a couple of weeks.

It makes quite a dense cake. Delish served with a chunk of farmhouse cheddar and a glass of port.
Note there’s no sugar in it – sweetness comes from all the dried fruit.

Hope that all makes sense – have written it in my bestest writing. 😉

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(JH: Pic BBC Good Food guide)