The countryside is for our people ... plus their dogs

There's Wokery plus its nasty, loony, Fabian narrative, yes ... and then there is Globo-psycho-devilry ... the latter I don't post against here, preferring to address it at UHC where readers have been following the occasional snippets getting out, over a period nearing two decades. With the Epstein flood in the past few days, finally people can see we were not quite the whack jobs we were dismissed as.

The source of both the Wokery and anti-human devilry is the same ... and it does come from high up, as the Queen made reference to.  This post is about the latest Wokery. If I could have written it better than Jim C, I would have but as he did a fine job, then here it is below, followed by Lucy Connolly.

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Comments thread

Each of the sites your humble blogger writes at has its own system of commenting … half a decade ago, I understood that a “forum” is not the way to get any for’arder in increasing knowledge for various reasons.

One is the ideological idiocy of half the population, as exemplified in Minneapolis of late but there’s an added second factor … trolling, paid or unpaid. It’s designed to get in the way, to obstruct learning.

Plus there’s my own mindset … I’m there to learn, not to lecture. Yes, as one of our bloggers here, I have to choose topics … many suggest themselves, so do readers … but it’s my job to dig a bit, find out, present. Ditto with Julia and Grandpa.

I then rely on readers, e.g. Mark Matis, James Wilson (at another site), to add to the story, maybe even put an angle I might not have seen. The model is not “adversarial camps”, as in assemblies and in academia, but more that we’re in a room with a table … and on that table we put what we’ve found.

Readers then can decide for themselves which make sense now, which later, which never at all. The thing which will destroy that meeting of minds is someone with an agenda, e.g. the Wokerati, the Fabian, the chip on the shoulder Hostile.

Therefore, at our other sites, Wokery and Globopsychosis do not find a platform. Any new commenter is welcome to add sane takes on what’s happening but if he/she is clearly a woke nutter … bye bye.

Even within our own “80% in the same direction folk”, there is that 20% which two people will disagree on. For example, this morning, on X, there’s a raped girl from grooming gang days who does not like Rupert Lowe as a leader … maybe as he’s a strong, “toxic male”, who knows?

Thing is, reader … it’s going to happen, innit? There’s no way to make everything idyllic but there are some moves, as mentioned above, which at least make commenting and replying possible.

Another Case Where Mental Health Services Have Failed Everyone...

Jala Debella, 24, attacked medical secretary Anita Mukhey, 66, in front of shocked passers-by in north London at about 11.50am on May 9 2024. He stabbed her 18 times before he 'casually' walked away while people rushed to help the victim.

Why did no-one rush to apprehend the suspect? Because once again it was a young, fit armed black man who targetted the defenceless elderly woman. Funny how they are never too mad to not pick easy prey, isn't it?

Ms Mukhey's husband Hari criticised the NHS handling of Debella, who was not considered to pose a risk to the community.

By which the staff in charge meant 'not a threat to our probably-gated community in a nice area of London' no doubt. 

At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Debella was sentenced to a hospital order under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act and a restriction order under Section 41 – meaning he can be detained indefinitely.

Or until some other trick cyclist declares him 'cured' and the Home Office fails to deport him back to whichever third world shithole he truly belongs in... 

Addressing his remarks to an empty dock as Debella was not in court, Judge Philip Katz KC said: 'Anita Mukhey was the heart of the family. She was a wife, mother and grandmother, aged 66 when she was stabbed to death by a complete stranger on a busy main road in north London.'

As always, a stranger with a lengthy criminal history: 

Dr Melanie Higgins, Debella's medical consultant, confirmed he had been detained under the Mental Health Act on at least three occasions before he attacked Ms Mukhey. She said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and arrangements had been made for his continued admission at Ashworth High Secure Hospital in Merseyside.

Too little, too late. As always.  

Three lists which may or may not be of interest

This was from a Jacqui Devoy post on Jung. Neither Freud nor Jung are on my faves list, neither is Piaget nor Bloom ... but Jung at least makes sense below in listing traits of people who have suffered much over a long period of time. I don't mean half the newly invented conditions labelled to permit lingering and hypochondria but more where there is real trauma, as in shellshocked veterans.

Moving on ... not pushing this as a checklist, just mentioning it in passing, by all means argue with it:

And lastly, an old list on our process of learning over time ... a journey we're all very much on in the west:

Odds on that things will start going astray

Greetings all. This post is also at UHC, on substack and linked on X.

There’s most certainly mischief afoot online

… which was always odds on. The two latest in my sphere are Toodles and Moosh. Toodles attempted to write a reply to Steve, about family and friends I presume … just disappeared it did. Sometimes it can be intended by the good side, not just the mischievous techie goblins, elves and gremlins. Thing is, it could be absolutely anything, from the provider to the platform to the device to the person using it … we’re all of us under the hammer right now.

There are some golden rules. One is not to click on anything which just appears, however innocuous it seems … I was nearly tricked last night into installing something here. I suppose I’m mid tech savvy, very much front end, knowing some things about backend … knowing what not to touch is one step on that journey.

Looking at Moosh … a new account just appeared, using her images but I’m not sure it’s her, there was no indication from her own site, plus she has enemies, as many of us do. I’ll check that out a bit later. Latest for me is one of Elon’s developers, so he says.

I found this too … interesting, suspected as much:

Combining something my techie mate said about the evolution of devices … with a Happy Days observation about “jumping the shark” … the driving force behind any new “thang” is the creator, the innovator, those about him too, decades ago.

Gradually, it becomes apparent that nothing much has really changed … and why should it? Why fix that which ain’t broke? But the tech company mindset is “change for change’s sake”, staying “relevant”, unlike MTV, also a payroll of developers, all wishing to show off, earning brownie points.

So, inevitably, lesser techies are in there and the company fears losing market share. It becomes about profit … just that. Meanwhile, technically, they just have to “jump the shark”. It’s not unlike the imperative an addict feels.

Back to these two ladies … yes, easy meat for those wishing to stop them. Plus Roob, and to an extent Julia. Me? Semi-easy meat, obviously there are ways around me too. Having access to backenders does alter the equation, plus a cautious mindset helps, learnt over time. Plus a partly detached attitude, realising that anything potentially worthwhile will always bring out the stoppers.

Tomorrow’s post at OoL will be about something which was on X about health … thought it might be of interest. Have a good weekend, chaps and chapesses.

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To all our readers ... Moosh has been hacked ... please instead use the attached handle for her and operate from there, ok?

He Wasn't 'Left To Fall Through Every Crack' - The System Built The Cracks And Pushed Him Through Them

When Leigh White remembers her brother Ryan, she thinks of a boy of extraordinary ability who “won five scholarships at 11” including a coveted place at Bancroft’s, a private school in London. He was, she said, “super bright, witty, personable, generous and kind”. Ryan killed himself on 12 May 2024. A report written after his death acknowledged significant shortcomings in the support he received while seeking help for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Like many people the Guardian spoke to, he followed the “right to choose” pathway, whereby patients can pick a private provider anywhere in England for assessment, diagnosis and initial treatment. They then ask their GP to enter a shared-care agreement for prescriptions and monitoring.

Sounds great, right? It isn't of course. 

However, Ryan struggled to get the two services to link up.The problem lies in the fact that shared care is voluntary and not all GPs agree to it.

Once again, these overpaid bureacrats are the sand in the gears. Because they don't agree with the policy, presumably. 

Some patients told the Guardian their doctor had rejected their private diagnosis on the grounds that it did not meet their standards.

And no, it's - for once - not down to money. 

This was even after the NHS had paid for it – and despite there being no official rules for private providers to follow.

*sighs* 

...he was referred by his GP for an ADHD assessment with Psychiatry UK, a private provider, in September 2022. It took five months for him to be assessed and diagnosed, but because of his bipolar history a community mental health review was needed before medication could begin. “Nobody chased anything, or took responsibility,” Leigh said.

Welvome to the NHS - in fact, welcome to every government run service in the world, it seems. 

He was deregistered by his GP practice after he expressed frustration at the delay in getting him help.

And because they can and will do this to those who complain without suffering any consequence, it will never improve. 

Right to choose was “poorly regulated, poorly managed and some people are making lots of money out of it”, Adamou said, adding: “If you don’t have regulation for that you are inviting a wild west.”

Regulation isn't going to solve this - consequences for failure will. 

D.N.A.C.P.R.

The acronym above stands for Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation

It is indeed strange how circumstances so remote as to virtually be impossible come together in life. I commenced watching ‘Everwood’ on Netflix, and posted upon X (twitter) about being gripped by a gentle drama. And then, the one thing which had impacted my life so appallingly, came on in that drama without any warning whatsoever.

If I can explain. Readers may remember that I wrote of my wife’s hospital treatment and death. My wife of some 53 years of marriage was stricken with schizophrenia many years ago. You don’t “get over” a mental illness, you treat it with medication, with love and with understanding. I had to have my beloved committed to a Mental Hospital in Cape Town, and then had to figure out how to look after two very small boys and a six-month old daughter. It wasn’t easy, but we got through it together, and after a time in hospital, my love was returned to my care.

For many years, she was almost back to normal, but about fifteen years ago, she commenced a slow decline, ending up Bed- or Wheelchair-bound, and quite frail. She fell from her bedside, fracturing her hip, and, after a stay in the hospital’s A&E for X-rays and diagnosis, I was told that she had fractured her hip and needed an operation the next day. I was contacted by the hospital, and told that my wife had come through the operation successfully, had a drink of tea, and was resting. I was called in the evening, and bluntly told that my wife had suffered a heart attack, and was dead.

I was literally grief-stricken at the loss of my Jacqueline, but I ploughed on with all the digital ephemera which surrounds a family death, concentrating to clear everything away, inclusive of arranging a cremation, and after about four-odd weeks, I was almost back to normal. The Coroner had to be involved, because Jacqueline’s death was unexpected, and, during the conversation with the Coroner’s Clerk, I was offered a full copy of the hospital’s documentation concerning my wife’s treatment and death.

It was then I discovered that a Committee of Vultures, masquerading as Hospital Consultants, had reviewed my wife’s file, physical and mental states, and decided that, in the event of a heart attack, she was to be denied resuscitation: and so a DNACPR note was laid upon my wife’s bedside notes. To say that I, with all that grief suddenly resurrected, was almost beside myself with anger is, perhaps, an understatement. I tried all avenues to get some form of contrition from the hospital; but after many weeks, I had to be satisfied with making a video on the hospital’s channel, and letters of condolence which were VERY carefully worded. 

So, as I stated at the beginning of this polemic, I was binge-watching Everwood on Netflix, and, in this episode; the storyline was discussing how cast members were greeting the news of the sudden death of a young man who had been revived after a catastrophic accident. The doctor/surgeon who had treated the young man was reviewing his own notes, and suddenly, a page appeared which was a signed DNACPR document: but signed by the patient himself. He stated that he did not wish to live the half-life which he had inherited after the accident.

I accept that just about all television is scripted, laced with propaganda of one sort or another, and carefully directed, including most news channels, but I do believe that the wider public should be aware that, certainly in GB&NI, those Consultants who are supposed to carefully review the files of all patients who are to undergo surgical intervention have, indeed, the very power of LIFE AND/OR DEATH within that carefully worded documentation. The patient, and any family members, are not normally advised when the DNAR is signed.

Doesn't Sound As If It's Working

...you seem pretty loony still.

I need retail therapy, because Veganuary has become quite muted and that’s part of a wider inflection point in vegan eating that I’m sad about. “Where have all the vegans gone?” Dazed asked in November (Ed: Admit it Reader, you sang that in your head, didn't you?), and now New York Magazine has investigated, with the tagline: “Plant-based eating was supposed to be the future. Then meat came roaring back.” It details a wave of vegan restaurant closures (plus the high-profile reverse ferret performed by formerly vegan Michelin-three-starred Eleven Madison Park to serving “animal products for certain dishes”), declining sales of meat substitutes and a stubbornly static percentage of people identifying as vegan (around 1%). It’s not new (rumours of veganism’s demise have been swirling around since at least 2024) and it’s not just a US phenomenon; many UK vegan restaurants have closed this year, including my lovely local.

The world is healing! What could possibly account for this? It can't just be people coming to their senses and rejecting a fad, can it?

What’s going on? For a start, the Trump 2.0 “roaring” meat revival. As the New York Times reported last year, meat sales are up and fewer Americans are interested in curbing their intake. That movement feels partly provocative – an in-your-face rejection of woke orthodoxies around cutting your carbon footprint, consuming mindfully, or, generally, caring.

Yes,  Emma, Chad and Martha from Stallion's Tackle, Arkansas aren't chowing down on a juicy steak at their local diner because they want to, they are doing it purely to stick a thumb in the eye of progressive loons like you. They'd rather be having a mushroom cassarolr instead.

Is there some pychiatric term for people who think this way? 

Oh, yes - narcissists.

I wonder, though, if other things are happening. I’m concerned that we have reached the “shrug and give up” stage of trying to combat climate breakdown and that’s also why fewer people are vegan. People are starting to think it’s too late, so why bother – they might as well be hung for a lamb chop. Plus, on climate, there’s a good argument that what individuals can achieve is exceptionally limited and that making us feel responsible is a cynical trick. Why am I diligently washing out coconut kefir bottles to recycle, when half the world’s climate-heating emissions come from the products of 36 fossil fuel companies?

And that big glowing ball in the sky? You don't think that might have a bigger effect on our planet's temperature and climate? 

More broadly, I don’t think I’ll surprise anyone by venturing that the world feels tremendously, terrifyingly bad right now. People need the odd little treat to face – and keep facing – the horrors. Is it so wrong, relatively speaking, to carpe diem and butter yourself a crumpet now and then? Of course not. All I can say to that, really, is if you’re interested in feeling good – and who isn’t? – it feels good to actually do something. My veganism is basically self-interest, by which I mean, I do it for my health: not physical, but mental.

It doesn't seem to be working, so maybe you should try a beefburger, Emma. 

What are UK supermarkets like now to visit?

It was either the current Reform v Advance war today or this piece on supermarkets. I'm a bit out of it myself, getting deliveries these days rather than hitting the aisles at these barns ... yet I assume the stock is the same, only at hyperinflated prices for delivery.

So really, it's in your hands as to the veracity of what he says, remembering he's a dour Yorkshireman.

Thoughts on the Digital ID approved on Thursday in the Lords

In the light of the Lords' approval of this egregious bill:

... I added this below the birthday wishes to our fair lady:

"Fri 06:18: Housekeeping note: Julia has a post up here at 9 a.m. today.  We also need to make a statement on the Lords' passing of the Digital ID bill yesterday.  Tricky timing as Julia won't be around. I plan to make a statement tomorrow morning, Saturday, for readers, say at 7 a.m. and if I put it in scheduled today, say by our 7 a.m. or so, she'll be able to read it from our dashboard and either DM me or else go direct to my post and alter what needs altering. So that's coming up, readers."

The issue as far as any online adult in Britain goes:

Virtually every pundit who is onto the issue has come out against it ... not because we don't care about children but because it's been directly shackled to policing US adults ... that's its main purpose, its main goal being to shut down dissent, to police what we speak out on.

Or going further ... the idea is also to sow division, dissonance and rancour between partners, allies, fellow onliners ... here's an example:

There's a lady on X, Sandy Tregent, we mutually follow, she and I mutually repost, e.g. on this:

We're onside on most issues.  However, she's super-keen on Farage and Reform and right down on Rupert and Ben. I'm for Reform rank and file but right down on Farage and the gang of three.

And there's the dilemma. We can be onside on 8 out of 10 issues but disagree on the last two.  Which do our foes direct all their energy to? Of course ... anything to split us and get this rancour going.

At her site, Lady Julia makes plain she does not police Anon comments but does have another method. At Unherdables, there's a quite workable system of at least adding a moniker to your comment.  Your own invented moniker.

That works fine in both cases. However, at a site such as Orphans, you can see the issue.

We here also allow Anon but I add that you need to call yourself something somewhere in the text.  There's a reason ... I'm the one getting the threatening letters from the platform and one of the stipulations is no anonymity. Fine ... if you self-identify with something you invent, we've complied.

However:

Following the Lords' vote, that is no longer enough at ANY site. They will push for govt issued "licencing" of our right to speak online.  I can't speak for Julia but I flatly refuse to comply.  That might lead to banning from any online commenting. So be it.

Remember, I'm only speaking for myself there.  And of course, there are ways around it, whilst still technically complying.  All that is future days at this stage.

At the same stage, we've been threatened with removal at Orphans. Julia at her place hasn't, I at Unherdables haven't but "we" at Orphans have. They do NOT like voices combining.

And that, readers, is where we are this Saturday morning.

And Paying Customers Are Saying 'No Thanks', I'll Go See Avatar3 Instead!'

Now that the political scene in the contemporary United States looks like an unending string of military PR coups for the Trumpian right at home and abroad, it’s appropriate that Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, mysterious counterculture epic One Battle After Another – with Leonardo DiCaprio as a clueless, dishevelled ex-revolutionary – should consolidate its current position as one of the leading movies of this awards season: winning four Globes including best musical or comedy and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson – whose fluency, productivity and pure technique and ambition are arguably making him America’s pre-eminent film-maker. 

And all those accolades mean nothing, if the potential audience says 'Yawn! Not another progressive wish-fulfillment snoozefest!'  and goes to see something more worthy instead.