If The Answer Isn't 'Seizing And Crushing Them', I Don't Want To Hear It...

 

...and no, I don't much care if they let the riders get off them first or not!

Shared ebikes have become a key part of London’s transport network. From Hounslow to Greenwich, it’s rare to step on to the street without seeing one, and they now facilitate millions of journeys every month.

Even rarer still to step onto the street and not have to jump back hastily when one whizzes past you at top speed! 

This is good news for London, which gains a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable way to get around – one that eases reliance on private car ownership.

The columnist is, of course, someone who is in the busines of promoting hire bikes, so he would say that, wouldn't he, Reader?  

But shared ebikes also draw real criticism. Poorly parked bikes make near-daily headlines, and with good reason.

There's a row of stands for these wretched things outside my office, and when I leave work, it's full, and invariably there's overspill just dumped all over the pavement. Not only does it look hideous, it's a hazard fot the blind.  

But the solution doesn’t lie in fewer bikes – it lies in answering the crucial question around parking. Other European cities have shown that, with the right infrastructure and planning, shared ebikes can be woven into existing transport systems. They’ve done it by answering one key question: where should bikes go when they’re not moving?

I think you can guess, can't you, Reader?  

Paris offers the clearest case study. The administration of the former mayor, Anne Hidalgo, didn’t just build cycle lanes; it fundamentally reconsidered how public space should be used once the pedalling stops. Her administration converted tens of thousands of on-street car parking spaces into Vélib’ docking stations (Paris’s version of Transport for London’s Santander bike scheme) and dedicated bays for bikes and shared micromobility.

And the car owners? Did they get a say in the stealing of their space, to make men like this money or were they just expected to put up with it? 

Eventual FEMA style camps going up

... to confine dissidents, with the Nightingales.

Was going to run the Dover pics of Danny Tommo’s lads but it’s a known known on many sites and opinion is interestingly down Restore lines and other small parties on one side, saying well that’s what happens when you act against your people:

… versus LibLabConGreenReform, whose spokesman “Nige” said it’s all disgusting people marching hiding their identity (making it hard for the State to track them down and incarcerate them.

So instead, I’m going with this one below with Cllr Fothergill. She mentions photos of the new concentration camps (in America … FEMA Camps) … and I confess i only have the initial two screenshots and two pics … this is not unlike them:

Maxine, take it away:

We are speaking, are we not, about an initial multiple occupancy barracks which then doubles as a FEMA type detention centre, next door to a jail.

For us. Remember Covid and Nightingale, Brit readers … the North America and the Antipodes had their own versions.

Could there be two separate issues involved in the Clancy trial?

Both issues deserving attention, but not in a "zero sum" way?

I (JH) have been puzzled about the depth of feeling on both sides of the Clancy trial … what, to me, seemed an open and shut case of murder (and there appears no doubt she did the murders, with malice aforethought) … I wonder if the case against the drugs administered to her counts.

First look at Alec Zeck’s analysis below, on X:

“These drugs don’t just fail to fix people. They mask symptoms, manufacture new ones, and in some cases push people toward harming themselves or someone else—and the industry that profits from them has spent decades making sure the general public doesn’t fully grasp how often that happens. They rip people apart psychologically and physically. They rip families apart, too.

I’m not on “team Lindsay” or “team Patrick,” and I don’t know what happened in that house. But the medication piece keeps getting drowned out by true crime theorizing.

In the 4 months before the killings, Clancy was pumped through 13 different psychiatric medications, with over 30 total prescriptions as doses got yanked up, down, and swapped, by multiple providers who never once compared notes with each other.

The publicly available data backs this up, and they’re not “fringe” in any sense:

The FDA’s own 2006 review of 372 antidepressant trials (nearly 100,000 people) found a 2.3x jump in suicidality risk for patients under 25. That’s why every antidepressant in America now carries a black box warning.

A 2015 Swedish national study found SSRI users aged 15-24 were convicted of violent crimes at more than 5x the rate of non users (3.3% vs 0.6%). Sertraline in particular stood out among the top-prescribed SSRIs.

Roughly 1 in 4 American women is currently on some form of psychiatric medication, per the CDC’s own newest data, nearly double the rate for men. This isn’t a fringe issue at all. It’s mainstream medicine, quietly, on a massive scale.

And the problems with rapid switching or cold stopping these drugs, exactly what happened to Clancy, isn’t a fringe theory:

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is very real and can, at a minimum, trigger brain zaps, insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation within days of stopping.

Benzodiazepine withdrawal is one of the most dangerous withdrawal syndromes in all of medicine, capable of triggering, at a minimum, rebound psychosis, seizures, and severe agitation. I watched that happen to my own mother.

Cross tapering (stopping one drug abruptly while starting another) can stack withdrawal from the first on top of side effects from the second, leaving a person destabilized from both directions at once.

According to the medical system’s own ideas, psychiatric medications typically take 4-6 weeks just to reach full effect, and many require slow, deliberate tapering over weeks specifically to avoid destabilizing the nervous system.

Going through 13 drugs in that same window means many of them never had time to even show whether they were “working” (which is a loaded, problematic idea, in and of itself…) before being swapped again.

13 different medications in 4 months is not normal, cautious psychiatric care, or at least it shouldn’t be. But it probably is relatively normal. And that’s the problem: it’s pure pharmacological, psychological chaos, and nobody bats an eye because this is just how the system runs…”

And then look at who he is:

'The Guardian', Able To Find A Cloud In Every Silver Lining..

In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition

Has it? I'm writing this on a Bank Holday weekend that seems remarkably unchanged to me. Laundry to do (weather permitting), and blogging, and catching up on reading and tv watching.

A world without weekends feels impossible. A world without Saturday Night Fever, without Manic Monday. We may no longer go to church on Sunday, but we still worship the weekend. “The weekend looms large because it represents the triumph of collective time over market time,” says Brad Beaven, professor of social and cultural history at the University of Portsmouth. “It is not just about rest, but about reclaiming autonomy from the industrial clock.”

Amen!  

Everyone knows what a weekend means. The snap of a laptop cover at 4.58pm on a Friday. The clink of the first pint glass and the smell of chips on the way home. The slow-motion pace of a weekend pavement, the gear change from hustle to meander.

But it can be hard to pin down, these days, where a weekend begins and ends. Laundry gets done on a work-from-home Friday, but emails are answered on Sunday.

Only in the summer. Coming into Autumn, I can't see much laundry getting done unless you don't hang out your washing and I like to work in the office Friday because it's quiet an you can get more done.

It raises the question: what even is “the weekend” in 2026?

It's Saturday and Sunday, same as it's always been. If you lack the willpower not to look at work emails when you're off the clock (assuming you aren't paid to do so) then I can assure you, you're a mug!

These days, the upstairs-downstairs division is between the hybrid workers and those whose work can never be done remotely. An age-old division between shift work and the relative flexibility of white-collar jobs has deepened.

In 2024, Transport for London ran a three-month trial scrapping peak fares on Fridays explicitly in order to lure commuters back into central London. It failed, Fridays remaining quiet, despite the discount.

Good! Long may it remain so!  

The Green party supports a “move towards” a four-day week, but other politicians are wary.

The Greens are lunatics, and no-one is listening to what they want. 

Perhaps we shouldn’t fret so much.

This is the 'Guardian', and fretting seems to be its USP... 

The Soviets discovered that a day off is not much use unless other people are off, too; Ford understood that workers needed time in which to become themselves again, even if he hoped they would spend it buying cars. At 100, the two-day weekend is fraying at the edges, leaking into Friday and nibbled away by Sunday night emails. The weekend will keep changing, because work keeps changing. But it will still always be the best thing work ever invented.

Amen, and long may it continue. 

Mendacious malice aforethought

… or in other words … planned destruction of westerners. There are destructive policies in general, e.g. wind farms, solar fields, EVs with spy tech … then there are the policies designed to hit individuals … those forcing it downwards in the organisation never suffering it themselves … it’s the lower level disciples or blackmailed who carry it out upon western humans …

Jamie Oliver Must Have A New TV Show Or Book Out...

Why do you say that, Ambush? 

Three-quarters of secondary schools in England are breaking the rules on food offered to pupils by serving chips, burgers and hash browns too often – and sweets and crisps at breakfast time, according to a report. “Shocking” breaches of school food standards have been exposed on Monday, in a new analysis of the food provided at almost 400 state secondaries undertaken by Bite Back, a food charity set up by the chef Jamie Oliver.

Yup, Bound to want some publicity for something... 🙄

Three out of four menus it analysed at 391 state secondary schools in England contained at least one breach of the standards. Most involved schools offering unhealthy foods more often than is allowed. At 206 schools (53%), products high in fat, sugar or salt that are meant to be banned altogether – such as crisps, Oreos, Mini Cheddars, chocolate bars and pastries – were being offered to pupils to buy as snacks, including at breakfast time and at lunchtime.

The horror! Children allowed to buy sweets! Whatever next? 

“These findings are very alarming and expose a system that is fundamentally failing our children,” said Williams. “It is shocking to find crisps and chocolate being pushed at breakfast time or processed meats like sausage rolls and bacon baps being served far more frequently than the rules allow. 

In most schools in inner-city Britain in 2026, there won't actually be a lot of takers for pork and bacon... 

“Young people have been telling us for years that their school food is ‘beige, bland and boring’ and now we have more evidence that they are being surrounded by unhealthy food throughout the school day. 

If they are telling you one thing amd doing another, you've been had! 

“Schools should be a sanctuary for health and learning, yet the current postcode lottery of food quality is undermining that mission.”

Shame - go find something else to do. Something worthwhile, rather than free publicity for a multi millionaire.

Notting Hill Filth Fest report

There’s an interesting Libertarian question here. Some of us, you see, are more classical liberal, meaning that there’s such a thing as integrity, decency, normal limits, society’s trad underpinnings … so not, for example, murder of full term babies for their parts, rape of underage girls by gangs et al. There were, long ago in the west, some sort of at least lip service limits.

The “middling” Libertarian is more liberal … do all the above but “find a room”, don’t inflict your paedo rape on us … we don’t wish to know, what we can’t see can’t hurt us..

Then there is the sort of “Libertarian” we saw at the Filth Fest … anything at all with any age, any sex, any race, any species, Modern Plod too … from debauchery to rape to slaughter … you can force anything you want on anyone you want to hurt. I have a different word for that … Licentiousness. Sodom and Gomorrah. Moloch.

Which historic events do we finally cease to commemorate?

 Beslan commemorated

One year ago, I asked the question … for how long do we commemorate? Hastings, Agincourt? Trafalgar? Custer’s last stand? The Light Brigade? Armistice Day? D Day? ANZAC Day?

Beslan?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege#/media/File%3AKrest_v_zale_shkoly_Beslana.JPG

The Message Isn't Getting Through...

...because local experienced reality keeps interfering:

The public overestimate how many minority ethnic people are killers, as well as how many foreign national offenders there are, a new study has found.

Well, well, well.... 

The research from King’s College London tested knowledge and perceptions of crime at a time when radical right parties are trying to link offending to ethnicity and nationality to gain votes. YouGov’s survey of 1,800 people in England and Wales found that people thought 55% of convicted killers were from an ethnic minority, when the real percentage is 35%. They also thought just 45% of homicides were committed by white people, when the real figure is 64%.

And this is treated as a great revelation instead of asking 'then if we already have murderers and rapists in the population, why would we want to import more?' 

The academics who conducted the survey said feelings about levels of crime and who was to blame were a reflection of people’s emotions, rather than the facts.

Academics who, I suspect, don't - and wouldn't - live in the areas blighted by diversity. 

Prof Bobby Duffy, of King’s College, said: “There are two buckets of explanations for our misperceptions: how we think and what we’re told. 

“On the former, it’s vital to recognise that misperceptions are partly driven by what we’re worried about. Cause and effect run in both directions, where we inflate the scale of an issue if it’s something we’re concerned about. 

And we are rightly concerned about the importation of hordes of Third Worlders who we know nothing about.

“Reform supporters’ higher concern about immigration and diversity … will mean they’re more likely to give attention and weight to things they see that fit with that view, including crimes being committed by those groups. 

“On what we’re told, they’re also more likely to be seeing media, social media and political communications that emphasise those examples.”

Ah, yes, just as 'global warming' is behind every spell of bad weather, or even good weather, so social media is the bogeyman lurking behind the curtain in every area the Left wishes us to forget about.

Duffy also highlighted that respondents’ views coincided more with people their own age rather than their own ethnicity. “For example, gen Z puts the white share of homicide convictions at 58%, whereas baby boomers put it at 35%. But white and non-white respondents give almost identical answers,” he said.

Heh! Hardly surprising when they are the victims of crime as often as not. 

Duffy said: “Our misperceptions are more of a general emotional reaction than careful study of the facts – we’re sending messages about what’s worrying us.”

Ineed we are - so start listening! Because if you don't, then as the song goes 'There maybe trouble ahead...' 

Personal independence

My question about this might not be the one you'd expect.

Yes, of course I agree with the general thrust of the item but I have another question … and our oldest member across the way might like to answer it … what’s an 89 year old man (trudging, walking stick) doing driving in today’s nightmare conditions? Not only this:

… but also the danger to girls and the elderly out there, even with spray or walking stick … they attack in packs, the cowards, inc. the new feral yoof. Plus we do start slowing down … fine at our own pace but that’s not the pace that lot are going at in their manic digital world.

Plus one does NOT wish to see the inside of a hospital or care home … you all know why.

On the other hand, independence, freedom, which is the core reason for Orphans (the site) to exist by the way, is fiercely protected as Them move to remove it … I for one can understand that.