You can advise a MORON against anything harmful, but don't expect that MORON to listen

 

Yet another story of idiots who either can’t read, won’t read, think that they know best; or simply ignore well-proven Foreign Office advice which plainly says, “Don’t Go To Iran”.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman are low-quality morons who are ‘world travellers’ on their motor bikes.

They arrive at Iran’s borders, think they know best, and drive in. Get arrested, mainly because they are British, and land up with a ten year sentence for spying.

Now’ I ask you, “What the Fuck did they expect?” Many things our Foreign Office is guilty of, but when the advice is “Foreign Office advises against all travel to Iran, If you are a British national already in Iran, either resident or visitor, carefully consider your presence there and the risks you take by staying.” you simply wipe that particular well-known heap of Muslim Shit off of your journey’s itinerary.

But no, the pair of idiots present themselves as the next set of targets for the Iranian Guards, and now rest in Ervin Prison for ten years, or until the Iranians get tired of their weeping and wailing, and kick the stupid bastards out, just as they did with that other moron, Nazanin Ratcliffe; yes that the one, she went for a HOLIDAY with her parents in TEHRAN.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/jail-sentence-iran-british-couple-lindsay-craig-foreman-totally-unjustifiable-says-foreign-secretary

Two Tier Orwell strikes again

While we online were following the bunfight between Sharia Reform and the burgeoning Restore ...  behind the scenes, the gummint was continuing it's Online Draconian amendments.  Will Jones at The Daily Sceptic has:

Even more censorship is on the way. The Government has announced plans to force AI chatbots to comply with malicious communications laws – and to give itself Orwellian powers to bring in yet more speech restrictions without Parliamentary oversight. Toby writes about the moves in the Telegraph.

The Government intends to bring forward amendments of its own to the schools Bill that will supposedly close a loophole in the Online Safety Act to make sure AI chatbots comply with Britain’s draconian censorship laws. That will mean that if Grok says something in response to a user prompt that breaches, say, the Malicious Communications Act 1988, which was designed to protect women from obscene phone calls, Ofcom can fine its parent company £18 million or 10% of its annual global turnover. Whichever is the highest.

Amelia, poor dear, is obviously looking at this askance but can't see how the wooden Beloved Leader is going to enforce this in the US.  And as for the "ban" on VPNs ... yeah?  How?

The Usual Suspects...

Campaigners are urging ministers to change the law so that music lyrics are inadmissible in court...

Whut?  

....a shift that they say would stop a practice that disproportionately affects young black men and criminalises creativity.

Oh. Of course. Here we go again... 

At present, police can produce lyrics written by defendants, and even flag an appearance in the background of a music video, as evidence that a suspect is affiliated with a gang or involved in criminality. Campaign groups want a change to the victims and courts bill, which is currently making its way through parliament, to stop police from being able to present lyrics as evidence except when they are “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”.

So you can't be done for singing about shooting the sheriff unless you actually do plan to shoot the sheriff... How riduculous, what sort of morons are supporting this leniency for undoubtedly dangerous criminals? 

The amendment, which is being tabled by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and has support from Baroness Doreen Lawrence, is due to be debated in the Lords this week.

Oh.Say no more... 

Charkrabarti told the Guardian: “We’re in a ridiculous position at present where somebody’s musical taste is somehow probative of their criminal intent. It is like saying that my love of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather makes me a mobster. It’s extraordinary.”

 Strange how it alway turns out to be accurate, though...

She is hopeful the amendment will be supported by the deputy prime minister, David Lammy.

Oh, god. The cavalcade of calamity continues.

The Clean Monday bunfight at the X corral

There's an issue in running this at Orphans because it includes a street interview with residents of Greater Yarmouth on X, which does not embed on Blgr, so I must run that part at Unherdables HQ. In a similar way, substack won't run youtubes but WordPress will.  Things become quite piecemeal. Also, Blgr does not like Elbmur.  Starmer and his bosses hate all of it and want it all shut down.

Below are a few excerpts from the X corral bunfight last night ... I'll address them below the sshots.

The Reform line is that they were solely responsible for the huge victory in Starmer's u turn on local elections but others said it was the entry of Restore and its 60,000 members which made the Starmer SpAds rethink, plus Whitehall wonks.

Reform are also highly p***ed that Restore might "split" the vote. That won't happen though in Gorton and Denton, where it's Advance, but might in May. So it's a volatile mix this Shrove Tuesday.

There is so much accusation by naive normies about the "racism" of Reform, whereas they point out, for example, the Rivkin Project:

It's at Last Refuge, blogger Sundance, link is in my blogrolls.  There is woeful ignorance among the normies ... not their fault if they're primarily from the southern, MSM following bubble, the core of Reform but they're rabbiting on about this "racism" thing, cushioned from reality, when what Britain is certainly in right now is Dar al Harb:

What do you think the stabbings and rapings are? What do you think the megamosque in the Lake District is?  The mass praying in the street?  The likely scenario is this:

Reform might take Gorton and Denton ... the deep state plant Goodwin ... but by May, no party will have large enough numbers so it becomes a jumble sale.  Reform are on about easily taking May ... yes, but what to what end? To hand Britain to Yusuf and the Z man of course. Farage has repeatedly intimated that he is keeping the seat warm.

But You're Not Like Them, Are You?

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, whose parents migrated to the UK from Pakistan, is facing the suggestion from a veteran Labour peer that she is “pulling up the drawbridge once inside” when considering the plight of refugee children trapped abroad.

A veteran Labour peer? Who could this be?  

Alf Dubs, who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, said the home secretary and other ministers had “kowtowed” to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK by preventing unaccompanied children from seeking refuge with UK-based family members.

Ah. I never paid much attention to the 'replacement theory' conspiraloons that aregue that that the Jews were behind mass immigration to the West, but really, how can I ignore it much longer? 

Ministers have rejected attempts by Dubs and refugee charities to make it easier for children seeking asylum from abroad to apply to join family in the UK. Mahmood has said that more safe and legal routes will be opened for refugees once order and control has been restored to the UK’s borders.

But that's clearly not fast enough a plan for social destruction for this ingrate who the UK saved from death and made a peer of the realm. At least he was a genuine refugee whose life was in danger, and not simply an economic miragnt like most of the dhingy people. Can he really not see the difference? 

In an interview with the Guardian, Dubs, who also served as MP for Battersea and as Northern Ireland minister during the Good Friday negotiations, said he was not surprised that home secretaries who were the children of migrants, such as Mahmood, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly, had become hardline home secretaries.“Some people believe you pull up the drawbridge once you get inside. Politics is a tough old business. Some may want to demonstrate that they’re not going to just do things because of their background,” he said.

Maybe take that advice yourself, Alf?  

Dubs, 93, was transported to the UK through the Kindertransport train, which he subsequently discovered had been organised by the Berlin-based stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton. A Labour party member for more than 50 years, Dubs accused Starmer’s government of using asylum like a “political football” while courting voters on the right of the Conservative party and Reform.

I can't think of anything more likely to open the gates to a future Reform government than insisting we can take more fake 'refugees', given what some of them have done once they got their feet under the table. I suppose you have heard of Deng Chol Majek, Ahmed Alid, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, and Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, Alf?

“I would like to see the government accept in principle that children who are abroad – asylum-seeking children who have got relatives with settled status here – should be allowed to join them. Not all claimants, but at least some of them. 

“I think we can show that we are not just kowtowing to Reform, as we have appeared to be, and we can show that we are moving in a different direction and can persuade the public to come with us.”

If you truly think that, you are more deluded than Kwier Smarmer himself, Alf. 

TR is better off out of it for now

An interesting one from downunder ... an exSpectator Oz online host, with quite a following:

Tell us about it. My feeling is that TR's better off outside the UK just now, not just for his personal safety but also because he can't then be used for groups' agendas, he ceases to be a major factor.

Valentine's Day

For our Julia, Grandpa and our readers.

This sshot text will soon go up on X, it's already up at UHC.

Rubbish disposal, flytipping and "modern" life

... not to mention potholes.

I was going to look at Rupert Lowe turning Restore into a party and how that affects Advance and Reform but, frankly, I've not yet thought it through, nor an article for X on Valentine's Day and ladies I know.

So let's open with getting rid of personal rubbish plus excreting in the street ... which is related to the new Restore Party.  This was at the Daily Sceptic today:

"One Times journalist described last year how he encountered an Iranian incomer smoking a cigarette. When he had finished, the Iranian then approached a nearby red postal pillar-box, famous in Britain but evidently not in the Middle East, and innocently attempted to use it as a giant municipal metal ash-tray by discarding his smouldering smokes through the letter-slit. Up in flames go all the postal orders, cheque-payments and birthday cards."

Which brings in the issue of hordes waiting to attack us, given the word, plus the baby-eating elite trying to shorten our lives through chemically poisoned food and skies, plus Milliband's, Fink's and Gates' destruction of arable land.

With all that, plus a review of supermarket bread I have here, plus ageing, we then get into Valentine's Day today and different traditions in different western countries ... but that's straying into X territory now.

Looking at all that above and below in this post, plus our wonderful healthcare, we're seriously looking at mental health ... our own.  I was always eccentric from roaming the planet and finding solutions on the fly, but what about the normies ... our maiden aunt or clerk in an office with his/her MSM-focussed "reality"?  Football lovers, reality shows, gaming?

I'd say finding local butchers and bakers is one aspect, keeping moving and plenty of filtered and boiled water in whatever presentations, plus friends ... always friends.

There are also belief systems but I'll not go into the one which delivers calm. So let's get back to fly tipping and local tips in general ... the difficulties and the westwide phenomenon of primarily leftist local govt ceasing to remove rubbish, making public sanitation a thing of the past, as in blue cities in America.  Let alone Lauranorder.

It comes back again, does it not, to our own physical health plus mental health?  Maybe we could ask Amelia her advice.

It’s A Note Of Warning No-One Needs

For those looking to divide and exclude, ham is still a weapon of choice, half a millennium later.

So says Abbas Asaria, a food writer and chef based in Madrid. But isn't Spsain rightly famous for its cured pork products?

I’m not sure how widely understood the Inquisition’s legacy on the Spanish diet is, but seeing history repeat itself is a sign that the past has not been fully reckoned with. So while I’m not here to stop anyone from enjoying their favourite foods or traditions, I’d like to sound a note of warning. Jamón eating is once again being weaponised online as a means of social exclusion among the young Spanish far right against those from Muslim and north African backgrounds.

OH NOES! The vast right-wing conspiracy has discovered 'food racism'! Weaponising cultural diets!  

Last November, a content creator made national news when he shared AI-generated viral posts showing shirts and phone cases made from jamón. The posts even featured a superhero called Ham-Man, who would, he said, protect people from being mugged by illegal immigrants of “Maghrebi and north African origin”. And it risks becoming a wider trend.

Well, good luck expecting the Spanish people to go along with the banning of pork products just to please the Mohammedans and their useful idiots like you, Abbas! 

Even before Ham-Man, the comment sections beneath Spanish news articles and videos about crimes committed by young, racialised men elicited dog-whistle phrases such as “¿come jamón?” (does he eat ham?). This meme has been popular for a number of years among the Spanish far right as a way to persecute Muslim immigrants.

Sounds to me as if it’s persecuting Muslim criminals. And who wouldn’t want to see more of that? 

The Wall

Just did a quick check ... 23 topics ready to go, which to run here today, at Orphans?  For example, there's our X colleague Deryl:

... or maybe Ed "Post Office" Davey and henchpersons:

There's just so much of it about to comment on ... but I thought (for once) ... why not go obliquely ... current but oblique ... do you know of this lady?

To bring you up to speed, she was the premier female downhill skiier, no question, for many years ... some of you saw her crash out at these winter olympics ... more than ouch ... three operations on her mangled legs and what statement did she make?

She's going to sign up to the paralympics for next time.

Her courage?  Astounding. Her fitness? Astounding, given that she crashed out and did her ACL days before these olympics and still competed. The girl who won was apparently also American.

As a person who skied myself, high-intermediate, no more, plus I was right beside the Hahnenkamm Streif course decades back and skied on a bit of the course straight after the event ... it's certainly not for the faint of heart.

Which raises the question ... is it for the foolhardy?  And getting more specific ... is it for a 41 year old woman with a leg injury?  Is it for any 41 year old woman?  There's certainly a thing called The Wall in babymaking ... I'd suggest it's also in sport.

For example, I was building a boat until my heart attack in the last decade. Could I do it now?  Nope. It's the balance thing in the ears ... unsafe on a sailing craft now.  Men, e.g. football players? Late 30s in rugby, into the 40s in association.  There really are limits.

Who decides?  Well, in Lindsey's case, she obviously did, based on her star status. Mental ability to handle  the end?  Who knows?  Should the officials have shut her down? Phew!  Who knows?  Not easy, is it?  Most people want to go out on a high, doing something worthwhile.