Yes … Fauci and the MSM plus all online have the hearing covered, while Rupert says Whitty’s turn is coming. I say add Ferguson and Hancock at a minimum.
Selecting three of a dozen screenshots to illustrate the utter maniacal disregard for human life, while medicos danced in wards and people were asked to clap like perorming seals in the streets, during which time families were being separated and refuseniks were being treated as societal pariahs … and whilst the strictures never app,ued to the invaders … need I say more?
This was West-wide and coordinated, was it not? By whom? Who were the main drivers of it all?
Somewhere on the new British prime minister’s desk sits a document. It was quietly published last week, in the dying hours of his predecessor’s government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s annual report cements how the UK aid budget will be allocated until 2029.
Says who? Says Halima Begum, a charity executive who has been chief executive of Oxfam, Action Aid and the Runnymede Trust. She wants to increase Britain's aid spending, because of course she does.
Anyone asking whether the new PM, Andy Burnham, will – or even can – restore Britain’s 0.7% aid commitment should begin with this document, which appears designed to lock in three more years of retreat from the world’s poorest communities before Burnham could take office.
Good - we should be retreating from them, not spending ever increasing amounts of taxpayer money on them when we have a financial crisis looming at home!
The outgoing administration knew the human consequences. To its credit, the Foreign Office’s equality assessment is candid, conceding the cuts will “inevitably have negative impacts”.
Need is no longer the primary organising logic of UK aid. Geopolitics is, with budget cuts going to fund defence.
At last, common sense prevails, because most of the countries to which we have been so generous in the past have been providing the main threats to us in this country.
The idea of additional billions in taxpayer money flowing into unelected institutions abroad, beyond the reach of those who provided it, has proved potent in the recent past – look at Brexit.
Exactly - learn the lessons of that event, and keep the begging bowl you hold out. We have run out of patirnce as well as money.
Today’s screenshot is simple enough, just another passing incident in the country’s mismanagement, but my question is not so much about the Jodrell Bank mess but about the long history of modern British mismanagement … and why? How does it continue?
British Leyland, the Post Office Horizon scandal, Carillion, Thomas Cook et al … the way Wokery consumed all management so swiftly. The uselessness of it all.
Is it managerialism? Wiki has this about it:
Managerialism is an ideology asserting that professional management skills are universally applicable, and that organizations run best when driven by strict efficiency, measurable performance metrics, and top-down control. It often prioritizes standardized data and business-oriented outcomes over the specific, localized goals of the organization.The concept of managerialism emerged during early industrialization, but was popularized as an ideology by thinkers like James Burnham, who noted that control of institutions was shifting from hands-on owners to professional bureaucrats and administrators.
Quantification: Heavy reliance on performance benchmarks, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), and data analytics to assess success. [1, 2] Universal Applicability: The belief that generic management techniques can be successfully dropped into any environment, whether it be a corporate factory, a hospital, or a university. [1, 2, 3, 4] Marketization: Pushing private sector-style incentives and competition into the public sector or non-profit realms (often termed “New Public Management”).
And of course, it applies as well in the new medicine, where “doctors” work from home and refer to “evidence based” diagnoses without needing to resort to experience. Thus you can put any youngster or new citizen in the role and bureaucratically apply it to every patient.
The second question I have is how to stop this horror happening?
Hands down the hottest ticket in London this summer is the musical Pride at the National Theatre, which is booked solid until the end of its run in September and will presumably transfer to the West End after that.
In other coutries, the imported population you Guardiaista fawn over are celebrating Pride in their own ways. And over here in the UK, most people would rather watch the woke Odessey film than go see a play about Pride. For myself, I have a ticket for this in November and I can't wait.
I should say up front I haven’t seen the show (can’t get a ticket!). But this week, as I watched my timeline continue to fill up with effusive praise and lots of crying about the musical, I went back to the film.
That's so 'Guardian' a puff piece for a show you haven't even seen...
Pride is set during the 1984 miners’ strike, when an unlikely alliance sprang up between a group of lesbians and gay men in London(Ed: well, at leat it should be refreshingly free of trannies!) and striking miners in a Welsh town. Stephen Beresford, who wrote the film and the stage production, tells the story of LGSM – Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – a group set up by a young activist from County Antrim, Mark Ashton. I imagine there were hopes that the film would do a Billy Elliot, but neither British nor American audiences overly responded. Although the film was critically applauded, it didn’t break through.
Shame. It was up against 'Transformers Age Of Extinction' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' mind you.
It is both shocking and moving to be reminded of how bad things once were, and what could still be achieved.
'Once were'? Is this an admission that things aren't terrible now? I'm surprised the editor let that one through!
Remembering Piddington from yesterday, good reader:
Piddington, Oxfordshire, has around 400 residents. It’s about to have 1600, the extra male, fighting age, from other countries … their dregs. The residents are not having it.
… you might now turn your eyes to the skies:
The obvious question is … how can we, as people, change it? Given that most voters are MSM-fed Woke normies or suicidal empaths.
Piddington, Oxfordshire, has around 400 residents. It’s about to have 1600, the extra male, fighting age, from other countries … their dregs. The residents are not having it.
All right. My question of course is … who came up with this brilliant strategy to destroy a community overnight? And why? What were they paid to plan that? Was the mood civicmindedness or having a good chuckle at how they’d stiffed the British people yet again? And if the latter, keep that attitude firmly in your mind.
Why would these creeps even be like this? Why are they in any decisionmaking position anyway? Why is the system so broken that it can allow such things? And I’m sure many other questions follow on from that.
Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been charged with attacking his new girlfriend after being released from prison.
The 38-year-old is facing new counts of intentional suffocation, controlling and coercive behaviour, and criminal damage.
He is also charged with two counts of ABH, according to documents released by the Parole Board.
And just who would risk an association with this man? Some young thing with no life experience perhaps?
His alleged victim is a woman in her 50s, who was said to be living in the same building as Shepherd when he was released from prison in 2024.
🤷♀️
Details of his recall to prison have only now come to light.
According to the Parole Board documents, Shepherd and his new victim, known only as 'Ms X' began a relationship.
Some women just like to live dangerously, it seems. Or maybe there were no bloodsport breed dogs waiting to be adopted?
If you look at the sea of voting normies out there, so easily gulled with the MSM as their main source, with various forms of entertainment as distractions, their welcome relief, let alone the simple worry in the face of a govt looking for any pretext at all to tax or steal them to oblivion … in any western country …
... good normies whose idea of cutting edge political “discussion” is BBCQT or C4 … then I’m not trying in any way to be a smarta**e because I’ve been messing up big time myself in the field of ladies … but perhaps I’m just one of a growing band of observers.
And as observers on soc-med, we get to know … we get to work out the good ones such as Charlotte Gill or Brian Cates now and then. So we see snippets, the topic of this post, moreso than a journo-prepared pap piece (the way we're meant to think embedded in the subtext).
In short, we are seeing anomalies whoosh past us on our timelines and there’s just too much of it to handle in one go.
Take, for example, Mike Lindell, of pillow fame … great supporter of the Donald pre-election … one of the good guys, no?
That’s as it should be … in a functioning society. But we’re not in a functioning society … we’re under a bunch of paid, psycho clowns who obey the money.
Was your first question, “Who’s Mike Lindell?” And why would that be your first question? Is it because you’re focussed almost entirely on Brit news or World Cup or food shopping or your workplace or light relief?
So somewhere along the line, we start picking up on snippets, often random, esp. on X, the premier platform in 2026, hence the govt wants it banned from the country. Along comes Natalie Fleet who’s just resigned … (heard of her ? look her up) … her job being to restrict what you can view.
Whoops, a snippet flew by … Viktor Orban starting a Magyar resistance against this Peter Magyar, the Hungarian version of controlled opposition like Farage who has everyone gulled on this “don’t split the vote” pap … welcome Burnham, all blame Lowe.
And that’s where we are. Long ago, I was often quoting Perry Mason from one of those books, speaking to a Sgt Holcombe on the stand. Mason asked what happens when you sometimes see pieces of evidence which don’t accord with the general trend of the “evidence”? Awkward snippets in other words.
And Holcombe said: “You ignore em.”
How many of people come to dissident soc-med, only to bring their MSM habits with them? That is … find a comfortable show which seems to say all the right things, e.g. Mike Graham … and get one’s reality from that limited look?
Instead of actually investigating and building up impossible vaults of snippets, then losing them over time?
Let’s face it … we here do the best we can on these blogs to get issues to readers … multi-author is better … but the very best require a news organisation with a fleet of reporters which none of us can afford in either time or money … either energy or inclination. How many of us are, essentially, lazy bstds, easily jaded or bored?
Green councillors, who lead the city council, said the declaration was a clear signal that public health rather than criminal justice solutions were needed to tackle the UK’s growing drugs crisis.
They hope the declaration will put pressure on the Labour government to rethink drug policies and, specifically, lead to a legal drug-consumption facility being set up in the city.
Withpolicing in the sorry state it is at the moment, I wonder why they need it?
The Bristol Green councillor Cara Lavan, who lost her partner, Jake Coe, 37, to drug overdose poisoning, said it felt like an important moment.
Ah. Hard cases make bad law.
Lavan said Coe had been in recovery for five years but when he relapsed was able to buy heroin and crack within half an hour, despite living in a new place where he did not know dealers. “The prohibition didn’t stop him getting hold of it.”
The couple had a baby and he was about to qualify as an arts psychotherapist.
So, nothing of value was lost.
Lavan said: “We were unable to get the help we needed because the drugs he was using were illicit and there was the constant threat he would be arrested and criminalised. He desperately wanted to be drug free, but he just wasn’t able to cope and he couldn’t get support.
Bristol Green councillors want the city to be allowed to open a drug-consumption facility, as has happened in Glasgow. Lavan said: “It’s not encouraging people to use drugs, but it’s about making sure that if they are going to use drugs, they’re not being stigmatised and criminalised.”
How do the 'new Greens' feel abou that?
Outside the meeting, a Green councillor, Abdul Malik, said that, as a mosque leader, his faith was clear that intoxicants were harmful and should be avoided.
Quite, so will he quit in protest?
He said: “Nothing in this motion changes that. This is not about encouraging drug use or normalising addiction. It is about recognising a simple truth: after 55 years, we cannot honestly say prohibition on its own has solved this problem and we have a responsibility to look at what the evidence tells us does work.
“If this motion helps one more person into treatment, prevents one more overdose, reduces crime on our streets and spares one more family from unimaginable loss, then it is worth doing.”
Green ideology - It's such a powerful drug evef moslims can'r resist. Just say 'No' kids!
… from the perspective of an American lady who recalls the time. We have writers, regular and occasional, over at Unherdables. One is Toodles, from southern Alabama, and that’s what makes these recollections so different on Maggie Thatcher and the Falkland Islands. Without any further ado:
James, starting with your second post first.
1. Maggie, Margaret Thatcher? I know her. I have met her. She gave me a lovely porcelain clay tea pot. The lid was fashioned into a magnolia flower and leaves and stem. Sounds tacky but wasn’t. I used it for years.
She came to our town on a speaking tour sometime in the 1990’s. There was a dinner and a speech, as is the fashion of a visiting dignitary. It was in the smaller ballroom in which there were probably no more than a hundred guests. There was limited seating. I cannot recall just why we were there, well except too see her. I will ask Cuddles who was sponsoring the shindig. I am sure we paid, but not sure if we just reserved or if we were invited.
She was a delight. She made a great speech. Personable and charming, seems to have been intelligent, smart and sharp. Not everyone who is smart is sharp. She spoke of her friendship and working relationship with Ronnie R . She showed him much respect … almost wistful at times talking about different conversations and joint plans, so on. She appreciated his sense of humour.
I recall she had lovely skin. I’ve forgotten the colour of her outfit. I actually recalled it for a long time but that section of the brain chamber has been shut off. Her hair was that strawberry-ish soft red. And it was slightly out of style which was nonetheless attractive on her and I thought, “Good, the former PM wasn’t trendy but instead classic.”
Who knows if it is all a sham and if it was part of the Truman Show put on just for us🤷♀️. At the time we so enjoyed meeting her and listening to her speak about many things and guess what? She definitely spoke about the F. Islands.
2. Speaking of that, I heard about that ‘incident’ in the early summer of 1982. June maybe, well unless it was late May. It was fitted in the cusp of either two months.
We were en route to the Great Smoky Mountains … went with friends. On the day the war started we were also attending the Unofficial World’ s Fair in Knoxville TN. We had been married some months. That is why I recall the F Island time line as to when it started. We had never heard of the F I’s. We were very nervous for you countrymen. It was all over the radio on our long ride up and over to the mts!
How ‘bout those Falkland Islands … they became a tagline for all of us. We had two cars between us. Back then the cars were spacious and nice for traveling. None of us young adults or teens of course had children yet.
So yes, to the Falkland Islands, we say. Interesting about the political aspect. Wow. We were actually pulling for Spain in the soccer. Argentina cheaters? Pro sports are wicked and now is our college sports.
