Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar....

...and a chicken shop is just a chicken shop:

...reading about the left-on-left battle at Master Poulet, a French chicken chain that just opened its first UK branch, I found myself mulling a question that felt more than a little personal: am I chicken shop left? OK, OK, this might just be a me problem. I’ve always had an interest in chicken shops. Maybe it’s personal: chicken shops, offering cheap halal takes on mainstream fare, have long been a pursuit of south Asian immigrants who hoped, like my own family, for a better life in this brave new world (talk about a wing and a prayer). But they are also bound up in Black British youth culture: neighbourhood incubators for music, affordable places to hang, landmarks of “the ends”. Chicken shops tell the story of a mixed, working-class Britain, with all its whimsy.

’Working class’? Are you sure? Mostly favoured by imported immigrant youth for whom a days work is not something to be looked for…

Back in April, Karim Bouamrane, the Socialist party (PS) mayor of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, near Paris, tried to block a Master Poulet branch that had opened outside the town hall. Literally, with concrete blocks at the doors. A court ordered them removed, so he swapped them for giant colourful plant pots. The shop responded with quippy signs (“we are open … no offence to Karim”, read one), delighting French social media with this meta game of chicken. Bouamrane insisted it was all about quality of life, as late deliveries and cooking smells disturbed residents. Not everyone was convinced.

It's not so surprising in France, unlike the English, they are proud of their food culture and not about to see it swamped by foreign cultures. 

Saint-Ouen has transformed in recent years, not least due to regeneration pegged to the Paris Olympics. Critics accuse the mayor of overseeing a gentrification drive that has seen property prices surge, arguing that’s his real issue: he wants to chase out cheap food (and the sorts of people who eat it).

And that is, after all, the very purpose of gentrification whether one seeks it in France or England. Remove the troublesome population and the surroundings become much more pleasant as a result.

Which may explain why politicians from the further-left La France Insoumise (LFI), have waded in, questioning whether Islamophobia and classism are at play, and accusing the mayor of abusing his power. One MP visited the shop in solidarity. His name? Éric Coquerel. I’ll just leave that there.

To be clear, I am far from an expert on French politics.

This is the 'Guardian', you don't need to be. They don't require anyone to know what they are talking about....

So am I part of the chicken shop left? I don’t know, maybe. But perhaps that’s the wrong question. After the almighty flap over Master Poulet, I’m left feeling that politics should be less “ruling the roost” and more “birds of a feather”. Especially with a far-right fox prowling outside the henhouse.

Oh, the mythic 'far right' again.  

Am*l** on Inversion

Yesterday looked at fakery, today inversion, on Tuesday will be a summary of these days by Melinda Richards. And so to AI Amelia…

At first, you’ll recall, she was put out by some govt dept or NGO, whatever, to brainwash normies into avoiding bad people like us … but Amelia was hijacked by that very dissident “right” and turned into an AI moving-meme. Don’t see as much of “her” now but she’s still about … intended for the young but liked by many.

So here she is on Inversion:

And in song?

The era of fakery

... and what chance any of us have to turn it around:

This is the first of three (today, tomorrow and on Tuesday, detailing in some Xers’ words the western condition right at this moment, the situation and if we can get out of it with the normies being so duped by Wokery in its many forms.

But There Have Never Been So Many Free Water Points...

“The city is not built for heat,” said Josie Ashdown, a lead manager at the homelessness charity Thames Reach. “You can feel that the concrete makes it hotter here than probably anywhere else in the country at points, and there’s hardly any tree cover.”

As London endures repeated heatwaves fuelled by the climate crisis, outreach teams are offering extra support to those most at risk – handing out water, carrying out welfare checks and directing people to cool spaces. 

Why would they need to hand out water? Hasn't Mayor Khan provided them?

Scientists have estimated that the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales killed 2,700 people.

Complete bollock based on nothing. As Tim pointed out. As believable as the 'food waste' figures.

Many of the tents beneath an underpass in London were empty when the Guardian visited. Their occupants had probably left in search of water, work or somewhere cooler, Ashdown said. But for the record numbers of people like Tom who are sleeping rough, escaping the heat is rarely straightforward.

“If you’re relying on begging to earn money, you don’t have much choice to leave,” said Leggat. “You have to sit outside, often in the sun and usually in hot urban environments.”

With the welfare state providing for you, why would you need to beg? 

Often people have to carry all their belongings with them, including winter clothing they cannot safely store. Anneke Ziemen, a service manager for the Thames Reach rapid response team, recalled one man who was still dressed for cold weather during the heatwaves. 

“He said: ‘When winter comes, I need my clothes. I can’t have anyone steal them.’ It makes sense, but it’s also going to be 34 degrees and you are literally cooking yourself.”

And here we see a reason why some people will always be homeless, indeed why, even in they are provided with housing, it often doesn't work and they wind up on the streets again within a few weeks or months. 

Ashdown said: “There have been a couple of people this year that we’ve got our eye on, in terms of whether they have the capacity to make decisions around the heat, because it makes people so much more vulnerable.”

They don't have the capacity to make decisions. About anything. And that's the core of the problem. 

Quack Quack

This is an eth-nat:

Notice though the fist next to the flags. Very Zoomer and Gen X today. The civ-nat though, the hegemony in the west, shown in Farage’s stance, beloved of middle-class white women, particularly in the south-east here … they speak their classic: “Not all of them are like that … why I happen to know some delightful (insert your demographic group) people, salt of the earth, haven’t stabbed, raped or looted anyone once.”

The eth-nat can obliquely retort: “Yes I’m sure there are some fine, upstanding bully dogs, haven’t savaged any lady lately. Therefore bullies should not be banned.” The eth-nat follows that by asking: “If it waddles like duck, quacks like a duck, then what is it most likely to be?”

Look at this perhaps:

I went for a recent, rare, doctor visit and the nurse had not asked about the ethnicity of the doctor I was to see … however, she did mention that my assigned doc was a woman. Er yes? And what? Is there something I’m missing here? She turned out to be a local lass in her late 20s. I was a happy patient. Of our ethnic stock … maybe 95% home country around our parts.

Back to the Sky News/Benedict Spence thing above … are you willing to play that Russian roulette? Or maybe glance at this:

We’re caught between these two extremes, are we not? The civnat says it’s all where you’re born. The ethnat says right, so Obama’s mum can get him inside the Hawaiian border at the end of the flight from Kenya and he’s then American? Or Mahmoud is British? Anchor babe WEFer Bad Enough? Karen Bass, the Ghanian?

Quack quack? And what of Brits born in Rhodesia or South Africa? Lineage stretching back to the middle ages? What of this:

“Hong”, yes? And what of Laila Ahmed El-Meleigy, with the crescent tattoo on her left forearm? Or more openly Zahawi? What of Yusuf, always “minding” Farage at the dais?

Nuff for now.

Make Up Your Mind?!

Almost three-quarters of riverbanks in England have no public access, according to data released by the Right to Roam campaign.Across the country, the public cannot use riverbanks or gain access to the rivers themselves in most of the river catchments from the west of Cornwall up to the Tweed, which flows through northern England and Scotland.

But it was only in the last two months you were warning everyone what potential deathtraps they were!

Lewis Winks, an environmental social scientist from Right to Roam, who led the research, said: “Access to rivers should be a basic right, yet the vast majority remain off limits. As we continue to experience extreme heat, it’s vital the public are able to draw from the benefits that water brings.”

Like death..? Or if you’re lucky, just Wiel’s disease or salmonella? 

Kate Rew, from the Outdoor Swimming Society, said in 20 years time she wanted to see living rivers across England, with people free to reach them to swim, paddle, walk and spend time by the water. “Being part of the natural world makes us healthier, happier and more alive,” said Rew.

Some of us more alive, not all! 

The WNBA fiasco showcases Fabian Wokery

... in a way no amount of dry journo prose can.

Sometimes a case not directly linked to our futures can be of more value than one, e.g. Restore v Reform, as a salutary lesson.

There are two key characters in the appalling WNBA in the US. Their selling point to the public, far more than any play on the court, is the way the black players are physically assaulting, first Caitlin Clark, the best player around, plus someone who stood up for her … Sophie Cunningham

Most of us on soc-med have seen the sight of SC pointing at the perps and even “assaulting back at them”. She’s become wildly popular, capturing the imaginations of kids through to JK Rowling and Martina Navratilova. We might have been bemused, the cynical amongst us maybsee it all as Grand Theatre designed to distract, the whole thing is bizarre.

And CC? Suddenly, she has lost much support. Firstly, she posed with scumbag Obama, having always shown “love all” leftist tendencies since always. But the killer with the publuc was this:

Yes, it’s symptomatic, is it not, of the entire Fabian Woke hegemony today, pushed by powerful cabals, backed by endless resources. For a purpose, an agenda.

Plus … just look at that Mitchell in the pic … how she sits, conducts herself. Your conclusions are yours.

He Doesn't Need To - The System Has Bent Over Backwards For Him

A lawyer for the families of the children murdered by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has said his transfer from prison to a psychiatric hospital may be an attempt to "manipulate the system".

You don't need to do that for a system that has coddled and protected you at every turn, beginning with armed police taking you alive, through to senior politicians perpetuating lies about your race and religion to a compliant and unquestioning press, ending with them swallowing without question what you told them.

On Thursday, he was moved from HMP Belmarsh to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire. Prisoners who are considered to present a risk to staff, inmates or themselves because of mental disorders can be moved to hospital under the Mental Health Act.

He's proven to be a risk to others by assaulting a prison officer with boiling water. Has he faced any punishment for that?

In May 2025, Rudakubana allegedly attacked a prison officer with boiling water. An investigation is ongoing.

Oh, I feel a year is long enough to have decided, eh? And, probably because of the publicity, a charge was forthcoming, finally.

Lawyer Chris Walker, who represents the three bereaved families, said they "don't believe the merits" of the transfer on the basis of a mental health issue and is calling for more information from ministers.

Why? It'll just be lies. Again. 

"In my mind this is a new event, this is something which occurred whilst he was at prison, and we at this stage don't believe the merits of it in terms of him because I've seen no evidence at all until today which suggests he has a significant mental health disorder," Walker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.He added: "We do have an evil person but being evil does not mean that you're suffering with psychosis of some sort. 

"We need to know is this a single event, is this a recurring event, is this him playing the system and we need those answers."

He hsas no need to play a system that is working in his favour!  

Under the Mental Health Act, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is likely to have had no choice but to accept doctors' recommendations about whether Rudakubana could be held safely in prison.The law requires he be transferred back to prison when he no longer requires treatment in hospital. His sentence is not being converted into a "hospital order", which would mean he stayed at Broadmoor.

It won't matter whether they had a choice or not, they are only too glad to have a chance to kick this particular can down the road for a little bit. 

Inside the Orphans "brains-trust"

Hardly anyone's been speculating as to just what gives between this admin and her loyal helper ... one a dyed-in-the-wool, right-libertarian wild animal from ancient times ... the other an eccentric classic-liberal with bible-quoting propensities ...

Well, speculate no more because the screenshots don't lie ... this is what we get up to:

Digital ID, awkwardness for all, plus built in incompetence

In putting together this Saturday post, the Ceuta situation has been covered across soc-med, Marlon West’s reasonable showing in 25% turnout Manchester has been posted by his daughter, the “election” of a Woke left feminazi has been noted … same old same old … and people are thinking that the electoral process is simply seeing creeps parachuted in to do their worst on voters and the young. Fauci pretend trial goes on.

Thought today I might do this instead:

The answer of course is that it’s nothing to do with age concern … it’s all to do with DigID and OneLogIn, having to use govt approved “proof” of age which really means, just as with flock cameras and other surveillance, plus in all new cars … plus another factor … built in failure of said devices.

I’ve been twice with someone to a supermart in the past half decade and both times, the machine broke down … I flatly refuse to use anything non-human in such matters, including ATMs, esp. if on an outside wall.

Before leaving outside shopping, this was posted overnight:

That’s $AUS … other currencies this morning include:

On top of that, almost all bread based products have the folic acid in there, contra-indicated for stents for a start. You are aware where all this is going. That’s before seed oils, the sky, water, land misuse now, plus plastic particles.

And so to online issues. Nothing is designed to make things go smoothly … quite the opposite. One example … I’m being hit by spam (about 15 an hour currently, which is interesting overnight). Solution on the ipads with Safari and WordPress? Akismet of course. It’s in there ready to switch on, I have an API key which one needs to switch it on.

That key is sitting in the old dash at a different WP blog but can be used for the new as well … so they say. I go in to get it … new dash, not even my old sites are accessible any more. However, if I pay them money … £9, £49 … I can get a new one, containing heaps of meta I personally don’t need … whilst my original API is officially forever on that site, across all WP sites.

All right, I decide to see if it’s doable via the panel they have up there now. Verification needed again. Govt verification. But govt already have every detail needed, so why this all again? One option was £0, whatever I could pay. The whole point was that they’re not really interested in the money … they want private details going into the public domain. That’s where the big money is.

And so it goes on. It’s unfashionable, even anathema to go biblical online … but there is a thing called mark of the beast (very popular with Chinese officialdom just now) in Revelation, without which you can neither buy nor sell.

And that’s where we all are, heading for Them’s beloved 2030.

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Someone commented with no moniker:

After a little bit of investigation I have discovered that there are certain types of flour which will be exempted from the "fortification". Also some types of bread. If you have a small independent mill nearby you may be able to source pure flour there. Flour has a long shelf life especially if stored in food grade buckets or sealed bags with oxygen absorbers.

As far as I can tell from what I've learned the main advantage of "fortification" is for healthy development of the foetus in pregnant women. Let's say the women make up 50% of the population and that 15% will be pregnant at any time. That's 7.5% of the population it's aimed at. Wouldn't it be better to issue free supplements to them?

As well as stent issues there is some evidence that this chemical can worsen prostate problems.

The maths behind this just doesn't add up.