Watch Those Goalposts Move!

Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found. This research shows that even with a move to electric vehicles, pollution from cars may not be able to be eradicated.

Because the real target wasn't diesel cars at all, it was private cars, full stop.

Exposure to pollution generated by cars, vans and lorries has been previously been linked to an increased risk of lung and heart disease. While past attention has mainly concentrated on exhaust emissions, particles are also released into the air from tyre, road and brake pad wear.These emissions are largely unregulated by legislation and the study found that these “non-exhaust” pollution sources are now responsible for the majority of vehicle particulate matter emissions in the UK and parts of Europe, with brake dust the main contributor among them.

Maybe the answer is, when that cyclist passes too close to you, or pedals out from a side road, don't brake? 

Go on, do it for the environment! 😂

Clearing the mind and preparation

A magazine called Evie ran a poll or whatever and discovered that leftist women led all other demographics across all ranges of mental illness … uh huh … as mentioned by Miles M …

… HERE. He continues:

Yep, I have a similar weakness for capable women with at least some sense of limits to their abilities, just as men are incapable in various ways … and this is very much the theme in my own latest post on Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, which included this comment:

Part of it, to my mind, is to not try to prove oneself in stoopid ways, showing off, being kick-butt gung-ho without backup, because ideology makes us do stoopid things, drives wedges between us … when the mind should be on the job in hand.

“Men and women are not interchangeable.” (Julia M, 1052 a.m., Thu Feb 27th)

“Vive la différence!“ (James Anatole France Higham, before turning commie)

The Progressives Fall Out Of Love With Youthful Activism

You would be forgiven for thinking we were back at the Bullingdon Club, in the company of Jonty, Munty, Stiffy, Kipper, Chugger and, to use the polite version, Pig Botherer – only in this case it’s Big Balls and a guy with a history of racist tweeting. This is the sudden, startling emergence into American political life of a type deeply recognisable to Brits: that is, jaunty young men with juvenile nicknames and a firm belief they should be running the world.

Well, this is Emma Brockes, after all, the 'Guardian' correspondent who was so dim she really thought Trump had lost the election and it was just the press were keeping it from the American people. 

And she wasn't so upset about 'young people' that she didn't fall into the climate hysteria predicted by the doom goblin.

Let’s look at the lineup. The youngest of Musk’s Doge hires, Edward Coristine – online username, Big Balls – is a 19-year-old former intern at Neuralink, Musk’s neurotechnology company, who until recently appeared to be a first-year student at Northeastern University in Boston. Luke Farritor is a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern. Marko Elez, 25, used to work for X and SpaceX, and was revealed by the Wall Street Journal to have authored several since-removed tweets asserting, among other things, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” (Elez briefly resigned before Musk announced he’d reinstate him.) And Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who boosted a post on X by the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and whose newly launched Substack this week highlighted the perils of skipping freshman English 101 with a post entitled “Why DOGE: Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.”

So, they have the wrong opinions and the wrong sense of humour for Emma, but what about their boss, who surely even she must admit is a success? 

Musk, a man with the emotional maturity of a cartoon bank robber, is leading a group of men most of whom have no government or management experience whatsoever, let alone expertise in fields governed by the agencies they have been tasked to reform.

And just perhaps, Emma, that's what's needed right now - someone who isn't steeped in the public sector ethos? Certainly seems so, anyway. 

Anyway, we know how this ends. In the largest sense, with the cancellation of programmes mandated democratically in Congress by a bunch of unelected goons in puffer vests. And in the smallest sense, with one of these 22-year-old jerks spilling his Big Gulp cup of Mountain Dew over a keyboard at the Treasury and wiping the social security data of 70 million Americans.

Maybe argue the actual dangers that could exist, rather than the ones in your head. 

Who’s controlling this global mendacity?

Slight quandary which to run with here:

* The joke of Merz in Germany riding a wave of stopping illegals at the border, being returned in a near landslide, then next day turning around and reversing the policy, a la Starmer…

* The joke of Bondi saying the Epstein files are on her desk, then she, Luna and Mace deciding instead to have a jolly in Dallas on a “fact finding tour”, asking old-timers if they remember JFK…

*. The joke conference with Zelensky demanding money, with Trudeau, Starmer and Macron suddenly finding billions whilst cost cutting the indigenous vulnerable in their countries…

* Merz saying the AfD has no voice, ditto Macron on Le Pen in France, ditto Starmer and Reform in the UK…

* The policy of raiding, imprisoning, firing from jobs any daring to criticise govt policy.

I’m thinking the clever ruse of reversing policy straight after election, a la Johnson, Starmer and now Merz is the one to look at here now … namely how on earth they have the temerity, brazenly, in front of the public which just elected them, to suddenly renege. 

Politicians are not known for courage, so someone or something has emboldened them to do this … the sheer gall of it is jawdropping. They’re vious quite convinced there’ll be no comeback on it … or maybe the comeback is factored in … maybe people like May and Johnson happily accepted they could do thisbe swept aside some yars later, their job for their masters done.

The question was, and still is… who exactly are their masters?

Well, They Would Say That, Wouldn’t They?

To the 'Guardian' letter pages!

Recent press comment about the role of the attorney general, Richard Hermer, referred to in your article (‘Deeply unfair’: how attorney general became lightning rod for criticism of Starmer, 13 February), overlooks the principle that those representing parties in contentious litigation have the right, and indeed the duty, to put forward the case for their clients without fear or favour, so that, as and when appropriate, the court or tribunal can itself independently decide whether such a case is or is not valid. As the great British advocate and judge Norman Birkett once pointed out in a radio talk about the art of advocacy, it is essential that a lawyer’s presentation of the case for a client is not perceived as an expression of the lawyer’s personal opinions.

With decisions as perverse as this one being made by them, that's going to be pretty difficulty to maintain, isn't it?  

Not only would this be incorrect as a matter of fact, but it would also undermine our system of justice, under which the case for each side is fully and objectively presented before a decision is made by an impartial and independent tribunal.

Stories like this one aren't really helping are they? 

Those who state or imply that, in doing this, the lawyers are advancing their own personal opinions, are doing immense and untold damage, not only to our legal system but to society as a whole. They are undermining the rule of law and opening a path towards a society in which the public no longer trust the legal system or the individuals who participate in it.

So, who is saying this?  

Stephen Hockman KC and Sam Townend KC

Former chairs, Bar Council Christina Blacklaws and I Stephanie Boyce Former presidents, Law Society

Ah.  

The problem with climate change “reports”

 There are, imho, quite a few problems with this article in TDS:

HERE

… and the first is summed up in an old quote from the OUP:

”We believe a scientist because he can substantate his remarks, not because he is elegant and forcible in his enunciation. In fact we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.”

-I.A.Richards, Science and Poetry, 1926, in the Oxford Quick Reference Quotations, Ed. Susan Ratcliffe, OUP, 1999.

The problems then continue in the linked article where the author, Chris Morrison, writes:

“Needless to say, there has been no mention of these finding(s) in narrative-driven mainstream media. In fact one Nature pre-publication peer-reviewer commented on the clear danger the paper presented to this important climate scares promoting the Net Zero fantasy. “I see this paper as potentially being used by deniers of climate change impacts,” the reviewer notes. “Consider if possible some rephrasing to put even more emphasis on impact rather than on burned area,” is the suggestion. In other words, concentrate on the emotional impact of individual fires, allowing legacy media, aided by junk computer modelled attribution studies, to concentrate on speculation and fearmongering rather than the facts. Another clear example of what might be termed Ultra Processed News, designed to make the individual consumer sick with worry and induce mass climate psychosis.”

The problem with that piece of prose, aside from being unclear on the goodies and baddies unless Chris defines which are which … is that he himself opened with similar:

“Sensational Findings Published in Nature Blow Politicised Wildfire Climate Scam Out of the Water”

He redeems himself to a point, quoting Anthony Watts, but the Milliband “fanatics” are simply going to trot out their own “scientists” …. hundreds of them … in less fanatical language, projecting “junk” stats as Chris writes and thus the classic adversarial camps scenario is set up, where only one side’s “stats” are used and no mention is made of false meteorological station readings, for example, which were widely reported in soc-med in the past two years.

On a different topic but the methodology by the “Demonrats” v ICE is similar … there’s always straight projection onto the whistleblowing side by the called-out side, as Vox Day mentioned long ago … to the extent that the key Deep State miscreants actually call themselves The Resistance … really? Resistance to what, pray tell? To “far-right, racist disinformation crims” (us), whilst the Deep State apparatchiks occupy the “middle ground” through the MSM, “defending our Democracy”?

An example of this use of the calling-out side’s, the whistleblowing side’s, own vocab store of expressions and projecting it back, was in a Gladstone quote in the OUP book quoted near the top:

”I absorb the vapour and return it as a flood.”

-W.A.Gladstone, on public speaking, in Lord Riddell, Some Things that Matter (1927 Ed.)

The methodology we prefer … but it takes huge wallops of ethics, a lack of fear of what we’ll find, plus a willingness to concede some points but then cite others counter to that … is to see the snippets of data and opinion all laid out on a large table after a brainstorming session by those of all persuasions … with varying theories of interpretation also laid out on said table …

… but I fear that that model is a product of wishful thinking … how long in that room before the headbutting starts between the orators of the two camps? Always two, note, on any given bone of contention, as if it must be, by definition, a zero sum argument, one side “demolishing” the other as Badenough and the Llama-Harmer imagine they do at PMQs, to the headshaking of Reform.

DEI’s main crime is everyone’s safety

Whether it’s on land, water or in the air … even on a bridge in Florida … it’s a lawless, dangerous place now … the vulnerable are the first to be hit.

When the US govt appears to be fighting for European peoples

At 11:38 p.m., Friday, I should not have woken up, having crashed for the night … anyway, here we are, not even Saturday, thought I’d check X and there’s Publius, a key anon pundit close to MAGA.

Rand Paul tried to “@DOGE” the Senate Budget last night with a $1.5 trillion Spending Cut Amendment, but it crashed 24-76. All Democrats voted NO, joined by 29 RINOs like McConnell, Graham, Cornyn, Tillis, and Thune – thwarting his attempt to reduce inflation and debt.

Here are the 29 “Republicans” who joined every Democrat in voting this down:

Banks (R-IN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Blackburn (R-TN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Boozman (R-AR) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Budd (R-NC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Capito (R-WV) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Collins (R-ME) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cornyn (R-TX) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cotton (R-AR) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cramer (R-ND) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Crapo (R-ID) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Fischer (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Graham (R-SC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Grassley (R-IA) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hawley (R-MO) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Hoeven (R-ND) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Lankford (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Marshall (R-KS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) McConnell (R-KY) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Moran (R-KS) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Mullin (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Murkowski (R-AK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Ricketts (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Rounds (R-SD) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Scott (R-SC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Sullivan (R-AK) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Thune (R-SD) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Tillis (R-NC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Wicker (R-MS) – 2030 (Elected 2024)

*NOTE: These dates assume no resignations, special elections, or other unforeseen changes.

All right … the context for non-Americans and for Americans unaware:

Yes and no … the combined House and Executive does have a say and POTUS does have the right of veto on actual bills … which one would assume he would use with Thune’s big-spending bill, inc. the Ukraine money Zelensky demanded.

Remember that this just now was a vote against a bill, not a bill in itself … in other words, the Senate “vetoed” (voted against) Rand Paul’s amendment. POTUS therefore will instead veto (hopefully) the Thune bill itself to stop it becoming law … the one which bypassed the House proposed bill, backed by POTUS.

Are there any mitigating circumstances for those Republicans above voting with the demonrats?

Well there may be. If House plus POTUS already have a way to kill the bill later, then the Rand Paul amendment might have just been an opening play to flush out the RINOs … or else certain Senators knew of the later play (to come) and did not impede it … it’s a wafer thin argument imho and who am I … not an expert in US division of powers.

But to employ that overused word … the optics certainly look bad to MAGA eyes. They, MAGA, and the RINO GOP, are certainly a house divided, as Lincoln put it long ago. I’ll be interested to see Mike Davis’s comment, though he’s judiciary.

Now, let’s jump across the pond to us and the Llama-Harmer’s latest, as reported and commented on by Vance and one other (Musk? Bondi?):

Also, this comment below appears to be on part of Vance’s speech at CPAC:

The US MAGA govt seems here to be going in to bat for the common folk across Britain and Europe, against their govts.

The ‘Guardian’ Are Beginning To Feel The Winds Of Change

It's always fun when 'Guardian' staffers go out amongst the people of this fair land...

As strange as it may sound, Rugeley felt like a good place to feel the global shock waves from the inauguration of Donald Trump – dutifully attended, let’s not forget, by the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos – and to find out what people thought about his style of politics. Last summer, the result in the local constituency of Cannock Chase saw the first stirrings of a change that has since gripped national politics: Labour and the Tories finished on 36% and 29% of the vote respectively, while the Anglo-Trumpers of Reform UK took a very impressive 27%.

And if it were run right now, Labour would be lucky to get into double figures, wouldn’t they? 

As this shift has played out, there have been recent suggestions that any British appetite for Trump-style politics is bound to be limited.

Well, maybe you shouldn’t believe all you’re told.  

In Rugeley, it did not feel like that.

See? 

Our first stop was a bustling community centre, where a parent and toddler group was happening next to a weekly lunch for pensioners – and we got a sharp sense of how the quiet privations and disappointments of 21st-century English lives have opened people to the specious promises of hard-right populism.

What 'hard - right populism', John?  

We had a long conversation with Emma and Cian, a couple who had come with their baby. “This is a very, very quiet town – it always has been,” she said. “Not a lot goes on around here … and nothing lasts long.” To most people, Cian told me, the arrival and eventual winding-down of the Amazon warehouse had barely registered. He didn’t know anyone who had worked there. “It’s just a big blue building at the end of the town that’ll be gone soon.” I wondered: when the government changed last year, did it make them feel any different about the future? “No,” said Emma, wearily. “We don’t expect anything out of what we’re told.”

Not exactly the fires of revolution, but maybe those aren't too far off... 

What if a Trump-type figure promised to make Britain great again? She laughed, and glanced at her partner. “We’ve got different opinions on that,” she said. “I kind of like what he’s doing. I wish more would be put into the UK. I think we need someone with a bit more of … an oomph about them.”

Oh dear! Seizing on a brown face like a drowning man seizing a lifebelt, John tries again:

Nearby, we met Kenan, a Turkish-born Just Eat driver – forced into the world of endless delivery shifts, he said, when his IT business went bust during the pandemic. When I mentioned Trump, his face lit up.

“He’s the man,” he said. “He’s the man.” “He’s reckless,” he told me, and he was not using that word as a pejorative. “He does what he says, not like other politicians. They say they’re going to do something with the economy, and they don’t do it. But Donald Trump does.” Did it feel strange to be bigging up someone so set against immigration? “As a foreigner,” he said, “I’ve seen people only using the system. And I’m working 12 or 13 hours a day.”

Heh! And why shouldn't he be aggrieved by that, John? Why should he feel solidarity with them? 

As darkness fell, we sat in a car park, listening to the first Trump speech of inauguration day with one of the car windows down.

The locals probably thought you were dogging…. 

A white transit van pulled up next to us: inside was a father and his three kids. He began telling us the details of his life before we even asked about them. “My dad was in world war two,” he said. “When he left the navy, he had three cement wagons, and he put the concrete in Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham.” His daily existence, by contrast, was a mess of financial hardship, the impossibility of combining childcare with work, a dire shortage of mental health provision and the impossibilities of the benefits system. Four days a week, he said, he hardly ate. He was now 50: he had voted only once in his life, and it was for Reform UK. “Some of the things Trump says, some of the things Elon Musk says, some of the things Reform UK say – they sound good,” he said. “But it’s action you want in this country.”

I fear one day we'll see it, and it won't be something John will be rushing out to cover.... 

In praise of Rolf Norfolk, a voice of reason

Bless Sackerson or Rolf Norfolk, such a gentle-man of the old school.  Bless his heart because at first I thought he was excusing Llama-Harmer’s behaviour, that destructive tenacity to hold onto a society-wrecking plan … and not just our society either, just quietly.

Starmer is a wrecking ball, as DJT himself is … one’s been given his instructions by the Frankfurt School, WEF or whatever, the other also has a grand plan, which does wreck the schemes of the corrupt and unfortunately, all those who fell in with them but might also involve much unintended collateral at home along the way … you know the old adage about omelettes and eggs.

Rolf is of the old “big tent” style who tries to come to terms with difficult types … I’m more a brick wall or wrecking ball type … with a bit of Rolf’s compassion for the worthy.  Anyway, it was clear as I went on that he was not excusing Starmer, he was explaining him:

“They do have emotions - often they get on well with animals, who are not so tricky. But for them human social intercourse can be like a tourist trying to speak Greek and their rhythm of responses is halting. As a result they can be misunderstood as impassive, unfeeling. Dan Hodges in the MoS reports a senior government official as saying Starmer is ‘a very strange man. There's no empathy there. You try to talk him through the implications of what he's proposing and he goes blank.

Asperger’s types can be very intelligent but faced with a largely social world that is unpredictable and sometimes frightening or painful they may turn to a model that they can understand and control; not just computer games but - if they have sufficient power - grand schemes with niches for everyone else. In reality the model is bound to be inadequate and the Aspie will be intolerant of ‘square pegs,’ as Adam Smith noted in 1759:

‘The man of system… is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.’”

I’d say Rolf is not wrong in his analysis here … as a former prep school head, one did not last long without at least being nimble on one’s feet and understanding root causes … but at the same time, there were red lines and the recidivist found a ton of bricks descending where once there had been terse questioning, followed by stern warning and finally the ton of bricks. Some can’t do the ton of bricks bit but occasionally … well often really … it’s necessary.

What’s to come out of the turmoil across the pond, apart from civil war?  Well, there is already civil war brought on by the wreckers from the Lincoln School and Wundt more than a century ago, plus from the Frankfurt School luminaries, Starmer-type destruction simplified into feelgood ideology to bludgeon the middle-class type into submission via the politics of envy.

Yes, there’s already civil war … the MAGA types are simply bringing it to a head … there is stormy weather ahead.  There are two diametrically opposed visions … more than two if the various invaders are included.

I had occasion, in 2007 to 2010, to be most grateful to Rolf Norfolk … I still am.  A good man at heart.

Schools Aren’t There To Worry About ‘The Wellbeing Of Teachers And Headteachers’

Moves to overhaul the way schools are inspected in England have been criticised by headteachers and teaching unions as “demoralising” and worse than the system they are aiming to replace. The changes by the Ofsted schools inspectorate would replace single judgments such as “outstanding” with a new report card for parents. They will be unveiled by Ofsted’s chief inspector, Martyn Oliver, on Monday alongside the launch of a public consultation. The leaders of England’s education unions have derided key aspects of the proposals, as did the family of Ruth Perry, the primary school headteacher whose suicide after an “intimidating” Ofsted inspection precipitated Labour’s pledge to scrap the use of headline grades.

Yes, this entire effort is driven by the fact one - ONE - teacher, who clearly was in the wrong job and must have had other issues, killed herself.  

The new system would grade schools, nurseries and colleges in eight individual areas on a five-step scale, ranging from “exemplary” to “causing concern”, alongside a separate evaluation of whether safeguarding standards were met. Inspections currently look at four to six areas, including safeguarding, on a four-step scale from “outstanding” to “inadequate”. Despite months of discussion by Ofsted, many of the proposals have been rejected as bewildering and ineffective by union leaders, leaving the overhaul in disarray at the start of the 12-week consultation.

If you find this 'bewildering', are you maybe in the wrong job? 

But Prof Julia Waters, Perry’s sister, said her fears that Ofsted was incapable of reforming the inspection regime had been justified. “Ofsted’s proposed new inspection model has some improvements but retains many of the dangerous features of the previous system, while introducing a series of changes with potential new risks to the wellbeing of teachers and headteachers,” Waters said.

Screw their 'wellbeing', they are there to do a job, and if they feel aggrieved at being judged on how well they do it, so what? We are all judged accordingly.

Boris Johnson a case in point

There were two topics to post this morning … one a comment on tyranny by a Narrowboat girl … the other what you see below:

There was one other actually … Zelensky declaring war on the west last evening but that one needs exploring first before posting on it.  Back to Johnson and the Brit-sit.

Whichever of the main two branches of the Uniparty is in, the result will be the same … both are profligate in the worst possible way, just as Biden’s 2020 usurpers were … even on the last day, Biden’s handlers were thinking of places to send the last of the money to.  USAID was the transport vehicle in the main.

Who are the bunnies who pay?  Taxpayers of all kinds of course. Right, as a commenter st our place wrote … only way an individual can hit back, the cumulative effect if everybody does it, is non-compliance with diktats but there are obstacles there.

Firstly, not everyone is of the same mind that things are as bad as they are. Secondly, not everyone is in the same position … all very well calling for non-compliance when you have less to lose … for some, that non-compliance ruins them because of the very piecemeal nature of it across the land.

And that makes it dead easy for the stasi to pick off each person or family one by one over the months, throwing the book at them … either obscene lengths of stints in prison, with long stretches in solitary … or in Nazi Germany back then in Poland, whole villages slaughtered because of one person’s non-compliance.

Clearly there must be an answer to this or else the people of the land perish … whoa, hang on … is that not what WEF Unterfuhrer Starmer is doing … bumping off the elderly and dissident first, whilst flooding the land with fighting age aliens, who also gum up the system?

Boris … Messiah?  Hardly … Mr. Partygoer during Covid is hardly going to do anything whatever for the ordinary Brit … maybe just for Princess Nut-Nut.  Plus his Brexit betrayal too of course.

All right … Reform?  Tice and Farage are useless … M25 bubble people … going for gongs or whatever.

The other three?  The youngest … hardly. Leaving Rupert and Lee … excellent chaps, salt of the earth, they certainly care … do they have what it takes to save the land?  That experience in dirty politics where every person is to a point a quisling?

There’s a lesson in the US on this … DJT was an innocent in a house of traitors in his first term … then the Steal and some sages have written that he had to go through the Steal, the baptism of fire, in order to wake up. For example, would Fauci have been exposed, had DJT just been returned for a final term?

Back to Britain … is there any sort of “leader” on the horizon whatever who can command enough numbers to cross that line?  Farage? Musk said he did not have what it took.  Hmmmmm.

Back to Bill’s non-compliance … I agree in principle … now, in practice … how to go about it with brutalist Starmer?

When Is NHS Bedblocking Dealt With, And When Isn't It?

 

This is Jessie, to whom the organisation people clapped on their doorsteps for showed no mercy, despite it not being her wish to bedblock:

"I feel very angry, upset, worthless, and like my mental health and my life does not matter," says Jessie, propped up in a hospital bed.

She is recording this in a video diary. Blue NHS curtains are drawn around the bed and all her possessions are stacked up in the tiny chaotic space this creates. Among the piles of boxes and bags sit the dolls she holds to keep her calm.

Thirty-five-year-old Jessie spent 550 days in Northampton General Hospital. For nearly all that time, she was medically fit to leave but finding her a suitable place to go to was difficult.

The BBC has followed her story for more than five months as the NHS trust took costly High Court action against her, to have her evicted from the hospital bed she was occupying. 

Meanwhile, in London, action is not taken in five months, no, not even in thrice that number: 

Ruth, you see, is not a patient. Not really. A patient is someone who needs nursing care or medical treatment.

Ruth and Mimi, who’d been living in Grimsby before coming to London, claimed they were homeless and had nowhere to go. Hospitals can obtain possession orders to evict patients from a bed, but the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Barnet, has chosen not to issue legal proceedings.

So what's the difference, Reader? It surely can't be the most obvious thing, can it? 

It’s not just folly … it’s long-planned destruction …

… by globopsychos above, their henchmen (and freeland type wimmin), the myrmidons, the karen army, every little tinpot god in a position of at least some influence … in every field of human activity. Meticulously planned and in-sane.

From the Conservative Woman

“NO ONE WHO is truly awake could now fail to be aware of the tyranny of anti-racism/multiculturalism and the vile assaults on free speech. Yet, following the political activism of the 1960s and 1970s, including the 1968 student-led mass protests, there were worrying developments in the early 1980s: the ultra-Left were invading our major institutions, particularly education, with the specific purpose of dismantling the culture of this country, creating social division, civil strife, and destroying our liberal democracy. That project was then, and has increasingly become remarkably successful, accelerating further under the rule of Starmer.”

I’m leaving it at that … he goes into education, as I could too … esp. around the time of the introduction of the National Curriculum … I’d prefer to keep it to just the far-left, the utter-nutters for now.

When Your Restaurant Review Comes With A Side Order...

...of diversity fawning:

Some restaurants are just a nice place to go for dinner. Yemen Heaven in York is obviously that. You will eat well there.

That's it, Jay, that's all that's needed, right? Recommendations for where to take the little ladie or genrtleman for a nice Valentines Day meal? 

But the restaurant is more than that.

Oh. Clearly not.  

Much like Arabic Flavour in Aberystwyth, which I visited last year, it is both the story of exile and an act of memory. It is the product of one woman’s determination to maintain her family’s traditions; to free the country of her birth from a single narrative of war and hardship, however overwhelming that narrative might seem right now.

*sigh* Anyone else just go to a restaurant to eat some great food and not have washing up afterwards? I do. History and current geopolitical affairs are for the telly afterwards. 

Muna Al-Maflehi was born in Taiz, a brown stone city in the highlands of southwestern Yemen, known before the current civil war for its quality coffee production and for the abundant citrus fields with which it is surrounded. When she was seven, Muna moved with her family to Saudi Arabia, where her father taught her the dishes his father had cooked for him. It was a way of keeping alive a connection to the country and culture they had left behind. In 2013, looking for a better life, she moved with her five children to live near Salzburg. There she started her first food-delivery business before, in 2017, following close relatives to York.

So she’s moved around a lot. Why? 

The plan was always to open a restaurant, but it’s never easy; harder still for those who are newly arrived. Eventually, they found an old pub, the Spread Eagle on Walmgate, in need of custodians and love. The wood-panelling and parquet is still there, and so is the bar, though beaten copper teapots now stand upon it. Otherwise, the space has been carefully papered and polished, and rubber plants strategically placed. According to the blackboard on the pavement by the front door, there is now a “secret Mediterranean garden” for smoking shisha out back.

Just what’s needed, I suppose. Say, why aren’t the usual suspects complaining about this? Why does she get a pass? 

Shortly before they were due to open, at the end of 2021, the newly decorated restaurant was broken into and ripped apart by vandals who splattered the walls with paint. “It was like a bomb had just hit it,” Muna told the York Press at the time, despairingly. “It was like being in the war in Yemen. I couldn’t believe that this had happened in the UK.”

Obviously the war in Yemen was a fairly tame affair!

But the community wanted the restaurant. A crowdfunder was launched. More than £21,000 was raised. Yemen Heaven opened and it remains very much a family affair.

Well, if 'the community' wanted it, they got it. But which 'community' was it, I wonder? 

Facing up to the reality, getting real

First few items I saw Thursday morning illustrate and vigorously underscore that not only are our defences woeful, personally, but also nationally, plus there’s not the slightest chance any of us can combine in sufficient numbers, in a trained and practised way, to meet the extant danger.

Personally, I’m way past the point of warning people, same with so many soc-med pundits whom the jargon today calls red-pilled … we are, in every western nation, in a situation where the enemy goes through us like a knife through soft butter.

Here are some reasons:

a. Living in gaga land

Yesterday, our Julia retweeted an item on X by a martial arts guy, on the subject of women defending themselves. He tore strips off all these feminist inspired self-defence classes, and I’d add … even carrying pepper spray, guns, whatever … they’re all, at a minimum, putting the cart before the horse … at worst, they are pushing a Lie that today’s women, esp. in the west, are so desperate to believe and you see it in every film, in every online war game … the notion that women have sufficient “what it requires in real life” to defend themselves and their children.

Especially against this particular enemy pouring in.

Looking at our men, it’s similar … either flabby, gaunt, beer-paunched, lefty wispy-bearded or mincing, hurt by hurty words, flying to anger in an instant, increasingly impotent due to the poisons over the last few decades and esp. since 2020, along with the jab. Even men who were possibly still formidable in the 80s … ain’t now, not in the least.

Compounding this negligence, which puts us vastly below the WW2 years situation when men and women grew up so much tougher, due to so many factors, not least being the phone-to-ear or keyboard warrior imaginings today, fantasies about how tough we all are, where one hurty word sees us “block” someone and that’s seen as “tough and decisive” … through to passivity, where we make big statements online but never go out and combine in real life.

b. Understanding the nature of the enemy

Rupert Lowe showed footage of one of the latest batches of “fighting age” men arriving … no women, no children … scurrying under canopies into waiting vehicles … the collusion at the very top is out and out treason, even down through the RNLI, the airlines, customs … the lot of em. Combine that with the alien cultures already in … have you seen London and Brummieland demographics … only in America now is anything being done to defund them (DOGE).

Er … why do you think there are more of these now than are actually in the British defence forces and plod combined? And you’ve seen masses of lefty plod trying to take on one machete wielding savage, have you not? More ludicrous is that some of those were women of a sort … wot, 5’2” and/or overweight? The men themselves are no Fancy Smiths of yore or Flying Squad.

Back to the imports … they attack in packs, don’t they, never as one bunch of football lads facing off with another bunch. They attack vulnerable targets in far superior numbers. Women’s self defence lessons? There are some tough women, no doubt of it, a small percentage just as violent as this invading army, Hamas in the west so to speak. Get real.

What did that martial arts guy say? He said know when to run, as Nicky did in the Bourne Supremacy, putting her basic training to effect. But, he added, far better was to avoid trouble in the first place … to not be there in those places. Yesterday, local rag headlines spoke about a girl attacked in a park by two of these creatures … raped of course, brutalised.

What the hell was she doing alone in a park? Think about that. My bet is she’d gone out to meet what she thought were some fun DEIs, have a laugh, herself a budding THOT, trained by Swift. This is what Wokery does, enforced by the law of the land. The yoof are entirely unprotected, ditto the elderly and vulnerable … but the latter are less likely to sneak out to meet imported bad boys.

c. The last of the manly men (and just a few tough women)

… are all staying shtum … Bernie Spofforth showed what happens when not organised, eyes on target, with backup. Allison Pearson (Telegraph) had backup ready. The state decided she was too well placed, whereas Bernie was a loose cannon. Do you not see, ladies and gentlemen, that we are being played like violins?

Why am I not going downstairs to rant snd rave? No backup out there, whereas we have first, second and third defences up here, plus perimeter defences, plus not courting trouble … except me of course. I, in this post, endanger my neighbours and myself. We are on a war footing now, just as in the days of the Blitz … and the quislings are in charge above.

d. Consider a couple of snippets

“This guide looks at three of the main religions in the world, particularly in the Far East and Southern Asia. These religions focus on the forces of nature and energy to create a spiritual way of life.”

That is taken from an NHS course, designed to prepare people, in an Asian way, for “stress”. No mention of course of govt and NHS and Wokery creating that stress. There are thousands upon thousands receiving that pap online … far more among those whose first thought in downtime is to go to the MSM.

Cumulative effect? To soften up, to make defenceless, using soothing gobbledegook to manipulate. Oh … and what is the only major religion not mentioned anywhere at all in the guide? Yep, you guessed it.

Meanwhile, within the visible, officially permitted front of that unmentionable religion, what is the only face anyone ever sees? The antiPope communist in the Vatican, that egregious rainbow priestess that Trump and entourage were harangued by, that clown DJT has appointed his pastor … then Welby … it goes on and on.

Only ever the kookiest, cultlike face, never a real Christian who could easily tell you that female rainbow pastors of megafunded megachurches simply ain’t Christian in the least. Therefore, a real Christian is a menace to the Agenda, n’est-ce-pas? Just as DOGE is, just as readers of this post are. If you’re not dissident, think for yourself types, then what brought you here?

And since when are real Christians wimpy kumbaya chanters by candlelight? Have you not heard of the Salvos in preWoke days, of Onward Christian Soldiers? But even there, the only face permitted by the MSM in days of yore was the crazed, tub thumping Paisley hellfire and brimstone nutter. Religious murder in Ireland.

Drawing this together

It’s all theatre, all lies, all manipulation, rendering all westerners defenceless, lacking oomph, full of fear, disorganised, uncombinable, useless as warriors.

Have a look at this report on PMQs yesterday in the House of Clowns. Pathetic, no? Defenceless in any real way. Achieving nothing.

And finally … think back to those WW2 years … the calibre of the men, women … plus the kids “ride my bike and graze my knees” … right little tearaways, girls useful and skilful … taught to be so by grandmothers and mothers in turn. You all know what I’m saying here.

Meanwhile, the fighting age men with no moral nor social constraints pour in until all available housing is used up.

And then?

Not 'Misguided' - Call Them What They Were: 'Incompetent'....

...and sack them. We'll all be safer without them.

Security minister Dan Jarvis said ‘there was sufficient risk for the perpetrator to have been managed through Prevent’, adding: ‘There are serious questions about how various agencies failed to identify and collectively act on the warning signs.’ Southport MP Patrick Hurley said: ‘Some of the details in this report, in this review, beggar belief.’ Yesterday the damning insight of the case revealed how Rudakubana, now 18, had admitted carrying a knife at school more than ten times, talked about ‘getting teachers murdered’ and wanted to knife a boy he had attacked with a hockey stick to ‘finish him off’.

Which should, in a sane world, suffice to finish off the careers of the idiots in Prevent who handled his case. But won't, of course. They won't even be named.  

Yet in a rush to close his case ‘prematurely’, experts may have failed to consider all the evidence because his name was misspelt in files, the report said. Prevent also did not complete lines of inquiries and concerns that he posed a risk to staff and students were brushed off as a ‘knee-jerk reaction’.

Misguided officers placed ‘too much focus’... ‘on the absence of a distinct ideology’, and missed signs of his escalating risk, the report concluded.

In short, they were incompetent at the very basics of their job. As is so often the case with those tasked with protecting us. Perhaps understandably so, as those who do a good job and do it well are often punished for it years later.  

Yesterday Mr Jarvis announced that Rudakubana will be considered as a ‘registered terrorist offender’ after he was jailed last month for 52 years for the murders and for producing the poison ricin using a terrorist manual.

Finally, common sense breaks out! 

Head of Counter-Terrorism Policing Matt Jukes said the Prevent system was ‘not equipped’ at the time to deal with ‘emerging risks that were very different to those it had been built to address’.

Or with good spelling and grammar, which would seem to be a good place to start. Who knows how many other threats are lurking in the database with different spellings preventing them from being collated? 

We do not need this Suicide BIll

 

That Voltaire maxim

Ann W quite right with that Voltaire maxim:

The lifeblood of dissident criticism … kill that, you’ve killed that society.

A cautionary tale in cyberland

Generally, I’d prefer not to repeat something here I’ve written elsewhere but in this case, it’s a universal theme so this is what just went up across the way, in response to an issue which has arisen:

Thing is this morning that DAD cannot post his comment … the next step is to look at reasons why … the step after that is circumventing it.

First thing is that we’re up against professional hacker-psyops people who do know what they’re doing, e.g. those helping Musk, except bad people, mixed in with hordes of script kiddies out of university, with varying levels of attitude and moral compass, believing either that they’re doing “good” (zealotry) or else obeying orders to keep their jobs.

Second is that the means of communication are controlled and I myself must needs be oblique. For example, no point DAD sending it via ggl as they are one of the core censors … vast majority of attacks on this site alone come from someone associated with ggl. WP are not far behind and remember that NOWP and UHC are not “free” sites, politically, by virtue of being money free. The other two sites have greater degrees of freedom but still have limits.

Third is that there are many corporate and govt or NGO groups acting to censor … in my case, from ex-BT to Apple to ggl to browser firms such as Firefox, Windows … and do not forget govt censor “teams”, both here and in France, the US etc. … then other providers … all censoring … all with their sets of anathema keywords, their bollox “community stds”, meaning only Woke allowed … multi-headed hydra.

Fourth is that what you write should be what I call “euphemised” if likely to be “sensitive”. You may have noticed key words, esp. starting with M, sliding back in and they’re prime words which will certainly shut out your drops. Simply put … if you breach those bot words, in anger, if you include such words, sooner or later at least one of these entities is going to shut you out. Outrageous? Well of course it is … iniquitous … but that’s the playing field and our purpose is to help change that, ourselves a multiheaded hydra.

Fifth, we may be “based”, as opposed to woke or globo but we’re certainly not in complete agreement on many things … just look at Reform itself, riven, fissures everywhere, unherdable cats. And such disagreements split, fracture, divide … that’s why they were inserted by the baddies behind the scenes in the first place … surefire way to foment division, over either this “hill to die on” or that. For example, the baddies have tried to create an issue out of Scott Pressler across the pond … why? Coz he’s a key demonrat-stymier in a key state which they need to flip, the baddies.

Sixth … your own IP address is a killer for you … it gets warning signs attached as “don’t let through”, your device, all you do has your ID all over it … if you do not vary that, then once they have you, you stay had … that’s the reality.

Seventh … your own cyber-literacy. The game has changed in the past few years … you learn from being stymied … it takes time and humble patience, not blind anger.

Eighth … give it time. From a simple “refresh browser” to a reboot (even switching off at the wall and restarting), you can sometimes find a “getaround” that way now … whereas earlier you could not. It could also be attack or incompetence vis-a-vis your provider at some point in the linked chain. Give it time. Try later. This is where I use this russkie word “nichevo” … it means no matter, friend, try a different way later, not as a bull in a china shop now. Also, downtime is thinking time.

Ninth … age and health, combined with natural impatience when stymied. Whatever we’re attempting, someone is finding ways to stop us the entire time, 24/7. We at our age are at a disadvantage age, health and psychologically speaking. Answer is make notes, follow them, take your time … it might take all day.

So, if you, dear reader-dropper, have been shut out, even of commenting at all … then there are a few “getarounds”, e.g. setting up a different email to email, understanding that even the “getaround” can be tainted. For example, I have an email james at unherdable cats dot com. If you have an email which is not one of the main commercial providers, then send what you have to mine, but do not include core naughty words that are sure to be blocked along the way. I’ll reply and/or use the copy you’ve sent. You could try Jstack too as an alternative.

That’s about it for now, chaps and chapesses.

Ten … try all sorts of different get arounds … patiently … but we’ve said that already.

Enough Is Enough - Knock The Bloody Thing Down!

Angela Rayner has been accused of ignoring the concerns of bereaved Grenfell families over plans to demolish the tower block where 72 people died.

It's still standing? Good grief, the fire was in 2017! Knock the eyesore down and be done with it! 

What should happen to the site of the catastrophic fire has always split opinion, with some bereaved and survivors feeling the tower should remain in place until there are criminal prosecutions over the failings which led to the fire.

You should all know by now that's almost certainly never going to happen.... 

Grenfell United claimed Ms Rayner 'refused to confirm how many bereaved and survivors' had been spoken to about demolishing the tower, saying she was ignoring their voices 'on the future of our loved ones' gravesite.

She does that to everyone, you're not a special case. 

The Government has previously said structural engineering advice remained unchanged 'in that the building (or that part of it that was significantly damaged) should be carefully taken down'. It is expected more details will be set out by the end of the week.

The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, published in September, concluded the disaster was the result of 'decades of failure' by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings.

And like every other failure of government and regulation, no-one will lose their job over it.  

A leisurely Sunday read? Watch it, folks!

There are two themes to this post. The first concerns Cummings himself, the power he claims, all of that in the content.  The other is below the screenshot … the process of even getting it to the reader.

Straight to the second theme in this post … the issues in even getting this to you. There was a complaint across the way at our place and I quite sympathise … things were much simpler in IT days of yore. This is partly that platforms have overcomplicated it today for the sake of it … bells and whistles … but some of it is political … to do with censorship, plod at the door in Britain, incarceration.

Have you heard of a lady named Bernie Spofforth?  Maybe another called Allison Pearson? You write a hurty tweet today in this country and they have waited for the pretext.

So, in order to bring you the story, we often have to bury the link, which annoys both readers and us sommit awful.  In the one above, which is an excerpt (allowed for reportage purposes) posted by “Simple” at X, from the Sunday Times interview with Cummings … Simple himself ran a screenshot … therefore the link leads nowhere … but we know it was the ST.

The only recourse for a reader is to find it elsewhere at X, or even on another platform, blogs etc. … or even go to the paywalled ST itself.  Now I did surf a bit to find the url and was going to paste it directly under the screenshot … could not do … not sure it was an issue with plod … more with the ST and copyright/fair usage.

Fine for Ian Hislop to publish and be megafined … he can afford it … we can’t … nor can you the reader. If you’ve read it, you’re guilty of Sunday afternoon reading … a crime in Britain under this communist regime.

Sorry but them’s the times we now live in.

State run media

Consider this one:

Of course, they’ve taken it one step further in Britain … already notorious for lack of protections of citizens, only of “newcomers”, the only media still semi-free are blogs, vlogs and major platforms to varying degrees. Both Julia and I have been suspended multiple times.

Communist govt gets in by playing the system’s faults, plus flat out lying to the public and there it is. The only option is revolution.  Wot?  In Britain?  Maybe in France.

If ‘More Government Propaganda!’ Is The Answer…

...then you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.

On 4 August 2024, the riots and disturbances that followed the killing of three children in Southport, on Merseyside, spread even further. That day, in the midst of a seething mess of far-right misinformation and rumour-mongering, the violence hit Rotherham – where people tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum-seekers – as well as Middlesbrough and Bolton. Serving notice of his new interest in UK affairs, Elon Musk posted a picture of violence in Liverpool on X with a characteristically measured caption: “Civil war is inevitable.” And 24 hours later, the wave of unrest reached the city of Plymouth.

Where could the city’s 260,000 residents turn for reliable information?

Social media? Yup! 

As ever, as people’s social media feeds brimmed with untruths and provocations, more traditional outlets were an obvious choice. But if you tuned into the local BBC radio station while the riot was happening, you might easily have had no idea about any of it. BBC Radio Devon carried a report about the violence in its 6 o’clock news, but at 7pm and 9pm, Plymouth received no mention at all.

Welp, there you go. If there's a vacuum, something is bound to fill it.  

We now know all this thanks to the BBC’s response to a complaint made by David Lloyd, a radio veteran who has worked for both the corporation and commercial stations. The relevant official document, written by the corporation’s complaints director, is quite a read: it includes an admission that “there was little evidence of the BBC having a presence on the scene”, something partly connected to “several logistical problems” on the day in question, including “the availability of journalists who had the required riot training”, as well as “technical issues with broadcasting kit”.

What does all that mean? 'Journalists' who no longer go out chasing stories, perhaps, who are content to sit in a warm office, and farm social media for their 'scoops'?  

Even online, where the modern corporation insists it must focus a lot of its efforts, there was no dedicated live coverage of the Plymouth riot – nor, the report suggests, enough updates posted on the big social media platforms. On the latter score, “more would have been done, had it not been for staff leave”.

Once, journalists would have come in regardless if there was something interesting happening. It was how they made names for themselves. 

Something happens, but what do people read or hear about it? Either nothing at all, or some awful version of it plucked by a foreign billionaire from the fringes of the internet or algorithmically amplified, to the point that questions of truth or falsehood fall away, and a mendacious story creates its own shockwaves. If that is the kind of future we should all be striving to avoid, local reporting ought to be our first antidote.

And yet, no-one’s doing it. Times have changed.