Friday, 5 September 2025
Britain's beautiful Friday ... or is it? (part one)
Sign Of The Times....
Quite reasonably, vampire fans expect a theatre production to have some bite, with plenty of gore and violence. It is horror, after all. But one leading theatre has put a trigger warning on a Dracula show – because it features blood. Bosses at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, west London, fear audiences may be disturbed – apparently not realising that being disturbed is precisely what the customers are paying for.
We all know why this warning is needed - it's to avoid snowflakes rushing to the nearest ambulance chasing lawyer and suing the theatre.
Those dusting off their capes to see theatre’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula will be warned: ‘Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Dracula – based on the novel by Bram Stoker – contains themes of gender-based violence, including visual allusions to sexual assault; death, including of children; blood; abduction; depictions of grief and distress following trauma; the use of weapons; and reference to hanging.’ The theatre adds that the production includes ‘language and scenes that may impact some audience members’. The details of a mental health charity are being handed out in case any audience members are particularly unnerved by the show.
This is merely the showbiz equivalent of the warning 'Contains nuts' on the packet of peanuts they hand out on a flight - if they still do that at all, I haven't been on a flight for years. ButI do have streaming services and trigger warnings are on everything these days, and for the most bizarre reason: 'animals hunting' was one the other day. On a nature documentary!
The trigger warning on Dracula follows one on Hamlet at the National Theatre in London, where audiences were alerted to ‘coercive behaviour’ in the play. Shakespearean actor Brian Blessed, 88, hit out at theatre bosses as ‘ignorant pigs’, saying: ‘It’s f***ing Shakespeare... the greatest writer on the planet.’
And we remember what he wrote about lawyers, don't we Brian?
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Maybe People Are Happy With His Design Skills?
A disgraced architect who was struck off for racially abusing and assaulting a taxi driver is still running a company offering building design services, we can reveal. Thomas Ford, 28, who also stole the driver's Toyota Prius car and crashed it, had his name removed from the UK's register of architects last week after he was given a suspended jail sentence.Maybe he's employed by people who think an architect should only be sanctioned by his professional body if his buildings fall down? And don't care as much about woke concerns of 'appropriate' speech?
Ford appears to have got round any breach of the rules by not describing himself as an architect on the website of his company Tom Ford Architecture Limited.
That could equally have been written ‘appears to have complied with the rules by…’ couldn’t it? Going by the excuses proffered by Three Homes Rayner, whose supporters are always so quick to tell us what she did wasn't really breaking the rules....
Unless the entire purpose of this news item was to imply that he shouldn’t be employed by anyone because he's been declared persona non grata, that is.
His business website, which is still up and running, makes no mention of the judgement against him and his 'erasure' from the UK's list of official architects. Instead, it features glossy computer-generated pictures of home extensions and office buildings which he has apparently designed.
He's not obliged to mention it, is he?
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
The power of Gatekeepers and SpAds
Sunday, 31 August 2025
Careful what you sign
Maybe Because You Pre-empted It?
The Met Police congratulate themselves:
This year's Notting Hill Carnival had "far fewer" incidents of serious violence than in recent years, the Metropolitan Police has said. As of Monday evening, there had been 423 arrests over two days. There were two stabbings, but the Met said neither led to serious injury.Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said the use of live facial recognition, metal detectors and stop-and-search had "prevented some of the serious violence we have seen at previous carnivals".But hang on. Does that include your pre-event arrest tally? Because maybe that played a part too?
Police have arrested 100 people ahead of the Notting Hill Carnival, and say they have taken dozens of weapons off the streets as part of an operation to ensure the safety of all those attending Notting Hill Carnival this weekend.
Or maybe we should accept that ‘only two stabbings’ is some sort of great result, and not call for the closure of this ridiculous event which panders to black culture at the expense of the taxpayer?
Saturday, 30 August 2025
Are the mRNA jabs the scandal of the century?
Friday, 29 August 2025
Answered Your Own Question There, Ayman...
I spent 10 months in Calais trying to get to Britain. It was before small boat crossings become the main method of getting here, but the smugglers were there. We all hated them because they made it more difficult for us to cross the Channel without them. I tried every way I could: lorries, cargo trains, sneaking into the port to try to conceal myself on a ferry.
There you go then. You're a criminal. Just as if, had you climbed in through a window or jemmied a back door, no-one would call you a guest, but a burglar.
Although I had been granted leave to remain by then, I was really scared that the government would come after me too and deport me. That fear has grown even more since the Home Office changed its policy this February: people like me who entered irregularly will now “normally be refused citizenship”.
Good! Let's hope they catch up with you, then, since you've devoted your time here, not to repaying us for our generosity, but ensuring that you assist more of your kind to evade checks and balances on who enters the country:
I work as a cinematographer and also volunteer with a charity as an Arabic interpreter. I speak to a lot of age-disputed young people who the Home Office insists are adults and have been placed in adult hotels. It is so obvious when I listen to them speak that they are children. They cry down the phone to me. They hate being in hotels, forced to share rooms with adults they don’t know.
It's really puzzling. There must, simply by the law of averages, be genuine asylum seekers out there, who have sought that status lawfully and are grateful to the country, yet the 'Guardian' never seems to be able to find any for these pieces...
Thursday, 28 August 2025
The real story of those three young girls
... plus Reform v Advance breaks out.
Sorry about running a second post today, plus it must eclipse even the Elon and Ben chat ... plus the keypost about Andrew Torba must now also wait until tomorrow.