The Coffee House Wall – 31st/6th April

Posted on March 31, 2014

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228 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – 31st/6th April”

  1. “Asked which current world leader he most admired, Mr Farage told GQ magazine: ‘As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say Putin.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593006/Why-I-admire-Putin-Farage-Ukip-leader-praises-Russian-President-superb-operator-outwitted-West.html#ixzz2xXDJusQV

    I would say that this is not adulation as per Mr. Alex Boot. You would have to go to the shrinking ranks of Obama supporters, especially in 2008. for that. Good politically incorrect photograph on this page of the Daily Mail too by the way, showing Mr. farage elegantly holding a cigarette.

  3. Worth getting a copy of the April Modern Railways magazine if you think HS2 is wrong.
    It discusses the north south divide on rail investment. Compare 10 car trains on the South Western with 2 car pacers doing commuter trains into Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff. And look at the investment in Crossrail, London overground and Thameslink compared with the feeble Northern hub. They haven’t even sourced electric trains for the Manchester-Liverpool electrification. It was supposed to have 30 year old Class 319 from Thameslink -but the new trains are late because of the useless DfT
    It discusses the fact that Intercity growth is now flatlining, and that the growth is in commuting. And that the most corwded line is the southwestern into Waterloo. Not the WCML into Euston.
    And a letter points out that people prefer through trains. and that the good people of Nottingham wont want to get a tram to Long Eaton to catch an HS2 train. They will get onto the classic train in the city centre and work on the train while waiting for it to leave. Indeed the whole point behind developing the cross country network in BR days was to give the maximum opportunity to travel through in a through train -people hate changing.

  4. Some bint going under the name of Somi Guha, who nobody has ever heard of and claims to be an actress, is suing the Beeb over the broadcasting of the word slope, claiming it is racist. She is offended by the word, well I am offended by they who come to my country and proceed to dictate what I can and can not say or listen to. Lest anyone should say that she was born in this land, my answer is so what, it takes more than birth to be a Brit and Miss Guha should have bee told to bugger of and grow up.

    The way things are in this country, the calculating woman will get a pay off, and a boost to her career as no-one will turn her down for a part for fear she will scream racism. I have said it before and will say it again, this country is on a slippery slope.

  6. Peter 13.11

    Sometimes I wish we could drop the illusion of sophistication and just tell these people to fuck off.

  10. stephen maybery March 31st, 2014 – 12:37

    “Some bint going under the name of Somi Guha, who nobody has ever heard of and claims to be an actress, is suing the Beeb over the broadcasting of the word slope, claiming it is racist.”

    My wife and I watched the original program, it was quite entertaining and it culminated in the three Top Gear chaps building a bridge over a river using bamboo for the structure and with the help of local labour and I do remember Jeremy Clarkson mentioning that the bridge in question sloped to one side.

    To be sure of my facts I have visited YouTube to watch the brief offending snippet, it shows Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond looking directly across the bridge (prior to each of the three driving their Lorries across), Clarkson said “this is a proud moment, but, there’s a slope on it” to which Richard Hammond replies with hand gestures “your right it’s definitely higher on that side”.

    What was not commented on was that there was a man walking across from the far end of the bridge.

    This silly bitch Somi Guha is looking for a pay-out, she has said that she wants a full apology from the BBC or else she will sue them for £1,000,000.

    I hate how my country has become the claim Capital of the World the sooner we are out of all of the EU and EU Court Laws the better.

    Clarkson should sue this stupid woman for defamation immediately.

  11. I thought I had heard, read (and used) every pejorative word in the OED. Now I find that I haven’t – WTF is a ‘slope’ ? I know we can no longer call a spade a spade, but why can’t Clarkson call a slope a slope? The world has not only gone collectively mad, it is apparently tilted to one side! Which side? The fucking left – of course.

  12. Andy Car Park (13:52)

    Yerrrss! Turquoise shirt heavily impregnated (by couch osmosis) with the musty odour of fatso!

  13. There seems to be a general consensus that Flight 370 took a southerly route over the Indian Ocean.

    The consensus is apparently based on data received from an Inmarsat satellite located in geosynchronous orbit over the Indian Ocean and on highly sophisticated calculations made by Inmarsat that analysed the doppler effect on those signals.

    I have no doubt thaT

  14. A.C.P. at 13-52
    Frank P at 17-29

    “Nigel Farage:Who Are You?”…..a journey that follows the UKIP leader over six months.

    Channel 4 tonight at 7-30pm.

  15. Sorry for the half posting. I guess I pressed a wrong key. Here’s trying again –

    The general consensus that Flight 370 flew southwards over the Indian Ocean is apparently based on signals received by an Inmarsat satellite in geosynchronous orbit over Indian Ocean, and on highly sophisticated mathematics interpreting the differences in those signals caused by the Doppler Effect.

    We all (I believe) have the greatest respect for the capabilities of Inmarsat and for its mathematicians. I certainly do.

    Nonetheless I still wonder if there could have been some technical glitch or even mathematical error?

    For example – is it possible that the signals from the satellite were analysed as if they had been received via a mirror?

    Could such an analysys put the plane on the southerly route? Does it open up the possibility that the plane was in fact flying on a northerly route?

  16. Herbert Thornton – 18:12 ‘Flight 370’
    Anything is possible, but one would have thought that it would have been checked, but until we get confirmation that any debris found is from the plane, we can only wait.

    I do remember an Agatha Christie tale, where there were four suspects to a murder: a Miss Marple, I believe. Of course the culprit was identified, but not well enough to convit, but it was pointed out that the main purpose of the investigation had been realised: to clear the other three!

    I think that Flight 370 will be in the same category.

  17. Frank P March 31st, 2014 – 17:19

    “I thought I had heard, read (and used) every pejorative word in the OED. Now I find that I haven’t – WTF is a ‘slope’”

    Hello Frank, Wikipedia reveals the following.

    “Slope, slopehead, slopy, slopey, sloper (US and Aus) a person of Asian (in Australia, especially Vietnamese; in America, especially Chinese) descent”

    One of the problems with the PC brigade is that almost any word can be found to be of offence to someone else, particularly when they are actively looking to be offended.

  18. Radford NG (18:00)

    “Miguel” refers to Portillo, not Farage, I assume.

    As for Channel 4’s potted biopic on Nige, I think we can assume it will not be a hagiography. Not sure which of the three elements of the Con-lib-lab travesty is more frit of UKIP, but they are all spending a lot of time addressing the threat.

    Let’s hope it backfires. I shan’t be voting for any of the toe-rags. They’re all as bent as clockwork oranges; when they’re not sodomising each other (literally), they’re buggering the rest of us (metaphorically).

    I just watched some mad bastard from the IPCC called Sir Mark Walport (who looks like a cross between Groucho Marx and that mad TV boffin who used to wave his arms about a lot and talk absolute bollocks about the future of technology – forgotten his name now), telling us that the end of the world is nigh through ‘climate change’ and if we don’t cough up great oodles of moolah to continue to pay his and his co-scamsters fucking wages – and invest in the all the subsidiary scams he and his thieving poxy oppos are promoting with their bogey ‘science’. we shall be letting down future generations.

    If he was a cowboy builder scamming old ladies, or some vicar decrying pouffery, Old Bill would be knocking at his door by now. But because he’s being sponsored by the crooks in the Palace of Wankers (who are usurping HM Government presently) and have enjoined Sky news and the rest of the scabby meeja into the conspiracy they are perpetrating, with impunity, the biggest scam ever to be inflicted on the citizens of Western countries!

    I suggest that Commissioner Dick-hyphenated-Head, the Commissar of the Metrollups diverts some of his bent ‘detectives’ to earn their living – and open a file on this scam. The relatives of the cabinet who have invested in wind-farms and solar panels would be a good place to start. And if there isn’t anyone with the nous to bring such an enquiry to fruition then, health and semi-senility notwithstanding, I’m prepared to pause my retirement, take down my size elevens from the utility room hook, retrieve my warrant card and do it for him.

    And another thing – some ugly old bitch named Sophia Cannon, purporting to be a “Family Law Barrister” on the same news bulletin, was attempting to set up another scam for the benefit of shysters by suggesting that a new statute be enacted to prosecute parents for causing ’emotional stress’ to their children.

    The problem with this country is that most of the children aren’t being nicked for causing emotional stress to their parents and that the Prime Minister and his jumped-up-never-come-down-scaly-backed-parasites of the ‘cabinet’ aren’t being nicked for causing untold stress amounting to gbh to all HM citizens. Ye Gods!
    Who writes this propaganda for the bastards?? Roll out the tumbrils. It’s time to GO!

  19. Frank P 31st, – 17:19

    “WTF is a ‘slope’ ?”

    It refers to the angle of the forehead away from the vertical, which is more marked in a specific racial group, which definitely excludes that of the silly b*tch who’s complaining.

  20. The Channel 4 Farage documentary was quite good and fairly balanced. I’m afraid the makers of the programme probably know that any increase in the popularity of UKIP resulting from this programme will be to the detriment, predominately, of the Tories; this sadly will not mean a UKIP administration, but a Marxist one, under Miliband; or whoever takes over when they dump him. There’s the rub. Nonetheless a vote for UKIP is essential, if only as an indication of the ire of hoi polloi. Another spell under liebore can’t be any worse than under a coalition of wet Tories and a minority party of far left wankers; particularly when the tail is wagging the dog. Cameron has been a cultural and political disaster!

  21. David Ossitt and Ostrich.

    Thanks for updating my lexicon of slang. I’d better slope off and behave myself then. 🙂

  22. I always thought that “a slope” was an inclined plane …..
    not to be confused MH370, slippery or otherwise.

  24. Alexsandr 12-26

    A major problem in Nottingham is that the Midland Railway was one of the first in the world;serving Derby-Leicester-Nottingham on a triangular route.

    Derby is still a major Rail centre;Leicester is on the main line,Sheffield to St. Pancras ;and Nottingham is left at a dead end.Every second train on the main line comes in and goes out again from the same direction.

    I want to see the tram system extended,coming from eight miles to the north,to an interchange station south of Toton on the main line;with the same trains coming into Nottingham.Then see how it went before leaving it to the market as to how the trains should run.

    I would extend the tram route to the East Midland Airport.

    I would also upgrade the main line from Sheffield to Leeds and beyond;along the Settle and Carlisle line to Glasgow.

    An alternative would be to reopen the Great Central Railway from Euston.Most of the route is still available and would not be costly compared with HS2.

    For that matter I would reopen the Great Central Line from Euston into central Nottingham

  27. Aria inspired by the word “slope”:

    My daughter last night asked me what a “gowk” was, which had appeared on her IPad thingy. With Malfleur’s usual arrogance, I told her that there was no such word in English but that she should google it – which of course she didn’t.

    So I did and discovered that it means “an awkward or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse)”,a simpleton (British dialect” and is related to the verb ‘to gawk’. It seems it comes from the Old Norse for a cuckoo.

    “She sat there all day like a great gowk.”

    MOREOVERR i noticed in my googling thet the Scottish Wikipedia (didn’t know about that either) there is the entry:

    “Hunt the Gowk Day is on tht 1st o Aprile ilka year in mony kintras. On this day, practical jokes baurs is played on freends an faimily. The baurs is duin for tae gie thaim a reidie.

    In Scotland the tradeetional pantomime is tae speir at a body tae deleever a sealt message seekin help o some sort. In fact, the message reads “Dinna lauch, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk anither mile”. The recipient, upo readin it, will expone he can anely help if he first contacts anither sowel, an sends the veectim tae this body wi a sel an same message, wi the same affcome. Scotland haes 2 hail days for pliskies, 1st Aprile an 2nt Aprile. (See Preen-tail Day.)”

    So I went back to my daughter with hung head – but she of course wasn’t listening to me again anymore…

    Anyone know what Preen-tail Day might be? I didn’t search further. Peter, you have Scottish connections. It sounds like something that the leaders of LibLabCon might want to cultivate.

  29. Malfleur:

    A gowk appears to be a cuckoo; while a preen-tail is attached to the rear of unsuspecting victims.

    I have the idea that all this comes from the change to the Gregorian Calendar;and previously it was all part of the New Year `Feast of Fools`:at least that is my idea.

  31. April Fool?

    ON MARCH 28, THE TREASURY RESERVE NOTE (NEW US DOLLAR) WAS EFFECTED.

    THIS IS A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR OUR HUMANITY AS THE FUNDS THAT WERE RELEASED GLOBALLY ARE NOW LIVE AND DENOMINATED IN THE NEW US DOLLAR. THE TRN IS ON SCREENS.

    THE FED DOLLAR IS BEING EXCHANGED IN EUROPE FIRST, AND THAT IS OCCURRING BEFORE THE US BEGINS THE EXCHANGE THIS COMING WEEK. THE OLD DOLLAR WILL DEVALUE SOMEWHAT, BUT IT WILL NOT BE A HIGH RATE AND IS EXPECTED TO BE AT THE 3-4% MARK ONLY.

    THE OLD FED DOLLAR IS EXPECTED TO BE DISCOUNTED ABOUT 45% AGAINST THE TRN, AND BEING GOLD BACKED, THE TRN WILL ACTUALLY PREVENT THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE PREDICTED BY SO MANY AS IT OFFSETS THE DEVALUATION, AND KEEPS THE DEVALUATION TO A SMALL PERCENTAGE AS ABOVE.

    ALL FINANCIAL EVENTS ARE CONFIRMED FOR NEXT WEEK INCLUSIVE OF THE RE-VALUATION. THE FORMAL GLOBAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TRN, THE GLOBAL CURRENCY RESET.

    THE GLOBAL RESET HAS OCCURRED, BUT IT IS QUIET AT THE MOMENT WHILE THEY POSITION EVERYTHING FOR THE FORMAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT.

    THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT IS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY APRIL 6, 2014. THE NEWS WILL BE CARRIED BY CNN AND OTHERS.

    THE AMOUNTS OF FUNDS COMING OUT OF THE SYSTEM INTO MAINSTREAM ECONOMIES WILL RAMP UP VERY QUICKLY INTO THE EXPECTED HUNDRED OF B FIGURES.

    THE ARRESTS ARE COMING AS WELL, AND THEY HAVE WELL OVER 500 ARRESTS TO MAKE ON VARIOUS CHARGES. AS WE ALL KNOW, THE ACTIONS PERPETRATED BY THE ONES IN POWER RANGE FROM TREASON, TO THEFT, TO CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO SEDITION TO BEATING UP PUPPIES. YOU DO NOT BEAT UP PUPPIES.

    PAYMASTERS ARE BUSY NOW GLOBALLY AS THEY PREPARE TO SEND OUT THE FIRST WIRES TO VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL BEGIN THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

    THE BIS RELEASED THE FUNDS LAST THURSDAY, AND THE NEXT DAY ON FRIDAY, THE TRN WAS SIGNED IN BY THE USA. SO ALL THE MAJOR TRANSFERS THAT BEGIN THE RESET TO THE VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS AND TOP LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS WERE EFFECTED. TODAY, THE RV IS TO BE CONTINUED TO THE NEXT LEVEL, AND TOMORROW, ON MONDAY, RENO WILL BE VERY BUSY.

    TRULY HISTORIC TIMES ARE UPON US.

    OH YES, EXPECT BANKS TO BE CLOSED FOR 24 HOURS WHEN THE RESET IS EFFECTED AT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL LEVEL. IT WILL NOT BE A WEEK OR MONTH AS SOME PREDICT.

  34. some good april 1 pieces today. guardian says Scotland to switch to right hand driving and to have a massive corkscrew road intersection built at Carlisle so traffic can change lanes without stopping
    Other stories have Salmond on the £1 coin in Scotland, and the indy says the UN will have peacekeeping forces in the borders in case of trouble.

  35. Frank P @ 00:46

    “And that’s just the foreplay….”

    … and thereafter everything must be an uphill struggle. 😯

    “NSS” ? Either way, Watson never said it! 🙂

  36. Alexsandr 1st, – 09:17

    “the indy says the UN will have peacekeeping forces in the borders in case of trouble.”

    O-oh goody! That’ll keep the local Geordie ‘ladies of the night’ occupied.

  37. stephen maybery
    March 31st, 2014 – 12:37
    If a man is born in a cowshed, it does not make him a cow. Likewise if a cockroach is hatched in a palace, it does not make it a prince.

  38. To Verity:
    Hi, was happy to see you posting and responded. Unfortunately, I posted at the end of last week’s board. Hope you are well and, if us ladies dare say it, keeping your pecker up. 🙂

  40. Robert C (12:59)

    That’s him! Thank you. Do they they all emerge from the same gene pool?
    Actually, I’m being unfair to old Magnus – at least he didn’t act in concert with the international carbon mafia crooks and rob the taxpayer blind. I must get a copy of the book and discover how his predictions turned out?

    Remember Herman Kahn? I wonder what he would have to say about today’s political dog and pony show if he could return for a day, 30 years on.

  41. Few would not concede that the Labour Party under Milliband has made great contributions to stabilising the rocky ship of state. We are lucky to have men such as him in this dark hour. ………Do we really need UKIP to rock the boat again?

  43. So the troll Telemachus tries his very best to take the proverbial piss out of all of us all by posting the gobbledygook below, oh how I wish that he did not post here.

    “Few would not concede that the Labour Party under Milliband has made great contributions to stabilising the rocky ship of state. We are lucky to have men such as him in this dark hour. ………”

    If ever there were a competition of trolls praising twits then this would be at the top of the league.

  45. David Ossitt
    April 1st, 2014 – 1
    David, no point in becoming angry with creepy crawlie Bolshies.

  47. “I remember Prof. Heinz Wolff as being a particularly good egg.”

    A particularly good egg-head indeed both literally and figuratively; and that’s no yoke, albumin well have you know. Shell I get me coat?

  51. Looking back at the last 60 odd years, it is distressing how much of Labours disastrous measurers were left in place by the Conservatives and remain there. Moral of this tale, vote Conservative and inherit Labour.

  53. Just turned on the TV. A party political broadcast, guaranteed to send me grabbing the blood pressure tablets, but then do so many things in this day and age.

  54. Stephen, I find I can stomach so little that is on the TV. Thank goodness for repeats of Dad’s Army!!

    For myself, this evening I have the treat of Dinner at the home of Mr Boot and as soon as it is possible I will arrange An Evening With Alex Boot on central London for us all to enjoy

  55. Vince Cable refuses to apologise. Naturally, that vile little bedbug thinks he is beyond any blame for anything that has happened on his watch. I suspect he is not only inefficient and ignorant, but also, like the rest of his mob, corrupt and criiminal.

  56. How enriched I feel to have these people amongst us.

    Teenager was still alive as boyfriend started to cut off her head with a knife before stabbing himself in the chest, court hears

    Aras Hussein, from Sheffield, had allegedly blackmailed 18-year-old Reema Ramzan by taking sexual photographs of her and threatening to share them with her family.

    Full Story:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594369/Teenager-alive-boyfriend-started-cut-head-court-hears.html

    MailOnline

    Sent from my iPhone
    John.birch@me.com

  60. Frank,
    I read your link. Depressing, but for me there was nothing new. I have spent half my working life in the middle East and have forgotten more about the region it’s people and their outlook than most people will ever know, what angers me is the determination of our chattering classes to cut our throats on their behalf. We have a great tradition of tolerance in this country, but this is being ruthlessly abused by Muslim fanatics, who see our tolerance as weakness and hold us in contempt, every attempt to appease them only acts as encouragement and they come back for more. These people only respect strength and until the authorities stop worshiping at the alter of multiculturism things will only get worse. In Australia, migrants are told if you do not like Australia, then leave it. The same message should be sent out by own government, and sent out soon for I fear we do not have too much time left. As I said the British people are remarkably tolerant, but when they turn then God help those they turn against.

  61. Stephen, it was a very interesting dinner in that one guest was clearly fuming at the views which Alex and I were proposing, nothing extreme particularly, and ended up exploding in a torrent of personal abuse and being escorted out by the other guest. I thought it was performance art at first. It was all rather shocking.

  62. Frank P – 01:09
    The shape of things to come:
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4242/uk-schools-islamist-trojan-horse

    “[The tactics are] totally invisible to the naked eye and allow us to operate under the radar. I have detailed the plan we have in Birmingham and how well it has worked and you will see how easy the whole process is to get the head teacher out and our own person in. … Whilst sometimes the practices we use may not seem the correct way to do things you must remember this is a ‘Jihad’ and as such using all means possible to win the war is acceptable.” — Quote from document leaked to the Sunday Times.

    The Guardian — an otherwise inveterate enforcer of British multiculturalism — quotes senior teachers and school officials in Birmingham who say they recognize the tactics outlined in the document as having been used by Islamic hardliners to try to gain influence in the city’s schools for over a decade.

    British authorities are investigating the source of a document that purportedly outlines a plot by Muslim fundamentalists to Islamize public schools in England and Wales.

    The four-page document describes a strategy—dubbed Operation Trojan Horse—to oust non-Muslim head teachers and staff at state schools in Muslim neighborhoods and replace them with individuals who will run the schools according to strict Islamic principles.

    Frank, just making it more visible!

    While the word ‘Whilst’ does make me wonder who wrote the first extract, it should not stop the ‘authorities’ from pursuing this lead fully. It is going to take a sea change in attitude and approach from them which is unlikely to happen unless more public pressure is made visible. Which way will the BBC follow?

  63. stephen maybery, April 2nd, 2014 – 06:36

    On Monday night I watched the Panorama “special” on the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets and its mayoralty. It was an object lesson in how to use the ‘democratic’ process to seize power with only 13.25% of the registered vote. There was an interview with Mr. Pickles who muttered about “looking into things” and “taking action if needed” etc. But of course he won’t.

  64. stephen maybery 2nd, – 06:36

    “but when they turn then God help those they turn against.”

    One lives in hope… 😉

  65. EC,
    I missed the Panorama special on Monday although the neighbours had tipped me off. I do not think there was anything new in it for me. We have known what is going on in Tower Hamlets for donkey’s ears. In this part of the World the votes are cast in Bangladesh and counted in the borough. What really gets me going is pickles reaction, “!Looking into things” My arse, this fraud has been known by authorities for a very long time, yet nothing has been done. Lutfer Rahman has been shovelling into Muslim charities with the object of buying votes, yet I, fighting to save a small charity, and ten grand would have saved us, could not get a penny out of the bastard, he could not even be bothered to reply to the letters we wrote to him. Some one should ask Pickles why he pretends not to know about this situation

  66. Anybody else quite happy with the price for which Royal Mail shares were sold?

    Proof that the leftist clowns have no idea how business works. This is simply a re-run of the socialist response to every privatisation that ever took place under Mrs. Thatcher…bo-oring!

  67. Peter,
    I was appalled by your description of your night chez Alex. I was brought up to understand that if you accepted someone’s hospitality, you said the food was wonderful, even if you could not stand it, and you never attacked a fellow guest as this would have been seen as an insult to the host. Your experience was an illustration of our times and the type of people who inhabit them. Please assure Alex that when we meet up he will not experience such behaviour.

  68. Peter from Maidstone @08:37

    “Stephen, it was a very interesting dinner in that one guest was clearly fuming at the views which Alex and I were proposing, nothing extreme particularly, and ended up exploding in a torrent of personal abuse and being escorted out by the other guest. I thought it was performance art at first. It was all rather shocking.”

    SO, he or she was given the Order Of The Boot! 🙂
    It must have been a surreal experience! Was the individual “tired an emotional” in the manner of Jeffery Bernard? Obviously your general demeanour of being quietly spoken, relaxed and assured whilst advancing your modest proposals must have got right under their skin – you rotten swine you! 🙂

  69. The guest absented himself in rather an emotional state. We had been discussing gay ‘marriage’ and it seemed that he believed that as long as people loved each other that was enough to justify extending marriage to them. We had also discussed the Crusades and I’d insisted that many of those on the First Crusade were wealthy and powerful men who gave up a great deal for a noble ideal. I think he viewed both a negative attitude to gay ‘marriage’ and a positive attitude towards some aspects of the Crusades as incompatible with Christianity, which he seemed to have interpreted as letting every one do what they want without criticism unless you are a conservative in which case everything you believe is barbaric and reactionary.

  70. Peter from Maidstone 2nd, – 10:15

    “unless you are a conservative in which case everything you believe is barbaric and reactionary.”

    🙂

    Of course, Mr. Boot is perfectly capable of letting his guests make his points for him…in ways they don’t intend. (and are too thick to realise that that’s what they’ve just done.)

  71. stephen maybery
    April 2nd, 2014 – 06:36
    Frank,
    As I said the British people are remarkably tolerant, but when they turn then God help those they turn against.
    Stephen, from your mouth to G-d’s ears! Please provide examples, they seem mightily thin on the ground.

  72. Anne,
    I do not refer to the current mess but to historic events, try Hitler or Wilhelmine Germany as the most recent examples, then of course we did not let up on that other little corporal either. When this nation starts some thing it does not give up until victory. Of course when politicians take over the military, then we have the complete dogs breakfast, as witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  73. stephen maybery
    April 2nd, 2014 – 11:08
    Unfortunately, the current moslem establishment is just as dangerous as that maniac Hitler. Perhaps even more so, as they thrive with the connivance of the Western powers, who are afraid of not being politically correct. Great chunks of our once free land are being taken over by these vile creatures, whilst bloated fools like Eric Pickles, and deviants like Clegg and Cameron pretend to be conservatives and patriots. I am not even mentioning the Galloways, Livingstones, Harmans, Millibands and other active traitors. There are many Tower Hamlets!

  74. Peter

    Solemnising sodomy is just the latest milestone in the Long March. What’s even more insidious is the number of useful idiots who are getting into step without even realizing what they are marching towards – and why. Or even where and when it set off. The kind of person who demurred at your dinner party are now by far the majority. Suck it up!

  75. Christianity has ‘turned the other cheek’ until all four cheeks have been violated; now the ‘invaders’ are sticking it up the crevice between the two posterior ones!

  79. I found last week’s debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage both interesting and illuminating, from what I observed Nigel Farage was the winner by at least 65/35 but then I am biased, in that I loathe Nick Clegg.

    I also felt that the chairman tried to be impartial but did let Clegg get away with talking too much and Clegg in desperation did the old trick of answering questions that were not asked when faces with a question that he would struggle to answer.

    Tonight; on the BBC at 7pm we have the re-match, this time chaired by the ever partial (I talk too much) David Dimbleby, I wonder who will come out more bruised, him or Clegg, because I am convinced that Nigel Farage will be more than a match for both of them.

    With both local and EU elections due on 22nd of May I think that Clegg has made a major booboo, by agreeing to these debates he has given Nigel Farage a very welcome publicity boost, Nigel is a much better and more natural public speaker than Clegg is and I hope that he knocks Clegg out of the ring tonight.

    But as I have already said, I am biased.

  80. I have been re-reading the Coalition Agreement. The AV referendum was ‘linked to’ boundary reform only in the sense that, in the event of an affirmative result in that referendum, both AV and boundary reform (along with a reduction in the number of constituencies) were to be included in a Referendum Bill. See page 27, top left. So far, so much of a dog’s dinner.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/coalition_programme_for_government.pdf

    What is plain is that there was never any link (as in inter-party trade) between constituency reform and reform of the House of Lords. Reform of the House of Lords appears in the next but one paragraph and is linked to nothing else.

    Clegg is just a lying little toerag. He will be worsted in the debate with Nigel Farage. He and his repulsive little party of drunks, jailbirds, pederasts and gropers will be humiliated at the European elections on 22 May. And come the General Election, Clegg will be trussed up like a turkey and lowered slowly and ceremonially on to a rusty spike as people roar with approval. WBGTDWI?

  81. stephen maybery.

    You didn’t even need to be in Tower Hamlets ( ie the old cockney heart land to the east of the Tower of London) to know what was going on there.It could be found-out via news from the EDL [which is not allowed into the district] and links to the local papers.

    Shame on Eric Pickles [who deploys the EDL] that it takes a TV documentary to notice the situation.

  87. Radford NG

    Yes it is available – many thanks for the link. I couldn’t sleep and at 2.00am connected to it at the point where the Ukraine and Syria were being debated.

  88. We are recording the Farage-Clegg debate, as we intend watching it at 10pm this evening.

    However listening to the BBC political editor Nick Robinson on the 6pm news it is obvious that the knives are out by the BBC to get Nigel Farage, they are centring in on the fact that Farage has a certain admiration for ‘Putin’ as a statesman but not Putin the man.

    Farage basis this on the fact that without Putin’s intervention the west might well have joined the conflict in Syria.

    He has a sound argument for stating this and I for one agree with him but just watch how Dimbleby and Clegg will use this to try and discombobulate Nigel, I pray that they will not succeed.

  89. The BBC is now analysing the debate with its usual skill; but one important question remains unanswered: should David Dimbleby give serious thought to growing a moustache?

  90. Radford NG

    Thanks also for reminding us, at 15:46, that the English Defence League is still in business. I see it now has a radio show.

  92. RobertC @ 15:49

    It seems a key component of contemporary British democracy that the PM has the last say what shirts the boys kicking ball for the nation wear. If Putin were to interfere like that the one of the confused party would have pointed it out in tonight’s debate, pilloried Farage.

  93. Quite a large chunk of Cleggy’s performance was constructing straw men, then demolishing them. This alone should have disqualified him from any future debate.

    What new argument has he advanced? Even Baron would have come up with at least one powerful argument in favour, and he is, after the Ukraine EU meddling, fully in the out camp.

  94. Farage has come out on top as leader of the Loyal opposition against membership of the EU.

    Cameron,who is the current organ-grinder on the pro-EU side,sent along his monkey to this debate.

  95. The nineteen year old student has been deported. Brave May! All the scum that is allowed to remain here. despite committing the worst of crimes, deranged moslems, mafia chiefs, you name it. This young girl has been used as a scapegoat for all the rubbish the government not only allows to remain here, but actively supports with benefits, social housing and whatever else they need. A curse on this Government and the baggy-eyed May who is a disgrace to womanhood.

  96. Baron – 20:50 ‘key component of contemporary British democracy’

    Goal! No need for a replay!

  97. Anne,
    Well said, the girl was fighting deportation on the grounds that she was under threat from family members. What next I ask you? I do not for one minute doubt that the poor girl was being manipulated by those who think that everyone has a right to be in this country except those who were born here, thus racking up the resentments felt by native born Brits.

  98. A TV news report on the election in Afghanistan tonight was claiming ‘the international community has invested $40bn in the country since the invasion’, the video that accompanied the reporter’s narrative was showing abject poverty, desolation, despair. Where did the money go, and doesn’t it back Farage’s point about the costly uselessness of our interfering in the affairs of others?

    In the same report, a Western doctor is asked why most of the projects the money has been spent on failed: He says: ‘It’s because the projects ‘lacked long term credibility vision’. Leaving aside the ambiguity of the phrasing of the answer, the question is who are these people responsible for this lack of? Are they still spending our money elsewhere on projects that again lack ‘long term credibility vision’?

  99. Paxman’s Newsnight tonight discussing the second EU debate: Two pundits, one Labour, the other a Tory, both grossly contemptuous mostly of Farage, of course, but of the boy from the confused party, too, the former saying: ‘Two bald men fighting over a comb’.

    This neatly summed up the current political environment here: Nobody matters but the two stale, monochromatic, insolent elite groups. Let’s hope the unwashed deliver a lesson in May they won’t forget in a hurry.

  101. Baron

    “Let’s hope the unwashed deliver a lesson in May they won’t forget in a hurry.”

    Amen!

  102. Baron (23:21)

    This may help you; it’s a shame the msm haven’t more widely reported the success of John Sopko’s work, but the reason for that may be obvious to you:

    http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/4/afghanistan-and-thebottomline.html

    Pay attention to this paragraph in particular:

    “I’m outta here after this,” Sopko said. “I don’t expect to get another federal job. I want to make a difference. I hired a lot of people here who gave up good-paying jobs. I want to try to change … how we work as a government, because the government is broken.”

    I can personally vouch for the integrity of Mr Sopko, having collaborated with him on casework over a period of thirty years. He’s never been a patsy for any administration.

    Sadly success in fighting crime and corruption has to be measured in relative terms – the scale of perpetration against the resources supplied to the prevention and detection of it. John Sopko, like many of us who spent a lifetime at the sharp end of enforcement are the first to admit that war against both will never be won, because of the frailty of the human condition;, but more power to the elbow of those who realise it must continue to be waged regardless – and devote their lives to the cause, difficult as it is. He and his team are good people.

  103. Frank P

    Without irony, I believe you.

    I look forward to reading Mr. Sopko’s account once he has retired as SIGAR.

  104. God help us all
    One dimensional demagogue Farage who did nothing more than sloganeer was given a win
    This bodes I’ll for the future of our nation
    We can only hope that in the cold light of day folks see sense

  105. Frank P @ 03:16

    Your vouching for the man would have been more than enough, Frank, but even a short scanning of what he says reassures.

    What a sad reflection on our society that someone like him feels he cannot expect another federal job because he doesn’t hide behind weasel words, tells it as he sees it. But then, who wants to hear the truth today.

  106. malfleur @ 01:22

    In a similar link to Sigar provided by Frank, the reporter says ‘money bricks’, chunks of $100 bills, $100,000 per packet were leaving the country, Karzai explaining the cash couldn’t be invested within Afghanistan, the country couldn’t handle it, the warlords’ account offshore being looked after some of the West’s well known banks ….

    Then below, one of the posters gives a judgment that fits: “And to whom does this come as a surprise, or even as news?”

    Quite.

  107. telemachus @ 06:50

    Yup, folks are beginning to see sense’, telemachus, but it ain’t the ‘sense’ you favour.

    How does it feel then to see that two thirds of those watching the sparring think differently from you?

  108. “I want to try to change … how we work as a government, because the government is broken.””
    John Sopko.

    Charles Koch, in yesterday’s WSJ, is very much of the same opinion!

    “Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation’s own government.”

    http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286?mod=Opinion_newsreel_1

    Well worth a read.

  109. Baron, April 3rd, 2014 – 09:12

    Indeed. It sure looks like that on May 22nd the electorate, myself included, are going to tell the three main parties to “folk off !”

  110. EC@April 3rd, 2014 – 09:22
    The best bit will be the headless chicken gibbering from the MSM and liblabcon on the 23rd. Wonder how many lessons will be ‘learned’ that day.

    but I do hope Clegg is decapitated in 2015. that would make me a very happy bunny

  112. The boss blocker at OFSTED wants children to start nursery school at the age of two. Is he totally MAD? To espouse a viewpoint like that shows he’s clearly unfit for the job!

  115. O(o) – 09:40 ‘start nursery school at 2’

    There would be a chance that they were toilet trained by the time they reached five years old!

  117. It was a delight to watch, on Newsnight last night, the sneering Paxo, Danny Finkelstein ( sorry LORD Finkelstein of Turncoat – Ye Gods!) and the Labour Part wonk whose name escapes me (and I can’t be arsed to re-run the item) whistling in the dark and trying to diminish Farage’s
    obvious rout of Private Pike in last night’s ‘debate’. They don’t like it up ’em Mr Mainwaring!

    Wait a mo … I should perhaps qualify that last sentence? 🙂

  118. Ostrich (occasionally) @ 09:40

    The move is reminiscent of the Bolsheviks’ ‘from the cradle to the grave’ approach’. It may sound as overdoing it, but to look after such young souls requires a large element of regimentation, lining them up before a walk, teaching them how to stand still, how to queue to do tasks and stuff like that, which installs in the near toddlers the idea of obeying orders, respecting an authority other than that of the parents. At that age, it should be the parents who are in total control, the initial bonding of the child should be with the natural parents (unless they’re not fit for such rresponsibility, but that’s another story).

    The other thing is who’s going to pay for all this.

  119. “The other thing is who’s going to pay for all this.”

    Why Baron, my dear fellow, who do you think will pay for it and all the other idiocies and inanities that flow from the collective gutbucket that comprises the troughers of Westminster ?
    You, of course Baron.
    (Though I’ll be making a small contribution too.)

  120. Ostrich (occasionally)
    April 3rd, 2014 – 09:40
    Not such a terrible idea. Too many children come from one-parent families, unmarried mothers who do not give their children the security they need.
    RobertC
    April 3rd, 2014 – 11:26
    You are correct. So many of the mothers are busy on their mobiles, too busy to pay attention to their offspring, and just stick them in their buggies with junk food to shut them up, and the children stink of dirty napkins at an age when they should be toilet trained. A firm lesson in discipline and social behaviour would be an improvement on the feral monsters which blight modern life.

  122. Maybe she’ll play him a little Bach, instead to cleanse his soul. But perhaps her Bach is worse than her Britten?

  125. Anne Wotana Kaye 1 April 3rd, 2014 – 14:38

    “You are correct. So many of the mothers are busy on their mobiles, too busy to pay attention to their offspring”

    Anne whilst in a supermarket I make a point of speaking to all children who are strapped in their push chairs screaming or making some other noise while the mother appears to be oblivious to the racket that they are making.

    I speak only to the child but my message is for the parents ears, I always say “is nobody listening to you little one?” almost always the effect is immediate, the child will stop its screaming and look at me, I then usually say “aren’t you a lovely little boy/girl, let’s not have any more noise” I then move on.

    Children need some attention from their parents, mind sometimes you will hear some dim mother asking a two year old “what shall we have for dinner tonight” those silly mothers are storing up trouble for the future, children should eat whatever their mothers provide.

  127. Frank P, April 3rd, 2014 – 15:30

    “Anyone wanna take a long shot on his becoming POTUS?
    Now you know what the KGB used to do on their stag nights!”

    Bwahahahahahahaha! Pure Gold!

    Vlad’s piano playing – he ain’t no Liberace – that’ for sure 🙂
    Vlad’s singing voice – second only to Benny Hill doing a chinaman.
    Soon to be Russian citizen and French tax exile Gérard Depardieu seemed to be very appreciative!
    Also, after his spell as US SoS, good to see Colin Powell gaining employment as trumpet player.

  128. AWK1 3rd, – 14:38

    “Not such a terrible idea. ”

    Yes, fair enough, Anne; I was viewing it from the point of view of one who was brought up at his mother’s knee, and grandfather of a bright 5 year old, who learnt such an awful’ lot at his mother’s knee.

  129. David Ossitt
    April 3rd, 2014 – 16:58
    A sweet idea, David. I know you are a good and kind person, but do be careful. In these evil times. you may be suspected of being a perv and dragged away by the police. It’s dangerous even to smile at a child these days.
    Something that angers me is the way children are not taught to give up their seats for their elders. Yesterday, fat slobs in school blazers were sitting on the ‘priority’ seats at the front of the bus, whilst a blind man with a white stick was standing. I offered him my seat, but the children were unabashed. When I see a mother on her mobile and a hefty toddler dumped on a seat whilst older people have to stand, I loudly explain, “It’s easy to see what type of home this obese lump of lard comes from!” Not as nice as David’a ploy, but at least I won’t get arrested for being a pedophile, although I may get a black eye!

  130. Ostrich (occasionally)
    April 3rd, 2014 – 19:45
    Same sort of childhood as I had. Alas we are but two of a now precious few.

  134. “Eric King: “Gerald, I thought this might be an April Fool’s joke at first, but apparently the West is now complaining that Russia is using propaganda.”

    Celente: “Yes, we just heard a statement from the head of NATO, Fogh Rasmussen, condemning Russia for using propaganda. He actually said ‘This is just another piece of propaganda and disinformation. Russia is violating every principle and international commitment it has made, first and foremost the commitment not to invade other countries.’….

    …“It’s hard to believe this accusation is coming from NATO. Number one, Russia did not invade Crimea because they’ve been there since 1783. Number two, they had an agreement with the Ukraine government that was overthrown in a coup that the United States and Europe were behind.

    So I can’t believe the hypocrisy of NATO. Have NATO and Rasmussen forgotten about Afghanistan? What about Iraq? What about Libya? The Western hypocrisy and propaganda has not stopped since the Ukrainian uprising began, and the United States has been fomenting it the most, along with the Western press….

    …We also have the German Finance Minister telling 50 children, who were probably the only ones willing to listen to him, that Vladimir Putin is the new Adolf Hitler. He compared Russia’s right to the Crimea as ‘invading Crimea’ and being the same thing as Hitler sending troops into the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.

    So the Western lies and propaganda just keep coming as our leaders push the world one step closer to war.” (King World News)

    *****

    In this context, Nigel Farage is emerging as the leader of the anti-warmonger party. Watch out when you cross the road…

  135. AWK1 3rd, – 20:19

    “Parents need to be reminded to potty-train children, says Ofsted”

    I see the same eejit is still at it…doesn’t the smell of every dirty nappy remind you that things’d be better if the kid were given the chance to prove they could control themselves properly.

    (Unless you’re stuffed with queer stuff or so obsessed with the latest computer game that you can’t see what’s going on around you…in which case advice such as the above is totally wasted anyway!)

  136. “Parents need to be reminded to potty-train children, says Ofsted”

    and the British people their politicians.

  138. Millie Dowler’s killer has been awarded £4.5k in compensation for being attacked in prison, words fail me. The murdering bastard should be given a damned good going over on a daily basis, and so should the shyster lawyers who represented him

  139. apart from WASPS are there any other groups who are not VULNERABLE .
    I am sick to death of this word.

  140. Last Updated 08:51 04/04/2014
    The Malaysian government has been deliberately concealing information about missing flight MH370, the country’s main opposition leader has claimed.

    Anwar Ibrahim, who personally knew the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, called for an international committee to take over the Malaysian-led operation, saying “the integrity of the whole nation is at stake”.

  141. stephen maybery
    April 4th, 2014 – 06:54
    Since we must consider the ‘Uman Rights of every vile knave, we mustn’t apply the well-deserved lynch law which would be too kind for this monster. However, he is receiving free board and lodging at the tax payers expense, so the compensation can be deducted from the huge bill this gross beast has accumulated. The shyster lawyers, too, should have their fees collected for use in the community for victims of murder, abuse and other cruelties.

  143. Peter,
    I followed your link to the Telegraph. How blind can these witless sods be? There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, to suppose that is so is to court disaster. When I witness Nelson and his ilk propagating their fatuous nonsense, I am drawn to the events of the mid thirties when there was copious evidence of Hitler’s indentions and they who were in power relentlessly refused to acknowledge what was happening under their noses. As has been said by better men than I, “They who ignore the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it’s mistakes.

  146. Just read the Frasier piece on the DT; thank you Peter. ROTFLMFAO. My wife is threating to call the men in white coats. I await with interest someone who has managed to retain their constraint fisking the piece.
    Any volunteers? I daren’t do it – it would probably result in the CHW being closed down by the Stasi. Austin Barry must be away. Boot? EC? Peter? You drew attention to it – do your duty!! 🙂

  149. That’s it. The final straw. Time for the hard word to my newsagent, nice Pakistani man though he is. Speccie as well.

  151. There was a young twat known as Fraser
    Who became quite enamoured of Asia
    Now he faces the East
    Like a compliant beast
    Five times a day for their plaisier.

  152. There are certain people, Fraser of the Soec, the judge who awarded damages to Milly’s killer, and the politicians from all the three main parties who deserve to slowly rot, their bodies stinking as they reflect their evil natures. A curse on them all!

  155. Ostrich (occasionally) @ 16:25

    There isn’t anything in the picture in your link, Ostrich, that a well cut burkha wouldn’t improve. Noticeably.

  156. Frank P, @12:35

    “Austin Barry must be away. Boot? EC? Peter? You drew attention to it – do your duty!! :-)”

    I’ve been out all afternoon looking for somewhere to live. Whilst I was out the magic phone notified me that Austin Barry had indeed been in action on the Telegraph blogs.

    He referenced the egregious Frasier on the Dan Hodges “Our asylum system must be sacrosanct; the Home Office had to send Yashika Bageerathi home” thread thus:

    Austin Barry
    As an aside, it’s amusing to see that Fraser Nelson’s rather optimistic article on the British Muslim has closed down all comments after the initial volley seemed to somewhat disagree with him.

    And to think that Fraser is, quite rightly, against censorship of the press.

  157. Clarkson clearly used “slope” to joke about the Asian on the bridge. So what? Let’s not argue about that with the PC enforcers. What’s sick about this situation is that so many people think it was a terrible crime rather than what it was, a trivial joke.

    The fact that 170,000 British women have suffered FGM without a single conviction because of racial sensitivity while your average liberal flies into a rage over a casual remark gives us a glimpse of the real evil behind conpemporary liberalism.

  158. Fraser may be a competent scribbler, but thinking doesn’t seem to be his forte. On the continent, however reluctantly, the authorities if not exactly tolerate then at least are avoiding suppressing the anti-Muslim feelings at source, there exits a number of outfits through which those who will never accept that Muslim have the capacity for integration into societies that are founded on an Abrahamic faith different from theirs can air their displeasure, anger, hate. Here, it’s not kosher to do so within a formal setting, hence nobody can even guess the strength of resentment to the Muslims’ presence in the country. Not a smart state of affairs, and rather unBritish, in the recent past it was the other way round.

    But, to pinch a heading from one of Vladimir Ulyanov’s tracts, ‘What is to be done’?

  159. David Ossitt
    April 4th, 2014 – 16:01
    Sorry, David,
    Ire causes typing errors!

  160. EC @ 17:15

    Come on, EC, it’s the one who loves stripping to the waist that is supposed to practise censorship of the press.

    Years ago, well before the Hacked Off tossers pulled together, Baron argued (it may have been in the spectator, too) it’s better to have an official censor than to live with self-censorsip. Not much more support then, but the barbarian still holds the same view. Thanks to the Internet, and the occasional comments facility one gets the feel for the acceptance or refusal of the official line. This, of course, won’t last. The withdrawal of the comments facility is but a first stage, the control over the whole of Internet is the ultimate aim, the pinnacle of what they want, and sooner or later those in power will climb there.

  161. John Alexander @ 17:23

    Your second paragraph charmingly encapsulates what we got ourselves into, John. Seconded.

    What cannot cease to amaze that everyone seems so paralysed to do anything about it, and if there is even a mildly corrective attempt to tweak this insanity by someone in the public life, the individual gets pilloried, often loses the source of his income.

  162. Peter’s friend, and the one this blog worships to the point of heresy, has a good one on foreign aid. He may be missing the key reason for Dave’s obsession with the size of the money we mostly waist on foreign aid. It may be the boy’s aiming for a position on the international scene as he gets kicked out from the leadership of the of the demoralised Tories after they lose the next count. Money can buy many things, influence amongst them.

  164. Baron @ 17:34

    Speaking of “Hacked Off tossers”, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have a new series starting tonight on BBC2: “The Trip to Italy”. Banality on steroids whilst they trough and get pissed at the licence payers’ expense. The BBC has to go!

  165. Here is one way to persuade people from comm itting a folly. It was sent to Baron by one of his American friends. It isn’t as good as what Frank’s niece comes up with, but what the heck.

    Two young men appear in court after being arrested for smoking dope.
 The judge says, ‘you seem like nice young men, I’d like to give you a
second chance. I want you to go out this weekend and try to convince others of the evils of
drug use.

 I’ll see you back in court Monday’.

    On Monday, the judge asks the first guy, “How did you do over the weekend?’ ‘Well, your honor, I persuaded 17 people to give up drugs forever’.

 ’Seventeen people? That’s wonderful. How did you do it?, ‘

asks the judge.

    ’I used a diagram, your honour. 

I drew two circles like this: O o, then I told them that the big circle is one’s brain before drugs and the
 small circle is one’s brain after drugs.’

’That’s admirable,’ says the judge then turns to the second guy. ‘And how did you do?’


    ‘Well, your honor, I persuaded 156 people to give up drugs forever.’

’Did you indeed’, says the judge. ‘156 people? How did you manage to do that?’ 

’Well, I used a similar diagram,’ the guy says.

’I also drew two circles only in reversed order like this: o O, then I pointed to the little circle and said, ‘This is your arsehole before 
you go to prison…….’

  166. Correction:

    In one of the recent postings by the poorly educated Slav there appears a sentence ‘there exits a number of outfits’. The correct verb is of course ‘exists’, but one would have figured it anyway. More to the point, nobody has probably read it anyway. Still, apologies.

  167. Andy Car Park @ 14:12

    There are times Baron worries about you, Andy, and this is one of such times. Do you often spend your time looking at stuff like that?

  168. EC @ 11:05

    Why on earth did the college stop at removing the bible only, why not go the Full Monty?

    The castle should be replaced by a Shopping Mall outline, another flag added, one with a crescent, a mouse, small and visibly frightened, should be more appropriate rather than the near extinct lion, and a guitar for the harp would also reflect modernity better.

    Moreover, the open book is not exactly with it either, is it, an i-phone, or i-pad or any of the other i-devices everyone seems to be glued to 24/7 would by far better reflect the modern society of Britain the college caters for today.

  169. malfleur @ 22:50

    You recall the call between the Brussels Baroness and the Estonian guy? Well, it turns out the suggestion the snipers may have been from a neo Nazi outfit was just a rumour spread by the KGB. To her credit, the Baroness has apparently asked for an independent investigation of the shootings. It was turned down.

    The new government in Kiev itself decided to look into the incident and has found the snippers were Putin’s men, not members of the same outfit whose leadership sits in the new government, the people who greet each other with the Nazi salute. Also, the ammunition the snipers used and the box for it were of Russian make, a letter was found in the box written by Vlad, signed by him, urging the snipers to kill indiscriminately…

    Well, Baron has made up the letter bit, the rest is true, the BBC says so. It took the Kiev people over a month to come up with the new take on the shootings. Not too efficient for the security services of Ukraine, is it.

  170. Smooth Operator?

    “In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.

    Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”

    Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.

    This speech recalls last December’s address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:

    “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”

    Heard any Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately? ….[continued]”

    http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan.html

  172. I note that the caption writer in the Daily Mail seems to believe soliciting under-age girls for prostitution is a sexual peccadillo. Hm.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    Scrolling down the main website page of the DM in search of an article by Peter Hitchens is rather like diving into a sewage tank to recover a lost wedding ring. It has to be done, but it’s not pretty.

    Nothing by Hitchens today that I could see by the way; though I had my eyes half shut. Funny piece by Quentin Letts though on Miller’s parliamentary apology for theft.

  173. A Fisking of Fraser Nelson:

    Sorry, someone has to do it. The lisping little lickspittle to the Scotia Nostra – a soldier of the Barclay Brothers Borgata (from Brillo Neil’s crew) – is no longer just a risible gofer, a political hack, tip-tapping away in the rarefied atmosphere of the Westminster Bubble surrounded by promiscuous and predatory finooks in the Palace of Wankers. He’s now a subversive front man for the Muslim Brotherhood, using the Daily Telegraph as an agency for its declared propaganda in pursuit of their applied policy of Taqiyya, in the Islamization of the West in general and, through the compliant politicians and hacks, of Britain in particular. Let’s hear what Nelson says on their behalf:

    “Those who believe in a clash of civilisations, in which British values are pitted against those of the Muslim world, have not been short of examples in the past few days. The BBC reports on an “Islamic takeover plot” by hardliners to seize control of several Birmingham state schools.”

    Note the mocking quotes “Islamic takeover plot”. Then read this analysis by Soeren Kern of the Gatestone Institute, who obviously can find time to analyse the data and reports, using in part the words from the mouths of the co-conspirators themselves:
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4242/uk-schools-islamist-trojan-horse
    Our erstwhile host Nelson from the Spectator blog, goes on to say this:
    “But one hears such complaints rarely, and this is what marks us out in a Europe that is paranoid about Islam and identity. Britain is, through empire, the original multi-ethnic state. When Churchill was writing for The Daily Telegraph as a war correspondent, his criticism of the Afghan tribesmen was that their behaviour was un-Islamic. “Their religion – fanatic though they are – is only respected when it incites to bloodshed and murder,” he wrote in December 1897. Then, the Queen had tens of millions of Islamic subjects and her ministers boasted of running the greatest Muslim power on earth.”
    A somewhat selective example of Churchill on Mohammedanism. Perhaps in his research he missed this slightly longer denunciation by Winnie, who must be turning in his grave:
    “WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM – IN 1899!

    “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
    Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
    in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many
    countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods
    of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet
    rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the
    next of its dignity and sanctity.

    The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as
    his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must
    delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased
    to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid
    qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social
    development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists
    in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and
    proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa,
    raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity
    is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it
    had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell
    the civilization of ancient Rome.”
    That puts a slightly different slant on Mr Churchill’s take on Islam, than Nelson’s truncated little snippet doesn’t it, dear readers? Who the fuck do you think you’re kidding, Nelson? You obviously read none of the commentary on the Spectator blogs before you contrived to drive Melanie out by making her an offer that anyone with a grain of integrity couldn’t swallow, and blackballing many of her followers thereafter. We now know why, don’t we?
    Nelson then cites a Morrisons Supermarket v employee civil dispute as another example of the ‘few’ incidents of ‘unacceptable behaviour of Muslims in Britain’.
    Then he issues forth thus:
    “The integration of Muslims can now be seen as one of the great success stories of modern Britain. While the Dutch and the French have huge troubles with integration, and are caught in agonised struggles about their national identities, Britain is marked out by the trouble that we are not having. Dig a little deeper, and the real story is the striking amount of harmony.”
    Did this idiot write that with a straight face? The chronicle of strife in London and other provincial towns and cities brought on by Islamic demands and violence is voluminous. I won’t insult the readers of this blog by repeating what so many of them have recorded, both in the Spectator and on this blog and others over the past decade or so. The seething resentment of the indigenous population of England is palpable and rising to boiling point. This sort of bilge by an editor of The Spectator who is also a columnist (perhaps that should be spelled calumnist) of the once conservative Daily Telegraph, could well exacerbate their feeling to the point of uprising. On the other hand his assertions are so risible that most readers will assume it’s an April Fool’s piece (as one of the commenters suggested before the ‘comments are closed’ embargo was applied after an almost entirely negative response by reader/commenters). One wonders whether he bothers to read newspapers other than to bask in his own juvenile copy.
    He continues:
    Last year, for example, the Jews of Bradford were facing the closure of their synagogue. Its roof was leaking, and the few dozen remaining regulars could not afford the repairs. Its chairman, Rudi Leavor, made the decision to sell the building and face up to it being transformed into luxury flats. As things turned out, the synagogue was saved after a fundraising campaign led by a local mosque. Zulfi Karim, the secretary of Bradford’s Council of Mosques, now refers to Leavor – who fled the Nazis – as his “newfound brother”. He gave his support, he says, to protect the diversity of Bradford.
    What?? Protect the diversity? Except the Christian and secular indigenous population presumably. The ones who stand by and see the occupation of their towns and cities in fear of arrest by an increasingly politicized police and prosecution for ‘Islamophobia’ if they raise their voices in protest.
    He continues:
    “After the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last year, skinheads went on the march in hope of stirring up a reaction against Muslims. It was the perfect moment, given how high feelings were running. The next week, a mosque in Muswell Hill, north London, was burnt down – an act that might, in other places, have started a cycle of reprisals. But here, the Muslims were given shelter by the local Jewish community, who offered space, laptops and whatever support was needed. Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner said she was proud to help “our brothers and sisters of the Muslim community, emotionally and physically”.”
    Ye Gods! Is that all he has to say the family of Lee Rigby and the families of other brave members of our armed services killed in action in the war being waged by Islam?
    He continues:
    “Such stories can be found the length and breadth of Britain, for those with an eye to see them. St John’s Episcopal Church in Aberdeen last year agreed to accommodate neighbouring Muslims, who had outgrown their mosque and had taken to worshipping outside it. The Rev Isaac Poobalan said that allowing Muslims to pray in the wind and rain would mean abandoning “what the Bible teaches us about how we should treat our neighbours”. He argued that his church was empty on a Friday lunchtime, when Muslims needed to pray.
    Anyone serious about either religion will know that they both worship the same God – and their stronger ties are, in part, forged by the knowledge that they have a common enemy in secularism. The kind of secularism that would stop people wearing crucifixes and skullcaps in public, as well as the niqab. When the Council of Europe came out against religious circumcision, it was natural that Manchester’s sizeable Jewish community would protest. But less expected for Manchester’s Muslims to join them. Both have plenty to fear from the abridgment of religious freedom in a Britain that is – by some measures – the least religious country in the rich world.”

    The Rev Isaac Poobalan indeed! Is he a character from one of AA Milne’s yarns?. I’m sorry, that’s i!. I can’t repeat any more of this bilge. It is not deserving of even a fisking. The time I have left is too precious to waste on critiquing this crap. It is classic propaganda straight from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Taqiyya manual. Nelson is not just a useful eejit; he’s manifestly their agent, a traitor to this country . My Newsagent will henceforth deliver The Times for my dead tree news. As most of you know, I cancelled my subscription of the Speccie some time ago after being a reader for well over 60 years. I will now never buy the Telegraph again.

  174. Frank P – 01:41 ‘Fraser Nelson’

    I was hoping that the DT was coming to its senses. The recent interview with NF was well done, but this piece by Fraser Nelson is unreal! No wonder it has ‘Comments for this thread are now closed.’

    He should leave and become Nick Clegg’s script writer. Nothing else is within his capability, apart from another EU job.

  176. We rewarded irrational optimism – investing more troops and money, year after year, in a mission, which was doomed. (And helped to hide this failure from ourselves by continually redefining the mission).
    It took us 10 years to begin to acknowledge failure. and extract ourselves, rather than “digging deeper”. Much of this mind set was reminiscent of the attitudes that led to the banking crash of 2008.

    I think we knew that, but read the article .

  177. John birch – 06:28 ‘irrational optimism, and continually redefining the mission’

    So, while this dysfunctional thinking stretches to Afghanistan, and the results of these mistakes in such a highly dangerous arena are truly dreadful, there is no shortage of examples closer to home, with results that have yet to be ‘fully appreciated’.
    So as well as:
    * Afghanistan,
    * the Financial Crash,

    we have:
    * school examination inflation
    * One in five kids start secondary school unable to read or write properly
    * a 50% graduate target, resulting in unemployed graduates with large debt
    * an acceptable level of national deficit (the amount being reset to zero at the start of every financial year)
    * the feminisation of education establishments, to the unnoticed detriment of indigenous working class boys
    * the feminisation of work in the NHS, to its detriment, as few women work full time for much of their career
    * rubbing the Right’s noses’ in large scale immigration, to the detriment of the indigenous working class
    * the Catholic Adoption Agency closeing due to not wanting to ‘service homosexual couples’
    * the triple lock protecting Churches refusing to marry homosexuals is unraveling
    * caterers who refuse to work on same-sex weddings face prosecution
    * the Muslim fundamentalist plots to take over local schools:
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article4055292.ece

    * the spread of FGM
    * honour killings
    * the bin bag dress code,
    * the acceptance of children starting school unable to speak English, not toilet trained, not knowing they have a name,
    * state funded windmill building, without any credible scientific evidence that it will have any positive effect
    * well over half of our laws/regulations emanate from Brussels, where noone gets voted in by the public, or out!
    * green taxes driving industry abroad, to generate the same amount of CO2
    * fears that fracking in the UK will result in the green ‘economy’ collapsing financially
    * the acceptance of halal slaughter, contrary to British practice:
    Vets urge halal ban after ‘being misled on slaughter’
    “Supporters of Jewish shechita and Muslim halal slaughtering techniques, which involve cutting a sentient animal’s throat, argue that secular slaughter is cruel because stunning fails in up to 6.6 per cent of cases. Based on the first official figures released to Parliament about errors in abattoir stunning, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has calculated, that the correct failure rate is 0.0004 per cent.”
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4055176.ece
    (What stunning errors! ::) )

    And now this:
    Pro-gay comments ‘put lives in danger’, says Archbishop of Canterbury
    “The lives of Christians in Africa will be put at risk if the Church of England accepts gay marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.”
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4055202.ece

    This list was compiled before I took a second breath, so who knows what the full list would be!

    It is not that all of it has happened that is so disgusting, it is that all of these were avoidable if politicians had been honest with themselves, and us! They are supposed to become Statesmen (and women), not raking in millions of pounds on lecture tours explaining how they were right (??) and advising foreign powers, to our detriment.

  179. The only reason we’ve failed in Afghanistan was our delusional thinking that we can transmute the Afghan character formed during millennia in just a decade or so using mostly the gun with a school, a bridge here and there (both communal in nature) as the tools of persuasion. That was never going to work.

    To turn the personal disposition of an Afghan into something more akin to the make-up of a Westerner we should deploy the same box of tricks that has worked everywhere else, and goes under the modern generic term of consumerism. It would be by far more effective for it seduces rather than threatens, it exploits man’s ever present desire to better himself, to satisfy his instinct for indulgence, his craving for more, his greed.

    In the last ten years, the West poured some $400bn into the country, that’s around $1300 per each Afghan man, woman and child. Given each of them the cash would have worked better stabilising the $hithole, it would have saved the lives of thousands of our boys, tens of thousands of them.

    What the guy proposes it’s just the same as we’ve done before – ” improving the knowledge, approach, and critical thinking of senior diplomats, military officers and politicians …. longer tours of duty….deeper relationships with local populations…And of course more money, much more money”. Arghhh

  180. And his latest post, Frank P, is a reprehensible justification of his Leveson defiance

  181. How long will it take for those trying to locate the missing MH370 to figure they are looking in the wrong place. If the massive contraption were to hit the sea in the area they are combing surely there would have been some debris, the huge flying machine, the people abroad, the hold baggage, the cabin luggage must have left some traces somewhere, but obviously not in a place where it never was.

    Apparently, the Malaysian authorities at this morning press conference were implying the plane may never be found. Incredible. Perhaps someone will explain how such a huge mountain of things material can disappear without a trace.

  182. Baron 5th, – 12:41

    “must have left some traces somewhere”

    We-ell, when AF447 was lost, only the fin remained on the surface. And even although there was no query as to its route and appriximate final position, it still
    took two years before it was found.
    I’m afraid that, given the size of the task before them, these search teams amount to little more than a token effort, spared for the search because they have no important job at the moment. Most of them’ll be redeployed in a couple of months’ time, leaving only a token effort until everybody forgets about it.

  184. Baron (5 April – 11:53) –

    You say, apropos Afghanistan, that –

    “……we should deploy the same box of tricks that has worked everywhere else, and goes under the modern generic term of consumerism…. ”

    Afghanistan is in such a barbarically insane condition that it is difficult to disagree – and it is true that that same box of tricks worked fine for about 150 years in Britain and America.

    But in the most recent 50 years hasn’t the box of tricks turned into a factor that has numbed the minds of western populations so extensively that democracy there – and especially in Britain – no longer works?

    The box of tricks could well push Afghanistan towards civilisation, but paradoxically is it not also allowing Britain to be pushed by evil influences away from civilisation and towards renewed barbarism?

  185. Ostrich (16:25)

    After producing an article on Islam perhaps he fancies himself as the next Mark Steyn and intends to publish a ‘song book’ a la Steyn. Is there no limit to the deluded self-regard of this over-promoted scribbler? 🙂

  188. Once upon a time when I was a girl, Boat Race Day was a great event. My friends and I all dressed in our best arrived early to find good places along the river, and wore pale or dark blue chiffon scarves as we rooted for our team. Today I couldn’t find anything on either radio or TV about this event, and I began wondering whether it is because it is not politically correct to cheer establishments which encourage “elitism”, educating the brightest and cleverest. Perhaps if a camel race had been taking place, the media would have been full of it.

  189. Herbert Thornton @ 18:21

    Quite, we should to begin cutting back on the box, the Afghans use it more. Neither seems likely, private Fraser got it about right, for both of the tribes.

  191. Thoughts on the recent criticism by Wallsters of Fraser Nelson:

    “Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro’,
    He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew:
    Destroy his fib, or sophistry—in vain!
    The creature’s at his dirty work again,…”.

    (Alexander Pope)

  192. I am not sure that the reason for recent western engagement in Afghanistan was a high-minded sense of duty to transmute the Afghan character.
    Rather, there are good arguments for saying, it was to re-establish the flow of Afghan heroin out of the country to jurisdictions where criminalisation had been introduced to ensure the highest available prices for government traffickers.
    Lives were, and continue to be, sacrificed there on the altar of mammon.

  195. Once upon a time on a blog far, far away…..
    Rod Liddle took a swipe at the murderous cult that is Glaswegian sectarian football, Glasgow Celtic in particular. The resultant deluge of posts from aggrieved Scotchmen crippled the rag’s computer system for at least a day.

    Hardly surprising, then, that the DT rapidly decided shut down comments on Frasier’s deliberately inflammatory article. It was so blatant, like others, I am tempted to ask ‘who was he testing the water for?’

  196. Re: Vlad’s unforgettable 2010 rendition of “Bru-belly eel….”

    His still has the backing of the Hollywood big guy:

    “Steven Seagal has called the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Crimea “very reasonable”

    http://news.sky.com/story/1232933/steven-seagal-defends-putins-crimea-actions
    [great photo]

    I’m still waiting for Chuck Norris to “come out”, so to speak, on his feelings toward Putin. “Some say” Chuck is, even now, diving on the wreck of MH370.

  197. VERITY … I found a company that specialises in transporting pets and they put me in touch with their Mexican partners. I contacted them and this is their reply…

    ———————–

    Hi Peter,

    The cats travel on the cargo area of the airplane, this area has a temperature and presure control so they flight under the same conditions of the cabbin area.

    To quote your friend the service, we need to know:

    1) the breed
    2) size ( measures ling, hight, wide)
    3) weight
    4) age
    5) if you have their travel kennels then I need it’s measures.

    Best regards
    Eva Rechy

    evapaola@cargorechy.com

    —————————————

  198. Anne Wotana Kaye 1
    April 5th, 2014 – 22:32
    Now a little item, and it is taking place at a very strange hour!

  199. There was a piece in the Mail stating that officers are to be held responsible for sending soldiers into battle with faulty equipment. Disgusting isn’t the word to describe this proposal. Why is equipment up to the standard required? it is because of the tight fisted politicians who send our youth half way around the World to die in conflicts which are of no interest to this country, but engagement in which polishes political egos. If anyone is to be banged up it should be the likes of Blair and Cameron who would rather squander the tax payers brass on Romanian gypos that ensuring the safety of their own people.

  200. stephen maybery
    April 6th, 2014 – 11:02
    They are war criminals, and should receive the punishment of such criminals. They murder their own citizens for reasons of personal vanity and financial corruption.

  202. David Rose is doing his job!

    Green ‘smear campaign’ against professor who dared to disown ‘sexed up’ UN climate dossier
    * Richard Tol claims he is fighting a sustained attack on his reputation
    * Professor from Sussex University is a highly respected climate economist
    * Criticised by campaigners after saying report summary was ‘alarmist’
    * In his opinion, it focused on ‘scare stories’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597907/Green-smear-campaign-against-professor-dared-disown-sexed-UN-climate-dossier.html

    I do like the quote:
    “The source of the alleged smear campaign is Bob Ward, director of policy at the London School of Economics’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.
    Mr Ward – neither an economist nor a climate expert – claimed on the institute’s website that he was waging ‘an ongoing struggle’ to force Prof Tol to correct ‘errors’ in his work.”

    “… director of policy at the London School of Economics’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.”

    Says it all, really!

  203. DAVID DAVIS becomes the most senior Tory yet to say quitting the EU would be good for Britain
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2597954/Exit-Europe-fear-DAVID-DAVIS-senior-Tory-say-quitting-EU-good-Britain-spark-great-national-revival.html

    DD: We have to start by recognising that leaving [the EU] is a real possibility ….

    So, up to now, the Tories have NOT thought it a possibility!

    No surprise, but it’s good to know how far out of touch the Tories are.

  204. Frank P – Apr 4th, 12:35 – April 5th, 01:41, Apr 5th, 22:43
    Herbert Thornton – Apr 4th, 13:17
    EC – Apr 4th, 17:15
    RobertC – Apr 5th, 02:00
    O(o) – Apr 5th, 16:25 (indirectly!)
    Malfleur – Apr 5th, 23:08

    Those secular schools in Birmingham certainly know how to integrate:
    “Mr Zabar, 44, decided to break his silence after The Sunday Telegraph described how teachers at the supposedly secular school led children in anti-Christian chanting, stopped them from celebrating Christmas, organised subsidised trips to Mecca and required all pupils to learn Arabic.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10747220/Muslim-parent-Radical-school-is-brainwashing-our-children.html

    I am sure Fraser Nelson would be proud!

  205. Our joiner will be arriving at 8.30am tomorrow to start ripping out our existing old kitchen, this prior to him putting in the new kitchen, we started yesterday morning emptying all of the cupboards and drawers.

    This took all of yesterday and all of today, the conservatory, front hall and various corners of the sitting room are full of boxes and crates and the dining room now has its own fridge kettle and crockery that will be needed.

    The one coming out is twenty-six years old and still looks fine but neither of us can reach down to the under-worktop fridge and so all must go.

    Our lovely plumber will be hear at six pm today to disconnect the gas-hob, and so I can now look forward to a week of turmoil.

  206. Who on earth would hire Yates Consulting for any aviation consulting?

    “Mr Yates, who runs aviation firm Yates Consulting, added: “I’d say the only other possible explanation for the signal is interference from other vessels nearby but it has all the indications of a black box and that is the key thing. It had a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, which is the standard frequency at which black boxes transmit.”
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/468925/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-found-Chinese-search-ship-detects-signals-in-Indian-Ocean

    “It had a frequency of 37.5kHz per second …”

    What is that when it is in the Indian Ocean?

    Did the reporter write it down incorrectly?

    Did the reporter realise that it was, maybe, a slip of the tongue?

    It is as bad as a windmill generating, on average, 100 kW each day!

  207. RobertC @ 14:38

    Those responsible for the anti-American slander, trips to Mecca, other religious tainted stuff should be kicked out of education, never allowed near kids again.

    Those who raised the concern were also Muslims, however, Mr. Zadar the most outspoken amongst them, right? He stressed he wanted his five kids to get non-religious education. What do you reckon this hints at, Robert?

  208. RobertC @ 16:16

    Not everyone knows what this chap Yates or you are talking about, Robert. Baron for one. Will you please explain?

  209. David Ossitt @ 15:45

    Your kitchen’s MOT, David, reminds Baron of a joke. A visitor to a house inhabited by a Scot finds the owner stripping wallpaper. ‘You’re decorating, are you?, he asks. ‘No’, says the Scot, ‘moving house’.

    Apologies in advance to any Scot near this blog, it’s only a joke.

  211. Baron – 18:31 ‘Yates Consulting’

    “It had a frequency of 37.5kHz per second …”

    I expect the frequency is 37.5kHz, that is, 37.5 thousand cycles per second.

    It is not 37.5 thousand cycles per second per second. That would be the speed that your radio travels across the frequency dial when it is searching for a station.

    Similarly, a power source, like a petrol driven generator, might provide 10 kW of continuous power. This means that every second, 10 kJ (kiloJoules) of energy are supplied. So, 10 kW is 10 kW, no matter the time span, so saying 10kW every 24 hours only shows that the speaker knows little about basic science.

  212. Baron – 18:30 ‘Education?’
    I think it is your turn to explain what it hints!

    However, I am wondering about the underlying message of ‘non-religious education’.

    Does it mean a traditional C of E school, though I offer it to highlight how important this benign traditional offering has been to this country, which is unfortunately less available than it has been because nothing British can be promoted, especially if it has been shown to be successful.

    If this is true, these protesting families are in for interesting times!

  213. Antiques Roadshow has been quite good this evening. It’s from Flanders and is being quite respectful and some of the older presenters are moved to tears by some of the stories.

  214. RobertC @ 19:12

    Thanks, Robert, understood.

    Also, the hint is obvious: not all Muslims are happy with the sharia cum jihad promoters. This in no way suggests we don’t have a problem, merely that the problem lies not with every worshipper of Allah, just some of them, who must be either forced to stop bleating the hate inspired filth or kicked out of the country.

  216. PfM 6th, – 21:01

    “Antiques Roadshow has been quite good this evening. ”

    🙂 🙂

  217. RobertC 6th, – 19:12

    “It is not 37.5 thousand cycles per second per second.”

    With an acceleration like that, after 30 days it’d be ‘way up in tHz by now!

    🙂

  220. In his anxiety to promote vast expenditure on NATO by the impoverished taxpayers of its member states, Mr. Rasmussen is quoted as saying that the annexation of Crimea showed that Russia was ““trying to turn back the clock and carve up Europe into new spheres of influence…”.

    And Mr. Rasmussen, and his masters in the state and corporate military industrial complex, by organising a crude putsch in Kiev by neo-nazis against the democratically-elected government, by pressing for the absorption of Ukraine into the anti-democratic European Union, and by manoeuvring to bring NATO weapon systems to the borders of Russia are trying to do what exactly…?

  221. So without finding a single piece of floating debri we have supposedly found signals that could be from the black boxes about 600 kilometres apart by Chinese and Aussie boats.
    Stranger and stranger.

  223. RobertC @ 23:51

    OK, Robert, how about ‘not all Muslims are not happy with those of their own creed who promote the hadiths of war and hatred and venom and hostility and malevolence …. towards anyone but Muslims’. Better, you reckon?

  224. sorry, sorry, sorry ‘not all Muslims are happy with … That’s how it should read. Baron hasn’t checked before posting once more.

  225. re the guardsman pointing his rifle at the ranting nigga (is there any other sort?). The only problem I can see is that the point of the bayonet is at the front of his throat, not sticking out the back.

  226. Clear Memories
    April 7th, 2014 – 10:05
    “They don’t like it up them”!

  227. Malfleur @ 00:38

    Good point, Malfleur, but it carries no weight with the tossers in charge for they are convinced that what we think, do is what everyone should think, do.

  228. RobertC @ 23:51: OK, Robert, how about ‘not all Muslims are happy with those of their own creed who promote the hadiths of war and hatred and venom and hostility and malevolence …. towards anyone but Muslims’. Better, you reckon?

    Not that anyone cares, but for the record, the above still ain’t correct, it reflects not the barbarian’s thinking or the the way he wants to run the argument.

    The better wording would be as follows: “Not all Muslims, and certainly not a minority of Muslims living here in the UK, are happy with those of their own faith who hold, spread or enforce the hadiths of war, and venom and hostility and malevolence … towards everyone including members of their own faith.”

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