The Coffee House Wall – 14th/20th January

Posted on January 14, 2013

This is the Coffee House Wall for this week. I won’t say that it is your chance to communicate with us, as we are all in this together. It is, nevertheless, the Conservative Blog post that has no particular theme, and where everything is on topic. Let’s just remember that we want to avoid ad hominem attacks on others. We don’t want to engage with trolls. We want to moderate our language ourselves as responsible and mature adults, choosing to use fruity language only where it is necessary. This is our opportunity to show what the Spectator Coffee House Wall could have been like.

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210 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – 14th/20th January”

  1. Please forgive the delay in posting the Wall up today. I am still feeling a bit run down from the flu and it was only as I am knocking up a Shepherd’s Pie for the troops that I realised I had not done what I should have done.

    Apologies.

  4. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
    And have not Gove,
    I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.

    Though I give my body to be burned
    And have not Nash,
    I am nothing.

    Though I support free schools,
    But my children go not to Academies,
    I gain nothing.

    But now abideth 3 things.
    Osborne, Hunt and Gove.
    But the greatest of these is Gove.

  6. Peter from Maidstone
    Be well, Peter.
    If you can’t get hold of the Southern Comfort, Honey and Lemon with a drop of Cognac is good!

  7. My mother used to give me a teaspoon of whisky when I had a bad cough when I was a lttle

    A teaspoon of whisky in a quarter glass of hot water , also works. Or it did when I was a child.

  9. Peter.

    Beechams powders in the powder form not the tablets every three to four hours and any decent quality spirit with honey and fresh lemon and get back to bed.

  10. What is the real reason for the Savile cover up and pretend celebrity focused ‘investigation’?
    Satanism.
    It is Satanism that binds the paedophile ‘rings’. It is Satanism that affords them inexplicable protection. The reality of contemporary Satanism is simply unthinkable for most ordinary people. I sympathise. It is impossible for many to acknowledge any amount of evidence or testiomony. Therefore, the ‘Daily Express’ report that ‘Savile Was Part of a Satanic Ring’ will probably sink without trace.
    Still, I respect the newspaper for printing the story. These are fact that many people do not want to know. I didn’t want to know either.

  13. Of course she’s right

    Of course she’s right! Who could say otherwise with a straight face?

  14. Dave’s game of EU charades will backfire on him in a big way.
    Predictable and tiresome, isn’t he.

    Meanwhile, has Chris Huhne been abducted by aliens?
    Our free (ha!) press are strangely silent.

  16. BTW
    You Limeys are strangely quiet.
    Cameron should be bidding for Blair glory in Mali.
    You can bet your bottom that Hussein Obama will not challenge these Islamist bastards.

  18. I take it that this is the Huhne trial continuing..

    BEFORE: HIS HONOUR JUDGE GLEDHILL QC (6)
    Trial (Part Heard)
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    ****** *** *
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    ****** ****** *
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    ****** *****
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    Orders made under s39, CYPA 1933 & Contempt of Court Act 1981

  19. I have just read EC’s link To Melanie Phillips at:-
    http://melaniephillips.com/watch-daves-lips-the-result-of-any-eu-referendum-will-be-in-or-in

    I think that she is correct in every particular and she confirms in me, my opinion that those of us who want outn must all vote for the only party to promise the in/out referenda namely UKIP.

    Not that they will a general election but if they triumph at the next EU and council elections this will put David Cameron in a very difficult position.

  20. Much to be enjoyed here… Spike has republished a piece by professional needleworker Julie Burchill which prompted calls by the unlovable minister Lynne Featherstone for her to be sacked. It first appeared in the Observer, but they took it down in response to cat calls from the easily outraged.
    Burchill’s robust response to “transsexuals” may strike a chord with Verity.

    Spiked has a more or less non functioning comments section, but two blogs in yesterday’s Telegraph may still have some heat left in them.

    http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13264/

  21. I didn’t see jimmys name in the list of oxfords latest Muslim pervs underage girl gang.

  22. Any promise, or even an act of parliament pushing any referendum to after the next GE is worthless. If cameron is not PM the new government can simply repeal the act. But as mmelanie phillips points out there will be that many if buts and maybes in any promise that it will be worthless.
    The pressure must be kept up to get our referendum NOW. I am at a complete loss to understand why there should be any delay. well not really, its because it will produce the ‘wrong’ result.
    It will be interesting to see what happens at the euro elections and after.

  24. John birch @ January 15th, 2013 – 15:11
    This latest outrage needs shouting from the housetops. We should not tolerate such behaviour from immigrant communities. Either they respect our laws or they can f*ck off somewhere else.

  26. Peter

    My Kaspersky software keeps flagging up that it’s protecting me from Trojans (Favicon icoand conservative manifesto.jpg) which the CHW keeps trying to download.
    Is it just me or is there a virus attaching to the site?

  28. Peter
    I’m getting the message that http//www.coffeehousewall.co.uk/the-coffee-house-wall-14th20th-january//conservative_manifesto.jpg contains a trojan program Exploit.JS.Retkid.a

  34. From an old colleague of similar age to myself who keeps smiling regardless:
    Some of you old ‘uns have probably been taunted with these before, but here goes, as the chances are you’ve forgotten ’em already!

    ***

    Hi Frank ..I know that jokes about “seniors” are getting to be as numerous as “blonde babes” jokes…..But some are pretty good anyhow! Worth re-forwarding, anyway!!!

    A Few Good Senior Moments

    An elderly gentleman….
    Had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%
    The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, ‘Your hearing is perfect.. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.’
    The gentleman replied, ‘Oh, I haven’t told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I’ve changed my will three times!’

    ****

    Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement centre were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says: ‘Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches and pains. I know you’re about my age. How do you feel?’
    Slim says, ‘I feel just like a newborn baby.’
    ‘Really? Like a newborn baby?’
    ‘Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet my pants.’

    ****

    An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
    The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, ‘Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great.. I would recommend it very highly.’
    The other man said, ‘What is the name of the restaurant?’
    The first man thought and thought and finally said, ‘What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love?
    You know…. The one that’s red and has thorns.’
    ‘Do you mean a rose?’
    ‘Yes, that’s the one,’ replied the man.. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, ‘Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?’

    ****

    Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital.
    After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
    On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
    ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.’

    ****

    Couple in their nineties are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they’re physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember ..
    Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. ‘Want anything while I’m in the kitchen?’ he asks.
    ‘Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?’
    ‘Sure..’
    ‘Don’t you think you should write it down so you can remember it?’ she asks.
    ‘No, I can remember it.’
    ‘Well, I’d like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, so as not to forget it?’
    He says, ‘I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.’
    ‘I’d also like whipped cream. I’m certain you’ll forget that, write it down?’ she asks.
    Irritated, he says, ‘I don’t need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream – I got it, for goodness sake!’
    Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.. She stares at the plate for a moment.
    ‘Where’s my toast?’

    A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy:
    ‘So I hear you’re getting married?’
    ‘Yep!’
    ‘Do I know her?’
    ‘Nope!’
    ‘This woman, is she good looking?’
    ‘Not really.’
    ‘Is she a good cook?’
    ‘Naw, she can’t cook too well.’
    ‘Does she have lots of money?’
    ‘Nope! Poor as a church mouse.’
    ‘Well, then, is she good in bed?’
    ‘I don’t know.’
    ‘Why in the world do you want to marry her then?’
    ‘Because she can still drive!’

    Three old guys are out walking.
    First one says, ‘Windy, isn’t it?’
    Second one says, ‘No, it’s Thursday!’
    Third one says, ‘So am I. Let’s go get a beer..’

    ****

    A man was telling his neighbour, ‘I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it’s state of the art.. It’s perfect.’
    ‘Really,’ answered the neighbour. ‘What kind is it?’
    ‘Twelve thirty..’

    Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor to get a physical.
    A few days later, the doctor saw Morris walking down the street with a gorgeous young woman on his arm.
    A couple of days later, the doctor spoke to Morris and said, ‘You’re really doing great, aren’t you?’
    Morris replied, ‘Just doing what you said, Doc: ‘Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.”
    The doctor said, ‘I didn’t say that.. I said, ‘You’ve got a heart murmur; be careful.’

    One more. . .!

    A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.
    The waitress asked kindly, ‘Crushed nuts?’
    ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Arthritis.’

    Now, before you ‘forget’, send them on to some other folks you know who could use a good laugh !!

    (I just did)!

  35. Peter,

    You should be aware that clicking on your site (via Google Chrome) brings up a trojan alert (I use Kaspersky, which is blocking it)

    it is called ‘Exploit.JS.Retkid.a’ and appears to be a new one as there are very few references yet to it on Google, yahoo, or Bing.

  38. Hexhamgeezer
    January 15th, 2013 – 18:36

    Peter,

    You should be aware that clicking on your site (via Google Chrome) brings up a trojan alert (I use Kaspersky, which is blocking it)

    I have just tried on my Google Chrome with no such alert.

    Mind I am doing this on firefox.

  40. I’ve have just logged out and back in and it seems to be gone…touching Piers Morgan’s head or the stock of my trusty Adams….erm….fireplace.

  41. Today “The Huffington Post” reported the following, I have not shown the full report nor have I tried to show the court artists drawing of the nine accused.

    I post it here because had you heard the report on tonight’s BBC news at 6pm you would have been told that nine men have appeared in court charged with the exploitation of girls.

    The BBC failed to mention that the girls were white and the nine evil bastards are all followers of the paedophile dessert prophet, piss be upon him.

    Oxford Abuse Trial: Nine Men Face 51 Charges over Exploitation of Girls
    Posted: 15/01/2013 14:14 GMT, Updated: 15/01/2013 16:42 GMT

    Young girls were sexually exploited by a group of men who subjected them to depravity and perversion, a court has heard.

    Six girls were used by men, including nine defendants from the Oxford area, the Old Bailey jurors were told.

    One victim was only 12 when she was forced into prostitution.

    Jurors were warned the trial details would be “uncomfortable”

    The court clerk was allowed to sit as he took half an hour to read the charges.

    Norman Lucas QC, prosecuting, said: “This case involves the sexual exploitation of children – young girls – by groups of men in the Oxford area.”

    The men deny the 51 counts, including rape, trafficking and organising prostitution between 2004 and last year.

    The accused include two sets of brothers, Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 30, and Bassam Karrar, 32, and Mohammed Karrar, 38.
    The others are Kamar Jamil, 27, Zeeshan Ahmed, 27, Assad Hussain, 32, Bilal Ahmed, 26, and Mohammed Hussain, 24.

  44. Another fruit of multicultural enrichment is bestowed upon us today, with news that yet more of our fellow citizens have gone out of their way to introduce young girls to the perils of modern life as it is lived in that notorious hell-hole of depravity: Oxfordshire.

  45. Interesting report here. I know that we have all attempted to adopt more continental trends in cuisine, but this is a bit too much….

    In Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, horse meat accounted for approximately 29 per cent of the meat. The supermarket announced last night that it was removing all fresh and frozen burgers from sale immediately regardless if they had been found to contain horse meat.

  46. It is also interesting that I can find no obvious report on the Oxford Pakistani gang on the Telegraph website at all. Why is that? Nor on the Spectator. I’d have thought those poor young girls would have deserved a brief mention even by those within the bubble.

  47. Boot -that bloody speech. A taster.

    “…Any courageous statesman wouldn’t even mention a referendum, for ours isn’t a plebiscitary democracy. Instead he would use his position to launch a campaign for immediate withdrawal from this morally corrupt concoction. That would be merely reversing a constitutional outrage for which there has never been either political consensus or plausible justification…”

    You know where he is.
    You know how to get there………….. Superb, brilliant stuff…

  51. EC 15th, – 22:35
    “I wonder what’s happening to the Brownings?”

    They’ll be withdrawn and put into “secure storage”.

    And in around five years’ time they’ll be inventoried, found to be missing,
    somebody in khaki’ll realise that if he doesn’t zip his lip the sh*t’ll really hit the fan, he’ll be the convenient scapegoat, so he zips lip and nothing’s said for evermore.

    And nobody’ll query the five hundred thousand 9mm rounds that have also gone missing ‘cos, hey, 9mm rounds go missing all the time…don’t they?

  53. I’m concluding, perhaps not before time, that I was born on to the wrong planet. Stop the world! I wanna get off.

  54. “I wonder what’s happened to the Brownings?”

    And the Barratts (or perhaps that should be Barracks, or Barack, even).

    Nurse!

  55. There’s an article in The Telegraph titled “Can Mali be Saved from Islamists?”

    How dainty!

    Why not say what they mean? Can Mali be saved from islam?

    This pretence that islam is somehow separate from its followers, who are, in the main, individuals who believe that allah should rule the world, is very irritating. Followers of islam are, by definition, islamists. They have to believe that islam has to overrun the world for their allah.

  57. Frank P
    January 16th, 2013 – 00:53

    “I wonder what’s happened to the Brownings?”

    And the Barratts (or perhaps that should be Barracks, or Barack, even).

    Nurse!
    =========
    Barratts Liquorice Allsorts?

  58. I wonder what proportion of British Muslim Men think that British White Girls are worth respecting as equals?

    I’d suggest at least 10-15%. That is a tremendous figure, makes one feel all warm.

    Surely that confirms that we should continue to value Muslims as vital members of our society and encourage the influx of plenty more to bolster our weak, infidel culture?

    Telemachus’

  60. But wouldn’t we miss.
    Humphrys taking the piss.
    And Lesbo Balding
    Peddling her wares.

  61. And Balding discarding oarsmen when health problems intervene during a race, as in last year’s Boat Race.

    Horses may be put down, and put in pies, but not oarsmen or, just for the record, oarswomen either!

  62. While many still crave to live in the nuclear family, with one parent working and one at home caring for their children, for several decades we have been pushed into getting all parents out to work, even the mother with a six month old baby.

    Yet now the DM reports that “middle-class couples who hope to adopt a child are regularly being warned [by social workers] that one of them must give up their job.

    It shows that the individual is insignificant, while the power of authority is all; and the more disconnected that power is from the individual, more more righteous it is.

  63. Given today’s headline about Irish horse meat being found in Tesco hamburgers, is it a coincidence I wonder that an anagram of ‘hamburgers’ is Shergarbum?

  67. Peter from Maidstone

    Six inches of snow hereabouts (walking distance of Sandringham) and there has been a kerfuffle about the Norfolk CC not gritting and thereby preventing the resulting chaos. It’s bleedin’ parky too. Brrr.

    Btw CHW is very sticky this morning; keep getting messages to say ‘this site is unresponsive’. Had to write this message three times to get it off. Wondered if it is anything to do with yesterday’s ‘Trojan’. As we seem to be getting horse in everything we consume these days – it wouldn’t surprise me! 🙂

  69. Clear Memories

    In ya dreams mate! Hoi polloi here are tame, docile and dopey. Agitprop has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. You should surely realise that; when a conservative PM has cut a deal with a leftist wanker to hasten the fulfilment of Gramsci’s prison visions, the chances of a counter-counter-culture insurgence are less than zilch. You should have seen PMQs this afternoon – any prospect of the current administration or the Miliballsists ever giving the public an option to repatriate our powers dissolved into thin air as one listened to the crap. And Brillo consolidated their aims with weasel words on the Daily Politics immediately afterwards, with Mr. Magoo and Cock-eyed Dougie consolidating the cobblers. No significant politician wants to stop the gravy train, except one of its passengers, it seems: Farage! And the meeja is refusing to give him a stable platform from which to convince the punters. They only put him on in spasmodic mini-sound bite sessions in order to ridicule him – typical Leftist ad hom smear tactics. Everything emerges from the MSM at present is pro-European propaganda. We’re fucked! What can you do? Riots on the streets of Greece, Spain, France et al. are having no significant effect. Soft totalitarianism has already achieved control of the levers – it will merely harden as the need arises.

  70. “But wouldn’t we miss.
    Humphrys taking the piss.
    And Lesbo Balding
    Peddling her wares.”

    No, not I. And Radio 3
    Is but a pastiche
    Of once a niche
    With loud presenters whose faux cheer
    Pulls off the bedclothes and batters your ear

  71. How telling that the Gestapo Commondants working in Britain’s public services and much of the media (Hi! BBC! I’m looking at you, among others) castigate the EDL and are too sensitive and caring to suggest that the taxpapyer supported muslims and similar rubbish be put out to sea in a leaky raft pointed in the general direction of muslimland.

    Or, as traitors to Britain, unlike the EDL, they could be shot. (I’m speaking of the aforementioned public servants, but if there were enough bullets left over, we could dispose of a few illegal immigrants at the same time.)

  72. Hyperbole by the bucketful from the TV 24 hour news-cycle about the chopper accident today at Vauxhall. Vox pops already hinting that loads of claims will be forthcoming for PTSD symptoms from nearby brickies who witnessed the crash. ”

    “I wuz shocked – coulda been me under the crane if it had toppled over; coulda fallen on a bus, or a crowded train at Clapham Junction. Coulda drifted over to the House of Commons; coulda been a terrorist plot, then wot?”.

    Auntie coulda been uncle if she had had bollocks.

    Of course Red Ken immediately got a landline to Sky to blame Boris for it.

    Only a matter of time before the hacks jumped on the bandwagon. Read Fraziers
    twaddle over on Trolltopia on the subject. What a wanker that boy is!

  73. Lots of chat today on Daily Politics about the “Chumocracy” of Europhilia.
    Ahhh, these quaint neologisms. “Cuntocracy” would be a better one, methinks!

    Sorry folks, I’m just off to the local clinic to assume the foetal position in order to allow legalised and suitably latexed digital invasion of my nether-regions, by someone who I hope is an expert – and a gentle one at that. I always get grumpy prior to such uindignified procedures. Too much info, I know. But I felt that I should explain my tetchy mood. I would bet the ‘expert’ is not looking forward to it either.

  74. Hard to believe that less than 70 years ago, within a single lifetime, stoic Londoners in the same nation were carrying on under bombardment from the V1, the V2 and the Luftwaffe.

    “I lay in bed listening to the explosions all around and feeling the reverberations from the blasts and thinking the next one is going to land here, it must.”

    “I didn’t mind the bombs and doodlebugs so much – you could hear them coming. It was those bloody rockets. You just never knew any time of day and night, even standing in the queue at the corner shop or the bus stop.”

    You wouldn’t find mountains of flowers and teddy bears by a V2 crater. Nowadays big girl’s blousery and assorted wimpishness and wooserie is preached, practiced and positively blubbered by the doyens of the state. Whilst in our streets compassion and consideration has never been more absent.

  75. Akhtar Dogar
    Anjum Dogar
    Kamir Jamil
    Mohammed Karrar
    Bassan Karrar
    Assad Hussain
    Mohammed Hussain
    Zeeshan Ahmed
    Bilal Ahmed
    Of Oxford and Maidenhead
    Deny all the charges
    Page 9 DT

  76. Well-wisher@January 16th, 2013 – 14:29
    I am afraid that they would not be leaving flowers cos they will have been busy looting the wrecked houses. London in the blitz was was a lawless place.
    Not what history tells us but true, I am afraid.

  77. Ah, yes, all that wartime crime they teach now. You should check the credentials of the “historians” peddling that stuff!

  79. Tesco value burger goes into a bar..

    “Pint please barman”

    “Eh? can’t hear you mate?”

    “Sorry, I’m a little hoarse”

  80. Cameron told the CofE they should :”….get with the programme”.We now know The Programme is out of Blair/New Labour,sired by Marxism Today/The Communist Party……Blair wrote “Forging a New Agenda” in MT,Oct.1991….This can be found by googling `marxism today tony blair`….There is also a Link to David Lindsay; writting today upon the Radio 4 revelations of Monday…..This is about how the eurocommunists took-over the whole shebang.

  81. Just before 8.30pm on the night of Thursday 4 January 1945 a huge explosion destroyed an apartment building, Surrey Lodge, on the corner of Kennington Road and Lambeth Road, killing 43 people. The old Lambeth Baths and a chapel on the opposite side of Lambeth Road were also severely damaged. The blast also extensively damaged the northern and western sides of the Imperial War Museum as well as many surrounding buildings.

    There was no warning – no air raid sirens or sounds of approaching aircraft – just the explosion. However the initial detonation was followed by a distinctive roaring noise and a sonic boom, because the disaster was caused by a German V2 rocket – the world’s first ballistic missile – diving into the building faster than the speed of sound.

    The scenes that followed would have been only too familiar to many Londoners after four years of war. One survivor described the aftermath of a similar blast once the rumble of collapsing buildings died away :

    ‘…there was a pause and everything was absolutely quiet for several seconds. After that all you could hear were people screaming from their terrible injuries, followed by the arrival of firemen and Army personnel …to help get us out from the debris. We looked awful with black and dust all over us, and, of course, we were still in our nighties!…’

    With the grey light of dawn the full extent of the damage was revealed. Daylight also revealed the continuing rescue operations. But as the likelihood diminished of finding any more survivors alive, so the nature of the work changed. The cranes, lorries and workmen were increasingly clearing up the site to make it safe, removing rubble, and helping to recover residents’ personal belongings while starting to stabilise or repair damaged buildings. Lambeth Road was cleared and the tram service was restored. Soon this would become just one more London bomb site.

    This was one of 1,054 V2 rockets that reached Britain during a campaign that lasted from 8 September 1944 to 27 March 1945, killing 2,700 people and injuring 6,500 people.

  82. 16:03

    Skeleton walks into a bar.

    ‘What’ll it be?’ sez the barman.

    ‘I’ll have two beers and a mop, please,’ sez the skeleton

    (Coda:

    ‘You sure you’re all right?’ sez the barman.

    ‘Nah, mate,’ sez the skeleton, ‘Been pigging out on horseburgers.’)

  83. Alexandr (15:31)

    Your Mum wasn’t “Fag-ash Fanny” Fraser, the famous female fence from Fagan’s Passage, Mile End Road, was she? If she was, you should praps ‘ang yer ‘ead in shime.

    It was ‘er wot encouraged fieving ‘n’ pillaging during the blitz, so that she could make enough to get ‘er sons art’ve the East End and edumicated at Oxford. So … given the ‘ard times and the fact she lost ‘er ol’ man at the Somme in the first show, she wuz the sault of the erf, really, according to those nice Kray twins, oo as yer know ran most of the social services in Beffnal Green in later yonks, and learned most of their emm-oh. sat at her plates, when they wuz nippers.

  84. Well-wisher.

    “This was one of 1,054 V2 rockets that reached Britain during a campaign that lasted from 8 September 1944 to 27 March 1945, killing 2,700 people and injuring 6,500 people.”

    And they think that we are odd, those of us who do not want even closer links to two old enemies.

  85. Scanning the Radio Times this evening to determine whether there was anything worth watching on the television I came across this.

    I paraphrase from memory.

    Channel 4 10pm Documentary of the week, shows the extended version of the Oscar winning true stories film, of the British Plastic Surgeon Dr Mohammad Jawad’s travels to Pakistan to save and reconstruct the faces of acid attack victims.

    It went on to say that the victims are mostly women (I will lay a pound to a penny that not 1% are men) and that there are well over 100 such attacks each year.

    But we are told that those who follow the prophet PBUH are peace loving gentle folk.

  87. It was only by a hair’s breadth and by the persistence of a few, ridiculed by many, and no thanks to Lord Cherwell, that prevented the Vergeltungswaffen from absolutely devastating southern England. 12,000 V2 rockets were ordered to be manufactured at the rate of 900 a month, preparing for the launch of over 100 rockets a day by two mobile detachments and one fixed site. 20,000 slave labourers from Hitler’s new ‘Europa’ died building these weapons.

    And the V1 was planned to be launched on an even greater scale with 21 launching sites prepared in France and plans for 96 to launch flying bombs to be produced at the rate of 1,500 a month rising to 5,000. Hitler wanted London flattened and when one of his generals suggested the attacks should be focussed on the south coast and the invasion fleet preparations he went apoplectic with rage, ranting for retaliation against London being an absolute priority.

    The RAF bombing of the city of Kassel destroyed the Fiesler factory and severely disrupted the V1 programme, as did many other RAF attacks against sites and dispersed factories. Yet much of what was had been at stake was forgotten in the post-war distancing from the bomber offensive and the revisionist claims that it had served no useful purpose.

  88. Well-wisher:A night in 1943;Barnes-Wallis and Harris wait for the crucial signal.Three times the phone goes.Three times it’s failure. Then comes the message they’ve waited for:”J for Jack;NIGGER”…The Mohner dam has been burst….There are now claims it did little good….But Herr Spear(running Organization Todt)had to pull so many slave-labourers away from building the Atlantic Wall to repair the damage the Wall wasn’t there when Rommel arrived to take-over;otherwise the Normandy landings may have been even more difficult.//………//Today Steven Fry(screen writer) and associates have kittens over what name to use (for Guy Gibbsons black labrador) in a projected new version of Dam Busters.

  89. Well-wisher 16th, – 21:55

    Once upon a time, the truth, as you, I and other contributors understand it would have been shouted across the front pages of nearly all the papers (DMi & MS excepted) in this land. But I’m afraid the rewriting of history started the moment Attlee stepped across the threshhold of No. 10.

  95. Frank 1.41
    Michele Bachmann should have been our candidate in November.
    Hussein Obama would not be destroying us now if so.

  96. I note that Guy Fawkes’ blog says this about Huhne…

    Chris Huhne █████ ██ ████ █████

    ███████████████████████████████ Chris Huhne ██████████████████.

    ████████████████████████████████ tomorrow ██████████████.

    ████████████████████████████████.

    ████████████████████████ former bi-sexual, ████████████████████!

    ██████████████████████████████!

    Which suggests that there is some sort of legal process at work ensuring no-one knows anything.

  97. Sternly nanny wags her finger at the misbehaving children in the nursery. The primary school teacher calls for silence in her classroom so she can tell the tots off.

    “Prime Minister David Cameron said supermarkets had to take responsibility for what he said was an extremely disturbing case.”

    Are they paying attention? Will supermarket bosses be emailing their contrition to Nanny HQ? “Yes, Miss Cameron, sorry Miss Cameron!”.

    Seriously, one of the most depressing aspects of living on this dreary island full of ‘phobes is knowing that when the next “scandal” breaks, Nanny Cameron will take it upon himself to climb into the pulpit and deliver a lecture on the bleedin’ obvious. As though we are all children…

  100. P from M 09.35

    The obvious and irrefutable point about transexuals is that they hate themselves.
    And this fanatical unwillingness to face up to reality I suppose makes the “transexual community” the perfect Lefty victim group.

  101. ‘Phobe has never been more misused, deliberately, since the original meaning of ‘irrational fear’ adds a nice suggestion of something being wrong with the person it is applied to, therefore devaluing and marginalising their beliefs.

    The other one is ‘denialist’ which nicely implies a refusal to accept reality. That is one of my favourites because its use by the left is so ironic, as their whole orthodoxy depends in the main on denying reality and living within a world of artificially constructed ideas, words and concepts designed to subvert reality.

    Eurosceptics are lucky to get away with that. We might be Europhobes or Eurodenialists, labels being everything when it comes to confronting unwelcome challenges.

    The general phobia of the Left is of course towards any disagreement and dissent against their orthodoxy with all its complex rules of offence and outrage, which makes them dissentophobes or, in short, fascists.

  102. Well-wisher@January 16th, 2013 – 21:55

    My histry of WW2 is quite good.
    My dad did 30 raids in a lancaster in 1944. They had a 1 in 7 chance of survival each trip so do the sums. Sadly he could not go to the Bomber Command Memorial opening last year as he was too ill, and can never go cos he died recently.
    And I lost a great aunt and her husband, their daughter and her husband and their baby in an air raid on Ilford in Jan 1944.

  103. So is mine but I’ll refrain from parading the WW2 family history here. Stiff upper lip and all that.

    My condolences for your losses.

  104. Calling a spade a spade, or how muslim child rapists are being de-demonised.
    An American view by Bruce Bawer

    “There must never be another Rochdale” read the headline on the Independent‘s September editorial. But the only way to prevent another Rochdale is to be honest about what made it happen. If you sincerely want to protect girls from “Asian sex gangs,” you’ve got to understand, face, and speak the truth about the malefactors’ motivations. A good first step would be for Britons to decide, once and for all, to stop saying “Asian” when everybody knows they mean Muslim.

    http://iranaware.com/2013/01/09/myjihad-ukgrappling-with-muslim-sex-gangs/

  105. Interesting that Cameron has said, in 2007…

    Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around.

  106. I won’t be surprised if Europhobe and Eurodenier start rival Eurosceptic if a referendum gathers heat – but I’m trying to avoid using “Euro” when I mean “EU”.

    The idea that the EU is Europe is one of the false ideas so popular in Brussels.

  107. “Interesting that Cameron said, in 2007…

    ‘Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around.’

    I don’t remember it. But it did he explain why the people who invented the microphone he was speaking into and the televsion camera he was gurning into, and his woven clothes, and the car he would get into fuelled by the gasoline we invented the refining and use of, and so on, should accommodate people who, the same thousands of years that we lived through, invented nothing, and still haven’t (I think gangnam dancing was invented in China) and yet who are now entitled to be elevated to live in an advanced society?

    The man is stupid beyond belief. I wonder who engineered it that CaMORON become the prime minister of an advanced society? Surely it is, and was, obvious to everyone concerned that Camerion is self-regarding and greedy for power and praise and … just …. isn’t… very … bright. I would rather have had Screaming Lord Such, who was an at least an original and rather bright and witty.

    Has CaMORON ever said one witty thing in his entire jelloid existence? Even his face reeks of emptiness. It’s a void. I think that is why he is always doing Italianate getures with his fingers. He thinks he is being expressive, but without the chore of thinking up words and sentences.

    Even the preening, self-regarding, smirking Tony Blair is more intelligent than Cameron. Not by much, and not without a more intelligent and greedier wife, but above Cameron.

  108. Good point Frank Sutton!

    Good point Verity. I can’t recall the Self-Propelled Blancmange (With Voice Action) displaying much SOH, at least not of the compassionate, good natured English kind that is gradually being criminalised. He sometimes demonstrates the being cruel to fags, braying kind in PMQ’s but evidently lacks any real warmth towards those beyond his immediate family.

    Even as a blancmange he doesn’t sit in a very deep dish.

  109. The Chinese should invent a new dance called the Camerwobble. It could be quite funny … given how clever the Chinese are and how much raw stupidity there is to work with in Camoron.

  110. The Office of the Childrens Commissioner. The one that published the Sue Berelowitz report saying Pakistani muslim rape gangs were only one of several models, has just issued a tender (value £30k) to conduct research on the 2013 Budget and its impact on children’s human’s rights.
    “Up to now we have undertaken CRIAs on legislation passing through Parliament, including one on the Welfare Reform Bill,2 and another on the Children and Families Bill (forthcoming). However, we are very aware that Government spending decisions have a big impact on the realisation of children’s rights. For this reason, we want to commission a project that will establish whether we can analyse the annual Budget statement through a rights-based framework, and understand whether this is a feasible long-term commitment the OCC would undertake an annual basis (capacity and resources allowing).
    While the Budget does not specify how each spending department will allocate their resources, it does outline the Government’s intentions in a number of areas that have a direct impact on children’s human rights….
    This invitation to tender reflects the outcome of this meeting and OCC’s statutory remit to present evidence that will promote and protect children’s human rights.”

    So in summary, we have an un-bonfired quango, a particularly useless one, in permanent PC denial of the obvious, looking to undermine and challenge even the miserable reductions the Coalition is making, spending money in a fatuous analysis whilst it signally fails in its primary responsibilities.
    http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/

  111. I can see the Cameron Wobble really taking off. People all over the world squeezing themselves into silly positions and wobbling with their hands held up and their fingers spread out. It is definitely a possility for the next thing after gangnam.

  112. As they’re Chinese and don’t pronounce “r”s very well as it’s not in their languages, it would have to be called The Camelon Wobble.

  113. Come on you legal eagles spill the beans are that delightful couple Chris Huhne and his ever fragrant ex-wife going to escape a trial?

  115. Peter from Maidstone
    January 17th, 2013 – 16:23

    “What’s the roads like around Sandringham now?”

    Do not risk it!

  116. Peter
    The roads are ungritted, congested and the Norfolk CC are still under the cosh from Look East – our local TV news service. More blizzards are forecast! Postpone your plans, chum … I just phoned my older sister to cancel trip to nearby Cambs. No matter how careful and skilled a driver you may be – it’s ‘them others’ who ain’t that are the problem. Mad youth in abundance hereabouts, many already departed, as rotting roadside floral tributes indicate.

  117. ‘are that delightful couple Chris Huhne and his ever fragrant ex-wife going to escape a trial?’

    Never mind his ever fragrant ex-wife, will his ruggie wait for him if he goes down for a stretch? Eh? EH?

  118. On dealing with trolls:-
    “Avoid Men that are Hot and Quarrelsome ; they will affront thee for nothing, and urge Things beyond Reason and Measure. They will bring thee into Troubles, which thou wilt not easily get out of. Keeping Company with such is living with Wolves, Bears, and Tygers.”
    Thos Fuller

  119. I can’t comment on his upcoming court case. But I would say Chris Huhne’s been a crap Climate Change Secretary.

    He was in the job for nearly 2 years, and the climate’s barely changed at all, in fact it’s got worse. What’s he been doing? We all know the answer to that.

  120. Don’t mock. Huhne’s case is due soon and he’s already summoning up blizzards to stop judges, lawyers and the public getting to any court in the land.

  121. Watching QT and Farage is holding his own. I suddenly realised why so many Poles and other foreigners are rushing to Boston and taking the town over. When they bought tickets to travel, they thought they were going to Boston Massachussetts!

  122. Norfolk roads lacking grit is newsworthy, but Oxfordshire Police lacking the same, give or take six years, is not:

    Times: “One girl, who was repeatedly raped between the ages of 12 and 15, told police in February 2006 that she was held against her will by two men at a house in Oxford, the Old Bailey was told.

    Seven months later police stopped Akhtar Dogar while he was with the girl who was then aged 15, the court heard.”

  123. Say what you like about Norfolk roads, they’re nothing if not well lit – by Amey plc – courtesy of the iniquitous council tax extorted from the county’s pensioners.

  124. The bravest and most honest soul on QT was the woman at the back. She had the guts to stand fast in the face of the ghastly Mary Beard’s regurgitated council propaganda and the usual leftist loonies in the audience. I salute her.

  125. is this norfolkcoffeehouserswall now?

    can I start a worrickshire one?

    BTW, anyone else think cameron went ‘phew’ when he saw a reason to cancel his EU speech?

  128. SCHOOL – 1950s vs. 2012
    Scenario :
    Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.

    1950s – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.

    2012 – Police called, and they arrest Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programmes for 3 months. School governors hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programmes.

    Scenario :
    Robbie won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

    1950s – Robbie sent to the office and given six of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

    2012 – Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD – result deemed to be positive. Robbie’s parents get fortnightly disability payments and school gets extra funding from government because Robbie has a disability.

    Scenario :
    Billy breaks a window in his neighbour’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

    1950s – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

    2012 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care; joins a gang; ends up in jail.

    Scenario :
    Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

    1950s – Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with. Passes exams, becomes a solicitor.

    2012 – Police called, car searched for drugs and weapons. Mark expelled from school for drug taking. Ends up as a drop out.

    Scenario :
    Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from Guy Fawkes night, puts them in a paint tin & blows up a wasp’s nest.

    1950s – Wasps die.

    2012- Police & Anti-Terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, investigate parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated. Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly in an airplane again.

    Scenario :
    Johnny falls over while running during morning break and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. She hugs him to comfort him.

    1950s – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing games. No damage done.

    2012 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

  129. Alexsandr on January 18th, 2013 – 10:16
    “BTW, anyone else think cameron went ‘phew’ when he saw a reason to cancel his EU speech?”

    He had brought it forward, to please the Germans:

    eureferendum.com: “David Cameron has decided to bring forward [h]is speech on “Europe” to Friday, to avoid conflict with the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, also known as the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship, concluded between French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on on 22 January 1963.”

    He could now deliver it on the day originally planned, if events do not overtake the updated time table.

  132. Well-wisher on January 18th, 2013 – 10:12
    “The bravest and most honest soul on QT was the woman at the back. She had the guts to stand fast in the face of the ghastly Mary Beard’s regurgitated council propaganda and the usual leftist loonies in the audience. I salute her.”

    Not only does she have to put up with what is happening in her town, she has to pay taxes to pay council officials to be ‘economical with the truth’.

  133. Well-wisher 10.12

    “The bravest and most honest soul on QT was the woman at the back. She had the guts to stand fast in the face of the ghastly Mary Beard’s regurgitated council propaganda and the usual leftist loonies in the audience. I salute her.”

    It hasn’t taken long for Boston Council to select the bit of QT that suited them and ignore the rest on their (rate payer funded) website. No mention of the Bostonian furious as the Poles and Latvians swamp her home town, the attention focuses on the Cambridge bag lady’s regurgitation of their myopic report. Uhghh! That hair. does she not have nits?

    http://www.boston.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4947

  134. Noa @13:00

    Re: “Cambridge bag lady…”

    Can’t stand her.
    She has unfortunate name for someone who looks like a scruffy eco-mentalist.
    I think that AA Gill had it right!

  135. Noa
    January 18th, 2013 – 13:00

    Well-wisher 10.12

    “The bravest and most honest soul on QT was the woman at the back. She had the guts to stand fast in the face of the ghastly Mary Beard’s regurgitated council propaganda and the usual leftist loonies in the audience. I salute her.”

    …..attention focuses on the Cambridge bag lady’s regurgitation of their myopic report. Uhghh! That hair. does she not have nits?
    Hi Noa, I reckon that Leftie Parasite has full grown fleas and lice. Parasites upon larger parasites….!

  136. So… the government’s not happy that the Algerian government acted without informing them.

    Tell me, Messrs. Cameron & Hague, which parts of the words “Sovereign State” don’t you understand?

  139. Ostrich (occasionally)@January 18th, 2013 – 18:06

    Ask yourself what cameron would have said if the Algerians wanted to interfere in an incident happening in the UK.
    on reflection -don’t!

  140. Interesting and annoying.

    Fraser Nelson has banned me completely from posting on the Spectator site in petty retaliation for some criticism of the direction of the magazine. He had said that he didn’t care if the Spectator lost customers as long as it gained new ones, and so it kind of figures that he is happy to ban long term posters who help generate many of his page views.

  142. P from M – Fraser Nelson is, I am sure, deeply resentful of your starting your blog and taking so many readers away from The Spectator. I have not been back to their comments column since you started Coffee House Wall. I have no idea whether any of the new contributors have anything interesting to say, but so what? I won’t be back.

  143. Sergei Filin, the 43-year-old former ballet star has suffered a terrible fate. Acid was thrown onto his face and he may be blinded for life. This seems a case of reality copying ‘art’. The Phantom of the Opera was disfigured by a jealous rival, and what knowledge we have at the moment suggests that this poor man has been attacked through professional rivalry and jealousy. I can only wish him well and as good a recovery as possible.

  144. A first impression of Britain after long absence was received as I looked up at the flight attendants, ready with my smile and thanks for their services, as I disembarked at Heathrow a couple of days ago, but only to see the lady ahead of me put a folded banknote into a transparent plastic bag that the flight attendant was holding out. Is this now customary on British international carriers? It used to be so on tours in the United Kingdom in ‘charabancs’ as my parents used to call them, but I have never encountered it on an airline.

    Later,at Victoria, I paid three large £1 coins to pay the £2.90 for a couple of newspapers to the charmng young lady wearing a headscarf at the cashier’s till at W.H. Smith. She gave me my change including one of the big coins and I pointed out that she had given me too much At that point, learned that we now have a £2 coin.

    Some things never change, and a general crisis fever has developed in the capital following a few flurries of snow. Will the partial paralysis of society prevent trips out of London?

    I caught the QT referred to above and remarked the contrast between the Cambridge professor’s reliance on the Boston Council’s study and the “boots on the ground” observations from the Boston businesswoman in the audience. The learned professor on the panel did not, as far as I could tell, seem eager to reply in the affirmative when Nigel Farage asked her whether she believed in democracy, but the exchange was cut short by the dynastic moderator. QT cannot be downloaded jn Asia for reasons not made expliciy on the BBC website.

    I have been watching a BBC 2 documentary on the terrible reality of child trafficking for prostitution in India. No religion wa mentioned, but I infer that these were Hindus. In this respect, there seems little to differentiate India from Pakistan. ]

    Some good may come of the murders in Algiers. Business may have to face the reality that there is a war between islam and ‘the Crusaders’, regardless whether the latter are random passengers on double-decker buses or highly-qualified professionals singled out for their role in the economy. May be the business world will pass the message to their representatives in the poltical world and policies will be changed on their instructions. The ‘Crusaders’ may recognize that they have ro become crusaders…

    Crusaders should also perhaps watch the lovely BBC documentary on the girl and boy choristers ay Salisbury Cathedral.

    I must now go and treat my jet lag with coffee and croissants which really seem to have improved here over the last half century – if pedestrians are allowed in these terrible weather conditions…

  145. PfM, re banning:

    If it’s any consolation, that successful Scottish bloke on ‘Dragon’s Den’ always says “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity” and hits (or footfall) do not necessarily translate into awareness, appproval, or purchase of the brands paying for exposure in the mag or on the site.

    Whatever the case Mr N has nailed his colours firmly to the mast and from this distance they are, to all practical purposes, indistinguishable from the Ken Clarke, Diane Abbotts and Nick Cleggs of this world.

    Personal Note: I have renewed my subscription (using the Mrs’ funds). I don’t think all is rosy in the garden however as mine cost about £87 for the year. Is that and the Kindle rates enough even with ‘top end’ advertisers? It seems unlikely especially as I have never bought anything via or related to those in the Spec.

  146. Alexsandr 18th, – 20:12

    Ostrich (occasionally)@January 18th, 2013 – 18:06

    Ask yourself what cameron would have said if the Algerians wanted to interfere in an incident happening in the UK.

    I already did…before I posted that comment.

  147. Peter from Maidstone, @21:54

    The truth obviously hurts! His ban (personal?) is a terrible indictment of him not you.
    The Scotia Nostra currently reign at OQS so he may not get the push anytime soon – no matter how bad things get.

  148. I was thinking about Dave’s disappearing EU speech this morning.
    This surely has to rank alongside Frazier’s phantom Neathergate article?

    What a pair of {insert the epithet of your choice here} !

  149. Well I am wondering now about seriously producing a business plan to seek a low level of investment to create a right of centre monthly political and social comment magazine, with both an online presence, kindle and print edition. Perhaps seeking to pay for a couple of well known names to contribute, but also seeking to develop a team who can produce both daily reflections as the Spectator Coffee House, and also monthly longer pieces.

    This would be pitched as a competitor to the Spectator but would naturally keep all costs to a minimum.

    Perhaps there could be a Coffee House Press which published the magazine and took over funding of the site and other projects. Keeping costs very low but enthusiasm, intelligence, wit and commitment high might mean that advertising could end up covering costs together with subscriptions.

    I shall start thinking about some numbers.

  152. Peter from Maidstone@January 19th, 2013 – 13:46

    My advice would be to do it but done bother with hard copy. just make it an electronic publication. Just need to consider the revenue stream. But the entry costs of printed media will be prohibitive.
    And have cartoons if u can!

  153. I agree with Alexsandr – printed media is dying, and the work you’ll have to put in will drain you. A website with an e-publication will save you your sanity.

  154. Making up ground from the back markers on the equine thread, come this one from my NN, comes this late entry:

    “New Burgers or Newmarket:

    I just went to the fridge to check on my Tesco-burgers.

    They’re off………..!!!”

    Odds on winner inmho … unless ….?

  155. This one pips it at the post:

    “The good thing about these horse puns : it’s stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes.”

    Perhaps it’s time to have a whip round – and clean up.

  157. Welcome back Malfeur.

    There are times to pick to return to the UK, for me January in a white-out was never one of them. Your experiences did put me in mind of my last long haul…

    My last flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks.
    As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and told us that ‘Captain Marvey has asked me to announce that he’ll be landing the big scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could just put your trays up, that would be super.’

    On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this well-dressed and rather Arabic-looking woman hadn’t moved a muscle. ‘Perhaps you didn’t hear me over those big brute engines, but I asked you to raise your trazy-poo, so the main man can pitty-pat us on the ground.’

    She calmly turned her head and said, ‘In my country, I am called a Princess, and I take orders from no one.’

    To which (I swear) the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat,
    ‘Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country I’m called a Queen, so I outrank you. Tray-up, Bitch!’

  158. Peter-wot Alexsandr said @ 15.20pm.

    -re the ban, it’s the Speccies’ loss, not yours.

    -I don’t see any reason why the CHW can’t be developed into an online international content provider (apols Mr Steyn). A humour column, some original posts and syndicated columns….

  159. James102
    James, forgive me repeating myself. This proves my theory that the judiciary is either insane, criminal or criminally insane. So many English families, through no fault of their own, existing in terruble conditions, yet these parasites are supported at our expense.

  163. Anne Wotana Kaye 1
    January 19th, 2013 – 17:06
    Well certainly they seem the instrument being used to by-pass any democratic resistance to changing our culture.
    No need to stand for election on policies the electorate might reject, just gain control of the judiciary and ” interpret” away

  164. With the 2011/12 tax return deadline fast approaching here is is an example of the importance of accuracy in your tax return.
    HMRC returned the Tax Return of a fellow Lancastrian after he apparently answered one of the questions inaccurately.
    In response to the question “Do you have anyone dependent on you?” The man wrote:-
    “2.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crackheads, 4.4 million Jeremy Kyle scroungers, 93, 000 criminals in over 85 prisons, plus 650 idiots in Parliament, and the whole of the European Commission”.

    HMRC stated the response was unacceptable.

    The man’s reply was:- “Who did I miss out?”

  167. Last bet in the Hossberger stakes and probably the new favourite – a springer in fact:

    “To buy frozen burgers? Or to not buy frozen burgers? That is equestrian”

    Many more from NN: but mere ‘also rans’.

  168. Will Self and the BBC. If ever two deserved each other…

    Can’t stand him. From the comments posted I’m not alone.

    Funny that the controller thinks he will bring fireworks. He reeks of the bien pensant, lefty establishment and its turgid, codified mindset.

  169. Anne Wotana Kaye 1
    January 19th, 2013 – 20:01

    Now that the Long March has been ratified in the USA and has drilled the so-called ‘coaltion’ here into marching in step; now that the British electorate are joining it in droves, why should Agitprop apply subterfuge anymore? The appointment of the arrogant Self, a pompous poseur and committed Lefty, as the official piss-taker in chief at the BBC is entirely consistent with the aims of the counter-culture propaganda arm. It is following the pattern of the Obama communist machine which is now not only acting with triumphalist abandon, but is rampant and aided and abetted by the MSM. Their burgeoning totalitarianism will feed the already established totalitarian EU that has grabbed the important elements of our erstwhile soverignty, with the connivance of successive governments.

    Will Self at the Beeb, Fraser Nelson and his effete crew of girlie men at the Speccy. All part of the game. Get used to it, gal. It will get much worse before the backlash starts. In fact, as days pass, I see no sign of sinews in the new generation capable of amny meaningful ‘backlash’. Forward genuflection in readiness for a blowjob, rather than a backlash seems to be the order of the day. Watching these puerile pricks posturing and preening on TV here used to make me angry. It now just amuses me. America is about to start to suffer the deprivations of totalitarian government. When the dollar starts to slide and takes our economy with it, the useful idiots who have facilitated the destruction of our culture and undermined the civilisation that has nurtured them, I hope I will live long enough to see them squirm as their ideology tanks in the way that it eventually must. Myopic eejits! Btw … watch the inaugural ceremony with sick-bucket handy.

  170. Well-wisher 19th, – 20:14

    “Will Self and the BBC. If ever two deserved each other…”

    How did his mother fail so badly?

    “Now, Will. The mouth is used for speaking and eating. The nose is used for sniffing. Don’t get the two mixed up.”

    “Yes, mum.” (Ignores everything he’s just been told…as with every other civilising thing he’s ever been told.)

  171. Published in 2008 but still an interesting read on the alliance by Archonix between the socialist pseudo Scottish nationalism of Salmond and its links with Islamic militants

    “…Scotland’s grass-roots nationalist movement grew out of the idea of not wanting to be even remotely associated with the English and desiring independence from English rule. I mean it’s fair, really, because we haven’t been particularly nice to the Scots in the past — but then neither were they particularly nice to us, what with all the allying with France and so on when they thought it would be an advantage, and the constant invasions… ”

    http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/bonds-between-socialist-pseudo.html

  172. Frank P
    January 19th, 2013 – 20:46
    Hi Frank, thank goodness for people like you! I get so fed up with the loonie Beards, Selfs and other rubbish running the show these days. Sometimes I think I must have been a very wicked person and this is my punishment, to see the scum running the country and ruining everything that was once decent and pleasant. I wish they would all self-explode, they are so full of fetid gases that if somebody lit a match near them they would go up in a cloud of stinking matter. I include Cameron, who these days has a mouth which looks as though it has been working overtime on his good friends in government. You can see how I have become so crude, they are literally driving me bonkers! 🙁

  173. Though it pained me a little to do so, I have just bought a Kindle edition of the latest Spectator for my Android phone and tablet. I wanted to see how they laid it out.

    Would it be possible to reproduce on a monthly basis, for instance? With a couple of names and many committed writers who had wit and ability and didn’t want more than money for a pint or two to start with?

    Technically there is no problem, and I will experiment with creating a magazine type kindle document. Distribution wise there is no problem as Amazon takes care of that. (38 politics and current affairs magazines being distributed and the Spectator is best seller of the 38).

    That just leaves content. I wonder if Mr Boot would provide a piece once a month for or without a small fee. Who else could be persuaded to contribute? Who should be asked?

  174. Peter
    why not try Steyn & Liddle? Fraser loves him so a yes would be…mortifying for the wee fellow.
    (And I’m no pro journalist but I’ve a couple of items in prep I’ll post next week)

    and don’t forget our friend Nicholas!

  176. Noa @21:48

    That is very funny. Much better than anything HIGNFY or Private Eye currently has on offer. Hislop is now almost as funny as Marcus Brigstocke. Now there’s a pair of c———s for you!

  180. EC 21.48

    I believe that Ian Hislop believes he’s funny. It was true once and he still is, occasionally.

  182. Peter from M:Nobody crosses The Brothers with impunity.You should see how their agent treats their opponents on Sark-the majority.Sark may be seen as a micro-cosme of Britain.Try googling the words:sark john sweeney.This gives blogs from both sides.There is a vicious lengthy rant by the Barclay’s agent at Sark Newsletter[SNL];and a more amusing response from `Ebenezer Le Page`….F.N.runs the Spec. because he `goes with the Brothers`.If the Spec and SNL don’t break-even they are subsidized by the non-taxed profits from the Ritz Hotel etc……Because/Brecqhou.

  183. Apparently this is from a speech given by Julia Gillard:

    Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

    Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying she supported spy agencies
    monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:
    ‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT… Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’

    ‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.’

    ‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese,

    Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!’

    ‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’

    ‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’

    ‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’

    ‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’

    Whod’ve thunk it?

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4711509858826&set=a.1338160207193.2045520.1026766147&type=1&theater

  184. Ostrich (occasionally)
    January 20th, 2013 – 12:30
    Sensible, straight-forward speaking. If this lady spoke out here, she would be condemned under the ‘diversity shite’ laws.

  186. “This is MY country,MY culture;MY society.I will decide what is acceptable in MY country,MY culture,MY society”That’s a little gem I picked-up from Russia Today[Freeview channel 85].

  187. Noa
    January 20th, 2013 – 12:53
    Alas, no wonder I’m a cynic. Bring on Marine Le Pen – unless she is a cryptic commie!!!!

  189. Hi Anne
    Actually you don’t have to go so far for the truth. CHW is an excellent patriots support group. Generally there’s better and more literate posts here too.

    To prove my point don’t you find yourself often cutting and pasting some trenchant post by the likes of Frank P and sending it on to friends?

    And by doing so surely we’re creating our own dynamism and urban legends!

  190. Archbishop Cranmer ponders BBC Radio 4’s strange decision to mark the occasion of Obama’s inauguration with a special dedicated edition of Sunday Worship.
    I vaguely heard the service while deciding whether to wake up, and thought it might be timed to pubiicise the new film about Abe Lincoln.
    I thought the music was several notches above some of the dire singalongajesus dross that troubles the airwaves early Sunday Morning.
    It is a well known rumour that T Blair tried to have himself canonised during his own lifetime (the Pope said “Nein”). It looks like Obama has beaten him to it by becoming the world’s first living saint.
    http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/

  191. Noa 20th, – 12:53

    Cheers, Noa, I was suspicious, thus my prefixing the post with ‘apparently’.

  192. Noa
    January 20th, 2013 – 13:31
    Noa, that’s weird! How did you know? Yes, I often send Frank P’s postings to friends and relatives, and guess what – I sometimes send comments by a guy called NOA!

  194. John Birch – Thanks for the reference to Rod Liddle’s hilarious piece about the trannies and their ilk.

    In his own small way, Rod is playing a similar role (nearly 100 years later) to that of Evelyn Waugh’s writing, in Decline and Fall, about the depravity that was taking hold in London after the first World War.

    Waugh said that his book was meant to be funny. Rod Liddle says much the same thing – and he’s certainly succeeded. The amusement is side-splitting, but there’s a very dark side to it all.

    It’s said that fish rot from the head downwards. Britain is much the same – with London being the equivalent of the fish head.

    The rot has accelerated during 20th century and the decline has become steeper and steeper. Never mind fiscal cliffs. There is a huge civilisational cliff – and the British people, herded by their depraved Establishment, are obediently shuffling nearer and nearer to its edge.

    And Islam is waiting at the cliff bottom to stamp on the remains.

  197. Just took my wife to the station and on the way back listening to radio 4 the discussion was with a midwife about the baby boom in this country.
    When asked why we were having this boom she said we don’t know. !!!
    John and her narrowed it down to possibly women now having babys later in life.
    And the word immigration wasent used once.
    Right on BBC.

  198. Peter from Maidstone@January 19th, 2013 – 21:14

    dont nail your colours to the mast of one format. Many dont have a Kindle, but have a PC that will read a pdf. In fact a pdf is readable by many devices.

  200. Hi Alexsandr

    That’s a good point and I am investigating the benefits of either a page turning magazine copy for pc use or else essentially a paywall for an online edition.

    There are kindle software readers for pc though.

    Id be wanting to service those channels that offered a reasonable takeup at low cost to convert content and distribute it.

  201. How can Miliband and Clegg formally oppose “English votes for English laws” without a backlash in England? Miliband especially with his part in devolution and that ‘one nation’ nonsense – how can he possibly justify this stance? Why does it not get more animadversion in England?

  203. “Les Misérables soundtrack reaches no1 in UK album chart”

    This is a HEADLINE? In the Torygraph?

  204. Alexsandr on January 21st, 2013 – 11:07
    “Why has Jeremy Heywood still got a job? Clearly incompetant.”

    Wikipedia hints at why he is so valuable:
    “Heywood claimed to have never minuted meetings in the Prime Ministerial offices about Dr David Kelly, a job he was required to do. He emerged to become the Managing Director of the UK Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley where he became embroiled in the Southern Cross Scandal that almost saw 30,000 elderly people being made homeless. Upon Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister in 2007, Heywood returned to government as Head of Domestic Policy and Strategy at the Cabinet Office. Political commentator Peter Oborne, in the wake of this appointment described Heywood as ‘a perfect manifestation of everything that has gone so very wrong with the British civil service over the past 15 years.'”

    He cannot leave just yet; his pension pot hasn’t reached the desired level.

  207. Sorry, I just never got into country music. I like folk music. Can we not write some right of centre protest songs. Billy Bragg never needed any talent. He just had to write about how horrible Margaret Thatcher was!

    Speaking of left wing protest, I usually like watching My Family. But today I noticed rather irritating digs at Conservatives. Always present in the series, but it made me think how often anyone with socialist views is continually castigated? Can’t think of any.

  210. Anne Wotana Kaye 1
    January 20th, 2013 – 15:15
    Me too. Astonishing! In fact, I just distributed a couple of snippets from you good folk hereabouts to some fellow believers!

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