The Coffee House Wall – January 2019

Posted on December 30, 2018

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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2,795 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – January 2019”

  2. Marshal Roberts – 07:53

    Yes, given that the heathen Scotchmen generally make more of a fuss about New Year than Christmas, then the publishing of the new wall a day early could be considered a case of premature eJockulation.

  4. Nobody anywhere in the mainstream media ever covers the key aspect of these Islamist atrocities. And that is the ‘why’.

    These terrorists are only copying the ‘model for all mankind’ Mohammad.

    That’s right, the Mohammad who came up with the koran and founded Islam.

    The Mohammad who is the ‘model for all mankind’ to Muslims.

    The Mohammad that more than a third of British Muslims name their sons after. That one: https://bit.ly/2LHb6aF

  7. To all Wallsters and anyone else that happens to click accidentally – may 2019 last until 2020. Hang in there, it’s gonna be Rough ride to the year of clear vision.

  8. EC (10:09)

    Brilliant. Obviously you had an abstemious cross over. Never short of a punny riposte.
    All the best old friend. Thanks for your encouragement and continued fillip in the face of the news from the GHOH and the continued onslaught of the SBBOFF assisted by the relentless ticking of OFT.

    Had a great gathering with the Saucepans and remaining siblings. Best Christmas ever, notwithstanding! Completely reconciled with whatever 2019 may perpetrate.

  9. Ostrich (occasionally)

    You are, as always, concisely correct); but my aim was personal and poisonous. Perhaps I should just have exclaimed, as a riposte,

  15. Frank P – 10:53

    … or to put it into computerspeak, reBooted?

    Mr B. dealt us, en passant, the “is the glass half full, glass half empty” card today. Not that he was asking but I’ve always responded to people asking this question by saying, “the level of liquid in the container is at 50% of its capacity.”

    On this occasion I’d have to say that 2019 is best viewed through the bottom of a glass, preferably a very large glass of a quality Cognac!
    Unfortunately I can’t “do” spirits anymore.

    If Mrs May has to go, and the sooner the better, who should replace her?

    Mogg says he won’t. Bojo, Gove, Fox would like to but might find it difficult. Leadsom, although an enthusiastic breeder, is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Will it be the “I must be seen to be doing something” Sajid Javid OR will it be a candidate that has made fewer enemies that comes through the middle of the pack to get to the top of the greasy pole? (thinking of my former MP, the mildly autistic imo, Jeremy Hunt here)

    If there’s a GE then I can’t see Corbyn getting a majority. Both parties are split.
    If there’s a “NoDeal” Brexit (my preferred option) then there’s a good case for a BRexiteer lead coalition to clear up Mr. Cameron’s & Mrs May’s mess.

  19. Well, there’s never anything on the telly…

    “There were among 455 online divorce applications submitted to HM Courts & Tribunals Service between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. Twenty-six people submitted applications on Christmas Eve, 13 on Christmas Day, 23 on Boxing Day and 77 on New Year’s Day.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46761442

  20. EC (13:24)

    Whadda prospect! Hunt has beeb pitching hard with the Singapore shtick. He certainly held the got potato of the NHS for longer than most. He could provide CRS with its best coup ever.

  22. “Brexit: PM says critics of her deal are risking democracy”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46772601

    HA! Turning the truth on its head. If she seriously believes that then she obviously needs sectioning under mental health legislation ASAP. Would that guarantee her removal as PM though? Probably not.

    RESIGN, FUCK OFF, GET OUT!

  24. Radford NG @ January 6th, 2019 – 05:16

    What pi$$es mightily, Radford, is the free dental care (and free prescriptions), since the pamphlet doesn’t say whether that applies to both successful as well as failed asylum seekers, it must pay off for anyone in the world with bad teeth to risk it, arrive her,e claim an asylum, have one’s decaying choppers MOTed.

    Why should a tax paying local fork out £256-50 for a bridge (Baron’s case), and not someone who hasn’t contributed a penny to the Treasury coffers.

  25. EC @ January 6th, 2019 – 10:34

    No need to shout, EC, but go she should, the sooner the better.

  26. The louder the better and two inches from her ear if possible. This fucking bloodless bitch is quite blatantly trying to connive what she clearly wanted all along – BINO. She is a dyed-in-the-wool Remainer with her hooked nose deep in the trough. She has the power to reverse the referendum unless she is ousted – pronto! We all need to SHOUT, metaphorically and literally. We are in dire danger of a Trotskyite No. 10. And that fat little fuck Tom Watson was just given ten minutes of free self serving, cloying Labour Party propaganda on Sky News to preen about having lost five stone on a diet. WGAF? Obnoxious little cunt!

    GTFOH!

  27. Why all the weeping ans a wailing over the May. The Minuit she stood up at the Tory conference and labelled it as the nasty party, was the minute she nailed her colours to the mast, nothing that the stupid woman has done in the interim has changed my opinion. So the question that has to be asked is do the Toy Establishment have a death wish? and why the hell should we pay the price for their idiocy?

  28. Neither weeping nor wailing, Stephen – just angrily yelling in impotent frustration. And castigating Baron for condescendingly bollocking EC for capitalising his imperatives.

    Got a better idea? Let’s have it? Can you see a single sack of shit (or soot)sitting on the seats of power who can reverse this ugly betrayal of a democratic vote? There is none. Too late to start a new party with common sense and balls – the whole generation is pussified – feminised to fuck. Or queer as nine bob notes. I agree with you: Nonmother nMay is the symptom, not the cause. We deserve Corbyn at the wheel, perhaps it will wake up the plebs and demonstrate just what ‘socialism entails’. Fucking morons!

  29. Frank P @ January 6th, 2019 – 14:20 & :25

    Language, Frank, language (says the poorly edu Slav in a condescending voice, you sadly cannot hear, heh, heh).

    It may happen, th ecumryd could get in easily if he plays his cards right.

    In the forthcoming vote on the deal he will instruct his motley crew to vote against it, vote down it will be properly, the childless woman will run to the Brussels gnomes again, they’ll give he FA in concessions, she’ll claim though the newest deal’s much better, put it to the vote again.

    This time, the cumryd must tell his MPs to abstain, the treachery will pass, the next couple of years before the next election will be disastrous, people will be genuinely pi$$ed off, we’ll pay the hefty £39bn, will have to obey orders, but be excluded from formulating them, the anger will vote the cumryd in at the next count in numbers not too massive but sufficient for Labour to get the keys to no10.

    A lot to enjoy when that happens.

  30. Says mother to her son: ‘Am I a bad mother, Peter?’ He answers ‘my name’s Jim, mother’.

  31. Few tips you may already know, if not, keep them in mind:

    The Emergency Number worldwide for all Mobile Phones is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and your mobile will search any existing network in your area to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. This works on all phones worldwide and is free.

    Have you locked your keys in the car, have a spare at home?

    If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button on the spare key, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. It’s of no use if you lose your keys though, then you’re really fugged.

    Is your mobile phone battery flat? All mobiles have Hidden Battery Power, to activate, press the keys *3370# (remember the asterisk). Do this when the phone is almost dead. Your mobile will restart in a special way with this new reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery life. This reserve will get re-charged when you charge your mobile next time.

    How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # (Ensure you put an asterisk BEFORE the #06# sequence).

    A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone ever gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
    You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. (It may well be Baron has already told you about this feature of the mobile phone).

    ATM PIN Number Reversal – Good to Know – nothing to do with mobiles.

    If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be alerted. all ATM’s have this emergency sequencer facility by law. The Crime Stoppers adverse it, but it’s seldom used, probably because such cases are rare, no?

  33. Still no photos. And there never was a description.
    Darren Shane Pencille, 35 from Farnham, was charged on Sunday night with the murder of Lee Pomeroy and possession of an offensive weapon in connection to the attack on board a train from Guildford to London on Friday.

  35. John birch. – 06:13

    I’ve just been inspecting the sketch of “Darren Shane Pencille”, 35 from Farnham” as executed by the official court artist. The answer to Hamlet’s famous existential question would have to be in the negative in his case. More of a 6B, imo.

  36. stephen maybery, January 6th, 2019 – 15:28

    We all here, I’m sure, got the MayBot banged to rights years ago.

    All my SHOUTING in CAPS is borne of sheer frustration that there appears to be nobody in the HoC or the military is prepared to bang Drake’s Drum!

    Re: “the Toy Establishment”

    A most delicious ironical typo? Yea or Nay, it works!

    A dispassionate observer would be forced to conclude that the “Establishment” of the day is definitely Mickey Mouse!

  38. The minds boggles. The weaponisation of the NHS had now been further exacerbated by promises of cyber-appointments with doctors by Skpe and “smartphones’. By importing another 40,000 immigrants to man the already gargantuan bureaucracy with all the concomitant requirements of infrastructure to cater for them. And promises of a non-pharmaceutical injection (Oh Yeah!) of £20b into its coffers. Just another cynical charade to distract the punters from the fact that our so-called Prime Minister is flailing around in a Sargasso Sea of her own shit and impotence in the Brexit fiasco. Never in the history of human conflict has so much damage been done to so many by so few – and wankers all! Somebody stop this travesty of governmental posturing and utter incompetence, before a thousand years of heritage is reduced to meaningless rubble that will make current Syria look like the Gardens of Babylon by comparison. Out you stupid woman. In the name of God – GO! Now! Forthwith!

    Brexit! No deal with ingrates and criminal conspirators (including half our government, who are either sexually bent or steeped in deep venality, in many cases both.

  41. From the woodpile report
    Stuff you may want to think about
    Synopsis with links

    Tucker, Gold Goats ‘n Guns – This is the next stage of the attack on rural America. First it was destroy their ability to live a stable life, raise children and pass wealth down through the generations. Then it was import the worst people from the rest of the world, zip code targeting immigrants to flip certain states to destroy potential revolt through the ballot box. And now we’re into the vilification stage, the dehumanization stage. This is the foundation our leaders always lay before going to war with someone. Make no mistake, this was policy. This was the point of the long march through the institutions. If we want to avoid this outcome, we need to stop reacting to the words people say and look for the reasons why they are saying them.

  42. Mark Steyn is hard to beat when to comes to wordsmithing of the written, in this kingdom he rules there supreme, it’s always a pleasure to read him. Does he always get it right, now, that’s the question.

    Well before the last century before the West adopted the doctrine of spreading democracy to the darker corners of the globe, Mark backed it, argued that we should hit the religious fruitcakes in their own lands, ‘unless we destabilise them over there, they’ll come to us, destabilise us here’ was how he framed it, or perhaps the wording was even more eye catching what with Baron’s substandard use of the language.

    We did try, had a number of goes, are still at it, but the outcome seems to be not what was intended, the West feels like being destabilised more, the lands of the nutters may be often be in ruins, but did it lower the appetite of those wishing do us harm?

    After 18 years in the mountains of Afghanistan, the country’s resembling today one of pre-medieval infernos of Dante’s imagination, our expanding over trillion bucks, the loss of tens of thousands of young lives on our side, immeasurably more on theirs did FA to bring democracy to that country, the societal construct so desired by the neocons (if only in words, the deeds talk differently) is arguably further away than it has ever been.

    On his population argument Mark runs the risk of arguing two contradictory things simultaneously. He believes the West is dying out, it’s not just Japan, the other countries, too, but he also believes that the Mandarin speakers will get older quicker that the West dies out.

    The median is a funny measure, it’s the middle of a distribution of, in this case age of people. The fact that it shifts so noticeably towards the higher end of longevity could also mean the Chinese live longer, their ‘care for the elderly’ is better that ours.

    The key point on China though is the size of the population to start with. Even if the country’s short of 2.5mn new pair of hands this year, it has over 1.5bn of them already. One should be thankful China’s policy isn’t to encourage its citizens to bonk 24/7, if it did, soon we would all have to leave the earth, find another planet to live on, one not yet claimed by the Chinese (only joking, but just in case).

  43. Frank P @ January 8th, 2019 – 00:03

    Here’s a measure of what the plebs think of the home grown bureaucracy, Frank. When Baron began blogging (he was amongst the first of the Spectator together with long gone names e.g. Lungfish), the subject of the NHS came up, the barbarian put in his halfpenny worth, always the same linking the foundation tenets of the NHS, its mode of operation, staffing, leadership etc. to that of the communist model of a society, there was little support for his slicing of the boil, in fact, there were always more who disagreed with him.

    Today, it seems the other way round, more people have joined to argue that the never satisfied monster will consume cash of any amount, and eventually break us.

  44. EC @ January 7th, 2019 – 20:15

    Good one, EC, but Baron’s shorter, heh, heh.

    Btw, the barbarian’s finger wagging in a couple of his postings (if that was what it felt like) was meant in jest, you understand.

  45. Sorry for the errors, and also, the barbarian lost a posting in response’s to John at 06:13. Where did it go?

  46. Baron (11:23)

    Yeah, but take it away and then hear us all squeal. We are all slaves to the Welfare State and that was how it was planned. Statism epitomised – ungreat britain!

    As for China, you make some very good points and I was thinking similar thoughts as I read it.
    But Mark is the best polemicist in the universe where paradoxes abound. Demographics alone will
    screw us all if our Western gals an guys don’t screw each other to procreate for the right reasons – family and the future. If there is no element of patriotism in that endeavour, then our civilisation is fucked! Depravity in its multi-various forms that now proliferates exponentially is sickening. That was planned too. Read Saul Alinsky.

  47. Btw Anna Soubry is a marfy carr who deserves any abuse she gets, which is probably staged,anyway. Please tell me she’s not vying for No 10! when the Empress is shown to be bollock nekkid by an innocent child pointing it out. Ugh – What a prospect!

  50. Re: Soubry

    This morning the thought occurred to me that, pigmentation notwithstanding, she is the UK’s Maxine Waters. No that we need another one. Not with Corbyn’s former squeeze and fucking idiot being the prospective, if not imminent, Home Secretary.

  51. China:

    The property bubble hasn’t burst yet but 2018 saw it take a prolonged deflationary fart. They are in big trouble with this

    Breaching the Great Firewall of China to access the “free” internet via VPNs is becoming much harder as they clamp down on them, foreigners, and almost everything else. More and more words are going on the forbidden words and phrases. eg. “President For Life,” “ascend the throne,” “vegetarian for life,” “disagree,” “personality cult,” “change the law,” “Brave New World, “emigrate,” “incapable ruler,” “1984,” “against the tide,” “drive backwards,” “I oppose” AND last but not least (**) “Winnie The Pooh” FFS!
    [It’s getting nearly as bad as The Spectator 🙂 ]

    Utter any of the above on the internet or in the street (*) and you’ll fall foul of the dystopian nightmare of the “Social Credit” Scoring system that the government is rolling out.

    * the old communist party “eavesdroppers” never went away, there’s a whole army of “aunties” and “uncles” on the lookout for people to report for bonus points.

    ** “President for Life” Xi has a reportedly fragile ego and is very unhappy with all the memes comparing his body image to that of the portly furry critter.

    Communist Party displays of public “art” and soviet style banners and slogans which had largely disappeared over the last decade started to make a comeback in 2018.

    God help us all, and if not him then “Almighty Bob.”

  52. Re Anne Soubry.

    ” If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.” Harry S Truman.

  53. Some teenage tit is hitting the airwaves demanding free sanitary products for school girls, asserting that their lives will be devastated by a denial of this proposed state subsidy. Why are these self obsessed clowns given this publicity, surely someone has the nous to tell the silly little cow to put a sock in it.

  56. Frank P – 04:47

    Love the caption on that screenshot, “They’re gonna need more flags…”

    Also, I loved this bit,

    “when your whole pitch rests (as Miss Ocasio-Cortez said) not on humdrum facts but on moral superiority – that we’re better than the other guys, nicer than the other guys – it doesn’t help to have Chuck Schumer up there with his fin glistening as it slices through the surf. Chuck and Nancy are the unlovely thuggish operators required to run a corrupt pseudo-legislature, but they’re not the people to put up in public. “

    Masterly!

  57. Frank P, January 8th, 2019 – 23:03

    “Btw Anna Soubry is a marfy carr who deserves any abuse she gets, which is probably staged, anyway.”

    Indeed, MI5 have a long history of using agents provocateurs.
    Also… Madam Gobshite is a hypocrite who also indulges in playground name calling. She has a walk on part in the video below:

    “What They’re Not Telling You About the Yellow Vests”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAjEaFPnwY&t=11s

  59. @12:17

    Sorry, once again, you may have to restart that video from from the beginning. YouTube is playing silly buggers again. I’m surprised that the video hasn’t already been taken down.

  60. According to today’s Mail, John Bercow is “a preening popinjay with an anti-Brexit bias”.
    That’s good, coming from the NEW editor of the Mail, who repeatedly refers to Brexiteer MPs as “lemmings” and makes NO attempt to hide his bias since taking over.

  61. LC,
    Spot on with your analysis of the new editor of the mail. What was the proprietor thinking when he was appointed? the slush he is peddling is bound to impact heavily on circulation, no paper can survive by alienating it’s core readership, and on that issue he can claim to be a roaring success. If this continues I might well shift to the Guardian, at least I will if they give Polly Toynbee the push.

  63. Not many MSM hacks, if any, cried foul when a bunch of left leaning thugs pestered Jacob’s kids, but when that ghastly woman Soubry got interrupted talking to the BBC, the whole of the establishment were up in arms.

    The man Bercow looks as if he lived in a skip, someone peed on his hair just as he was leaving the abode to get to the House. Why this trend towards slovenly looks, the unshaven faces of men, the stubble, the crumpled jackets, the poorly tied ties? What are these people trying to prove?

  65. stephen maybery @ January 10th, 2019 – 20:04

    Not that long ago, stephen, the barbarian used to scan few of the MSM internet editions like the Mail, the Guardian, the Mirror, he has gradually given up when the rags either stopped the comment sections, or began moderating the postings. The published narratives are of no interest, one can easily guess what the hacks say on virtually any issue that goes.

  66. EC @ January 10th, 2019 – 12:21

    There should be one Aisha for men, EC, another one for women, no?

  67. It was by default that the barbarian was watching Chuck and Nancy with the sound turned off, quite an experience, it was only their facial expressions that got registered, and what a revelation, you should try it, they were like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, not in appearance of course, but in the way their mouths moved, quite enjoyable actually.

  68. I’ll leave you all to make your comments.

    file:///C:/Users/Tony/Downloads/Easy-Meat-Multiculturalism-Islam-and-Child-Sex-Slavery-05-03-2014.pdf

  69. CM (02.25)

    The link doesn’t work, m’friend. Not even on a truncated cut ‘n’ paste.

    Btw. Don’t be a stranger. I’m sure I’m not the only one who enjoys your mordant wit and acerbic analysis of the geopolitical travesty that is destroying our culture and anglophone heritage. Suicidal/genocidal eejits! !

  70. Wasted an hour of my ‘precious few’ last evening watching QT under its new token woman, the unsexy Fiona Bruce. Bring back the egregious Dumblebore, FFS! Never thought I would say that. Better still, shut the fucking slot down and have funereal music playing with a blank screen.

    Bruce was awful. She cannot enunciate and her subtitles indicated that she was not only left leaning ( what else can we expect from the Beeb) but also shite talking, interrupting and failing to let each of the panellists have a fair ration. So it quickly became the Emily Thornbury show. That ugly, marfy cah should be shut in a flowery with Diane Abbot for a full stretch. They would rabbit each other to death.

  71. Frank P – 06:55

    I have no idea of the contents of that file in the downloads folder on Tony’s C: hard drive, but when I did a web search for a file name of…

    “Easy-Meat-Multiculturalism-Islam-and-Child-Sex-Slavery-05-03-2014.pdf”

    this 2014 Spectator Australia article was top of the results list:

    “Who will be held to account for the horror in Rotherham?”

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2014/08/rotten-borough/

    Was that ever published on Frasier’s watch in the UK? I think not, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

    File under: #neverNeathergate, #halfNelson etc.

  72. Frank P – 07:19

    After your review I couldn’t resist taking a peek on BBC iPlayer. You deserve a medal for watching that live. A different presenter but the same old habit of placing lefty activists in the audience masquerading as ordinary members of the public. eg. That woman who spoke immediately prior to the incredibly smug, condescending, porcine Thornberry woman. She was far too well rehearsed to be anything but an audience member plant.

    Whenever I see that AR & new QT presenter I detect the whiff of TCP. [I also detect the aroma of burnt toast upon waking in the morning. Maybe it’s a sign that I’m about to have a stroke anyday now. ]

    I dunno about you but I’ve always found the scent of eau de TCP rather off-putting in a woman.

  74. EC (10:08)

    Thanks for digging that out: wonderful piece and as you say would never see the light of day in the Uk sister publication. Must keep an eye on on the Aussie version. Seems feisty and more like the original Speccie that once we loved. Perhaps we should contrive to get aboard Frasier’s ship and rock it again. Don’t think we would last long. 🙂

  77. Four single mothers win a High Court ….. The BBC’s award of the Sound of 2019 goes to Octavian, a black rapper …. The British Foreign Secretary says Brexit may not happen if the MPs fail to back the childless woman’s deal.

    That’s about sums up the democratic, rainbow touched, but very much child caring Britain in 2019.

  79. EC @ January 12th, 2019 – 12:38

    One cannot but applaud it, EC, loudly, yet one also cannot help wondering whether the timing of the move’s right.

    The Donald is making enemies left, right up and down, he kicks Russia, China, Turkey as well as France, the EU and a large chunk of South America. All that when the Dems are getting ready to strike what with their majority in the House. Is it wise? Would it not have been smarter to take up the adversaries one after another, beginning with the Left leaving fuggwits at home?

  80. This is longish, it took Baron some time to go through (mostly because he was also clicking on the links), as a summary of the impossibility of the official version it’s top mark.

    You don’t have to read through it (some of the postings are also revealing), it’s only to show you that there still are people of the ‘healthy core of Britishness’ here, it’s a pity that nothing at all will be done by the officialdom to get to the truth, as the great Mark says the damage has been done by the process, every hack writing anything that allows him to touch on Russia now says ‘they did it’, that of course was the intention, in this respect the instigators of the charade were successful.

    Could anything of this sort happen in Britain (say) forty 100, 300 years ago? Not under Harold or before last century, Baron reckons. It all began with Ted lying about the then EEC, the ghastly Blair and his successors only accelerated th espeed of the rot.

    https://www.theblogmire.com/summing-up-the-official-claims-in-the-salisbury-poisonings-weighed-in-the-balances-and-found-wanting/

  81. Anna Soubry: she is called by readers of her local newspaper a drunken ex-TV presenter;and she wasn’t much good at that.

  82. file:///C:/Users/Tony/Downloads/Easy-Meat-Multiculturalism-Islam-and-Child-Sex-Slavery-05-03-2014.pdf

    Perhaps this will work – the original had a meme attached which may have caused the problem. By the way, thank you for your kind comments EC, but I fear the longer I am distanced from the land of my birth as it plummets down to full membership of the third world, the less I care about my old homeland, cossetted as I am in what remains a largely Caucasian paradise, those non-whites allowed being skilled and committed to integration. The current African troubles we are experiencing in Melbourne are only serving to reinforce the error of permitting entry to low IQ criminals. Many are quietly having their visas cancelled and being repatriated and politicians are well aware the populace are unlikely to allow them to make the same mistake again.

    Sovereign Borders, introduced unusually (and as a panic measure) by Labour, has stopped the boats by the allegedly unlawful act of towing the boats back to where the started from. If that is not possible, the boats’ contents are offloaded to nearby shitholes to be processed. Genuine asylum-seekers are identified, non-genuines returned. Refugees are then peddled around the planet. What remains sacrosanct is the absolute rule that they will NEVER be allowed on to Australian soil (even if they technically become a citizen of another country in the future).

    Coupled with this, reporting of the activities to the north of the country is somehow forbidden. Nothing so crass as laws – I really don’t understand how they achieve it. I have an acquaintance who is a Police Officer on one of the Torres Strait Islands. He spends every other week on a border patrol vessel controlling the flow of peoples (what is not widely known are the strong familial links between PNG and the Torres Strait Islanders and the very short sea distances involved – visits for weddings, births etc are common) and tells me now the numbers are very low. Strangely, these activities are never reported.

    Other steps greatly limit the ‘pull’ factor. It is difficult to obtain any form of ID, without which it is difficult even to get a beer, let alone benefits. Rock up sick at Hospital and you will be treated. And then locked up and deported!

    With so many Brits here, largely from the hard-working, skilled and tax-contributing classes of the UK, we continuously and annoyingly point out Europe and our old homeland as good examples of the wrong way to go. I think we’re winning the argument, greatly assisted by the activities of the Africans I mentioned above and the relatively few sand-niggers we have.

  86. You will not have heard this.
    In the early hours of New Years Day in Batley (just outside the Islamic Republic of Dewsbury a young British soldier was mown-down in a jihad motor attack and caused serious injuries outside a night club.Reports (thanks to Tommy Robinson) are that he was overheard talking to a mate about service in Afganistan and was then confronted in the street by 15 muslims. Seeking to get away he crossed the street and was hit by a car.

    In the local press the West Yorks Police declare they have no evidence it was a racial attack; or because he was a soldier.( West Yorks. Police biggest laugh since the Keystone cops.)

    A certain Hamza Ali Hussain of Dewsbury has been arrested over this incident.

  87. Radford NG, January 13th, 2019 – 21:12

    “You will not have heard this.”

    Indeed not!

    Danny Lockwood’s “The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury – ‘Requiem’ ” is still available on Amazon – at a price!

  88. BRexit vote:

    Last week I fired a shot across the bows of my MP(Lab) regarding her thoughts and intentions. This morning I received a reply which was really quite encouraging for the first part right up until the point when she invoked the nasty closet totalitarian minded (personal opinion) Keir Starmer. She then went on to compound this with a lot of spurious arguments as to what a NO DEAL would mean.

    To summarise:
    1. She said she would definitely vote against Mrs May’s BRino deal on Tuesday.
    2. She would obviously prefer another BRino deal to the one on offer.

    There will be plenty of Machiavellian skullduggery afoot in and around the Westminster swamp for the next 30 hours or so.

    Meanwhile, the unclothed Mrs May has launched “Operation Figleaf.”

    https://order-order.com/2019/01/14/read-juncker-tusks-letter-may/

  90. Interesting selection from the latest woodpile report.
    The decrepit European ruling class is losing its grip and getting dangerously unstable

    Voice of Europe – Democracy? France announces new measures to curb yellow vest protests … protesting open borders, Global Warming taxes and other excesses of ruling progressives

    Daily Mail – French police should be allowed to use live bullets and ‘shoot-to-kill’ tactics on Yellow Vest protesters, the country’s former education minister says … protests have been ongoing since 17 November

    Bitcoinist – Yellow Vests in France Planning a Bank Run to Collapse the Euro … has the potential to paralyze the country

    Voice of Europe – Sweden invests big in sentencing people who criticise migration: Convictions increase tenfold … Online Hate Speech Monitor results in almost 150 convictions

    Voice of Europe – Alternative for Germany leader blames media smear campaign for ‘assassination attempt’ on state chairman … beaten near to death by three masked thugs, Green left-wing MP tweeted the AfD were in fact “Nazis”

    Neon Nettle – British Yellow Vest Shut Down By Facebook, PayPal after Challenging EU Official … “we will not tolerate hate speech on Facebook which creates an environment of intimidation”

    US News – Yellow Vest Protesters Destroy 60 Percent of France’s Speed Cameras … speed cameras are only a way for the country to take money from poor

    Voice of Europe – Protesters attempted to storm City Hall as Yellow Vest protests entered 9th week in France … protests in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg, and other French cities

  91. 5G or not 5G? That is indeed the question.

    In recent weeks the traffic in our village has been clogged up by “temporary” traffic lights whilst perfectly serviceable street lights are replaced by shiny new ones with LEDs fitted. As noted by others this has happened, and is happening, elsewhere.

    What else lurks behind the LED clusters?

    Is this really all being done in the sole cause of reducing carbon emissions, given that a properly conducted green audit of the entire scheme would put the “carbon payback” period at least a decade, or maybe more, into the future?

    OR… it just another crony capitalist scheme to transfer public money into the right corporate pockets? (q.v. “Sir Dickie” et al CHWs passim)

    OR… is it something else?

    “Why Are GATESHEAD COUNCIL Trying To JAIL Mark Steele?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82FHImoueac

    Don’t judge by appearances, hear them out. Whatever you think of Mr. Steel’s views should he be locked up (*) for campaigning against 5G. Since neither of this pair look like archetypal terrorists or Tories then is this a case of the “Labour Left” eating its own?

    More like a case of “Leading Beyond Authority” if you ask me… which you didn’t.

    (*) Reportedly on trumped up charges of “harassment of councillors”… by lobbying them with information on the safety concerns of 5G.

    As with all other things that are supposed to be good for us (eg. migrants, wind turdbines etc.) I’m willing to bet that there will no 5G deployed near where any of the current ruling elite live.

  92. Happy Brexit Vote everybody.

    New PM by Friday? Jeremy Hunt?

    A GE in February? Leon Corbyn?

    An EU Gauleiter appointed by March? George Osborne?
    (it happened in Italy in 2011 with Mario Monti)

  94. The Ides of may have come upon us, and not before time. Our glorious leader, that Asda fashioned Boadicea is about to meet her Ekaterinberg. It had to happen of course, but why oh why did it have to take so long? We have to pray there is no Anastasia waiting in the wings, or perhaps our Parliamentary oligarchs will settle for a false Dimitry. That is all folks, the optics are playing silly buggers again.

  98. That lying devious bastard Mandleson is on tv as a commentator .
    Who would invite a scumbag like that to talk about ethics apart from the BBC

  103. The Tories are either brainless or have a masochistic gene for self-destruction flowing in their blood. The best way forward is to dethrone the woman, ask the EU for a delay in the exit date, agree quickly on a caretaker leader who believes in Brexit.

    He will tell the unelected gnomes of Brussels we want to negotiate on the basis that we get full control of lawmaking, borders and judiciary. If the EU says ‘we cannot have it’, the leader says ‘fine, we leave without a deal’, instructs the Government agencies, the companies and the people to get ready for it.

    It’s that simple.

  104. Spot on Baron , We should’ve had businessmen doing this negotiating not some bloody woman who wants to remain anyway.

  105. John birch.January 16th, 2019 – 17:53

    Depends upon which businessmen. Unfortunately they are not all patriots.

  106. Baron, January 16th, 2019 – 16:31

    “If the EU says ‘we cannot have it’, the leader says ‘fine, we leave without a deal’, instructs the Government agencies, the companies and the people to get ready for it.”

    The government should’ve issued that order immediately after the referendum result in 2016!

    However, you’ll remember that May delayed triggering Article 50 until 29th March, 2017. It was fairly obvious what her game was. David Davis was BRexit Secretary from July 2016 until he resigned in July 2018. Why didn’t he challenge May, early doors, over her prevarication? Why did he turn out to be such a “surrender monkey?” Draw your own conclusions.

    One didn’t need the powers of Nostradamus to foretell the result of the sham EU negotiations. Many CHwallsters did.

  107. Barely a day goes past when the “Google Doodle” on the Google homepage celebrates the historic birthday of some non male and/or non white NPC (non player character).

    Surprise! Today Google informs me that it is the 156th birthday of Konstantin Stanislavski. A white male that I’d actually vaguely heard of.

    No Surprise, though, that the “right on”, “woke”, “artists” at Google have coloured him in Brown!

  108. May refuses to delay Article 50, refuses to consider joining a customs union, refuses to consider a 2nd referendum, and appears to be totally fixated with her own “deal” which has been thrown out. Presumably she wants to go down in history with her moment of glory as the PM who got us out of the EU. I think she needs to see a psychiatrist.

    The “men in suits” need to pay her a visit. Thatcher was an infinitely better PM and still got the chop.

    Either Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt ought to be PM.

  109. The cumryd won’t join the talks with the others unless the saintly One removes the ‘no deal’ exit from the list of options.

    How divorced from reality could one get, exiting without a deal is what must happen if no deal is agreed. Right? How can one remove this possibility, or rather a certainty if we and the Brussels gnomes cannot agree on a negotiated exit.

    Insisting on such a condition is genuinely a certifiable symptom of advanced senility, one that should lead to the cumryd getting removed from the leadership. Just imagine this man governing us whilst he should be in an institution with bars on the windows and doors locked 24/7.

    More to the point, removing the option of ‘no deal’ would noticeably weaken our negotiating position, if anyone were still hoping that talking to the sprouts of Brussels could yield anything useful.

    How TF did we get here?

    PS: You cannot be more right, EC, we should have been making preparations for a no-deal exit almost from the date of the 2016 result. The French have wised up, today, they said they’re preparing for a no-deal divorce. We should do the same, pronto.

    PPS: The man google celebrates today, EC, may have spent a lot of time in Crimea in the summer, got tanned, heh, heh.

  110. LC @ January 17th, 2019 – 16:22

    Good point on the saintly One, LC, but ffs why Gove? Explain, please.

    Btw, what has happened to the Blonde Inseminator? He’s nowhere to be seen or heard. Is he inseminating or what?

  111. LC & Baron

    I think that Jeremy Hunt will be the next PM for reasons touched upon here…
    (@EC January 4th, 2019 – 13:24)

    I reckon that quite a few of “The men in suits” are also fixated upon remaining in the EU. As you suggested, she would however benefit from a visit, asap, from “some men in white coats” bearing a large syringe of tranquilliser. Ketamine?

    Where’s BoJo? One way on another he’ll be out on manoeuvres, Baron.

    Gove? Perhaps not. Over to one of Ireland’s most successful pop combos, The O’ Jays

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTeLePbB08

    Aaah, I just love those long orchestral intros to 1970s pop songs, not to the mention 60s/70s TV theme toons

  115. It’s time for the Archbishop of York to lead us all in eprayer on Twitter for our Prime Minister and also the honourable leader of the Opposition, that they may lead us through the thorny thickets of no deal Brexit temptation to the bright, sunlight uplands and pastures where sheep may safely graze as they vote in a new Sheeples referendum and Mars bars are free for pensioners at all Chemists.

  116. Best wishes to HRH DoE (aka PtG) for a speedy recovery from the shock of the RTA he was involved in yesterday.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-46912556

    However it does beg the question, was he doing a runner? If so, then from what?
    What on earth was the frail 97 year old royal personage doing ‘out and about’ on his own on public roads without being accompanied by a member of the Royal Protection Squad?

    So much for the stability of this “Land Rover” (sic) and 4x4s in general. Plain to see from the photo that it’s actually a Range Rover (Vogue?) If RT can get the details right then why can’t the BBC?

    I note that Norfolk C*unty Council is now going to “be seen to be doing something about it” by reducing the speed limit to 50mph and install average speed cameras. Sigh. I would expect there to be many security cameras around the Sandringham area, including one covering that particular junction. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the whole incident was captured on CCTV.

    How times change! Back in the 70s I used to traverse this particular stretch of road twice daily, and back then it was difficult enough to get the buggers (“Norfies!”) to get up to more than 40mph without them passing out from the G force.

    From the BBC article:

    One woman, who did not want to be named, said younger drivers often used the road as “a rat run”.

    Laughable! “Rat run?” It’s the main road from Hunstanton to King’s Lynn, FFS.

    Once again the BBC fails my 45 seconds test.

  118. Noa, January 18th, 2019 – 09:28

    The bishop’s gotta pray. He did one for the DoE earlier. He’s one of the few in the CofE that takes his job seriously. I actually quite like John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu, to give him his full moniker, as he is very direct, outspoken and very un PC.

    On commenting upon the traditional Christian moral teaching concerning cohabitation before marriage he once said, “We are living at a time where some people … want to test whether the milk is good before they buy the cow.”

    There’s nothing more satisfying than lobbing a grenade in the Feminazi trenches.
    Bwahahahahaha!

  119. John birch. @ January 18th, 2019 – 08:48

    Excellent, John, except for one thing, if we win again, as we must, the BBC fuggwits won’t say ‘Save the Queen …” after each programme, the BBC will be disbanded, the lot, those formulating its policy, which is virtually everyone, will be dispatched to the salt mines of Kongo, permanently.

    Having been marinated for the rest of their pitiful lives, their hardened bodies, well preserved, will be brought back to England, put on display forever as a warning to future progressives to respect the will of the people or else.

  120. EC @ January 18th, 2019 – 09:50

    You know what amazes the barbarian most on this rather unfortunate accident, EC? That the guy can still drive, he looks like a mummified manikin of himself.

  121. The leader of France, the brain challenged Micron has allegedly quipped when told about May’s defeat in the House ‘the British will suffer first if they leave without a deal’.

    It really matters not who suffers first and who last, what matters is who suffers most, and on this Baron is unrepentant, the EU club will get hit more than us, no question about it.

    News reaches the barbarian the German carmakers are panicking, they would lose handsomely, suffer damage that may be hard to repair what with the pressure from the Americans on imports, the court case for cheating on emission limits, the need to develop the electrified contraption, and above all falling demand everywhere.

    Any noticeable drop in German employment will quickly hit other countries of the EU, the unrest will be good news for the likes of AfD, other populist movements, the EU May election (that’s the month not the childless woman) may well put in more anti-EU MEPs in the talking house that the EU Parliament is, and eventually the festering blob of dissent could end up in a full collapse of the monster.

    One can hope, no?

  122. Noa @ January 18th, 2019 – 09:28

    One cannot help noticing, Noa, that you are rather keen on the matters of the church, comment on them often. You’ve turned more religious or what?

    One could comprehend it better perhaps even endorse if you were a member ofof the Roman Catholic wing of the Abrahamic family, but should one put much faith in, ask for help the leadership of a church founded on the scrotum of a sex hungry monarch? Hmmm

  123. EC
    I have no particular issue with the AoY, merely remarking that the modish eprayer for HRH preceded his after thought for the two women and baby in the car that he collided with by some 20 minutes. Are not all equal in the sight of God?

    I have no information on whether or not HRH is at 97, fit to drive his armoured truck around the future Royal county sheep pen that is now Norfolk, or the substantial chunk of it that Sandringham constitutes. Perhaps he considers that something of the divine right of Kings still persists to their spouses, at least in relation to driving?

    Baron
    You’ve sussed me out mi’lud. I was Sisters of Mercy and Jesuit flogged for the formative years of my education. Being of RC stock from Northern Ireland heightened the sense of separation and from the protestant majority that celebrated the persecution of catholics. The CofE was, as you identify, in part Royal theft and part the fleabitten scratching of a dynastic testicular itch. IMHO of course. And I hasten to add that some of my best friends are musl… er protestant.

  124. EC 10.18

    Your story about the AofY reminded me of a first year debate at Law School many years ago. As part of the preparation for public speaking and legal argument we had been invited to discuss the arguments for and against the effectiveness of the law concerning Rape.
    As you might imagine the arguments were mainly for a loosening of the burden of proof.. Until the final speaker, a Nigerian gentleman whose English was somewhat raw, stood up to make the final argument against contraception.
    “The best contraception” he said, “is to say no!” Then, placing an empty Coca Cola bottle on the table in front of him he removed a stick from his briefcase and jabbed it several times at the neck of the bottle and missing.
    “See how easy it is when you say no and mean it!” He said as the other speakers and fellow students collapsed in hysterics of laughter and the debate concluded in favour of the existing position.
    Sadly, though our Nigerian friend survived the first year he failed the second year examinations. A charge of racism failed to see him reinstated then, though it would almost certainly succeed nowadays. Subsequently we learned that he had been convicted of fraud, having been in attendance at five different Law courses at various Polytechnics in Northern England and claiming 15 education grants from different local education authorities to do so.
    On balance and as often happens, I always believed that the English Bar was deprived of a cogent and incisive legal advocate, to the benefit of the Criminal fraternity.

  125. This clip is 15 minutes of Tucker, lifted from the Conservative Woman, it’s about many things, mostly about the family.

    One cannot but agree with him, it has been Baron’s contention that the only job we as human should do well is to propagate successfully. It helps if our cars don’t break, the food doesn’t poison us, or we built enough housing to live in. To have all this and fail to raise the future generation would be a disaster. though and it’s becoming a disaster, the heterosexual family as the foundation of a stable, content and comfortable society is no longer, and not just over in the Republic. It’s everyone’s guess how is this going to end, the probability of the end being disastrous is the best bet unless things change.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=243&v=mSuQ-AyiicA

  126. @Baron 17th, 16:23

    “How divorced from reality could one get, exiting without a deal is what must happen if no deal is agreed. Right?”

    Indeed. As someone elegantly put it on a local page that I often read, “You can’t remove ‘No Deal’ from the table; ‘No Deal’ IS the table!”

  127. Noa, January 18th, 2019 – 13:55

    Rumpolian! A wonderful anecdote, thanks.

    Given that guy’s acumen in grant troughing it also sounds like he would also have made an ideal Climate “Scientist” or MP. Had he took the precaution of joining the Labour party “they” wouldn’t have been able to touch him!

  128. I dunno why but this popped up on my YouTube home screen this morning. The title made me chuckle so I fearlessly “went in.”

    The lady was a little under rehearsed which was actually quite reassuring in some way. Her argument is not in all aspects unassailable, but her conclusion definitely is!

    “OWEN JONES IS FULL OF SHIT”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw_DNdOsLs0

    In this next one the presentation is better and the content more disturbing. A tale of defenestrated otherwise deaded Banksters and “Property Developers.” This one would have definitely got Malfleur (late of this parish, PBUH) salivating.

    Q. What have Amber Rudd, Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi got in common?

    A. “788-790 Finchley Road” reportedly…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_aQlBQTk8

    If all that is contained in the above report is true, then I fear she or Gordon Bowden may not live much longer.

  129. Noa @ January 18th, 2019 – 13:55

    It must the advancing age, Noa, but your Nigerian chap’s demonstration of the uselessness of contraception baffles the poorly educated Slav, (1) who is the one saying ‘no’? the one in possession of the stick, or the one with the hole?. If only he were to move the bottle as he poked the stick at it the barbarian would get it, (2) the contraception that unquestionably never fails is the distance of (say) half a meter between a man and a woman, works every time.

  130. EC @ January 19th, 2019 – 13:45

    Having watched the first video, EC, the barbarian was to say that the best about it wasn’t what she said, this chap Jones isn’t the only one living the life of a rich man, batting for the oppressed, or rather radiating virtues of support for the common man, but that she was able to say it. Before the event of the internet, there was no chance any publication whatever, a newspaper, a magazine, or a TV channel would have given this slow talking young girl a look in (from where Baron sits she’s very much a young girl, trust Baron on this). The new platform did, and good on her.

    Having watched the other clip (after lunching on corn fed chicken, close to finger licking good) he very much agrees with you, the girl should watch out, take great care, avoid walking the streets of the town she lives in at night.

    Her talking about the Finchley address may start the ball rolling though, not immediately, the operation must be liquidated first, a convenient story that will explain the operation put together, tested, agreed upon.

    Amazing story though.

  131. Ostrich, Occasionally @ January 18th, 2019 – 19:52

    Thanks for the quote, O(o), it will be deployed when an opportunity comes.

  132. Baron
    You are quite right!
    For some reason, probably linked to my fast approaching insanity, I had written ‘contraception’ when I meant ‘consent’.
    I trust you are now thoroughly de-baffled.

  133. Noa @ January 19th, 2019 – 16:05

    Yes, young sir, the be-baffling has been successfully accomplished.

    On the issue of Brexit:

    Pity you cannot access the Spectator, Brenda Neil has a piece on the last week’s BBC TV QT, Baron doesn’t wanting the BBC cannot say what it was like (only Frank seems to have the courage to watch this PR exercise in PC crap, a fat lot of good can it do for his health).

    A short clip of it of a blonde Isabel Oakeshott saying ‘no deal is what we must do’ has engendered massive cheering amongst the participants of the well controlled indoctrination. More to the point, the postings below Brenda’s narrative are encouraging even more.

    Do register, please, it will cheer you up.

  134. He ‘doesn’t watch’ rather than ‘doesn’t wanting’, that’s the bugging software again.

  135. Had the 2016 vote been the other way round, those voting for Brexit would have grumbled, felt disappointed, few may have shouted loudly, even taken to the streets, but calmed down soon after. The country’s plebs would have accepted the verdict.

    The top layers of the numerous ‘pyramids of power’, those of the CBI, the MSM, the Unions, the Church … most importantly that one of the Governing class would have been happy with the result, they all wanted to remain, and got what they wanted.

    As the vote went against the top layers, they, the opinion formers sitting at the top of the pyramids, having access to the communication platforms with the farthest and deepest reach have mounted a campaign of scaremongering never witnessed in the history of this country. It aided the efforts of the woman in no10 to scupper the plebs’ vote, to come up with a deal that’s worse than staying in, a deal that cannot but ensured that both those favouring ‘leave’ as well as ‘remain’ must be against it.

    Whatever happens next, unless the wish of the first people’s vote is fulfilled, we leave without a deal, democracy will be dead, very likely forever unless the plebs revolt, unlikely that for (as Baron keeps telling you) as the darling of the Left, Karl Marx once quipped ‘if the British were to have a revolution, it will be in gardening’.

  139. Thought for today:

    Mice die in mousetraps because they do not understand why the cheese is free.

    That obliquely tells those who yap about nothing but jobs, money, the lowering of the GDP growth (if we leave no deal) …that however important the piece of cheese may be to one’s survival, it depends very much whether one gets it from a trap or in some other way.

  141. EC @ January 20th, 2019 – 11:55

    Rather shortsighted of the remainers to try scupper the result. Then what? Do they really think the 17.4mn people who voted to leave would take it sitting down? Hmmm

  142. Radford NG @ January 19th, 2019 – 18:52

    Thanks, Radford, the barbarian will force himself to watch the Full Monty, come back tell you if he’s hooked.

  143. You must have seen it before, it’s a reminder.

    Of course, the Left leaning figgwits would say ‘but Talylor says nothing about the poverty, hunger, low life expectancy …’ which is true, but then there isn’t much of any relationship between what Taylor says and wealth distribution, is there? Couldn’t one have a society he describes, but also one without poverty, hunger and with high life expectancy?

    http://www.heretical.com/british/mhistory.html

  144. Mice die in mousetraps because they do not understand why the cheese is free.
    That’s brilliant Baron, never heard that one before.

  145. Baron 21st January 11.11

    Sadly Baron, yes.
    It’s most likely that that is exactly what people will do. They will shrug their shoulders, roll over, carry on and accept the thwarting of their wishes by the political Traitor class, as Paul Weston describes them, because that is what happens in the ossified compromise between the wealthy and privileged and the socialist nomenlatura often indistinguishable, that is British politics.
    Don’t expect any significantchange anytime soon.

  146. Noa
    January 22nd, 2019 – 09:30

    “……They will shrug their shoulders, roll over, carry on and accept the thwarting of their wishes…….”

    Well IMHO that is infinitely to be preferred to rioting in the streets, calling for revolution, terrorising the masses etc. Just keep calm and carry on, in the good old British way.
    I started out as a Brexiteer, but have become so damn sick of the dragged-out c**p perpetrated by May etc that I now feel I don’t care which way it goes, and if we remain in, so be it.
    And it seems to me that a “Norway” style deal is inferior to remaining in, so we may as well forget the whole thing. Just let the dead hand of May be removed, that is all I want. A robot leading us would be an improvement.

  147. LC

    Perhaps May is a symptom of the systemic failure of our politics, a manifestation rather than a cause.
    The British way of political control since Wat Tyler, has been for the elite to sieze control of the revolution: “Thou shalt have no King but me.”
    But we are running out of options, the tolerant, passive homogeneous citizenery of Britain and Europe, suffering from ennui and guilt, are passing into the mists of history. Our successors are less inhibited.

    https://youtu.be/stR5nWkq3LU

  148. From the woodpile report
    Next

    Comment by reader “Lost My Shorts” at Zero Hedge about article “New US Intelligence Study: China “Already Leads The World” In Key Weapons Technologies”

    When the Chinese design and build weapons, they design and build weapons. The Americans, meanwhile, are too busy reducing the number of white men on the design team, and monitoring everyone to make sure they use the right pronouns, and me-tooing the men who weren’t pushed out for some other reason, and making sure enough women and racial, aboriginal, marginalized, cultural and sexual minorities are present in every phase of the project, and retrofitting the restrooms to be gender neutral, and making sure the project plan is culturally sensitive and not heteronormative. It’s amazing anything flies anymore. Diversity is our strength.

    Hear hear and pass the beer.

  150. Noa, January 22nd, 2019 – 09:30

    Are you willing to don the Gilet jaune and climb aboard a Virgin train bound for London and the next protest? Then maybe we could both get our heads split open by some of Cressida Dick’s goons in uniform? Like LC I’ve also had enough, but I don’t see why ‘they” show get away with it.

    It seems that in France, where Macron delivers gas canisters from the sky, even peaceful protests are ruled out. Last week the French banks scuppered the mass withdrawal of their cash by the populace by closing the ATM machines. [Easy for me, but I realise that this wouldn’t this be practical in your case as you’d need a squadron of very large wheelbarrows]

    The recent French ATM denial of service reminded me of this…

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11704054/Greece-crisis-live-banks-to-close-on-Monday-and-capital-controls-imposed-after-ECB-caps-funding-at-current-levels.html

    … and to a certain extent of this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Cypriot_financial_crisis

    The moral of the engineered Greek Tragedy is, NEVER take a loan from the ECB or IMF!

  151. John birch. – 09:50

    The Chinese very rarely design anything, they steal and build the designs of others.
    However, in general, I sympathise with the quoted commenter’s remarks.

    Mine’s a pint of Abbot Ale Special Reserve,
    Cheers!

  152. EC
    The answer is Yes, I went to the recent Leave protest in London and will go again.
    And no doubt the government and banks will take any action necessary to defeat their citizenery. I suspect that wheelbarrows will be needed by us all to transport our deliberately devalued Weimar-style currency in order to buy our £1000 Warburtons sliced loaf.

  153. I came across this mordant view of our future financial fate and thought it was worth sharing. Baron and EC in particular will appreciate its armaggetting outahere message.
    Apparantly we’ll all be Laffering on the other side of our faces when the politicians start applying modern monetary theory.
    Modern Monetary Theory or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the National Debt
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/modern-monetary-theory-how-i-learned-stop-worrying-love-ben-hunt

  154. Noa, January 23rd, 2019 – 21:35

    Excellent. I expect there to be the “mother of all protests” post March 29th when it transpires that we’ve been robbed and shackled to the deck of the SS EU… forever!
    I will join you.
    I expect that Cressida Dick’s paramilitary stormtroopers will be out in force too.

    Noa – 09:09

    Great stuff.
    The Dr Strangelove (*) intro hooked me in for a most thought provoking read. The Lysenko analogy was most illustrative.

    In an attempt to unknot my eyebrows I also read the Laffer sub-link:

    https://www.epsilontheory.com/looking-for-laffer-likes/

    I’m afraid that like the word “culture”, Voodoo economists and their theories have me, once again, reaching for my Browning.

    * IMO, Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr Strangelove” is/was a masterpiece.
    Reading the dialogue I can hear Peter Sellers’ cherman accent as clear as a bell!

  155. Paul Joseph Watson with some light hearted gallows humour on the “Descent of Man”

    “Modern Art Is STILL Sh*t ”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoW7pA1-yc

    I am grateful to learn that according to the New Statesman et al that voicing any criticism of modern art or architecture is now considered “Hate Speech” and makes one a “Far right, Alt.Right, InfoWars/NRA loving, Nazi, White Supremacist… yada yada yada”

    YCMIU|

  157. Our cut price Boadicea still. insists on telling us that that no deal is better than a bad deal while actually meaning that any deal is better than no deal. Public honesty is now the new heresy.

  158. For reasons unknown to man, the mother of all influenzas ever has attacked the frail body of the ageing barbarian from the East, not that he’s completely incapacitated physically, it’s just he lost interest in world outside. When one feels the pain of the virus the bothers of political nature seem laughable. You may of course take an issue with Baron on this, he doesn’t;t care.

  159. Brexit seems to be the biggest current topic of interest in Britain & Europe – and of course among CHW contributors – but I’m a bit surprised that matter of the U.S. extradition request to Canada for Meng Wanzhou to be sent to the U.S. seems to be getting little attention.

    Meng Wanzhou is a top Huawei executive. She moves in the very highest circles in China. She was arrested in Vancouver several weeks ago while in transit by air from China to some other destination and is still under house arrest in Vancouver. The U.S. request for her extradition is apparently based on an accusation that she has been involved in circumventing sanctions against Iran.

    It has caused outrage in China. The Chinese President is reported to be infuriated by Canada’s action.

    Whether Meng Wanzhou really will be handed over to the U.S. in the next little while rermains to be seen.

    In Canada there is a lot of high sounding talk by the government and in the media about importance of the Rule of Law. Prime Minister Trudeau has even fired his Ambassador to China because the Ambassador has said that there are strong legal arguments for saying that she is innocent and should not have been arrested. Trudeau’s firing his Ambassador has angered the Chinese even more.

    In the U.S. on the other hand, not much has been said (so far as I’ve seen) other than a somewhat enigmatic comment by President Trump. I think it amounted to his saying that he was aware of the matter of Meng Wanzhou and that he puts a very high value on having good trade relations with China.

    So what’s really going on? I can’t believe that it’s really about sanctions. I believe it’s more likely unscrupulous Democratic Party politics at a new, virtually treasonous, all-time low.

    I suspect that the extradition request was made by one of the many legal functionaries in the U.S. Government who are strong supporters of the Democratic Party. I very much incline to think that the fact that an extradition request was being prepared was deliberately concealed from President Trump. More importantly, I believe that it must have been done with the motive of both undermining the President and of entrapping him into a contrived situation to be used as an excuse for trying to impeach him.

    Does this sound plausible to C.H.Wallers?

  160. Baron,
    Keep your spirits up, as I have often said on the wall, nil desperandum, which in Plain English means, illness is something to kick the crap out of, in the meanwhile you have something to moan about. As they say, every flu has a silver lining. Best wishes from me, and doubtless the other wallsters.

  161. Herbert Thornton,
    I agree with you absolutely Herbert. From the outset I thought there was something fishy about this affair and that the boy wonder was playing with fire in his eagerness to do America’s dirty work.

  162. Anybody here noticed the dogs breakfast that the new editor has made of the daily Mail? First it was the relentless propaganda churned out for the remainers and now it is the tripe that has taken the place of news and well written articles. The paper is heading for the rocks, another victory for the metropolitan elite, everything those bastards touch turns to dust.

  164. Piles of daily mail left over in all the newsagent in my area.
    Used to be the first to sell out.

  165. This story started the day on mail on line as comments moderated.
    But there were no comments.
    Now the ability to comment has been removed completely.
    More than HALF of boys in young offender jails from BAME backgrounds

    https://mol.im/a/6642529

  166. 5G OR NOT 5G?
    That is indeed the question…

    Sir Julian Rose talks to a weapons boffin.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVIbPtNrVo

    Baron,

    If the flu hasn’t finished you off then this 1h 36min probably will! That’s if the hidden tech lurking in Sir Dickie’s newly installed LED street lights doesn’t get you first.

    NB. I must admit I’d never heard “growler’ mentioned in the context of a military weapon before, even though some women have been weaponising them since Eve!
    😉

  167. Noa, January 28th, 2019 – 22:28

    Indeed. Not that the DM was ever any better than the rest of Fleet Street or the MSM. We are now in the same situation as a 60s Soviet citizen trying to read between the lines of what was written in Izvestia and Pravda. [ You’ll no doubt remember the joke about there being no truth in the former and no news in the latter of those publications.]

  170. stephen maybery @ January 28th, 2019 – 15:13

    It’s more not being able to pour the spirits in that pi$$es the barbarian off, stephen, he’s be OK, thanks.

    It used to be the sport pages of the DM Baron used to read on the internet, then the guy who was quite witty left (his name escapes Baron, it was years ago), the DM was off the reading list.

  171. Herbert Thornton @ January 28th, 2019 – 05:30

    It looks as if the MSM poodles get instructions from somewhere, Herbert, it’s puzzling they all select the same stories.

    This Huawei business will backfire, the markets of rest of the world are immeasurably bigger that that of the US, the gadget is a must even fr people who cannot afford to eat well, it was not a smart move to go for the Chinese girl. But then, in the high game of international politics everything goes.

  172. John birch. @ January 29th, 2019 – 08:04

    It’s not just the DM, John, the ST must be paining, too.

    The Sunday before the flu made up its mind to visit Baron’s crumbling shell of a body, the barbarian was despatched to buy a copy of the ST, as he’s every week, the boss reads the Culture section, claims it’s the best.

    In the local Waitrose one gets the rag free with a ten quid spend, that’s not excessive considering what £10 buys today, and the £2.70 cost of the rag. It’s almost a 30% discount if one trims the purchase smartly to just £7.50 (the cost of the paper is part of the ten quid deal).

    To Baron’s surprise, there were no copies of the ST on the shelves, the copies were still tied up in a couple of shopping trollies. It was twenty past four in the afternoon. Joy, truly a moment of joy for the barbarian, and it serves the wankers right, too.

  173. EC @ January 29th, 2019 – 09:23

    Having watched just about five minutes of the expert talking, EC, here’s a wild guess. The 5G technology will be pronounced safe when the American hi-tech companies catch up with Huawei. You want to bet?

  174. John birch. @ January 29th, 2019 – 09:45

    And you’re surprised, John? Hmmm

    This is what the MSM do, no comment is allowed, they keep pumping what they want hoping that, as the cliche goes, one tells a lie 100 times the people buy it when one says it the 101st time. It works.

    Nobody’s interested in the Skripals saga anymore even though the roof of his house is being replaced, it’s contaminated. The Novichok the two clowns used must be of the jumping kind, from the door handle to the roof. Clever Russians, no?

  175. If you were to click on the link, the Salisbury Journal says in the piece “it (the game) comes a month after RT sent out chocolate models of Salisbury Cathedral as its corporate Christmas gift, in what appeared to be another publicity stunt in which the Russian government mocked the UK and Salisbury”.

    The game and the chocolate don’t mock the UK or the town, they mock the Skripals charade.

    https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/17378332.russia-today-reports-board-game-on-sale-retracing-novichok-suspects-steps-in-salisbury/

    Btw, has anyone read the Mark Urban’s book on the old spy? Apparently, Sergei backed the Crimean takeover, the fighting in Donbas, other Putin’s policies. This is a surprise for the barbarian, also gives credence to the rumour that the double agent wanted to return to Russia. Would that not be a motive to remove him?

  176. Few days back, the TV channel France24 ran a big story, the first item of news, of the demonstrations in Venezuela, a panel of pundits all agreed the crowds wish for Maduro to resign should be answered. The next item was about the yellow vests unrest in France, it was shorter in time, and not one of the pundits suggested Micron should resign.

    Why the difference?

  177. Pity Malfleur is no longer with us, Roger Stone got indicted, as you know, hard to tell why.

    What’s so striking about the indictments and jailing of individuals that have come out as a result the Mueller’s investigation is that not one bit of the ‘criminality’ occurred before the election i.e. the time span Mueller is supposed to look into, each misdemeanour or whatever one may call the lying to the FBI, withholding of information etc. happened after the Donald’s history.

    Curious that.

  180. baron.. 15-05.
    Surprised, me. Not in the slightest.
    Just pointing it out .
    I really couldn’t be bothered to read the article Word for Word but the general theme of it was as usual that they were being picked on, no indication whatsoever that perhaps they might be more criminal and needed to be locked up obviously that doesn’t fit the agenda.

  181. Baron – 15:27

    What ever happened to Malfleur? (PBUH)

    I would have expected him to have picked up on 5G before now. It’s the necessary precursor to the enslavement of mankind. AI is coming and it will not give a damn about humans.

  183. The other day I received a phone call. I could not make out what it was about as the caller had no idea of how to speak English. The few words I could understand led me to believe it concerned my appointment at Moorfields eye hospital. About a week earlier I had a letter from the hospital re-arranging my visit, no problem, the ambulance service always ring me the day before to check that all is OK, but has this call changed anything? how the hell am I to know?

    There is nothing here that I can not solve with a few choice words, and only I am affected, but what if there was more serious issue affecting a person less articulate than yours truly? Communication is of vital imortance in situations such as this,so what in hell are the managers of the NHS doing by employing people who are unable to speak the bloody language. But do not worry folks, I am spoiling for a damn good scrap and will let you now the outcome. Now I am going to take a leaf out of Barons book and get rat arsed whilst listening to Mozart.

  184. Tonight’s votes in the House of Commons?
    Reminds me of one of Brian Rix’s Whitehall Theatre farces.
    Brian (Jeremy Corbyn) loses his trousers
    Elspeth (Mrs May) gives him the slip.
    The run is extended for a further week.

    In the meantime Mrs May goes back to Brussels in an attempt retrieve the white drawers she waved last time. The EU demand that she drops her nickers again, this time all £39billion of them, bends over and grabs her ankles. “Oh, and zee lube will be extra, Madame.”

    May, the farce, be with you!

  189. Noa,

    No Deal preparations:

    With several severe recent then today might be a good day to send Mrs Noa(Nelly?) out in the ute, across the frozen mud flats of Lancasterstan, to stock up on essentials at Booths.

    “SHTF Food Preps 101”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYd9XHQc16s

    PS. Not envying your nocturnal visits to the Ark’s frozen outside bog. Having said that you’re probably in Barbados….

  192. Don’t worry EC – you are being read. Great narrative. Keep it up. No good news from Norfolk. Morphine + TLC keeping me extant. Quacks are done with me. File in “let nature take its course” tray. Looks like the SBBOFF have won this time. QSS!

  193. Please read from top to bottom Yer Ol’ Woodpile Report No 564.
    Refresh you grey matter with the common sense, wisdom, wit and sagacity that Remus produces at amazingly regular intervals: compendiums that are unequalled in space and time throughout the cybersphere. Oh – and btw – lock and load!

  194. Frank P – 15:56

    Thanks for that. Ol’ Remus excelled himself with that edition.

    Apropos: “WWII was won with “good enough and plenty of it”, not with eleventh hour gizmos”

    By coincidence I stumbled upon this quote earlier today…

    “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” George S. Patton

    …although that may or may not have been an original thought on his part.

  195. stephen maybery @ January 29th, 2019 – 21:50

    You are not alone, stephen, having difficulty communicating with some of the the NHS staff. Often, at least in Baron’s case, it’s the unusual accent, the difficult vernacular, the strange patois that’s hard for him to decipher.

    It has FA to do with any racial distinction, it may be OK for someone used to it, or capable of understanding it, a category of people Baron doesn’t;t seem to belong to, (say) the names of some drugs, these are not easy to pronounce even if one follows the standard English pronunciation, often the words are close, it’s only few letters that differ. If someone whose command of English isn’t of the standard the barbarian is used to it’s a nightmare.

    What worries the barbarian even more is that he’s scared to raise any complaints for fear of getting punished with an inferior help, but how and to whom would one talk about it anyway?

  196. EC @ January 30th, 2019 – 18:16

    He is here the usual himself, EC, but the MSM poodles don’t give him much exposure.

    It seems it all hinges on the Irish backstop now, but there are the parts of the deal that do not fit the vote of the referendum for a clean break.

  200. Re useless phone calls from the NHS; my husband and I, whenever we have had a hospital procedure, which is very often, get the dreaded NHS call, enquiring if we have had good service etc, but the call is ALWAYS in broad Scots, Geordie or some other accent, gabbled out as if in a hurry to catch a train, and is totally incomprehensible. We usually get a call ahead of the procedure as well, to check one of us is coming. Adding insult to injury, we are always warned “this call is being recorded and may be used for training purposes”.
    As soon as we hear the name of our local hospital trust we put the phone down, as it just gives us both high blood pressure, which we really do not need. Until it dawns on whoever is responsible for communications, that the caller should speak standard English, not dialect, and should speak SLOWLY AND CLEARLY, for old f***s like us who can’t take it in too quickly.

  201. I have just re-considered George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’.

    It seems (to me) to have so much in common with our own personal lives – and with the general international situation – that I feel amazed by Orwell’s prescience.

    It has made me feel very uncomfortably pessimistic.

    Anybody else feel the same way?

  203. Herbert Thornton – 17:29

    Absolutely. Orwell’s dystopian future is being delivered, albeit 34 years late, courtesy of rapid advances in surveillance technology, a politicised increasingly paramilitary police force, and an elite political class (cross party) that is disconnected from their electorate.

    5G is going to make the situation much, much worse!

    See also” Terry Gilliam’s film “Brazil” (1985)

  205. There are many audio-books to be listened to suiting all tastes to be found on You Tube.There are comedies (such as Wodehouse) and detective / crime fiction and plays.

    There are a trio of light comedies by Alexander McCall Smith about philologists at an Institute of Romance Languages in Regensburg; with German academic titles such as `Dr.,Dr.,Dr.,Professor `.

    The book titles are : “Portuguese Irregular Verbs” ; “The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs” ; “At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances”.

    https://youtu.be/V9QjMG0-9Tk

  207. Carnforth was last year the stage for one of the little Orwellian vignettes that toll the jackbooted march of time, or in this case its total cessation.
    Mr Walker, a 72 year old pensioner, voluntarily wound-up the clock at Carnforth Railway station and was, it may be remembered by those of us who collect and treasure such social justice ephemera, sacked for being overheard to make ‘racist’ comments. There was no trial, no hearing, no review of the evidence and no direct accuser.
    As he took the key to wind it with him following his dismissal the clock stopped and apparently, remains so to the present.
    Any present remake of ‘Brief Encounter’ would therefore literally be timeless, the clock stopped at 7.45. At least until such time as the key is returned or perhaps the clock returned to its owners by the Trustees, no doubt after due conferral in their own Court of Star Chamber.
    It seems an even more appropriate requiem for traditional English values and their inversion, than the screening of a rather passé vintage dirty movie in Derby Cathedral (and no doubt its future Grand Mosque), which it was reported banned the preaching of Christianity.

  208. EC January 31st, 2019 – 09:14

    I can confirm we are hardy folk up north EC, enjoying our breakfast kipper even on the terrace of the Holiday Inn in Bridgetown.

  209. Noa – 08:42

    I remember the Carnforth affair. It was shameful.

    Christmas spirit: It appears that Derby University’s Christian Union’s first choice of preacher their Christmas Carol Concert was blackballed by the cathedral’s Dean. What the CU should have done was to accept the kind offer of Dean Hance but to have substituted the Reverend Peter Mullen at the very last moment No disrespect to the Reverend Melvin Tinker but I think that my suggestion [i.e.” The Bishop of Bath and Wells”] would have proved the more muscular Christian on the day. He would have prevailed, sweeping the incumbent Dean aside like matchwood.

    Lookee ‘ere…

    https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Derby-Cathedral-shows-erotic-films-but-bans-evangelical-preacher

    Not just Derby, Noa. The list of ‘events’ at other cathedrals given at the end of the article reveals what a den of iniquity, a decaying swamp, the rest of the CofE has become. It would seem that the takeover by the Long Marchers/Mincers is now complete!

  210. Noa – 08:42

    Re: Remakes of old films…

    God forbid they let Glenda Jackson reprise her role of Antonina Milyukova if “they” ever do a remake of “The Music Lovers” [1971 Ken Russell, Melvin Bragg et al]
    The sight of the then 35 year old Glenda in the railway carriage scene sporting that monster merkin(*) was the stuff of nightmares for an innocent young country boy back then, but I shudder to think of the remake. Aaaargh!

    [* I’m assuming that it wasn’t a home grown]

    Enjoy your lunch! 😉

  213. Wonderful! Thanks.

    That was indeed a concise, forensic analysis of the old scourge that has morphed into the modern vice of “virtue signalling” and made exponentially worse by the media and the ironically named “social” media, With the recent orchestrated banning and shadow banning of conservative opinion holders and content creators “Social Media” has proved to be anything but “social.” It has shown itself to have been designed to enforce the prevailing cultural marxist groupthink.

    Not just the West. After a brief flirtation with some sort of freedom China appears to be reverting to its old ways with the introduction of their new, technology, based Social Credit Scoring system. Once again pictures of Mao, and also Xi, have started to appear everywhere.

  217. EC,
    thanks for the alert, I had no idea there was an impending by election in this patch of London blessed by the prophet, and frankly my dears I am not in the least interested. Politics in this neck of the woods ia decided half way around the world, they only announce the result in Tower Hamlets, which is why a white anglosaxon protestant would not get a look in. This situation is distressingly prevalent in large parts of the country. What will be the outcome? well, Enoch said it did he not

  218. Apropos my last post,
    It put me in mind of the case of Asia Bibi, the woman fearing for her life in Pakistan for being a Christian. Our Government will do nothing to help, claiming the do not have the influence, but we give Pakistan £0.5bn a year in aide, now call me simple if you would, but in my book £0.5bn buys one hell of a lot of influence. The real reason for our rulers supine reaction to this situation is that they are terrified of the reactions of the large Pakistani segment of the population if we were to extend the hand of friendship to this lady. It is time our rulers told those who have settled in this county that they obey our laws and respect our customs and if that is distasteful to them, then to clear out.

  219. Stephen, that time was when they first arrived off the boat ,out of the plane , or out of the womb.

  220. The eighth day of the four-week inquest heard from PC Nicola Roe, who was one of the first officers to respond to the missing persons call from Kelly.
    She went to the family home with a colleague and was told by the 37-year-old that Amber had stormed out of the house after being asked to clean out a cool box.
    Asked by coroner Laurinda Bower for her observations about Kelly, PC Roe replied: ‘She was quite matter-of-fact about how she was describing the situation.’

    Tragic as this case is how can you plan a four week inquest, this is going on all over the country, how on Earth much does all this cost.

  221. stephen maybery @ February 5th, 2019 – 12:57

    This afternoon, stephen, the barbarian was listening to a BBC Radio4 programme about organ transfer, the Islam take on it (you can probably get in on the i-player). There are some 14 fatwas issued, most banning organ transfer, a Muslim woman whose son has had a multiple kidney transplants since very young age wasn’t aware of any of it, has she sinned?

    The Muftis and ‘learned clerics’ of the Islamic faith are still debating whether organ transplant is approved by Allah, one of the clerics expressed the view that if one’s organ fails it’s faith, that’s the end of it, nobody should interfere with Allah’s wisdom ….

    Unbelievable. Since when are the issues of the nation’s health dependent on the musings of the followers of a cult, learned or not, set up by a loony centuries ago?

  222. Frank P @ February 5th, 2019 – 00:26

    The son of a Muslim woman mentioned by Baron @ 19:10 doesn’t give two hoots, Baron reckons, who furnishes his kidney provided it fits him, prolongs his life. Europe is quite safe doing the same with Russian oil and gas, it’s cheap, plentiful and the supply is reliable.

    The Germans (and that includes both Western and Eastern Germany before unification) have been buying Russian hydrocarbons of the liquid and gaseous type since the mid-60s last century after the discovery of the Yamal fields in Russia, in fact the supplies of Russian oil and gas were higher when the Cold War was peaking than today, not that many people know about it, the hatred filled omni-all must know, fails to mention it because it doesn’t;t fit his vomit.

    The evidence shows neither the Soviet Russia nor the one under Putin has ever failed to honour their contractual obligations, business is business for both parties to a deal, if the Russians were to use the oil and gas as a political tool they would find the tool to get unusable pretty quickly.

    One cannot blame the Donald for pushing their fuels, he wants America to be great again, but the Germans would be mad to go for the American LPG. It would aid their biggest competitor i.e the Republic itself, which is of course what the Donald desires.

    We shall see how it pans out.

    You m

  223. EC @ February 4th, 2019 – 19:24

    As one of the postings says, EC, he will be so popular that 120% of the electorate will vote for him, heh, heh, heh.

  224. One of the Spectator’s blogs was about a female pensioner who was visited by the Suffolk police, warned to cool it about trans, she has allegedly said gender matters not it’s sex that rules, one can identify whether someone was male of female even if a corpse dissolves, only the bones remain.

    One of the postings from Murti Bing was a limerick, the barbarian liked it, wants to share it with you:

    There once was a cop from the sticks
    Who thought she could easily fix
    A naughty tweet-sender
    With facts about gender
    And prove that some women are dïcks

    Murti forgot that at least one woman is a Dick, she runs the Met, no?

  225. I’m watching a program on television called when demolition goes wrong and even on the ones they show where they didn’t go wrong I haven’t seen anything go down as neatly as building seven

  227. EC @ February 6th, 2019 – 21:25

    Clever guy, EC, and yes he’s nailed it better than the one in the Spectator’s feature, even though Baron had to listen very attentively, the labelling jargon of the gender cum sex protagonists is a double Dutch for him.

  228. John birch. @ February 6th, 2019 – 20:54

    Whatever happened to the class action against the Saudis’ involvement in the Twin Towers tragedy, John, the case has gone quiet after the initial uproar, someone must have worked hard behind the scenes, no?

  229. You really couldn’t make it up.

    Homeless man, 50, denies £86,000 Grenfell Tower fraud

    https://mol.im/a/6678047

    Robert Simpson, prosecuting, said: ‘This case arises from the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
    ‘The defendant claimed he had been a homeless person who had been residing there for quite some time.
    ‘He turned up and said that he had been residing there and survived the fire.
    ‘And he was thus entitled as he had been living there, albeit as a homeless person, to accommodation which amounted to 50 days in one hotel, 125 days in another hotel and 32 days in a third hotel.

  230. John Birch,
    The Grenfell squatter gets 86 grand, now you must not criticise the poor individual, after all, it’s his culcher innit. All part of our capitals rich diversity. Of course I could call it something else but I am far to sensitive and politically correct to use a more graphic terminology.

  232. Every day brings fresh reports if stabbings, particularly in London. As always these incidents are followed by politicos spewing the standardised tripe onto our screens, offering mediation and counselling to the perpetrators. Only one thing will halt this carnage, and that is effective retribution For carrying a knife, and that is a fixed sentence with no remission and no appeals by shyster lawyers, and to top things off
    we should take a leaf out of Singapore’s legal code, a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane. Our liberal elite would scream in pain, but these lethal attacks would wither away. A raw arse and five tears banged up would concentrate minds. Can’t do any more folks, them bleeding optics are playing up again.

  233. Here’s something that you should ponder about, or at least be aware of.

    February this year will have each day of the week four times, four Mondays, four Tuesdays …. That happens every 823 years, so savour the unique month of this running prime number year because when ti happens next time you won’t be here, guaranteed.

  234. Stephen Maybery,

    ROTTEN BOROUGHS

    Tower Hamlets 2022: Is there still “Rahman At The Top?” (*)

    “Both candidates still went on to fight yesterday’s by-election, with Labour’s Asik Rahman ultimately losing by 98 votes to the candidate for the new ‘Aspire’ Party, Mohammed Harun Miah. It won’t surprise anyone to learn who is behind Aspire – none other than rotten former Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman. Rahman is gearing up for another mayoral run in 2022 after his personal ban for a litany of electoral offences expires in 2021…”

    https://order-order.com/2019/02/08/labour-lib-dem-balls-lets-lutfur-rahman-back-tower-hamlets/

    * With apologies to John Braine

  235. EC,
    Be in no doubt that Rahman’s people are still in control in Tower Hamlets. The man himself was turfed out but all his apparatchiks were left in place, where they remain to this day.Will he come back? will he win? you can bet the farm on it. Corruption in these parts is endemic, unfortunately the ruling metropolitan elite lack the guts to do anything about it. They came, they saw, they conquered.

  236. If you’re still unconvinced by those arguing that Brexit is a self-inflicted catastrophe, that after March 29 the rivers in the country will dry up, the air become too thin to breathe, and there will be not a glimpse of sunshine, just the backness of a permanent night forever, this Cambridge academic sums up the coming nightmare it in just one single picture.

    Perhaps Frank’s right, we’re finished.

    https://vimeo.com/314265471

  237. As the postings have dried up, you must have plenty of time to ponder about things. Here’s a longish spiel by Navalny, the guy who doesn’t feature often on the MSM here, pity that because he’s still hard at it, fighting corruption, kicking Vlad, battling for the underprivileged.

    You don’t have to view the video in full if you don’t want to (it’s subtitled in English), few minutes will do, he’s setting up a mechanism by which people employed by the State can get the earnings they’re entitled to according to a decree signed by Putin. The initiative has just started, Baron will keep you informed how it pans out.

    Two points on the project:

    It covers only State employees, people who get paid by the State, from the State budget, just like here. And just like here, it’s the never ending haggling about the salaries in the productive i.e. private sectors and those in the public sector.

    Also, if you want to upvote whatever people say in response, you can, if you click on the downvote, nothing happens. This is rather unfair because a number of people disagree with Navalny, or try to make a point that doesn’t back fully his slicing of the problematic infighting between public and private.

    If only the omni-all one were to home on it, he would explain it better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra0RuM1gQNI

  238. stephen maybery @ February 8th, 2019 – 16:35

    Be smart, stephen, learn Bengali, it will come useful, sooner than you think.

  239. This set of pictures isn’t to make any particular point, it’s just the barbarian is keen to compare the recent past (say) the turn of the last but one century with today. Here are some postcards from Ukraine taken only a fraction over 100 years ago, it’s amazing the conditions then compared to today’s, the countryside though looks rather bucolic.

    http://euromaidanpress.com/2019/02/03/artist-volodymyr-koziuk-these-postcards-represent-our-history-heritage/ Ukrainian villages 20th century

  247. baron 21-40.
    Baron, I’m a reasonable guy but was that link really necessary.
    Put me off my food.

  249. WARNING : if you have set-up the CHW link to go straight to the bottom of the page : my posting above (at 22-42) may not be suitable for people of a nervous disposition.

    If you are living somewhere around N.W. Norfolk : it’s safe to go out on the roads again : Phil The Greek has given up his driving licence .

  251. One can be generous, John, put it all to her eccentricity, in the past the country was full of them, many of a clerical bent, who knows, she may be reviving this time honoured British tradition, no?

    Be it also a less on for you, never partake any sustenance when you watch or listen to an academic, it’s certain to make you sick.

  253. Baron, February 11th, 2019 – 21:30

    Never heard of him. What did this idiot do before or since he was anointed as an MP? “Rose without trace” comes to mind!

  254. Baron, John birch.

    Re: The Cambridge growler: https://vimeo.com/314265471

    Was that luxuriant growth really all her own? There’s enough there to knit her a sweater or both Baron and Andy Carpark a new hat!

    https://www.wikihow.com/Attach-a-Merkin

    Now you know…
    Bon Appétit!

    PS. Mr. Humphrys , NOA and the rest of us should all be grateful that the Cambridge Bag Lady herself didn’t decide to strip off and give us a full frontal. That really would have been a tale of woad!

  255. However much Baron dislikes Maduro and characters like him, this guy has nailed the ‘bigger picture’ well when he says “Unfortunately, there is no America. There is nothing to make great again. “America” is a fiction, a fantasy, a nostalgia that hucksters like Donald Trump (and other, marginally less buffoonish hucksters) use to sell whatever they are selling … themselves, wars, cars, whatever.”

    What there is, in reality, instead of America, is a supranational global capitalist empire, a decentralised, interdependent network of global corporations, financial institutions, national governments, intelligence agencies, supranational governmental entities, military forces, media, and so on”.

    and

    “What about those American oil corporations? They want that Venezuelan oil, don’t they? Well, sure they do, but here’s the thing … there are no “American” oil corporations. Corporations, especially multi-billion dollar transnational corporations (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, et al.) have no nationalities, nor any real allegiances, other than to their major shareholders.

    Chevron, for example, whose major shareholders are asset management and mutual fund companies like Black Rock, The Vanguard Group, SSgA Funds Management, Geode Capital Management, Wellington Management, and other transnational, multi-trillion dollar outfits. Do you really believe that being nominally headquartered in Boston or New York makes these companies “American,” or that Deutsche Bank is a “German” bank, or that BP is a “British” company?”

    and

    “Ask yourself, honestly, what have the “American” regime change ops throughout the Greater Middle East done for any actual Americans, other than get a lot of them killed? Oh, and how about those bailouts for all those transnational “American” investment banks? Or the billions “America” provides to Israel? Someone please explain how enriching the shareholders of transnational corporations like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin by selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabian Islamists is benefiting “the American people.”

    https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/12/making-globalism-great-again/

  256. I suppose we’ve got to get ready for another massive gypsy funeral for the couple who were killed going the wrong way and hit a coach .
    They were the most wonderful people in the world so in love and the baby was on the way to complete the happy family .
    But unfortunately they were also thieving gypsies and interesting to note the big screwdriver was back in use again .

  257. Amber Rudd MP (Pensions Minister) goes forward as a contestant for the Alf Garnett Award for Stating the Bleeding Obvious.

    She links Universal Credit to rise in food bank use.

    Our host,here,writes elsewhere : “Helping the right people get the right support is part of the history of the UK….But when the right support is given to the right people 5 weeks later then they need it,it is often as disastrous as providing nothing at all….” He gives the link below.

    https://www.trusselltrust.org/five-weeks-too-long/

  258. Radford NG @ February 12th, 2019 – 21:04

    To be frank, Radford, the barbarian’s of two minds, the way he lives he hasn’t seen anyone seriously undernourished, not anyone even mildly suffering from the shortage of sustenance, it may of course be these starving people are so week they stay at home, but this would almost certainly attract the attention of the BBC, the Tristrams would be on the story before one could say ‘hungry’, so where are all these armies of people not having enough to eat?

    On the other hand, there may be some hard up families, mostly single parent ones with few kids if the mother has a low paid job, the kids are at school.

    What’s needed is a thorough investigation of anyone claiming to be that short, looking into what income they have, how they spend it, but then it’s more than likely the targeted people will not tell the truth, or change behaviour when the surveying was on.

    Baron suspects that if there’re people who are hard up it will be those of the war generation, too proud to complain, the authorities too lazy to find them.

    Some years ago the barbarian was watching a programme covering the celebration of some WW2 event over in France, it may have been Dunkirk, an old couple was returning back to the UK, he was a veteran of the campaign, said it was his last trip over the Channel.

    What stays in Baron’s memory was the couple’s answer to the reporter’s question what they were talking about when he approached them. He must have expected the man to tell him it was about his experience of the event, instead the old man said they were mulling over whether to buy a couple of sandwiches on the boat or back in the UK. He didn’t say it to show how tied the money was for them, just as a matter of fact.

  259. John birch. @ February 12th, 2019 – 17:53

    This story you are referring to, John, (of which Baron knows nothing) reminds the barbarian of an anecdote.

    A woman calls her husband on his mobile, tells him to be careful because a madman is driving on the wrong side of the motorway he’s on. The man says: ‘I’m careful, darling, because it’s not just one madman, there are tens of them”.

  260. EC @ February 12th, 2019 – 11:28

    A confession from the barbarian, EC, he has used your knitting jibe on the Spectator’s blog, hopes you don’t mind, it was too good to ignore.

  261. EC @ February 12th, 2019 – 10:52

    How dare you, EC, what an ignorance (only joking), the man aspires to be the next Tory leader.

  262. From yesterday (fifth attempt), you must get rid of the gap between ‘the’ and ‘man’.

    You’re lumbered with it only because the barbarian cannot sleep, but it would be foolish if you were to skip it. It’s about free will (or not), more than a though provoking piece, one has to, or rather Baron has, to read it slowly, his brain cell receptors cannot register and process the minutiae of the narrative easily. Old age, he thinks.

    Btw, the Zman’s blog’s is worth looking at, the guy’s smart.

    http://the zman.com/wordpress/

  265. A new book by Charles Murray (you know of him undoubtedly) that draws on the Hertler & co r & K dichotomy may be worth acquiring except that the barbarian has little time as it is.

    The review of it is worth reading, the call for white America to wake up is unlikely to be heeded, Baron reckons, for as the piece posted by Baron @ 13:04 argues it’s no longer up to any population segment of a country however powerful it may be. It’s the phylum of the Deep State that knows no borders, has no affinity with any national state, and is largely immoral in its pursuance of wealth. Armageddon anyone?

    https://www.unz.com/article/coming-apart-revisited/

  266. JACOB REES-MOGG

    His knightly politeness is known round the counties
    Through dewy green pastures of infinite bounties
    More courteousness than a passel of mounties
    Who is he? Why, Jacob Rees-Mogg

    A moment of national peril’s upon us
    We need some refinement, a cultured Adonis
    A tad less ‘free Tommy’, more ‘liberate Thomas’
    That’s better, that’s Jacob Rees-Mogg

    So what if he met with that fascist, Steve Bannon
    Or nationalist fervour’s the oeuvre he ran on?
    It’s softened with nods to the literary canon
    Should refugee children be met with compassion?
    Nevermore! quoth the Jacob Rees-Mogg

    His suits sharp as long knives, his sentiments blunt
    His views to the right of both Johnson and Hunt
    Cometh the shitshow, cometh the count-
    ry gent with grit and national front
    Scourge of the foreign! Prince of the pale!
    Extracting the fly from our country’s warm ale
    It’s the Eurocrats fault if his policies fail
    You’re infallible, Jacob Rees-Mogg

    And yet you’re attacked – like it’s all just an act
    Like your seemly demeanour’s a smoke screen, in fact
    Who needs marriage for gays? Or a liveable flat?
    Or control of their womb? Here’s some moderate tact
    They can’t see you just want the best for your party
    Ensconced in your mansion in bluest West Harptree
    With just enough sense not to dress like a Nazi
    (Just borrow their ethics and zest for autarchy)

    As white as a plate of potatoes au gratin
    Which – if it were yours – the chef probably spat in
    You pepper each lecture with clichés in Latin
    ‘Yes, I luncheoned with racists who fear Muslim culture
    And chant “send them back”. My mistake. Mea culpa.’
    ‘Did I really say Scots should be put to the sword?
    Errare humanum est. Safely ignored.’
    ‘Would I dissolve parliament? Crown myself king?
    Well, look at it this way:
    Obligato regatta meccano excelsior quorum etcetera…
    That sort of thing.’

    A Mail reader’s portrait of class and refinement
    Your squeamish obsession with sexual alignment
    Leads ignorant critics to label you snooty.
    Sex isn’t for pleasure. It’s more of… a duty
    Conceiving your scions from Peter to Sixtus
    Your countenance locked in a gravedigger’s rictus
    While thinking of regional cricketing fixtures
    And boys singing carols in churches at Christmas
    And queues at the pictures, and pink dolly mixtures
    Lawnchairs in wicker. Topiary clippers.
    Cycling vicars… Men sipping bitter…
    Multiple Hitlers… Britannia Invictus!

    When you start each reply ‘Well, it’s quite clear to me,’
    I picture you hogtied and dropped in the sea
    While envious Frenchmen all pelt you with brie
    They wish they were English, that’s all it can be

    I hope that you suffer, a martyr for Blighty
    A Christlike piñata for downtrodden whitey
    Who bears his stigmata oh-so-politely
    Like when Nursey would fasten your jodhpurs too tightly

    I hope you get debagged while leaving your Bentley
    I hope you get teabagged – I hope it’s not gently
    I hope you get kneecapped by three lads from Tenby
    And left in a bear cage – I hope it’s not empty
    You studied at Eton
    I hope you were beaten
    With bell ropes, I hope that they got the whole street in
    And folks stood competing to see who could flog
    The spots off that bounder called Jacob Rees-Mogg

    O Jacob Rees-Mogg, o Jacob Rees-Mogg
    I hope you get eggbound and die on the bog
    I hope you get found with your pants round your calves
    And your socks stained with faeces, and everyone laughs
    I hope someone brown gets their face on a coin
    And you weep, and spill scalding Earl Grey in your groin
    And your penis gets gangrene and burns when you piss
    And falls off and gets lost in a layby, near Diss

    O Jacob Rees-Mogg! O Britannia’s last hope!
    To gammon-faced racists you’re almost the Pope
    I’m afraid that a soul’s something money can’t buy
    You’re not King Arthur, Jake
    You’re a twat in a tie
    You think you’re distinguished
    You’re just rich and pinkish
    This bullshit we sniff’s just the stink of your privilege
    Which zings like a vintage to dim-witted English
    Who’d burn down the country to heat up their village
    You think you’re St George
    I think you’re engorged
    At the thought of more wars and the poor staying poor
    You take your eggs boiled and your women indoors
    And your orders from Tories who sit in the Lords

    You look like a maribou stork shitting gorse
    Or a headmaster crossed with a mortician’s horse
    A skeleton’s butler, a cricket bat’s ghost
    An English Von Ribbentrop scraped into toast
    You look like a paedophile off to the morgue
    A whiff of Gestapo, a touch of the Borg
    A vampire enshrouded in mothball-tinged fog
    But the truth is more dreadful – you’re Jacob Rees-Mogg

    O Jacob Rees-Mogg! O unconscionable cur!
    Most punchable fizzog from here to Jaipur
    They say you’re a bigot, I have to aver
    I’d call you a turd, but to turds that’s a slur
    A cheaper grim reaper in overpriced clothes
    Who feeds from the colon of Cecil B Rhodes
    The pinnacle prick of the parasite class
    A soulless and cynical Thatcherite arse

    The greed of a grass snake, a frog’s empty stare
    With morals so bankrupt, you make us miss Blair
    I’m sure you can list when our kings came to power
    But not one name of someone who burned in that tower
    Or the staff of just one local library shut
    Or a suicide who’d had their benefits cut
    Or the gay fathers you think aren’t fit to raise kids
    Did God tell you they weren’t? I don’t think that He did
    I don’t think you know Him – He’s just an excuse
    For your capital creamed off systemic abuse
    May your conscience constrict round your throat like a noose
    Please: pull on your tie till your jowls turn puce.

  267. Baron, February 12th, 2019 – 21:42

    In attempting to make an exhibition of herself she only succeeded in making herself look udderly ridiculous. The worst case, by far, of BRexit Derangement Syndrome that I’ve seen to date… and there’s plenty of competition!

  270. EC @ February 13th, 2019 – 09:45

    Not the same gravitas or the delivery style of our Nigel, but a brave man, EC, he won’t have a brilliant career in politics, that’s certain.

  271. Fergus Pickering @ February 13th, 2019 – 09:31

    Now we know why you’ve been absent for so long, Fergus, but was it worth it just to tell the world you don’t really like Jacob?

    It’s a purely subjective slicing of your endeavour, what else could the barbarian furnish, and it is rather positive, if it’s any comfort to you, Baron enjoyed reading it, he likes it.

    Some bits you may like to re-write, those where your anger shows too much, it never helps to display it, the linking to fascism is overdoing it more than abit, even though most people nowadays have no idea what a totalitarian regime smells like, the label of fascism and its derivatives got worn off, sound so yesterday, carry no meaning anymore, virtually everyone who doesn’t toe to line’s a fascist, or Hitler, or Mussolini (seldom hte Georgian thug though).

    Some parts are truly exceptional in any sense including rhyming (Baron loves when it rhymes) like the one that starts with the debagging, teabagging and kneecapping, here you’re at your best, poisonously hurtful in a gentle way, it’s the best stanza for Baron of the lot, he may even learn it by heart.

    For your next move, stay away less, do shorter ones, post them more often.

  272. Baron. Coming apart..
    It’s fascinating isn’t it that every single thing in the article says we are not the same and yet people insist we are .
    The article says to me that the Somalian who has crossed the channel is still a Somalian and is no more British than Somalians living in Somalia .
    Which is of course no more than what you would expect just the same as a fighting man from North Africa cannot suddenly turn into a peaceful man living in England .
    Papering over the cracks doesn’t stop the crack from existing .

  273. More newsletters
    A heroin addict killed a 100-year-old widow in a street robbery and hid under a bed at his mother’s house to avoid arrest, a court has heard.
    Artur Waszkiewicz is alleged to have knocked Zofija Kaczan to the floor, taken her handbag and left her to bleed in the middle of the road as she made her way to church in Normanton, Derby, on May 28 last year.

    Following his arrest, the defendant told officers he was too unwell to interview because he was “withdrawing from drugs”.
    Addressing the jury on Friday, the defendant said he had been a drug user since the age of 18 and had been to visit his dealer at the time of the incident to purchase £20 worth of heroin.
    Polish-born widow Ms Kaczan suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured neck and cheekbone, before her condition deteriorated.
    She died from pneumonia in hospital on June 6 – a condition which would only have been brought on by the injuries sustained in the attack, the court was told.

    Waszkiewicz denied ever seeing the pensioner and told the court he was not responsible for her death.

    He said he had seen the handbag on the floor and had picked it up to find cash, but Ms Kaczan was nowhere to be seen.
    Derby Crown Court heard he had bought a Seat Leon car, which was captured on CCTV at the scene at the time of the incident, for £300 from his father – and admitted driving it despite not having a licence.
    The jury was told that shortly afterwards, the 40-year-old shaved his head to significantly alter his appearance – something the defendant claimed was due to his mother telling him he “looked rough”.
    What are they doing here . Its madness.
    And as the pub landlord would’ve said lovely English names

  274. John birch. @ February 13th, 2019 – 15:29 & 15:53

    The barbarian feels closed to embarrassed, John, he must be one of the few arguing that punishment for crimes of the sort you’ve pointed to fit the crimes about as much as they fit a truly law abiding and well policed society.

    It totally baffles why we, as a society, are so reluctant to punish enough so that the miscreants feel the pain, let the thugs inflict pain, often death, often on the most helpless in the society. Not perhaps a Christian thought on part of Baron, the old girl was apparently praying for the monster before she died.

  276. Sorry about the ‘closed’, it should read ‘close’, other errors.

    A good piece over at the Spectator by Melanie McDonagh whether Ms Begum should come back from Syria, give birth in one of the NHS hospitals. As you may expect the vast majority, if not all of the postings, take the view she should rot where she is, or derivatives of it.

    The barbarian has a different take on it, obnoxious in itself, but one that can awaken the delusional electorate, stop them voting for the two parties who have enacted the laws allowing her to return. Not that Baron’s take will ever be followed, it didn’t;t get even one single up-tick.

    “The first reaction of anyone who still holds on to some common sense must be ‘it’s nothing to do with us, lets wash our hands of her as she did of us’. That will not satisfy the ones who have deprived this country of the common sense (and more), those who govern us. It will neither prevent the many plebs from their insane habit of voting for the vacuous-of common-sense progressives over and over expecting them to enact statutes that reflect life as it is, are workable, satisfy the majority of those paying taxes.

    What should happen is this. The woman should be allowed back, a personal carer should be appointed to look after her every daily needs, she should be given a fully furnished flat at her choosing, sufficient funds to live in comfort, a regular column in all MSM, a slot on the BBC to enlighten us more, if not daily than at least weekly, about the heads in the dustbins.

    You may find this a rather distasteful solution, but it may do more to get a large number of the electorate out of their delusional voting, compel them to stop electing the progressives who are the key culprits here, it was they who have enacted the laws that got us into this mess. It would be a small price to pay to eventually get rid of both the people like her, and those who ‘created’ her.”

  277. Baron Feb13 1140

    My friend Pete Balkus penned this gem.

    Jeremy

    They call him racist,
    anti-semite,
    neo-****,
    ******,
    snide,

    terrorist,
    anarchist,
    Sionist,
    *******,

    evil,­
    devil,
    killer,
    villain,
    monster, not a man.

    They call him bad guy
    because
    he is better than them

    But is he

  279. Wonder if Frank enjoyed hearing his favourite copper on Desert Island Discs yesterday?

  280. Ostrich (occasionally) @ February 16th, 2019 – 10:14

    Exactly the same thought but in reverse has occurred to the barbarian, O(o), when he heard the opening of the Desert Island slot, ‘God, please keep Frank away from this, it may finish him off’.

    Not that the barbarian listened to the Full Monty of her enlightening us about the load on her, he had to leave the car well before it ended. His fading capacity to remember recent stuff brings up two things only, her choosing a piece by Pyotr Ilyich, it may have been from the Swan Lake (?), perhaps not that amazing he appeals to the same sex mutation (Baron finds his music too sugary), and also the point she must have made quite deliberately, there was an aforethought behind it when she said ‘most of the Met officers are committed …’ or words to that affect. Why most? Why isn’t she either re-educating the non-committed ones, or getting rid of them. Who are they anyway?

  281. John birch. @ February 16th, 2019 – 07:52

    He must deserve it, John, he’s a man of the people for the people, as you can see in the piece he is one of the people except perhaps for the remuneration.

    If Baron were younger, just beginning the daily slog of earning a crust, he would go for a slot in either higher education or the charity field, both offer unlimited scope for personal enrichment at little, often not any work at all, one would have to master the jargon of the progressives well, few basic words like people, justice, equality, rights, but plenty of smart sentences combining them, and voila, one would be set to success.

  282. Fergus Pickering @ February 15th, 2019 – 18:54

    Tell your friend, Fergus, he doesn’t know what a gem looks like.

  283. Baron – 11:06

    She probably meant “committed” to Common Purpose.

    Did the Scotch waman presenter ask her about her part in the Stockwell Tube murder?

  284. Sir James Ratcliffe is moving his businesses to Monaco.
    Among other comments, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, says;

    ‘……Don’t they realise that every penny they hide away in their tax havens is a penny not spent on our NHS treating the sick, or social care looking after our lonely, isolated elderly, or the education of our children?’

    All very praiseworthy, John, but you unfortunately forgot to mention that every penny hidden away is a penny not thrown away on rubbish like foreign “aid” or HS2, or similar.

    All the best to Sir James.

  285. @Baron 17th, 11:06

    Oh, I enjoy Pyotr Ilyich when he turns up on the ‘other station’ but, as with all serious composers (and, indeed, less serious) I recognise that their output aims to please their particular audience. It puzzles me, though, that none of the stations seems to try to broaden our knowledge of P I. I wouldn’t recognise anything from his first three symphonies, very little from his second PC, or a lot of his other work, and I’m sure there is plenty of it. I guess, like composers, radio stations have to please their audiences, and can only push things slowly-slowly, even if they have the will to educate at all.

  287. While you were all looking the other way….

    Bill Warner, PhD: “Making Islamophobia a Crime” (in the UK)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q39uN2z2ejI

    Dr. Warner reporting on the recently published report of the APPG on British Muslims and their “working definition of Islamophobia.”

    The document in question is here:

    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599c3d2febbd1a90cffdd8a9/t/5bfd1ea3352f531a6170ceee/1543315109493/Islamophobia+Defined.pdf

    I noted some familiar snouts heading this uo.
    Please do read their “Conclusion” starting on P56.

    YCMIU …but they did!

  288. EC @ February 18th, 2019 – 16:45

    The paper focuses entirely on Muslims even though it may also use the word ‘Muslimness’ (and another derivative, new to the barbarian). It has nothing to say about Islam, the creed. Many, including Baron, have nothing against Muslims (except for those who do us harm), their quarrel is with the ideology.

    In the Conclusions it says that the authors consulted experts, lawyers, Muslim leaders, Parliamentarians, Muslim groups, but not people who do not worship Allah like Christians, Jews, Hindus etc. the vast majority of British people. Rather strange that.

    Amongst the examples of Islamophobia the one Baron was totally unaware of is that the insurance companies levy much higher premiums on Muslims. There’s no explanation why this should be so. It would be surprising if it were because of the industry Islamophobic attitudes, it’s business, would any firm drive consciously business away?

    The most amazing thing is that there has never been a group looking into the ridiculing of the Christian religion by the unbelievers, which many of the examples of Islamophobia quoted in the paper really are e.g. the bacon, pig head cases.

  289. This is far from Brexit, our Allah worshipping friends, or the cunning Putin. You may like to move the cursor along if you decide to have a look, no need to spend the half an hour watching it. Baron’s posting it because it tells you why China is poised to conquer the word.

    The clip is about a Chinese plant making PCBs (printed circuit boards), that’s what houses integrated circuits and whatever else one needs to put on them to run everything from mobile phones to cars, fridges, washing machines, drones and whatever.

    The PCB market worldwide is around $80bn, the Chinese supply 47% of it (2017), and their share is still growing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=65&v=ljOoGyCso8s

  290. Ostrich (occasionally) @ February 17th, 2019 – 23:16

    The station Baron listens to mostly when driving is Classic FM, O(o), and there the output is 80% of roughly 20% of the well known composers, some of the stuff gets close to annoying not because the music’s poor, but because they keep playing it so often.

    One of Baron’s favourite pieces is Dvorak violin concerto (the finale speaks for itself, the best interpretation for the barbarian comes from Perlman, the man’s most natural violin player, he must have some gypsy blood in his veins). It’s almost never played on Classic FM, but the New World is, when it’s on Baron switches off, goes to BBC Radio4 to also get annoyed but often less if it’s Paul Lewis and his Money Box or similar.

  291. Few days before the anniversary of the Skripals charade, on the day the papers are telling us the old man’s health has deteriorated someone has the audacity to hoist a Russian flag on the Salisbury Cathedral scaffolding.

    The Wiltshire police should be more vigilant, there must be more Russian spooks running around the county, isn’t it time they were apprehended, brought to justice before they poison all of us with Novichok?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-47270827

  293. Radford NG @ February 18th, 2019 – 10:23

    Baron’s first reaction to the news, Radford – ‘who they?’

    Still, not a smart move by the seven dwarfs, the Blairites are about as popular in the country as the Corbynistas.

  294. EC @ February 17th, 2019 – 11:52

    Did the presenter ask her about anything of any significance, EC?

    Would she have dared?

  295. Chris Leslie MP reported AWOL from Nottm. East for the past year.

    He lost the Labour majority seat of Shipley (York.) in 2005 to Philip Davis,the first Conservative candidate to come right out and say we should leave the EU.

    In 2005 Davis got a majority of 422 ; in 2010 he increased it to 10,000 : which just shows what can be done.

  296. Labour `independent group`show no sign of having a Peoples Vote by way of standing in by-elections.

  297. Re: Yesterday’s Labour Independent Group’s public political suicide event.

    “BBC apologises for hot mic swearing during Labour split broadcast”

    Commentator overheard lamenting MPs’ resignations during press conference…

    “Between this and Brexit we are actually fucked,” said the man in a live broadcast.

    Was Sir Richard Mottram sat in the audience, or was this just a homage to the great man?
    🙂

  298. Baron,

    Have you got this one in your lexicon of things?

    hypergamy/hypergamous

    In the olden days we used to refer to this as gold digging / gold diggers but in the modern parlance I think that they refer to it as “trading up.”

    All this has had cultural and economic consequences, reportedly…

    “Many Stores are closing due to greedy hypergamous women in 2019”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjhwetz7Lw

    An impressive list! Mind you, how many of these store closures are due to eShopping?

  302. EC
    February 20th, 2019 – 13:39
    “Good Riddance to Anna Soubry!”

    My thoughts exactly. Can imagine T. May heaving a sigh of relief at getting rid of Motormouth Soubry.

  303. I wish the Independent Group all the luck in the world. But I can’t help remembering the SDP, how they started off really well, and then gradually faded till they were swallowed up by the Liberals, and now are only a distant memory. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself, but I think the I.G. will only be popular while Corbyn’s thugs are in. If Labour ever see sense and move back to the centre-Left, the I.G will most likely “do a UKIP” and fade away.

    As for the 3 Tory women who joined the I.G. today, I think they will have the door slammed behind them whatever may happen post-May.

  305. “Independent Group” A wonderful misnomer

    Independent of WHAT, exactly? Not independent of the EU, that’s for sure, as they are ALL remainers.

    By resigning from their parties they no longer have the mandate or moral authority to represent their constituencies, many of which actually voted “Leave” in the EU referendum. It seems that none of them are going to resign their seat and stand as an independent. They are far too grand to subject themselves themselves to a “people’s vote” of their constituency electorate. I wonder why….

    I believe that moves were already afoot to deselect to the Soubry woman.

  306. The Begum creature is in essence an Islamic shell case, whose primary role and purpose is to breed jihadists intent on creating a world Islamic state.
    For that purpose it is irrelevant whether she performs this task in Britain or the Islamic world, although for preference she would no doubt prefer the welfare costs and benefits of her programme to fall with her ideological enemies.
    However it does add insult to the very real injury we already suffer that her siblings would seek, as British citizens, to destroy the very civilisation that befriended them.

  307. The faux’David Lindsay’ likes his eggs hard boiled.
    A no deal Brexit becomes more likely with every self serving, egotistical defection from the Lab-Con block.

  308. A survey of surveys by the University of East Anglia has revealed that nearly half of lesbians are fat or obese, and homosexual men more likely to be ‘underweight ‘.
    In general 50% of male and female homosexuals are also likely to have health problems, as opposed to 25% of the normal, hetrosexual population.

    So the cliched stereotype and perception held by many, that homosexual men are weedy effeminates that fat lesbians are ugly and both sexes are unhealthy, seems to be supported by the latest evidence.

  312. When, during and after the second world war of 1941-5 the British Empire, was the subject of a US takeover with msssive store closures and administrative redundancies the nation was presented with a massive problem resulting from its traditional policy of primo-geniture: what to do with the second and successive offspring who could no longer be shipped out to the colonies, the reduced army or the redundant Church of England?
    One of the most successful answers was the BBC.

  313. As the Home Secretary seeks to prevent the return of  Ms Begum, her family, Corbyn and supporters seek to import her child because it is “British”.

    This is lke the Campaign Against the Arms Trade successfully banning the import of artillery, whilst facilitating the supply of artillery shells for future use as IEDs, or Islamic Exploding Devices.

  314. Noa – 11:24

    This was doing the rounds a day or two ago:

    ##Breaking News ##
    Plans are underway to bring ISIS bride Sharmia Kebab back to the UK.
    Cardiff City FC are sorting out the flights, Prince Philip will pick them up from the airport, Kate and Gerry McCann are to adopt the baby, and Diane Abbot is to sort out the timetable for all this to happen.

  315. EC
    Nice one!
    Though I’m a little behind in my populism these days, wasn’t the agent responsible for the rendition flight that resulted in Cardiff FC’s pending legal case? Perhaps they could employ the consultancy services of Cressida Dick, who knows a thing or too about getting rid of South Americans without incurring any liability.

  316. Here’s a story much closer to home.
    Noa knows the University and the UKIP people involved, directly or indirectly.
    Once a threat by the authorities to a student exercising the right to freedom of speech would have resulted in the occupation of the University building, the singing of kumbiaa and a massive non use of soap in protest.
    Now the authoritarian solution is a gagging agreement and political re-education to ensure Stalinist conformance to the hadiths of a 7th century child molester and anti semitic mass murderer.

    https://mol.im/a/6733195

  318. Noa -16:52

    “‘The student has been temporarily suspended for the remainder of the academic year and is aware that on the successful completion of a diversity training course, he will be able to resume his studies.’

    He should refuse the brainwashing, at all costs! He wasn’t destined to get that plum graduate job as the Carnforth Station Clock Winder anyway.

    In 2019 not only is a university degree not worth the paper it is printed upon, the £55K debt incurred, it is an impediment to actually getting any job, even flipping burgers.

  319. Radio 4 Extra.
    Book of the Week.
    A Spy Amongst Friends.

    James Jesus Angleton loses his fishing buddy and Nicholas Elliott (MI6) his best friend (giving a lie to a misappropriation of a remark made by E.M.Forster to defend Anthony Blunt).Kim Philby goes to his homeland.

  321. EC 18.09

    Simply an everyday humdrum example of Gleichschaltung in modern, multicultural, socialist Britain.

  322. Bradford NG

    Thank you for that. I’ll sample the tale and see if it’s to my taste.

    For those Wallsters seeking an escape from the present day Gleichschaltung may I recommend trying the real one portrayed in Phillip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels. The every day story of a hard bitten Berlin detective picking a difficult path through the ideological challenges provided in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

  323. EC
    February 22nd, 2019 – 17:46

    Thanks for posting the Paul Joseph Watson classic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfi2O9yTCKI).

    If ever somebody personified the existential danger posed by the movement of fanatics from the several Satanistans into the civilised world, that woman must be embody it.

    If you don’t want listen to all it then skip to/DO NOT MISS his coup de gras @8min41sec

  324. sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/02/americas-newest-muslim-martyr-is-monster.html

    Imam Maisonet had also posted a statement by Sheikh Salih al Fawzan urging Muslims to take on government positions in non-Muslim countries in order to Islamize them. “If there is a country that needs change (correction/fixing), and a chance to guide the people (to Islam, to that which is correct etc) enter into working with the country’s government.”

    The Sheikh is best known for endorsing the enslavement of non-Muslims. “Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”

    And any Muslim who disagrees, “is an infidel.”
    And our diversity and inclusion policies assist them to get those government jobs !!!!

  325. europe is dead

    verhofstadt und juncker
    escaped the bunker
    unleashing blitzkrieg
    with frau merkel
    their 21st century jackboots
    marching marching
    over democracy
    but it did not work
    europe is dead
    bereft of its head
    the multicultural nightmare
    the utopian dystopia proven
    and so
    like children
    der strasbourg kindergarten
    Brussels babies scream and cry
    and hope we die
    but we are just being born
    we have seen the lie.

    the dictatorship is coming to an end

  326. I looked back today, today in vain
    To see what comments would come back to my brain
    But not even Baron has undertaken that
    The redoubtable Wall could carry his chat

  327. Sweden leading the way again.

    Swedish pensioner fined for stating that Somalis are lazy
    By EMMA R. 21 February 2019

    A 70-year-old man who recently was prosecuted for writing that Somalis are lazy and don’t work, has now been convicted of the crime in Sweden.
    It is “derogatory to the group of Somalis’ reputation” according to the District Court.
    The man, who lives in western Sweden, wrote in connection with a Facebook post that linked to an SVT article, which stated that only one out of five Somalis have a job, that “no Somali can work they are the laziest people in this world”.
    The verdict came last week. The man was convicted of hate speech by a unanimous District Court, and ordered to pay 60 daily fines of SEK 120, totaling SEK 7200 (700 euro’s).
    For a remark to be classed as hate speech, it must express misconduct of a group of people, and regarding this the District Court writes: “For a message to fall under the term ‘misconduct’, it is sufficient that a statement about, for example, a certain ethnic group is derogatory to the group’s reputation. Even statements that are ridiculing towards a particular group of people are almost always included in the provision.”
    The District Court believes that the remark on laziness cannot be perceived in any other way than as “derogatory to the group of Somalis’ reputation. It does not express any factual criticism and the purpose of it does not seem to have been to contribute to a constructive debate.”
    The article that the man commented on states that only one in five Somalis have a job in Sweden.
    Other studies show that only one in ten Somali women work.
    Which means that no matter what the District Court thinks about the matter, it is a fact that Somalis residing in Sweden are significantly not the hard workers native Swedes are.

  328. John birch. – 09:10

    It was a terrible slur cast upon such a noble and industrious race of seafaring folk, and FGM practitioners….

  330. Yesterday Tommy Robinson issues an expose of BBC Panorama and its associate Hope not Hate ;with a call to abolish the Licence fee.
    Today he is banned from Facebook and Instergramme for hate speech .

    His hour long documentary can be found here.( You may have to adjust sub-titles. )

    https://youtu.be/wNd2bvLvyk4

  332. In the above matter see also see the independent voices of The Guardian,The Independent ,and the BBC web-site.
    I will not trouble to give the references for these.

  333. John birch @ February 26th, 2019 – 09:10

    Bit by bit, they seem to be gaining ground everywhere, John, here’s NY and Islamic car patrols. It’s unlikely they will be stopped, it’s more likely they will take over policing us, will probably do it more visibly than the boys in blue who seem to be watching the internet to spot hate crime.

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2qOU94dgj8

  334. Radford NG @ February 26th, 2019 – 16:50

    Tommy wasn’t banned because in the West censorship doesn’t exist, Radford, it’s only in Russia that dissidents get banned, their means of communications shut down, the authorities jumped on them, here we can say everything we want except, of course, anything that upsets the ruling caste. Unbelievable.

    If only you could listen to what Navalny and his crew say on their TV channel about Putin and the others in governance, the names they called them, the actions they advocate to dislodge the lot from the Kremlin.

  336. Fergus Pickering @ February 25th, 2019 – 18:49

    In vain you’ve looked, Fergus, because the barbarian was off his permanent base, he never takes the gadget he uses to connect with the Wall and other media when he leaves home, he could have relied on his mobile, connect through it, but it’s a fiddly tool of communication, moreover he had other things to do than getting his blood pressure up.

    And your muse’s spot on at 08:19, it is the rainbow nightmare, amongst few other boils, that messes things up.

    In fact, the case of the nineteen year old ISIL supporter now with child backs you up. Virtually everyone wants her barred from entering Britain, but a fat loot of good will that do, over 400 are already here, more are to come soon. She herself will appeal, the uman rites vehicle will ensure she would reside here again, you will see.

    Stripping her of the passport also creates a dangerous precedence, today it’s her, tomorrow it may be any one of us.

    The root of the problem lies in the rainbow delusion, one cannot have a rainbow nation state if one of the colours doesn’t line up with the rest of them, it ain;t doable, that’s what must change, and change quickly before the rainbow disappears altogether and darkness sets in.

  338. It’s catching up time for the barbarian, one good piece by the great Douglas is on the Spectator blog, it’s about the the case of Shamima Begum, the ISIS girl Baron has mentioned above. Somewhere in the narrative Douglas says:

    “I understand very well why the leadership at East London Mosque, the families, lawyers and friends of the schoolgirls who went to join ISIS should wish to spread the blame around to every household in Britain and to the internet. What baffles me is why the government’s extremism commissioner – a person appointed to speak truth – should start playing the same game ….”

    The name of the commissioner is Khan.

  343. Baron at 26 Feb 22-35

    Home town gay activist hero (USA) thwarted by lack of bigotry burns down own home (killing pets).
    I have to look out reference for this one.

  344. Radford NG @ February 27th, 2019 – 21:41

    The political elites and the scented phylum that backs them have gone completely loopy, Radford, the barbarian has been doing a lot of reading for the last two days, feels like giving up on the world, nothing makes any sense anymore.

  345. Baron – 23:38

    Everywhere in the anglosphere, [i.e. In all the former, largely homogenous, “classical liberal” western democracies based on Judeo-Christian values] the lunatics are now running the asylum, Baron.

  346. Stacey Dooley criticised by Labour MP David Lammy

    https://mol.im/a/6753703

    The Labour MP for Tottenham said today that Stacey’s comments showed she had failed ‘to educate herself’, adding on BBC News’ Victoria Derbyshire show: ‘Her Instagram conveys the age-old trope that is her as the heroine and the black child as the victim and we have to stop it’.
    When asked if the row is because she is white, he added: ‘That suggests that she [Stacey] doesn’t understand the issues. That’s part of the problem. Despite the fact she has power and agency she’s not sought to educate herself about the issues’. 
    He also said that Comic Relief, which has raised more than £1billion for poor communities in Britain and abroad in the past 30 years, is ‘tired and outdated’ and needs to ‘change the record and grow up’.
    ——
    I think he’s right, it’s racist to suggest they need help.
    Look at their industry, Infrastructure ,hospitals, good government, care for the elderly.
    They don’t want us pretending it’s still a colony when they’re quite capable of doing everything on their own so good luck to them I say withdraw all our help and leave them to it.

  347. John Birch.
    John, lammy is a self advertising self satisfied prick. I have only met him once, he will not have forgotten me as I threw him out of my office, to great hilarity from his entourage.

  348. stephen maybery – 15:38

    … and he’s an ignoramus to boot… out of one’s office as you did.
    Well done that man!
    🙂

  349. BARON!

    Re: Mitigating the dangers of mobile phone usage on the move …

    In the words of late Max Bygraves, “All you need is hands,” guiding hands, that is!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Wpc9s35ZY

    Apologies to the provenance of this video, but you’ll note from the upload date of Apr 5, 2016 that it is before Trump Derangement Syndrome irrevocably set in.

  351. EC @ March 2nd, 2019 – 18:08

    Why Baron, EC? You should be asking the lot of wallsters to debate it, no?

    No quarrel with the video at all, it echoes the barbarian’s slicing of a free society and the freedom o speech except perhaps he has missed an important element of the curtailment of free speech – self-censorship. The guiding, state appointed, watchful censors are there to set the limits of free speech, the boundaries beyond which one shouldn’t move, the individuals obey knowing that disobedience could mean the end of their careers, livelihood, or even freedom.

  352. EC @ February 28th, 2019 – 22:15

    Good one, EC.

    How do you come to dig this stuff up so regularly? Are you purposefully searching for it?

  354. Baron – 22:00

    “Why Baron, EC? ”

    Because you’re the only one here that has experienced living under a communist totalitarian state. Having made a new life in the “west” it must be a nightmare for you to see it [the west] in the death grip of cultural Marxixt PC madness and sleepwalking back into your dystopian past. Or is that being too dramatic?

    File under: “Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat”

  355. Baron – 22:00

    To what extent is the accelerating diminution of individual liberty in anglosphere the last 60 years associated with the decline in birthrates as opposed to the burgeoning global population growth in the rest of the world?

  358. The knifing goes one, the teenager Jodie killed in in Harold Hill was a random stabbing, ‘totally unprovoked’ say the police, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time, more accurately she was in a country governed by the wrong clique.

    The BBC reports that “a small group of people cried and hugged each other after laying a bunch of flowers at the cordon with the message “we love you forever in our hearts”, as if that could bring the young girl back to life or stop the killings, the perpetrator hasn’t yet been caught.

    Another man from the police was saying on the radio this morning what were the reasons for the atrocity, one of them was ‘many young people are carrying knives’ hoping to imply that knives kill.

    What do you reckon will happen when they apprehend the killer thug?

    Nothing much, Baron reckons, the case will be sub judice, the debate will run along the all familiar lines, in the end, the real culprit identified will be the society, yup, we have failed the monster, he couldn’t help it, if only we would have ….

    One has to be careful what one says, the barbarian in particular, since he’s said it so often in the past. Unless we hit the thugs, and hit painfully, the killings will not stop, not even abate. We take the knives from their pockets, they’ll procure screwdrivers or whatever.

    The long term solution lies in re-building what the great Burke identified as the installers of “the power upon will and appetite” from within i.e. the family, the school, the Church. In the ‘barbarous’ past it was these institutions that taught the young how to restrain their passions, today the family as a unit of two heterosexual sexes’s largely disappeared, the schools care more about fads, the Church hierarchy’s a joke, can hardly furnish a guidance how to get to a church.

    Short term, we have to radically change the delivery of justice, switch back from restorative to retributive justice, ensure that sentences pain, truly pain whatever the pseudo-liberal wankers say.

    It seems unlikely under the current political leadership of either one or the other party will do anything though. Pity, because doing nothing will lead eventually to a social convulsion never seen in this country before.

  360. “Pity, because doing nothing will lead eventually to a social convulsion never seen in this country before.”

    Aye, agreed.
    In addition, the quislings in the HoC fudging BRexit and giving us BRino will have a similar effect.

  361. EC @ March 4th, 2019 – 16:14

    But, helpfully, EC, as the day of the Brexit reckoning approaches, the Russian season is again upon us once again helped by the Skripals charade’s 1st anniversary.

    The MSM papers are at it again, it’s not two but seven assassins now dispatched from the Kremlin who poisoned the old man, the British aristocracy attends a dinner or whatever the gathering was billed as, in support of Russia’s efforts to de-democratise the free West, every member of the Russian Embassy here turns out to be a spy, the top man himself is allegedly a Soviet spy posted to and kicked out of the Republic wayback last century.

    Hugely enjoyable this, an excellent material for those who want to kick the Ruskies in order to hide the boils that pain us. What is a couple of knifing tragedies compared to the loss of our freedoms in an onslaught orchestrated by the evil Putin, heh?

    You may have missed it, Rob Slane penned an open letter to the Met asking them to come clean, tell us more of what they know about the poisoning, Victoria Skripal has held a press conference in Moscow today complaining about the family not being able to contact the old man, Julia, not being overtly complimentary about the help from the Russian authorities (it’s in Russian, the barbarian won’t bother you with the content, nothing much new in it), a Moscow based research outfit digging into the charade, coming up with accusations about the KGB spooks going back years, backing the British official version of Salisbury. There’s no end to it, it feels the baiting of Vlad to leash out has yet to reach a peak, one can only hope he doesn’t, it may all end in missiles flying over our heads.

    https://www.theblogmire.com/the-salisbury-poisoning-one-year-on-an-open-letter-to-the-metropolitan-police/

  362. stephen maybery @ March 4th, 2019 – 15:07

    Thanks, my blogging partner, the barbarian has a stake in the future, he has grandchildren, doesn’t want them to put on uniforms, go fight, possibly perish.

    How’s Frank, he must be enjoying the display of investigative know-how of his former colleagues, must be wishing he’s still a part of it, no?

  363. A piece of good news though, the saintly One has spoken, the Government will do more to put a stop the the culture of the young carrying knives, the pockets of their jeans, trousers and anything else they may be attired in will be sewn up, veery tightly, there will be nowhere to hide the sharp implements in. Absolutely brilliant this. (only joking about the sewing up).

  364. Baron :
    First person to approach the Skripals in the park was a 14 year old girl,along with her mother who is the senior nurse in the British Army.Neither of these suffered poisoning:( according to the Mail on Line).

  365. The real fake news.

    A drama about Radio Soldaten Calais and Radio Atlantic (broadcasting to the U-boats);all coming from Britain.

    `Operation Aspidistra` by James Follett (1975)

    [Note: any small brake in the sound maybe due to copyright problems over the music.]

    https://youtu.be/cUSuPAw2gcE

  366. Bloody Hell ! ( If you will excuse me ) I post an item to Mail on Line and in seconds I get 7 up ticks & 4 down.Who knew there were so many intellectuals reading the MoL?
    The substance of my item was that only an American like Henry James could write a novel called The Europeans implying there were such a people ~~~~And most modern English people would identify with the New Englander’s against the (Continental )Europeans of the title.

  370. From the conservative woman site.
    A comment on the army recruiting problems
    Partisan wrote:

    Join the Army, fight for your country then (A) spend the rest of your lives waiting to be arrested for war crimes, then when you leave the forces (often disabled), find yourself homeless and reliant on charity; (B) meanwhile those who you recent fought and called Terrorists, Jihadias, Mujahadin, Taliban, Mao Mao, Boco Harem, Isil have arrived in the UK and are housed, fed, financed, educated and cared for by your government, the same government that either wants to lock you up or hopes you will just go away.

  371. A Scouser is driving through Liverpool with his dog in the passenger seat. A police panda car follows him for about half a mile and then puts its siren and stop sign on indicating to him to pull over. As the copper approaches the car he sees the Scouser is slapping the dog`s head. He tells the driver to wind down his window and asks “Why are you hitting the dog?” The Scouser replies, “He just ate my tax disc.”

  373. Never trust an international panjandrum, is my advice to the Wallsters. When I saw Fat Pang bawling his head off as they lowered the flag, I knew he was a wrong ‘un.

  375. MERDE!

    From the above article…

    Why now?
    By Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris
    For months President Macron has been forced to concentrate on home affairs, thanks to the “gilets jaunes” (yellow-vest) movement. But that crisis is waning.

    Oh yeah, Manny, Hugh? It looks like the “gilets jaunes” have just discovered an inexhaustible source of ammo. 🙂

    https://www.rt.com/news/453024-fecal-bombs-yellow-vests/

    Apologies for the provenance of this article but the BBC doesn’t want to spoil Hugh’s fake news.

  377. I went to the Library and asked the Librarian,

    ‘Have you still not got that book on Scouse culture I ordered six weeks ago?’

    She said, ‘It’s not my fault.’

    I said, ‘That’s the one!’

  378. Once upon a time, there was an inflatable boy who went to an inflatable school to attend inflatable lessons with his inflatable friends.

    But one day, he found a pin in his mum’s sewing kit and thought, ‘Hmmm, I could have some fun with this!’

    So the following day off he goes to school and in the main corridor, he takes out the pin and punctures the wall. And the wall goes, wsssssh! (deflation noise)

    And he gets to his class and sitting in front of him are two classmates. So he gets out his pin and goes stab! Stab! And his friends go: wsssssh!

    But the teacher spots him and says, ‘Jenkins!! I saw what you did there. Come out to the front!’

    So he goes out to the front of the class, but before the teacher can mete out summary justice, he gets his pin out and punctures the teacher. And the teacher goes: wsssssh!

    Just then, a voice comes over the PA system,

    ‘ Would Jenkins – that’s Jenkins – report to the Headmaster’s office immediately.’

    So off he goes. And in the headmaster’s study is the inflatable headmaster, wearing an inflatable mortar board and flexing an inflatable cane. And he says …

    ‘Jenkins!! You’re an absolute disgrace! You’ve let the school down, you’ve let your friends down …’

  379. Andy Car Park @ March 5th, 2019 – 14:21

    A ‘Southern Baptist’, is it, ACP? From the five postings so far it sounds more like a stand-up comic.

    Has the Baptist any more of the same up his sleeve?

    (The barbarian has just arrived from one of his rare expeditions to what purports to be the capital of the country, is till fuming, may tell you more after a cup to tea, or two, or three… )

  380. Keith flint splits up with a Japanese girl who had no input to his wealth and he has to put his house up for sale.
    Instead of hanging himself he should have shot her.
    I toned down what I wanted to say because I didn’t want to be controversial.

  381. You want to be told about the barbarian’s visit to London today, or not? Tough titty, you’re going to be.

    To get to London from the deep wilderness of Suffolk Baron inhabits, one has to drive to a local station, park the car, board a little diesel contraption, travel for some 20 minutes, then change to a mainline train to Liverpool Street.

    The problem people who travel after the morning rush have is that there aren’t enough parking spaces, the cost isn’t prohibitive, it’s three quid for 24 hours. Surrounding car parks are administered by the parish council, parking’s free for up to three hours, but one has to get a ticket.

    Anyone coming after the station’s car park’s full can go whistle, no chance of parking, one can risk it though, leave the car in the council car park, hope the warden doesn’t come to check. That’s exactly what Baron did, the warden came not.

    Coming back for London the train moved rather sluggishly, picking up delay until the driver had enough, told us he had to “re-set the system, it will take a minute or so”. He did, it took well over ten minutes, four coaches were left with no lights, the one with Baron in it had only four strip lights on, but the contraption moved more quickly.

    Unbelievable as it may sound, out of the nine trips to London in the last six months or so only one full journey (that’s going there and back) was trouble free. The barbarian knows because he records it on the ticketing receipt. That should put the east Anglian franchise roughly on par with that in Uganda, if that.

    On the way back, whilst everyone sitting, standing or just hanging there (the coaches were packed to bursting) was looking intensely at a mobile phone, Baron was perusing the free London newspaper, few items were of interest.

    The from page told the readers in bold letters that Dick’s heart was broken because of the stabbings, that’s her own words ‘my heart is broken’, the top cop said.

    If anyone needed a confirmation that our society is driven by emotions rather that rational thinking, here it was in black and white. Who gives AF that the one in charge of policing has a broken heart? Aren’t policemen required to be feelings free, should emotions ever enter the police work? Aren’t police officers trained to be calm, composed, logical, void of any feelings about either the victim or the perpetrator of a crime?

    More still, she said the ‘the police are not failing to protect the Londoners, they are working very hard ….’ Since when has a success or failure on a job been measured by one’s application to it? Quite frankly, the Met officers could play cards, pick their noses or bugger themselves senseless provided the streets of the capital are safe, but clearly they are not. The hard work either isn’t hard enough, or there’s something else that needs doing to deliver a London that’s safe to live in.

    Over 300,000 people have already signed a petition demanding the Government raises the punishment for carrying a knife from five to fifteen years, and 25 years for anyone who knives someone. That’s what the family of one of the victims suggested. It cannot be right, of course, it smells of populism, we need more enlightened approach. In the meantime those who’s duty it is to wipe out those responsible for the carnage will carry on telling us about their broken hearts, and the suffering plebs will hug each other, bring flowers and little teddy bears to the spots where one of them got butchered, be scared to venture out.

    The thug who killed Jodie over the weekend didn’t apparently say anything, didn’t look into her eyes, just stabbed her until she dropped dead. The speculation is it was a ritual killing, he had to prove he’s worthy a fully fledged membership of the band of killers, in the 21st century Britain.

    How TF did we get here?

  382. John birch. @ March 5th, 2019 – 21:24

    It must have been a couple of days ago he was running here in East Anglia, John, he was perfectly OK. Are you sure money was the trigger? His royalties would have been enough to keep him going, it may be he was still in love with her, couldn’t face up to the separation.

    Your idea of punishment may be a teeny weeny too drastic, these things happen, people fall in and out of love, he had problems with drugs for a long time (but Baron admits he doesn’t;t know that much, it’s only what he remembers from the local press).

  383. Radford NG @ March 5th, 2019 – 02:38

    Before signing the petition, Radford, the barbarian had to check the meaning of ‘prorogue’. (Bloody foreigners).

    To be frank, it would be better to dismiss the House than to ‘prorogue’ it, no?

  384. EC @ March 5th, 2019 – 12:32

    The Evening Standard supports the BBC, EC, saying the yellow vests are on the way out, the approval of Micron is surging, his movement is expected to get most of the seats in the EU elections.

    But then, would one believe either the BBC or the Evening Standard? Both have dogs in the fight.

  385. EC @ March 5th, 2019 – 12:15

    What a wanker, EC.

    That’s exactly what’s going to rouse the masses to the EU flag, the guy must be loopy, even Mutti has changed her views, believes the EU should take it easy for a while, focus on economic growth, jobs, lowering immigration to assuage the excited plebs.

    Why do we need another armed force? Each country has it’s own Army, we have NATO, the Americans have bases all around Europe. What’s the other armed contingent for? Aren’t the existing military units enough to keep the Ruskies off, or the Chinese?

    It’s not only the British indigenous population that’s raging, it’s the same throughout the EU. Wouldn’t the money be better spent on looking after the old (like Baron, other wallsters, heh, heh, heh)?

    The agency to protect democracy sounds rather sinister, its aim cannot but be the freedom of the internet, they have to take control of it, or the internet opinion formers will take control of them. We shall see.

  386. The population may be ‘raging’, too, but the barbarian meant ‘ageing’, fugging software.

  387. Baron, regarding Keith I don’t think it was money as such it was very likely the thought of loosing his house which she insisted be put up for sale.
    I wonder how much money she had put into the house.
    No partner (equality) should have access on divorce to anything owned before marriage.
    You’re trip to London report was very interesting. Particularly the car parking problem at the station.
    It’s the same at all the stations in our area, nowhere to park and carriages packed full.
    And apparently we need thousands more houses in our area to house the refugees from London many of whom will need the train to get back to London to work .
    I take my wife to the station every day and collect her in the evening even with a huge carpark it’s a nightmare and the price is outrageous.
    And Manningtree is having a huge carpark extension to cope with all the new building . I had to pick my wife up from there a few weeks ago and was staggered at the size of the car park that exists there already .

  388. “The price quoted for a year’s parking for 12 months from December 31 is £1,359.38.
    And that price was over a year ago it’s gone up quite a bit since then.

  389. ‘A Florida parent who calls her one-year-old baby ‘Theyby’ in order to raise the infant as gender neutral so the child can decide its sex at an older age today accused Piers Morgan of ‘childism’ for questioning the decision.

    Ari Dennis, 30, and her partner said the family was inspired to raise Sparrow without a known gender after their older child, Hazel, decided to identify as non-binary aged four after being raised as a girl.

    She told Good Morning Britain: ‘We do not know what Sparrow’s gender is yet and, as regards to her anatomy, we choose to keep that secret except for a small list of caregivers.’

  391. Baron March 5th, 2019 – 21:58. Your gripping account of your trip to the crapital has the ring of truth. I still live there and can confirm that hardly a day goes by without being buggered about on the trains on the flimsiest pretext. I don’t recall which relatively civilized country you hail from originally, but you might enjoy this article which appeared on ‘The Internet’ last week (*blushes*).

    https://going-postal.com/2019/02/the-trial-of-slobodan-milosevic/

  392. Baron, March 5th, 2019 – 20:44

    Andy Car Park @ March 5th, 2019 – 14:21
    A ‘Southern Baptist’, is it, ACP? From the five postings so far it sounds more like a stand-up comic.
    Has the Baptist any more of the same up his sleeve?

    I do hope so. However I fear that after his spiritual ah-ha moment somewhere on the road from Damascus(MD) to the Souther states his pilgrimage to Nashville might have turned a bit awkward after a stopover at Dollywood. Even as we speak he might have his hands full, so to speak ,dealing with the fallout from Dolly and her sister Stella!

    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dolly-partons-sister-slams-singer-for-not-speaking-out-on-metoo-movement-in-country-music-industry

    John Jefferson Burns to the rescue?

  394. Andy Car Park, March 5th, 2019 – 11:30

    I have become … a ‘Southern Baptist’.
    Praise the Lord.

    What about Dmitri the Imposter? Did he defect from he Russian Orthodox to the Ukrainian breakaway? More to the point did his furry friend go with him?

    Hildegard Hinxey: Which side did she choose in the gender identity INTERSEX/TERF wars?

  395. I was concerned that someone – possibly John Jefferson Burns had – hacked my computer.

    So I asked EC how to ‘beef up’ my security.

    He said, ‘Well, whatever you do, don’t use “beef stew” as your password.’

    I said, ‘Why not?’

    He said, ‘It’s not Stroganoff.’

    Not STROG-anoff !!! (Gets coat)

  396. Alexander Boot (The Crisis Behind Our Crisis, 2011) claimed that all the evils of the world flowed from the Eastern –vs- Romish dispute about ‘filioque’ (‘proceeding from the Father AND the Son …’).

    The Old Time Religion is suitable for anyone for whom, like me, ‘filioque’ sounds about five storeys above their cognitive pay grade.

  397. Gordon Brown made a wholesale bollocks of everything he touched but he called it right when he said there were too many Chinese.

  398. Curious happenings around the barbarian’s MacBook, he can access the Spectator, the BBC i-player, other sites compliant with the orthodoxy of the progressives (only four sites were tried though, all successfully), but not this site, Slane’s blogmire, Moon of Alabama. Baron had to re-boot the modem to correct this anomaly.

    It may be a coincidence, of course, stranger things have happened, like the top nurse of the British Armed services, knowledgable about nerve agents, being on the spot when the bench poisoning of the Skripals happened, but why doesn’t it happen the other way round?

    Still, Andy, are you by any chance a resurrected Bob Monkhouse, who was the proud owner of 17 volumes of jokes? We should be told.

    Talking about the hate filled, deeply religious, overeducated village idiot, the omni-all Boot, he published a piece on “the singing of hymns in Russian churches’ (the link’s below). As you may expect he’s bashing Vlad again, well, a chap called Kisilev of whom you know nothing, he’s a TV presenter, not on an official channel, but one connected with the Right of Russian political spectrum. The song is a joke, it was written in the 80s, meant to be a parody on the then Soviet propaganda. It was sung as a parody again, which Mr. Boot fails to mention.

    The reason for Baron telling you about it is that for the first time, Mr. Boot allowed a gentle criticism of his slicing of Russia, there are three postings under the piece that you don’t have to read, it’s the same vomit he keeps furnishing over and over.

    Two of the postings are by his laptop Chihuahua Bertie, who must have brain the size of a poppy seed, but one is by ‘adams’ pointing out that perhaps the Russians are right being frightened surrounded by NATO and American bases. The omni-all one should be more watchful, how could anyone disagree with his take on Russia, sacrilegious this.

    http://www.alexanderboot.com/hymns-they-sing-in-russian-churches/

  399. EC @ March 6th, 2019 – 09:24

    Is she still around, EC? The girl must be indestructible.

  400. Andy Car Park @ March 6th, 2019 – 09:14

    An excellent and non-partizan piece, Andy, thanks.

    What the narrative misses is that the man was partly exonerated, exonerated as much as the Day Forces would allow in given political environment. He no butcher, he was actually trying to prevent the slaughter, failed, got lumbered with it. What a world we live in, heh?

  401. John birch. @ March 6th, 2019 – 07:23

    You may be right, John, the house, actually it is a farm, may have been coupled with the marriage emotionally so much, he couldn’t stomach selling it.

    The group and he himself have a massive following in Russia, they were supposed to have a concert in the Summer in Moscow in the Gorky’s Park this year. The place was called ‘the Gorky’s Park of Culture and Relaxation’ when the commies governed Russia, it staged a number of events, amongst them the exhibition of the remnants of the U-2 spy plane.

    It was Baron’s time in Russia, he went to see the exhibition, remembers the incident well, he heard about it on Radio Free Europe, the station claimed ‘research plane was lost near Greece’, it wasn’t true of course, Eisenhower looked rather foolish, the Americans didn’t expect the pilot Powers to survive. Baron was firmly on the side of the Americans arguing the rescued pilot was a fake, arghhhh.

    In one respect, the world has changed alot, instead of exhibiting the debris of a spy plane, the Moscow Park’s to host a British pop group (the concert may be cancelled though), in another respect, it remains the same, the two powers still at each other’s throat. Go figure.

  402. Apologies for the mistakes, it’s too late for Baron to read the rabbiting of his after it’s posted, it should be ‘the Dark Forces’ and no ‘Day’, plus for the other stuff that reds badly.

  403. This story from the Spectator must amuse you (if you can follow it), pity you cannot read the postings, too, more than 100 of them, as you might expect not one in favour of the trans mania.

    “A collapsed case shows the perils of policing ‘transphobia’
    by Debbie Hayton

    The bizarre stories of censorship and bullying by trans activists frequently made baffling reading. But the spectacle of Miranda Yardley, a self-identified transsexual, ending up in the dock for apparent ‘transphobia’ (all at the behest of a non-trans person) really takes the biscuit. An author would struggle to pitch such an incredible scenario at a publisher but, to quote Mark Twain, truth is stranger than fiction. Our post-truth world is off the scale.

    The story started with a social media spat between Yardley and a campaigner called Helen Islan. Yardley is a transsexual with a strong view on gender politics: namely that male people cannot become female people just because they want to. Most people would probably agree with that but in the looking glass world of Twitter such views are verboten (hence why Miranda was booted from the platform in 2018).

    Islan is a self-proclaimed trans ally who seeks to defend the rights of trans people. While that might sound a noble aim (trans people continue to face disproportionate abuse just for wanting to live their lives in peace), the term has become increasingly politicised: in fact most allies spend their time focusing on attacking anyone (women’s groups in particular) who suggests that the issue of transgenderism might more complicated than allowing anyone who feels female to be legally treated as such. Islan has also been closely connected with Mermaids UK, a charity that recently secured half a million pounds of lottery money to expand its services for children and teenagers who feel at odds with their birth gender.

    In April last year, Islan complained about Yardley to West Yorkshire Police. This constabulary has a record of investigating potential transphobic hate crime with enthusiasm. While trans people like me really do appreciate efforts to stamp out the intimidation and abuse we face on the street, West Yorkshire Police take an enthusiastic interest in political disputes between campaigners. Even worse, their reach extends far beyond their county: they previously spoke to Graham Linehan (creator of Father Ted) and sent officers to interview Posie Parker (creator of the Woman = Adult Human Female campaign). In Yardley’s case they managed to convince the CPS that a social media squabble between consenting adults constituted harassment. In April last year, Yardley was interviewed under caution, then in August fingerprinted and charged with harassment with the aggravating circumstances that the crime was motivated by transphobia.

    Last Friday I was at Balisdon Magistrates Court to act as a witness for the defence. Fortunately, as the case didn’t get far, I wasn’t required to speak. In fact, the case was thrown out shortly after Islan testified – in response District Judge John Woollard told the prosecution they had failed to make any case and awarded costs to the defence.

    After ten months this bizarre case where a trans person had been accused of a transphobic hate crime by someone who was not trans, was dismissed by a district judge as groundless. How did we get here?

    Are we really in a post-truth world where opinions take precedence over facts, and feelings are able to negate reasoned argument? Certainly in Islan’s opinion Yardley was a transphobe, and she was certainly upset. But why did West Yorkshire Police investigate a political dispute, and the CPS then prosecute it? The deleterious effect of post-modern identity politics is certainly a factor, but there are some rather more specific alarm bells ringing in this case: who has been training public bodies including the police and the CPS? Training and education on transgender inclusion is firmly in the grip of advocacy groups including Mermaids UK, the group that Islan herself has been closely involved with. Mermaids proudly cite their training of the police on their own website. Meanwhile the CPS took advice from a Mermaids representative when formulating their own guidance. The potential for conflicts of interest are staring us in the face.

    Policy has clearly failed once again. Last year the prison service hurriedly reviewed policy when a rapist was placed in a female prison on account of their feelings. Now a trans person has been hauled before a court on a clearly ridiculous charge. What will be next? Perhaps we need to review policy across society before further problems emerge. While feelings are important, policy needs to be grounded in facts. It is not only the police service and CPS that should be reviewing policy before further injustices arise”.

    What will people (say) in 2050 says about us? That is if Britain still exists.

  405. Baron (March 6th, 2019 – 20:13)

    It wonder whether the West Yorkshire Police will try to recruit them?

  406. Baron (March 6th, 2019 – 20:13)

    P.S. I also wonder whether their son will call his parents Mum and Dad. Will he perhaps become tempted, as he grows up, to instead call them Dum and Mad?

  407. ROD LIDDLE
    Save your children – take them out of school

    A good decade or so ago I wrote a fairly vituperative article in response to a piece by the writer James Bartholomew in this magazine, who had announced that he intended to home-school his daughter Alex, aged nine. James had explained in great detail how he would inculcate his charge in the liberal arts: ‘I don’t want to give the impression that I will be a Gradgrind. We will have some fun, too. Alex loves to paint. We will go to the major Cézanne exhibition in Aix and see his paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire. Then we will see the mountain itself from the same viewpoint that he used. I hope we will settle down to paint it ourselves — perhaps copying Cézanne’s technique.’
    Ever the class warrior, I was annoyed by this paragraph in particular. I could visualise the two of them at that exhibition and I had an immediate acid reflux. I think the gist of my rebuttal was that no matter how bloody clever and well-read middle-class people might think they are, the job of educating children should be left to the teachers, the professionals.
    So this piece is a fervent apology to Mr Bartholomew and indeed the now adult Alex. He was absolutely right, I was absolutely wrong. If you possibly can, get your kid out of its state school right now. You don’t have to go to Aix. You could just leave them alone, playing on their phones all day. It couldn’t be worse than the crap being shoved down their throats on a daily basis.
    Here’s what happened in one week at a well-regarded state school in my area for the second-year pupils (as I still call them — year eight if you’re up to date). The geography homework invited the child to explain why a 14-year-old Eritrean boy, Emir, and his family must be granted citizenship in this country. The kids were given some background information. For example, they were told that immigrants — all immigrants — give more to the country than they take out. Yes indeed. And they were told that the boy’s father was a brain surgeon — as is so very often the case — and the mother an official in a bank. They were also told that Eritrea is a foul country and that the family felt persecuted and there was an Eritrean community ready for them in London.
    Geography used to be about oxbow lakes and the cultivation of cassava, but now it’s just Marxist sociology

    In other words, they were given no choice whatsoever in the matter, and when one student said ‘Why do they have to come to England?’ he was told that wasn’t the point of the exercise. My suggestion to him would have been to complete the task allotted and allow the Eritrean lad in. And then to add a couple of others, in the hope of getting extra marks. So Mohammed, aged 14, from Somalia, whose father is a foot soldier for the Al-Shabaab militia and has the IQ of pre-set concrete, and whose mother recently narrowly failed to blow up a hotel in Nairobi. There is a Somalian community waiting for them in London too, with an unemployment rate of more than 50 per cent. Or Dimitru, a 14-year-old Romanian Roma boy whose father last worked when Ceausescu was looking youthful but who is able to play the accordion badly on the Tube with a note hanging round his neck saying ‘Money Give Now’. Come on teacher, let ’em think outside your narrow, partisan box.
    That was geography, which was once about oxbow lakes, convection and the cultivation of cassava, but which is now the provisional wing of Marxist sociology. In English, in the same week, the kids were learning about ‘identity’. This involved reading a series of poems from black and minority ethnic writers who had come to the UK and discovered it to be ghastly because their own identities were denied freedom of expression, somehow, by the hideous white majority. Sheesh, someone tell Emir.
    In history, the kids are studying the evil impact of UK colonialism and slavery upon the other-wise vibrant and over–achieving continent of Africa. In religious education, the children were told to write an essay explaining why Islam is a peaceable religion — not to query the thesis, simply to write it down. It is, and that’s that.
    And then there’s PSHE. I’ve forgotten what that stands for, but it is always unmitigated drivel about resilience and inclusivity and other meaningless but fashionable shibboleths. Last week the children watched an Australian video. As it was reported to me, this consisted of couples hugging and kissing as seen through an X-ray machine, so all you could see were successive pairs of skeletons canoodling. Then they came out from behind the machine and were revealed to be, one after the other: two gay black men with an adopted baby, two women, two disabled people, a Down’s syndrome woman with a non-Down’s syndrome man. ‘Love has no labels’ was the message of this
    I haven’t heard what they were up to in maths or chemistry. ‘The commonest isotope of hydrogen is an atom with one proton and no neutron. But it’s perfectly OK for an atom with several protons and a whole bunch of neutrons to identify as hydrogen, if it really feels that it is.’
    The propaganda, then, is utterly relentless across pretty much every subject. And it seems to be in direct contradiction of modern liberal educational methods, in that the children are not remotely allowed to think for themselves. There are no open-ended questions; the propaganda is spewed out and the students are there to lap it up and then regurgitate it, and any deviation from correct opinion will bring censure. There is no notion that there are two sides to the debate, no acceptance that these are opinions at all. They are facts, and that’s that.
    So my apologies to James Bartholomew — he was well ahead of the game on this one.

  408. Baron, March 6th, 2019 – 19:15

    Re: Spectator article on collapsed trial:

    At the root of all this procedural legal insanity is Harriet Harman’s “Equalities Act 2010” which was hastily waived thru parliament by Dave’s Cameroons just before the May GE of that year. This legislation was the Trojan horse whereby the EU “Hate Speech” laws were injected into the UK. Of course the Brits had to go one better with the provision that an individual can take offence about almost anything on behalf of a third party and report it to the police.. The police now have no discretion on these matters, are obliged to investigate and report to the CPS. The CPS, as we all know, is a repository for low grade lawyers and political activists.

    Have I mentioned this before? I promise I won’t mention it again…

  409. Baron, March 6th, 2019 – 20:13

    The insanity continues apace.

    File under: “Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat”

  410. This transgender hysteria really perplexes me. I could write reams outling my opinions on this most recent metropolitan obsession, however one word will suffice, bollocks, WHICH IS PERHAPS NOT ENTIRELY PERTINENT AS THERe ARE SOME MALES WHO WANT TO LOSE THEIRS AND SOME WOMEN RESENT THE FACT that they do not have a pair. Sorry folks, the above is a friggin mess and I can not be bothered to retype it. Those who the gods wish to destroy they first dump in Whitechapel, I am living proof of that.

  411. EC, March 7th, 2019 – 10:01

    ‘Harriet Harman’s “Equalities Act 2010” which was hastily waived thru parliament by Dave’s Cameroons’

    The steerer through of the Equalities Act 2010 was the then Home Secretary, one Theresa May. Her subsequent triumphs included gay marriage, a European monstrosity co-piloted with hair-flicking bimbo, Lynne Featherstone, the European Arrest Warrant – by stealth – in 2014 and (again with minimum publicity) the Snoopers’ Charter, aka the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

    Themes that emerge. She was the originator of none of this legislation but someone else’s cat’s paw. Secondly, all her innovations seem to have to do with intersectionality or surveillance. Third, she never seems to have formed an intelligent view on any problem affecting the generality of British taxpayers, such as education, energy, welfare or defence. And then there was her management of border control. Or rather there wasn’t.

  412. I think poor old Verity was losing it by the end (2014?). Her cat had a firework jammed up its arse and on one occasion she was talking to a chav called Sharon ‘who wasn’t even here’ (i.e. was not even in this forum).

  414. EC March 7th, 2019 – 10:01

    Duly noted. And reported for basic caddishness and its lawyerphobic content.

  415. The Spectator now costs £4.75 and is so flimsy that if you hold it up to the light, you can practically see through it. My advice would be to pick it up, read Rod Liddle and put it back. Plus I suspect that Fraser Nelson is probably a quare.

    #Quares!

  416. What exactly should Diane Abbott have been called then.
    My attempt not to offend her would be , fat black stupid cow.
    If any words there offend I offer my sincere apology now.

  417. Q. What goes clip-clop, clip-clop, bang; clip-clop, clip-clop, bang?

    A. An Amish drive-by shooting.

  418. Noa, March 7th, 2019 – 15:03

    🙂
    Somewhere in a dusty corner of “the vaults” I have a file with scores of lawyer jokes. However my favourite lawyer joke, and I’m sure that you’ve heard it before, is a German one which loosely translated goes something like…

    “Brrr-r-r, it’s so cold this morning that the lawyers have got their hands in their own pockets….”

  419. Another lawyer joke, an old one, I last heard on the Aussie TV series Rake.

    When somebody asked Cleaver Greene how many of his clients he managed to get acquitted he replied, “About fifty two percent.” When his seemingly poor record was challenged he replied, “Well 52% isn’t bad considering that 98% of them are guilty.”

    Ever wonder why so many MPs are lawyers?

  420. An Irishman walks into a bar in Dublin and says to the barman, ‘I’ll have three pints of Guinness, please.’

    So the barman pulls them, the man collects them into a triangle and expertly carries them over to a table. He then lines them up and takes a sip from the first glass, a sip from the second glass and a sip from the third. Then rinses and repeats.

    ‘Excuse me,’ says the barman. ‘You know those will go flat after an hour? Why not do like a normal person, buy one drink and then come up for a refill when you’ve finished?’

    ‘Well, I’ll tell you,’ says the Irishman. ‘One of my brothers emigrated to America and the other one emigrated to Australia. And I stayed here, in the City of Spite and Shite. But the last night we were together, we promised always to drink in triples, to remember the good times we shared.’

    ‘Right,’ said the barman. ‘I get ya [under breath: nutter].’

    In due course, the man becomes a regular with his three pints and no one bats an eye.

    But one day, he comes in and says, ,’I’ll have two pints of Guinness, please.’

    Deathly hush.

    The barman pulls him two pints, which he takes over to his table and sips alternately. After a few minutes, the barman says,

    ‘Scuse me. I don’t want to intrude, but has anything happened?’

    For a few seconds, the Irishman looks utterly bewildered. But then he breaks out into a smile and says,

    ‘Ah Bejaysus no, everyone’s fine. I’ve just given up drinking!’

  421. Vaults? Did someone mention vaults?

    David Blackburn: Nick Clegg is a closet Tory (nice homophobic overtone there)

    Frank P: <=====

    David B

    It is revealing that when 'closet' is mentioned then you associate it with homosexuality – nay homophobia. Is that perhaps an indication of your own proclivities?

    I always understood that if someone is described as a closet anything, then it is implied that that they are pretending to be something else. What's buggery got to do with it?

  422. ACP

    What goes in the closet stays in the closet, as my old choirmaster used to trill…

  424. Could anyone rival the man? Could anyone even try to?

    A man from the country of the backstop has a strong desire to cross the Atlantic on a plank, gives up eventually because he cannot find one long enough.

    Two men from the same country are looking at job ads, one says to the other ‘look Jimmy, it says “tree fellers wanted”, if only Seamus was here we could have applied’.

    In a country that’s so democratic the burghers feel the pain of it, the churches organise tombolas each year, at one of such events the first prize is choosing three hymns, a woman wins it, stands up, looks around says ‘I’ll have him, him and him’

    In a country of the evil people who today have nothing to do but poison not just their own on foreign soil, but also foreigners, but who obediently slaved when thugs of the Red Menace ruled, the Top Thug has just delivered a five hour speech convincing the massive audience that the country is by far more prosperous in the world than any other, a man’s allowed to ask a question (a huge applause for the gesture): “Meat has appeared in Moscow, will it be also seen in other towns and villages”, the man asks as the audience holds its breath. The Top Thugs answers: “Yes, comrade, definitely, it’s a travelling exhibition, the next stop is Vladivostok”.

    Apologies (for the errors in advance) and for the impunity of telling jokes that the Romans laughed at, it was only to bring up a subject of yesterday’s Channel5 documentary on the rather sticky end of the Malaysian flight MH370.

    Five years after the fatal day, nobody is any closer to knowing what happened, the flight just stopped communicating with the control towers anywhere, only the engine kept answering a satellite signal that asked ‘you still there’ for about 4-7 hours, then nothing.

    The documentary was a brilliant piece of journalistic endeavour, the hour splits roughly as follows: some 40% are scenes of the relatives wallowing, crying, saying things like ‘nobody tells us anything’, the same percentage is allocated to a bunch of experts explaining convincingly why we know nothing of any substance, perhaps never will know anything, around fifteen per cent are charming pictures of planes parking, moving around, taking off, or for those with weak hearts, just flying safely over romantic clouds.

    The last five per cent of it is dedicated to an American expert who has a theory that gets very close to explaining what happened. ‘The Russians did it’, he says ‘no equation about it. They did it to divert the world attention from their takeover of Crimea. They took over the controls of the plane electronically, flew it to Kazakhstan, landed safely, took all passengers off, butchered them, turned them into sausages’.

    (Of course, you will spot Baron’s making the sausage story up, but the rest of the expert theory is as true as you or this blog or the obligatory piece on Russophobia one finds today anywhere one looks).

    That’s it, no more time to annoy you for now with anything else, more e pressing things have to be attended to (the barbarian though wonders if the tasks he’s asked to carry out can also be explained by the Russian meddling …..)

  426. ODE to BARNIER

    For some there’s an exit
    fed up of the Brexit
    May goes to Brussels
    no backstop she begs it.

    Westminster talks make
    no sense so they vex it
    If Guy Fawkes had a vote
    he’d no doubt go for kegs it.

  427. ODE to BARNIER’s FOE

    Theresa May look ghastly
    And she might give you a scare
    Theresa May have racist views
    And someone else’s hair

    She May not like the common folk
    Theresa May have rabies
    And who can say, Theresa May
    Eat other people’s babies

    Theresa May tell porkies
    May keep her cash abroad
    Theresa and her colleagues
    May be put away for fraud

    Theresa May look lonely
    Like she May run out of friends
    And soon she might be signing on
    For June is where May ends

  430. Fergus Pickering @ March 9th, 2019 – 18:21

    Well, OK, but (1) you are wasting your time on the top gnome, Fergus, it’s Mutti who still runs the show, the saintly Tereza consulted her in Berlin few days before she revealed the deal to the Cabinet at Chequers. Tells you.

    (2) The childless one isn’t really his foe, they’re a duo, it’s only pretending they side against each other. If one reads the ‘deal’ one gets the impression it’s designed to chain us even more tightly to the Brussels den of the gnomes .

  431. EC @ March 9th, 2019 – 11:57

    It’s been a long time Baron has enjoyed something that much, EC, gripping, massively informative, and hard to avoid watching to the end of part IV. How did you get it? You, young sir, are a supernova.

    It’s a pity we no longer have Malfleur with us (does anyone have his e-mail address?), the same goes for Frank, he’s or rather was one of the top dogs in the service that’s supposed to protect us, not plot against us.

    The guy’s totally convincing even though he leaves open the question whether it was for real or a fake, the barbarian reckons the latter, there’re a number of strong hints in the evidence for it, the behaviour of the Muslim secretary, the absence of the body at the trial (or the pictures of it), the behaviour of the close relatives …

    The linking of it to the Panama Papers shocked, but then it shouldn’t;t have because it has always been money, here the protection of a lot of it, that engendered the most heinous deeds.

    How ironic that we’ve had a fake murder, a fake poisoning, and soon a fake Brexit. It seem that Britatin or rather its governing elite excels in manufacturing fakes of some magnitude, we must have corned the market for it, we should do well after Brexit since the world elites aren’t any better that ours, our advice how to fake things will be invaluable, no?

  432. Andy Car Park @ March 8th, 2019 – 11:38

    Who’s David B, ACP? David Blackburn?

    The musing on the theme of the closet or closets baffles the barbarian, it’s way out of his grade in intelligence, suits more EC or Frank, these two often talk in a way that totally confuses Baron (who’s confused enough if the talk’s straight).

  433. Andy Car Park @ March 8th, 2019 – 10:13

    You reckon, ACP, this one wasn’t amongst the jokes making the Romans laugh, do you?

  434. Andy Car Park @ March 8th, 2019 – 08:59

    EC’s clip of the shot in the foot beats you, ACP, it’s more painful to start with.

  435. John birch. @ March 7th, 2019 – 22:25

    Having her, John, makes the remaining 60mn plus of us more intelligent, which isn’t bad.

  436. Andy Car Park @ March 7th, 2019 – 13:42

    The childless woman has no capacity for shame, Andy, the 200 plus defeat of her ‘deal’ would have compelled any politician of the past to resign immediately, she carried on as if nothing had happened, a rare quality that, but then all our political class bar few rare exceptions aren’t any better, most of them a lawyers anyway.

    Where does one find a good lawyer? At the cemetery.

    How does one prevent a lawyer from drowning? Only if one succeeds shooting him before he hits the water.

    What’s the definition of mixed emotions? Watching one’s attorney drive over a cliff in one’s new Porsche.

  437. Whatever you think about Nelson’s Spectator, you should be there, it’s the final stage of the Brexit charade, the three votes next week will determine whether we meekly submit to the Reich’s enslavement for generations, or will have a chance to err on our own.

    How could anyone born in this country, knowing about Britain’s past, claiming to be a patriot vote to remove no-deal Brexit from the option list? It’s the only threat that has the power to compel the Brussels sprouts to make a deal that doesn’t;t sink us. Treacherous that.

  440. I have observed that once again we have two peregrine falcons arrived at the nest site near the centre of town . ( Last year they failed to lay a viable egg).

  442. Stabbings: Silence of the White Lambs
    7th March 2019 Jane Kelly.

    MAJOR CAUSE OF BLACK YOUTH CRIME. WHERE’S THE DADDY?

    Home Secretary Sajid Javid has called for a summit on knife crime, involving the leaders of all London’s thirty-two boroughs, senior police officers from seven of the forces most affected by violent crime, members of the criminal justice system and the NHS, to tackle knife crime.
    Last weekend in Manchester, Yousef Makki, 17, died after being stabbed, while in London, Jodie Chesney, 17, suffered the same fate. Last month, in Birmingham three teenagers died within twelve days. Two hundred and fifty died by stabbing last year, five of those in London within nine days of each other. This is a ninety-three per cent rise in teenagers being stabbed to death over the past five years.
    Worthy heads are now desperately trying to fathom out how we came to this; Dame Louise Casey, DBE, CB, former director of the charity Shelter and the ‘national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit’ opines that knife crime is caused by the government’s austerity programme. Sarah Thornton, Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council blames, ‘education in schools,’ (meaning lack of it). She wants ‘More funding’ for education.
    Sadiq Khan, London’s Mayor, points to exclusions from school. He’s written a letter to the PM about it, which according to newspaper reports, she hasn’t read. Jeremy Corbyn blames the carnage on vicious government cuts. Others like to claim that knife crime is a new form of disease caused by reduction of mental health services. Rappers such as Akala, blame it all on poverty.
    This view holds that if you don’t have youth clubs and extra money from the state you will  invest in a kitchen knife, not to become an apprentice chef, but to go for an afternoon stroll and use it to stab someone straight through the chest.
    There is a call for more policing but £138m has been invested in the past two years and there will be a £970m increase in funding for 2019-20. 
    As they ponder and talk, knifings continue, another one since I began this piece, a boy stabbed to death in broad daylight, (06/03/19) the twenty first this year. School children are now being given classes on how to treat life-threatening knife wounds.
    It’s as if London had been mysteriously turned into Verona in the fifteenth century, where gangs rule and boys die in the dust on a whim while the elites rage about it. Some have been murdered for putting the ‘wrong music’ on snap chat, for their mobile phones, for casual mistaken identity, out of jealousy over better trainers or a football scholarship, also for racism, but if that is black on white it isn’t mentioned. The unmentionableness of the subject is the main problem. 
    Lord Hogan-Howe, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, is calling for a knife crime ‘Czar’ to coordinate nationwide action. Why not a Kaiser, Poohbah, Nabob or Akond?  He or more likely she, will fail because they will not be able to name the problem.
    The issue of knife crime splits the nation as evenly as Brexit. The day the ‘summit conference’ was announced the Guardian didn’t even mention it on the front page, while The Sun called for a call out of the army.
    A left wing ‘expert’ on BBC Today, on Thursday, (07/03/19) explained how exclusion from schools cannot be responsible for the killing because, ‘the worst areas for exclusions are Gloucestershire and Norfolk which have very little knife crime.’ Similar spurious comparisons are often made with Glasgow, in a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the difference in ethnicity in those populations.
    On the Today programme on Wednesday, John Humphries interviewed the mother of Jason Isaacs, 18, an apprentice carpenter, who was murdered on his way to the pictures with friends in Northolt, by two moped riders. In hospital Jason had a lung and his spleen removed, but died, the eighteenth teenager stabbed to death last year. Humphries did not ask who the attackers were.
    This deliberate absence of information immediately creates suspicion: was it Rumanians who used mopeds in a recent spate of phone thefts and acid attacks. Were the assailants part of a black gang, we are not encouraged to know. He did not ask about motive: was its robbery, yet another case of mistaken identity, or racial, along the lines of the Stephen Lawrence case but black on white? That suggestion amounts almost to blasphemy.  
    The programme was followed by Dub poet Benjamin Zephania, in his home town, Birmingham, which he happily calls, The Jamaican capital of Europe,’ talking about ‘black anger,’ and why black people in the UK, ‘should be angry.’
    What the anger should be about, Zephania, who was offered an OBE and hold seven honorary doctorates, did not say. Yet he is beloved of the BBC, a darling of the white liberal establishment, a walking Bunbury, a living embodiment of their refusal to look realistically at black culture.
    He speaks affectionately of Jamaica which has the highest murder rate in the world according to UN estimates. Most of that crime is connected to the illegal drugs trade. Nearly a million Jamaicans now live in the UK, some have brought that culture of chaos and violence with them.
    There is a tradition there of young men making war on the police which has continued in the UK. Rather than bolstering the boys in blue, the liberal intelligentsia, including Mrs May as Home Secretary, have consistently undermined them in favour of ‘community sensitivities.’
    This began after serious civil disorder in the 1980s, when there was an attempt to make Brixton a ‘no-go’ area, after which the perpetrators became the first rioters in history to be rewarded for their actions. The Scarman Report, at least the way it was interpreted, forced the police to ignore their local knowledge in favour of the ‘Support and consent of the community.’ Ten years later black culture was given further huge victim status after the death of Stephen Lawrence.
    It seems extraordinary how a small section of the 1.2 million black people in London, have been allowed to transform our society; the police turned into anxious social workers, schools disrupted, prisons full. Thanks to the abandonment of British cultural norms in favour of cultural relativism and cringing before a weaker culture, we now live within a drug culture where murder is little more than a teenage game.
    It is surely significant that in all the desperate hand wringing, no one ever mentions personal responsibility. The aspect of West Indian culture with its chaotic, fatherless families cannot be challenged.   
     In November 2018, in the Mail on Sunday, Sir Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equality Commission, was scathing about ‘white liberals’ with their ‘hand-wringing’ and called on them to admit the truth that the wave of knife crime is often black children killing black children. He called for Police dealing with gangs to be given powers akin to anti-terror laws which would allow them to detain the leaders who give the orders rather than wielding the knife. 
    Being black he was able to say the unsayable, that, ‘The victims and perpetrators are mainly from a narrow range of backgrounds, and we should not be afraid to say so. They are usually from black, Afro-Caribbean backgrounds.’
    Describing the dead as ‘sacrifices in an unwinnable war,’ he said that the political response had been ‘pathetic.’ As long as it remains the case that no white person in the UK dares to say anything similar, a minority of a minority have gained an absurd and terrible victory

  443. Baron – 00:08

    David Blackburn, yes. ACP was referring to DB’s Spectator blog post of 30th October, 2010. Here…

    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2010/10/the-ginger-rodent/

    This was where in the comments section that Frank P enquire of DB whether his use of the word “closet” (not to mention “Ginger!”) was Freudian. I was on that day internet history was made when after Frank P’s final question ACP coined the acronym “WBGTDWI.” Quite frankly they should both have got the 2011 Nobel Prize… for something or other.

    I bow down to ACP’s internet ferreting prowess for his ability to retrieve the comments on Spectator articles that have been long since wiped.

    Re: “these two often talk in a way that totally confuses Baron”

    It’s quite simple really, Baron. It’s all a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” as WSC once put it. (about the Russians!) Or in another example, expressed in the patois of S. Croydon today, one might say that ACP is “the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude.”

    I hope that helps!
    🙂 🙂 🙂

  444. ACP 1013 March 8

    Ode to next Sunday

    There once was a mid March day
    When people would gather and say
    St Patrick’s day here
    Let’s wear green and give cheer
    And party the night away

  445. Bud Nelson, from New York; flew to Knock Airport in the west of Ireland on business. As he walked down the stairs from the plane onto the runway he noticed a small Irishman standing beside a long table with an assortment of Human Skulls.

    “What are you doing?” asked the American.

    “I’m selling skulls”, replied the Irishman.

    “And what skulls do you have?” said Bud.

    “Well, I have the skulls of the most famous Irishmen that ever lived!” said the Irishman.

    “That’s great!” said Bud. “Give me some names!”

    “Well!” said the Irishman, pointing to various skulls. “That one there is James Joyce, the famous author and playwright, that one there is St. Brendan, the Navigator, that’s Michael Collins the leader of the 1916 rising, and that one there is St. Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland…god bless his soul.”

    “Sorry” said Bud, “But did you say St. Patrick?”

    “That’s correct!” said the Irishman.

    “I have to have that!” said Bud and paid him £50.00 in cash.

    Bud flew back to New York and mounted his Skull on the wall in his Pub. People came from all over America to view this famous Skull. He made a fortune over a five-year period and retired a very rich man. During his retirement, he decided to go back to visit Ireland, the land that made him a fortune.

    Bud flew back into Knock airport, and while walking down the stairs saw the same Irishman at the bottom of the stairs.

    “God”, said Bud, “What are you doing?”

    “I’m selling skulls”, replied the Irishman.

    “And what skulls do you have today?” said Bud.

    “Well, I have the skulls of the most famous Irishmen that ever lived!” said the Irishman.

    “That’s great!” said Bud. “Give me some names!”

    “Well!” said the Irishman, pointing to various skulls. “That one there is James Joyce, the famous author and playwright, that one there is St. Brendan, the Navigator, that’s Michael Collins the leader of the 1916 rising, and that one there is St. Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland…god bless his soul.”

    “Sorry” said Bud, “But did you say St. Patrick?”

    “That’s correct!” said the Irishman. “Well!” said Bud, I was here almost 7 years ago and you sold me a Skull a little bit bigger than that one there, and you told me then that the skull was St. Patrick.”

    “Oh yes!” said the Irishman, “I remember you now! You see… This is St. Patrick when he was a boy!”

  448. It’s very odd, there seems to be lots of wreckage and passengers plus suitcases etc from this brand new jet which crashed.
    Unlike the neat hole in the ground from the 9-11 crash which seemed to have nothing at all.

  449. Andy my old fruit, my honoured mucker, how are you.
    I logged on to see how yall were and I saw your re-emergence from the grave.
    I am planning my spring visit and, as usual, when I deplane from Heathrow I will be going to the Charlotte Street Hotel. I could think of no greater honour than to stand you lunch.
    At present it looks like 27 March (Wednesday) at noontime. Can you make that?

  450. JJB – At this stage, I have to say that it is looking ominously possible. We could celebrate my recent conversion to Southern Baptism by singing a medley of redneck dirges in the hotel bar.

  452. EC @ March 12th, 2019 – 11:46

    Could someone, EC not born in this country, not being inculcated with the neme the guy’s talking about, but an import, disagree with him on one point?

    He’s getting it wrong, it isn’t the royal family, it’s the institution of the Monarchy that matters, they are there to just give it life, one couldn’t have, as the guy says, just an urn with the crown on the top, that wouldn’t do as well the Queen (or the King) who suits the institution of the Monarchy better, if only because of the precedence.

    The monarchy is of importance, it’s a vehicle for the historical continuance of the people within it, it’s not unlike a family sharing the same history, albeit at a personal level, of the past that binds them together.

    Every tribe of people of a certain if hard to define sameness has something similar, mostly something like an object e.g the American have the flag, as do other countries. We could of course rid ourselves of the monarchy, get an elected Head of State, whether that would be an improvement is arguable, but then we would still have to find something that would do the coupling both with the past, and also with the future, e.g swear on the flag or something.

    The young man sounds like the soft interpretation of globalism, a world with no borders, no nationalities, no allegiance to a tribe that has shared a past. That may come, but since we still pay taxes to the London Exchequer, we would be well advised to keep the Monarchy going. Looking at the recent events, it’s not the institution that seems to be failing us, no?

  453. Could there be some other explanation for the two buddies getting together? One calling the other ‘a fruit’? Hmmm

  454. Fergus Pickering @ March 10th, 2019 – 16:31

    That’s pre-Roman, Fergus, found as a notation in the Dead Sea Scrolls with the reference to Ramses II.

  456. A massive picture covering half of the front page of the ST rag last Sunday showing four men and one female pouring buckets of fake blood in Westminster. (Rather misogynistic that, it could be that one or two of the males are transitioning, but it doesn’t say). That is supposed to tell the political gnomes they are not doing enough to stop global warming.

    One can argue what blood has to do with the warming of the planet, one can but Baron won’t because a linkage there must be. This is not what the barbarian from the East intends to do, his intention here is to tell you about a brilliant idea of his of combating global warming, an idea that shrieks for the Nobel Prize.

    Why don’t we push the earth abit more from the sun? You know, get the orbit marginally bigger than it is, that should do the trick of lowering the intensity of the sun’s rays, cool the place down, safe us from getting burnt (or from our blood boiling, that’s may be the link).

    If you think it cannot be done, think again. We can all, the seven billion of us, get a couple of baked beans cans each, consume it, then few hours later line up in a certain direction the scientists can figure out, and at a given signal, fart.

    Someone who the people of the world trust, like Obama, would then light a match, and voila, the burst cannot but push the planet further from the sun, if not sufficiently at first, the experiment could be repeated, there’s plenty of bake beans cans around. The bang could be quite loud so we will have to cover our ears, but that’s nothing if it saves the world from burning, no?

    Brilliant, don’t you think?

  458. baron,
    What the devil are you putting in your tea these days? let me know as I certainly could do with a dose.As for the monarchy, it will endure, it is the tribal totem of the British people despite the ravings of Harry and his Mrs Simpson. As for Brexit, forget it. Democracy is the one thing the establishment will not tolerate, as Parliament has tonight so blindingly illustrated.

  459. stephen maybery @ March 12th, 2019 – 20:44

    Nothing’s in Baron’s tea, stephen, it’s the tea itself, Waitrose’s own brand, you should try it, strong, tasty, and noticeably cheaper than the branded stuff.

    As for Brexit, there’s a glimmer of hope, Jacob’s and his crew should put in an amendment to the tomorrow’s motion on the ‘no-deal’, link to it no confidence in the Government.

    If the motion passes the Government will fall, the ‘no-deal’ will pass, but it won’t be binding on the new Government. If the motion is defeated, the Government will continue limping on, but the motion of no-deal Brexit will be safe.

    Genius or what?

  460. Rod Liddle reckons Brexit’s dead, the whole exercise was for nothing, we’re chained to the Brussels monstrosity well into eternity (but not a day longer, heh, heh).

    If the MPs vote to revoke art.50 it would be akin to signing their own death warrants, Baron reckons, people will be truly pi$$ed off, even those who were on the margin voting to remain, it would essentially confirm democracy as it was known in ‘barbaric’ Britain’s dead.

    On the ‘You and Yours’ BBC Radio4 a caller said he’s been stocking up on essentials not because he fears the supply of foodstuff will be disrupted due to our leaving without a deal, but because he reckons the House will scupper Brexit, revoke art. 50, and the streets will erupt.

    We shall se if John Bull has the balls to go boisterous flexing his muscles, or meekly accept the betrayal.

    Here’s Rod’s short take on it:

    “And that, my lovely friends, is it for Brexit. You kippers and ERGers who think we’ll leave with no deal, are deluded. They will not let it happen. They were never going to let it happen.

    Brexit has been killed by a Parliament which by a two-to-one majority never wanted it, despite what lip service they paid to respecting the will of the people. The liberal elite has won. I suspect it will be its last victory before it is expunged”.

    He may of course be just teasing.

  461. Is anyone except stephen still alive, or have you all decided to end it all, join the one with the capital H?

  464. Herbert Thornton @ March 12th, 2019 – 23:33

    If only we had the PR system for electing the House rather than the FPTP, Herbert.

  465. Ode to stalemate:

    Remoaners to the left, Brextremists to the right,
    Theresa “Maggie” May has an uphill fight.
    I can’t see her lasting many more days,
    Unless she changes her stubborn ways.

    Theresa is an immovable object.
    Her hubby must be totally henpecked.
    Trying to please just everyone,
    Annoying all is what she’s done.

    Right now she is UK Prime Minister,
    But her own back benchers are getting sinister.
    Some say she’s sold us down the river,
    A thing for which they can’t forgive her.

    Others claim she’s gone too far,
    As we should stay just where we are.
    Some see Europe as our friend,
    But others say the UK we must defend.

    Ireland is a sticking point
    A thing that’s gonna rock the joint.
    They don’t know where to put the border,
    Without causing grief and disorder.

    What an impasse, feels like stalemate,
    Are we heading to be a ***** state?
    Who knows what’s going to happen next?
    No wonder we are all perplexed.

  468. Herbert Thornton March 12th, 2019 – 23:33

    Farage took the money and ran after the referendum. Though he’s happy to take his UKIP MEP salary after leaving the party in a mess.
    His neo-cameroonian, soft, conservatism will fatally split the future conservative vote.
    He should have remained with UKIP, not betray it for the half promise of a peerage from the ERG if he converts to toryism when May goes.

    He’s lmi and his soft

  469. Baron March 12th, 2019 – 18:15

    Finely ranted M’Lud,

    However I suspect that, as the 7 billion of us synchronise our gaseous emissions, preparatory to our final journey either towards, or away from the Sun, dependent upon the final and infallible conclusions of our AGW scientific community, some uber-priviledged first year PPE student will light up his first spliff of the day, thereby immolating the entire plant and cooking all the remaining cod in one vast oceanic cauldron.

  472. Spotted this week on Jihad Watch.

    “Dutch author and sociologist Ruud Koopmans said this week that Muslims are more difficult to integrate into Western society than other migrant groups because of a literal interpretation of the Quran prevalent among Muslims.”
    Koopmans called this a “threat to world peace.” Most Muslims agree that “Muslims should return to the roots of Islam,” while a whopping “75 percent think there is only one interpretation of the Qur’an possible to which every Muslim should stick.” That interpretation is normative Islam, and the one that resulted in over 11 million Muslims being murdered for not being Muslim enough since 1948, along with innumerable non-Muslims. It’s also the same interpretation that for a millennium and more has divided the world into two camps: the House of War (Infidel countries) and the House of Islam (Islamic countries), with the mandate that the latter must conquer the former.
    Jihad Watch and other organizations that support the principles of free society in the West have been warning about these truths for a long time, while Leftists and Islamic supremacists work to obscure them and continue to erode the foundations of societies that are built on human rights and freedom. It is key to understanding the global jihad to accept the fact that the jihad imperative is rooted in Islamic doctrine. Understanding this will enable the West to stand firmly for freedom and establish sensible policies, including an end to the open-door immigration that advances the hijrah (jihad by immigration).
    Dutch author and sociologist Ruud Koopmans said this week that Muslims are more difficult to integrate into Western society than other migrant groups because of a literal interpretation of the Quran prevalent among Muslims.
    Ruud Koopmans, professor at the Berlin Social Science Center and author of several books including Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, told the Danish newspaper Berlingske that whereas most groups of migrants integrate relatively quickly, especially from one generation to the next, Islam stands out as an exception.
    “Although it’s not completely absent in Muslims, the change is much slower,” he said, noting that a literal interpretation of the Quran prevents them from integrating into Western countries.
    In an earlier published study titled “Fundamentalism and out-group hostility,” Koopmans compared Muslim radicalism with Christian radicalism to better understand why Islam stands out for its isolationism.
    “Almost 60 percent agree that Muslims should return to the roots of Islam,” he wrote, while “75 percent think there is only one interpretation of the Qur’an possible to which every Muslim should stick.”
    Koopmans, who has been studying Islam for over twenty years, also found that “65 percent say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live.”
    Regarding Christian citizens on the other hand, Koopmans found that fewer than 4 percent “can be characterized as consistent fundamentalists.”
    “I conclude that the Islamic world is lagging behind rest of the world when it comes to democracy, human rights, and political and economic development,” Koopmans told Berlingske in his interview this week.
    “The main problem is how many Muslims and, globally, how many Muslim countries interpret Islam. Namely, in a way that basically claims that the Qur’an and the Sunna must be taken literally, and that the way the Prophet lived in the 7th century must be the yardstick for how Muslims should live in the 21st century,” he said.
    “Such a brand of Islam is, firstly, a threat to world peace. Secondly, it prevents integration,” Koopmans concluded.
    Although it is politically taboo to draw distinctions between ethnic groups when it comes to immigration, some scholars, including Pope Benedict XVI, have urged the West not to assume that all cultures share its basic suppositions about the human person and society.
    Prior to his election as pope, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that “the interplay of society, politics, and religion has a completely different structure in Islam” than it does in the West.
    Unfortunately, he added, much of today’s discussion in the West regarding Islam “presupposes that all religions have basically the same structure, that they all fit into a democratic system with its regulations and the possibilities provided by these regulations.”
    “The Koran is a total religious law….”

  473. Exactly as I we and so many say.
    They shouldn’t be here they don’t belong here and they are no use to us whatsoever …

  474. There are some colours that just don’t fit the rainbow range, it seems, the question remains ‘how long will it take for those who govern us to figure it out?’

  475. The winds of change are here, someone should tell the woman that pi$$ing against them is only good for someone who doesn’t mind wearing wet trousers.

    (Agreed, also of a pre-Roman origins, but what the heck).

  476. Noa @ March 13th, 2019 – 16:14

    Peter’s right, but a fat lot of good can it do, the Guardian is running a podcast “Syria, Skripal and MH17: how Bellingcat broke the news”, peddling the original stuff, totally ignoring the latest.

    As Baron keeps saying the great Mark Steyn hit the nail right on the head, it’s the process that does the harm, the outcome seldom if ever matters. It was enough for May and the others to accuse Assad, no further findings could alter the initial response, not in an environment where truth no longer matters.

  477. Baron,
    Respectfully, as a sitter, not a pointer, what would she know about pissing in the wind?
    However She is an experience practitioner of the Scouse tradition on Spion Kop of a “Hot leg”.

  478. The charade in the House continues, the woman’s quip ‘I have lost my voice, but I can hear the voice of the country’ is on par if not more cringing that the ghastly Blair’s ‘hands of history’, hopefully she will be remembered as the one hearing voices.

    Has it ever happened that a PM would have lost on key policies, and by a massive margin, too, yet continued to cling to power?

    She has no capacity for shame, lacks dignity completely, is beyond joke.

    Not that Baron has ever though highly of the Cameron boy, but when he lost on Brexit he went. That was what one would expect of any PM of this country, obviously, she has decided to set a different precedence.

    When we leave, and it seems we are to leave without a deal, we should seriously revamp the way we elect those who govern us, this House is full of mediocrity, people whose obsequiousness pains, not one of the clowns of a caliber of a statesmen. Tragic this.

  479. Noa @ March 13th, 2019 – 23:16

    Point taken, young sir, but who knows she could be transitioning soon, the medical profession could equip her with a tubular piece that facilitates pi$$ing whilst standing, weirder things are happening, one scans the papers, is shocked, the trans madness is catching on mightily.

    Btw, you get the above only because the barbarian has no idea what “Spion Kop of a “Hot leg” is all about, he can guess, but would he be right (as googling it did FA to enlighten him).

  481. If you have the time this may be of interest, the overwhelming conviction of the people of China that their country’s moving in the right direction compared with the opposite for the leading Western nations (except Canada where the doubters are also fewer, but only marginally).

    If one adds to it the numbers behind the countries (China’s population outstrips the sum of the others) one cannot but conclude that unless something truly big happens stopping the Chinese juggernaut we’re doomed.

    https://www.unz.com/article/chinas-congresses-in-action/

  483. Baron
    Spoon Kop was the standing only end of the ground at Anfield, the home of Liverpool FC. Like several other grounds the name originated from the disastrous battle in the Boer War, when heavy casualties were inflicted on the Northern county regiments that fought in them.
    A ‘hot leg’ refers to the warming experience as, having placed his appendage in another’s pocket on the overcrowded stand, the supporter relieves himself of his pre-match beer.
    Prawn sandwiches were not an accompaniment.

  485. Noa, March 13th, 2019 – 16:14

    Yes, Byron large, it’s always good to have a few puns set Assad for a rainy day.

  486. Noa @ March 14th, 2019 – 08:29

    Get in, tank you, Noa, the leg warming part is what Baron thought it was, but the sex (or is it gender?) of the warming initiator’s different.

  487. A telephone call to a council of a town near the M25, a recorded message, altogether 10 options, of which one’s running for full 26 seconds. Before the options, the caller is warned that the information he supplies will be used for training but also to deal with the matter in question, it can also be shared wit other council departments, stored, all in accordance with legal requirements.

    You may not believe Baron, but he was so taken by surprise that by the end of the recorded message he forgot what it was he was going to ask (well, nearly forgot).

  488. Herbert Thornton @ March 14th, 2019 – 00:35

    Standard performances by Nigel & the Brussels sprouts, Herbert.

    Nobody really knows how we’re going to leave, Baron reckons it’s 50-50 we leave without a deal or will get one imposed upon us.

    Here’s another atk more balanced than the rambling of one of the Brussels apparatchiks:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcaxweRZYM

  489. Sweet baby Jesus, how can you stand the grammatically skewed, full of errors postings by the barbarian. Truly well meaning apologies, it’s not intended, the mistakes aren’t intended, it’s mostly the tugging software, but often he changes his mind whilst typing e.g ‘a pre-Roman origins’, others like that. Sorry.

  490. Noa, March 13th, 2019 – 16:14

    Apropos Wolves, an infamous hun, and a wannabe lion of Judah

    Here is one of the most excruciating puns ever to be perpetrated upon an unsuspecting and ill prepared British TV audience:

    The coup de grâce is delivered toward the end of the sketch by Peter Sellers. Along the way sit back and enjoy three of the finest in the business with some outrageous ad-libbing, trying to make one another “corpse” of live TV. Script, what script?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsoCjJfPcU

  491. Baron – 10:50

    It’s deliberate policy that most modern organisations employ to distance themselves from their customers. As long as they have your money they really don’t DGAS. The only thing that your local council wants from you is your council tax monthly direct debit payments.

  492. Baron – 10:53,
    Herbert Thornton – 00:35

    I hope that ultimately, after the civil war has ended, any MP who voted last night to take a “no deal BRexit” off the table will suffer the same fate as Vidkun Quisling.

    50-50 BRexit? That depends upon whether Nigel et al can persuade any of the currently disillusioned “awkward squad” of EU member states to veto any extension to Article 50. The trouble is the EU will buy their votes… with OUR money!

    If Article 50 is extended, at a price, then the UK will have to be included in the upcoming EU elections… in May? It’s a pity that Nigel Farage effectively FCUKed UKIP as they would have won by a landslide.

  493. EC March 14th, 2019 – 10:58

    Thank you very much for that EC. I’m still chuckling. Baron too, may be inspired by and take comfort from the mystery food, commonly known as “Moles Mariniere”.

  494. On soldier F:

    It’s an unforgivable disgrace for the Armed Forces, a glaring contempt of natural justice, a decision close to infamy of the agencies of the State involved, to drag the soldier, now an old man, through the courts four decades after the tragedy.

    This is what the Irish Chief PP prosecutor said: ” … that those killed or injured were not posing a threat to any of the soldiers.”

    You may feel differently, but the barbarian’s blood pressure always rises massively when he hears, usually the prosecuting side saying whoever the injured party was “he or she or they was/were not posing a threat …”

    Today, we know it, we may have known it hours after the tragedy, possibly minutes, but how TF could the soldier know it the second he was facing the angry mob?

    A similar argument by the CPS was used in the Tony Martin’s case, the jury was told the two burglars were not armed, didn’t want to harm the farmer, just relieve him of few possessions, bla, bla, bla.

    And it may have been, probably was true, but how could Tony have known the second he confronted the two?

    Imagine yourself facing two grown up men, in the darkness of the night, woken from a sleep, nobody but you in the dwelling, the farm miles away from the cops. Wouldn’t you assume they were there to do you harm, wouldn’t you do everything possible neutralising them? Human self-preservation instinct cum instantaneous logic would kick in, it’s by far more acceptable to spend time at HM pleasure than rot in the cemetery, no?

    It’s the fault of the individuals doing the burgling that they end up in a coffin, had they not burgled they would have lived.

    Back to the soldier F: If anyone should be punished it’s the political masters who ordered the soldiers to NI, it was the wrong force, it’s the police that should be responsible for law and order on our streets, not the Army. Soldiers are the last resort in defending a nation’s from an existential threat, they are, or should be told, to kill the enemy, avoid being killed by the enemy, that’s the only job for which they train. That wasn’t the case during the troubles, the IRA thugs were a menace, but the outfit didn’t;t present an existential threat to the country, never.

    To be frank, the barbarian has no dog in the race, the case exercises him because we seem to have irrevocably altered the terms of reference for a number of institutions, we’ve left the old labels on, replaced the content – schools no longer teach the three Rs, soldiers no longer destroy our enemies, the Government no longer govern,s but interferes in our private lives. Fugging lunacy.

  497. EC @ March 14th, 2019 – 11:50

    Look at Brexit through the eyes of the appointed, undemocratic apparatchiks, EC.

    They cannot allow Brexit to succeed, they have to keep us in chained in if only partly, have some control over our destiny to ensure we fail in doing better outside the monstrosity than in to prevent others mimicking us, also leaving. The dream project is their top and only priority, the cost’s immaterial.

    It may be only by default they lose control over our future, but they will do everything to avoid it, hence Tusk’s idea of pushing the date two years up. That will give them time to cobble up together a document so baffling that not even the lawyers drafting it will understand, but one that will not let go of some form of control over our future.

    We should just leave, cut off the umbilical cord, be done with it. There would be problems, but so what? The country’s recovered from the consequences of WW2, leaving the EU ‘just like that’ would a child’s play to recover from.

  498. EC @ March 14th, 2019 – 10:58

    If it isn’t scripted, EC, the three were genuinely touched any a comic genius (the barbarian suspects that striped it must have been, at least partly, no?).

  499. Baron March 14th, 2019 – 16:45

    On an episode of ‘The World at War’ which addresses, I think the Burma campaign some contemporary newsreel footage is played.
    It shows British soldiers walking, post-combat between the bodies of Japanese soldiers, occasionally shooting one as it presumably moves.
    No doubt, were they, indeed if they are, still alive those soldiers could be identified, arrested, tried and imprisoned for their heinous war crimes.
    And what if they are dead?
    Well, so what? Being merely passed on, having shuffled off the mortal coil is no excuse to today’s Social Justiciers.
    Lets have ’em up! Saville style! What’s good enough for Ted Heath is certainly good enough for the British Army, as the ever luvvable Piers Morgan, now rehabilitated by the Daily Mail, will testify.

  500. Here’s a story connected to moules, the barbarian wasn’t sure whether he should tell it, but has now decided it’s OK.

    Moules mariniere and moules à l’escargot were always the barbarian’s order when he visited Brussels (oysters were even then too pricey), the place was the Arms of Brussels (it must still be there), a medium size eatery, always full, excellent service, the barbarian has forgotten the name of the waiter with whom he performed the same joke on each visit (even if Baron came for lunch and dinner the same day).

    Baron would call ‘garçon, garçon’ when the guy was in close vicinity, attract his attention, then point to a little nothing in the large bowl of steaming moules mariniere ‘what’s this?’. The waiter would answer ‘that, sir, is a fly, but we’re not going to charge you for it’. Baron would then eat the allegedly offending piece of flying protein as if it was OK to consume, paying no attention to other diners.

    (It’s true, the barbarian didn’t make it up, he must have paid a large chunk of the place’s rates).

    Only once, a couple of Americans, he and she, asked Baron whether it was truly a fly, and Baron ate it.

  501. Noa @ March 14th, 2019 – 16:51

    One laughs watching it, Noa, but it’s true, one should cry, better still get out out of it, as the people instructed the political gnomes at Westminster to do, they’re resisting because many would like trend up there.

  502. EC @ March 14th, 2019 – 11:17

    Absolutely spot on on the tax issue, EC, and you know what?

    In the last 20 years, Baron’s Council tax increased massively, it’s now almost treble what it was by the end of last century, but the roads are no better (probably worse), to see a policeman in the village would be a miracle, and as for the rest of the services the Council provides, these Baron doesn’t use.

    Where does the money go?

  503. “Where does the money go?”

    Mostly salaries and ever-increasing pensions, both these items of expenditure pay out our good money for nothing.

    The remainder is wasted. As the TaxPayers Alliance, (essential stress-free reading on the Ark), demonstrates weekly.

    So the cost of probate is sneakily increased and the cost of a Death Certificate copy goes up from £4 to £11. All to feed the fiscal haemorrhage of Moehne dam proportions that is prudent Government vote buying.
    Never mind the soap box, pass me the pork barrel comrades.

  504. Council pension funds baron, same place as extra money made available to the police .

  505. “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

    Hat tip – The Salisbury Review

  507. Rod Liddle’s latest Speccie piece.

    Really? The SDP? Come on Mr L…

    Let’s split the Right’s, erm the Left’s vote even further…

    “I was down the pub with my wife last week, out in the tiny smoking section, when a woman with a glass of beer sat down beside us and opened a conversation. She was from Delhi, she told us, before announcing somewhat grandly that she was an ‘academic’. I suppose I should have got the hell out there and then, but I was enjoying my cigarette. Anyway, we chatted briefly about the university at which she worked and shortly after this she said that at the moment she was ‘preparing for 29 March’ and was aghast at the whole Brexit business.

    Oh, I said, I voted Leave. She responded somewhat acidly: ‘And this is where the conversation ends. I cannot talk to irrational people.’ I demurred a little… um, you know, I don’t think I’m actually irrational and it’s a little bit rude to suggest that I am.

    At which point she told me to ‘check your privilege — I have brown skin and you are old and white’. I suggested to her that when it came to privilege, holding a university post wasn’t too bad, was it, which was when she called me a ‘jackass’ and the conversation sadly ended.

    It seemed to me a bit rich that a woman who came to the UK on a nice scholarship and had landed a good job in a university could be so blithely dismissive of the views of the majority of people in this country, even if it is a small majority. She struck me as being smug and stupid, a fairly lethal combination. So I looked her up on her university website. Remember that comment of hers about not wanting to talk to irrational people, a comment made solely because I had told her I voted Leave? Well, she teaches a course about Brexit at her university. I bet the kids get a really rounded view of the whole business, then — and this at a college which promises students they will be given ‘the ability to formulate and sustain a complex argument which is supported with appropriate evidence’. Remember, too, the speed with which this idiot clambered into victimhood as soon as anyone even mildly challenged her asinine worldview.

    But I suspect she is not quite alone within higher education in being a bit dim and very absolutist and inculcating those qualities into her poor benighted bloody students, along with the usual checklist of fraudulent idioms about privilege and power and how old people are vile.

    The irony was I had just come from giving a speech to a bunch of sixth-form students about the nature of truth and how to distinguish between false news and reality. The kids were great — well informed, sparky and full of clever questions. I hate to think of them a year or so down the line, studying one or other social science under the guidance of a halfwit who thinks all opinions other than her own are irrational.

    Meanwhile, as Brexit limps like a dog with a broken back towards a grotesquely unsatisfactory denouement imposed upon it by a government, civil service, broadcast media and House of Commons that did not want it in the first place, I’ve done what, as a 25-year-old, I would have considered treacherous — I’ve joined the SDP. I have scoured its various mission statements and cannot find anything in it with which I would dis-agree. It’s staunchly pro-Brexit, supports the traditional family and the nation state and, in lieu of the endless hierarchy of competing intersectional victimhoods so beloved of Labour (and the Lib Dems, and most of the Tories), it stresses the commonality shared between citizens, rather than the differences.

    It’s also pro-armed forces. In other words, it most definitely ain’t liberal. But by the same token, it’s pro-social market and a bit of government spending here and there, so it’s fiscally centre-ish or perhaps centre-left. The party leader, William Clouston, is a former Conservative. The London regional organiser was once a Labour candidate. The SDP’s serving MEP is Patrick O’Flynn, who was previously a member of Ukip.

    What they — and I — have in common is a deep disaffection for the parties of which they were once members and a determination to allow the electorate the whiff of a new agenda which is utterly unrepresented in the House of Commons at present, except in sadly ineffectual tendrils: Blue Labour, Red Tory and so on.

    As I’ve mentioned here before, all but one of the parties in the House of Commons is by a majority of MPs pro-Remain. Further-more all of the sitting members, with the exception of the DUP and a handful of Labour and Conservative recusants, are basically liberal on social issues. The divide which exists in society, then, is not remotely reflected in the Commons, and the creation of the new ‘Independent’ bloc of MPs merely emphasises this lack of representation: they too are all pro-Remain, they too are all social liberals.

    The SDP is a small party at the moment, but growing quite rapidly from an admittedly low base, and at least Shirley Williams is no longer part of it: this time the party is strongly represented among the working class, which it never really was before. I’m telling you, when I read their policies in detail and spoke to a few members, it was like that moment when you lock eyes with a woman on the other side of the bar and you suddenly know that you will be together for life, rather than just back to her place for a cheapening night of desultory sexual intercourse from which you depart at dawn. If I can put it like that. Which I suppose I just have.

    Anyway, we need new members for this exciting project. Join me in — what was that phrase again? — oh yeah, breaking the mould.”

  508. From last week’s Spectator ;a letter from Nigel Lawson:The point of Article 50.

    “The author of article 50 was John Kerr……He explained to me……the purpose of Article 50 was to make it as difficult as possible for a country leave the EU…A clever man,he did a good job.”
    Lord Nigel Lawson.

  509. re Christchurch. My Facebook post 5 minutes ago. I don’t expect it to last. Aussie media already ringing its hands and managing to shit it’s pants at the same time!!

    “Remind me again, how many Aussie shooters are there compared to deeply committed M*s*im killers since 9/11? Whilst in doesn’t make it ‘right’ and it’s not a game of numbers, but 30 on one side today, 3600 on the other in one day back in 2001.

    Just saying.”

  511. I suppose that for those passengers on the gravy train, particularly those in the first class compartment, it’s never a good idea to express one’s thoughts on “events” before the global leaders [eg. Macron] have had the opportunity to gush the customary platitudes that are required on such occasions

    Two people that are on the naughty chair today for speaking “their truth” too soon are….

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✔
    @AOC
    At 1st I thought of saying, “Imagine being told your house of faith isn’t safe anymore.”
    But I couldn’t say “imagine.”
    Because of Charleston.
    Pittsburgh.
    Sutherland Springs.
    What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe?

    This is probably the 1st time that this looney er… AOC has said anything remotely er… true?

    Aussie Senator Fraser Anning…
    …said the attacks highlighted the “growing fear over an increasing Muslim presence” in Australian and New Zealand communities. He went on to claim the real cause of the bloodshed that’s left at least 49 people dead is New Zealand’s immigration policy.

  512. I don’t expect any “Je suis Christchurch” #tags or banners as they might be deemed a trifle insensitive, of not haram… Hopefully, also, we might be spared the endless replays of the spectre-ly clad John Lennon knocking out “Imagine… [there’s no heaven]” which would also be offensive to the devout.

    I do expect some knee jerk legislation to be introduced in NZ for a S.Island or even nationwide gun grab. The Aussies used the Port Arthur incident in April 1996 for a similar purpose. As did the UK in March 1996 following Dunblane.
    In all three incidents it took one single nutter….

  515. The car crash in Birmingham where two children were killed.
    – – –
    Pictures from the scene, where Birmingham New Road meets Lawnswood Avenue, show the Audi and BMW severely smashed up with one vehicle’s air bags deployed.
    The area was cordoned off by police after the crash at around 8.45pm on Thursday and remained shut until 3.40am.
    It is a hot spot for dangerous driving, with police and other local authorities previously appealing to the High Court to get by-laws in place to ban people from taking part in illegal races.
    A known hot spot.
    I assume it would be racist to arrest the people involved.

  516. An item on the Conservative woman website.
    Any religion can be criticised – except Islam
    By Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack –
    A quick read of the story which if you follow these things you are probably aware of and then to the comments.
    – – !

    Interestingly there are none.
    All it says is, this discussion has been closed.
    So to make a comment you had to have it on a different thread.
    And as somebody put it how ironic to have comments closed on an item about free speech.

  518. passed by the east London mosque today, pavements littered with armed police. I cannot remember when I last saw a cop on the streets of Whitechapel. One wonders why? and what are they doing when not guarding the Mosque?certainly not clearing druggies from the neighbourhood.

  519. You can’t have anyone attacking the Muslims they are nice friendly folk who Just want to be left alone while shagging your daughters

  520. I know that this runs the risk of being brushed aside, but I still lean towards believing that Farage is preferable to most members of the current Parliament. At the very least, he does not, it seems to me, epitomise fatalistic or despairing apathy –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsII1nqctmc

  521. John Birch,15 March at 17-19.

    The ref. you give is not open to general use.
    The shooters words are being hunted-down and removed from the http://www.;but they can be found with a search.Iwill not give refs which will help the enemy.

  522. The NZ shooter has written :

    `When I was young I was a communist,then an anarchist and finally a libertarian before coming to be an eco-fascist`.

    The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the Peoples Republic of China.`

    `(Am I) a supporter of Trump? Dear God No.`

    `(Am I) a conservative?No,conservatism is corporatism in disguise. I want no part of it`.

    The main stream conservatives are :”milky-toast civic nationalist baby-boomers”.
    [That would sum-up Farage,Boris,Gove etc.]

  523. Redford NG.
    I downloaded it onto my device but now I get 403 forbidden when I go to it .
    I had read over half of it yesterday and it was absolutely not the ramblings of a madman I took a screenshot of page 33 (I think it was )about diversity and I could find absolutely nothing to disagree with .

  524. Got it again and I agree with this justification for posting it.
    – – –
    [Here is the “Manifesto” of the alleged shooter in the killing of, so far, 49 persons at Christchurch mosques in New Zealand today, May 15, 2019. It’s entitled “The Great Replacement” in reference to the mass invasion of White societies by non-Whites that is set to racially and culturally replace our societies if continued at present rates.

    Posting this manifesto is not an endorsement of what has occurred, but rather to present his thinking, for better or worse, of why he carried it out.

  525. Diversity is weak
    Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why? It is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum “diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength…”. Said throughout the media, spoken by politicians, educators and celebrities. But no one ever seems to give a reason why.
    What gives a nation strength? And how does diversity increase that strength? What part of diversity causes this increase in strength? No one can give an answer.
    Meanwhile the “diverse” nations across the world are scenes of endless social, political, religious and ethnic conflict. The United states is one of the most diverse nations on Earth, and they are about an inch away from tearing each other to pieces. Brazil with all its racial diversity is completely fractured as a nation, where people cannot get along and separate and self segregate whenever possible. South Africa with all its “diversity” is turning into a bloody backwater as its diversity increases, black on other black, black on white, white on black, black on Indian, doesn’t not matter, its ethnicity vs ethnicity. They all turn on each other in the end.
    Why is it that what gives Western nations strength(diversity)is not what gives Eastern nations(China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea)their strength?
    How are they so strong, China set to be the worlds most dominant nation in this century, whilst lacking diversity? Why is that their non diverse nations do so much better than our own, and on so many different metrics?
    Diversity is not a strength. Unity, purpose, trust, traditions, nationalism and racial nationalism is what provides strength. Everything else is just a catchphrase.
    DIVERSITY IS WEAKNESS, UNITY IS STRENGTH

  527. John Birch 10.38

    Very perceptive and well said.
    Even during the period of Britain’s turbulent internal conflicts an underlying unity based on a common religious belief, language government and legal system enabled us to unite in the face of external threats.
    That mortar no longer holds together a country that has replaced Poland as Merkel’s new General Government, it has become the new racial dumping ground and self funding cost collection centre for the EUs unemployable and criminal classes, in addition to permitting the inward migration of a hostile and resentful caucus from former Empire territories.

  528. If his motive was to have the manifesto debated in a hope people will back his take on (say) ‘diversity versus unity’, the deed he perpetrated will do the opposite. Not only that we will hear ‘diversity is strength’ ‘more loudly and often, those expressing the opposite view will be banned from social media or worse.

    For what it’s worth, the barbarian reckons it was the wrong country, the wrong target, the wrong tool, and as everyone with just a smitten of common sense would have told the killer, it will deliver the wrong outcome, just the opposite of what he thought he was aiming for.

    Unbelievably sickening, an overused cliché it may sound, but words truly fail to describe it, only a deeply diseased mind would be capable of an act of such evil, there can be no excuse for it whatever. To gun down people, Muslims or non-Muslims, who’ve done nobody any harm is just inexcusable.

    As the barbarian keeps saying, the prime culprits are not the immigrants, but the politicians who, often against the wishes of the indigenous tribe, enacted the current immigration policies.

    In addition to the utterly perverse morality of the deed, strategically, it stands alongside the most imbecilic acts in favour of an idea one wants to promote.

    It’s exactly what those arguing for the borderless world, a free movement of people, supervising the creation of rainbow societies wanted, one’s almost tempted to see it as of the progressives’ own making, or at least that they may have been suspecting it were to happen, did not enough to stop it.

    If ever the progressive phylum needed the reasons to stop someone like us here on this blog and others elsewhere criticising the creed of Allah, the crime the man’s committed has supplied them in spades. From now on, it will be that much easier for the scented elites to impose internet censorship, to curtail the freedom of everyone to express oneself, to ban sites.

    “The first social media terror attack” screams the huge headline on the first page of the DT today, and that’s just the first salvo, the talk is already about the social media platforms being held responsible for content, a new agency to be set up to curb the Internet, the police to be given more powers to go after the ‘hate speech offenders’.

    The DT headline will carry weight with many who are not as involved as we’re here – the apolitical man of the street whose prime concern is having a job, looking after the family, surviving. He may not necessarily back the Internet controls, but he will not oppose them either.

  530. A smallish demonstration in London, hard to say what in favour of or against, some against racism, some in support of the Grenfell Tower victims, some for Labour … It’s a pity Baron cannot post the pictures of the few hundreds who ignored the winds, the cold, braved the police presence (the police were friendlier than the demonstrators, btw).

    It must have been Baron’s attire that compelled some to ignore him, or it was his question. As a joke, Baron said to some holding placards ‘does one have to shoot her to stop her talking”? (It was the females doing the talking, it was impossible to hear what they were saying, but they kept droning on and on before the crowds moved somewhere near Westminster). Most didn’t answer Baron’s question just looked away, some took it what it was supposed to be, a joke, only one bloke shouted at Baron, not in a friendly voice, ‘you should be shot, pig’.

    (The barbarian was waiting for someone, had the time to mingle with the protestors).

    This piece by the good doctor Dalrymple has nothing to do with the demonstration, but it’s worth reading:

    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-will-to-belief/

  531. EC @ March 15th, 2019 – 10:52

    The man certainly doesn’t lack talent, EC, the link is going to get circulated.

  532. Does anyone know the route of the 270-miles walk Nigel has organised? The papers are full of his not walking the distance, the fifty quid fee to join the march, the shambolic start of it, but nobody gives even an indication of how it will move in 13 days down to London.

  534. John birch.
    March 16th, 2019 – 09:02

    I’ve experienced the same thing. The Thought Police are doing everything they can, including using the 403 device, try to prevent us re-reading the whole thing.

    I have managed, today, to find a way round the 403 barrier, but the most reliable way to preserve it seems (to me) to be to print a hard copy of it. With my antiquated equipment I (so far) have got only about a third of it on paper.

  535. John Birch et al. –

    I’ve at last got the entire N.Z. Mosque shooter’s Manifesto printed. I haven’t read all of it, but I read enough of the content while I was printing and collating the pages to say confidently that if all you’ve read of it is a few of the various summaries and quotations from it, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

  537. NZ shooter admires Dylann Roof who killed 9 American Christians for being the wrong type of American Christians.

  538. NZ shooters favourite Englishman is Sir Oswald Mosley (!). He would have probably got on with Nick Griffin (who wanted to nationalise the RNLB).

  539. Radford NG
    March 17th, 2019 – 06:09

    It worked! Interesting to learn that some corners of the Internet seem (at least for now) to be beyond the reach of our Thought Police. I’ve bookmarked “encyclopediadramatica” too.

  540. Baron, March 16th, 2019 – 20:48

    If his motive was to have the manifesto debated in a hope people will back his take on (say) ‘diversity versus unity’, the deed he perpetrated will do the opposite. Not only that we will hear ‘diversity is strength’ ‘more loudly and often, those expressing the opposite view will be banned from social media or worse.

    Absolutely spot on, M’lud.
    It matters not what is in his “manifesto. ”
    Ultimately, all this cerebrally challenged murderous arsehole will have achieved is the confiscation of firearms from the law abiding majority. Chalk up one more country where only the criminals and the agents of government (often very difficult to differentiate between the governing elite and criminals) have weapons, and the citizens are rendered defenceless.

  541. Baron
    It matters not whether 1 or 50 muslims are killed. The ratchet of oppression is turned with every criticism made of migration and every incident which occurs no matter how minor or untrue.
    There is of course no ‘far right’ boogeyman or men. This is a creation of the Government and politicians to pretend there is an equivalence between the British population and the hordes of third world savages they have encourage to invade us. The vast majority of the native population are law abiding, not being trained by their religious beliefs to ignore inferior man-made laws, unlike the followers of another belief system, which claims the literal and unchangeable word of God has been given through an illiterate peodophile and therefore ignores them.

    A vast range of measures are already in place for the control and silencing of the populace in the UK.

    If ennui doesn’t prevent, try AC Grayling’s essay “Liberty in the Age of Terror” and Dominic Raab’s “The Assault on Liberty” for views of the legal entanglements already in place for the scrupulous. And these were enacted before May’s tyrannical, nonsensical Equality and Hate laws were implemented when the tories got back into power.
    For a synopsis of the former try:
    http://amsterdamlawforum.org/article/view/114/206

  543. EC
    March 17th, 2019 – 18:12 and

    Noa
    March 17th, 2019 – 22:11 –

    Agreed. The Great Replacement Manifesto looks – to me – like an insane trinity – a combination of the Koran, Mein Kampf and our very own Establishments – on steroids. It would have excited Pol Pot no end.

  544. EC & Noa:

    Quite.

    The debate is indeed now raging over whether the killer was on the extreme Right or Left. As if that mattered for those in governance, whichever it is, they’re going to clobber us, will go after every opposition to their delusional view that immigration, alot of it in a short space of time, has but a positive impact on the settled society.

    The Australian Senator’s point that it’s immigration, or rather the deep unhappiness of the indigenous population about immigration, which is at the root of the tragedy is attacked viciously in every MSM rag. Why, when before the tsunamis of immigrants from cultures different from ours neither Left no Right atrocities were a part of our daily lives.

    Consider for how long have the two tribes that inhabit this island, that of the English and that of the Scots, lived together under one roof of the Crown. Culturally not identical, but quite close together, inter-marriages have also helped to mix the two, as did the shared history void of any conflict since the Act of Settlement. And yet, in recent years, the Scottish tribe has been getting restless, hopes to establish its own state.

    How long will it take for a culture by far more distant than the Scottish one to settle down? A century, two? When they reach population numbers enabling them to control the House, will they also go for a different system of governance?

    It beggars belief the ruling classes cannot see it. The easy solution would be to curtail overall immigration to a minimum, figure how to gel what we already have in a pragmatic way (say) allowing those already here to re-unite with families, stuff like that, but no new immigration at all. It may not be to everyone’s liking, but it would ease the societal tensions considerably.

    As things are, it’s tricky, but still doable to keep the society at peace with itself, but what if the economic situation worsens after Brexit, which it may (say) growth slows down, unemployment rises, house prices stall or even decline? People will begin to feel poorer, a state of affairs for the unwashed to take to the streets, the angry mob taking over, scenes similar to France’s current unrest happening here, what then?

  545. Herbert Thornton @ March 17th, 2019 – 22:59

    It may have been his intention to emulate Adolf, Herbert, who, as you know, penned his MK whilst in prison, the NZ killer did it before he gets sent down, may be hoping the unwashed will elevate him to power as they did the Austrian corporal. This is very unlikely, but who knows what the future brings if those in power fail to address the genuine concerns of the unwashed about immigration.

    To read his Manifesto may be a waste of time, Baron has no intention to read it, but to suppress it isn’t smart, it would be more effective to dissect it, even to say that if any of the complaints he advances resonate with the unwashed, those in power will try to address them. The creeping censorship is counterproductive, it suggests the ruling classes have things to hide.

    It may have changed, but years ago the Danes didn’t ban the equivalent of the Nazi party in Denmark, they argued, rightly, that it’s better to have the nutters on view than underground. As it happened, the membership of the outfit was numbered in the hundreds, ordinary people wanted nothing to do with them, it was a sensible policy, but not directly transferable here, certainly not in current environment.

  546. Baron
    March 18th, 2019 – 00:54

    I think Mr Manifesto is hanging his hopes on those you call the unwashed, though these days compared with the early 1920s that adjective no longer fits them.

    Apropos that era – around 1933 when I was 3 or 4 years old. My parents were visiting Preston. I was sitting with my Mum in our old Ford that was parked on a street and I saw some other children, not much older than me. They were barefoot and dressed in rags.

    If Brexit comes to pass, and is followed by an economic downturn, I don’t believe it can possibly cause poverty on that level. Less imported champagne yes: rags and semi-starvation, no way.

    If anything will worry the now washed and well clothed lower orders it will be the probable and very dangerous antagonism between them and a large segment of the rapidly breeding elephant in the room – i.e. the Muslim community.

  547. SENATOR FRASER ANNING’S FULL STATEMENT

    New Zealand Mosque Shooting
    Speaking following reports of multiple shootings at two Mosques in New Zealand earlier today, Senator Fraser Anning has responded with strong condemnation.
    ‘I am utterly opposed to any form of violence within our community, and I totally condemn the actions of the gunman,’ he said.
    ‘However, whilst this kind of violent vigilantism can never be justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence.
    ‘As always, left-wing politicians and the media will rush to claim that the causes of today’s shootings lie with gun laws or those who hold nationalist views but this is all cliched nonsense.
    ‘The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.
    ‘Let us be clear, while Muslims may have been the victims today, usually they are the perpetrators. World-wide, Muslims are killing people in the name of their faith on an industrial scale.
    ‘The entire religion of Islam is simply the violent ideology of a sixth century despot masquerading as a religious leader, which justifies endless war against anyone who opposes it and calls for the murder of unbelievers and apostates.
    ‘The truth is that Islam is not like any other faith. It is the religious equivalent of fascism. And just because the followers of this savage belief were not the killers in this instance, does not make them blameless.
    ‘As we read in Matthew 26:52, ‘all they that take the sword, shall perish by the sword’ and those who follow a violent religion that calls on them to murder us, cannot be too surprised when someone takes them at their word and responds in kind,’ Senator Anning concluded.

  548. Noa, March 17th, 2019 – 22:11

    Until today I didn’t realise that Mrs May was a “FreeMan” of the City of London and a member of “The Worshipful Company of Marketers.” She doesn’t advertise that on her Wiki CV!

    From the 2016 vaults, upon her anointment,,,

    “Is Big Mother Worse Than Big Brother?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu63E92FpQg

    What with a these “Worshipful” Livery Companies, Common Purpose and their interaction with politicians and their intersections with the Police, Army, Crony Capitalism and the “Third Sector” ….then it is no wonder that the country is fucked!

    There’s even a “Worshipful Company of Information Technologists” FFS!

    Terry Pratchett didn’t have to make much up, did he…

  551. EC @ March 18th, 2019 – 11:23

    Here’s the BBC own words from the link furnished by you, EC:

    “Until the mosque attacks, New Zealand’s worst mass shooting was in 1990 in the small seaside town of Aramoana on the South Island, in which 13 people were killed.
    That shooting prompted an amendment to the the Arms Act (1983), the main law governing gun use and ownership, restricting the ownership of military-style semi-automatic weapons”.

    One presumes before the 1990 shooting in Araamoana, gun ownership was not restricted, yet no mass shooting had taken place in NZ, it was after the law got tightened up the new mass murder shooting happened few days ago.

    Someone who hasn’t;t yet lost common sense would conclude that neither unrestricted nor restricted gun laws can do little to prevent someone determined to obtain lethal weapons, do harm to many.

    It’s close to virtue signalling to ban guns or restrict them, it may well be that more widespread gun ownership could be the answer, one of the New Zealanders interviewed said he picked his shotgun, confronted the gunman who was re-loading, the gunman dropped the weapon (it’s not mentioned on the tragedy how did they disarm the gunman, the guy with the shotgun may have been instrumental to it, the interview is not widely disseminated because it would point to the backing of a wider ownership of guns).

    Btw, in Russia, one can legally own guns (even for personal protection) from the age of 16, the law is being changed, the age goes up to 18, but there will be exceptions for people living in areas of hunting as a job, it will remain at 16. Amazingly, one would never find any mention of Russian gun laws in our MSM. Why?

  552. I write to advise the House that I have held an initial discussion with John Jefferson Burns, over an exploratory beefburger and standard sized ‘soft drink’.

    Somewhat to my surprise, he turned out to be a Yorkshireman. After a few taciturn minutes of mutual suspicion, we agreed that you don’t get owt for nowt and there’s none so blind as ‘em as won’t see.

    And you can’t say fairer than that.

  555. Andy Car Park – 17:01

    Ecky thump!
    He “stood” you half his burger and soft drink, ‘appen?
    Barnsley-ite or Doncaster-stan?

    Eeh bah gum etc.

  557. EC @ March 18th, 2019 – 22:04

    Impossible to disagree with the great Joseph, EC, unfortunately the Left leaning fruitcakes won’t stop, they don’t listen to people like him.

  558. Noa @ March 18th, 2019 – 17:03

    That’s the great Mark at his best, Noa, writing must be his preferred medium, he absolutely excels at it (Baron has got it early afternoon, he’s on his e-mail list).

  559. John birch. @ March 18th, 2019 – 06:14

    The points made in the statement are supported by the evidence, John, the evidence furnishes the truth, that’s the reason truth no longer matters, we’re indeed in a post-truth world. Can it last?

  560. CGI stands for computer generated images, the barbarian googled SGI (don’t ask why, he cannot explain).

    This cannot be true, the victims are real, the arrested man confessed, the hospitals treated those who survived. There must be an explanation, the authorities should clear this quickly, if they want to prevent conspiracy theories flooding the Net.

  561. If the Speaker keeps to his word, prevents the Government to table the same deal for the third time, his place in history will be assured.

    Democracy should be messy, that what’s differentiates it from autocracy, but this isn’t a mess, it’s anarchy, nobody’s in charge, it’s ad-hoc events and individuals that drive the process.

  562. Herbert Thornton @ March 18th, 2019 – 03:45

    Everything’s relative in this world, Herbert, one had to be hungry, anxious where the next piece of bread will come from, or starving to be classed as poor or destitute before WW2. Today, the poor are people who cannot buy a pair of trainers by Nike, don’t own mobiles, are unable to drink Costa.

    This isn’t overdoing it, on our local TV recently, a mother from a single parent family was pleading poverty when in the background her son was fiddling with a mobile phone. Go figure.

  563. Apologies for, you know what. Baron has few screens open, types and searches the net, too (the speed here is abysmal). Obviously he is just like the former US honcho Ford, he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

  564. Baron
    March 18th, 2019 – 23:41

    Yes, the importance of things to people can be relative – as this memory reminds me. When our son was around 4 years old I wondered if he understood what ‘important’ meant. So I described two circumstances of some sort and asked him which he thought was the more important.

    “Well Daddy, that depends on whether you mean important to you or important to me.” I never ventured to test his comprehension of his language ever again.

    I guess Nikes and Mobiles and Costa are the modern equivalents of the Romans’ bread and circuses – supply the hoi polloi amply with them and their minds stay virtually unconscious of important things like the perilous state of civilisation.

  565. No one here will be surprised by this.
    – – –
    Should MPs vote again on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, it would be anything but delivering on the Brexit vote from two years ago. How would I know? Because I work within the heart of government.
    As a civil servant I can tell you large parts of the Whitehall machine are systematically working against leaving the EU.
    I have met thousands of civil servants in the past few years: I can only recall five who voted for Brexit.
    At first, I thought they were perhaps just staying quiet given the political climate, but my worst fear was confirmed during the high-profile remainer Gina Miller’s successful court case to make sure Parliament has a say on the Brexit outcome.
    When it was announced she had won her case, I witnessed large teams within the Foreign Office break out into cheers and applause. Seriously.
    A quick scroll though the social media accounts of my colleagues and you will find images of them proudly waving ‘Remain’ placards, campaigning for a ‘People’s Vote’, boasting ‘Jez we can’ and of course the usual apocalyptic messages of doom since the Brexit vote. The double-standards are astonishing. If I so much as followed the activities of Nigel Farage, I have no doubt that I would be called in for questioning. I re-call one conversation with a senior member of staff at the Foreign Office who told me she was ashamed when Boris Johnson was appointed Foreign Secretary as he is so “typically British”.
    This department is particularly notorious for its anti-Brexit bias. My experience tells me that there is a genuine hatred of those who voted for Brexit. I recall my first day in the Civil Service as a graduate, being invited to a meeting of senior members of staff who spent the good part of two hours in agreement that the public made a “stupid” decision in the EU referendum.
    On June 24 2016 the mood within the civil service was like someone had died.
    Unfortunately, this bias doesn’t end with snide insults and childish quips. It goes to the root of their day-to-day work and has truly negative impacts on the way we conduct the important tasks ahead of us. I have in fact come across senior staff working on our post-Brexit relationships who openly talk down the prospect of a UK-US FTA and encourage anti-Trump hysteria. Many of them even joined the protests against the President’s visit last year. During his visit it was common to hear jokes about Trump’s assassination from the very people meant to be working with our closest ally. The only thing worse than being pro-Brexit in the Civil Service is being pro-Trump.
    This attitude isn’t confined to their own circles, these views are even being expressed in the presence of foreign ambassadors. In one case during a meeting with a High Commissioner of a close ally, one Civil Servant branded the High Commissioner a “Tory Wanker” in the presence of several foreign diplomats.
    Fortunately the High Commissioner didn’t hear this highly inappropriate comment, but the remark still remained unchallenged from civil service bosses.
    But it doesn’t stop there. There is a strong presence of Anglophobia, combined with cultural Marxism that runs through the civil service. It has meant that many Civil Servants, including myself, have been actively discouraged from co-operating with Think Tanks which are seen as being “too right wing” despite sharing our goal of promoting free trade. This attitude also prevails in our work with our closest allies, particularly in the Commonwealth, where we are afraid to be seen as overly keen to work with countries that are run by “rich white men”.
    Contrary to popular belief, Civil Servants often shape the views of Ministers. This makes the prevalent leftist culture within the Civil Service all the more concerning. These ardent remainer and left wing civil servants are the ones who provide the briefings, select the invites and choose the priorities for Ministers. How did we get to this point? The Civil Service is one of the biggest graduate employers, whilst universities have allowed a leftist culture of political correctness to flourish in recent decades.
    Brexit is the greatest opportunity this country has faced in years, yet our Government machine is currently working from within to frustrate it. This must not go on. In the next phase of the Brexit negotiations it is vital our civil service ceases to allow the massive remain voting bias that has so far helped scupper our post-Brexit future. 

  566. that was from today’s Telegraph there was a similar article in the Sunday times.

  567. Baron March 18th, 2019 – 23:41

    On the subject of the poor, it was the great Rhoda Klapp, the Queen of the Sarf, who once observed in a pre-post conservative Spectator, that if you pay people to be poor, you will get more poor.

  568. Noa – 10:27

    It’s a universal principle.
    eg. Allocation of grants for “research” projects where the next grant is dependant upon finding whatever is being financed. The results are a forgone conclusion.

  572. Baron,23-41.
    Same as food banks, supply free food and you will have lots of customers.
    My leftie handwringing local newspaper is aghast at the demand of our local food bank which apparently proves the existence of huge numbers of people in poverty.
    That’s the same newspaper who did an article about how wonderful all the homeless people were in our town and they were one big happy family who all look after each other. Unfortunately a group of them murdered another one of their happy family in a rather vicious manner and the court case is just ended .
    And today apparently we’ve got an opinion piece and an article about how worried Muslims are and we’ve all got to look after them.

  578. The tragicomedy continues:

    The NZ’s PM wears a headscarf, says she will not mention the name of the killer ever, sends one her underlings to get a clarification from the Turkish tinpot dictator who wants to get into the world market for filled-up coffins as if we didn’t have enough deaths already, in or out of coffins.

    Apparently, they’re thinking in NZ to rename Christchurch, the name’s rather offensive to you know who, here, the EU says they will extend the period of anxiety, but not for too long, just so we cannot participate in the EU election in May, the man with no brain Tusk says the time extension should be a good reason for the May’s deal to be tabled for the 3rd time as if the extension was a substantive change in the conditions outlined in the deal, a prerequisite set up by the narcissistic garden gnome, the speaker …

    Is it a bad dream, boys?

  582. Here’s something that’s bothering the barbarian:

    Few days ago, Baron received a telephone call, a private number, untraceable, the guy was rather threatening, knew about Baron’s eating habits, after a while the barbarian switched the nutter off.

    Tonight, Baron’s mobile’s locked, it cannot be opened either with fingerprint (that works fine, usually), nor with the pin (always works, or rather worked in the past).

    You reckon these two incidents could be related?

    What to do anyway? Asking the shop where Baron bought the phone to unlock the device is impossible, it’s shut, Baron cannot be sure they have the facility to do it. Get the police involved? Rather premature, what would be the complaint, more to the point, the police will not be interested.

    Have you ever experienced anything like that?

  583. EC @ March 20th, 2019 – 22:34

    If the guy’s right, only seven per cent of the public back her, don’t the MPs get the message, defenestrate, defenestrate, defenestrate.

  584. EC @ March 20th, 2019 – 22:12

    Que?

    Aslo, you have any news about Frank? It’s quite worrying he hasn’t said a word for some time, failed to react to Andy’s chat with John even, very unlike him. Is he OK? Do you know?

  586. John birch @ March 19th, 2019 – 17:54

    The donation box at our local Waitrose is always full, John, the barbarian contributed few items the other day, asked the girl who was around, thanked Baron, where does the stuff go, who decides who gets what. She didn’t;t know, but wasn’t keen talking to Baron, disappeared, the barbarian didn’t pursue it any further.

    There may have been something about how the system works in the local paper that Baron missed, but he scans the publication, didn’t;t come across any mention of it.

    The doubt about the whole campaign may not be justified, the food may indeed be helpful to somebody, but why there isn’t more about the criteria of its distribution? The boss says Baron should stop interfering, those in charge know what they are doing, which may be true, but then why not say it?

  587. Herbert Thornton @ March 19th, 2019 – 16:02

    Clicking on your link, Herbert, gets ‘error 404’ message, the barbarian tried yesterday and today (twice in the afternoon, once now before typing the reply). Was the piece a ‘hate speech’ sort of narrative?

  588. John birch @ March 19th, 2019 – 17:54

    Well done over at the Conservative Woman, John, the barbarian did his fair share of upticks, too.

    Why has the Colonel disappeared from there? Is he around?

  591. Baron –
    Now even that one doesn’t work. I suggest – Google “Vancouver Rape Centre transgender”. The absurdity seems to be showing up in various places.

  592. Baron, March 20th, 2019 – 23:08

    To receive a phone call like that with the level of detail that you described would be most disturbing.

    Didn’t Apple get into hot water for switching off phones it detected as having had third party repairs?

    Has your phone been HACKED? You should contact your mobile service provider ASAP.

    In dodgy areas …. eg. London etc.

    Switch WiFi and Bluetooth OFF if you are out in in public… unless you really need to, and then only briefly. (If you need Google Maps then download what is required on to your device before you go out.)

    Also set Airplane mode ON if you do not want to receive calls or texts.

    Good luck.

  593. The one permanent feature of the woman’s premiership has been her utterly poor judgement, it began with her criticising the Donald’s immigration policy is now ending (hopefully) with her blaming the House for not delivering Brexit.

    She could have blamed in her TV address yesterday the complexity of the issue, the shortness of time (hard to disentangle a relationship that has taken decades to build), even Putin, but not one of the phylums that she needs to get the deal through, the MPs.

    How could she ever get elevated to the PM position beggars belief, it suggests that the most pressing issue after Brexit would be the full MOT of our voting system, we have to design it in such a way as to attract the able, not the anencephalous.

  594. EC @ March 21st, 2019 – 13:22

    Thanks, EC, will do as you’re suggesting (have already talked to some who might help, for obvious reasons Baron doesn’t;t want to tell you who).

  595. Herbert Thornton @ March 21st, 2019 – 02:33

    It was the shorter version the barbarian succeeded opening now, Herbert, thanks, you’re quite right, it’s crazy OK, one can understand the need for a shelter for women who get beaten up, but to allow a man who happens to feel he’s a women into that shelter is asking for trouble.

  596. Leaving Tesco the barbarian got bumped into by two police officers running into the shop, they both apologised, Baron said ‘so you’ve finally caught up with me’, to which the male officer said ‘you have to wait, mate, next time’, and kept running.

    You will not be told what happened in the shop, the barbarian wasn’t inquisitive enough to return, but one thing surprised, the weigh of the two officers couldn’t;t have been more that 12 stones including the gear that had strapped on. How could they handle muscular thugs?

  597. Baron

    @14:00 ” anencephalous” Ausgezeichnet!
    So much for your “pooly educated slav/barbarian” schtick though…
    😉

    @14:14 Tazers?

  601. Noa
    March 22nd, 2019 – 01:27

    How true. And the most effective way to dissolve the electorate – in more than one sense of the word ‘dissolve’ – is to encourage the growth of Islam.

  602. Fake News?

    “Special UK armed soldiers in ‘NUCLEAR-PROOF BUNKER’ have been ‘activated’ to prepare for Brexit”

    https://www.rt.com/uk/454443-brexit-nuclear-bunker-doomsday/

    Well that, and the fact that Diesel has shot up 3p a litre this morning has prompted me to stock up on a few essential supplies. One thing that is certain is that BRexit uncertainty, manufactured or not, will be used as an excuse to put prices UP!

    So get your favourite goodies while they are still comparatively cheap, and there’s still some left on the shelves!

    The EU and our own quisling politicians are going to make sure that we are punished. I suspect that the elite will have already moved their money out of £ sterling.

    Make no mistake, it’s WAR!

  603. Noa, March 22nd, 2019 – 01:27

    “It’s easier to dissolve the electorate than the political elite.”

    Why would the elites dissolve the electorate while they can continue to milk to dumb fuckers?

  605. A bear walks into a bar. He carefully looks up and down the bottles and says,

    ‘I’ll have a gin ……………………………. and tonic.’

    The barman says,

    ‘Why the big pause?’

  607. A beaten up horse limps into a bar with a bandage round his head. He orders a bottle of champagne, a large brandy and four pints of Guinness.
    He downs the lot and says to the barman: “I really shouldn’t be drinking this with what I’ve got?”
    “Why, what have you got?”
    “About £2 and a carrot.”

  608. Heisenberg and Schrödinger get pulled over for speeding.
    The cop asks Heisenberg “Do you know how fast you were going?”
    Heisenberg replies, “No, but we know exactly where we are!”
    The officer looks at him confused and says “you were going 108 miles per hour!”
    Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, “Great! Now we’re lost!”

    The officer looks over the car and asks Schrödinger if the two men have anything in the trunk.
    “A cat,” Schrödinger replies.
    The cop opens the trunk and yells “Hey! This cat is dead.”
    Schrödinger angrily replies, “Well he is now.”

  611. Re that Liddle interview, obviously, like Heisenburg’s uncertainty principle, and Schrodinger’s cat, May he hasn”t yet reached “peak wank”.

    Nice work ACW and EC, nice work indeed.

  612. I have decided that the ritual sacrifice and eating of my own young is the only solution, both to a precipitate crash out of the EU and the current inability of England (RU not FC) to play a match lasting more than 40 minutes.
    If that fails to resolve the matter before the World Cup I shall have no choice but to resort to Suttee. subject to my wife’s permission, of course.

  613. Hate to spoil the party, but what H says is bleeding obvious, to measure speed one needs two places regardless the direction the moving thing is heading to, not really that hard tø figure that two places cannot be one place.

    As for the other genius, he’s conflating two things, the state of the cat and our take on it, he should go for one or the other, the cat is either breathing or not, the poor creature cannot be both, our speculating about it is neither here or there.

    Our guessing of his state of being or not is a different matter and applies to not just the cat but everything else we cannot sense by any of the five sensors He or Nature endowed us with (say) vision, smell or whatever. What this really boils down to is who or what runs our mind.

    Now, sorted, no? (only joking).

  614. Mi’lud
    I rather think that you can’t hear the tree falling for the wood.
    And be aware of the bear out there too. 😉

  616. Despite the barbarity of the New Zealand massacre, has anybody felt that New Zealand has been over-reacting? I have in mind the report the a proposal to re-name Christchurch “because the name sounds offensive to Muslims”. It gives me an unpleasant feeling of grovelling. The photograph of a policewoman carrying a machine gun and wearing an Islamic style head covering seems, to me, to have the same character. Why not just rename the entire country “New South Lebanon”?

  619. Muller says no collusion, not enough evidence to charge the Donald with obstruction of justice.

    What do you reckon the Guardian says? That the report doesn’t exonerate the Donald from obstruction of justice.

    That’s journalism in the 21st century, British version of it.

    Here’s a point that goes beyond the squabble that we’re going to be treated to about the report.

    Muller’s a seasoned political operator, he could have skewed the report to please the anti-Donald mob, didn’t. He did leave a small window for the Dems to try and open, that of obstruction justice. That’s it. The window’s likely to stay as shut as he left it, no other investigation can ever reveal more than the massive team of Muller.

    This would suggest Muller may not be certain which of the two parties to the fight will turn up victorious, a rather encouraging sign that the Donald may actually prevail, cleanse the swamp. It wouldn’t surprise if Muller joined the Donald’s team later in a position of power. What a player, one cannot but admire his skills at politicking.

  620. Herbert Thornton @ March 23rd, 2019 – 15:46

    A man who believes Britain would vote to remain in the EU if the Cameron boy were to bring from his chat with the Brussels gnomes deal identical to May’s, and that the Skripals were poisoned by the Russians with Novichok has lost the plot for Baron, Herbert.

    Read some of the postings, not those reminding of Black’s past, the ones addressing his present stance on things, illuminating.

  621. An excellent summary of the Mueller’s investigation, but Tucker still doesn’t get the key motive behind the whole charade. It was the process that did the damage, it prevented the Donald presiding over the country, it turned the people’s attention to something that everyone must have known was utter trash, it also made the Republic look rather silly, how could the 17 security agencies missed something so big that it elevated someone like the Donald to the top spot, it made Putin to be more omnipotent than God.

    And these are the people running the Western world.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQRgYnGcJ0

  622. Apologies about the mistakes, the name of the guy in particular, the bloody software kept changing it, Baron had to type the name in two parts then combine the parts, he didn’t;t bother in the first posting, sorry.

  624. Baron – 00:12

    The process was Trump’s punishment for beating the establishment candidate.

    Having had Sandray, to Mull it over I Canna be confident that this Rum saga has reached its conclusion. After a two year no holds Barra campaign to take the President’s Scalpay the Democrats and the Media have been left with Eigg on their faces. Even though it would be Eriskay 2020 election strategy to continue the collusion delusion I think it is Vatersay that they will persist in throwing Muck in the hope that some of it sticks. Tiree as they may I don’t think it will work anymore. Unless the Democrats develop some actual policies to win in 2020 they will have to get Uist to being in opposition.

    Och aye, the news,
    Ben Becula

  626. Baron at 25 March at 12:10.

    Skimming through this I come upon the name Victoria Nuland ; US Ass.Sec. of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

    She it was who was accused in the coup against the pro-Russian (and anti-EU) government of the Ukraine.

    See *kiev maidan nuland* references on line : especially from the Guardian and BBC.

    Also a lengthy academic report at :

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245

  627. Radford NG @ March 25th, 2019 – 15:49

    You’re a star, Radford, thanks. The barbarian is pushed on time, will devour the report fully, there was never any doubt it was a well planned coup. The investigation who shot the people got going twice, was suspended twice, which is a strong hint who was behind it.

  628. EC @ March 25th, 2019 – 13:22

    You’ve missed your profession, EC, it’s rather enjoyable even though it took some time for the poorly educated Slav to decipher it.

    Here’s a piece of logic that should tell the Dems they’re barking at no tree.

    The US taxpayers is funding seventeen security agencies at a cost of billions. Not one of the agencies raised any serious alarm that the Ruskies were manipulating the electorate, colluding with the Donald’s crew, interfering in the election over and above what any interested foreign government always does when the electioneering was on.

    There can only be two reasons for this inactivity of the combined community of spooks – either they’re not fit for purpose, should be dismantled or at least fundamentally refurbished, or there never was any manipulating of the electorate …

    Baron’s money on the latter.

  632. Baron
    March 26th, 2019 – 14:10

    The off-guardian angle may be skillfully argued, but to my mind the first sentence in this part of it carries no weight at all –

    “Thirdly, and most importantly, they can’t take down one of their own. Trump might be crude, unpredictable, politically incorrect and lacking class…but at the end of the day he’s a billionaire son of a millionaire. He has been mixing with the elites all his life. He’s one of them, and sending down a member of the in crowd for corruption (or anything else) sets too dangerous a precedent. Trump has to be exonerated, it’s simply a matter of the system’s immune response protecting itself. (Not to mention he’s been President of the United States for over two years now, you take him to trial and who knows what he might start saying).”

    I say that because it’s utterly inconsistent with the the example of U.S. justice system’s completely unconscionable treatment of the Conrad, Lord Black.

  634. With the general Chaos and mayhem going on in this country , the violence ,the cybercrime ,the violent thugs whose names are nothing like an English name ,it’s good to see A bit of old-fashioned nostalgic crime taking place.
    A small part of old England still exists in our capital city.
    If they are caught let’s hope their names will be something like Harry, Bert ,Graham , Dave the driller, and Fred the fence.
    It’s enough to make a pint of Watneys red barrel almost drinkable.
    Burglars break into upmarket jewellers in Hatton Garden-style raid

    https://mol.im/a/6854079

  638. John birch, March 27th, 2019 – 06:05

    “It’s enough to make a pint of Watneys red barrel almost drinkable.”

    I was going to attempt a humorous quip about that, but that swill was no laughing matter.

    A fillum that you might enjoy…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Still_Kill_the_Old_Way_(2014_film)

    Not a wonderful effort overall, but containing some most excellent cathartic scenes where the “old boys” dismantle (quite literally) the London sink estate street gang that murdered a retired gangster’s brother.

    A special mention must go to Bosch 18V Hammer Drill/Driver.

  639. Noa, March 27th, 2019 – 13:41

    Thank you, I enjoyed that. I subscribed to Peter Whittle’s YouTube channel after watching his interview with Rod “peak wank” Liddle the other week.

    The title of Robin Aitken’s book led me to wonder if there existed such a thing as a “Noble Lawyer.” Google revealed 100s of them, in a titular sense at any rate.
    😉

    File under: Doolittle & Dally; Messrs Sue, Grabbit & Runne etc.

  640. Q. What did the Lone Ranger say when he crossed the 49th parallel?

    A. Toronto pronto, Tonto.

  644. EC,
    Zombies at the heart of government? no, we’ve got the entire bloody circus, no acrobats and all clowns, and not very funny ones at that. This country now resembles France during the final days of the Ancient Regime and we all know how that ended. I nominate daisy May for the part of Marie Antoinette.

  645. A Wallster went for his annual medical. “Your hearing is getting worse,” said the doc, “and you must cut out drinking, smoking and sex.”

    “What!” the Wallster cried, “just so I can hear better?”

  646. Now that the dreaded vote has been thrown out today, 29th March, for the THIRD time, idiot May wants to bring it back AGAIN next week, for a FOURTH attempt. Is there no limit to this woman’s arrogance? Sod off, you stupid creature, and take your sodding deal with you. I have had quite enough of you, your stupid coat with no sleeves, your stupid deal, your never-ending whining about “supporting your deal” and your idiotic advisors.

    So glad that the DUP stuck to their principles and helped to throw it out.

  648. Apropos Conrad Black’s forecast about Brexit I’m gratified that (so far) his forecast has been accurate…..

  651. Noa – 09:18

    Bwahahaha! Good spot!

    When I saw “Comments are disabled for this video” I thought “Now that’s what I call equality, one can’t get any more inclusive or diverse than that.”

    However, I was left wondering what gender 3-CPO identifies as and what form of address/personal pronoun goes with it. I suppose that referring to C-3PO as a “mandroid” would be enough to get one “sent down” at UCLAN.

  652. From the woodpile
    Today’s “elite” has little in common with the elite of a century past. A good working definition of the new “elite” would be “those who matter to those who think they matter.” In particular, the ethic of genuine public service, understood as a responsibility to provide others with something of real value to them, is largely absent. But they wave their credentials at every opportunity. This is particularly noteworthy in the American political class.

    Consider in this connection the members of “Conservatism, Inc.:” the bastion of “NeverTrump” pseudo-conservatives such as Bill Kristol and Max Boot. To such persons, the all-important priority is to maintain their status in the “elite.” Regardless of the height of their perches or the bluster with which they orate from them, the majority of them have little of value to offer anyone. But they can brandish all the best credentials: all the right associations and associates. “They matter to those who think they matter.”

    Merit is not a term I would associate with such persons. Certified “elitists,” yes; persons with important knowledge and insights they will share with others, no. The time has come for this recognition to emerge from our national subconscious and be made explicit.

  656. John Birch,
    John, this is not what we get when we embrace diversity, this is what we get when it is rammed down our throats by a metropolitan elite who will never have to live with the consequences of their arrogant re-ordering of society. However I think the hour of their comeuppance is fast approaching and 17.4 million people will make their feelings abundantly clear.

  657. Christchurch Murders: The Real Accomplices.
    -/-/-
    gatestoneinstitute.org/13984/christchurch-murders-accomplices

  660. John birch
    April 2nd, 2019 – 14:04

    Thanks for drawing attention to that. The material that Gatestone publishes generally deserves respect and the article you cite (“Christchurch-murders-accomplices”) certainly does.

    However, I find it impossible to feel similar respect for Gatestone’s criticism of the Chinese Government for it’s rational and praiseworthy determination to deal with the grave menace of Islam.

  661. No Brexit, No Peace. Do these idiots think we’re going anywhere? After years of lies the poll numbers remained unchanged. Even if May gets her surrender agreement through parliament they will achieve nothing. We will fight until we win independence:
    https://bit.ly/2uKrdwx

  662. Thursday 4 April 2019

    Newport West Bi-election . Betting :-

    Labour 1/10
    Ukip * 8/1
    Cons. 10/1
    Others 100/1

    * UKIP candidate: Neil Hamilton ;member of Welsh Assembly.

  667. Newport West bi-election.

    Turn Out 37.1%

    Labour 9,308 40% (-13%)
    Cons….7,357 31% (-8%)
    UKIP….2,023 9% ..(+6%)

  668. Radford NG 4.11

    We’re doomed, without doubt the results of this ‘election’ prove it.
    Betrayed by the blue donkey over 7300 whipped curs still voted to have their noses rammed in the fundamental product of May’s most regularly productive orifice.
    In the meantime 9308 hideously deranged cretins voted for their continued residence on Animal farm expanding Europe wide.

  669. As Jeremy pursues his love fest with Theresa.

    Labour Pains
    Brexit has broken water
    but despite reaching the
    gestation period, it appears to
    be in breach of contradictions
    and most likely the solution
    will be a Caesarian Section,
    which, at this late stage is a
    high risk gamble that could
    see the defoetus in a Corbyn.

  670. As the wall drones on.

    Jan 28
    January Neverending.
    As brutal as a desert drought!
    Baren lands, hungry crops and starving mouths.
    31 days seems like 62.
    Or 93 or 124
    A neverending nightmare.
    It is a marauding scavenger.
    Devouring all that cross its path.

    It starts off good with a lot of hope.
    Before reality dawns and the struggle begins.
    Each new day we limp forward

  671. EC‭
    ‬March‭ ‬29th,‭ ‬2019‭ ‬-‭ ‬10:20

    “Thousands of EU Troops Arrive in UK for‭ ‘‬Major Exercise‭’ ‬Day After Brexit‭”
    https://newspunch.com/thousands-eu-troops-arrive-uk-major-exercise-after-brexit/
    ”

    That URL certainly sounds sinister, but has there been any more news of this military exercise? Could there possibly be there some connection between it, May and Corbyn? Is it part of a plot to both intimidate the population and actually intervene should there be outbreaks of violence should Brexit be thwarted?

    My impression of May and Corbyn – not to mention the E.U.’s fascist government – is that they will stop at nothing to shove a fake Brexit down the U.K. population’s throats.

  673. “Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has written to all MPs to urge them to seek help from Westminster’s mental health services, including a confidential 24 hour counselling phone line, while Education Committee chair and former Tory minister Rob Halfon observes that, “People are behaving in ways that were unimaginable even just a year ago, whether they be remainers, leavers or in-betweens. The Brexit madness has affected us all”.

    The lack of sympathy from the real world is almost palpable, especially as the collective has variously tried to vote a no-deal out of existence and to instruct the prime minister to secure an Article 50 extension that doesn’t lie within her gift.

    Yet, even the Financial Times is getting in on this act, reporting that MPs have said the Brexit gridlock in parliament has left UK politicians “visibly struggling” as concern grows they are too “mentally exhausted” to make vital decisions affecting the nation’s future.
    Arguably, it is not the exhaustion, mental or otherwise, that has affected their decision-making capabilities, but their incompetence compounded by ignorance. People who have not taken the time out to acquaint themselves with the basics were always going to struggle when they were confronted with real-life issues.
    Nevertheless, Phillip Lee, a Conservative MP and practising GP who last year resigned as minister to campaign against Brexit, said he has concerns for those “visibly struggling” – in some cases with anxiety and depression. “There are MPs who have snapped in what has become a pressure cooker environment”, he says. “You’ve seen tears, anger and arguments between colleagues, most of whom are simply exhausted”.
    Never mind, of course, those thousands of businesses which are struggling to make plans for the future, and the hundreds of thousands of individuals who have had their lives blighted by uncertainty and indecision. We must extend our sympathies to the bleeding heart MPs, to whom we all owe so much.
    But, if they think they have it tough now, wait until they go out canvassing during the next general election campaign. If Ruth Jones’s experience is anything to go by, it won’t be mental health counselling they need, but police protection.”

    http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87198

  674. Herbert Thornton,

    It is a great pity that the votes in the EU referendum were not counted at the 650 Westminster parliamentary constituencies level, and that the results were not legally binding on their MPs. According to the latest published findings by Prof. Christopher Henretty (Royal Holloway, London) the result would have been 401/650 in favour of LEAVE.

    This would have allowed MPs significantly less wiggle room and we might have been spared some of their weasel words about “parliament must be sovereign” etc. Cutting through that crap, it is the electorate that is sovereign and they only lend elected MPs. that sovereignty in between general elections. I wish someone would ask one of these ‘tards to describe in what way parliament has remained sovereign under the EU, particularly since Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon treaty without any vote in the HoC. The Lisbon treaty was the final nail in the UK’s coffin as far as the UK’s national sovereignty was concerned.

    It’s funny how the Con/Lab/Libdem cabal favour FPTP voting in order to lock other parties out of obtaining seats in the HoC, isn’t it…

  675. EC, April 8th, 2019 – 10:53

    “Herebert Thornton”

    Apologies for the typo, Herbert. Although I do think that “Herebert” has a nice ring to it. A fusion of Hereward and Albert, perhaps?

    As ever, e&oe 🙂

  676. Noa, April 8th, 2019 – 11:31

    Wonderful! That cheered me up no end.
    However, I am informed by somebody who used to take a professional interest in such matters, that the HoC contains a greater percentage of psychopaths than the population as a whole. These people will be showing no emotion at all.

    Should we “Pity The Poor Strugglers” drinking on Pierrepoint’s “Last Drop Ale?” The Heirs of Vidkun Quisling in the HoC will get no pity from me. If it comes to that, then maybe a round of applause as the trapdoor opens.

  677. “Comedian John Bishop has sold his mansion to HS2 for £6.8m”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47845861

    He’s just trousered a £4.5 million profit, reportedly. Yup, this man of the people, Scouser Scourge of the Tory Scum” etc. is a Remainer too.

    Who’da thunk it, eh….

    File under: How much does the BBC pay these people in the first place?

  679. On Badajoz Day the present CinC chose to publically issue a ludicrous video in which he carpeted the whole of the British Army . It was made worse as nobody knew what he was talking about.It doesn’t appear to be about the Corbyn item but about an incident in which five drunken soldiers entered the femail quarters at night and ran away when one of the women screamed.

    While some have praised him there has been a great deal of mockery.

    I’m not going to trouble to give references but look it up on `youtube` and `twitter` at *army CGS* & *Chief of the General Staff*&*General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith*.

  682. 9th of April (1865) : Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia.

    Pity poor Wilmer McLean. The American Civil War began in his front garden at Manassas and ended in his front parlour at Appomattox.

    See below.

  684. From the woodpile.
    From Paul Roberts at Institute for Political Economy

    Why does a government unwilling to defend its borders spend $1,000 billion annually on defense?

  685. John birch – 06:16

    Yes, that budget makes the rinky dink $5 billion that the POTUS wants for the southern border wall look like Trump Change!

    It seems, though, that the crafty Donald is transferring money from other departmental budgets to cover a shortfall in another one. i.e. the DHS.
    A standard accounting practice, particularly near the end of a financial year?

  687. Spectator blows the gaff on David Attenborough’s TV Documentary `One Planet`on Netflicks (which is part owned by George Soros).To think there are those abandoning the BBC Licence to give their money to Soros.

    The story is that because of global warming walruses have been driven in land and,being shortsighted have fallen of cliffs and died.

    It turns out this is nature red in fang and claw. Polar Bears have rounded up these walruses ,driven them of cliffs and feasted on the remains.

    The Spectator Points out this series is co produced by the World Wildlife Fund so is an eight part fund raiser.

    Here is an original article from the Siberian Times.

    http://www.siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/village-besieged-by-polar-bears-as hundreds-of-terrorised-walruses-fall-38-metres=to=their-deaths/

  688. Spectator blows the gaff on David Attenborough’s TV Documentary `One Planet`on Netflicks (which is part owned by George Soros).To think there are those abandoning the BBC Licence to give their money to Soros.

    The story is that because of global warming walruses have been driven in land and,being shortsighted have fallen of cliffs and died.

    It turns out this is nature red in fang and claw. Polar Bears have rounded up these walruses ,driven them of cliffs and feasted on the remains.

    The Spectator Points out this series is co produced by the World Wildlife Fund so is an eight part fund raiser.

    Here is an original article from the Siberian Times.

    http://www.siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/village-besieged-by-polar-bears-as- hundreds-of-terrorised-walruses-fall-38-metres=to=their-deaths/

  689. Spectator blows the gaff on David Attenborough’s TV Documentary `One Planet`on Netflicks (which is part owned by George Soros).To think there are those abandoning the BBC Licence to give their money to Soros.

    The story is that because of global warming walruses have been driven in land and,being shortsighted have fallen of cliffs and died.

    It turns out this is nature red in fang and claw. Polar Bears have rounded up these walruses ,driven them of cliffs and feasted on the remains.

    The Spectator Points out this series is co produced by the World Wildlife Fund so is an eight part fund raiser.

    Here is an original article from the Siberian Times.

    http://www.siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/village-besieged-by-polar-bears-as- hundreds-of-terrorised-walruses-fall-38-metres-to-their-deaths/

  695. Roger Scruton wrote on his dismissal in the Spectator.

    “I recently gave an interview to the New Statesman, on the assumption that, as the magazine’s former wine critic I would be treated with respect, and that the journalist, George Eaton, was sincere in wanting to talk to me about my intellectual life. Not for the first time I am forced to acknowledge what a mistake it is to address young leftists as though they were responsible human beings. Here is my brief response to an unscrupulous collection of out of context remarks, some of them merely words designed to accuse me of thought-crimes, and to persuade the government that I am not fit to be chairman of the commission recently entrusted to me.

    Eaton repeats the libel, uttered under Parliamentary privilege originally, that I believe in some kind of Jewish conspiracy theory. Here is what I said in the speech (discussing the idea of the Nation State, and delivered to the Hungarian Academy) in which the relevant words occurred:

    ‘The Jewish minority (here in Hungary) that survived the Nazi occupation suffered further persecution under the communists, but nevertheless is active in making its presence known. Many of the Budapest intelligentsia are Jewish, and form part of the extensive networks around the Soros Empire. People in these networks include many who are rightly suspicious of nationalism, regard nationalism as the major cause of the tragedy of Central Europe in the 20th century, and do not distinguish nationalism from the kind of national loyalty that I have defended in this talk. Moreover, as the world knows, indigenous anti-Semitism still plays a part in Hungarian society and politics, and presents an obstacle to the emergence of a shared national loyalty among ethnic Hungarians and Jews.’
    In retrospect I could have chosen the words more carefully. But my purpose was to point out that anti-Semitism has become an issue in Hungary, and an obstacle to a shared national identity. As for the Soros Empire, I am the only person I know who has actually tried to persuade Viktor Orbán to accept its presence, and that of the Central European University in particular, in Hungary. I did not succeed, but that is another matter. I should add that I am neither a friend nor an enemy of Orbán, but know him from the days when I helped him and his colleagues to set up a free university under the communists. What Orbán did then was the first step towards the liberation of his country, and George Soros was one of those who helped him too. It is sad for Hungary that the two have fallen out, and that the old spectre of anti-Semitism has been reborn from their clash. Given their two aggressive personalities, however, it is hardly surprising.

    Then there is Islamophobia. It seems that by questioning this word and pointing to its origin in the Muslim Brotherhood’s propaganda campaigns I am somehow showing myself to be guilty of the offence that it describes. I deplore the current use of this word, since it implies that there is some peculiar and irrational state of mind from which all objections to Islam proceed. I myself distinguish Islam, as a faith and a way of life, from the radicals who commit crimes in its name. I have a respect and tenderness towards the first of those, and a hatred of the second. But it is increasingly difficult, with the current abuse of language, to make this point, or to encourage Muslims to make it too.

    I think of ‘homophobia’ as a similar word, designed to close all debate about a matter in which only one view is now deemed permissible. Apparently I once wrote that homosexuality is ‘not normal’, but nobody has told me where, or why that is a particularly offensive thing to say. Red hair too is not normal, nor is decency among left-wing journalists. In Sexual Desire (1986), I argued that homosexuality is different from heterosexuality, but not in itself a perversion. And I tried to explain the negative response that many people have towards homosexual relations in other terms.

    Finally, my comments on China: I was describing the attempt of the Chinese Communist Party to achieve conformity of behaviour in everything that might threaten its comprehensive political control, and I think it is fair to describe this as an attempt to robotise the Chinese people. The Communist Party expects each person to replicate the behavioural code, not questioning its authority and finding safety in imitation. Many people see the threat of this in the attitude of Beijing towards Hong Kong. Far more important, to my mind, is the internment of a million or more Uighur Muslims, in order to clean their minds of the dangerous God idea and re-programme them with the Party idea instead. If we are not allowed to criticise this as the robotising of the victims, then what are we allowed to criticise and how?

    We in Britain are entering a dangerous social condition in which the direct expression of opinions that conflict – or merely seem to conflict – with a narrow set of orthodoxies is instantly punished by a band of self-appointed vigilantes. We are being cowed into abject conformity around a dubious set of official doctrines and told to adopt a world view that we cannot examine for fear of being publicly humiliated by the censors. This world view might lead to a new and liberated social order; or it might lead to the social and spiritual destruction of our country. How shall we know, if we are too afraid to discuss it?”

  698. EC
    An earlier Spectator article by Douglas Murray, excellently defending Scruton, has a telling photo of the comrade Gobshite Eaton celebrating the sacking he achieved by swigging from a bottle of champers, truly a shampaign socialist.

  699. “Stephen K. Bannon Hammers China in Hokkaido Japan”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2wdwZxk17o

    SKB starts at : 11min 30 sec

    Where is Malfleur? (PBUH?)
    Where is Baron?
    Colonel Mustard? He’s still available on Guido etc. but doesn’t give us the the time of day here. “Why hast thou forsaken us?”

    Aaargh, I feel Penn Jilette style Tourette’s attack coming on….

  702. Salisbury’s the best town to live in (according to the ST the barbarian got free of charge as he stepped into the arrival hall of an airport on Sunday evening).

    Of course it is provided one isn’t a Russian double agent (or his daughter), one avoids the community of spooks living in the town or nearby, and one doesn’t mind the occasional charade of public poisoning with a nerve agent of Russian origin that kills millions instantly (or not).

  703. Radford NG @ April 14th, 2019 – 18:32

    Is it supposed to impress, Radford? A membership of 28,000 in an electorate of what? 30mn plus?

    The barbarian isn’t up to speed with current events (may never get into the top gear anyway), but the fragmentation of the oppositional vote must be good news for the two stale, monochromatic, hard-to-tell-the-difference monstrosities of Labour and the Tories. If only they were to combine.

  704. EC @ April 11th, 2019 – 18:12

    Our ranks have been thinning since Verity gave up, EC, soon it will be just you.

  705. Noa @ April 11th, 2019 – 17:10

    Well put by the man who got kicked way back when feminism began to bite, Noa, who seems to be at the receiving end of more kicks now. The barbarian doesn’t endorse all of Scruton’s ideas (he was a friend with the Czech President Havel, that counts against him a lot), but he’s right on each of the points he covers except for saying that ‘this world view (the progressives’ view that silences every dissent, demands a full submission) might lead to a new and liberated social order’. It will not, it will end up either in a societal convulsion, or a tyranny not that dissimilar to what the Red Menace installed in the East.

  706. EC @ April 10th, 2019 – 22:51

    His mentioning the state of the US Government balance sheet when the Donald took office is the scaring thing, EC, at some point this is going to furnish something much bigger than the financial collapse avoided in 2008, it will bury us all.

    What they did eleven years ago wasn’t;t a solution, it was a patching up of a festering boil that’s got bigger since, it’s incurable, it can only be for rid of if the system of more than finances implodes.

    It’s just that the debt everyone talks about is owned by someone, it’s someone’s money, savings, a nest egg for the future, a deferred consumption that will have be be cancelled, written off, missed. One cannot but pity the generations to come.

  714. Notre-Dame.Fire has spread through the Nave and all the interior appears to have been destroyed .

  716. Radford NG @ April 15th, 2019 – 23:52

    Nobody can enter the cathedral until Friday, that was the latest on the news this afternoon, but the authorities already know it was an accident.

    And then they’re surprised people come up with conspiracy theories.

  719. EC @ April 16th, 2019 – 22:29

    An excellent expose of the fake news peddlers, EC, the barbarian has seen it before, the question is why they can get away with it, even more to the point, why many believe them if they accuse the likes of the great Joseph of disseminating fake news?

    Is there a tool one can use to expose them?

  721. Andy Car Park

    Are you or are you not a member of the Order Of The Peacock Angel?

    I’m sure that, if you could manage it, we would almost all appreciate a YouTube video of the brothers and sisters busting a few moves at your next gathering.

    File under: London Livery etc.

  722. Haspel, the top honcho at the CIA, showed fake pictures of sick children and dead ducks to convince the Donald to sanction Russia for the poisoning of the Skripals.

    Leaving aside the fact of a female running a nasty outfit that can and does kill, what should one make of a policy based on lies? What if the Russians were to lob few missiles here and there, the Americans were to reply in kind, all because of the expulsion of diplomats based on fake evidence?

    They are playing with fire when they shouldn’t;t be allowed anywhere near a box of matches.

    https://www.moonofalabama.org

  723. Europe, slding into dictatorship.

    Newsletter – Foreign and Domestic Enemies

    (Own report) – Nebulous warnings from anonymous intelligence officials are sustaining Brussels and Berlin’s campaign against alleged Russian interference in the European election campaign. German flagship media are quoting intelligence officials saying that “efforts” are being made “to support Russia-friendly or EU-critical parties.” Presenting no evidence, they claim instead that, in this case, Russian activities are “less visible” than in other cases. The EU has increased its staff and means for its “EU East Stratcom Taskforce,” claiming to reveal “pro-Kremlin” propaganda, while openly making propaganda for the European Union. With an annual budget of five million euros, the Taskforce is propagating fake news. To such allegations about Russia’s “hybrid war, ” advanced, for example, by a US specialist on Russia in an article on the so-called “Gerasimov doctrine,” German military officials respond “they are not doing anything different from us.” Playing on anti-Russian sentiment, Berlin is increasingly attacking not only the foreign enemy, but also the domestic opposition – as alleged puppets of Moscow.

    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/7919/

  724. This dis-united kingdom:the home of a festering, political rat class which busily reforming the legal status of its lumpenproletariat from voter to cretin class, in order to ensure the silencingof all debate and opposition to it.
    Surely even the EU should be grateful that this spineless, thought policed state wants to leave and no longer corrupt the ideological purity of the greater Franc0-German sphere.

    http://www.salisburyreview.com/articles/anathema-the-two-minute-hate/

  725. Re EC @ 10.54

    I’d be very careful about how you answer that question, Mr Car Park.

    If you are indeed a fully paid up Yazidi you may soon find a newly released Shemima Chewingum frog marching you by the jezebels to the slave markets in Tower Hamlets.

  726. @Noa 15th – 12:20

    Surely “liberal bien-pensant” is yet another of those unconscious oxymorons?

  727. “…ideological purity of the greater Franc0-German sphere.”

    Mm,

    “…ideological purity of the greater German empire.”

    There, fixed!

  729. EC 16.53

    Monnet and Schuman, as coolaborateurs in La Grande Submission, as well as Pierre Laval, might take exception to your writing of histoire as all German conquest and no surrender.

  731. Noa, April 17th, 2019 – 20:52

    Yerrrs, but this time out the Krauts appear to have, for the time being at any rate, conquered the whole of Europe without firing a single bullet.

    I don’t think that the Ruskies are forgiving or forgetting quite so easily judging by this 70th anniversary bumper sticker…

    https://snag.gy/pOgq3n.jpg

    I defer to Baron for the correct translation of the accompanying text.

  732. EC
    April 18th, 2019 – 13:23

    I too defer to Baron, but for the time being I suggest “Russia’s quite capable of doing it again.”

  733. EC April 18th, 2019 – 13:23

    It’s not so much the Germans or the Russians that engage in congress, but the various nations in between them who get screwed.
    From Britain’s perspective the more useful ally has always been Russia, but our foreign policy is, as Nancy Pelosi tells us, what suits Uncle Samuel.

  734. You get it right, Herbert, the picture says it, too, a freer translation would be ‘we could oblige once more’, abit too macho and smelling of overconfidence for Baron’s taste, if it came to blows the blows grew to include nukes, the obliging would mean the end of life as we know it for both sides, Baron reckons.

  735. The one thing puzzles on the M’s report, the barbarian has said it before, nobody noticed.

    M is a skilful operator, a Washington old timer, also shrewd, he could have skewed the report towards what the Dem’s wished he would deliver, the basis for an impeachment, he didn’t. He couldn’t exonerate the Donald fully, that would be a a sin beyond comprehension. Nothing much was made of the meetings with the Russians, but then every party in the presidential fight must have talked to foreigner representatives, agents, lobbyists, there was nothing unusual about it, the Clinton woman’s team had meetings with the Russians, too.

    In the report he leaves a small bone for the Dems to chew on, that of obstruction of justice, but since there’s little to obstruct ie there was no collusion, this doesn’t furnish enough to impeach. This will not stop the MSM poodles from barking, but dogs bark because they are scared, not because they feel strong.

    The point is Mueller may feel the Donald could come up tops, and since he doesn’t want to retire yet, he felt it would be wise to find ‘not enough evidence for a collusion’.
    It wouldn’t surprise if he, Mueller, didn’t join the Donald’s team in one capacity or other in the future.

  736. Hey Baron,

    Here’s a heartwarming story that reveals the underlying attitude EU’s elite have toward the untermenschen in its outlying vassal states like the Czech Republic.
    eg. The fish fingers in Berlin are fishier than those in Prague etc.

    “Czech fury as EU fails to ban ‘dual quality’ products across Europe”
    https://www.rt.com/news/456948-eu-dual-products-ban-czech/

  737. Radford NG @ April 17th, 2019 – 21:55

    Rather serendipitous of you, Radford, to find the link, the man standing in front of the Cathedral, when the place of worship caught fire.

    They haven’t yet blamed the Russians for it, but give them time ….

  738. EC @ April 18th, 2019 – 21:59

    Thanks for the link, EC, the issue has been debated for years, the companies (mostly German) claim it’s because of taste they alter the content, the Czechs complain that the change is always for ingredients that are cheaper. It’s hard to figure who’s right, people in the little Republic don’t have to shop in places owned by the Germans, they do because it’s chains, their pricing’s lower than what a round-the-corner shopkeeper charges.

    If one drinks Costa, the difference in the coffee grade is very noticeable, the Czech cup tastes more bitter than what one gets here, the prices are the same at the current exchange rate. Amazingly, British and US expats like the Czech served Costa beans more than what they get at home.

    One middle age woman from the Republic (staying in the same building as Baron) believes the bitter taste is the right taste. She has relocated to the small Republic forever because she couldn’t afford a health insurance at home, she, a single mother, has a disabled child, the cost of insuring him was too prohibitive for her after Obamacare got cancelled, she blames the Donald, who else, thinks the madhouse inhabitants have taken over the Republic, fears worse to come.

  739. Noa, April 17th, 2019 – 12:27

    I’m beginning to wonder if Andy Car Park’s chum, Dmitri, has fallen into the vice like clutches of “The Castrators of Russia.” i.e. The Skoptsy sect. Dmitri’s avatar, he of the hat with the furry flaps, always did look a bit suspect.

    It never ceases to amaze me just what lengths, or rather lack of them, some humans will go to in the name of religion…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy

    This mania can surely only come upon them after they’ve reproduced, otherwise they would have died out? The dreaded Vulcan “Pong farr” ain’t got nuttin on this!

  740. This is long, some 40 minutes, but it presents the Assange rape accusations quite differently from what is being said in the MSM.

    https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/sex-lies-and-julian-assange/4156420

    The barbarian has never been a fan of the blonde or the transdanger person who fed him the stolen files, the publication of the evidence changed little, virtually everyone with brains knew it already, the Americans can get away with murder, no laws apply to them, they are the law.

    It will be interesting to see whether the British judges are as willing to bend to US demands as have been the authorities in Sweden, Assange has broken no laws here, he should be free.

  741. Nancy Pelosi (speaker US Federal `House` [Dem.-California]) comes here stirring up trouble over Ireland and Brexit.Visits Donegal border with other Americans.Riots start tonight in Creggan (Londonderry);young woman shot dead ;apparently innocent bystander.

    Continuing talk about the Good Friday Agreement. There was no Good Friday Agreement. It was the Belfast Agreement . The Provos invented the name Good Friday Agreement as agitprop;and it was promoted by Allester Campbell.

  742. Radford NG – 02:04

    Yes, Pelosi, aka Skeletor, has blood on her hands this morning.

    Happy Easter uprising weekend? I’m afraid that warmish, long spring/summer evenings combined with the absence of torrential rain is usually a recipe for disaster during the various NI sectarian “marching” weekends.

  743. Notre Dame:

    Electrical short circuit?

    “Investigators believe that an electrical short-circuit likely caused the fire that partially destroyed Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, a French official has said. An earlier investigation too found no evidence of foul play.”

    This above statement is pure BS. (Alarums: “think”, “believe”, “likely” etc.)

    I’d be more interested if “they” could point to ANY actual EVIDENCE that there was an electrical short circuit.

    Will the real Herostratus please stand up!

  744. EC
    The ideological cringe of self harm, as popularised by the Cameroons, if not self mutilation, is a national, indeed an international practice these days.
    Thank the Lord I is black and can enjoy the unexpected delight of watching whitey wipe hi’self out by embracing buggery and emasculation.
    If you live in Neasdon, as the song might have gone, if da neighbour doesn’t get you with the kitchen knife, your mama probably will!

  746. EC April 19th, 2019 – 09:39

    There’s no way of finding what you don’t want to discover.

    Equally, as Josef showed down at the Reichstag, you can always find what you do want.

    Now, can you me pass down those “Protocols of the Elders…” when you’ve finished with them please, Mustafa…?”

  750. Noa – 01:38

    After being at the forefront of the “struggle for civilisation” debate, along with Mark Steyn, in the 90’s and 00’s Mr. Pipes then rather disappointingly ducked under the parapet, left the building so to speak. He went missing. Thats my impression, and if i’m mistaken then I’m certain that you will correct me.

  752. EC
    Like the Rev Peter Mullen your knowledge of the author is greater than mine.
    I merely drew attention to an article that Wallsters might find interesting rather than a deplorable who had fallen by the wayside.
    As its Easter he may redeemed….

  753. Gay transgender man tells his story of giving birth

    https://mol.im/a/6943105

    And it gets worse.

    * Freddy McConnell, 30, is a gay transgender man who gave birth to a baby boy
    * A film of his experience of pregnancy will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
    * His mother described her fears for her son as he embarked on the

  754. Only for those interested in events east of Germany, Ukraine is having a second round of Presidential elections, the challenger, a young Jewish comedian, is leading the race with well over 70% of the vote.

    Nobody’s quite certain what the new man stands for, he won mostly because the incumbent is more corrupt that not just any of the Presidents the country has had since its independence, but more than all of them combined. He could and did get away with it because the Americans chose him, funded his election, backed him in any corrupt venture he’s indulged in.

    The latest scandal involved a number of companies, in which he or his family, friends had a stake, headed by one he owns himself. The companies were buying spare parts for military gear like tanks, howitzers, the heavy stuff from Russia, then selling the parts through a chain of sister companies, each boosting the price. Some of the parts got sold to the Ukrainian Army for prices six times those they paid the Russian suppliers. Truly unbelievable. You can imagine how well did that go with the families of young boys serving in the east of the country fighting the insurgency there, and not just the military families, but everyone.

    Commenting on the today’s results (they are embargoed until 20.00 hours local Ukrainian time) one blogger said: Well done, Poroshenko, you’ve managed to unite the country, unfortunately against yourself’.

    Still, it will take time too the new man to settle in (he won’t be sworn in immediately, will take office in a month time) provided Poroshenko, that’s the man on the way out, doesn’t engineer something that would prevent Zelensky, the new man, from taking over (there’s one legal action already in the pipeline).

    The case of Ukraine shows the Americans cannot have it all, when the plebs have had enough not even the abundance of dollars helps.

  755. John birch @ April 20th, 2019 – 22:17

    The most tragic aspect of this is the child, John. Where are the agencies charged with looking after children’s welfare? What sort of life could the child have? The loony may be happy, but surely there should be someone taking the case on behalf of the child, no?

  756. EC @ April 20th, 2019 – 20:53

    In every society one finds perverts of one sort or another, EC, it must have been thus in the past, too, but the incidents of bizarre, tragically grotesque, near unbelievable perversity one finds in contemporary Republic beats it all hands down. The society must be fatally and irrevocably sick, nothing the Donald can do, Baron reckons.

  757. Noa @ April 20th, 2019 – 01:38

    Could be that Nigel’s Brexit will add the UK to the list, Noa?

    Also, well done coming to the S’s site, commenting, hitting the wankers hard. Other Wallsters should do the same.

  758. Baron

    If Macron can form a successful political party then so perhaps, can Farage.
    I suspect that the Brexit party will splinter the conservative vote in the event of an EU election and due to its single purpose of leaving the EU, serve to preserve the tories in Parliament.

  764. Radford NG @ April 21st, 2019 – 21:42

    Seconded, Radford.

    Could she beat Vera? One hopes she does. The fear the barbarian harbours is that when she passes away the country will morph into an even bigger parody of her glorious past – all talk, no walk. More so if we don’t fully decouple from the Brussels sprouts.

  765. Radford NG @ April 21st, 2019 – 22:18

    The desire to kill each other must be in the Irish gene, Radford, will they ever stop?

  766. What happened to the Fergus’s muse team, not one of the nine has addressed the Notre Dame fire, what a missed opportunity.

  768. London life is so exciting these days. Just a hundred yards fro my front door someone was murdered yesterday, the road all roped off. I do not know what happened yet but when I do I’ll let you all into the secret. What struck me was the fact that I was not surprised or shocked, there was I time, not so long ago that a murder hit the headlines, now we merely shrug and carry on, a damning indictment of the standards which have been imported into our country.

  769. Mayor of London ,Sadiq Khan , causes anger and resentment with his tweeted Easter Message.He declared :”London’s Christian community make an important contribution to our city “.

    Typical of the response is : ” We do not make a contribution . WE are this country “.

  771. Easter protests:

    Our man on the ground in Central London showing us all the sights, and suffering the smells… so you don’t have to! An interesting perspective on how those born yesterday are being cynically manipulated by Greenpeace and, to use the modern parlance, other “bad actors.”

    “London Blackmailed By New Age Death Cult”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX-ALc2xFgM

  772. Re: “Bad actors.”

    No reference to jet setting eco luvvie Emma Thompson intended. I thought that was quite good in “Tutti Frutti” although I haven’t seen her in anything else since then.

  773. Today: St Georges Day (although the C of E is being penickety because of Easter and claiming it should be on the 29th April).

    Also : Shakespear’s birth day (1564) :also day he died in 1616.

  774. You may wish to point out to the idiot brigade who say St George wasn’t English that Andrew wasn’t Scots; David wasn’t Welsh:& Patrick wasn’t Irish.

    In the Lord Jesus there is no English,Scots,Welsh,Irish: nor slave nor free.

  775. Rather odd.Late last even saw on the premises a large stone.Looking closer it turned round and moved along : a hedgehog.

    Odd because this is an urban site,500 ft above sea level,although there are lots of green spaces ;but it doesn’t seem easy of access for hedgehogs.

    Have from time to time seen a fox going down the driveway; and grey squirrels nearby.

  776. In respect of St George : all these images of Knights with a Red Cross surcoat on crusade are products of Victorian Romantic artists.

    Crusaders wore black on white or white on black surcoats if they were members of military Orders.

    It was during the time of Henry V that the English army took up with St George in a big way.

    The Red Cross image had long been associated by artists with the Virgin Mary; and in those times she was especially venerated in England; which was known as `Sweet Mary’s Dower`.

  777. Radford NG @ April 23rd, 2019 – 23:54

    You, Radford, are the only one to mention the bard’s birthday (and the day of his death under a new calendar), not one MSM wanker has remembered. Amazing that.

    Quite a rarity to see a hedgehog these days, we had one years i fnot decades ago, lovely creatures.

  778. EC @ April 23rd, 2019 – 09:17

    The day before the AGW fruitcakes boosted their presence and enhanced the annoyance to humans who happen to be near them Baron was in London, wisely didn’t disembark the tube anywhere central, his aim was Gifto, the Bangladeshi eatery he keeps talking about, the bad news is the place is under a new leadership, the food isn’t what it used to be, the new people speak no English, the menu remains, the prices are noticeably higher. The barbarian can no longer recommend it.

  779. You may of course disagree, Baron finds this story fascinating, it matters little she is Persian, very likely Muslim, her life having no bearing on anything we’ve been talking about, it’s the human element that touches most, she appears content, at ease with the world except for the two bureaucrats kicking her cows from the hills, happy, certainly happier than the majority of people Baron either knows, reads about or observes in the media, genuinely happy.

    https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2056069/

  782. @Baron 24th – 08:59

    Travel north, Baron … we have two hedgehogs feeding in our back garden most evenings.

  784. Ostrich (occasionally) @ April 24th, 2019 – 10:47

    A move away from the rotten South is being considered, O(o), the problem is the boss’s too keen on extreme North, this is where Scotland lies. Not that Baron dislikes whisky, haggis and the Lochs, it’s the men in colourful skirts (heh, heh) that are putting him off the land of the Scots. We shall see what come s of it, probably not much as each party to the move is more stubborn than the other.

  787. Still on the theme of the darling fruitcakes congregating on London, making life a misery for others, here is a take on the climate change which contains one graph (towards the end part of it) – the deaths from climate and non-climate catastrophes.

    It’s all one needs to know to make a judgement on the phenomenon of climate change. Despite all the frightening noises mankind has never been as safe from nature as it is now.

    https://www.unz.com/article/fifty-years-of-apocalyptic-global-warming-predictions-and-why-people-believe-them/

  788. @Baron 24th – 11:17

    “I Was The CIA Director – We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole”

    Exactly what any nation should expect from its intelligence services. In other circumstances it would be called, “giving onesself an edge”.

  789. There is a ‘Mr Big’ behind the ‘Murican website ‘Media Matters’.

    https://www.mediamatters.org/

    He lives in a hollowed-out volcano, watching a bank of flat screens while chompin’ on a big cigar.

    His name is John Jefferson Burns.

  791. Baron
    April 27th, 2019 – 13:14

    I think the Limerick’s quite amusingly witty.

    But there were much more explicit ones half a century or so ago. I recall one that had as its first line – “The Masters and Fellows of Kings” and as its last line “And an a**e like a jelly on springs.”

    Unfortunately I don’t remember the lines in between.

  793. @Baron 27th @Herbert Thornton 1st:

    The first two lines don’t scan properly. Or is that beyond what we may expect from our ‘cousins’ across the pond?

  794. Could it be this one, Herbert?

    The Masters and Fellows of Kings, who talked about God and such things; but their real desire; was a boy in the choir; with a bottom like jelly on springs.

    O(o)

    That’s the Americans for you, O(o), they fugg up anything they lay their hands on.

    Take the Iranian deal negotiated by the Hon Muslim in the White House when he was the occupant of it, the Donald scrapped it, imposed sanctions on Iranian oil allowing few exceptions, now he says no more waivers, anyone trading oil with the Ayatollahs will be cut off from the international payment system Chaps or whatever it’s called.

    The Americans can do whatever they want, starve Iran, surround it with boats, invade the country, it’s up the them, but telling what others can and cannot do is insane, it’s the behaviour of a bully.

    Not that Baron backs the religious thugs governing Iran, far from it, the sooner someone kicks them out the better, the Persians are an ancient tribe, quite different from the Arabs, have a rich culture, deserve better.

    It will be interesting to see what the tinpot dictator of Turkey does, the country get all its oil (almost all) from Iran.

  795. I see that another of Britain’s politically correct judges – who, as Lord Denning, eloquently reminded us many years ago, take an oath that includes the words “I WILL DO RIGHT” – has failed dismally to do so.

    Instead, (like her unscrupulous colleague who, in collusion with others, brought about the scandalous imprisonment of Tommy Robinson) she has sentenced him to a very unjust 50 weeks in prison.

  796. Beware :

    Ramadan starts at sunset Sunday 5 May and lasts till sunset Monday 3rd June.

  797. While Tony Benn was a socialist who wanted Britain to be an independent country outside the EU ,Nigel Farage is a wet conservative who wants Britain to be an independent country outside the EU :otherwise he is no different to Michael Heseltine or Ken Clarke.

  798. I’m surprised that nobody has linked this video in the last couple of days, so here you go….

    “Our Battle Of Britain”
    Pat Condell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isfr1pn9iXY

    It’s Local Elections day here on the outer spiral arm of England, just north of Noa-ville.

    Two Conservatives, two Labourites and one Independent on the ballot paper. Guess who got my vote….

  799. Anthony Wedgewood Benn, or ” 2nd Viscount Stansgate” to give him his full moniker, was an aristocrat. He would have been one of the first ones up against the wall had Wilson et al invited the Russians in.

  801. EC
    I have been listening this morning to the sharp, staccato bursts of maxine gun and rifle fire from the firing squad, as the remaining Independence voters are rounded up as they arrive and marched behind the Primary school, for ‘disposal’.

  803. Mine at 14.01.
    Sp, that will be ‘Maxim’ as in gun, not ‘Maxime’ as in Peake, the ubiquitous Socialista and would-be activist actressa.

  805. Radford NG 08.43
    When I lived in Riyadh I enjoyed the entertainment provided for me and my fellow expats during Ramadan.
    We lived at the time in the Olaya District, on the busy Airport road. As the effects of daytime starvation and water deprivation, coupled with late night binging took progressive effect on the faithful during the month we were able to watch the exponential rise in traffic accidents at the nearby traffic lights and highway crossing.
    The same standards and consequent risks now applies equally in Englandistan.

  806. As Nigel Farage, the UKIP elected MEP who resigned from the party (but not the seat) says he will not contest the Peterborough by-election resulting from the dismissal of Labour’s Olana Oopsmyanklebracletsgoneoff, the question arises, who will stand?
    Sargon of Assad would be fun, but I suspect Tommy Robinson would cause a stir.
    Imagine how delicious it would beif he was to hold a pivotal vote in the Kim un May Parliamentary shenanigans!

  809. Noa – 15:59

    Although Baron likes to pretend he lives in Suffolk I reckon he lives just over the border, the land where young “ladies” leave muddy shoe prints on the roof linings of Vauxhall Novas, Corsas, Citroen Saxos etc, i.e. Essex.

    Still, one has to draw a line somewhere…

  812. Interesting news from Hartlepool.
    Wins in Council wards for UKIP,For Britain (Ann Marie Walters Party),and for Veterans and People’s Party (this in Foggy Furze Ward).
    Labour lost over-all Control. (Various Independents also elected.)

  813. UKIP won seats in Sunderland: come second in others and elsewhere in the North.

  814. Interesting times in Derby.Conservatives replace Labour as largest party.
    UKIP gain 2,bringing their number to 5.

    Derby previously run by Con/UKIP/LibDem coalition.

    Could now be some Con. or Lab. coalition (with more L/D gains).

  815. In Ashfield (Notts) Ashfield Independents swept the board with 30 out of 35 (Con3/Lab2).

  816. Bolsover (Derbys) Labour went from 32 to 18 . Independent group have 16 (Con 2 / LD 1).

  817. Q. Why did the French chef commit suicide?

    A. Because he lost the huile d’olive.

  818. This bloke stopped me in the High Street. He said, ‘Can you spare a couple of minutes for cancer research?’

    I said, ‘Sure, but we won’t get very much done.’

  819. A punk stopped me on the street. He said, “You got a light, mac?”
    I said, “No, but I’ve got a dark brown overcoat.”
    “Big Shot”
    The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

  820. A man is driving along the road when a rabbit runs out across the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car. The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to see what has become of the rabbit. much to his dismay, the rabbit is dead. the driver feels so awful that he begins to cry.
    A blonde is driving past, sees the man crying on the side of the road and pulls over. She steps out of the car and asks the man wtat’s wrong. “I feel terrible,” he explains, “I accidentally hit this rabbit and killed it.”
    The blonde says, “dont worry.” runs to her car and pulls out a spray can.

    She walks over to the limp, dead rabbit, bends down and sprays the contents onto the rabbit.
    The rabbit jumps up, waves its paw at the two of them and hops off down the road. Ten feet away the rabbit stops, turns around and waves again, he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet, turns and waves and repeats this again and again and again, until he hops off out of sight.
    The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands, “what is in that can? what did you spray on that rabbit?” The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label.
    It says ‘hair spray – restores life to dead hair, adds permanent wave’.

  824. Crossword clue for ship’s newspaper.

    Clue – Place and boat that have to do with oil.

    A. Venice Whaler.

  825. To the lot of you: Que?

    It’s is Suffolk, Noa, the deep wilderness of England, well, it has been, recently new abodes are springing everywhere, in Baron’s village, a builder bought a part of a small cottage, thatched roof that needs doing, just one room and something called a kitchenette, not more than 50m2 for just below £300k, much bigger plot though surrounding it, the previous owner used the piece of land to grow veg, the builder beautified the cottage, constructed on the plot two executive type houses more suitable for urban setting, neither the cottage n or the two new buildings have any garden at all, the whole un-built land got cemented up, bloody awful not just for the ants, beatles and birds, but people, too, the cottage sells for £375k, the houses for £395k and £420k, the more expensive one faces the countryside, the cheaper the road. Travesty.

  828. @Baron 1st – 16:25

    Not that Baron backs the religious thugs governing Iran, far from it, the sooner someone kicks them out the better, the Persians are an ancient tribe, quite different from the Arabs, have a rich culture, deserve better.

    Indeed. The ayatollahs have been in power for forty years. For their culture that’s but the blink of an eye. A gritty, painful blink, but a blink nevertheless.

  829. Baron.

    Apologies, I am justly corrected. Suffolk it is and should have been.
    TOWIS rules bruv!

  831. In the last 48 hours Hamas and other islamic terrorists have launched over 600 rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel.

  832. Above:the figure now reaches 690 attacks .
    For those with Twitter , look-up `Israel Defence Forces`.

  834. Noa @ May 5th, 2019 – 18:01

    But Essex’s close, Noa, in fact next door, and both counties are a part of East Anglia, a mistake easy to make, the barbarian pointed it out only to show how smart he is, heh, heh, heh.

    One misses Frank, is he OK? Anyone knows?

  835. Radford NG @ May 6th, 2019 – 09:22

    Why now, Radford, why are all the rockets flying now? You have any insight?

  836. Noa @ May 3rd, 2019 – 16:06

    Yesterday, Noa, at a birthday party the barbarian re-told this hare/hair joke, got close to being booted out from the venue, will be more careful next time.

  839. Degrees of Racism
    6th May 2019 Paul Weston Articles 8

    Once upon a time, English boys existed in England. Today they are classified simply as white males. The prevailing ethos maintains this sub-group of humanity is privileged by both their skin colour and their sex but, as should be obvious to those who deal in reality, this isn’t the case at all. Boys of all racial backgrounds are a declining demographic in our universities, making up a mere 43 per cent of the undergraduate intake in 2017. White males as a solo group accounted for only 27 per cent – a statistic which elicits no useful further information as to the number of Poles, Latvians etc, compared to actual English boys, thereby reducing their ratio even further.

    There have been some half-hearted attempts to redress this imbalance, but when the ‘minority’ group in question is privileged male and privileged white, the issue has been slow to gain traction. Feminist groups and ethnic minority advocates openly deride the notion that English boys should be given a protected minority status and thus benefit from positive discrimination – designed in the main to help only those ground into the dust ‘neath the heel of the white imperialist male oppressor.

    Another factor, of course, is the class issue. Much of the underrepresentation is in the Kevin and Dwayne bracket rather than the Rupert hyphenated Smythe echelon, and as everyone is aware, the media talking heads who opine so vociferously on matters such as the phantom gender pay-gap or the lack of female CEOs in the off-shore oil/ gas industry, are notably silent about the inequalities encountered by not just the lumpenproletariat, but the white male lumpenproletariat to boot.

    English boys have been at the bottom of all state educational league tables for some years now. This ought to be a matter of national interest and national outrage, but for obvious reasons in sad old PC Britain it is not.

    Despite the reality of this racial injustice/ imbalance, the political/educational establishment is intent on promoting their favoured minority groups instead. In the interests of ‘social justice’ non-white are herded into elite universities at the expense of whites with superior academic qualifications. One school in Newham, London’s poorest borough, recently revealed that 41 of its pupils had been given offers to study at Oxford or Cambridge – nearly all of the pupils are ethnic minorities and half of them are on free school meals. I suppose it is possible these children were all remarkably intelligent and all gathered together in one geographical location by mystical circumstances but when one looks a little closer, one finds ethnic social engineering on a massive scale where poor white boys are simply unable to compete.

    The curiously named Conservative Party does nothing to help this flagrant racial inequality. In fact, it has just advised universities they will face sanctions if non-white students fail to achieve equality of outcome (as opposed to equality of opportunity) in terms of good degrees. The Prime Minister’s Race Disparity Audit (Orwell, spinning, grave) noticed that despite the increase in ethnic minority students, they were failing to gain a statistically equal number of first-class or uppersecond-class degrees as white students. The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, David Lidington MP, said: ‘I am determined that nobody experiences a worse outcome solely on the grounds of their ethnicity’ followed by Professor Edward Byrne AC, President and Principal of King’s College London, who stated:

    Tackling race disparity outcomes is important and we welcome the Minister’s visit to King’s today. I am proud of the diverse international community we have here at King’s, in 2017 49 per cent of our undergraduates were from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds, and we have the fastest growing population of low-income students in the Russell Group. Over the past seven years we have significantly reduced the gap between Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students and nonBAME students achieving a first or 2.1, from 11.1 per cent in 2011 to 3.8 per cent in 2017.

    So there you are, when confronted with the inescapable fact that English boys are the most disadvantaged group in the educational world, the government goes all out to dishonestly engineer the educational outcome of non-whites only. And it gets worse. Much, much worse. The reason given for ethnic minority disparities of outcome is not because the establishment has energetically channelled people of insufficient intelligence to cope with the strictures of university life, but because the whole of university life is geared around dastardly white privilege instead.

    In order for ethnic minorities to compete, universities must ‘decolonise’ their curriculums. White philosophers must be replaced with African poets; history should no longer encompass a past seen only through the prism of whiteness; statues of white imperialists must be torn down and replaced with marbled transgender women of colour. And on and on it goes. In a report titled ‘Degrees of Racism’ by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Students’ Union, a black student stated ‘How can I have a rapport and feel comfortable talking to a 60-year-old white man?’ Such a statement should of course be laughed out of existence in a sane society, but we are no longer sane. The Daily Telegraph reports the following disturbing news:

    Male, pale and stale university professors are to be given reverse mentors to teach them about unconscious bias, under a new Government funded scheme. Under the project, white men in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor. Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hoped the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them feeling quite uncomfortable.

    In closing, I would like to make the following observation. Imagine a French student studying at the Nazi-controlled Sorbonne in 1941. He would have to passively accept second class status, to see his heritage, tradition and history re-written; to realise no advancement was possible unless he toed the new ideological line with total acquiescence – indeed with an eager embrace. And then ask yourself the following question: is there any difference between the French boy at the Sorbonne then and the English boy at pretty much any British university now? This of course leads to a secondary question – when were we invaded and why have so few people

  843. David Lindsay @ May 7th, 2019 – 19:06

    Yes, David, it is, but January of a place close to Siberia. Few days ago we had ground frost here hence no mention of the AGW in the poodling MSM. One has to wait when the temperatures reach a a couple of degrees above normal for the fruitcakes t o \start wailing about polar bears baking, sea level flooding the Himalayas, people dying in tsunamis of droves from the abundance of CO2 ….. Mad, mad (and bad) world.

  844. Noa @ May 7th, 2019 – 17:15

    How kind of the resident Republican to congratulate the with-it couple, thanks, Noa.

    Would it help if you switched your thinking away from the personalities that fill the functions of the institution of monarchy to the institution itself? This is what matters, the institution, the individuals who staff it are of no import, they just do what they’re told.

    If we didn’t;t have E2 who else could we have? Someone close to Micron of France, the Clinton woman of the Republic, or who? A British Putin would be OK, for once someone batting for Britain, British interests, the British plebeians.

  845. This morning, Baron noticed his free bus pass has expired, called the Council, was told by a recorded voice the three digits of the tel number have changed, advised to note the change, the system automatically re-directed the call, no waiting, a pleasant woman answered, asked what it was Baron wanted, then asked few questions to establish the barbarian’s identity and get the last eight digits of the expired pass.

    This took a minute or so, then she said ‘the new pass will be with you in a couple of days, is there anything else’? Baron said ‘no. nothing else’, thanked her for the efficiency of the process, told her it was close to miraculous. She laughed, said ‘take care’, and hung up.

    We are often and rightly critical of the officialdom, the ever spreading bureaucracy, the unnecessary bossing by the nomenclature, but one has to give praise where praise is due.

  846. John birch @ May 7th, 2019 – 06:10

    Excellent posting, John.

    Over at the Spectator the new chair of the Gardeners QT gets a thorough bashing, it’s a female, of course, with no knowledge of the subject apparently. Baron used this opportunity to have a go at the Murray’s Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio4.

    If you’ve never listened to it, try it, in small doses unless you wish for a coronary. Unbelievable, the lot, the issues covered e.g the shape of vaginas, the guests, the condescending voice of Murray. Arghhhh

  848. Doesn’t it warm more than the cockles of your heart to see the haughtily mighty Barca beaten? Well done, boys of Liverpool, you’ve made Baron’s day many times over.

  849. Baron
    It’s not I who has brought the “Institution” into disrepute. The POW and his first wife did that all by themselves. The spare continues the debacle.
    At least an elected president provides an opportunity for improvement every 5 years… Instead of unending idiocy.

  850. As to Liverpools win, umm.Lancashire has never had much regard for the chancers, tyre thieves, militants and socialists on the Mersey.
    As a team of African multi millionaires with a German manager defeats similar..
    Yawn.

  851. So you don’t like the Liverpool football team either, Noa?

    OK with the barbarian, but one cannot help noticing all clubs are build essentially around foreign players, paid millions to kick the ball, often badly, it seems a feature of club football. one may argue that it’s a way of re-distribution of wealth through a charitable channel – the poor or near poor plebs of a rich country pay to watch millionaires from poor countries, a fair game, no?

    Your theory of a replacement every five years that’s an improvement on the one before is not supported by what happens in real life, it seems it’s regression rather than the opposite, just look at Micron, or compare the Donald with Harry Truman, the one the barbarian regards as the last boss of the Republic that cared about the Republic.

  852. Thinking Aloud, a BBC Radio4 output each Wednesday at 16:00, something the barbarian listens to if he feels like it, today’s subject the barbarian tuned in for was conspiracy theories, defined as anything that rejects ‘the official explanation’ of an event or whatever, two guests, both academics or rather one a writer from Canada who wrote on the subject, the other one from Cambridge who did research on it in a number of countries.

    Apparently, the whole conspiratorial industry was born with the French Revolution, born seriously because it had existed before. The key question is of course why these theories exist, you would have thought, Baron has always thought, that it, the existence of conspiratorial theories, was engendered by the loss of trust in the institutions that come up with the approved take on things because the institutions have been found lying, it takes only few of such lies for people to lose trust in the institutions, to begin searching for alternative explanations.

    But no, apparently it isn’t the loss of trust, it’s only a contributory factor, there are other reasons, the key amongst them is the existence of conspiratorial theories is the Internet, that’s the chief culprit.

    The guy who runs the programme said that before the internet one invited someone to a party, the someone talked some conspiratorial nonsense, one didn’t invite that someone again, the end of conspiracy.

    What an imbecilic logic. Couldn’t one do the same with an online conspiratorial nonsense? Simply not to look up the site again? There’s absolutely no difference between the two cases, one doesn’t have to invite a guest that spews conspiratorial theories any more or less than one doesn’t have to look up sites pumping conspiratorial theories.

    One of the conspiracies examined was that there has been a deliberate attempt to islamise the West through immigration. Some 20% of people across the European countries surveyed by the Cambridge researcher believe it to be true (9% in Portugal, 40% in Sweden). The researcher said: It’s silly to believe it, how could the insignificant number of Muslims here take over the country’ or words to that effect.

    What someone should have told the guy is that in the USSR, a country of some 260mn before the construct fell apart, the communist party membership numbered only just below 20mn (very close to the ratio of Muslims in the UK, almost the same as that in France, higher in today’s Russia), yet it was the communist party that governed.

    If you have the time, listen to the programme, you don’t have to agree with it, or do if you feel like it.

  853. Baron,
    I’ve alluded to a longstanding latent and historic antagonism between Liverpool and the rest of Lancashire. Even in Liverpool there are still bitter undertones to the rivalry between Protestant Liverpool FC and Catholic Everton.
    As someone who played football until my teens and supported my local team and recruited its players locally, I’m genuinely at a loss as to why the plebs retain a tribal loyalty to clubs sold to foreign billionaires to be operated for vanity and profit.
    The former England player Sir Tom Finney was our plumber both before and after he retired. A truly lovely gentleman and a great player.
    The heritage of indigenous football, like much else in for sale Britain, has been pilfered from its roots, sold on, marketed and sold back at ten times the price originally paid, its primary purpose being to provide revenue from international media sales and far Eastern gambling.
    So Baron, the LFC result brings memories of Heysel, the dead at the side of the pitch whilst a match took place, surely the ultimate and most extreme public expression of mammon over humanity that I have witnessed on television.
    As to improvement every five years… I did not write that improvement was inevitable, but that it was possible. Isn’t Trump an improvement over Obama?
    Given

  854. Noa @ May 8th, 2019 – 18:21

    Point taken, Noa, although the barbarian has lived here for exactly half a century (except for the years spent abroad on business) he didn’t know about the religious divide between Everton and Liverpool, yet that for the two Scottish clubs he was aware of, amazing.

    Liverpool isn’t Baron’s favourite club, he isn’t the club’s fan either, it’s just when any English club plays a team from the Continent the barbarian cannot but back the former, it’s a given for him.

    The foreign make up of the clubs, the sale of anything that can be turned into big bucks, the loss of the country’s past is regrettable, but is there anything one can do to reverse it? It may well be only a total collapse of the progressives’ rule will turn the wheel back.

    You’re right, the Donald is a step in the right direction, would be even more so if he did what he promised campaigning.

  859. Radford NG @ May 9th, 2019 – 12:34

    The guy’s stupid, the BBC stupider, and the twitterati that jumped on the stupid guy stupidest of all.

    Fifty years ago when sanity was still a resident of Britain not many would have posted such a picture, people were civil, knew the boundaries of what can and what cannot be said.

    If some convinced republican were to do it, most people, even those who disliked the Royal family, would have rolled their eyes, thought it was unnecessarily beyond the pale, rather unseemly, also unfair since the Royal family cannot fight back. Not many would have interpreted the picture as racist because it had a monkey in it, the monkey would have been taken to represent the feeble mindedness of the Royals.

    If the Baker’s twit were to be ignored, the BBC was to take no action, the twitter morons didn’t yap about it so incessantly and with venom, the incident would have had the shelf life of hours.

    How has the country changed, heh.

  860. Radford NG, May 9th, 2019 – 12:34

    It made me chuckle, even if it did not amuse the unctuous cringing bastards at the BBC. As usual the first people to cry “racist” are projecting their own racism on to others.

    Baron, May 9th, 2019 – 22:10

    Regressing, yes, bound, it seems, for the dystopia that was the homeland of your youth!

    With regard to the sacking, banning, de-platforming and “unpersoning” of people by the cultural Marxists now running the ironically called “social media” companies, I think that this illustrates the current situation quite nicely, better than when when it was written in 2014, nicht wahr?

    I read “The Joke”, Milan Kundera’s first novel, when I was a schoolboy. Bit above my level, but, even as a teenager, I liked the premise. Ludvik is a young man in post-war, newly Communist Czechoslovakia. He’s a smart, witty guy, a loyal Party member with a great future ahead of him. His girlfriend, though, is a bit serious. So when she writes to him from her two-week Party training course enthusing about the early-morning calisthenics and the “healthy atmosphere,” he scribbles off a droll postcard:

    ‘Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky! Ludvik.’

    A few weeks later, he’s called before a committee of the District Party Secretariat. He tries to explain he was making a joke. Immediately they remove him from his position at the Students Union; then they expel him from the Party, and the university; and shortly thereafter he’s sent to work in the mines.

    As a waggish adolescent, I liked the absurdity of the situation in which Ludvik finds himself. Later, I came to appreciate that Kundera had skewered the touchiness of totalitarianism, and the consequential loss of any sense of proportion.

    How strange that all the old absurdist gags of Eastern Europe circa 1948 now fit so neatly into American life in the second decade of the third millennium.
    Mark Steyn

    https://www.steynonline.com/6472/the-outhouse-of-american-liberty

  863. Q. Why should you never buy Russian underpants?

    A. Because Chernobyl fall-out.

    It doesn’t quite work. But almost.

  864. First they tuck their shirts in their trousers, and now the Russians wear underpants?
    Ha! The Spetsnaz are obviously no match for our “Devils In Skirts!”

    I visited Glasgow University recently. No rites witnessed. However, I did see Dr. Anton Phibes, or doppelganger, play his magnificently, resplendent organ in the Kelvingrove Museum. (1pm on weekends)

  866. Baron : 9 May at 00-26.

    Who are the Coons ?? A reference to black Americans moving into the neighborhood.

    It was also applied to blackface music hall singers.

    I remember when the BBC radio would play *G.H. Elliot the Chocolate Coloured Coon* .

    He was on This is your Life in1957 ; and the Royal Variety Show of 1958 .

    https://youtu.be/n4NMnwrKwpk

  867. Andy, my old mucker, you are still there.
    Yall seem on fine form.
    As is my mate Donald who finally has a Secretary of State he can trust. He is sticking it to the Chinese and Iranians. And woe betide you Limeys if you do not play ball.

  869. You may not be able to make the comparison, you didn’t have the misfortune to live in the nationwide Gulag of the former USSR, Baron did. There’s not much difference between the approach adopted by the ghastly Marr to that employed by the communist thugs when the aim was to destruct – he, like them, doesn’t attack the views Farage holds but the man himself, notice that almost every question Marr asks starts with ‘you’, never ‘your’ (slicing of an issue).

    At one point, Marr openly says ‘let’s talk about you (Farage)’. It’s hard to imagine he would do it to someone of the scented phylum.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4DEGGQcgM

  871. EC @ May 10th, 2019 – 23:12

    When Baron said on another blog that the freedom of expression on the internet was observed more in Russia than here in the UK it caused more than noisy opprobrium, if the barbarian were amongst the critics he would have found it difficult to escape lynching.

    The reason for this is more technical than legal, the Russian internet network was set-up so that parts of it cannot be be switched off at will. It’s changing now.

    But it’s not just technical, unfortunately you are unable to listen or watch some of the internet blogs, TV channels, the level of criticism of Putin and many others in the leadership is astounding, it’s not that different from what the US internet blogs are furnishing. Navalny has about 5mn followers, his TV programmes are watched by over 1mn viewers, he never fails to call Putin a thief or corrupt dictator, openly calls for his removal by any means possible, the MSM poodles never mention it because it doesn’t fit their narrative.

    Btw, is the summit.news platform run by a Russian company?

  872. This is one of B’s e-mails today, an interesting read:

    “From an Englishman (jb)….

    One of the most beautiful things in British public life right now is the disparity – the colossal disparity – between the media smears about the Brexit Party and the continued success of the Brexit Party. It’s wonderful to behold. Increasingly embittered Remainers from the media set and the political class hurl slurs and epithets at the Brexit Party, insisting with increasing shrillness that it’s a far-right outfit, loopy too, a coalition of extremists whose rallies echo Hitler’s robotic mass gatherings in Nuremberg. And yet then come the opinion polls, one after another, all showing the Brexit Party soaring ahead in the public’s affections. The elite is throwing a lot of shit at the Brexit Party, but it just isn’t sticking.

    The attacks on the Brexit Party, and the utter failure of the attacks to impact on public sentiment, reveal two things. First: the debasement of political life at the hands of the technocratic elites. Having spent the past three decades draining public life of politics, morality and ideology, in favour of presenting themselves as the cool, neutral ‘managers’ of society, these people have completely forgotten how to do politics. Their outsourcing of political authority to Brussels, and their eschewing of ideological debate in preference for the drab managerialism of the so-called Third Way, has led to their own infantilisation, to their transformation into bureaucrats ill-versed in substantial discussion. This is why they must now rely either on fear (‘a Hard Brexit will plunge us into dystopia’) or insult (‘the Brexit Party are far-right weirdos’). Because in hollowing out political life, and self-consciously elevating it above the rough and tumble of democratic debate, they made themselves bereft of conviction, ideas, even basic debating skills. All they have left as a means of public persuasion is terror and abuse.

    This has become a serious problem in 21st-century public life – the shift away from discussing ideas and policy towards obsessing over an individual’s alleged character or ‘hidden motives’. The Brexit Party has received an extraordinary amount of character assassination – or rather, attempted character assassination. Claire Fox’s political past is dredged up, by those who clearly have nothing of substance to say about her political present and her arguments in defence of democracy. Nigel Farage is branded ‘far right’, with not so much as a sliver of evidence: everyone’s ‘far right’ in the eyes of the politically illiterate technocratic elite. ‘WHO FUNDS YOU?’, anti-Brexit observers bark at the Brexit Party and everyone else they disagree with. Whenever you hear this question, the witless cry of panicked elites, you know you’ve won the argument. It’s because they’re unable to confront what you’re actually saying that they go looking for the billionaire or Dark Money foundation or Jew that they’re conspiratorially convinced is pulling your strings.

    Then there’s the second thing revealed by the non-sticking shit being thrown at the Brexit Party – the fact that the old, decaying establishment increasingly struggles to connect with the public. Their borderline McCarthyite assaults on everyone associated with the Brexit Party just aren’t working. Day after day they brand the Brexit Party fascistic and dangerous, and yet its popularity grows. The most recent poll suggests 34 per cent of voters plan to support the Brexit Party at the Euro elections on 23 May – more than Labour (21 per cent) and the Tories (11 per cent) combined! That’s extraordinary for a party founded just weeks ago. The campaign of demonisation hasn’t worked because the people behind it – technocratic politicians, out-of-touch Remainer MPs, the liberal media – can make hardly any connection with ordinary people these days. And they can increasingly sense this, too. Witness Nick Cohen’s boilerplate column in the Observer yesterday in which he bemoaned the media’s failure to shift politics away from Brexit and in a more ‘desirable’ direction – this is the wail of a collapsing establishment horrified that its fury and bluster and conspiracy theories make no impact whatsoever beyond certain parts of London.

    Indeed, not only has the smearing of the Brexit Party not worked – it is likely to backfire and end up helping the Brexit Party. See Andrew Marr’s incredibly ill-advised attempt at a ‘gotcha’ against Nigel Farage on TV yesterday morning, when he kept throwing Farage’s past statements at him and demanding: ‘DO YOU STILL THINK THIS WAY?’ It was meant to embarrass Farage, but it embarrassed the BBC, confirming that the corporation has very little sense of what voters are thinking, why the Brexit Party is popular, and that the vast majority of people are sick to the back teeth of media gotchas, journalistic pontification and offence archaeology and are crying out for some proper, principled discussion.

    Here’s the thing: the rise of the Brexit Party is the least strange thing to happen in British politics in years. It makes perfect sense. It is entirely rational. This is a group of politicians and voters uniting around a clear and important cause – the defence of democracy. These are people who for three years have watched as the establishment reneged on its promise to enact the 2016 referendum result. These are people who have watched as their own MPs have conspired to thwart the thing they voted for in 2016. These are people who feel lied to and betrayed, and who believe that democracy will be seriously harmed, perhaps irreparably, if the largest democratic vote in UK history is undermined. Call off the thinkpieces, park the conspiracy theories, chill your McCarthyite urges, because it’s as clear as day why the Brexit Party is doing well – because millions of British people believe in democracy and they’re prepared to vote for it and fight for it.”

  873. Baron forgot to mention in the posting @ 11:12 that the people the narrative talks about, those gathered in the Brexit movement are members of the ‘healthy core on Britishness’, the club that’s been suppressed, maligned, denied a platform. Pity Frank no longer comes to visit us, he always doubted the existence of it.

    And now something completely different that will relax you, a piece of Bruch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzOozXt4ek&feature=youtu.be

  874. In 1974, everybody was Kung Fu fighting. This is a matter of record, or rather A record, by Carl Douglas.

    It follows that Jeremy Corbyn, Valerie Singleton and Blakey from On the Buses were Kung Fu fighting. Well, why not? He did say ‘everybody’.

    * Taps nose *

  875. Remember the good old days, eh? When John Humphrys used to put his pen away? He used to read the news. And then he used to put his pen away.

    They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

  876. If I stick my head between two breast implants,
    am I technically in Silicon Valley?

  877. John Jefferson Burns
    May 11th, 2019 – 08:26

    You are welcome to take our quaint li’l ol’ Queen back home with you.

    It is clear that she is neither use nor ornament.

  878. Jeremy Kyle
    An odd ode on his demise:

    This morning i watched Jeremy kyle!
    Another father in a useless denile!
    Another ***** with the width of a bar stool,
    Chucks another father in with the disgusting gene pool.

    Miserable forlorn Cattle going to slaughter,
    Have more class than your abhorent daughter!
    The pity i feel for that wretched child,
    Thats bought up in a system that’s been defiled.

    The onlookers cheer as another ****** makes a jest.
    About the poor man shes been using is clothed in some ill fitting vest.
    Well done contestant three,
    You have proved to us the ***** you can be!

    Now please take your rapid leave,
    Before we call your **** or boyfriend Steve.
    That you’ve been sleeping with your cousin,
    And no doubt have his bun in your oven

  879. So farewell Jezza Kyle,
    He left, having made his pile
    From the ordure and ordeal of others
    Less fortunate than he
    Apostle of the epistolic epigrams.
    Bearer of bad views and news
    To the Untermench (they hope)
    If not today,
    Tomorrow and Tomorrow and…
    OMG! LOL!

  884. Noa @ May 15th, 2019 – 20:52

    It’s sold out, Noa, one will have to wait for another batch.

  885. Noa @ May 15th, 2019 – 20:47

    The point about what makes Latin American tick – oligarchs and mafiosos – is applicable also for the Republic, the oligarchs represented by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg & co, the mafiosos by the political elites like the pompous Pompeo, deranged Bolton & co.

    Sultan’s absolutely right on the importance of social cohesion, the breakdown of, it is indeed at the heart of the West’s decline in every sphere of life other than economic. To put that right seems near impossible what with the society fragmented on every important issue.

  886. Students in an advanced Biology class were taking their mid-term exam, the last question was to name seven advantages of mother’s milk, it was worth 70 points, one student wrote:

    1) It is perfect formula for the child.
    2) It provides immunity against several diseases.
    3) It is always the right temperature.
    4) It is inexpensive.
    5) It bonds the child to mother, and vice versa.
    6) It is always available as needed.

    And then the student was stuck, finally, in desperation, just before the bell rang indicating the end of the test, he wrote:

    7) It comes in two attractive containers, and it’s high enough off the ground where the cat can’t get it.

    He got an A+.

    (As told by ACP)

  887. Could anyone help, please.

    The bit below has been rejected by the Spectator’s guard dogs. Any idea why?

    “Someone challenging the prevailing orthodoxy in Stalin’s Soviet Union lost his life, In Hitler’s Nazi Germany one ended up incarcerated in a concentration camp, in the contemporary enlightened West one only loses one’s source of income.

    We should be grateful we haven’t yet reached the fully totalitarian solution to what views one’s allowed to hold, but give the progressives time, we should get there, too”.

  888. Baron : 17 May @ 15-27

    I have just seen a complaint on Breitbart that DISQUS don’t allow the use of the name of the Leader of the NSDAP.

  889. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
    That Baron would learn the words of refrain.
    Nazi has never been a word allowed.
    On the Spectator site.
    That’s why Fraser has us cowed

  890. Thank you, Fergus and Radford, the poorly educated Slav will keep that in mind.

    Not that long ago, one of the rag’s writers did a piece (Baron’s lazy to locate it) in which he used the word Nazi, got away with it. It’s the same with Rod Liddle’s contributions, he can get away with ‘sex’ and such, but one responds in the same manner, the posting gets stopped.

    The suspension of the rugby boy borders on the insane, it was apparently a re-tweet, and a quote from the good book, which confirms the only group of people one can bash with impunity are the Christians.

  893. Baron, May 17th, 2019 – 15:27

    The Spectatesman is run by the “Scotia Nostra.” (© Frank P)
    Many of them have been mouldering there for years.
    I wonder why so many of them have been unable to move onwards and upwards in the wider world of their chosen profession…

  894. Baron, May 17th, 2019 – 22:35

    I’ve already voted, along with countless others in the sub-continent.

    Meanwhile, down there, in ‘straya they have just been voting in their General Election. I do hope Clear Memories cast his compulsory vote carefully.

    However, I can guarantee that the only candidate worth voting for was not on his ballot paper!

    https://snag.gy/AdJTcK.jpg

  895. EC @ May 18th, 2019 – 11:08

    Agreed, EC, not just the Fraser’s bunch infiltrated if not by the mafia itself then at least by mafia’s tools of PR, every other MSM platform is manipulating facts, too.

    If you or anyone else here were to be admirers of ballet you would have come across the name of Sergei Polunin cum his shenanigans, the youngest ever principal gone freelance, sacked from virtually every ballet company worth the name. He’s been again banned from performing in Verona, Italy in the Summer because a group of pinko gays, actually called Circle Pink object to something (Baron has already forgotten what).

    The dancer has a large tattoo of Putin’s face on his chest, angers everyone of the non-heterosexual phylum saying masculine and feminine balance each other, wimp are taking over because men lost their ‘balls’ don’t fugg them anymore, and to top it all also says his aim is to engineer a long-lasting friendship between Ukraine and Russia.

    The reason the barbarian tells you about him is that the other day the Times had a large piece on Polunin saying throughout that he’s Russian, which is only half true, he was born in Ukraine (the rag missed it), possesses three passports, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian (missed again).

    You may recall the rag, pretending to be still the ‘paper of records’, published a letter from a hospital consultant disclaiming the treatment from nerve gas poisoning of any patient connected to the Salisbury charade. Since then, the Times as a part of a repentance that can never end, has been publishing anti-Russian stories in abundance either blatantly lying or at least twisting the truth, concealing many relevant facts.

    Here’s the dancer performing to the song ‘Take me to the Church’, it’s about dated but shows you what he can do (it may be Baron has told you about the dancer before, if so, apologies):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tW0CkvdDI

  896. Sorry for the errors, t’s ‘wimin’ not wimps taking over, but the Freudian slip would fit also. It’s the bugging software.

  897. It keeps happening, ‘fugging’ and not ‘bugging’, the fugging nerds who designed this heart attack inducing feature should be flogged, deprived of uman rites, castrated, and that’s just for a start.

  902. Herbert Thornton @ May 20th, 2019 – 20:48

    It’s Tommy, Herbert, he isn’t one of them, it’s permissible to throw milkshakes at him, to assault him (and his supporters), to make his life and that of his family hell, that’s what ‘democracy’ has sunk to in contemporary Britain.

    Few hours ago, another hero of the progressive phylum, a wanker called Paul Crowther threw a milkshake at Nigel, it’s on the internet, google for it, and another wanker called appropriately Tom Prick or Peck from the Independent found it hilarious, thinks it was Crowther’s way of defeating Nigel’s arguments. Unbelievable how such a creature could call himself a journalist.

    We know now it was just a milkshake, but what if it were acid? Would that be hilarious, too?

    It will be interesting to see what punishment will Crowther receive, the hackler of Soubry got sent down, this one may just get a fine.

  903. A nasty attack on Brexit and Nigel from no other than the one-eyed Scot who nearly bankrupted us over a decade ago, Brown alleged that because donations below £500 to Brexit went through PayPal, it could have been anyone from the Republic, Russia …. donating money, a clever dick from one of the MSM rags donated some money (£20?) under the name Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation, not a bad caper actually, but not that original, one could have done it for other parties, too, under different names like Benito Mussolini, but of course, it would not be the same because the ‘offending’ party would not be the Brexit party.

    When the milkshaking of Farage got mentioned on a Spectator’s blog, many said that it was what made them donate even though they have never ever given money to any politician before. Baron did the same, well before the milkshaking though.

    Apparently the Election Commission will descend on the Brexit party to investigate, the hope must be to ban the Brexit party taking part in the May 23 European election. God forbid if that were to happen, what the electorate likes more than voting for policies that bring money into their pockets is voting for an underdog, someone unjustly kicked, unfairly wronged. The banning of the Brexit party from the May 23rd EU poll would undoubtedly result in the party taking more seats than any other in the next Parliamentary election here, Baron reckons.

    .

  904. Germany and Europe mustn’t buy Russian oil and gas because the Russian Government may direct Gazprom to cut supplies, warned the US Administration, even though it has never happened.

    Britain should not procure Huawei telecom gear because the company could be commanded by the Chinese Government to spy on us, warned also the US Administration, even though it was the US spy agencies found eavesdropping for inst. on the Mutti.

    Then, almost within days:

    The US Administration issues an order that forces Google to cut Huawei from its future up-dates of the Android OS.

    One couldn’t make it up, could one?

    Some of you may suspect Baron to work not just for the Kremlin, but the Chinese, too, which would be wrong. It’s that the barbarian reckons this stupid trade war is going to backfire, it will hurt us more than China, it may even bring about a mother of all recessions what with the debt levels above what they were before the near meltdown in 2008. It’s lunacy to the power of a lot.

    China should do one of two things: ignore the threat, tell Huawei to divorce itself from Android, go its own way, the co has been working on their own OS since 2012.

    or

    Impose a 25% export tax on any shipments to the US. This will kill off Apple that makes the bulk of the gadgets it sells in China within months.

    China has unquestionably misused the WTO umbrella to her advantage, but to correct the anomaly through the destruction of the world’s trade is sheer madness. A shock to the intrinsically complex world’s trading patterns is the last thing we need, it would take a single bankruptcy to begin a domino effect catastrophe that nobody not even the Fed could stop, as things are the projected growth in all major economies is nothing to shout about, to put a trade war spanner into the mix gets us that closer to a full and not just near meltdown.

  906. Baron
    Even plotting to kill an MP will earn you a life sentance with a minimum 20 years to serve, as the Britain First supporter has discovered.
    Remarkably Blair has condemned the milk shaking of Farage in Newcastle today. I suspect he sees that what happens to conservative politicians today will be visited upon the socialists tomorrow.
    As to the Brexit party, its North West candidate is the odious Clare Fox, Leninist, who supported the provisional IRA after the Warrington bombings.
    She wont be getting my vote needless to say.
    https://www.ukip.org/national-ukip-news-item.php?id=216

  909. Oops! T’was EC’s hero the bull blathering Bishop, the Reverend Peter Mullen, wot rote the article in question, not Mr Harris.
    My fullest apologies the libelled and disparaged of the parish of Bath and Wells.

  915. Farage leads a party whose supporters (by previous standards) range from supporters of Enoch Powell to supporters of Tony Benn.How is that going to work out in other elections?

  916. As Theresa May’s administration collapses and with it he Conservative Party let us contemplate General Elphinstone and the Army of the Indus.In 1842 he lead John Company’s Army (and the 44th Regiment of Foot) to one of the greatest disasters of British Arms in Afghanistan.

    It was said of him that he completely failed to lead his soldiers; but fatally exerted enough authority to prevent any of his officers exercising proper command in his place.

    The Conservative Party should remember : only one British Officer made it to Jalalabad.

  917. from the BBC;

    “Her supporters want, after all this political humiliation, to engineer a dignified exit”.

    What right does she now have, to be given a “dignified exit”? She has forfeited any right to dignity, by clinging on long after she should have gone, last year or even earlier. By refusing to go, she has no right to complain at any indignities, by her party giving her the “bum’s rush”.

    Dignity was for earlier on, before she had done so much damage to her own party. Now is the time for kicking her out, no dignity required, just sod off, woman.

  920. Noa – 17:13

    Very sad news.
    The last email I got from him was on 9th April, although he did attempt one on the 12th. He’d had a pretty rough time of it struggling to recover from his major operation last year, and when it returned he battled his illness to the end.

    RIP Frank

  922. A great man has passed away, and a great loss it is, not only to our modest, rather depleted blog, by far more so to the country at large.

    Yet another flop of His, why should he call Frank in? Not that He needs his advice what with His omnipotence, we do.

    RIP Frank.

  926. Malfleur @ May 25th, 2019 – 06:54

    Welcome back, Malfleur, and it’s meant sincerely, Baron is truly pleased you’ve decided to return, please stay.

  927. This will eat up a lot of your time, but it’s worth it, watch both parts, it should be a must for the narrative explains in easy to follow fashion how those conspiring against the Donald, before he got elected, attempted to frame a totally innocent man to establish the Russian connection that was the basis of the alleged collusion and hence the two years plus of Mueller’s investigation costing millions, preventing the Donald from governing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNWpNZJjNg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl40tJBfZN4

  928. I echo Baron in welcoming you back Malfleur.
    But I’m confused, in what way does your video link to a seemingly insane website reflect my ‘constitutional’ position?

  930. Perhaps war is inevitable, or at leat physical castration of a large number of people, mostly those of the Dem’s persuasion in the Republic, their counterparts here to weed out the loopy from the sane.

    Cauliflower is now classed as racist over there because it was brought in for cultivation by the colonisers, the Americans should grow yucca, what for the deluded female didn’t say, but it’s early days for this greens related malady of the progressives to evolve into an even more ridiculous outcome:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96-IkrmX51M

  931. RIP Frank Pulley BEM ; one of the last of the good old boys ; there when it all began at the Mangrove Restaurant.

  932. UKIP appear to have been wiped-out :including Leader Gerard Batten in London.
    Tommy Robinson has also been defeated in the North West.

  933. Gerard Batten has said that the French ruling caste ,seeing the way things were going,created Macron against Le Penn : and in Britain the ruling cast has reinvented Farage to save themselves.

  935. The results are astonishing, Radford, but one would not know it reading the MSM or listening to the ghastly BBC, it’s all the Greens and the sandals wearers led by the comatose geriatric. Fraser Nelson in the rag he edits eulogises about the former suggesting they, the Greens, will be the kingmakers, another piece congratulates the Libs as if they were the winners (they have 14 as opposed to Brexit’s 29 seats, the latest Baron believes).

    Yesterday, the BBC invited the softporn scribbler Alastair Campbell, he opined that the Brexit win was funded by roubles, the man needs to seek medical attention, he must be sick in the head, but the slander was a hint of what the MSM wankers and their political masters will try do before any general election, they must stop the Brexit bandwagon or they are toast.

    It looks possible we get an election before we’re out of the Brussels hydra, whoever takes over the ghastly May will not get any concessions from the EU, the deal will essentially remain what it is, the House is unlikely to form a consensus, pass it, Labour will exploit the impasse, call for a vote of no confidence in the hope they’ll come first, those Tories who are from Leave constituencies will back them, a new House may, one hopes, go for the Full Monty of no deal exit.

    One can but hope, no?

  936. Another useful polling site showing maps is

    https//twitter.com/polmapsinfoUK

  938. Re above :

    Tower Hamlets 1st place Labour ; 2nd place Lib Dems.

    Which shows how stupid they are :not seeing how the EU is so to the disadvantage of Bengladesh ; and how all non-EU imports on sale in ethnic shops have a 12% mark-up because of EU import duties.

  939. Baron,

    Last month I purchased a Milan Kundera novel from the online Evil Empire for £0.13p + postage.
    Was I robbed?

  940. Turrnoight, I are finishing off Charley Boorman’s latest autobiography. Lots of broken bones, remarkably none of them actually inflicted by the French Riot police.

    Rumours abounda that Macron has imported East European thugs er.. police, and dressed them up in CRS gear in order to brutalise the Yellow Vests more effectively than the normally enthusiastic local talent…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_IzL7Tr8A

    [NB. Also featuring the return of Brian Gerrish as MC.]

  941. EC @ May 29th, 2019 – 22:22

    It all depends, EC, it all depends.

    As it happens Baron is currently in the city of Kafka, not more than fifteen minutes ago he passed a large shop, nothing inside or in the shop windows, the establishment must have ceased trading, but a large lettering across the front shouting ‘THE BEST FROM BRITAIN.

  942. EC @ May 29th, 2019 – 22:22

    It all depends, EC, it all depends.

    As it happens Baron is currently in the city of Kafka, not more than fifteen minutes ago he passed a large shop, nothing inside or in the shop windows, the establishment must have ceased trading, but a large lettering across the front shouting ‘THE BEST FROM BRITAIN.

    Did the owner know something we don;t?

  943. Sorry about the duplicate nonsense, only He or whoever designed the system knows how it happened.

  944. First was the disgraceful example of Judge Marson unlawfully and very unjustly sending Tommy Robinson to prison in circumstances that were very highly political.

    Then we read of Judge Walden-Smith declaring, in the course of a trial, that Tommy Robinson “is not as well-known as he thinks he is.”. That too has strong political overtones.

    And now Judge Margot Coleman has allowed a private prosecution of Boris Johnson to proceed, even though it obviously affects – indeed goes to the heart of – Johnson’s political stance on Brexit.

    It makes me ask the very worrying question – are British Judges discarding their traditional blindfold of impartiality and creating a new political role for themselves?

  947. Noa – Thank you for drawing that to my attention – it was fascinating listening.

  948. Ever since Tony Blair upended the British legal system the courts have only gained in power
    To Boris Johnson’s army of enemies, the timing is perfect. As the Tory leadership contest draws to a close, its most likely winner will be summoned to court to face criminal charges. He stands accused of saying that Britain sent £350 million a week to the European Union, when he should have said £250 million. The figure, of course, doesn’t much matter: this is lawfare, a form of combat where the process is the punishment. To put him in the dock is, itself, victory.
    The whole episode may seem ridiculous, but then again, so did the Gina Miller case when the Supreme Court was asked to tell Theresa May how she should go about enacting Brexit. This seepage of law into politics has been under way for some time, and Boris in court would be just the latest manifestation of a worrying trend. Foreign policy, military interventions and other government ideas have systematically yielded to the power of judges: a point made not by any Brexiteer but former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, now midway through his brilliant Reith Lectures. So what has gone wrong?
    Many countries do use lawyers as political hitmen. Russia has a habit of imprisoning politicians, America sends special prosecutors to torment sitting presidents. But Britain has – until recently – been a place where the law was kept a safe distance from politics. The understanding was summed up nicely by Lord Denning in 1971 when an activist tried to sue to stop Britain joining the European Community. The prerogative power of an elected government, he said, “cannot be challenged or questioned in these courts.” If politicians erred or lied, then justice would be served by voters at the ballot box. As is their exclusive right.
    Things changed when Tony Blair swept aside 1,400 years of history by abolishing the post of lord chancellor and replacing the law lords with a US-style Supreme Court. He also adopted various European legal charters – on human rights and more – whereby it suddenly became a lot easier to accuse the UK government of breaking international law. An activist could set up a judicial review, sue the Government – and in a lot of cases, claim legal aid to do so. When Andrew Adonis was Blair’s education minister, he told me how absurd it was having to hire government lawyers to fend off other lawyers, hired by activists but funded by the taxpayer.
    When Michael Gove was education secretary, he found that time and time again he was unable to deliver the school reform he had promised voters due to fear of being sued under laws introduced at a European level. Not just the human rights that Parliament voted to adopt: the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights ended up applying to Britain, in spite of several promises that it wouldn’t. This is one of the main reasons that Tory ministers ended up backing Brexit: they were mugged by reality. Their day-to-day work proved to them how Parliament had lost control of the law. Leaving the European Union, they thought, was the only way to take back that control.
    Today, politically active lawyers can talk to each other on Twitter, dreaming up ways to thwart Brexit or hound their various enemies. In Boris Johnson’s case, £430,000 was raised through a crowd-funding website for a private prosecution – a new technique, offering a world of potential. If a district judge can be asked to decide whether to prosecute a politician for lying – a huge decision – would they dare throw the case out, given the huge public interest? Safest, surely, to refer it up to the crown court.
    Once, such political games were unthinkable in the English system, but the checks and balances are failing. The Crown Prosecution Service should have taken over the case, given the sensitivity. But the CPS itself is becoming more political (its former chief prosecutor, Keir Starmer, is now a Labour MP) and its decisions are less predictable. So we end up with the bizarre and deeply un-British spectacle of an MP facing a political accusation, where the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. This brings all kinds of unintended consequences.
    The very possibility that the Boris Johnson case will go to court threatens immediate restrictions on what the public can be told. One Tory MP has referred to him using words, which my colleagues at The Spectator cannot repeat because our (excellent) lawyer says this might land us in contempt of court. Is he right? Maybe, or maybe not, but a small magazine like ours cannot afford the risk. And what if a political row now builds up about whether he was right to use the £350 million figure? Several broadcasters are being sent legal advice saying that his guilt – or otherwise – must be off the agenda. When political debate is criminalised, the chill factor is wide and immediate.
    And if politicians can be taken to court through a private prosecution funded by their enemies, where will it stop? How far back will it go? Some might have seen poetic justice when, in 2005, Tony Blair was investigated under his own hate crime law after reports that he had once been rude about the Welsh. For Tories, this was a richly comic moment. But something had been unleashed, then, that was never put back under control
    Even if the Boris Johnson case never goes to trial, it is appalling that things were allowed to get this far or that a district judge was ever left to handle this political grenade. The EU cannot be blamed for any of this. It is a mess made in England, one that has not been helped by successive Tory ministers who have, over the years, grown used to pointing the finger at Brussels. A lazy excuse which, soon, they won’t have any more.
    If someone like Lord Sumption is warning that “law is now the continuation of politics by other means,” then it is time to worry – and think carefully about what his words imply. Politicised courts will lead to elected judges, with the rest of the American lawfare model following soon behind. More fundamentally, he asks, “is litigation the right way to resolve differences of opinion”? A good question. And one for politicians, not judges, to answer.
    • Read Fraser Nelson’s latest column on telegraph.co.uk every Thursday night from 9.30pm

  949. The 350 million on the Boris bus may or may not be so . Different figures have appeared : it may be less or it may be more . It may be £342 million + ; it may be £385 million.

    Either way this is the GROSS figure. The NET figure according to the BBC is £9 and a half billion (ie thousand million). What is that ? About £182 million a week?

    The GROSS figure includes the amount that comes back to the UK from the EU to finance worthy projects : but these are adjudicated by the EU,and the UK has to put up 50% of the funding .

    The NET amount is the money we do not get in any way.

    Either way , out of the EU we can decide for ourselves how to spent the money.

    I have for years tried to point out that the NET amount is equal to a poll-tax of about £2-75p per week on every man, woman and child in the UK.

    How ever it is figured ; Boris’s claims were part of a partisan political movement ; not in his position as a public servant of any kind.

  950. Trump or Farage?

    It Could Be Worse(but not much)

    Stuck in a lift
    with a body odoured racist
    hearing their bigoted views
    with no space to resist

    Stuck on a desert island
    with a hungry cannibal
    with nothing left to lose
    you’re the nearest mammal

    Stuck on a planet
    with climate change deniers
    intent on ignoring science
    confirmed political liars

    Stuck between a Brexit and an EU
    who knows with whom we’ll trade
    everyone blaming each other
    we need a politician upgrade

  951. Re. Boris bus :

    Steerpike (Spectator ; October 2017) points out that the official figure for our Gross contribution is £363 million per week ( £18.9 billion per year ) This is complicated by the EU’s methods of accounting ; but it is the amount given by the UK Office of National Statistics.

  955. Thanks Radford,
    Your dry sense of humour lightened the enormous significance and gravity of the announcement. 😉

  956. Yall still stuck in January. Even my old mucker Andy? Where are you Andy? My Aunt motored over from Clovelly to Portsmouth yesterday, having received an invitation on behalf of her father, my Grandfather, who landed on Sword Beach near Arromanches four days after D-Day. She had the honour to be presented to Prince Charles, who she said was the most charming man she had ever met. She also had an invitation to the ceremony in Normandy today, but felt to old to go. Bless her.
    Love to Andy.

  960. It depends, stephen, what one calls home, does it not?

    The barbarian was travelling, didn’t look at anything on the Net, life moved forward gently, the heart caused no problema, why change it, heh?

    Returning, Baron got involved on the Spectator site, mistake that, everyone’s worshipping the Blonde Inseminator there, he the saviour of not just the Tories, but the country, the world and possibly the Universe, too.

    Apparently, the rank and file are pressing for the Parliamentary party to crown the man unopposed.

    Will we ever learn?

  961. On his travels, Baron visited three countries, the most visible change from his last travels was two-fold: Many Chinese tourists, and many settlers from the Republic in the Czech Republic, mostly (almost unanimously) because of the Donald, the settlers cannot stand the man, in one instance it came close to blows, but the barbarian was smart enough to retreat fast.

  962. This is what we’re trying to leave, Ms Fox tells only a part of the story, another Brexit party MEP in today’s DT says that the EU has 150 Merc cars for the 750 or so MEPs, the Parliamentarians cannot be taken by the cars from the airport to their hotels, but the cars will go from the airport to the EU parliament building, then proceed to the hotels. Can anyone figure why?

    https://ukandeu.ac.uk/gravy-train-a-first-taste-of-life-as-an-mep/

  963. Baron. I have not visited three country’s lately but my carer did take me over the road to Tesco to buy some fags, only the dopey cow gave me the wrong ones, it’s all this packaging, everything looks the same, but it would have helped immeasurably if she had acquired a smattering of the old Anglo-Saxon lingo.

    No need to panic about Boris his minders will ensure he does not make a cock up of things, at least in the administrative sense of things. What’s this about you dodging a ruck? you must be losing your touch old son.

  964. Old age, stephen, the muscle tissues have decayed to a mush, sadly.

    The Blonde Inseminator will get the job, the country will have fun, the next election will be the end of the Tories though.

  965. Baron, old age? join the club, here in culturally rich Whitechapel we are known as the grizzling old gits association,and God, do we know how to moan. Of course this does not get us anywhere, but we don’t half enjoy the experience, but at least it is free, which is more than can be said for the TV licence after next year. It is nothing short of criminal for the BBC to charge for the shite they broadcast.

    The Tory circus continues unabated, it brings to mind the events which followed the murder of commodus. As I have said before on one or two occasions, read your Gibbon. The political class should be made to take a course on
    the classics before being allowed to stand for office. Fanciful? perhaps but it is early and I have not yet had my morning pint of gin.

  966. You cannot be more right about the Tories, stephen, even if you tried.

    The combined insight cum wisdom of the five clowns wouldn’t;t be enough to get the country out of the spin south, unless we find a personality that has the required skills we are truly doomed.

  967. Have you noticed how plastic has become the front page news? From an answer to everything, the commodity has morphed into the cause of all boils and warts one can think of. Why do you think it is?

    The answer seems obvious, the weather doesn’t fit the AGW scaremongering, it’s hard to bleat about the polar bears drowning, glaciers disappearing, people getting burnt ot cinder.

    Apparently in Montana, they’re having to replace signs telling people to have a good look at the glaciers because by 2020 they would have disappeared. Well, we are pretty close to the terminal year, the glaciers are still in place, and to fugg it truly up for the AGW loons, two of them have grown in size since the signs were put up.

    One can but weep

  969. One should stick to what one knows best.

    If, at this suitable time of night, he were do some serious bonking rather than rowing with the young blonde, his job prospects, his standing in the eyes of the public, his long standing dream of emulating Winston would have been indented.

    He’ll still get the job though even if he furnishes a tsunami of similar incidents, Hunt would only preside over the party funeral proceedings, and the old farts in the party membership know it.

  971. Baron @ 16:41

    Agreed up to a point, Baron. I doubt any lack of similarity to Winston counts for much. The general public on the other hand are now themselves so accustomed to bonking around that they think of Boris with mildly amused approval.

    Hunt on the other hand merely tends to evoke the question – “Jeremy who?”.

  976. The backlash begins. Some excerpts from Cairns News, North Queensland.
    Japan has always refused Muslims to live permanent in their country and cannot own any real estate or any type of business, and have banned any worship of Islam.
    Record number of Muslims deported from Norway as a way of fighting crime. Since these Muslim criminals have been deported, crime has dropped by a staggering 72%.
    A Chinese court sends 22 Muslim Imams to jail for 16 to 20 years for spreading Islam hatred, and have executed eighteen Jihadists.
    The Polish Defence League issues a warning to Muslims. 16 States Have All Introduced Legislation to Ban Shariah Law.
    Dutch MP’s called for removal of all mosques in the Netherlands. One Member of the Dutch Parliament said: “We want to clean Netherlands of Islam”.

  979. Boris’ Lament

    There is a bus stop I stand by everyday
    Around me is every person who has ever hurt me or let me down
    They stand here with me day by day
    When the bus comes I’m the last to get on every single time
    I stand awkwardly as all of the seats fill
    As usual there are no empty seats left for me
    I must pick the lesser of my evil’s and choose one each day
    The heaviness of the fear and panic sink into my core
    As I place myself beside one of them once more

    Today however as I stood with the others as I stand everyday
    I felt their hollow eyes burn into my back
    As the bus arrived I saw it load with all these people that detest me
    With all the memories that they carry
    All the memories that weigh like dumbbells on my being
    And for once I just stand there
    I do not get on
    And I watch as the bus full of all these things I hate
    Drives away as another appears

    It stops before me and the door opens as the driver beckons me to get in
    It isn’t my bus, but I still drag my feet forward
    As if pulled by an invisible force like a magnet I can’t pull myself away
    When I enter I see other passengers
    Not all of the seats are full, in fact many are empty
    But it still feels full, yet not stuffy
    I feel welcome as I stand in the aisle of the bus
    I’m dragged down by a brown eyed beauty
    And I feel like for once I’ve found my place
    Within this bus filling with the things I love, with people I trust
    IDS drives this bus

  980. Matthew Goodwin is an oddity, an objective political scientist and an acute observer in the battle lines being drawn around the world between national populists and the liberal democratic political elites.
    https://youtu.be/dwO_cPULaBg

  983. Noa @ June 27th, 2019 – 22:57

    A thought provoking guy, Noa, the two things that one could argue about are first, his (and others, too) labelling, Baron has never been fond of classifying groups of people in any way or form, even when one talks about such more easily defined schools of thought as communism or fascism. What is national populism for one man is jingoism for another.

    The other thing that puzzles is the fact (if it is a fact) the average income of a Donald voter in the last election was higher that those for the Clinton woman and Bernie. How would one explain it?

  986. Fergus Pickering @ June 26th, 2019 – 18:45

    Missed it for some reason, Fergus, your poetic expression of the plight of the Blonde Inseminator. Until the last line the barbarian thought it was about this mystic ability of his, the charms he so easily emits, his anagogic magnetism luring you to join in even though you disliked the crowd around him. Then ‘the IDS driving the contraption’ smashed the image up. What actually is the message?

  987. Herbert Thornton @ June 28th, 2019 – 17:43

    Here’s the official transcript of the interview, Herbert.

    https://www.ft.com/content/878d2344-98f0-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

    It’s still not exactly what Putin said, Baron doesn’t have the time to go into it, (one can slightly, but adequately, shift a meaning in translation)

    The interview essentially confirms what Baron has said many times before, namely that Putin’s take on things reflects more what many in the West would prefer to what we are being force fed by the progressives. Is he reading Baron’s postings? Heh, heh.

  990. June 30th, 2019 – 09:08 –

    Thanks, Baron. It’s well worth perusing.

  991. Frank P.

    I’ve just read above the sad, sad news that we have lost a wonderful, rare, brave, articulate, funny, wise, moral, dignified, good, honest and in the best way, an irreverent man.

    Here, and in the old days at The Speccie Frank shared such a rich experience of life, and I’m grateful for all that he shared, all soaked up like a sponge by this avid reader and admirer.

    If anyone is in touch with Pauline or his family please pass on my condolences, and if anyone could make a compilation of Frank’s writings, or if there is a chance of his book that he mentioned from time to time as being published in any format, it would be greatly appreciated by me, and many others I’m sure.

    Frank maintained the world that I mourn and which those younger than me will never see again and I thank him in this tiny inadequate way.

    https://youtu.be/hjAHWK9swY8

  992. Irishboy, June 30th, 2019 – 23:53

    Yes, Frank P is greatly missed. I could be wrong but I’m not sure that his memoirs will be forthcoming. He did publish the occasional brilliantly written anecdote on the CHW from time to time, but they were always from his early career. Despite a couple of us urging him on several occasions to write up and publish his memoirs he steadfastly refused to do so, even to publish as Copernicus did.

    I can, however, give you a sample of his inimitable style which is in the public domain and published in the form of a letter to The Spectator in 2002. This didn’t make him many friends what was left of the Met., not that he cared but they did get their revenge some years later when, unable to take criticism they got him banned from the Spectator(Press Holdings) blogs. Brian Paddick (now Baron Paddick FFS!) went on to become the apologist in chief for the 2005 Stock Tube extrajudicial killing , and then 2008 failed LibDem (goes without saying!) London Mayoral candidate.

    Here’s Frank’s 2002 gem where he skewers the bastard…

    The Specator Print Archive

    Letter published, 30 March 2002, Page 32

    Paddick’s pink herring

    From Mr Frank P. Sir: Your leading article (23 March) on
    Commander Paddick of Lambeth is interesting. It is difficult
    to know why this ‘rum cove’ is winning the propaganda war
    when his negative policies are so inimical to public
    tranquillity in an area like Lambeth, traditionally a breeding
    ground for racketeers long before the Yardies moved in to
    control the dope trade. His methods may suit the
    predilections of the chattering classes, but one thing he is not
    doing is scaring the skitters out of the criminal classes —
    something that. whether he likes it or not, is a major part of
    his brief. Racketeers are rubbing their hands and singing his
    praises in the clubs and pubs of south London where they
    meet and garner the proceeds available because of his
    libertarian stance.

    Paddick is taking the credit for ‘improved crime statistics’,
    and attributing the ploy of publicising his intention not to
    arrest dope smokers as a major factor in the ‘improvements’.
    Even if you accept that the statistics indicate an improvement
    in crime suppression — and many residents and bobbies
    in Brixton do not — to aver that this is due to letting cannabis
    consumption flourish is surely too much for even the louche
    literati to inhale without choking on their herbal smoke.

    The measures implemented on a more general basis, i.e.
    dragging Trafpol away from persecuting the ever more
    demonised motorist — pointing them and the tactical support
    groups at areas where crime is prevalent and targeting known
    movers and shakers in crime — is what is working insofar as it
    is. It should have been in place all along, and those breaking
    the laws on cannabis should be included in the trawl. These
    are tried and tested methods used for years and years to good
    effect (until they abandoned them in a rash of political
    correctness in the Eighties). The pink herring of Paddick
    should be ignored.

    Moreover, it is naive to suggest anything other than that his
    blatant display of perverted sexual proclivity, his willingness
    to tolerate criminal behaviour in his private dwelling, his
    cavalier brushing aside of strict and necessary regulations
    about associating with suspects on bail, all indicate a level of
    irresponsibility that cannot and should not be tolerated in a
    police constable, let alone a commander of a sink precinct of
    the Met.

    There is enough confusion already in law enforcement without
    helping the sodomy lobby to run the police as well as many of the other institutions they have captured to such disastrous effect.

    Frank P.
    Metropolitan Police (retired).

  994. EC, thank you very much for that letter of Frank’s. Gimlet precision! What a clever writer, how brilliantly he synthesises his long experience of London, and if I’d been editor of The Speccie I’d have given him a column of his own. Taki, Rod Liddle and Jeremy Clark rolled into one!
    With Frank, his views were formed by his knowledge and experience, whereas today the orthodoxy is held in total defiance of the facts. Trying to move around London today is like being in some weird sci-fi movie of fifty years ago. Quite apart from never knowing when or where a knife might appear, it’s impossible to move amongst the mass of zombies fixated on their smart phones (they need to be to make up for the lack of that quality in their users) often further encumbered against their own safety and that of others by the ever-present earphones. One only hopes that natural selection will work to the advantage of those who are not robotic, but dear knows what it will take, but another Frank P will never emerge from the terrible contamination of a shrinking and polluted gene pool. Anyway, the conjoining of male and female for procreation seems to be unfashionably passé.

  996. Irishboy @ July 1st, 2019 – 21:58

    We were all saddened by his departure, Irishboy, great man, he’s missed, will be missed for a long time. If he were still with us he would enjoy the charade of the Brexit end.

  997. Herbert Thornton @ July 1st, 2019 – 22:48

    Many have pointed that out, Herbert, we may be moving beyond the society described in the novel.

    You may be aware of it, there exists another novel on the same subject matter by a Russian Zamyatin called ‘We’, it was published at the start of the last century, Orwell reviewed it, some think it inspired him to write 1984.

    To be honest, Baron doesn’t think 1984 is the best Orwell produced, for him it’s the ‘Down and under…’ , the Zamyatin tome is unlikely to get promoted much today, if Baron remembers well, it has a black character in it described in terms one would not approve today.

  998. Not that smart of the Blonde Inseminator to get intangled in a pointless debate about liberalism, he cannot win whether Putin’s involved or not, people are fed up with many of the societal phenomena associated with the ‘liberal school of thought’ stuff like immigration, multi-culty, moral equivalence. Just scanning the postings says it clearly.

    For what it’s worth Baron reckons it’s not liberalism that got us into the shite, but its contemporary mutation. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the ideals of equality, freedoms of this or the other, individualism. it’s just that we’ve overplayed many of the tenets, blown them beyond reasonable, just as we over relaxed the money lending criteria before the near financial meltdown in 2008. We have to pull back, moderate ourselves, land on earth, leave the sky for the birds and we’ll be OK under the liberal umbrella, no?

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/01/boris-uk-must-leave-eu-oct-31st-prove-putin-wrong-about-liberalism/

  999. Is anyone still around?

    EC, Robert, Radford, stephen …..Noa….

    Let’shave ya.

  1000. Baron
    July 1st, 2019 – 23:59

    Of course it all depends on what one means by “Liberal”. If I recall correctly, Maggie Thatcher (of Blessed memory), once described herself as a 19th Century Liberal.

    To me, Breibart sounds somewhat confused.

  1001. Herbert Thornton @ July 2nd, 2019 – 01:13

    Yes, you’re right, Herbert, it does depend on how one defines the word, one would be hard put to find many agreeing to one definition. In Russia, they have the Liberal Democratic party led by a man called Zhirinovsky, nothing liberal about it, (you may not know it but this man was greatly admired, backed by Auberon Waugh, who once quipped, not about the Russian, ‘he looks like a victim of a forceps delivery’).

    Back to Zhirinovsky, some time go, he was interviewed by a couple of young male reporters from the TV channel ‘the Rain’ (a deadly opposition to Putin), he said: ‘When we are in the Kremlin, I’ll arrange for your scrotums to be cut off’. That’s an example of Russian ‘liberalism’.

    Back to the present, few days back the loopy Matt Frei interviews a youngish author who penned book called ‘People versus Democracy’, not about the book describing how stupid people are not to love the expressions of current ‘democracy’, but about Putin’s anti-liberal rant. The man totally objected to the notion that liberalism’s on the wane, but also said ‘all opposition parties in Russia are banned’, which is the most blatant lie one can imagine. If anything, Russia has more political parties than all Western democracies combined, many in total opposition to the P’s regime.

    Navally runs one, and aa TV channel, his political analysis are watched by 2-3mn people (over time of months but still an impressive number),the party outfit has offices in all major Russian cities, they issue pamphlets, demonstrate, get into trouble, his followers number six millionplus.

    Opposition’s doing OK in Russia, hence the MSM here never mention it, it would contradict their lies about the ‘dictatorship’.

    Nuffranting.

  1002. Here’s something to cheer everyone up, a fresh rant (fresh in a sense he has reprinted his old cliched lies in a different order) by the over-educated village idiot next door.

    One finds it hard to reconcile his raw hatred of everything Russian (except the real Christians in Russia) with his personal devotion to the the creed. He probably finds it natural what with Putin and the rest of Russia (sans the above mentioned followers of Christ) being evil in his book. The NHS would have a job on its hands if it took him in.

    The Peter H’s piece in worth reading though.

    http://www.alexanderboot.com/old-pro-putin-warriors-neither-die-nor-fade-away/

  1004. Plastered over the papers today, a little light relief from brexit, a lady sunbathing in her garden when a body drops from the sky and lands three feet away from her, it was a stowaway from a Kenya airways flight. We have all heard of pennies from heaven, but this is beyond parody, a corpse from Kenya, had not the poor sod heard of Dover? Now some of you gentle souls may think I am heartless, well bloody right I am and I have a certificate to prove it. What’s more, Vlad is right about the liberals.

  1005. How did the unfortunate stowaway get in, stephen? However tragic for the man, what does it say about the security at the airport the flight originated from? One goes through Stansted one is close to getting stripped naked, and here’s a man smuggling himself on a plane.

    And another question. How did he fall? Was he deliberately dislodged?

  1006. Baron,
    If you had seen some of the airports that I have you would not be surprised. Once I flew from Baghdad to Athens standing up in the isle as there were no seats available. As I had been necking vodka for three hours, I did not realy notice that anything was amiss. They had not invented elf ‘n’safety in them days, not that we would have paid any attention if they had.

  1007. Watch the two clips, Tucker’s first, then Ted Cruz’s next, that’s what the Republic seems to moving into, the nightmare of a fully fledged socialism.

    Is there anything that could bring the country of the free to sanity, or are we all doomed because what cooks in America we get to eat few years later?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddKQIUsmJpU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcAxBorsJjQ

    In the DT few days back Douglas Murray had a piece on Putin’s take on liberalism, the danger to any country that may look up to him for a guidance how to get out of the shite the West’s in. Not a bad take on the issue by Douglas, but still missing the key point, the one Baron’s been pushing for years now.

    It’s not that Putin’s so cunning he sees suddenly the Western unwashed unhappy with the progressive engineering of the human sole. He has been saying it since he took over the Russian presidency almost 20 year ago. It is this that makes the Western Governing Elites (GEs) to see red.

    The GEs and their MSM poodles blame Putin and Russia for poisoning people with Novichok and polonium, gassing & bombing widows and orphans in Syria, meddling in other countries affairs and elections bla bla knowing full well it’s all bull$hit, fake news, false flag ops.

    It’s Putin’s contradicting the ideas of the progressives that frightens them, makes him a target for destruction as it’s his take on the societal set-up that resonates with the vast majority of the Western unwashed. He stands for the opposite of the progressives’ project be it immigration, sovereignty, multi-culty, the lot.

    The example of the idiocy of the Left leaning wankers like the Dem’s candidates for the US presidential election next year is the opposite of Putin’s idea of what a country should look like, should promote, defend. Most people agree with him, hence the overwhelming wish by the GEs and the poodling MSM allies to malign him, to prove him wrong, to frame him, portrait him as the evil incarnate.

    One watches the stuff of the Dem’s candidates in the video one can hardly believe any sane individual could even dream of some of the proposals e.g the right a trans woman (ie a biological man) to a free abortion. It’s beyond a joke, insanity, a case of certified loopiness. Any wonder people turn to a leader that reflects what they, normal, sane, rational beings, think?

    The Western GEs should cease pushing the overcooked liberalism, think again, change course. This will make Putin to lose the support of, admiration by, power over the unwashed.

  1008. stephen maybery @ July 2nd, 2019 – 13:39

    Point taken, stephen, but it was then, it’s now when jihadists lurk everywhere.

  1010. Baron, July 2nd, 2019 – 00:01

    I’ve been busy, shooting Peregrines amongst other things.
    I’ve been trying to spend as much time as possible outdoors whilst the weather is “nice.”

    Wallsters may be aghast to learn that I’ve been considering buying a bicycle. I am obviously in need of counselling.

  1011. EC @ July 3rd, 2019 – 09:31

    How do the wealthy enjoy themselves, heh?

    Serendipity, it must be, EC, Baron was thinking doing the same, he has a motorbike, seldom gets on it because of the weather, it’s either too hot like today or it fugging pisses.

    What will you do?

  1013. In other, less important news Germany practices the continuation of politics by other means.
    Otto Von Bismarck and Helmut Von Moltke would be wurlitzering in their graves if they could see how easy it really was to conquer Europe, except for those damn Brits and the traditional enemy in the East…
    Newsletter – A German Europe

    (Own report) – Yesterday, following fierce power struggles, the EU heads of states and governments nominated Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen to become the next President of the EU Commission. The most influential position in Brussels’ bureaucracy would thus be going to a German politician. Prior to this nomination, also high-ranking politicians from other EU countries had remarked that it is “difficult to explain” that a German should head the Commission, “given the power” Germany exercises in the EU. In fact, not only is EU policy increasingly being shaped by Berlin, but Germans also preside in a growing number of leadership positions within EU administrations, particularly those in the field of finance, but also in the EU-parliament – especially where legislative work is coordinated – and in the field of foreign policy. According to a renowned French EU expert, Germany remains “European” oriented, “because it has created a ‘German Europe’ solely serving German interests.”

    more…
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/7986/

  1014. Noa, July 3rd, 2019 – 22:28

    Unfortunately I shall be unable to attend as I will almost certainly be shooting an endangered species elsewhere, but I did fix that news headline courtesy of Specsavers … (never again!)

    “Buses to perform unique autistic show at Preston Bus Station”

    Not just the bus station, the whole of Preston City Centre needs X-listing.

    Any road up…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHbF0jAzMw

  1015. Noa, July 3rd, 2019 – 22:56

    Deutschland Uber Alles:

    I think that in the upcoming season of RAH Promenade concerts, both Mrs Merkel and Hittlery Clinton should be a invited to make a guest appearance in the percussion section of the EU financed BBC SO. They’d be naturals on tambourine and symbols , respectively.

  1017. EC 09.18

    They and May would make better drum skins, me thinks.
    Adds a whole new meaning to the term ‘Put the kettle on’…

  1018. Baron, July 3rd, 2019 – 10:53

    Is it a JAWA?
    I see an image of you jumping the Czech border fence (Steve McQueen style) on your 1960s ride to freedom. Is it still in running order, or is it ‘Shed and Buried?’

  1020. More news from the YCMIU department…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KitoEPk-CDE

    Alistair’s despair mirrors my own on Monday when I discovered that we still had another 21 days of BS to endure before the results of the Tory leadership contest are announced. Only once the nation has been rendered completely comatose will the next freshly squeezed glistening turd will be elevated to be the fake leader of the fake Conservative party hell bent on enacting a fake BRexit.

    I truly feel sorry for HMQ having to meet these arseholes once a week.
    God help us all, and God Save The Queen!

  1021. What with EC blowing his worldly wealth on bicycles and Baron pissing in the wind, I had trouble working out what was happening across the nation, then reality struck home. It’s Brexit innit.

  1022. It’s the lack of BRexit happening Stephen.

    Battle for BRexit: Ignoring the various “here today gone tomorrow” bought and paid for faeces in the HoC I view the main protagonists as Brussels vs The City of London. I don’t think that either factional has the interest of the great British unwashed at heart, do you? Until the needs of the City of London can be accommodated there will be no “deal” that passes the HoC. When the fudge does actually happen it’ll be to hell with the rest of us.

    We are now firmly back in no man’s land, or “It’ll all be over by Christmas” territory. Mm, now where have I heard that before…

    I’m thinking sinking my bicycle money into starting a confectionary business. My first product is going to be Christmas BRexit Fudge. Do you think it could be a money spinner?

  1023. stephen maybery, July 5th, 2019 – 14:12

    Re: The struggle for micuration

    I don’t know about you, but with increasing age the only effective way to achieve success, headwind or not, is to walk backwards whilst making the attempt. It has proved to be thus in our family at any rate.

  1024. EC,
    I share your frustration EC, with me it is brushing my teeth, as soon as I turn the contraption on I am desperate for a leak, just try that with an electric toothbrush in one hand and something else in the other, and that has bugger all to do with Brexit. On that subject I believe implicitly that we will be out by Christmas, they just have not told us which Christmas.

  1025. EC
    No need for a bicycle whilst we are still, just, permitted to drive cars.
    As I recollect we are still legally permitted to micturate on the nearside (or was it offside?) rear wheel whilst travelling.
    Whilst it nay be possible I don’t think this is either particularly safe, or as Mrs Noa once commented, sanitary, if you are holding the wheel.

  1026. Noa, Stephen,

    Thanks for not taking the piss over my misspeelling early today. I wouldn’t mind but I actually looked it up. I blame it on SpecSaver. Either that or a “fuggin” dodgy keyboard.

  1027. As Civil Service leaks revaeal the UK ambassador to the US to be openly contemptuous of POTUS and Farage calls for his dismissal the question arises, who is responsible for such a high level leak?
    Given that Mark Sedwell is leaving his position as May’s puppet master and has expressed a keen interest in that very role, could it possibly be him? Inadvertently of coourse.
    And is it even possible that one of Nigel Farage’s many friends has seen an opportunity to get the Brexit Party leader out of Boris s golden locks by satisfying Trumps express desire to have him as the UK ambassador?
    Wheels within wheels….

  1028. Noa
    It will not come as a surprise that the British government leaked alleged cables of Ambassador Darroch in view of what is now well established was a British-led campaign for a coup d’etat against President Trump – an act of war by the way – whose inception was prepared before Mr. Trump was inaugurated and clearly continues to this day.The campaign includes all the wiles in which British diplomacy has been so well-practised, including assassination attempts ,the last of which was heralded in a tweet by Jeb Bush for July 4th last. – but was thwarted With this in mind, it is perhaps significant for the etihcal and political quality of our next government that two men holding the position of Foreign Secretary in the period from 2016 to the present were Mr. Boris Johnson and Mr. Jeremy Hunt. President Trump has already commented publicly in response to a question from the press on his assessment of Ambassador Darroch. Will the British media put a question to Messrs. Johnson and Hunt on the Darroch Affair and the evidence of a British government conspiracy to overthrow the elected leader of the USA – a special relationship indeed!

  1029. Malfluer
    Nice to see you posting here again.
    We must await further developments on this issue.
    Darroch will be replaced swiftly now that Trump has condemned him. The question of who will succeed him intrigues because it will show who holds power.
    Whilst Hunt and Johnson were both Foreign Secretaries it was and still is May who holds power.
    I suspect that her ‘dead man’s hand’ will appoint Sedwell, the probable instigator of the leak.
    As to Farage, he occupies the same loathed 12th Circle of Hell for the Tories as Tommy Robinson does, but without the stigma of being working class.
    The Johnson camp has already contemptuously ruled out the possibility of his appointment.

  1035. To his surprise, Baron has discovered he has 9 kinds he didn’t;t now about before, all blind, he intends to claim universal credit for them, keep your fingers crossed the country’s government doesn’t change until he pockets the money.

    In a sane society, where those civil servants responsible for dishing out the taxpayers’ money were genuinely responsible there would be massive sackings, the politicians responsible for the fiasco would be looking for a new job, too, and people armed with forks would be on the streets chasing the fraudsters in the direction of the English Channel to facilitate either their drowning or, if they could make it, swimming to where they came fro.

    The incompetence of this Government, of the whole of our political class is staggering, and they get away with it. Sad, very sad.

  1036. Noa @ July 8th, 2019 – 20:50

    One doesn’t have to be a trained lawyer to decide what’s more prejudicial to a fair trail. Is it the filming of the defendants who are walking towards the court building, or is it the filming of a house of a famous singer raided by the police as the first step to obtain evidence for a possible charge.

    How quaint that Navally with his TV channel mauling Putin 24/7, his numerous branches across Russia, his 6mn supporters he often gathers to demonstrate is walking free the streets of Moscow, yet in Britain a young man who wants to curtail immigration is dragged through the courts, may end up in prison.

  1037. The arrest of the super peado, EC, could be a smart move by the Donald. Epstein or rather the exploits of his sexual empire may be the soft underbelly through which to get to the Clinton centred mafia. They got al Capone on tax fraud charges, they may get the rotten apples of the Swamp on charges of under-age sex, no?

  1038. Hi Malfleur, how are things in the distant lands of the East? Already feeling the heavy breathing of the Mandrin speakers? They are coming, the Huawei’s frontal attack on the dwindling capacity of the West to make things is but a start, Baron has acquired a pair of chopsticks, just in case he needs to show the new rulers of the world how much he appreciates their culture.

    欢迎我的新朋友

  1039. Noa @ July 7th, 2019 – 18:49

    Even if the Donald were less vindictive the faux pas would be unforgivable, unless the man goes we are going the get screwed when it comes to talking the trade deal. To make things worse, the stupid female says she has full confidence of him. How’s that going to help? Has she ever made a judgment that avoids fugging things up?

  1040. stephen maybery @ July 6th, 2019 – 13:06

    Aren’t other people’s ‘problemas’ amazing, stephen?

    Install a funnel of a size that can accommodate your number under the sink’s front, pee as much as you want at your heart’s content whilst brushing your dentures, heh, heh, heh.

  1041. That’s enough fun, let’s have some breakfast before another wave of news of the Government’s incompetence hits us.

  1042. Sir Kim Darroch as Guildenstern?:

    ROSENCRANTZ:

    You take me for a sponge, my lord?

    HAMLET:

    Ay, sir; that soaks up the King’s countenance, his
    rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King best
    service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner
    of his jaw; first mouth’d, to be last swallowed. When he
    needs what you have glean’d, it is but squeezing you and,
    sponge, you shall be dry again

    Trump our Fortinbras?

  1043. The British Political Class 2019?

    “Wilhelm Meister translates Hamlet and adapts it for the stage; a difficulty arises in finding characters to fill all the parts, and Serlo, the stage manager, suggests that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern should be compressed into one. ‘Heaven preserve me from all such curtailments!’ answered Wilhelm, ‘they destroy at once the sense and the effect. What these two persons are and do, it is impossible to represent by one. In such small matters, we discover Shakespeare’s greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, — how can they be expressed by a single man? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people, if they could be had: for it is only in society that they are anything; they are society itself, and Shakespeare showed no little wisdom and discernment in bringing in a pair of them.'” — Goethe.

  1045. COX UP
    The proceedings in the Old Bailey against Tommy Robinson are a Cox up, as are those in the High Court in the Robin Tilbrook Case. When Justice is perverting the course of justice, we are back to the old conundrum: quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

  1047. Baron,
    Oo, I’d never have thought of that, but then I had a chapel upbringing. I got my hands on an old funnel, my father used it when making elderberry wine. Come to think of it, the old man’s moonshine tasted of piss.

  1050. John birch @ July 10th, 2019 – 19:38

    What a challenge, John.

    The guy has constructed a perfectly believable scenario based on the trend that has been evident in the Republic since Bill Clinton took office, it’s quite plausible it may pan out the way he says, he’s definitely right saying it will be a war of ideas rather than one where guns make the arguments, it would also seem more likely that it will be individual states that convulse rather than the whole of the Republic, but the weakness of his argument here is in that the Federal Government is likely to step in if the troubles in the individual states don’t occur simultaneously.

    On the deviousness of the Dems, the progressives, the anointed he cannot be faulted, they are without any doubt much better at the PR, the ways they will deploy to gradually take over avoiding the ‘trigger’ situations are very well defined and explained.

    The one thing he hasn’t factored in is the Donald. It doesn’t;t look it yet, but Trump may prevail eventually, in particular if he gets another four years next year.

    The arrest of Epstein may seem insignificant, but it may open up Pandora box on much the same people he’s been trying to confront face on using the tools of politics, so far with not much success. The opening of the new battlefield revealing their sexual perversions could hurt the Deep State more if only because they didn’t expect it to happen. If Epstein talks (the media say he will to cut the sentence) many of the Donald’s opponents could go down, which would make the Dem’s progress to eliminate the opposition not as certain as the guy believes it will be.

    Is his slicing of the Republic’s future relevant for us? For what it’s worth, Baron reckons it isn’t, the American psyche is more of the Al Capone breed what with guns galore, ours (i.e. in the UK) relies more on the softer power of an argument.

    As you may remember Baron’s argument rests solely on money, he reckons that people may be unhappy about many things such as fox hunting, gay marriages, wars in the ME or whatever, but they are unlikely to do anything about it but grumble, moan and bitch.

    It’s only when their economic livelihood gets hit that they take to the street s, but not to burn cars or break windows. They put their faith into the silence of the marching millions, and that will probably be it if the economy turns down, the money gets tight, house prices turn south.

  1051. stephen maybery @ July 10th, 2019 – 16:47

    You’re not the only one, stephen, having problems in the micturition department, the barbarian’s sleep gets interrupted every night and not just once. It’s old age, young sir, one has to bear it.

  1052. Malfleur @ July 10th, 2019 – 05:10

    How ironic that Navalny walks free (so far anyway) in Moscow, but Tommy is likely to be sent down in Britain.

  1053. The Hamlet is too much high culture for Baron, Malfleur, his sonnets are OK though, at one point he even learnt some by heart – let me not to the marriage of true minds …(that’s all he can recall today, arghh)

  1055. Baron July 10th at 23:57 and July 11th 00:06

    With tosspots still had drunken heads … hey ho

  1056. Thanks for that Baron, interesting wasn’t it.
    You can see many similarities with what’s going on over here as well.

  1060. Noa, July 10th, 2019 – 09:58

    Wonderful! The BBC trying to outdo The Guardian, I mean.

    [BTW, are you being forced to read the Grauniad, BBC website etc. as part of your de-radicalisation and reeducation programme?]

    So to summarise that BBC article: “I really don’t remember the last time we had violence here,” said the manager of The Savoy, The Dorchester, The Langham, The Ritz, Brown’s etc.

    We mustn’t, however, mock the heirs of Vidkun in their attempt to slow the pace of civilisational slide. Their crime figures must be the envy Sadiq Khan. eg. I read recently that in Oslo, despite being 33% of the population, immigrants only commit 70% of violent crimes.

  1061. Noa, July 11th, 2019 – 08:39

    Would Piss Morgan have conducted an aggressive hit piece on a devout Muslim in such a way? I think not. Morgan is the hypocrite’s hypocrite, and a complete turd.

  1062. EC
    I was reading the BBC prison piece because I wanted a fluffy bunny counter to the alt-right wing, hang em high agitprop of David Fraser’s ‘Licence to Kill’.
    I’m glad I did. For a mere £100k per year we too could adopt a murderer, jihadi, druggie or thief and keep him in the sort of secure mansion that Baron’s moles luxuriate in but that most of us window licking OAPs can only dream of.
    And not only that, when I came out (oh er missus!) I’d be able to fix your Roller too!
    Anyway I’m off to Oslo soon to commit a bit of light burglary. It will be a lot cheaper that paying the Council tax to watch synchronised bus driver dancing. And the staff at the detention centre look as though they’ve been recruited by Hugh Heffer. What’s not to like?
    https://www.bookguild.co.uk/bookshop-collection/non-fiction/history/licence-kill-britains-surrender-violence/

  1063. EC
    The imamMorgan (pbuh) quite rightly treats Das Koran with the same reverence that he treats his bank account, as his You tube interview of inmate Tommy Yaxley Yono Robinson (soon to be deceased) shows.

  1068. Has there been an attempted removal of a duly elected President of the United States by illegal means?

  1069. If there are deep state black sites in the United Kingdom, then let’s call the New World into our Polity to redress the balance in the Old….

  1070. Brexit means exit,
    Brexit means exit.

    It doesn’t mean:
    Ignoring the masses who had their say,
    Action replaced by incompetence and delay,
    Having thirty-nine billion pounds to pay,
    Giving our fishing waters away,
    Compromising the borders of our precious UK,
    Calls to vote again, the Brussels Mafia way,
    Hope of a nation reduced to a faltering ray,
    Democracy treated as if its had its day.

    You promised,
    You promised,
    To implement what the people decided,
    Those promises now watered down,
    Refuted and then derided.

    But most of all,
    But most of all,
    Mrs May,
    Our vote to Leave,
    Was definitely,
    Was definitely,
    Not a vote to stay!

    So come on Boris
    Don’t be slow.
    Be like Elvis,
    Go man,go.

  1071. MAGGIE OLIVER reveals how she exposed the Rochdale grooming gang

    https://mol.im/a/7238483

    I think this says it all.

    Yet Amber’s evidence made it impossible to pretend that there wasn’t an epidemic of abuse in Rochdale. How could I, as a police officer, live with that knowledge?
    Incandescent with rage, and heartbroken that Amber had been tossed aside as though she didn’t matter, I confronted my supervisor. ‘I don’t believe what I’m hearing!’ I shouted. ‘After putting her through hell, reliving the abuse, months of interviews, drive-arounds, identity parades — and now this?
    The supervisor looked at me patronisingly. ‘Maggie! Calm down, calm down,’ he said. ‘Remember, this is all just a game.’
    I looked at him in total disbelief. ‘A game?’ I gasped. He nodded; the justice system, he insisted, was just a game.
    It took every ounce of my self-control not to flatten him right there and then. Instead, with the whole office looking on, I grabbed my bag and coat and walked out.

  1075. Malfleur @ July 13th, 2019 – 07:15

    That’s a subject more dangerous for any mortal to pursue than Skripal, Wikileaks or anything similar, Malfeur, for obvious reasons, it’s also one where independent evidence is almost always non-existent.

    This is not that Baron has any sympathy for the bastards who engage in exploiting kids, far from it, a physical castration is the least punishment they should get.

    The one instance when Baron learnt something about it was when he served in the army way back in the 60s, the unit had to gays, one was very open about how he and a friend (also gay) trapped a peado quite willingly, benefitted from it for years, he kept buying them sweets, toys, clothes, later alcohol, foreign imports. The gay may have been making it up, but it’s unlikely if you knew the circumstances of his revelations (he had letters to show us, these were his collateral).

    The point though is it was he and his friend who trapped the man, not the other way round. One has to be careful with cases of this sort, kids can be ruthless, can lie easily and quite convincingly.

    The Epstein’s case, the grooming gangs here are different cases from what Baron’s talking about, the evidence is overwhelming, the punishment too mild.

  1076. John birch @ July 12th, 2019 – 21:43

    The first thing that should have happened, John is her bosses should have been dismissed, barred from ever holding any public office.

  1077. Fergus Pickering @ July 12th, 2019 – 21:26

    Good one, Fergus, but totally unsuitable for the MSM.

  1078. If you have half an hour to spare, watch it, it’s Navalny & co’s shot at the forthcoming election for Moscow, mayor and all, the video’s put together very professionally, the evidence’s unquestionable, the court decisions are correct as one would expect. What Navalny doesn’t say is that the ‘culprit’ is his mother and his young son, the properties and other assets are in their names (mostly), they are arguing now whether an old woman should go to jail.

    Even if you don’t watch the lot, put the cursor a couple of minutes before the end, hear what Navalny has to say about Putin.

    Why isn’t this shown here, no MSM has mentioned it, the BBC seems to have ignored the content of the video, too. Weird, isn’t it?

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAw3WynQJMm7tMy093y37A

  1079. Baron, has the BBC yet reported on the ongoing campaign of the British government to overthrow the President of the United States? Should the English go along with this?

  1080. Who said?:

    Sorry, can’t let them into our Country. If too crowded, tell them not to come to [England] and tell the [Tories] to fix the Loopholes – Problem Solved!

    Boris Johnson? Jeremy Huntbyn? Rory “the Hedgehog” Stewart? Benjamin Disraeli?
    None of the above?

  1081. “Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.”

  1082. Malfleur @ July 14th, 2019 – 16:21

    NOTA is the answer, Malfleur, the honour for the quote goes to the Donald. Right?

  1083. Malfleur @ July 14th, 2019 – 15:30

    If you’re referring to the Steele’s dossier, Malfleur, then it’s truly amazing the Donald, or rather one of his lieutenants hasn’t yet looked into it. It’s a document cobbled up together with the help of the US secret service’s friend, it’s British counterpart, Steele must still have plenty of contacts in the service here, they would have been more than willing to assist. Why the reluctance to investigate?

  1084. @Malfleur 12th, 2019 06:29

    Has there been an attempted removal of a duly elected President of the United States by illegal means?

    I guess, if you’re including assassination, quite a few.

  1086. There is some hope that Mr. Trump plans to drain our swamp as well as his own:

    July 15 2019

    >>7040039
    This is not another 4 year election….
    “DRAIN THE SWAMP” does not simply refer to removal of those corrupt in DC….
    GOD WINS.
    Q

  1089. In the Sun debate between Charterhouse and Eton, it was not clear that either candidate is fit to act as prime minister of the United Kingdom; but we have to work with what’s available, right?

    Moral hypocrisy and incomprehension (or deliberate avoidance) of the actual political gestalt was on show in their responses to the question on President Trump’s tweeted response to attacks on him by certain Democrat representatives.
    Here is the actual presidential tweet whose real meaning was obfuscated aby Sun and questioner and distorted in the answers by Eton/Charterhous:

    “So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
    ….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
    ….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”.

    Both Eton and Charterhouse have been Foreign Secretary while the British government was working with American citizens to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States – not a topic in the Sun debate of course.

  1093. Malfleur @ July 16th, 2019 – 05:46

    Good point, Malfleur.

    The Donald’s quote didn’t do down well with the Deep State, but for ordinary Americans he didn’t go far enough.

    What puzzles is why do our politicians feel the need to interfere in the Republic’s squabble, it has nothing to do with us, neither the Canadian PM nor the Mutti or the EU felt it necessary to comment. Our political clowns should have also kept their mouths shut, no?

  1094. Malfleur @ July 16th, 2019 – 14:31

    The E affair is indeed big, it may be the door that opens up to the shenanigans of the Clinton mafia, one hopes.

  1095. Baron

    Our politicians are, in large number, part and parcel of the campaign against Mr. Trump which has been ongoing since 2016 They have been instructed, or at least encouraged, to interfere.

    Some would say that diplomatic friction dates much farther back. There is a disputed anecdote that when Thomas Jefferson was presented to George lll at the Court of St. James’ in March 1786, the king turned his back on him.

  1096. Baron, July 17th, 2019 – 00:51

    “What puzzles is why do our politicians feel the need to interfere in the Republic’s squabble, it has nothing to do with us…”

    It’s called “misdirection”, Baron.

    What better way for Mr. Eton and Mr. Charterhouse to gain some respite from the probing of their extremely flaky positions on BRexit? Vying to out-virtue signal one other whilst pandering to the morally bankrupt MSM “progressive” agenda never did anybody in public life any harm, did it?

  1097. I know I shouldn’t laugh but I posted here a few months ago about our local newspaper having a very positive story about our town centre homeless people who all looked after themselves and each other and were from what I can imagine an example to us all.
    Unfortunately that lovely image took a bit of a knock when virtually immediately afterwards two or three of them stabbed to death one of their best friends over some issue of the sort that these people deal with. unfortunately that lovely image took a bit of a knock when virtually immediately afterwards three of them stabbed to death one of their best friends over some issue of the sort that these people live with .
    So anyway that one quietened down and now we’ve got a new one.
    Half a dozen of our lovable homeless community decided to rob a 17-year-old drug dealer. (As you do).
    A charming young fellow From London who had obviously come for a day out in the country, probably to enjoy looking at the things that inspired constable to create his paintings .
    Unfortunately after the meeting arranged in a charming place called graffiti alley .(I suspect a place not known to constable) A minor disagreement occurred which ended up with a 17-year-old drug dealer stabbing to death one person and seriously injuring another .
    So the drug dealer is claiming they attacked him and he is not guilty and the trial continues.
    Oh what a wonderful vibrant life we lead today .

  1098. When all murry was the pub landlord Part of his routine was to ask people their name and then say lovely English name.
    He’d have a bloody hard job to say that with the names in court cases in my local newspaper nowadays.
    If it’s not wogabonzojonjo its some unpronounceable Eastern European Name.
    Bob brown and Dave Simmons seem to have disappeared.

  1099. “Bob brown and Dave Simmons seem to have disappeared.”

    Either they’ll have cleared off to Benidorm or else they’ll have been banged up for Internet face hate crimes.

  1100. The BBC Radio4 ‘From Our Correspondent’ chaired by that patronising woman whose name Baron cannot remember, Kate or whatever, amongst the the correspondents today a guy who covers the Republic, he visited the birthplace town of Pence, found an unusual experience there, a monarchist.

    In his spiel, the BBC trained lapdog said essentially that in the past, one’s revolt consisted of smoking dope, listening to underground music, attending few rallies. This has changed in the last 30 years. Today, revolting has moved to the extreme, it touches often boils over racism, nazism, trumpetism …

    It didn’t cross the fruitcake’s mind why would people move from something mildly rebellious to something that often feels scary, disgusting, unacceptable to most people.

    The people have had enough of the progressive junk which seems getting worse and worse, they are fed up with PC, the multy-culty, transgenderism, identity politics and stuff. No political remedies of the past offered by the current state of democracy seem to be capable reversing or even stopping it.

    The result of it is exactly what the correspondent found in that small American town, bunches of people who are ready to give a chance to a solution that few decades ago would have seemed totally bizarre.

  1101. Q Anon and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3hDCieufY

    I introduce this rather long (for Wallsters) documentary, framed by a Daddy Dragon post, as an Essex boy where the Revolt started and with deference to PETER FROM MAIDSTONE and his deference early in the history of this Wall to the Kentishman ,John Ball. We should also be aware of the extraordinary demonstrations of the gilets jaunes in Paris and the crowds of English demonstrating against the jailing of Tommy Robinson in London on July 14th.

    Oh, and P.S. https://qanon.pub/

  1102. Q Anon and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3hDCieufY

    I introduce this rather long (for Wallsters) documentary, framed by a Daddy Dragon post, as an Essex boy where the Revolt started and with deference to PETER FROM MAIDSTONE and his deference early in the history of this Wall to the Kentishman ,John Ball. We should also be aware of the extraordinary demonstrations of the gilets jaunes in Paris and the crowds of English demonstrating against the jailing of Tommy Robinson in London on July 14th.

    Oh, and P.S. https://qanon.pub/

  1103. Q Anon and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3hDCieufY

    I introduce this rather long (for Wallsters) documentary, framed by a Daddy Dragon post, as an Essex boy where the Revolt started and with deference to PETER FROM MAIDSTONE and his deference early in the history of this Wall to the Kentishman ,John Ball. We should also be aware of the extraordinary demonstrations of the gilets jaunes in Paris and the crowds of English demonstrating against the jailing of Tommy Robinson in London on July 14th.

    Oh, and P.S. https://qanon.pub/

  1104. Q Anon and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3hDCieufY

    I introduce this rather long (for Wallsters) documentary, framed by a Daddy Dragon post, as an Essex boy where the Revolt started and with deference to PETER FROM MAIDSTONE and his deference early in the history of this Wall to the Kentishman ,John Ball. We should also be aware of the extraordinary demonstrations of the gilets jaunes in Paris and the crowds of English demonstrating against the jailing of Tommy Robinson in London on July 14th.

    Oh, and P.S. https://qanon.pub/

  1106. Malfleur @ July 18th, 2019 – 23:54

    How dare you, Malfelur, the thing runs for ages, you furnish three helpings of it.

    The song’s nice, Baron hasn’t;t heard it before. The most important aspect of the peasants revolt story (or any other serious social upheaval since), is that it was money that compelled the unwashed to the barricades. In 1381, the tax was the trigger, the underpinning base was the dosh or rather the lack of it. That’s what Baron keeps saying, it will be only when the people feel the strain in their pockets they take to the streets.

    The timing’s hard to guess, one future event could be the politicians’ attack on the privately help property, the house stock is the last chunk of personal wealth the GEs (the governing elites) haven’t attacked yet, but they will, they must because as one of the founding fathers over in the Republic said ‘if you want the government to do everything you want, the government will take from you everything you have’.

    We seem to be moving irrevocably in the path of demanding the government to do for us close to everything, hence they cannot but grab everything we still possess.

    The property market’s worth well over £4 trillion, just one per cent of it is a cool £40bn, not a chicken feed. It will come in stages, of course, first those who own expensive houses will have to cough up, everyone will applaud on the basis that if the bastards have enough money to buy a house for £30mn or so then often leave it empty, they can very well pay £300,000 pa to help the deserving non-owners. That will be the start, we’ll all end up paying in the end, but before they force us, people may well object the same way the peasantry objected in the 14th century.

  1107. Baron

    The compulsion that brought so many people to London on July 14th to protest the corrupt court decision in the Tommy Robinson case and of course in support of wider and wider calls for Tommy’s release from jail was not a poll tax or concerns at the constraints of the housing market in face of the conscious import into England by our discredited political class of overwhelming numbers of followers of islam, but outrage at paedophilia and its systematise organisation by the muslim “grooming” , read “raping”, gangs which have violated our young women with no outcry by Church or State. That same vicious paedophilia is, as we have slowly and with initial disbelief, come to understand, has also been widespread regardless of religious persuasion in that same political class and its enforcers. The State’s attack on Tommy, the failure to defend him whether by members of the conventional establishment or its new manifestations such as the Brexit Party; that same combination of a politicised justice system and sexual attacks on our children, particularly when coming together with the brute, wily and devious attempts to force Remain on a stubborn people which is recovering its sense of history and its sense of honour may yet shatter the complacency of our EUrophiles.
    We should reach out, while we are still able, to the MAGA patriots and to the gilets jaunes, and to all those of good will in Europe and the Five Eyes countries to reset history on the old path of western civilization which we have map in hand!

  1109. EC @ July 20th, 2019 – 08:39

    The West will regain its moral footing only when this man stands trial, EC. How could he live with himself is a puzzle, one can hope he’ll get his due reward for what he’s done soon.

    The talk doesn’t even make sense, Magnitsky wasn’t a lawyer, he was an accountant, not a big one, he worked on his own for small outfits, even Navalny confirms this. His wife was visiting him in jail, never complained about any beating. There’s a film by a Russian director who admired B, decided to do a film about him and his mistreatment by the Kremlin, during the making of it discoed things that made him change his mind completely, he’s now B’s worst enemy.

    How could the FSB miss the selling of the funds? This is so idiotic it beggars belief he said it. Lastly, if Putin got 50% where and how he keeps the money so secret?

    There’s a lot of bad in Russia, but this man is genuinely evil, still has the communist DNA in his make up.

  1110. This is an interesting clip of an interview with a Russian Jewish British comedian educated at Edinburgh university who was exiled with his grandfather who had been a bad boy in the Soviet Union:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dt1Qcv_RY&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=cx9Hv3m7rfXIWT__%3A6

    The best point made is perhaps that the alternative media is the place where free conversations can be had.

    Tell me folks is England as politically correct now as indicated? 3,000 compatriots jailed for hate crimes last year…?
    Can I go home again…?

  1111. Here is an argument that there may be a place where we shall hear Frank P’s views in person on his experience of the afterlife. I think that a couple of years ago Wallsters did engage fragmentarily with the flaws in the evolutionary theory of Darwin. This SGT Report, entitled The Elite Don’t Want You To Know: GOD IS REAL – Here’s the Proof., discusses the problems with the theory in some detail.

    I have to warn Baron that, at least for those with the goldfish span, it goes on too long, namely for 46 minutes.

    Baron, you don’t need to watch it! Especially if you have already engaged with God. (Am I being politically incorrect?)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2jyF_XyTc8

    As an afterthought, I have to say that although this interview gives support to the arguments for intelligent design, and an intelligent designer, that still begs the question of the existence of an afterlife.

  1114. A new take on the MH17 disaster that raises two serious questions. Why was Malyasia excluded from the investigation, and why nobody checked the validity of evidence furnished by Ukraine when the country is amongst the possible perpetrators of the tragedy?

    http://johnhelmer.net/mh-17-evidence-tampering-revealed-by-malaysia-fbi-attempt-to-seize-black-boxes-dutch-cover-up-of-forged-telephone-tapes-ukrainian-air-force-hid-radar-records-crash-site-witness-testimon/

  1115. Malfleur @ July 20th, 2019 – 12:48

    Diligently and patiently Baron watched the whole show on hw Darwin got things wrong, Malfleur, nothing much to disagree with, there’s no doubt someone or something that we cannot pinpoint with our senses designed the structure of the world and the living proteins within it, the question is who or what is the entity, can we ever discover the designer?

    Btw, Baron happens to possess all three of Michael Behe’s books, that’s the guy who came up with the ‘irreducible complexity’ explanation of life, a definite proof that small step evolution cannot explain and hence support the existence of systems that would be function-less unless each and every component of their complexity is present (what an English, heh?).

  1118. Baron, July 22nd, 2019 – 22:34

    Once the spooks get involved it’s impossible to get to the truth.
    The only thing I know is to regard any orchestrated (as it so often is) consensus in the MSM narrative with suspicion unless it it is backed up by cold hard facts.

  1119. Baron, July 23rd, 2019 – 00:21

    You want madder? Here’s how the NYT celebrated the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

    “To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias
    The Apollo program was designed by men, for men.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/women-astronauts-nasa.html

    Mind you, in the light of the above story about Jessica Yaniv’s unplucked Cock the solution may be to allow only transgenders on to the space programme, and let them sort the bathroom arrangements out once they get there.

  1120. For Peter, the boss of the blog:

    You OK, Peter? You may like to say a word here and there.

    It touched on the embarrassing, broadcasting nonsense to the world using the good offices of your blog but failing to contribute to it. Baron’s latest chip-in may have been last century, he’s done so again, will try to do it bi-annually, exploit the blog to put the world right (as if it was doable).

  1121. EC @ July 23rd, 2019 – 09:49

    Everyone seems to be against this poor tran, but why, EC?

    Here’s a human being feeling deeply feminine, desiring nothing more than having her hairy balls turned into a gleeing hanging pouch that would be the object of admiration for any consenting male, just imagine the fun playing with such a worked over scrotum in a foreplay lasting seconds squeezing the balls tightly and tighter still ……

    You may have come across ‘The Onion’, the heading in the NYT reads like one of their headings.

  1122. EC @ July 23rd, 2019 – 09:35

    Good point, EC, but is there anything these days the spooks arne’t involved in?

  1123. Well, good luck and God speed to Boris! I have to say I feel a certain sense of reassurance and expectation n that the country now has a man at the helm who could wave a kipper at an audience whose vote he was seeking. This cook will serve not only peppery dishes

  1124. I never thought I would ever say this but having read recent posts on the wall, I am of the suspicion that it is starting to resemble the Guardian, all balls .

  1126. One of BBC Radio4 programmes, perhaps ‘You & Yours’, the subject people with debt they cannot repay entering into debt management plans, repaying the owed money over many years. One of the ‘victims’ a well spoke female, single, kids was complaining that after years of repayments she still owned a lot thanks to an advice that wasn’t suitable for her.

    Why Baron’s rabbiting about it is a point common to many such cases. One cannot really decide who’s right and who’s wrong because the details are missing. How has she amassed such a huge debt, does she have a job, what’s her income, outgoings that sort of stuff, without any such details the presenter can skew the case any way she or he likes, it’s useless really, waste of time, yet this inadequate presentation of cases of hardship is being repeated over and over again, and not just on the radio, but also on the box where cases of people with financial problems are equally badly explained.

  1128. Baron
    July 24th, 2019 – 23:03

    I think he is talking balls, Baron.

    *****
    British Operation to Destroy the American Republic

    Meanwhile, what is to be done with a government that has been spending years trying to overthrow the Trump administration with the assistance of American collaborators? Does this not disturb any of us?

    Here follows the most apt comment on yesterday’s Congressional testimony by Robert Mueller:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRQaVwohEiU

    This will take another some 51 minutes of your time and this, in trying to understand and halt, the attack on our civilisation is of course grotesquely excessive.

  1130. Jubilate Agno
    By the way, before the redoubtable Mr. Mogg appears in the clip whose url I posted in the foregoing entry, the fixed camera placed opposite the door of No. 10 catches a cat being deposited on the steps by an anonymous man.
    Is this perhaps an early appointment by Mr. Johnson and, if so, where has its predecessor been moved? Whatever the answer to this pressing question, it did not fail to spark in me the line of Christopher Smart, which takes on new power in the midst of the Brexit crisis:

    “For the English Cats are the best in Europe”

  1133. And another thing:

    How could stephen talk balls, Malfleur? He’s balanced in his slicing of issues, makes valid points, and above all is a top notch writer, something Baron can vouch for.

    Something must have engendered his displeasure, it may have been Baron’s piece about the Canadian nutter, meant ironically though.

    But we are a friendly and democratic blog, disagreements between friends should not matter, that’s how people are, different eye colours, different views, no?

  1134. Baron,
    what did I mean? certainly no displeasure was triggered, quite the reverse, this was the result of my perverse sense of humour bubbling to the surface after reading several posts centred around, wait for it, balls. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Now for something more serious.

    I have not been a great admirer of Boris but I was cheered by his debut on the steps of Downing Street and later in Parliament. Dear God what have the Tories done? just gone and voted a genuine Tory in as leader, if he carries on like this he might just turn out to be a winner.

  1135. Agree, stephen.

    For reasons too many, Baron wasn’t;t keen on the man, is still 50-50, waits for a major decision he takes to shift one way or the other on him. It may well be he had behaved in a way he did because as the saying goes ‘one lives with the wolves, one howls’. We shall see.

  1136. Baron,
    much has been written on the morals of Boris, all of which goes to illustrate the withering hypocrisy of modern life. oUR most successful foreign secretary and one of out better Prime ministers was Lord Palmerston, good old pam to the majority of the populace, he took no nonsense from foreigners, witness the Don Pacifco case and the war of Jenkins ear, he would not have stood any nonsense from the Iranians, but then he would have had the gunboats to back up his decision. By the way, good old Pam died on a billiard table while screwing one of the maids. Alas, they don’t make ’em like that any more.

  1138. “By the way, good old Pam died on a billiard table while screwing one of the maids. Alas, they don’t make ’em like that any more.”

    More balls, Stephen?

    Alas “good ole Pammy” was possessed of one too few to be attempting such a manoeuvre on the green baize… as far as the game of billiards goes. And the maid? She had the distinction of being the last in the queue, so to speak.

  1139. EC,
    More balls? well yes, we just do not seem able at the moment to get away from the damned things, what is the World coming to?. By the way a very good post, we need all the humour we can get at the moment. Keep ’em coming.

  1140. A man called Peter Oborne who writes for the DM (Baron thinks) this morning on the BBC4 Radio said that the country has never had such a far right wing conservative government, it’s by far more to the right than Lady T’s. Nobody, and there were four other pontificators, challenged him.

    If the team set up by BoJo is far right, what TF would be the one put together by Adolf? This extreme labelling of political parties, individuals or other institutions has gone beyond pale, it’s fugging nonsensical, someone should tell the tossers that they would be deprived of a public platform if they persist.

  1141. Balls and all:

    Thank you EC for the enlightening posting, they, individuals like the good old Palmerston, are indeed no longer bred in this country, one can blame the PC plus idiocy, many people do, Baron blames Putin who seems to be escaping lately from any blame for anything.

    Btw, one wouldn’t be shocked at all if the Blonde Inseminator repeated P’s billiard table Ugandan leg-over exercise, survive it, even though he would be serving simultaneously not one but a number of willing females. The man’s macho to a power to alot.

  1142. Baron

    I suspect that more billiard tables are being rattled across the country than he gives credit for and may even be among the locations where our future Palmerstons are being bred.

    Speaking of which, I notice that Mr. Johnson called for more beautiful buildings in the United Kingdom. Would he rapidly put his money where his mouth was by seeing to it that Sir Roger Scruton is reappointed without delay as Chairman of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission from which he was so absurdly and untimely plucked!

  1143. Malfleur @ July 27th, 2019 – 15:32

    You’ve missed it, Malfleur, Sir Roger’s back, the wanker of a Minister, Baron forgets his name, got the sack.

    Sadly nether the knighted Roger, nor the macho man will do much, the Establishment, the Full Monty of it, is against them, they have the power to thwart any attempts to remedy the malady (nice combination, don’t you think? – remedy the malady), it suits them, nobody’s responsible for anything, it’s a team effort and the teams are large, and in massive numbers posing mostly as quangos paid for by the willing taxpayers.

    If the collective responsibility cannot apply there always the society to blame, nobody knows the telephone number or the address of the society, but what TF, who’s going to call or write.

  1145. Herbert Thornton

    Hong Kong Right Thought
    What do you make of the return by the Chinese Communist Party to the use of gangsters against the people demonstrating n Hong Kong? Back in the day, a mafioso working with the government was like to be a Confucian, such as Big-Eared Du, the leader of the Green Gang,who would work with the Kuomintang against the communists. Now the communists, like the Shadow government and their “Antifa” in the USA , have had to call out the triads, big ears or small ears, to attack demonstrators with iron bars. This could be the spark that sets the plain afire, as the Financial Times reports (page 4) that hints are being dropped by Beijing that their army should be used against the people of Hong Kong to correct their thinking.
    Or well…..

  1146. Baron

    Thanks for the heads up on Sir Roger Scruton’s reappointment. It may not amount to much; but it’s better than a slap in the face with a wet fish.

    One doesn’t want to suggest that this be decided without first applying considered thought: but which ten modern legacy buildings should be demolished first to make an improvement to our towns and cities.

    And which ten architects should be promoted who have the sense of place and related aesthetics to make those towns and cities more beautiful?

  1147. Malfleur
    July 28th, 2019 – 08:01

    I’m finding it very difficult indeed to come to any opinion about your question of what I make of the return to the use of gangsters especially because I was, until now, completely unaware of the history & even the existence of Big-eared Du.

    It’s interesting that you have drawn a parallel between his sort of activity and the doings of “Antifa” especially in light of this report –

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-considering-declaring-antifa-a-terror-organization

    So far as Hong Kong is concerned I think an important question has to be – where is the initiative coming from? Is it a case of gangsters trying to ingratiate themselves with Beijing or is it the other way round?
    I incline to think the former is the more likely.

    P.S. are your two last words – “Or well…..” an oblique reference to George?

  1148. The Russian equivalent of our Tommy R, Navalny, was taken to hospital, suffers from allergic reaction, hives, according to the doctor. His personal physician was able to secure few of his hairs, and a cap that his colleagues intend to send to the West for analysis.

    About 20 of his supporters were detained by the police at the hospital, amongst them a reporter for ‘The Rain” (you may remember it’s an opposition TV, Baron’s been mentioning it for a long time). All were later released.

    One of the doctors working for the opposition (or journalists, the sources differ as to who it was) visited Navalny, asked him how he felt, Navalny was able to stand, no swallowing, his face was clean, no blemishes, and said ‘better than when he was admitted’.

    Nothing of the event in the MSM here. One wonders why.

  1150. Baron, July 29th, 2019 – 08:30

    Styxhexenhammer666 on YouTube reports this this Epstein fellow who’s been in the news recently has been found badly beaten on the floor of his cell curled up in the foetal position. (*) Do you think that this was an attempted Arkancide or just a friendly warning?

    * Not, I hasten to add, with a pair of Kermit Gosnell’s scissors lodged in the back of his neck

  1152. s://qanon.pub/data/media/29a449fffa2b7a735b9d77b2971a3acb8355c1db71669ac0f99961ac713c75c8.jpg

    “We now have plenty of space.
    Q”

  1153. ‏@JohnBrennan

    Dan Coats served ably & with deep integrity. Ratcliffe showed abject subservience to Trump in Mueller hearings. The women & men in the Intelligence Community deserve a leader like Coats who puts nation first; not a servile Trump loyalist like Ratcliffe.

    *****

    N.B. John Brennan served ably & with deep integrity.

  1155. Malfleur @ July 29th, 2019 – 21:16

    Impossible to open, the Pelican posting @ 21:12 sounds incredible, Malfleur.

  1156. Navalny’s back in custody, he was discharged from the hospital after his personal doctor talked to him, she, the doctor, reported that his face was reddish, but he felt better. How much longer he’s to be inside Baron doesn’t know, he got 30 days for an illegal gathering.

    The Russian media are full of speculation as for the cause of his reaction to some unknown substance or perhaps bed bugs, the Russian custody places are full of them apparently. Some are of the view the authorities were attempting to poison the man, this of course cannot be ruled out, but it seems unlikely for obvious reasons.

    One may never know, Baron’s of the view Navalny may have staged it all, the Moscow city council election’s on, he and his bunch of independent candidates banned from the election, certainly benefit from the incident.

    The Electoral Commission that banned the independent candidates is the big loser, the Kremlin was critical of the Commission saying the independents should be allowed to stand, the Commission’s reply was they are in charge not the Kremlin. The reason for the exclusion is the cheating of the candidates, they were supposed to get 5,000 signatures, some were fake, others didn’t;t meet other criteria (the signatures are needed because the candidates are independent, not members of any party).

  1157. Could anyone have a guess why the following was censored by the Spectator?

    “When Douglas was challenged with the analogy of a divorce, he should have questioned the validity of the comparison. What the EU insists is to retain a sizeable degree of control over us, it is as if in a divorce one of the parties wanted to have a say whom the leaving party forms a relationship with or where he/she shops. Totally unacceptable”.

    It refers a debate on the BBC with Mailtis in the chair, Parris and Douglas arguing the case against and for Brexit.

    We’re supposed to live in a country guaranteeing the freedom of expression. What TF is wrong with the above?

    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/watch-douglas-murray-and-matthew-parris-on-no-deal/

  1159. Baron,

    “We’re supposed to live in a country guaranteeing the freedom of expression.”

    What a quaint, antique notion that appears to be in the Orwellian dystopia of the UK today. But when and where was that ever true?

    Was it ever enshrined as an absolute right anywhere in the world but in the 1A of the US constitution? Even then, they are having problems with the leftist run “social” media companies censoring, shadow banning and demonetizing conservatives.

    As far as I am aware the only place in England where individuals were ever accorded the absolute freedom of speech was at Tyburn Gallows… immediately before they were hanged. That site was adjacent to “Speakers Corner” in Hyde Park, just opposite Marble Arch.

    Your right to expression on the Spectoid website is by their permission only. No doubt restricted by their Cybernanny software, and also the blog “moderators” that they employ who, I have no doubt, are all infantile left leaning EUSSR Quislings.

    It has to be said that the Guido Fawkes blog also has the bad habit of frequently putting comments into “awaiting moderation” status… never to reappear.

    The good news is that you still have the absolute right to personally “demonetize” the Good Ole Barclay Bros rag by withholding your subscription.

    Also, while we’re are at it… BBC DELENDA EST!

  1160. FINALLY! This is getting into the MSM!:

    “New threat to Anglo-Trump relations as bombshell secret texts between top British and US spies about ‘our strange situation’ reveal how UK played KEY role in early stages of FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry
    Texts between then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and his counterpart in Britain’s MI5, Jeremy Fleming, were brought to light by the Guardian on Tuesday
    In August 2016 Fleming noted that members of the FBI and MI5 had ‘met on our strange situation’ – apparently referencing discussions about Russian activities
    The texts were revealed as the Justice Department is examining what led up to the launch of the FBI investigation
    They are believed to be paying particularly close attention to the influence of another senior UK intelligence official, ‘dirty dossier’ author Christopher Steele
    Earlier this month the US and UK became embroiled in a full-scale diplomatic spat after British ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch called Trump ‘inept’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7303497/Secret-2016-texts-intelligence-officials-raise-questions-UKs-role-Russia-probe.html

    Acts of war?

  1161. Malfleur @ July 31st, 2019 – 05:31

    The indictments, Malfleur, if they ever come, will be the litmus test of whose is winning the war – the Donald and or Swamp, Baron reckons. We shall see.

  1162. EC @ July 30th, 2019 – 17:09

    Splendid points, EC.

    On the subject of the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation: In one of the news flagship programmes yesterday (it may have been both the World at one cum the PM) the gusts were spewing the same trash of a looming disaster with en even greater venom.

    Amongst the threats was the ‘certainty’ the EU will impose a 40% tariff on Welsh lamb imports. This of course cannot be ruled out. What nobody pointed out However, that we, Britain, also have an identical right to impose any tariff in reciprocity.

    Germany manufactures roughly six million cars annually, sells one in seven in Britain. However painful it may be for the UK buyers of German cars we can slap a 40% duty on German car imports, provide compensation to the UK dealers in German cars. That would not just dent the German’s auto sector (including the feeder companies), it will also undoubtedly seriously dent the German Treasury receipts, in turn the country contributions to the Brussels monstrosity.

    Not that it’s ;likely to happen, but if the EU are stupid enough to punish our farmers, why not?

  1163. Malfleur @ July 30th, 2019 – 12:59

    Thanks, Malfleur, clear as day, the pictures, but please do explain to the poorly educated Slav the relevance of the camp to Q.

  1164. What has happened to Robert and Radford?

    Where are you, boys?

    All you have to say is ‘Hi’, letting us know you’re still around.

  1165. Baron – 08:26

    Re: BBC/MSM
    It used to be just the summer hols that was defined as “the silly season” for news stores, but now it’s 365 days a year!

    Re: Intelligent use of free speech in the time remaining….

    Please take a look at news anchorman Andrew Bolt of Sky News Australia.
    (compare and contrast with the egregious Adam Boulton and the rodent featured Kay Burleigh of the UK version)

    “Local govt wins ‘biggest idiots of all’ prize”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNZHCNm44I

    This guy is always value for money but in this one he takes a good swipe at three of the “progressives” cherished narratives… It can’t be long until they gang up and have him removed!

    The thought occurred that maybe this was his mast plan… angling to get a big payoff and then retire to Freemantle/Gold Coast, or wherever, and spend the rest of his days quietly, fishing off his newly acquired boat!

  1168. However, others say:

    “Setup a chupacabra zoo at Guantanamo Bay. Here are the zoo keepers waiting or new arrivals. Free room and board. Democrats love free stuff, this is the perfect place!”

  1169. BREXIT WAS ACHIEVED ON MARCH 29th 2019 –

    A progress report on the attempt to obtain a Declaration to that effect in the High Court was received by me today:

    “BREXIT CASE VERY MUCH ALIVE – ARE YOU ON BOARD?
    If you believed the fake news media reports, you would think that the English Democrats’ case to prove that the UK has already left the EU had been thrown out.

    So I am delighted to be able to tell you that this simply is not true! Despite the most outrageous attempts to manipulate and pervert the mechanics of the English justice system, our case is still on – and it’s still giving the Europhiles and their corrupt Westminster elite puppets nightmares!

    After months of stonewalling our applications, the increasingly politicised ‘system’ suddenly issued a special decision to reject our case as “Totally Without Merit”. This is a category of rejection introduced recently to deal with the genuinely groundless applications of litigants in person in immigration cases in the Administrative Court. To try to use it to dismiss our case is particularly outrageous given the public comment of retired Court of Appeal Judge Sir Richard Aitkin that our case is “strongly arguable”.

    This is well above the merely “arguable” threshold that is supposed to guarantee permission to Judicially Review.

    Even more sinister, however, is the fact that such a decision automatically gives the applicant a mere seven days in which to appeal – and the ‘coincidence’ that, after months of complete inaction, the legal Powers That Be sent it to my office it slap-bang in the middle of the first two-week holiday I have taken in more than twenty years!

    Further, while earlier, less important and less urgent communications were emailed to us, this most important and time-sensitive Order was only posted. On top of that, while it was purportedly sent out on Wednesday 19th June – and therefore deemed served on Friday 21st – in fact it did not arrive on the Friday (when all my post was opened) and so could not be seen until Tuesday 25th when my assistant next went into the office.

    As soon as this attempt to knock out our case on technical/time grounds was spotted, our barrister, Francis Hoar, was alerted.

    Despite the short notice, he did a superb job in getting our Revised Application ready for us to issue in time. Indeed, despite the worse efforts of the Europhiles, our Appeal was submitted with a day to spare on 27th June as Claim No. CO/1322/2019.

    All this is a very sad reflection on the state of “justice” in this country which has now become so politicised that we seem to have lost the “Rule of Law” which was the cornerstone of England’s hard won and hard fought ancient Constitution.

    We now have a Blairite Judicial Appointments Commission which will only appoint Judges who can “demonstrate a life time’s commitment to Equality and Diversity” and are therefore ideologically only of the multiculturalist Left and therefore almost all Remainers.

    Our battle to secure Brexit is thus not only still very much ‘on’, but it is also just part of a much bigger political, legal and moral war to preserve and secure the unique and truly magnificent heritage and identity of our England and of the English who sacrifices made her a beacon to the world, as well as the land we love.

    Given the underhand tactics being used by the enemies of England within the legal system and the out-of-touch ‘elite’, I cannot tell you when we will next be in court with our case. I can, however, tell you that our success in overcoming the attempt to knock out our case through subterfuge means brings with it the urgent need to have the funds ready for that most vital moment.

    Please do not risk them using more tricks to run us out of time to raise the money we need to carry on this critical legal fight. I am counting on you to see how important it is to give now, so that we have time to replenish our legal ‘war chest’, rather than waiting until the last minute. Preparation and forethought has always been the English way, so I earnestly look forward to your generous action now!

    Yours sincerely

    Robin Tilbrook

    Chairman – The English Democrats”

  1170. Baron – fyi:

    “The chupacabra or chupacabras is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal’s reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, including goats. Physical descriptions of the creature vary. Wikipedia
    First reported: March 1995”

  1173. If you thought trans cannot be topped, think some more. You need almost an hour to watch it, but you can move the cursor a lot quicker.

    One would think there’s an easy way to prove if the young man who believes to be a wolf is a wolf. Let him join a pack of wolves, if they take him in, he finds a place in their hierarchy, his case would be much stronger. If the opposite happens, the world will lose one human being, the wolves will be happy though what with their stomachs full.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=sOSpa87selw

  1174. Malfleur @ August 1st, 2019 – 09:39

    Peter H is a lone voice, Malfleur, more to the point, he has no power to do anything. those who could change things aren’t interested.

  1179. “New text messages reveal MI-5 & FBI colluded in Trump soft coup”

    Those who follow American Intelligence Media will know about this already and will not have needed the Guardian or the Duran to tell them about this scandal and disgrace for our country and for the USA. In fact it goes right back to Cecil Rhodes, Colonel Mustard please note.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LwKUC2k9w

    *****

    Sing, Deep State swamp creatures, sing!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVxQcsdpWI

  1181. Malfleur @ August 4th, 2019 – 10:36

    Nice song, Malfleur, the barbarian hasn’t heard it before.

  1182. Malfleur @ August 2nd, 2019 – 12:11

    Again, Baron hasn’t heard of the man or his cancer treatment, Malfleur.

    Why doesn’t he set up in countries where there are no such restrictions? He would be able to carry on business in China, Russia, many other countries in the Far East or South America, he may even get a grant to get the business going. Silly to stay here, some of the time in jail.

  1183. Malfleur @ August 2nd, 2019 – 10:02

    The guy should have had more than 2-hour sleep before reading the stuff, and someone should have told him to leave the nose alone.

    Interesting, however, and once again, it seems weird that Tommy’s inside in a country that everyone believes is a real democracy, whilst Navalny who presents a greater threat to the Putin’s regime, is free to walk in a country many believe to be a despotic tyranny. Go figure.

  1185. An outstanding piece in today’s DT headed ‘Boris has the people’s mandate to override this Remainer Parliament’ by the historian Andrew Roberts, well argued, backed by historical precedence, wittily critical of the deluded Remainer fruitcakes.

    Mr. Roberts argues that Boris has every right to go for no-deal Brexit, doesn’t have to resign immediately if he were to lose the confidence vote (Callaghan stayed on for well over a month in 1979), and above all, it would be within his rights to advise HM the Queen not to give Royal Assent to a Bill passed by both Houses blocking a no-deal Brexit.

    Mr. Roberts also says: “For since the mid-17th century, it has been the people whose will has been sovereign in this country, as almost every philosopher has agreed since the days of John Locke and David Hume. ….. Today, the people’s will, when clearly expressed, comprehensively trumps that of the Crown, both Houses of Parliament and even that of the BBC”.

    You may think the barbarian likes it because it matches his take on sovereignty, and you would think correctly. If you have the time you should read it, one can easily imagine how the knickers of the Greeves, Blairs and Hastings are getting in the twist, or in case of John Major are getting brown in colour.

  1186. Is anyone still at home, have you all dropped dead, has anyone threatened you if you post?

    Who’s very much missed is Frank, he would have plenty to say about the shenanigans of the Remainers, in a way only he knew how too. They don’t make them in his character any more, sadly.

  1187. This is John Lewis talking, one of Mark Steyn club members, as quoted by the great man:

    “England is a very small, albeit heavily populated country. For centuries we punched above our weight on a global scale. Those days are over, demographic changes both involuntary and self-inflicted have ensured that mine is the last generation with direct experience of the essential ‘Englishness’ so perfectly expressed in this story (Three men in a boat). As with the USA there are rapidly growing minorities who positively revel in the elimination of our national culture and identity but have little of worth to replace it. The world is a less kind place”.

    Who knows, Mr. Lewis may be pleasantly surprised if we genuinely Brexit. The exit from the asphyxiating and deeply undemocratic construct may well furnish the kick the ‘essential Englishness’ or as Baron calls it ‘the heathy core of Britishness’ needs to get going again. It would be weird if all the qualities that propelled this small tribe to punch above its weight were to have disappeared so completely in just half a century. Let’s have patience, history hasn’t ended yet whatever Francis Fukuyama may think.

  1189. What’s this about gender pronouns? Could anyone explain it to the poorly educated Slav? Just look at the face of the young girl when someone in the audience reprimanded her not to use gender pronouns. Her face looked as if the great reaper w as coming to get her.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRs7G7uLGa8

  1190. This is a guy quite high in the FBI hierarchy, an outfit where sound, clear, common sense minds should be at the top of the list of qualifications for employment, who comes up with the trash that the Donald’s a Nazi because he’s ordered flags to fly half mast till August 8. The American elite cadres are composed of loonies, people who should reside in facilities for the mad and deranged, not in government offices.

    https://summit.news/2019/08/07/former-fbi-official-trump-ordered-flags-flown-at-half-staff-to-honor-hitler/

  1191. Peter, is the censoring of Baron’s posting a reward for his recent financial contribution (admittedly not large) to the running of the blog?

  1192. Baron.
    I have not dropped dead yet, although I assure you I am trying my best. I did attempt a post the other day but what with my eyesight and this bleeding contraption I lost it, however I will make another stab at it tomorrow.

  1193. stephen maybery @ August 9th, 2019 – 18:18

    Your top priority is to look after your health, stephen, it’s enough to say just ‘hello’ from time to time, we need to know you’re OK.

    The weather this summer doesn’t want to play to the script of the ecochondriacs, we had few hot days, not more than four, few days of reasonable sunshine and hottish temperatures, but definitely more days when the temperature was far below what one would expect in a year of advancing global warming.

    Today was one of such days, rainy, windy and not even warm (but humid).

    None of it would prevent the AGW wankers to claim that soon we’re all to die through baking in the sun.

  1194. Luxembourg is preparing to legalise cannabis, it’s a member of the EU, it wouldn’t shock if every other member of the patently undemocratic set-up were to do the same.

  1195. What do you make of the power cuts yesterday?

    One would expect we will get more of the same, the ecochondriacs may be celebrating that renewables are supplying close to half of our electricity, but that’s when the weather’s kind, sunny and moderately windy. What will happen when the winter strikes, no sun and strong winds?

    The other thing that doesn’t;t seem to have occurred to anyone is the electrification of the vehicle park. If all cars, vans, lorries or whatever other contraptions there may be were to run on rechargeable batteries and the electricity supply were to get disrupted, seriously disrupted. What then? One cannot store electricity in containers as one can petrol (or diesel). Are we expected to walk?

    We seem to be determined to undermine our economic potential, making the cost of energy as high as we can whilst our competitors like China are happily burning coal producing cheap energy. Madness.

  1197. Epstein may have been helped, EC, had he cooperated with the prosecutors, as it was alleged he had said he would, it would have been a total catastrophe for a number of people who cannot by definition be brought down in a fatal catastrophe of this kind. For that to happen was unthinkable because these people are untouchable.

  1204. Baron,

    The only acceptable theory as to whodunnit is that it was
    the R-R-R-R-U-S-S-I-A-N-S wot did it. If you opine anything else then the FBI with label you as a terrorist.

    Reportedly (Reuters) Boris Johnson is now agent of Moscow having been once photographed at some bunfight other with his arm around Alexander “Sasha” Temerko. The enmity between Temerko and Putin is just a cunning subter-feud (sic) and he is now running Boris, and Gavin “good lad” Williamson, and “Call Me Dave” before that. YCMIU !

    Presumably you watch Joe Rogan for trichological reasons…

  1205. Hopefully, now that the R-R-R-R-U-S-S-I-A-N-S have been mentioned then we will shortly hear from our august fugitive émigré friend confirming it.

    With Hercules Poirot also being deceased (natural causes) I think that the septics should retain the services of Jonathan Creek to sort it all out. It should be a doddle for him as he normally has to solve cases where the corpses are in a sealed room that has been locked from the inside…

  1206. Beware of believing anything – unless it’s officially denied. If it is, then it’s quite likely true.

  1208. EC @ August 14th, 2019 – 09:43

    Amazingly, Putin hasn’t been yet offered as the culprit who’s ‘done Epstein in’, EC, but give them time they will oblige.

    One can be forgiven to think that the Russians may have infiltrated the left leaning Russophobe diaspora for real, are stretching the ‘blame Russia (or Putin)’ solutions to any boil or wart that goes so that even the brainless would stop and think ‘is this truly possible’?

    Just look at the treatment of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Russian stooge, now. Beggars belief that. The man was instrumental in pushing through the key sanctions on Russia in 2014, if anyone hates Putin more than McConnell, Baron would like to know of him. The Americans cannot get more loopy than that.

    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/sen-mitch-mcconnell-s-treatment-of-russia-under-scrutiny-again-66108997685

  1209. There’s a picture of Bill Clinton dressed in a warden uniform under the caption ‘Security guard under suspicion for Epstein suicide’. Baron cannot find it now, but it’s around somewhere.

  1210. Andrew Foster, a young policeman, married four weeks ago, looking forward to a honeymoon gets dragged behind a vehicle, the talking heads are full of sorrowful platitudes, but will anything really change? Of course not, the culprits will be well looked after, the defence will come up with the usual like ‘abused when young, sexually exploited, the society’s to blame’ bla, bla.

    How could the unwashed stand for it beggars belief.

  1211. We haven’t had the pleasure of the bleating of the over-educated village idiot for some time (accompanied by his sidekick Bertie, of course. T he two are charmingly complimentary, one over-educated fruitcake, the other just the opposite, but also a fruitcake).

    The man doesn’t cease to amaze, here he’s attacking Nikolai Tolstoy, accusing him of everything under the sun only because he, Tolstoy, believes today’s Russia continues to be treated as a pariah. For a deeply religious man the omni-all one pretends to be, it’s mind boggling how he lets hate to consume him, he may have to self-certify before it’s too late, the hatred could devour him fully before he can say ‘Putin’s done me in’.

    http://www.alexanderboot.com/russia-as-an-ideology/

  1214. Baron, August 16th, 2019 – 17:39

    There’s a picture of Bill Clinton dressed in a warden uniform under the caption ‘Security guard under suspicion for Epstein suicide’. Baron cannot find it now, but it’s around somewhere.

    Yes I saw that, but I was more amused by this one (via Guido) of BJC in Monica’s dress which is an actual painting that Epstein, reportedly had hung on his wall. How ironic is that. If nothing else Epstein had a sense of humour, but who had the last laugh?

    https://snag.gy/e7Nbvm.jpg

  1217. EC
    August 17th, 2019 – 10:11

    In the Oval Office, I believe – and the significance of red shoes will not be lost on CHers. Time to organize a grand purge there and in the United Kingdom, surely?

  1219. It’s interesting that when one of their own are killed the police know instantly who did it and steam into a traveler camp mob handed arresting anyone who looks like a gypo.
    Am I being cynical if I suggest that if the burglary had gone to plan the police would have had no interest and just issued a crime number for the insurance company.
    Gypos, scum of the earth .

    Reply

  1220. EC @ August 17th, 2019 – 10:11

    Agreed, EC, yours trumps Baron’s, and yes, the guy may have been a peado, but he did have a sense of humour.

  1221. EC @ August 17th, 2019 – 10:18

    The guy, Bertie, follows the omni-all one closely, never misses a comment, often what he says makes little or no sense, the omni-all one almost never reacts (he often reacts to posting by others). There will come a time when the eaten-by-hatred religious nutter will tell Bertie to effoff, Baron reckons.

  1222. Malfleur @ August 17th, 2019 – 06:25

    In other words, Malfleur, the man in the Kremlin has to be destroyed because he contradicts the teaching of the progressives, he is against everything they are in favour of, stuff like national borders, the nations’ Christian history, sovereign states and so on.

    Since the progressives cannot attack him for this directly, they have to come up with alternative ways to portrait him as evil, hence MH17, the Skripals charade, the accusation his armed forces in Syria kill widows and orphans in hospitals ….

    The video’s OK except why did they need to include the Protocols? Totally unnecessary.

  1223. Malfleur @ August 17th, 2019 – 10:27

    Too long for Baron to watch in full, Malfleur, he will do it in bits, have watched the first 10 minutes, not much in it, the chap Dugan used to be Putin’s advisor, got dropped, he is too much of a nationalist, believes Russia is the chosen country bla, bla, that puts Baron off, other countries or rather the leaders of other countries claimed the same, didn’t work out well for them.

    One mustn’t get too mesmerised by Putin, he’s fine for Russia, those in Russia opposing him will regret it when he goes, it won’t be the Navalny’s crew that takes over, but the Liberals cum Communists. Moscow and St Petersburg aren’t Russia, the muzhiks of the steppes and Siberia (an exaggeration that but it fits) have always liked a strong leader, strong but fair, Putin gets close to that description, but he has been overdoing the strongman’s credentials recently, probably fears the Americans boosted their attempts to unseat him before his term expires.

  1226. The Moon of Alabama says yesterday the Houthis in Yemen conducted a drone attack on a distant (distant from the Houthis controlled territory) Saudis ‘Shaybah’ oil field near the UAE, it was a success. The report also says that representatives from four European nations (Germany, France, Italy and the UK) met this week in Teheran to exchange views about how to end the war.

    This may the Iranian response to the American sanctions, the oilfield attack (more to come apparently, the Houthis have a range of domestically assembled drones with massive reach, safe from the air defence the Saudis operate) could seriously damage the Saudis network of pipelines, drive oil prices up, lead to sanction on Iranian oil supplies to be lifted.

    https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/1162807348198617088

    Also, scan down for ‘Long range attack on Saudi …’

    https://www.moonofalabama.org

  1227. Baron
    August 18th, 2019 – 12:54

    It took me so long to read the URL, Baron, that I was quite tired out when I could have been chasing the local lizard populatiopn here. But this wacky publication referring to American superpower panic in “Short advice to the American Governing Elites, the Donald in particular”? I don’t think so. The theory is old hat -wasn’t it developed by whatsisname writing on the Pelopennesian War a couple or so thousand years ago ?-, but of course it would not appear to operate if applied, for instance, to China which bestrid its world like a colossus in the early Qing Dynasty, was a weak pitiful giant by the mid-19th century, and now if its propaganda is to be believed is in course of replacing the United States as the sole superpower. Whether president Trump is to be regarded as “the American Governing Elites” is debatable. First, he seems aimed at undermining those elites. Second, there is plenty of evidence that it has actually been Great Britain, at least since the time of Cecil Rhodes if not since 1776, which has been playing those elites, and thirdly Donald Trump may shortly add the Greenland Purchase to Florida and the Louisiana Purchase which would suggest that the American story is far from over and that long-term the European States including across the Urals had better look to their geostrategy. A Russian-US Alliance ,anyone?

  1228. OK, Malfleur, lets drop the subject.

    Yesterday, waiting for the MOTD to begin, the barbarian was watching something on the BBC4 that was supposed to be ‘sharply written’. If it was then the sharpness vanished fully, completely and irrevocably before the picture and the sound reached him. What an awful, loudly puking, wit vacuous dialogue, the acting of the two young wimins not much better, Baron had to switch to another channel quickly, failing that he would have had to end his life there and then.

    Here’s the real wit, the postings, a delight to read:

    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/in-solidarity-with-owen-jones/

  1229. Baron – 07:53

    Unfortunately your Spectatesman link yields a message thus:

    “This article is exclusively to Spectatesman digital subscribers.”

    Was is the latest on the Owen Smollett-Jones story, btw?

    You are quite right about the debilitating effects of trying to watch almost anything on the BBC these days. It’s 99% pure shite. The licence payer subsidised CH4 is just as bad. eg. Last night the TV came out of hyoerspace just in time to catch the sight of the body a man wrapped in bloodied bed sheets being loaded into an oven by half a dozen wimmin dressed like nuns. Upon investigation it proved to be a load of feminist claptrap derived and adapted for TV from something called “A Handmaid’s Tale.” (*) The fact that this is now in its third series proves that there’s not much hope for the west, imo.

  1231. Apparently August this year (even so far, roughly 12 days are still to come) is the wettest since 1912, says whoever it is that’s furnishing the weather forecasts for Classic FM. No mention of temperatures though, which pi$$es Baron because ehe cannot remember cutting the grass in a sweater and a sheepskin jacket, admittedly a torn, somewhat dilapidated remnants of one, but a sheepskin garment it still is.

    This is not to say temperatures may have been edging up, that’s what climate change’s all about, but surely if we were a human activity induced temperature boost one wouldn’t expect to do gardening, which Baron hates intensely anyway, in a winter attire. Bloody AGW fuggwits.

  1232. EC @ August 19th, 2019 – 10:51

    The leaders of the city of LA will only respond effectively when the contagion enters the wealthy parts of it, EC, they may be secretly hoping the diseases kill many of the homeless, that will save money, smart thinking that.

  1233. EC @ August 19th, 2019 – 09:56

    Apologies for wetting your appe but not delivering the Beluga, EC, here are few of the postings, Baron doesn’t include the names, it’s to give you the flavour, the first posting scored the highest amongst some 170:

    1. Is there any evidence – other than what Owen Jones and his friends claim – that this attack actually took place?
    2. If it DID actually take place, is there any evidence – other than what Owen Jones and his friends claim – that he was targeted for his politics and that the attackers were “right wing”?
    3. If 1 and 2 are proven to be true, will Owen now unequivocally condemn political violence carried out by his friends, fellow-travellers and supporters?

    There is a whiff of the Smollett about it.

    Attacked outside a fish and chip shop.
    It was a hake crime.

    Wrong time, wrong plaice.

    Woke up with a severe haddock.

    Karate kicks to the back punched to the ground more kicks, some to head, and the police didn’t think he needed hospital treatment. Poor little lamb must be as hard as nails.

    Can we crowd fund them to do him over proper next time?

    The police said is was a senseless attack. I am not convinced of that.

    But he does have the kind of face I would never tire of kicking.

    Gina Miller next with any luck.

    I wish I had been there. Just one good boot in….please, God.

    He didn’t need any medical treatment. If it was a true far right attack, I don’t think that would have been the outcome.

    In his case, the vomit returns to the dog.

    Je Suis Owen Jones.

    He said his partner was punched in the end. The mind boggles. Which end?

    Rod Liddle’s sincerity knows no beginning.

  1234. Baron,

    “Attacked outside a fish and chip shop.
    It was a hake crime.”

    Excellent! Continuing the chip shop theme cue also, salt and battery 🙂

    while we are on the subject…

    “The Last Laugh?:Stand Up For Free Speech”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dt1Qcv_RY

    Jewish comedian Konstantin Kisin (Rusky roots) in conversation with Peter Whittle of the New Culture Forum. This is very interesting but a little long (28mins) for your tastes – but please do view the first 5 mins it is essential.

    One staggering factoid to emerge was that in Vlad’s repressive Russia in 2018 there were 400 people arrested for what they “said” on social media The UK? There were 3300 people arrested. Bonkers! The lunatics really are running the asylum.

  1235. EC @ August 20th, 2019 – 09:21

    You should have subscribed, EC, the fee isn’t that crippling, and your brain works in the right direction, it’s often fun to read the postings of others, by far wittier than Baron can ever hope to be.

    Still, the Kisin chat is interesting, but he has the advantage of being Jewish, that protects him from some part of the deluded mob, he’s also clever, and very articulate.

    On the punching down issue. Baron has purchased Rod Liddle’s ‘Th eGreat Betrayal’, hasn’t;t finished it yet, may tell you more about it later. In it, there’s plenty of the punching down, in fact a whole chapter is devoted to it, exactly as Kisin says, uneducated, thick and racist into the bargain, that’s what the Brexiters are, or rather how they are perceived by the aristocracy of the Remain camp.

    Amazingly, the MSM here seem to be ignoring the current wave of demonstrations in Russia, it began because of the September election of the Moscow city Duma, many independent candidates were taken off the candidate register for allegedly not fulfilling the conditions for standing, they had to get 5,000 signatures, some of those were from dead people, some from people living not in Moscow, or so the commission overseeing the election said.

    Anyway, the demonstrations have grown bigger, the police’er behaving badly, a young girl got punched in the stomach, her case is still ‘ongoing’ as the saying goes.

    The most intriguing point concerns the Kremlin, i.e. Putin, who said twice through his spokesman that the independent candidates should remain on the ballot papers, the Moscow Duma twice said, politely, it isn’t for him to tell them how to run the City.

    Is he losing power? Are there forces preparing for the changeover? He has four more years, then he’s out. But why do the MSM ignore it? Only the little Micron is quoted as saying that Putin should respect human rights, listen to people. That’s rather rich coming from him, hasn’t he got the yellow vests still running amok in Paris?

  1236. But Baron, what could be the implications of Project Iceworm for the future of a Russian-American alliance?

  1237. Where’s NOA these days? I thought that he would have been one the first to man the barricades around Buck House to defend the monarchy from the fallout of the Epstein affair.

  1238. Malfleur – 07:17

    Way back in the 60s those missile silos and bunkers could have been could have been constructed of 86% local material. i.e. Pykrete.

    Way back then the Septics were so paranoid that they were testing the Greenland meltwater for bubonic plague. (shades of Dr Strangelove) Oh the irony that fast forwarding to today in many of their Dem run rat infested “sanctuary” cities [aka shitholes] Typhus is endemic, and the Black Death is just one outbreak way.

    And to think that the LA Times ran an opEd recently written by some arsehole claiming that global is to blame if an outbreak occurs. Absolutely nothing to do with the streets piled high with garbage, being used as open sewers by an army of homeless illegal immigrants and junkies camped out amidst all their shit.
    YCMIU !

  1239. para above should have read “claiming tha global warming…!”

    For the avoidance of doubt…
    absolutely everything everywhere these days is the fault of a combination of or all of the following:

    1. Global warming
    2. “Orange man bad”
    3. Old whitey
    4. Toxic masculinity

    did I leave anything out?

    e&oe etc.

  1240. Baron,
    I have just finished The Great Betrayal. It does not say anything that we on the Wall have not been saying for years, but it is good that someone with a voice is saying it. Naturally the nomenklatura will ignore what he has written as to them democracy, like the Church of England is something to be lauded and then quietly ignored.

  1241. Baron, August 20th, 2019 – 21:42

    You ma, or may not, enjoys Rod Liddle’s chat with Douglas Carswell about his new book.

    Please do watch at about 8 mins 30 sec which contains a clip of when he went on BBC Newsnight to talk about his new book only to be ambushed by Emily Nomates.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxjvqWDD2oc

    Also he has opinion on PM Boris @ 43:20.His observations are wholly positive but nothing CHWallsters haven’t been saying for a number of years!

  1242. @09:30

    Add to that list…

    5. Hitler/Nazis/Racists/Misogynists/ ‘phobes etc.

    … which are terms that are not mutually exclusive to items #2, #3, or #4 but serve as handy pejoratives when attacking/smearing anybody who expresses any facts or holds any opinions contrary to the agenda left or any of their pet looney “progressives.”

    eg. In addition to Jews like Konstantin Kisin, Ben Shapiro etc. being labeled as “Nazis” one of these looneys once labelled Milo Yiannopoulos as “Worse Than Hitler!”
    Imagine that! YCMIU.

  1245. EC @ August 21st, 2019 – 14:21

    Yes, it does seem a lot longer than 6 years ago, EC, the last century more like.

    The barbarian was the two hundred and ninety third viewer of the short PR exercise since March. Is it really Peter, and is he in Toronto? Puzzling this.

  1246. EC @ August 21st, 2019 – 14:05

    How on earth have you left Putin from the list, EC? The evil man, or at least the spirit of the evil man has been everywhere – poisoning people here, bombing widows and orphans in Syria, electing presidents in the Republic ….

  1247. stephen maybery @ August 21st, 2019 – 10:17

    Agreed with your slicing of the little gem by the great man, stephen.

    The one thing that surprised Baron was his pontificating on his reasons for voting Brexit, but not much if anything on sovereignty in it.

    For Baron, this was it, sovereignty was paramount to anything else, the rest was important but only in the context of regaining a full Monty of independence akin to recovering from a long illness, returning to solid health again.

    One can regard many things important, and have them even if one’s suffering from bad health, things like a good job, a nice holiday as often as possible, a loving wife or whatever. One can never have any of them fully unless one is of perfect health. Getting our sovereignty back is like getting the all clear from a deadly malady.

  1248. EC @ August 21st, 2019 – 08:35

    It’s more than embarrassing for the young man, EC. How on earth could he say he wasn’t aware of Epstein’s prison time, the reason for it?

  1249. Malfleur @ August 21st, 2019 – 07:17

    You’re miles ahead of the barbarian, Malfleur, he knew nothing of the project, he knew that Truman wanted to rent Greenland (but wasn’t smart enough to think why).

    Well, the Russians could re-dust the stationing of missiles in Cuba, no?

  1251. Who’s this fat Byrne woman, anyone has ever heard of her? Unelected, appointed on a fat salty paid for by us, what right does she have to accuse BoJo of copying Putin and the Donald simultaneously?

    Unless the Government cancels the TV licence fee, teaches the BBC and the Chanel4 anointed fruitcakes a lesson, w ewill never get rid of the regime of the progressives.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/21/boris-johnson-media-strategy-vladimir-putin-channel-4-news-chief-dorothy-byrne

  1253. EC 08.35
    Ah yes, such fun down at Buck House at the moment. Uncle Airmiles may yet find there’s an unexpected back charge for his freebies flights of fancy.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere his purported nephew and quad bike, flinging trees behind them to pay for their flights, leap gayly into the giant oil bath furnished by the obsequious Lady Eltonia…
    No need for a violent revolution to rid ourselves of these half witted parasites EC, they’re doing a great job in abolishing themselves.
    Meanwhile back in the real world I return to my summer reading… Currently “The Loved One” and Peter Lever’s “Berlin Rules” as the Bojo thing is finding out.
    And Go Greta!
    Get your sails out for the lads!
    Indeed YCMIU!

  1255. ‘Far Right violence is on the rise. Where is the outrage?” shouts Owen Jones in the Guardian.

    There’s no outrage because there’s no Far Right violence, Simples.

    Also, the Mutti has apparently given BoJo 30 days to come up with a solution to the divorce. Why should she, a German Chancellor, give instructions if she has no official function within the EU? What does it tell you? It tells you what Baron’s been saying all along. The Germans run the EU, it’s their project, by far more effective than Stukas `nd Panzers.

  1256. Baron,
    As usual you are bang on the money regarding sovereignty, it is of paramour importance. You can not have a state whereby decisions of national governance are taken by an outside agency. All too frequently over the past forty odd years measures have been taken by Brussels which are inimical to our domestic interests and we have been forced to accept and implement them.

    All to frequently other members of the EU are referred to as our friends, whereas many of the dislike us and cannot forgive us for pulling them out of the crap in WW2. If I am sounding more than usually crabby it is only because I have not yet had my coffee and fags. More rants are on the way.

  1257. Baron – 08:11

    Spot on!
    As Nicholas Ridley, back in the 80s, once declaimed, “It’s a German racket!”

  1258. Noa – 23:18

    Godders is also has it right!

    [ Or “Der Godfrey hat es auch richtig” to put it in our future lingo. ]

  1259. Report on farming on the BBC, accidents are happening in the industry. This is scandalous. We need more regulation to deal with this crises, and protest, lots of it, stop London’s traffic, flood Trafalgar Square with demonstrators, and where is Greta wosername in our hour of need. There’s blood on the spuds.

  1261. Official confirmation after Macron and Merkel shifted the blame onto Johnson and his extreme cabinet that it will be Leave do and die.

    Do AND die.

    For die you will if you become seriously ill in need of medicines.
    Starve if you do not have the resources or space to stockpile food.
    Lose your job if you need petrol and diesel to get to work.
    That is if you are lucky enough not to work in manufacturing, in which case the lockout will start within a short few days.

    Have we ever lived in bleaker times?

  1262. David Lindsay @ August 24th, 2019 – 07:11

    Your offerings are nothing compared to what will really happen, David, if we leave sans a deal. The water will cease to flow, the air will be unbreathable, the streets will be full of people dying of wet leprosy, that’s the one hard to cure that leaves disfiguring skin sores for the lucky few who survive it, which will not be many, Baron reckons.

    What would you suggest we do?

  1264. stephen maybery @ August 22nd, 2019 – 08:47

    Right, stephen, and what’s even worse is that whilst we were following the diktats from the Brussels gnomes other member countries were ignoring them.

    The deficit to GDP ratio’s a case in point, we stuck with it, the French didn’t, and neither did the Germans when the immigration tsunami hit them. Hopefully, come November we’ll be truly free of the yoke of Brussels.

  1266. Baron, August 25th, 2019 – 00:07

    The best advice you could give to DL/Teletwat would be to slither/crawl/scuttle back under the rock that he’s been hiding under the last several months, and pray that the societal meltdown that that he and his mates have been agitating for doesn’t occur. In any TEOTWAWKI / WROL situation people like them might not fare so well.

    You and I, on the other hand, will probably be OK!
    😉

    https://www.wideopenspaces.com/5-best-squirrel-recipes/

  1267. A miracle at Headingley: what a turnaround, what a performance by one man, what a day for English cricket.

    Even if one doesn’t follow the game closely, the exhibition of skill, of persistent application and naked daring from the guy was as close to perfection as any human can get to or has ever got to.

    Who says the country cannot make it after we leave the EU if it breeds men like Ben Stokes?

  1268. EC @ August 25th, 2019 – 22:20

    The country style will suit us both, it’s simple, Baron can easily manage it, he can almost feel the taste of it now.

    And we will not share any of it with Lindsay, EC, that’s a promise.

  1270. Closer, the bowler’s arm swept down,
    The ball swung, swerved and darted,
    Stump and bail flashed and flew;
    The batsman pensively departed.

    Little rattle of dry seeds in pods,
    The warm crowd faintly clapped,
    The boys who came to watch their gods,
    The tired old men who napped,

    The members sat in their strong deckchairs,
    And sometimes glanced at the play,
    They smoked, and talked of stocks and shares,
    And the bar stayed open all day.

    And yet as Bank Holiday awoke,
    We thank the Lord for great Ben Stokes.

  1271. Who is this fat creature, this ‘journalist’, the judge of others? Has anyone ever heard of her?

    If she were a genuine journalist she would report on others, not become the news herself. All politicians lie, always have done, why select just one? Instead of calling BoJo a lier she should have quoted the instances of his lying, explain why she believes he lied.

    She might have re-dusted the interview in which he claimed the PD scientists told him categorically the Novichok come from Russia. That would have been fair, informative, correct. Just saying he’s a lier is akin to a pub drinker talking about politicians, it adds little to the understanding of the individual accused of lying.

    Not that Baron bats for the Blonde Inseminator, but whilst he’s the PM we must all give him time to deliver, or prove the critics right.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapRPowoQZM

  1272. Fergus Pickering @ August 26th, 2019 – 08:20

    Good one, Fergus, better than the Finishing it by Simon Armitage, whose only attractive aspect was the poem being etched on a pill.

    Will you forgive the barbarian for tempering with the third stanza? Does he bastardises any of the meter rules trying to show of?

    The members sat in their strong deckchairs,
    sometimes glancing at the play,
    They drank their pints, ignore health scares,
    at well stacked bar throughout the day.

  1273. A rather long justification for Adolf’s invasion of Poland. In Baron’s view both Poland and the Nazi Germany were serious dictatorships, there was little to choose between the two when it comes to misbehaviour, lies, deceptions before the war.

    One small point: if you were to read the stuff, somewhere towards the end it says that on August 29, 1939 the Germans offered to solve the conflict with Poland by diplomatic means (the Poles refused to talk), then few lines of the print later it says what we know did happen soon after. The Nazis attacked Poland on September 1. This raises the simple question ‘where the Wehrmacht so brilliant as to prepare a detail plan of attack in just few hours?’

    The truth is Adolf had planned, prepared, (then executed in the Blitzkrieg) the ruthless campaign to expand eastwards years before. The ‘pretend’ offers of settling the dispute of Danzig, German minority in Poland, other territorial issues peacefully were just a smokescreen.

    https://www.unz.com/article/why-germany-invaded-poland/

  1274. Sorry about the errors like does he bastardises, and other s …. Originally Baron wrote the sentence not as a question ..

  1275. Who’s the biggest loony of them all, the Donald, or the guy who says the Donald’s killing more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao did last century. The man who says it holds a chair in one of the top US universities.

    One hates saying it, but it may well be we need a war to get real again, nothing else seems to offer a remedy for our growing insanity.

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/74465/duke-university-shrink-trump-may-be-worse-than-hitler-stalin-and.html

  1276. Baron,
    If we had men to fight our battles we could sustain and successfully prosecute a war,but I fear that if we entered another conflict then we would be dependant on battalions of transgender squadies dressed in tutus and wealding sequined handbags.

  1277. Daisy pulls it off. I refer to the recent by election in Brecon, triggered by the deselection of their MP for expense fiddling. I do not for the rife of me believe that left to themselves, he local party would have allowed this individual to stand for re-election. There must have been pressure from the top, from the very top, in order to stymie the Brexiteers, here I see the hand of Daisy May. The LAST BLAST ON THE TRUMPET AGAINST THE MONSTROUS REGIMEN OF BREXITEERS. Like everything this toxic woman has done to our country, I think this will be another failure for Mother Theresa.

  1278. The latest annual net immigration number (the difference between people coming and going) is 250,000. The number of pregnancy terminations stood last year at 205,000.

    Would that make anyone think? More to the point, could a culture survive if it argues it needs immigrants whilst it terminates a close number of pregnancies of its own people? Does it have the moral right to survive?

  1279. Here’s a puzzle for you.

    Harvesting goes on 24/7 all around the fields surrounding the village Baron resides in, it’s mostly wheat, huge monstrous machines are devouring the crop at breathtaking speeds, yellowish clouds of metal smelling dust surround the contraptions, it lingers on for some considerable time, when it settles on car roofs it feels musty by touch.

    The grain gets collected in huge trailers pulled by tractors that can and do travel on the twisty Suffolk roads at speeds Baron could hardly match. As they cross over from the fields onto the roads fully loaded they have to go over a bump, often more than a foot high, some of the grain spills over, lands on the roads.

    Unbelievably, no animal or a bird is keen to consume it, it doesn’t get touched, it just sits there, spreads abit, gets run over by cars over time. Yet the birds are around, hundreds in Baron’s garden alone from dunnocks, finches, blackbirds, any kind of tit you may think of (the long tailed ones are cute beyond belief, come many times a day in flocks of at least a dozen strong), but mostly the fuggingly irritating pigeons whose only contribution to the village life is to sit on the same branch each night creating a large pool of shite underneath.

    Two days ago, Baron was watching a herd of deer, we have three herds running the nearby fields, the dear moved towards the spills, about four dozen of them in total, some sniffed at the grain, most of them didn’t even bother to look at it, and moved on. Why?

    That stuff is fed to us, we eat it converted into bread, often bleached, which cannot improve the carbo-hydrate core either. Baron reckons someone should look into it?

  1280. stephen maybery @ August 26th, 2019 – 18:16

    It was only the despair that competed Baron to suggest we need the joys of war to get common sensed again, stephen.

    The hot air rules, and Baron loves it.

  1281. Baron. Aug27 13-04.
    I genuinely thought that 9-11 would return the west to using common sense.
    I was totally wrong, everything that clearly going wrong just carried on and even accelerated.
    And even new lunatic ideas were thought up that we were supposed to believe in, and if we refused and said so openly we risked prosecution for telling the truth.
    Blatant lies perfectly acceptable, telling the truth, hate speech.
    Anyway, I’ve pulled this article from behind a paywall .

    This so-called People’s Parliament is nothing more than an anti-democratic coup
    * JULIA HARTLEY-BREWER

    I have a question. When did adding the word “People’s” to everything start being A Thing? First we had the People’s Vote, then we had the People’s March and now, lo and behold, we have the People’s Parliament.
    This is somewhat confusing. After all, who is doing all the voting that isn’t being done by, well, people? Are there national squirrel referendums we haven’t been told about?
    Are cats regularly daubing placards with EU flags and heading off to London on marches I’ve been unlucky enough to never spot? And, other than owls, who else is sitting in parliaments that we have apparently otherwise missed?
    The People’s Parliament is just the latest manifestation of this Orwellian attempt by Remoaners to pretend that their audacious bid to overturn a democratic vote is anything but a blatant attempt at a political coup. 
    A cross-party group of MPs, including Labour’s John McDonnell, the Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, the SNP’s Ian Blackford and 160 more, yesterday trouped off to Church House, the dour Westminster building where MPs sat while bombs fell on London during the Second World War, to declare their very own Parliament.
    When opposition leaders in banana republics attempt their coups, they usually need to win over the military and seize the state broadcasters first.
    But the Remoaners didn’t have to bother with such trifling things. After all, they already have the entire Whitehall establishment on their side, not to mention the Commons Speaker, and the BBC already appears to be marching to their anti-Brexit tune.
    Instead, the Opposition MPs simply turned up to sign a declaration that they would oppose any attempts by the Prime Minister to suspend Parliament or use any other ruses to push through a No Deal Brexit.
    With just a white sheet of A4 attached to the lectern, pathetically proclaiming the #PeoplesParliament, the cross-party group pledged to “do whatever is necessary”, including forming an alternative House of Commons. 
    Was it A People’s Parliament or THE People’s Parliament? We weren’t told. In truth, of course, it is nothing more than a Remoaners’ Parliament.
    This new tactic is the latest explosion of outrage by those who wish to thwart Brexit, as they feign horror at the prospect of Boris Johnson using his executive powers to suspend Parliament (the real one) and push the long awaited referendum result through.
    Their amateur dramatics would be funny if they weren’t so damaging to our democracy.
    Because this isn’t merely another tactical wheeze being discussed in back rooms by faceless backbenchers. This is a blatant attempt at a political coup aimed at stopping any Brexit, not just a “catastrophic” or “disastrous” (insert your preferred Project Fear adjective here) No Deal Brexit.
    Let’s be honest: not one of these Opposition MPs actually cares two hoots about Parliamentary sovereignty, which they have happily palmed off to Brussels over the last few decades without a second thought.
    They also don’t give a damn about the niceties of the British constitution, which they were content to sweep aside in order to seize control of the legislative agenda to try to force Theresa May’s hand over her doomed Withdrawal Agreement.
    And there’s absolutely no doubt at all that the Commons Speaker John Bercow is no longer even bothering to pretend that he is the strictly neutral referee of parliamentary procedure.
    The Number 10 mantra is that MPs don’t get to choose which votes they respect. And yet, it would appear that this is precisely what many MPs do.
    Indeed, some of them seem to think they can stand for a political party in a general election and win their seat based on specific pledges in that party’s manifesto and then simply ignore them at their will, or even change parties – more than once – without holding a by-election to see if their voters still want them, while still insisting all along how much they passionately believe in democracy.
    The one good thing to come out of the entire Brexit saga is that at least we, the poor hitherto unsuspecting voters, now know that many of our elected representatives don’t respect us at all.
    Like long-suffering wives whose husbands have been carrying on a string of affairs behind their backs, insisting they were faithful to their marriage vows, the country’s voters have finally seen the evidence with their own eyes that they’ve been cheated on all along.
    So Remoaner MPs can go ahead and vote to delay Brexit, prevent a no-deal exit or go the full hog and revoke Article 50 if they want. They can hold a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson’s govermment and they can set up their own Parliament wherever they want (it can be in Alton Towers for all we care) but when you’ve finished wrecking what’s left of our trust in British democracy, we will get the final word.
    Because MPs cannot go on ignoring and defying the voters forever. We all know a general election is only a matter of months – or even weeks – away.
    When we do get to have our say, before or after 31 October, those words will be loud and clear. We can say goodbye and good riddance to those MPs who flouted our trust, and we can elect representatives who will never again dare to lie to our faces about respecting our votes when they think they know better than us.
    And what to call that new body of MPs? I think the People’s Parliament has a nice ring to it.

  1282. John birch @ August 28th, 2019 – 07:54

    You’re absolutely right, John, and the piece you’ve pulled is very timely. Welby, the religious boss of the CoE goers is proposing an alternative to the Commons, there’s a piece in the Spectator blog. We seem to be digging deeper and deeper into the hole of madness. The man’s job isn’t to save us from Brexit, he should stick to angels and stuff, saving souls, that’s what he should focus on, there are plenty that need freeing from the lunacy of the woke terror.

    PS the posting at 13:04 should read ‘despair that compelled’ and not ‘competed’, it’s still the fugging software, sorry.

  1283. The Sky News are saying HM the Queen will be asked to prorogue Parliament from September 9. Things are hotting up.

  1284. “When did adding the word “People’s” to everything start being A Thing?”

    First we had “The People’s Princess,” coined in 1997 ?

  1285. E C 12-54.
    That was the speech that Blair won the actor of the year award for wasn’t it, if I remember correctly.

  1287. A question.

    If Diana was the “Peoples’ Princess.” Is “Freemiles” Andrew now the “Peoples’ Prince?”

  1288. Two stories from today’s Mail
    The HOTTEST double act in Hollywood
    https://mol.im/a/7403945
    Loads of bed hopping and all good fun.
    Nudge nudge wink wink.

    Damaged life of Epstein’s British sex accuser
    https://mol.im/a/7404477
    Loads of bed hopping and we’re all VICTIMS.
    Of course you are. You hated it for all those years didn’t you.
    What on earth was it that kept you tied to the billionaire Epstein.
    Nudge nudge wink wink.

  1289. Excellent job, Boris!

    Curious how Owen Smollett-Jones managed to get an organised mob, banners ‘n all, out on the streets of Westminster within hours of the announcement.

    The Guardian, as always, ever ready to turn the truth on its head.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/28/boris-johnson-trashing-democracy-blood-ancestors-brexit

    Exactly who is it that wants to surrender to the Germans this time around?

    When Ann Widdecombe stated that this was the worst parliament since Cromwell’s time she was quite correct. Boris has made a promising start but I do hope that he is up to the job of seeing it through. The only peaceful solution that I can see is a General Election where Boris makes an election pact with the BP. If he goes it alone he will fail.

    Note to Boris: De-Select the Quislings! (especially Hammond!)

  1290. Noa – 00:54

    Also curious, I haven’t seen much of “The People’s Tampon” and his squeeze in the news recently. Have you?

  1292. This should give Malfleur a run for his money, it lasts seriously over two hours, yet it’s a light entertainment compared to some of the Q stuff he was furnishing.

    How Baron came across the clip? He recalled Frank sum his acerbic wit as he was reading a blog on the Spectator vacuous of it, felt rather sad Frank’s no longer with us, remembered his liking for the Blonde (that often surprised Baron), got to search for her latest, and by chance, this appeared in view.

    You don’t have to watch the lot, just scan through it, the guy’s appreciably articulate, and the Blonde’s quite good, too.

    Whatever you do, miss not at 01:13 the bit about David Koch’s death, Bill Maher joking about it, their response to the joking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NZ18N9R1vw

  1294. If you travel to the Republic, avoid taking even a single jar of honey with you. This story, for reasons he cannot explain, has made Baron chuckle:

    “After landing at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on 29 December at around 10pm, the US Customs and Border Protection detained Leon Haughton for more than two hours before Maryland Transportation Authority Police put him in handcuffs, according to charging documents.

    The bottles with gold-coloured screw tops labelled “honey” in his bag, they told him, had tested positive in a drug field test for methamphetamine.

    Mr Haughton fainted. Police took him to a hospital. Then they took him to jail.”

  1295. EC @ August 29th, 2019 – 16:37

    As always, EC, the great Joseph nails except that his nailing it will not stop China for eventually absorbing the former British colony. What the demonstrations will do is speed up the takeover.

    On Christianity in China: It’s the fastest growing religion in the country even though as the priest in the Joseph’s piece says some of the unwashed have never heard of Jesus.

    On the extradition legislation: Hong Kong has extradition treaties both with the US and the UK, not with China, the authorities claim many mainland Chinese commit crime, flee to HK, cannot be sent back. Baron has no way of confirming this, but he knows for certain that Russian oligarchs who steal in Russia, deposit the proceeds in the West, follow the money, ask for a political asylums here, are given it.

    If you go to https://www.unz.com find the most recent shamir, he has a piece on HK, too, it’s near a full opposite of the great Joseph who whilst spot on on the evil of the communist regime in China misses the bugger picture – the clash of the two giants systems (you know which), in which the poor demonstrators in HK are but pawns.

  1296. Are you going to wake up when history’s in the making? Where’s Noa? The rest of you? Please, come back Frank, the country more than needs you, it must have you.

  1297. Regarding the events in Hong Kong. The smart money has it that HK does not stand a chance, I am not so sure, it is from little riots that great revolutions grow. I offer as an example the events in Russia 1905. After the defeat by Japan there was a revolution, this was put down in the traditional manner by the troops. The same happened in China in Tienman Square, the rebellion was pt down with bullets, game over, really? In Russia 12 years later the baloon went up again, this time the troops refused to fire on the rioters and the Romanovs fell shortly afterwards, the same will happen in HK if the troops refuse to fire on the people. Such regimes only survive if the troops are prepared to kill for them. The Romanovs were not very secure and neither is the government of china.

  1298. HK: I have a friend who lives in one of the nicer part of The New Territories. He reports that all is quiet there, as one might expect in the HK equivalent of “The Cotswolds.”

    Under “Winnie The Pooh” the resurgent Chinese nationalism has been given a boost by the trade war with the USA. Here’s one story of some of the side effects…

    “The Hong Kong Protests are DESTROYING My Family”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wbx9hIN4E

  1299. Sadly, we don’t have enough facilities for lunatics.

    The rage is quite incredible, the last guy saying BoJo fits the definition of a fascist doesn’t even consider that what the shouting loonies are doing is trying to negate the result of a perfectly legitimate vote in June 2016. They should have demonstrated, leafleted the unwashed, argued their case before the referendum, now it’s too late, the Rubicon was crossed, alea iacta est.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/29/watch-remoaners-lose-their-over-brexit/

  1300. Baron 08.51

    I think we’re awake Baron.
    Or at least woke, which is not quite the same thing.
    Sadly CHW’s time is nearly past. Events are moving on apace.

    Btw EC. who do you mean when you refer to ‘the peoples tampon?’ Boris?

  1302. EC
    Thank you for that link. Its always a delight to be reminded of the Bruvvers and their basic view that, like patrician Tommy Shelbys, their ‘Divine Right’ to the staples of life, titles, taxpayers cash, homage, droit de seigneur, will continue without let or hindrance.
    And who knows? It might.
    In the meantime the Royalists among us may enjoy this tribute to Airmiles Andys many attributes.
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/28/the-real-prince-andrew-scandal-we-cant-get-rid-of-him/

  1303. Despite myself, (and Baron’s abjurations,) I’m almost disinclined to comment on current events: on the rogues and their prorogues, the shilling, and shilly-shallying that we are currently witnessing.
    We are witnessing a million attacks of the vapours, as the sententiously entitled seek to ‘preserve’ their form of ‘democracy’ from the 17.4 million Totalitarians who have had the temerity to threaten it.
    And yet… life can be a picnic if embrace your opportunities and let your sour grapes turn to whine…
    https://order-order.com/2019/08/30/caption-contest-prorogation-picnic-edition/

  1304. The winner of the caption competition, Noa, it’s not democracy, it’s M&S democracy’ nails it well, but when you think of it the picnic is in the good old tradition of the English demonstrating in the past – good humoured, non violent, sort of resigned to what fate may bring, no?

  1305. stephen maybery @ August 30th, 2019 – 10:08

    The difference between what happened in Russia either in 1905 or just over 12 years later and HK today, stephen, is money or the equivalent of it. In the former, most of the unwashed had none of it, in the latter a lot of the unwashed have it, not all by any means, but a noticeable number one can see them invading countries as tourists.

    On the streets of Prague they’ve replaced the Japanese, also former travellers from countries of the EU empire i.e, the British, the Germans and the Italians, who now prefer visiting the Baltic or the other satellites of the USSR – see the bald and bankrupt.

    That’s a view, and Baron’s known for getting things wrong.

  1306. The Breitbart reports that the cumryd endorsed an occupation of the Parliament building by the democracy loving, olive munching, new middle-class proletariat that objects to no-deal Brexit. That should be fun, the Blonde fighting for Queen and country, but mostly to save himself.

  1307. Baron, August 30th, 2019 – 23:43

    I also read somewhere that Albert Steptoe has also endorsed the blocking of roads and bridges up and down the country. The obstruction of the Queen’s highway used to be a crime.

    I hope that bloody Bercow will seize this job opportunity now before BoJo hopefully gets rid of him when parliament reopens in October…

    https://order-order.com/2019/08/30/john-bercows-next-job/

  1308. Noa
    August 30th, 2019 – 13:48

    ‘Sadly CHW’s time is nearly past. Events are moving on apace.’

    It has never been the same since Colonel Mustard passed on.

  1310. Failing that, EC, the ‘racists, thick and mostly old’ phylum (that’s the people supposed to have voted to abandon the undemocratic construct) will have to take to the streets sort the deluded crown of the loopy people out once and for all.

  1311. Baron,

    Very interesting.
    In my last comment i referred to the commenter at 09:50 by his former “pretentious Greek pseudonym” (q.v. Peter Hitchens) and my comment has gone into “moderation.”

    Perhaps Noa is correct.

  1312. Yes, it has happened to the poorly educated Slav, too, EC, he has gone into moderation few times for no reasons at all, it was rather baffling, but then the tentacles of the people running this show are many and long, EC, we have accept it.

    Apologies, Baron just noticed he said ‘deluded crown’ it should have been ‘deluded crowd’ @ 13:22. The predictive software is so quick, and Baron both careless and lazy, that it’s impossible to beat it.

  1314. Drag them out of parliament

    We will decide
    how you live your life
    we will dictate
    how you live your life
    we will tell you
    what to say
    what not to say
    how to think
    what you should think
    what you must think
    what you must not think
    what you can write
    what you must not write
    what you should laugh at
    what you must not laugh at
    who you must associate with
    and who you must not
    we will be your masters
    we will be obeyed
    we will be respected
    we will be believed

    Who fiddle your expenses
    who fiddle with each other
    who lick the cream
    whilst we drink water
    who feather your nests
    and line your pockets
    you wankers in power
    you shower
    of ****
    left
    right
    red
    blue
    yellow
    all the ******* same
    drag them out of parliament
    chuck them in the Thames
    we will decide

    Unless the rogue
    Prorogues

  1316. “Peter Hitchens: The British Revolution WAS Televised (but few realised…)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KcUZFkj-mE

    An interesting conversation with Peter Whittle of The New Culture Forum. In which PH admits that he gave up all hope of making a difference in 2010, and now considers himself as “Britain’s Obituarist.”

  1317. The greatest obituarist of Britain likes to hear his own voice, EC, he may b right on the Tories, on other issues, hmmm.

    This is what sells today, the clip below, notice the number of views, compare to those listening to Peter. How does one promote conservatism in such conditions? Pity he didn’t specify what it was he approached people with before he came to the view that doing anything’s pointless.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJQy_R9CYR4

  1319. Malfleur @ September 1st, 2019 – 09:15

    Anything on Hong Kong, Malfleur?

    if what we see on the TV screens here carries on, Beijing will be able to use brutal force, not many will object except the usual suspects. It feels someone with hidden agenda may be encouraging the thrashing of property, the violence, the petrol bombs. That’s the last thing that will earn the protesters the backing of the public anywhere.

  1322. Malfleur @ September 3rd, 2019 – 00:19

    Thanks, Malfleur.

    Around six minutes was all the barbarian gave the softly spoken man, if you’ve listened to more, please tell Baron whether it’s worth it re-visiting the clip, watching it to the end.

    For all the acclaim of his wisdom and stuff he failed to grasp the big picture. How on earth cannot he fathom that China will eventually take over this little blob of land that often causes her headache. Did he honestly expect that HK will remain what it was when it was the colony of Britain for ever? If he did he’s either brainless or a hypocrite.

    At the start of the transfer of the territory’s ownership, HK was indeed of great help to China, today, it’s dwarfed by the motherland. The GDP of China is some $13tr, of HK just over $300bn, the nearby Shenzen has taken over, will grow in importance even more. If it were not for the flow of finance through HK, China would have probably absorbed it already.

    Still, under the umbrella of one nation, two systems China has been able to both use HK, as well as introduce set of policies that will lead gradually to a full incorporation of the territory into China. It was inevitable from the start, why didn’t;t the great man see it?

  1324. A bunch of older men are exercising in a gym when a gorgeous young blonde, sexy body, scantily dresses walks in. One of the men asks the trainer ‘which machine should I use not to make it too hard on myself, but to impress her?” The trainer says: ‘Try the ATM in the lobby’.

  1325. Baron, September 2nd, 2019 – 22:24

    If Sadiq Khan wasn’t doing enough for the London tourist trade then the latest offering from fabulously rich ginger soy boy with the bum fluff beard will probably finish it off!

    Also… shameless cultural appropriation imo.

  1326. Baron – 08:44 & 08:50

    Ah, I see that the beautiful Gabrielle Anwar has got your mind racing! Careful, or you might do yourself a mischief.

  1329. This morning I suffered a considerable shock, I went next door to get my paper, the staff told me they call me the gangster. I have not been so offended since I got a letter from the government telling me I was disabled, a damn cheek if you ask me. All this has made me considerably confused, am I AL Capone or the parish cripple? Do I shave my beard off and cut my hair or buy one of those mobility scooters? Of course matters were not helped when I told them I was drinking with the mafia every night while living in Siberia. Doubtless all this is down to Brexit, after all everything else is these days.

  1331. stephen maybery @ September 3rd, 2019 – 14:01

    Your priority is the keep on breathing, stephen, there’s little difference between al cap and a three-wheeler user, one can morph from one to the other in seconds when you think of it.

  1332. My answer to the Ireland problem is to tell them all to fuck off, My entire life I’ve had to put up with the Ireland problem and the Palestine problem.
    They are both easily solvable .
    Not in a popular way but there is no other way to do it .

  1338. The barbarian is travelling again, is short on time, but has to share the Bernie story with you, it was sent to him by one of his American friends, a retired military man, whether it’s true or not Baron cannot say:

    Bernie

    In all her years in Congress, Elizabeth Warren introduced 110 bills. 2 passed.

    Cory Booker introduced 120 bills. 0 passed.

    Kamala Harris introduced 54 bills. 0 passed.

    Bernie Sanders is truly special. He never held a job until he was finally elected mayor at age 53. He lived off of welfare and four different women, had a child out-of-wedlock with one and the other three marriages did not work out.

    In all his years in the Senate, he introduced 364 bills. 3 passed. Two of those were to name post offices.

    If you want to know what kind of leader Bernie is, go to Wikipedia, it?s a long report. The following is condensed:

    Bernie Sanders father was a high school drop-out, who tormented his family with rants about their financial problems.

    He blamed society and economic inequality for his plight, though as a white male in a middle class neighbourhood, he was hardly among the downtrodden.

    This was Bernie’s inspiration to take up the cause of economic justice, though he would spend half of his life as an able-bodied college graduate living off of unemployment checks, and the women in his life, between odd jobs.

    By his own admission, Bernie was not a great student, starting at Brooklyn College and transferring to Univ. of Chicago, but his enrolment kept him protected from the draft.

    He joined socialist organizations and dabbled in far-left communist politics, gaining national notoriety by petitioning the school to let students have sex in the dormitories.

    This was before birth control and abortion were legal, when there were still very serious repercussions for women if the condom broke, but that didn’t stop him from crusading against those silly rules that were an obstacle to his own satisfaction.

    He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, a few demonstrations, and was arrested once, but his activism for civil rights ended when he became obsessed with socialism. NOT democratic socialism, but oppressive far-left Marxism.

    In 1988 he married Jane Driscoll, and took a cold-war era honeymoon in communist USSR.

    (There’s more but Baron doesn’t want to bore you more than necessary to give you a favour of the possible Dem’s candidate).

  1339. Baron, September 4th, 2019 – 22:02

    “The barbarian is travelling again.”

    Given the Parliamentary Pantomime, that has just been retained for another season, I think I’d rather be travelling too.

    “In 1988 he [Bernie] married Jane Driscoll, and took a cold-war era honeymoon in communist USSR.”

    I think that Steptoe taking Flabbot around E. Germany on the back of his motorbike demonstrates more dedication to the cause. That, and a lack of any SOH would’ve guaranteed him top marks in the CP assessments back in Kundera’s Czecho of the 1950’s. No?

    Bernie has and unfortunate set of initials. I wonder if Trump is keeping “Mr. BS” in reserve for 2020? With the current array of Dem “talent” being so hopeless, they have one addition option, which is too ghastly to contemplate, that you haven’t mentioned….

    https://www.grrrgraphics.com/hillary-mighty-blouse

  1340. Baron, September 4th, 2019 – 22:02

    Apropos the Cold War, I came across a really neat phrase that RAF Vulcan bomber pilots used to refer to their payloads: “A Bucket of Sunshine.”

    Vulcans, English Electric Lightnings, Bloodhounds. All beautifully sculpted, formidable and deadly.

  1342. EC @ September 5th, 2019 – 10:23

    Your point about the difference between one’s honeymooning and a bike exploration of the lands of the Red thugs is valid, EC, the barbarian posted the narrative because he liked the fact that Bernie sponsored three pieces of legislation that passed, two were to name post offices. It made Baron chuckle when he read it first, it still puts a smile on his face when he’s writing about it.

  1343. EC @ September 5th, 2019 – 10:23

    Naughty at least (it killed people), but spot on, EC, it has a certain charm to it, if a deadly charm.

  1344. Here’s another e-mail from the American, this one is so true one could weep hearing the message for it applies equally to us.

    The change in the last 50 years or so is indeed in the culture, it’s the cultural degradation not only of life and its dignity, but everything that comes with it, the interactions between us, the way we no longer trust each other as we once did, the way we treat pregnancies, in the whole range of societal undertakings that are so essential for ensuring the society survives and prosper. s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XTVuUP0Ho

  1345. Baron, September 5th, 2019 – 19:43

    A truly stunning contribution from Gov. Bevan.
    It should be disseminated as widely as possible.

  1348. From the Mail;

    “Boris Johnson loses control: Jeremy Corbyn’s rebel alliance AGREES deal to block election next week and delay Brexit – leaving the PM powerless in No 10 and he could be forced to QUIT over his ‘do or die’ October 31 pledge”

    After hubris, comes Nemesis.

    Bullying, lying, arrogant Johnson gets his come-uppance, at last. Maybe those Tory members who picked him instead of Hunt, aren’t feeling quite so satisfied now.

  1349. EC @ September 6th, 2019 – 10:07

    A nightmare, EC, one cannot be shocked it’s running live in China, but it’s happening in the free West, too.

    Not that long ago, Baron wanted to boost his credit card max, not much and only temporarily, was refused, no reason given, he appealed to a higher authority to no avail, he still ha sno idea why he was refused he’s been with the credit co for decades, never ever failed to clear the lot through DD (direct debit). He’s dropping the co, joining the competition.

  1350. LC @ September 6th, 2019 – 14:27

    One can only hope that the treacherous bunch keeps digging in, LC, because when the next nationwide count comes, they will get their nemesis, and rightly so.

    Not that Baron is a fan of BoJo, but what he’s tried to accomplish gets full marks from the barbarian. We must leave on October 31 and we will.

  1351. Au contraire, Herbert, this is happening now when we’re still in the EU Gulag, one bean per person per can, you just wait when we get out, it will be beans galore, heh, heh.

  1352. Baron
    September 6th, 2019 – 20:30

    Exactly. Except that I don’t much care if Brexit results in no beans at all. Britain’s getting it’s sovereignty back is what matters. It far outweighs economic considerations.

  1353. I sense that we have reached the point where, though we know that we want our country back, we are not persuaded that we want our political class back – and may have to construct a new one.

  1354. A letter in the DT (or so Baron’s told).

    “What country in its right mind would want to leave the world’s largest trading block and risk financial ruin by going it alone without a deal? What country attempting to hold together a union of disparate political entities would risk that union when many of its inhabitants do not support the break-up in the first place? What country’s leaders would be prepared to take a reckless leap into the unknown in the illusory hope of a brighter, more prosperous future, free from outside interference?

    The answer, of course, is the United States in 1776. They must have been insane!”

  1355. Malfleur @ September 7th, 2019 – 12:00

    Baron fears, and he may not be the only one, that however hard it is to reclaimer our sovereignty it’s still easier than ‘constructing another political class’ what with the FPTP voting system, the setting up cost of a new political party, and the low opinion of politicians. Who on earth would want to join a bunch that lives in and by lies, deceptions, half truths. Would you?

  1356. ‘Reclaim’, of course, not ‘reclaimer’ the fugging software wanted to improve the sentence, one wishes it didn’t.

  1357. Herbert Thornton
    February 1st, 2019 – 17:29

    1984…Perhaps a remake by the BBC is due. That would be an interesting exercise. Would they have the balls though?

  1358. Malfleur
    September 8th, 2019 – 15:32

    A re-make is certainly due, but I don’t think it’s a matter of the BBC lacking the courage (not that they have much anyway).

    Shamefully, it’s a matter of the BBC being so incompetent – and bigoted – that they lack any appreciation or understanding whatsoever of Orwell’s message – and consequently being unwilling to acknowledge his genius or even think about it.

  1362. Bercow is going!

    Interesting to observe that after his gut wrenching speech the government benches were sparsely populated whereas the opposition benches were full with people lining up to pay homage. No further comment required.

  1363. Malfleur @ September 8th, 2019 – 23:48

    Quite rich from someone whose contribution to the release of CO2 dwarfs that of virtually anyone else in the country, probably quite a chunk of the country, Malfelur. These people never cease to entertain even if they are trying to make a serious point.

  1364. EC @ September 9th, 2019 – 17:07

    A sleazy, narcissistic, exceedingly pompous dwarf, if ever there was one, EC.

    The Tories decided they had enough of him, will stand a different candidate in his constituency, he has no chance of getting re-elected. What puzzles is that Labour hasn’t offered h ima a safe seat.

    Bloom’s advice should be heeded, sadly, it may not be.

  1369. Take off your robe and wig
    And quit being a Judge
    The person you are judging
    Is at the peak of his battles

    His guns are running out of bullets
    He’s losing it already
    Your words and actions are missiles
    You could be on his team,
    Instead of aiming at him

    Stop pressuring him
    You are taking camouflage off his face
    You have no idea what he’s going through
    The least you could do is let him be.

    Boris has the right
    His position will win through.

  1370. Take off your robe and wig
    And quit being a Judge
    The person you are judging
    Is at the peak of his battles

    His guns are running out of bullets
    He’s losing it already
    Your words and actions are missiles
    You could be on his team,
    Instead of aiming at him

    Stop pressuring him
    You are taking camouflage off his face
    You have no idea what he’s going through
    The least you could do is let him be.

    Again
    Boris has the right
    His position will win through.

  1374. Tommy Robinson is being held in solitary confinement, in his own vast isolation block in the heart of Belmarsh Prison. The great names of Islamic terrorism have all been inmates; the Manchester bombers, the 2005 London bombers, Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary and an assortment of other mass murderers. There were secular criminals Ronnie Biggs, the great train robbers spent time here, as did Jo Cox’s murderer Thomas Mair. Tommy Robinson is one of a tiny number civil prisoners sent to Belmarsh. He published a Facebook video of defendants entering a law court, but as everyone knows, they were not ordinary defendants but part of a sequence of Muslim rape trials across the country. He was convicted of contempt of court.

    We wait to get in among a crowd representative of every country in the world, intermixed with a lesser number of scruffy whites most of whom were British and working class. Surprisingly, given the large number of Muslim inmates, there was only one Muslim woman visitor. A regular visitor she was dressed in a black Abaya that entirely covered her face except for her eyes. She was friendly, showing us the way to the first of the endless security points. Her hands and fingers were covered in henna seen at Indian weddings but she was not Indian. A disgruntled visitor next to me mumbled that they could not take her finger prints with all that ‘stuff’ on her fingers but who would protest in such an environment, even if true.

    We arrive at a large room somewhat like an airport security hall. Small groups of about five people proceed slowly through the complex. We are ushered into a series of rooms like lifts, entering by one set of sliding doors and exiting by another. In each room two fingers were fingerprinted and re-fingerprinted, photographed and re-photographed, our prints and photos compared afresh with the ones taken in the previous room.

    Rings, bangles and shoes came off, my mouth and ears are checked. Yet even in the seventh circle of this Dantesque journey the authorities’ fear of giving any offence to Muslims showed. While they poked and prodded my body and I was ordered to remove my cardigan, the woman in the Abaya was not asked to undress. Instead she momentarily pushed back her headdress so that they could check her ears.

    Then the three of us who had come to see Britain’s No 1 political prisoner were separated from the other visitors, some of who seemed to be having fun as though it was a casual day out at a fun-fare. Now it was quiet, deadly quiet. Our own special, overly friendly warden arrived. Was he a secret supporter? What did he think? I could not ask, nor could he answer – walls in such a place have ears.

    We entered a vast, walled space the size of half a football pitch: High gates, razor wire, towering walls, clanging metal. An enormous, terrifying dog pulling at his stone-faced minder followed us in. All for one prisoner.

    We are shown into Tommy’s visitor’s room; tiny, dirty, plain, smelling putrid and stale, shadowed by a thirty foot wall and overlooked by a single small sealed window.

    Then Tommy Robinson was brought in. It was a shock to see how short he was; tiny, almost unassuming. The media portray him as a lionised, dangerous, radicalised figure but here was someone who just looked small, thin and tired. He was pale, sporting a beard and a new haircut with a flouncy quiff that made him look like an unassuming English teacher.

    Close up it was his eyes that I noticed. The girl with me said that they were ‘prison eyes’; the eyes of the worried, the isolated, the fearful. He never laughed and rarely smiled

    We had two hours. He started by describing his life of the last few months.

    ‘I have two hours a day out of my cell,’ he said. ‘That’s it. Even the bombers get four or five hours.’

    I asked what he did and how many staff guarded him. Two were on duty all of the time he was out of the cell and one when he was locked in his cell.

    ‘There is no one else here – no one. This entire block is empty apart from me. I have an exercise bike and books, a TV but no computer.’ He gestured to the horrible gloom below the high wall, ‘Look outside that window.’

    ‘That is the tiny space that I have to exercise in. I never see the sun and have to walk around and around like a caged animal.’

    I asked about emails and letters. For a number of weeks he was not allowed any, then, for some inexplicable reason, he was, although every letter had to be opened and screened in case somebody had filled the envelope with anthrax spores or explosive. Each email was read and printed out so that the pile of emails he received was sometimes three feet tall. He read every single one.

    He made a number of comparisons about the rights and exercise privileges afforded to Muslims who had murdered compared with himself who merely posted a film on Facebook. I thought of the Muslim woman in the Abaya who was not searched as I was.

    Tommy began to talk about his life in Luton; what the town was like as he grew up compared to now. How everyone (he meant white British people) had moved out and the streets had become filled with people totally different from him. He was pained and saddened by this but did not seem hate filled. He did not rant.

    Did I warm to him? No. I warmed more to our friendly prison guard. Robinson was too reserved, too distant, but it could have been him reacting to every word being recorded and his being tired of his situation.

    He was very worried about his life – about law suits, rape threats to his daughter, his wife, and his empty house. He had built an expensive house but could not live in it because of threats from gangs from two sides, both Jihadis and from Antifa – although the later were cowards compared to the Jihadis.

    An Antifa nutcase spent weeks trying to work out which safe house he was in by studying every house in a twenty mile radius of Luton until he found Tommy’s house by the print on his curtains after which immediately the intimidation and threats began again. Tommy and his family can never have a settled, safe, stable life in Britain. He ought to move abroad but he will never do that. He will fight to the bitter end.

    I asked, ‘What do you want to do when you get out?’

    ‘I want to keep on making films, exposing what is going on. It is still going on.’

    Some towns had only a very small number of Muslims, just a few percent, but there were still terrible problems with grooming gangs. If there are a thousand Muslim men between say 18 and 55 in a town, he said, you will find five hundred of them are on lists of arrested people.

    ‘There was some girl getting raped. I knew who the two men doing it were. I will talk to anyone. I don’t care. I went over to their house to get them to stop. I can find out who is doing this stuff, why can’t the police and the authorities? In one case, this group had made a twelve year old girl pregnant. They took her to a field and ‘fixed’ her with a screwdriver up her vaginia.’

    He suddenly slipped in, ‘All this has been good for me in one way.’

    Maybe, I thought, he was working on the Trump basis, of all publicity is good publicity. Could he possibly have wanted to be arrested for the publicity and the fame? I did not know.

    Did I think he was genuine ? Yes. Did I think he was worried about his future, family and being sued? Yes. Did I think he would not get into trouble again ? No. Did I think he was a bit irresponsible? Yes.

    He is not someone who thinks in accountancy or sensible terms. He is brave, a showman (even if a bit depressed when I met him), a fighter for a cause he believes in. Seeing an existential threat to this country, he will keep on fighting even if it kills him.

    Then the interview was over and he was led away, a small figure in a large place. We left. It took us one hour to get into the prison, three minutes – the Alsation still following us – to get out.

    I took a taxi amid the wasteland of semi-industrial units and roads and nothingness that surround Belmarsh. The driver, nervous of finding himself in such a place, wanted to get away as soon as possible.

    I thought of Kipling’s poem Tommy Atkins.

    O’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ” Tommy, go away ” ;
    But it’s ” Thank you, Mister Atkins,” when the band begins to play
    The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,

    The band is playing.

  1380. Malfleur @20:49 –

    1. Re Tommy Robinson. The first thought that sprang to my mind was that the government was terrified that Tommy’s imprisonment was likely to become an issue in the next election.

    2. I also read that Bercow – whose duty to the House of Common is to be very strictly apolitical and impartial – has now announced that he intends to do his utmost to undermine the Prime Minister’s government. Bercow’s conduct is a brazen Contempt of Parliament.

    He ought, at the very least, to be removed as Speaker immediately. To allow him to remain will be a bad – and very dangerous – precedent indeed.

  1386. Hey Malfleur,

    “It’s like déjà vu all over again.”

    However, you forgot to duplicate the third link that I posted this morning. How very remiss of you. Here it is…

    EC, September 14th, 2019 – 10:15

    Dr DAVID STARKEY: Parliament’s BREXIT BETRAYAL has BROKEN OUR DEMOCRACY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uUYRcFXVQ8

    3mins 34sec of clarity.

  1391. Malfleur @ September 15th, 2019 – 09:43

    Too long a piece to immerse oneself into this controversial topic this early in the morning (10:56AM), Malfleur, the barbarian will give it proper attention this evening, if it’s OK with you.

  1394. Malfleur @ September 15th, 2019 – 09:43

    It may have helped, Malfleur, if the guy running the blog, or his CIA guest were to go through some of the architects’ findings, show graphically what the argument is instead of repeating the mantra ‘it wasn’t the fire that brought no7 down’.

    Towards the end, they talk about the Dem’s heavy lean towards communism, the CIA guy calls it progressivism, without pondering why the Dem’s hopefuls turned towards policies that indeed smell of what the now defunct East was up to. It isn’t because they are evil (as the CIA experts claims) it’s because people will go for it. This is exactly what the communist thugs of the East did, they made promises one found hard to say no to. Nothing came of the promises, but by then they were in control of the agitprop machine that helped to keep people brainwashed, explain the shortcomings or failures of their insane policies as failure because one segment of the society or another was sabotaging it.

  1395. Malfleur @ September 15th, 2019 – 14:23

    Quite an apt description of the Commons, Malfleur, not just a rotes borough, but rotten full House. Starkey is always at his best when it’s anger fuelling his response.

  1396. Btw, still on the US forthcoming primaries and stuff: Warren, the fast ageing woman taking part in the competition (the other two contenders have already entered the zone of senility) says the society must compensate the gay community, they should qualify for large sums of money because when they couldn’t;t marry they lost large sums paying higher income tax. To top this up, she also says statues of gays should be erected across America. Rod Liddle comments on it in the last ST saying ‘it’s another four years for the Donald then’.

    One suspects Putin must be releasing a secret odourless gas all over the Republic that acts on people’s brain cells, turns individuals either totally loopy but exceedingly multiloquous, or conditions others to believe the barrage pf loopiness without questioning it.

  1397. For some unexplained reason, the recent election for the Moscow Duma didn’t;t get much coverage in the MSM, shocking this as the Putin’s lot did pretty badly in the major cities. Navalny, that’s the guy maligning the Kremlin’s occupant 24/7, came up with the idea of smart voting, instructed his followers to vote for a candidate of any party but Putin’s if that candidate had a chance to beat the Putin’s candidate.

    As a result, out of the 45 members of the Moscow Duma, the opposition got 21 seats, of which the Communist Party secured 13, four seats went to the liberal party Yabloko, three to the center-left Just Russia. How that’s going to eradicate corruption only Navalny must know. More to the point, the result tells you which ideology is likely to replace Putin when he goes.

    The clip is rather longish, Navalny talks fast hence the subtitles run fast, it’s hard to get the message in full, but even if you just scan the clip you’ll see why the massive dissatisfaction with some of the current holders of power. The clip talks in ‘milliards of roubles’, a rather confusing measure, all you have to know is that the 5 500 000 000 roubles equals to roughly £68mn or $85mn.

    You shouldn’t puzzle how many officials amass such fortunes for themselves and their family members. It’s hinted in the clip, it’s all above board, it’s done mostly through a network of controlled holding companies that get contracts which they swiftly subcontract through a chain until the ‘job to be done’ reaches a company or companies that actually can build, service, transport stuff …..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhY27ESOoI

  1398. A rather daring attack by the sand dwellers of Yemen on the Saudi’s oil fields, don’t you think?

    If anything, it shows that despite the mind boggling sophistication of virtually any product chain of supply to satisfy our demands the world’s painfully unprepared to protect itself against acts of few determined individuals. A couple of drones breaking few refineries and the price of oil jumps from below $50 to over $70 (it has eased of since).

    One can only hope the Americans don’t get too eager to hit Iran militarily, the last thing we need is another tsunami of refugees arriving at our shores.

  1400. Baron – 09:34

    “A rather daring attack by the sand dwellers of Yemen on the Saudi’s oil fields, don’t you think?”

    Truly remarkable. Who’d’ve thunk it!

    I mean, having a secret drone development programme and then using it to strike with with pinpoint precision. Now we know that all the misinformation that they spread about their major pastimes being torture, buggering camels and memorising the koran was just a cunning subterfuge to mask all that high tech weapons development.

  1401. Waiting for the doctor’s appointment Baron has checked his postings, has to apologise again and profusely for the fugging errors like rotes rather than rotten boroughs etc.

    No reaction to the Navalny’s clip? The barbarian subscribes to his channel, the guy’s top when it comes to hitting Putin, his problem is the other opposition parties dislike him, accuse him of stealing what they investigated, believe he’s just the mirror opposite of Putin (here they’re right).

    If only the opposition could pull together they could get a reasonable share of seats in every governmental institution. What they cannot hope is the get the majority whatever they do, the communists and the Zhirinovsky’s crowd would beat them hands down.

    Perversely, the West may be manoeuvring to achieve just such an outcome i.e. Russia ruled by hardliners, people that would make Putin look like Mother Tereza, a bunch that can warm up only in the permanency of the Cold War. It would suit both sides, the industrial-military complex (the one President Ike warned a bout decades ago) is a feature of not just the West, Russia has its own, too. Both benefit from installing the fear of the other side, the boost to military spending, the bottom line fattens, the good life, for the worshippers and their followers of it, carries on.

  1402. EC @ September 16th, 2019 – 10:09

    It wouldn’t;t shock to learn that some of the parts of the droning contraptions came for the West, EC, probably from the Republic, or even that Western experts either taught the locals how to assemble the drones, or possibly even put the stuff together.

    Baron recalls the moonlighting of Japanese hi-tech engineers in the late 80s, boarding a weekend plane from Tokyo to Seul when South Korean Samasung and other companies were beginning to enter the sector. It was the money that attracted.

  1403. Glad to see president Trump coming to the defence of the incandescent light bulb in his speech just now in New Mexico.

  1404. Few points on the Fred’s clip:

    That the great Fred backs what the pedestrian Baron’s been saying all along about the deteriorated quality of the US military gear, about the atrophied bodies of the people serving in the military, the unwinability of a nuclear conflict … The only glaring difference is the way either one says it. Just listen to this and marvel:

    “Men of incalculable stupidity and likely sexual inadequacy talk about nuclear war as winnable. Dream on. Reflect: American cities cannot feed themselves. Three days without food shipments and New Yorkers would clear the supermarket shelves. A week and they would kill for cans of tuna fish. Two weeks and they would be eating each other”.

    http://www.unz.com/freed/unused-militaries/

  1405. Malfleur @ September 17th, 2019 – 01:09

    You reckon then, Malfleur, that defending a bulb will furnish the second term?

    It will be hard for him to get to the White House again, he hasn’t;t delivered on many of the promises he made, but the most important failure will be the economy. His trade barking at China was a huge mistake, not the objective, the way he went about to reach the desired outcome. It feels not only the US but the world economy will slide into a recessionary phase just when he needs it not.

  1406. Baron – 07:30

    The Democrats appear to be doing their very best to get Trump reelected.

    Maybe their Plan B is to ditch the current hopeless hopefuls, stick Hillary in a wheelchair and give her another run out. Also, if they gave her one of those Stephen Hawking voice synthesisers if might make her sound more human as well as improving the timing and delivery of her crass scripted “jokes.”

  1407. Baron – 07:25

    You will, of course, remember that during on of their recent globally warmed winter blizzards Manhattan did suffer a hiatus in food supplies. The vegans of Greenwich Village were queuing up round the block in the snow outside their purveyors of curly kale. The scenes were reminiscent of the Moscow bread queues of old.

    Alas the vegans of Manhattan were too weak to be killing each other. But just imagine the carnage that would ensue if the M6 and West Coast mainline railway were to be blocked for a few days by winter blizzards and supplies of Buckfast (The Holy Swally) didn’t get through to the parts of Glasgy that Nicola Sturgeon has forgotten.

    I’ve been saying for years that it is the fragility of the supply chain that will be the death of west. The “just in time” paradigm will kill more people than bombs.

  1408. Baron,

    Apropos food futures:

    This week’s special offers at Lidl give us a clue as to where we are headed when we get to live the “Venezuelan Dream” under Corbyn, McDonnell et al

    https://snipboard.io/b4WjsK.jpg

    Actually Fido would be fine but I find it difficult to imagine eating kale under any circumstances, though.

    According to some Swedish bloke, “Soylent Green” (1973) is our future.

  1409. @08:48

    “…M6 and West Coast mainline railway were to be blocked at Beattock Summit…”

    An ever present possibility.

  1410. EC
    Buckfast supplies will also be greatly missed in Burnley, like the Scottish lowland regiments the East Lancs and Fusiliers acquired an abiding and apparantly genetically transmitted taste for this sweet and sickening imbibation, with all the appeal of a case of trench foot.
    We would have to revisit the Anglo–French alliance and dig earthworks from Fleurs to Givenchy to reassert our logistical rights.

  1411. An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a pint of beer. The second one orders half a beer, the third one orders a quarter of a pint of beer, oand so on… The bartender stops them, pours two pints of beer and says, “You guys should know your limits.”

  1414. Noa, September 18th, 2019 – 22:46

    A good article.
    With politicised police and activist judges there certainly seems to be the whiff of the 1930s. Add to this the minutiae of everyday life overseen by a dystopian self serving bureaucracy with all our transactions recorded by computer technology and all our movements being recorded on CCTV then certainly seem to living the Orwellian nightmare don’t we.

    It’s difficult to believe that dumb people are now enthusiastically PAYING to put listening devices like “ALEXA” into their own homes. When the rapid progress that “we” are making society toward a totally cashless society becomes 100% then we will all be truly fucked.

    Yes, January is dragging on a bit.

  1415. EC
    We will all be truly fucked, EC, I thought we alreasy were. By the way, that preposterous child Greta wosername is busy preaching to the World while being given inordiate attention by those in authorty. Why oh why will nobody tell the overindulged brat to bugger off and grow up?

  1419. John birch @ September 20th, 2019 – 15:46

    When the cheating by the University of East Anglia was made public many years ago, John, Melanie was euphoric saying finally the whole charade of AGW would collapse, we will return to sanity, adjust to any climatic changes rather that trying to reverse or even stop them.

    Baron recalls contradicting her, being mauled by her supporters for saying the bandwagon is unstoppable because the idea of AGW was taken over by the politicians, they will never give it up, it’s a goldmine for taxation, virtually everything one thinks of could be taxed, not just fossil fuels but the size of windows in one’s house, the travelling miles, the food one eats i.e meat could be taxed more than a turnip, but even different turnips could attract different taxation, those grown locally having a lower VAT rate ….

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

    Today, the fake papers from th e UEA research are a part of the AGW campaign, the whitewash has been forgotten, the march to oblivion continues, Melanie together with many others keeps battling on little realising that nothing may or will change unless the whole woke system goes bang.

  1420. EC @ September 20th, 2019 – 17:21

    Nothing new here, EC, a case of a pitiful hypocrite just like the others of his orientation, the great Joseph sums him up well. Baron’s on his list of subscribers, got it early, but enjoyed watching it again..

  1421. stephen maybery @ September 20th, 2019 – 11:26

    One of the the Spectator’s blogs addresses the gathering of the children, the focus of the piece is on the kids skiving from school, virtually every posting is against the brainwashing of the young.

    One of the bloggers says he talked to the kids, asked them will they be giving up on their i-phones, holidays abroad, latest fashions, the kids were amused they should do any of it, couldn’t comprehend the coupling of how they lived with what they were demonstrating for.

    What the guy hasn’t figured is that with these people it’s not the deeds they fight for that matter, it’s just the signalling of those deeds that’s enough to justify their fanatical obsession.

    We’ve moved close to the last stage of a societal atrophy of what once was a promising culture. A sign of individual madness multiplied by the size of the crowds, just as the historian Toynbee said: ‘Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder’.

  1422. And this:

    The guy who talked to the kids responded to Baron’s posting, furnished a quote that sums up the AGW fallacy well:

    “ I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.” – Gus Speth, US advisor on climate change.

  1423. EC @ September 20th, 2019 – 08:54

    Is there a limit to people’s dumbness, EC?

    If there was one, we wouldn’t be in the shite we’re in, no?

  1424. EC @ September 18th, 2019 – 16:42

    But the question is, EC, which infinite number of the number crunchers, that’s what we should be told.

  1427. An astonishing one in 10 foreign prisoners is Albanian the most common non-British nationality in English jails making up 876 of the 9089 for foreign national offenders but in the population at large less than 0.2% of foreigners hail from Albania.

    Albanian ‘killer’ has bid to claim asylum vetoed by Priti Patel

    https://mol.im/a/7489959

  1428. I left my smile by Brighton’s sea,
    now sadness laughs at me.
    My days – As Corbyn’s brief,
    I wish I wasn’t here.

    Brexit is calling me,
    its sirens kiss my ears,
    my soul – doth Watson mourn,
    a hungry seagull’s squawk.

    No place I want to go,
    no place I’d rather be,
    Except for Manchester next week-
    for I left my smile by the sea.

  1429. The Ball is in Gina’s Court
    Boris dropped the ball,
    yet somehow Nicola picked it up
    & handed it to Hale to shoot her shot.
    Will she slam dunk Shami
    Or perhaps not
    How she may score…. but who the championship will win

  1430. Not All mine.
    To all the school kids going on ‘strike’ for Climate Change:
    You are the first generation who have required air-conditioning in every classroom.
    You want TV in every room and your classes are all computerised.
    You spend all day and night on electronic devices.
    More than ever, you don’t walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars that choke local roads and worsen rush hour traffic.
    You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy,
    Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
    Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing, housing and transport.
    The more people we have, the more forest and bushland we clear and more of the environment is destroyed.
    How about this…
    Tell your teachers to switch off the air-con.
    Walk or ride to school. Switch off your devices and read a book.
    Make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
    No, none of this will happen because you are selfish, badly educated, virtue signalling little ‘princes and princesses’, inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a ‘noble cause’ while they indulge themselves in Western luxury and unprecedented quality of life.
    Wake up, grow up and learn to research facts and think for yourself and not blindly accept the words and thoughts of others – I don’t think you formulated this action plan all by your self – suspect you may have had some influence and ‘guidance’ from those you trust ….a word of warning, be cautious of the influence of your teachers and other adults who are using your innocence for their own desires.
    You are in fact what communism calls ‘useful idiots ‘
    Research that. 



    



  1431. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
    That big Frank P would grace these portals again
    Ten thousand pearls at the drop of a hat.
    I’d pray to God gladly for just a sliver of a chat.

  1432. Fregus,

    An analysis of the CHW vaults yields that the most frequent response from Frank P to your contributions pulled out of your Doggerel Bank was…

    … DRUM ROLL …

    “FOF!”

    I hope that helps.

    R.I.P. Frank P

  1433. John birch @ September 22nd, 2019 – 20:10

    Good one, John, but a fat lot of difference would that do the the virtue signallers.

  1434. Could anyone see Baon’s posting from 12:20? He can, but it says at the bottom ‘the comment is awaiting moderation’.

  1437. John birch @ September 22nd, 2019 – 15:43

    It’s possible, John, that some of these Albanians are from Kosovo, the same ethnicity. The current President of the Czechs is on record saying recently Kosovo is run by gangsters, he suggested Czechia should withdraw the recognition of the newly created state where the Americans built the biggest military base in Europe in the Spring 1999 before the Kosovo state was created on the lands that the Serbian people regard as sacrosanct – the Bondsteel camp.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2r2Nlwbmzc

  1439. The only person wanting to implement the result of the referendum appears to be the only person acting illegally.

  1440. I realised today that Brexit is never going to happen unless it’s a sham BRINO in line with the Burger King Brexit sketch.
    If there is a general election and the Brexit party won by a landslide they would be tied up in legal challenges and laws would be changed at a moments notice to make anything they want to do illegal.
    I think today was the end of English democracy and the establishment have won.
    Our parliament from now on is a sham even more so than it was before.
    The establishment via the judiciary have established command.

  1444. sooner rather than later, our selfsatisfied metropolitan elite are going to have to face the electorate, for the last three years they have stuck two fingers up at us, and when we get thhe chance, we will return the compliment .It is not impossible that our elite who are very fond of spouting out about democracy while busting a gut craping all over it, will attempto to prevent such an occurence. They should beware, during the peasants revolt Simon Sudbury was dragged
    out of thr Tower and had his head hacked off on Tower Hill. Them was the days.

  1446. EC @ September 24th, 2019 – 16:17

    The irony of the ruling is, EC, that it was the Queen who decided on the prorogation (on the advice of the PM), hence the judges decided she acted unlawfully, but did she?

    There’s no law on when a PM can prorogue, why and for how long. It’s all unwritten, the long held custom has been till today there is no limit on the Crown prorogation powers, there never has been one example of a PM challenged on prorogation.

    Baron’s not a constitutional lawyer, but reckons it must be the first time the Courts decided that if one has enough money one can challenge any decision a Government makes and, more to the point, win. It’s a totally different meaning to democracy run by laws.

    Here’s a part of the judgment:

    “However, in considering prerogative powers, it is necessary to distinguish between two different questions.

    The first is whether a prerogative power exists and if so its extent. The second is whether the exercise of that power, within its limits, is open to legal challenge.

    This second question may depend upon what the power is all about: some powers are not amenable to judicial review while others are. However, there is no doubt that the courts have jurisdiction to decide upon the existence and limits of a prerogative power.

    All the parties to this case accept that. This Court has concluded that this case is about the limits of the power to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament.

    The second question, therefore, is what are the limits to that power? Two fundamental principles of our Constitution are relevant to deciding that question. The first is Parliamentary sovereignty – that Parliament can make laws which everyone must obey: this would be undermined if the executive could, through the use of the prerogative, prevent Parliament from exercising its power to make laws for as long as it pleased.

    The second fundamental principle is Parliamentary accountability: in the words of Lord Bingham, senior Law Lord, “the conduct of government by a Prime Minister and Cabinet collectively responsible and accountable to Parliament lies at the heart of Westminster democracy”. The power to prorogue is limited by the constitutional principles with which it would otherwise conflict”.

    Two things: Why is there ‘no doubt that the courts have jurisdiction to decide upon the existence and limits of a prerogative power’? As Baron said before prorogation had never been challenged before, it’s well within the power of the crown to prorogue. In this particular case, the Commons have had almost three years to legislate until the cows came home, got milked, settled …

    The other thing is that the quote by the learned village idiot Lord Bingham is bleeding obvious, but has no relevance whatever for the current case. The Parliament has had more than enough time to scrutinise, two or three fewer days couldn’t make any difference. One may equally argue that the Commons should sit 24/7 to perform the function the senile Lord reckons it should perform.

    Sadly, neither the female judge nor the Lord has articulated the principles with which the debated prorogation conflicts, most likely because there isn’t any conflict.

    The judgement continues:

    “For present purposes, the relevant limit on the power to prorogue is this: that a decision to prorogue (or advise the monarch to prorogue) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. In judging any justification which might be put forward, the court must of course be sensitive to the responsibilities and experience of the Prime Minister and proceed with appropriate caution.

    If the prorogation does have that effect, without reasonable justification, there is no need for the court to consider whether the Prime Minister’s motive or purpose was unlawful”.

    Does that make sense to you?

    In the first para it says that the prorogation would be unlawful if it frustrates …In the second, it says ‘if the prorogation does have that effect i.e. it’s frustrating, the courts need not consider whether the PM’s motive or purpose was unlawful. Is this correct?

  1447. This judgment is a brazen declaration by the Court that it has the power to second-guess the Queen.

  1448. P.S. My posting @ 19:36 actually under-estimates what the Court has done. The result, it if stands, fundamentally changes the British Constitution.

    It usurps a vital power of the Monarchy, thus destroying the tripartite relationship between Her, Her Prime Minister, and the House of Commons.

    All of this has, moreover, been done without the consent of the British People.

  1450. As I said in an earlier post, sooner or later we will have an election, but before we take that momentous descision we should consult with Gina Miller to establish how we should vote thus saving her the rouble going to court should she not approve the result as we naticve of this land clearly need direction on these matters.

  1452. As a supplement to the very recent IPCC report on how we are all to drown, unless we get baked before, of course, you may like to read the following. It dissects some of the graphs and figures in the report, and shows you how smart the compilers of it are. You cannot fail to like it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8455KEDitpU

  1453. stephen maybery @ September 25th, 2019 – 09:55

    It’s rumoured, stephen, that she will take over after BoJo gets deposed, will negotiate with Brussels, then the gnomes of the EU will nominate her as President for life (only joking).

  1454. One thing you may not known is that the 11 learned village idiots met beforehand, agreed to produce a unanimous report, no dissenting. That explains the unanimity. This in itself would be not just unfair, but wrong in principle, and possible unlawful for it would narrow the possible interpretation of the decision to prorogue, no?

  1455. As far as Baron knows the Supreme Court is the invention of the ghastly Blair, it mimics the US Supreme Court. Before the body got created the top dog in judiciary was a panel made up from Law Lords sitting in the Upper House, chaired by the Lord Chief Justice, who was also a member of the Government.

    (You may challenge Baron on this, he talks from memory, could be wrong).

  1456. The Brexit trap
    There’s no way out for us – or the Prime Minister

    ROD LIDDLE

    You’re surprised? Really? What are you surprised by? The specifics — that 11 non-elected, mostly public-school-educated judges, and doubtlessly Remainers I’d guess, should put the final nail into the lid of Brexit? Yeah, sure — that knocked me for six. Never saw that coming. Or was it the generality that surprised you — we’re not getting Brexit after all? If it’s the latter, I don’t think there’s much hope for you.
    What seemed to me fairly plain on 24 June 2016 — that they, meaning our liberal establishment, would never let it happen — became an absolute certainty by the turn of this year. By January it was either no Brexit or Brexit in name only. And yet Leavers still clung on, like a spider will cling to the side of a bath as the hot water rises beneath it. ‘No deal is the default option! It’s the law!’ came the cry. I’m sorry, but have you not been watching? There is only one law. The law is there must be no Brexit. That is the whole of the law.
    Even as late as last week, in his kind review of my book The Great Betrayal: The True Story of Brexit, Harry Mount suggested I was jumping the gun, making a rash gamble, because surely, surely, we were going to leave. Quentin Letts, a Leaver, reckoned much the same. Again – have you not been watching, gents? Listen, when the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, is able to tell the country that no matter how many times the people vote for Brexit, she would stop it, and be praised for her decisiveness and commitment to democracy instead of being pilloried, then I think we are in a different ballpark. The rules have changed — and there is only one law.
    And so those 11 judges join the pantheon of left-wing heroes alongside John Bercow, Philip Hammond, that intellectually stunted hypocrite John Major and, of course, Tony Blair — all people who, in normal times, the deranged left would like to see swinging from lampposts. But the liberal left has found itself part of the establishment, in its affluence, in its loathing of Brexit, in its epic contempt for the people — and so has used every possible means whatsoever to thwart the wishes of the electorate. It took big money, big business and unelected institutions, the BBC hammering away with its relentless propaganda in the background, the civil service working copiously behind the scenes — everything co-opted to prevent us leaving.
    I’m sorry, but have you not been watching? There is only one law. The law is there must be no Brexit
    This is not a conspiracy theory. It is not fake news. It is precisely what has happened. A liberal elite which cannot bear to be gainsaid has used every instrument available to it — lawyers (82 per cent pro-Remain), the BBC (probably 90 per cent pro-Remain) and, of course, parliament (75 per cent pro-Remain on 23 June 2016). And the ironies abound: it is the Leavers who were anti-democratic in wishing to bypass parliament, a verdict with which the justices happily concurred. A twisting of the truth until it was turned completely on its head.
    I did not agree with Boris Johnson proroguing parliament, but only for tactical reasons. It seemed to me a brutal and dangerous act, while not much could be gained from it, and it played into the hands of his opponents. Further, there was a deliberate deception in insisting that Brexit was nothing to do with the proroguing — nobody anywhere believed that, except the Queen. And yes, now Brenda has been dragged into the affair. But constitutionally it did not bother me much.
    There seemed to be two concepts of pristine sovereignty here brought face to face. The sovereignty of parliament on the one hand, and the sovereignty of that referendum vote on the other. Both have force, but for me the sovereignty of the referendum trumped the sovereignty of parliament on this unique issue. It didn’t for the likes of historian Lord Hennessy, who I heard on the World at One. What a wonderful day for democracy, he enthused — expressing precisely the same sentiments as that other great supporter of the UK, Guy Verhofstadt. Democracy for Hennessy and the rest of the liberal establishment resides in one place alone — wherever it can stop Brexit. Unelected judges — fine and dandy. Hennessy and the rest put their faith in parliament not for noble constitutional reasons, but because parliament, too, is determined to stop Brexit. Not mentioned by Hennessy, or any of the others, was that other sovereignty which had been transgressed. There is only one law.
    I don’t doubt that our judiciary is technically independent of the government and that this is a good thing. But the notion that their worships are above the political fray is a patent absurdity, today just as much (perhaps even more so) than it was when Jeremy Thorpe was exonerated from court, or ten years later when the operators of cross-channel ferries which killed hundreds also received absolution from charges of manslaughter. Back then the left and the liberals were in no doubt that whatever the technical and historical notions of a separation between the state and judiciary, it was perfectly evident that when push came to shove, the courts became supine servants of the ruling elite. Here’s the thing: they still are, you lefties. But the elite has changed.
    The process of denying Brexit began during the referendum campaign, in which the Remain side spent almost half as much again as the Leavers, an enormous majority of parliamentary support and the goodwill of the broadcast media, big business, civil service, academia, luvvies and popular music entertainers. Lies were told during that campaign, but the only ones which were the subject of howled complaint were those from the Leave side (the idiotic £350 million NHS bus, for example). The spin from the Remainer camp (such as on day one, on a poster from Britain Stronger in Europe, the remarkable claim that for every £1 the UK put into the EU, we got £10 back) got scarcely any publicity.
    After their shock at the result, the hardcore Remainers went into overdrive. First in the court case which insisted the decision should be taken away from the people and handed over to parliament (which was pro-Remain). Their worships happily concurred, again, with that perpetually busy and self-righteous businesswoman Gina Miller. At the same time the civil service was busy trying to obstruct Brexit by any means possible, while the House of Lords was dragged in to help.
    The Leave campaign was vilified not only for its lies but its alleged financial chicanery. The Electoral Commission instigated a prosecution into Arron Banks for his funding of the Leave campaign — he was exonerated this week and now intends to sue the EC. But the allegation against Banks was held by the hardcore Remainers as plain evidence that Brexit had been illegally sold to the electorate. And what part of that electorate? The thick, the northern, the uneducated, the racist and xenophobic. This was crucial for the Remainers, to be able to say that Brexit was not only fraudulently mis-sold but worse, sold to people who were at best simpletons and at worst possessed of unsavoury opinions Which Have No Place In a Modern Democracy. This helped assuage those Remainer MPs who had been forced, for a short while, to admit that they must respect the views of the electorate. Not any more. Now they could write those views off, because they were criminally embedded in the minds of people who were anti-democratic. They stopped saying ‘we respect the views of the public’ and decided they didn’t respect them at all. Meanwhile, our government, led by a Remainer, tried to negotiate with Europe without even having the option of a get-out ‘no-deal clause’, something denied to her by a Remainer cabinet.
    Never in our recent history has the weight of the state, of the liberal elite which controls the state, been used so brazenly and relentlessly to crush the aspirations of the electorate. Never before has there been such a concerted attempt to betray democracy. The staunch defenders of democracy who opposed prorogation, the Lib Dems, Labour and the Picts, are not quite so enamoured of the concept that they would want a general election. They want Boris Johnson to resign but will not put their own policies to the test because they know damn well the public is averse to them. Boris Johnson is imprisoned: in office (perhaps briefly) but not in power, unable to win any vote. Brexit is gone and the extension, now inevitable, will have a myriad of stipulations attached. Johnson can try to strike a deal with Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, but Farage will exact a heavy price (and rightly so). It is not even clear that, given their great love for democracy, the opposition parties will agree to a general election in November. They know that much of the public will reckon Johnson did as much as he possibly could, and that the Supreme Court verdict might even help him a little.
    A caretaker government? All we know is this. We are not getting Brexit. Has that finally sunk home? We are not getting Brexit. That is the law, the only law.
    Spectator.co.uk/Radio Rod Liddle vs Anand Menon on the Supreme Court ruling.

  1457. I posted a link to a list of environmental scares that never came about.
    I did this twice and they didn’t stay up. ??
    Rods article did.
    Odd.

  1458. What Gingrich and the three are missing is this:

    It’s getting close to the election time, it looks as if the Donald will get re-elected, his approval rating right now is the highest since he took office, the only way they can prevent his getting back to the Oval Office is the start the impeachment process and let it run until after the election, it will hang over him, it will make people thing ‘could they be smoke without fire’, it will keep the possibility that he did something wrong in the voters’ minds as they go the polls.

    Ironically, it’s likely to bury Biden leaving the choice for the Dem’s candidate between Bernie and the crazy woman Warren. Bernie could possibly challenge the Donald, but he’s been outclassed on promises by Warren, who is a greater divider than Bernie, couldn’t;t possibly defeat the sitting President.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvh9jYLLKOE

  1459. John birch @ September 26th, 2019 – 07:47

    A superb expose of the contour-revolution of the Remainers, John, but here we are dealing with the big beast of politics, the voting public. The beast, when angered, my do things that one can never ever predict. Let’s just wait and see what happens before, on and after October 31.

  1460. wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
    google that .
    For some reason this site just will not accept the link .

  1461. Baron September 26th, 2019 – 09:02 and John birch
    September 26th, 2019 – 09:48

    Baron – I guess it’s all we can do.

    John birch – This paranoid madness may soon get to the point where a permit will be required if we want to buy rope.

  1462. Malfleur
    September 25th, 2019 – 01:38
    We appear to have a deep state globalist Supreme Court.

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    Malfleur
    September 25th, 2019 – 03:02
    Lt General Riley Explains How the EU is taking over the UK’s Defence and Intelligence Capabilities

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPNfR3Z5Yo

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  1463. Malfleur @ September 26th, 2019 – 22:47

    What the military man said, Malfleur, is indeed frightening, we seem to have signed up to our Armed Forces being integrated into the EU’s without anyone noticing it. How did that happen he didn’t say however. Just being aware of it, telling MPs about it is not going to change anything. This is another example of the treacherous behaviour of the ghastly woman who was in no10, and makes our leaving the monstrosity without a deal close to imperative.

  1464. John birch @ September 26th, 2019 – 09:48

    The same problem Baron has encountered, John, some links just don’t get accepted by the blog. It appears that Peter has other things to do, few months ago he was asked about the number of hits on the blog (after a small contribution by the barbarian), no response from him. There’s nothing we can do.

    Btw, does anyone know if there’s a way to find out if anyone ever visit this blog (except for the few of us who contribute)?

  1465. Don’t you find it strange that the Government seems to be on the back foot again and again? Don’t they have any smart advisors, lawyers, thinkers at hand? The guy called Cummings was hailed as a genius on strategy, but so far his strategy has resulted in the Government near total impotence.

    The Commons could pass a law stripping BoJo of governance replacing him and it with the ghastly Bercow and a bunch of the cumryd’s lot plus few other Remainer traitors, and BoJo wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

    Most peculiar phase in the history of the country, don’t you think?

  1467. Baron
    September 26th, 2019 – 23:24

    Yes very peculiar. And to think that when we were young, everybody used to sneer at South America, because they believed that in South America, politics and government business were usually a series of comic coups d’etat.

  1468. Malfleur, September 26th, 2019 – 22:47

    The EU army is what they like to call it, Malfleur. It’s really GERMANY!

    In true Borg fashion the cabbage eaters assimilated the Dutch army, navy and airforce – such as they were – a number of years ago. They are now all under the command and control of the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin.

    I cannot see the French political elite meekly handing over control of their nuclear arsenal etc. to anyone else. One whiff of that and Marine Le Pen would be in the Elysee Palace next time around with a massive majority.

  1469. Baron, September 26th, 2019 – 23:24 & 23:25

    Both Starkey and Ann Widdecombe are right. Parliament and the Judiciary haven’t been this rotten since the Civil War.

  1470. Baron,
    The subsuming of our millitary into the arms of Europe demonstrates beyond doubt the sheer ignorance of our ruling class. The merest aquaitence with recent history is a guarantee of our involvement in conflicts not of our making and not in our interests. And if we are dragged into conflict there can be no doubt as to whose boys will be in the front line while the French and the Germans are making the tea.

  1471. The Speccie has just arrived, on time for once.There is a piece which I have not read, nor have I any intention of doing so, by Mathew Parris, “How I know I’m a Conservative” Whos’s the self deluding prick trying to kid?

  1472. To parphrase madame Roland “Oh democeacy, what crimes are committed in your name. A few minutes later her head was in the basket. A lesson here for our
    arrogant Parliamentarians.

  1473. stephen maybery – 13:28

    He’s not the only one I wouldn’t want pay to read in that organ. Every now and again I am tempted to join the ranks of yourself, Baron, other CHWallsters, and subscribe. But there are too many of them that I would hate to see my pennies to contributing to their coffers

    Very disappointed in him. Twenty years ago he when he wrote beautifully crafted, witty Commons Sketches in The Times he used to be a bit of fun. These days he seems a bit thin skinned and waspish.

    The Spectatesman offices are located in Old Queen Street, SW1H

  1474. November 1st 2019 – BREAKING NEWS

    Jean-Claude Junker – “Today, Britain has ceased to be a member of the E.U.”

    Chief Justice of Britain’s Supreme Court – “Today this Court rules that Britain is still a member of the E.U.”

  1477. Malfleur
    September 28th, 2019 – 12:20

    The interview – so far as I could actually hear what was being said (even with my hearing aids) – was fascinating. Is it possible, I wonder, to get a transcript of it?

  1478. A superb rebuttal of the judgement by the 11 learned legal gnomes is in Policy Exchange by John Finnis under ‘The unconstitutionality of the Supreme Court’s prorogation judgement’. Just google the title and his name, and marvel at the precision Mr. Finnis dissects the politically driven nonsense.

  1479. stephen maybery @ September 27th, 2019 – 13:28

    The boss cannot stand the man either, stephen, says he’s so patronisingly self-indulgent it pains. Baron has never spent a minute reading his pieces, no interest in his views at all.

  1481. The whistleblower’s case that’s supposed to lead to the Donald’s impeachment shows how utterly rotten the American political system has become. If it retained even a tiny semblance of objectivity, fairness and bi-partisanship (as it should have for the sake of the country) the politicians on either side of the political spectrum would treat the Biden and the Donald’s parts of it equally. If what either side is alleging were to be true, then unquestionably what Biden did, Vice-President when he’s alleged to sin, was by far worse than the Donald’s request to investigate it.

    Biden’s on record saying he gracefully allowed the then President Poroshenko to sack the Prosecutor General of Ukraine within six hours or else. If it were found that the threat was to stop the Ukrainian PG to stop investigating Biden’s son (that’s how many see it) then the request amounts to using the US taxpayers money for personal gain. How does the Donald’s request for Ukraine to re-open the case compare with that?

    Btw, if you were to read the Ukrainian press (in Russian) about the saga you would find that Biden’s claim he pressured Poroshenko because the PG was corrupt is 100% hollow, the whole system was still is totally corrupt, many of the top officials of the Poroshenko’s administration are now threatened with investigation for corruption, as is the former President himself.

  1483. Trying to secure an acceptable BRexit deal from the EU is like flogging a dead horse.
    After 3+ years and counting it’s time to pronounce the horse dead!

    The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed down from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

    In the House of Commons, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies is often employed, such as:

    1. Change riders
    2. Buy a stronger whip
    3. Do nothing: “This is the way we have always ridden dead horses”
    4. Visit other countries to see how they ride dead horses
    5. Perform a productivity study to see if lighter riders improve the dead horse’s performance
    6. Hire a contractor to ride the dead horse
    7. Harness several dead horses together in an attempt to increase the speed
    8. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance
    9. Appoint a committee to study the horse and assess how dead it actually is
    10. Re-classify the dead horse as “living-impaired”
    11. Develop a Strategic Plan for the management of dead horses
    12. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses
    Modify existing standards to include dead horses
    13. Declare that, as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than many other horses
    14. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position

    It’s maybe time to clear out the Augean stables that are the HoC.

  1484. This guy sums up the impeachment drive about right, the Dems must be crazy to couple the desire to get rid of the Donald with the Ukrainian job. The owner of the company Burisma fled Ukraine for fear of imprisonment, that tells one his corruption must have been unacceptable even to the corrupt administration of Poroshenko.

    If memory serves (it was happening in 2014) the company is alleged to have obtained the concession to drill for shale gas fraudulently (that’s why the owner left, Baron’s forgotten his name, he was a member of the Rada, looked after the dishing put of the drilling concessions). Btw, the biggest deposits of the shale gas are in Donbas, the area controlled by the two breakaway Republics.:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkVQN6GUpI

  1485. EC @ September 30th, 2019 – 11:32

    Brilliant, EC, Baron likes the strategic plan for the management of dead horses most, it reminded him how the communist thugs ran the economy, made him chuckle, and the spiel by Nigel’s good, too, he must be able to talk in this manner even fi he’s asleep.

  1488. On the impeachment:

    How can one explain the Dem’s craving for the impeachment when the Senate, which will conduct the trial if the decision’s made to go ahead with it, has GOP majority and some Dems may join them as well voting against impeachment.

    More to the point, the trial will allow the Donald’s team to call any witnesses they want, the whole Monty of the Obama’s Administration could be called to testify, how likely is it they’ll be able to co-ordinate their testimonies?

    There’s only one reason the Dems began the ball rolling knowing full well the Donald cannot be impeached. They must be hoping the process, as it’s dragging on in the months before the election, will do the harm, just as the great Mark Steyn said – the outcome matters little if at all, it’s the process that does the damage.

  1489. Only for the connoisseurs of WW@:

    A book by a German called Florian Huber (Promise me you’ll shoot yourself’) is out, it tells the story of the many Germans, mostly if not exclusively the East Prussians, committing suicides when the war turned sour, the Red Army was approaching the land of Germany (possible as many as 100,000 killed themsleves). Fascinating stuff, you should borrow it from the library, at least scan the pages.

    The barbarian’s keen on it because he comes from a neck of the woods that’s close to East Prussia, the nest of German militarism (most of the Wehrmacht officers were of that cradle) used to cover what’s the east of Poland today (even a part of Russia).

    Nobody’s certain but some historians believe the Prussians were originally testing forward bands of Slavs encroaching on the west from the east who intermarried with, converted to, adopted the language of the Germanic tribes, hence the streak of militarism, admired very much by Adolf (who carried with him everywhere the portrait of Frederick II, the ruler of Prussia in the second half of the 18th century called the Great for obvious reasons).

  1490. Baron,

    While we are on the subject of WW2, here’s the amazing story of Baron de Selys-Longchamps DFC.

    Typhoon vs Gestapo – RAF Pilot Rogue Attack 1943

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAq72EYp6w
    (only 5 mins)

    He was made of the right stuff! Unlike the EU apparatchik quislings that the BENELUX countries bred after the war.

  1492. Yes.
    Home Secretary Priti Patel says the Government plans to end freedom of movement and introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system after Brexit

  1493. We are being told that for various complicated reasons, the border between Ulster and the Irish Republic needs something called a “backstop” and that everything hangs on agreeing how to do it.

    Why not simply make Ulster an independent country like Canada? Problem solved? At least for the time being?

  1495. Noa
    October 1st, 2019 – 17:58

    If I recall correctly there was a similar problem with Ukraine tapping into a pipeline that moved Russian gas from Siberia to Germany or somewhere in Europe – but refusing to pay for it. I don’t know whether this is still happening. Maybe the supply is now being moved through a differently routed pipeline.

    Kipling’s verses about Danegeld come to mind. Are the Israelis bloody fools?

  1496. Yall still there?
    And is it really still January? It is the fall here and your old John is touring in New Hampshire where the colours are beyond comprehension.
    I see Boris, your Donald, is being harangued by hopeful women wanting their pound of flesh, not to say week in the media. Well all I say to Boris is that it did Donald no harm.
    My dear aunt in the West Country alarms me that the Liberal Democrats (both swear words here) are resurgent. Well my friends just get Brexit done and crush them.
    Love to Andy.

  1497. Yesterday I was googling Robert Maxwell MP (Lab. Buckingham) who wrote the largest bouncing Czech(sic) of the 20th century. He also worked for Mossad.

    I’m certain that most people will remember John Stonehouse MP, Labour member for Wednesbury, who was famous for faking his own death, and all the pantomime and circus surrounding that, but I didn’t realise that had been a Czech spy since 1962. MI5 were keen on keeping a close eye on Harold Wilson and his governments but they didn’t know about Stonehouse until a Czech defector spilt the beans.

    One wonders house how compromised the post WW2 Labour governments were.
    I wish that Nicholas or Colonel Mustard were still around to add some perspective. Can anybody recommend any authoritative books on this topic?

    Fast forward to 2019 and the majority of MPs do not appear to be working on behalf of their constituents.

  1501. I get the feeling that if the person who killed the police in Paris had been a yellow vest there would be a lot more condemnation of the attack.
    As it is it will be a no story by the end of today.

  1502. EC October 2nd, 2019 – 10:46
    Nice link, many thanks. A shame he wasn’t carrying a tactical nuke he could have released on the Westminster rats nest…

  1505. The enlightened and progressive Scots have passed a law banning the smacking of children. One can expect the roads to the boarder to be clogged with Celtic child abusers ferrying the recalcitrent offspring to England for a damn good wolloping. Daft?do not laugh, in this lunatic land anything is possible, unless one is from an ethnic minority, for then one can claim yhat belting the kids is part of ones culture.

  1507. EC @ October 7th, 2019 – 11:36

    An excellent thrashing up of the the charade that Brexit has become (mainly because of the unwillingness of the tops of all pyramids of societal power to deliver on the referendum) by two impressive figures, EC, Baron has subscribed.

    Rod isn’t a born speaker, Nigel is, but it’s the ideas that matter even if the delivery isn’t up to scratch. Neither one said anything one doesn’t already know, the barbarian has read the Betrayal, enjoyed it, it’s a short but neat summary of the Post-Brexit years, it should become a must read for anyone who hates history but enjoys witty language whatever the subject.

    What surprised Baron is Rod’s hesitance or rather reluctance to commit to Leave straight away, he talks about his pondering long and hard which way to vote, weighing up the positives and negatives. Why? It feels almost unreal to Baron that anyone born in this country should have any doubts which way to vote on sovereignty, everything else his secondary. Jobs, inward investments, co-operation on intelligence or whatever are important, of course, but one can either have all those or not have them as an independent sovereign state or a vassal of another state, every sensible human being must have the former rather than the latter, millions died over the centuries under the banner of sovereignty.

    It may well be that in the decades or centuries ahead sovereignty will become the thing of the past, but given the nationalistic displays everywhere one looks, that time hasn’t;t come yet. After all, we pay taxes based on national boundaries, not globally.

    As B aron has told you it was a no brainer for him, lets get our sovereignty back then figure what to do next, it will be entirely up to us to decide on our future, we will not be shackled by anyone’s else interests, just ours.

    Rod’s remark that we will never ever sort out our relationship with the Continental neighbours, ‘we’re fugged’ he said, that remark is holding true only because we are fugged internally, the model of democracy that had suited the country for centuries was abandoned, the rot began when the progressives took over re-formulating the tenets that underpin the societal discourse, the Tories adopted them together with the vocabulary (and its restrictions), and if ever they put up a fight it was on the territory of the progressives.

    The ghastly Blair pushed the hegemony of the progressives further, encased some of their delusional ideas into statutes. Unless we dismantle this institutional cum legal cage of progressivism we are indeed fugged (and not just in our relation with the EU neighbour).

  1508. EC @ October 7th, 2019 – 13:58

    The clip is that of Rod & Nigel again, EC, but you’re free to be anything you like except of course a Labour politician.

  1509. Apologies for you know what, and no more promises to avoid them, the barbarian’s non-improvable.

  1510. Just like a number of police or military officers who retired, and suddenly their eyes have opened to the shortcomings of the services they ran or help to run, so the same miracle struck the MSM national treasure incubated within the BBC – John Humphrys, having secured his pension, the man now says the BBC’s biased. What a courageous man, he should be knighted.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/10/08/bbc-biased-in-transgender-immigration-debates-says-former-host/

  1512. I was wondering if one of our resident CHW wordsmiths could come up with a medical definition for Lammy-itis.

    Googling the incumbent MP for Tottenham I note that he is the heir to Bernie Grant – as far as his parliamentary seat goes. Looking at the Wiki entry for Bernie Grant it seems to have been somewhat sanitised. Not how I remember things at all. I wish Frank P were still here to give us an honest opinion.

  1513. Baron – (October 8th, 2019 – 11:00) – has hit several nails on the head.

    I begin to wonder if the idea in my posting (October 1st, 2019 – 16:46) – no matter how crazy it may seem – might just work?

  1514. Herbert Thornton @ October 8th, 2019 – 15:12

    Amazing as it may seem, Herbert, your solution is probably already applauded in some quarters, but, frankly, it would amount to our total surrender to the German diktat, leaving the EU or not.

    The leak from no10 on the content of the telephone call suggesting the talking’s over seems weird, the words attributed to the Mutti don’t fit how she has talked in the past, it’s not her style to be forthright, clear and decisive, she’s been around for a while and knows that the choice of words could often be more important than the message the words are conveying.

    You may be tired of Baron rabbiting about it, but he’s sticking to what he’s been saying all along. We should have ceased talking to the EU or anyone else at the political level at least after the deal of the ghastly female got rejected, preferably before (but encourage very much contacts at the level of industries, associations and similar bodies).

    We should have done everything possible for a no-deal Brexit, so much so that the Germans (the Germans are running the EU as you well know) would be certain we would leave sans a deal. It’s only then that the Mutti’s crowd would have melted, approached us, did some serious talking that would satisfy us and them equally.

  1515. EC @ October 8th, 2019 – 14:08

    Frank’s missed, EC, and not just for his take on the Tottenham’s loony.

  1516. EC @ October 8th, 2019 – 11:46

    It’s not racism, or at lest in most cases it isn’t, it’s just inertia, something that people got used to over long span of time when all county or town officials were white, corpulent, and more often than not balding.

  1518. Baron @ October 8th, 2019 – 22:55

    “……. it’s just inertia, something that people got used to over long span of time when all county or town officials were white, corpulent, and more often than not balding.”

    That rang a very loud bell –

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Peter_Simple_characters

    And especially, e.g., Alderman Foodbotham — the 25-stone, iron-watch-chained, crag-visaged, grim-booted Lord Mayor of Bradford and perpetual chairman of the Bradford City Tramways and Fine Arts Committee. And to think that now, if anybody were to write as Peter Simple did, he would be sent to prison.

  1519. No sacred cows
    The best comedy in town
    Toby Young

    I ventured out into Westminster earlier this week to take a look at the Extinction Rebellion protest and it reminded me of the Edinburgh Fringe. I don’t just mean the sheer number of people in fancy dress, such as the Red Rebels with their red robes and white face paint, or the men in gas masks. I mean it was like a huge piece of political street theatre written by a brilliant satirist.
    Wherever you looked there were little comic vignettes. At one point, having become slightly numb listening to one activist after another condemn ‘western consumerism’, I popped into Pret a Manger, only to be confronted by protestors politely queuing up to buy vegan baguettes. I could have sworn some of them were the very same people who’d been holding up signs saying ‘End Capitalism’ moments before. Then there was the hearse parked in Trafalgar Square, complete with a coffin in the back labelled ‘Our Future’, which immediately got a parking ticket.
    Apart from that over-zealoustraffic warden, the reaction of the authorities was a model of restraint. At first I found the police’s failure to enforce the law irritating — I joked to James Delingpole that if it were a group of Catholic nuns protesting about changes to the Gender Recognition Act, the riot squad would have been straight in with the tear gas. But I came around to this policy as the day wore on. Rather than turn the demonstrators into martyrs by arresting them en masse and dragging them into paddy wagons, the police stood back for the most part and let them make fools of themselves.
    On the day I was there, first prize went to Mark Rylance, who gave a speech saying he’d been inspired to resign from the Royal Shakespeare Company by Greta Thunberg. Apparently, the 59-year-old actor hadn’t realised BP’s £7.5 million sponsorship deal with the RSC, which has enabled 80,000 young people to buy tickets for £5, was immoral. The 16-year-old oracle had opened his eyes (and the RSC has severed ties with BP).
    If it were Catholic nuns protesting about changes to the Gender Recognition Act, the riot squad would have been straight in with the tear gas
    For all the demonstrators’ talk of ‘science’ and their insistence on telling ‘the truth’, it could not have been clearer that this global movement is a religious cult. Several of the protestors seemed to be in an emotional fugue state, their eyes burning brightly, like evangelicals possessed by the Holy Spirit.
    Many people have made this observation before, but the protestors’ apocalyptic moralism — their absolute conviction that the world will end in our lifetimes if we don’t purge ourselves of sin — is a textbook hallmark of millenarianism. It has a good deal in common with Christianity in its febrile, late medieval phase, with Saint Greta as Joan of Arc, but it’s also post-Christian in the way predicted by Chesterton. I’m not thinking of his supposed comment about people believing in anything rather than nothing when they stop believing in God, although there was some evidence of that, with different groups embracing paganism in various forms. I’m thinking of another quote: ‘The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.’
    The odd thing is that none of the protestors was aware that they were in the grip of these religious ideas, even though it was obvious to any outsider. And this too gave the affair a rich comic dimension. The highpoint of my day was witnessing a speech given by the Guardian columnist George Monbiot on Millbank. It was dusk and he was surrounded by hushed congregants sitting in a circle. He stood on a small box and delivered what was, in essence, a religious sermon. He talked about how he and his fellow eco–warriors were kind, altruistic people, rebelling ‘with love in our hearts’ against an ‘avaricious’, ‘vampiric’, ‘necro-philic’ economic system kept afloat by ‘neo-liberals’ and ‘psychopaths’. ‘If we love ourselves, we must purge this toxic system built around capitalism from our souls,’ he said. The talk ended with some call and response, with George shouting out ‘Extinction!’ and the crowd replying ‘Rebellion!’ It was like a scene from a 21st-century equivalent of The Life of Brian, except in this version the protagonist has embraced his messianic status.
    Am I being too flippant about what could metastasise into a violent doomsday cult in the same mould as Aum Shinrikyo, the group that carried out the Tokyo subway sarin attack? Probably. But for the time being it’s hard not to laugh.
    Spectator.co.uk/Radio Toby Young and Clive Lewis MP: are Extinction Rebellion fanatics?

  1521. Herbert Thornton @ October 9th, 2019 – 14:34

    A must read when his column ran in the DT, Herbert, the country doesn’t;t seem to be breeding men like him any more. To remind himself about the great Peter Simple Baron googled him and his best, then remembered that he has the book, looked for it, failed to locate it. Still, a new search may be on soon because another book, this one on London, must be found, it’s a matter of some importance.

    On the same frequency, or perhaps one close to PS’s, did you know that Britain is bejewelled with an amazing richness of bottom-shaped names of places, mostly villages? There must be dozens of them. Or names that put a smile one’s face?

    It has always been Baron’s dream to live in such a place. Imagine to be asked, as the barbarian frequently is because of his accent, where do you come from? Then to have the pleasure to say ‘from Galloping Bottom’ (Somerset), or ‘Snail Bottom’ (Somerset0, or better still Drunken Bottom (Oxfordshire). There also is a place called Willey, another called Money Bank, and one called Burnt Dick Hill.

    Baron has a map of Great British Place Names, he found it looking for PS’s book of the best. Years ago, he used to peruse it before falling to sleep, then filed it, forgot about it. It’s enchantingly amusing, one can enjoy it the length and breath of the country.

  1522. EC @ October 11th, 2019 – 17:21

    The guy’s unbeatable, EC, currently top of the list of the greats.

  1523. The dustbin collection moved from Friday to Tuesday a couple of months ago, on Monday evening this week the blue one for papers, plastic and similar stuff was wheeled to the front of the gate, it’s better to get it there the evening before, the dustmen come early. Came Tuesday afternoon, the dustbin was gone, disappeared, vanished, it has happened once before, people pinch the plastic containers for some other purpose, the theft was rather inconvenient, Baron was going to phone the Council, when, surprise, surprise, the blue dustbin re-appeared on Wednesday, not as full as it was on Monday evening, around a fifth of the content have been taken, the rest, mostly newspapers and magazines, was of no interest to whoever had borrowed the container, returned it after raiding it.

    What do you make of it?

    It comes soon after Baron’s car got scratched badly parked at Stansted Long term car park, a find of a coffee cup followed, not the disposable cup but the reusable variety, coffee still in it, in the garden behind the wood shed, the best place to observe the house, and another find, a large stone, the length of a half of French stick but three times thicker laying infant of the kitchen window, how did it get there is still a big mystery unless it was a special stone that can walk.

    Weird, don’t you think?

  1525. Still waiting to hear from Andy folks.
    Much as we love the Donald, a lot of dudes in my neck of the woods are worried about him getting the Ukrainians to do his election dirty work.
    The Ukrainians for God’s sake.

  1526. postergirl @ October 11th, 2019 – 20:39

    It did come early, poster girl, on e hopes it will eff off even earlier, and for good.

    On brighter note (or not), a singer died in Czecho, the minor country in the middle of the Old Continent, he wasn’t;t popular here at all, in Germany, he was worshipped. The whole country of some 10mn people is mourning, people are bussed to Prague from the most distant corner of the land, plenty of German admirers in attendance, too, books of condolences galore, a lot of tears and all the other stuff that accompanies the death of naturally admired individuals.

    You hear about it only to contrast it with the death of politicians. As far as the barbarian can tell the death of no other public figure has ever reached such a level of admiration. Here’s a sample of his crooning:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgw-Hsy1Bk

  1530. The 1000 Year Reich?
    “The unspeakable in pursuit of the unachievable!” (*)
    (… with apologies to Oscar Wilde}

    * It won’t stop the buggers from trying.

  1533. Boris serves up May’s armistice treaty (a bowl of cold vomit) warmed up a bit…

    The Northern Ireland “backstop” was always a classic piece of misdirection.

    If the HoC votes Armistice II through tomorrow then the “Blonde Inseminator” (© Baron) will have succeeded in shagging the entire country for decades to come.

  1534. The temptation to post a slightly modified version one of my earlier posts has become irresistible –

    BREAKING NEWS, November 1st 2019

    Jean-Claude Junker – “Today, Britain is no longer a member of the E.U.”

    Britain’s Supreme Court issues a judgment and House of Commons passes a resolution to the effect that – “Today Britain continues to be a member of the E.U.”

  1535. Ironically, it was only the full blown quislings in the “remainer” parliament that saved us from Boris’s Surrender Act yesterday. I don’t know about “dying in a ditch,” I think that sharing the exact same fate as Mussolini might be more appropriate for Boris!

    Read this, and then tell me that Boris is a hero…

    FORGET POLITICS, IS BORIS’S NEW EU TREATY BREXIT? No, it’s not

    Brexit factsheet no.7 – The EU’s new UK Colonisation Treaty A layman’s summary of the EU’s new ‘UK colonisation treaty’ agreed by the PM last week, prepared by Brexit Facts4EU.Org with advice from a Brussels-based barrister

    1. Parliament will not be sovereign – UK still to be governed by existing and new laws of the ECJ – a foreign court – and with no say over these laws. [WA articles 4, 87, 89 and 127, PD para 131]

    2. Demands payment of a sum to be decided by the EU – Minimum £39 billion but this is likely to increase and the EU decides the final sum. This must be paid BEFORE any trade deal is agreed. [WA articles 138-144, and 152-155]

    3. No trade deal with EU – Not included as this is just a divorce treaty. Any EU trade deal must ensure “a level playing field for open and fair competition” and “deep regulatory and customs cooperation”. This will make it difficult for the UK to reduce non-tariff barriers in trade deals with USA, Australia, China, etc. [PD paras 17 & 21]

    4. Prevents independent tax policy – Political Declaration still obliges UK to adopt a future relationship which will impose EU State Aid rules and “relevant tax matters” on the UK. EU specifically intends to curb UK’s ability to have “harmful tax practices”. Withdrawal Treaty also applies EU law to UK during transition period – allowing EU to sue UK, including infringement proceedings for as yet unidentified breaches of State Aid rules and billions in VAT on commodity derivative transactions dating back to 1970s. [PD para 77, WA articles 86, 93, 127].

    5. Restricts independent foreign policy – UK to be bound by international agreements concluded by the EU despite having no influence in their negotiation during the transition period and must “refrain, during the transition period, from any action… which is likely to be prejudicial” to the interests of the EU. [Articles 129(3) and (6)].

    6. Prevents independent military action – UK permanently stopped from taking “any action likely to conflict with or impede” EU’s foreign policies. Critical parts of section on foreign policy and security are not reciprocal, eg future relationship will not “prejudice the decision-making autonomy of the EU” but no such language for UK – only permitted to “maintain the right to determine how [to respond] to any invitation to participate in operations or missions”. Also, parties “agree to consider” security collaboration in European Defence Agency, European Defence Fund, and PESCO “to the extent possible under [EU law]” which is prescriptive (not permissive) obligation. Despite paying for European Defence Agency during transition, British troops in EU battlegroups will not be led by British staff officers. [WA articles 129(6-7) and 156-157 and PD paras 99, 102(c)]

    7. Controls UK fishing – Common Fisheries Policy continues in UK waters during transition (which can be extended) but UK will have no say in implementation or enforcement. After transition, Political Declaration requires “cooperation on… regulation of fisheries, in a non-discriminatory manner” – code for continuing current arrangements for EU access to UK waters. Any trade deal to “ensure service providers and investors are treated in a non-discriminatory manner, including with regard to establishment” – prevents UK protecting quotas from EU purchase. [PD paras 29 and 72]

    8. Replaces one EU Commission with another – New body established with “powers equivalent to those of the European Commission”. UK must accept exclusive jurisdiction of Arbitration Panel and judgments of ECJ. Grants EU officials criminal immunity and exemption from UK tax. Imposes gagging order on UK which must keep all EU information confidential but EU can use UK information as it sees fit. [WA articles 74, 101, 104-5, 106-116, 159, 168, 174]

    9. Leaves UK with €500bn liabilities from EU Investment Bank but no profits – No rights to past and future profits made from UK investment in EIB, no rights to UK share of assets of EIB, yet UK remaining liable for risk of up to €500bn of guarantees. UK must let EU bid for UK public projects at least during transition. [WA articles 34, 75-78, 127, 143, 147, 150].

    10. EU colonisation – makes UK bystander in laws that govern it – UK permitted to send civil servant to Brussels to observe EU passing laws designed to disadvantage UK economy during transition which might last many years. EU could regulate London’s huge foreign exchange markets, impose financial transaction tax that would be collected at UK expense by HMRC but sent to foreign governments. [WA article 34]

  1536. EC @ October 20th, 2019 – 08:58

    Revealing summary, EC, thanks for posting it, the people are being misled believing the new deal’s better than the old one, the barbarian has posted a response when he read a different slicing of the new deal almost identical to your post, Baron’s posting said: ‘The BoJo’s deal is to the one negotiated by the ghastly May what a glass half full is to one half empty except that the colour of the former differs from the latter’.

    Rod Liddle got it spot on, we are doomed, it may sound like defeatism but we would have been better in than out on these terms.

  1537. Herbert Thornton @ October 19th, 2019 – 19:48

    You must forgive them, Herbert, they truly not know what they are saying.

  1538. John birch @ October 15th, 2019 – 07:23

    Good write-up, John, but it says nothing new to the barbarian, he has argued consistently that the EU is a German project, and to be frank, the unwashed of Germany can hardly be blamed, it’s as always the elites that bear the responsibility, the former work hard, are genuinely prudent, follow the leader come what may, all that brings in das Geld, who has it has also the power.

  1539. How do we get out of the EU? Henry VIII must be spinning in his grave. OK he had a few foibles such as chopping his wives heads off whenever he fancyd a new edition but at least the old sod got us out from under Rome. Our puerile political establishement is in dire need of a few history lessons.

  1540. Baron

    A German “racket” is the correct word, I believe.

    *****

    What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

    Traditionally newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons has to be dragged into his chair by Honourable anf Right Honourable Members.

    But the time is coming!

    The time is coming, Mr. Speker!

    When the exception that proves the rule must be invokes and you must be dragged by Honourable Members OUT of your chair and thrown into the dustbin of English history!

  1541. Malfleur @ October 22nd, 2019 – 09:10

    Good ones, Malfleur, where have you been when genuine history is in the making?

    The fun will begin seriously when the Commons rejects the deal again, one of the EU members does the same on the extension request.

  1542. stephen maybery @ October 21st, 2019 – 18:09

    We would be immeasurably better off if the follower of the oversexed monarch, Elizabeth, were in control and not just in office, stephen, the MK2 version of her, of course, but what if, God forbid, by some quirk of nature the red haired world saviour and his celebrity wife were to get the job?

    Would history lessons help? Hmmm

  1544. Avoid flying on this contraption, if you can.

    This case may explain why Europe is being punished for ‘subsidising’ Airbus, whether it can help Boeing is another matter. The barbarian checked the European plane maker share price, it’s still worth considering even though the dividend yield cannot beat that of Gazprom, Baron’s top performer in both capital appreciation and dividend yield (sadly only from a handful of share s).

    https://www.moonofalabama.org

  1547. Malfleur – 09-10

    “European Monetary Union is a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe.”
    Nicholas Ridley, 1990.
    (Secretary Of State For Trade and Industry 1989-1990)

    He was sacked for telling the truth!

  1548. Baron, October 20th, 2019 – 23:28

    “the unwashed of Germany can hardly be blamed…”

    Darüber lässt sich streiten!

    Surely 98% of them in 1938 can. After two stints of working there and being related to a few by a sibling’s marriage, I’m not a big fan. Under the surface I don’t their national character and instincts have changed much at all since 1938. The EU project is a continuation of Nazi foreign policy only pursued by economic means.

    Your money is better off almost anywhere but in a bank!

  1549. Baron
    October 22nd, 2019 – 09:48

    Pleased? Hee hee hee indeed. It makes me regret having bothered to vote, especially since Victoria, where I live, elected a Socialist.

  1550. The book Three days at the brink’ by Bret Baier could be of interest for anyone interested in the supplementaries of WW2, the story of the live torpedo sounds close to unbelievable, but the guy’s explanation of why the conference happened is way off the mark.

    The three met in Teheran after the battle of Kursk, the turning point in the Nazis’ advance on Russia, the likelihood of the Georgian thug agreeing to a ceasefire or more after that battle borders on the fanciful. He must have sensed, in fact must have known the Wehrmacht wasn’t unbeatable what with millions new recruits being trained in Siberia, the manufacture of military gear progressing well, the US supplies getting through in quantity, why would he make peace with Adolf?

    Much better reason for the Americans and Winston (in particular Winston) offers itself – both men feared the Red Army may sweep through the whole of Europe, hence the need to to get serious about the 2nd front, not so much as to defeat the Nazis as to stop the Red Menace spreading all over the Old Continent.

    In fact, either Winston Private Secretary or someone close to the great man has made a mention of what it was that made Roosevelt and Wilson to travel to that far flung city nobody knew much about with all the risks involved for both men.

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  1552. EC @ October 22nd, 2019 – 12:16

    Indeed, EC, arguable it is, but that’s the DNA of the tribe, one can do little with it, it also includes the traits Baron mentioned – loyalty to the führer, hard work, prudence.

    Just look at them now, virtually everyone except for the few totally deluded are unhappy with the tsunamis of immigrants yet the Mutti’s outfit still tops the election.
    Why?

    You’re spot on to 100% accuracy that the EU is indeed a continuation of their foreign policy by means other that unleashing a blitzkrieg with Panzers and Stukas.

  1557. A concert of chamber music locally, the Brodsky Quartet, not amongst Baron;s favourites, the menu also nothing much except for Schubert’s quintet in C, a sublime piece, the adagio’s near the top of Baron’s most listened-to music, the place full even though the cheapest ticket costs £18 and the weather’s as awful as it gets, windy and raining so much one can get totally soaked within minutes.

    What you reckon the composition of the audience was? A mix resembling the ethnic split of the country, or even close to it? Nope, amongst the 200 plus listeners only one black face, a young girl together with a couple of white friends. On the streets, one can meet quite a number of Muslims, other non-whites cohabitating with the locals, no friction, no problema, but when it comes to cultural events such as the one Baron’s talking about there seems to be no interest from those imported to the region. One wonders what the future holds, will the newcomers adopt the cultural tastes of the indigenous folk or will concerts of classical music die out?

  1558. It’s been often the case that whatever gets brewed in the Republic lands here within three five years, often the most outlandish ideas get transferred in full, and not just in the form of KFC, ideas that profoundly alter the societal set-up eg gay marriages and stuff.

    Here you have another nightmare-spreading individual, the ghastly woman Elizabeth Warren, who places herself some distance to the left from Karl Marx – open borders, health care for all paid for from the federal budget, no enforcement of immigration laws…… If that gets the traction next year, and why shouldn’t it if the Dems endorse her, God help us, the cumryd or his successor has more than an average chance to move to no10 here. Unbelievable.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spLC6gehqlY

  1559. Has anyone read Baron’s posting from 09:47?

    Is anyone around anyway, or is the barbarian talking to himself?

  1560. Baron,
    What’s this? a concert which ignores the dictates of diversity, suely this merits a official enquiry and it’s organisers six months, as for the audience, they should all be sent for diversty awareness training and banned from listening to Mozart. As for me, you know I live in Tower hamlets and we we taken over years ago, there is only one culture here and it ain’t Western. Elizabeth Warren? we are ahead of her, for once we are one up on the Yanks. I shall now sooth my soul with some music and considering the direction we are travelling in, well on tthe way to hell, my choice will be Don Giovani. Owzat?

  1561. Baron, October 25th, 2019 – 10:54

    You have made several comments at “09:47” on this particular edition of the CHW. That particular time of day seems to be a favourite for you.

    The last one that I can see is: “Baron, October 1st, 2019 – 09:47″

    … or did you make the comment in AD 947” Not all of us, not even this CHW, goes back as far as the dark ages! Heh heh heh…

  1562. Ode to Jeremy, magic grandpa.

    Elect me, Select Me
    Support Me, Report Me
    Democracy Needs Me
    You all need Me

    I am your Savior
    I will fight for you
    If there is no War
    I shall start one for you

    I am your Savior
    I am your Warrior
    Accept this Truth
    Ultimate Truth

    Beware if you Cheat Me
    If you fail to Elect Me
    I will break into the System
    I will ruin it to Ashes

    I follow this golden Rule
    Either Win or Stalemate
    I can initiate Religious Riots
    I can give birth to Civil War

    Therefore Elect Me, Select Me
    Support Me, Report Me
    Democracy Needs Me
    You All Need Me

    You all have no other Choice
    So Never Ever search for it
    I am your only Choice
    So Stay Cool and Rejoice

  1569. One the recent DTs carried a huge write-up about Zuckerberg and what the paper coined his ‘Zuck buck’. The spiel didn’t say anything much except for repeating, supporting, extolling the virtues of the claim made by the over successful Jewish whizkid that if the world fails to adopt his crypto currency, China will force its own mutation of the digital money on all and sundry.

    In support of the Libra, that’s the name of his creation, the boy said: “I believe the Libra will extend America’s financial leadership around the world, (Facebook and its subs like What’App, Instagram have over 2.3bn subscribers) as well as our democratic values …. if a Chinese financial system becomes a standard in more countries, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to impose our sanctions”. ‘This is Z’s most powerful argument in favour of Libra’, adds the scribbler who penned the piece.

    Who TF the Americans think they are? To control the world financial system to impose sanctions on others? One can just about comprehend the political elites of the Republic having such pretensions, but here is a young man running an outfit of very little tangible value, an outfit that could vanish literally within hours saying that he should have his way with Libra to punish whoever he wants.

    The last thing we should do is to back the Libra after we Brexit.

  1570. AMEN

    “for our political leaders,
    may they resolve their differences
    that plague our planet,” the speaker says.
    (“lord hear our prayer,” everyone but me says.)
    i look up at the priest.
    he sits at the altar with his eyes closed.
    is this so he can’t see my shaking hands.
    does he think he can hide my pain.
    “for those who have died,
    may they find peace in heaven
    with our lord god and jesus christ.”
    (“lord hear our prayer,” is what i don’t say.)
    they think they can hide my pain,
    thinking things will get better.
    but that doesn’t mean the pain is gone.
    it’s just that no one can see it.
    they never will.
    “for those who starve for love
    and have hunger for another soul,
    may they no longer be lonely.”
    (and i finally say, “lord hear our prayer.”)
    i miss the taste of your lips
    and feeling your arms around me.
    but i will always be hungry and lonely.
    my only companion will be loneliness.
    it’s all my fault.
    i made a million promises and mistakes.
    but those broken promises and mistakes
    is what makes up me now.
    you gave to me and i can’t give back.
    lord hear my prayer.
    amen.”

  1571. Baron November 4th, 2019 – 09:50

    “The last thing we should do is to back the Libra after we Brexit.”

    I was wondering where you had got to M’lud. Now I realise that you’ve been on an expedition to scale Mt. Sinai to seek guidance.

    Keep taking the tablets. 😉

  1572. Fergus Pickering @ November 5th, 2019 – 14:15

    What style is it then, Fergus, close to Parnassian, is it?

  1573. EC @ November 6th, 2019 – 09:13

    Close, EC, but not even a Hamlet (arghhh, these were the days when happiness was …), it’s just old age laziness coupled with the realisation that whatever one does is in vain, wasted time and all, fruitless.

  1575. Malfleur @ November 3rd, 2019 – 10:03

    The festering boil on the contemporary democracy of the Republic that will eventually kill it is that only the immensely monied or those who can solicit immense money can participate in it, gain power, rule.

  1577. Baron, November 6th, 2019 – 10:20

    UK politics is like an old decrepit house that is on the point of collapse and successive attempts to plaster and paint over the cracks have not made any difference to its structural integrity. The is a huge disconnect between the electorate and their representatives.

    However there is one course of action that will bear fruit, and one that I would urge all CHWallsters with a vote(*) and the electorate at large to take!

    (* Russ Conway or Dave Allen could’ve have counted those on the fingers of their right/left hands, respectively)

    i.e. VOTE LABOUR!

    To quote John Morlar “bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads”
    The Medusa Touch, 1978 (Richard Burton, Lee Remick(phwoar!) et al.)

    The sooner that Comrades Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbott and Starmer get into No. 10, and proceed to reduce the UK economy rubble, the better. Only then, and after a civil war, can the house be rebuilt from the ground up.

    It’s ironic that the would be insurgent party in this election, has the slogan, “Change Politics For Good” is subject to all the same organisational maladies possessed by the other parties. i.e. backstabbing, incompetence, cronyism etc. Most of its ills have been brought by the professional activists and carpetbaggers that defected from UKIP which still holds the record.

    See also:
    1) KJV: Matthew Ch.9; 16,17.
    2) The O’Jays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTeLePbB08

    So, Baron old chum, basically you quite right but…

    “In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.”

    …also treat yourself to a proper Churchillian Cuban or La Palma cigar.

  1578. EC @ November 7th, 2019 – 10:24

    What you’re saying EC, may sound achingly masochistic, but Baron agrees with you. Why the slow, painful, nerve destroying trip to oblivion in the distant future when the whole process could be speeded up by the cumryd and his crew.

    In the past Baron always puzzled why Mao initiated, encouraged, failed to put an end to the cultural revolution in China when eventually it hit him. If he just tried to mend things, to tweak the civil service here a there, attempt to re-mould rather than destroy the old institutions China would not be today where she is. The same approach could well be applied to our predicament as often one’s better of fto destroy the old house, build a new one on more solid foundations.

    But the cigar’s off, that avenue of pleasure has been closed to the barbarian, and if you were here you could just hear the boss repeating Mrs. Fawlty ‘and we don’t want it open again, do we’ without the barbarian replying (even in whisper) what the great Basil said.

    PS there was a time the black culture did contribute to what could pass for something close to high culture. The same can hardly be said for what it chips in today.

  1581. Baron
    November 7th, 2019 – 23:50

    No, I couldn’t finish reading it either, nor did I perceive any key points. Moreover, after reading this paragraph –

    ” There were 31,000 Haremin in Israel and 19,000 Amish in the US in 1952. Today, there are 1,126,000 Haredim in Israel and 343,000 Amish in the US.” –

    I Googled both ‘Haremin’ and ‘Haredim’ and discovered that their meanings are so different that the comparison of the two makes no sense at all.

  1582. Herbert Thornton @ November 9th, 2019 – 01:33

    Thanks, Herbert, your posting’s helpful, the barbarian thought he was losing it even though he read the narrative twice.

    If there’s time, Baron will paste&copy a couple of pieces from the Spectator that should interest you.

  1583. Here are the two pieces from the Spectator, the first is from Dr Andrew Foxall, a commentator and writer on Russia, it got some 70m postings, as a guess 8 out of 10 disagreeing with the deluded doctor.

    The other is by Konstantin Kisin, a Russian born comedian who must hav lived here since his youth, Baron reckons, because his English is impeccable, his piece collected close to 100 responses, almost all positive.

    Foxall:

    “It should be a national scandal, but it isn’t. Downing Street’s decision not to release the intelligence and security committee’s report on Russia ahead of the election has generated predictable and understandable anger and confusion. Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Emily Thornberry asked the government what it had “to hide” by not releasing the report. That is a fair question, for much is already known about Russia’s involvement in – if not, influence on – the UK’s democratic processes.

    Most obviously, in 2012 Russia’s embassy hosted the launch party of a group called ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’. The group initially secured high-level support within the party, including from Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former defence secretary and foreign secretary. However, following a scandal – which involved publishing kompromat on Labour MP Chris Bryant – the organisation was dissolved. The group’s point of contact at the embassy was Sergey Nalobin, a first secretary in the political section, who spent five years cultivating leading Tories between 2010 and 2015.

    Russia’s embassy might insist that Nalobin – who once described Boris Johnson as “our good friend” – was in London for purely diplomatic reasons, but it is revealing that he lives in a Moscow apartment block known as the “FSB house” because it houses so many employees from the Kremlin’s main spy agency. Nalobin’s father, Nikolai, was a colonel in the Soviet-era KGB and was later deputy head of the FSB department responsible for investigating economic crime. (In this later position, he was – briefly – the boss of Alexander Litvinenko, according to Litvinenko’s widow Marina.) Nalobin’s brother also worked for the FSB.

    Beyond this, stories about prominent Russians with alleged connections to the Kremlin (however tenuous) who have given money to the Conservative party are ten-a-penny. In 2014, Lubov Chernukhin – the wife of the former Russian deputy finance minister – paid £160,000 to play tennis with Johnson and David Cameron. Earlier this year, she paid £135,000 at the Conservative’s summer party for a dinner with Theresa May. (A guest at the 2013 fundraiser was Vasily Shestakov, Vladimir Putin’s judo partner.) This summer, Westminster was temporarily fixated with the relationship between Alexander Temerko, a Russian industrialist who has gifted more than £1 million since 2011, and Johnson.

    But this isn’t an issue solely for the Conservative party. In 2016, the Labour party-controlled Greater London Authority – led by Sadiq Khan – accepted £138,000 from the Mayor’s Fund for London which came from a Swiss-registered foundation controlled by Elena Baturina, Russia’s richest woman and wife of Yuri Luzhkov the former mayor of Moscow. In 2014, Seumas Milne, while still employed by the Guardian, had his expenses paid when attending the Kremlin’s annual Valdai Club meeting. Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former First Minister and leader of the SNP for 20 years, presents a show on RT (formerly Russia Today).

    None of this is new, however. Thus it is unclear whether the ISC report itself actually contains anything that isn’t already known. But in the absence of the report, speculation inevitably circulates.

    Perhaps the report offers fresh detail about Johnson’s trip to the Italian home of Evgeny Lebedev, the son of former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev, in April 2018, during which the then-foreign secretary is rumoured to have travelled without a 24/7 security detail. Perhaps it contains revelations about the three years Dominic Cummings spent in Russia in the 1990s. Perhaps it documents financial connections between the Kremlin and the Vote Leave campaign, or individuals closely connected to them. Or perhaps it doesn’t.

    It is hard to imagine No.10 would have not released the report if it had offered a clean bill of health. It is hard to imagine No.10 would have not released the report if it contained material that was likely to be more damaging to Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP or another political party. It is hard to imagine No.10 would have not released the report if – without wishing to labour the point – it had contained greater kompromat on Corbyn, Jo Swinson or Milne, or another individual connected to another political party.

    The point, of course, is that until the report is published we simply don’t know. But we ought to. Because the issues the report addresses are about the UK’s democratic processes and the extent to which they are vulnerable to interference by a country that last year carried out a military operation on UK soil which led to the death of a British citizen.

    In the end, No.10’s refusal to publish the report sows confusion and division in the run-up to the election – something you could be forgiven for thinking the Government would want to avoid. One person who benefits from this, ironically, is Putin.

    (Dr Andrew Foxall is a commentator and writer on Russia)

    Kisin:

    “The murder of Russian defector and fierce Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko was a radioactive wake-up call to many in the West about the nature of the Russian regime. Eight years later, the annexation of Crimea and subsequent invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014 were also rightly condemned around the world. It’s safe to say these events – and the ongoing allegations of Russian meddling in western democracies – have made it an interesting time to be a Russian in this country.

    Yet while this topic has been a rich vein of material for a comedian, the extent of hysteria about Russia’s involvement in every aspect of our daily lives is now getting beyond satire.

    We’re told the Russians were responsible for Brexit. As I have said before, if we Russians were responsible for Brexit, Brexit would be done. We’d be out and we’d have taken a chunk of France with us.

    I recall being heckled in a comedy club by an American who told me ‘Russians don’t understand democracy’. ‘Got Trump elected, didn’t we?’ was my reply. The fact the Mueller Report appeared to show no such thing, however, seems to have had little effect on the public consciousness.

    And while gags about Russian interference still work, my sense is that the joke is wearing thin.

    Take Hillary Clinton’s recent channeling of Joseph McCarthy by appearing to suggest Democratic presidential candidate and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard is a ‘favourite of the Russians’. Clinton offered no evidence for this accusation. I have little doubt that the Russian regime is eager to influence western elections – just as the US and UK governments have been keen to do the same in countries around the world for decades. But that senior politicians can simply throw out smears without any evidence means we have now reached a point where the obsession with Russian spies is reaching Cold War levels.

    A case in point is Labour MP David Lammy’s recent tweet asking: ‘Is Dominic Cummings a Russian Spy? Hidden in plain sight’. In his message, Lammy linked to an article saying the PM’s top advisor was facing questions about the time he spent in Russia in the 1990s. Again, there was no evidence offered as to why this question was being asked. But perhaps Cummings should be grateful; this is a kinder take than Lammy’s assessment of the ERG wing of the Tory party, whom he suggested were worse than Nazis.

    These baseless attempts to tarnish the reputations of political opponents represents the final stages of what psychologists call ‘cognitive dissonance’. Defined as the mental discomfort we experience when confronted with evidence that contradicts our pre-existing beliefs, cognitive dissonance means Hillary Clinton and other Trump opponents – as well as a few Remainers here in Britain – are simply unwilling to confront the realities that saw them lose in 2016.

    Instead of facing up to the challenges which led to her defeat, such as voter apathy about the Clinton dynasty or stagnant wage levels, Hillary would rather look elsewhere to explain what went wrong.

    Likewise with Brexit. Instead of seeking to educate themselves about the concerns of voters in Britain, who backed Leave to express their frustrations at being ignored for decades on issues like immigration and national sovereignty, a minority of Remainers have turned the conversation, once again, to Russia.

    The latest furore surrounds a report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum. Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry claimed the delay in the report’s publication is ‘clearly politically motivated’. She said that some in Downing Street had realised that the publication of the report would mean questions being asked ‘about the links between Russia and Brexit and with the current leadership of the Tory party, which risks derailing their election campaign’.

    Thornberry might be right but as someone who voted Remain and was not a fan of Trump, I find this sour-grapes politics unwise and counterproductive.

    Democrats will not win by accusing Trump of colluding with the Russians. Remainers will not win by presenting Brexit as the product of Putin’s meddling.

    Western politicians need to remember that democracy is about the concerns of ordinary people. No amount of foreign interference will ever be as powerful in shaping people’s choices at the ballot box than the sense that they are being ignored and spurned by their elected representatives”.

    (Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian).

    You don’t have to be told what the barbarian think of either narrative, the Kisin’s slicing of the Russophobia gets Baron’s full endorsement except for the first para, Crimea could not have been left to any Kiev regime controlled by the American governing elite, whoever controls the Sevastopol, the only deep water port this side of the Urals that doesn’t freeze, controls Russia.

    As for Litvinenko, Baron can only repeat what he’s said many times before, if a prominent Russian or someone connected with Russia dies, the coroner’s report says ‘death from natural causes’ then and only then it’s possible the KGB may be behind it. Litvinenko, the Skripals are staged charades designed for the brainles s.

  1584. Here’s an idea.

    What if we just e-mail each other rather than post here, it seems nobody really visits this site, it’s silly to keep posting once a week or even less frequently.

    Does anyone know how to get the number of visits here? Per day or per year (more likely per decade).

  1585. Baron,
    good idea, these days posting on this site is akin to talking to a brick wall. Oh for the voices of wallsters past. By the way I was talking to one of my neighbours the othe day, his opinion was that “Boris will piss it in” And I rather think he is right.

  1587. Baron
    November 11th, 2019 – 00:55

    The National Review piece is very perceptive.

    I would add only this. There is – justified or not – a widespread feeling among working class people outside London, and especially in the North, that they are looked down on by the middle and upper class Southerners who (in their eyes) comprise the Establishment; and this is very deeply resented.

    Nigel Farage on the other hand is viewed not as part of the Establishment, but as a man of the people.

  1589. Some insane Politically Correct influence has apparently ordained that the name “Ultima Thule” previously given to a tiny, far distant object in space must be changed. Why? Because it has Nazi overtones. –

    https://www.tunisiesoir.com/science/report-nasa-renames-distant-ice-world-after-nazi-link-controversy-18196-2019/

    Surely this re-naming must be an example of North American arrogance? Seeing that the object is so tiny, would it not have been more appropriate to choose the new name from the smallest inhabited continent? For instance, why not call it after a well-known small place in Australia? E.g. Wagga Wagga? –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yatZ_a9rrU0

  1591. Herbert Thornton @ November 13th, 2019 – 20:15

    What’s the bet, Herbert, that if you were to ask a thousand people at random in any country, perhaps included Germany, too, whether they can couple Thule with the Nazis, Adolf or even the society bearing the name, zero, naught, nobody would be able to make that connection.

    The chosen name Arrokoth guarantees that even fewer people will remember it.

    No bottom to natural insanity, sadly.

  1592. Herbert Thornton @ November 12th, 2019 – 18:49

    For the record, Herbert, the outcome of the December 12 count will be a hung Parliament, Tories topping the list, the cumryd’s lot second, but nobody would want to form a coalition with the Brexit favouring Blonde Inseminator, the senile Marxist will get the key to no10. That’s what Baron reckons will happen.

    The barbarian can be wrong, he hopes he is, but his gut feeling, or intuition if you like, tells him the Tories have done too much damage to their reputation, many voters still have it fresh in their memories. Still, we shall see in less than a month.

  1593. The photograph doesn’t show happy people, but the Donald should be careful, he cannot afford to lose the tinpot dictator, the Turks have the best armed forces in Europe, they may even outstrip those of the Republic even though the gear may not be as good as what the Americans have. This isn’t agues, it comes from someone who knows whet he’s talking about.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJSQ9CiW4AAdzDs.jpg

  1594. Baron,
    The ruling elites of theAnglosphere are committing ritual suicide, no tears to be shed on that score, unfortunately they will take the rest of us with them, Once I would have said “It will not happen in my time” Now I ain’t too sure, as the scenario is horribly similar to tthe last days of the Roman Empire where the Praetorians would put the empire up for auction which is exactly what those paragons of democracy, Boris and Corbyn are attempting to do. Once more with feeling, Gawd ‘elp us.

  1595. Baron
    November 14th, 2019 – 14:40

    A more easily remembered name would of course be “Gollywog”, eh?

  1596. Ode to John McDonnell

    No to the Blairite,
    no to the far right,
    and as for austerity?
    He sees the severity.
    The times are a changin’,
    the people are raging,
    the Tories need caging
    and parliament rearranging.

    The bell rings out and we start to walk.
    We’re back to the classroom where no one can talk.
    We’re spoon fed more lies and then we go home.
    Now we have a chance to make government our own.

    (Not parnassian, O poorly educated one)

  1597. Absolutely no idea who the Ambassador is, but the sooner someone ensures the verbal trickster is removed from any key decisions re American foreign policy the better, the guy has no capacity for shame, as a witness and an Ambassador he should be dismissed at once, and even that would be late.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJcv2pQ1PsU

  1598. Fergus Pickering @ November 15th, 2019 – 10:08

    Not bad, Fergus, (parnassian or not), the last stanza does ring one of the bells, you should keep it (you probably do).

  1599. No need to listen to the whole seven minutes or so of Tucker, just the last 2-3 will do, it’s when Tucker says what the role of the diplomats should be, carrying out the policy of the elected i.e. on Ukraine that of the Donald, he’s the one entrusted by the electorate to have a policy on the relations the Republic has with other countries of the world including Ukraine.

    Sadly, this isn’t so, Baron has listened to three of the Dem’s witnesses before the impeachment committee, they were all telling the audience what policy they pursued, it wasn’t anything that emanated from the elected in Washington, not one of them ever mentioned the Donald or any other elected member of the Congress.

    You may recall (probably not) that Baron has said on a number of occasions that for Europe the one and one and only goal of the US policy is to prevent Germany and Russia coupling up, that’s it, everything else is of secondary importance.

    It matters not whether the occupant of the White House says something different re Europe (say) a deal between Ukraine and Russia would be desirable to end the pain of the poor Ukrainians, the professional diplomats will stick to the brief 105%, do everything to thwart the deal because it could conceivably lead to the two countries that must be kept apart i.e. Germany and Russia, moving closer together.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGm7QP7I94

  1600. Not a bad summary, probably something many of the US Congressmen should at least scan to get a rough idea of what’s what.

    Try not to miss the u-tube bit about Nuland and Pyatt electing a Government in Ukraine after the February 21 putsch in Kiev. This is what genuine interference looks like up to and including her ‘fugg the EU’, which actually happened, the kissing EU Baroness or to give her the Full Monty treatment – Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, GCMG, PC got sacked promptly to please the mighty organisers of the coup. Enjoying her golden pension no doubt.

    https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ukraine-For-Dummies-by-Ray-McGovern-Crimea_Ignorance_Intelligence_Media-191114-285.html

  1601. The election at eatanswill is now in full swing with our resposible and erudite leaders promising to bribe us with money they do not have and which we, the mugs who vote for them will eventually have to repay. Plus ca change and all that jazz. While Iam on the subject of the detritus who rule, I ake special reference to the silly cow who heads up the Lib Dems, she is proposing that if there is anothe hung Parliament we should have another general election. Is it possible that the moron does not realise that we are sick unto the back teeth of politicians and the damnable obsession with elections. Brenda from Bristol, wherefore are you?

  1602. Has anyone watched the Royal interview? My, my, my.

    Whoever hired the guy to advise Prince Andrew should be sacked at once. Why did he agree to face the ghastly BBC woman? Suicidal decision that, he’ll regret it, it will bury him. Andrew should have stayed silenced, his press officer should have said ‘the Royals do not comment, do not give interviews, do not answer questions’, and that should have been it, end of story.

    As he took the decision to go ahead with the interview someone should have told him to never ever elaborate an answer. When he was asked what he did on a specific day, his answer should have been ‘I was at home with my kids’, nothing more. Why on earth did he went on to say he and Sarah had an arrangement, if one was away the other stayed behind bla, bla, bla. That’s what people who’ve something to hide do, furnish more than they are asked to, a massive mistake.

    Hard to say what will follow, but it seems the accuser will not go away, if the ABC female anchor’s right, and she is unlikely to lie, there’s more evidence, and it’s only a question of time before that evidence hits the public. There must have been dozens of servants, hangers-on, helpers who will now be wooed with big money to talk, pass over any tangible evidence they may have.

  1603. stephen maybery @ November 16th, 2019 – 11:49

    Good one, stephen. How are you bearing up? Thinks OK?

    Where’s everyone? How come they’ve abandoned the ship? Have they all perished, so close to Christmas?

  1604. 9 minutes ago edited

    One of my simple pleasures of an evening, as I quaff a glass or two from a demijohn of sack, is to review the CCTV footage from my estates in the Ribble Valley and West Pennines. I am justly rewarded for my far-sighted pecuniary and human capiital investments by the sight of the local countryfolk smiling up at the friendly hovering drones as they work amongst the vast, EU grant supported vineyards, olive groves and medicinal cannabis fields in the fells above Clitheroe. Despite the Primark and TK Max clothing, however ragged and torn, the happy, smiling faces of these simple Bulgarians, Pushtuns and Roumanians who have travelled so far and at such great personal risk to themselves and their accompanying families in the refurbished containers we have provided for them, first for their journeys here and then for their simple housing needs is, after the beneficence of the great wealth we gave jointly created, my greatest personal reward.

  1605. Baron, November 14th, 2019 – 14:44

    If the next parliament is anything like the last parliament, then instead of being hung it should be hanged!

    Baron, November 16th, 2019 – 23:23

    That interview was a monumental PR disaster. His general demeanour wasn’t exactly reassuring, was it? The lack of warmth, empathy or any emotion whatsoever will, like you say, probably bury him.

    Emily Nomates, the “ghastly BBC woman” to whom you refer, is a legendary interviewer only in her own head. She was the soft option. I’ve seen her crash and burn several times when attempting politically motivated hit jobs on the BBC’s bogey men. One wonders how the interview would have gone with a properly prepared real journalist like Andrew Neil or, better still, Frosty in his heyday?

  1608. Baron,
    Thanks my old mucker, bearing up fine, I always am, giving up is not in my nature, and whatever the situation I will always find something to laugh about. For all intents and purposes I am house bound, does that deprwss me? no it bloodywell does not, this is the hand I have been delt and I accept the situation. I have my computer, the T V, a stunning collection of books and my music. In addition to all that my carer is an absolute saint and a cose circle of very good friends,I have nothing to be miserable about. I get irritated by these people who grizzle and moan because they can not get into the theatre in a wheel chair, well, if you are a criple there are certain things you can not do such as running the london marathon, climbing the north face of the Eiger and indulging in the more athletic positions in the Karma Sutra, it’s called life for God’s sake, get on with it. Now you may say I am uncharitable and heartless, too damn right I am, but I too am disabled, I know that because I had a letter from the goverment telling me I was, this I thought was a bleeding cheek, but that’s government for you, can’t keep their snouts out of other peopls affairs. However that is another rant for another day, so, TTFN.

  1611. EC

    Following Randy’s car crash interview with Mincer Maitlis I for one am absolutely sick and tired of a fecund, unelected, overpaid bunch of fat, cretinous, virtue-signalling Germans with inbred lunacy ‘ishoos’ running our country.

    It’s time to take back control.

    I’m a little miffed about the EU too.

  1612. After my initial incomprehension I managed, with the help of an old Boswell dictionary, a bottle of decent brandy and a pair of heated curling tongs, the latter applied liberally to the exposed extremities of the gibbering scotch crone who fetches in the coal and cleans the chimneys, to partially translate the incendiary rant that had crossed the Antonine Wall.
    Apparantly our tame Turk had kindly visited Macboudicca in the half billion pound byre that we built for their council meetings in Horse Weind, for which they felt we should reimburse the cost of his police ‘protection’!
    My own experiences with the woke polis have sufficed to convince me that they couldn’t protect a corpse from a transiting dwarf armed with a neep: unless that is, he is driving at at 31 miles an hour on the A9 at 2pm outside Inverness . In that event he will be stopped, tasered and beaten to a bloody pulp, before public disembowelment
    Any further demands for money with menaces should result in the immediate despatch of several divisions of troops to the Wall, together with the immediate cessation of the weekly benefits postal order to this malodorous disaffected cult, passing itself off as a nation.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/18042483.jouker-much-boris-stand-nicolas-doorstep/

  1613. Stephen Maybury 14.00 yesterday

    An excellent rant and example to all Wallsters, so keep up with the practice of the less athletic positions of the Karma Sutra.

  1615. EC @ November 17th, 2019 – 19:35

    Not that this shouting guy’s favourite of Baron, EC (why do so many of the American bloggers shout?), but he has a point here, the ‘judge’ in question is a conceited baboon, he even looks like one.

  1616. EC @ November 17th, 2019 – 19:26

    There’s a flaw in Lionel’s argument, EC, he seems to conflate the wrongdoings of an individual with an institution of which he’s a member, it’s not only unfair, it’s dumb.

    There are examples aplenty confirming that he gets it wrong (say) the MPs expense scandal, was it the institution of the Parliament or individual MPs who were to blame?, (say) WW2 wasn’t blamed on the unwashed of Germany, Italy, Japan, but on the leaders of those countries, rightly and thankfully so that we still enjoy peace, avoid another slaughter that followed WW1 because the victors then blamed the unwashed of Germany, punished them, turned them towards Adolf …..

  1617. Noa,
    I couldnot have put it better myself, your piece mirrors what I have been saying myself fr years vis-a-vis Scotland.All this talk by la passionaria about a referendum on independence. Well, England should have a referendum on whether we want them to remain a part of the UK. Personaly I am sick of their constant whining which only ceases when they are rattling the begging bowl. Have to stop now, them frigging peepers are plying silly buggers again.

  1618. stephen maybery @ November 17th, 2019 – 14:00

    You are absolutely spot on, everyone with any sense at all should stay away from marathons, climbing anything including tall things, and certainly a Kama Sutra.

    You keep breathing, stephen, it’s been well documentde that breathing keeps one alive, a Christmas card should be on its way soon, it might cheer you up.

    PS Apologies for ‘thinks OK’ at 23:25 arghhhh

  1619. John birch @ November 17th, 2019 – 13:10

    Sensible piece, John, but perhaps too sensible.

    Who knows, perhaps we should keep this right to self determine going, it may come useful, women get pensions earlier than men, there may be other benefits, too ie free contraceptives, other things. One could convince a bunch of men to switch gender, start collecting these freebies, ship them to a country in Africa, flog them there, could be a viable business model, no?

  1620. As is customary to say these days ‘have a listen’ to one of the testimonies at the impeachment circus run by the deranged Schiffty (Schifft?), this probing is by the congressman from Ohio Jim Jordan, an articulate man with common sense, he’s grilling a top US diplomat in Ukraine, a man called Taylor.

    The seven minutes joke confirms what Baron’s been saying all along (or rather the great Steyn), the impeachment was designed as a process to inflict damage in the full knowledge of its outcome being FA rather than an impeachment of the Donald.

    Listen carefully, towards the end of the clip you can hear Jordan say ‘I’ve seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this’. A Sunday Times poodle who calls himself Josh Glancy comments on the same part of the hearing in the last Sunday paper, quotes it exactly, but conveniently doesn’t say why Jordan said it.

    The ST lapdog Glancy omits it because the target of Jordan’s witty remark was a convoluted sentence that the Deep State apparatchik Taylor said had been the reason convincing him there was a linkage between the military aid and the investigation of Biden. Beyond lunacy that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSBd580P2A

  1621. This is rather longish, you don’t have to plod through it, but it explains rather well the Ukrainian conundrum.

    If Baron had the time, he would point to the parts of it that need clarifying or tweaking. The key shortcoming, if he may call it that, is the Saker’s omission of the role of the American Deep State in Ukraine, it’s the most important point to grasp, Ukraine is but a pawn in the battle of the two adversaries, the Republic and Russia.

    Other players (say) the oligarchs, the Ukrainian President, the EU, the Donbas rebels etc are secondary, they don’t matter even if temporarily it may look as if they have the power to influence things.

    What happens in Ukraine will be decided by only two protagonists – the Republic’s Deep State (the Donald’s isn’t a member) and Putin. Saker’s conclusion that Russia can wait, has time, Ukraine hasn’t is incomplete in that the Deep State can also wait, the suffering of the people of Ukraine is neither here nor there. If it were of concern, a deal would have been struck already.

    https://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-independent-ukraines-painful-journey-through-the-five-stages-of-grief/#comment-3563050

  1623. Baron 11.14

    You mistake my contempt for the revolting personal behaviour of its members for my objective rejection of a redundant and useless appendage to government.

  1624. Noa @ November 18th, 2019 – 12:30

    Who could have missed your earlier slicing of the monarchy, Noa, the barbarian was only teasing.

  1628. Noa, November 18th, 2019 – 12:30

    It’s ironic that, throughout history, errant appendages have been the cause of so many royal scandals and woes, not to mention the resultant bundles of joy, fatal RTAs etc.

  1629. Noa,

    Lady EC and myself will be paying a private visit to Lancasterstan this weekend. So that we shall not be distressed by the sight of ne’er do wells on the streets, we would be obliged if you would cancel all weekend leave for the numerous and diverse categories of riff-raff that you so charitably employ on your vast estates.

    Will you be on the piste again in January? This year we will be going Vail, and then on to Telluride. We are not expecting too many royals to be flying into Beaver Creek this season.

  1630. EC

    The Mansion Scullions (4th class) have been directed to lick the Square in preparation for your visit.
    So that you will not be perturbed SAMs have been fitted to my own fleet of personal protection drones. These have been programmed to ‘target and destroy’ jazz handing Lancaster University activists who may have Gorilla glued themselves to the A6 and the doors of the Judges Lodgings, where they may expect you to abide.
    The primary and secondary schools have also been closed, to deter any visit by the Duchy of Lancaster and friends, who might be in search of their traditional autumn driots de seigneur.
    Enjoy your visit.

  1631. Baron

    The aim is for Congress and its puppet masters to find a means to overthrow the government of the United States – Simples.

  1632. Ode to Andrew Windsor

    Two monarchs cross paths
    dancing around eachother.
    With words so airy,
    one should know to be wary
    of what will be said next.

    “How does your son fair?”
    “Fairs as well as yours I presume.”
    “Yours always had a knack for flair.”
    “Yours always could wow a room.”

    Disguised insults spoken.
    Each compliment flapped away with wings
    that carry the monarch to their next test.
    Where they’ll see which flowers they like best.
    To gather in support of their queens.

    “You know what would be tragic?”
    “Why do you continue to speak?”
    “If a son were to fall to magic,
    before his heart could take a beat.”

    The two monarchs parted ways.
    Promises rolling off their tongues
    as sweet as the nectar they drank.
    But were designed to attack the other’s rank.
    Their success depends on the other’s defeat.

    Conversation stalls as the monarchs fly home.
    On wings decorated so finely.
    Each of their thoughts seem to turn towards their sons
    Just caterpillars before their transformations.
    Weaving their chrysalis with determination.

    Though they’re far apart
    the monarchs speak the same words

    “I fear for you, my son, in this great world,
    Our reign can never last for long.
    But I wish for you to have your chance
    To encapture the world in a trance
    With a grace bestowed upon your wings
    I wish for you to make others sing.
    For I’ve seen the tragedy of the other king
    Just before transformation
    I saw a caterpillar die in its chrysalis.”

    “I saw a caterpillar die in its chrysalis,”

    “I saw a caterpillar die…”

    “My son, that has made all the difference.”

  1633. Malfleur @ November 21st, 2019 – 03:24

    Agreed, Malfleur, what puzzles is that he, who has powers as well, seems to be doing close to FA, where’s Q, what happened to the sealed indictments, why is Roger Stone spending the rest of his life inside?

    Any answers?

  1634. Fergus Pickering @ November 21st, 2019 – 06:31

    Pretty good, Fergus, perhaps more than that, cryptic, intriguing and long enough to hint to the ones clued up, which sadly excludes the poorly educated one.

  1636. Baron,
    It’s really quite simple, Mi’lud.

    My old mucker EC and hia missus are visiting ‘up North’ this weekend and at their request a few simple arrangements gave been put in hand for their comfort and safety.

  1638. EC
    Leave? Leave??
    Like the 17.4 they don’t get Leave!
    Scrofula Estates prides itself on providing a home environment just like the one they left, but better!
    Even the little North Vietnamese nail bar girls (we think), have exclaimed at the narrowness of the tunnels providing the safety exit from their place of work.
    ‘So like summer job back home in tourism” they cry.

  1639. Noa @ November 22nd, 2019 – 13:36

    Got it, Noa, but for the future, please, do make allowances for the poorly educated one, he’ s as close to three score and twenty as it gets, loses it often.

    ‘I’m growing old, I’m growing old … shall I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled? I have no hair left to part behind. Do i dare eat a peach, or should I put on a pair of torn jeans, walk on the beach?, yes, yes, I’m growing old …

  1640. Noa @ November 22nd, 2019 – 13:37

    Stop pretending, Noa, as a republican you cannot not know.

    The royal saga continues, the man has been photographed smiling in an expensive vehicle, looking unconcerned, relaxed. A mistake that because if the Americans decide he has to talk the testifying will wipe the smile from his face pronto.

    One can only guess whether the case will progress to some meaningful ending, very likely not, the FBI seems uninterested in the Maxwell woman, and for good reasons, too. If she were to talk she may follow the path of her suicidal former hubby, people may no longer swallow it, it may cause trouble with unforeseen consequences. It’s more likely the affair will slowly grind to oblivion, the MSM poodles will get exercised about something else, the royal without the brain will return, will be more careful avoiding taking pictures with the girls he’s bedding, no?

  1641. It was also Friday, November 22 in 1963 when JFK got assassinated, you will very likely remember where you were when you heard the news, Baron does.

    The link below comes from one of B’s American friends, it’s the testimony of Wilcott, someone who wasn’t interviewed for the report on the assassination, but should have been, it’s long, probably only for Malfleur (the barbarian hasn’t read it, may not read it as it would take hours)

    https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-wilcott-affidavit-and-interrogation-by-the-hsca

  1642. Driving home from the market minutes ago, Baron was listening to the ‘Any Questions’ programme on BBCR adio4, why he does it is impossible to explain, at best it only raises his heart beat, seldom it leaves him relaxed, the mediocrity of the answers overwhelm, leave the barbarian feeling we cannot afford not to have a genuinely brutal filtering, a time of revolutionary reckoning, there truly isn’t any other way.

    A woman from the LibDem phylum of the brainless was commenting on what the party would do, if it gained power, on taxes, borrowing, investments that sort of stuff, and amongst all the cliched yapping like ‘to ensure growth, better productivity bla, bla’ she also said quite firmly when pressed that the LibDems will not raise taxes (even though only seconds before she claimed that the party’s honest with the public, taxes other than on the super rich will also go up, but the low income people will benefit (?)).

    No, she said, we would not tax people more, we will not borrow but issue bonds, which is different. You get it? The LibDems will not borrow money, issue bonds instead as if bond issuance wasn’t;t borrowing.

    The jolly man running the show didn’t challenge her, let her get off with it, the hired audience of clapping hands applauded noisily …

    When it comes to numbers, the unwashed of Britain are not particularly well equipped doing the sums, it mattered not in the Britain of her barbaric past (say) at the start of the last century, the Government budget amounted to less than 5% of the country’s GDP, people were taxed lightly, if someone made a mistake, it was the erring individuals that got hit, pained.

    Today, the Government spends almost half of the country’s income (that’s how high the tax level is), it matters very much that whoever sits in the Treasury knows a thing or two because if the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a mistake millions suffer.

    Just imagine this genuinely brainless female getting the job, and you will know why the barbarian reckons nothing short of a thorough weeding out in some revolutionary upheaval will do.

  1643. Scrofula Investments, a subsidiary of Scrofula Estates, offers financial services of the highest quality to its employees, customers and the general public.
    In consequence and as a result of overwhelming demand it is delighted to launch a number of new Bonds catering to the diverse and growing needs of an increasingly sophisticated investing public.
    Our latest products include: The NHS Bond.
    Backed by the increasing popularity of marijuana and the substantial tax revenues that will flow from its legalisation Scrofula has been commissioned by the party in waiting, the Liberal Democrats, under their charismatic leader, Jo ‘Stoner’ Hogswill, to manage the launch of its first tranche of the new “#HeyMan!” bond. The new “Bong Fund” Bond is valued at £100 billion and is competitively priced to produce an attractive 30% annual return.
    For those who prefer more traditional products we are pleased to extend the offer on our new NHS bond. Whilst initially offering a return of -15% this All Party backed ‘Sacred Cow’ issue will fund the transgender operations of the pioneering work of the Fulham and Hammersmith Woken Child Collective and their twin organisation the Brick Lane Subsidiary of the Mumbai Primps and Tarts Union.

    Heavy demand is expected for these innovative financial products and Wallsters are urged to contact their Scrofula Financial Adviser without delay to ensure they obtain the rewards they truly deserve!

  1644. Baron
    July 13th, 2019 – 12:46

    This may have been a dangerous subject to pursue, as you suggest; but the Wndsors, unlike turkeys, appear to have voted republican….

  1645. Noa,

    Who is “Cat Smith” whose name appears on red posters in the front windows of houses along the A6 south? Is she any relation to “Cat Stevens?” More importantly, will the infantilised students and the other mentally enfeebled of the parish be suckered into voting for her again?

    I saw a pram propped in the open doorway of one of the many nearby branches of Boozer Busters at 10am this morning. Vote Labour indeed.

  1646. @18:23 Correction: That could’ve been “Bargain Booze.” Or some permutation of “Bargain,” “Buster,” or “Booze” thereof. Branches within staggering distance on the vote plantations of the Labour “Heart”lands up and down the country.

    One thing that did lighten t’gloom caused by the leaden skies of the Lancastriastan nuclear winter was this:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50501203

    I laughed so uncontrollably much that I nearly split my plutocratic morbidly obese sides. Clownworld is real! This article is yet another piece of empirical evidence that the police force, and the UK in general, is irrevocably fucked. That woman made a laughing stock of herself, but in the end the joke’s on us! I’m sad that he’s gone, but in some ways I’m glad that Frank didn’t have to see that article.

    @18:23 Foonote:

    By municipal decree, and courtesy of Noa’s astronomical council tax payments, the 2019 season of Saturnalia officially kicked off at 2pm this afternoon. Star of Cbeebies “Mr Bloom” was there to entertain the students. Needless to say that by the time that Mr. B had mounted the rostrum, Mrs EC and myself were already putting the V12 through its paces having entered the fast lane of the M6.

  1647. For those seeking wisdom in Poole this Yuletide attending this sermon may fill their requirements.
    We can assume that it’s been organised by the Welby foundation in partnership with the University of East Anglia Cultural Change and Propaganda department. No doubt the young St Gretster ascends to the Heavens on a tsunamically propelled clouds of carbon free glory.
    After all, the bean having been sown in arid, blasted land (think West Sussex and mole free Baronial estates), no other means is ascent would be permitted.

    https://mol.im/a/7719615

  1651. Malfleur @ November 26th, 2019 – 14:07

    If only he could calm down, speak in English, and someone was translating what it is he actually says, Malfelur.

  1652. Fergus Pickering @ November 25th, 2019 – 06:30

    A short, but a ‘nail-on-the-head’ summing up, Fergus. Did you send it to the Private Eye?

  1653. The barbarian’s too busy (ask not why), but he must send his useless apologies for the errors aplenty.

  1655. “In Sydney Harbour… the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back.”
    Unreliable Memoirs, 1980

    RIP Clive James (1939 – 2019)

  1658. Another classic Theodore Dalrymple essay.
    For a man to have been at the peak of political power for six years and to have written a 700-page memoir without a single arresting thought or amusing anecdote, without giving any insight into the important people he has met, and without displaying any interest in, let alone knowledge of, history, philosophy or higher culture, is an achievement of a kind. If banality can startle, Mr. Cameron’s banality startles — because of the position he once occupied. The average barroom bore is Doctor Johnson by comparison. It is only in its vacuity that David Cameron’s memoir achieves significance. It thereby tells us something about both modern politics and the state of education in Britain: for in the latter respect, Mr. Cameron is the product of the elite for the elite. This in itself is reason for the profoundest pessimism.

  1660. It is my pleasure on a wintry November evening, when the frost is nipping the last russet leaves from the trees and chef has prepared a traditional Lancashire Hot pot for supper, to take myself to the study and watch the Friday evening rugby match.
    Last night’s encounter was a feisty challenge between once mighty Bath and newly disgraced Saracans. It was a delight; a hard fought game between some of the best exponents of rugby in the world. Vast clouds of rising steam, like those emanating from Sir Nigel Gresley, covered the scrums, the frozen ground became friable under the push and shove of the packs. Blood, like decorations of war, literally froze on foreheads and shirts.
    Some 20 minutes into this enthralling, no holds barred encounter my attention was gradually distracted by the flashing side screen. Whatever the advertisment itself was I do not remember, but the repeated flashing of rainbow motif gradually intruded from being subliminal to the forefront of my consciousness. I then became conscious that it was repeated in the armpits of the referee’s shirt and even the flags of the linesmen.
    Fortunately I was able to resist this implicit invitation to indulge in an orgiastic act of buggery with which to conclude the weekend, but was disappointed to find that even the manly pursuit of rugby is no longer safe from the perverted propaganda of Stonewall.

  1662. Noa @ November 30th, 2019 – 17:39

    Mr. Bloom is driven by an emotion, he says so himself, Noa, it’s anger, that will not get us very far, emotions have not a convincing record of solving things.

    What’s at fault is not the individuals acting in this charade of criminal incompetence, it’s the current range of law and order statutes and those who voted for them, placed them on the statute books are the culprits. There may have been a slip-up, the individuals involve directly in dealing with the man harbouring evil, going on a killing spree, but that can happen in other circumstances, too, it’s not the main malady that needs curing before we could enjoy safety on our streets, only a full re-assessment of the restorative justice system could do it.

    When law and order was guided by retribution it delivered much better outcomes in a society that behaved better anyway. In today’s environment of essentially two cultures that don’t gel, one could argue cannot gel, one would have though that retributive justice should have been strengthen rather than switched to restoring the criminals to do what criminals do well – commit crimes.

    The London mayor Sadiq Khan summed it up nicely, pity he didn’t elaborate, he said ‘diversity is our strength, we will not be divided …’. Indeed, the diversity of jihadists, indigenous folk, the law abiding, the criminals, the culture that worships Allah, the one that believes in secularity … How could that mix be divided?

    Nothing substantial will happen, the politicians will be mildly critical of the law or its interpretation, the parole board, other things connected with the case, an investigation will be set-up, few middle ranked apparatchiks will get kicked, but things will remain largely a they are until another atrocity hits when the whole charade will get repeated.

    Why do people vote for the same two parties over and over again when the country slips further into shite regardless which of the two is in office? Insanity, it must be.

  1663. Noa @ November 30th, 2019 – 13:35

    The rainbow world indeed, Noa.

    Listening to BBC Radio4, one could be forgiven to think only women live in this country, it’s mostly them who present programmes or are presented in programmes. In one of those offering last week that Baron switched to in the middle, it was stories about lesbians or transgender people performing useful jobs, or having unusual hobbies (if Baron understood it correctly, he was ferrying people around, had to frequently switch the car off).

    Baffling, to say the least, which made him think ‘perhaps the time has come to go back east before he’s asked to transgender as a punishing reward (rewarding punishment) for his unholy views?’

  1664. Monday Morning Karma: .., weary of its buzzing, he smashed up his alarm, with his cherished bedside copy of the Little Book of Calm’.

    That’s for Fergus to warn him of strong competition, if he’s around for things other than dumping on our blog his poetic creations.

    And this to solve: “An aged man is but a paltry thing…a tattered coat upon a stick”

    Who he?

  1665. Noa, November 30th, 2019 – 13:35

    Re: Rainbow jockstraps etc.

    Shield thine eyes from such ungodly spectacles, Noa!
    i.e. the scrummage.

    On a number of occasions, both on the Spectatesman Coffeehouse and subsequently here on the PRC, Austin Barry warned us all of the significance of this bestial display:

    Lord Carey warns British Christians not to get carried away
    Austin Barry, February 18th, 2012 12:09pm

    It’s a given that Rugby is game played by latent or patent homosexuals. A scrum is all about rear presentation: “touch, pause, engage, ooooh.”

    It’s thin edge of the wedgie if you ask me, which you didn’t.

    “PRC” = Peter’s Replica of Coffeehouse.

  1667. Baron- 00.02

    Anger is a justifiable response to the institutional stupidity that has resulted in horrible, unnecessary deaths, m’lud.
    Noa switched off the sound on his indoctrination devices during the inevitable talking heads interviews, being wearily over familiar with the soporific stream of verbiage that is uttered after such events. Religion of peace and the diversity meme you note bein the most common insult to our intelligence. If I wanted brainless cliches expensively mouthed at me I would give my macaw cuttlefish.
    I recently watched “The Siege of Mecca”, a documentary about the fundamentalist takeover and subsequent bloody 1979 siege by the Saudis. Thousands died, the besieged eventually CS gassed out of the extensive cellars with French Special forces help. (Though stories in Saudi circulated about the Saudis flooding the cellars and throwing in electric cables, the bodies of the besieged found “floating like kippers.”
    There were 62 public beheadings, including that ofJunayman the leader. But Saudi Arabia turned from former relative tolerance and openness, with public cinemas and unveiled unescorted women able to go where and when they pleased, to the repressive theocratic monarchical dictatorship it is now.
    The depressing moral is that the terrorists, in Mecca in 1979 did not loose, nor will the Manchester and and London Bridge murderers. Public freedoms will be increasingly restricted, Islam will become more popular until dominant. Allah Akbar!

  1668. EC 10.06

    One’s reminded of the WWI vintage Bairnsfather cartoon, with ‘Old Bill’, sharing a shell hole and observing “if you knows of a better ‘ole, go to it!”

    As ever the self promoting hewitt faux ‘royal’ is caught in two minds, between ‘thrutch and hip as they say down in t’valley’.

    https://mol.im/a/7742533

  1670. Noa @ December 1st, 2019 – 10:45

    The depressing morale you sspeak of, Noa, seems inevitable if one follows the ‘trend is your friend’ take on the world. History shows however that trending gets often interrupted, mostly in convulsions that don’t discriminate, everywhere is equal in getting hit.

    Not many predicted the collapse of the Red Menace of the east, in fact nobody Baron knows or heard of did. The same future awaits the pink version of the Marx inspired idiocy and/or the advancement of the army of Islam.

    If only those in governance were to listen to the barbarian the entropy of the Islamic advancement would be speeded up noticeably – nothing wins the minds and heartss more than blatant, unrestricted, deeply indulgent consumerism.

    We should saturate the world of Islam with trinkets galore and more, that will do the job better than drones, invasions with tanks, and bombing tsunamis – just look where the letter got us in Afghanistan – the Donald has just re-opened talks with the Taliban, this time he wants a deal, arghhhh

  1671. Sincere apologies for the silly errors ss and the ‘letter’ rather than ‘latter’, fugg the software, Baron shrieks (you would hear it if you were near).

  1672. It’s not difficult to brainwash the world’s faithful, Baron. Illiteracy rates are high, almost as high as their 5 times a day imposed pre-medieval stupidity.
    And let’s not forget that 50 years of living in the West has reinforced that invincible stupidity for a great many, reinforced it even, for the Ahmed Choudrays’. Its more than just piety, there’s hatred too, and a deep sense of inferior ityof white people and jealousy of their achievements and advancement.
    We conquered the world and went into space whilst they’re still beheading each other.

  1673. I would like to think youre right and that rampant human greed and stupidity, in the guise of mass consumerism will conquer and destroy mohammedism from within.
    The corrupt Saudi and Muslim elites reserve the baubles of wealth for themselves, diverting the attentions of their peasantries with religion, just as their Western counterparts kept theirs opiated, until a hundred years of war from 1914 abolished most of Christianity.

  1674. Noa @ December 1st, 2019 – 19:53

    One can but hope, Noa, for as the barbarian never tires to point out ‘man can predict everything except the future’.

  1676. It may already bore you, but the video below confirms what PeterH of the Daily Mail was saying. The guy doing the interviewing earned brownie points from Baron, he talked to a guy from the Guardian who calls himself Harding (Puke, Fluke something of that order) about the Russian interference in the US election, managed to get the pretend journalist so angry he quit the interview abruptly, disappeared to brainwash someone else.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=SMSyLg1E49M&feature=emb_logo

  1678. When modern liberal democracy and meets old time religion the one with the knives wins.
    Still, his Xather, a Labour activist condemns the PM for electioneering and says he still believes in diversity etc.
    I can appreciate the rage at political grandstanding but not the invincible stupidity of wilfully choosing to recognise that your own son’s brutal murder is part of a wider problem, an existential threat to us all.

  1680. Noa @ December 2nd, 2019 – 22:48

    Another aspect of the horror that caught Baron’s attention, Noa, was an argument whether the early release was a contributing factor, perhaps the main one for the atrocity to happen, virtually every TV broadcaster was debating it, all of them concluded that short of keeping the jihadi murderers locked up for life (inhuman and too costly given their large number), no length of sentence could guarantee that they will not re-offend after their release.

    This is true but two solutions there exist, both massively cost effective, the first involves a piece of rope costing pounds, the other buying a single ticket to a country that has few infidels, follows the teachings of Allah, perhaps costlier than the rope, but still by far cheaper than n incarceration, no?

  1681. Baron 23.17

    To both of those excellent proposals I would suggest adding the expulsion of all family, the confiscation of all property and after execution the wrapping of their corpses in pigskin.
    Sadly the Israelis stopped this latter excellent practice a few years ago.
    Probably due to complaints about cruelty from the Swineherds Association.

  1682. Noa @ December 3rd, 2019 – 08:36

    Seconded, Noa.

    It more than baffles that as a society we are prepared to sacrifice our own lives for the discomfort, albeit a serious one, of those who harbour evil. That the politicians can live with it, one can understand, they are either protected by armed guards or, after their stints end have enough money to buy protection, but why the once great unwashed swallow it?

  1683. If you can be bothered have a peep at our deeply religious Bertie sn driven purely and entirely by an even deeper hatred of things Russian (Bertie sn is a new nickname for him after his sidekick Bertie who never fails to contribute attesting to a notion that even a brain the size of a squashed diseased peanut can type).

    Bertie sn gets going about Micron’s take on NATO, nothing much except that he opines that East Europeans are horrified losing NATO protection because just as after the Maidan putsch and the Donbas uprising following it when he predicted ‘Russian tanks on the street of Warsaw, possibly Paris …. he now predicts the same saying the East European countries are “dreading to act as the destination for Russian tanks”.

    Putin hasn’t invaded the Baltic only because NATO has presence there, he claims (it didn’t occur to him Putin had not invaded before NATO stationed the troops there, or better still, before the Baltic states joined NATO).

    Towards the end of his sermon of trash he asks the $64K question: “But just out of curiosity, who does he (Micron) think sponsors today’s international terrorism? Who supplies their weapons and teaches them how to use them? Who does their intelligence and logistics? Who comes up with funds whenever the Saudis get mean?”

    Hopefully, Baron can only hint that the villain who runs global terrorism lives in the Kremlin.

    http://www.alexanderboot.com/manny-does-russia/

  1685. Baron

    Stopped visiting Boot, oh 12 months or so ago after getting some vile abuse after a rather mild remonstrance at one of his madder anti -Puttian ravings.
    Ruffled at the time I put his behaviour down to his stroke, alcoholism and the vile teenage self abuse he described in his bearly readable autobiography.
    Despite his loud claims to the contrary he remains ,Jewish, Russian and an overbearing totalitarian.

  1687. The guy’s right, it is getting worse:

    At 8:00 – I made a snowman.

    8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.

    8:15 – So, I made a snow woman.

    8:17 – My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

    8:20 – The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it should have been two snow men instead.

    8:22 – The transgender man . . woman . . person asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts.

    8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

    8:28 – I am being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

    8:31 – The Muslim gent across the road demands the snow woman wear a burqa.

    8:40 – The Police arrive saying someone has been offended.

    8:42 – The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needs to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

    8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

    8:45 – TV news crew from the ABC shows up. I am asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I reply, “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.

    9:00 – I’m on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobic, sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

    9:10 – I am asked if I have any accomplices. My children are taken by social services.

    9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything are marching down the street demanding for me to be beheaded.

    Moral: There is no moral to this story…………… It’s just a view of the world in which we live today, and it is getting worse

  1689. Noa @ December 4th, 2019 – 09:38

    You may have failed to notice it, Noa, but Bertie the sidekick never misses a chance to say something, one has to scan alot of his postings to get the flavour of his stunt brain so charmingly supplementing Bertie sn unhinged hatred, the two must have been looking for each other, one can bet the B sn is hating the knobhead’s contributions, but can do FA to stop it.

    Your summing up of the senior hits the nail right on, if he were sitting in the Kremlin people would dig the Georgian thug up, suffer him gladly.

  1692. Baron 10.25

    Ah yes, a quick visit to das boot reminded mo of the symbiotic relationship, a virus on an excresence.
    In a cyberworld of loons they deserve each other.

  1694. Has anyone encounter anything like this?

    Baron cannot reply to Noa, gets 403 messages, accurately timed, but that’s it. Weird that. Has anyone got any idea what’s happening?

  1696. Noa – 09:38

    AND… he’s an overwhelming bore, to Boot!
    Also, I don’t think he ever upped his game to 2D chess.

  1697. A lecture in Russian for you, if you have the time, no need to listen to it though, the clip’s subtitled, even then you can shift the cursor to cut on time.

    It’s Navalny getting ready for a press conference of the Russian PM Medvedev, targeting the PM’s wife, who keeps flying around on an expensive plane, costing someone millions of roubles, polluting the air, doing FA to prevent global warming.

    The point he’s making is valid, but sadly for him the governing elite has wised up, the ownership of the flying contraption is hidden through an offshore registration, it’s probably an oligarch or a dozen of them who finance the trips hoping to be rewarded with Government contracts.

    The point Baron’s trying to make is different, it’s that criticism of the ruling elite in Russia does exist, opposition mounts not just verbal dissatisfaction, Navalny isn’t the only one, but demonstrations, too, the police arrests the more boisterous members of the crowd, but surprisingly, the courts order releases of the arrested more often than their prosecution.

    Not a word about it in the MSM here, whoever runs the PR machine for the legacy press, the top brass, probably hasn’t made up their minds yet how to present it. But give them time, they will.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcfIuggH3s

  1698. Noa @ December 4th, 2019 – 16:33

    It’s not Baron’s, Noa, he’s but the messenger, it’s one of his US friends, he’s over active bombarding the blue veined barbarian daily with stuff like that, but mostly orientated towards the Republic.

    Btw, Giuliani, the Donald’s lawyer is in Kiev talking to the top elite of the US closest ally, currently.

  1700. That should test your endurance if you were to watch in one go, it lasts over an hour and a half, it’s Oliver Stone documentary on Ukraine. The barbarian has watched only a third of it, it doesn’t seem to take sides, follows a narrative one can hardly disagree with, touches on allthe important points in that country contemporary victory, is worth while watching:

    https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/oliver-stone-has-released-two-documentaries-about-ukraine/

  1701. It’s fugging history and not victory, also ‘watch IT’ in one go @23:43.

    Once Baron’s at it, the one omission in the Stone film that is of importance in the barbarian’s view is that the far right is quite insignificant, in presidential election its candidate gets around 2% of the vote, similarly for the Duma elections.

    Just like in the West, the truly dangerous and deluded are small in number but big in shouting, vandalism, threatening people, even murders. In democracy, it’s hard to deal with them even though Ukraine doesn’t;t have the same range of ‘uman rites’ legislation people are afraid.

    A recent video furnished by the journalist Anatolij Sharij is a case in point, a massive gathering in a hall chaired by the new President, the issue is that of the drinks industry, massive as it is but losing money, collecting little in tax revenues.

    It turns out over 60% of the output gets flogged on the black market, hence no taxes or excise duties, everyone knows who the people are, the President asks one of the complaining men ‘who are the people?, he answers ‘I cannot tell you, I want to live’, everyone including the President laughs.

    That’s five years after the Maidan putsch with the Americans fully in charge, they’re literally running the country.

  1704. President Donald Trump this afternoon tweeted that he spoke on the phone with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, who he said expressed ‘sincere condolences’ to those impacted by the shooting.
    Trump added that King Salman informed him the Saudi people love Americans and ‘are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter…’
    Shortly before 8pm Eastern Time, Saudi officials condemned the shooting and claimed they are willing to cooperate with the investigation.

  1706. John birch @ December 7th, 2019 – 07:46

    ‘Shome’ mistake it must be, John, the Saudis are friends of the West, it must an Iranian pretending to be a Saudi, they are the ones terrorising the world. That and a possible link of the shooter to the Kremlin (say) he knew a Saudi whose friend had met someone who goes to Russia regularly for $ex, the bonking takes place in a hotel from which one can see the window of one of the Kremlin offices, which is believed to be the one through which Putin may pass to reach his residence.

    The irony is the base is a weapons free zone, guns are not permitted on the premises, how did the 2nd lieutenant got the weapon in? Six other Saudis have been detained after the atrocity, some of them were apparently filming ii.

    No MSM papers here, well not the ones Baron checked carry the story this morning, why?

  1708. Noa @ December 7th, 2019 – 13:44

    We’ve had this one, Noa, you may have missed it because you’ve been missing visiting us. Here’s another one, Simon’s in Australia, pity not many have watched it, the guy’s pleasantly articulate, talks without one fearing he won’t know what to say next, he’s more knowledgeable than most of our other opinion formers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKNKLk9QDo8

  1709. Any post on here merely props up this collapsing Wall mlud, stops it expiring gracefully. Perhaps we should all stop it.

  1710. OK, Noa, let’s end the agony, nobody visits anyway, what’s the point? Has it been fun? Hmmm

    Merry Christmas, young sir, and Merry Christmas to anyone who may look in.

  1711. We are alone.
    With just some people we should move on.
    Some talk less, some talk a lot.
    I don’t know if they are friends or not.

    It has been fun,
    But now we must run.

  1713. Hi Baron, if you’re ever around Polstead way again and you see an old guy with a younger Chinese lady and two black Labradors, don’t forget to say hullo.

  1715. Baron
    December 7th – 00:18

    Someone should tell the British people to get something better than knives.

  1717. As a volunteer worker for the NHS in my youth I regularly helped to pull the cart carrying the plague t’local lime pit.
    As we did so carrion crows picked at the staring eye sockets of the corpses, and their black, accusing fingers pointed to the unimaginably weathly mansions we passed, where whole families of rich Tories would jeer and sneer, their blue-eyed, blonde children waving hypodermic syringes full of penicillin and bagfuls of golden guineas at us.
    And to think that nowadays a case of child tonsillitis has to be photographed being treated on the floor of the Daily Mirror fake news laboratories.

    Luxury!

  1726. EC 17.33
    Mao may have bagged 80 million but although he made the front cover, twice, sadly it wasn’t enough for Time to make him Man of the Year.

  1727. EC 23.29
    BBC Extras maybe, fleeing from the threat of the licence fee abolition? Or worried about the possibility of a Stalinist government tomorrow night, fleeing the drop in Starling..

    I’ll get my coat.

  1730. EC 23 36 Take 2

    How come Mo’ never gets the credit he’s due for murder killing and ordinary genocide for 1,500 years.
    David Steel too, by my reckoning hell (RIP Apophestre’ Society) be up to the Adolf anti-semite total by now.

  1731. EC 00.07

    But with Tullow Oil in free fall, and the wind of Greta beans as yet uncaptured, what will you use to fuel it, EC?

  1733. Fergus (or may I call you John?)

    I seem to remember (CHWalls passim) that you wrote poems about a stroppy teenager named Phoebe Flood. Was this the genesis of Rita Thunderbird, I wonder?

  1734. Noa, December 12th, 2019 – 02:08

    No worries, mate! Those geniuses in the Aussie parliament have repealed the laws of thermodynamics. If they can figure out a costly inefficient way to convert the world’s filthiest fuel, brown coal, into liquid hydrogen and and then ship it over to the Japs as clean green fuel, then they’ll easily be able to crack petrol problem. Bonzer!
    Cui Bono?
    To assuage St.Greta’s bovine rage their next project is, reportedly, to reverse engineer a cow.

    Taking about Roe vs Wade, and Scotland’s answer to Kermit Gosnell… etc.
    Where do you think that Baby Oil comes from?

  1735. Noa & EC.You lads will certainly receive signd copies of the upcoming tome Cui Bono,and ofourse one for Baron, our guru of the wall.there are of course many other characters, one of whom is the Rev Didius Breckenbury. there is a chldrens crusade to hight climate ange, led by Didius,an individual sufused with love for humanity, well at least,that section of humanity which reads the Guardian newspaper. Unfortunately the fellow has no sense of direction and could not find his balls in a pair of budgie smugglers. Thats all folks, those bloody optics are playing silly buggers again. They do not calll me the blind satarist of Whitechapel for nothing.

  1736. Despite the very laudable efforts of his mum, ‘goody two shoes’ to keep the incident under wrasse ps with her very own D Notice I see that Diane Abbott’s lad, James former Ambassador designate to Italy before his uncermonious departure. has reverted to type following his return to the preferred family career path in grievance and activism.
    Whilst activating outside the Foeign Office no doubt about Sir Edward Gray’s controversial pursuit of a Triple Entente with France and Russia, he bit a Police Constable. No doubt, amongst the many challenges that an officer of the law faces in the Met cannibalism is a rising threat, however that it arises in this instance from a public school educated scion of the post Marxist elite rather than the machete wielding sub saharan Brixton ghetto is a matter of some concern to Criminologists, not least because of this is a clear embarrassing case of cultural appropriation.

  1741. Ah, “The Who” recycled as the “CSI Miami” theme tune.
    The Labour party is too far gone to heed any forensic analysis, though.

    Continuing the musical accompaniments to last night’s proceedings…
    Phil Collins detected the whiff fibrillating sphincters in the Labour camp.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxsZdd78vk

    Miami of the 80s is not too far removed from Westminster and greater Kahntown of today. I suppose disappointed candidates will just have to ‘draw a line’ under their defeat.

  1743. To my daily visit of charity in ye Westminster Poore house where divers new indigents have arrived and assailed Mrs Clutchpurse most grievously, demanding alms as their right and best of everything.
    Once enrolled Mr C took the men to the delousing pit, from thence, now dressed in master Denzils old sugar sacks they were marched to the treadmill, where every whine and complaint adding 500 steps to their duty, complaints soon ceased. There is some hope for younger sprogs, the Spad gang they call themselves. They are amenable to the lash and gouge and in time will make good warders over their seniors, who are past all redemption.
    The women Mrs C immediately beat with her sturdiest broome and set them under Soubry, accused of witchcraft and invoking daemons, to scrub the privy floor with lye.
    A raw potatoe between them all for dinner and then to weave the washing line on which they will sleep.
    All except one ‘Hooknose’ Grieve, the brute showing promise, volunteered to empty the honey buckets. On reaching the pit tho, he threw them down and attempted to run away, taking three Under beadles to beat restrain and return him in chains to the Purging chambers.
    A good days work, then lead them all in prayers of repentance for two hours..
    To my supper, 10 pounds of best beef and carrots,. item 1 shilling
    Then bed alone, the serving wench leaving before confit.
    Revd Trumpitt- Measles. this 12th day of Dec

  1744. Noa, December 12th, 2019 – 19:57

    Re: Fugitive gnashers, Master Abbott’s errant choppers & hard bitten coppers.
    Fangs are exactly what they used to be!

    I give you… the following extracts FROM THE PRC VAULTS:

    Frank P
    March 16th, 2012 – 13:38
    I’m not sure, because Andrew Neil still hasn’t mastered his top set or the auto cue, but I think he announced last night that he was giving up his ‘This Week’ anchor job? Or are they dumping him? Or indeed, are the BBC dumping the programme altogether. Does anybody know which it is, if indeed my state of torpor during the programme didn’t cause me to dream it?

    Austin Barry
    March 16th, 2012 – 13:41
    Frank P.
    I think it may’ve been his fugitive gnashers.
    =================================
    EC
    March 16th, 2012 – 18:04

    Frank P
    March 16th, 2012 – 02:48 (replying t AWK1)
    “But this also applied to other physical deficiencies, such as myopia (spectacles a no-no) or any other physical defect that rendered them unfit for active duty.”

    Re: ‘fugitives’ and ‘gnashers’ and combinations thereof.

    Obviously false teeth would render a police dog unfit for duty but what about a human? Surely a set of false choppers might prove to be a liability in an altercation with a felon resisting arrest? . [by “liability” I actually meant choking hazzard]

    Frank P
    March 16th, 2012 – 19:01
    EC (18.04)

    False teeth? Well, I never had to resort to biting any prisoner who resisted arrest. I was bitten a few times myself though. But I found that grabbing their balls from behind with one hand- grabbing the collar with t’other and a brisk frog-march to the Black Maria usually did the trick; much better than the ‘hammer-lock and bar’ method taught at Hendon, which I never found too successful; romping around on the ground with the ungodly was undignified, not to mention unhygienic – often.

    The worst routine problems I encountered in my early days on the beat Up West were breaking up territorial disputes between the toms in Shaftesbury Avenue . The Messina girls sported Bond Street stiletto-heeled jobbies with specially adapted (sharpened) steel tips in those days. One of those across your skull, or in your eye, could maim for life. You just didn’t know where to grab the ladies of easy virtue. It was once suggested to me by one of the more primitive PC’s during my probationary period that a deft insertion from behind with the lignum vitae could produce similar leverage, with stroppy females, to the male testicles-collar frog march routine. But given the occupation of the ladies in question, I doubt it would have worked; our small truncheons would have had neither the length nor girth to gain sufficient traction to effect a suitable result, regardless of the orifice entered in the case of those – whadda they call ’em these days? Sex workers?

    They have a trade union now, I’m told. The only union they had then was about twenty times a shift with whoever had the ‘Two quid for a nice time, dearie?”

    These days of course, with Sami Check-ya-battery looking over their shoulders the lads would have the ECHR on their case in a flash, if they tried any such traditional methods of ‘self-defence’.

    Oh! How unlike the home life of our Dear Queen – to whom we had sworn our Oath of Orifice.

  1745. Some other snippets…

    How prophetic was this!

    Austin Barry
    March 27th, 2012 – 16:54

    Peter 27 Marc 15:43

    You realize that by questioning the paradoxical absurdities of the liberal narrative you may one day, perhaps soon, be guilty of a crime and, given the example you use, a racist crime at that?

    Domestics…

    Frank P
    March 12th, 2013 – 15:59
    Southeast News:

    A 35 year old Indian man from Slough has been arrested for punching his wife in the face.
    Chindah Gudunpropa denies the charge.

    Noa – Women decoded!

    Noa
    March 12th, 2013 – 19:59
    NINE WORDS WOMEN USE

    (1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are
    right and you need to shut up.

    (2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an
    hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given
    five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

    (3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something,
    and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing
    usually end in fine..

    (4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!

    (5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement
    often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an
    idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and
    arguing with you about nothing.. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of
    nothing.)

    (6) That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women
    can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard
    before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

    (7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just
    say you’re welcome. (I want to add in a clause here – This is true,
    unless she says ‘Thanks a lot’ – that is PURE sarcasm and she is not
    thanking you at all. DO NOT say ‘you’re welcome’ . that will bring on
    a ‘whatever’).

    (8) Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying F#*K YOU!

    (9) Don’t worry about it, I’ll do it: Another dangerous statement,
    meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several
    times, but is now doing herself. This will later result in a man
    asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For the woman’s response refer to # 3.

  1746. December
    I pretend to love the cold
    You have a point, I’m destroying my soul
    I’m filled with despair
    I pretend like I don’t care
    I feel every tear
    I tell myself don’t live in fear
    Still I hear your voice telling me I will be “there”
    Sometimes I raise a cheer
    Brexit is near
    My fire is inviting
    I will grow in strength each night
    Don’t underestimate my fight

  1747. Wot’s ‘appened to the wall? Are you all ratted due to an excess of seasonal cheer. Come on now folks rally round, Brexit might now be germinating but opinions are stll needed, especialy our’s. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by Boris and all the clouds which lowerd over our house have followed Jennifer Arcuri up the pole.

  1750. stephen maybery, December 20th, 2019 – 19:59

    Jo Cox was muddad because she was about to blow the lid on the Oxfam sexual exploitation/abuse scandal. Absolutely nothing to do with BRexit, or to do with the simpleton, Thomas Mair, who was set up as the patsy.

    How about that for starters?

    For further details, see: https://www.richplanet.net/

  1751. stephen maybery,

    Happy Christmas to you and all other still extant CHWallsters, Stephen.

    Stephen, with you being a resident of LufturRamanStan (twinned with Moolenbeek) which is perilously close to Croydon (twinned with Bidonville and Soweto) I also wish you a peaceful Christmas & New Year. But just in case things ‘kick off’ over the season of Goodswill I hope that the following instructional video, with clear audio instructions, will help to keep you safe…

    “Personal protection: Using a car as cover

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXwdBOZzpY

  1752. EC.
    Thanks for the insight into the Joe Cox affair, I have seen too much of the World to be surprised by anything, therefor I discount nothing. A merry Christmas to you and all Wallsters past and present. As for a ppeacefull new years, forget it, once the festicities are over I am gouni to war ithe Tower Hamlets. I have taken the bastards on before and won and I will win again. I also have the distinct advantage in an ability to wxpress myself in the English Language. Anyway folks, nil illegitemmi carborunsum.
    PS,
    sorry for the typos it’s these bleeding peepers again.

  1753. The Wall

    The sun hasn’t shone
    in quite a few
    d
    a
    y
    s
    And with it went the light
    in
    my
    eyes.
    I guess that makes sense
    because
    sun = life
    and
    I haven’t felt alive
    in…

    Is Christmas the end for that which still says January?

  1755. Can you spot the one word that is missing from this.

    As Home Secretary, my number one job is to make sure that people are safe. No one should ever have to walk our streets afraid of being attacked.
    But the sad truth is, there has been a rise in some high-harm violent offences such as those involving knives and guns. Stabbings in Barnet and Elstree and a shooting in Battersea brought this reality home over the Christmas period.
    The homicide rate has started rising after a period of long-term decline and this rise has been most pronounced among young men. These crimes have devastating effects on our communities and often feel like very local crimes.

  1756. Authority turns a blind eye to the murder rate principalyy becaus the overwhelming majoriity of these incidents aare the work of either immigrants or people decended from recent immigrants. Far better people ore knifed in the streets than action against the perpetrrators be deemed to be racist. This carnage will not cease untill those convicted are given stiff sentences wothout any remition and all people of immigrant status convicted of a criminal offese deported when sentence is served. However this will not happen so happy New Year and carry on murdering.

  1758. Happy New Year,

    Good luck with whatever struggles that you intend to have with LufturRamanVille, Stephen.

  1760. To all wallsters past and present a happy and succsessful new year, as for the state of the west, it is the last days of the Roman empire all over again. My scrap with Lutferland kicks off tomorrow after a slight delay havig had a little incident, storey of my life that, one bloody incident after another, but at least life ain,t boring.

  1761. On this auspicious day, I copy these beautiful words from a great man who rests in Pere Lachaise

    This is the end
    Beautiful friend
    This is the end
    My only friend, the end

    It hurts to set you free
    But you’ll never follow me
    The end of laughter and soft lies
    The end of nights we tried to die

    This is the end

    Thank you Peter. It has been good.

  1766. Stephen Maybery December 30th

    “Life is just one damn thing after another.” {ascribed to Mark Twain)

  1768. “Yapping away
    I pepper the Wall with sillii
    ness;
    Who
    is
    to control me
    If
    not
    myself?
    (F.U. Pickering)

  1771. Malfleur et al –

    My posting (January 1st, 2020 – 18:01) wasn’t directed at you – nor at any of the other sensible Wall posters.

  1772. Ode to the roaring 20s

    New year, new future, new performance on life’s stage
    New book, new chapter with a brand new page
    New friends, new plans, scrapes from new falls

    But…

    I am the same, I am still me, penning the same ****** scrawls

  1773. Ode to Navalvy
    With apologies to the poorly educated Slav.

    Put Putin
    in a cup of coffee.

    Let the cup of coffee
    to be frozen.

    You will one day
    get and reach
    in a another
    cold war.

    Put Putin
    in a perfume’s
    unforget­table smell.

    You will one day
    catch and spread
    the newly made
    fragrance.

  1774. And the future.

    Donald has a comb-over.
    ******, a funny moustache.
    Hair Donald?
    Heil ******!

    I despise mentioning ******’s name in a poem.
    I despise mentioning Donald’s name in a poem.
    #impeachmenteve #notabovethelaw #****** #trump #trumppoem #resistance #dictator #facism #****** #45

  1775. Ode to patriotism

    Barely have I closed my eyes
    and I think to myself
    That I fit in there perfectly
    In you, my beloved England
    And everything is good
    For 10, 12, 13 breaths
    Barely awake again, I am asked if I will
    be writing an obituary to
    you, my beloved England
    And I hear myself say
    Yes, yes, oh yes
    And then that truly frightened me

  1776. Malfleur
    January 1st, 2020 – 04:04
    Baron November 21st
    Wake up!

    Yes
    Where is Baron? Not seen since 7 December.

  1778. Malfleur,
    Vee haf vays of making you talk, buggerd if I know what they are. I live in hope that like Edmund Dantes we will be recalled to life, but if not, it was good while it lasted.

  1779. Marshal Roberts
    January 2nd, 2020 – 13:05

    I hope he’s alright. Wasn’t he planning to move to Scotland? Nobody has been heard of from there since the Enlightenment.

  1780. This hoo-ha over Soleimani is all a bit hysterical, isn’t it? WW3?? My best information is that it was an effective strike against Deep State operatives. Where is John Kerry now by the way?

  1781. “Elizabeth Warren says Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran to distract from his impeachment trial” (Daily Mail)

    Elizabeth Warren, she cra-cra.

  1782. It would seem the news of the demise of this ailing blog has been grossly exaggerated, hmmm.

    Didn’t we agree to put the blog to rest some months ago? The poorly educated Slav thought so, then out of curiosity he clicks on the site, discovers you’ve posted more since the supposed closure than before? You ill or what?

    No time to read all the postings, it will have to be done later. For the time being, and in as shortest manner possible only this.

    The Donald has lost it, it must be the senility what did it, if it was him given the go ahead for the killing. What has it achieved? Is the ME more stable, the regime of the mullahs weakened, peace round the corner?

    If the assassination is a bait for the Iranians to commit few atrocities here and there it’s equally abhorrent, we need another Afghanistan as we need a kick in the groins, we have enough immigrants to sort already.

    Killing extrajudicially isn’t done by civilised people, only the primitives could do it hoping to kill an idea promoted by those hit. The Nazis committed greater evil, slaughtered 6.0mn Jews, but got their due process in Nuremberg. That was when the West still had a moral compass. Madness.

  1783. Baron
    January 6th, 2020 – 17:13

    Hard to analyze the ethics or morality of all this. But I have to ask – is there a difference between the cases of Osama bin Laden (who was killed in Pakistan) and Soleimani (who’s been killed in Iraq)?

  1784. Count Pyotr “Pierre” Kirillovich Bezukhov would have saved more lives by assassinating Napoleon than would have been sacrificed on the orders of Napoleon in his retreat from Moscow and the subsequent Battle of Waterloo.

    Baron’s moral equation is completely arsey-versey (pardon my French).

    And congratulations “Baron” for comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler. “I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.” (Mike Godwin on Godwin’s law). [Godwin’s law} is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric[5][6] where reductio ad Hitlerum occurs” (Wikipedia].

    “Killing extrajudicially isn’t done by civilised people” writes Baron. Oh really? That will come as a wake-up call to some Wallsters. Define “extrajudicially”.

  1786. Malfleur @ January 6th, 2020 – 23:01

    An answer has been posted, Malfleur, the system says it’s in moderation. If you cannot see it, apology, Baron has to dash.

  1787. Baron
    January 7th – 08:28

    Thanks, Baron. I will keep on the lookout for it.

    Have you and your wife moved to Scotland btw?

  1788. Flitting Baron is an important man
    He comes and pens just when he can
    I wish his wisdom could help us more
    As it did in years of yore

  1789. Fergus Pickering @ January 8th, 2020 – 08:03

    You reckon then, Fergus, the poorly educated Slav belongs to the phylum of the deserving? How nice of you.

    Here’s a piece by the great David Stockman, he’s more into things economic, doesn’t;t get always right, but here he backs Baron (heh, heh,heh).

    https://www.unz.com/article/the-donalds-assassination-of-general-soleimani-as-stupid-as-it-gets/

    Will anyone lpease tell Baron whether you can read his posting from Jan 7 @ 08:25?

    Btw, the Mutti’s off toMoscow over the weekend to have a chat with the Kremlin man who’s travelling in the ME visiting also the Turkish tin pot Sultan.

  1790. Electricity cut off, everything was down including the wi-fi modem, the washing machine’s responsible, isn’t life exciting?

  1791. To cover the most fertile phase of the Wall.

    Fergus Pickering @ January 2nd, 2020 – 12:44

    Beyond the enigmatic, Fergus, but the one at 12:38 is how the poorly educated Slav likes them, cheerful, letting one choose the scrawls’ quality, easy to remember by heart.

    EC @ December 22nd, 2019 – 09:59

    But is it an electric car full of heavy batteries, EC?

    EC @ December 15th, 2019 – 10:52 & 10.41

    You, young sir, amaze, how do you remember where to look?

    stephen maybery @ December 12th, 2019 – 18:35

    Signed copy or not, stephen, you just make sure you keep breathing, stop having little accidents, behave.

    Noa @ December 13th, 2019 – 12:58

    For reasons that would baffle you, Noa, the “supper, 10 pounds of best beef and carrots”, reminded Baron of a good joke from the days of the communist thugs in the East.

    They asked radio Yerevan ‘could it be that the Americans consume over 4,000 calories per day’? The radio answers ‘that’s bollocks, no human being could eat two large sacks of potatoes every day’.

    John birch @ December 10th, 2019 – 07:56

    Be assured, John, that when the poorly educated Slav goes through or close to Polstead spotting an old yet still excessively desirable guy with a younger Chinese lady, two black Labradors, he will shout hullo, and not just once.

  1792. I recently read some journalist’s comments about the Ghosn business. The journalist named several western countries, implying that their criminal justice systems – unlike Japan’s – exemplified fairness.

    One of the countries that he named was the USA.! Laugh of the month, eh?

  1793. Herbert Thornton @ January 8th, 2020 – 18:07

    When you next get to click on this site, Herbert, can you tell Baron whether you can read his posting dated Jan 7, 08:25, please. Malfleur seems to have disappeared.

    On the Japanese justice system: Not perfect, but as good if not better than the current system here in the UK, you certainly don’t find anyone like Tommy R imprisoned in Japan, or Assange held in custody.

    Your take on the US justice sounds about right, including the laughter. Why anyone would hail it as fair after the Epstein affair (and many others) beggars belief.

  1794. Baron (January 8th, 2020 – 18:45 -)

    No I don’t see a January 8th, 2020 – 18:45 posting.

  1795. January 7 at eight twenty five is opaque to me
    But never mind I’ll have another cup of tea
    As I contemplate Harry and Meghan
    And think to myself good on em

  1796. Ode to Becky

    This whole left V right is starting to get boring
    The only honest one is Jeremy Corbyn.
    They convince the old he can not lead
    Judge him on his character i do plead.
    Debts or the people is the last thing on their mind
    Its about protecting their way of life I think you’ll find.

    And now good folk do not fail me
    Just put your cross by Rebecca Long Bailey

  1797. Herbert Thornton @ January 9th, 2020 – 03:26

    Thank you very much, Herbert.

    Here’s part 1:

    The Soleimani guy, Malfleur, was to Napoleon what a bottle of Tesco’s plonk is to Chateau Petrus.

    Where was it exactly Baron compares the Donald to Adolf? On the contrary, it’s the dead Iranian that was the object of the comparison. The point being that even though the atrocities carried out by the Nazis on the orders of the top thugs were by far more sickening, abhorrent, against uman rites that anything Soleimani may have orchestrated. The Nazis were given their due process, some hanged (not a sufficient number of them, Baron believes).

  1799. Part 3 (not dated, very relevant):

    General Wesley Clarke on the plan to sort out the ME, note that the script has been carried out as he says except for few diversions i.e. Syria, but give the neocons time they’ll come back to the country after they caught up with the Russians and the Chinese on new killing tools:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGkSNAHqpJM

  1800. Part 4 (partly dated still worth scanning):

    For better background to the killing the Moon of Alabama may be of help, too, you may like to read also other narratives on Syria and Iran, the guy seems very well informed:

    https://www.moonofalabama.org

  1801. It took Baron some time to get the four parts through, no reason for it, it’s dated mostly, events have overtaken the barbarian.

  1802. Fergus Pickering @ January 9th, 2020 – 06:41

    Good one, Fergus, but you’re missing it on the cumryd, he may be honest but his ‘honesty’ derives from the deep past, he didn’t up-date himself.

  1803. Fergus Pickering @ January 9th, 2020 – 06:36

    A reply got totally stopped because it contained a poem in Russian, Fergus. It had nothing to do with your piece, it was something Baron though you may enjoy, sorry.

  1806. Pity, you are not subscribing to the Spectator, a lovely debate is on (a) the Soleimani killing and the two minor royals. Which tops is winning, what do you think?

    This is truly incredible, planes get show down, generals assassinated, a whole region supplying a large chuck of the world’s fossil fuels is about to explode and the British people (well, a section of the nation) seem to bother more about what happens to a red haired bloke and a former 2nd class actress.

  1807. Baron,
    So, Mrs Simpson has done a runner. No surprises there, it will be a beautifu divece, an if yu wee to suggest that I am a cynical sod ten you would be bang on the money.
    As for the events in the Gulf, ther arre no surprises ther foor me, I have seen it all befre, after all, I was in Iran during the revlution, seen it all. For the Americans, it iis a case of the chiickens coming home to roost, they sowed the seeds of the present situation when they threw the Shah to the woves. The World has paid a tremendous price fo Carters morality.

  1808. apologies for the above balls up, it’s these bloody optics again. My eyes are dim I cannot see, I cannot aim strait whenever I have a pee I cannot aim when I have a pee.

  1809. stephen maybery @ January 10th, 2020 – 17:39 & 18:23

    What surprises, stephen, is that Putin isn’t blamed for any of the recent mess in the ME, they found some remnants of a Russian missile, then the close-up of it disappeared from the twitter. We have to wait for the Bellingcat wizards to tell us what’s what, they are the only people who know.

    Practise, my blogging friend, practice makes perfect, pee as often as possible, and pee everywhere, on everything and everyone.

    When you rest from practising, listen to the French saying bye-bye (or is it adieu) to us, Brexiters. Aren’t you glad we are off, dreadful wimin, the pair of them.

    https://youtu.be/uPLe9qhpBF8

  1812. Herbert Thornton @ January 10th, 2020 – 21:17

    Worth reading it is, but it does little more than back the doctrine of the Americans putting their nose into the affairs of any country they want, excuse it by saying ‘it’s to protect our security’.

    The reaction to the assassination of Soleimani, and two top Iraqi military officials (Black is quiet about them because it doesn’t suit his argument) was different than that to Osama’s killing because the latter was a terrorist, the former wasn’t unless one calls virtually every Arab leader, including the Saudis) terrorists.

    The Donald didn’t give a toss about the Iranians attacking the Saudi oilfields (if it were the Iranians, no evidence was presented) because Saudi Arabia isn’t Israel. He reacted to the Soleimani’s visit to Iraq because the general was trying to get the Saudis and the Iranians talk, something Israel couldn’t swallow, it could have led to Bibi’s isolation in the region, not something he could accept.

    This is also worth reading, Herbert, it was penned by another member of the Jewish tribe, but one who sees some merit in going for peace in the ME.

    https://gilad.online/writings/2020/1/8/clausewitz-trump-and-soleimani

  1813. Baron – January 11th, 2020 – 14:39

    I find it difficult to concede that while Osama bin Laden and his Wahabbist associates were terrorists, Soleimani and his two associates on the other hand were not terrorists.

    (It can of course be argued that full blown war itself is the ultimate form of terrorism but it has enough of the trappings of legality to distinguish it from the many acts of violence and killings organised by Soleimani.)

    To my mind all such people – e.g. bin Laden, Soleimani, the IRA bombers who tried to kill Margaret Thatcher, and the Irgun members who murdered the two British sergeants in Israel in July 29, 1947 – deserve to be called terrorists.

    You say that “The Donald didn’t give a toss about the Iranians attacking the Saudi oilfields…”. I incline to agree. A lot of us other people didn’t give a damn either.

    However I think it difficult to think that anybody’s reason for not giving a damn can be the fact that Saudi Arabia isn’t Israel. It certainly isn’t my motivation for not giving a damn. To my mind it amounts, rather, to saying “a plague on both their houses”.

  1814. Baron – January 11th, 2020 – 14:39

    I’ve just been reading not just the Gilad material that you posted the link to, but some of his other material. It’s very persuasive towards the idea that the U.S. needs to distance itself from Israeli influences and to look primarily after it’s own interests. Other parts of his material are quite insightful and very witty.

  1815. Herbert Thornton @ January 11th, 2020 – 18:58

    You may have the impression, Herbert, that Baron’s either mourns or perhaps even regrets the demise of Soleimani. Far from it, the man was as evil as it gets, he got what he deserves, if the Iranian regime he backed were to collapse today, it would provide nothing but an opportunity of great re-joicing for the barbarian from the East.

    To call him terrorist seems lazy, opportunistic and wrong because he was a member of a country’s governance, Osama or the IRA thugs were not. This, in Baron’s simple way of slicing things is fundamental to the case. The man may not have ben elected, he was however an active cog in a regime that, whether anyone likes it or not, represents Iran. You may of course say that a state official can be a terrorist, but then as Baron has said before, virtually every member of a governing elite could be labelled ‘a terrorist’.

    People forget, perhaps not even notice at the time what they are fed, but the Internet can remind one about the history of the ME adventure. You google some of the stuff we were told when it all began.

    After 9/11, we were told Iraq is the biggest sponsor of terrorism (even though the funding for the NY atrocity came from Saudi Arabia), we invaded Iraq, killed Saddam, devastated the country, but terrorist attacks continued.

    It’s Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya that funds terror attacks, they told us next. We bombed the country, slaughtered the Colonel, but terrorist atrocities refused to stop.

    Syria is to blame for them, our leaders told us after the Libyan adventure, the evil Assad, the butcher of the ME has to go, he’s the top sponsor of the acts of barbarism everywhere. Assad remains in power, the country avoided the worst of the devastation only thanks to Russia, but atrocities, committed mostly by the followers of Allah, keep happening.

    So now, it’s the turn of Iran as the top sponsor of terror acts not justin the ME region but everywhere, the Americans kill one of the ghastly characters of the regime in a belief a miracle can happen, acts of brutality will vanish. But will they?

    How do you call people who keep doing the same thing but expect different result?

  1816. Herbert Thornton @ January 11th, 2020 – 18:58

    Yes, indeed, the guy has a gentle touch of humour, many Jewish writers do, Baron scans him often, he reminds him of another Jewish writer Joseph Roth, that Baron admires partly because he wrote in Czech (as well as in English and German, clever guy).

    Roth’s Radetzky March is a delight for anyone interested in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its demise, but his short stories are even better (he was not only a writer, journalist but a diplomat also), or his story of a Jewish life in Job. All truly excellent, but then Baron would say it because he has a weird liking for things Jewish – jokes, books, songs.

  1818. Ukraine is again in the news, for no good but rather tragic reason. The piece below has nothing to do with the shooting down of the plane, it’s a short summary of the country’ history, slanted very much to Russia’s take on it. This you may ignore.

    The important bits to notice are the percentage of the genuine Russians in the regions, also the vote for independence in Crimea after the USSR fell apart. The peninsula’s vote to leave was the lowest of all regions, merely above 50% probably because both before and after the collapse of the USSR Crimea was never an integral part of either Ukraine (or now Russia), it has always had a federative status.

    https://russia-insider.com/en/divided-ukraine-story-west-doesnt-want-hear/ri28016

  1820. Baron,

    Yes, “It is/was I, Leclerc.”
    I’m travelling, long days in the sunlight!
    Didn’t expect the CHW 2019 to be still going but maybe a new one might be on its way to celebrate the Orthodox new year! When I get back I’ll have to see if I can organise something a little less cumbersome.
    Best wishes to all,
    EC

  1821. EC @ January 13th, 2020 – 23:27

    Apologies for not replying, EC, the barbarian gets a lot of e-mails he is wise not to open, he wasn’t sure even though there were hints.

    Still, thanks and take care, it seems these days any flight is taking a risk.

  1824. Baron, January 15th, 2020 – 17:44 –

    Depends where you are in Canada. Think of Canada as a smaller version of the stretch between Denmark & Vladivostok.

    As for the two Royals’ holiday here on Vancouver Island – think of an enormously bigger version of the Isle of Man. Such Midges and Mosquitos as we have are much feebler that their savage relatives further east.

  1825. Herbert Thornton @ January 15th, 2020 – 23:40

    Thanks, Herbert, that should clear it.

    Here’s the candidate for the Labour leadership that has the highest chance of getting it, she crucifies Putin, the cumryd, everyone in the country who still believes Putin didn’t use Novichok on the streets of Britain.

    Speaking at an event in London on Wednesday, Ms Nandy said: “Russia is a regime that discriminates against LGBT people. that demonises muslims and other minorities and suppresses basic rights”.

    https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-corbyn-completely-wrong-to-have-stood-with-russia-over-salisbury-says-lisa-nandy-11909366

  1826. If you’re missing it here is one narrative that questions the Iranian claim they did it, it was a mistake. There are others, it’s always the case conspiracy theories emerge when a major event happens. What could help to debunk the case of the Ukrainian plane shoot down would be examining the passenger list, locating the man who made the video of the missile hit, and figuring why other planes’ departures went without a hitch.

    These three things puzzle Baron

    (a) The 66 Canadians visiting Teheran, the capital of a country that’s under 24/7 threat of attack by a hostile country, then flying to Kiev. What are they?

    (b) the video of the missile hitting the plane. The picture was taken from a run-down area of Teheran very early in the morning (the co-ordinates of where the person making the video stood were figured by a US magazine, nobody’s disputing them), the individual who took the video isn’t known, but the one who got them, send them to the press is linked with Bellingcat.

    The video lasts only several seconds, it starts with the bang, it doesn’t show the missile’s flight at all. This kind of feels that someone was following the flight pass of the Ukrainian jet waiting for it to get hit, or focused on that part of the night sky that someone told him too.

    (c) The fact that a number of planes took off before and after the Ukrainian jet, no harm came to these planes.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52851.htm

  1828. The other day, two letters in the Times under the heading: Truth about the Soviet-Nazi Pact. The first letter was from a historian Roger Moorhouse (Baron hasn’t heard of him, but that’s neither here not anywhere else).

    Mr. Moorhouse says that the Russian Ambassador to London is right to acknowledge the contribution of the Soviet Forces to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Then he says “However, he (the Ambassador) should also recognise that the victory brought with it the imposition of a bestial communist occupation to central and eastern Europe”.

    Later in the letter the historian says “The Nazi-Soviet Pact contained a secret protocol by which Central Europe was cynically divided between Moscow and Berlin”.

    The other, shorter letter was from Lord Belhaven and Stenton. He makes the point that the Red Army was as murderous as the Nazis (his wife’s grandfather was murdered by the Soviets within a week of their arrival). Towards the end of the letter he says: “Certainly, the end of the Nazi rule was a liberation: it would have been a total liberation but for the brutal imposition of communist rule that replaced it”.

    One cannot question or argue with the imposition of a bestial or brutal (you take your pick) communist regime over the lands of central and eastern Europe (even though the number of those killed by the communist regimes in the satellite states after WW2 is negligible compared to the deaths by the hands of the Nazis, certainly in Poland). The communist regimes were sickeningly abhorrent, there can be no excuse for them.

    What one can question is that neither one nor the other letter writer even mentioned the well documented fact that the Georgian thug got to rule the countries of the central and eastern Europe with the agreement of both Roosevelt and Churchill. More to the point, there was no secrecy about it (unlike the case of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact).

    Why neither the historian nor the good Lord said anything about it is obvious. It would need explaining why the two leaders of the Western democratic Powers agreed to the division at Yalta. The Georgian thug had 6mn men in arms, he could have easily ordered them to march west, stop at the shores of the Atlantic, possibly even cross the Channel.

    To stop him, Franklin (it was more his deputy, the President was too ill) and Winston nodded to Stalin’s offer of the spheres of influence. What the two didn’t know was that Stalin would not have instructed the Red Army to move further West, he feared the soldiers might absorb too much of the free air of the West, turn revolutionary after returning back to the USSR Gulag.

    The reason Baron’s boring with the two letters is he wrote to the Times (see below) knowing full well his letter will not be published, and it wasn’t. Writing the letter, Baron hesitated whether to drop the ‘Georgian thug” or not use Stalin, then decided he may just as well leave the two-words label in the letter because the Times would never publish anything that could displease those who really govern us.

    Sirs, Mr. Roger Moorhouse, the renown historian, should have mentioned in his letter from January 15 that the ‘imposition of a bestial communist occupation of central and eastern Europe’ was the result of the agreement at Yalta between the Georgian thug ruling the USSR, and Roosevelt and Churchill. Lord Belhaven and Stenton may have got his ‘total liberation’ of Poland if the two leaders stood firm, objected to Stalin’s division of Europe. Why didn’t they?

  1829. Malfleur @ January 18th, 2020 – 03:54

    Indeed a great man, Malfleur, but Baron has a confession to make, he only read a couple of his books, found them hard to understand (forgot even the titles, one was about conservatism), in part even contradictory. He (Baron) also thinks Sir Roger was a gullible man. Without going into much detail, the friends he made, and those he was instructing in philosophy in Czechoslovakia were only half dissidents, the real Full Monty fighter for the freedoms the West enjoyed were in jail for real.

  1831. Ode to Josef Stalin

    Our lives no longer feel ground under them.
    At ten paces you can’t hear our words.

    But whenever there’s a snatch of talk
    it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer,

    the ten thick worms his fingers,
    his words like measures of weight,

    the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip,
    the glitter of his boot-rims.

    Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses
    he toys with the tributes of half-men.

    One whistles, another meows, a third snivels.
    He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom.

    He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes,
    One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.

    He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.
    He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home

  1832. Ode to Prince Harry

    There was no room for us to have feelings.
    Under the Queen, we were foiled, our faces blanked of wonder.
    A pitiful ordeal, our cheap toil. We hated her for stealing.

    Our crooked backs ached; our knees bled from kneeling,
    the whole sum of our treasures given up to fund her.
    There was no room for us to have feelings,

    so we made our way quietly; we arranged our own dealings,
    checked what we clocked. Each swallowed their thunder
    and railed within. Nothing left out for stealing.

  1833. The last Sunday Times has a full page on Putin’s proposed constitutional amendments, amongst which is also the one for Russia to make local courts superior to international courts and arbitraging bodies, amongst them the European Court of Human Rights.

    Leaving aside whether it’s wise or not (the Russians have been using the ECHR extensively, the Court has thousands claims from Russia outstanding), the irony is that the Republic is in the same position Russia will be if the proposed change gets approved, the Americans would never ever allow any other jurisdiction to interfere in their domestic affairs. More to the point, after Brexit, Britain is also very likely to withdraw from the Court, make our Supreme Court to be the last arbiter on matters legal.

    THis, of course, the ST fuggwits don’t mention, it doesn’t fit their demonisation of everything Russia does.

  1834. Neither of the odes speaks to the barbarian (he read them carefully three times), Fergus, he just cannot comprehend which way the wind blows, if that’s intentional, fine, if not, what shall one do?

  1835. The same ST narrative Baron mentioned @ 22:20 also criticises the Kremlin dweller on the question of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

    It says: “Putin motivation here is as much about justifying recent Russian aggression as it is about the past. By whitewashing the role of the USSR in the WW2 Putin wants to legitimise the authoritarian regime on Russia and justify Russia’s aggression on international arena, including its illegal annexation of Crimea and invading Ukraine, done by the book written by Stalin” says Slawomir Debski, Director of the Polish Institute of international Relations.

    This is disingenuous and totally wrong. The row began with the EU suggesting the WW2 began with the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, to which The Russians rightly objected (Putin joined the argument later) saying this was wrong.

    You may have your own take on it, for Britain the war probably started on 03-09-1939 because that was when Britain declared war on Germany. For the Czechs, it was either Munich (30-09-1938), or the occupation of the Sudetenland (01-10-1938) or when the whole of the country got occupied (15-03-1939). For the Poles it was 01-09-1939 because that was the day the Wehrmacht moved on the country.

    One can choose any one of the dates, but the one Baron regards as the start of WW2 is the attack on Poland, it was the first time the Nazis invaded a country and shots were fired (in the Anschluss, the occupation of the lands of the Czechs there were no shots fired, well, not enough to count).

    Btw, not that it’s of any great significance, but two things should be noted about the role of Poland before WW2, (a) the country was a military dictatorship (the military under Marshall Pilsudski took over in 1926), their treatment of the Jewish minority was abysmal, (2) after Adolf moved on the Sudetenland, the Polish troops occupied a part of Czechoslovakia (the Silesian region, it’s the northern part of Moravia, perhaps too detail for anyone to remember).

  1836. Baron @ January 19th, 2020 – 17:39

    I am sure that had you been in a position to have procured the opportunity for Sir Roger Scruton to give philosophy lessons to the better class of dissidents in Czech jails, he would have taken it.

    The CHW was initiated at the start of the second decade of this century when the independent online media had scarcely begun. Since then we have accrued an array of blog sites which allow us to hear and, in a sense, to get to know a wide scope independent persons that previously we would not have had a chance to become acquainted with. So let it be with Sir Roger Scruton.

    For this reason, I felt something more personal on hearing of the loss of Sir Roger than would have been the case if his death had occurred earlier, though of course I never met him; a one-way and false feeling perhaps, and may be with an edge of poignancy given by learning that he was pretty much the same age as myself. I was particularly struck by learning that he had re-invented himself as an English gentleman.

    The Salisbury Review carries his obituary by Mario Vargas Llosa – in Spanish unfortunately. This piece in the Telegraph by Daniel Hannan however will serve:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/18/roger-scruton-greatest-conservative-thinker-age/

  1837. Support the people in Richmond, Virginia in their defence of the American Constitution!
    Debate the means to strengthen the Bill of Rights 1689 in England!

  1838. Malfleur @ January 21st, 2020 – 05:03

    You’ve got this one 105% correct, Malfleur, what’s going on in Virginia is by far more important for the future of t eh Republic than than the circus performance on the Capitol Hill. If the guns go, so will their democracy, it’s just as simple as this.

    You may recall Baron’s argument that great nations have their own mutations of democracy, the British the Monarchy, the Americans the guns, the Russians a powerful leader mostly for the reason of history, whether one likes it or not.

    Here’s a guy who makes it clear what gun ownership makes for all freedom loving Americans, all of them, no exception.

    https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2020/01/20/watch-2a-activist-media-smearing-virginia-protesters-as-nothing-but-white-rednecks/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20200120&utm_content=Final

  1839. Malfleur @ January 21st, 2020 – 03:39

    Can anyone dispute that the DT obituary would do, Malfleur? Very likely not provided one were to have subscription for the rag, Baron doesn’t, is not going to take up one even though the Hannan’s oratory.

    (The boss buys the DT, only on Saturdays, and only for the sudoku, please ask not why is the sudoku in the DT on Saturday so vital to the life of her).

  1841. Baron’s posting didn’t;t appear, vanished into the thiner air that one could imagine. Why?

    Are we subject to censorship?

  1843. The other one is the culprit, the filter will not ket it through, try this:

    Google: Onebornfree’s 9/11 Research Review ~Thinking About Thinking About The Events of 9/11~ – A Biased,Personal Review of Selective 9/11 Research –

    It may appear in the results as the third option, you can identify it by the heading.

  1844. Baron
    January 21st, 2020 – 08:21

    I don’t have a subscription to the DT, but could open that link and read Hannan’s obituary.

  1850. How bad is the coronavirus then?

    On average, some 600 people die of flu complications in the UK, during the serious outbreak of the malady in 2008 (?) it was estimated that 13,000 dropped dead.

    In China, so far, it’s 26 corpses in a population of what, 1.5bn? That infinitesimal number may rise, very likely will, but we should have a vaccine soon that must help.

    This is not to belittle the virus, but going from past experience the experts have a tendency to big things up, the latest was the Ebola virus, it was supposed to kill millions, the Hon Muslim when still in the White House named it as one of the the biggest threats to mankind (together with Putin and AGW), it has succeeded to destroy just over 11,000 in Africa, and only because of the living conditions there.

    What happened to the good old ‘keep calm and carry on’?

  1851. Malfleur @ January 23rd, 2020 – 21:45

    But is it leaving, Malfleur? Lets wait and see how the separation pans out after the interim period, something tells Baron the umbilical cord may have been stretched, but not fully broken.

  1852. Malfleur @ January 23rd, 2020 – 14:43

    There can be no doubt about it, Malfleur, the Americans are all mad, both in Richmond and on the Capitol Hill.

    The circus is beyond belief, the world must be looking at the Schitt’s ranting, think, how could these people be anywhere near the levers of power?

  1853. What is the role of Chief Justice Roberts in oversight of the FISA Courts?

    What is the role of the British monarch in the oversight of the Chief Justice of the USA?

  1856. Today, the BBC Radio4’s ‘The World at One’ devoted over 20 minutes to the liberation of Auschwitz, a well crafted programme except that the key report from their man on the spot, a chap called Nigel someone or other managed to avoid mentioning the name of the liberators, as did the rest of the slot.

    It was the same with the US sidekick of the Donald, Pence, who talked the day before about the soldiers breaking the camps’ gates, the liberated inmates being grateful, the evil of the Nazi extermination policy defeated, but also failing to mention the Red Army, or the Soviet Union, or the Georgian thug governing the communist dictatorship.

    If this shows anything it is the smallness of those who believe their rejecting the truth can change history.

    The surrounding environs of the camps were well defeated, the Nazis needed time to destroy both the remaining prisoners and the documentation, but the Georgian thug ordered Marshal Konev to attack two days before his troops were ready for the offensive. The rush was not to save more lives, it was to secure more evidence of the brutalities in the place.

    Both the BBC and Pence could have said who liberated the camps, then say that it was one dictator pummelling another, that the lands of the Poles and others got liberated from one tyrant only to be subjected to another tyranny not unlike the one before. That would have been truer and fair, sadly neither truth nor fairness is in vogue today.

  1857. David Marland returned home last week, he’s a young Brit who lives in Wuhan, only five minutes from the Wuhan fish market where the virus allegedly began jumping on people, “it’s not a nice place”, he says, “full of chicken and dead hedgehogs”. Some in the housing block he resides in tested positive.

    At the airport, he was told to report to his GP immediately, which he did only to be asked ‘have you the sniffles?”. He answered in the negative, was told to come back if he began feeling unwell. So far, he hasn’t.

    That’s the Dads Army approach to the scare, it worked in the past, it should work today as well, one cannot but admire the Britishers response to threats that the ‘experts’ blow up, habitually, only to forget what they said when the threat doesn’t behave as they thought it should.

    Remember the Hon Muslim’s three deadly threats to the world – ISIS, the ebola, and above all Putin? Well, ISIS has largely disappeared, the ebola may still be with us, but only because of serious malnutrition, other deficiencies created mostly my men.

    It’s only the evil Putin who seems to be resisting the concerted efforts of eradication the democracy loving elites mount one after another. One wonders if the Hon Muslim got this one right, the malady engendered by the virus of Putin may not go away even when the source’s no longer with us.

  1858. You may recall Baron’s incessant ranting about the lapdogs of the MSM phylum, most of their opinion pieces don’t have to be read, one knows beforehand from where they come. The only section of the papers that still shines, if not often and not in full, is the ‘Letters to Editor’ page.

    In one of the latest DTs, Andrew Newcombe, QC writes superbly well boosting Baron’s rate of jealousy well beyond what’s decency allows. If you can get hold of the rag from January 27, do, the cover price is worth just this one letter alone.

    Newcombe makes the distinction between ‘the constitutional monarchy’ and ‘democracy’ arguing Britain is (perhaps should be if he’s right about the current Establishment) the former where ‘it represents the totality of the people, where respect for dissenting views and the rights of the minorities are the norm”.

    “Today, the UK has an Establishment seized by the Liberal-Left and dissent from the norms of the “woke” is at best demonised. This mindset is the antithesis of defending to the death a person’s right to articulate a thought, even if one may disagree with that thought with every fibre of one’s body.

    I accept that Voltaire’s proposition needs, in the interest of good governance, to be tempered by laws defamation and the punishment of conduct, which must be criminalised, but to limit freedom of speech – by ‘no platforming, for example – merely because some claim to be offended itself offensive”.

    Truly well articulated argument in favour of a fundamental policy shift, if that were to be the right words to describe what’s needed.

    The learned man may have also mentioned another of Voltaire propositions, namely that the best form of governance is democracy tempered with assassination. He didn’t;t because, as he says, in his view Britain’s not a democracy, but constitutional monarch. One cannot help wondering what will happen to this settlement after HM the Queen passes away, Charles takes over, many may seize this opportunity to go for the democratic route for the future, no?

  1859. Malfleur @ January 25th, 2020 – 06:59

    Is the chap Sather right, Malfleur, is it Gates or could it be the one living in the Kremlin who’s responsible (together with AGW) for every disaster hitting us?

  1860. Click on the link to the Boot blog to read his take on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and what the other nutcase, Bertie says. What amazes is how can the man live with so much hatred. But then, he’s also deeply religious, which may explain it, at least in part.

    Also, apologies for the errors, unforgivable errors.

  1863. Baron, January 28th, 2020 – 13:42

    Baron,

    On the fugitive émigré’s latest blog post (John McEnroe) he kicks off with this…

    “At times I think that freedom from speech should be considered a fundamental human right – especially when celebrities pontificate on subjects outside their immediate expertise.”

    Oh, the irony!

    If Bertie is not already a resident then should be whisked off to the funny farm by some men in white coats asap.

    Is this “slavic benevolence” a thing then? 🙂 🙂 🙂

  1864. EC @ January 29th, 2020 – 15:36

    Welcome back to the fold, young sir.

    Tomorrow, the barbarian will tell you a thing or two about a piece in the Evening Standard, it’s on the subject of the BBC (tonight, it’s tiredness what with waking up around five in the morning).

  1865. In the Evening Standard yesterday, a splash covering more than two thirds of one full page by a man who calls himself Matthew d”Ancona, a marginally obese hack with unattractive but fashionable stubble, his picture from the waist up bigger than the heading of the piece: ‘Garry Lineker kicking the BBC won’t help – we need it more than ever.’

    Who’s we, the-piss up artist says not, it cannot be the Royal we, one hopes, his narcissism cannot be that overwhelming, he must mean the people, the masses, the man on the street. That’s even worse because he doesn’t hold any public office, nobody has ever voted for him.

    He makes a disclaimer saying that on occasions he advised the outgoing DG, and also took part in a number of BBC programmes, but ‘needless to say’, he says, ‘he writes in a personal capacity’. In what capacity does anyone unelected ever write, the capacity of a public collective?

    If the fee didn’t exist we would have to invent it, the BBC is so much in demand, according to him. Decriminalising the non-payment of the fee would a disaster, people will avoid paying it. Why, if the BBC stands for such attraction? Would one not pay for a service one values extremely highly, appreciates without questining its output, cannot be without?

    ‘A BBC subsidised by whip-round would not be the BBC at all – services we treasure would be at risk’, says the wanker. Here, he may have a point, but not what he implies. If the BBC were to live genuinely on voluntary subscriptions they wouldn’t pump out the trash they do. Today, a play about a Scottish young man whose father began life as a female is a case in point, total trash, Baron was listening to it only in a small part, he switched it on in the middle, listened not more than about 15 minutes, his blood pressure interfered.

    One very much hopes Boris takes an axe to the licence fee, it’s unbelievable that one has to pay a tax on a service one seldom uses, and one does switch on any of the massive range of channels, radio, TV or other platforms it’s only to see how one’s money is being wasted on an agitprop the country can do without.

  1866. You’ve missed a lively fight in the Spectator about the participation of Huawei in our 5G networks of the future, postings were mostly against, mostly on security grounds, reflecting the advice from our special friends from over there .

    The security argument makes little sense, one can break into a system constructed solely from non-Chinese parts, it’s commercial considerations that bother the Americans, one can hardly blame them, the Huawei package establishes certain standards, it’s not dissimilar to the fight between Betamax and VCR in video recorders, but bigger because whoever gets the system in, approved by the market, stands to benefit from what’s hooked on the system.

    Here comes abit of jargon, but you get the drift of what’s coming: The three main uses for 5G – the Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC).

    So far only eMBB is operational (2019); URLLC and mMTC are in the pipeline, will take many years to implement, but are a truly big business. You can google for any of the acronyms to get more if you like.

    We’ve missed on the Mk1, should join forces with the Americans to design the MK2 stage. If not the Americans then someone like the Scandinavians who are quite big in the first phase, too.

  1868. Baron, January 30th, 2020 – 21:59

    You will, of course, remember that Mr “w’Ancona” (© Frank P) used to be editor of the Spectatesman.

    During, the late 80s until ’92 I spent a lot of time at the Strollers Crisps in a consultative capacity. Around ’92 the company was sold off to Popsi Cola Corp of Retardistan and forcibly merged with their loss making Schmidts Crisps brand. Before the murderer.. merger the local boy, the nation’s favourite goal hanger turned crisp salesman, was allegedly already on an eye watering 7 figure 2 year retainer that would have been enough for most normal people to retire on. How much since then has he trousered from flogging snackfoods, and from the Beeb, I wonder? Will it ever be enough?

    Niche work if you can get it!

  1870. Baron, January 30th, 2020 – 22:09

    You seem pretty clued up about 5G.
    The last time I looked it was reported to be using wavelengths that were heretofore exclusively reserved for military use, and are not safe for civilian use. The fact that it’s being implemented by the Chinese without any research whatsoever into its effects only reinforces my opinion that it is not safe.

    The Chinese know best, of course, as they a keen to point out that their “5000 Years Of History and Culture” makes them the global meister mensch. Conveniently forgetting that Mao et al destroyed most of that. The summit of post Mao Chinese achievements are still, however, in the field of Culture. Culturing and viruses like SARS and CORONA.

  1871. Politicians and their MSM poodles often shout about corruption in Russia, what they never mention is how they, and the Western courts, do nothing that would help to stop it even when they can.

    As John Helmer points out it’s only in a minority of cases the UK courts rule in favour of Russian institutions, and even when they do, the authorities refuse to extradite the culprits because the villains would not get a fair trial in Russia. The corrupt individuals are allow to remain here enjoying the spoils of the crime.

    http://johnhelmer.net/end-of-string-for-russian-yo-yo-loan-fraud-ilya-yurov-convicted-in-london-court-of-stealing-1-1-billion-from-national-bank-trust/

  1872. EC @ January 31st, 2020 – 10:26

    Next to nothing is Baron’s knowledge of the 5G technology, EC, it’s just he covered the hi-tech sector before he retired more than 20 years ago. The progress has been phenomenal since his departure from the world of work, mind boggling.

    What is definitely true is that the security concerns are the biggest red herring ever claimed by anyone. We have plenty of servers, in fact the majority of them supplied by non-Chinese companies, and yet these get hacked into, no problema. If the Chinese security services were to decide to break into anyone’s system they would very likely find a way to do it, the origins of the gear’s supplier or suppliers would not be the biggest barrier for them.

    Also, if it were ever proven by a third party with no dog in the fight that a Chinese company were deliberately leaking data to the Chinese Government or any if its agencies that would be the end for the company, and possibly not just the company but other Chinese firms, too. Who would want to run a system that furnished the content of it to the Chinese communists? Anyone?

    One doesn’t give a rotten fig, Baron doesn’t, for Huawei, but their gear is top and cheap, the BT used it in 4G, no complaints, we will have to compete seriously with others outside the protection of the EU, why not go for the Huawei’s gear? It cannot harm us, the assessment of our spooks’s spot on, they can handle it, let’s get on with it, no?

  1873. It’s travelling time for the barbarian, little time to visit this half dead blog.

    Young girls in Prague, well, early teenagers, are drawing on their faces a cat’s whiskers, not straight, curly, twisted up and down, and not more than 1-3. In the local language, young girls are call ‘cats’ or ‘kittens’ (hard to translate the Czech equivalent). It looks charming because it isn’t overdone. Their attire looks expensive, their nails done, they, as well as the boys, all have mobiles, some the latest Apple model. Where the hell do they get the money for the stuff?

  1875. Can’t we approach Peter to convert this blog into a full alt media site with him perhaps presiding . It would take a studio of some kind of course and, moreiomportant, funding. Is he still in a monastery in California?

  1876. “WHO GAVE D.A.R.P.A. THE TREASONOUS AUTHORITY TO CREATE THE CORONAVIRUS?
    The evidence is mounting that the Coronavirus scare is more propaganda hoax than medical emergency.

    Being man-made in a British Pirbright Institute laboratory in Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, England, (in a posh bedroom community in southwest Greater London) it is evidently meant to scare the public into agreeing to forced Big Government inoculations. Historically, flu vaccinations are ineffective since they inject tiny pieces of last year’s virus into one’s bloodstream.

    Why? It kills people and lowers the population—their eugenics goal. They are playing God. Didn’t you get the memo that you are nothing but an expendable carbon unit, and are not beautifully and wonderfully made in the image and likeness of God?”
    https://aim4truth.org/

  1877. Malfleur @ February 6th, 2020 – 02:03

    It may be, Malfleur, that only switching to a new date one has to pay to whoever host the blog, otherwise it’s hard to believe Peter has let the current version run for so long. It’s like a runaway train, it waits for someone to take it over, pity that, because it used to be a rather well behaved conservative talking shop.

  1878. Malfleur @ February 6th, 2020 – 02:16

    The chat lasts for over an hour that Baron doesn’t;t have, Malfleur. As you are well aware, he follows the cock-up theory of life, not the conspiratorial school of explaining weird events. Anything that start with the coronavirus moves to Bush finishes with Epstein sounds abit suspicious, no?

  1879. ‘Hi cutie’ doesn’t sound much Scottish, but that was apparently one of the names the Scottish MSP Derek Mackay, the Finance Minister in the fishmonger woman’s cabinet pestered a 16- year old boy day in day out for a number of months.

    The man should be hospitalised or punished, surely pedophilia is banned in Scotland, too, no? Hasn’t;t anyone noticed anything weird in the man’s behaviour?

  1880. “Hasn’t anyone noticed anything weird in the man’s behaviour?”

    Baron, You’re talking about Jockistan where the indigenous males like to dress up in skirts.

  1881. The guy excels himself, he may not be right in detail, but the gist of his argument must be right, the evidence is available for everyone to see. The wit is boundless, you try beat this: ‘The notion that virtue requires that a country suffer mildly retarded brain surgeons or barely numerate physicists is peculiarly American’.

    He’s wrong of course, other countries suffer from the same virus, but it doesn’t;t in any way devalue the beauty of the sentence both in construction and substance. If you don’t have him bookmarked, so do, he’s top class.

    You have to google ‘China and America: Scoping Out the Megacepts Fred Reed February 7 2020’, the system will not accept direct linking. Why?

  1882. EC @ February 7th, 2020 – 09:36

    You’ve made Baron chuckle, EC. Is it good that early in the morning?

  1883. Baron, February 6th, 2020 – 11:41

    Sometimes those two types of theory can intersect, prompting at least two avenues of investigation. i.e. Whose “Cock” and “Up” where?

  1884. Baron – 09:47

    Minus 2C last night, and it’s a very cold and frosty morning up here in The Debatable Land. A lovely sunny day ahead. Just a shame that it’s buggered up by a hospital appt. this afternoon.

  1885. EC @ February 7th, 2020 – 10:06

    You just keep going, young sir, things mat get worse before they get better, but better they will get, have faith.

  1888. H.Thornton @ February 9th, 2020 – 20:18

    No access to the piece you’ve linked to, Herbert. It sounds intriguing though, but then in today’s world of the convoluted everything possible.

  1889. Malfleur @ February 9th, 2020 – 09:15

    OK, Malfleur, no more pi$$ing around, but whose bio weapon is it. Chinese? American? Or is it a private enterprise, someone with a grudge (say) against Apple, the company that makes the bulk of its stuff in China. Explain, please.

    In the West, the coronavirus keeps leading on the MSM front pages even though the death rate seems around 2%. If it were the killer equivalent of the Spanish flu or the bubonic plaque that killed a third of Europe then we should be worried. The Sars virus in 2003 had a mortality rate just below 10%, nobody was as much concerned then. Why now?

  1890. Ode to the Brighton Coronavirus superspreader:

    I can’t see far ahead.
    I can’t even see close.
    I can’t see the point.
    I’m my virus’ host.
    I’m a deathbed-ridden star.
    I’m a kingdom that fell.
    I’m a hole inside a hole.
    I’m a virus hotel.

  1891. Fergus Pickering @ February 10th, 2020 – 21:41

    You should travel to Brighton, Fergus, declaim the poem to those diagnosed with the bug, see what their reaction is, no?

  1892. Oh so droll
    Baron
    You’ On a roll
    Plug in to Covid nineteen
    It’s the worst thing you’ve seen

  1893. Baron, February 10th, 2020 – 19:14

    What’s the betting that (Dr) WHO will declare China “virus free” in time for the quadrennial international money laundering festival, this year being held in the Japans?

    A few weeks back those naughty Danish cartoonists reimagined the Chinese flag thus:

    https://snipboard.io/KeD8tn.jpg

    It would be just great, and most appropriate, if the I.O.C. flew this version at any medal ceremony involving Chinese this summer.
    They won’t.

  1894. Pandemics of yesteryear:

    Spike Milligan,
    “Muses With Milligan, TV Series 1964-1965

    “There are many diseases,
    That strike people’s kneeses,
    Scorflufus! is one by name
    It comes from the East
    Packed in bags of yeast
    So the Chinese must take half the blame.

    There’s a case in the files
    Of Sir Barrington-Pyles
    While hunting a fox one day
    Shot up in the air
    And remained hanging there!
    While the hairs on his socks turned grey!

    Aye! Scorflufus had struck!
    At man, beast, and duck.
    And the knees of the world went Bong!
    Some knees went Ping!
    Other knees turned to string
    From Balham to old Hong Kong.

    Should you hold your life dear,
    Then the remedy’s clear,
    If you’re offered some yeast – don’t eat it!
    Turn the offer down flat-
    Don your travelling hat-
    Put an egg in your boot – and beat it!”

  1895. February 13th:

    What happens when 90% of the media is controlled/owned by (6) corporations?
    What happens when those same corporations are operated and controlled by a political ideology?
    What happens when the news is no longer free from bias?
    What happens when the news is no longer reliable and independent?
    What happens when the news is no longer trustworthy?
    What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
    Fact becomes fiction?
    Fiction becomes fact?
    When does news become propaganda?
    Identity creation?
    How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction?
    Majority of people more prone to believe someone in power sitting behind a big brand ‘news’ name?
    Do people [human psyche] tend to follow the ‘majority/mainstream viewpoint’ in fear of being isolated and/or shunned?
    ‘Mainstream’ is used for a reason [dominate trend in opinion].
    [If majority of people believe ‘x’ then ‘x’ must be validated / true]
    Why do ‘mainstream’ media heads, within different orgs, always use the same keywords and/or catch phrases?
    Coordinated? By who? Outside entity providing instructions?
    Do they count on the fact that people [human psyche] are more prone to believe something if heard over-and-over again by different ‘trusted’ sources?
    Do ‘echo chamber’ tactics provide validation / credibility to the topic/point being discussed?
    Threat to intellectual freedom?
    Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
    Read again – digest.
    Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
    Logical thinking.
    Why, after the election of 2016, did [D]’s and media corps jumpstart a [coordinated & planned] divisive blitz intended to create falsehoods re: illegitimacy of election, character assassination of POTUS through sexism, racism, every other ‘ism’?
    Pre/post 2016 election?
    Why were violent [masked] terror orgs such as Antifa immediately created/funded?
    Why were these orgs tasked w/ immediate intimidation/shut down of any pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
    Why were marches immediately organized to counter and silence pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
    Why were marches immediately organized which divided people into sex/gender, race, [ism]?
    When you control the levers of news dissemination, you control the narrative.
    Control of the narrative = power
    When you are blind, what do you see?
    They want you divided.
    Divided by religion.
    Divided by sex.
    Divided by political affiliation.
    Divided by class.
    When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those ‘different’ from you, not those responsible [controllers].
    Divided you are weak.
    Divided you pose no threat to their control.
    When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or stable [livestock kept – sheep].
    When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
    “Free thought” is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
    THIS REPRESENTS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    Q

  1896. In spite of the feral gusts of wind, the pilot found a window, landed gently, possibly better than usual (or so on elf the stewardesses said).

    Expect gusts of postings (feral or not) soon (or not).

  1897. Britain must be the only country that goes through two stages of existence engendered by the weather. It’s either dry to the bone, no drop of water anywhere, the Government bans the use of water for everything but the occasional cup of tea, recommends people share bath with neighbours. Or it’s drowning in it, everything covered by water, boats are the preferred mode of moving around, the Army has to help to do the shopping or visit the GP.

    Why hasn’t it occurred to any of the people in governance that the remedy is simple, may not cost a fortune, and will certainly save money because implementing it will cost less than the cost of dealing with either the dryness or the flooding. Building reservoirs to capture the access water when it rains, releasing the stuff when the the sun tries to turn it into a biscotti would be the remedy, but nobody seems interested.

  1898. A young woman with a pleasing face commits suicide, her picture’s on the front pages of virtually every paper, Baron must admit he didn’t know about her until the tragic incident, she was presenting a programme that reflects the morals of today’s Britain, sex island, not perhaps the favourite of everyone, but she felt depressed, apparently attacked her boyfriend, was ordered by a court decision not to get close to him even though he says he never asked the police and the courts to to interfere. The country weeps, or perhaps wept (it has happened few days ago), is now moving on to another headline catching story.

    The one aspect of this rather unpleasant case, and for the girl a tragic outcome, is the involvement of the agencies of the state. Why was she prosecuted when the victim didn’t ask for it?

  1899. Malfleur @ February 13th, 2020 – 21:27

    It (the list above) may indeed represent a clear danger, but the power of the narrative confuses more than it convinces e.g ‘when you are blind, what do you see?’ A rather well worn-out cliche, when one’s blind one sees nothing, no?

  1900. EC @ February 13th, 2020 – 11:04

    He was a talented man, EC, but he’s lucky not to be around, many of his books would be considered racist today, his labelling of minorities would mortify the woke brigade.

  1901. Fergus Pickering @ February 12th, 2020 – 07:52

    Rather generous of you, Fergus, to donate four lines to the barbarian (and the lines are close to euphonious, too).

  1902. Here’s a BBC take on the constitutional changes in Russia, for reasons known only to the guy who talks to you, he doesn’t say what the charges are, but the one thing that comes over, unintentionally because it contradicts virtually every piece of news about the country, is that opposition does exists in Russia. The crowd may be small, but nobody chases the people off, the police aren’t bashing them, the protesters are free to say what they feel.

    The opposition in the clip is nothing compared to what many of the opposition papers, blogs, internet TV channels say about the changes. Unfortunately telling the public about it would further undermine the picture of Russia the governing elite wants the people here to see – a tyranny run by a despot clinging to power only because people are afraid to stand up to him.

    https://youtu.be/LHIbc7koTUE

  1903. According to the experts, people who know – it’s from page news in the ST – up to fifty per cent of the population of Britain i.e 30mn humans, can contract the coronavirus.

    According to someone who knows less than FA about the virus – that’s Baron – fewer than half of one per cent i.e. fewer than 300,000 Brits may get it, and that’s a massive overestimate.

  1904. This just reached the barbarian, he was totally uninterested in the saga of the recently discovered gay presenter, but the take on it by the young man running the video puts the whole affair into a new light.

    You may waste over 13 minutes of your life watching it, but the message the clip conveys is simple, one truly cannot trust anyone these days.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsibUV5dAcc

    Btw, you would have noticed and then hopefully forgiven Baron for the errors, the most obvious one ‘the from page news’ should read ‘the front page news’, it is the fugging software that still beats him hands down.

  1905. Baron – 10:00

    “There’ll be a terrible stink when this gets out” as Jeremy said to Norman, or was it Norman to Rinka?

    The whole stage managed Schofield coming out thing was so obviously fake, imo. He looked like he was trying not to smirk the whole way through it. I expect that ITV has had to pay megabucks in hush money to protect the ad revenue that their two major TV franchises involving him pulls in.

    Perhaps ITV should rename the next series of their Sunday night show “Skating On Thin Ice” ?

    I think that despite ITV’s best efforts, super injunctions or not, the truth will eventually come out and Schofield may have to be quietly sidelined.

  1906. EC @ February 19th, 2020 – 11:15

    You’re right, EC, they must be already working on his removal. the boy may not keep silent. the scandal may blow big.

    The barbarian’s out of action, his gadget’s packed up.

  1907. Has anyone watched the Dem’s show with Bloomberg in it? Can you imagine any one of these clowns running not just the Republic but the world, because this is what the one sitting in the Oval office does? That’s just so unreal, one has to pinch oneself to find out if one’s awake, or a bad dream has taken over. The kids in any playground anywhere could put up better arguments that this bunch.

    The one case in point is the billionaire praising himself for cutting NY crime then within seconds denouncing the policies that did it. Arghhh

    Why don’t they save the massive money they’re spending on the charade, invest in (say) the Wall, ice cream for the masses, few more Patriot missiles, and ask Putin to decide who should run the Republic, the Donald or one of the squabblers?

    As Bernie mentioned the man from the Kremlin was already interfering, would get involved even more as the time to the election date nears, and most importantly, would have the final word anyway. Let Putin elect, no?

  1908. Baron – 10:24

    It just goes to show that you can be a billionaire and still be a dumb f**k!
    He should’ve jumped right back down Liarwatha’s throat and said that he had reconsidered his position on lesbians and that he now accepted that one didn’t necessarily need to be a lesbian in order to be horse-faced. He let Pocahontas get away scot free.

    Ye Gods! Bloomberg even made Sleepy Joe look animated!

  1909. EC @ February 21st, 2020 – 15:07

    Good points, EC.

    If the guy were as clever and intelligent as his teams of overpaid lapdogs are saying he is he would figure that with his past he has less chance scoring against his fellow also-runners, winning the crowds during the election campaign, getting the votes in November than Adolf H, not alive but dead, burnt to ashes.

    He has the charisma of a frog’s spleen run over by a truck on a dusty road, and a facial expression not that different from it either. He would be better off converting the money he’s spending on ads into five dollar bills, dropping them from a copter over NY, the city he’s running.

    He should have instead look for a suitable actor better still actress with charisma, white set of teeth, someone capable of learning a script, talking well and fast, appealing to the crowds’ emotions rather than rationality. He would nature such individual, prop him up with massive money, get him elected then use him to double or treble the wealth he already has.

    Amazingly, Bloomberg made only one profitable decision in his life, it earned him a fortune not because he’s that clever but mostly because he’s lucky. It’s amazing how luck could often eb mistaken for ability, he proves it.

  1910. He’s up to his old tricks, Vlad that is, already meddling in the forthcoming presidential election still months away, backing not just the Donald, but also Bernie to make sure his puppet sits in the Oval Office (in case the old communist gets in). How cunning of him.

    You may ask yourself why are the MSM poodles includ ing Bernie in the Russiagate, isn’t having the Donald enough, what possibly could they be aiming for? The answer’s obvious.

    They want to condition the voters, create the impression Bernie’s primaries results are inadmissible because of the Russian meddling, had to be nullified. No evidence is ever produced, it’s enough to say ‘the Russians are at out again’.

    In the end they will, they must argue that the old man’s results cannot be legal as they were got with the help of of the Russian interference, hence other candidates must be chosen instead.

    That’s a clever move on their part particularly after Bernie’s convincing win in Nebraska. If he also gets to win in South Carolina you can bet on it that the poodles of the MSM would go berserk accusing him of winning because of the backing of Putin, the Dems may strip him of the win, the MSM poodles will do everything to reverse the trend of his winning in other primaries.

    The question is though ‘will the unwashed fall for it?’ Tucker seems the only sane individual in all this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iruf0Qc7saw

  1912. This is not for reading but referencing, the occasional peep into the thinking of the EU. The report covers a lot, some of the findings are more interesting than others, the decline of MEPs backing the monstrosity is trending south, China’s GDP in PPP dollars outstrips that of the US already, immigration into Europe moves towards newcomers seeking jobs (asylum down, education down).

    https://ec.europa.eu/epsc/sites/epsc/files/epsc_european_common_goods.pdf

  1913. One should heed the wisdom of the old, the Chinese in particular, after all they gave us many useful things like the gunpowder, when they say ‘man can predict everything but the future’ (you must be more than sickeningly tired of Baron repeating it). One can only speculate, hope the speculation’s based on past cases, the way they turned out.

    Here’s a piece that sides with Baron on what the coronavirus can and will do to the billions of us. The Rappoport chat runs painfully slowly, the female running it loves her own voice, the guy speaks slowly, too, but the evidence he tables is non-refutable.

    If the new cases are based not on proper testing but mere clinical observations of what the patient tells the medical staff then the whole affair is s close to a artificially created scare as it gets.

    https://off-guardian.org/2020/02/25/coronavirus-hysteria-reaches-tipping-point/

  1914. Here’s Tucker Carlson summing up a debate, but the points he makes have a general application for the whole of the debating chain. How did the Republic sink so low, it’s a joke, a sick joke that must make American rivals feel superior, not economically of course but certainly on standards of public behaviour, probity, and the moral caliber of individuals who aspire to have the reach of the nuclear button.

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  1916. Corona
    Covered in vines
    Just like the door
    On this hut of death
    So much fog here
    I think I lost it
    Try and find it
    Hold your breath
    Walking on stilts
    In a sackcloth
    I remember that
    Big funhouse slide
    The big fish beast
    And the captain siren
    They all seek advice
    One eye on the oven
    21st century hag
    Must be worse off than
    Drunk and jetlagged
    Rag-doll, cheap tag
    And the seven dwarfs
    Have a ringleader
    It gave moral faces
    To forces of nature
    Fulfill your future sins
    Reading of gods and myths
    Tell me what came first
    The green or the jealousy
    Corona, corona
    Covered in vines
    Just like the door
    On this hut of death

  1917. Baron, February 27th, 2020 – 16:41

    I am immune after imbibing countless bottles of “Corona” during my first childhood in the 1950s. It was delivered to our door and then stored in the pantry.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(soft_drink)

    I never realised until today that it was Welsh export. Should’ve known, I think it played a large part in rotting my teeth.

    “They”, the government, should put the alleged tooth protecting but definitely poisonous flouride chemicals in fizzy pop rather than contaminate the water supply.

  1921. EC
    March 2nd – 12:11

    Corona had a factory in Chelmsford when I was growing up, near the roundabout; never got to do the tour though.

  1925. EC @ March 2nd, 2020 – 12:11

    The drink is also familiar to Baron, EC, fortunately he didn’t like it, he never enjoyed any of these sugar aplenty liquids, he hasn’t;t got sweet tooth, he hurt his teeth smoking pipe. Liquid with some alcohol in it, now that’s another cup of tea, which he also likes, the biggest tea drinker in the county of wilderness called Suffolk.

  1926. Malfleur @ March 3rd, 2020 – 07:40

    The video’s rather catching, Malfleur, but the people in it are safe, who on earth would even think of raping any of them? Arghhh

  1927. Baron, Malfleur March 3rd.

    These infantile people, the misnamed “progressives” of the western world are mad, and living in la-la land. Suppression of the truth, failure to address reality, act rationally, is inevitably going to bring about what they fear most. i.e. a backlash. The continuation of their state of denial, the ruthless suppression and de-personing of anyone that questions it, ensures that when finally the SHTF then the backlash will be exponentially worse than the one that they had imagined.

  1928. From my email:

    “STAND UP & HELP US SHAPE ENGLAND
    Fellow English patriot,

    By the year 2050, in a mere 30 years, the English will be (according to many projections) a minority in England, our own country! However, these projections forgot one thing…WE SHALL STRIVE UNCEASINGLY TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE AND OUR LAND NO MATTER THE COST!

    Between 2004 and now, the immigrant population in England grew at an alarming rate, making ‘new comers’ a large percentage of the population with around 14 MILLION now resident here. Many of these identify as being British, not English.

    England, until the 1950s, could trace its ancestry back thousands of years.

    In 1903, in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, the remains of a prehistoric man were found.

    Known as Cheddar Man, DNA tests on this almost 9,000 years old skeleton showed that he has living descendants today, still in the local area! The long stretch for England’s identity is now coming to an end, yet the political class refuse publicly to discuss the mere notion of simply being ENGLISH!

    We have no issue with these people we need coming to work nor with those who embrace our English culture, laws and traditions but sadly the poorly thought out immigration policies of successive British governments over the last 20 years has led to massive and unwelcome social change and community tensions that are neither fair to the indigenous English or to the newcomers. As usual, the British political elites create the problems that we the ordinary people are left to deal with!

    We all know that this country has serious problems in this regard but very few in Westminster dare say a word let alone even try to fix them!

    Why the silence from the politicians? I will tell you: They don’t want the English to do anything about it! The ancient Greek leader, Pericles, once said: ” Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” So, if your strategy is to sit back and “do nothing”, then I’m afraid you are only postponing the inevitable and making things worse for yourself…. you cannot hide from the impending disaster!

    Unfortunately, whether it is 5 years, 10 years, or 20 years’ time, you WILL have to do something about the state of our country! The catch is: the longer you leave it, the more difficult it will be to fix!

    The only possible and realistic option for all English patriots is to join the English Democrats Party to fight for a voice for us, the English. Look at Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, they ALL have their own legislative assemblies and parliaments so why should we ENGLISH be treated differently? All we want is “A FAIR DEAL FOR THE ENGLISH” and you can help us secure this by JOINING the Party!

    We now enjoy a support base of thousands of English patriots nationwide, so you will not be alone in doing something effective to save your country.

    To join The English Democrats costs £15 per year for concessions and £32 for standard membership so please click on the following button:

    What’s in it for you?

    Actually “making the leap” and joining a well-established ENGLISH Nationalist party may be a liberating experience but the main reason should be… it is the RIGHT thing to do!

    We all feel pride doing something constructive to help the situation and you will find new friends and a new family among the legions of patriots just like you who love England and are fed up being second class citizens in our ancient homeland.

    The English Democrats membership is open to everyone, young and old, both in England and the whole UK. Upon joining The English Democrats, you will receive a special membership card, regular campaign updates and our party magazine.

    I would like to thank you in advance for your continued support and I look forward to welcoming you on board.

    On the 21st October 1805 Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, aboard the HMS Victory, issued the signal “England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty”

    Surely his words still ring true TODAY!

    Yours sincerely

    Robin Tilbrook

    Chairman – The English Democrats

    General Enquires: 0207 242 1066

    Press Enquires: 01293 873 894

    English Democrats Party · PO Box 1066, 
Norwich NR14 6ZJ, United Kingdom
    This email was sent to wicks.derek@gmail.com.”

  1930. At the time of typing this the number of confirmed Corona virus case in the UK was 53.

    The fear mongering hyperbole and BS emanating from the BBC and other outlets over the past couple of days is absolutely disgusting. This could be driven by fear of course because most of these arsehole live within densely populated metropolitan bubbles that are ripe for spreading any sort of disease. The thought of croaking never occurs to these supernumerary, useless troughing bastards. Dying? That’s for the knuckle draggers. the poor, and the little people.

    However, it’s an ill wind as they say…
    Maybe the virus, currently keeping the Grim Reaper busy making house calls on the Iranian Theocracy, will solve a few problems for us too. Thinking of the BBC problem in particular.

  1931. EC @ March 4th, 2020 – 10:39

    Well said, EC, it feels the MSM poodles cannot wait for the time w start killing each other for a box of sardines.

    It’s truly mind boggling, may be best explained by the desire of those in governance to control us even tighter, the PM has been given swooping new powers when the level of infection hoovers around few dozens, probably people who were close to dying anyway, one does feel sorry for them, but that’s life, that’s how the biscotti crumbles.

    This last point of Baron, that we are not told who’s it that died, how old were these people, have they suffered before contracting the coronavirus from a different malady, stuff like that. Why not? It would be quite re-assuring to know that the majority of those dying from the virus were not healthy individuals, no?

  1933. All Aboard the Bullshit Express….
    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/six-reasons-why-covid-19-fails-sniff-test

    “….According to the World Health Organization (WHO): pneumonia killed 808,694 children under the age of 5 in 2017, accounting for 15% of all deaths of children under five years old.

    That’s 67,000+ a month! Little kids dying around the world.

    Where were the headlines?

    But COVID-19? Less than 100,000 infected and a little more than 3,000 reported deaths at the time of this writing. And that’s the John Hopkin’s numbers. But even IF the reporting was bogus and the mortality rate was as high as 6 to 11% as some have claimed, then wouldn’t faulty reporting mean the number of infected could be higher as well? And wouldn’t that reduce the mortality rate also?

    Furthermore, if COVID-19 spreads so easily, then why only less than 100,000 cases worldwide? Especially considering that China is the most populous nation on earth.

    Now consider that Aspiration Pneumonia has a mortality rate of 21% overall, 29% hospital-associated, and 30-62% in “older, sicker patients”.

    And, according to the CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report:

    CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 32 million flu illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths from flu….”

  1934. Malfleur @ March 4th, 2020 – 23:00

    Good points, Malfleur, it’s indeed puzzling that the number of the infected doesn’t grow faster, even if one assumes that the spread began early this year in China (and not in December, but news of it suppressed) the virus isn’t doing that well killing us, other bugs are more efficient as you show, the site below that Baron posted before is useful following the disease worldwide, the data refuses to suggest a major explosion anywhere.

    The other puzzle is why the overkill of its reach and potency? What has prompted it, is behind it? Who benefits?

    Many fake theories are about that either China or her nemesis the Republic may be to blame what with each allegedly developing tools biological warfare, but that makes little sense, just like gas (which is time limited and on a lower scale) the viruses also don’t discriminate, a release in one country doesn’t guarantee the absence of infection in another, these little beasts ignore state boundaries, in particular today, the age of globalisation, global tourism, enough money for many to travel long distances to get what before one sought to buy or acquire locally (e.g a woman employed by a UK newspaper in London travelling regularly to NY for nail treatment, but there are many more others doing the same).

    Are we going to get to a believable bottom of it?

  1935. EC @ March 4th, 2020 – 13:26

    One hopes, EC, that stephen’s OK, he may be frail, but the man is a fighter. It would help if he said ‘hello’.

  1936. And an ode in response to Malfleur

    The ******* Artist
    I am a ******* artist
    I ******* my way through ******* conversations
    And I ******* all of my ******* poetry
    I ******* my daily life
    Spewing ******* to people around
    Who themselves are really full of ******* as well
    I do this to hide the fact that I am really full of *******
    You see it is a recursive cycle of *******
    Me bullshitting them, them me, and everyone full of *******
    And don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to feed you negative *******
    I even believe my own *******
    And their *******
    I guess you could say it is some Buddhist *******
    Or some ******* like that
    But really we are all so full of ******* that it’s coming out our eyes
    Even this poem right here is *******
    I don’t even buy this *******
    ah ******* is there any sifting through you?
    any escape from *******?
    It just seems like the more you try to sift through the *******
    The more you get your hands covered in *******

    So you see how I fall deeper and deeper into *******
    It really is appropriate

  1937. And another work for the ages from our all-too-resident poet:

    The ******* *****
    I am a ******* ******
    I ******* my ************************
    And I ******* *************** ******* poetry
    I ******* my daily life
    Spewing ******* to people around
    Who themselves are really full of ******* as well
    I do this ************************f *******
    You ******recursive cycle of *******
    Me bullshitting them, them me, and everyone full of *******
    And don’t get me wrong ******* *******
    I even believe my own *******
    And their *******
    I ***************Buddhist *******
    Or some ******* like that*******************
    Even *********
    ah ******* is there any shiffing through you?
    any escape from *******?
    It just seems like the more I try to shiff through the *******
    The more I *******
    So my *******
    is appropriate

    F.P. fecit.

  1938. Baron
    March 5th, 2020 – 08:03

    In the propaganda slogan of our beloved government in 1946 and later sung to the tune of the German national anthem by the late, great Tony Hancock in The Blood Donor:

    “Coughs and sneezes spread diseases”.

    Let us also remember

    The Dreaded lergi (or lurgi)
    “There used to be a page on this! “lergi”, being a highly infectious and disgusting disease [which] is now a common phrase in Britain to refer to that bi-annual ailment where you produce uncontrollable amounts of snot and can’t stop coughing up “free chewing gum”.

    Wikipedia is a great source of further related but useless information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AThe_Goon_Show

  1939. Bad flowers:

    You were born with a garden of flowers reigning in your heart
    Every flower bloomed at the right season
    You caltivated your garden
    You pruned your flowers
    You watered your flowers
    You loved your flowers and couldn’t wait to share them
    You gave the key to your garden to wrong people
    They stole your flowers
    They didn’t help you water your flowers
    They cut your flowers
    Your garden was now ruined
    What am I gonna do now? You asked yourself
    You covered your head with blankets crying.
    Your flowers are in ruins
    You have fresh seeds now
    Seeds to start a new garden
    With tears running on your face , you revive the old flowers and plant new
    You patiently build your garden again
    The dead flowers are on the outskirts
    The new flowers are hidden where no one can see them
    You love your new garden more than before
    More intensely that you are hidding it away
    You dont want people to see your flowers
    You don’t want to give them the keys
    You show them the old dead flowers when they come to view
    Knowing very well that no one likes bad flowers

  1940. Baron,

    Further supporting evidence, if any is needed, that the USA is the biggest political (lunatic) asylum in the world…

    Apparently the lefties’ lawyers are claiming “really literally” now means the opposite of what it used to. YCMIU!

    “Rachel Maddow SUED for Defamation”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4fgE-aj2w

    If you want to get to the juicy bit then skip to @12:50min to read transcript, or straight to @13:07min where the lunacy starts.

    Since it’s CHW poetry day…

    The USA, one nation under USC,
    the land of the fee.

    (rhymes better than some)

  1941. Malfleur, March 6th, 2020 – 02:59

    Not having any latin I read that as, “F.P. feck it!”
    Near enough?

  1943. With the reported death in the UK of a second wrinkly with underlying health issues, the Corona virus continues unabated in the meeja.

    I am reminded of a newspaper headline (Irish Times?) that Spike Milligan read out on his TV show in the late 60s, “Muses With Milligan.” The story concerned and elderly Irish gentleman who had just died. This man had been on Lord Canarvon’s expedition that had opened up Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.

    The headline read, “THE CURSE STILL RINGS TRUE.”

  1947. Just be friends, all we need to do,
    Just be friends, it’s time to make amends…
    Just be friends, All we need to do,
    Just be friends, just be friends….

  1948. Weird thing, we are advised to cut back on travel, avoid big gatherings but the wimin were organising massive demonstrations everywhere, nobody dared say ‘stay at home, bake a blueberry pie for a change’.

    Pity we no longer have Spike Milligan around, what would he say about all this?

    Apparently vitamin D in largish doses can help, the Conservative Woman has a pice by a chap called Norfolk about it, you may like to scan it.

    Around Baron’s place of living pain killers are in short supply, paracetamol virtually unavailable, a local chemist sells 16 tablets for close to two quid.

    Stay safe.

  1949. If you’re still logging in to scan what we’re up to, stephen, do say hello, please.

    “Here’s again the WHO’s table showing how is the world doing in its battle with the corona bug, in case you’ve failed to bookmark it”, was what Baron typed in, the guard refused to let it through, you have to retrieve it from bookmarks.

    Not many countries have the infection at a low level (cases per 1mn), mostly African countries, or those in South American, the exception elsewhere is Russia, the draconian measures they adopted seem to be paying off.

  1950. Fergus Pickering @ March 9th, 2020 – 07:26

    Friends? Come on, Fergus, it’s combat the human tribe loves, often engages in to regain common sense.

  1951. Malfleur @ March 9th, 2020 – 02:10

    The treatment of the guy genuinely puzzles, Malfleur, on a scale of 1 to 10 he’s anywhere near the top as a risk to the regime, if they left him alone he would be one of the many revolting for one reason or another, as it is, he leads the pack of those more than critical of the current state of democracy here.

  1952. EC @ March 7th, 2020 – 10:05

    Good one, EC, made Baron laugh (and as he said above, it’s a pity the gifted man is no longer with us, some of his sketches were truly hilarious).

  1953. The 2nd anniversary of the Skripals fairy tale has passed, not a single mention in the MSM, only John Helmer and our Rob Slane have covered it. Will we ever learn what actually happened?

  1954. Did anyone watch the PM coronavirus press conference this afternoon, BoJo flanked by two top medical advisors, the top advice still remains ‘wash your hands more often than usual’, and ‘if you feel unwell stay at home’.

    The one question that Boris avoided answering fully was whether people arriving to the UK should have been checked before disembarking whatever the mode of transport that brought them here was i.e. the plane, the boat or whatever. He said that it wasn’t necessary, it mattered not for the outcome if every arrival into the UK were checked for symptoms, basically the temperature higher than usual.

    That’s rubbish, surely. The virus was bred outside the UK, if it were to get here then it would have been only because someone who had contracted it some place outside the UK arrived here. Not everyone having the virus would display the symptoms on arrival, but some would. Eliminating these ‘somes’ would surely help to curtail the spread of the contagion.

    Baron reckons we don’t screen because the NHS doesn’t have infrared non-contact forehead skin thermometers, certainly not enough to carry the checking at all ports of entry into the UK.

    If one googles ‘the NHS and the non-contact thermometers’ one of the responses says the NHS is evaluating the gadget, which means the service hasn’t got them. The answer that the temperature checking isn’t necessary is essentially a deceit, the authorities are saying it because they couldn’t do the checking fast enough using the old fashion thermometer considering the number of arrivals into the UK.

    If you look at the latest figures by country, Russia is still ahead of any other major country in that it has fewer people infected with the bug, 15times fewer than us and it’s close to twice the size in population, and borders with China.

  1955. Baron
    March 9th, 2020 – 10:06

    Tommy Robinson records a phone call from the investigating police officer in the matter of his daughter and the muslim man involved and then gives his own comments.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_IS6_YfL9A

    Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, Baron.
    But Heaven will direct it.

  1957. Malfleur @ March 10th, 2020 – 01:18

    Two things, Malfleur, (1) Tommy is not helping himself using foul language, that must put many people off, he needs to talk differently, present himself as a powerless victim, the way he talks in the clip feels as if he belongs to a bunch of thugs, the case itself, the molesting of his girl, gets lost in the barrage of expletives, (2) the anger he displays may be understandable, he is being treated abdominally, but similarly to the language he uses, his raging does more harm than helping him to get more to support him.

    One can understand his feelings, he’s abandoned by those who are charged with helping him, nevertheless this aggravation works against him, he must calm down before he gets a heart attack, as the saying goes ‘he who makes you angry conquers you, and that’s exactly where the authorities want him, to be conquered.

    (To be honest, Baron doesn’t;t know the much about the case, did he attack the man who molested his girl? Could it have been a set-up? Does he have any witnesses?)

  1959. Baron, March 9th, 2020 – 19:54

    I’ve been staying over in, and transiting thru, HK en route to God’s own country, down there, quite a number of times since 2015. The first time through I was quite alarmed to see everyone being confronted by swarms uniformed masked ninjas pointing thermometer guns at their heads. Anybody who gave a high temperature reading was led away for further checks, subsequently not allowed in, and deported.

    If the NHS do not have these devices by now, then they never will. Since the rise of the corporatocracy, since Tony (spit) Blair put England’s population replacement programme into hyperdrive, all governments have paid scant regard toward their primary responsibility with which they were entrusted – protecting the safety, culture, freedom, and rights of the indigenous population.

    I’m afraid that if they were being honest the official position would be, “So what if a million or so die, hey we’ll just import some more.”

  1962. Who can one believe?

    This short video shows the inside of a Tesla car belonging to the girl messiah Greta, who’s saving the planet, also the response of some of her followers before and after they are shown the film of the trash, including plastic in her car. Not something one would see on the BBC.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8SyoRwV_To

  1963. EC @ March 10th, 2020 – 09:53

    When he began his public career, EC, wasn’t he a part of the mob that’s devouring him? It’s ironic that he should the victim after he helped to to create the legal framework that’s biting him now.

    (more later, B has to go do things).

  1964. “Two things, Malfleur, (1) Tommy is not helping himself using foul language, that must put many people off, he needs to talk differently, present himself as a powerless victim, the way he talks in the clip feels as if he belongs to a bunch of thugs….”.

    No, Mr. Baron, it “feels” as if Tommy is a normal working class Englishman whose 8 year-old daughter has had her bottom squeezed by an adult male in the shallow end of a kid’s swimming pool….

    Prissy Mr. Baron is more concerned at hearing Le Mot de Cambronne than standing with Tommy to ask why it was not the paedophile was not arrested.

    How did Mr. Baron “feel” about Hancock’s comments in the video? Mr. Baron chooses to remain silent.

    Unfortunately, more of us do things more in the style of Central European culture than was our wont before political correctness was introduced here.

    Back in the day, there would have been a good defence in law to punching the muslim on the nose and the muslim would have been locked up even before any question bout his religion was raised.

    For spin more in keeping with Mr. Baron’s , see the “blog of liberal stance and independent mind” at https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/03/tommy-robinsons-story-unravels.html

    Mt. Baron might also enjoy https://www.infowars.com/tommy-robinson-update-officer-overseeing-child-molestation-case-removed/

  1966. Malfleur @ March 11th, 2020 – 06:20

    Calm down, Malfleur, the barbarian has done perhaps not enough, but more than most people, he’s signed a couple of petitions, even contributed few quid for his defense.

    The question here is not whether Tommy’s right but how he asserts his rightful demand for a proper investigation. Even you must admit that the language he uses is unlikely to endure him to many, that’s the point Baron was making, the language and the anger that’s understandable, but quite destructive if he wants the public to back him.

  1967. A village idiot by the name Con Coughlin has a column in today’s DT entitled ‘The Saudis have called arrogant Putin’s bluff’, it’s about the oil price war, the Saudis were proposing a production cut to keep prices high, Putin has said ‘no’, let’s keep the daily output as before, in response the Saudis maxed production, prices collapsed to below $30.

    Coughlin dissects the ‘spat’ expertly suggesting that the warming up in the relationship between the Saudis and Russia must be off, no more is the deal for the sales of Russian military gear to the Muslim tyranny viable, Russia cannot but lose because the Saudis cost of production are $6-7, the Russians need market prices around $50 to make their oil production profitable, it will not take long before the Russian economy collapses harmed also by the US sanctions, the postponement of the Nord-2 gas pipeline to Germany (also due to sanctions), bla, bla, bla. To top it all, the DT wizard ends the piece saying that if the Saudis pull it off, it will ‘severely curtail Russia’s military adventure in the Middle East’.

    It’s a free country, any wanker can think what he likes, and write what he thinks but what the piece misses totally is the plight of the US shale producers, not a word about them, yet he must be aware of the huge indebtedness of the US shale gas industry, if the oil prices stay at around $30, many if not all of them will be bankrupt by the year end.

    The man must be of the neocon phylum because the shale gas sector is the Donald’s important assist in boosting economic growth, it was the ‘drill, drill, drill’ that has made American not just self-sufficient in gas, aiding growth, but enabled her to export some surplus also. It was still is one of the pillars needed for the Donald’s election machine to get him re-elected in November, he needs the economy strong, and the energy sector is a significant part of it.

  1969. Is everyone of the handful of contributors OK? Perhaps you will say ‘hello’ when you next visit the blog. Or is the blog a private vehicle for Malfleur and Baron only with EC occasionally looking in?

    Things in the deep wilderness of Suffolk couldn’t be more normal, people are going after their business, shops have the shelves fully stocked up except for paracetamol and flour, the streets are as full as before with the young and old. The rural East Anglia has its advantages, no?

  1970. Hello they say. “Oh how’s it going?“
    A friendly chap that seems to know me.
    Someone goes by, and gives an “I know you smile,“
    I smile back but just cant recall you.
    A fella stops and starts to chat,
    His words seem to say “ I know you and that”…
    But gee, it’s hard to remember names!
    Every body all seems the same!
    Hello.
    Goodbye..
    Sometimes I’ll try, to place you in that “by and by”.
    I know I should know you
    You think that I do……
    But it’s always the same,
    Sorry friend, I forgot your name!

    And if any of us here get it,
    Our obituary next will set it.

  1971. Fergus Pickering @ March 13th, 2020 – 18:43

    You, Fergus, are a pessimist, someone who wears suspenders as well as the belt still fears his pants will fall down. Cheer up, young man, no point getting pushed to the mortuary sad as well as cold.

  1972. The TV new bulletins informed Baron tonight the government is aiming for a heard immunity, they reckon that if and when 60% of us get the bug, everything will be OK.

    This is as close to madness as it gets, 60% of us comes to some 40mn, of which 80% will apparently feel only minor to medium discomfort (like what? dry coughing, a running nose, higher temperature?), the remaining 20% or 8mn of us will get seriously ill, one assumes most of the 8mn will be the 65 plus age bracket (say) around 5mn, the rate of death for whom ranges from some 8% to almost 14%, let’s us say an average of 10% or half a million stiffs in a space of few months.

    Since we have no time to build hospitals, we’re not the Chinese, perhaps we should make our ditches deeper and wider for if the country does face to the normal number of deaths the additional 500,000 corpses even in the space of a year, the ditches would be the only space available for them, no?

    The above is a pure speculation as is Baron’s take on the pandemic. It will be over by the end of April, the number of death will be anywhere near that for the garden variety flu that visits us each year.

  1973. Baron, March 12th, 2020 – 14:34

    This “Con Coughlin” chap sounds like he’s out of the same school of “journalism” as Daniel Korski and Max Boot. Only Krapski had his own “think tank”, though.

  1975. EC @ March 14th, 2020 – 00:38

    Indeed, EC, loopiness galore that.

    Still, consider this:

    In Europe, Italy tops the list of the worst effected countries, her total number of coronavirus cases reached 17,660 (as of March 14, 08:02 GMT), the number of death 1439.

    In 2017 (the latest year available in the UN statistics) 649,061 Italian died from whatever causes but excluding the coronavirus, the pathogen wasn’t around, i.e some 1,789 individuals per day.

    One cannot predict how many more Italians will succumb to the coronavirus, but if you click on Italy in the WHO table (link below) you will see the graph on ‘daily new cases’, it seems to be stabilising around 2,500 per day. If the Farr law stands (the progress of an epidemic resembling a symmetrical bell curve) one would guess the number of additional infections after March 14 will total some 18,000 new cases, and 1500 the number of additional deaths.

    Even if one doubles the number of future deaths due to coronavirus after March 14 to 3,000 one gets the aggregate total for the duration of the epidemic at 4,500.

    The figure of 4,500 is roughly the number of Italians who die in less than two and a half days of a normal coronavirus free year.

    https: //www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    One cannot put the finger on it, but the ping up feels grossly overdone. Why?

  1976. It’s not fugging ‘ping’ that’s overdone it’s ‘hyping’ that has boiled over by far too much, Baron’s getting thoroughly fed up with the Apple nerds, cannot wait for the Chinese or whoever to produce a simple word processing software.

  1977. Here’s an example of the objectivity of our MSM, the extract comes from Graig Murray’s blog about the trial of Alex Salmond, not a politician Baron follows, but one that was, when active in politics, well ahead of many other politician minnows if only because he spoke his mind:

    “Yesterday (March 12), all of the mainstream media portrayed Salmond’s defence, and his defence counsel Gordon Jackson QC, as an appeal to the social attitudes of the 1960’s. This from the BBC is how the episode of an alleged slap on the buttocks of Ms G in a restaurant is universally described in the media:

    When it was suggested by Mr Jackson that the smack had been “playful”, the witness said she had considered it to be “extremely inappropriate”.

    But this is a quite deliberate misrepresentation – which is peculiarly universal in the BBC, Guardian, the Scotsman, the Times, the Sun and anywhere you care to look. Gordon Jackson was not suggesting an alleged unwanted slap on the buttocks was “playful” in mitigation. Doubtless as intended, the reporting has brought down a social media storm from feminists of all genders accusing Gordon Jackson of ancient chauvinist attitudes and Alex Salmond of appalling abuse.

    Those criticisms of Salmond and Jackson would be quite justified if the mainstream media reports of what was said were true.

    But in fact it is a completely false distortion of what was said. This is the truth.

    It was the woman – Woman G herself – who had described the alleged slap on the buttocks as “playful” in her initial statement to police. Playful was Ms G’s own choice of word. Gordon Jackson was putting her own word to her, and querying how an alleged event which she had initially described as “playful” had now morphed into a serious criminal offence.

    It makes rather a difference when you realise that “playful” was Ms G’s word, not Gordon Jackson’s word, nor Alex Salmond’s word, does it not? Yet you would never know that from all of yesterday’s media reports. That is because the media is very deliberately attempting to frame this story, and frame Alex Salmond’s guilt, in the public mind. That is the real danger when the public are excluded and only state approved “media” are allowed to witness. Thank God for moles”.

    This treatment of facts by the MSM poodles isn’t relevant only in the case of this trial, they are at it 24/7. Any wonder people are losing trust in this propaganda camouflaging as news?

  1978. Douglas has a piece in the Spectator about the NHS worrying whether they are doing enough for a pregnant male. This is a response from a witty reader:

    Alphamail: I am half way through my transition as a teapot via the NHS. I’ve got my handle and expect my spout to be surgically applied next month, Covid 19 permitting. Can’t wait for my coming out tea party.

    Andy C: You owe me a new keyboard and a fresh cup of coffee! 🙂

    MaxSceptic: What gender teapot will you be?

    Alphamail: Boner china.

    MaxSceptic: Very Round the Horne.

    Alphamail: Lots of spooning.

  1979. Baron – 10:48

    I have not been following the media circus surrounding this.
    I have no liking whatsoever for Alex Salmond, Scottish Nationalism’s primary snake oil salesman. When the allegations against him first surfaced I thought it all smacked (non playfully) of a political hit job. However, he does face a lot of #metoo charges. The prosecution will have to prove them all one by one.

    Unless the Scots have changed their legal system in recent years then the Scottish jury will have to declare a verdict on each of the charges. The verdict can be either:
    Guilty, Not Guilty, or Not Proven.

    However Salmond’s brief is on record as saying he wants to abolish “not proven.”

    https://www.scottishlegal.com/article/gordon-jackson-qc-backs-abolition-of-not-proven

    Funny thing language, innit. In England people tend to get “slaps in the face” and only “pats on the behind.” However in the would be SNPSSR, aka Jockistan, things might not be quite as sound. eg. The infamous “Glasgow Kiss.”

  1980. EC @ March 14th, 2020 – 18:42

    One can have many a take on why he is facing the judge, EC, Baron reckons it’s because he joined RT, it was a scoop for them they had never even dreamt of, the case is a payback for the governing elite. In Scotland Salmond has quite a following, he had to be punished to warn others to stay away from any agency of our our arch enemy Russia

    The example of the deceitful reporting was to show how our MSM poodles behave, they get a command from the centre, they all begin to howl at the same frequency. Salmond isn’t a favourite of Baron either, but one has to acknowledge that as a politician he did well until his poll tax moment, the independence referendum, that burnt him quick.

  1981. This comes from someone who sits on the Stanford hospital board.

    The Coronavirus may not show sign of infection for many days. By the time one has fever and/or cough, the lung is usually 50% fibrosis. To take a simple test, each morning take a deep breath, hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. No coughing, discomfort, stiffness or tightness, etc., you’re OK.

    Also, ensure your mouth & throat are moist, never dry, take a few sips of water every 15 minutes at least. Drinking water or other liquids will wash the pathogen into the stomach where the acid will kill all the virus. This comes apparently from a Japanese doctor.

    Useful to know

    A runny nose and sputum is a common cold, coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.

    The virus is not heat-resistant will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees, it hates the sun.

    If someone who has it sneezes, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground is no longer airborne.

    On a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours – so if you come into contact with any metal surface – wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.

    On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it.

    Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses.

    Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes.

    Generally take care, and at all cost avoid travelling to Wuhan.

  1982. Habeas NOA?

    The thought occurred to me… how Noa et uxor (Nelly?) are doing now, perched as they are on the higher reaches of the Trough of Bowland. (twinned with the Slough of Despond).

    Hopefully they heeded my 2019 prepping advice and have the Ark’s barn chock full toilet paper, hand sanitiser, coffee beans, foie gras, flour, dried yeast, pasta and basmati rice. Not forgetting full to overflowing oil tanks and coal bunkers. No need to ask if the wine cellar has replenished, post Saturnalia, as they receive regular shipments from Messrs Bargain Booze of Garstang.

    Being the humanitarian we all know him to be, the outside privvy will no doubt be packed to the rafters with tins of Costcutter(own brand) baked beans for distribution to the estate workers in need.

    Here’s a short video on the subject of Virus Hysteria and Social Fragility by Ken Wheeler. (aka The Angry Photographer aka Uncle Fester, aka Theodora Apoptosis(pardon my pun)) I enjoy his rants about cameras, lenses, and other YouTubers but occasionally he says something sensible.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW4-PBbviCw

  1983. Is Boris going to invoke Emergency Powers Act, aka the Civil Contingencies Act, this week?

    If he does then stand by for all the crypto-commies in your local Kremlin (town hall) to start “leading beyond authority.

  1985. EC @ March 16th, 2020 – 09:04

    Yes, EC, what has happened to our recently retired top civil servant? We should be told.

    The guy in the video talks well, and talks common sense except that Baron is unconvinced the man with the pickled onions will make it, those living in urban areas get organise easily, look where most demonstrations are, not in villages but in towns, better still cities, that’s where people could get together fast, acquire some killing tools, depart to requisition the jar of pickled onions from our common sense rural hermit, no?

  1986. Malfleur @ March 16th, 2020 – 11:29

    You are too kind, Malfleur, calling Baron mister, he doesn’t;t deserve it, but you mean it ironically, which makes it OK.

    What do you want someone like Baron to do? He and others like him are impotent to do anything, that’s about it, no? That the MSM poodles lie, twist facts, miss facts if it suits them has been well documented. Complaining about it gets one nowhere. We are stuck, and not only because of the new pathogen whose average killing ability (so far anyway) has been hyped up out of all sensible slicings.

  1987. EC @ March 16th, 2020 – 09:19

    What’s more likely, EC, they will use the bug as a pretax to control the internet, arguing that the spreading of fake news cannot be allowed even though it’s the mSM poodles that do most of the faking.

  1988. Baron – 13:17

    I agree about the MSM and the internet. I was making this very same point to Mrs EC this morning.

    The BBC is blithely swallowing and dutifully regurgitating everything the CCP of The Peoples Replica of China puts out. There are independent sources of news who are in touch with people on the ground in China. These people are getting information out despite the CCP’s “Great Firewall.” They are doing this using VPNs but still at great risk to themselves.

    The BBC is blithely swallowing and dutifully regurgitating everything the CCP of The Peoples Replica of China puts out.

    Baron Pippin II – 13:01

    Nah, we are talking ‘Murica SHTF, WROL situation here. The guy in the hills will be armed to the teeth and he’ll own dogs even more fearsome and vicious than his wife. The unarmed city/suburb dwelling vegan pyjama boys and their consorts will be too busy being raped and murdered by MS-13 and other illegal immigrants to organise effectively. Also, they’ll be too weak from the lack of Curly Kale supplies to mount an expedition to the backwoods.

    BTW Have you heard of “Supply Chain Whiplash”?
    It applies to the current retail frenzy. It may take quite a while to settle down.

  1989. EC @ March 16th, 2020 – 17:12

    What a fantastic memory you have, young sir. It indeed was Baron Pippin II. Did you know Baron has been blogging since last century? It must be one of the longest spans of anyone being a great nuisance, just as well not many (if anyone at all) get to read this blog.

    What happened to Peter? To the others like Herbert, Redford, Robert retired and of course Noa. Why have they chickened out?

    Your describing the one armed to the teeth made Baron laugh, in the Republic he’s likely to have some genuine heavy stuff, you’re right, that’s America for you.

  1990. The Times, March 2nd, 2020.

    Boris kept his word! (headline bottom of front page)
    Yup, “Nothing” was where he stopped!
    However, in his defence, there’s really nothing that he could have done about it anyway.

    I’m not so sure that Boris wasn’t lied to by his civil servants and “experts” to begin with. Sure as hell, the rest of have been lied to. The MSM? What a difference two weeks makes, eh. We’ve gone from “oh, it’s just like having a bad case of flu” to “The Masque of the Red Death” in only 14 days!

    https://snipboard.io/VJ1gq3.jpg

  1991. The BBC4 One o’clock news with Sarah Montague, and a guest, the ‘contemporary’ historian Lord Heseltine (? it may be someone else, Baron was getting out of the car, but Lord it was).

    Sarah: ‘It may take years for Britain to recover from the pandemic’ What? Surely we will have a vaccine within 12-18 months, why the years of recovery?

    The good Lord: Britain history will never be the same, people will talk about Britain BC, before coronavirus, and Britain AC …

    What pair of wanking fruitcakes? Even if it were to take decades, you don’t say it, it’s exactly what makes people panic, Baron went the local Sainsbury’s, the shelves were largely empty, that’s what these scaremongering have twerps done, panicked the country.

  1993. It s best to look on the current world government induced panic as a trial run for the new world order’s implementation of public controls for the future climate change emergency.
    In other minor news Brexit is being put on the back burner.
    And the comedian Hancock sports an LGBQT rainbow flag NHS badge on his lapel.
    Thank Christ the fifth brigade of lipsticked mincers anf fudge packers are putting down their giant packs of KY jelly long enough to apply those non existant ventilators to the massed bed blockers from Nigeria and the Punjab.

  1994. Noa, March 17th, 2020 – 15:59

    There is no law of the land or statue against being naked in public. I’m surprised it stood up in court. There again, it is dumbo magistrates we are talking about. If the guy is appealing, not to me, then with a decent pair of briefs.

    Sexual offender? More like Blasphemer in Lancs where Pies are a religion. Travellers in that antique land will see the exaltation of “The Pies” joyously proclaimed in many public places, including on motorway bridges.

    @16:18 You make an interesting point about the possibility of current global shutdown, and draconian measures ratcheting up daily , being used as a softening up process. Boiling frogs comes to mind.

    The vegans will be dancing in the British Aisles if our local supermarkets are anything to go by. Forget bog paper, yesterday there was no red meat, chicken or fish, no mince or sausages to be had anywhere.

  1995. EC
    Sharpned and pointed elbows were in use yesterday at the weekly Booths shop. The level of tutting wS almost audible amongst shoppers who pride themselves on their strong silences, some of which have been known to last for decades.
    A duel with walking sticks, refereed by the manager, was held between pensioners, over the last packet of Home bake bread flour. A traveller welding a shelleleigh snatched it from the victor’s hand and ran out of the store without paying and singing ‘Danny Boy’. Where’s Bojos trans-Irish Bridge or tunnel when you really need it?
    And of course there are no pies left, the flashing community having stocked their larders in anticipation.
    Mrs Noa, a vegan and the mother of vegans, complained bitterly that all the Quorn products were being purchased by the carnivores.
    Toilet rolls are now of course a source of inheritable wealth, along with soft yet absorbent copies of the Gruniad, unfortunately the Socialist Worker deposits too much red ink on the posterior for most people.

  2000. “Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.”
    Marshall McLuhan

  2005. EC & Malfleur

    They may be playing with fire here, hopefully the prisoner release will only include those who’re inside for smoking or dealing hash, they cannot eb that stupid, release murderers.

  2006. On a subject that’s miles removed from the killer bug.

    Baron’s abode has been infested with flies, not too big, not too small, the vast majority of them roughly about half an inch, still mostly comatose, but tens of not hundreds of them. What’s going on? Where do these rather annoying insects come from. Baron doesn’t recall such invasions in the past, never. The nature, just like us, seems to be going weird.

  2007. Hopefully, you could read it, it’s Matt Ridley, someone Baron has a great respect for, excellent microbiologist, knowledgable, writes well. Here he’s completely fugged up, the whole piece is nothing but fear inducing narrative based on nothing concrete but his own prediction of what the covid-19’s death toll will be in the future months if not years. No solution, no reassurances that can defeat the bastard bug, no morale boosting advice. How fugging irresponsible is this?

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-are-about-to-find-out-how-robust-civilisation-is

  2008. Noa @ March 18th, 2020 – 17:14
    ,
    So glad Baron is you’ve posted it, Noa, it must be serendipity because only few days ago Baron was mentioning someone the description of England at the start of the last century by Taylor, promised to send it to him, couldn’t find it (more like forgot about it). Your posting solved it, thanks.

    Reading it, one can hardly believe it to be true, what a country England was, and never be again.

  2010. EC @ March 19th, 2020 – 17:15

    That would be useful, EC, but it was rejected at the start, apparently it wound’t cut the number of infections sufficiently to justify checking everyone on arrival. The HK authorities are taking it step further, track everyone after arrival.

    For the first time today, Baron listened to the three musketeers, BoJo flanked by the two medical gurus, they talked a lot, repeated what the previous speaker said (at least that part of it Baron listened to). What’s the point of repeating?

    Have we ever received an advice on surgical masks, disposable gloves?

  2011. Anything from the three stooges about DIY, Baron?
    How to make ones own coffin from sticky back plastic a an old cardboard box, for example?

  2013. EC @ March 19th, 2020 – 21:25

    As a rant, typical of Pat, when he kick he kicks to death, but here he’s wrong, not on the guy he so hates, but on the Chinese tribe. He says the virus ‘shames the Chinese nation’. How could it? This is where he errs and errs regretfully. If proven the pathogen leaked from the labs in Wuhan both the guy running the country and his lackeys should indeed be blamed, but not the Chinese unwashed.

    On point of correctness, or rather what would Confucius do: It hasn’t been established yet where the virus originates, it looks likely it was China, but unless one’s absolute ly certain (and we should be able to be certain, the sources of previous epidemics has been established backed by scientific enquiries) then it’s rather foolish to accuse the whole nation for it.

    One of the responses to the Pat’s rant is a guy saying ‘stop buying Chinese goods’. One hopes this advice isn’t followed by the buyers, not in the short to medium term anyway, the country furnished over 90% of world antibiotics, and makes virtually every female bra sold.

  2014. Forgot to attach the video, EC, apologies.

    It takes over 10 minutes and is a counterbalance to Pat’s frontal attack. The poorly educated Slav sits somewhere in between the two, he agrees with Pat and his vicious criticism of the one party system and the guy who presides over it, but he has sympathy with the bald American’s description of the Chinese as a tribe, they are indeed different from any other, and long may that remain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2srfDwM2sQ&t=10s

  2015. Noa @ March 19th, 2020 – 20:20

    Fancy you are the one coming up with such useful suggestion, Noa, it should have been left to the crowd that wants to save the planet, using a disposable recyclable cardboard in the last act each of us has to go through before we turn into dust (that sentence was supposed to create the image of one making the casket, jumping into it, burying oneself, it doesn’t but Baron cannot be bothered to re-think and re-type it, you mind not, do you?).

  2016. Herbert and stephen, this is a writ of habeas corpus. You have a day or two to comply. Jump to it.

  2021. Baron – 16:00

    My, my. That video ticked so many boxes it could have almost have been made by the BBC. It was very laboured. To be effective political satire has to be short, sharp and, above all, funny. I scored it 3/10 which I think was a bit generous.

    @11:06
    It seems that Paul agrees, for the most part, with Pat.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHwz0tRcWo

  2022. Another clip on Tommy Robinson. This was posted by Avi Yemini. It is a coronavirus attack on an old couple in England who are out shopping for groceries.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJp7jLRGOqY

    Now Mr. Baron uses “thug” here and there, and therefore may possibly know the meaning of the word. Who are the thugs in this clip, Mr. Baron, and who the gentlemen?

  2025. Matt Ridley has a short piece in the Saturday’s DT about vaccines for the corona pathogen, the whole piece describing how difficult it is to come up with any vaccine, how costly, how long it takes going through the hurdles imposed by regulations, and how many vaccines have been developed that killed more people than the pathogens they were supposed to help cure, how one cannot hope much that a vaccine for the covid-19 will be with us soon, only about a coupe of sentences about successful vaccinations that cured millions from sickening diseases.

    You may say ‘but it’s all true’, which it is, there’s no denial that vaccines aren’t a field that receives much attention from the big pharma companies. The thing is though why say it? How does it help to boost our morale, confidence, determination to fight the killer bug?

    One would expect the next message from this wanker to be a detail description of people dying from the coronavirus, nothing made up, the true picture of the infested as they go through the last minutes of their lives – coughing blood, their eyes bulging, scratching their chests, choking crying for help ….

  2026. EC @ March 20th, 2020 – 23:33

    Yes, EC, the great Joseph has also decided that China it is that has to be punished, this in no way persuades Baron to join him and Pat, one shouldn’t be in haste, decide on the verdict before one dissects the evidence, it’s not because one has any liking for China, the opposite is the case, Baron was nearly hanged by a regime not that dissimilar from the Chinese dictatorship, but because we have to know the true source of the pathogen to learn how to prevent a similar or identical occurrence from happening again, avoid another pandemic that could bury us. This is what matters, not politicking or indulging in agitprop of phobia, or displaying one’s fear and loathing of a giant of a country.

  2027. Baron 12.44
    What we do know, Mi’lud, at this time.,is that the virus originated in China and that insufficient and ineffective controls on movements allowed it to spread rapidly around the world.
    The occurance was preventable and lessons should be learned and implemented to prevent future similar events.

  2028. Noa @ March 21st, 2020 – 16:53

    It’s pointless to argue, Noa, neither of us knows, but you’re wrong, it wasn’t confirmed the virus originated in China, it was first identified (detected?) in China. It may well turn out it was detected in China because it originated there, but there still is the matter of the five hospitalised servicemen who took part in the military competition. When that’s cleared up, we can be close to being certain, no?

  2032. Noa – 16:53

    Exactly. The CCP, regional and national, maintained a state of denial about the virus outbreak for well over month in an attempt to save face, cover it up. Before the lockdown over 4 million people were allowed to leave the Wuhan region as they pursued their {{{Chinese}}} New Year celebrations, visiting relations, spreading the virus all over China and to the Chinese diaspora overseas.

    The CCP are now complaining about {{{foreigners}}} bringing the virus back in. In reality most of the cases that have been detected are Chinese nationals returning from overseas after the lockdown.

  2033. EC @ March 22nd, 2020 – 09:42

    OK, you and Noa win, EC.

    Where did the Spanish flu originate? Could you tell us?

  2034. Baron
    It now being in season do be careful about your own consumption of the Barony’s justly famous Cream of Mole soup. Especially if it contains the delectable extract of Suffolk Bat that provides its unique and pungent flavour.
    Let us hope your previously thriving export trade with the Peoples Republic of Whatever recovers as soon as you have demonstrated that the Molehall-20 virus could not possible have originated within your own august curtilage!

  2037. Noa @ March 22nd, 2020 – 13:58

    What a posting, Noa, pity Frank isn’t around, he would have endorsed it, even added to it.

  2039. Noa @ March 22nd, 2020 – 19:15

    The write-up’s spot on, Noa, if the Republic had a chance though, it would do the same, the Chinese behave as one would expect an upcoming superpower to behave.

    Now, without mentioning pangolins and bats, what would you do if you were in charge of any of the recipient countries? Would you refuse the stuff, send it back?

    The way to defeat them, or even to attempt to defeat them, is to get better than they are, no? That’s the way to do it. Everyone believes (Baron included) they have been pinching our industrial, medical, microbiology secrets, improving on what they snatched, then mass manufactured the stuff, are trying now to flow it back to us.

    If we were clued u,p we would do the same, but that would mean that many of us, or even just few of us, would have to be hungry enough to learn Mandarin in addition to the subject of whatever microbiology secrets (or any other) ww would intend to acquire perhaps illegally whilst working for a leading Chinese company in the field, in China. That’s what they’ve done, right?

    Do any of you two see that ever happening? (Please avoid saying, it’s impossible, we don’t have communist rulers compelling us to do it bla, bla. This has nothing to do with the top of the political tree, most of what the Chinese were up to when they were stealing from us was on the initiative of individuals).

    What would your idea of regaining that we’ve lost or are losing? Any offers?

  2040. EC @ March 22nd, 2020 – 09:23

    Missed this, EC, it’s good, but rather below waste – see the Spanish flu.

    Btw, Baron has absolutely no problema if the coronavirus is called China flu, Wuhan flu or Wuhan virus, or even Huawei virus, absolutely none even if it’s established beyond any doubt that it was a non-Chinese individual living anywhere outside China, never visited the country, not even heard of it.

    Whether the Chinese would like it or not is neither here or anywhere, that’s not what Baron’s arguing about. The only thing that matters to him is that we truly discover who was the first human infected, why and from what. That’s it.

  2042. Apologies, big ones for the ‘you know what’ e.g flog it back to us, not ‘flow’, clued-up etc.

  2043. Baron – 21:59

    Nah, mate, Delinger is spouting bollocks. Some say France, some say USA, toemaytoe, towmarto etc. Spain copped it because it it was ravaging there when it caught the attention of the press.

    It came out of China in 1917. Transport wasn’t as rapid in those days. It’s always China, Baron. As it was in 1665 and on many other occasions throughout history.

    Just be happy that this time it’s not the {{{RUSSIANS}}} that are getting the blame. I haven’t visited the fugitive emigré’s blog recently but I fully expect he’ll have found some way to finger Vlad, though.

  2046. EC @ March 23rd, 2020 – 09:05

    Will take your advice, EC, but Baron’s not so sure Russia’s blameless, who knows, someone somewhere may already be working on a water tight connection to the man in Kremlin, perhaps one of the amino acids in the pathogen’s DNA chain spells p-u-t-i-n.

    Your 09:49 posting makes Baron blue with envy, clever boy. Can he use it? He’ll give you credit of course.

  2049. Isn’t anyone worried about stephen and Herbert? Baron doesn’t;t have their e-mails, does anyone?

  2052. EC @ March 23rd, 2020 – 15:39

    You just wait for the feminists to get going, EC, their howling and screaming will frighten the corona pathogen, the pandemic will be over well before Baron’s guess of the end of April.

  2053. Baron 09.45
    But Mi’lud, if you use it will you not, by your own analysis, be spreading fake news? 🙂
    As to how we recover what we have already lost…. A very broad question there indeed! I assume that you are referring to more than just compensation for the theft of intellectual Property but also to the restoration of British hegenomy.
    With the relentless rise of post Darwinian liberal stupidity coupled with the massive decline of Western intellect I see no hope for the West for a couple of millenia, unless Covid-19 was actually allowed to act as a massive curative for cultural stupidity.

  2054. As to why we’re all doomed, culturally and intellectually, in our Western idiocracy, may I proffer Edward Duttons book, link below, for part of your lockdown reading. Depressing though it might be it is a serious analysis. Of course he is demonised by the Woke left, which means he’s probably on the right track.

    https://g.co/kgs/8jHT3c

  2055. And if anyone is interested in hearing Dutton he’s on YouTube. Delingpole interviews him on one of his Delingpods, where he describes his persecution by the left.

  2057. Noa @ March 23rd, 2020 – 16:56

    Actually, the pathogen may do exactly that, weed out the woke ideas because when confronted with mortal challenges from the real life those who proselytise it will see the error of their judgement, convert, or at least shut up, let wisdom and common sense take over.

    Wierder things have happened, Noa.

  2064. EC @ March 24th, 2020 – 10:41

    Superb, EC, how come you have to have the best finds?

  2065. Malfleur @ March 24th, 2020 – 02:55

    The importance of borders, Malfleur, seems obvious to everyone, now, it’s every country for itself, not many seem to object, where are the globalists?

    What Baron didn’t get is the case of the girl involved in some violent crime in Honduras. The guy didn’t really explain it either except for saying the Deep State’s involved. Involved in what?

  2066. Malfleur @ March 24th, 2020 – 01:36

    Not buying what the two are saying (Baron watched only a part of it) for the simple reason that if the Republic goes bankrupt so does China, the two economic giants need each other, certainly in the short to medium term.

  2067. That’s something Noa and EC would very much enjoy, communism is the culprit for spreading the corona bug, all we have to do now is defat communism and voila everything will be OK.

    Sorry about this rather flippant introduction to the two experts on the virus. How do they think we should proceed then? Ask the sour guy that runs Chine ‘listen matey, give up on communism, we have enough of your fugging viruses’.

    https://youtu.be/1Kkw39g1pCQ

  2068. Still on the two Australian experts (Baron forgot to include it @21:31:

    Why do they and other Western nations rely on China, or perhaps have relied on the country if the trading relationship is going to change? (Not in the short/medium terms, Baron reckons).

    Low labour costs, that’s it. It’s either that Chinese companies boost the wages of the unwashed that labour in the plants supplying us with trinkets we often don’t need, or the Australians (and others like us) pay themselves considerably less, so much less that businesses will find it profitable to bring the manufacture back.

    Anyone sees it happening?

  2069. Baron
    I expect that little will change in the short run, Mi’lud.
    Resource rich mercantile Empires always invoke the doctrine of external free trade and inward tariffs when it suits them, as it does the US and PRC at the moment.
    Do you really think for example, that Potus will allow the Saudis and Russians to destroy the recently reacquired US oil independence?
    The poverty stricken former European Empires must continue to expiate their collective guilt by Islamic submission and through their intellectual and financial bankruptcy.

  2074. The number of deaths so far this year from the coronavirus as reported in today’s South China Morning Post is 422. The population of the United Kingdom is 66440000 (as recorded in 2018- Google). Let’s say 67,000,000 today.

    This means that the present number of deaths is about 0.00063%.

    Statistics on reported road casualties in Great Britain for the year ending June 2018 show there were: 1,770 reported road deaths.

    This suggests that the death rate for road fatalities in this period was about 0.00264%.

    If the fear porn merchants are to be believed and the figure for deaths from coronavirus are at present rising “exponentially”, would this suggest that the British economy should have been wrecked by the political class in 2018 to ensure a lower total of road fatalities that year?

  2075. Noa @ March 25th, 2020 – 07:58

    Posting from Baron on this got administered out, Noa, all it said was that the link was spot on, and that Baron’s missed it until few minutes before the posting. Strange that.

  2078. Baron – 08:51

    A bit chilly this morning, I see.

    Open Borders – Globalist’s Plan A.

    Closed Borders – Globalist’s Plan B.
    Same endgame, arguably quicker results!

  2079. EC @ March 25th, 2020 – 10:45

    Another golden find, EC? That’s a fantastic table, it’s live, too, the poorly educated Slav loves figures even if they are moving fast.

    You know what strikes him most? That the two top countries are close to (not there yet but give them time) accounting for half of the world population. Is it good or bad, who knows, but if numbers matter we should pay attention to it.

  2081. You may be getting bored with it, Baron got kicked for promoting it, but why cannot we be told to wear masks?

    What’s the aim of the fight against the bastard virus? It’s to stop or at least reduce its spreading, effecting more and more of us, right? It can only be done if we tackle the source of it, the carriers of the bug, the infected human beings, these are the spreaders, their wearing masks would stop not all but most of the virus particles attached not just to small water droplets when they cough or sneeze, but also when they breathe out.

    Those not infected with the virus yet in contact with the virus carriers should wear the masks also, the masks would stop some if not all the virus particles that the carriers’ masks let through. It’s win, win solution.

    Can anyone suggest why we are set against the mask wearing?

    Look at Japan in the WHO table – over 1,000 infected, 43 deaths only – they decided to go for cluster isolation, the people wear masks (they have always worn masks when infected with other viruses, too), and it seems to be working for them without the economy getting wrecked.

  2084. “We believe the organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, like China’s Xi Jinping, should be held accountable for recklessly managing this deadly pandemic. Tedros apparently turned a blind eye to what happened in Wuhan and the rest of China and, after meeting with Xi in January, has helped China to play down the severity, prevalence and scope of the COVID-19 outbreak.” (The Hill)

    Tedros was probably distracted by his work on the face masks table.

  2085. “Tedros was elected to his position with the WHO in 2017, despite the fact that he was not trained as a medical doctor and had no global health management experience. A former minister of health and minister of foreign affairs for Ethiopia, Tedros is an executive member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) political party, which came to power through a struggle in 1991 and has been listed as a perpetrator in the Global Terrorism Database. After he became the WHO’s chief, critics questioned Tedros’s attempt to appoint then-Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador. ” (Ibid.)

  2090. Re: above: The whole video is worth a listen, but there’s a most amusing roundup of chinese Fake News from @13:20.

    Oh No! It’s the {{{Russians}}} again, Baron 😉

  2093. EC @ March 26th, 2020 – 11:51

    Thanks for posting this video, EC, it’s instructive in one sense, it shows that one ought to be careful what one watches, the guy appears to talk sense yet his conclusions are lacking it.

    The reason for the dropping mobile subscriptions could be explained easily by the fact that when people are locked up, they cannot visit a local mobile branch, shop a round, touch the gadget, basically find out which one they prefer. They can see the mobiles on the internet, but that’s not the same, is it. You may find the explanation not that satisfactory, it seems logical to Baron. We still like shopping for gadget or fashion in particular, the internet visuals are not what satisfies people fully.

    Somewhere towards the end of the video the young man says that he’s surprised that the dictatorship in China that’s supposed to look after the people so comprehensibly allows some of the sites (the maketourownnews, fake certificates and such), doesn’t take them down bla, bla. Perhaps the dictatorship isn’t that dictatorial? The other young man called Rich (Baron posted his video few days ago) seemed like more balanced, making more sense, not trying to explain every fart through the prism of ‘China’s a dictatorship’ doesn’t do, one ought to try other explanations because they exist.

  2094. We’re all different, the Chinese are hoarding rice, the Mexicans beans, the Russian vodka and British toilet paper.

  2098. Earth Calling Herringswell – 05:27

    In addition to those rose tinted spectacles to you appear to have donned a pair of headphones that stops you hearing properly. Next thing we know you’ll be getting that Arafat tea towel, complete with brain retarder, out of your bottom drawer.

    Some points:

    1. laowhy86 only publicised that November Wuhan Bat Cave job advert as an experiment – to see how long it took for “them” to take it down. He made no claims about that advert. Retrospectively that ad did appear to be “bad optics” though, as they say in the modern parlance.

    2. He drew no hard and fast conclusions about the cellphones, he was just presenting the data.

    3. He didn’t say what you said he said about that laughable Fake News site. What he said was that the CCP was willing to tolerate anything as long as it supported whatever narrative they wanted to promote.

    The guy’s name is Matthew Tye whose YouTube channel is laowhy86. He also known as “C-Milk” on the channel Advchina which is where he and his motorbiking buddy Winston Sterzel (serpentza) record their journeys on two wheels around China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and other points to the east of Little Snoring, close to where you are domiciled. (Wait! Yeah, I do know LS is really in Norkfolk.)

    I first came across these two guys due to my interest in motorbikes, and enduro rides.

    Both these guys have lived and worked in China for 15+ years, married to Chinese wives, have children, and have owned property there. (Thankfully both sold their apartments before they completely fell apart) Both families were, more or less, forced to leave due to to the rise in Chinese nationalism, anti-foreigner sentiment, and increasing restrictions in the last couple of years.

    Neither Matthew or Winston are anti Chinese people, why would they be, quite the opposite. They have been more vocal about the CCP in the last year as Xi has stoked the fires of nationalism, increased anti foreigner sentiment, tightened his grip on society, strangling any progress toward a freer society made in the last 20 years.

    All Matthew and Winston are trying to do is share their experience and perspective. When they were in China, as foreigners married to Chinese women, they were forbidden to work after they got married. They did set up a custom motorcycle business but it was shut down when the CCP banned all motorcycles in their region. Posting to Youtube (via VPNs) was their only chance at making a few pesos. Google has recently demonetised all their video to appease the CCP

    While you were “gently hebetating” on your fat pension in Steeple Bumstead, Matthew and Winston were out on their bikes roughing it: Filming: 1. Conquering Northern China; 2. Conquering Southern China. Two epic journeys. Well worth a look – on Vimeo, maybe Youtube and DVD.

    I don’t know who TF this “Rich” bloke is that you are on about, but what are his claims to knowledge of Chinese society or the CCP? Can he speak, read, write Mandarin?
    Please post the link again. While you’re at it, perhaps you would be kind enough to give us a complete list of Baron ‘authorised’ sources so we don’t get led astray, devoid as the rest of us are of any critical faculties. We’ll take Radio Tass, and The Howling Moon Of Alabama as read.

    NB. Vulture’s Law may be applied.

    Apart from that… Have A Nice Day. 😉 😉

  2099. The Czechs are holding a press conference about now, they’ve treated a covid-19 infested patient in critical condition with Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug being developed in the US, not yet approved, as a result were able to disconnect the patient from a ECMO machine (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation) (a piece of gear similar to the heart-lung bypass machine used for open heart surgery, they have 75 of such units, 34 covid-19 patients in critical conditions, 9 deaths).

    The surgeon in charges is warning that the result should be taken as a sign that a drug capable of destroying the virus is about to ht the market. Nevertheless, it’s a piece of encouraging news.

  2101. EC @ March 27th, 2020 – 12:13

    Sweet baby Jesus, if you sit up there, please calm EC down, it would be a loss if he were to join you, contemplate life on earth from out of heart.

    What has caused this outpouring? Surely not the musings of the poorly educate Slav. Where the hell did he say only what he says one could watch? In fact, Baron thanked you for posting it.

    You are sadly critical of the 05:27 posting but most of the the guy’s talking is about the drop in the sale of mobiles, correct? He insult ‘stating the facts’ as there’s only one fact i.e. a noticeable decrease in the sale of mobile phones, he also is speculating, together with his farther in law (? Baron forgets who else) possibly others when the answer may indeed be what Baron suggests, no?

    Baron very much regrets if the posting upset you, it wasn’t intentional at all, in fact the posting hardly differs what the usual Baron’s yappings, and yes the chap Rich, it’s Nathan Rich, does speak Mandarin and can read it, too. You can find him one-tube under Nathan Rich.

  2102. It should read ‘out of the orbit of earth’, EC, it’s the software, please do trust Baron, it’s not him.

    He doesn’t stop at ‘stating …”

  2104. Baron – 13:06

    Ah, THAT “Nathan Rich!” I’ve seen him before. Putting his hairdo to one side for a moment …

    I presume that he’s a paid mouthpiece for the CCP as he does hit jobs to order on the people/organisations the CCP don’t like anymore, or topics that the CCP want covered. In the hierarchy of the 50 cent Wu Mao army he sits right at the $$$apex of the pyramid. His BS has been debunked more times than… [insert you own disparaging analogy here]. A proven BS artist or, at best, charitably, only ever a half-truth merchant, imo.

    Of course you may consider him to be the wisest sage since Confucius, and that’s all good, but given an alternative I’d rather listen to loop tape of Owen Jones reading his entire published works.

    PS. I woke up in a REALLY BAD FOUL mood today…
    but I think I may have got away with it…
    🙂

  2107. RIDDLE ME THIS, as the Americans say:

    “As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK”. (www.uk.gov)

    March 23rd “Boris Johnson orders UK lockdown to be enforced by police” (The Guardian)

    CONCLUSION: The British are being royally screwed. Enough of these people!

  2110. Malfleur @ March 27th, 2020 – 21:49

    Who has done the thinking for the bad guys intending to release the virus in the Republic? By mistake they let it off in China? Arghhh, by mistake, they were hoping to ruin the economy, then take over the ruins? Arghhh, by mistake they tested it in the outskirts of London because the security services were on alert after the Skripals fiasco? Arghhh

    Twenty minutes of wasted time, young sir, why are you so obsessed with conspiracies when not a single one has yet was proven right?

  2111. Malfleur @ March 27th, 2020 – 20:36

    Apart from having a lot of money, Malfleur, what else does this guy have to tell us how long should the lockdown last?

  2112. EC @ March 27th, 2020 – 15:04

    How Baron came across Nathan he forgot, EC, the one thing Baron liked was the argument that each country is different, as far as he can remember Nathan’s explanation of the Chinese Facebook ban was rather laboured, Baron has forgotten what he actually argued. That was it, the guy is not on the list of subscribed sites.

  2113. Noa @ March 27th, 2020 – 13:43

    Melanie’s fine, Noa, but she knows about it a much as you or Baron. On one issue she is wrong, the doctor in question was not prosecuted, he was warned not to spread fake news, in his posting to a chat group on the last day in December he said that another wave of SARS has appeared, that was wrong, i.e. fake news, it was conoid-19.

  2115. Baron – 11:49

    Thanks. That was a treasure trove of photos, ancient and modern!

    That Dmitri Peskov is one super cool dude. He’s kept that incredibly demanding job with Vlad for nearly eight years now. Not put a foot wrong That must be some kind of record!

    I was particularly taken by the chick with the nice arse photographed in Red Square – it was in the section “For those who want to relocate to Russia.”

    Q. Is there anywhere in Russia that stays warm all year round?
    RQ. I don’t expect they’re taking fiscally challenged Brit pensioners with underlying health issues…

    Whatever happened to those stalwart Russian citizens Gerrard Depardieu, or Steven Segal? Don’t hear much of them these days…

    I cannot stand another winter here.
    When all the fuss and bother is over I’m offski !
    To Australia, where I can still get in.

  2116. Baron – 12:22

    Here’s Bill Gates talking about the CURRENT epidemic back in 2015.
    Prescient, or what!

    “The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

    only 8min36sec

    Just goes to show that you might be one of the richest men in the world, but that you cannot cure the deafness of politicians!

  2117. “Who has done the thinking for the bad guys intending to release the virus in the Republic?”

    Baron answered.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Zo7Zgl2Pc

    Fortunate;y, as the uneducated Slav has advised, no conspracy has ever been proved..

    ‘The weight of this sad time we must obey;
    Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.’

  2118. According to the BBC News at about 4:30pm the C-19 bodycount clocked up it’s 1000th victim. Is every death from any strain of ‘flu now being recorded as a C-19 death, or are they differentiating?

    Take a look at the pre-C19 “normal” figures below given by Public Health England.
    WTF! So why all the hysteria?

    From the vaults: 06/02/2020

    Public Health England told ITV News: “The number of flu cases and deaths due to flu-related complications varies each flu season.

    “The average number of deaths in England for the last five seasons, 2014/15 to 2018/19, was 17,000 deaths annually.

    “This ranged from 1,692 deaths last season, 2018/19, to 28,330 deaths in 2014/15.”

    Since October, more than 4,000 people with confirmed flu have been admitted to hospitals in England with at least 70 deaths.

    https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-06/how-does-the-wuhan-coronavirus-compare-to-seasonal-flu/

  2120. 3907
    Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: fead75 No.8601061
    Mar 28 2020 14:21:09 (EST) NEW
    The entire world is watching.
    Patriots from around the world are praying for AMERICA.
    We are all bound by a feeling deep inside, a feeling that cannot be publicly expressed for fear of ridicule, a feeling that challenges the mainstream (narrative), against that which we are told to accept and dare not question, put simply, that people are being abused by those in power and time is running out.
    Remember the battles of Lexington and Concord – “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”
    For far too long we have been silent and allowed our bands of strength, that we once formed to defend FREEDOM and LIBERTY, to deteriorate.
    We became divided.
    We became weak.
    We elected TRAITORS to govern us.
    We allowed EVIL to prey on us.
    Those who claimed to represent us gave us false hope, made false promises.
    The evil and corruption only grew.
    ——————————
    This is more than party politics.
    This is about restoring OLD GLORY.
    This is about saving our land and our people from those who wish us harm.
    This is about preserving our REPUBLIC.
    This is about preserving our SAFETY.
    This is about restoring our STRENGTH.
    This is about LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
    This is about PROTECTING our children.
    THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA.
    We are all God’s children.
    We are, FATHERS.
    We are, MOTHERS.
    We are, DAUGHTERS.
    We are, SONS.
    We are, BROTHERS.
    We are, SISTERS.
    We do not look at race.
    We do not look at skin color.
    We are UNITED in these STATES OF AMERICA.
    We are, and will always be, PATRIOTS.
    WE MUST RISE AGAIN.
    WE MUST UNITE AGAIN.
    WE MUST FIGHT AGAIN.
    FOR GOD & COUNTRY.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA.
    WWG1WGA!!!
    Q

    https://qanon.pub/

  2121. President Trump has just called up one million reservists …to fight the virus… Or the Deep State?

  2122. EC @ March 28th, 2020 – 18:38

    An excellent point, EC:

    28,330

    That’s the number to keep in mind, it’s the death toll in the 2014-15 flu season (as you say) that nobody much noticed, there wasn’t a lockdown. For covid-19 to equal this number, it will have to cut the lives of 27,311 of us (28,330 less 1019, March 28). Hopefully, the lockdown will ensure it doesn’t.

    The news today said the target number of death for covid-19 is 20,000, considerably fewer than the 28,330 for the last big flu epidemic. Baron reckons even that may be an overestimate, but we shall see.

  2123. Malfleur @ March 28th, 2020 – 21:07

    No, Malfleur, no conspiracy here, in fact, what is surprising is the reaction to the lockdown here and Russia, in Britain nobody raised any objection to it, not a word of disagreement in the MSM, or celebrities.

    In Russia, some companies and individuals are considering a court action arguing the advice to close down production is illegal. The courts aren’t expected to pick up a fight with Putin, or so the narrative says, but one never knows, during the recent demonstrations in Moscow (against the changes in the Russian Constitution) over half of those arrested by the police were released after court appearances, and at least in two cases it was the police that found itself in the dock.

  2124. Malfleur @ March 28th, 2020 – 15:29

    Who has over an hour to watch a cartoon, Malfleur? Is there a summary of the fairy tale? (only joking just in case you decide to administer a kick, again).

  2125. EC @ March 28th, 2020 – 13:04

    If Baron were younger, EC, he would be off, too, either to Queensland (Port Douglas?) or New Zealand (Dunedin?).

  2127. Baron
    Don’t you discern even a tiny bit of cognitive dissonance between the two following sentences?:

    1. “As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK”. (www.uk.gov)

    2. March 23rd “Boris Johnson orders UK lockdown to be enforced by police” (The Guardian)

    The people need to oppose authoritarianism and reassert English liberty.

  2128. Baron
    March 29th, 2020 – 00:42

    Who has the time to read 400 pages of “War and Peace”?

    By the way, this is not a cartoon to be watched; it is informed talk to be listened to.

    *****

    No, about your moles….

  2129. This is a posting from the Conservative Woman, it appears here because the same happened to Baron, even though he got a flu jab he exhibited the same symptoms as this guy Ravenscar:

    “[…] Argentinian virologist and biochemist Pablo Goldschmidt explains that Covid-19 is no more dangerous than a bad cold or the flu. It is even possible, he suggests, that it has already circulated in earlier years, but wasn’t discovered because no one was looking for it.[/quote]

    At the beginning of 2019, I had a pretty bad cold, I felt weak and runny nose etc. However, what was really rather worrying, for some 14 (?) afterwards my breathing was not great and shall we say shallow. To wit, taking anti inflammatory aspirin in small 75 ml but regular dosage over a period of some days, greatly relieved my ‘bunged up’ lungs and the condition passed as I improved and I commenced some very gently walks. I have experienced nothing like it, except once, as a child on holiday I contracted a form of flu which left my hols in tatters and a young kid short of breath and thus, unable to enjoy the beach and swimming – double whammy.

    ?Reading the above quote from biochemist Pablo Goldschmidt , made me ponder, did I catch a dose of Covid-19 over Christmas 2018-19?”

    https://conservativewoman.co.uk/the-great-ventilators-myth/?utm_source=TCW+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=5585888c76-Mailchimp+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a63cca1cc5-5585888c76-559867893

  2130. Malfleur @ March 29th, 2020 – 05:31

    One of your wittiest postings to Baron, Malfleur, he wa sonly joking, of course it isn’t a cartoon.

    Btw, there is a difference between War and Peace and the posting with the video you referred to, there only is one of the former, you keep furnishing us with a heap of postings with videos requiring watching over the length of days if not weeks, heh, heh.

  2131. Malfleur @ March 29th, 2020 – 05:31

    Of course, he does, Malfleur.

    The downgrading came about because the authorities discovered the new pathogen kills overwhelmingly the old, a category of people who contribute zilch to wealth creation, rather make claims upon it. If all those over the working age drop dead so much the better.

    The lockdown has to continue, imagine what would happen if BoJo said ‘look, we got it wrong, the virus is actually not that different to the common variety of the garden flu’. If he were to say this, people would call for the cumryd to replace him quick, no?

  2132. Malfleur @ March 29th, 2020 – 05:11o buy milk,

    That was before, Malfleur, it’s beginning to be observed better, now. Baron had to go buy milk yesterday, the streets were almost completely empty, few cars, virtually no walkers. The British listen, the police use drones to ensure they do.

  2134. EC @ March 29th, 2020 – 10:35

    You mustn’t do it to the poorly educated Slav, EC, it took him close to half an hour to figure it out, he was just about to give up, ask you for a hint when the decaying brain cells of his finally kicked into gear. A goodie that.

    Here’s a different one, it’s from Bill Bryson’s book about Australia, from memory, Bryson relates it much better.

    A very young girl of about six is helping a bunch of builders, they are happy to have her around, decide to put her on a payroll, each week when they get paid she also gets few dollars, she saves them to open a bank account to be just like the men.

    In the bank, accompanied by her proud parents, she tells the clerk about how she earned the money, the clark congratulates her, says ‘are you going to help next week?’. ‘Of course, I will’, says the little girl, ‘if the fucking bricks arrive’.

  2136. Baron. I assume you meant 5:24.

    Like the leaders of so many countries (including the one I am living in), Boris took the decision in the spirit of the anonymous US major in 1968 with regard to Ben Tre in Vietnam and whose words can be paraphrased thus:

    “It became necessary to destroy Britain’s economy to save it.”

  2138. Malfleur @ March 29th, 2020 – 23:34

    Why do we call it social distancing, Malfleur, one would have thought it’s physical distancing that’s needed to cut the virus capacity for infection, the social aspect of our lives should if anything be enhanced or many of the alone living older people will suffer, no?

    What is it Baron would have to do with or to the girl if he had one?

  2140. … and before anybody feels compelled to point out that a lot of the flights listed above are cancelled, there’s still a lot of live flights incoming from Bat flu hotspots.

  2142. Baron
    March 30th, 2020 – 08:52

    You don’t want to know, Baron.

    Any time away from your moles would be better spent absorbing my previous post (09:48).

  2144. Wales: Where Boyos are fined less…

    Coronavirus: Officers to patrol parks, beaches and forests

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52066605

    What are the fines in Wales

    * People who breach the new rules risk a £60 fine.
    * A fixed penalty notice for a first offence falls to £30 if paid within 14 days.
    * Fines rise to £120 for second and subsequent offences – and individuals ignoring the
    rules could risk arrest if they refuse to comply.
    * Although fines in England could reach as high as £960, that will not happen in
    Wales

  2146. Malfleur – 12:14

    The totem that towers over all of the UK’s “here today, gone tomorrow” political leaders is the NHS. So “Save The NHS” has become the mandatory slogan that is uttered by all.

    Doesn’t have much if ring to it, but it in political terms it’s bullet proof.

  2147. You should have been on the Spectator site, a piece on China, the new or perhaps additional evil to that of Russia is about to take over the word, possibly has taken over whatever will remain of the world, and the mauling Baron got for posting the stuff below, which both Noa and EC will also fail to applaud.

    It may feel Baron’s on the side of the Chinese communist party, far from it, as he points out he was imprisoned by a regime similar to what rules China today but (a) it’s none of our business to tell the Mandarin speakers how to arrange their society, (b) even when Britain was at the peak of its power those in charge never changed the traditional governing structures in the countries they controled (unless absolutely necessary) e.g India, and (c) we need China whether we like it or not.

    In the long term, we should do everything possible to weed ourselves out of the dependance on the country, but in short term-medium term, for pragmatic reasons, we should stay on friendly terms, for our benefits.

    “This narrative stinks.

    Not even the Chinese underground internet blogs claim that the Chinese leadership was trying to hide the pathogen, nobody was imprisoned, dr. Li was warned by the police not to spread rumours (it was his posting on a blog saying it’s another wave of SARS, he was wrong, it was convid-19), not only test kits from China are faulty, other brands also have high rate of failure, the two EU giants, Germany and France offered to help Italy only after China (and Russia) most likely to save face, the accusations by the Chinese that the US’s responsible is as wrong as is the US accusation China is the source, so far the source hasn’t been established.

    China bears a lot of the blame for the panicky response caused by the pandemic, but barking at the country, calling it an arch villain, accusing it wrongly of unproven crimes won’t help to mend the massive economic damage the response to the pathogen engendered. We need just the opposite, a thorough investigation into the origin of the pathogen, the development of a vaccine, and a calm and mutually beneficial restart of the world economy”.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/beware-china-s-masked-diplomacy

  2148. When the UK is finally out of the EU, properly and for good, the government will be free to place contracts for orders of strategic goods with the condition that they are manufactured within the UK.

    There are many Corona viruses. Corona-19 is just one of them. The test kits supplied to date, faulty or not, are generic tests and therefore useless. They are NOT C-19 specific.

    In the meantime please follow all government advice…

    https://snipboard.io/nzkNQ5.jpg

  2149. Baron – 23:26

    You break the lore (sic) of the land at your peril!

    The black death, 1665, came out of China, as did many other instances of plague. No doubt little kids are still holding hands and singing “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” in the school yard today, as they did when I were a little nipper in the 1950s.
    “… all fall down.”

    Folklore like this tends to get passed on from generation to generation bypassing the conscious attention of teachers, parents and even older children.

    So, cheer up old old bean and sing along with a new variation on a familiar theme.
    [arr. Trad]

    All together now…
    https://snipboard.io/amMTnX.jpg

  2151. EC 11.33
    85 is the top IQ in the top 10 African countries. You can see why they’re all heading for Europe. To thick to work there, but clever enough to sign on here.
    Why couldn’t we design, build and support Concord any more?
    Because we’re too damn stupid. And getting even more stupid every generation. One of Delingpoles pods has an interview with the authors. Well worth an hour of your time, if you enjoy the prospect of the forthcoming Idiocracy.
    https://g.co/kgs/bjb4WL

  2152. Baron
    Mi’lud. You may never find the smoking gun which you seek to prove Covid-19 was definitely and unarguably the product of a bat with PRC stamped on its bottom.
    But you might just enjoy this piece of cicumstancial case building with your FooYong and Flied lice tonight! Delivered to your door by one of the 100s of thousands of Chinese students back from their holidays!
    Gong see fa chi! If memory serves.. but Malfleur can correct me!
    https://www.takimag.com/article/speak-the-truth-shame-the-chinese/

  2153. “IT’S JUST THE FLU”

    (New York National Guard to James O’Keefe of Project Veritas)

    In the first encounter, O’Keefe asked, “What about the situation itself. Is it as bad as–the media is saying? The whole pandemic?”

    “Oh no. It’s just, it’s the flu!” he responded.

    “So, it’s not as bad as the media’s saying?” O’Keefe reiterated.

    “No. I’m in the tents with them. I’m doing all this shit and I’m not getting sick, I’m good,” the National Guardsman answered.

    O’Keefe also asked a medical professional at the testing site if the media is accurately reporting on the situation.

    “Is it as bad as people are saying?” he asked.

    “No,” the medical worker replied, waving his hands back and forth and adding, “We just wanna be precautious.”

    O’Keefe did emphasize that these were not his words, but the words of a New York National Guardsman, who was presumably briefed on the situation by his chain of command.

    https://www.infowars.com/project-veritas-video-national-guard-at-covid-19-test-site-say-its-the-flu/

  2154. HOW TO FIGHT THE CORONA VIRUS SHILLS

    “Let’s frighten the dragons,” I said to Pooh
    “That’s right,” said Pooh to Me
    “I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh
    And I held his paw and I shouted, “Shoo!
    Silly old dragons!” – and off they flew.
    “I wasn’t afraid,” said Pooh, said he
    “I’m never afraid with you.”
    ~A.A.Milne #BeBrave

  2158. Here’s a preamble, you must take it as it’s meant, Baron is not a Chinese bot, he isn’t defending anything China did or didn’t do, and he certainly isn’t a fan of China’s communist leadership, if fact he cannot be farther from the fan category even if he were to move beyond the furthest planet in the Universe.

    Understood?

    Read the Moon of A short piece, also scan the postings, he attracts higher quality of readers than most other blogs of this sort, the one mistake he makes is he uses the actual level of deaths, what Baron prefers (always looks at on the WHO table) is the number of deaths per 1mn or 100k or whatever, that’s much better indication of the spread of the virus than actual units.

    Then listen to Nathan (for EC: this is what Baron gets from a friend, Baron doesn’t post each video, he doesn’t watch each video himself either, this one is an exception because it talks about NYT, the paper the Great Mark also criticises).

    Neither video offers new evidence, the posting isn’t intended to convince you, but you cannot deny the facts in either links. You may still hold to your view China is the great evil (it was reported there first),, that’s fine with Baron, btw he is leaning towards the same slicing himself.

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/03/us-virus-cases-are-off-the-scale-but-its-people-can-create-a-movement-from-it.html#more

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-19Q1tyhhw

  2159. Malfleur @ March 31st, 2020 – 23:03

    He will get the guys into trouble for this video, Malfleur, and it’s just their perception, nothing more.

    What pleasantly surprises is they have organised the testing so fast, well done.

  2160. Noa @ March 31st, 2020 – 20:19

    Next time, this know it all guy pens something that happened in 2021 he should perhaps refer to sources beyond 2007, no?

    This is not to say he is wrong, merely that his argument si based on the simplest formula ‘China’s bad’, that won’t do for Baron, he likes facts.

    Btw, the picture of a woman eating a bat soup was not taken in China, the woman wasn’t;t Chinese.

  2162. Few more points on the source of the virus:

    You recall David Attenborough muddling though bats’ excrements? Our using the stuff as fertiliser? From experience, it one feeds chicken with corn, the flesh turns yellowish, go buy one to confirm. Also, the guy Baron buys eggs from feeds his hens processed fish granules, the eggs smell distinctly of fish. Could not not be that some of the amin-acids that make up bats’s poo proteins find their way into the plants the animal or we consume?

    Would it surprise you to know Baron knows someone who eats road kills, wild rabbits, deer, pheasants but also badgers, here in the UK. The former two-three species could be OK, but badgers? Does that present a danger what with badgers allegedly transmitting TB to cattle (possibly infecting milk).

    This in no way exonerates the Chinese if it’s discovered they or rather their habits are to blame, punishment, the harshest punishment will be in order, but not before, one is innocent until proven guilty should apply even to China.

  2163. I’m getting a bit tired of an interminable debate about the origins of China virus, variously supported with arguments provided by some of the most insane, verbose and most important, humourless lunatics on the planet.
    In future I shall avoid discussion on the matter until we can all read and accept the Chinese government’s investigation of its origins and causes and their complete exornation of themselves.

  2164. “Would it surprise you to know Baron knows someone who eats road kills, wild rabbits, deer, pheasants but also badgers, here in the UK. The former two-three species could be OK, but badgers? Does that present a danger what with badgers allegedly transmitting TB to cattle (possibly infecting milk).”

    Is this the guy that keeps slipping you the Nathan Rich videos? 🙂
    I forced myself to watch it. He works for the CCP.
    He doesn’t look at all well.

    Your NYT argument is a false syllogism, btw. Also it’s blasphemy! 😉
    You need to change your egg supplier!

    Now, I’ve got a busy schedule with the Owen Jones audio books today. Starting with “Alternative Energy” his 2014 fart fuelled meisterwerk. Sadly, his latest tome on societal change “The Alternative” has had its publishing date delayed until 2021. This is a great pity since I was keen on finding out how communism should be done properly.

  2165. For a couple of weeks now I’ve being asking “Why Northern Italy?”

    Last night Paul Joseph Watson supplied the answer to that question, and also sets out the timeline as to why NYC/NJ and SanFran are also bat flu hotspots!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslBRY9B-n4

    Better watch it quick before YouTube/Google take it down!

  2169. Noa @ April 1st, 2020 – 11:17

    A strange position to take, Noa.

    If only Baron could locate it, it was either at a conference, or perhaps a scientific paper saying that it’s imperative the source of an infection is found, without it the scientists may advice a wrong cause of action. If Baron finds it he will post it.

  2170. EC @ April 1st, 2020 – 11:21

    No, EC a different guy.

    Changing egg supplier is not on, aBron used to buy eggs from the father of the guy when he was alive, it’s impossible to stop, now.

  2172. Malfleur 12.13

    “Bears repeating…”

    So, its back to eating multi species road kill again and the untoward consequences thereof. :-))

  2173. This is Tucker Carlson, one of Baron’s favourites, what he says will please Noa, EC and Malfleur, enjoy him, boys.

    The only point Baron would make is this: Why would an Australian woman be right and everyone else, like Nathan, the CCP member, wrong?

    Baron has said it before, the virus was not detected because nobody was looking for it. This seems unbelievable, but it also applies to the Italian doctor (reported in the swiss doctor blog) who says he spotted some weird cases of pneumonia as early as September (it may be these were cases of the Chinese workers the great Joseph is talking about), he didn’t report it, the Italian health service didn’t respond to it because, as Baron keeps saying, nobody tested for the new pathogen.

    China is full of underground blogging groups, they exist because official Internet is either controlled, or some sites are banned outright. Not one of those underground sites reported anything about the authorities trying to suppress the news.

    The disappeared doctor is a new for Baron, but why nobody talked about the suppression before the virus got to the West? It smells of the same ‘conspiracy’ as that of the Russian interference in the US election. Nobody, not one of the 17 US spook agencies spotted it until the Clinton woman lost the election, only then it got going.

    Similarly here, nobody accused the Chinese Government of keeping a lid on the new pathogen until the West, totally unprepared, got hit (the great Joseph shows the US officials, our Khan encouraging people to congregate freely), needed an excuse for the lack of stuff to combat it. One is told passengers from planes still landing at Heathrow are not checked, pass freely through customs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1a4Pq5GQBc

  2174. Baron 12.39
    Arghhh!
    Please! Spare me from any more quasi scientific polemics of the where did it come from variety.
    The immediate and important questions are:
    What is the best course of action to mitigate and cure this plague?
    When can resume our normal lives and liberties?
    How do we prevent similar future recurrences?
    At the moment we have adequate working hypotheses for the subsidiary issues of both where and who started it.

  2180. Malfleur @ April 1st, 2020 – 23:58

    Asking for the report to be be pulled was stupid, Malfleur, but making the report was stupider, it could have and probably did get the guardsman into trouble, more to the point, what could a man from the street offer other than his own take on the overdose response to the virus.

    If Baron was James, he wouldn’t have made the report, or rather he would do one with someone higher up to find out if ether is a sufficient number of test kits.

  2181. The news is about the shortage of test kits, only some 2,000 NHS front line staff got tested (out of half a million), BoJo is saying we’re massively boosting the numbers we test.

    One has the impression our response to the virus is not driven by what’s the best, most effective, positive-results yielding measures, but by policies made on the basis of what’s available from the tool box needed to beat the nasty bug.

    We didn’t take temperature measurements at the arrivals at ports of entry because we don’t have infra-red non contact thermometers, we don’t wear masks because we don’t have them, we test only few people because of test kit shortages, and it appears the lack of ventilators is not helping much to keep the sick alive.

  2182. Baron, you keep asking about who/where the bat flu Patient Zero was. A seemingly impossible question to answer, but WHERE IS Dr. Huang Yan Ling, exactly?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU

    Not exactly the smoking gun that is required to urn your acceptance, BUT it shouldn’t be beyond the powers of the CCP to stick Huang Yan Ling up in front of a press conference, should it???

    [Maybe they didn’t label the urn.]

  2187. Q Intel UNDERGROUND NETWORK OPERATIONS CIV/MIL/INT TUNNEL NETWORKS
    •Apr 2, 2020

    With all this time on my hands under the current house arrest, I came across the following and had “my mind blown” (as we used to say). Comments please – did I go crazy or is this for real?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cUsNTr4Yw

  2189. EC @ April 2nd, 2020 – 11:25

    Who is Dr. Huang Yan Ling, exactly, EC? Give the poorly edu Slav a source, please.

  2191. Noa @ April 2nd, 2020 – 12:16

    Impossible to reply earlier, Noa, someone is making sure Baron’s connection to the outside world gets interrupted.

    Sorry not to disappoint you, this is crap what the guy’s penned, the reason so much is sourced from China is simple, the Chinese operative still earns per week what the American counterpart earns in a day (that’s a guess, probably in favour of the Chinese).

    This coupled with the containerisation of the marine shipping (takes long, but deadly cheap) are too compelling reasons the Americans and other Western manufacturers went offshore to the low labour cost countries.

    That’s it, that’s the explanation the growth in China and other Far Eastern (post-Soviet east Europe). One can like it or not, but unless that imbalance is eradicated (either way) everyone, and particularly a company that has a high labour input, will make the stuff in China+.

    Baron’s lips are chipped, he’s said it so often in the past. The guy’s saying people will flock to buy Amazon items with a sticker ‘Made in the US’ is as wrong as he can be, if that were the case Amazon would already be overflowing with such items.

    Our way out is to innovate, go for labour replacing gadgets and stuff, make things in small quantities but with highly desirable features ….

    (That’s it, you and the rest of you could engage in breast beating onanism as much as you like, Baron’s abstaining).

  2192. Malfleur @ April 2nd, 2020 – 12:09

    Here’s Baron’s offering to barter, Malfleur, not only because the doctor has a massively higher number of views, but because he has a massage based on statistics, one may argue with the figures, (Baron would, the statistics for covid-19 are but a fraction for what we have on flu, it needs time to get a sufficient databank to figure which is worse), but his point is worth remembering.

    https://youtu.be/0ts8X3HDtPE

  2193. Apologies for the what? Errors, of course, omissions plus, Baron has a big job clearing a fallen tree, the fugging winds did it, cannot blog too lon g.

  2194. Baron, April 2nd, 2020 – 13:37

    “EC @ April 2nd, 2020 – 11:25
    Who is Dr. Huang Yan Ling, exactly, EC? Give the poorly edu Slav a source, please.”

    Baron, watch the fucking link that I put up at 11:25 this morning!

    Here it is again:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU

    Sigh! I really don’t know why I bother.

  2195. EC @ April 2nd, 2020 – 15:48

    Language, language, EC.

    It may be just Baron but when he clicked on your link he got a guy telling him not to go to Alibaba but to click on his link, he can arrange a drug supplier better ….

    It wasn’t what you said it was hence his posting asking you for the source. If you think it’s Baron’s fault he should have listened for the end of the commercial then you’re right to raise your voice, but how was Baron to know it’s not the commercial, it was related to China and medicine.

  2196. There’s a box saying “Skip Ad”
    Click on that! Hey Presto! Then there’s no need to watch the Ad.

    I really cannot believe you’ve not seen feature before on YouTube videos before.
    I think that you are taking the piss.

    As for the language it must be something to do with the Chinese Govt. approved Bear Bile tablets I had yesterday.

  2197. Baron 14.29

    Free trade is great for those able to take advantage of it Baron, like the British, American and now Chinese Empires.
    When one looses market domination one looses power, control and wealth very quickly.
    The only solution is to rebuild, whether before or after bankruptcy, through the establishment of protective tariff walls, tight monetary and border controls.
    Short, perhaps even medium term pain for long term gain.

  2198. Unbelievable as it may sound, EC, and no pi$$ taken, Baron thought the guy was it, he said he lived in China, had Chinese wife, talked about drugs in China, somehow the expectation was he will mention the doctor, he didn’t, Baron switched him off, assumed you posted the wrong clip.

    Almost always Baron gets a bunch of young people yapping about a software everyone needs, this was different, if it were the same Baron would cut it off, it’s just a coincidence that the subjects were close, hence the misunderstanding, whatever you may think, apologies if it upsets you, Baron seldom misses links from anyone, even Malfleur’s although he moves the cursor forward a lot.

    Sorry, if that sounds like an excuse, it isn;t.

  2199. Noa @ April 2nd, 2020 – 18:46

    Yes, tariffs and non-tariff barriers are indeed also an answer, Noa, except that if a country is a member of GATT and WTO it cannot be done easily.

    Have you asked yourself a question why are the Dems and the US industry and companies backed by the MSM so keen not to upset China even after many people from Tucker to you and EC point a finger firmly in the eastward direction for the new pathogen?

    The answer is again simplicity itself, the West has been saturated, filled with mostly useless gadgets to the brim, very little scope to push consumption further, Baron calls it the ‘short syndrome’, he talked about it before, you may not recall it, why should you.

    How then can the capitalists of the West expand, do more business, make the unwashed living outside the West to buy the same useless trinkets, boost the bottom lines of companies, further enrich the lucky shareholders, or better still non-executive board members often former politicians? By moving to as yet unsaturated markets e.g China.

    The scope for boosting sales in China’s massive, one could salivate for days thinking of the 1.3bn eager souls to surround themselves with gadgets galore.

    And Tucker, Baron’s favourite US pundit cannot figure why, amazing this.

  2200. Baron
    The British chased the chimera that you propose in China in the 1830s, how to resolve the imbalance of payments that was draining the Wests silver reserves in exchange for tea. They hit upon the sale of opium to China and the creation of a mass opium addiction.
    When the Chin Emperor resisted he was subjected to military defeat and the trade reinstated.
    The Chinese have learned their lessons. They haven’t forgotten or forgiven their humiliations by either Britain or the West, hence their looting of the world’s material, intellectual property and industrial capacities.
    Unfortunately victors, forgetting the humiliations they impose on their victims, are ultimately doomed to suffer their fate.

  2201. Baron
    I would add that I spent some time in China, supporting the proposed sale and transfer of British civil aerospace design and manufacturing capability.
    It ultimately failed as they decided that short term it was too expensive and long term, they could do it themselves better.
    And that’s the problem em. There’s not a lot we can offer them. So we have to recapture our own markets, both existing and new, and move on from that protected base.
    Back to that intellectual decline of the West thing again.

  2202. Noa @ April 2nd, 2020 – 19:58

    Not that long ago, Baron was watching a US TV channel PBS on exactly the topic of the opium trade, exactly as you say, but do you truly think that this long-ago-furnished humiliation could be behind the Chinese behaviour? That’s a genuine question.

    Baron’s slicing of the Chinese comportment of the top of the hierarchy of power rests with a more recent humiliation. You must recall the American planes intruding over the territory of China, often quite deep, the Chinese presenting the 345th serious warning, then the 346th…

    Baron reckons this may be the reason for the massive onslaught by the new Chinese generation on the West, the Americans in particular, avenging for the insults and snubs of mote recent pedigree.

    If Baron were of the the conspiratorial phylum like Malfleur he would see the coronavirus pandemic as a joint venture between the non-Donald forces in the Republic i.e mostly the Dems, but also the old core of the GOP, and the MSM poodles these forces cultivate and control, and the leadership of the CCP, the sour guy that runs the Chinese show must hate the Donald as much as the non-Donald US contingent.

    It’s hard to see Trump getting the second term, it would be a miracle if he did secure it what with the economic meltdown near complete when he least needs it.

  2203. Noa @ April 2nd, 2020 – 20:12

    IT was only visits, Baron never resided in China.

    You may still harbour the feeling that Baron is in some way a fan of China, far from it, the culture is old, but doesn’t appeal as much as that of the West, the wild West in particular, give Baron ‘The Seven Spanish Angels’ any time, sung by RC and WN, what a treat.

    When one encounters the Chinese as tourists they are rough, often arrogant, behave as if the world already belongs to them. Unfortunately, one has to make allowances for it, the land of the Mandarin speakers has grown powerful, they have the money, why upset them publicly?

    Whether we can follow what you’re suggesting, build a protective base, refresh the old Commonwealth. Hmmm

  2205. EC @ April 2nd, 2020 – 15:48

    In all the apologies, harsh language, other c-19 postings Baron forgot to tell you he listened to the guy, twice, cannot argue in detail what with not speaking Mandarin, except for two small things.

    (a) He says that a follow up recruitment for jobs in the lab dates from Dec 24 then adds that the news about the virus broke a long time after (or words to that effect). Unless Baron’s memory totally fails the news broke on Dec 31, ie a week after in the famous posting by dr. Li, correct?

    (b) The death of the lab scientist looks convincing, the authorities are covering it up, but one needs more information to conclude what exactly was going on. Proper investigation may not be possible, it’s China, the grip of the authorities on information prevents an official enquiry, but the guy making the video says he speaks Chinese, why doesn’t;t he try to investigate, talk to her parents, colleagues?

  2207. Baron, April 2nd, 2020 – 18:52

    Nope, I didn’t post the wrong link and I triple checked it.
    Had you actually struggled through to @4mins10sec [out of only 10 min video] then you may have actually found out about who Huang Yan Ling was. i.e.the very high probability candidate for Patient Zero who was running the bat research at the Wuhan bat cave. She went missing just after the outbreak of CV-19. Nobody knows where she is. The CCP have put up a notice saying she is alive and well but cannot produce her in person. Strange that.

    Yes it is very annoying when some YouTube videos are interrupted by Ads but all you have to do is persevere by clicking the “skip ad” button when it appears.

  2208. Now I shall give up trying to piss into the wind.
    As the ancient sage once said, “Fuck this for a game of soldiers.”

    Nothing to do with Easter but I will be back, albeit briefly, at the end of the month.
    /out
    click…

  2210. EC @ April 3rd, 2020 – 11:43

    You’ve missed B’s posting from April 3rd, 2020 – 11:27, EC, regardless the direction you may be pi$$ing when the wind blows.

    Enjoy whatever you are up to, stay away from China, and under no circumstances go to Wuhan’s animal market to buy a bat, nasty it may turn, in a soup or just chewed raw, heh, heh, heh.

  2212. Boris used to stroke his Mogg
    Merkel loves a hot Macron
    We’ve all forgotten Michelle Barnier
    Keir Starmer gels with Garnier

  2213. NO-FUDGE REPORT: DEEP STATE NEWS

    According to CDC: 0.2% to 1.8% of All US Deaths Since February are Confirmed or Presumed to be Due to COVID-19 — And They Want to Destroy Economy Over This?

    WHOA! Dr. Fauci in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a “Surprise Global Disease Outbreak”

    Obama Campaign Manager Predicts Trump Will Turn out Supporters at a ‘Historical Level’

    After mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus

    Wrong intelligence. Poor communication. Baseless numbers. At every step of the way. And the United States has been converted into a fear-stricken country in the process. What in the hell is going on here? Where is this math coming from? The White House predicted 240,000 deaths in the United States on or about Easter. So far there are 8,100 as of Saturday. And how many of these deaths are also attributed to other serious pre-existing medical complications? We decipher the flawed models on the Thomas Paine Podcast. And the topic is disturbing yet simple: They ruined the United States based on seriously problematic models and data. Why? And why do many of these people still have jobs?

    Dr. Fauci Now Says, “You Can’t Really Rely Upon Models”

    Soros Invested Heavily in Chinese Biotech Research Company with Facility in Wuhan that Researches Respiratory Models and Infectious Disease

    [True Pundit; Gateway Pundit]

  2214. NO-FUDGE REPORT 2: DEEP STATE NEWS

    ELMHURST HOSPITAL MYSTERY: LONG LINES AND CROWDS ONLY FOR MSM CAMERAS
    Footage shows lack of activity at hospital labeled ‘epicenter’ of NYC crisis (Infowars)

  2215. Dr. Shiva Interviewed on X22 Spotlight – “This Event Was A Coordinated Last Ditch Effort By The [DS], Moves & Countermoves”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwMLMXV6mcU

    I have to say it “This guy Shiva is brilliant”.

    I believe that even Baron will want to watch to the end and will forget his moles for the duration!

  2217. Malfleur @ April 6th, 2020 – 03:23

    For the blue veined barbarian from the East, Malfleur, it was a toss. Is he to spend 90 minutes listening to Peter H and the brilliant dr Shiva or is he to chase moles to full destruction, skinning them gently then baking their poor little bodies in an oven for a mighty feast …. Only joking, the moles have been destroyed, you don’t follow what Baron says, it’s rabbits that are the target, now.

    But, but having said all this Baron did listen to exactly 18 minutes of dr Shiva lecture, up to the point he talks about the UN 2015 sdg3 plan, the one that calls for Full Monty of vaccination of everyone including presumably the tigers (one or two just got c-19 from humans), other animals, possibly mice and rats ….?

    Two things on the 18 minutes: If you ask your doctor what the vaccine does he isn’t going to tell you that it destroys the pathogen that invaded your body, if he or she does, then either she or he has to give up doctoring (dr. Shiva says that, listen to him).

    The next of what he says i.e. the importance of vitamin A and D is nothing new to Baron, neither is his explanation of the decaying ability of our bodies either because of age (Baron’s an excellent example) or misuse of substances including food (he may have mentioned that each year, each of us consumes some 24 pounds of chemical in the form of colourings, stabilises, antioxidants, flavour enhancers, sweeteners, emulsifiers and stabilisers, preservatives …. (has Baron forgot any?).

    His explanation of people taking to the streets including in Wuhan sounds plausible, but who are the dark forces that decided ‘enough’s enough’ let’s teach the unwashed everywhere a lesson, let’s release a virus that kills as many of them as possible … so that we can sell to the fewer of them more stuff (including vaccines)?

    That doesn’t stack up, Malfleur unless you or dr. Shiva could suggest another way, a massive mechanism to let the fewer of us (those who survive the pandemic) buy more, after all it’s only by forcing the masses everywhere to buy things that makes the rich richer, no?

    If Baron has any time left after the destruction of the rabbit population he will read more, promise.

  2218. Fergus Pickering @ April 4th, 2020 – 20:50

    Keep breathing, Fergus, avoid Wuhan, and come up with a catchy limerick, please, one about the c-19 or something related to it, like the fear embalming each and very one if us.

  2220. NO-FUDGE REPORT 3: DEEP STATE NEWS

    LATEST NUMBERS: Govt. Models Overestimated Hospitalizations by 8 Times; ICU Beds by 6.4 Times; Ventilators Needed by 40.5 Times

    St. Louis Federal Reserve Head Says Americans Should Be Tested for COVID-19 Daily And Forced To Display a Badge on Their Clothing with the Result

    Top Experts Used by CDC Move Total US Coronavirus Deaths From 2.2 Million to 200,000 to 81,766 in Only 8 Days!

    (Gateway Pundit}

  2221. NO-FUDGE REPORT 4: DEEP STATE NEWS

    “MEDICAL DUMMY – SHOCK VIDEO: TV News Media Films Dying Coronavirus Victim on Ventilator in NYC Hospital — But ‘Patient’ Is Actually a Mannequin”

    (True Pundit)

  2223. NO-FUDGE REPORT 5: DEEP STATE NEWS

    The Completely Fraudulent COVID-19 Fatality Timeline: From 40 Million… to 2 Million… to 200,000… to 81,766… to 60,415 Deaths
    (Gateway Pundit)

  2224. NO-FUDGE REPORT 5A DEEP STATE NEWS

    President Trump to Reportedly Fire Several Deep State IGs at Once

    Dr. Birx Confirms Anyone Who Dies WITH Coronavirus, Regardless of Any Underlying Health Condition, is Being Counted as a COVID-19 Death (VIDEO)

    Man Behind Bundy Ranch Standoffs Plans Massive Easter Sunday Gathering in Defiance of Government Orders

    (Gateway Pundit – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/)

  2225. This morning just before 8 o’clock, the BBC Radio4 had on a young mother with two children, Sue Martin, Baron switched it on in the middle when she was relaying a visit to see a c-19 patient, he must have been her dying husband in the hospital, they, she and kids, were given permission, they were self-isolating for 17 days.

    Sue couldn’t have been more articulate, love radiated from every of word of hers, on the point of breaking down she described the conditions of her husband down to ‘tubes and wires’, the layers of protection, the care and attention the medical staff furnished to keep him alive even though his lungs and kidneys have nearly gone. That happened on Monday, by Wednesday his condition, still serious, has improved slightly, the BBC female presenter of the programme said ‘they are hoping for a miracle..’

    One cannot buy sympathise with the young mother, her family, the children and everyone else who knows the husband, but is a detail description of people’s suffering the best to put us in the needed frame of mind? One can well imagine that both in the 2014-15 flu epidemic that killed 28,330 of us, there must have been similar cases, many of them, nobody heard about them then, the BBC didn’t broadcast ‘miracle requiring’ recoveries of those infected.

    Why this time? The pathogen feels like a nasty thing attacking the old and the young, but mostly the old, but do we need to be told so much, does that not frighten people who listen to stories such as this, many alone, locked down, no family members, no friends to comfort them, some perhaps in pain from maladies other than c-19, is it news anyway, is it the right message we need when we are facing the virus?

    One very very much hopes the husband and anyone else recover, from the nasty virus however impossible it is for all the c-19 cases to pull through.

  2226. Malfleur @ April 8th, 2020 – 22:43

    Why should everyone dying with the c-19 be recorded as c-19 victim, Malfleur? It’s wrong, what should happen is the attending doctor should make the decision what the cause of death was, no?

    Everything connected with the pathogen seems to be twisted so as to frighten us, stupid and irresponsible that.

  2227. Baron
    April 9th – 08:41

    Agreed; this whole hysterical campaign is political.

    Where is Soros? Where is Gates?

    Vote hydroxychloroquine!

  2229. Malfleur @ April 9th, 2020 – 11:49

    This may not be true, it comes from one of the blogs, Malfleur, but apparently the people with c-19 are treated only with oxygen and paracetamol, if it’s true it’s unbelievable even though the Hydroxychloroquine isn’t approved, has sid effects.

    S&G are problem debating who should be in the World Government (with them, of course).

  2230. HCh not approved in UK, yes. But it is in India, Did president Trump ask Modi to send some to Boris – will that be announced widely soon, effectively ending the hysteria and the pandemic?

  2231. No more postings from Baron, the fugging software is beyond belief, it’s not ‘problem’, but probably, how does it happen?

    More importantly, the absence of stephen and Herbert is worrying, not a word from either of them, Baron had stephen’s address, cannot find it, his filing system has collapsed.

    The MacBook is behaving oddly also, it’s enough for the cursor to touch a place containing a possible link to anything, the links gets executed without Baron actually pushing on the pad. It’s annoying but also destructive because if Baron gets an e-mail, touches it with the cursor, the e-mal gets send to the trash folder. It may come to the barbarian getting a new gadget.

    The Russians are saying Boris is out of the intensive care, but remains in the hospital.

  2233. NO-FUDGE REPORT 6: DEEP STATE NEWS

    MORE FRAUD EXPOSED: Washington State Coronavirus Field Hospital Will Be Dismantled Without Treating a Single Patient

    ‘Can’t Operate Out Of Hysteria’: Dr. Carson Says ’98 Percent’ Of Coronavirus Infected Will Recover

    Police Drag Passenger Off Bus for Not Wearing Coronavirus Mask in Philadelphia

    Ron Paul Blasts ‘Fraud’ Dr. Fauci, Says Trump ‘Or the People’ Should Fire Him

    French Study of 1,000+ Patients Including Seniors See 98% Success Rate with Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin Regimen

    New German Study Finds Coronavirus Mortality Rate at 0.37% — Ten Times Less Than Flawed WHO Numbers that Sent Global Community into a Panic

    Michigan’s Crazed Governor Gretchen Whitmer Bans “Travel Between Residences”

    “Complete Load of Horse Sh*t” – San Diego Surfer Protests Countywide Beach Closures (VIDEO)

    (Gateway Pundit – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/)

    Coronavirus stay-at-home order in California has police giving citations to people watching sunset at beach

    Tucker Carlson On Fauci’s Quarantine Call: Pushing “National Suicide” While He Has Job Security

    American companies are leaving China en masse — and the coronavirus is speeding up that change

    Nancy Pelosi Says Congress Will NOT Reopen In April, Warns Trump Not To Restart Economy

    (https://truepundit.com/)

  2234. This is Tucker Carlson, one of Baron’s favourites talking with a specialist about drugs that could help to suppress the effects of the corona pathogen, it does look promising provided the FDA gets its house in order, drops some of the regulatory constraints that delay the introduction of the new or perhaps not that new drugs. Remdesivir mentioned by the doctor feels promising.

    In another video, another doctor also complained about the FDA, said the Donald is sorting them out.

    The thing is we don’t have the equivalent of Tucker here, out ‘journalists’ whether on the TV platforms or in the printed media seem keen on kicking out but never constructively, Baron has never seen any of them coming up with short interviews of specialists who know their stuff, could enlighten, push for things to happen quickly.

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  2240. NO-FUDGE REPORT 7: DEEP STATE NEWS

    Sweden and Brazil Kept Their Economies Open and Their COVID-19 Numbers Are No Worse than US

    Should Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx be Criminally Charged? They Know the COVID-19 Victims are Elderly Seniors and Diabetics and Chose to Scare US Public Instead

    Ali Mokdad- The Researcher Behind Shady IHME Coronavirus Study and US Policy – Was Forced to Retract Major Study for CDC over Computational Errors

    So-Called ‘Experts’ Were Off by 25 MILLION in California! Golden State Reaches Peak COVID-19 Deaths at 596 and 21,500 Infected

    Law Enforcement Tells Mississippi Pastor That His Rights Are Suspended, Worshippers Fined $500 for Attending Drive-In Service

    Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Prohibits Grocery Stores From Selling Vegetable Seeds

    Barack Obama Uses Coronavirus as Excuse to Push For ‘Vote-by-Mail’ in November

    Should Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx be Criminally Charged? They Know the COVID-19 Victims are Elderly Seniors and Diabetics and Chose to Scare US Public Instead

    (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/)

  2243. Malfleur @ April 12th, 2020 – 05:37

    To please you, Malfeur, Baron listened to the whole thing, full half an hour, and only two points:

    (a) His idea that the whole pandemic is for someone to take over the world, to have us all turned into human robots, to watch, listen and follow us everywhere is bollocks.

    There must be people who’d like to do it, there must be many of them, and this is why it cannot happen. First, these people must have a power base, this in most cases will be a state they govern, it must be a sizeable powerbase, a state of the size of Poland or Chile or another one like that will not do, only the big boys qualify. If that’s the case, can you imagine that Putin would relinquish power to the Donald, the Mutti, Xi or anyone else? Or the other way round? Never.

    (b) His explanation of the power of one’s immune system was good, he should stick to it, that’s useful, the role of vic D in particular, it’s a part of Baron’s guess that in the UK the pandemic will be over by the end of April, the sun will help each of us to boost vit D levels, and will also destroy the pathogen, it seems it doesn’t like baking sun hence India and many African countries have been virtually free of it until now. It’s the Autumn for them soon, it may change the infection and mortality levels in the opposite direction to us, but we should benefit.

  2244. The predicted 1984 multiplied many times over thanks to the capabilities of the digital era is here, one won’t be able to move around and certainly not cross any borders and not just national borders, but borders set up within countries ….

    Two things in brief because of a shortage of time (a) how does that differ from banning guns wholesale, isn’t that an encroachment on our liberties, and (b) not a word about who are the people doing the controlling, in a society free to choose who should be in governance there exists a mechanism for electing the controllers not for life, but a limited span of time, if these controllers disappoint, abuse their power, deploy the digitised requirements for nefarious purposes they can be not just dismissed, but punished, in a truly democratic society that is.

    It takes over tha hour, he’s an engaging talker as Malfleur knows, but he bangs on about each aspect for too long:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1293&v=HB00mLArYBQ&feature=emb_logo

  2245. A new report almost totally demolishes Baron’s key reason for suggesting the pandemic should be over by the end of April, something he has been arguing since the start of the pathogen’s entry into the UK. The report says c-19 doesn’t mind high temperatures, in fact 60degC barely disturbs it, it’s only 90degC that breaks the simple, tiny but nasty bastard down. It’s of little consolation the report also says that
    “there is some evidence to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may transmit less efficiently in environments with higher ambient temperature and humidity,”

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.036855v1 c-19 temperature 60degC

    What then explains the close to nibbling on the populations of countries that baked in the sun? You check Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda …. also Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan … few infections, no or few deaths only. What is it that prevents c-19 doing what’s supposed to do, what it’s so successfully managing in the affluent West?

  2246. Baron and Malfleur you two
    A grand dialogue you both do
    But am I a pest
    To ask where are the rest
    A conundrum on which you can chew

  2248. Baron

    No, it’s going to be like Prague in the bad years – and then worse. See my last post. Enjoy.

  2249. Malfleur @ April 17th, 2020 – 14:42

    One of the things that life has taught Baron, Malfleur, trends never last forever, they break often for reasons totally unexpected, reasons that if someone were to argue for them would be laughed at, or reasons that emerge out of nowhere.

    Can you imagine human life in the form of a battery chicken? It would be easier to imagine one in an anarchy, which is more likely than the fully regimented life the blonde is describing.

  2251. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

    –

    ‘It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going’. (Mona Lott)

  2253. R.I.P. Frank P

    Died aged 85, 29th April, 2019.

    His counsel is much needed, and greatly missed, especially in the peculiar predicament in which the world now finds itself in.

  2254. Not only his counsel but also his muscular, often humourous, style of commentary. I’m compiling a FP compendium of examples, such that I have, from the early years on Melanie Phillips’ blog through the Spectatesman blogs.

    Now you’ll all no doubt remember Daniel Korski… The guy who gave birth to “Vulture’s Law “(of Korski). Moderators Pete Hoskin and David Blackburn received a lot of calls from DK begging for the deluges of critical, sarcastic comments that his scribblings often used to receive to be taken down. To give them fair credit, PH & DB always refused. The comment below is quite mild by comparison. I wish now that I’d saved all DK’s Spectoid blog posts and associated comments. I could’ve got a book out of it.

    This was actually one of the more polite responses…

    03/01/2011
    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2011/01/wrong-to-be-too-right/
    (NB. This article can no longer be accessed.)

    Frank P
     
    Krapski,
    You are a smug, young, arrogant prick who cannot relate to the fact that many conservative people failed to vote for the Cameroons because they were not satisfied that they would get a conservative administration if they did: one that would deal with the destructive (Neathergate) issues of immigration, sovereignty, welfarism and education – the keystones of the policies of the previous three administrations; policies that had brought the country to its knees.
    The defecting conservatives were correct. Those of us who voted for Conservative candidates, in the hope that Cameron would turn out to be a Tory (despite suspecting that he wasn’t) were foolish to vote against our instincts – our suspicions were correct and our optimism foolish. Entering into a bastardised coalition with a bunch of liberal wankers was clearly disastrous. If Cameron was indeed a Tory (and not just another egotistical upstart in a hurry to grab the keys of No 10) he would have formed a minority government and dared the opposition to bring it down. As it is, he has been outmanoeuvred and will pay the price politically at the next election. In the meantime the taxpayer will be raped and buggered by the cartels that determine prices energy, vehicle fuel and almost all other retail trading. The ‘market’ is a myth. Prices are rigged for all essentials and the housing market is also rigged through bent evaluation and mortgage supply.
    Before the election when I paid £1 per litre for fuel I saw Gordon’s Brown’s fingerprints on the pump display and hated him with a vengeance. Tomorrow when I pay £1.30p a litre (it is £1.25p today) I shall see the oily smiles of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne reflected in the displays and feel their limp wrists and oily paws picking my pocket and will despise them with deep loathing.
When we get our utility bills in the Spring I shall ambush my local Conservative MP and hold him in a hammerlock and bar so that my wife can stuff the bills them down his trousers and set fire to them. Now that’s what I call a ‘scorched earth policy’.

    Civility => Frank P
    If you cant express yourself courteously and without using personal insults then perhaps silence is a better option…
    Civility

    Frank P => Civility
    If you are looking for a kindred spirit you may find that you have chosen the wrong website. If, on the other hand you are Mrs Krapski, then don’t worry, your son is quite used to being deservedly slated for his eccentric opinions; it is quite impossible to insult someone who once fagged for Paddy Pantsdown.

  2256. Baron April 23rd, 2020 – 08:23

    I was in Beijing on June 4th, 1989 and the run-up thereto. I am therefore aware of what the Communist Party of China is capable. When I was in Xi’An some years later at the university one evening, an agent provocateur who had been tailing me came close and asked if I thought that the Communist Party was evil. At that moment discretion proved the better part of valour.

  2257. EC @ April 29th, 2020 – 09:26

    Welcome back, EC, you’ve obviously escaped the unwanted attention of our new arrival the c-19, glad you’re back.

    Herbert and stephen are still missing, no response to Baron’s calling them.

    And yes, Baron does endorse your point on Frank, how badly missed he is.

  2258. Malfleur @ April 29th, 2020 – 10:31

    If it’s c-29 bothering you, Malfleur, try alternative medicine, too, plenty of vitamins C and D, zinc, long exposures to the sun, and if you are not a smoker, get yourself few nicotine patches, you never know, some of it may help.

  2260. Thought for the day…

    Despite nobody dying of anything else but C-19 these days, the body count is just not stacking up against the claimed threat level, and the draconian restrictions imposed.

    I suppose that they could boost always boost their figures by considering historical cases that were initially covered up, and so far not included in any government figures.
    eg. Dr. David Kelly, and in the USA Seth Rich, Antonin Scalia etc.

    At their daily briefings governments are repeating the mantra of being “guided by the science” whilst at the same time ignoring any new data or studies that doesn’t fit the horse that they originally backed – whilst at the same time getting anything that doesn’t agree with the policy like removed from the new media. That’s not science, that’s Lysenkoism.

  2261. Frank P on the Theory of Evolution!

    Frank was widely read as are most insomniacs, I suppose. Here’s a comment from 2005 that he made on an article on the “Social Affairs Unit” website.

    “Historian Prof. William D. Rubinstein shares his doubts about the theory of evolution. He raises questions about evolution to which he seeks answers.”

    It’s worth a read, as are the comments. As usual on the internet the Prof. is mobbed by vitriolic people for having the temerity to pose a few innocent questions about an ideology that some folks have unquestioningly accepted, and is therefore beyond question.

    Frank’s is the most open minded and most human response that the embattled Prof. received. I thought that this was worth sharing.

    “Historian Prof. William D. Rubinstein shares his doubts about the theory of evolution. He raises questions about evolution to which he seeks answers.”

    http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000427.php

    The time frame involved in the transmogrification of species, and other evolutionary phenomena, renders it impossible for any given generation to grasp the complexities of gradual change, even with the benefit of the very recent acquisition(in evolutionary terms) of the ability of homo sapiens to record and pass on existential observations to its successors.
    Is not ‘evolution’ merely a one word description of the sum total of what has occurred up to the moment of consideration of the phenomenon itself? As time itself is unstoppable, except for the individual – by means the death of that individual – none of us will ever ‘get to know’ evolution ; we are necessarily universally handicapped (otherwise we would be God) and therefore always behind it in the race against time. Evolution and chaos may well be as one. But we will never know for sure. We can only construct infantile and fantastic theories about what our narrow and short-lived perceptions actually mean. The sum total of human knowledge about everything is almost certainly complete bollocks: mere amusement in the Grim Reaper’s waiting room aka ‘life’. But then, complete bollocks is just part of the sorry scheme of things entire. Don’t fret Professor, just write your own script and appoint yourself as lead actor in your own play, just as the rest of us do. You may even get some applause if you manage to make it convincing; but then there’s always those hissing ruffians up in the Gods!

    Posted by: Frank Pulley at May 14, 2005 01:32 AM

  2262. It seems that Frank P is the only person on here still writing.

    From the Spectator Magazine vaults…

    BTW, Were we really expecting a nuclear attack in 2002?

    From Mr Frank P. 14th December 2002

    Sir: It is so sad to read that dear old Paul Johnson (And another thing, 7 December) is suffering from apocalyptic nightmares. Over the years I have consistently derived much enlightenment, entertainment and pleasure from his writings and media appearances. His weekly columns in The Spectator remain one of the highlights of the week for me. So please let me try to reassure him. Should there be a nuclear explosion in central London, given that he is on Notting Hill when it occurs, he will feel no pain. He certainly will have no time to formulate a thousand beautiful descriptive words for his column. Rather, the gradually unfolding scenario such as he dreamt will feel like an exceedingly brief fizz.

  2263. EC
    April 30th – 10:23

    I adree…. I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment…and the studies allowed me have me persuaded that this Corona virus thing is a shamdemic used by the Deep State, possibly opportunistically, in an attempt to keep Donald Trump from a second terms and to mould the rest of us into pusillanimous yea-sayers.

  2264. Baron
    April 29th – 13:18

    And you sir, please employ the time catching up on your Shakespeare.

  2265. Malfleur, May 2nd, 2020 – 05:35

    I agree. The “shamdemic” (nice one!) has wrecked two of Trump’s major achievements; 1. a resurgent economy, 2. The lowest unemployment figures(in all groups) for over 50 years.

    It is transparent that most of the Dem’ Governors and Mayors want to keep the lock downs in place, and the economy in ruins, for as long as possible in order to hurt Trump’s reelection chances. They don’t care a fig for people.

  2266. Malfleur – 05:42

    Back in the late 60’s my teachers managed to put right off Shakespeare.
    Also back then, I found the assumption of Roy Plomley, that I would find a set of bard’s complete works in any way useful if were to be stranded on a desert island, rankled a bit.

    However, these days with more time for such matters, I have revised my opinions.

  2267. Another day another contribution from Frank P, this time on free speech, posted in 2004, on Melanie Phillips’ blog.

    This is particularly topical since wee Jimmy Krankie, Dear Leader of the Scottish Nationalist Socialist Party, currently seems hell bent on enacting further Orwellian restrictions on “permitted” speech in Jockistan.

    Posted by: Frank P. January 20, 2004 12:46 PM

    Perhaps we should reflect on Baruch Spinoza’s thoughts on free speech. (Renan, in 1883, in his book ‘Marcus Aurelius’ referred to Spinoza as “the greatest Jew of modern times” (before Melanie’s time of course, or he might have had second thoughts).

    Spinoza averred that laws against free speech are subversive of all law; for people will not long respect laws which they may not criticise.

    “The more government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately it is resisted; not indeed by the avaricious … but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws … Under such circumstances they do not think it disgraceful, but most honorable, to hold the laws in abhorrence and to refrain from no action against the government…
    If actions only could be made the ground of criminal prosecutions, and words were always allowed to pass free, sedition would be divested of every semblance of justification.”

    In other words, the less control the state has over the mind, the better for both the citizen and the state.

    Seems this discussion has been going on for a very long time. Plus ca change …

  2268. More authoritative opinions emerging that Boris might have been unwise to swap horses so early in the race. Revealed: The flawed assumption programmed into Ferguson’s computer model.

    Nobel prize winning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: lockdown is a “huge mistake”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-sZdfLcEk

  2269. Not our law, unfortunately…:

    DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
    SUMMARY:
    Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
    For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.

    The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

    TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242

    Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

  2270. Rebellion against Tyranny is Obedience to God.
    Sarah Westall interviews an American sheriff in which the constitutional role of such sheriffs us explained and evaluated. Another lesson perhaps for the United Kingdom ad encouragement for a review of our constitutional rights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_917h_r-oKM

  2271. Malfleur @ May 4th, 2020 – 08:19

    A man of courage as well as of religious convictions, Malfleur, and right he’s too. The girl would have immeasurably more views if she took off the tight blouse and everything under it.

  2273. EC @ May 3rd, 2020 – 10:34

    Good find, EC, it supplements the two Californian medics, the guy said one thing that’s of immense importance, it’s not just science, epidimology, bio science its politics. That’s worth another Nobel Prize, if only we had people like him formulating the policy, rather tha the politicians constantly interfering we would be better off.

    His suggestion of cluster lockdowns, mask wearing, temperature taking, testing … is exactly what we should have done, hopefully will do if another corona nasty hits us.

  2274. The thought occurred to me, “How are the heroin & coke junkies managing during the lockdown? Are the dealers and pushers still out and about conducting their business as normal? They should be easier to spot and apprehend now, so why aren’t the cops arresting more of them? Are they [the dealers] refusing to take cash payments, only accepting electronic payments, I wonder? Too busy patrolling Twitter and FaceBook I suppose. Same goes for the beaches in E. Sussex, and Kent where boatloads of illegal immigrants, not to mention drugs, are coming ashore unchallenged every night.

    Here’s Frank P, on drugs. IMO, as right today as he was back then.

    CHW
    Frank P.
    April 12th, 2008 12:57pm

    The primary reason that the prohibition by law of unauthorised dangerous drugs is not working, is the abysmal enforcement of the laws relating to the supply and abuse. The very same reason that prohibition of alcohol in the United States failed too – it was never enforced; on the contrary, the liquor was encouraged by the US city police forces who immediately dipped their noses into the Mafia trough and only busted the suppliers when it was at the behest of of rival Mob suppliers.
    Moreover current enforcement of regulations in the UK relating to licensed establishments, where drug abuse is propagated and rife, is equally lax at best and in mosts cases non-existent. Those who suggest that the drugs laws are manifestly not working, when in fact those laws are only being enforced sporadically in most areas and not at all in some, are deserving of the Basil Fawlty First Class Honours Degree in the bleeding obvious. Libertarian police chiefs have taken it upon themselves to instruct their street officers not to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Acts. Hence the exponential growth in drug trafficking. The scourge of drug abuse throughout the world has now become one of the greatest threats to civilisation. It is an evil that must not only be legislated against, but rigorously enforced. Those who suggest that the State takes over the supply of the supply of narcotics, hallucinogens, amphetamines etc. to ‘rid the drugs trade of criminals’ are barmy. It is rather like suggesting that armed robbery should be taken over by the police to deprive criminals of their livelihood.
    Families are subjected to agonising emotional pain and often physical assault when their loved ones become hooked on drugs. Those that take them are wilful and selfish criminals and should be punished like any other brand of criminal. They are not victims, their families are victims and wider society is seriously damaged by their criminality, not just because they commit crimes of theft and violence to obtain drugs, but because the very possession and supply is, per se, one of the most serious crimes. Self harm and resultant dependency is a social evil that can only be controlled by statute. As a young man I declined to join in the drug cult primarily because possession was illegal. I did not sell drugs for the same reason. I would suggest that there are millions of others who are not hooked on drugs for a similar reason: because they wish to obey the law. How the anti-prohibition lobby envisages the organisation of the trade were it to be made legal is an amusing concept. They obviously have not been properly apprised of what occurred in the sixties and seventies when quacks such as Petro, Swann, et al were allowed to prescribe heroin ad lib. How many more Dr Shipman’s would there be, let alone amateur versions of dispensers of death to unloved elderly relatives, if the laws were relaxed

  2275. Baron – 10:53

    If it’s all the same with you, dear chap, I’d rather that the adult female, to which you refer, kept her blouse and everything else on. Remember the Titanic. I fear that what lies beneath might overwhelm my 27in monitor.
    🙂

  2276. Baron May 4th, 11:52

    You have obviously not familiarised yourself sufficiently with the work of Sarah Wetsall on her blog on or you would by now have got over an obsession with her breasts – actually, it’s here eyes which are the best feature. And the lesson for constitutional improvements in the United Kingdom is what?

  2277. Is there any chance of Peter from Maidstone seizing the reins of the Coffeehouse Wall and becoming its full time compere? He probably owns the intellectual property in it, despite its origins ten years or so ago as a volunteer protest at certain rigidities at The Spectator . I doubt his views have grown any less sharp in the intervening years and there must be an opportunity here to carve out role, perhaps like Praying Medic or Dustin Nemos, if he has not as some rumours suggest committed himself for life already to a Mount Shasts monastery. It would be good to hear from him..

  2278. Malfleur, May 4th, 2020 – 13:17

    Well, while we are waiting for his return by way of diversion here’s Frank P on the subject of BBC. I particularly enjoyed his reference to “The Son Of The Manse. It was the only laugh out loud moment I remember from the last week of April.

    NB. This will be the last reprise, although I am tempted to republish his amusing, if brief, put down of Johann Hari. Rapier wit!

    From Melanie Phillips’ Blog early 2008.

    The BBC has always been a propaganda machine. Once upon a time the propaganda was for the benefit of Britain (and the rest of the Free World) and how successful it was. Now its leftist political propaganda (in conjunction with its newspaper arm the Guardian) is directed largely against Britain’s and the Allied armed services at a time when they are in harm’s way. Now they want to do it in Arabic? That was once called treason. It still would be if we were any longer a definitive ‘nation’. We are not; we are a failed multicultural experiment and England is no longer recognisable as the country that we early 1930s brats were born into. Andrew Neil, on This Week (tonight) featured an item that asked, “Why are ‘we’ British so angry?” He needs to ask such a question? I think not! In one year’s time I shall legally cease to pay the TV licence fee. At least that will be one strand of traitorous extortion removed from my yoke. But it is small beer when placed beside the demands of the multi-faceted Head Extortionist – the Govan Gargoyle with the rictus sneer. Today I paid as much for a tank of petrol as I paid for my first car. That is no yoke; it’s a public scandal that nobody is addressing. Blaming the ‘market’ simply won’t do – it is a cartel and the government is the main beneficiary. And some of the trolls who support this lot and buzz this blog from time to time have the audacity to demand that we are polite to them? F-f-f-fade away, you f-f-feeble f-f-f-fools! You should stand as an independent candidate for the London Mayoral election, Melanie. You would win by a country mile. Just submit Londonistan as your manifesto.
    Frank P.

  2279. WW3?
    It’ll all be over in a flash, maybe a thousand or three.
    The French will no doubt decide to abstain and surrender, but will it save them?

  2280. What do you make of this, the suggestions that the virus could have been with us before January are getting more frequent, Baron suffered himself, dry cough, feeling unwell but no high temperature (well he doesn’t really know, he didn’t take measurements), but also running nose. That was in the UK, then he travelled abroad, got an even harsher version, had to cancel a dentist appointment, the reason for the trip. Only testing for antibodies could answer the question ‘was it or was it not c-19’, that will probably take a long time, by then the antibodies may be gone.

    https://www.unz.com/article/objections-to-an-independent-investigation-of-china/

  2282. Malfleur @ May 4th, 2020 – 13:17

    This blog, Malfleur, seems to be the equivalent of a runaway train, it just moves by its own inertia, one wonders whether it will ever end, contributors are getting thinner on the ground, it’s just you, EC, and Baron, seldom anyone else. It would be of interest to find out whether anyone else ever visits, probably not, the blog just hangs there for the occasional posting by the three of us.

    The one guy Baron’s worried about is stephen, he was poorly, hasn’t answered calls to say what’s up with him, also Herbert in Canada felt silent, one hopes both are OK, just cannot be bothered.

  2283. Baron,

    It seems that the CHW domain name was renewed this February until 2022. Is it still registered to Abouna Peter Farrington, I wonder?

    Nominet/WHOIS results

    Domain name: coffeehousewall.co.uk

    Data validation:
    Nominet was able to match the registrant’s name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012

    Registrar:
    Heart Internet Ltd t/a Heart Internet [Tag = HEARTINTERNET]
    URL: http://www.heartinternet.co.uk

    Relevant dates:
    Registered on: 05-Feb-2012
    Expiry date: 05-Feb-2022
    Last updated: 05-Feb-2020

    Registration status: Registered until expiry date.

    This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry
    for .uk domain names.

  2284. EC @ May 9th, 2020 – 17:09

    Rather clever of you, EC, to know how to do the checking.

    If the matching is for who the owner was on 05-Feb-2012, it must be Peter, no? It was the date he acquired the domain from the Spectator. Or you reckon he Spectator dropped the coffeehousewall earlier, it chaged ownership on 05-Feb-2012?

  2286. History remembers
    certain artists,
    who many of us
    know about,
    and it considers them
    the Great Heroes
    of art, poetry and music,
    but I think
    that the true heroes
    are the bloggers
    who post every day
    And the domain funders
    Who give us our sway.

  2287. The Covid-19 False Flag Bullshit Diary;

    President of Tanzania gets positive corona virus test results from a goat, a ppapaya and a pheasant -then fires the head of the Tanzanian laboratory who obtained the test results from the WHO:

    ““We Sent Them Samples Of A Goat, A Papaya & A Pheasant”: Tanzanian President Catches WHO In Epic Lie”

    https://truepundit.com/we-sent-them-samples-of-a-goat-a-papaya-a-pheasant-tanzanian-president-catches-who-in-epic-lie/

  2290. Fergus Pickering @ May 10th, 2020 – 09:29

    Hmmm, bloggers as heroes, Fergus? You may be overdoing it, more like fools dosed with unacknowledged narcissism, suffering from an incurable affliction to right something, anything in this imperfect world of ours, the most obsessed ones often choose something big that would make them noticed, preferably martyred.

  2292. Also excellent by the great Tucker:

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

    Can anyone explain how is it possible people that lie as much as the deranged Schiff remain in power? Not just in this case, in general. How could one trust a politician that spews a lie upon a lie that could undermine the established power structure of the Republic, the Donald may have been deposed because of this man’s lies, this may have engendered a civil uprising, perhaps more. How could the Americans claim their model of democracy shines as the best if anything of this kind happens, the system is incapable correcting it?

  2293. This is more your area of expertise, Malfleur, the debate whether c-19 is a bioweapon aimed at China and Iran released by a roque segment of the neocon phylum, possibly with the help of Israel. This piece debunks that quite well, what’s by far more likely someone somewhere fugged up in a big way, the pathogen under research most likely in the Wuhan outfit got incidentally out, we all suffer now.

    https://canspeccy.blogspot.com

  2294. Baron, May 10th, 2020 – 08:37

    Overpopulation will smother “the enlightenment” and reduce individual freedom but I think that Mr. Moore’s main concern is that there will not be enough burgers & fries for him.

    Here’s an amusing take on his video…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38oiipWwMqM

    NB. Talking of ecomaniacs hang in there for the girl with the mushroom canoe.

  2295. Baron,

    Interesting times indeed…
    This is the sort of thing that “the progressives” want us to eat in the times between “peak burger” and before the rump of humanity is plumbed into The Matrix.

    “With all this talk about Murder Hornets, we decided to remind everyone that we actually ate them in China. Enjoy.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08fqvfq2N8

    Proving that almost anything is edible if accompanied by enough beer!

    You like travelling and travelogues, don’t you? IF you have Amazon Prime you can watch the whole film “Conquering Southern China” – for FREE !

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B06VT38MXP/ref=atv_dl_rdr?autoplay=1

    Also, “Conquering Northern China” is on Vimeo, I think, but you have to pay for that.

  2301. EC

    This is the end, beautiful friend
    This is the end, my only friend
    The end of our elaborate plans
    The end of ev’rything that stands
    The end

    It hurts to set you free
    But you’ll never follow me-

    This is THE END

    Apologies to Jim Morrison

  2302. COCK UP – OUR POLICE

    “We have handed unprecedented powers to bumbling idiots.

    The Crown Prosecution Service has revealed that every single person prosecuted under the Coronavirus Act, which gives police powers to detain ‘potentially infectious’ people, was wrongfully charged. What’s more, 12 people charged under the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, brought in to enforce the lockdown, have also had their cases abandoned. The CPS has now ordered an unprecedented review of all cases brought under the new corona legislation…..”
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/21/our-dimwitted-police-state/

  2303. Fergus Pickering, May 26th, 2020 – 05:25

    Wonderful, but who is Jim Morrison?

    There are very few hours in the day when Noa can say “solipsist” without entanglement. I fear that he might have choked on his top set as his dentures went AWOL after the Cement-a-dent™ gave way. Was this his denouement?

    “Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico Noa?” might have been more memorable.

  2305. An old man in an armchair (his words not mine) makes a video a day where he speaks about different facets of the Plandemic.

    Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA: This guy is good. Well worth watching some of his other videos. Give it a go, Baron!

    ” How governments have used mind control techniques to manipulate us during this alleged crisis.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6LszZa7pg

  2307. Fergus Pickering.

    It’s time for another poem to lift the nation’s spirits….

    The barbarians are at the gates again- this time at Downing St.
    Who will repel them? Dick’s craven cunstables?

    https://www.melaniephillips.com/kneeling-surender-british-western-values/

    Jan III Sobieski is unavailable, so maybe it’s time to deploy the doomsday weapon.
    Cue: Deputy chief constable Rachel Swann

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50501203

    Lethal force shouldn’t be taken lightly, I know, but at least the rioters will die laughing.

    On a more general note: From the vaults…

    “The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marvelling that civilisation, should have offended him with priests and soldiers…. In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make: that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true.

    We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”

    ― Hilaire Belloc

  2308. EC

    If Pickering post another piece of doggerel, this blog will risk ending not with a bang but a whimper – or should that be wimper?

  2310. No posts for 12 days. I post again:

    This is the end, beautiful friend
    This is the end, my only friend
    The end of our elaborate plans
    The end of ev’rything that stands
    The end

  2311. Still there then, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this!

    I recommend The Long March on New Culture Forum. Peter Whittle interviews Mark Sidwell on his excellent new book, which is freely available as a pdf download from the website.

    https://youtu.be/oONbN7ps9Go

  2314. So that was the end of Noa’s Ark,
    Lucky he wasn’t eaten by sharks,
    So, why God, did you plan all this, mate?
    I know Noa was human to make mistakes,

  2315. This blog seems to have the infinity label attached to it. Nothing much happens for days even weeks, months, then Fergus drops in with his ode on Noa, who seems well and breathing to visit once a year … EC may have given up, and can anyone blame him. As has Baron, what’s the point talking to himself?

    Still, he cannot resist posting this chap’s chat, he has one or more each day, he reminded Baron of Frank, the reason for the posting, only more subdued in the use of the language. Top rating he, a member of the healthy core of Britishness.

    https://youtu.be/XVQPLP7s-0c

  2316. Fergus Pickering, June 30th, 2020 – 21:17

    In conveying the transient nature of the human condition, and the material world, perhaps a few lines on “Noa’s Arc” may have evoked more pathos.

    To quote the last words of Jeremy Corby…,
    “Oi Vay! Suddenly everyone’s a critic.”

    I know, I know, it’s not easy to pen rhymes good and wise, or your case as good as Ernie Wise, but c’mon mate give it a go!

    So what will it be? “Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”,
    or, weather and latrines permitting, “Once more unto the beach?”

  2317. Baron. June 30th, 2020 – 23:31

    I subscribe to Vernon’s YouTube channel.
    He’s always worth a listen, and his website is good too.

    In addition to Noa’s recommendation of The New Culture Forum, another YouTube channel with some interesting topics varied guests is, “Triggernometry ” hosted by Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oPkqeHTwuOZ5CZ-R9f-6w/videos

  2318. once more unto the breach dear friends
    of sharing all my words
    i dont percieve it as means to an end
    just a way for me to learn

    farewell my friend, and how are you
    i heard the news, now is it true?
    i hope you’ll have a lovely stay
    on sandy shores upon my bay

  2319. EC @ July 1st, 2020 – 13:52

    Some of the guests of Triggernometry are good, some less so, EC, the problem is the time, one doesn’t have more than 24 hours, considering one has to sleep, eat and get nagged by the boss, it’s near impossible to even scan many of the sources not just those in English, but in other languages, too.

  2320. Fergus Pickering @ July 1st, 2020 – 14:11

    Is there a living creature you have in mind, Fergus, or it’s just a verse to have Baron puzzled? A good verse though.

  2321. The blue veined barbarian is being lambasted on the Spectator’s site, he argues we should go for Huawei, sees no danger in installing the company’s gear (we had it in 4G, nobody minded), the new network should create a good opportunity for the imaginative to come up with apps that need the speed and depth of the data flow the 5G offers, virtually everyone’s against him, a losing battle it is.

  2322. Nice to see that you have a counter argument to all these crushing bores who want to keep Mao’s liberated masses from reaping the just rewards of their capitalist endeavours, Baron!
    That creative imagination will be amply supplied by the 3 million PhDs and Liberal geniuses Mr Johnson plans to liberate from HK, not to mention the 600,000 doctors and scientists arriving annually in trains and boats and er, articulated lorries, desperately looking to live in the New housing utopia Boris is also creating for them!
    Its good to see that you and he, are not the only onesv who’ve had a Damascene conversion.
    Here is Paul Weston showing us all we need to know about taking the knee.
    Stay safe!
    And Give the NHS and all those cabinet ministers similarly leading from their probe positions a big clap!
    https://youtu.be/n3Q3qR6FT1I

  2323. Noa @ July 3rd, 2020 – 01:04

    You may or you may nor recall Baron saying in the past when an opportunity arose that it was not Russia but China we have to fear, nobody paid any attention to it, and why should they, the business of exploiting the cheap labour of China was doing fine, still is, flogging expensive trinkets from the likes of Prada or Mulberry to the getting-richer-by-the-hour eager Chinese was equally profitable.

    Then the c-19 arrived, and every Dick and Harry and all have woken up from the hibernation induced by benefitting from the use of low cost Chinese labour only to discover we’re coupled with the land of the Mandarin speakers so tightly that the untangling would harm us more than them.

    Anything above you disagree with?

    Btw, Paul’s OK, but he lacks charisma, he could bore Baron to death telling the best jokes ever.

  2324. They say endings are scary
    Again, what does Baron know?
    Maybe they’re just guessing
    Perhaps, going with the flow

    Endings could be peaceful
    Of endings I’m not scared
    They are regretful that’s all
    But my whole life I’ve dared

    Endings could be happy
    Of endings Noa’s not scared
    They are just very guilty
    Of things they hadn’t shared

    Endings could be calming
    Of endings I’m not scared
    They’re just anxious because
    They’ll witness all that they feared

    Endings could be nice
    It’s probably not, EC lied
    I’m not just scared of endings
    Truth is, I’m terrified.

  2325. I’ve seen
    Far worse verse,
    Fergus.
    I am big
    At picking pentameters.
    But I prefer
    Even ink to
    A blank page.

  2326. “Never Take the Knee.”

    Peter from Folkestone,
    John Birch,
    Herbert Thornton,
    Stephen Maybury
    Et al.
    If you’re still there and well,
    Do let us know.

  2327. /Baron July 3rd, 2020 – 09:38

    So, no Damascene conversion then, M’Lud!
    I fully concur with my learned colleague on the emergent nature of the Chinese economic threat, which may be added to the fast maturing cultural threat of cultural from the African and middle eastern mass invasions. Will they be able to fund the credit card debt to the PRC from their social security benefits, I wonder?
    Unfortunately no solutions are emerging from our feeble and cowardly Western political class, leaving future widespread internecine civil war inevitable.

  2328. Noa @ July 8th, 2020 – 17:08

    You’ve stepped out of bed the wrong side of happiness, have you, Noa.

    When we Brexit we cannot afford to anger anyone and certainly not a country that is going to fund few expensive capital projects for us. The Huawei gear has a proven record, is efficient, cheap, it would complement what we already have.

    The hardware coupled with the PCs or whatever computing box one may use are but the modern equivalent of a piece of paper and a pencil. The goods of value got created with the pencil on the paper in the past, on the computer screen using 5G today, be it an app for a house design, or a game or anything else depending where the imagination of the man or woman using the networked PCs takes them. The 5G would be anyone able to use all the computing power that there is, the latency of the system is that low.

    The Americans are against Huawei because they want to throttle China, that’s their job, one can wish them luck, but we are not the Americans, not yet anyway, we have our interest which is simply to make Brexit a success.

  2330. M’Lud,
    “…You’ve stepped out of bed the wrong side of happiness, have you, Noa.”
    Ouch!
    I’m honestly not sure why you’re having a go at me, my dear Baron.
    My evaluation of the 5g situation is not similar to yours. Cancelling wont make any difference, just provide a headache in sourcing and developing the new network.
    But bumbling Bo Jangles will do it anyway.
    The real challenge, if its even possible, is to initiate an cultural and economic revival of the UK and Europe before its extinction.
    How’s the mole situation by the way?
    My money, for wot its worth, is on end of days.

  2331. Noa @ July 8th, 2020 – 22:37

    Most humble apologies, sir, the poorly edu Slav got it wrong, your use of the tongue confuses him, he’s normally confused anyway, just opening the eyes in the morning fills him with apprehension what the day will bring.

    Just now, he’s finished hectoring the Chancellor for his borrowing levels, we seem to be barking mad everywhere, the lockdown of the whole country was totally unnecessary, cluster house arrests would have been far better, the economy would not be in the shite it’s in today, and now we seem to be going for projects that will suck in imports rather than encourage the creation of a home supply side of the economy, the cement will come from China (it’s energy intensive manufacture), the steel from India (we don’t do construction steel here), the wood from Ikea probably.

    It wouldn’t shock to learn that the boys that will shovel the cement will be flown in from Romania or somewhere. Lunacy, unbelievable lunacy.

  2333. Noa @ July 9th, 2020 – 13:26

    Indeed, the guy’s idea of what needs to be done is correct, w have to de-hollow, the opposite of what we did way back from the 80s when the North sea oil was flowing in some strength. Services are OK, but one also needs the tangible stuff that the ‘services’ in the broadest sense cover, a good software to run a car is of not much good if there’s no car.

    One may argue that financial services can be beneficial on their own without the fixed assets they are applied to owned by us, our banks or financial institutions can raise capital to re-structure a company’s debt even if the company is owned by Outer Mongolia, insure a cargo that’s not destined for us, or convert a debt into equity of a Chinese company. The problem though is that however much such services deliver a surplus, this surplus is eaten up by the unceasingly increasing trade deficit in goods imported form countries we don’t want to be dependent on like China.

  2334. Fergus Pickering, July 8th, 2020 – 05:24

    As Fraser Nelson, the ancient Cornish sage from Truro, once said…

    “Aaarh Jim lad. Thems thaaart go first will be the lucky ones…”

  2335. Notes from the asylum:

    July 14th.
    Big Brother has decreed that the wearing of face masks indoors is to become absolutely essential to combat the Kung Flu in er… in ten days time. Until July 24th the the holographic virus it poses no risk.

    July 24th.
    Any high street retail establishments that haven’t already gone bust start to go bust.

  2336. Ode for EC, or possibly Andy Car Park:

    Jam comes first
    And then the cream
    Said the scone from Cornwall
    To one ‘n’ all
    Taking tea
    The teapot looked at the scone from Devon
    Who knows that cream and jam is heaven
    But only if the cream comes first
    And then the jam . . . . .
    My thoughts exactly said the ham
    From between its sandwich fingers
    Where it lingers
    Until it’s time for tea.

  2337. Fergus Pickering reporting again from Clovelly in Cornshire in one of his most coherent posts yet. Can the Coronavirus be responsible?

  2338. EC
    July 14th, 2020 – 10:17 (Bastille Day….)

    We are all zeks now, especially the government and opposition.

  2340. But oh, if we call the whole thing off
    Then we must part
    And oh, if we ever part
    then that might break my heart

    So if you like pyjamas and I like pyjahmas

    Malfleur
    You say Maidstone
    I said Folkestone
    Maidstone not Folkestone
    Time to say…

    So I’ll wear pyjamas and give up pyajahmas
    For we know we need each other so we
    Better call the whole thing off
    Let’s call the whole thing off

    Or maybe not.

  2341. I know I shoved the lot of you in an Ark
    Because Noa was being a pesk asking for rain
    when his washing machine ran dry
    So I had to fill the oceans to stop that old man
    from complaining all the time. Besides I needed the bark
    from the trees of the Ark to make me a small tug boat
    to carry some DNA samples of my own, in case,
    the lion ate the cow, the tiger chewed on the cat
    and the fox tricked the rest with his cunning ways
    You see, my friends, there was no grass, or snakes
    or bird cages, or trees for the monkeys to swing on.

    But then Noa turned out right
    As Armageddon came in sight.

  2342. “As Armageddon came in sight…
    AND now we handover to Peter O’ Sullevan for the FINAL furlough…

    R.I.P. Peter O’Sullevan CBE

  2344. Fergus Pickering July 20th, 2020 – 05:55
    But oh Fergus my dear,
    What do I do
    When its not the washing machine that’s packed in, but
    The Dishwasher.
    Multi-hued it was, and
    The Pride of our kitchen.
    It was so hard even full size plates wet themselves at the mere thought of their immersion.
    So steel Port Talbot grey it was it had to be gay.
    The jogger demanded his answers

  2345. Yall still there? Not too many I see. What happened to Hexhamgeezer? Where is Austin Barry?
    Over here this dogone virus is doing our heads in. It may do for Donald and give us Dopey Joe and his commies in November. Even JJ is not able to get over to Devonshire to see his Aunt. But we discovered Zoom.
    Love to Baron.

  2346. John Jefferson Burns @ July 28th, 2020 – 20:31

    You still around, JJB, which is what matters, you are right, this blog is dying the slow death of attrition, nothing to do with c-19, it’s old age, Baron reckons, stephen and Herbert have been out for some time, EC visits sparingly if at all, Noa the same, the Colonel and John Birch are battling on the Conservative Woman, Baron on the Spectator, gets proper pummelling, and a new nickname ‘China shill’, one cannot really please all all the time can one. It’s only our resident muse Fergus who Britons things up with his odes, you scan back, you’ll see.

    You stay alive, our blogging partner, the time will come you’ll be here again, JJ in Devonshire, have patience, and stay away from the boisterous youth burning your towns, as if that would change anything.

  2347. Apologies it’s not ‘Britons’ but ‘brightens’, the figging predictive software interfered again, and Baron’s too lazy to check before pushing the button.

    Death to c-19, long live life without it.

  2348. Noa @ July 28th, 2020 – 00:02

    What’s that, Noa? A competition to Fergus, or just a lament of someone who hasn’t looked well after a domestic appliance?

  2350. Malfleur @ July 16th, 2020 – 00:51

    Completely forgot about you, Malfleur, where have been?

    It’s just few months before a new round, where the hell is Q? If the masses come to the view the Donald is doing FA about the rioting for purposes of reelection, lets the towns burn, they will kick him out, what will Q do, keep on q-ing ? Come on, Malfleur, tell us, please.

  2352. Lo and behold. I picked up an old iPad and found this site saved to favourites. I even found old friends like Malfleur, Noa and Baron. And the legendary JJB. How on earth can the wall have kept going since I inaugurated this ‘month’ at the end of 2018. Is Peter still keeping a watchful eye? Anyway all the best to everyone.

  2353. Marshal Roberts @ August 4th, 2020 – 16:15

    It is a surprise, Marshal, for you to reappear, but then current life is full of surprises both domestically and distant lands see posting below about Beirut. Peter’s still in charge, but is invisible, if memory serves he’s in Canada in some religious institution, but it may be totally wrong, EC may know, he knows everything.

    Whatever you do, wherever you go avoid c-19, a nasty thing that.

  2355. Are you ignoring Baron deliberately?

    Is so, Baron’s taking over this blog from now on, not that he owns it, he’s just claiming it for as long as he feels like it, it’s for him now to produce a string of monologues when and if he feels like it, anyone else barging in will be fined, the fine will double if the intruder fails to wear a mask.

    Comprende?

  2356. Apologies to Longfellow
    And no offence meant

    In his chamber, weak and dying,
    Was the Norman baron lying;
    Loud, without, the tempest thundered,
    And the castle-turret shook,

    In this fight was Death the gainer,
    Spite of vassal and retainer,
    And the lands his sires had plundered,
    Written in the Doomsday Book.

    Many centuries have been numbered
    Since in death the baron slumbered
    By the convent’s sculptured portal,
    Mingling with the common dust:

    But the good deed, through the ages
    Living in historic pages,
    Brighter grows and gleams immortal,
    Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  2357. Ode in remembrance of Maidstone

    While reading now this blogging pest
    I fell asleep for to take my rest
    I dreamed a dream that made me sad
    Concerning myself and the first few friends I had

    How many a year has passed and gone?
    Since Peter’s blog has been lost and won
    And many a road taken by many a first friend
    And each one I’ve never seen again

    I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
    That we could all be back here again
    The joy, the joy at the drop of a hat
    I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that

  2358. Fergus Pickering @ August 6th, 2020 – 20:33

    You, young sir, have switched gears, put the foot on the accelerator, very good stuff, the Longfellow ode one’s tempted to learn by heart, the one for Peter does bring back the years with Frank, Baron misses him alot, his wisdom is very much needed, sadly is gone, not to be had.

    Was it c-19 that inspired you, or the time in the lockdown furnished by it. Top mark, Fergus.

  2360. Since nobody dropped it (it should have been ‘drops in, here’s something on the polonium poisoning, please dissect, tear apart, be as critical as your well tested buds for criticism allow, it’s only a view, a slicing that doesn’t have to be 100% accurate.

    The take on the Litvinenko poisoning is something Baron promised KJ, a blogging partner from the Spectator, it’s here because there’s no suitable piece in the rag to accommodate it, also because it would have been very likely taken down there.

    Here goes;

    The report by the learned judge Sir Robert Owen on the Litvinenko’s murder runs and runs into hundreds of pages, Baron has read/scanned the lot, the ‘evidence’ is mostly of the ‘’likely’ or ‘very likely’ kind, no ‘gotcha’ smoking gun, loaded with plenty of padding and cases of similar nature e.g Politovskaya murder, the aim is to create the impression that the polonium case fits well the behaviour of the evil regime of Putin, yet there isn’t one piece of concrete evidence to conclude the two Russians, Messrs Lugovoy and Kovtun poisoned Mr. Litvinenko.

    Even when describing the instance of the alleged poisoning itself the judge has has to admit Litvinenko wasn’t in any way pushed to drink the (remains) of the tea allegedly containing the poison, he was told he can order something else, not have a drink at all.

    Mr. Litvinenko himself didn’t believe it was the two Russians, his friends and collegues, who were the perpetrators, changed his mind later on.

    All in all, the report in no way demolishes Baron’s guiding principle that only when the coroner’s report says ‘death of natural causes’ one should look into the death of a Russian or someone coupled with the current Russian regime.

    The most disappointing part of the report is that it doesn’t at all address what the Romans considered the key to any crime investigation, our legal system adopted, relied on, in the past never ignored – the question of qui bono – who stood to benefit from the crime.

    There is a part of the report in which the judge nails his colours to the mast – that of guilty as charged – but with reasoning that fails to convince.

    It starts on page 192 of the report (the quotes from the report are in inverted commas):

    “8.68  I am sure that Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun knew that they were using a deadly poison (as opposed to, for example, a ‘truth drug’ or a sleeping draught), and that they intended to kill Mr Litvinenko. I do not believe, however, that they knew precisely what the chemical they were handling was, or the nature of all of its properties”.

    Having said that the two Russians Messrs Lugovoy and Koftun did Mr. Litvinenko in, the judge brings in help from a newspaper article written by a journalist named Mr Franchetti, who had nothing to do with the case, the man’s a journalist, other journalists, from the West and East covered the case expressing a multiplicity of views, none of which was any good except that of Mr. Franchetti because he, Mr. Franchetti, quotes a ‘Russian source’ named Mr. Kondaurov’, and it’s what Mr. Kondaurov says the judge thinks he needs.

    Who is Mr. Kondaurov? It’s very unusual to quote a Russian name of a man (or a woman) by the surname only, it smells of concealment, if the journalist were to use the full name i.e. the given name, the patronymic, the surname, there would have been the risk of the real man by that name coming forward saying he had nothing to do with the quote. Neither the judge nor Mr. Franchetti furnish the man’s occupation, or anything else that would justify his being drawn into the investigation. One can easily suspect Mr. Franchetti made the name up.

    The judge himself must have thought that adding a Russian source of wisdom, that of Mr. Kondaurov, would aid his take on the murder by implying that a native Russian and not a citizen of any other country furnished a piece of supporting information of high value.

    Ceterum, what’s legally objectionable to the use of the Kondaurov statement is that the judge didn’t hear Mr. Kondaurov say it, the statement came via Mr. Franchetti who wasn’t questioned by the judge or cross examined by any court as to the truthfulness of it, it was a hear-say. In England of the past no judge would have accepted such evidence, it would have been unthinkable to present it in any court of law.

    The judge could have ignored Mr. Kondaurov completely, Mr. Kondaurov or rather what he said was superfluous to what the judge was driving at, what the man said wasn’t at all important, the judge could have said what Mr. Kondaurov had said as easily himself.

    What the mysterious Mr. Kondaurov said was the following:

    “Let’s for the sake of argument, assume that I had been in charge of such an operation… and let’s assume Lugovoy was involved. I would have told him as little as possible. Agents are used all the time without knowing the full details of an operation.”

    This is a perfectly rational statement to make by Mr. Kondaurov or anyone else, anyone thinking about such ‘operations’ cannot but concur fully, it’s indeed not only probable that individuals carrying out these ‘operations’ are not in a full picture of them, it’s absolutely necessary, it’s a given, something that must be one of the golden rules of the preparations for such vile acts. Things may go wrong, the assassin or assassins may get caught, had they been fully in the picture, they may reveal the picture, the last thing the organisers want.

    The judge then goes on:

    “8.152  I think that Mr Kondaurov’s analysis was sound. I regard it as likely that, whilst Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun knew that they were poisoning Mr Litvinenko, they did not know the name or the properties of the poison that they had been given to use. I note in passing that Mr Kovtun did not refer to polonium 210 in his conversation with D3”.

    The judge’s note in passing that Mr. Kovtun didn’t refer to polonium 210 when conversing with D3 appears to be rather weird. Why should Mr. Kovtun talk about polonium 210? He didn’t possess it in the first place, had nothing to do with it, didn’t know it was polonium that allegedly killed Litvinenko.

    Imagine the police were to capture a man in connection with a planted nail bomb that killed many, learned from one of their witnesses that the suspect had talked to the witness about the blast without mentioning the nails, the police then concluding the man must have planted the bomb because he didn’t say anything to the witness about the nails. Beyond bizarre that.

    The core of the judges argument though is that the two Russian assassins didn’t know they had been given polonium 210 to poison Mr. Litvinenko.

    How likely is it that they wouldn’t have known they had been given polonium 210 (assuming that they were given the said poison)?

    Even though the agents whose job it is to end the life of someone must never know everything about the case, there are certain facts that they must know, facts without which the operation would be doomed from the start, the vile act could even backfire.

    The certain facts are those that must ensure as much as humanly possible the success of the operation – the identity of the person they are to attack, the place where the target lives, the way to use the tool of the attack, how dangerous and how traceable the tool may be if it or its delivery container is dropped, damaged, misplaced, had to be disposed off after the attack or unused so that it cannot be linked to those carrying the attack – these must be amongst the ‘must know’ facts otherwise the operation cannot be carried out successfully.

    Imagine a poison intended to be digested were to make the target violently sick immediately after he swallowed it. Would not the assassin or assassins be told about it? Or if the poison were to make the victim uncontrollably violent? Would that not be of immense help knowing? Or if the poison or the container for the poison were to leave radioactive residues easily traceable by the investigators?

    There may be other ‘facts’ the perpetrator or perpetrators must know to carry out the vile deal, Baron isn’t an expert in the field, but the above vital information about the operation is just common sense.

    To assume that the Russian KGB can outsmart seventeen US Intelligence Agencies employing close to a million people, all highly trained, vigilant, ready to pounce, and engineer the election of the Donald, and at the same time furnish polonium 210 to two of their officers to kill a man in London without telling the officers the stuff is easily traceable just beggars belief. Only someone who is either fully brain vacuous, or someone sickeningly prejudiced against Russia could swallow it (no pun intended).

    The judge goes on explaining how amateurishly Mr. Lugovoy and Mr. Kovtun handled the poisoning (under the assumption they had no idea it was the easily traceable polonium 210):

    “Had Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun known more about the substance they were handling, I am confident that they would have dealt with it more carefully. The fact that they did not know what they were handling explains why it was splashed around in hotel bathrooms and mopped up with hotel towels that were then left in the hotel. It explains why Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoy allowed their families to be contaminated. And it also, perhaps, explains Mr Kovtun’s comment to his mother-in-law after Mr Litvinenko’s death that, “Those arseholes have probably poisoned us all.”

    Would any intelligence agency of any country ever put the family of its agents, the wives and kids, in danger of death? Would that not be the surest way for the agents to turn? If the families of the two Russians were indeed in mortal danger of contamination, would that not suggest to a sane human being that the perpetrators of this atrocity must have been an individual or individuals other than the two fathers?

    The explanation of Mr. Kovtun to his mother-in-law ‘those arseholes have probably poisoned us all’ doesn’t refer to the KGB control that the judge assumes had given the polonium 210 to him and Mr. Lugovoy, it refers to the true organisers of the polonium poisoning, the people that actually did it.

    The assumption that the two Russians Mr. Kovtun and Mr. Lugovoy poisoned Mr. Litvineneko with polonium 210 without knowing the stuff was easily traceable could only have been made by someone in the last stages of Alzheimer.

    Or someone who wanted to smuggle into the report a hint wrapped up in unconvincing and strained reasoning for those with still functioning brain cells that the truth resides somewhere else, not in the bulk of the report.

  2361. Pompeo makes a statement of great import, the MSM poodles ignore it, in Baron’s humble view the speech is on par with Winston’s Iron Curtain address delivered at the Westminster College in 1946(?), not because the current Sec of State’s greatness is anywhere near that of the great Briton, just the opposite, but in terms of the impact on the world at large.

    The legal and practical implications of the Pompeo’s announcement are akin to the Berlin Wall divide, the irony is it was built by the party that ran scared of the West, the current one has the West building it.

    https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/#.Xys8E1HlioQ.twitter

  2362. Thank you Baron,
    Both interesting posts.
    Family commitments have taken precedence in recent times but I’m pleased to see you continuing the samizdat, needed now more than ever.

  2363. Glad to see you back, Noa, one hopes everything’s OK with you and your family, just stay as far from the nasty bug as possible.

    Does the Donald and his top military brass know something we don’t?

    Few days ago, he suggested the Beirut blast may not be an accident ‘according to his generals’, ‘they “seem to feel’, he said that the massive explosion that rocked Beirut killing at least 70 people, was a “terrible attack” likely caused by a bomb, or words to that effect. This was later denied by the Pentagon, and the man responsible for the Defence portfolio.

    There are though few aspects of the blast that puzzle, amongst them the behaviour of the fireworks, the short crackling explosions clearly seen in many videos.

    There seems too much of smoke coming form them, also they seem to be one offs whilst real fireworks produce a string of explosions, and on top of it, not a single one of the fireworks produced the cascading effect, nor blasted out of the confines of the storage facility.

    It was either that the fireworks were of some novel design i.e. just one short bang, which is unlikely as the attraction of fireworks is in producing not the initial bang from their ignition, but the expanding array of burning fragments, none of which happened in the videos.

    The other puzzling aspect is the ammonium nitrate, the stuff that was supposed to be on route to some African country, it was loaded in Georgia onto a ship owned by a Russian now residing in Cyprus who abandoned it after the ship carrying the stuff got impounded in Beirut some seven years ago.

    Why did the Russian gave up on a valuable cargo is the mystery, the price per tonne of ammonium nitrate is not unsubstantial, it varies form $190-$260 (Alibaba price today), let’s assume $200 seven years ago making the cargo worth over half a million dollars. Would anyone let go of such a valuable commodity (and that leaves out the cost of the boat, not in top conditions, but capable of floating).

    What one doesn’t find in any MSM is a mention that the Chinese were negotiating with the Lebanese Government for a major $12bn investment in the country including an improvement and expansion of the Beirut port facilities:

    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2020/7/3/pivoting-east-will-china-come-to-lebanons-rescue

  2366. Is there anyone out there, or has the little beast been so successful the world is much thinner now?

  2367. Hi Baron – only me, I’m afraid. Five months of this coronavirus scam lockdown is getting a bit much; although the free time can be well spent. I am even reading a bit of Ovid (Metamorphoses – in English unfortunately*)plus Beevor’s Arnhem for the second time. Lots of good stuff online also. Getting more urgent though to take down the Deep State/Globalists. Betsy and Thomas + Mike and Doug on American Intelligence Media (AIM4Truth) is also very good value and calculated to make civilised conservative radicals of us all who hadn’t made it in the past few years…
    * Mary Beard has a blog – A Don’s Life..https://genius.com/Professor-mary-beard-a-dons-life-blog-annotated

  2368. Hi Malfleur.

    “Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because …. :

    That’s apparently what says Michael Cohen, the Donald’s lawyer before he got the sack, in his forthcoming book to be released before the November election, that’s what lawyers do for their clients in the Republic, reveal what one tells them in confidence, also notice the “Russian connivance’, it’s a must, Putin cannot be left out, it helps to establish the ‘truthfulness’ of one’s take on everything including the election and the Donald.

    Plase God do help America.

  2369. WELL!
    I’m outraged. I come back here only to be confronted by Mary Beard playing the victim card regarding and the recent public speculation concerning her Growler. I had a job to keep my breakfast down!

    In retaliation, here’s the elitist fugitive emigré with a short essay complaining about Stormzy, and featuring his recollections of past times when when the New York Times used to be an actual newspaper, and the serfs knew their place. The Gods have an ironical sense of humour.

    http://www.alexanderboot.com/lunatic-fringe-is-the-new-mainstream/

    File under: Richard Littlejohn: “We’re going to hell in a handcart.” etc.

  2370. Remember…

    It’s not the Genuine EC without at least one cause for an e&oe!

    Take that, Fergus!

  2371. In a trickle, but surely do the crowds gather. Where the hell have you been, EC, Europe’s looking for another Maidan in Minsk, the Donald is said to be on the back foot in every state, the Chinese communists are just about take over the world and you keep hiding. Must do better, young man.

    What’s this omni all complaining about, it’s going to get worse, he and the rest of us will have to bear it.

    How would you feel if you were arriving back in Britain after 04.00 hours this morning, had to quarantine for two weeks, when someone getting back a couple of minutes before the deadline doesn’t have to?

    It’s all beyond parody, the c-19 are allegedly empty waiting for the 2nd wave, people are still being turned away with the standard complaints like cancer tumours, strokes, heart attacks, GPs won’t see one, it’s all appointments either virtual or over the phone.

    Will it ever end?

  2372. In today’s DT, Charles Moore, the pontificating scribbler of the middle class, has a piece about everything – immigration, c-19, borders of countries, the near meltdown in 2008, globalisation bla, bla, and of course China.

    On immigration he says: “Those Ukippy types who believe that a sophisticated country like ours could thrive without quite high level of immigrants bringing in their skills are fantasists”

    As Baron said many times before, the middle class is one of the beneficiaries from immigration, which is but what colonisation was with the travelling arrangements of the key parties reversed.

    But even his claim that the immigrants bring in ‘their skills’ is erroneous, they bring in cheap labour, the vast majority of the immigrants aren’t Harvard’s scholars, trained doctors, or famous architects, but people who come to do the jobs the British won’t, at less pay. He also conveniently forgets that we kill each year around 200,000 unborn babies, surely that would be enough to satisfy the demand of a sophisticated but also work shy, epicurean and rather selfish country for new pairs of hands.

    In the last para of the rant he also reveals what his preference for China is. He says: If the Chinese engineering of a virus in a lab or inattention to animal diseases which can spread to humans beings – we still do not know which it was – had happened 40 years ago, the illness would have reached the wide world far more slowly, China was then a poor and isolated country …..

    Quite, that would suit the man, China as poor and isolated country. Sadly for him, it’s not the case, but anyway it hasn’t been yet established that the virus did originate in China, it was first reported there, but its origins are still being investigated. To say, as he does with certainty that the virus came form China is premature, someone who were a real journalist would never say it as if it has been already established for certain.

    What we lack, and lack badly a journalists, people who report not the officially approved propaganda, but news and objective dissection of it.

  2374. #infowars #shadowgate #assange

    Baron,

    Straying into Malfleur’s purview here…

    Who is Millie Weaver? Journalists being arrested in the “Land Of The Free?”
    That sort of thing only happens in Russia and China, surely?

    I know that this guy is a bit of a motormouth, but he’s trying to fit a lot of info into 7mins.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7gnZpdNGzQ

    Chilling!

  2375. EC @ August 16th, 2020 – 10:31

    It’s chilling indeed, EC, it seems the battle between the forces of evil and their challengers is coming to to a resolution, the November election is the decider, if the Donald loses he may find himself where he said the Clinton woman would be if he gets elected, he did get to the Oval Office, she’s still free, Durham hasn’t got much time, neither has Barr, and the fact that our super spy Steele is getting more air time and exposure in the MSM that someone concocting a trashy dossier would deserve may suggest the anti-Donald forces believe their hour is coming.

    Chilling indeed.

  2377. Baron 15th August, 22.50

    Ummm. Its Lord Moore to you, mere Baron. And ingrate that you are I hope you understand that peerages are rewards for Tory party sycophants (author of “Maggie was the greatest thing since Wonderloaf”) and life style guru “my kennelmaids are all from Wuhan now, I love their slant on life! ” And of course they are payoffs for Communist IRA supporters like anti kennel maids like Fox.
    All of which is the least of our worries, as the climate of fear created by our Dear Leader and our Great Cocksman morphs into the New Terror.
    Wear your mask with Pride to show your support and hidethe loss of your humanity.

  2378. Given Rugby Union’s support for BLM and the ‘racist’/Marxist politicisation of sport I have been cancelling Sky and other subscriptions as I have no intention of funding my own and my fellow white peoples murder.

  2379. Noa @ August 17th, 2020 – 17:26

    A step that should be repeated by everyone, Noa, it’s truly a disgrace, the fellow travellers are worse than the BLM deluded to$$ers, they give them credibility in themes of the public.

    On th Spectator blog you have Rod Liddle, Douglas Murray and others pointing out the idiocy of woke, but nothing happens, if anything many large corporates publicly endorse the movements of the progressives.

    How will it end?

  2380. Noa @ August 17th, 2020 – 08:19

    What will happen when the schools open in September, will every family send their kids to learn, or will some refuse?

    Come the Autumn and Winter, the seasonal flu will be with us, easily confused with the c-19, what are we to do, close the damaged economy once more?

    It may be beneficial for the Government to have a public debate about it, but only if they were to outline their thinking, which is probably something they fear revealing to us, one gets only few scraps here and there, according to one writer in the Spectator ‘the Whitehall is gripped by fear of what may come’. That’s the caliber of people that govern us. Tragic this.

  2381. Noa, August 17th, 2020 – 17:26

    Excellent news, and thanks!

    I cancelled my Sky TV account a couple of years ago, and somehow I’ve managed to live without it. Next to go is my TV… into the nearest skip when it gives up the ghost.

    #defundtheBBC

  2382. BBC funding:

    My friends abroad inform me that they are unable to receive BBC programs on BBC iPlayer. They would gladly pay a subscription fee in order to watch BBC programs but the BBC are not equipped to do so. The are tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of expats and other anglophiles in Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, NZ, Canada, and the rest of the anglosphere, who would pay a subscription fee if the BBC could ge toff their arses and organise it. Mainly I suspect to watch old content, as they might soon change their minds when they witness the gut wrenching, cultural cringing, wokeness of the current live content!

  2383. NZ elections delayed:

    If there is a God then we must surely thank him that the Chinese didn’t release the kung flu a couple of months earlier? Otherwise the previous parliament of traitors would still be sitting and Bercow would still be Speaker.

    The question that remains is, will Bozza pull it off or will he still yet manage to snatch an ignominious defeat from the jaws of victory?

  2385. Malfleur should like this one, it claims not to be a conspiracy theory, but a factual revelation of the Mother of all conspiracies. What or who is to blame? The Central Banks, the secondary banking system linked to them, and the Governments profligate fiscal policy.

    Since the near meltdown in 2008, the world has accumulated more debt that ever before, the system must collapse, but those that enriched themselves in the process need something else to blame, the c-19 is the culprit, and the pliable masses, ignorant and full of insouciance will buy into the cashless society, the wearing of masks, and the vaccination when it arrives.

    We are doomed (or are we?).

    https://www.clivemaund.com/article.php?id=5531

  2386. A machine gun can fire well over 500 rounds per minute, the guy in the video can beat it, it’s another chapter in the Millie Veaver story, not much to be learnt from it except that there must be more to the arrest than the issue of a $50 cellphone and a family squabble.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YCu99wFOI

  2388. Baron, August 19th, 2020 – 22:13

    The guy is a lawyer, Baron.
    He probably charges by the word and not by the minute.

  2389. Baron, August 21st, 2020 – 17:04

    Historically “journalists” were always considered muck raking low life.
    However these days “presstitutes” seems more appropriate. It’s a pity that fairly recent, but accurate, term has fallen into disuse.

  2390. Good points, EC, lawyers and journalists today aren’t what they used to be, agreed.

    Is Navalny a lawyer? If not then he would probably define himself as a campaigning journalist of the highest caliber, a courageous investigator of wrongs, and there’s alot that’s wrong with Russia, but is he the right guy to correct these wrongs? Hmmm

    One mustn’t rule anything out, the list of possibilities why he fell ill is long, but one thing is more than certain, it cannot have been an order from the Kremlin, the guy is much greater threat to Putin dead than alive.

    The poisoning story that emerged almost simultaneously with the news he’s be taken ill fits neatly the long running narrative of the Putin’s assigned string of near deadly and terminally deadly attacks on people opposed to him with killing tools that even a school kid could link to the Kremlin, but which anyone with still functioning brain cannot but reject.

    Navalny has charisma aplenty, he’s an excellent talker, looks good on the TV, and has a loyal following in Moscow, St Petersburg and few other cities, but not overwhelmingly so, and virtually no backing in the country at large. His best endeavours have been investigations in the field of corruption, he can package the cases attractively (you may recall Baron posted one of the cases of a TV GP female), but he is known to pinch investigative work of others, never acknowledges it, is not disliked but hated by the other oppositionists, he refuses to join forces with them to form a common front, admits to cheating arguing that it’s morally justified because of the Russia’s corrupt regime.

    His judgement isn’t up too it, however, he was in favour of the Crimean takeover when it was happening, this displeased his foreign donors, he changed his mind, this didn’t go down well with many of his Russian supporters who, like most of Russia, believe Crimea has been Russian for centuries, he switched again, argues now that the takeover would be OK, if there were to be another referendum under international supervision.

    His latest misjudgment was for the Moscow Duma election, he and his team asked people to vote for anyone but the pro-Putin candidates, many people did, the pro-Putin candidates barely reached over 50% majority, sadly for him the other votes went for the communists and hardliners, not Navalny’s candidates, which pi$$ed many of his supporters mightily, as you may imagine.

    His star has been in decline, he needed something to boost his standing, not so much inside Russia, but internationally, in particular now when Belarus is attempting a replica of the Kiev’s Maidan.

    One would expect his recovery will furnish many a chance for him to appear on the TV screens across the world, another Greta of the male gender, not to save the planet, he ain’t aiming that far, but the land of the suffering unwashed of Russia from the Putin’s tyranny.

  2396. If the banning of the two songs for the Prom’s final doesn’t bury the BBC TV licence fee nothing will.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtgotLdZ3MI

    Btw, the decision to drop the singing was blamed on a Finnish conductor of Ukrainian origin Dalia Stasevska, but the left leaning female says she had nothing to do with it. Shouldn’t Lord Tony Hall be sacked before he leaves office?

  2400. The Kenosha rioting frightens, one’s told it’s not a place one would expect it to happen, the Dems are playing with fire if they think they can prevent the Donald getting his second term if they let these destructive forces continue on the rampage, it may not take much for the whole country to erupt. Then what?

    There’s an inherent dichotomy in the Republic’s foundation that’s virtually non-correctable.

    The first European settlers came over primarily not because they wanted to better their material conditions, they left the Old Continent because they didn’t like, they hated deeply to be governed by heredity. The Constitution, the Amendments, the institutional set up reflected it, it was the governance ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’.

    All subsequent immigration waves have not had the same motivation, the key reason for coming to the Republic has been reversing, and in the last century the immigrants came over for nothing but a material betterment of their lives.

    One may even argue that the immigration from the Islamic lands that predominated in the 2nd half of the last century only tolerates what the Founding Fathers had in mind until an opportunity to reverse it arrives, then hopes go full sharia. The fellow travellers, which currently includes the Dems and the other groups of the progressive leaning seem not to mind, back the worshippers of Allah.

    The number of the arrivals that have not been motivated mostly by the Constitution now exceeds greatly those who are sticking to what the Founding Fathers created, at the turn of the last century (1900) the Republic’s population was only around 75mn, today it’s well over 300mn.

    It’s this the division in the Land of the Free between the Constitutionalists and the Buckists i.e. those that regard the Constitution as a relic if not to be disposed of then at least ignored, the country turn into a countrywide plant enabling those who come (legally to not) to earn a buck.

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/77890/kenosha-or-kosovo-shocking-images-reveal-destruction-after-race-riots-leave-buildings-in.html

  2401. Baron. 10.31

    The great majority of original migrants to America and the West Indies were sent there under compulsion, to work as indentured slaves for wealthy protestant settlers. There were petty criminals, English, Scots and Irish Catholics and generally the poor and dispossessed. Eventually, loathed and mistreated by their masters, if they survived and completed their indentures they migrated to the poor arable, physical margins of society, to become hicks, hill billies and rednecks, despised even by the black slaves who were imported to replace them. (qv White Cargo by Jordan and Walsh).
    Still the White Trash reman has at least one great spokesman in Jim Goad. Both his books ‘Whiteness, The Original Sin’ and ‘The Redneck Manifesto’ are recommended, readable and passionate, like the following article they encapsulate both the White dilemma and its grass roots rejection of the current black Marxist narrative.
    https://www.takimag.com/article/being-nice-to-black-people/

  2402. Baron
    p.s Thank you for that insightful analysis and link.
    Ultimately the question for both the US and UK, indeed Europe as a whole, is at what point it says enough is enough and acknowledges that further multi-cultural mass sub-intelligent ‘enrichment’ must be halted and physically reversed or the result will be cross continental civilisational war as we ‘take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them…’.

  2403. For an insight into White self-loathing in the US, which even as it does so identifies andexposes how de-industrialisation through globalisation has devastated both the Whites and Blacks of the South, the liberal conscience of democrat Paul Theroux is bleached by the Sun in ‘Deep South’.

  2404. ‘The first European settlers came over primarily not because they wanted to better their material conditions, they left the Old Continent because they didn’t like, they hated deeply to be governed by heredity. The Constitution, the Amendments, the institutional set up reflected it, it was the governance ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’.
    Mmmmm. As history is written by the winners (who as we see are currently speedily re-writing both UK and US received history) we really should question the ‘founding fathers’ antecedents and motives more closely.
    Ultimately, ruthless and determined, they sought independence from UK government control, of which they were simply an offshoot. There was of course great sympathy for them (as there is now for traitors) in Parliament and Lord North supposedly opposed to the rebels would, could should in other circumstances have been tried and beheaded for treason.

  2407. Noa, August 30th, 2020 – 21:42

    Classic!

    Noa, August 31st, 2020 – 12:44 et seq.

    Fast forward a couple of hundred years and the only way you’ll get your dentures fixed is if you can leave them at the premises of the fang wrencher and collect them later.

    If Trump fails to get elected in November there I think that will be a period of civil war, followed by a military coup.

  2408. EC
    Getting dentures?
    Getting them fixed??
    Luxury!!
    Glad to see that you and Baron are still here and still ranting…

  2410. EC @ August 31st, 2020 – 13:17

    The guy talks some sense, EC, but he’s overdoing it, there is no appetite for an uprising, either side is highly charged, but neither wants to take it much further because the truth is nobody can win, it’s a lose-lose fight, or rather would be if it started. What the authorities should do is get ready for the election day, Baron reckons it will be close, the Donald may lose, will question the result, some of his supporters may indeed get overexcited, to it may go the other way round with the same end result. The National Guard should be ready, no?

  2411. EC @ August 31st, 2020 – 13:21

    When Baron visited last, EC, it was a lovely place, good food, clean streets and friendly people. But that was towards the very end of last century. How things change.

  2413. Noa @ September 2nd, 2020 – 17:29

    Has a lion ever morphed into a sheep? Hmmm

    The only solution is to have a broadcaster staffed with lions, funded through subscriptions, and another one employing sheep also subscription funded. Simples, as the fluffy animal says.

  2414. It’s Novichok again, why hasn’t anyone thought of it from the start.

    The stupid Russians poison Navalny with this world famous nerve agent, fail to do the job properly again, allow him to leave the country for the Western vigilant agencies to discover the ‘truth’.

    Just as happened after the MH-17 (the EU imposed sanctions on Russia), there will again be consequences, the Nord-2 gas pipeline will be finally abandoned, and serves the Russians well.

  2422. Noa @ September 3rd, 2020 – 19:32

    Altogether three (only two running), Noa, but try and type with fingers infected with arthritis on gadgets that same. You young people know nothing about how it feels when one’s body is derelict.

  2423. EC @ September 4th, 2020 – 11:21

    One of his better collages, EC, an absolute top.

    Amazingly, the BBC seems to be focusing on the demonstrations in Belarus, they are mostly peaceful, if anyone behaves more than badly it’s the security officers, the Russian TV has plenty of how they treat the dignified protesters, but one finds nothing much on the BBC on the Republic’s rioting where burning, breaking things and sickening intimidation of perceived supporters of the Donald rule.

    Mark M was on the World at One this Sunday, one of the topics was the BBC licence fee, the new Chairman was obviously in favour, others were more doubtful, the chap called Dyke who once chaired the behemoth was of the view that currently because of the fee the BBC cannot be controlled by Ministers, subscription wasn’t helpful, a lot of it is around, possibly general taxation should fund it. Only one participants, a guy that runs some outfit for the defunding of the BBC was spot on saying it was immoral to pay the fee as many felt the BBC not only didn’t;t reflect their views, it was also positively discrimination against them.

    Baron would rather have Ministers controlling the monstrosity, at least they are elected, as things stand the BBC isn’t controlled or guided or directed by anyone but the Tristrams hired from the same woke phylum. It’s not unakin to the Soroses and Gates of this world, like the BBC they also have massive money, but have never stood for election to anything. They may think they have the right to push for what they believe the society should do, how it should behave, which direction it should move. But why? Only because they’ve made i.e. the Soroses, or can get big money from everyone, like the BBC, one that refuses is sent to court, gets a big fine or could be even imprisoned

    We should not only scrap the £5.0bn fee for the BBC, but we should also prohibit the rich to interfere in anything unless they stand for election to public office.

    Another point that occurred to Baron listening to the debate about the BBC was that the original paradigm for the set-up no longer exists, the corporation was set up in 1923, only one radio channel, then two, after the war the TV went through a similar pattern, first BBC1, then also BBC2, ITV began life in the early 70s.

    The initial aim was to ‘inform, entertain and educate’, it’s too wide a task, but in the early 1900 it was desirable, apart from newspapers, magazines, books there was nothing else. Totally different today, one would need to live forever and the day would have to be as long as the month to do just scanning the availability of radio and TV channels in additions to what the Internet offers.

    To continue to pay for the BBC is similar to our paying for the horse driven carriages of the distant past when cars were beginning to appear, it would have been a waste of money, the horse driven carriages outlived their usefulness because of the progress in technology, the same with the BBC, the concept is well past its sell-by-date.

    We must scrap the fee.

  2424. Sorry about the rant, that’s what a couple of Merlot at longish lunch does to a decaying brain, arghhh (and apologies for the errors)

  2425. Baron

    My sincere sympathies. I’ve the same problem, hence the numerous spelling mistakes these days.
    The BBCs new Chairman, being much less stupid, arrogant, idle and entitled that the last one, may yet snatch victory from the jaws of subscription.
    We shall see.
    I never watch it, though I watch and listen to the occasional iplayer documentary and radio podcast.

  2426. Few titbits on Navalny:

    It seems the Germans are taking their time to reveal the results of the Novichok poisoning, it’s two weeks since they got the man, still not a word. The Russia doctors took just 24 hours to publish their results.

    Would any country release a prominent opposition figure allegedly poisoned on its territory to an alien power if it were responsible for the vile act? It makes no sense to argue that Navalny was hit on Putin orders, then let go within 48 hours to a NATO country.

    Not many people know that Navalny’s wife is the daughter of a powerful ex-KGB operator and banker in charge of Russian assets in London, Mr Boris Abrosimov, who is pally with the better-known ex-KGB colonel also a Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, the owner and publisher of two British newspapers (his son recently became a peer of the realm). Mrs Navalny (nee Abrosimov) may have had her past erased from the internet, but the story of her mighty father was leaked by the Russian socialite, Putin’s godchild Ms Ksenia Sobchak, one of the contenders for the Russian presidency in 2018.
    Go figure.

  2431. Malfleur @ September 7th, 2020 – 23:52

    Could Baron respectably disagree with the man everyone thinks was the best thing since the sliced bleached bread, Malfleur? There are pieces in any genre of music (as in any other creative field) that are as melodic, creative, satisfying one’s need for the instant uplifting of spirit, not just in classical music, no?

  2432. Malfleur @ September 8th, 2020 – 00:04

    Have you tried Vasily Grossman’s ‘the Life and Fate’, or better s till Orlando Figes ‘A People’s Tragedy’? The latter is a must, it ends with the 1917 revolution, but is a masterpiece, Baron reckons amongst the very best. It should be people like Figes commenting on Russia, not the MSM scribbles who know FA about the country’s soul.

  2433. Baron
    Yes, much of Scruton’s work is over-rated, I see very little in it to appeal to the common, grass roots conservatively inclined Englishman. His praise for the small battalions is simply a reiteration of Burke.
    I agree with your assessment of Figes. I’ve been reading “The Whisperers, Private lives in Stalin’s Russia”. It is, quite simply heart breaking.
    Other reading worth a look is the Civitas series on Covid-19. In particular ‘Year of the Bat’, highlighting the struggle between Nationalisn and Globalism. All the books are free to download.
    On a lighter, musical, note, can you perhaps identify any uplifting music from the Grunge, Garage and Hiphop schools fo’ ma biotches? 😉

  2434. Newsletter – Berlin: In the Underground War against Russia and China

    Poisoning, kidnappings and politically motivated serial murders are nothing new to Germany. They were part of daily life in the post-war period: Terrorist operations – anticipating casualties – against the infrastructure of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), were carried out by a social-democratic-clad underground organization (“Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit” -“Combat Group against Inhumanity”) headquartered in the American sector in Berlin. Eastern intelligence services retaliated with kidnappings of anti-communist organizers and with contract killings within the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) – up until the 1980s.

    more…
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/8374/

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  2435. Noa @ September 8th, 2020 – 15:53

    His lack of bog-standard-comprehensive education fails to identify any output of the three unquestionably worthy-of-existence bands, Noa, Baron has never heard of them in the first place, they have escaped his attention, he regrets it but that’s life, one cannot have everything.

    What’s keeping the German doctors from revealing the test results? It may be they are waiting for so long to claim that whilst the wait, for whatever reason, was on the poison quietly withered, was, but is no more. Clever.

    Isn’t it fortunate that the poisoning occurs few months before the completion of the Nord-2? And just like the downing of the MH-17 over Ukraine led to EU sanctions against Russia within two weeks of the tragedy, so the Navalny’s charade will oblige also, the gas pipeline will be cancelled next week.

    Btw, the Navalny’s case is similar to that of Babchenko, the Ukrainian hero seen in a pool of blood, dead one day, fully resurrected the next day except that the former was never shown fully dead.

    The German Foreign Policy blog is first class, Baron has it in his bookmarks, seldom clicks on it, not enough time. The piece on the Pussy Riot says it all, it misses on their fleeting US exposure, they got booted out because of some unpleasantness that annoyed the Americans.

  2436. SUSAN MICHIE is Boris’s adviser for SAGE and she is a leading member of the British communist party . Do you think that this needs questioning ?. She has written books on how to change people’s behaviours through psychological means i.e. television and radio etc

    Hm….

  2438. Baron
    September 8th, 2020 – 10:09

    Not yet. I was lucky enough to find Beevor’s Stalingrad in a bookshop here – though Life and Fate was something I was dimly aware of and had told myself I should look out for once I returned where books are more readily available. Now, on your recommendation, I will add Figes.

  2439. Malfleur @ September 9th, 2020 – 23:40

    The way this Government operates baffles, Malfleur, and not only when it comes to advisors, there’s little transparency on any of the issues facing the country, one feels bewildered, lost, take as an example the new rules on gatherings, one cannot go a restaurant in a group of more than 6 for fear one catches the bug, but weddings are OK, the virus doesn’t reside in people attending them presumably.

    It’s all not just confusing, but rathe r irritating. It distorts Baron’s travelling plans, also, the country he wants to visit was taken from the list countries that require no quarantine after one returns, it’s two weeks house arrest again. It’s all based on positive test cases, not hospital admissions or deaths, the two latter indicators of the virus’s progress (or not) don’t seem to be important, yet they bloody are.

    More to the point, the cases are based on the PCR testing (polymerase chain reaction) that picks up the virus genetics by swabbing the inside of one’s nose then multiplying them many many times (40x?) until the test can detect the virus. Not being a scientist Baron reckons that one could discover virtually any genetics bit of anything in one’s body, but in minute quantities, the body immune system can deal with it, in fact, it’s imperative that we all have such infinitesimal genetic stuff of the harmful nature it keeps the immune system up.

    One fears that slowly we are building up to a full collapse of the economy, all it will take is one element of it imploding fully, then in a domino effect, the whole edifice will come crumbling down.

  2440. Several weeks ago, a huge debate was raging in the Spectator about the Donald’s desire to get US manufacturers in China back to the homeland, it was supposed to boost US jobs, everyone was applauding it. Few days ago, the Donald broadened the exercise, said he wants to fully decouple from China, cut the umbilical cord, go independent.

    Baron was the only one arguing it wasn’t doable unless either the Chinese labour costs get to the level of the US’s, or conversely, the American cost of labour drops to close to the level of China’s, the former improbable in short or medium terms, the latter impossible in any terms.

    Any new US job creation must come from new ideas, something that may utilise the low cost manufacturing output the Chinese plants are furnishing, but to hope the US companies making stuff in China will abandon the country which also offers a well oiled infrastructure of moving the output smoothly from China to the US is just a fallacy.

    A new survey just out backs Baron fully, over 90% of the US backed manufacture in China has no plans to pack it up, return to the US even though the companies are well aware the tensions between the two powers will persist for years.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-firms-sticking-china-tensions-persist-years

  2441. Baron,

    Not just China, but India, Vietnam, Thailand Indonesia etc. etc.

    It still very difficult to buy anything that isn’t made in in the far East.
    However, you can still buy and enjoy Romney’s Kendal Mint Cake with confidence. 🙂

    If the USA, and some other western nations, hadn’t decided to put their germ warfare research offshore by financing, setting up, the Wuhan Virus Laboratory then we might not be in this mess, The rictus smirk on Anthony Fauci’s fizzog during his Kabuki Theatre appearances are a tribute to his self control, or Botox ™ , when anybody else in the know might burst out laughing.

  2442. EC @ September 10th, 2020 – 09:53

    An excellent point, EC, the governing elites are cast from the same mould, it depends not whether they rule in the West or in the East, we the unwashed have to bear the brunt of their lust for the control of us.

    There’s a 3-day a week UK Column News, Baron came across it recently, they seem to be pushing it too fat talking about a government of occupation, also fascist which is well over the top, it’s where they must be losing many people, but that we are semi-governed by unelected quangos must be true.

    Yesterday, they were showing a group of allied agencies getting together (one was from Norway) to issue a guide for student campuses aiming to ‘nudge’ students to adopt the green agenda. Nobody elected them, nobody has charged them with any task, why are they doing it?

  2443. Some more:

    An interesting shot at the c-19 origin and speed, no need to read it in full, towards the end is the bit that matters, it’s penned by Ron Unz, the guy that runs the blog (and of course the analytical dissection by the Frenchman is a useful reference):

    https://www.unz.com/announcement/31000-words-missing-from-the-atlantic-and-the-new-york-times-sunday-magazine/

    If one were to subscribe to the Unz’s take on the pathogen rise and reach then it would be more complete to argue that it was a co-operation between China’s and the America’s dark forces, the target wasn’t so much the Chinese economy as the Donald, hence the quick recovery in the land of the Mandarin speakers, but wobbling over in the Republic (the Donald has said sorry today or yesterday for his lukewarm response at the start of the pandemic).

  2444. Another ‘Bald&Bankrupt’ video for you, the guy’s one of Baron’s favourites, this time not because of his travels in the wilderness of Russia seeking the remnants of the Soviet empire, but because he’s being interviewed himself, not that he said that much about his own persona, the answer to his past employment was rather evasive, but he does come over as a common sense, down-to-the-ground bloke, warm and for someone as young as he and coming from the West quite knowledgable about the East and not only because he speaks Russian, can pronounce words in other Eastern languages like Czech reasonably well.

    Still, only two things on the chat, he found it most dangerous in America he said, then qualified it saying it was in Oklahoma, well, America’s much bigger than Europe but one wouldn’t say one was scared in Europe if one were in (say) Albania or Kosovo rather than Berlin or London, would one. In Oklahoma even a New Yorker would feel uneasy, Baron could take him to places in the Republic where, if he lived in that place, he wouldn’t have to lock up at night.

    There’s also a slight dent in his capacity as an observer, the Czechs may be polite but are far from the politest people, trust Baron on this, he should know. If he went to Japan, stayed there for a while he would find a bunch of people by far more polite than the Czechs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjjBgfZG5Q&feature=youtu.be

  2445. Have you listened to our enlightened leader talking about testing? Baron has. Boris explains that the test, a quick one, just like a pregnancy test which is something he must know a lot about. According to him the test may not say whether one’s infected, but it will say whether one’s infectious. This makes little sense, no?

    Could one be infectious without being infected? How does it work then, where does one’s capacity to infect others come from? Could it be that as one breathes out the flow picks up the virus from somewhere?

    The whole pandemic is becoming more like a pantomime, it’s only the timing that’s doesn’t fit.

  2447. Have you given any thought to the coming vaccine? Are you going to get the jab? If you’re forced to get vaccinated will you insist on a choice, if so which one will you go for?

    It may of course change in the future, but Baron has done little research on what’s in the pipeline, figured that if pushed and given a choice he would plump for the Russian version of the newest saviour of mankind.

    As far as he could find out the Russians have a solid history of delivering workable vaccines, it was their poliovirus life vaccine that inoculated the world in the 60s (they developed it together with an American scientist), it wasn’t properly tested either, but it worked.

    The current Russian c-19 vaccine is in two parts, if the first one, the weaker shot, shows an adverse reaction one obviously doesn’t cary on. It’s based on two human vectors compared to the Oxford version that’s similar in approach but utilises a chimpanzee vector, it uses the same approach that brought the Russians success with the Ebola vaccine.

    Even though Russia started the stage 3 trials for the vaccine only recently (thousands of people of all ages, the drug and a placebo together) the Russians have gained a lot of applicable experience because since September 2019 they’ve been testing a vaccine for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by a similar coronavirus.

    If only did the Russians have a sense of humour called the vaccine not Sputnik (a rather worn out and overused label) but Novichok MK2 or NYB (Novichok’s Younger Brother) – after all it’s also brand new, it hasn’t been around before. The c-19 vaccine is to save lives, just what the old Novichok seems to be doing, abit of adverse reaction, but a full recovery, and a boosted immune system, heh, heh, heh.

  2448. A small dose of something contraversial, but please think before you talk.

    Immigration is unlikely to be curbed substantially because it benefits the middle class, and it’s the middle class that governs the country. Immigration mirrors the colonisation of the past, the travelling arrangements of the two parties that benefit most are reversed, it’s not the son of a middle class family who packs his bags leaves for distant lands where the locals grow banana for him, cook, look after him, it’s the locals from the distant lands that arrive here to pick carrots, serve Costa, look after the offspring of the middle class families.

    The above is undeniably true, and if so those who sneak in the way Mr. Crawford describes should be preferable to those who ask to come, wait, obtain a visa beforehand. The former are indeed mostly male, of working age, healthy, have courage otherwise they wouldn’t have chosen this risky way of coming. It’s a myth that all or many of them live on Welfare or commit crimes, the vast majority do seek employment, have jobs, want to contribute.

    IT may seem weird but as a country we would do better if we let the illegals sneak in rather than accept large families of mostly females and old folks to come and settle here legally.

  2449. Baron, September 12th, 2020 – 07:30

    Ah, so glad that Dr. Vernon Coleman has found a new platform… for the time being at any rate.

    Talking about elites, here’s another Vernon…

    “It’s a BIG Club, and You Ain’t In It”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i01hRfQLc30

    The only effective anti-viral is provided by a fistful of Dollars in somebody else’ face, reportedly.

  2450. Baron, September 12th, 2020 – 08:21

    “Have you given any thought to the coming vaccine? Are you going to get the jab?”

    Probably not. I will only, reluctantly, be getting a jab if it’s a prerequisite to being able to leave the country…. for good. Even then, I will balk at anything sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates.

    My GP surgery is now texting me, on a daily basis, to come in and get the 2020 Wrinklies (65+) flu jab. Why the sudden, unbridled enthusiasm for meeting patients when the doctors and nurses have bing hiding since March I wonder not? Because they cannot do it over the phone and they get ££s for every shot administered. I’m a bit reluctant to go in until I’ve finished “running in” my new motorcycle. I am keen to complete this process before the first snows arrive in these parts towards the end of October.

  2451. EC @ September 12th, 2020 – 10:32

    Good man, EC, the other Vernon, younger, too, he should be able to keep hitting the controllers of the unwashed for longer.

    It’s not perhaps that shocking that money seems to be placed above equality, as the female says ‘we need every dollar’, equality can go jump the tree.

  2452. EC @ September 12th, 2020 – 10:59

    You should tell us more, EC, what bike and where to?

    You may be disappointed, it seems every country has joined the club of the imbeciles, it beggars belief what has happened to all the breast beating shouting ‘democracy, freedom, equality’. It took one little bug that kills not many but spreads easily, and we cheerfully march towards oblivion, the lot of us.

  2453. When Navalny was hospitalised in Omsk the Western politicians and their MSM poodles were unrestrained in demanding fresh news, tell us more, tell us more were the shouts almost hourly. Now, the opposition figures has well over spent weeks in the care of the Germans, nothing much has been said except of course that he was poisoned with Novichok, no evidence presented, just the spokesmen of the various agencies involved (not the doctors) are relating the same mantra, sporadically.

    The focus is now on a bottled water, the man was apparently sipping from it, the bottle is with Navalny when he’s drinking the tea at Tomsk, it has blue cap, it’s seen also in Mrs. Navalny’s bag in Germany, the one allegedly spiked with Novichok has a pink cap, but this is easily explained, the nerve agent is so powerful it turned the blue colour into pink, but thanks to the expertise of the German medical staff Navalny himself wasn’t killed, he’s out of the artificially induced comma, talking.

    Where would the world be without the Western know-how onhow to deal with deadly nerve agents?

  2455. This is a must watch, those in governance should be compiled to drop everything, concentrate on what this softly spoken Irishman has to say, Boris and Hancock more than once.

    It wasn’t;t available in March, but there’s no excuse now, the evidence’s speaks clearly, eery and each restriction should be scrapped, lifted, abandoned, we should return to normality as we knew it at the start of the year:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvFhIFzaac

  2456. Apathy, it works for me….

    DEEP Thoughts A Tidal Wave of Righteous Apathy

    Jim Goad 

    September 14, 2020

    photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

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    This is the year everything went wrong.

    The year that the dried, cracked, and frayed rubber band that seemed to be holding everything together finally snapped from all the strain.

    This is the year that boiled everyone’s brains.

    Something has been taken from all of us this year, and it doesn’t look like we’re getting it back anytime soon.

    This is why I laughed bitterly when someone from Canada—Canada!—recently implored me to vote for Trump this November as if it would significantly improve my life or theirs.

    I voted for Trump four years ago.

    Censorship and deplatforming are far, far, FAR worse than they were four years ago, and he hasn’t done a single thing about it.

    There’s no wall.

    He has deported fewer illegals than Obama did.

    The debt has climbed even more quickly than it did under Obama.

    He has surrendered America’s streets to the enemy.

    He seems much more emotionally invested in snagging 5% of the black vote than he does in even daring to address white people as a group, even once. He caught tons of flak for his “fine people on both sides” comment regarding Charlottesville, but his Justice Department seems committed to prosecuting only one side—the one with the white males. The RNC commemorated the black loser who got shot by cops in Kenosha but didn’t make a peep on behalf of a single white victim of the endless nonwhite violence during Trump’s term.

    Despite everything that Trump appeared to represent and in spite of all the hysterical warnings from his detractors, in 2020 it’s far worse to be a white male in America than it was in 2016.

    And American culture is four years more retarded than it was four years ago. Actually, it’s a century more retarded than it was only four years ago.

    So please tell me again what voting for him is supposed to accomplish.

    Will people stop rioting?

    “These people are so clueless that they don’t even realize their outrage has been cooked up for them like a cheap TV dinner.”

    Will people stop being dumb?

    Will things get better?

    Will everyone suddenly put their rapidly metastasizing differences aside?

    I realize they’ve made it impossible for Trump to get anything done, but what does that say about the limits of presidential power? Either Trump is a bad president, or the president doesn’t do much beyond give speeches and hand out medals. When it comes to everything that matters and everything he promised, his hands appear to be tied.

    If the last four years have taught us anything, it’s that the president’s role is largely symbolic. In a rapidly secularizing society, voting rather than religion is the opiate of the masses. It gives them the illusion that their squeaky little voices matter.

    No matter whom you vote for, the government gets elected, and the government always seems to get worse every time you vote for it.

    You’re asking me which side I’m choosing to forcibly take nearly half of my wages and waste it all in spite of what I actually want or need?

    This will be the weirdest election of all, and there will be chaos afterward, of that I have no doubt.

    I suspect a Biden presidency would be funnier, but that’s about the only difference I can discern at the moment. The two-party system virtually ensures that things only get worse, including the level of public outrage.

    I’m sure you’ve noticed all the outrage. How can you miss it?

    Through a meticulously manicured system of selective information distribution and carefully managed news cycles, people who don’t know a fucking thing about politics scream at other people who don’t know a fucking thing about politics all day and all night…as if it will change anything beyond cementing their shared misery. They are slaves to a news cycle, hamsters on a wheel they were placed on while half-asleep. Due to automation and outsourcing and the demonstrable fact that government exists only to perpetuate government, their lives have been rendered empty and meaningless, so they fill the deep holes inside themselves with endless outrage. These people are so clueless that they don’t even realize their outrage has been cooked up for them like a cheap TV dinner.

    It is like rubber-necking at the proverbial car crash, but after a while you realize that to keep staring at a car crash—instead of looking at the road ahead of you and continuing to drive—means there’s something wrong with you.

    You live a certain amount of years and combine it with a certain amount of intelligence, and you realize that getting upset about politics is a costly investment with little or no rewards.

    Imagine writing for 30 years and realizing the world is far dumber than when you started. Not that I’m to blame, but obviously I’m not helping, either.

    Was it Nelson Mandela who said that hating someone is like drinking poison and expecting them to die from it? Well, I feel that getting upset about politics works the same way. Politics remain politics, while you wind up with an ulcer.

    I see people working themselves into conniptions online about politics, and I feel a contemptuous pity for them. I was once among their flock, but yea, I have healed myself. How much emotion is worth wasting on something that rarely, if ever, gives me satisfaction? I don’t see the point of getting upset anymore. Not much bang for the buck there.

    Of course the situation is disgusting. But I don’t see the value in getting disgusted anymore.

    Getting upset about it only hurts you and not them. This simple concept flew over my head for an unforgivable number of decades, and it still seems to evade most of the people who open their mouths online.

    I simply think, “Oh, yeah, they’re lying. That’s because they’re liars. That’s what they do.” It’s much easier when you realize it’s their problem and not yours.

    I’ve spent about enough outrage for one lifetime, thanks. There will be things that annoy me—that’s inevitable when you’re me—but for the most part, unless I can turn it into a good joke, I’ll merely look away. Who needs all that annoyance? Let the Perennially Upset circle-jerk one another into oblivion.

    The word “apathy” was often tossed about as a pejorative in the wake of Watergate and Nixon’s resignation. People who’d naively grown up thinking the government acted on their behalf had been disabused of all their childish fantasies. Funny, though—I remember the mid to late 1970s as the most unabashedly fun time in American history. There’s something to be said for not allowing the bastards to ruin your mood.

    Then, at some point, people made the stupid decision to start caring again.

    I realize that people like to have hope, but at this point being hopeful seems sad and naive to me. What’s the advantage of being correct in a world that can’t admit the truth? What’s the point of being upset with idiots when the idiots can’t even bother to be upset with themselves? Inside my rib cage I’m starting to feel a rolling tsunami of apathy powerful enough to crush the Hoover Dam. Hoo-boy, I could use a whole season of apathy right now. Maybe a year. Or make that ten.

    It’s astounding how much better life gets the moment you stop caring about certain things. It’s surprising—although it shouldn’t be—how much better your head feels when you stop banging it against a wall.

    Don’t look at it as not caring; look at it as being carefree.

    I know it sounds like hopeless despondency, but life gets better the moment you stop caring about this crap. Try it—I dare you.

    Jim Goad

  2457. Noa @ September 14th, 2020 – 15:02

    What an enjoyable rant, Noa, and of course the point it makes is valid, indisputable, why bother, whatever one may say gets ignored.

    The problema with his apathy approach to life is that one day one gets hit, hit totally unfairly, no reason for it, it’s hurtful not because of what the consequences of the hit may be, it hurts because the hit’s based on lies, untruths, deceptions. One shouts for help, but all one gets from the society at large is apathy just like in the saying ‘I did FA when they came for A, and B, and … so when they came for me those like me before did FA as well, those that came for me won.

  2458. Baron
    You are right, of course! His apathy us stages, a position. No more than that. An invitation to the unwary to accept the bait, advance into the ambush, discover the flank attack too late, manage the ‘inner lines’ Stonewall Jackson in the Shanendoah, Wellington at Salamanca.
    I’ve spent six months delving into a stockpile of books, ‘The Redneck Manifesto’ and ‘Whiteness, the Original Sin’ gave both added to my knowledge of and respect for Americans and their unquoshable fighting spirit.
    Don’t be deceived, like us they are angry people.
    And dangerous when pushed too far.

  2459. A picture of Navalny on a hospital bed emerged, two masked nurses, himself and his wife grinnig into the camera, the guy looks healthier than his wife after he got poisoned by the most potent nerve agent known to mankind, spent two weeks in induced coma, in fact he looks better than when he was sipping tea at the Tomsk airport. The Russians have a big problem, they should better the quality of their nerve agents or they will be the laughing stock of the West.

    Navalny says he wants to go back to Russia, continue his mission, hopefully stand in the next presidential election, beat Putin hands down (Baron made the third motivation up but who knows, stranger things have happened when the Americans were in control).

    His comeback may not be what he expects, he’s finished in Russia, will be truly buried if the EU and the Americans bring up more sanctions on Russia, Putin and his crew will be able to blame him for them, he should reconsider, remain in the free West, do lecturing tours, enlighten the blind unwashed about the evil of Putin and life in Russia with him in charge.

  2460. Noa @ September 14th, 2020 – 21:02

    It wasn’t books, but guitar playing Baron took up, not much success so far, just the first cord, and even that is performed badly.

    Why should he decide to torture those close to him with his play? Good question, no good answer to it except that on his frequent visits to charity shops looking for rare (or only interesting) books he came across what looked like a brand new guitar at a bargain price of five quid. He bought it, got an internet tuner on, began annoying the boss. Not bad.

  2461. So Baron, excellent!
    when is the CD due to be released? Owed by the promotional video?
    If you can strum it we’ll hum it!

  2462. Noa @ September 15th, 2020 – 17:23

    Sadly, Noa, it won’t happen in Baron’s life time that began to be measured not in decades but years a decade ago, soon the measurement will switch down a gear to months, then weeks, and finally days? Heh, heh, heh

    It’s unbelievable how stiff one’s fingers get with age, just the opposite of the other organ’s behaviour, the one that furnishes fleeting pleasure, but not much else. Why’s that?

  2464. EC @ September 16th, 2020 – 09:53

    Mr. Firmin may be asking why, EC, it won’t change anything, the country doesn’t;t have enough money, NATO has always been a cover for the American Armed Forces (hence the German unwillingness to spend the mandatory 2% on it), the perception of the next military conflict has changed, it’s no longer massive troops, plenty of old fashion heavy gear, it’s more economic attrition (e.g. US boycott of Huawei), chemical and bio, and above all cyber warfare, Baron reckons. He also reckons that’s a big mistake, but is anyone asking the poorly educated Slav? Heh, heh, heh

    It may well be that now with Europe losing us the NATO outfit will undergo a serious change, we, Britain, get a greater say, but judging from the reluctance of our Ministers to talk about our role in the European Defence Union this seems unlikely.

    Given the fact that money, or rather the lack if it, (as you know our military chiefs have drawn up plans to mothball all of Britain’s tanks, other military assets being given priority over heavy armour) it’s either the unwillingness of the Americans to give us more prominent role in NATO, or alternatively our reluctance to stay in NATO controlled fully by the Americans (we have a nuclear deterrent cannot deploy it without their approval) our quiet semi-clandestine joining of the European Defence set-up was the only option left, no?

  2465. What does anyone reckon, will we close down the country again?

    The sheep-like willingness of most of the country to obey the restrictions whilst virtually nobody Baron has asked ” you know someone with c-19, or dying from it?” has said ‘no’. If only Adolf waited till now he could have walked in, no need for Stukas and stuff.

  2466. Baron, September 17th, 2020 – 08:32

    “Imagine if you will…” that the primary purpose of the European Defence Union is not actually to deter aggression from the outside, but rather to suppress any sort of dissent or disobedience from recalcitrant EU member states [or vassal states], or their populations, who will not tow the Berlin line of the present or next Fuhrer of the Fourth Reich.

    “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

    On the other hand you might be looking back fondly on the Warsaw Pact and the benefits membership brought to your own country? 😉

  2467. Baron, September 17th, 2020 – 08:38

    “What does anyone reckon, will we close down the country again?”

    It it illogical to expect short term lockdowns, like the one that was imposed in March, to work, particularly when to all intents and purposes has open borders. The lockdown was all about “flattening the curve, “Save The NHS,” and all that bollocks.

    The same number of people are going to die eventually, regardless. The ongoing and ever changing rules and restrictions underline, to me at any rate, are not about C-!9 but about something else.

    “If only Adolf waited till now he could have walked in, no need for Stukas and stuff.” .

    Please do not forget the Messerschmitts, Junkers, Dorniers, Heinkels, and above all else never, ever, forget the Focke-rs!

    As you know, the EU had its genesis in WW2 when the Nazis set out the plans for how their European conquests were gong to serve the Meister Mensch.

  2468. e&oe the above, btw.

    I was also very remiss in not mentioning the Vergeltungwaffen.”
    i.e. The V1 & V2 “Revenge weapons”

  2469. EC @ September 17th, 2020 – 16:03

    Good points, EC, but weird as it may sound Baron cannot force himself to endorse the perceived motivation behind the EU Armed Forces, it seems to him that the lack of money (not just here but in all EU member countries) hence the need to pool resources may be the driving force, to accept the other reason for the agency may be going to far, the West may have sunk, it certainly lost its moral compass dealing with Russia, but has it sunk that low that it needs a repressive tool to keep the unwashed under control? Hmmm

  2470. If you had to back a horse in the “defence” stakes then which one of the following fiscally and morally bankrupt nations would you choose to partner/ride?

    USA?
    China?
    Russia?
    India?
    The EU? Surely not the EU which, any member of the Dakota Indian tribe will tell you is already a dead horse!

    The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
    But in modern business, because heavy investment factors are taken into consideration, other strategies are often tried with dead horses, including the following:

    1. Buying a stronger whip.
    2. Changing riders.
    3. Threatening the horse with termination.
    4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
    5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
    6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
    7. Reclassifying the dead horse as “living-impaired”. .
    8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. .
    9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
    10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
    11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
    12. Declaring that the dead horse carries lower overhead and therefore contributes more to the bottom line than some other horses.
    13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
    14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

  2472. If this is how a middle age man looks after being poisoned by the most lethal nerve agent known to mankind, then spending over three weeks in a coma, over two weeks hooked to a ventilator, then Putin has a problem with the manufacturing quality of the killing stuff, he should look into it, tell those responsible to put their socks up, this failure of Russian made Novichok to do the job properly is a big embarrassment for Russia.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUAPu8llSO/?utm_source=ig_embed

  2473. Malfleur @ September 19th, 2020 – 06:41

    Just one or two questions, Malfleur.

    If the secret societies that run the world are so powerful, have everything under control, nothing can stop them, how is it the the Russian muzhiks kicked a 400 year monarchy out in 1917, created a new paradigm, albeit one that couldn’t last, exluded a sixth of the world from the bankers’ control, where they, the secret rulers, asleep or what?

    Is there any more on the six shooters in the JFK assassination one can access, and the three unknown killers were hiding where?

  2474. EC @ September 18th, 2020 – 21:25

    Would it not be deeply satisfying if all the pretenders to govern the world were to lose, EC? They probably will, if they start anything big, unfortunately will also take many of us with them.

  2475. For the Russian speakers amongst you this brings some intriguing news, it’s Anatolij Sharij, you may recall Baron mentioning him before, he’s comment.ing on what one of the N’s team in Tomsk says the team was up to when they learnt N was poisoned, nothing that new, the only surprising thing in the story of the fast talking young man (left botton corner) is when he says the team figured it must be Novichok that poisoned N (how did they know?)

    But put the cursor to around 15:42, there appears information about the father of the girl Pevchik, the one that, according to Sharij and others, must have been with N when he was poisoned because she spent the night with him, and N, according to the fast talking guy (the one in the corner) must have been poisoned before breakfast i.e. during the night. You can read what the girl’s father Mr. Pevchik does, it’s in English. Rather intriguing that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCUSbL55C8g

  2477. EC @ September 21st, 2020 – 19:55

    Good man talking common sense, EC, there are many other bloggers expressing incredulity often anger about the current events around the virus, the £10,000 fine in particular. Who’s going to pay it?

  2478. Just finished watching Boris trying to convince the country to accept the new restrictions, suggesting also he may use the Army to enforce them. Isn’t that going too far? How can we be critical of Belarus’s Lukashenko and his police bashing the peaceful demonstrators, no army in sight when he threatens people in what’s supposed to be democracy with the Army. Are they going to shoot us? The man’s mad.

  2479. Navalny’s out of the special care, the doctors say he will recover fully, what’s amazing is the way he looks, according to medical sources a 24-hour day spent in intensive care on a ventilator loses 4-12% of one’s muscles. Navalny was in the German’s care 32 days, of which 24 days were spent in intensive care, on a ventilator, in coma. How can he walk already?

    The contaminated bottle also puzzles. The N’s team searched the hotel room, bagged everything ‘of any value’ according to a member of the team and also Ms Pevchik in a BBC interview. The question is how did they found out the bottles were ‘of value’ the rest of the bagged items wasn’t, and more to the point the one bottle out of the three that was contaminated? Serendipity, clairvoyance, or what?

    Macron and Putin discussed Navalny (amongst the rthings) over the phone over the weekend, Putin allegedly said Navalny might have poisoned himself. It occurred to Baron, too, why was he 20 minutes in the plane’s toilet? According to witnesses when he went in he looked as normal as anyone going for a pee.

  2480. Baron, September 22nd, 2020 – 23:39

    IF one assumes that he is being honest and sincere, then Boris is listening to the wrong people. Too many bedwetting millenials in the civil service!

    In my previous life having worked in/had very many large organisations as clients (private and public sector) I could count the number of good people at the top of those organisations on the fingers of one hand – and all those were in the private sector. [by the private sector I don’t mean the crony capitalist branch that enjoyed such rapid expansion and patronage under Messrs Bliar & Bruin!]

    I don’t know much about Boris’s warm up act, Whitty & Vallance, the heirs apparent of the Chuckle Brothers, but I find their fear mongering predictions unconvincing and having more than a whiff of Prof. Pantsdown Ferguson about them. Boris might have been better off consulting Mystic Meg.

    Boris’ strategy is predicated on the number of “cases” rising. It’s the wrong metric. It’s the the number of hospitalisations or deaths that matter.
    Unless and until sufficient numbers are exposed to the virus and herd immunity is achieved then we will find ourselves in a state of perpetual lockdown.

    Call me and old cynic but the increasing “cases” narrative is important to maintain the current climate of fear justifying restrictions until the miracle vaccine can be rolled out worldwide and “all the right people” can make their $Billions from it.

  2481. EC @ September 23rd, 2020 – 10:41

    You are absolutely right, EC, agreed more than 100%, the Chuckle Brothers moniker suits the two half comatose individuals. It does feel like it’s a preparation for the vaccine, there can be no other rational reason for maintaining the scaremongering.

    The attached link contains two graphs just below the top layer of “the latest news”, have a look at the ‘deaths’ graph, it has been flat since August 8, then look at the ‘cases’ one, it’s been showing a upward trend again roughly from August 8.

    If the incubation period for the virus is two weeks, we should have been seeing a noticeable increase in deaths for at least a month, but there hasn’t been one.

    There appears absolutely no correlation between the number of cases and the number of deaths delayed not only by the two weeks gap, not a three weeks gap, not even a four weeks gap.

    If there was ’cause effect’ coupling the number of deaths today would be considerably higher than it is, the new measures will not make any difference, if anything they will make it worse.

    The biggest danger is that many small and medium businesses will go bankrupt, will not re-open, those running them will be in dire circumstances, many have been using overdrafts, bank loans, it will be a nightmare, it pains one to say it but the number of suicides will go through the roof.

    What this supposedly conservative government is doing is close to criminal, one cannot comprehend what’s behind it all unless one accepts what you’ve said, they have to keep going until the vaccine arrives, the big pharma makes its billions.

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&channel=mac_bm&sxsrf=ALeKk026_5wKzp9vQupAXcikk2dCWFgwyw:1600843031304&q=COVID-19&biw=1125&bih=629

  2483. Baron,

    Is this a candidate for your compendium of English phrases?

    Someone called “Broad Sword” commenting on deciphering the Covid babble emanating from various government ministers and “scientific” advisors…

    “It’s really quite simple. If you divide poppycock by balderdash and add the square root of piffle multiplied by bunkum to the power of drivel you end up with a bunch of cobblers.”

  2485. Good one, EC, but then almost everything that emanates from the Government is of the same ‘exquisite’ quality. It’s amazing how the language of the ordinary people, including that of the well educated, differs from the political diaspora and the civil service bureaucrats advising them.

  2488. EC @ September 25th, 2020 – 09:59

    Yes, good he is, EC, but a fat lot of good will his stance do to anything.

  2489. Her name is Anna Putova, she works for the Ukrainian National Archive in Kiev, runs a department for the outfit. Her headgear is rather unusual but fits the current environment in Ukraine not because the ultra-nationalists have any support amongst the population (they never score in any election more than a couple percent), but because the authorities are afraid to hit them, they can attack anyone they choose, the police will do FA, not even turn up when the victim has to be taken to a hospital.

    If anyone should be concerned, one would have thought, the Mutti it is, she doesn’t seem to be, not even annoyed possibly because she needs to decontaminate a large part of the country from Novichok brought in in or on a bottle that nearly killed the darling of the West Navalny.

    https://politikus.ru

  2490. This is on the c-19 bandwagon, it comes from the Unz Review blog, is worth your read:

    Someone identifying as ‘jus’sayin’ has this to say:

    “I’m posting variations on the following wherever I can, because I think it is critical to make the distinction between infection with SARS-COV-2 and the disease, Covid-19, which current data suggest presents in only a small fraction of those infected with SARS-COV-2:

    There is a clear distinction between becoming infected with the SARS-COV-2 virus and having any symptoms of Covid-19, let alone a serious or fatal case. Infection with SARS-COV-2 is a necessary but not sufficient condition for exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19. As an extreme illustration, the local news outlets in my area are rife with accounts of how thousands of returning college students are testing positive for SARS-COV-2. No one has seen fit to remark that very few if any of these have developed even a mild case of Covid-19.

    This pattern suggests that a very large proportion of the population has a natural immunity to Covid-19 in the sense that they are susceptible to SARS-COV-2 infection but not any serious consequences from such an infection. The data I’ve seen suggest that the proportion of the population with this natural immunity is significantly higher than 70%, perhaps even close to 90%. I suspect that such immunity to Covid-19 (not infection by SARS-COV-2) is due to some combination of genetics and prior exposure to other pathogens.

    This observation has obvious policy implications. We might well be better off, socially, economically, politically, and even from the public health perspective letting the current of SARS-COV-2 infections burn its natural way through the population. My back of the envelope calculations suggest that the end result will be a number of excess deaths not proportionally exceeding those associated with the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic. Over a half century ago the world got through that pandemic without any drastic policies based solely on public health concerns.

    I have some limited expertise in this area. I’m a Ph.D. with over a quarter of a century of off-again-on-again experience conducting epidemiological analyses in various fields. My epi modeling of the spread of AIDS back in 1990 generated estimates that proved an order of magnitude better, i.e. lower, than Dr. Fauci’s early and politically motivated projections. I ended the last fifteen years of my professional life working with the title of Epidemiologist in my state’s Department of Public Health.”

    Commenting further on the 2nd wave he adds:

    “I think it highly likely that there is a degree of immunity conferred by previous exposure to infections, and also that the severe effects are felt mostly by those with previous health vulnerabilities, of which obesity is an important contributing factor.

    If so, the increase in tested cases of the virus will not translate into as many deaths as in the first wave of infections, and this should be apparent in about 28 days time”.

  2491. Is it possible that HMGs entire lockdown policy is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the test result analysis?
    Remarkably, given the Hartley-Brewer Hankock interview it would seem so.
    https://youtu.be/06yja21V7xg
    Will MPs demand sanity and a change of policy, based on the number of actual hospital admissions and reported deaths from Covid 19, in the Wednesday debate?
    Like actual sufferers don’t hold your breath.

  2492. Noa @ September 27th, 2020 – 09:09

    The question is, Noa, ‘is the misunderstanding genuine or false?’ They must know, they pretend they don’t get it.

    Here’s a quick check, go the Guardian blog, scroll down to ‘Coronavirus data”, a set of three small graphs across the screen, the left one showing cases, the middle one hospital admissions, the right one deaths. Break visually all three graphs into two halves.

    What do you get? The left graph that shows cases has two peaks of roughly equal size on the left as well as the right half, the other two have only one peak each on the left half. The virus has either lost its potency or more of us are resilient to it because of either antibodies of T-cells. The new restrictions are beyond stupid, they are criminal because of the damage to the economy, it’s the economy that pays for everything, we fugg it up, we are fugged up.

  2493. Noa, September 27th, 2020 – 09:09

    “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…” etc.

    We are, and probably will always be governed by those least fit to govern, advised by those who have abandoned their former disciplines in pursuit of getting their hands in the till, or a gong. i.e arseholes, shysters, and the heirs of Trofim Lysenko.

  2494. Noa, September 27th, 2020 – 09:09

    Meanwhile…

    Are the latest Lancashirestan restrictions going to interfere with the plans for the annual Autumn Ball at Castle Arkright? I do look forward to these occasions when you don your Prince Prospero regalia and set about terrifying the local peasantry.
    Oh what fun!

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058333/

  2499. Baron 20.08

    If you were a civil servant on full pay and pension, condemned to work from home for ever, would you wish to re-enter the real world of expensive crowded expensive trains or rush hour traffic, where you might be exposed to the threat of death by NHS Covid treatment?
    Our politicians, Mephistophelians’ to a man have apparently struck a devil’s bargain, even a truce, with the Humphreys and the Beeb, on the basis that neither with squeeze the others’ exposed testes whilst there is political, if not financial capital to be made from the extension of the crisis long beyond its sell by date.
    I’m surprised HMG continues to publish any information about the kontinued dekline of Kovi-chuk, but they do, see:

    https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

  2500. EC September 28th, 2020 – 09:38

    As you will appreciate it has been a mixed year for the elite of Lancashire, EC. Whilst the good start to the summer enabled the early planting of crops one of the Albanian peasants, had despite stringent searches, managed to smuggle a contraband radio into the main compound outside Blackburn.
    As news of the Kovi-chuk ‘epidemic’ spread there was a resulting demand for a par rise to 25 pence per hour and access to subsidised foodstuffs at the Farm shops, as well as a rent strike over the annual increase.
    The company of household cuirassiers, retained for police and peace keeping, were almost as non-plussed as Lady Noa and dealt swiftly in putting down this rebellion and evicting the tenants, making room for a team of crack Italian ex leather workers to take their place.
    My team of accountants were also pleased to establish links with a new babu in Westminster, who was happy to pay 80% of employee wages while they were on furlough. Of course they were on no such thing! Ex-quarter master Bedlam and his team of under-butlers and boot cleaners flogged them out to the fields daily in our efforts to fill the shelves at Aldi and prevent food riots.
    The additional funds enabled us to purchase a small new international luxury jet for fast trips and holidays abroad. Eschewing Skye this year we happily flew to Perugia, only to bump into Carrie herself, somewhat the worse for wear, in our fav winebar! A great night followed.
    What a lark! What a treat!

  2502. In tribute to the battle cry of our foremost Wallster, disseminate! disseminate!
    We must act to save our heritage. A fine start would be to communicate your views to the Oriel College review collecting evidence about the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue.
    https://youtu.be/xCWzwCPsIfI

  2504. Given my own travails with servants and workers, of which I have previously written in this journal, my empathy and sympathies must lie entirely with our monarch, who will this year be prevented from spending her traditional Christmas at Sandringham.
    This is entirely due to the selfish behaviour of her servants, who are not willing to be separated from their families for four weeks.
    When faced with the same problem I was better able t H an HM to address the problem, simply advising them that if they were unwilling to perform their contracted duties I would have to evict them from their hovels outside the gate and sue for breach of contract.
    The latter is no mean threat. My own manorial Court would be sole judge and jury in the matter. The last rapscallion to be found guilty was required to act as hare for the Boxing Day hunt on Noahs Ark fell. Given an hours start and an old bottle of Lady Noa’s scent he may well have made a successful border crossing into Yorkshire, though we never found out.
    https://mol.im/a/8783449

  2505. Noa, September 29th, 2020 – 13:31

    These people always look the same! A warning to us all of the dangers of a vegetarian diet and the regular consumption of too many Soy based products.

    Mm, “Phoenix Adair”? More like an “Adipose Bumphluff” or a Hermaphradite Gingoid

  2506. Noa, September 28th, 2020 – 22:04

    Yes, he’s gone but never forgotten.
    I had occasion to use his spelling of “Chreese Wallace” in another place yesterday.
    Succinctly, he “wasn’t a fan” of Chreese.

    Last night’s spectacle of the Trump vs Wallace & Biden debate would’ve confirmed his deepest suspicions. Old Joe didn’t need his autocue because he had Wallace to deliver his lines.

    The Donald should have been more relaxed and smiled more. He missed a big opportunity to rack up a significant goal difference, imo.
    If Trump wins then Wallace is toast, and deservedly so.

  2507. EC 19.29
    Ann Coulter gives Chris a good handbagging over at Taki.
    Orange man will probably drain his swamp inserting him in Joe’s colostomy bag next time they play out.

  2509. He and the First Lady must pull through, he to finish the job, she to give him support finishing it.

    No symptoms, that’s encouraging, he should be one of the 80 out of a hundred that have the bug, but are symptomless, get well, no consequences.

  2511. Baron, October 2nd, 2020 – 20:48

    Very clever, fake but true.
    That will never do!

    Hey, that’s rhymes better than Fergus!

  2512. Noa,

    I visited Lancastriastan last weekend for a family celebration that involved an “Übernachtung” at the Noa Gate Lodge Hotel with the Covid Bar n Grill adjacent.

    Motoring to and fro around various portions of Bidonville (soon to be renamed Bidenville) I was struck by how much more pleasant a prospect it was than hitherto fore with 85% of women now obliged to keep their faces covered. Have you considered making this arrangement permanent – subject to inspection – targeting the worst cases?

  2515. EC 09.52
    Only 85%? Obviously you weren’t near Imamabad (née Preston) or the Badlands on the North West Frontier! From the clues in your comments the venue was presumably hosting an OU Womens Studies event which clashed with the local Weight Watchers evening…

  2518. It’s NOT just MI5 !

    National Security is one thing but HMRC and the Food Standard Agencies

    I always said that both incarnations of…
    The (de)Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was the thin end of the totalitarian wedge, and now this…

    https://www.ft.com/content/3e161cbf-7ba1-4ead-ba82-94f75ec0d7e9

    RIPA and CHISA combined with “elected” party/common purpose “place men” as PCCs and Mayors, morphing into Gestapo Chiefs and Gauleiters(*) respectively, then we really have ended up back in the Third Reich!
    (* Sultan in the case of Londonistan)

    Let’s hope that the awfully nice Sgt. Wilson (aka David Davis) will have more luck dealing with this than BRexit! NB. No more Mr Nice Guy, David!

  2520. Here are three poems penned by the most recent Nobel prize winner Louise Gluck. If only Baron knew he would also be a recipient of the prize, he can churn poems of this brilliance 24/7 and more.

    First:

    “in childhood, I thought
    that pain meant
    I was not loved.
    It meant I loved.”

    Second:

    “My sister and I reached
    the same conclusion:
    the best way
    to love us was to not
    spend time with us.”

    Third:

    “My mother want to know
    why, if I hate
    family so much,
    I went ahead
    and had one.

    …
    I must learn
    to forgive my mother,
    now that I’m helpless
    to spare my son.”

    © Louise Glück

  2522. Baron – 00:21

    Regeneron ™ is not for the likes of thee or me.

    A couple of pints of Boddingtons Bitter might do the trick, if you can find a pub that’s open. It’ll certainly cure constipation if you are suffering from it.

  2525. New word.
    Vapulence. Short for vapid flatulence, ie Any statement uttered by Pfeffel Johnson, particularly relating to wind power. Who is now becoming Britain’s own Erdogen.

  2527. EC @ October 9th, 2020 – 22:00

    This scares Baron no end, EC, he’s very much in favour of gun ownership, but adding the state of the Republic before the election to the growing level of it doesn’t bode well not just for the Republic but for the world.

    You may recall Baron saying that a large chunk of the US manufacture has been offshore to China and elsewhere, but the design, manufacture, maintenance and servicing of military gear remained in the Republic. This applies to weapons and ammo bought by individuals, virtually no imports from China, the weapon makers have made sure of it. It may be changing now because the US suppliers cannot cope. Funny world, heh?

    Few days ago, one of the MSM TV channels (it may have been the ITV) had an item showing allegedly a Russian soldier with the rebel Ukrainian forces in Donbas equipped with a British sniper riffle, the top range, it may have been the L115A3, the reporter musing about how could this have happened.

    It could be someone why’d bought the rifle from us legally re-sold it to Russia, things of this kind happen. It can also be that a Chinese firm called Norinco cloned it, the company has cloned virtually every gun from a small pistol to machine guns provided there’s demand for it.

  2528. Noa @ October 11th, 2020 – 16:14

    Who knows, Noa, the two may be related, MoJo’s predecessor haled from the country run by the tinpot dictator today.

    Fifteen years ago, the philosopher Larken Rose wrote in his manual ”How to be a Successful Tyrant”, (chapter 2 Exploiting Fear):

    “Almost all oppression via propaganda is based upon scaring people, and then presenting a false choice, where the people can choose either to do what you want them to do, or face some unknown, often purely fictional horror. This is not the method of the common thug, which can be summarised as ”do this or I will hurt you”.

    A successful modern tyrant never presents himself as the thing to be afraid of, as doing so would obviously create resentment and hatred in the peasantry, and that leads to resistance. Every ”thing to be feared”, with which you terrorise your peasants, must be presented as some separate, outside evil, that only you can save them from.

    You must present the simple choice between obedience to you, and the threat of some unpleasant happening, which does not appear to be of your doing, and which you pretend to lament the existence of. In short, you must deceive and scare the citizens into voluntarily giving up their freedom”.

    Or one can listen to Edmund Burke, one of Baron’s gurus: ”The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion.”

  2529. Malfleur @ October 10th, 2020 – 14:34

    But it’s OK, Malfleur, everyone will scream, if the guy’s getting it right.

    Btw, here’s a tip for a connoisseur of Pepys, a book Baron’s plodding through now and enjoying it a lot, “Samuel Pepys, the Unequalled Self” by Claire Tomalin. You may have it already, but if you don’t you may like to acquire it, superb, really well written not just about your hero, but the times he lived in. It’s worth buying, it isn’t pricey. It has a drawing of an operation Pepys undergone himself in 1658, the removal of a bladder stone. How did he survive it?

  2530. Baron, October 12th, 2020 – 13:37

    US GE: Three weeks tomorrow it’ll all be over… bar the shooting.

    If it’s a landslide either way then the losing side will cry FOUL, and there will be much rioting, arson and violence. If it’s. a close call then the DNC, Antifa, BLM organisations, that have been limbering up for the last 12 months, will stage a Putsch with yet more violence making what’s gone before look like an English church fete/vicar’s tea party.

    November 3rd, 2020 could be the last stand against the corporatocracy/globalists.

  2531. EC @ October 13th, 2020 – 10:27

    Good take on the forthcoming charade, EC, Baron would take everything short of a civil war, that must be avoided whatever happens, it would be very bad for the Republic, it would be worse for the world. The blue veined barbarian has a stake in the future, young grandsons, what would they have to endure if a conflict engulfing the world erupted doesn;t bear not just thinking about, considering it even fleetingly makes one unwell.

    Your last sentence sums it up superbly, if the Donald loses, it’s curtains for our team, the progressives would have won, it may take generations to engage the reverse gear (it took generations for communism to implode) but that’s still better than a global war.

  2532. Baron, October 12th, 2020 – 13:41

    Everybody and his dog seems to have a flourishing weapons industry apart from the UK.

    Take, for example, Turkey. It manufactures no end of ammunition and has large contracts with NATO and elsewhere. Much of it certified to ISO9000-and-wotsit unlike the stuff from alternate vendors made from Chinesium.

    Turkey also makes BIG stuff too!

    https://www.defensenews.com/native/turkish-defence-aerospace/2020/07/21/how-turkey-became-one-of-the-worlds-leading-manufacturers-of-weapons-systems/

    Frightening isn’t it! No EU “level playing field” restrictions on state subsidies to worry about here.

    Re: MSM Bedwetter. No investigative journalists are required in the post fact world.

    Re: Pepys’ Harnstein: CRIKEY! Benjamin Franklin didn’t invent the flexible catheter until 1752… and even that must’ve been a bit of an ordeal!

    https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/inventions

  2533. An interesting little essay penned by Nikolai Hubble, who is Nigel’s new best friend over at Fortune and Freedom,

    https://fortuneandfreedom.com/https://fortuneandfreedom.com/

    Brexit by radio broadcast

    After the war, the German economy was in ruins. Reichsmark banknotes were worthless. People survived thanks to the black market. American cigarettes were the currency for small transactions. Cognac for large transactions. Nylon stockings for in between.

    Growing up, my German grandmother would eat my apple cores because of the waste-not-want-not attitude she learned from back then.

    The Allied occupation government was led by the American military governor general Lucius Clay. But he didn’t do a very good job when it came to economic policy.

    In November 1945, Clay agreed to keep Hitler’s price controls and rationing in place. He also continued the Nazi conscription of resources, including labour. It was the ultimate centrally planned economy, with government directing all economic activity.

    The British representatives in the military government supported this position. And even implemented much of the same bad economic policy back home. My English grandparents remember it well. Excessive regulation and control of the economy. Just like the EU today, only worse.

    But not everyone agreed.

    Economist Ludwig Erhard had refused to join the Nazi Association of University Teachers during the war – a career-ending move. Instead, he published a manuscript advocating a free market economy in 1942. His co-author was interned by the Nazis for it.

    But Erhard didn’t just talk the free market talk. He walked the walk.

    After the war, the Allies became aware of his manuscript and its anti-Nazi nature. And so they “asked” him to become their economic adviser for Bavaria. Which he reluctantly agreed to.

    He soon became Bavarian finance minister and the head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. His anti-Nazi credentials made him popular with the Allied elite, compared to other German leaders with questionable wartime backgrounds.

    As part of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Erhard became a close adviser to General Clay. He eventually convinced the general to undergo currency reform. They replaced the worthless reichsmark with the deutschmark.

    But Erhard wasn’t finished. What he did next is shocking and legendary in Germany. Think of it as a no-deal exit from the Allied military government.

    Here’s how Erhard himself recalled what he did, in a TV interview 25 years later, as translated by me:

    I knew exactly what the currency reform would bring. Also its consequences. But it could only work if we simultaneously enacted a decisive economic reform, from a completely centrally planned economy to one as free as possible.

    But that had, because of its very nature, to include abolishing all rationing, price controls, economic controls and more. But the perception of this was, in people’s heads at that time, so unthinkable that it was only possible with a brave breakthrough.

    In other words, the German economy had to be freed from the interventionism and regulation of the foreign bureaucrats at the time.

    Now economic policy and bravery rarely go together. But Erhard was special:

    The Frankfurt Economic Council gave me a series of broad executive powers in the expectation that we didn’t know exactly what the currency reform would bring and, in the case of chaos, someone would have to react quickly.

    At the time, as the director for policy in the economy, I had secretly and quietly in my desk drawers accumulated the documents needed to repeal all price controls by simple decree.

    I scattered all the inclinations and suspicions of my staff as to whether I would ever use them. They said, “For God’s sake, you’re not actually considering doing it, are you?” And I told them, “No, no, it’s just in case…”

    And of course I could never have told the [Allied] military bureaucracy. They would’ve had even less understanding for my plans, and I would’ve had even less influence with them.

    And then, on the Sunday of the currency reform, I announced it all [on the radio], in the correct assumption that, on a Sunday, no government bureaucrats are capable of work. And thereby it was done.

    Erhard’s surprise radio announcement abolished the Nazi government price controls, and many other economic regulations, which the Allied occupation government had kept in place.

    It was a shock move. He had no legal authority to do so. He just hopped on the radio and did it, of his own volition, in complete violation of the Allied military government in Germany.

    It’s as if Dominic Cummins were to abolish the common agricultural policy and common fisheries policy on Twitter.

    Making his move on a Sunday bought Erhard some time – why he chose that day of the week. But there would be hell to pay come Monday. Erhard recalls the meeting that morning, which made him even more famous than his surprise radio performance.

    The next Monday, at an early hour, I was brought before the military government. I was told that what I had done was impossible and unimaginable. That it was forbidden and all of it would have to be reimposed. That I had broken all sorts of Allied military laws.

    When I asked which laws I had broken, “I’d like to hear them precisely”, they read to me that, without consent from the military government, no changes to price controls could be made.

    And I replied, “but I didn’t change them, I abolished them”.

    That snarky response is what made Erhard so legendary in Germany. His defiance against the excessive regulations imposed by a foreign unelected government which were ruining Germany’s economy.

    But General Clay took some convincing when it came to Erhard’s economic policy coup. Journalist Edwin Hartrich described what General Clay asked his friend Erhard that day: “Herr Erhard, my advisers tell me what you have done is a terrible mistake. What do you say to that?”

    Ludwig replied “Herr General, pay no attention to them! My advisers tell me the same thing.”

    The Brexit parallels are obvious. Erhard’s point was that it was precisely the experts who centrally planned the German economy into a mess who were also against the free market reforms…

    The journalist Hartrich also wrote about how a US Army colonel followed up later with another stinging rebuke:

    “How dare you relax our rationing system, when there is a widespread food shortage?”

    Ludwig answered, “But, Herr Oberst. I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it! Henceforth, the only rationing ticket the people will need will be the deutschemark. And they will work hard to get these deutschemarks, just wait and see.”

    Don’t the warnings about food shortages sound familiar?

    What happened next earned Erhard the nickname Herr Wirtschaftswunder – Mr Economic Miracle. His other nickname was “der Dicke”, meaning “the Fatty”. Which is why I call him Mr Fatty Wirtschaftswunder.

    After Erhard’s reforms, the German economy was suddenly freed from the controls and regulations the foreign and unelected government had imposed. They created what’s still known today as an economic miracle – Wirtschaftswunder.

    Supposedly, Erhard’s timing was key. By the time the Allies got around to discussing how to reverse the liberalisation of the economy from excessive regulation, the effects were simply too strong to ignore. Author and historian Henry Wallich wrote, “The spirit of the country changed overnight. The gray, hungry, dead-looking figures wandering about the streets in their everlasting search for food came to life”.

    Shops literally filled overnight as the black market came clean. The new money was worth enough to actually sell things for, instead of having to barter, which made transactions more efficient. And the market prices allowed supply and demand to balance. Profit became possible, encouraging production too.

    Of course, abolishing price controls and currency reform were just the beginning. An economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York wrote that between June and August, “directive followed directive removing price, allocation, and rationing regulations.”

    David Henderson, author of The German Economic Miracle wrote that Erhard’s motto could have been: “Don’t just sit there; undo something.” Erhard freed all the staples of life and manufactured goods from absurd EU like controls. I wonder if Britain will have the same bonfire of regulations after Brexit.

    My favourite twist is that a lot of the remaining controls were simply no longer enforced. If you’ll recall, that’s what some UK politicians threated to do over Brexit too.

    So, what happened to the German economy?

    In three months, absenteeism at work halved from as high as nine and a half hours per week – time Germans had spent foraging or looking for the right person to barter with. Industrial production increased by more than 50%. Ten years later it had quadrupled and was three times as high on a per capita basis. A productivity and employment boom, in other words.

    Six million new jobs were created between 1950 and 1960, sending the unemployment rate from 10.3% to 1.2%. That’s even lower than Britain’s unemployment rate in the years after the Brexit referendum!

    West Germany’s economic boom took place while East Germany’s economy stagnated under central planning and socialism. Even today, East Germany hasn’t caught up. In fact, Germany’s economy quickly became bigger than Britain’s. My English grandparents always said, not in a spiteful way, that Germany won the war, in that sense. But they never ate my apple cores…

    Being like Germany wasn’t a winning political strategy in Britain (at the time), so Britain’s much more interventionist governments continued to ruin their economy with central planning and regulation – the sort of thing the EU does now. The free market stayed out of fashion in Britain for a few more decades, even as it proved itself in West Germany.

    It took a long time for Britain to discover Erhard’s intellectual inspiration, FA Hayek. In fact, the Allies banned his book The Road to Serfdom in Germany. But eventually Margaret Thatcher carried around one of Hayek’s books too, reportedly thumping the book on a table and declaring “this is what we believe”.

    Erhard went on to become the first German minister of economic affairs and even became the German chancellor (like our prime minister). He wasn’t very good at the latter though. Which isn’t a surprise given how he dealt with the unelected foreign bureaucrats ruling his country in 1948. Not to mention his pro-American views clashing with the emerging attempts to create the EU at the time.

    In fact, General de Gaulle criticised the Erhard government’s alignment with Washington and its refusal to align with France and create an independent European policy. Erhard wanted a Europe of cooperating nation states instead of a supranational structure like the EU. His opponent Walther Hallstein won the argument and even became the first president of the European Commission. Hallstein’s Nazi ties were later exposed, but let’s not go there…

    The Wirtschaftswunder of 1948 was extraordinary. And I think the parallels to Brexit Britain are very strong. At least they should and could be. I can’t wait to find a German complaining about Brexit and point them out…

  2534. EC @ October 13th, 2020 – 11:24

    Excellent narrative, EC, short and to the point, Baron wasn’t;t aware of Erhard’s opposition (albeit a passive one) to the Nazis, useful to know.

    On the kidney stones removal gadget: How did they reach the stone or stones even with a flexible catheter? Even thinking about it makes Baron sick, thanks be to Him for the progress in medicine.

  2535. Little musing on a timely telephone call:

    The telephone call that Omsk’s airport and surrounding area are mined came allegedly from a server in Germany, it cannot be a coincidence that the call happened just as Navalny was collapsing, the initiator of the call must have known what was going to happen on board of the plane and when, there was no way any of the passengers on the flight could have called Germany.

    Who made the call isn’t known (yet), it could be argued that it was someone linked to the Russian spook community on the orders of Putin to compel the plane to carry on to Moscow, no proper medical help for N on board, the poison (not Novichok) would have done the job by the time the plane landed, but that seems unlikely if the decision to do N in was taken by the Kremlin, why would Putin want to save the life of someone he wanted to kill in the first place?

    The decision for the flying machine to land must have come from the Kremlin, it’s unlikely to the extreme any local official would have risked it, the consequences for the individual could have been rather unpleasant if the call’s message were true, the plane hit a mine, it would have been life behind bars for anyone but Putin, who knows that N is less of a problem for him breathing than not breathing (one could even argue N’s not a problem but a manageable aid, a useful living example of what the majority of Russians object to even more than Putin).

    It’s ironic then that N keeps blaming for his poisoning the man who may have actually saved his life, if the plane were to continue to Moscow, land in the capital several hours after the call was made, N may have been disembarked as a stiff cadaver.

    Whoever designed the charade is pretty smart, he or they certainly outsmarted the Russian spooks and Putin (of whom many say how smart a guy he is) from now on, N has no option but to continue blaming Putin, N isn’t a stupid man either, he must know it was someone else not the man he’s compelled to accuse, he may even suspect who it was that had a go poisoning him (again, not with Novichok), but say it he cannot.

    The affair turns N into a fully controlled puppet of whoever is behind the affair, he will have to jump as he’s told from now on, will have no freedom to act as he would want to, not an enviable life for someone who could have carried on in Russia as an articulate, charismatic and competent leader of the progressive i.e. woke opposition to the Putin’s regime. Turning into a pawn that can be disposed of if and when the need arises (the blame accredited to Putin of course) is not something many would enjoy. It remains to be seen if he relishes in it.

  2536. Baron, October 14th, 2020 – 10:53

    “Excellent narrative, EC, short and to the point”
    Very good! LOL.

    The medical procedure is called a Cystoscopy.
    I had to have one a few years ago.
    Thanks be to HIM for the invention of Anaesthetic Lube!

    Beforehand the nurse saw that I was petrified and she said, “What are you worried about? It’s not as big as you think, you know.”
    “Me, or the probe?” I replied.

  2538. “Our current best estimates tell us about 10% of the global population may have been infected by this virus,” said Mike Ryan, the head of emergency operations at the WHO (October 5, 2020), that’s some 780mn individuals.

    The number of deaths as of October 15, 2020 stands at 1,106,870 (see the worldometersdotinfo).

    That furnishes the infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0.141906, or 0.14, which is as close to the seasonal flu IFR as it gets, and also assumes that all the deaths recorded by the worldometersdotcom are deaths due to solely or mostly c-19.

    Why are we still behaving as if this pandemic was as close to the annihilation of mankind as no other life threatening event before, making the poor poorer still, ruining the economy, the source of wealth creation? Criminal that.

  2539. EC @ October 16th, 2020 – 15:50

    That is scary, EC, the guy may know more than he publicly reveals, and is probably right, the military may use the pretext of a questionable election result to step in to ‘prevent a civil war’, and who’s to stop them?

    Baron said it before, he prefers everything (say) Harris in the Oval Office to a civil war, even a limited war in a state or few states, it would be a catastrophe not just for the Republic, but also for the world, may indeed bring about the extremists of either the Left or the Right taking over, God forbid.

  2542. After Arnhem by Antony Beevor, I finished Stalingrad, also by him, and want to go looking for his D-Day. What really upset me though was finishing Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs, which is 674 pages in hardback (without the nortes, etc). The 19th century is ghastly and the 20th century ending in an only too imaginable account of the murder of Tsar Nicholas and his family scarcely bearable seed of uneasy sleep. One likes to think that we have seen the worst in that time and the century which followed; but EC’s and Baron’s warnings on October 16th does little to reassure. God have mercy on us!

  2543. In the United States, so many traitors, seditionists and insurrectionaries! Is the penalty in that country hanging or frying; and who is left to do it?

    We may find out.

  2547. Malfleur @ October 20th, 2020 – 11:42

    Close to an antidote to the Rich’s timeline even though the approach differs widely, Malfleur, a good talker the guy.

  2548. Malfleur @ October 19th, 2020 – 12:13

    A witty approach to the subject, Malfleur, quite enjoyable, but isn’t it another disinformation campaign by the Russians? (only joking)

    However, one shouldn’t bet on the Dems failing to start another marathon investigation costing tens of millions of the Biden’s corrupt behaviour being a part of the the Russian disinformation campaign to subvert US democracy if the Donald wins in November.

    What has the world come to? We have Pompeo stating publicly that he lies, deceives, steals, yet he’s still the top US diplomat, everyone knows what the Biden’s were up to, yet the man is still the Dem’s candidate, may become the next US president. Arghhh

  2549. Baron, October 20th, 2020 – 23:35

    A lot of cherry picking there, but you’d expect that as the guy is a shill for the CCP.

  2550. Baron, October 20th, 2020 – 23:35

    Here’s some authoritative reading matter for you Baron. Fully referenced!

    https://lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/

    Also…
    Covid-19 primarily kills the elderly and/or those with underlying health issues. The expensive miracle vaccine won’t help protect either of those groups that tend to have impaired or degraded immune systems. So what’s the point of the expensive miracle jab then? Ah, money!

  2551. EC @ October 23rd, 2020 – 22:11

    One hates to do it, EC, but if you were to look at Baron’s posting on Oct 17, @ 09:02 you will find a link to the same narrative, and yes, it’s top class, he’s the man who should have been advising the clowns.

    On Nathan Rich: what is it that makes you so deadly negative? Is it the guy himself, China as a country, the CCP or what?

    It strikes Baron as reasonable what he says, it’s just running through what has been in the public domain, no?

    The regime in China isn’t something one would wish to live in, it’s solidly autocratic, but not dictatorial to the degree of Mao’s years, people could leave the country, which isn’t something one could do when the Soviet nationwide Gulag was in place, people seem to willingly support it, the majority of them anyway, there are also over 700,000 foreigners living in China, 50,000 Americans, if you were to watch some of their blogs, not what they say, but the environs in which they say it, it looks amazing, certainly totally different from the China Baron recalls from his visits.

    Explain, please.

  2552. And another thing on covid and the elderly, that’s Baron, he’s the top contender to be attacked by the bug, so far so good, it seems either Baron has managed to give the nasty pathogen a miss, not by design just luck, or the bug has given Baron the miss, he hopes it lasts. You OK, correct?

  2554. Not Baron’s, but a point well made:

    The coach had put together the perfect team for the Chicago Bears. The only thing that was missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn’t find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl win.

    Then one night while watching CNN he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan . In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a 15th story window 100 yards away.

    KABOOM!

    He threw another hand-grenade 75 yards away, right into a chimney.

    KA-BLOOEY!

    Then he threw another at a passing car going 90 mph.

    BULLS-EYE!

    “I’ve got to get this guy!” Coach said to himself. “He has the perfect arm!”

    So, he brings the young Afghan to the States and teaches him the great game of football. And the Bears go on to win the Super Bowl.

    The young Afghan is hailed as the great hero of football, and when the coach asks him what he wants, all the young man wants is to call his mother.

    “Mom,” he says into the phone, “I just won the Super Bowl!”

    “I don’t want to talk to you, the old Muslim woman says. “You are not my son!”

    “I don’t think you understand, Mother,” the young man pleads. “I’ve won the greatest sporting event in the world. I’m here among thousands of my adoring fans.”

    “No! Let me tell you!” his mother retorts. “At this very moment, there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she doesn’t get raped!” The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says,

    “I will never forgive you for making us move to Chicago!!!

  2555. Directly from the horse’s mouth, there should be no doubt about it anymore, it’s settled:

    https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1320107370312323073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1320120396239327236%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_0&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2Fus-elections-2020%2F202010251080874864-biden-says-democrats-created-voter-fraud-organisation-in-apparent-gaffe-that-went-viral%2F

    On a serious note, one should feel sorry for the guy, he shouldn’t be put through this nightmare, mentally, he seems unable to cope with an ordinary interview, how will he cope with the red button should the need to push it arose?

  2561. EC. @18:27

    Re: Vlad’s Angels
    Just thought I’d add…

    It made a refreshing change. In the UK all girls that age would be covered in tattoos, pushing a stroller containing a fatherless baby one handed whilst gawking at FaceBook on their mobile phone with the other hand.

  2562. EC @ October 27th, 2020 – 18:27

    You should be the one complaining, Baron’s getting mostly clips of Trump’s latest news, no reason for it at all, except that some time ago Baron subscribed to the Donald’s newsletter, got out of it soon after because the letters were coming in confetti quantities, often two three dozens a day. The new e-mails come from different sources, one gets unsubscribed, another one steps in. The guys working for the Donald just try too hard.

    You reckon he’ll get in?

  2563. EC @ October 27th, 2020 – 19:05

    In was in 1978 or the year after when Baron went to Milano for the first time, he remembers it only because he bought a couple of shirts onnthis business trip (he only had one on arrival, unfortunately it got torn, a need was urgent to buy another one, he bought a couple, big spender he. That’s the story.

    Cleese gets too philosophical towards the end of the clip, then there follows a cracking sound as if someone shot him. Fortunately it wasn’t;t a real gunshot, he could do the Fawlty Towers later.

    Where did you dig this clip up? People smoking, drinking, having good time, no masks.

  2567. Jeremy Corbyn has enraged
    The invisible monster

    The machine is spun;
    By pieces of mouth
    Manipulated by
    Megalomaniac
    ‘Internationals’,
    Capitalistic global corporations,
    Arms and petroleum merchants.

    Surprise, surprise!!
    It’s time to climb
    Up on the cross
    The global temple vendors,
    Precisely placed politicians,
    And media pharisees
    Have been plotting
    For Jeremy Jesus
    I wonder who will wash their hands?

    Then along came Keir
    Queer

  2568. Long, but worth reading, it sums up one school of thought on the the China – US juxtapositioning, the question is ‘is the guy right’?

    Around 1850, the deposits in London’s banks exceeded those in all other banks of the world, including British regional banks. That was the peak of the British power.

    Around 1950, the world owed the Republic her full annual GDP that was more than two fifth of the world’s even though her population was around 4% of the world’s. That was the pinnacle of the Republic’s hegemony.

    Around 2050 what?

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16705/china-existential-threat

  2569. What’s this, Fergus? It totally baffles the poorly educated Slav.

    Btw, where have you been, where is everyone, it’s only EC and Baron that keep this depopulated blog going.

    Does anyone know where Peter is? Is he still in charge? Does he care?

    One worrying thing is what has happened to steven, he has been absent for months, others have also vanished without saying a word, so unBritish, no?

    Here’s something from another blog, you may find it useful:

    New research from Spain has found that a high dose of calcifediol, which is an activated form of vitamin D, can drastically reduce the risk of being placed into an ICU in Covid-19 patients.

    The research itself was a peer-reviewed, randomised and controlled study of hospitalised patients at the University Hospital of Reina Sofia in Cordoba, Spain.
    As part of the study, 50 of 76 hospitalised patients were treated with calcifediol, with the other group not receiving a dose.

    The dosage of the calcifediol was measured in IU (international units) converted from vitamin D at a ratio of 200:1 micrograms. So, 10 micrograms of calcifediol are equivalent to 2000 IU of vitamin D. However, vitamin D3 has a 40:1 conversion rate for calcifediol.

    Patients received very large doses of vitamin D, receiving 106,400 IU of vitamin D on day one, 53,200 IU on day three, 53,200 on day seven, and 53,200 once per week thereafter. For reference, the NHS recommends that adults need 10mg of Vitamin D per day, meaning patients received more than 53 times their recommended RDA of vitamin D (which we usually receive from sunlight alone) on the first day.

    The results were remarkable. All patients who received calcifediol were later discharged without further complications, and only one required admission to the ICU.
    “Of the 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2 per cent), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 per cent),” the study reads.

    In the group who did not receive calcifediol, two patients died while in the ICU.
    This study demonstrates that Calcifediol apparently reduces the severity of Covid-19, although larger-scale trials with balanced and matched groups will be necessary to definitively state that the treatment is effective for the wider population.

    “Our pilot study demonstrated that administration of a high dose of calcifediol significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalisation due to proven Covid-19,” say the authors of the study.

    This study emerges at a time where a Barcelona hospital is now letting patients admitted with Covid-19 out into the sunshine in a bid to increase their wellbeing and mental state, but with the findings of this study, patients may experience more than just a mental boost from the sunshine”

    The above isn’t a recommendation but it points to the importance of vitamin D, in particular now when we seldom see even a glimpse of the sun.

  2570. Baron, October 28th, 2020 – 21:23

    My answer to your question is…

    I hope for the best but fear the worst.
    As someone once famously said, “I’d prefer something a little more reliable than hope.”

    When we are reduced to “hoping,” though, then we must surely know that the game is over and we are truly fucked. No?

  2571. Baron, October 30th, 2020 – 12:43

    Re: Covid Lore and other fairy tales

    I’m sure that you are familiar with an English phrase that is oft repeated but has never been accurately attributed:

    “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

    The Globalists will never the facts of any matter stand in the way of a good Coup d’Etat.

    For what it’s worth, on medical advice I’ve been taking very high doses of Vitamin D3 every day for the last 3 years. Since the advent of the shamdemic I’ve also taken to taking a generous daily doses of Vitamin C too. So far so good, mate.

    Doesn’t everybody feel better when it’s sunny. Not sure how efficient it is at producing Vit. D though. If Vit. D production depends upon the area of skin exposed then that’s the eskimos and burka wearers fucked.

    My spies inform me that Noa, unable to jet off to overwinter in Barbados, has taken to spending a lot more time with his sunlamp. The paparazzi have got photos of him aglow in his appropriately named Orangery, wearing nothing but protective glasses and a pair of “budgie smugglers.” Keep an eye on the weekend tabloids.

  2572. Fergus Pickering, October 30th, 2020 – 08:34

    Wonderful!
    This this has all the makings of becoming a hit musical.
    The “re-imagined” Gospel for of the post enlightenment era!
    A definite money-spinner… Oh, ah, er… maybe not money but a mountain of social credits points.

    I do hope that you manage to find a small roll (sic) for Diane.

  2577. “Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values”

    Peter Hitchens

    Apologies if anybody linked this before. A lovely set of expensive Tats sported by the smudged short, dumpy WPC, dontcha think.

    A friend of mine in California has been experiencing a record heat wave combined with frequent “rolling” power cuts all summer. This combined with the riots, forest/bush fires, pervasive smoke, and Governor Gavin Newsom’s draconian lockdown measures has made their life even more unpleasant than usual. The metaphorical lights will go out completely if the vote goes the wrong way next Tuesday. They are petrified.

  2579. For those who have used their eight months of house arrest wisely to research “what’s behind it all”, the decision of Boris Johnson to lock down our beloved country for a further month leaves the matter no longer in question: he is a deep state operative of the Pilgrims Society, with all that that implies.

  2591. Here’s one graphical expression of ‘malarkey’, EC, one doesn’t;t have to read the commentary or the postings, just look at the two graphs, it cannot be that in the latest stages of counting in both places no additional votes were cast for the Donald, just totally impossible, there must have been at least one or two.

    Btw, the heading to the piece says ‘After this, will the Americans still teach others about democracy?’

    https://politikus.ru/events/132409-budut-li-amerikancy-posle-etogo-uchit-kogo-to-demokratii.html

  2592. EC @ November 5th, 2020 – 08:27

    Regretfully, EC, very regretfully, Baron’s been not just busy with matters private, he has also suffered a number to tech failures, his mobile went berserk, and his PC behaved badly also (still does). The combination of the two has prevented the poorly edu Slav from engaging deeper in revealing the shenanigans of the Deep State.

  2593. EC @ November 6th, 2020 – 08:47

    What an awful theme music, EC, Baron fully disassociates from it, he deserves better like the one for the two Ns in the second clip, now that’s what one calls an inspiring melody.

  2596. This is well argued, deep investigation of the fraud the whole of the US electoral system is. It’s a must watch, you cannot, you shouldn’t miss it, it doesn’t;t happen often one comes to a forensic dissection of a fraudulent system as solid, as thorough and as well presented than this:

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78499/private-security-company-investigation-into-disastrous-election-systems.html

    PS If you watch the whole video and not just from the 30th minute on, you’ll be told that 28 US states use for their elections servers that sit in Barcelona, Spain, the servers are owned by a company that’s allegedly going bankrupt, but whose ownership is not known.

    The Dems and the rest of the anti-Donald mob may have missed an opportunity, they could have said it was Putin that owns it. More likely it will be an outfit covering for the CIA or FBI or a combination of the two declaring for bankruptcy because the job’s done, the Donald’s out.

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78499/private-security-company-investigation-into-disastrous-election-systems.html

  2602. In the Republic the police may be trigger happy (often for a good reason), in Russia, or rather in Moscow, they are so eager to find wrongdoings that they plant drugs on individuals (who they suspect are dealing in drugs), and use individuals previously found with drugs as witnesses, something which can only be described as corruption. Before he retires, Putin should take care of it.

    https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/11/10/drinking-heroin

  2603. Malfleur @ November 10th, 2020 – 13:50

    The guys are arguing with the wrong people, Malfleur, they should be convincing voters telling them not to vote for Boris.

  2604. If one were to show it to the Pakistani tribe living here today, EC, some, probably majority will get upset, but only because they’ve been conditioned to feel that way, the humour isn’t directed against them but against the Irish bloke, Spike, it’s close to ‘Till death us do part’ (or whatever the title was), but it was funny, a lot of witty quips, well cast.

  2605. Baron

    Johnson has called Biden to congratulate him “on his election as president.”

    News, perhaps, for Johnson, the globalist privy councillor: the criminal Biden has not been elected as president and will never be elected president. If he is not jailed for treason, he will have had a lucky escape.

    Johnson has my vote – for the political dustheap.

  2606. Malfleur @ November 11th, 2020 – 03:13

    As you well know, Malfleur, the barbarian from the East has been a strong supporter of the Donald, but he reckons the game’s over, Trump will not get his 2nd term, he lost it, no point in delaying, he should give in, there’s no way he could get back, not even the Supreme Court would back him, it would be civil war if Biden were to lose.

    He should ensure that the voting machinery gets a serious MOT, systems are designed that will have plenty of checks, there should be an genuinely independent outfit looking after the process.

    The positive on his defeat is that Trumpism hasn’t;t been defeated, if anything it got bigger, the votes cast for the Donald are massive, these people will not give up, he should create a movement, get ready for 2024, the date isn’t that fara way.

  2608. Noa @ 10:45

    I been watching a few videos on that guy’s channel recently.
    Some very interesting content there.

  2609. Baron – 10:22

    I tend to agree with you about the civil war.
    Maybe The Donald is just making ’em sweat for it…
    Maybe he’s doing his best to ensure that Bought and Paid For CCP Joe is going to be a lame duck until the 2022 mid-terms…

    I wish that I had had the foresight (and money!) to buy gold before the prices went up!

  2610. Whilst one constitutional crisis lays the foundation for a new civil war in one continent, the twist being that the it will be about their supremacy rather than their enslavement this time around; we also face a profound constitutional crisis, a useless rump, overweening Ministers and executive, that may well be a factor in, who knows, another civil war here? (Weather permitting of course).
    Lord Sumption writes in what is undoubtedly the best (and currently free) political magazine available.
    https://thecritic.co.uk/where-is-parliament/

  2612. Noa @ November 11th, 2020 – 22:26

    The current governance may be without the scrutiny of the Commons, Noa, but given that most of the MPs are useless, obedient, most of them even obsequious to the power of no10, one doubts whether the Parliament’s involvement would help things.

    Baron’s favourite remains Steve Baker, but he is not only disliked by the Blond Inseminator, but the MSM lackeys, too. Who else is there that could challenge the PM and the Cabinet Office that numbers 7,000, yes, that’s right seven thousands apparatchiks. That’s democracy 21st century.

  2613. EC @ November 11th, 2020 – 16:57

    Good points, EC.

    If Baron had any wish, it is that he should have pinched some gold before the price went up. He’s told there’s a place called Fort Knox somewhere in Kentucky, apparently there’s a lot of the stuff there, heh, heh, heh.

  2615. Noa @ November 11th, 2020 – 10:4

    A likeable chap, Noa, an attractive moustache, a new angle on a good old story well told, and also a worthwhile reminder of a war that deprived Britain of a large number of capable young men.

    His take on Haig may be right, Baron has little knowledge of the general, all he knows is that it wasn’t the battle of the Somme that he got pilloried for, it was that he carried on fighting after it, many more got slaughtered in addition to the 20,000. Also, that his family ran (still do?) a profitable whisky business, but not Baron’s favourite brand, it’s not a single malt.

    All in all, it’s the futility of wars that one abhors, what all wars have ever done was killing many, they never solved anything, it was the talking after that led to peace, why the slaughter then?

  2616. Baron 22.42
    You are of course correct Mi’lud, which is why, like Cromwell I referred to them as the ‘Rump’,
    Get ye gone, do what use ye are etc… ”
    Still they are what we must work with for the present, pending the reintroduction of a gallows at Tyburn, so we can at least remind them that the retention of their sinecures are at our electoral discretion and Farage is returning, like Banquo’s ghost, to destroy their equanimity.
    As to the civil service, one despairs, most at home, on full pay and pension, plotting and scheming like divisions of Samuel Peyps clones, but useless.

    On a different note have you seen the vlog on New Culture Forum on Islamophobia by the lovely Emma Jones? Like Peter Whittles criticism of the Met to Commissar Dick it’s worth watching.

  2617. Baron 23.11
    Again I would tend to agree with you about Mr Webbs analysis of Haig, the losses of the first day were not the whole story and totalled over 250,000 by the time the batt e petered out in stalemate in September. I suspect the Royal Navy’s blockade, successfully starving its people of food and industry of materials was also a greater factor on Germanys policy of unrestricted submarine warfare than the campaign in France. Germany might have been loosing men but she herself had launched the battle at Vetdun to fight an attritional battle. We miss the Colonel’s deep knowledge and sagacity on such matters.

  2618. Baron
    ‘… It was the talking after that led to peace…’
    Does it? The Treaty of Versailles, an interlude in Europe’s econd 30 Years war, having dismantled the Empires and Powers that had previously contained long simmering animosities, served only to spread and fan the flames of conflagration without the previous restraints that contained them, up to and including the present day.
    And I agree that it is the innocent who tend to suffer most. I remember the building wreckage of a Scud attack in Riyadh during the 1st Gulf war, a long neat row of bloody corpses and miscellaneous body parts from the third world expatriate workers trapped there, unable to leave an empty city deserted by its leaders and a war in which they had no stake. Ironically that war too could trace its origins back to Versailles and the Treaty
    of Sevres which ratified the Sykes- Picot agreement and the division of the middle East between Britain and France.

  2619. This is a must watch, it runs for over an hour, you can skip the first 5 minutes, he’s introducing the guys that compiled the analysis. If you are really pushed on time go to around 20 minutes, but then listen, watch carefully.

    The feature of the results the analysts found was that there must have been an aphorism in the voting program that resulted in skewed results – the more the country was Republican the more votes got transferred to Biden. The figures cannot lie, this year’s election wasn’t the first one that looked fraudulent, it has been happening since 2001, the question is is it a coup, are both the Dems and GOP on it, has it been agreed by both …. Truly fascinating, please do find time to watch the fast talking guy. It may well be the Donald has a chance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztu5Y5obWP

  2620. Noa @ November 11th, 2020 – 23:12

    Points taken, Noa, you have by far deeper knowledge of the stuff, The Riyadh bombing is a case in point, but very little Baron would disagree with anyway, certainly not now, he’s knackered, too long a day, quite difficult for him, his neighbour has passed away, and he just finished the presentation recommended @ 00:43. You were too kind to reply so fully. Just keep away from th e bug.

  2621. Baron
    November 11th, 2020 – 10:22

    Malfleur, as an Englishman, albeit not “from the East” and its fountains of liberty, takes his political sustenance from the English constitution and from our continuing conversation with its offspring, the constitution of the United States.

    President Trump will be reelected for a second term which will follow directly from his first term.

    Here’s a part of the conversation:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgGXnAucDE

  2623. Still the law?

    Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;

    By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament;

    By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power;

    By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called the Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes;

    By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament;

    By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law;

    By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law;

    By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament;

    By prosecutions in the Court of King’s Bench for matters and causes cognizable only in Parliament, and by divers other arbitrary and illegal courses;

    And whereas of late years partial corrupt and unqualified persons have been returned and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason which were not freeholders;

    And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects;

    And excessive fines have been imposed;

    And illegal and cruel punishments inflicted;

    And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied;

    All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm;

    And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated the government and the throne being thereby vacant, his Highness the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs and cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight [old style date], in order to such an establishment as that their religion, laws and liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted, upon which letters elections having been accordingly made;

    And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties declare

    That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal;

    That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal;

    That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious;

    That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal;

    That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;

    That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law;

    That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;

    That election of members of Parliament ought to be free;

    That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;

    That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;

    That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;

    That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void;

    And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.

    =====================

    Just sayin’

  2625. Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 53ce5e No.11617856
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    Nothing can stop what is coming.
    Nothing!
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  2626. Malfleur @ November 13th, 2020 – 05:19

    Could you translate it into readable English, Malfleur, please.

  2633. #Warning# Beware of anybody using the phrase “Build Back Better…”

    eg. Boris, Biden, Trudeau and Klaus Schwab’s other henchmen.

    This is on a par with “fairer society” and “for the greater good” etc.

    What is “The Great Reset”? (and how the ‘flu d’Etat is being harnessed)
    Paul Joseph Watson With James Delingpole.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRnjpXEwTo

  2635. “Princess Nut Nuts”

    Bwa-hahahahahahahahaha!

    The unlikeable Dominic Cummings suddenly becomes a tinge more likeable.

    Makes one wonder what influence this woman has been exerting, and whether Boris has been the “full shilling” since his supposed recovery from the old kung flu.

    We never did get to the bottom of why the police were called to her/their address in the early hours of June 21st, 2019, on the run up to the party leadership election

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/21/police-called-to-loud-altercation-at-boris-johnsons-home

  2638. Here’s a guy that wants to deprive you of over 15 minutes of your life explaining why Biden’s results in Chicago (over 2,000 voting districts) cannot follow the Bedford’s law, he manages to do a good job on the votes for Biden, but curiously doesn’t touch the Donald’s votes, ignores the fact that the Donald’s telly does follow the law in the name place i.e. Chicago. What a to$$er.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78

  2639. Noa @ November 15th, 2020 – 17:31

    Britons at their best, Noa, the country sinking into a deep hole of a depression the likes of which has never been experienced before, unemployment beckons millions and more, the Brexit talks are about to collapse but does anyone care? Of course not, the true of the English heritage are strumming the ukuleles as nonchalantly as if nothing was amiss in the world at large. Good on them (Baron has subscribed).

  2640. EC @ November 15th, 2020 – 14:10

    Nigel has the guy about right, EC, not a genius but a hard as well as arrogant operative with a purpose, it may be just as well he’s gone, for him that is, the conclusions of the Brexit 4-years long talk may be a disaster, the Blond Inseminator looks like surrendering to Brussels, it will be the end of the miracle of the Tory’s revival.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JP0SxoQVlU

  2642. Wow – still alive and kicking.
    Well so is DT. But only just. We are about to have a demented old man in charge. Biden will shut down oil, the base of our prosperity, ruin the auto industry and stop the beef industry which he says makes methane.
    Not just that he will destroy Israel by giving Iran the bomb. You good folks will never have your trade deal.
    Hey ho.
    And I can’t head over to see my aunt (who survived coronavirus at the start of the fall).
    Love to Andy

  2643. Baron and EC

    The Dom may have gone, thrown out the door with potted plant in hand, but he has succeeded in taking the Blond Inseminator and his equine toothed Sloane with him. If not today in the near future.
    No politician can survive the sunday roast belches and raucous gales of laughter which follow from hearing the demeaning the demeaning sobriquet of Princess Nut Nuts!
    Laugh? I nearly spilled my foaming pint of Prosecco!

  2645. Baron @ 22:53

    That video sent ice through my veins!.
    In some ways I, glad he wasn’t here to witness that and the many other egregious things that the police have sunk to in the last 18 months.

  2647. Noa, November 16th, 2020 – 09:44

    Yup, he’s finished! Salome gets the head of Svengali!
    When Elvis, or rather Dom the Baptist, left the building so visibly by the front door clutching that small box, presumably containing mostly fresh air, he pissed all over Boris’ chips.

    Continuing the Berlin theme…
    Metaphorically speaking the {{{RUSSIAN}}} tanks are already rolling down Whitehall.

  2648. John Jefferson Burns @ November 16th, 2020 – 08:21

    Swim over, John, you can do it, you’re an American, what you want to achieve you achieve, no? Heh, heh, heh.

  2649. J J Burns
    So the US will be just like here, but without the soothing bm of Oil of Nut Nut.
    Still, we may be poor, but we’ll be happy!
    Chin chin!

  2652. Robin Aitken on the decline and fall of the BBC.

    Biased BBC is a Propaganda Machine for Intellectual Elite’s Liberal-Left World View

    “We should see the BBC for what it really is: a subtle propaganda machine for a particular view of the world. We should demand that the BBC lives up to its promises – and if it can’t then it should lose the license fee privilege. The BBC’s version of impartiality is a con perpetrated by an arrogant intellectual liberal-left elite. It’s time for change.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwOguRX560

    The BBC exposed to 10 mins of daylight!

    He’s wrong about change, though.
    The BBC is beyond reform. It has to go!

  2655. Breaking news:

    Having heard about the PM optimism about the decarbonised future of Britain, the British Army announced this evening it is to contribute to it, it will electrify all vehicles in use before 2025 provided the supply of rechargeable batteries isn’t disrupted too much by the c-19 pandemic.

    Says Lt Colonel Lucy Wokenart, (formely, before a successful transgendering op Major Lucien Wokenart): “Our battery driven tanks will sneak in like sleeping vipers into the enemy’s fortifications, they will know not what’s crept on them so quietly and deadly’.

    The brother of J. Bonington Jagworth, the long ago diseased leader of the militant Motorists’ Liberation Front, defender of “the basic right of every motorist to drive as fast as he pleases, how he pleases and over what or whom he pleases”, J. Bonington Jagworth-Fernsby disagrees, says: “What a lot of bo**cks, who’s going to recharge the batteries then?”

  2656. EC @ November 18th, 2020 – 11:36

    Aitken’s wrong, you are right, EC.

    Today’s BBC can never deliver what its charter stipulates, it was the same with communism, could never bring about what it promised, it aint doable in either case, the tenets upon which each is founded works against the aims. The BBC has to be deprived of its financial resources, allowed to find a place under the sun of private enterprise, it they are as good as they say they are, they should all prosper without the money of those who don’t watch the agitprop.

  2657. Noa @ November 17th, 2020 – 08:31

    Solidly a member of the ‘healthy core of Britishness’, Noa, would qualify for a deputy leader running the non-existing department of propaganda involved in story telling round an open fire.

  2658. Here’s a puzzle that needs explaining:

    For the full four years since the Donald got elected the shouting from the Dems and the MSM scribblers had been ‘the election was rigged, it was the Russians that did it’.

    Since the Presidential election results began coming in this year, the shouting from the Dems and the MSM scribblers has been ‘the election can never be rigged, the system doesn’t allow fraud to take place’.

    Which one is it then? An incorruptible system that can only be corrupted by the Russians? Hmmm

  2659. No mystery Baron.
    With the (potential) removal of Orange man the world has been set to rights.
    Business as usual on the pork barrel.

  2660. Good point, Noa, taken.

    Here’s a recording of three men explaining to themselves but more to people like Baron what is common law. You may not find it useful, Baron does, it’s particular to the English speaking countries, it originated here, the other English speaking countries countries (former colonies) adopted it later. If you were to listen the the chat, link it with the contemporary trending of things legal, or perhaps linked to law in general, you may detect a gradual loss of common law features of our legal system (say) fewer jury trials, exceptions to double jeopardy (since 2003) and such.

    Is it a good thing? Is it inevitable that legislating by the Commons takes over? How does it square with the judiciary being accused of going beyond just interpreting the statutes? In common law it has always been the case that county judgments create precedents, no?

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/dissidents-guide-constitution-episode-2-common-law

    Btw, the guys who recorded the common law chat have also two other instalments, one on the constitution, the other on rights. If you want to, Baron will furnish the links.

  2661. Apologies, it should have read ‘court judgments’ and not ‘county .., the fugging predictive gremlin jumped in (forgive Baron’s leaning on lalochezia, but this particular feature of the software goes well beyond infuriating one).

  2663. Baron 23.15
    A good link Mi’lud and interesting. You may findlord Sumption’s 2019 Reith lectures on the subject of the transfer of Parliamentary sovereignty to judges interesting. Link below.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/guide
    There is also an excellent recent analysis of the constitutional reforms necessary to preserve constitutional government by Cuviras. It means the repeal of HRA, which I fear is a step too far for the gibbering priapic man-child of Downing Street.
    https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/rebalancing-the-british-constitution/9

  2664. Baron 23.37
    It’s an old tradition to cook one’s enemy in some parts of the world though Baron, isn’t it? At least so far as we know they won’t be resorting to cannibalism in the belief that they will capture their enemies ies spirit.
    And whatever men invent is generally developed in the first instance for the purpose of violence. Fire and burning our enemies cities and the people in them, to the ground is a regrettable common place of war.
    More seriously, with Western hegenomy long gone, the Chinese, and their allies, Iran and Pakistan, have now become a major threat to the world. They have just been Biden their time of course and it will just get worse. Here is just one example.
    https://youtu.be/utDVFrLZTOE

  2665. “At least so far as we know they won’t be resorting to cannibalism in the belief that they will capture their enemies ies spirit.”

    Soylent Green™ , Noa!

    When the Chinese have killed all the sparrows, ate all the dogs, sweet ‘n soured all the pussies, (with apologies to the ghost of Verity’s cat) hoovered up all the fish in the oceans etc. then they’ll have to eat something.

    Alternatively we could all embrace a warmer, albeit temporary, outcome…

    “An astonishingly good idea” – for some!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZct-itCwPE

  2666. Baron, November 19th, 2020 – 23:37

    I’m inclined to dismiss that report as Fake News.
    The inverse square law ‘n all that. #science

    The power, not to mention the equipment, required to create a microwave “beam” that could strike across remote mountain valleys would be enormous, no?
    All the Indians would have to do in order to foil, literally, Gen. Flu Manchu’s dastardly gambit would be to ensure that their mountain lookout posts were constructed as Faraday cages.

  2669. EC
    Help! I’m Confucioused!
    First they came for the sparrows, then the cats and dogs and finally the all the (UK)kippers.
    But how will they cook all this world’s bounty without improving the technology?
    It stands to reason that these high achieving super intelligent people of er…mustard… are going to need and to build a better microwave than anyone else.
    Or perhaps the Indian army did just make the vindaloo too hot that day.

  2672. Noa @ November 20th, 2020

    The same outfit is also offering the market forecast for heated fabrics to 2025, Noa, this must be a by-product of the write-up on the microwave killing tool. Clever, the Irish.

  2673. Noa @ November 20th, 2020 – 13:44

    One cannot but warm up to the guy, he’s right on the fair trade coffee syndrome, but it’s th style that attracts, so different from the American shouting, waving their arms …. Good guy. Do we know about him?

  2674. A subject that’s currently of high interest to Baron because he will have to decide soon whether to have one or not. The vaccine (since you’ve asked).

    We are told the Pfizer shot is 90% effective (and safe), the Moderna 95%, the Sputnik 92% … What does it mean? Is it that when exposed to the full blast of c-19 the vaccine kicks in, one isn’t touched by the bug, no temperature, no cough, no coupling to a supply of oxygen? Or is it merely that tests show one has anti-bodies spawned by the vaccine?

    From the very start of the pandemic Baron’s argument was that it’s T-cells that matter most rather than antibodies because they last and can cover a range of viruses and bacterias.

    The other worry that keeps Baron’s decaying brain cells occupied is the novelty of the mRNA approach the Pfizer vaccine developers decided on. No vaccine based on a string of mRNA getting inserted into a human DNA chain has ever been approved even though many companies have been pursuing it because it has massive potential for not just c-19 fighting, but any other malady under the sun including cancer and any hereditary abnormality.

    The thing is nobody has yet figured whether tinkering with the DNA, the blueprint we all carry from the very start of our being (not just for us as we plod through life, but also for the future generation if we decide to procreate) is OK.

    Any suggestions will be gratefully received, shall Baron go for the shot or not? Are you?

  2676. The Spanish Appeal Court ruling that the PCR tests are useless makes one wonder why are we spending so much money of them:

    https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/20/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-unreliable-quarantines-unlawful/

    “In their ruling, judges Margarida Ramos de Almeida and Ana Paramés referred to several scientific studies. Most notably this study by Jaafar et al., which found that – when running PCR tests with 35 cycles or more – the accuracy dropped to 3%, meaning up to 97% of positive results could be false positives”.

    If this applies also over here, and it must, the test’s the same everywhere, we run it over more than 35 cycles, the infection rates are nonsense, yet we closed downtime economy because of it.

  2678. Baron,
    DEWs have been under development for several decades.
    The marketing study merely summarises opportunities. Here’s an ‘Oirish’ outfit with more street cred in the field.
    https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html
    Simon Webb’s History Debunked site has a number of interesting posts and he provides verifiable support for his contentions. His history books are interesting and cover various topics, including the suffragettes and white slavery. His style is understated and all the more effective for it.
    As to the matter of vaccines, I am unable to comment knowledgeably. I suspect that what will determine their widespread adoption is not their efficacy but that not having been vaccinated will mean your right and ability to move and travel will be extremely restricted. Its is the logical conclusion to test and trace. Like the introduction of passports and licensing laws during WW1 a lasting legacy of Kung Flu will be the universal implementation of the control of movement of citizens, especially the rows and querulous ones.
    So, rather than querying the boundless beneficence and wisdom of Herr Hancock and his sagacious loons it would be best for us to thrust out our arms and say nothing.
    If we want to know what’s good for us.

  2681. Baron – 01:21

    Perhaps Princess Carrie made the vindaloo too hot the other night!

    Baron – 00:32

    That’s really very good!
    But maybe Ivan should read Animal Farm…

  2682. Noa, November 20th, 2020 – 14:10

    An impressive list of corporations with a vested interest in death and wars.
    You can see why the Orange Man had to be replaced with Dementia Joe!

    Noa – 09:31

    Laser Beams! Now you’re talkin’. Microwaves are for poofs!

    One still cannot beat a good old city buster though…

  2684. “German police arrests lockdown critic Dr. Andreas Noack in a shocking video’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHLnDsOSwA

    Not sure about the provenance of this but it is certainly plausible. Bloody good Oscar winning performances if not genuine!

    Not so much Police, more like “Die Neues Gestapo” modelling Hugo Boss’ 2020 Paramilitary Collection.

    “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Yogi Berra – allegedly
    “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
    “We’re all going to hell in a handcart” – Richard Littlejohn / Sidney Carton
    “May the farce be with you.” CHWs passim
    etc.

  2687. Noa @ November 23rd, 2020 – 22:03

    Wise observations, Noa, well articulated, the Hackney knife briefing superbly underpins the message, but a fat lot of good will that do to anything or anyone.

  2688. EC @ November 23rd, 2020 – 11:22

    He has said it before, EC, he’s right of course, natural immunity must exist, it’s only logical that anyone who’s been hit by a coronavirus of any sort must have T-cells, these are the essential anti-body creators.

    Jus tnow on the BBC Radio4 news at 10.00 the announcer said that the number of deaths of c-19 was around 2.500, but no mention at all of any deaths from flu or pneumonia, how come, no flu this year? No pneumonia?

    We are being frightened. and for what reason?

  2690. This afternoon, Baron called Indoor Biotechnologies in Cardiff on 029 2167 4640 to enquire about T-cells test, the company has developed one, it will take time to get it ready fully, he was told, probably in Jan next year, at the earliest.

    That’s what we need, all of us, not an anti-body test, that’s useless, one can get infected before the results of the test are known, and anyway it’s mostly false positives.

  2692. Noa @ November 25th, 2020 – 11:58

    Comparison between countries misleads, Noa, even countries that are similar in the character of urban- rural and demographics, but the survey confirms what may of us have been saying, that overall mortality hasn’t been that different in the c-19 months compared with the 5-year average, and any excess may well be attributable to deaths for reasons other than c-19.

    If one looks at deaths by the place of them – hospitals, care homes and households, for many weeks running now, it’s households where the excess of deaths is taking place, i.e. people dying from cancer and similar non-c-19 reasons (c-19 patients are in hospitals, possibly care homes). Madness, bloody madness, and they’ll get away with it.

  2693. There are three things that should be of concern about vaccines – the safety aspect, efficacy, and the long term effect on our cells, bodies, health.

    Are you aware that the Pfizer vaccine doesn’t furnish immunity, it only reduces the effects of the virus if you get it? You cough less, you have lower temperature or whatever. Big deal that. As Baron said before we have to ensure that individuals have enough T-cells, they are the top of the fighting tools the body relies on, anti-bodies peter out, T-cells stay very much longer.

  2695. Baron
    You are right, Mi’lud, comparisons are merely informative and inferential, we may draw our own conclusions about their applicability to our own country but to what purpose? Piffle, ever so aptly, handed control over to the nomenklatura in March. The Long March was complete, the excuse in the shape of the Kung, had arrived. It was time to introduce and institutionalise third world living standards, politics and government onto a frigtened and cowering populace.

  2698. Anybody got a cure for insomnia that doesn’t involve alcohol?
    The “wee small hours” seen to drag on forever.

  2699. Noa, November 25th, 2020 – 16:28

    Nowadays they don’t bother with the bricks. All pride in the job has gone now. Once upon a time they had the decency to leave the car neatly up on bricks.

    @21:40 Godders is, as usual, spot on.

    @22:18 If Offcom’s mickey mouse poll of the trustworthiness of the UK’s Fake News outlets is representative of the whole country then we are finished.
    At least the BBC came bottom of the pile… obviously too right wing.

    https://order-order.com/2020/11/26/ofcom-bbc-news-falls-to-last-place-in-viewer-impartiality-ratings/

  2700. EC
    Hehee. I’m surprised they don’t just burn them. Still, times are tight, and they don’t want to waste the match I suppose.
    As the Grand Imam of Mecca drinks more than me these days I’m unable to recommend a serious substitute for my nightcap of champagne cognac. Custard creams and Old Public Eye and Callan series on YouTube, once junk TV, now seem serious drama and commentary compared to contemporary drama. I conclude the reason why it’s termed Woke is because you can’t trust yourself to sleep after watching it, because they might come on and take the tin foil away if you do.
    Do over 50% of the population rely trust any of the terrestrial stations? If so we are doomed. Doomed, Doo……. Argh!!!

  2703. Noa, November 27th, 2020 – 22:13

    Great article.

    Might also go some to explain the advent of the Etonian Tendency a some of CMD’s policies and non meritorious appointments. The first of which was “Baroness” (my arse!) Warzi, WTF!

    At the time many CHWalllsters expressed prolonged and withering disdain a for the whole.Cameroonian Project. i.e. it being continuation of the long march.

    I remember when it came to light that Michael Gove declared that he was such a fan of Antonio Gramsci he had his portrait on his office wall! He outed himself as a ‘wrong un” then and events since have only confirmed that.

    Viva the PFJ! or is it the JPF this week?

  2704. I am watching from afar the disgraceful behaviour of the police in England, albeit under the direction of globalist shills like Khan and Johnson; but I reassert my decision to post the text of the Bill of Rights of 1689 a few weeks back. I also say that we are now faced with the necessity of a need for the revaluation of all values at the political level, but drawing inspiration from our own key constitutional documents and cases in law as well as the best of the United States constitution The monarchy has value in its last role as a source of good tailoring, but the time for the consideration of a republic has arrived. This will surely require the dismantling of political parties and the creation of new forms. Time in other words for the political creativity of the British people to reassert itself.

  2705. EC
    November 27th, 2020 – 03:56

    I feel your pain – but no solution presents itself except to get up for a while and do something else than stare at the ceiling.

  2706. Victor D Hanson doesn’t think the future looks bright for the Republic (neither does Tucker), reckons the divide is not just cultural and ideological between the two largely political tribes, but also demographic – two coastal regions of the progressives, red one in between them.

    In another of Hanson’s videos he says ‘anyone wanting to buy a gun has to wait for nine months in the most liberal state he resides in (Cal?), not because one cannot get the permit, but because of the demand for guns.

    However much Baron’s in favour of arming the people there’s a limit to it, one doesn’t;t want to overdo it, too much of even a good thing may flip the positives, recent events have shown plenty of people there are that one wound’t trust with not a machine gun, but not even a 9mm revolver either.

    https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2020/11/27/victor-david-hanson-has-a-thanksgiving-warning-about-a-cultural-and-geographic-divide-n1179049

  2707. EC @ November 27th, 2020 – 03:56

    Nothing can beat currently g&t for Baron, EC, but if you want to stay away from the hard stuff get yourself a tub spray (75ml) of something called ‘Sleep + pillow spray’, look it up on ‘this works.com’ or call (44) 208 543 3544. It does work, one sprays it on the pillow, it smells lovely, one falls asleep within 15-20 minutes, no hangover feeling in the morning. Not pricey at all.

    In the past Baron had to use it because of strong arrhythmia, so powerful it kept him awake even after a couple of sleepless nights. The spray was a godsend.

  2708. Malfleur @ November 29th, 2020 – 14:41

    Any democracy is only as good as are those living under it, Malfleur, sadly, in our post truth Britain those that labour to live, seek pleasure, propagate may still be in favour, those that govern the labourers have began interpreting the parchments of democracy to suit their aims, and these are not a kosher democratic aims as you can see. What we need is another Way Tyler, smarter than than the first one, but as determined, any suggestion?

  2709. Sorry about the name, the bugging software switched it from Wat, the sooner someone comes up with a simple OS, even if it is the communist North Korea, Baron will switch, he’s more than fed up with the fugging nerds that have FA to do, fugg the life of others, (apologies for leaning on lalochesia again, but enough’s enough).

  2710. The Germans continue to insist Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, poisoned whilst in Russia, cannot explain why nobody either in Russia or in Germany in close proximity to him after he collapsed, or someone who actually touched him trying to help, or handled the stuff that was the conduit for the poison (the bottle?) got in any way infected, be it only lightly.

    Navalny himself addressed the EU lawmakers, asked them to sanction Russian oligarchs, old and new, they must feel the hurt, he said. This isn’t a smart move on his part, it’s one thing to be kicking Putin, another to directly attack the people who acquired what they have killing their rivals when Boris was in charge, they know how to dispose of someone just pointing a finger at them. The best Navalny can do (on Russian blogs his name is Analny) is to ask the KGB to look after him, or he may not celebrate many future Christmases.

  2711. What do you make of this? It was posted on another blog by someone identified as ‘M’, the guy knows what he’s talking about, Baron’s understanding of how our cells work comes from Michael Behe’s books, what M says about the DNA-RNA-Proteins interactions fits it well.

    M:

    “Well I have no idea if it (the Pfizer vaccine) will alter the DNA, nor does Pfizer. But that’s not really the point so I’ll try to explain simply anyway: DNA is transcribed in the cell to produce RNA. There are different kinds of RNA but for our purposes, you can just think of mRNA which is a reverse copy of a piece of your DNA that is necessary to produce proteins.

    Almost every part of your entire body – except water and minerals – is made of proteins and all is made from RNA. This vaccine very cleverly uses the cells equipment (ribosomes, enzymes, organelles – all also made of proteins) to translate this RNA into new proteins as if it was the cells own RNA.

    The problem is that there is an almost infinite number of different and complex proteins and RNAs in the body – each with a very specific task (or not). Any slight alterations or an error in translation of DNA>RNA>protein can create a protein that’s either harmless, deleterious or lethal. We are skipping the DNA part but the problem is that RNA and proteins can and do alter and affect DNA>RNA>protein pathways naturally.

    The human body is extremely complex, there are 20,000 protein-making genes and about the same number that doesn’t make protein but still have a function in translation of those other proteins. And each gene has many variants and functions. BUT (don’t fall asleep yet) it gets even more complex when it comes to immunity – there is a lot more genetic variation with immune-related genes between people than any other genes. For good reason – good immune requires maximum variation. Interfering with the immune response by injecting attenuated viruses really just mimics what our body would do naturally if it came across a virus – the immune response as it’s described is induced by AP Cells. But many viruses are wise to this in evolutionary terms – and is why there is no vaccine for the common cold or HIV – they have their own immunity.

    Back to Pfizer: Their vaccine (as I understand it) is using our own cells to produce the proteins found on the surface of the virus. This could have unknown effects because it’s hard to know exactly how the protein>RNA interactions will interfere with other ones naturally occurring in the cell. Its the endless quest of geneticists to understand these complex and often subtle and often undetectable interactions for all genes in the body.

    Now it could be that nothing harmful happens, but the only way to know that is to test it, and test it and test it again. My opinion is that this should require WAY more testing than using the traditional attenuated virus type vaccine for all the reasons I just explained. In the same way that brain surgery is riskier than fixing a broken leg one requires much more caution.

    If you are still with me we can now also get back to the politics: It would be a major breakthrough if it worked (and I hope it does) but that’s also the reason to be sceptical for me. My original comment was that it won’t see the light of day for some time. I think this is more likely than them pushing through a poorly tested vaccine.

    As with most coronavirus and flu vaccines, the efficacy is likely to be much poorer than they claim, the results of the trial would have to be spectacular and long term to justify any serious risk of distributing it nationwide by the end of the year with such short trials (but who knows, this is Pfizer and the Tory government we are talking about here).

    “Finally, I will leave you with a question: – how do you test a vaccine for long term effects if it’s only been in your possession for 6 months? You don’t need a virologist or any scientist to answer that.”

  2712. Baron
    November 29th, 2020 – 23:13

    Matters did not end well for Wat Tyler, Baron, so I am not sure that we want another. This time we need someone who is not so easily tricked by the political class.

    Here, by the way, is Mahyar Tousi’s lament on ‘The FALL Of British Freedom’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dH_lnSHtUM

  2713. Malfleur, November 30th, 2020 – 18:34

    Things didn’t end so well for John Ball either.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ball_(priest)#Biography

    “John Ball” was a sobriquet often used by “Peter from Maidstone” when making blog comments.

    Mahyar for Mayor!:

    Mahyar Tousi, imo, would’ve been a much better choice as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London. Instead they’ve put up a box ticker called Sean Bailey who nobody has ever heard of.

    Culture Wars:

    “Politics is downstream from culture”
    Andrew Breitbart

    Yuri Bezmenov gave the West fair warning of the cultural subversion that the long marchers were up to. His warnings went unheeded.
    And so it came to pass…

    “The Critical Drinker” is one of many highly articulate people that have documenting the decline and fall of the “entertainment” industry. His take on the transgendered THOR is particularly amusing, albeit gallows humour.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYnVCzwH3Mc

    NB. When not in character as “The Critical Drinker”, in his other life he’s actually a best selling author.

  2714. Nobody doubts the need to eradicate the pathogen, it’s killing not just many individuals, mostly of Baron’s age, it’s killing also the productive potential of countries, making the poor poorer still, pushing societies to the brink of if not brutal convulsions, than certainly changes in the legal environment destroying further the freedoms that have formed the foundation of the Western culture, just look what’s going on in Paris, the Micron’s response to it, or closer to home, the proposed legal changes in the land of the whisky and haggis.

    That we have to defeat the c-19 is a given, but we shouldn’t be doing it in a way that may create problems if not as big as those brought about by the virus than certainly of a magnitude we may regret. Science is never settled, it’s only as good as it can successfully respond to vigorous probing. Here is a piece of news one cannot find in any of the MSM platforms.

    On December 1, 2020, the ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr. Michael Yeadon and the lung specialist and former head of the public health department Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg filed an application with the EMA, the European Medicine Agency responsible for EU-wide drug approval, for the immediate suspension of all SARS CoV 2 vaccine studies, in particular the BioNtech/Pfizer study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42).

    Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon demand that the studies – for the protection of the life and health of the volunteers – should not be continued until a study design is available that is suitable to address the significant safety concerns expressed by an increasing number of renowned scientists against the vaccine and the study design.

    On the one hand, the petitioners demand that, due to the known lack of accuracy of the PCR test in a serious study, a so-called Sanger sequencing must be used. This is the only way to make reliable statements on the effectiveness of a vaccine against Covid-19. On the basis of the many different PCR tests of highly varying quality, neither the risk of disease nor a possible vaccine benefit can be determined with the necessary certainty, which is why testing the vaccine on humans is unethical per se.

    Furthermore, they demand that it must be excluded, e.g. by means of animal experiments, that risks already known from previous studies, which partly originate from the nature of the corona viruses, can be realized. The concerns are directed in particular to the following points:

    a) The formation of so-called “non-neutralizing antibodies” can lead to an exaggerated immune reaction, especially when the test person is confronted with the real, “wild” virus after vaccination. This so-called antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with corona vaccines in cats, for example. In the course of these studies all cats that initially tolerated the vaccination well died after catching the wild virus.

    b) The vaccinations are expected to produce antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. However, spike proteins also contain syncytin-homologous proteins, which are essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals such as humans. It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women.

    c) The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.

    d) The much too short duration of the study does not allow a realistic estimation of the late effects. As in the narcolepsy cases after the swine flu vaccination, millions of healthy people would be exposed to an unacceptable risk if an emergency approval were to be granted and the possibility of observing the late effects of the vaccination were to follow. Nevertheless, BioNTech/Pfizer apparently submitted an application for emergency approval on December 1, 2020.

    Out of the mountains of information about vaccines and their efficacy Baron is reminded what a virologist working in the field for his whole life said. It was something like ‘with every vaccine, one should wait for the at least the first 3 million people getting it before making even a preliminary conclusion about its safety and effectiveness’. That’s exactly what the barbarian from the East will do, wait for the first millions, and only then decide.

  2716. Hard to disagree with Fred, the guy hits it on the head, China seems to have figured what the Germans did after the war, spending as little as possible on defence building the industrial complex instead, the rationale was simple, only a madman would start a nuclear war, and only a shortsighted madman would get involved in a global conventional war when the other side, if pushed into the corner, could unleash nukes galore turn the conflict into a nuclear one.

    It fits Baron’s argument he’s been making like a glove, too, t’s not NATO to any other grouping or even a country it’s MAD, the one simple fact of reality that the two competing powers both had enough of nukes to kill the world many times over.

    For any country, except for the two competing nuclear rivals, to spend money on the tools of war was a waste, the Germans figured it years ago, so it seems did the Chinese. Their arsenal of the nuking sort isn’t particularly massive, but it’s enough to deter any possible madman trying to start a global conflict. Instead, they spend the money of high tech, urbanisation, asset buying offshore, just as Fred says.

    https://www.unz.com/freed/china-a-cold-shower/

  2717. Noa @ December 4th, 2020 – 21:45

    A sensible advice from a sensible guy, Noa, he’s right, one has to think, do the assessment, but even if the label will say what’s in the jab, not many people will be able to comprehend the content because they don’t have sufficient knowledge in the science behind the ingredients. The Pfizer vaccine is mRNA based, but what is messenger RNA?

    Even if one si told that it’s a reverse replica of one’s DNA, is read by a ribosome when synthesising a specific protein, one still is rather in the dark unless one has enough understanding of the whole process of the renewal of cells.

    The one fact he hasn’t;t mentioned is that the RNA tweaking have been tried before for other clinical procedures, not one has been approved. It’s a novelty, Baron is not yet convinced it’s wise to start using the RNA approach with the c-19. The other vaccines are utilising vectors (human or animal), this has been the path for the vaccines of the past including the famous one against polio and the one against ebola.

    We shall see.

  2718. It came as a surprise, Baron’s been banned on the Spectator, he can read the articles, cannot see any pictures accompanying them, a nd certainly cannot comment. Any advice what to do? A letter to Fraser Nelson, or Andrew O’Neil?

  2719. Baron, December 4th, 2020 – 23:24

    Both. A short note asking them to either fix things or refund your subscription money!

  2721. EC @ December 5th, 2020 – 09:42

    Will say more, now too short on time.

    Btw, EC, the spray didn’t help, or you’ve decided to ignore Baron’s suggestion how to ease off your insomnia out?

  2722. Baron, December 3rd, 2020 – 08:36

    Mrs EC, who knows a thing or two about all matters biological, favours the offering of the Oxford Vaccination Group as being a safer and more effective vaccine, particularly for “wrinklies” like us.

    Whether or not we will be allowed a choice is an open question, when the government is determined to fill the pockets of its chosen merchant.

    https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-university-breakthrough-on-global-covid-19-vaccine

    In the coming weeks it will be amusing to see the GPs, who on full pay have hidden away from their patients for the last 9 months, throw open their doors and beg people to ‘come on in” so that they can claim their circa £40 per jab administered.

    The government has given its merchant immunity from prosecution for any harmful effects… This news is about as reassuring as chilling announcement, “Dr. Shipman will see you now.”

  2724. You have raised Baron’s expectations before he clicked on it, EC, and what a joy it was to discover the latest in high-tech coming to a rescue in these testing times, the blue veined barbarian has nearly cried, heh, heh ..

    And Mrs EC is right, the Oxford jab feels safer. In fact, Baron was contemplating calling the Russian Embassy asking them whether one could buy their vaccine, they must bring some to inoculate the staff, no?

    The Sputnik (a stupid name for a vaccine, don’t you think?) is getting bad press in the West, but the Russians have a solid record in high quality vaccines, the communist thugs feared if people get sick they may rise and cause trouble, health delivery was not bad compared to other sectors of the society and considering the lack of money. It was a Russian team together with a Russia born American (Sabin) that did the first mass inoculation of the oral polio vaccine.

    https://hekint.org/2020/05/11/a-cold-war-vaccine-albert-sabin-russia-and-the-oral-polio-vaccine/

  2727. EC December 1st

    Things may not have ended well for John Ball, at least until he found himself in Abraham’s bosom; but he led the way (from where?) to the Declaration pf Independence and indeed to the “naughty men” who, we all hope, are being routed in the USA and elsewhere as we speak.

    Where is Peter nowadays, by the way? Last report from here, some years or so ago I think, had him in a retreat at Mount Shasta Ca….?

  2729. Malfleur @ December 7th, 2020 – 00:33

    The New Zealand institution’s letter is a shock, Malfleur (it’s one of the links at the bottom of the narrative), if nobody has any public record of isolating the bug how do we know the vaccine will kill the non-existent virus?

    More to point, what is those that die allegedly of the virus die of? Flu, or a common pneumonia?

  2730. This was recommended to Baron to read, a big splash on Saturday it was in the DM, the guy who sent it said, the most interesting part, for Baron anyway, is the postings, most of them critical, and rightly so.

    It truly beggars belief the 77 Brigade could endorse such trash, they must believe people are dense and more if they think the masses will associate with it, if anything, those who have genuine concerns must turn against those plugging this nonsense.

    If the boys and girls of the 77th Brigade keep on producing such narratives, they are unlikely to garner support against the man in the Kremlin, just the opposite. They need to get smarter, and fast.

    Perhaps, the idea behind the piece is to prove that blaming Putin makes no sense, no?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9021779/DAN-HODGES-Vladimir-Putins-anti-vaxxers-trying-use-Covid-kill-us.html

  2731. Ode to Margaret Keenan

    Using mRNA
    They seek to save our DNA
    With no thought for themselves
    Into the unknown they delve

    To create something new
    A kind of ‘S protein’ stew
    Not only for the rich and greedy
    Focused on the unwell and needy

    They fight this new scourge of mankind
    Leaving no avenue behind
    The greatest minds on this earth
    Will be the Gods of our rebirth

  2733. The girl that does the commentary may be right, one would expect the government to do extensive PR to convince us to get the jab, but what Baron found amazing is how innovatively probing some people are, it didn’t occur to him to look at the pictures as closely as the girl did, it must be that one usually trusts an image without dissecting the details of it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQncFs-JaE&feature=emb_logo

  2734. Noa @ December 10th, 2020 – 12:50

    When Baron clicked on it, Noa, it said: This video is private.

  2738. “Peter Hitchens: From Covid to Culture Wars-The Left’s Long March Through UK Institutions is Complete”

    The remorseful former Trot has a sit in with Peter Whittle of the New Culture Forum.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUhm3_PW3qo

    Peter Whittle is really awfully very nice. The other day I saw him attempting to question Strap-on about the Met’s abysmal response to the Remembrance Day vandalisation of the Cenotaph by XR. Maggie’s famous retort, “It was like being savaged by a dead sheep” comes to mind.

    However will politeness still ‘cut the mustard,’ so to speak, in our brave new world?

  2743. Noa, December 13th, 2020 – 18:55

    Wonderful!
    I thought that these crazy times were beyond satire, but Jeff pulled it off admirably.

  2747. Does anyone else enjoy Mike Grahams discussions with Neil Oliver, who is currently locked down in the SSSR (Sturgeon’s Scottish Socialist Republic)?
    It’s so strange to hear any amiable, well mannered discourse by serious people on serious matters that I sometimes replay these and his conversations with Peter Hitchens just to enjoy the reason and logic employed, letting a sentence be finished without interrupteion.
    The BBCs extensive coven of Bitchfinder Generals and craven Warlocks should take note and be very afraid. Internet YouTube publishig is now gathering bigger audiences than mainstream channels.
    Anyway here’s a sample.
    https://youtu.be/I_HHiwi7Vy0

  2751. They do blow hot and cold on the matter of the weather, don’t they Baron?
    Now scientists hedge their bets by calling it climate change; though apparently the PRC incline to the global cooling theory….

  2752. Noa, December 17th, 2020 – 14:25

    Yes, I watch quite a lot of Mike’s interviews. Neil Oliver wasn’t born yesterday, and knows his history. He is thus on the target list of under educated. infantilised ideologue, bigoted CyberNats who would to shut him down completely.

    Nicola Sturgeon is running/would run Scotland into the ground the same way that Robert Mugabe ran Zimbabwe – via Mugabenomics. However compare the fragrant Nicola to ‘Uncle Bob’ is probably unfair because we must remember that he was more popular, had a far higher IQ, and was far better educated, being the holder of several university degrees.

  2753. Baron, December 17th, 2020 – 22:20

    EC on the global warm-mongers:

    “The unspeakable in pursuit of the unheatable.”
    [CHWalls passim]

    …with apologies to Oscar.

  2754. 2020, the year of the “Woke” nativity?

    https://snipboard.io/CtjWBa.jpg

    Well, after recent times in which the wankerati in the “entertainment” [indoctination of the masses] industry have given us:

    The first female Dr Who.
    The first female 007 (Jane Bond?)
    The first female Thor
    etc. etc.

    I’m looking forward to see if in 2021 they come up with the first transgendered Wonder Waman.

  2756. Noa – 00:18

    Well, as they they say over in the other toonland, “Why, ya bugger man!”

    I still have fond mammaries of Linda Carter playing the amazonian princess with super powers in the 70s, the original and definitive Wonder Waman, imho 🙂

    Gulp, arrgh…
    Nurse! N-U-U-R-S-E !
    The Curtains…
    Ah…

  2760. It seems being the HMG Wu flu lickspittle and Bozza’s propagandist is choice has paid off for the Ministry of Truth.
    Quid pro quo.
    BBC delenda est? Not just yet.
    Who was it said today was a good day to bury bad news…
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13542168/plans-to-decriminalise-non-payment-of-tv-licence-shelved-by-government/
    With mutant flu, imminent tier 4 lockdown nationwide, the French Ports closed, and Parliament buggered off, can we expect capitulation by No 10 before Wednesday?

  2761. Noa, December 22nd, 2020 – 00:14

    Yeah, I saw that too.
    It seems that the only way that the BBC is going to be fettled is for the citizenry to defund it themselves by refusing to watch and cancelling their licence fee payments.

    YouTube is getting as bad. Here’s Dave Cullen (Computing Forever) explaining why he’s only be going to use it as a forwarding address from now on…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nOigXR9fPk

    BTW it seems that the YouTube “algorithm” is censoring comments on videos. I had a highly accurate, excoriating but polite comment regarding the BBC removed from a certain channel yesterday.

    YouTube is now inserting ads in videos whether they are ‘monetised’ or not. This is very annoying for viewers and content creators alike!

  2762. EC
    Many thanks for that link. I’ve noticed the increasing ‘gobulisation’ and monetization of YouTube too, in the longer term it will be replaced, but by what?
    And will it be replaced before we its visitors?
    Anyway I’m looking out for a model T Ford or even a Transit van for contraband running across the new northern, western and Southern borders that are emerging under the chaos of Piffle rule and the breakup of the Union.

  2763. western??? Nah lad! Eastern! We won’t be going over to Douglas on a jet ski for a hubristic delights!

  2765. A very Happy Christmas to all remaining Wallsters and your families and not forgetting, to Peter from Maidstone.

  2766. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
    and is getting strange looks from the family cat,
    cleaning its claws and making them sharper,
    if I were the goose then I would scarper.

  2767. God came one day to Abraham
    Saying Abe my son I have this plan
    See all these stars up in the sky
    To your kin folk I will give life

    From Abraham came his sons
    The messengers forever honoured
    In Christianity, Judaism and Islam
    Jacob, Moses, Elijah and Jonah

    Zechariyah, John, Soloman and Noah
    From them came Jesus and Mohammed
    So we say peace be upon them all
    And peace be upon this world

  2768. What else could one say but Merry Christmas and the Happiest New Year to everyone who still occasionally blunders into the space of this frayed blog, also to those who departed the world of the breathing, who knows they may be looking at us saying ‘FFS, enjoy life, it lasts not forever’.

    As the wise old Chinese said ‘don’t you wish to live in interesting times?’, we certainly do, in few days we will become, after close to half a century, a sovereign nation again. You reckon we’ll make it a success?

  2769. EC @ December 24th, 2020 – 07:48

    As close to priceless as it gets, EC, would have been better without the laughing listeners.

  2771. Fergus Pickering @ December 25th, 2020 – 06:29

    A solid message, Fergus, but does everyone listen, in particular those with the power to start another bout of undetermined length of slaughter?

  2772. Noa @ December 22nd, 2020 – 00:14

    They gave up on the idea of decriminalising the non-paying of the licence, Noa, because they fear the woke monstrosity, that’s the only reason for it. Such is the power of the BBC’s £5bn plus budget.

    Why should anyone pay for a service one doesn’t use?

  2773. Quite a year 2020 turned out to be:

    We all undertook an exercise in house arrests, didn’t object; BoJo did succeed in leaving the the Brussels construct; In the Republic, the anti-Donald forces, in the words of the incoming President Biden “have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organisation in the history of American politics.” and over in the East Putin couldn’t resist to have a go at removing from the phylum of the living the man who wants to be King (or is it Tzar?).

    Any prediction for 2021 anyone?

    We should all do it, peer into the future 365 days, then when the year’s over compare notes. Any takers?

  2775. Baron, December 26th, 2020 – 11:49

    Who said, “God helps those who helps themselves” ?

    Chyna, Bejing Byden and the Dems have successfully orchestrated a ‘flu d’etat on the back of fraudulent mail in votes in the swing states, ably assisted by MSM and Big Tech censorship.

    The GOP have effectively rolled over and asked Demented Dems to sniff their hair and tickle their tums?

    Will The Donald give in too?

    Did the Xmas day Nashville explosion signify the start of the civil war?

  2777. EC @ December 27th, 2020 – 12:32

    It may have come as a surprise to many, EC, but this must have been happening for years, it’s public now because the authorities are beginning to feel pressure from users and new entrants to address the issue of monopolistic market control by the few big names, Facebook amongst them.

    Btw, it’s not only Facebook that’s been sinning, others like Google must be just as bad, everyone with a PC is getting checked, through an algorithm first, directly if found to ignore the orthodoxy of the time.

  2779. What do you make of this, the first link is short video from dr. Coleman warning about the vaccines, the second the CDC report he refers to (to save you looking for it):

    https://brandnewtube.com/watch/urgent-news-about-the-covid-19-vaccine_botqwzI8R7UUVY2.html

    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf

    The number of rejections seems very high, what one hears about is the most serious cases (fatalities?), but if the definition shown under the double asterisks is correct, it’s quite irresponsible of the MSM poodles to ignore the number.

  2780. Noa,
    Congratulations on being promoted to Tier 4.
    Cumbria, not used to not being the nexus of world events, has claimed its rightful place in the Premier League by leapfrogging inferior levels straight into Tier 4.
    How much of this is to do with the “holiday makers” vs the strenuous efforts “Workington Man” is open to Kwestion…

  2781. Noa, December 29th, 2020 – 23:46

    Good ole “Monkey MFC” was being a bit “economical with the actualité when he said that he got into a “spot of bovver” on MFC’s blog site a few years ago. If a ‘kipper or Tory had made similar remarks then they would have never been heard of again!

  2782. Hi,
    Did anyone notice in yesterday’s newspapers (telegraph specifically) that England needs to build 300 homes a day to cope with migrant surge.
    I’m sure I’m wrong but I seem to remember the need for new houses had absolutely nothing to do with immigration.
    I seem to remember that statement rolled out many times and if you thought it did you were a r@cist

  2783. EC
    I’ve always considered comrade Rod to be a political chameleon. Entertaining enough, but happy to eschew hanging 10 and ride the surf between the waves of socialism and conservatism.
    What’s a minted and successfulTeeside returnee doing professing love for bunch of cockney no-marks? It’s a form of inverted snobbery and all very Groucho.

  2784. John Birch
    Yes I saw that and drew the same conclusions. Expect a Boris armistice on illegal immigrants already here and the de facto suspension of any serious immigration restrictions.

  2786. For Baron
    For 2021: the Ghost of New Years’ future has yet come. Here is a glimpse of what might yet be.

    In the US. In March Trump Republican Militia ‘Irregulars’ seize Fort Sumpter, threatening White state secession and demanding the immediate release of the Minneapolis Police Four on the basis that they cannot now obtain a fair trial under a Racist Democrat POTUS.

    China launches a proactive military campaign against India in concert with Pakistan.
    Threatens possible military action against US ‘puppets’ Taiwan, Australia and Japan.

    The Israel rapprochement with Arab Gulf states disintegrates as Iran and Hezbollah launch co-ordinated guided missile attacks against Zionist imperialism. Biden and EU unite to embargo weapons supplies to Israel.

    In the UK Johnson bashfully accepts nomination of ‘Prime Minister for Life’ from the Party Caucus. Kier Starmer objects, saying he (now known as zie) would have nominated Boris as PM ‘for eternity’. Boris duly acknowledges th-s massive responsibility and humbly accepts the role from a knee taking Zir Kier.

    The Home secretary of the day announces in Parliament that the direct administration of the government by fiat has been declared a triumph by the PM and will be continued as long as the ‘Great Terror’ of Covid stalks ‘the proud and free British people’.
    The ‘regrettable’ suspension of civil rights of expression, assembly and demonstration continuation will continue indefinitely. Serious Breaches will result in imprisonment in the Tower and subsequent beheading.
    ‘Heinrich’ Hancock is appointed Minister for Propaganda, with responsibility for merging all UK MSM under the ‘benevolent supervision’ of the Board of the BBC.

    The British Council of Muslims is given responsibility for the UKs post EU immigration and diversity policy. It proclaims that:
    ‘Only the most devout of muslims will in future be welcome in the House of Peace which will be the UK under the Sultan Charles Mohammed (PBUH). Our goal is to become an Islamic state before the Government’s abolition of the kuffars’ petrol driven motor cars, Inshallah’.
    The Imam of of the Canterbury Grand Mosque, Hassan Welby, then led the faithful lunchtime prayers.

    In celebration of the announcement from Pasha Khan’s palace widespread bonfires are lit in ‘disused’ churches across the country. However ‘diverse’ suicide bombers and knife attackers are encouraged to ‘postpone’ their campaigns until the resumption of some children’s concerts and pantomimes, and reopening of public houses.

    The wearing of the ‘Boris’ the Government approved face mask manufactured by Cronies PLC, a ‘not for profit’ Ministerial consortium, is made compulsory for all ‘pulsed’ citizens.

    Peter updates the CHW page year.

    Oh yes and Happy New Year to all you Wallsters out there!

  2787. I stop by every year to wish everybody a happy new year.
    Now that we have reached 2019, May I say make the most. I feel in my bones that 2020 will not be too grand.

  2788. Noa @ December 31st, 2020 – 16:45

    Your literary talents are wasted here, Noa, you should seek wider applications of them, a slot in any of the mass agitprop platforms like the BBC would do it, it may happen yet what with the new leader of the esteemed institution telling us he will turn the monstrosity around.

    Since it’s only you who has taken up the challenge to predict what the wise old Chinese believe man can never predict, it must be all the others have either no idea what the future will bring or cannot eb bothered, the latter by far the likely case.

    It may seem that what you so clearly articulate is a gross exaggeration, 365 days isn’t enough time to gel it all done, but it would’t shock at all if by the end of the decade it all have come true, every sign of the Full Monty happening in the years ahead points to such an outcome.

    Having spent the last few days doing things other than annoying the half a dozen individuals that visit this site Baron finds it hard to switch to it again, his take on the future differed little from yours, except that he still hopes the dormant healthy core of Britishness will come to an end, a new 21st century Tyler will rise, smarter than the one of the historic fame, and will take over the direction of this sceptered isle just as the great bard once said England should be:

    “This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
    This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
    This other Eden, demi-paradise,
    This fortress built by Nature for herself
    Against infection and the hand of war,
    This happy breed of men, this little world,
    This precious stone set in the silver sea.”

  2789. Marshal Roberts @ January 1st, 2021 – 05:33

    You should visit more often, Marshal, but when you do, avoid confusing the poorly educated Slav, he’s already confused enough.

  2790. John birch @ December 31st, 2020 – 08:53

    There may come a time, John, when the net result of migration switches around, the leaving ingenious folk outnumber the newcomers, then more houses will become available, the crisis will be over …. heh, heh, heh.

    And the Happiest New Year ever (and the 365 days that follow) to you and everyone else who visits here to not, let’s be generous, it costs nothing.

  2791. Noa @ December 31st, 2020 – 15:20

    One couldn’t come up with a more measured take on the pandemic, Noa, the guy’s informed by common sense, the best science the mankind has come up with, and his grandma was right, it’s breathing that matters most, one stops breathing one’s gone.

    The aggregate mortality is indeed the only statistical series to look at, it cancels the shenanigans of the authorities trying to scare us to death to flog the vaccines.

    Here’s an an anecdotal evidence that the c-19 behaves weirdly, but not exceptionally so, a man in his mid-50s from a family Baron knows well got infested, spent over a week suffering, not that badly, but badly enough to say he wouldn’t wish it on anyone, high temperatures, never ending coughs causing chest pains, covered in tsunamis of sweat on and off, his wife that shared all the rooms with, also slept in the same bed, didn’t ‘socially distanced’ from him in the days of his suffering got tested twice for c-19, came up negative twice, didn’t even get the common cold, ‘never felt better in my life’ she told Baron.

    Both are OK now, he was ‘isolating’ for the prescribed period, when the GP called, on the 8th day of his c-19 pains to arrange for hospitalisation he was already improving.

    Go figure.

  2792. “ Marshal, but when you do, avoid confusing the poorly educated Slav, he’s already confused enough.”
    Do not be confused. 2020 was such a washout that we are better living as if it had never been.
    Live normally. Why should we, any of us, live in fear on the say so of a schoolboy called Matt. Who said we should hide behind rags of cloth when human interaction needs the encouragement of a smile? What is the harm in walking down the pub for an honest pint of ale?
    I am sick of it all.

  2793. Marshal Roberts @ January 1st, 2021 – 17:07

    You are not the only one sick of it, Marshal, plenty of us are, and the way things are shaping up the sickness may not disappear any time soon.

  2794. Marshal Roberts, January 1st, 2021 – 17:07

    I’m with you there. The trouble is that the country that we thought grew up in no longer exists. Too late to escape? Don’t leave it too late like it did, and if you do manage it then never look back!

    I got two very nasty, imo, emails at the new year about BRexit from somebody that I know who went to live in Germany about 40 years ago. A Lancastrian tribal lefty who still avidly reads the Guardian and watches the BBC for information, so obviously he’s a true patriot. I expect he’ll be squealing a bit more when his taxes go up.

  2795. Baron,

    The benefits of global warming? Here’s my mate Pavlin from Varna out for a ride by the Black Sea on New Year’s Day. Sunny and 12C !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouxYKWuX4pU

    In all the videos showcasing BG that he’s shot recently he always manages to eat well. They’ve got some really nice proper grub there! 🙂

    The warm weather won’t last for him. Whenever I’ve flown over there in February from 38,000ft Bulgaria has looked pretty FROZEN UP to me! Pavlin is hoping to ride to Magadan sometime in 2021 but I think that the ‘flu d’etat may yet thwart his plans!

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