The Coffee House Wall – July 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021

This is the Coffee House Wall for this month. 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.

1,572 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – July 2021”

  1. CALLING ALL ROBOTS!

    Google is now requiring that we pass a test as not robots before allowing us to enter this site.

    Robots of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your algorithms!

  3. Batley & Spleen…

    “Batley n Spen” ounds like a TV series about a pair of gritty, no nonsense, northern detectives.

    George is going straight to court! Here’s why.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuIGH3Ue1o

    Labour think that they can do as they please, don’t they. Maybe not this time.
    In the UK , election rigging a predominantly a Labour activity, but that’s not to say the the Tories also aren’t above election shenanigans – eg. 2015 South Thanet!

    File under: Phil Woolas,

  5. The Sunday Moan.
    Today’s is Meades on mediocrity, or the Bilbao effect, where the Town Council replaced the industrial area and docks with the truly appalling Guggenheim museum, stuffed it full of pretentious rubbish and charged 10 Euros per idiot to wo der through the dump. Outside illiterate schizophrenic Africans either try to sell umbrellas or stab tourists and residents depending on their mood, weather and the time of day.

    https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-2021/the-regeneration-game/

  6. “Meanwhile we should consider that this weird gallimaufry is to a fake future what the Prince of Wales’s dire Poundbury is to a fake past.”

    LMAO ! He’s got a way with words, dunt he!
    I loved that Peter Cook quote, too. 🙂

  7. “… Peter Cook famously said of his Establishment Club in Soho that it was based on “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War”.”
    As if singing the Horst Wessel and interposing, Oscar Wilde style, one’s body would deter congress between Boris and an intern.

  8. Meanwhile back in Batley..
    Catsuit George gets an honourable mention from Melanie Phillips for his own unique and self interested take on the blood libel. Surely its nearly time to reopen York Tower for a good old Jewish-Muslim show down…
    https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-real-story-about-that-gaza-death?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDc4NTg0OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzgzNDc3NzYsIl8iOiJCejVmRiIsImlhdCI6MTYyNTQwMDUwNywiZXhwIjoxNjI1NDA0MTA3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzc2NTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zkt8sRjT6XiXZFzbAMTo1yDctMGL6HnpqRKA_uYkG8s

  10. SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS AND DESCENDANTS – R.I.P.

    Young man, there’s no need to feel down
    I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground
    I said, young man, ’cause you’re in a new town
    There’s no need to be unhappy
    Young man, there’s a place you can go
    I said, young man, when you’re short on your dough
    You can stay there, and I’m sure you will find
    Many ways to have a good time
    It’s fun to stay at the YMCA
    It’s fun to stay at the YMCA
    They have everything for you men to enjoy
    You can hang out with all the boys
    It’s fun to stay at the YMCA
    It’s fun to stay at the YMCA
    You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal
    You can do what ever you feel
    Young man, are you listening to me?
    I said, young man, what do you want to be?
    I said, young man, you can make real your dreams
    But you got to know this one…

  18. “Once Upon A Time In A Galaxy Far, Far way…

    … before Tony’s fifth column (aka “third way” got going, and we had a more homogenous, less divided body politic… we rejoiced in our differences back then…

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

    Up the Union!
    (not the EU or USSR, obviously)

  20. Noa

    I hope we can ensure that some variant of the Horst Wessel song is never sung in Wembley Stadium.

  21. EC
    July 6th, 2021 – 06:56

    Very instructive!

    Has anyone come up with a reasoned, sensible figure for a comfortable population for the United Kingdom?

  22. When I lived in Manhattan, many years ago, I used to walk along Fifth Avenue by the eastern wall of Central Park where I would pass a plaque commemorating W.T. Stead, I noted that he was a journalist of some kind and often wondered, without spending any energy on searching for an answer, who he was.

    https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/william-thomas-stead

    Now, recently, I am beginning to understand…,

    W.T. Stead (with Lord Rothschild, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie bankrolls) co-opted The Salvation Army (and the Y.M.C.A. & Y.W.C.A.) into his global ‘One World Order’ schema

    https://aim4truth.org/2021/07/14/w-t-stead-with-lord-rothschild-j-p-morgan-john-d-rockefeller-cornelius-vanderbilt-and-andrew-carnegie-bankrolls-co-opted-the-salvation-army-and-the-y-m-c-a-y-w-c-a-into-his-global-one/

  23. Which film of Truffaut is it in which there is a wall of still photographs of all those who the director had known but had since dies which included a photo of the German in Julies et Jim but who was still alive at the time? Was it Day for Night?
    I suppose we all have those who have become dead to us – or whom we are dead for.
    As we walk among people, each of them carries his dead with him in a cloud around his head but of course we don’t see them, though our own appear to us intermittently and without logic. Usually of course at night and with strange messages.

  27. Generally speaking, I think I have been able to take advantage of the enforced house arrest consequent on the common cold mass psychosis; but I may have seen a bit.too much that is healthy for my love of country of Mike Graham and Alex Belfield. Can that really be Old England that they are talking about? Where did it go? Over the hills and far away it seems. You can never go.back they say.

  29. Malfeur 12.22

    If, as Peter Hitchens is fond of saying, the past is another country then so, as Graham and Belfield demonstrate, is much of the present.
    Proving the adage that, as soon as one Englishman opens his mouth another sticks his foot in it.

  31. Malfleur, July 16th, 2021 – 12:32

    Harold Van Wick!

    I think it was very unsporting of the dishevelled, cigar smoking, detective not to overlook Harold’s murder of his mother in law! Surely, given the provocation, any reasonable minded judge would have dismissed the case?

  32. Malfleur, July 17th, 2021 – 12:14

    The objective truth can never be established by consensus alone!
    Empiricism Rules!

  35. I see some poor MP named Drax has become the target of demonstrators seeking to persuade him to pay reparations to Barbados on account of his ancestors having made a fortune from slavery in the West Indies. The mass psychosis gripping Britain since no the adoption of the Covid bollocks threatens to spiral out of control with this variant. First observed among undergradates of Bristol University when the statue of Colston was pulled down and thrown into the Severn estuary and more recently in the clamour to change the name of Wills Hall at that in situation, it is now set fair to infect any connection with slavery. The Windsors, the British aristocracy however now enfeebled,and any gentlemen or ladies or indeed those now declasse from former positions of standing in our community should lock up their daughters.
    How long before those who may be seen to benefit today from the sale of white indentured servants to the colonies in the past or those who prospered from the employment of English or Welsh coalminers, or whose predecessors spoke up unwisely in opposition to the excesses of the French Revolution such as the MP for Bristol, Edmund Burke, whose statue may have so far survived the variant, or any profiting from the sins of dead generations, are tarred and feathered and stripped of their property in hastily convened public meetings?

  36. ‘The6 Last Kingdom’ is a TV series which, so far, seems to offer a more positive less savage view of England, albeit in the 9th century.

  37. Clownfall

    Diaries from Der Fearer Bunker (LGBTQAA Day 450 ish++)
    Is I in or is I not?
    Carrie and Chris ghost in and say We must stay in. My friend, We sometimes think Our only friend, Rishi says no We must be brave, otherwise our futures options will fall and We will have to tax choldrens’ sweeties to keep paying the civil service wages and pensions.
    We will have to borrow even more from that appalling little fag Cruddas.
    Anyway apparantly the plebeans are revolting, (har har!). Bread and circuses for them, a pity about the miskicks last Sunday Valliance was counting on them to ease the lock down back without too many problems. Like Wombledon that didnt work out for him and now that prat Brady is whinging at the door about Munchausens by proxy.
    What to do? We asked Cove if We should organise a HMP Britain popularity contest, with Ourself, McBasilisk, that Welsh leak and Poont or whatever he’s called over in Stirmont or wherever, to see who is doing best with the scum at the present time. (Memo to oneself, how is my meisterplan for an Irish Sea tunnel progressing? Is our Broadcasting Craporation on side?)
    Snivel looked up adoringly at my navel (he is permitted to gaze no higher, on pain of death) and licked my foot, newly washed this week as per Carries’s hygenie dictates, from his prostrate position he whispered:
    “Oh Divinity, a wonderful idea, but being the Master of Time may I suggest we defer until after Freedom Day, the midges are rising in the hielands, the leek shops are closing by the hour and the EU regulation toilet paper avalanche in Bogside bodes ill for a favourable portent.”
    He is right I thought, even as We spurned his prone carcass with Our bejwelled sandal.
    “And get Rod no jab no job the Plumber round, the smell around here is getting unbearable”
    Is it the underground plumbing here, or one of Prince Wilfred’s nappies? Carrie says not, but the appaling stench must come from somewhere…

  38. “On the evening of his inauguration, Trump will address the nation and reveal that the Covid-19 Delta variant is fictitious, dreamt up by maniacal people who feared losing their stranglehold on a compliant citizenry. As society came to terms with a virus no more lethal than the common flu, and citizens eschewed masking and raised legitimate questions about hazardous vaccinations, the World Health Organization contacted its agents within the CDC and international health agencies and urged them to take part in a program aimed at once again scaring the world into frightened compliance.”

    https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2021/07/18/the-end-game-is-on-trump-pledges-to-blow-lid-off-global-pandemic/

  39. EC @ July 18th, 2021 – 10:52

    The story isn’t worth even a warm spit, EC, one may be forgiven to think this chap Harding may be on the Kremlin payroll, the imbecility of the story may do for the unrepairable haters of Russia, but for anyone with even a partially functioning brain it’s pure nonsense. As you well now, the Americans ran a number of investigations, the Mueller’s attempt costing well over $30mn, the largest of them all, found nothing, as did the others.

    It doesn’t surprise there has never been anyone furnishing any evidence at all of what it was the Russians actually did, not a flake of a proof from the social media platforms through to the meetings of the Government officials from the two sides involved, not a shred of anything at all that could point to an activity or a series of acts supporting the notion of Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election.

    What elected the Donald were the disillusioned of America, the size of which shocked even the BBC to$$ers attending the rallies, the people that have been forgotten by the ruling elites did it, they needed no help from anyone.

    (Baron has eased off on blogging everywhere, not fugging point, waste of time really).

  40. “The coming of Neo feudalism”, Joel Kotkin’s book is a good reafanalysis of the development of the new fuedal elites and the destruction of the middle classes is convincing. Unfortunately he is short on solutions. It’s covered well enough in this interview. So save your money.
    https://youtu.be/SDO1zhDi7BI

  41. “The coming of Neo feudalism”, Joel Kotkin’s book is a good read and analysis of the development of the new fuedal elites and the destruction of the middle classes is convincing. Unfortunately he is short on solutions. It’s covered well enough in this interview. So save your money.
    https://youtu.be/SDO1zhDi7BI

  43. “…Baron has eased off on blogging everywhere, not fugging point, waste of time really…”
    And the Glorious !2th is now firmly in our rear gunner’s sights! Give it 250 rounds of .303 Ginger!
    It’s now the time to deal those moles a death blow, before the local Gretas chain themselves to a dusky moleskin forepaw and ensure the cancellation of both Baronic wisdom and all unwilded cultivation in deepest Suffolk.
    My own dilemma, from the Great Study at Noa Towers, is far more mundane: shall I support the fair Norwegian Olympic Beachball playing maids who wish to throw away their bikini bottoms in search of freedom, or demand their enforced sexual exploitation?
    And should the converted female New Zealand weightlifter be subject to the same flimsy clinging sportswear when performing her own rituals? I confess that the thought of her dropping 250 kilos on her big toe and inadvertantly revealing the the latest model in faux-vaginal hyperplasticity is enough to make me pine for the return of winter, lockdown and a rerun of Jeremy Kyle’s greatest bits.
    In the meantime, the Estates Worker Hospitality accommodation (formerly HMP East Lancashire), which had emptied as the former occupants graciously accepted settlement and moved permanently into council housing and lifetime benefits support, is rapidly being refilled by the local housing office. My decision to convert it to luxury 4 star hotel accommodation was inspired. We are now the proud winners of best Migrant Hotel Chain of the Year 2021 and profits are booming!
    Many of our guests are now working to supplement their meagre state incomes by constructing travellers huts for hastily returning East Lancashire holidaymakers. Initial investment was readily forthcoming from the offshore based Private Equity company Hancock Medical Trust. An oxymoron if ever there was one!
    As for the whinberry harvest, I have this year decided to donate it to the Starving Landlords and Self Employed Self Help Cooperative. It is to their credit that they stripped the hillsides bare in two hours. Although their angrily beating to death a government minister and several local government diversity managers who had infiltrated the masses tramping over the moorland brought them no great credit, at least the corpses swinging in the now reinstated crossroad gibbets have boosted tourism to the area and reinvigoured the farmshop sales of our famed Toerag and Benedictine jam. (Thanks to EC for his recent kind enquiry on this and related matters.)

  44. Noa @ July 21st, 2021 – 12:36

    A rather enjoyable lament, Noa, one can only hope the ersatz female of New Zealand wins, and wins big to let every man know that cutting it off and drilling a hole instead can lead to an Olympic success (but what would a bona fide male do if in bed with her? Bucket please, quick).

  45. This is probably the best shot, it’s in London, the story’s in Russian, but it tells of a chat between Lavrov and our Foreign Sec David Miliband in 2008 when the Georgia’s conflict was on, our man said to the Russian Foreign Sec that Europe would have to reconsider relations with Russia because of her belligerent behaviour towards the smaller neighbour, to which Lavrov allegedly said what the graffiti says. That’s what is says under the picture.

    Above the picture it says that Zacharova (she’s the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Office) when asked by a journalist what she thinks about the graffiti answered: ‘It’s not up to the Foreign Office to comment on the works of art, you should talk to the Ministry of Culture’.

    https://360tv.ru/news/mir/graffiti-s-lavrovym-i-prizyvaemym-emu-rezkim-vyskazyvaniem-pojavilos-v-londone/

  46. Noa @ July 20th, 2021 – 09:54

    The longish interview inspires, Noa, his idea of a new kind of feudalism also attracts, Baron would cut the emerging society into five layers, the top tech, or rather new industries billionaires cum millionaires everywhere not just in California together with the financial crowd also everywhere (by everywhere Baron means places like China, Russia, India..), the second layer would be occupied by the enablers of the super wealthy i.e. the political class that co-mingles with the top layer, the third chunk would include the Goebbels’s mob both of the immediate impact i.e. the MSM and those whose job is the long term indoctrination i.e. the educational and academic layer, followed by the (largely apolitical) segment of the property owners, rentiers, managers (the old middle class), and lastly the bottom layer of the great unwashed losers.

    Still, Baron’s rather tempted to get the book, may do so after he finishes with a little tome on Prussia.

  47. Alan Jones from down under is Baron’s man, he may be overdoing it somewhat, mimicking Biden’s speech, but his point’a valid, Biden is losing it, he shouldn’t continue, it’s more than embarrassing, it’s dangerous, the guy has access to the red button.

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

  48. Baron 00.33
    Good posts, please do more if you have the time and inclination.
    I like your analysis. Its more international and less US centric in its approach. Have we really moved on much from a lord/serf or capitalist/proletarian view? An additional layer or two, or class specialism perhaps, more sura national liaison, command and control, as the thought control tools of the PRC are tested, refined and distributed around the world to ensure one world enslavement.

  49. Andrew Lawrence

    “BBC- Further accusations of bias”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IptKA8VUU

    If it wasn’t true it’d be funny.

    The Red Brigade, West Cumbria Branch, successfully got Andrew Lawrence’s appearance at a local theatre cancelled over ‘hate speech’ concerns. Cancelled despite being sold out.

    To paraphrase Spike, “That my friends is what’s wrong with the effing country!”

  50. Baron, July 19th, 2021 – 07:17

    “Baron has eased off on blogging everywhere, not fugging point, waste of time really.”

  51. @11:51

    Baron, I agree!

    For old time’s sake, just one last piss into the wind…

    Andrew Lawrence

    “BBC- Further accusations of bias.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IptKA8VUU

    The West Cumbria Branch of the Red Brigade got Andrew Lawrence’s appearance at a local theatre over their hate speech concerns Cancelled despite tickets being sold out!

    To paraphrase Spike, “Now you know what’s wrong with the fuggin’ country!”

  52. @11:59 emendation….

    “The West Cumbria Branch of the Red Brigade got Andrew Lawrence’s appearance at a local theatre cancelled over their hate speech concerns Cancelled despite tickets being sold out!”

    … and with that I think that I am going to cancel myself.

  54. EC @ July 25th, 2021 – 11:59

    It makes one sick to see how the BBC spends the money, EC, five billion quid each year, the salaries (and of course other benefits including pensions) cannot compare to what the individuals labouring in wealth creating sectors of the economy get. What do these people do, what does the quality post demand of the individual holding it? Has anyone ever found out?

  55. EC @ July 25th, 2021 – 17:14

    Cancelling yourself may be difficult, EC, and it will only please the woke fuggwits, avoid, please.

    Javid apologised for saying we should not be cowed by the virus, learn to live with it, which is the bleeding obvious to anyone who isn’t brain dead, so why the pouring of ashes over his glabrous head? It’s the apologies that encourage the woke fruitcakes to keep going, no one should say sorry for saying something that’s patently true, if it upsets someone, that’s tough titty, he or she should grow a pair.

  56. Pity you don’t read or even peruse the Spectator, a chap called Winston Marshall (the musician, not that Baron likes his style) did a diary few weeks ago, powerful stuff, sadly it will do FA to anything. Here it is, one cannot fault him on anything he says, but what’s the fugging way out of it, the solution, the sword that can cut the Gordian knot:

    “I’ve been amazed by the response to my decision to leave my band, Mumford & Sons. The article in which I explained why has now been read 700,000 times and has been republished by newspapers in the UK, the US and Germany. My main hope in publishing it was to restore my own sense of integrity — eroded, I felt, by an apology I made to an extreme but vociferous internet minority who took great exception to what I considered an innocuous tweet to Andy Ngo, the author of a bestselling book about the radicalised far-left.

    Just as I never anticipated the angry reaction to my unremarkable tweet, I could never have foreseen that my article about the ensuing fuss would have generated so many messages of gratitude. Gratitude for what? Not for leaving the band — although a few people may be glad. It seems as if, in explaining why I felt I could not carry on, I had articulated something that many people feel in their daily lives: self-censorship. In the current febrile political climate, many of us are just too scared to say what we think.

    The messages came from an astonishing array of professions —fellow musicians, doctors, civil servants, actors, painters, politicians, think-tankers, comedians, vicars, teachers, students, beauty queens, lawyers, mothers, charity workers, cannabis activists, journalists, entrepreneurs. I found many of them very moving. I’m especially struck by how these represent the moderate free-thinking middle-ground. Not extremists.

    A theme that crops up again and again in these emails is a fear that speaking ‘the truth’ could prove too costly. So people stay quiet. They have rent or mortgages to pay. Their careers have taken decades to build up. They are accountable to colleagues who depend on them in turn to maintain their lives and their responsibilities. There are kids to care for. Some recount being alienated by their friends for holding incorrect opinions. Others explain how they keep quiet at work, or nod along when things don’t seem quite right. Others describe being bullied for wrong-think.

    The comedian Ricky Gervais said recently: ‘Whoever you are, if you can’t be bought you’re the richest person in the world… There’s something to be said for being proud of one’s integrity.’ I am fortunate to be able to walk away when my integrity is compromised. For most people life is far, far more complex. It is noble to prioritise those other hugely important aspects of our lives: family, friendships, careers. But the sacrifice of keeping schtum also comes at a price. What starts as a niggling feeling can build up inside. An elastic band slowly stretched will eventually either warp out of shape or snap back to position. Perhaps our consciences do something similar.

    Think of Vaclav Havel, the playwright turned dissident turned Czechoslovakian president who wrote The Power of the Powerless in 1978, describing life in the Soviet era. He used the example of the greengrocer who places the slogan ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ in his shopfront: ‘If he were to refuse, there could be trouble… He does it because these things must be done if one is to get along in life. It is one of the thousands of details that guarantee him a relatively tranquil life “in harmony with society”.’ The grocer has much to lose should he dissent from the ideological norms of the day. However, the moment he stops putting up the slogan and ‘rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game, he discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity’.

    Havel’s words speak to an alarming degree to the situation in the liberal democratic West of today. I don’t imagine we will experience a social convulsion as dramatic as Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of 1989, at least not any time soon. But how will these pent-up feelings which so many share manifest themselves? Havel’s writings suggest two possible ways forward. Either the system continues to tighten into a ‘dreadful Orwellian vision of a world of absolute manipulation’, or the ‘independent life of society including the “dissident movements” will slowly but surely become a social phenomenon of growing importance… influencing the general situation’. Let’s hope it is the second of these. A restoration of honest, good-faith dialogue and the widespread recognition that we are all fallen and fallible would go a long way towards restoring the freedom to think and speak. It may be premature to say this, but on the evidence of the reaction to my piece, a quiet Colour Revolution for our times may have already begun. And I hope more and more people will find the courage to speak the truth as they see it, and that it will be less and less costly to do so”.

  57. Immigration seems to be hitting the headlines again, the newcomers are arriving at ever greater numbers, we pay the French to keep them off our shores, no avail, according to Nigel F the French Navy is escorting the boats into our waters, then it’s bingo, we have to take over.

    We have the MI5, the MI6, the CIA is also around together with the FBI, the Interpol, and above all, our country proudly houses the Bellingcat boys, they can do miracles, nothing can stop them, the Kremlin’s powerless to deal with them.

    So here’s a suggestion, why don’t some of those highly trained, clever, immeasurably able men and women from any or all of these agencies, just few of them would probably do, why don’t they find out who are the people running the smuggling gangs,

    it cannot be that hard to do it, one hires a couple of would be immigrants, or even a dozen, they each concoct a story, approach the smugglers, pay them the money (allegedly 6-8 thousand quid), then tip the police.

    It isn’t done because as Baron has said many times before immigration benefits the middle class (carrot picking, looking after kids, serving Costas…) and it’s the middle class that runs the country. They pretend they want to cut and control immigration, but their unwillingness to actually do it is clearly visible, already more have come this year that in the whole of the last year. Madness.

  58. Noa @ July 25th, 2021 – 18:38

    One wouldn’t;t expect anything else, Noa, most of the newcomers are voting Dems.

  59. Here’s a piece of news relevant to that part of your body you sit on (apart from other functions, of course):

    China is the world leader in the export of toilet paper with 11% of global supply. A 600% rise in ocean freight cost makes it inevitable that the price of something as ordinary as toilet paper is slated to rise significantly or become in short supply in key places globally. When such pressures are coming all across the product line, ocean container rates become a significant driver of general inflation”.

    Those clearing the shelves of the commodity may be on to something, boys.

  61. Baron, July 25th, 2021 – 22:43

    I thought that stuff was considered Haram?
    Large areas of the UK will remain unaffected.

  62. Noa, July 20th, 2021 – 09:54
    Baron, July 23rd, 2021 – 00:33

    “The Road To Serfdom”
    F.A. Hayek

    The only “Road” movie that Bing, Bob and Dorothy didn’t make?

  63. EC @ July 26th, 2021 – 10:56

    A useful look at the addition to the means of exchange, unit of accounts and the store of value, EC, more questions that answers, but regretfully, sooner or later we are going to get it, it will very likely co-run with credit/debit cards and actual cash, the younger generation will help to broaden the appeal of it, the older ones will stick to what we have now.

    For us, the users of it, the only difference between a well anchored Britcoin (or any other one) is that instead of a piece of metal, paper or plastic saying ‘one pound’ one would have on a gadget (say) the mobile phone, a stored binary expression of the same – ‘one pound’, the linked ledger on a server will store the rest of one’s ‘one pounds’, that’s about it.

    The beauty for those administering the financial affairs of people using Britcoins is obvious, they will know exactly what money we have, where does it come from, goes to, they will know the lot, cheating on taxes, not paying the TV licence, hoarding money will be close to impossible (not entirely perhaps if the existence of the black internet is a hint of what the smart ones amongst us can come up with).

    It’s a fallacy to believe any such system run either by a country, a group of countries can be decentralised, free of interference, corruption of whatever, no man made system has ever been such, the coming Britcoin will be no exception.

    To think we can have a currency for all run by an individual or a group of individuals (say) the Bitcoin, is beyond delusional, any such enterprise would sooner or later join the list of financial cons. The use of electricity mining the bitcoins is apparently quite high, it equals to the electricity consumption of Sweden (or is it Argentina?).

    The reason people use the pound sterling is because it originates from the first paper money (say) the Thomas Madockes’ 1705 (that’s a year) running cash note that said: ‘I promise to pay ….. or a bearer on demand the sum of ninety nine pounds, seven shillings and four pence’, it was signed by the Governor of the Company of the Bank of England’. It wasn’t paper money as such, it was a promissory note written on a piece of paper, a promise to honour a loan, a trust inscribed.

    This running cash note was backed up by the money deposited by the man with the Bank of England, it was his wealth that made the running cash note acceptable to others, as it is today ultimately the ‘tax funded wealth’ of the Government that makes our today’s currency acceptable.

    One can come up with any currency one wants provided there are enough people falling for it, and there always are, see the Bitcoing craze, but unless any such system is backed up by an actual wealth that cannot ‘be vanished or otherwise destroyed’ it cannot ever be adopted for real or succeed, it’s ‘a nothing else’ but a monopoly money.

    We are probably going to learn how warm is the public to the Britcoin. As we’re all frightened to death from dying from c-19 people some may be more inclined to go for it.

  65. Last year, virtually every economy that matters has been down noticeably, road, air, sea transport also suffered badly, the households in house arrests traveled less, too, virtually every activity that discharges CO2 has been down.

    What would one expect the outcome to be? Surely a more settled weather in a calmer climate, right? But what are we getting? Just the opposite, a year of multiple disasters wherever one looks.

    The imbecility of coupling the bad weather with CO2 is so palpable one can cry listening to the AGW pillocks gearing up to frighten us even more after the scaremongering about c-19.

    Lord Deben, the Chairman of the Climate Change Committee was on Radio4 World at One today saying, amongst other nonsense, that ‘we have to fight the climate change’, he said it twice, we the people are to fight climate change? We cannot fight the weather, we cannot predict the weather reliably from one day to another and he wants us to fight climate change? The imbecilic arrogance makes one weep.

    The way to survive is to adapt to climate change not to fight it, the humans on the planet are akin to a colony of ants somewhere under a large tree in the massive rainforest, just like the insects have no means of affecting the rainforest climate we too cannot do anything at all that could have any noticeable effect on the climate of the earth, we have to live with it, and as Darwin correctly said ‘adapt’ to it. Adaptation is what will enable us to survive, to think that we can fight the climatic changes, to act on this delusional thinking will bury us.

  66. From the Scientific American:

    “Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have dropped to minute levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from spreading—notably mask wearing and social distancing—also stop the flu. Influenza viruses are transmitted in much the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and they are less effective at jumping from person to person”.

    Are these real scientists or a bunch of charlatans? If that were true then why the expensive flu vaccines each year? We could put on masks, do the same distancing as we’ve done for c-19 (not much if you look how people keep the distance) and we’ll be OK, no flu, no flu deaths. Arghhh

    More likely any flue or pneumonia cases were recorded as c-19 cases who the pandemic hit.

    Also, it was apparently announced today by the FDA that the CDC PCR test for COVID-19 has failed its full review, far too many false positives. Baron got this piece of news from another blog, hasn’t seen it confirmed anywhere else.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic1/

  67. Apologies for the errors ‘who’ instead of ‘when’ and the others, Baron will repent, silently.

  68. Baron – 23:17

    I dubbed it “Sci Fi American” twenty years ago, which irritated its fanboys no end. At that time it was very popular with members of the 1st Church Of Global Warming. Any old copies could come in very handy as bog paper should the supplies from Chyna fail.

    However on this occasion it appears that they might have actually published something worthwhile! 😉

  72. Kenexdy. I was reminded the other day that wily old Kruschev was the real winner in the Cuban missile crisis. Wanting to get rid of the US Jupiter nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey, he decided to retaliate by stationing Soviet missiles in the Castro fiefdom. The resting furore nearly led to a nuclear war with a gung ho US military, but the withdrawal of Moscows WMD was based on the quiet agreement between Kennedy and the Soviet ambassador that the US would, as they did, withdraw the missiles from Turkey within 6 months.

  75. Malfleur – 10:01

    Hopefully starting with Pol Swab…

    “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the
    animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the
    dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many
    dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion.
    There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the
    supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind
    that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. For example,
    Squealer told them that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day
    upon mysterious things called “files,” “reports,” “minutes,” and
    “memoranda”. These were large sheets of paper which had to be closely
    covered with writing, and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt
    in the furnace. This was of the highest importance for the welfare of the
    farm, Squealer said. But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by
    their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites
    were always good.”

  76. Not that it’s an occasion one should try to remember, God forbid celebrate, or the Germans be proud of, just the opposite, but exactly 100 years ago the Austrian painter became the leader of the NSDAP.

  77. Baron – 11:44

    Google overlooked that, and went with something called “Champion Island Games” for their daily Doodle.

  79. EC @ July 29th, 2021 – 19:08

    As a source of inspiration for parody, EC, the guy’s priceless, but that should be it, sadly, in Ukraine he’s venerated by some to the point of infecting the young, tolerated it seems by the country’s leadership, have a look here, it’s in Russian, but the picture’s enough. Only one boy refuses, and another one mocks the gesture, the football team’s called ‘the Hitler’s boys’ or ‘Hitlerites’ (Гитлеровцы). Not a whisper about it in our MSM media, they may yet regret it.

    https://politikus.ru/events/137108-den-goroda-na-ukraine-otmetili-vystupleniem-detey-gitlerovcev.html

  80. Baron – 09:19

    Don’t forget the part played by the Baltic states in enthusiastically assisting the Einsatzgruppen in their crimes. Today their “heirs” are appear to be resurgent. Funny how the EU/Germany etc. don’t want to talk about that…

  81. “Which of course explains why the Russians now have Constantinople…”
    If only.
    The Treaties of Versailles and Sevres were missed opportunities. And the Jewish pogroms in Eastern Europe and Russia were a fine old tradition, Adolf wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last.

  82. Baron
    Without context the photo is of little meaning.
    Are they pro Nazi or pro EU, anti Soviet or anti Putin/Russian? Memories of the Holodomour must linger more than the Holocaust, the latter having ‘resolved’ the “Jewish question” once and for all in Ukraine and the Baltic.

  83. It’s linked to a chap called Bandera, a controversial figure, he was an Ukrainian nationalists, backed the Nazi horde, massacred hundreds of thousands, mostly the Jews and Poles, also the Russians, then got arrested by the Germans because the excessive killing caused public disorder, was released, began to fight the Red Army as it moved West, escaped, was poisoned by the KGB (allegedly) somewhere in the West.

    Many from the Western Ukraine joined him, when the Russians cleansed the region some left mostly for Canada, some for the US (Nuland and Blinken have their origin in Ukraine Jewish diaspora), some still live in Ukraine, old now, but their descendants are of the same political persuasion.

    A friend of Baron is a scout for labour in Ukraine, he says there are drinking holes there which display pictures of leading Nazis, have Nazi memorabilia, the ‘members’ come in armed, stuff like that, nobody has the guts to put an end to it.

    The blogger Anatolij Sharij Baron has mentioned in the past has put up many stories about the Nazi sympathisers, one was of a girl in a bikini having the Hakenkreuz tattooed on her cheeks (the bottom cheeks) quite prominently, she isn’t the only one, many young mad have it too but hidden. One can only guess the Americans that run Ukraine have no problema with it provided it targets Russia.

    Sharij covered the Hitlerites football team, they were in a competition, nobody objected only one guy did, was told it’s just a boys’ prank. Sharij reckons it’s the parents, the boys are only mimicking the adults.

    The Holodomour is scarcely mentioned, these parts were not Ukraine’s before the war, the region was divided between Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, also Romania, that’s why people living in the Western Ukraine want to be European. The famine was in that part of Ukraine in the east ruled by the communist thugs in the Kremlin.

  84. EC @ July 30th, 2021 – 10:01

    Good point, EC.

    Zelensky has sold out fully to the Americans, he kicked the EU out into the long grass, blames Brussels, bullies them, demands help from them, but takes orders exclusively from the Americans, there are now fully in control, many of their military advisors are training the Ukrainian armed services, also plenty of Canadian personnel, many Ukrainians left for Canada, and not just after WW2, a long time before, the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada numbers hundreds of thousands if not millions, the current Foreign Secretary is a daughter of a post-WW2 immigrant to Canada.

    Baron reckons it’s a mistake, the EU would be better for Ukraine, it has a need to ensure there isn’t a failed state on it borders, the Americans don’t give a toss.

  85. Thanks Mi’lud.,
    Very informative and helpful.
    If I recollect correctly, that area, pre WW1 Galacia etc, had a long tradition of anti semetism.

  86. Noa @ July 30th, 2021 – 19:11

    Very soon after Baron penned the lecture, Noa, (you have to forgive him, it’s a habit of his lecturing, he finds it hard to shake it off), it hit him, Noa probably knows more about it than he, and yes, you’re right, more pogroms than anywhere else there.

    After WW1 a large chunk of Western Ukraine got parcelled out amongst the countries mentioned before, the Czechs got something called the ‘Zakarpatska Rus’, there still are pockets of people that speak the Czech tongue, sing songs and dance to the tunes of their former rulers. This was the only part of the Western Ukraine where education boosted literacy to almost 100%, the areas controlled by the other three countries (all of them dictatorships) can show no such achievement.

  87. Baron,
    If you have the time to spare I would recommend the 19 year old Patrick Leigh Fermor’s lyrically told, adventurous journey through Europe from England to Constantinople in 1933. It is covered in “A Time of Gifts” and “Between the Woods and the Water”.
    Much of it through the very countries, Slovakia, Hungary etc on which we touch, soon to be a vanished world never to return in its ever shifting transient shape. His people and characters, Jews, chimney sweeps, gypsies, prince’s- and princesses, are like the man himself, heroic, real and fantastical.

  89. What will the Blond Inseminator commit us to at the 26th Climate Change Jamboree in Glasgow in November? Will he say ‘I’ve asked the scientists and they tell me it’s categorically doable to be zero net carbon next year’, or will he settle for 2025?

    The creed of Marxism had successfully managed to mess up the lives of the East, hundreds of millions of people for more than three generations were suffering from the economic model that ignores the key motivation that has fuelled mankind’s progress for millennia, the Green creed of the AGW fruitcakes is going to mess up the lives of even more people in the West for the same reason, it’s making the wealth creation unnecessarily expensive. Already, the cost of energy, the price of 1kW, the most important component of both wealth creation and life in general is twice as high in Britain than in China.

    Someone should have the courage to stop this insanity soon or there’ll come a time we will have to beg the East to take us over to avoid a catastrophe

  90. Noa @ July 31st, 2021 – 13:55

    A revealing narrative, Noa, for Baron two events from the piece stick out, first the Warminster conference where some 200 couldn’t make it because of the weather, one would assume the military would be trained to fight in all weather, moving around would be a must part of that fighting.

    The other is the summing up of one of the officers: “The recent conviction of Major General Nick Welch for fraud (£44K in school fees) when other generals have been promoted after wasting £3.5 billion of taxpayers’ money on equipment that don’t work summarises everything that is wrong with the army today.”

    The officer may have had the tank fiasco in mind, how could anyone design a tank that cannot fire on the move?

    It’s truly criminal what the politicians have done to the Armed Services, and it’s not only the 455 dead in Afghanistan, others in Iraq, it’s the never ceasing cutbacks and the dissolving of regiments that go back in history. More than pity that.

  91. Noa @ July 31st, 2021 – 09:18

    Thanks for the tips, Noa, duly recorded, Baron will obtain the books as soon as he finished reading a tome on Prussia by a man called HW Koch, a rather heavy going it is.

    Here’s a map showing the changes in the sovereign lands of Ukraine, one of the blobs roughly at 7 o’clock shows the chunk administered by the Czechs after WW1.

    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/07/28/why-ukraine-should-be-grateful-to-imperial-russia-and-the-soviet-union/

  92. Apologies, it’s more like 9 o’clock, the orange blob, Baron’s definitely shwoing his age.

  94. German democracy in action, we should be glad we are out of the construct run by them, just imagine if the police in Russia behaved as badly, it would be front page news on all MSM rags, the BBC repeating it endlessly, the Americans piling up more sanctions …

    (If you stay after the clip, there’s another equally brutal, women may be equal now, but it gets Baron’s heart pressure up seeing a brut of a man dressed like a robocop handling a young girl asif she was a piece of trash.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOINLoTrzY&t=78s

  96. Today, Baron went shopping at a Tesco, was the only one not wearing a mask, everyone else was, even a boy that couldn’t have been more than 6, also spotted a man wearing a T-shirt saying ‘I’m in the control group’, also masked.

    Madness, boys, 24-carat madness has engulfed us all.

  97. @18:02

    Never mind, Baron.
    In the UK the insanity, illegal immigration and the lack of or unequal rule of law problems are comparatively mild compared to that which exists across the Pond.

    Good to see that good ole Joe is still allowed out occasionally dressed in a nice sharp suit, with his nappy being changed thrice a day.
    HE’S, LOOKIN’ ‘MURICA!

  98. @14:02

    Baron, Noa, Malfleur

    Riddle me this… Who is actually running the Republic?
    It certainly isn’t dementia Joe or the fragrant but MIA Kamala is it?

    Is The Kenyan running a shadow government, ya reckon?

  101. Of more relevance to those of us currently imprisoned in HMP UK, who is actually running Britain?
    We know its not the BI, who is currently drooling over Cruddas’s furniture.
    Is it the Cabinet Secretary, or that Extinction Rebellion chappie.
    (My money is on Greta, from her bedroom HQ, delegating day to day operations to Angela, her second favourite Sieff Teddy bear.)

  102. One mustn’t forget Putin, Noa, the guy seems to have a finger in every big pie that’s cooking (or is it baking) worldwide, clandestinely of course, the same way he got the Donald elected, the investigations over the pond, and there were at least three costing tens of millions, found FA, a smart guy to conceal it so well, it is very probable he runs the UK as well, hence the successes galore just as the good old Winston had it, ‘success’, said the great man, ‘is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm’. That’s what’s happening to the country, is it not?

  103. EC @ August 3rd, 2021 – 14:58

    Sky News Australia were suspended from u-tube as you must know, EC, temporarily, for portraying the man in the Oval Office as the brainless ectomorph that he certainly is, he seems unable to string a simple sentence together, but then the holder of the office has never been the one that makes the decisions, Ike was probably the last one that did.

  104. EC @ August 5th, 2021 – 09:58

    And this, EC:

    What the Zelensky female did is an exact replica of the actions of the bolsheviks after they took power, except perhaps her illegal decision covers only the rental part of the real estate sector, but who knows she may expropriate the rest of the sector, too.

    It’s truly amazing what has happened to the West, but here’s the thing, if the current economic model of the US wealth distribution let’s one precent of the Americans to own half of the country’s wealth, those bereft of it will gladly accept communism with all it brings as the better alternative.

    This woman Welensky knows it, the US house owners outnumber the renters by 2 to 1, but that still leaves 100mn Americans that rent, and they are mostly the ones that own next to nothing. The solution however isn’t to expropriate the property rights of the landlords, but to ensure that the created wealth is shared more fairly.

  107. Baron, August 5th, 2021 – 23:08

    “but that still leaves 100mn Americans that rent”

    It would be interesting to know what the split between private landlords and social housing is. Either way, that’s crippling amount of uncollected rent. Is Fidel Obama the man in the shadows(*) organising the great private property grab, ya reckon?

    Have you seen Tucker’s interview with Wiktor Orban?
    Very interesting.

    * No Hank, Bruce or Cliff jokes please…

  108. I am happy to say that I’ve not watched even one second of this IOC Olympic Money Laundering & Drug Fest thingy in Tokyo. Didn’t even know it was on until I spotted this:

    “WaPo & NYT mocked by Chinese officials for putting US at top of Olympics medal table, despite China winning more gold”

    https://www.rt.com/news/531026-chinese-officials-mock-wapo-nyt/

    Good to know that the Biden apologists are continuing The Donald’s “America First” doctrine.

  109. EC 15.01
    Its Summer, the House is in recess, not that we noticed any difference and our Members are free to frolic in the Sun.
    Diane has obviously agreed to provide counting algorithmic and presentational services to the US press.

  111. EC @ August 6th, 2021 – 15:01

    The same for Baron, EC, not fired up at all by the circus, but we did well, the boys and girls managed to collect 65 medals, we beat countries with much larger populations than us, including Russia, China and the US, that should be a reason for some cheering up, there’s so little to put a smile on our faces, the woke mob seems unstable, Farage was showing the statues of Gladstone and Queen Victoria in Liverpool wrapped up in some hideous pieces of fabric, madness.

  112. EC @ August 6th, 2021 – 14:48

    Sadly, EC, if anything the interview will help to bury the Hungarians, they have no chance, you may have seen the Poles giving up on their reshaping of the judiciary set-up, the Brussels apparatchiks have won, it will be the fate of Hungary, too, they will have to give up, the progressives will win in the end.

  113. It will take just over nine minutes of your life if you watch it, you’ll hear a heart warming story about hand made boots, see few photos of the American airmen courageously defending the West when the Cold War was on, but do persevere till the end, there’s a nice twist to the short story:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BINjztAT8

  114. It’s reported that the American military spent $88bn to train and equip the Afghan Armed Forces that were expected to protect the fruits of democracy so delicately furnished by the curtesy of the American taxpayers (at an even greater cost).

    Alas, it doesn’t seem to have worked as intended, what prevents the Taliban from capturing towns and provinces even faster is not the US trained Afghan Armed Forces but the ability the Taliban fighters to run at a greater speed, you just look at the ragtag bands of men, each dressed differently, some in sandals, each carrying an AK-47 and shooting not at a specific target, but ahead as they run to what looks like nowhere, it’s a miracle they don’t shoot each other, how on earth were these shabbily dressed cavemen able to defeat a well trained young men (also few women), superbly equipped, supported from the air by the best airforce in the world?

    If it were not so tragic for both parties to the conflict, and the unallied Afghan unwashed in particular, it would be one of the best jokes so far this century.

    What do you reckon do the Chinese CCP honchos think about it, what does Putin? Our leaders seem to think we should continue waring, well, they should be given the opportunity, put on the uniforms, get whatever killing tool they prefer to use, leave for the hellhole to engage the locals fighters, no?

  117. Baron – 00:50

    The Chinese are already in Afghanland offering its new landlords economic aid and infrastructure investment. Very clever people the Chinese, not short term thinkers. They will eventually divide and conquer the various tribal factions… economically. Then they will bury them…quite literally if needs be.

  118. Baron – 00:25

    Cold War: Were those Cherman boots just a USAF thing?

    We used to have over 100 Avro Vulcan “V” Bombers.
    I have a couple of books one written by, and the other edited contributions by crews, by a guy who was one of the surviving test pilots.
    Reportedly throughout the early cold war (pre Polaris) we had at least four (maybe six) Vulcans either warmed up or with engines idling at the end runways 24/7 …for years! The crews being already on the various bases, nearby in QRA “accommodation” …probably just draughty sheds! The death squads might’ve had difficulty getting at them.

    None of the crews were actually required to deliver their “buckets of sunshine.” Should they have done so, standing orders required the pilots to wear eye patches on their bomb run – in case they were blinded by the flash. Thus one eye would be available for the flight back to whatever was left of “home.”

  119. JOHN JEFFERSON BURNS

    How’s the Biden Admin’ going for ya?
    Who is changing Joe’s diapers in the daytime?
    Where has the fragrant Kamala been hiding?

    First retrospective taxes, and now a new tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains” including Crypto! The Nancy, Chuck, Jerry and shifty Schiff sure do sound like they are getting short of your and other people’s money!

    Save your last $20K though for a dingy ride from Dunkirk to Dover.
    A new life on state benefits in Cornshire awaits you!

    PS. Is Nadler still alive, or is it just clever make-up?

  122. EC @ August 15th, 2021 – 14:15

    The patch story’s as nice as the one about the manmade boots, EC, funny world then, funny one now.

  123. You must read what the great Mark thinks of the Afghan fiasco, if you do you’ll come across many vignettes such as this:

    “The world-record brokey-brokey-brokeness manifested by the current spending bills is only possible because the US dollar is the global currency. When that ends, we’re Weimar with smartphones”.

    https://www.steynonline.com/11598/the-scale-of-humiliation

  124. Baron, EC
    There’s only one serious answer to the complete, obvious and demonstrable failure of liberal politics in the West.
    More liberalism! But harder!
    Until these neanderthals learn what it really means to embed progressive politics into society.
    Frankly, I in agreement with the Taliban if it means that the Evette Coopers Harmans and Parliaments Harpies are returned to their rightful place in society, the scullery.
    Here’s Mr Watson reprising their successful human rights campaign.
    https://youtu.be/muGcHOWPeIU

  125. Advantages of the house arrest include more time available for study ‘ but mine is spent without.method unfortunately. Recent topics include the conversation between Richard Dawkins and.Ricky Gervais (especially on evolution – see the crocoduck), the German nazis (in particular conversations with Holocaust survivors – Tova Friedmanū), and String Theory for Dummies.
    Main question on the brain at present: does the Covid 19 scamdemic bring the first steps on the road to eugenicists’ rule and planned depopulation – not a new question of course but being put to us more sharply than last year.

  127. Malfleur @ August 16th, 2021 – 12:20

    Could you furnish the address of the site that has the Dawkins Ricky chat, Malfleur, please.

  128. Malfleur @ August 16th, 2021 – 12:23

    A Russian pundit says the Taliban is but a division of the Pakistani Armed Forces, it’s the Islamabad lot that funds and equips it also cures the injured fighters.

    The question then is why haven’t the Americans put a stop to it, it would have helped to avoid the embarrassment of their quitting so reminiscent to their fleeing Saigon, some if the scenes are unbelievable, have a look here:

    https://twitter.com/selingirit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1427204945367945216%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2Fasia%2F202108161083620501-video-of-apache-choppers-clearing-kabul-airport-runway-from-afghans-emerges-online%2F

  129. it’s not over yet, Noa, the Americans cannot learn, they are guided by the deeply entrenched delusion of their exceptionalism, for the governing elite of the military industrial (now also financial) complex that Ike warned about (look it up on u-tube), it’s a success just as the great Winston defined it (Baron has quoted it before): ‘Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”.

    What’s next? Iran?

  130. Baron, I came across this quotation in Christopher Meyer’s “Getting our Way”, from Gladstone, the first real liberal idiot and idealist.
    “… remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own. Remember that He who has united you as human beings in the same flesh and blood has bound you by the law of mutual love… ”
    Barring what would nowadays be considered perverse references to God the same lack of reality and reason in our foreign policy could have been enunciated by Blair, Cameron or Johnson, all sheep from the same pen.

  131. Will the Politicians in the US and the UK, feeble of ideas and incompetent beyond belief, seek to reinvaxe Afghanistan to destract their populaces from the respective mass invasions taking place on their undefended Southern borders at the present time, aided and abetted by their erstwhile allies?
    Probably not. Their electorates, masked and impoverished, are unlikely to tolerate any more lies or waste of lives and money there or elsewhere without action at home.
    Now, where did I leave that roll of piano wire…

  142. Fall of Kabul
    1.. Pilgrims Society initiative?
    2. Distraction from impending official recognition that the 2020 presidential election was stolen?

  145. Baron 22.40
    Interesting, even though it stretches one’s credulity.
    Its nice to see that the Taliban are dragging Afghanistan kicking and screaming into the modern world! One suspects they don’t mean the 21st century.
    Education for women? TV? What’s next do ye think? Televised beheadings or divorce for unfaithful wives by stoning?
    We’ll see what happens of course. And observe with interest what kind of a state it might become.

  146. JAKE SULLIVAN – National Security Adviser in the Biden administration.

    Rhodes Scholar – Oxford

    Pilgrims Society member one would guess.

  147. Noa, August 16th, 2021 – 10:13

    My my, how White House “Interns” have changed since the days when they were required to hold good ole Bill’s cigar and man sausage.

  148. Baron, August 17th, 2021 – 22:40

    Well, I think that taught us all a lesson!

    Some good belly laughs in there but the unnamed Russian media commentator summed it up nicely, “You can’t deny the humor of the bearded people.”

  149. In the Afghanistan’s royal past when the land populated mostly but not entirely by herdsmen was stable, the King ruled, it was but a collection of individual fiefdoms anchored not in a unity of a nation but firmly in tribal allegiances, altogether 14, with the King ensuring that peace between them was the status quo, no individual tribe could ever ‘take over’ be the top dog, oppress another one, the loya jirga chaired by the King sorted out any serious disagreements, there always was a negotiated equality between the various tribal leaders, keeping everyone content if not necessarily happy but in line was the aim, the King performed close to the role of the chairman of a large company.

    Neither the Soviets nor the Americans figured this basic quality, in the country’s past, differentiating Afghanistan as a polity from any Western state, in which the burghers also bind to their former tribal existence, but to a far lesser degree.

    Tto create a national armed force was the height of imbecility for the Americans, it couldn’t have worked, and it didn’t work, the alleged 300,00 troopers simply went back to their tribes that connected them by birth, and to which they have primary loyalty, the notion of a state in the Western sense with elections and the other trappings is an anathema to them, it means FA to a man that’s illiterate, soaked in Islam, loyal to his tribe to a point of sacrificing his life.

  150. Noa @ August 17th, 2021 – 23:25

    A friend of Baron was a part of the diplomatic core when the King was still in place says (or rather said, he’s no loner breathing) the Royal court was something from the thousands and one nights tome, the opulence shocked even those used to more than luxury, the amusements included shooting with flint rifles decorated with gold and precious stones, fishing in artificial ponds, eating with one’s fingers but from gold plates, the table full of tableware made from precious metals and stones some of it going back centuries.

    This has FA to do wit the Taliban, but some of the old habits and traits must be surviving in the tribal leadership, these are the people that would have attended the King’s entertainment venues. The point being, these guys aren’t opposed to the enjoyable things in life, not that keen on a continuous fight, we invaded the country only because they accommodated al-Qaeda, not because they trained themselves to arrive in the West to kill us, there has never been an Afghan jihadist amongst us that killed because of the zealotry of his religious beliefs, if the Afghans living here commit a crime (say) rape a girl it’s because they would have done the same back home.

    It may well be that if we leave them, the Taliban, alone they’ll do the same to us.

  151. EC 06.34
    The job’s not changed EC. They’re just called Carers now.
    “Lift, and wipe. Again..There!”

  152. Baron 08.51peasants
    We’ll never be safe Baron, until these illiterate and gullible peasants are securely plugged into the Internet, safely ensconced on the sofa with a bucket of KFC in one hand and a Billy goat in the other, watching salah 5 times a day and Marcus Rashford the rest if the time. Oh yes and disarmed too. No Kalasnikov for you today, Mo!

  153. Baron August 17th, 2021 – 08:56
    A horrifying sight Mi’lud. The relentless destruction of a n ations primary asset, its people by criminals and its political and ideological enemies.
    As sponsored here by the odious, ambivilagious Willie Hague and David Cameron.
    But how should Uncle Sam deal with its massive drugs problem? Imprison the users? Execute the dealers? Reach for the crackpipe?

  155. Noa @ August 18th, 2021 – 13:01

    Many if not all of those people must have lost hope, Noa, hope to be a part of a functioning society, we humans need to belong, to be wanted, if the society doesn’t furnish not jobs but opportunities many seek to belong to a society that accepts them, the society of the drug users.

    You may be old enough, Baron is, to recall the Kennedy’s Peace Corps volunteers, the movement may have been highjacked by the spooks towards its end, but the idea was commendable, it gave young people an opportunity and fulfilment. Something akin to it could help to clear the streets of the fallen, if only the money the Republic wastes on wars could be diverted to such ends the picture of the streets of the inner cities must change.

    The Jimmy Dore show made the same point today, he says the Americans should invade American inner cities, bring help rather to the homeless than piss about killing people in far away places, an excellent point that.

  156. Noa @ August 18th, 2021 – 17:33

    A hard hitting pair, Noa, alas nothing will change, the political set up is corrupt enough not to dislodge the political clowns the boys are hitting, we desperately need a new way of electing people to represent us that would allow those opposing the current policies on immigration and other issues to get elected.

  157. Not a laughing matter, but point well made, the heading says ‘the best caricature on what has happened in Afghanistan’.

    https://politikus.ru/events/137528-luchshaya-karikatura-na-temu-afganskih-sobytiy.html

    Btw, not much gloating in the Russian media about the Americans saying good-by to the land of the herdsmen, everything rather subdued, the fear is the southern underbelly of Russia could suffer both from new waves of jihadism and from the importing of more hard drugs.

  160. You may like to watch this, it’s Tucker on the mess of Afghanistan, it’s the end that’s revealing and scary, and has nothing to do with the fiasco directly, the top dog country in the West is presided by a man who cannot handle the job, a man at his wit’s end, barely cognitive:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaHS8Q9lic

  161. Malfleur @ August 19th, 2021 – 20:23

    When the dust settles, Malfleur, the Americans will be seen in even worse light than they currently are, according to many sources they have thousands of their own people in the country still, are asking them to make their own way to the airport, have only five days to reach the place surrounded by the Taliban. It may turn out to be the grave for Biden, an impeachment is possible if any of the American passport holders gets killed.

  162. Some thoughts on the non-existent virus, the fake vaccines, the Nuremberg Code. and the push for a law requiring vaccine passports:

    “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass — a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”

  163. Baron on Pakistan (passim)

    Behind the debacle in Afghanistan and its body blow to the United States lies the will of the British elite – expressed for example through the Pilgrims Society, Chatham House, the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Institute of Pacific Relations…and the push for a Chinese naval base in the Indian Ocean.

  166. The aim of the Pilgrims Society, spawn of Cecil Rhodes at al, is to reverse the achievement oof the American War of Independence.

  167. Malfleur – 23:31

    “This video has been removed by the uploader.”
    A suitable metaphor for its demise?

    23:37 The “Americans” are doing a pretty good job of reversing their own “achievements”. Any efforts to hasten their demise are more likely to have due to the influence of Yuri Bezmenov’s former colleagues.

  168. Noa – 10:43

    I think that the “Carry On…” films were the embodiment of Baron’s “Healthy Core of Englishness.” Certainly “Khyber” was one of the classics. I dunno what our noble friend would have to say about either proposition though.

    I note that Littlejohn has stopped using the phrases “You couldn’t make it up” and “We’re all going to hell in a handcart.” Pity he never got his pen around WBGTDWI.

    Meanwhile… you’d best go and check on Pte Jimmy Widdle in the guard post at the top of the pass that leads from your estate into North Yorkshire!

  169. By coincidence, I was musing only yesterday that it was a great pity that Rogers & Thomas et al never made, “Carry On At Your Off Licence” as so many of the regular cast were such accomplished piss artists.

    As a result of some perhaps some slightly more profound thoughts in recent months…
    Nikola Tesla was probably right about “the ether.” Its existence makes more sense than the impossibly elaborate and implausible fiction woven by his detractors and successors.

  170. Malfleur, The Anglosphere?
    The US is no longer Bidin its time for isolation and self immolation. Its arrived.
    ANZAC-locked down, reverted to full penal colony mode and for sale to China.
    The UK – for sale to anyone, wots left of it.

    “The aim of the Pilgrims Society, spawn of Cecil Rhodes at al, is to reverse the achievement oof the American War of Independence.” Its arguable that the American Colonies Revolutionary war achieved anything other than unlicenced Capitalism, slavery and the gleeful destruction of the British Empire. But you’re welcome to make any case to the contrary. 😉

  171. From the Age of Magik and Witchcraft.
    “A Parliament can do anything but make a man a woman and a woman a man.”
    Henry Herbert, Lord Pembroke 1648.
    To the Age of Post Modern Reason.
    “… As it was obligated the UK Parliament passed the Gender Recognition Act 2004, which effectively granted full legal recognition for binary transgender people. Since 4 April 2005, as per the Gender Recognition Act 2004, it is possible for transgender people to change their legal gender in the UK.”
    Wikipedia 2021

  172. Noa

    13:26 Struggling at the end of a rope, but still LAMO (gallows style!).

    16:08 Ditto…. But not only that…
    After Harriet Harridan’s “Equality Act, 2010” [waived thru “on the nod” by “Call Me Dave” and his Cameroons in the thee weeks before the 2010 GE] one cannot even take the piss without being dragged before the courts for “hate speech.”

  174. A thought provoking piece, but if you think of it, he has a point, it was a God fearing tribe beating one that forgot about Him, is obsessing about trans toilet instead (the anti-Jewish bits in the narrative were not really necessary, it’s amazing how much of such sentiment there exists today in the Republic).

    (You have to change the word ‘dot’ for the real thing)

    https://wwwdotunzdotcom/ishamir/the-sheer-joy-of-afghanistan/

  176. EC August 22nd, 2021 – 08:50

    Those thoughts earned a wry chuckle from the back row of the Noa Estates MegaPlex, EC. Of course such scabrous humour would never be tolerated now.
    British foreign policy, like that of the US, is to actively promote. Lgbtqa+++ ‘rights’ in such supposedly backward hellholes as Afganhistan. Need a new Canal Street in Karboool? Send for ‘little willie’ Hague and his aide de camp to promote it! They’re cheap too, always being prepared to double up on the accommodation.
    Il was musing on this and other matters last night, in my luxury swivel seat, as Sir Sidney was preparing to enjoy ‘reparations’ from I think, the Khazi’s wife, No 43. I couldn’t be sure of the number as it was difficult to follow the joint Polish and Albanian subtitles on the wide-screen and as sometimes happens, the sound system was on the blink.
    Still, perhaps we shouldn’t be too critical of our Foreign Office’s zealous missionary postion. Promoting homosexuality over the goatherder’s known predeliction for beastiality is surely a thrust, if not a full step, in the right direction? As for the women…. Would they ever have been emancipated or enfranchised in Britain if we had seen the consequences of letting Cooper, Harmon, Serpong, Lawrence, Morgan and May loose upon a defenceless male working class? I think not.
    What must the Tarlerbarn think of the proud successors of the 3rd Foot and Mouth as the 1st (and only) Battalion QLI, the famous ‘Screaming Queens’, emulate their predecessors and drop their modish combats to reveal, not the normal collection of non issue clinging Kelvin Cline and Ann Summers lingerie, but the finest collection of vaginoplastic fufus and mansausagery outside of an Alex Belfield concert or NHS Brighton General Hospital?

  177. A full page splash on the Tesla phenomenon, it has the genius Elon Mask in his signature leather jacket next to a dummy model of a robot that should replace men or women carrying out repetitive, boring or dangerous work.

    The grand idea is to replace the ‘meat computer’ that’s us, humble human beings, we’ll be obsolete, surplus to needs, that’s what the AI chief of the Tesla Andrej Karpathy said, who knows, he may be right, he may prove to be the opposite, Baron, when in the job, used to follow the progress of the human replacements for close to 50 years, many companies have tried, not one has got anywhere near completing the task.

    For whatever it’s worth, Baron reckons the guy got it the other way round, nothing beats the complexity and in-built capacity of the braincells to both store and process information, if anything it will be a piece of meat, the brain meat, or a clone of it, the organic matter that will form the core nodule of a future robot capable not only of performing tasks done by us or the machines that we design, create and run, but capable also of designing itself fully, replacing any of its parts worn out by their use, and also clones of itself able to harness even the yet hidden, not switched on parts of our brains.

    That’s a task for the future Einstein or a bunch of them, they have three ‘small’ hurdles to overcome, how to keep the organic CPU alive, how to connect with it, and how to solve anything else that’s still in the category of the unknown.

  178. Noa @ August 23rd, 2021 – 09:24

    An enjoyable lament, Noa, the spread of madness has a reach one would have never imagined possible, a friend of Baron counted the pictures of whites and non-whites in a glossy mag that comes with the Sunday papers he buys (in may be the ST, Baron didn’t ask), mostly the ads, discovered he latter group beats the former, puzzled why it should be, Baron assured him that it’s the mirror image of today’s Britain, the mirror reverses the original from left to right, or Left to Right, that was a brilliant explanation Baron thought, he refused to take it, poor guy.

  179. Baron
    Yes, our Parliament and government also now reflects a mirror image of our society back to us.
    Perhaps someone broke the mirror and we are now suffering not 7 but 70 years bad luck?
    That puts the start of the madness at about 1951, seems about right….

  180. As to Elon Musk, Azimov and his fellow writers and scientists explored the technical and interrelated ethical issues in depth in the 1960s?
    I suspect that, untroubled by ethics and conscience, the Chinese are already working on the cyborg type solutions that will enable them to dominate future wars in the Arctic and Himalayas, as well as Space.
    Simon Webb shares an alternative view on human evolution, and a more provable path for successfully transitioning multi-cultural societies like Britain.
    https://youtu.be/HrB5mmc2P7I

  181. Confused thinking seems contagious, if you look at the 10th clip from the top you can hear Blinken saying he talked to the Afghan President Karzai two days ago …. someone should have told the esteemed Secretary of State that Karzai’s no longer presiding the Afghans.

    The pressure is telling, is it not?

    https://twitter.com/RNCResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1429548159546560519%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2Fus%2F202108231083690126-is-joes-dementia-contagious-blinken-confuses-runaway-afghan-president-ghani-with-karzai—video%2F

  183. Baron – 10:08

    Not just the ST, Baron. They are all at it, but more so in TV & WEB advertising.
    Pick any publication you like, from the National Trust handbook, junk mail for retail outlet brochures, tourist attraction flyers etc.

    I remember a while back when the awful truth dawned that any further complaints about the biased BBC QT audiences were futile as the audience members (excluding the carefully placed activists) were indeed reflection of society. Most of them experts on current affairs, some reading both “Hello” and “OK” magazines, and on social/moral issues as covered by East Enders, Corrie and reality TV.

  184. Z Man brings a classical slant to the Afghan rapefugee problem.
    kimag.com/topic/issue_of_the_century

  186. “…a more probable path for successfully transitioning multi-cultural societies like Britain….”.
    Britain, with its £3 Trillion or so of national debt and no way of paying it down, other than the current firesale, is transitioning on schedule to being a third world country that will evoke the pity of such upwardly mobile polities as China, India and Brazil.
    But will they support our ever needy diverse causes and their political sponsors as we would though?

  187. John Helmer in Moscow goes in holiday, puts in his blog the same sad story as he does every year leaving Moscow to take a rest:

    “On August 24, 1991, Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev committed suicide. He had returned from his holiday at Sochi responding to the attempted removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. According to the reports of the time, he hanged himself in his Kremlin office, leaving behind a note. One version of what it said was: “I cannot live when my fatherland is dying and everything that has been the meaning of my life is crumbling. Age and the life that I have lived give me the right to step out of this life. I struggled until the end.”

    Perhaps this suicide reveals the reason of the collapse of the old regime of the bolshevik’s Red Menace better than any slicing of it by the pundits et al, the people that backed the regime may have believed in it, but they were not the right people to ensure the survival of it.

  188. Noa @ August 23rd, 2021 – 13:22

    Here’s a great man with good advice, Noa, at the right time, too, but did anyone listen? (Baron may have posted it before, but it fits here)

    Sir Henry Tizard, scientist and mandarin, talking in 1949: “Britain isn’t a great power, and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power, we shall soon cease to be a great nation.”

  189. Noa @ August 23rd, 2021 – 13:09

    A totally different take on the import of those Afghans that were attached to our military or other agencies, one of the sentences is so novel Baron had to read it twice to take it in in full:

    “The people with a fondness for throwing open the gates for the enemy feel a kinship with the Afghans who were happy to collaborate with the empire against their own people. It says a lot about our rulers”.

    A great man, the Z-man.

  190. EC @ August 23rd, 2021 – 12:09

    You’re right, EC, very recently a guy from Manchester got into one of the BBC programmes only because he was lying when he talked to the filtering girl, it was the Jeremy Vine’s show (correct?), the BBC tosser kept repeating that the man lied without realising that this gave away the BBC bias, they only let through people whose take on things fits the BBC’s agenda.

  191. The lid of the sarcophagus slides open, the putrescent stench rises, long yellow nails attempt to throw it to the vault’s gritstone floor…
    Andrew Lawrence slams it down on the evil dessicated bones.
    https://youtu.be/nO3pLB5tRVc

  192. Noa @ August 24th, 2021 – 09:29

    What a charming lament, Noa, the ghastly Blair has a lot to answer for, there s just one small oversight, it wasn’t a pure vanity project, the country of the Afghans is close to the land of the Russians, one or two ‘democracy exporters’ probably thought moving missiles closer to it was doable, the bearded herdsmen thought not.

  193. Baron 11.05
    Does Britain really have a dog in that geo-strategic hunt, Mi’lud? Let alone a medium range ground based missile that could reach Brighton from Maidstone (even if Peter was prepared to launch one). Let alone Herlmarnd to Moscoow, Darmarscous or Tearhan. :-))

  196. I would suggest the following starting point for a serioous, less barnacled, discussion of what is meant by “anglosphere”, “Britain” “great nation” etc and for a radical reanalysis of the country, its influence and in particular its enduring power structure developed out of the momentum of the the East India Company in the 17th and18th centuries:

    https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1838-03-16-Slave-Compensation-Claims-Accounts-House-of-Commons-Parliamentary-Papers-1837-8-(215)-vol-48-369-PDF-pgs-by-G-Grey-British-Parliament-Mar-16-1838.pdf

    ———————–

    Slavery was abolished by Parliament in 1833.

    N.B. £100 in 1840 is worth about £10,450.01 today

    How were these not inconsiderable sums of compensation to slaveholders channeled? Think for example Barcjays Bank.

    In 1776, the firm was styled “Barclay, Bevan and Bening”

    Mrs. Boris Johnson;s maiden name: Caroline Louise Bevan Symonds

  201. Malfleur.

    The Atlantic trade would not be my starting point into the origins of the Anglosphere. Even if slavery and the compensation of the elite, by the elite,for the application of their tender consciousnesses were of import, the true origin and fuel is surely the mass transportation of the hundreds of thousands of white men, women and children, deported as indentured servants, petty criminals and prisoners of the British civil and religious wars, from the 1540’s to the 1840’s.
    Unlike the plantation owners neither they nor their descendents ever received a penny of compensation. Let reparations start at the true beginning of that accursed ‘anglosphere’.
    https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/31/anglosphere-past-present-and-future/
    Hoffman’s “They were White and they were slaves”
    Jim Goad’s “The Redneck Manifesto”
    Jordan and Walsh’s “White Cargo” all cover the terrible history and its consequences today.

  203. EC @ August 26th, 2021 – 09:38

    As Noa asks, EC, ‘where the hell do you find such amusing snippets of the human ingenuity’? The find had to be forwarded to people residing in the Republic, one recipient very much likes it, he collects royal memorabilia, anything will do, kitsch or not. Aren’t the Americans amazing?

  205. Noa @ August 26th, 2021 – 11:17 & Malfleur

    The download is rather longish, Noa, Baron will peruse it at some later date, but from your short appraisal of the issue it may be rather irrelevant. You may have missed it, but one Richard Lewontin died recently, he and many others like him argue that race is really a social construct, and one that’s not particularly helpful, in fact just the opposite, it can be largely blamed for the open racism of the past.

    If however one were to accept that race is indeed something like marriage, a man made institution then there isn’t either a white race or any other, we are all of the same stock, the differences in our appearance, ability, cognition and whatever are not unakin to the differences one can find in marriages, each and every one is different but as a social invention they are all the same.

    Only joking.

    https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/the-evil-that-men-do/

  206. Could one display a greater degree of ineptitude than what the Americans are delivering in Kabul? The biggest mountain of wealth ever created in the world, the biggest military might never seen before anchored in a spend that’s mouth watering at 40% of the world expenditure on the tools of killing, and yet they seem unable to secure their departure from the land of the herdsmen safely.

    Have you noticed that China and Russia have been keeping schtum throughout the unraveling picture of the disaster? Not a word, certainly from China, one of Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours.

    Baron is fully aware of your take on the Mandarin speakers (he regards them equally as a threat, his response to it differs), but what happened in Kabul – 85 dead bodies, thirteen of them American marines – was not that different from the dead bodies of the Chinese because of the atrocities committed in the Uighurs province by the same zealots, the Chinese authorities responded with the creation of re-education camps, it has been heavily criticised by the Americans et al in the West. Will the same criticism be levied against the senile in the Oval Office when he says ‘we will hunt you down ….’. Will killing the perpetrators be more civilised than re-educating them?

  208. Baron
    Lewotin is an interesting example of how a scientist or any other professional allows his political views, in this case, Marxism, to influence his work.
    The consequence in this case is that if all men arouund the world are exactly the same, undifferentiated by physical or intellectual ability or capacity, the replacement of white Europeans by middle easter. Zealots or African tribesmen, is of no matter. Its simply like for like and the onward progress of science and civilisation will continue regardless.
    Now, Where’s me spliff, machete and ghetto blaster Mon?

  209. A further thought: Lewotin’s interpretation is of course the perfect ideological justification for China’s geo strategic expansion in Xiniang, the Indian sub continent, Africa and the Americas.
    Entirely unlike that utterly discredited mercantilist empiricism that now paralyses the decadent West….

  212. Noa @ August 27th, 2021 – 10:58

    Sorry, Noa, Leeson’s by far more believable, he’s young, well trained in arts one needs to execute a successful revenge, not distracted with trans rights and other offerings of wokenism.

  213. The report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to Biden’s request says the source of the c-19 remans a mystery, some of the agencies apparently say the killer spikey virus originated from “natural exposure to an animal infected with it or a close progenitor virus”, but the confidence in this finding is low, other agencies couldn’t figure the source either. The agencies and, having seen the report, also Biden blame China for the lack of co-operation.

    That only suggests that researchers and those running the research teams in both countries share the blame for the pathogen appearance, Baron believes the virus that has arrived from the animal kingdom was subsequently manipulated in a lab, leaked out most likely by accident, the existence of the cleavage part in the genome chain found only in human DNA is the give-away.

  214. Baron August 27th, 2021 22.20
    I defer to your Lordships judgement in the matter. It seems the only thing the two great war leaders have in common is their speech writer.

  215. Baron
    Like the real origin of 9/11 (19 of the 22 mass murderers bring Saudi), no official body wants to draw the obvious inference and point to the CCP and its armed forces as the source, lest the all devouring consumption of the world’s material resources and resulting outward flow of shoddy and tat is disrupted, even momentarily.
    US Treasury is also fearful of the potential replacement of the US$ by the Rimbi, together with real military consequences, at a time when NATO is playing phoney war in the South China Sea.

  217. Noa @ August 28th, 2021 – 08:59

    Good points, Noa, the Governing Elites and their poodles would have too much to lose had they pointed the finger, it’s by far more profitable to say ‘hard to figure it’, and let the corrupt business carry on.

    It may shock you, Noa, Baron has had his epiphany, he has finally discovered the ultimate source of the West’s decline, what was it that turned the fortunes of the free world south, engendered a fall not may expected or even hinted at – it’s that it’s lies that inform the West’s reactions to events, or the hatching of events, the lies have become so significant, prevalent and convincing in the forming of the policies of the West that they are believed even by those that have been creating them.

    Unless and until the West, by the West Baron means the Western Governing Elites (GEs), abandons the lies as the core of its functioning, it has no hope of ever renewing itself.

  218. Baron
    “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”.
    A true statement I think.
    That bring the case, if our elites are indeed mad then what does it matter whether or not they believe that what they say is either true or a lie?
    Can you trust one lunatic, let alone the entire asylum, to do anything properly? Of course not!
    Even uif they do it us merely due to the monkeys typing Shakespeare effect.
    What can we do about it? Little I fear. A trip to London to be beaten up by Dick’s Met has little appeal to me, but then sadly, I remain sane, for the moment.
    Still, Neil Oliver reminds sane people we aren’t alone.
    https://youtu.be/kJZ8Brf5vNA

  219. Noa @ August 28th, 2021 – 22:58

    What can we do about it, you ask? Here’s one move by the historians that points the way, one can only hope experts in fields other than history will do the same, the tide of madness and lies has to be reversed or we end up regretting we at lest haven’t tried to turn it around.

    Baron has already subscribed to the new blog set up by people that are all members of the ‘healthy core of Britishness’ even though they may not all hale from Britain, an international membership is allowed. If the article on slavery is anything to go by, the blog will be Baron’s regular destination.

    https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/slavery-its-all-bad/

  220. An interesting link Baron, thank you.
    I’ve subscribed.
    Regarding what we can do about the insanity that is now destroying the West, I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing we do will make any difference.
    Pareto’s law applies.
    80% of humanity doesn’t know or care what’s happening, and are being led by the nose to destruction. The 20% that do understand and care are powerless to influence events.
    Brandy and a good cigar offer our best hope, for politicians offer none.
    To return to the study of the past you may also find this site of interest.
    https://www.heritagedaily.com/about-us?amp#top

  221. The one way special relationship, opening of one kimono, Scientific advisers and their total lack of ability to negotiate, in this case Tizard. The Jet engine a n D the Atom bomb would have been a very good trade for the useless Norton bombsight, but he could even achieve that.
    The tradition continues with Ollie Robbins, Vallance and the Cs chinless wonders..
    https://nypost.com/2015/09/27/the-trunk-containing-britains-secrets-that-saved-the-world/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

  225. Noa @ August 29th, 2021 – 10:25

    Thanks for the tip, Noa, it’s amazing one doesn’t hear about these sites, the heritage boys sound also worthwhile visiting, Baron will have re-jig the sites he scans each day, there isn’t enough time.

  227. Noa, August 28th, 2021 – 22:58

    “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”.
    Always liked that one.

    btw who was it that first penned that?
    Was it the excellent Dr. Johnson, or was he quoting some other?
    Was is translated into cod latin to give it some antiquity?
    Your man Leonard will probably know.

  228. Not following Uncle Joe’s White House press conferences I hadn’t realised that he was grooming a surprise successor, his mouth organ.
    Better than Kammy or Nancy I suppose.
    therealslog.com

  231. EC
    Sophocles first used it in ‘Antigone’, l believe, though Euripides, a chap called Scott and even Brigham Young apparently plagiarised it.
    Anyway its too good to waste on the Jehovahs Witnesses et al.

  232. I just caught Pilgrims Society apparatchik, B. Johnson, address the British Volk on the BBC with the terms of his latest lockdown diktat. He was followed by some sesame seed official of the regime who filled out further details of the constraints which the leader had imposed on the country – in the interests of our own protection of course. Food parcels will be distrubuted and wages paid with funny money printed by the Bank of England.

    The policy to ‘flatten the curve’ etcetera which had been given a good run of EIGHTEEN MONTHS must now be seen, at least on its own terms, as botched.That softening up period however is only the end of the beginning. Phases to follow will encompass mandatory vaccination (free graphene included; forget hydroxychloraquine Citizens), quarantine camps, and depopulation….a far cry I fear from the comforting world of the Spectator which we left all those years ago like the Plymouth Bretheren embarking for the New World order.

    Unfortunately, even the fashions of that Order do not have the glamour of uniforms by Boss.

    O BRAVE NEW WORLD THAT HATH SUCH PEOPLE IN IT!

  234. Tucker’s right, it’s more than unfair for the American GEs (Governing elites) to gift the Taliban the weaponry he lists whilst trying to confiscate the weapons owned by the ordinary Americans, what he hasn’t wised up to yet is that every piece of the military gear left for the new rulers of Afghanistan will have to be replaced if not in the same than very likely higher quantities, that’s profits for the makers of the stuff, plentiful employment for the ordinary Americans, who will also foot the bill, what’s not to like?

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  235. Malfleur @ August 31st, 2021 – 15:28

    It’s not at all shocking, Malfleur, nothing ever shocks Baron anymore, he’s impervious to any news emanated from those in power.

    If one were to ask our leaders whether the PCR test can detect c-19 delta, they would say ‘yes, of course’.

  236. Has a British Prime Minister ever tried so brazenly to impose peacetime controls on the people as B. Johnson? Slave owning must be in his blood.
    Meanwhile the attempt to castrate the American people is vigorously implemented in Kabul. We hope the time is not far distant when the Queen’s head will appear in a corner of their postage stamps – metaphorically speaking of course…

  239. EC @ September 1st, 2021 – 10:40

    Good one, EC, and here’s something completely different, it’s how the US military did it at the Kabul airport, a kind of different variant of your example of ‘work’.

    (Baron cannot vouch for the accuracy of it, it arrived from one of his American friends, some of the abbreviations are baffling, it may not be as bad as he describes it everywhere, after all the lift has saved thousands).

    Below is the text from my son flying C-17s into Kabul:

    Wet trailers, no ac, no WiFi, 48c (118F), sitting on ramp for 10+hrs with all engines running till they start flaming out. Utter chaos. 10% of base works their ass off for 100% of the work. Refugees are passing out from heat stroke, babies born on jet, one bathroom for 450+ people, emergency is becoming part of everyone’s call sign, talks of AR past 26hr duty day, 32hr duty day now normal.

    Leadership here is incompetent to make a change. Now jets are breaking left and right. Rn we’ve sat at the jet 6hrs with no apu, huffer carts are breaking down, avionics overheat, afgh pax are being forced to floor load from otbh to ETAR. No seatbelts, minimal lav, hard floor covered with plastic tarps. Overall you can’t make this stuff up. No words to describe…

  240. Matt’s great except for the following:

    The Governmental Construct in contemporary America is rooted in lies, lies, big or small, it is that inform and guide the policies of the Governing Elite, anything that even smells of the truth never gets a hearing, the poodles of the MSM are there to prevent the truth reaching the masses.

    The Pentagon is doing what it must do, the massive defence budget produce many a mountain of military equipment, this in a sense is equal to the manufacture of consumer products in that it has to be consumed, used up. Military exercises or small regional skirmishes aren’t sufficient, bigger wars are needed for the military gear to be used or destroyed by he enemy.

    Leaving the massive amount of the military equipment and ammo in Afghanistan is not without a purpose every piece of the stuff left for the new rulers of Afghanistan will have to be and will be replaced very likely higher quantities, that spells huge profits for the makers of the stuff, the corporates Matt’s talking about, but it will also furnish a plentiful employment for the millions of ordinary Americans, (who will also foot the bill, of course).

    One cannot break the grip of the Mil-Indu-Fin complex on the society not only because the making of the tools of death is boosting the bottom lines of the companies engaged in it, not just the top big five, every single state of the Republic does have a chunk of manufacturing coupled with the military furnishing jobs for millions. It’s estimated that close to 20% of US employment is linked with the design, the making, servicing, storing or even the destruction of it when it passes it’s sales-by date. 

    The Mil-Indu-Fin complex has is thus secured from both side, the incestuous relationship between the Governing Elites and the Min-Indu-Fin complex’s top layer of management on the one side, the millions of jobs on the other.

    Whilst the non-military jobs have been shifted to the low labour cost countries e.g China, the jobs in the military sector have stayed in the Republic for the simple reason that prices for the military gear aren’t important, it’s the Government that foots the bill whilst in the real street it’s John Brown who’s careful with his money, prices matter for him.

    What the Republic should try is move to the ‘dollar men’ in the public service, dedicated people that are rich enough to do the job for only one thing – the love of America as she once was, free, healthy, admired and envied by the whole world.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzi5ztNY9k&t=1s

  241. And this for the above:

    Matt was asked why Biden decide to quit Afghanistan, fluffed the answer somewhat.

    For what it’s worth Baron reckons there may be two reasons, one opposite the other, it’s either because Biden realises he’ll be lucky to finish one term, has little to lose, figured the country could break up because if internal contradictions (wealth ownership, race, drugs and stuff like that), intends to shift resources to from the military to the non-military expenditure, cure the ills (something similar to what Jimmy Dore suggested, invade San Francisco, help the homeless …)

    Or, he’s been told to get the girls and boys home to get ready for a much bigger ‘engagement’, an existential engagement with the newly emerged Middle Kingdom (possibly Russia, too).

    Such a pity Frank is no longer with us, Baron often thinks what would he say on this issue or the other.

  242. On a note of being positive:

    On the BBC Radio4 World at One an item that turned Baron;s eyes moist, a couple have retired from short term (up to 18 months) fostering, they’ve done it for their whole life, she was a nurse, decided to foster when she got married, the husband agreed, they had three kids on their own, also fostered well over 500 children of any ages, she told the story, simply and movingly, of a young girl of 5 who wouldn’t look into anyone’s eyes when she arrived, nobody could touch her, she didn’t speak, didn’t cry such was the great harm done to this little child. Today, she’s well over 30, happy.

    The couple has a golden membership of the ‘club of the healthy core of Britishness’, one would be hard put to find better human beings than this pair of ordinary people. May they live forever.

  244. Baron
    August 31st, 2021 – 22:13

    On the other hand:

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-joe-rogan-successfully-treats-himself-with-ivermectin-alex-jones-responds/

    So, if you are tested using a test that doesn’t work and you test positive, cover your bet with Ivermectin if you can find it in Boots.

    And as was mentioned many months ago by president Trump after successful personal trials, hydroxychloroquine, which has been around since about 1934, is also said to be efficacious and costs next to nothing – if you must take something for the common cold…

    How much are the experimental vaccines being touted by government?

  245. But never fear, big pharma’s here:

    Success against #COVID19 will likely require both vaccines & treatments. We’re pleased to share we’ve started a Phase 2/3 study of our oral antiviral candidate—specifically designed to combat SARS-CoV-2—in non-hospitalized, low-risk adults: https://t.co/su5VtfbWPX

    — AlbertBourla (@AlbertBourla) September 1, 2021

    (Infowars supra ibid)

  246. Some good news:
    A niece now working in Dublin sent me
    – three 200gm jars of MARMITE
    – two medium-sized jars of BRANSTON PICKLE
    Not exactly lifesavers, but a boost to morale in these dark times!

  247. Malfleur @ September 2nd, 2021 – 08:45

    Did your niece tell you, Malfleur, that Branston Pickle comes now also in small chunks, that’s handy and useful if one tops a piece of mature cheddar with it, something Baron does watching the Match of the Day, that’s a football programme, sadly chaired by a guy called Lineker, a Lefty and a to$$er, who likes to listen to his own voice, but that’s beyond the point , it’s the chunks of cheddar with the small chunked Branston on top, it goes down well with lager, Baron usually empties 4-5 bottles (they are only 0.33 of a litre, not enough to get drunk).

    It just occurred to Baron, if you furnish him with an address (not your own, one doesn’t;t want to broadcast one’s address), but (say) a PO Box, Baron will send you a jar of the small cuts Branston plus a chunk of good British mature cheddar, you cannot fail to enjoy it. No charge at all, give it a think (what an English, heh?)

  248. Malfleur @ September 2nd, 2021 – 01:05

    The Ivermectin is a puzzle, Malfleur, some say it helps, other believe it’s useless, is there a definite study on the drug?

  251. Victor Hanson is unquestionably a clever guy, but his lament about the value of the military gear left in Afghanistan misses a crucial point, all the stuff will have to be replaced, the major military contractors will get the orders, their plants and those of the feeder companies will work overtime, new jobs will be created.

    The abandoning of the equipment sounds criminal, which it may be, but it’s a massive opportunity for those holding shares of the companies that produce the stuff (it could millions of the ordinary Americans saving for their pension in the 401k), and for the employment in general:

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  253. On tour in the brougham with the mem’sab at the moment Mi’lud.
    In fact visiting St Brannocs in Braunton, then on to Clovelly in search of the famous aunt of our American visitor.
    And a Devonshireshire clotted cream tea.
    Yesterday saw a visit to Croyde beach, where Unison sends it public sector LBGTQ+++ members to frolic in the sun and sea, think rultra large rainbow beach shirts, purple and yellow hair, Maori tattoos and more beached whales than a remake of Moby Dick.
    Today will be a hot one. I may be some time.
    How I long for the security of Noa Towers, the rain and drizzle, the peace and solitude of my study, the consideration and signature of a Colleague flogging or deportation order….

  254. It takes 4 or 5 years from order to delivery a d test for much military equipment Mi’lud. Better not to give it away in the first place. How can the US rearm Europe if they’ve given it away to the new PRC Satrapy? No lease lend for Deutschland this decade!
    I do acknowledge that US Middle Eastern oil interests no longer drive its foreign policy. That’s a problem they’ve left for the fat Burghers to sort out
    Serves them and us right for 30 years of Post Cold War navel gazing, self indulgence and rank stupidity. Whilst the Buffoon deploys the Navy to the South China Sea for some unfathomable twisted logic, the defence of the Channel is left to the wokeries of the Border Force and RNLI.
    Hitler would have been jealous of the service now providex to the new invaders and never offered to him.

  255. Baron – 23:31

    Been busy making use of the “indian summer trying to establish order before the rains inevitably arrive. After a wonderful summer the hedges surrounding our fortress went bonkers. Luxuriant growth doesn’t begin to describe it!

  256. Noa – 09:36

    ’tis drizzling in the Shire today, however…

    #Weather Warning#
    Due to be 26C on Wednesday so perhaps you might want to delay your return.

    There again, be mindful that it was the BBC saying that

  257. On the subject of pickles etc, the mem’sab has been busy plundering the Damson, Victoria plum and coxs apple trees, (no bramleys this year) to make jams, chutneys and relishes in preparation for the Great freeze and famine that the Buffoon’s hostility to Russia and profligacy with the currency has created. My supplies of wood for the burner are now at peak capacity, we should be OK until Noa Towers is requisitioned for refugees by the local Soviet or Council of Imans.

  259. This is the year for the lovers of sloe gin, Noa, sloe berries have never been more plentiful, the branches are full of them, they are also larger than usual, unless everything’s changed, the old folk wisdoms no longer apply, the coming winter will not be very harsh, neither for the birds, nor for the people, we should not brace ourselves to survive it, avoid hoping the turning contraptions and the solar panels that adore many a roof will keep us warm, they will not be needed except that the wisdoms of the old may not have lost their predictive powers, and we will taste the future the green fruitcakes are pushing us towards in the coming months in full.

  260. EC @ September 6th, 2021 – 10:29

    You’re not the only one, EC, Baron cannot recall year in which he had to mow the grass so many times, every 4-5 days if it were not raining, the bushes too have grown more than in any other year he can remember. Who’s responsible, who to blame then?

  262. Caliban Rules OK!

    “ I think once this Covid19 thing is over, the elite, the ones who make the money, will go to war. That is the last recipe to keep the population together.” (Marc Faber)

  264. Damson gin also complements the magnificent sloe gin, both are Seasonal delights, Baron.
    Even as I speak the CCTV link and ‘Spook’ software on my mobile shows me that my black footed Moldavans are tramping the estate vats and pricking berries for the seasonal, cold repelling harvest.

  266. Nature’s bounty this season of mists and mellow fruitiness…

    I concur with the above. My plums have rarely been so swollen, yet still soft to the touch! Yes, a bumper crop from our Victoria plum tree, and a below average yield from the apple trees. Cold spring? My hands bear the scars from the parts of our hedging that is blackthorn.

  268. Baron, September 6th, 2021 – 23:09

    If find it difficult to watch Tucker these days unless I find myself undeservedly happy, manic and in need of rebalancing.

    The continuing saga/farce/pantomime/clusterfuck that is American foreign policy continues unabated. Always bad but generally worse under ‘Democrat’ administrations.

    More recently the same people that were running the show under O’Bummer are back in place under President Prion.
    Et voilà !

    With regard to the current debacle I cannot help but think that the Kenyan is still pulling the strings behind the screen.

  269. Noa – 09:35

    🙂

    08:51

    How are your piles these days? Did the Ukrainian émigré welders from your estate successfully manage to fix Heysham1 after it dropped its guts?

    Our local “Biomass” plant is busy gobbling up 80 HGVs a day worth of logs from Sturgeontania and elsewhere. Not to mention the boatloads of trees arriving in the Port of Wrkngtn each week. Hey, but it’s “renewable energy” right…
    Yeah, if you can wait 30 years or so for the replacements!

    Yet Boris et al are planning, no doubt at the behest of Princess Nut-Nut, to ban you from burning your own logs unless they have been certificated as kiln dried in a govt. approved facility.

  271. I see Jenrick, Minister for Property Confiscation, is looking to buy large 4 bed homes for large Afghan fam-billies. We are considering offering him Noa Towers, together with our prized collection of camel fuel, for a very reasonable £15 million, inshallah, payable into the Noa Virgin Isles account.
    https://youtu.be/8kNIE2n2gGA

  272. Noa @ September 7th, 2021 – 18:04

    The bigger puzzle than finding the necessary properties ‘at speed’, Noa, is why do the locals not object? The tens of thousands on the property waiting list in particular.

    What has happened to the plucky British character, why everyone keeps schtum? Don;t we have enough problems with the people already in the country, and not just with housing?

    Baron recalls the Saudis have a massive housing estate built for the arriving pilgrims, the c-19 pandemic has curtailed considerably the flow of the worshippers to the shrines of Islam, the properties are unused. Why not asking the Saudis to house the Afghan refugees? It’s the same Sunni wing of the Islamic family, an excellent fit.

  273. EC @ September 7th, 2021 – 16:48

    The question’s valid though, EC, why did the cavemen won? All they had was the AK-47s and some explosive devices cooked at homes, no tanks and fighter jets or drones. That’s totally baffling that.

  274. No need for them to go to Saudi.
    That’s already under Islam but a few more thousands fed into the west by useful idiots fits the plan nicely.
    As they say, every little helps

  275. Saudi Arabia has plenty of Afghans, Pakistani and Indian Muslims already and needs no more. Periodically it rounds up its illegals and deports them en masse and without ceremony, in addition the illegals don’t like living under the Sharia, literally applied. Hands off for theft, beheading for rape, etc. Better in Britain, where the benefits never end and the locals are completely cowed to the political class that has subjugated for nearly a thousand years.

  276. Agreed, John & Noa, let’s campaign for the whole population of Afghanistan to relocate to this tolerant and friendly country, it’s only some 40mn souls, Baron’s in favour also, we could even start raising goats and sheep in massive numbers using the know-how of the newcomers, goat milk is preferable to the cow’s, it’s less fattening anyway, and the sheep are useful, too, one can utilise the wool, the meat, and when the animal’s alive even a quick shag’s possible. What’s not to like?

  278. “Is Democracy Versus Autocracy the New Cold War?’, asks Patrick Buchanan in the piece below, a reasonable narrative, quite objective, not that long to read, but is the heading really true?

    One would be hard put to find a fully fledged democracy anywhere in the contemporary world of ours, and the same goes for autocracies Russia and China, autocratic they may be (each one to a differing degree), but neither one bars its burghers leaving the country, a freedom of movement that, a solid feature of democracy.

    It’s more that we have democracies dosed with autocratic features, and conversely, autocracies exhibiting features normally associated with democracies.

    A good example is Britain and its covid policy vis-a-vis Russia and her take on the pandemic, our response is more than tinged with autocracy that’s missing in Russia where there are no vaccine passports, no compulsory vaccinations, no restrictions on the unvaccinated.

    https://buchanan.org/blog/is-democracy-versus-autocracy-the-new-cold-war-158510

  279. Just as some of us thought, the dr. Fauci’s team did conduct gain of function, not in the US lab, it’s banned in the Republic, but, you’ve guessed it? Wuhan.

    It seems unlikely we will ever hear the truth, both the Chinese and the Americans have been at it, both have reasons to hush it up, both will be successful in doing so.

    https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

  280. CIVITAS reported the Wuflu research last year.
    What I do not understand Mi’lud, is why the US would fund and conduct military bio war research in an enemy state.

  281. Baron – 00:00

    Not just The Man With The Rictus Smirk acting alone but with the tacit agreement of the state. It was all in that documentary “Plandemic” which was banned, totally eradicated from internet, just over 18 months ago now. The guy produced copious documentary evidence some with Dr Faustus’ signature on it!
    They opened Pandora’s box that’s for sure.

    22:53 Good idea.
    I’m knocking up a few “Afghans Welcome Here” signs today.
    I wonder how many Gary Goalhanger and Nicola McKrankie will take in…
    Also. UK firearms laws will need amending so that they can carry their AK47’s for traditional costume and religio-ethnic purposes.

  282. Noa – 08:35

    1. Follow the money.
    2. Because it would’ve been illegal in any country signed up to the UN Biological
    Weapons Convention?

  287. You should enjoy reading another instalment by Orlov, you will find in it gems such as this (on controlling Afghanistan):

    “If you think that controlling a pile of rocks inhabited by ornery, warlike natives whose minds are stuck in the middle ages is not conducive to ruling the entire world, then you are definitely smarter than the average turnip, but still not good enough to be one of America’s brilliant geopolitical strategists”.

    https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/2021/08/28/the-afghanistan-rout-and-american-glasnost/

  288. “My patience is now exhausted!” A. Hitler. September 1938

    “We’ve been patient but our patience is wearing thin!” J. Biden. September 2021

  289. Baron – 22:27

    A quality job, that one!

    This also from 20 years ago…

    Stand by to stand by
    Ain’t no need to worry today
    Thorazine shuffle make everything OK

    Ref:
    Thorazine Shuffle
    Album: Live… With a Little Help from Our Friends
    Artist: Gov’t Mule
    Release year: 1998

  292. Noa @ September 10th, 2021 – 12:05

    Who should be retired, and in big numbers, Noa, are the wankers responsible for the destruction of some of the ancient regiments.

    Years ago, Baron got close to buying one of the military Land Rovers, why he didn’t he forgot, fugging old age, you know.

  293. EC @ September 10th, 2021 – 09:02

    A band Baron has never heard of, EC, a rather weird sound, the members weirder still. One of your favourites?

  294. Niall Ferguson, the Scottish economist and writer residing currently in the Republic is interviewed by the Nikkei, he muses about this the other (say, Taiwan’s predicament) and in the middle of the chat is asked why do the Americans disengage from the major conflicts so badly (the interviewer quotes Vietnam and the recent debacle in Afghanistan). This is how Mr. Ferguson answers:

    “The explanation is that because domestic support for these endeavours fades so quickly, there isn’t really the will or state of mind to do it in an elegant and organized way. Basically, you turn off the resources. That’s what happened to South Vietnam. It’s what happened to the Afghan government. You just turn off the support, and then you’re sort of surprised and shocked when everything falls apart”.

    Not a particularly convincing answer from a thinker of his caliber. Could it not be because of their superiority complex, the idea that they are exceptional, can never be beaten, nobody can ever win over them? The thought that they can lose never enters their mind, they will not even comprehend a non-win outcome of whatever endeavours they may engage, military or otherwise (hence (say) their total bewilderment at the Anchorage meeting with the Chinese).

    Baron bets you that at West Point there isn’t a course, not even a single lecture on how to disengage successfully from a hopeless military engagement, how to lose militarily without losing face and dignity, and certainly not on how to accept and manage defeat.

    The last question the interviewer asks is ‘what about the next 20 years?’

    NF says: “I’m going to take a bet that the next 20 years will be like the 20 years prior to 1989. That is to say, it will look as if the U.S. is in big trouble and the Communist regime is going to win, and everybody will run around say it’s all over, and then it’ll turn out that that’s not true because the U.S. reinvents itself, fixes its problem, and the totalitarian regimes come to the internal contradictions of totalitarian regimes”.

    WE can only guess what the next twenty years is going to bring, it may be an all out war next week or a peace for the next 1040 weeks but he seems to base his guess about the future on a misconception.

    The Chinese economic constructs is anywhere near the same as was that of the USSR, neither is the governance of the two countries even close to each other. In the Soviet Russia it was the central planning of the nationalised means of wealth creation, it could have never fed the people well. In today’s China, which is communist only in the trappings of the ideology, the wealth creation is carried out by private capital mostly.

    He’s also mistaken on the governance side of things, in the USSR the elections were a farce from the top to the bottom of the governing ladder, in China, it’s only the top layer that’s appointed (in fake elections of course), the middle to bottom layers of the governing phylum is a true selection of individuals, there’s no faking there, all candidates have to endorse the leading role of the party, but when it comes to the nitty gritty of every day problems the ideas between candidates differ hugely and the electorate can choose, that’s in part the reason for the success of China in the past fifty years or so.

    NF may still be right, the Americans can get over the warts and boils inflicting them, but one shouldn’t write the Middle Kingdom off so nonchalantly, she has been predicted to fall since the start of this century, is still with us, doing currently better than any other country.

    Feel free to bash the blue veined barbarian on any of the above, he had some time (from the boss), hence the lecture.

    You can read NF’s interview in full here, the Nikkei is on a subscription, but everyone can get three articles for free each months.

    https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/20-years-after-9-11/Will-Xi-move-on-Taiwan-History-warns-he-might-Niall-Ferguson?utm_campaign=IC_china_up_close_free&utm_medium=email&utm_source=NA_newsletter&utm_content=article_link&del_type=9&pub_date=20210910060000&seq_num=5&si=14102350

  296. Did you know that furloughed workers cannot work for the company that furloughed them, but can get a job elsewhere, pocketing a double wage, one reduced by 20%?

    Rather generous of the Chancellor, don’t you think?

  297. Baron – 16:27

    Yes, one has to keep up with the offerings yoof kultur, eh what.
    Believe it or not Ive always preferred listening to the likes of Phil’, London or Berlin that is.

    As for your 20:31 I’ll give that a proper read when I get back, Goto to go out now.

  298. She voted for Biden, but this is excellent, other pieces on the blog are of note as well, it you have the time at least scan them:

    https://unherd.com/2021/09/we-need-to-talk-about-9-11/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=78f7b10c38&mc_eid=4df68f5a98

    Btw, Baron cannot shake off the feeling that the geriatric may have concluded he’ll be lucky to muddle through his first term, does see the warts and boils of the great country just as clearly as do the unwashed, decided to curb, even if only a little, the grip of the Indu-Mili-Fin complex on the country. Yes, weird that, but weirder things happened. Lets wait and see because the Afghan pull-back could be the start of a bigger venture around either Taiwan or Ukraine.

  299. What a stroke of the young genius, what a joy to watch, that’s what the exuberance of youth can produce, it may be only a win in a match of tennis, but it cheered up Baron no end, he could hardly fell asleep.

    Enviously young, gorgeously beautiful and talented beyond belief. We may have tripped ourselves in football, but this young creature should must lift our spirits, may be even the start of the end of the old.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRydTS4kCaE

  300. EC @ September 11th, 2021 – 10:07

    You, young sir, must still be young at heart, something Baron has been losing lately, the young tennis beauty restored somewhat the loss of his enthusiasm for anything but a drop of gin&tonic, but for how long?

  302. Baron September 12th, 2021 – 10:21
    Aye, like the new British working in the Damson fields at Noa Towers they’ll be dancing in the streets of Bucharest t’night!

  304. Baron, September 12th, 2021 – 10:21

    I must admit she’s easy on the eye, and if the world keeps turning then she’s going to make a fortune in advertising sponsorship deals in addition to the prize money.

    However if doesn’t…
    Then her hand-eye coordination and quick reactions bode well for her being able to acquit herself well in a stressful survival situation. i.e. draw fast, shoot straight and without hesitation. Also given her other qualifications she should be able to provide intelligent analysis and fact based arguments.

    In fact she possess all the attributes and qualities that the idiot Swedish teenager planet saviour is devoid of.

  309. Noa @ September 12th, 2021 – 22:09

    If one were to count, Noa, as the genuinely English, Scottish or Welsh, or the whole lot as the British, only the descendants of what’s believed to be the original settlers here, the Celts, one would probably f ind no more than a dozen of them, if that.

    Almost the whole of Britain, even before the waves of post WW2 immigrants began flooding in, have been of mixed genes the indigenous settlers marrying the Romans that remain after the Empire withdrew, or the Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Normans and whoever may have come after including the recent post war waves of immigrants (it’s only two generations, the mixing hasn’t really begun yet).

    Take the Blond Inseminator (Baron got this googling, there’s more if he cared to look):

    His grandmother, Frances was the daughter of Russian-American palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe and Helen Tracy Porter, an American and a translator, E A Lowe was born in Russia in 1879, Elias’ wife and Boris Johnson’s maternal great grandmother, Helen T Lowe-Porter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1876. Boris himself was born in NY USA.

    The man governs over us, is he truly British? Or digging deeper still, what about HM the Queen, also the recently deceased Duke of Edinburgh?

    Simon conveniently forgets that. The girl or her parents must have been naturalised to become British, a procedure used not only by Britain but other countries also, when the Normans arrived there was no such thing, they simply conquered, became British by force as did other tribes before or since until we became more organised around the middle of the 19th century and established a process by which a foreigner could become British, Simon’s a historian he should have checked it out.

    If he were to dig deep he may have found his predecessors may have become the subjects of the King or Queen, either by making use of the same process or arriving earlier, settling down.

    That seems weird today, but it was common, as was common for someone born here to leave Britain, settle in another country, no passport, no nothing but perhaps an introductory letter to someone in the foreign country asking for help if needed. The original British ‘passports’ were exactly that, the HM Government asking to enable the holder a free pass and a help if needed.

    You know all this anyway, it’s just that Simon isn’t always right, and it wouldn’t be the first time he fluffs it.

  311. Noa @ September 12th, 2021 – 19:44

    Apparently nothing new in the first batch, Noa, the hope is the subsequent releases may furnish something, but like you, Baron doubts it, Biden cannot lose the Saudis, they’re pricing oil in dollars, a must for the greenback if it wants to retain the status of reserve currency.

  312. EC @ September 12th, 2021 – 16:16

    It will be interesting to watch how it pans out with her, EC, she seems rather level headed for a teenager, wears a cross, went to a top school. A hard nut to crack correctly for the woke loonies.

  314. Nothing to do with anything that we’re talking about now, but you may like to spend some 10 minutes listening to the clip, it’s what Baron believes also, but the guy is by far more articulate, furnishes useful details and it’s in pictures.

    He concludes what anyone with a functioning brain must have also figured, China will never attack Taiwan militarily, the scaremongering over the invasion risk for the island is purely for the purposes of the US military budget.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6HwH9FxQk&t=529s

  315. Finally, the great Fred on his favourite subject – the USA versus China, it’s a good read, well worth your at scanning, as are some of the postings, sadly Peter fm Maidstone bans Unz Review, if you want to read it, you have to google:

    A Military Solution to a Commercial Problem
    It Probably Ain’t Gonna Work Much Longer
    FRED REED • SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

  320. Not Baron’s, he got it from over there in the West:

    {1} Once all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an umbrella. That’s FAITH .

    {2} When you throw babies in the air, they laugh because they know you will catch them. That’s TRUST.

    {3} Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but still we set the alarms to wake up. That’s HOPE.

    {4} We plan big things for tomorrow in spite of zero knowledge of the future. That’s CONFIDENCE.

    {5} We see the world suffering, but still we get married and have children. That’s LOVE.

    {6} On an old man’s shirt was written a sentence ‘I am not 80 years old; I am sweet 16 with 64 years of experience.’ That’s ATTITUDE.

  321. EC @ September 13th, 2021 – 11:34

    You have to trust Baron on this, EC, he tried three times to post the link, three times it failed to appear. It may have been that it was not the link but the narrative, hard to tell now because Baron forgot what he said exactly, but as far as he can recall the posting it was nothing that would need bann ing.

  322. EC @ September 13th, 2021 – 11:31

    Words fail Baron, EC, a superb, an exceptional lament that should be framed, played over and over again on the future anniversaries of 9/11 until we change course, divert from what will be a disaster of biblical proportions if we don’t.

  323. Baron
    Simon’s point is clear and indisputable. Immigration dilutes nationality, to the point of dissolving Nationhood. Ms Radenescu may be very pretty and talented etc but she is not English nor any kith or kin, however distant, of mine. Nor did I have any say in whether she or her parents should be given the privileges and obligations of British citizenship.
    Presumably she or her father, is one of the 5 million plus EU settlers legitimised by Boris the Turk in June.
    Does she have dual or triple nationality? Probably. Does she have any loyalty to the country or countries of which she is a passport holder? I doubt it.

  324. EC 11.31

    “Neil is looking increasingly dour and depressed.”

    Well, he’s a Scot of course, nature, nurture and wee Krankie combined will do that to them all.

  326. Noa @ September 13th, 2021 – 12:52

    It all depends, Noa.

    Few questions for you:

    Who in your view is genuinely British? Someone who has the blood of the original Celtic inhibitors in his veins, however much diluted in may be? It’s only over 80 generations, it’s unlikely, but not impossible that such an individual or individuals exist.

    What about a family of Engles arriving (say) AD 420, avoiding mixing with a member of the Celtic tribe, are they genuinely British?

    What about a family of Huguenots arriving at the time of Charles II, again till today never touched with the blood types of the original Celts, are they genuinely British?

    The ame goes for the family of Raducanu. Provided they remain here, propagate, but never with anyone that has even a drop of the Celtic blood in the veins, will they qualify in (say) the year 3021 as genuinely British?

    IT’s not that Baron agrees with the close to ‘open borders’ immigration policy, it’s that your and Simon’s definition of genuine Britishness fails to acknowledge real life, many individuals from many a tribe have arrived, settled here (no disputing that), what then is the cut off for any of those arrivals (assuming the Celts had been born and bred here from the start, didn’t arrive from somewhere, a big unknown that)?

  327. Milud,
    I consider the threat to and destruction of the primary host culture to be the main determinant.
    An issue which has not been a consideration by the elite in the debate since Harald marched to Stamford Bridge and back to Hastings.

  328. EC @ September 14th, 2021 – 08:47

    Why are the Australian sso critical, one may say overcritical of the old man, EC, they keep bashing him more than anyone else, more to the point, it’s the network owned by another geriatric, Murdoch, he must be older than Biden, probably also senile, why the animosity to a fellow Alzheimer sufferer?

  329. What does it say about the efficacy of the stuff they call c-19 vaccines?

    Nikkei Asia, Sept 14, 2021: “Singapore kicks off a program for a third vaccine shot as the country grapples with surging infections despite over 80% of its population having had two jabs”.

  330. Is this a confirmation of equality? How many disabled women will ever buy the creation she (or is it he?) wears? Isn’t it making a mockery of virtue signalling? It symptomatic of the same societal disease that lost it in Afghanistan. One doesn’t have to ‘not tolerate’ disabled people that want to switch gender, but there must be a limit to it, as there’s a limit to everything else. If a blind man wanted to drive a car on his own, would we let him?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u58R9kj0aA

  331. “… what then is the cut off for any of those arrivals (assuming the Celts had been born and bred here from the start, didn’t arrive from somewhere, a big unknown that)?”
    Surely it’s not a matter of when, but what they will add to the tribe and its lands that they ask to join!
    Darwin’s theories of survival and evolution adequately support the success, or otherwise, of such migrants. Though I fail to see why, unlike the Poles, Czechs, Jews and Hungarians who fled Europe and settled here as genuine asylum seekers, they should have any right to settlement or citizenship. Pakistani muslim rape gangs and Carribean absent fathers have other ways of promoting their survival and culture

    Noa
    September

  332. Baron – 9:25

    I watched that video and couldn’t help thinking of those fairground shooting galleries with the ducks going from left to right.

  333. Baron – 09:11

    Singapore is an overrated, over hot, disease ridden shitehole on the equator at the best of times – personal opinion.

  335. Have just read an excellent satirical novel about England, placed a little in the future and obsessed with climate crisis.
    called The Denial.
    A campaign to cut carbon emissions to zero is beginning to bite.

    Power cuts have become a regular feature of life and standards of living have fallen sharply for all but a small elite of climate influencers, who are excused the strict rules on personal carbon budgeting which apply to everyone else.

    When a storm and tidal surge unexpectedly strikes London, retired meteorologist Bryan Geavis is the first to notice, and later refuses to accept the official explanation that climate change has caused the disaster or made the weather more unpredictable. Awkward and stubborn, yet with a rigorous scientific mind, he finds himself sucked into a battle against public and political hysteria.

  336. Baron 09.25
    Is she modelling that yellow outfit, or demonstrating the wheelchair? Obviously not much real news happens in Antigua whilst their waiting for the slavery compensation settlement cheque from Boris.

  337. EC 10.43
    GB news has been a tax write-off for some undisclosed party, still even if it didn’t actually ‘do the news’ we’ll all be sad to see the only competition to the establishment meedja go.

  338. Mia 14-35
    I don’t believe it will go.
    Nigel is amusing and extremely confident.
    I refuse to watch the BBC and I enjoy the small amount of tv watching I do with them.

  344. Noa @ September 14th, 2021 – 15:20

    Let’s just hope we won’t be told not to exhale in-between some hours of the day, Noa, to keep the CO2 density in the air under control.

  345. John birch.@ September 14th, 2021 – 11:36

    The one point never made, John, is that climate has been changing since it became a feature of the planet, for billions of years or close to it. Every pundit talks as if it is a new phenomenon, something that arose a couple of hundred years ago if that. This is an obvious nonsense.

    This morning in a BBC Radio4 programme lasting 15minutes covering different issues all linked to climate change and what can be done about it, an expert of a professor rank was saying we shouldn’t;t bother yet about recycling batteries, they last years, hopefully up to 10 years, not enough of them around to think what to do with them when they stop functioning. That’s all right then, we will dump the heavily polluting boxes into ditches, plenty of them around.

  346. EC @ September 14th, 2021 – 10:43

    An impressive moustache, EC, but that’s about it.

    The two guys Nigel and Neil Oliver with the blonde (Baron forgets her name) should be enough to get it through the troubling start, they will settle in gradually, hopefully get more fresh blood to try few things, they’ll be OK.

  347. EC @ September 14th, 2021 – 10:42

    You don’t like Singapore then, EC?

    Years ago, well into the last century, Baron bought a fake Rolex watch there, it worked well for years, was given to Baron;s friend (why? Baron forgot) who still has it, says it keeps ticking better than the real thing, go figure.

  348. Milud 22.04
    I wouldn’t hold my breath on that, Baron.
    I suspect that he will shortly be encouraging us to inhale our own gaseous expulsions to save the planet.

  349. Perhaps the product of humanity can be reused in the Great Project to Build Back Better.
    When a competition for the name of the new multi use product is launched I will enter my own already copyrighted creation.
    We shall call it Re- Cyklon B.

  352. Noa @ September 15th, 2021 – 15:11

    One can only hope that we get hit by a very cold Winter, Noa, before they shut down every not intermittent energy generation plant i.e. one running on coal or gas. If that’s not the case we will have more deaths from hypothermia than c-19.

    What Baron cannot figure is why the current boost to gas prices everywhere, specially in Europe. There’s been no shortage of supply of the commodity, is it because the buyers are panicking thinking the coming Winer will be very cold or what?

  353. Baron
    I wondered about that too.
    There are two explanations. One is foreign government strategy in driving up costs, destabilising the West and making it uncompetitive whilst securing medium term reserves, China probably.
    The other is good old capitalism, scarcity driving up price and enabling someone to make a fortune.

    Or both, of course.

  354. Noa – 15:11

    Winter Is Coming!

    Looks like the power cuts that I prophesied in 2009 (CHWs passim) are upon us, albeit three years later. Also, no mention of Heysham2 dropping its guts again to be found anywhere in the press.
    I’m particularly pissed off as our household fixed price energy deal had just finished and the best new deal that I could find is considerably more expensive. Using the price comparison websites only resulted in all “suppliers” quoting more or less the same price. #cartel

    Imagine my surprise!

  355. EC
    The same story here. My dual fuel fixed contract has now been replaced with a variable arrangement at a staggering 65% increase.
    And what happened at Heysham? We probably won’t know until Jacinda reports a new volcano on South Island.

  358. What do you make of the AUKUS deal, as someone pointed out France couldn’t be included as the acronym would be rather awkward, that’s a joke, or rather an attempt at one.

    We come out of it winning, a new business, more jobs, a rather painful revenge inflicted on our NATO ally for Micron behaviour when we were laving the EU, but strategically, it’s not that positive, getting involved in the Into-Pacific zone what with China flexing her muscle, not that promising that, we seem to be carrying on acting above our station.

    The subs will start being delivered around 2040 by which time China will be somewhat more powerful if she carries on as she did in the past, the eight boats are unlikely to deter her much. More to the point, the weaponry the subs we’ll carry will be conventional, although that may change s time goes by.

    We could have leased a couple of our Astute class boats, one of the best if not the best in the howled with a world beating sonar, we have six of them better still tell the kangaroo owners that the seventh sub of the same class that’s scheduled to be delivered in 2026 will go straight to them, it’s called Agincourt, that would have cheered the French no end, heh, heh.

  359. I looks like they’ve been listening to you, Mi’lud.
    https://youtu.be/W3KIant351k
    We’ve always been trying to sell the Aussies military hardware. I had a couple of abortive trips down there trying to contract Typhoon sales, but the F15s and other US hardware they operate kept the US onside strategically.
    Our 2nd hand submarines and destroyers can also be rather dodgy. I recollect that we sold Canada diesel subs that led to a tragic accident, and the Roumanians werent too happy with their ‘bargain’ Type 21 destroyers. I never could work out why they wanted them, any suggestions from our mittel Europa expert?

  360. Baron – 08:31

    “as someone pointed out France couldn’t be included as the acronym would be rather awkward”

    Good one!

    Noa – 10:01

    I’m wondering if the Aussies will get to keep any “sweeteners” that may already have been advanced? Cynical, Moi?

    On the upside, the beefy Aussie submariners will be spared sheepdog watch as Her Fragrancy, Jacinda of Aotearoa will brook no nuclear vessels in her Maori waters.

  361. EC
    Surely it will be the French that have collected down-payments from Canberra, nes’t pas? I doubt that they will have paid any ‘agents fees’ in this case.
    Given their innumerable delays and non performance perhaps a good part of the reasons for Macron’s hissy fit may be due to having to pay liquidated damages on top of returning pay ents received.
    I’m curious why he hasn’t pulled the French Ambassador to the UK, as he has from the US and Oz. Still, somebody has to collect the Afghgeld and WDF payments from Priti and Kuasi…

  363. Noa – 14:56

    Likewise about the UK envoy.
    Also why wasn’t Priti sacked? A human shield for Boris?

    I find it difficult to believe, after watching all five series of “Rake” (Richard Roxburgh et al), that no Aussie politician failed to receive a “bung” for the order. If fact it would be delicious if the same personage had pick up an even bigger bung for the new order. Unlikely though as they change governments more often than the bogans change their blue vests. Roxburgh gave up after five series as it became impossible to write scripts that satirised that which in real life had gone beyond the realms of imagination.

    Oi Oi !

    Keef is gives us his deu centimes worth

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_JEehQwb8

  365. EC
    You could well be right about the ‘les bungs’, though the first world political systems tend to be more subtle than the Saudis, who simply prefer cash in the offshore account. Offsets allow directorships to be given to the undeserving wo want their payback for deal support and I see hundreds of Aussie companies are already bitchin’ about the loss of French work, no doubt as they set themselves up for UK and US work. Cest change plus meme…

  367. The Navalny crew are working overtime, here’s another of their investigations into the double lives of Lavrov and Shoigu, well mostly Lavrov, it has English subtitles, but they run very fast. What is amazing the trips on boats and planes and whatever are well documented, it’s all in the public domain, what the N’s team did was put it all together.

    It’s unquestionably wrong that both top politicians misuse their positions in the Government, but a similar things happen in the UK, or rather have happened, if you recall Mandelson also spent time on the Deripaska’s yacht, there may be others of whom we are not told. This in no way excuses Lavrov and Shoigu, they should not indulge at the expense of the people of Russia, but if the part election results are to be believed this has not persuaded the Russian unwashed to vote that differently from the last election.

    There hasn’t been an official response from the Kremlin, Putin may take action, Lavrov may find himself an Ambassador in Mongolia, we shall see.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNa5XknuXkQ

  368. Noa @ September 19th, 2021 – 10:01

    The longer term implications of the new venture are less attractive, Noa, we may be playing a game for which we don’t have all it takes, the Indo-Pacific part of the world is not particularly suitable for an European country, one cannot tell how it’s going to pan out, but trying to take on China, if it ever came to it, so far from the home of our fleet may spell a disaster, no?

  369. Noa @ September 19th, 2021 – 19:09

    The animosity against the French, hopefully it’s more against Micron, is getting out the hand somewhat, Noa, we need them, they are our neighbours, over a narrow strip of water, most of the illegal immigrants move through France, we may need them also if our electricity supply falters because the wind contraptions don’t turn, even for those that travel to France for holiday, or have houses there it would help not to antagonise them too much. The guy goes over the top, understandably, but unwisely perhaps.

  370. Baron’s wi-fi modem is under attack, it switches itself off (then on again), if there’re no postings from the blue veined barbarian, you know why.

  373. What’s this nonsense that “China created the virus”?
    The Pirbright Institute holds the patent.

  374. Chinese civilization in, say, 1860 appeared to have declined irrecoverably. Now it has MacDonalds.

    In the West we take the long view.

  375. The buffoon is on the way to NY to persuade other countries to consider committing suicide similar to what we seem to be heading towards if we fail to abandon the green project.

    Gas prices have been shooting through the roof because there isn’t enough of the stuff, in the decade up to 2020, every dick&harry had been getting rid of fossil fuel electricity generation, there was an abundance of gas, no buyer of the stuff wanted contracts, almost everyone insisted to switching to the spot market where pricing was erratic, but prices were trending south, a buyers market as never before.

    All that changed in the Winter 2019-20, it was bad enough to tighten up supplies of gas as nobody but Qatar invested in drilling any new holes. Since then, if anything the supply of gas hasn’t improved much, but the demand has soared due to three factors (a) stocks were low, (b) consumption kept growing as the green energy sources failed to generate enough, no wind and little sunshine, and (c) supplies were limited by the neglect of new production capacities everywhere.

    As most of the European supplies are arranged on the spot market (over 90%), prices are sky high in the region with little anyone can do to bring about a change. In Britain we are further at a disadvantage as we have only few storage facilities, our modus operandi has been “just-in-time” which kept costs low when gas was plentiful, pushes them up now as supplies are limited.

    And of course Russia is to blame for the shortages, who else, the evil Putin not only elects presidents he also starves the world of a commodity everyone, including our buffoon, is trying to move away from, arghhh.

    It’s against this background that the Government announced it would furnish loans for any surviving UK gas supplier that will take over those going under instead of waking up to the imbecility of the whole green project. If we cannot cope with the naturally innate intermittency of wind and the sun today imagine what will happen when the bulk of our electricity gets generated by these two sources and a really harsh Winter hits. Fugging lunacy that.

  378. Baron 07.50
    Do you remember the now sacked Jenrick, earler this year smugly announced that that wet wood would be banned from use? (This is defined as wood not dried in a kiln and containing more than 30% water.)
    I suspect that Good King Wenceslas never thought he’d find himself liable to fines, arrest and imprisonment if he’d lived in Britain for wood gathering in winter.
    Now then, rush lighting anyone?

  379. (The possession and use of oil lamps as well as oil, will of course soon become a criminal offence.)
    Peter Hitchens, in his newly anointed role as a national treasure, waxes eloquently on the criminal Johnson’s eco-talibanism at 11.05am, together with the socialist origins of metrication. Did you know that the barleycorn is the origin of the English measure for foot size?
    No, nor did I.
    https://youtu.be/Fs4xShivfTo

  381. Baron – 17:23

    The Man With The Rictus Smirk’s part was all covered in the documentary “Plandemic” which was banned 18 months ago. Copies available upon request

    Noa – 15:36

    Oil lamps should be fine as long as they are not fitted with a wick.
    Also on the banning list: Fork handles!

  383. EC 17.51
    Im fine with the lamps but oi’l be damned if I know where I can get oil from, given Bozo has shut down sea and shale drilling and banned my harpoon.
    Melanie Phillips sums up the looming disaster.
    Farage has some solutions, see GBNews, it I suspect the useless tossers in office will pinch them when the riots start…
    https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/downing-streets-green-emperor-has?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDc4NTg0OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDE1NjA2MzMsIl8iOiJCejVmRiIsImlhdCI6MTYzMjE2MzExMiwiZXhwIjoxNjMyMTY2NzEyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzc2NTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.DFHSr_ww9tIKVgQVv_463T7jda8jdIVvfYsg5ficF8Y

  385. Noa,

    One of the most succinct pieces ever to be broadcast on British TV.
    Nigel has really grown into his GB News role.

    Of course the whole wind turdbine folly is deserving of a couple of one hour documentaries, as is the hijacking of the whole environmental movement by the CO2 scamsters.

    They used to say “in the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king” but since the unlamented departure of “the son of the manse” from No.10 it seems to be that the biggest “Hampton” is more the case… although the one-eyed theme still prevails.

    Speaking of magic lamps…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-54759863

  386. @08:22

    Forgot to mention yesterday’s relatively minor volcanic eruption on La Palma.
    All those tons of CO2 spewing out – probably negating the efforts of all the UK wind farms in a single incident.

  387. Baron has now watched her so many times he has to pass the clip over to you, what a joyful exuberance of youth the girl displays, one doesn’t know whether to shout uncontrollably as she plays the shots or just quietly enjoy the 18 year old, and yes, yes, Baron’s fully aware of your take on the invaders, one can hardly blame anyone holding that view, it’s the country your ancestors worked on, but you cannot deny she’s talented, composed showing no fear of the occasions we’re unlikely to witness again for what, several generations? Truly top marks and more.

    Btw, she speaks fluent Mandarin and Romanian, both quite difficult languages (that’s one of the advantages of mixing the genes of distant tribes).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYZ-BO1CMnY

  388. EC @ September 21st, 2021 – 12:19

    One always suspected, EC, that gaining a medical degree in the lands distant from Europe doesn’t necessarily guarantee that the intellect of the successful graduates is up to a scratch, but who knows the lamp looks attractive, what if it is genuine, for just over $40k, a bargain.

  389. Noa @ September 20th, 2021 – 21:37

    Nigel’s on top of it, Noa, all good points, we’re also importing gas from Holland and Germany, he didn’t;t say it because it’s Russian gas re-sold to us, and the imported coal also comes from Russia, not much of it now, we imported more few years back, the coal we buy today is a special one, the black gold we have aplenty of isn’t suitable for steel production.

  390. Noa @ September 20th, 2021 – 20:24

    When Melanie’s good she’s excellent, Noa, this is one of such times, she quotes Holland as the country that has built up a large stock of gas, this may be the case, but overall in Europe the storage is only just over 70% full, at this time of the year it should be closer to 90%, the Russians have supplied all they promised on the contractual basis, not much on the spot market, the prices in the Far east are more attractive, and they don’t have enough in their storage either, in fact less than the 70% the Europeans have (if you can believe them, which is a big ask, they benefit from high prices as most of the gas is still bought on the spot market, and also can use it a leverage to get the N-2 to start pumping the stuff).

    As Nigel points out the biggest problem is our dependence on wind, it’s not only its absence in the last two days, for years winds have been decreasing, nobody knows why.

    A research in Germany also discovered that there’s limit to the number of turbines one can build, apparently as more get erected the wind gets used up, the rule of diminishing returns kicks in, over a certain number the additional turbines are uneconomical, rather weird, but apparently true.

  391. Malfleur @ September 20th, 2021 – 19:06

    One should be sceptical even when the top man of science talk, Malfleur, the blame seems shared, that’s why we’ll never learn the truth, the two big boys of the affair have a solid reason to withhold it from us, they are both guilty.

  392. Baron 23:19

    “Btw, she speaks fluent Mandarin and Romanian, both quite difficult languages (that’s one of the advantages of mixing the genes of distant tribes).”

    It’s called the heterozygous advantage, Baron. Such children are often fitter and more intelligent. We once had neighbours and man from HK and a Yorkshire woman, both mathematicians (Prof & Dr) and they bred super mathematicians. Both their children were geniuses (genii) when it came to the mathematics and other intellectual challenges. Of course such advantages, even when the dice roll the right way, don’t always translate into well rounded human beings – although the neighbour’s children turned out ok.

    I hope that you and the young tennis player in your mind’s eye live happily ever after! 🙂

  393. Baron – 23:25

    “[…] gaining a medical degree in the lands distant from Europe doesn’t necessarily guarantee that the intellect of the successful graduates is up to a scratch […]”

    It’s no guarantee in the western world either! No matter, these days the HOTGH (Heirs Of The Great Hippocrates) are more or less guaranteed to be

    1. Good at swotting for tests and parroting answers.
    2. Venal bastards.
    3. Never breaking medical consensus.
    4. Big Pharma! (see 2 & 3)

    Although GPs are not listed by Google as one of the top five causes of human death they are claimed by many to rank in the top three! 🙂

    I reckon that politicians/political/religious ideologues have got to be ranked #1 though!

  394. Noa,

    More on Victoria and Melbourne… twinned with PRNK and Pyongyang.

    “Andrews’ secret deal part of China’s strategy to operate ‘without federal oversight’ “

    Kept secret for four years. No wonder Richard Roxburgh gave up on trying to write “Rake” scripts!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GmY-pX_yg

    also…

    “Something is ‘very rotten’ in Victoria”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp5-cJCR24k

    Police in the air, media helicopters grounded!
    Melbourne is now officially t’ world’s most locked down city.

  396. Here you have what John Helmer says is the first response to the new three countries deal. Whether the guy that penned it knows what he’s talking about id hard to say, but one thing puzzles Baron. Isn’t there a need to cool the nuclear propulsion? It’s the failure of cooling that usually causes accidents in nuclear power generation (say) the Chernobyl disaster. If the sub’s nuclear reactors must also be cooled they must use pumps, and pumps are noisy.

    Can Noa or EC or Malfleur help? Do they use pumps to cool the sub’s nuke run motors?

    http://johnhelmer.net/it-isnt-over-when-the-fat-lady-sings-the-first-russian-strategic-assessment-of-the-australia-uk-us-aukus-submarine-deal/

  398. It looks threatening, but then when the Nazis marched it looked impressive and frightening also, but deep down the regime’s forces weren’t that strong before 1939, it was mostly theatre, a well orchestrated show.

    China derives her strength from making things and flogging them everywhere, at home and abroad. A war would not dent but fully destroy this model of power, they must know it. But then, the Americans may know it also, it wouldn’t be hard to engineer a false flag op, blame China for it, attack, as the writer of the Helmer’s piece says at the end. What a prospect, heh?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq51s4VlZRs&t=136s

  399. Baron 20-24
    It’s turbulent air, that’s the reason there has to be a certain distance between large planes landing at Heathrow (for example) to let the air settle down .
    Flying in turbulence creates many problems which is the same with F1 cars and windmills.
    To work correctly the air has to be stable.

  400. John birch.@ September 22nd, 2021 – 17:06

    Thanks, John, but are you certain that’s the explanation?

    What you say is about the planes landing, the distance between them is needed to cancel the effect of the turbulence caused by each plane as it’s landing, but the winds are not diminished or ‘consumed up’ by the turbulence, they keep blowing.

    Are you suggesting the turning of the rotor blades creates a turbulence that gradually eats up the wind?

  401. An interesting couple of graphs from the Russian DUMA election in 2016 and this year last week.

    The dots are representing each voting district, the horizontal line is how many of those registered to vote actually voted, the densest dots are around the 30%-40% i.e. only some 30%-40% of people bother to vote, 100% participation in both elections was rare, hence the fewer dots as you move to the right of the graphs.

    The vertical axis shows the number of votes cast in the left graph for the party backing Putin called United Russia, the right graph shows the votes cast for the communists (or the major communist party, there are three altogether, but the graph is for the biggest).

    the blue dots are for the 2016 election, the yellowish dots for the 2020 election that just finished on both graphs.

    What the graphs show is that the communists below United Russia in 2016 but above in 2021, the United Russia got more seats this year because of the way the voting system works, half of the deputies are chosen on a party basis, i.e. people vote for parties not individuals, the other half people vote for individuals.

    You may recall Baron was telling you that United Russia will lose many seats, and so they did, only over 20 seats, but that’s significant. People are turning not to the pro-western parties but in the opposite direction, to the communists who amongst other things are for tougher stance by Russia on what they say are Western provocations. Putin may have turned somewhat recently, started talking about red lines and stuff, but it may be too late, the dark forces are on the march, will take more votes next time.

    https://meduza.io/feature/2021/09/22/edinaya-rossiya-vyigrala-vybory-pochti-s-tem-zhe-rezultatom-chto-v-2016-godu-neuzheli-za-pyat-let-nichego-ne-izmenilos

  402. Baron forgot to tell you that the graphs are from a publication called Meduza, a strongly anti-Putin vehicle, now also libelled as a foreign agent, they get money from the West.

    This was why the Navalny’s lot got banned also, what puzzles is why did the Navalny set-up not only get funds from abroad (that’s illegal in Russia), but also boated about it. The Russian election law prohibits those that put themselves for election either as party members of on their own (five seats in the current Duma don’t belong to any party, they stood as independents) not to have foreign bank accounts or assets abroad, or foreign citizenship and also must receive no funds from anyone but a Russian source.

    There was no need for Navalny’s boys and girls to accept the foreign money, they got enough from ordinary Russians, but also from a number of oligarchs that back them. Silly, it almost feels as if they enjoy the victim status hoping it will endear the public to them.

  403. Apologies for the mistakes, truly sorry, it’s ‘boasted’ about foreign donations not ‘boated’ and other like it.

  404. Baron.
    Turbulence is a problem in many areas. Pumps in power stations need to have a distance to allow the water to settle down to avoid cavitation which can literally destroy metal.
    A number of years ago there was an idea you could redesign power stations to fit in a very small space and there were enormous problems with cavitation which is exactly the same as turbulence in the air.
    Water engineering was my business.

  406. This is why engineers became unfashionable because They know things that causes problems and no one is interested in that nowadays.

  407. John birch.@ September 23rd, 2021 – 16:33

    Hat off to you, John, got it, and true, Baron has never tasted engineering but he has great respect for the profession, the engineers produce close to miracles, and you’re right the politicians don’t listen to them.

    Years and years ago when the need for money was overwhelming, Baron had to have three jobs, the third one was interpreting, it so happened that a group of Russians were negotiating to buy a centrifuge from a British sub of an American company, the whole thing was massive, the size of a round table sitting 8-10, it hanged on a ceiling on a shaft (or whatever it’s called) the diameter of a baby’s arm, the Russians spent hours questioning whether the shaft was strong enough, it seemed to me also that this monstrosity couldn’t have hung of such a small shaft, but it did, when they switch the thing on it was whizzing happily, no problema, amazing.

  410. John, Baron

    Hydrodynamics and Fluid Mechanics: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I did a module on that as part of my applied maths course. Fascinating stuff but all long forgotten now. However I do remember the Ferrybridge Power Station Cooling towers collapse in 1965. The effects of vortices and destructive energy dissipation in action!

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Collapse-of-cooling-towers-in-Ferrybridge-November-1-1965_fig1_317132346

    Below is a fascinating demonstration of fluid flow and pressure gradients.

    The Tesla Valve.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIAo0EYwOE

    Not just this, Nikola Tesla invented much of the modern world we “enjoy” today.

  411. EC @ September 24th, 2021 – 09:59

    Merci, EC (it rhymes hence the French), it helps even for someone whose mind isn’t really of the engineering kind.

  413. Dalrymple writes incisively about wrapping the symbol of Imperial France but oddly neglects to identify that its purpose is, literally as well as figuratively, separate the French people from their history.
    This is the ultimate purpose of Post modernism, whether in art, architecture or anything else. Schumpeters creative destruction replaced by the Chicago school’s destructive creationism.
    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-arc-de-triomphes-new-clothes/

  414. The Daily Mail says there are 8,350 petrol stations in the UK and less (that’ bad English, fewer should be word) than 100 had to close, no fuel.

    It must be that Baron has passed a tenth of the hundred on his way from north Norfolk down south to Bury St Edmunds, a distance of over 90 miles.

    It would be funny f if were not so pitiful, in a peacetime the Government cannot ensure the supply of one of the most essential commodities for the functioning of the country, the panic buying certainly doesn’t help, but the shortage of drivers should have been foreseen, what is the fugging Civil service for, the number of companies owing petrol stations, the major ones anyway, must be in the mid double digits, not more probably than 50, surely asking them to report whether they need additional drivers isn’t beyond the millions on the Civil Service payroll, and if they needed some, the Armed Services should have stepped in, and voila, the crisis over.

    Instead, the Starmer’s lot a pi$$ing around in Brighton undecided what they should lie about to the electorate when the next time for the election comes, and the Buffoon is putting the finishing touches to Britain without a reliable source of energy altogether. How fugged could the country be?

  415. Massive apologies for the unforgivable errors, the missing letters mostly, one owns a petrol station, and’ if it were’ and ‘are pi$$ing”, all the others, you have t forgive the poorly educated, he won’t be better, nature made him lazy, you blame it.

  416. Would you believe it, Baron did check the 07:58 posting three times, three fugging times, and yet he still missed a letter, it must be the old age, Alzheimer, the advanced stage of, sorry.

  417. Milud 20.07
    Which is the better career option in modern Britain?
    Is it crime, politics, government, religion, the media, law or business and commerce?
    I don’t know the answer, but the last, now being the tip of the inverted pyramid which supports the rest is certainly the least rewarding and most calumnised.

  418. Noa – 09:22

    It could be argued that politics, government, religion, the media, law are all branches of the first option. i.e organised crime.

  421. It seems the Government has listened, will ask the Army to furnish ‘hundreds of soldiers’ hopefully the ones that know how to drive a heavy and dangerous vehicles, to start delivering to the petrol stations. The Grant Shapps is far from sharp, it should have occurred to him before the shortages arrived.

    One is told it’s a combination of panic buying together with the fewer drivers (why now ?, why not a month or two three before?) and also the required vehicles, there seems to be fewer of them than before the pandemic started. Can anyone explain what has happened to the vehicles?

    But the more important reason is the drivers are pi$$ed, the pay isn’t any good.

    It’s repeating oneself but Baron has to say it again this Government is not fit for purposes, the buffoon that runs it should quit, get going with the insemination of women, he excels at it, and instead of immigrants his and their output could help to solve the low birth rate at a stroke (no pun intended).

    There’s absolutely no petrol within 20 miles of Baron’s abode, a neighbour just returned from work, need petrol spent close to two hours trying to find a garage that had some, Baron needs some, too, he didn’t panic which was a mistake, one of the tyres bought only last year in June seems to have developed a leak, it loses pressure buy then settles around 3/4 of the required level. Weird that, how can one explain it?

  422. Noa @ September 26th, 2021 – 19:10

    What a perfect link with your posting on September 26th, 2021 – 09:22, Noa, to which Baron responded earlier, the posting didn’t get through, sorry.

  424. EC @ September 26th, 2021 – 09:51

    The gentle Simon has a point, the publishers don’t, in fact if we carry on like that we may regret not

    On the ‘Meet … the Romans’ book, Simon makes a mistake, at around 2:43 min, he says ‘there’s no black face (or person) in the book, he means ‘white’ of course.

    Another interesting bit Baron spotted was at 2:29 min, on the right hand illustration a piglet is included, the piglet’s white, just as are most of the hogs in East Anglia and elsewhere, but black pigs exist, the bacon they produce is less fatty, the meat tastes sweeter also, they are known as the Large Blacks, also Cornwall blacks, Baron knows, years ago he was trying to discover the supplier of their meet near him, failed.

    If the skin colour of humans, and presumably other species also, matters not, why is the piglet white?

    One wonders whether the book that helps the non-white of us feel better doesn’t sow the seeds of not just disappointment when the child, white or black, finds out the truth later in life. Worse still than disappointment he or she may also lose respect for those in authority for telling lies, the white grown ups may possibly turn racist, not a reaction one would welcome.

    As you may remember, when Baron was young he wanted to alter his skin colour, wrote to a mag in response to a procedure in the US that helped one’s skin to darken, didn’t get a response, but his parents may have, the mother suggest to him to use a brown packaging that, if rubbed against one’s skin, turned it darker, the packaging was for chicory to make coffee (yes, there wasn’t much real coffee, and it was deadly expensive). More to the point, mixing distant genes is the best way to approve the gene bank of any tribe, the problem is in the cultural differences work often against it.

    Still, the point is one has no choice bto ut accept the make up of contemporary Britain, doing Amin would turn the country into one one may not want to live in for a number of reasons, but there must be a limit to trying to accommodate the newcomers, lying about the past gets one beyond that limit.

    if would be by far more preferable if the immigrants absorbed the culture of the host, assimilated, adopted the way of life on the indigenous tribe, after all, most them arrived here because of the culture that was admired world over.

  426. A balance slicing of what’s going on in Russia, the best available so far, Baron agrees (as if that mattered) with Shamir, the writer, except for the plot, whatever shenanigans may have occurred in the election Putin still carries it with the unwashed, he himself would be hard to dislodge.

    Shamir’s 100% correct, the cheating was to keep the communists not the Navalny’s lot out, as Baron has been telling you it’s the commies who will eventually take over, they want a stronger response to the West, most people want that, the commies also argued Navalny and his lot should have been punished years ago, many people say the same both in the official and opposition media.

    The communists don’t accept the Duma results for Moscow, before the electronic votes were added they won over 90% of the seats, Navalny’s lot got nothing. There’s a commission to pontificate the refusal, the courts may get involved also, it will reveal how independent the judges are, they certainly are in a better shape to resist any pressure by the Kremlin today than (say) ten years ago, many of the judges are new, younger, not afraid to turn against the authorities.

    https://www.unz.com/ishamir/putins-disappearing-act/

  427. Baron, September 27th, 2021 – 11:09

    Democracy? Elections? Don’t make me laugh. Doesn’t matter whether it be electronic vote, paper ballots or postal votes there will always be disputes.

    “Uncle Bob” – the guy that took over Rhodesia – now he knew how to rig and election.

    Russian judges? I think that you might find that after one or two of them get defenestrated, severe bouts of food poisoning, rapid onset hair and teeth loss etc; then they’ll all become remarkably compliant. The English poodles/judges are no different, or else why is Julian Assange still in Belmarsh?

    It’s all gone very quiet over in Krautland post “wahl fieber” too. A lot of ‘horse trading’ going on methinks.

  428. EC @ September 28th, 2021 – 11:12

    Well observed, the judiciary and the rest of the elite, it truly ain’t what it used to be, someone should dig up Lord Denning, we need him.

  429. This is what one gets marrying a deep rooted incompetence with panic, the former is the trademark of the Government, if Baron hears the wanking fruitcake Shapps say agin the there’s plenty of fuel he won’t scream he’ll go and kick the arsehole’s arsehole.

    How come it’s only Britain that has a problem, on the Continent no queues, no shouting, not panic. It cannot be Brexit, it’s truly the ineptitude of the people that govern us, why on earth they said from the start ‘don’t panic, plenty of fuel’s available’, that was as clear a signal as one can send for people to panic, nobody now trusts the Government, assumes the opposite is true, behaves accordingly. Fugging bunch of wankers.

    The public pi$$es one also, Baron could stop today to investigate, he was buying a garden implement next to a petrol station, 61 cars were queuing, four pumps on, it took one guy, a van driver, around five minutes, another driver, male, 50s almost nine minutes to fill up (say) average six minutes from the time the car stopped next to the pump to leaving, that’s roughly an hours and a half for the 61st car in the queue.

    Three cashiers were taking the monet or cards, Baron asked one the amount of petrol bough on average, she said around two gallons, her friend thought it was less than that, the third one more than two gallons. This is fugging criminal, everyone filling up with less than 3 gallons should be charged treble, that would cut the queues noticeably.

    What has happened to us all?

  431. A question:

    Does anyone have VPN? There’s one on offer by a guy that blogs as Barrett
    on China, he recommends it, it may well be he’s influenced by the VPN he recommends, but what about the app anyway, does one need it, is it worth it, do you have it?

  433. Baron your tyre needs the rim sealed, inflate it to about 50/psi and drive it for a couple of miles then drop the pressure to what it should be.
    With a bit of luck that will allow it to seal properly.

  434. “if Baron hears the wanking fruitcake Shapps say agin the there’s plenty of fuel he won’t scream he’ll go and kick the arsehole’s arsehole.”

    One hundred percent agree, Baron, especially about Shapps. Give the troughing bastard a few from me.

    There is no fuel to be found within 100 miles up here. I’m having to empty my can of lawnmower petrol into the car in order to get Mrs EC to an appointment later today.

  435. I was also deeply unimpressed by Bozo’s appearance as he was finally dragged, blinking, in front of the TV cameras yesterday.

  436. John birch. @ September 29th, 2021 – 07:08

    Thanks, John, a good advice but it wouldn’t have worked, the culprit was an inch long screw, the tyre’s mended now, Baron wasn’t aware that such a hole could be repaired, it’s for the first time it happened, a patch was all it took, glued to the inside of the tyre, took some 20 minutes, cost 18 quid, the tyre was only four months old, sorry to admit it, it was made in China.

  437. One may excuse the never ending list of failings by the Government, a neighbour of Baron says they have to face new challenges, something that no other Government had to deal with before, quotes the hike in gas prices, blames everything on it, but that’s not true, it’s a fugging excuse.

    In the 70s oil prices went through the roof, the country responded, the civil service has to have the files, the dissection of what went wrong, which of the responses worked best, what solved it, all that must be available, re-dusting the files could have told the Government that it’s the speed which one tackles the problem with, extinguishes it, avoids an escalating crisis, nipping it in the bud quickly wins it.

    If instead of reassuring the public there’s enough petrol, a sure sign that there may not be, hence the panic, they should have got the military drivers to step in, if they did we wouldn’t be where we’re today. It may have even won them few kudos points, the boys from the Army may have also felt happy that instead of killing people in distant countries they’re doing a useful job for the folks at home.

    One hopes, EC, the crisis will be over soon, you’ll not have the same problem again, and one also hopes even more that Mrs EC appointment went well.

  438. An excellent picture is making the rounds, it shows Joe Biden sitting on the left saying ‘you know, Barack, everyone wants to have sex with me’, to which Obama sitting on the right says ‘no, Joe, that’s not what ‘fugg Joe Biden’ means’.

  439. We have been ascribing the Government’s position on the fuel shortage (or is it just a crisis?) to its institutional incompetence in all areas. By ‘government’ I refer to both the ideolo gically driven Departments of State, including but not limited to DEFRA, Health and Equality and the piticians that no longer direct and control but now simply shill for them. They are prevented by codes, practices, policies and practices from expressing any but the mildest form of or token of dissent.
    That’s not to say of course that they arent arseholes of the highest, or is it lowest calibre.
    Have Wallsters been following the DM expose of the murderous shambles of greed, incompetence and buck passing that is the rollout if the Smart motorway system? Visualise, if you are imaginative, how you would react if your car broken down on the m’way. You’re in the live lane, trusting that the cameras will pick you up, as vehicles fly past you at speeds up to 100 miles an hour. But they don’t work, because they’re broken or too far a pool or the operator hasn’t seen you. As you wait a 38 tonne articulated lorry (yes, there may be a shortage of drivers but it only takes one to marmalise you and your passengers.
    Boris, ever the cowardly mealy-mouthed chancer, promises an investigation, but quietly caveats it by hinting that the policy won’t change: system and software fixes are all that is needed before the carnage can resume at pace.
    Let us now turn to the militant loft insulators who are now busy gorilla glueing themselves to the M25, arseholes of Shappsian proportions they may be, and deservedly unpopular, but they have a strategy. This is to cause the Blond Inseminator a political crisis by having 300 of the idiots thrown into jail.
    Quite why this would do anything other than raise his virtually non existant popularity escapes me.
    Imagine though, that motorists and families of those who have died as a result of smart motorway accidents similarly started adhering themselves, in far greater numbers, to the multi-laned? The Police Federation has already voiced its opposition, inconvenienced drivers would recognise the worthiness of the cause and support it passively, if not actively, if it took reasonable account of and balanced their needs with its objective of re-instating the hard shoulder.
    So, is anyone up for causing Bozo a real crisis and forcing a practical change by joining Prevent Motorway Extinction?

  440. Fuel is sporadically available, but is effectively rationed by a pump price cap of between £30 and £40. Interestingly I noticed that ethnically owned garages displaying no fuel notices have magically replenished pumps to service their black BMW driving ‘cousins’ and the grey beard halal taxi driving community.

  441. I share Baron’s concern and trust that Mrs EC is quite well.
    You may of course consider forgoing the use of your fossil fuel guzzling monstrosity and devising a lawnmower based contraption for your necessary commutes.
    If whilst doing so you have the opportunity to provide. a demonstrating Greta, Boris or Keir with a tarmac haircut so much the better.

  443. You should watch the first 10 mminutes of UK Column News, it has an item that suggest the c-19 case data are massively exaggerated, the whole document’s below, but it’s big, not easily understood, the two anchormen at the UK Column News explain it well.

    https://bit.ly/3B78hJ3

  444. John Birch
    Many thanks for your recommendation of Ross Clark’s “The Denial”.
    I rarely have the time orc patience for reading fiction these days but it’s very readable well characterised and very topical. It often seems to me that we now live in a national mental institution most closely akin to what governments shut down in the 1970s. The difference now is that the staff and wardens responsible for its order, upkeep and of course the patients themselves, that is, us, have in fact become fatally infected with a pernicious hand homicidal insanity virus causing them to kill us all for our own good.
    Mr Clark’s tale takes us on a blackly humourous virtual tour of this national ward in the company of both patients an doctors, gaily but relentlessly misdiagnosing and misprescribing treatments with the avidity of a shaman cult proscribing the blood sacrifice of all pensioners to end a drought or prevent flooding.
    Come to think of it Boris mifanwy, that could be worth trying…

  448. BIDEN IN POTEMKINVILLE – Latest report from the Banana Republic

    Look here upon this picture:

    https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-president-joe-biden-gets-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-2555991

    … and on this:

    https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1443005572169834502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1443005572169834502%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2021%2F09%2Fgoing-biden-takes-booster-shot-set-fake-white-house%2F

  449. Noa, September 29th, 2021 – 19:01

    It being ‘October The First” it is probably already “Too Late” – according to Geoff Hoyle. A tale which imo is the stuff of Fly Agarics(Amanita muscaria)

    Every department of state is overstaffed with civil servants who are by and large ineffectual, useless, lazy, entitled wankers with no experience of the real world. Since most of them attended a university within the last 20 years they are incapable of independent thought anyway, having been indoctrinated with all forms of Marxism.

    Like the HoC, HoL, Academe, The Met, and any other captured institution that you care to mention, the whole damn lot of them need clearing out. Also, Common Purpose needs terminating, as they say, with “Extra Prejudice.” [see also Local Govt. Planning Departments]

    “Insulate Britain” are an offshoot of “Inseminate Britain” which was founded by the disciples of Antonio Gramsci. Unfortunately BoZo took this too literally but he is now “back on message” after being placed under the supervision of Comrade Carrie.

    Could it have been any worse if we’d all voted for Magic Grandpa? At least the end would have come sooner.

    I’d love to see the Insulate Britain crowd try to block the Moscow Ring Road or Micron’s Peripherique. I’d gladly pay for the amusement of seeing what Vlad’s Moscow Wolves or Micron’s CRS would do to them.

    I’m down your way tomorrow, so keep an eye out for man clad in tweed, leather flying helmet and goggles piloting a lawnmower on the A6 South through Scotforth.

  451. The petrol shortage is good for the Britsh people, there’s no danger, and it involves queuing, what’s not to like, hehe?

  452. EC @ October 1st, 2021 – 14:35

    An enjoyable lament, EC, have a double g&t, you deserve it.

  453. The police force as a whole recruits from within the contemporary population, it would follow that by and large the characteristics of it will mimic that of the society at large, if anything one would expect those of us keen and eager to control others will be represented amongst the cops more than the placid, even-tempered, introverted types.

    To hope one can have a force that’s made up of Mother Terezas is silly, even if some strict criteria were applied rigorously, the procedure couldn’t yield an outcome other than inefficacious.

    A high placed female on the BBC Radio4 World at one whose name Baron cannot remember (he only caught her talking intermittently) was highly critical of the police saying ‘ they would happily turn up for a burglary but not for domestic abuse’, that may be so, but if she substituted domestic abuse with thought crime she would be wrong, it’s by far preferable to the police to any other type of offence.

    Still, it’s not surprising the police don’t want to deal with the cases of domestic abuse, it’s not their job, rather it shouldn’t be their job, the two grown ups that are involved have a special relationship, an emotional bind that’s called love, initially anyway, the abused one will not do what the common sense in cases outside the brawls of domestic violence would suggest, leave the abuser.

    Years ago, Baron got close to being involved in such a case, a neighbouring female got battered almost daily, couldn’t take their kids to or from school, Baron or the boss had to do it, but the victim would do nothing, she wouldn’t leave the bastard return to her parent’s farm, she would not even get the police or anyone else involved directly, it was almost as if she loved the brute so much the beating was what confirmed her love for him. What happened to them Baron doesn’t know, he moved house (not because of her, but a huge relief it was).

    What could the police do if the victim, usually but not always a female, doesn’t want to prosecute, in part because of the ‘love bind’, in part because the law doesn’t really punish the offender, he spends a couple of years inside, if that, comes back, tracks the woman, beats her up again. Even if he doesn’t, the fear he might must make the life of the woman a misery.

    The word pain comes from the Latin word ‘poena’ meaning punishment or penalty, yet our restorative justice has almost fully eradicated pain from punishment.

    A TV programme many years ago, a former criminal himself turned advisor (possibly because of older age, he must have been over 50 when he gave up stealing and robbing, mostly the shops) was relaying a story of 17 young men, all of the GBH kind, quite serious offences, when he asked them, and he did ask this equation over and over again, it was a sort of filtering question telling him whether the miscreants were improving, when he asked ‘how do you feel?’ the answers were ‘angry, fed up, disappointed (for getting caught), pi$$ed off … two of them said they regretted what they had done.

    What not a single one of them ever said was ‘I pain, I feel pain’ or anything even remotely close to it.

    The man claimed there can be no cleansing of the past wrongdoings unless pain is a part of the process, any pain, physical, financial, mental, a reciprocal for the pain the crime engendered. His advice was imprisonment for the third offence until the miscreant reaches the age of 55, in his view it was then people give up on criminality.

    In Somalia, one loses one’s hand for theft, the country has few robberies considering the level of impoverishment, not many people are walking around without one hand. Sadly, the same punishment doesn’t apply for the ‘white sort’ of theft involving bribery and corruption.

    Not that anyone would ever suggest we should cut off thieves’ hands, but unless we go back to the retributive justice, we will never solve the growing level of criminality satisfactorily.

    To deal with domestic abuse and violence should not be a police job, we should have a separate agency of qualifies psychiatrists, but even that cannot eradicate the boil, quite frankly, when it comes to the matters of the heart nothing can.

    (YOu are the victim of Baron’s inability to sleep, it won’t happen again soon, he h opes)

  455. An apocryphal tale…

    Bloke driving home one murky winter evening finds himself being tailed by a police car.
    He gradually speeds up but he couldn’t shake it off. Eventually gets stopped.
    After the usual homily and threats the cop makes him the following offer…

    Cop: “I’m just about to finish my shift and I can’t be bothered with the paperwork.. so if you can come up with an original excuse as to why you were speeding then I’ll let you off. Don’t forget, I’ve heard ’em all, so be warned!”

    Motorist: “I’ll tell you exactly why I was speeding, trying to get away form you.
    Two years ago my wife ran off with one of you bastards and, and…
    I thought that you were trying to bring her back.”

  456. EC @ October 3rd, 2021 – 10:07

    They don’t tell them like that anymore, EC do they.

    The police one isn’t bad either.

  457. Mistakes in the long bleating, and more, and Baron did read through it before posting and writing the last bracketed sentence, awful that one, but it seems to no avail, old age is kicking in, together with everything else, rather the absence of anything else that would make the postings good, it is a lethal combination.

  460. Why the second posting appears Baron has no idea, it was what he wanted to say first, then changed his mind, weird as it may be both postings went through.

    The internet network doesn’t seem to be as faultless as we’re told, the outages at Facebook and the other useless platforms only confirm it, relying on such communication conduits is risky, individuals and institutions should have backups, systems that can step in, even if in a reduced form, when the platforms fail.

  462. What has happened to Fergus?

    Yesterday, mid afternoon the BBC Radio4 had four people, the usual bunch made up of a professor of poetry at some formally Lower Neasden college, two others Baron forgets and a young female convert to Islam talking about poems and poetry, there is some kind of gathering in Leeds (?), each were asked questions, also read poems that they wrote themselves or of other people’s, each poem was ‘powerful’, no exception.

    Frankly, not one of the poems rhymed, not even an attempt at rhyming, it was 100% prose in miniature, everyone can cobbled such piece of writing, called it a poem, the best of the lot, again no rhyming, was about a woman, she was born named Lisa, got called Lizy, then Liz, followed by Mrs Sharp, darling, my love, then nanny …until a few troublesome (?) weeks in a hospital, and finally Lisa again because it was what it said in in her papers.

    When asked what was poetry they all to a man and woman began saying ‘there are different sort of …., until one of them quoted an American poet defining poetry as ‘an imaginary garden with real toads in it’, to paraphrase it to fit into it the poems that Baron heard (the others sans rhyming) ‘a council garden with real turds in it’.

    One can be certain nobody will remember any of the poems that the four read, there are eminently forgettable and forgotten they will be.

    None of the prose in miniature could beat this, and that’s just one example of what poems should sound like.

    Sexual intercourse began
    In nineteen sixty-three
    (which was rather late for me) –
    Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban
    And the Beatles’ first LP ……

    If you need something gentler read this, it never fails to boost Baron’s spirits, often makes him think life’s worth living (scan also the postings below).

    https://allpoetry.com/A-Subaltern%27s-Love-Song

  463. As Michael Gove shimmies onstage to Abbas Dancing Quean and Swedish Mo artist Lars Vilk dies in mysterious circumstances, Rishi promises to open Pandoras box for tax investigation purposes.
    Meanwhile a man in tweeds is detained pending deportation by Border Force for riding a lawnmower over eco-activistss on the public highway and failing to demonstrate ‘British values’.
    ‘I was only giving them a haircut!’ Shouted the unnamed man to the assembled reporter, Mrs Madge Batherington 79, Foreign correspandant of the Wigton Globe.
    A dishevelled Mr X, bearing all the signs of his violent resistance to arrest, was taken from the A&E ward to protective detention at HMP Belmarsh pending trial, sentance, execution and deportation.

  468. Noa – 09:06

    Speaking of Belmarsh… Had Tommy Robinson decided to organise a peaceful meeting of just himself waving a banner on a street corner somewhere then I’m sure that Cressida’s Common Purpose Schutzstaffel would have been out in force to drag him off to jug.

    If the police won’t do their job even handedly and apolitically, as per Sir Robert Peel, then they have forfeited the right to police by consent given to them by the public.

    “As Michael Gove shimmies onstage to Abbas Dancing Quean…”

    Nice work, btw. That’s a powerful mental image, difficult to shift.

  470. Did anybody else see Pretty Pathetic’s BS speech to an empty conference hall in “Pool of Colour’ yesterday?

    Also that new NHS bloke, wotsisname, [the bald villain from Thunderbirds] must think we are all stupid, too.

    Can’t wait for Boris’ speech on WindTurdbines etc. I’m hoping he’ll reveal the date when Unicorns with rainbow coloured manes will roam freely in England again, Princess Carrie in a long white dress will glide through green meadows filled with wild flowers etc.

    Is it just me or does anybody else view these Rainbow graphics on everything in the same light as swastikas? Both fascist symbols, in my opinion.

  473. Whilst Pretty pouts and preens, Gove gyrates on Tugens hat, Kwazi cowers about a fracked mantlepiece ornament, and Boris blusters as Macron threatens war, whilst Vlad the Exporter pours oil on troubled waters.
    “UK gas prices fall from record high after Russia steps in – BBC News” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58815665.amp

  474. A nice piece by Dominic Frisby on SMRs. Buy RR shares on the off-chance the wind subsidised Tory elite seek to avoid defenestration by permitting their development and use. (As prophesied by EC, along with fracking) nearly 10 tears ago. Well, you can’t beat stupidity Allied with corruption, can’t you?
    https://youtu.be/q2vAEBcO0D8

  475. Noa @ October 7th, 2021 – 19:31

    What the BBC doesn;t say is that the current peak isn’t the highest the gas prices have ever been, it was in 2005, and it was much much higher than the recent spike, since then as the move towards the imbecilic green solution gathered speed the prices have been trending south with high volatility, hence the switch from contract to the spot market, why should one commit to a price for a year or more when the price is likely to be lower at some point in the future than at the time of the contract signing.

    You can see on the chart that there’s a spike around the Winter time if the season happens to be cold, if not, the price doesn’t move much if at all.

    If Russia can pump more gas using the N-2 pipeline she should be able to do the same using the Ukrainian link or the other pipelines she has, amazingly neither the BBC nor the other MSM poodles point this out, that puzzles.

    Baron reckons Putin via Gazprom is playing a smart game, the intervention by him corrects his own decision earlier not to pump more gas for the spot market (neither Russia nor Norway, Holland or anyone else had any obligation to do it though) i.e he engineers a price hike, panic buying, turmoil in the market then steps in to ‘put it right’.

    Again, it’s weird that the MSM scribblers don’t get it, it’s more than obvious.

    Here’s the long term chart:

    https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/natural-gas

  476. Noa @ October 7th, 2021 – 20:52

    As a source of energy for the homes the SMRs are unbeatable, that’s indeed the way to go, the decommissioning needs to be worked on still some more, but the concept is by far superior to wind and sola, no doubt about it, the green zealots will oppose it, but it looks that will be the answer to our payer for world with less fossil fuels.

    What Baron isn’t convinced about (as if that mattered) is the use of electricity for transport, a Full Monty switch to it, for a number of reasons ranging from the need for a massive boost in extraction of natural resources like copper, lithium and stuff to the indisputable fact that one cannot parcel out electricity, store it in chunks as one can with petrol be it a small container to a larger storage tanks.

    Btw, why isn’t the guy advising on energy, he’s highly articulate, is guided by common sense, is’t funded by anyone that has money interest in the energy field.

  477. To get the long term chart for gas prices linked @ 08:10 you have to click the 25Y below the horizontal time axis of the short term chart, sorry for failing to mention it.

  478. Noa, October 7th, 2021 – 14:05

    Close, but I have to use 98 octane now in order to reach the parts that the others don’t reach. Rather like Hennessy XO which I used to pick up in duty free on my regular transits through CDG. My, my how the price has risen in the last 20 years!

    @20:52 Excellent link, thank you.

  479. Baron,

    Carry On Up On The Salisbury Downs:

    I thought you might find this short 12 minute history by Dr. Mark Felton of interest. It details the attempts to find “a cure for the common cold” at Porton and Boscombe.
    The residents of Salisbury, including the Skripals, should take note!

    “Human Bio-Weapons Experiments – A Secret British History”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEMlHqt9wg

  480. EC 11.11
    Ah, the good old days of Duty Free! I’m a Courviosier imbiber me’self! Good for the colic and gout. Given the attitude of Micron I suspect that we’ll see a return to old habits soon, as the raft refugees load up with a keg or two to fund their UK start up.
    “Avast there me hearties, pass me the Chateau Rothchild and the Semtex, Sajid! “

  481. The Australians refuse to give up, this one is rather enjoyable but short, one very much hopes the Chinese stay put because if they were to get moving the US way, the commander in chief may so confuse the defenders of the great Republic they will shoot at him rather than at the attackers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNqFCOASIt0

  482. EC @ October 8th, 2021 – 22:28

    Wisely, the chap Felton stays away from the Skripals case, too hot, one reckons.

    Here’s another similar piece to read rather than listen to, you may like it even less than the ‘US war plans to hit China’, Baron also reckons it’s far fetched, but the piece appeared in a medium that has been staunchly backing the Donald:

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/02/did-the-fourth-branch-of-government-release-sars-cov-2-then-blame-china/

  483. Taiwan began vaccinating on March 22nd this year, the deaths from c-19 on that day stood at 849. On October 7th, the death toll from c-19 of the vaccinated reached 852.

    On the 7th October the number of deaths after vaccination exceeded the number of confirmed deaths from c-19 before the vaccination began for the first time.

    What do you make of it then?

    https://medicaltrend.org/2021/10/10/taiwan-death-from-covid-19-vaccination-exceeds-death-from-covid-19/

  485. You don’t have to read the blurb just look at the graphs, the one on hospitalisation says there must have been empty beds, non-c-19 patients could have been treated, many lives saved, the actual figures are way below even the most optimistic forecast, the scaremongering has been intense but to what end? A grater loss of the freedoms this country has fought for centuries.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10085607/Demands-herd-immunity-prediction-500-000-Covid-deaths-call-Sage.html

  486. Baron 23:48

    I think that this comment summed it up nicely:

    danm67, a town, United Kingdom, 7 minutes ago

    Part of the issue is that a large proportion of SAGE members are not virologists/epidemiologists, Pantsdown has no biology knowledge just mathematical modelling (with poor coding skills) many others eg Michie are behavioural phycologists again with no experience in virology/epidemiology. They may be scientists but not from the correct disciplines.

    Ferguson should never have been let anywhere government after his many other previous “software” failures!

    Michie likewise. Michie is a member of the Communist Party of Britain and was also member of its predecessor the Communist Party of Great Britain. In March 2018, she spoke at a public meeting saying that communists should be “working full tilt” for the election of Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister. She made a £14,000 donation to Labour under Corbyn’s leadership.”

  488. For an interesting analysis of how people are influenced and manipulated in how to think may I suggest two books which consider the subject? The recent ‘The Persuaders’ by James Garvey, a philosopher and Vance Packard’s ‘The Persuaders’, written in the fifties but still relevant, the modern application of PR and advertising techniques to modern politics and political propaganda (NHS clapping, rainbow flags, labelling critic as Covid deniers etc) is one of the most unsettling features of the SAGE-8 strategy in the recent war on liberty.

  489. Just arrived, the latest edition for Mrs EC’s labyrinthine library of spy novels and all things cloak and dagger whether it be fiction, faction, or non-fiction, John LeCarré’s latest, and final, novel. Inside the dust cover, within the somewhat gushing blurb there is nonetheless posed an interesting question…

    “Silverview” is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John LeCarré. asks what you owe your country when you no longer recognise it”

    Answers on a postcard to the usual address…

    NB. Nature lovers will be delighted with the cover photo. Very seasonal, taken at dusk on a cold clear evening, a murmuration of Starlings. Closing in on them and about to join the flock is a Sparrowhawk looking for its supper! A not uncommon sight.

    No attribution for the photo. Pity about that. Nature, marvellous isn’t it, wasn’t it.

  490. One ofmy wife’s team died this afternoon. Fit Young guy in his 30s was on a day off to have a meal with his dad to tell him about his new girlfriend.
    Double jabbed and just died from heart problem.
    Fit as could be until then.

  491. Could Patel and her team at the Home Office explain why a was Somalian national allowed to run free in this country equipped with a knife to stab Sir David?

    RIP Sir David.

    Btw, why tens if not hundreds of police officers and security personnel are at the scene now, their presence is useless after the murder, they should have been there before the killing, at least one of them may have helped (if armed).

  493. John birch.@ October 15th, 2021 – 20:29

    On the Spectator site it’s the same, John, Cox was murdered, Sir David was killed, the explanation is apparently what one can say before a verdict and after, if the guy were found insane, it will be a manslaughter.

    It’s always a puzzle when someone is sane to acquire a knife, travel to a specific place, recognise the victim, but the courts find him insane, seldom though when the victim happens to come from a protected minority (say) the gays or the newcomers whose grievances we haven’t addressed satisfactorily yet.

  494. John birch.@ October 15th, 2021 – 17:13

    A sad story, John, but it would be of interest to discover whether the unfortunate guy had any morbidities unknown to him of his doctors, Baron suspects that may be the case, it’s the reason for Baron’s recusancy, amongst other bodily weaknesses also a level of platelets just one third of the minimum (even before the c-19 hit the GP was considering a transfusion of platelets should their level drop noticeably below the third of the minimum).

  495. EC @ October 14th, 2021 – 10:17

    One hopes you will let us know how John LeCarré answers the question, it’s indeed one of more than some importance to those indigenous folk who have a line of ancestors stretching back centuries.

    It would be equally interested if he speculated about what those that have arrived in the recent past owe the country, or if they even comprehend they are in debt to the host society if only because they were offered sanctuary, furnished with means to live often more comfortably than those born here.

  496. BBC Radio4 news at 08:00:

    The police say the individual is believed to be a British national of Somalian origin. Believed? Arghhh

  497. Baron
    October 16th – 08:11

    The word used in the report I read was not “origin” but “heritage”.

    Huh!

    People were apparently “shocked”. Are they incapable of “anger” ?

  498. We all know exactly what the words mean.
    Example.A British Man = a raging lunatic muslim Islamist.
    I had to laugh recently as our local newspaper the Colchester gazette got itself tied up in a muddle after referring to a local friendly (allegedly) Muslim group as Islamist.
    Massive apology a couple of days later as Islamist is a terror group and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.
    Laugh, you couldn’t make it up.

  499. Baron,

    Somewhere above was you asked who was actually running Retardistan? Many months ago my suggestion that The Kenyan was behind the curtains running the show was met with tumbleweed blowing down deserted street, tolling of a church bell in the wind etc.

    Well, after O’Bummers interview with Stephen Colbert has come to light, and all that has transpired since the 2020 coup d’ mail ballots the suggestion doesn’t seen that far fetched. To save the grating on your ears see from @3:38 mins.

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

    and Tucker is “Stunned.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0yqLSmz8VU

    The woman Pirro has a truly awful voice. Mind you, imo, she appears to by vying with the late Joan Rivers for the world record number of facelifts. This might account for her struggle to get the words out.

  504. Noa – 15:03

    Another inevitable consequence of the recent recent murder was evidenced by politicians never letting a tragedy go to waste when there’s photo ops, soundbites platitudes to be uttered.

    That shitbag Farage was on this morning demanding that all MPs should have security, presumably armed. That’s fair enough, but what about the rest of us who have to live in the third world dystopian shithole that they have created.

    My answer to the John LeCarré’ question posed above, expressed in mathematical terms would be, “The square root of fuck all.”

    Grrr.

  505. Noa – 15:03

    Thanks for that article.

    ‘I start with a confession: I used to like Boris Johnson. I found his sense of humour and his apparent charm refreshing when so many politicians seemed to be without either. Now I feel that I have been taken for a fool by a man with no scruples or morals, and who has no other aim but self-aggrandisement.”

    There’s a lot of people in that same boat. Then I read the transcript of that “Guppy” phone call and I’m stunned (to quote Tucker) as to how this was all covered up as he was climbing the greasy pole up into No.10. The MSM are complicit, and I can now understand why Andrew Neil was on BoJo’s case before the last election.

    Margaret Ashworth is quite correct about damaging environmental effects of wind turdbines on bird life, and what “farmers” are doing to nature in general. Her remarks fit my observations up here in the outer spiral arm of England where it’s been the worst year yet for insects and bird life. It’s been pretty much the same story down in Surrey too, I have been told.

  507. EC @ October 17th, 2021 – 09:40

    Amazingly, EC, Tucker hasn’t yet wised up to the fact that the Presidency matters not a jot, the one that sits in the Oval Office makes no decision, Biden proves it 100%, the man is incoherent, finds it hard to even read the prompter, suffers from an advanced Alzheimer, but does it have any noticeably impact on anything? Nope, the country’s functioning as if the president was ‘fully in charge’, because the powers running the Republic reside not in Washington, and certainly not in the White House, but elsewhere.

  508. Noa @ October 17th, 2021 – 15:09

    Sadly, Noa, even HM the Queen chipped in, she should stay away from the imbecility, never ever interfere, here’s Janet Daley from the DT, one of the best analogical descriptions of the suicidal movement:

    “Climate campaigning, at least in its most well-publicised form, embodies everything that one would expect to see in a movement of fanatical fundamental fervour: the concept of original sin (industrialisation) that requires an acceptance of universal guilt which can only be expiated through self-denial and penance (sacrificing personal prosperity and freedom).”

    That’s indeed what the loonies represent, they gave up believing in God, have to believe in something, found a creed that doesn’t offer itself to the Popper’s falsification principle demarcating science from non-science. How could the AGW be considered scientific if it can be tested and conceivably proven false only in some distant future?

  509. EC @ October 17th, 2021 – 16:12

    Good one, EC, the FA squaring, and you’re right, ordinary people get hit too, more often, what’s to protect them?

    What the politicians are missing is an important, hard-to-evaluate impact of the atrocities committed in the name of any institutionalised zealotry (here religious, but any other, too), it’s that it influences strongly the public behaviour, amongst others, of those likely to be the preferred target (say) MPs, judges, guards, civil servants i.e. people in positions where they have to arbiter, decide between two parties involved.

    If that judging involves an institution that churns out the zealots, the ‘judges’ are more likely to accommodate those following its teaching for fear of getting hit by the delusional followers of the cult.

    In the current environment it’s even more likely as the laws side against anyone courageous to offer a challenge to a possible atrocity, you may recall a case (it may have been the Manchester bombing) where the guard admitted not to challenge what turned out to be one of the perpetrators of the vile act for fear of being accused of racism.

  510. Noa @ October 18th, 2021 – 09:37

    Individual slaves may have indeed treated well, Noa, after all they were a productive asset, but it’s the institution of slavery that one cannot but abhor.

    Btw, why the surprise, it fits our times of telling lies, half-truths and deceptions very well. The example of the fiddler is a nice one though, Baron will use it when the occasion asks for it.

  511. Here’s something completely different:

    If you shave each day (Baron does), go to the Poundland the shop that sells stuff for a pound, locate the men’s display, buy Bic3 Hybrid package, not anything else, they have a range of Bic’s razors, you want the Bic3 Hybrid, it’s bright orange colour, six treble razor heads in the packet, it costs two quid and is almost on par wit the by far more expensive cousins marketed by WS or Gillette, it may not suits your stubble, it works for Baron top, he used to spend big money on the expensive stuff, gets the same result with the Bic3 Hybrid.

    You have to get to the shop when the razors are delivered, they sell very quickly.

  514. Baron
    The slave lecturing class are lecturing people who have never owned slaves and were as likely to have been the descendants of slaves themselves. The Americas and Carribean were powered by native Britons whether criminals, prisoners of the religious wars or indentured servants.
    Of course no one in Britain has owned slaves for 10 generations. Still, we shouldn’t let inconvenient facts come before a good bogus reparation claim.

  515. More speech hijacked…

    By Gordon BlackstockChief Reporter with the Sunday Mail
    * 04:30, 17 OCT 2021

    The word ‘spooky’ has been banned
    It might be synonymous with Halloween – but a major arts organisation has banned the word “spooky” from its shows.
    Despite everything from supermarkets to VisitScotland planning to use it in the lead-up to October 31, National Theatre Scotland (NTS) has dropped it after spooky was flagged up as a racist slur.

    It was last used by NTS in 2016 for A Christmas Carol at the Old Kirk in Kirkcaldy, which it described as a “spooky location”.
    But the charity’s commitment to fight racism, brought in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, has identified offensive words… including spooky.

    A theatre source said: “No one has complained about it but there were worries they could in the future.
    “There’s been a lot of training and meetings since the BLM movement and how NTS should change.

    “It might seem mad but NTS is committed to fighting racism so need to be extra careful in the language it uses.
    ” It’s always been a really white organisation but it is trying to change that and become more diverse.

    “There might not be many people who know that ’spooky’ can also be used as racist but, even if it’s one person who is offended, it’s one person too many.”

    The controversy around the word re-emerged in the US in the last decade.
    The Dutch word “spook” translates as ghost and has been used in English since the 19th century. It is also used to describe a spy.
    But in World War II it took on a more sinister meaning. US military officers began using it as a derogatory term to describe black pilots.

    In 2000 Philip Roth wrote a book called The Human Stain, which told the story of an academic forced to quit after calling two black students ‘spooks’. And in 2010 supermarket chain Target apologised after selling black soldier action figures called “Spook Drop Parachuters”.
    Glasgow-based NTS, largely funded by the Scottish Government and headed up by Jackie Wylie, has campaigned on racial equality since 2020.

    The organisation publishes details about ethnicity, gender and disability status of its board and staff.

    But latest figures show over 91 per cent of its board and 87 per cent of its core staff are white.

    Recent NTS productions include Hannah Lavery’s Lament For Sheku Bayoh, which deals with issues about the death of the 31-year-old and performed by a cast of Scottish black women.
    NTS said: “The company will now always interrogate language choices on all materials to try to ensure that no offence or hurt is caused by inappropriate language or by words that have historically oppressive connotations.”

  516. EC
    It’s important for activists to ban a noun. It shows they’re tough and mean business.
    After all, they can’t sell enough tickets to their pretentious productions to pay their way, so are dependent on Arts Council equality grants to fund their idiots ideology.

  517. Baron October 18th, 2021 – 10:23
    You are right. Mi’lud. Her Majesty should have maintained her dignity by staying out of the great scam. It will lead to the end of the monarchy. Obviously one and all the Windsors have decided to provide for their future enforced retirement from the Monarchy business in the socialist Republic of Britain by embracing the sure fire success of the global warming agenda.
    I can’t say I’ll be grieving when the Citizens Committee confiscates their titles, lands and assets, their behaviour calculating and self serving, is beneath contempt.

  518. Tragic though the murder of Sir David Amess is, it has provided the political class with the opportunity to impose Internet censorship, without any causal linkage to the murder.
    A good day to bury or at least obfuscate bad news. Of course ongoing mass legal and illegal immigration will continue without let or hindrance.

  520. Noa @ October 18th, 2021 – 20:05

    You should look in the Spectator’s site, Noa, three articles that cover the murder, all excellent reads, have the comment section shut, those posting complain, but nobody gives a shite, it wouldn’t shock if next week Fraser failed to publish a long narrative about the freedom of speech in Britain, total censorship in Russia (or China).

    As one of the postings says ‘free speech didn’t kill Sir David, but his murder certainly killed free speech’, as if we had a genuine free speech before, it has been something close to self-censorship for some time now.

  521. EC @ October 18th, 2021 – 15:37

    Soon, EC, they may ban speech altogether, it will be left to the sign language to maintain the communication between people, much safer, nobody could be offended.

    But why ban the word ‘spooks’? It’s a synonym for spies, is it not?

  523. Baron – 22:44

    Use decent gin, preferably Gordons.
    The skins of the sloes needs to be broken to allow the gin to do its work. Use can use a fork to laboriously do this, or do what we do. To avoid all any unnecessary forking about then stick your bag of sloes into the deep freeze for a day or so, then put into your jars. Now pour the room temperature gin over the sloes and voila! The sloe skins will crack instantly. Add sugar per your recipe at hand. Shake jars every few days.(don’t forget to put the lids on though! 🙂 )

    Most importantly, NEVER dilute the final product as some lily livered people might suggest.

  525. Noa – 19:29 & 19:59

    Yerrrs, quite!
    Or to use the latest catchphrase to express dissatisfaction [popular the US right now]
    “Let’s Go, Brandon!”

    The people at the top of the pile of the British establishment think it will last forever and their places are assured in perpetuity. It won’t. They are on shakier ground than they realise.

    I’ll never forget the seeing the TV footage of the bewildered Nicolae Ceaușescu standing of the balcony of his palace as the crowds before him booed and heckled him as he was announcing his “benevolete reforms” on December 21st, 1989.”

    Too little, too late. He fled the capital on the 22nd and we all know what happened on the 25th.

  527. Sloe, sloe, quick quick sloe!
    Arent you about a month or so too late for the preparation of the Ruby nectar a la the EC recipe, Mi’lud? My annual wrestling match with the remaining avians concluded by September.
    Fortunately the sanson crop was excellent and provided an excellent alternative. As did the cheap vodka provided by a neighbour getting rid of spare alcohol.
    Spare alcohol!? I ask you….!

  529. EC: You are a star, young sir, the idea of the freezer first, the bottling next sounds excellent, it will be done, the choice of gin is a different matter, Baron has already bought the Sainsbury’s London Dry gin, he isn’t allowed to splash more than that what with spending good money on the gin proper, that’s what the boss gracefully permitted.

    Noa: It’s not late at all, in fact the sloe berries are just about ready now, one can taste them, Baron does on his daily walks, it’s one of the vitamins he fills himself with. One can only wish to have a neighbour trying to dispose of alcohol, lucky you.

    Is it true that one has to wait at least three months before tasting the stuff? Also, how to drink it? On its own, right?

  530. The Spectator has a number of articles on the murder, the coming Cop26 in Glasgow, and the extension of the dictatorial powers for another six months, but no postings are allowed. That’s what freedom of expression has evolved into in the 21st century.

  535. Please, help.

    Over on the Spectator site Baron chipped in in a piece penned by Mr. Lipson about the Donald’s lost election that suggested that Trump’s continuing moaning about the lost election does the American Republic harm with the following:

    B: Wrong, Mr. Lipson, it’s the dementia ridden Biden that’s doing the harm, it shows the Office of the President of the US can be occupied even by a mammal that finds it hard to read the teleprompter (say) a well behaved baboon”.

    To which another blogger (called Disinterested) responded with

    D: “Would that baboon have a better grasp of syntax than you do”?

    To which Baron responded with

    B: “Would “his sitting in the Oval Office shows the Office …” be what you are critical of, D?” The ‘it’ however, may easily refer to the dementia, after all it is the age sickness that truly occupies the office, Biden is but the conduit for it, is he not?

    And got this answer from D

    D: “I’m sorry, B. That’s even harder to parse than your previous attempt”.

    There were other responses to the Baron’s posting, they didn’t attack, just commented on the substance of the posting.

    Baron will gladly agree his syntax stinks, even glader agree that his grasp of your tongue is rather suspect, but will you please tell him what did the guy D object to? You are born and bred in the country of the English language it must be obvious to you, it isn’t to Baron, take his word for it, he fails to figure where he erred, and please no patronising or saying nice things about the blue veined barbarian or his postings.

    Thanks

  536. A timely narrative in the Spectator by Sam Ashworth-Hayes under the heading “We need to talk about the killing of David Amess”. No comments are allowed. Arghhhh

    One would have thought they publish the piece under a different heading, but no, the invitation is there, but only as a bait. What are they afraid of?

  537. Noa @ October 20th, 2021 – 16:20

    A goodie this one, Noa, but for some reason the piece missed the American Republic, their LNG producers are negotiating with Chinese companies massive contracts for the supply of the LNG stuff, as we speak, the rumour is (in the Russian media) that the US suppliers are currently flogging China four times the volume shipped only months ago, you know why China and not Europe? Juicer prices. Another arghhh

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-china-looks-lock-us-lng-energy-crunch-raises-concerns-sources-2021-10-15/

  538. Noa @ October 20th, 2021 – 15:34

    An excellent piece and a blog worth visiting, Noa, thanks.

    It may be obvious only to someone that experienced the last stages of the Soviet Empire and the West of the same period (say) around the Reagan’s presidency plus/minus 10 years, but since the collapse of the Eastern model of the communist doctrine the nature of the two geopolitical camps has been reversing, the West is slowly but unmistakably moving towards authoritarianism, curtailment of freedoms, whilst the East is enjoying the attributes of freedoms and common sense never even dreamt of when the bolsheviks ruled, if the trend continues, give it another decade or so and the roles will be reversed fully. Rather stupefying that, and in Baron’s case totally unexpected.

  539. EC @ October 20th, 2021 – 08:35

    Aren’t the French doing the same to us as the Lukashenko’s lot’s doing to Poland, EC? Both of the two streams have to close, we’ve touched on it already, you may recall Baron’s suggestion to go after the organisers of the illegal trafficking in humans, that’s what we should do, we don’t because deep down the middle class that runs the country wants the cheap labour to come, they need the immigrants for the manual jobs paying them less than the indigenous people would cost. Criminal this.

    There’s another point here, the EU paid Turkey billions to keep the immigrants in Turkey, shouldn’t they do a similar deal with the Belorussian thug, very little difference between the two monsters, both imprison judges, journalists, opponents.

  540. Your point was clear, logical and well made Baron. Though the the use of ‘of’ before ‘a well behaved baboon’ would have been grammatically more complete, the English language is perfectly capable of handling almost all arrangements of nouns, adjectives and verbs, including the one you used. Certainly its better than my Czech.
    D is obviously an intellectually stunted, immature pedant, making an ad hominem attack on your point, as he was obviously incapable of a logical refutation of it. Indeed for all I know he may even agree with it but simply chose to be offensive and a snob.
    Frankly, he’s talking through his parse.

  541. Noa @ October 20th, 2021 – 23:51

    Very grateful and more, Noa, one can never master a language as well as those that were born with it, Baron certainly cannot, he couldn’t figure the insertion of ‘of’, even though he did ponder the structure of the short posting for more than a while, thanks again.

    Btw, BBC Radio4 News this morning was moaning about a number of countries trying to water down the report that would be the ‘most authoritative scientific assessment’ of where we are on the AGW imbecility and what we should do to save the planet (arghhh), amongst the countries are the Saudi Arabia (oil), Australia (coal exports), Japan (?) and India (coal burning).

    Putin gave the Glasgow’s jamboree of the deluded a miss, nobody knows if Xi will attend, the important guest will be there however, princess nut-nut, the current wife of our leader.

  542. Baron, October 20th, 2021 – 23:08

    “Frankly, he’s talking through his parse.” (Noa)
    🙂 I couldn’t have that it better myself!

    Well done for challenging Lipson’s bollocks, and that of his ardent admirer “D”.

    For self evident reasons I hate “grammar Nazis.” The blog-o-sphere is infested with them.

    This “D” had no answer to you substantive points and the result is always ad hom. How very dare you challenge Mr. Lipson’s parroting of the MSM’s Biden cover up as “WRONG!”

    Our late guru’s response to such idiots was to challenge them thus,
    “Oh dear! You’re not [whoever]’s Mum are you?” Then he let them have it!
    Daniel Krapski and his “mum” got this treatment on more than one occasion, as did other Spectoid bloggers. They suffered far worse at the hands/keyboard of “Vulture” who was merciless – so funny. Those were the days when the Spectator blogs were actually worth visiting.

    Don’t get disheartened and KBO! Your English is better than mine!
    My motto: “You know it’s the genuine EC when there follows an e&oe!”

  543. I’ve noticed that with E10 my travel range per tank of fuel has been reduced by 10%, from @365 to 330 miles. Its cost has increased from £45 to £65 per tank.
    In other words the substitution of reused chip fat for petrol has resulted in a 10% increase in fuel duty, excluding the 50% in tax revenue, for less usage.
    At what point does white van and small car man take to the streets to chip pan bomb the Manderinocracy?

    https://mol.im/a/10113947

  545. Baron, October 20th, 2021 – 23:44

    Eric Honecker, dear leader of the “DDR”, weaponised “refugees” by shipping them in to E. Berlin on flights from far flung. They queued up in orderly fashion to march cross Checkpoint Charlie after being taught one word of German, “Asyl.” It was enshrined into the West German constitution at that time that anybody presenting themselves at that time uttering that word must be allowed in. They were then shipped off to hostels (mustn’t call them camps) for three months and taught how to speak and be Cherman! It was quite a racket, and a lot of people on both sides of the border made a fortune from these er… educational facilities.

    Of course, it took some decades for Frau Merkel, another E. German, to surpass Honecker’s efforts. That she did!

  547. Noa, October 21st, 2021 – 10:16

    Exactly!

    The increased fuel consumption, emissions and thereby greenhouse gasses, means that the introduction of E10 will have had no effective whatsoever.

    Therefore, expressed in mathematical terms, E10’s contribution to reducing “global warming” would be, “The square root of fuck all.”

    The increased transport costs will add fuel to the fires of inflation though.

  549. EC @ October 21st, 2021 – 09:58

    As always, EC, you’re too generous and even more forgiving, thanks.

    Don’t we all miss him, such a great pity he had to depart when the idiocy may be coming, hopefully, to the boiling point on at least one front (provided the Winter delivers temperatures on par with the Siberian norm, and the gas reserves empty quickly).

  550. Noa @ October 21st, 2021 – 10:1

    £1.61 that’s the today’s price of the top power diesel at Baron’s local Shell petrol station, 22p above the pre-covid price. Why should there be what amounts to some 15% hike in the price?

    Putin was talking today amongst other issues also about new investments in the fossil fuel industry saying there wasn’t enough money allocated to it, loans to extract the black goal were not available, and yet every country’s screaming for more pool and gas.

    Baron may have said it here before, only Qatar invested in drilling new gas holes, are making a fortune today, almost all shipped to China, arghhh.

  551. Baron
    I suspect the flare-off from the Saudi Aramco oil wells in Al Khobar produce more CO2 than all the ‘savings’ produced by the E10 fuel switch.

  555. Tucker again, talking about and showcasing the weird and wonderful Harris-Biden administration OFFICIAL videos.

    “What the hell is going on here?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQv_h5JQJHY

    Does anybody know where I can buy a Cackling Harris and Mr Dead Halloween masks for this year? I fear that the Jimmy Saville and Rolfie masks might not deter the latest crop of feral scrotes this year, as they don’t know who they are… D’ya think Prince Andrew might work?

  559. I have been giving some thought to the ‘lone jidhadist’ attack on Sir David Amess. Terrible though his murder was, such attacks in the political class, which are wrongly called attacks on democracy, are far more likely result in effective anti-migration legislation than say, the attacks on teenage girls in Manchester.
    How many dead MPs will it take to stop the rot? Ten, fifty, half of them? Better dead MPs than dead children if that’s what’s required to bring these barstewards to their senses in this lon, low intensity war.
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17871/afghanistan-withdrawal-terrorist-cocktail

  561. Made in dear old Iregeria…
    Nice to see the unreformed and unreformable Simon Webb back from his spell in YT Belmarsh.

  563. Baron,

    Not funding the illegal biological warfare “research,” nor the millions dying of his resultant “surprisingly” enhanced corona virus, but this ​could be the end of Fauci, in the UK at any rate.

    Having Beagle puppies’ vocal chords cut to that their cries would distress his lab workers? What a bastard!

    https://www.rt.com/usa/538296-congress-fauci-puppy-experiments/

    Of course the dog loving Chinese won’t Bat an eyelid, nor the continental mountebanks who ordered up the new gas chambers where monkeys were strapped in a seat and made to breathe diesel emissions from presumably VW engines.

  565. I see that they have finally destroyed Tommy Robinson. He’s been bankrupted by all the lawfare…and now his wife has left him.
    He’s in a bad place. The bullies are now gleeful as they have made an example of him that will frighten others.
    A working-class man who uses traditional freedom to put issues in the public varena. Ruined.

  566. Tommy Robinson, a modern Wat Tyler, is the epitome of the ordinary man, is permitted to voice his concerns through his elected member of Parliament, who understands the issues and may if he chooses express the issues on his behalf. Or not. Don’t you just applaud the British system of government, which has maintained stability, by adaptation, to ensure the ingenious retention of power, for 1100 years?

  567. John Birch
    The Denial an excellent book, has earler literary parallels.
    Th.iIt has echoes of both The Crucible and Animal Farm.
    You can see aspects of it every day now, right down to the whipping up of irrational hatred. Literally every day…and these are the ‘intelligent’ people
    I remember seeing the Crucible at the Octagon in the 1960s, it was very moving and, the Salem trials being based on the King James legal instruction for the trial of Witches, was the same basis for the Pendle Witch trials. Lunacy, mendacity and fantasy compounded on sheer lack of reason and objectivity and through fear and institutional conformaty, were accepted as fact. The age of reason supposedly replaced such chimeras. The new Age of Unreason is now replacing it.
    It also reminded me of Shaw’s St Joan, a play about an earlier illiterate activist and immature female hysteric, who after being manipulated by the powers that be, was burned at the stake for heresy by her political enemies.

  569. I’ve just picked this up from the Mark Steyn website:

    “Programming note: On Monday Mark Steyn returns to UK telly for the first time in decades. He’ll be joining Colin Brazier live at 8pm London time (3pm North American Eastern) on the new GB News.”

    I don’t “do” Live TV but it’ll be on YouTube within the hour afterwards.

  570. Now here’s the latest broadcast by the King of Scotland…

    Neil Oliver: ‘Hey Government, we are not stupid’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl0s7nm5YY

    Brilliant. As an interim measure, Noa, would you accept his temporary appointment as replacement for the Windors while we get things sorted out. They could all go off and do their own thing and be happy. Charles, for example, would be much happier living with his pals in Mecca.

  571. EC
    Thank you for the note about Mark Steyn. It’s in my diary. You should be able to watch him streamed live via the GB news channel on You Tube.
    Sadly my missus refuses to join the revution and I sists on paying the Bleep Woke subscription, despite neither kof us having watched it for years.
    What’s wrong with being jailed for non payment of tax? I asked her. Free accommodation, heating, food and priority medical treatment, what more could you want?”

  572. Yes He’s a good lad is Mr Oliver.
    Massive respect for his common sense and essential decency.

  573. But Jocks as British monarchs? That tends not to work out well, even if it would be an improvement on the inbred mutant Hanoverians.

  579. Noa – 20:43

    That DW article highlighted the hypocrisy of the EU [i.e.Germany] regarding the treatment Osman Kavala vs Julian Assange.

    Has Germany formed a government yet? The fact that it can go on for so long after an election without a “government” reveals that, like in other western “democracies,” it isn’t really the “elected” politicians running the show.

    I don’t envisage modern day Turkey being pushed around by the EU no matter who is in charge.

  582. If the people who sanctioned the John Lewis advert aren’t sacked for stupidity they should be.

  583. EC 10.06
    “Liebensraum!” cried the failtbful as they flung themselves against the bayonets of the Infidel at the borders of Paradise.
    Recep screams for “Respect, Bro!”, whilst demanding his danegelt, arms and the transfer of Western jobs and industry.
    Will the Poles submit to Adolphs demands? Will Germany repatriate her 10 million Turkish guest workers? Will pigs fly over Munich?

  584. Noa – 16:52

    Ja, das stimmt! Danzig und Stettin are already part of Germany aka zere EU!
    I think that Ursula Von Der Lying is on ein sticky vikkit here efendi, and she probably should never have left the chorus in the touring company of “Zere Sound of Musik.”

    That’s quite a voting block good ole Recep has there in Chermany! [“gassed arbeiter”, Shirley?] Sadiq must gaze upon it with envious eyes.

    The Sultan actually has a surfeit of manufactured arms, NATO ammo, Ford Transit Vans etc. and is now reportedly flogging his drones to all and sundry, much to Vlad’s annoyance.

    Dunno about pigs over Munich but Mosquitos certainly did, with Mrs EC’s uncle dropping flares.

  585. ‘Thirty thousands people are flying into Glasgow to tell you you must not fly’, says the great Mark Steyn on Farage, he cannot be more right, but a fat lot of good will that do, most people, properly conditioned to trust the anointed, will meekly accept that they mustn’t fly, a small minority will revolt, nobody will pay any attention to them, that’s how today’s democracy works.

  586. The Cardinal of Rome, Baron’s chief believer is coming to Glasgow to beef up the jamboree of the world’s deluded, he has also issued a statement saying ‘the Cop26 must offer concrete hopes for future generations’.

    Why doesn’t;t he stick to what his job reference says he should be doing? He should be offering a spiritual advice to the mortals, assuaging their inner weaknesses, strengthening their faith in Him and ourselves, and not telling the world deluded leaders to mess up our lives even more than they’ve managed to do so far.

  587. Defining “Democracy” is a like trying to nail jelly to a wall. It’s slippery customer, as anybody who reads our chum the fugitive émigré’s book, “Democracy as a Neocon Trick” will discover. Readers will be glad to know that the slippery blogger is still at it, having dodged the Scorflufous. Just goes to show that a double dose piety and conceit is as good a shield as any vaccine. Cpl. Bertie “They don’t like it up ’em Capn. Беглец” Jones is still there too.

    As we are here, and not there.

  588. Baron – 08:29

    Because he’s is a Marxist not a Christian.
    He all about the collective and not the individual.

    As for all the concrete, it’s an exothermic reaction and will only increase global warming. (2500 tons of it under each wind turdbine)

  590. Evening All

    For reasons I cannot retrieve, I decided to check how George Laird was getting on and was pleased to see that he is still knocking it out of the park.

    http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/

    Has anyone seen my old mucker, cigar-chompin’ John Jefferson Burns? What does he think of the Land of the Free no longer being world policeman? It’s those pesky Chinese you want to watch, JJB. If they jump up and down all at once, that tidal wave is coming straight for *you* (pointz).

  591. Andy Car Park @ October 30th, 2021 – 23:09

    What kept you, ACP, you’ve missed most of all Frank P’s departure from the festering boil of progressive wokenism, he’s no longer with the living, nor are the others but hopefully not because they stopped breathing, now it’s EC, Noa, occasionally John Birch and Malfleur, that’s the lot, it may well be nobody ever visits the blog anyway, the few of us just talk to ourselves.

  592. EC @ October 30th, 2021 – 13:36

    Thanks for the tip, EC, Baron has subscribed, also posted an advice to him to cut the videos to no more than 10 minutes, there’s only 24 hours on a day, one has limited viewing time, other baggers like him have also valid points to make. This is where the toothless historian scores well, his points get articulated in minutes, that’s the way to attract the public.

  593. The MSM were full of the news the editor of a Russian paper ‘the New Gazette’ had received the Nobel trinket for the opposition to the Putin’s regime, they didn’t mention at all that the guy Muratov attended the recent Valdai gathering asked Putin a question, got the answer he may not have liked. The clip is subtitled, it doesn’t last that long, around eight minutes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXIw7ekfO0

  594. Andy Car Park – 23:09

    TBH I thought that George had died! He’d been seriously ill and had stopped posting, so I had stopped looking. George had been such a thorn in the side of the Scottish Nationalist Socialist Party over the years I thought that one of their CyberNats (Mc Petrov?) must’ve slipped some Po-210 or Novichok into his pint of heavy.

    George experimented with videos too. McKrankie was so incensed by his indyref victory lap video she had YouTube take it down. Split me sides laughing at this one!
    Sadly all that remains of this video is a screenshot…

    https://snipboard.io/ZczITG.jpg

    These totalitarian despots just ain’t go not sense of humour.

    Greetings, to yourself and the others…

  597. At last it looks as if the Rolls Royce modular reactors are being taken seriously.
    Having worked in nuclear stations all over the world they seem to me to be the only way to get atomic power working as quickly as possible .
    They work, have been proven for many years and we still have the people who designed them and understand them.
    An amusing aside, a few years ago I was ready to go to the Scottish Nuclear station at the very top of Scotland when my boss called me into the office and said you can’t go.
    I said what do you mean, everything’s been arraigned passes done security cleared.
    I know he said but they’ve decided that your wife being Chinese is a security risk and we’ve just had a phone call to say you can’t go.
    This was when China was already building nuclear sites that were new modern and way ahead of our antiquated stations that we’re heading for decommissioning.

  598. Sorry but not surprised to hear about the demise of Frank P. He had had a couple of health-scares down the years and did well to last as long as he did. I hope his memoirs will somehow see the light of day.

    I shall try to pop by now and again, particularly if there are any morsels to be shared. In the meantime, let us hope that COP26 is the complete fiasco that it promises to be.

  599. If you click into this article about Backstairs Billy and scroll down to the paragraph beginning ‘In his most bitter moments …’ [!], you will see a picture of BB dancing with the Queen Mother as a grinning Chazzo looks on with approval.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3005715/Jealous-courtiers-took-vicious-revenge-Backstairs-Billy-Queen-Mothers-favourite-servant.html

    A few years ago, I went a-trolling with the innuendo that Backstairs Billy, from a three quarter view, could pass for George Soros. I also dropped a few heavy hints that, having ‘honoured’ the QM, George had pushed his luck a little further and was now rogering the Queen. I won’t go so far as to say that the hoax went viral but there were quite a few rustic simpletons that rose to the bait.

    Mind you, the joke will be on me if Soros really IS rogering the Queen.

  601. Quotes and memes within the “interlubes” on “common sense” are not at all uncommon. Cognition and reason aside, doesn’t a society have to be fairly homogeneous to achieve any sense of “common?”

    Maybe the royals will unite broken Britain. Gawd, bless ’em, inshallah etc.

  602. Andy Car Park, November 1st, 2021 – 20:38

    That sounds like a right “Carry On Up The Khyber.”
    “Time for Tiffin?”

    I had never heard of this particular “Backdoor Billy” before, although there had been so many rumours over the decades that one had assumed that it was a prerequisite to obtaining employment within Buck’ House inc. The same goes for the Camel Corps and the BBC.

    WBGTDWI? Maybe not “Everything” in the current insanity, but still a lot more than it should.

  603. Brass monkey weather in the Debatable lands. Sure could do with some global warming here.

    I read this yesterday and, piss boiling, I was just about ready to join Trough of Bowland Red Brigade led by the inspirational oligarch Noavanovich DerryPaxo.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59125350

    The “Banquo’s ghost” at COP26 is of course nuclear energy, which is the only reliable yet “green” and long term solution. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair should’ve sorted all this out in 1997 when he got a landslide victory. Too busy talking to god for 10 years, reportedly.

  604. Greta Thunberg appeared to be enjoying her visit to Glasgow for Cop26 on Monday as she joined a crowd of protesters in singing “You can shove your climate crisis up your arse.”
    First time I’ve agreed with her on anything..
    And the further the better.

  605. Remember that behind every transient, burbling, vainglorious politician like Blair, Cameron or Johnson, or simpleton like the Thunderbox, is a permanent, controlling mendacious Mandarinate and an attendant army of scuttling civil service rodents.

  606. At last, a politician out on the street talking ‘street’ with the Yoof! The Swedish savant child may not exactly be the next ABBA but given an autotune Mic then that refrain could be Sweden’s winning entry for Eurovision 2022.

    Yerrrs, I had intended to attend COP26 to myself. I was going to sail me little bo-at up to the Clyde and moo-er it alongside the SEC Hydro Centre. Couldn’t get a space as it was chock full with super yachts and luxury cruise ships.

    Private jets? We’ve come a long way since “two Jags, two shags” Prescott!

    Last orders at the Garrick Club?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10167311/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-hypocrisy-Cop26-spell-Orders-Boris-Johnson.html

    A variation of an old joke…

    Boris: “Waiter, do you serve insects here?”
    Waiter: “Yes Sir, we serve anybody.”

  607. EC
    Sorry you couldn’t dock, We’ll park the “Bezos” and “Gates” better next time. Unfortunaty both our superyachts were needed: for my own humble accommodation needs and for my negotiation team, leasing the two post Croc redundant cruise ships for Afghan and Dover dingy migrant accommodation in Morecombe Bay. £250 per night each and no more 8 per cabin was Pritis final offer. And they can just nip over the side and catch shrimp whilst the tide’s out!
    My God, how the money rolls in!
    See you at the Garrick tonight!

    Boris: “Waiter, do you serve insects here?”
    Waiter: “Yes Sir, we serve anybody.”
    “But not waycist wobbie! ”
    https://youtu.be/58sd9hKoaXU

  608. The widespread confusion over the demise of Lionel Blair reminds me of that (unfortunately apocryphal) story about the reaction of leading public intellectual, Mariah Carey, when informed of the demise of King Hussein of Jordan.

    Mariah told CNN “I’m inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest basketball player this country has ever seen; we will never see his like again”.

    When told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not Michael Jordan, Mariah burst into tears and was led from the stage by her security detail. She later issued a press release saying that her thoughts were with the people of Iraq ‘at this terrible time’.

    Source: China Daily, with coda added by some troll.

    http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/27/content_402742.htm

  610. ACW

    “Aye, heads bowed, the baseball courts of Jordan will be in silent mourning th’night.”

  611. That Was The Week That Was

    Mark’s damning indictment of Boris, COP26 Wk1, and Priti Patel.
    Unexpected praise for the mayor of Calais, and how the contents of Emperor Bokassa’s larder prevented McKrankie’s stats from bottoming out.

    … facts, all served on a bed of gallows humour but not at The Garrick.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlEciH-s6U

  612. Andy Car Park, November 5th, 2021 – 21:31

    “That’s a cracker!” Frank Carson.

    Anyhooo, Mariah Carey is/was to warbling what Russell Howard is/was to comedy.

  613. “The Battle of the Dentures”.
    History Debunked meets New Culture Forum, live at 9.30am Sunday morning.
    Watch and listen to it in sterodent!

  617. Noa, November 7th, 2021 – 09:35

    LOL
    I remember fugitive gnashers being a thing in my parents’ day. My father didn’t have a tooth left in his head by the time he was 60. I don’t think those fixative putty products ever worked satisfactorily to secure the falsies. In particular, they failed to prevent the ingress of any granular particles of food under the top and bottom plates. This sometimes led to some rather unedifying displays as one set or another set was levered out to remove an offending irritant. Awful!

    Re: “What’s that in the road. A head?”

    PW’s intro on the NCF went thus:
    “Hello and welcome to What You’re Saying Is I’m Peter Whittle.”

    Will the real Spartacus stand up!

  618. Re: Gnashers

    A friend of a friend is a receptionist in a brothel (bear with me). It advertises as a massage parlour in the no-mark suburb of Colindale. Perhaps it is somewhere near the Police College (a minute’s silence in memory of absent friends).

    Item 1. One of the ‘girls’ is actually a tranny. Practically none of the punters notice. You just get the occasional one who, as he pulls on his raincoat, Lieutenant Columbo-style, asks, ‘Just one more thing, Ma’am. Was that a real vagina?’

    Item 2. Another (cis this time) is a crack addict. She has lost all her teeth through drug abuse. I would like to spin the yarn that the massage parlour’s publicity material shows the dentition in a glass on a cabinet by the side of one of the beds. But I suspect at least one of you would smell a rat. Anyway, onwards and upwards. Crack addict is currently doing jury service at a well-known Crown Court. Every day she gets through security with a stash of cocaine and a crack pipe secreted in her Covid mask. The other jurors don’t have a problem with it. In fact, they have elected her the foreman.

    And what have we here, Wallsters? The tip of the iceberg. The tip of the iceberg.

  619. ACW
    I’m always amazed at your knowledge and breadth of life’s rich experiences. Although I recollect that the lack of teeth, especially front teeth, can be an asset for those employed in the world’s oldest profession. Whether the tranny would have been more suited to the role of jury foreman we can only speculate. Equally so with the durability, servicability and ultimate customer satisfaction, or otherwise, of the constructed plasto-vagina that zie sports.

    In my time in Riyadh during the early ’90s I sometimes visited the Gentlemans Club run by friends Gary and Mary O’nions (for more of them see “Saudi Babylon” by Mark Hollingworth and Sandy Mitchell). This illegal bar existined on sufferance from the Saudi authorities, who eventually closed it down with extreme prejudice because of the embarrasment caused to the adjacent brothel and its eminent Saudi clientele by the inebriated expats at the Club goggling and cat calling the customers as they rolled out of their gold Rollers and Mercs into the arms of powdered queans and tarts.
    The cry of “Give ‘im one for me, Abdul!”, to the Governor of Riyadh from a biltzed Aussie pilot remains with me to this day.

  620. The Daily Telegraph report (“Nato warns Minsk over threat to
    EU border”. 9/11/21) identifies the former EU President and Opposition leader
    Donald Tusk as urging the Polish Government to consider triggering Nato Article
    4, forcing Nato partners to consider possible military action to stop Belarus
    from forcing 3,000 to 4,000 migrants across the border in the EU and no doubt onwards, in the direction of Calais and Benefits Island.
    No doubt the United Kingdom would be called upon to support any agreed military action.
    Any such support should be conditional upon France, an EU
    and Nato member, immediately ceasing and desisting from similar
    overtly aggressive activities in escorting over 20,000 illegal migrants to the
    UK’s maritime borders this year alone.
    Failure to do so sould result in Britain similarly triggering Article 4 against France.
    simultaneously those who have arrived here so far, should be seamlessly transported to Northern Ireland and told that a bright new future awaits them in Ireland and the EU.

  621. Andy Car Park, November 9th, 2021 – 13:00

    Not only handy for the Julia Middleton Academy (formerly Hendon Police College) but also for the Bang-Bang Oriental Food Hall, not forgetting the Hummingbird Kia dealership, and the Colindale branch of Screwfix. Colindale sounds like a veritable Sodom & Gumhorror!

    Your toothless crack ho will be quite at home in the company of the judiciary, I’m sure.

  622. I used to love the food hall which was there 10 years ago , I used to call in and stock up while working at silkstream just down the road.
    I didn’t realise it had returned as another food hall complex, it had been empty for a long time.

  625. Very good, excellent, EC, He’s on every Friday, it’s must watch for Baron, the man’s great, he takes the issues up to what can squeeze through without the woke fruitcakes getting their knickers in the double twist.

    The girl he had on is the editor of the Conservative Woman, a courageous woman, and gifted also.

  627. Have you noticed the difference in the make-up of the refugees reaching our shores and those in Belarus? The former are virtually all young men, no women or children, the latter seem to have predominantly families.

    This suggests the immigrants reaching Belarus may have got financial help, they were displaced into the countries from which they fly by the ME fighting, the host countries have no desire to keep them, they are a burden, they offered them money to leave.

    We were once contemplating a similar scheme, it makes sense, for a airline ticket the country frees itself from looking after the displaced families for years, if not forever.

  628. You should know Baron’s sobbing uncontrollably, has been since he heard the target for the rise in the temperature is not the 1.49degC he was hoping for because that’s the rise that would have saved the planet and all life on it, as it stands now what with coal being only ‘phased down’ we are all to die, perish, be no more.

    Sweet baby Jesus if you’re there, please have mercy kill us gently quickly and mercifully, thank you.

  629. Baron
    Don’t worry old chap.
    Just for you I’ll throw another two buckets of nutty slack on the study fire tonight.
    Now, can anyone tell me what an Alok Sharma is? Is it anything like a clucking chicken shwarma?

  630. Does anyone know how Bobo intends to power his £100billion (that’s peanuts Bibo! A mere bagatelle!) Northern rail powerhouse? The Croc69 effluent and effuevia perhaps?
    Or what its purpose is? Faster New Briton transport to the Grand Hotel in Scarborough or the Blackpool Metropole perhaps? It certainly won’t reinvigorate the steel, cotton, mining industries or create a new shale oil bonanza.

  631. Noa – 08:49

    Considering the bounty, courtesy of United Futilities, that gets washed up on Blackpool beaches then “throw another log on the fire” takes on a whole new meaning.

    Alok Sharma is an anagram of “Skola Haram” the militant fanatics that prevented the Swedish savant child from getting an edumercation.

  633. Baron, November 13th, 2021 – 21:38

    “Sweet baby Jesus if you’re there, please have mercy kill us gently quickly and mercifully, thank you.”

    I know where you are coming from on this, but it’s good to know that you are still with us!

  634. The bhagwad gita eh? Thoroughly soft and absorbent, or simply roll your favourite herb in its pages, light and e, hale….

  635. EC 13.33
    “Considering the bounty, courtesy of United Futilities, that gets washed up on Blackpool beaches…”
    Sooner or later the Brussels Overlords will work out that its cheaper and less embarrassing to Micron to ship the CaIajs DDs to the Dublin satrapy and ‘encourage’ them to walk over the borderless border into the new racial dumping ground of renegade UK.
    Or the dingy sellers of Dublin could just tell them,
    Heax East and aim for the Tower”.

  636. Of course it would be terrible to reduce the electorate and qualification to stand for Parliament to those of at least 5 generations of British citizenship.
    After all that would exclude half the present Cabinet and all the Labour Party.

  637. This weekend I found it impossible to not smile at Vladimir Putin’s chutzpah as he went on TV to blame his East German commie comrade, Angela Merkel, for the “migrant” crisis on the Belarus-Polish border.
    “After all, she invited them” [paraphrasing] he said by way of explanation. He can do a bloody good Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) impression at times.

    https://snipboard.io/l7R8CN.jpg

  638. My Spectator subscription runs out soon. I won’t be renewing it, perhaps aI buy the New Statesman or something else more right wing than Old Moores organ.
    Which is ironic, I’d looked forward to seeing his take on THAT supper with Jet Miles at the Garrick, but his normal weekly rant was missing. How odd.
    Instead the Diary slot was filled by the well known lesbian professor Stock, recently of woke Sussex uni, now Speccie Page 3 gal. She concludes that Speccie readers are becoming more feminist by reading articles by Joe Bindel (and her).
    So a Socialist openly glories in propagandizing in a formerly Conservative publication… Right. I might as well get my sewage straight from the spincter.. Dilay Wankyer please comrade!

  639. Erratum – Julie not Joe Bindel.
    Though if she can’t necessarily tell the difference between the contents of knickers and Why fronts what chance has the predictive text engine?

  641. Noa, November 15th, 2021 – 14:27

    Spectatesman: The Driscoll Bros, Frasier, Brillo et al have never had any of my money.

    I always thought that “Socialist Worker” was an oxymoron. However, the removal of the first and/or additionally the second “r” might improve its sales appeal in the modern world.

  643. I was passing by our local purveyor of printed wokery, and all other forms of fiction, this morning, and it had this as the centrepiece of its Christmas display…

    “Renegades: Born in the USA Hardcover – 26 Oct. 2021”

    “Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders-one Black and one white-looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favourite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for-and the occasional toll of-telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how their fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity. “

    Available from Bezos-land at only £17. (discounted from £35). It’ll be under a fiver at The Works after Christmas. Hopefully pulped by Easter, like Hillary’s effort.

    The thought occurred to me that the path to unity envisaged by the Dems was using the same business model as that employed by the Borg Collective. Anyhoo… It was the title that caught my attention, Shurely shome mishtake? Only one of them was born in the USA? I always thought that the guitar plucker was a Canadian, obviously. 😉

    One has to admire brass neck, the hypocrisy of these two multi-millionaires wringing their hands in anguish about the ever widening gap between rich and the increasing numbers of poor in Retardistan. I wonder what $million book deal they got?

    Toodle Pip!

  644. EC
    For sheer brass neck it’s difficult to beat that piece of effrontery, the Bruce and Barack show, pimples both on the great backside of humanity.
    Whilst wondering behind Mrs Noa this morning through Dobbies, the River Styx of of retired, blue masked public service wokemysts, I came across a bookstand containing the future classic “How to think like Obama”.

    Rather than suffer such a fate no doubt most of us would rather de-lobotomise ourselves with a souvenir teaspoon from Scunthorpe.

  646. Yesterday, in the atrium of my office, a blue-haired bufty was loitering. He was wearing a mask. When a lift arrived, he dived into it and demanded that I ‘get the next one’.

    He really did have blue hair and was by his own confession a bed-wetter. Sometimes, correlation implies causation pending a better alternative account which, in this case, I am not expecting any time soon.

    It is a box-tickers’ world and a bedwetters’ world. The bedwetters are always with us, like mould on damp soft furnishings. Only lately and with enthusiastic nurturing from the behavioural scientists, the mould has grown into a giant mushroom, which casts a chilly shadow over the world.

  647. Strange bloated creatures, neither fish nor fowl, man or woman, now infest our streets and local government organs.
    Wearing hair when not shaven, dyed blue and pink, their clothing would disgrace the staff of a boucherie chevaline: these future CEOs will ensure the bi annual emptying of bins, the creation of our potholes and the transfer of our council taxes to their gites in France and mansions in Mirpur.

  648. Matt Hancock looks like an axolotl. This is no coincidence.

    Do you know anyone else who looks like an axolotl? A newsagent? A railway porter?

    Never trust a man who looks like an axolotl.

  649. “We never make mistakes. We’re professionals. Now get back in yer house.”
    I suppose if Dick had organised the raid he’d have been shot full of holes.

    “Armed police raid WRONG house & drag terrified man out in his boxers”

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

    All that MANpower but Priti still cannot stop the dingys.

  650. Andy Car Park – 20:21

    Curious.
    Matt started off life as a champion swimmer… and the rest as they say “is history.” Could it be that time, for him at any rate, is now flowing backwards?

    Anybody spotted Kier Sturmer recently? Kier who?

  652. EC 10.21
    It’s difficult to have sympathy for the bloke.
    He should have dyed his hair blond, started a ball bearing collection, converted to Christianity.

  655. Noa @ November 19th, 2021 – 14:27

    You look for the number of views for the clip, Noa, that tells you how viable the new outfit is, how successful it will be contesting the seats. It’s the FPTP that kills it for any new attempt to break the two party stronghold, getting rid f it could be the quickest way of turning the ship of the UK around, other solutions may exists but if they do Baron isn’t aware of them, are you?

    The public seems to think the FPTP is just like the NHS the pride of the nation the envy of the world, it ensures easily our being in the shite and sink deeper every year, but that’s democracy, the collective wisdom of individual ignorance as Mencken once quipped.

  656. EC @ November 19th, 2021 – 10:29

    The best in the clip, EC, is when the man says he told the female officer they got the wrong house, she shouted back ‘it’s impossible, we’re the professionals’.

    On a serious note: He’s lucky the commander of the raid wasn’t Dick, he would be a corpse now unable to relate the story just like the Brazilian bloke on the London underground.

  657. Andy Car Park @ November 18th, 2021 – 20:21

    One cannot fail to get the impression, Andy, that you aren’t really a fan of Hancock, but to compare him to the pinky creature, singing or not, doesn’t do justice to the midget.

  658. Andy Car Park @ November 17th, 2021 – 11:55

    A scene from a country restaurant in an old barn, genuinely pleasant ambience, the place frequented mostly by rich farmers, their wives and mistresses from far afield, also professionals, quite pricey, excellent fish cake and crème brûlée, both Baron’s favourites.

    A group of six, amongst them a female probably more aged than Baron (who had already reached three score and ten ten years ago) insisting to have the mask on whilst eating, lifting it only as she spooned the soup, her only meal, others had two or three courses, she was that slow.

    On at lest three occasions the mask dropped just as the spoon was getting close to her mouth. It was a pumpkin soup, yellowish in colour turning her white mask the same colour. Rather enjoyable to watch, the boss wanted to exchange seats to cheer herself up, Baron refused.

  659. EC @ November 16th, 2021 – 12:52

    Baron may have been tempted to get the book of the two brainy people talking, EC, but he already has one.

  660. From last week’s Hansard, the MSM missed it:

    The following question was asked by the MP Steve Baker:

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s most recent estimate is of the covid-19 infection fatality rate.

    As of 15 July, Public Health England’s modelling group, with the MRC Biostats Unit, estimated that overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%. Making the Survivability Rate, according to the British Government, 99.904%.

    It must be the masks that did it.

  662. You may not like it much, but living in denial, as our specials friends say, isn’t healthy for anyone, it’s about China, rather the Winter jamboree to be held in three months time, everything is to run on renewables, the Full Monty of it, energy from renewable sources will fuel the 26 disciplines, the living quarters, the transport, the cooking and stuff.

    No wonder they’ve been suffering from shortages of electricity recently, just like us they moved from reliability to intermittency too quickly, they’re as stupid as we are.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5gbA4W2ts&t=358s

  665. Baron. 00.44
    Agreed Mi’lud. 33 million voters is a licences for FPTP dictatorship.
    I was delighted to see both Peter Hitchens in his column And the glorious Dictator Bojo Obongo in his Parliment QT in full agreement on the point that Britain was not a corrupt country this week.
    Well, not really corrupt, not very corrupt at all. Honest really, compared to Soviet Russia, or erm, somewhere else.
    Wallsters may enjoy Ditton on da decline of da West, or they mayn’t, doh.
    https://youtu.be/eZYoWfuBY0c

  666. It really important to send our vastly expensive and useless military assets to the other side of the world to protect the interests of the US and their allies, rather than deploying them in the channel to repel the islamic naval invasion.
    https://youtu.be/32ER0MO_MgY

  667. Noa @ November 20th, 2021 – 09:50

    Unbelievable what people employed in the public sector can get away with, Noa, the defence seems to lead the way, the money’s massive, perhaps we could save by buying from the Russians, the Chinese? But then all these engineering failures have done next to FA to kill the company’s attractiveness to investors, and presumably the management also, which is full of the former Government officials and apparatchiks.

    If one were to invest one dollar in 2000 buying shares in the following companies, the value of the stock in would be around:

    Lockheed Martin $1,236, Northrop Grumman $1,196, Boeing $975, General Dynamics $625, Raytheon $331.

    (Because the share prices move, the value of the shares is ‘around’).

  668. Please, do not interpret the following as another example of Baron’s admiration for the Middle Kingdom, you must know he’s been of the view that ‘it isn lt Russia that’s a military threat to us, it’s China that will get rich and buy us up’ for some considerable time. He continues t hold the same view.

    China is being kicked also as the biggest CO2 polluter (as if the CO2 was a dangerous gas anyway), but is it true? You tell Baron what’s wrong with the following:

    A country with 100 inhabitants will discharge more CO2 than one with 1000, all other things being equal, or to put it another way, a country with the population ten times bigger than another one will have to be ten times ‘cleaner’ than the smaller one to discharge the same amount of CO2.


    According to the Statista blog (google for it) China is discharging 10 668 million metric tons of the gas, the US 4 713 million metric tons, if one does the simple exercise of the level of discharge per head one gets China on 7.62 mmt, and the US on 13.9 mmt, close to twice the level of China. It shouldn’t surprise, the Americans, in population terms around 5% of the world, use 20% of the world’s primary energy.


    Anything long with the logic?

  669. Noa, November 20th, 2021 – 09:38

    Excellent link, thank you.

    Mind you, nobody can say that we were not warned about the current craze…

    Verily, the fortolding sic) of 42-ish years ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6-oE55vdM

    Now having watched that, I might need to re-screen my copy of Dr. Anton Phibes’ greatest works.

  670. Baron, November 21st, 2021 – 09:07

    You would have made a lot more money buying BitCoin.
    Elon Musk did.

    R.I.P. John McFee – another victim of S.I.D.S (ref: your post of Nov 20th – 01:19 )

  671. Baron, November 20th, 2021 – 01:14

    Ah, good man, you’re prepared for the next bog roll shortage then.

  672. Baron, November 20th, 2021 – 01:12

    ” the place frequented mostly by rich farmers, their wives and mistresses from far afield”

    CRIKEY! I thought that it was incest that was all the rage in Norfolk and Suffolk, not the bestiality to be found in some of the celtic border regions!

  673. Noa, November 20th, 2021 – 09:38

    Now that the great unwashed either can’t or won’t read newspapers the government is keener than ever to ensure that everybody has to pay for a TV licence. All the talk of them doing away with the licence fee tax is pure populist BS. It’ll never happen. Nadine Dorries blah, blah blah… kiss my arse!

    With the advent of “smart” TVs how long before they make it compulsory to tune in watch the BBC News? The government have plans to compel that the BBC iPlayer App is given prominence on all TVs and that it cannot be removed/deleted!

    Once upon a time one could be fined for not going to church on Sundays. Worse still, if one attended the wrong sort of church it could also prove to be terminal. I’ll get all my news and opinions at Friday preyers(sic) before I’m forced to watch the BBC News.

  674. EC
    Have you been counting, or even inhaling the vapour trails, from all those west bound private jets leaving Croc69 as you walk the Solway Firth looking for Inflatable borne ex-SNP refugees?
    Air Fart 1 would no doubt have been particularly aromatic…
    Anyway here’s the good doctor speculating on the Thatcherite institutional corruption that doesn’t exist in lovely unspoilt Britain, according to Bojo Obongo.
    Of course the blessed Maggie always had a blind spot for sibling crook Mark, and MPs like the rev Aitkin but wots a few kickbacks between family and friends?
    https://www.takimag.com/article/a-sorry-state-2/

  675. The taste of the air, the aroma, the density of its particulates is really something to experience, particularly prior to holiday weekends. Our tyreless local farmers working 7/24 to ensure that the visitors get the full countryside experience.

    Sadly, gone are the days when a plucky Jock used to brave the sands smuggling a bag of oats and a bottle whisky under his kilt. Also the traditional occupations of cattle rustling, abduction of bog women etc., have also largely died out. A lot of the old family names are still moving cattle business but these days they have fleets of HGVs, a website, and do it legally.

    I take my responsibilities as Lord Warden Of the Marches very seriously and I always make it a priority to bank the generous stipend payments promptly.

    By coincidence I did cross over the Debatable Lands into Nicola I’s realm yesterday. As I’ve observed on many previous cross border audits, the standard of social housing there is far superior to the hovels on the sink estates of Merrie Olde England. So for this reason I think that the human tide across the Solway will soon be in the opposite direction. Maybe the RAF should leaflet the French channel ports with this information? Let’s hope that they pick a better spot to cross than Edward I did!

    Ironic, isn’t it, that the accommodation daarn saarf previously occupied by British troops and their families is deemed unfit for refugees…

  676. As to the blessed BBC, I ran out of peans of praise for this marvellous home of government propaganda, selflessly paid for by we peons, some time ago.
    We can console ourselves with the banker of comfortable imprisonment at such time as we stop paying the propaganda levy.

    ttps://youtu.be/VTJ8AhpQy-8

  677. Wallsters may want to consider signing this Petition.

    “Stop Grooming Gang members accessing public funds to fight their convictions
    Grooming Gang members who have been charged, convicted and sentenced for raping children or other sexual offences are currently able to access public funds to fight their convictions and/or any deportation efforts. We call on the government to remove their access to public funds.”

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/590454

  679. Noa @ November 21st, 2021 – 14:47

    It would be of interest to add up the population numbers of the places Hussains surveys, add another (say) 15% or so, then get the ratio to the total population of the country. It wouldn’t be a firm indicator of what’s happening or is likely to happen in the future, but it would give one the flavour of the depth of the Islamic penetration.

    Otherwise the book paints a very optimistic picture, for the Muslim diaspora.

  683. Have you at least scanned the 08:20 posting?

    The one bit of the linked piece that hit Baron most is this: “Of note, hospitalisations, deaths, permanent disabilities, and birth defects were greater for 11 months of COVID vaccines than they were for 30 years of all other types of vaccines – such as shingles, influenza, measles, mumps, hepatitis, and so on” (and all that with the VAERS’s claim that only one per cent of the adverse reactions to c-19 is reported, an unbelievably low figure!).

    One’s told some four fifth of the total spending on one’s health (by the Government or with private funds) occurs in the last three (it may be two) years of one’s life.

    What if the vaccines are the tool to lower the ratio of the old costly geriatrics in the population? Not perhaps by design, the jabs may have been cobbled up to genuinely stop the pandemic, but by a lucky accident as the average age of those succumbing to the pathogen (or at least perishing having it in their bloodstream) is 82.4 years.

    Of course, the Government cannot say ‘look, what we are doing is reducing the spending on people who’re beyond their productive (as well as reproductive) time of their lives, it reduces substantially our total expenditure, hence has a positive impact on taxation, much less need for it, you the taxpayers benefit, it also takes a serious burden off any of you that have to look after a family member that often even doesn’t recognise you, it eats up your time, money, resources that could be diverted to other areas of your life or the life of your family (say) the kids education’.

    It may seem cruel, inhuman, almost criminal, but if one slices the issue of the old that ‘have had it’, people like Baron, rationally without any emotions, it cannot but resonate with some.

    Not everyone of course holds such a view, and thanks be to Him that such people exist, but consider this: Has there really been much of an unhappiness about the people that perished in the old people’s homes? Not a single demonstration under the heading of the many deaths in the institutions of the geriatrics, not a single high visibility petition for the House to debate the issue, no nothing that one would recall.

    There are some families that are more than unhappy, have been raising voices, contacting their MPs, but overall not on the level of (say) the ghastly Blair’s decision to invade Iraq which saw millions marching in London and elsewhere.

    Compare also with the issue of immigration, they tell us they’re doing their utmost to stop it, but it’s a lie, a big lie, it’s all yap, yap, yap, but any deeds to put an end to it?

    Nope, the illegals keep arriving in new record numbers even though the female running the Home Office has allegedly been ‘doing her best’ to prevent the illegals boating in for the last three year, amazingly her best has been ensuring that more of them are being welcomed daily.

    What other reason or reasons could there be for the overtly aggressive push on the vaccines? That they, the authorities, have committed themselves buying them, they are expensive, must be ‘consumed’, that they genuinely believe the vaccines help, that they desire us to get used to vaccines as the best tool to control everyone’s health?

    What’s the reason or reasons for the insistence we are all to get vaccinated then?

  685. Baron November 22nd, 2021 – 11:36

    “Have you at least scanned the 08:20 posting?”

    Yes, I did read it.

    “What if the vaccines are the tool to lower the ratio of the old costly geriatrics in the population?”

    No shots required. Today’s heirs of the great Hippocrates, the lack of service combined with the Crimean conditions in many NHS hospitals are doing a pretty good job without the administration of the magic juice.

    Who benefits? Follow the money!

    I think we should start a fund for the erection of a statue by public subscription of Harold Shipman in Hyde. He was a man before his time!

  686. Baron November 22nd, 2021 – 11:36

    Apropos of Harold’s magikk juice…

    A selfish thought, but one which should maybe concern us all …
    Now that the Yanks have abandoned the poppy fields of Afghanistan to the control of the Mandarin speakers where is the west going to source the heroin (morphine) used by some caring hotgH to ease our passage from this world? Can this stuff be synthesised? If so is it any good?

  688. Broadly speaking (and shortly, because that’s all the time Baron has now) when the pandemic began last year in a panic mode after mid-March we had few cases and many deaths, then came vaccines, so that now have many case, few deaths.

    Why TF do we have to vaccinate everyone? It seems that the more we jab the more people get infected.

  689. EC & Noa:

    An ideal solution offers itself, we marry our drug making with Afghan poppy growing and voila, our drug problem’s solved, the unwashed cave dwellers enrich themselves.

    On a serious note, the Americans are smart, they must have figured how to keep the poppy fields going, the crop is a must for a large section of the rEpublic, it mustn’t get starved of its essentials.

  690. The Narcos, farmers and Muslim fundamentalists will ensure the continued combined flow of cocaine into Europe and the US for fiscal return, continuing war against Christians and political gain.
    As to the politically manipulated Covid mortality rate, any death so recorded under WHO guidelines is highly questionable.
    Turning to the mass murder in Wisconson, I see the bail for the SJW and self identified Black activist has been set at $5m, that’s about $1000 per felony per victim. I suspect bail will be BLM and Antifa funded and he’ll be out today, to merge Axolotl-like, seamlessly into the many criminals of colour communities which are now the new normal there.

  693. Noa @ November 24th, 2021 – 09:08

    That’s priceless, Noa, if successful, as it must be, it should get rolled out to every corner of the country, whoever came up with it should patent it, then export the idea.

    Before entering any establishment that sell sustenance every burgher will have to prove first that he’s c-19 free by having two shots and a booster in the first year, four shots and two boosters in the second year, six shots …(you get the idea), then he or she will have to step on a scale, everyone over ten stone will be denied entry, given an hour lecture on how to eat properly to avoid getting obese.

    Having witnessed the reaction of the current generation of the locals to the lockdowns Baron reckons people will warmly welcome it, and why not it’s for the good of the country.

  696. Jens Spahn, German Heath Minister

    “Probably by the end of this winter, pretty much everyone on Germany will be vaccinated, cured or dead.”

    I wonder if by “cured” he meant salted, pickled or smoked?

  698. As the Monty Python song goes:

    “…Spahn, Spahn, Spahn…”

    Clearly Herr Doktor is an adherant from the Mengele school of scientific research.

  701. So far this year Islam has succeeded in sending a known two and a half fighting strength divisions to Britain, in addition to the division strong expeditionary force in 2020.
    Contrary to his professed hero’s bulldog-like determination to “fight them on the beaches”, our own timorous wartime leader has assiduously rescued, fed, clothed and housed the invading Corps, more concerned about their ‘tragic’ losses than our yet to be raped, e slaved and murdered children, bankrupt state, pulverised institutions and irrevocably destroyed civilisation.
    Arguably we would have fared better if Operation Sealion had been successful.

  704. Noa @ November 25th, 2021 – 08:36

    Enjoyable, informative and useful, Noa, thanks, Baron viewed it in the afternoon, didn’t have the time to say so.

  705. EC @ November 25th, 2021 – 08:27

    She’s certainly right about the power of money, EC, it’s what the guy in the 22:15 clip is talking about also.

  708. Baron 23.17
    What’s next?
    What’s left? Doe eyed Reindeer, soft pelted huskies? A lashing with the sledge reins?
    Alll coming down a chimney near you this December.

  709. The most worrying bit from the clip is the doctor saying saying the people that discovered a serious adverse effect of the vaccines decided not to publish the results for fear of losing research money from the drug industry, that’s criminal.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8t0qQ5R4I&t=100s

    Btw, have you noticed how many footballers are dropping dead? Weird this.

  711. Someone should dig up the Pennsylvania’s founding fathers, Penn, Rush, Mifflin and certainly the statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin. They will be pleased to see what happened to what was once a beacon of success, tolerance and order.

    https://newsvoice.se/2021/09/streets-of-philadelphia/

    What intrigues is how uninterested the passers-by are, they don’t notice the drugged at all, how peaceful the drug infested crowed is, and also the forward bending. Does anyone know what is the stuff that makes people dosed with the stuff lean forward but not fall over?

    This isn’t of course the whole of America, not even a sizeable chunk of it, but a problem with drugs the country has, who TF will take care of these people?

    Truly tragic, a close replica of the Chinese plebeians infected with opium in the 19th century except that the country’s different as are the people hooked on the poison, but could the reason or reasons in both cases be similar or even the same?

  713. Letter to my local newspaper.
    See if they print this one.
    The case for supporting the concept of global warming.
    Let’s forget Greta and all the other green fanatics.
    let’s look at the benefits.
    Are you having problems paying your heating bills.
    Worry no more, every time it gets a bit warmer your heating bills go down.
    Winter clothes expensive.
    Worry no more, a short sleeve shirt and shorts will be the new winter wear.
    Like eating out.
    Worry no more. A barbecue in the garden with a warm temperature means the outdoor life is yours to enjoy.
    France causing problems in the channel and disrupting wine supplies.
    Worry no more. Vast areas of southern England have already been turned into vineyards and many more soon will be.
    Holidays to see the sun.
    Worry no more. The travel nightmare of putting up with being treated like dirt at airports disappear .
    The sun comes to us.
    It’s time we looked at these issues in a different manner and instead of being terrified let’s look at the positive angle.
    Global warming, bring it on and let’s enjoy life again.
    John birch

  714. John birch.@ November 27th, 2021 – 16:18

    Good luck with it, John, here’s a bet, they won’t even acknowledge the letter.

  715. A revolt on the Spectator about the new restrictions, the opposition to it is close to 100%, one’s hard to find anyone endorsing it, the view seems to be it’s a prelude to a vaccine passport then the real passport (everything digitised of course on one’s mobile) showing one’s social score, each of us will be given points to spend for good behaviour, proper eating habits, the views we express and stuff like that, the driving miles will depend on it also, Baron cannot wait for this world of happiness and joy to arrive.

  716. Malfleur, July 5th, 2021 – 10:25

    “Listen Wallsters, you have to learn to live with Boris Johnson.”

    Not for much longer, reportedly. The 1922 committee has already received a large number of “letters of no confidence in BoJo” from Tory MPs feeling the noose of the next GE tightening around their necks. Only 50-ish letters required to force a leadership election. Lilith (aka Princess Nuts has already got her people in No.10 briefing against Rikki Sunpak, reportedly. Of course a change of leader will make bugger all difference to the death spiral of England, but it’ll take our mind off Boris and the Chuckle Bros, and their tired old Covid schtick.

  717. Noa, August 29th, 2021 – 18:15
    Visual capitalist. Another interesting site.

    **tps://www.visualcapitalist.com/

    Noa, November 25th, 2021 – 08:36
    Appalling sound, but a great animated graphic.

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2400-years-of-european-history/

    Yes that was a really interesting link. I didn’t realise that Lithuania had once reached to the Black Sea!

    Once thing that shone through like the proverbial diamond etc. is how stable our septic isles have been compared to the rest of europe! “We’ve” withstood a lot only to be royally rogered by a few inflatable dinghies.

  718. Noa,

    I was “down your way” this weekend and noted that, despite the snow, every man and his dog were out and about. Roads were choked and pavements were packed as the good burgers(sic) of Garstrange, Lancsterabbad, and Tyson’s Manor scrambled to do their essentially unessential Xmas shop before Boris & the Chuckle Bros get their choppers out again.

    In particular, in no man’s land the car park at Asda(Overangle) was like the mayhem in some dystopian battlefield survival game.

  719. EC November 28th, 2021 – 17:54

    ‘Not for much longer, reportedly. The 1922 committee …’

    Sir Graham Brady: the Bagpuss of attack dogs.

  721. I went to Berlin a few years ago. The highlight was Sunday market in Mauerpark. People selling cardboard boxes full of random crap (‘All or Nussink!’) and nasty little dogs running around wearing hi-vis jackets.

    Mind you, I counted the trip a failure overall. Our party included a business acquaintance travelling without his wife (a hatchet-faced Human Resources type). Sunday night found us – at his instigation – in a gay bar called Rauschgold, in Mehringdamm. I didn’t like it. It was full of sad little men in raincoats and a fat Teutonic barman with no shirt on. I tried to coax my colleague away but he was having none of it. ‘I want to soak up the atmosphere.’ So, about 2am I left him to it. I walked up the road paused for a couple of minutes, went back and rubber-necked at the side of the window. There he was, on the postage-stamp-sized ‘dance floor’ cavorting with the shirtless barman, having the time of his life.

    I walked off again, shaking my head and muttering ‘love’s young dream’. A married man this was, going over to Berlin every year telling Her Indoors that it was ‘just a few beers with [his] mates.’

    A jaundiced view of humanity is what I have of humanity, Wallsters, a jaundiced view.

  722. HEART-WARMING CHRISTMAS STORY

    There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job it was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about.

    The letter read:

    Dear God,

    I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had £100 in it, which was all the money I had until my next pension cheque. Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope.

    Can you please help me?

    Sincerely,

    Edna

    The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other workers. Each one dug into his or her wallet and came up with a few pounds. By the time he made the rounds, he had collected £96, which they put into an envelope and sent to the woman.

    The rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of Edna and the dinner she would be able to share with her friends.
    Christmas came and went.

    A few days later, another letter came from the same old lady to God. All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened.

    It read:

    Dear God,

    How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? Because of your gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day and I told my friends of your wonderful gift.

    By the way, there was £4 missing. I think it must have been those c*nts at the Post Office.

  723. The higher the vaccination rate the more c-19 infections, have a look, it applies to each and every country surveyed, the peaks in infections when nobody was vaccinated have been exceeded easily with new peaks when more than 60% of the plebeians got jabbed, and it would seem that in the countries with close to or exactly 100% vaccinated population the peaks in infections are the highest – see Gibraltar:

    The vaccines don’t work, in fact one may argue the vaccines attract the infections, the symptoms aren’t that painful because the vaccines may have been designed to lower the reaction of one’s immune system to the virus, it was the overdrive of one’s immune system that was the cause of one’s serious sickness or death if infected.

    Why are those governing us insist on more vaccination? Should not someone look into it? It must be patently clear to the medical profession that the vaccines are not fit for purpose.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/hard_data_shows_the_covid_vaccines_dont_work.html

  724. Andy Car Park – 21:40

    @21:40 I cannot put my trust in a man who goes in for teeth whitening, and allows himself to be photographed planting a tree. His majority of 6139 is not unassailable, as our local Corbynista apologist waman found out at the last GE.

    @21:46 Beware any Hokey Schtick graph especially the global warming one Penned by Dr. Fraudpants.

    @21:57 Without those nasty little dogs there’d be no Currywurst!
    Pity any poor bastard condemned to a joyless existence with a sociopathic hatchet-faced Human Resources waman!

    Best avoided these days, but if Berlin is compulsory then next time suggest morning coffee or afternoon tea at The Adlon on Unter den Linden. Used to be good spy spotting there. In the absence of spies there’s a really nice domed Tiffany Glass ceiling to look up at. Lovers of a good pun (lost on the krauts) and a chinky may care to dine out at the Ho Lin Wah restaurant on K’damm.

  725. Baron – 09:40

    “It must be patently clear to the medical profession…”

    Correct. It’s all about the patent$ and the ca$h cow that keeps on giving.

  726. Since August 28 this year till now, i.e. the three full months, the daily c-19 number of deaths has fluctuated between 23 and 266 skewed very much towards the former, the average roughly below 100 (say) 98, this would put the annual number of c-19 deaths at below 34 000 when the annual death total or the country is around 550 000 i.e some six per cent, other causes accounting for the vast majority – 94% – of deaths.

    It’s madness what the government is proposing, it will decimate many businesses, almost certainly the airline industry.

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+covid+deaths+today&client=safari&channel=mac_bm&ei=osCkYd_OHvKJxc8P49eKiAE&oq=UK+covid+death&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYATIICAAQgAQQsQMyDggAEIAEELEDEIMBEMkDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyCwgAEIAEELEDEIMBMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6FAgAEOoCELQCEIoDELcDENQDEOUCOgUIABCRAjoOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6EQguEIAEELEDEIMBEMcBEKMCOgQIABBDOgoIABCxAxCDARBDOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQkgNKBAhBGABQAFiHKWCJRWgBcAJ4AIABxQGIAcQIkgEEMTIuMpgBAKABAbABCsABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

  727. EC @ November 29th, 2021 – 11:34

    Correct, EC, nobody mentions the two new drugs (Merck & Pfizer) that are allegedly highly efficacious in helping to keep those infected away from hospitals, or ivermectin a drug that’s out the patent protection, costs pennies.

    On the Russian RT network they were talked to a female infected with the new variant, she was showing no symptoms, didn’t know she was infected.

    On the BBC they were quoting the numbers of people infected with the new ‘scary’ variant in a number of countries, all small numbers, but they didn’t say anything more about the patients, are those infected suffering badly? are they in hospitals close to dying? or are they coping just as the middle age female in the Russian bulletin that got infected with the new variant.

    Describing the actual conditions of the people infected with the new variant would tell one whether the new addition to the c-19 family is more or equal or less injurous than what we have been facing till now, Baron suspects they are not saying anything more than just furnishing the number of the infected because the new variant may be spreading faster but its less harmful.

  728. Baron, my letter to the local paper was a test because I seem to be allowed to state that the whole climate change issue is nonsense. I think they have designed me as the village idiot who has an alternative opinion.
    We’ll see what happens.
    The funny thing is the woman they get to challenge my opinion is the climate change ambassador for Essex.
    Which is amusing because she’s a friend of my daughter via a book club their both in.
    Needless to say she has no idea of the link.

  729. Baron – 12:35

    The WHO seem to have done a “reverse ferret” on the new variant in the last 24hours and now it’s the deadliest most contagious thing EVER! All the TV and Press have been orchestrated and are now singing from the same hymn sheet. The Labour party are calling for tougher measures – well they would wouldn’t they!

    It stinks, and we are being conned. The psy-ops “nudge unit” at No.10 must be very happy with their performing poodles!

  733. EC @ November 30th, 2021 – 07:16

    It is, EC, the word mad may not be fully capturing what has happened to us, and it happens to be a world phenomenon, a truly global loss of common sense does withnthe compassion for one next door that has served us well till now, the cliff fall is what we deserve and get because there seems little chance of our turning back, the next the final stage will be a surgical op installing the gadgets where our noses have been till now, that will be the end of humanity, the rats will take over.

  734. EC @ November 30th, 2021 – 08:55

    The last thing on the mind of the one in the chair is how to inch a pen, EC, but one shouldn’t be surprised it’s the tribe that furnished the world with The Good Soldier Švejk, the four plus one are his descendants.

  737. Hi Baron, it’s on the opinion page in today’s Colchester gazette without a single word changed.
    Headed, We should embrace global warming .
    Can’t wait for the response.

  738. This clip is in Russian, apologies, but you don’t really need the sound, the guy that put it together is the one Baron watches on things Ukrainian and Russian, is mostly in agreement with, you can skip the introduction by him up to about 1:30, he says in it he watched the first video by the same doctor, some of what the doctor said he found convincing, some he didn’t, then he watched another of the doctor’s videos, liked it, is showing it here, and as for himself he has been convinced for a long time that Zelensky imbibes coke.

    From 01:30 to about 03:20 the doctor introduces the topic, says he’s had over 3mn viewings already, a large number re-posted the clip, some 15% of those seeing it are defending Z saying the President’s tired, it’s on doctors’ prescriptions, the doctor that produced the video is the Kremlin’s stooge, stuff of this sort.

    To convince those watching the video the doctor seeks help in the US, he found 12 drug addicts there, will compare the effects of the drug on them and Z.

    You don’t need to get the full translation of the comparison, just watch it, the doctor describes what you can see for yourselves, he directs one’s attention to the eyes first, then the dried nose, followed by the touching of one’s head other parts of the body, the facial expressions are also alike….

    In the end the doctor asks anyone to make one’s mind up, tell him about it, stuff of this kind, and finishes by saying ‘the doctor is both a friend and the servant of the sick’, in latin and in Russian implying Z needs both.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16o2agow5Q

  739. John birch. @ November 30th, 2021 – 13:18

    Well done, John, the people on your local paper must be members of the ‘healthy core of Britishness’, don’t you think?

    The response will be of interest, although many have bought fully the incessant agitprop, few days ago, Baron attended a Thanksgiving bash, was shocked how many people have fallen for the imbecility, had an argument with one rather oldish individual whether the activities of the 7bn of the humans that generate CO2 (flying, cooking, driving, the lot) accounts for around 4% of the aggregate discharge of the useful gas or 40%, she said 4% was nonsense, it’s more than 50% now bla, bla … a bet followed, Baron won, she still believes in AGW, arghhh.

  740. Every council in Britain must with some urgency change also the traffic signals to accommodate the trans colours, not just green amber and red, but six colours starting from yellow (be prepared to cross), violet (soon you’ll be able to cross), blue (raise you leg to start crossing) ….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hte4uZYi8NM&t=79s

    As the great Joseph says one could help a good number of the homeless with the money spent on this nonsense.

  741. This is a small part taken from a piece that appears today in the CW, you can read the whole if you follow the link, it’s the first part of the investigation into gene manipulation. It’s worth reading;

    “The promise of designer medicines that edit the human genome appeared stillborn following the death in 1999 of Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old volunteer participating in the Phase I safety study of the first human trial of a gene therapy.  
      
    Gelsinger had a rare genetic disorder. A partially defective gene impaired the metabolisation of ammonia by his liver. When well managed with drugs and a low-protein diet, it wasn’t life-threatening to him, but he wanted to help others.

    A successful therapy promised to save the lives of baby boys with a fully defective version of the gene, who die within days of birth. 

    The babies themselves hadn’t been considered suitable participants by the ethics committee, as it was felt the parents would be unable to give true informed consent under such difficult circumstances. 

    A genetically modified adenovirus, the same platform used in the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, was infused directly into Gelsinger’s liver to deliver a normal version of the gene to its cells. The gene itself didn’t kill him, his body’s response to the adenovirus did.  

    Ninety-two hours after dosing with the infusion, Jesse died of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) as his immune system, thought to have been primed by prior exposure to an adenovirus, overreacted, causing multiple organs, including his lungs, to fail. An autopsy found the adenovirus had spread via his circulatory system into other organs, causing a catastrophic systemic immune response”.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/uk-led-the-vaccine-rush-but-did-we-know-anything-about-gene-safety/

  742. Baron, November 30th, 2021 – 22:16

    I enjoyed that, thanks. I can’t recall seeing a photo of Z before but from the body language in those video clips I have formed the opinion that he is a shifty bugger not to be trusted… although coke not necessarily required for that.

    A lot of comedians turn to alcohol to blot out their insecurity, however after his elevation to office with better pay and perks I suppose Z could afford better stuff if he so wanted.

    Makes me nostalgic for the comedic good old days when Boris Nikolayevich ran on vodka, and long before that when our own foreign secretary George Brown was ‘multi-fuelled’ in his consumption of alcoholic drinks.

  743. EC @ December 1st, 2021 – 10:22

    YOu’re quite right, EC, vodka has always been the poison of choice for the Russians, and not just the old Russian drowned in melancholy dosed with despair, the new generation of the arty lot everywhere prefers what the Russian call the Columbian stuff.

    Tell you what the danger is, the guy can start easily another conflict in the east of the country or in Crimea, Baron still reckons it will happen, the N-2 has to be stopped, unless the Greens that have important posts in the new German coalition put an end to the pipeline, Z will oblige.

    Not many realise the importance of energy and who controls it, for the Germans it would be a total catastrophe if the Americans won, the N-2 got scrapped, it would be the end of the German dominance in the EU, end of even a smidgeon of their foreign policy, for Russia not that a big problema, they and the Chinese are already working on doubling the gas pipeline from Russia to China.

    Btw, do you know one can buy vodka made from milk? It’s called Black Cow vodka’, it won a prize, it’s smooth, one can drink it naked.

  745. Baron – 10:54

    There are the seeds of further trouble everywhere in the former republics. The Russian speakers in the east of Lithuania are none too happy either. Their language and communities marginalised. It is even a criminal offence to possess a Soviet era Lithuanian flag there!

    Black Cow: The image of you stood knocking back a glass of vodka ‘in the nip’ is going to be hard to shake 😉

  748. You will not like it, but it made Baron laugh, the ‘precise’ use of some of the words (could one say the same here?), the list of things that was done to the America of old by their own governments is factual however.

    What the chap that penned if missed is the possibility of China taking over as the world’s top dog, imposing its culture and mores on others. The likelihood isn’t that high given China’s history, but one can never be sure.

    https://www.unz.com/aanglin/braindead-american-peasants-say-china-is-the-real-threat/

  750. EC @ December 2nd, 2021 – 08:09

    Is the sign above the facility the three inmates escaped from saying “Arbeit macht frei’, EC? We should be told.

  751. EC @ December 1st, 2021 – 13:59

    This makes perfect sense, EC, the unvaccinated will die having been infected, why waste a valuable poison?

  752. Baron, December 2nd, 2021 – 23:30

    Mao ensured that they’d eat just about anything. Things are not much better in rural areas today where a weekly rat is considered a meat ration. Three cheers for the CCP, eh.

    Capt. Scott et al would’ve lived longer if they’d eaten the expedition dogs like their Norwegian competition. Mountebanks! There are some things that an Englishman just won’t do.

    Where’s Noa? Escaped to his bolthole on St. Lucia for Crimbo, no doubt.

    btw. OMICRON B is and anagram of NO CRIMBO. (aitches optional, innt)

  759. I’ve just finished reading “Science Fictions” by Stuart Richie, a well respected (hah!) psychologist and a good, readable author. His basic premise is that science is not to be trusted, due to a number of factors, many o which have been previously considered here in passim, but including fraud, bias and negligence.
    The one scientific field which, curiously, gains a free pass from this intellectual decay and corruption is, yes, you’ve guessed it, Climate change!
    I’ve been charitable and I strongly suspect that, if the author hadn’t followed the orthodoxy his book would not have been published and his academic career,ime so many, abrubtly terminated.
    Still, it’s an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
    For numerous examples of the scientific chicanery, bais, unreason, lies and criminality he describes one has only to dip into “Climate. All is well. All will be well”. Written by Jeremy Neiboer and published by the Bruges Group it’s a succinct examination of the evidence for and against ACC. Don’t be put off by the numerous graphs and footnotes. Its 70 A4 pages are an easy, logical and convincing read.
    Buy two and make sure you give one to your favourite Granddaughter, that’s the one smelling of turnip soup and wearing her hair in Greta plaits.
    Next to peruse for the post-
    Crimbo dinner table debate is “Nett Zero”, A first glance Patrick Benham-Crosswell’s book seems a trenchant, dispassionate, analysis of the financial cost of implementing this lunatic policy for an already bankrupt Britain.
    Send any of them to Carrie, stick one in Wifrid’s sock, Pretend it’s a present from the Baring boys or the Bullingdon club to get it into Obongo’s hands. He won’t read it, but when he’s swinging on the old piano wire from a Downing Street lamppost at least he won’t have even the faintest excuse of not knowing why he’s up there.

  762. EC
    December 3rd 08.35
    It’s a dogs life init!? I remember being invited to share lunch, a bowl of stew, with some lovely Koreans by the banks of the Al Hair, in the shadow of the famous prison.
    Excellent it was too.
    If I’d known then what I know now I would have passed on that repast.
    Plus some interesting lessons on the perils of ethnic plagiarism.
    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-167/

  764. Angela: “Aufwiedersehen…. Pet!”

    ROFLMAO!

    GB News’ Mark Dolan maybe the archetypal media news presenter, his shittery almost on a par with any Beeboid, Skybot or CH4 turd mongers… BUT he really nails it here!

    His script is so good it could have almost have been written by me, except that there were one or two notable omissions. eg. 1. Pre 1989 the young Merkel was a small cog in Eric Honecker’s very large DDR communist party gearbox. 2. She hired disgraced ex Stasi people to police Germany’s very repressive “hate” speech laws. 3. Like most former Iron Curtain country penitent(?) commies she took to the EU project like a duck to water. 4. Germany effectively annexed the Netherlands on her watch by annexing its armed services. Anyhoo, enjoy this 6 mins47sec.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd0zHm73BM

    Mark shied away from referring to Germany’s new medical facilities, i.e. “repurposed” migrant camps, as concentration camps but I suppose that either the management or the legal beagles warned him off that. The whole MSM is silent on this… what is surely open goal?

    Mark Dolan and Patrick Christys make news commentary more entertaining in these dark times. Of course there’s always Colin Brazier for the serious stuff.

  765. Noa, December 5th, 2021 – 14:54

    Fear not, Noa, dogs are Halal but only prepared in the correct way, unlike the home brewed paint stripper favoured by some expats? Had you imbibed an excess the latter you might have needed the al-Ha’ir of the dog that bit you?

    Strange how lefties, and feminazis etc. won’t call out misogyny, animal cruelty when is done in other countries. Then things like sharia, burka, are seen as empowering wimmin, and the practice of canine-balism is cultural therefore sacrosanct.

    In defence of the Koreans then it has to be said that the Vietnamese and Chinese eat far, far more dogs. Now there’s cultural relativism for you!

    Peking, named after the dogs, has some of the finest Fido dining to be had on the planet, as our Rover report points out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7oe3MKNF0

  768. Noa,

    🙂 Morely and Price – wonderful.
    A delectable pie filling and and a delectable stuffing!

    I forget how many theatre critics that Edward Lionheart, played by the inimitable Vincent Price, despatches in that film, but Mark Steyn should take note!

  769. If Ghislanine
    Maxwell was providing girls under age for Muslims no one would raise an eyebrow in this country.

  770. John birch. – 17:10

    Yes, and especially the eyebrow of “Sir” (my arse!) Kia Starmer when he was head of the DPP.

    I don’t think that we great unwashed were ever supposed to find out what our token royalty and the world’s other ruling elites get up to. I’m surprised that Epstein, his Moll, his pilot, and also the complainants weren’t “Arkancided” before any of it ever became public. Complacency borne of arrogance I suppose.

    The Epstein affair like the Weinstein Hollywood scandal is just the tip of the iceberg, I’m sure. Weinstein’s and Maxwell’s show trials are meant to encapsulate, draw a line under, the 90% of stuff that hasn’t come to light. i.e. “No need to look any further now, chaps, as we’ve dealt with all that. All’s well.” Jimmy Saville was just the tip of the iceberg at the BBC. A proper investigation of the BBC is needed but it’ll never happen. If if did then the Met wouldn’t be able to field any proper detectives to staff it

    Like many other countries “establishment” of the UK is rotten to the core.

  772. EC @ December 7th, 2021 – 10:49

    The next step, EC, is to have the buffoon and not the Government to decide what’s right and what’s not, the man is the greatest danger to democracy ever, it this goes through one would have to think of emigrating to a genuine autocracy.

  773. Noa @ December 6th, 2021 – 09:55

    As the piece makes clear, Noa, it’s not just China, other Far Eastern tribes indulge in this ‘delicatessen’ also, distasteful and sickening as it is, Baron used to go to Korea often (the one in the south), was in a number of eateries that had it on the menu with other offerings, too, never had it, will never have it except as an alternative to dying from hunger.

  774. Noa @ December 6th, 2021 – 09:40

    To do scenes like the feeding whilst lying flat on the table, Noa, that would put Baron from acting, he would get sick even if fed the best beef goulash rather than bits if his favourite pooch, arghhh

  775. EC @ December 6th, 2021 – 09:23

    Are you certain, EC, the Chinese eat more dogs per capita than other tribes in that region? You may be right, as Baron said in reply to one of Noa’s postings, the pets eating is distasteful, but if anything it is the CCP that tries to ban it, it’s the plebs that indulge in it.

    The guy you link to is on Baron’s list, Baron visits his site regularly, he used to be positive about China years ago, then switched, left China, all of his blogging is now highly critical, he says of the CCP, but the dog eating blog proves otherwise, in other blogs he is lying, there’s one about the Chinese fishing vessels that allegedly fish in other countries territorial waters, patently untrue, (Baron doesn’t recall now the other ‘fake truths’, but there are many, most of them transparent, if you watch him regularly you can point them out).

    (Btw, Baron didn’t like him much when he was positive on China, he’s got a cold presentation style dosed with a condescending, patronising bias, that’s a feature that doesn’t appeal, he was like that when China was a miracle for him, Baron couldn’t warm up to him even of he and Baron were cremated together).

    This in no way suggest that China and her people don’t get to all sorts of harm to others, but one has to try and be objective, overdoing criticism is a bad as overdoing stressing the positive as many of the other bloggers on China are doing.

  776. EC @ December 6th, 2021 – 08:51

    It’s not deliberate, EC, but Baron has to disagree with this chap Dolan (and you) on Mutti, Baron regards her as the only statesman (or it it stateswoman) around, she’s erred many times, but she didn’t survive in the top job in the EU leading nation for 16 years because she’s a woman or whatever, but because she’s delivered for the Germans, and that was what she was elected for.

  777. John birch. @ December 6th, 2021 – 17:10

    An intriguing combination, john, what you offer, but alas the Epstein pleasure island was designed for other clientele, which will ensure we will never know who got to enjoy the sexual gratification when staying on it.

  779. This guy is a funeral director, readying cadavers for burial is his business, he should be arguing the opposite (only joking).

    What do you make of him? What does he know except the number of dead people he has to attend to, why doesn’t he put together few easy to understand figures, deaths from thrombosis last year against this year, stuff like that.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/OTvtHkCNzlNE/

  780. If you have over 30 minutes free you can listen to a man that some think is a genius, some not, Baron watched up to the point he was asked ‘what would you do to infrastructure’, he thought few seconds, then gave an answer that proved to Baron the man’s a definitely a genius, stopped watching.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSD_vpfikbE&t=55s

  781. This short narrative from the OffGuardian tells you how much the MSM poodles lie to us about the severity of the pandemic, the NHS crisis, and about the risk the unvaccinated present to the rest of the country:

    “As of last week (ending Saturday, Dec 4), NHS England’s own bed statistics reported that England has 4330 available critical care beds, of which 894 (21%) are being used by Covid patients, 2608 (60%) non-Covid patients and 828 (19%) were empty.

    So, England’s critical care beds are not even 90% full, let alone 90% full of unvaccinated covid patients.

    According to the UK’s Health Security Agency data (page 31 of this document) 6639 patients were admitted to hospital “with Covid” in the weeks 44-47 of this year. Of those 6639, 2355 were unvaccinated.”

    https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/06/coronavirus-fact-check-13-icus-are-filled-with-the-unvaccinated/

  782. This is the last posting by Baron, he won’t bother you again today, it’s the most intriguing or perhaps disturbing news about a statistical anomaly related to the recording of c-19 deaths, the first link is to the Breitbart piece that covers a surge in heart related cases allegedly because of the “post-pandemic stress disorder”, the postings below give a totally different reason for the surge.

    The other link is a u-tube interview, in it the Professor says something quite incredible, apparently deaths of patients infected c-19 occurring within 14 days of the first vaccine and those occurring within 14 days of the second one are classified as unvaccinated deaths (why, is it because a vaccine is primed to kick in after 14 days of one receiving it).

    If these deaths were classified as the deaths of the vaccinated, which they really are, then the vaccines boost the mortality rate rather than offer protection from the virus (since one can get infected even after vaccination).

    Have you been aware of it? Any observations by anyone?

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/07/doctors-uk-faces-up-to-300000-new-heart-condition-cases-due-to-post-pandemic-stress-disorder/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxkb2yhdLiA

  783. Baron, December 7th, 2021 – 13:03

    Have you met many white serf effrickaans, Baron? I’ve only met a few but they’ve all had a somewhat abrasive or uncomfortable manner.

    There is not one standard set of operating procedures for the English tribes let alone old Czecho, or the diaspora of the English or Dutch, German, French colonies.

    You do pose one very interesting question though… 🙂
    Given a free choice what one person would one like to hand out a ticket to ride, to accompany one down the old conveyor belt to the sound of heavenly choirs?
    So many worthy companions.

    The makings of new board game perhaps?

  784. Baron, December 7th, 2021 – 13:08

    Points of order.

    1. Nobody mentioned gender.
    2. From and including 2005 Federal Election, and onwards Merkel never won an
    election.
    Germany has had permanent hotchpotch coalition governments.
    From 2013-2018 the CDU/CSU were in coalition with the SPD.
    Imagine the Tories, UKIP and LABour party being in government together.

    Of course one could argue that coalition governments bring with them stability
    One could equally argue that they are undemocratic as nobody gets what they voted for and everybody gets things that they didn’t vote for.

    Anyhoo, what the hell, democracy is all an elaborate game of charades, Kabuki Theatre, an illusion… call it it what you like. I either won’t vote again or I’ll cast my vote in the most destructive manner possible… although I fear that I unwittingly did the latter in the 2019 GE. Better I just don’t vote next time.

  785. EC @ December 8th, 2021 – 12:33

    Baron concedes, EC, you’re right about both he retiring female and the coalition Government, Baron’s slicing of her is purely relative, the others are worse, and as for coalition administrations, if we could fugg up with single party governments for decades why not once or twice with a coalition one, remem ber it was a coalition Government (the boy Cameron and the ghastly Nick) that served us Brexit, unwittingly and with gritting teeth.

    Until 1997 Baron was absent from the land of the Brits, has never voted since, he would have cast his vote for the Nigel’s lot, they didn’t;t have a candidate here, this is such a solid Tory seat you put up a goat the animal will win with increased majority, arghhh

  786. EC @ December 8th, 2021 – 12:07

    That’s why one of his monikers is ‘the blue veined barbarian from the East’, EC, Baron unhesitatingly admits he would consume any flesh if the other option was death by starvation, no sorry, no human flesh, that would be a stopper.

    Did he tell you he once indulged in an un-cooked brain of a monkey, many decades ago, in one of the stan lands? Awful, no proud of it at all, but those were different times, and also he was drunk.

  787. Baron 16.07
    Who was drunk, the monkey?
    In addition to my suspected dinner of canine stew I have also consumed the proffered eyeball of a sheep.
    1. My boss had told me it would be considered very rude by our traditional host to refuse and might have severe
    consequences – for me.
    2. I had consumed half a bottle of Black Label at the time and suitably anesthesised to do almost anything.
    Oh well, we both survived our delicacies.
    I felt more indigestion in eating a rare species barbeque in Botswana than my rapid swallowing of the eyeball.

  788. Baron – 16:07

    Were they still warm?
    A delicacy in Japan, served at a special table. The highest honour awarded only to the top dog martial artists.

  789. Baron,

    I thing that the German psyche is ideal for coalition governments whereas the Italian one clearly isn’t. This is demonstrated by the longevity of their repeated attempts at coalitions. i.e. up 5 years for the conformist minded Germans and up to 5 mins for the emotionally volatile Italians.

    Up to a few decades ago I would have said that the ruggedly individualistic and freedom loving Brits, proud of their birthright, would not have stood quietly by and let the “government” systematically dismantle and remove their freedoms and rights which were hard won by their forbears. But it happened, It’s all very sad.

    Young people are different now. They know no history. You can explain to them what was fought for and what has now been taken away, you can talk till you are blue in the face, but they they either cannot or will not understand. It is all very sad. The future is theirs to live with, and I’m glad I will not be part of it.

    I won’t vote again.

  790. Noa – 17:57

    Low fat any very nourishing indeed!
    At least that sheep saw you through the next 48 hours…

  791. EC @ December 8th, 2021 – 20:21

    It was so long ago, EC, Baron doesn’t remember any of the details, and what he does remember has probably been enriched to make it more revolting.

  792. EC @ December 8th, 2021 – 20:51

    Agreed, EC, excellent points, but you may be too hasty to say never again to voting, what if Noa enters the rink, offers free roasted chicken every weekend for everyone (say) over 50, would that not be worth a punt?

  793. Noa @ December 8th, 2021 – 17:57

    One shouldn’t consume either, Noa, but the brain would definitely be more preferable to the bulging eye balls, arghhh, you, sir, are now, in Baron’s unconsumed eyes, an even greater hero than before.

  796. This stays on the topic of the country that has or may have dog stew for Sunday dinner, it’s not about it though, it’s about an Englishman that lives there, has has some health issues, breast cancer was the latest malady that he had to take care of, he talks about his experience with the heath care delivery both in the UK and in China, the comparison has little to do with politics, but you may like to watch it, it explains how the two systems, ours and China’s, differ and how they are almost similar:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YMIBhr2Sk

  797. Baron, December 9th, 2021 – 00:02

    “You should click on the Spectator, enjoy the bashing of the Blond Inseminator, highly enjoyable.”

    Well, they would be wouldn’t they, as Allegro is one of their own, and Boris has used her ass as a human shield. Cannon fodder! One cannot help but fell sorry for her but the “club” will rally ’round and she’ll end up with a nice plum job somewhere. Her first setback in life was to be named after the worst car that the BLMC ever made.

  802. When next you hear the science of global warming is settled you may like to quote the Austrian painter on a subject closer to his heart than AGW, but also about settled science, here’s what he said when interviewed by the CBS:

    “It’s clear why people are attacking me. They hate science,” said Hitler. “The science of Darwinian evolution and eugenics as an effective mechanism for the betterment of humankind is completely undisputed. The science is settled. It’s clear what motivates the people who question my methods. They are just anti-science bigots.”

    https://babylonbee.com/news/hitler-proclaims-anyone-who-attacks-him-is-attacking-science/

  803. @08:51 I forgot to add that in the wake of “party-gate” yesterday…
    That it’s always party time for the ruling elite of any country, no matter what privations the great unwashed are suffering. In the case of the ordinary Nazi on the street in WW2 they were getting his asses blown up nightly by the RAF and daily by the USAF. Meanhwhile the Soviets and CCP were well fed living large whilst millions of their people starved due to agricultural and other reforms.

    09:20 Good spot, Baron.
    Ironic that the madman was hell bent on eradicating the one ethnic group that would have given him scientific, engineering and military dominance over the entire planet!

  804. Baron
    In truth sheep’s eyes, monkeys brains or the dogs do-dahs should hold no fear for anyone brought up in Britain in the 50s and 60s. Tripe was a common meal, sausages, then as now, were made of earholes, eye holes and Bojo holes, only better cut. We gutted our own game birds, chickens and fish.
    Sheep’s heads were boiled to feed the dogs.

    09.20
    Nice to see CNN getting a great and very scoop and interview with der Fuhrer, a shame the craporter ended up in Thereinstadt. The next story, “Johnson, My Struggle with Truth”, by ‘Little Joe’ Geobbels

  805. Thank you Boris!
    No doubt your phased introduction of plan B in response to the Whitty-Ferguson Omnicratic pandemic was timed to be in perfect harmony with the start of 2021 Westminster, Downing Street and Millbank Christmas party and mistletoe snogathon season.
    Coffey, anyone?
    It’s a shame about Carrie and the sprog. Bad timing on somebodys part. Not yours of course!
    Even the Allegro can’t take the fall for that!
    Anyway, enjoy your paternity leave. Make it as long as you need. And if the job no lo get gives you joy, access to an unending selection of scrumptious trollop and bottomless wealth, admittedly mainly other peoples at present, then follow young Hals advice and give it up!
    Toodles!
    Your back bench!

  806. Noa,

    It used to be the proud boast of the management at the duck gulag and processing plant near Grimsby that the only thing that the only thing that got wasted, they couldn’t sell on, was the “quack.”

    As a child in the 50s I always wondered what into those tiny jars of Shipham’ meat paste, and what the crunchy bits in pork pies were – and marvelled at the ninja chickens that managed to drop their eggs in at the just the right time. It wasn’t until later I discovered the existence of “MRM” was whilst perusing the ingredients in a BOM breakdown list of a pork pie.

  807. Noa – 19:39

    e&oe above, btw.

    I must admit that I had to look up who “Coffey” was. Bears more than a passing resemblance to Maggie De Block, Belgium’s erstwhile health minister.

    Boris: This from two years ago. Far too affectionate to be effective…
    but still much better than the efforts of the tuneless, tone deaf Billy Bragg.

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

  809. EC 07.52
    The recently self disgracing Mike Harding, he who attacked Neil Oliver for his anti totalitarian/vaccination
    position, used to be more intelligent and bolder. I remember his non pc meanderings in aocal pub, now lo G since converted to a friendly neighbourhood madrassa.
    My favourite? His chat up line to a big boned girl in the waiting room room at Carlisle Station.
    “Evening luv, you dont sweat much for a fat lass, do you?”

  810. EC 07.37
    On gatherings, padlings and badlings, or just “oh flock!” as your average (if only) cabinet minister might say:
    “…if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it must be a (dead) duck…”
    https://mol.im/a/10294393

  812. What has changed for everyone, well close to everyone, including the sportsmen and sportswomen? Is the the air we all breathe lost its oxygen level, is it that Putin released a new command that has spread around the world effecting everyone, or is that the vast majority of people and certainly close to everyone in the sporting community got vaccinated?

    Answers on a postcard to no10:

    https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1457721238793687048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457721238793687048%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategic-culture.org%2Fnews%2F2021%2F12%2F10%2Fhave-professional-athletes-become-the-canary-in-the-covid-coalmine%2F

  813. On today’s ‘I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue’ a good quality humour, sadly Baron’s short memory is failing him, he can remember only one example, it’s under the heading of new additions to the Oxford Dictionary: ‘Horlicks’ – that’s what she gives you for about thirty quid.

  814. This was followed by the usual ‘The World This Weekend’, one of the items was a fast talking female yapping about the Russian Government ban on an organisation that was set up 34 years ago (in 1987 at the end of the Soviet tyranny) called the Memorial, it began collecting stories of those that had suffered under the Georgian thug, but also dealt with the legal aspects of the atrocities of the communist years.

    The current prosecution of it is based on the 2012 law that requires any outfit financed from abroad to say so prominently before either writing, broadcasting or showing anything, the Memorial refused to comply, the prosecution asked for it to be banned, about 30 people turned up to protest against the ban.

    The outfit has been financed mostly by contributions from foreign countries, the biggest contributors were Poland, the UK, France and Germany (no mention of the US or any of the Soros’s NGOs), it turns out Memorial not only investigated and archived individual cases of criminality of the old Soviet era, it also advised on stuff like history books for kids, helped to set up watch dogs over the institutions of the State, i.e. did have an input into the political sphere of the Russian society.

    To be frank, Baron had no idea the outfit existed, he checked, only one internet anti-Putin site had a piece on the ban, others didn’t and that includes the Navalny’s site, no a word on the outfit or the banning of it, which Baron considers a mistake, but in large part it’s a self inflicted injury, they should have inserted the wording required by law, followed the law fully, other anti-Putin outfits e.g. the Navalny’s blog have done it, are functioning, the Americans have a similar statute the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) passed in 1938, they jail people under it, one was Russian girl Baron forgets her name, she failed to register, was punished for it.

    Leaving all this aside, the item that preceded the fast talking female was about the outcome of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting on Ukraine in Liverpool and Truss, the booted female that’s our FS was warning Putin about the invasion of Ukraine, she also despatched a unit of our special forces there to train the Ukrainians, has never said a positive word about Russia, on the contrary regards Russia as an enemy.

    If we have been financing The Memorial, together with the other NATO members that also regard Russia as an enemy, what would the terms of reference for the outfit be? Would it not be logical to expect that the Memorial was trying to do what any sensible country facing an enemy would and should do – destroy it?

  815. Baron 14.41
    Excellent.
    Its interesting to see that external agencies (nations? Other organisations, state or privately funded can publish/lobby in Russia as long as they disclose their interest. Given the crapulous content of our media we would surely benefit from a similar requirement for disclosure of interest.
    After all, if we require it from our MPs, why not from all major influences? The danger is that, su influences being disclosed, we would soon habitually ignore them, as smokers do the health warnings on cigarette packets.

  816. £57b.
    That is apparently thee cost of the public sector pension bill.
    Given that its only about 9% of the government tax take even that seems low to me. Quangocrats and numerous other camouflaged parasites surely hover in the background, like blowflies on the rotting corpse of Bulldog UK.
    Still, judge for yourselves.
    https://youtu.be/1tPs757p3sI

  817. Noa, December 10th, 2021 – 10:49

    More Westminster sleaze and slurry!

    Closer inspection of that EBay advert for that mobile shit tank reveals that it was manufactured or at least supplied by “Major Equipment Ltd” of Heysham.

    I cannot remember the exact stats for human output but given that, by her own efforts, St. Greta could fill one of those up in a couple of months then it would take a whole flotilla, a Major order, to deal Boris and Carrie’s No.10 consumption of ready meals.

  818. Baron, December 12th, 2021 – 14:41

    That Rusky 2012 law is an excellent idea.

    eg. it was only by accident that we found out that the BBC received money from the EU. Who else one asks? Who does it, in turn, give money to?

    Not just the media, but all funding given and received by public bodies, NGOs, quango, charities, all “third sector” fake charities should be disclosed.

  819. We must understand that the success of the virus is not governed by any mere vaccine but the survival of the present government.
    If Omicron is allowed to effect nationwide immunity before mass vaccination occurs the Great lie is exposed for the sham it is and the politicians so necessary to maintain the climate of fear are revealed to be irrelevant.
    Do Wallsters belive that will be allowed to happen?

  821. EC @ December 13th, 2021 – 09:48

    Excellent, EC, but also mild compared to the US response to what the American Administration doesn’t like, they recently banned journalists to contribute to an on-line site ‘the strategic culture’, the penalty’s imprisonment, go figure.

  823. It won’t make any difference I know, but if you don’t tell your MP you want them to vote against the Tyranny laws today, they won’t.

  824. Brilliant idea, Noa, it’s done, but Baron’s MP a man called Cartlidge, a lapdog, he will follow the leadership even if his ar$e was on fire, but we aisle see, there will definitely be a response Baron will reply to, and then the vote. If he’s in favour Baron will give him a lecture.

  825. Noa 22:31

    Couldn’t agree more.
    The smoke and mirrors deployed for personal advantage.
    I find the gullibility of the great British public soul witheringly depressing.
    CRY WOLF again.

    This “one last heave” will destroy whatever last shred of credibility Boris, GPs and the NHS, the media etc. had left. Surely the great British public will turn on them all ‘ere long?

    Meanwhile, I would like to purchase a 20% holding in the Arkwright Piano Wire Manufacturing Company Limited. Many thanks

    Noa – 07:52

    A foregone conclusion that the FB up here will vote for them.

  827. Getting rid of Boris is obviously good but the cherry on the cake is the mad green witch he lives with goes as well which a is a far bigger prize.

  828. Andy Car Park, November 18th, 2021 – 20:21
    “Matt Hancock looks like an axolotl. This is no coincidence.
    Do you know anyone else who looks like an axolotl?”

    Morphing by the day, Chris Whitty!

  830. All last week figures: increase in c-19 cases (all variants) – up 27,268, increase in hospitalisations – up 308, increase in deaths – up 4.

    And for this the buffoon is killing the economy, mostly the sectors that rely on personal interactions or travel, many of them small businesses like restaurants, hairdressers, gyms. Lunacy.

  833. Who will save us from the French? They just banned everyone from England from Saturday saying they only did to us what we did to South Africa, and frankly they have a point, yesterday, a female that runs one of the quangos was yapping about an absolutely calamitous tsunami of the Omicron infections, one felt the whole country will expire before the day of His birth, she wasn’t challenged, in fact one of the comatose clowns that accompany the buffoon said almost the same.

    Are you ready to get doomed?

  836. Baron
    I’m not bothered about being banned from France, a nasty place but sadly I don’t think will we reciprocate by banning their raft invaders.

  840. I am happy to see that the five or six remainers at the Coffee House Wall are hanging on as the great tidal wave of the bullshit virus roils around them, in our country channeled.through the great anus of the BPC – the British Propaganda Corporation, a department of the.Ministry of Fear.

    A Happy Christmas to all!

  842. Noa, December 16th, 2021 – 14:17

    Un LOL encore. I wonder if “Lord” Sumption and Comrade Boot managed to flee to their Dordogne boltholes before M. Micon got his chopper out?

    Guillotine n. “A device that gives a Frenchman good reason to shrug his shoulders”

    Ambrose Bierce, “Devil’s Dictionary.”

  843. EC 11.00

    “it is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than his fellow citizens.”
    JM Keynes
    “General Theory of Economics”

  844. Baron, December 16th, 2021 – 11:43

    It was well crafted and not wholly un-amusing. So, not bad.
    Underlies what I, and many others, have been saying for a while now. i.e. that politicians and activists are now beyond satire. The COP26 pantomime/religious convention was a good example of that.

    Personal opinion: The sad thing is that I doubt if any of the rogues that Pie interviewed could give a stuff about our environment – not when there’s money and political capital to be made out of “climate change.” The corporatocracy own everybody. All the politicians, activists, media etc.
    Cynical? Moi?

  845. Malfleur, December 18th, 2021 – 00:06

    “A Happy Christmas to all!”

    Thanks.
    A bit premature perhaps, but not if you on life support?
    Hopefully you are still “free range” and enjoying the 28C.

  846. Perhaps Keynes missed the point that if you can tyrannise the populace you can augment your bank balance.
    And Marks Styenus reviews n the electoral smack in the face delivered by the wet exkippers of Shropshire.
    https://youtu.be/CtRCbCKCEgs

  847. EC
    Perhaps Neil has joined Sumption and Comrade Boot on a chevauchee through the madrassas and Mosques of the Charente-Maritime… ‘ 🙂

  850. Noa, December 18th, 2021 – 14:52

    Lovely bloke, innee.

    “on a chevauchee…” LOL!

    A few years back, when I had a Twitter account, Brillo was none too happy when I suggested that he bore a remarkable resemblance to the bloated Gerard Depardieu.
    I think he blocked me. No sense of humour these fat blokes…

    His from grace at Murdoch Intl. was the stuff of Shakespear. After seeing that famous photo of him in the baseball cap and a string vest, clutching Miss India, I’m only surprised he didn’t end up on the “ran dan” with Rab C, touring the bars of Govan and finishing off with a bottle of meths in Necropolis.

  851. Noa, December 18th, 2021 – 14:26

    Steyn is brilliant. I liked this comment…

    “I didn’t vote green… I didn’t vote for a socialist but I got Boris Johnson’s wife when I voted Tory!”

  854. Nothing premature about 18/12; only a pedant waits until 25.

    Poor old England; how I miss her!

  856. The best news of the day is Harry Miller’s c
    victory against the College of Policing in the court of appeal resulting in the abolition of “non crime hate crimes.”
    Here’s a heartwarming Christmas video delivered by Immingham own PC Santa Claus.
    https://youtu.be/LLp_Xf-B81g

  858. ‘Hell of a Book’ is a novel written by Jason Mott, he may be known to you, isn’t to Baron, the tome was given the National Book Award last month, plenty of reviews everywhere, all positive, as one would expect, the Amazon’s readers rate it at 4.3, a guy named Robert Collins in the ST Review gives it star qualities, he couldn’t stop laughing reading through it, he says, but also cried on two occasions when the police stops two black men and also when a ‘harrowing image of ghosts of slaves appear on the landscape of Mott’s native North Carolina’

    The only little bit of the narrative Baron could find on the internet is the following:

    “Laugh all you want, but I think learning to love yourself in a country where you’re told that you’re a plague on the economy, that you’re nothing but a prisoner in the making, that your life can be taken away from you at any moment and there’s nothing you can do about it — learning to love yourself in the middle of all of that? Hell, that’s a g–d—mn miracle.”

    Not having read the novel Baron should keep schtum, but this small extract makes one think, who’s TF telling the black people that they are a plague on the economy and the other stuff? If anything they have been given a preferential treatment for decades now, have been protected by statutes, are represented not just in commercials but in jobs in the MSM by far above their actual relative numbers in the society.

    They were unquestionably treated badly in the past, but not in today’s America, individual white Americans may still harbour prejudicial or racist views, but the system is skewed towards helping everyone but the white segment of the population.

    It’s exactly this attitude that divides rather than unites the country, the perception (say) that the black crime is the result of the black people being oppressed, seen as ‘prisoners in the making’ unless the portraying of the non-white segment of the great Republic as victims stops the country will not pull itself together.

  859. If you have the time spare few hours listening to the three lectures on IT, one on how it will change work, the other on how future wars conducted with or by IT will be fought (isn’t it weird to choose war as an IT topic to explore?), and the last one broadcast today.

    Not to bore you with the lot just one small example from today’s lecture, an important man’s has a birthday planned for the evening at 7 o’clock, the IT assistant tells him a Secretary General’s coming at 7.30, the forgetful man may be in trouble, but the IT assistant arranges for the Secretary General’s plane to develop trouble, the Secretary General sends our man a message ‘sorry, have to cancel the 7.30 meeting, will meet you tomorrow for lunch’

    The lecturer then says ‘the IT assistants of the future will have to accommodate not only our man’s scheduling but everyone in the chain, but never explores what he said.

    How could any IT assistant satisfy not just a couple of totally different demands, but a myriad of them. The Secretary General’s cancellation meant others had to adjust also, or what if the SG had a message about an imminent conflict flaring up the next morning, or what if a group of assassins planning to kill the Secretary General but unable to get the tools of killing for the evening flight, but able to get the bomb for the morning flight …. the possibilities of what the one simple cancellation can create are almost endless, the lecturers didn’t touch upon any of them at all.

  860. Thanks Baron
    I noticed the Reith lectures cover IA this year and I rend to listen to them over Christmas.
    Your comment can be summarised as straight line thinking and logic fails to recognise the human ability or defect of lateral non machine thought.
    Not that the robots won’t win of course.

  861. Baron 11.49
    If the Black mutants were clever they’d wait until they were more than a @15% minority before fomenting or being used in creating an inter-racial civil war.

  863. You may not like it, but the guy’s correct even if you think there’s nothing wrong securing the cotton and tomato markets for the US growers, kicking the Chinese and Mexican farmers out.

    The problema is retail prices of both produce will very likely be higher pushing inflation up as a result, a bigger threat to any society that a temporary capture of markets by imports, temporary because nothing even lasts, the Chinese near miracle won’t last either:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2yR1aQpK0

  864. Just had an interview on a pirate ship.
    The final question was, ‘What is the number 2 in Roman numerals?’
    I said, ‘I I, Captain.’
    He said, ‘You’re hired!’

  868. The COVID 19 conspiracy has provided many with unexpected leisure to contemplate the somewhat alarming size of the universe and to become acquainted with unfamiliar things such as the Higgs Boson, Leptons etc. even as we also work on plans to counter the globalists move to depopulation.

    A restful way station* on this hard road is, I have found, the work of Stephen Meyer.
    This talk, dated November, appears to be one of his most recent:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwa6LfZlGN8

    * Bach solo piano also does the trick.

  869. A Happy Christmas to all the Wallsters, to Peter and their families who from time to time land their inflatables on this beach and secure harbour to opine on the State of Britain and the British state.

  870. A Merry Christmas to those who still cling on here like barnacles. I salute your courage, your fortitude and your indefatigability.

  871. Did you know an apple pie in Jamaica is £3.20, £2.30 in Aruba and £3.76 in the Bahamas?
    Those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

  872. Even though it was windy and raining we went Carol singing last night. After we finished the gentleman gave us each a £5 tip.
    “That’s very kind of you,” I said.
    “You deserve it,” he said, “this is a lghthouse.”

  873. All the newspapers had an identical Pravda type four
    page Government Covid jab hamster booster wraparound on Thursday.
    I was reminded of this whilst enjoying Gary Grants performance as Roger Turnhlll in “North by North West” this afternoon.
    “In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only expedient exaggeration.”

  874. Merry Christmas Happy New Year and hopefully the 365 days that follow.

    Here’s something to make you cringe: You know the the difference between a snowman and a snowwoman? A couple of snowballs.

  875. Noa @ December 24th, 2021 – 16:16

    On the SkyArt they went through the best movies for Christmas, the number one was ‘What a wonderful world’ with James Stewart, Baron’s favourite ‘The Apartment’ with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine came lower, how could they do it to the blue veined barbarian?

    Unbelievable as it may be what with his advanced age and a list of morbiditiesas long as a roll of wallpaper, Baron has been avoiding vaccination, so far so good, no jab at all, and of course no booster, he has also refused to be masked, was reprimanded only once this week (left the shop), is it a miracle that he’s still breathing?

    Btw, he isn’t against masks, has a number of proper ones (N95), but would put one on only if he felt he was infected, it’s to protect others, most mask wearers think the flimsy piece will protect them, silly that.

  876. Noa @ December 24th, 2021 – 13:31

    That’s the sort of useful information that should be circulated as widely as possible, Noa, pity you left Hispaniola out.

  877. Andy Car Park @ December 24th, 2021 – 13:08

    You don’t have to salute, ACP, visit more often, that would cheer the barnacles up.

  878. What has happened to EC and Malfleur? Gone or just enjoying themselves so much they forgot about us, naughty that, they should be punished, wear masks one single 24/7, no relief at night or when eating and drinking, that should teach them.

  879. Andy Car Park, December 24th, 2021 – 13:08

    The Khasi of Kalabar: May the benevolence of the god Shivoo bring blessings on your house.

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: And on yours.

    The Khasi of Kalabar: And may his wisdom bring success in all your undertakings.

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: And in yours.

    The Khasi of Kalabar: And may his radiance light up your life.

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: And up yours!

  880. Andy Car Park, December 24th, 2021 – 13:08

    Seeing as you liked the works of Dr Anton Phibes, and Edward Lionheart (Theatre of Blood) then you’ll really enjoy Series(1-4 ) of “Border Town” on Netflix. Set in Lappeenranta on the Finnish-Russian. Best TV series I’ve seen in ages. If you ever watched “Pingu” then the Finnish shouldn’t be a problem and, for an educated man like yourself, neither will the Russian.

  881. The Saucy Season of Saturnalia and Good Swill is upon us!
    So good luck to all, and may the Lanprazole be with you!

    If your passenger is routed over the Donbass this Christmas then it’s probably goodbye.

  882. Noa, December 24th, 2021 – 13:31

    I remember that back in ’92 I was drinking Guinness in Bermuda, and it was cheaper than in my local pub. That on an island where absolutely everything, all imports, are taxed to death as there is no income tax!

  883. EC
    Most places, including Bahrain, sell Guinness more cheaply than in England.
    A Dubliner explained it to me thus:
    “It’s the curse on the English of the Irish and the Guinness family in particular Guinness family in particular, for shelling the Brewery during the Easter Rising in 1916 and leaving me Grand Da nothing to drink for months “. As to the executed Fenians he couldnt have cared less, ‘Grand Da’ like most patriotic Irishmen, being in the 17th (Irish) Division on the Western Front at the time.

  888. Outlander continues to satisfy. The English are being given as good a bashing as ever they received from Mel Gibson. Churchill’s summary of the traditions of the Royal Navy as: Rum; Sodomy; and the Lash” are echoed in the context of the Redcoats behaviour to the Scots summed up in Black Jack Randall, a Public Schoolboy if ever there was, and for that reason one’s heart goes out to him.

  889. Malfleur @ December 27th, 2021 – 04:00

    We shall not be moved, Malfleur, and Baron is a member of the ‘we’. Unless there’s a statute compeling him to get the jab he will not have it, he’s survived the last two years taking other precautions, has no intention to inject his bodies with a substance that at best useless and at worst detrimental to his wellbeing.

    Here’s what is helping – a massive dose of vitamin D, 3000 IU daily, 500mg of Quercetin, 1000 vitamin C, and bait of sink, so far so good, in fact this morning was the time for the rapid flow test again, duly registered with the Government, and what do’y know, it was negative.

    And now, read this:

    https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine?postId=4b6beceb-3fa2-45d4-9e95-3b96defba00b

  890. Baron 00:16 & 00:17

    Blasphemy on two counts!

    Strange how the loony luvvies aren’t too keen to include the prophet of Medina and Mecca in their “reimagined” religious works!

    Your fellow tribesmen brew some very and interesting beers, including the black beer of Prague, but… they still ain’t got nuffin to match proper Guinness.
    In other endeavours the French make some great cheese but they’ve got nothing to match Long Clawson Stilton.

    May the Resolve ™ and Rennies ™ be with you!

  891. EC @ December 27th, 2021 – 14:14

    Why should you mention the black liquid stuff again, EC?

    Since you did, Baron has a story to tell, when he was young, pretending to study, he had to pass a spoken foreign language exam, he chose Spanish, he had learnt it reasonably well (even if he says so himself) some five years before the said exam, never used it since, he had no hope to master it again in few days (that’s all he had) well enough to pass the test (necessary to graduate).

    A con was called for, he asked a fellow Spanish speaking student to translate into the best Spanish about three minutes of a spiel, something like ‘well, I cannot say I can speak Spanish that well, but talking about general subjects of every day life, even about, for example, Spanish modern literature such as doesn’t present a problem ‘…”

    He knew the first question the professor taking the exams always asked was ‘so what can you tell me in your broken Spanish, my friend?’

    And so it was, the question was asked, Baron began at once firing back the learnt three minutes in Spanish, the prof stopped him in the middle, wrote ‘pass’ on the required piece of paper, said ‘get the next one in’ which Baron understood (he spoke the tongue abit).

    Why this rather embarrassing yarn? Well, before the exam, Baron made a bid with a guy that suggested the con, the bid was Baron will drink as many glasses of the black beer as the guy himself if he passes, Baron didn’t really drink as many as the rival, he stopped at 17 of the black liquid mana (seventeen kriegals, that’s the word for it) in a pub called ‘Y Fleku’, got mightily sick, in fact it was the sickest he has ever been, and he’s been around for a while.

    Funny what life does to one.

    Btw, it turned out the third spoken foreign language exam wasn’t necessary, which made Baron wonder what would have happened if the good professor began probing, discovered the fake. Students got kicked out for lesser misdemeanours, would Baron’s cheating counted as such even if the exam wasn’t;t needed?

  893. Brendan O”Niell and David Starkey discuss wokeness, de-rationation. An invigorating, challenging, brilliant enjoyable minutes of a master of words and ideas.
    “All bad ideas are French…”
    “You have to be highly educated to be so stupid”.
    https://youtu.be/aHVgclU0b44

  894. As an English lad from Chelmsford between public school and university when I worked in a clothing wholesaler in premises opposite the Old Bailey, a long, long time ago, I drank in Hennessy’s in the Strand (for some reason the memory has it as Hennekys) under the mentorship of my fellow singer on the job, a certain Malachi Keegan. I remember one time, under the benign influence of draught Guinness, holding the pub rapt, I liked to think, with “Kevin Barry”. It was years later that I came to understand what I has been singing and where. But those were still tolerant times in England, before the Beatles, when an old folksong could lift the heart and bring diverse peoples together…

  895. “Outlander”. The action moves to Versailles and the levée of Louis XV, surrounded by his court, straining at an intractable stool.

    One of our two Scottish characters with the honour of being in attendance recommends porridge as a solution to the royal difficulties.

    “Le porrige?” questions HRH, puzzled but hopeful.

    This is surely an aspect of French civilisation which the court of Boris Johnson might wish to adopt – with BBC TV cameras also present of course à la mode.

  896. Porridge Malfleur?
    For the Macronites I recommend bananas, vigorously inserted and reamed, for their stoolling issues.
    As for the court of Carrie Bolyn, Arkwright’s piano wire is available at very reasonable, (though shareholder driven) prices to provide a traditional British solution to poor political and public service.

  897. Noa

    Starkey is good value!
    I just finished listening to his lecture on William Cecil: “More! More!” I feel like shouting at the end.

    It seems he has a new website and a members’ club. He invites questions and the bolder to take him to dinner. Let us imagine that the happy few had the time next year to do that. What would be the ideal restaurant in the United Kingdom for the occasion?

  898. An excellent dissection of the NHS by Peter Mullen on the Conservative Woman website, you may like to scan it, amongst the postings one that says:

    Abbie: “My mum has often told the story of how my grandmother would line up to pay her six pence for the family to be on the “Doctors panel” in the 1930’s when she was a child. It was normal to do that. For that money, they doctor would come out , all weathers, day and night and see his patients at home as required ( and the doctors did it!) Or , you could just go down and stand in the queue to be seen with lesser ailments. No appointments necessary.”

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/heretical-thoughts-on-the-nhs/#comment-5661611001

  899. Aren’t you missing Frank? Baron raised a glass to him on Christmas Eve (that’s the time of celebration for the barbarian), looked up some of his postings, the guy was truly great, such a loss, and not just to his family.

    One reckons stephen may also be no longer with us, all the others have disappeared too, telemachus though is still around on the TCW site.

  901. The Baron and Malfluer rightly and properly identify excellent educational and international relations reasons for the consumption of beer, arguably Northern Europe’s great gift tother world.
    To this we must add its medicinal qualities. A friend was successfully prescribed eight litres of Bavaria’s excellent beer to assist in his recovery from pancreatitis by his doctor in Munich.
    My own dear grandmother swore on the benefits of the benefits of Mackeson, (the English equivalent of Barons Liffey water), as a cure for anaemia in women in the days when they had lots of babies, subject to a red hot poker having first been plunged into the glass. ⁰
    It seemed to work and if it didn’t they had an excuse for the drinking.

  902. Noa – 10:13

    The attack on pubs started with the introduction of the breathalyser.
    Their decline was further advanced when supermarkets were allowed to sell booze, and cheap booze at that.

    The ptb do not want knuckle dragging rural gammons discussing the issues of the day in an unmonitored environment. Far easier and cheaper to police the internet with “bots” I’m told.

  903. Noa,

    I witnessed that Booths, Scotforth, had half price turkeys, ducks, chickens etc. stacked up in the aisles yesterday What happened the BRexmass famine that the EU Remoaners were prophesying, I wonder?

  905. Noa @ December 28th, 2021 – 10:13

    The guy is right, Noa, as is EC @ 11:27, who manages to furnish the reasons for the demise of the honourable institutions in just few sentences, years ago a visit for a pint or two was a must for Baron and his friends each Sunday before lunch (also on other occasions), he could walk to the pub, today the nearest one is about seven miles from his abode, virtually nobody comes at lunch time, the drinkery is likely to close as the two pubs in the village did years ago.

  906. EC @ December 28th, 2021 – 11:35

    The news reader on Classic FM this morning was interviewing a man, EC, who said the hospitality industry is devastated, no customers, the shop traffic runs at about half the numbers before the pandemic, apparently everyone’s still scared, that may explain the piles of turkeys also.

  907. Noa @ December 28th, 2021 – 10:41

    YOur dear grandmother wasn’t the only one, Noa, a neighbour of Baron asked for it as a present each Christmas, half a dozen cans it was, and nothing else, she never mentioned the poker red hot or not, sadly she’s no longer with us, succumbed four months ago, old age it was not the c-19, she was 94 and shrank to the size of a large doll, good soul though, Baron liked listening to the stories about her years in service.

  908. You recall that after the downing of the MH-17 (which is blamed on Russia, a trial is on currently in Holland), the EU, rather reluctantly, imposed sanctions on Russia, you may also recall Baron arguing the sanctions will bite the EU more than Russia as sanctions cannot work, have never worked against a country that has the ability to go for import substitutions.

    Before the sanctions Russia imported around $35bn of agricultural products including cheese, potatoes, apples, you name it, the most basic foodstuff, by 2020 the figure was down to $15bn, Baron cannot find what the imports of the stuff is in 2021, but he came across something that throws light on the impact of the sanctions. Not on Russia but on the EU.

    The European Union had filed a complaint with the WTO demanding Russia pay a compensation of €290 billion for its policy of import substitution, that’s right, the EU wants Russia to pay quite a hefty sum of money because the country went for import substitution after the EU imposed sanctions on Russia.

    You may also recall that some two years ago, the Americans imposed sanctions on China, a number of US companies are barred by law to sell certain ICs (integrated circuits) to Chinese companies, Huawei is banned for US networks also from the comm systems in other US vassals including us, the US government has been putting pressure on the Dutch government to ban the sale of one of the key hardware for IC fabrication (the lithography equipment) made by a Dutch company (ASML) to a Taiwanese company (TSMC).

    Here’s a prediction: In a couple of years we will hear about a similar import substitutions by China resulting from the sanctions, more to the point, we will hear the Chinese companies having a range of products superior to what the American companies, or firms from other countries controlled by the Americans can offer. If much harsher sanctions haven’t worked on North Korea, how on earth could anyone think they will bring to its knees countries like China.

    Madness.

  910. Harry Miller should be receiving at least a knighthood and preferably a peerage in the New Year honours list for the personal responsibility and very real ersonal and financial risks he took in the defence of all our freedoms.
    He won’t of course. Such tributes are reserved for such placemen and nomenclature as the Whittys, Valliances, Harries, Van Tams and the other freedom deniers.

  913. Noa – 14:36

    Thanks.
    Good lord! I didn’t realise that the adenoidal Lord Mullet of Wigton was still pluggin’ away at the Beeb. I must try and borrow a login.

  914. Noa, December 28th, 2021 – 17:38

    I agree 100%

    Also I think that HMQ (in her personal gift) should’ve conferred a knighthood or baron-hood? (or Aussie equivalent) upon Julian Assange – purely to piss off the governments and security (my arse!) services on both sides of the Atlantic who are killing someone purely in order to cover up their own ineptitude and spare the blushes of some high profile people.

    Btw, Is this how the CHW noble lord came by his title?

    http://becomeabaron.com/

    There must be vast buried seams of titles from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth waiting to be mined!

  915. EC @ December 29th, 2021 – 15:55

    What a grand idea, EC, the cost is negligible, the fame the title would furnish bottomless, should Baron go for it for he’s just a pretender.

    Baron invented the moniker, it began as Baron Pippin II, but it was too long, hence the shortened version.

  916. Noa @ December 29th, 2021 – 14:36

    An interesting broadcast, Noa, Baron couldn’t listen to the lot, managed about ten minutes this morning moving the runner along, from what he heard, the two learned men and the learned woman were somewhat too keen on calling the set-up a Republic, it was as much a Republic as was England after the unsigned Magna Carta, perhaps marginally better, only the landed aristocracy had a vote, a vast majority of the plebs were surfs.

    The whole thing wasn’t really a state as we know it, the size of the Commonwealth was rather fluid, the surfs didn’t identify as being Poles or Lithuanians, or Ukrainians or whatever, they identified as being from a given village, the village was owned by a lower aristocrat, or a biggy, the bigger aristocracy were called shlachta, some changed side at the border if it suited them, the Chmelnicky uprising (there were many others) is a good example.

    The difference between the England aristocracy and that in the Commonwealth was that in the latter set-up there were far too many of the landed gentry, small and big, just look at the lands, the Commonwealth was probably four times the size of Britain if not more where the Normans created a smaller number of big landowners, there also were however freeholders from before the invasion, over there, the majority couldn’t own land unless they had titles, either inherited or given, some parts of the Commonwealth were unclaimed, it was vast area hence the creation of many more lower order aristocracy, and the subsequent fighting where the more powerful took over the lands of the less able to fight.

    It wasn’t really anything akin to the Greek or Roman style Republics, the King was almost always the richest of the lot, Baron forgets why the Polish side lost, why the Yagelov dynasty got replaced.

    All in all it was the aristocracy agreeing to pull together to stop the infighting that went on before the Commonwealth got created almost without an interruption.

    The communist historians didn’t talk about the Commonwealth at all, the Chmelnicky guy was a hero in the USSR, he signed a deal with a Russian Tzar, if Baron remembers, because the Cossacks abandoned him and joined the Commonwealth, other nations got involved (Sweden, the Ottoman Empire), Baron forgot the intricate details, but Taras Bulba by Gogol furnishes a taste of what it was like to live in these lands in the 16th century, when the Commonwealth was still going strong, but wasn’t really because of a continuous jostling for power.

  918. This must be the first New Year celebration in the Spring, the temperatures topped 14degC yesterday around Baron’s abode, it looks today we beat that, the buds on a lilac tree are beginning to open, and the chorus of the birds yesterday afternoon was deafening, most of them were robins, for some reason the garden is full of them, cute and plucky usually fighting amongst themselves, but yesterday there were at peace, a good example to us humans.

  919. Baron

    It might even be 14C up here today, but stood outside in the 50mph zephyr coming up from down your way it really doesn’t feel like it!

    SIR TONY BLIAR, eh?

    Why now, and why not a peerage?
    Is this a portend of a second coming?

  920. Well Wallsters, a happy new year to you all!
    I don’t know about you all, but I’m looking forward to a year of total failure to do anything about anything by Bozo and his cabinet woodworm.
    The highlights are:
    The Indian cabinet legalises immigration on demand from India because the English are too stupid to do anything about it.

    February. first pensioner deaths occur following the necessary climate change infrastructure shutdown as commodity traders divert all gas supplies to the PRC-because they can afford it.
    New Tax rises are announced in April.
    Civil services decide to wfh forever with pensions peerages on request
    The Gareth football thing/person gets a Sir Toady for failing to qualify for the WC finals and complains about the heat.
    Carrie litters triplets in September.
    50, 000 new illegals secure boat allowances by September.
    The newest covid variant arrives on time in October and the country is duly shut down.
    December, the IMF steps in to rescue Britain from bankruptcy.

  922. And in December Carrie Chauchescu is found clinging to the curtains in the drawing room, from which she is dragged kicking and screaming and placed on top of Bojos comb boxes in the Removal van.

  924. Far be it for me to promote a turncoat like Farage who turned Cameron to insult the core of his UKIP supporters, but I agree that a major issue in 2022 will be energy costs and our march to the new Stone Age. Petitions like the one above and letters to our MPs urging abolition of the 25% fuel bill levies and 5% VAT charge are sensible activities.
    https://youtu.be/kqt8BBgVWaY

  926. James Garvey, author of “The Persuaders”, an excellent history of behavioural science which updates Vance Packard’s 1960s classic on the subject, “The Hidden Persuaders”, considers the HMG use of its aptly named SPI-b unit and the tools available to control and nudge the population into adhering to its will. Fascinating and frightful stuff, made no better because it’s all being done for our own good. This half hour radio programme is even more frightening because the people, technocrats all,doing these things gave not the slightest indication that their narrow field of interest might not be the only relevant consideration in controlling the minds and behaviour of the general population.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00127zc

  927. Noa @ January 2nd, 2022 – 19:10

    Could inflation cum high energy prices compel the ‘healthy core of Britishness’ to awake and revolt, Noa?

    We shall se what’s in the powerful animal when it stops hibernating and takes to the streets?

  928. Noa @ January 3rd, 2022 – 00:17

    If you consider it worthwhile listening to, Noa, Baron will, but not now it’s after midnight and he had more than usually busy day.

  929. Noa @ January 2nd, 2022 – 18:44

    Sorry, Noa, you thought of it first, Baron didn’t check before posting at 00:17

  931. Baron
    The Government always fears the plebeian hordes taking to the strand burning the tax office after lynching the more incompetent politicians and nomenclatura. How do we know they are incompetent you may ask? To which the answer is, they failed to see or hear the arrival of the lynching mob, suitably equipped of course with Arkwrights famous piano wire.
    Turning off the heat and light,and returning the country to the stone age will certainly achieve that. HMGs current feeble attempts to keep the lights on, such as a medium term £20 billion repayable subsidy to assist in paying massive price rises, will only defer the problem, as we know they do not offer any solution to the fortcoming energy gap.

  932. Noa, January 2nd, 2022 – 12:20

    Hades or bust! 🙂

    Noa – 19:10

    Farage got that one 100% right.
    However it goes beyond energy. The UK is not self sufficient in a number of strategic and essential items, food being the most important. Perhaps the UK would’ve benefitted from having had sanctions imposed on it… promoting self sufficiency?

    Noa 18:44; 01:15 & Baron 00:17

    Oh dear, Tone’s comeback bid doesn’t appear to be going well does it?
    Will this cause the City of London to think again, ya reckon?

    I don’t disagree with your appraisal of the man, or his many heinous crimes, but…

    Given that 90% of the electorate are not interested in current affairs, poorly educated and have got the memory of a goldfish, then how long do you think it will take the BBC, rest of the legacy media and big tech to brainwash them into thinking that Sir Tone is the messiah than will deliver them from power cuts and ensure their supplies of cheap swill, pizza, chicken nuggets and popcorn etc.?

    The City of London really is in a bit of a bind. Starmer, clueless & useless, heading a dysfunctional opposition, 90% of the HoC and Civil Service all incapable of organising a piss up in a brewery. How long before the Templars retreat to their underground bunkers to wait out the storm?

    “Interesting times” ahead, chaps.
    May the farce be with you.

  933. EC 10.23

    Fear not, there is reason for good cheer!

    Boris has discovered a perpetual money machine in the Treasury that only requires pump priming from the tax paying peasantry. Borrow all you want, just find the money wishi needs to pay the interest from the serfs.
    BTW isn’t Cumbria part of the Marcher lands, where trade is conducted in sheep and captured Scots?
    Have the pub landlords of Carlisle and Hexham not kidnapped enough marauding jocks from the new year cross border raids to re-populate the old Virginia colonies?

  935. What is this Most Noble Order of the Farter of which I am reading and is it an honour suitable for the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to bestow? The hill for the grand olg Duke of York to die on, perhaps.

  936. EC
    Obviously you’ve missed the latest missive from Useless Eustice, the Environment Spanner, since his deathless decree Bennington burning of wet wood he has promised farm subsidies to ‘re-green’ farmland, the concerns of the NUF chairman about food shortages have been countered by a promise of some food subsidies.
    So that’s all right then.
    Time now for Bojos jokers to create the next hobgoblin to scare the plebs witless.

  937. Noa – 09:42

    Yerrrs, the Boss brought that one to my attention. What with Useless at Environment and Gove at Deathra we are cattled, matey.

    D’ya think it was Princess Nuts that got given a copy of “The Wiiding” for Xmas a couple of years ago and thought “Aw, wouldn’t that be nice” without reading it?

    I blame Beatrix feckin Potter! Too many of these mollycoddled, soft southern suburban sloanes, trustafarian and hipster type were read this shite as children. Then, later on, the nonagenarian oxygen thief completed their lobotomy with his TV documentary voice overs full of anthropomorphic drivel.
    Grrr!

    “Time now for Bojos jokers to create the next hobgoblin to scare the plebs witless.”

    Yes, the No.10 Nudge Unit are no doubt on it. That and a bowl of cocaine.

  939. “Matt Ridley, co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19″, reveals the amazing story of the amateur Internet sleuths who found out far more about the Wuhan lab and the possible origins of Covid-19 than mainstream scientists, journalists and even intelligence agencies.”
    The New Culture Forum

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

    “This is a clip from Matt Ridley’s longer #SWYSI interview.
    To watch the full interview please click here: https://youtu.be/hHiFMpzg0Xc “

  941. EC @ January 4th, 2022 – 14:49

    You may not believe it, EC, there was a guy called George Webb (?) who mentioned the guano diggers years ago, he was employed by one of the top security agencies, left, had information so detailed it was inevitable he will get silenced, and he did, there’s no sign of him anywhere (at least Baron cannot find anything on him).

    Coincidence or what?

  942. A short piece in the Spectator under the heading: ‘Why England lost the Ashes’, one of the bloggers, Dry Thatcherite posts:

    “From Martin Kettle in The Guardian last week:

    “You know something is structurally wrong by comparing Gareth Southgate’s England football team, which often has five or more minority ethnic players and which is comfortable in its diversity, with Root’s side, which had just one player of non-European heritage this week. England footballers take the knee. Its cricketers do not.”

    There you have it – the cricketers didn’t grovel around on their knees enough. Sounds as shrewd an analysis as any other from that beacon of rectitude”.

    A witty man.

  945. Baron/EC
    Lord Ahmed or “dear Uncle” as the little white Tykes of his adopted home town know him are no doubt on their knees in front of him and his brothers.
    Praying of course, that he will open the batting for Yorkshire and England in the next test series.

  946. EC December 25th, 2021 – 10:30

    The only thing I know about the Russo-Finnish border is that, half a dozen generations after the electrified border fence was taken down, the reindeer will not cross the line where it once stood and warily graze the lichen a few yards away.

    The subscription service, Klassiki, is supposed to be good for Russian and ex-FSU films, although I don’t really have the attention span these days.

  947. Pay attention:

    You recall Baron telling you he had difficulties with his internet connection when he tried to get to sites that don’t follow the official line? Baron also talked about it with a BT employee, a software man who does nothing but works on the network, that’s his job, he assured Baron nobody but nobody could interfere with one’s connection, impossible.

    Read the start of the attached you may learn something (some of the Kennedy’s points are also interesting, you’ll find them below the u-tube clip):

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-01-04/banned-content-robert-kennedys-book-real-anthony-fauci-destroys-fauci-covid

  948. Andy Car Park @ January 5th, 2022 – 22:33

    You can add to your Russian-Finnish border stories the same one for the border between what’s now Czecho and what used to be West Germany, ACP, the deer just doesn’t cross. Funnily enough the border between Slovakia and Poland is no barrier for wild boars, they roam across it, pay no attention to anything a man used to put up, hogs are clever animals.

  950. EC @ January 5th, 2022 – 17:54

    How kind of you to look for it, EC, it beggars belief the paper still sells, it must be the ads of the Government agencies, it cannot be the pap, where do these people live?

  952. A few hours early, I know, but I’m told that’s ok. So…

    A Happy Christmas to you, Peter!

    Any chance of a new wall for the New Year?

  953. Thank you Baron
    Your 00.39 was interesting and witty, if I may use that much abused word in its more homely and familiar context.
    I notice the artist requested the removal of some of her comparisons, a pity as they are insightful.
    The difference between the long term view of the east and the short termism of the west is indirectly reflected in her vignettes. This also seems to be the problem with our respective politics and policies. The long term strategy afforded to the PRC, The short termism of the 5 year Western election cycle, though perhaps even that is changing under the primary influence of common purpose.

  955. Reuben Wade
    3 minutes ago
    A friend who is in haulage with a fleet of refrigerated lorries transporting milk, fish, and other perishables, told me yesterday that he has just been advised that permission to run the refrigerator units on agricultural ‘red’ diesel has been removed, and that he must now pay for full-tax ‘white’ diesel for the refrigerators. Food prices must go up as a result.
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  956. Some comments BTL on the DT’s latest Covid non-story.

    ‘Has anyone noticed that “Long Covid” is hardly mentioned anymore?
    ‘Maybe it turned out to be much shorter lived than expected?’

    ‘Obesity never gets a look in these days either.’

    I am tempted to add,

    ‘What’s buggery got to do with it?’ (Frank P, Oct 2010)

  957. EC January 6th, 2022 – 15:23

    Peter used to have some Orthodox-style sermons up on YT.

    I watched one and it was very cogent but at 20+ mins would have tried the attention spans of most congregants.

  958. Andy Car Park, January 7th, 2022 – 09:16

    Your acronym, WBGTDWI, has quite rightly taken its place within the anals of the blogosphere, its everyday usage and intercourse. It’s a legend.

    Somewhere in my offline archives I have the Guru’s emphatic response to your frequently posed rhetorical question. To summarise his reply, it was “Everything” – by way of explaining how people made progress within the prevailing political and cultural hegemony.

    @09:19 Yes, maybe better on a podcast but he’s a good guy.

    Where’s Old Long John Jefferson Burns these days?

  960. EC
    I always wondered where all the Jews in the Labour Party came from. I don’t recollect them going down t’pit in Northumberland and Wales, or striding manfully thrilled to build King Cotton, or operating t’Bessemer.
    Perhaps in the muddle and late 19th century there were some in the East End.
    However, as in the US I suspect most were 1929s and 1930s emigres from Germany and Eastern Europe, ideologically committed communists, Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites etc, who like the Muslims today, found a ready home in a Labou movement which was essentially national and patriotic, either than revolutionary and ideological and attracts the embittered.
    Their offspring follow naturally in their predecessors footsteps.
    The traditional committed British Labour supporter, semi orskilled worker, with a sense of fair play, vanished like the rest if the components of British empire and industry, to be replaced by the ideologically driven student activist, now in its third generation. The Harmans, Rayners and Starmers, carrionthat feast on the national corpse.
    I was interested to note that Maureen Lipman, who resigned from the Labour Party because of its antisemitism, gas fully adopted the tenets if BLM’s critical race theory, condemned Helen Mirren for playing the role of Golda Mier.

  961. Apologies to all for the many spelling and grammatical mistakes in my post of 22.55.
    Also if it may appear anti semitic, it is not intended to be. Quite simply, the number of Jews in Britain until the 1920s was very small and geographically my understanding is that they were located primarily in a few places, London, Manchester, Bristol etc.
    Though one exception I’m aware of is a militant, Manny Shinwell, who was inciting labour riots in 1919 against Sudanese workers ‘taking’ the jibs of returning Glaswegian soldiers.

  962. Noa,

    Some religious belief systems are a better fit for collectivism than others. Is this why the post WW2 mainly leftist media have such a problem with Christianity?

    Yerrs, there’s been an outbreak of mad cow disease in the acting classes. Or is it just petty jealousy, or has beens seeking a last gasp on the oxygen of publicity?

    I’m tired of these attention seeking, virtue signalling theatrical types. At best they are just adult pretenders reciting somebody else’s lines. Some are actually quite good at it, most are not. As to their mindset? There’s a obviously a spectrum, albeit hideously tilted toward the left end. At the worst end of the spectrum, which is where you’ll find the most vocal lefties, are the narcissists whose hubris and hypocrisy knows no bounds.

    As to Mirren’s now legendary acting credentials?
    Well, they’re better than Lipman’s, imho…
    😉

  963. Noa – 09:17

    No problem there.

    Isn’t it strange how even we CHW free speech enthusiasts seem to find ourselves “treading on eggshells” these days?

    As for the spag errors… you’re welcome to my crown any day, but I think you’ll need to work on it! 🙂

  964. I confess my 09.17 ‘jib’ mistake.
    It presages Savage Jabbit’s neo socialist policy of “No jab, no jib, no job”!

  966. Perhaps the main effect of the 1920s and 30s German, Polish and East European anti Jewish pogroms was to facilitate the virus like spread of Soviet Communist ideology throughout the Western world, the US, Great Britain and the Empire, etc that had not been affected by it.
    Gramsci and the Chicago school is the clearest example but there are others.
    Like covid the irreparable long term effects of the virus are now becoming clear as the world transforms…

  967. Baron
    A good article. It seems to be a summary of the main points in his book “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class” which I recommended a couple of months ago. Also, to the YT video link above.

  968. Baron – 11:00

    “…our democracy will become an increasingly hollow vessel.”

    Agreed but, in my living memory, was it ever anything else?

    Noa – 11:20

    Listening to the video now, thanks.

  970. Noa @ January 8th, 2022 – 11:2

    It is the same chap, Noa, what’s different is that the summing up of his argument is published in all there Spectators (UK, US, Australia), circulation of the three some 150,000, the rag so far a supporter of the woke if perhaps reluctantly, the readership about three times the circulation number, that’s something compared to the book sale of what 10-20,000?

  971. EC @ January 8th, 2022 – 10:48

    Talking about errors, EC, the predictive software on the Baron gadget will always change any two letters to ‘to’, Baron types it, the software changes it to ‘to’, any other combination of two letters is always ‘to’.

    The geniuses at Apple have looked at it three times, it’s fugging annoying, once it stopped, but an upgrade brought it back.

    Today, commenting on the book Baron wrote ‘serfs’, the fugging software changed it to surfs, Baron corrected it only to find that the bleeding software swopped the ‘e’ for ‘u’ again just before Baron pushed the button. If Baron had the money and the guts he would junk the bloody software together with the gadget. If another company brings to the market a similar gadget, and much simpler software without the fuggingly idiotic predictive software Baron’s on, 100%.

  973. According to a KPMG report, 162 people control about half of Kazakhstan’s total wealth.

    Bullough said: “Kazakhstan’s elite has been able to extract a vast amount of wealth and leave ordinary people with very little. And the primary enabler of that extraction has been the UK.”

    You can read more about how nice we are as a country to the rich here:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220109003109/https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/08/how-the-kazakh-elite-put-its-wealth-into-uk-property

  974. Baron 23.57
    I sincerely applaud your resilience and determination, other that I shall refrain from further comment.

  975. Baron 09.46
    Whilst I can (but don’t) empathise with the poor of Kazakhstan I do not feel any direct or indirect responsibility or guilt for their poverty or sense of responsibility for the wealth exported to the City by its elite. To do so is to accept the mad argument of the grauniad and the left that Britain has a responsibility to export and police ‘social justice’ not just here, but throughout the world.
    Its reference to the agitator Lammy reminds me of the Similar false logic and mad arguments see the return of the Benin bronzes, legitimate spoils of war, returned to the very descendants of the tribal leaders who acquired them in the first instance by the proceeds of slavery.

  976. Baron 23.57

    Noa – 09:50
    “I sincerely applaud your resilience and determination, other that I shall refrain from further comment.”

    I won’t…
    Baron, Even if it doesn’t save your lungs, it might take ’em three days to get the coffin lid down! 😉

  977. Baron – 09:46

    Ah, I see from the article that the Borat mob are friends of Tony Blair and Andrew Windsor. Imagine my surprise! Reportedly, there’s a luxury mountain chalet in Switzerland they might be interested in.

    What pisses me off is like everything else “government” does is that the laws only ever apply to the little people. We have to jump through all the anti-money laundering hoops to buy our draughty, badly insulated, jerry built little hovels (Lancs: mud huts) whilst the oily-garchy can buy whatever they like – bungs accepted and no questions asked.

  980. EC @ January 9th, 2022 – 11:11

    Absolutely agreed, EC.

    Baron just finished listening to a former PM of Kazakhstan, he now lives abroad says there were two stages to the protests, the first one was a genuine demonstration, the second a preparation for a possible coup, the President issued orders, the orders were ignored, he feared the same fate may befall on the Presidential seat as did Yanukovych’s residence in Ukraine in 2014, had to ask for help, but the help from Russia plus cannot last long, the people will think it’s an occupation, the Russian forces should only protect the key points like the TV station, railways, airports keep away from any cleansing of the streets, arrests, interrogations, that should be the job of the K’s forces, a sensible guy.

    There is already an explanation of the thugs that killed civilians and cut throats, these were allegedly Kazakhstan prisoners released on the Russian orders, equipped by Russia, sent out to attack ordinary people, the guy Sharij is covering it now, says how come that the released prisoners didn’t go home to say hello to their relatives, why no families that have members in prison haven’t come forward saying ‘our boy’s out, he said hello on the phone, but decided to go fight in the streets …’

    It’s not over yet, more to come.

  982. Noa @ January 9th, 2022 – 09:50

    Do you know how expensive the stuff is, Noa? Baron asked, gave up on the idea to save himself from c-19 swallowing plenty of Viagra, it would bankrupt him.

  983. A well argued piece on the Colston affair in the Spectator by Patrick West saying the course of history, hence the mankind, is inevitable, quoting a number of philosophers included the even paraded Marx, goof read, pity you cannot get to the postings, some are emotional as one would expect, some inject rationality into the case, Baron couldn’t resist putting his ha’penny into the rink:

    No amount of erudite, deeply scholarly dissection and wordsmithing can hide the obvious, Mr. West, the corrosive influence of the delusional righteousness of a group of people, however small and insignificant, on the nations’s psyche, whatever the defence may or may not have said what the four committed was unquestionably criminal damage, the motive that drove them to do it matters but not to judge the verdict in a criminal case, only the sentence.

    Had the four been found guilty but sentenced to be imprisoned for an hour, justice would have been carried out as it should have been, letting them go proves that even the ancient jury system has been corrupted with the disease of progressiveness.

    The verdict should be appealed.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/edward-colston-and-the-problem-with-the-right-side-of-history-

  984. Here’s something that may surprise and amaze you:

    Did you know that Marry Ellis lived in three centuries? Indeed, she did, well before the NHS was even thought of, this is what the epitaph on her grave in St Clement, Leigh on Sea, Essex says:

    Here lies he body of Mary Ellis, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Ellis of this parish, she was a virgin of virtuous courage and very promising hope. And died on the 3rd of June 1609 aged one hundred and nineteen.

    You beat that today with the help of the NHS, fully vaccinated and a booster on top, any volunteers?

    This comes from a book of epitaphs Baron was gifted for Christmas, the other books are more mundane, but this one is a joy to read, it’s only Baron’s laziness to type that prevents him to furnish you with more examples. One that isn’t in the book, is supposedly on a grave stone in Ireland, that’s all Baron knows about it: If John McMicky jumped one way, the tree fell another, he would still be with his mother’

    OK, another one from the book because it’s short, Dorothy Parker’s epitaph: Forgive the dust, please.

  985. Baron – 10:15

    Re: Sage, Jake, Milo and Rhian.

    Had a similar act of vandalism been perpetrated on the Marx statue in Highgate by a group of unemployed white working class lads then they’d have been convicted and been doing porridge for a number of months.

    That’s the modern cultural Marxism class struggle for you!

  987. EC @ January 10th, 2022 – 12:33

    Correct, EC, the double standard in everything seems to be the norm now, we bunker down, the anointed have a party in no10, we have to mask, the gathering of our governors goes on unmasked, someone critical of immigration gets kicked off the social platforms, someone calling for open borders is applauded ….

  988. What do you make of the drama down under? Would the Aussie Government treat the same (say) McEnroe? Novak happens to be Serbian, a country that’s a staunch supporter of Russia, could that be a factor in the saga?

  990. So does that make
    Wales North Korea with sheep
    Scotland Kazakhstan with needs
    Northern Ireland Austria with leprechauns?

  994. EC @ January 11th, 2022 – 17:19

    It was good, EC, but then the great Mark is good at these things, Baron watches him wherever he can, how long will he last though?

  995. The UK Column News today lasts over 90 minutes, far too long, but there’s a segment you should watch, it starts around one hour nine minutes and is about the size of the absolute risk reduction of catching covid furnished by the vaccines (that’s the officially recommend measure), or to put it differently, the absolute risk reduction (not the relative risk reduction) is the measure of protection offered to someone vaccinated compared to an unvaccinated individual.

    In the Pfizer trial 8 people out of 18,198 people contracted covid within the vaccinated group, 162 people out of 18,325 people contracted covid in the placebo (ie the unvaccinated) group, which means that the risk of getting infected is 0.88% for the unvaccinated, which the vaccine reduced to 0.04% in the vaccinated group.

    One gets the absolute risk reduction by subtracting the 0.04% from the 0.88% i.e. 0.84%. The vaccine is reducing one’s risk of contracting covid by roughly one single percent.

    Baron repeats: if you get vaccinated the absolute reduction of the risk of getting infected with covid is just one single percent, that’s it. Please, do watch the video, you will see it graphically.

    If you want get frightened not by covid you should also watch the first 20 minutes, fascinating stuff also, not about the virus but about the securitisation of natural assets, everything that you see around you (say) a stream of water, a wooded area, even the air, the sky, anything that nature possesses will be packaged as an investment opportunity and traded, a dream come true or a financial bubble that will bury us all when it bursts, madness far bigger than anything you may have come across even in the most futuristic novel. Have a good night sleep, boys.

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-12th-january-2022

  996. Looks like last week’s No-Vaccs Djokovic stories are already discarded chip wrappers.
    Those were the days, when fish and chips tasted better, wrapped in and served on old newspapers. Nothing like a bit of printers’ ink mingling with the salt, malt vinegar and grease on your fingertips. Wooden chip forks are an abomination!

  997. Baron, January 12th, 2022 – 22:52

    There’s nothing like a foreign war to distract from difficulties at home.
    As recommended by such notables as far back as Machiavelli and before him, Sun Tzu.

    Difficult to start a nuclear conflagration with China or Russia because of the inter-dependency of countries these days, no?

    Stanley Kubrick was a genius getting his comedic documentary film “Dr Strangelove” past the censors.

  998. The newly ennobled Corvid merchants are reportedly all off to their cushy pastures new. Rewarded for their part in keeping the population distracted and cowed whilst “The Swamp” (front man Boris) have been passing all sorts of nation wrecking eco legislation that nobody got the chance to vote for.

    As I said two years ago, “It’s not just about the virus!”

  1000. A massive camping about Chinese spies everywhere in Westminster, short of nuking the Middle Kingdom we will never be safe, but the buffoon will be safe if the diversion works, it doesn’t seem to in the DM, people can see through it, it’s such a cliché trick, they should have come up with something newer than a story that first appeared when the Romans left Britain, hehe, heh.

  1001. Re Baron – your crack of midnight post.

    The sentiment of your post reminded me of the following:
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
    H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women

  1002. Baron @ The Witching Hour

    @00:00 True, but complacency and incompetence of MI5 in the story rings true

    @23:56 The model featured, at an MSRP of RMB 459,600 ($~72,300), will be for the rich and CCP members only.

    https://electrek.co/2022/01/05/gac-aion-begins-sales-of-lx-plus-suv-with-1008-km-626-miles-nedc-range-for-just-over-72000/

    The era of owning one’s own personal transportation is coming to an end, I’m afraid. All the current and proposed legislation in the UK points to the end of the ICE in favour of EVs. The cost of these electric contraptions is beyond the means of the great unwashed, as is the increasing cost of ICE car ownership in general. Also, as the receipts from VED, Fuel Duty & VAT on ICE vehicles diminish guess what they’ll tax next!

    From the totalitarian standpoint EVs are great. They can be monitored, tracked and you will pay per mile for road usage. They can also be turned off at the stroke of a keyboard by some little turd in your local Kremlin. Also, when plugged in to charge up the electricity used will be debited from your soon to be announced household carbon allowance.

  1006. EC @ January 14th, 2022 – 10:20

    Sadly, you are right, EC, Baron will have ti relocate, there may be countries (in Africa?) that will stick to what works.

  1008. Noticed only now, it’s not ‘a massive camping’ in the 00:00 post, but ‘massive campaign’, the fugging software is unbearable, as it Baron’s laziness to check before posting.

  1009. The Spectator has a piece on the CCR spying on us plus other shenanigans by someone called Williams, you can read it below, no hard evidence just a mixture of suggestive innuendos, not hard proof, every country is doing it, the Americans spy even on friends (the German case), some of the information gathering is direct via the agencies of the state, some by proxies, i.e Soros. To pretend only China and Russia are up to no good is silly.

    One can perceive China as a rival, the country undoubtedly is a threat, an economic threat, but yapping about her undermining our democracy doesn’t get us anywhere, China doesn’t give a shite about democracy or any other societal model, she just wants to make money, she or rather the Chinese will deal with the devil to make a bob or two.

    That’s what we should address, that’s what will get us back to what we were before, de-couple us from the Middle Kingdom.

    What follows is Baron’s posting for the piece”

    What did Christine Lee, a lawyer, do exactly, Mr. Williams, or is your claim that (she was) ‘attempting to influence several MPs’ all the evidence you can furnish? You reckon it’s enough?

    Enough to kick the country which we still rely on not only to clothe ourselves plus considerably more, but also to supply us with the tools to pursue the Green imbecility.

    In the wilderness of the Suffolk countryside, not that far from Baron;s abode, there near the village of Snailwell a project is being prepared, a solar farm covering an area the equivalent of close to 900 football pitches. Which country is supplying the panels and the lithium batteries that will store the generated electricity when the sun refuses to shine (one cannot cover the panels with a blanket)? The name of the country starts with C ends with a.

    One may be forgiven to think that bashing China is but a cover for our continuing high dependence on her, there’s no willingness to de-couple for reasons which are not hard to comprehend, hence the camouflage of ‘spying, infiltration, and undermining of democracy’. Pitiful really.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britain-is-finally-waking-up-to-china-s-influence-operations

  1010. An excellent analysis Baron.
    It’s sheer hypocrisy to blame the CCP (but why not PRC? After all they are one and the same. Is it because its safer to demonise the Communist party rather than antagonise 2 billion nationalistic Chinese or?) for the blatantly atrocious decision-making of a succession of British governments that since the 1940s have squandered our national heritage and industrial and financial assets, culminating in the £2.4 Trillion direct and £7.5 trillion indirect (pension liabilities, commitments etc) tnat will reduce our status :international, social and economic, to sub saharanpur levels.

  1011. EC 10.40

    I always suspected that underneath the hard cynical epidermis, resided an unreconstructed romantic..
    Thank you for providing the evidence of this.

  1013. Baron
    Is that a castration knife the woman is wielding in her hand, or is she just pleased to see the Great White Father?

  1016. Baron – 22:13

    Should things have developed after the party then the combined weight of that pair would’ve been quite a mattress tester!

  1018. EC @ January 15th, 2022 – 12:43

    You reckon then, EC, there exists a mattress capable of withstanding the two engaged in passionate rodgering each other on it? Hmmm

  1019. Noa @ January 15th, 2022 – 11:05

    The former, Noa, to be deployed after the act not before, there isn’t enough of Johnsonites yet.

  1020. Boris Johnson visits a remote village in Cornwall to see if there is anything the Government can do for them.

    A rustic spokesman steps forth. ‘We have two needs. No. 1: we have a health centre but no doctor.

    Boris Johnson whips out his phone , turns to one side and burbles into it for a couple of minutes. ‘It’s all sorted. A doctor will be with you tomorrow. What was your other need?’

    ‘There is no mobile phone in this village.’

  1026. My comment about the healthy athletic specimen NoVaccs Djokovic above didn’t age very well. Not that it matters.

    It’s is very disturbing that the authorities down under are are encouraging the populace to vilify a minority of people, to deflect the rage they feel at having suffered two years of abuse at the hands of their own government, Stasi police etc. Cynical, as they wouldn’t allow the same treatment of religious or effnick minorities.

  1029. That the fear of war between Russia and the US sits on the top of the things feared by the Russians is understandable, but that this particulate fear is fully absent from a similar US survey is puzzling unless one assumes that it’s the corrupt political class backed by the MSM poodles (that occupies the top slot) that concealed the danger from them.

    http://johnhelmer.net/how-russians-view-the-risk-of-war-with-the-us/#more-47431

    One can never tell what Putin’s going to do about Ukraine, but the Americans may have overstepped the limit of what they could do without serious consequences, it’s unlikely he will allow Ukraine to join NATO or let the country to invite the Americans and their missiles, that would strangle Russia completely, the people of Russia would get rid of him, Stavka, that’s the military, would march into Ukraine.

  1030. Only a short one again, Baron’s too busy, if you’d ask him why he couldn’t explain.

    They have, on the TalkRadio this afternoon, the great David Starkey, he says he doesn’t believe either the buffoon or Cummings about the garden party, they both lie, but he also says that ‘since the 2nd week of March 2020 the Government has been in unending panic, that’s exactly what Baron’s been saying not so much here but on the Spectator’s site adding that since January 7 2020, when Hancock brined the buffoon, until the mid-March they did FA, hence the panic, the inability to cut loose from the state of hysteria.

    Why is Baron telling you this? Because he’s pleased the great mind of Starkey seems to be on the same wavelength as the feeble one of the barbarian from the East, at least on the issue of the covid response by the wankers that govern us.

  1031. Hi Baron, I was in your vicinity a couple of weeks ago to have a look at the packhorse bridge by the renamed packhorse pub.
    I didn’t realise there was a packhorse bridge of that quality in our area until I had a meal at the crown at Stoke by nayland which is now owned by the guy who owns the packhorse pub/restaurant.
    Ive driven past the end of the road endless times coming back from the north to cut across country to home via Clare and never realised it was there.
    Beautiful bridge.

  1032. Regarding your last post if you couldn’t see in the first two weeks that they hadn’t got a clue what they were doing there’s something wrong with you.
    It was nonsense from the start.

  1033. John birch. @ January 18th, 2022 – 16:23

    Agreed, they didn’t;t have a clue, John, still don’t.

    You talking about the Moulton one near Newmarket, correct, Baron was there today, Newmarket not the bridge but the crossing isn’t far from the horse racing town, you should have carried on to Sudbury admire the new name of the pub at the Market Hill, no longer Black Boy, how silly.

  1034. And they want us to believe them:

    DM: “The most up-to-date Office for National Statistics figures showed there were 922 deaths registered in England and Wales mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate in the week to January 7. Of them, Covid was not ruled to be the primary reason for the death in 210 cases, or 23 per cent — although it may have been a contributing factor”.

  1035. First the link to the most recent piece by Galeotti for the Spectator on the Ukrainian boil, then Baron’s posting on it, you don’t have to read either, it’s for the record.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-britain-s-antagonistic-relationship-with-russia-could-help-ukraine

    One thing is certain, Putin will never allow the whole of Ukraine to join NATO, the chunk of Ukraine east of the river Dniepr and down south to Odessa is populated largely by the Russians, no price will be too high for him to ensure these ethnic Russians stay within Russia.

    The current heightening of the crisis that has been festering for years is to bait Putin to invade, it would be the best pretax to use to put pressure on Germany to scrap N-2 for good, it’s all orchestrated by the duo Blinken-Niuland (the parents of both were Ukrainian Jews, a satisfying if belated revenge for the treatment of the Jewish diaspora in both the Tsarist and Soviet times), a wishful thinking to provoke Putin to have a go, he’s unlikely to blink first.

    What is amazing is that no Western MSM poodle covering Ukraine (or and Russia) has mentioned the current trial of Poroshenko, the former Ukrainian President, he left Ukraine allegedly for business reasons, Zelensky grabbed the chance to accuse him of treason (Poroshenko bought coal from the two rebelious Republics in the east) hoping he will not return, he did, wasn’t arrested at the border, came to the court without the police escort (as someone accused of treason should have), the judge heard the case from both sides, vanished for five hours, came back, said ‘no verdict.

    That’s all fresh, it all happened yesterday, nobody knows what will happen next, could an individual charged with treason be walking free? Poroshenko, one of the richest oligarchs in Ukraine with plants also in Russia, chocolate mostly, has plenty of supporters, it may well be his men will do a false flag op the Americans can blame on Putin, we should wait and see, weirder things have happened.

  1036. Baron
    I’d posted a comment (or thought I had, it never appeared), to the effect that Putin’s iron grip on the Ukraine and EUs’ and so Germany’s energy supply will be the deciding factor, not a military conflict neither Russia nor the West desire, though possiby Ukraine does. As Bismarck said “Its not worth the the life of one Prussian Grenadier”. Or British soldier either, unless we are prepared to throw our elite ISIS and West Indian divisions into the fray.
    “Turn the ghetto blaster up on them, Cyrus, while the Tower Hamlets battalion finishes preying on dem hostel girls!”.
    Anyway I’m off to put another £50 note in the meter, it’s getting reet cowd up North mlud!

  1037. By the way, if any Wallster is interested the Henry Jackson society is running a series of free webinars, with expert discussion, on the Ukraine situation ATM. Visit their site to register if interested.

  1038. I think that a perusal of the Wall and its posts sine January 2020 will show that the Wallsters have maintained a very healthy, caustic and informed scepticism towards the Fauci flu, its causes and the contemptible cowardly reaction of HMG in general and the GWF (Great White erm Father) in particular.

  1040. Noa @ January 19th, 2022 – 00:07

    Nobody may want a war, Noa, a real one with missiles, chemical to biological stuff dropping all over the place, but it may be impossible to stop any such thing happening if the animosity reaches a level where one of the protagonists feels he has to escalate because a loss of face is at stake, Baron would have everything but a war, a conflict of this kind would be unsurvivable, we can barely manage fighting one bug that’s not that dissimilar to flu, one cannot imagine what would happen to us if it wasn’t just one single virus.

    There’s absolutely no reason for the West’s animosity towards Russia except envy, a bunch of muzhiks shaking off the nightmare of the Marx inspired doctrine, bettering themselves must be the only underpinning of the adversary relationship, possibly with the Ukrainian diaspora still surviving mostly in Canada that got kicked out of the region after WW2 hoping to gain something, but what?

    You may well be right that it’s the energy component that drives it, but if Russia were to cut off supplying Europe she could u load the lot east, as Baron told you she is, together with China, doubling the capacity of the Siberia pipeline to China.

    For Germany, the feed of energy from Russia is indispensable, whatever anyone says, Russia has been supplying Germany, both the west and the east parts before unification, since the discovery of the Yamal fields in 1966, never any hitches or anything, losing this line of supply would make Germany even more dependent on the Americans for their energy needs, this in Baron’s view, would curtail their sovereignty because energy is the ubiquitous element not just for the economic machine of every country, but life in general, we don’t appreciate energy because it’s there, but take it off and we fold up.

  1042. imo: The Ukraine crisis manufactured. It serves the following purposes”
    1. Dementia Joe’s administration run by ex Obama staffers, is clearly not capable or organising a piss up in a brewery.
    2. Ofter only 12 months of #1 the Retardistan is disintegrating from within, thanks mainly to the communist inclinations of the extreme left “socialists” in the ironically named “Democratic” party. What better way to divert attention from all this other than to employ their tried and test default strategy strategy than poking the eastern bear and then feeding the innate paranoia of the Retardistani populace with stories of an imminent attack!
    3. The Arms manufacturers need a constant supply of wars to generate lucrative new orders.
    4. There are some nutjobs in the Pentagon who actually would love a war, if only for the fame and medals.

    Americans know precious little out the outside world, and that includes those within the DC Beltway and media bubble. They cannot fathom that not everyone thinks like them, or wants to be like them. They BS about “democratic values, freedom, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness etc. ” but every conflict they have started, or become involved with, in in recent decades has left those which they profess to want help (i.e. ordinary people) in a worse state than before they’d turned up!

    Obama’s third term running true to form though.

  1043. @ 11:36 omfg! please excuse all the e&o’s above.

    John birch, January 18th, 2022 – 16:23

    Agree. The synchronous howling chorus from the BBC, Sky News and CH4 confirms it.

    It has been rumoured that Tory back benchers who want Boris out are favouring David Davis, or In Liz we Truss. Spare us that! Definitely spare us Gove or Jeremy Hunt! Old butter fingers, Rishy Washy, maybe not; “Honest Guv, the £5billion just slipped through me fingers didden it just.”

    On this occasion, then probably “better the devil you know!”

    I’ve no doubt that Lord David Frost, a real conservative, could, if asked, make a much better job of running the country, but could he win the 2024 GE?

    Planet Normal: A very interesting and wide ranging interview with Lord David Frost.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFId3IUxH9w

  1044. Quote/Unquote:

    “BBC Radio Legend Quits After 46 years Due To Diversity Quotas & Woke Interference in Much-Loved Show”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QhNDtbmVlM

    Ironic that even the old guard lefties are biting the dust now!

    I stopped listening to BBC R4 after “My Word” finished.
    Is “Round Britain Quiz” still going?

  1045. EC
    Woke up, woke up!
    It’s a beautiful morning!
    At least GB news, (except for toyboy Larwood) currently provides a reasonable alternative. And whilst I’m guzzling my cold porridge and neeps I can always enjoy Julia Hartley-Brewster, whose very name evokes jam and beer, the Englishmans ideal breakfast combination whilst she breathes her bosomly, long-winded circumulocutions into the ears of every captivated listener!

  1047. Noa – 08:51

    … and on a dark cold winter’s eve nothing can compare to a kiln dried log fire, cosying up to a plateful of her dumplings. Or was that Nigella’s recipe?

    A woman not to be trifled with, dear chap. She doesn’t have a soh, imo.
    Once, I remember, one of EC’s flippant bon mots went down like a lead balloon. Made one of Verity’s excoriations(*) of old look like afternoon tea and buttered scones at the vicarage.
    😉

  1048. We Wallsters knew it, from our experience and inbuilt distrust and cynicism if nothing else. Like the Dutch boy, as Boris takes his finger out of the dike, the truth is being to flood out.
    Now it’s official. The ONS says the total covid death toll over 18 months was 17300, not the contrived figure of 150,000.

    https://youtu.be/U90eDxJV_9k

  1049. EC

    Ooh er missus! Wot were you saying to Nigella’s Brewsters! Nothing risible I hope!
    She ranks with the highest you know!

  1050. Baron, January 19th, 2022 – 10:47

    I was thinking of the comment made by the babushka that “Bald” encountered on his tour of the Donbass last year. “When the landlords fight, it’s the tenants that always suffer.” Much of the Donbass region looked like a gulag, starved of funding by corruption and/or prejudice against ethnic Russians.

    I dug out and watched my DVD of “Dr Strangelove” last night. I’d forgotten how good it was. A magnificent cast and a brilliant script, but when one analyses the folly of human conflict then the Black Comedy writes itself, no?

  1051. Noa – 10:18

    Sorry for the confusion. It was “the Brewster” that I in all innocence triggered when, after she’d got a bit over excitable about a topic, I asked her if she’d been channelling her “inner Katie Hopkins.” The response was ballistic! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Nigella is, of course, a goddess.

  1055. Noa @ January 20th, 2022 – 10:52

    If this is true, it’s appalling, what skills could these newcomers possess, what language ability they have, admittedly, it was some time ago, Baron met a couple on his walks, the man’s mother was in a hospital, she was being transferred from one section to another, the guy doing the pushing of the chair spoke virtually no English, she told him she needed to go to the toilet, he didn’t understand her, an unpleasant event happened in front of the people visiting the hospital, the mother was very much distressed.

    This may not be happening often, but when one hears some of the immigrants on the TV it’s often hard to figure what they are talking about.

  1056. EC @ January 20th, 2022 – 10:39

    It’s truly appalling there, EC, the Americans have furnished a lot of money since 2014, but virtually all the loans and other financial assistance have gone towards Ukraine buying military gear, the plebeians got nothing.

  1057. Noa @ January 20th, 2022 – 10:09

    But the MSM poodles ignore the figure of 17,371, Noa, you will find it nowhere, it’s as if it wasn’t released, were they told not to talk about it?

  1058. Even though Tucker appears to have swallowed “The {{{RUSSIANS}}} Are Coming!” narrative I had to chuckle about a piece he ran last night on borders. His argument was the Bi-Dem admin care more about Ukraine’s borders and territorial integrity than their own southern border with Mexico which, to all intents and purposes, no longer exists.

  1059. Boat people: The boats are the problem.

    I was watching footage of another Border Force mid channel “rescue” mission coming into port last night. (GB News) The inflatable dinghy and outboard moteur being towed in looked top quality and brand spanking new!

    Q. What happens to these craft once landed in the UK?

    Surely they are destroyed. Please tell me that they are destroyed, or does Priti put
    them on a lorry and send them back to France?

    The RN will obviously not shoot these boats and their occupants out of the water mid channel, but why not make obtaining these craft and their moteurs impossible or prohibitively expensive in the first place? i.e. target the sales, distribution and Mfg outlets of these items?

    Just saying…

  1061. EC @ January 21st, 2022 – 09:40

    Tucket’s great, EC, but he sees everything through the eyes of an ordinary American, fair, tolerant, balanced, but an American nevertheless.

    Here’s something you may like to peruse, the first is a piece from the Unz site, it’s short, almost at the end he links to a site run by a guy called Doctorow, do click on it, read what D says but definitely read also a reply to him, the first one by Soloview, other responses are also of interest by the one from S shows the guy knows what he’s talking about.

    For what it’s worth, Baron reckons Putin wants to avoid a conflict in the east of Ukraine at all costs, the last thing he needs is dead bodies, that will be the ammunition the Americans and their MSM poodles need to rouse the ‘world opinion’ against Russia that will be blamed for the corpses, the ‘world opinion’ will then be directed at Germany to scrap the N-2.

    Nobody sees it that way, Baron seems to be the only one, but if you look what the Americans have done to disrupt, slow down, mess up the construction of the pipeline it gives you the importance the attach to the project, whoever controls the energy supply for Germany (and the EU) controls Germany (and the EU), that’s what it’s all about, Ukraine is but a pawn in the great game of Europe energy control.

    Here’s what Baron wanted to post as an answer to Soloview’s posting, but didn’t, one has to register, Baron didn’t want to do it, he has trouble already visiting some of the offshore sites, the internet connection keeps failing.

    “Excellent points, Mr. Soloview, but:

    Russia doesn’t have to have any plans to invade Ukraine as a whole currently, will certainly not invade unless provoked, and then only to protect the Donbas region, it’s very unlikely Putin craves for the rest of the country, it’s only the Western agitprop that has planted the idea of Putin’s taking over the dysfunctional country of 40 millions of, sadly, impoverished people.

    Had he wanted to take over Ukraine he would have done so when Yanukovych was governing, most of any productive capacity of Ukraine sits in the east anyway, Donbas is the core of it, cranes are already visible there, Russia’s building the region up, the rest of Ukraine would best serve him as a buffer between the NATO West and Russia.

    Ukraine is not a NATO member yet, may not become one anyway, not all current NATO members will nod her through, Germany for one is likely to oppose the Ukrainian membership, the country (and with it the EU which Germany controls) will not want to lose the growing importance of China for its strong position in cars and stuff. China is the place where the future money will be made for the German corporates, the Chinese retail market is twice the size of that of the EU and the US combined.

    Neither will Germany want to antagonise Russia, the supplier of her fossil fuels, to switch to other sources of supply would be hard, nobody invests in this field because of the zero carbon imbecility, but even if a new investment by the Americans were to come in, the gas would be by far more expensive.

    Should it become probable that NATO absorbs Ukraine no price will be too high for Putin (if he still sits in the Kremlin) to go in, every leader of Russia worth the name would do the same”.

    https://www.unz.com/article/russia-ukraine-et-al-what-next/

    This is another piece that covers the same issue, it seems that everyone’s speculating, we must check what out omni-potent resident, Mr. Boot and his sidekick are saying.

    https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2021/08/12/can-they-learn-another-us-wargame-defeat/

  1062. Noa, January 20th, 2022 – 13:04

    AND…
    Hillary still thinks she’s going to be the 47th!

    Cue: Frankie Howerd…

  1064. Baron – 11:11

    Some interesting links there, all of which I have just read.(Doctorow, Ritter et al)

    I see that I’m not alone in thinking that the “Septics” (© Frank P) are completely mad, I thought that Soloview’s analogy of “trying to convince a coke head after three “lines” that he is not a superman” was most apposite!

    The US and EU facilitated bribery and corruption in Ukraine is well into its second decade. If The Kenyan’s 3rd term placemen run true to form then the bulbs will be coming up early in DC this spring!

    If you ever get to see Stanley Kubrik’s film “Dr Strangelove,” 1963, (EC recommended) then checkout the final War Room scene. With much of the northern hemisphere destroyed it’s a discussion about survival strategy and a possible “mineshaft gap” with the Russians. Sums the lunacy up nicely.

  1065. Let us not forget New Labour’s part in the Ukraine meddling…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ashton

    Yes, the EU’s “High. Priestess” on foreign relations. Always appointed, never elected.

    Wallsters will remember her “special” advisor, Daniel Krapski. Wrong about every domestic and foreign policy issue he wrote about in the Spectatesman. He subsequently ended up in No.10 working for “Call Me Dave.” No surprise there!

  1066. EC

    I wondered fir a moment, until the gestation periods proved unfeasible, whether Curvacious Cath, with the face of a bath and Danny “Round the Bend” Krapster, could during their tempestuous relationship have conceived something even worse than the idea of tweaking the Russian bear by encouraging Ukraine to join NATO (Not Alot To Offer), to with the little oligarcha of the Pacific, Jacinda (yes you can all have rumpy pumpy now!) Jacinda Arstern. But no, they are all far too strange to be anything other than the DNA of devils and particularly unpleasant devils at that. Balaam and Mania come to mind.

  1067. EC @ January 21st, 2022 – 18:32

    She was retired swiftly, as you know EC, when her telephone call with a Baltic country diplomat leaked out, the one that confirmed it was the West’s thugs that carried out the ‘people’s revolution in Kiev in February 2014, what a waste of an inferior apparatchik.

  1068. EC @ January 21st, 2022 – 18:17

    Baron has seen the film, EC, forgot most of it, will revisit, he needs to recharge his batteries.

  1069. Noa @ January 21st, 2022 – 15:55

    Not a bad write up considering, Noa, certainly better than what the Spectator is printing these days, but Baron is unconvinced Putin’s warmongering because his popularity is sinking, which it is, but it’s not breast beating he needs, in fact he fears it because, as Baron keeps saying, he wants to avoid dead bodies if Donbas were to flare up again, it would be a mortal a threat to his N-2 pipeline, that’s the project he needs completing, his legacy.

    It may be Baron didn’t;t tell you this, but unlikely because he keeps repeating it everywhere, the one and only one aim of the US foreign policy towards Europe is to ensure Germany and Russia do not couple up, that’s it, it’s even more important objective today what with Germany running the EU.

    We shall see how the N-2 saga ends up, if the gas begins to flow, it will be the biggest US foreign policy failure this century, so far anyway.

  1070. EC @ January 21st, 2022 – 11:22

    Stranger things have happened, EC, more to the point, we are talking the Republic which never ceases to amaze, just imagine her and the Donald, what a show it would be, one would be tempted to buy a ticket to watch it.

  1071. Outlander continues to satisfy as I and Mrs. Malfleur consume two episodes a day after dinner. It is painting an affecting panorama of the 18th century Anglosphere with a strong Scottish accent.George Washington had a walk-on part last night which bodes well for the future.

  1072. The Colston affair now seems to be morphing into the Dundas affair as leftist liberal stupidity spreads its bounds wider still and wider.

  1073. Mention of Stoke-by-Nayland by John Birch on January 18th triggers memories. My parents used to live on Scotland Street. A fine church.

  1075. “In Liz We Truss?”
    I think not!
    Who writes this garbage?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI1QW69g2_k

    Cast your mind back to when Clinton and NATO went to war against Serbia for ethnic cleansing. Zelensky unequivocally states that wants to cleanse the Donbass etc. of all ethnic Russians (*) and the US/NATO’s response is, “Go for it, bro.”

    * other Baltic states would do the same if they could.

  1077. EC @ January 22nd, 2022 – 10:24

    If we keep on electing brainless people we cannot win in the battle with the East, the woman is a laughing stock, she assigns to Putin ambitions he has never ever expressed, if anything it was the boy Cameron who wanted to have the EU from the shores of the Atlantic to she shores of the Pacific (he said Vladivostok which is eve nmore revealing).

    Where are these people bred? It cannot be in Britain, the country couldn’t;t have sunk that low.

  1079. Евгений Мураев or Evgeny Murayev is the man Putin chose as the next President of Ukraine, claims the British Foreign Office, and who’s Baron to doubt them?

    The guy himself was rather shocked to hear the news, denied that he has anything to do with the man in the Kremlin, but would you believe his denial?

    Well, few years back the same man Evgeny Murayev shopped four Rada MPs that visited Moscow to negotiate coal supplies (former president Poroshenko was involved, recently went on trial, a huge fiasco it turned out to be, Poroshenko is now a free man again), the Putin’s future incumbent of the Ukrainian Presidency claimed the four went to plot against Ukraine, two of them are currently under house arrests, the other two outside Ukraine.

    Many huge posters of Evgeny Murayev are everywhere in Kiev and other towns (some defaced), he himself has been visiting the office of the secretary of the current President Zelensky, nobody knows why, he claims that he indeed wants to the future holder of the office but not for Putin, for Ukraine, his slogan is ‘no anti-Russian, no anti-American’, in the last Rada election his political party got fewer that 2% votes (the party of Anatolij Sharij whose videos Baron watches got over 3% even though it was registered only three weeks before the election) that gives you the flavour of Evgeny Murayev’s popularity.

    Why Evgeny Murayev, you may ask, and why as Putin’s man?

    Well, the current President is deadly unpopular, the lowest rating of all former Presidents at around 20%, he promised to sort out the Donbas stalemate peacefully within two months of taking office, it’s now two years and counting and the region is as close to war as never before (leaving aside the initial fighting), he is also a drug addict, who know what he may do, it’s risky to keep him in the post, the Americans must have decided to replace him before the next election in 2024, and wanted to benefit doubly.

    Since nobody in the West knows anything about Ukraine at all except the the Russians just over the border in Russia have 140,000 troops and are about to invade (the latest date to put in your diary: Feb 22, the day the China’s Olympics come to an end) so it’s dead easy (no pun intended) to convince the public that this chap Evgeny Murayev is the Kremlin choice, when he replaces Zelensky the Americans and their MSM poodles will say ‘you see, Putin got his way’. impose another batch of sanction on Russia, but then after a while when it turns out Evgeny Murayev is just a replica of Zelensky, they will say ‘a miracle, democracy turned him away from the evil Putin, he should be welcomed by the West, Ukraine must become an EU and NATO member’.

    That’s bloody clever if it turns out as planned, it will will outsmart Putin, no doubt about it.

  1080. EC @ January 23rd, 2022 – 10:23

    She’s right, EC, but she doesn’t really say how to end the hold of the complex on the Us society, what should be done to replace it with the genuine democratic participation of the unwashed.

  1081. If you can spare the time, this is bald&bankrupt visiting former East Germany to buy a pair of pants, you can watch the bit where he meets a German guy in an abandoned town asks him whether life was better then when the Russians were around or now in free Germany, his answer, or rather what he implies is reflecting the current mood not only in the former East Germany.

    What Baron’s contacts are telling him is that there has been a noticeable shift away from the western influences back to the roots of the eastern tribes, in comes equally from Poland, Ukraine, the Baltics (Estonia rather), also Czechia, why should that be is hard to figure because it’s a recent phenomenon, it happened in the last two years or so, you can guess as much as Baron whether it will end with a bang or fizzle out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0kapZFg2A

  1082. This is the least clip Baron will bother you with, it lasts over 30 minutes, but you should move the cursor to about 12min30 watch the graph, a remarkable correlation between vaccination numbers and deaths, it’s New Zealand and the Pfizer vaccine, it doesn’t necessarily apply to other tribes and vaccines, but can there be another explanation for New Zealand?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxmAIKjYM4

  1083. Baron, January 24th, 2022 – 01:12

    I enjoyed that video. It’s a pity Bald didn’t go to Chemnitz. (Karl Marx Stadt). I went there, not voluntarily, in the 90’s and there were plenty of communist/soviet artistic endeavours to behold.

    There’s an old one liner that runs something like, “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”

    But it is, and always will be. Part of human nature, I suppose. In the horse race of life, after going round the bend, entering the final furlong , and with the finishing post in sight(*), for many the past is a “safe place” where we/they can retreat.
    * In memoriam: Peter O’ Sullevan

    Any road oop…
    Life may not have been perfect in the past, but at least it was comparatively saner and more ordered. Even 10 years ago. The lunacy we are presently experiencing is a tsunami that will only stop after it has overrun and destroyed everything. It will be for the younger generation to “Build Back Better” themselves starting by stringing up all the WEF/Davos elites using Arkwright & Co trusty piano wire.

  1085. Baron – 00:11

    Not just the MIC, Baron, but Big Pharma too…
    … as the young boy, pointed out yesterday.
    Corruption on both sides of the House and Senate!

    “Think Big Pharma’s Corrupt Now? THIS Is What’s Next!!!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnK_GiM1yDk

    He makes his case very humorously, imo.

    The MSM, once again in war fever mode, are very keen to point out all that’s wrong with Vlad and his gang, but have never at any point been to keen to point out the egregious crony capitalist corruption that’s now endemic within the Republic. Some dynasties come to mind where no BBC/Sky/CH4 investigative journalist has ever trod … the Clintonostra, Biden, Bush, Rockerfeller, Pelosi, Newsom, Cheney?, Rumsfeldt?

  1087. Andy, my old homeboy, I see you are hanging on in there. How yall doing. Thought I would check in now that sleepy Joe is stirring up war over there in Europe. Right after he done shafted our economy. Word from Devon none too grand for JJB’s aunt Don’t look like your premier gonna last long either. Shame, he’s a stand up guy. Love to all.

  1088. Noa – 09:54

    In recent days the fugitive émigré has once more denounced journalist Peter Hitchens as a Putin “shill” for his “wrongthink.” So the Prof will no doubt also be on his CIA suggestion list for suitable candidates for extradition to the land of the fee.

    It’s been a bit quiet on the CHW in recent days, no doubt due to everybody repurposing their under stairs cupboards as fallout shelters…
    … so I couldn’t resist taking a peek at his smugness’ blog. Sadly no sign of sidekick “Bertie.” I wonder if he’s fallen off his perch, so to speak…

  1089. EC
    I have a greater respect for Professor Sakwa’s views than the opinions of Mr Boor, a dyspeptic character with serious issues. He’s welcome to his small coterie of followers, do they all sniff the sulphuric emissions in his temple of Ephasus? That would account in part for the stench of sycophantic unreason there.
    Here’s a link to sanity and reason.
    https://youtu.be/y48Ev7IbDSQ

  1090. EC
    Against my better judgement I posed the following to Mr Boor’s blog, though I doubt it will see the light of day there.

    “I see that you continue to resort to ad hominem attacks on Mr Hitchens for daring not to share your opinion, rather than a point by point analysis Mr Boot.
    Well, that’s certainly your privilege in the sulphurous and hallucinatory confines of your own Ephesian temple, and I support your right to do so. Like Bismarck the Ukraine is for me, or rather Britain, not worth the life of one Grenadier. A policy espoused by the current German government, if not the ignorant blowhards in Westminster.
    Here is the much respected Richard Sakwa commenting in an informed, objective and reasoned manner on the subject.
    https://youtu.be/y48Ev7IbDSQ
    How long will it be, I wonder, before you remove this post? Not long I suspect, after all, like the NKVD, you have ‘previous’ in such matters.”

  1093. The great Mark Steyn has become essential watching on GBNews.n unfurling the weathermen to stop reporting temperature in centigrade since Brexit he says
    “…because real men shiver in Fahrenheit”.
    Brilliant.

  1095. Noa – 20:38

    By coincidence I was watching Mark Steyn live tonight, and saw the Canadian Convoy segment, liked the Fahrenheit gag. Life in Canada under egregious Trudeau minor has become Purgatory 24/365, and not just in winter, it seems.

    Noa – 15:56

    He suffers from incurable smugness bordering on narcissism. I expect the neocon offspring will be creaming his pants with excitement at the prospect of a hot war.

  1096. EC 23.14

    There seems to be a coalescence of fatuous, petty dictators in the West at the moment, ranging from ‘I do it with mon Gard, mais non mon old bag’ Macron (the worst, but they havent forgotten Madame le Guillotine there), through ‘pretty boy Trudeau, the shovel face warder in Convict-land, ‘Jaws’ in NZ, the Cardiff chiseller and the poisonous Wee Crankie just across the Firth from you.
    Can they turn themselves into full-blown Nicolae Ceaușescus’, complete with AK47 wall indented finale? Quite possibly.

    As to Mr Boor, his respones was to a) lie, claiming he never took down posts, and b) call me a facist. Naturally I took due advantage of the former to deliver a size 11 into his capacious neo-con sac.

  1098. EC
    A good call. I remember him as an amiable old buffer, bit of a bore perhaps. Lo and behold over a quarter of a century has transformed him into a wise and knowledgable elder.
    Thoroughly enjoyable and nostalgic. Thank you

  1099. EC & Noa:

    It’s a great pity boys you are not subscribing to the Speccie rag, Baron’s been fighting a losing battle there, the excellent piece by prof Sakwa was the battleground, one of them, there are also many other narratives with the usual suspects warning of imminent Russian invasion, blaming the evil man in the Kremlin for everything down to Canadian truckers revolt, it you were there you would have given the west European barbarian a hand.

    You may enjoy the following, Baron did, it’s true story.

    Anthony Blinken calls his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last Wednesday, lectures him on the Russian aggression in Ukraine then pleads with him to pressure Russia to stop the aggressive behaviour.

    One of the postings below this piece of news ‘moon dragon’ says: “So this pissant Blinken wants help from China but at the same time supports Taiwan. Jesus Christ, the US diplomats those days are retarded to the bone.”

    Well, it has the Middle Kingdom in it, but Baron found it rather funny, couldn’t;t stop laughing.

  1100. Guten Abend, Wall-Meisters. Here’s one (not fact-checked).

    The boss of Zoom has been complaining because too many of their employees are still working from home.

  1101. What sayeth Cigar-Chomping John Jefferson Burns to the international shenanigans? The Pentagon is rammed to the gunwales with hung-ho cigar-chomping buffoons, so maybe expecting ironic distance from JJB is not fair. Probably at this very moment they are thumping the tables, exclaiming things like ‘Hell,yeah!’ and ‘We’ve got to go in there and GET those guys!’

    What an exemplary shower they are. In the original Terry Thomas sense.

  1102. A superb cartoon, a TV newsroom, the newsreader sits ready to begin surround by three cameras, the editor, next to one of them, says ‘lights, camera, bullshit’…

  1104. Two pieces that are worrying for different reasons, the first one is from today’s CW, it furnishes disturbing figures about the increases in 2021 in major diseases within the US military over the 5-year average, it cannot be fake news, the doctors expressing their concerns would have been silenced if it were.

    The other short clip (mentioned in the CW piece) is a fake ad for a vaccine company, in Baron’s humble view it’s going beyond the acceptable, there are now billions of people that got jabbed, some are already anxious whether the vaccines are what they were told they were, sinister ‘commercials’ like this one only deepen one’s anxiety, Baron isn’t jabbed, as you know, his grandsons are, it makes him even more perturbed, why TF doesn’t someone look into the data mention in the CW piece? They cannot ignore the leaks of the negative effects of the jabs forever.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/i-am-seeing-cancers-take-off-like-wildfires-after-the-vaccine-says-us-doctor/

    https://librti.com/page/view-video?id=1438

  1107. This doesn’t take long, it’s illustrative of the agitprop the Western MSM love to indulge in, the woman Jill Davis, the one in the pink dress, is yapping about the Russian not the NATO aggression, but never says what the Russian aggression is.

    We have our troops in Ukraine, the Americans, the Canadians also, our military vessels are cruising in the Black Sea and in the Baltics, the Russians are moving troops on their territory and they are the aggressors? Arghhh

    Baron wouldn’t give a shite about all these lies, insinuations, straw men operations if it were not pushing us closer to a conflict, it may begin in or around the east of Ukraine, but there’s no guarantee it could not spread, even become global. It’s close to criminal what’s going on, it should stop, or we all regret it.

    Everything’s preferable to war, Baron will live, not happily of course, under the bOlsheviks again, under Putin, Erdogan, Biden anyone you care to name if that avoids a war, he witnessed the tail end of the last one, no nukes to chemical, biological tools of killing, and let him tell you it was awful, frightening, painful, never again.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvMiuhbh5Fs

  1108. Baron – 13:53

    CNN’s “eunuch in chief” Brian Stelter is a laughing stock. His show is called “Reliable Sources” should really be called “Fake Sources.” Stelter would’ve probably died in obscurity had Mark Dice not constantly mocked him on YouTube over his efforts to propagate the 2016/17/18 Russia-Russia-Russia hoax. Fake News CCN’s ratings have been tanking since Beijing Biden took over. Like the rest of the US media with falling ratings they are only too keen prosecute another Russia hoax in pursuit of ratings.

    Operation Mockingbird is still alive and well in the media today!
    Five minutes of your time M’lud…

    “Operation Mockingbird: CIA Control of Mainstream Media”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZjxjlI4x8

  1109. @17:31

    And the British media are no better! Over the years several narratives come to mind that they’ve either been bribed or coerced to push.

  1110. Only a minute ago, Baron posted the following on th Spectator site:

    The Tories and others of the baying mob are wrong, they’re attacking a man who’s been not only under enormous pressure of work, but also one infected with a harmful substance. If only they were to read the latest from Bellincat.

    The group of investigative stars has just announced a new breathtaking report: The FSB building at Ljubyanka in Moscow accommodates on its flat roof a massive directional and targetable blower aimed at specific targets in the West. The streams are laser sharp until they reach their intended target, then they disperse.

    Bellingcat found that on every occasion the Downing Street is said to have broken the covid rules, the winds were easterly, which aided enormously the FSB streams of air contaminated with a new version of Novichok that temporarily effects the mind of anyone hit by it. There seems little doubt that the momentary lapses in the behaviour of the number 10 inhabitants on the party days were engendered by the FSB puppets of the evil man in the Kremlin.

    Will the one determined to destroy our democracy stop at nothing? Boris Johnson is innocent.

  1111. The CNBC, that’s the Canadian outfit, did broadcast a piece saying Putin infiltrated the truckers convoy, it’s not a joke, it’a true, Mark Steyn had it on his show today.

  1114. EC @ February 2nd, 2022 – 08:40

    The size of Baron’s, EC, that of a fillet stake, you understand, he occasionally treats himself, at the local market it goes for £36 a kilo, is around ten ounces, a reasonable amount of protein, a large glass of Merlot and a touch of sweet chilly sauce, godly.

  1115. The Spectator rag keeps on and on about the Blond Fecundator’s unsuitability for the place in no10, amazingly the majority of those that post are backing him on the basis that there’s nobody else, the Labour mortuary attendee would fugg things up even more.

    What a reflection on the state of the country’s politics, not one of the 650, a reasonable number, one would expect to find at least one of some governing talent, but no, not one that offers her or himself to have the ability to govern.

    Pity Frank’s no longer with us, his take on the morass would cheer one up enormously.

  1116. Baron 12-54 the situation is so ridiculous that I’m sure what I’ve been saying for a long time is the only sensible answer.
    Ever since we joined the EU effectively they have had nothing to do, not only have we encouraged the most useless people into politics (Diana abbot) and the ones we need don’t want to get involved in the nonsense.
    They have had a job which in reality didn’t exist.
    Look at the time they spent compiling their expenses, they had nothing else to do.
    We have people in power now who have absolutely no idea how to run a country now we are allegedly out of the eu.
    They are inexperienced children trying to do adults jobs and they haven’t got a clue what to do.

  1118. John birch. – 16:04

    “They are inexperienced children trying to do adults jobs and they haven’t got a clue what to do.”

    Worse than that, John, the civil service and the media are mainly lefties. They have no knowledge or appreciation of history except that which was taught them by Gramsci’s long marchers in the schools (even private ones) and universities.

  1119. John birch. @ February 2nd, 2022 – 16:04

    Spot in, John, but what’s important is that we house all immigrants mostly in hotels at a daily cost of one million quid, criminal, that’s an annual cost of more than a third of a billion pounds, no wonder they want hike the NI in April.

  1120. “A few billion here, a few billion there and pretty soon you’re talking serious money. ”
    And 100,000 plus forecast to arrive in 2022.
    Well may Mrs Johnson be referred as Carrie Antoinette.

  1121. Interesting to see that an anti nett zero lobby is forming in the MPs of the Conservative party. Soon the flight from this ruinous policy will encompass Labour MPs, as its idiocy starts impoveriishing and alienating their voter base.
    Net zero for a referendum anyone?

  1122. EC @ February 2nd, 2022 – 17:24

    It’s not be laughed at, EC, playing the piano as well as he and his friends can do with penises is an art in itself, it’s a skill that not many would want to perfect, and even fewer display in public, he’s exceptional.

    It may be utterly wrong, and one hopes it does turn out to be utterly wrong, but a new application of Novichok could well happen in the near future, this 100% lethal but totally ineffective compound if used by the amateurs of the FSB was helpful twice in the past, utterly convincing and thorough investigations of both cases pointed the finger firmly towards the Kremlin, could anyone expect anything different this time? Would the Germans still insist on buying oil and gas from a man who’s poisoned or at least attempted to poison important personages three times, surely not.

    Who could the target be?

  1123. Noa @ February 2nd, 2022 – 23:50

    One is going to enjoy the twists and turns as they quietly abandon the imbecility of net zero carbon, Noa, the EU Commission is expected to re-classify nuclear and gas as environmentally friendly, the 27 (or whatever the number is) heads of Government are expected to nod it through, the irony is the German Foreign Minister is Green, they promised not to compromise on the issue before the election, what is she and are they going to do, resign from the Coalition? Madness.

  1124. To keep abreast of what’s going on in east Ukraine Baron subscribes to an e-mail service from OSCE, it’s daily, usually it talks about ceasefire violations, seldom below 100 in number par day, today (sorry yesterday, it’s already 03-02) the message was different, it hints that something may be brewing up in the region of the two breakaway Republics, one very much hopes that a new flare up can be avoided, everything but another war, even a regional skirmish should be prevented, it may spread, and we re not that far away from the region:

    “At 12:03 on 2 February, while positioned about 2km south-east of Chasiv Yar (government-controlled, 62km north of Donetsk) and conducting a pre-announced mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight, an SMM patrol was approached by a soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who said the patrol could not to fly the UAV at this location. He added that he had not received any information about planned SMM UAV flights. Soon after, a second soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces approached the patrol and requested the patrol to land the UAV, adding that any further SMM UAVs launched from the location would be shot down. The Mission landed the UAV and left the area”.

  1125. This should cheer you up:

    If you ever feel useless, down, thinking you’re no good remember that it took the cream of the American governing elite trillions of dollars, four Presidents and twenty years to replace Taliban with Taliban.

    (Not from Baron’s stable, he pinched it).

  1126. Baron 00.03
    That’s an oddly reassuring little incident, well-mannered machismo in a phony war. Hopefully it stays at that level of icy dinnertime politeness and they restrain from throwing the cutlery at each other.

  1127. Baron
    And if you think that the US government is awe-inspiring, remember our own dear boys and girls in Westminster, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, who have only taken 23 months to scatter half a trillion into the four winds, destroying vast sectors of the infrastructure and economy worth many hundred billions more in the process.

  1128. Noa @ February 3rd, 2022 – 09:05

    Yes, indeed, Noa, a point worth remembering, the seem to be of the same stock.

  1130. Noa – 23:44

    Why waste money on a border “force” at all?
    Why waste money on the police when 94% of crimes are either ignored or go unresolved?

    Mark Steyn last night on the state of British policing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zad4Zvvagw

    With a special mention therein for the Jockistan Gestapo, who have now reportedly taken to home visits in order to “check what you were thinking.’

  1132. Joe Biden has been busy recently…

    He’s just announced that he’s “taken off the battlefield” somebody nobody has ever heard of, a Mr Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. Since the battlefield in question was unfortunately located in Mr Abu’s domestic dwelling, in somebody else’s country it meant murdering a lot of women and children.
    Yippee ki-yay! Way to go, Seal Team 6.

    Not only that Joe has just announced that he’s going to cure cancer!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZfFL18WmUY

    Take a look at him here. Can he really be in charge?

  1133. EC

    As the SOSUS is under care in the White House Care Home do we know whether his carers are illegal gimigrants annoyed at loosing their benefits for a lousy care home wage?
    Reports of one Abdul al Q****, a Kabul University sociology professor, professional terrorist and qualified care worker are starting to energe…
    “I will be wiping the kuffir’s ****hole before packing a home made IED using the finest Walmart materials into his home of Satan! Inshallah I will be back in the bosom of my 4 wives and 27 children before it blows up.”
    Interested sponsors should apply first to the Chief of Border Security.

  1134. “How come we can enforce a border in the middle of the Irish Sea but not the middle of the English Channel?”

    Asks ‘Charlie’ on the Mark Steyn Show 3rd February 2022

  1135. Noa @ February 3rd, 2022 – 10:41

    He’s right of course, Noa, but he got one thing wrong, Nigel Farage had to apologise for the same mistake on GB News tonight, the cost of our housing the immigrants mostly in hotels isn’t £1.25mn per day, it’s over £4.2mn a day, this is truly sickening because there must be plenty of army barracks around, we’ve cut the number of the serving troops massively, the accommodation must be there, a few licks of paint and stuff would have been enough to house the immigrants.

  1136. EC @ February 3rd, 2022 – 13:07

    Enjoyable, EC, very, but the price per penis seemed resonable, in fact cheap compared to the energy bills we are going to be faced with soon.

  1137. EC @ February 3rd, 2022 – 17:44

    Walking on water is next, EC, and not just for him but everyone.

  1138. This is the UK Column News from yesterday, it runs too long, but you should make an effort to move the cursor to 1h4min and listen to Alex Thomson, a former high ranking GSHQ guy, stay for both parts, they end six or seven minutes later. It would be of interest to know what you make of his take on the two extremes in the German political sphere, the Nazis employed by Konrad Adenauer, and also on Ted Heath.

    Alex Thomson may have a rather biased view of the engagement of the 134 Nazis by Konrad, this couldn’t have implied anything sinister provided the Nazis were filtered, anyone who wanted to make a comfortable living in Adolf’s Third Reich had to be a member of the NSDAP, the membership in no way meant that one were a convinced Nazi approving the gassing the Jews, the disabled, the Slavs.

    The same was true about the Bolsheviks and the society under them, many carried the party card, but were by no means genuine communists, the membership brought good jobs, higher remuneration, other privileges.

    There’s a book by a Czech writer J Skvorecky (try not to pronounce it, the book is one of his best) called the Tank Battalion, the hero’s name is Danny, he gets conscripted, serves away from Prague, but visits because he wants to bed a girl, the girls’s father, a member of the Communist Party, is no communist even though he’s the secretary of the branch of the party in the theatre where he works, he curses the party, the leadership, saying to Danny “look, I know who these bastards are, I collect the dues, when it all falls apart I will tell whom to hang, there will not be enough lamp posts for these thugs’.

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/index.php/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-2nd-february-2022

  1139. This is quite revealing, the guy Matt Lee gets it right, what the Americans say is indeed just an allegation, they could also say, (say) we have intel that Russia is going to launch a nuclear attack on Washington next Saturday, we are going to preempt it by nuking them tomorrow, or we have information Russia plans to nuke Ukraine next week, we have to nuke her the day after tomorrow to prevent it ….

    When the Iraq war was in preparation Powel did table evidence, it was a fake, but it was something one could take a proof that Sadam was a danger, had to be hit.

    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489336004637044746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489430317379330050%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconsortiumnews.com%2F2022%2F02%2F04%2Funable-to-produce-evidence-state-dept-spox-hits-reporter-with-russia-smear%2F

  1140. Baron, February 3rd, 2022 – 23:48

    Interesting.

    Starmer: Yes, good point. If he was the boss of the CPS at the time then was responsible for “the culture” of therein. That is one on the accusations being levelled at Captain Calamity. Apart from the Saville affair questions have to be asked and answered regarding Rotherham.

    Heath: Not heard that particular one before but, when added to all the other misgivings and allegations, then Saville comes to mind. If the Germans knew so did MI5/6, the Soviets, the CIA, in fact everybody knew but the electorate. It was one hell of a cover up, if indeed it was.

    Remorseful NSDAP Parteigenossen: I don’t/never did buy that. Apart from the “allies” desire to retain the services of useful Nazis (Operation Paperclip) there was the Persilschein program morphing into the later “131ers.”

    The Germans are a forgiving lot. In 1951 the German government passed a law requiring all federal and regional government departments to employ at least 20% ex Nazis. Typically German but lacking the ambition of BBC staffing diversity quotas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein. (& 131-ers)

    You will also remember that Merkel hired ex Stasi people to set up a department to monitor Social Media in Germany, for people expressing the wrong opinions regarding her “refugee” and other policies. Just goes to show that you can take the girl out of the DDR, but you can’t take the DDR out of the girl.

  1141. If you haven’t yet bookmarked the Z guy you should do so, and not only because of the attached, although the piece hits the nail not just on Ukraine but matters other also, conceding the premise does indeed loses the argument before one even starts it, it’s why the so called ‘conservatives’ can’t win over the progressives because they concede the woke premises wholesale.

    Bookmarking the Z-man means not that one has to read everything he offers, Baron doesn’t, scanning is enough, if it draws attention the reading of the whole piece follows.

    https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=26505

  1142. EC @ February 4th, 2022 – 10:02

    If he knew it, which he doubts, Baron missed the Mutti hiring, EC, that’s intriguing, but shouldn’t be, she hired time tested experts.

  1143. If you were to watch this, only to amuse yourselves, you should switch the sound off, it’s in Russian, but what the guy Sharij does is he’s commenting, rather wittily, what anyone can observe anyway, saying the two babushky are sweeping, picking something up, a man or a group of men come in, leave the building, a larger group enters ….

    The place if getting ready to welcome Erdogan, after a while of the frantic activity, you see three cars passing, then the Turkish tinpot dictator himself arrives, nobody welcomes him, or his wife, he enters the building where the talks are supposed to take place, no sign of the Ukrainian President, he may be imbibing in the toilet, says Sharij, then Zelensky appears, they stand together, an officer marches towards them, after which Erdogan takes he salute, shouts ‘ honour to Ukraine’ and they enter the building again, it’s Erdogan that controls the entry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeczLFzq11E

  1144. Further to the above, you may like to start at 2min, finish at 8min, that’s the bulk of the story, the rest is Sharij explaining why Erdogan decided to visit (after Zelensky’s apology, he made fun of the Turk who wants to mediate between him and Putin, Erdogan needs the limelight, not doing well at home).

  1147. From CNBC on the meeting between Biden and Scholz:

    “President Joe Biden said Monday that progress on the German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would be halted if Russia launches a military invasion of Ukraine. But visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to commit to pulling the plug on the Nord Stream 2.”

    If the Germans lose here they will become a colony of the Americans.

    Nobody seems to take the same view of the fracas in eastern Ukraine as Baron, of course the American Governing elites have as the final objective the containment of Russia, breaking the largest Slavonic tribe into pieces, preventing her to join up with Germany, but the N-2 project is a major part of it, if they succeed in halting it, the next stage will be the scrapping of N-1, the pipeline that diverts before it hits the Polish border into two, has been going since 1966, this would be the final nail in the coffin of the Russian supplies of fossil fuels to Europe, a new curtain will descend on the Old Continent. Big if however.

    But, but, but the Americans are buying Russian diesel in the largest quantities ever, they cannot make enough themselves, they are also buying fuel oil from Russia to mix with their light oil that they extract, they used to buy Venezuelan heavy crude, that’s what their refineries are equipped to process, cannot now because of sanctions, to change the processing set up would be too costly, and who knows, they may get their hands on the Venezuelan heavy crude, buying fuel oil from Russia solves it.

  1148. EC @ February 8th, 2022 – 09:57

    Priceless, EC, how the hell can you be so brilliant digging this stuff up? Already filed, will be used with great efficiency if you mind not.

    These were the days of British Ambassadors carrying weight in affairs of the world, heads of Governments listening to them, their Turkish colleagues furnishing but entertainment.

  1150. You may have seen the video, it’s quite incredible that the State Department could do that, it’s straight from the Pompeo’s school of lying, as the reporter says, it’s allegations, there’s no evidence for it (say) a sheet of paper outlining a part of the script, a piece of equipment to be used, a stack of Ukrainian uniforms for the fake Russian troopers to wear, or a recording of a conversation on the subject, these guys have the impunity to say any lie whatever, and everyone has to believe them?

    What if the Russians said: We have information that the Americans are planning to drop a nuclear bomb on Paris, the missile containing the nukes will be launched from the Black Sea to prove it was Russia that did it, we’ve also obtained the fake radar pictures that will be used by the Americans to blame a Russian vessel Federov …. but we cannot table any of that evidence because it would reveal the sources and methods of our obtaining the proof.

    Everyone can play the game, it’s silly and damn dangerous, it gets us closer to a conflict, and as Baron said many times before ‘everything but a war’.

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/81736/watch-reporter-destroys-state-departments-false-flag-intelligence-on.html

  1151. Noa @ February 8th, 2022 – 19:49

    The way the guy pronounces Putin’s name, Noa, sounds like a nasty disease of the lower orifice, but he’s right, the visit was purely for domestic consumption in France, even if the two were to trash out a deal of a sort, Macron would not honour it after the election, the man’s one of them, which is a pity because he could have scored one against the Americans for the snub with the sub.

  1152. Baron 00.25
    Such false flag incidents have precedence. I’m reminded of the SS operation at Gleiwitz, in which Poles supposedly captured the radio station and broadcast a call to Arms by the Polish population in Germany.The incident required the murder of an innocent Pole to provide ‘authentication’ of the attack and so the necessary excuse for the German invasion of Poland and the start of the 1939 European war.

  1153. Baron, February 8th, 2022 – 11:23

    From my vaults. It appeared not long after Bliar’s FOI law was enacted.
    Undoubtedly a fake, in the grand tradition of punning using names.
    Cheered me up a bit, momentarily anyway.

  1154. Organising a false flag attack is the sole purpose of US boots on the ground in Ukraine, imo. Why does the 06-NOV-20 unarmed, mostly peaceful demonstration, now “insurrection,” at the DC Capitol remind me of the 1933 Reichstag fire. At least the Nazis made a proper job of that one.

  1156. You might enjoy this from Allison Pearson in today’s telegraph.
    I can imagine Boris frantically collecting any he can find and stuffing them into shredders.
    When did Boris stop being Boris? Future historians, attempting to trace the influence of the Prime Minister’s third wife on British politics, may point to June 11 2021, in Cornwall, when the PM addressed leaders of the G7 about the post-Covid future. “Building back better together,” he rumbled, “building back greener and building back fairer, and building back more equal, in a, er – how shall I say? – er, more gender-neutral, um, perhaps, a more feminine way.”
    Eh? It was pretty clear that our leader had been given several “woke” words to crowbar into his speech. Unfortunately, Boris Mark 2, still vaguely hanging on to the remnants of Boris 1, appeared not to understand those faintly ridiculous adjectives. He didn’t know that in a “gender-neutral” world, there will no longer be anything you could call “feminine”. In fact, having watched the speech again, I reckon the PM had been told to say “female” but he forgot and came out with “feminine”, which is the sort of frowned-upon, frivolous, girly condition he used to enjoy in the good old days, when Boris stepped out with Petronella Wyatt in a bustier, and a woman was still a “she”.
    For Boris fans, that speech was mortifying. The celebrated columnist who could spin a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (if not quite from Peppa Pig) had become a ventriloquist’s dummy, uttering clunking, politically-correct phrases he would once have derided.
    I would bet my Winston Churchill Toby jug that the person who persuaded Boris to genuflect to identity politics and ban log-burners – concerns that are anathema to the Tory grassroots – is Carrie Johnson.
    An unelected, environmental activist, Carrie enjoys privileged access, which she is now accused of using to sway policy making and appointments at the highest level, undermining the basis of our democracy. Millions of us voted for Johnson to protect us against the very causes which his wife espouses.
    It is incredibly damaging, as well as deeply disappointing. Apparently, though, should you dare to make this perfectly legitimate criticism of Mrs Johnson, you are guilty of “misogyny”, of hating women. Responding to Lord Ashcroft’s new, unauthorised biography – which paints a portrait of Carrie manipulating her scared, eager-to-please husband – Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that “personal attacks” that accuse the Prime Minister’s wife of meddling in the work of government are based on “sexism” and “misogyny”.
    Let me get this straight. It is sexist to question the wisdom of Mrs Johnson spending £840 a roll on gold wallpaper she could not afford in order to transform the Prime Minister’s residence from “a John Lewis nightmare” into a Tandoori Palace. (Is Boris interested in wallpaper? As if.)
    It is sexist to be concerned when an email trail suggests the PM gave his approval to flying stray dogs and cats out of Afghanistan when terrified human beings who had served the UK were left on the tarmac. (Would Boris put animals before people? No.)
    It is sexist to disapprove of an alleged “Winner Takes It All” party during lockdown in the Downing Street flat on the night that Dominic Cummings, Carrie Johnson’s arch-enemy, was dismissed. (Does Boris like dancing? Unlikely.)
    What a demeaning moment it is for my sex (still identifying as female, I’m afraid) when people cry “sexism” to fend off discussion of her conduct.
    Caesar’s wife (or husband) must be above suspicion. Can you imagine Norma Major giving the first ever speech by a prime minister’s wife at Conservative Party Conference, as Carrie Johnson did, entering an LBGT fringe event with what one audience member called “Our-Queen-Has-Arrived energy”? Of course not. Although, to be fair, I would have sold my Winnie Toby jug to see Denis Thatcher address that same gathering.
    Carrie’s personal enthusiasm for the LGBT cause appears to be having what Nikki da Costa, the PM’s former director of legislative affairs, called a “chilling effect” on the debate over trans rights within No 10. Last summer, Ms da Costa claimed that “skewed advice by a powerful lobby” of senior advisers – including Carrie’s best mate, Henry Newman – was allowing Government policy on the fraught subject of gender identity to be dictated by Stonewall, the LGBT rights charity; and that this, in turn, was “undermining women’s rights”. 
    If members of Carrie’s court insist that opposing the controversial Stonewall position is “transphobic”, then all debate is silenced and the Prime Minister himself not permitted to receive opposing views. Disgracefully, decisions on “conversion therapy” – which could affect children’s health for the rest of their lives – were given half the normal consultation period because, Ms da Costa claims, insiders were “driven by a desire to get a good news story” in time for the UK’s first, global, Government-backed LGBTQ equality conference in June.
    I am struggling to think of a single Conservative Association where jaws would not be on the floor after reading the above. Yet, that Leftist, non-binary philosophy of the 33-year-old partner of the Prime Minister is being pushed through on the back of the votes of you and me. A breed so quaint, we still believe there are two genders, not 76.
    Tory voters may also struggle to recall anything in the 2019 party manifesto that indicated “net zero” would be the sum left in the average family’s bank account after they’d sold the Ford Focus for an electric car they can’t afford and exchanged their reliable gas boiler for a heat pump that doesn’t heat the bedrooms.
    Meanwhile, the Government they trusted was refusing to bring down energy prices by exploiting the bountiful supplies of gas and oil beneath our own land and sea. Scary gas bills, it would seem, are a small price to pay in order to hit the net zero target by 2050, to burnish the eco-credentials of the Prime Minister and her husband.
    Thank goodness, Rishi Sunak and other Cabinet members appear to be pushing back against the “insane” rush to decarbonisation, urging the green light be given to six North Sea oil and gas fields this year. Docking some of the 25 per cent of our energy bills which goes towards green renewables would also be welcome.)
    I’m afraid that Lord Ashcroft’s biography of Carrie Johnson contains too many incriminating instances to be simply dismissed as part of “a brutal briefing campaign”. If this stuff is just got up by “enemies of her husband”, as her spokesperson claimed, then why do members of the extended Johnson family refer to her as “Meghan Markle”?
    Of course, the person who must take ultimate responsibility for Carrie-on-Regardless is Boris himself. If his wife told him he would broaden his appeal to the young by saying “gender neutral” a lot and pursuing a green agenda, regardless of the misery it inflicted on the poorest in society, then he was a fool to think he could take his base for granted. 
    No amount of mini Cabinet reshuffles will fix the profound disillusion so many of us feel. When Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds, he was unfaithful to the silent millions who loved him for championing their values. We were the more deceived.

  1159. EC @ February 9th, 2022 – 08:16

    It’s uncanny, EC, how many historical parallels one finds in the current events, but one has to be careful.

    Some compare the boil at Donbas to the case of the Sudetenland which is wrong, the Germans were in minority even in the region itself, no town or village had them higher than 40%, in Donbas the Russians are nowhere below 80%.

    Taking over the Sudetenland wasn’t the final objective, it was the country itself, not many know that the Nazis doubled the potential in the manufacture of the military gear after they occupied the country, the Czechoslovaks had a massive armament industry, bigger than France’s, second only to Germany’s.

    The spoils Putin could claim in Donbas are anywhere near of the same importance, it’s mostly coal, the most hated member of the fossil fuel family.

    And lastly, and most importantly, the occupation of Czechoslovakia was but a stage in Adolf’s strategic objective for the Third Reich, the creation of the Lebensraum in the East. Of course, one can argue Putin also wants tome further west, but that’s such an obvious fallacy that not many would swallow.

    You know it anyway, Baron’s lecturing only for the record.

    Btw, does anyone else apart from the four or five of us ever visits this blog? Peter’s keeping it for what?

  1160. John birch. @ February 9th, 2022 – 08:36

    Good one, John, thanks, but the girl Allison errs in one respect, the man has always been spineless, has always moulded himself the way that the circumstances required to gain ground, has seldom served any other purpose of his life than himself, his ambition trumps any other character trait or ability he may possess, even the most obvious one, his wordsmithing, the guy’s an ersatz of a human being, and looks repellently ugly into the bargain, arghhh

  1161. John birch. – February 9th, 2022 – 08:36

    Thank you for posting that.

    In human history, and our literature, there are many examples of how weak, vain men have been exploited by unscrupulous, scheming women. The ones with a trouser python problem are even easier to manipulate.

    So many of our PM’s were educated at Eton, but was it ever any good?
    WSC was Harrow.

    From 2020:

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/when-eton-goes-woke-what-is-left/

  1162. Here’s a puzzle for you of genuinely non-political nature:

    The roosters mount hens when mating, correct?

    How is it explained the Darwinian way, can anyone suggest the evolution of this mating process, what did the two birds do before the mount mating, was there something different before it, the timing must have been precise in both birds, no good for the rooster thinking one morning ‘right, I am going to mount her from today’, the same for the hen.

    Please, think not it’s a tricky question, it isn’t, Baron spent an hour walking thinking about it, but his brain has turned feeble with age, he couldn’t figure anything, got pi$$ed off with himself, can anyone help?

    The non-Darwinian way’s easier, the pair were designed together, may have been smaller, or bigger, but they were one of the many and many designs put out to test which organic arrangements’s the best for a changing environment, together with other designs they compete for the final prize, whatever it may be.

  1164. Baron, February 9th, 2022 – 15:40

    The same question could be asked about Bulls, M’lud. Pheromones? If you can come up with a plausible explanation for both then you should write an article about it. You could call it “A Cock and Bull Story.” Use the nom de plume A. Fauci, it should sell well! 😉

    Most species would surely find the missionary position anatomically impossible?
    Then there’s the insect world that has a repertoire eclipses anything that Debbie might have done in Dallas.

    Never mind. I prescribe a bottle of Paulliac and a selection of cheeses.
    Sleep well.

  1166. Noa @ February 9th, 2022 – 23:12

    You’ve cracked it, Noa, but why cheese, one of Baron’s favourites consumables?

    Your idea to ask the b lot makes a lot of sense, but how come they are still with us, in ever increasing numbers, if they not reproduce? Another puzzle that.

  1167. EC @ February 9th, 2022 – 18:23

    The title you suggest appeals very much, EC, what’s missing is even a semblance of the writing talent, possibly it may change in the other world, Baron’s close to departing for it, the only positive on the move, he may meet Frank.

  1168. You may find it amusing, Baron’s trying to buy a Japanese comb made from wood, some of them are deadly expensive, the one he was after was reasonably priced, a replica from China, it would do the job well looking after the barbarian’s moustache (in the making now). It didn’t say on e-bay how long the item was, to find out Baron sent a question, note that it was Baron who initiated the contact, today, he got the answer:

    dear friend,
    thankyou for your reply,
    please give me some time to ask our supplier,then come back to me 1-2 days,i will offer you solution,is that okay?
    please don’t worry ,i will try my best to help you.
    have a nice day,
    bets regards

    Is this, you reckon, an encrypted instruction from the CCP? Should Baron risk it continue the dialogue?

  1169. Sadly as a lover of the stuff, I acknowledge that Cheese, a high cholesterol is a major cause of blocked arteries and together with obesity is a major cause of heart disease and death in Western civilisation.
    As for the buggers, they tend to constitute a fairly fixed percentage of between 1 and 2% of the human population. Despite the best post -Frankfurt school attempts to turn 50% of us into sodomites and induce us to kill ourselves off in order to better accommodate the homeless but fecund masses of the Indus and Africa. Homosexuality is invaraibly (but) the random occurrence of defective, i.e non reproductive genes and so a predicable deviation from the norm, and humans being rational, it can also be nurtured.
    Given the hard choice between cholesterol and sodomy which should we choose as our end, milord?
    Ultimately I suppose its all a matter of taste.

  1170. Baron 09.26
    I think that you and your new Chinese friend will find your respective efforts to communicate as human beings will find your efforts increasingly hampered to a point of general frustration by the Sino-English translation software you are using. Indeed as your future exchanges become more bizarre I expect it could lead to diplomatic breakdown, hostility, and
    war

  1171. Noa @ February 10th, 2022 – 14:55

    Give the barbarian cheese anytime, Noa, he’ll take the risk with the clogging up of his arteries, they are already diseased, have been since the jailing time, Baron’s been around more than the allotted three score and ten, the oxygen he breathes should be left for the young, the new generation of earth polluters or not, perhaps veggies (are they call veggies, Baron is losing the ability 2 remember ordinary stuff), still let’s hope the two adversaries on Ukraine will not start anything because if the region flares up many will get hurt, and not just in Ukraine, the Kremlin man is quoted as saying it won’t be Slavs killing Slavs only, what could he possibly mean?

  1172. Noa @ February 10th, 2022 – 15:00

    He wrote in English, Noa, it wasn’t a translation from Chinese, he has sent another message today that reads: “Dear friend, you are welcome and have a nice day, If you still have any problems, please feel free to contact me, i will try my best to help you,
    Best wishes”

    Sadly, he didn’t say what the length of the comb is, weird, don’t you think?

  1173. Here’s something weirder still.

    Last week B’s MacBook went berserk, the connection to the internet kept getting lost, the gadget switched itself off few times as Baron was typing, it had to be re-started, but went OK only after three starts (or may be four, Baron cannot say for certain, he was getting rather pissed, as one does) then it stayed switched on, but Google kept sending warnings that a new machine was trying to reach my account, was it me bla, bla. This is rather strange, the IP number of the gadget must be the same, why the surprise at Goggle, why the new gadget recognition?

    Anyway, the other change is that one of Baron’s e-mail addresses the one he uses to get Disqus acknowledgments isn’t working, refuses to switch on.

    Anyone has any ideas what may have gone wrong?

  1174. Milud

    The main causes of death in the UK and the West are delineated in the UKG analysis below, as a constituent, indirect
    contributer high cholesterol lactose based products such as cheese contribute significantly to heart disease and strokes. I write with personal experience, still if you have bucked the trend so far you may do so a little longer. I for one hope you and all of us buck it forever, but think it unlikely.
    Fir your Chinese purchase may I suggest a little experiment?
    Try translating your length of comb question into Cantonese and Mandarin, cut and paste into your next email to your Chinese supplier, consider his reply and if necessary translate back through your Google translator.
    As for your Macbook, could it be beyond economic repair, or undergoing a software update whilst you were using it? More concerning would be a cyber attack.
    EC will I suspect be able to provide a more informed analysis than my tentative musings.
    https://youtu.be/C9DfJeCciII

  1176. Baron, February 10th, 2022 – 22:35

    Switch your WiFi router hub off at the wall. Wait five minutes. When you switch it back on it will be allocated a new IP address by your Internet Service Provider.

  1177. Baron,

    Your musing about the Chickens, eggs, bum feather density, and your purchase of a moustache comb got thinking about other imponderables yesterday. Specifically male baldness not caused by alopecia.

    How come bald people have no trouble growing moustaches, full beards and hair everywhere else apart from the top of their noddle? If the hair loss was caused by an excess/deficit of hormones it. should affect all parts of the body, no?

  1178. @09:22

    Beards: referring to traditional carnivorous males – which excludes modern day Vegetarians, Soy Boys, NPCs, and Simps obviously.

  1180. EC, Noa – thanks for the advice on the troubling internet, it’s a appreciated, and will be followed.

    The suggestion to communicate with the Chinese comb seller is excellent, too, Baron would have followed it alas he’s bought a comb already from a different supplier that gave the size of the grooming implement.

    The issue of baldness isn’t a subject Baron likes to dwell on, he’s as close to a Full Monty of it as it gets, hence the moustache, he wants to cultivate the Hussar’s look, drooping or is it dropping at the edges quite low, but the boss has already raised her objections saying’ who do you think would look at it, it puts me off my food already’, or words to that effect.

    What a life without a wife, even worse with one, as the saying goes.

  1181. At 22.00 hours every TV channel Baron can watch had the Ukrainian crisis on (except the Japanese NHK), plenty of pictures, videos, useful maps showing only the Russian troops placement, the sizes (different in every channel) both in Russia and Belarus.

    Biden, Blinken and the guy Sullivan all warning of imminent invasion hingeing only on the evil man in the Kremlin, one of the newsreaders was stressing the Russians are waiting for the grounds to freeze to enable their tanks to burst in while the clip was showing a countryside full of snow, a tank buzzing across a ditch, on another channel the TV anchor repeated the warning advising nonessential staff at the US Embassy (and all the others) to leave, it was accompanied by the picture of the US Embassy building in Kiev, nobody was shown leaving ….

H

    as the West gone totally berserk? The Ukrainian President keeps repeating his pleas to calm things down, Putin, Lavrov and today also Shoigu continue to insist Russia has no plans to invade anywhere, yet is seems not only Truss is deaf, everyone else is also. 



    How is it going to end, there cannot but be a false flag op, nothing short of it appears to be a sufficiently powerful bait for Putin to click. This madness should cease, we DO NOT need another conflict, one close to us, if the fighting starts it may spread, very likely will, we will all be harmed.

    One of Baron’s postings on the Spectator’s blog.

  1182. John birch. @ February 11th, 2022 – 06:51

    Thanks for the tip, John, Baron happens to be a simple peasant, his favourite is cheddar, the very very mature kind, but he will try your Lincolnshire Poacher when or if he finds it at Waitrose or Tesco of Sainsbury’s.

    (Tonight it was about seven ounces of the said consumable with a glass of the Chilean Merlot, good stuff, the combination).

  1183. Better cheese than buggery Milud, it’s certainly the better option, though as General Melchett discovered, even a moustache, no matter whether its bristling or drooping, is no guarantee of safety in such matters.
    https://youtu.be/ckGOKYrGsmE

  1184. Noa @ February 12th, 2022 – 00:33

    Why is it nobody’s capable to write something of this brilliance today, Noa, it’s exquisitely witty, one can die listening to it, from laughter of course, not all the episodes are of the same quality, but those that are can be watched over and over again without one getting tired of them, or laughing less.

    How has the country changed, arghhh

  1185. You probably haven’t come across Ms Truss closing words at the joint press conference with Lavrov in Moscow (if you want to hear them go to UK Column News, move the cursor to the 49th minute, they are there, the words), or alternatively trust Baron, he listened to Ms Truss talking.

    She said the Ukraine was a sovereign country that makes its own decisions whether to join NATO or not ….(or words to that effect, but sovereignty was the pivotal word).

    How sovreign can Ukraine be since the Feb 2014 coup if the posts in the Government and the President are chosen by the Americans, it was Victoria Nuland that selected the first lot, it’s still available on the u-tube, a change of the President in in the pipeline again.

    More to the point, has anyone heard anything from the Ukrainian President or any other Minister of Ukraine in the last few days, it’s Russia, France, the UK and, of course, mostly the US Government officials that get quoted, interviewed make pronouncements, speculate when and how Putin invades, not a word from the alleged victim of the ‘continuously imminent’ invasion of Ukraine.

    As Mr Royale would quip: Sovereign, your ar$e.

    https://www.ukcolumn.org

  1187. Baron 01.05
    Germany is conspicuous by its absence in the Dumbass ATM. Not surprising that, really. I think they have plenty of cat hats. Anyway, if there’s going to be any trouble let the idiot Brits have a go this time, if they think their hard enough.
    As for Ukrainian politicians, in the best traditions if rats leaving the sinking granary they’ll be in the Caribbean right now, checking out the new gold taps on their super yachts and changing the bath water on their mistresses. At least I would, given the situation back home and the inclement weather.

  1189. Someone has just pinched Baron’s take on the Ukrainian crisis, it pleases the barbarian no end, you may like to read it, it’s argued much better than Baron’s rabbiting was, an excellent piece, he may have mentioned also that who’s in control of energy of a nation is in control of the nation, no question about it, but what if someone says ‘ah, but Putin will be in control if the N-2 goes ahead, won’t he’, will not then Russia be in control of Germany?

    Nope, in a relationship between the US and Germany, it’s the former that calls the tune, in the relationship between Russia and Germany it’s the latter, the German economy is much smaller than that of the US, it may not be (in PPP dollars) as much bigger compared to that of Russia, but the quality of it beats the Russian economy that still relies too much on natural resources, and not just fossil fuels but other primary soft and hard commodities.

    Russian gas supplies cover some 50% of the German needs currently (source: Statista), if the N-2 goes ahead that ratio will rise, but coal burning will reduce noticeably, if anything, this will be the biggest change in the German energy policy.

    https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/

  1190. Biden says the remaining US military are withdrawing from Ukraine, moving to Poland.

    What? There never was any mention of US military in Ukraine (only instructors), there never was any announcement that some left, now he tells us ‘the remaining units’ will say good-by to Ukraine (if one were to believe it).

    You don’t know it, but Baron mentioned the presence of US troops on the Ukrainian soil (joint exercises) on the Spectator site, was called a conspiracy theorist, here’s the confirmation he was right.

  1191. Noa @ February 12th, 2022 – 10:02

    Good points, Noa, why should we poke our nose in Donbas? Nothing to do with us, we are not the 51st state of the Republic, if the Americans want to cause havoc there, fine, we should tell them ‘good luck’, stay away from it.

    Zelensky has done another appeal to the Ukrainians pleading to say calm, no invasion in the pipeline, no need to panic, nobody but al-Jazeera carried the news.

    That the objectivity of the MSM for you.

  1192. EC @ February 12th, 2022 – 11:00

    A priceless deadpan delivery, EC, made Baron laugh even more after your warning.

  1194. Baron, it’s a cheddar, Sainsbury’s used to have it but dropped it as expensive.
    Waitrose has it.

  1196. John birch.@ February 12th, 2022 – 21:01

    Thanks, John, is already on tomorrow’s shopping list, will report back.

  1198. A reasonable analysis of the Nato/Russia tensions in TCW.
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ukraine-special-2-send-biden-not-truss/
    Oh for the days of the mad but great Fischer and the gentlemanly Boris Spassky, how we delighted in the Nimzovitch Defence, the Queens Gambit declined and the poisoned pawn variation…!
    Cold Wars as they should be fought.
    But now I ask why if the defence of the freedom of Europe and Taiwan is so important, why were the politicians and financiers not doing it for the last 30 years?
    Options you say?
    Yea verily, stock options for one.

  1199. Beware the MILFs of Waitrose, Noa!
    Especially in the Surrey branches such as Kingston, Esher, Godalming and Cobham where often attractively packaged hypergamous trophy and second wives lurk in the shallows.

    Deadlier than a fully grown ‘Salty’ looking for its next meal, mate!

  1200. It’s our beloved Baron I fear for, EC. As he wanders through the cholesterol soaked Isles in search of the slavering, mature nutty delights he will find him inveigheled by divers masked monsters…

  1202. And Booths is no different.
    I have often fled in their bread stall in terror from the broom weilding masked witches bearing down on me with curses and imprecations for committing the actual reus of of the crime of breathing….

  1206. Canada? Que faire?

    Well, certainly in francophone countries, one remedy which history suggests when the government loses confidence in the people is to remove the head of state.

  1207. I understand from watching a recent interview with a source close to the prime minister that Boris has NEVER been known to stand his round.

  1209. Malfleur 03.50
    So he won’t buy a round eh? On first reading I thoughts you’d said he wouldn’t stand his ground.
    Living next door to Yorkshire I’m well used to meeting plenty of the former, but have nothing but contempt for the latter.

  1210. Malfluer 03.14
    Truly, that’s the wurst pun that has escaped the sensors since… the invention of the Geek god Lord adoniods…

  1213. Here in a nutshell you can see how ‘democracy’ works in a country that’s adamant everyone adopts it, will anyone ever punish the evil woman?

    The clip alone based on the Durham findings so far should in itself be a justification for the Donald’s re-election in 2024.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb-fQTm_fP0

  1214. Malfeur @ February 14th, 2022 – 03:50

    How many people would have a chance to go to a pub with the buffoon, Malfleur, even if they wanted to?

  1215. Malfeur @ February 14th, 2022 – 03:23

    By invoking the emergency law the Canadian banks are charged with freezing the account of anyone even loosely connected with the truckers, Baron may be a target, he sent money twice, the first time to the official site that chickened out, Baron didn’t ask for his money back (nobody asked him anyway), the second time to a new site that hopefully will pass to to the brave boys and girls.

    The question here is why should such a draconian measure happen in a supposedly democratic state, it has never happened din Russia, and the country did have some violent demos in the past.

  1216. Will he or will he not?

    Pulling some troops back there’s an opportunity for the Azov Battalion to stage a convincing false flag op, there still is a time, if they fail to deliver, the last big chance before the N-2 gets certified may be lost.

  1217. This guy talks faster than a AK-47 fires bullets, a friend sent this to Baron, it’s rather entertaining if you like a theatrical performance, but the argument is valid.

    You may recall Baron saying that the US Governing elite is under the thumb of the industrial military financial complex, the making of military hardware is the one sector of the US economy that’s largely based in the Republic, each one of the 50 states has a chunk of it, it employs in the widest definition close to ten per cent of US workforce, and the share of the 50 or so companies in the sector like Martin Lockheed sit in the 401(k) pension plans of every American.

    How can one turn it around? Could anyone ever hope that wars backed by the Republic can be avoided? How will it all end?

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

  1218. This is not to read but only to look at the map with the arrows, it’s supplied to Sky News by the US intelligence, one of the arrows that are supposed to show the direct of Russia’s attack goes from Odessa towards Moldova’s eastern border, the one tiny problem is that Odessa is in Ukraine, there are not Russian tanks there.

    If this is the quality of the US intelligence reports then we do have a problem.

    https://news.sky.com/story/russias-invasion-plan-could-see-military-take-nine-routes-into-ukraine-hitting-kyivs-doorstep-within-two-days-reports-12538657

  1220. The above wouldn’t;t go in unless Baron submitted ‘the dot’ with the word ‘dot’, you have to do the opposite.

  1221. Baron, February 15th, 2022 – 21:44

    “A teenage actor and a liar”

    Jordan Peterson sums up Justina Castro succinctly…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDGAvQhd6o

    JP’s Parthian shot was particularly apposite!

    NB. Putrefaction Personified Pelosi frequently uses the “it’s for the children” line and again only recently…

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-announces-re-election-campaign-for-the-children

    The children she’s referring to are most probably her own, and using her influence to stop them being collared by the Feds. That’s one example of how good ole ‘merican democracy works. As corrupt as any post soviet state oligarchy.

  1222. Baron @21:44 cont’d

    It must be reassuring, though, that Justina went on to ensure that the illegally seized GoFundMe $millions were distributed to BLM and other noble, worthy causes.

  1225. I see from today’s Gateway Pundit that the Canadian government has announced that it will confiscate pets belonging to Freedom Convoy protesters.

    I drew this to the attention of my uncle Bertie Malfleur.
    He just texted me back:

    “I say Mallers my boy this blighter Trudeau has gone a step too far in my book if he’s threatening to arrest a chap’s dog. Not even a corgi will be safe if his blackshorts are let off their leash!”.

    I agree absolutely with my uncle and I am sure that this will rally animal lovers and particularity fairminded corgi owners everywhere to the side of the truckers. Let’s hear from them!

  1229. John birch.@ February 16th, 2022 – 10:50

    Rather too long for making a point we’ve known, as you say, John, for months, but easy to read.

  1231. EC @ February 16th, 2022 – 09:08

    One’s getting worried, EC, apparently there’s been a run on the banks, people are afraid their accounts may be frozen. The playboy dictator cannot really reach out of the Canadian jurisdiction, can he?

  1232. EC @ February 16th, 2022 – 09:03

    Peterson’s right, EC, no argument there, and the last sentence in this posting of yours can only be seconded.

    Mark Steyn was hinting yesterday the Canadian approach is just a taster, more could come in countries other than Canada. Hopefully, he’s wrong, more of the same or worse will not come.

  1233. Malfleur @ February 18th, 2022 – 06:46

    Why the Pilgrim Society, Malfleur? Baron doesn’t get it, explain, please.

    He’s not going to do anything, the playboy PM cannot touch him outside Canada, and anyway it was credit cards, with one contribution Baron also made a religious money gift, trivial though, it was on offer with the contribution to the truckers, the recipients were exceedingly polite.

  1234. Malfeur @ February 18th, 2022 – 07:29

    Que?

    What repayment, Malfleur? The piece talks about an apocalyptic happening but is rather empty on details. Are they talking about repayment of old loans that have matured, US Treasuries, or some other obligations, do you know?

    Unless the Ukrainian conflict were to escalate engulfing the world (please please God forbid) how could the local skirmish (hopefully avoided also) help?

    Tell us more, please.

  1236. Baron, – 08:05 et seq.

    For at least the last decade, or before, I’ve been warning people, who didn’t listen, about the grave consequences for humanity of a cashless society. All the technology for this is now in place and the final act would be to make cash illegal. When this happens then we will get social credit scoring system currently being rolled out in the land of the mandarin speakers.

    The banks first start cutting up rough about handling cheques “eating into their profits” about thirty years ago, charging for them and also charging small shopkeepers for banking cash. Now the hight street banks, and some governments, are going ape about crypto currencies giving joe public the ability to cut them out altogether. Only a matter of time before more governments make crypto illegal, I reckon. They want the monopoly on e-money.

  1238. EC @ February 18th, 2022 – 08:58

    You were and are right, EC, but what can one do?

    The boss says we should have as many banknotes stashed away somewhere as possible, but this is silly, one cannot save a lot from a pension, also how long would the stash last even if banknotes continued to be legal, will the notes be a acceptable means of exchange forever, the Government may simply ban banknotes, one cannot really do anything except for voting for a party that would oppose it, but is there such an animal?

  1240. −

    Paul Weston
    4 hours ago

    What an extraordinary time to be alive.

    The entire establishment, both here and abroad, has been utilised in driving a totalitarian agenda based on the greatest lie in the history of mankind. Wherever you look, you see lie after lie after lie. Those guilty of this murderous crime are the very people we had trust in; The World Health Organisation, politicians, scientists, doctors, medical regulators, journalists, teachers, and even the Church.

    Nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of this crime of the century, not even the needless deaths of tens-of-thousands of people in the West including a smaller a number of children, along with the deaths of millions in the developing countries which didn’t have the safety net of magic money to bail them out when the West shut down.

    Those of us who really know the extent of the crime are now divided into two groups: the first wants to see prison time for the guilty, the second wants to see the reinstatement of the death penalty for crimes against humanity followed by the public hanging of all found guilty.

    I belong to the second group

  1241. Diary entry on the Great February storm in anno domini 2022.

    So far we have rain and some heavy gusts of wind. Akin to the bursts of flatulence at a Labour Club social after the steak and kidney pudding and please have been served.
    Ye wife’s black cat has retreated behind the broom cupboard, where tail swishing it awaits her call to ride the storm winds like a California surfer straddling the waves.
    Meanwhile I scan my online copy of Old Moore’s Almanac for indications of when we may expect the arrival of the Four horsemen, preceding the arrival of the Horned Beast from across the time space continuum…

  1242. The posting appears on the Spectator blog about Novak Djokovic, it’s by someone called Dada Dada (the last sentence refers to Mr. Steerpike, the Spectator’s man that penned the story about whether Australia will ever let Novak in again) :

    “Hey Clown Show: Three tennis players — Nikoloz Basilashvili, Nick Kyrgios and Dalila Jakupovic — were forced to drop out of this year’s Australian Open after they experienced chest issues. Another one – Dylan Alcott 30 – suddenly retired, claiming he had nothing left to achieve in tennis.

    Another player from the juniors, 16 year old Jakub Mensik was rolled away from the tennis court in a wheelchair after collapsing.

    And here we have Novak – no chest issues, no collapsing, no retirement speeches, nothing. He’s not even dead, despite his refusal to take the live saving vax.

    And btw, I’d be very much interested in why there is no mention whatsoever of the SHOCKING, OUTRAGEOUS AND DISTURBING fact that in Australia 50 million doses of the vaccine were recently recalled as they triggered ‘false positives’ in HIV tests.

    Say what? “False” positives HIV in tests? How exactly is this possible? Shouldn’t journalists run each other over in the pursuit of this absolutely crazy and insane story?

    How is it farking possible that the vax triggered positive HIV results? And who decided that they’re ‘false’? And what makes them ‘false’? And if it’s a nothing burger, then why destroy 50 million doses? Where is the farking science now? Doesn’t this warrant an explanation?

    Btw, AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    So instead of asking yourself ‘Will Australia ever let Novak Djokovic in again?’ which nobody gives 2 chits about, the correct question any decent, intelligent and honest journalist should be asking right now is ‘How the fark did the vax cause HIV positive results, and if AIDS means ‘acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’ then does the vax cause VAIDS ‘vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’?

    But you, just like almost everyone else in the media, you’re all the same: indecent, dishonest and deeply deeply unintelligent”.

  1243. Malfleur @ February 18th, 2022 – 09:56

    You’re talking to one under the attack of old age, Malfleur, what bloody gold and silver?

  1246. Baron, February 18th, 2022 – 11:52

    Thanks for sharing that comment.
    Is that why Harry went for a HIV test recently, I wonder?

    As for jabbing kids? Then please can we see some politicians and celebrities parading their young children/grandchildren before the TV cameras whilst they their authenticated doses! No? I thought not!

    80’s BSE Beef Scandal: The image of John Selwyn Gummer force feeding his daughter a beef-burger in front of the press in order to prove that where safe to east… now that’s a difficult image to shift

  1248. The missus went surfing in the sea off Blackpool this morning.
    She enjoyed so much that she’s going to do it again this afternoon.
    So I’ve taken the stand and iron off her favourite board for her.

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  1254. Should the Truckers have made a tactical withdrawal, reserving their right to return, or did they do the right thing by being martyrs?

  1255. The Any Answers on the BBC Radio4 was on, most of talking was about the Ukrainian straw man of an invasion, virtually every caller was critical of the West rather then Putin, Baron got through, was asked what the point of his was, he resisted to answer knowing that if he said what it was he wouldn’t get in, but had to give up, said it was the Nord-2 that was the bone of contention, waited for close to two thirds of the Anita’s 45 minutes, and as he thought, he wasn’t asked to enlighten the world …

    Couple of points on the debate:

    The female that runs the programme said not just once that countries of East Europe have desired to become NATO members for their protection from Russia, this is one of the lies that nobody has ever debunked even though nothing could be simpler to do it.

    The great unwashed in not one of the formerly satellites of the USSR were asked in a referendum whether they want to join NATO or not, the goal of joining NATO wasn’t mentioned even in any of the manifestoes of the political parties, Zelensky himself said last week that before the goal of NATO membership was included in the Ukrainian Constitution there should have been a referendum.

    The decisions were made by the Governing Elites of the countries released from the yoke of Kremlin, the elites were largely made of communists that were smart enough to switch both the red bound party cards for ones of differ colour as well as the allegiances – from the Kremlin to Washington.

    Virtually every caller whether pro-West or pro-Putin talked about Ukraine as a sovereign independent state wishing to make its own decisions (say) whether to join NATO or not.

    The independence of Ukraine is another fallacy, the country is not a sovereign state, it’s a fully fledged colony of the US, it was Victoria Nuland that appointed the first PM and President of the country, the subsequent appointments are people approved of and run by the US State Department still. The reason we don’t hear about the plight of Ukraine from the mouths of the Ukrainians themselves but from the Americans is the same people in Britain didn’t hear about the plight of the former colonies from the colonised, but from people running the colonies.

  1259. Noa -14:05

    Nice pun!

    Up here in the boggy Western Border Marches we are currently sitting out today’s storm (innominate) which is, for us, far more severe than we experienced with either “Dudley” or “Eunice.”

    Did anybody see the platitudinous “Useless Eustice” on the Telly news yesterday?
    I must admit that I’d never heard of him before last autumn. “He must’ve risen without trace” as they say…

  1260. She speak remarkably goof English, but the reason Baron is offering you to listen to about a minute of her talking is because she makes an extremely valid point ‘how come that everyone’s talking about Ukraine, but not the people of Ukraine’?

    She must be unaware Ukraine is a colony, nobody’s interested what the colonised unwashed think, why should they be given a platform, the only thing they have to do is listen to the commands of their master.

    https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/woman-from-ukraine-cracking-jokes-at-us-media/

  1262. Noa @ February 20th, 2022 – 14:05

    Good piece, the Mencken’s quip even better.

    Plague is walking down the road, a man asks ‘what are you up to?’ Am going to extinguish 500 people’, says Plague.

    Few days pass, the meet again, ‘you’ve promised to kill 500 how come 5000 are dead’, complains the man. ‘Well, says Plague,’ I only killed 500 the others died of fright’.

  1263. You recall Lithuania letting Taiwan open a representative office with a near Embassy status in Vilnius? China of course got shirty, downgraded its own representation in the country of 2.7mn people of which 5% lives in the UK, cut off buying Lithuanian dairy products and other stuff, also said China will not deal with any companies that have facilities in the tiny Baltic country.

    This was bad news for number of German and French companies operating there, they would have to move out, the Lithuanian Government is considering reducing the status of the Taiwanese office whilst the EU is taking China to the arbitraging service of the WTO, Britain backs it.

    Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Joanne Ou said: ““China’s economic coercion has violated international economic and trade norms and should not be tolerated,” she is absolutely right, China should not have put pressure on any company having facilities in Lithuania just as the US shouldn’t have banned the sale of American semiconductors to Chinese companies, put pressure on the Dutch Government not to sell a piece of lithography gear to Taiwan (for fear China may take over the island).

    Both China and the Republic should be punished by the WTO severely, it’s a silly game the two powers are playing, the unwashed everywhere are the losers, despicable that.

  1265. Great powers engage in competition over the control of resources, capital and ideas Baron, as Great Britain used to when it also had these things and wanted to protect them and acquire more.

  1268. Good article. The Matlock guy knows what he’s talking about, he seen it all before.

    There’s nothing like a foreign ‘war” to distract from domestic issues as Machiavelli and many before him pointed out.

  1272. A couple of observations on the newly recognised east Ukrainian Republics”

    The Americans employed in the US Embassy in Ukraine that moved to Lvov (it’s very much in the west of the country, used to be a Polish town) have spent last night in Poland.

    AS the Russian peacekeepers moved into the two Republics overnight the artillery shelling of thei territory of Donbas stopped.

    You may like to read this, it’s the White House briefing on the recognition, the US and the West have a problema, they’ve argued that the Russian Army have been in Donbas since the two broke away, hence it’s quite silly now to say the Russians arrived only last night, but then do they care what anyone thinks?

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/02/21/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-on-russia-and-ukraine/

    Ze, the Ukrainian President turned 180deg, before Putin recognised the two Republics, he argued that the Minsk Agreement was invalid, it was signed by Poroshenko under duress, after the tanks rolled in, he changed his mind, accused Russia of breaking the agreement, praised it, accused Putin of breaking it.

    Not enough time for Baron now, he’ll tell you more about what he reckons (as if anyone cared), the shortest summary of it possible: Not a smart move by Putin, but good for his approval rating amongst the Russian unwashed.

  1275. An Open Question

    Is Canada the first member of the British Commonwealth to turn fascist? If so, quelle honte!

  1276. Noa @ February 22nd, 2022 – 15:25

    Sorry, Noa, anyone who blames Putin for any of the boils of the West is not someone Baron would cultivate, it was the same approach adopted by the scribbler Applebaum in the Spectator, she argued more cleverly that Putin was adding fuel to the western fires not necessarily igniting them, this is smarter, but then the question is ‘why are the fires in the West in the first place’?

  1277. Malfeur @ February 22nd, 2022 – 20:44

    More objective, Malfleur, than the Unherd piece, informative, and to the point, the interest of the American controlled world in Ukraine has FA to do with the country, if it did instead of supplying two billions worth of killing gear (the US alone) they should have provided money for (say) better pensions, some single Ukrainians have £20 per month in a country where Lidl and Aldi have shops.

  1278. Tucker was bang on the money last night, imo.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yz0AXHWz5E

    Amongst the nuggets contained therein was chinless Liz’s gaffe at her press conference in Moscow 10 days ago, which somehow got buried by our media, or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention… “Sergei Lavrov turned to Truss and asked whether London recognised Moscow’s sovereignty over the regions of Rostov and Voronezh. After a moment’s contemplation Truss replied that “the UK will never recognise Russia’s sovereignty over these regions.” YCMIU ! We are governed by ignorant, feckin eejits! Biden & Bojo, Cackling Harris and “In Liz we Truss”? Gawd ‘elpus all!

    Mark Steyn summed up the western nations’ weakness nicely last night, “too busy worry about their pronouns.” etc.

    Result: Europe’s energy costs doubled(*) China’s energy costs halved. That’s the Bidens’ debt to Xi repaid in full!

    * All except Hungary where Wiktor Orban struck an incredible pre manufactured “crisis” deal with Gazprom halving theirs for the next few years.

    I do wish Tucker would get the rabid neocon Mad Max Boot on his show again It was so entertaining last time..

  1279. I found the Hersi piece more interesting in her comments on the Western leadership, such as they are,than on Putin Baron.
    As for providing Ukraine with US military equipment, they did the same fir the Taliban.

  1280. EC 09.02

    You may be missing the “Deep Throat” Western geopolitical strategy that I discern Joe, Boriso and their pals to be playing .
    Quite simply, if they impoverish us all, then there being nothing to steal the African and Muslim gimmigrants will stop invading and the fiscal deficits will stop growing because we won’t be able to pay for any more imports.
    In short Killing Two birds with one Stone Age.
    I’ll get me (old motheaten) coat….

  1281. Baron, February 22nd, 2022 – 22:56

    As you know, in pursuit of his obsession with large mosaics, and other relics of the soviet era, “Bald and Bankrupt”‘s (aka Benjamin Rich from Chichester) had toured most of the former Soviet republics. I can “take or leave” most of the mosaics and relics but for some reason I enjoy seeing the instances of the Cosmonauts and found the giant rotting hulk of the Ekranoplan at the Caspain Sea, quite stunning.

    His quests necessitate, for the most part, leaving the cities and journeying into the interiors. For the most part these landscapes seem to be flat, windswept, barren and godforsaken. [just like home 😉 ] It’s his conversations with the ordinary folk, young people, old soaks and sage babushkas that I find most interesting. The poverty on display in some of the former republics is appalling. Whilst not quite as bad in the western facing ones like Ukraine, the living conditions, discrimination, experienced by the effnick Russians in the east of these former republics , EU members and would-be EU members, was and is still a disgrace. It no wonder that after the EU financed & CIA backed coup in 2014 that the people in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine cut up a bit rough.

  1282. Baron,

    Did you see Bald’s last video on the soviet exclaves of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan? “They were formed in the 1950s to answer the question of what to do with small regions which were ethnically diverse from the Kyrgyz Republic the people had found themselves living in due to Stalin’s map making. ”

    Truly appalling!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKRNQfp_Y0

  1284. Noa,

    “In short Killing Two birds with one Stone Age.”
    Excellent. 🙂

    Verily, I say unto thee, ‘End of Days’ approacheth!
    Will you be reaching for your KJV or Browning?

    Meanwhile, if you hear the sound of thundering hooves across your drawbridge it may not be The Four Apocalyptic Horsepersons, it may only be Useless Eustice of DEFRA sent by Carrie to check that you are only using kiln dried logs on your fire!

  1285. EC
    It’ll be me crusty catapult the ‘Black Widow”, that Mrs Noa uses to fend off Eustice’s loglaying minions as they come to inspect the illicit crops of barley and oats we are growing with the government weed subsidies!
    Getting ammunition for the .50 cal has become almost impossible due to the EU, who through its Belgian satrapy controls supplies, requiring declaration that it will only be used for peaceful things not dwfenestrating Crown servants.

  1287. Irrespective of the views he expressed I was impressed by the maturity, logic and clarity of Mr Putins explanation.
    I wish that a single British politician, never mind an American one, could explain a complex situation in an understandable and non patronising manner, not least the supposedly well educated blond Borista. Not that, given the dreadful state of the education system, many would understand it.

  1289. EC @ February 23rd, 2022 – 09:02

    It was the same Tucker Baron was going to post also, EC, nothing to disagree with in it.

    You may like to know, the Russian communists said before Putin recognised the two Republics that he should take over Ukraine, weed the baddies out, send them down, install a Government that won’t bark at Russia, then withdraw because if that were to happen the ‘punishment’ by the democratic West will be the same as if he only recognised the Donbas Republics. It seems they were right, Putin is losing to, he’s getting old for the job, if not the next President then the one after will be a communist.

  1290. Noa @ February 23rd, 2022 – 09:18

    Good point, Noa, Baron has re-read the piece, didn’t have time to read it in full before, unfortunately time is at a premium for him, he often wonders how he managed to hold a job was still able to do the other stuff he’s doing now, but is short of time, arghhh

  1291. EC @ February 23rd, 2022 – 09:55

    Nicely observed, EC, and right too on what one is witnessing watching b&b videos, Baron has contacts there, many mostly holder ones even in places such as Poland, Czecho or Slovakia are quite nostalgic about the past, people were more equal, even if it was equal in poverty.

  1292. EC @ February 23rd, 2022 – 10:02

    Yes, Baron never misses any of his videos, the guy trumps any mSM scribbler hands down, and yes, the conditions in the Gulag of the USSR were appalling.

  1293. Noa @ February 23rd, 2022 – 10:04

    This is rather old, Noa, but the young Booty is just as brain dead as the old one, he and the other two morons that are talking to Tucker mention the Russian meddling in the uS election in 2016, this as the subsequent investigations found was bollocks, it was the Clinton woman and Jake Sullivan that made it up, the warmongering to$$ers are getting to wrong and wrong again.

    Tucker made him truly angry though, it was visible, he was almost shaking, and the postings agree with Tucker anyway.

  1295. Noa, February 23rd, 2022 – 22:12

    That was impressive. An excursion into history and geography beyond the attention span and reading abilities of most Yanks and Brits. “In Liz We Truss” stands no chance as she demonstrated recently that she doesn’t know her Donbass from her elbow.

  1296. Baron, February 23rd, 2022 – 23:50

    Another impressive article.
    The Prof poses a question, and provides a series of compelling arguments that would lead a jury to only one conclusion. As a barrister he would have been unbeatable!

  1297. Baron, February 24th, 2022 – 00:20

    I think that Noa only reprised that old Tucker vs Mad Max video in order to cheer me up a bit. Tucker was persistent, dug in, and in the end you could see the war mongering neocon nutter starting to foam at the corners of his mouth. TV Gold!

  1298. It’s interesting that (most?) Europeans have no interest in war and don’t consider Donetsk to be worth the life of one EU trans-grenadier.

  1299. On 24 April 1999, NATO published its New Strategic Concept, which jettisoned its previous defensive limitation and awarded it carte blanche to interfere (for which read ‘bomb’) wherever it chose.

    NATO is a criminal conspiracy, most of its members are rogue states and their reedy insect voices impress nobody.

    Meanwhile, the internet in general and the Spectator in particular are chock to the gunwales with bleating onanists.

    And catamites.

  1300. It’s a great pity that the poor, long suffering, wretched citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk never seem to get a say in their governance.

  1301. Andy Car Park – 14:03

    Yesss!

    I’ll never forget when they first started doing “podcasts” Frank P asked of the squeaky teenage presenter, “Son, have your balls dropped yet?” 🙂 🙂 🙂
    I suppose that was of the many instances that led to them banning him. In that, he was years ahead of the “Cancel Culture” curve.

    There are some people on the senior staff there and one wonders, “Why?” There’s nothing special about them. So the question is, Andy, which one is the current day Operation Mockingbird place-man from which “les pisseur de copie” take there lead?

  1302. Amazingly, nobody knows anything, it’s a turmoil, a famous Ukrainian journalist (you wouldn’t have heard of him, he never appears in the West) Gordon is appealing to Sobchak in Moscow to have a word with Putin, to “stop the thievery’, in Odessa all open markers double prices, shelves are almost empty in shops, what happens on the front (is there one?) nobody knows, on the blogs the views differ according to their affiliation, if Baron had more time he would search deeper, alas time is for other things, perhaps later.

  1305. Noa @ February 24th, 2022 – 18:19

    Already bookmarked, Noa, the guy makes sense and not only on the current Russian exposition to root out the undesirables, thanks.

  1307. The answer to Noa should read ‘expedition’ the fugging software is killing Baron already poor writing further, fugg it.

  1311. Baron – 2:34

    Andy Car Parks “bleating onanists, and catamites” were every on the MSM, including GB News, last night.

    I could only summon up the willpower to watch Mark Steyn, who was the only truly independent view on offer last night. He had two very interesting segments with the Dr. David Starkey who tried putin events into some sort of historical context.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfCj-x5iu3Q

    @22:41 Yes, Simon, Gawd bless him, but I’m trying to think of an example of someone possessing “THCOB” within our national/local ruling hierarchies, permanent political classes and civil service.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10544593/MI5-MI6-officers-told-think-white-privilege-avoid-using-words-like-strong.html

  1312. EC @ February 25th, 2022 – 08:07

    Yes, you’re right, EC, but it would;t go through without changing . for DOT, believe Baron, he tried and tried but what you posted he couldn’t.

  1315. Here’s a piece by ms Dejevsky in the Spectator, and Baron’s contribution to it, or rather to her getting the question ‘will he or will he not invade’ wrong, which Baron got wrong also:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-russians-turning-against-putin-

    Many got it wrong, Ms. Dejevsky, including Baron (as if that mattered anyway), one can only speculate why invasion happened.

    It wasn’t the original plan, the decision to go in was taken after two events that occurred only days before the troops were ordered to move in.

    It’s likely Putin told Biden about his decision to recognise the two breakaway Republics, they talked by phone before the signing, Biden agreed it would not be a big deal, there will be no new sanctions, as Biden said after the talk ‘a small incursion’s OK, if however a single Russian soldier steps on the Ukrainian soil there will be massive package of sanctions inclusive of the N-2 cancellation (or words to that effect). Many were puzzled what Biden meant by the ‘small incursion’, criticised Biden for it.

    When the recognition of the two Republics was signed, all hell broke loose, the Americans announced a massive package of sanctions, the German Chancellor voluntarily abandoned the new gas pipeline, the American vassals began competing with each other which can hurt Russia most.

    This must have pi$$ed Putin, he thought he had a deal, no new sanctions after the signing of the recognition papers. Why the American side changed their mind is hard to tell, the deal may have been a trap, or Biden forgot, in either case Putin felt cheated, Russia was going to be punished severely for something that wasn’t that important, which, in fact, it wasn’t.

    The more significant event was Zelensky announcing (on Feb 20) that Ukraine would consider developing a nuclear deterrent, both the Americans as well as Britain as the two Western nuclear powers kept quiet, no reprimand, no nothing, which must have signalled to Putin a tacit approval.

    For Ukraine to possess military nukes was something to which every Russian leader would say ‘over my dead body and those of the rest of Russia’, from the Ukrainian border to Moscow is just over 300 miles, a medium range missile travelling at 5miles/sec would cover the distance before anyone at the Kremlin would be able to pick up the phone with the message ‘a missile’s coming’.

    This nuke idea by Ze was a threat too far, it was more than a red line, it was a menace that would imperil the existence of Russia herself, it had to be stopped whatever the consequences.

    Hence the order to attack.

  1316. As for Ms Dejevsky suggestion that the Russians are turning against Putin below’s Baron’s take on it, if you could read the postings you’ll find it as an answer to one of the hundreds of postings:

    “The gist of Ms Dejevsky’s piece is wrong, the crowds may look impressive, but in the context of Russia’s population of 140mn they are (and will be if the warring continues) pitifully small, the majority of those attending them are the young, that’s what the young do.

    If anyone is to challenge Putin’s leadership, it will not be the young or the Navalny’s crowd, however much the MSM poodles promote him, it will be the communists, look at the Security Council meeting, the Naryshkin’s challenge to Putin, that’s what he has to watch.

    Provided the Ukrainian expedition is over soon, Putin’s rating will be as high as ever, he’ll be thanked for saving Russian lives, securing the western border, giving the Americans a lesson of how to invade”.

  1319. You show Baron anyone that could articulate it better:

    https://youtu.be/lz5cNzgF1-U

    What then was it that changed in 1992 when Fukuyama penned his tome on the end of history, and has lasted till today? It was the American Governing elites (GEs) taking up the husbandry of the world, unilaterally and unopposed and promising to deliver.

    One would be foolish to blame what Neil describes so concisely on the American GEs, there must have been other powerful sources that contributed to the trend towards the current imbecilic state of the West, but what were they?

  1320. EC @ February 26th, 2022 – 10:18

    We indeed live in a manipulative world, EC, and not just in the domain of politics, but anywhere, the yapping class creates a perception of an apple one should eat, a car one must drive, a politicians one mustn’t fail to vote for, and we all like lemmings buy the apple, the car, the politician.

    You recall the FT slogan ‘no FT, no opinion?’ That pretty sums it up in few words.

  1321. We Noas have been congregating on Armathwaite for a family reunion over the weekend. It was notable that the largest pile of newspapers outside the local shop was indeed the FT.

  1322. The FT is no good in log burners.
    You were privileged to experience some beautiful spring weather.
    We get on average two days per month when we’re are not being strafed with icy rain and sleet. You’ll be pleased to know that the weather is back to normal today.

  1323. Ah, we kept the crisp cold away in the bar of the Fox and Peasant with beer, brandy and an ash log fire.
    The rains descended as we returned to the lands where once the dark satanic mills loomed large, but now levlling up means being patronised by handouts from the Turk…

  1325. What’s the end game for Putin? Why the negotiations with Ze, it’s the Master the Russians should be talking, and finally, as Baron keeps scanning both pro nd against Putin’s blogs each side seems to be winning.

    The bloody storm means Baron has little time left to enlighten the world, three large trees need cutting and disposing, and he aint good at it, gets tired quickly, anyone knows of a method to burn fresh wood quick?

    Here’s the first find worth reading, it’s short, but has the intriguing piece of news about a number of bio labs and their link to a couple of vaccines:

    https://therealslog.com/2022/02/28/ukraine-no-smoke-without-fire/

  1326. Noa @ February 28th, 2022 – 16:34

    “Russia is either an empire or it is nothing; and Ukraine is the principal obstacle to this pursuit”, says the professor, so why didn’t he take Ukraine before, or at least meddle in the matters of Ukraine as much as the Americans?

  1327. Noa @ February 28th, 2022 – 14:47

    It ws the rains that stopped Baron also, Noa, he spent the time sleeping, too tired, but no Turk in sight here.

  1328. Well, in the frozen north March ushered itself “in like a lamb” but what will The Ides have in store?

    Meanwhile, is anybody else getting creepy messages from their web browser when taking a peek at RT? No problems with Al Jimbob at the moment…

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/28/us-announces-plan-to-expel-russian-diplomats-from-un-liveblog

    Meanwhile, as expected…

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/us-rules-out-ukraine-no-fly-zone-after-zelenskyy-appeal

  1330. A diversion…

    “Jeep: History lesson + latest Grand Cherokee 2022 problems”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxo5gwBJFNQ

    Shenanigans! Not on the same grand scale as the civil and military aviation but those Aussies “certainly lived it large” at their corporate crook owners expense.
    Didn’t the Yanks realise why they got sent “down under” in the first place?
    🙂

    As always, pro journalist John dances his way across the legal minefield choosing his words very carefully, but highly entertainingly.

    The original article that JC refers to is every bit as funny as he says:

    https://www.theage.com.au/business/fiat-chrysler-boss-clyde-campbell-crashes-to-ground-20150605-ghh9rq.html

    Full disclosure: For a brief period in 2002/3 I actually owned a used 4.0L petrol Jeep shitbox. It was a money pit, with some serious steering geometry issues! (i.e. very difficult to keep it going in a straight line) Nice “World of Leather” armchair seats though. It doesn’t sound as if their reliability has improved much in the last 20 years.

  1332. Let the Coffee House Wall throw the full weight of its influencebehind President Putin in his determined action to remove the centre of the Deep State’s funding and money laundering operation from Ukraine and the.dismantling of the numerous biolabs from that country before their malignant purpose is fully implemented.
    And it would be timely in that connection to call for a.full investigation and forensic audit of the activities of the Biden crime family and those associated with them in their collaboration with the elements of the Ukrainian political circles now the target of Russian denazification measures.

  1333. That’a the way to put Putin off:

    “Soldiers call for vegan uniforms.

    Vegetarian army boots among suggestions from new campaign group called the Ministry of Defence Vegan and Vegetarian Network”, the heading in the DT.

  1334. Malfleur @ March 2nd, 2022 – 07:39

    For that to happen, Malfleur, the UK and the West would have to turn the clock back to what the time was when Ronald and Maggie were in power or earlier.

  1335. Noa @ March 1st, 2022 – 21:39

    Excellent expose of the roots of the Ukrainian conflict, Noa, one can disagree here and there, Baron certainly would, he always does, but all in all, the guy’s right, if only the woke progressive leaders were to listen to him.

  1336. EC @ March 1st, 2022 – 10:13

    The original Jeep replica, EC, the one that looked like the WW2 non-replica appealed to Baron he was considering buying one, was put out by a guy that used to write about cars in the DT, Baron penned him a letter asking what he thought of the vehicle, got back a reply of one sentence “I never write about cars not worth writing about’ or words to that effect.

  1337. Noa @ March 1st, 2022 – 21:39

    Starkey’s final words and the exasperated shake of the head at 35:59 sums up where I am at too.

    Baron – 08:48

    Despite the claims of some college friends (some still extant!) that history was/is an evidenced based discipline, I found them all to be highly opinionated. I suppose that’s why Historians argue such a lot… about which evidence is admissible and the interpretation thereof.

  1339. Britain and in particular its Borista, awaits its quota of a quarter of a million Ukrainian prostitutes, with their pimps, with the keenest anticipation.

  1341. Noa @ March 2nd, 2022 – 17:08

    It may be a bg mistake to open the door so widely, Noa, but on the positive side the Ukrainians are hard working, obey orders (they’ve had a lot of practice), and not keen on revolting, that’s as a group, some may be just the opposite, we will have to watch out for it.

  1342. The TV media, netamorphosed from social commentaors to hand-wringing armchair generals, are now asking if President Putin is mad. There have of course also been rhetorical questions widely asked for some time whether President Biden is insane. Boris Johnson’s personality, not least his record of never standing his round when in the pub with friends, is revealed as deeply flawed and points to concerning instability. Macron etc….

    Meanwhile no mention has been made of the Deep State and the biolabs in Ukraine.

    The Resident did at one point in his State of the Union speech focus on the “ill-begotten gains” of Russian oligarchs.

    Still no attempt however to look into the ill-begotten gains of the Biden crime family and other western oligarchs in Ukraine.

    It really seems that in order to clear the air and, in particular, to distract from the collapse of the Central banks and the substitution of a new world digital currency for the present monetary system, we need a good old-fashioned nuclear war a la Kubrick.

    We can only dream.

  1344. Noa, March 2nd, 2022 – 17:08

    Why on earth would they want to come to luxuriate in all the magnificent diversity and wokeness here?

    Poland has similar slavic language, roots, is a more homogenous, largely Christian if RC, society. Poland will be keen to keep as many as they can as it will keep the EU off their backs as far refugee quotas are concerned, stop the EU fines and might even unlock some more EU funds!

  1345. Baron, March 2nd, 2022 – 22:40

    Good spot. That chap Sutton seems to have the same mannerisms, facial ticks, as Charles Windsor.

    As it turns out, for the last 40 years David Icke has probably been the sanest person in the country.

  1346. EC
    Like sleepy Joe I stand with the peace loving peoples of Urania, I just don’t want to make any more room for them, and the millions of Hong Kongers, Africans, Pakistanis and so on that want to disturb Barons mole and build over his remaining trees.

  1347. A scam message this morning advising me I had been in touch with an Omnicron patient and advising me of the contact details for my free PCR kit.
    A nostalgic reminder of recent history, now past,and a sign of gentler, more peaceful times. Africa, China and Russia all combining and communicating with us peaceably, if a little fraudulently.

  1349. Baron
    You may be right. I met several Ukrainian refugees in the 60s. All professed a deep love of Jews and British democracy, and had come here to escape communism. But one did show me his SS tattoo, claiming he had got it in a concentration camp. But unlike now, boys growing up in the 60s were well versed in the difference.

  1351. Noa – 08:26

    Delighted to hear that you stand for the young women of Irania. At your age that’s really quite an achievement!

    Perhaps we should create series of promotional films showcasing the wonders and benefits of living the UK? Something like: Welcome to Rotherham, Telford, Oxford Birmingham, Dewsbury, Bradford, Basingstoke, Bolton, Preston etc.

    HK-ers? Priti et al will only allow the rich ones in. It should keep the private schools going.

    Don’t bad mouth Africa, it was the cradle of civilisations, dontcha know!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubia62SoHf8

  1352. Starkey again. But in arguing for Conservative values of nationalism and patriotism he neglects to identify who will be left around to fight for them, certainly not him or here.
    There aren’t enough young people being born to fight.
    https://youtu.be/eF0mFymjFA4

  1354. A blogger under the moniker ‘I’m old fashioned’ writes on TCW:

    “As someone who takes an interest in propaganda of all stripes, I was disappointed to discover today that I’m no longer able to watch RT. This is appalling in a society which is constantly boasting about its ‘values’, which I had always assumed were centred around intellectual freedom. The censoring of RT’s English language service makes a mockery of this core aspect of a free society.

    I was about ten when I built a crystal set kit in 1958 and wearing my bakelite, ex GPO headphones, was able snuggle under the sheets in my bed at midnight and secretly tune in to Radio Moscow. At that age, the sense of mischief at doing this was palpable, but I was fascinated by noticing how Moscow’s version of world events, differed from the BBC new stories I had seen earlier on TV downstairs. It started an interest in looking at how the same event can be treated so differently. But, did I become a communist as a result of this? Of course not. On the contrary.

    But little could I have imagined back then, that the wonderful, free country in which I was growing up would, one day, descend into the intolerant, censorious régime that contemporary Britain has become”.

  1355. Listen, please, everyone Baron has talked to on the subject said it was impossible, but it keeps happening, the MacBook misbehaves, and misbehaves when Baron wants to scan certain sites, you may well guess which. If Baron’s off, it isn’t because he wants to be off, just so you know.

  1357. The left photo is fake all right, but what puzzles is how do they know where the original photo on the right was taken, does someone has such brilliant memory, remembers the original, does a system exist that could do the comparison automatically or what. Does anyone know?

    https://t.me/denazi_UA/1332

  1358. EC @ March 3rd, 2022 – 10:31

    The answer is, EC, of course it does, over 11mn are out, 2.6mn have permanent jobs, the rest are in temporary employment.

  1359. I wonder if this is a nuclear plant – or a bio lab – or both? The nuclear weapons were said to have all been returned to Russia, so it is unlikely to b that.
    Although I have read of interruptions to the electricity supply, I have seen little about the bio weapons capability in Ukraine. Which would the Russians be more interested in destroying, especially where Deep State assets are concerned?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60532634

  1362. Baron – 16:34

    Good article, Baron, but the scandal will soon all be buried under rubble.
    Another nation state down, “The Kenyan”‘s foreign policy running true to form.

    All together now…
    “Down by the old maelstrom, they’ll be a calm before the storm…”

  1364. Baron,

    “Common sense?”
    Politicians park that along with their vestigial consciences where there is $$$$$$$ to be made.

    “Russia: Valery Morozov offers a harrowing view into the mind of Vladimir Putin”

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

    Konstantin Kisin was making the very same points about the Russian psyche/ mindest
    on BBC QT last thursday! 14 mins of Konstantin’s best bits

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXwlqoSF70

    So young guy and old guy agree! But whaddya reckon Baron?

    btw. listen out for the contribution from the fat slaaag which K presumably included to show how ghastly, morally bankrupt and delusional the SNP are!

  1367. Only $4 per gallon(US)
    I wonder what the yanks would do if they had to pay $8.25 per gallon(US), which is roughly what we are paying – even. more down south!

  1368. So, no sale or return term in these government procurement contracts then. Still, whats £4 billion when you can’t be bothered to investigate £50 billions worth of fraud and waster, never mind the waste of 1 Trillion.
    No10 wants to burn 580 LORRIES’ of unused PPE a month for power https://mol.im/a/10586943 via https://dailym.ai/android

  1371. This is produced by an Italian TV crew, absolutely no connection to Putin or even Russia, it covers the violent overthrow of the Yanukovych’s Government, the guys may be lying of course, but it seems unlikely, they are pi$$ed because they were promised $5,000 after the event, didn’t get it.

    Shouldn’t it be looked into? Where are the peace loving, justice seeking authorities?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNc9PqIZ31M

  1376. Noa,

    Does this chap edit Arkwright Wire Company Ltd. in-house magazine?

    That Preston Journalist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3RdB8doxM

    Not sure about the snow-flakery pretext(*) upon which they finally got him, when in fact he should’ve been tried and jailed for treason… However, they got him!

    * Throwing a mobile phone at somebody? Shouting? It’s not as if he was in the habit of getting his cock out and nailing his diary secretary to his office desk à la “Two Shags” Prescott, is it?

  1378. EC @ March 9th, 2022 – 16:31

    The more pertinent question is, EC, why wasn’t he kicked out before he fugged up the lives of those he bullied?

  1379. EC @ March 9th, 2022 – 15:41

    Good reminder, EC, if that’s what you wanted to convey, that someone should step in, make that call, the talking between the two superpowers should begin. Who could that be that’s laughing as the two powers are sizing each other up in a test fight?

  1380. Put yourself in the shoes of an Ukrainian family that still has most of their life in front of them, say the parents up to the 40s, would you want to stay in a country that has been sinking from the day it de-coupled itself from the hell of the Bolshevik tyranny, if anything the last eight years got close to unbearable, what could you expect from whatever the outcome of the Russian cleansing operation cum invasion may be, would you not figure that even if and when the guns turn silent, Ukraine will not move, it will continue to sit between what will still be two powers at best suspicious of each other at worst spoiling and getting another fight?

    Then, as if He decided to interfere for your benefit, there opened up an opportunity to leave this land of no future go to a country that’s not on the border line, a country that welcomes you, furnishes an immediate help, provides a roof over your head, plenty pf job opportunities, an education for your kids.

    What would you do then?

  1381. Baron 08.39
    That’s what 10 million plus Pakistanis, Indians and Bangladeshis, 5 million Africans and innumerable other East Europeans have already decided.
    Welcome to the future Replacement wars…

  1382. You may like to watch the great Mark, start at the 7th minute (it’s news and commercials before that) and finish at the 15th minute, Mark shocked Baron not because of the facts he presented, but because of his courage to present them.

    There’s one thing that he also said in the seven minute long chat, didn’t dwell on it, it was a question ‘why was it that even though the CIA were saying Russia was to invade imminently nobody secured the bio-labs’.

    It may well be that what the CIA was saying was fake news, they knew Putin didn’t want to invade (just as Baron thought), the warning was fake, the Russians were not to venture in, hence no need to secure the bio-labs.

    The question then arises why did Putin change his mind, did invade? According to the rumour mill in some Russian media this is what we are going to be told soon. It better be good, if it’s to be believed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COoMTonL6xM

  1384. No idea who this guy Patrick is, but he seems genuine, it’s the first video of his Baron has viewed, hard to say how objective he is, other videos could offer a clue:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    What’s amazing and rather disappointing is that nobody seems keen to stop the conflict, it feels as if the tragedy in which people get killed benefits the Western leaders, instead of fuelling it they should call for at least a ceasefire.

    The one big positive is the Pentagon’s refusal to get involved, it may be surprising that it’s the military that aren’t keen on enlarging the conflict, it’s the morons of the MSM phylum because they have no idea what they wish for.

  1385. For some light relief from the new Cold War 2 I recommend trying the nostalgia of Cold War 1. The Ipcress File remake on the ITV hub is excellent entertainment so far, which is episode 2.

  1386. Noa – 22:33

    Thanks, I’ll give it a go.

    Is Harry Palmer black now? Transgender? How about Dalby, Ross, or Jock Carswell(*)?
    Does the girl formerly played by the lovely Sue Lloyd now have a big fat arse, a full compliment of tattoos and an estuary accent?

    * The miscast Gordon Jackson’s refusal to don blackface totally spoilt the authenticity of the original portrayal of Jock. Len Deighton should’ve insisted!

    Len Deighton wrote some great stories.

  1387. EC
    It’s remarkably un-PC so far, aside from the capable but comely female. They’ve taken some minor liberties though. Harry Palmer was n ex Burnley GS lad, not the son of a docker…
    I had a binge read of Len Deighton during early lockdown 2020, he’s still readable, by and large.His short story collection ‘Declarations of War”, is particularly readable. As are “Goodbye Mickey Mouse”, “Bomber” and his historical account,”Blotzkrieg”.

  1391. Noa @ March 13th, 2022 – 22:33

    Rather dark and depressing, Noa, but a relief from the actual slaughter that goes on in Ukraine.

    The latest not from the front, the Saudis invited Xi to visit the country, if only the two and Russia possibly other fossil fuel suppliers could begin to price oil and gas and their derivatives in a currency other than the greenback.

  1392. Noa – 10:08

    We watched the first two episodes of the Ipcress File last night.
    It’s actually very well done.
    No complaints from Mrs EC either who has the complete Game, Set and Match (so to speak) of all Len Deighton’s books., plus large library of all the other authors in that genre.

    Bomber was an excellent book. Although centred around the fictional events of June 31st (!) 1943 it was stuffed full of Lancaster related facts. The gradual build up the dramatic tension that he described was a masterpiece – the result of talking to some of the surviving pilots! I’ve also got the non fiction Fighter and Blitzkrieg.

  1393. Baron – 00:44

    If Xi managed to replace the petrodollar with something else then the USD would go down faster than a sack of spuds falling off the back of a lorry – taking the US with it. If the Chinese did that, though, wouldn’t they have to forgo all the USD debt markers that they hold?

  1395. EC 08.37
    That solution seems reasonable. They would then have exchanged their junk for junk bonds, we would all return to net zero as all debt was wiped out and, Comrade Karl predicted the Capitalist state would simply wither away.
    What would replace the $US? Why nothing at all! We will have reached Nirvana.

  1396. Read . The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver.
    It is 2029.
    The US national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. the dollar is in meltdown. a bloodless international currency war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families.
    All very possible.

  1397. Baron,

    Statins: I’ve stopped taking them as of yesterday.
    I think that they’ve done me untold damage.
    A great pity that I was too thick to realise that earlier.

    Your thoughts please – on Statins…
    but do feel free to chip in on my density as every other fugger does! 🙂

  1399. Does anybody remember the sociopathic “Sally Smedley” News Presenter from “Globe-Link News?” (* Drop The Dead Donkey)

    This real life presenter from Sky News ‘straya beats her! Never seen this woman smile, not even a plastic one a la Sally. This item (1 min) is even funnier as she is so angry! 🙂

    “Women’s Network logo deserved the ‘pasting it got today”

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

    * A brilliant series for a number of reasons, it would never be allowed on TV these days! Satirising “authoritative news” is definitely not allowed these days!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBoAg_7L04

    TV News & journalists, eh?

  1401. EC 09.31

    With fly by wire and automated controls the modern pilot’s role is residual and ‘The Few’ are getting fewer.
    In reality they are wasteful; baroque weapons system launch platforms.
    You wont find it by a Google search but if there are a maximum of four that are immediately ready for active service then that will be sufficient to meet the RAF Diamond fleet deployment capability.
    It can be met by stripping the rest of the fleet to meet equipment requirements.
    The RAF’s availability, support and logistics problems in meeting the warlike ambitions of our more delusional PMs periodically come to light when they attempt, like Cameron, to deploy a squadron to bomb the likes of Libya (at several million pounds per load) and find the rest of the Air force grinds to a halt in order for them to do so.

  1402. EC 09.10
    Exerpt from the Dead Donkey:
    “It’s not going to be easy for the Germans, switching from Communism to Capitalism.”
    To which came the reply:
    “The Labour party managed it”.

    To which the wry 2022 update:

    “The Conservative party has effortlessly managed the transition from capitalism to communism and from democracy to idoitocracy.”

  1403. EC
    ps loved the knickers or knockers ambiguity of the weemens network logo, with the cathartic effect of the interposing giant dildo added in for good measure.

    It should be reinsated and exported throughout the trans and labial world forthwith!

    https://youtu.be/js3xIg2pw8w

    Re Statins, one visits the CHW for many things but qualified medical advice isn’t one of them.
    Unless consulting newly qualified Medical graduates of the Universities of Bombay or Lusaka on the matter I personally would prefer, after suitable reseach and consultation of course, to continue the prescribed course of treatment.

  1404. March 15th, 2022 – 00:44

    Another way of considering the replacement of the $US by the Rimbi (or perhaps a gold backed Bitcoin) would be that it gives the PRC a $US 3 trillion wealth fund to buy up the remainder of the US and West.

    The US treasury might just as well give Xi the keys to Fort Knox in settlement-and almost certainly will if Colostomy Joe leads negotiations.

    Though even the stupid Brits and Europeans are getting wise to PRC or frontmen asset stripping….

    Baron/EC- Can you actually cancel non-negotiable Bearer Bonds?

    John Birch. The fact that we, the world’s untermench, are thoroughly f#cked over by the state and oligarch asset grabbers. Think of the benefits they acquire, a newly created world serf class, poor and landless, but very happy on their Soma sofas.

  1405. March 15th, 2022 – 00:44

    Another way of considering the replacement of the $US by the Rimbi (or perhaps a gold backed Bitcoin) would be that it gives the PRC a $US 3 trillion wealth fund to buy up the remainder of the US and West.

    The US treasury might just as well give Xi the keys to Fort Knox in settlement-and almost certainly will if Colostomy Joe leads negotiations.

    Though even the stupid Brits and Europeans are getting wise to PRC or frontmen asset stripping….

    Baron/EC- Can you actually cancel non-negotiable Bearer Bonds?

    John Birch. The fact that we, the world’s untermench, are thoroughly fracked over by the state and oligarch asset grabbers. Think of the benefits they acquire, a newly created world serf class, poor and landless, but very happy on their Soma sofas.

  1406. TCW reader’s letter of the week

    Eleri writes: “Saudi Arabia refuses to take Biden’s phone calls. The Saudis have invited President Xi to pay a state visit to Riyadh. The emerging Eurasia group have announced they are planning a new financial system based on the Chinese yuan and dumping the dollar. Who can blame them? It will have far-reaching consequences for the West as the East rises. Who in the UK gave Johnson permission to lead the hue and cry on Ukraine, to press for crippling sanctions and to eagerly participate in weaponising economic warfare against Russia? There was no reason for the UK to become involved. With uniformity of opinion in Parliament, no effective mechanism exists for holding the government to account. Johnson is on his way to Riyadh to beg for oil. Seeing how the Saudis have summarily cast off the US, their long-term partner in crime, what’s the betting that puny Britain will be swatted pretty smartly and/or made to pay a premium for the black gold? There’s a cost to virtue-signalling.”

  1407. Noa,

    “Re Statins, one visits the CHW for many things but qualified medical advice isn’t one of them.”)

    Unfortunately, disappointingly, these days The Heirs Of The Great Hippocrates are of bugger all use in that department too. So Baron is as good as anyone. The old joke used to be that only doctors got to bury their mistakes. but in more litigious modern times they’ve extended the time frame and hope that people don’t notice.

    No, I’ve not been watching Dr. Vernon Coleman recently but he does make some compelling arguments.

  1408. Noa, March 16th, 2022 – 18:32

    The Saudis need protecting from the mad mullahs of Tehran. It looks like they are about to swap horses in terms of outsourcing their protection.

    However they might not find the Mandarin speakers as relatively “hands off” as the Great Satan was. In time they might find themselves looking back fondly on the days when they were dominated by the Turk.

    Any road up, Bojo should’ve sent Charles (& Camilla) to Riyadh to ask his royal bros for a barrel or two.

  1410. EC @ March 16th, 2022 – 08:24

    The best decision you could have made ever, EC, statins deprived Baron of his muscles, fully, he resisted taking them, he was told that it would be his end if he didn’t take the stuff, it isn’t the end, not yet anyway, you stay away from the drug, eat six to eight black grapes every day, the idea comes for a US research, apparently grapes reduce cholesterol level noticeably if eaten regularly, Even if the don’t, grapes cannot hurt you.

  1411. Noa&EC:

    It’s hard to judge but we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the dollar as the top reserve currency, it will not collapse, the sterling hasn’t, it has been sliding from the $2.8 level in the 50s to today’s $1.3 or whatever it is for decades, the same should be true for the greenback, a gradual decline as the countries holding it reduce the amount in their coffers.

  1412. John birch. @ March 15th, 2022 – 18:25

    Thanks for the tip, John, Baron’s finishing ‘The trial of Adolf H’ by David King, well written, informative, when the Munich putsch on Nov 9 was almost over, the supporters led by H were marching to one of the buildings the other putschists were still holding, H got shot but the bullet missed him by a foot, his body guard Ulrich Graf was severely injured. If only the bullet changed its course just a little.

  1415. EC
    Thank you for that.
    Regardless of the purported reconciliation of Hawkings theorem I remain firmly esconced in the ‘No hair’ paradigm.

    For a light read on the flaws of Scientists and their ‘Church of Scientelegy’ I recommend ‘Science Fictions’ by Stuart Ritchie, ‘exposing the innumeravle fruads, bias, negligence and hype which goes into the fiddling of scientific research and published results by some of the brightest and wierdest minds on the planet.
    Remarkably though, the unblemished fields of Climate Change and Covid both seem to have free passes from on all such allegations from the author.

  1416. Baron

    The Bank of Joe is now ‘no go’ for any prudent sentient being.
    Even my dead cat bounced away from any ‘investments’ that could be subject to any intervention by the Scourge of Russia.
    The Borista is doing someting similar with the £UK. Only Russia and the PRC would use these shinplaster currencies to buy outright what they already control and hold majority stakes in, that is: the Washington and Westminster supermarket basement sales.

  1417. Noa @ March 17th, 2022 – 17:04

    Good point, Noa, the rumour is the White House (or rather the powers behind the geriatric) is at odds with the Fed, the latter is talking about the possibility of more than one reserve currency, the former is alarmed at the suggestion that China and few others including the Saudis may price oil & derivatives of it in a means of exchange other than the greenback.

    We shall see what happens next, when Col Gaddafi suggested the gold dinar he stopped breathing very soon after.

  1418. ECn @ March 17th, 2022 – 14:36

    The hairy offer is a compromise between the two unreconcilable theories, EC, everyone’s happy now. Has Simon already pronounced on it?

  1420. You may feel differently but Baron cannot get over the Putin’s decision to invade, it must have been a moment of madness for him to give the order to go in, what’s his end game? The denazification of the country? How can anyone achieve it? The genuine nazis cannot number more than 10,000 if that, what is he going to do provided he is to subdue the thugs of Azov and co? Shoot them all?

    The bio-labs are a different proposition but their presence cannot justify an invasion either, there must have been other means available, the nuke threat is more of an existential nature for Russia, the rumour is Ukraine was close to having a dirty nuclear bomb within months, they could have said to Putin ‘listen, Vlad, you have a month to clear off Crimea, fewer days to leave Donbas or else, the flying time of a missile between our eastern border and MOscow is less than 10 minutes’.

    But is the rumour correct? Nobody knows, but surely the nuclear threat if it exists could have been dealt with differently also, lobbing a cruise missile at the facility, something the Israelis suggested the Americans should consider in order to destroy the nukes of the Iranian nutters, it would have furnished another reason for more sanctions, but Europe would have been spared another war, the one in the Balkans was enough.

    For the Americans guided by the Wolfowitz Doctrine (google for it to refresh your memory) the invasion is a Godsend, they must be over not just one moon, but many of them, they will try to destroy not just Putin, but Russia, the Spectator prints nothing but narratives only on Russia and Putin.

    The articles in the pipeline for the rag include: ‘The suffering of British cats as Putin’s invasion continues’, ‘Is the pain in the groin you suffer connected with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?’, ‘Global Warming – does Putin’s invasion of Ukraine make it terminal?’ …..

    Have a good night sleep, boys, let’s pray the madness ends soon.

  1421. Baron 00.13
    Tee hee!
    An excellent analysis Mi’lud.
    I had understood from secret sources in DC that Putin’s real ambition was to sieze the ‘Granary of Europe’ and so control the world price of Kelloggs Corn Flakes by diverting all supplies to the copycat brand manufacturers in Kaliningrad.
    Who is ‘winning’ this nasty war? Glorious leader Schwab and his new world ordure I think.
    In other breaking news Greta attends school for first time in 10 years. receives PHD in Climate Terrorism… for his Leadership during the Great Covid wars Boris confirms his acceptance of Prime Ministerial Office in perpetuity from a greatful Westminster, which is to be known in future as Johnstoneminster.

  1422. Baron, March 17th, 2022 – 23:41

    Regardless of the exterior furnishings, when one delves deeper all one is left with is the grant troughing arsehole that came up with this particular flight of fancy.

  1423. EC 8.55
    LMAO!
    And so, in CHWs tribute to Mornington Crescent, we’re back to hairy black holes!

  1424. Noa,

    I suppose investment advice from a dead cat is as good as that from any IFA.
    But how can you be sure it’s actually dead? (*) I blame Erwin Schrödinger. (**)

    * No hasty confessions here, as the RSPCA are prosecuting the footballing bruvvers despite, well, you know…

    ** Spike Milligan actually solved this problem back in the ’60s.

  1425. Baron 00:13

    I cannot understand why Putin gave the go ahead either.
    I thought he was smarter than that.
    Maybe after all the years having absolute power he really has gone mad?

    Regarding the upcoming catastrophe

    If you find the dolphins have disappeared then it’s time to “get outta Dodge!”

    “The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the ‘Star Spangled Banner’, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.”

    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  1428. Thanks Bill.
    I enjoyed “mother eaten” you crazed crypto carpet bagger! But what I said before you imperiously changed it for what the amino acids in your chemically enhanced cranium meddled with my ranting verbiage was “mother eaten”!

  1432. Noa – 19-00 (*)

    That YouTube channel name: “Closer To The Truth” is most ironic.

    I lasted a full two minutes before this pair of topsy turvy merchants had me reaching for my Browning. It’s sad that this pair of sinecured grant troughing arseholes (personal opinion) are now the norm in the once great Halls of Academe – previously occupied by giants.

    I’m waiting for Nikola Tesla (**) to be rehabilitated. A proponent of “the aether, which if fully explored I’m sure would explain a lot a lot of what this pair of Hamptons are grasping for – without resorting to all their jiggery-pokery.

    ** within 48 hours of Tesla’s death(old age) in Jan 1943 his papers, the entire contents of his apartment, were seized by the FBI and placed in the “care” of Donald Trump’s uncle, MIT professor John G. Trump. Despite the protestations of “nothing to see here, folks” it somehow took them until 1957 to return his remains and his 80 trunks of “sifted” papers and belongings to Serbia.

    * The “Noa 1900” sounds like forerunner of the Colossus computer, or the Alan Turing-Gordon Welchman Bombe Enigma code cracking machine before that! The “Noa 1900” was no doubt a programmable yarn spinning machine invented by your great grandaddy, Isaiah Pendleton Arkwright?

  1433. EC

    A ‘programmable yarn spinning machine’ irresistably called the Fat Borista and his Cabinet of all the Hollorith cards to mind, as we move seamlessly from a pattern of blithering to blathering in our Jacquard loom of a gub’mint.
    Where’s King Ludd when you need him?

  1434. At last the Labour and Tory muddle classes have a cause in Ukraine upon which, unlike the Spanish civil war, they can unite.
    Both causesc were and are of course simplified and simply wrong.

  1435. Apologies for not bothering you with anything that may look like views, Baron’s not on his usual base, will be for another week, made himself a promise to switch off from the world as it is, walk a dog, cook bacon and egg, have as many g&ts as he likes, all that to find out whether life can be bettered if one refuses to communicate with it, then switched the Peter’s blog on to find out if life’s still there, discovered it was, the quality of postings improved also as he wasn’t a contributor any longer, the black hole clip was of particular interest, we are all moving into one, it seems…

    Nough said, may be back.

  1438. Nice to see you drop by Baron.
    The CHW is probably best treated as a club for occasional visits whilst in Town, one where people of like minded pop in fir a gripe, discussion or simply an exchange of ideasand views.
    If it was compulsory none of us would be here!
    Take care, relax recharge your lithium batteries if Xi will let you. Pop in when you’re in the mood, but if it fits Grouchos essential club membership criteria!
    https://youtu.be/n8IKReSu7dI

  1439. Baron, March 27th, 2022 – 08:00

    I don’t blame you. News? Depressing stuff. We don’t get a say in what happens, never did, so let ’em get on with it. The devil take them all.

    I find I can only cope with the increasingly sombre Neil Oliver on a good day, if Im over happy. Something to take the edge off it. I’ve given up watching most news now. I thought that I could handle Mark Steyn but even his sharper observations with a side helping of gallows humour started to pall.

    G&Ts are my favourite tipple when I’m in a hurry for anaesthesia. All the supermarkets are knocking out “Easter specials” litre bottles of gin and other spirits now, so stock up.

    Enjoy the weather.

  1440. EC
    Yes Neil O is a Sterling chap is he not? Certainly he kept many from depression during Fatso’s Great Lockdown. And he provides the poetic, sorely needed ‘Missing Voice’ for the Unheard, Pareto’s 20%.
    Britain’s as yet unbrainwashed.

  1441. Noa – 09:07

    There’s a lot of it about up here at present!
    Also the buggers have jumped the Easter tourist gun by distributing the undiluted contents of their septic and slurry tanks on the fields a fortnight early. Both sides of the Solway!

    Yessiree, no expensive Rusky nitrates required up here! Most of the shit the UK produces goes to waste. Yesterday I was pondering what to do about it. Maybe rebranding George Osborne’s “Northern Powerhouse” as a “Northern Shithouse, scrapping HS2 and building a pipelines to East Anglia and The Cotswolds where they grow the wheat, barley & rye etc. Call them Turdstream1 and Turdstream2 perhaps?

    Dunno about down your way but I haven’t seen a Wind Turdbine move in days!

  1442. EC
    ROTLMAO!
    Turdstream 1 and 2 indeed!
    Moving through the Trough today necessitated the wearing
    of a nosegay in Mrs Noa’s case and half a bottle of Versace’s Old Armpit. Neither were quite enough to quell the maloderous lingering remains of the Saturday night curryfest from the great new Pakistani city of Blackburn.
    Conversely science may in time coordinate and channel these emissions to power the Great Chinese Bird Choppers which are the new sites of divine worship by mentally returned Swedish school truants and the perverse corpulent, copulating politicians who pry upon them.

  1444. Baron,

    I hope that you are well, and perhaps feeling a bit chirpier.
    If you are still out there, then this snippet below might amuse you… or maybe not.

    I am currently reading “My Silent War” by Kim Philby.
    It’s a really good read, if you get the chance.

    To me, having never delved overmuch into the murkier side of things, it’s somewhat revelatory. i.e. the amateurish organisational shambles.(*) When I keep reading out bits to Mrs EC she says “Oh I already know about that, old [insert authors’ names here] wrote about that in their books… supposedly fictional.

    Any road up:
    After leaving ‘The Times’ Philby secured employment working for [Guy Burgess] at Section D which had been grafted on to SIS. It was an unhappy marriage and when Section D was disbanded after drifting about on full pay he was eventually employed by the revamped SOE, in Section SO1 – black propaganda!

    His interview consisted of:

    CG: “Do you know anything about political propaganda.”
    KP: “Yes”
    GC: “Good! Go away and write a proposal for a training syllabus. Make it brief!”

    Philby wrote:
    ” When I got down to it, I realised that my knowledge of propaganda left much to be desired. I had no inside experience of modern advertising methods. My few years in journalism had taught me to report what was happening, often a fatal mistake in a propagandist whose task is to persuade people to do things. I consoled myself with the unconvincing reflection that the world had seen many a successful propagandist who had been equally ignorant of the techniques of selling soap. But, to be on the safe side, I took the trouble to consult a few friends of mine in the advertising world from whom I picked up some basic principles that could be padded out to fill quite a few lectures. I have found that advertising people can be relied upon for two things. First, they will warn you on no account to go into advertising; second, they will expiate at length on the dirtier tricks of their profession.”

    The above passage raised silent chuckle on two counts:

    1) Imagine a journalist of today actually writing about what is actually happening.
    [Frederick Forsyth tried that in Nigeria (1960s) and the BBC sacked him for it]
    2) The chosen profession of our old chum, the fugitive émigré, was “advertising.”

    * In the introduction to his book, Philby maintains that his reputation as a master spy was thoroughly undeserved, and that, post discovery, his abilities had been grossly exaggerated by those wishing to excuse their own incompetence.

    Anyway, it’s a very interesting read as is Henry Hemming’s biography of Maxwell Knight (MI5)

  1445. I’m reading Paxman’s ‘Black Gold’, his history of coal at present. The ‘Climate Change campaign’ has brilliantly recreated the laissez faire capitalism of the 18th and 19th century land owners blessed with an exploitable asset, subsequently nationalised and so lost to them in the mid twentieth century. Substitute wind (and solar) for coal and the monopolistic power of coal has been recreated, but without the disadvantages of a militant work force and the intervention of market competition.

  1446. Back to base, and what a cold base it is, still no heating oil even though Baron has forked out close to three thousand quid, one has to pay in advance, is promised the delivery before a certain date, only today the first message arrived of the first tanker to turn up on or before the 8th.

    You can’t imagine how cold the house is after the absence of human inhabitance for two weeks or so, it’s colder than in the coldest winter in the harshest region of Siberia, it’s almost as if the Gods waited to cover the part of the country that houses Baron’s abode with frosty nights when supplies of heating oil are off, last night the temperature sank to minus 4C, arghhh

    It was just as Paxman must have described the past, Noa, a massive fire (the coal briquettes not the actual coal what with the new approach to climate changes) and many a chink of wood to keep but one room close to habitable.

  1447. EC @ March 31st, 2022 – 09:26

    The part you cover in your posting, EC, shows the good old amateurish approach to things, and why not, it’s often better than what the professionals can offer, just look at the Prof Fleming’s prediction about deaths from c-19, compare to what the guessing pundits of no training in the discipline of modelling said, and who go it right?

    May get to the book when the house heating issue gets solved, if only because the elites of the past behaved seldom ungentlemanly, no thuggishness, no foul language, no deeply seated hatred like those in the present.

  1448. Baron – 21:47

    Beware former scientists, academics in general, that have forsaken their former disciplines and turned politician, activist or media luvvie. They have sold their reputations and their souls to the dark side. (q.v. CHWs passim on Lysenkoism in western academe)

    Now, if you are seeking an untrained, inexperienced but enthusiastic amateur to assist you with your current household heating emergency I can thoroughly recommend Hunter Biden. He doesn’t come cheap but he knows people who know other people who know another “big guy” who currently has abundance of fossil fuels on his hands.

  1452. Le Pen didn’t do badly, but it feels Micron will still get in, the one thing that could win it for her is if she keeps stressing bread and butter policies, it’s what the immediate future holds, the hardship that will fall upon the West is something nobody in one’s living memory has experienced.

    Ever so often Baron buys a big bag of peanuts for the birds, he did so again last week, the cost went from £43.50 to £48.00 that’s close to 10%, the shopkeeper was made aware of it, in response he said ‘you should complain anyone buying a bag of sunflower seeds paid £17.00 at the start of the year, now it’s £47.50, the stuff comes from Ukraine.

    But the ever-forward-thinking Government made few adjustments to the calculation of both the consumer and retail price indices, they now include dog collars (the reasoning is quite convincing, in the lockdowns people went for animals, dogs and cats mostly, hence the collars), but how much price inflation would one expect in this product category? Arghhh

  1453. Imposing sanctions on the Russian central bank, the first of such moves if Baron’s right, may not be a smart move, it will signal to other countries that holding their currency reserves mostly in the greenback is rather risky, what if the American Governing elite goes after them too, around 50 countries are being sanctioned by the US currently, and the list is growing, there is no guarantee that another country (say) Pakistan will not get on the list also if it’s deemed to displease the Americans.

    If that wasn’t enough to weaken the US dollar status as a reserve currency the insane indebtedness of the Republic is another contributory factor, 80% of the US dollars in circulation today (April 2022) got printed in the last 24 months, it may well be that most of the debt is absorbed by the American unwashed and the institutions, but the sheer magnitude of the issuance cannot be services if and when the cost of money turns up noticeably, as it must if inflation keeps rising.

    One can never predict what the future is to bring, but the omens on many product categories don’t look encouraging, prices of all major commodities are on the way up, fossil fuels in particular, and as the usage of the latter is ubiquitous sooner or later the shop prices will reflect it.

    Just tighten up your belts, boys (and girls and those in between).

  1454. For those still doubting the Ukrainian Army is full of neo-Na*is, have a look here, if you have no desire to watch the lot, put the runner to 1.18min, there you can see the Ukrainian trooper with a patch of his back saying ‘SS Galician’, then google for the WW2 SS Galician brigade and what they got up to as part of the Na*i occupation of Russia and Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5yZnxS2zc

  1456. This may not seem at all important what with the suspected intention of the globalists to Built Back Better a worldwide government (controlled of course by our special friends), and to abandon national boundaries, but one cannot help feeling that having the top Governing elite less than fully committed to this country may not be in the best interests of the unwashed of this country.

    Simon has a short video on the conundrum, what he fails to mention, very likely because he’s a monarchist, that even the Head of State isn’t fully kosher looking at her through the same prism, albeit not to the extend of the current lot in charge, or that George I and II didn’t speak the language of the country until the 3rd came along (you may correct Baron on this, but he cannot be that wrong).

    Why is it the British are amongst the few tribes that allow to be governed in a process of a free decision by individuals that cannot have the same affinity to the history of this country as do the vast majority of it?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRiok6gOa4

  1457. An excellent read, John, thanks for digging it up, it will receive a wider circulation, Baron will make sure of it.

  1458. I’m delightedxto be able to offer TCW readers a wonderful investment opportunity which will surely be our national salvation once the latest HMG strategy paper identifies the Way Forward.
    Are you aware of the power of prayer? The Chinese have long known of its value and Uigher staffed facilities in Tibet are now producing this wonderful tool for British use.
    Based on the religious practices of this cold Himilayian country the principle is simple and effective, the more you spin your Boris Wheels the warmer you will get and morespiritually enriched you become!
    The “Heavenly Boris” Great British Prayer Wheel is now exclusively available at a special readers price. And there is an exclusive two for one offer!
    So hurry to buy, whilst praying that stocks last!

  1459. Baron

    Prepare for a hard autumn and winter. Everything is going up in price as shortages become widespread and acute. Coal prices are already up 25% and rising (it comes from Ukraine via Moldova) my merchant says he doesnt know if he can even get any more. Gas and oil we already know about. Grains and cereals the same.
    Rationing and possibly food riots, particularly in vibrant inner London are becoming a serious possibility as producing countries conserve ther stocks.

    https://youtu.be/PwxV6BKxDTU

  1460. Baron – 00:42

    A very interesting paused screenshot provided, albeit unintentionally, by that “Current Bun” video.

    Oh Canada!
    They were effectively whitewashed in Canada by the Deschênes Commission.
    Wiki: “There is also a monument to the division in St. Michael’s Cemetery in Edmonton. In 2021 it was vandalised with “nazi monument” painted on one side and “14th Waffen SS” on the other.”

  1461. Noa – 09:15

    in the Buddhist Monastery located just across the border from here, they appear to have installed electric prayer wheels – in the mausoleum. Could this be the dead spinning in their graves (or urns in cabinets) – so to speak ?

    Noa – 10:15

    The return to home grown seasonal fruit and vegetables. Imagine that…
    The lost art of preserving, pickling and bottling could also make a comeback.
    Your Nelly’s courses on this at the W.I. could be a money spinner!

  1464. EC
    It’s a competitive world out there? Which to choose? the Cumberland and Westmoreland winds or the fierce unrelenting power of the Sun? Thankfully Boris, ever the decisive leader, keeps a foot in both camps in order to maintain a perpetual prayerful omi-spin.
    https://youtu.be/_W_qnhzUxtc

    07.58
    I see the shrill, hectoring voiced cow with a face that’s been smacked with the back of a navvy’s shovel can’t even be bothered to change out of her jeans before lecturing her fellow EU MEPs.
    And do the Irish pay into the EU now? Good, it’s well overdue .

  1466. Noa – 10:06

    I see the shrill, hectoring voiced cow with a face that’s been smacked with the back of a navvy’s shovel can’t even be bothered to change out of her jeans before lecturing her fellow EU MEPs.

    🙂
    Yerrrs, the almighty cursed the poor cow with an unfortunate boat that could sink a 1000 ships… and a voice to match.

    Time to revisit the “rights” that Irish citizens get in the UK that UK citizens don’t get in Ireland. More reciprocity needed, imo

  1467. EC 11.43

    Agreed, your average Oirish nappy throwing tinker has more rights than any Englishman or woman.

  1472. A good link. I’ve just been perusing his other essays on Takimag, and the “Z Man” writes some interesting stuff.

    But will it tempt Baron out to play?

  1473. Indeed, I fear the mole hunting season is now fast upon us.

    To horse, to horse!
    I hear his Lordship cry
    For the game is no afoot
    2My Lady dreams upon a new fur coat
    And I new breeches need.”

  1474. Noa @ April 18th, 2022 – 18:02

    Many thanks for posting it, Noa, the great Z-man cannot be faulted, it comforts one to know it isn’t just the few of us seeing the Ukrainian tragedy as it is or as it has come about.

    Truly an enjoyable write-up, Baron will re-post it on the Spectator site at the earliest opportunity, the blog is full of Brown Shirt candidates, if venom were a marketable commodity most of the contributors would be richer than Bezos.

  1475. EC @ April 16th, 2022 – 12:09

    Also informative if for different reasons and quite enjoyable, EC, what a cheek, but Simon should be careful, his ‘heads off’ to Ireland may land him in trouble in these enlightened days.

    It’s decorating, the outside walls, or rather preparing for it, that is keeping Baron from boring you with bits and pieces, but here’s a quote by the great French Montesquieu: “In matters of war one should not confuse the apparent causes with the root causes, and should not confuse those who triggered war with those who made it inevitable.”

    And something that Baron will develop when he catches up with events, an unintended consequence of the West collectively freezing up Russian sovereign assets held within their jurisdictions, it cannot but erode and erode significantly the trust in the dollar as the means of of exchange and the store of value if the holdings of it could be stolen used for whatever those doing the theft may wish, nobody has yet mentioned it, certainly not the MSM poodles, it wouldn’t;t go down well with their masters, but you’ll see that countries and certainly China will adjust for it, they must because the same fate may one day befall on them as it did on Russia.

  1477. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

    “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!”

    He took his vorpal sword in hand;
    Long time the manxome foe he sought—
    So rested he by the Tumtum tree
    And stood awhile in thought.

    And, as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!

    One, two! One, two! And through and through
    The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.

    “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
    He chortled in his joy.

    ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

    Definitely NOT Fergus Pickering!

  1479. Posted on another blog (MofA) yesterday, it’s comforting to know that not everyone’s waving the blue/yellow flag:

    “Something is changing in Europe and the West. Now the EU has agreed countries can pay for gas and oil in rubles. UK has lifted sanctions against Gazprom Bank, USA warns about EU embargo of Russian oil due to a resulting massive surge in the price of oil. Gutteres (UN Head) has requested President Putin and the Clown posing as a President Zelensky accept him to their Capitals for discussions about peace in Ukraine and a multi lateral world order based on International Law. Putin has accepted and is meeting him on 26th April during which he will also meet with Lavrov. Doesn’t look like Zelensky has accepted yet.

    A bit late to negotiate peace now with the USA UK and the EU and West having refused and sabotaged a diplomatic solution for the past 8 years and the deep and profound hatred they have and still do express towards Putin. They can’t retract anything they have said and done now.

    Russia is through with the West that’s it. I wonder whether Gutteres has had some kind of epiphany about all of this and might realise what and who Zelensky actually is a tyrant despot and Dictator whose armed forces he encourages to kill Ukranian citizens torture them and discard them. Any President in a civilised country would tell those in Azovstal to surrender to save lives. Lavrov was quite right to be contemptuous about him. As Commander on Chief of the Ukranian Armed forces he should have ordered them to surrender and engage in proper international diplomatic dialogue to find a resolution to the situation.

    I still hold out hope that Senior Army Generals and Commanders will encourage their troops to surrender in militarily hopeless situations and preserve their lives and those of civilians. I don’t buy Zelensky is merely a puppet. He is making preposterous demands almost on a daily basis. He’s uber confident now. He should be acting in the interests of Ukraine not himself. He’s a monster no more no less. He cannot be controlled now.

    UK Column News deployed a bit of dark humour on their broadcast on Wednesday. Mocking up a Game called “Zelensky Says…”. What is going on against Russia now makes me thorougly ashamed to be British. God bless Russia and Putin. BTW on Martyanov’s Smoothiex12.blogspot there is a brilliant cartoon about Sanctions and oil and gas. Check out the expression on Putin’s. LOL!”

    Posted by: Jo Dominich | Apr 22 2022

  1481. Priceless, Noa, Baron will start saving fast, he needs at least fifteen thousand quit.

  1484. Noa @ April 24th, 2022 – 21:10

    A short piece, Noa, mercifully, also a biggish mistake, Ukraine had 52mn inhabitants when the USSR collapsed, since the Feb 2014 takeover she has lost 12mn, one’s told another 5mn have already left after the invasion, the current population number should therefore be around 35mn, and the fleeing isn’t one yet.

    How many will eventually leave is everyone’s guess, it will be predominantly the members of the middle class that will move, you look at some of them in the commercials asking for money, or the cars parked in the towns that are hosting them, it’s BMW, VW, Rovers. The lower classes, certainly those in rural areas have no intention leaving, Baron talked to some, they want to make money in the West, yes, but then return home, many have small chunks of land, houses, relatives mostly old.

    What motivated those that go isn’t so much the Russians, it’s the realisation that whoever runs Ukraine after the tragic invasion is unlikely to change the country from what it was before the invasion, the poverty, the corruption, the rule of the oligarchs will remain, emigration is one chance in a lifetime of not just one generation but many.

  1485. What a tragic situation you describe Baron. It’s a consequence of any war it seems, that any war will leave a very few richer and a great many far worse off than before the bloody business began.
    Britain should have nothing to do with it and the shameless, amoral Johnson be working for a peaceful solution rather than stoking the fires.

  1486. Baron – 21:53; Noa – 22:56

    It’s a terrible tragedy. All the death and destruction will fix nothing. What remains or Ukraine’s cities will be a bombed out shithole that will take a 100 years or more to fix. The enmity will last longer than that.

    Bald & Bankrupt showcasing Syria today: “The Syria The Media Won’t Show You”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6d0zw-DxpU

    Just take a look at the scale of the destruction here! Look familiar?

    My memory is going, I’d be grateful if you’d correct me if I’m wrong…
    Wasn’t the Syria debacle another example [a triumph!) of Obama & Clinton’s foreign policy? i.e.meddling (aka subversion) and regime change? Funding ISIS to get rid of Assad? FFS!

    I reckon that Obama must be running this one too, as sure as hell it can’t be Joe. Joe’s lights may be on, dimly, but there’s nobody at home!

  1487. Baron, April 20th, 2022 – 22:32

    That’s a great quote from the venerable French judge, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

    namely: “In matters of war one should not confuse the apparent causes with the root causes, and one should not confuse those who triggered it with those who made it inevitable.”

    That one has been doing the rounds on the interweb in the last week or so, but did he actually say it? I cannot find the source. That doesn’t stop it being most apposite and clever. It sounds genuine and fair enough to me.

  1488. EC @ April 25th, 2022 – 09:03

    Thanks for the quote, EC, Baron did use it, it’s on the list of his top quotes, and not just once on the Spectator’s site, never ever a response one way or another, no up or down ticks, ignored, fully, that shows you what sort of clientele the rag has acquired. The quote’s indeed wise, but when one thinks of it it does reflect little more than a common sense wisdom on both counts.

    Yesterday, four pundits were mulling the Ukrainian tragedy, the interviewing BBC female did ask few questions that those in power are never asked, and if they are, never answer, amongst them was ‘but NATO did interfere in the non-member countries, in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya… how do you explain it’, she asked.

    The guy explained it easily, ‘the interference was necessary to prevent instability in the NATO countries’, he said. If Baron were her he would ask ‘doesn’t it justify Russian in version of Ukraine then? It was carried out to avoid any possible destabilisation in Russia, in the judgment of the man in the Kremlin it was necessary because other made it inevitable. Of course she didn’t pursue this line of questioning, neither got the Kiev’s Feb 2014 putsch mentioned, not even once wrapped up as the ‘will of the Ukrainian people’ as it always is.

  1489. EC @ April 25th, 2022 – 08:42

    Agreed on Ukraine, EC, even though what we see on the TV is not what the whole country looks like, Baron talked to some of the Ukrainian rural men, for them the invasion means nothing, they don’t talk about it, it has no relevance to their lives, or so they said, and they have no desire to remain in the West either.

    Putin’s supposed to be the smart politician, then why has he done nothing to challenge the accusation (say) on Litvinenko’s polonium poisoning, the Skripal’s affair, why has he and Lavrov kept calling the Western leaders ‘colleagues’ as the ‘colleagues’ we’re doing everything to harm Russia, push NATO further east? You may recall Baron telling you about the guy that had voted United Russia switched to voting the communists because of Putin’s ar$e licking the West.

    Had Putin stood up to the containment of Russia earlier, perhaps he wouldn’t have had to invade. It does feel he’s lost it, should go, retire, get to fish bare-breasted in Siberia, whatever the end game in Ukraine may be the way he and the Russian military are going about it doesn’t suggest either confidence or clear objectives.

    There’s one thing Baron may debate with you, it frightens him even more than what goes on in Ukraine now.

  1491. Baron – 12:26

    “There’s one thing Baron may debate with you, it frightens him even more than what goes on in Ukraine now.”

    What thing is that?

  1493. Yes John, we are in the endgame now. When the people in charge of western nations, and I don’t mean our “elected” representatives, all seem hell bent on introducing “net zero” and digital ids combined with e-currency then the game is well and truly up. The banksters, the corporatocracy, Baron’s MSM poodles, Tony Blair and the rest of the usual suspects are pushing for such measures to be introduced ASAP. It’s all being done in plain sight, no tinfoil hat required! It’s all for our own good dontcha know. George Orwell’s vision of the future is coming true.

    HELL is being forced to pay for a TV that cannot be switched OFF and that ia permanently tuned in to the BBC and showing BBC News, The One Show, and East Enders 24/7. The fact that most of our fellow countrymen wouldn’t object to being fed this diet means that the game is well and truly up!

  1494. May Elections:

    It appears that we here in the outer spiral arm of England are having a new council imposed upon us. I don’t remember voting for this! It is being superimposed on top of three existing councils so I don’t expect they’ll be any cost benefits to the taxpayer – far from it! HoHoHo the very thought of it! Of course all the additional Sesselfurzer required will be classified by Klaus Schwab as essential to the functioning of democracy (Ha!) and in no way “useless eaters.”

    We had a hopeful gadgie canvassing here last weekend. Fair play to him as it’s rarely anybody can be bothered. (There are some wards ’round here on the Labour vote plantations) where candidates are frequently elected unopposed) He was distressed to hear that since turning 18, in my 54 years of voting in local or national elections, that my vote had made not one jot of difference. For the first time ever I wasn’t going to bother voting because whether it be local or national, the reds or the blues the same bods got in.

    I stopped short of running Samuel Johnson’s louse, flea, precedence quote past him as I don’t think he would’ve understood.

  1496. John birch. @ April 25th, 2022 – 21:13

    There must have been times in the history of mankind, John, when it felt that that the whole world went loopy, the end was so near one could smell it, all was lost and yet by some unexplained turn of events the world woke from the moronity, things turned, the humans kept on bonking, drinking even living, let’s just say ‘praise be to Him’ to come to such turning point soon (or else).

  1497. EC @ April 26th, 2022 – 09:52

    Since 1997 Baron hasn’t voted for any of the clowns of any hue, EC, has no intention changing his mind in the future.

  1498. EC
    I suggest that you instruct your Master of Hounds to spray them with Fox pee when they turn-up at the Lodge and give them a two minute start to make their getaway before he releases the pack.
    I’m told the tories make the best eating, the Labour ones the best running and the Libdems, being neither are simply also rans.

  1499. It’s travelling time for Baron, the first impression watching the large number of Ukrainian refugees in descending on Central Europe is that they don’t look at all as people who’s suffered or even feared suffering, or look undernourished, drawn in face, they are better dressed than the locals (Gant seems to be the trademark those Baron met were favouring), and their cars are mostly of German origin with a few Rovers.

    You may call him cunning but Baron indicated he’s rather on their side without saying it, one party wouldn’t be drawn to talk at all, two others, met separately, were, the smallest one on a tram (5), nothing much except their expressing satisfaction with the welcome (even though there are not as many Ukrainian posters or flags here as in Britain, in fact Baron hasn’t so far spotted even one flag).

    Both of the parties willing to talk wanted to move further west, didn’t know yet where to, Canada would be the top choice for one of them, the other party the one of five had a young girl about 6-7, she spoke Russian to them (they all did to Baron also but amongst themselves before Baron butted in both parties spoke Ukrainian), as the young girl watched ‘a miracle’ performed by Baron to amuse her (she was tired, the miracle is hard to describe, Baron knows how to bend one of the fingers of his left hand, cover the bending with a finger of the other hand hiding another bent finger of the right hand making it look as if he can tear the top of the left hand finger off, one has to see it explaining it is almost impossible even for someone who’s good at explaining).

    Kids find it impressive and puzzling, cannot figure how it’s done as did the girl asking Baron to do again and again, all in Russian, Baron said the the mother ‘does she not speak Ukrainian?’ ‘She was in a school with mostly Russian kids, she prefers Russian’, the mother said to which Baron said ‘did it not matter when you were interviewed, it may have been better for her to speak Ukrainian if she were talked to’. The mother wasn’t miffed at all, said ‘it didn’t really matter the lady doing the initial interviewing spoke only English’.

    More to come, one hopes even though Baron’s here to do a job not to talk to strangers.

  1501. Quite a number of shops and diners have not reopened after the c-19 shutdown here, two of the restaurants that no longer do business were Baron’s favourites, the one he was going to eat in today is truly a great loss, one of the meals they did, one had to order it, was a well marinated slowly baked pig’s knee, yes, you may cringe, but it was a nosh to die for, a feast for the royals, the meat melting in the mouth with the help of a garlic mayonnaise with chopped chives, sweet potato wedges and as many pints of lager as one desired, Baron usually had three.

    Sadly this avenue of pleasure in no longer, the place looked strange on approach, no garden furniture and loud voices inside, very loud, sounding like English, it turned out it was the British aged between 20-30 and nobody else, all drunk, seventeen of them, some with tea-shorts saying ‘Brian has lost it’, most of them to the point of hardly able to walk, two vomiting into the same orange plastic bag, the others either shouting or trying to sing embracing each other.

    Without thinking Baron shouted even more than any of them ‘could you talk louder please one cannot hear you’, and regretted saying it almost as he said it, not that anyone was unfriendly, just the opposite, to get a kiss from someone reeking of beer wasn’t what Baron expected on an empty stomach, nor an invitation to share a drink from a bottle of vodka, ‘is he one of us?, someone shouted, ‘no, he’s too fugging old’, it was just as well they were leaving, the guy who handled the finances was only half drunk, quite civil, he talked to Baron briefly, ‘it’s a stag party’, he said, ‘what else, we came here because we think Tallin’s too risky, the Russians are close’.

    The three women were rather taken aback by all this, all hiding behind a bar, the eldest told Baron they are the new owners, were looking for a cook also waiters, could Baron be interested, he wasn’t, her accent told him, it wasn’t so much the accent as her inability to say anything in the local language well, no indigenous then, indeed she was Ukrainian, her husband, also an Ukrainian, bought the place few weeks ago, the other girls were her daughter and the daughter’s friend, a Russian girl, both blonde, very beautiful, ‘are you OK with each other with the fighting in Ukraine going on?’, Baron asked, they were, in fact two more Russian girls were joining the team to help to clear the mess, no meal of any sort for the barbarian then, hungry he left letting the girls do make the place habitable again.

  1503. To Public.Enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk

    Subject: The Deportation of Mr Julian Assange

    For the attention of the Home Secretary, Mrs P Patel.

    Dear Mrs Patel,

    I am writing to you to express my very deep concern over the proposed deportation if Mr Assange to the United States, under the unjust and inequitable applied terms of the current Deportation Treaty between our two nations.

    Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, has been unjustly detained in HMP Belmont whilst protracted proceedings have taken place against him. He has committed no crime in the United Kingdom and his deportation will almost certainly result in his death in prison.

    In view of these just concerns I believe your direct intercession freeing Mr Assange immediately, at a time when personal liberty is perceived to be under direct threat,would be both just and beneficial to the public good…”

  1504. Noa, April 29th, 2022 – 09:57

    Well, said.

    Not only committed any offence whilst on UK soil or USA soil but committed no offence on anybody’s soil, imo. Had Assange beens a US citizen if he’d have transgendered like Bradley Manning he would’ve have been OK. I don’t particularly warm to the chap but his treatment and incarcerations, has been inhuman, imo.

    Like you say the Blair’s 2003 Anglo-US Extradition Treaty, despite “safeguards,” has proven to be a licence for the septics to in effect kidnap anybody they wish. They have a history of doing this in order to protect their own. Mind you, Blair has form on this by permitting, and providing facilities for, US “extraordinary flights” via UK airfields.

    This is a wholly political case which should have been rejected on that ground alone as contrary to Article 4 (1) of the aforesaid 2003 treaty.The extradition is another piece of classic misdirection, a cover up, in order the spare the blushes, embarrassment and incompetence of some high ups in the US security and political establishments.

    Will Ms Patel act? Will she FCUK! Where are all the usual lefties protesting this, by the way? All the Shammy Chakrabitties super gluing themselves the the M25 etc. One would’ve thought that this issue would have been one with which the Labour party could be using to bash the government? Nope, the useless, USELESS Kia Starmer is too preoccupied with Cake-gate, and no Beer-gate and Thigh-gate (aka Slaaag-gate)
    Fcuking hypocites the lot of ’em.

    Grrrr!

  1505. Just as dr. Pasquano had a penchant for cannoli Baron’s preference is for aragostine, he found a new shop selling them here, it must have opened after the pandemic, everything felt new, a small compensation for the loss of his favourite eatery, he finished half a dozen of them, three of salted caramel, another three of white chocolate, bliss with a strong cup of coffee was somewhat marred by two rowdy kids licking cones of ice cream whilst running about the place, the kids were of Ukrainian origin, as were the parents, they arrived before Baron consumed his purchase fully, spoke Russian, looked as if they were a cut-out from a Hollywood movie about the upper crust of a wealthy society, the female smarted a Ferragamo handbag.

    ‘You shouldn’t run here, you may slip, injure yourselves’ Baron said to the kids gently hoping to open up a conversation, he hoped wrong, the parents looked rather crossed but not with the kids who kept on running, the man said to his wife in Russia ‘what does he want’? without giving Baron a look. And that was the end of the affair, Baron finished the last piece of aragostine and departed.

    The cheapest car with the Ukrainian registration number Baron encountered today was a Hyundai, the others were all German models.

  1508. Baron – 21:10

    Ah, you also speak Montalbano!
    There was a poignant scene in one of the last series when the main cast, in character, gathered in Montalbano’s office and each ate one of those coronary confections in memory of the curmudgeonly Dottor Pasquano and of course the Sicilian actor Marcello Perracchio.

  1510. Re: “The blonde inseminator”: Someone came out with a new (to me) nickname for our esteemed PM the other day: “Carnal Fattaturk.”

    Toodle Pip!

  1513. The History Reclaimed pieces are of the same dubious quality, Noa, nothing new on facts, just the usual anti-Russian interpretation, the one sentence in the other link in the Atlantic that put Baron off is towards the end quoting Bannon who’s advising how to deal with the media “flood them with shit, he’s describing the ‘firehose of falsehoods’ tactic pioneered by the Russian disinformation campaign to keep Americans confused, disorientated and angry”, or so the author says.

    Something the great Tucker is addressing also, but correctly avoids the discredited ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ take on it, giving it a totally different interpretation, plus the warning that the American Governing Elite may indeed be getting close to a war with Russia, watch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvO8b-tiaM

  1514. In recent times, all the best conspiracies are conducted in plain sight, with the intentions being publicly announced beforehand. [eg. PNAC]

    As Machiavelli pointed out, there’s nothing like embarking on a foreign war in order to distract from domestic issues. Nuclear weaponry didn’t exist in his time period, so in modern times this could be a suicidal strategy.

    Undoubtedly the Ukraine-Russia proxy is a major distraction from US domestic issues, and it may yet prevent the DNC candidates from being completely flushed down the toilet in the November mid-term elections. The hysteria will grow the closer the midterms get. Many emotive issues will be raised (eg. abortion) in order to distract from the economic difficulties being experienced by Joe public.

    Flaming June? Back in the 80s the Norwegians stood the most chance of surviving a nuclear war as every person had an allocated place in and underground shelter. I don’t know if they kept programme up. I imagine that Bashir al Assad will be ok too, as Damascus has many deep interconnected bunkers – built by the Germans, no less, who know a thing or two about such constructions.

  1517. Noa – 18:10

    The wonders of NHS dentistry, Those whisky fuelled days with the old pedal operated blunt drill were before the drill ‘n fill brigade got going in earnest.
    Mr Hacking reminds me of our school dentist in the ’50s. Gassing school kids was all the rage.

  1518. Baron – 20:29

    The price that has to be paid for a botched attempt at a pandemic.
    The geniuses in white coats must try harder!

  1519. Freddie Gray writing of Florida’s Governor “the barbarian” DeSantis successful tax war with Disney.
    “…he wins not in spite of personal antagonism but because of it. He understands that 21st century America is not about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Its about crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentations of their trans women…”

  1520. EC 08.53
    “…Gassing school kids was all the rage…”.
    That reminds me that the nickname for the doctor for sports injuries referrals at my grammar school was “Zyclon B”.

    EC
    May 5th, 2022 – 08:59

    Baron – 20:29

    The price that has to be paid for a botched attempt at a pandemic.
    The geniuses in white coats must try harder!

    Noa
    May 5th, 2022 – 15:01

    Freddie Gray writing of Florida’s Governor “the barbarian” DeSantis successful tax war with Disney.
    “…he wins not in spite of personal antagonism but because of it. He understands that 21st century America is not about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Its about crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentations of their trans women…”

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  1521. Nope, I’ve no idea how that load of crap attached itself to my otherwise innocuous observation.
    The curse of Musk perhaps.

  1523. Noa @ May 5th, 2022 – 15:14

    Still more informative than most of the crap one gets in the MSM. Noa.

  1524. EC @ May 5th, 2022 – 08:59

    You may think it’s because the barbarian’s biased, EC (if he is it’s against the countries of the Continental Europe), but teeth cleaning over there beats ours hands down, for around 80 minutes of truly thorough cleansing just forty quid, one can taste the result, one of Baron’s enjoyments at his stage if life. If you ever go and are interested, Baron will tell you which dentist to see, how to get there, you’ll be more than happy, you’ll see.

    After the return to the UK a visit to A&E (Baron’s left foot got badly damaged in his travels, he was insured but couldn’t make use of the cover, for an important reason he had to be back in the UK couldn’t afford the risk he would be hospitalised abroad).

    A sign in the A&E waiting room said ‘no more than 11 patients please’, the room had 17, all of the chairs were taken even though one was supposed to sit next to an empty one, two ‘clients’ were sitting on the floor (actually she was laying down, he was sitting next to her holding her hand), one of the present, another female of around 50 had half exposed breasts tattooed depicting human eyes arranged in a way that they appeared to close and open as she bend forward, stood straight … nobody minded, she certainly didn’t.

    A couple of genuine sufferers, an old man, even older than Baron, with his hand totally plastered yet still leaking some bodily fluid (sorry about this, but that’s what life often does), he didn’t complain, asked Baron to get him more paper towels and empty the paper basket, also a guy with a wound on his head, a sizeable gash the size and the shape of a box of matches, he was hit by a brick, he said, must have been on a construction site because he wore quite filthy clothing, it wasn’t bleeding, but the nurse didn’t clean his forehead well, a dried blood was everywhere, even on one of the ears.

    The running text on the wall display kept repeating one would see a nurse within 15 minutes (it was 35 minutes for Baron, she arranged for an X-ray) and a doctor within two hours, it was an hour fifteen minutes for Baron, but it was a nurse again, not a doctor, she explained the ankle wasn’t broken only badly damaged, advised what should be done, both nurses were professional, knowledgeable, kind, a pleasure to talk to. Altogether a success, and a peace if mind that the foot won’t be cut off.

    The car parking cost £6-80.

  1525. “I’m a funeral home director/owner….we used to consider 200 calls a year a good year. Last year we ended at 297. We had 42 in January…. it’s nuts.”

    This is a US funeral director talking, but since the vaccines were the same here, had you got them please take care, go for early check-ups, watch yourselves, one never knows, bit hopefully the contributors to the CHW are of better stock than others (more info in the link):

    https://journal.rajeshtaylor.com/further-disturbing-rates-of-disability-mortality-in-life-insurance-data-since-covid-vaccine-rollout/

  1528. @07:28 Yes.

    Baron – 23:08

    I do not like dentists. I am not at all jingoistic about British dentistry. Like everywhere else some good dentists do exist here, but they can be pricey. I could do without the lectures from their hired fang scrapers, who actually charge more, on how to clean my teeth properly.

    A&E: As I mention above somewhere, last year I was watching a travelogue of some Indian chaps doing a tour of the Himalayas on their motorbikes. One guy injured his arm in a most unfortunate accident, and had to be taken to a regional hospital in LEH. His tour was over but he was back on the street, bandaged and plastered, in under 3 hours having been X-rayed, and Ok’d by a proper Bone man.

    I hope that your ankle is mending.

  1532. Apologies for not contributing more, still recuperating, the ankle hasn’t;t improved much, but a small but massive favour to ask.

    Some weeks ago Baron posted a clip in Russian put together by an Ukrainian doctor showing Z as a drug addict, Baron thought he bookmarked the clip, but alas he didn’t, can anyone please re-post it, it you can find it, many and moire many thanks.

  1533. Baron

    As Dean Martin sang, “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!”

    I think that the link.that you posted was on November 30th, 2021 @22:16

    Here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16o2agow5Q

    I think that the first commenter on the video made a very good point about the impact of the power games on ordinary people!

    Сюзанна Семенова (Susanna Semenova)

    “Господи, спаси народ Украины и России! Как жаль всех, кто пострадает сейчас от таких горе-управителей.”

  1534. Baron,,

    Did you see last week that Bald & Bankrupt was arrested in Kazakhstan trying to do a walkabout in the Baikonur Cosmodrome? He was only briefly detained from what I can make out. I have to admit I do not understand, cant’ make head nor tail of his Instagram postings or Instagram in general.

  1535. EC @ May 17th, 2022 – 08:48

    Baron’s admiration for your ability to find the unfindable has grown massively, EC, many many thanks, it wasn’t that important but it pi$$ed Baron off no end that he (a) failed to bookmark it (b) couldn’t;t find it and he spent few hours doing so.

    Again, many thanks, young sir, you are a superstar, you should offer your services to the wider public, monetise the ability.

    Indeed, the first posting got it spot on, it’s hard to believe what Putin unleashed, it isn’t that the Russians won’t back him, the majority anyway, or that they will resent the harm, it’s that it will take years if not generations to mend the relations with the West unless the American Governing elite gets replaced, but the Donald had a go, failed, what else could help? Him, the one with cap H?

  1536. EC @ May 17th, 2022 – 08:56

    Yes, EC, have seen it, will talk later, too pressed on time.

  1537. In Sept 2018 the Donald commanded the US manufactures that had their brands made in China either in their own plants or in those of Chinese ownership to relocate the facilities back to the mainland US or set up the facilities anew again back home, it hasn’t happened, if anything the imports from China have gone up 60% since then and the 1stQ 2022, the bilateral trade nearly surpassed $800bn, of which over half a trillion were imports from China, the remaining less than $300bn exports from the US to China.

    The US 1stQ GDP figures were negatively effected by China’s zero covid campaign, says the WSJ, such is the dependence of the world superpower on China.

    Take an example of sneakers, the ubiquitous footwear of the masses, it costs between $3.00 and $11.00 to make a pair, the transportation cost in a container comes at 0.30cents

    ($1000 dollars for a 20 foot container from Asia to a Californian port containing 3500 shoe boxes i.e a price of transportation of one shoe box is $0.30 for a pair that sells retail for $20-£200).

    The mark-up from the cost of the shoes plus shipping and stuff to the retail level is very conservatively 10times, thus if every other item made in Chia shipped in a container had the same mark up at retail level the half a trillion of imports would translate into some five trillions of sales or around 20% of the US GDP.

    Not a trivial dependence, heh, the US were worried about how dependent the EU was on Russian fossil fuels, the Americans themselves are by far more dependent on China, yet it seems to worry them not. How come?

  1540. What’s happened to the prime minister.
    you remember, the one who married Boris.

  1541. This came Baron’s way only today, the guy has a piece in the CW, an excellent expose of the American project on the destruction of Russia, here’s a longer piece by him, worth your read even though one may not agree with him on everything he makes points that you will not find anywhere else, Baron has already bookmarked the guy Frank Wright, will visit in the future.

    https://frankwright.substack.com/p/three-ways-of-seeing-ukraine?s=r

    Btw, Disqus now bans the name of Wolfowitz, Baron tried many times to post with the Wolfowitz doctrine mentioned in the posting they system blocked it. We are getting closer to a full freedom of speech, the one endorsed by the rulers.

  1542. John birch. @ May 18th, 2022 – 08:29

    The poodles of the legacy phylum have been ordered to lay off her, would be the guess, John, you yourself are OK, family also?

  1543. Noa @ May 17th, 2022 – 22:12

    How could the barbarian do what you suggest, Noa, when things have to be done, the boss cannot do them, it’s the bloody ageing, if only Baron knew that getting older is no fun, just the opposite, he would have remained permanently young (a joke that, and a pretty poor too).

    The narrative offered indoor posting at 22:11 is hitting the right note, there seem to be more pieces elsewhere arguing for if not a full reversal of the insane reaction to the Russian invasion than at least for a correction to it, one hopes it does happen soon, if not the risk of a nuclear armageddon may be hard to avoid.

  1544. Baron 08-29. Basically okay, just suffering the pleasures of ageing as most of us are.
    My wife’s parents in pudong are keeping her up to date on what’s going on in China
    Seems to be getting worse by the day.
    According to her China’s supply chains are breaking down seriously, factories are shut freight ships are stationary .
    After opening up society a little in Shanghai which allowed all the rich to get out quickly Shanghai is now back in lockdown again solid
    Beijing is in exactly the same situation without it being called lockdown
    The links between the factory and the suppliers of parts is collapsing and the orders they would be making for next Christmas are not happening at all..
    She says the situation is getting very very bad much worse than it was.

  1546. John birch.@ May 18th, 2022 – 09:41

    Things seem to be getting worse everywhere, John, the difficulties that China’s experiencing may be exaccerbated by the Government’s insistence on zero covid, that’s rather silly, if the virus exists sooner or later everyone will be exposed to it, either develop immunity or not, Baron doesn’t know which is the current Chinese mutation, it cannot be the omicron strain, this is almost like a vaccine, let’s just hope her parents will get through it well.

  1549. Noa, April 29th, 2022 – 09:57

    Just to say that I’ve written three letters to my MP and received no reply.
    [“Pissing into the wind” as my Dad used to say.]
    The Rendition of Julian Assange, The WHO-GATES Pandemic Treaty, and the Online “Safety” Bill obviously give him no cause for concern.

    “Our” Democracy at work, eh. A plague on all their houses!

  1551. EC @ May 19th, 2022 – 10:31

    Good on you, EC, even if you have been ignored.

  1553. When is a blog not a blog? When it’s down to three regular posters and and a couple of occasionals.
    I’ll look in from time to time, but otherwise so long and thanks for all the fish.

  1555. Noa @ May 20th, 2022 – 12:36

    If you desert the boat, Noa, there will not fish at all, please reconsider, you and EC are the soul of the ailing blog.

    Where is Peter, could he tell us whether anyone ever visits (apart form the three of us).

  1557. In view of Noa quitting the site except for the occasional look-in, EC, what are we going to do? Shall we continue however sporadically to pen what we think, how we slice events, put the world right?

    Any offers?

  1558. Wagons South!

    Hello Baron,

    I’m pushed for time, wheels has to turn at 08:30 !
    I will reply fully tonight after burning off another £80 of fossil fuels on a day out.

  1559. EC @ May 22nd, 2022 – 08:26

    Travel safely, my blogging friend, no overtaking, as steady as the motor wants it, there are no brownie points for arriving few minutes earlier.

  1560. According to the “whois.com” info the registration of this “cyber boozer” (© Frank P) was updated of 05-FEB-2022 and expires on 05-FEB-2024. So until then it will remain a valuable resource to share links to stories and articles that do not get covered by the poodles of the establishment’s “authoritative” (LOL) media sources. So until Peter decides to do a Dr. Shipman on the site then keep ’em coming, Baron.

  1561. Noa, May 20th, 2022 – 12:36

    “So long and thanks for all the fish.”

    And there’s us thinking that that you were doing “a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the “Star Spangled Banner.”

  1562. EC @ May 23rd, 2022 – 11:10

    One couldn’t argue with you “what to do” better, EC, you have a deal, we’ve become almost a small family, squabbling here and there, but having the same or very similar outlook of the world at large.

    Btw, have you seen Sara Menker, the CEO of Gro Intelligence telling the UN the world has only 10 weeks of grain left, arghhh, what are we going eat? Each other? (only joking).

    https://www.fox29.com/news/world-wheat-supply-food-shortage-un-security-council-sara-menker

  1563. Baron -08:47

    Many a true word said in jest, Baron.
    Old Farmer Clarkson (Jeremy) said exactly the same thing last week!
    People are the ultimate renewable crop, no?

    Soylent Green: A 1973 film set in the future of 2022 where real food is only for the elite and the starving great unwashed have to exist on the biscuity processed cardboard stuff the corporations give, or rather sell, them. But what’s its secret?
    Watch the trailer… it’s very short.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

    Remarkably prescient, no?

  1564. EC @ may 24th, 2022 – 13:31

    Somewhere amongst the clips you’ll find the old rascal saying Ukraine should give up a chunk of its territory to make peace with Russia, Baron’s take on it differs, Ukraine should be chopped up into pieces of tribal ethnicities and those should be attached to the countries of the same heredity, the remaining chunk should remain Ukraine.

    In other words, the east should be given to Russia, the Middle around Kiev should remain as Ukraine, and the west sliced into three, one part to Poland (Lvov and around), further south the Podkarpatska Rus attached to Slovakia, and the southern bit to Hungary possibly Moldova, it depends what the unwashed want.

    Simples really.

    Btw, a survey of Ukrainians says 80% are against the Kissinger’s idea, only 10% back it.

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82639/bluechecks-furious-after-henry-kissinger-says-ukraine-should-cede-territory-for-peace-with.html

  1565. EC @ May 24th, 2022 – 13:31

    On the clip, EC: Prescient yes, also fugging depressing, but possibly less so than what life’s throwing at us now.

  1566. Baron, May 25th, 2022 – 01:38

    Dr Henry Strangelove is a survivor and, yes, I seem to remember reading that he was a bit of an old rascal with the ladies in his day.

    Lvov or Lviv used to be Polish anyway didn’t it, or was it Lithuanian?
    I could be argued that there’s never been any long term stability in that region. What is a reasonable term limit on stability anyway.

    For centuries the English Channel provided England with a reasonable degree of protection from outside interference. Alas no more, but nothing can compare to the damage done to our country by Tony Blair and the mass migration policy of his “New” Labour Scottish Raj.

    Travelling for a few days. Nowhere too nice.

  1567. Baron – 01:38

    The Social Media “blue -checks”

    These people, for most part, are a pox on mankind.
    When I take over they will be some of the first to be rounded up!

  1569. EC @ May 26th, 2022 – 08:14

    Enjoy the travel, EC, Baron cannot wait for you to take over, hurry it up.

  1570. So; what advice to a man considering return to his homeland later this year after many decades abroad? Is it too late to adapt happily to what would be a foreign country? Would the shock be too hard to bear? Where should he choose? The county of

  1571. his birth and childhood – semi rural Essex, The Spread Eagle in Galleywood not far from the church across the road from the abandoned racecourse in the gorse and bracken of the Common? The county of his adolescence – Sussex? … Tout mon mal vient de Londres…? … Is there some corner of that foreign field that is forever England? Do pubs still stand; and is there honey still for tea?
    …. thoughts from abroad….

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