Seems Charlie Peters reporting for GB News is the only one (I’ve looked) covering the activity at RAF Mildenhall. In brief nine MC-130J’s of the US Special Operations Forces have left the airfield in Suffolk this morning. They’ve been flying in from the States over the last two weeks. Special indeed they can fly nap-of-the-earth at 100ft to infiltrate enemy territory using a radar called Silent Knight. Been their myself back in the 80’s, UK Special Forces air assets are based there as well. A photo taken this morning:
Right, we have Call Northside, the 1934 Lord Edgeware, The Card and Qatermass 2. Which today, Fri, Sat, Sun? Suggestions welcomed. Plus a few Ronald Howards.
I’m thinking the 1934 Edgeware today … has a look, not a great copy, showing signs of age.
The reviews overall seem a tad unfair in my eyes. This was 1934 and the filmmakers were fitting it all into a B movie format and runtime. This review seemed fair:
“I was pleased to catch up with this early adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1933 Poirot story because of the authentic period feel. They were quick to film this only a year after the story’s original publication so the contemporary 1930s situation involved is hot off the press so to speak. What was a culture shock for me was the somewhat switcheroo of the Poirot and Hastings I’m used to seeing in the David Suchet TV series. In this film Poirot is tall while Hastings is the short and fussy one which is a most direct contrast to how the characters are seen in Suchet style. The Suchet version being more faithful to Agatha Christie’s creations in that respect.
Lady Edgware approaches Poirot to persuade her husband to grant her a divorce only for Poirot to find Lord Edgware had already granted it via a letter which must have been intercepted. Lord Edgware is murdered in his library quickly followed by the death of another character which would appear to be suicide. Lady Edgware has an alibi as she has been witnessed at a dinner in Chiswick at the time of the murder. But staff at Lord Edgware’s mansion say they saw her there at that time and so Poirot has to discover which of these set of witnesses are correct.
Even though this film has to lose a lot of Christie’s original plot elaborations to fit a B-mystery running time I think the film tells the story well. The vanity of Lady Edgware’s American actress character is so good to see and she has some great lines to deliver. She complains that she could have had her husband bumped off much more easily if she had been back home in Chicago. And she takes to wearing black because it was so fetching at her husband’s funeral saying “black is very effective against white marble.” I would say this is an enjoyable adaptation for fans of murder mysteries of the cozy English variety.”
(1146) Near the end of elevenses, approaching noon. (1303)
10. Moo corner
9. Escaping the box
8. Just repeating … here we are indeed
7. Anti-British hatred
6. NOWP 1320
If you glance over there, you’ll see 7 items up already today and each one takes a fair amount of reading or watching. Put those with 1319, plus HQ comments thread, plus our own wider blogrounds we do, plus the X reports … I’d say we have more than enough online reading/watching for a day, particular as the MSM is scanned by you along the way.
Moving onto our “patron “droppers” of reports, there’s an unwritten social contract ongoing, a fair amount of quid pro quo. Quite apart from the drops being interesting for readers/watchers, there is this “thing” that each “dropper” needs to feel he/she is getting a fair run at his content being seen by readers.
And that’s where we are. Nothing is formalised, nothing is signed on the dotted line, except by me for the use of the platform. There it is … the potential to actually stumble upon the truth is pretty formidable.
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A Panicked Chuck Schumer Says SAVE America Act Would Purge Millions From Voter Rolls
I think I’m in love with Pauline Hanson. What’s the difference between a radical and a moderate?
Israel: Analysis shows 1 in 939 teenagers suffered cardiovascular events post covid vaccination
European Parliament committee backs tougher asylum return rules in right-wing migration win (JH: After the horse has bolted.)
Much more.
3. They say Katie will defect … but to whom?
To flipflop Farage and nasty Yusuf, to dud Tory Reform? Or to “more extreme” Restore, still a fledgling party of 110K? Or does she see herself as the Boadicea of the New Tories?
If you're accused of 'hate speech', you're nearly twice as likely to be found innocent by a jury than if your case is just heard by a judge.
The British people know right from wrong.
It's a disgrace that this Government wants to cut them out of the justice system. pic.twitter.com/IqYKZE0r60
a) Sale of municipal land in Saint-Nazaire for the construction of a mosque by Socialist Mayor David Samzun. The 2019 sale of over 6,000 m² of municipal land to the Muslim Cultural Association of Saint-Nazaire (ACM) continues to fuel local debate.
b) Live in Marseille for a long life [If you don’t get shot.] Marseille municipal elections 2026: warning about the risk of electoral fraud with hundreds of centenarians registered on the lists, including one aged 120.
c) Jacques Lang and Epsn. I did nothing, I saw nothing, I know nothing…. Where have I heard that excuse before? In a letter to his “friends,” comparing himself to Dominique Baudis, Jacques Lang reaffirms that he knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes….
d) Inside the secret world of the Reaper drones at the Cognac airbase. Best known for its fighter pilot training school, the Cognac air base also houses twelve Reaper drones and two twin-engine Vador drones.
Waking up this morning from an extended slumber (literally, not figuratively, it’s 0644 GMT), it seems to me time to bore you with a “long”. There’s already one up at OoL:
The title of Thur 1 is obviously from Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge over Troubled Water, so let’s run with that analogy. As a little kid, it was not in the least obvious back then that that smash hit was anything but the most beautiful pastiche which, to a child, was in the ballad category and which offered hope to all tired and lonely, all the down-and-outs.
Except it did nothing of the sort.
In decades-later terms, it was the exact opposite of 12atonalism from the Frankfurt School, designed to keep us on edge and disgruntled, angry … as we are in the west today.
That was around too … screaming metal, “hard rock”, perversions in the guise of lightheartedness … but this song, like Candle in the Wind, like so many memorably beautiful songs of the time, inc. American Pie, posited anything BUT God as the giver of reprieve, comfort, courage … and so the 60s went, which I’ve been looking carefully at of late.
It posited nature, good music, bonhomie, the glass and bottle, as all we need in our lobg journey “to fulfil ourselves”, to hell with anyone else. Naturally, you’ll take issue with that insult … you of course were the most wonderfully altruistic guy or gal … you and the other guys and gals were there, as Cyndi Lauper sang, to have fun … just to have your own pleasure whilst projecting a compassionate, almost Christian concern for others, as far as it assuaged your conscience.
But as Chris Rea sang … that was actually the road to hell … a living hell we have in March, 2026. The Lie was that it presupposed safety and security … banks of wildflowers, the neighbourhood bobby, the postman (mailman), the grocer, the baker, the signalman … you see, the generation before had built those, had suffered, even through rationing, and now here we were, the product of our parents’ “never again those horrors” mentality, Dr. Spock and so on.
Sure the Beatles introduced us to other “pleasures” such as Lucy in the Sky, while the Stones exhorted us to have Sympathy for Altamint Speedway. We were exhorted to wear a flower in our hair as we spread STDs and prostituted every naive, pretty, but rebellious girl of our age.
Girls became feminazi warriors, imagining themselves Boadiceas or Statues of Ishtar in NY harbour. Until Kent State of course, or Tiananmen Square. Chivalry died too of course … the whole groundwork which had been the West was now built on shifting sands, no longer the rock.
Yesterday, I mentioned not officially following a lady unless she’d first followed … misplaced chivalry? She said I was a weak man … chivalry is weak? Lady Tia noted that this Lucy did not follow her back either. This a.m., I ran this song about those mistreating others:
Getting back to S&G’s B’overTW, on the surface, it’s just two NY Jewish youths reading the zeitgeist correctly and offering a “bridge” for people, esp. the young and already “12atonalled” to feel a bit better. An entirely different message to that of Amazing Grace.
In fact the message is … whatever comfort and succour you offer angst-ridden youth, make sure it has zero to do with John 3:16 … anything else will do … the old “philosophers”, or Nietsche, or Zimmerman … do anything at all to offer false succour, guidance, protection, courage … anything at all but NOT John 3:16.
And it becomes so easy, doesn’t it? Crusaders slaughtering Constantinople, Knights Templar, churchmen and nuns belting kids, Ian Paisley, the Vatican golden calf and sleaze, which motivated Chaucer, Erasmus, Calvin … pointy hats, gobbledegook, much chanting, incense-swinging, whilst the greedy, sleazy Jimmy Swaggarts rip off the newly faithful … read Somerset Maugham’s Rain too if you have time … the message is to highlight, to spotlight all the very worst aspects of John 3:16 or Matthew Chapter 5 when bad humans get control of them … whilst hiding away the pastoral care side of things.
Mother Theresa?
I was making fun of the Salvos as a kid and my grandmother (I once had a couple of those) admonished me, saying I had not seen them at work during the depression and two wars … she had. They were often the only ones out there in all conditions, helping. Now look at them … as Woke as the RNLI … corrupt, sleazy.
The false message of S&G
They invent some “bridge” which brings solace. What bridge? Where? Or as Don McLean sang: “Maybe they’d be happy for awhile.” False gods, chaps and chapesses … false gods.
At unherdables here, we go one step further. Read in the comments thread about temples one, two, three. About Erika Kirk:
In order to understand, you really do need to know your history … what happened to the northern kingdom of Israel, to Judaea, to the falling away, to Baal or Bel. The Christians (the real ones, not the clowns and sleazy synods now) say the Messiah has already been … any third temple won’t be for God, it will be for the other fella … and halfway through the tribulation, the Great Leader steps into the holy of holues and does dirt on Israel, on the world. Then the slaughter really begins.
Now, if you are of the Messianic Jewry and you know how Christians think of the end days, what would you do from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv? Well you’d intriduce legislation, would you not, to outlaw Christianity, to kill Christians, as they did Jesus of Nazareth? You’d kill any up and coming increasingly influential Charlie Kirk, no, just as he’s influencing kids?
And the Moose Limbs we spend so much time on, because Two Tier has been told to, plus Chas 3, plus Whitehall … they’re a real, an extant threat in numbers, yes, along with the resentful blacks … they draw the attention well away from what else is going down to destroy the west.
Uniparty has been running the Forces down since 1975 – no argument here, we had barely enough ships for the Task Force in 1982 (Operation Corporate) to retake the Falkland Islands. The many ships taken up from trade (STUFT) is testament to that fact with both the QE2 and SS Canberra used as troopships – very good they were too. The Royal Navy is less than 20 surface warships today, most of them under maintenance. A look back at happier times 🙂
“This wonderful 1952 film – it must have been approaching Humphrey’s last performance – wins on all levels.
It triumphs as an historical curiosity into how newspapers were published 50 years ago, down to the presses and the layouts and assignments, and also for its truly remarkable supporting cast, many of them, some famous, like Ethel Barrymore, Jim Backus and Ed Begley and some part of the Hollywood backdrops in score of movies.
Kim Hunter excels also as the Bogart ex. Martin Gabel eerily predicts the Tony Soprano performance of today as an underworld Kingpin shown with his perfect domestic arrangement.
The scene of the “wake” for the death of the newspaper is wonderful, and also some wonderful camera pans on continuous action in many scenes.
The script is well done and keeps the action moving along, some funny throwaway lines too, particularly in the car scene with the mobster and in his ex-wife’s bedroom.
Also it is subtle and understated and not rampant with the 2X4’s of some of today’s instant-soup scripts. Do not miss this one, Bogie and Kim fans!!”
We’ve been a bit short of shorts … elevenses needs something to watch but not a full length film, which comes up later. Three Ronald Howard Holmes have appeared, here’s today’s:
