“And we taxpayers should never forget that the funding burden falls almost entirely on our shoulders. For sure, part of it is debt financed, but that debt has to be serviced, and the OBR says the debt interest bill has mushroomed to £124 billion this year, rising to £160 billion – a heart-stopping £5,500 per household – in 2031-32.”
The finale of the brilliant historical sitcom Blackadder left many of us in tears. It remains just as powerful today, and so it should. Lest we forget. pic.twitter.com/h33Qcj7TWL
(1234) Afternoon all … a film or episode following this. (1234)
10. Moo corner
9. Deryl with a key point
8. Bill on ADHD (part two after that prior post)
(JH: Also at Jstack)
On the young scot video comments its always the “practitioners” who jump in to choke off discussion. Nothing to do with feeling as their income is built on a shaky foundation is it. Oh no.
My wife works in a school as a dinnertime supervisor and on Friday a year four hit her. She waa helping a year four girl who had been hit in the head by a plastic water jug used in a “mud kitchen” thrown by a year four boy.
The boy who hit my wife ran across the playground to get in the face of both her and the girl because “he’s my mate”. Even the year six kids about to start playing football were shocked at this behaviour with genuine concern for my wife being offered by quite a few. A single teaching assistant who witnessed it all asked how she was.
Someone sent for a teacher and a deputy head appeared to try and coax the boy who threw the jug out from under the “mud kitchen”. Took her and a teaching assistant fifteen minutes to get him out and inside school.
The head also came out shortly after and took the boy who hit my wife into school. Neither of these supposed leaders asked my wife what had happened nor asked how she was.
Pathetic weak women in a primary and infant school with only two male members of staff and one of them has Friday off! Anybody want to guess what the two boys have been “diagnosed” with?
No ADHD does not exist. Appalling behaviour with no boundaries or consequences at home or anywhere else is the on the ground reality.
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Just to add a bit of context. She has been at the school for over twenty years and this is the first time any child has hit her. My son aged 33 went to the same school (as did both my mother and I) andv in his year six class there was three always naughty ADHD kids who got taken out once a week to go on pony rides at a local stables. These weekly trips to the geegees were used as the carrot to get the ADHD kids to keep quiet during the rest of the week.
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Have a listen to the late Ken Robinson:
7. What does a captain tell passengers spiralling down to death?
United Flight 232, a DC-10, crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, after an engine failure knocked out all of the plane’s hydraulic systems. Just before impact, Captain Al Haynes got on the intercom and told passengers:
“This will be the roughest landing you’ve ever had.”
Out of 296 people aboard, 111 lost their lives, an outcome still regarded as one of the most remarkable feats in aviation history.
6. Steve says … do the math
THE 15% BAND
Look at this chart. 59 races. Senate and governor. States ordered from reddest to bluest in 2024.
The solid lines are 2024. The dashed lines are 2026. The shaded bands are what moved.
(1014) Slept in, didn’t I … no bad thing as I’d been in too many wars last night and recently … plus, out of respect for our Fallen, better restarting later now. Reminder that the two minutes silence is at 11 a.m. this morning in Britain (possibly Canada?) and for the rest of the west on Wednesday, same time. (Midday)
5. Christine on von Leyen
4. Steve at 1538
New Report Reveals Algorithmic Pattern on How Dems “Stole” the 2026 Election — Eerily Similar to the Impossible 2020 “Drop and Roll” Pattern Witnessed Across the US (JH: Please see the connection with the OoL post comment 3, by me, below the Global Collusion post.)
Conservative Harriet Hageman is Urging Senate Republicans to Go Into Overdrive During Remaining Time in Power
Blanche Responds to Threat Against Stephen Miller From Deranged Incoming Democrat Oversight Chairman
Britain and France Prepare Thousands of Troops for Possible Ukraine Peacekeeping Mission (JH: Peaceful Purposes, yes. Religion of Peace.)
US Expands Iran Blockade to Land Routes, Inching Closer to Wider War
Russia Conducts Massed Strike on Ukraine’s Energy and Missile Production, Focusing on Kyiv
Study reveals amino acid duo and exercise key to maintaining muscle and blood vessel health in aging
Deaths in Ireland among young adults rose by 62% in 2024 compared to 2020
Analysis of the Danish study cited as “proof” that vaccines do not cause autism finds that it’s sophisticated “science” propaganda
John Thune (A Lot) And Donald Trump (Somewhat) Drove Tuesday’s Outcome
Much more.
3. True, it’s not something to ordinarily interest you the reader per se
… but if understanding what investigative pundits do face, plus to a point the commenter/contributor, if that matters, then read on, McDuff. This is the sort of BS we have to put up with:
All right, so it’s spam, mainly Russian (Boris in Moscow) and I was averaging 40-50 a day. After certain banking issues here, plus Restore lads and lasses started latching onto me and in return … it jumped to around 200+ per day, 250, which need removing one by one.
Ah, you say, big deal, we all get spam. Yes, that’s so, plus antispam to deal with it … simples. One of mine on one device is Avast. But here at HQ, it’s all manual. You see, I do have an API key which is necessary for Akismet to switch on, but WP have hidden it away at one of our unherdable sites. Good joke. Silly me, 20 years ago … I’ve now lost where I wrote it down.
WP do know I have one, but ain’t sayin’ like. They’re selling’em you see. Uh huh. Plus won’t give it anyway unless I “verify age”. Now any Brit knows that’s the DigID Pathway, like facial recognition, voice, fingerprint, so I’m in a standoff with them. Spam which had been in the 15 or so a day now jumped like a pole vaulter.
All right … those with memories (plus any interest) know that WP itself recently congratulated me on 20 years blogging with them. Very kind. As the Wise, Authoritative Gentleman (WAG) Lord T said … it’s hardly the point … the point is they want you jumping through hoops at every stage, on every application. I add … as in Soviet Russia … no common sense, just bureaucracy as god.
The WAG also calls me out on two further things:
putting words in his mouth
whining and moaning about the inevitable.
After all, I’m on a free bleedin’ platform, innit … their gaff, their rules. That’s fair, except for the govt imposed non common sense … there’s no such thing as “common” sense … it’s highly uncommon. I could have added that it’s hardly free either, internet but I do take the point good and hard. Er, better to say “do concede the argument”.
2. DAD at 1538
a) Gen Z: a generation in revolt, in France and across the globe. *La Nouvelle République* explores the reasons and underlying factors that have driven this generation to take to the streets in recent weeks.
Who are the members of Generation Z—or “Gen Z”? Born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, they are the first generation to have never known a world without the internet. Today, they are shaking up the country, taking to the streets to voice their anger and demand better education. [DAD – The article ignores the bright orange elephant dancing and trumpeting in the middle of the room.]
b) Europe is trying to patch migration with duct tape. The European Commission reported that only 28 per cent of return decisions were executed in 2025. Meanwhile, on June 17 the European Parliament approved new return rules, including the possibility of return hubs outside the Union. After the vote, some MEPs chanted “send them back”.
c) Belgium’s King Philippe rejected Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s resignation and ordered the five-party coalition to resume stalled budget talks by November 16.
d) Over 90 percent of individuals wanted on arrest warrants in Bavaria are foreign nationals, new data shows, sparking debate over whether fugitives continue receiving welfare payments.
e) About 200 citizens of Ceuta wore Guy Fawkes masks in a silent protest Thursday demanding action on the Spanish exclave’s crises following a mass illegal migration surge three months ago.
(0419) Normal service will resume around 8 a.m. (0449)
One of the two poems in the British commemoration of Armistice and subsequent remembrances was:
They won’t age, no, but we will … and the friend of many here, LegIron, has written this morning:
Yes. But by the same token, people are still commemorating the Fallen in various ways, for example:
… which is nice, almost quaint and may that sort of thing never dies out.
Just a word on why Remembrance Sunday for Britain and some other places, instead of on Wednesday, November 11th, which is Armistice Day:
Here’s a nice gesture which at least until recently was still being offered:
And so to the opening poem and the attached bugle call for the 11th of the 11th, at 11 a.m.:
For just Unherdables readers but not OoL nor Jstack, which don’t allow suchlike:
The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, London, 1920. pic.twitter.com/7hvtv6iaCe
(1605) Strange closing of the day, the light actually failing, the mist rolling in for real out there, and that Tommy and Tuppence episode not all that great but everything quiet until my own health started to intrude … back to our old woes, where would we be without them? Going to run Bill’s vid and text tomorrow at HQ and Jstack, Remembrance at HQ and OoL.
