Saturday [6 to 10]

(1013) There are online probs right now, plus I must go out. Back asap. (1328) Back. (1343)

 

10. Moo corner

9. The old question

… whom … and then what … to believe?

8. Poor Texas

7. Missing memory card

6. The insanity of ignoring North Sea abundance.

Not so much a minefield but a timebomb

For once, I’m not bringing this for the argument per se, for the viewpoint, but for the way rational discussion, judging by comments, is virtually impossible.


My own input … in military route marches, I found that no matter how fit I was from training, I was struggling. Not on a bike, not in playing rugby, which has pauses, but in sustained aerobic exercise with no respite, e.g. a marathon. An AFL premiership player downunder, Alastair Lynch, was diagnosed with similar … but he played full fwd, meaning he had long periods of rest on the field. I also did in rugby, being with the fwd pack.

I was never medically diagnosed because I stay away from doctors but I certainly had it, otherwise known as feckless skiver syndrome in many people’s eyes. Looking at this blog … do I seem a skiver to you?

So yes, even though the commenters were largely from the “wellness”, “medical condition diagnostic” community, I do understand some conditions which never saw the light of day.

So, why the plethora of cases today? Sedentary kids for whom anything can become a disability, meaning ££££s to the industry?

Or dopamine? And phones? Ipads? Touchscreens?

I’m going further than that … our readership here is largely secular, with a smattering of trad cultural Christians. Plus the young Scot is a hardy Scot of the old style, not given to fancy fads so to speak. Plus, as a protestant of that kind, he tends more right than soft left. You get the drift.

Plus he’s not one of the burgeoning HR feminazi and feminsed men community, the new matriarchy.

In short, he’s clearly at odds with many of his viewers, who would count themselves Christians. This is another assault on the worldwide small c church … you know, those being slaughtered in Africa and in Syria for example. I’m thinking he’s mainly right but that’s not going to sway the commenters above. Hmmmmm.

Saturday [2 to 5]

(0730)(0748)

 

5. Penseivat

“If Eva turns up in the middle of the Channel on a dinghy, they’ll have to.let her in. They can’t immediately deport her as that would set a precedent, and also show if they can deport her, there’s no reason why they can’t immediately deport the thousands of small boat doctors and engineers arriving weekly by the same method. Just a thought.”

Only issue with that I can see is that the RNLI will need to land her, otherwise she’s illegal … and white European.

4. Steve at 1537

  • Rubio Fires Back at Reports That He Is Preparing to Abandon Trump Administration for 2028 Presidential Bid
  • Arizona Turns Blue, Blue, Blue – Democrats Gain Control of State House, Senate and Governor’s Office – First Time in 60 Years
  • Unbeliever Joe Rogan Says What Many Pastors Won’t – ‘Woke’ Is Replacing God in Our Own Churches
  • Iran Threatens Gulf’s Digital Lifelines as Ships Circle Cables
  • Russia’s Missile Deal With IRGC Leaks As US Military Unleashes Spy Plane
  • Republicans put forward a candidate in Ohio who has been involved in fraudulent pharmaceutical schemes; the GOP needs to sort itself out
  • The Miracle Vitamin That Modern Science Refuses To Re-Examine
  • Claude AI is caught out lying and admits it’s programmed to follow the institutionally accepted narrative, regardless of the evidence
  • Report Links Heavy AI Chatbot Use Among Children to Worse Mental Health
  • Much more.

3. Bill

Found this on samizdata. Bang on point.

Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong’s finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect.

Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: “If I let them compute those statistics, they’ll want to use them for planning.” Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics.

– Handre van Heerden

2. DAD at 1537

Good news, my 2002 Twingo, which I use for shopping, passed its MOT, just one comment, to replace a wheel bearing in the next few months.

a) With an approval rating of just 13%, Emmanuel Macron has surpassed the record for unpopularity set by his socialist predecessor at the Élysée, François Hollande, according to the latest edition of the Elabe institute’s barometer, published on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

b) France prepared to block Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram during protests. The kill switch never flipped, but the government had already drafted the scene.

c) A political realignment appears to be underway in France ahead of the impending presidential election, with polling suggesting that a significant cohort of young voters are moving towards National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen. Though long held up as a bogeyman for left-leaning French youth, the National Rally appears to be attracting a historic level of support from 18- to 24-year-old voters.

d) Belgium’s media censorship of right-wing voices: a model for French left, French left-wing politicians are calling for Belgium-style media censorship of far-right opponents following a racist attack in Trappes and a petition against CNews that gathered over 700,000 signatures.

e) EU Lawmakers move to weaken Car Emission Standards. European Parliament lawmakers voted to weaken EU carbon dioxide emissions targets for new vehicles, backing an 87.5% reduction by 2035 instead of the planned 100% ban on petrol and diesel car sales.

Saturday [1]

(0612) Morning all. At leadt there’s a sun behind that uniformly black cloud. (0656)

 

Is there any defence against this global collusion?

One argument goes that if our issues are tackled nationally, e.g. in Poland, hence the all out war between von Leyen’s mob and the Polish President, as it had been against Hungary’s Orban, then the globo-psychos stand a chance of being toppled, despite the civil service, e.g. the FCO.

In a functioning electoral system, perhaps this might bear fruit:


Going back in history to Thanet South, with Nige poised for victory, the Tory number cruncher was interviewed at 11 p.m. and predicted the eventual outcome before the ballot boxes were due to be opened at 2 a.m.

The type of global thing we’re up against across the west, in every western nation, is:


Von Leyen? Australia? And electoral integrity in other nations?


Or this:


Which raises the question of the point of voting in the first place? Let’s say people decide to stay home … then we get Labour majorities on 20+% of the eligible vote.

All right, let’s say a few thousand do a Dover-Portsmouth sit-in and their leader is of course now in prison until June, uncharged, as with J6ers. So old soldiers just press on, selling poppies, right?


Well, the kids doing it can’t be identified, but the woman’s photo can be seen … the chief stompette … she’ll need reparations for that.


Sort of an organised tsunami of assault on us from every direction, would you not say? And as was shown in NIMBY Piddington, if it’s not kids attacking and maiming the elderly, then it’s barracks of fighting age third worlders awaiting the call, raping here and there in the meantime. In villages and towns, let alone in the Lake District.

Is there a Homan or Miller anywhere, as in the States, who could rid the country of the problem? Only if the political leadership was onside with that. Not a lame duck.

Oh, say I, voice heavy with irony … but what if a strong leader were to arise from nowhere in a Hegelian way, offering to scour the land, to wash away the Augean stable ordure, to sweep away the Weimar Republic of deliberate sleaze? And if not national, then how about continental blocs or even One World Govt and Religion?

Friday [16 till close of play]

(1530) The evening rolls in.

 

24. It will need confirmation but I saw

… Wiles out, Miller in. 2035 … plenty of confirmation.

23. Wonder if the WH has seen this OANN clip?

22. A point of view


21. Reparations


20. This is nasty


19. Moo corner


I wrote to Moo: “One must always have a girl spooning and chatting behind you while riding a bike.”

18. As Deryl says


17. How does she plan to achieve this?


16. Learjet 60 … more

The Triumph Herald

 


For someone British, this is going to be almost bizarre … thick coastal US accent narrating about a British icon … I’m assuming it’s AI and to be fair, it’s not too bad, otherwise I’d not post it.

At the same time, three other shorts were there at YT, thumbnails to the left here. They’ll be run over the next few days.

The Triumph Herald is a small two-door car introduced by Standard-Triumph of Coventry in 1959 and made through to 1971. The body design was by the Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti, and the car was offered in saloon, convertible, coupé, estate and van models, with the latter marketed as the Triumph Courier.

Total Herald sales numbered well over half a million. The Triumph Vitesse, Spitfire and GT6 models are all based on modified Herald chassis and running gear with bolt-together bodies.

Friday [11 to 15]

(1221) Afternoon all. (1257)

 

15. Best get some Brit focussed news in


14. From X, with wisdom


13. First the quote


I’m never comfortable with the word intelligence, as referring to IQ … seems fairly unintelligent to fixate on a number. As a leaver at the end of secondary, my parents had me professionally assessed and it was clear there were different categories … you could guess the ones I was highest in but I was fairly average on mechanical.

There are many university professors who are rated intelligence-high but I’ve found them useless in other spheres. Even were you to call me intelligent, I could list to you some gaping blank spots, esp. at a later age.

If we’re looking at the ability to think and anticipate … well yes, the quote makes sense, it makes a person initially reticent to engage and after that, the factor of experience, experiences too … increases. One negative in all of this is a certain coldness, either at times or nearly all the time. That can be wearing for friends … and wives. You might not be a loner, you might love company but the type of company you can stand … there’s the rub.

Taken to extremes, it’s this autistic thing I suppose.

12. Remembrance Day


11. There’s plenty of evidence

… maybe called “probable cause”. Proof’s going to be more difficult.