(1503) Don’t forget clocks, folks, tomorrow morning early.
19. Moo corner
18. Morrisons milk choc bars seem ok
… according to the label … but who really knows?
17. Rats and other varmints onboard
16. Ultra-processed foods
15. And they don’t wish to kill off Christianity?
14. Thune’s middle of the night vote
13. Moo corner
12. From OoL
11. The awakening
“One of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest classics, made before he came to Hollywood. A couple’s daughter is kidnapped to keep her parents quiet about an assassination plot. The couple is played by Leslie Banks and Edna Best. Banks is good in a role that’s a long way from his florid performance in The Most Dangerous Game from a couple of years earlier. Best is impressive in a sympathetic turn.
Peter Lorre is menacing and even a little creepy as the leader of the assassins. This was his first English-speaking role (he learned the language while filming). Nice photography from Curt Courant and some fun little creative touches from Hitchcock. The dry humor is blended nicely with the action and suspense.
The cult of sun worshippers and The Royal Albert Hall scene are both worthy of Hitch’s highlight reel. Perhaps one too many abrupt cuts from one scene to the next, often as a character is in mid-sentence. But clearly Hitch was still honing his craft. At least he was trying things as opposed to the static direction of many of his contemporaries.
Remade in 1956 by Hitchcock himself, with James Stewart and Doris Day. That version is more polished and “Hollywood,” and is arguably the more popular of the two. Although neither film is perfect, I prefer this one.
It may not have the two decades of advancements in production techniques or the bigger budget of the remake, but it has a tighter plot, shorter runtime, faster pace, darker tone, and it builds suspense without the distracting side stuff of the remake. Plus there’s no incongruous scenes of Doris Day singing.”
… alas, not such that senior member DAD might appreciate (wipes away a tear):
Short interlude too for domestic duties at the home of Higham.
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10. Concerns downunder right now
… compared to us here:
9. Moo corner
8. IYE at 1336
”Is This Why The Treasury Secretary is Blocking Epstein’s Financial Records?
Bessent, Kushner, and the $55 billion EA deal nobody is connecting.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189873937
7. Ever-vigilant bug-watch
6. Steve corner from last evening
… on the curious EU parlmt move:
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5. Steve at 1335
4. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/some-stats-and-lists.html
3. DAD at 1335
a) France’s public debt has reached a new record high of €3,460.5 billion at the end of 2025, according to official figures released today by the national statistics institute INSEE.
b) The victim, an escaped prisoner wanted since March 14, was found Tuesday by walkers in a wooded area near Besançon, bound and gagged, with a broken leg and bruises.
c) Dozens of UK Labour MPs have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and senior Cabinet ministers calling for a review of key Net Zero policies, amid concerns over the impact on British car manufacturing and jobs.
d) Finland’s Supreme Court has found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of “hate speech” relating to the expression of her beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics for “making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group”.
e) Something specially for our host. Le passage à l’heure d’été est programmé dans la nuit du samedi 28 au dimanche 29 mars.
JH: Just on that last one … most of us might have taken schoolchild French and German at rudimentary level, plus we’ve picked up at least some more French along the way. I’d therefore suggest that that sentence in French above is fairly easy to translate for you.
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Heads of ACIP and CDC
Right, let’s start with Malone, compromised … see our watchlist at this site. What’s he speaking about in the clip? About people appointed to roles and they’re compromised. He describes those organisations as a “hot mess”.
He mentions someone, a mole, a subverter, who was in the role before this Bhattaetc. So we’re looking for “normal” sounding names prior to Bhattaetc.
Just how then is the swamp being drained, with moles lined up to occupy roles previously occupied by moles? Are big pharma just going to lie down, roll over and say we’ll be good boys now?
(0625) Nondescript out there, some signs of brightness. (0709)
How they keep on manipulating us
Not referring here to the out and out baddies, the pantomime villains … but rather to bad players making all the right noises and yet with bad track records which the ordinary (non-political) person simply misses.
Conversation yesterday with a dear friend:
Her: Whoever ‘they’ are, the purpose of all of these political decisions is to thoroughly demoralise us . We can’t speak our minds anymore so we don’t speak at all. It’s noticeable that some so called right wing accounts are turning on other right wing accounts with the Reform/Restore situation , divide , conquer , we must ignore the provocation and not take our eye off the goal of ousting the globalists once and for all and regaining the vibrancy of this country again , not just a diluted version of it
Me: Reform is Uniparty. Nowt to do, D, with right turning on right. It’s right attacking the Uniparty honchos. Many good people in Reform are blind to how their party is being manipulated at the top. Also, our bros and sisses are in each western country … same battle.
Her: It’s the manner of the insults James , very divisive .
Me: Quite agree. I’ll not let any divisive people on any party divide us at ground level. So many of my friends are Reform. My barbs are only at upper honchos in parties, churches, govt policy, corruption, as you are doing too.
Her: Replying to @JamesHghm Exactly that , I’m not taking the bait.
How can I possibly show her that one party honcho at Lord Toby’s site this morning is “making all the right noises”, whilst at the same time, Farage, head of that same politburo, welcomes the Z terrorist, the latest one yesterday, the woman with the crescent tattoo, plus those ex-Tories who voted against the people for 14 years and now pretend to have seen the light.
We have posted copiously on MG’s track record, how he detests “the right” in his M25 bubble way and yet here we go again this Saturday morn:
This lady is a “goody” … ran a business, had been a model, has grandchildren, walks her dogs and posts landscape pics, is at one with us on most issues, esp. about Britain … what’s not to like? Yet fixated on Farage and Co being the prophet to lead us out of the very wilderness he’s ensuring we stay bogged down in.
Who or what do I value most here? Her of course … real friends are rare. The politics? Sigh. What can I say? Seriously.
(1536) Afternoon moves into evening.
19. One of the previous Moo pics
18. Interesting how two of our main chaps
… were both blocked by WP, one right now … I had to dig their posts out, euphemising for them so they could be posted. Sigh. The text, not the link, is the killer.
17. There’s a Toodles double
… over at 1335.
16. Steve at 1335
Hearts of Oak: Lois McLatchie Miller – Unpacking the Lords’ Vote: Decriminalising Abortion Up to Birth in the UK.
15. Atlanta?
14. Senate are getting it in the neck
13. Moo corner
12. Every western nation
11. Agreed
A few chores to do, see what you think about this series: