I found a Holmes and a Hitchcock with reasonable copies. This Holmes tale everyone knows of but I was thinking (dangerous) that we hadn’t actually run it here (much).

(1443) Afternoon all … spring cleaning, housework.

 

16. Steve at 1033

Hearts of Oak: Ben Habib – Beyond Reform UK and Farage: Crafting a Coherent Nationalist Agenda

15. Amazon hostility

14. Russia and Poland

13. Will they learn?

12. Proliferation of govt

 

Sometimes it’s not the visuals but the audio:

(0945)(1031)

 

11. If Starmer won’t listen, then …

10. Rumble CEO

9. What has Canada just done to itself?

Something wrong with Canadian brains.

8. Baby murder

7. That White House correspondents’ lawn

6. @recusant_raja wrote, on X

There is no escaping this uncomfortable truth: in certain parts of the United Kingdom, the line between Labour Party political interests and the protection of Pakistani Rape Clans has become disturbingly blurred. https://redwallandtherabble.co.uk/the-minister-on-the-brink-jess-phillips-and-the-unraveling-of-labours-grooming-gang-cover-up/

 

This is a nice illustration of the differences between men and women … I mean real ones with normal inclinations, neither Wokeleft nor feminazi and the man not a total alpha bore or the “new weak” … but I can’t run every single clip of the dozens watched last evening, I need to select just one for this post.

Perhaps this of a married couple underscores it. As a male, I expected the guy to completely miss the feelings part below and to start intellectualising, to look at the “mechanics” of the song or its historical context … as a male, that was very interesting to me, just as even running this post is.

I expected the female to not look at any of that … I expected her, as with every other female in a reaction vid … and I mean with zero exceptions … to start going soft in the soul almost immediately, to start fanning the air in front of her, touching her upper chest, not being able to breathe … in short, her reaction was almost all feelings … that which the song does to her internally. I’ll underscore that by linking to this one as well. Ok, here we go:

Again from the male point of view … both ladies featured above are real keepers … yes indeed. Blessed is the man who finds one … but can he keep her?

What’s in this YT for our boys? Watch from 6:40 onwards when the differences become starker, plus the historical context comes into it … plus how the two of them seem to get along … it’s nice.

(0701) Yes, slept in again but not the end of the world. Yet. (0819)

 

5. EV bollox

4. Steve at 1033

• James Comer Accuses Bondi’s DOJ of Stonewalling Epstein Trafficking Files
• [Her] Attorney Reveals Details of Epstein Victim’s ‘Positive’ Final Days, Doubt on Suicide
• Juliette Rose Bryant [Bill Clinton], Issues Chilling Warning: ‘I Am Not Suicidal’
• Massive Anti-Migration Protests Sweep Across Ireland, Germany, England, & Poland
• WH Media Lawn with Signs Featuring 100 Arrested Illegal Alien Murderers etc.
• Lavrov; Zaporozhye stays, Crimea done deal. Iran port explosion. Media rumors, Ursula resign – Alex Christoforou … etcetera
• As partial truth about 9/11 becomes mainstream, get ready for the “mother of all gaslighting”
• Much, much more.

3. DAD at 1033

a) Yesterday I reported…..”Trump to Macron: “You Shouldn’t Be Here” – US President Sends French Warmonger Out of the Mini-Summit With Zelensky in the Vatican.”

b) According to Paris Match, a large-scale anti-terrorist operation was launched this Monday, April 28, 2025, at 6 a.m. in France, targeting nearly twenty suspects in the Paris region (Seine-Saint-Denis and Seine-et-Marne), Marseille, Bordeaux, and Lyon.

c) Have the French politicians gone mad? This morning the nuclear power stations are providing over 90% of the electricity demand; yet some would want to ban them.

d) List of English towns, where landlords could get taxpayer money to house migrants, sparks furious social media backlash.

e) [DAD too] Congratulations to Spain! Nation goes 100% renewable as of April 16th 2025! – BUT…then mass blackouts hit Spain and Portugal.

……

JH: Quite an extensive one from DAD this morning at 1033.

2. Hannah Fry, from Miles, via IYE

IYE: “Somebody famous I’ve never heard of. Hannah Fry”

https://mileswmathis.com/fry.pdf

“I just became aware of this . . . person, and so this warning today. I think she is a minor celebrity in the UK but is just getting known in the US, via this promotion at Youtube and other places. She suddenly began being promoted to me there a couple of days ago, and I seriously wish she would go away. I consider her yet another evil spirit trying to sell herself as the opposite. You are about to see why. She is currently the professor of Public Understanding of Mathematics (Math Propaganda) at Cambridge, being formerly at University College London. Until recently I take it she was most wellknown for a sickening 2014 TED talk on the “mathematics of love”. Ick. We will come back to that.”

My first reaction was .. TED Wokery talk? Q.E.D. False prophets abound.

1. Grandad

There aren’t many bloggers posting about their departing of this world so when you find one … pay attention:

The final solution?

A fresh start

For the young and/or uninitiated, it reads as if Grandad’s not there yet but see for yourselves.

Right, should I be criticising? I would have thought that philosophising is the last thing to be doing … rather, making one’s quietus with the triune God is the prime imperative … John 3:16. It’s all about faith in the end, more than the nitty gritty of life this side of the Styx.

As for the afterlife, there’s a 2000 year old, gradually collected series of books readily available in two testaments … the fierce opposition towards this paragraph out there is off the scale. Why?

I’m posting this in two places … also at Orphans. I’m also concerned for his wife but there is family around. Stay tuned at his place.

(1707) Evening all. (1954) About to hit the hay.

 

20. Redacted has some interesting things up along the way in comments

… warning though that there are also some “once seen, can’t be unseen” through it at points, so be alert.

One was this: ” יום עצמאות שמח, ארצות הברית “

It was July 4th, 2019, from Ben the Yahoo to Donald, with a photo of Kennedy and an Israeli behind.

One commenter mentioned that Kennedy had redesignated AIPAC. Hmmmm.

19. So much denial of this for so long

18. The sheer folly of the political class

17. IYE and that Pope Palace meeting

4a. “Body Language Analysis of Trump and Zelensky’s Vatican Meeting”

16. Today’s vocab lesson

15. Steve at 1033

Hearts of Oak: The Week According to .. David Vance

 

Been looking for this for years. What a hotbed Cambridge academia is/was ha ha.

(0952)(1102)

 

14. It’s only natural that as a seafaring nation

… the way to counter the imported alien army is to employ seafaring tactics:

To summarise some of main pluses:

• Symmetrical and shallow draft, allowing reversing direction in rivers
• We’re used to one sail but two are more useful for modern crews
• Sail and oars
• Separate prefab shelters around the boat as per needs
• Clinker or carvel built
• 60 feet, crew of 6 sounds good, war vessels 100 feet, crew of ten
• Can stay long periods in international waters or at remote locations

Downside cost and upkeep. Just thoughts, that’s all.

13. Very real, very much still alive

12. Ireland

11. Saw this in passing

10. Woke organised religion