(0656) Reasonable sleep … hoping yours was satisfactory too. (0931)

 

5. Steve at 1175

• Trump Warns Hamas to Stop Murdering Gazans – ‘We Will Have No Choice But … to Kill Them’
• Maccabi Tel Aviv Soccer Fans Informed They Are Not Allowed to Attend Europa League Game in Birmingham, England 
• Prince Andrew Had Multiple Meetings With Chinese Spymaster
• Upcoming Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Pulls the Rug From Under Zelensky’s Ambitions
• Bolton Indicted on 18 Counts Under Espionage Act – Shared More Than 1,000 Pages of Highly Classified Information
• Budapest summit. Putin’s risky travel route to Hungary.
• Putin Warns Trump On Tomahawks
• UK energy costs: We face an existential threat; it is either us or the Green Blob
• The public is being psychologically prepared for a great and terrible war
• Much more.

4. My main post of the day

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-main-purposes-of-this-random.html

3. DAD at 1175

a) Politics in France rather quieter after all the excitment of the last few days, but the financial markets are keeping a sharp eye on Paris.

b) Image of the week: Macron humiliated internationally. Discomfort is what the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump inspires in us.

c) The French Chief of the office for immigration and integration (OFII), Guillaume Larrivé, has resigned due to the “lack of ambition” to “reduce immigration by the new government”.

d) [Recently I read Alex Belfield’s book ‘Serviving the Slammer’ on the prison system in England. All the problems therein seem to be replicated in France. Young and inexperienced prison guards are controlled by the prisoners.]

2. When politics rules and ruins sport

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As IYE pointed out:

The not so grand old Duke of York is now just plain old Prince Andrew.

https://archive.is/chqHf

All thanks to his late lamentable pal Jeffrey.

JH: Yes, he’s also relinquished his title of Randy Andy but retains his other … Airmiles.

This is not bad as a commentary on Virginia G … yes, even though it’s from Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre

This seems as good a juncture as any to introduce the a few items on Chas 3 which I’ve had in remote storage since around 2002 till 2004, text as you see before you, having not accessed it since then.

Veracity? Bona fides? Your guess is as good as mine … they’re various snippets gathered over that time and archived. While my first line above was jocular, my second relying on Wiki for veracity … these below I’m quite line ball on … for example the old College of Heralds reference and I must say I’ve also noted criticisms of it, ranging from “utter balderdash” to “no such thing I’m afraid”.

I also noted at the time that “utter balderdash” hardly refutes it … it gainsays it and without receipts. I could also gainsay the gainsayers … no one’s shown conclusive proof either way imho. With that having been said, let us proceed: