Unusual to close off the numbered posts with a feature but you’ll see why. Was gathering for tomorrow and this below appeared … continues under the video …
The character is AI but not Amelia. Uh huh … ok … fine, think I prefer this one and the uses “she” is put to are commendable … in fact, they’d be good for school lessons methinks.
Think of the potential of tech to get the country back in each western nation … but of course, the history must be as authentic as possible.
(1520) “Now nearer evening than it is to noon … the raven flies ‘neath the silvery moon.” (1949)
20. Steve at 1294:4
… with war room. While SKB is being discussed, at the same time, our Steve points out that the issues at war room are also important in themselves.
This is the n1 issue with our model at Unherdables … we are a news service with one exception in bias … we will not run Woke ideology. Therefore those largely onboard, say with 80% of what’s going on, can still fall out over that last 20%. This is the nature of finding things out.
19. Moosh corner
18. For Dearieme
… the banality of evil:
17. A parallel world
16. Ere IYE issued post item sixteen
… the truth it was hidden as it ever has been:
“The truth Would Collapse The Entire Government – Bondi”
Good Sir In Yer Ear:
Not a mystery anymore! Clearer every time she opens her🧁hole.
Not sure if this is the same link I dropped a few days ago.
Shows degrees of separation and what not to infer from the drops.
JH: Ooooo, me feelin’ right faint I am, giddy like.
“Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the first film in the Universal Sherlock Holmes series (1942 -1946) to abandon the idea of Sherlock Holmes as a prototypical 007 spy-hunter, battling Nazi agents and keeping Britain safe from the Axis powers.
The bizarre experiment which began, apparently without a shred of irony, with Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror was brutally maimed when Sherlock Holmes in Washington flopped.
And so, the direction of the series changed (for the better) with the fourth outing, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death…to the point that it can almost be viewed as the starting point of a completely new Holmes series.
Here, the allusions to WWII are vague, at best. Gone are the overt references to the Nazis and the intrusive patriotic speeches…which merely impeded the proceedings in the previous films. Holmes is in his element here, solving a dense mystery by using deductive reasoning. The film is still modern, making use of such devices as automobiles, telephones, and electric lights.
But this is all incidental. If we overlook the updating of the surface elements, the story itself is rather timeless. Telephones and automobiles were present in Conan Doyle’s later Holmes stories, anyway…and the Gothic tone of this film (and several of those which followed) gives it an almost Victorian or Edwardian feel, despite being obviously set in the mid-20th Century.
And most importantly, Holmes is back to the business he should never have abandoned.
Loosely based on The Musgrave Ritual, the film is entertaining and certainly of higher technical quality than its predecessors, despite the fact that the series was forever doomed to the ranks of the low budget B-pictures. The camera work is evocative, with fluid motions and intriguing angles…which would become a staple of the Holmes series…and the direction is excellent, with Roy William Neill (who also began his role as Associate Producer with this film) really coming into his own as the driving force behind the franchise.
Rathbone’s Holmes (whose hair has, thankfully, undergone quite a transformation) is in better form here than in previous entries…detached and focused, he relies on reasoning, rather than chance, in order to solve the mystery that’s presented to him. Nigel Bruce, as Watson, turns in his usual bumbling-yet-lovable performance. Dennis Hoey once again manages to out-bumble Watson as Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard…a canonical character who made his first Universal appearance in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, and would go on to appear in a total of six of the twelve films.
Overall, not the best film in the series, but a step in the right direction. Once the filmmakers got their proper footing, in regard to the series’ new and improved direction, they produced much better work…peaking, many (myself included) would attest, in 1944 with The Scarlet Claw.
Other subsequent Holmes titles, such as The Spider Woman and Terror By Night, also outshine, in my estimation, this fourth Universal venture. But this film marked the great change that heralded all the treasures to come…and as such, has amassed much favor among fans and critics alike.
And rightly so.”
(1057) Frenetic today, have to go out on a job in a few minutes. Microdave and IYE to cover in this post once I get back inside. (1105) Oops, wrong weekend, as you were. (1129)
15. Er … one for our Steve
I’ll get my coat ….
14. A Salopian take on it
13. More Nietspe
12. IYE
They’re bleeping everywhere these pervs and very close to the RF
11. Microdave
Re #Fri 8 – And not just in Oxfordshire:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25842809.suffolk-police-dispatched-b1062-pothole-damages-cars/
For discussion:
(0904) Was waylaid on X, Valentine’s now mainly covered. Microdave and Steve next politpost. (0918)
10. Moosh corner
9. IYE
They’re bleeping everywhere these pervs and very close to the RF
8. Steve
The fundamental interconnectedness – otherwise known as ‘groupthink’. Don’t think they won’t do it here either..
Dr. Ribena Berry:
‘Ireland plans fast-track citizenship for migrant military recruits’ ‘Citizenship for military personnel could be fast-tracked’. Well, it looks like another ‘conspiracy theory’ has come to pass.
JH: Ribena Berry? Also Justin Barrett NatSocP? Er.
Lara talks Persia:
MEDIA BLACKOUT ON IRAN: Why Thousands of Deaths Are Going Unreported On this midweek episode of ROGUE ROUNDUP, Lara Logan and Producer/Co-Host Luke Coffee examine the media blackout surrounding Iran’s regime violence, the shutdown of independent reporting on the ground, and the troubling silence from international institutions as children are being killed. Thousands of protesters killed in Iran. Children shot in the streets. And almost no coverage. In more than three decades in journalism, Lara Logan says she has never seen a government murder its own people in such numbers while receiving so little sustained media attention. Wall-to-wall coverage for some stories. Silence for others. Why? They also ask a difficult question: Why isn’t a media apparatus that relentlessly attacks President Donald Trump hammering negotiations with a regime accused of murdering thousands? Plus: • The latest Epstein file revelations • Serbia at a cultural crossroads • The Christian genocide in northern Nigeria • The growing failure of international institutions
7. Up for discussion
6. DAD at 1294
How broken is the UK Prison Service? Alex Belfield gives his opinion after nearly three years an inmate. (20 minutes)
(0549) Morning all. Time starts its mad charge towards evening. (0714)
5. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/02/rubbish-disposal-flytipping-and-modern.html
4. Steve at 1293
3. Some sort of Valentine’s Op Ed
Trouble is … V Day means different things to different corners of the west. To some, it’s strictly two partners, e.g. hubby and wife, fiance and fiance, to others it’s two lovers, to others someone you’d love to be with, to others sordidly sexual, no finesse … to others a reaffirming of close friendships. Any sort of Valentine’s message is a mood lifter, whatever its intention, unless it’s a bad reading of signals.
For me, it’s the most awkward day of the year, simply because of how recipients read signals … it’s too easy to either overstep and assume something we have no right to or else we fall short of how (usually she) sees it. Plus, if a lady is already in an understanding with some fine chap (e.g. her hubby), then no man I know wishes to tread on his territory … we tend to step back due to the “bro-code”.
There are about two dozen ladies I call friends … and they wildly vary in closeness. A few days back, certain very close ladies inc. exes) made contact or I did, then them … that’s well sorted, we all know where we are to a tee. But on X, it’s the wild west, ranging from real affection to a bit of banter online which keeps us sane in this dystopic west now. The chances of overstepping or falling short are many.
So my approach will be to use Valentine’s on X today as my usual greeting to this lady or that, hoping my male friends will understand that this day is not for me to propose to them. With ladies … well, they are the ones calling the tune, it’s ever so, laying down the rules of engagement (unfortunate word in this context?), issuing the signals.
At OoL and UHC (two blogs), I’m assuming all chaps would join with me in wishing our lady or ladies warm wishes … it’s then up to our gallant chaps whether to add to these words or stay shtum for reasons of safety.
2. DAD at 1293
a) Here is someone who found that Friday 13th was unlucky. Released from prison last December and listed as a security risk, he had announced his attack and had been on the run ever since… The suspect, born in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) in 1978, was currently residing in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)…..
b) Soros interfering in elections – again. Wokist campaigns for the municipal elections: 300 “citizen” lists supported by activist networks close to Soros…..
c) Dr Delphine Prénat-Molimard expressed her outrage…..“I’m angry because I spent 15 years studying only to be asked to offer death to patients.”….
d) I think that ‘The Sun’ did not expect this as a result of their poll:
e) The British Police act as a Postboy for the French government…..
1. Rupert and Restore as a party
… has set the internet abuzz but at the same time, we have our other items to run, plus Valentine’s Day and an Op Ed of sorts from lil ole me. So I’ll just run some screenshots on the Rupert biz:
Imagine Rupert having that in his arms (spoils of war?):
Is the new Restore Party a plus or a minus?
Let’s see what today brings on’t, shall we?