(0629) Morning all. Health update … I’m all right but dodged a bullet … it only reinforces all the precepts and practices which keep a person alive and stay away from those which run down and kill. Not particularly wonky but very, very careful all the same. Have a good Sunday. (0815)
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4. Steve at 1364
- Detroit Thieves Destroy 75 Fire Hydrants in Just 48 Hours, Stealing $600 Metal Parts and Leaving Firefighters Without Water for Emergencies
- CBS News Visits the Southern Border – Is Stunned to Find No One is There Anymore
- Air Force Veteran Died in an ‘Accidental’ Drug Overdose Just Months After Agreeing to Testify Before Congress About Secret Government UFO Crash Retrieval Programs
- US Military Build Up Detected In UAE’s Dhafra Air Base
- Exchange Of Strikes: Russia Launched 666 Missiles And Drones At Ukraine, Ukraine Attacked The Urals
- WHO Emergency Use Listing scheme is designed to override national vaccine approval processes while taking no responsibility
- A daily ritual for heart health: Science says tea and chocolate are far more than just comfort food
- Meta-Analysis Reports Associations Between Heavy Smartphone Use and Structural Brain Changes
- Users claiming to be Iranian Intelligence Services are recruiting Britons on Telegram to cause chaos on London’s streets
- Much more.
3. World Penguin Day
2. DAD at 1364
a) France. After five months, the Saint-Polycarpe church closed its doors this Friday, April 24. The unaccompanied minors had to return to the Chartreux camp, as no other solution was available….
b) France, Tomblaine (54): The nursing board has authorised healthcare workers to stop going to a certain neighborhood. A repeat offender, convicted and fined, continues to harass and threaten them.
c) USA. Here’s Why $96 Million Worth Of Electric Buses Sit Idle Across South Florida.
d) The EU. On April 17, the press revealed that the Élysée Palace is pressing the European Commission to revise the guidelines of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in order to broaden the definition of ‘disinformation’, particularly during election periods.
1. This was at Lord Toby’s site this morning
“We are about to witness an implosion in British politics with a real risk that we will reach entirely the wrong conclusion. Keir Starmer is already a lame duck Prime Minister but – like many who hold that office – he is stubborn and thus likely to stagger on until the untenability of his position is punched into him by his Parliamentary colleagues.
Starmer’s political obituary will read that he misled Parliament (or at best was economical with the truth), that he ran a No. 10 operation that was out of control and alienated many of his own MPs, that his judgement on the big decisions he was actually willing to take (few in number) was deeply flawed and that his unpopularity with the British public led his party to electoral oblivion….”
It’s quite possible to identify stances, reactions from pundits which identify their own predilections, their own refusal to see … and there is no fool like an old fool who flatly refuses to see. Such things are exacerbated by, for example, the M25 bubble, by northern city bubbles, by town and country.
Take, for example, GB News which project’s straight Reform sensibilities … no reality please, we’re staying in our Alex woman comfort zone … Rupert to these people is gauche, rough, rural … way too much reality. Or is seen as a closet Tory (landed).
Middle-class people, esp. southern women, vastly prefer a nicely nice style, nothing blunt trauma please … sleepwalking into a Reform govt which was anointed long ago by the deep state … kabuki theatre, melodrama, with Starmer blacker than black and Nige with the numbers, tailoring policy to suit the latest crisis and undercutting the main opposition to them … Restore.
And so the Old Britain sleepwalks to oblivion, hankering for an ex-Britain in which no one has the wherewithal to restore it. Unless something jolts the middling normies … something like the Falklands perhaps?