Daily Archives: May 14, 2026

Thursday [14 till close of play]

(1703) Evening all. Results next week. Y’all ok? Not bad here. (1835) short snooze coming up, then back (cunning plan)

 

24. Annunziata

“Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset’s population. And 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It’s true.”

23. Jim Chim on our Ange

@AngelaRayner, a few questions your statement does not answer. Tax Policy Associates, one of the most respected independent tax bodies in the country, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of your advisers explicitly told you to obtain specialist tax advice before completing the transaction.

You did not obtain it. Independent experts say a penalty of approximately 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome under Schedule 24 of the Finance Act 2007. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why. Do you believe HMRC reached the correct conclusion and if so can you explain why two independent expert bodies disagree?

You state you had no personal financial interest in the trust set up for your son. The trust was funded in part by NHS compensation money awarded for your son’s care. You sold your remaining stake in your Ashton constituency home to that trust for £162,500 in January 2025 and used those proceeds as a deposit on an £800,000 flat in Hove. How do you define no personal financial interest in that transaction?

A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, described as towards staffing costs and declared on the parliamentary register. Weeks later you paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Who owns Refrigeration House Limited, what is their connection to you, and was any part of that donation used directly or indirectly to meet the stamp duty liability?

You say politicians should be held to high standards. The questions above are what high standards look like in practice. They deserve answers.”

22. Good thing no one we know lives near Mobile AL

Matt van Swol brings the news:

“Divers doing a ROUTINE maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile, AL… …just found an underwater IED!!!! Apparently a grenade-type bomb was sitting submerged at the bottom of a dam that holds an entire city’s DRINKING WATER. It took FIVE agencies: the FBI, ALEA, the Sheriff, Mobile PD, and a maritime render-safe team, to pull it out and detonate it. Someone put a BOMB in our water supply…”

21. Guido on Rayner


20. The destructive insanity of Milipede


19. Moo corner


18. When daughter takes up the cause


17. How they do it


16. Now and Next

HERE

“A marvellous video tells how China is reversing the progress of a desert that was heading towards Beijing.

At first they planted great numbers of trees, which sucked water out of the ground until the water table sank so far the roots couldn’t reach and the trees died.

Then they tried introducing an ancient wild breed of horse – Przewalski’s. This stocky creature broke the barren crust of topsoil with its hooves, allowing rainwater to gather in puddles and seep into the lower ground. Plants came out of suspended animation. As the horses roamed they spread seeds carried on their hooves and in their dung. Insects colonised the greening area and a complex ecosystem began to re-form.

Isn’t this a metaphor for the failure of top-down bureaucratic planning of a command economy and the success, allowed the opportunity, of the “animal spirits” of private enterprise?”

15. IYE at 1382:1

“Before Foundation, Pathak founded a fintech called Synapse. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2024, the SAME month they say Foundation was founded, strange right? The collapse of Synapse left up to $200 million in consumer money frozen and between $85 and $96 million unaccounted for. More than 200,000 customers across apps like Yotta and Juno were locked out of their savings. A Texas woman with $30,100 in a Yotta savings account got back 69 cents. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had to allocate $46 million to bail customers out. It was the first time in the bureau’s history that the victims’ fund was used for a fintech.”

14. Richard J. Shaw

… and the discussion we need to have:

“I’m calling some of you EthNats out now. I’m sick of the fantasy bullshit. For all the @RestoreBritain_ followers who are criticising @TRobinsonNewEra… I agree. I think he shills for Israel too much. However, I personally have no problem with the country of Israel or the Jewish people, but I have a serious problem with the leadership and I’m only interested in Britain.

However, I think Tommy has been a net positive for the UK. For all those pointing out that he is a CivNat… Yes he is. However he also recognises the need for mass deportations and the prevention of irreversible demographic change. Some of you think he doesn’t go far enough. Does that mean he isn’t doing good work highlighting the rape gangs? Does that mean that bringing nationalist patriots together is a bad thing?

To all you hardcore EthNats out there that want to see Restore Britain go full EthNat… Have a word with yourselves. Do you really think that the vast majority of this country are going to vote for a party that wants to deport every brown person? Let me answer for you… NO, they won’t. Neither would I. I’m not a pure CivNat. I understand the need to protect our 4 nations as Anglo-Saxon, Christian countries. I understand the need for mass deportations.

However if you think that I’m going to support deporting Gurkhas or other foreigners who have served in the armed forces, or hard working, law abiding people who are 2nd or 3rd generation… You’re off your head. You need to be realistic about what is accomplishable and what the British people actually want.

We can deport… All Illegals All foreign criminals All foreigners who won’t work All foreigners who don’t speak English All foreigners who won’t integrate All foreigners who undermine the UK All foreigners who push Islam on us We can also look into ways to begin the process of remigration.

However, when it comes to the goal of removing every single foreigner or brown person… Fucking Stupid. Don’t like it? I don’t care.”

Thur Mat

 

Not a film, not even a full episode, just a denouement, scheduled this morning, but it does relate to today and will keep on relating. Don’t much like Peter Falk in real life for various reasons but he’s a good character in the series. Richard Kiley as the villain is very good. Seems a good actor.

Cunning plan here was to break the day, get back to you for real around 1700.

Ascension Day [1 to 13]

(0334) All right, chaps and chapesses … cunning plan is to post and check incoming until 0800, thereafter just a few more checks and replies, then off I go on this world of adventure. Shall check any major updates until maybe 0900.

 

13. Ascension Day

The word “dogma” is problematic in Christianity … does it mean clear, simple new testament or gospel doctrine, as in “love thy neighbour” or “faith, hope and charity”, the key ideas from it … or does it mean where men in robes pontificate on their interpretation of it?

I knew a Northern Irishman like that and everything he said, in that brogue, was vehement and tub thumping, even if it was about the price of fish. I mean, how much of this Paisleyism can one take in one dose? Let alone the Catholic potentates.

To my mind, that’s the negative connotation of dogma, offputting to normies. Take consubstantiation v transsubstantiation. Or the Filioque. I’m not saying it’s not important but I am saying it’s quite arrogant for potentates to assume denominational authority on every single aspect … to the point we burn the other at the stake? Tyndale. Mary … did Jesus have brothers … or not?

And these schismatic questions … the potentate would reply that if he were not dogmatic on scriptural authority, then you’d soon have women or gay rainbow clergy ruining the church. So I leave that question open for now.

What about Ascension Day? To my mind, it’s quite different to the Rapture. There’s an interpretation that, far from us being whisked away into the sky, in fact we, if saved, stay here on earth in the new kingdom, ruled by Jesus returned, the way most of the faith see it happening … the return itself I mean.

Ascension Day does not appear to have the same issues. Most seem to accept that he went there or went up after a number of days. Fine. Why May 14th? Well why not? It’s a commemoration, innit?

12. The old, old question

… is it just sheer incompetence, systems gone wrong … or is it unethical and criminal behaviour, disguised through pretend incompetence?


11. IYE at 1381:4

”Two years after the New Delhi G20 summit1, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor2 is still the West’s flagship infrastructure project.

(JH: Much more there.)

10. Have you seen any of this?


9. Most online Brits know this by now … o/s as well


8. Not sure that this is appropriate for this morning, ha ha


Think he means it IS a conspiracy, PLUS a court record.

7. Over at OoL

Watch this space.

6. Thieves and robbers


5. Most interesting, relations with O’Keefe

4. I seem to recall we weren’t too impressed with her in the recent past

… maybe readers can refresh the memory. Anyway:

3. DAD if he drops this morning

Le Jour d’Ascension.

a) France. Philippe for president of France? Despite the polls, he is clueless and vapid. Polls suggest former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is the elite’s best chance to defeat presumptive National Rally candidate Jordan Bardella….

b) Nairobi Summit: Macron tries in Africa what he fails to do in France. The French president is promising billions in investment, even though he is unable to revive the French economy.

c) ‘It’s either us or them’ – Far-left French mayor calls for insurrection if conservatives win presidential election, attacks Macron as well In seeking to address inequalities, Bally Bagayoko seems intent on overturning the entire Republic….

d) Greece warns of 550,000 migrants massing in Libya ahead of potential Mediterranean crossings.

e) US President Donald Trump has proposed Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as an “ideal team” for the 2028 US presidential election, though he has stopped short of endorsing either man as his chosen successor.

f) At 1381:5: Sam has a verbal battle at 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road with the Security.

(JH: Ta, DAD.)

f) King Charles: “My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID.”

2. For some readers in the know, this is an interesting Xer on this topic

1. Saw this in passing

… not following up, it was curious though: