Having to live down the managerial class’s egregious gaffes, poor workmanship and Prescott running two of em* … it was a long, bumpy history for this car. I quite liked the XJ-6 from a distance.
* Originally, Prescott’s nickname was “Prezza”, but as various misfortunes befell him, the sobriquets became more colourful, leading to “Two Jags”, which set the template for later nicknames. Prescott owned one Jaguar, and had the use of another as his official ministerial car.
(0756) Weather’s changed … closed in, rain threatening. (0832)
10. Moo corner
9. They’re not only utterly corrupt
… but they’re not even from this land.
8. Morrisons is but one chain doing it
7. This is more than neglect by govt
… this is open war by govt upon us.
6. Time we addressed this church burning issue
… plus the stabbings, plus treating believers like pariahs by westerners, silly people, esp. the woke left and “live by sientifik logic” lot. Anyway:
Yep, those women were raped then murdered by the charming dross boating over with the collusion of the Brit and French states. Monsters, inc. govt.
Anyone ever heard of Pastor Niemoeller? What he said?
(0526) Ripping day out there just now, sun everywhere. (0709)
5. Pocahontas
4. Steve at 1373
Steve also quotes Yorkshire Lass (one of mine too):
“Did you know Camilla flew on a commercial flight back home from her US state visit to the U.K with very minimal security around her. She just casually wandering around the airport to catch her commercial flight, like every central casting actor does when they have played an optical role overseas. Central casting actors are put in place for the illusion that the original deep state players are still about, when in fact the original ones have had their assets seized under the military, and are completely bankrupt. Many of them have either been completely removed from the board, are being controlled by the mil to play a part, or are still alive throwing others under the bus whilst being interrogated for information.”
King Arthur Fan:
“The British Royal family was taken out almost a decade ago. You’re watching a movie.”
Plus a meme with Chas 3 kissing Donny’s hand.
3. Sometimes there’s very funny footage, memes, comment
In this one on X, there’s some guy coming down an escalator like royalty, police everywhere keeping crowds back … except no one is cheering or even noticing. It’s not even a crowd.
The opening tagline is, “Who the hell is he?” Much comment below.
Until one in particular commented: “Enrico Pallazzo.”
Yeah right … you either know or you don’t. ☺️ Ggl him.
2. DAD at 1373
Message from DAD
“Weather report from Western France.
After 40 days of beautiful weather (including about 17 days with 100% sunshine) the weather has changed. I hope that we do not have 40 days of rain. I measured 12 mm yesterday morning and 24 mm this morning. At midnight we had a thunderstorm that battered the Climbing Roses.
In France May is the month of Bank Holidays. May 1st; 8th and Ascension (the 15th this year).”
Keep smiling, DAD
a) France. Less than a year out from France’s next presidential elections, National Rally (RN) party chief Jordan Bardella is doubling down on a core plank of its: Welfare for nationals, first and foremost….
b) Zack Polanski is Britain’s first digital-native party leader. Our analysis of his “likes” on Bluesky shows how the eco-populist bristles at criticism. (JH: Cheers for the heads up, DAD. I must make a point of goading him, joining in with the rest of us.)
c) Reform UK Plans Migrant Detention Centres in Green-Voting Areas.
d) In a display of cross-party co-ordination, Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and The Left, have announced they are halting activity on the platform X…. (JH: Yeah, just P-off, the lot of you.)
1. Some sort of op ed
a. There are all sorts of signals coming out of this front page, there are people who would like to know how I am. Some sort of op ed or discursive thing is a good sign of good sleep. When DAD kicks in, I see the ticker, hear the bell. Good … he’s best at n2 slot and Steve at n4, the rest is from the reserve stack of sshots, also checking the news.
b. Cinco de Mayo. Was looking it up … seems we must say SEEN-ko de MAY-o, whereas I’ve been saying Chinko, as in Chinese. Seems it’s some Mexican victory over France. Uh huh. But the Hispanics in the US made it into a big thing. Uh huh … whatever’s right, guys. Is this that pinyata festival thing where they beat some spherical thing and sweets come out? Whatever.
(1745)
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18. Of those conveniently dying and then being robbed
17. Of AI, EV and data centres
In a similar vein:
16. IYE and ballrooms
The funding of that there “ballroom” Short video..
https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-250752237
“ You’re Paying for Trump’s Ballroom”
https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/p-195759549
Comment from under TheLeahFiles video
“ AWNYE 2d The Baal room just happens to look like Solomon’s Temple- this tells you everything you need to know.”
It’s the masons again.
Also
“ Trump also went on to list features that he said would be part of the project: “Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass.”
Myreviewerdotcom said:
“Three years previously, this film probably would have been a smash hit, but audiences were by now tiring of cynicism in films. They wanted optimism, and they wanted the good guys to win again. Twilight’s Last Gleaming was released in February 1977. Just three months later, a small film from George Lucas was released and changed the movie industry forever.”
The Parallax View was 1974, the remaking of the 1962 Manchurian Candidate was in 2004, Watergate was in 1972. It’s fairly easy to trace the public mood in such matters.
As someone with a keen interest in public moods, generations, govt misdeeds, events in certain years … it explains a lot. Toodles was mentioning open plan classes, which signalled the demise of traditional teaching, the three Rs etc. That kicked off about 1971. It hit the UK more fully in 1989 with the National Curriculum, the last nail in the coffin for children.
As far as films go, I thought today to run something from the 70s … to me, the music scene was a bit different to films … this was the beginning of gratuitous sex and violence, which made choosing a film for today quite difficult … at least in the 60s, there were better choices still.
(1033)(1045)
15. Remember Brown, gold and pensions?
14. Women can do absolutely everything
… that’s why they dominate these industries:
13. They certainly want rid of the farmers
12. Some good news for a change
11. Behind the EDCA (digital censorship)
(0510) Guess what universal, wall-to-wall colour the sky is out there? (0809)
10. Moo corner … have we already had this?
9. Macron Mariechal took on Macaroni
8. Naturally, the women and girls debate and action plans
… are going to occupy vast amounts of column inches. While men tend to focus on the raped girls and the flood of lowlifes, women encompass that, plus a range of female-centric other issues.
7. Housekeeping … UHC-WP
I mentioned yesterday that UHC-WP is a bit of a conundrum. It’s one of the “free” WP sites and the difference between that (dotcom) version and the pay version dotorg (UHC-HQ) is stark … the functionality of the dotcom is greatly impaired for semi-professionals, fairish for newbies.
The killer is the storage space limit … 1 Gb, compared to 3 Gb for NOWP and near enough to unlimited in Tb for HQ. In plain terms, text takes almost nothing in space, each compressed screenshot takes up about three times a longish text post, ditto with an ordinary picture, say in jpeg form. Pics are not profligate at HQ by any means … on the dotcoms though … each pic is a killer.
The implication for UHC-WP is it’s almost all text or else something hosted elsewhere … just the occasional pic. UHC-WP is thus primarily a text archive and one way to organise it is to divide it by reader-patron name.
Still in embryonic form, I’ve been working on it. Currently, I’m making each person a “homepage”, linked to in the sidebar, transferring all shorts from that person onto that homepage. Longs stay where they are so far and are indexed on that person’s “homepage”.
It’s a bit of a job but I’m doing some of it today.
6. Dear oh dear
… what have I been doing to myself?
Ta, IYE.
(0411) Morning all, light appearing now. Giuliani in critical condition in hospital … little wonder with what he’s been saying. (0502)
5. The north-south divide
4. Steve corner
At 1372:
Steve also has:
Have a great Early May Spring Bank Holiday tomorrow – got any bluebells left in your garden? Don’t eat them, they’re poisonous.
Plus:
If you intend going out in your glad rags try this.. (JH: Oldie but a goodie):
3. The game plan
JH: Just a word about the editing … quite often, the item has text, followed by pic and footage. If a reader doubts that it was said, then you have the X handle, Subrosa has checked and retweeted … by all means confirm yourself … I’m not giving that creature column inches here.
2. DAD at 1372
a) France. Jean-Luc Mélenchon announces his candidacy for 2027 presidential elections. “It leaves a bitter taste for some… starting with those who remember his post-defeat speech in 2022 where he aspired to ‘be replaced’”.
b) Beauvais (60): A Moroccan woman, a mother of four [19 to 26] , is refusing all proposed relocation solutions. “Proud of her roots,” she cites the strength of “tradition in Morocco” to justify her choice. Although the building is slated for demolition next June as part of an urban renewal plan, the tenant is sticking to her criteria. She has already rejected at least four offers deemed “too small.”
c) Sex Crime rises across Europe as Western Nations top the list.
d) Canadian Military’s Immigrant Experiment serves as warning to Europe. Lack of language skills and cultural competence along with hostilities between cadets from the same continent highlight risks of recruiting recent immigrants into armed forces.
1. Let’s open with the Catalonian girl and Madrid
(1529) Late afternoon greetings, chaps and chapesses.
17. Hope yet?
16. Steve corner
On Sun 12. Important council elections Thursday – indeed, and here’s some voting information for the hard of learning..
History of Communism – Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it | https://historyofcommunism.org/repression-and-executions-under-communist-dictatorships/
15. Moo corner
Large muscles are not everything:
14. A graph for you perusal
13. Death of the workplace
12. Important council elections Thursday
11. State pension
