(0817) Gates sky and cold out there. Ta for the kind words but I could easily send the same to you chaps and chapesses. And in the end, we’re only as good as our last post. (0914)

 

5. Steve at 1249

• Karoline Leavitt Says Trump “Not Afraid to Use Denaturalization” Against Somali Fraudsters
• Zohran Mamdani to Take Midnight Oath Using Quran in Abandoned Subway Station — AG Letitia James Chosen to Administer Ceremony
• Europe’s Only Christian Countries
• Russia Displays Oreshnik, Plans 2026 Odessa Operation; NYT Confirms US Was Behind Kiev Drone Strikes
• RFK Jr. Drops 2026 MAHA Agenda To Banish Toxic Food Dyes And Kill Off Processed Poison
• Just How Demented Is the Demented Dominion?
• Much more.

4. The law is an ass

3. DAD at 1249

a) Andrew Bridgen … The problem in the house building trade in the UK. Why houses are not being built. It’s not about planning permission.

b) As France prepares to enter an intense period of elections—municipal in 2026, legislative and presidential in 2027—the way French voters think about politics is starting to change, with opposition to the far-left, particularly La France Insoumise (LFI), now outweighing the long-standing desire to block the right-wing Rassemblement National (RN).

c) A long-running criminal case against Gunnar Beck, a former Member of the European Parliament for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has imploded before a Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia district court.

d) Can a Statue be the victim of Sexual Assault? Parisian feminists prefer wasting their energy defending the rights of a statue over preventing attacks on real women.

2. The Iranian situation

Let’s open with this:

I wrote (a couple of days ago I think) that all this in Iran is good but the regime are cowards … they’ll wait till the fervour subsides, runs out of steam, then hit at pinpoints with thugs, acting with grotesque, demonic brutality

Forget not the situation in Brazil as well with Bolsonaro. Some more reports, remembering that the most penetrating will be Israeli: