(0908) Morning all again as we start the day’s secular doings. Saving Steve up for Friday 7, after part three of the two-parter on things metaphysical. (0930)

 

5. The state of the middle-east back in Templar days

4. The sad, enforced cognitive dissonance of modern Plod

… they know in their hearts that they are doing great wrong to our people.

3. Torquaymada at 1447

Friday morning chuckle…

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2. DAD at 1447

United Kingdom: the previous Labour Justice Secretary did everything to prevent the publication of data on crimes committed by foreign nationals. The new one appears to be continuing this approach.

[Even a French website observes this news.]

b) Several people dismissed from French ministries after positive drug tests

“There have been positive tests, and people have been removed from their positions,” Prime Minister Lecornu said.

c) Christophe Rivenq, mayor of Alès in southern France, was evacuated in the middle of the night by France’s elite RAID police unit after enduring a sustained campaign of intimidation that included 9mm bullets deposited in his mailbox, threatening emails and text messages, revenge graffiti sprayed on his home, and a potentially booby-trapped vehicle parked outside his residence, according to Causeur….

d) New surveillance footage appears to show a German migrant rescue group receiving around 90 migrants directly from masked smugglers off the Libyan coast.

The footage was recorded on May 11 by a surveillance plane….

e) Lucy Powell’s appointment as Education Secretary became viral after she announced it in an X post riddled with grammatical errors, earning a mocking ‘3/10’ from the Conservatives. The blunder revived scrutiny of her view that school testing had become ‘draconian’, her disputed Oxford claim, and her controversial remarks about grooming-gang victims.