Sunday [5 to 10]

(1051) Let’s just say I was waylaid there, chaps and chapesses, by health issues of what I hope are a temporary nature. (1615)

10. American Thinker has an article on two no-nos

… in a society, esp. a western society, which I’ll now paraphrase a bit:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/my_two_shocking_statements.html

*The first is diversity … worst thing possible for any society, as has been shown time and time again, no exceptions.

*The second is tolerance of wrongdoing, e.g. trying to tear down a traditional culture, hating the people of that land.

One would think that that was apparent to any sane citizen but it seems not.

9. Class 86

8. Kathy Gyngell (TCW … heavily abridged)

a. No, it didn’t come as a surprise me that an independent investigation found the BBC to have breached its rules on impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest more than 1,500 times over the four-month period following the October 7 outrage. Despite identifying 11 cases where it said the BBC Arabic’s coverage had featured reporters who’d previously made public statements in support of terrorism and specifically Hamas, without viewers being informed, the BBC’s response predictably once again was denial.

b. It’s Farage’s sense of justice that the people are listening to and want to hear. Such as that Starmer should deport the 10,000 foreign nationals in our prisons instead of releasing 1,700 dangerous criminals.

From Parliament to GB News to the pages of the Telegraph, the true leader of conservatives in the country didn’t let up. That the public were failed by the official silence over the Southport atrocity is his latest spot-on indictment of Starmer. Again, he is the only political leader to make this point. But the MSM will not give him a fair hearing any more than they will Trump in the US. The left’s vigilantes are always after him.

7. TPA (no url)

For months we’ve been shouting to anyone and everyone we’ve met about the dire state of the national finances, specifically the monstrous levels of debt we’ve accrued as a country – and no doubt some of you might be tired of reading about it.

But the debt clock we launched in July, and the first class data produced by our research team, has kicked off a national conversation.

First up, the House of Lords economic affairs committee published a report which raised a “big red flag” about the state of the finances. Chairman of the committee, Lord Bridges, said: “This report highlights a grim reality: our national debt risks developing on an unsustainable path. This has not received the attention it deserves.” You can say that again.

This was followed by the chairman of the OBR warning that the debt could “spiral” out of control and £40 billion of tax rises or spending cuts are needed every decade. With the tax burden on its way to an 80 year high and ministers spending £1.2 trillion every year, we know which of those we’d prefer to see!

6. Just three screenshots for now, more later