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Tuesday [6 to 10]
(0847) Sky’s clearing out there. (0937) Sky has now clouded over into the familiar, wall to wall bleak greyness. (1018)(1028) IYE is up over at 1304. (1028)
10. Moo corner
9. TDS today and our latest heroine
8. Second twofer today
(Some of these are the same topic but different posters.)
7. It’s almost as if the Labour funders, movers and shakers
… met to recruit the worst bottom feeders they could find and bring in, true deadheads, with added ethnic complexity … then to place them in entirely the wrong portfolios:
6. Awwwwww
(Again, if it fails to load … I have a screenshot in reserve.)
My generation
To a great extent, the youtubes run here are what appear in sidebars and recommendeds … kudos to YT and ggl for that much … they do well.
You’ve gathered by now that I became fixated on American Pie far more recently than at the actual time.
One reason it hit home with me, far more than just nostalgic looks at tunes past, is the young person reactions and that in turn is divided into “white” reactions where they tend to analyse lyrics and meanings, and “black” reactions where it either has the groove or does not … if it does, you can see them “groovin'”, generations apart.
That’s nice, to I must say. Now … the “white” reactors are not that easy to choose as they widely range from self-absorbed to genuinely wanting to understand how things were. Into this category we could put “Amelia”, who comes up later with a great snalysis of our public state of affairs.
I’m well aware that this “music” is not everyone’s cuppa cha amongst our readers .. Lord Somber’s comment yesterday was on point … but it is significant music, it did hold a place at particular points of post-war history and to see young people seriously analysing it is … well, it’s nice. Cut them some slack … they’re just past “kidship” really.
Now these two below … they’ve already looked at American Pie and I did not at first like the girl … seemed an arrogant little miss, plus the guy is a bit thick, as guys are … however, over time, they’ve become two of the best and they’re learning … that’s the be all and end all … to learn until our dying day … to forever be the student.
Please hear them through because they do provide an interesting analysis of what, to me, was just a postulating song at the time. I clearly remembering being in the playground, someone had a transistor radio on … I thought it was “ok”, none of us liked the stuttering thing, we knew them it was trying to make us rebellious but we were way too young for that … we just wanted to have fun and do interesting things.
Just as I wish to now … maybe you do too. Fade away and die, man? Gotta be kidding … roll man, roll! Again, please listen to these two right through.
Tuesday [2 to 5]
(0659) Morning all … stormy sky out there. This morning, here at HQ runneth a series of “twofers” on separate topics, from different corners of the west … purpose is to double the topics covered in a small column space.
5. Soon baby … soon
4. Steve at 1303
- Multiple Cartel Wars Rage in Mexico as New Boss Fausto Isidro Meza Flores Rises
- Trump Designates Branches of Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organizations – The Progenitor of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hamas
- French Modelling Agent and Alleged Serial Rapist Jean-Luc Brunel Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein Before He Was Found Dead in His Cell in La Santé Prison
- Former British Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, Arrested Over His Epstein Ties
- Ukrainian Counterattack In Zaporizhzhia Is Stuck
- Mexico eliminates El Mencho. EU prepares sea blockade of Russia. Graham on Iran war, ‘Let’s do it’
- Are Governments across the “Five Eyes” using Hypnosis against Citizens?
- CIA’s historic retraction of intel reports exposes political bias in Obama-Biden spy agencies
- Mexican Resort Towns Burn As Special Forces Kill Jalisco New Generation Cartel Boss “El Mencho”
- Much more.
3. First twofer for the day
2. DAD at 1303
a) French “End of Life” Law: the Silent Sacrifice of Pharmacists’ Conscience … As a physician, I cannot remain silent in the face of the deafening media silence surrounding a crucial point in the bill championed by Olivier Falorni: the outright denial of freedom of conscience for pharmacists….
b) Toulouse: Around 100 members of the Syrian community clashed in the Bellefontaine district… police were sent to separate the two groups….
c) March for Quentin last Saturday: the family thanks the participants who came in a sincere and dignified manner, while condemning the excesses and exploitation….
d) February 22, 2026 … Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced he would summon the US ambassador. On February 20, the US Embassy in France posted a message on X stating that it found the threat of “left-wing extremism” worrying….
Statement on events overnight
Late yesterday, this was released on X (this is one retweet among dozens so far, it being 1:38 a.m. GMT):
Certain things immediately need noting and sorting out:
- Why has no MSM, inc. BBC, jumped on it?
- Why has the “shadow home secretary” not condemned it, given it’s been a known blight online for a long time now?
- Why did the Reform leader instead start attacking “ethnonationalism”?
- Why did the Reform top brass, by evening’s end, change their policy to all foreign crims out but not before?
- If they say they did not know … why did they not know? Were they not part of the Rape Gang Inquiry?
- If not, why not?
- Why did none of the events like the screenshot above not come out in the official whitewash?
- What does Jess Phillips have to say for herself?
- Why is this still only on X and other overseas platforms?
There is a by-election coming up for Gorton and Denton this Thursday. There are three main non LibLabConGreen uniparty branches … in chronological order:
- Reform with Yusuf Farage
- Advance with Ben Habib
- Restore with Rupert Lowe
There is, of course, a collection of similarly minded smaller groups, such as the old UKIP, Heritage, Britain First.
Restore are not participating because they’re too late … the other two are in there. Of those two, which one has taken, from its inception, the entire invasion and ethnicity based raping gangs seriously? And which of those two has shifted its position like a blancmange, according to public mood, conceding only what they were forced to?
In this by-election, the two front runners are both also pro mass immigration.
Monday [20 till close of play]
(1743) Evening all. (1913) Early bed, folks.
22. Here and at OoL
Just shifting focus from Britain herself … to the EU and the continent it’s squatting on, then downunder and across to northern America, what commonalities are there?
Woke hegemony, feminazism, increasing ratcheting of the fabian creep into politburo, apparatchiki and plebs, the plunging moral compass, out of control left brainwashed youth, women like Alex Phillips, loss of all ethical behaviour, lying to the people, playing us for fools, death of the middle class, insane climate policies, abortion at whim till and after birth, barriers between men and women, constant fearmongering, economic breakdown, bleak futures for youth and yet the inability of that very youth to see how they’re promoting their own demise …
… and the big one … foreign, alien armies of men with appalling attitudes, here for a purpose, sitting on weapons caches in seuqsom, awaiting the word … then with Britain echoing the global playbook … a major push by Farage this morning to put Yusuf and his controllers in charge of policy … or similarly in Canada … the Chinese.
All western nations are following the same playbook. In the US, no one has been arrested. Over here, anyone putting either a trad-populist or a culturally Christian view … is hammered, at a minimum censored. Then a deathculter gets up and makes a speech about preserving Christian traditions … at the same time, another church burns down and the worst excesses of the rape gangs come out. Women are beaten up at home.
On Thursday, thousands, well aware of the above, will still vote for more of the same. Why? To stop the awful Greens, completely oblivious to the damage they’re doing to all of us, themselves included.
21. IYE
“…. Trump just legalized phosphorus and glyphosate for national security. Translation: Iranians and American Troops will be doused in these toxic chemicals, their agriculture land forever destroyed. Their ability to procreate decimated. Saving the youth?
In Vietnam it was Agent Orange. Over 19 million gallons were sprayed, causing severe, long-term cancers, birth defects, and chronic health issues in veterans and Vietnamese citizens.……”
|https://helenaglass.net/2026/02/22/trumps-wwiii-hospital-flotilla-is-heading-for-iran/
But there’s one supposed to be heading for Greenland….
20. DAD at 1303
Katie Hopkins seconds the motion “That This House Believes In The Right To Offend” at the Cambridge Union.
Monday [16 to 19]
(1408) Afternoon all. With radio plays which go for hours, it’s not clear how long until resuming again. More than that … Monday is usually quiet for news until the Americans start kicking in early morning. Thus I’m actually out of news and must rely on things such as n16. (1520)
19. Moo corner
18. Royal Mail paying zakat
17. Reform mendacity
Yusuf Farage Ahmed El-Meleigy pretending thay’re “safeguarding” Christianity and Britain is the ultimate arrogant gall, saying to G&D: “Too stupid to see through us.”
16. Forced feminisation
Monday radio play
Cunning plan is to post this last one. Essentially, IYE put one up, I put up a couple of episodes and this is the last extant episode in reasonable condition.
Monday [11 to 15]
(0902) Usual Monday things being sorted. Brief hiatus … chores. (0922)
15. Creature of the cartels
14. Steve
13. The work is never done
12. Interesting these things coming from women
11. Repair the path in summer?
1980
The year, musically, was dominated by ska. I was surprised to see so many who don’t like it now, nor even back then. To my mind, it was lively, danceable, fun … were they ska’s three sins perhaps? One article listed some reasons why it was not universally liked:
1. You Hate the Fans
To generalize, ska fans are gregarious, carefree dorks who love playful, uptempo music. They like silly hats and plaid shirts and are frustratingly unpretentious.
2. You’ve Only Heard Third Wave
When you hear the word ska, I would suggest you ignore third wave altogether, despite there being many gems to be found therein and check out the UK’s 2 Tone scene from the ‘70s and ‘80s.
3. You Also Dislike 2 Tone
You don’t like the Specials, You don’t like Madness. You don’t like black and you don’t like white, at least not when they’re the only two colors on a record cover.
4. You Have No Soul
You probably don’t care for vintage soul or R&B either. It’s not your fault. I’ll stop now, I promise.
5. You Hate Silly Band Names
OK I can’t argue with that. Why is ska the only genre that inspires bands to incorporate the genre into their name?
JH: I could add a few to that:
- 1980 is a very inbetween year … for the young, that’s 46 years ago … think about that.
- For older people, it was a sort of nothing time … out with the 70s, about to become yuppy.
- The further things went on, the more dystopic, perverted, satanic. Ska is innocent fun.
- That’s precisely the criticism in “the day the music died”.
Further issues were that it came from nowhere … reggae plus horns, though the various influences are known … and it died just past the mid 80s, plenty of other genres around. Plus the black v white thing became nastier with time, not better. The genre is jaunty enough, but repetitive, eventually goes nowhere.
Me, myself, I? I was just about to lose my father and launch into my own family life … I just moved on from “music trends”, occasionally heard songs at a distance. It did not return until 1990 with rap, Betty Boo etc.
Lastly … that really is a long, long time ago, 1980. What about the 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s? Phew.
There were other things, personally. I was living in London, there was a really good pub scene, there were all sorts of bands, I was wearing smoking jacket and bowler hat around (quiet at the back there), the vibe was fun.
One other thing … his outfit in the last song … the love of my life wore that colour scheme herself … quite liked it. We were a real special brew … and how.