HERE

… or here if you prefer:

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19. Moo corner

18. Cancer anyone?

17. Plan B

16. Daily Sceptic

Just why would any country want this?

Benedict Smith in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.

Just over a decade ago, Aberdeen was thriving.

It was the gateway to Britain’s North Sea oil and gas industry. Average weekly earnings were higher only in London and it consistently ranked among the top UK cities for business and jobs growth.

At £215,000, property prices were nearly double the Scottish average, having risen 165% in just 10 years as the area boomed.

Following the scent of oil and gas, new arrivals appeared in their droves to fill highly paid positions. Between 2004 and 2015, the population jumped by nearly 20,000 and local businesses flourished.

The picture is starkly different today. Tumbling oil prices, punitive taxes and the underwhelming advance of renewables have tipped the North Sea energy industry into a spiral of accelerated decline that is taking Aberdeen’s property market down with it.

 

(0834) Morning all, been torrid so far but I see the sun coming out. (0858)

 

15. Could we expect any better?

14. At least these are known traitors

13. This is in a similar vein

This creature is one of the most despicable in many people’s minds:

Thing is … she’s meant to be Christian … or at least Catholic … but she turns out to be a raving left lunatic with zero loyalty to the country maintaining her on its SC. At least Roberts can plead Epstein Island vileness and the need to protect himself.

12. This is a hard post item for me to repost

Steve: Oh dear..

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/HA-unY_bIAAtLFG.jpg?itok=xtlDm3hR

It’s not unlike if I were to discover, about a darling I’ve supported for a long time, that she’s in fact into eugenics, “perfect human crafting” … or else it’s some guy who says sensible things but I find out he’s into little boys … I mean, to discover such things is no summer holiday.

11. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-new-brutal-realities.html

 

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10. Moo corner

9. Press one for English-speaking

8. The girl from Sissingdon

Her name is Katie Lam, born 1991, originally from Guildford, previously Head Girl at school, like two of my own friends, and is the only Tory MP speaking out decently on Brit issues felt by most indigenous people here.

I was looking at marriage and children but alas, she seems one of those career girls. There’s some man very much in the background.

7. It’s westwide … and it never ends

6. Jennifer Daskal

Who? She’s a law “professor” from American University in DC. Yes. And what? There’s wide objection to her latest appointment. The following screenshots point to it.

That last one is my connection with the Daskel issue.

(0446) Dental issue has just arisen, still assessing the fallout, will have to see how today goes. (0538)

 

5. Heading for a showdown

… it will all be in the wording.

4. Been looking again at Gab

… as I have a friend there from the old gabbing days before the UK govt cut the nexus. It came back recently, Gab, and I made contact again with various people on the mutual-follow list but we do have an issue, and this issue is followed up in Sat 6 later … namely that increased horrors from above have turned each of us back into our own more localised issues.

For example, we’re in the Restore v Reform brouhaha just now in the UK, whilst the US has issues ranging from Bannon to Sat 6 to Texas (Sat 7). The pressure to let those on the outer fall away … true allies … is immense, even when the issues are existential and we need our allies more than ever.

3. Steve at 1301

• Legal Expert Jonathan Turley Confirms President Donald Trump Still Has Powerful Tools Available — Including a Massive Tariff Toolbox — Following SCOTUS Outrageous Ruling
• Billionaire Les Wexner Under Oath Tells Lawmakers Jeffrey Epstein Was a Financial Adviser for The Rothschild Family
• Canada’s Liberal Government Opens Military Ranks to Foreign Nationals for Fast-Track Immigration
• Russia Iran Fleets Conduct Hormuz Exercise Trump Delays Strike: Moscow Says Kiev Army Wasting Away
• £10bn of benefits given to unemployed migrant households in just 18 months
• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces fall referendum on immigration, constitutional questions
• Khazaria, Rothschild Dynasty, New World Order, Ukraine and Implementation of the Nephilim Agenda
• Bannon-Epstein texts reveal alleged plot to invoke 25th Amendment against Trump
• Much more.

2. Op Ed of sorts … holding firm

The fact of the matter is we’re under severe pressure, each of us, from personal issues to societal to global and I’m of the opinion that this is precisely the time to stick together, not to fall apart over this or that, over sleights we may feel others have committed, over this person or that becoming too big for his boots.

In short, this is precisely the time to cut our known allies some slack, not to cut ties, at the most severe time in modern western history since WW2 … this is highly abnormal just now and the horrors unleashed above seep down to us at personal level … I’m thinking of Andy just now displaced from his home and he’s but one.

This is not the time to fall out, to abandon, but a time to stand firm in the west, are I say in each case … one nation under God, charity beginning at home.

1. DAD at 1300

a) Is France Protecting Quentin’s Killers? Much of France’s political and media establishment has minimised the killing and resisted scrutiny of the far-left figures connected to the case. France is still reeling from the death of young nationalist activist Quentin, who was lynched by anti-fascists in Lyon on Thursday, February 12th….

b) After the killing of Quentin, a French Student, will Europe designate Antifa a Terrorist Organization?

c) Euthanasie et trafic d’organes – remember that organs have to be harvested whilst the body is living. From there, it’s a short step to thinking that some will use “assisted dying” to harvest organs….

d) Why France Is, financally, a basket case.

(1626) Evening(ish), all.

 

19. Moo corner

18. There’s a second part to this

… I’ll look for it.

17. One our chapses mentioned this earlier

16. Of course, we had it toof

… and you try telling the young people that today …

15. Are you an extra-terrestrial by the way?

14. PG Wodehouse had much to say

… about horse luvvin wimmin:

13. Thinking 🤔

12. Later, from our chapses at 1300

DAD:

Tommy Robinson arrives in US after visa granted despite criminal convictions.

Steve:

Hearts of Oak: Dr Gavin Ashenden – The Real Christian Nationalism: History, Hope and Honest Evangelism

IYE:

Lauren is on A M-W’s case. PR insights.

11. Yes indeed

 

Readers/watchers/listeners … it’s not just a lack of good films … they’ll reappear again … it’s more that I wanted to get some Paul Temples up so you’d have them here each time you wish to rest your eyes awhile.

However, there are Temples and Temples so to speak and I’m afraid the inimitable IYE and I might differ on the two leads. Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury are the famed ones but long after the series ended, the Beeb attempted to recreate the series, using extant scripts or an amalgamation, with the leads Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson.

I know, I know … judging by remakes today, first instinct is to be wary and rightly so. Plus, my criticism of the Coke/Westbury era is largely the script’s requirement for Paul to be insufferably condescending (the Greek parachutist) to his wife and for her to have a slightly insufferably pompous voice and manner. Over time, for me alone perhaps, it becomes wearing.

In the remake, Crawford Logan has the voice right, he’s still insufferable to his wife to a point, she’s still insufferably called “Steve” as a sop to the feminists, but she’s a nicer person, more vulnerable, more triggering of his protective instincts, yet quite a little warrior when she wishes to be. You’ve gathered that I like her. Interestingly, the episode IYE provided was one of the remakes with these two.

Anyway, we now have two more accessible Temple episodes below but one more issue … I chose the audio only version, as in radio, rather than a pretty thumbnail … these are listeners rather than watchers, quite unadorned. Enjoy hopefully.

IYE commented on the series, I’ve just been listening to one of the episodes … Sullivan … in which they take a flying boat from resort to resort, eventually reaching Cairo.

Our route twenty years ago was from Cyprus by overnight ferry, not by flying boat, but it was just as exotic and we did end up at the pyramids and sphinx, plus we also had adventures. This might not read as well as fiction but if I tell you every word of the excerpt below was fact, no embellishment, I wonder just how far from disaster, a la Paul Temple, it was.

And she and I are still in touch, we could speak about this below now if we wished.

.o0o.

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They had to make a decision between The Holy Land and The Pyramids.

The overnight boat to Egypt, the Louisa, deposited them in Sinai, where they boarded the bus for Giza, following a route parallel to but not visible from the canal.

They crossed the Nile and the bullrushes were very Moses indeed he couldn’t help but think, the outskirts of Cairo were appalling, either derelict or part of some new housing project, all in the same mud brick and he could scarcely imagine a worse way to live.

True, much of Russia was dire but at least there were new building projects underway there to clear the slums and put in new multi-storey housing.  Here there were slums upon slums, abandoned housing projects on the outskirts and a small canal with a boat being rowed along it for light relief.

At Giza, the beaming tour woman warned him, ‘Don’t go on camel. They say it free but it not, it end up cost you much money, even for photograph.’

She now took him aside and whispered conspiratorially, ‘Your girl, she very beautiful, be very careful, they take her away, you never see again.’

He glanced around and half the bus had its eyes on her – it was always the way and some were now looking at him, trying to fathom out what these two were about.

They wandered over towards the Great Pyramid and took each other’s photos, then she saw the camels. She desperately wanted a photograph on a camel and as they sauntered across there, as if on cue, the dark camel rider, white teeth gleaming, cantered up.

‘How much?’

‘Two pound.’

‘Two Egyptian or two Cyprus pounds?’

The man didn’t seem to understand the question, so Hugh gave him two Cyprus pounds and stood astride the exit path, took her photo then when the rider showed signs of not budging, demanded Anya be allowed down.

‘Meester, a little ride, yes?’ ingratiated the Egyptian.

‘No no, down, down!’

The rider pushed on the camel which now knelt down and let her slip off.

With her feet once more on solid earth, she wanted to take her own photo of him on the camel and now he made the fundamental error – he climbed up.

The instant he was in place, the rider suddenly whipped the camel into action, clomping awkwardly but swiftly along the sand beside the bitumen road parallel to the pyramid.

‘Turn around!’

‘Just a ride, meester.’

‘No, turn around now.’

Some police driving nearby saw was happening and began calling to the rider through a megaphone but then the full horror of the situation struck him. The police were on the road, yes, but the camel was on the sand and out there was the end of the built up area.

He began to slip off the camel as it clomped along but the rider’s ‘brother’ was suddenly alongside, the two of them pinning him between them, the police addressing them the whole time through the loud hailer.

The riders immediately introduced the topic of money. First, a moderate amount, then more and more. They knew he had his wallet and that there might be cards in there and yet they didn’t seem interested – they just wanted the cash. They even knew he hadn’t given them more than a portion of it and didn’t seem to want the rest.

They started trotting back, the police car keeping pace all the way.

‘Why did you go so far?  She was furious when he finally climbed down.

‘Sorry, my love, I just got carried away.’

He made a mental note not to tell anyone about that bit of stupidity, ever, and by the time they’d reached the papyrus place in the city, she’d largely forgotten about the episode – at least she didn’t refer to it.  He was very quiet the rest of the day.

.o0o.

Just thinking … not sure that such things, such adventures as the two of us had, some questionably dangerous, would be possible now, say post-2017. I’m so glad now that she pushed me into doing things … they were something ehich would never be lost.

We were what I’d say were semi-independent travellers, it was nevr an all in one inclusive. We’d get to a four star, once a five star, and look through the brochures on the bed. Regrets today? Not a bit of it. None.

Paul and Steve in the episode? Every bit that way for us, minus the guns and baddies of course … just exotic adventure (including elephants on one trip).