Author Archives: James Higham

Thur Mat

 

This review was positive, others were 3/10, 4/10:

“After two business partners take out double indemnity life insurance policies on each other, one of them dies in a questionable “accident.” Ace insurance investigator Richard Denning, posing as a real estate agent, comes to town to find the truth. This 1951 programmer has all the good qualities of a Republic picture– first rate supporting cast (Reed Hadley, Hillary Brooke, Roy Barcroft), exciting pacing and editing, an efficient and fast-moving script. Richard Denning (best known to younger audiences for his sci-fi films and for his appearances on HAWAII FIVE-0)has just the right combination of sauveness and toughness needed for this type of role. There are enough plot twists and mounting danger to keep everything moving at a fast pace, and overall the film is recommended to fans of 40s/50s B crime films.”

Isilme part two

 

Also near the raspberries was an empty tub waiting to receive pretty flowers. Well, it had soil in it. Not terribly brilliant soil, but a poppy took a liking to it and was looking very delicate in the sunshine. And talking of poppies, I was walking to a friend’s house and came across a ‘drain poppy’!!

Drain poppy

The house martins have babies again, and what a racket they make in the mornings! I’m not sure if this is the second or third lot they’ve had this year. Our next door neighbour says there’s a swift nesting somewhere nearby as she’s seen it quite often. I hadn’t noticed! They all fly so fast though. I can’t keep track of them. Mr and Mrs blackbird picked the last of the blackcurrants but I let them. I have six jars of blackcurrant jam, so that’ll do us until next year.

Poppy in the sun close up

Clearing the craft room is still ongoing, and I came across a daily planner. I don’t know what this modern thing is where they put capital letters at odd places throughout the word, but it’s very silly. This daily planner was covered with the word ‘notes’ and had done this odd capital letter thing. Sadly, rather than the word ‘notes’, all I can see is ‘snot’ all along the bottom of the page. It’s terribly off-putting and is probably why it’s been festering in the craft room unused! Needless to say, I didn’t notice it until after I’d bought it. (Sorry about the dark photo – don’t know what went wrong there).

Daily planner

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0933)(0956)

10. South Africa


9. Govt control of your bank a/cs


Associated with this are the new Woke designs of bank notes, rendering any currency you do hold in notes no longer legal tender, unless you deposit it in your now govt monitored a/c, explaining how you had that cash to deposit.

At the same time, two days ago, I was asked to do something … in all likelihood innocently but even so … it would have compromised my bank a/c in the light of UK developments.

I’d say minimise any banking activity for security reasons.

8. More on the criminal Obama


7. Meanwhile, in RFK Jnr land


Flick left, the car crasher right 👇🏻


Total and utter crims, well out of order … crimes against humanity.


6. Westwide, this disarming of the population

… especially in their own homes:

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0559) Morning all … bleah out there again. (0734)

 

5. The imperative need for consequences


4. Steve at 1115

  • Federal Court Reopens Tina Peters Case After First Amendment Bombshell
  • Democrats Lose Their Minds as Republicans Vote to Rename the Kennedy Center Opera House in Honor of Melania Trump
  • Group of Military Officers and Civilian Pentagon Staff Plot to Force Pete Hegseth Out as SecDef
  • Zelensky Arrests Anti-corruption Officials
  • CNN Cuts Away from Tulsi Gabbard Right as she Starts Exposing (B.O.)
  • Trump has a chance to scupper the EPA study used as the cornerstone for Democrats’ climate policies
  • Hungary and Serbia to build new oil pipeline in defiance of EU energy policy
  • Much more.

……

Please note that the DAD and Steve NOWP signposts at HQ are not comprehensive summaries but just abridged, to notify readers that they’re now posted over there.

3. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/07/two-issues-of-liberty.html

2. DAD at 1115

a) France. A wave of violence has swept the country in recent weeks….

b) Poland. Marches under the slogan ‘Stop Immigration’ took place across Poland on Saturday, July 19th, including in Bialystok, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, and Wroclaw.

c) Ukraine. Mass protests against Zelensky’s regime have begun in Kiev.

d) According to France 3 Provence-Alpes, it was international cocaine trafficking that indirectly uncovered a sprawling corruption scandal within Semivim, the Martigues social housing agency.

1. Housekeeping

Readers will notice, sooner or later, that the UHCWP sidebar has been revamped again, for ease of admin (Mr. Bureaucracy Jimbo).

Shorts

The cunning plan with the shorts is as in the blurb in 1 to 5 over there:

“These, as the sidebar heading and post heading suggest, are readers’ short recollected comments from any of the sites HQ, NOWP, Jstack or here. The first twenty have been copied from comments threads, they’re by no means comprehensive, they’re in no particular order … yet.”

Further cunning fwd thinking is to maybe open those to comments (they’re currently closed). Shall see.

Longs

HQ is really not for long, discursive rambles or even rants … it’s possibly not a safe place for long personal stories … which incidentally are most welcome … HQ is more for hard hit (meaning we get hit, often) polit-items of the moment, interspersed with various mini features, plus films and music of course.

It’s a distribution centre in a way, of links, signposting, it’s a working site pointing outwards to things going on. It’s also the one where things can (rarely, hopefully) be lost … there’s a touch of the ephemeral to it, though it does pack some power. It deals in short pieces, not discursive.

Wednesday [21 till close of play]

(1526) Almost evening all.

 

25. Steve and war room at 1115

  • “This Is A War That Has Gone Global” Mike Benz On The Trump Admins Fight Against Censorship
  • Noor Bin Ladin: “We’re Dealing With An Entire Infrastructure That Has Been Built Out By Technocratic Psychopaths Who View Themselves As Gods”

24. The collusion

23. From a female point of view

… this is a very real danger, frightening in fact:

22. Safe from the wrath of the people

21. The 23 strong Politburo

Mid Week Mat

 

In this case, not idahij savages but a gang of spoilt, rich thugs … the plot is the victim’s vigilante hunt for the young creeps and a cop trying to protect them, as well as keeping Alan Ladd out of prison. Will it turn out to be a typical Woke left “oh they had extenuating circumstances”, a weak whitewash … or will they get theirs?

A review:

“As Alan Ladd’s last starring role, this was a pretty good way to finish his all-too-short career. While it’s not the best thing he ever did, it is one of his better films. Unfortunately, for me, a real fan of Ladd, it’s also a bit tough to watch because he’s obviously suffering the effects of advanced alcoholism–with a puffy look about him and slightly slurred speech. In addition, at times his performance was a bit limp–though at other times, particularly at the end, he was able to rouse some of that old Alan Ladd energy and anger.

The film is about a decent man who through no fault of his own is badly beaten by a group of young spoiled rich thugs. The problem is that the information on who did this was scant so catching the thugs looked uncertain. Plus Ladd had a lot of trouble getting on with his life–particularly when members of this little gang began threatening him and his wife.

From that point on, Ladd is a bit like Captain Ahab–with an almost incessant need to find and punish the teens. Surprisingly, Rod Steiger underplays the role of a decent detective who is investigating the case (he sometimes seemed to overact in some films–here he was perfect). He’s trying his best to find the boys AND keep Ladd from getting himself in trouble for being a vigilante.

Add to this basic plot decent acting, a very good and suspenseful script as well as a very adult plot for 1962 and you’ve got the formula for a very good drama–far better than many of the mediocre films Ladd had been making through much of the 1950s and 60s.”

Wednesday [16 to 20]

(1250) Afternoon all … not too bad out there, apart from the low, poisonous Gates cloud. (1302)

 

20. For how much longer, people?

For how much longer?


19. As in the UK, so in Eire


18. What to do with this shower of tossers?


17. Night follows day


16. And so it goes on and on

Wednesday [11 to 15]

(1030)(1249)

 

15. Moosh corner


14. Jen’s still not up with our criticisms of the gang of three

… so far, imho, she still sees the Beloved Nige as the “least bad” variant for Britain. Good lady, still catching up:


13. The two Charlies

… this being the female variant:


12. Will you still need me, will you still feed me


11. Putting it together up to a point

I’d like to ask you to check out our comments thread today and take the time to check out the links … I know it takes time and I’ll have to do it after I’ve put “scheduleds” in place.

Now zip over to OoL and a familiar “Anonymous” has been dropping links too … just what Julia thinks of all that is unknown at this stage ☺️… just about to go and say hello.

This is why HQ signposts. By the time I check out that which I need to, it might even be late afternoon, whereas if you know where to look, you need not wait for me.