The NHS is forever pleading poverty. Yet while patients wait in corridors and taxpayers are told to dig ever deeper to fork over more cash, the management class at the top of the health service is doing rather nicely.
The latest TPA NHS Rich List lifts the lid on senior pay across 220 NHS trusts, and the figures are hard to defend.
In 2024-25, 1,758 senior managers received at least £100,000 in total remuneration, covering salary, expenses, benefits, bonuses and pension benefits. Some 574 had salaries higher than the prime minister, up 12 per cent in a single year. Even more strikingly, the number receiving at least £300,000 in total remuneration surged from 125 to 292, a rise of 134 per cent.
For patients stuck on waiting lists, these numbers will be galling enough. But the real sting is that bumper pay packets are still showing up at trusts with dreadful performance. East Cheshire was the worst-performing trust in England for A&E waiting times for the second year running, with just 43 per cent of attendances seen within four hours. Yet its chief executive’s total remuneration rose from £172,500 to £377,500. Crazy, right?
We can come at this from a number of directions. CS Lewis and this lady below, Tilley, a pastor’s wife, come at it from the moral imperative as laid out in the bible, plus the need for women to remember their biological design and what it involves once fertile and ready …
… whilst I see it … yes, having biblical backing … but primarily in my eyes as the sociological dangers which this blog and contributors constantly point out … the extant threat that “screwtape” poses when evil in the form of fabianism and such devilry back to 1776, for want of a startpoint … once that gets into women’s minds and aspirations … once it gets a hold, women’s vanity, as Tilley describes her own sex’s weakness takes over and it’s all “I can do anything, I am Woman, worship me, see me roar” … it threatens that very society itself, it tears it apart.
In the devil’s clutches, women can so easily be led astray … and so can men.
I’ll say here and now that that sort of maniacal power hunger ain’t biblical for a start, it comes from another source. And it’s relentlessly pushed by (single) mothers, teachers, peers, media … Christy O took it apart in her old series.
And men? Loss of testosterone, wimpishness, SNAGishness … it’s no basis on which to defend your society nor build anything substantial. Especially once men drop into that antifa, rainbow, sicko mind virus, pontificating about love but being right vicious little bstds in reality, useless up against the savage invading hordes.
As a man who is no way MGTOW, though I see the arguments, my outlook has always been men and women in partnership, neither oppressing nor tyrannical towards the other … partnership, not constant war.
And the biblical model in the NT lays it down, though I see Paul as too “male society”, too patriarchal, calling everyone “little children” … better is the model in the gospels imho. We can argue over that one.
Going to finish this with Pat Connell’s selective logic … he had a tweet up about being an atheist. Uh huh … and his reason? Well just look at how churchmen (and now women) have behaved, paedo priests etc, narrowminded bigots.
Not disputing that, I’m no fan of priesthoods, grand masters etc. and as for the Spanish Inquisition, which nobody expects …
Pat gets onto the other killer religions causing nothing but horror and misery, he joins Karl Marx in expunging “them all”, quite ignoring that churchmen in no way equate to the societal model found in the gospels … one is human foibles, ego, incense and gobbledegook … while the other concerns how to personally reorder one’s life to become useful and help one’s fellow humans.
Plus the little matter of redemption, paid for with blood.
a) Writing in The Times, Lord Walney, formerly Labour MP John Woodcock, drew parallels between Bash Back and Palestinian Action, noting that the latter presented itself publicly as peaceful while privately orchestrating violent campaigns. He urged the government not to repeat past mistakes by delaying action against emerging extremist movements.
Bash Back has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks on politicians and institutions, including vandalism targeting a government minister’s offices and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
b) The UK. Migration accounted for 211,700 of the 224,900 people added to the population of England and Wales in the year to mid-2025—almost 95% of the total increase … from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the combined population hit a record 62 million, rising by 224,900 in just one year.
c) UK Telegraph: We lost the war on climate change: Hubris has ruined us, lets learn to enjoy warmer weather!
d) Following the terrorist attack on Berlin’s Christopher Street Day parade, questions are being raised over Germany’s legal system handling dangerous immigrants. German authorities have (revoked) the citizenship of only two dual nationals for fighting with terrorist organisations abroad, despite approximately 1,150 Islamists having travelled from Germany to Syria and Iraq between 2011 and 2024 to join the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, or other Islamist groups.
e) This is Ceuta last night.
So much for “almost everyone is returned back to Morocco and things are back to normal”.
JH: Watched part of the GB News reaction. See Mon 1 today on the delusion, in this case over Farage.
1. The deep sadness of delusion which has us believing lies
… believing them so willingly, so quickly, out of some sort of hope that decency is dictating policy.
🚨 “The Video They Tried to Bury: Dr. Stella Immanuel & Doctors Who Said COVID Had a Cure”
I remember watching this video like it was yesterday. Listen to these doctors, especially Dr. Stella Immanuel, saying nobody needs to die from COVID, there is a cure, and no lockdowns are… pic.twitter.com/KMVLTz8F8q
Last night I watched a recording I made of a three-part series called Platoon 24/7. This was back in February and I’ve only just got round to watching it:
You always compare your time in the forces to what it is like today – well I do anyway. What I saw was less discipline certainly and every other bloke has a full set now. We know why they made this change to King’s Orders and I commented on it at the time. In my day the lads were a muscular lean, and very fit but some would say that’s because you were in Commando Forces where standards are different.
True, but when I was at Woolwich Garrison there were no ‘fatties’ as I recall. Blokes didn’t wear glasses either so something must have changed with the eyesight test to allow it.
Having said that the soldiers are the same, it’s just the age we live in that makes them seem somewhat different to my generation – I’m sure my Dad’s generation would look upon mine and come to the same conclusion. What I’m describing is a societal change and the Army it do recruit from it. On to the AFV they dismount from to do their fighting and it’s the FV 510 Warrior.
A little secret: the company I did my apprenticeship with made the gearboxes, a subcontract from David Brown. I know because my Dad worked there at the time. Next year marks its 40th anniversary in service with the British Army.
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Could this be the one to replace the worst rifle ever issued to British squaddies..?
JH: Plus this, Steve? |https://youtu.be/pIra7mnqE10?is=yL92SDLGmzoZAnpB
Yeah, lot of balls being juggled. I like it but stuck as it is on 5.56mm this platform may not make the cut. As per your video the 6.8mm intermediate round is gaining traction. There’s also the 6.5mm Grendel, which I’ve fired from a bolt-action rifle. The current NATO standard is beginning to fail against the latest body armour, or enemy forces out of their minds on drugs.
Don’t want to use all the really good ones in a row, such that we can’t watch again for some time. Need to intersperse them with TV episodes and radio plays. Let’s go:
The simple truth of the matter is that I am but one ageing guy and there is only so much I can gather, esp. with youtube making it increasingly difficult, esp. with films, to find … required seeking time has now exponentially increased.
One way around it is to go back to old posts, say a particular post from some years ago, and scroll down through that month, saving anything interesting, e.g. screenshots, posts, songs and films. Sometimes they’re still on youtube, sometimes not.
This requires that golden gem … available time … not helped by the ipad or WP playing up in compose mode. Those who can rightly expect me to be there for them … I do need this hour which one month’s scrolling takes … and the benefits will soon be apparent … you should see the material we now have in the wings for a start.
Humbly request that you can cut me some slack on this.
Just an overview, all right, a first dive into the topics, later to develop (cunning plan).
Talmud
In antiquity, the two major centres of Jewish scholarship were located in Galilee and Babylonia. A Talmud was compiled in each of these regional centres. The earlier of the two compilations took place in Galilee, either in the late fourth or early fifth century, and it came to be known as the Jerusalem Talmud (or Talmud Yerushalmi).
Later on, and likely some time in the sixth century, the Babylonian Talmud was compiled (Talmud Bavli). This later Talmud is usually what is being referred to when the word “Talmud” is used without qualification. Traditions of the Jerusalem Talmud and its sages had a significant influence on the milieu out of which the Babylonian Talmud arose.
Babylonian captivity
The northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed around 720 BCE, when it was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. While the Kingdom of Judah remained intact during this time, it became a client state of first the Neo-Assyrian Empire and then the Neo-Babylonian Empire. However, Jewish revolts against the Babylonians led to the destruction of Judah in 586 BCE, under the rule of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. According to the biblical account, the armies of Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalembetween 589–586 BCE, which led to the destruction of Solomon’s Temple and the exile of the Jews to Babylon; this event was also recorded in the Babylonian Chronicles. The exilic period saw the development of the Israelite religion towards a monotheistic Judaism.
The exile ended with the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenid Empire c. 538 BCE. Subsequently, the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great issued a proclamation known as the Edict of Cyrus, which authorized and encouraged exiled Jews to return to Judah. Cyrus’ proclamation began the exiles’ return to Zion, inaugurating the formative period in which a more distinctive Jewish identity developed in the Persian province of Yehud. During this time, the destroyed Solomon’s Temple was replaced by the Second Temple, marking the beginning of the Second Temple period.
Khazars
Ashkenazis
Nephilim
The Nephilim are mysterious beings or people in the Bible who are described as being of great strength and size. They are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Christian Old Testament, in the books of Genesis, Numbers, and Ezekiel.
The word “Nephilim” is sometimes translated as “giants” or “the fallen ones”. The identity of the Nephilim is debated by scholars and theologians. Some possible interpretations include:
The Nephilim were the offspring of angels and humans, resulting from the “taking of wives” in Genesis 6.
The Nephilim were the children of males from the line of Seth and females from the line of Cain.
The Nephilim were called Nephilim because they “fell short” of their fathers in some way.
Some say that the Nephilim were similar to the demigods of the Greeks
