Author Archives: James Higham

Tuesday [6 to 11]

(0611)(0721)

 

11. When did they stop trading?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Chef


10. Justice in Canada


9. Go for it, Stephen


8. TDS today has a few of interest


7. Death of our towns

6. Gates grey in Blighty today

Tuesday [1 to 5]

(0504) Just coming up bleah out there, we be in Gates’s grip. Morning, dear reader. (0536)

 

5. The evil muvvers gather at the house of evil


4. DAD at 1071

a) A federal Europe is rearing its ugly head with the planned destruction of the nations that comprise it.

b) According to Politico, the French government is considering classifying the social network X (formerly Twitter) as a pornographic site [JH: Politico though being MSM, like BBC and CNN]

c) According to Europe 1, the Italian referendum aimed at facilitating access to nationality for foreigners and abolishing several labor market liberalization laws failed due to insufficient turnout.

d) More than 60 sheep have been saved from being slaughtered in the RhĂ´ne department since Thursday. [JH: Is this part of some deathcult festival or something?]

3. Andy at 1071 mentions

… that restaurant/pub/whatever, out of which TR and friends were booted, for political reasons.

2. Steve at 1071

Just repeating, folks … and for DAD too, Andy … the whole point of NOWP, as long as I always signpost it here … is that diverging opinions on different aspects can be encompassed … you only need click over there and get that angle. The other options are HQ comments, UHC-WP, Jstack, X or OoL within this sphere.

  • How Democrat Leadership Enabled Anti-ICE Violence While Federal Forces Restore Order
  • Florida Attorney General Drops the Hammer: Warns Broward Sheriff He Could Be Suspended by DeSantis and Held in Contempt
  • Russian Forces Reach Donetsk’s Western Border and Enter Dnipropetrovsk
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces Lawsuit Against President Trump 
  • Nearly 40% of undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2023 arrived legally, and never left
  • Thousands attend Ireland says No Rally in Cork
  • This is how drug companies crush dissent and destroy those who speak out
  • MPs from Left and Right in France vote to ditch “low emission zones” and bans on old cars
  • Much more.

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/06/hesitancy.html

Monday [21 till close of play]

(1709) Evening all.

 

26. Moosh corner


25. Just returning to Mon 20 one more time

Mon 5 to 11 was a puzzler as to why it had been trashed by some “agency” or black magic … was nowt to do wi’me. Getting it reinstated took about five clicks. As mentioned in Mon 20, it might have been any of a number of agencies, it might have been on account of the Prevent item or maybe the comment below it.

Point is, we need to carefully choose our hills to die on … this one is too iffy to pin down … low percentage chance of a result for us. If we see a pattern … different other matter.

24. Thinnest yet


23. 🍿🍿🍿


22. Needs arresting


21. Steve at 1071

  • Bannon On LA : “Wonder Why It Looks Like A Foreign Country In These Riots? Foreigners Doing It.”
  • Ben Bergquam Live From LA Riots: “This Is A Direct Result Of The Invasion Joe Biden Invited In.”
  • Marxist LA Mayor Bass Is “Invested In Destruction To Make Current Admin Look Bad,” Arce Reports.
  • Yep: “When Church Leaders Are Assisting Invasion Of The Country, We Need To Be On High Alert”.

Monday [20]

I’m going to “retrash” Mon 5 to 11. I’ve had a good look and it seems to me that item 11 is the sticking point … about “Prevent”. The initial trashing might have been Prevent’s doing or QHCG or even WP itself. There was no notification to me … it might even have been benign … someone who saw where it was going and who acted quickly … it’s too unknown at this point … not worth the candle.

Mon Mat

 

”The film version pays its respects to the play… there’s not much camera movement and no music at all. Despite that, the capable cast and brisk pace make this an enjoyable 60 minutes of movie theater. There are a few red herrings thrown in and the culprit could be anyone.”

Monday [15 to 19]

(1152) Happy almost afternoon, people. (1318)

 

19. Mark W


18. This Prevent lot are crims of course


17. SW has a bit of form himself by the way

This is from Nick Dixon’s substack … interview with Steven Wolfe:


16. London town

15. Dear oh dear

… I’d heard about it of course:

Isilme and the picnic at Brimham Rocks

 

We haven’t gone on many walks lately. Too wet! And all this rain has meant very little gardening for Beloved!

We had a good time with some visitors. We drove up to Brimham Rocks, which is quite a way from here, but it worked out really well. It was a lovely place and the sun shone enough to have a picnic. Beloved, of course, wanted to climb the rocks. Aarrgghh!

However, after a few climbs, he decided that that would do him for the day so I was much relieved. I took an accidentally-good photo. Well, good-ish. Of one of the rocks and discovered it had rather a pleasant tree growing out of it and looked quite nice.

Brimham rock and tree close up

Monday [1 to 4]

(0517)(0623)

 

4. Mention was made below of yoof

… I also made oblique reference to it in the review of that Christie novel 80. Much of my working life was spent training yoof … I keep a weather eye out for how it’s shaping up today … there are some green shoots for sure but the majority have still not woken up. Call this next bit allegorical or an example, whatever:


That’s one of the “kids” writing there. We don’t tend to deep dive with “our own” on the whole but maybe we should:


Classic case of what’s being done to yoof, and parents are always last to know, as kids keep things from them … didn’t we? But still, parents and others see signs. One NHS/Tavistock “Mengele” only was unsure whether to do it to her … she escaped. How many did not? And what of roba-tion on demand?

Steve included today: “When kids start to rebel against this, you know you’ve won.” Yes. But only if adults’ antennae are switched on, only if perceived as non-threatening … only if seeming to care, non-creepily. I’m thinking JK Rowling, though she has that pagan past. Still, it’s coming out about it all now and there are older pundits (female) championing the kids, supported by many male pundits on our side of politics from our keyboards … I don’t think males should get more involved on these things.

3. DAD at 1070

PentecĂ´te; Veni Sancte Spiritus:

a) Nearly 100 km on foot between Paris and Chartres for the 19,000 pilgrims.

b) Beef bourguignon, coq au vin, ratatouille, quiche Lorraine… Are these staples of French gastronomy doomed to disappear from our plates?

c) It is 10 years when the majority of the French were saying, “I am Charley”.

2. Steve at 1070

  • Colombian Presidential Candidate Shot in the Head in Bogota
  • The Netherlands Will Hold Snap Elections in Late October
  • Brazil: Conservative and Liberal Students Unite to Defeat Marxist Stronghold in Major University Election
  • Doctors Sound the Alarm After Fibrous Clots Discovered in Young Children Born to Covid-Vaxxed Mothers
  • Trump Federalizes California National Guard
  • “Deranged Behavior”: Gavin Newsom Attacks Pete Hegseth Over Statement Marines Are on “High Alert”
  • Russian SOF Raid Black Sea Rigs, Destroy Ukrainian Comms With AI-Powered Drones
  • Top member of CDC immunization committee resigns
  • “When kids start to rebel against this, you know you’ve won”
  • Much, much more.

1. AnonCon is in list three in the Brolls

He does not so much do posts as a monologue, so it requires scrolling down. Part of his analysis of LA is:

Weeeeelllll … maybe. We’re all going to analyse and hopefully you’ll post, Redacted might be non-cryptic enough to be able to read in plain. Me? I keep coming back to two things … military tactics on our part, turning up the heat on Newsom and clowns, the Demonrats themselves …

… or in an apocalyptic analysis, he Da Anti-C (remembering that that guy gives off very Nioziist vibes … see Mark Matis at Jstack) …

… or in a halfway analysis, it’s as AnonCon puts it.

Sunday [12 till close of play]

(1559) The slow move towards evening after an easy afternoon.

 

16. An inaccessible novel for its time

What often happens with me late afternoons/early evenings is that I find myself, Steve’s last NOWP posted and with no plans by me to post any more that day, able to lie down, phone switched off, and rest after a day’s blogging … then either snooze or explore for upcoming posts.

Trouble is … sometimes I find something … but how to post? This “till close of play” format does not lend itself to long posts … they’re better standalone, the long ones, and I’m too weary anyway to go through all that again with dusk falling.

With that left unresolved, let’s plunge in regardless.

I was looking at Agatha Christie Best to Worst mystery novel lists and one billed as her 80th, to coincide with her age, with many strikes against it before it even started, was Passenger to Frankfurt. To fend off criticism, she just said it was a fantasy … and let it go at that. The intro was commented on this way:

“There is also an author’s introduction on the writing of the story, which concludes, “This story is in essence a fantasy. It pretends to be nothing more. But most of the things that happen in it are happening, or giving promise of happening in the world of today. It is not an impossible story – it is only a fantastic one.”” (Wiki)

Trouble is, again … it’s no fantasy in 2025, but it was bound not to find a ready audience/readership/reception in 1970. Under the Wiki heading “Literary significance and reception”, the typical critics used to her clever mysteries and bemoaning her loss of writing ability closer to the end … loss of vocabulary, repetition and so on … were generally quick to dismiss. Some saw it as a refreshing departure, unusual … it was certainly unusual for her, though it returned to one of her themes … the state of the world and of youth.

It’s no fantasy in the sense of Steve’s latest four links, IYE’s (hope he’s feeling better) deep dives, Redacted’s, Mark Matis’s, mine … many others who are uncovering all sorts, esp. what this deep state actually is. I have a feeling Christie stumbled on some of this at high level dinners, functions but how on earth to print it, let alone put it in a novel as a theme or plot?

Then we get to the stage today, where there are vastly more people more receptive to these crazy ideas of ours than, say, in 1970 when it was published.

No one reading it, except for a select few, would have had any idea what she was banging on about … that select few knew exactly whom she was accusing … and thus she had to disguise it as “semi-fiction” … weaving in some of her cloak and dagger, as in a novel, whilst inventing scenarios which were not directly referencing real events, but were redolent of them. How could she put in the Welfs for example?

So the story, along with her typical devices and hobbyhorses, plus no real tale of reality to dare use, remained in a sort of limbo, easily dismissed. Don’t forget her age in this.

15. Steve and war room

  • Make Georgia Great Again: Rep. MTG Calls Out Woke Infiltration In Economic Hub Of South
  • “We Want A Government That Will Put Its People First.” Malachy Steenson Live From Ireland
  • “This Has CIA Written All Over It.” Tej Gill On [The] Ukraine Intel Becoming A Proxy
  • JIm Fannell: In The Past 30 Years China Has More Than Doubled The Size Of Its Navy

14. How to prevent Prevent?


13. We may have had it already

… let’s have it again:


12. The criminals in charge