Author Archives: James Higham

Sun Mat

 

“It was made by Teddington Studios, the British studio then under the control of Warner Brothers. It was a “quota quickie”, a film made under the British Cinematograph Films Act of 1927- created to counter the dominance of American films in Britain.

The film is a simple (if properly restrained British) love story. It begins as an unemployed car salesman, Peter Middleton, who has lost the last of his money in cards, takes a street orphan under his wing and pretending the orphan is his son, persuades a softhearted landlady to rent him a room, although he has no money.

The next day, while trying to con the chauffeur of a fancy motorcar, he meets the rich young Cynthia Hatch. However, intrigued by his audacity, she hides her identity from him when he mistakes her for a working girl and to impress her, he pretends that the car is his.

And so, in the best scene in the movie, she convinces him to take her to a fancy restaurant that he, of course, he can’t pay for. There she puts him up to going to the powerful Mr. Hatch (her father, still unknown to him) to pitch a scheme for petrol (gas) stations. He promises that he will make good and then hire her as his secretary.

However, her scheme backfires when her father rejects him and he goes to work for the competition. He holds her to her promise, and she finds herself working for her father’s chief competitor. 

Its all wrapped up neatly in a little more than an hour as the young entrepreneur gets the best of his future father-in-law and wins the girl. As the girl, Nancy O’Neil is quite good and Ian Hunter is good, if a little stiff, as the lead. After this film, he went to Hollywood, where he may be best known for playing King Richard in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”.

It was directed by Michael Powell, who went on to make “Black Narcissus” and “The Red Shoes”, among other classics.”

Easter Sunday [1 to 5]

(1330) Afternoon all, hope all is well. (1330)

 

5. Moo corner


4. Bondi


3. Steve at 1343

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2. Is this the other pilot or someone else?

Plus Sunday 7 says something else.


1. DAD at 1343

a) A large-scale police operation, conducted after several months of investigation, has dismantled a structured network facilitating illegal immigration in southwestern France. Two men have been charged and placed in pretrial detention.

b) Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands. All five have drawn up a list of countries with which they could open migrant centers or consider other “innovative solutions,” according to sources cited by AFP.

c) Military authorization required to stay abroad? A German law on military service stipulates that men (aged 17 to 45) “must obtain authorization from the army recruitment center” if they leave the country for more than three months.

d) Discovering Chartreuse Elixir: a Very Spiritual Spirit. There is something rather mysterious about the aura surrounding this green bottle, crafted in silence by the monks.

Easter or Resurrection Sunday

 

Housekeeping … 0620 BST … cunning plan is to resume hostilities around 1330 today with our chaps’ and any chapesses’ incoming, plus a few other items, then a film, then music including at least one jazz track, then back to full-on posting approaching evening. This morning, for me, involves personal contact around the west and a short service of sorts.

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter Day … or Resurrection Day … or choc eggs and bunnies day … or even Brit bank holiday … however you commemorate it, may you stay safe and well through these iconic few days.

This below was saved about 5 a.m. BST, Sunday, posted on X by Malcolm Roberts, Queensland, Senator for One Nation downunder, which shows that the cultural underpinning for the west is well summed up … yes, it is the rolling away of the stone which was the first scene to greet those coming to the tomb and was also the first Easter reference I saw upon logging in just now.


Whichever way you observe today and Malcolm Roberts quoted this:

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” — Matthew 28:6

… or you can go the egg route (sidebar) or whatever … it certainly set the cat among the pigeons from that point forward, around AD33, even to the dating of our current era, plus many political scribes are noting, on this 2026 day, that events are moving in an apocalyptic direction, millions around the world are flocking to churches still not burnt down by the baddies.

And so, thoughts and prayers for readers and the suffering out there. See you in the next post around 1330.

Saturday [9 till close of play]

(1618) Call me a loony but I have a contractual obligation with my Maker to give the politics a rest until tomorrow afternoon, post-prandially, following this post. Music, film, docu-short, yes but no real world politics until maybe 1330 Sunday. Similar arrangement at OoL which I’ll post there. Must do this.

 

14. Toodles at 1343

… with Grifty.

13. More Moo

… can one ever have enough Moo?


12. A Sophie double


11. IYE corner

There are four linked comments by the noble IYE but only one is being posted … here:

Urgh!
“FDA Rubber-stamps Approval of Lab-grown Salmon” 

https://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/fda-rubber-stamps-approval-of-lab-grown-salmon

……

JH: The other comments stay in situ for sensitivity reasons, let’s say. Easily found by our regulars … just been looking at them after the Delingpodcast. Think we have enough for now to keep us occupied.

10. A most interesting podcast

9. Moo corner

Sat Mat

 

There were a couple of other hour long films/episodes but I need an hour and a half one, plus I mooted running this one, plus it’s maybe, imho, the best of the series … why? This continues below the film:

Synopsis … Wolfe is visited by an upper-middle lady (with house staff back at home in her mansion) … the lady is being heavied by the FBI and she’ll pay Wolfe to rid her of the Feds, as if it’s possible.

It turns into a caper movie, a genre like Ocean’s 11 where Wolfe uses his group of organised guys to put one over on the Feds … in a most novel way. Much as I like gals to be plentiful in a film, I also chuckle when a bunch of chaps work together to achieve an end … the mix in this episode is rewarding. There is another episode, called Motherhunt, not currently usable, which has a similar madcap series of premises.

Hope you enjoy.

Saturday [6 to 8]

(0953) Just ticked over to elevenses near the end. (1118)

 

8. The Unherdables approach to its incoming intel

There’s been a bit of confusion about how readers should take what appears here … is it a ringing endorsement for, even pushing hard for all that is stated in the item? For example, here?

Last supper and agony in the garden [12 till close of play]

Answer is … sometimes, in some respects, rarely every single word of it. There’s a delicate juggling act going on on my part … yes, shutting out Wokery and Globopsycho narrative but letting through our chaps and chapesses who are regulars, plus occasionals and some newbies who obviously seem good hearts who are for saving the west, our heritage, our faith, our families etc.

On the Seder question, for example, I explored and foubd this:

“A core section of one text said: “Some Christians choose to observe a Passover Seder, adapted to emphasize Christ as the Messiah, as a way to understand the roots of their faith and the significance of Jesus’ death.”

Sounds reasonable to me … but we do need to read the fine print … plus some sources need to go on our watch list in the navbar and at NOWP.

Then we come to items 7 and 6 below. If I might take the moon landings from 1969 onwards, there are clearly anomalies, Diamonds Are Forever satirised it, so many articles also have, in detail. Some is speculative, some ask good questions. Against that, what of the moon rocks? Were they real? What of maps with the Van Allen Belt?

I simply don’t know. I do lean towards no, they did not land but you might have a good case as to why they did.

I just think we need, at Unherdables here, to at least present what people are saying, somewhere on-site, barring Woke and Globopsycho narrative of course … if any of the latter stands up in some respects, then ok, our own sources will at least address those worthy points. We don’t need trolls though, muddying everything. That’s all.

The model we follow here is … look, let’s table it, examine it, comment, see what we think of this new snippet or that. …/END.

7. IYE corner

“Hey, Franklin Graham! Read Your Bible. Or Your Torah. Or A History Book!

On the Book of Esther, the evangelical delusion, and a warning about lying about the wickedness of other people to those in power.”

”……

The alignment between American evangelicalism and Israeli hard-right politics is one of the more remarkable theological phenomena of our era, and it deserves to be named clearly: it is not principally about Christianity. It is about the myth of American providential destiny, dressed in biblical clothing. As I’ve written about here.

When Franklin Graham maps Donald Trump onto Esther — a Jewish woman who risked her life going to a foreign king uninvited, who survived by hiding who she was, who acted in secret and in fear — the theology has departed the building. What remains is something older and more American: the conviction that God is on our side, that our enemies are History’s enemies, and that military power exercised by the right people is the same thing as divine intervention.

This is not Christianity. It is not even a particularly coherent reading of the Old Testament, which is, if nothing else, a sustained argument against exactly this kind of self-congratulation. The God of the Hebrew Bible has a habit of using the wrong people — the foreigner, the woman, the coward, the liar — and embarrassing the ones who were certain of their own righteousness. Haman was certain. He had the king’s seal. He had the gallows ready. He had the date on the calendar……”

https://jonathanmillard.substack.com/p/hey-franklin-graham-read-your-bible

(What a week for Donny to be likened to Esther and Jesus! [sarc] )

6. Just reviewing this again and adding to it

… with a view to taking that, plus IYE in n7, plus Seder the other day, and drawing the threads together, restating Unherdables’ overall stance on such things.

Easter Saturday [3 to 5]

(0747) Morning all … the cloud has filled the sky-ceiling wall to wall again … swirling poison. Windows closed. There’s a post up at OoL on state pension(0829):

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/state-pension.html

 

5. What the eye might not at first see


Sometimes, an item adding to the whole topic disguises an interesting hidden point … in this case, Cathy O’Brien herself … some of us here know exactly who she is, others might not have been around in the early 2000s … online I mean.

Yes, she’s a bookwriting, whistleblowing, satanically abused lady, like Sue Ford and they blew the topic wide open back then. The attempted debunking said she was controlled opposition, her handler being Ted Gunderson, the three letter officer … most interesting story, horrifying.

Naturally, if you start researching through officially approved engines such as ggl, wiki, you’ll immediately hit things such as “conspiracy theorist”, “satanic mind control hysteria” back in the day, attempting to debunk through pre-emptive attack before it even starts.

Hysteria? Wot, MK Ultra? It was dealt with in court in 1973 … anything but bunkum … very real indeed, just as in Belgium. See Bourne Ultimatum for a film take on some of it.

4. Andy at 1342

“A while ago I enjoyed news videos from an Indian perspective delivered very eloquently by an Indian lass. This is my latest muse. News from a Russian perspective, humourously delivered by a rather severe looking russian girl.”

3. Steve corner at 1342

Lest we forget:

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  • US Special Forces Land In Iran On Daring Operation To Rescue Downed F-15E Pilots
  • The Disinformation Dozen” are still facing censorship
  • Battle for Hungary: Could an Orban win trigger ‘Maidan on steroids’?
  • Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe’s Education System
  • Much more.

Easter Saturday [1 and 2]

(0611) Awoke just now to a reddish dawn, angry dark clouds and street lamps still on. (0733)

 

2. Easter Saturday

… is a most curious day in the Triduum, a word I discovered lately, as distinct from, say, Churchmouse who knows exactly how to put it in the right order.

The trouble with a middling course, which Unherdables steers, a learning course by the way, as distinct from a lecturing course, is that we are rammed into by boats going in each direction … one direction sees us as not going far enough at a solemn time of year, sees us perhaps as Laodecian, whilst the other sees us here as “religious fanatics” on the strength of a few bible verses picked up along the way.

Thus I for one disappoint both my devout friends, plus my atheistic libertarian friends which, however, is a place I’m quite used to … being spurned or skipped over by nearly all.

Wonder how Jesus felt at this point, back in AD33 in our calendar, on April 4th at 0642 (in the morning). The timeline says He was betrayed by Judas at around 9 p.m. Thurs, was taken and had a torrid time meted out by both Roman and High Priest, through the night, was crucified at 9 a.m., was in agony for 6 hours (have you ever stopped to think how it might have physically felt) … and it ended around 3 p.m., Jerusalem time.

He seems to have been entombed soon enough after, maybe into the evening …

… and here we are now at 0647 BST, not quite au fait with what He’s up to just now but it seems to involve descending to the dead or even to hell and walking out again. The miraculous part, seems to me, is right now, through today … the part we don’t see for ourselves.

Thus the Saturday or second day is when the really heavy work is going on. Then we get into the issue of Sunday or Monday for Mary Magdalene … which day was it? I’m not sure that that matters … just the very assertion of Resurrection blows minds from Caiaphas to the other whited sepulchres to the disciples themselves and company, the emerging church.

Today, it’s a bridge too far for most but for those knowing their scriptures, old and new, if one accepts a divinity in the birth and in the ministry, then what’s one more miracle? It does not, for one, put me in a quandary … for a start, just look at the logic of it all … all the way through it comes down to faith, just that. Once you remove all the chanting and trappings, regalia, what you’re left with is that question … is it true, is it not?

I opted for “true”, to see what happened, also observing the emerging Christology, the way it gripped people, the way it’s gripping people today, esp. the younger set … only yesterday, massed rallies by old and young at a troubling time for the west. Most did not see this as it was on X … but not in the MSM, as one would expect. And don’t forget the Nigerian and Syrian pogroms this weekend, let alone Iran/Persia.

In my case, personally, various signals appeared at points over the decades … enough to certainly not dismiss it out of hand … but more than that … certain events followed after each re-affirmation in my brain … might have been some miraculous recovery of a child, certain things surprisingly falling into order, whatever. Don’t forget that this is one miserable sinner here writing at you, not some saint … as I keep returning to ad nauseam. And what?

While there’s certainly a thing called believing in fairy tales, there’s also the phenomenon of a faith which cannot be quite snuffed out, as Chesterton pointed out … and there’s a human wholeness to it all, compared to the alternative. Science? Well what are we doing at Unherdables? Is it not constantly exploring, observing, recording?


I keep coming back to that bit in The Day the Earth Stood Still, when the alien visits the professor. The professor wasn’t three wise monkeys, wasn’t standing in a river in Egypt … but at the same time, he did require at least some sort of signal, some sort of evidence. And received it. …/END for now.

1. DAD at 1342

a) Two researchers from Cevipof see the violence that accompanied the installation of some new mayors as markers of a growing polarization of society, to which social media contributes.

b) Rennes (35): A Catholic sticker reading “Hope and salvation of France” triggers a reprimand from the Socialist Party president during a regional council session.

c) Germany. A man, armed with two knives, detonates grenades on a moving train: twelve people injured.