Author Archives: James Higham

Wednesday [11 to 15]

(1056) Approaching elevenses. Binn finking about sidebar comments … those in the screen window when you come to HQ (at the moment Penseivat and maybe Fido) don’t need signposting until other comments push them down the sidebar, then I’d signpost as a post item, if it has links attached, not X). (1211)

 

15. DEI?


14. Just as neighbour’s boiler breaks down


13. Laila Ahmed El-Meleigy and Khanate for Cimalsi Nodnol Etahpilac


12. BBC


11. Anything to this spelt idea?

Three Songbirds

 

R.I.P. Dolly Parton as well. WN1 and I had Islands in the Stream as our song (with Kenny Rogers).

Now, having listened to their dulcet tones, time to turn this sour, as is the Unherdables wont. I don’t mean on these three themselves, I mean on the whole US country music scene, behind the scenes. And I don’t mean just the drinking and debauchery, nor even the drugs.

I’m thinking specifically of Kristofferson and the DID trauma training. Many know of Bob Hope … a way down that rabbit hole is Joey Heatherington’s messed up life … and Dick Cheney has been mentioned by some women, apart from his shotgun skills … but someone like Kristofferson gets clean away with it (allegedly).

It’s a nasty scene. One worth exploring is Tammy Wynette, though she’s more in the messed up category.

Wednesday [6 to 10]

(0827)(0840)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Meanwhile, at the pharmacist


8. Lainey on Gab


7. Steve on stores complicit in these doings

Aldi is involved in the boycott of advertisers associated with the AfD (translate)..

According to Campact research: Almost 30 companies are planning to end advertising on YouTube hate channels | https://www.campact.de/presse/mitteilung/20260824-pm-nach-campact-recherche-knapp-30-unternehmen-planen-ende-von-werbung-auf-youtube-hetzkanaelen/

6. Justin

Some confirmation bias for readers here, but this speech by Liam Halligan over at Samizdata is well worth 10 minutes of your time.

Infantile fantasists run our economy

https://www.samizdata.net/2026/08/infantile-fantasists-run-our-economy/

Wednesday [1 to 5]

(0448) It’s another of these first sleep, second sleep things … I must have that second sleep in order to make it to 2200 this evening. So this is a housekeeping notice, see you all the other side of shuteye hopefully. (0651) Here we go again. (0718)

 

5. Interesting sidelight on American politics just now


4. Left Wokery is a mind virus


3. Leading Lord Toby’s newsletter today


The underlying topic is one my mate and I covered yesterday … the early moves by Blair and just how evil that muvva really is.

2. Steve at 1474

  • Trump Admin To Carry Out Largest Mass Visa Revocation in American History
  • The Rise of the New South: Economy, Population Growth, and Political Power as Blue States Cede the Top Spots
  • Sweden Slams the Door on Citizenship: 96% of July Cases Not Approved as Only 98 Become Swedish Under Tough New Rules
  • Soros-Funded NGO Pressures Procter & Gamble, ALDI, AXA and Others: “Don’t Advertise with Right-Wingers”
  • Iran’s Latest Strike In Strait Of Hormuz Tells Us Everything We Need To Know
  • Russian Army Pushes Toward Slaviansk, Last Villages Fall
  • Study Links Varied Diet in Older Adults to Lower Anxiety, Better Cognitive Function
  • The Mohammunist Manifesto—Surveillance, Informants, And Social Enforcement Networks
  • UK Decline: The money the UK government has wasted on projects that failed to get off the ground
  • Much more.

1. Most surprisingly, this is from the US Quora

… a sort of online Readers Digest. Almost all readers are middling left leaning, having bought the narrative in lieu of anything authentic in the MSM. But this is a turn up:

Tuesday [16 to close of play]

(1630) Almost evening all.

 

20. Andy at 1474

Video on folic acid over there.

Food. We all have our doubts about folic acid, whether it be its effects on the immune system or blood health. This video gives some us the facts beyond myth information (pun intended).

19. Moo corner


18. Food


17. One by one they fall


16. Hearts of Oak

Enables me to avoid Bannon.

Tuesday [11 to 15]

(1259) Afternoon all. (1259)

 

15. Homicidal empathy


14. A fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay


13. Labourphobia


12. DAD at 1473

Tornado devastates village in Aude: two critically injured, 300 homes affected.

| https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/a-la-une/une-tornade-devaste-un-village-de-l-aude-deux-blesses-en-urgence-absolue-300-habitations-touchees-1787642715

11. Fido has an article on fires

| https://farn.org.ar/en/patagonia-wildfires-impossible-to-stop/

“Wildfires in Argentine and Chilean Patagonia have burned more than 90,000 acres of land since January 5. In Chile alone, at least 18 people have been killed this month as a result of the fires. While efforts to contain the flames are ongoing, outbreaks can rapidly reignite with a single gust of wind or heatwave.

“There was a confluence of many climatic factors,” said Andrés Nápoli, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN). “This year has not had enough snowfall; there are low humidity levels and a high accumulation of combustible elements in the forest” — a reference to monoculture pine plantations, which act as “powder kegs.”

Compounding these conditions, Milei’s government defunded the forestry law that allocated resources to protect native forests. Firefighter salaries have fallen below $500 a month, under Argentina’s poverty line for a family of four. As a result, communities have stepped in, creating makeshift firebreaks with chainsaws, rakes, hoses, and other everyday tools. Firefighters continue to work on the front lines, often taking on second jobs just to survive.

Conspiracy theories have circulated claiming that Israeli citizens are responsible for the fires or, as suggested by Argentina’s president Javier Milei, that they were deliberately started by the Indigenous Mapuche people in Argentina and Chile. The prosecutor investigating the case, Carlos Díaz Mayer, confirmed that accelerants were found at the site where the fire likely began, but there is no evidence to support these claims.”

JH: There are two other Fidos under Tue 6 to 10.