Author Archives: James Higham

Saturday [1 to 5]

(0606) Morning all, dull grey cloud is up. (0755)

 

5. The new ballroom


4. The sane way


3. Steve at 1314

  • Exiled Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi Says He Has Accepted the Role as Iran’s Transitional Leader
  • Tim Burchett Smokes War Pig Lindsey Graham Calling for Trump to Bomb Lebanon
  • Nancy Mace Confirms RINOs Teamed Up with Democrats to Kill Her Subpoena on Ilhan Omar’s Immigration Fraud Records
  • Lesbian ‘DEI Hire’ Captain of New Zealand Navy Ship That Ran Aground Has Been Charged With Negligence (JH: The criminally negligent were those who even contemplated appointing the creature.)
  • Zelenskyy’s ‘Gangster’ Diplomacy (JH: The big countries are gangsters … the small countries are whores.)
  • Idaho Bill S1346 to Ban mRNA Injections for Kids and Pregnant Women Passes Senate Health & Welfare Committee
  • Arbitrator rules in favor of Air Canada pilots who were refused religious exemptions for COVID shots
  • The NHS is increasingly adopting AI receptionists
  • Much more.

2. Roob puts up some strange things at times

CLICK5: Busy & Important…


1. DAD at 1314

a) Mélenchon [Neo-communist] explains that Notre-Dame de Paris was built thanks to Muslim knowledge….

b) NANTES: Infatuated with an inmate, a prison guard smuggled in 77 packages—containing phones, drugs, and alcohol—and sent nude photos to prisoners. She received a suspended sentence….

c) Liberation newspaper. Daniel Kretinsky is once again opening his chequebook. The Czech businessman will lend an additional €17 million….

d) What is going on at Cogolin, a small town in the Var region near Saint-Tropez? The municipal campaign promises to be unusual….

Friday [20 till close of play]

(1709) Evening all.

 

25. Meanwhile

Bassim Said Haidar, a Nigerian born member of the WEF and a globalist, has just donated six figures to Nigel Farage’s party.

24. Blackrock has halted all withdrawals

Something in the wind?

23. For the Vets


22. What on earth?


21. IYE corner

a. What were they trying to convey? Clue in the url:

https://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/the-economists-the-world-in-2019-is-full-of-cryptic-messages/

b. Clue in the url again:
https://archive.org/details/benjamin-netanyahu-ordered-to-hasten-jewish-messiahs-coming

Trying to force God’s hand.

20. Steve corner

a. At 1314: Hearts of Oak: Sam Faddis – Decoding the Iran Conflict: Military Strikes and Global Repercussions

b. Published this afternoon..

Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar | https://spectator.com/article/revealed-britain-to-get-islamophobia-tsar/

Friday [16 to 19]

(1119) Elevenses already, folks. (1708)

 

19. Moo corner with a difference

… yes, I cropped the profile pic, it was a long ago Moosh offering.


18. The medical insurance racket


17. A variation on “get a room”


16. IYE corner

a. US govt adopts Chabad Armageddon Language

https://henrymakow.com/2026/03/march-5—us-gov-adopts-chabad.html

b. ”Atoms for Peace”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sixty-years-of-atoms-for-peace-and-irans-nuclear-program/

Can’t you see?

 

So glad I found these two reactors, as they do it as I do, analytically, but from the other end of this post-war era. They’re forever examining how people were thinking and acting back then, through the changing nature of the songs.

Before going any further … yes, there is early music, Baroque, Classical etc. and it serves two functions … firstly the greatness of the music itself but secondly, providing a historical record. I’m not saying in any way that this below matches the 1700s classic music, musically … but I am saying that it’s an accurate historical record, plus quite listenable for most folk.

Given that, this young man below, who had the channel running before the girl arrived on the scene … he is mightily enhanced by the girl and she’s certainly for their partnership. That’s the added bonus here … their interrelationship … and while we’re on the topic of this lonesome blues style period, post 60s, time of dashed dreams, descending into gloom through the 70s … well it’s best listening to these songs with those two analysing them.

For example, he points out, or she does, that had he/she just listened to the song alone … weeelll, yes, nice song … but in that hothouse atmosphere of Cliff, Karen and Toy Caldwell, there’s this added edge, this poignancy, let alone what two headphones do … isolating the instruments.

In short, there’s this “heated piquancy” going on, especially for someone like me who lived through, was mightily active, at that time. “Gonna find a hole in the wall, crawl inside and die, jump off a mountain, nobody gonna know.”

Yes. Indeed. When she sent the Dear James letter, it messed me around … yet here we are in 2026, speaking about things again. Wonders of modern science, eh?

I really like their level of perception, these two, though with obvious shortcomings, not being from the era. They’re on the ball, vital, interested … what more can a viewer hope for? And one thing they point out in another reviewed song, is that the 70s were the antithesis of the early 60s innocence … it was the new cynicism, disillusionment … songs of experience, to wax Blakish a moment.

You might be relieved to hear that this is the last of this series on dashed love, although I do plan to run one more MTB song some time soon.

Friday [11 to 15]

(0900)(0900)

 

15. Report from the Fens

14. Col’s advice on cuisine


13. Eating at home


That’s fine as far as it goes but there’s also … is it butcher’s meat or has it been through the processing? What sort of poisons were in the grass eaten by those cows? Or pigs? Were they outside? Vaccinated with poisons? Can you sctually cook? What to have as a side? Etc. etc. etc.

12. It’s in the url

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/doodlewhales-compendium-of-restore

11. Deryl on this brain-scrambled Greenie

Friday [6 to 10]

(0730) Morning all … currently dull grey out there. Enjoy. (0759)

 

10. Moo corner


9. And so it goes on

And Landeur also had:


8. AI or real?


7. Housekeeping

From the mystery of “Sam” to Donny’s rash to a timeline of the Iran conflict and more, there are some items in situ in comments still. Why? My thought is that comments is very much a linked page in itself and I for one like to read them there, rather than create yet another click to get there.

With Microdave’s Lincolnshire musings … there’s something of the “one off, grab it while we can” about it … it’s not an exact science, this.

6. Following on from Microdave’s Lincolnshire observations yesterday

HERE

… last evening he added:

“I mentioned “The antics” – I just hope the RAF will be more organised if we get invaded. I watched about 8 Typhoons start up and several eventually made their way to the runway, taxied to the East and out of view from view where I was parked. I assumed they were going to take off to the West, but some minutes later 2 reappeared and then lined up and took off to the East.

I noticed the windsock had shifted during this time, but the wind was light and they could easily have gone with the first option with all that power available. Another 10 minutes later 2 more reappeared, and also departed East. But the others just sat on a taxiway for over AN HOUR with engines running, before eventually I heard them all shut down and the cockpits opened.

At that point I and the other “Spotters” gave up and left. God knows what that episode cost in fuel and engine life – but then what do the MOD care: it’s the good old taxpayer footing the bill. I also noted a number of Chinese “Maxus” EV vans and pickups driving about, one of which sat just yards from a jet when it was being started. So much for such bases being “Secure”…”

A noble experiment?

 

This “timeslot” after the opening post could have had one more of my newly found reactors’ analyses, again of a sad song, it could have had The Melodians with what I consider the best rendition of that Boney M song, there was various chamber music (though DAD seems not to like it so much), there was the US engineer’s YT on earthquakes (coming up later) or this below, on “Amelia”.

It’s obvious that, with each of us having our own tastes, meaning that choosing something for someone else is oft fraught with disappointment … with all that, I’d never just run my own faves, cold … not now at least … there’d have to be some special “thang” or other about the piece, e.g. yesterdays songs about dashed love.

I do have another, later, from that pair of reactors but for now … this “Amelia” phenomenon. I say kudos to the creators … there’ve been early ups and downs, plus negative reactions to AI Amelia on AI grounds alone to start with … the creators have certainly noted that and are honing it. Plus:


The major plus, apart from the graphics, is surely this Eastender’s suddenly wunnerful singing voice … I wonder whom they got in to do it.

Friday [1 to 5]

(0518)(0552)

 

5. Beef broth covers many situations


4. The disgrace of Congress

… replace “Congress” with “Parliament” … same story.


3. Steve at 1313

  • Kristi Noem Speaks Out After President Trump Fires Her as DHS Chief
  • The US Supreme Court Just Handed Trump a Massive Unanimous Win on Immigration With the Opinion Authored by Justice Jackson
  • UK Islamic Centre’s “Silent Vigil” for Khamenei Overwhelmed by Hundreds of Iranians Cheering the Brutal Tyrant’s Death with Posters of Donald Trump
  • Military situations in the Ukraine and the Middle-East
  • Appointments with GP … yea or nay?
  • End of Greenpeace? $345 Million Fine Set to Bankrupt Climate Activists
  • Belgium to press ahead with restriction on asylum-seekers despite court decision
  • Much more.

2. In comments … pete mentions a book on Amazon

Hardly a revelation though, not a surprise in the least:

“During the 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne came to an astonishing conclusion: the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was not destroyed by the Barbarians who invaded the western provinces in the fifth century, it was destroyed by the Arabs, whose conquest of the Middle East and North Africa terminated Roman civilization in those regions and cut off Europe from any further trading and cultural contact with the East. According to Pirenne, it was only in the mid-seventh century that the characteristic features of classical life disappeared from Europe, after which time the continent began to develop its own distinctive and somewhat primitive medieval culture.”

We then go on to look at the Golden Age of learning which we argued over at the old N.O. … it was largely Persian culture, taken over and labelled Moose Limb by Arabs. Destruction is their legacy.

1. DAD at 1313

a) The latest wheeze, by some French drivers, to avoid prosecution. Fight against garages created with fake documents and stolen identities: at least 250,000 cars escape fines.

b) Macron declares attacks against Iran violate ‘International Law’. Spanish MEP calls for Spain to leave NATO…..

c) The myth of Turkey as an indispensable bridge between East and West is beginning to give in under the weight of its own contradictions.

d) Terror Threat feared in Europe following Khamenei killing. Fears are growing over Iran’s ability to strike deep inside Europe using suicide drones and missiles, amid warnings that terror sleeper cells could unleash chaos across the continent at any moment.