Author Archives: James Higham

Saturday [11 till close of play]

(1606) Was hoping that all the construction, deliveries etc. would be over for the day but they’re not … waiting on another now till about 1800. Messes with the site. (1747) Delivery delivered, cream-crackered here, shall snooze then do some more.

 

16. D Day with Steve

Operation Overlord was one of several operations that took place on the 6th June 1944. Operation Neptune, the naval phase that preceded the Battle of Normandy, was massive with near-on 7,000 vessels involved.

But what of Operation Deadstick? Well that was last night, 82 years ago, which began at what was then RAF Tarrant Rushton, in Dorset. You cycle by these places when you’re a kid, not knowing what went on there all those years ago – in my case 25 years or so before when me and my mates found it, covered in grass with a few wooden huts, windows broken.

It was the place and the time where gliders sat waiting, for the soldiers of D Company, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 6th Airlanding Brigade. Commanded by Major John Howard. You can read an amazing account of it here:

2nd Battalion Ox & Bucks – D Company – Battle of Normandy

As an aside the actor Richard Todd, who played Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters, was a lieutenant in 7 Para and was given a field promotion to captain during the action at ‘Pegasus Bridge’.

Apologies that link is D Company Battle Order, 1st June 1944. This is the correct one:

| https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pegasus-bridge-operation-deadsticks-glider-assault/

15. Moo corner


14. Voter ID


13. Police have lost the plot and the people


12. Playing God


11. Hmmmmm

Sat Mat

 

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote:

“Unpretentious East-West espionage story in a continental setting. The locale and atmosphere are fairly convincing and the plot is adequately sustained, but credibility is ignored towards the end, when a prowler is loose in the well-guarded grounds and, although armed with a rifle with telescopic sights, fails to kill at twenty yards range.”

Kine Weekly wrote:

“The picture, which, incidentally, far from flatters Military Intelligence, is little but talk for the first hour. Wayne Morris, sound as the roughly handled Tom, Norman Wooland, all agog as Cleaver, and Tilda Thamar, Mary Mackenzie and Marjorie Stewart, suitably contrasted as the women, try to keep the conversation clear and crisp, but it is only during the last 20 minutes that sparks fly. The denouement is, however, first rate theatre and gets the headline hokum over.”

TV Guide wrote, “the intriguing story suffers from inefficient production techniques.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Plan_(1954_film)

Saturday [2 to 5]

(0552) morning all, in not bad fettle here, personally … so far … hope ‘y’all holding up. Uniform dark grey wall to wall cloud cover out there. (0724)

 

5. Steve, the engine room, at 1403

  • Wicked Family: Mother of Henry Nowak’s Killer Took His Knife Home and Hid It Before Police Arrived – Is Convicted of Assisting an Offender and Awaits Sentencing (deport ASAP)
  • Steve Hilton Says Whistleblower Claims of Separate Post Office “Buckets” for Ballots Arriving After Election Day — Handwritten Dates Reportedly Accepted
  • The ‘Era of Deportations’ Has Arrived in the European Union
  • Delta Force Uranium Extraction Mission In Iran Is Crazier Than We All Thought
  • Violent Mobilization In [The] Ukraine. New Footage On June 5, 2026 (190 videos)
  • The Henry Nowak murder is a pivotal moment, causing a decisive shift in public mood
  • America’s projected demographic transformation sparks debate over immigration, national identity and governance
  • Much more.

4. Christine’s post illustrates an issue at X


The problem at X, formatting wise, redacting wise, is that it post comments under posts in isolation, out of context, which then requires some site admin to do this above in order to get each piece of the post and discussion together, one under the other. Not sure if Nikita Biers or whoever does the coding can fix it.

3. Our Senior Patron, DAD, at 1403

a) The Breizh Kebab restaurant opened its doors on April 30, 2026, on Avenue de La Perrière in Lorient (Morbihan). “For several years, we had a stand at the Interceltic Festival,” explains Paola Manso, the manager. “Initially, we made classic kebabs, and one day, our supplier ran out of meat and gave us some pork….

b) While Germany debates banning AfD, an EU authority has taken formal steps that could lead to the deregistration of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), the European party to which AfD belongs….

c) European Union member states are weighing whether Ukrainian men of military age should be excluded from future extensions of the bloc’s temporary protection scheme for people fleeing the war with Russia.

d) Libya: Hundreds of Libyans demonstrated Thursday in Tripoli outside the headquarters of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) against the presence of undocumented migrants….

2. Just a few of the bin memes left

… plus a few food investigations … best we post them than not post them.

D Day [1944 to 2026]

 

There are going to be those, especially those of a certain age, who are not going to like my “AI” treatment of D Day on the site … because of AI itself, because of the water guzzling data centres … maybe because of the US-centric take, compared to our European usual.

I say it’s not a bad overview and we need to commemorate the day, drawing in all our allues and reflecting on what was being fought over … was it not the West itself, even Christendom?


I would say the main tragedy of June 6th, 1944, was that over the next 82 years, it was almost all lost to Woke Fabianism, to the destructive politics warned about in the early 50s, e.g. by Senator William Jenner, through to Enoch Powell over here. Entrenched treachery which was going to destroy the West one way or another … slowly at first, then in a flood near the end.

Friday [16 till close of play]

(1631) Almost evening all. Bin away from here … three deliveries plus cooking.

 

21. I flatly refuse to play their stoopid complicating things game


From Lord T I think it was:

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20. Moo corner


19. The Echo

… can’t even get my head around this one.


18. Bin-ksy


17. Lord Toby


16. Steve at 1403

Hearts of Oak: Anni Cyrus – Iran After the Shutdown: Executions, Protests & Trump’s Next Move

(Link over there.)