(1419) A bit early I know but slow posting here-on-in.
23. Important news about catfish
22. Unclear about Karoline Leavitt’s baby
… she seems to have had the baby girl but other reports say not yet.
21. Steve corner
a. Hearts of Oak: Chris Salcedo -The Latino Vote Flipping the Script: Faith, Family & Rejection of Leftist Identity.
b. Helium:
20. Corporate mendacity
19. The tea ritual
18. What can we raid of yours?
17. Uh huh
16. Now … this woke advertising
Readers know I do reaction vids to songs and some of the best reviewers are black. These guys can feel the music, they treat it with respect, pointing out this or that.
Now I had to say that because I was listening/watching Paul Temple before embedding here … think you know what those serials are about, the sort of people. Suddenly, mid dialogue, they ran this ad with the “person” below leaping at us from nowhere, yabbering and filling the screen:
Screwfix. Well sorry but screw Screwfix. By way of contrast, here’s a song reaction:
So we’re talking nature, responsiveness, lack of “in yer face with machetes”. Don’t get me wrong … there are massive mamas everywhere now throwing the weight about … it’s woke Screwfix I’m down on here.
And then this one:
WTH has that regulation black have to do with us wanting to take that train? Completely out of context, unneeded, imposed upon us. Well, TPE, never knowingly going to travel with you. Unless you stop doing it.
And the quality of the ads today? Utter dross … low IQ, putting on silly voices. And the “music”? Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only ad music I can stand today is the TUI ad.
Trying to get an archive going of radio plays and of course films, so that we can just dip into them when required. Now yes, of course you can just go to YT but they’re ad free here. It does require you jotting down or bookmarking the post though, otherwise it involves copious scrolling. This is the last Temple for now, a good’un. This afternoon is the Holmes which started it for Basil Rathbone.
(1000) Hope y’all rockin’ along there … tech probs on hold here or temporary solutions found. (1018)
15. Thetford GS and evil Labour
14. Pesticide liability
13. The “modern” energy bollox
12. The least suited are appointed
11. Just mentioning it
I keep getting told that lekky is the killer … and well it may be soon, esp. with egregious heat pumps … but for me, it’s as nothing to gas and water, each of which set me back around £65-70 a month … lekky costs me around £35. Food and liquid is around £180.
However, broadening the question beyond schooldays … if it was put to you how would you like to return in this time machine, my first reply is a question … do you mean I’d be that age again, no current learning in the head … that is, doing it over again at that past level of maturity … or do you mean I can go back as my current self, only able to do and think what I currently can?
A different question is … which age range of, say, 7 years would I like to return to if I had one day to do it in? In my case, I’m thinking maybe my late 40s, early 50s. That was a fairly good time for me for many reasons.
6. Steve
Steve had footage of those disgusting MPs yesterday … no need to run it here, we know how they were. One lady wrote, below it:
Let’s face it, Westminter MPs are lowlifes, human dross who think they’re the opposite … clever clogs with it all at their fingertips.
Steve continues:
As you read this remember, the Northumbrian Old English dialect this Christian poem is written in, predates Islam..
In multiple spheres, I’m newly having trouble … real time, real life, as of 0615 GMT Friday. In each case, there is reason for it but no good reason.
a. The 2004 ipad has given out and to repair it, they demand personal details they have plus others they now want, refusing service until I complete the window. It’s vastly complicated something which was originally designed to (i) work and (ii) be secure. It’s now failed in both requirements, plus new requirements it’s thrown in, even simple conveniences such as stopping screen rotating.
All very well for you to say well Apple’s rubbish and I agree in 2026 … for a start, it highly complicates blogging, as if it were not already complex. This, chaps and chapesses, is Digital ID brought right into my home. All very well to say get new gear … yeah? I have three ipads … you know what they cost? I simply cannot.
b. Nor can I sit at a computer desk longer than ten minutes, for heath reasons (back, spine, heart). The health complications I’ve already mentioned in the past days. For example, can’t go outside longer than half an hour … poisoned air, causing lurgy, plus gastric.
c. Taken together, it complicates blogging, as was one of the aims of course of govt and every platform. It means I may have to revamp what I bring to you. As for our contributors … does not currently affect them.
4. Apple and Amazon
3. Steve at 1369
House Votes to Fund DHS, Ending 75-Day Shutdown
Political Violence and the Willful Self-Deception of the Left
Belgium Slams the Door on Green Energy Insanity – Restarts Full Nuclear Fleet in Massive Victory for Common Sense and Energy Independence
COVID Vaccine Hearing Exposes Deliberate Blind Eye to ‘Overwhelming Evidence of Harm’
This US Military Super Weapon Has Iran Scrambling Right Now BUT US Dangerous Bet Against Iran
Ukrainian Troops Trapped Near Pokrovsk
Eccentric Exercise: Five-Minute, No-Equipment Workout Shows Health Benefits, Researcher Says
Police officers are having to watch their own backs after the Met deployed Palantir’s AI
German state media turns a blind eye to vigil for victims of migrant crime
Strait of Hormuz blockade achieves the goals of WEF and Agenda 2030 – coincidence?
Much more.
2. From Lord Toby’s site newsletter
“Amid the many complaints about the deficits of modern life, grumbles about gas-fired central heating are extremely rare. For sure, radiators are not as cosy as an open fire. But the convenience of warming a home at the push of a button on a device that can fit in a kitchen cupboard is unmatched.
Yet banning the gas boiler has been at the top of recent governments’ policy agendas. But their determined efforts to make the world – but not our houses and flats – a better place were dealt another blow this week by an analysis from the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA). Among the EUA’s findings is that there were fewer than 300,000 heat pump installations in the six years 2019-2024.
Worst still for the Gaia-botherers of SW1A, people are increasingly turning their noses up at the inferior appliances – the rate of household’s adoption of heat pumps is falling, despite new regulations. 1.5 million gas boilers are relaced each year in Britain’s 28 million or so homes, at an average cost of around £2,500 each.
With just 50,000 or so opting for a heat pump, it would seem that the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) or ‘boiler tax’ of £36 per unit, which requires an increasing proportion of heat pumps to be sold, is having little effect. Mike Foster, CEO of EUA, explained: “Instead of stimulating demand, the CHMM has delivered higher costs with declining installations — the opposite of what ministers promised.”
1. DAD at 1369
MAYDAY ! MAYDAY ! MAYDAY !
a) The Silence at the Old Bailey: Why is the Starmer Arson Trial Being Buried?
b) What I saw on O’Connell Street. Young farmers, quiet resilience, and a protest Ireland chose not to hear.
c) Weak, sinking Merz has no intention of following through on any of his promises.
d) Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices! Germany’s Klimanachrichten reports….
e) In the Netherlands, the police have decided to plaster the faces of suspected fraudsters everywhere – in the streets, supermarkets, and on television….
a) Man in court over police stabbing 24th January 2008
A Somali translator was remanded in custody today after appearing in court charged with stabbing a police officer and his dog.
Essa Suleiman, 26, of Boundary Lane in Camberwell, south-east London, is alleged to have inflicted grievous bodily harm on Pc Neil Sampson as he responded on January 3 to a 999 call reporting a knife attack in Swindon, Wiltshire.
b) 30/04/2026. The suspect being held after Wednesday’s Golders Green knife attack is 45-year-old Essa Suleiman from south-east London, the BBC understands
“You might have seen the report of the UAE making a surprise announcement to exit OPEC effective in 3 days, on May 1st.
THREE DAYS!
The background story here is only just now beginning to sink in.
If the UAE exits OPEC that means it no longer has limits on oil production. That means effective immediately they can start pushing oil to the Fajairah port terminal, which is beyond the Hormuz chokepoint.
This announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying last week the U.S. was likely to provide increased currency swaps to the UAE in order to help offset the mid-east oil crisis.
– US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a number of allies in the Gulf region and in Asia have requested currency swap lines from the United States to help deal with energy shocks and other fallout from the Middle East war.
Bessent told US senators that both the US and the United Arab Emirates would benefit from a proposed swap line that President Donald Trump said he was considering on Tuesday.
Bessent did not name the countries making such requests, but told a US Senate Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing that such facilities would help stabilize financial markets amid turmoil from the Iran war.”
The UAE can bypass the Hormuz chokepoint, and Saudi Arabia can pump oil to the Red Sea via their
If Trump keeps the blockade against Iranian oil shipments in place, the UAE and Saudi Arabia can fill the global oil void; however, they need to get outside the OPEC restrictions to do it. Thus, the UAE exiting OPEC makes strategic sense both now and in the geopolitical longer term.
In the short run the UAE, and potentially other GCC member states, needs financial stability as the switch is done. Enter Scott Bessent with the currency swap lines for the UAE.
Brilliant planning.
Iran just lost all their leverage.
Oh, and Iran cannot look for help/support from Russia because Trump/Bessent just took that card off the table:
– “The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and extended a waiver on sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products amid the Iran war, just days after a top Cabinet official said the U.S. would not be doing so.
A license allowing countries to purchase Russian oil from Friday through May 16 was posted on the Treasury Department’s
“So, the UAE increases oil output (exits OPEC) no Hormuz problem. Saudi Arabia already has a big max output (OPEC) and pumps west. While Russian oil (OPEC) is unsanctioned and flowing to Asia.
All of this activity done in petrodollars.
Yup, Iran just lost all their leverage.
Sometimes necessity is the mother of ingenuity.”
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All right … difficulty here for redaction/copyright is that many are still not on X, therefore they can’t see it. Not being sure if this also appears at his blog, the question of usage and attribution arises. Link is in comments (sidebar).
As for the premise, not all in comments there agreed … they were of the opinion that the pipeline was already at full capacity. I need to read it all again.
(0918) Still sun above the cloud, currently being added to by four criss-crossing planes. (0945)
15. Moo corner
14. Heat pumps … not just expensive
… inefficient and an eyesore but I was thinking (brain hurts) about them. Do they work by funnelling air from outside? As in poisoned air, now full on in winter, pumped in to sicken residents? Was this planned?
13. On the surface it seems a reasonable request
However, if you consider new 5G and similar, sending out radiation to brains, there’s a case for keeping the phone at a distance. Solution?
