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Sunday [1 to 5]

(0629) Morning all. Health update … I’m all right but dodged a bullet … it only reinforces all the precepts and practices which keep a person alive and stay away from those which run down and kill. Not particularly wonky but very, very careful all the same. Have a good Sunday.

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1. This was at Lord Toby’s site this morning

“We are about to witness an implosion in British politics with a real risk that we will reach entirely the wrong conclusion. Keir Starmer is already a lame duck Prime Minister but – like many who hold that office – he is stubborn and thus likely to stagger on until the untenability of his position is punched into him by his Parliamentary colleagues.

Starmer’s political obituary will read that he misled Parliament (or at best was economical with the truth), that he ran a No. 10 operation that was out of control and alienated many of his own MPs, that his judgement on the big decisions he was actually willing to take (few in number) was deeply flawed and that his unpopularity with the British public led his party to electoral oblivion….”

It’s quite possible to identify stances, reactions from pundits which identify their own predilections, their own refusal to see … and there is no fool like an old fool who flatly refuses to see. Such things are exacerbated by, for example, the M25 bubble, by northern city bubbles, by town and country.

Take, for example, GB News which project’s straight Reform sensibilities … no reality please, we’re staying in our Alex woman comfort zone … Rupert to these people is gauche, rough, rural … way too much reality. Or is seen as a closet Tory (landed).

Middle-class people, esp. southern women, vastly prefer a nicely nice style, nothing blunt trauma please … sleepwalking into a Reform govt which was anointed long ago by the deep state … kabuki theatre, melodrama, with Starmer blacker than black and Nige with the numbers, tailoring policy to suit the latest crisis and undercutting the main opposition to them … Restore.

And so the Old Britain sleepwalks to oblivion, hankering for an ex-Britain in which no one has the wherewithal to restore it. Unless something jolts the middling normies … something like the Falklands perhaps?

Saturday [11 till close of play]

(1533) Afternoon all. Situation’s this … had a bit of a turn earlier and am still in it. Blogging would be out, except the sshots are ready to load, so easy enough. That’s going to be it for today. Every so often, I’ll post a further item, till later. MMutR is aware and we are in phone contact.

 

24. How’s your eyesight?


23. Xer using moniker Lord Miles

“I paid £73 for a 1st class return train in England. The economy class was £20. Upon entering the train, I found out that neither outbound or return train had any 1st class carriages. Spoke to some supervisor or whatever at the ticket office and apparently they have removed 1st class carriages from the route I used. They offered me a refund on the difference between economy and 1st class with an apology. Fair enough.”


Commenter wrote: “You should use http://realtimetrains.co.uk next time to see if the train service has 1st class, which is very useful in and around London when trains with a 1st class section get put on routes where the 1st class is declassified (you get to sit in 1st class at no extra cost).”

Why would you do that in the first place? The sort of people in economy these days, from “guests” of the country to bratty kids. I did travel 1st everywhere a bit over three decades ago (if it was available) … in Europe too. Sometimes it was more pleasant to go through to economy.

22. Some dates in history

“John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor Straus, all opposed a central bank and the creation of the Federal Reserve, they were killed on the Titanic. The White Star Line’s RMS Olympic had had a major collision with HMS Hawke in 1911, sustaining damage to its left side, plus other minor damage. JP Morgan, who funded and built the Titanic, canceled his voyage at the last moment, as did his friend Milton Hershey, who later expanded his food empire.”

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to corroborate as much of that as you can.

At the 1910 meeting (Jeckyl Island) to set up the Fed, participants included:

  • Nelson Aldrich: Republican Senator and chairman of the National Monetary Commission.
  • Paul Warburg: Naturalized German banker representing Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who directed the proceedings.
  • Frank Vanderlip: President of the National City Bank of New York (Rockefeller-associated).
  • Henry Davison: Senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company.
  • Charles Norton: President of the First National Bank of New York.
  • A. Piatt Andrew: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department.
  • Benjamin Strong: Represented J.P. Morgan and became the first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Note: Some sources list him, others focus on the key six above).
  • Arthur Shelton: Aldrich’s private secretary

21. Two conflicting reports

https://news.usni.org/2026/04/20/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-april-20-2026

Just hours after the United States reaffirmed its neutrality in the Falklands dispute, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has arrived in Argentine territorial waters at the personal request of President Milei. Milei has now issued an emergency decree for joint naval exercises with the US right off the Falklands coast.

20. Did I say last one?

… could not go past this:

19. Last I think for this evening


18. No new Moo up on X

… plus not up to it. Those of the praying kind might spare one if you can see your way clear.

17. What’s oncogenic when it’s at home?

It’s Vox, url in blogrolls.


16. This one was curious

Map of Britain, with heads of wolves all over it and caption … the whole country wants them to win. I’m out of touch with football so checked:


Also, Wolves were playing Spurs. Uh huh … understood. Spurs won 1 nil.

15. Chagos … it gets worse


14. Moo corner


13. Apparently she was badmouthing the Cross of St George


12. For your convenience


11. Poor Ireland

Sat Mat

 

“A man is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a pathetic refugee girl is slowly able to get through to him.”

Wiki:

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: “The story of The Long Memory is one of improbable if ingenious contrivance; one might have expected a fast and fairly exciting melodrama to have been made from it. The director, however, has chosen a slow, slightly portentous and fairly inflexible style with which to frame his events; he has spot-lighted characters and motivations and, by doing so, exposed them. For the truth is that the people are superficially and unconvincingly drawn, and further handicapped by some undistinguished acting. The attempt at a Quai des Brumes (1938) atmosphere barge setting, the outcasts’ shack, the love affair of the embittered man and the pathetic refugee – appears strained and unreal. Some good small-part acting (by Vida Hope, Thora Hird, Geoffrey Keen and Harold Lang) and the excellent location work in and around Gravesend are not enough to disguise a confected intrigue among wooden characters. There are obviously intelligent talents at work, but they are misapplied.”[13]

Screenonline wrote, “visually it is an extraordinary film, which makes exciting use of the desolate landscape around the Thames estuary” and which is “uncompromising in its treatment of human suffering and injustice.”[14]

Saturday [7 to 10]

(1108) Elevenses, folks. Cunning plan is that I must head off just after 1200, so there’s time for this post, I have to have lunch, shall throw in today’s first film and then catch you later. Had a quick look at MDave, Toods, other droppers … not sure I need re-run those just now. (1120)

 

10. The Jutes

Screenshot

9. Moo corner


8. Reza Pahlavi


7. Drug pushers

Second Mink de Ville song

 

This follows yesterday’s Venus of Avenue D and will conclude tomorrow with Just Your Friends.

Point of this mini-series is not that it’s the greatest music ever … it’s very good as far as this indefinable genre goes … but that it appeared when it did, written and sung by a gruff, asocial mess of a Latino … and yet it had/has a cult following on the Continent and in many corners of the UK … interesting.

Saturday [1 to 5]

(0632) Greetings all. Having done the necessaries to commemorate the Day, onto our own doings. The sky out there currently has chem trail planes criss-crossing it, laying their poison. (0655)

 

5. Scumbags like Hermer


4. Steve at 1363

  • US Department of War Planning Retribution for Failing Allies, Including Suspending Spain From the Alliance and ‘Reviewing’ UK’s Claims to the Falkland Islands (JH: He can just eff off on the Falklands … nowt to do wi’im.)
  • Italian Plans to Send Failed ‘Asylum Seekers’ to Albanian Camps Get Green Light by EU Court Adviser
  • Historic New York City Church Burns in Five-Alarm Fire
  • UK Police Arrest a Pastor for Preaching the Gospel
  • Iran’s Nightmare Just Came True As Third Aircraft Carrier Arrives
  • Russian Army About To Hit Ukrainian Logistics In Zaporizhzhia
  • Greek court awards 300,000 Euros for death after AstraZeneca COVID vaccination
  • Euthanasia is now 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands, experts urge caution against youths choosing to die
  • Much more.

3. In the light of Sat 1 … this


2. DAD at 1363

a) Paris and wider France is being shaken to its core by serious allegations of sexual abuse within Paris’ after-school care system (“périscolaire”).

b) Europe’s quiet acceptance of Euthanasia as Routine Medical Practice. (JH: Thank goodness for the Lords two nights ago.)

c) More than €100,000 of European Union money has been spent on an electric vehicle charging station that currently sits in the middle of a meadow with no access road, rendering it unreachable by car.

1. Woke left Fabian females are most certainly consigned to hell

… completely brainwashed, incapable of anything useful. Woke Males too of course but they’ve been about far longer.

ANZAC Day April 25th

 

Gallipoli was fought between the Allies — Britain, France, Australia, NZ, India and Newfoundland — and the Ottoman Empire/Germany.

If 1901 formalised Aus, 1915 blooded her. Lest any forget or the globopolitical class try to kill off their sacrifices, which the deep state is trying to do.

Friday [16 till close of play]

(1726) Evening all.

 

18. Yes, we’re now in the realm of ethical versus unethical

… pretty clear which is which:


17. A quiet read for all


16. Over at NOWP 1363 just now

Going to arrange this differently this time:

5. IYE, Sonia Poulton, Esther Rancid….

4. Torquaymada on those ‘disappeared’ scientists….

3. Steve: Hearts of Oak: Pastor Steve Maile – UK Police Handcuff Pastor for Preaching: A Disturbing Sign for Free Speech….

2. Andy and an interesting article about the benefits of humming. Particularly for those who suffer from shortness of breath.

1. Torquaymada and the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time.