It’s been around a few days:
Move one match only to make a higher number. (Prob might be trying to describe how.)

It’s been around a few days:
Move one match only to make a higher number. (Prob might be trying to describe how.)

(0705) Morning those awake … dawn saw silhouetted cumulo-nimbus outside, pink dawn from the south-east, now become the bleah 8/8 poisoned cloud cover. Have a wunnerful day, all. (0726)
10. Moo corner
… not quite a tram but who’s arguing?

9. What did ladies do back in the day?

8. This is from a Reform voter
… not sure about Bob though:

7. One from downunder
… obviously we do not know the names down there but we can certainly get the general idea … there’s a uniformity across the west:

6. Another couple of Steve type items
https://southfront.press/pakistan-is-sheltering-iranian-warplanes
Newish site for me:
https://uncut.substack.com/p/reform-now-restore-later-the-tactical
Going to run that at OoL today of part of the analysis. Now for Expose today, with the delectable Rhoda and others:
Take your pick there.
Embarrassment of riches right now in “feature shorts” of general interest, not so much politics du jour, also, a few films in the queue, plus (coming) Sunday’s jazzy blues.
(0447) Greetings readers. Steve is taking some well-earned and much needed time off, we all need R&R, he also has RL things which have happened and need attending to, as I must this Thursday. Unherdables must go on at this crucial point … in fact it’s hotting up and this early morning slot seems important for many readers. Cunning plan here is to use many of Steve’s sources and I’ll do a skeleton report for now each day … today’s later.
5. Archbish Vigano interesting piece

4. This would have been Steve’s slot at 1380
… I’ll have a look at some of his sources … first Gateway P:





Cunning plan is not to do the immense amount Steve covers all at once but to spread it over the day, except this Thursday.
3. Just have a quick look at today’s Lord Toby newsletter

While there are certainly the regular features in red, the expanded first item below shows an interesting author. There are two Bells of note to us for those with memories, brothers I believe, and one was the Hillsborough and later Common Purpose honcho. Yet here he is, invited to write to dissident Britain … interesting, huh?
2. DAD at 1380
a) Matthéo, 9 years old, a footballer from Auchy-les-Mines (62), was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the torso and head by five young players from Creil (60)…. (JH: General post later on such things)
b) LFI (La France Insoumise) hit by a cyberattack: 120,000 activist data exposed. [Melenchon’s lot.]
c) France. Former minister Caroline Cayeux convicted of tax fraud: she had understated her assets by 11.7 million euros and committed wealth tax fraud….
d) Eurovision 2026: Croatian group Lelek shocks Turkey with tattoos of Christian resistance against Ottoman slavery. (JH: Another general post later.)…
1. Ada Lluch is one of the “Ban-ees”
… her native Spain has our probs cranked up even further:
(1519) Afternoon all. Have run the TPUSA thing on X. Was going to cover the Restore infighting (which I was part of) but it’s sorted … kudos Charlie Downes.
23. Eva
22. Amelia, bless her
21. DAD on that speech at 1380
Starmer’s hail mary “reset” speech this morning was around 65% reheated from the Labour conference address he delivered eight months ago in Liverpool.
|https://order-order.com/2026/05/11/65-of-starmers-reset-speech-was-recycled-from-conference-address/
A line-by-line analysis shows the same family anecdotes (albeit without the signature “toolmaker” refrain) , the same attack lines on Farage, the same education policy, and large chunks of the same phrasing. As if it wasn’t torturous enough the first time…
20. Moo corner

19. Is Cyprus Greek?

18. Then they came for ….


17. Anxiety producing medical “community”


16. Think they know where they can stick it

15. Spawn of satan

14. Worth a try

13. Antihuman abuse in the Ukraine

12. Long way either way
… I’ve actually done the Melb to Darwin and return by car.

11. Two Tier foot in mouth
… the gift that keeps on giving.

Ah, shall have to post this early, as two fights on concurrently, which I’m part of, plus lunch, plus an hour phone call. Back soonish.
If I introduced this with less than awe and reference, well … Chopin never quite did it for me as a kid, nor did the pianoforte … and now may well be too late with the slow impairment of hearing, along with the mild tinnitus. However, hope springs eternal, so let’s try it again.
As for the version, the issue with live performances is quality, idiosyncratic playing … whereas these old vinyls tended to be to a high enough standard, if not sublime …
(0827)(0845)
10. Moo corner

9. Demonic, no lesser word for it

8. They can take from your a/cs
… directly, no request, no beg pardons:

7. Alberta

6. IYE corner
a. Jared Kushner under investigation.
|https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-garcia-investigate-kushner-raising-billions-from-middle-east-governments-while-negotiating-us-foreign-policy
b. “Presidential Unsealing and Reporting Systems For UAP Encounters (Pursue)”
“In response to President Donald J. Trump’s directive for transparency on U.S. government information regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the Department of War (DOW), with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), is overseeing government wide efforts to expeditiously find, review, identify, declassify and publicly release unresolved UAP-related records and historical documents in the federal government’s possession. This is an unprecedented, historic undertaking that requires coordination between dozens of agencies and the review of tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper, spanning many decades. Given the scope of this task, the Department of War will be releasing new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.…”
|https://www.war.gov/ufo/
(Should’ve done it on May the Force 😉)
c. At 1379 (url too)
WEAPONIZED CURIOSITY: Inside the Knapp-Corbell UFO Industrial Complex
Deconstructing a Sensei, a TV Reporter, a Billionaire, a Senator, and the Story None of Them Want Verified
d. At 1379
Further reading on the Dept of War’s recent release of UAP files.
”PURSUE Release 01 Audit: The 162 Files and the Eighty-Year Pattern
What the Department of War actually disclosed on 8 May 2026, what it didn’t, and why the structural omissions matter more than the contents.”
https://asirpjournal.substack.com/p/pursue-release-01-audit-the-162-files
Now, dearest readers, this below is formulaic, it opens with the word “shocking” or similar, the narrative might be high noise AI data plant, who knows … it’s everything I can’t stand in youtubes but … and it’s a big butt … the topic and treatment do have merit, I suspected this, so did fellow coffee drinkers.
I’ve gone back to perc coffee, slow infuse … but still the taste is not right. What the hell have they inserted, surreptitiously?
(0433) still dark. There is a slight change to “first thing in the morning” here. Correspondence first, OoL check second, X third … that’s where the gathering for the day, sshots etc., happens. HQ fourth, once I have the material, have done the necessaries. Fifth is numbering at NOWP (which means re-reading).
Sixth is around the blogs, during the second phase with second brek. (Mon 6-10). Check YT too for today’s fayre.
“Correspondence” includes notifications, e.g. Andy’s piece this morning. Under X occasionally comes footage as footage … that must go straight to HQ as it takes too much work to try to find it on X again later. Why not save url? Because it involves leaving things already in play and upon return, they’re gone. Bitter experience, poor cyber service, multiple “refreshes”, I could go on and on.
Today for example, we open with footage … if I don’t, it disappears (time sensitive). (0539)
5. Steve at 1379
Ordinarily, I like to keep Steve and DAD separated by a new file sshot (there was an issue a year or so ago with DAD), plus Steve has tried it on again with the Bannon thing (Bannon hisself does actually occupy the first minutes, as I knew he would) and we cannot afford to run either the Ban or even the Rum of bool at HQ or at anything Ggl Blgr … for some reason, NOWP does not mind, go figure.
Having said that, I’m loathe to put Steve in the second phase (Mon 6 to 10), as that closes in on IYE corner. I’m rabbiting on about all this just to show readers what early morn involves. Some have said we’re all a bunch of irascible idiosyncratic curmudgeons and my reply is … “Hey, when did anything of quality ever come easily and without energy? Plus it works, as long as I don’t change the routine and even here, there’s a bit if stick, there’s a personal edge.
Yes, I’m personally deteriorating (screen radiation, wifi, onset of age?) and routines are the only way to cope and not miss anything. I’d never do a podcast.
Steve’s report:
Which bribgs us to 0537, readers, time for first brek (quiche and side veg, seeing as you asked, plus green tea).
4. DAD at 1379
DAD can be anytime from around 0400 to maybe 0545. Absolutely no issue, no pressure, deeply grateful for his reports. As I write, at 0459, guess what? This is my screen right now:

Redact the gathered images (a five step process of 3 mins each, max), and hey presto:

DAD’s report:
a) Belgian Police show the Calais Police how to do it. Since the beginning of the year, more than 400 migrants have been apprehended on the Belgian coast. The phenomenon is worrying Flemish authorities. Several incidents have occurred recently: a car carrying several migrants ended up in a ditch while trying to avoid a police checkpoint. Two people were injured….
b) Is it time for von der Leyen to go? Rumors are circling that a new face (and voice) is needed to lead EU, in war and beyond.
c) This isn’t Beirut or Tehran. This is Macron’s France….
d) Deux-Sèvres, France: He was driving without a licence, without insurance and without a valid vehicle inspection certificate; his car ended up impounded….
3. Two in one “early morn”, like wow
2. Andy at 1379
“Euromaidan, I don’t know what that means but it sounds like a nod to the globalist coup in Kiev. Anyway, they have this to report. Believe it all if you wish. | https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/09/russia-planned-major-naval-counteroffensive-against-ukraine-drones-are-built-but-they-cant-be-used/ | Second paragraph reads; “This situation highlights Russia’s dependence on Western satellite technologies and the vulnerability of its defense projects to sanctions.” Like I said, believe it if you wish. Believe that statement and you will think that the Russians are stupid beyond all reason.”
1. The sounds of silence
Simon and Garfunkel could have written a song about this below.