(0639) Morning all, got in a short second sleep here, hope all is well there for the new week, Holy Week. I never used to commemorate this week all that much until Good Friday but this year … yes … mainly because the Christian underpinning of our society, our west, is under serious assault, plus I must admit … using the word Holy infuriates all the right people. (0745)

 

5. The state of the NHS now

4. Before going any further

… I’m going to re-post DAD’s last item in full:

“Although Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party is far from having secured the resounding victory it claims in the press following its results in the March 2026 French municipal elections, it has won a few symbolic strongholds that allow it to assert that a “new France” is emerging.”

There’s all out war there, all out war here, truth is obviously the first casualty. The creeps controlling our pollies obviously feel they’re on the home stretch here, otherwise they’d not show their corruption so openly. At this point, cue Steve’s General Kemp summary at 1337 … who, precisely, is going to stop globopsycho? The supposed right is banned or crippled on the continent, despite the gender win at the EU parlmt, all eyes on Orban, though he has the added bonus of Vlad being an ally in real terms.

Meanwhile, the duped normies in all western countries are just that … duped and unwilling to face reality, preferring to call the refuseniki such as Restore “extremists” and “racists”. There’s a thing called recognising reality too early … give it time and far more will see it … everything has its time.

3. DAD at 1337

Monday. Computer problem – better late than never. (JH: Indeed DAD, much appreciated by all.)

a) Is Pakistan finally facing the monster it created? Is Europe prepared for the consequences? The answer is in the smoke rising over the Durand Line. For decades, the Islamabad establishment has played a dangerous game, nurturing the Taliban as a strategic depth agent against India.

b) This is Paris, France 2026. Relax and enjoy the new culture.

c) In the areas where they have just been elected, the mayors from La France Insoumise (LFI) are already making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons.

2. Steve’s last evening summaries at 1337

• Pentagon Hands Trump Iran Ground Invasion Plans as President Weighs Next Move
• Iranian Proxy Group the Houthis from Yemen Say They May Close Bab El Mandeb Strait
• JD Vance Wins CPAC’s 2028 GOP Presidential Straw Poll
• Ballistic Missiles From Iran, Cruise Missiles And Suicide Drones From Yemen Target Southern Israel
• Study Finds Nearly Half of Seniors Show Cognitive or Physical Improvements Over 12 Years
• The digital cradle: New study links infant screen time to premature brain maturation, lasting anxiety
• Over 3,500 US Troops Arrive In Middle East As Houthis Enter War
• Much more.

(0311)(0417)

 

Overview on the Monday of Holy Week

If you glance at the previous post … the programme for Holy Week, you’ll notice what’s on Monday.

All right, now look at Steve’s two part comment below the post (and in sidebar) or else go direct to 1337:1 and 1337:9 (same thing).

All right, before even getting onto Steve’s other (regular) fayre from last evening (Mon 2) or DAD’s coming up around 5 a.m. (Mon 3), there’s a succession of emotions, yes, provided of course that you are still of sound mind.

And there’s the rub … staying sound of mind.

For example, how much doom and gloom can one person take in a sustained assault on our minds over a long period of time? We’re talking here about those not yet shellshocked, not yet in deep PTSD. You know how it goes … succession of emotions until they reduce you to a quivering wreck. They can do that you know … over a long enough time period, esp. by controlling food, water, heating, digital ID.

The alternatives, imho, are two … either become that quivering wreck, still trying to keep the head down below the parapet, hoping the croc eats you last … until it does … or drop into “fight or flight”, the most primal of human reactions.

I’m assuming here that you’ve already taken care of your home defences for when the economy crashes, including barriers to your home, food, water, shelter, medicines. How long will those last, incidentally?

So yes … we’re assuming here that you’re still sound of mind, you’ve not yet succumbed.

Or have you actually succumbed, like everyone else, e.g. Reform voters, refusing to face reality, e.g. the reality on the streets, in hotels and barracks, in every town centre, as the orcs roam around, picking off the vulnerable? Sitting ducks.

Now, that whole point of “succumbing or not succumbing” is physical, mental and spiritual … there’s been enough on the first two to know which steps you MUST take … but what about your soundness of mind?

We’re moving here onto another level … sheer survival and Steve, for example, plus a few other readers, having had either military, boy scout or survivalist training in the past, will probably do better than the couch potato or wimpy new SNAG or vulnerable lass.

By the way, who’s coughing a lot of late under these poisonous skies? How well are you? How’s the health?

And there’s another question here … about me, myself, JH. Am I a fiend relishing in all the horror or am I trying to find ways for both of us to stay of sound mind, simply in order to continue to function, in order to be able to fight or fly when it comes to it? In order to prevail, not to put too fine a point on it?

Lastly, I’m going to drop, in here, a fairly standard Anglican prayer-intro from long ago, not to “proselytise” by any means but because it might just be a last alternative.

In this prayer intro, the wording goes: “Lord [or whichever terminology you use], bless, guide, protect, comfort and give courage to …” … and then you add all the people you’re praying for … family, nation, people needing respite and even redress, justice.

I hasten to add here that it does not actually save you from the assault, the slaughter, the poisoned land or skies per se but it does give all those things listed in the prayer, if you believe it can … and incidentally, further keeps you safe by keeping your mind clear enough to make the right choices at each point along the way. But again … only if you believe it can.

From my point of view here, I could either write that above … or not write it, not tell you at all, for fear of what someone might think of me, how someone might mock. Which of those two choices would be gutless and which, alternatively, a responsibility towards our readers?

Are we not here to find solutions?

Another question is that Palpatine question, the Anakin Skywalker … are we to succumb to our anger and hatred of the enemy and go out slaughtering whole villages ourselves, or are we to focus on clearing obstacles threatening our territory and protecting those needing protecting?

Which solutions leave our mind clear enough to still be effective? /END.

(1628) Almost evening all, hope you had a good one. Much up at 1337 just now, much reading and watching.

 

20. Palm Sunday across the west, plus Israel

… ring those church bells loudly this week, people.

The programme for Holy Week:

19. Moo with Dickens

18. On IYE’s item at 1337

It’s a lot of reading and suggests confirmation bias, the linked guy at his site. However, if there could be any non-AI confirmation picture of her making that gesture for real … well, that would be pretty clear, would it not?

17. A good arrangement it seems

16. One of the key culprits in the mass murders

 

Now, this is what we were talking about … not a sharp copy, vision just acceptable, sound better than that. Think it’s worth it.

“A serviceable thriller about spies on a train maneuvering to obtain a stolen diary with international implications. The main cast is Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney, and David Tomlinson, with many others in an ensemble cast that tries its best to weave together a half dozen stories, not all of which are interesting.

De Marney I expected the most from, as I liked him in Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent (1937), but he has matured here into blandness. Lieven I didn’t know at all, and he is good and savage as the head spy. Tomlinson with the jug ears is always fun to watch, the pip-pip cheerio Brit.

However — and it’s a big however — this is a remake of Rome Express from 1932, and it doesn’t have near the excitement and suspense of the original. The original had Esther Ralston and a ton of Hitchcock actors: Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, and Frank Vosper.

Most importantly, it had Conrad Veidt as the head spy. Good as Lieven is in the remake, he can’t top Veidt, and really no one could. Veidt gives a strange shading to the most innocuous lines — he’s the kind of villain who would knife Granny if she got too nosy. (He also resembles Bruno Hauptmann somewhat — I wonder if audiences in 1932 made that connection.)

The 1948 version is good, but the 1932 version is more fun to watch. Both have a killer climactic scene in the train’s luggage car — a chance for both Veidt and later, Lieven, to shine.”

JH: I’ll be looking out for a good copy of Rome Express.

 

(1145) Nearly afternoon all … jazz at 1230. (1147)

 

15. The problems changing clocks cause

14. ASDA is off my list too

13. Moo corner

JH: Going back through the Moos, I see I ran this twice … once shortened, once expanded. Oops. Thinking here … hmmmm … think I’ll not replace this now as it would be burying a good Moo offering.

12. This day back then

11. More on how bad that Thune sellout was

 

(0839)(0912)

 

10. No Kings

9. An older Moo offering

8. Farage’s sneaky moves

7. Goodness … actually a male

6. The west, at least online

… is becoming flooded with females … or so it seems. A man can be in two minds about this … the fractions 3/8 and 5/8 seem to describe the situation … speaking of indigenous westerners here, not the flood of African, sub-continent, middle-eastern or Asians.

The figure quoted in the city in which I lived in Russia was 58% female … quite understandable post war but maybe other factors were involved too. If I was in the middle of town on one of the main shopping streets, it was packed with females, mainly young, every which way you looked. Males were dertainly at a premium.

On X, it’s turned out about the same … my “following” is about 3/8 male … as I said … mixed thoughts on that.

No child should walk out of a top academic institution in America hating their own country. Yet that's exactly what's happening.

At CPAC, I spoke about a growing problem: our educational institutions are being infiltrated by radical Islam. pic.twitter.com/G3Dnr7AuVK

— Jayne Zirkle (@JayneZirkle) March 28, 2026

 

(0615) Unfortunately, that “throat” going around in England seems to have hit me in the last hour and I’ve headed back to bed. On the plus side, there are films and enough polit material in sshots to keep going … sadly, no baroque nor jazz prepared. Let’s see how it goes today but expect blank spaces. (0650)

 

5. Steve at 1336

• Houthis Join War Alongside Iran, Fire Ballistic Missile At Israel
• Iranian Strikes Wounded Nearly 30 US Troops, Hit E-3 Sentry And P-8 Poseidon Aircraft
• Why Does the UK Appease Tehran Despite the Dangers to Itself?
• Trump Expected to Endorse Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Runoff Against RINO John Cornyn
• British Assisted Suicide Bill Stalled in Parliament as 50 Members of the House of Lords Pen Letter Sayin It ‘Didn’t Guard Against Coercion’ or ‘Protect the Most Vulnerable’
• Ruling on whether the Dutch court will allow nominated witnesses in a potential case against Bill Gates is expected on 9 April
• Chabahar–Konarak: The Makran Coast Where the US Is Most Likely to Land in Iran (we’ll see)
• Much more.

4. Palm Sunday and “cultural” Christianity

Was talking yesterday with MMutR and mentioned a fellow blogger from around 2012 … we had a group blog of several authors … he took umbrage at me using Ephesians 6:12 about the “principalities” we are up against in high places. Suddenly, this became, in his brain, me “proselytising” or evangelising.

Interesting, considering firstly that we are a culturally Christian nation, even Europe is, mixed in with other roots … and secondly that he was meant to be a “libertarian” … obviously libertarian on some issues but not on others he didn’t like … given all that, I was unsurprised when he took his bat and ball, along with a swathe of left libertarians … and thus began the Great Schism.

To be fair though, subsequently, we became friendly again and that came to a head when he actually defended me strongly against an aggressor newbie in a project called Martin Scriblerus … so that was nice.

This whole thing about “cultural” Christianity … norms, values, approaches to justice, charity etc. … ethics … well it’s served us well for quite a long time but now of course is currently under serious assault. I really only have two verses I quote more than a few times … John 3:16 defines what a Christian is … but of late, there’s been a third verse … Revelation 3:9, regarding those who say they are Jews but are not.

That last one brings in Red Shields, globopsycho, the forces trying to split or wreck the west.

Anyway, it’s Palm Sunday for us but other denominations have it on a different Sunday … ditto with Christmas … to my mind, it scarcely matters as long as it’s recognised as a series of events.

There’s an argument that we’re on firmer ground in dating events, e.g. in which year Jesus was crucified … have a look at this:

I’m not fussed, as mentioned, when precisely it was … as long as it’s neither forgotten nor snuffed out by hostile forces.

3. DAD at 1336

a) With nearly 37,000 inhabitants, 107 nationalities, a 25% unemployment rate, and over 50% social housing, Creil, the third largest town in the Oise department, is among the poorest in France.

b) The New Stasi? The Moscow-based German journalist Ulrich Heyden, who has been covering Russian affairs for a wide variety of German media for over three decades, recently learned that his German bank, the Hamburger Sparkasse, is cancelling his bank account, apparently for reasons relating to the EU’s Russia sanctions.

c) A man has been arrested after a car struck “multiple” pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday evening, police say. A “number” of people were injured, some of them seriously, and were treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to hospital.

d) Tucker Carlson’s sickening praise for Sharia tyranny.

2. Yes, they’re the second “religion of peace”

… the crazed Woke far-left, n’est-ce-pas? Or the third after globopsycho itself?

An attendee of a "No Kings" protest in Jim Thorpe, PA, bumps our video producer @PerdieXAmerica after he asked the activists some questions.

Afterwards a man pulls the woman back, puts his hands on Perdie and tells him, "I'll f*cking kill you." pic.twitter.com/5pW1P3S6M9

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 28, 2026