(1410) Afternoon all. (1429)

 

20. Moo corner

19. Naomi Wolf writes that

… just as Yuri Bezmenov (roughly) said, in 1984, would happen.

18. Wealth

17. It’s not everyday we run a picture

… of a spacewoman:

16. Council housing

 

(1110) Elevenses. (1120)

 

15. Careful if the State “cares” for you

14. The cardboard drone

13. Where you from then?

12. Hedgerows

11. Will Jones at Lord Toby’s

“The Unite the Kingdom rally was an outlier in recent London marches in having no mass chants calling for death to minority groups, yet perversely this was the one Sir Keir Starmer chose to condemn, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator. Here’s an excerpt. 

Perhaps the strangest thing about the Unite the Kingdom rally was just how unremarkable it felt. There were no mass chants calling for the death of particular groups, no calls for the eradication of foreign countries and no flags of terrorist groups or tyrannical theocracies waved in the crowd. Nobody cited scripture to urge the slaughter of another people, nobody waved terrorist symbols and nobody I saw during the entire day covered their face.

We live in such peculiar times that this is what set the march apart from the dozens of others which have descended on the streets of London over the last couple of years, totally unchallenged – even protected – by the police and our Government.

Yet this outlier was the first march Keir Starmer decided to speak out against since taking office as Prime Minister, threatening police action and the full force of the law against those involved, and pulling out all the stops to block foreign speakers from entering the country at the last minute.

Of all the political protests we’ve witnessed since Labour won the General Election – and we’ve witnessed many – this was the one he chose to obstruct repeatedly. This was the hill he chose to die on.

And just in case anyone had forgotten what the other type of march looks like, they handily held one just around the corner so we could compare and contrast. The far-Left omnicause supporters took to the streets waving their PLO and Iranian flags – the ones representing the Islamic Republic regime, not the sun-and-lion version indicating solidarity with the Iranian people. Some were even sporting Al-Qassam Brigades red triangles, a symbol made popular by the terrorists when marking out targets for death in videos.

Unite the Kingdom focused mostly on domestic issues, British society and Christianity. Mostly the crowd waved Union flags, St George’s crosses and saltires. The other march featured few no Union flags, but a sea of red, white, green and black PLO flags.”

 

… otherwise known as Life in Esher:

(0915) Time plummets headlong onwards, this Tuesday. (0915)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Maybe we’ve already had this one

… here tis again:

8. Today’s twofer

7. Now, DAD’s new pic of his extensive manor

… newly mown:

Super pic but in landscape mode, not greatly usable in the sidebar. To use in the sidebar, I need to find the original, save twice more, and make one from the tree to just past the Summer House … and the second from the left of the Summer House to the right edge.

Which I shall now do.

6. Toodles, Cavett, Welles and Hitler

Over at 1386:3.

 

It was at Monday 17 … DAD sends this solution:

“No 17 Radius = 5.

Proof is too long to print here, but we can confirm the answer from the Small Triangle 4, (8-r) and r. 4squared + (8-r) squared = r squared. 

If r=5 then the sum of [4squared + (8-r)] squared = 16 + 9 = 25 Therefore r = the square root of 25; which = 5 QED.

IE we have the 3:4;5 right angle triangle.”

……

JH: Wunnerful. Wonder if this might also help:

(0715) Vastly more important than Massie or Makerfield is Julia on her way to Newcastle … I did ask if she’d packed her coals. Champion, champion. (0744)

 

5. Defender of the Manor Steve at 1385

• RNC Chair Joe Gruters Announces 130 Lawsuits Filed Across 32 States to Stop Democrat Election Shenanigans — as President Trump Deploys Army of Election Lawyers to Stop the Steal
• Former EU Foreign Policy Chief Admits Bloc “Not Very Relevant” on World Stage (JH: Let’s face it … who’d want a pack of communists run by the spawn of satan?)
• Elections in Andalusia Forecast Changes in Spanish Politics: Socialists Are Way Down, and Establishment Conservatives Set To Go Into Governing Coalition With Rightwing Vox Party
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Makes Surprising Public Admission About ‘Harm’ Suffered from US Attacks, Time to ‘Face Reality’
• Actor James Woods Goes Off on “Treacherous Rat” Majority Leader John Thune
• Pakistan Sent 8,000 Troops, Jets And Air Defenses To Saudi Arabia
• Iran’s Mini Navy Can’t Hide From The AC-130 Gunship
• Are They Growing Some Balls In The UK? (only time will tell)
• Only four deportations of dangerous persons in half a year: Repatriation offensive fizzles out
• Tick-Borne Bioweapon Diseases Deployed: Boxes Of Ticks Found On Farms All Across America
• Much more.

4. The enigmatic, eternal Andy at 1385

Ireland is repatriating immigrants. | https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/18/deportation-flights-on-board-catering-changed-after-pork-sausages-served/

3. The esteemed senior member DAD at 1385

a) People living in the United Kingdom are now spending fewer years in good health as “healthy life expectancy” continues collapsing across most of the country, according to a new analysis that shows Britain falling behind much of the developed world….

b) Trump ‘humiliates’ Tusk as wanted Polish Ex-Ministers reach America….

c) French RN leaders slam ‘politically motivated accusations’ against chief Bardella over EP fraud allegation….

d) Those football fans – again. (JH: Video at 1386.)

 

(0540) Morning all … wall to wall poisoned cloud, no sun … Milipede will be delighted. (0622)

 

2. This Massie Thing

Best method might be to just load the sshots and leave it at that. You need more? It helps to actually be on X … for example Steve’s on the rally he posts as Xes. If I run a series of X embeddings, this site autoexpands them. If I run it as a |url, it appears as a url.

(I’ve started coughing now, nose, throat ears … this is a newish thing happening in this setting.)

Right … why is Massie important to us? Because it’s crucial to them and Them, plus that primary is today in Kentucky.

Note that there’s no poll size mentioned below:

1. Housekeeping related to This Massie Thing

Before getting onto that topic, chaps and chapesses, there’s the little matter of your publican’s health here. It’s no more nor less important than your own, readers, except that it does affect how much screen time I can afford before the pain starts.

My rationale is that our readership is fairly closed or rather self-closing, e.g. references to 1385 make sense to our regulars, Watchlist, navbar, sidebar comments and so on. Lord Toby’s site means something, also Malsi.

One thing I’d best start inserting in anything UK govt is “alleged” … readers know why. Same applies to Massie above but it’s less fraught with thug plod danger. The good ole colloquialism or euphemism is something all “droppers” should be aware of.

As far as bias goes, the publican is clearly biased towards the Brit non-Woke and is a tad impatient with both the Israel and Hamas lobbies … and yet, and yet … they’re interested in us and as our gallant “leaders” are in thrall to some lobby or another … EU, WEF, black nobility, red shield etc. … then it must be taken into account. IYE’s bias is known due to his digging and his piece is in comments, whereas mine is this morning front page Tue 2.

Why? Partly because zion or royal critical is best accessed from our remote locations, whereas Loomer can be accessed in sshot form here, mainly because I couldna be bothered redacting … not feeling all that well. Not a perfect system but it’s what IS just now.

(1547) Later in the afternoon and I’m not well, folks … talking core heart, circulatory, stroke territory. Still far enough away to blog, appointment is scheduled. All the cooking and cleaning done, plenty of food and warm.

 

21. Massie, Boebert etc.

HERE

… and here

20. Wool

Wool is murder 😂😂 or just a haircut ? 🫣 pic.twitter.com/we5yovc15i

— Blooms&Greens by Chloe (@BloomsGreensIE) May 18, 2026

19. DAD’s Garden

The little building in the centre is my Summer House. I had just had the blades on my mower sharpened and cut the ‘lawn’.     I was left with these lovely lines, but they were almost gone the next day.

18. Well well well

🚨 BREAKING: A nationalist plan to immensely surge deportation of migrants in Europe has just PASSED the European Parliament, a major blow to the elitist leftists who want the 3rd world to destroy the West

KEEP PUSHING, EUROPE!

You can and MUST save yourselves 🔥 pic.twitter.com/SenXlmUQ8E

— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) May 18, 2026

17. Try this

… more difficult this time.

Hints: At one point, you’ll need to create a right-angled triangle, using a radius as a hypotenuse. You’ll also need to use the quadratic equation formula. Last hint … you need to eliminate r from the right of the equation, making that value now zero.

The method, procedure, plan of attack is straight Year 8 equation reduction … you are trying to end up with zero on the right of the equation.

16. Makerfield

15. Oh Calcutta

14. Standing down versus reality

13. They’re screwing you over

12. Ebola

… yes, I do see Malone at the foot of the post.

11. Obama treason