This is where I, the redactor/editor/bottlewasher, am in a slight quandary. There are no films in the queue just now, no short morning features but there is jazz, coming up soon today. In one sense, it’s overkill to run the Paul Temple which might just be the “best one ever”, to almost “squander” it on an already full Sunday.
Were it a film, I’d not … too late in the afternoon, but this 4 hours 30 mins ten-parter is simply fab … I can’t get away from it myself … and I’m thinking to myself that I should not be keeping this back while I have it … not when I know there are fellow aficionados who’d like it. More after the play …
I do recall we did have it a few years back, likely at N.O. … but why would I not have run it again? đ€ At that stage, I was not quite as au fait with the series history, with the protagonist pairs, but of late, this “return to”, later series has quite stood out, due to Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson … the producers and cast are marvellous, it retains the old mystique.
Plus the main pair are without as many sharp edges, with less stridency, and she in particular is more 3D. This story? Talk about convoluted. Once you can buy the formulaic, realising it’s a good formula, I’m thinking you might be pleasantly surprised. Plus the bridgeman overexplaining the episode connections is, imho, quite fun.
Anyway, this is for those who’d like to rest their eyes for a few hours. I’ll still start the jazz about 1600.
(0559) Sun, 21 Jun 2026, 9:24âŻam is the official UK time for the change … welcome to the coming winter of our content? (0724)
5. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OUR STEVE, YEAH !!
A gentle, classical ditty to reflect advancing age, young man:
There’s a real rush of birthdays at this time, as also seems to be the case in February … have you ever reflected as to what your olds were up to nine months earlier, with that spark in the eye? Had to be late September, did it not?
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Much much more … interesting too.
2. DAD at 1418
It looks as if my favourite site for French news (FdeSouche) has been attacked, so, today, you will have to accept some older news.
a) This week, âSophie of Dundeeâ was exonerated. The girl who was smeared, mocked and condemned online has now been proved right. She and her friends said theyâd been forced to defend themselves from an abusive man. The online mob called them liars. The court showed who was telling the truth.
b) The government is preparing to protect Corsican traditions and identity. But what about French identity?
c) The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is facing questions over the shortlist for this yearâs VigdĂs Prize for Womenâs Empowerment after the European abortion-rights campaign âMy Voice, My Choiceâ was named among the three shortlisted candidates for the award.
d) Resurfaced Video of Christopher Hitchensâs most chilling prediction that just came true.
1. Taxpayers Association
“Is my daughter an aberration? The numbers say not. Youth unemployment stands at 16.2%, the worst since 2015 â worse even than at the peak of the pandemic, when the economy was switched off at the mains. A Government review has warned of a âlost generationâ, and has put the bill at ÂŁ125 billion a year. It means real people, my daughter among them, going painfully workless, with all the damage that causes.
You might assume the cause is impersonal â a temporary slump, or the machines coming for us all. But then you read the news, and it turns weary resignation into something hotter, because you see much of this is deliberate.
Have to confess it’s a bit of a thrill seeing something working on a national and cross pond level. By the way, Sammy’s birthday today.
15. Think IYE’s gal has hit it on this
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14. Running with enough fuel, thanks
Not sure which triggers youtube responds to in order to recommend clips but in the last two days, it’s been on about “managing your last years”, “managed decline” and so on. I was talking with MMutR and he virtually said I’d had a pretty good run in rude health … you wot? My longest friend of all time said a few decades back … you’ve always escaped from romantic entanglements … interesting, wasn’t conscious of it.
Anyway, went into youtube now to check what was on offer … it had the Jackson Browne number Running on Empty. As a person who knows little of leftwing or “modern” films, it had some graphics behind the song of some bearded man running on roads, down piers, whatever, running onwards etc. and suddenly I felt the old trigger warning of what I call “being railroaded”, being shunted into some final track.
I don’t want to call it “being sidetracked” as that implies an ego which supposes we’re too good for something else … that was never, ever my attitude … my attitude is always “that looks interesting” or meeting someone and enjoying that. If some force somewhere were trying to “close my account”, preventing good things, interesting things, I’d say sod off. Near the end of the song, this bearded one stops, turns and says, “I’m pretty tired, I think I’ll go home now.”
Clicked out instantly … no way, nowhere going near anything like that, still heaps to do … I interpreted that quote as shuffling off. No objections if Above says it, I just respond, “As You wish.” But if some earthly force was directing this … I’d be fighting with my last breath, e.g. digital ID, getting caught in the labyrinth of the medical world … that’s simply not going to happen. Do you remember that war vet some years back who escaped his maximum security “care home” and made it to Normandy to be with his mates?
No way anyone’s putting me in one of those, even if I have to climb through the third floor window and shimmy down the wall. The young folk on this landing are bemused when seeing me, think it’s marvellous, gives em hope. Well ain’t that nice.
Had a quick look at Jackson Browne’s bio … you know, just checking he still hasn’t croaked it … born late 48, still going. Plus we have DAD with us a few years yet. Just checking when I met JB, he was with Daryl Hannah at the time.
Health here today? Well that issue below is still there, albeit still mild, so yes, must put a call in on Monday. Strangely, the rest of it seems to have come good. Hope you’re holding up there yourselves.
13. Two sides of the iran deal
12. It must move forward, never ceasing
11. JFK
Robin Ramsay (1948) is a journo/author, has a journal called Lobster, is leftwing but mainly on what the left started pursuing again after 2000. The left led that charge but as the ideology again became rabid commie, that moved this type of research into a strange centre left to centre right field, hence I was aware of him, have his book Who Shot JFK, in which he calls the main orderer of the hit LBJ and the actual shooter a guy called Mac Wallace.
My attitude to it all now is it matters little who it was, esp. as there were many placed to shoot and maybe did. We know where from:
Lower left anticlockwise: drain to road (underpass side of grassy knoll), grassy knoll, depository for the patsy, Dal Tex (Harrelson), other end above the triple underpass. Add to those the front passenger, driver, Jacqui herself. Also include as never killed, was thereafter under the Appalachians or somewhere else.
My point is … it doesn’t matter … there’s a more important issue and it’s from Ramsay’s book:
It’s quite a classic US intelligence prehit move but not only them … Oct 7 was classic in plan … Iron Dome switched off at 9 a.m., all security looking the other way. Failsafes off, security looking the other way.
How many, then, could take a shot? Field day of course … with impunity. And there in position officially, placed there legitimately. Except clearly some within the ranks not legit. Whoever took the security on the back of the limo off, via phone … that’s your guy.
Who is he beholden to? There we get into a chain heading upwards.
Always well rated, I need to read up on it, esp. if his supposed wife is on the level. It’s great to be older, fading memory … every new day such a surprise.
In 2019 Diabolique called it “a solid film noir with a decent cast and typically brisk handling; Lubin may not have been strong with horror, which depends heavily on mood, but with thrillers, which benefited from speed, he was fine.”
The cream-colored, luxury automobile that Brian Donlevy drives is a 1949 Packard Super Eight roadster.
(1211) Afternoon all … just behave yourselves. (1256)
10. Moo corner
9. De Santis’s new law
Still needs care to do … one also wants least damage to the vehicle, plus parent coming after you with lawsuit for excessive damage to the twerp. I’m thinking it would still need to be steady as she goes for the first part, only accelerating if the mob closed in around the vehicle.
Good law? Well obviously, but taking great care of you and yours first, your primary directive.
8. Criminality in education
… beyond the pale.
All right … I was not at a top ten in the world but it was certainly within the top twenty back then and they did not lightly admit students. Obviously the wealthy, the high fliers, could get the kid in, also they needed to keep the intellectual quotient up with certain Asian countries. Then there was that boys tended to be better at exams, girls at assignment work, that sort of thing. There were girls about, a minority still though.
Now that DEI has taken over, there are people in there who would not even pass Year 8 … and it’s a massive money spinner for baddies. As always, there’s a major difference between free enterprise … and Evil Capitalism. Universities should not have anything to do with egalitarianism … just merit. Also affordability. In my case, I had a scholarship but even so, struggled to make the quota.
7. This is about the reflecting pool
… maybe relying on Woke left wingnut cities to treat their things well … maybe that’s too great an ask.
(0559) Morning all, thx for wellwishes, not too bad right now in all depts. Mixed sky, sun already. (1017)
5. Burnham
4. A fair question
3. Steve at 1417
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UK police officer uses AI to create evidence in multiple criminal cases
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Much more.
2. For no particular reason but that I had the pic
… a tale from my youth. I’ll make it short, promise.
First, a crit of the pic … though I may well have been that lad … well turned out, polite but still unpredictable and never looking, starry eyed, at my mum, far more likely to give her a cuddle as a man would, also walking on the outside to protect her … still, it’s not a bad pic. Plus the bag is to be carried on the outside of the body.
Right, the tale. We were in a main street, I must have been about 6, we went into a store, maybe her hairdressers, can’t remember … she was off at that end of the shop and had said to me, “Go find the snack bar,” gave me the cash. I went up to the only counter, closer to the door, and asked the lady, “Do you have snack bars?”
“Er, sorry.” Now, whether she put the idea into my head to try to find one further down the main road, which was lined with shops … not sure, a bit hazy. Now we get to two truisms about men and boys:
Males only remember that which they wish
They generally can’t retain fine detail, except about interesting things
On most things, they just don’t care … they can be thoughtless
They never think to ask
Yet they will try to carry out a promise, a commitment.
So, I left the shop, nothing much promising to the left, went right, wandered down … no bleedin’ snackbar … on and on … long story short … there was one of the overhead signs saying: “Snackbar.” Clearly the place, perched by the door and waited for her.
Typical woman … late, too busy with too much. After maybe fifteen minutes, I thought *&ÂŁ&* this for a joke, so headed back to the shop. She was inside, distraught, shop personnel, manager, I think even a policeman. Apparently, there were people out looking. She came at me and did that embarrassing motherly thing, all sloppy like.
What’s the issue, thought I … why all this high drama? (Oh, and dear reader … if you think I’m going gaga, receding into oldtimer’s land … not today, bro.)
The BBC finally interviewed Rupert Lowe. Did they ask him about the rape gang inquiry? Of course not, they moaned about me to him. He put them in their place live on air.
b) Two Algerians, aged 32 and 35, Ammar and Abdelaziz (the latter undocumented), were formally charged on Thursday in Paris with âmoney laundering as part of an organised group and criminal conspiracyâ before being remanded….
c) Two five-year-old boys accused of raping a little girl…
d) There are many problems in the Catholic Church. Will Pope Leo sort them? The SSPX will appoint four new Bishops without his blessing on July 1st. The German Bishops are going, [have gone] all LGBT. There are ongoing banking troublesâŠ..
