I’m not sure Peter Cushing was the best Holmes and as for this Watson:
JH: I’d vote for Burke, Hardwicke and maybe the sadly alcoholic Marion-Crawford as the Watsons … I’d vote for Ronald Howard, Rathbone and possibly Brett as the Holmeses.
This is a Christmas episode, yes, but am not sure it will be around closer to Christmas.
(1236) Afternoon all, not đŻ, as mentioned, won’t go into detail, am under the hammer a bit but there are ways and means all the same. Expect disruptions in the day’s postings, hope not too many.
10. This is about the sum of it
9. This is nine days old …
… but I missed posting it I think, and it appears again. Who in their right mind thought trench warfare was the way to go with largely patriotic youth signing up and white feather women roaming around back home, handing them out?
Who in their right mind thought landing young troops on beaches before heavily defended Turkish positions was the way to go?
Answer is … no one in his right mind. In fact, only arrogant, up themselves, murderous psychos whose intention was to decimate the flower of youth, wipe it out, for control and their own personal safety reasons, those evil muvvers above. 2025 only serves to reinforce that perception, it does not debunk it in the least.
Donkeys? No … deliberate. Agenda. The ones who are going to take me writing this hardest are the very loyalists themselves, the armed forces personnel who must have wondered about the decisions taken but of course, as with the Light Brigade, or in Custer’s last stand … did … and therefore died. Heroic? The troops were.
The “leaders”? You decide. Don’t forget I’ve been in officers school myself, ended up a one pip lieutenant. I was not from some bohemian drug den … my bkgd was straight and orthodox, despite later student activism … but that came well after my military days. After I’d seen things.
I believe Vlad is looking after his troops, curbing the enthusiasm of the generals, proceeding from fortified positions afap, minimising his own forces’ casualties and keeping the warfare limited. Meanwhile, look at Graham, Rubio and other neocons. Saint Vlad? Angel? Not at all … he governs roughly, I was there, remember. But he’s in no hurry … he’s in his land, he’s going nowhere else … he’s absorbing Russian speaking areas back into the motherland.
Maybe it has shades of the USSR, depends on his ultimate goals. I’d expect Donny to do the same in America and maybe Rupert here, needs a man to step up in France. Germany? Dear oh dear. As for Von Leyen and all those? Need taking out.
8. Sometimes, the colloquially put tweet is better
(0838) Morning all. Health issue at this end (dental this time). Shall do as much as I can. (1033)
7. TDS today … Kings College, London
“Avid readers of the Daily Sceptic might recall my occasional accounts of surrealism and insanity I withstood at the hands of my former employers at Kingâs College London … every now and then, a former colleague sends me a freshly cultured sample from the still-smouldering wreckage of the Department of War Studies â or what one former colleague dubbed the Department of Woke Studies â and I experience a familiar fever: the chills of bureaucratic delirium, the sweats of astonishment, the shakes of uncontrollable laughter.
The latest specimen is a set of grading guidelines entitled âInclusive Assessment and Closing Awarding Gapsâ, a document so transcendentally absurd that it should be preserved in a museum of educational decline….”
6. To everything, there is a season
The near impossibility of getting the truth of any matter out, in order to be understood across the land, demands strategies which by definition must be flawed, due to conflicting agendas, differing paths to that point where everyone, on one day, is in one room and all are hearing the same message.
Then come, later, their wildly diverging interpretations of it. We see it in the Sherlock Holmes stories, that divergence of interpretation. How does an online pundit, sometimes tagged “alt”, approach the divergence and the human tendency to look down on the interpretation of others as not worthy of consideration, as it is not his?
Decades ago in my young teaching days, I brought in a system of evaluation of someone’s presentation in two parts … firstly, the other pupils could give their opinions, I then gave mine, the two were combined, though not equally. One girl asked if she could speak with me privately outside … outside she said that she rejected this trial system as the others, particularly her namesake friend, was not in any position to evaluate her work, plus all sorts of personal rivalries could come into it.
I said the idea was that other pupils would need to listen and think, instead of just awaiting their turn. She said yes, commendable (not that word actually but that’s what she meant) but if this mark was going into the record next to her name, and she had gone to all the trouble she had in preparing (she was the star pupil you’d have gathered by now), then … dot dot dot.
I said she was right in this. It was not going in the record … she relaxed but then doubled down and said she did not want the other Rebecca evaluating her work … there were reasons I was not aware of. I agreed with that. The recess bell went, I dropped the idea. My feeling now is thank goodness she was in the class, otherwise I could have caused a major issue.
Now another tale … Creedence Clearwater Revival. Most of the age which listened to that band realised just what a classy outfit it was. True, as with Mark Knopfler, the star was Jon Fogerty … writer, vocals, lead guitar.
And as Fogerty put to the test after the acrimonious end of the band had begun, when he demanded they each submitted a song, in answer to their claims of his highhandedness … and after he had humiliated them (in their eyes) by showing up their inabilities by thus demanding, I feel, now, that he was out of order. Yes, he was the star, as Susie was in the Bangles but Knopfler, Fogerty, Hoffs needed to understand that it wasn’t just them producing that sound … it was the mix of how each added to the sound … for example, the drums, bass, rhythm in I Put A Spell On You … which created the sound, not just Fogerty.
And that was reflected in the album Zombie after he went solo … as with so many stars, they do lose something in the mix, it was nowhere near as good, because it really did need all those elements combined in that particular mix. And I’m sure someone will criticise that I linked to a reaction video, not to the Woodstock performance alone, on the grounds that the audience reaction is just as much part of the mix … so yes, the star Rebecca in that classroom was right … but so was the interest shown by the other pupils … that could not be altogether ditched … often a fellow contributor brings something to the mix …
… and in the end, the right mix, the fertile ground, is where the truth can germinate, not killed off by rival angles … and yes, I am moving towards something unpopular to post … you know me by now.
Some time back, IYE I think … forgive my now shocking memory … dropped a Grifty on us about Andy (not ours here) and the first part was par for the course … since then, I’ve discussed with a few people the Airmiles-VG thing, agreeing that 17 is hardly paedo, esp. as she opted to do it … but I also saw that he, in this case, had not bothered to watch that Grifty episode because the VG thing was not the central matter. No, the central matter, with receipts in the second half, was all about the daughters, plus Fergie herself. Now unless you understand that we’re not speaking 17 here but something far darker … well … enough.
There’s a 14 year old in the States, last night our time, who vehemently spoke, on X, of anyone under 18 being a child, no matter what. Someone said she was too young to know … which was an interesting double-edged argument. This post is not specifically about this issue or Biden or even of that Mexican model who was videoed outside a building, screaming that “they” were “eating humans in there”. She was disappeared that night, never seen again. With what comes next below, I can well believe they were.
Which brings us to something Toodles said: “James, I will finish watching that link I sent you. Do you know I hear people discussing things you and IYE and his former nom de plume were discussing years ago ⌠you had that video about it. I could not get a soul to watch it when you had NO.”
Very true. But times change … I replied: “Yes, I’m discussing it on the blog tomorrow. Everything has its time, Toods. Those who see too far ahead must always wait for others to catch up … in their time, can’t be pushed. Cognitive development stages as they used to teach us.”
Maybe it’s changed circumstances in the world which suddenly enable those with eyes to see. Of course, the hardwired still don’t have eyes. Also, in my long book, at the end, the angel character was asked why she did not make people see. “To be no better than the other side?” replied the angel.
In that chapter, I had the angel say that time is not linear there (in her sphere) … it’s a matter of an event only occurring once all the elements (in the mix) are present, neither before nor ever again.
One of those elements is the presence of a metaphysical sphere, of which she is/was part and not only … that there is an ancient war going on right now, with one side mocking: “What utter balderdash, what bollox. Sky fairies?” And the other side replying: “Well of course you’d push that … anything to dismiss it, so that the common people can never see it. Trillions of dollars expended to buy enough people, over sufficient generations, to create the illusion thst there is no such thing. Despite evidence all around, even symbolism.”
In a similar way, there is no way to show the hardwired wokerati, who were got at early in life, that there’s an alternative, more logical and likely reality, which unfortunately involves a sky fairy and his earthly manifestation two millennia ago. They can’t see it, but in 1820, they could very easily have seen it. Why not today?
Now to this lady presenting the talk. My first feeling was woke feminazi, psychologist in academia … the hair, the look … but there was something in her voice which kept me watching. At least I felt she needed a fair hearing, if we are to get close to the essence about this political world, combined with the sum total of all the things we’re presenting, all of us, at the old NO, plus the current Unherdables.
Just a quick note … if you are not in a position to be au fait with both biblical plus classical learning at a somewhat deep level, then we’re not even on the same page yet … let’s see what near future events have in store … and just who the baddies might be.
(0240) Awoke too early, too cold to be up, even with heater on, shall post item 1 then try for a second sleep till maybe 0730, optimistically. So this same post will go on, over a few hours. Note at 0745: one more sub-item to go in this post. Done. (0801)
5. Keep your eye on this lady
Seems to lil ole me that conservative forces led by Jenrick did not cut it … Tory is now too tainted as a brand to win an election, Reform is making the running, except for the egregious disciple of Yusuf, plus Tice at the top. “Sarah” as a brand seems the only way to the movers and shakers to appease us, the totally p-ed off section of the nation, plus redeeming Reform to those in it for “pragmatic reasons”, plus appeasing the DEI clowns.
Note … it seems that way to the movers and shakers. What about to lil ole me? Well, were Yusuf and disciples be expunged, if Sarah invited Rupert in … it would be the end of the war. I’d certainly vote for those two, for “pragmatic” Sarah and ideologically aligned Rupert, plus so many Reform and Advance people, even TRites, combined.
However, please see Thurs 6, a most difficult post, based around some you tube videos.
4. Steve at 1208
3. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-dark-lord-and-lady-of-orphans.html
2. DAD at 1208
a) Macron’s legacy is toast. What will remain of Emmanuel Macron’s two five-year terms? Not much good…. To save the Prime Minister’s job (or rather, to buy himself a few weeks, since history repeats itself, and it’s hard to see how SĂŠbastien Lecornu could escape the fate of his predecessors), Macron’s government agreed to bury one of the few reforms it could claim to have achieved: the pension reform….
b) In Rennes, in the BrĂŠquigny district, a kindergarten teacher at the ClĂ´teaux school has been on sick leave since an altercation on October 10th with parents who threatened him with death. According to reports, these parents refused to allow their daughter to be in a class taught by a male teacher….
c) The marriage between a 20-year-old woman and a 36-year-old Algerian man residing illegally in France was prevented. This followed doubts raised by civil registry officials who questioned the couple before the wedding ceremony, and then an investigation launched by the Valence public prosecutorâs office….
d) Texas: Greg Abbott classifies CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and the Muslim Brotherhood as âterroristâ organizations.
1. Russia
Don’t trust the MSM, from FT to Politico but this is what we have so far:
From the Tucker-Putin interview:
(1633) Greetings, good evening and welcome to downtown Burbank … no … hang on … welcome to freezing Britland … enjoy the evening as it unfolds, folks.
16. This morning
15. Pipe bomb
14. Steve at 1207 and war room
JH: Great name, that … Megan Bash-am.
13. The audio in this youtube is pretty bad
… but the topic needs to be looked at. IYE:
Yes, it’s certainly a factor but I’m going to dig into JH’s own hitchings at various times, including two going “spousy”. There was one Jewish, one Muslim, one Serbian, one Russian, three Anglo-Saxon … question is why? There may have been ulterior on some of their parts, with me it was just falling for the honeys, plus I was there, she was there in each case. The one I really chased was one of the Anglos.
So what’s it all prove? Not sure. Is it relevant to the power couples in the video? Ahh … no.
12. Almost all the criticisms of the invasion
… have been two groups, each shunning the other, some sort of zero sum game where it has to be all one way or nothing. Thus, Mark Collett and Laura Towler were all in against Sikap and flatly and vehemently rejected TR’s constant position about it being the deathcult itself, with them calling TR a Tsinoiz shill.
Neither could take a more combined position that the cult is far more influential on certain cultures, ethnicities and even demographics such as wokeleft women and beta males. Or to put it a different way … barely educated, less civilised types. To my mind, it’s a bit of all of those.
As you’d expect, a Christian perspective would be less nationalistic and more Abrahamic clash. Steve:
11. Heatwave here
“This is a very tough-to-find classic studio horror film from the golden age of horror films. Above all, it deserves to be seen by more fans of the films of that era. While it is very obvious from the beginning as to who the killer is (fans of this type of film will know based on formula), the film is consistently entertaining and very well-directed. Unlike many slow and stagy productions from the early 30s, this one is very fluid and Roy William Neill, who would later direct many of the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, has an excellent grasp on how to effectively move his camera. It is refreshingly unpretentious and almost sickly stylish at times and not stagy as a Monogram and Mascot feature almost inherently at some level must be. It is Grand Guignol fun with a stylish Art-Deco apartment where eight guests are trapped by the titular “ninth guest”, a voice from the radio that commands their ill-fated party. It is reminiscent of Ulmer’s ‘The Black Cat’ from the same year, in how it uses a modern design to decorate its’ house of horror. The cast is very good and includes Donald Cook, who next year made a fine Ellery Queen and Edwin Maxwell and Samuel S. Hinds lend their usual solid performances for this type of film. It was made by Colombia Pictures.”
JH: Remember, chaps and chapesses … this was 1934.
(1234) Afternoon all. (1352)
15. Watching your country signed away
14. Murderous bstds
13. Rupert plus Sarah?
12. When communism is marketed as capitalism
11. Take a topic such as vaxxes
Whenever something goes up, the response can be from anywhere … from Adelaide, Oz, from North Yorks, New York, Athens, Alberta, Michigan … or even 20 miles away, as with Pippi in Liverpool. It’s very difficult for the New Censors to cover every single source of truth in the west at all times.
(0916)(1007)
10. Another curious one for us watching from a distance
Eric’s one of the regular MAGAs, usually pretty calm and accurate, as far as we radicals can be … radical meaning back to the roots, not destructive rioters. However, this young lady below is wild, I’ve seen some of her stunts, plus she gets in to see key people, a bit like Laura Loomer or Anna Paulina.
I for one have not the slightest issue with young ladies getting preferential welcomes, provided they’re politically sound, even Christian, plus they get some results.
I do understand you might point out that Abbott had already had the hard word put on him from Mar a Lago, a little matter of the way the wind was blowing for Texas … but it still did not hurt that Valentina was the one right up next to Abbott, who’d like a lady as much as any of us boys … Donny uses them as soft bludgeoners so to speak … all for it … use the weaponry you have.
Plus she’s such a good DEI look … Latina, almost rabidly anti-deathcult, going for congress.
9. Reported about 0730 this morning
8. The infanticide by young women and girls today
7. This one takes some sifting through
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1990822740048113705?s=20
Won’t open … here’s a sshot:
6. Never here two tier and Net Zero
Another of these flawed youtubes … the info itself is đŻ, which is why it’s being posted, the background music drowning out the narrative is tolerable this time … so what’s the issue? The voice again. I hope this is not a developing intolerance of yankee accents, as against southern.
Just done some exploring. The History Guy with the bowtie is Illinois. Grady, the engineering chap with 500 million viewers is confusing. He’s not a Texan in a south-western drawl way and yet he is Texan born and raised. Then I found out it was Amarillo, the northern panhandle, between Albuquerque and Oklahoma City. Knew it had to be northern or mid-west.