(1111) Elevenses, best get the beef thingy made. (1132)
10. Moo corner
9. Vets policy
8. AI … ok but nice AI?
7. This was yesterday morning, early, and he and I were the only ones posting rebuttals
6. IYE corner
Today, Sir IYE has chosen NOWP 1394 to drop three or four items, plus I drop a housekeeping. If you can spare the time, please drop in over there … they’re quite revealing.
The title could mean anyone and anything … she refers to Dan McCafferty of Nazareth … to Free fans of the 70s, it could have meant Paul Rodgers, to opera fans, take your pick. But for me, it was her … herself.
In Russia, one day in class, I said to the girls that there was a dilemma I had. I did not mean that. I meant that my job, officially, was to get rid of their accents, make them English … but which English? There was a lesson in that. But my dilemma was that their own accents were very soft on the English language, they enhanced it rather than strangulated it. I adored their accents.
So what was I to do? Their own linguistics teachers could do the phonetics, so could I, but why double up? Better I went into the language itself rather than the accents, obviously correcting when necessary. In Inna’s case (below), she concluded: “Think I gotta focus a little on the voice and pass out on anything else.” In a class, I’d then have to explain phrasal verbs and “pass out”. That was my workplace for a decade, loved my work, natch.
Anyway, quick look at the tube of U recommendeds and there was Inna … well, no choice really, plus live Nazareth. Now I could do without his chest but never mind … she was what I was there for … Ukrainian living in Italy. One thing about eastern European gals plus Sicilian was they always came in close, were effusive … and those accents!
Think she’d like this one too:
As for me though, this is more my style but at the same time, yikes, I’m divided … I’ve two versions here … the one here is the live version of the band on Austrian TV and it’s very good, the zany lads and their antics … this for our girls watching.
However, the one I’m running below is Stacey bopping away to the album version … think our boys might prefer I did not pass out over this version:
What I really like about this version is she’s a real female and can never stop talking, explaining … song finishes around 5/8 of the way through, she thinks, it’s not enough, so she talks the remaining 3/8. Very nice, esp. as she did not do that in the middle of the song. She’s a most respectful reactor. Some of the guys were like that too, not many of each.
(0714) Morning all … still sunny but poisoned cloud billowing over. (0909)
5. Steve at 1393
4. Why I’m so late getting posts out
Part of it is correspondence, part gathering and redacting early … here’s the raw copy around 0700, before redacting:
Plus Rolf just emailed a piece for NOWP 1394.
3. DAD at 1393
a) Chartres Pilgrims: Nourished by Faith, Committed to Tradition.
“The largest pilgrimage in the West” has drawn a record number of faithful this year, proving that Christianity is not quite dead.
The 44th edition of the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté Pilgrimage, which takes place every year on the Feast of Pentecost, travelling from Paris to Chartres Cathedral….
b) Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason it is in trouble.
Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?….
c) Shocking case in France: Two minors in custody after 12-year-old found dead with towel around neck.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday morning, and another teenage girl turned herself in to the police shortly afterwards….
2. Blogging to me is what people say
… plus links they send. Yes, I write a fair bit, inflict it upon you, yes I do, but for me, the buzz is jumping down rabbit holes, e.g. Penseivat, Microdave, Toods:
… or Penseivat again:
Just about to see what DAD, Steve and Toods have brought … need another coffee. IYE maybe dropping by later.
(0532)(0615)
My morning so far, at 0532
Blogger Tom Paine, of my blog vintage the class of 2006, had The Last Ditch and I had N.O., as long time readers know. He and most of my friends and colleagues of the day were Libertarian, whereas I had a foot in that camp … Rousseau for example … but also in historical Christianity rather than just tub thumping bible bashing of fave verses to shore up positions.
One of the main feeder streams has come from the U.S. deep south and it’s rare to find a similar mind which wishes to explore what is, rather than be harangued by some theologian … you get the idea.
All right, I awoke around 0430 this Wednesday morning with zero idea what was coming, went to the mailbox and cleared that (post box, mail box, whatever), went to you tube front page (mine, not theirs, with all the recommendeds) and they had redone it (they periodically do) and the first words which came to mind were “utter schlock” … I was after shorts for the next few days but almost all were trashy Millennial, dire culture pap.
All right, back to Tom. He and I had lunch once in Chester and he observed … I’m not sure if critically, think it was … that I’m a social conservative, am I not? Plus I blog from a personal perspective? As if that means it’s not “just the facts, ma’am”.
My response is yes, why not, why not give context, the antecedents of an issue? And so our blogging continued, both, until for me, the analogy of the tavern at the point of the promontory, with the lighthouse and grounds, not just tavern but chapel too … it underpins Unherdables HQ, it’s a nice model to explain how I try to be at a crossroad of ideas … yet at the same time, reject recognisable evil, e.g. Wokery, bad symbolism (IYE and I are both on that), plus all the rest of it.
Trouble with that approach is it stands at a slight distance from all the devoted, specialised cultism, which is human reaction to various truths … the historian in me wants to know about how it all happened, why. Yes, I am Christian, western, British cultural pool, as many here are but I’ve also many friends outside of that and I come back to being (almost) a tavernmaster or chapelmeister at this crossroads. I did study the ancient Greek philosophers decades ago, the middling ones like Kant and Hegel … and so on.
One rich experience was getting the eastern Orthodox view of how it all happened, along with the Roman Catholic, as well as southern bible belt US and then, around 0528 my time, I saw Toodles’s email, which had one of her longs, a tour de force, to which I replied:
“You have hit on an important aspect and I’d love to take the text and make it a third part of a three part piece starting with this I just found:
He was pretty impressive, think he’s from either north or south Carolina but nevertheless “bible belt” and he brings together two worlds … the western and eastern, at Constantinople.
You know another I like is “the young Scot” but he’s more simplistic, being young.
Obviously dear old Arnold.
This Ryan I like as a part-historian as he cuts to facts and figures. I myself can supply details from the dark side, e.g. the Merovingian Franks and how the dark side finally split the church from both west and east. Similar to how Isr. was rejected from Above.”
All right. How on earth to approach all this with the blog readership we have here? Phew. There might be four or five who won’t guffaw and click away but that’s about it. Again, this is the “tavern model” again. I can imagine me being in the tavern, pulling pints, I go over to the chapel as I see a light over there … and suddenly, the two youtubes appear.
So I skim through, then think … er, have to get back to the tavern and here I am, chaps and chapesses, and DAD arrived at 0552 my time. I must get going. How to handle that mass of history in one hit? Especially as he gets straight down to to dates and events in a visual way … I need to give m’sel’ time today (and Toodles has just replied at 06:13).
I was once asked do I get bored? Chance would be a fine thing. Ok, Wednesday has started, folks, it’s fine out there, temperature moderate. Have a good one.
(1648) Evening, chaps and chapesses, was too hot to blog earlier.
16. On a hot day
15. Military veterans policies
14. IYE
First this for context (linked at 1393), then this (also linked there). Interesting names of diabolo’s little helpers. Interesting guests in the Day of Atonement dinner. (Island man had been convicted before this event so it is reasonable to assume they were okay with supping with a convicted offender.)
13. DAD at 1393
Salt. Good or bad for you? If bad, why do hospitals inject it into you?
12. Steve at 1393
a. Hearts of Oak: Rep. Keith Self – Launching the Sharia Free America Caucus in the House
b. British Lad Chases & Exposes Migrant Handovers in the English Channel
11. All right, this I promised Lord T
(1457) Politics after 1700, chaps and chapesses, too hot. (1457)
(1020) Morning all. (1041)
10. Moo corner
9. ASDA’s latest trick on customers
8. The Congo, Ebola and routes into Britain
… there used to be a thing called quarantine … was very popular at one time.
7. Lord T
6. The threat to our food
(0649) Morning all … sun, fetid air, light 8/8 cloud cover. (0830)
5. Canada
4. Germany
3. Steve corner
Given the overheated mood of our people right now – produces a slew of posts on X, including Elon..
|https://x.com/real_shirelass/status/2058272671645786396
|https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2058539807349838294
|https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2058563554161172843
|https://x.com/blaiklockBP/status/2058629980297232576
At 1392
JH: There were two in particular I did not signpost and won’t. One was the GWP and clickbait … I refuse to run some site’s clickbait here … it mentioned four names being announced, but does not give them. Clickbait. I’ll wait till some tweet announces them. The second was about a drone Iran shot down … headline mentioned “changes everything”, giving no idea how. Clickbait again.
The model Unherdables follows is to give all relevant points in the same two lines, openly … if readers wish to read on, the url is across the way. We can’t always do that but that’s our aim. Readers come here to see summaries from us (plural) and a link to the relevant url.
One big issue is masses of X account links all at once. Four expanding links in a row are fine within the comments thread … just click on them in turn and go to your X account. The problem comes if I post them without the bar | … they expand and involve long scrolling to get past the guff part, the embellishments by the Xer, to the vital part … which is NOT how HQ works … the whole point of HQ is to cut out the guff for readers so they don’t need to … not to give them even more guff to wade through..
How to resolve this redacting issue? Well, for readers without X accounts … obviously for me to go through those articles, choosing the key points … but that must be after all the other reading and redacting in the early morn. Better would be for readers to have an X account themselves and the reason is that usually, comments under the Xer’s article are more revealing.
The fallback position is that the urls stay hyper in our comments thread and it’s up to readers after that. It’s one I’m going to have to think through.
2. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-hell-breaks-loose-this-morning-on-x.html
H/T DAD
1. DAD at 1392
aa) In the sordid tale of the Murrells there are an awful lot of villains and only a few heroes worth mentioning. This affair is a failure of the SNP, of government, of the prosecution system and of the media and it should be a turning point in Scottish political culture.
a) Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI) and urged the faithful to “fast” from the technology in his long-awaited first encyclical, warning of “new forms of slavery” tied to its rise. (JH: Interesting one, requiring a response post)
b) Tram hits self-driving bus on first day of passenger service in Gothenburg….
c) There will be two Pride marches in Lyon in 2026: the local LGBT movement is fracturing… after the marches banned to white people, the front of the Pride reserved for racialized trans people, as well as the pro-Palestinian and pro-prostitution slogans.
d) Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?
(1713) Evening all. (1911) Resuming tomorrow morning, folks.
25. Report on The Ukraine
Over at UHC-WP.
24. Steve’s report this evening
One more rubber dinghy and we’re over the 1000 mark, counting from sunrise Friday last, when it started – fear not there’s several waiting to be picked up by our brave Border Force crews. Hot work in this weather. From the other side of the Channel some unexpected news.
Adding to what DAD reported this morning:
23. Given the overheated mood of our people right now
… the replacement, the way we’re ignored, the running down of infrastructure, the rapes and stabbings … here’s Reform joining LibLabConGreen, Fabians all, planning the same old, same old, with zero moral compass:
