Latest figures from the ONS show GDP grew by just 0.1% in July to September, slower than economists’ expected 0.2%.That’s down from the previous quarter of 0.3%. And the worst performance in nearly two years… GDP fell by 0.1% in September. Grim reading for Reeves…
UPDATE: Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride said:… “Today’s ONS figures show the economy shrank in the latest month, under a Prime Minister and Chancellor who are in office but not in power.”
8. Downunder
7. Protocols which kill
Another brave nurse speaks out in the US “ patients didn’t die of Covid 19 in hospital, it was the protocols we were using that killed them”. It was the same in the UK. #Midazolamhttps://t.co/9JSdZ7N6hZ
There’s an argument I’m going to try to put, despite choruses of “what utter bollox” … and it’s this:
It’s not a great plan to just post endless pop and folk nostalgia, as for every song I posted, readers would either summarily dismiss “that pop rubbish” or else would be into it, but quite different songs to those I’d choose, from eras I’m not into.
For example, if some of us say we like “jazz”, then I’d include THIS as jazz … but jazz, to others, might be some 50s Felonious Monk or some saxophonist making late evening slinky, squeaking noises from his instrument in a smoky piano bar … hence just trad for me please.
However, should certain songs be intrinsic to the history of the era, then I’d maybe play two, max three in a post here to illustrate the point being argued.
And one thing becoming increasingly apparent to lil ole me is that speaking of “the 50s” or “the 60s” is a misnomer or mis-datum or whatever. Post-war, there’s more of a case, imho, that decades should be called 55 to 65, 65 to 75, 75 to 85 etc. … more awkward, yes, but more accurate.
I’d call 45 to 55 as coming out of the big band, orchestral era, then using sax and keyboards to a greater extent in the 55 to 65 era, give or take, then taking a turn downwards into screeching, strident, showoff guitars (e.g. metal) in the 65 to 75 era, pre-punk … nastier era.
And thus, I’m going to commit heresy and say I don’t like how the Beatles and Stones ruined pop music. This was how it was in 55 to 65 (hear the intro by the artist):
I’m by no means saying it’s “great” music … it’s danceable, which was its purpose, sing-able … it was happy music, Friday or Saturday night music, not clever nor complicated like Pink Floyd or ELP, super serious about selves … it was fun, that was all, for relatively innocent kids.
This illustrates the point even better:
Going to finish up this first post of two (the second and final being about Louie Louie sometime later) … finish with the B side to that song just now … their song about “Little Donna” and before I play it, please note:
To my mind, the Beatles stink in their attitudes … their song was 1976, the Rivieras in 1964. And another thing … dancing should be joined together, one male, one female, occasionally breaking to show off at each other for a couple of bars.
How a German domestic spy agency classified a random man as a “potential right-wing extremist” for no reason and nearly ruined his life
German Banks Cut Ties with the Sovereigntist AfD
Much, much more.
2. A word about other European languages
Yes, I’m well aware of 1788, and of Trafalgar, and of WWs 1 and 2, and of Crimea, and of Crecy etc. And I want none of the Fabian communist EU where the power positions are unelected and even if they were, the stoopid Continental peoples, like ours, would vote a wolf in to look after the sheep.
At the same time, it does help to be able to at least gain meaning from Euro text such as that above. It’s not brainpower, it’s just familiarity with Latin, patterns.
For example, “los españoles en Barcelona ya son minoría” is fairly obvious, I’d have thought, in the context of our invasion woes across the west. I don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese beyond a few words and yet the overall thrust of that post is not all that difficult to understand in visual form.
1. DAD at 1201
a) The far left, again, that old friend of free speech…[Sarc] This Thursday, November 13, Jean-Frédéric POISSON, president of VIA [CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRATIC PARTY], was scheduled to travel…..
b) This is a real graphic published by France Info today. Doesn’t anything strike you as odd? Take a closer look…..
c) The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) announced on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, that it is “monitoring” the investigation opened after an explosive device…..
d) Dunkirk (59): A one-kilometre wall erected to separate the migrant camp from the railway line, a symbol of a locked-down coastline. In Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk…..
And discussed it with Toodles. Well today, I discussed it with MMutR and the different views were … interesting. Assuming we were in an acceptable age bracket, whom would we go up to to talk to? Previously I thought the white shirt dancer in the staged thing on the bridge, start and end, plus red track trousers but she might be a bit iffy, red track trousers … switching my attention to the female professional dancer for a cup of coffee.
10. What percentage are O’Brien listeners?
9. Redaction
8. Lenin/Stalin … take out the farmers
7. Steve at 1201
Bannon Corrects Jensen Huang: The American Dream Doesn’t Go Through China. Hell, The Chinese Dream For Lao Baixing Doesn’t Go Through China
Natalie Winters: US Tax Dollars Funded Chinese Lab Researching How To Dominate Rare Earth Trade
Natalie Winters: These People Know That They’re Running Cover For A Fraudulent Election
Natalie Winters On Joe Rogan’s Claim On How Close We Are To Civil War: “I Think It’s More Of A Communist Takeover Than It Is A Civil War”
Not quite sure of my timings this morning, so best post this early … there’s a second for later if need be … quite liked seeing Shirley Eaton again but just shy of two years later, she would get her comeuppance elsewhere, involving gold paint.
(0905) Time is tightening here folks, as I have a certain amount of housework before my visitor … this might be the last before late afternoon, maybe a couple more. (0926)
The essential problem with all of these fine people below
Rupert (similar in parlmt):
The problem is not in what they say, all are probably correct. The problem is that all we can ever do, given our personal circumstances, plus the way we drop into the stoic “mustn’t grumble” we’ve been brought up to do … ensures NOTHING is done …
… and those evil muvvers, in vicious alliance, who are combining to do this to us, are grinning at Suzanne Evans and Co … who are complaining bitterly …
… and that’s it.
Until the next Sep 13th type march. Which completely ignores that we are going to first starve and then be hit by the third world army waiting in every town and hamlet in the land. The obvious question is … even if all the wokeleft and normies, all of us too, finally woke up to the extant danger (the raped and murdered girls know exactly how it is) … what can actually be done?
Can we suddenly lay our hands on sufficient firepower and even if we could … the wokerati, plus normies, would call such a thought racist or something. And are we trained as soldiers once they strike? To keep pleading with govt is followed with angrily pleading … these bstds are on an agenda, are they not? As if it makes the slightest difference to them, the pleading … they’re “the elite”, or so the real elite tells the non-comps.
(0641) Morning all, light coming up out there, this afternoon is going to be busy, visitor, so most blogging will be until around 11 and after 4. (0712)
5. Feel the decay in Britain
4. Steve at 1200
Kurds Stunned as Former al-Qaeda Commander al-Julani Hosted at the White House
Trump Administration Ends 20 Years of ‘Misinformation’ — HHS Lifts Misleading Black Box Warnings on Hormone Replacement Therapy
USS Gerald R. Ford and Strike Group Arrive to the Caribbean, as Venezuela’s Maduro Makes a Desperate Plea for Latin American Nations To ‘Unite for Peace’
United Kingdom Halts Intelligence Sharing With America Regarding Narco-Terrorist Drug Boats
European Parliament Taken to Court for Blocking Vaccine Inquiry
Trump makes moves to help Orban defend Hungary from EU’s financial blackmail
Much more.
JH: Shall check out this new Focal Points publication asap … difficult day today here. Initial look … McCullough Foundation and something called MPH … have not worked out what that is yet. Shall explore.
3. This is that woman up to her old tricks again
It’s on Quora, so iffy for a start, it’s Princess Anne on Sparkle:
Princess Anne described this press-release from California as nonsense, and pure wishful thinking: “The visit to see his father shows there is a thawing in their relationship which will lead to bringing King Charles and Prince Harry together at Royal events in a public show of unity.”
It was from a piece by a Benjamin Smallbrook, Truth or Conspiracy? Quora is not completely Reddit left … it’s more the old Readers Digest, for both sexes, for normies whose main source is the MSM, who watch the tele in the evening.
2. DAD at 1200
Reflections on November 11th in France.
I have done a little maths about the Memorial in my village. There are 43 names recorded on the Memorial of those who died during WW1. Several families lost two, one family lost……
It is not surprising that 11/11/1918 is so very important in France.
a) Puy du Fou and Bleuet de France honor the memory of those who died for France……
b) …but, as usual, The Left disgrace themselves. 11th Novembre à Lyon…..
One thing I’ve learnt in doing this punditry thing is that if you don’t record or bookmark at the time, it’s usually lost forever. If we see something, we run it there and then, even in the middle of the night.
And here is,
Georgia Secretary of State, Rat Raffensperger in the morning hours of Nov 4th 2020.
CONFIRMING TRUMP WON THE STATE OF GEORGIA just hours before the United States government was overthrown.
Two I was exploring at the same time were why Candace Owens is being so heavily attacked, to the point she put up an Xpost showing the datestamps of assertions she was making … that one later if it comes up again … and the other is just why Natalie Winters dropped off the radar so swiftly. One moment Steve is posting and I’m running everything Natalie … then almost nothing.
This from Right Angle News:
There’s some supposed victim of Epstein who says there’s footage of DJT grabbing (cough) but no evidence is shown … Demonrats are running with that one. More if it surfaces.
Some other topics this a.m.
Someone called Lattina Brown:
Our Steve is fairly pro DJT and so is Darl here, a Christian from Massachusetts, close to me but seemingly confused by my DJT output of late … fine people, both:
Oh dear, wonder if Darl and I are underage … how exciting.
Obviously Russian or other eastern European source, that one.
Right, back to bed for some sleep if possible for a few hours.
