“With the price of a pint now around £5 on average across the country, the pub is starting to feel more like a luxury that needs to be justified rather than a regular pastime. And be in no doubt, it’s not the publicans who are to blame. Like most other things that make Britain an increasingly challenging place to live in, this is on the people at the top, and our MPs in Westminster. More than happy to be snapped in pics pulling pints during election campaigns, when they arrive in the Palace of Westminster they’ve routinely pulled the rug out.
As TPA wonks have found, the average pub now pays £100,000 in annual taxes on alcoholic drinks alone. Ever wonder why a pint is so pricey? Well over 28 per cent of the cost is just VAT and alcohol duty, with similar percentages for cider, wine and spirits. Demonstrating just how painful alcohol duty is for the British pub, if the price of a pint had just risen in line with inflation since 1989 it would be £2 cheaper, saving the average punter £248 per year. Yet shockingly, it is rumoured that the chancellor is considering hiking booze taxes even further. “
Life in the garden has been crazy. A couple of weeks ago, while the weather was still reasonably good, I went out to survey the harvest. We had recently experienced a bit of a gale, so all the apples picked themselves and strayed all over the garden. Mainly under the tree in, and between, the raised beds.
Fallen apples … appropriate title for a Sunday
They will most likely go to making cider vinegar, although we’ve been having apple crumble, baked apple and apple sponge desserts just lately. And I’m preparing to make some curried parsnip and apple soup (very yummy).
A lot of our eating apples went to various local events to use for apple bobbing, and for toffee apples. I would have a go at making toffee apples but I’m not sure my teeth could handle it. I don’t want to pull out all my fillings. Besides, I’m trying to cut down on sugar.
Nasturtium
Meanwhile, the flowers are still flourishing. The nasturtiums either side of our steps have had a sudden new lease of life and are trailing like mad. They didn’t do that in the summer; they were weedy little things. And the wallflower next to the beans has flowered again.
Nasturtium again
We have tyres on the old patio out the back. My Beloved drilled holes round them into which to stick bamboo poles and filled the tyres with soil. So each tyre is its own little wigwam for the beans. Well, the wallflower decided it liked this (it turned up out of nowhere) and has rooted itself in a crack in the paving and we thought it was rather cheeky, so we left it there. It’s enjoying its life by all accounts!
Wallflowers
I went to investigate one of the tomato plants that had draped over the raised bed and was working its way across the lawn. I guess we forgot to give it a stake (we clearly thought it was a bush tomato when we put it in!) Anyway, I found a lot of tomatoes on it. Green ones. But we know we can do things with those (Toodles gave me ideas last year I think it was).
Tomatoes
Soon, there’ll be nothing left in the garden except twigs and decaying leaves. Except for the holly tree – it has berries, but I have to keep that a secret because the local ladies have wreath-making workshops and are always on the lookout for trees to denude.
“But Communism is not a nation, and does not love people. Everything, even its own most ardent supporters, can be burned on the altar of abstract principle. Informed that a general nuclear war would kill a third of humankind, Mao said good, then there would be no more classes.
And dictators, dressed in a little brief authority, ignore warnings.”
(0758) Greetings, chaps and chapesses … looks reasonable outside at this point, if cold.
5. Steve at 1211
Five People in Texas Become First Antifa Members to Get Terrorism Convictions in American History
Trump Announces He is Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota – Effective Immediately
Nigeria School Abduction – Christians Being Killed and Abducted by the Thousands (Boko Haram)
Putin Signals Support for Trump’s New Peace Deal, as Zelensky Is Pressured To Sign on by Thanksgiving
World Leaders Bail on G20 Summit in South Africa as WH Spox Karoline Leavitt Accuses President Ramaphosa of “Running his Mouth against the US President”
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On November 22, 2025
UK COVID Inquiry’s conclusions are as farcical as its “investigations”
Texas secures $41.5 million settlement from Pfizer and Tris Pharma for knowingly poisoning kids with an adulterated ADHD drug
Much more.
4. Lord T made a point about the picture below
“That picture of the internet is simply wrong. Cloudflare and AWS are not in the stack like that. If you move them further up the stack to the towers and put them there. You have to chose both of them to include in your Application. None of my sites nor sites I have set up went down when those went out.
People chose these to save themselves some hassle. Subcontracting the problems out saves money on a day by day basis but as you see when things go wrong it ends up as your problem and you lose lots of money. Simply stupid and it has been like this for a very long time. AWS and Cloudflare, and a few other recent issues are just some of the tools that IT have subcontracted out and you can expect more issues.as time goes on.”
3. DAD at 1211
a) The end of French [and EU] farmers? For the past few days, a video has been circulating on YouTube. In it, Pierre Guillaume Mercadal summarizes the content of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and representatives of agricultural unions. This meeting, obtained with great difficulty by farmers following the President’s recent inflammatory statements regarding the Mercosur trade agreement….
b) Baccarat (54): An 18-year-old girl was held captive and abused for three days by her Algerian father, and his brothers, for a relationship with “a Frenchman” while she was “promised to a cousin”….
c) Nantes – again. 52nd shooting recorded in 2025; two teenagers aged 15 and 17 injured….
d) Gender ideology is poised to dominate COP30, taking place from November 10 to 21 in Belém, Brazil, with the “Gender Action Plan,” a roadmap designed to guide climate policies by integrating gender considerations….
e) Cuncy-lès-Varzy (58): under the weakened vault of Saint-Martin, the interior restoration reveals 16th century paintings buried for centuries….
2. The Across the Ditch vlog
… turned out to be useful … you can follow in comments, plus in this post now:
Hamit Coskun, 51, was told last month that he had the right to offend, after a High Court judge quashed a previous conviction of a religiously aggravated public order offence. Coskun, who was born in Turkey, was convicted in June after shouting “f*** Islam” while holding the burning book aloft outside the Turkish consulate in London in February.
When his conviction was overturned last month at Southwark crown court it was deemed a “victory for free speech” by campaigners, who had feared the original decision paved the way to a de facto blasphemy law.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has appealed to the High Court, asking it to rule on whether the decision was reached correctly. If successful, the court could then overturn Coskun’s acquittal or order a fresh hearing. …
Stephen Evans, the Chief Executive of the National Secular Society, said: “This appeal marks a renewed assault on free expression by prosecutors. The CPS seems determined to establish a blasphemy law by the back door.
This whole thing shows the diabolical cunning of the brains behind Fabianism in equating and conflating all philosophies as equal and the same, when the reality is that some are redemptive and others are born out of hating humankind, wanting humans either destroyed or in abject misery. To make blanket laws defending evil and good equally, under some vague concept of “fairness and equality” is sophistry, it stems from malice aforethought.
That’s the first point. The second is different but follows on from there … if it can be established that one particular faith underpinning the west, within the context of that nation’s nature, culture and history, did lead to a fairly stable “shire” people lived in around the 50s/60s, in which even a child could walk in safety or sit on the railway embankment, waving to passing trains …
… and if it can be shown that its replacement by a deathcult leads only to what we have on the streets and in every walk of life, 2020 to 2025, then the third point is who or what is this deathcult? And that can be answered by pointing to the ruling class in the grip of, say, the Rothschilds and other nephilim of the kind, combined with the new deathcult invaders … plus we might throw China and the subcontinent in there as a third head of the monster.
And what of the redemptive religion? Well the best way to evaluate it is to observe the way it is treated by the anti-humans, masquerading as goodies. Look at the destruction of churches westwide, at the Christians in Armenia, Syria and in Nigeria and the Sudan, at Isabel Vaughan Spruce and street preachers being arrested all over the place, at the “gay cake” bakers, at the destruction of cultural artifacts … whilst the destructive cults have free rein. They are clearly hellbent on wiping out that redemptive faith, they’ve been doing it since Roman times.
This article quoted above is all about the freedom to criticise the deathcult … then let’s say “free speech” prevails after the appeals are exhausted … what then? Make no mistake … in allowing attacks on the deathcults, it also allows attacks on the redemptive faith and that’s something the deathcults can get behind in the interim, in order to wipe it out once and for all.
Now let’s look at the opposite result … the blasphemy law does come in … it gives the deathcults, inc. the State, free rein, plus it turns the redemptive faith back into the pointy-hatted, hierarchical, coercive, Torquemada cult, allied to the State and as we see in Canterbury, riddled today with irredemptive wokery … either way, the deathcults win.
The diabolical cleverness of the evil muvvers. Just going to end here with a screenshot of a fragment I saw:
Usual caveats apply … is that true? Is there some Talmudic text actually saying that? How widespread is it known? Or is it just Elon’s AI? I’m not well placed to say, being neither Jewish nor non-Jewish in a Revelation 3:9 sense. If it is widely accepted, then that makes them part of the deathcult of the west, n’est-ce-pas? Along with all other deathcult branches of devilry.
The names of five women recently murdered by immigrants were read out with a prayer at the @pinkladies_uk protest in Chelmsford today 💗🙏🏻🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/50fbfbdzKA
To Speaker Mike Johnson; If you wanna see how American Congress SHOULD REALLY BE LOOKING right now, why don’t you try expelling:
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick for stealing $5 million from FEMA like it was her personal ATM.
Jasmine Crockett for her racist idiocy that’s too dumb to hide and too loud to ignore.
Ilhan Omar for being a Jihadist, a spy, and a PROUD TRAITOR to america.
Eric Swalwell for putting his security clearance in bed with a Chinese spy.
LaMonica McIver for proving size DOES MATTER when you’re using it to assault ICE agents.
And as always, ADAM SCHIFF, for too many things to mention. Seven quick expulsions and poof—226-213 Republican majority.
And Trump’s MAGA agenda moves forward swiftly – like WE THE PEOPLE voted for it to. See Mike, cleaning house is easy when the trash bags itself.
23. I’m personally in two minds on this whole thing
This is by an Xer called Toneman:
“MTG has come in, served and will be retiring from Congress in January. Sounds like a good resume, doesn’t it? Well it’s not. You see there’s that spin and then there’s the underlying truth. MTG came in, learned the system and then went on to milk it dry for everything it was worth.
Let’s do a recap of MTG, shall we? MTG served our country honorably and parlayed that into a Congressional run. The exact way the American system is supposed to work. Reward those who served this great country by putting your faith and your vote into a person who was willing to put their life on the line for us. It’s all about honor. But honor is supposed to be forever, not only the time you wore the uniform.
MTGcame in, was a hard ass, always seemed to be fighting for what was right, most importantly fighting for our Commander in Chief. Was it all an act to be a part of Trump’s inner circle & use that to climb the food chain or did she always have other motives?
MTG left plenty of red flags as to where her loyalty lay. Her extra marital affairs, her allegiance to Kevin McCarthy where she didn’t even try to hide her affection for him. Was she also using him? MTG was a part of MAGA and she used that for personal gain. Her main purpose was never about serving the great people she took a vow for in this great country, her main purpose was to serve Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She latched onto MAGA looking to be catapulted to the top. What did Ms. I served honorably do while being elected? She did what every greedy RINO does. She served this country dishonorably and lined her pockets like every other corrupt Politician. She used the system just like many other RINOs. Insider trading. She came in with nothing and after 5 years is leaving with hundreds of millions of dollars which was illegally obtained and punishable by law.
MAGA was her cover and power was her goal. Only she wasn’t dealing with a braindead Joe Biden which during those years she made her fortune. She was dealing with a man who is always 3 steps ahead and knew exactly the scam MTG was. Trump kept her close. Always keep your enemies close. He didn’t give her a leash.
The minute she said she wanted to run for Senate, that was when Trump shot her and her political career dead. Message received by MTG. She tried running to every network to tell her version but once the dust was settled it was obvious, MTG was on her way out the door. Trump sent her a devastating message. Your poll numbers are in the toilet so the Senate is out. Then Trump hit her hard. BTW if you are thinking of keeping your seat, you will be primaried by someone I fully endorse and under no circumstances will you win.
That was it. The end of MTG. She won’t dare bad mouth him on her way out the door because he will have the IRS climb so far up her ass they will be able to see daylight. He will dissect every trade she ever made by using insider information. She should kiss the ground Trump walks on before her exit and pray he doesn’t release the dogs on her.
The MTG summary is quite simple. She came in honorably, she served our government dishonorably, she used the power of her office to enrich herself and she didn’t do a fucking thing for the great people of Georgia who she took an oath to help. MTG was using the Trump Train to catapult herself to the top and was found out by our great leader.
Once she was exposed, she acted like every Democrat, looking for a bailout by the rigged media only it wasn’t there for her. She even tried to kiss every liberal’s ass including the yentas from the View, CNN & MSNBC only to fall face first at Trump’s feet. Now her prestige is over, her term is over and her career is over.
Many Dems and RINOs before her tried to take on the boss and look what happened to them. Old Nancy was forced out, the Obama hand including Obama can’t sleep, McCarthy was thrown out, and who still stands tall? Donald J Trump. Never listen to the media. MAGA is stronger than ever.
My two cents.”
22. Everyone needs a Pink Lady
🚨NEW: The Pink Ladies Movement has gathered in Chelmsford for a planned protest
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Huckabee Faces Calls for Removal as Bannon and Posobiec Condemn His Meeting With Traitor Jonathan Pollard
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“Now here’s a fantastic hidden gem from the almighty B-movie emperor Roger Corman! Arguably even his finest directorial accomplishment of the 1950’s, unless of course you fancy laughably inept monster movies like “Attack of the Crab Monsters” or “Creature from the Haunted Sea”.
“Not of this Earth” is an exceptionally atmospheric and solidly scripted Sci-Fi tale, with remarkably strong acting performances and even a handful of visuals and sequences that are genuinely shocking considering the time it was made. The eerily charismatic Paul Birch depicts an atypical alien ambassador from the planet Davana, on an attempted mission to rescue the population that is slowing dying following the results of a devastating nuclear war.
He names himself Mr. Johnson and follows a 6-step program in order to fulfill his mission, which includes daily blood transfusions and selecting earthly specimens (like street bums and random Asian guys) to teleport across space through a closet door in his house. He hired the lovely Beverly Garland as a private nurse and also employs a lowlife thug as his servant/chauffeur. Johnson’s deadliest weapons are hidden behind a thick pair of sunglasses and near the climax he suddenly also controls some kind of flying and bloodsucking jellyfish!
Admittedly this all sounds like a bunch of campy nonsense, and it actually is, but it’s the most entertaining type of campy nonsense imaginable! Traditionally these good old-fashioned fifties Sci-Fi flicks don’t feature any (unnecessary) sequences or unnecessary sub plots, only straightforward action and relevant dialogs!
Paul Birch and Beverly Garland are terrific in the lead roles, but also the supportive cast deserves some praise. Notably Corman’s loyal buddy Dick Miller is memorable as a sly door-to-door salesman of vacuum cleaners.
Roger Corman also produced a sleazy 80’s update of his own gem in which contemporary porn star Traci Lords reprises the role of Beverly Garland. The plots are largely similar, but the 1988 version is more difficult to follow since the lead actress is parading around naked the entire time. Equally good fun, but go for the 50’s original for sheer Sci-Fi nostalgia.”
