Sat Mat one

 

One episode now and one film later … this below is a high demand series, who knows how long we have it for?

No particular point in running a review on such a well known tale and version of it … which is just as well as IMDb have shut down access to reviews and other details without paying them or going through hoops.

Saturday [11 to 15]

(1045) Surprise TV episode coming up ready for elevenses. (1052)

 

15. End of choc as we know it?


14. Moo corner


13. Nick Shirley


12. More on Epsom

… including three of Steve’s in the mix in no particular order:


11. Epsom

Bentley Arnage

 

This post is more than just nostalgia … it’s a serious attempt to come to terms with what drivers are facing today. With the horrors of modern “compliant” vehicles, EVs, self-driving gimmicry etc. etc., many drivers are looking at c 2000-2010 as realistic cars to buy, get some years out of.

See what you think:

Some thoughts in comments there:

Saturday [6 to 10]

(0846) Still sunny … amazing. (0950)

 

10. Finding solutions

9. Moo corner


8. Ginge and Whinge at it again


7. What’s in a name?


6. Steve

Dominic McGregor:

“If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on ÂŁ50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.”

Gov Tate Reeves, Mississippi:

“As we say in Mississippi, “Bless Your Heart.” Or as you say in the UK, “As-Salamu Alaykum.” …”

Saturday [1 to 5]

(Friday 2315) (0804) Looking a glorioius day out there for an hour or two. Not 100% in health, hopefully nothing terminal, chores day plus house issues, plus a bit of blogging … slowly. (Took a long time to complete this morning 0844)

 

5. Steve at 1356

  • Trump Gives Savage Response to Reporter Over Iran’s Execution of Protesters, Including a Woman: “Tell That To The Pope”
  • Bullet Fragment From Charlie Kirk’s Autopsy Identified as .30 Caliber that Matches Rifle Used by Alleged Assassin Tyler Robinson (JH: Yeah yeah, the other one has bells on it.)
  • AfD Tops Polls at 27% While 79% of Germans Say Current Government Isn’t Working
  • Disposable Agents: How Kyiv’s ‘Bio-Drone’ Network Wages A Shadow War Inside Russia
  • A model for Europe? Switzerland moves to further protect country against foreign property owners and migration
  • Epsom Protesters Demand Descriptions of Gong-Rape Suspect … Epsom betrays the truth about Britain’s politicised police
  • UK COVID Inquiry Finds Mandatory Vaccine Policies Were Politically Driven
  • How five simple exercises can fortify your bones and preserve independence (JH: I looked through these … pretty good.)
  • Climate change and biotechnology agendas merge, as promoted by Associated Press
  • Much more.


4. Dominoes? One hopes.


3. DAD at 1356

a) French authorities have dismantled a large-scale network of sham marriages operating in the Val-de-Marne department and across the wider Île-de-France region….

b) As of April 1, 2026, 14.5% of inmates in French prisons are of African nationality, while they officially represent less than 4% of the resident population in France (Ministry of Justice / INSEE).

c) The effort to ‘AfD-proof’ Saxony-Anhalt is only the latest in a series of measures taken over recent months and years to weaken and marginalise the populists….

d) On April 15, Uruguayan President YamandĂș Orsi signed the implementing decree for the law authorizing euthanasia, dubbed “death with dignity.”…

e) Migrants aren’t just pretending to be gay to stay in the UK—they’re also falsely claiming to be victims of domestic abuse.

2. (0623) At Lord Toby’s site

… the opener today is this text below:

“In this special episode of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell brings together four different perspectives on the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Britain. Guy Dampier of the Prosperity Institute shows how Pakistani clan structures led to the grooming gangs; researcher Daniel Dieppe highlights how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets fell to Bangladeshi-Muslim electoral corruption; the Critic‘s Chris Bayliss looks at how state authorities responded to Birmingham’s banning of Israeli football fans; and journalist David Shipley and Laurie discuss what the Labour Government’s latest social cohesion plan shows about how it’s approaching multiculturalism’s pathologies.”

Now, being both totally disinterested, plus not interested in their internecine tribal warfare, the obvious question is who can nip it in the bud, from the City to the Sea? Which comes down to the council elections first, which should favour Reform in most cases, which means more of the same …

… or Restore, still a work in progress and many are still not “admitting it yet” except in conversation., certainly not in any official poll. That’s it for now.

|https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-topic-which-dare-not-speak-its-name.html
|https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/the-topic-which-dare-not-speak-its

1. Eleventh one down

11th person added to list of missing or dead govt. scientists and officials

Friday [21 till close of play]

(1636) Nearly evening.

 

27. In the past hour, at 2030

“Magyar PĂ©ter Announces Resignation from the European Parliament. “The position of the European Parliament and mandate of the Hungarian Parliament are incompatible.””

26. This is what IYE was referring to


25. It’s a thought


24. The word’s getting around


23. Dog loyalty

22. One of the longest I’ve seen AP write

Screenshot

21. Steve at 1356

Hearts of Oak: John Waters – Ireland’s Awakening: Fuel Protests, Government Crackdowns & the Real Cost of Replacement

Fri Mat too

 

Well, IMDb have turned out useless today, stopping anyone accessing cast, reviews etc. Uh huh. I’ve included something from Wiki below the film:

According to Kinematograph Weekly the film did well at the British box office in May 1940.[9]

The TV Guide online review called it “An odd little comic thriller – who, except perhaps Michael Powell, would cast 47-year-old Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) star Conrad Veidt as a light romantic hero?”[10]

Time Out wrote that “Less stylish than The Spy in Black, this espionage thriller is more fun, with its tongue-in-cheek plot revelling in Hitchcockian eccentricities”. Radio Times describes it as “A neat Second World War espionage thriller that depicts a London crawling with spies”.

Dennis Schwartz of Ozus’ World Movie Reviews had mixed feelings, giving it a grade of B−. “The brisk pace and its added touches of quaintness, made the film endearing inspite [sic] of the lack of any character study and the one-dimensional tone of the villains.” However, he wondered “mhow much better a more romantically inclined hero would have fared in his [Veidt’s] role.”[11]

Friday [16 to 20]

(1228) Afternoon all. (1320)

 

20. That colleen again

19. Moo corner


18. Crooks in Westminster and Whitehall


17. Estonia?


16. Excerpt from Rolf Norfolks post on PMQs

“Sir Keir claims the right to govern based on a freak electoral result but since then has repeatedly shown his contempt for democratic accountability, not least at PMQs. This week after another Starmer peroration on Tory past history Speaker Hoyle was driven to tell him “Prime Minister, it is Prime Minister’s questions. We have got to concentrate.”

Some may think that Sir Lindsay’s intervention was partly a response to recent public comment on his own seeming reluctance to hold the PM’s feet to the fire but even so the latter had angry words for Hoyle, stomping off and furiously clouting the Speaker’s chair on his way out.

I suspect that Starmer’s question-dodging and tetchiness are because like other fanatics he has delegated his identity to an ideology, in this case a simplistic political one. To question his belief, his mission, is to threaten his sense of himself and it triggers aggression.”

JH: So unprofessional, Circ Ear. Plus the other clown.

Friday [11 to 15]

(0858)

 

15. More on Hungary


14. Moo corner


13. How does Britain escape all this?


12. IYE corner

a. There used to be a sign in the staff room of my F-I-L’s shop – “ You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps!” Wonder if it also applies in the Trump admin?
“ Waffle House employees in Rome, Georgia, say they have never laid eyes on Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official who claims he was once teleported there

”

https://web.archive.org/web/20260407064818/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gregg-phillips-teleport-waffle-house-employees-b2951959.html

“ Despite the criticism, Phillips doubled down on his supernatural account this week, claiming that the incident occurred while he was “heavily medicated” and that the incident was a “miracle” performed by God.”

Uh huh.

b. Dddddd“ Operation Epstein Fury: From Clinton to Trump — Israel’s Blackmail of U.S. Presidents From Melania and Kushner to Adelson and Trump Jr.’s Israel-linked media machine, the buried Epstein Files reveal a wider system of war, blackmail, and control.”

|https://phantompain1984.substack.com/p/operation-epstein-fury-from-clinton

Excerpt:

“ Trump’s attacks on NATO make more sense once you see where Netanyahu’s war line is heading. Netanyahu has already started naming Erdoğan (Turkey’s president) as a problem and accusing him of accommodating “Iran’s terror regime and its proxies.” If Turkey is being prepared as the next confrontation after Iran, then NATO becomes a barrier to Israel, not a shield — because under Article 5, in a future direct conflict, America would be bound to stand with Turkey against Israel.
”

c. China, The Middle East & Russia On The World Stage of Peace”

“ Iran has $100 Billion in frozen assets. Scattered amongst a handful of countries, the US controls their release
 Originally frozen by Carter after the Shah was ousted by the Iranians and Muslim students took 66 Americans hostage in 1979. While the hostage crisis is often cited as proof of Iran’s terrorism, the reason for the hostage crisis is rarely discussed. 

The CIA created the crisis when they intervened in Iran’s sovereignty: On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, was overthrown in a coup d’état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax. The Motive? Oil. 
.”

|https://helenaglass.net/2026/04/15/china-the-middle-east-and-russia-on-the-world-stage-of-peace/

The more things change the more they stay the same.

d. I rest my case: Follow the Money – Scott Bessent
The Soros Protege. The Tax Dodge. The Buddy Bailout. The Epstein Blockade. A Deep Dive Into the 79th Secretary of the Treasury. It’s a doozy.“

https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/follow-the-money-scott-bessent

11. Paul Oosterhuis on X

Why were Australian Airforce drones and surveillance and targeting assets dispatched over the Geelong refinery around the time of the fire? If it turns out they were dispatched before the fire, this would indicate foreknowledge ( or complicity ) and would put paid to the “equipment failure” narrative. Something worth checking.

|https://youtu.be/_HiM4nC6cHM?si=hoEzi7CbCowM644n