Thursday [22 till close of play]

(1514) Not quite evening yet. (1728) Evening all … had not intended to open Christmas proceedings till Saturday but oh well. First “carol” further down. (2043) Full moon.

 

29. Shall follow developments

28. This is very much what we have been trying to say at our site here

… for such a long time. You now know the Fabian symbol of the wolf in sheep’s clothing, how the enemy presents itself in such a friendly, rational way, telling the diametric opposite of the truth in such a sincere, cogent way …

… just as we do right now, at this moment. And the natural tendency is to say the caller-outer might be the baddy all along … in this case Wolf, plus me for reposting him. And he’s getting stuck into the man in large letters below, who has blocked him.

And don’t forget … you might consider Wolf and me to present ourselves as “one of us”, one of you, but Matt, being so persuasive, as he’s been trained to be, has us down as dangerous far righters. A normie is going to have immense trouble distinguishing between the goodies and the baddies here, n’est-ce-pas? I mean … they considered Philby to be a “one of us” type. We’re about as far right as your grandmother’s cat.

So really, you have no choice, should you wish to sort this in your head, but to do the reading, as we say over and over and over. All right, here’s one bit of reading:


So who’s Wolf? Who is Basil the Great? Who are the Women’s Safety Initiative? Who is Rupert Lowe? Who’s Roobeedoo? Who’s Legiron? They and we are on that team which to a point includes Ben Habib, TR, the side which posts what we do, going right back into N.O. days. And we do not trust Farage, esp. after walking away from UKIP, selling out TBP and then doing to Rupert what they did.

And Matt Goodwin is one of the inner “Reform” circle. One really needs to know who’s who. For example, I sometimes repost Christine Easedale. One of us? Nope … she’s a Reform honcho. On many policy points, we’re the same but on key points, e.g. remigration, we’re on opposite sides of the fence.

MG is well aware who the true antiWoke, antiDEI are and he’s determined not to engage in a Q and A. Look all of us up on X, at our profiles. Look back over my blogging. In the US, we’d be called unforgiving MAGA. In Germany, maybe AfD. In my case, Martin S’s wife is Brittany, remember her? Being a mother at this time, less of the posting. Another co-conspirator with us is Julia M. Think you get the idea.

27. The west is in good hands

26. Bell ends?


25. The fly tipping problem


24. Ankle bracelet time?


23. Who needs elections anyway?

22. A conversation with Ole Mudgie

Mudgie had mentioned he did not like the Jona Lewie number Stop the Cavalry. Read on.


Even IYE was talking about some Cavalry Pastor earlier:

Thur Mat

 

Was scrolling past this, saw Carole Lombard, played a minute or two, seemed (a piece of) fun.

There’s something about 30s movies if the copy is crisp enough … tech is wonderful these days.

Review:

“On loan from her home studio of Paramount Pictures, Carole Lombard made this film with rising new star Pat O’Brien who next year would be signing with Warner Brothers. It’s the story of a streetwalker who falls for a lovable lunkhead of a taxi driver, but whose past keeps catching up with her.

Virtue could not have been made in two years once the Code was firmly in place. Prostitutes were barely seen on the big screen after that and definitely no stories were built around them as central characters.

Lombard and a group of her friends are given suspended sentences providing they leave the New York City limits. But the course of true love gets in the way when she meets O’Brien and almost gyps him out of a fare.

O’Brien somewhat dumbs it down in this part. He’s not the usual fast talking promoter in fact his grammar and diction are about two steps above Leo Gorcey. It was more the kind of role his boyhood chum Spencer Tracy was doing over at Fox Films at the time. Still he’s a good guy and comes through when it counts.

Humphrey Bogart’s third wife Mayo Methot plays Lombard’s best friend and Jack LaRue her no good boyfriend. Ward Bond is also on hand as O’Brien’s best friend in one of his early films. Bond if possible is an even bigger lovable lunkhead than O’Brien.

With a nice crisp script by Robert Riskin who wrote some of the best of Frank Capra’s films, Virtue is a real undiscovered treat for fans of both Lombard and O’Brien. Catch it by all means when it is next broadcast.”

Thursday [21]

(1256) Afternoon all, looking now for a filum. (1307)

 

IYE on Thur 4

This is a twofer.

“We need to look at this Calvary pastor”

HERE

Not the best delivery style but watch at 1.25 or 1.5 speed and it is bearable.

Follow on video coming next.

……

Follow on video of same pastor

‘Smart comfort toys for kids have QR codes and hidden chips – are they tracking children?”

HERE

Was CK on to something else going on? IDK

……

JH: Rationale … last YT was run expanded here so it could be watched uninterrupted. These two can be stopped and started. Going to add that Toodles and I were discussing it … both came to a similar conclusion on Mrs. However, today’s gives a different angle.

Thursday [16 to 20]

(1106) Elevenses, chaps and chapesses. (1129)

 

20. Are we not free? Or maybe Devo?


19. Let’s see

Screenshot only

18. Best kept apart


17. I’m of the 50.2%


16. Another Quora thing

Story is that the Toddler refused to join the group photo. Said she was scared of that boy. My first thought was butch troon, commenter said face was not part of any curtain design or wallpaper, my second thought was face added later? Lastly, another commenter said there’s no proof it was that that she was upset about. Hmmmmm.

Thursday [11 to 15]

(0906) Lashings of rain, streets awash, lovely day. (0925)

 

15. Zero sum problems again


It’s too simplistic … all for female, all for male, all against female. Thing is that females and globopsychomarxistfabian controlling half of them are the dregs, whereas noble females, e.g. female spaces, support for the raped girls … all that must be full steam ahead.

Too much zero sum going on … all or nothing.

14. Yet the clowns still clamour for total war


13. GCS


12. AKH

… on Somalia … a quote:

“These were sophisticated criminal enterprises that exploited Minnesota’s generous welfare state, deployed accusations of racism to deter scrutiny, and looted the public treasury until local prosecutors did the hard work to bring them down.”

https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/12/fraud-and-liberal-myths.html

The Russian republic I was in was Moose Limb but being part of Russia, they couldn’t do a lot wrong. However, they did let in a pack of Somalis for a holiday, right at the time when locals had paid ahead for their holidays. Nice. Locals had to stay home.

Not many weeks later, they had to be deported, the rapists after they took to the local women and girls. I understand the pushback from locals was severe. That was that. Forever.

11. Vox

Don’t Buy New Cars

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0522) Still dark here folks. (0559)

 

10. A bit more on CK


9. Well well well

One of the medium antiWoke has commented on the large pundit issue:


8. Two or three of much interest at TDS today


7. Infiltration


6. DAD at 1222

[What! No Steve today?]

a) EU Fraud Probe: A growing accountability crisis….

b) Three top EU figures formally charged for alleged corruption….

c) Macron’s, “Ministry of Truth”. Panic in the face of a country slipping out of his grasp? Macron intends to tighten his grip on public opinion and the press….

d) Honour Killings. The brutal murder of an 18-year-old girl in the Netherlands, allegedly at the hands of her own family members, must force an uncomfortable conversation about migration and integration….

e) BP abandon Teesside Hydrogen Plant. BP is preparing to shelve plans to build a major hydrogen project in Teesside in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband’s net zero plans.

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0048) Dropping off around 2200, it was not good to awaken before midnight … and yet rested. Just hoping you out there are ok. (0204)

 

5. Moosh corner


4. At some point, I’m going to have to address CK and related matters

Frankly, I’m up in the air about it, way too much is unsatisfactory … I watched that youtube, read MM, read other things on it. The only things I can nail down, esp. through those pro CK himself, were that he was shifting in his opinion, he was becoming far more proChristian, whereas till that point, with Ben Shapiro, it had been a vague Judaeo-Christian Conservatism … in other words, antiWoke. Bob Montgomery is a factor in this too, CK’s “co-founder”.

There are reports CK was calling for an audit of the whole organisation, which I’m thinking was more to the point, plus the letter agency factor. Even the makeup of the crowd in that enclosed area was interesting … hardly just college kids.

Another factor is that it follows the pattern of various shows, e.g. Perry Mason and the Notorious Nun, or The Killer Kiss. In both cases, a star performer or investigator was hit.

Then we get to Candace. I was looking at her latest … actually, I was reading comments, rather than watching as she drones on. Comments were alternating in tone, quite polarised … either she was despicable, dragging CK’s family into the mire … or she was right on. There were no inbetween comments … they were one or the other.

What seems spurious as a factor, but I do think it might be relevant, were those black leather trousers, skintight, which she was wearing. I’m just wondering, not being a woman, whether it may have been related to that time of the month. Looking at any possibility whatever here.

And then, to come back to the religious question … as far as I know, there is not just the one Talmud … the one which parallelled the deathcult exhortation to kill and maim any not “of the faith” was called the Babylonian Talmud of the ultraorthodox Stsinoiz. Add to that Revelation 3:9, add the Khazars and Ashkenazis … that brings in the mid European Black Nobility. It starts to get messy … the actual, real Jewish person is otherwise again.

Can I myself sort all that? Not in my mind, no. Then we get onto the different “Christian” denominations, equally mutually exclusive, even deadly towards one another. Then we get to Masonry. The Illumined. It gets even messier. Back to the wider “Jewish” field again, what of the Hoffs and Gateway Pundit? Which type of “Jewish” are they? Judaean?

Myself? Yes, I was infant baptised CofE, I grew up as a suburban kid, outer village, riding my bike, grazing my knee, then was “elevated” to a different kind of school in secondary and did not start mentioning verses as such until a decade ago now on the blog, after copious reading. If I say the St George’s cross is mine … well it was truer to say the white rose of Yorkshire or downunder … the state of Victoria.

3. Penseivat commented at Orphans on Dec 1st

… on the demand for a degree for something you’d done for donkey’s years, as if that would add more than inside courses on the job:

“Friends of my granddaughter, some whose parents were nurses, are reluctant to follow in their footsteps because of the necessity to have a nursing degree. My late wife was a nurse, spending 3 years in a teaching hospital for her ARM qualification, attended several course during her career, and eventually specialising in Cardiology. Then one day she was told she had to have a nursing degree to continue doing the job she had done for 15 years. The study was done in her own time, between hospital shifts, and family life, and when she was awarded her degree, was not given a pay rise or increment for this paper qualification, but the hospital management was gracious enough to allow her to continue doing what she had been doing. She never understood why this requirement was made, and it was never really explained.”

Rupert Lowe said it was better to go into a trade today but of course, there’s less chance of political indoctrination that way, plus the bureaucrats do not control you to the same extent.

2. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-big-name-pundits-and-on-nhs.html

From the url, you’ll gather there was some development with the first and then I quote Rupert on the NHS.

1. On Steve plus others of our long time peeps

Just noticed that our Steve, if I might call him that, last posted at NOWP at 2203 on Dec 2nd and at HQ at 1058 on Dec 1st. Though there’s no obligation whatever on any of our chaps and chapesses, the suddenness of it does make me think something might have happened … maybe an accident or illness, maybe an arrangement that could not be mentioned on the blog …

… or maybe a tech or censorship question. There’s a fourth possible reason and that is being displeased with something written by someone and/or my response. I do stress that it’s Christmastide and such things are likely to occur from here on in. We can only wait and hope for word.

Wednesday [21 till close of play]

(1612) Almost evening all.

 

23. Jim Chimirie on December 1st

Something shifted today. The Budget row stopped being a story about dishonesty and became something darker: a government moving to remove the one man who could expose it.

Rachel Reeves hasn’t simply misrepresented the public finances. She hasn’t simply engineered a false fiscal crisis. She is now clinging to office because the one man who could contradict her – the chairman of the OBR – has been shoved aside hours before he was due to give evidence.

That is not politics. That is the state reaching for the dimmer switch to keep the truth out of sight. Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny. He disappears from the witness table where he was meant to confirm, under oath and in public, that the Chancellor had the upgraded forecasts before she warned the country of a black hole that did not exist.

And he falls after days of pressure from ministers who suddenly lost their patience with the one body they had spent months claiming proved their credibility. A watchdog that tells the truth is useful to them. A watchdog that contradicts the script is disposable. This is the true scandal. Not the lie, but the purge.

A government that cooks its own numbers is untrustworthy. A government that removes the referee to protect a minister is dangerous. Reeves has not merely broken faith with the public – she has broken the independence of Britain’s fiscal institutions. The OBR was created to keep politicians honest. Today it has been reminded, in brutal terms, that honesty carries a price.

Starmer cannot wash his hands of this. His fingerprints are all over the weapon. He attacked the OBR for its timing. His ministers briefed against Hughes. His MPs questioned his position. Reeves withdrew her confidence just as the narrative turned against her. And then, as the walls closed in, the man at the centre of the row quietly exited the stage. Starmer held a press conference insisting there was “no misleading,” a line delivered with the weary certainty of a man who hopes repetition can replace truth.

It cannot. The public is not blind. They can see the choreography. A Prime Minister who stays silent while his Chancellor misleads the country is weak. A Prime Minister who allows the watchdog to be trampled to spare his Chancellor is complicit. This government now faces a crisis of legitimacy of its own making. It asked the country to trust it. Then it undermined the very institution designed to earn that trust.

This is not the behaviour of grown-ups. It is the behaviour of a government that fears scrutiny because it knows scrutiny will expose the lie.

We should be clear about what happened today. The head of the OBR resigned in the middle of the biggest fiscal scandal in years. He resigned on the eve of giving testimony that could have ended Reeves’s career. And he resigned under a cloud of ministerial pressure, pointed criticism, and barely disguised frustration from Number 10.

This government has not only misled the public – it has interfered with the mechanisms designed to correct that misconduct. A country can survive a dishonest Budget. It cannot survive a government that silences the people who catch it.

And that is where Britain now stands. If the ethics system fails to act, if Parliament shrugs, if the OBR is cowed into submission, then the lie becomes law and the truth becomes optional. Reeves may cling on. Starmer may brazen it out.

But a government that protects itself by toppling the watchdog is not a government with a future. It is a government already rotting from the inside.

“Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny.”

22. Deryl corner


21. Do you ever find yourself having a strange conversation?

Suggest you read bottom to top on this one … to a point.

Wed Mat

 

Precode has that certain something at times.

“MANSLAUGHTER is a highly engrossing early talkie melodrama with very early film performances of two of the great players from Hollywood’s golden era, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. Claudette Colbert stars as a spoiled heiress who believes there are two sets of laws, one for the rich and one for the poor. Young district attorney Fredric March believes quite the opposite – equal justice and punishment for everyone. They meet at a dinner party and romantic sparks fly and both are infatuated.

But trouble is around the corner. March learns Claudette has attempted to bribe a young cop after being caught speeding by dropping her diamond bracelet on the ground and driving away which leads to a scene between them and any romantic possibilities crushed. And then Colbert’s faithful maid Hilda Vaughn steals some of her jewels in a weak moment for her boyfriend and confesses.

Self-centered Claudette however can’t be bothered to remember the date of Vaughn’s trial which results in her receiving a sentence of up to 15 years. Horrified to learn of the results, Claudette zooms off to see what she can do belatedly but her speeding this time results in a fatality and her being charged for manslaughter – and with the prosecuting attorney set to be March! 

This type of melodrama was extremely popular in the early days of talkies – Norma Shearer won much acclaim for THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN and a Academy Award nomination for A FREE SOUL, Mary Pickford won an Oscar for COQUETTE. Although I’ve never seen DUGAN, I can’t help but feel Claudette Colbert’s sterling performance even at this very early stage in her career topped them all.

Her pampered socialite is a fully three dimensional character – selfish yes, but not an obnoxious, unfeeling person even when she is successful at getting things her way. She is matched by the dashing young March as the young man with ideals who cannot compromise his integrity even if it means prosecuting a woman he knows he is in love with, even as it tears at his heart.

Emma Dunn is fine in a rare moneyed role as Colbert’s loving and supportive aunt, Natalie Moorhead, generally cast as a menace in films, does well with her small part as one of Claudette’s best friends but the standout in the supporting cast is the wonderful Hilda Vaughn who latter-day audiences surely know best as Jean Harlow’s maid in DINNER AT EIGHT (1933).

Ms. Vaughn has a startlingly similar situation here as the put-upon maid on a spoiled socialite (with a diamond bracelet playing a key role in the proceedings again!!) but this role even gives her more to work with than DINNER and she has two wonderful little scenes in the prison when she and her former boss are finally on equal ground.

(There’s also a brief bit of unintentional humor for movie buffs with Louise Beavers’ bit part as one of the inmates, seeing the two stars of the later IMITATION OF LIFE (1934) in jail side by side makes one wonder if that pancake corporation was on the up and up LOL.) 

Claudette Colbert and Fredric March were the perfect co-stars for each other, it’s regrettable their only work together was so early in their careers and of their four films only DeMille’s SIGN OF THE CROSS is easily seen. It’s clear from MANSLAUGHTER that these were two stars who were wonderful from day one.”