Not a bad episode in the series, except for the thumbnail being wrong … not a very good start.
Not a bad episode in the series, except for the thumbnail being wrong … not a very good start.
(0937) A lot going on right now. (1058)
10. Moo corner

9. Ignore her interesting spelling
… this additive issue is clear evidence they’re attempting to kill us off, the deep state and political class in thrall to them.

8. The Ukrainian criminal mafia bleeding the west dry

7. Yes 👇🏻

6. Steve at 1388
JH: In my role as redactor and signposter, there is simply no way I can deeply explore all at the same time, esp. Steve’s, which are copious. This is the whole point of NOWP … I sketchily signpost here but the real reading and watching has to be yours over there, deciding what you will and won’t look into.
Meanwhile, I am seriously taking a set against “journo” pieces, having been involved in that field myself. For example, the clickbait “n4 will really amaze you” or the use of “Breaking!” or “Watch now!” presupposes that the facts cannot stand on their own … they have to be sensationalised with “Shocking!” and other such bilge.
Being a quite ornery or fractious or curmudgeonly type … if a poster tries to “lead” me or goad through manipulation, I just click out, scroll past. Remember, I am NOT referring to Steve, IYE, DAD and crew … I’m referring to more journalistic types embellishing, gilding the lily.
In fact, the more “boring” we are at Unherdables, the better … “juss the facts, ma’am” as Dragnet used to say. It’s dangerous … self-praise … nauseating too, but “our lot here”, imho, do a fine job getting a fair bit in front of our readers to explore. And the whole idea is we are not The Oracle, we are just starter points to chase up.
… even if I’m posting now so I can have brekky and explore Stevedrops for Fri 6.
The topic … good, yes. The treatment? Dear oh dear. That AI commercial, journo type trained, cultured voice with perfect cadence … offputting I’m afraid. However, there are subtitles.
(0530) Rolf’s item only scheduled last evening. Special day for the boy … you might visit him. (0721) Real start to the day, which means solid sleep … brill. Sorry me so late, chaps and chapesses. (0900)
5. Lee Rigby May 22nd

4. Despite still being Reform because it’s more respectable
… less “far right seeming” and Nige is such a cutie, (no?), therefore, a newly politicised middle-class lady will favour Reform rather than the more unpleasant sounding, the “less forgiving of child rape” Restore … despite all that, the play “Right” Reform just ain’t gonna do diddly squat. Restore are though, constituency by constituency, humourlessly … a series of pesky spanners in the works.

3. DAD at 1388
a) WATCH: Belgian police are AFRAID to confront illegal migrants heading to the UK. (JH: Always beware of trigger and clickbait journalism. I’ve been observing this account … it’s on the unsure list, the maximise traffic list. Develop a scepticism of anything they clearly want you to do, chaps and chapesses.)
b) It has been just over a month since the Rassemblement National (RN) took office for the first time in a whole host of town halls across France. The Left is crying foul and expressing concern at the prospect of sweeping cuts to funding for community organisations and culture….
c) The Italian and Albanian governments have reaffirmed their commitment to a bilateral agreement aimed at tackling illegal migration towards the European Union, amid tensions over its long-term future.
d) The UK Government has issued a new general trade licence allowing the import of diesel and jet fuel refined from Russian crude oil, even as it maintains a strict ban on new oil and gas exploration licences in the North Sea.
2. Lord Toby’s site is not always quotable
When they start this paywall rubbish, that’s MSM, M25 bubble, goodbye. But listed further down, unsung? That’s the article for me:
A secret Whitehall deal to keep a “temporary” migrant camp in Crowborough open until 2030 despite repeated assurances it would operate for no more than 12 months has been uncovered by council chiefs in East Sussex. The Mail has the story:
A camp housing 600 asylum seekers is set to remain open until 2030, despite repeated assurances from the Government that it would operate for no longer than 12 months.
Council chiefs say they have uncovered documents revealing a secret deal between two Government departments – understood to be the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office – to continue housing migrants at the former Army training camp in Crowborough, East Sussex.
1. Rolf Norfolk (Sackerson)
Our current Prime Minister is fond of using law as an expression of his autocratic power. A recent government press release states:
Eleven foreign far-right agitators intent on coming to the UK to spew their extremist views have been blocked from entering the country, as the Prime Minister takes action to protect British communities from vile hate.
Note the intemperate emotive language: “spew” and “vile.” This is not merely cool-headed administration but propaganda. It goes on in similar tone:
… violent thugs who spew hatred on our streets will face the full force of the law.
JH: Uh huh … you might like to head over there and say happy bday.
(1702) I’m back, think she was glad to be rid of me, she couldna get a word in edgeways. So, could have been worse. Evening all.
17. Keep a lid on it, chaps and chapesses
… keep the head clear.

16. Can’t get the staff these days

15. Steve and Joey Jones
14. Be warned

13. A twofer

12. IYE
a. Healthy ageing. JH: IYE’s post item is in comments here, plus at 1388:1 over there. Nowhere in our system can it be got to open … your call, chaps and chapesses.
b. “FOLLOW THE FOREIGN MONEY – Eric Trump and Don Trump Jr.
One of the shadiest follow the money deep dives I have put together…”
https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/follow-the-foreign-money-eric-trump
“ Yesterday the U.S. government permanently barred the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and their businesses. Today, the receipts on who has been paying them. $500 million from the UAE national security adviser. $2 billion through the Trump stablecoin. A $1 billion tower going up in Jeddah. And the U.S. Middle East envoy is the man whose son cofounded it all.…”
11. Yes, they must put the hard work in
… do the hard slogging. Meet and greet right up until the polling closes.
A Saint episode at 1100:
Supposedly the first in colour, not sure I know it, how good it was or was not. Hopefully see you this evening.
(0729) Moving to checking now and then mode for the day, preparations underway for today’s RL doings. (0729)
10. Moo corner

9. Punjabis and Sikhs in Canada

8. A charming one to encounter today

7. Just a reminder about Henry Novak


6. Steve on X
(0629) Cunning plan, chaps and chapesses, was to do 1 to 10 plus a short feature before 0800, then finish up for the day. The difference between last week’s medical doings and today’s is that this one today might get nasty later … maybe not. So, let’s just say unsettled. Hoping you’re holding up where you are … wall to wall poisoned cloud cover and light rain day. (0655)
5. The Alberta “unfairness”, illegitimacy of govt

4. Steve at 1387
3. The whole tacky Merkel affair

2. DAD at 1387
a) The French minister for education, Édouard Geffray, has made headlines following a sensational statement: putting an end to decades of laxity in this area, he has announced that spelling, grammar, and syntax will henceforth be fully taken into account when marking papers for the final-year exams, the Brevet and the Baccalaureate, taken by all young French people aged 15–18.
b) France has the European Union’s most overcrowded prisons. Foreign nationals account for about a quarter of inmates — around three times their share of the country’s population.
c) UK Eases Sanctions Regime on Russia, [but] allowing Jet Fuel Imports, while bannning domestic drilling.
d) Is Europe Ending Up as One Big No-Go Zone? Given the enormity of the problem, the authors of the report had to limit their focus to “seven EU countries where no-go zones are most reported….
e) Critics, led especially by the Patriots group in the European Parliament, dismissed it (the Merkel award) as “a distinction Brussels invented to decorate itself….”
(JH: There’s also a DAD brought “Sam” across at 1387:1.)
(0448)(0545)
That Scottish football game
Anyone who follows the football of these isles will already know all about this … perhaps anyone outside these isles might not.

There was a title game between Celtic and Hearts teams for the Premiership and, with 30 seconds of regular time left, Celtic were 3-1 up. Fairly straightforward victory, you’d think. Celtic fans invaded the pitch, bringing the game to a (temporary) stop. The refereee should have called a halt until the pitch was cleared and then …
… well, that’s the thing … what then? The ref called the game “ended”, not “abandoned”
A freelance Scot at Lord Toby’s site writes, this morning:
“Hearts have protested about the treatment of their team and staff and the “menacing atmosphere” they had to endure. They have also called for “the strongest possible action to protect player safety and the integrity of the Scottish game”.
The last part of that sentence may be a coded signal that they do not accept the result and are putting the SPFL on notice. The police are investigating the allegations of assault.”
Yes, dear reader, the Celtic crowd started menacing and assaulting the Hearts players on the pitch … during the game.
“In response, the SFPL has insisted the game was ended appropriately and have tweeted its congratulations to Celtic. The league has stressed that the referee said the game was ended, not abandoned, and it has not been recorded as such. A report will be submitted, but I’d be surprised if the SPFL deviates from this position now.”
And more to the point:
“Here is the problem: referees cannot simply end the game early. The exact wording of the law is “additional time may be added but not reduced”. If a referee is forced to curtail a match before time, for whatever reason (weather, floodlight failure, medical emergency, violence) the game has not been ended but abandoned.
Thus, Celtic vs Hearts was not ended naturally, but abandoned, unnaturally, due to a pitch invasion by home fans. According to SPFL rules, the consequence of that is a victory for the opposition, or a replay.”
Interestingly for me, last night I was watching that McEnroe incident when he defaulted at the Australian Open tennis for “code violations” (1990). At his fourth violation for bad manners, he was dismissed from the game. He had calculated that he had one violation left to go but the Tennis Federation had reduced it to three before this game and not “informed him”. That was it.
Back to the Hearts v Celtic thing … the SPFL had acted outside its own rules, rules which were there for a reason. To an English temperament, this was highly unfair, outrageous in fact, more FIFA than British, esp. English.
But this was Scotland, warrnt it? This was where a Moose Limb was shoved in as FM, where Sturgeon had plans that every Scottish child would have a State Mentor, far worse than in the former USSR. It’s ingrained bullying, as in English Public Schools of yore and fear … it doth rule.
Entrenched enforcement of the unfair.
For those outside this culture, a good idea can be had by watching Michael Palin’s school bully episode. With an edge of course, because this is Scotland in this case … a special kind of bullying. Not American military college “hazing”.
Yet another complication is that the worst rivalry in Scottish football is Celtic v Rangers, which is basically Micks versus proddy boys or Catholics v Protestants, which is also behind the Northern Irish “Troubles”, the bombings and shootings. History tells us that the Scots had quite an influence on Northern Ireland.
Throughout my upbringing, the Catholics were seen as rough and not given to non-violent methods … the Protestants had to counter that somehow. Much of Australia was, before the invasion, Irish Catholic, e.g. Ned Kelly. It was, in fact, behind England v Oz Test Matches and the Rodney Marsh style “sledging”, though I’m not sure he was Catholic.
Also, you may have heard of the violence of nuns on children (watch The Blues Bros).
So let’s just say there’s nothing unusual in any of this. Which does not make it right. Injustice in the past four decades or so has become entrenched … see Farage’s indifference to pack raped girls and Rupert taking up their case.
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