(1020) Morning all. (1041)
10. Moo corner
9. ASDA’s latest trick on customers
8. The Congo, Ebola and routes into Britain
… there used to be a thing called quarantine … was very popular at one time.
7. Lord T
6. The threat to our food
(0649) Morning all … sun, fetid air, light 8/8 cloud cover. (0830)
5. Canada
4. Germany
3. Steve corner
Given the overheated mood of our people right now – produces a slew of posts on X, including Elon..
|https://x.com/real_shirelass/status/2058272671645786396
|https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2058539807349838294
|https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2058563554161172843
|https://x.com/blaiklockBP/status/2058629980297232576
At 1392
JH: There were two in particular I did not signpost and won’t. One was the GWP and clickbait … I refuse to run some site’s clickbait here … it mentioned four names being announced, but does not give them. Clickbait. I’ll wait till some tweet announces them. The second was about a drone Iran shot down … headline mentioned “changes everything”, giving no idea how. Clickbait again.
The model Unherdables follows is to give all relevant points in the same two lines, openly … if readers wish to read on, the url is across the way. We can’t always do that but that’s our aim. Readers come here to see summaries from us (plural) and a link to the relevant url.
One big issue is masses of X account links all at once. Four expanding links in a row are fine within the comments thread … just click on them in turn and go to your X account. The problem comes if I post them without the bar | … they expand and involve long scrolling to get past the guff part, the embellishments by the Xer, to the vital part … which is NOT how HQ works … the whole point of HQ is to cut out the guff for readers so they don’t need to … not to give them even more guff to wade through..
How to resolve this redacting issue? Well, for readers without X accounts … obviously for me to go through those articles, choosing the key points … but that must be after all the other reading and redacting in the early morn. Better would be for readers to have an X account themselves and the reason is that usually, comments under the Xer’s article are more revealing.
The fallback position is that the urls stay hyper in our comments thread and it’s up to readers after that. It’s one I’m going to have to think through.
2. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-hell-breaks-loose-this-morning-on-x.html
H/T DAD
1. DAD at 1392
aa) In the sordid tale of the Murrells there are an awful lot of villains and only a few heroes worth mentioning. This affair is a failure of the SNP, of government, of the prosecution system and of the media and it should be a turning point in Scottish political culture.
a) Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI) and urged the faithful to “fast” from the technology in his long-awaited first encyclical, warning of “new forms of slavery” tied to its rise. (JH: Interesting one, requiring a response post)
b) Tram hits self-driving bus on first day of passenger service in Gothenburg….
c) There will be two Pride marches in Lyon in 2026: the local LGBT movement is fracturing… after the marches banned to white people, the front of the Pride reserved for racialized trans people, as well as the pro-Palestinian and pro-prostitution slogans.
d) Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?
(1713) Evening all. (1911) Resuming tomorrow morning, folks.
25. Report on The Ukraine
Over at UHC-WP.
24. Steve’s report this evening
One more rubber dinghy and we’re over the 1000 mark, counting from sunrise Friday last, when it started – fear not there’s several waiting to be picked up by our brave Border Force crews. Hot work in this weather. From the other side of the Channel some unexpected news.
Adding to what DAD reported this morning:
23. Given the overheated mood of our people right now
… the replacement, the way we’re ignored, the running down of infrastructure, the rapes and stabbings … here’s Reform joining LibLabConGreen, Fabians all, planning the same old, same old, with zero moral compass:
(1642)
A warning from Roob:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles.
It be Towel Day as well!
(1219)(1334)
Just dropped an X over there:
“I’m writing a post on Restore, Reform and the English class system. It will be at blog HQ, not here, I’ll link … just don’t think it will be productive here. No shift in position, just observation. So that’s me out for an hour. Enjoy the last half Memorial and Bank Holiday.”
Antecedents
I was state primary/elementary educated, LEA, not grammar, father a builder/painter/electrician, mother a maternity nurse. My level of education is partly down to excellent teachers of the old type in primary, then started my public school education which is why I write and spell the way I do.
Thinking of analogies, Casino Royale’s James Bond, being mocked on the train by Vesper, is not far away. Some other people who might have a few things to say on’t might include DH Lawrence and Hemmingway. My education did open doors but the real recruiters passed … I met them, socially, but there was something a bit insubordinate, wild, liable to take unexpected courses … not even I knew what I was going to do beyond a medium term plan.
In some ways natural conservative party, I’m also natural old labour, hence my circle being upper middle, with a labour sticker on the window. Way back when. But also trade … mate got me into a screenprinting apprenticeship, also liked woodturning, built fences, sheds, boats (long before 2013) … about the only field I was never interested in was electrician. Military took three years of my life, went from sergeant to officer school as one pip lieutenant, didn’t think I was good enough, left and went into the civil service, finally back to teaching, headmaster etc. was a DJ on alternative radio for a while … not Radio Caroline but could have done.
So I’m a weird demographic with a Yorkshire da and Irish mum … largely regarded as “not one of us” by any group, bricklayers to professors to ministers of state … no demographic calls me one of them. Interesting eh? Women have never been quite able to pin down what I am. A person could turn to drink, become a psycho or just be amused by it all. Better the latter.
Which is not to say I’m Jimmy No Friends … there are a few networks, with the Unherdables close to the top in my estimation. And I like people, it’s even my mission to work for our people … which makes me a natural Restorer.
Were I try to sum up my natural cohort, I’d say an orphan of liberty or an unherdable.
Natural Reformers, natural Restorers
Problem on X I find is that there are ladies who like my education, are appalled by my Restore pushing … they’re respectable middle-middle, even upper middle, love everyone but too sane to hug trees, too capitalist, too NIMBY, my old young conservative set … but dissident, so they would vote that way in a stable society but are appalled by the Tories, so opt for Reform. I’m afraid my embracing of the ordinary people does not appeal to them. And these have always been my people … both lots.
Interesting that Rupert heads a working and middle-middle party, yet he is landed gentry to a point, with many Tory connections. Farage is just a chancer I’m afraid, non U to his aspirational M25 bubble, Sloan Rangers etc.
Then we come to language and accents. Restorers are quite direct, not RP (that’s Reform), plus the females swear like navvies. Henry Bolton called them out on it, forgetting we have Americans and Canadians involved too, Antipodaeans, Euro nations. Restorers tend to have local accents, Reformers are more “aspirational”, let’s say. I find Restorers far more to the point, I feel comfortable among them … and yet, those Reform ladies and I still talk to each other on a friendly basis.
We haven’s even got to the Israel or Mosley/Enoch factor yet.
Second last of the current Saints, not a bad one at all:
(1117) Second last of the current Saints coming up soon. (1129)
20. Moo corner
What’s Moo been up to again now?!
19. The betrayal by Danielle Smith
18. Neighbours
17. Germany
16. Things which are banned
I was not allowed to comment on this:
No reference to DEI can be made or you’re cyberstopped. The other two topics with a similar result are commenting on the Ukraine, or on Reform, in any negative way.
(1000) Don’t get sunburnt now, if in Britain. (1005)
15. It’s a form of fraud
14. Usual suspects
13. Salmon farming
12. Bottom line is … they knew all along
11. Steve corner from yesterday
Reform honchos are out in force today – ding-dong between the two on TalkTV this morning..
“Rupert Lowe Has The Common Touch With Working People” | Nigel Farage Pledges To Scrap Income Tax | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9S-0za5WW4
“Farage Is Struggling To Get Full Working-Class Vote” | Makerfield Split Votes May Help Labour Win | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oz0hFQNqM
“Nigel Farage Is A Tory In Drag!” | Talk Callers Discuss Reform UK Vs Restore Britain | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnfScX8XlJc
