It took longer to select today because there were good and flawed versions of each … main criticism, esp. of many versions of the last … was too fast. Hope these are all right.
Sunday [11 to 15]
(1023)(1043)
15. Or start employing indigenous men again?
14. The insanity of govt policy
13. It’s all Greek to me
12. String up Midazolam Matt or Boris?
Or just forget all about it, let bygones be bygones?
11. Kathy at TCW
“IT IS an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It’s also a very big thank you to the many kind readers who wrote to me after my last week’s review on the risks posed by the Online Safety Act. I thought opprobrium was going to be heaped on me, but no, I received understanding and sympathy.
Like Dave Hipperson’s email to me:
‘Correct tactics I think, withdrawing the comments section, even if only temporarily. You are in the crosshairs right now; we don’t want to make it worse. A perfect tactical withdrawal as indeed alluded to by the first two ‘Letters of the Day’, which is also a positive and useful addition.’
And so, it has proved! I don’t know why I didn’t think of a ‘Letter of the Day’ before. Granted, it’s less immediately reactive than a comment, but letters are what we always used to do.
In fact, only one reader accused me of caving in without a fight, and only one said that it had finished him with TCW! But I have long learned that old adage: you can’t win them all.”
Not sure what she’s done … removed the comments thread I suppose and gone back to olden days’ newspaper style.
A little symphony in F
Sunday [7 to 10]
(0721) Mornng all, still in bed again, just lazy, that’s all it is. (0751)
10. From Deeproots on Gab
9. Steve at 1002
- Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tucker Carlson Show: Russia’s Putin Prayed for ‘Friend’ Trump After He Was Shot
- Chinese Navy Cruises Around Australia and Sends a Message to the World*
- If Chief Justice John Roberts Is Hobnobbing with the Most Wicked and Heinous People in America at Private, Elitist Functions – How Can He Be Trusted to Make Sound Decisions for the American People?**
- Swiss Think-Tank: US Intel Investigating Anthony Blinken For Potential Involvement in Romania’s Globalist Coup
- Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and the Radical Leftist Cabal
- Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On March 22, 2025
- How Zelenski Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Negotiations With Russia***
- UK Breakfast TV Gives Sympathetic Coverage of Covid Shot Damage****
- Online Safety Act: The truth behind one of [the] UK’s most authoritarian pieces
- Much more.
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*Retun of the yellow peril
**Indeed
***Head of one Azov brigade planning coup
****Finally.
8. Remember Lockerbie too
7. DAD presents, at 1002
a) Paris yesterday. The left march against racism, border guards, Police, right wing, etc. etc. Surprise, surprise, there is violence.
b) …..but the politicians still can’t see the problem.
The French Minister of Justice says,
“The is no problem with Islam, the problem is with Islamism”.
c) The British politicians are just as bad.
“Multiculturalism hasn’t failed,” says ex-MP chased by pro-Palestinian protesters
Jonathan Ashworth, who was tipped for major government role, suffered shock general election defeat in Leicester South.
d) The government has published a booklet of items that one should keep ready in case of emergency. The booklet suggests that one keeps six bottles of water; but shows a pitcure seven bottles.
East End dilettante chooses his signature track
(0621) The essential problem with feeling part of people in different places is that they never completely see you as one of them. (0701)
Illustrating this is our Moosh … couldn’t get much more London than her, yet she’s not East End in herself … she’s from near Edmonton, more Spurs country:
Notice that lake by the way? And my own Londoninity is centred on Ammersmiff, Mill Hill and Blackheath, as laid out in my infamous poem Odeon to Ammersmiff. And Blackheath inevitably leads to suspicions that the denizen’s been dallying with rugger, Tranquil Vale and the Princess of Wales. Plus London Bridge and eventually Cannon Street.
Anyway, were you to want to sum up 70s London, you’d do worse than Stiff Records, Ian Dury and the Blockheads:
Which brings me to two of my hobbyhorses … first being the immortal expression “Local not local” which means someone far more local to an area than, say, a Tom Dick or Harry from Grantchester Meadows or maybe Dunfermline but not necessarily local to anywhere else … and the second hobbyhorse being a particular style of music.
This style takes a group of musos who can really play those instruments … key perfect and note perfect … yet they lack a focal point, a direction, a “thang”. Hence they cluster around an eccentric such as Ian Dury or Graham Parker or Willy de Ville or even Jon Fogerty and the result is greatness of a sort … his vision and their consummate playing.
The word I’m probably searching for here is “playful”.
Fitting that bill was Mark Knopfler … when all were on the same page, reading from the same hymn sheet … they were simply great … but once egos intruded, competing ambitions etc. … then just forget it. None are ever as good again out on their own. …/END.
Sunday [1 to 6]
(0314). Sunday is a long day, with almost equal parts day and night and at 0409, I’m ready to go back to bed to catch some more shuteye. Did not even get to our chaps … too much else waylaid your humble blogger, as you’ll see below. Life, laze and gem, is learning until the day we die. Catch you in a while. (0438)
6. Oh well, that’s that a third time
… good reader, need some shuteye after this, I see via ticker that DAD’s just posted.
5. Oh well, that’s that again
4. Oh well … that’s that then
… was it the DEI or the hairy back?
3. Interesting study, these two
Serena is a known-known … difficult to ask a question of, is full steam ahead with her cause, which happens, in many respects, to align with much of ours.
This Bidwell character I looked at. Has all the trappings of being dismissive … the sarco, throwaway lines, the Brit sense of humour … I can’t see him as being anything but Brit … and yet his ideas are bizarre. For example, he had an item up on how our wonderful PM, in his majesty, saw dear Zellie (the Ukraine) and the meeting was as between equals.
I was awaiting for the punchline … but none was to come. Whaaa?
Clearly educated to a point … I was trying to liken him to someone more well known and then it appeared … he did a promo for Private Eye.
Got it … Hislop clone … twisted politics, straight Guy Burgess stuff. Private Eye is weird … does corrupt borough explorations, exposes cant … to a point … yet cannot rid itself of an essentially Labour slant … has all the trappings of being culturally British … and yet is deeply anti-British … the “intellectual” left as it styles itself.
2. Explore, folk, don’t just take as handed from the PTB
1. A reverse order look at a young man
… with his head screwed on backwards … MP Mike Martin. Last page opened first here:
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/studentTheses/war-on-its-head
It was an academic study by a member of British Army “intelligence” which the army didn’t like, so he resigned and became an MP … and look where.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Martin_(British_politician)
https://mike-martin.co.uk/defence-%26-foreign-affairs
All this came about, around 0324, after a good sleep, thank you very much, after seeing this:
And now a word about “Grifty” and “The Grift Report”. Quite intriguing because he (yes he) followed my account early and I posted that here for IYE to see, thinking it was “our” American Grifty.
Having said that, made that error, I then found it was not such an error after all:
Intriguing, as his topics are as ours are at Unherdables, more slanted to one topic, heavily steeped in US-UK, though blogging out of the UK, or Asgard as he puts it. He seems to be quite up with the lowdown.
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And that, dear Unherdable patron or occasional, is the type of thing we need to do on every topic we look at. I quite agree though … how is that humanly possible and yet still have a life we could call “living”?
Saturday [16 till close of play]
(1638) Almost evening, all.
26. Tell you what … the more you dig into this
… the more intriguing it starts to look. For a start, it stitches up the gang of four, Farage does not get to be PM, nor get his gong.
More seriously, possibly Jenrick would be PM, Lowe one of the cabinet. I’ve been looking at Jenrick’s record and he’s stood against the Uniparty line a few times.
What effect would it have? How would Tories align themselves? The globalist left in there would have to align with, say, the LibDems … they’d be formidable but Reformers would largely convert to the new party, possibly bringing new blood in.
It’s worth a thought. I’m not sure Elon is convinced of Rupert as a leader, more as a Rottweiler like Tom Homan. But Jenrick-Lowe?
25. The Red Baron
One never knows from where a great post will come:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-great-was-red-baron-manfred-von.html
24. Just watched the fights, interviews etc.
Wow … exciting times, wild times …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Sonny_Liston
23. Red meat
22. This can’t continue much longer
Jenrick is pretending his party in its current form is the answer.
21. Isilme and her Beloved went for a walk
She wrote: “I don’t have much to say about the walk as it wasn’t that inspiring, which is why it was so nice to see the violets!”
20. Doctors of Death
19. Snow White
This apparently the remake which the picture in Ladies at Lunchtime was about.
18. An ER nurse speaks
17. Steve at 1002
a. If he hasn’t done so already with this offer he can tell Zelensky to put his minerals where the sun don’t shine… Interview Du President Felix Tshisekedi Chez Fox News
b. Hearts of Oak: Catherine Blaiklock – Reform UK Under Scrutiny: Farage Power Play and Party Struggle
c. War Room:
- Julie Kelly: DOJ Considers State Secret Privilege To Keep National Security Details Away From Judge Boasberg
- T**my R**inson’s Life Threatened By M**lim Inmate In Prison, Peter Mcilvenna Reports*
- Peter Mcilvenna: Multiculturalism Has Turned Europe Into One Big No-Go Zone
- Andy Biggs: Congress Should Pass A Resolution Terminating Boasberg For Bad Behavior Under Article 3
*On that point about the danger, MMutR pointed that out firmly that it’s not any of those other factrs as much … it’s the constant, 24/7 fear that that cell door is going to be left unlocked … that’s what would play on his mind. That governor is sadistic in the extreme.
16. I’ve strong feelings about this rally
There were some amateurish things here, even her trying to be heard over the speaker in the bkgd, the rent-a-hamas lot trying to break up the rally, the small crowd … the whole thing very real … real people trying to do what they can to fight this machine. All power to the victims and organisers.
Peter Gunn
First an apple-log … lay on the bed for a few minutes around elevenses, awoke in the late 1300s … uh huh. Right … to business. I never saw Peter Gunn when it came out, which may have had something to do with it not being on tele or me being too young.
So … t’other day, thought I’d watch the first episode … straight down the line mob boss thing … 26 minutes, not much story development. This actor hangs around low joints but in the most expensive gear … not an open invitation? There’s the mandatory girl on the balcony with him … he tries to act nonchalant and standoffish, she adores him but is hardbitten. Uh huh.
Every episode is the same … except for some plot variations … judge by this episode two below. My thoughts on the series are below the episode …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn
Now that theme … there’s the Mancini version, which is the original and verra nice indeed, boss … there’s the Art of Noise version with Rik Mayall and the girl in red, also verra nice and quite fun …
… then there’s the Duane Eddy version we’ve had at nourishing a few times … to my mind, it’s the most authentic for the era, it came from that era, Duane Eddy was the real thang hisself:
My thoughts on the series? It’s ok, a curiosity, redolent of The Untouchables, which I did watch, of Dragnet, and later … 77 Sunset Strip … that sort of thing. My thoughts on the times? Brilliant … luv em … the second half of the 50s, first half of the 60s I mean, not the bootleg era itself.
I was a little kid, a spotty herbert with an annoying manner or else in a world of my own … protected by the times we were in. Kidnap? Paedos? Never gave anything nasty much thought, was sure I could have escaped, I had my Colt 45 cap gun and enough rolls of caps to deal with any baddy … in that sense, idyllic times, three square meals a day, didn’t like having to help dry the dishes though. /END.
Saturday [11 to 15]
(1028). Approaching brunch. (1322)
15. Moosh corner
14. Coronation Street weighs in
13. Conscientious objection
To my mind, it depends on the reason. In my rugby days, the coach wanted us to hate the opposition for the duration of the game, then have a drink with them after. In early military days, to my mind it didn’t much matter where I was deployed … not so now I’ve lived in some of those countries, made friends.
Some countries I’ve not lived in, have no intention of, don’t like their lifestyle, their savagery. Then we get to those we don’t mind so much but they want us dead or raped … sadly, they’ve cast their vote, their behaviour now determines our response.
12. From the recent Monkeywerx comments thread … IYE
11. The Animals
Occasionally, the leftwing Quora can be useful, for example:
“The Animals were always an uneasy alliance. Looks like Alan Price had his eyes on a solo career from the get-go. Chas Chandler told a story that, the morning Price received his first royalties for ‘House of the Rising Sun’, he immediately went to the management and resigned! Two days before an American tour! Eric Burdon and Chas became two the two pillars of the rest of the band and it wasn’t long before Burdon was fronting The New Animals and Chas came back home to start a very nice career in band management … Jimi Hendrix and Slade… you may have heard of them.”
All right … common thing back then … if you had more than one drawcard, then there’d be ambition and tension. But what about a unipolar band, such as CCR, Dire Straits, Ian Dury, Mink de Ville, it goes on? In that case, it seems to be that eventually the band would rebel, mutiny, e.g. CCR.
And it was particularly the case if the main man or gal (Bangles) dominated and the rest of the band, each who could play very well in him/herself, often from former bands, found themselves playing excellent second fiddle.
Then you had the purist leader of the band, supposedly only in it for the creativity, provided there was enough money to pay the bills and some more. Mark Knopfler claimed that later in the band’s era.
What’s been left out of the equation so far is the listeners, the ones paying the money for the albums and concerts in those days. What about those poor sods, the fans? Most latch onto some phase of the band … for me, it was early Talking Heads, not that later World at War type stage act with dancers … they lost me then, particularly when it became acrimonious.
Then there are those not having a bar of a genre, whilst I’m sure there must be some good examples in each, except maybe post year 2000. Classical? Renaissance man? Blues? Jazz? Which jazz?
Saturday [10]
(0921)(0924)
Beware the return of the sausages
You may have noticed, in Sat 9, Fri 25, Ladies at Lunchtime and Thur 19, an ongoing joke … some wag suggested that Penelope Keith killed JFK … a document was altered in a parody. Russell Brand believed it … the gag was born. The lady focussed on is a long retired English actress, almost a Grande-Dame.
Where the gag falls flat is for those from another land … and we have a few of those at Unherdables … I did send a clip of The Good Life to Toodles … but where the gag holds up is in its “repetition ad nauseam”. It’s not enough to repeat it three or four times, as the net and our dear readers are discovering … the key point is ad nauseam, ha ha.
This is slightly different to The Streisand Effect, which Wiki explains this way:
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The term was coined by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance, in which the attempt to hide information instead makes it more interesting to seek out and propagate.
The difference between that and doxxing is that in doxxing, there is no way the victim would want it published, has taken no steps to do that and the action of doing it is malicious and intended to actually harm, not just to mock … which I suggest is also the difference between the left and the right.
You might remember the superinjunction phase in Britain when everyone knew who was bonking a chap’s brother’s wife … the name was common talk around town … and yet the injunction remained at that point. Someone on HIGNFY may have broken the law by breaking that.
There are many examples of the power of the net, once something goes viral but there’s also TV at issue. Years ago, downunder, there was a nationally shown football talk show (1994 to 2019 apparently) and in boy culture, one never claims something not-so if one wishes to avoid a bollocking or merciless grilling.
When it becomes a Streisand or Penelope repetition though, ad nauseam, not only is it very, very funny, except for the one who slipped up, but everyone knows it will go on and on and on …
… and when the one pilloried is a buffoon anyway, trying to claim he’s tough when he’s not … he’s just asking for it. In this clip, there is a second footballer of the time, in the studio with them, called Nathan, a good player it seemed, who suffered broken bones in a collision … well just watch the clip.
Compounding it is that the buffoon being pilloried was also porking the ex-wife of one of the panellists … not a nice man at all.
Try to sit through this because it gets better as it goes on:
It then went countrywide viral, even to other shows:
Once you try to return those sausages, it’s stuck on your CV forever … better to have just ridden it out.
