The Coffee House Wall – June 2022

Posted on May 30, 2022

This is the Coffee House Wall for this month. I won’t say that it is your chance to communicate with us, as we are all in this together. It is, nevertheless, the Conservative Blog post that has no particular theme, and where everything is on topic. Let’s just remember that we want to avoid ad hominem attacks on others. We don’t want to engage with trolls. We want to moderate our language ourselves as responsible and mature adults, choosing to use fruity language only where it is necessary. This is our opportunity to show what the Spectator Coffee House Wall could have been like.

1,278 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – June 2022”

  1. It’s a sign! A sign that Peter Farrington is still out there.
    Thank you Peter.

  2. Hi Peter, you are OK which is good news, the nasty pathogen has given you a miss, well done.

    if you look in again could you tell us whether anyone apart from EC and Baron ever visits this blog, please.

  3. Malfleur, May 29th, 2022 – 21:46

    “So; what advice to a man considering return to his homeland later this year after many decades abroad?”

    For whatever reason I hope that your desire to return isn’t prompted by ill health and an imminent need to claim 275 cubic feet of English soil. Other than that, then quite why you would want to return to this lunatic asylum beats me.

    To respond to your request:

    1. Don’t. (best advice)
    2. There are still a few oases of old England as you might remember it, but they are very, very expensive.
    3. After decades of being comfortably warm can you afford the UK’s heating bills?
    4. Since you are accustomed to living in places far flung, then Tower Hamlets might not be too much of a culture shock, and it’s relatively cheap.
    5. See #1

    I’ve noticed that, over the last year or so, your “Big Bad Flower” avatar seems to come and go. Did you write or own that computer game, btw? I never did get to ask Noa about his brief excursion into avatars, which did cause some private amusement at the time.

  4. Good one, the clip, in about sixteen minutes the girl makes an unarguable case for the cause of what we are witnessing now in Ukraine, Baron’s quibble remains what it was when the invasion began, Putin left it too late, he should have figured what the governing elite of the country of the exceptional people is up to years ago before only Ukraine was left to join NATO.

    If he were as smart as some believe he is, he should have acted after the Yushenko’s presidency (2005-2010) when the Ukrainian unwashed rejected the glaringly pro-American stance, elected Yanukovych, convinced the new man to turn Ukraine neutral, imbed the new status in the constitution, negotiate both with the Americans and Russia a treaty acknowledging the country’s neutrality.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY3JsqVR_04

  5. EC @ May 31st, 2022 – 08:03

    Not only Baron, EC, nobody could have said it better, seconded many times and more.

  6. Malfleur, May 29th, 2022 – 21:46

    What possessed you to return now, Malfleur? Could a visit to a psychiatrist help? Is life wherever you may be that punishing?

    The only reason, rational reason for you to return would be to set up a new political outfit, convince the unwashed of Britain they should wake up, vote for you, then you put and end to the asylum, heh, heh …

  7. Baron – 08:10

    An excellent clip. A testament to what some CHWallsters have been witnessing and commenting on since Gordon Brown’s unqualified chum Baroness (my arse!) Ashton was High Priestess of EU Foreign Affairs, un-ably assisted by equally deluded idiot, Daniel Krapski.

    The woman commentator was streets ahead of either of the two male panelists, the one in the flowery shirt being a complete waste of space.

  8. Malfleur, May 29th, 2022 – 21:46

    In my opinion, one of the nicest areas of England in which to reside is West Sussex. Somewhere either in or close to the South Downs National Park. There are plenty of villages and small towns from which to choose. There are large hospital facilities in Worthing and Eastbourne should you ever require them.

    Also, this area of the country gets to most sunshine hours per year, which always helps.

  10. There was a news clip last night of the unimpressive snd unelected Ursula Vonda Lying claiming that her EU sanctions were “really hurting” Vlad and that by the end of 2022 only 10% of the “EU’s” Oil imports would come from Russia. The credulous sycophants assembled lapped it up. What a joke. She made no mention of GAS, which if Vlad turned off the taps tomorrow then not only would German industry immediately grind to a halt but the Volksgenossen would freeze next winter.

  12. EC @ June 1st, 2022 – 07:19

    The man needs to be retired forever, EC, he’s done enough damage, the tap on immigration he opened up is now pouring a million of new ones per yer. Soon, we will not all be gay as Mahler thinks, we will all be strangers in a foreign country.

  13. EC @ June 1st, 2022 – 07:33

    As you well know, EC, there was no reaction, no sanctions, no nothing when in the ME the Americans invaded one country after another, but hey, these are the Americans they run the world.

    There should’ve been a reaction after the invasion of Ukraine, it’s was a tragic move too late, it revealed Putin wasn’t;t the smartest thinker in the world, he may have been warning the West not to move east with its NATO vehicle, but he left it too late to place the red line at Ukraine, he should have acted before when Yanukovych was President.

    Still, one can hardly turn the clock back, but what one can do is ponder whether the reaction of the West to the invasion is even more tragic that the invasion itself, in Baron’s view, it is, it only boosts the Far East chances to replace the West as the leading region this century.

    It will take time for things to settle, new structures put into operation, new deals to sign, but in the end more than the two thirds of the world population living in the broader East (China and India account for roughly half of the world population), by far hungrier that those in the West, cannot but engage in a magnitude of wealth creation the West cannot even dream of aided by the cheap Russian fossil fuels and other natural resources whilst the West, deprived of them, will have to utilise more expensive energy alternatives including solar and wind, the intermittency character of both making it even more expensive as massive back-ups must be available in case the sun refuses to shine or the wind to blow.

    It won’t be as the pouting Ursula whatever thinks ‘hurting’ Russia, it will be hurting the set-up she’s presiding over, not that any of the countries or the whole bunch of them will collapse, they will not, but they will trod along as the former Bolshevik East did before the creed collapsed, it won’t be life for the plebeians but a mere existence, and rather painful for many, what that can do for social cohesion? Such conditions could even lead to a confrontation between the unwashed of the Old Continent and those that control them, the EU disappearing into the hole of has-beens.

    It won’t be that different for the Anglo-Saxon world either, it shares the insanity with the Continental Europe, if anything we are even more eager to hurt Russia only to find we are paining more than the intended target, the first signs are already here, more is to come.

    It truly amazes how a policy ostensibly designed to contain and ultimately break up Russia will unquestionably inflict more damage on the policy creators, those in power should have learnt that sanctions do not yield the intended results even when applied to small countries, see North Korea, the most sanctioned country in the world happily perfecting its long range rocketry and nuclear capability. Why should the sanctions work on Russia a country endowed with massive natural resources helped by a neighbour that’s emerging as the most serious challenger to the hegemony of the American Republic?

    Madness, unbelievable madness.

  16. Baron – 23:50

    He is right. However, if the likely outcome is the same then it doesn’t matter if “the elites” that hold sway over governments are mad, bad or just plain stooopid.

  18. Here’s the result of a poll amongst Ukrainians living west of Kiev published today i staunchly anti-Russian media called the Maidan Press:

    The Democratic Initiatives Foundation’s opinion poll shows that Ukrainians living in Ukraine’s central and Western regions:

    -believe that Ukraine would defeat Russia (94%);
    -put blame for the war on Russia’s leadership (94%) and the Russian nationals (54%);
    -don’t support any concessions to Russia (78%);
    -strongly support Ukraine’s accession to the EU (89%);
    -favor the country’s NATO membership (74%);
    -see the UK (66%), US (65%), Poland (63%) as Ukraine’s biggest allies.

  19. Here’s the latest on how well the Western sanctions on Russian shipments of oil are working:

    “Overall, Russian oil exports rebounded in April, after dropping in March as the first Western sanctions took effect, the International Energy Agency said. Russia’s oil exports rose by 620,000 barrels to 8.1 million barrels a day, close to its prewar levels, with the biggest increase going to India”.

    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-Russia-Has-Remained-One-Step-Ahead-Of-Western-Sanctions.html

  22. Baron – 00:15

    There are ordinary guys on both sides caught up in this futile conflict that won’t solve anything. I doubt whether many of them, if any, want to be sacrificial pawns in the game of chess being played out between Vlad and Z’s puppet master.

    Mr. Johnson’s bio reads like that of a bit of a blinkered knobhead, imo.

  23. Baron, June 3rd, 2022 – 14:18

    Sanctions have never worked, anywhere at any time.
    Sieges are another matter.

  25. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686861/

    “During World War I Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans – including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realise that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried.”

  27. EC @ June 5th, 2022 – 10:32

    Take great care, my blogging friend, au revoir.

  29. John birch. @ June 8th, 2022 – 18:52

    With great regret, John, EC and Baron have decided to pack it in, no more postings, nobody visits the blog, it’s close to pointless, you are of course free to visit and post as much as you like, Baron will occasionally look in as well, Noa said the same.

  30. What a shame, I always enjoyed reading your posts , knowledgeable and insightful.
    Where are you going.

  31. If you were to visit more often, John, Baron may reconsider, he finds it hard not to have an outlet, like you he’s on CW and on the Spectator, but it’s not the same, one has to comment on what the two publications put up, this limits what one would like to comment on, for inst. in Russia today it’s said Putin’s preparing a major address for the Russian unwashed, could it be he’s to resign? Probably not, but one cannot really debate it because not one of the MSM mentions it.

    There are other issues, again impossible to mull over anywhere but here, the problem is nobody visits. Baron will get in touch with EC, find out what he thinks.

  32. I may not have always commented but I regularly came to read the comments by the main contributors, always worth reading.

  33. John birch. @ June 14th, 2022 – 08:0

    OK, John, Baron will carry on, he has checked with EC, he is OK with it, he was, after Frank, the most senior, also the one mostly read, Noa may look in also, Malfleur hasn’t;t said anything yet, he may be moving to the UK anyway.

    It may be just a single trooper, but he doesn’t look like someone training the Ukrainian military, he’s fully equipped for action, it confirms what the Russians have been saying, that there are some combat troops from NATO countries, also that some of the drones are run by NATO operatives. This can only prolong the conflict, unlikely to help the Ukrainian party to win it:

    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/soldier-from-germany-nato-bearing-arms-caught-on-tv-in-severodonetsk-ukraine

  35. For the avoidance of doubt it is Peter that has 100% proprietorial interest in this incarnation of the CHW.

    It was a pity that Peter didn’t have the time to develop it into something along the lines of American Digest. In the early days Frank did his best to create content by contributing some excellent articles.

  37. Re Baron

    “…There are other issues, again impossible to mull over anywhere but here, the problem is nobody visits…”

    Precisely, other than Baron, EC and an occasional visitor one is commenting into a vacuum of silence

  38. EC & Noa

    What if Baron were to convince someone of fame (say) Liddle, to do an occasional posting here? Not that Baron could, but he can try, one never knows, weirder things have happened, it may be a platform for him, the name’s close to what the Spectator runs, the terms of reference are better than anywhere else (they may change because who knows who may start posting if someone like Liddle were to host this blog).

    Btw, is it possible to contact Peter? He seems rather blaze about it all, it must cost him money, no?

  39. The guy Nattrass that penned the footballing piece is an ass, Noa, it’s not just taking the knee that irks, it’s the whole wokenism including the standing ovations in the Commons for the Ukrainian drug addict.

    Zelensky spoke to the Czech Parliament few days ago, they dutifully applauded standing up, but not all, twenty members of the Okamura opposition party sat, no applauding, another MP abstained, the reaction of the public backed them, that’s democracy for you.

    In Russia many public figures are objecting to the invasion, nobody has touched them, here it’s all as it used to be under the Bolsheviks, the contemporary West has morphed into the past East, arghhhh

  40. EC @ June 16th, 2022 – 11:26

    Agreed, EC, Peter has been neglecting this blog from the world go, why on earth did he take over it when the Spectator dropped it?

    Frank is missed, very much so, he would bashing all and sundry if he were alive, sad, very sad he’s no longer with us.

  42. And not will Europe have the highest energy cost worldwide, it’s till now the engine and the funding source of the EU Germany will also lose its independence, it will be the Americans that will control her energy policy, it may not have yet dawned on the Germans that whoever controls the energy input of a society controls the society:

    (please change COMMA for .)

    https://wwwCOMMAunzCOMMAcom/mwhitney/meet-the-new-boss-putin-reroutes-critical-hydrocarbons-eastward-leaving-europe-high-and-dry/

  43. Soory about the start of the posting, it should read ‘and not only will… You may directly go to ‘unz review’, the piece is there.

    Also, Baron couldn’t;t post the link, the system wouldn’t have it. Strange that.

  44. The best thing about taking the knee was watching the British police loose all the dignity they were just about hanging on to in a single moment

  45. The best thing about taking the knee was watching the British police loose all the dignity they were just about hanging on to in a single moment .
    Absolutely pathetic.

  47. The madness of the West is destroying it faster than expected. Ukraine is simoly a sideshow, a distraction in comparison.
    First the future king (Jesus!) came for the belching and farting cows and sheep then they came for everyone else.

    https://youtu.be/Ku9QeC7i7Lg

  48. Is Murray right? Will we win the kultur War?
    Given that we’ve just witnessed the Boris plan being thrown off the flight by the EU I can’t agree.
    We’re doomed, doomed! I say.
    No-one cares best we just pay the Traitor Class their salaries and let them get on with it.
    https://youtu.be/GC4xEuD6B1M

  49. Baron 15.57
    Yes the writer, like most of the erstwhile “journalists” who write for Unherd is a foredeck tugging lefty, whose only excuse is that he possibly has a ‘partner’ and child to keep. Too much conservatism and the editor will simply not use his copy.
    The letters are more interesting than the semi woke thought piece that provoked it.

  50. As the world bifurcates into the US and its UK and EU satrapy and the Sino-Russian alliance together with their related Indian, middle Eastern and other satrapies satrapies, a future ground for potential conflict is developing in the Artic.
    I don’t believe that we should worry. Once the testosterone driven Ben Wallace deploys a few electric tanks and drones that should sort out who owns the ehorrible nasty oil and such up there.

    https://civitas.org.uk/publications/the-next-front/

  52. What a pleasant surprise, Baron will check all recommendations later, too bloody busy, he wonders how he managed when he also had a daily job.

    For the time being only this:

    Yesterday he dispatched to Farage’s GB News hour (mostly about immigrants) his rant about immigration equals colonisation, shortened of course … no luck, those doing the filtering decided against it, will try again one day.

    “The flow will never stop when the country’s governed by the middle class, immigration equals colonisation only with reversed travelling arrangements for the two social classes of people that benefit from it – the British middle class and the foreign plebeians.

    Instead of the sons of the middle class parents boarding the boats, settling in foreign lands where the local unwashed do what they are asked to do, it’s the unwashed from the foreign lands that arrive here, doing what the middle class wants them to do”. Baron

    Also this, Baron couldn’t;t resist even when he may be latee:

    If you’re looking for a well paid job, here’s your chance:

    https://silentprofessionals.org/jobs/extraction-protective-agents-ukraine/

  54. Noa, June 16th, 2022 – 17:11

    “We’re doomed, doomed! I say.”

    Well, Julian Assange is definitely doomed as, reportedly, Priti Patel has just signed his death warrant. What with staff shortages, flight cancellations, transport strikes she’ll be lucky to get him on a commercial flight. No doubt the CIA will step up and offer to put him on one of their extraordinary flights out of Farnborough.

    Will the “Stop The Plane” mob, lefty lawyers, and ECJ Judges be out in force to save Assange? No, thought not.

    Will there be yet another determined case of suicide in the US prison system to spare the blushes of some high profile Septics? Probably.

    R.I.P John McAffee and others.

  55. EC
    It’s 239 years since the treasonous revolutionaries in the American colonies refused to accept our white convicts, though Assange hasn’t actually been convicted of any crime here. If they’re now happy to accept more we can supply them with virtually unlimited quantities whose diversity is guaranteed.
    The ideal solution for the Patel woman would be to make the Rwanda route a success by shipping him there and the boat invaders to the States, which is where most of them want to go anyway.

  57. EC @ June 17th, 2022 – 15:32

    Powerful stuff, EC, who is to be the one repeating it though?

  58. Noa @ June 16th, 2022 – 17:55

    What you may have missed, Noa, that we have a 12-page strategy for the Artic, that’s a sure winner.

  59. Noa @ June 16th, 2022 – 17:11

    Murray cannot be right, Noa, he’s bleating about Western war on the West, forgetting the orthodox view is it’s the Russian war on the culture of the West, the heredity guilt, the denial that diversity is a strength, that equality rules and stuff are all originating in the Kremlin and streaming to the West from the evil Russia, it’s Russia that funds the culture war on the West, controls it, determines which way it should go next … That’s what one’s told when the crunch arrives.

    The guy won’t get far with his take on the culture war the West’s fighting and losing unless he recognises the ‘significance’ of Russia in the onslaught on the old cultural values of the West, only when he does so, will he be taken seriously by the ruling class. This may seem to you rather silly, but you look at any wart and boil we suffer from it’s never far from the officialdom blaming Russia for it. He has to join the bandwagon or he will be ignored.

    Also, the one female holding a placard saying ‘British history matters’ even if repeated thousand times is not going to win the culture war, one needs more than placards with the right slogans.

  60. Not sufficiently pessimistic, the good professor could have suggested a longer lasting turmoil not because of the realignment of trading routes and stuff linked to the Ukrainian fighting, but to forces that have been breeding exclusively in the West before the invasion began, namely the size of the QE in all major Western countries, the insanity of the zero net carbon, and the influx of immigrants both into Europe, the UK and the US, all that combined may lead to a social convulsion that those in power won’t be able to explain by Putin’s excursion into Ukraine, they will try, but the plebeians are unlikely to buy it. As EC pointed out dark times are truly ahead, one would do well to stock up on the essentials.

    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/06/16/last-tango-in-washington/

  61. Our leader on a visit to our new special friends today, rather disorganised show having about of everything including the destroyed Russian tanks, but then he and the crew around him must have been anxious the Russians won’t do anything naughty to spoil the theatre.

    Will that help him in the two coming by-elections? Hmmm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3JN6Mu5mY

  63. Further to the 23:22 posting:

    If you are pushed on time, put the cursor to 54min and watch to the end which is only some 9 minutes duration, the stuff before is essentially a repeat of what we’ve been saying ourselves, or the professor said in other presentation but here in this lecture it’s in greater detail.

    It’s hard to argue with his logic about the high likelihood of an escalation he talks about but for one point, the Americans are used to losing, if one looks at their involvement from Vietnam forward it’s mostly losses, the last big one in Afghanistan, with Russia it’s somewhat different but one has to consider that the Americans may open another zone of conflict probably in Syria to stretch Russia’s resources further, what then? Will Russia resort to nukes? Will China step in?

    Truly frightening if one inputs into this nightmarish military scenario the looming economic disaster with high inflation, close to unaffordable energy prices for many and the food shortages.

  64. The last and hopefully this time the correct timing from which anyone that hasn’t;t got the time to watch the presentation fully should put the cursor on, it’s from the 51st minute, apologies.

  65. Baron 23.08,
    Perhaps some Russian drone operator was waiting for clearance from the Kremlin before launching an air to ground missile at Bunter.
    Perhaps it never came, ,because Vladimir shares the view of the Iron Duke that:
    “It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”

  66. Ben Wallace has promised to train ‘thousands” of Ukrainian troops to defend their homeland.
    Given the British Army’s outstanding success in defending its homeland from more invaders than the Whermacht deployed in 1940 we anticipate that the boys from Kiev will endure the similar rigorous training our own lads endure.

    https://youtu.be/E2ecasPqhgk

    “Minsk, I said you ‘orrible lot, not mince!”

  67. Nothing much to report, more sites have been shut down, pity that, one can still listen to the Navalny’s web broadcasts, millions do, Putin hasn’t blocked it, yet anyway, why do we prevent the other party to the war to say what they make of it?

  68. Noa @ June 18th, 2022 – 11:23

    You may not have listen to the full video of the good professor, but one bit of information he furnishes is that starting from 2014 (the year of the coup) each year NATO trained 10,000 Ukrainian troops, that’s a lot, it must have involved our military taking part, you may recall that there was a denial of a video posted by the Azov Brigade showing our officers in conference with the Azov top leadership. The Ukrainian troops must have well prepared when the Russians invaded.

    The one source that hasn’t been blocked yet (Baron won’t tell you the name of the site) is saying that earlier today a large number of Aidar Battalion fighters at the town of SeveroDonetsk including the commanders have voluntarily surrendered, during questioning one of them said they had been trained by the Lithuanian officers how to attack one-two-three storeys buildings, they were told it would be needed when they attack Donbas.

  71. Baron – 00:14

    His memory lives on, M’lud, if only as a branch of ‘spoons in Somerset.

  72. First, apologies for the errors, Alzheimer perhaps or a lack of education?

    Plenty of blocked sites, pity that, one’s left with nothing because to believe the agitprop is almost impossible.

    EC:00:14

    Beats Baron, EC, it must be the Alzheimer, but Noa’s supplied quote is good, quite usable.

  73. German Foreign Policy reports NATO expansion in Europe, together with expanded weapons supply and the development of interoperability with Ukrainian forces.
    In addition it us extending its remit to cover opposition to PRC expansion in the Far East. Compare that with Robert Frosts Civitas proposal which I previously mentioned to form a new anti Russia PRC alliance to combat Artic material and supply route control.
    Does anyone else consider there is an increasing and inevitable drift to world wide war, both in Europe and the Far East?
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/8951

  74. In the event of sturgeon achieving the SNP target of Scotzit is one of the likely consequences to be civil war, as the Highlands and Islands split from Edinburgh dictatorship and the Northern borderlands with England become the subject of Donbass-like separation, reclamation and fighting?
    Will England’s traditional enemies, France and latterly Germany, support Edinburgh with troops and materia,possibily under a NATO umbrella? Will Russia and PRC supply support? If so, to whom?
    We will watch with interest as Bunter presides,successive ly, over the creation of a new coterie of British dictatorships, bankruptcy, wholesale population replacement, a bloody breakup of the Union and in an attempt to stop it all, leads us into a major war.

  75. Still on the Scottish theme:

    Leslie Sinclair, a proud Scottish male and a committed donor came to give blood but was turned down because he refused to answer a question whether he was pregnant.

    Silly of him, he should have said to the young nurse ‘not yet but if you take your knickers off, you could be’.

  76. Noa @ June 19th, 2022 – 10:15

    Those running the show for the West, Noa, believe Russia will never resort to deploying nukes, this is a grave error, we will all suffer because of ti.

    Since Baron arrival in the UK he has been consistent in saying the Bolsheviks would have never ever deployed nuclear weaponry because they knew that doing so would have invited a swift retaliation and hence an imminent collapse of the regime.

    It’s impossible to test it now, it has always been impossible to test it, but an indirect evidence that Baron may be right was furnished by the collapse of the Red Menace in 1990, it vanished within hours, except for a few at the very top there was not one single state institution (and that included the KGB), a social institution, or an individual that stood up in support of it, almost 99.999% of Russia and even a higher percentage of the satellite vassals welcomed the the implosion, many aided it happily.

    With today’s Russia, things are totally different, whatever the warts and boils of Putin may be, he has the backing of the majority, a true backing, the Russians are as well informed about the world at large if not better than the plebeians of the West, they know Putin’s faults, many don’t like them, but all in all his faults are of little consequence for them considering what he’s done for Russia. The unwashed of this largest Slavonic tribe truly never had it as good as today in spite of sanctions and anything else cum the invasion.

    It’s of course a guess, but Baron reckons Putin will unleash all that Russia possesses in her arsenal of nukes, he will not hesitate, he will go all the way, and that scares Baron no end, he often has sleepless nights as if he could do anything about it.

  77. Briefing by the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov as of 11.00 June 17, 2022 on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine:

    Against the background of the growing number of military failures of the Kyiv regime and massive daily losses in manpower and equipment, the flow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has not only decreased, but is actually turning in the opposite direction.

    Despite the efforts of the Kyiv regime and the increase in payments, the process of departure of mercenaries to the “other” world or back to their countries of residence cannot be stopped by the Kiev leadership. The recent empty talk about “20,000” foreigners “fighting” against the Russian armed forces is a common lie.

    The Russian Defense Ministry monitors and records the stay in Ukraine of each representative of this international gathering of “headless horsemen”.Moreover, not only mercenaries directly involved in hostilities as part of Ukrainian units are now included in the databases. The Defense Ministry also takes into account instructors who arrived to train, assist in the operation and repair of Western weapons supplied to Ukraine.

    Among European countries, the undisputed leader in the number of both arrived and dead mercenaries is Poland. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 1831 people have arrived in Ukraine, of which 378 have already been destroyed and 272 mercenaries have left for their homeland. It is followed by Romania – 504 arrived, 102 dead, 98 left. In third place is the UK: 422 arrivals, 101 deaths, 95 departures.

    From the American continent, Canada is in the lead: 601 arrived, 162 destroyed, 169 left. In second place is the United States: 530 arrived, 214 died, 227 left.

    From the Middle East, Transcaucasia and Asia, most of all, 355 mercenaries arrived from Georgia, of which 120 were destroyed and 90 left Ukraine. This is followed by militants of terrorist groups deployed from US-controlled areas of the Syrian Trans-Euphrates – 200 people. To date, 80 of them have been destroyed and 66 have left Ukraine.

    In total, the lists of the Russian Defense Ministry as of June 17, 2022 include mercenaries and weapons specialists from 64 countries. Since the beginning of the special military operation, 6956 people arrived in Ukraine, 1956 have already been destroyed, 1779 left. While they are alive, 3221 mercenaries have not yet been captured, or have not reached the Ukrainian border.

    Detailed data is published on the information resources of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the Internet. The Embassies of the appropriate countries were informed.

  79. Baron

    It may be that Russia is prepared, as a last resort, to launch nuclear weapons against Europe and the USA, the result would be catastrophic for the entire world.
    The point is that we simply don’t know to what lengths Russia is prepared to go in respect of the proxy US NATO conflict in the Ukraine. As the war whilst acting as a running sore on the economy, does not pose an existential threat I’m of the opinion that the possibility of escalation to nuclear war is at prest low.

  80. Baron 22.59

    Where do yo get them from, Milud!
    You are probably witnessing the new intake in the vlog. Course graduates would have pre tested the proctal equipment in other orifices before oral deployment!

  81. Noa @ June 20th, 2022 – 09:46

    The Russians will have to respond to the bait of having Kaliningrad cut off, that will show us how far Putin may go, God forbid if he calls the bluff, goes Full MOnty.

  82. Baron

    I suspect that both Russia and the EUNATO have exhaustively wargamed the possibility of sanctions and escalation and see the possibility as remote.
    At present the concern of the replacement Russian settlers in Konigsburg is a potential shortage of DIY materials rather than manning the barricades against the crazed militarist hordes that Von Der Leyen and Stoltenberg may unleash.
    That said I’m concerned that British forces are inextricably interwoven into this military strategic tapestry and that Johnsons intention is to increase our commitment and make it irrevocable.
    Thus rejoining the EU via NATO commitments.

  83. You should listen to Simon’s musings in this video till the end, in fact you can easily shift the cursor to roughly the middle of the 10 minute slot if you don’t have the time, there he goes though the case of the 66-year Scottish guy who refused to say whether he was pregnant, as a result was refused to give blood, but then Simon goes on, and it’s the going on that will put a smile on your face, or is it despair how loopy we’ve become.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGLYmDbeVlA

  84. Noa @ June 21st, 2022 – 21:18

    The thing that worries Baron about our Armed Forces, Noa, is their strength, the politicians keep yapping about the threats to our democracy, yet the size of those that will protect us, one hopes, will be cut to 72,500 by 2025, that’s roughly five divisions or a third what Ukraine furnished against the Russians, Ukraine a country that close to broke.

    It’s fine to focus on cyber warfare, but that won’t safe us if and when the fighting starts, we may have a string of water between us and the Continent, but our enemies have parachute regiments, boats and planes.

  85. I am very grateful to Gary Winston Lineker for drawing attention to the lifelong racism that many of us, myself included, have suffered merely because of our skin pigmentation. Since I was a child I have felt a foreigner in my own country during the summer months. Mr Lineker is fortunate in having been gifted the melanin reserves to cultivate his tan over a number of decades without ham, giving him in old age the distressed leathery permanent patina that he exhibits today. He has been able to enjoy his millionaire lavish sunshine holiday lifestyle in a manner that those less fortunate than himself could not begin to contemplate. i.e. unclothed! He appears to have thus far dodged the melanomas, SQCs and BCCs that those of us with less fortunate than Winny have had to deal with.

  86. Baron – June 21st, 2022 – 23:32

    “the politicians keep yapping about the threats to our democracy”

    Indeed they do, Baron.
    The permanent political class use the term “our democracy” to maintain the charade that it is inclusive of the rest of us. It is not. What we have today is a developing Oligarchy. Crony capitalism gone bad. (i.e. state sponsored fascism) The politicians who once gifted favours to business are now in servitude to it.

  87. @9:38 additional

    If you’ve ever wondered why the current crop of MPs of all parties…
    (with a few exceptions)

    1) Are not very bright
    2) Couldn’t give a f*ck
    3) Have no moral compass
    4) Have no philosophical policy differences
    etc. etc.

    It is because they are not running the show.
    They are there purely to maintain the charade.

    File under: Ginger growlers

  88. EC, June 22nd, 2022 – 08:52

    “without ham” should read “without harm” 😉

    Or even without haram. Halal food certification. There’s money in that. I would be surprised if his crisp company haven’t already jumped on that bandwagon – smoky bacon excepted.

  89. Baron 23.32
    Sadly the armed forces are an expensive joke. In the army not enough soldiers, a high percentage of whom are Africans, Gurkas or South Sea Islanders after UK settlement, over 50% are unfit for active service, women and other sexes, with equipment such as the new APCs that dont work. The upgrade of our few remaining tanks will cost nearly a million pounds each.
    The RAF has only 4 Typhoons that are fit for service at any one time. Hving spent billions on buying US UAFs we now buy cheap and cheerful drones from the Ottomans, who have made themselves world leaders in that field. a glorious opportunity to lead ourselves was thron away.

    The fleet is robbed to keep the Typhoons flying, as for the rest US equipemnt that has exorbitantly high maintennace costs. The Navy is lumbered with its useless and expensive, indefensiible carriers, and a small number of ineffective destroyers. The bureaucratic MoD which controls all procurement has more personnel than the RAF.
    Such resources as we do have are directed at escorting an invading muslim army into our country to utilise surplus hotel accommodation.
    The only thing that saves this country from conquest is the unenviable task any invader would face in restoring order from the ourdure created by 25 years of treasonous incompetent governance.

  91. 08.52 -Is it cos I is Black?

    We are all Ugandan now, or wanna be-if we want to any life at all.

  93. Kigali is also a wonderful place, but you won’t see me outdoors ‘twixt sunrise and sunset, Bwana.

  94. Noa – 10:02

    Uganda:

    Did you know… that HMG’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain [Neville’s dad], offered Uganda to Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Commission to be settled as the jewish homeland instead of Palestine? The offer made in 1903 was rejected in by the Commission Congress in 1904.
    [Ref: Orientations by Sir Ronald Storrs KCMG; Chapter XV P 338 – 347;
    “Excursus on Zionism -Vere scire est per causas scire”. ]

    The rest, as they say, is history.
    Isn’t Uganda owned and run by the Mandarin speakers now?

  95. EC
    Is that Kigali, twinned with Kowloon, where the Han are ‘cleansing’ the locals, who in turn are moving to Kamden, where they are kleansing the locals…..

  100. Noa @ June 24th, 2022 – 21:47

    Sadly, Noa, no mention of the number of immigrants, this must have made the situation worse as it boosted demand whereas supply hasn’t been ready, it must have also contributed to the worsening of living conditions for those that rent, more people squeezed in, more people tempted to rent even if the rented accommodation may not be up the standard.

  101. Noa @ June 24th, 2022 – 19:17

    The rouble may be too strong, Noa, Ms Nabulina, the top banker at the Russian Central Bank should start selling some, the strength favours imports, one thing Russia shouldn’t indulge in, new sanctions may cut such imports.

  103. EC @ June 22nd, 2022 – 13:38

    Isn’t most of Africa owned and run by the Mandarin speakers, EC, the eyes of the world are on Russia, our leader believes that only his failure to win the war would make him resign, there’s nothing to stop China taking over the world.

  104. The US Embassy in Moscow wishing the tell the brainwashed Russian unwashed that they are on their side regardless what the evil Putin may be doing to Ukraine sent a message of congratulations on June 6, the birthday of Puskhin, the message was in Russian of course and ended with ‘all the best on your birthday Ivan Sergeyevich Pushkin’.

    Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799, but whoever penned the message wasn’t that far off, he got two out of three correct, for a leader of the world that’s pretty good going.

  105. And lastly a short video on a small screen, only in B&W, it’s from the Moscow exhibition of the downed U-2 spy plane in 1960, the reason for posting the video is not the bits and pieces, but the people coming to see the remnants of the plane, not many shots of them but all rather dull, flat caps for men, women with heads covered with scarves, unfashionable clothes, drabness galore, and this was Moscow, the capital, compared to today’s Moscow the exhibition attendees look like they were from the middle ages.

    Of course, fashion was quite different then in London as well, but the difference between London 1960 and now is anywhere near as big as it is between the fashion in Moscow between the two dates.

    https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA2RCRH7U2G4432U5ERK3078Y5U-RUSSIA-MOSCOW-U-2-SPY-PLANE-EXHIBITION-CONTINUES/query/U2

  106. To borrow from the former US Ambassador to Ukraine when the ‘fugg-the-EU Victorian Nuland made mark on history bigger than the man that sits in the Kremlin and is supposed to be smart; “We are in play again”.

    Thank you, Peter, you should come and visit occasionally, furnish us a prayer of the month or something, you’ll be warmly received.

    ‘Will he or will he not go’, is the question and the answer is very simple, he isn’t going anywhere, certainly not to get his P60, he will not be moved.

    A couple of resignations or even more than a couple is bur a minor irritation, he will survive them all, even if all the Cabinet were to decide to quit, he would still insist he has a job to do and he will continue failing doing it, the man’s obsessive desire to stay in the job trumps everything else, soon people will begin to admire him not for the hairstyle but for the animal stubbornness, the dogged blindness to anything but how to survive in the job, the pertinacious streak to keep going what may.

    The guy will be there until the nature decides to claim him, we are stuck with him, to borrow from the great Basil ‘we should have him stuffed’.

  107. What happened a few days ago. I could only see a message about this page being reserved for the future.
    Or something like that.
    Now things seem back to normal.
    Unlike the real world.

  108. Baron, talking of which did you spot the rumour about his hairdresser ( who knew) being packed off back to Canada allegedly pregnant.

  109. John birch. @ July 6th, 2022 – 07:59

    You missed it, John, Peter who wins the blog forgot to do something or other, he was contacted, it’s fine now thanks to EC.

    No, Baron hasn’t heard the rumour, but it sounds plausible, we should creates a Procreation Ministry for the guy, he would reverse the downward trend in births at a stroke, siring thousands of babies, it would be good for the country, and obviously for him, his meat&twoveg seems to be overflowing with sperms, not trouble there, he must have bucked the trend of sperm reduction thanks to, allegedly, the vaccine.

  111. Any guesses about how many days before he’s forcibly evicted.
    What a disastrous period of our lives, with everything that’s going on I’m glad I’m at the wrong end of life.
    I pity youngsters growing up facing the reality of the world today.

  112. John birch. @ July 7th, 2022 – 07:49

    Your guess is as good as Baron’s, John, the guy’s immovable, even if the whole Cabinet were to resign he’ll run the Government on his own.

    It may not be sensible by the 22 Committee to change the rules, ‘no cricket’ that, one doesn’t change the rules after one’s loss, the people may not like it, but apart from a no confidence vote nothing else could dislodge the buffoon.

    Bizarre that.

  113. The editor of the US Spectator thinks the buffoon was luck, to was luck that accompanied him throughout his career, but abandoned him now.

    It wasn’t so much luck although it never harms to have it, it was that he was exceptional, unique, a one off in one respect, he was a clown or at least displayed the behaviour and mannerism of one backed by an unquestionable astuteness both in wordsmithing and the manner of speech.

    That was totally new and unheard of for anyone in any of the jobs he’s had, and certainly sui generis in politics, there has never been anyone like him in British politics before, a jester, an entertainer that never failed to warm the cockles of everyone’s heart. Sadly, he lacks what it needs to be a leader of a nation, hence the downfall.

  114. Who next, and does it really matter who gets the job? We’re likely to get the same menu of the old policies only the mix may alter somewhat.

    Where is Frank when one needs him?

  115. Tom Tugendhat is the first to wave his manifesto, Fraser in the Spectator doesn’t think much of him, neither do the postings, here’s a selection of them:

    Never forget this tvrd’s treatment of Roger Scruton.

    Tom Tugendhat is just back from the globalist billionaires’ Bilderberg Group meeting in Washington DC.

    Why did he go? Presumably to keep in touch with the wishes of Big Money and provide as necessary if elected as Prime Minister.

    What an extraordinary coincidence that Bill Gates flew into the UK at exactly the moment this week when the UK government was in turmoil with Ministers resigning, followed by Boris Johnson!

    This is exactly what one would expect in the event of Bill Gates being the UK’s puppet master as he clearly is on behalf of the World Economic Forum!

    https://threadsirishdotsubstackdotcom/p/why-is-bill-gates-in-london-at-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    Remoaner. Do not touch with a barge pole.

    He rather incredibly regards a low-ranking, part-time army career as conferring global statesman status. He is also a French citizen. Utterly delusional even by HOC standards.

    His uncle was an EU commissioner, his father a High Court judge. Levelled up or levelled down another man of the people.

  116. Many of Boris’s supporters and admirers point to the three of his biggest achievements as Brexit, the vaccination of the country and his stance on Ukraine. All either wrong or suspect:

    He didn’t get us out of the EU, the groundwork was done by Frost & Baker, he furnished the clowning with a dose of a big lie (you remember the figure we were allegedly saving not being a member of the ghastly monstrosity?).

    The vaccines cost us tens of billions even though they seem to be causing more deaths, pain and suffering than all the other vaccines before combined.

    The Ukrainian venture was only and solely for his own benefit, not the country’s, the front page of the Private Eye got it spot on, a bubble shared by him and the drug addict saying “thank you for coming to my rescue”.

    The biggest achievement of the dear Boris was getting the PM job, that’s it, he had nothing in his armoury of abilities to offer in performing in the job, he has been a jester all his life, capable, often witty, excellent in wordsmithing and the manner of speech, but even more so in lying, and not just about the groping guy, he has lied throughout his life, to women, his employers, lately the Parliament and the country, he got away with it till now because of his clowning ability, charm, charisma and the benevolence of the great British unwashed, not one of such attributes of his is enough to run a country of 70mn people facing the biggest crisis since WW2.

    Britain may not be what Britain used to be, but she still deserves better.

  117. Baron, July 7th, 2022 – 21:46

    “Who’s next?”

    Our boy Paul is somewhat scathing about the runners and riders…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejf5xM6wjsA

    Nothing will change. Amongst the reasons are, Baron…

    1) hardly anybody in the higher ranks of any of the parties have a clue what life id like for most people, and couldn’t care less. None of them have done an honest day’s work in their lives, and from their well paid lofty perches presume that they have the intellectual and moral authority to lord it over the rest of us. Those that are “cut from the common cloth” usually tend to be numpties. eg Lisa.

    2) The civil service and local authority offices are chock full of lefties who are operating with the same mindset as 1)

  118. Beer Starmer,

    How did he get away with it?

    You won’t see this anywhere else… not even GB News – ehich tells you a lot about GB News. With the exception of one or two there it’s 90% pure drivel. There are obviously no real journalists to ask the obvious questions.

    “Political Links Between Labour AND Durham Police EXPOSED”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQ56xPTsTo

    The Labour fiefdoms of the NE always have been corrupt as hell… since they were established 100 years ago. Despite a few of their MPs getting temporarily booted out in 2019 they still have full control of all aspects of local government and the quangocracy. They are as a permanent feature as the CCP are in ChyNa.

  120. EC @ July 10th, 2022 – 07:57

    He’s excellent, EC, as always and your two points sum it up more than well, we really are doomed, it’s a great pity Baker withdrew, he isn’t ideal, but he ticked for Baron all the essential boxes, it was he and Frost that did the Brexit negotiations, he’s also a backbencher, and more to the point, his ancestors paid taxes to the first Elizabeth.

    Baron does think the time has come when the English have to have a say in how they are governed, it’s not racism, far from it, Baron’s an import also, it’s just common sense, when a crisis hits someone of a heritage pedigree with the stake in the future will respond differently to someone like Sunak who together with his wife will very likely bugger off to the American Republic eventually.

  121. EC @ July 10th, 2022 – 08:13

    This piece of speculative but fact based news, EC, must have Frank turning in his grave, the Scottish fiefdom is in urgent need of an investigation, surprisingly Alex Salmond has gone totally quiet, it must be his association with RT, he would have been the one pointing his finger at the shenanigans, or more.

  122. Quite a find, some valid points, the take on the Spectator and the chums attending its garden party points to the new generation that may shock some if not all oldies, but then there’re young, sooner or later some of them will get sucked in, attend the garden party also, unless they dislodge what’s there today, reface it with what?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnxjMcmRY-s

  123. Baron – 08:35

    That woman is Ash Sarkar, Baron. She is a communist, and as such she is an expert on revisionist history – it’s what communists are really good at, that and piling up corpses. Her whinnying on about Democracy with a straight face is a good laugh though, innit.

    She is also part of, part owner of, “Novara media”. A 222K subscriber YT channel is not enough, even if they were all real, to generate enough ad revenue to make it sustainable. A perennial shortage of funds must be s Soros point Hu knows where they get donations from. (‘scuse my spelling M’lud)

  124. Vilfredo Fritz Pareto, originator of The Pareto Principle, was an interesting chap.

    I think that the 80:20 rule is a bit too conservative in the modern economic world. Today I think it is more likely to be 95:5. The same principle can be applied to achieving outcomes from “social” media agitation, whether it be for political, religious or environmental (a combination of both} purposes.

    Any thoughts?

  126. EC @ July 12th, 2022 – 08:22

    Got it, EC, thanks, it’s the first time Baron came across the youngsters, the female and the rest of the crew, very articulate but not as Russel Brand, their criticism sounds OK, they said nothing about what should be done and why, but of they are anywhere near the cumryd, thank you.

  130. Or perhaps to save the bowels of the Conservative party from the arsehole of Johnson.

  131. Noa @ July 13th, 2022 – 17:44

    This one’s better, Noa, as is the choice of the suicide squad, top marks for it.

    It’s currently Sunak and the fragrant one Penny Mordaunt, Hunt’s backing the former, the members of the Tory tribe prefer the latter, the one smelling of the tank oil is trailing, the Saffron Walden girl Kemi Badenoch is even further down the list, it would be a miracle if she could make it to the final.

    Seems rather pointless though, come 2024 they are out anyway.

  132. EC @ July 12th, 2022 – 11:42

    Agreed, EC, a fabulous presentation, too fast for Baron’s Alzheimer infected brain, the BC period is essentially mostly Greek cities then Italy comes in but everyone’s dwarfed by the Islamic Constantinople, the other thing to notice is that when the cities reduce they almost always reduce all except for the Muslim one, what is also interesting that London doesn’t appear but when it does it rushes to the top at a speed never seen before.

    Truly enjoyable and informative, thanks for it, it has been filed, it would be harder to do it by country since many countries changed boundaries, the growth or decline of the city populations must be driven by many factors, it may not reflect the population changes in the country though.

  134. Noa, July 13th, 2022 – 11:13

    The Johnsonian years: quite literally “A Cock & Bull Story.”

    The Bull is dead, long live the Bull.
    It matters not who is elected the new Bull, the continuity of BS is assured.
    Labour will win the next GE. The MSM really want Sir Beer in No,10, as their steadfast refusal to examine his record. and Labour links to and their recent interactions with the Durham C*nstabulary show.

    I think that Jake Thackray summed it up nicely decades ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6sITiNEs

  137. Baron
    Soon we will be down from the slimy six to the furtive four. None offer any feeling of optimism for the future.
    None mentions their solution to the forthcoming winter food and fuel shortages. The reality and real Net Zero awaits us.
    Ne

  138. This would disturb you if violence, even unseen violence, disturbs you, it’s two videos by Anatoli Sharij, you may remember the blogger, a journalist, the leader of the party called also “Sharij’ in Ukraine, now banned, some of his top members either in jail or not known where.

    The first is an interview with a soldier of the Ukrainian Army stationed in Mariupol when it was still under the control of Ukraine, he’s now a prisoner of war, he describes a harrowing incident, he speaks Russian but there are subtitles. The other video, also subtitled, follows the first, it has an interview with the wife of the killed man, Baron couldn’t watch it in full.

    Sharij published other interviews of the prisoners of war not one with subtitles, mostly about the conditions they have to endure in the hands of the Russians, some were asked ‘have they beaten you’, few of them said ‘yes’, they got hit, kicked but when asked whether they had injuries answered in the negative, most said they were treated well, some were even expressing gratitude (probably those of the Russian ethnicity), whether one can believe them is hard to say, there was only corroborative evidence in a few of those interviews where Sharij’s people in Ukraine contacted those the prisoner mentioned, once a man the prisoner hit over the head, nearly killed him, the wound partially healed looked sickening. Sharij says that the Russians are not present when the interviews are recorded, Baron believes him, the guy has never lied before.

    One cannot rule out that the individual Russian soldiers don’t engage in something similar one can see in the two videos, war’s an awful undertaking, people turn worse than wild animals if they have full control and power over others.

    The has been plenty published about Russian atrocities, the source of most it was the former Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova that got fired (google for her), but was not prosecuted, some of the fake evidence is still around as if it were true. Had there been such cases the Russian perpetrators of such heinous behaviour backed by evidence those involved should be prosecuted, punished severely also, hopefully when it’s all over that’s what will happen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3OO4rshks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF7K_XEIip0

  139. Noa @ July 14th, 2022 – 17:32

    You, Noa, and EC should be on the Spectator blogs, you’re missing it not being there, it’s hard to sum up what the prevailing view is probably that it matters not a bit, the candidates are all globalists, so are the selectors, the party members will be served two of them it’s likely to be Sunak and Penny Mordaunt although Truss is possible also, Kemi, the favourite of Rod Liddle and few others, also Baron’s is out.

  140. Apologies for the errors in the long and short postings, Alzheimer, Baron should have checked, will not promise to check in the future.

  143. A nicely balanced take on the historical events related to the East European affairs of the last 100 years or so.

    One can expand the puzzle further, it seems the guy that panned the piece, Larry Johnson is unaware that it is the hierarchy of the Polish society that is close to the Ukrainian leadership, the governing elite, not the unwashed, they are not in favour, at best they’re indifferent, but from what Baron hears it’s not to their liking at all.

    There are allegedly 400,000 Ukrainian kids enrolled in Polish schools (this may be an agitprop, the number seems massive even if one accepts there are over 3mn Ukrainians in Poland), apparently the Poles are looking for teachers preferably that could speak also Ukrainian or Russian. Whatever the number of children, the influx of the Ukrainians cannot but burden not only the Polish educational system but the economy overall, it’s close to a 10% boost to the population of the country.

    https://sonar21.com/polands-puzzling-support-for-ukraine/

  144. John birch. @ July 15th, 2022 – 07:59

    It’s behind a paywall, John, but Ridley’s right, it’s in large part the Green imbecility ‘what did it’.

    If Penny gets the job, she’ll carry on with the net zero carbon insane policy, she’s been keen on it, keener than Sunak, we should at least decide to delay any of the intended measures indefinitely, then quietly drop them.

    For a start we should stop all the Green subsidies from cars to solar panels at a stroke, that would ease the burden of the high energy bills that will get higher still in October, imagine that the average energy bill is likely to be £3,300 when the average pension stands at £9,627.80 a year, leaving just over £100 per week to live on, madness.

  145. Thought for the day.

    “Say what you want about Arthur Scargill, he organised the Miners Strike to keep the pits open.”

  146. Noa, July 14th, 2022 – 17:32
    Baron, July 14th, 2022 – 22:31

    When the dust has settled Claus Schwab will be the de facto PM of the UK.
    The WEF is running at least 3 candidates in the leadership election.

    “Vee hev vays of making you serfs. Mein Fuhrer!”

  150. Wee Hinnie, the rotten moler in the national upper jawbone of Britain, has been unusually quiet for a few days, no doubt she’s hubble bubbling over some Edinburgh cauldron with some other wig wearers.
    Here’s a reminder of why she’s amongst the nations all time referendum favourites.
    https://youtu.be/V60AGxPXQoU

  151. Noa @ July 15th, 2022 – 09:15

    Isn’t it ironic, Noa, that some of the big decisions of the past that had profound impact on not just the economic fortunes of the country but also on people’s lives at the time they were implemented have come back to bite us? The railways cutbacks and the closure of mines are the two obvious examples, but there are others such as the almost wholesale switch to comprehensive schooling.

    We’ve got enough coal to last us for centuries, furnish cheap electricity aplenty, no need for imports of the expensive LNG, and when it comes to the climatic changes – adapt to it, adaptation is the way of survival, fighting it is futile, however much science may have progressed nature, still rules, and rules big.

  152. EC @ July 15th, 2022 – 10:02

    The most succinct summing up of the debate, EC, absolutely correct and delightfully short at that.

  157. EC @ July 16th, 2022 – 10:34

    Neil’s observations are excellent, EC, he’s right, of course, it matters not one bit who gets in, it will not matter who wins in 2024 either, take the issue of the zero net carbon, they are all backing it, not just the Tories, every politicians that desires to make has to back it.

    The highest number of upticks was for David Brewin, he says “they (the politicians) will do exactly what they are told”, this is where he gets it wrong, the politicians know what to say, nobody tells them anything, they know that should they say the opposite they will be toast.

    The policies are worked out by the likes of Schwab &co, but these originators of the tenets of “the reset”, the “bring back better” and other stuff do not send anything to the politicians, there are no e-mails, letters, dispatches, the politicians are astute enough to get these messages, to act on them, they don’t have to be “told’, they swallow these ideas because they are fully aware of what would happen to their careers if they opposed any of these shibboleths.

    It was the same in the totalitarian regimes of the East, the Politburo worked out what they regarded as the right stance on an event, the correct interpretation o fit, it was presented to the masses in Pravda, the official mouthpiece of the Politburo, and that was it, nobody from the top echelon insisted or issued an order that everyone has to follow the official line, but everyone that wanted to make it knew that going against it was a career suicide, the end of one’s good life, shovelling coal at best or digging up uranium.

    Each of us instinctively know what would make it for one to become a member of the progressive tribe, and what keeps one out of it, it can be worked out by a school kid, to believe that one has “to be told’ introduces an element of coercion that doesn’t really exist, it’s fully absent, that’s the clever part of it, it is not compulsion, arm twisting or even gentle persuasion that makes those hoping to make it in such a society to follow the tenets worked out by the totalitarian authority, it’s but knowing the consequences of failing to follow the orthodoxy – everyone can see what befalls on those rebelling against it – that by itself is by far more powerful lever to ensure compliance, it’s self-imposed, the one complying could even explain it to himself, I have a family to look after, what about the kids’ future, if I didn’t embrace it someone else would and benefit …….

  158. Baron, July 16th, 2022 – 22:05

    You’d be surprised. perhaps not, a what all manner of things lurks beneath the facade of UK establishment’s finest!

    Vladimir Vladimirovich has publicly stated, on several occasions, that they/he would never launch a first strike… which means he almost certainly would – given the right conditions. They will have war gamed every every starting position and outcome. At the rate at which the west’s military are being weakened, demoralised and subverted perhaps they won’t need to?

  161. Wallis, you have to be wealthy to be a respectable pervert. Personally I was disgusted that the dirty batch didn’t remove his slap before going to bed.

  162. EC 09.15

    I can’t imagine that any Russian invader would now consider the West as entirely ungovernable an impossible mess not worth saving. Nuclear cauterisation would be an effective and pragmatic solution for the proto-sub-saharan colony.

  163. 11.53
    It’s bad enough that Gates has taken to planetary destruction without changing my description of Wallis M.Perv from dirty bitch to dirty batch, inextricably associating him in my mind forever with a useless bread roll.

  164. I was sheltering from the Saharan heat(*) up here on the borders yesterday and to my surprise Gorgeous George (Galloway) popped up on my “YouTube” with the latest edition of his MOATS (Mother of All Talk Shows0 This was a surprise to me because I thought that he’d been banned.

    In one segment he was reviewing the Tory hopefuls. He covered the Cummings-Sunak plot, and he made the allusion that Rishi was “a backstabbing snake. So low he could walk under a snake with a top hat on” ROFLMAO!

    If you think that was bad you should hear what he’s got to say about Liz.

    “A Pound Shop Margaret Thatcher and Norman Bates’ Mother.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOsQcpFBcvM

    A 2 min clip of GG at his articulate best. Only Steyn can match him.

    Thought: When GG refers to Liz as “A clear and present danger to the peace of the world and to the very existence of my country” one is apt to speculate which country that would be ! 🙂

    * Climate Crisis: it got up to 20C here yesterday!

  165. Noa, July 17th, 2022 – 12:01

    He could always start by dropping one over Davos. It would bugger the skiing season up, but that’s a bonus as I’ve never taken to the skiing classes. There again, I’d never join any club that would have me as a member.

  168. EC

    We all answer to the Diet of the Coca Cola Company eventually, even Imperateur Wihelm Gates.

  169. We will be rejoining der Grosse Reich shortly, and marching under Berlin orders against the Bolshevik hordes.
    There will be no negotiated peace, the wealth and territory of the West will be commandeered and mobilised to buy the fickle support of the third world in the
    https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en

  171. Noa – 12:00

    Yes, good one. I saw that Scholz memorandum to the rest of us yesterday.
    In due course Sir Beer will be installed UK Gauleiter
    Heil Schwab

  173. Politics and the paraphernalia of politicians are now irrelevant.
    We are now controlled by the Mandarinate and the role of the 650 machine politicians that Parliament houses is simply to relay and their instructions to we villeigns and sign off the implementing laws when they instructed to do so.
    Fortunately this means that we serfs can now judge them not on their policies and their success in executing them, but on more modern criteria: first their pork barrel ‘take’ then their sexuality, this requires detailed examination and ranges from their habitual gropings in the Stranglers Bar to their right to breastfeed during debates. At present this remains mother to child, though we may expect future developments in this new area, as in others.
    In the meantime,fellow peons, enjoy the grotesque clown show that the real rulers of Britain provides to destract us from reality!

  174. From the egregious eight to the terrible two- none of the above.

    The Tory party, a distant, fast fading light in the maelstrom of a dying democrac, is now headed for electoral oblivion.

  175. Noa – 14:29

    “Public warming halls”

    One part of their community must already being getting excited at the prospect!

  176. Noa 16:37 & 08:43

    Yes, The Party really is over! The Reds vs Blues etc. always was a charade. It was the Civil Service that really ran the country, not the “here today, gone tomorrow” politicians. (Robin Day)

    In days of yore, before Gramsci’s long marchers got to work, Academe turned out educated and relatively free thinking people (by today’s standards) to run the various branches of the establishment. Academe today takes in students and churns out fully lobotomised & reprogrammed graduate ideologues, The Civil Service, Local Government and the rest are chock full of them.

    The MSM has been a useful tool in bringing about the demise of the current Tory reign, but don’t expect the same scrutiny of Beer Von Sturmer. There are no longer any real journalists, just like there are no longer any real police. It all reminds me of what I have read about Berlin in the 1930s.

  177. Noa – 08:43

    The look of self-congratulatory smug satisfaction of the 1922 gurning bods that flanked Brady as he announced the final three, and then the final two was really noticeable. I remarked to Mrs EC that they were like turkeys voting for an early Christmas, and for once she actually agreed with me!

    May the farce be with you.

  178. Noa @ July 20th, 2022 – 12:21

    Provided they survive the Winter, Noa, they should be OK in the Spring, it will be warmer then, hehe, heh.

  180. Why don’t we hear about what should be the trial of the century, the poisoning of Dawn Sturgess after the failed attempt to novichok the Skripals? Not a word in the MSM, weird that.

    Btw, it seems China (apart from Baron but nobody would listen to him, they should listen to her though), is the only country calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the talking to begin, the West seems determined to see the conflict to carry on indefinitely.

    http://johnhelmer.net/the-novichok-public-hearing-secret-sequel/

  182. Is Putin going to die, ever?

    Here you have two takes on the man who seems to want to live forever, and so far so good, the first one is a Spectator piece, pity you cannot read the postings, the other is by the guy Anatolij Sharij, the Ukrainian blogger, journalist and a party leader, it’s subtitled but he talks fast ending the clip with ‘Putin alive, it’s the Western Media that are dead’, and right he is:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-putin-really-in-good-health-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDkbSu_V6Gs

    PS: Apologies, here’s the third slicing of Putin’s health, or rather a chronology of the reporting of Putin’s state of health in the Western media, you don’t have to read it all, not even some of it, it’s just that it fits the other two links above.

  184. Baron, July 22nd, 2022 – 22:21

    As far as death by natural causes is concerned, longevity for all of us is a bit of a lottery. Some political leaders die young, and others like “Uncle Bob” Mugabe go on till they are 95.

    Political leaders ‘enjoy’ better living conditions and healthcare but that doesn’t enable them to outrun the Grim Reaper for very long, as when the sand in their hourglass runs out they’ll get a tap on the shoulder.

    The lifespan of political/military leaders who outstay their welcome is often tragically, for them, cut short.

  185. Baron, July 22nd, 2022 – 15:26

    There’s a reason why Bill Gates has been buying up farms and is now the (western) world’s largest landowner.

  186. EC + Baron

    I have been considering the matter of His Holiness the Lord God Gates and the miraculous transmutation of software into land through the medium of money.
    It it my speculation that the wretch is not interested in the mass production of grain and its glorious end product, the Wonderloaf, but rather the partial recreation of the seven plagues of Egypt. It is of course locusts which come to mind and I’m certain that the rogue would have us all crunching the wretched things instead of our corn flakes or muesli in the mornings.
    Certain approaches have indeed been made by the brute to acquire the rolling wheat plains of Noa Towers. My Latvian overseers had to see of his representatives with the trusty whips which have served them so well through the generations.
    Baron- the Altzheimers? I’d not noticed it, but I now suppress all symptoms by the strictest application of Sloe Gin an and Champagne brandy..

  187. Thanks be for summer cricket, the palliative that soothes the fevered brow and skills forth…

  190. Noa @ July 23rd, 2022 – 16:56

    Now that you’ve mentioned it, Noa, last year in October Baron set up four large glass jars with measured amount of sloe berries, dry London gin, and sugar (an old recipe), he tried one last week, couldn’t wait any longer, a success, half of the output’s already consumed, the other three jars are waiting to be processed later in the year.

    Good stuff that, next year the production may double, pity we cannot meet, Baron would be only too happy to share the delightful home made sap with you and EC.

  191. EC @ July 23rd, 2022 – 10:46

    Gates must be buying the lands, EC for reasons connected either with his vaccine obsession or some environmental concerns hoping to wild it with bisons and other creatures that roamed these lands in pre-history, right?

  192. EC @ July 23rd, 2022 – 10:40

    Your short musing, EC, reminded Baron of a film called the Green Man, one of Baron’s favourites, it’s got Alastair Sim and Terry Thomas in it, great actors, also others of course, but these two with few others are on top of Baron’s list of the British cinema greats.

    Where is Hawkins when the country needs him?

  193. Noa, July 23rd, 2022 – 16:56

    The overnight rainfall was enough to refloat your Ark.
    I truss that you were able to complete your combining before the deluge, inshallah. The rains, have come in time, though, to save your paddy fields located in the upper terraces of The Trough. That divide, the other side of which lies {{{Yorkshiristan}}}, is known locally as the hindu crotch, i believe?

  194. Noa,

    Following the declaration by The Who (*) that Monkeypox is now the new global health emergency I was wondering what implications this might have for this winter’s Six Notions Rugby Foot-the-ball competition, particularly with regard to transmission of the virus. Will the Scrummage (**) have to be abandoned until further notice, or will face masks, butt plugs and hi-tech jockstraps have to be worn?

    * Tedious Tedros, not Roger Daltrey et al.
    ** I have always considered our sewer breathed cross channel colleagues to have an advantage in these close quarter encounters, exuding as they frequently do the vapours of semi digested garlic and well rotted brie from all orifices.

  196. Baron, July 24th, 2022 – 22:11

    Stop it!
    You are making me nostalgic for the days when films had actors who could act, talented directors shooting decent plots, from well written scripts.

    Why anybody would actually pay to watch any of the garbage that Hollywood produces today is beyond me.

  197. Baron,

    Dr. Jordan Peterson pontificates on the “civil war.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-K_j2KcBX8

    @4.00 mins he asks…
    “What is going to happen to a country that is already paranoid and misguided…”

    Apparently, he thinks that only one of the protagonists (Russia-USA) in the conflict suffers from this problem! That’s the problem with academics when they start pontificating outside the realms of their speciality.

  198. EC @ July 25th, 2022 – 10:23

    A revealing interview, but I agree with you, he’s transparently not fully in the picture, his slicing of the Europe’s dependence of Russian fossil fuels has been there since 1966 when the Yaman oil fields were discovered, never any problema, not a hutch, as Baron keeps pointing out in one year of the Cold War West Germany purchased as a per cent of her aggregate demand more Russian oil&gas than she’s buying now united with the Eastern part.

    The dependence of the Americans on the titanium imports is twice the dependence of the EU on the Russian fossil fuels, does any raise an eyebrow? Nope, nobody, but more than an eyebrow was raised for the Europe purchases of Russian fossil fuels because it was gelling the two European giants closer together, and as Baron has said many times the aim of the US Foreign Policy on Europe is to keep the two separate, never ever allow Russia nd German to get to bed together, that’s even more important now when the Germans have their pet EU project going.

    The insanity of the EU decision to switch to non-renewable energy sources other than Russian fossil fuels beggars belief, the price of landed LNG is over $30 per million Btu in every region but the North America compared to $8.00 again for million Btu for piped natural gas from Russia.

    Suicidal that.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/252984/landed-prices-of-liquefied-natural-gas-in-selected-regions-worldwide/

  199. Team Obama’s Third Term: It ain’t going so well…

    Looking at the ramping up of #projectfear on multiple fronts it’s looking like the Dems will firing up their election fraud organisation after the summer recess. Another substantially rigged Postal Vote is the only thing that will stop them losing both the House and the Senate.

  201. Baron
    It would be a pleasure to drown the troubles of the world together with EC of the Northern Marches. Come visit the North , we’ll launch the Reconquista.

  203. Noa @ July 25th, 2022 – 22:12

    The treatment of the Russia’s fossil fuels supply to Europe by the West is bizarre, there’s no doubt the Americans were determined to cut the supplies off, they said so many times, Biden once quipped ‘we will do everything to bury the N-2’, they had it as the prime objective that sat at the top of their list of priorities, and nothing below it for a mile or more.

    Then when the supply of oil and gas gets curtailed as Germany and others seek urgently other sources of energy and Russia herself begins to pump less and less of the stuff she gets blamed for the ‘weaponising’ of the fossil fuels supplies. Unbelievable that.

  204. Baron, July 27th, 2022 – 06:59

    Thanks, I’m CTB today so I’ll give it a go,

    Mark Steyn did a very short, sombre, interview with Julian Assange’s brother last night. It was about his new documentary “ITHAKA” that is about to be released, I fully expect that it will get buried.

    Mike Pompeo and the fragrant Priti are now “Besties” reportedly. (…or so the deluded woman would like to think…)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-s_rcYg3VE

  205. Baron, July 27th, 2022 – 07:05

    Team Obama and the US Deep State Malignocracy is thriving whilst their county going to hell in a handcart it appears. The US has been “printing” money at at exponential rate of increase in recent years. Any other country would have been declared bankrupt. However, they probably have enough nukes to blow the world up ten times over. This might keep them on their perch in the short term, but it cannot last.

    The WEF and their place-men have launched what appears to be an orchestrated attack on famers and food production. Weaponising food. It is happening in too many countries at the same time for it just to be a coincidence. The timing of these efforts after the Plandemic and subsequent supply chain and inflation issues, after the outbreak of war created an energy crisis and removed the Ukrainian breadbasket from the table…. this is no coincidence either.

  206. EC @ July 28th, 2022 – 09:56

    Good points, EC.

    The food crisis may fit the ‘bring back better’ push, instead of bread and butter we will be switched to bugs and greens, Gates will supply both, he has bought enough land to feed us all on the new diet.

    What also worries Baron is the American belligerence towards China with the Pelosi trip, what an untimely idea, one would have thought they have Russia to deal with first, why poking at China at the same time, it makes no sense unless one assumes that the Governing Elite believes the American Armed Forces are strong enough to fight on two fronts, but can they?

    When Putin invaded in Feb 24 the NATO Rapid Response units didn’t move one inch eastwards from the bases in Holland and Germany, that exercised the Poles who demanded the units move, Pentagon said ‘no way’.

    Pentagon again advises against the visit, but apparently Pelosi is adamant she will go, asked other congressmen to join her, in response the Chinese said that they would try to force the plane to divert, if that’s unsuccessful they are ready to shoot it down, that the last thing the world needs, another conflict, probably once more a proxy warring between the Taiwanese and Chinese military units.

    The world’s getting crazier by the hour, or rather the governing layers are, as if we didn’t;t have enough warts and boils domestic.

  209. Baron, July 27th, 2022 – 06:59

    Re: Richard C. Cook’s US-Ukraine disaster

    “This is long, very long, but it contains historical and evidential bits Baron wasn’t aware of, if anyone makes the effort to read it also, we could debate it or at least make points”

    Well, I eventually flogged through it. Io be honest I don’t know why he bothered with his version of the potted history of the US. Some of it probably right, bits of it factually wrong, and some of it open to argument.(historians argue about everything)
    Having said that, that’s an impressive catalogue of crimes and evil he listed. He was on more solid ground with his analysis of the history of events in Ukraine.

    As for Mr. Cook’s final panglossian flights of fancy regarding the utopian future of the US? It ain’t gonna happen, imo. Not without a thermonuclear reset!

    He refers to Biden as if he’s still a sentient being running the show, when it is the man behind the curtains pulling the strings… or typing on the autocue.

    Team Obama’s Third Term ain’t going so well is it?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI2Xtqd4Mts

    Unusually for former presidents, good old Barack has chosen to maintain one of his many residences in Washington DC.

    “Barack and Michelle Obama live down the street from the White House”

    https://www.thelist.com/146336/inside-barack-and-michelle-obamas-gorgeous-d-c-home/

    Like Blair etc etc upon leaving office Barack, overnight, became suddenly incredibly wealthy.

  211. The Saturday DT has it as an important piece of news confirming the savagery of the Russians when the Pentagon spokesmen says that ‘if it were the Ukrainians that hit the detention centre in Yelenovka housing the Azov prisoners it was not intentional’.

    It was without doubt the Ukrainians, it was the US supplied HIMARS that fired the missiles, the target was intentional, the Azov boys were telling things the Kiev regime couldn’t allow anyone to know about.

    https://oopstop.com/the-pentagon-called-the-unintentional-strike-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-on-the-prison-in-yelenovka/

  212. John birch @ July 30th, 2022 – 20:33

    If the Americans were informed by common sense Pelosi would have covid also, John, cancel the trip to Taiwan, it’s a provocation the world could live without.

    A big ask, will you please be very kind and elaborate on what you’ve said on the CW namely that you worked on a project that was to supply Russian gas to Norway for cleaning, the gas was the pumped to Europe, we may have bought it also claiming it’s Norwegian, is this correct.

    When it comes to Britain’s purchases of gas the MSM claims we buy the bulk from Holland or Belgium never from Russia that is supposed to supply only some 5% of our purchases of gas, Baron has been googling like mad to find out what the truth is, thought even of contacting Centrica.

    Here’s what Reuters said in March this year: “Centrica has a supply agreement with Gazprom Marketing & Trading (the UK entity) through which gas can be sourced from the open market and this does not necessarily mean Centrica is directly supplied with gas from Russia”.

    This says nothing about how much gas the company bought from Russia, but could it be that the ‘open market’ gas is Russian?

    Many thanks, John.

  213. EC @ July 30th, 2022 – 10:34

    Your take on the longer than long piece is fully endorsed, EC, Baron must confess he skipped more than half of it, it was mostly scanning the text, the part on Ukraine was better, but agreed, the rebirth of the West is hard to take.

    Apologies if you spent too much time on it, it will not happen again that Baron recommends something of that length.

    The Obamas residence looks fantastic, it should for over $8.0mn, pity the dogs cannot recognise the doorbell yet.

    Not many young boys and girls aspire to enter politics, but they should, it seems to pay off to climb the greasy pole of political machinations, all one needs is the ability to rabbit a lot without saying much, to accept the orthodoxy of the time, never to divert from it, and to have thick skin to stand the heat in the kitchen.

    It’s either politics or the field of charities, no fear of ever being taken to cleaners in either.

  215. Do you suffer from body dysmorphia? Then it’s antidepressants for you, amongst the few other avenues to cure it if one were to listen to the Guardian female advising a man that has everything but a big member.

    In the past, people got on with life, no moaning about the size of their body parts or anything else, that’s how Nature of He created them, no point in feeling depressed, the antidepresants would be the last cure one should even consider, it seems it’s a drug for everything under the sun, it creates problems bigger than those it’s supposed to help to alleviate, the man should stay away from the poison.

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/31/i-have-a-small-penis-will-i-ever-be-able-to-measure-up-ask-philippa

    You’re getting this link because the ghastly rag keeps sending similar offerings to entice Baron to give money. Never in a thousand years, in the latest issue the rag talks about the Ukrainian Kherson counterattack under the heading ‘Ukraine forces Russia to bolster troops in occupied south’ instead of calling for an immediate cessation of the fighting, shouldn’t;t this be what a supposedly liberal rag should advice in any military conflict?

  216. Again, too much to ask, the video runs close to half an hour, Baron reckons it’s worth watching, it explains the one Achilles heel of China superbly well, it also furnishes a well articulated overview of the brewing US-China conflict over Taiwan, and much more.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHHe1Hu6d4

  217. The narrative below comes from a staunch anti-Putin anti-Russian site the “Maidan Press”, it’s in English, you can click ‘home’ read some of the other stuff published there, this piece is about the missile attack on the Olenivka prison facility, it’s rather informative, it gives away the reason for the attack, but it also shows, if the narrative’s correct, that the Russian failed to secure the place, they were told the bombing may happen:

    https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/07/31/murder-of-ukrainian-pows-in-olenivka-prison-everything-we-know/

  218. This is what we are against, do we really want to fight her, would not coexisting peacefully be more sensible way forward? Even if nukes are absent, the sheer number of the combat troops would suggest accommodation now is what we should seek, we left it too late, some 20 years too late:

    https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/n_gtB_JR25sVOHOq8mWrOg

  219. Sri Lanka, National Fuel Pass. The only way to get petrol will be though rationing linked to the national identification database. No QR code, no fuel.
    I can see that one heading our way very quickly.

  220. Today’s telegraph.
    Behind a paywall so here it is.
    A catastrophic energy crisis will fuel a revolt against our failed elites
    Politicians cannot shirk responsibility now for the extreme hardship millions of people are about to face
    This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring. 
    The gathering crisis could prove even more catastrophic than the oil shock of the 1970s, which wrecked the administrations of three British prime ministers, presaged 40 years of American entanglement in the Middle East, and (due to the oil glut that followed) ultimately triggered the Soviet Union’s collapse.
    Carnage has already arrived in the developing world, with power outages from Cuba to South Africa. Sri Lanka is just one of a cascade of low-income countries where leaders face being driven out of power in an ignominious blaze of petrol droughts and loan defaults.
    But the West is not going to escape this Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be its epicentre – and Britain, its Ground Zero.
    In Europe and America, a technocratic elite system built on mythology and complacency is crumbling. Its founding fable – which prophesied the nation states’ glorious enmeshment in world government and supply chains – has metastasised into a parable of the perils of globalisation.
    For all the attempts to depict the Ukraine war as a black swan event, a spike in basic commodity prices in a volatile world was perfectly predictable. People are left wondering why their leaders failed to make contingency plans, given that they sit on vast untapped reserves of gas, oil and coal. The EU was supine in the face of Putin’s bid to keep the region’s market divided and dominate its more compromised powers.
    Nor is there any explanation for this fiasco apart from decades of failed assumptions and policy missteps by our governing class. In the wake of the financial crash, the establishment just about managed to convince the public to submit to the purifying rigours of austerity, persuading voters that we all shared the blame for the crisis and must all play a role in atoning for the country’s mistakes. This time, elites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors.
    Put simply, the emperor has no clothes. The establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is net zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. Actively campaigning for boiler bans, 15mph speed limits, and speculative green bubbles may seem like madness. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an elite that has become unhinged from the real world.
    There are several countries where we might see the first signs of a resulting populist revolt. The Germans must swallow national humiliation along with higher energy bills, as their political leaders are taunted on the world stage for their naive bid to prioritise economic harmony and trade links over security. According to some analysts, France, which is no stranger to protest, could be the first in Europe to experience blackouts despite its sizeable nuclear industry. But it is Britain where things could truly blow.
    The UK may well be the tinderbox of Europe. With the ousting of Boris Johnson and his imminent replacement by a politician who will not have led his or her party into power via a general election, the political context is particularly febrile. Even more so given disillusionment at the waste of the past two years and the failure of the Government to capitalise on Brexit to renew the country.
    Moreover, Britain’s consumers look set to be clobbered harder than most. We already have the highest inflation in the G7. But a succession of fatal policy mistakes – from the closure of gas storage facilities to the failure to exploit our domestic oil and gas reserves – mean that we will remain unnecessarily vulnerable to sky-high international energy prices for years to come, with all the pain that will bring consumers.
    Despite this, Britons are set to receive less assistance from the Government than their counterparts in other Western countries. The 5p cut in fuel duty has been estimated as the second smallest in Europe. While our politicians pontificate about insulating more homes at some point in the distant future, Spain has made many train journeys free until the end of the year. France has vowed to fully nationalise the energy giant EDF, which it had already forced to cap consumer bills.
    A civil disobedience movement, inspired by the poll tax revolt, has already been launched here in the UK. The Don’t Pay campaign, which is urging people to join a “mass non-payment strike” when the energy price cap is raised in October, has gained thousands of online supporters.
    And if it does take off, what are the authorities going to be able to do about it? Such is the scale of the coming price rises that millions may simply be unable to pay their bills – including pensioners and families hitherto part of the middle classes. The risk is that, bogged down with leadership hustings, the Tories realise too late that they need to act. The predicament we face is likely game-changing. We have barely begun to grasp how unpredictable the next few years are likely to be – and how poorly prepared we are to face the consequences. 
    If weaning ourselves off Russia – a comparatively small economy – is this painful, how are we to end our addiction to cheap goods from China? If we do manage to achieve a greater degree of energy self-reliance, how will we contend with the collapse of petrostates in the Middle East and the migration crisis that is likely to follow?
    This may sound like a grim prognosis, but particularly in Britain it does feel as if we just may have entered the final act of an economic system that has patently failed. It is clearer than ever that the emperor has no clothes and has no more stories to distract us with.

  221. John birch. – 07:39

    “No QR code, no fuel.”

    Quite! The NHS vaccine status QR code/pass was obviously softening people up for what was to come The amount of fuel that one is allowed to draw per day/week/month linked to one’s social credit score. Also food.

    No wonder that bastard Bliar is pushing for Digital-ids and a cashless society.

  222. John birch. – 07:43

    Thank you for that article from the Barclay Bros Bugle.
    Is there an author quoted, and why only now are they circling the walls of Jericho?

    The thing that puzzles me John, is why China would want to bankrupt the West when it would hurt them in equal measure? There would be mass unemployment and hardship there and surely Xi would be toast? Who else would buy all the mostly useless crap that they turn out?

  223. Do anybody else watch Al Jazeera News? They actually cover real news stories rather than concentrating on the myopic trivia that forms a large part of other news outlets, including, sadly a lot of GB News output. Sky News Australia is an exception, too.

  224. John birch. @ August 2nd, 2022 – 07:39

    Please, John, look back at some postings, Baron’s asking you to say more about the Russia-Norway gas conundrum, please, it’s important, is it true that some of the gas pumped to Europe by Norway is Russian gas cleaned by the Norwegian?

  225. {{{RECESSION}}} {{{INFLATION}}} {{{RUSSIA}}} {{{UKRAINE}}}. {{{FOOD CRISIS}}} {{{ENERGY CRISIS}}} {{{CHINA}}} {{{TAIWAN}}}. {{{COVID}}} {{{MONKEY POX}}}

    Yup!

    EC, July 25th, 2022 – 18:52
    Team Obama’s Third Term: It ain’t going so well…

    Looking at the ramping up of #projectfear on multiple fronts it’s looking like the Dems will firing up their election fraud organisation after the summer recess. Another substantially rigged Postal Vote is the only thing that will stop them losing both the House and the Senate.

  227. Not any response to Baron’s @23:38:

    If you reckon Baron’s backing China in any way you’re wrong, the barbarian hates regimes of the few controlling the many, dictatorships and autocracies are abhorrent, unless one tasted them it’s almost impossible to imagine, Baron did, and a part of his life spent behind bars in a regime much worse than China’s, one couldn’t pack up, leave the nightmare, but there are times when such regimes can be confronted head on, times where accommodation is preferable.

    Baron says it because he also remembers vaguely the tail end of WW2, it wasn’t;t pretty, the one event that will never leave Baron’s memory is of two Austrian soldiers, very young, probably late teenagers (or so Baron’s mother used to say), walking west, with many others, stopping at the family house, unwrapping their rag cladded feet, you’ve never seen anything like it, it wasn’t individual toes, it was a rotting mess, and the smell was unbearable, Baron who was a young child, got sick violently.

    Can you imagine what would happen if a global conflict hit us? We barely scraped in the years of covid, a gradual switch by Europe from the Russian gas is expected to cause hunger in many parts of the world, electricity cuts and God knows what else, and all this in a peacetime when there’s not a serious disruption to international trade, jut a minor dislocation of the boats carrying out the stuff we need.

    One can recover from an autocracy, but not from a world polluted by radiation.

    (More late r, have to fly).

  228. EC @ August 2nd, 2022 – 10:51

    That’s an excellent find, EC, you may like to know three of Baron’s web correspondents sent it also, it’s encouraging that someone has the guts to say it, alas nobody in the position of power would act on it, not even listen to it.

    Not many people know it, but when after WW2 the regimes in Eastern Europe got to installing Governments totally subservient to the Kremlin, some political parties and also newspapers were critical of it, that period of relative press freedom didn’t last long, probably around 18 months or so depending on the country, but exist it did, the clampdown came later.

  229. Why did Pelosi go to Taiwan? Anyone knows?

    What China is planning to do amounts to almost a blockade of the island for at least four days, look at the map of the exercises that say they will conduct. They didn’t;t say what happens after August 7 though.

    https://t.me/boris_rozhin/59214

  230. This sounds right:

    “The rhetoric defending “the West and its traditions” continues in our vocabulary, but the reality has radically changed. T. S. Eliot noticed what was happening in his 1948 work, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, that we in West were “destroying our ancient edifices to make ready the ground upon which the barbarian nomads of the future will encamp in their mechanised caravans.”

    You will find more in the link below, it’s not too long, you can also skip parts of it.

    https://www.unz.com/article/ukraine-vladimir-putin-and-the-global-culture-war/

  231. In one of the many postings about something or other on the Spectator’s site one of the responses was rather enjoyable, it said (Baron quotes from memory): Never get involved in a urinating contest with a skunk, not only you cannot win, you will also smell.

    Good one.

  232. Baron – 00:34

    “Why did Pelosi go to Taiwan? Anyone knows?”

    Well, her reason certainly wasn’t anything to do with the interests of Taiwanese or US citizens, M’lud.

    She doesn’t normally get off her arse unless it is stock market/share price related.
    Her husband or two sons will be cashing in one way or another, bank on that.

  235. They nay nit be able to catch a burglar, a Pakistani child pimp o or an illegal immigrants but they have no trouble dealing with wheel chair bound pensioners, Parva spray, a baton attack and tapering. If it’s good enough for the care homes its certainly good enough for Wallsters.
    https://youtu.be/BGyv-XFmLzw

  237. Noa @ August 4th, 2022 – 17:25

    Unbelievable story, Noa, if it were a rowdy teenager, a middle age man, or even someone in his 60, possibly 70s, but a one legged man of 93 in a wheelchair? Arghhhh

    What has happened to the country, it’s not the same Britain Baron arrived to in the 60s last century.

  239. EC @ August 4th, 2022 – 11:28

    What pains is that nobody has instructed the Board to do it, EC, it’s their own initiative, the blacks haven’t asked for it, nor did any other minority group.

    It was just the same for the regime in Adolf’s Germany or the Georgian thug in Russia, people instinctively knew what was ‘good’ for them, for their careers, money rewards. How on earth could the same be happening in the country that has kept its cool for centuries?

  240. Noa – 17:25

    Re: Death by Cop: I was looking forward to Steyn featuring that story last night, but alas I was disappointed.

  243. This video is an Ukrainian release purported to show a bunch of Czech volunteers ‘punishing the intruders’, you could switch the sound off because nothing much gets said, few commands, advices what to do where to turn, a lot of swearing not only in Czech, it must be there are other nationalities in the group, but if you listen without the sound you miss the bursts of fire.

    You may form a different view of the recording (if you decide to watch it) but to Baron it seems the heroic fighters are the scared party, they are running away from the advancing Russians rather than engaging them, they are not even shooting at the occupiers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKYH_oDf8PI

    One cannot but wish very much the slaughter stops, it’s a massive waste of young lives, also assets, Ukraine was a poor country before the shooting began, when it’s over th poor people of Ukraine will have nothing, what can they do in such conditions but move west to seek shelter and sustenance in the EU and of course in Britain, madness.

  244. Baron
    It is to the everlasting shame of Britain that has Stoke the fires of violence and war in Ukraine, rather than taking the onerous, thankless rask of peacemaker.
    It is unbelievable that a Bidenion political sockpuppet like Johnson has managed the truly impossible, by making Recep Erdoğan look like a statement of the calibre of Metternich or Kissiger in comparison.

  245. Howdy to you English folk. How are y’all? Well at least the four of you left. I admire you, EC, Baron, and Noa, with a little sprinkling of John Birch. Nothing fazes you guys. Out here we are getting increasingly embarrassed by the dementing Democrat at the helm. Mind, I reach out to you folks who have lost a great man in deposing Boris Johnson as Premier. Do you hear from Andy. Good wishes to all.

  246. Several German cities halt use of e-buses following series of unresolved cases of fire

    Transport Cities

    Die Welt

    The potential risks of electromobility are being closely examined in Germany after a third major fire in a bus depot apparently caused by an electric bus. Public transport companies are taking action after the electric bus allegedly triggered a fire in Stuttgart last week, newspaper Die Welt reports. The Munich public transport company, MVG, is taking eight similar e-buses out of service until the cause of the fire in Stuttgart has been clarified. The fire may have started while the bus was being charged in the depot, according to investigators, who assume that a technical defect may be the cause of the fire. The 30 September fire completely destroyed 25 buses in the depot, including two with electric drives, causing damage worth millions of euros. The Stuttgart transport company, SSB, has also halted the use of electric buses in the city. The incident followed a similar fire in June in a bus depot in Hanover, which destroyed the hall and nine buses. E-buses were then recalled but are expected to resume service in November. In April, a fire at the Rheinbahn depot in Düsseldorf caused damages totalling several million euros. Investigators determined the fire had been triggered by a technical issue but could not clearly identify the cause.

    While the number of electric buses in German public transport doubled last year compared to 2019, a recent survey found that 58 percent of Germans had doubts about the “environmental compatibility” of electric mobility.

  247. I spent a lot of time in China a few years ago in fact coming and going over 20 years and I never met a single person who wasn’t prepared to go to war to get Taiwan back.
    Even a young guy who worked for our office in China who I got to know very well and took him around England when he came here.
    But he was adamant that he would leave his job and join the army in a war to get Taiwan under Chinese control.

  248. John birch. @ August 8th, 2022 – 12:19

    Following the Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, John, a poll of the opinion on the list by the Taiwanese burgers shows most are unhappy about it, they fear an invasion.

    John, what about the job you had on the installations for pumping Russian gas to Norway to be cleaned, can you enlarge on it, please.

  249. John Jefferson Burns @ August 7th, 2022 – 20:27

    If you are not careful, John, you may get him again after 2024, he may be by then totally loopy, but hey, why should the state of madness prevent anyone from the job of the President of the USA?

  251. As a supplant to the Russia bashing exercise the Spectator also has a narrative on China today, the country’s military drill in the waters around Taiwan, you can read it for yourself.

    You cannot read the postings, nothing much there, not many of them either, Baron had to raise the temperature with his posting, a teaser was called for, it will stimulate the others to call him a China shill or labels similar, he will let you know:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/taiwan-tells-china-we-re-not-scared

    Baron: The Middle Kingdom gets rich making stuff flogging it to the West that cannot be bothered to make it even though without it daily life cannot function, invading Taiwan would sever the flow of goods east west and money west east, it’s also unnecessary because the two lands are already the top partners of each other on trade, inward investment, tourism, cultural exchanges and anything else that a relationship between two countries requires to be for the countries to be close.

    The invasion would also either at worst collapse the West for the lack of useful stuff made in China, or push western inflation sky high as the useful stuff needed for the daily life to function would have to be made in the West where labour and energy costs are immeasurably higher than in China.

    The military exercises are merely to signal to the Americans not to get too close for their own safety and the safety of the world, as any objective reporting will tell you that’s exactly what the Americans are doing, avoiding getting close.

  253. John birch.@ August 9th, 2022 – 16:38

    Many many thanks, take your time, it’s not urgent.

  254. Could it be that the c-19 vaccines prevent one developing T-cells, the unquestionable protection against another infection? How else would people vaccinated more than twice catch the bug again yet anyone infected by the real thing seems to avoid another bout of the disease.

    It should investigated, it’s not that impossible unless there already exists another explanation for how is it possible that individuals infected by the natural virus, surviving the infection, do not get re-infected (must have developed T-cells), but those vaccinated get infected over and over again (say) Biden.

  257. This is weird, a Western reporter showing ordinary people going east to the Russian held territories, even though the travellers wouldn’t admit it, say they would be returning, the heavy loads of possessions would suggest they are leaving Ukraine for good, but at least the reporter doesn’t say which side blew the bridges up, it wasn’t the Russians even though they are said be blocking the stream of newcomers (too costly?).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCijBcFdO5M

  259. After sanctions the oil&gas market operates at two tiers, countries that didn’t impose sanctions buy the stuff from all the upstream suppliers, countries that imposed sanctions don’t, Russia’s off their buy list, their demand for oil&gas however remains the same, it’s the supply side that’s short, what always happens when demand exceeds supply is the price mechanism kicks in, the cost of the stuff that’s undersupplied goes up.

    It would not happen had any other supplier or a group of suppliers were able to compensate for the Russia’s share in the oil&gas market, they cannot, Russia accounts for some 12% of global oil market, more in the gas market (in a week, Russia pumps out enough oil to furnish every man, woman and child in the UK with one barrel of the stuff), moreover all suppliers would rather sell less at higher prices than the reverse, hence the price setting of the sanctioned marker prevails.

    There also are operational difficulties for the upstream suppliers, in oil Saudi Arabia must already pump water into the wells to get the stuff out, the country cannot sustain running at a level it currently is, on gas Norway fearing low water for their hydro-electric generation wants to keep more gas for herself.

    Taking Russia off the sanction list would lower prices immediately and very noticeably, the threat of our households either freezing or going hungry would not diminish but ease off massively, the need for new borrowing to offer them help paying the energy bills would be lower, that would subsequently lower the service cost of the national debt, it’s already getting close to the money we spend each year on the NHS.

    Will the political gnomes even consider such a move? What a stupid question, heh?

  260. EC @ August 11th, 2022 – 08:17

    It won’t last, EC, it will be taken off just as another video, longer than the CNN’s was scrapped, you can see it on Larry’s site, the guy’s fantastic, his narratives are short, he posts daily, but most rewarding on his site is the quality of the responding postings, he’s well worth bookmarking. If you visit read also his ‘Did the Donald bait the FBI’, a nice piece that rings true, fits the Donald’s way of operating.

    https://sonar21.com/cbs-goes-full-back-flip-and-tries-to-erase-reality/

  261. Baron,

    How is the Schengen open borders agreement working out for your former countrymen? Czechs and tourists are fair game, apparently.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irWUwEJsYoQ

    Cultural question: What’s with all the spitting? A disgusting practice. [Outlawed in Hong Kong, even before Covid] Would lead to summary execution if I ran the world.

  262. Baron – 08:27

    FBI Raid: If Merrick Garland wanted a pair of Melania’s knickers that desperately then why didn’t he just write her a fan letter and ask nicely? That’s how I got my pair. 🙂

  264. EC @ August 11th, 2022 – 08:29

    Informative, EC, thanks, what surprises is that they haven’t yet tried it here, or perhaps they did, we just don’t hear about it, it wouldn’t fit the rainbow set-up.

    Why don’t the stupid Czechs kick them out of the country? Probably the ECHR would prevent it, heh, heh, heh

  265. EC @ August 11th, 2022 – 08:42

    Still nothing from the FBI, shouldn’t;t they explain the reasons for the raid? Larry’s right, the agency is no good, but then the whole edifice of the contemporary US governance stinks.

  266. Any expert, new or different, slicing of the Crimean airport explosions? The stuff below Baron posted on the Spectator blog, you may like to see it:

    Below u can see satellite pictures of the airport four hours before the explosions and then after when the recuse efforts are in full swing, according to the guy reporting on it there were altogether 16 fighter jets parked, nine 130s and seven Su-24s, after the explosion seven of the sixteen machines are totally burnt fully, the others look inoperable as well.

    At 7:50 the guy marks the places of the three explosion in red squares, he then circles the explosion also in yellow, then goes on commenting on the damage, at 9:28 he shows the rescue vehicles removing the debris in yellow, at 9:50 he concludes that at best the loss is three 130s and four SU-24s (all seven marked in yellow), at worst all sixteen machines are destroyed.

    At 10:45 he challenges those arguing the disaster was the result of a sabotage, marks a place in a red square, says a huge hole close to the roll-out to a runway, asks what could have been stored there, it would need a truck loaded to the full to produce such damage, at 11:19 he shows a picture of an object before the explosion, says he doesn’t know what it was, it’s overgrown with grass, the explosion happened at the edge of it on an asphalt surface, how could a sabotage take place on such a place, he asks, then he moves to another place of the explosion (11:50, red square) shows at 12:08 how the place looked before the explosion.

    At 12:23 he marks the three explosions in yellow and says he cannot rule out a missile attack, it could be ether a sabotage or a missile attack, he finishes saying that’s all the info he has, it may not be something many want to hear, but truth is more important than anything else to correct one’s mistakes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGqP-BjlkA

  267. Baron – The Glorious 12th – Grouse Beware!

    I don’t think much of the Ruskies airfield dispersal layout for parking its equipment. Those photographs, if real, show damage to be very localised to each piece of equipment. How many “Hellfire” missiles does a US Drone carry, and how many can they fire at once? Sabotage by special forces? Dunno mate.

    Gone are the days when David Stirling, Paddy Mayne, and their lads used to shoot up Rommel’s desert airfields in N. Africa. The planes were easy targets, parked in orderly neat rows How German! 🙂

  268. @11:20 cont’d

    An additional thought Baron. It could’ve been a training mission for the some of the 87,000 newly recruited, armed and deadly, US IRS “auditors!” 🙂 🙂 🙂

    I think that the Elon The Wunderkind makes a fair point!

    https://snipboard.io/5hrPjZ.jpg

  269. EC @ August 12th, 2022 – 11:20

    Sadly, EC, the Russian Defence Ministry is lying, it continues to say it was nothing much even though the pictures cannot lie, when Baron came across it last night he found it hard to sleep (it may have been the moon also, it was the fourth and last biggy this year, marvellous to watch on the clear skies), if that wasn’t an act of sabotage it must have been only the Americans that have that ability, not the Ukrainians.

    A question, could one see a missile either in flight or landing at a target, Baron reckons it’s possible even if it’s hypersonic, the KInzhal that hit the training centre few months ago (also destroyed a shopping centre next door, Baron forgot the town) was visible, one of the videos of the hit did show the missile just before it struck.

  270. The Wunderkid unloaded some seven billion dollars worth of Tesla’s shares, the man’s loaded too much for his own good, you reckon he would share if asked politely? Heh, heh, heh.

    How one misses Frank, arghhh.

  271. Baron,
    Wether it was Hellfire missiles, a special forces attack or mist worryingly Zeus deploying thunderbolts in divine and partisan direct intervention the effect on the actual Russian Air Force strength of some 3853 less 16 aircraft is minimal.
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=russian+air+force+strength&cc=GB&setlang=en&PC=SWG01&form=LGT001&scope=web
    If the cause was the former that is of concern, would it be a a first strike by a USAF drone on Russian territory? Admittedly Crimea is arguably Ukrainian not Russian territory, but I wouldn’t want to split the atim on the difference.
    rere

  272. Atom not atim, curse you unproductive text!
    Something a little different before the plagues frogs, locusts and the murder of the first born are brought to us before the termination of oil, gas coal and nuclear power energy supplies is added to death by dehydration. And if you still remember train services here’s a little humour to remind us of what we are missing.
    https://youtu.be/9A4Xy3OWozA

  274. A good joke to try on a neighbour you dislike: Get a thickish long cucumber, shove it through his letter box shouting ‘the Martians have landed’.

  275. Noa @ August 12th, 2022 – 21:17

    The great Mark is a must viewing in the Baron’s household, everything gets dropped, no watering, no walking, no chewing, it’s watching the one that knows how to hit them.

    Sadly, you may be on to something, Noa, he won’t last, the woke fruitcakes will get rid of him.

  276. Noa @ August 12th, 2022 – 20:41

    It’s still hard to figure what or who did it, but Baron reckons Sharij, the guy the barbarian listens regularly, gets it right, it was an act of sabotage, the one reason for it is the machines are burnt all right, but they didn’t move at all, surely a drone strike would have resulted in some scattered bits, no? The jets look untouched yet are incinerated, one hopes the Russians figure the reason.

    Allegedly, the airport wasn’t guarded much although the entry into Crimea has been, but there are many living there that hate Putin and the war, it wouldn’t be impossible to plant explosives attached to a timer on the three places that did bang causing the planes to ignite.

  277. Noa @ August 12th, 2022 – 20:55

    Superb, Noa, makes one feel better with no reason at all.

    A part of what the guy says is said every time on all the trains Baron sometimes takes like the ‘not leaving anything behind’ stuff, to which Baron never fails to add ‘avoid stopping breathing as you leave the train’ and ‘be careful how you go after you’ve left the train, keep your weight on one foot whist you are putting the other foot forward then do it again reversing the order of the position of the feet’…..

    The boss always says ‘do shut up, you’re being stupid, people may listen’, which is exactly the objective of it.

  278. The old man is getting senile, he blames the GOP for blocking everything, yet conveniently forgets the Dems did more than everything to thwart the Donald from the day he entered the Oval Office, if anyone is moving the governance of the Republic towards fascism it’s the Dems, the recent raid on the Donald’s residence is but one example of it. Why nor ask for whatever it was they were after?

    He’s right the great Republic has fragmented along any major issue one can think of, and that the military are massively overpowering, the structure of it is too complex however, almost convoluted, one cannot figure who runs what, who has the final word in any of the world theatres of possible conflicts, the reporting at all levels of command are confusing, it was bad when the two towers got hit, it’s worse now.

    The most important reason for the Republic fear of the future is her inability to regain the economic power she used to have, it’s the economy that wins it, that’s where the threat from China is coming from, the Americans may lead in the service sector, that’s not the same as a leadership in the sector that makes stuff that one needs for everyday life, if Facebook disappears tomorrow life will keep going, but if China (and India, the others) stop making drugs, jeans, tyres …. life will suffer.

    YOu’re getting this video only because Baron got it (has to respond to the sender), no need to spend time on it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHa3RJBgyM

  280. Baron, August 13th, 2022 – 00:21

    Airport Security?
    Did you see that last week that “Bald and Bankrupt” released the video of his escapade to the Russian/Soviet Baikonur launchpads in Kazakhstan? Bald and his muse, the lovely Alina Adzika, had no problems at all walking 30 km into this huge area which appears to be poorly guarded and the perimeter fences are shown to be in a poor state of repair. They even got into the dilapidated hangers where a couple of “Buran” Soviet Space Shuttles were stored. It was amazing to see this equipment after over 32 years. They only got caught on their way out of the area.

  281. Noa & Baron,

    I’ve been watching Mark over the weeks become increasingly frustrated and vocal over the many issues that confront our beleaguered nation and the western world in general.

    He’s made a point of taunting the lefties, shock-jock fashion, who have been reporting him to Offcom over his reporting of Vaccine deaths, Policing, Child Rape Gangs, Climate nutters, and worst of all – taking the piss out of Klaus Schwab. They all want him gone, but I’ve got the feeling that he might actually walk before they get him. As he recently pointed out yo them all, GB News is only a small part of his life.

    Re: Offcom: The attempts by the lefties to defenestrate Nigel Farage have failed as Offcom cleared him last week.

  282. EC @ August 13th, 2022 – 10:10

    Thanks for the tip, EC, Baron watches all B&B releases, the guy’s amazing, but also lucky, they found a makeshift ladder at the site, that if anything was a massive stroke of luck, the two vehicles that rust now were the last tech cry of the Red Menace rule over Russia, but what happened to the Western private endeavours to come up with a shuttle bus to the skies, the Bransons and Musks have gone quite about it.

  283. Noa @ August 13th, 2022 – 10:06

    But were passengers then warned of the dangers of leaving their stuff behind, Noa, stepping out of the carriage carefully, breathing without interruptions as they walked alongside the platform …. that’s what matters, no?

    Nice tune, even a nicer lyrics that one can follow.

  284. Baron

    O have no doubt that your informative commentary is helpful and a great improvement on that provided by the train franchises. They can learn much and they would benefit greatly by employing you as their Irony consultant. 😉

  285. Baron 12.23
    An interesting thought there. Capitalism and communism had fought themselves to an intellectual and economic stalemate by the 1990s. In a sense Fukayana was eight and the history of the North had ended, its mutually exhausted contestants collapsing, as the interested bystanders China, in particular took over the levers of world power.

  287. Noa @ August 13th, 2022 – 17:30

    Not just an interesting thought, Noa, a correct one even if it took capitalism few more years to ‘suicide’ itself.

    You may find it hard to believe Baron hasn’t been that scared before, the Ukrainian boil may suppurate to a point at which it will burst into something neither side could have expected or even imagined.

  288. Here is a polite request for your advice, boys.

    After blogging for over two decades on the Spectator Baron decide to quit, not because he’s often attacked, called names, forced to correct lies and half-truths and stuff, he decided to leave because his postings get censored, eliminated without anyone saying why, they just disappear, no trace of them.

    This may be to encourage self-censorship, something he cannot and will not do. There’s no redress, no-one to appeal to, others posting on the Spectator sometimes complain about it, but this is a smaller problem, almost always the wrong words used, in Baron’s case it’s definitely more than just words, a posting gets accepted, it appears, then after some time (hard to say when, Baron doesn’t check continuously), it’s gone.

    What is the advice Baron’s seeking? It’s not about quitting, that decision’s final, it’s about whether he should say that he will continue to post on this blog and anyone interested could visit the cofeehousewall.

    It may boost our numbers, the blog may get noticed more, the base of those interested in free debating will enlarge, it may also infest it with people that label, use uncivil language, in short trolls, people not interested in debating an issue but attacking the messenger of it.

    What would you suggest? If even one of you says ‘no new visitors from the Spectator’, Baron will leave without mentioning our small community and the blog we’ve inhabited from its splitting from the Spectator.

    Many thanks.

  289. Publish and be damned Milud!
    Say your piece there and refer the Speccie posters here as well!
    An excellent initiative and I fully support it.

  290. Baron – 12:24

    That was very good.
    Bill Maher has done somewhat of “reverse ferret” of late. He would never have been that brave even a year ago. A nice piece, probably by a team of writers, faultlessly delivered to camera from an autocue. It was spoilt only by the intermittent reaction shots of that turd Piers Morgan.

  291. Baron – 12:48

    The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph are owned by Press Holdings Ltd. which in turn is owned by the surviving Barclay Bros. twin, Fred. The parent company employs a some sort of configurable “cyber nanny” software that to look for trigger words and shunts any offending comments off to a staging area for review, but in practice they are never looked at. Think of it as “the memory hole” as describe by George Orwell in 1984. I gave up with Specstatesman well over 10 years ago, and also Guido Fawkes whose site nanny similarly frequently rejected my pithy, acerbic comments.

    In answer to your question, link to this little backwater of the blogosphere where thou willst!

  292. EC
    It shouldn’t be too hard to convince Joe and his CIA morons that Saddiq Piers bin Morgan is the new second in command of Al Queada and that after raiding his safe, llauncing a duet of Hellfire missiles would assist the Democrats in the mid terms.

  294. My neighbour, an Indian Muslim, a multimillionaire who, since the lockdown business handouts has bought himself and his sons a new Lamborgini and two Porches regularly asks me if if want to sell my house to his family. (They want to convert it to a gatehouse for their imported servants).
    You can guess my answer.
    Yesterday his question changed to:
    “How long have you lived here?”
    My reply was “Since about 650 AD given DNA evidence, what about you?”
    No answer came.

  295. Noa @ August 14th, 2022 – 15:44

    Good one, Noa, but keep in touch with the newcomer, one never knows what’s round the corner.

    And thanks for the advice, will tell them ‘come and visit us’.

  296. Noa @ August 14th, 2022 – 15:33

    Not always, but when the guy hits it, he’s close to perfect, never minces his words, the expressions fit like a man-made glove, this one is one of the best, even the beginning inspires.

  297. EC @ August 14th, 2022 – 15:28

    It really pi$$ed Baron when they took one particulate posting down, no explanation at all, and thanks, will tell them to visit if they wish so (come to think of it, one wonders whether anyone will, we shall see).

  298. Newsweek doesn’t reach that many today as it did decades ago, it’s still weird that a narrative such as this should appear just now, August 14.

    In another report that Baron lost it seems that only some 30% of the military gear (includes also body armours, helmets, medical stuff) gets to front line in Ukraine, it would be of interest to know what happens to the majority of it, it wouldn’t shock to hear about an attack on a Western asset by a piece supplied by the West to Ukraine.

    https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-narrative-shifting-opinion-1731875

  299. If you read the Larry’s short write up, even more so if you listen to the lament of the fighters in the video you cannot but wish the whole special operation, invasion, call it what you will were to come to an end, the sooner the better, the loss of life must be horrendously high and for what? What is the bugging end game?

    https://sonar21.com/russia-on-the-ropes-part-13-really/

  300. “One such myth concerns the fabled military aircraft, the P-51 Mustang which, according to the Americans, single-handedly won the war in Europe, defeated the German Luftwaffe all by itself, and “is widely considered the best piston single fighter of all time”.

    Of course, it is no such thing, except to the Americans themselves. For one thing, the Americans’ brief flash at the end of the conflict hardly ‘won the war’ but, more importantly, this aircraft’s original designation was the XP-78, a name almost nobody has ever heard of, and for good reason. The aircraft’s performance was underwhelming to say the least and, with its American-built Allison engines was of no more use during wartime than a lawn mower.

    It was the re-fitting of this aircraft with the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that made it useful. With the Merlin generating twice the power with less than half the fuel consumption of the US engine, the aircraft did indeed have great range and performance – as did the Spitfires and other British aircraft, but the original American version wouldn’t have made a list of the top 500.

    And yet nowhere in any American narrative do important facts like these appear. In these areas, as in so many others, the US is a nation based on lies”.

    You will find more about how the Americans are telling everyone how supreme and competitive and innovative they are when in fact nothing could be less true:

    https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/creativity-entrepreneurship-and-other-american-myths/

  302. Noa, August 14th, 2022 – 15:33

    He’s not wrong.

    Meanwhile, if you’ve experienced the early morning thunderstorms and torrential rain we’ve just experienced here in the marches, then verily I sayeth unto Ye, prepareth thine Ark for lift off!

  303. Baron – 00:23

    All part of “‘merican exceptionalism,” Mlud,
    They have no history so are exceptionally good at mythologising their ‘walk on’ part in it Hollywood Style. These fairy tales become rooted in their heads and they actually believe the crap.

    There’s been a lot of stuff on YouTube recently about the P51s and how they, American pilots, eliminated all of Germany’s best pilots despite not showing up for the Battle of Britain. Nobody else was involved, just them, apparently. No Brits, no Poles, no Czechs, no Canadian, Aussies, Kiwis, South Africans, or Indians. And let’s not forget the Russians.

  304. Baron – 23:40

    Re: Your difficulties with the Spectatesman gatekeeper, and other media outlets.

    Two words, “Operation Mockingbird.”

  310. Baron – 12:23

    Meanwhile back in “the West” the lunatics have run amok and have taken over the asylum. In a very short while our grandchildren will be asking how we used to light our houses before candles were invented. The answer, “electricity” will produce a blank look followed by “what’s electricity?”

  313. Ode to Boris

    Liz
    A flavour without taste
    An eye without a blink
    A smile without laughter
    A grace without a touch

    Rishi
    A word meaning so much
    yet so hard to explain
    A word so helpful
    yet very frightening
    A word causing so much greatness
    yet harming so many

  314. Ode to Boris

    Liz
    A flavour without taste
    An eye without a blink
    A smile without laughter
    A grace without a touch

    Rishi
    A word meaning so much
    yet so hard to explain
    A word so helpful
    yet very frightening
    A word causing so much greatness
    yet harming so many

  315. Fergus Pickering @ August 18th, 2022 – 15:19

    Fergus, dear Fergus, what kept you, long time no hear, you OK?

  316. Ah Fergus
    The verse is not worse.
    It may even be better.
    The Phillip Sidney of our Time.

    Baron
    Good advice. It is always best to set the cat upon any visiting inspector from the RSPCA or HMRC.

  318. Fergus Pickering, August 18th, 2022 – 15:19
    Fergus Pickering, August 18th, 2022 – 15:19

    In 3D too, with the right spectacles!

  321. Noa,

    LOL Yes, the hospitality of the Reivers was legendary, and that meted out by their present day descendants might not be to the liking of the recently arrived “entrepreneurs” either. The anonymity our guests seek cannot be found in a low density population area such as this.

    The local TV and press haven’t covered this story as far as I’m aware. Imagine my surprise… We’ve just had one of the best spring/summers on record. How on earth will they cope when the unrelenting damp cold, amplified by the northerlies, of winter sets in?

    Its no picnic up here in winter, as noted by one of my predecessors on the eastern marches wrote…

    Peregrine Bertie, the sad and exasperated warden (*) of the East March, wrote to Robert Cecil in December 1600: ‘If I were further from the tempestuousnes of Cheviot hills, and were once retired from this accursed country, whence the sunn is so removed, I would not change my homlyest hermitage for the highest palace ther. He envied Cecil ‘the sun of the South’ and prayed ‘that one rayon of such brightnes may deliver me from the darknes here, which I protest is no less to me than Hell!’

    * exasperated in part by “factious and naughty people”

  322. EC
    I recollect that the folk in the border regions used to take a much more robust attitude to hostile invaders, letting them lick the condensation off the prison walls in Carlisle Castle before the hanging, drawing and quartering our friend Simon Webb writes about in his books.
    In those days the concept if the Rule of Law had real force, not just the right to police protection for male Conservative MPs who were trying on the latest lingerie styles from Anne Summers….

  323. “August Blues”

    How I long for your wide open sky.
    I long for your sunbeams and your rain—whatever falls into my mouth,
    I will gladly take in.
    Come September fifth sin.

    August. How I cling to all your pasts
    and all your uncertain futures.
    I cling to your promise of ever ever green
    and I wait at your doorstep, naive nymph from nether.
    Neither Rishi, nor Liz are that clever

    Was it for nothing, August?
    Do I keep you on my tongue and never in my heart?
    August. August.
    Disgust, perhaps lust.

    But not for Liz
    Endless pastures and lightning-laden nights. Your fleeting love speaks through the dark
    We will love you til the next one comes.

  324. Fergus Pickering @ August 20th, 2022 – 08:50

    Somewhat sexy that, Fergus, you should leave that sentiment for the Spring, here’s a competitor of yours, Michael Murry, he often posts at Larry Johnson’s site, ‘A son of the New America’, worth visiting, the site:

    “Peace With Horror

    A leper knight rode into view

    Astride his mangy steed

    A harbinger of violence
    
A plague without a need

    An apparition of discord

    Upon which fear would feed

    His unannounced arrival mean
    t
He’d lost his leper’s bell

    And yet his ugly innocence
    
Could not conceal the smell

    His good intentions only paved

    Another road to Hell

    With mace and lance and sword deployed

    He vowed in peace to live

    Through rotting lips he promised not
    
To take, but only give
    
He swore to only kill the ones
    
Whom he said shouldn’t live….”

    And so it continues, you may like to read the whole thing on

    http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue286/peace_horror.html

    or read another of his poems here:

    https://sonar21.com/the-new-york-times-struggles-with-russian-and-ukrainian-strawmen/

  325. Noa @ August 20th, 2022 – 08:44

    You, you, whhhasist, Noa.

    For the days when they are on and for some considerable time Baron has been emailing both Nigel and the great Mark with a message (see below), to no avail, both of these two stellar fighters of the unwoke phylum refused to read it, depriving Baron of his one minute fame, could Baron suspect it’s because they are both members of the middle class?

    “Today’s immigration is but the past colonisation with only one noticeable difference, the two societal classes that benefit from it – the British middle class and the unwashed from the foreign lands – have swapped their travelling arrangements, instead of a member of the middle class traveling to the distant lands where the locals laboured for him, it’s the locals from the distant lands that travel to Britain to labour for the middle class member here.

    It’s the members of the middle class that govern us, how can it ever come to an end?

  326. EC @ August 19th, 2022 – 17:59

    Let us campaign for the refurbishment of the East March with one difference, EC, let it be a self service, the new illegal arrivals that have no right of abode will quickly spread the good news, the flows of new illegal arrivals will come to a naught soon.

  327. One cannot but admire the Japanese, they are very much in bed with the Americans letting them have a massive presence on their soil, boosting defence spending, taking part in military exercises any time the Americans asked them to, but are they willing to pay a fortune for fossil fuels other than those supped by Russia or freeze in the Winter?

    From the yesterday’s Nikkei Asia:

    “Japanese energy importer JERA and Tokyo Gas have renewed their contracts to buy liquefied natural gas from Russia’s Sakhalin-2 project under its new operator, Nikkei learned Friday.

    The entity set up Aug. 5 by the Russian government to take control of the project in Russia’s Far East offered the same purchasing terms, including prices and volumes. J

    Hiroshima Gas relies on Sakhalin-2 for about half its energy supply. Kyushu Electric Power and Toho Gas source roughly 20% from the project, and Tohoku Electric Power, Tokyo Gas and Saibu Gas Holdings around 10%.

    Eight major Japanese power and gas companies source LNG from Sakhalin-2, which was previously run by a company whose shareholders include trading houses Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. None have opted to terminate their contracts at this time, according to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry”.

    Smart peoples the Japanese.

  328. One of the hobbyhorses of the great Mark are the side effects of the vaccines, he furnishes a useful input for everyone considering the jab, should be knighted for it, it’s an input that the MSM poodles fear to provide, but he misses something. It’s OK to field many of the victims, some of their stories are more than touching, but the stories alone won’t do it.

    Sadly, there’s now a sufficiently high number of deaths from the vaccinations verified by the coroners, the courts, the medical profession, cases where the ‘death by vaccination’ appears on the death certificate.

    Should not someone attempt to find out whether there’s a common denominator to these deaths, or to at least the most common and unexplained of these deaths (say) the myocardial infarction? It may be something simple (say) they all had a weak heart, were on medications etc, or something far more complex (say) the same section of their DNA had an unusual amino acid inserted instead of the one common to most of us.

    It’s the proteins that make us up, these are made of amino acids, it may well be that at some juncture in the chromosome chain one of the amino acids that the vast majority of us have is substituted by another far less common one in some people, it matters not for them except when they get vaccinated, the rare amino acid and the spike protein from the vaccine react, the individual suffers a sudden heart attack (even if healthy) and dies.

    To keep on saying that some die from the vaccine doesn’t really help anyone, the majority survive, Baron hasn’t had the jab, everyone he knows has had it, but they are all OK.

    The incident of death is rare, but not rare enough to be ignored, someone somewhere should undertake to find out whether a common denominator exists, If it does, as must be the case, then those that fall into that group of people would be advised to give the vaccination a miss.

  329. One cannot but be excited being told what the future, the near future, is to offer:

    Menus in restaurants will soon show not only the prices (didn’t they got hiked alot recently?), and the calories one’s body is to receive for a permanent storage, they will also show how environmentally friendly the meal is, how much of the “CO2 pollutant” was released into the atmosphere growing or raising the ingredients, moving them, preparing them (the “CO2 pollutant” is in inverted commas because the CO2 is anywhere near a pollutant, it’s a fugging useful gas that encourages growth of plants, trees ..)

    Our clothing will have similar labels, listening to a BBC Radio4 programme yesterday they will tell us even how much water, a finite resource, is used to finish making something like a T-shirt, it was incredible but Baron was so exited instead of listening so that he can pass the invaluable news to you he kept shouting at the gadget so much that drivers of passing cars may have thought he went mad, a state of mind he’ll very likely attain when the fugging lunacy arrives.

    What truly frightens is that they will throw it at us, and many will meekly take it, Frank was right, we’ve had it, we’re finished as free agents.

  332. Don’t worry Baron, (@11.30).
    Very soon the restaurant as a common facility will be a relic of historical memory, due to bankruptcy caused by the soaring costs of energy, raw ingredients and lack of staff.
    National food kitchens will have been introduced to provide necessities like nettle soup and roach stew.
    Tickets for the new warming rooms will be available, if you haven’t been complaining too loudly about the nice refugee family who have been billeted in your house. After all, they kindly let you continue to live in the coal cellar.

  335. Noa @ August 21st, 2022 – 08:45

    That’s OK then, Noa, Baron likes nettles, the new shoots in the Spring are excellent in salads and soups.

    Here’s another sober look at the energy issue from the FT, notice that even this guy will not mention that the reason for the hight cost of oil and gas is not the Ukrainian war, but our reaction to it, namely the sanction on the Russian fossil fuels.

    Russia ranks second in the world with around 20% market share after the US’s 25%, to replace her share is not doable, no other single suppliers not the US and not even a group of suppliers (if they could, nobody but Qatar drilled for new gas holes in the last 3-5 years) can do it.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/264101/world-natural-gas-production-by-country/

    The only two options available for the governing clowns is let the people freeze, or lift the sanction on Russia, Baron reckons the caring Governing elites of the West will go for the former, the Japanese seems the only Government that goes for the latter – see one of the Baron’s previous postings.

  336. A piece of news the MSM will not cover, and if they do, it will be bottom page 77 in small print. One couldn’t underestimate the importance of the visit if it takes place, it’s another step in the process of breaking up the American hold on the world finances, and as we all know it’s ‘money that makes the world go round’.

    The biggest mistake the Americans and their vassals did when Russia marched into Ukraine is to freeze the Russia’s central government cash, the message it sent to everyone was ‘get rid of the dollars held in reserves’, these bucks will not be there if the Americans get displeased with you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n97Iqqqg6o

  337. If they were to run it in the West there may have been some takers, but in Ukraine? Hmmm

    It almost feels as if the one that came up with it wanted the slow down the recruitment, he must have known the belief system, the mores and habits of the Slavonic tribe in Ukraine or Russia, is not very much in favour of such progress, not yet anyway, the commercial may even put some of the fighters already in off.

    https://politikus.info/video/146049-oficialnyyrolik-minoborony-ukrainy-o-mobilizacii-sodomitov-v-vsu.html

  338. Here’s Sharij’s latest vlog, it’s on Dugin and the tragic deaths of his daughter, Sharij reckons it’s the Ukrainians behind it, he has a piece of indirect evidence to prove it, he discovered a video published two days before the car blew up on one of the Ukrainian agitprop TV programmes ‘One-to-One’ in a slot called ‘Groshi’ (pennies or peanuts), you can see the Dugin item at 4:55min, the Ukrainian anchorman is saying ‘Dugin is running Putin, he’s Putin’s brains .. ….

    ‘That’s not true at all, it’s a lie, nobody has been talking about Dugin for years’, Sharij says and is right, Dugin hasn’t been in the news since 2019 the latest, the slot on Groshi was broadcast deliberately, it cannot be a coincidence that two days before Dugin was scheduled to get blown up (regretfully, it was his daughter that lost her life) his importance for Putin had to be established, elaborated on, reminded of, not a coincidence then, but a well prepared assassination attempt (not unakin to the assassination of the Iranian general few years ago).

    https://wwwdotyoutube.com/watch?v=trnl_fNgDZs

    The Spectator has a long piece on it by professor Galeotti, he is speculating, leans towards a theory that it was a contract killing ordered by Putin to whip up hatred towards Ukraine, many of the postings applaud the killing, the daughter was no good individual, worked for someone who’s close to Putin that sort of stuff, but there also are a few that represent what was good on this country when Baron arrived here:

    “I know I don’t watch TV so I have happily avoided many graphic images in the news and I am getting older but I do find the photo of the father and the car with his daughter to be in poor taste. Quite indecent”.

    “It is a very powerful picture showing an incredibly sad moment. What I miss in the article and the comments is that there is not even a trace of empathy for what was happening to those individuals in that moment, there is instead a huge onward jump to the bigger political and ideological picture, covering conspiracy, speculation, retribution, whatever. Pausing for just a moment would have been good?”

    “I agree. What has happened to our humanity recently”?

    “Oh, that died years ago for most people. Humanity is now reserved for people we agree with and support. The rest are considered non human and undeserving, now that is worrying”.

    “I work for the god father of the infamous social media troll farms, you had better sanction me, or have me blown up in my car. If the west were strong, self assured, absolutely had the courage of its convictions, truly believed in democracy and universal suffrage it would not be remotely bothered about ‘troll farms’. Only those who believe the masses are feeble minded sheep could give a damn about the influence of such things, if indeed they exist. In the Mail Online this morning these ‘troll farms’ were described as the ones which interfered with the Clinton/Trump election. Dugin was also described as a Fascist in order to justify the murder of his 30 year old daughter.

    Whether or not she was murdered by the Russians, the Ukranians, the British or the Americans the reporting of her murder here is unbelievably hypocritical. In the week we have seen all kinds of pro free speech hypocrisy from people who do not believe in free speech, over the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie it is amazing that nobody is batting an eyelid about the murder of this journalist because she and her father had views the establishment don’t agree with”.

    “Can you not see how dangerous it is to pretend to detect no difference between people who write books about ideas and people who are in charge of military operations? And if we are reduced to slinging ‘fascist’ slurs around, when did it become acceptable for lefty liberals to champion the open supporters and lionisers of the world war two fascists in Ukraine? There is a great deal of hypocrisy here, you should be careful about taking sides between either of these groups and you should be horrified that our government has decided to get involved.”

  340. There must have been some changes to what one can post, Baron cannot get through a table that’s of interest, here it is again, it’s the 5th attempt:

    https://seed305dotb i t chute.com/3KRJ7WXgSw8T/6xIYPZBkydsu.mp4

  341. To view the table posted at 15:41 you have do get rid of ‘dot’ and put the actual dot in, also combine the b i and t with chute, please.

  342. Just back from a foray o’er the Fort into the highlands during which time I’ve marvelled at some the inhospitable and problematical places that electricity pylons and wind turdbines (sic) have been constructed by men. Giant Meccano™ sets.

    I also reflected upon all the propaganda dished up on the run up to the 2019 General Election: “Vote Boris, Get Brexit Done, Get Back Control of our Borders, Don’t Let Corbyn’s Commies will turn the UK into Venezuela etc.” In hindsight it’s difficult to imagine how Jezza could have possibly improved upon Bojo’s achievements to date.
    Tirana is already part of Eastbourne.

    I also discovered the most alarming usage yet of a Percontation Point in a novel. Once again Cumbria leads the way!

  343. @10:36 Forth!

    Baron, August 21st, 2022 – 00:47

    The departure of CNN’s “Eunuch in Chief” is to be lamented.
    Let us pray that he gets a gig elsewhere or that Mark Dice can find another impersonation to cheer us all up with!

  348. You will hear of the blue veined barbarian only intermittently, he’s travelling in the East, already has few stories of interest to tell you, but have patience, all in its own time.

  349. Noa @ August 27th, 2022 – 16:58

    Andrew’s spot on, Noa, the Blond Inseminator is now promising to re-built Ukrainian railways, which is more than rich given that ours need some urgent MOT also.

    The other thing that infuriates Baron is the BBC spewing a big lie over and over again (Baron indulges in the luxury of listening to its overseas service) the monstrosity is quoting the Ukrainian drug addict saying the Russians are pummelling the Zaporozhye Nuclear plant, Europe could experience a nuclear Armageddon, unbelievable that given the Russians have captured the power generation facility back in March, how likely is it that they would be killing themselves, how stupid does the BBC think the people are?

  352. A post by Far Canal on TCW today.
    “…I had an interesting fscr to face discussion with a total stranger who came to collect an item he had purchased off me on line.
    At no time was politics mentioned or discussed and this person is a senior engineer, nearing retirement and working in Central London.
    He was convinced that there would be rioting on the streets of London this year once there are energy outages. I explained that we had these energy cuts in the ‘Winter of Discontent’ but no rioting.
    His answer was extraordinary, but I fear, true!
    He said that there are thousands upon thousands of people living in high rise flats in London totally dependant upon electricity, bereft of storage for food, no money to cover increased costs and no recreational facilities other than TV and digital devices. with only emergency lighting and no lifts working they would be hungry prisoners in their own homes.
    Again, I said much the same occurred back in the 70’s during the aforementioned period.
    He then delivered the coup de grace!
    Firstly, he pointed out that the majority were non British and did not possess the phlegmatic attitude of the native population and, furthermore, they were of the mindset that expected the government to provide for them. That there were considerably more people in this situation than in the 70’s and that there are far more agitators on the street to ensure maximum damage and publicity for the rioting he was convinced that it was a certainty it would happen.
    Life could get interesting in a few months!…”

    Personally I think that the mass rioting, looting and destruction will start in Europe, in Paris, Berlin, Brussels Amderstam and Rome where similar conditions apply and spread here.
    Will it lead to the overthrow of national governments the irresistible rise in value of Arkwrights piano wire shares as politicos and mandarins dangle from lamp posts?
    We shall see, for in Liz, as in Jim, we trust.

  354. Noa – 15:05

    Indeed, there was a riot in McDonalds, Nottingham, last week. Ronald’s bounty was looted. God knows what these crazed individuals will do when there’s a power cut and the deep fat fryers congeal.

    An unusually restrained Mark Steyn highlights the UK’s descent into lawlessness:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMDQTCBpeE

    For fear of looters the Friars of Buckfast Abbey will be requesting military escorts for their shipments up the M5/M6/M74/M8 to Glasgow!

    The bartering of commodities: food & booze etc. will replace worthless fiat paper money. If Bill ‘n Greta are successful in culling all the cattle, sheep, goats, camels, yaks, horses etc. then the time of Soylent Green™ and not insects will soon be upon us.

    “in Liz, as in Jim, we trust.”

    Right now, it’s going to take someone of the ingenuity of James Bolivar diGriz to get us out of this fix!

  355. EC

    LOL. Buckfast?
    In exchange perhaps the canny jocks will in return be shipping tanker loads of the indispensable phlegm for use by the New Britons.

  356. My earler post on the Salisbury Review.

    And yet, the illegal immigrants are the least of the problem.
    Ever generous with other people’s taxes the soon departing Mr Johnson has facilitated the current and future arrival of up to five million Hong Kong Chinese and two hundred thousand Ukrainians, amongst others: the regular ‘dependants’ from Pakistan, India, Nigeria and elsewhere.
    Arriving in the New Jerusalem, as nearly a million have in the last year, they expect and are entitled to free money, accommodation, healthcare and education. And of course food into this soon to be re-wilded if slightly peckish and chilly country.
    No matter that their skills are minimal, their taxi driving and social interaction, especially with white schoolgirls,is reknowned. In their gated estates our Mandarinate and politicians have already ensured that design powered generators will power their Teslas and lights in this and coming winters. The police and possibly the armed forces will, like those elsewhere in net zero anything Europe, will be tasked with contaiining the ‘exuberance’ anticipated by the Gang of Brussels from the new Europeans. That is, those who came to Europe to escape the very conditions they have been instrumental in creating here.
    Perhaps the newest import into Britain and Europe, replacing all those unwanted nitrogen fertilisers, will be phlegm from the chemical factories of the People’s Republic. It may help those New Europeans and Britons to adjust to the iniquitie, of plague, poverty, hunger, cold, thirst and war that our politicians have deemed us worthy of revisiting.

  357. EC

    I recently acquired (or reacquired) Harry Harrison’s Deathworld trilogy, the planet building sagas of Jason dinAlt and his dominating yet feminine girlfriend an straight line thinking friend Kerk.
    All excellent stuff and as I read them in the armoured limousine taking me to the whinberry plantation workers cabins to become guest of honour at their annual harvest fest, I wondered why the CIA and DoS had never mandated them as the manuals for nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than the Washington Post and our own beloved Guardian?

  358. Does the government really believe that wearing two sweaters will prevent major civil disturbance if the nation is deprived of its alcohol cosh after a thousand years?
    Beer to hit £15 a pint, if you can find a brewer or a pub still in business to buy it. Stock up on homebrew kits, yeast and malt while you can.

  359. Noa, August 29th, 2022 – 20:40

    “LOL. Buckfast?”

    Aye, the “Holy Swally” indeed. 🙂

    Noa, August 30th, 2022 – 23:05
    Noa, August 29th, 2022 – 15:05

    Yes indeed, “Winter Is Coming.”
    I’ve been pondering about that comment on TCW article. I think that the bloke who spoke about upcoming winter riots is very probably spot on.

    Time to stock up on EVERYTHING, not just Bog. Following the recent news from Finland supplies at our local Lidl have been wiped out.

  360. Noa, August 30th, 2022 – 08:44

    Is “Useless Eustace” still nominally in charge of UK agriculture?
    Paying farmers not to grow food and “rewild” or large lump sums to quit altogether is not only mad but evil. Boris ‘n Carrie und Klaus have earned their place in history alongside Mao, Uncle Joe, Pol Pot, and Uncle Bob. Mass starvation merchants one and all.

    Plenty of people though, so stand by for Soylent Green™

  361. h/t Mark Steyn

    “Hunger ist kein Argument für Abstriche bei Biodiversität und Klimaschutz”
    “Hunger is not an argument for making compromises when it comes to biodiversity and climate protection”

    Cem Özdemir, 29/08/2022
    German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture since December 2021
    Federal Chairman of the Green Party, 2008 – 2018.
    Vegetarian
    “Secular Muslim” (whatever that means???)

    ref: https://linkezeitung.de/2022/08/29/oezdemir-hunger-ist-kein-argument-fuer-abstriche-bei-biodiversitaet-und-klimaschutz/

    Other thoughts of Chairman Cem.

    “Es ist gut, dass die Menschen immer weniger Fleisch essen“
    “It’s good that people are eating less and less meat.”

  362. I hope that Germans vote for the AfD.
    The German state and media, however, is as rabidly anti-AfD as the UK state/media were anti-UKIP.
    Voters will be fed up with Greens, SPD, CDU etc but they’ll be told that the alternative is Nazism.
    Germans, famous for being dim, will therefore keep on voting for the old parties.
    Still, the four Generals: Unemployment, Cold, Hunger and Riot/War may cause a change of heart.

  363. “Mark Steyn reacts to Leilani Dowding explaining being told by her bank that ‘the Government needs to know’ what she will spend money on while trying to withdraw her own money.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6w16q8DWug

    A similar thing happened to somebody I know about 9 months ago. It was Santander in Carlisle that time.

  366. A voice from the past: On today’s pervasive anti human hegemony or, if you will, Malignocracy…

    “Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
    Samuel Johnson

    Boswell Life vol. 1, p. 444 (21 July 1763)

  368. September 5th.

    So this afternoon will E-II-R get to meet E-III-R, or will it be the Maharishi? Everybody assumes it will be the former, but I’ll laugh my socks off if the City has rigged at and it is the latter.

    Unless the winner is prepared to take some radical steps within the first week, then the Tories are pretty much doomed anyway. Doubly so according to my great aunt Agatha.
    Sitting on her perch of unearned moral superiority in one of the leafier, nicer, parts of Surrey, the senile champagne socialist has previously declared that the result will decide if the Tories have more racists than misogynists. Enough cognitive dissonance there to fill the void between here and Alpha Centauri.

    To end on an optimistic note it seems that the trade unions want Sir Beer gone. So there might be something to cheer us up after all as we head into the party conference season and the northern hemisphere hurtles into the winter gloom and the purgatory lurking beyond…

    Vote Corbyn, you know it makes sense! 😉

  369. Sergei Lavrov expounding upon the current geopolitical situation…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYPf1k2Melk

    No lectern thumping or repetitive soundbites, Russians always seem to give themselves to luxury of long speeches. Eleven minutes is hardly long, though, as compared to the interminable four hour speeches delivered by Gorbachev, Uncle Joe et al to captive audiences.

  370. @09:35

    Eleven minutes is hardly long, though, as compared to the interminable four hour speeches delivered by Gorbachev, Uncle Joe et al to captive audiences.

    … or even Noa’s ‘Town Hall’ addresses to his migrant estate workers!

  371. EC 09.35

    Would you interrupt a Russian politician? Comrade? I seem to remember Izzy giving him a lecture on how we would defend the Russian territories he mentioned to her a few moths ago. Such much for geography.
    Yes Izzy, Edinburgh is in Britain. Stop crying, you don’t have to go and we won’t let Nikki shout at you.
    Thanks for tge reminder EC! With the crops in and windmills oiled I have now signed off the redundancy letters and, in the adopted Liverpool style of the best socialists, a taxi will deliver them today.

  372. “Will the next “Prime Minister” continue to salami slice the British nose to spite the Russian face?”

    H/T Sandra Cooke The Salisbury Review

  375. USS Biden: Well, Il Papa and anybody else downwind of the hulk, would definitely vouchsafe for stinking.

    File under: Typhoo Tea, Britain, Scunthorpe etc.

    An interesting video from Dominic Frisby. He’s right about commodities.
    It’s almost as if western governments are acting in concert enacting restrictions, some say attacks, on farmers to engineer food shortages.

    Here in the outer spiral arm of the UK we have cornered the market in water.

  377. EC
    Will they share the same helicopter there and back again?
    Let’s hope they both catch pneumonia whilst being kept waiting the unheated Balmoral anteroom.

    Bye Boris.
    Thank you for turning off the lights on your way out.

  378. Noa,

    The last batch of non fancy household candles that I bought exactly a year ago would cost 50% more on Amazon, today. Last year postage was free, this year the buggers want £2.48 postage on top!

  379. EC

    “I feel your pain, Bro,” as the boyfriend of my youngest and wokest daughter said to me. Once.
    The laws of supply and demand obviously continue to operate, as we move towards rationing, wartime style black markets, spivs and the barter economy. (‘You want nice school girl for kebab, Mo?’).
    The other economic principle of ‘Make or buy’ now comes into operation. Should we redeploy our house servants on making candles from our stocks of sheep tallow, or simply reduce their wages again?

  380. RIP Your Majesty, we will miss you more than anyone or anything else.

    That’s it then for the Kingdom, the loonies will take over fully.

    Shall one despair or cut himself off from what’s coming next?

  381. Noa @ September 7th, 2022 – 11:20

    Not a bad one, Noa, would you like to be ‘Broed’ from now on?

    The freeze of energy bills at £2,500 necessitating the borrowing of £150bn is the biggest folly, an error of biblical proportions, bigger even that the B&B’s profligacy with cheap money, it solves nothing, it’s an expensive plaster on a boil that will continue to fester, unless we switch to cheap Russian gas we will never get the same cost of primary energy that would make the households’ bills acceptably low and the industry competitive.

    The boil is the cost of the primary energy, not the downstream distribution of it, it’s the oil and gas extractors against the solar and wind energy generators, the latter are intermittent hence must be backed up by fossil fuel generators that will idle when the sun shines and the wind blows, nuclear’s too distant to make any difference now, it’s rather ironic the imbecility of the £2,500 freeze comes along as the Queens leaves us.

    In an interview with the FT Truss said: “I a going to be unashamedly pro-business government” that would reduce taxes rather than offering what she called “handouts.”
    What she’s done is the opposite, it’s a handout to the distributors of energy, the taxes we will have to pay will increase and not be cut.

  385. Baron – 12:40

    CERTAINLY NOT !

    Please give us an update on the recent demonstrations in Praha, and the part you played in them

  387. Barry Cryer: Comedy legend, Imo the best thing ever to come out of Leeds. He wrote with and for them all. I have bought and read many of his several autobiographies.

    Barry may have been on one of the mosts memorable hours of BBC Radio 4 ever broadcast One of his writing partners, John Junkin, certainly was. My memory fades (I thought it was 1982 but Wiki says ’86) Victor Lewis-Smith hired Arthur Mullard as a guest presenter whilst the turgid Libby Purves was away on holiday. “Arfurr” got a panel of his comedy mates on, and the result was, imo, one of the funniest, side-splitting, unscripted conversations that was ever broadcast, before or since that date. However “Aunty” was not pleased. A pity really as they could’ve have made a fortune selling tapes of that show.

  389. “The Queen is dead. Long live the King.”

    Hitchens hopes for the future.
    https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/royals/charles-camilla/221612?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shared_link

    It, together with Neil Olivers eloquent and thoughtful tribute to the Queen, may she rest in peace, constitutes the best journalistic analysis of this profound event for Britain that I gave seen.
    https://youtu.be/f3ZINl73BDY

    Did you note the behaviour of the Slithereen today? How Blair invegieled himself to the front in the very Premiership of self audulating sharp elbowed chicanery?

  391. EC @ September 9th, 2022 – 12:45

    This make sense, EC, the Californians are keen on exercises, gyms are their second homes, running is as widespread for most of them as is sitting in a comfortable chair for Baron, the cost of the wheel cannot be that prohibitive, they can all run inside it rather than on the streets where they can be harmed by people driving cars with internal combustion engines or by criminals.

  392. Noa @ September 10th, 2022 – 20:48

    Neil’s excellent, it’s hard to fathom why Britain did so well when a woman was in charge, the first Elizabeth, Victoria, in our times Elizabeth the Great, she won’t be a hard act to follow, she cannot be followed, nobody can come close to following her, with her death comes the end of Britain as she was, the Mother of Parliament, the cradle of democracy, the land of tolerance, civility and common sense.

    Sad, very sad but not unexpected, one wonders what Frank would have said.

  393. What can Baron say about the demo?

    What can anyone say about a large gathering of people expressing their unhappiness with a regime that doesn’t listen, cannot listen because the far far away masters wouldn’t allow it to listen.

    Noisy, rather disorganised, not at all bad tempered until a bunch of provocateurs had to be calmed down by the police, surprisingly a rather well mixed composition of the demonstrators, probably more of the young than the old, plenty of orators addressing the crowds, unfortunately the noise was such that the speakers could have declaimed swear words and nobody would have noticed, more so for Baron who arrived late (a lunch with a friend was the reason), couldn’t get close to the podium that was close to the statue of a king of the past.

    Speaking to anyone was close to impossible because of the racket, but surprisingly most of those Baron managed to speak, and those that went to have a beer with him after the tumult were not concerned about the hard times ahead, the cost of petrol or anything that one would expect to exercise them because such things have a bearing on one’s life directly, but about the country’s backing for Ukraine.

    The young men and girls were well informed about the Kiev putsch in February 2014, some knew more than Baron about the events before it happened, one of them was in Ukraine, left after his girlfriend was threatened (not because of anything political but because she refused to say thank you in Ukrainian in a shop, she was told how to say it, but thanked the shopkeeper in Russian).

    The pub drinkers didn’t add much to anything but showed again a remarkable knowledge of things Ukrainian and Russian (Baron talked to about a dozen of them), without furnishing support for either Ukraine or Russia, most of them didn’t want to have anything to do with the conflict, one of them feared it could spread.

    There was another demo Baron missed because he was hoping to attend a lecture on the Ukrainian conflict in a church, the lecture and the demo to decriminalise marihuana took place at the same time but at different parts of the city, the lecturer didn’t turn up, Baron had to be happy with a piece of cake and a cup of surprisingly good coffee.

  394. Baron – 00:16

    Thank you. First hand accounts of these events are important.

    Noa – 20:48

    Agreed, Neil was excellent. Neil’ s beard trim, his donning a jacket and black tie, in stark contrast to his customary attire, served to amplify his comments about the gravity of what has just inevitably occurred.

    Blair and Campbell should be in jail.

  395. I’ll maybe see you all again on the 20th September when we get to see what “they” have secretly been up to since the 8th.

  396. The Queen has died

    London Bridge has fallen

    A fairytale has ended

    No longer can we

    Cling to naiveite

    There’s simply a day

    That separates yesterday

    From today

    I’m sorry

    What did you say

    I’ve narrated this way

    For so long

    How can we say goodbye

    To childhood

    It was a great ride.

    We’ve arrived

    And the Queen died

    And I can’t say I cried

    Twas only a fairytale anyway

    However grim the end

    But we go on and on

    Someday

    I’ll tell you a new tale

    With a different ending

    Till then

    Stay out of reach

    Let them reach out to you

    No skin off your back

    Playing devils’ advocate

    It’s what you’re good at

    Mysterious aloof

    That beauty surrounds you

    Is proof

    You’ve come so far

    Only to find

    You’re back at the start

    Wherever you are.

    Fairytales come and go

    But we go on and on

    I’ll tell you a new tale

    Someday

    In a fairytale world without end

    Amen.

    Long live the King

  399. The Russian forces are getting pummelled, they withdrew from around Kharkov, are under pressure in the Donbas region as well as in Zaporizhzhia, it was major blunder by Putin to invade, it was equally insane to let the fighting be done by the forces of the two breakaway Republics, the Chechens and the volunteers, what did he expect these fighters can accomplish against a combined Ukraine and NATO combatants, intelligence and modern killing tools? The man has lost it, he should think about retiring.

  400. You reckon it was wise of Charles to go for Charles as the sobriquet of his Kingship? The first one got his head chopped off, of the second it was said that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one’, our Charlie has said more than enough silly things, but will he manage the reverse of his namesake in doing wise things?

  401. Something tells Baron we may hit some choppy waters soon, if the Winter turns cold, not bitterly cold, cold would be enough to get people thinking whether it’s the war in Ukraine that makes us shiver or our response to it.

  402. He, the one with the capital H or whoever it is running the weather, must be siding with Russia, a couple of centuries ago it was the French that got the frostbites trying to conquer the largest Slavonic tribe, closer to our times it was the turn of the Hun that got frozen before reaching Moscow, and now, as a lesson seems not to have been learnt, it may well be the Full Monty of the West that will get iced unless of course someone somewhere wises up, gets real, turns the switch on on the N-2.

  403. It doesn’t seem real that she’s gone, it’s hard to imagine she will no longer tell us what the past years had brought her and us, we will no more feel secure in the knowledge that even though she cannot say anything publicly she keeps an eye on things in her private weekly chats with whoever the clown in no10 may be.

    It’s sad beyond comprehension, Baron hopes for the best fears that more than worse may lay ahead even though in a way he’s lucky, he’s old, thinks often whether there’s any point living in a world he finds difficult to figure, but the young don’t think that, they have sex, drugs and the booze.

  405. Baron, September 13th, 2022 – 23:24

    “Enjoy, EC, whatever it is you’ll be up to till September 20.”

    I’ll not be up the much as the whole nation appears to be skiving off as “a mark of respect” until after the funeral

  408. ECHR 09.01

    The problems of WFH are twofold.
    The schemes and plans ‘She who must be obeyed’ cooks up generally ruin one’s own best laid plans and the cost of heating and lighting is about to make it ruinous to do more than warm your mittens by the candle (four candles?)
    Still, Socialist Lancashire County Council are offering us an escape plan, which they’ve obviously borrowed from the Germans…
    https://www.lancs.live/news/cost-of-living/lancashire-libraries-become-warm-hubs-24994515
    Best of all they may enforce the no talking libray rule so her indoors can’t follow us.
    https://www.lancs.live/news/cost-of-living/lancashire-libraries-become-warm-hubs-24994515

  409. “Still, Socialist Lancashire County Council are offering us an escape plan, which they’ve obviously borrowed from the Germans…” LOL, indeed!

    Will LCC issue a “no raping” mandate for their indoor library warming sessions, or would that contravene their diversity and inclusion policy?

  411. You should listen to the guy, the argument put forward by Rand is almost exactly what Baron was saying on the Spectator blog, Olaf’s fugging Germany more than Adolf did considering that he, Olaf, didn’t really invade anyone.

    What the report misses is the further erosion of German sovereignty engendered by the country’s refusal to buy Russian fossil fuels, the supplies of the commodity will now come from sources controlled either directly or indirectly by the US, the Germans are genuinely fugged, and with them the EU also because it’s Germany’s economy that was the major source of funds for the Brussels apparatchiks.

    Interesting times lie ahead, boys (and girls if any is listening).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacSGqrF5c4

    PS: Baron’s off for a few days, you keep watching the crowds lining up to enter the Westminster Hall.

  412. EC @ September 14th, 2022 – 16:40

    And some would insist, EC, the rest of the world should buy the American model, it’s the British way of life that should get promoted, the one before the country turned ‘rainbowed’.

  413. Who the hell are the corrupt EUFA to tell football clubs not play the National Anthem?
    Full credit to the protestants of Glasgow Rangers for playing it and shame on all the others for not doing so. And a special place in the pit of shame is reserved for the Celtic ‘fans’ who held up banners stating “Fuck the Crown” and sorry for your loss, Michael Fagan”. If Ireland is so good, go there.

  414. The anti English and corrupt UEFA & FIFA organisations ought to be told to piss off for a number of reasons.

    The activities and rhetoric of the Scottish National Socialist Party over the past years have only served to make the pre-existing tribal hatred and division within the ‘wegie fitba, and wider, community even worse.

    Nicola took the shit stirring to the next level by shamefully flirting with Sinn Féin after the Northern Ireland Assembly election results in May.

  415. September 13th, 2022 – 23:22 Baron

    Sorry

    Fergus is misunderstood,
    He was not rude.
    He is not of the blood
    But would if he could

    I thank you for our Queen,
    For all that she has been!
    By generations seen
    As steadfast and serene.

  416. EC 10.06

    Interesting, thank you. I wasn’t aware of Krankies’ manoeuvres with the PIRA PR unit. She may find that she’s bitten off more than she can chew in such hate mongering. Feelings still run deep and it’s not just Irish nationalists “that haven’t gone away, you know…” as the arch weasel Gerry Adams memorably said. English nationalism is still around and its getting more miffed by the day.
    The Moustache covers a currently unfashionable view of patriotism.
    https://youtu.be/JNlTsykh3-4

    And, not unrelated to this little polemic, one of the EUs most loquacious propagandists may seek asylum elsewhere. He should be able to buy a cheap inflatable from Border Forc, but will the French let him in?
    https://youtu.be/PpRqYpHHVOA

  418. .I shall miss the Bellend, whose prison sentence seems uttely disproportionate to say the least, given the difficulties Pakistani nonces find in getting themselves locked up.. He helped to keep many of us sane during Dictator Johnson’s imprisonment of an entire nation.
    A reasonably objective if ultimately techno-legal explanation of why Alex will be playing with Soap on a rope with Britain’s finest criminals for two and a golf years.
    https://youtu.be/xyUQ0QG79Eo

  419. Noa – 00:43

    A sad case. The fact that he insisted on representing himself in court and refused to give evidence defending himself proved to me that, how shall I phrase this, “that he “wasn’t quite the full shilling.”

    “Sentencing guidelines” are all very well taken in academic isolation but, as you aver, sentences are not coherently comparable across different types of crimes.

    The message has gone out though. i.e. “don’t fuck with the state broadcaster.” Do not mention Jeremy Vine, Gary Goalhanger, or Naga Munchies on more than one occasion on YouTube video as twice or more will now constitute stalking!

    One can see why all the worthies,”the great and the good” in the politico-media swamp are so keen on the some of the Trojan horse clauses in the May-Dorries’ “Online Safety Bill.

    I gave up watching Daniel Shensmith’s BBB channel for a couple of reasons. It became too click-baity, and the second reason was the depressing realisation of how over regulated our lives have become since my childhood in the 50’s. It’s got to the stage where one hardly can risk getting out of bed in the morning without contravening some regulation or another. Fart on the way out and that’ll be double the fine!

    In Scotland they no longer have the luxury of free speech within their own homes!
    Woe betide homes and businesses that don’t have the official portrait of Nicola on the wall.

    https://www.dw.com/en/east-german-stasi-had-189000-informers-study-says/a-3184486-1

  420. Noa – 00:15

    “The Swedish mirage may soon be followed by an Italian illusion.”

    I must’ve dimension jumped. I thought that the Swedes made the Viggens, the French the Mirages, the Ruskies the Illusions (sic) and the Italians the Lambrettas and Vespas… 😉

    “I’ll get me coat…”

  421. @15:38

    I apologise unreservedly for Gripen about Swedish Mirages…
    Arrrgh… Nurse, N-U-R-S-E ! The curtains…

  422. EC LOVL!

    That takes me back to the early 2000s, when I was engaged on developing and negotiating a joint venture agreement with Saab to market and sell the Gripen. A stupid idea, as we could never recover our own development costs out of the potential market. Still, we did as our masters requested.
    It was an utter disaster, we only sold the thing to South Africa and were subsequentlyinvolved in corruption allegations, another sale to Hungary resulted in massive US government ffines. Not surprisingly ‘I told you so. did not go down well with our bosses.
    I’ve never liked Sweden much since, boring humourless, prigs. The Sanes and Norwegians were much more fun.
    If your getting your coat mate sure it’s a warm one!

  423. As for Mirage, it was never easy dealing with Dassault, our deadly competitors and French, zout alors! Another joint venture, based on total distrust that worked reasonably well and the food was always good.
    As for yakking about the Russians… no illusions there, after the Cold War ended Russias secrets were for sale to the highest bidder by destitute state employees and a trip to Berlin secured the complete aircraft specification for the Yakovlev 39 for a bargain USD 30k in cash of course, despite the attentions of the BND, all cloak and dagger, great fun but adrenaline inducing.

  424. Ah, the BundesNachrichtenDienst! That’s Cherman for Colander, innit? 🙂
    Reportedly, and unfortunately for some, all their best spooks were also in the employ of the Stasi and KGB.

    In the 80’s the BND tried to recruit someone of my acquaintance to do some “research” on their behalf and he told them to piss off (very politely) in short order. The quickest way to secure accommodation at the Lubyanka Hilton!

    Wiki: “In 2006 the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.”

    Recreating the BAE?

  425. It was the Mother of all pomp and circumstance, of pageantry and substance, of public and private, no other country could ever stage anything even close to it, one can bet many burghers on the Continent in France, Italy, Austria perhaps even in Russia must have felt envious, had they retained their own monarchies, they would have also possessed a ready made fixative of national cohesion, politicians eat your heart out.

    The most amazing part for Baron, who had never watched so much TV before and drank so copiously during daytime, were the crowds, silent in their respect and admiration for a single human being, they waited for hours and hours, stood quietly when the hearse passed them, watched patiently the last journey of an exceptional individual without anyone asking them to, close to unbelievable in today’s world where those in governance command us as if we were kids unable to make up our minds ourselves, the healthy core of Britishness they all are.

    The monarchy got MOTed well in roughly a week with a panache that was both extraordinary and humbling, will the new King avoid denting it?

  426. Noa & EC

    You two boys are revealing till now unrevealed side of your past, non-kosher wheeling and dealing, fighter jet mishaps, massive fines imposed by our special friends, KGB secrets sold for peanuts …. Baron will have to be more careful from now on what he says, there must be an equivalent of the Ljubjanka hotel in this country also, he must avoid booking himself in.

  427. Baron,

    More of a retold past. I spent all my working life behind a desk, essentially just pressing buttons. But outside of that I met a few older people who had more interesting careers. In my earlier decades I also met four real life WW2 Nazis ranging from charming to deeply unpleasant. Always interesting talking to older people.

    The period following the collapse of the Berlin Wall was an interesting one. Moscow resembled Dodge City. There was a lot of ‘moonlighting’ going on, as the KGB acted as bodyguards and chauffeurs for western businessmen… all paid for in hard cash $$$$s

  428. Baron,

    Have you seen this? Bald & Bankupt’s interrogation tape…
    Deliberately leaked? And what happened to the rest of the tape?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCqK6S-Jc5g

    It all seems very gentlemanly.
    I kept expecting his inquisitors to produce a pot of tea, plate of cucumber sandwiches (no crusts obviously), followed by scones, jam and some clotted cream.

    I didn’t realise he could speak Russian that well.
    The only time I’ve seem him look serious.
    Whaddya reckon?

  429. EC 09.33

    “…The period following the collapse of the Berlin Wall was an interesting one. Moscow resembled Dodge City. There was a lot of ‘moonlighting’ going on, as the KGB acted as bodyguards and chauffeurs for western businessmen… all paid for in hard cash $$$$s…”
    It was a time of personal dilemmas and inner conflict for do many, witnessing the replacement of Pravda with Prada.

  430. Noa,

    “…the replacement of Pravda with Prada.”

    🙂 Wonderful!

    There’s a new highly entertaining eight part series on Netflix called “KLEO.”
    It is set in Berlin in the years before and after the Wall came down in ’89. Pure fiction, it’s best described as revenge movie with a heavy helping of black comedy. (*)

    The Chermans have come up with a rip roaring winner here. It has a superb cast and the magic ingredient that Alistair Maclean used to call “pace.” The dialogue is in uncomplicated German with English subtitles.

    Very difficult not to “binge watch” this. 10/10.

    * Andy Carpark would maybe like this and he is a fan of works Dr. Anton Phibes and Edward Lionheart!

  431. EC @ September 20th, 2022 – 09:51

    He shouldn’t have been as apologetic at the start of the chat, he could have said the timing of the special op was wrong, why wait until Ukraine was ready, bolstered by NATO in training, military gear supplies and stuff, he could have said ‘why not tell Z if you don’t stop killing your own people in Donbas we will lob as many missiles as it needs to stop you bombing the place’, then do exactly that, missiles no boots for the special op, he should have said other top politicians do make errors, point to Mutti’s ‘come everyone, Germany’s open for you’, or Margaret’s polls tax.

    It was a golden opportunity for him to spend few days inside Russian jail, that would have boosted his popularity sky high, the interview will very likely dampen the followers’ enthusiasm, not many but why hurting one’s popularity? The Russians that protest get weeks inside, he would have been given fewer days, a truly excellent chance missed.

    Come to think of it though Baron behaved in a similar manner when interrogated by a KGB Colonel at Ljubjanka, he also chickened out, tried to put a more acceptable interpretation on his ‘sins’, but then his life was at stake, kind of different environment then.

  433. EC 09.51

    His truly heinous crime is disrespecting YouTube! How dare he talk like that against our bastion of free speech, tge guardian and preventor of dusinfomatzion!
    A very weird and disjointed interrogation, perhaps the cucumber was being used for other purposes than sandwich making.

  434. Baron
    A fine eulogy for Her Majesty, thank you.
    Now we are left with her petulant idiot offspring, trying on his own to revive the device right of Kings I wonder how long the dislikeable Windsor family will last.

    What were you doing to be hauled into the Lubianka by the KGB? How did you get out? Where can we buy your best selling memoirs?
    Like Dick Barton followerswe wait breathlessly for next instalment….

  435. EC 09.52

    Its probably just as well that the Romanov family is no more, otherwise we could have witnessed the replacement of Isveztia with investiture after the fall of Gorbachev.

  437. The best summer in 70 years and for some it’s still too grim up north…

    From the dock of the court, the defendant said he wanted to be deported immediately.
    He said: “I don’t want to stay here – not even for one minute.”

    https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/21875323.carlisle-asylum-seeker-sentenced-knife-offence/

    Meanwhile in Leicester there’s a turf war going on… Leics Police Twitter Squad and Elite TikTok Dancers prove ineffective. EL CID still missing. Truss to call in the Met. The Met Office, that is. “A good dose of rain should short ’em out.”

  438. EC
    They’re a sparky lot these efnics, real dynamos, but thats down to the current buzz inn’t bro!
    I’ll get me pads…

  439. Baron, September 21st, 2022 – 10:46

    Selling the big lie:

    A while back you posted up a link to a shockingly graphic video “2+2=5”
    Your comment was, “This is how it’s done, Chaps”

    Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTjM6S-kOmg

    Jordan Peterson was recently interviewed by the ghastly Piers Morgan,
    The interview, ostensibly about Ukraine-Putin, contained an interesting snippet where Peterson touches upon the nature of totalitarianism:

    Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnxxELn00gk

    Notwithstanding the contribution by Morgan, fascinating stuff.

  441. Knock, knock! Is there anybody there?
    I’m having another Major Errol Phipps / Stalag Luft 112B moment here, chaps.
    Is it really worth going on?

    A pity, because I was hoping to ask if anyone could remember reading Dr. K’s 1957 tome Nuclear Weapons & Foreign Policy. Until the dawn of the Neocons was it unlikely that the Yanks would go “all in,” risk everything, if there was a limited nuclear exchange in Europe? If that was the case would that mean for the last 72 years Nato has largely been “smoke and mirrors?”

  442. EC @ September 25th, 2022 – 09:48

    Why did the Slough boisterous young men decide to go visit this small island in the first place, EC? Did they intend to burgle a house to two intentionally before they arrived there? Was it indeed the peacefulness of the place that made them do it? How on earth did they imagine to get away with it.

    It seems that this enrichment of our culture is not going to stop anytime soon, the Female intends to boost immigration to get our economy booming, that’s the surest way of the Tories getting boots out of power in 2024, for her it could be the first signs of a creeping Witzelsucht decease, individual telling inappropriate jokes when it’s neither the time nor the place for such unwanted frivolities.

  443. Everyone needs a holiday from time to time, EC, holiday from the drabness of whatever one may be doing most of the time, that must include blogging also, Baron has taken few days off because there still are things that take priority over penning stuff nobody ever reads.

    Still, how are we going to fund the tax cuts? Sort of cutting back on services, a rather unwise move given the state of the NHS and the coming of Winter what with the health delivery service being the most expensive item on the Government budget, or reducing the money destined for the new enlarged Armed Services and our generous assistance to our newly found eastern friend Ukraine, it will have to be borrowing.

    Here it may be the repeat of what happened in 2008 when it was the bond market that cut short the ‘no boom no bust’ idiocy of Labour, it may once more be the bond market that will hoist the cost of money to a level at which few companies or even financial institutions will go belly up, and then what?

  444. Don;t be put off by the slow start, the guy has his own way of talking, but what he says makes sense, Baron intends to purchase the book, will report on what he finds in it.

    That Russia was offered a NATO membership in the 90s when Boris was in the Kremlin and Berezovsky did everything he could to get the job that went later to Putin ws a revelation to Baron, he has always argued NATO was set up primarily not to prevent the communist decease spreading west, but to subdue Russia, take over her natural resources fully.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/interview-the-plot-to-seize-russia-make-it-a-nato-vassal/

  445. Not so sure the referenda in the four eastern regions of Ukraine are the best way forward in the Ukrainian conflict, there is nothing to stop Z shelling the regions after they join Russia, if anything the cutting off the east/south of Ukraine must necessitates the full takeover of Ukraine, something the West may not let to happen without a head on fight with the Russians, the NATO units will have to see combat in Ukraine, which could lead to an even greater escalation into Europe proper, God forbid.

  446. Did Putin lie when he said the special operation was to denazify Ukraine? He must have because 225 of the Azov fighters have been allowed to travel to Turkey where they should spend the time it takes for the conflict to end in a well guarded establishment, or so says apparently the deal, but can one trust the Turkish tinpot dictator? More to the point, what happens after the conflict ends, do the Azov boys, the five leaders in particular, return to Ukraine, or to another country to plot again?

    A rather stupid move as the released men include some that were accused of torture. It seems the Kremlin man has lost it, the people will dislodge him, the communists will take over, something no one should welcome.

  447. EC @ September 22nd, 2022 – 13:25

    Thanks for posting the Peterson interview, EC, Baron had been sent it earlier by a friend, refused to watch it because it’s that ghastly spineless Morgan doing the interviewing, Baron couldn’t miss your posting it, it’s superb, at the beginning the ghastly mesomorph interrupts, but when Peterson gets going, he remains speechless, far above his grade, couldn’t find a weak point in the great man’s monologue to exploit, the to$$er.

  450. Anthony Barber tried something similar in 1972, he ‘dashed for growth’ in not unakin economic environment, it lasted for around two years, the quadrupling of oil prices killed it, sterling collapsed, inflation set it, peaked at some 25%.

    This time round, we’re unlikely to get any growth at all as the cost of energy is already high, unlikely to come down soon, the sterling is already collapsing, inflation and the falling sterling will force the BoE to hike the cost of money more than the priced-in level of 4.5%, it won’t be growth we’ll get but stagflation.

  451. Baron, September 25th, 2022 – 21:41

    A bit of a faux pas from Liz on immigration his weekend.
    She should engage Kamala Harris mode during any improvisations.

    Re: Witzelsucht

    No laughing matter. How typically Cherman!
    I dislike the cultural Marxist PC term “inappropriate.” To whom?

    Down with Huns, up with Puns!

  452. Got Covid this weekend. Not much fun.
    At my “witz ende”, so it’ll be up to Noa to discuss the finer points of Ms Melons and her stunning election victory in Italy.
    Ciao.

  453. EC @ September 26th, 2022 – 10:32

    If it’s the Omicron variant, EC, it may be unpleasant as every flu-like infection is, but it’s not dangerous, it’s the best vaccine you could hope to get, your immune system will get a boost and you’ll be set for years to be free of another infection of the same family of viruses, just have patience, you’ll be fine, keep us informed though.

  454. It’s funny how name conjures up a picture of a ripe melon for Baron, sweet, juicy and satisfying, let’s hope that’s the future the young lady will deliver for Italy.

  455. Boosting immigration is certainly a bold move in the pursuance of unpopular policies, the new Female in no10 wasn’t joking when she said this was what she would not shy from doing, but it also neatly confirms Baron’s comparison of today’s immigration with the colonisation of the past, Mrs Truss is a member of the middle class, that fits also in Baron’s view that it’s the middle class that governs us, hence it’s the governance for the benefits of the middle class.

    Most of the objections to it can be summed up as putting more stress on housing, schooling, social services and such as well depressing the wages of the lower strata the proletariat (who may not be that keen to go for the job vacancies the immigrants are going to fill), the one impact of economic nature of immigration that’s often overlooked is that immigration prevents productivity to improve, it puts a break on to, there’s little incentive for those using the cheap immigrant labour to mechanise, to install new technologies, computerise the operations performed by the immigrants, the risk is obvious, come a crisis, the cheap labour disappears, returns home, or simply gets on benefits as happened when the covid pandemic hit, the digging of carrots or pushing the trollies in hospitals no longer happens.

  456. Baron
    Who are the middle class?
    How many of them are there?
    Are we middle class?
    Of course you being a Baron, in fact the Baron, are not Middle but Upper class, n’cest pas?

  457. Noa @ September 26th, 2022 – 22:39

    The majority of people living in the UK (say) between two thirds and three quarters of the population could be labelled middle class with an income from (as a guess) £30k to £140k all further divided between lower MC and higher MC according to the jobs performed or professions followed, or we can all be split into the seven classes that as we’re told we’ve evolved into – see the chart – that’s all very rough, but whichever one slices it the former working class, the one where men wore caps and women scarves has been on the way out for some time, is now largely populated by immigrants during their early years of arriving here.

    Officially, people that are either without a job for longer than a year or those on disability benefits don’t count as a separate category, but they do for Baron, he believes that many in the latter group are people that chose not to have jobs and those in power to avoid calling this group ‘the long term unemployed’ have decided to make them disabled, Baron knows a couple of such individuals, no jobs for decades, listed as disabled but more than capable cutting large hedges, cultivating allotments and such.

    And yes, we’re middle class, the upper echelon of the society are people who have either income or accumulated wealth of a magnitude where spending it is close to impossible thus they engage in not acquiring material assets like houses, cars, yachts or whatever but influence, control, power over others (say) guys like Soros, Bezos, Musk being the top of that layer.

    https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-class-are-you/

    Of course, as you point out Baron’s exceptional, he of the blue veined phylum doesn’t fit any of the categories, he’s in a drawer of his own, heh, heh, heh.

  458. Why TF shouldn’t Rupa Huq say Kwarteng is ‘superficially a black man’? Has it in any way denied his right to do the job he’s doing? What if she said he was ‘superficially a man’, or that he was ‘superficially a well educated individual’ would that also have caused an uproar?

    Racism is only when one’s denying an equal opportunity for someone of a different skin colour to one’s own, that’s it, anything else cannot be racist, it may be unpleasant, sickening, wrong or whatever, but never racist.

    Unless we stick to defining racism as the denial of an equal opportunity to all regardless of their skins’ melanin content we will get into the realm of the ridiculous, this is one example to it.

    What Rupa Huq said was, nasty, hateful, objectionable and wrong, but she should have the right to say it, in no way did it deny the guy the job in the Government or even question it

  459. The EU has taken a firm stance, no refugee status to anyone leaving Russia, those that are saying good-by to the country of the largest Slavonic tribe must be turned back, their job is to stay put in the Kingdom of Putin, fight him.

    One cannot but applaud this decision, it’s absolutely spot on, pity it doesn’t seem to apply to incomers from other countries (say) Syria, Afghanistan, Albania …. and most of all Ukraine, we should also send everyone that left Ukraine back, why shouldn’t they go hit the invading Russians, build democracy, enjoy freedoms of any kind in their own motherland.

  460. Truly courageous of the great Mark Steyn to run a clip with Biden saying months before the N-2 got finished he would ensure the gas pipeline from Russia will never be operational, that may lead to Mark’s dismissal, not for saying it, they will find a different reason for sacking him.

  461. Baron – 21:34

    Mark doesn’t care anymore.
    Of course the usual suspects are making the lazy accusation that the latest act of eco-terrorism was committed by the {{{Russians}}} with Ursula Von Der Lying being the primary smearleader.

    The fact is, I don’t know, you don’t know, but surely any intelligent person would step back and ask cui bono? It’s not a difficult question to answer. I suspect you came to the same conclusion that I did.

  462. Covid Day 4.
    Bloody awful 3rd night. Prayed for Dr. Shipman to appear with a BIG syringe of morphine. Sadly he never came.

  463. Baron, September 27th, 2022 – 19:48

    Down in the trenches of the culture wars the lefties, and other loonies, are pleasingly turning upon themselves. Saul Alinsky must be looking down and thinking, “Oh shit! That wasn’t supposed to happen.”

  465. EC

    I sincerely hope your recovery is swift. I had the wu flu in June and treated it with contempt and sloe gin.
    Down at the surgery for my annual flu vaccination this morning and noted that the mask gauleiters have given up the unequal task of scaring all but the very old and the intellectually credulous of unfortunately there are still too many.
    Still does any of it matter when the mad old bustard Joe, or Zelensky, is inciting German and European unrest by creating fuel wars?

  466. Could it be Vlad who is the pipe wrecker? He would lose his gas revenues, at least until new income streams from China and India come fully online, but will foment widespread unrest and destabalisation in Europe even before General Winter reduces the total energy supply to one unused charcoal barbecue pack in Pankow.

  467. Baron
    Modern ‘Racism’ is the substitution of skin colour for ability, and simply, like the sexuality campaigns one campaign front in the culture wars destroying the West.

  469. Noa – 12:17

    Why would Vlad go to all the time and trouble of blowing up his own pipeline under the Baltic sea when all he had to do was turn off the taps at his end, on dry land, without getting his feet wet?

    OTOH could it have been a Spetsnaz black ops mission to discredit “our special friends” (© John Le Carré, Baron etc.)

  470. EC

    We need to check your thinking!
    How dare you apply logic and reason to the matter of the pipeline destruction huch is causing monumental ecological destruction!
    Of course the new non Roosian gas supply to Dennarj gas new cine in line….
    How we need Boris with his sore hands to lead us out of the valley of death in this time of crisis,…not.

  471. There’s no doubt who’s behind the sabotage, it may or may not have been carried by the Americans (very like it was them, first, two weeks before the explosions the American Navy was having an exercise in the same spot, second, a US plane is recorded to fly over the area in a rather suspicious circles days before he bangs, Sharij has the recording, Baron will post it if you’d like to see it, it’s in Russian, but the weird flight path is in a graphical form), without the Americans nodded to it no vassal would have dared attempt it.

    The Sikorsky’s tweet is the official confirmation the Americans are the guilty party, the tweet must have been agreed beforehand, it’s a part of the project, it’s to tell the world who’s the top dog, as Tucker says Sikorski’s closeness to Biden and the neocon mafia rules out the possibility the tweet was a faux pas, Sikorsky would never do anything to displease the Americans, the semi-official acknowledgement of the blasts is to humiliate Russia, Putin has to swallow it, it also humiliates Germany, and the poodles of the EU, the Polish PM’s anger shows they were not told even though they, the Poles, are the the most effective haters of Russia in Europe.

    You may recall Baron saying that if Germany gives up getting her fossil fuel from Russia the country will give up its sovereignty because energy is the blood flow of not only the economic engine of every country, but of life of any country in general effecting everything from the households to each individuals living in it. The Americans have gained a fuller control Germany, off is the cosying up to China and Russia, the country (and also the German’s EU project) will suffer badly because of it.

  472. Mark Steyn tonight was greater than great, he displayed the Sikorski’s tweet, mentioned the American Navy exercises in the area, also said that Ukraine is getting military gear the cost of which exceeds Russia’s annual military budget.

    The Ukrainian conflict is turning into a clash of the woke against the traditional, one can only hope it doesn’t come to the nukes getting lobbied west and east, God forbid.

  474. Noa – 12:00, Baron – 23:15

    Improving now, thanks.
    My annual flu jab will have to wait. It is essential to get one especially if you have grandchildren attending primary/junior schools. Some of the bugs brewed up within these overcrowded, overheated, places would eat anything produced by Dr. Faustus’ crew in Wuhan for breakfast!

  475. Noa – 17:28

    “We need to check your thinking!”

    Some random thoughts this morning…

    How long will the Norway pipeline last, I wonder?

    Can Russia trust China? (no, obviously)

    When the threats to an isolated Russia become existential, then what has it got to lose if it decides to distribute its “buckets of sunshine?”

    Where’s Xi ?

  480. Noa @ September 30th, 2022 – 12:43

    Good posting, Noa, on the Salisbury Review site, Baron chipped in as well, Mr. Harris replied, Baron followed on, is now regretting the tone of his postings, too nasty, but how to repent?

  481. EC @ September 30th, 2022 – 17:58

    That’s exactly so, EC, the military/industrial complex is in charge of the US governance, they cannot be dislodged for it would lead to a large loss of employment, an even greater loss to the values of 401(k) pension plans of close to 40% of all Americans, the only way to ‘consume’ the manufacture of the tools of war is to have as many conflicts as possible for as long as possible, just have a look at the share prices of the key companies, the market’s down, their share prices are up.

  483. Alex Boot delivered his customary expected anti-Putin rant, with much using and abusing of the word facist.
    Tell me, Baron, is this a consequence of the old Soviet state education system? He has as yet to rise to my letter in defence of facism, a strong leader, love of country and family.

  484. Noa,

    I salute you for going through the motions of the conceited fugitive emigré’s blog. A pious God botherer and ‘self-made man,’ which least absolve’s God of that charge. A PR/AD man adept at comb-overs. The opinions of his neocon offspring, who’s taken to wearing a tea cosy in recent years, are even worse. Have I left anything out?

    Baron,

    I wouldn’t worry a jot about Myles Harris. That article deserved it.
    His bio doesn’t say whether he was a sheep or a goat. Doesn’t acknowledge the existence of wolves, big mistake!
    Keep on truckin’ M’lud!

  485. apologies for the errant apostrophe above.

    NB. Max, A tea cosy, a fedora, or whatever else it is that you wear, is not impervious to gamma radiation.

  486. EC
    ‘Have I left anything out?’
    After “What a vain, unctuous prat.” Probably only his self awarded nickname of ‘three apples’, for the various laptops scattered between his houses.

  491. Noa @ October 1st, 2022 – 08:56

    It may have little to do with his education, Noa, more likely it’s a deeply seated Russophobia inherited from his father coupled with a large dose of obsequiousness to what the man of infamy Osama called the ‘winning horse’, it pays him to back the going regime, from Baron’s own experience it’s the reason why many back the authority they live under, they want an easy life, satisfying careers, money.

  492. EC @ October 2nd, 2022 – 11:03

    The same to you, EC, many thanks, but next time Baron will pen postings preferably sober.

  493. Noa @ October 2nd, 2022 – 12:41

    The Kama Pootra part was good, but what won it for Baron was the Latino part with the last words: ‘Fortunately for Biden, his flub went unnoticed as none of the attendees spoke English’, priceless.

  494. Talking of the karma portrait, will anyone be making the spoilt little turd who dumped a bucket of shit over the Captain Tom statue be making him clean it himself? With his tongue.
    Her mother perhaps.

  495. A new take on the N-2 explosions is gaining track – it was a big maintenance failure, the Russians are incapable servicing the pipeline, they’ve been successfully piping gas to Europe for 66 years (since the discovery of the Yamal fields in 1966), but now, out of a blue, they’ve lost the knack for maintaining the pipes, the pipes blew up.

    At least we know the answer to the question the Romans asked when a crime was committed – cui bono? Here it it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbP3zf_zFgQ

  499. Only $1.3B owing?? I would have guesstimated that by a magnitude of ten, given the abbotoir the Germans turned the place into, but then the Germans have already made a ‘full and final’ settlement and won’t be paying a further cent.
    Will they forge an anti-EU/Germany alliance if they don’t get their suddenly fashionable “reparations”?
    Nah, they’ll settle for a pro rata or percentage increase in the EU Covid recovery fund. Which Im sure is what they’ve been after all along.

  500. On Ukraine against the latest advances of the Ukrainian forces:

    One can only speculate on what Putin has been or may be after in the months ahead:

    The snail like speed of the op from the start, avoiding the destruction of bridges over Dniepr, command centres, railway links, the giving up of territory and retreating now may all be a bait, Putin may want a had on confrontation with NATO aka the Americans (he may get what he wishes for – see the link).

    Winning in Ukraine, if it happened, would solve nothing, Russia would be even worse off than when the special op began what with two more neighbours of Russia joining the alliance.

    What the Stavka must believe is that there’s a window before the Americans have defence and attack missile systems akin to those Russia currently possesses, the Americans are unable to intercept all Russian missiles, Russia has the capability to intercept theirs.

    Nobody can win a nuclear conflict but Putin doesn’t have to win it, all he has to do is inflict enough harm to get the Americans to make serious concessions to prevent most of their mainland turning inhabitable, in this he gambles thinking that few nukes over Russia will not destroy his regime, the Russian plebeians are backing him, the same support is missing in the West, the majority of people have had enough of the progressive wokeness, he must believe, they will turn against their leaders who are blamed for it.

    The blowing up the N-2 gas pipeline wasn’t necessary, the Americans could have ordered the Germans/EU to stop buying Russian oil&gas, they would have complied, the destruction was chosen deliberately, it not only cuts off Russian gas deliveries to Europe opening the market solely for the American LNG, it also humiliates Putin, next the Americans will exacerbate the ignominy by imposing new sanctions on Russia for ‘disrupting the European energy network’.

    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nato-is-preparing-for-war-its-borders:-belarus-mod

  501. EC @ October 4th, 2022 – 09:59

    But would the Germans have that sort of money, EC, they have a new bill to pay for the American LNG, it’s roughly four times the price they used to pay the Russians for the piped gas.

  502. How true:

    Bad times make strong men,
 strong men make good times,
 good times make weak men,
 weak men make bad times.

    (Apologies to the female phylum, perhaps it should say ‘bad times make strong people or men and women or better still men and women and everyone in between or ….’)

  503. What a foresight, one has to take one’s trilby off, a top class diplomatic coup of a different nature to the one in Kiev in 2014, in those days the diplomats still knew a thing or two.

    You are getting this link also because Baron visited the mosque shown in the piece, many many years ago, unbelievable as it may be, he did, but he remembers it quite differently, certainly not surrounded with flower beds.

    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/05/british-intelligence-predicted-ukraine-war-30-years-ago/

  504. Baron
    Regardless of the diffident omniscience of ‘British Intelligence’, surely an oxymoron, which really seems to be FO analysis, any sense in Western foreign policy seems to have been replaced in the 1990s by Fukushima’s hubristic End of History-End of Days US foreign policy.

  505. Noa,
    Forget Fukushima, Kurosawa made far more entertaining films… subsequently ripped off by Hollywood. Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yo Jimbo! ;-). Although it took an Italian to spaghetti-fy the last one and Clint Eastward to carry off, quite literally, A Fistful of Dollars.

  507. This comes from another site, what do you make of it? Have a look at the top 10 countries (plus the UK of course), and the disclaimer, if you highlight the line (the country) then move the cursor over the figures, t tell you what the figure was before.

    “OneAngryAussie says:

    7 October 2022 at 13:20

    When I first came across the deagel.com forecasts for 2025 back in 2020, they and the scenarios in their rationale looked fanciful. Today they look more and more likely…

    They’ve been pulled from the site in Apr 2021 I think, but can be found on the wayback machine here.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20210301202436/https://www.deagel.com/forecast

    The disclaimer below the table makes very interesting reading given the talk of nukes in recent weeks and Vlod Baby now asking NATO to send a couple to Rusher with love.

    Ah, talk about giveus takeus lendus Elensky, he does have a habit of asking for more and more, and never was a weapon he doesn’t want”.

  509. EC @ October 7th, 2022 – 10:42

    Hard to fathom how those that placed the explosives messed it up so big, EC, but apparently one of the lines is OK, can be used to pipe gas to Europe, also the damage can be repaired.

    In another piece of news Mutti has said at the Suddeutsche Zeitung Munich celebration of the newspaper’s 77th anniversary two days ago that a permanent peace in Europe could only be if Russia’s included, poor Olaf will be told off severely by the Americans for not preventing her talking publicly.

    You may recall Baron saying in the past that the only objective of the US foreign policy on Europe after WW2 has been to prevent Russia and Germany coupling up, here we have a first class example of the policy in action, a few bangs under the sea and both Germany and the biggest Slavonic tribe get both humiliated and torn apart as much as one could hope for, even if the two European powers were to start patching up tomorrow it would take decades to get to the same coupling that existed only a year ago.

    How we miss Frank, one wonders what his take of our plight would have been, but who knows, he may be looking at us, at the mess and worries and all thinking ‘how glad to be out of it’ (if you take the Deagel’s forecast of the UK population sent by Baron @ 23:56 seriously, what will it be that engenders the massive reduction in the number of burghers inhabiting this small island between now and 2025?).

  510. Baron – 01:14

    (Only when I) Olaf reminds me of Herman Van Rompuy, but without any of Herman’s presence or charisma…

    If such a rapprochement developed then the Poles will be quoting Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Maybe they should put their bid in for the next round of WW reparations now ⸮

    Depopulation:

    To paraphrase Mr Spock, “It’s England Jim, but not as we know it…”

    If the gender imbalance of recent arrivals continues at current levels (85:15) then there is going to be a lot of young men at a loose end…

    London should be renamed Stabbytown without further delay.

  516. Noa,
    Very interesting account of the debate but, that Paul Mason eh?
    Another “reformed” former Trot but apparently too still too red for the BBC and Ch4?

  517. Mason could well be the bastard half brother of Well Self, another of the self anointed Hampstead Socialsterati. Both drenched in the same lucrative vat of sanctimonious hypocrisy, surfers both on a sea of Islington scum.
    Talking if scum,our roving reporter was fortunately able to capture the Ardern breed savaging a reformed extinction rebel trading in their bicycle for a petrol driven BMW X5.
    https://youtu.be/vy2rz0VmMWo

  518. Iranian, genuine fugitive emigré, Mahyar can be a bit of a clickbait monster at times but he can be excused (by EC!) as he is trying to game the YouTube algorithm is search of ad revenue to support himself and others.

    Yet more disturbing noseplay exhibited from the Tuetonic Megalomaniac’s handmaiden is contained therein…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9QkQwp_Qo

  520. EC @ October 11th, 2022 – 18:49

    It’s money, EC, that drives it, it’s not only her backing the closeness to China, many of the burghers of NZ are of the same view, it’s not that different from the American corporate class, most of the imports from China to the Republic is stuff made in China for the leading American brands, Apple is not the only company that sources over 70% of its gadgets there, many others do also.

  521. Noa @ October 11th, 2022 – 16:38

    One should breed them, Noa, then release them in London, that would teach the eco cycling fruitcakes to respect walkers.

  522. Peter Hitchens is wrong, Noa, saying “is Putin crazy? Yes. Until recently he was a cynical, but rational actor. He’s now become irrational and self-destructive”.

    The invasion of Ukraine was a tragic mistake of his forced on him by a few factors, the most important being two: the Z’s desire to go nuclear (the Americans keeping quiet, no reprimand) and the preparation of an attack on the two breakaway Republics, the OSCE reported a daily escalation of artillery fire in the seven days prior to Feb 24 (it’s checkable, the figures are available on the OSCE site).

    This doesn’t justify calling the man crazy, reckless, yes, taking huge risks, yes, oblivious to what the West may think or do, yes ……, but mad, never. Hitchens also errs thinking Putin’s self destructing, far from it, his approval rating remains high, has gone up after the barrage of missiles hit Ukrainian infrastructure.

    It may seem weird for Baron to suggest it but the game he’s playing seems to escape all the pundits Baron has checked, Putin has no intention of defeating the Ukrainian Forces and taking over the country, it would be a burden he has no desire to take on, the country was a basket case before the invasion, what could it be after it?

    He needs NATO to confront the Russian forces head on as NATO (read the American Armed Forces, the 4,700 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are already deployed to locations across Europe) and not its proxy Ukraine, if that fails to materialise he’s lost.

    All that either of the two adversaries has to do is to prove its missiles could breach the defensive framework of the other one, and its defence structures stop the incoming missiles, or at least the majority of them.

    If Russia were to lob (say) a dozen missiles and most of them were to reach the targets in the mainland US, these missiles won’t have to have nuclear warheads, that’s not necessary, what matters is that they must get through accompanied with a diplomatic note saying ‘the next wave that will break your defences will be armed with nukes unless you get real come to your senses start talking about abandoning the Wolfowitz doctrine plus’. It would strengthen the case for the other side to concede if the Russian defences were able to stop the incoming missiles, or at lest the majority of them.

    The same applies for the Americans, yet their note will very likely say ‘retire, we want Z, the drug addict to take over” (only joking, they will probably find a replica of Biden, someone that can be easily led).

    Neither the American Governing Elites nor Putin and his merry men want to live in a world in which one cannot be sure whether the next breath one takes, the next sip of water one drinks or the next bite of food one digests will be the last. It’s unlikely actual nukes will ever fly, but to bet on it would be a fool’s errand.

  523. No need to read the piece even though it’s short, or the postings, some of them are informative, but have a look at the third video in the narrative, ask yourself, how did Putin manage to get the Muslim contingent on his side? Just looking at the bearded warriors makes one shudder. Few weeks ago Baron came across a unit of them arresting a bunch of Ukrainian boys, an experience one would want to a void at all cost.s

    https://sonar21.com/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/

  525. Baron, October 11th, 2022 – 23:04

    “if you look carefully at the 28 second mark you will see that the Chechens are carrying the U.S. Javelin Anti Tank Guided Missile captured from the Ukrainians, thanks to the generosity of the United States taxpayers”

    If they run out there’s plenty more of them for sale in Afghanistan. That’s if the Mandarin speakers have already snapped them up!

  527. Baron
    Good links and thank you.
    It appears the balance of power is shifting in Ukraine and Europe to Russia and the ‘mad, vad and dangerous to know’ Mr Putin.
    I’m curious, were where you to observe Chechen troops harassing Ukrainian teenagers and what were you doing there?
    Are we receiving these bulletins from the Lubianka?

  528. The course of events in the East does not auger well for Europe and in Britain the increasingly disunited Kingdom: the economy and assets, in particular pension funds, look in increasing danger of collapse. Energy cuts and concomitant civil disturbances and riots look ever more likely.
    If they happen I shall be joining them, the normal dichotomy between left and right will have lost meaning by then-except as to who is left to pick up the pieces, which will bring a separate bloody fight.

  530. Noa @ October 12th, 2022 – 21:01

    Apologies, Noa, it was a video, Baron wasn’t apart of the fracas.

    The harassing happened as a bunch of bearded Muslim fighters apprehended a totally dishearten bunch of Ukrainian fighters that surrendered, were leaving a half bombed cottage, one by one, the former were trying to get the latter to lie down, put their hands behind the heads, spread their legs in a language that was supposed to be Russian but sounded like a howling of a pack of wolves about to devour a killed animal.

    It confused the Ukrainians which enraged the Muslims, whether the arresting bunch behaved well, didn’t physically attack the prisoners because they knew it was being filmed Baron doesn’t know, but they shouted at them, shouted close to their faces, obscenities and all, it was more frightening that if they got kicked, the fear of what may happen is often more petrifying, intimidating and unnerving than the actual physical pain that may or may not follow a verbal abuse which was in abundance here.

    The video was a part of a collection that was since banned, one gets a message that ‘safari cannot open the page’.

  531. The difference may surprise some, on the Continent people demonstrate at the drop of a hat after some bad news, in Britain nothing, but when the islanders have had enough of bad news it’s not demonstrating it’s convulsing one doesn’t want to be near to. It may happen, the bad news are coming in in numbers, and Baron will join it also (health permitting).

  532. EC @ October 12th, 2022 – 08:22

    Good point, EC, it wouldn’t surprise if some of the weaponry found its way here, too, not everyone is arriving illegally on a boat that gets picked up by the Border Force, some get through without any help, most likely the criminal elements will use that route, what’s to stop them bringing in the weapons?

  533. A piece of news that has cheered Baron no end, the hour of the great Mark Steyn on GB News had 3.5times the number of viewers yesterday than that of the ghastly Morgan, hurrah and again hurrah.

    Today wasn’t;t bad either, and there is still one night to come.

  534. As Mark Steyn keeps asking, who appointed Offcom as the nazion’s thought police and censors and who appointed their US billionaire fuct-chechers?
    And who is the rioting Michael Grade anyway?
    Sorry Baron, I had mistaken film for reality, not for the first time.

  536. A member of one on the big families in the showbiz Mafia, Noa, as I’m sure you know.
    Not nice people by some of the accounts that I’ve heard. What is it with all the cigar chompin’ exhibited by these types?

  537. I’ve just had an early lunch comprising of toast &. butter with crumbly Lancashire Singleton, accompanied by some home made Old Doverhouse chutney.
    Bollocks to Bill & Greta!

    I still have fond memories of a pub down south where lunch would occasionally be: fresh crusty bread, a large wedge of Long Clawson Stilton and a couple of pints of Guinness.

  539. EC
    If you’re travelling South and want a great lunch just off junction31A of the M6 I can recommend the restaurant at Haighton Manor, in fact let me know if you plan to go and we can meet for a good grouse.

    Sadly, you nay not know that Singletons, just up the road from Mr, went bankrupt and closed last month, a victim of Johnson’s lockdown imposed destruction and ‘harrowing of the North’. Levelling up eh?

  541. Baron 22.40
    Perhaps I should resume contact with the shadier Celtic relations.
    Given the imminent transfer of Northern Ireland to the Induan Fenian in the South the IRA will no doubt be happy to dispose of all those redundant Armalites to a good cause.

  544. The future of air combat, you look @ 2:40m for two drones attacking each other, the Ukrainian flying saucer loses, but the Russian one seems abit wobbly also, then @ 7:38 you can see an Ukrainian missile misfiring or rather firing then turning back on the guys that fired it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmA874pLg4

  545. Noa @ October 13th, 2022 – 22:08

    An interesting piece, Noa, and Lavrov keeps still addressing the Western boffins as colleagues, arghhh

    “Privately, U.S. officials say neither Russia nor Ukraine is capable of winning the war outright, but they have ruled out the idea of pushing or even nudging Ukraine to the negotiating table.”

    Others, not necessarily US officials, hold a somewhat different view, it’s not really Ukraine any more it’s NATO plus, a much harder task for Russia, but Baron is sticking to his view that Putin wants NATO to enter the fray as NATO, that’s what he needs, if the conflict ends without the Americans confronting him it’s a failure for him.

    The idea that he wants or needs Ukraine without the areas he annexed doesn’t fly, what would he do with a country of 30mn hungry stomachs, and Russia surrounded even tighter by the alliance?

  547. Noa – 16:58

    I’ve made a note of that.At some point I shall look forward to the grouse, with or without the lead shot.

  548. Baron – 22:35

    “Lavrov keeps still addressing the Western boffins as colleagues, arghhh”

    Heh, heh, heh. Putin does it too. This usage I consider to be irony, and it always draws a sardonic smile from me. It cast doubts on the sincerity and objectives of the other party.

    Would “brothers” be any better, or is that reserved for the Sunnis and Shi-ites
    😉

  549. Colleagues: cont’d.

    Back in the 60’s George Brown, who when he’d had a skinful, was arguably the most entertaining foreign secretary that we’ve ever had, used “Bruvvers” all the time. The labour party has long ceased to be the party of the “working man.” No Bruvvers allowed in New Labour!

    Are Sir Beer & co ready for the General Election that the chattering classes seem to be clamouring for? We are nearing the ending of the 12 to 13 year election cycle where governments get the heave-ho from the electorate in favour of the other lot. Tragically, the despite 12 years of being in opposition Sir Beer’s lot still don’t have a single policy that they can put to the electorate that distinguishes them from the current lot, and they are just as clueless.

  551. Kwasi and his beads on a stick gone, the Barclay and Eton Bullies controlling what’s left of the money. Will the Truss last until Monday? General election in November perhaps?

  553. EC @ October 14th, 2022 – 09:43

    You cannot be more right about the two lots that aspire to govern us, EC, so little difference, if any, that the country would be just as much in a $hite as it is if the two merged, which is probably what may happen together with the disappearance of cash, a ghostly future awaits.

  554. EC @ October 14th, 2022 – 09:18

    How about calumniator, EC, the sound is close to both ‘comrade’ and ‘colleague’, it’s not that commonly used, how many would drop it in a conversation daily?

  555. EC @ October 14th, 2022 – 09:43

    The good old days of beer and sandwiches are gone, if one could pinch and twist Putin’s take on communism ‘those that don’t look at the old ways of governance with sad nostalgia have no hearts, those that want it back lack brains’.

    Still, something must be said for pipe smoking Harold (pipe smoking arghhhh) saying ‘no’ when asked for our joining the ever keen Americans to fugg up Vietnam, it must have saved thousands of lives of our boys and girls, probably mostly boys then.

  556. EC @ October 14th, 2022 – 12:17

    You may find it weird, EC, but Baron reckons the Armageddon’s pummelling that goes on now is misplaced, it’s an emotional reaction, not much rationality in it, what the Russians should have done months ago is hit the seven bridges over Dniepr, that was important for moving troops and hardware east, and also go for two other targets – the supplies of Western gear and the command centres, they failed abysmally in that, breaking up electricity and water supplies will do FA, it will anger or at least deeply disappoint the Ukrainian unwashed who, as Ritter says, are their brothers, it will not dislodge the drug addict.

    Sad, very sad.

  557. Noa @ October 14th, 2022 – 15:18

    Dear Sacha’s OK, Noa, but he just goes on and on twisting and turning for hours, one doesn’t the luxury of time, the best of this bit is the first posting under the clip saying ‘Saying that Russia has run out of ammo is like saying America has run out of fat people’.

    Baron’s three pro-Russian sites are the ‘a son of new America’, Unz and Moon of Alabama, on the anti-Russian side it’s the ‘Maidan Press’, Meduza and Bell, Navalny got dropped because again the clips run for ages.

  558. Noa – 15:09

    A Kwasi chancellor replaced by a Quasi CCP one!

    I am deeply disappointed that Truss rolled over and let Hunt be foisted on top of her.
    It could hardly have been a free choice!

    She should’ve driven straight to Buck’ House, or wherever King Charles was doing his Consorting that day, told him that she didn’t have the confidence of her party, demanded parliament be dissolved, and called a general election three weeks hence. Caught all the buggers off guard.

    She might just have preempted the pantomime if she had held a meeting of her MPs after the mini budget and said something blunt like:

    “Either back me in a confidence motion that I’m calling tomorrow or I’ll call a general election and at least half of you troublesome wankers will lose your seats. In addition I shall also be publishing the entire contents of the Chief Whip’s “little black (-mail) book” that contains all the things about each and every one of you that you don’t want to be made public. FABRICATI DIEM PVNCs!”

    Time to put the wireworks on to three shifts production, Guvnor?

  559. Baron – 08:29

    Re: “calumniators” (or calunniatori – Italian)

    I never cease to be amazed at your ability to conjure up some of the more archaic words lurking in the deeper vaults of the OED. Did you have Latin beaten into you as a child? “Hebetate” That was another one you plucked out of the Aether not so long ago.

  560. EC 09.56

    Such a course of action would require courage, EC real courage. I’ve not seen that displayed by anyone in the Tory party for a century or two.

  562. Baron – 00:46

    I don’t buy that bit about the Chinese semiconductor/chip industry collapsing because a few American middle managers have been ordered to leave by the Commander (LOL) in Chief.

    China will probably do nothing and continue to consolidate its position, stand by and let the USA borrow and spend its way into impotency. Fighting a war on two fronts never turns out well.The Ukraine debacle is probably only hastening the end of USA’s global dominance, and the days of the $ as a reserve currency are probably numbered.

    Might the Chinese consider that foregoing the US’s $7 trillion marker a good deal in exchange for Taiwan?

    Anyway, what do I know, I’ve never been any good with money…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuW1iyfn72Y

  566. Truly evil. I thought I’d heard it all, but apparently not…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nwMRfBtpj8

    All our supposed betters frown upon viglantism but when the politicians say nothing and authorities do nothing then nothing ever changes. Who will obtain some sort of justice for this poor little girl and her family?

  567. Noa – 20:29

    A very good point about the weaselly hypocrisy coming out of Farage’s mouth now.

    With 20/20 hindsight it might have been better if Corbyn had won in 2019. The country would’ve at least been spared the spirit withering pantomime that we’ve all had to endure for the last three years. Mind you, we would have run out of pets to eat by now. On the upside at least the pavements around here would be safe to walk on.

  568. I have no objection to the modern Mesdames La Farge, the ‘Nanas against Fracking’, the crazed old crones wearing their Damart underwear for a decade between washes who arw back protesting against fracking.
    However they should practice what they preach, renouncing all oil, gas abd electrical energy and the machines that use it, together with the ancillary food and clothing produced.
    Adopting the naked lifestyle of the early Stilites would surely suit both them in their search for ideological purity and we, the great majority, for whom heat, light and food have practical benefits we appreciate.
    It is the attempt to enforce their views on the rest of us which is impertinent, overbearing and totalitarian in its self righteousness.
    I am currently drafting a letter to the CEO of Cuadrilla, asking if the ‘Grandads for Fracking’ may have a warm cabin by the site entrance of the Thornton drilling site in order that we may demonstrate our democratic support for the maintenance of civilisation, rather than the post menopausal loons proposed return to the Stone Age.
    Next, sectioning the ‘Aunty-Lentils for Tyres’ fanatrices,
    Sponsored by Toyota and Dunlop!

  569. Noa,

    LOL

    But, Bro, puhleeeze, let insist that the crazed crones at least be clad in some coarse woven sackcloth burkas in order that the innocent be protected.
    Inshallah

  571. Another day, another resignation.
    Poor England, what has it done to be served so badly by such people.

  573. Noa,

    At least Mary Elizabeth won’t have had time to redecorate, so Princess Nuts expensive wallpaper will still be in situ?

    I watched the customary seppuku at the lectern on the pavement outside No. 10. She should’ve leant around the front of the lectern and pointed out the unicorn as being the only replacement that might satisfy her party and the press circus.

  574. What next? The Conservative party amalgamates with Billy Smarts circus with Johnson as the Ringmaster?
    If they can stop arguing long enough perhaps Messrs Tice, Farage, Clauston, and Fox can present a sufficiently united front and complete the destruction of the ‘unfit for purpose’ party before the Islington socialists do it for them.

  575. “Why I’m no longer talking to anxious White Men about meet meeting their serial killer quotas”, “Equality in the Kidney pickle jar” and other diversity delights, by the same activists that brought you “Floyd for President”.
    http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/10/serial-killers-are-too-white.html?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Daniel+Greenfield+Article:+Serial+Killers+Are+Too+White&utm_campaign=20221021_m170064113_Daniel+Greenfield+Article:+(post_title)&utm_term=Serial+Killers+Are+Too+White&m=1

  576. Mr Greenfield should try watching “Dehli Crime” on Netflix.
    All the cops and all the perps are “injuns.”

  577. Noa – 13:52

    Shirley, is it not time in our modern caring and inclusive world to stop using the emotive and pejorative term ‘serial killer?’ It’s outrageous that the broadcasters do not have rigorously enforced diversity quotas, including trans, for portraying these “people who inanimate people,” as Justin might say.

    It maybe time to reevaluate old cases?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFbzrbzrtE

    Topical question @ 1min 17sec

    Even more topical than the last time I asked for answers!

  578. EC

    Perhaps Liz had started stripping before she left? If that’s so can Carrie “carry forward’ the previous incumbents allowance and add it to her own? It will never be enough of course, but £60,000 would be a start for the poor thing…
    As for this PM pension perk; if Boris gets fired again, or perhaps gabled, does he get a second pension on top of the first? After all he can only have one security team so that’s money saved….
    Of course there could be a plot here to put as many Tory MOs and Cabinet ministers as possible through this Hog trough as possible before the next GM.
    But Dilyn would be preferable, after all everyone loves a dog so there’s a real chance of restiring political stability and a truly Barking Tory majority next time…. woof woof!

  579. Noa,

    Yerrs, next week will be a real life shaggy dog saga. LOL! It’s a win-win situation for the George Osborn family wallpaper magnates.

    On a more serious note I hope that you took advantage of the, for the most part, congenial weather this last week and rode up to the guard post atop Salter Fell to ensure that Pte James Riddle is booking the refugees from Yorkshiristaan into suitable accommodation, down below, lest they stray up on to the Howlgill Fells (sic) and fall prey to boggarts or wolves.

  581. Number crunching:

    Emmanuelle Micron – 5ft 8in (in heels?)
    Maharishi Sunak – 5ft 6in

    Finally someone that Micron doesn’t have to look up to.

  582. Thank Goodness the supply of ambitious tea boys from Kent, to work at Goldman Sachs Soros can now continue unabated.
    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction though “…from unntameable Englishmen.”
    https://youtu.be/Q71uyvpONDE

  583. EC 09.02

    France united (in hastening the departure of surplus Muslims to the hated enemy) will never be divided.

  585. Noa – 09:30

    Re: “Mr Sunak from accounts” (© George Galloway)

    A beaming Joel Bidet could barely contain his delight as he announced, to the applause of audience of his Goldmach Sachs interns, that “Rashid Sunook” was going to be the new PM of the UK.

    “Go figure!” he exclaimed. Presumably this was his first instruction to Mr Sunak.

    Now “the right man for the job” is in place the attitude of the MSM has changed in a heartbeat.

  586. EC 13.58

    Wry chuckle replaces LOL.

    Did you notice the excerable Matt Hancock bending over, or was it down, to hug the newly anointed Ringpiece whilst the performing seals clapped His Odioum?
    Perhaps a new post as HM Minister for Bottom Wiping now beckons for the Phantom Care Home Killer!
    Whatever the future holds I’m sure Matt’s tongue will be salivating at the prospect.

    And Swishi is not just “the right man for the job” but was we now see, demonstrably the Rght Man for the Jab!
    As all the subsequent city bonuses, ROIs, ROCs, Stock price asset appreciations and “Big Pharmavestment” have successfully demonstrated.

    If he’s successful in his new job there wont be an asset left to strip come election time.

  590. Noa @ October 25th, 2022 – 19:52

    If only, Noa.

    The guy’s much craftier than you gave him credit for, why would he want to take over the governance now when the future looks anything but bleaker than bleak? He’ll wait until the country’s down on its knees, couldn’t sink further and only then he’ll strike again, just wait.

  591. EC @ October 25th, 2022 – 13:58

    One should be grateful for Biden getting the name approximately right, EC, the guy’s nuts.

  593. Baron – 20:51

    It wouldn’t be the 1st time that, by proxy, the US had pulled a stunt like the one being suggested. eg. Hiring ISIS nutjobs in Syria, giving them a captured chemical bomb and blaming it on the mild mannered optician from Aylesbury.

    “Who TF is Kate anyway?”

    Just another faded “pop star. ” now a tubby middle-aged woman trying to stay relevant. A former muse of old “@rustyrockets” himself (Russell Brand) no less, if I remember correctly.

  594. Baron,

    Have you heard of Triethylaluminum?

    A short 1 min demonstration with emphasis on the “demon” part!
    (wait until the guy adds water!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfJNqKqa6Qc

    It can be put into bombs and dropped for incendiary purposes. If mixed with some other goo it can be used as a substitute for Naoalm – stick to people. I never cease to be amazed and horrified at the inventive ways that humans come up with in order to kill their fellow humans!

    =================================
    PS. “Tiraspol” sounds like one of those posh desserts at posh dinner parties that I don’t get invited to, and I wouldn’t eat it even if I did!

    All such desserts, and other pretentious confections, are Haram, the works of the Devil, and should be banned!
    Inshallah

  595. EC @ October 28th, 2022 – 09:48

    Funny that the getting close to another nuclear annihilation should happen the same month 40 years after the Cuban crisis, EC, it was also mid-October when the Americans said to the Soviets first ‘get your missiles out of Cuba’, then ‘let’s talk’, and talk they did, the world could breathe again.

    This time the Governing Morons of the Republic may be stupid enough to start something, which those that survive may regret but not for long, they’ll drop dead only slower.

    What totally beggars belief is the inability of anyone of any standing to call a halt to it, the risk these morons are running is obvious to anyone with only a few functioning brain cells, it escalation could reach a point where it becomes an issue of one side or the other losing face, there will be no turning back, and once the first missile leaves the silo nobody will be able to stop it.

    Madness, we are governed by brainless morons who fully lost connection with the real world.

    Thanks for enlightening the barbarian on Kate, it shows you how much in touch he is with the real world of the lost generation.

  596. A demonstration in Prague to force the Government to resign, to cut supplying Ukraine with weaponry, to aim to end the conflict there plus to abandon few other issues of the woke kind, up to 80,000 people gathered, people from all walks of life, and if Baron’s chatting to many is any indication of the political mix also people from the many political parties that sit in the Parliament, the communists had a huge presence, one could sign up for membership, Baron resisted, buying a small flag and shouting was all he was involved in, coward.

    The counter demonstration numbered about a tenth of the anti Government one, the flags mostly of the EU, only three of Ukraine, almost none of the country in which almost all of the young people live in, the youth is easily brainwashed.

  597. You may feel Baron’s goading you to hate the decision to get jabbed, it’s not true, he’s genuinely trying to find out whether the vaccines were (and are) an effective preventive tool against the c-19 pathogen or whether they cause more harm than good.

    Here’s a piece you may like to read, it basically says that it’s the choice of the spike protein that was deadly wrong (no pun intended), you may also like to read some of the postings, towards the end there’s one from “the Old Biologist”, a superb posting by someone who’s spent his all life in the field of virology, truly worth reading even if you ignore the whole pice by Larry and his friend which says:

    “In fact, SARS-Cov2 the virus itself, aside from the spike protein on its exterior was virtually inert and harmless. The disease we know as COVID-19 and all its corresponding symptoms resulting from infection and viral replication of SARS-Cov2, is caused in its entirety from the spike protein. Spike causes the symptoms, Spike causes the damage”.

    https://sonar21.com/is-the-covid-vaccine-killing-people/#comment-94045

  599. What the female DA says makes no sense.

    The intruder allows Pelosi to go to the bathroom? Does he want to hit him with the hammer only after Pelosi has an empty bladder? Why?

    Why hasn’t the security system engage, there are four cameras clearly visible on the house, were they switched off? Why?

    Who opened the door when the two officers arrived? It couldn’t have been the intruder, it made no sense opening the door if he wanted to kill Pelosi, if it were Pelosi why would the intruder allow him to do so when earlier he managed to prevent Pelosi to go to the kitchen.

    This smells of a staged incident, a false flag op to gain the electorate’s sympathy before the November election, or a possibly a homo tryst that went wrong.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbGimBe418

  600. Baron

    I confess I pay little attention to the post-asylum antics of US politics, a nation that was once the world leader is now struggling, like Britain to accept its relegated status. Unfortunately, like the dinghy attached to a sinking yacht, we and Europe, are being dragged down with her.
    As for Pelosi, one of the hypotheses I’ve seen postulates a homosexual encounter between the underpants clad loon who assaulted him and the unfortunate victim of gerontal marital abuse.

  602. The guy’s amazing, and right 100%, it’s coming, they won’t let go, we’ve been sufficiently conditioned, frightened, are willing to submit, the plebeians, that’s it, most of them anyway, they will swallow it because of the convenience of it, it may begin together with the traditional means of exchange, banknotes, coins, cards, mobile apps, but gradually these outmoded means will be dropped, the Government will simply say, from tomorrow no more coins or banknotes, you either comply or go without the means to live.

    In the end it will a microchip implanted in one’s wrist, what’s not to like, one would be able to pay by just waving one’s wrist against a sensor, and it will be safe too, a thief or a villain may cut one’s wrist, retrieve the microchip, but it will be of no use to him, the circuitry will be programmed to function only with one’s individual DNA, what a future if combined with the WEF’s boss ‘you’ll have nothing and you’ll be happy’.

    Not that long ago, one thought happiness was a cigar called Hamlet.

    The control of each and every one of us extends beyond one’s imagination, they could reward or punish us at a stroke, but who are the ‘they’?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOYJ4QCPnI

  603. Apparently, some Russian hackers broke into the Cloud, retrieved Liz Truss’s short message to Blinken sent few minutes after the butchery of the N-2 pipeline saying ‘it’s done’.

  604. Baron – 08:55

    It’s an unedifying prospect to speculate upon what debauched nocturnal “goings on” may be happening behind the closed doors of the rich and famous. You could well be right.

    Cunning stunt or vice-versa? The Dems/DNC are desperate at the prospect of getting their clocks cleaned next week. It beggars belief that this was the best that they could come up with? The timing was immaculate, but the execution flawed in terms of rigging the upcoming election. Only if the intruder in underpants had actually killed someone might it have possibly affected the election result. By the time that Nov 8th rolls around then this story will be last week’s chip wrappers, and also the official narrative being put forward may have imploded.

    Taking the DA’s story at face value…

    Notes & Queries:

    1. Drug crazed nutter?
    Either that or it would take a brave man indeed to demand a face-off with aged crone in her di-fannyous night-time attire. She’s scary enough fully attired after the make-up has been trowelled on!

    2. All hands on the hammer
    Who opened the front door?

    3. Break in or break out?
    There was a lot of broken glass on the patio outside the doors. Surely this glass should’ve fallen inside the patio doors

    4. Déjà vu?
    Yet again, when it is needed most, there seems to be a problem the household CCTV and Cop’s bodycam footage.

    5. Chutzpah
    The DA’s final remarks on “toning down the rhetoric” of political discourse were pure political humbuggery. Only recently either Biden, Harris, Pelosi or some other high ranking Dem/DNC personage called all GOP voters terrorists.
    The FBI are now classifying as domestic terrorists any parents who turn up to school board meetings to complain about the poisonous ideologies that their children are being taught.

    6. Land of the fee?
    Where are all the usual suspects demanding that stricter Hammer control laws be enacted. Background checks on all people buying Hammers be licensed, proper licensing of Hammers etc.

    7. Finale
    This incident give the lie to the assertion of the gliberals that any old nutter can walk into a branch of Wallymart, or other emporium, and buy a gun doesn’t it?

  605. Baron – 22:46

    Not everyone can get away with the discovery that one has been using one’s personal phone for conducting the affairs of state. This was why she had to go. It would however seem a minor transgression in comparison to that of Hittlery Crinton who used an unsecured PC server in her bathroom for the convenience of conducting both state and administering Crinton Foundation “donations.”

    Donations? Bwahahahahahaha!

  606. Noa – 17:01

    Your “dinghy attached to a sinking yacht” analogy is spot on.

    The “special relationship” was certainly special but not in the way that was projected to the British public. Post WW2 the UK being, in essence, the USA’s court eunuch.

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    Britain has lost control of its borders. Over the last four years, the number of asylum-seekers and illegal migrants who have arrived unlawfully in Britain in small boats, after passing through safe countries, has rocketed from just 299 to nearly 40,000.

    This year, so far, the number of people crossing the Channel each month has surged from 1,000 back in January to more than 7,000 in September. Last week, nearly 1,000 people in twenty-four boats crossed the Channel in a single day.

    Make no mistake. Many of the people who are making this perilous journey are genuine refugees fleeing war and persecution —including conflicts that were started by hapless Western leaders. The data show that the largest groups of people on the boats are from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Eritrea and Sudan.

    But it is also true that many are not genuine refugees. The most remarkable statistic to emerge this week is that up to 2 per cent of the entire adult male population of Albania have now come to Britain on the small boats. There is no war in Albania. There is no persecution. The country is not only a signatory of modern slavery legislation but is also in formal talks to join the European Union.

    Nonetheless, helped by a well-organised and dangerous Albanian mafia, which has established a strong foothold in northern France, some 12,000 mainly young Albanian men have crossed illegally into Britain this year alone. Contrary to all those people who only a few months ago said that the number of Albanians was being exaggerated, they are now the largest single group on the boats.

    Here is what Dan O’Mahoney, the Clandestine Channel Threat Commander at the Home Office told the Home Affairs Committee this week. Given that he is on the frontline of the crisis, it is worth quoting him in full:

    “Two years ago, 50 Albanians arrived in the UK in small boats. Last year, it was 800. And this year, so far, it’s been 12,000, of which 10,000 are single adult men. The rise has been exponential … Within that cohort there are undoubtedly people who need our help. But there are also a large number who are deliberately gaming the system … There is a huge amount of very harmful serious and organised criminality in the UK committed by Albanian criminal gangs. Whatever sort of criminality you can think of, the most serious sort, there are Albanian criminal gangs dominating in those markets, be it drug smuggling, human trafficking, guns, prostitution. And so a lot of the Albanian migrants who we see coming at the moment are coming to the UK in small boats because it is a very successful way of getting here … a lot of them are not actually interested in seeing their asylum claim through. They want to get through it as far as they can, we’ll typically put them in a hotel for a couple of days and then they’ll disappear”.

    Much of this is being downplayed in Britain’s national debate, which is dominated by a liberal graduate minority who feel instinctively comfortable with accepting large numbers of asylum-seekers, who feel far more at ease with ongoing high rates of immigration and who often see the debate about the small boats as an unnecessary distraction from more important issues or, as one BBC presenter suggested this week, as little more than ‘a culture war’.

    But very few other people think like this. A much larger share of Britain, as my polling this week reveals, see this crisis very differently. They feel deeply concerned about what is unfolding on the southern border. They feel utterly disillusioned with the failure of both left and right to deal with it. And they look increasingly willing to abandon the main parties to support a radical outsider if things do not change. The conversation on BBC Radio 4 Today, in London, among left progressives on Twitter is very different to the conversation that is happening out there, in the wider country.

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    Here are the facts. A clear majority of British people, six in ten, think the government has lost control of the borders. Only one in eight think they are in control. And three-quarters of the entire country now say the government is handling immigration badly.

    At 49 per cent, the number of people who reject the suggestion that somebody who has arrived unlawfully in Britain on a small boat from a safe country should be allowed to stay is significantly larger than the number, at 25 per cent, who think they should be allowed to stay. And when it comes to the specific issue of Albanians, a large majority of British people, 61 per cent, say ‘they should be required to leave the country and return to Albania’. Only 13 per cent think they should be allowed to stay.

    A large swathe of the country are also fed up with the continued ability of European courts and judges to block Britain from deporting foreign criminals or, as happened earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) intervening to stop migrants being deported to Rwanda. This week, I found that more than half the country reject the idea that European courts and judges in Strasbourg should be able to override decisions about Britain’s borders that are made in Britain. Once again, only a small minority of 14 per cent think that institutions outside of Britain should be able to wield this much influence over what takes place inside Britain.

    Much of the national conversation, in other words, simply does not reflect the reality of public opinion on this issue. There is an enormous gulf between a liberal minority in the media and the cultural class who shape the national conversation about who we are and what we think and the much larger majority who are forced to watch this conversation from the sidelines, often with a palpable sense they have no voice.

    Rather than talk about how to accept more asylum-seekers and illegal migrants and make their lives more comfortable, while also spending £6.8 million a day on accommodation, many people would much rather talk about how to make the route into Britain much harder, how to deport those who abuse the system, and how to minimise the influence of the European courts and judges which they thought they had minimised by voting to leave the European Union more than six years ago.

    In fact, consistently elite opinion on this issue does not come close to reflecting the wider public mood. Home Secretary Suella Braverman caused outrage on the BBC and Twitter this week after describing the escalating crisis as “an invasion”. Yet three-quarters of Conservative and Brexit voters say her language was entirely appropriate while the country, overall, is split evenly down the middle, with 43 per cent saying the use of “invasion” was appropriate and 44 per cent saying it was not.

    Many of the same opinion formers have been similarly outraged by the government’s Rwanda plan which aims to establish a visible deterrent so that people do not risk their lives in the first place. Yet, last month, the share of voters who support the plan, at 42 per cent, is not only larger than the share who oppose it, at 37 per cent, but has increased since the spring, as the reality of the crisis has moved into focus. Had you relied only on the mainstream media in recent months you would have been left with the impression that this divide was closer to 90 per cent against, 10 per cent for.

    And this conversation routinely glosses the political context. While this will not be a popular point in London the blunt reality is that almost three-quarters of the very voters Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak desperately need to win back if they are to stand a chance of winning the next election and holding the Red Wall, the people who voted for Brexit in 2016 and then Boris Johnson in 2019, support the Rwanda plan.

    As I pointed out this week, if Team Sunak are serious about restoring their party’s fortunes then they will simply have to do a much better job of reflecting where their voters are on these debates about cultural and national security. If they fall into the trap of thinking it is only ‘the economy stupid’ they will be completely blown apart.

    And where are their voters? The vast majority of them back the Rwanda plan. The vast majority of them want to intervene and turn back the small boats. The vast majority think immigration into Britain over the last decade has been far too high. The vast majority say the government is no longer controlling the borders. The vast majority say that people who arrive on the small boats from a safe country should not be allowed to stay. The vast majority want their leaders to minimise if not remove the influence of European courts and judges. And the vast majority want to send the Albanians back to Albania. For the Tories, this is not a wedge issue. It is not a culture war. It is a consensus issue that unites much of their post-2016 electorate.

    People Polling Polls, November 1-2 2022
    This is why raising the salience of the small boats crisis, raising the salience of the cultural dimension in politics, is not a bad strategy for a party that has lost touch with the realignment and is looking for ways to reconnect with it. As I wrote in my last piece, while America’s Republicans have managed to hold their post-2016 electorate together by consciously leaning into the cultural axis, including by campaigning relentlessly on the southern border, the refusal of the Tories to do the same helps to explain both the speed and scale at which their post-2016 coalition has fallen apart.

    One key lesson from recent elections, from Hungary to France, Sweden to Italy, and most likely America next week, is that it is leaders who take a tough line on illegal migration and national security who are prospering at the ballot box. This is not about being xenophobic or racist. It is about recognising the fact that the vast majority of voters are not liberal progressive cosmopolitans who are comfortable living in a borderless world but see themselves instead as national citizens who want to live in a national community which has strong and safe borders.

    The only question is whether Rishi Sunak grasps this fact. If he does not then it is not hard to see where this ends up. My big fear, readers, is that millions of people who spent the last six years thinking they had finally regained control over immigration are now rapidly realising that, actually, they still have little control. And that is an incredibly dangerous place for any country to be, especially one whose leaders have repeatedly promised to reform and reduce immigration but are now presiding over escalating levels of both legal and illegal migration. When I asked voters this week which leader they trusted most to manage the small boats crisis the two most popular answers were ‘none of them’ and Nigel Farage. Worryingly, for Sunak, Nigel Farage was 22-points ahead of him among 2019 Conservative Party voters. It’s not even close.

    This is what will happen unless somebody gets their arms around this crisis. British politics will return to the 2000s and the early 2010s when a previous asylum crisis and intensifying concerns over immigration eroded public trust in the entire system, flung open the door to populism and set the stage for Brexit. Do we really want to fuel another populist revolt against the elite? Do we really want to stoke a collapse of public confidence in the system? Do we really want to say that all the turmoil and turbulence of the last decade was for nothing? Or will somebody in power actually stand up, look past the hysteria among a small minority and give a large majority of the country what they were promised once and for all: control.

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    Mike
    9 hr ago
    The high-social-status liberals in the Tories are wringing their hands and are unable to cope. Braverman is serious about addressing the issue which is why the London-left hate her, but notice how the ‘immigration minister’ Jenrick in effect criticised Braverman’s language. Yet another high-social-status-Liberal who will do nothing. Braverman is on borrowed time, let’s see if Sunak withstands the pressure and keeps her. I have to say I doubt it.

    And Labour. Oh dear. I have *zero* confidence in them doing anything whatsoever about the issue when they get into government beyond ritual hand wringing.

    We are on course for another populist revolt.

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    I hope this leads to the complete destruction of the incompetent, lying, very low IQ, treacherous, voter hating Conservative party. Without any mandate from voters, Conservatives have massively expanded the open door evil started by Labour, to change forever the demographic make-up of Britain and sh*t on everything our ancestors fought and died for, not just in two World Wars but in every war prior and since. Most sensible countries have immigration policies giving work permits to qualified and desirable people, they don’t shower countless millions of chancers and welfare seekers with instant citizenships and rights. That we have imported thousands upon thousands of people with vile and criminal pasts is a deliberate offence against the decent people who work, pay their taxes and who respect our culture and history. We all know Labour is stuffed with some of the worst Marxists on earth but the Tory party appears to have a good number itself, sitting alongside their spineless Conservative colleagues who have lost all sense of what they are supposed to be doing, blinded by the fun of blowing billions on their idiotic pet projects from HS2, useless windmills, Covid alarmism, Ukraine and much more. The problem is that very few Tories today have ever run their own businesses, hired, fired or suffered in commerce to create real wealth, all they know is the safety of the Public Sector and spending other people’s money. That Matt Handcock wants to go on a celebrity show reveals the crass, puddle deep mindset of our politicians. A crushing collision with reality is coming. The Conservative Party needs wiping out before Britain is wiped out.

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  615. Noa @ November 3rd, 2022 – 18:08

    An interesting piece, Noa, but the analogy is rather forced, the Chinese burghers were compelled to inhale the opium pipes, the compelling was carried out by an economically and militarily much stronger power, in today’s Fentanyl war it’s just the opposite, the burghers of the great Republic, economically and certainly militarily more powerful than the Fentanyl supplier, are imbibing the hallucinogen voluntarily.

    That’s what makes it rather intriguing because it would suggest that the only way out of the predicament is for the still great US of A to destroy the source of the substance that will have killed soon more of her citizens than did her enemies in the WW2 (the WW2 total stands just over 400k).

    Don;t we live in interesting times?

  616. The West has morphed very closely (the morphing isn’t finished yet) to what the communist East was, having severed itself from the cheap Russian fossil fuels, now also pushing for a cut off from the cheap labour of China (yes, Baron’s fully aware how you feel about the lands of the Mandarin speakers, he feels the same, nevertheless their cheap labour has kept our inflation down through their supply of virtually everything we wear, have around us or use each day), the West’s economy will be toast, not unakin to the uncompetitive economies of the communist East that in the end could ‘feed’ its own people, crumbled.

    Energy is the most important component of not only the economic life of every country, but of life altogether, the West paid for one million Btu of piped Russian gas eight dollars, it now pays over thirty bucks for the Europe landed LNG.

    The current leadership of the West, the American Governing elite, is redolent in age of the old Soviet Politburo, almost all geriatric, it’s a miracle they can stand up and open their mouths, and lastly and most importantly, today’s decision making in the West is based on lies, half-truths and deceptions, just as it was in the Bolshevik’s controlled Kremlin Empire of the East.

  619. The first serious attempt to convince people that Brexit was a mistake, wrong for us, something that we shouldn’t have gone for, notice how the graphical ‘explanation’ begin in time when it’s convenient for the argument, also how there’s not explanation which colour is which parameter, and how the charts are not entirely in unison with the argument. It’a all the fault of Brexit, of our leaving the Brussels monstrosity rather than the inability or unwillingness of those that have been entrusted to deliver the Brexit benefits.

    More’s to come, they will do everything to get us back, first on some association basis, then fully again, nasty people.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2lWmgEK1Y

  621. Baron – 09:15

    The sanctions are biting, but only on the countries imposing them!
    That Russel bloke isn’t a patch on Bald & Bankrupt.

    Baron – 19:45

    The FT? Not even fit to wipe your backside on!
    Ham fisted propaganda.

    Talking down the UK is a favourite hobby of the Quisling classes,
    No mention of the Banking collapse of 2008, all the printing of money and “borrowing”
    between 2008 and 2016 and subsequently. Now comparison with the EU countries who are in the same dire economic $h1t, or worse.

    Baron – 08:15

    To quote Mark, “We are living in a world of a blizzard of lies.” The MSM is not to be trusted and YouTube also is flooded with propaganda channels and content too.

    But, M’lud, in this topsy-turvy world, you should know that you can rely on that nice Mr. Pompeo, and other colossal intellects such as Hillary, Lindsay Graham, Adam Schiff, Anderen Cooper, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, the “Loose Women’ panel, Don Lemon etc. to always tell you the truth.

  622. Baron, The thing about waves…

    What’s your prognostication on the result of tomorrow’s exercise in “democracy” in the republic?

    If Mr Dead and his “firm” lose control of the House and Senate then what will change? True, the Dems won’t be able to frame and pass any more laws, but Mr. D will be able to veto anything the other lot put forward, He will still be able to issue POTUS Executive Orders (p.p. Barack Obama)

    Waves are perturbations, nothing physical actually travels on a wave. When the wave subsides everything will be as it was before.

    The swamp inside the Beltway will remain undrained, and the wars will continue.

  623. EC @ November 7th, 2022 – 09:35

    Good point, EC, about their cunningly missing the near meltdown in 2008, but they will keep trying, one almost suspects that they are deliberately messing things up to blame it on Brexit, a bunch of fuggwits they are.

  624. EC @ November 7th, 2022 – 09:35

    Queuing in the M&S store today to pay Baron remarked to a female in front of him how awful the weather was, it truly was, a very heavy rain, noisy too, she said: Not only the weather, other things are even more bothersome, I don’t recognise the country I was born in’. That was truly a surprise, one wouldn’t expect an indigenous individual to say it after B’s remark on the rains, people are beginning to wake up to what our governing class is up to.

  625. EC @ November 7th, 2022 – 10:20

    Some seem to be predicting a Senate majority of 1 or 2, EC, and in the House about 30 majority for the GOP, Baron cannot say, he doesn’t know enough to make even guess, but will the change lead to anything? One doubts it, both the main parties are rotten, what would be a piece of inciting news is the Donald saying ‘I will run in 2024’, that would get the loonies browning their knickers.

  627. A book ‘Grand Deception’ written by Alex Krainer cannot be bought from Amazon or anywhere else, it’s an answer to William Browder’s Magnitski Act and the stealing of Russian assets after the collapse of communism. You can download a copy of Grand Deception for free from the following link:

    https://zoboko.com/book/dnm4xjnj/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax

    You may like to listen to the interview with Mr. Krainer in full or in parts clicking on the u-tube link, he essentially argue what others have said, but the book is supposed to go into details never revealed before, Baron has downloaded it in the pdf form, but hasn’t read it yet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqx6eeCt6s

  630. One of the Spectator’s scribblers believes the US political system has broken down, hence the indecisive election results to which Baron took exception:

    The broken political system is but a symptom of broken America, Mr. Gray, the country’s not only split, it’s fully polarised, there are the two camps and nothing in between them, no shades of the one or the other, in the past the country could decide ‘no abortions but …’ or ‘immigration yes, but …’ and both camps would have bought it, today that’s impossible, the shades of either camps are no longer there, a compromise, for this is what ruled when the great Republic was at ease with herself, no deep polarisation, that compromise isn’t doable.

    The only way to win for any of the two camps is to cheat, that’s exactly what the Dems did when the Donald got de-throned, and very likely did again this time, it would also explain why without exception all opinion polls predicted a sizeable win for the GOP, the polls didn’t cheat, the count that mattered did.

  632. Noa,

    What the frack? Not on your Nelly!

    One of the other absurdities to emerge from the Sharm El Sheikhdown boondoggle was that Mr Sunak from accounts, aka Rashid Sunook, announced a deal to buy $Billions of overpriced Yankee fracked LNG instead of exploiting the vast reserves trapped in the shale deposits beneath your country pile and its surrounding estates.

    Yes, all the fracking about may well disturb Mrs Noa’s sleep, but she should lie back and think of England whilst the earth, and Arkwright Hall’s foundations, trembles beneath her…

  634. EC

    Thank you for your concern. We continue to fend as best we can.
    Worry not for the old landowners of England: the methane gas tanks are now full, being topped up regularly by thankfully of the ‘good stuff’ from the curry houses of Lancashire. I understand a similar distribution scheme is now in operation from most of the best hotels around England. It should supplement the exclusive diesel generators powering our estates quite nicely and ensure that the satellite phone continues to operate, whilst maintaining the 50,000 volt current running through our sharpened razor wire boundary fence.
    For self protection of course we are presently awaiting delivery of a container of small arms from our Zurich zupplier, a Mr Zinzski, who has proved reliable in providing T80 tanks and some natty little suicide drones made by the Cohen Brothers of “Oi Vey, bro where art thou?”