2025-09-08

Martin Geddes writes in from his "holiday"...

"Not everyone agrees on what a better world should look like, only that the one we have is unsatisfactory"

"How language is twisted so that we trick ourselves into surrendering what is already ours"

If we want a new system, it must be founded upon a common language with the common word meanings so that all participants stand on the same common ground for communication. OK, Geordie isn't the same as Scouse, but all Englishmen should be "King's English" capable, otherwise the Courts become unusable for all except the legal profession.

But I digress.

What else is missing?

The complexity of today's legal systems may not be readily

2025-09-08

"It is important to recognize that the mixed messaging exists because you are being lied to and once in a while you are fed a degree of truth to cling to while the technocratic slave system moves forward"

Quite so. Whilst most of us have better things to do than scan all of Trump's pronouncements for inconsistent messaging, some inconsistencies are too large to pass unnoticed!

So it is with "vaccines at warp speed".  Almost everybody knows that "vaccines are inherently dangerous" ever since Ronald Reagan elicited that response when he asked why Big Pharma couldn't make their vaccines safer. Since then they have been given legal protection from claims for damages due to "side effects", pitting individual claimants against the bottomless pockets of governments motivated to deny redress from their "compensation schemes".

That alone should tell us that government does not work for us!

So what incentives

2025-09-07

Yes, Tony Blair gets a mention, and of course "Human Rights". In fact, name any prominent left-wing politician of today or yesteryear and he's likely to be connected to the Fabian Society.

If you're on the "Left" but not a Fabian today, then maybe you need to take stock... as you may be a revolutionary Marxist (Fabians like their march to power to be slow and incremental, Marxists like it fast and furious). 

"They are not the best lawyers... "

"It's... a cult that offers the not-very-able an easy access to public life... "

I'm somehow not convinced that this video is going to come out in their favour, but if the above observation is correct, it could go some way to explain the inadequate quality of left-wing MPs, of which the current parliament has a serious over-abundance. That's not to imply of

2025-09-07

As we approach 9/11 2025 .. we might be forgiven for wondering what might be in store for us.

The previous examples are after all not auspicious.

Now you will have to work with this one - it's in German with American subtitles - vital subtitles that it seems Saddam Hussein may have missed. But unlike Saddam you can always press pause whilst you catch up.

It does end rather abruptly after not quite 17 minutes but it is only part 1 of 5...

And it is from 17 years ago (so don't expect any up to date issues to be so lampooned) but it does indicate how long this sh*t-show has been in gestation. And you are sure to be reminded of something, or to learn it afresh. After all, were we all taking an interest in the fakery of geopolitics, the media, American "special relationships" and everything else in 2008?

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2025-09-06

You know the picture by now...

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2025-09-06

The DVLA rules for eye tests for driving can be found here.

See also Renew Your Driving Licence if you're 70 or over.

Independent commentary which some may find useful below - I have no other information.

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2025-09-06

The latest anti-drone technology as developed for the US armed forces looks impressive, but what are its limitations and can it be outsmarted?

On the face of it, if the technology can be deployed in the necessary numbers and in all the right places, then it looks like a game-changer that would create a swift rethink of the currently well-oiled modes of battle in Ukraine and elsewhere. 

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2025-09-06

The problem with poetry is that you can never be quite sure where you will end up.

So it is with Rudyard Kipling, that despised relic of white colonial life who believed that he could write some lines of words that somebody somewhere would find interesting, despite attending "the school of hard knocks", never studying at the right universities nor schooling in the intricacies of journalism politics and economics.

In the event he ended up with his name plastered all over the outside of packets of pre-manufactured (but "exceedingly nice") cakes in the supermarkets of his home country.

He had what we might think of as a hard childhood, was sent to an "inferior boarding school", and it was his real life experiences in England and in India that shaped his attitude to life, and no doubt his writings. He learned through doing (and being done

2025-09-06

After the big parade featuring Xi Jin Ping as Chinese Leader, the political coast is clear for Xi to step down officially and for the new team to emerge. President Xi held several offices, but these will be split out to avoid concentrating all powers under one man.

So we (may) have: Party Secretary: Hu Chunhua, Premier: Wang Yang, PLA Chief: General Zhang Youxia,  if confirmed...

But will the CCP itself survive, and for how long?

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2025-09-05

This discussion brings out a number of points that deserve consideration.

It also points up the effective impossibility that any matters geopolitical will ever be addressed by a General Election - neither the public nor the system are ready to argue the complexities of our place in the world at election hustings (even if such could be addressed in the absurdly inadequate speaking times allowed!).

Patrick Henningsen and Chay Bowes provide some useful illumination.

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2025-09-05

It's obviously for our safety - well, maybe not for most of us just yet, but for our children, at least whilst they are in school, but we have to start somewhere.

With so many migrants of unknown provenance being unavoidably housed within society, the dangers are obvious and our government is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that our schoolchildren remain safe at school - who could possibly object to that?

It is true that kids previously used to unfettered ingress and egress may begin to feel a certain loss of freedom, perhaps even a tinge of claustrophobia, but no doubt they will soon get used to it. After all, the world is becoming an increasingly scary place and staying safe at all times by complying with the mandated safety restrictions is now an essential attitude to inculcate... but concerned parents

2025-09-04

Our tell-it-like-it-is source updates us on the latest position re: the Ukraine.

If it wasn't so serious it would be ample material for a new series (or two) of EU-based "Oui Ministre".

But it is serious, so forget the "sausage wars" - "Grande Saucisse Européenne" has a different meaning entirely...

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2025-09-04

Andrew Bridgen, who was perhaps our only conscientious MP in the last Parliament, comments on his experiences in Parliament and outside.

"Every Institution that's there to protect the public interest has failed"

"We don't need reform, we need a radical change in the way that we are governed... we are going to have to have a reckoning for all of this... there'll have to be some very severe punishments given out... that's the only way the public is going to trust any of these institutions again... "

Quite so.

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2025-09-03

Well, the fighting hasn't stopped, quite the reverse...

Danny Haiphong talks with Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, and Andrei Martyanov.

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2025-09-03

A good question.

With both Iran and now Yemen demonstrating that their missiles can hit Israel at will, and the IDF increasingly unable to recruit the soldiers necessary to make the progress required by the leadership, not to mention the Trump administration's unwillingness to back what increasingly looks like a losing situation, what options remain?

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2025-09-03

The main guests - President Putin, President Kim of North Korea, and President Modi of India.

Most eminent absentee - Donald Trump.

Entertained by President Xi.

Madame Lei guides us through the complexities of the day.

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2025-09-03

Single Currency, one size fits all - did we learn nothing from Greece? And from Cyprus before?

But the EU was not built in order to learn from its mistakes, it was built to double-down on its errors.

Until it can't, for instance on immigration and the constant imperative to attack Russia via the Ukraine, on which issues the cracks are beginning to become a bit tricky to conceal.

Now in response to such intransigence, the populations are doubling down on their preferences for "far right" insurgent political parties (ie: almost any other party that isn't an "establishment" party), and the noble leaders of yesterday and today are doubling down on their errors like there's no tomorrow - and they may be right that tomorrow they may be out on their proverbial ear.

Not of course if they can install the WEF's

2025-09-03

Martin Geddes seems to be catching on.

His friend challenged the authenticity of Teesside Magistrates' Court and had his Council Tax case put back for five months...

"the toothpaste is out of the tube: the “ghost court” issue cannot be put back"

Read all about it.

2025-09-03

Well well, Dr Clare Craig writing for the Daily Sceptic has produced a piece based upon the Scottish Covid Inquiry, a piece which concludes that most of the "deaths by Covid" were not caused by the virus.

So far so correct...

But that's as far as the "correct" goes.

"... the fact is that viral spread was driven by long distance aerosol transmission, not close contact. Care homes that refused Covid patients still had outbreaks and deaths."

Call me old-fashioned, but where is

2025-09-03

No, "Zero Net Zero" isn't the latest thriller documenting some daring SAS adventure, it's the ongoing yawn-a-thon regarding the quest for Net Zero, doomed to play interminably until the UK government finally collapses of its own staggeringly complacent idiocy, or gets taken down by a very cold and exceedingly angry populace.

Net Zero isn't coming any time soon - not whilst we have electricity in the grid anyway.

That's the only conclusion that seems rational, given that Ned Sillyband won't come clean on how and when, but it doesn't rule out that the whole mess will collapse and there won't be any electricity for the likes of you and me to be had from the grid. Not given the governments obsession with setting up innumerable shiny new but power-hungry AI Data Centres. 

Although I don't doubt that even then, we will still be burning fossil fuel somewhere, maybe everywhere that diesel

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