Lucky Dip

2026-06-16

Just as telling the truth in an age of lies and unreason is an act of rebellion, so it seems is maintaining one's national traditions. 

Not just maintaining them mind - positively relishing them, wallowing in them, celebrating them, and (sacré bleu!) inviting others to join in.

Someone will have to put a stop to all this before the Grand Projet to homogenise humanity into a bland tradition-starved aimless joyless and pointless goop begins to fall apart completely.

2026-06-10

The last real epidemic of testing was unleashed on the world with the Covid pandemic. The PCR test "gold standard" was rolled out everywhere (to be followed by other more simplified tests later on) but the PCR "gold standard" required samples invasively acquired on the end of a very long "cotton bud" pushed up the nose, which then had to be sent off to a laboratory for PCR processing.

It always struck me as unnecessarily unpleasant, though there is no doubt that it was effective even if the laboratories had been set up in huge haste and those who manned them could have had only rudimentary training. Still, at 45 PCR cycles, success was pretty much guaranteed.

Although strangely, there didn't seem to be any data about the rate of false results that could be expected, which is pretty important if we want accurate diagnoses.

Nevertheless, quite aside from pandemics, medical practitioners make considerable use of diagnostic testings of various types, from

2026-06-10

There's no easy way to put this.

But it's important. It's also very logical.

It suggests that a slow (to allow the liver to deal with the toxins as they are released) but methodical detox may be all that is required, provided that the treatment hasn't completely destroyed the bone marrow.

Make of it what you will.

2026-06-10

Is "the Blob" capable of facing and correcting its own egregious errors?

I'm not holding my breath.

It will be up to parents and guardians to break the news as gently as possible to their offspring, and to explain how it came about. There's plenty of ideas on this site... and plenty to challenge those "little grey cells" that now have a critical job to do.

And there's no time like the present. Indeed, its the only time we ever have.

2026-06-09

Appleby Horse Fair is by now indelibly imprinted upon my mind, so many articles by Martin Geddes have flowed from it.

Now Martin has produced a single narrative to tell the story, and of course you can read it here.

Perhaps it marks the end of that chapter, perhaps it doesn't, but it's certainly a milestone of sorts.

Enjoy.

2026-05-29

"A republic - if you can keep it"- Benjamin Franklin

But what if the Second Amendment in itself is an inadequate guarantee?

What happens when the whole panoplia of senates congresses assemblies councils courts and governing bodies each complete with their own governmental rules regulations statute books guidance documents etc etc gets so out of hand that Joe Citizen has no hope of figuring out precisely how and why control of his Republic has somehow in reality been usurped by inappropriate forces?

It's Going to be Biblical

2026-05-27

Educated readers will recognise the title, lifted wholesale from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If".

It seems pertinent to Martin Geddes's latest offering - a technique for doing exactly this when major change threatens to cascade through our previously comfortable lives and overwhelm us.

The advent of "Covid" was one such event, but in my estimation, we are not yet done with such...
... so any method of coping with the uncertainty may be something to welcome.

This is Martin's suggestion.

2026-05-19

If we for a moment make the working assumption that the current world Humpty Dumpty (the UN the WEF and all its unaccountable hangers on) is doomed to spiritual and actual collapse, then we must look forward to a new phase of earth habitation that is not dominated by private unaccountable interests.

This is so far removed from the structures under which we have grown up into adults that the form that such a world might take isn't intuitively obvious. Take away the bosses and what would we have?

We would have a workforce that still knows how to do what it has always done - create and sell product. What we wouldn't have is the super-rich oligarchs who invest in projects that may or may not align

2026-05-15

Martin Geddes makes a welcome return to the Palnackie problem, which longer-standing readers may remember.

My suspicion is that this will be his final excursion around the topic, and it brings into focus the fact that the legal system cannot resolve all issues.

Our country is changing in many ways, and not just due to legalities and demographics.

Read his reflections here.

View the series of articles here.

2026-05-14

This video is a polemic on behalf of the sidelined democratic principles of the western countries' populations.

Of course it's not clear-cut - the world is a messy place with a messy history, but maybe everyone could agree that if we insist on settling old scores from hundreds, perhaps thousands of years ago, we will never be done attempting it. A line will have to be drawn wherever it may be practical.

In recent history England (from at least Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo) has been influenced / governed by the Rothschilds' Ashkenazi banking fraternity (along with the rest of Europe, and America since the Federal Reserve was established). Likewise their erstwhile colonies.

Now these western nations are overrun with immigrants despite all political party promises to deal with the problem, promises that have been promptly discarded in practice as soon as the elections were done. These nations very obviously are not shining examples of how democracies are

2026-05-03

Covid was a transformative experience for many.

And for a few of those many, a recognition that things would never be the same as before has taken hold.

But what to do in place of the "same as before"? It's a question that needs answering, and a one-size-fits-all answer cannot be the answer. Covid made us sit up and work out our own reactions to the novel situation, and we all did it a bit differently. It made us aware that the "same as before" could not carry us into a successful future, because "same as before" would inevitably lead us into more equally unwelcome outcomes.

So the stage is set for a variety of futures, which will be supported by a variety of people who for whatever reasons will make their choices from the options that appear. The globalist one-size-fits-all top-down central dictatorship immortalised by Klaus Schwab and the UN / Deep State is now well on the way to destruction, due to "

2026-04-27

As reported by Mark Littlewood in the Daily Sceptic, government has becomea laughing-stock, under the disunited efforts of MPs, ministers, the Civil Service, political parties, whips, and the abundant assortment of ever-proliferating advisors and busybodies who poke their nose into every corner to ensure that the innumerable rules and guidelines are being observed. 

We have been allowing them to tweak this pompous mess of inefficiency and corruption for years, but they just make it worse.

It needs the flue-brush treatment.

Replace it by a vastly simplified (and less costly!) arrangement of MPs who represent their Constituents, Government Ministers who serve the Monarch, and an Upper Chamber that serves

2026-04-26

Many people (myself included) like a cup of coffee in the morning.

But do we get the best out of it?

Well, getting the very best may be a bit more complicated than we can all manage without working at it, but I suspect that the results may be exceptional (if paired with healthy eating habits... ).

Here's a young lady ("Doctor Leanna") who explains her view of what to do. But it's a bit complex, so don't get discouraged - start with one thing at a time and incorporate into your usual morning routine over time.

NB: Remember that "Perfection is the enemy of Progress"!

(29 minutes)

Like / Dislike this video here.

2026-04-05

But what to do about it?

Well...   before we can think about that, we need to understand what is going on. Whether it's the job, the household, the "niceties" of legal life, or the kids on top of all of the above...

Martin Geddes has some words of wisdom that might help us, if only we could clear a calm space in our day to read and understand what he has to say.

Make of this what you will.

2026-04-03

Well, Easter is upon us, so to end the week on a lighthearted speculation on what has been, might have been, and may yet be to come, we invoke the spirit of King Arthur to pique our curiosity and free us of our group-think by the noble arts of critical and "outside the box" thinking. Enjoy!

(12 minutes)

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2026-04-02

William Keyte has made it his business to investigate our Constitution, which the Powers that Be have come close to denying exists, let alone publishing its existence and ensuring that at least our law officers understand and respect it. 

In fact, everybody should be educated in it and understand its imports, since it is the bedrock upon which our lawful legal system should be founded. Sadly, it doesn't always seem to be so.

Anyone might think that they want us to forget about it, and to think that Parliament is "sovereign" in this land... or maybe the EU, or the UN, or the WEF, the list goes on.

So who exactly is "sovereign"? Monarchy, Parliament, Judiciary, or the People?

William has set up a couple of websites about the foundations of our legal system.:

2026-04-02

The Bailiff Cometh (with apologies to the Gasman)
"Twas on the Monday morning that the bailiff came to call... "

Firstly, ask for their name , address, and whom they represent. You will need this.

1. Establish your ground - literally:
   "I am giving you verbal notice that I have withdrawn your implied right of access to this property, you are now a trespasser, please leave immediately"
   
   
2. "Before we proceed, I need to establish your jurisdiction. Are you acting as a public servant, or a private contractor for a corporation?" (or other legal entity)
   
   
3. "I require the original wet ink signature on that