2025-08-27

What are we if we cannot trust one another?

In truth it is trust that makes the world go round.

We trust every time we buy something off the internet that it will be delivered as ordered in an acceptable time frame.

We trust that the merchant will not then bombard us everyday with pointless emails suggesting that we buy more from them (here's looking at you, A******).

We trust that if the shop says that xyz is "organic" then it is.

We trust our garage when we leave our personal motor with them for its service requirements, even though, or especially because, any mistake that they may make might cost us in more ways than simply monetary.

And - in at the deep end! - when we make or accept a proposal of marriage,we trust that we will be able to

2025-08-26

The King's Highway is not what it once was.

Not since the 18th Century.

After all, what is "reasonable"? One thing is for sure - it lacks a precise definition... a characteristic that we increasingly find in our Statute Book these days. 

Humpty Dumpty would doubtless approve.

Martin Geddes joins the dots...

2025-08-27

JCS Matters: “smoking guns” in their own words

2025-08-26

Alex Krainer summarises the state of play.

Is Europe really toast? And what about the UK and Japan?

"The role of the British, and the extent to which they are invested in all these imperial wars, is hidden, and it's much much larger than we know"

"Britain is in a horrible position... and they are losing on all fronts... "

"... when empires unravel, their debt becomes worthless... "

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2025-08-26

This starts a little slowly and the sound could be a bit better, but stick with it - it's a remarkable presentation.

Not to be missed.

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2025-08-25

Ben's report this week majors on the inhabitant(s) of the schizophrenic White House, with the two Trumps apparently still pulling in opposite directions.

As always, most of the seemingly never-ending conflict zones are still fighting, still unresolved, whilst new arenas of conflict are arising (eg: a country which just happens to have immense oil reserves).

Meanwhile the EU seems destined to fall apart in relatively short order on a number of fronts, which whilst encouraging in one sense also seems fraught with possible chaos.

Even the UK gets an honourable mention... September or bust? But is the UK really the lesser evil than Israel?

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2025-08-25

Over the past decades, centuries even, the plan has unfolded to abolish freedom.

The prerequisite for freedom is both the ability and the inclination to think for ourselves. If we are unthinking automata, then the concept of freedom is irrelevant.

So in order to abolish freedom, we need to give up the "thinking" bit and become predisposed to doing as we are instructed. So we have been subjected to the notion that "experts" will tell us what to do, and will relieve us of the decidedly tricky need to think for ourselves.

Given the complexity and opacity that surrounds much of workings of the modern world, It's an attractive prospect in many ways, but only if the experts are never wrong or (worse) dishonest... the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. 

Those who control the State have tried very

2025-08-25

Old hand Bill seen-it-all-before Bonner writing for Investor's Daily discusses the Trump tariffs phenomenon and whether it will succeed in making stuff in America once more.

Now it is true that the West's manufacturing industry has been exported to the Far East (primarily China) ever since the 1980s. Perhaps partly to make ourselves look greener (at the cost of China et al becoming blacker - did that save the world?) and partly to turbo-charge the financialisation of the Western economies, inventing ever more ways for the super-rich to become mega-rich by manipulating the markets and buying up everything on the cheap as the smaller players are forced (by taxation and central bankers as necessary) into bankruptcy. 

Now "the Donald" has the impossible task of undoing the damage of the last 50ish years by rebalancing the US economy so that they make stuff again, and given the electoral cycle, doing it in short order. So he is pushing his tariffs on imports to the US (and causing major disruptions to the

2025-08-25

We have been subsidising "Green" for so many years now that it's obvious that... <insert your conclusion here>.

Well, there's lies, damned lies, and statistics, so make of this what you will.

2025-08-24

Alex Krainer does seem to be the one commentator who makes a reasonable case for Trump's erratic (to say the least) performance in geopolitical terms.

So he must be worth listening to. Most of the rest seem to believe that Trump is simply bumbling around out of his depth, but in my view he never puts a word out of place. Everything over the last years has been deliberate, so unless we believe that Trump Mk 1 has been replaced by an inferior Trump Mk 2, it's hard to believe that he is now a bumbling idiot.

And if the "deep state" is in trouble in Ukraine and Israel, then whither do they turn their malign intention? Step forward Azerbaijan, Turkey, Serbia ... 

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2025-08-23

"We are the beating heart of the United States of America"

"There is only one sentence for treason"

Graham Moore of the English Constitution Society explains his view of the English. A lot of good  information here - I'm not saying that everything said is accurate, but I suggest that he is substantially correct.

"You must vote... write on the ballot 'I DO NOT CONSENT' "

- if you don't vote then you are by default complicit in the election. If the majority do not comply then the election is null and void.

"We are a colony of the British Empire"

"We must void the Act of Union"

"They are not 'grooming gangs -

2025-08-23

New guidance has been issued for legal advisors in the Magistrates Courts.

Apparently there has been an unfortunate tendency for some ill-advised but self-confident people to weaponise the newly-fangled AI softwares as a means to disentangle - indeed even to make sense of - the innumerable legal provisions within the Statute Book, to the detriment of the safe handling of court cases by the professionals in whose reliable hands Court cases have been successfully conducted for centuries.

Obviously this has to be stopped, so the newly-minted Justices’ Legal Advisers’ and Court Officers’ Service(previously the independent Justice Clerks’ Society) has been properly integrated into the Ministry of Justice andhas issued authoritative guidance to ensure that such nonsense doesn't affect the operations of

2025-08-22

Yes, it's complicated.

Clearly the result of the power struggle is still unclear.

If you can follow all this then congratulations! But it seems that the omens may not ultimately be propitious for Xi... there seem to be too many breaks with established custom and practice.

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2025-08-22

Cumbria Police have on the face of it tripped over the Data Protection Act in its dealings with Martin Geddes, who is seeking to audit the State's adherence to its own rules in its dealings with those whom it seeks to punish.

He christens this the "Absolute Zero Protocol" (which for the avoidance of doubt is not related to the Net Zero project, but is all about using every lawful remedy to expose unlawful conduct by the State).

"I have received an extraordinary and damning letter from Cumbria Constabulary — one that exposes them as engaging in overt political policing and unlawful retribution for public speech"

In this case he is using the provisions of the General Data Protection Act 2018 to obtain information that Cumbria Police hold on him in relation to his case. He therefore sent them a Data Subject Access Request as provided for under the Act.

The response

2025-08-22

Just what is the Tony Blair Institute up to?

I suppose the short answer is: whatever Tony Blair wants it to get up to.

Given that our government hasn't been working for true representatives of the people probably beyond living memory, somebody must be guiding it from behind the scenes, and secretive organisations copiously funded by dubious oligarchs might today seem prime candidates.

OK, so the TBI has been operational (at least in current form) for only nine years (according to #together).  

"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change... was set up in 2016, absorbing the Tony Blair Faith Foundation... which was supposed 'to educate, inform and develop understanding' about different religions"

...

2025-08-21

China takes another step away from Xi JinPing.

Madam Lei explains...

"General Zhang Youxia sent the PLA into the capital, seizing control like no one has dared in decades"

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2025-08-21

Promethean Action, aided by the House of Lords, dish the dirt from Alaska.

"The pygmies of Europe still haven't realised how irrelevant they have become over Ukraine" - Daily Telegraph

(I'm not sure if they realise how disrespectful they are being to pygmies here, but I must clarify that this site does not agree that pygmies are of as low a status as politicians in any respect other than physical height. The idea is clearly a manifest absurdity)

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2025-08-20

Perhaps up to 4 years too late, the UK Covid Inquiry stumbles on... but better late than never, and indeed much of this is undeniably best viewed from a distance, as the feelings were running very high at the time.

This is brought to us by Together Declaration.

Make of it what you will.

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2025-08-20

Plus some references to the Summit in Alaska between the Donald and Vladimir Putin.

OK, it's a celebrity-eye view of the mood and public opinion in Russia, but it is what it is.

Worth listening, despite its inevitably limited perspective. 

But will the West listen?

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2025-08-20

Yup, it's time to demolish another much repeated canard, this time concerning that deadly menace: cholesterol!

I was accosted at our local petrol station last week by a man who wanted me to contribute cash for the search for the "cure for Alzheimer's".

Well, such welI-intentioned folk have been exhorting me for years to contribute to the "cure for cancer" cause, but I am of the view that if they had looked for this mythological cure elsewhere rather than always in my wallet, then they might have had more success.

Anyway I didn't handle it as well as perhaps I should have, contenting myself (well, my vehicle was still blocking a petrol pump) with a quick exclamation of "Coconut Oil!" before continuing on my way. I expect he thought I was mad, but I'm used to that.

In point of fact I know a little about Alzheimer's, as my mother and grandmother were victims (see - it's inherited!) but I am not, even though I am