It is, apparently, now quite common for flowers to be stolen from graves and moved elsewhere. Fraud is going to become increasingly common as everyone becomes poorer but stealing from the dead seems particularly low.
Regular readers may remember that I wanted to take money out of the bank and was told I couldn’t have it. After a long and noisy argument the bank staff gave in and handed me the notes I’d asked for. A little while later the bloke who looks after our temperamental drains told me all about my troubles at the bank. Someone from the bank had even told him the sum I’d taken out. So much for banking confidentiality. Banks don’t give a toss about their customers, they care only about keeping Big Brother happy.
Every decade or so I buy one of Anthony Powell’s novels and try to read it. I always fail. Powell is just watered down Waugh without the acid. Trollope is much more readable, though not nearly as good as Goldsmith. And no one is as good as P.G.Wodehouse.
Glum day in the garden yesterday. My brassicas (which I grow in the greenhouse because of all our wildlife) are absolutely covered in aphids. It’s no fun having your brassicas covered in aphids. There must have been a hundred million of the darned things stuck to the leaves. I’ve left the useless and inedible crop out for the birds to eat the aphids and the rabbits to eat the brassicas. (On sunny days the greenhouse’s solar powered windows open automatically to keep the temperature down. And that’s how the aphids got in. Unless they opened the door and let themselves in that way.) As if that weren’t bad enough we’ve also got a wasps’ nest in one of our chimneys. Still, at least they’re not hornets. We had a hornets’ nest a few years ago. They’re truly scary. And, curiously, when they die en masse they smell of rotten fish.
Whatever happened to respect? You don’t see it around much anymore, do you? Maybe it emigrated. But to where?
I see that LGBT has now become LGBTQIA. Sadly, no one in the entire world knows what the QIA stands for. And what about the Fs? Doesn’t anyone care about the Fs?
The term ‘biodynamic’, now popular among climate change freaks is officially defined as: ‘A holistic method using herbal and mineral preparations and an astronomical calendar to guide sowing and harvesting dates.’ Now I know they are all completely cuckoo.
Re-wilding is officially defined as ‘The restoration of ecosystems to the point where natural processes take care of themselves without human interference.’ The mad greens want us to re-wild between a third and a half of the world’s land. What that means is that we end up with a third to a half of the world occupied by nettles, brambles, docks, giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed. And lots and lots of rats. To find out what the future looks like please read my book They want your money and your life.
Within two years tax in the UK will reach 35% of GDP – the second highest level since 1945 when we were busy helping out the Germans as an apology for their having started a war. (Rationing in the UK continued for a lot longer than in Germany.) That is the same level as Norway which is rated as probably the best place in the world to live because of its excellent public services – schools, health service, welfare system, public transport, etc.
In 2022, the National Crime Agency received almost 1,000,000 ‘suspicious activity reports’ (SARs) – most of them relating to people trying to take their own money out of their bank. And yet computer fraud and internet crime is soaring. And neither the authorities nor the banks seem eager to take any responsibility to do anything about it. It is far easier to make and collect SARs than actually do anything to protect the innocent.
Daft new rules, energy prices and the increased minimum wage have resulted in 4,600 pubs, hotels and restaurants closing in the UK in the last 12 months.
The average FTSE 100 company boss in the UK earns £3,400,000. The average employee earns £33,000. Things are worse, much worse in the US where the average company boss earns £14,600,000 which is probably 1000 times more than he or she is worth.
BBC staff seem to think their job is to have views which coincide with the establishment. It is not. Their job is to report the truth instead of spreading a toxic mixture of propaganda, misinformation and disinformation.
Friendship is only real friendship when it survives inconvenience.
The world premiere of my play Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War is due to take place in Mojacar, Almeria in Spain where the Indalo Players will present Mrs Caldicot (the play) as the company’s 25th anniversary production. I’m delighted! All four novels about Mrs Caldicot’s adventures are available on Amazon.
I lost all my keys the other day. (It’s been that sort of year.) I found spares and had another set made so that we still have a spare set. The keys cost £9 each. Mind you, they each took two minutes to make and I expect they’re made of something more expensive than gold.
Why are there special literary prizes for women? Isn’t that patronising? It makes it look as though women aren’t good enough to win prizes in competitions anyone can enter. I’d be miffed and feel enormously patronised if someone organised a prize for old men.
Have you noticed that everything bad that happens to Britain is blamed on Brexit? In a way that is true. Brexit so annoyed the conspirators that they are punishing Britain in an attempt to persuade citizens of other EU countries not to try the same thing. The EU was (and is) part of the move towards a world government. For more about the EU please read OFPIS by Vernon Coleman.
France is wealthier than Britain. Why can that be? Well France has more motorways and they are better kept (because they are privately managed and charge tolls). Electricity is produced by nuclear power plants. Childcare costs are half the price because the laws aren’t so strict. And lots of French cities have trams. Housing is more abundant, better and cheaper too. It’s just a pity that the place is full of French people.
Half of all working women admit that they have cried at work. And why not? If I worked at the Post Office I’d cry all day long.
Everyone over 60 should read Kick Ass A to Z for Over 60s.
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Does NATO want Russia to Nuke London?
28TH JUNE 2023
Yes. I think so.
In my opinion, Rishi Sunak is a war criminal for sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. He and Tony Bliar are a disgrace to humanity.
British shells are being used to bomb Russian territory. (Including the depleted uranium shells which cause cancer.)
The Third World War is getting hotter.
NATO is deliberately poking the Russian bear.
And English and American taxpayers (with support from Canada et al) are unwillingly paying for the bombs, the depleted uranium shells and the bullets which are being used to kill people in Ukraine. I’ve no doubt we are all paying for the coffins and the funerals too. American taxpayers are even paying the pensions for Ukraine residents. (Ukraine will never come out from under the debts they are accumulating. Whatever happens in this war, Ukraine is finished as a country.)
I fear that NATO wants to provoke Russia into attacking London. And the Russians are not going to use bows and arrows in response are they?
The conspirators want to destroy the global economy, kill billions and push us into their Great Reset. They want an excuse for more war, more misery and far more deaths. (A thousand times as many people are dying outside Ukraine as are dying within it.) This is the fast road to the Great Reset and a totalitarian world government. And it is part of a massive depopulation plan conceived by the most evil men and women in history.
If you don’t believe they would do that then I’m afraid you have no idea how truly evil they are.
(Oh, and watch out for false flag attacks.)
Passing Observations 180
27TH JUNE 2023
How convenient it was that that the awfully sad Titanic mini sub story lasted nearly a week. I gather the authorities knew within hours that the mini sub had imploded but pretended to keep searching. The story was clearly kept going to help smother the story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter – who got away with a wrist smack for offences which, I suspect, might have put lesser mortals behind bars. It’s called news management, and propaganda organisations in the mainstream media have got really good at it. I repeat: the authorities knew that the Titan submarine had imploded six days before they released the news. Did they keep this news secret from relatives too? We prayed for the men in the sub, and I now feel tricked and cheated. Nothing new about that, though.
The Arts Council in England announced that it was giving nearly half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ hard earned money to organisations which describe themselves as in some way associated with the arts and which said they could use some free money, please. The rash way in which taxpayers’ money is wasted takes little heed of reality. A tiny percentage of the population pays 90% of the tax paid in to H.M.Treasury and yet thousands of those in the tiny percentage are leaving the country every year. At the same time around 1,000,000 immigrants are coming into the country ever year – and most of them will expect to be subsidised by taxpayers. The whole nature of the population is being changed and the future for Britain looks very weak. We have a political system which discourages thrift and punishes hard work but, simultaneously, encourages laziness and reckless spending. It’s all designed to take us into a world where we will own nothing.
In the 1990s every company was a dot com company. It didn’t matter what they made they described themselves as a dot com company in order to excite potential shareholders. Then everyone in business became a block-chain company. If your local corner store wanted some investment it rebranded itself The Block-chain Corner Shop. Today, everything is an AI company. The corner shop has become the AI Corner Shop.
The ESG gestapo are so strict that companies can only get a bank loan if they can prove (by filling in loads of forms) that they invest only in sustainable goods. I have grown to despise the word ‘sustainable’ and everyone who uses it.
Tennis player Emma Raducanu is convalescing and cannot play. So she has (inevitably) an online video channel. Fans pay $5 a month or, if they send a video of themselves playing tennis together with $2,000 they can have personalised advice on how to improve their technique. I’m setting up a new channel. Anyone who sends me $2,000 can have personalised advice on their tiddlywinks technique. I may make a fortune.
A man or woman without a purpose is nothing.
The French tax authorities are using Google Earth and AI to help track down naughty people who have undeclared swimming pools. Evil Google has developed software which can cross check satellite images with land registry records. Tax inspectors chase homeowners who have undeclared pools. A private swimming pool adds 500 euros a year to tax bills. Oddly, not long ago Google paid almost 1 billion euros for tax evasion.
The BBC said that Nicola Sturgeon was the exception to Enoch Powell’s rule that all political careers end in failure. She was then arrested. Sturgeon will be remembering for a decade of decay and division and for endless virtue signalling during the fake pandemic – including making Scottish children wear masks for months more than English children.
Why is it, incidentally, that the Scots who want independence from the UK, which they regard as a fascist state, are the same Scots who wanted to stay in the EU – a large fascist super-state? Too much whisky on their porridge, perchance.
Every economist knows that if you raise taxes too high, the tax income will fall. When taxes are unfairly high people either emigrate or stop working. The same thing happens with companies. The UK Government says its windfall tax on oil companies will bring in £26 billion in the next five years. But it won’t, because oil companies are moving away from the UK. Harbour, the biggest independent North Sea producer has cut planned expansion in the UK and 350 workers will be made redundant.
The UK Government wants to force pension funds to start investing in risky bits of the stock market. This is surely contrary to the fiduciary duties of the pension funds but it will impoverish millions.
The UK is being punished for leaving the EU. Companies in the UK are struggling because they have to deal with more regulations than companies in the EU or the US. The Government promised to get rid of the daftest EU laws but instead it has just added piles of new laws to the ones produced by the EU.
YouTube has removed all the old television programmes in which I appeared – some of them dating back to the 1980s and even earlier. What on earth were they frightened of?
‘You were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.’ – Dante.
I found a cutting the other day which reminded me that when I was at medical school I ran a discotheque called The Gallows for kids in Birmingham. (There was nothing else for them to do in the 1960s). As part of the entertainment I used an epidiascope to project pathology slides on the ceiling (I couldn’t afford the proper lighting). I mentioned on the Light Programme (the forerunner of Radio 2) that this was proving very successful. Unfortunately, the Medical School Dean heard the programme. He was quite decent about this and insisted only that I returned the epidiascope to the pathology department. You can find more strange stories in my three volumes of autobiography entitled Memories 1, Memories 2 and Memories 3.
‘Seek the truth and endure the consequences.’ – John Wick 4
Australia has the highest cigarette taxes in the world but smoking among young people has increased six-fold in the last four years. Maybe an Aussie politician will add these two facts and get something other than fish as the answer.
The roads in Britain are 48% more congested than roads in America and 15% more congested than roads in the EU.
19. The 2012 Olympics in London cost taxpayers at least $20 billion. And the Olympic Stadium continues to cost taxpayers a small fortune. Why on earth do countries compete to hold the Olympics? The last city to make a profit was Los Angeles in 1984.
The world advertising spend is around $500 billion with Meta, Amazon, Google and Apple taking $340 billion of that. Advertisers who spend money on the big four don’t seem to realise that less than 1% of web users click on adverts.
Around a quarter of all 16-24 year olds in China plan to work in the IT or internet sector – as influencers, etc. Unfortunately, if 25% of the Chinese work as influencers, who are they going to influence? It reminds me of the time in the 1990s when the majority of American college students said they intended to start .com businesses, become multi-millionaires and retire before they reached 30 years of age. I wonder how that worked out for them.