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The Past Is Another Country
I continue to have fun occasionally trawling through old farm accounts. Most of it is boring – wool auction results and so forth. But occasionally a gem is found. Several years ago it was a letter sent to Dad in 1948 from none other than the Commissioner of Taxes, or at least one of his minions, at the IRD (then the “Land and Income Tax Department”, reminding Dad of his unpaid taxes – from before the war he’d just served in. The amount was for Β£9.17.5d, about $1,337 in today’s money.
Out of a Clear Blue Sky
Twenty-five years after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the United States needs to do more than commemorate a past atrocity. It should undertake a serious stocktaking: not only of the threat posed by violent Islamism, but of the wider threat ecosystem that has matured around it in the quarter-century since 2001. The central reality is that Islamism was never only a matter of terrorist cells and spectacular attacks.
Speaking Truth To Power
I first heard this phrase at varsity in the late 80’s, typically emerging from Noam Chomsky wannabees, and at first it amused me because, coming from the Left, it was such obvious bullshit in the face of decades of Leftish history where barely any of them actually did it when it counted, and not just in the worlds of Stalin and Mao, but in their own little party’s and organisations here in the West – lest they be exiled.
Would You Wear This To Become Invisible?
At least invisible to AI security cameras. Back in 2022 it was announced that Pak’nSave had introduced new security cameras in its stores that used AI Facial Recognition technology and I took a look at some of the ways it might be defeated, Introducing the new 2023 makeup fashions: Such cameras have now gone public, with the Flock company putting their’s up all across America, supposedly to just capture number plates on cars. One result is people destroying Flock cameras in the USA.
The Week in Humour: I Am The Silence
It’s no surprise that the queen of the Powerline ‘toons and memes this week is the little gnome who plead the Fifth Amendment over a hundred times last week. It’s going to take a lot to bump him from the mockery list’s #1 spot. … https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/the-week-in-pictures-winner-and-still-champion-edition.php… But others are still having fun with him, like Senator Rand Paul, so why not Powerline also. Is that how you plead the fifth in sign language?
TCC Refuses Reverse Summary Judgment on Claim for Repudiatory Breach of Remediation Agreement
In the Technology and Construction Court ("TCC"), Mr Justice Constable has handed down judgment in Durkan Estates Limited v Wallace Estates Limited [2026] EWHC (TCC) refusing a freeholder's application for summary judgment following purported termination of a remediation agreement.
TCC Refuses Reverse Summary Judgment On Claim For Repudiatory Breach Of Remediation Agreement
Mayer Brown are most popular: within Compliance topic(s) In the Technology and Construction Court ("TCC"), Mr Justice Constable has handed down judgment in Durkan Estates Limited v Wallace Estates Limited [2026] EWHC (TCC) refusing a freeholder's application for summary judgment following purported termination of a remediation agreement.
The New Working Class
The cartoon! Real Life. “If I’m being honest I have a much easier time connecting with baristas, nonprofit workers, grad students…” Uh, we know. https://t.co/kEez5elKUg — Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 3, 2026 What you’re seeing here is a mixture of snobbery and hatred, and I saw both echoed in two recent posts on Kiwiblog, The US Far Left, followed immediately by one from Kiwi In America (KIA), World Cup tourists appreciate the REAL America.
Fearful? Or Histrionic?
Chris Trotter is in Old Lefty, in more than just his age. No, he’s also old in the sense of aching for a return to Old Zealand, the place that existed before 1984, before Rogernomics. As such he aches for a Labour Party that do things that the first Labour Government did or, at the very least, lead as Norman Kirk did on social and foreign policy issues.
Happy 250th Birthday, America
=================== As I post this it is still Independence Day in America, and I recall the photo below as one of my first memories of America. An astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, standing on the surface of another world, facing The Stars and Stripes, the flag of the United States of America. This is a photo from Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing – which I can’t remember. As a little boy I was entranced by these visions.
Buy. Physical. Media.
Last year I posted about my annoying little encounter with Apple’s cloud-based services, where I was refused a refund for a rental of a movie that I had already purchased from Apple back in 2009. I’d done the rental because the movie would not play on a Gen 2 Apple TV and I wanted to trigger the process, having already successfully tested it with another blocked movie. Following Apple’s refusal I’ve gone on a binge to simply overwrite all the movies I purchased from them.
The Indiana Bears, Starbucks and Corporate Welfare
The Smoothie King Centre awaits ================ The Bears’ board of directors met Thursday and decided to move forward with their plans to build a stadium in Indiana, positioning the team to play its home games out of state for the first time in its 106-year history. The Bears’ Friday announcement to “advance our stadium development project in Hammond” tips the scales significantly toward Indiana.
White Lives Don’t Matter
A few years ago at the peak of the George “Fentanyl” Floyd insanity, the BLM (Black Lives Matter) crowd began to get a response around the world of “All Lives Matter”, which they and the Left reacted very badly to – in the same way they now react to people claiming they don’t judge people by the colour of their skin. In a complete inversion I’ve what I was told growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, being “colour-blind” is now racism, and yet another example of how only Whites are racist.
The 10,000 Hour Rule is bunk.
This concept has been around for a while now, asserting that you need to spend 10,000 hours of effort to become really good at something. I’d like to think that even the people asserting this take into account some restrictions imposed by the reality of human differences, but even then, when it comes to efforts of the mind,, reality gets ignored. There are two kinds of environments in which humans develop expertise. Psychologists call them kind and wicked.
I’d Go Out Tonight if They Were The Bar Band
And not just because the fiddler is cute! Just in case the link above doesn’t work. As Mr Throckmorton says, “If there’s an upright bass in the band, they’re probably going to be good.” More of them here on Youtube.
Four War Players, their Goals and Strategies
At that level the “boss” you are talking slickly to includes a bunch of slimy, unctuous elected politicians, and that’s really the point where some officers decide to sell their souls and some decide that’s a bridge too far. You either accept the Beltway Mind Virus, or you don’t. And then you get the cadre of generals and admirals who led us to 20 years of failure in the GWOT. There are four major players involved with the current war on Iran, in reverse order of power.
Pears and Tin
The other night I went to one of the kitchen cupboards above the stove to get a tin of sliced peaches for dessert, and although I found one I also found an oily, black liquid covering much of the shelf, as well as having dripped down the back on to a second shelf. It didn’t smell but it looked disgusting and it was clearly coming from one of the cans, and as I checked through them it became obvious that it was more than one can.
You Are Go For The Moon!
Good luck to the Artemis II astronauts. They’ll need it. Update An overview The Artemis 2 Mission The Orion heatshield The following post was published way back on February 2nd as NASA prepared to launch Artemis 2, but the launch was scrubbed just twenty fours later, which is not entirely unusual for such missions – but then it turned out the problem required hauling the whole SLS back from the pad to the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) to be fixed.
The New Left: Coddled, Protected, Caring – Cruel.
But kindness, when wielded as a political doctrine, is not kindness at all. It is sentimentality weaponised— a velvet‑textured form of coercion that punishes dissent while congratulating itself for its gentleness. Ardern’s government did not govern with kindness. It governed with the cruelty of enforced virtue.
Black Like Newsom
Anybody who is even only vaguely aware of American politics knows that California Governor Gavin Newsom is running for President in 2028. That’s because all his moves have been well telegraphed to the public; he has been well ahead of the pack in visiting the states that are crucial in a Presidential primary, plus talking to all the right groups.
“You Didn’t Build That”
Oh yes, the following insanity derives from eight years of Barry, except that he knew how to dress up old-fashioned Marxism in new robes to fool people. This creature, in a position of power in NYC and eighteen years on from the dawn of Hope and Change, feels no need to hide it any longer, hence the following video. NYC Mayor Mamdani's Tenant Director, Cea Weaver: "We'll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good.
A Great Christmas Present
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the United States would be sanctioning five foreigners who colluded with the Biden administration and organization within the U.S. to stifle the free speech of Americans.
Merry Christmas To All
The season of goodwill to all men, and especially to all our readers and silent commentators. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas with friends and family, and if you’re physically alone, I hope that at least via the Web you can reach out to the rest of us and feel the spirit of the season. Other videos added as I find them and as readers may propose. One of the modern classics… And in honour of a great Christmas movie….
Water, Water, Not Everywhere
Iran has now suffered through forty years of Islamic leadership that has led to wars, vast wastage of military expenditure on nuclear weapons programs, massive economic problems caused by the regime’s corruption and command-and-control management, plus sanctions, a collapsing birth rate that promises demographic doom in the near future. Any one of these things have destroyed nations in the past, let alone all of them together.
The Witch of November
It is one of the strangest cultural things that the loss of a lowly iron ore freighter in Lake Superior fifty years ago today (US time) is remembered. You can read the story here, but many of you probably already know most of it. The ship and all 29 men on board disappeared in one of the fiercest storms of the century without a trace or a final distress call.
A Day to be Proud
(re-posted every September 12) I did not want this day to pass without making some reference to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and in particular one American, Rick Rescorla, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The Powerline blog has put up this story every year on this date, and you should read it and also the links. Rescorla was a British native who moved to the United States to join the Army and fight the Communists in Vietnam.
Out of a Clear Blue Sky
I must admit that after the terrible news out of America yesterday, I’m getting awfully similar feelings to what I had on this day. ================ (First published on Sep 12, 2020) Like billions of others I did not experience the attacks of 9/11 first-hand, but only via radio, TV and the Web. And like almost everyone else I could not believe what I was seeing.
Death of a Journalist
At the hands of the Jews in Israel no less. The horror. The horror. Oh wait! I need to put quotes around that last word of the title, “journalist”. “Israel killed an Al Jazeera journalist!!” Here is that journalist. Anas Al-Sharif. Here he is with the founders of Hamas and you see that bottom right picture? That’s what Mr. “Journalist” wrote on his Telegram on October 7th. Some journalist.
Life Moves Pretty Fast
Even for someone like me buried in the IT industry for four decades. Put it this way, in 1980 many of the things that I was familiar with – the Yellow Pages, rotary telephones – were also what my parents were familiar with from fifty years earlier. But now the pace of change is such that twenty years is a geological age. I feel so old after watching this video 🤨😂 pic.twitter.com/F42EdnHkIK — Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 7, 2025
Trump’s Winning Streak
At the start of President Trump’s first term I was told by the Left and elements of the Right that the following was going to happen: More war, possibly even nuclear war. Global trade wars, crashed US economy, the stock market tanking, massive unemployment. The arrival, after decades of predictions that it would happen, of Fascism on American soil, starting with the closure of the US-Mexican border via Police State actions against immigrants, but soon spreading to everybody in America.
How To Survive A Riot
Well first up, avoid areas where riots are happening or likely to happen! But if that’s not possible, “Ian” at The Bugscuffle Gazette Substack has specific advice in his article Needs must drive (When the Devil dances), of which just three samples because they made me laugh: By all means have supplies in your vehicle, but don’t look like you’re making supply runs for the Free-Range Socialists.
But enough about Los Angeles. What’s happening to Law and Order in Ye Olde Hometown…. “this town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide” Yolanda Talley has become the first woman to hold the first deputy superintendent position of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) It means she’s 2nd in command of the entire CPD. And she’s Black, for extra bonus DIE points. Did I say die? Well someone almost did: You see, a few months ago, there was a shooting in 015. A suspect shot the victim numerous times and fled.
A Certain Idea of Europe
Given recent events involving the President of France, I couldn’t help reflecting upon past Presidents of that nation and recalled a review by Peter Hitchens of a biography of France’s most famous President: De Gaulle. If you’re familiar with Christopher’s religious brother then you’ll already guess that the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of Christianity from Britain feeds his sad, mournful paeans to his dead and dying past.
The Market Always Wins
Eventually – and it can be defied for a long time by a government, especially if it’s the government of the most economically powerful nation in the world – but not forever, not even for the United States. Moody’s on Friday cut the U.S. credit rating one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, citing the federal government’s ballooning budget deficit and soaring interest payments on the debt. It was the last of the three major credit agencies to downgrade the U.S. from the highest possible rating.
As I wrote at the time, this photo echoed American history so perfectly that it was instantly iconic. Photo of the decade so far, perhaps? Certainly up there in with 21st century ones of things like the 9/11. And obviously photo of the year, you would think? You would think wrong, as is often the case when ordinary normies run into the opinions of the MSM. Left: photo of the year, according to the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Sunday Morning Coming Down
The following amusement is from a few years ago. Given the recent conviction of GOP House member George Santos (NY) to more than seven years in jail for wire fraud and identity theft, plus the sentencing of Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife for bribery and conspiracy I’d say it still stacks up pretty well.
Only The Dead Have Seen The End of War
Famously attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, by General Douglas MacArthur and at the start of the movie, Blackhawk Down, it was actually coined in the 20th century by the Spanish-American philosopher, George Santayana. ==================== So even as we remembered ANZAC day here another war was cooking up on the other side of the world between two nuclear-armed nations, India and Pakistan. 🔴 BREAKING: India has ordered every Pakistani national to leave the country within 48 hours.
Politicians Will Say Anything
And they will only regret it when it turns up on video or audio. Chuck Schumer definitely wants this video deleted. Chuck praising Donald Trump.
Democracy: What do you wish for, voter? Me: I wish to destroy Wellington. Democracy: I give you a choice between…. Tory Whanau … Me: (small tear emerges from right eye). Democracy: …and Andrew Little. Me: (between floods of tears)… Oh God be praised. Thank you. Thank you, Democracy. I’ll never doubt you again.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Extraordinary. In decades of watching not just American politicians, especially the President, but politicians around the world, I can recall nothing like this happening in a joint public session between leaders. It’s what we all suspect happens sometimes behind the scenes; cut and thrust arguments that are as much emotional as they are rational, and sometimes more so. But never in public, for good reasons.
The Week in Humour: MAGAZAGA
The Powerline collection of this week‘s cartoons, headlines and memes. Good morning โบ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/kgUGnw4NOS — Schadenfreudelish (@aggierican) January 27, 2025 Well, how our girlfriends did! Much as I like dogs this is why I have only cats.
Is the NHL ready to miss another season?
As the calendar flips to December, it has become abundantly obvious that the NHL’s plan to start the season in early January is nothing more than wishful thinking—despite what commissioner Gary Bettman says. As recently as last week, Bettman mentioned that the goal is for the 2021 season to begin on January 1st, but he is either lying to himself, the fans or both. Over the past few weeks, the NHL and NHLPA have been working to find a way to get teams back on the ice early next year.
The NHL seems set to re-align for the 2021 season
During an appearance on a radio show in Las Vegas this past week, Golden Knights owner Bill Foley dropped what some are describing as a “bombshell” - while others see it more as common sense. In a discussion about the team’s offseason moves, Foley was asked about the recently departed Nate Schmidt who was traded to the Vancouver Canucks to make room for Alex Pietrangelo.
Nazem Kadri and other PoC would like to “see a little more acknowledgment” from the NHL
After winning gold and bronze medals respectively at the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the podium with their fists in the air. They were making a statement about racial inequality in the United States at a time when doing so was not only frowned upon, but it was a legitimate danger to their lives. The two men stood in solidarity on the biggest stage in order to stand up against racism and proclaim to the world that Black Lives Matter.
Colorado Avalanche looking to sign Russian goaltender Alexei Melnichuk
With the KHL season officially cancelled, Russian players who wish to sign in the NHL are now allowed to do so. Yesterday we saw highly sought after winger Alexander Barabanov sign with the Toronto Maple Leafs, now it sounds like goaltender Alexei Melnichuk is getting closer to making his decision. According to Russian reports, Melnichuk has narrowed his list to the Avalanche, Golden Knights, Sharks and Hurricanes.
Business Interruption
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK government has announced that many businesses must close. The government’s previous approach had been to recommend – but not mandate – closures of certain businesses including social hubs such as restaurants and pubs.
The East End Archive at The Cass — Café Royal Books — British Documentary Photography
Press Release from The East End Archive at The Cass For immediate release 1970s–80s East End: previously unpublished images from leading documentary photographers New book box-set from The East End Archive at The Cass includes previously unpublished workby renowned photographers Diane Bush, Brian Griffin, Tom Hunter and Mike Seaborne. Explores the huge social and economic changes in the area, including the vanished industrial landscape and the deregulation of the financial markets.
Colorado Avalanche unveil Stadium Series jerseys
Thursday morning, the Colorado Avalanche unveiled the jerseys they will be wearing for the 2020 NHL Stadium Series game. The Avalanche will take on the Los Angeles Kings on February 15th at Falcon Stadium on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy. The new look will incorporate the team’s traditional burgundy and blue color scheme, as well as a nod to both the primary and alternate logos, while emphasizing exaggerated features in order to make them stand up in the 56,000 seat football stadium.
Those Colorado Avalanche Stadium Series Jerseys are Actually Good
Last winter, the NHL announced that as part of the 2020 Stadium Series, the Colorado Avalanche would be hosting an outdoor game at Falcon Stadium on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The game was later scheduled to take place on February 15th against the Los Angeles Kings.
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