The BBC has decided that the Yookay people will fund the National Amusement Service from general taxation. Correct mirth will be free at the point of delivery. Dissident funny practitioners will be blacklisted by their local Titillation Trust, which on closer inspection will be found to be paying laugh locums way over market rates for short-term stand-up contracts. We will be the envy of the world. Our politicians will proclaim at election time that we’re more moral than benighted realms where people have to procure their own glee in unregulated backstreet dives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y73z94xzeo

For James Delingpole's subscribers only for the first week.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193333499

NOW - Trump: "Today is a very special day. It's a day where we celebrate Jesus, it's a day where we celebrate—religion."

@disclosetv

“Do not bury me in Leitir Calaidh, for my people are not there;
But carry me west to Maínis, where I will be mourned well.”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NacTuSm3XZw

"If you wanted to destroy a people you'd teach them to be alienated from their past." Iain McGilchrist

The kakistocracy waxes bolder.

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2041525612968399124

In The Current Hostilities, Radio 4 has taken to saying, “CBS is our partner for American news.” Is this because the BBC has been Donaldised out of Washington, or is it as part of some World Trustworthy News Alliance of the kind that UK Column has previously reported on?

https://youtu.be/-RNFOiVapAo

27.45 onwards.
Alex Thompson, drawing on his time in GCHQ Cheltenham, quotes others writing about the emergence of the Deep State.

Having previously practised selectively on the “deadbeat” of society, the welfare state was now being used to beat the law-abiding population.

The whole 42 minute talk is highly recommended. There are numerous upsetting gems which tell us a lot about how malign objectives are pursued surreptitiously.

Alex is a special kind of person. I also recommend his recent conversation with James Delingpole (though that episode may currently be paywalled. If so, James generally lifts that quite quickly).

Best wishes
Mike

Serious social problems on the Isle of Lewis