Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
An old favourite – Dioclese – with an excellent review of a programme that had me in stitches!
Interesting ‘backstory’ to the Burkini on the Beach saga.
David Thompson picks up on a classic example of reverse racism. Or Abbottism, as it is sometimes referred to.
Simon Cooke with ‘Baby Boomers – living out the great binge‘. Couldn’t agree more!
Simon Warr with an appeal to arms.
Barrister Blogger has difficulty computing the 1400 Rotherham victims, too.
Barbara Hewson – False Allegations a stain on Justice.
- Rossa
August 20, 2016 at 4:35 pm -
Fussbucketry….love that!
- Sean Coleman
August 20, 2016 at 5:44 pm -
Thanks Anna. Some interesting article here. I had never (consciously) heard of Barbara Hewson until now. She has an interesting Wiki biography and I am seriously impressed (though I disagree with her support for abortion). I don’t know if everyone has seen her performance against Krishna G-W on Ch4 News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DR6EEl0H64
As for the Corsica row, has anyone come across the case of French policeman (detective I think) Sébastian Jallomion, who was gaoled for some comments he made on Facebook about an Islamist cleric?
- Andy
August 20, 2016 at 5:51 pm -
Petunia Winegum (formerly of this hostelry) gives an interesting account of recent dealings with the Metropolitan Police after reporting a corrupt officer on his latest blog
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 21, 2016 at 12:04 am -
Your link is a bit Christian Disco- ie missing the E.
- The Blocked Dwarf
- tdf
August 20, 2016 at 9:09 pm -
If you ask me, some of youse could do with broadening your reading material.
I’ll help you out with that by recommending this recent piece from Will Self:
- Bandini
August 22, 2016 at 10:36 am -
Has Will Self pontificated on his own brother’s dalliance with Clement Freud’s wife yet (“…when she was 47 and he was just 16…”)? I’d be more interested in hearing his opinion on that matter than this regurgitated nonsense:
“The picture that emerges from the survivors’ evidence is of an organisational culture, in businesses, the BBC, local government and even hospitals, typified by a sort of surly yet fawning subservience.”
Yeah, that bloody BBC (again). Surprised by the article’s awfulness to be honest.
- Bandini
- tdf
August 20, 2016 at 9:32 pm -
@Sean
Are you aware that Nature/The Universe/God (delete as applicable, and/or in accordance with personal worldview) is – by far – the most prolific abortionist that has ever existed?
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 21, 2016 at 12:25 am -
Really not a good use of the word, as that article also suggests. A ‘miscarriage’ is not an ‘abortion’ as I, Passengers on the Omnibus & Sean would understand the term. I get that ‘miscarriage’ does have an intonation that the woman is in some way at fault (ie she failed to carriage it) so , as the article suggests, I suppose the best term would be “Spontaneous pregnancy loss” or similar.
tdf, I find it a little insensitive of you to equate miscarriages with abortions, even if the American Medical Profession (who cheerfully mutilate thousands of little boys a year, let it not be forgotten) does. I’m fairly sure that some of the readers here will have suffered , or been partnered with someone who has suffered, a Spontaneous Pregnancy Loss. I think if anyone were to say to many a young husband that his wife had had an ‘abortion’ when she had ‘miscarried’ then they would find their teeth emerging from the other end….so it was pleasing to note that that article does recommend that the emotions of the no-longer-Dad-to-be be considered.
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 21, 2016 at 12:46 am -
Upon rereading, ok ‘re-skimming’ (it’s late) that article, something else pisses me off too: Whilst the author correctly reminds the doctors reading that a miscarriage can lead to psychiatric illness up to a year down the line it, by dint of omission, continues the lie that an abortion (in the normal sense of the word) leaves women at no risk of psychiatric woes afterwards. The simple truth is , as anyone whose partner has had Postpartum Psychosis might testify, that anytime a pregnancy ends- be that ‘ending’ by miscarriage, abortion or as nature intended with a successful birth surrounded by chakra rubbing Doulas to accompanying Whale song- a woman may contract (wrong word I know) a psychiatric illness.At the risk of upsetting the gentle folk around the bar ; Pregnancy doesn’t just f**k up a woman’s body.
- tdf
August 21, 2016 at 1:53 am -
@TBD
As regards circumcision, I agree, and have encountered Americans online with stories to tell on that.
I meant no offence by posting that article. It was probably not the best article to illustrate my point. When people object to legalised abortion, and use phrases like ‘abortion on demand’, as the religious right regularly does in my country and in the US, what they really mean, in my view, is that they don’t like the idea of women having control of their own bodies.
- The Blocked Dwarf
August 21, 2016 at 8:15 am -
Abortion is one of those topics which can hurt people who come to this bar hoping to find a Safe Place (long before SJWs started pillow-forting the online world, the Landlady got sick of some of the comment sections of some rather well known blogs). But for the record I am violently ‘Pro Life’ (God I hate that phrase almost as much as I hate the name ‘Pro Choice’). So I would suggest you get the Raccoonista to bring me another latte and whatever you’re drinking and we get back to reading the Sunday papers.
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- Sean Coleman
August 21, 2016 at 12:09 am -
Tdf, what is the point of linking to such tedious documents? Do you seriously expect anyone to read them, least of all me? Are you attempting to make the point that ‘science’ supports abortion? Did you just google the words ‘natural abortion’ and paste a link? Don’t tell me you read it. Are you yourself in favour of abortion?
With your Will Self link above I had assumed you were being ironic (or something) as it is such an abominably poor article it is difficult to know where to begin to ridicule it, but in your exchange with Anna it appears not. Once again, please stop being arch and try to speak plainly. This is Self’s problem too.
Do you read the New Statesman yourself? I bought it for a few weeks 35 years ago, around the time of Charles and Diana’s wedding. I hope it isn’t all at Self’s level. No, on second thoughts I do: the modern Puritans need to experience some real discomfort.
On a hunch I had a quick look to see if Mr Self is in favour of Brexit. Is he f***! Quelle (as he might say) surprise! You might note his patronising ‘the little people’ in the article but he doesn’t like it when they vote against what he knows is right.
- tdf
August 21, 2016 at 1:47 am -
@sean coleman
You claim that Barbara Hewson ‘supports abortion’. Now you are asking me if I do likewise. Well, as it happens, I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t ‘support abortion’ (and neither do I.) My guess is that she supports terminations being safe and legal, up to certain limits (as do I). I would guess that she thinks that on some occasions, terminations can be, if not necessarily a good thing, then, at the least, the least worst option. If so, then I agree with her on that issue.
As for the point of the link I posted, essentially, I’m showing you that your statement that Ms Hewson ‘supports abortion’ is ludicrous, unless you are going to indict God/nature for the same thought crime. You don’t mind abortion when your God does it – abortions occur in nature all the time. Unless you believe that your God is a thoroughly evil hypocrite, but you can’t possibly believe that, can you Sean?
The only question facing those of us who believe in separation of church and state (and I’m guessing you’re not one of those, feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken) is whether abortions should be legal under the law. In my view, they should. You disagree. Fine.
- Sean Coleman
August 21, 2016 at 5:47 pm -
tdf
It’s her Wiki biography that states that she supports abortion, which I take as meaning the right for women to have a ‘safe termination’ (safe for whom?) rather than that she supports the right for miscarriages to happen spontaneously in what our EU allies call ‘The Nature’. The Wikipedes are drawn to trivia, such as the weight of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in metric tonnes (look it up) or the number of holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall, but even they surely don’t mean Hewson is in favour of the justice of miscarriages (see what I did there?). Of course, Wiki might have got this bit about her wrong too. You can always tell when they don’t approve of someone when they put in a section called ‘Controversies’.
I only mentioned her views on abortion to illustrate that she probably does not have a conservative world view and so lacks a certain natural immunity to the fantasies of political correctness (yes, I know, they don’t have a complete monopoly), yet she can still see through savilization (my spelling). The interesting question, for me, is why she can do it and most cannot. The video I linked to is the only case I have ever come across of someone calling the hoax, squarely and without reservations, live on television, even mocking it, but then I don’t get out much and there could be others I haven’t seen. At the very start of the interview you can see Krishna Guru-Murty attempt to laugh her out of it and then he splutters with indignation at her heartlessness towards the ‘victims’. The same reception awaits anyone who dares to talk out of turn on any of the fundamental Articles of Faith.
You can still do this (just) in Britain. Not a hope in Ireland.
So you really think Self’s article is good? Seriously?
- tdf
August 21, 2016 at 7:20 pm -
“So you really think Self’s article is good? Seriously?”
I’d grant it’s not one of his better pieces.
- Sean Coleman
August 21, 2016 at 9:44 pm -
He can be funny. I remember a television review of his for the launch of Channel 5 describing a disgusting old man (Harry?) living on his own with his telly and pigeons, who fly about the room soiling it and sitting on his head. Not a word about the new station. But he reminds me of the main character in Paradise Lost, his face twisting with rage and vanity (though not Self-pity to give him credit). He is a bully and constantly interrupts his opponents, and he is not afraid to use mocking ad hominem against anyone. I’ve been wondering about this interrupting tactic. Owen Jones is another culprit. It’s as though they can’t allow the words they disapprove of so much to be uttered in case anyone might hear them, like a maiden aunt in Victorian times to use the cliche.
Have you read the coverage of Pat Hickey, ‘the ‘Godfather’ of the Irish Olympic Committee, who was arrested in the middle of the night in Rio in front of the cameras (naked!!) because of the ticket touting scandal and carted off to a tough prison? He was a law unto himself with powerful friends, riding roughshod over Irish democracy and treating elected public representatives with contempt, a close friend of Putin and on the inside track with the Vatican. And so on and so forth. Omnipotent because he was in charge of the almighty Irish Olympic Committee! Hiding in plain sight no doubt. They are like children.
- tdf
August 22, 2016 at 8:27 pm -
“I remember a television review of his for the launch of Channel 5 describing a disgusting old man””
Don’t think I saw it, sounds like one of those ‘Angry Old Men’ type series where they interview middle-aged or elderly men about what annoys them the most in popular culture?
As for the IOC escapades, well, all very embarassing for the country, but personally I’ve long since stopped bothering to attend sporting events in Ireland, largely because the matter of obtaining tickets to sought-after events has always seemed to me to be a matter either of knowing the right people, or paying a premium (or both). Personally, I’m just not interested enough in sport to bother with the hassle, but for those who are, nothing changes unless people kick up a fuss, which the Irish as a race are notoriously reluctant to do.
- Sean Coleman
August 22, 2016 at 9:13 pm -
It was a review in the Observer, in the days I used to read it, to go to great lengths to find it.
- tdf
August 22, 2016 at 9:35 pm -
^ Launch of Channel 5 would have been, what, late nineties or so? Can’t say I recall too many difficulties in tracking down copies of the Observer at that time, or of any of the British sundays or for that matter, dailies. Way back, fado fado, back in the late ’70s /early ’80s, my late father driving us around most of West Mayo to find a copy of the Sunday Telegraph. You must have been living in the back of beyonds, or were you, as it were, cloistered?
- tdf
August 22, 2016 at 9:41 pm -
^ Drat, really need to proof-read my own posts before submitting to print, at it were. Third sentence above should have started with ‘I can recall..’
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- Fat Steve
August 21, 2016 at 9:29 am -
Burkinis
Always fun to look at present day events in the light of history
http://lifehacklane.com/435/rare-photos-you-ve-likely-never-seen-before/15/- Lisboeta
August 22, 2016 at 4:54 pm -
I have a photo of my parents at the beach in the mid 1930s. Both are wearing one-piece bathing suits … *knitted* ones. Mom’s had the attached skirt thingy, Dad’s was the long shorts version. I’m sure neither of them did anything more than paddle in the shallows! On my first trip to the seaside, aged about 6, I learned the embarrassment of getting a knitted bathing costume really wet. (Granny, who knitted all of them, doubtless meant well — but had no first-hand knowledge of swimming.)
- Lisboeta
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