Nobody Cares about Britain

[Innula Zenovka]

Police seize £180,000 Aston Martin deposit from Andrew Tate

Payment for special edition supercar 'was made through tax evasion and money laundering'

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump’s America is NOT our friend

Resist the Orbánisation of the West

substack.com

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[Bartholomew Gallacher]

American gossip site Radar is claiming that King Charles lost the battle against cancer, is very frail now and it is only a matter of time until he will die.

EXCLUSIVE: King Charles ‘Now Crippled and Using Whisky to Numb Pain’ As He Fights 'Losing Battle' Against Cancer

King Charles was crippled and used whisky to numb the pain as he fought a losing battle against cancer.

radaronline.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

American gossip site Radar is claiming that King Charles lost the battle against cancer, is very frail now and it is only a matter of time until he will die.

EXCLUSIVE: King Charles ‘Now Crippled and Using Whisky to Numb Pain’ As He Fights 'Losing Battle' Against Cancer

King Charles was crippled and used whisky to numb the pain as he fought a losing battle against cancer.

radaronline.com

It's only a matter of time until anyone dies, I think.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

American gossip site Radar is claiming that King Charles lost the battle against cancer, is very frail now and it is only a matter of time until he will die.

EXCLUSIVE: King Charles ‘Now Crippled and Using Whisky to Numb Pain’ As He Fights 'Losing Battle' Against Cancer

King Charles was crippled and used whisky to numb the pain as he fought a losing battle against cancer.

radaronline.com

Serious question, is alcohol even that good of a pain reliever? In my experience you have to get really drunk for it to do much for pain and doing that all the time will obviously kill you fast. Surely he can get real pain killers.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Serious question, is alcohol even that good of a pain reliever? In my experience you have to get really drunk for it to do much for pain and doing that all the time will obviously kill you fast. Surely he can get real pain killers.

When I was undergoing radiotherapy to treat cancer in my throat some years ago, I was given fentanyl patches, morphine, and Co-Codamol for pain relief. I imagine HM receives something similar if necessary.

He still seems to be keeping up a pretty full schedule of public events, so I'd take the story with a pinch of salt, particularly since it has him growing his own weed for pain relief.

He also famously prefers G&T to whisky.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Sycamore Gap tree image found under Northallerton patio

Howard Dawson says the marking has a "remarkable" likeness to the ill-fated tree.

www.bbc.com

There's a freaking dirt stain on this guy's patio that he found when he picked up a brick that had been sitting there for years and the stain kind of almost looks like a tree, and he has decided it's actually a very specific famous tree that was recently cut down by a vandal. Okay whatever, that's nice grandpa let's get you back to bed...but, why is this an article on the BBC?

It's weird that it kind of reminds me of September 11, or well the days right after it. I was watching the news coverage when I was a kid, and of course there was a lot of very serious and scary stuff, important stuff, that was being talked about but at one point a big thing that was being talked about for an uncomfortably extended period of time was the fact that if you froze the attack footage at a specific moment, you could see THE DEVIL'S FACE in the clouds of smoke billowing out of the towers. And it wasn't just like a Fox News thing, it was on CNN too, just all the networks, and even being printed in newspapers because they were still a thing then. And it was really being talked about seriously. That's the first moment of my life that I can remember feeling very literally embarrassed to be an American - like, this was not just silly, it was flat out stupid and frivolous but being treated as a serious part of this serious event and the whole world was seeing us react this way.

This thing with the stain is less, like, profoundly stupid and more just really silly, but still. The BBC sent a reporter and a photographer to this guy's house for this story. Come on.

 

[Free]

I guess Jesus has finally signaled His return, and...will be reborn as a tree?

Note: Always respect when a news piece chooses to mention Costner's greatest achievement in film - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I guess Jesus has finally signaled His return, and...will be reborn as a tree?

Note: Always respect when a news piece chooses to mention Costner's greatest achievement in film - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

A cinematic masterpiece.

 

[Free]

Alan Rickman cannot overact.

 

[detrius]

Sycamore Gap tree image found under Northallerton patio

Howard Dawson says the marking has a "remarkable" likeness to the ill-fated tree.

www.bbc.com

There's a freaking dirt stain on this guy's patio that he found when he picked up a brick that had been sitting there for years and the stain kind of almost looks like a tree, and he has decided it's actually a very specific famous tree that was recently cut down by a vandal. Okay whatever, that's nice grandpa let's get you back to bed...but, why is this an article on the BBC?

It's weird that it kind of reminds me of September 11, or well the days right after it. I was watching the news coverage when I was a kid, and of course there was a lot of very serious and scary stuff, important stuff, that was being talked about but at one point a big thing that was being talked about for an uncomfortably extended period of time was the fact that if you froze the attack footage at a specific moment, you could see THE DEVIL'S FACE in the clouds of smoke billowing out of the towers. And it wasn't just like a Fox News thing, it was on CNN too, just all the networks, and even being printed in newspapers because they were still a thing then. And it was really being talked about seriously. That's the first moment of my life that I can remember feeling very literally embarrassed to be an American - like, this was not just silly, it was flat out stupid and frivolous but being treated as a serious part of this serious event and the whole world was seeing us react this way.

This thing with the stain is less, like, profoundly stupid and more just really silly, but still. The BBC sent a reporter and a photographer to this guy's house for this story. Come on.

Jesus Christ spotted on dog’s butt – Daily Lazy

daily-lazy.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Kemi Badenoch: Racists say I reached the top because I’m black

The under-pressure Tory leader says some critics are suffering from ‘Kemi derangement syndrome’. She takes aim at people who call her lazy, Nigel Farage and the ‘sore losers’ talking up Robert Jenrick’s chances

www.thetimes.com

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Lengthy article based on an equally lengthy interview with Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party's beleaguered leader. In an ideal world, I'd like to see her replaced by James Cleverly, because he'd stand a chance of pulling the Conservatives back to the mainstream centre-right rather than turning into Reform-lite. He, though, suffers from the perennial problem of being the Conservative leadership candidate preferred by people who'd never dream of voting for his party. Instead, I fear she'll be replaced by Robert Jenrick, who is simply unprincipled and nasty.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Andrew: Prince of our corrupt age

The global kleptocracy came with royal approval

nickcohen.substack.com

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Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell, oh my!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The questions about St George's and union jack flags lining English streets

With St George's and union jack flags appearing on many lampposts, we visit the epicentre of the phenomenon to find out why.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Old, grifting and white

And what it says about us

davidaaronovitch.substack.com

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Lengthy review of Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, concentrating on their grifting rather than Prince Andrew and the Epstein connection. This is rather a pity because Lownie makes it clear -- yes, I'm reading it, too -- that Epstein and Maxwell deliberately courted both the prince and Sarah Ferguson for what they could get out of them, and between them the Yorks were all too happy to accept Epstein's financial as well as social and sexual favours.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power

27th August 2025 Only good fortune has prevented previous governments from misusing our constitutional arrangements more than they did * The constitution of the United Kingdom provides for two &#82…

davidallengreen.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism

The party's silence is an act of moral debasement.

iandunt.substack.com

 

[Erich Templar]

Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism

The party's silence is an act of moral debasement.

iandunt.substack.com

The USA is dragging us all down with it.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

According to the most recent YouGov poll for Sky News Labour has sunk to the lowest approval rating for this term. Labour has 20% approval and the Tories got 17%, while Nigel Farage's UKIP is in the lead with 28% approval.

Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament

A fresh YouGov poll for Sky News puts Labour on 20% of the vote - just ahead of the Conservatives and trailing behind Nigel Farage's Reform UK, which leads at 28% of the vote.

news.sky.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

According to the most recent YouGov poll for Sky News Labour has sunk to the lowest approval rating for this term. Labour has 20% approval and the Tories got 17%, while Nigel Farage's UKIP is in the lead with 28% approval.

Labour sinks to lowest approval rating of this parliament

A fresh YouGov poll for Sky News puts Labour on 20% of the vote - just ahead of the Conservatives and trailing behind Nigel Farage's Reform UK, which leads at 28% of the vote.

news.sky.com

It's certainly very worrying, though I think Reform's position is more an expression of dissatisfaction with both Labour and the Conservatives rather than a positive expression of support for Farage, rather as was Labour's landslide victory last year an expression of how people felt (and still feel) about the Conservatives than an expression of support for Labour. Since not a great deal seems to have changed since then, people are turning to Reform, or saying they are.

I'm not sure, though, it's yet time to panic.

• The next elections are at least three years away, which is far too long to make accurate predictions (no one in 2021, when Labour lost the previously safe seat of Hartlepool in a by-election and Keir Starmer was considering resigning, foresaw the results of the 2024 General Election, after all).
  
  
• Reform did extremely well in the local elections earlier this year, and now face the challenge of actually running things. It's early days yet, but they're really not making a good job of it. They're now running the County Council where I live, and their policies so far are to make a great (and largely ineffective) fuss about Pride flags and to ask the government for more money, which they won't get -- not because they're Reform but because the government is very unlikely to make any extra money available to local government on top of what's already been announced. So come the next general election, people will have some experience of what Reform are like in office, and are probably not going to be particularly impressed.
  
  
• Two points to bear in mind: much of Reform's current support in the opinion polls is from people who either voted Conservative in 2024 or who didn't vote at all. The Conservatives' current leader, Kemi Badenoch, is generally agreed to be doing a dreadful job, and is unlikely still to be in post by this time next year. Her successor may well attract some previous supporters back to the Conservatives at Reform's expense, and people who didn't vote in previous elections are far less likely to vote in subsequent elections than are people who did vote.

There's also good reason to believe that, when people are asked to consider Reform's actual policies, they don't much care for them.

This is no reason to be complacent, of course, but certainly a lot can happen between now and the next elections.