It’s five years since I published my book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS in which I tried to rubbish the claims that CO2 emissions were causing ‘Global Boiling’. Yet five years on, England, France, Italy and Spain seem to be experiencing ‘Global Boiling’. Ooops. Did I get it all wrong?
I haven’t fully understood the weather phenomenon which has caused unusually hot and dry weather across parts of England and Europe. But I’ll try to make three points:
Point 1 – The coldest winter in almost 40 years
I was in Thailand during part of the 2025/26 winter. At the time it was reported in the local press that Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar were experiencing “the coldest winter in almost 40 years”. This was an area of around 1,604,000 km2 with a population of about 151 million. Just as a quick comparison, the current Western Europe heatwave seems to be affecting around 1,712,000 km2 with a population of about 246 million.
Yet while the four Asian countries were experiencing their “coldest winter for almost 40 years”, I don’t remember the BBC’s Justin Lowrat and other mainstream media reporters of his ilk howling and screaming about the Earth moving into a new Ice Age. Yet we now have the opposite weather conditions affecting parts of Europe and suddenly we must all panic about the coming devastation of Global Boiling.
Point 2 – How exceptional is the current heatwave?
Here’s a possible explanation of the current hot weather from the excellent Paul Homewood on the ‘Not a lot of people know that’ website:
Niccolò Machiavelli, in THE PRINCE, instructs the ruler who would keep power that it is far safer to be feared than to be loved, and that a prince must be a great feigner and dissembler, since men are so credulous and so governed by the need of the moment, that one who practises to deceive will always find another willing to be deceived.
We sem to stumble from supposed crisis to supposed crisis. I can’t remembr them all. But we had AIDS when we were all frightened into ‘safe sex’, then the financial crisis when we were told we all had to be impoverished to supposedly ‘save the financial system’. Then there was Ebola which turned out to be a bit of a damp squib as it never really left Africa’s most corrupt, violent, backwards hell-holes. After Ebola came the US-funded, Chinese lab-leaked Covid. Our rulers knew from the case of the Diamond Princess cruise ship outbreak that the mortality rate for Covid was probably around 0.1% to 0.2% at most. Yet our rulers used hugely exaggerated figures to justify shutting down our economies, imprisoning us in our homes and coercing us to accept ‘safe and effective’ vaccines which were neither safe nor effective and which only should have been given to a tiny section of the population.
And. of course, behind all this we’ve had the supposed ‘climate crisis’ which has enabled our rulers to increasingly restrict our life choices and lives while they fly all over the world staying in the most luxurious hotels in the most luxurious places eating the most luxurious foods in the most luxurious restaurants all at our expense as they meet in their thousands every few years to discuss their ‘climate crisis and what new restrictions they can put on us’.
The best book describing how we are being fooled into submission to this latest fear-mongering is probably journalist Ross Clark’s ‘THE DENIAL’
And now to end, another quote from someone much smarter than myself:
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken
It appears that a book chronicling the life of Britain’s most famous Black Professor of the Sociology of Race and Education or Professor of Total Woke Nonsense or something like that, Prof Jason Arday, is due to be published on 27 August 2026:
The Guardian reported: ‘Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, claimed he was paid “1.4 million” for his forthcoming memoir detailing his extraordinary backstory.” The publisher, Simon and Schuster (affectionately known by some in publishing as “Simon and Shyster”) ‘said earlier this week it was planning to go ahead with the publication of his memoir on 11 August in the US and 27 August in the UK. Simon & Schuster US told the Guardian on Thursday night it was “proceeding with the publication of Great and Unfortunate Things by Jason Arday as planned”.,
On Amazon we read that:
When Jason Arday was thirty-seven years old, everything changed. He made international news by becoming the youngest Black professor in the almost thousand-year history of the University of Cambridge. But that remarkable achievement is only part of his great and unfortunate tale.
He grew up in a council house in south London with his parents and two brothers. Diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay at the age of three, he spent much of his non-verbal childhood navigating a system that struggled to understand him. Doctors and teachers believed there was ‘no one in there’. But Jason’s mother, Giff, refused to accept the limits others placed on her son.
With the faith of his family and the support of a handful of extraordinary friends and mentors, Jason slowly found his voice. He spoke his first word at eleven, learned to read and write at eighteen, and discovered a passion for education and helping others that would transform his life. Along the way there were improbable triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks, tears of joy and moments so painful that laughter was the only option, and more than one occasion when everything seemed poised to fall apart.
Great and Unfortunate Things is an unforgettable book about resilience and love – and the transformative power of someone who believes in you when the world does not.
There are, of course, already glowing reviews on Amazon about a book which has not yet seen the light of day. Perhaps the reviewers got pre-publication copies? Or perhaps …….. (for legal reasons I will not speculate on what might really have been the role of the publisher’s PR department in the production of these glowing reviews and what amounts of money, if any, might have changed hands)
‘Jason Arday is a remarkable and brilliant man’ — James O’Brien, Sunday Times bestselling author of How To Be Right
‘Unforgettable . . . That oft-used word ‘inspirational’ feels wholly inadequate to describe his incredible story of grit and resilience . . . a book about how it should not be so hard for a gifted, neurodivergent, working-class child of colour to shine . . . It is not just his trailblazing academic achievements that make Arday special. It is also his courage, his genuine humility and his clarion sense of calling’ — Caroline Sanderson ― The Bookseller
‘Imagine the remarkable Educated by Tara Westover, with further education and against perhaps even greater odds’ — Caroline Sanderson ― The Bookseller, Non-fiction Book of the Month, August 2026
‘Arday’s cinematic story from being nonverbal to becoming one of the youngest professors ever at Cambridge makes you believe in the transformative power of grit and the magic of a mother’s love. The most inspiring book I’ve read in decades’ — Chris Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happyness
‘This is a remarkable portrait of an astonishing life. Great and Unfortunate Things takes us on a spectacular journey of trial and transformation, offering crucial insight into the realities of neurodivergence, told by an author who changed the shape of his life through sheer will. Above all, this memoir is a poignant tribute to fearless mothers like Arday’s whose love, education and unshakable belief in their children will always make mountains move’ — Safiya Sinclair, international bestselling author of How to Say Babylon
‘Some lives are changed by talent. Others are changed by love that refuses to let go. In Great and Unfortunate Things, Jason Arday tells a story of resilience, dignity and the extraordinary power of those who hold steady for us when we cannot yet hold steady for ourselves. This is a beautiful and unforgettable book’ — Steve Pemberton, USA Today bestselling author of A Chance in the World
‘I love a good story. As a journalist, storytelling’s goal is to both move and inform. Arday’s story is as riveting and moving as they come. Jason’s efforts to overcome obstacles presented by his neurodivergence are movingly matched only by his mother’s extraordinary efforts to work with his differences not against them, to see the humanity where others chose to see an inky diagnosis’ — Michelle Miller, author of the New York Times bestseller Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
‘As the mother of a child on the spectrum, I was reminded once again that there is nothing more fierce than a parent’s determination to see her child get the services and attention he deserves, nothing more inspiring than a stranger with nothing to gain who asks, “how can I help?”, and nothing more empowering than intervention combined with positivity, love and grit. Read this book and prepare to be inspired’ — Holly Robinson Peete, actress, advocate and author of Same but Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express
‘It is a beautiful story, beautifully told. I found it impossible to put down’ — Rick Stroud, author of I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles
Recently there has been a continuous stream of revelations which suggest that the good professor’s account of his life may not be totally accurate. Questions are now being asked about issues such his claimed childhood autism, whether he hadn’t learned to speak until he was 11 and whether he couldn’t really read and write until he was 18, his extraordinary sporting achievements, the impressive amounts of money he supposedly raised for charity and much more.
So I was wondering whether the reviewers, who were so impressed by the good professor’s book might apologise, and whether one would find GREAT AND UNFORTUNATE THINGS in the non-fiction or fiction section or even under ‘Fantasy’ in your local Waterstones?
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. This weekend’s blog is about a subject I never imagined I would ever write about. It’s about a multi-culturally enriching custom I’d never really considered. The only reason I feel it worth mentioning is that there seem to have been two reports within just a few days of this happening on planes which were thousands of miles away from each other. So, this multi-culturally enrichiching custom may be far more common that most normal people would like to imagine.
Flight from Dubai to Bangkok
A Thai mother has alleged that a Pakistani passenger sexually assaulted her as she slept beside her four-year-old daughter on a six-hour flight from Dubai to Bangkok.
Beaut Pimpaporn, 33, said the alleged incident occurred on flight FZ-1583, after she boarded a connecting flight in Dubai following a trip to Milan, Italy. The aircraft landed at Don Mueang International Airport. Ms Pimpaporn said she had fallen asleep with her daughter on her lap and woke to find the passenger beside her allegedly performing a sex act and touching her buttock. She also noticed a wet stain on her trousers. I could show you the photo of this wet stain but will spare you. The ‘wet stain’ turned out to be the Pakistani gentleman’s semen.
Ms Pimpaporn said cabin crew questioned Mr Ali, initially in Arabic, and that he first denied the allegation before admitting his conduct. She said he cried, knelt and asked for forgiveness, while several people believed to be travelling with him as part of a Pakistani tour group also asked her to let him go. You can understand why the other Pakistani passengers felt Mr Ali had done nothing wrong as this multi-culturally enriching custom is probably considered normal for citizens from that wonderful country. After all, we’ve seen how many thousands of pre-teen and teenage British girls have been enriched by rape gangs mainly consisting of enrichers from Pakistan:
Labour councillors and Labour-adoring social workers, teachers, prosecutors and police seemingly didn’t notice what was actually going on.
Anyway, the woman fortunately felt that crime deserved punishment and wrote about Mr Ali’s punishment on her Facebook: “If you commit a crime, you have to face the consequences. Three years in prison, a 120,000 baht fine and blacklisted from entering Thailand ever again.”
Looks like Mr Ali will be staying in Thailand rather longer than he had planned.
Flight from Dubai to Newcastle
A biotechnology engineer who allegedly performed a sex act while sitting next to a mother and her child on board an Emirates flight has been spared jail. B….. L……., 27, from Kerala, India, has been convicted of exposing his crown jewels on the long-haul flight travelling from Dubai to the UK. The engineer, who has a Master’s qualification, was sat in one of the three seats in a row, the other two occupied by a mother and her baby son.
A court heard that, as the woman got up to make her child a feed, she noticed that the 27-year-old had a blanket over his lap. Initially, the mother from Australia feared that the Indian gentleman was concealing a weapon. (This might remind readers of the well-known Mae West quote: “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?“)
The woman realised that the highly-educated Indian gentleman was performing a sex act (having a wank). The Indian enricher was reported to cabin crew and arrested upon arrival at Newcastle International Airport. The victim said she had been ‘deeply distressed’ by the incident but had tried not to get too alarmed on the flight for the sake of her son. The alleged masturbator was sentenced to an 18-month community order, with 150 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay a total of £914 in costs and a victim surcharge. Lucky for this Indian gentleman that he wasn’t on a flight to Thailand where he would have received a real punishment for his mile-high masturbation.
It was reported that the Indian gentleman still denies that he committed the offence.
So ladies, be careful if you’re sitting next to an enricher on a plane. You never know what you’ll see and what bodily fluids may be spaffed onto your clothes.
Andy’s going on a summer holiday
It seems that, after a mere two weeks as our greatest ever Prime MInister, the Manchester Messiah, Andrew Burnham, is off on his summer holidays:
(I admit I copied this idea from watching Simon Webb’s brilliant History Debunked videos. So apologies if you’ve already watched the History Debunked video)
Is Britain a ‘Nation’?
Here’s Professor Google’s definition of the word “Nation”
A nation is a large group of people united by common traits like culture, language, history or ancestry
Key Parts of a Nation
Shared Culture: People use the same language, celebrate the same customs, or hold similar beliefs.
Common History: The group shares a past, including stories, heroes, and past struggles.
Belonging: Members feel a deep connection to each other, even if they never meet.
I hardly need to write anything more. But I will.
Shared culture? As White indigenous British are likely to become a minority in their own country by somewhere around 2055 to 2060, we can hardly claim that the people living in Britain now, and those who will be living in Britain in 25 years time, have a shared culture. I will say no more about this for fear of being arrested by the Starmer/Burnham thought police
Common history? Our elites seem to hate British history. Britain, more than any other country in history, brought civilisation, democracy and the rule of law to countries around the world. But our elites try to make us ashamed of our history, they try to denigrate many of our greatest scientists, engineers and statesmen and try to trick us into believing that nonentities from some of the world’s most miserable, backwards hell-holes have achieved just as much as great figures from our historical past. And anyway, with so many people from different countries invading Britain, how can the population have a ‘common history’?
Belonging – Feeling a deep connection to each other? You’ve got to be joking! Instead of integrating, millions of those already in Britain and coming to Britain despise us and even hate us. They feel contempt for our laws, our freedoms, our democracy and seem intent on imposing their utterly corrupt, primitive, Third-world practices and beliefs on us. They want to conquer us, not live in harmony with us by accepting our way of life.
Is Britain ‘great’?
Stop laughing! I’ll try to be serious. Britain once ruled about a third of the world’s population, once had the greatest navy and military and was once an economic powerhouse. What are we now? A tiny overcrowded island. Once a navy which ‘ruled the waves’, struggled to find even one clapped-out old destroyer to send to Cyprus when our airbase there was attacked. We’re committing economic suicide with the ludicrous net zero. We’re committing societal suicidal with unlimited, ‘refugees welcome’ open-borders immigration as millions of the world’s often uneducated, often unemployable, often criminal flotsam pour into our country. Oh, and of course, we’re bankrupt paying about £110 billion a year in debt interest while enthusiastically increasing our debts to pay for the immigrants, the idle, the skivers and a bloated, bureaucratic, useless, work-from-home public sector that pays itself ever more while delivering ever less.
Conclusion: Britain is not a ‘nation’ and is certainly not ‘great’. It is just a small island where competing groups live uncomfortably beside each other and where we’re likely to see civil war breaking out between some of those groups when certain groups of invaders feel they have sufficient power to subjugate us and take over our country.
It seems to have been a busy week for our multi-cultural enriching friends. In Athens an Afghan man was arrested for allegedly killing a British woman, stuffing her body in a suitcase (as one does) and dumping it in an abandoned building. And in Ireland an American heiress, who had reportedly championed enriching immigration, was murdered allegedly by her Jordanian boyfriend.
We can expect more of such enrichment as our rulers scramble to replace us with much more worthy people from Africa’s and the Middle East’s most backward, corrupt, failed-state, worst hell-holes.
How to cut months from your NHS waiting times
(I’ll leave this blog up for a couple of days as it might be useful to some readers, their families, their friends or even, if they are feeling magnanimous, their enemies)
To be treated by an NHS hospital, you first need a referral from your GP. Once you have that referral, there are usually four main stages in getting treatment:
An appointment with a specialist – oncologist, cardiologist, neurologist or some other ‘ologist’
Having the tests recommended by your ‘ologist’
A new appointment with an ‘ologist’ to review the results of the tests and for your ‘ologist’ to book the proposed treatment
Getting the treatment
The time between each of these stages can easily be 6 to 8 weeks. For example, when my GP wrote a referral for me to see a cardiologist, she said that I should contact her if I hadn’t heard from my local hospital in 6 or 7 weeks. The NHS eighteen-week waiting target is a constitutional standard stating that 92% of patients should start non-urgent, consultant-led hospital treatment within 18 weeks of a GP referral.
Here’s something many people may not know. If you decide to pay for a consultation with an NHS ‘ologist’s’ private practice, the first consultation will normally cost £250 to £300. Usually it’s £300. However, the second consultation is often much cheaper – £150 to £200. With the cardiologist I booked to see at my local hospital’s heart centre, the first consultation was £300 and the second one £150. If you do book to see an ‘ologist’ paying yourself, waiting times for an appointment are often just a few days instead of the NHS’s 6 to 8 weeks. So you’ve possibly (depending on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times) already cut 5 to 6 weeks off your treatment time. In my case, by paying privately, I saw a cardiologist 3-4 days after my GP referral rather than the NHS’s 6 to 7 weeks. And, if you’re worried about a possibly serious condition or even unable to work, those 5 to 6 weeks you’ve cut from your waiting time will make a huge change to your life.
Then, of course, you have stage 3 in the process – A new appointment with an ‘ologist’ to review the results of the tests and for your ‘ologist’ to book the proposed treatment. Once you know the date(s) of stage 2 – Having the tests recommended by your ‘ologist’ – you can already book a second appointment with your ‘ologist’ perhaps targetting 2 or 3 days after your tests to give the ‘ologist’ time to review the results. Hey presto, magic. You may have just (depending on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times) cut another 5 to 6 weeks off your treatment time and it will only have cost you about £450 for the two ‘ologist’ appointments.
You can, of course, go further. If your tests are fairly simple like just one x-ray, you could also pay for that yourself and cut even more time off your treatment time. But if your tests involve scans or cutting off bits of you for biopsy or having unpleasant things shoved down your throat or up your derriere, you should probably get that done on ‘our’ NHS.
The most expensive part of your treatment will usually be stage 4 – getting the hospital treatment. You’ve paid plenty tax during your life and so should probably get the treatment on ‘our’ NHS. In my case, the treatment would have cost around £10,000 if done privately, so I had it on ‘our’ NHS.
Of course, the amount of time you could cut off your treatment time will depend on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times. But hopefully you can see that by paying privately for the two main consultations with your ‘ologist’, you often can cut weeks or even months off the time from referral to treatment.
You’ll all have seen the scenes from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco. A complete breakdown of borders and an invasion of up to 60,000 of our African neighbours in just one day. This was a socialist’s wet dream.
Here’s a tough question: In April Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, succeded in getting the country’s parliament to pass a law giving an amnesty and citizenship to a suspected 500,000 illegal migrants. At least 1,300,000 have applied. Ooops, it seems the Spanish socialist slightly underestimated the number of illegals in his country. So, here’s the question: Do you think this amnesty will:
discourage illegal migration?
have no effect on illegal migration?
encourage illegal migration?
To help you answer this really really tough question, which our rulers seem unable to answer, here’s a very simple chart showing the population growth of Europe vs Africa up to 2024 and projected forward to 2100:
By 2100 the population of Europe is projected to fall by about 150 million and the population of Africa is projected to increase by around 1.5 billion. I wonder where all those extra Africans will go? Will they stay in their own failed-state, impoverished, excrement-covered hell-hole countries or will they head for much wealthier benefits Europe?
Meanwhile, I believe we are being gaslit about the reality of the Ceuta invasion. For example, the ludicrously useless Times supposed ‘newspaper’ illustrated the Ceuta invasion with a photo of a woman who had swum into the Spanish enclave. But I suspect that about 59,995 of the 60,000 invaders were single men.
Moreover, few of our mainstream media have been entirely honest about the scale of looting of shops, home invasions and street defecation by the invaders. I don’t know if the rapes have started yet, but I imagine that will soon be the next scandal to be covered up
I attach below a YouTube video by comedian Leo Kearse about the invasion. There are a few issues Kearse brings out much more passionately than I could:
At around 2 minutes into the video how the invasion has been organised by the Moroccan authorities
At around 2 minutes 40 seconds how some invaders admit to being criminals and even murderers
How the Spanish police and military just stand around doing nothing to prevent the invasion
At around 3 minutes how Spanish socialists in the European Parliament are welcoming the invasion as part of their plan to replace European supposed ‘fascists’ and ‘racists’ with millions of wonderful multi-cultural enrichers from Africa
The current constant hyperventilating news reports about the ‘fires from Hell’ ravaging parts of Spain, France, Italy, Greece and even Britain reminded me of the 1968 song “Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (link at the end of this blog).
Arthur Brown sang: “I am the god of hellfire and I bring you FIRE”. But who are the new ‘gods of hellfire?’ Who or what are causing all the current wildfires? It’s obvious that there are two main conditions which have made today’s wildfires so destructive:
a wet winter led to more vegetation growth
a very hot dry spell has increased the likelihood of fires spreading
But neither of these conditions explain how the fires started in the first place. Most news reports tell us that fires “broke out”. But most of our media seems spectacuraly uninterested in what or who caused these fires to “break out”. It might be due to spontaneous combustion? Professor Googles tells us that: spontaneous combustion happens through self-heating, caused by slow internal chemical reactions like oxidation or bacterial fermentation that build up heat faster than it can escape. To an ignoramus like myself, that doesn’t seem to be the likely cause of most of the current wildfires.
Another theory is that it is us humans who have caused most or even all the wildfires. The Daily Telegraph seems to point at this possibility in a report:
Since the beginning of the month, 184 people have been arrested in connection with wildfires across France. Five have already been handed jail sentences, and 15 are awaiting trial.
One of the arrested seems to have been extremely ‘productive’:
In the department of Var in south-eastern France, a 23-year-old man is in police custody for allegedly starting 10 fires. CCTV cameras helped police identify the man, who is accused of setting fires on the edge of forests while travelling between towns for several days on his motorbike.
In Spain a construction worker is being prosecuted because:
The police have alleged he carried out work without a permit, and the excavator was not fitted with proper fire-extinguishing equipment. Firefighters at the scene called for air assistance as the flames spread into a deep ravine, but the blaze soon became uncontrollable. The inferno ravaged 193 square miles, an area about the size of Leeds, alongside a smaller wildfire, forcing some 90,000 residents to flee towns and villages.
That’s a pretty impressive fire allegedly caused by just one allegedly careless person.
A study in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) found that in the USA
Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned.
Had any of Europe’s wildfires been caused by lightning strikes, I feel sure that our intrepid climate reporters like the BBC’s (IMHO) ‘rodent-featured’ Justin Lowrat would have told us. So it would not be unreasonable to assume that all Europe’s fires were caused either by human stupidity or by human criminality.
Would it perhaps be informative if our overexcited reporters spent just a little time investigating the cause of the wildfires – who are the new ‘gods of hellfire’ – in addition to reporters’ apocalyptic hyperventilating about the scale of the fires?
Drought or just not enough water?
We now hear that much of England and all of normally rainy Wales have been declared to be in ‘drought’. That’s not unexpected given that it hasn’t rained in some areas for almost a month. But is the lack of rain the main cause of the water shortages?
The last major reservoir built in England was Carsington Water in Derbyshire, which was completed in 1992. At the time, the population of England was officially around 48 million. The population of England is now officially about 59 million. It could possibly be the case that increasing the population by 11 million without building a single new reservoir for 34 years might put a strain on the amount of water available?
And then we have leakage. Around a quarter of all water provided by our water companies is lost due to leakage:
So, is there a drought? Absolutely. Are current water shortages purely due to ‘Global Boiling’ climate change as most mainstream media ‘news’ reports would have us believe? Absolutely not. A failure to build new reservoirs at a time of massive population increase and excessive leakage are also important contributing factors.
Incidentally, in my previous blog, I recounted the tale of how it took me 9 weeks and more than 12 reports to get my (IMHO) utterly useless and incompetent local council to deal with a water leak near my home which (I calculated) has lost more than 16,000 litres of water during those 9 weeks.
You’ll all know about lightbulb jokes. They’re a classic style of joke that use the question “How many [group] does it take to change a lightbulb?” to make fun of the traits or habits of different people. Well. I’ve got my own version now: “How many useless council bureaucrats does it take to turn off one tap?”
This story from my boring little life is going to sound trivial. But please bear with me as perhaps this story indicates why our taxes keep increasing while public ‘services’ keep getting worse?
A shower on the local beach promenade has been leaking water for at least 9 weeks. The leak is quite small and I estimated that water is being lost at a rate of about 100ml every 30 seconds. Doesn’t sound like much? Well this equates to 288 litres of water a day, 2,016 litres a week – 18,144 litres in the 9 weeks I know the shower has been leaking:
I have reported this leak to the council beach employees at least six times. But they just laugh and say it’s nothing to do with them. So nothing happens to stop the leak
I also have reported the leak six times on the council’s on-line leak reports form and got just one automated response a few weeks ago. But nothing happened to stop the leak.
I reported the leak to a Dorset Water leaks repairman I saw ‘working’ at a beach toilet block. His answer – there was nothing he could do until he had the correct paperwork and a job number. So I naively suggested he could at least report the leak to the relevant department at the council. He looked at me with total astonishment and then explained very slowly, as I was clearly an idiot, that his job was not reporting leaks but only repairing leaks and he obviously couldn’t do that without the correct paperwork and a job number.
On Monday I reported the leak to a local councillor and she reported it to some operations manager at the council. Then on Tuesday I got an email from someone at the council acknowledging my report of a problem with a beach hut and an assurance the council was developing a strategy to deal with the beach hut problem. I had never reported any problem with a beach hut, so this email was complete gibberish.
Then yesterday, there was finally a breakthrough. My phone rang and some council employee said they were contacting me about the water leak I had reported. ‘Eureka’, I thought. Finally some action. Then the council employee said that he was standing outside my home and couldn’t see any sign of a water leak. I was incredulous at the incompetence and asked why on earth he was standing outside my home when I had reported that a beach promenade shower was leaking. This was one of those moments when you despair about the future of the human race. Apparently nobody had told this individual that the leak was from a beachside shower and not at my home.
I thought Britain was facing a water shortage and therefore preventing a beachside shower leaking 2,016 litres of precious water a week would be a priority for my council. Clearly I was mistaken.
Moreover, all that someone needed to do to stop the leak was to turn off the nearby tap controlling the water to the shower. I could have done it. But I was concerned that the tap looked quite corroded and, if I tried to force it, this might make the situation worse. That’s why I believed someone from the useless council should do it. It just never occurred to me that getting a council to turn one simple tap off would require 9 weeks, 13 reports and heaven knows how many utterly incompetent local council employees.
Perhaps this is why nothing in Britain works anymore?
I have just done a Google search on ‘protests at Isfahan executions’. In the first five pages of results I could only find one UK mainstream media report about how there were massive protests in the Iranian city of Isfahan when the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) yesterday publicly executed two men arrested after the January 2026 protests. The execution by hanging was televised in Iran to let the Iranian people understand what would happen to them if they dared express any dissatisfaction with the worse than medieval Islamic regime.
That report was in the Daily Telegraph. I won’t give a link to the Telegraph report as I imagine it is behind a paywall.
In spite of the Islamists’ brutality, there were massive protests by the crowd and the IRGC forces responded with tear gas, shotguns and snipers killing several people.
If you weren’t a Telegraph subscriber (or if you don’t watch Tousi TV on YouTube), you probably wouldn’t know this even happened. It certainly wasn’t mentioned on the Trump-hating, Islamophiliac BBC.
But I’ve noticed a trend in the last few months of the UK mainstream media trying to paint Iran as the victim and the US and Israel as the aggressors in the current Middle East war. For example, on several occasions, the BBC and ITV have referred to the IRGC as the “Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps” suggesting that it is some kind of patriotic Iranian armed force just like the British armed forces. By not using the real title the “Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps”, our media hope to cover up that the IRGC are a bunch of oppressive, end-of-days religious cultists who are a danger to all of humanity.
Shame on our media (except the Daily Telegraph) for covering up yet another example of the Iranian Islamists’ hideous brutality.
It seems that every news programme at the moment begins with the European wildfires as hyperventilating ‘journalists’, like the BBC’s beloved and ever trustworthy Justin Lowrat, tell us that never before have there been such high levels of wildfires. And our mainstream media weather presenters predict ever more apocalyptic heatwaves:
Yes it has been a hot summer. But are Europe’s wildfires really at a “historically high” level?
The ‘Not A Lot Of People Know That’ website provides real data, rather than opinions, suggesting that this year’s wildfires are nothing out of the ordinary.
(Just click on the heading “Wildfires in France” below to see the charts of area burned by year for the whole of the EU and France)
I’ll leave it up to you to decide who you believe – the BBC, C4 News, Sky News etc or the ‘Not A Lot Of People Know That’ actual data of the extent of wildfires burn.
And just one final small point. We seldom/never get any information on how the main wildfires started. I believe one started when a car caught fire, another was due to a woman who was arrested for arson and a third was started by scumbags who tied burning rags to the tails of some cats. Whether these stories are true, I don’t know. But it would be rather jolly if the Justin Lowrats of the mainstream media did make an effort to explain to us plebs whether the fires are natural or are actually caused by idiots and criminals.
David Craig, on August 11th, 2026
