This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep. The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements. For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own. The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing. Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin. So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good. A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off. You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

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For those suffering from amnesia: just four months ago, the Islamic regime in Iran slaughtered over 40,000 people in only two days, for the sole ‘crime’ of protesting for freedom.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, had his arm blown off by a grenade while sheltering in a roadside bomb shelter near the Nova festival. Terrorists loaded him, bleeding, onto a pickup truck and took him hostage. He survived nearly 11 months in captivity before being executed in a tunnel. THAT'S WHO YOU'RE DEFENDING. THAT'S HAMAS.

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Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

Once again we ask: Why has the UK STILL NOT designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation? It was embarrassing before, it’s off the scale now. Great article by @potkazar meforum.org/mef-observer/why…

Dear Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct - the @HantsPolice officers are using their shields as weapons, including the edges, as they mob beat lone individuals. Is this legal? Do you condone police officers shouting "I'm going to fuck you up" before they mob beat lone men? You seem to have completely lost control of Hants Police who are operating well outside the law. I am a 63 year-old middle-class man. I admired and defended the British police for most of my life - up until Covid, actually. But I fear you and hate you now. You have become something last seen in Ceausescu's Romania where his Securitate thugs gang-beat their victims. You have now lost the country and the consent of the British people. You are our enemy, and the enemy of decency, bravery, courage, and civilisation itself. God Damn all of you to hell you vicious sub-human scum. @elonmusk

Clueless Policing Minister Sarah Jones completely falls apart under Nick Ferrari’s questioning 🤦‍♂️ In a painful LBC interview, Sarah Jones was asked a straightforward question about the Hampshire officers who handcuffed dying 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he bled out from multiple stab wounds, after wrongly treating the stabbed student as the aggressor. Nick Ferrari: “It’s reported the officers involved won’t be referred for misconduct. Why is that?” Jones immediately stammers and hides behind the IOPC investigation. Ferrari presses: “As of now they haven’t been referred for misconduct? Are they still serving on frontline duties?” Again, nothing. Just more IOPC deflection. Ferrari: “Why can’t you tell me whether they’re still on the frontline? Don’t the people of Southampton have a right to know?” Jones keeps parroting the same line about the IOPC “looking at footage, talking to officers, talking to the family…” Ferrari, clearly fed up: “Minister, I asked whether they’re still serving frontline duties. Do you know whether they are or not?” Jones starts the IOPC script again. Ferrari cuts her off: “But do you know whether they’re still on the frontline, Minister?!” Flustered and stuttering, she mumbles something about speaking to the chief constable. Ferrari: “Have you asked the chief constable? It’s causing concern. You don’t know, do you?” Then comes the most ridiculous line of all: Jones admits she does know the answer… but she won’t tell the public because “an investigation is ongoing.” What the actual f*ck? This has nothing to do with prejudicing an investigation. It’s a basic yes or no: Are these officers still out on the streets policing the public right now? The people of Hampshire and Southampton deserve to know. This is what we get from this government, a Policing Minister who either doesn’t know what’s happening in her own brief or is too scared to say it. Pathetic.

In June 2025, a west London couple discovered their Jaguar E-Pace had been stolen from outside their home in Hammersmith. The car had an Apple AirTag inside that showed its location. They reported the theft to the police and explained they had the tracker data, but officers indicated they were too stretched to respond immediately. The couple then used the AirTag to locate the vehicle in Chiswick, a short distance away. They went to the location, found their car, and recovered it after contacting the car’s security provider to unlock it with proof of ownership. The incident has sparked discussion about police response times for vehicle thefts and the usefulness of simple tracking devices.

“What you have to understand,” a senior police officer told me, “is most chief constables would rather mess up a major murder inquiry than be accused of being racist.” That is what we are up against, folks.

New holding $RVTY. Only a taster position to start and keep the mind focussed.

$FUTU. Added. Holding had hit a decision point and I believe the current sp fall is overdone. Underwater but still paddling.

I hope Hampshire Police and the CPS have a good explanation as to why Digwa’s brother and father have not yet been charged. His mother is being sentenced soon for removing the murder weapon from the crime scene. If his brother and father knew Henry had been stabbed, are they not accessories too? The brother called 999 to falsely report Henry for racially attacking the murderer. The father physically detained a dying Henry until the police arrived. None of them informed the police that Henry had been stabbed. All watched him die, handcuffed, on the ground.

I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters.

£1.5m in donations from Ferring Pharmaceuticals, makers of puberty blockers, might provide a clue.

Closed position in Nutshell Growth. Felt it was fully valued. Gain 10%.

I feel angrier by the minute! What gives these shysters the right to award themselves 130%pay rise?