All urban areas – whether in France, England or wherever – are growing more ominous, though they do vary in whether the menace is mostly just that or a prelude to violence. I should qualify by saying very touristy areas, say Central Oxford, are mostly ‘better’. But go to the central parts of Oxford that aren’t overrun with tourists and it’s increasingly a zone for drugs and the mentally ill, with boarded-up shops, street-boozers and gangs of Middle Eastern/Albanian blokes lurking in shop doors. The menace is palpable.
And not all historic cities are as good! There’s one which is astonishing given its fame, albeit a past with a grim aura: Richard III was, of course, Duke of Gloucester, and I believe in historical resonance. Edward II has a magnificent tomb, in the stunning cathedral; he was murdered by having a red-hot poker shoved up his backside.
I spent Bank Holiday Monday there; metaphorical link intended. It’s a truly awful city, seriously wrong in feel. The magnificent Gothic cathedral forms a bizarre oasis, approached down a charming alley but hemmed in by vape shops, dope smoking, drug dealing, injecting and feral kids on bikes. Very little else that’s medieval survives, in part due to its 19th-century industrial heritage.
Gloucester always was a weird place, but it’s now completely dystopian. The regenerated Quays area of old warehouses – full of designer shops, flats and restaurants – is vaguely pleasant, but doesn’t remotely compensate. Not least when some festival is blaring out that moronic political theme-tune to Tony Blair: ‘Things Can Only Get Better’.
Easy to see how the Wests operated unnoticed. Some of the locals look alarmingly similar to Fred and Rose: heaven knows what’s under their patios or in their cellars. To be fair, everyone I spoke with – I make a habit of random conversations in new places – was disarmingly cheerful, on how frightful the place was. A delightful woman said the council had simply knocked down almost anything worth preserving but were now pondering rebuilding it somehow…
The nearby Forest of Dean is like England’s Deep South and sits brooding, very close. Keir Smarmer wouldn’t dare set foot there; it would be like Deliverance for him! Imagine the prancing ninny dragged into some pub to discuss ‘what a woman is’ with the cheery locals.
I’d pay to witness it.
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All going well if the intention is to undermine trust in this and many other institutions.
Well I just think we’re going to have to resort to putting ‘Penis-owners’ and ‘Vagina-owners’ on toilet/changing room doors because evidently the old, traditional ‘Female/Ladies’ and ‘Male/Men’ is just way to ambiguous these days and is clearly open to interpretation, and with delusional loonies like the woman below ( who doesn’t even know what a woman is ) then we need to be literal to a fault;
”I feel conflicted sometimes when posting these videos.
She’s going to be so embarrassed one day, if she isn’t already, which I think she is. (She showed up the next day just to complain about me speaking with her on camera, even though she approached me to come speak on camera.)
These clips will live on forever, as other people post them.
Evidence of a time when much of the world lost its mind.
She’s going to be so embarrassed that she was sucked into a cult this badly and doesn’t know what a woman is, even though she’s a woman.
It’s just mind-bogglingly stupid and damaging, this whole thing.
But this is a war to protect our kids, and the widespread nature of this insanity has to be shown. The embarrassment these people will feel is unfortunate collateral damage.”
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1797494220414185488
Meanwhile, what with Father’s Day round the corner, what to get the man who has everything? Well which man could possibly say no to a ‘Period Bracelet’? Yes, real men wear a piece of tat around their wrist to show they’re totally onboard with ‘riding the crimson wave’, and I think it just reeks of masculinity, personally. Well, it’s a thing in Turdeau’s Canada, apparently;
”People don’t bring their own toilet paper to work, so they shouldn’t have to bring their own pads and tampons.
We changed that. We put free menstrual products in federally-regulated workplaces.
This bracelet is for Menstrual Hygiene Day.”
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1795687328440316022
Off this topic but Farage has put his cock on the block !!! What Next
‘Cock block’?
Standing as MP for Clacton & taking charge of Reform
By their logic other mammals can have their gender assigned at birth.
Yes we know that most of our institutions have been hijacked by the Wokerati. The Liberal Progressives, formerly known as communists, know that communism gets a bad press, so they do what they do with everything else and just change the language. They think “Progressive” sounds modern and good. Who could possibly object to “Progress” right?
Except “progressing to what? The answer is more and more government controlling every aspect of people’s lives
They lost trust in 2020, anything after makes no difference to me.
Dropped shopping to Old in laws this morning ! ITV morning guff prog (Cat Deeley) over to quiz they said to win a Merc & Cash , I didn’t catch the link up presenters name but nothing could have prepared me for the They Them Things Appearance , I’ll try & describe – big boned camp bloke buffed to the limit with tiny hot pants full make up doing enough to win Top prize at any Pride event ! Main stream Tele for you trying to normalise the abnormal
Sex is not assigned at birth. Sex is determined at conception and noticed at birth or before, and I guess these days in most places sex is legally recorded as part of the process of registering the birth, and I suppose also for hospital records. Sex is not some invented social construct, it’s something provided by God or fate or nature or the universe or whatever you choose to believe in.
“Sex assigned at birth”?
How? Do they hold the baby in front of a Hogwarts Sorting Hat in order to have it’s fate decided?
B*llocks.
Lancet, you need to go the way of News Of The World or Titbits; you have sunk to the same level.