Попрыгунья Стрекоза
Лето красное пропела;
Оглянуться не успела,
Как зима катит в глаза.
Помертвело чисто поле;
Нет уж дней тех светлых боле,
Как под каждым ей листком
Был готов и стол, и дом.
Все прошло: с зимой холодной
Нужда, голод настает;
Стрекоза уж не поет:
И кому же в ум пойдет
На желудок петь голодный!
Злой тоской удручена,
К Муравью ползет она:
«Не оставь меня, кум милый!
Дай ты мне собраться с силой
И до вешних только дней
Прокорми и обогрей!» —
«Кумушка, мне странно это:
Да работала ль ты в лето?» —
Говорит ей Муравей.
«До того ль, голубчик, было?
В мягких муравах у нас
Песни, резвость всякий час,
Так, что голову вскружило». —
«А, так ты…» — «Я без души
Лето целое все пела». —
«Ты все пела? это дело:
Так поди же, попляши!»

I found this list of links of Bishop Hill

which hasn’t posted for a while. I was just wondering where to store the list, and I reckoned here would be most useful. (Note some links don’t work, but I’ve not checked for changed URLs). Also one blog owner who was quite obnoxious to me has been removed from the list.

• Science blogs
• Rational Optimist
• Harmless Sky
• Climate Audit
• EU Referendum
• Judith Curry
• No Tricks Zone
• Donna Laframboise
• The Blackboard
• The Air Vent
• Lubos Motls
• Richard Tol
• Pielke Jnr
• Shub Niggurath
• GWPF
• Roy Spencer
• Steven Goddard
• Jo Nova
• Climate Resistance
• Klimazwiebel
• Tom Nelson
• SPPI
• Mike Hulme
• Resilient Earth
• Science of Doom
• Dot Earth
• Paul Hudson
• Real Climate
• Met Office
• Hot Topic
• James Annan
• Bob Tisdale
• Tallbloke’s Talkshop
• Cameron Rose
• Digging in the Clay
• Surface temps
• Stoat
• Deltoid
• Deep Climate
• Climate Lessons
• Icecap
• Chiefio
• Bart Verheggen
• Tamino
• Fiona Fox
• Rabett Run
• Overmatter
• AJ Strata
• Omniclimate
• View from Here
• Barry Woods
• Bernie Lewin
• Joe Bastardi
• Scottish Sceptics
• Harold Ambler
• All Models are Wrong
• Polar Bear Science
• Geoff Chambers
• Doug McNeall
• Numberwatch
• Paul Homewood
• Oversensitive
• Simon Donner
• Green World Trust
• Paul Matthews
• Alex Cull
• Bob Carter
• Climate Change Predictions
• Climate Sceptics
• Euan Mearns

• Political blogs

• Liberal Vision
• Libertarian Alliance
• Language Business
• Head of Legal
• Cobden Centre
• Adam Smith Inst
• Civitas
• Cicero’s Songs
• IEA
• Guido Fawkes
• John Redwood
• Peter Risdon
• Brian Micklethwait
• Tim Worstall
• Longrider
• Samizdata
• Jock Coats
• James Bartholomew
• Douglas Carswell
• Liberal Conspiracy
• Iain Dale
• Chris Dillow
• Tory Diary
• Cranmer
• Political Betting
• Tax Research UK
• Orphans of Liberty

• Other blogs

• Biased BBC
• Sometimes It’s Peaceful
• Dare to Know
• Open Secrets
• The Volokh Conspiracy
• BBC College of Journalism
• No Hot Air

Global events have taken an extremely serious turn and as a result, I may not be able to post anything for some time.

Revolutions occur when those who control society do not respond to the concerns of the people in those societies, and those people decide that there is no other way to have their concerns addressed than to support revolution.

Free speech, something now so hated by the likes of Stärmer, is in fact essential for the likes of Stärmer, because unless he and his totalitarian fascists can hear what ordinary people are thinking, he will have no idea of what the ordinary people are thinking and therefore resentment and discontent will rise until there is revolution.

Of course, on the way, we are likely to get mass murders as occurred in Nazi Germany, Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, Pol Pot, etc., because as free speech is ended, both the governed and governing start embracing the extreme ideas. The governed murdering the masses and the masses finally realising they are on the road to be murdered eventually condoning or facilitating the murdering the government.

All Stärmer is now doing, is blocking the pressure release valve of society and, whilst that might give the appearance of quietening the pressure cooker, any engineer knows what is really going on.

In all the heat and fury of the appalling behaviour of Starmer, most people have not noticed that scepticism has become mainstream. It’s now widely accepted that the politicians and media are lying to us most of the time. Medics and academics are not far behind. They have done everything they can to discredit themselves, and now, rather than halt their lies and apologise in an attempt to improve their trustworthiness, they are doubling down with the lies. It’s a vicious circle. They can no longer keep spreading their politicised lies and retain credibility. The two are not compatible.

I am now finding myself shocked to hear someone who actually believes the lies, because they are a dying breed (in the case of covid literally). People are adjusting the way they view the world to take account of the fact that they are being endlessly lied to by the legacy media, politicians, academics and even doctors.

We now have societal anti-bodies against the obnoxious people who spread the climate & covid lies. Every time the liars try to push for more, there is now a rapid response that each time grows in magnitude. The resistance is growing far far faster than the disease.

It’s a bit like watching one of your children, repeatedly touching an electric fence after you said “don’t”. It’s not nice watching society starting to fall apart as NutZero starts to do its damage, but I do have confidence that now the damage is clearly being felt, that, despite being led by the dumbest people I can ever imagine being put in charge of any country, even they will eventually realise that you can’t do NutZero without a massive electric shock.

Of course, it’s not going to happen all at once. I don’t expect a road to Damascus moment where all the politicians double their IQ and say “Oh … NutZero is causing everyone to hate us we must drop it”. Instead, it will take perhaps 10 to 20 years of continuous extreme hatred of these politicians and extreme economic and social disruption for them to finally figure what someone like me figured out decades ago. But, it will happen. Hopefully they will be out of office long before that and Reform or another party will have taken over.

But, it is happening … my baby is growing up. Global warming scepticism is now mainstream. It is now well beyond the original people who were there at the beginning. Now people like Farage and many other politicians have seen the opportunity it gives to them to progress their careers and they are clearly on the bandwagon.

Is Climate Important

Of course humanity is affecting the climate, and the way we are affecting the climate is worrying. CO2 is a bit player in the act, but it is never-the-less something that in sane times I might have more interest in. But, it is very clear to me, that the world is insane and run by completely corrupt morons who couldn’t spot the right thing to do, unless it was painted with money.

Nothing is going to change the corruption. Nothing I can do is going to improve on the utter stupidity of policy we have now. The only thing that will change anything is the hostile reaction of the public to Nut Zero.

As for the climate … we have no idea what happens next, we have no idea how mankind is causing it or not … and all we can do is live with it. Because I wouldn’t trust the political leadership in most of the world to farm turnips.

Trump

Clearly people in the US government colluded with the gunman. That’s not a conspiracy theory … that is simply the fact.

Does it matter? Only for those two who died … and every sympathy to their family and friends. As for Trump, I really couldn’t care less. The US is a cess pit of corruption and I don’t think it will matter who is in charge, the corruption is destroying it from the inside. The best thing for us in Britain now, is to break all ties with the US and hope we don’t go down with them.

Some time ago, I decided to block google from searching this site. That was done on principle, because google is such an appallingly evil company. But, from a practical point of view, it had the great benefit that for many years I got no spam.

Unfortunately, Google must have started sneakily scanning the site, because I started getting spam again. Yet, it is interesting to see the spam. About a third of it comes from the CIA who post stuff in Russian script with the intention of creating hatred of the Russia. It just makes me hate the US more. Likewise all the other spam, which I now realise is produced by the big US corporations who tried, and to a large extent, did destroy the altruistic web that people like me helped build in the 2000s. Clearly they try and destroy any independent site, especially if they are not controlled by CIA-compliant corps.

But, then there are the humorous ones …

“Want immediate visitors from Google? Discover ways to attract visitors without spending on ads!”

Of course, none of them read anything here. And, likewise I don’t read the trash from the CIA. However, I do like to keep an eye on what the CIA are currently attacking. Helps me get into their mindset!

For years people have been telling us they wanted to have Nut Zero as soon as possible. Now, those people have a government with a whopping majority committed to Nut Zero, the other biggest parties are also massively in favour and so there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever not to go fool speed ahead with the biggest insanity in the world.

After all “It’s good for the economy” and “it brings down energy prices” and generally its the best thing in the world and there is absolutely no reason to oppose.

Well, now the public will find out the truth of their lies.

Yes, it will be like the charge of the light brigade with total carnage for a short period, but no one repeats the charge of the light brigade.

UPDATE
Well I made a cock up there … apparently Reform are to be the NEXT government (serves me right for listening to my gut after a curry)

OLD
I was a little shocked today to find I had started to talk about a Reform government using English tenses that indicated it was going to happen. After a little thought, I realised that it wasn’t such an insane idea.

Usually, I would try to predict the election result using some form of estimation procedure working out current voter share, trends etc.

This time, voting intentions are moving so quickly that I cannot do that and produce anything meaningful forecast. Instead, I’m left with a gut feeling that Reform will win.

To what extent that gut feeling is valid, only time will tell, but I do have that gut feeling, and in the present election I don’t have any other means to attempt to forecast the result.

So, I am now predicting a Reform victory. That suggests the Tories will be virtually wiped out. Probably with less than 1o seats. Annoyingly Lib Dems may also do well. But no one likes Starmer. He was the smarmy git who took the electorate for a ride and assumed his victory was a sure thing … without the need to ever justify anyone voting for the smarmy loathsome creature. That strategy seems to have misfired.

With the UK Right out the picture, the UK elections have come down to a fight between the Popular Reform party and the UN-Popularist globalist party led by someone who is the complete opposite of what any party would put forward as a leader. Someone who was responsible for the crown prosecution service when they did absolutely nothing to stop Saville or the Islamic grooming gangs. And, note: the only person who ever got prosecuted was the person who did most to call out those who allowed it all to happen: Tommy Robinson.

Only Farage can now stop Liebour, an appalling globalist party that (at least since Bliar) has never done anything for the poor or socially deprived in Britain … instead it just panders to the $oros/Globalist agenda that puts up fuels costs and destroys democracy, stability and generally makes life a lot worse, especially for the poor.