A cheerful start - for a change! Until this morning I had never heard of 'The Windermere Children' but apparently it is the subject of a programme on BBC2 tomorrow night. It tells the story of 300 or so Jewish children rescued from German concentration camps at the end of the war and relocated to a new camp near Windermere in the Lake District. Gradually they were rehabilitated mentally and physically following the unspeakable horrors through which they had - just! - managed to survive. You can read about it here:
Go, Rupe, baby, go! Excellent news this morning to the effect that my 'ex-Best Friend Rupe' Murdoch is planning to open a new radio station to compete with the BBC's Radio4. Yes, I know the ads will be irritating but I would rather put up with them than listen to the tendentious, 'woke' crap that emanates from Radio4. Incidentally, 'Rupe' is my best ex-best friend because years ago he ramped up the price of his TV news channel forcing me to leave.
The 'Heffalump' in praise of John Profumo: He, of course, was the naughty boy caught out in the early '60s for his dalliance with the equally naughty Christine Keeler. I always remember him because, before his fall from grace, I actually met him - for about 3.5 seconds! I was in a bed in the RAF hospital in Bahrein - no, no, not sick, just skiving and making the most of the most minor of injuries - and as Minister for War he was inspecting the base. Anyway, he shook hands and wished me well. I mention all this because the 'Heffalump' has a kindly and forgiving article about the man in The Telegraph today. Profumo, was blessed with a superb and wise wife in the form of the film actress Valerie Hobson. Whatever else, you have to say that he had good taste in women!
Oh dear, when 'allies' fall out! I am a regular follower of both The American Thinker site and The National Revue site. Between them they give me a Conservative overview of the American political scene. The Thinker from a very pro-Trump point of view and the NR from a much more doubting and critical standpoint. Today, The Thinker takes a swipe at The Revue and thus neatly summarises the divide in the conservative view of President Trump.
I told you they were 'psycho-babblers'! For years now I have sneered at what I always refer to as "psycho-babblers". I am not suggesting that everything they say is tripe, for example, there are, I believe, broad categories of mental states that can - with care! - be grouped together to aid recognition and to allow some serious scientific enquiry and even treatment. However, much of what is spouted on the subject is self-serving crap! Take for example the late David Rosenhan, a 'psycho-babbler' of the first order, as detailed in a book review in this week's Spectator. Read it and weep! That phoney Freud has much to answer for.
'Theodore Dalrymple' gives Prince Harry a slap: The volume of words spewed forth in recent weeks since the birth of Harry's and Meghan's son is monumental. As you would expect, most of it was piffle but thanks to 'TakiMag' the shrewd and highly intelligent 'Dr. Dalrymple' has published his take, not on the birth itself but on the name chosen by his parents for the new 'nipper' - Archie. Even I, resolutely uninterested as I am in the doings of this, er, particular family, raised an eyebrow when it was announced. As per usual, Dr. Dalrymple puts what pass for my thoughts into clear, straightforward words. Give it a read!
No more rumbles today
Our version of the BBC is NPR-PBS and is similarly afflicted. It's funding is public/private. There is more than enough private funding available for their content but their head is in the public trough not because it has to be but because certain people don't like it therefore it must stay there.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 13:12
The Telegraph link goes to an article about switching energy suppliers. Not a "Heffalump" in sight.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 13:17
American Thinker has it right about NR and conservative voters. We are sick to death of genteel 'conservatives' who mince about DC in word and deed seeming to want to win but not if it upsets the established order. That means liberals,Democrats, MSM and lefty think tanks set the tone and proper ideas for the general good. We reject that.
We bedrock conservatives know that liberalism is a rotting disease and the liberals that are advancing these ideas are not opponents anymore but enemies politically. A man has finally come on the scene who knows this and knows how to street fight at close quarters. It has taken very little counter punching to reveal the egg shell veneer that has covered the libs for so many years. Now exposed they are lashing out in all directions thus revealing what we on the Right have always known about them.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 13:35
Talk about good timing! The headline of the article is NRs suicide.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-4th-anniversary-of-national-reviews.html
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 14:05
It's comforting to know The American Thinker hasn't changed its standards for opinion writing. Their childish name calling is still as effective as it's always been, as is their apparent inability to tell the difference between a conservative and a populist.
Posted by: Bob | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 16:39
What are you on about Bob?
Posted by: Up2L8 | Sunday, 26 January 2020 at 19:56
As I recall there was some chatter about Harry and the stable-boy or some such. I don't think they'll miss him and the missus.
Posted by: Andra | Monday, 27 January 2020 at 00:41