I’m glad they’re arresting the jerks who stop traffic and disrupt other people’s lives so they can feel virtuous. Such chutzpah.
I’m so fascinated by your beekeeping endeavors! Now I have to go read up on the terminology you used…because that is much more important than, you know, getting work done. 😁
Thank You. Another fine roundup. Of course, it's atrocious that a male is allowed to box women. The fact that there's even a question about this is appalling. The fact that the question is answered wrongly is worse yet. It's hard to understand.
I'm glad to see Just Stop Oil get what's coming to them. That was interesting You uncovered Hillary Clinton's involvement. That surprised me. And TY for the gift NYT article on GLAAD. For some reason, that doesn't surprise me.
Congratulations on getting the revisions done. Wishing You good luck with them. And I'm with Paddy. I go for my walks around sunrise lately. Glad to hear the bees are doing so well, and was interested to learn about them.
Lovely to see you as well. I thought you'd find the bit about Hilary CLinton interesting. TheGLAAD thing was also interesting. There are a lot of people who donated money for that cause, not so the CEO could go first class etc.
hillary's involvement with Just Stop Oil was interesting to me, too. i too love hearing about paddy, how the bees are doing and how your book is going. thank you for writing each week and providing links!
yesterday i suggested to celia that if she isn't ready to put in a subscription model, she should consider offering some blog merchandise so those of us who have pledged to subscribe (should she ever offer it) can support her time and energy through that avenue. there are places online like zazzle that let you upload designs and create a little shop with your images, and zazzle does all the heavy lifting: they inventory all the printable merchandise and the customer can choose what they want your image printed on. then zazzle does the printing and ships it directly to the customer.
well, at least that's how i recall it looking the last time i was on their website but that was a while ago! there are other business online that offer similar business models, too.
my point (and i do have one! :D ) is that i would encourage you to consider this avenue, too, for those of us who have pledged and/or would like to support your weekly effort to keep us informed. myself, i'd totally wear a: "Michelle Styles | This is Northumberland Calling..." with your substack handle/address on a t-shirt or tote bag out and about while i run errands and such. it would also be a way you can promote your upcoming book! or you could do some artwork that has your bees or beehives, or even paddy! in them. so many possibilities... xoxo
Financial corruption and the interplay between large funds and ngos is fascinating! I have reached the point where I think we need much more strict laws and regulations on these entities. There should be complete transparency. The Scroll (also on Substack) does a great job highlighting the wild web of pro-jihad ngos and America's billionaires. That's not even touching the unnamed co-conspirators in The Holy Land Foundation trial.
I need to see photos of the bees. Your beekeeping adventures are so interesting! I am too afraid of all flying bugs to do anything like it myself, I am very happy to read about the bees a whole ocean away!
I will try to take some more photos of the bees etc!
They are a hobby with literally a sting in the tail. I came to it accidentally as my husband wanted to do it and then required a 'helper'. Because of his knees (2nd knee just operated on) I have been doing it solo for a few years. I am looking forward to letting him do the actual hard work next season...
The interplay is really interesting and is often overlooked. It is how money is moved about and what it ultimately finances. I must look up the Holy Land Foundation trial. This sort of thing is v hard to uncover and even harder to prove to the satisfaction of the court.
I am late reading this week’s offering. Yes, photos would be fascinating. I was thinking same as I read.
As far as any charitable contribution is concerned-I rarely give to the large ones. By the time all the money is divvied up hardly any goes to the real cause. Ellis’ case seems to be the rule and not the exception.
I too, walk early with my dog to avoid the heat (and tourist). We start out about an hour before first light and are often rewarded with many shooting stars. Great way to start the day.
Wow! I hope your husband has a smooth recovery. Please be careful taking the bee pictures 🐝.
Asra Noomani has written about some of these financial and organizational webs in her Woke Army book as well. The Muslim Brotherhood and its tentacles are in significantly more places than you would expect, it is all very disturbing. But while ignorance is bliss, with knowledge we can prepare and fight back. Almost all of the "protests" we are seeing in America now are in someway funded by billionaires. I always wonder what benefit those types imagine for themselves as the outcome of their social unrest. What does Mrs. Clinton get from funding traffic jams and the ruining of cultural artifacts? What does Mr. Soros get from financing encampments and a Charlottesville every weekend in multiple major cities here in the States? I really have no idea. It all seems very short sighted at best.
Sometimes, I don't think they realise what they are supporting as many organizations are umbrella groups who obscure the intent and purpose. Or organisations get taken over by activist staff (see the Ecologist which was for many years dedicated to saving hedgerows etc and now is all in on Palestinian rights)
I think a lot of guilt may be involved and then they don't have to deal with the actual chaos.
I had someone very earnestly explain to me that the JSO protests were simply highlighting the future chaos by causing chaos. <eyeroll> That person is v happy to hop on and off planes and believes that they should be able to go wherever and whenever they wish.
And I know what I am doing with the bees. I have all the proper equipment. Luckily my bees are also fairly even tempered and not grumpy. Some hives we have had over the years have been incredibly grumpy. This is mostly caused by the Queen and at one point we requeened with Greek queens because the bees were getting to aggressive. We have had these bees for several generations of Queens now so I have no idea of the parentage.
The bees are so fascinating! I had no idea about the temperament being determined by the queens.
Part of me loves the JSO people because they are completely ridiculous and hypocritical. They spend so much time disturbing the lives of regular people, and yet let all the private plane and large yacht owners off the hook. They really are a low rent Davos set, you (the pleebs) need to stop driving and traveling, but we, your betters, will not share a private jet with anyone! Its hilarious in how blatant it is.
Photos of bees and Paddy but not both together because Paddy really distrusts buzzing things. He had an unfortunate incident as a puppy where he decided to try and see me as I inspecting the hives... He now gives the hives a wide berth and indeed any buzzing thing.
He did however accidentally flush out a pheasant on this morning's walk. He was totally surprised and just sat there looking at the male pheasant fly up about an inch from his nose. Pheasant shooting starts around here on the 12th. Thus they have released lots of birds who are v stupid and they always lose a percentage to the roads. We go from 'bunny alley' to 'pheasant row' in terms of the carcasses on the roads.
The indigenous Brit’s are fed up. AND over criminalising protest is dangerous undermining of democracy for everyone. Yes it will be you next in a Police or militarised state. Agree on the disgraceful misogyny erasing women and women’s rights. Just more of what the East will do as if the Western perverts and misogynists aren’t bad enough. Best quote of the week is people will obey their Government until their pronouns are was/were.
There has always been a limit to type and amount of protest allowed/that those in authority are willing to tolerate. One of the books I'm currently reading is Bunker HIll by Nathaniel Phillbrick which deals with the start of American Revolution, concentrating on the Boston area (for obvious reasons). We are not having molten tar poured over people and then being doused in feathers. Neither are we having people run out of town on rails (literally being forced to straddle a poll and run to the outskirts (v painful) or being tied to horses and dragged along streets. People in London were shocked by the amount of political violence which was tolerated in the colony.
The 1761 Hexham riots were worse than Peterloo. The North Yorkshire militia were nicknamed the Hexhamshire Butchers for the part they played.
I could go on about various riots through out the years which the British authorities have not really tolerated. I have been in the UK long enough to remember the football hooliganism which preceded the all seater stadiums or indeed the Meadowell riot in 1990 in Newcastle.
Peaceful protest is something other than riot. Peaceful protest does not include the right to impede other citizens from going about their daily business or indeed does it include the wanton destruction of another's property.
I do think there is a huge danger to a perception of two-tier policing. And I do hope Lord Walney's recommendations are actually being acted on (it does seem that they are).
Some of the trouble is the huge backlog in the criminal justice system. You also see this in the prosecution of rapes, including historic sex offences which are taking years to come to court after the initial complaint. The prosecutions for riot etc follow under the criminal courts' jurisdiction. Until about 2008/9, the waiting time being charge and prosecution was not long but it has steadily increased, partly driven by 'austerity ideology' to begin with. The courts are currently placing cases which have finally come before them for pretrial review in the 2026 list, particularly if they have a lengthy time estimate. It is why Teresa May introduced 'released under investigation' to get around the time custody limit problem but it just exacerbated the problem.
It’s Government unlawful abuse and misuse of power and there appears to have been creep away from duty of care and the individual rights people have by them to totalitarianism and that’s everywhere. I am perturbed by the nonsense they impose and their silliness unlawfulness while holding such power. The instruments of the state are no different. All the abuse of women and children delays or failure to act have gone on for d cases here. I guess we are all just seeing it now. Here (NZ) it involves literal torture. But having lived in the UK as a child I’m sure it’s been very, very bad there too for as long or longer. People don’t seem to understand their rights or Governments public service role not being authoritarian nut jobs and perverts. It is horrifying enough without the likes of truly medieval sharia infecting communities. Climate change is going to make things so bad I can’t fathom how unless people start focussing on how their communities are going to survive peaceably how there is time for anything else. Huge challenges ahead. Could be a bit overwhelming for most I guess but the proof that Government does not want to manage properly let alone can. Similarly with Covid and the Avian flu brewing everywhere. They seem more aware of the need to prepare in the US but I fear for the UK public. Doesn’t seem to be any policy at all around these existential threats? Except the usual denialism. Once a society descends to not even recognising women and rights or the welfare of children anymore it’s in big trouble I guess.
I’m glad they’re arresting the jerks who stop traffic and disrupt other people’s lives so they can feel virtuous. Such chutzpah.
I’m so fascinated by your beekeeping endeavors! Now I have to go read up on the terminology you used…because that is much more important than, you know, getting work done. 😁
Happy weekend!
If there is any terminology you don't understand, just ask.
Now, Michelle, please do not interfere with my procrastination techniques.
Ah if you are wearing your procrastination princess tiara who am i to interfere?
Mine is very bright and sparkly and sat firmly on my head
🤣
Hello Northumberland! So glad to see Ya again.
Thank You. Another fine roundup. Of course, it's atrocious that a male is allowed to box women. The fact that there's even a question about this is appalling. The fact that the question is answered wrongly is worse yet. It's hard to understand.
I'm glad to see Just Stop Oil get what's coming to them. That was interesting You uncovered Hillary Clinton's involvement. That surprised me. And TY for the gift NYT article on GLAAD. For some reason, that doesn't surprise me.
Congratulations on getting the revisions done. Wishing You good luck with them. And I'm with Paddy. I go for my walks around sunrise lately. Glad to hear the bees are doing so well, and was interested to learn about them.
TY, as always, Michelle.
Lovely to see you as well. I thought you'd find the bit about Hilary CLinton interesting. TheGLAAD thing was also interesting. There are a lot of people who donated money for that cause, not so the CEO could go first class etc.
hillary's involvement with Just Stop Oil was interesting to me, too. i too love hearing about paddy, how the bees are doing and how your book is going. thank you for writing each week and providing links!
yesterday i suggested to celia that if she isn't ready to put in a subscription model, she should consider offering some blog merchandise so those of us who have pledged to subscribe (should she ever offer it) can support her time and energy through that avenue. there are places online like zazzle that let you upload designs and create a little shop with your images, and zazzle does all the heavy lifting: they inventory all the printable merchandise and the customer can choose what they want your image printed on. then zazzle does the printing and ships it directly to the customer.
well, at least that's how i recall it looking the last time i was on their website but that was a while ago! there are other business online that offer similar business models, too.
my point (and i do have one! :D ) is that i would encourage you to consider this avenue, too, for those of us who have pledged and/or would like to support your weekly effort to keep us informed. myself, i'd totally wear a: "Michelle Styles | This is Northumberland Calling..." with your substack handle/address on a t-shirt or tote bag out and about while i run errands and such. it would also be a way you can promote your upcoming book! or you could do some artwork that has your bees or beehives, or even paddy! in them. so many possibilities... xoxo
I will consider it and I am pleased you like my little efforts.
It helps to keep me sane. It is good to know there are other like minds around.
Financial corruption and the interplay between large funds and ngos is fascinating! I have reached the point where I think we need much more strict laws and regulations on these entities. There should be complete transparency. The Scroll (also on Substack) does a great job highlighting the wild web of pro-jihad ngos and America's billionaires. That's not even touching the unnamed co-conspirators in The Holy Land Foundation trial.
I need to see photos of the bees. Your beekeeping adventures are so interesting! I am too afraid of all flying bugs to do anything like it myself, I am very happy to read about the bees a whole ocean away!
I will try to take some more photos of the bees etc!
They are a hobby with literally a sting in the tail. I came to it accidentally as my husband wanted to do it and then required a 'helper'. Because of his knees (2nd knee just operated on) I have been doing it solo for a few years. I am looking forward to letting him do the actual hard work next season...
The interplay is really interesting and is often overlooked. It is how money is moved about and what it ultimately finances. I must look up the Holy Land Foundation trial. This sort of thing is v hard to uncover and even harder to prove to the satisfaction of the court.
I am late reading this week’s offering. Yes, photos would be fascinating. I was thinking same as I read.
As far as any charitable contribution is concerned-I rarely give to the large ones. By the time all the money is divvied up hardly any goes to the real cause. Ellis’ case seems to be the rule and not the exception.
I too, walk early with my dog to avoid the heat (and tourist). We start out about an hour before first light and are often rewarded with many shooting stars. Great way to start the day.
Thank you for writing every week.
Yes unfortunately many charities (ngos) seem to spend more on admin than the cause they are supposed to support.
Excellent that you see shooting stars.
Wow! I hope your husband has a smooth recovery. Please be careful taking the bee pictures 🐝.
Asra Noomani has written about some of these financial and organizational webs in her Woke Army book as well. The Muslim Brotherhood and its tentacles are in significantly more places than you would expect, it is all very disturbing. But while ignorance is bliss, with knowledge we can prepare and fight back. Almost all of the "protests" we are seeing in America now are in someway funded by billionaires. I always wonder what benefit those types imagine for themselves as the outcome of their social unrest. What does Mrs. Clinton get from funding traffic jams and the ruining of cultural artifacts? What does Mr. Soros get from financing encampments and a Charlottesville every weekend in multiple major cities here in the States? I really have no idea. It all seems very short sighted at best.
Sometimes, I don't think they realise what they are supporting as many organizations are umbrella groups who obscure the intent and purpose. Or organisations get taken over by activist staff (see the Ecologist which was for many years dedicated to saving hedgerows etc and now is all in on Palestinian rights)
I think a lot of guilt may be involved and then they don't have to deal with the actual chaos.
I had someone very earnestly explain to me that the JSO protests were simply highlighting the future chaos by causing chaos. <eyeroll> That person is v happy to hop on and off planes and believes that they should be able to go wherever and whenever they wish.
And I know what I am doing with the bees. I have all the proper equipment. Luckily my bees are also fairly even tempered and not grumpy. Some hives we have had over the years have been incredibly grumpy. This is mostly caused by the Queen and at one point we requeened with Greek queens because the bees were getting to aggressive. We have had these bees for several generations of Queens now so I have no idea of the parentage.
The bees are so fascinating! I had no idea about the temperament being determined by the queens.
Part of me loves the JSO people because they are completely ridiculous and hypocritical. They spend so much time disturbing the lives of regular people, and yet let all the private plane and large yacht owners off the hook. They really are a low rent Davos set, you (the pleebs) need to stop driving and traveling, but we, your betters, will not share a private jet with anyone! Its hilarious in how blatant it is.
WHAT DO WE WANT??
PHOTOS OF PADDY!!!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I will bear this in mind for next week.
Photos of bees and Paddy but not both together because Paddy really distrusts buzzing things. He had an unfortunate incident as a puppy where he decided to try and see me as I inspecting the hives... He now gives the hives a wide berth and indeed any buzzing thing.
He did however accidentally flush out a pheasant on this morning's walk. He was totally surprised and just sat there looking at the male pheasant fly up about an inch from his nose. Pheasant shooting starts around here on the 12th. Thus they have released lots of birds who are v stupid and they always lose a percentage to the roads. We go from 'bunny alley' to 'pheasant row' in terms of the carcasses on the roads.
The indigenous Brit’s are fed up. AND over criminalising protest is dangerous undermining of democracy for everyone. Yes it will be you next in a Police or militarised state. Agree on the disgraceful misogyny erasing women and women’s rights. Just more of what the East will do as if the Western perverts and misogynists aren’t bad enough. Best quote of the week is people will obey their Government until their pronouns are was/were.
There has always been a limit to type and amount of protest allowed/that those in authority are willing to tolerate. One of the books I'm currently reading is Bunker HIll by Nathaniel Phillbrick which deals with the start of American Revolution, concentrating on the Boston area (for obvious reasons). We are not having molten tar poured over people and then being doused in feathers. Neither are we having people run out of town on rails (literally being forced to straddle a poll and run to the outskirts (v painful) or being tied to horses and dragged along streets. People in London were shocked by the amount of political violence which was tolerated in the colony.
The 1761 Hexham riots were worse than Peterloo. The North Yorkshire militia were nicknamed the Hexhamshire Butchers for the part they played.
I could go on about various riots through out the years which the British authorities have not really tolerated. I have been in the UK long enough to remember the football hooliganism which preceded the all seater stadiums or indeed the Meadowell riot in 1990 in Newcastle.
Peaceful protest is something other than riot. Peaceful protest does not include the right to impede other citizens from going about their daily business or indeed does it include the wanton destruction of another's property.
I do think there is a huge danger to a perception of two-tier policing. And I do hope Lord Walney's recommendations are actually being acted on (it does seem that they are).
Some of the trouble is the huge backlog in the criminal justice system. You also see this in the prosecution of rapes, including historic sex offences which are taking years to come to court after the initial complaint. The prosecutions for riot etc follow under the criminal courts' jurisdiction. Until about 2008/9, the waiting time being charge and prosecution was not long but it has steadily increased, partly driven by 'austerity ideology' to begin with. The courts are currently placing cases which have finally come before them for pretrial review in the 2026 list, particularly if they have a lengthy time estimate. It is why Teresa May introduced 'released under investigation' to get around the time custody limit problem but it just exacerbated the problem.
It’s Government unlawful abuse and misuse of power and there appears to have been creep away from duty of care and the individual rights people have by them to totalitarianism and that’s everywhere. I am perturbed by the nonsense they impose and their silliness unlawfulness while holding such power. The instruments of the state are no different. All the abuse of women and children delays or failure to act have gone on for d cases here. I guess we are all just seeing it now. Here (NZ) it involves literal torture. But having lived in the UK as a child I’m sure it’s been very, very bad there too for as long or longer. People don’t seem to understand their rights or Governments public service role not being authoritarian nut jobs and perverts. It is horrifying enough without the likes of truly medieval sharia infecting communities. Climate change is going to make things so bad I can’t fathom how unless people start focussing on how their communities are going to survive peaceably how there is time for anything else. Huge challenges ahead. Could be a bit overwhelming for most I guess but the proof that Government does not want to manage properly let alone can. Similarly with Covid and the Avian flu brewing everywhere. They seem more aware of the need to prepare in the US but I fear for the UK public. Doesn’t seem to be any policy at all around these existential threats? Except the usual denialism. Once a society descends to not even recognising women and rights or the welfare of children anymore it’s in big trouble I guess.