Dr Robert Bohan

Cute Baby Pix of the Past: sitting in his highchair, wearing his bumper, contemplating next move in his campaign to annoy lace-making mum. Painted in 1656 by Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.

Nice group of Hygrocybe sp. In North East Wales before the frost. Doesn’t look right for coccinea #fungifriends #mushroommonday

I think his wriggling is the thing. He’s in retreat & that’s a situation he rarely finds himself in. He has gotten used to being beloved of the media. The antisemitism accusations are now a fault line in the far right.

I looked up his childhood & he’s like Boris Johnson, upper middle class. He’d love to be gentry, but isn’t. Cameron, on the other hand, is gentry by descent & marriage. These things matter to public school boys. I’m surprised the school didn’t give him a talking to. Similar Irish ones would.

Also well done to @pippacrerar.bsky.social who takes this stuff seriously & reports some of the most important information fearlessly & without favour. We need more journos like Pippa!

Apologies to amphibious toads. I don’t think name-calling is a good thing in general, but given the man’s nasty views & attitudes I think it’s OK to describe him in that way - especially as he has famously bulging eyeballs.

Someone said it to me & ever since I can’t stop seeing the similarity.

Where do Reform UK and Nigel Farage stand on LGBTQ+ issues? Reform would win the election if it was called today, a major poll suggests. What would this mean for LGBTQ+ rights in the UK?

Trans ppl were one of the first groups to be targeted by the Nazis. The library of the world’s first trans clinic was used in one of the Nazis most infamous book burning & records survive of Nazis targeting trans ppl. Here’s the toad’s policies on them, today:

Hopefully media will put as much effort into investigating Farage as they do with trans ppl [1,000 anti-trans articles a month in UK print media] but do so factually & with evidence [which they do not do re trans ppl]. Trans ppl were also murdered in the gas chambers as part of Hitler’s Holocaust.

It’s strangely indepth. Teens do all kinds of stupid stuff, but I’ve never heard or seen anything like this. Farage went to a relatively posh boys school & so did I, this is really ‘out there’ stuff in my experience.

Apologies - it wasn’t the ovens he mimicked - it was the gas chambers. These were used to industrialise mass slaughter of Jews, Roma, LGBTQ ppl & others.

Personally, I think, most think of the ovens, so it’s clear he had quite a knowledge of Nazi industrial murder.

He claims he doesn’t. Defamation law in the UK/Ireland is on his side, as a v rich individual, so one has to be very careful to stick to what is reported & where it is reported.

Farage, no doubt, will claim what others consider ‘dog whistles’ are in their minds, rather than his.

Excellent 😉

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

…normal behaviour then or now. You can read more on the far right politician’s views here:

Farage claims he was a teen at the time. And that it was almost 50y ago. The problem for him is that some kids use the ‘Nazi’ thing as a joke & did an Elon Musk style salute for laughs. They didn’t get into personalising it or bring the level of detail of the ovens into it. That’s not normal…

“Comments like, under his breath, sort of ‘Jew’, that’s that type of … and comments about how they ‘missed you’, that sort of thing. He was noticeably more of those times than the rest. He was known for it across the school.”

There are two witnesses to Farage’s comments to a student - here’s the other: “[Farage] certainly made comments to the Jewish guy in that class, Peter Ettedgui,” said Martin Rosell, who was in Farage’s year and who is now the chair of the Liberal Democrats in Salisbury.

An interesting use of the ‘both sides’ far right rhetorical trope to put it mildly. What an odious man.

…charged, with the rise of Thatcherism, to the Brixton riots just down the road” and that “there were many people of that time who were attracted to extreme groups on both sides of the debate”.

When Lihou wrote an anonymous open letter to the Independent in 2019 in which he referred to the chanting of Mosley’s name and the “Gas em all” song’, Farage responded by saying that the “period during which I was at Dulwich was highly politically…

Lihou [another pupil of the time] claims to have clear recollections of Ettedgui’s torment. “[Farage] used to say things like, you know, ‘Jude’, to Peter, which is the German for Jew, in the way it was said in the 1930s, a long ‘u’ in a menacing way, you know? It’s pretty awful.

TW: Racism

Peter Ettedgui -

“He would sidle up to me and growl ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘Gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui said.

TW: Racism

He had a whole load of ‘lyrics’ on this which are pretty awful. I can remember it verbatim: ‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’”

*TW far right extremism:

“Farage used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em’, you know, that sort of thing. But he also used to sing this song, which I later discovered was based on George Formby’s Bless Them All.

Interesting to see the Toad-eyed-loon changing his position from he never said stuff, to a qualification on what he said. [Claims he can’t remember, but then claims he only ever said non-abusive stuff?!] Schoolmates say he said ‘Hitler was right’, was antisemitic & mimicked Nazi death camp ovens*

The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.

Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.

My sis told me the blanket was a special from Aldi! €12

A very sensible approach. I have a 1920s v big window [Georgian style] in my bedroom that can be freezing. I got a present of a v heavy ugly fleece blanket which I converted into a curtain & hung behind the actual curtain. Makes a 2° difference! Tall ceilings look nice but can be hard to heat!

Just shows if you love something you can collect it.

Keep warm! Have you tried the trick of a mattress electric blanket under your sofa cover? Toasty!

We had a teasmade in the early ‘70s for a short time. I think maybe toddlers & a teasmade was a disaster waiting to happen & now I think of it a kid we knew got scalded badly at the time, so there was prob a health & safety proactive exercise in our house! But it had a cube kettle!