For what the candidates have to offer, specifically Daniel Pocock:

HE nation’s police resources are limited. Regardless of how one feels about the above “cause”, holding up a sign or placard or whatever hardly puts anyone at risk.

Contrariwise, when people receive death threats calculated to terrorise (whether acted upon or not is irrelevant), there is action the cops can and should take.

It’s saddening to see how police resources get misallocated.

• 2026-08-05 ^14:04 The Establishment, Cambridge, Steve McIntyre & Debian suicide cluster
• 2026-08-05 ^14:27 Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Starts Spending Big Money in an Effort to Resist Lawsuit From Daniel Pocock
• 2026-08-05 ^14:45 How to Dehumanise a Triple National

Maybe one day we’ll know who’s spending like a million pounds on lawfare against my wife and I.

That leaves about 20-25 people who take themselves seriously and fancy their chances.

Independent candidates aplenty are not a bad thing. In a good democracy, the “Independents” would stand a chance of winning, and gaining visibility without a massive budget (from parties such as Labour) should be desirable.

Encouraging people to vote “Independent” will lead us closer to a democracy not controlled by big Money.

am hardly surprised to see the above in today’s news. Out of three dozen choices one has except Farage the media chooses to obsess over a faceless joke of a candidate.

This has gone on for weeks already.

Days ago:

llison Pearson had the same lawyer as us at around the same time. It was also around the same time a bunch of misogynists were trying to attack my wife and I by ‘swatting’.

Pearson found justice at the end. As the news puts it, “Police and crime commissioner to pay Allison Pearson ‘substantial damages’“ (they can afford it) and to quote the summary:

Telegraph columnist receives five-figure sum in complaint against Essex police boss.

This matter was previously covered by the BBC [1, 2, 3, 4].

In the news today

‘ve unfortunately had to deal a lot with bad, rogue, mentally-defective (by their own admission) people in recent years. Misogynists were among them. They think women are nothing. They believe they can strangle, drug, sexually abuse them and so on.

Misogynists are the sorts of things that stand in the way of societal progression (upwards, higher standards). Misogynists are an enemy of civil society.

consider Richard Stallman to be a sort of friend. It’s not like some person who lives next door and I play Chess with (or against). It’s someone with whom I share understanding and despite meeting him several times (in person, for chats and recording videos) I mostly converse with him over E-mail.

Richard Stallman has a behaviour many rightly regard as “different”. This is something that he openly acknowledges and deems to be involuntary.

History shows that some of the most brilliant people were “eccentric”, but their peers didn’t mind that and in some ways their eccentricity worked to their benefit.

People who blast Stallman over minor cues and micro’aggression’ are themselves a-holes. They say a lot about themselves, not about Stallman.

How much more money are they willing to waste to cover up what they did for the two Americans?

am seeing sharp increases in food prices and this news headline from yesterday helps explain a key factor: Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

My dad asked me about this yesterday. Everyone can see the increases, but many politicians focus on something else.

Yesterday we purchased a great deal of fruit. It’s considered vital to organs’ function and it has gotten exceptionally expensive until or unless one knows where to find a good deal (either in bulk or as standard).

For people who are poor, a healthy diet is priced out of reach.

For more and more people food banks have become a necessity. If we have homeless people and many empty homes, our society is failing. If we have billionaires and people who are hungry, our resources and not distributed properly…