Lord Dartmouth comments

I hope America never goes metric. Hold on to Imperial! Metric is an appalling French invention.

It was always an idiotic idea anyway. What on earth is the attraction?

This is why the British civil servant has the healthiest heart in the world: work from home and nap constantly.

The humidity has been better than last year, and, frankly, the temperatures have been pretty normal. I've been here for over 30 years. Slight ups and downs, but always hot as hell.

When will the Japanese workforce grow a backbone and start really organising, negotiating and fighting for more pay? Probably for the same reason they don't take their paid holidays and keep masks on even though they know they're useless.

All the Aussies I know are voting NO. They've seen through it.

“Let’s be very clear about the alternative: because voting ‘no’ leads nowhere. It means nothing changes,” Albanese told 400 Voice supporters in the city of Adelaide. “Voting ‘no’ closes the door on this opportunity to move forward."

Utterly meaningless words: forwards, backwards, change, all of them pioneered by 19th century Marxists, and still as vacuous now as then. Also, when you hear something is 'on the right side of history', run as fast as you can the other way. Manipulative language employed by Marxist con-men.

It's a bit daft to let millions of these people into your country, give them French citizenship, and then tell them their religion and their customs are not welcome. This is the nonsense of French secularism. We need a more logical approach: let them in and let them do whatever they want (hardly advisable) or keep them out.

Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.

Well, the unfortunate ones who live in the bureaucratic pseudo-state called the European Union.

Whatever

Young people are torch-bearers of peace and non-violence.

Young people have no way to judge the issues of the day, as they have no experience of life. Above all, they are often unaware that there may be different opinions out there, and they dutifully absorb and regurgitate anything their parents or teachers tell them. This is how global warming has become their main preoccupation in life, and how public opinion is 'changing' on gay marriage. It's not changing at all, of course; it's simply that change is being forced on the country by international organisations and finance (US, UN, and many others) and through the 'education' system, which increasingly teaches kids what to think, and not how to think.

Japan made the modern world? Hilarious. It shows you how little people know about history that anyone could believe such a preposterous thing. The correct answer is, of course, Great Britain. Sorry, Americans, but it is an incontestable fact.

It looks horrible. Take a look at this to see what is possible in urban design with a little bit of thought and effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrnAsMSwGbg

I do hope these youngsters understand that it was nuclear weapons that kept the peace during the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Mr Kipling, that reminds me of another country in east Asia which we probably know rather well.

We've seen through the con.

Jimizo, you know the answers, but you don't want to know. If you're really interested, you could study it for free on the Internet. Man was created with free will. Man fell, just as some of the angels did. That's the thing about free will; we are free to make mistakes. This is not particularly about gay people. We all suffer the effects of original sin. To take an extreme example, would you say, 'So he created some men with the desire to rape women, but disapproves of them doing so despite having created them with the desire to do so in the first place?'

Whether you like it or not, we are put on this earth to work out our salvation. That involves restraining our appetites sometimes. Modern man, in his antinomianism, hates this idea above all others. It applies to heterosexuals as well as homosexuals.

I guess he's going to visit Beau's grave. He was killed in Nam, as far as I remember.....

I'm surprised he didn't say 'South Vietnam'.

Best to avoid coffee altogether if you want to have a nap, one would have thought. Or, at the very least, make it decaff.

God created gay people, yes, but he also created all of us, and we are all sinners. The logical fallacy is to suppose that because he created us, he must necessarily approve of everything we do. That's not the case. He loves all of us, but says, 'If you love me, keep my commandments' (John 14:15).

Note the last paragraph. AP just couldn't resist a little slap against Musk. This is the level of mainstream 'journalism' these days.

If they really want to find out the truth for themselves, they will come to the conclusion that carbon dioxide is not a problem for humanity because it doesn't drive climate change and never has done.

Because it's a pretty regular summer. Admittedly, there's an El Nino, but basically it's like any other summer I've experienced here for over 30 years: a sweaty mess.

It's a summer like any other, though with an El Nino tacked on. Big deal.

Funny how when it's cold, it's just 'weather'; when it's hot, it's 'Global Boiling'.

It's so much fun to see all the meltdown over Musk, and now he's killed their beloved little blue bird. There's a hilarious article on the BBC site today, 'Why Twitter’s rebrand to X feels 'shocking' to users'. Just to give a taster: 'Tech Reporter Casey Newton described Musk’s approach as owner of Twitter as “an extended act of cultural vandalism”.' And: “I think there was a true affinity for Twitter and the brand by their power users,” says California-based Orlando Baeza, chief revenue officer at Flock Freight, and a former marketing executive and branding leader at Buzzfeed, Paramount, Activision, Adidas and Nike. “This is a dramatic and unexpected turn. Their brand identity went from feeling warm and welcoming to dark and members-only. And to top it off, this all happened overnight. Literally.” 

LITERALLY! Boy, are these folks unhappy!

GBR48 just couldn't help taking a swipe at Brexit, could he? Seven years on, and still scarred!

I'm always astonished at the moaning about 'too many foreign tourists'. People need to take a look at London, Paris, or even Cambridge which I know well. They all take it in their stride, with volumes of tourists way beyond Japan's imagination.

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Look at the recent news from the UK: 1000 robberies from shops are committed in broad daylight EVERY DAY, and no one can do anything about it because the police aren't interested and the judges don't take it seriously either. Set the bar high, like Singapore, and watch how crime plummets.

Totally agree, Hervé

And here's some interesting data when people tell you it's so much hotter in Japan than it was 20 years ago:

August 2002

Max: 37.2°C

Average: 31.2°C

August 2022

Max: 36.1°C

Average: 31.29°C