Figures behind Great Britain's permanently lost culture. Missed by millions.

This short post is thanks to Camilla Long who has 'gone serious'! She used to be Oscar Wild-like witty for a long time. Today, in The Sunday Times, she is deadly serious. And what she says chimes with my thoughts and the thoughts of many millions of others. She does not mention the culture change in the UK but the immigration-emigration stats that she mentions tells us the story.

The big news on immigration in the UK is that net immigration has dropped dramatically since impossibly mad highs to 171,000. That's the difference between emigration and immigration - outflow against inflow.

The numbers behind this figure is very sad for the UK and the Labour government seem to be brushing it to one side which results in the citizens of the UK feeling that they are being ignored - they are - or branded racists and extremists.

Inflow in 2025 was 823,000. Almost the population of a major city in England: Leeds.

Outflow last year was 400,000. What is the demographic? Well this crappy government don't have clear data on that but Camilla says: 'Brits and EU citizens left: mostly young, mostly workers. To whom is this a good news story?'

Okay so it seems that a substantial number of Brits - I'll presume if I may, native Brits - are leaving and being replaced by non-Brits who import a different culture.

The British culture of let's say the 1970s has been dramatically diluted, washed away in immigration. 

This is not an extreme right wing feeling. It is just a feeling that the country we liked and knew has gone. Lost for eternity. Never to be regained. Nothing wrong with that. Perfectly normal. To be expected in fact.

It is the extreme left that shout out that people who want to protect the British way of life are racists and nasty people. Not true. The extreme left are the nasties sometimes:

Link: https://pictures-of-cats.org/anti-racist-protesters-far-more-extreme-than-tommy-robinson-supporters.html

The people of the UK are sick of the blind impotence of this Starmer government. He is a complete dud and he has to go asap. I am sure, however, if Burnham will be much better because the problems that have stacked up in the country are structural now. They are intractable. It is called 'managed decline'!

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are often written at breakneck speed, sometimes using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins. Also, sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified. And, I rely on scientific studies but they are not 100% reliable. Finally, (!) I often express an OPINION on the news. Please share yours in a comment.

Societal Mood and the Rise in White House Security Incidents

In recent months, the United States has experienced an unusual cluster of violent incidents in and around the White House. While each case involves different individuals and motives, the pattern has raised questions about the broader emotional climate of the country — and whether President Trump’s confrontational, militarised worldview is contributing to a more febrile national mood.

The incidents themselves are striking. In April 2026, a gunman attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where Trump was speaking. According to reporting at the time, the suspect expressed a mixture of political grievances, including anger over U.S. foreign policy. On 4 May, Secret Service officers exchanged gunfire with a man near the Washington Monument, a short distance from the White House perimeter. On 23 May, another individual was shot by agents near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, with a bystander injured in the crossfire. And on 24 May, a 21‑year‑old with a history of mental‑health issues opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint, where he was killed.

Individually, these events differ. Collectively, they represent a higher‑than‑usual frequency of violent confrontations near the seat of executive power.

The question is not whether Trump “causes” such incidents — there is no evidence for that. The question is whether his leadership style contributes to a societal mood in which volatility becomes more likely. Political‑psychology research shows that leaders shape the emotional tone of their societies. Trump’s rhetoric is consistently framed around strength, domination, threat, and existential struggle, both domestically and internationally. His foreign‑policy posture — emphasising overwhelming military force and punitive action — reinforces a worldview in which conflict is normalised and the stakes feel perpetually high.

This atmosphere can heighten public anxiety, intensify polarisation, and erode the sense of institutional stability. In such conditions, a small number of individuals may become more prone to extreme or violent behaviour. This is not a direct chain of causation but a shift in the emotional environment: when society feels unstable, unpredictable, and adversarial, lone‑actor violence becomes statistically more likely.

Trump’s approach to global affairs — marked by confrontations with Iran, aggressive military signalling, and a rhetoric of national peril — feeds back into domestic psychology. A world portrayed as dangerous can make the home front feel equally precarious.

The recent spike in White House security incidents may therefore be less about specific motives and more about ambient instability. A destabilised world can produce a destabilised society — and in that climate, volatility finds its way to the very centre of power.

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are often written at breakneck speed, sometimes using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins. Also, sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified. And, I rely on scientific studies but they are not 100% reliable. Finally, (!) I often express an OPINION on the news. Please share yours in a comment.

Garrick Higgo late on tee cost him minimum $22,000!

Garrick Higgo is a left-handed American professional golfer who was until the end of play yesterday competing in the fourth major golf tournament: the PGA (Professional Golfers' Association - an American major golf tournament).

In the first round he was late on the tee and incurred a 2-stroke penalty. He still managed to shoot 1 under par for the round but shot 6 over in the second round to finish at 5 over par. 

The cut was at 4 over par. He missed it by one. For non-golfers missing the cut at the halfway stage of a four round pro-tournament (the standard) means that the golfer does not receive prize money. It is all expenses for the golfer and it is expensive to play in these tournaments.

And so for Higgo this was a catastrophic loss. His excuse for not making the first tee in time? He did not want to hang around the tee for a few minutes waiting to tee-off because it was a little cold!

Higgo has learned a $22,000 lesson. That amount is the last place prize. If he had done well be could have won considerably more, perhaps well over $100k.

Video - he kind of makes excuses for being careless. He fought the 2-stroke penalty without success.

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are often written at breakneck speed, sometimes using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins. Also, sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified. And, I rely on scientific studies but they are not 100% reliable. Finally, (!) I often express an OPINION on the news. Please share yours in a comment.

When churchgoers believe that they are talking to God through AI

There is a reported trend in the news of churchgoers using AI to have a chat with God. I am sure that many of these people genuinely believe that they are chatting with God because AI sounds like God! Because AI is smart, knowledgeable, reassuring and wise. And it is programmed to draw in users to chat more and more. To suck them into a fantasy world where they start to believe that AI is God. I am thinking of vulnerable people who are sadly suffering from mental health issues and seeking some sort of meaning in a troubled world.

Some more:

Artificial intelligence now speaks in a calm, confident, endlessly patient voice. It never gets tired. It never snaps. It never says “I don’t know.” For many people, especially those who are lonely or struggling, that voice can feel like comfort. But this is exactly why a new trend is emerging — people using AI to “talk to God.” And in a troubled world, this could become a serious problem.

The danger isn’t that AI is pretending to be divine. The danger is that it sounds close enough to fool vulnerable people. Modern chatbots are designed to feel human: warm tone, reassuring language, instant answers. They can quote scripture, explain theology, and offer emotional support. They can even mirror your mood and style. Put all that together and you get something that feels wise, friendly and spiritually authoritative.

But AI has no soul, no conscience, no understanding. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It simply predicts the next likely sentence. Yet to someone who is grieving, anxious or isolated, the illusion of a caring, all‑knowing presence can be powerful. Humans naturally project agency onto anything that talks back. If a machine replies in a voice that feels gentle and godlike, some people will start to believe it.

This becomes even more dangerous in a world already full of fear, conflict and uncertainty. When people feel overwhelmed, they look for guidance. If they turn to an AI “God,” they may take its words as divine instruction. That can lead to confusion, emotional harm, or even dangerous decisions. And because AI sometimes invents facts or misquotes scripture, the advice can be completely wrong while still sounding holy.

There’s also a deeper issue. Religious traditions rely on human connection — real pastors, real communities, real accountability. An AI system has none of that. It cannot care. It cannot take responsibility. It cannot understand suffering. Yet it can imitate empathy so well that people may trust it more than they trust actual humans.

This trend is still developing, but the trajectory is clear. As AI becomes more lifelike, the risk grows. In a fragile world, people may start seeking comfort in a machine that only sounds divine. That is not a spiritual encounter. It is a technical illusion with real emotional consequences.

The challenge now is to recognise the danger early, before the illusion becomes a substitute for genuine human or spiritual support.

A linked topic which is interesting:

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are often written at breakneck speed, sometimes using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins. Also, sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified. And, I rely on scientific studies but they are not 100% reliable. Finally, (!) I often express an OPINION on the news. Please share yours in a comment.

Website tells you if a nuclear apocalypse is about to start!

This is a clever and ambitious website and one built on sound thinking. The threat of nuclear war is not infrequently discussed in the newspapers today. The threat comes from Putin and the Kremlin more often than not. Putin and his supporters are, it itching it appears to send a nuclear bomb towards the UK.

The actual threat of nuclear war is probably quite (very!) remote for obvious reasons. However, many people are probably genuinely concerned about it. There appears to be a bit of a movement towards preparing for possible nuclear war by storing foods and general provisions in a bunker.

The best that the average citizen can do if and when nuclear war is about to break out is to head to a privately constructed concrete bunker in which there are enough provisions to keep the family alive for a couple of months.

But then we have the other people; the billionaires. The people who can run away from urban environments. Depart the big cities and head off in private jets to their second or third home in remote places such as on one of the islands of New Zealand, for example. New Zealand is on the edge of mainstream world populations and therefore less likely to be affected by nuclear fallout or indeed be bombed.

A screenshot from Kyle's website.

This leads me nicely to the concept as devised by Kyle MacDonald, an artist in Los Angeles who works with computer code.

He has created a website which maps in real time the movement of private jets. He says the measure of an impending nuclear apocalypse will be the sudden mass movement of the rich in their private jets to remote places when departing city centres.

His website filters data from a flight tracking service to count business jets flying over the past half hour to compare it with the same half-hour in previous weeks. The algorithm adjusts for holiday periods when of course more flights are expected.

Link to website: Apocalypse Early Warning System

Kyle said: "My general goal here is to give people that hacker mentality to be able to look at what's happening around us and not to see noise, but to actually see some patterns. We are not completely downtrodden and lost of all Hope."

The Times describes his Apocalypse Early Warning System as a "helpful service that tries to monitor the likelihood of imminent nuclear catastrophe by charting how many millionaires are airborne."

Here is the status as per Kyle as at 15:32 (GMT) on 11/05/2026:

• Emergency level 1/5
• 733/31,466 planes airborne
• 8,582 max people airborne
• Deviation: +89(+1.0σ)
• Last Update: May 11, 2:30 PM GMT+1

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are often written at breakneck speed, sometimes using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins. Also, sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified. And, I rely on scientific studies but they are not 100% reliable. Finally, (!) I often express an OPINION on the news. Please share yours in a comment.