More 3I/Atlas Weirdness

 

As if 3I/Atlas couldn't get any weirder! Back in July when the interstellar interloper was first discovered, there was a strong feeling of "promissory normality" in the astronomical community. The great hope for the skeptics was that the more we learned about 3I the more ordinary it would become. "Relax, chaps! It's just a rock." was a refrain I heard over and over again from people who were just guessing. They didn't know any more about the object than the rest of us. "But it will turn out to be a rock when we know more about it!" they insisted. They remind me of the scientists in the 70's who said near-death experiences would be explained as brain function in the future when we know more about the brain (and we're still waiting for that after half a century, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/afterlife-portal.html.). However, the opposite has happened. The more we learn about 3I the stranger and stranger it gets; see the background link below. The latest ingredient of strangeness was dropped into the mix yesterday, but it refers to a study that has been ongoing for a while, in fact the data was gathered soon after 3I's discovery. Two Russian researchers, Yuri Medvedev and Sergei Pavlov, have made the accouchement on The Astronomical Telegram, not to be confused with the social media app Telegram; as a few dishonest skeppers will no doubt attempt. This is a very old website, launched in 1997, to serve as a short-notice publication service for quickly disseminating information on new astronomical observations. The post reads: "We report the results of the analysis of the O-C distribution of positional observations (Δα, Δδ) for the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) taken from MPC. A Lomb-Scargle periodogram was constructed based on the O-C values obtained for the moments when the comet's heliocentric distance became less than 4 AU. It was found that the (Δα·cosδ)2+Δδ2 values undergo variations with a statistically significant period of 4 hours. We also constructed a periodogram for 19 photometric observations obtained between July 4 and 6 from the paper (they provide a hyperlink). Values with the maximum aperture (m14) was used. The identified period coincided with the O-C period and is equal to 4 hours." This text might not mean much to you unless you are a trained astronomer, but there are some resources simplifying it; but not Prof. Avi Loeb yet, although I'm sure the good professor is onto this one like a dog with a bone. Source: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17437.

What this is based on is an observation made at Cornell University reporting that 3I/Atlas was exhibiting some distinctly unusual celestial mechanics. It was undergoing periodic cycles of motion and brightness. The obvious mundane explanation for this would be rotation; in fact it was the very extreme levels of brightness changes indicating rotation that led to Avi claiming that 1I/'Oumuamua might not be a natural object. The problem is that 3I/Atlas' motion cycle runs about once every four hours and the brightness cycle every two; why are they not changing together. The motion alone would be difficult enough to explain, especially if the object turns out to be at its currently estimated minimum diameter of 5.6 kilometres, or bigger. Yet when you add in this regular pulse of light you get a genuine anomaly wrapped in an enigma. What's even more interesting is that this behaviour back in early July appears directly to contradict later observations that have also been proposed as evidence for a possibly non-human intelligent origin, see: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/news-on-3i-atlas-lack-of-non-gravitational-acceleration-implies-an-anomalously-massive-object-7ad320e69cef and the background link below. So did this early activity change as 3I closed in on the inner solar system? It looks like it did. If so, why? Nobody knows, but this feature has certainly never been discovered in any natural object ever seen in space. It seems unlikely that this is another outgassing effect too because it is too regular and, dare I say it, controlled. Outgassing acceleration, as I've detailed in the background, is random and transient, like a loose firework. We are faced with yet another true riddle; and I wonder what the answer is. This news raises another issue. Obviously science can be a slow and methodical process. Very often it is carried out by a large team in many different institutions who gather evidence and then talk amongst themselves about what it means. Then they have to arrange their thoughts into a coherent narrative that makes up a paper. This then has to be edited for publication; charts and illustrations have to be rendered. As we found out, the first JWST publication took over a fortnight. This new Russian one has taken over three months. This length of time could be for perfectly innocent reasons, but my naturally conspiratorial mind inevitably drifts to the question of why Medvedev and Pavlov have published now. By now I mean just after 3I/Atlas enters the visual baffles of the sun. Right now it is totally invisible to terrestrial telescopes and will remain that way for probably about a month and a half. Did they wait until 3I was out of sight to publish? Maybe they felt nervous about the implications of their findings and didn't want it launching a major scandal. By coming clean with 3I in solar conjunction nobody else can confirm or deny what they are saying for a long time. They have given themselves a breathing space. They could even be hoping the questions will be forgotten when the scientific news cycle moves on. I think this give us an insight into the scientific psychology and culture. Why should two proper scientists, being honest and using the proper methods, be frightened to theorize that they might have discovered aliens? The only answer has to be that there is some kind of sociological taboo related to it, despite all protestations to the contrary, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html. Obviously there are exceptions who have the courage or foolhardiness to blurt it out and sod the consequences, like Prof. Loeb, but these are manifestly a rare breed. I wonder how many of his colleagues secretly agree with Avi, but they don't want to risk saying so. They want to avoid the aggro he's had to put up with. Either way, this impasse has an expiry date. 3I will burst out from behind the sun in mid-November to the gaping eyes of every astronomer on earth. If it's still acting weird then, or even more so, there will be no way to avoid facing up to those facts.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html.

The End of Crop Circles?

 

Andy Thomas has written his traditional annual crop circle report in Nexus magazine. It is subtitled "Strange Days, the New Normal". The numbers of crop circles has risen and fallen throughout the years with high seasons and low seasons. Yet after the harvest of 2025 we can no longer kid ourselves, the phenomenon is suffering a long-term decline. Ironically this has coincided with a burgeoning of interest in the circles that has burst the banks of the woo-o-sphere, even with a few minor three-digit news outlets like News Nation and GB News covering them. This season started very late; not until mid May, and there were only nineteen confirmed formations this year which is about average for the decade so far. They tended to be less grand than previous eras and none were confirmed as not being manmade. There were one or two nice ones, such as the "toppled CD stack" from Lyme Regis, Devon and a similar design incorporated into a seven pointed star in Italy. There was a return to traditional roots at Hackpen Hill with a standard quintuplet surrounded by a thick circle. Some fine 3D images appeared such as a German one that looks like a naval mine and a representational spider image at Cerne Abbas, famous for its "rude man". Another representational image was what looked like a clown at Stonehenge. It has been nicknamed "the jester"; and I'm sure the skeptics will get the joke. There were some native spiritual icons like a pentacle and Celtic knot too. Source: https://nexusmagazine.com/?v=79cba1185463.

So, is this the long predicted demise of the crop circle phenomenon? If that's what's going on the skeppers will be gloating of course. The rest of us, including me, will be very sad. I'll miss them terribly and I won't be alone. Crop circles have been a source of wonder and delight for the UFO-paranormal-conspirasphere for several generations. There has not yet been a summer without them since the late 70's. I suppose we've come to take them for granted. I don't know if they will ever end because I don't know why they appear to begin with. What do they mean? If they ever ended it would not only be something that would give us personal grief it might be a bad sign, that the intelligence behind them had abandoned us. Alternatively it could be a good sign. A time might come when whoever, or whatever, gives us this gift decides we no longer need it and they can now leave us to develop by ourselves. It's a bit like in Tolkien with the elves leaving Middle Earth just before the War of the Ring because they know men have evolved to the point where they no longer need the elves to guide them. It's all a part of growing up; children leave home, birds fly the nest etc. That would make it both a sad and happy moment. If the circles ever ended it might mean that we were ready for something even better. We'll see what happens next year, but whatever that is, even if we lose them forever, maybe the only appropriate response is to repeat what the late Michael Glickman used to say: "Thank you... whoever you are... wherever you are!"
See here for background: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/08/hpanwo-show-560-podcast-andy-thomas.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/08/ben-goes-on-tor-2023.html.

ESA publishes 3I/Atlas Image

 

The European Space Agency has published some imagery from its observation of 3I/Atlas as it passed Mars. This is the first of the five space agencies involved to do so. The ESA used its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express spacecraft to gather data on 3I from its closest point of approach to the red planet at eighteen millions miles. This is not the kind of work the orbiters were designed for and so the results are not as good as I'd hoped, but this still gives us the only view of the interstellar object we've had since it vanished from the sight of terrestrial telescopes. We can't tell the nucleus size because the resolution is not good enough, but you can tell that the object remains in one piece as it nears perihelion. You can see the object clearly in the image as a fuzzy white blob. The lines in the image illustrated above are actually stars; they are streaked because of the five second exposure time while the TGO's Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) camera was tracking 3I. Source: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_ExoMars_and_Mars_Express_observe_comet_3I_ATLAS. This is a step in the right direction and I thank the ESA for being so open so soon; but the big reveal must come from NASA's HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. At the moment, infuriatingly, NASA is affected by the US government shutdown. Only a skeleton crew, known as the "red watch", was operating the MRO and any data they've captured has not been processed let alone published. All other personnel have been furloughed. The shutdown has suspended the NASA live data feed and website updates. This eventuality is almost darkly comical. That petty bureaucracy should hamper such an important and unique scientific moment is worthy of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is astonishingly convenient too. For anybody who wishes to delay publication if, for example, NASA have captured some information that they're afraid to tell the people; they have the perfect pretext. However, this coverup cannot last long. In just over a month 3I will emerge from the solar conjunction and if it's not there, or in the wrong place, what will NASA say then? They might as well get it over with. Rip the plaster off now!
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html.

James' Pipe

 

I've come across a very strange YouTube channel. It was set up just two weeks ago by somebody who has never used social media in this way before. He did it especially to document a discovery he has made. The story begins when he was digging in the ground; he doesn't explain why, probably to avoid doxing himself. He has gone to great effort to preserve his anonymity, probably with good cause. If his story is true then he is in grave danger, for several reasons. While digging he came across a buried metal object that burned his hand when he touched it, even though it is not glowing as hot metal tends to. There is no obvious source of heat close to the object. He managed to excavate the object and took it to his car using cloth to carry it and then took it home. He placed it in a locked cellar in his house and has been doing tests on it. He also moved it to his garden and did some more there. It is about two and half feet long and about three or four inches wide. It weighs fifteen pounds. It is a silvery metallic cylinder with done shaped caps at each end. On the caps are engravings that resemble those on the Buga Sphere, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48VUnmsTk-c. They are slightly different in detail though. The uploader reports feeling ill when spending time close to the object and it makes the lights in the cellar flicker when he comes close to it, as if the object is reacting to his presence. It has also given him a skin rash on his knee. Despite this, his pet cat doesn't seem to mind it and a ladybird crawled over it when he took it outside. At one point he turns his back for a few minutes in the garden and the object appeared to move by itself. At least, it was lying on the grass when he came back to it. In the last day or two the situation has become more serious because he used a Geiger counter on the object and got very high readings. I left this comment: "Holy excrement! You'd better get checked out in ER (A&E), mate. Seriously. You don't need to tell them why you got exposed." The radiation from this object could indeed badly damage his health or that of others living in his home. Another danger comes from the government. They may try to confiscate his finding and/or harass him for retrieving it without reporting it. The witness knows this and actually wants to give the tube away as quickly as possible to somebody independent of the government who has the means to deal with it. His viewers have recommended several people; George Knapp, Bob Bigelow, Elon Musk and several others. Source: https://www.youtube.com/@James-d6l9n.

The man uploads almost every day with simple edits; no titles or effects. The videos are usually just a couple of minutes long. His analysis videos are a bit longer. He does this sometimes just to let his viewers know he is okay. He receives many comments since his channel has grown in popularity; some of them are supportive; others cynical and even abusive, predictably. He has a public email and SubReddit as well as his YouTube channel. He only ever identifies himself as "James" and he lives somewhere in the United States. That's all we know about him. What is the object? That is something I can't answer right now. If James knows how it came to be buried where he found it then he doesn't reveal that information. He also doesn't tell us how he knew it was there, if indeed he didn't just find it by potluck. It could be something extraterrestrial, or something else esoteric. It looks very ordinary on film, like it has been made by human hands in a workshop, similar one of the "monoliths", see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-oxford-monolith.html. Obviously the skeptics and backslappers will accuse him of making it himself and inventing this story. However, we don't know that for sure either. I don't know whether the Buga Sphere is real or not myself. James has not asked for any money and is not selling anything. He even wants to donate the object itself for free to the right person. Because of its consistency and the engravings we can hazard a guess that it comes from the same source at the Buga Sphere. Time will tell, but I have emailed James and I'm keeping an eye on his channel. I do hope he goes to see a doctor if he's been near that thing, and its Geiger readings are correct. I also hope he'll be able to keep himself hidden from the CIA, FBI or men-in-black who may well be looking for him. I'll post an update if necessary.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

ID Petition Response, Omissions and Distortions

 

The UK government have responded to a petition signed by almost three million people, including me, opposing their plan to introduce digital national identity cards. Their reponse is worth analyzing in detail. I will make some running comments and add them in bold:

We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies.
That's not your real reason and you know it!
We will consult on details soon.
You'll say nothing to us about your plot except to tell us afterwards what you think is going to be.
The Government has announced plans to introduce a digital ID system which is fit for the needs of modern Britain.
Meaning your needs to destroy Britain.
We are committed to making people's everyday lives easier and more secure, to putting more control in their hands...
Bollocks!
(including over their own data), and to driving growth through harnessing digital technology.
This means creating new ways to control people using digital technology.
We also want to learn from countries which have digitised government services for the benefit of their citizens, in line with our manifesto commitment to modernise government.
Emulate nations that have sunk further into the globalist swamp than Britian has.
Currently, when UK citizens and residents use public services, start a new job, or, for example, buy alcohol, they often need to present an assortment of physical documents to prove who they are or things about themselves.
No, we need to prove who we are to start a job, and to buy alcohol etc, proof of age. We already have passports and driving licenses etc for that.
This is both bureaucratic for the individual and creates space for abuse and fraud.
Problem-reaction-solution.
This includes known issues with illegal working and modern slavery...
Of which the government couldn't give two piece of excrement.
...while the fragmented approach and multiple systems across Government make it difficult for people to access vital services.
Those services are being degraded deliberately anyway. If they were more functional those problems would be solved.
Further, there are too many people who are excluded, like the one in ten UK adults who don't have a physical photo ID, so can struggle to prove who they are and access the products and services they are entitled to.
Why has this never been an issue before? Why have other ways to resolve it that have been common practice for years suddenly become unworkable?
To tackle these interlinked issues...
Of which you have no intention of doing. If you have your way you will never mention these "issues" again.
...we will introduce a new national digital ID.
You will do no such thing!
This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free to all UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over (although we will consider through consultation if this should be age 13 and over).
Which means you'll register the youngest citizens so they get used to Big Brother practices early. Winston said in 1984 "fear the children the most."
Over time, people will be able to use it to seamlessly access a range of public and private sector services, with the aim of making our everyday lives easier and more secure.
Yeah, there's always bait in the trap eh?
It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.
"We won't force you to have it. You can always decline, but we'll make your lives unbearable without it." Just like with the V666ine passports.
For example, the new digital ID will build on GOV.UK One Login and the GOV.UK Wallet to drive the transformation of public services. Over time, this system will allow people to access government services, such as benefits or tax records, without needing to remember multiple logins or provide physical documents.
What's wrong with multiple logins? We've never had a problem with that before.
It will significantly streamline interactions with the state, saving time and reducing frustrating paperwork, while also helping to create opportunities for more joined up government services.
Come off it! You love complex bureaucracy because it gives you the excuse to create vast numbers of overpaid jobs for yourselves.
International examples show how beneficial this can be.
This is like the kid saying "But Johnny's mum and dad let him watch TV late." This is Britain, not other countries. We can do things our own way.
For instance, Estonia's system reportedly saves each citizen hours every month by streamlining unnecessary bureaucracy, and the move to becoming a digital society has saved taxpayer money.
So you want us to be like an ex-Soviet republic being used a footstool for NATO.
By the end of this Parliament, employers will have to check the new digital ID when conducting a "right to work" check.
They won't be able to when three million people tell you where to stick your digital ID!
This will help combat criminal gangs who promise access to the UK labour market in order to profit from dangerous and illegal channel crossings.
But YOU are the biggest client of those criminal gangs! They wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you!
It will create a fairer system between UK citizens and legal residents...
Do you think we're stupid!?
...crack down on forged documents...
Which is only an issue because you made it happen.
 ...and streamline the process for employers, driving up compliance.
We will not comply!... And, by the way, alarm bells should go off whenever you hear a bureaucrat say "streamline".
Further, it will create business information showing where employers are conducting checks, so driving more targeted action against non-compliant employers.
What will you do when thousands of private sector employers are forced into overlooking your Big Brother "papers please!" laws because so many people will be outside that system?
For clarity, it will not be a criminal offence to not hold a digital ID and police will not be able to demand to see a digital ID as part of a "stop and search."
To begin with. Once the infrastructure is in place it can be adapted into any role you want.
Privacy and security will also be central to the digital ID programme.
You couldn't give a shit about either.
We will follow data protection law and best practice in creating a system which people can rightly put their trust in.
Is this the same data protection law that doxed a hundred thousand Afghans to the Taliban?
People in the UK already know and trust digital credentials held in their phone wallets to use in their everyday lives, from paying for things to storing boarding passes. Those are related to banks and retail. They cannot be adapted into a total state control system.
Why do you even need to say that? Because you know we know it can and you know we are suspicious of that!
The new system will be built on similar technology and be your boarding pass to government. Digitally checkable digital credentials are more secure than physical documents which can be lost, copied or forged, and often mean sharing more information than just what is necessary for a given transaction.
"It's ever so conventient!"
The new system will be designed in accordance with the highest security standards to protect against a comprehensive range of threats, including cyber-attacks.
So are air traffic control computers and they're being hacked every day.
We will launch a public consultation in the coming weeks and work closely with employers, trade unions, civil society groups and other stakeholders, to co-design the scheme and ensure it is as secure and inclusive as possible.
Even in prisons there are "inmates councils" where the captors listen patiently to the opinions and wants of those they have total power and control over. Don't give us that crap!
Following consultation, we will seek to bring forward legislation to underpin this system.
The MP's are way too cucked to stop you out of principles, but they will hopefully stand up to you when it threatens them losing their seat, therefore no longer having a luctrative lifestyle with little work and meaning they'll have to go out and get a proper job like everybody else.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Is this connected to the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Plenty and the Ministry of Truth?
Source: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?reveal_response=yes.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/09/orwellian-archaeology.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/09/third-rail-radio-programme-222.html.

Geller's Aliens

 

For a while now, Uri Geller has been claiming that he has been shown dead alien bodies by the US government. He says that in 1974 when he was a new international celebrity, he and his brother Sheppy were introduced to the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun by the astronaut and suspected CIA agent Dr Edgar Mitchell. The V2 missile engineer showed them a piece of a crashed UFO in his office and then drove Uri to a NASA facility. They were taken down in a lift to a basement level where there was a refrigerated storeroom full of caskets. They all put on warm clothes and went in. The caskets were made of glass and inside were the preserved remains of alien beings from ET crash-retrievals. Amazingly Uri was allowed to take photographs of the aliens. He says he "smuggled" the camera in with him, but I'm sure he would have been searched beforehand and therefore it was deliberately overlooked. Source: https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/psychic-uri-geller-cia-stargate-project. There is an animated video based on his eyewitness testimony, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4QTel3c90. The big question was what happened to the photos. Uri has apparently provided an answer a couple of days ago. He posted an article, including a video, on his social media where he shows us a collection of objects at his home in Israel. The first is the camera he used to take the photos, along with another camera that was given to him by von Braun as a gift (presumably for future alien encounters). He then shows us his safe which he says he inherited from Sigmund Freud, the pioneering psychoanalyst. Inside the safe is a box and he opens it to show us a collection of photographic negatives; but then he puts his hand over them so the camera can't see them. He says he's not going to publish them yet because of several reasons, some he can't talk about. Primarily, he wants President Trump to do it first; this would be a Disclosure moment. He also thinks he'd be accused of faking them if he did so himself, which is probably true. He taunts the skeptics in advance for when they're proved wrong. Source: https://x.com/theurigeller/status/1972381848203411499. The problem is that now, thanks to this Tweet, Mossad knows where the photos are they will raid him and confiscate them. Does he think Sigmund Freud's safe will keep them out? Maybe he thinks he can bend the latch shut with his mind powers. He must take the risk and publish them now! I said as much in a comment and he replied to me: "Ben Emlyn-Jones, others tried. But there is a reason GOV that I cannot reveal them at the moment my." (sic) Source: https://www.facebook.com/theurigeller/videos/2160655421097035/?comment_id=1972752913539009. If his house is not stormed by Mossad then does this mean the same thing as it did when he was tacitly allowed to take photos of the aliens? By that I mean has Uri Geller been given the task of being the instrument of Disclosure, in the same way Steven Spielberg might also have been, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/spielberg-wraps.html; or that French exhibition, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/09/roswell-alien-to-be-shown-in-france.html. Before anybody jumps into the comments and states the obvious, I know that another possibility is that Uri simply made up this whole story. It can't be ruled out; he has so far provided no additional evidence. However, if the Disclosure process is real then maybe a part of it was letting somebody famous in the esoteric world photograph aliens and, five decades later, letting him bring them to the world. That also cannot be excluded. In addition, Uri has published his four-part Gaia TV documentary on Vimeo. I won't post a link because I'm unsure of the copyright situation, but he has links to it on his Twitter feed with a passcode.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/10/cia-admit-geller-is-real.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/09/did-uri-geller-do-pagers.html.

Sargon's Swindon Video

 

What is Swindon famous for? Railways, traffic roundabouts and... that's about it; or is it? One of Swindon's favourite sons in today's world is Carl Benjamin, usually know by his nom de guerre "Sargon of Akkad". He has made a video in which he takes us on a tour of his hometown and points out various features that signifty the decline of the Western world in general. Shops boarded up, vandalism and security measures on shops and public buildings because of high crime rates. Despite doing his tour in daytime, the shopping streets are deserted. Sargon and his cameraman are literally the only people in sight. He compares it to a zombie apocalypse and I have to agree. The new bus station has finally opened, in fact I was in Swindon the week before, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/08/hpanwo-show-601-podcast-warminster-60.html; but it is a very bland construction with metal shelters being the only things above ground level. Why did it take so long to build? Entire streets were shut for several years. The main shopping centre is also a ghosttown. Despite the lack of retail outlets the mall still has an entire platoon of security guards to deal with lawlessness; they also order Sargon to stop filming. One shop that has survived is a comic shop. There is a stereotype associated with grown men who read graphic novels, but the proprioter, a friend of Carl's called John, is one of the few success stories in all of Swindon. The rent on Carl's own office where he produces Podcast of the Lotus Eaters has increased enormously. One of the nonconformist folk art galleries is on hoarding for a building site. The fact that building works in the town are so slow is the very thing that makes the boards such a fertile canvass. Like all other large urban areas, Swindon has been forced into hosting vast numbers of recent immigrants and these people have established their own communities centred in geographical areas; Kurdish, Polish, Pakistani, Romanian, Albanian. In those districts British people often feel like we are the aliens. Historical buildings like the Mechanics Institute are deserted and derelict. That's sad because it was home to the railwaymen's health scheme that was the blueprint for the NHS. There is a defiant mural on the boards sealing the place off with some very effective historical scenes. They remind me of the political agitation street art in Northern Ireland or South America, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/03/oxford-graffiti-11.html. According to Carl, the Covid lockdown was the cause of much of the decay and Swindon is still suffering because of that, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/02/coronavirus-portal.html. I have made many of the same observations that Carl did, except that I quite like some of the graffiti he didn't, see my HPANWO TV video Town of the Pigs in the background links below. His tour reminded me very much of my own experience of Swindon. It's a good video worth watching. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufq00nrey0o; and see here for the Lotus Eaters: https://www.lotuseaters.com.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/08/town-of-pigs.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/07/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-swindon-rabbit.html.