"Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Sardine Cannery!"

 

When I was young I loved the children's novel Help! I Am a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory by John Antrobus. It tells the story of a young boy who is brushing his teeth one day when he sees the message in the title marked on a line of toothpaste. This cry for help sets him off on an adventure. The novel was dramatized in the children's TV series Jackanory, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScW_gCsGZs. Now I have found a disturbing real life example that reminded me of it. It doesn't involve toothpaste, but sardines. Customers in Egypt who recently bought cans of sardines from the Janzour company had a bit of a shock. Tucked in amongst the processed fish were pieces of cardboard with messages crudely written on them in biro. Soon afterwards other people in other countries across the Middle East and North Africa reported the same thing. These messages were written in Arabic and varied in their verbatim content, clearly being left by a number of different people; but their meaning was always the same. They were written by individuals claiming to be prisoners of the company. They had allegedly been kidnapped and incarcerated in the cannery and were being forced to work as slaves. Their captors had forbidden them to use telephones or the internet and so they were begging for help in the only way they could. Source: https://x.com/Imposter_Edits/status/1421729971798695939.
 
The Janzour company is based in Libya, a country notorious for using slave labour; at least since Muammar Gaddafi was deposed. (To be accurate he was beaten to death in the streets by a lynch mob organized by Western intelligence.) Of course the term "slave labour" is often used as a pejorative word for any unpleasant and low paid drudgery, even in my own country, the UK; but in this case the term could be applied more literally. I am already aware that Libya employs an entire sector of cheap immigrant workers, mostly from other parts of Africa, but up until now it was assumed that these people were free agents who could come and go as they pleased, and were only putting up with the appalling wages and conditions in Libya because it was comparatively better than what they could achieve at home. This is different. The workers accuse their employers of forcing them to work for them against their will and physically preventing them from leaving. How? Do they have to sleep in locked cells? Are their ankles chained up? Are there warders there with whips? You might wonder why I care, after all I am not a "refugees welcome" person; and I have called repeatedly for immigration to the UK to be stopped by any means necessary, for example see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/05/third-rail-radio-programme-240.html. But this does not mean I am a monster. I do not condone the abusive treatment of migrants. I really hope these prisoners are freed at some point, but who is going to do it? Hillary Clinton? MI6? The CIA?... I wonder how much more of this kind of thing is going on in the world. Is it even happening in Wales? My interviews with Alan Tait leads me to suspect so, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/03/programme-498-podcast-alan-tait.html. Will this kind of slavery become more common around the world, even universal? It's a worrying possibility.
See here for more background about Libya: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2012/10/programme-19-podcast-david-shayler.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on On The Track

 

I have been featured on On The Track with Jonathan Downes, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39GbFi1u2G4.
Subjects discussed include, my trip to the Isle of Man, Richard Freeman's lard tournament, warm stones appearing in midair and much much more. The programme has a magazine format and also covers the latest happenings in the world of strange animal research.
See here for my HPANWO Radio interview with Jon: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/09/hpanwo-show-647-jonathan-downes.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.

Capturing Bigfoot Fallout

 

Capturing Bigfoot is a new documentary film by Marq Evans claiming to have "Exposed!" the "Truth!" about the Patterson-Gimlin film. The movie is based on several books about the subject that have been around for a while. ("There's always a book!") There have long been accusations against Roger and Bob that have been going on in one form or another almost continuously ever since their film was published, but this new one is different; it supposedly reveals definitive proof that the 1967 "Bigfootage" is a hoax. Capturing Bigfoot was unexpectedly put on general release a couple of days ago on the 20th, National Bigfoot Day. I'm curious to watch it, but unfortunately it is not yet available in my country. As soon as it is I will; however, although I try to avoid reviews of films I have yet to see, I have not been able to avoid the blowback on social media. The film has been harshly criticized from many experts in the Bigfoot research community while other former believers in the PG film have lamented that their dreams have now been shattered by reality. The backslappers bolted desperately in a race to be the first one to agree. As I've noted before, one thing backslappers cannot bear is naiveté in themselves; or, more accurately, to be regarded as naive by others. Conversely they love naiveté, or perceived naiveté, in others; in fact that is their oxygen, sustenance and lifeblood. In themselves though it is anathema. Being taken in by anything false is their worst nightmare, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/pie-andrew-dominae.html. Some began posting even before the film dropped. Patrick from Vetted did not win the coveted race, but he made a valiant effort. He Tweeted: "I saw the film too. I'd say the case is closed on the infamous footage." Source: https://x.com/VettedPodcast/status/2112548225790124195.
 
I've stopped watching Patrick of late. This is a pity because I generally like him and we got on well when we met; and I really enjoyed his film Psionics, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/06/psionics-movie.html. However, I've started to find his bottomless negativity irksome, to say the least. He uses the word "bombshell" in all his video titles ironically; because, according to him, there never is a real bombshell. I wonder if Patrick has also studied the critics of Capturing Bigfoot as well. The problem is that backslappers always feel uncomfortable doing that because it might be regarded as "naive!" or "hope porn!" I see this obstacle all the time in UFOlogy; in fact the Travis Walton fiasco is a good example, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/travis-accused-again.html. When it comes to a mysterious phenomenon case, in order to maintain their street cred it only takes the tiniest briefest whisper of the word "fake" and they drop it like a hot potato and run. It never occurs to them that a claim of something being faked can itself be a deception. The documentary premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and it was revealed then that somebody had found an old 16 mm film reel. Its content was allegedly shot by Roger Patterson in 1966 and shows an actor wearing a Bigfoot costume. This is supposedly a rehearsal for the real hoax the following year. The man in the suit was somebody who has always been regularly accused of being an accomplice, Bob Heironimus. I have seen a clip of this found footage on Twitter and I do not find it at all convincing. That being said, I've yet to learn the full context and so shall reserve judgement until I've watched the movie; but from what I've heard from people whose opinion I've always found reliable, Capturing Bigfoot is not the great skeptic exposé it boasts to be.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

Where's Amelia?

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/amelia-earhart-plane-update.html.
Another expedition has landed on Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island. The atoll in Kiribati has long been a focus of investigation into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan, see background link above. A previous landing found some modern items like a woman's shoe, a zip and a sextant. Some bones were found that were never identified and could have come from anybody, seeing at the island used to have a transient population. This new team landed on the now uninhabited island last week to focus on the "Taraia object". This was something spotted on Google Earth in 2020 that pundits thought might be the wreckage of Amelia's Lockheed Electra aeroplane. It was lying on the seabed inside the lagoon in quite shallow water near the beach. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq5n8x106jdo. The investigators from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute proceeded with caution, not wanting to get their hopes up. As you can see in the background link, in May last year there was a false lead and disappointment. Regrettably the Taraia object has turned out to be a collection of fallen trees. I actually think it's unlikely Amelia landed on the island. We know that even in the initial search, the US Coast Guard considered this a possibility and overflew Nikumaroro carefully. They saw no aircraft debris or any people there. I'm sure Amelia or Fred would have come out into the open and made themselves known had they seen the plane flying overhead. That being said however, the absence of physical evidence or bodies does not rule out the theory completely. Had Amelia and Fred died on the island their corpses would not have lasted long. The resident coconut crabs are known to be very aggressive. They're sometimes called "robber crabs" because they will literally snatch food out of a person's hand. They are large land crabs which regularly hunt small rodents and birds, but will feed off larger prey if they are dead. So will we ever find Amelia Earhart? Possibly, but it's a long shot. Her plane, most likely with her and Fred inside it, is likely to be on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Finding anything down there is very difficult indeed. Like with MH370, a similar more recent loss, somebody will give it a try, I have no doubt. I wish them luck. I cover this subject in more details in the latest episode of Third Rail Radio, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/10/third-rail-radio-programme-257.html.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Secret Vault 2

 

I have been featured again on The Secret Vault, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bULU_fGZ8gk.
I appear only in the first thirty-six minutes. The host in Matthew Williams, a good friend I know through the conference circuit. We dicuss Matthew's recent admission to hospital.
See here for my previous appearance on The Secret Vault: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/ben-emlyn-jones-on-secret-vault.html.

Russell Brand Trial

 

Many people have asked me for my opinion on this subject. Russell Brand has been in court this week facing very serious criminal charges. He's being prosecuted on seven counts of sexual impropriety including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. He has six accusers, all female, who claim he committed these offences against them between 1999 and 2009. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck8dz6m1d2n6o. There has already been a lot of reaction from the commentariat. The feminists have expressed the predictable mindless outburst of rage; their tirades could almost write themselves: "LOCK HIM UP! THROW AWAY THE KEY!... He 'Raped!' a "Woman!'. We know he's guilty because 'Women!' have said so. We do not need a trial!" If it turns out Brand really did it then, in my view, he is not the only one who needs to be jailed. He was a part of a media and entertainment industry that probably harboured him and gave him a sense of entitlement and immunity. We've seen this process with so many other celebrities. I really don't know if Russell Brand is guilty or innocent. We've not seen enough of the evidence yet. However, I will say this much; I am suspicious about how this trouble only came into his life when he started talking openly about conspiracy theories, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/icke-vs-brand.html. That's another familiar pattern that we've seen before with people like Julian Assange and Roman Polanski, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/04/ghost-writer.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/assange-is-home.html. The trial continues.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Paranormal Peep Show 36

 

I have been on the Paranormal Peep Show again. This programme features an interview with Roger Anderton. Roger has researched UFO's and space exploration, asking whether our understanding of physics might be incomplete or even wrong.
See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paranormal-peep-show-roger-anderton-einstein-physics--75807730.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKC5KCJYVWo.
See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.

Record Saved

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/08/rdr-to-close.html.

I have a very happy update on the background article above. The owners of the Roswell Daily Record have negotiated a rescue package. The New Mexico News Group is a media network that publishes a number of journals including the Santa Fe Reporter. It has agreed to purchase the RDR. This means not only that the famous newspaper will continue to be published, but that it will remain with a local publisher unique to the state of New Mexico and not some multinational conglomerate. The deal was brokered by Pat Davis of the Albuquerque City Council. He is also the founder of Ctrl+P Publishing, a partner of the NMNG. There will be inevitable changes to the business model though. The Record will be primarily a digital platform, free with ads and without a paywall. For old times' sake there will still be a paper weekly featuring unique local content... which will no doubt include any UFO crashes, should any more occur. There is also a crowdfunding campaign supporting this project by the "Citizen Media Group" which is trying to reverse the worrying trend in the United States towards the abolition of local journalism. Source: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-reporter-owner-steps-in-to-keep-roswell-newspaper-publishing/article_997e6cea-ca47-43ac-821d-20d7dafad998.html. To say that I am pleased by this outcome would be an understatement. This wonderful circulation of UFO history will continue.

See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Praise the Paperback!

 

In 1962 a book was published by a small independent house in Ohio, USA. It was written by David Bunger, a pilot who had taken part in Operation Highjump back in 1946 and decided to write a "tell all" revelation of everything he knew and had kept secret for seventeen years. Shortly after the book was published it was withdrawn from print and the house sent recall orders to all the bookshops that were stocking it. They also requested that all people who had bought copies redeem them for generous refunds way above the cover price. Bunger died six years later in 1968. According to his family, they had been told by "somebody" never to mention the manuscript again. It was thought that the book had been successfully suppressed with every copy ever printed now in the hands of the government who, I'm guessing, made a big bonfire of them. However, in 2004 a single copy turned up at a car boot sale in Oregon. It had been hidden in a hollowed out space inside a bible. Somebody obviously had deliberately concealed it for forty-two years. The book was said to be the true story of Operation Highjump, something I myself have covered in a number of publications, for example: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/jack-of-antarctic.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/09/jack-of-antarctic-rip.html. David Bunger's book supports a lot of the alterative theories about this mysterious operation. What's more, I actually believe we should question the official story of Highjump and the people who took part in it; but there is a problem with this specific element. There is no evidence the book ever existed. We are never told any details about it; it's title, ISBN, publisher's name etc. The people who supposedly unearthed the one known surviving copy in Oregon have never been identified. This tale, in all likelihood, seems to be a piece of social media fiction. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7uhZPbKcBo.

That is not the point though. Whether the lost book by David Bunger is real or not, or even whether you believe that Operation Highjump was just a scientific expedition that just happened to need a massive naval taskforce and six hundred marines; it doesn't matter. The issue here is that if this story had been true and an insider, a whistleblower in other words, had decided to release a book that blew the lid off the secret, would it have worked in theory? My answer is, quite possibly. A book is a great way of revealing secrets. David supposedly released his book in 1962, but what if he had been writing today? Many authors don't bother publishing a real book at all; it is more expensive and time-consuming, for example the works by Si Rosser which I have reviewed, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-galileo-project-by-si-rosser.html. Most of these are only available on Amazon Kindle. Therein lies the problem, and regular readers will know where I am going here. To suppress a whistleblower's manuscript, or even just to edit it, in a world where there are only e-books, the powers-that-shouldn't-be would only need to press a button. This is why it is vital that we always, always get the paperback editions of our books, especially titles we know are about a highly sensitive matter and therefore run the risk of being quashed. A real paper book, once it has sold enough copies over a wide enough area, become virtually indestructible. The book-burners can never guarantee that they have destroyed every single copy. They never know if somebody has one hidden away in their attic somewhere; and indeed this happened historically when oppressive regimes fell. For this reason I have only released my own books as print-on-demand paperbacks, see the links below.
Roswell Rising is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.
Roswell Revealed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2017/10/roswell-revealed-is-here.html.
Roswell Redeemed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html.
It is far quicker, cheaper and easier to publish a paper book these days than it has ever been before. I understand the people who prefer an e-book if they are going on holiday and don't want to carry loads of books in their luggage etc; a little electronic reader device is so much smaller and lighter. I don't have an issue with people doing that for convenience. The issue I have is when people depend on it completely. I know people whose homes are bare of everything but electronic screens. They watch their TV and movies from on-demand sites, their books and newspapers on computer readers etc. Sure, they have far more space than I do. Their rooms are not cluttered by shelves of volumes and DVD cases, but what about when those sources fail? This is why I insisted on waiting for the DVD edition of Disclosure Day, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/disclosure-day-dvd.html. I do find it ironic and darkly apt that Amazon have named their e-book service "Kindle". It's a word that also means firewood. They're literally telling us what their plans are. Don't fall for it!
For background about the issue of book censorship, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/roald-dahl-memory-holed.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/12/1984-removed-from-kindle.html.

What Soul Sister?

 

I would like to put out an appeal to readers about a possible new Mandela effect. I have done this before and it turns out these ones were explained in mundane terms, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/03/mandela-effect-experiment-update.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/08/bryan-adams-mandela-update.html. This time it is another musical one, a song from 1969 called Bold Soul Sister by Ike and Tina Turner, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5OfsSqMiA. It's a bit before my time, but I got to know the song well because it was regularly played on a radio show I used to listen to in the early 2000's called News for the Soul. Amazingly the station still going: https://www.newsforthesoul.com. I recently came across the song again for the first time since those days and was surprised by its title. You see... I distinctly recall it being Born Soul Sister. I used to sing along with Tina every time it played (while constantly lamenting that the two of us were not chanting away together in the same place!). I'm curious if anybody else also remembers the song title being Born Soul Sister. If they don't then it really probably is just errors in my memory, like the Human League and Rod Stewart examples. It was announced recently that the Large Hadron Collider was being shut down, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/lhc-shutdown.html. Some people are calling this a kind of experimental control. In theory, no new Mandela effects should appear during these inactive years if CERN is responsible for the phenomenon. The problem is, Mandelas are difficult to time, meaning how do we know when they first appear? I might have next listened to the Turners' song next year, or 2028 or 2029. That doesn't mean that this would be the first occasion it flipped timelines to this one where it has a new title. It might have happened last year, or 2024 or 2023. I just didn't notice because I didn't listen to the song. So, please, dear readers, get back to me on this with your own recollections.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/09/cern-portal.html.

By the Way, We're Rejoining...

 

Of course we are! Back in June we passed the tenth anniversary of the historic earth-shattering referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. The establishment was opposed to it from the start. They threw every obstacle they could in the way of our freedom from the superstate. It was not until January 2021 that we actually left. Since then the government have behaved as if we were a defacto EU member state anyway; grovelling to the ECHR, allowing French fishermen to plunder our territorial waters etc. Then, finally, there was the punishment; the C****19 p**demic and the migrant crisis, among other things. It is therefore no surprise at all that our new fearful non-leader Andy Burnham has stated that our current relationship with Brussels is "just not good enough" and he has suggested a few "ideas" that could "remedy" that. He has not said specifically that he is planning to rejoin, but of course they never do. He is currently looking at "improving current arrangements", a new kind of customs union and improved trade deals. This is always how it starts, with hints and innuendo, always portrayed as something that simply emerges unintentionally out of the political situation, independent of any long-term strategy. What will happen then is that in a couple of years Britain's return to EU servitude will be presented as an inevitable outcome of the reassessment process that is natural and beyond the control of anybody in Westminster. Our new membership will be different to the last one. The Council of Europe has specifically stated that this time there is to be no "halfway house". We lose the pound and get the Euro etc. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-uk-could-go-all-the-way-rejoining-eu. Polls indicate that the national opinion has shifted away from Brexit. Between 55 and 64% of the public would support a return to the EU. This is also not a shock to me, but it's not because of that oft repeated rigmarole of "Brexit just is not working!" It's because the Remoaner establishment has sabotaged Brexit on purpose. We are going to go through some dark times. The Burnhamistas have a huge Parliamentary majority and three years to play with it. We just have to hold tight and ride it out. We must stick together and keep each other's spirits up. We must not give up. Never forget, as Mahatma Gandhi said: "There is a natural force in the universe that arcs towards justice." As I have said myself, something always comes out of left field. I'll provide updates on this news as soon as they happen.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

A Stranger at the White House

 

On Wednesday US President Donald Trump hosted an event at the White House with Michael Dell, the tech entrepreneur and CEO of the Dell electronics company. He was accompanied by his wife Susan who is a famous charity fundraiser and runs the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation; a 501(c)(3) non-profit that raises money to support children's education and community welfare. The president has set up his own organization called "Trump Accounts" that has a similar goal and he has now teamed up with the Dells and has accepted a $6.25 billion pledge from them. Susan made a stirring speech in the Oval Office about how she has had so many positive letters from the childrens' parents. The president joked: "Michael, is she thinking of running for office?" Susan laughed and patted Trump's shoulder in an informal manner. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_i7jsNnTQ. As soon as I first switched on to watch this meeting, Susan Dell immediately drew my attention. She's not attractive, I would say, but there is something extraordinary about her appearance, a striking physiognomy, gaze and poise about her. She was wearing a plain red dress (Matrix style?) with some thin necklaces and Hollywood type shoulder pads. At times her facial expression, mannerisms, hand gestures and eyes take on a creepy form. The shape of her nose, chin and cheekbones looks unnatural. Judging by the comments under the video and the massive meme-fest that has broken out since, I'm definitely not the only one who has noticed. People are making all kinds of claims about Susan; that she's a robot, animated waxwork, They Live creature, clone or alien. I've learned enough about the subject to know that intuitive feelings, like the ones I had when I saw Susan, are the best initial method of identifying a non-human entity. If you're unfamiliar with this matter then this will sound outrageous to you, but some of the people around you are not really human beings. They are creatures from beyond the earth. These are a small minority, but they exist. Some closely resemble humans and UFOlogists call them "Nordics". Some researchers think they come from the Pleiades, for example see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2020/12/programme-397-podcast-soma-arah.html. I suspect they have more than one place of origin. Nordics can breed with humans and some are married to them, like Michael Dell who is probably a normal Homo sapiens like me. This means that there are such things as hybrid offspring. Some others of these crossbreeds are created by the government in bases like Dulce and Peasemore, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/05/peasemore-4-delta-gate.html. Others are done off-planet by the ET's. The alien abduction phenomenon is often involved, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/08/alien-abduction-similarities.html. (I don't include the reptilian shape-shifting phenomenon; that is an entirely separate subject, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/david-icke-portal.html.) Alternatively, Susan may just have had some kind of cosmetic surgery or unusual makeup; it's impossible to tell. However, I do not reject alternative possibilities. Just to clear something up, I do not intend to "dehumanize" non-humans here. Clearly Susan shows a lot of humanity. She donates most of her fortune to her foundation when she could easily have spent it on herself. The ET "Raechel" had a reputation for being very sweet and empathic; in fact many non-humans also do, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/11/raechels-eyes-book-review.html. If she is alien I wonder if Trump knows.

See here for more information: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/crazy-plane-lady-update.html.

And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/01/goblin-in-suitcase-scares-cops.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on Fockham Hall Radio 22

 

See here for the programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxCxdW3L9oc.
And: https://www.rumble.com/v7gflai-ben-emlyn-jones-report-2026.html.
I have been featured again on Fockham Hall Radio. Topics discussed include: Has Noah's Ark been found?, Gosport under lockdown, the Apocalypse is nigh and much much more. The livestream was simulcasted on YouTube, Rumble and Food for Thought Radio, see: https://www.fftradio.com.
See here for my previous interview on FHR: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/06/ben-emlyn-jones-on-fockham-hall-radio-21.html.

Re-elect UAP Congress

 

In a few weeks the United States of America will hold a major multi-office election known as "midterm" because it's halfway through a presidential term of office; although this will not affect the US executive branch directly. The election takes place on the first Tuesday of November when it is not the first of the month; if it is then it takes place on the second Tuesday. For 2026 the date is the 3rd. All American registered voters are eligible to cast a ballot in the midterm election. In Congress, the entire House of Representatives, all 435 members will face the polls, along with about a third of the hundred Senators. About two thirds of the states elect new governors and some will also appoint officials in their own legislatures. A number of local mayors and councils also have elections. The independent political analysts all conclude that it's likely the Democrats will make major gains against the ruling GOP. This is a recurring pattern in American political dynamics; in which the people carry out a protest vote against the President's party. From President Trump's position, this will be a serious obstacle; without the federal legislature on his side he will have an uphill battle to introduce his policies. However, the issue which concerns me the most is what this will do to the UFO Disclosure movement. Over the last few years a number of Congress-people have bravely spoken out over this traditionally unfashionable topic. Names that immediately spring to mind are Tim Burchett (R-TN), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Eric Burlison (R-MO) (There is a rumour that Eric Burlison was planning to speak at last year's Contact in the Desert. If this had happened then it would have only been the second time in history that a sitting elected statesman had spoken at a UFO conference. The first was, of course, another Eric; Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada. He spoke at the first International UFO Congress in Acapulco, Mexico in 1977. I attended last year's Contact myself and Burlison was not present at all, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/02/ending-south.html.)

At the moment the opinion polls look quite rosy for most of these pro-UAP lawmakers. Eric Burlison's seat in the 7th Congressional District of Missouri is one of the safest in the country. As a Republican, Tim Burchett also is very secure because he represents a staunchly red region of Tennessee and his constituents are generally pleased with his performance since the last election. Anna Paulina Luna's Florida seat is more marginal. The same goes for her fellow Floridian Jared Moskowitz. Although Moskowitz is a Democrat, his district has been described as "a toss-up". Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has explicitly campaigned on UFO Disclosure, which is admirable in my view, but it has alienated her from some of her electorate. In the Senate, none of the major players in the Disclosure game are on the ballot. Mike Rounds, Kerstin Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer etc will face an election at another time. I'm not American and I don't want to say too much in case somebody makes that very fashionable accusation of foreign interference; but I consider it vital that government officials who are maintaining this new post-2017 open-minded and positive atmosphere towards UFO's and the need for the public to know about them, remain in positions of political power. I ask my American readers to do the right thing on polling day.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Sycamore Gap Stump

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/10/sycamore-gap-update.html.
Following the previous article I did, before I left for Essex, about a worrying subject, I'm pleased to present some happy news today. The stump left over from the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall is showing signs of life. Many experts at the time thought that it was viable for coppicing and it has indeed produced some shoots this year. In time twigs and branches will emerge from the stump. If it is well looked after, the tree may well grow back to its former glory. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cm17jkvezg1jo. That's the good news. The bad news is that this will take a very long time; two, maybe three centuries. Something hopefully our descendants can enjoy. The tree was seeding when it was cut down and so the seeds have been taken to various places and planted. They have produced forty-nine saplings, but unfortunately one of them has been stolen, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv62k25ep0jlo. It's as if somebody really has a hatred for that tree and what it represents. I wonder who it is and why they feel this way. Let's hope the tree and its offspring suffer no more harm.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/02/boudica-portal.html.

Online Censorship Confirmed

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/06/kid-starmer.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/online-safety-act-goes-live.html.
Back in July, shortly after he first took office, I wrote about how I believed we should not be reassured when Andy Burnham said he was going to scrap Digital ID: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/burnham-scraps-digital-id.html. A recent news story proves me right. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has announced at the Labour Party conference that she is going to bring in a comprehensive social media ban for children effective from March next year. Anybody under sixteen will no longer be able to use TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. This is just the start, what Nandy calls a "staging post". She is planning far more robust legislation including device-level filters and giving OfCom the same authority over the online world as it currently has over TV and radio. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cqn8md79j420o. You might think this is a good idea; after all, we all care about the safety of children, don't we? If you think in those terms then you miss the point entirely. The government don't give a damn about children's welfare. If they did then they'd have shut down the BBC, their own broadcaster, years ago. That is the bait in the trap and a way to moral blackmail detractors, as I explain in the background links. In order to stop children using websites it will be necessary to check that the adults using them are who they say they are. This means you can only post under your own real identity. So, no more burner accounts, no more anonymous posting, no more freedom to express opinions that you know might lose you your job or get you arrested under the ridiculous charges of "causing offence" and "hate". There will also be an explosion in data leakage leading to fraud and identity theft. The damage this will do to whistleblowers is almost incalculable. Wikileaks and similar outfits will be unable to guarantee the safety of agents and informants. It all fits into place, doesn't it? That's why the government are doing it. The internet has been a millstone around their necks ever since it was invented and they have always searched for ways to get the online genie back into the bottle. There are always ways round all these regulations as we've seen in China and Australia, but you need to be quite tech-savvy to do it. The good thing to come out of this is that the Burnhamista regime has exposed itself as being nothing more than the previous one 2.0, Starmer with a smile.

The Superstition-Purveyor's Gender-Neutral Sibling-Child

 

Bad news today, guys. As regular readers will know, I am a big fan of CS Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. I've been generally impressed with the cinematic adaptations of the first three books, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawntreader. Now I've found out that a film of the sixth book, The Magician's Nephew, is about to be released. This novel is the penultimate book, published in 1955, and is listed as first in some editions because it is a prequel. It takes the reader back in time about fifty years to the childhood of Professor Digory Kirke, an important supporting character in LW&W. He and his friend Polly discover the land of Narnia at the moment of its creation by Aslan the great lion. It includes a very clever retconned explanation for how the mysterious lamp-post, an object from our own universe, appeared in Narnia. Like all the books, The Magician's Nephew is fascinating, thought-provoking and enthralling. I always hoped it would be adapted into a film like the first three. Now it has, for the first time ever. The film is finished and is being released next February, but it has a different production history to the others. That alone should raise red flags before long you hear the details. The original contract with Walden Media expired in 2018 and The CS Lewis Company, holders of the author's intellectual estate, announced that they had sold the rights to Lionsgate Canada for all the books. The entire Chronicles have never been under a single adaptation licence before with just seven years before they all fall out of copyright. The film has a styled new title: Narnia- The Magician's Nephew. It will be released onto Netflix in February. The director and writer is Greta Gerwig whose previous works include Barbie; a film which, according to her "celebrated the feminism" behind the doll... You can guess where this is leading! Tilda Swinton has been dropped despite her captivating embodiment of spite and corruption in her superb portrayal of the Witch in LW&W. Now Jadis will be a young and trendy gothic emo played by Emma Mackey. Frank the cabby's actor is Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, a black man; who else could be the first king of Narnia? I see Susan Wokoma is in it too. I loved her in Porters, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2018/10/porters-returns-to-dave.html, but what is her role in Narnia? It doesn't say, but I'm guessing it's Queen Helen.

But it gets worse... far far worse... wait for it! The voice of Aslan will be Meryl Streep. I mean, why!? Obviously that's a very rhetorical question. Sadly the rainbow striped locusts have caught one of the few surviving franchises that had so far evaded them. Why don't the wokists go away and invent their own franchises? If they did that I wouldn't complain; but, of course, if they did that nobody would watch them. That's the issue. They operate like a virus, infecting popular stories that people already love. It's also a deliberate act of desecration. Their mission is to demoralize and humiliate us. They do that by trampling on the works we hold close to our hearts. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrHU9DGZOGA (51k views and 73 thumbs up; says it all.) What's ironic is that within the very pages of The Chronicles of Narnia itself there are storylines that expose this very type of subversion many decades before it actually struck. In The Silver Chair, the two main characters are children at a school called "Experiment House" which is some kind of cultural Marxist indoctrination centre for the future youth. In The Last Battle, the final book of the series, the creatures of Narnia are tricked into worshipping an idol in the form of a donkey dressed in a Lion's skin to make it look like Aslan the great lion. Even his very identity is mixed into a fabricated amalgam with the demon Tash, called "Tashlan". You'll guess that eventually the real Aslan does turn up and expose the fraud. Obviously I have not yet seen this film, nobody has, but I've studied the news releases, the trailers and the imagery. I know enough to predict that this film will be an utter travesty. It will not only be bad, it will be deliberately bad! That's the whole point. You can guess I will not be watching it; and neither will millions of loyal Narnia fans. That's the good news, the silver lining in the cloud. This waste of celluloid is going to crash and burn just like The Rings of Power. Maybe a time will come in the future when respectful artistic filmmakers can once again be permitted to create works of joy, inspiration and wonder that celebrate the literature from which they come. That time is not now, but I hope one day it will be.

See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.

Disclosure Day DVD

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/dd-on-home-media.html.
It's arrived! I preordered the DVD of Disclosure Day as soon as it was on offer. I've had to wait nearly two months before it was dispatched. It was available previously on streaming sites, but I don't trust them; I explain why here: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/06/memory-holed-movies_0503601583.html. The DVD contains the complete theatrical feature in widescreen aspect ratio and high resolution audio. There is a bonus featurette called Spielberg and Williams- A Legendary Collaboration about the long partnership between Steven Spielberg and John Williams. The composer has written some of the most famous film scores in history for Spielberg's films; for thirty movies and over fifty years. The Blue Ray and 4K Ultra HD editions include even more extra content, but I don't have a suitable player. The thing I'm most pleased about is that I can now watch Disclosure Day while pausing the playback. The final scene in particular is very complex. This is when the heroes capture a TV studio and start broadcasting videos from the secret files. It has multiple sub-second shots of all kinds of interesting vistas and it's not possible to understand everything in it by watching it in the cinema non-stop. I can't help wondering if something real might have been inserted into the sequence as part of the transparency process. If so then I want to be the first to spot it!
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Source to Sea (Non-Woo-Woo)

 

I have come across a YouTube series by somebody with the unfortunate name of Ed Pratt. He is an introverted and rather geeky young chap, but his adventure has gripped me. He came up with an amazing challenge; he would travel the entire length of the River Thames. This has been done before by many people, most famously by the comedian David Walliams; but Ed's quest would be different. He would traverse the river all the way from its source to the sea while staying in it. Not walking along the bank, actually being in the river, all 210 miles of it. He began at the source of the Thames, at a place appropriately called Thameshead. It is not much to look at, just a marker stone on the top of a small hill in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Most of the time the ground around it is dry for the first couple of miles. As a result, the initial stage of Ed's journey is mostly walking on land where the river flows invisibly, just sifting slowly through the soil. When it emerges as a visible surface watercourse he starts wading; and then occasionally swimming. He has to battle waterweed, thick mud and fallen trees blocking his way, but he tenaciously sticks to his plan to stay in the river. He camps by the side of the river at night, but always re-enters the river at the point he left it. At Cricklade the Thames is deep and wide enough to be navigable by small boat. He has a red kayak which his Instagram followers predictably elect to name "Thamesey McThamesface". His social media fans are very helpful. One of them looks after his boat until he arrives in Cricklade and many others give him beds for the night, including somebody in Oxford. As he paddles along, people cheer him on from the riverbank and from other boats. He actually was a minor celebrity at the time. It makes it clear to me that there is an entire community of people who live on or around the Thames whose lives are shaped uniquely by the famous river. He meets many interesting people along the way. His mission is also scientific. He tests the water for pollution each day and has a sponsorship campaign with the Rivers Trust, an organization dedicated to cleaning up our precious waterways. He made notes of all the locks he passed though with one strange exception, Iffley Lock. That is a pity because it is the one closest to my own home and probably the most picturesque on the whole river, with its Victorian stone footbridge. He might have left this one out because he was forced to break his golden rule of doing the whole journey in the river. The lock has rollers which all small craft are expected to use. The keepers will not open the gates for a solo kayak. I don't think that really matters though. His series is not just a travel vlog; it is a properly produced documentary with a musical score, editing and special effects. He uses multiple camera angles from the boat, his body and selfie stick. He even deploys a drone to get aerial shots whenever he can. The problems he faces change as the river does; from the pre-boat beginnings, to the long middle stage and finally the tidal stretch through London and the shipping lanes of the estuary. His task is not without risks and dangers. Despite this he sticks with his little kayak all the way to the end and does not transfer to a larger boat. I really enjoyed Ed's journey. He planned and researched it meticulously as well as recording it very professionally. There are other past missions on his channel. I hope he does the Nile next! If so then I'll provide another non-woo-woo commentary on it.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrjjsgDZc4.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2jagkYGD0.
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiEox3ZMjQ0.
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVaaeiUZ-tQ.
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWuY6Pk6V4g.
Part 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnWP09K5WU.
Part 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sekf34nChDc.
Part 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-oCT-cSqq4.
Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrjjsgDZc4&list=PLocRYksAqGOJPwOGsnaNJQJL4d1qcapIB.

Shining a Light Update

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/shining-light.html.
The skeppers are going to love this one! I have made a discovery in my investigation that contradicts what I said in the background article. I stated that, based on my discussions with Google AI and studies of my mobile phone's user manual, that it was not possible for the torch to activate unless you unlock the screen. When I made a HPANWO TV video about this subject, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-gift-of-light.html, somebody in the comments said that widgets like the torch can usually be accessed from a locked screen. I disagreed at the time in the Reply to Comments 132 video, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/09/reply-to-comments-132.html, but I have since found out that he was right. It is actually true that I can switch on the torch without entering my personal identification number and unlocking the device. Instead the torch can be started more simply, by pressing the power button to light up the screen, swiping upwards, swiping to the left and then pressing the torch button. This will please the numerous skeptics who have sent me a torrent of messages since I first spoke about my experience asserting that "there are a huge number of mundane explanations for this!" However, before they descend into a complete vainglorious of orgy of mutual masturbation, I'd like to offer a moment of pause. To begin with, I understand that it is true that I now have to concede somewhat. I thought previously that the only way to activate the torch by accident would be to press the power button, enter the six digit PIN and then do the swipes and press the button; that is ten manoeuvres. I was wrong, but this new development only reduces the process down to four manoeuvres. Now, you might argue that the first six are the most statistically crucial because of the miniscule odds of getting six numbers correct through random friction of the phone screen on the inside of my pocket, and that is true; but what are the odds of the next segment? These random bumps would have to swipe the entire length of the screen, and then the width; and than press the right button for the torch out of a dozen or more activation points for other apps on that page, consecutively and in the correct order. This is much more likely than my previous model, but still extremely unlikely. Bear in mind also that this eventuality has never happened before and has never happened since. So, this was the only time my phone ever activated its light unintentionally; and it just happened to be straight after the very emotionally distressful experience I'd just had at the post office. Think it over! Do the math! I still believe it is sensible to consider my experience a highly significant and meaningful example of synchronicity. I still consider it a wonderful gift.

See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

False Doors

 

False doors are features of a building, supposedly ornamental, which look like doorways, but there is no real door behind them. They lead nowhere. Behind them is just a blank wall or natural rockface. They are usually very ancient and are particularly common in Egypt. According to a variety of contemporary sources, the purpose of these doorways was to allow the Ka, a dead person's spiritual essence, to pass from our universe into the afterlife realms. It is quite common for tourists to stand in these doorways and have their photographs taken in there. This includes my good friend Beata van Berkom, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-462-podcast-beata-van-berkom.html. False doors are occasionally found elsewhere, such as Etruscan tombs on Sardinia. They probably have the same function there. I am interested how there appears to be a modern scientific and/or heavy industrial equivalent at CERN. A false door may have been built close to the Large Hadron Collider that looks like a door to nowhere, but sometimes an interdimensional portal can appear, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-phantom-scarf-stealer-of-old-cern.html. For this reason, I think approaching false doors of any kind should be treated with caution. We don't know if the portals might materialize again suddenly while you're standing there and swallow you up. This was actually the story behind an obscure 1980's TV adventure series called Otherworld, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqepZMzXWvE&list=PLzovi87vDfzIHuqJB6VRYnRC9BoHwCeXs. This is not evidence that such a danger exists, but people do occasionally vanish for no obvious reason, as David Paulides has found out, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/missing-411-national-parks-washington.html. Don't have nightmares! If you take a trip to Egypt, enjoy it; such tragedies are extremely rare. However, it's worth taking a few precautions. Stay in pairs or in a group. People who vanish tend to do so alone. This, additionally, keeps you safer from the more conventional risks, such as getting lost or being targeted by criminals. If you have your photo taken in a false door, make sure there are a lot of people close by and at least some of them keep you in their vision at all times.

CVD Hug-Fest

 

A meeting has taken place between four statesmen: Rhun ap Iorwerth, First Minister of Wales; Michelle O'Neil, First Minister of Northern Ireland; John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland and Mary Lou McDonald, President of Sinn Féin and leader of the opposition in the Republic of Ireland. They met in Cardiff and had a discussion about how all the so-called, and wrongly called, "Celtic" nations are now led by pro-independence politicians. "Westminster's time is coming to an end!" they said and called upon the UK government to prepare for constitutional change giving their respective countries more devolution and self-determination. This was called "the 2026 Cardiff Agreement". After that they no doubt cried on each other's shoulders and fell to the floor kicking and screaming about how the world would be a paradise if it wasn't for the "bloody English!" I noted the other day that Argentina has the same problem, a foundational and deeply embedded myth that drives the culture and political tide of the country; even though it is completely false, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/national-myths.html. These national myths are incredibly difficult to dislodge and debunk. Simply explaining them or appealing to reason rarely works. People you are talking to generally will either walk away or respond with an angry ad-hominem: "What would you know!? You haven't suffered like we have!" As I've said before, this sense of suffering and being oppressed is extremely addictive. Like feminists, the Welsh, Scots and Irish have a love-hate relationship with it. It is a core element of their national identity and even, in a strange way, their self-esteem, see here for details: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/02/irish-cvd-bull.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/cvd-is-ruining-wales.html. I predict with confidence that if the time ever came when you could truly lift the burden of the CVD from their shoulders they would fight to defend it, Matrix style. Living life without that narcissistic sense of entitlement would be a struggle for them. The worst thing about the CVD, and this Cardiff Agreement to which it has given birth, is that eager expansionist eyes in Brussels will be watching it closely and will understand what's really going on. This is exactly what the European Union wants to hear. All of the politicians in Cardiff have a desperate longing to be free of the United Kingdom, but no such desire to be free of the EU; on the contrary. A split UK will quickly lead to Wales, Scotland and a reunited Ireland being sucked into the maw of the globalist superstate. Those four idiots in Cardiff cannot even comprehend the terrible fate that awaits their countries. As for England, it will be easier to deal with once it is alone. This is why it is vital for the people of Britain and Ireland, whichever nation you live in, to resist the Cardiff Agreement. If your leaders are oblivious to the danger then you must replace them. The good news, in Wales at least, is that confidence in the Welsh government is at an all-time low, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html. Less than ten percent of Welsh people want full independence from Westminster and even what we've been given so far has turned sour in our mouths. In Scotland and Northern Ireland it is different. Scotland had a referendum a few years ago that came down with a narrow victory for the unionists, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/09/programme-104-podcast-scottish.html. We can only hope calmer heads prevail. Being a British unionist is no longer an imperialistic position; it is the opposite. Brexit means that Britain has led the new and real anti-colonial struggle against the real empire of the 21st century.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Bases Autumn Conference 2026 Promo

 

I have done a promotional video with Miles Johnston for the upcoming Bases 2026 International Disclosure Conference- Autumn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7gN7fpLBw.
In this light-hearted interview, we talk about the upcoming event and give a preview of all the speakers. See here for details and tickets: https://www.basestv.org/post/bases2026-international-disclosure-conference-autumn.
See here for Miles on HPANWO Radio: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/10/hpanwo-show-650-miles-johnston.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Secret Vault

 

I have been featured on The Secret Vault, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atry-1eWzug.
I appear only in the first thirty-seven minutes. The host in Matthew Williams, a good friend I know through the conference circuit. We discuss a number of subjects including the upcoming Bases Project conference, see: https://www.basestv.org/post/bases2026-international-disclosure-conference-autumn.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Spooky Show with Viv and Jon

 

I have been featured on the Spooky Show with Viv and Jon, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7n0v5JUAT8.
Subjects discussed include: Giant spiders, haunted prisons, childcare from Bigfoot and much much more. Many thanks for Viv and Jon for inviting me. It was really great to get to talk to Jonathan Downes at last. I'm a huge fan of his literature, see: http://www.cfz.org.uk.

QED Replacement

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/last-ever-qed.html.
My prediction has come true. It seems that the vacuum left by the demise of QED has indeed been filled by another conference. In this case it is the European Skeptics Congress 2026. This is not technically a replacement for QED because this conference has been running annually since 1989 and is not always in the same location. Its current organizing body, the European Council of Skeptic Organizations, was founded in 1994 at its sixth congress. It is held in different countries across the continent. I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. This year it is in the UK, in Liverpool to be precise, and the organizers have teamed up with the Merseyside Skeptics. I'm not surprised to see that "Marsh" is a big part of it. Despite this not being a new QED per se, it has many of the features of the lost conference. It begins on the Friday with "SkeptiCamp" and "the Mixer" in the evening. The MC is Siân Docksey again and they are having the Ockham Awards. Marsh is now editor of The Skeptic magazine and he'll be handing out the Award for Skeptical Activism to the annual hero of skepticism; and the Rusty Razor Award for the most despicable disseminator of woo... although I have not been nominated again unfortunately. Well, I am up against fierce competition. Previous laureates include Reform UK and Elon Musk, the winner when I went there in 2024, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/10/qed-conference-2024.html. This is similar to the Snuffed Candle Award given out every year at The Amazing Meeting to such luminaries as Art Bell. The list of speakers also sounds familiar to anybody with an interest in the Skeptisphere. Source: https://escliverpool.org. The original QED website still exists; it now consists of a single page which is a memorial to the annual event that ran from 2011 to 2025. "14 years, 12 events (a break for Covid of course), 144 talks, 6000 attendees... Here's to the future." The final line implies the QED story is not yet over. There is a link to the YouTube channel with recordings of the talks, see: https://qedcon.org. The ESC 2026 is this weekend and so I won't be going this year. I hope everybody who attends has a good time. I might go to future events; and I have a feeling there will be another one next year. I don't know what it will be called, but it will probably be a genuine permanent QED redux. I might go along to that when it emerges.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

National Myths

 

Argentina has once again asserted its territorial claim to the Falkland Islands. This time they have big hitters in the international community on their side, in the shape of Israel and the USA. I am disappointed in Javier Milei. When he took power in 2023 I called him the "Argentine Trump". He was a populist, almost anti-political figure whose mentor was Margaret Thatcher. He got through his entire campaign with a very lukewarm position on the Falklands; in fact he barely mentioned the subject. This is amazing in a nation suffering from what they themselves call as a self-deprecating joke, "Malvinitis". Since then Milei seems to have been lured into the establishment in the same way Boris Johnson was, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/boris-is-finished.html. He has started reciting the old line that his predecessors did. Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands is completely bogus, in fact it is a hoax invented by the junta to control the people's emotions; see here for details: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/04/programme-460-falklands-war-40_14.html. Argentina has suffered enormously during the 20th century. It has endured economic collapse and fascist tyranny. It would be a far happier country if it could find a way to get over this madness about those little islands full of sheep farms just off their continental shelf. However, mass mental obsessions are difficult to break; and I'm not just criticizing Argentina here. Maybe it's normal for nations to have an idea that almost all the citizens believe in, and for them is quintessential to their national identity and self-esteem; but it is completely false. Whatever country you, the reader, live in; what do you think yours is? Being British, I'm not sure. Very often the citizen themselves is the last person to see the problem. These falsehoods are often harder to discern from the inside. Foreigners are more likely to spot them first. I am British, but I'm also Welsh; however I left Wales as a child and moved to Oxford, England. This might be why I have spotted the national myth suffered by Wales. It is not an obsession with any islands or anything like that; it is the notion that Wales is universally and eternally "oppressed by the bloody English!" To be fair, Wales is not alone in this mindset, in fact Scotland and Ireland are far worse. I call this concept the "CVD- Celtic Victimhood Delusion." I'll leave some background links below to provide details. The CVD has actually been very damaging. It has made Wales and its fellow "Celtic nations" defenceless against the globalist onslaught via the European Union and the World Economic Forum etc. Your average Taffy's response to this threat is: "EU and WEF? Who cares about them? At least they're not the bloody English!" They think we still live in the 14th century, the days of Owain Glyndŵr. They see the world through the cracked lens of the lost order of territorial states and national empires. Perhaps it is because I am an expat I can pierce through the veil. I think Wales would be a far happier country if, like Argentina, we could leave the CVD behind in the past where it belongs.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/cvd-is-ruining-wales.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html.