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So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).

Speaking as PB’s leading YouTuber all I can say is that the audience growth continues unabated as we devolve as a species to the point where we need to have a constant feed of shite broadcast into our brains.

In my own case my channel continues to grow, I had my best ever month for revenue in November and I seem to bizarrely keep coming up with new things to talk about.

I’ve invested in the future though. I went 4k pretty much from the start in 2022 and I'm now shooting HDR. The idea is to give my content longevity - a lot of early YouTube content is really poor picture quality. You can get away with poor production quality if it pops off the screen. Into people’s retinas and this into their brains…

When there's an ad for soap powder on TV featuring "RochdalePioneers' Laundry Day" then we'll know you've arrived.

On Scotland and nukes - Scotland doesn't always have a surplus on renewables (mostly wind).

It varies between over production and under production, as the wind varies. Just the other day, the Scottish grid was majority gas and nuclear.

There is nowhere near enough storage to deal with that, as yet.

See https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/

Quite so. Needs to be sorted out.

Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.

Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.

Mix of possibilities of course.

As an example of the comedy - the farmer I know who is putting in a battery to back his solar array is still getting grief from the local Greens. They are very upset they can't seem to stop him, under planning law - but they are trying everything. Given that it's a couple of ISO containers, and not visible unless you are on his property (trees), I am try to work out the objection.

He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.

It's fine, we're neutral, no-one will attack us.

FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.

The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.

The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.

Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.

https://www.thejournal.ie/drones-dublin-ireland-hybrid-warfare-russia-6893104-Dec2025/

Better get used to more Russian assassination attempts along those lines, on European or UK territory.

And sort out some serious anti-drone systems for our airports.

This is Farage outbursts against the BBC

https://news.sky.com/liveblog-webview/politics-latest-budget-taxes-reeves-starmer-labour-badenoch-farage-12593360

While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:


“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”


As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.

How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.

The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.

It's not much of a point, though, is it.

Isn't it?

That's what I said, didn't I?

Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.

Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.

I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.

Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.

I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.

Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.

I get it. Corbyn says/likes something anti-semitic and unwilling to apologise = unfit to be leader or MP,

Farage says "Gas 'em all" and refuses to apologise = glorious patriot standing up against multiculturism.

So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).

Speaking as PB’s leading YouTuber all I can say is that the audience growth continues unabated as we devolve as a species to the point where we need to have a constant feed of shite broadcast into our brains.

In my own case my channel continues to grow, I had my best ever month for revenue in November and I seem to bizarrely keep coming up with new things to talk about.

I’ve invested in the future though. I went 4k pretty much from the start in 2022 and I'm now shooting HDR. The idea is to give my content longevity - a lot of early YouTube content is really poor picture quality. You can get away with poor production quality if it pops off the screen. Into people’s retinas and this into their brains…

I see Labour have equalled Liz Truss's record low:

https://x.com/FindoutnowUK/status/1996572051478282392


Find Out Now
@FindoutnowUK
Find Out Now voting intention:
🟦 Reform UK: 31% (-)
🔵 Conservatives: 20% (+2)
🟢 Greens: 18% (+1)
🔴 Labour: 14% (-1)
🟠 Lib Dems: 11% (-1)

Changes from 26th November
[Find Out Now, 3rd December, N=2,591]

Lettuce see how that pans out.

The lettuce strikes back:

https://x.com/trussliz/status/1996640749304402407

They tried to silence her. They failed.

The Liz Truss Show — December 5th.

It’s time to fight for the West.

Is it just on Twitter? She doesn't mention a channel.

You’re going to watch?!??!!!

As the piniped prophet of the return of Ms Truss, surely you will be gripped by every word?