You see there's this:
And there's this:
Ad Astra,
LSP
Here's a Canada Day treat, old but gold. Behold the epic glory of Elizabeth May, what can I say? Words fail:
Pretty special, eh? And that was 11 years ago, imagine if you can, how much worse it is now. Alberta has to go, please.
A Mare Usque Ad Mare,
LSP
Well yes, if you're in the Diocese of Peterborough and busy welcoming Debbie Sellin to one of the COE's pointed hat top jobs. Debbie will become one of the shrinking denom's small cadre of wymxn bishops, presently numbering 7 out of 22 diocesans. Hardly enough, it must be said.
In the old days they used to argue that if we didn't ordain wymxn no one would take us seriously. We did and they didn't, hence today's pivot; wymxn in Holy Orders is a fundamental right, per equity, As in, if you don't do this you're evil.
So what does that make Christ and the Apostles, who famously didn't ordain wymxn? Bad sinners. And what does that make of Christ's divinity? Not very much, they don't believe in it much anyway. That in mind, an Anglo-Catholic in the COE has to consider this.
Before so very long every new COE priest will have been ordained, directly or indirectly, by a womxn bishop. Are they validly ordained? Good question and it raises a serious flag for Anglo-Catholics. We've always asserted Catholicism for our part of the Church, and we could do so, not least, because our orders were valid. Not anymore, not going into the future, and therein lies another and uncertain story.
Your Pal,
LSP
Fast forward to today and the English monarch still retains Pope Leo's honorific, Fidei Defensor, FD; well kind of. King Charles III's broadened the title's definition to mean "protecting the space of Faith." Protecting the space of Faith.
There he is, the anointed King of England, crowned in Westminster Abbey, announcing to all the world that his protectorate extends not just to any one Faith or even all of them, but to the space in which they exist. What does this even mean?
Most obviously, that the King is a Space Protector and the icy vacuum of the interstellar void springs to mind. According to Charles, he's defending or protecting nothing, not Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or anything else, just empty space. Don't say vacuous. But of course we can put it another way, more bluntly.
He's an apostate traitor to the Faith he swore at his coronation to defend, the Christian Faith which is whole, complete and entire, the Catholic Faith given once for all by Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life. Not one way amongst many, the way. But the current monarch can't bring himself to come down on the side of this and what can we say? It's hard, right about now, to be a monarchist.
OK, salute the uniform not the man, don't be a Donatist, but please, can we not have a Christian ruler in the UK to lead and rally the faithful, to undo, even, the rapacious crime of the Tudor despot. Clearly not yet. We wait in hope.
Yours,
LSP
Look's good, right? But maybe I should hold out for an awesome High Standard. Hey, why not both, to maximize benefit, there is that. In other news, the ridiculously behind the cultural 8 Ball King of England has declared he's the "Defender of Faith" in a multi-faith kingdom. Hate to say it, and I really do, but the monarchy's obviously part of the problem in Rainbow Utopia UK.
That aside, surely a new Ruger IV makes sense,
LSP
Dear friends, expect the Left to double and triple down. Remember too that everything they enact or intend produces the opposite of its stated effect. In this case, a beautiful, rainbow flag, they/them multicultural utopia. Yes indeed, lots of cash and votes in that cunning green energy equation. But beloved Overlords, do you think the people caught in the midst of your experiment in power will take it lying down?
Apparently they do. Uwe Bolls describes a different reality and both timelines are unsettling at best. If Europe and the UK's ascendant rainbow-hued elitocracy wins, then their countries will descend into an Islamic sub-Detroit. Worse than that, the erasure of what's left of national European/UK identity, all for short term profit and power. That's one scenario. The other is that people get fed up with imported savages raping their daughters and get kinetic. Not as though the cops are gonna do it, eh?
I predict, for what little it's worth, that this will end in tears, per Mr Powell, "rivers of blood," and I hope I'm wrong. In the meanwhile, check out Citizen Vigilante, it's alright, not least for being banned in Germany. Here at the Compound we give it a sturdy 4 stars.
Your Old Friend,
LSP
One of the several benefits of country life in Texas is porches, front porches, back porches, wrap 'round porches and all of that. So pleasant; get out on your porch with a cold drink and take it easy while cocks crow, hawks swoop overhead, cicadas susurrate from the trees, and all is good.
If your house is smart, its architects designed it East/West facing so your front porch remains in shade during the morning heat of the day, and shields the front of the house from burning late afternoon sun. Use those periods wisely, shade's a valuable commodity in the pre-heating oven that is a Texan summer.
Here at the Compound we're blessed with a substantial front porch, essentially an open air room, and would've been more blessed before the place was remodeled in the '80s and a wrap 'round porch was turned into a large room, aka 'church hall.' Back in the day, people used part of the porch, it would've been screened in, to sleep on in the summer. Who can blame them, beat the heat in the days before AC.
We have AC now, unlike Europe, and thank God for that. Still, when you've just unleashed two flea foggers in the hall you can always retreat out of the toxic house and set up on the dam porch. No bad thing. In less pleasant news, the UK's student union commie government's fixing to tax capital gains at the same rate as their already high income tax.
This means UK money will leave the UK, tax revenue will shrink and taxes will rise to cover the shortfall until the whole poverty stricken economics of envy place collapses under the weight of fiscal insanity. See every Dem run US city for reference. Here? I'm going to step off this porch and see if the foggers have done their trick. So far they have.
Stay tuned,
LSP
This used to be a country Texas blog, so what happened? Got diverted by geostrat above my paygrade and egregious liturgical and doctrinal abuse. Hey, easy ongoing target, but what about all that country life? To be honest, I live it daily and like it a lot, so much better than the "Spawl, but you gotta focus.
To that end or Ï„Îλος we loaded up the rig with a couple of rods and headed out to the lake. Would the fish bite or would they not? Perennial question. Dam straight they bit, Bluegill after Bluegill, I lost count, just a whole lot of fish.
Didn't keep any, too small, those kids went back to fight again another day. And what a good morning, by the water, on the fish and lots of action, albeit small fish on a light rod. Good for mind, body and soul. Then it was back to the Compound for chicken thighs on the grill and cold white wine. Hey, all's right with the world.
And now? Grilled chicken, the dinner of winners.
Tight Lines,
LSP
Britain's most hated Prime Minister in the history of history has resigned. Two-Tier Kier, 2TK, announced his resignation this morning from the steps of 10 Downing Street and the free world heaved a sigh of relief.
What a disastrous mountebank who famously hounded veterans in court, as a hobby, took away pensioners' winter fuel allowance, tried to tax farmers out of existence, had people arrested for having the brazen, literal temerity to complain on the internet about imported head-chopping savages. The same 2TK who did his worst to wreck UK energy independence with idiotic and corrupt Net Zero climate cultism, all the while importing thousands of Moslem votes into a country the size of a shoebox. Don't you dare complain, serfs.
Wow, the list goes on and on. What gets me, as a loyal expat, is the betrayal of a great country by the people who lead it. In this case, by a gang of 1980s Student Union commies who hate their country, its people, its past and its heritage. No wonder, punters, that the British Army, Navy and Air Force are hollowed out simulacra of what they once were. No point in defending an island you despise, is there, when the cash to do so can be spent on importing foreign votes. The votes of people who scorn your country's culture almost as much as you do yourself.
Mini rant over, let's return to 2TK. He's gone or outgoing. Who will replace this unparalleled, unpopular buffoon? Evidently some leftist grifter from Wigan called Andy Burnham. Expect more of the same with, perhaps, a smiley face. So there we have it, unless a snap election's called the UK's left with the Nu-Left 'til the '29 election. A lot can happen in those years, no doubt about it.
Who did this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/dgUS0lgtAm
— Dominik TarczyÅ„ski MEP (@D_Tarczynski) June 22, 2026
Perhaps, US friends, you're a little baffled by UK politics, understandably. Look at it this way: imagine Kamala had won. Same playbook entirely, but with vastly more cash. We dodged that bullet. Good luck, UK.
Europoors will hate this.
OK, so maybe the UK's sunk beneath the waves of a rainbow caliphate. Problem. Solution? Launch USMC at the Sceptered Isle. Reliable sources tell me more than a few members of UKLF would support such a thing when they're not busy bulling boots.
LSP
Just for kix
Den. Hmmm, for me that'd be some club on Pall Mall. Perhaps we're one, eh?
See you in Clubland,
LSP
