What has a media sceptic blog got to do with the replating of jewellery!!!!
Thu 1:32 pm +00:00, 14 May 2026The Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009, as I recall.
I watched these videos describing how a secret elitist Freemasonic cult planned the First World War, and orchestrated it, and also how the AIDS epidemic was no problem for the governments of the world. In fact they couldn’t get enough of it. Dr Stan’s understanding of the world was at once shocking to me, and at the same time, persuasive. I had always had doubts about history and news narratives, but with Dr Stan Monteith’s brilliant analysis, a new world view took over from my previous innocent state of ignorance. I soon found many other sources, online and in print, and the falsity of most news narratives started to become more apparent.
Blogging on here since then has had its ups and downs. Many excellent people have joined me since the early days, and The Alternative View took over the running of The Tap more recently, and our unique visitor numbers hover around the 50,000 per month.
One way we can help pay for the running of the blog now is to put advertising as we have good traffic numbers.
The latest ad is one of my own. My company offers a jewellery replating service, which is not an easy thing to find. Many people have bought jewellery pieces which over time lose their finish. We put them back as good as new. This can put the value back into a jewellery collection, and enhance the wearer’s enjoyment to boot. Donations are very few on the blog, which is hardly surprising, although more than nothing, and a great help in meeting day to day costs. If you need some replating for your family’s jewellery, I can guarantee you will not be disappointed with the results, and it all helps pay the fees of running the blog.
Why not take a look.
https://jewelleryreplating.co.uk
