Diary Blog, 18 April 2026, including a few thoughts about Starmer, Labour, Muslim voters, the Jewish/Israel lobby, and the Mandelson scandal

Morning music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10, should have got questions 4 and 10 but did not, and my answer to question 2 was a wild guess but, to my surprise, correct. I may have dredged it up from my subconscious mind, maybe a submerged childhood memory.

Question 4 is not correct, in part of its premises anyway.

Tweets seen

[“The claim that nobody at the heart of government — ie close to Starmer — knew Mandelson had flunked his security vetting is unravelling at a rate of knots.
Starmer’s head of comms was alerted by the media last September.
Sources tell me multiple folks in the Cabinet Office (where the UK Security Vetting unit is based) had known for quite some time.
Cat Little, Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, even had a copy of the UK Sec Vet January 2025 document concluding Mandelson was unfit to be US ambassador.
She informed the new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo.
Soon there were about a dozen lawyers and officials crawling all over it.
Such matters don’t stay secret for long in the upper echelons of Whitehall.
But it seems the PM was still in the dark … until last Tuesday.
Mmmmmm.”
]

In a sense, a political-nerd/Westminster Bubble story and scandal. I cannot believe that, in public bars and golf clubs, people talk of little else, but it does tend to support the now-embedded narrative that Starmer-stein is either dishonest or incompetent, or both, which I myself have believed for several years.

As frequently blogged previously, as far as the Pakistani/Muslim rape gangs are concerned, Starmer and Labour cannot afford to “offend” the voting bloc consisting of Muslims, especially, because they are now at least 6% or 8%, and moving towards 10%, of the population. By the time of the next general election (probably 2029 if elections are not “suspended” by reason of a contrived war against Russia), that ~10% bloc will be about half, maybe even two-thirds, of the Labour vote; Muslims are already at least a third of Labour voters nationwide. At present, Labour is polling at around 20%; without the Muslim voters, that would sink to 15% or lower, certainly by 2029.

At the same time, Starmer-stein himself is of course heavily pro-Jew, pro-Israel, is married to a Jewish woman, and has children being brought up as if full-Jew. He belongs to Labour Friends of Israel, and much of Starmer’s —and Labour’s— recent funding has come via Jewish links.

Starmer and his government are, therefore, being pulled in opposing directions, and are in any case incompetent and rudderless.

Well, that translates to a Commons with about 293 Reform UK MPs (about 33 short of an overall majority), 84 Cons (very weak official Opposition), 78 Greens, 69 LibDems, 53 Lab, and 45 SNP [etc].

Once again, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat, a potential fact indicated by all recent (for several months) opinion polling.

One joker in the GE 2029 pack might be Restore Britain. If it stood enough candidates, it would split the “conservative-nationalist” vote, hitting Reform worst; maybe the Cons a little as well.

Restore at present does not look like it can supplant underwhelming Reform, so they might end up competing for more or less the same bloc of votes. I have little time for Reform, but it really is, at present, the only game in town if you want to wipe out Lab and Con (leaving aside the loonie new Greens, with their pro-drug and pro-mass immigration policies).

The above result, a hung Parliament, might be the best result for social nationalism: the System parties gravely and perhaps mortally wounded, and Reform unable to govern effectively without Con MP-votes. That might in turn lead to a demand for real social nationalism. As Lenin may have said, “the worse, the better“.

That opinion poll again underlines the main or central fact: people are voting against the System parties, not for either the Greens or Reform.

The UK— a country sliding to disorder and some sort of civil/social war.

If so, and as I expect, the central fact, or “big story” will be the collapse of both main System parties.

The local elections, many of which Labour tried to “postpone”, are about more than just local council seat numbers. Council seats are often training grounds for future MPs and, though mostly unpaid, do provide “expenses” of various kinds, and there is actual remuneration for those in charge of local “cabinet” briefs at the various councils. At large councils, that can add up to quite a good quasi-salary.

If Lab and Con are massively culled on 7 May 2026, that cripples their local organizations, and that has knock-on effects at the later general election (currently expected to be in 2029).

In fact, I think that only three local election leaflets have been put though my own door (New Forest area) so far: Reform UK, LibDems, and an Independent lady (the most impressive-looking candidate, arguably).

The main System parties have not put their tawdry wares on display here, so far.

…and if that proves to be “impossible”, then we have other and permanently-effective solutions.

Ecce American “democracy”…

Certainly, women often tend to vote based on emotional responses, or superficialities. Difficult question.

I do think that voting in national elections in the UK should be restricted to persons of 28+ years. Having said that, only about 40% or so of those under 28 vote anyway: see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cley905dg20o.

Very true…

Tweeter “6070y80aqui” has obviously never heard of Paula Vennels, Dido Harding etc (or Liz Truss, Antonia Romeo etc)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Harding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Romeo

In fact, I should say that that tweeter “6070y80aqui” has almost certainly had little experience of capitalism or capitalist enterprises in practice.

[“One of women’s best talents, is dodging responsibility.

I say this as a woman.

I notice myself doing it a lot.

We have this thing built into us, that makes it okay in our minds, when we mess up.

Like little white lies.

It’s okay you cheated because he…

It’s okay you were late, because…

We excuse ourselves more than men do.. and then act like it was not our fault.

Imagine making us as judges in a court system??“]

Interesting and rather true, quite often.

That last sentence, about female judges, is very true. Usually unwilling to take a really independent stand against the accepted sentiment or expected result.

Talking point

More tweets seen

[“Women are the backbone of any society.

But they are also the backbone of the problems of a society.

Men are the leaders, the builders.

When the women rule over the men, then the society fails.

People do not say women should not vote because they hate women.

They just understand what a woman is, and what we can do when given too much power in society.“]

Karoline Gosling. An interesting Twitter/X account.

More tweets seen

A horrible tribe, and their State of Israel is now a diseased and cancerous blot on the world.

Whether Starmer-stein goes or stays, there will not be any general election called, because both Labour and Conservative MPs know that, should they vote, or vote in effect, for that, they will be turkeys voting for Christmas. Current polling suggests that, out of 513 Con and Lab MPs currently in place, only about 130-150 would survive a general election; only a third, maybe only a quarter of the present Lab/Con MPs would survive.

Of course, alcohol abuse has always been a problem in Russia, for many many centuries, but (arguably) became far worse under Soviet rule, despite periodic attempts to deal with the problem. I think that, had Andropov survived, and been in good health, he might have managed to cut alcoholism and alcohol misuse tremendously. Andropov might also have managed to salvage the Soviet system as a whole. Gorbachev never really tried to do either, not harshly enough anyway.

Late tweets

If they knew that they would be sunk at sea or shot down on the beaches immediately after arrival, the deterrence would work very quickly. Game over.

They all have to be removed, or otherwise eliminated. In the short-term, prevented from having offspring.

Many think that there is a “debate” going on, when in reality it is a war, but so far a relatively cold one.

[“Neighbours have finally broken their silence on the horror house in Banks, Lancashire, and the truth about Axel Rudakubana is as ugly as expected.

This Rwandan import, the 17-year-old son of Alphonse and Laetitia Rudakubana, was raised in a cauldron of screams, grunts, and objects hurled against walls.

He hadn’t stepped out alone in over two years. On the morning of 29 July 2024 his parents and brother simply watched him leave anyway.

Empty knife boxes littered the place. He glared through English neighbours like they were already corpses.

The signs were everywhere; the imported family ignored them, obstructed authorities, and let the monster walk free into a Taylor Swift dance class, which begs the question, they should be held accountable at the very least.

Three native English girls, Bebe, Alice, Elsie butchered. Ten more slashed and scarred for life. All because Britain imported this family from Rwanda’s chaos and pretended they could be turned into civilised locals.

The public inquiry mutters about “moral failure” by the parents and systemic breakdowns. Fine. But the root failure is national: a deliberate policy of flooding English villages with Third World imports whose cultural DNA carries violence, dysfunction, and zero loyalty to our people.

Axel Rudakubana did not spring from English soil. He arrived with it, was sheltered by it, and unleashed it on our daughters.

The family has scarpered into hiding, no doubt on the taxpayer’s dime. The neighbours endure a living nightmare.

The house is for sale like tainted goods. And still the elite refuses to say the obvious: mass immigration from incompatible corners of the globe imports incompatible savagery.

Native English children are not collateral damage in some enrichment experiment.

England belongs to the English.

Our streets, our villages, our daughters’ safety come first, before any foreign import, any asylum sob story, any diversity quota.

Hold them to account and then Deport the remnants of this family. End the importation. Reclaim our country before the next Rudakubana strikes. Nothing less will suffice.“]

[“He did not believe in God.
He did not speak Hebrew.
Two of his three sons took their own lives.
He considered Palestinian native Jews an inferior class to Jews of European descent.
He was weighing between Argentina and Palestine as the place for establishing his “Jewish State,” but chose Palestine to deceive more people by linking the new state of Israel to the ancient Israelite people.

Here is the father of Zionism: Theodor Herzl. There are more than 50 streets named after him in the modern state of Israel, more than any other national figure.

From beginning to end, this has been a grand farce: this is not the biblical Israel, this is not the nation of the prophets and patriarchs of old, this is not God’s chosen people nor the restoration of the House of David: that is not their star nor their banner!

They are false Jews, with a stolen land, pretending to be the “chosen ones” of a God in whom they do not believe and whom they serve even less.“]

See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Research led by Dr. Eran Elhaik suggests that Ashkenazi Jews have significant, historically overlooked roots in Turkey, challenging the traditional “Rhineland hypothesis”. Findings indicate that 90% of Ashkenazi Jews may descend from Greco-Turko-Iranian converts, with roots linked to primeval villages in northeastern Turkey, such as Iskenaz, Eskenaz, and Ashanaz

[Independent]

The Jewish Kiev regime now openly exposing its part in the overall Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan conspiracy (to import vast black/brown/Chinese (etc) populations into white Europe.

If the police see us as the enemy, that inevitably means that they are no longer a necessary evil, but have become our enemy, have made themselves our enemy, which is sad, because many rank-and-file police are relatively well-meaning, want to keep decent order in society etc, but the fact is that they obey the orders of those who have been brainwashed by the Common Purpose cancer and Jew-Zionist “anti-racist” “training” courses.

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[VDNKh, Moscow, early morning after a rainy night]

Diary Blog, 17 April 2026

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[painting by Volegov]

Tweets seen

[“Since Argentina is being talked about more these days, here is something that will make your jaw drop if you’ve never heard about it.

One of the most powerful and notorious crime rings in the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a Jewish Ashkenazi mafia organization called ‘Zvi Migdal’ (and sometimes ‘Ashkenazum’). Their expertise? Trafficking young girls into prostitution across the globe (from Poland to India and New York; they even trafficked some Jewish Moroccan girls).

The center of their operations was Buenos Aires, and for a while they were so powerful, and handed out so much bribe, they practically dominated Argentina’s political system.

Epstein was not a pioneer, you see. Zvi Migdal preceded him by more than a century. I was waiting a long time for someone to point out the similarity, but no one did, so there you go.”]

I wonder what happened to that Jewish crime syndicate. Did the “antisemites” get them, or did they just become part of the overall Zionist movement?

[“The ‘self-domestication’ of London foxes is a remarkable evolutionary feature. Though, it remains unclear to me to what extent this little dude, who lost his mum, might be wild, feral or tame. That said, while he’s adorable and incredibly gentle, he stinks, and he can be incredibly annoying.
There are likely good reasons why our ancestors domesticated cats and dogs, and not foxes …
“]

Our animal friends.

I used to say that it is only when you have lived in the United States that you understand how “occupied” by the Jew-Zionist element it is. Today, it is just obvious, in plain sight, and wherever you live in the world.

Why on Earth would a civil servant have wanted Mandelson appointed? The opposite is a more likely scenario.

The appointment was entirely the wish of Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel cabal. After all, or in the end, cui bono?

Britain started to go badly wrong, and wrong in a geographically widespread way, in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Then, with the advent of Blair and his Labour Friends of Israel cabal in 1997, the UK started its serious slide to perdition. Mass immigration on a huge scale, almost ubiquitous drug abuse, even the poor in credit card debt up to their eyeballs, and (with the spread of the Common Purpose cancer) increasing maladministration and a feeling that “nothing works properly any more” (police, central government, local councils, rubbish collection, prisons, schools and universities etc).

The society left by Blair and Brown was shoved much deeper into the mire by the “Conservative” misgovernment of 2010-2024.

After that came Starmer-stein…

We are now in a situation where the slide in standards is recognized by all but the wilfully blind. Take universities. As late as the 1980s, only a very small minority of students were awarded Firsts. Now almost everyone gets a First, or at least a 2:1 degree, merely for turning up and ticking the right boxes.

More significantly, Britain in 1989 was still at least 95% white (British). Now? About 80% and dropping rapidly.

We are told by msm propaganda that “we” must ready ourselves to fight Russia (for no good reason, at that). What will “we” be fighting for?

Overall, it appears that the UK is in the position of being on the brink, or quite near the brink, of at least a slow-burn social/racial/cultural/ideological/demographic war.

Society, perhaps especially in the West, needs to be thoroughly purged.

Talking point

More tweets seen

Whatever the exact truth of the matter, Starmer comes out looking as if he has —once again— shown poor judgment.

Starmer. Mandelson. Epstein. Labour Friends of Israel. Jewish lobby. Israel lobby…

Our animal friends.

Diary Blog, 16 April 2026

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[my breakfast view 27 years ago; a little humming-bird made it even more special]

Talking point

Talking point

Several points. First, look at the baseline (where we are now)! It shows the swamping of this country by (unsaid there) blacks, browns, and Chinese. It shows the preconditions for the degeneration and collapse of our present society, and it shows a likely slide to some kind of civil/social/racial/cultural war as well.

Secondly, that slide to open conflict would be turbocharged should the Green (pseudo-Green) loonies take over the asylum by forming a government.

Thirdly, even Reform would not “remigrate” or otherwise remove those millions, indeed tens of millions, already here on various bases. The “net” migration, though below that of other parties, would still be around 250,000 (meaning maybe 300,000 blacks and browns etc coming in, and 50,000 Brits fleeing to Australia and elsewhere.

Everything in this country is already sliding to perdition; imagine what it will be like in 2029, 2034, 2039…

Nick Griffin

Former British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin has denied stirring up racial hatred by posting a cartoon on social media.

The 67-year-old, who led the BNP from 1999 to 2014, is facing a private prosecution brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

At Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, Griffin entered not guilty pleas to two charges – displaying material likely to stir up racial hatred and publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.

Griffin, of Welshpool, Powys, is accused of posting on X a cartoon of a giant spider with a Star of David on its head.

It is said the post, on 6 December 2021, was accompanied with a comment.

The post was “abusive or insulting”, it is said, and Griffin is accused of “intending to stir up racial hatred“.

Mr Justice Swift adjourned the case and set a trial date of 11 May next year.”

[BBC]

“...it is said“, meaning “it is alleged” by the malicious Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, effectively a volunteer arm (though it does pay its main goblins) of the Israeli Embassy in London.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05dd39z363o

Nothing in that BBC report about whether Griffin made application to have the charges dismissed. It may be —I do not know— that, if there was an application, the judge directed that that fact not be reported in case the details affected any future trial jury (though the case has been set down for 11 May 2027, 13 months from now).

At any rate, if the application to dismiss or to stay was made, it seems that it must have been itself dismissed, or at least not determined yesterday. I do not know.

No information as to for how many days the judge set down the trial. Probably more than one day. Maybe 2-3 days.

This is “lawfare”, abuse of the English legal system by malicious Jew-Zionist fanatics. Private prosecutions should in any case be restricted to private individuals or recognized genuine charities such as the RSPCA (i.e. not fake ones such as the “CAA”).

Imagine what is happening here: a whole Crown Court case, involving full jury trial, all about an allegation that someone posted, years ago at that, a cartoon (and not even one he himself created); and that he then made a comment online about it. Utterly ludicrous.

Some of my own experiences with Jew-Zionist fanatics, mostly the “CAA” (that evil pack have been persecuting me for well over a decade now):

How time flies! It is now already over two years since I was tried, convicted, and sentenced as a result of the suborning of the police (Hampshire Constabulary) and the CPS (CPS Wessex) by the “CAA” goblins (political pressure etc), and it is two and a half years since the trial itself, at which trial I defended myself, nearly got off at “half-time” (at the close of the prosecution case) on legal and evidential grounds, but eventually was convicted and sentenced to a “community order” (i.e. probation) for a few months.

All the same, the blog continued to be published throughout the “investigation” and trial process (even on the days of trial), and has continued to be published on a near-daily basis ever since.

Incidentally, all the blog posts which formed the basis of the prosecution case against me are still online, as are the (actually rather mild) comments and cartoons which however the district judge determined were, overall at least, “grossly offensive” by reference to the ridiculous “bad law” of the Communications Act 2003, s.127 (which bad law was set to be repealed until the Jewish lobby “nobbled” enough MPs and peers to keep it on the statute book).

I am unable to link here to those particular blog posts, cartoons, and comments (because to do so might be to be said to have repeated my supposed “offence”), but they all remain online and can be seen by the whole world.

Tweets seen

If you click on that tweet from a few months ago, you see the range and extent of money that Jewish lobby/Israel lobby puppet Streeting gets, mostly from those connected lobbies. Huge. Millions, over the Parliament. I would love to see Streeting lose his seat and (one can dream) have to struggle. “Other scenarios are available“, as they say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Streeting#Early_life_and_education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford_North#Elections_in_the_2020s

Who knows? Looking at the state of the country, and at the political pygmies not only in the System parties but also the insurgent newcomers (Reform, Greens), anything is possible even in 2029, let alone by 2034.

Pity. One of the most interesting series aired on British television . The sort of thoughtful “social commentary” TV rarely now seen.

In fact, it has become social commentary in itself, looking at the fact that one “Asif Kapadia” will be presenting or voicing the last one. Sign of the times?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Kapadia

Born in 1956, I was the same age as those shown in the films and, obviously, remain the same age as the surviving subjects, so for me the series had added interest.

[“In the least surprising news of the day the Dundee knife girl who went viral a while back has given her testimony in court. She was being sexually harassed and assaulted by a gypsy brother and sister. Not shocking, what was shocking were the huge amount of people who tried to gaslight everyone into thinking the little girl was the villain.“]

I am a socialist, but a white man first” [Jack London]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

The USA has developed, over thirty-five years, into a rogue state.

It is only logical. Gypsies, blacks, even Pakistani Muslims, while they can do considerable damage if they riot or rebel, do not have the numbers to threaten, potentially, the State itself. White British people are still about 80% of the population of these islands. If the real British people were to rise up, the State could fall. The response of the System is, therefore, to stamp hard on any real British protest, or even on any potentially “inflammatory” social media postings.

Talking point

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People are voting with their feet, not only in respect of books and publishing, but also away from msm radio, TV, newspapers; increasingly, they go to alternative media for alternative truth.

The same applies to political parties. In the 1950s, about 99% of voters were voting LibLabCon, and 90% of those voted Lab or Con. In 2024, the figure for LibLabCon was below 70%, and Lab and Con together were voted for by only 57.4%.

Were the voting system proportional, those figures would be radically lower.

From recent opinion polling, it seems that only about 45%-50% are presently intending to vote LibLabCon, and only about 35% are likely to vote for Lab or Con.

[“A woman brutally raped by 4 men in Bristol city centre at 3am. This isn’t “one bad night.” This is the reality for women in the UK today. No longer safe to walk our streets, even in the heart of a major city. Enough with the excuses, the “diversity” denials, and the pathetic “not all men” deflections. Women are terrified. Politicians and police have failed us. Demand real borders, real justice, and real safety or admit you’re complicit in turning Britain into a no go zone for half the population. #WomenNotSafeUK #BristolRape CCTV images from the Police.”]

The guilty must be put up against a wall and eliminated. More importantly, we must become an advanced full-European society, whatever that takes. Whatever that takes.

Quite…

In that case, forget elections and debates, and just load up.

Britische Freikorps.

Black and brown migrant-invaders living in comfort, while real British people face the wintry wind and rain without even basic shelter.

In ordinary language, what is happening in the UK is treason. Politicians. “Journalists” (scribblers). Bien-pensant literati, chatterati, Twitterati. TV and radio talking heads.

We are watching the degradation and eventual death of this country in real time, and most of the people seem to be more interested in whether “our blacks beat your blacks” at football or other sports in various competitions, or in “celebrities” one has never heard of, on so-called “reality” TV shows (which are entirely contrived and unreal); or other trivia.

Unexpected good news.

I have visited Turkey or North Cyprus a few times. On my last visit, quite long ago (2001), I spent 3 months in the country, having driven from the UK (a far more difficult and hazardous trip than it would now be).

I recall going, out of mere curiosity, into a shop in Fethiye that sold shooting equipment. They were very welcoming, despite my telling them that I was only there out of curiosity, and showed me a couple of items, including a short-barrelled and very heavy shotgun, made either on the premises or elsewhere nearby. A crude but no doubt reliable weapon. Perhaps similar to what they call a lupara in Sicily, though with not quite so short a barrel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupara].

All the same, I am sure that the barrel-length of that Turkish weapon would not be lawful in the UK even with a shotgun certificate (in the UK, would have to have 24 inch barrel minimum, and 40 inch overall length) i.e. without a firearms certificate or special permission (e.g. military use).

I think that that Turkish weapon’s barrel would have been no longer than 18 inches, if that, and the overall length maybe 24-30 inches.

[“Meanwhile in Australia.

The Geelong Oil Refinery in Victoria is now on fire.

This is one of the country’s biggest facilities, supplying over 120,000 barrels of oil every single day.

Australia is already running dangerously low on fuel – and now this.

Too many vital energy plants and food production sites have mysteriously gone up in flames recently.

These cannot all be coincidences.”]

Exactly what I have been thinking recently.

Late tweets

Such are the untermenschen the British people, and the French, and the German, and the Scandinavian, are expected to tolerate or even welcome. No. Get rid of them.

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Diary Blog, 15 April 2026

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Nick Griffin

Reliable sources indicate that Nick Griffin will today apply in court for the dismissal of the private prosecution of him taken by the malicious Jew-Zionist org called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.

Good luck to him, and may victory attend him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin

Tweets seen

While Restore Britain (Rupert Lowe) is ideologically rather better than Reform UK (Nigel Farage), the fact is that the major System parties need to be destroyed or mortally wounded, or greatly weakened. At present, that is up to 2029, only Reform UK has the public profile to do that. Once Reform fails to fulfil its promise(s), real social nationalism can rise up.

The local elections of 7 May 2026 will be an interesting look at what the public are thinking.

In my local area (New Forest), I have received through the letterbox only two campaign leaflets so far, one a week ago from the LibDems and, only today, one from Reform UK.

Kiev-regime Ukraine is a puppet-state, a non-state.

The disastrous end of the Second World War let the evil genie out of the bottle, not only in Palestine and the wider Middle East but also in the USA, UK, France and elsewhere.

Over 2,000 in the UK alone. Plus those facilitating Zionism from North London and other locations. Looks like we need a Witchfinder-General of the modern age.

God, what a horrible tribe they are.

I am sorry for the ordinary Ukrainians (and their companion animals) who are suffering by reason of this terrible war, but the fact is that the Zelensky Jew-Zionist cabal is mainly culpable.

I have to say, also, that, with the possible exception of H.E. Mr. Kommissarenko, the one-time Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK (whom I took to the Porton Down microbiological research centre in Wiltshire about 30 or more years ago), I have never met any Ukrainian who was other than pretty dim-witted. Easily fooled, easily ruled, in my opinion.

Dim-wittedness is also usually the case when a Twitter/X account is seen flying the Ukrainian flag.

Late tweets

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Diary Blog, 14 April 2026

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Tweets seen

“…and a good job too!“, to quote from Trial by Jury

Why should British people sink even deeper into the mire merely to challenge Russia, a country which poses no threat to us at all, except that “NATO” (NWO/ZOG) has been goading it for 35 years (and Russia has felt compelled to respond).

Dan Hodges actually thinks that the UK should or somehow “has to” go to war with Russia, a war which would leave Britain a charred, irradiated island of dead souls.

Translates to a Commons with about 285 Reform UK MPs (41 short of an overall majority), Cons 98 (official Opposition in the absence of a coalition), Greens 88, LibDems 68, SNP 45, Lab 38 [etc].

As in all recent polling, Starmer would, on those figures, lose his seat.

As often previously blogged, underwhelming Reform is still in pole position but the voters are unenthusiastic, voting against Lab and Con rather than for Reform as such. I think the same or similar is true of the Greens, mutatis mutandis.

The longer this goes on, the less will voters be willing to stay within the traditional LibLabCon matrix, but will be open to radical new parties and policies.

See also:

…and who does Goodwin imagine owns or influences mainstream publishing and retailing? For the most part, “them” (((them))).

Call them “the nation killers”, if you like…

Wall. Squad. End. — and millions of pounds saved, all for the cost of about 10 rounds of 5.56 (about £10).

Another example:

My concern is wider. An advanced European society can only be created on the basis of a white European population. The backward elements now forming a large part of the UK population are incapable of even living in (let alone contributing to or improving) our present society.

Good.

The world is changing. Rapidly.

Where there is a right, there is a remedy.

Late tweets

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Diary Blog, 13 April 2026, with thoughts about Hungary, the EU, and UK relations with Russia

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[El Escorial]

Talking point

I happened to see that a blog post first published nearly 8 years ago, in 2018, had a few hits. Looking at it again, I think that it is worth republishing:

Brief thought about Hungary

Obviously, I could not agree with Orban’s support for Israel, but now that he is gone, the EU satrap taking his place will be opening the borders of Hungary to blacks and browns, thus —like other EU and UK NWO/ZOG puppets, facilitating the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

The Kiev regime will also be glad of a probable change of policy re. Ukraine.

Tweets seen

NWO/ZOG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Bailey

This is what we have now in the UK. Look at that idiot. A typical “New Labour”-style nobody, with no principles, no beliefs, nothing… All that and an activist lesbian as well. Completely out of touch, completely dishonest, completely careerist. Labour is a kind of political mummification, if not fossil, these days.

Do such people somehow believe that the public find such obfuscation at all credible?

Oh, well, no matter. It would take a political miracle for her to retain her seat at the next GE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_West_and_Mid_Berkshire#Elections_in_the_2020s.

The tendency, though, is the problem.

Starmer-stein has just committed the UK to becoming even more of a vassal-state than it was before the poorly-handled Brexit happened. What price “democracy” now?

Does Starmer-stein really imagine that people, voters, will applaud this? They will either oppose it or be indifferent (because it will be “caviar to the general” and will pass over their heads).

Britain should leave NATO, cultivate friendly relations with Russia, and thus get energy at cost-price, and no need to waste vast new sums on defence. Russia will provide the UK with huge new markets for our goods and services. The USA can get lost, and the EU will knuckle down once it has Russia to its east and a Russia-aligned UK to its west.

“Boris” Johnson should be put up against a wall. Along with many others.

So will Starmer-stein’s toothless “coalition of the willing” be demanding the re-opening of the Strait from the Iranian government, or from the Trump misgovernment?

If I required any further proof that Jewish lobby/Israel-lobby puppet Tice is unfit for any position or office in government, it would be this— that Tice has retained, apparently, dishonest and incompetent “Mark Lewis Lawyer” as his solicitor. What does that say about Tice, about his judgment?

For more about the egregious Lewis, use the search box on the blog.

Well, the importation of literally millions of unwanted immigrants over the past 50 years or so has not exactly helped, which (with breeding of said migrants) has added about 15M to the UK population since I (b.1956) was a child, but many of those complaining about a housing crisis also favour near-open borders policies…

Mass immigration is the primary major cause of the housing crisis, and another 500,000-1M are coming in every single year.

Basic Income must come eventually.

Trump is the monkey but Netanyahu is the organ-grinder.

Are “they” going to foment a world war (again)?

Translates to a Commons with about 326 Reform UK MPs (bare majority), 71 Greens (very weak official Opposition), 67 Cons, 65 LibDems, 49 Lab, and 45 SNP [etc].

As with all other recent polling, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat, along with 353 other Labour MPs.

Iran is twice the size of Iraq, and has twice the population (about 93M). It is a fifth of the size of the whole of the contiguous USA, so about 4x the size of California, or about twice the size of Texas. The idea that the USA might invade Iran as a whole, or to any extent beyond a coastal zone, or the offshore islands, is just ludicrous.

As for Trump’s threat to destroy the drinking water supply of the Iranians, that would not only be a recognized war crime by Trump and his cohorts, and also by any senior officers, pilots etc who might take part, but also would trigger an Iranian response.

Were the desalination plants of the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to be badly hit by Iranian attack, most of the inhabitants would have to flee or die of thirst, because 90% or more of the water used in those countries comes from desalination.

Trump, played by Netanyahu and a Jewish cabal in the USA, has created a terrible situation.

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To be frank, a high-minded American officer with a pistol and sufficient access should deal with the situation before that idiot triggers a world war of some kind.

Even Lammy cannot be so thick that the fact that the USA is blockading the Strait, in effect, has escaped his notice.

Translates to a Commons with about 344 Reform UK MPs (solid-enough majority), 72 Lab (very weak official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 54 Greens, 50 Cons, 43 SNP [etc].

Once again, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat.

Ursula von der Leyen is an evil little sprite.

Historical talking point

Gunther Plüschow

Quite an adventurer! A real adventurer, not the kind you usually see today, that have back-up crews, TV cameras rolling, and their three-book contracts already signed.

Gunther Plüschow (February 8, 1886 – January 28, 1931) was a German aviator, aerial explorer, and author from MunichBavaria. His feats include the only escape by a German prisoner of war in either world war from Britain back to Germany;[1] he was the first man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air.[2] He was killed on a second aerial expedition to Patagonia in 1931. As an aviator and explorer, he is honoured as a hero by the Argentine Air Force to this day.”

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Pl%C3%BCschow

Another real adventurer

[William Willis aboard one of his oceangoing rafts]

William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans.

Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg, Germany, to sail around Cape Horn.[1]

A few days after the New Year in 1938, Willis rented a room in New York City from a French immigrant named Madame Carnot. Her son, Bernard Carnot, had been sent to Devil’s Island in 1922 for a murder that he did not commit. Out of compassion and a sense of adventure, Willis set out to the penal colony to effect Bernard Carnot’s escape, which he eventually accomplished.

During his first solo expedition in 1954 from South America to American Samoa, he sailed 6,700 miles – 2,200 miles farther than did Thor Heyerdahl on Kon-Tiki. His raft was named “Seven Little Sisters” and was crewed by himself, his parrot, and cat. Willis was age 61 at the time of this voyage. He selected the seven great balsa tree trunks which were used in the raft (hence the name Seven Little Sisters) himself at a balsa forest on a great inland estate. His wife saw him off at the dockside in CallaoPeru. In an incident with the raft in the docks the day before sailing, Willis suffered a hernia,[2] but nonetheless set sail as planned.

In a second great voyage ten years later, at the age of 71, he sailed 10,000 miles from South America to Australia single-handing a 34-foot (10.4 m) raft named Age Unlimited. He left Callao on 5 July 1963, made a lengthy stop in Apia, and after a total of 204 days at sea, arrived near Tully Heads, Queensland, completing his voyage on 9 September 1964.[3][4]

At age 74, Willis made his third attempt at a solo crossing of the North Atlantic in a small sailboat. Willis left Montauk Point, Long Island on May 2, 1968, in his boat Little One. On September 24, 1968, the crew of the Soviet Latvian trawler Yantarny sighted his half-submerged boat nearly four hundred miles west of the Irish coast. No one was found on board. Willis’ log was found on the boat, with its last entry dated July 21, 1968.

[Wikipedia]

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Diary Blog, 12 April 2026, with thoughts about Russia and Ukraine, and about continuing Israeli crimes

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[Nikolai Rerich, 1924, Russian Easter, aka Sky Power; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich]

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There must be a case for removal of Trump from power on the ground of mental incapacity. Having said that, it did not happen with Biden, and will probably not happen now with Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_4:_Declaration_by_vice_president_and_cabinet_members_of_president’s_inability

More Israeli war crimes.

Typical. A bloodthirsty, power-seeking, and morally-backward tribe.

In world-historical terms, Russia must and will win this terrible near-civil war. Russia has a great future; Ukraine only has a future with, or alongside, Russia, either as a semi-autonomous republic under overall Russian control, or as a neutral and disarmed near-abroad republic.

I have in the past proposed a solution to this conflict: Russia to take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and a coastal strip on the Black Sea, an independent Ukraine to exist in the west, and centred on Lvov, and both Kiev and Odessa to be free cities or, failing that, ruled as a two-city condominium (or separately) by Russia and Ukraine jointly.

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[Volga, near Yaroslav]

More Israeli war crimes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

[“The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations.

The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza” to stop threats to communities in northern Israel. The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza.

The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.

Israel has said that it will occupy vast swathes of south Lebanon, establishing a “security zone” in the entire area up to the Litani River, and that displaced people would not be allowed to return to their homes until the safety of Israel’s northern cities is guaranteed, prompting concern there will be long-term displacement.

Rights groups, however, have said these mass remote detonations could amount to wanton destruction: a war crime. The laws of war prohibit the deliberate destruction of civilian homes, except when necessary for lawful military reasons.”]

[Guardian]

From the very mouth of the untermensch

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I doubt, though, whether Goodwin mentions the tribe that has always (i.e. throughout the 20thC and now 21stC) promoted mass immigration into this country. “Them”…

The Israeli mindset comes out of the Jewish-supremacist religion, and their historical culture, going back centuries and even millennia.

Talking point

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Ironic…

Hard to believe that South Africa, under the so-called “apartheid regime” (effective white European government) was one of the few decently-run countries on the African continent, and was able to perform the first heart transplant in the world, among other achievements. That was in the 1960s.

One of South Africa’s biggest problems up to the 1990s was the number of Africans from outside wanting to live there, and crossing the borders illegally to do that.

Since “African majority rule” (rule by the corrupt ANC regime), i.e. over the past 32 years, South Africa has declined in every way, to the extent that white South Africans, once (around the time of WW1) about a fifth of the population, now comprise about a twentieth. They have voted with their feet and emigrated, despite the fact that some of them could trace their family histories in the country back to the 17thC (longer than almost all of the Africans).

White Europeans cannot live for long under non-European rule. A lesson we in Europe, including the UK, are just starting to learn or re-learn.

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If taken literally, Trump is closing the Strait of Hormuz completely, the very thing he demanded that the Iranians not do.

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Diary Blog, 11 April 2026

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[Levitan, Birch Forest]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 21/. My score was 6/10. I did not know that answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.

Talking point

I happened to see again the following, a blog post I published nearly 2 years ago in 2024:

Basic Income

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California#Experiment_in_Guaranteed_Basic_Income

As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached.[51] “

[Wikipedia]

SEED was a Randomized Control Trial that distributed $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients. The cash was unconditional, with no strings attached and no work requirements, and recipients were selected randomly from neighborhoods at or below Stockton’s median household income.

Results gathered from the first year, which spanned February of 2019 to February of 2020, found recipients obtained full-time employment at more than twice the rate of non-recipients. Recipients were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control  group. They also saw statistically significant improvements in emotional health, fatigue levels and overall well being. Recipients had a greater ability to pay for unexpected expenses.

People spent the SEED money on basic needs, including food (nearly 37%), sales/merchandise (22%, on home goods, clothes/shoes and discount/dollar stores), utilities (11%) and auto costs (10%). Less than 1% was spent on alcohol and/or tobacco.”

https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/press-landing/guaranteed-income-increases-employment-improves-financial-and-physical-health

In my view, Basic Income must be the way to go, with AI and robotics impacting employment and set to do so more. The alternative to Basic Income is to have a tiny sliver of the population ultra-wealthy, a wider layer wealthy, and about 80% of the population near-destitute.

I think that that is even more obvious in 2026.

Another talking point

A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]

That is where the UK now is; or very close to it.

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Give white men a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilization. Give blacks a civilization and they will leave you with a pile of bricks” [Anon.].

Simplistic, of course, but true none the less. The white inhabitants of London, and many other European and North American cities, can vouch for the veracity of that.

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Field Marshal Starmer-stein…

Perhaps, after Reform UK gets into government but then fails to satisfy the needs of the British people, real social-national politics will come to the fore. We do not need universal support, nor even a majority, just a large enough minority (disciplined and equipped etc) to take over regardless of rigged System elections.

[“The IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) officially made Argentina the head country member of the alliance last month. This is why they want Argentina to become a safe haven for Israelis.

If you look at every other country who is a member of the IHRA, or observing the IHRA, you’ll see most have been seriously impacted with mass immigration from the third world in recent years.“]

The “fifth column” in most advanced and/or wealthy states…

Incidentally, depending on definition(s), there are between 193 and 330 states, countries, territories etc in the world. The so-called “international definition of antisemitism” has only been adopted by between 38 and 47 (again, dependent on the details) of those states, territories etc.

[“Around 700 years ago, there was a bottleneck phenomenon with Ashkenazi jews.

About 40% of Ashkenazi jews’ maternal DNA traces back to only four women from this time period.

Genetics are destiny with behaviour.

Ashkenazi jews are far more prone to schizophrenia, and just general paranoia, than White populations because of this.

Also, with such a small gene pool to work from, if their ancestors had strong dark triad traits, it’s certain that most living descendants today also have them which explains this awful behaviour below.“]

See also:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Our animal friends. (yes, they attack chickens etc, so protect your chickens more effectively; “good fences make good neighbours”…).

I remember it well. I called that area home for many years.

[Little Venice, London W9; the Lagoon]

Israeli Jews did that, and much more besides, and even the Jewish-lobby organizations in the UK and other parts of the world admit (indeed, claim) that most Jews living in the UK and other countries support what the Israeli Jews are (once again) doing. Mass slaughter of civilians.

Need one comment?

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Britain would have been better off had Johnson been put up against a wall 25 years ago.

Peter Hitchens debates with Zoe Strimpel, American Jewish Zionist. She comes to the UK, and is allowed not only to live here but also to scribble, remuneratively, in the Press, and to talk on TV etc, purporting to tell us, the British, what we should think and do. A propagandist for Israel and Jews generally.

I doubt that I should be allowed to go to Israel, or even some Jewish enclave in Connecticut, and make a good living in the local msm, while criticizing and lecturing the inhabitants of either of those regions. Why do we allow it to happen here?

The same goes for all the foreign bodies in our Parliament, not only Jews but also various other types of non-Europeans.

[“Tim Dillon: “Israel is just blowing up apartment complexes in Lebanon.”

“Massacring women and children.”

“The blowback that Israel will get from this—and the US will get for funding it—will be insane.”

“You are creating terrorists all over the world.”

“It’s going to radicalize them.”

“Israel bombing Beirut 100 times in … 10 minutes.”

“In a densely populated urban area.”

“I’m starting to get this nagging feeling that Israel doesn’t really want this ceasefire.”

“Israel claims in all of these buildings, there are terrorists doing terrorist things.”

“Their argument is like, if we kill everyone, inevitably some of the people will be terrorists.”

“I’ve never seen the brutality of this type of warfare.”

“You can’t just indiscriminately kill civilians and not expect that people are going to be radicalized.”]

I sincerely hope that someone shoots that bastard, and that it takes him several hours to die, just as he slowly killed that wolf.

The same goes for all those who stood by in that bar two years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/wyoming-wolf-bar-animal-abuse

Are the abusers still around? Is that bar still standing? Apparently, the bar owner shown above is the aunt of the primary criminal.

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Diary Blog, 10 April 2026

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Talking point

I happened to see a blog post written almost 8 years ago, in 2018. I think that it is still worth reading:

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The Israeli Jewish state should never have been allowed to come into existence. It is now a kind of goblin-state, inimical to the peoples of the wider world— and not only those of surrounding Arab and Iranian peoples. Its “fifth column” across the world has infiltrated into many states, many societies, corrupting not only business but also politics, law, legal systems and professions and the mainstream media, as well as publishing and academia.

We see now once again, in Iran, Lebanon etc, how the Israeli state, and its military machine, uses the cover of various alleged events of the early-to-mid 1940s to excuse its evil activity.

Yvette Cooper: Labour Friends of Israel, a fraudulent expenses cheat, and a virtue-signalling “refugees welcome” hypocrite who said that Brits should house migrant-invaders in their own modest homes, while Yvette Cooper and her husband, Ed Balls, owned several houses and flats which (of course) were not used to house non-white invaders but to make even more money for the avaricious and horrible couple.

Fortunately, Yvette Cooper can only talk rubbish on TV, and has no real power.

Years ago, the rockets used by the several anti-Israel forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and even states such as Iran, were little more than large fireworks. Gradually, things evolved to the point where they are today. Look ahead 5, 10, 20 years. Israel is doomed.

I have blogged in the past about my visit to the UK’s “germ warfare” (etc) complex at Porton Down in Wiltshire, in or about 1995, and in the company of the then Ukrainian Ambassador to London, a Mr. Kommissarenko or Komisarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko], who was himself a biochemist by training:

“Senior politicians”? Do you mean Starmer-stein, expenses cheat and Israel-puppet Yvette Cooper, and ignorant monkey-on-a-stick Lammy? (etc).

Hardy-ha-ha…

Little puppet-politicians of the Healey type are of no account. Literally nobodies (in the big scheme of things), yet posing as quasi-statesmen for 15 minutes of “fame”.

Not so. Leave NATO, cultivate better relations with a Russia eager to have our friendship, and we in the UK could have not only cheap oil and gas but also a massive market, in Russia, for our goods and services. All that, and also a militarily-powerful friend in the global arena.

Starmer-stein is a very minor politician, not a statesman. The Jewish/Israel lobby made him Labour leader after a campaign of years to trash Labour under Corbyn, so he does whatever the Jewish lobby wants him to do, pretty much, but at the same time is pulled the other way by his remaining voters (a dwindling number, looking at all recent polling), who are mostly either non-whites (mostly Muslim) and anti-Israel, or are English/Welsh/Scottish pro-Palestine people. Result is that Starmer is stuck on the fence most of the time.

Yes. Farage wants Reform to be the largest party after GE 2029, then he can ally himself with the Con Party, be Prime Minister but have a good excuse for not really doing much that most of his voters want. The “usual” (((usual))) suspects have already deeply wormed their way into Reform, largely via Tice. There is now a Reform UK Friends of Israel caucus. Quelle surprise

Having said that, I still want Reform to roll its tanks over Lab and Con at the next General Election. Why? Because once the old parties are trashed, a Reform government will inevitably fail to satisfy the requirements of the British people, thus opening the door to real social-national politics.

People know about the so-called “Stasi” of the old DDR, but often fail to see that the BfV, the security service of the former Bundesrepublik, and of the new Germany, is equally repressive, albeit in a less stark way most of the time.

Take a look at its massive HQ in Cologne (only one of numerous buildings around Germany occupied by the BfV):

Germany enforces so-called “holocaust” “denial” laws (akin to mediaeval heresy laws), and other repressive measures are in place behind the facade of its “liberal” “democracy”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protection_of_the_Constitution

Incidentally, the current chief of the BfV is an ethnic Turk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Selen.

Village vlog

Until fairly recently, that young woman was in another village house, maybe in another Siberian hamlet, with her boyfriend or husband. Apparently, they split up for some reason. Pity. They seemed a nice couple, had dogs, a very fine cat, goats etc, and seemed to be happy. Life is always uncertain.

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Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

Alex Karp: half-Jew, half-black, and a Bilderberg attendee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp.

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Diary Blog, 9 April 2026

[East Berlin, 1970s]

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I believe that Crooke was an officer of British SIS, who now lives somewhere in Lebanon. [note: a reader of the blog informs me that Crooke is now resident (living) in Italy].

Apparently the London/UK economy will have lost about £30M by reason of the ban on that black entertainer (and the subsequent/consequent abandonment of a music festival), he now having been banned from entering the UK.

All because a few Jews felt (pretended to feel) “offended” by his planned brief presence here.

When the karmic pendulum swings, Israel and the Israelis will suffer blows of Fate compared to which the early 1940s “holocaust” farrago will be seen as nothing.

She only just discovered this?

Ha ha. I doubt that Putin will be shaking in his boots. Does that political pygmy, Healey, really imagine that his empty threats will concern a country whose leadership controls, apart from large numbers of ships and submarines, something like 6,000+ nuclear weapons?

It really is ludicrous watching little System-party people such as Healey enjoying their 15 minutes of fame on (what they obviously imagine is) the “world stage”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey

In any case, Britain should be out of NATO and seeking closer relations with Russia. Apart from, in that event, not being a prime target in any major conflict, the British people would then get their required oil and gas at cost price, from Russia.

As already said…ludicrous. Like all present Labour-label ministers, Healey is just a silly little joke.

Iran is now able to tax all ships, or all it wants to tax, using the Strait of Hormuz. The “going rate” is said to be USD $2M per ship per transit. Normal traffic, i.e. when there is no active conflict, was about 150 ships per day (westward and eastward combined). That adds up about about USD $300M per day into Iran’s coffers. “A nice little earner”, if you like. Even if only the eastward ships are to be taxed, that would still be about USD $150M daily.

[update, same day: Iran now says that, during the 2-week ceasefire, only 15 ships per day will be allowed to traverse the Gulf. I presume that that is designed to keep economic pressure on the West.]

Almost identical to another poll yesterday. Main points: a solid Commons majority for Reform (about 383 MPs), and Starmer losing his own seat (as in all polls for months now).

I gave a talk on international swaps (and informal trading tactics) at the University of South Carolina, one sunny afternoon in 2002. A pleasant-enough place, located in Columbia, South Carolina, and about a 2-hour drive from Charleston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_South_Carolina

Seems a long long time ago now…

Import millions of such types, and you also import their corruption and thievery, inter alia. Fact.

[“And now I’m here at this lovely rooftop bar in central London. It’s a gorgeous, hot, sunny day, with a balcony that overlooks all of the London landmarks, so have a guess why nobody is sat outside? That’s right; you’re not allowed drinks outside anymore. They had an incident on Saturday and since then have banned drinks outside. This is everything that’s wrong with this country. A few people do something stupid and instead of dealing with them, everyone has their fun stopped. Bloody depressing.“]

Exactly.

I used to use Leather Lane Market occasionally in the 1980s. Near Hatton Garden and other places. Have not been back since about 1993.

More has been made of the canal since I lived in London.

That photographer seems to hit all my old haunts: Lincoln’s Inn, Little Venice, Clerkenwell/Holborn…

Proposals for a new society…