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On this day a year ago
Saturday quiz
Well, this week a modest 6/10. Still enough, however, to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 4, 6, 8, and 10. I should have known question no. 4 too, having been there as a child and I think maybe even having been on that canal.
From the newspapers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/10/donkeys-neglected-animal-deserve-their-moment.
Donkeys are beautiful, in their own way. Friendly and humble creatures. Probably my favourite animals, after cats.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/13/andrew-brigden-andrew-tate-online-safety-bill.
Pseudo-liberal scribbler wants less freedom of expression online. Was there ever an era in which so many self-describing “journalists”, “creatives” and, indeed, “radicals”, wanted not more free speech but less?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Hinsliff.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/13/paul-johnson-obituary.
Sic transit gloria mundi… Paul Johnson, almost if not actually obscure to the public of 2023, was a major political, or socio-political, voice in the 1980s, 1970s, and indeed 1960s. I can recall seeing him on TV in the early 1970s, sternly extolling the potential virtue of having a State-controlled or subsidized newspaper which would be such a newspaper of record that it would only print the unvarnished truth of what had happened in the world. As people say, “good luck with that“… That TV chat was, of course, some years before Johnson turned away from socialism, and embraced Thatcherism.
I heard little of Paul Johnson in the 1990s, and his star faded (in the public eye) to the extent that I was actually surprised, some years ago, to discover that he was still alive.
The type of person who thinks his own views terribly important, to the extent that at least some others in the msm or System politics also think him important for a while, more important than he really is. Still, a prolific author, and certainly someone who influenced the uplands of British thought, though not the views of the man-in-the-street, for several decades.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(writer).
It could be said that the meaning of the words “Simon Danczuk” is “disgraceful“.
Rassenschande…
How much did the freeloading bastard get from the Daily Mail? He was always in the pocket of the Jewish lobby, so I expect that he gets a few crumbs thrown to him.
Incidentally, the bastard is ten years younger than me but looks ten years older. His life and lifestyle have caught up with him.
At least his godawful ex-wife, Karen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Danczuk, is now forced to read about him while sitting on the dole in depressing Manchester. Thank God she failed to follow Danczuk into the Westminster monkeyhouse (which seemed quite likely at one point).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Danczuk#Parliamentary_career
On the facts, certainly murder, not manslaughter. The jury must have been idiots. How was that not “intending to kill or to cause really serious injury [the victim then dying as a result]”?
The sentences were also far too lenient.
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Incidentally, I was just watching a 1970s episode of Crown Court, the facts of the case revolving around an overworked and slightly disorganized Accident and Emergency department of an NHS hospital. Plus ca change?
Very true, but of course the hell of it is that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer’s fake “Labour” will be no better, and quite possibly worse.
Never give “scientists”, academics, or bureaucrats too much influence or power.
I blogged recently about how I refused the “vaccines” for “Covid”, and —despite a now rather unhealthy and sedentary overall lifestyle— am still fine, whereas my two brothers in the UK and Australia, lifelong sports and golf players, were both “vaccinated” and “boosted”, and both (in the same week last year) had to be taken as emergency cases to hospital, having had heart attacks (btw, both now OK after having had heart by-pass operations).
Co-incidence? Karma? Or what? I know what I think.
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“The Harry Formerly Known as Prince” and “Meghan Mulatta”. What a bad joke it all is.
Paid for by her mug supporters.
Ha ha!
As yet, and as far as I know, the Jew-Zionist self-publicizer and resident of Israel, Mark Lewis, who was her solicitor on a previous occasion years ago, has not come out of his kennel in recent months to defend the “Bootstrap Cook”.
“Jack Monroe” was threatening to sue Con Party MP, Lee Anderson, in May 2022, and all her friends in the newspapers were writing about it, but since then it has transpired that not only has she not taken even the first steps to suing Anderson, but that she launched a crowdfunder in May 2022, and raised money on that basis to sue Anderson (and the commentator Martin Daubney), but has kept those monies for her own use, as far as can be seen.
The police should be investigating “Jack Monroe” on suspicion of having committed fraud.
Another idea struck me.
“Jack Monroe” lives in Essex, in the Southend area. Her father is a rentier who rents out a number of houses there. He was, I read, once a fairly high-ranking member of the fire brigade there, and also holds an MBE. He may (I do not know) be a freemason, as also are so many responsible officers of the police. Is that a factor in “Jack Monroe” not being (as it at least seems) properly investigated? Again, I cannot say, either way.
Or maybe “Jack Monroe” is just not a “celebrity” any more, and so the non-existent “Essex Police Celebrity VIP Twitter Squad” can no longer give her special attention (as “victim” of the emerging truth)? (Only taking the joke further…).
Incidentally, my own experience of the Essex Police, from six years ago almost to the day: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/ (blog post written six months later).
I, on the other hand, find it odd how so many of the remaining hardcore “Jack Monroe” supporters are zealous supporters also of the present inflated nonsense around “LGBTQXYZ”.
I still remain interested as to why there are, as it certainly seems, no young or even young-ish (say under-30, under-40) “Jack Monroe” supporters, and no ethnic minority supporters either, with the exception of a handful of Greek Cypriots I have noticed on Twitter (she herself is half-Greek Cypriot, her original name having been Melissa Hadjicostas).
I have previously suggested a couple of reasons why no ethnic minority people seem to support the “Bootstrap Cook”, one being that many of them know real poverty only too well to accept her nonsense, and the other being that few of them would look at the food of “Bootstrap Cook” with anything other than contempt.
There may be other reasons.
Unbelievably, there are, as of today, 634 utter mugs still sending between £3.50 and £44 a month each to “Jack Monroe”. No wonder she can spend money like a drunken sailor! The puzzle is why so many apparently crazed virtue-signallers want to enable it.
Those people are too kind…
“Perhaps“?! Ha ha!..
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Ian Robert Millard 
In a way I am sick and tired of reading about “Jack Monroe” but once I start, I can´t help carry on and laughing at the idiotic stories/lies concocted by her and the imbecility of the “utter mugs” (thank you Ian! I love that expression) who are still supporting her; they deserved to be left penniless. (LOL)
I have noticed you defeated (AGAIN!) John Rentoul. What a mediocre creature! (LOL)
BTW, who is the mysterious “government’s net zero tsar”?
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Claudius:
Thank you (I think!)…
It is true that are worse crooks than “Jack Monroe” around, but it *is* infuriating that the said “utter mugs” support her and/or funnel £££ to her, and that many seem to imagine that she is somehow championing the “poor” (or is even “poor” herself); what is even more infuriating is the fact that, until a week or two ago, the msm were complacently putting her up as per her own valuation, and not looking at the facts about her.
“Net zero tsar”— that is one Chris Skidmore, a horrible little bastard of an MP, who was found not very competent as a junior minister, and who obviously sees that his chance of re-election is small, so is standing down at the next UK general election (having been first elected in 2010).
I imagine that Skidmore will go back to the world of lucrative fake “think-tanks”. He is pro-Jewish Lobby, pro-Israel (I believe), and pro the Kiev regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Skidmore
What surprises me about John Rentoul and his quiz results is that I really would have expected him, over the past couple of years, to have done better. Perhaps I, even now, over-value those who are journalists on supposedly serious publications.
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Thank you for your comments and the explanation about that “horrible little bastard” of Skidmore (LOL)
BTW, thank you uploading those songs by Doris Day. What a wonderful singer and human being she was! Did you know she was a great animal lover?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day#Animal_welfare_activism
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Claudius:
No, I had no idea. I have seen a couple of her films in the past, of course.
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I found this analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s film “An Orange Clockwork” very interesting and thought provoking. I would like to know your opinion.
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Claudius:
Thank you. Will look at it tomorrow. I see that is is half an hour long. It is after midnight here. Today, “Smersh Never Sleeps” is not applicable to me…
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Claudius:
Yes, interesting. I think that the core of it is that many of the things which we think of as defining “humanity” can actually now be replicated synthetically.
Human intellect —in its logical sense— can be far outclassed by computing power of machines. Both human dexterity and human strength can be replicated and far outperformed by robots and other machines. Even logical decision-making power (eg medical diagnosis, legal analysis) can —up to a point, so far— be replicated by some AI machines. Where, then, does the human being, the human *soul*, reside?
In somewhere, or something, which goes beyond those replicated abilities and capabilities.
I always get the idea, seeing the films of Kubrick, that his perhaps deep ideas are not successfully translated into actual filmed stories; for me, they tend to disappoint.
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