Morning music
Battles past
From the newspapers
https://www.gov.uk/home-education
More from the newspapers
Manchester. Zoo.
More of the fruits of “diversity”…
Peter Hitchens
See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/.
Tweets seen
I would be very glad to see Gove “scrapped” (that’s putting it politely); one of the merely five tweets which resulted in my 2016 disbarment (at the instigation of a pack of Jews calling themselves “UK Lawyers for Israel”) was that referring to Gove, entirely accurately, as a Jewish-lobby puppet and expenses cheat.
Truth is no defence, it seems, in such a case. Gove has always been in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist lobby, and as for his being an expenses cheat, the only reason he was not prosecuted in 2009 was that the rules on MP expenses were too-loosely drafted and executed. Parliament cannot even run its own affairs properly, yet purports to be able to run the country effectively.
Gove is, of course, also a drunk and a cocaine abuser, facts of which both I and the public were unaware in 2016.
Look at that photo: careerist Gove, the Jew Miliband, and mentally-unstable part-Palestinian atheist, “pansexual” and LibDem MP, Layla Moran [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Moran#Personal_life], all pretending to applaud Greta Thunberg, the mentally-afflicted Swedish autistic, who has nothing to say that can help anyone or anything . Of course, that was years ago, and Greta Nut is of little interest to the public now (thankfully).
More tweets
“Truth doesn’t mind being questioned“? Very true, but tell that to the Jew-Zionist lobby re. the “holocaust” farrago…
I saw an assessment by some British ex-officer that, were the Russian forces to use nuclear weapons (I presume he means tactical ones) in Ukraine, US and UK forces would respond, directly, by wiping out the Russian forces in Ukraine in 2-3 days! Really? What if Putin decided to raze all major Ukrainian cities, especially Kiev, to the ground, using larger, strategic, nuclear missiles? Would US/UK forces still enter Ukraine (presumably only by air power)?
What if the Russians were to take the “Devil’s alternative” and decided to destroy London and a few key airfields, strategic telecoms centres, and ports? At that point, there is no British Army, navy, or air force to speak of, the UK Government would no longer exist, there would be social chaos in Britain, and it would be all but irrelevant that Russian cities and military facilities would also be eliminated.
If the above were to happen, we would be in world war, “Dr. Strangelove” territory, and the USA would be involved both as target and as nuclear attacker.
This is becoming truly dangerous for avoidance of a real nuclear war, both in Europe and beyond. Are the British ruling circles, for example, really willing to risk a nuclear attack on the UK itself just because they want to deny victory to the Russian forces in eastern Ukraine?
Madness.
The Razor’s Edge
I just wasted 2 hours watching the 1984 remake of the fine 1946 film, The Razor’s Edge, which was based on a novel by Somerset Maugham.
The remake expunged entirely the character of Somerset Maugham himself, who in the 1946 version was both the unseen narrator and also seen in several scenes throughout the film (Somerset Maugham was played by Herbert Marshall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marshall).
Several changes were made, I think not very successfully, in the 1984 version: the film starts at a kind of charity fete, rather than a country club by one of the Great Lakes. The main character, Larry Darrell (played by Bill Murray in the 1984 film, but —far better— by Tyrone Power in the 1946 one) is, in the 1984 version, a former ambulance orderly home from American involvement in WW1 (in the 1946 film, he is a former WW1 American pilot).
The 1984 film leaves out, entirely, the 1946 version’s final parts set on the Cote d’Azur, and resets those scenes in Paris.
The Himalayan scenes, where Larry Darrell seeks and finds enlightenment after consulting with an Indian holy man and “abbot” of an ashram, were much more powerful in the 1946 version; the 1984 film makes the ashram a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and the scene in which Larry Darrell is enlightened on a mountain is just not at all convincing.
I have never read the novel, but I see now from Wikipedia that Darrell’s enlightenment in the book came after encounter with a Hindu spiritual master. The 1946 film leaves it vague as to the religion of the “abbot”, but the “abbey” is described as an ashram.
Even the drink which causes the character, Sophie, to fall back into alcohol abuse, is changed from Pertsovka (pepper-and-honey vodka, called —in the French way— “persovka”, in the film) to Zubrovka (bison-grass vodka). I can only assume that that that is because Zubrovka had become well-known, whereas few people in the USA had or have heard of Pertsovka.
Personally, I would give the 1946 version 8/10 as a film, but the 1984 version 2/10.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge_(1984_film); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge_(1946_film)
Incidentally, the 1984 film was both a critical and commercial flop, making back only half of its production budget, whereas the original 1946 version was nominated for four Academy Awards, and won one (Anne Baxter, playing Sophie); it also won two Golden Globes. The 1946 film was not a huge success commercially, but still made back 4-5 times its production cost.
Sometimes, remakes surpass earlier versions, but rarely. In this case, the 1946 version outdoes the 1984 remake in every way: storyline, acting, music, cinematography (despite the 38-year gap). The script in particular is very crisp in the 1946 film.
Late tweets
Mozdok— Ossetia region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozdok#Military.
Macron, the NWO/ZOG puppet: see also this, from 2019— https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.
Sign of the coming times…
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
The consensus of the majority of the world’s most eminent scientists in the field of climate change is that it IS happening and that a large percentage of the change is due to human activity ie the burning of fossil fuels etc.
Hence, the need for measures to deal with it before those changes cause irreversible damage which will harm future generations and even cause certain, low-lying, countries like that favourite holiday hotspot of wealthy people, The Maldives, to disappear under rising sea levels. Tuvalu in the South Pacific is also forecast to suffer this fate.
David Bellamy is entitled to his opinions but they are not held by the majority of scientists. You will always have dissent on scientific matters and on controversial political topics.
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I am not a Lib Dem though I do agree with them that this country should dump the archaic, rigged, patently undemocratic, fraud that is stand alone First Past The Post and change to a system of fair votes ie Proportional Representation like genuine, modern democracies like Germany and New Zealand already have.
Layla Moran comes across quite well to me. She always has a smile on her face and for a politician seems to be a pretty nice and personable person. There aren’t that many of them in the House of Treason/Complete Incompetence you can say that about.
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Oh, and at least, Layla Moran isn’t a drug abuser like Michael Gove is whilst being a member and leading MP of the self-proclaimed ‘party of law and order’.
What sort of example is a rich man who has had a decent education setting to people in poor housing estates who might be tempted to take drugs because they are depressed about their poor economic situation/life prospects etc?
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If I were a Conservative MP I would be wary of coming across as not caring about the environment at all. Historically, the party has never had a good reputation on it. They need to remember that they face a challenge on TWO fronts at the next election not just one ie Labour.
The Liberal Democrats are quite capable of booting out Conservative MPs in prosperous, rural seats in the West Country and elsewhere.
The huge fall in the Tory vote share is due to various factors including the economic situation, the perceived defects of the NHS, police being more concerned with non PC tweeters rather than real criminals and, by no means least, a constant tide of migrants and very little in the way of effective border controls.
There is plenty in the ‘in tray’ to be getting on with though one might well say WHY have a lot of these issues not ALREADY have been dealt with to people’s satisfaction?
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There is a danger in overreacting to the by-election defeats and drawing wider conclusions about that solitary and very, very narrow win in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
The Tory vote there many have held-up relatively well not just due to the party’s fixation on the ULEZ extension but to concerns about London’s shocking crime rate and what Mr Khan is or is not doing at City Hall.
What works due to local issues in West London may not work elsewhere in the country. The perils of an electoral system based ENTIRELY on geography eh, Tories?
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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There is actually electoral precident for the Tories doing well or quite well against the national trend in London. In 1987, the Conservative Party under Thatcher, warned about the activities of London’s ‘loony-left’ Labour-run councils hence they gained seats there in the general election of that year but in the rest of the country they lost seats.
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It is entirely possible to be Green and Conservative at the same time. Green Conservatism is a perfectly valid poltical philosophy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_conservatism.
Even the US Republican party which isn’t exactly famous for being the political home of ‘tree huggers’ has started to take the environment a bit more seriously than it has done so before.
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John:
There is a distinction between being “green” or pro-environment, and supporting the whole “climate change via emissions” and/or “net zero” programme etc.
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Personally-speaking, I don’t think there is. Climate change is undeniably happening and net zero does have to be reached though, of course, there can be a debate as to the best way that can be achieved.
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I think a great number of our ex military officers are bloody morons and utterly deluded fantasists. Have they looked at the state of the British Army recently? It barely exists! You could put the entirety of it in Wembly Stadium and still have room to spare. Also, just like our police forces before it, there are increasing levels of poltical correctness.
Not just the army is affected either. Under the so-called ‘party of defence’ young Britons, even with the relevant high educational qualifications, have been told you are not wanted in the RAF. They WERE in 1940 though!🙄🙄🙄🙄
This country is so much in the mire that even a military coup d’etat wouldn’t make much difference.
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Helo Ian: I am surprised you wasted valuable time watching trash like that stupid re-make (they all are). We know that ALL remakes made over the last 30 years are rubbish; many of them are particularly obnoxious as they incorporated “woke” concepts/messages into the story.
BTW, Tyrone Power starred in another brilliant classic called “Witness for the prosecution”. which I am sure you must have seen. Another great classic that I would recommend is “They died with their boots on” (1941) with Erroll Flynn as Brigadier-General George Armstrong Custer and the wonderful Olivia de Havilland.
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Claudius:
I believe I saw that other Tyrone Power film long ago. Perhaps I shall see it again.
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Hollywood’s Golden Age really was the 1930’s to 1950’s. Some decent films were made afterwards even as late as the 1970’s such as The French Connection and The Exorcist but only very rarely afterwards. Most films now are rubbish.
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John:
I agree in general, though (as you imply) there are exceptions. Seven Years in Tibet (based on the book by Heinrich Harrer) is one such, though even that was released quite long ago now— 1997 in the UK. I saw it in that big cinema at Marble Arch (Odeon?) just before my last visit to Egypt (I was there 3 months, from December 1997 to late March 1998).
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Hello: I do agree with you and John regarding the quality of the films nowadays. However, there were some magnificent films made in the 1960s and 1970s; particularly French and Italian. I would say that the Golden Age of cinema went up to the end of the 1970s.
To “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” (I do not consider the latter a great film) I would add the magnificent productions of David Lean: “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The bridge on the river Kwai”; Stanley Kubrick’s “The clockwork orange”, “Paths of glory”, and “Barry Lyndon” (aesthetically, the most beautiful film ever made in my humble opinion). Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy of “The godfather” and Apocalypse now”. last, but not least, Ridley’s Scott magnificent Napoleonic epic “The duellists” (1978).
Have a nice day, gentlemen.
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Claudius:
Thank you.
Yes, there are many exceptions. Waterloo, for one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film)
My problem is with the films of the past few decades, really, not those of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Thank you for reminding me of that masterpiece! BTW, I have just remembered another great epic: “Spartacus” directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Incidentally, do you remember a fantastic WW1 film called “The Blue Max” (1966)? It was an epic with a great budget and the last film shot in CinemaScope.
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Claudius:
Yes, I have seen The Blue Max. George Peppard starred, if I am not mistaken.
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Yes, the 1970’s were the last decade which still had quite a few great films such as The Exorcist, A Clockwork Orange ext but in the 1980’s a significant decline in the numbers of excellent movies took place and it has increased in subsequent decades.
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Britain is becoming, indeed already has become in certain areas like Manchester and London, completely lawless under the self-proclaimed ‘party of law and order’.
Time we modeled ourselves on Singapore or Japan’s criminal justice systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
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Time also for a decent Home Secretary at long last. Step forward, Mr Lee Anderson MP or Sir John Henry Hayes MP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayes_(British_politician)
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