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Battles past
Peter Hitchens
I agree with most of what he has written for today’s Mail on Sunday. As for my views on Hitchens himself, please see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/.
From the newspapers
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
More “trans” nonsense.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23686626.residents-gobsmacked-horse-carts-race-bournemouth/
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
See my blog from yesterday.
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
“Lionesses”
Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
I myself am, in any case, not a sports fan, but the propaganda is just so blatant. Is that why most people do not notice it? It hides in plain sight.
This sort of nonsense is, like all the “anti-racism” stuff, and the “blacks with everything” agenda, part of a larger conspiratorial picture: see, e.g., https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.
Kemi Badenoch
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
[Wikipedia].
If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
More tweets seen
Good security, but at what a price! Not “looks like a ghetto”; it is a ghetto.
The picture shown omits “Jew-Zionist conspiracies“, “NWO“, “ZOG“, “Trilateral Commission”, “Bilderbergers“, “migration invasion” and others.
Late tweets seen
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello! Only moronic feminists or lesbians (usually the same thing) watch the ridiculous female football. The same thing happens with women’s golf and let’s not even consider that disgusting practice known as women’s boxing.
I hope that idiotic project known as HS2 will never be carried-out. It is a scam, and an awfully expensive one.
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Hello again! I have never heard of a London suburb called King’s Cross. It seems to have been a rather poor/ugly area that has been re-developed. The video I am sending shows a quite nice, although very bland, neighbourhood. It seems to me that is a rather expensive, “trendy” place for stupid yuppies.
I found the following prices (which I asume are per month) to rent a flat there.
1-bedroom flat (580 sqft) = £ 3.600
2-bedroom flat (840 sqft) = £ 4.875
The website promoting the apartments is a perfect example of the awful multirracial society promoted by (((the usual suspects))). BTW, their selling/marketing speech is so lame that made me laugh.
https://enclave.com/about-enclave
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Claudius:
Thank you.
King’s Cross was always a pretty disreputable part of London, replete with prostitution and petty theft. It is part of the northern boundary of Central London, rather than a suburb. “Inner city” and Central London mix.
Having said that, it has changed greatly since I was last there, which would have been in the 1990s, at least 25 years ago. Those former gasometers (the -?- hexagonal or cylindrical structures made into housing, it seems) were just industrial relics when I saw them about 30 years ago. Many of the plush new buildings shown in that film did not exist back then. Also, the Eurostar train did not depart from St.Pancras station until 2007 (before then, it ran from Waterloo Station). The new British Library is nearby now, but I have not been inside, though I once had a reader’s ticket for the old one (in the British Museum).
Everything in that area, in short, now looks very different.
I appeared once, maybe twice, at the (I think now closed down) King’s Cross Magistrates’ Court. Around 1993. Long ago…
It looks rather “gentrified” now in that area, like quite a few parts of London.
As for those rental prices— astronomical, of course. Silly money, as Londoners say. Even £3,600 a month is over £43,000 a year. Bearing in mind that income tax etc will be about 1/3 of gross pay for most people, someone working at a job would have to be making £60,000+ a year just to pay the rent. Ridiculous.
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Hello Ian: As you said the prices are astronomical and absurd. Something told me they were ludicrous and I did a bit of research. First, I found that the average salary in the UK is about £35.000 p.a. Obviously, that was worthless to live in that ares. Therefore, I almost double that and I entered £60.000. Well as you pointed out, even a very good salary (for British standards) as this would not be good enough.
According to the website I visited, the income tax will take £11.400 out of your pay and then National Insurance will take another £5.600, leaving you with barely £43.000 which amounts at £3.600 a month. In other words, you need to earn twice as much or share the flat with someone who earns as much as you do.
Having said that, all that hard earned money to subsidise some parasite and to live in a multirracial zoo called London where the chances of being assaulted or murdered are extremely high. No, thanks!
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Claudius:
London is now “not for white man”, or at least only for those wealthy enough to insulate themselves from its downsides. A bodyguard detail is useful. I would not these days walk around Mayfair or anywhere in London wearing one of the Rolex watches I once owned (now and many years ago sold, and anyway I no longer have or need a watch).
Look at how many “celebrities” are now selling up in London, getting £1M to £50M for their homes, and moving to predominantly white areas in the country. I blogged about people I knew (not “celebrities”) years ago doing this
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Thank you, I remember that excellent post of yours “White flight…” The way house prices have gone up in London is insane. The same thing happened in Sydney Australia after the 2000 Olympics.
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Claudius:
Further to previous reply, you might be interested in an old Brit film (comedy/black comedy) filmed mainly around the King’s Cross area in 1955— The Ladykillers. It is now regarded as something of a classic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladykillers_(1955_film)
Also:
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Thank you very much for that excellent film! I remember watching it nearly 10 years ago and is about time I do it again.
Alec Guinnes was a superb actor and every film he was in is a gem.
I remember a very nice comedy, “The Card” where he appeared alongside Glynis Johns and Valerie Hobson.
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Apologies for the lateness of this observation with regard to Hitchens’ Sunday Mail column, Ian.
Hitchens mentions that there was not the orgy of shoplifting and looting going on in Britain “In the miserable 1930s”, but notably fails to mention the obvious and overwhelming difference; the ethnic cleansing of White people from so many of the areas in which these Coop outlets (from which the complaints arise) are located.
Of course, Hitchens is just a system drone and yet another safety valve commentator who will never offer any real opposition to the system. He simply regurgitates, at a superficial level, a narrative already familiar to us, but fails to mention the ‘who’ and ‘why’ of it. He then completes these hollow polemics with tales from his past (which seem to change slightly upon each re-telling – usually to better suit or fit in with the subject at hand).
The man has long since become an irrelvant bore, as he is clearly just a ‘pied piper’, intended to keep the population who might question further what is going on from really ‘going down the rabbit hole’ to find the truth; which is the last thing that the system wants.
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HennyPenny:
You are of course correct.
Other facts were likewise not mentioned, such as the complete absence of supermarkets in the 1930s.
https://moneyweek.com/372450/12-january-1948-britains-first-supermarket-opens
In fact, there were hardly any kinds of shops with open shelves in the UK of the 1930s. Bookshops are the only ones that come to mind.
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Thanks, Ian. I’d not even thought of that. As you say, the availability of goods on open shelves is a post-war phenomenon. Thanks for pointing this out.
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HennyPenny:
It may be different now, but when I visited a few SovBloc socialist states in the late 1980s, their shops were all like pre-WW2 UK shops, meaning no touching of the goods until paid for, though an assistant might (reluctantly) let you handle some items if asked for, while said assistant hovered impatiently in front of you. Bookshops too.
In fact, when I lived in Kazakhstan (1996-97), some shops were Western-style, but many still Soviet-style.
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Very good observation “Henny Penny”! Let’s face it, if Hitchens said what he should say (that means, what we would say) would be fired. I am not making excuses for him; he either really believes in the things he says or he is just another “nationalist” of the same ilk as the viewers/followers of GB NEWS who, like the American “conservatives”, are cowards terrified to be considered racists.
In spite of the terrible poverty that affected large sections of the European population before and after WW1; there NEVER was widespread looting. That happened because the majority of our ancestors had a deep sense of honour that stemmed from the education received at home and at the school. It was part of the spirit of that era and of the nature of the White people. It is not a coincidence that the values of my Italian grandparents were practically the same as those of their British or French counterparts.
I know this very well because I was brought up according to those principles and later on, as I studied English and French, I was able to learn that those principles were very much the same in England or France: Your word is your bond. You do not swear in front of women. You must always say “excuse me” and “thank you”. You must give your seat immediately to a woman or an old person. You must not hit or kick your opponent when he is on the floor, etc, etc, etc…
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