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Battles past
From the newspapers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/08/martial-artist-enthusiast-found-guilty-of-fatally-stabbing-partner-in-north-london.
“Martial arts enthusiast guilty of fatally stabbing partner in north London.”
“A martial arts enthusiast has been found guilty of stabbing his partner to death at their home and then holding a friend captive and driving through a police cordon.
Jason Bell, 42, attacked Nicole Hurley, 37, with at least two knives at their home in Primrose Hill, north-west London in October 2021. Afterwards, Bell turned up at the house of a friend with a large army-style knife and accused him of sleeping with Hurley.”
[The Guardian]
“Partner“? Looking at the two photographs, one has to ask “why?“, or “what was she thinking?“…
The full report is misleading in respect of one of the locations. It seems that the friend lived not in “Maida Vale”, as claimed, but in Kilburn, a couple of miles to the north of where I myself used to live in Little Venice. Even the estate agencies, which have invented a non-area called “North Maida Vale”, would be hard put to claim the location of the murder as having been in any sort of Maida Vale; not even “borders of”, I should think.
Terrible. Life in most places outside London is hard without a car. I have a car now, but when I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s, I did not drive or own a car (my American first wife had one, though).
Getting into Manhattan by express (non-stop) bus was fairly good and only took about 50 minutes once on board, but to travel crossways, either eastward to the Jersey Shore, or westward to nearby settlements such as South River, was almost impossible, and involved a longish walk and then a ride on the one very occasional local bus, the M15 (I always called it the “MI5”).
Very inconvenient, and that is more or less what is now being inflicted on many rural dwellers in England.
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Look at the fundamentals: Russia is still a functioning and indeed flourishing state in most respects. It has an oil and gas sector exporting around the world, other mineral exports, a state income which is huge, and an army which, despite problems, can still fulfil its tasks. Then there are the 6,000+ nuclear weapons. Russia’s domestic economy continues to work normally. Russia has huge potential reserves of both manpower and armaments.
Contrast Kiev-regime Ukraine: 10%+ of its former territories occupied and/or broken away; a population whose very low birth-rate (insufficient to replace losses via deaths) is one factor, another being the 20% of the pre-2022 population now living beyond Ukrainian borders. The country cannot export by sea, its industry is at a near-standstill, and its shambolic and tyrannical Jew-Zionist government cannot replace the 350,000 soldiers killed or hors de combat. It is now having to use press-gangs. Only foreign aid is keeping the war going, the army supplied with arms and ammunition, and the civilian population supplied with money.
Ha ha. “Laughter…the best medicine“.
As for the “Black on the Square” takeover on 2 September (my birthday, ironically), what an insult (further insult) to this country, to the British people, to us... Which of course is why alien enemy Sadiq Khan has done it.
It is not enough, apparently, that the Notting Hill area and miles around is taken over by a huge raucous crowd of blacks (with white hangers-on) every year.
No, times have changed, and it becomes necessary for the white British people who built Trafalgar Square, and London, and the British Empire, to feel the boot of the former slaves and conquered tribes and peoples on their collective neck…and to know that we, the British people, are now the conquered subjects.
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In my view, juries, long considered bulwarks of liberty, are becoming useless in that regard both in the USA and UK, allowing the plainly guilty to go free (as seen in the O.J. Simpson case in California 30+ years ago, and in many cases since, e.g. the Colston statue vandalism case in Bristol a few years ago), while all too often bending the knee to the infested state and the Jewish lobby in the UK, as in recent and very obviously contrived/faked-up pseudo-“terror” trials.
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Ian Robert Millard 
More news from London Zoo:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12386757/Mayor-urges-people-not-Oxford-Street-amid-social-media-nonsense.html
More mass looting, and there’s nothing of consequence that the State is willing to do to stop it. And more of these national treasures arrive every day….
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HennyPenny:
This has been building for decades, maybe 40 years. Somewhere down the line, the disorder we see from time to time, becoming more frequent, will morph into something akin to a disorganized civil war.
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Thanks, Ian.
As you say, the descent into chaos has been coming (and accelerating with each year) for a very long time. The cities will be very dangerous places to be in years to come. Large cities in the UK are likely to be akin to Mogadishu (in its more lawless times) in terms of state functions and civil stability.
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Hello! Regarding the victim of the stabbing that took place in Kilburn I must say [COMMENT —REGRETFULLY— REDACTED].
Changing the subject. Have you been to a place known as Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire? Perhaps is near you. The video I am sending is of excellent quality (HD) but, unfortunately, the cameraman spends more time in the gardens than in the house. The “Whistler Room” is magnificent.
BTW, do you have a car? I hope you do. If I remember correctly, you mentioned owning one. The cuts on public transport (buses and trains) are really awful. I do feel sorry for those not been able to afford a car.
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Claudius:
I have not been to Mottisfont Abbey, but it is not so far from me, about 23 miles.
Yes, I have a car, but prefer not to say what marque. Not a 1930s open-top Mercedes, though, and not a armoured Zil.
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I forgot the video! What a fool! 😆 😆 😆
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Claudius:
Thank you.
As I had assumed, deconsecrated during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottisfont_Abbey
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I think that you’re being too hard on the idea of the “Black on the Square” festival. It can be a celebration of the five pillars of black culture. Those five pillars being:
(1) Guns;
(2) Drugs;
(3) Money;
(4) Bitches; and
(5) Murder.
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HennyPenny:
Ha. To quote the address of the judge to the jury in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury”, “she says that when in drink, he hits her and kicks her. Well, gentlemen— let’s make him tipsy…and see!”
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Ha, ha, do not forget the sixth pillar which is being a potential ‘Tory’ cabinet minister ( they pick up any old black strays off the street and give them jobs ) and being charged with an awesome and complex area of governmental responsibility ie the economy like Kwasi Kwarteng was wrongly given and messing it up on a truly grand scale.
Or am I being too sarcastic here?
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John:
To alter the well-known phrase, “Kwarteng’s skin was black but his soul was…Etonian”…
Woollyhead Trussbanger.
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Hello! I loved the quote of Gilbert and Sullivan! 😂 😂 😂
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Claudius:
Thank you. Gilbert’s words are always brilliant, and also often tell you a lot about the society of the time. I suppose that his nearest equivalent in the post WW2 era was Stephen Sondheim, though I hesitate to say so, because I am not very knowledgeable about musicals generally, or about Sondheim (a Jew, of course) in particular.
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Oh dear, Lawrence Fox! WHY is crime such a problem in London?
It IS NOT much to do with Sadiq Khan as Mayor like Tory idiots and disingenuous grifters like yourself so often claim.
He doesn’t have much powers with respect to crime and policing. I think you will find the shocking criminality in London has less to do with a largely powerless Mayor but more to do with 70 plus years of continual mass immigration from lawless, Third World crap holes like Jamaica changing London’s ethnic makeup and weak sentencing and other policies from the Home Office.
For most of the postwar era, we have had majority TORY governments so the Tories bear a large part of the responsibility for turning London into the innately foreign, lawless excrement hole it is today.
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