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Saturday quiz
A modest 4/10 this week, though still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10 (he awarded himself another half-point for knowing the general region of question 4). I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 8, and 10. I think I knew no.1 (still unsure) as well, and should have got no. 9 too, had I thought longer, but decline to give myself either of those.
Predictions from psychics
“Two of the world’s most notorious and ominous mystics reportedly made the same exact prediction for 2025.
Both Nostradamus and Baba Vanga claim that there will be a deadly war in Europe next year.“
I cannot say that I have much confidence in the accuracy of any of the (supposed) predictions made (read the full feature), but the way the idea of war with Russia is being promoted (mainly by “the usual suspects”) makes me unsettled.
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If it is true that Israel attacked Teheran and that Russian-supplied air defences protected the city, that might be a gamechanger in terms of Israeli capabilities. If it is all true.
Times past
I do not at all keep up with the changes in the legal landscape, and so it happened that I was surprised yesterday to read that Blackfriars Crown Court closed down in 2019. I appeared there as Counsel a couple of times sometime around 1994.
https://www.ft.com/content/e1118f5d-8333-4261-be24-e8372191953e (worth reading, and with very good illustrations).
The Financial Times report mentions that 43% of courts in England and Wales were closed to save money, by decision of the government of David Cameron-Levita, after 2010. I was aware of some of them, having myself appeared in them. Ilford County Court, Penzance County Court, Launceston Magistrates’ Court —a court building more like a deserted mausoleum even when I was there, once only, in (?) 2004, on a County Court civil case relocated there from Plymouth County Court for hearing—; Trowbridge County Court. Some other courts too.
I vaguely recall being sent in 1993 to do some trivial criminal matter at Blackfriars Crown Court, a “Mention”, I think (they usually take a matter of minutes, once you are there and being heard).
With typical contemporary stupidity, the new Blackfriars Crown Court had been temporarily designated as “Knightsbridge Crown Court (sitting at Blackfriars Crown Court)“. The brief had been marked simply “In the Knightsbridge Crown Court“. What a wonderful waste of my time…so I initially went to the court I knew as Knightsbridge Crown Court, in Hans Crescent, near Harrods, only to find that that court building was under repair (prior to being sold and repurposed).
Even more stupidly, Blackfriars Crown Court was not in the Blackfriars area on the north bank of the Thames anyway, but down an obscure side street on the south side of the river. Apparently named thus because Blackfriars Road is nearby. What idiots are employed to make such decisions?
Anyway, it seems that, after all the money spent building and equipping the court building, it was used as a trial venue for only 26 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Crown_Court.
So now there is neither a Knightsbridge Crown Court nor a Blackfriars Crown Court.
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The whole set of assumptions there is absolutely cuckoo.
No, the British armed forces would have no chance at all of repelling an invasion from, say, the German armed forces as they were in 1940, or the Soviet armed forces as they were circa 1975. Certainly not from the Chinese armed forces, should they somehow gather in Northern France in 2024.
The elephant in the room here, of course, is that the above scenarii are simply not the case. China has no plan to attack Western Europe (inc. UK), the Soviet Union ceased to exist decades ago, and Russia now not only has no intention or wish to invade the UK, but no capability to do so, looking at its less than impressive performance in Ukraine.
As for Germany, the Germany of today is not that of 1940, has no interest in invading the UK, and its armed forces are a tiny fraction of the size of those commanded by Hitler (who anyway had no serious intention of invading the UK even in 1940).
Neither do France or Spain, or the Netherlands, historical would-be invaders of England, have any interest at all in invading this country.
Who, then, is this Labour Party military genius, warning us about invasion? Oh, it is one John Healey, a one-time scribbler (for a year), disability rights campaigner (for 6 years) and then a campaigner for a trade union, and also a p/t Open University lecturer. No military experience, of course, unless you include his 4 years as Shadow Defence Secretary and now Defence Secretary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey#Shadow_cabinet.
The only “invasion” happening, which the present government, like the last one, seems powerless to stop, is the worst kind—migration-invasion of the UK by non-Europeans.
Every year, between a half-million and million invaders are arriving in this country: “small boat” illegals, “asylum seekers”, “fiances” and “fiancees”, “work visa holders”, “student visa holders”, “family members” etc. Plus births to non-whites already in the UK.
What is “Field Marshal” (or is that “field mouse”?) Healey going to do about the one invasion that is not only the only one likely to happen, but the only one actually happening? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Pathetic puppet of the Israel lobby.
From the newspapers
“A man who blinded an acquaintance with a corrosive liquid at an eco-village has been jailed for 15 years.
Jivan Dean, 24, attacked Raven Riley, 21, with sodium hydroxide – an alkaline also known as caustic soda – in a jealous rage after wrongly believing he had contacted his girlfriend.
Dean was seen heating a liquid in a pan on a hob before hurling it in the face of Riley while he was sitting in a chair at a property in Tipi Valley in Carmarthenshire.
Passing sentence at Swansea crown court, Judge Geraint Walters said Dean was dangerous and passed an extended sentence of 15 years in custody with a further four years on licence.”
Such crimes were very rare here until the mass immigration catastrophe happened. In the instant case, the perpetrator is obviously part-Chinese.
More from the newspapers
“The number of people who have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year has exceeded the total number that arrived in the whole of 2023, according to figures published by the Home Office.“
[Guardian]
Demonstrations and marches against the madness are OK, but will not, alone, achieve concrete results. In the present conditions of repression of free speech, I prefer to say no more, as yet.
It is clear, though, that the madness cannot continue indefinitely. At some point, this million a year influx (the “small boats” being only a few percent of all immigration) will cause UK society to fall apart.
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The Commonwealth is largely a waste of time and money, and always was. A replacement of lesser binding than the Empire, to some extent a consolation for the Monarch (notably, of course, the late Queen): no longer an Empress or Emperor, but still “Head of the Commonwealth”.
If the present members of the Commonwealth (not all even former British colonies) are getting even more “uppity” than previously, then just say goodbye to them and take away their ricebowls, thus saving the poor old British taxpayers (those that still exist) a packet of money.
As David Irving said, the real Hitler has been lost to view, and presented by System and/or Jewish/Israeli propaganda (in the form of books, films etc) as a kind of supernatural entity of Evil.
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If Trump can win, at least the prospect of a massive war in Europe, or even across much of the world, will recede.
Macron is an international conspirator. I wrote an assessment of him nearly 6 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.
Israel did not attack the Iranian nuclear facilities. Does that mean that Iran will not attack Dimona? Perhaps.
Israel’s chief political lunatic of significance.
The Arabs are mostly gagging to become part of “the West”— surely that is obvious. The only thing that impedes such a development is the existence of the Israeli state. Were the USA to stop supporting Israel, a huge reset of the region would be possible.
Iran, Muslim but not Arab, might be the exception, but would probably come to terms.
“Ukraine may have to give up its territories in order to end the war with Russia, said the candidate for US vice president from the Republican Party, J. D. Vance. “The Ukrainians are going to have to make that decision … They’re already too exhausted,” Vance said on News Nation. According to him, such ideas are already appearing in conversations with Ukrainian officials, especially in private discussions. “They’re starting to talk about it now.” They say this can’t last forever. They don’t have people, they don’t have weapons, they don’t have money,” Vance added.”
Reality seems to be breaking into the Beltway Bubble…
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Ian Robert Millard 
Just a reminder that Tommy Robinson doesn’t march against immigration, he regularly says that non Muslim blacks and browns are welcome here. He is doing a job for the pro Israel lobbies, solely to direct hatred against Muslims.
Remember that Tommy Robinson is a convicted criminal and thug, who most ordinary English people will never rally behind because of who he is.
He’s not even Tommy Robinson.
He’s not even English.
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It is idiotic to think as many of his followers do that supporting the Zionist entity of Israel means you are somehow standing-up against Islam or to believe that Israel is somehow a bulwark helping the West to resist Islam.
Israel only cares about itself and they could not give a damm about Europe. Indeed, they wouldn’t mind Europe become Islamic provided they survived. Israel actually has a notorious military plan called the ‘Samson Option’ whereby if its leadership thought that the state was on the brink of collapse they would seek to bring down the world with them.
Israel’s 400 odd nuclear weapons (more than we have) are actually aimed at European capitals.
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They are not the brightest. They complain about “an invasion of immigrants” which is the same complaint the Palestinians have, yet they can’t see that at all.
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I agree but one good thing he does do is to annoy the loony-left who I see were protesting AGAIN today. They are truely Britain’s ‘enemy within’ as Mrs Thatcher said about the NUM and Arthur Scargill.
Maggie should really have dubbed vile, hard left thugs such as the Socialist ‘Workers’ Party and their numerous front groups ie the so-called ‘Stand-Up to Racism’ rabble the ‘enemy within’ as they truely are. Scargill and striking mineworkers have done far less damage to this country than hard-left, globalist,open borders supporting, anti-British scum like that dispicable rabble.
Sadly though, Maggie helped these scumbags by passing tryannical, anti freedom of speech laws such as the Public Order Act 1986.
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As if Islam is the only problem with regard to immigration! Pakistanis and other Islamics gang rape our women and that is certainly a deplorable situation and must be firmly tackled but overall their crime rate is lower than blacks. It is blacks who are using knives to viciously stab people in London.
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Yes, he is Irish and lies about his real name. Hasn’t he attended fundraising events for the Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces? If so, I question his credentials for basic humanity.
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I Visited the (World Famous) Russian Children’s Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUR963HUfQk
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Thank you very much for the video, which have not finished yet. How nice to see that the children are all smartly-dressed White Russians! The West is rotten to the core and only a terrible and bloody civil war might save it.
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Claudius:
They are “white” Russians, yes, but not “White Russians”! Perhaps “Central Russians” might label them more exactly.
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Thank you, Ian! I realised (after sending the message) that the expression “White Russians” describes the people from Belarus.
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Claudius:
Or (and this was my main meaning) Russians from the time of the (Russian) Civil War of 1917-1923 who were anti-Bolshevik and/or Tsarist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Army
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Jamaica and the other so-called ‘independent’ countries of the ‘New Commonwealth’ should be paying US compensation rather than we them as Tory and Labour anti-democratic, globalist moronic governments allowed their people to immigrate here and what did we get in return? An immensely more fractured and less cohesive ‘society’, British people who have less sense of a national identity than before and more crime especially in our former capital city now wrecked with daily stabbings.
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Can Trump win and then order an invasion of the United Kingdom? We would then be freed of the misrule of this vile, anti-British, globalist, tryrannical, Labour government that TWO OUT OF EVERY THREE VOTERS DID NOT VOTE FOR. As far as I am concerned, a government that received just 33.7% of the national vote has NO REAL democratic mandate to govern me.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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John:
Why would Trump order an invasion of the UK when, to all intents and purposes, the UK is occupied anyway, with US bases (either as such, or under RAF aegis) all over, the US Embassy/CIA monitoring our political life (and running agents such as the half-Jew Ruth Smeeth, an MP at one time and now in the House of Lords), American popular culture swamping the UK msm, and American companies dominating much of the UK economy?
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It is a shame Britain doesn’t have its own unique language as I believe we once had. Then, we wouldn’t be as susceptible to the worst, especially PC ‘woke’ aspects of American culture. Perhaps, not using the same language as America is one reason why France, Germany ect have fairly strong nationalist parties/movements.
I think that all in all I would rather Britain was invaded by the Japanese rather than the US. We could learn quite a bit from ‘the Britain of the East’.
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One sick aspect of culture in the USA is in some of the more liberal states such as Oregon which has ‘assisted’ suicide. Labour Party sickos and others would like to emulate that over here despite its clear dangers of a ‘slippery slope’ etc and that legalised euthansia has promoted a ‘culture of death’ whereby it has had the side effect of increasing the ‘normal’ suicide rate – a terrible thing for any parliament/governmental authority to encourage.
On the other hand, some US states have a far better culture such as Alabama with its very restrictive abortion laws:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Alabama
Now, why do Labour Party MPs and others not seek to copy the more moral culture of states like Alabama?
https://www.spuc.org.uk
https://www.righttolife.org.uk
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It will be funny if Donald John Trump of partial British descent does win. The editor of The Guardian and the readers of it will be crying into their Starbucks’ Lattes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
https://www.donaldjtrump.com
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Trump is the slight favourite to win with a 53% chance of getting to 270 votes or more in the Electoral College:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls
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Sadly, the US will never stop supporting the Zionist bandit state. Too many American politicians have been basically bought by the Zionist Pro Israel Lobby and Israel is America’s way of trying to control what happens in the Middle East to advance what they perceive as American interests.
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I see that on the Traditional Britain Group’s Facebook page a relative of a man imprisoned wrongly during the riots who sadly took his own life has said ‘Fuck You’ to Starmer for causing his death.
A sentiment many patriotic Britons would heartily agree with regarding the no real mandate to govern petty despot in No.10.
Starmer is an evil, virulently anti-British, globalist tyrant. If this country was a decent and moral one he would be executed via a hangman’s noose for treason as was the possible punishment even up to as late as 1998 or given a mandatory 99 year prison sentence which is the maximum prison term in Alaska.
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https://www.facebook.com/TheTraditionalBritainGroup
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
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