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“Arabic might be considered the richest language in words based on its complexity. According to The National – the United Arab Emirates’ leading English-speaking news outlet – on average, a single written word in Arabic has three meanings, seven pronunciations and 12 interpretations.“
Not merely a philological curiosity; it means that the meaning and/or intent of the Arab is not necessarily clear-cut.
True, the same word in English can have several meanings (some words can, that is), but I do not think that that is quite the same, mainly because, in English, the meaning is usually obvious from the context. Also, it applies to a relatively few words, not “the average“.
Something for the Arabists in the Foreign Office to consider, if they have not all been purged, and replaced by Zionists (which may well be the case, looking at UK representation in Ukraine and Israel in recent years).
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A few years ago, I posted on the blog my experience, sometime around 1994 or 1995, of having visited the UK’s biological research laboratories at Porton Down, Wiltshire, in company with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, who later became both an unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency of Ukraine and the director of a biological facility in Ukraine (he was a biochemist/microbiologist by training):
Bill Kristol [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kristol#Early_life_and_education].
It’s always “them”. Every. Single. Time.
“ELON: YOU COULD EASILY POWER THE ENTIRE US WITH SOLAR Elon: “You could actually power the entire United States with a 100 miles by 100 miles of solar.” Joe Rogan: “So you could just pick some dead spot that you fly over, cover that sucker up with solar panels, and charge the whole country, 24/7?” Elon: “Absolutely. We need batteries, but yes. It’s not hard, meaning it’s very feasible. The sun is converting over 4 million tons of mass to energy every second, and it’s no maintenance. That thing just works.” Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, October 2023, @joerogan.“
Very interesting from the point of view of American autarky and isolationism.
Reform UK
“Reform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says study.
Analysis of a mega poll shows Keir Starmer would lose more seats than Tories amid voter discontent with main parties.
Labour faces losing scores of seats to Reform UK across England and Wales as a widening section of voters lose faith in the mainstream parties, according to a new analysis seen by the Observer.
With senior figures in the Labour party now privately talking about a “change of era” in which more moderate voters are turning to Nigel Farage’s party, new research on Reform’s influence suggests it will take far more seats from Labour than from the Conservatives on current trends.
Reform would win 76 seats if an election were held now, according to a constituency-by-constituency model. Of those, 60 would be won from Labour, including seats across the “red wall”, as well as in Wales and across the south of England.
However, the analysis also reveals that even a relatively small further swing towards Reform from Labour could see the party pick up another 76 Labour-held seats.
The narrow Labour lead in many seats means it is susceptible in the event of a high turnout among Reform voters, a surge in Reform’s support, or a drop in Labour turnout.
The huge study, commissioned by the Hope Not Hate campaign group, has been carried out by the Focaldata polling company using a mega-poll, or MRP, made up of almost 18,000 voters.
Its analysis of almost 4,000 voters currently minded to back Reform found that one in five were “moderate, interventionist” voters who were unlike those who had backed Farage at the last election or supported Ukip or the Brexit party in the past.“
[The Observer/Guardian]
So there it is. Reform could end up with 152 seats even on present polling and trending.
As frequently noted, Reform is part of the journey, not the ultimate destination, but this news, overall, is very good.
I only believe stock exchange speculators when they start jumping out of windows.
You may as well ban cars because a few lunatics deliberately or carelessly misuse them to hurt others. There must be literally billions of knives, even of the type(s) mentioned, in the UK.
Most knife crime is done by “the blacks and browns”, followed by other ethnic minorities, yet contemporary msm scribblers, talking heads, Westminster Bubble drones want to get rid of knives (or certain types of knife)?! Get rid of those doing the crimes. Get rid of them.
That Tom Calver person is, apparently, a Times columnist. No wonder people do not want to pay, for content of that sort.
“Laughter, the best medicine“…
Over the past few decades, the newspapers have gradually filled with idiots of the Tom Calver type, all trying to present themselves as “serious” commentators. Some, such as pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel expenses cheat, Michael Gove, even made it into government.
As for “celebrity” Idris Elba, is there “some chance” that he might be biased? I merely pose the question.
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“, and Britain certainly has gone mad. Not so much the “broad masses” of the population, but mainly the Westminster Bubble, the msm scribblers and talking heads, the ivory tower fake academics etc.
In the words of Katie Hopkins, “Batshit Bonkers Britain“…
The world has changed out of all recognition since 1951.
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At last.
Look at the odd man out— the “Conservatives”. I think that they are in a death spiral.
Of course, the System MPs (rather than voters) will fight to keep FPTP, but proportional representation is an idea the time for which has finally arrived.
Looking at it another way, it is certainly the aged who still support FPTP, because they have grown up with it, are used to it and many of them are too stupid to see that its time has gone.
As is she…
That is more or less my view, too.
I wonder how many of those in charge are Jewish? In the USA, psychiatry and psychology are heavily-Jewish areas, but I do not know whether that is also the case in the UK.
“I spent the weekend in an act of ‘wild service’ helping to restore nature & maybe helping to heal some if the urban/rural divide.
In an event organised by @StEthelburgas & @letterstoearth_, a group of urbanites came together in the glorious welsh countryside to plant hedges & trees.
The method of planting 100’s of metres of hedges to connect up existing habitats (copses, ponds, areas of scrub etc) cleverly balanced allowing the land to be used for farming whilst giving more connected space for Nature.
The thing I wasn’t expecting though was crossing cultural divides. Witnessing some of the farmers on twitter & in the media who repeat culture war bait about hating both Nature & urbanites in the countryside had coloured my impression of farmers more generally. However, our host Dave was so kind & welcoming to his land & seemed genuinely touched that we had come out to help plant & restore; the jar of homemade honey he gave to each of us was a wonderful reward for a weekend well spent.“
Trees add so much to a cityscape or suburb, not only to the countryside.
Just had a look at that Brooker person. Supports the malicious and mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” cabal, U.S. Democrats, Jess Phillips etc. Oh, and “anti-racism”. Retweets likely State asset and faux-socialist Paul Mason. Seems unclear what, if anything, he knows about the environment (etc).
Sounds like a box-ticker (at best)…
Talking point
National Carrot Cake Day
Carrot cake was introduced in the UK (or reintroduced, having been known from at least the 16thC, probably much earlier) on a large scale in the early 1940s days of food rationing, to use vast stocks of carrots (unrationed) in lieu of sugar. It then became popular, and has remained so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_cake.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Second_World_War_1939%E2%80%931945.
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“Carpetbagger Kemi” steering the “Conservatives” straight into a crash landing, or just a crash.
LibDems, as usual, the “dustbin” or “cockroach” party, surviving and even thriving by reason of not being Con or Lab label…
Electoral Calculus suggests that those figures might mean Labour largest party (237 MPs), Reform UK second (148 MPs), Conservatives 125, LibDems 78, Greens 6. So Labour could form a weak minority government with LibDem and SNP (etc) support.
On those figures, the Con Party would not even be the official Opposition, thus weakening their shattered credibility further.
For Reform to be the largest party in terms of seats, its vote will have to increase to at least 27%, if not 28% or more. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Ian Robert Millard 
No, what would save lives is not banning kitchen knives or reshaping them like moronic libertarian extremist (is there any other kind?) globalist ‘journalists’ at evil Rupert Murdoch (has he not died yet?) owned rags like The Times want to see but stopping importing low average IQ trash from backward crapholes in Africa and the Carribean.
If we did that and brought back proper punishments like the death penalty and ensured police officers did not sit around on their fat arses all day long snooping on people’s Twitter/X and Facebook accounts and done real police work instead we might start to get to grips with this problem.
Germany had yet another gang rape by a Syrian ‘asylum seeker’ the other day with the victim being raped within a few hundred yards of a police station. Before 2015 and mad ‘Mutti’ Merkel and her open borders agenda gang rapes were virtually unknown now they are becoming ever more frequent.
Put simply, different peoples have different cultural practices. This is not rocket science but lefties and globalist libertarian morons such as ‘journalists’ at formerly respected newspapers such as The Times and the fake Conservative Party can not recognise the bleeding obvious.
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John:
I agree, of course, but System drones are determined to pretend that multikulti society works, despite all the evidence showing that it does not.
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The Times used to be Britain’s foremost ‘newspaper of record’ and very respected. Under the ownership of that very unpleasant Australian piece of gone off fruit and fanatical Zionist though he is not Jewish, Rubert Murdoch, it has gone steadily downhill and is now a shadow of its former self.
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John:
I am not convinced that there is not some Jewish ancestry in Murdoch, but I concede that I have no direct evidence of it.
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As a friend of mine said: “You do no have to be a (…) to be a despicable bastard” Unfortunately, there are millons of Rupert Murdoch around. My friend used to say about them: “If he is not one of “them” he surely deserves to be one”
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Tory supporters still think they are going to win some sort of landslide unearnt ‘victory’ under FPTP in the future which is one reason why they back it. That is very unlikely to happen. Indeed, any prospect of even a small ‘victory’ looks unlikely when the party is now more than 200 seats away from having 326 seats or more in the House of Commons. When you go down to as few as 121 held constituencies many voters will think is there really any point in voting for that party when they are so far away from the ‘winning post’.
Of course, there is another important reason some Tory voters and the party itself oppose PR and that is because some Conservative Party supporters are very wealthy people. Under PR they think more centrist to left-of-centre economic policies will become more electorally viable for parties like Labour to pursue eg a wealth tax on the ultra-rich.
It is good to see other Tory supporters are more reasonable and support equal votes for all.
Stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post has been tested now to utter destruction. It is unfit for purpose and increasingly unrepresentative as the farcical election result last year proved beyond all doubt. The last time you could make a case for FPTP to be used on its own was in 1970 when Tory and Labour got well over 80% of the national vote share between them and there were still quite a few seats in which only Tory and Labour candidates stood.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
We should have a Royal Commission set-up to begin the process of electoral reform like New Zealand did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealand
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That poll is quite encouraging. However, there are still too many don’t knows, do not really understand the issue or do not really care much either way people. The electoral reform movement has work to do to get another 10% or so of those individuals supporting Proportional Representation/fair votes.
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The figure for Lib Dems supporting PR is a bit low, is it not? That should be 70% plus. PR is, by far, the Liberal Democrats’ best known policy and their best one.
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COVID-19 could have emerged from an unhygienic Chinese ‘wet market’ or from a lab. It looks as though Chinese scientists were messing around with biological weapons research and COVID-19 was an accident rather than deliberately created. Mind you, is the Chinese government or many of their scientists trustworthy? I think not.
The only peoples in that part of the world I would trust are the Japanese and South Koreans.
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Tom Calver is a congenital libertarian globalist idiot. Some people are genetically or culturally disposed to stabbing people eg the blacks in London, Birmingham and elsewhere and anyway if someone has wicked intentions towards another person they will use ANY method to seriously harm or murder that person. How often does one read in a newspaper that someone has assaulted or murdered another through kicking them, using fists ect?
People kill/assault people not knives.
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That group of vicious lying globalists called Hope Not Hate (called sarcastically by some Dope Not Soap🤣😂😃🤣) is composed of and is supported by Zionist Pro Israel hypocrites. Their motto is ‘Nationalism for us in Zionist Israel but not for you British ‘goyim’ (cattle) in the United Kingdom’.
Repulsive double standards are what Zionists usually espouse. I wonder where that ‘anti-semitism’ they keep on about emanates from?
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Coffee and Walnut cake is a nice cake as well as carrot cake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_walnut_cake
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John:
I agree, and prefer it, though I am not a big cake eater overall.
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I support and love ALL cakes! The carrot cake must be rather moist to be enjoyable sice it does not rely on cream or marmarlade. Among the Continental cakes my favourites are the German Black Forest Cake and the French Tarte au citron meringuée known in English-speaking countries as Lemon Pie.
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What you are going to see is not funny in itself, but the way my friend Emil tells the story is really funny. You can picture 🤮🤮🤮 Zelensky crying and saying “I do not know what happened to the money”.
As Rosenberg said: “Lying is part of their nature”
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Claudius:
I wonder how long before Zelensky whines that even asking where the hundreds of billions sent “from” US, EU, and UK taxpayers is a manifestation of “antisemitism”?
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It would not surprise me. I was discussing this matter with an old friend and he told me: “It works both ways. We are dealing with crooks and criminals. I am sure Zelensky and his cronies pocketed dozens of millions but I am also sure that many Americans involved in “helping Ukraine” did the same” Needless to say I agree with his theory.
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Claudius:
Say USD $10 billion is voted for “aid” to “Ukraine” (the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev) by the Zionist-controlled U.S. Congress. Some proportion of that is taken by the members of Zelensky’s cabal. A further proportion is used to buy whatever arms, food etc the “Ukrainian” “Government” thinks that it or the plebs they rule over may require. Again, plenty of opportunity for (to use the euphemism of the film “Casablanca”) “carrying charges” to be extracted one way or another. Some also has to find its way back into the pockets or offshore bank accounts of such as Hunter Biden etc.
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Well, some of them particularly of the pro-Israel Zionist fanatic type do have an extraordinary wide definition of what they think constitutes ‘anti-semitism’. If you were to go to Zionist hotspot Golders’ Green and accidently brush past one in the street or have the sheer nerve to expel some of your breath near to one of them up would go the cry ‘anti-semite’. It is automatic Pavlovian response! We mere gentiles can’t win with them!
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Regarding Proportional Representation, yes, at last! Whilst I am sure Belarus and its people have many fine qualities, I do not think we should be sharing an electoral system for our lower house of parliament with them as they are hardly a world renowned icon of democracy.
FPTP/Single-member plurality should only be used as PART of an OVERALL Proportional Representation system as New Zealand and Germany use it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
OR if you are electing ONE PERSON as Iceland has it for its presidential elections. Mind you, many people would say a president would be better elected (especially if such a person has significant powers) via a Two Round system like France has.
For parliaments and council chambers FPTP on its own is far too crude and is prone to producing wildly unrepresentative and undemocratic results as we saw in July last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Belarus
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Twin Britain with Belarus with regard to capital punishment NOT the electoral system for our respective lower houses of parliament!🤣🤣😂😂😃😃
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