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“Britain has still to make the decision as to whether it wants to be an advanced, European-race, high-IQ, high-tech, environmentally-aware country, or a multikulti black-brown and mixed-race mess, a “Congo-North” if you like, with ever-declining standards, pay, “welfare”, environment and culture.”
[from this blog 5 years ago, 25 June 2020]
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I told you so…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/09/rwanda-scheme-asylum-seeker-claims-processed-uk
“Thousands of people left in limbo since plans to deport them to Rwanda were axed will now have their asylum claims processed in the UK, Labour has confirmed.
More than 5,000 asylum seekers were on an initial list drawn up by the previous government to be sent to Rwanda under a deal between the two countries.
One of the first acts of the Labour government was to scrap the Rwanda scheme, resulting in many of the 5,700 people the Kigali administration had agreed to accept having their claims processed in the UK asylum system. Some subsequently received decisions on their claims but it is estimated that thousands have remained in limbo.”
[Guardian]
As predicted on this blog, the Keir Starmer-stein “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) misgovernment is “solving” the problem by simply rubberstamping the applications of the migrant invaders.
Even under the fake “Conservatives”, at least 80% of the applications were “processed” leading to acceptance. In other words, over 80% were being allowed to stay, meaning that they then get rights to housing, social security/”welfare” payments, and all other benefits available to the actual British population.
This latest news is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. It is probably correct to say that over 90% of migrant-invaders are now being allowed to stay in the UK, with most of the rest also in effect allowed to stay by reason of not being removed from this country. In fact, the few actually leaving are almost all doing so voluntarily, and there are very few of them.
The next step will be, as I also predicted, “processing” invaders before they even get on those rubber boats. They will then enter the UK superficially “legally”, along with the enormous number of other “legal” migrants (migrant-invaders). Between half a million and one and a half million a year.
Meanwhile, brace yourselves for the impact of vast new waves of “legal” immigration (invasion) from India: see https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/09/we-are-nearly-there-uk-and-india-agree-90-of-free-trade-agreement.
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[from 2020, during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic]
“Businessman Simon Dolan is trying to block the government enforcing new restrictions. His lawyer tells the High Court: Deaths are 2-3% of total, considerably lower than the flu. The gov prioritises only suppression of the virus. It has an obligation to weigh all harms...”
[online news report from 2020]
Pity that, at that time, the courts (and the Government, and the news media, especially idiots such as Piers Morgan) were driven by panic and by “me-too” thinking or non-thinking.
As I predicted on the blog, the stupid shutdown of the economy and society because of a virus which was actually killing almost no-one would damage the UK for many years, and so it has transpired.
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Shut up. New York City is a hellhole. Admittedly, I have not been there for 32 years, but I knew it fairly well and am still, nominally, a member of the New York Bar.
Some thoughts around the Trump tariffs etc
Assuming that the tariff wars continue and even escalate, what will result?
To my mind, the basic or overarching result will be that trade between the USA and the worst-hit other states will fall away, fall off, and then become trade among those tariff-hit states. China will deal more with Russia, India, Japan, European (including EU) states etc.
It is said that diplomacy has three main branches: classical or straight diplomacy (diplomats, intergovernmental contacts, military pacts etc), economic “diplomacy” (trade and trading incidents, eg tariffs, sanctions etc), and cultural “diplomacy” (such as that which used to exist between the Soviet Union and the West, via such bodies as the UK Foreign Office-funded G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association, to which I myself belonged in the 1980s).
Already, we can see that Russia is gradually forming a trade axis with a core group (China, North Korea, Iran) and a wider outer group (India, and numerous other states across the world). Now, the American or Trump tariffs will create a different bloc of tariff-hit states trading inter se and interpenetrating that first bloc. A kind of Venn diagram.
I can only assume that those advising Trump have it in mind to rebuild American industry and commerce by choking off the supply of foreign goods and maybe also services entering the United States, thus stimulating domestic production. That might work, though at the cost of driving up prices in many cases. However, there would obviously be consequential effects, in that retaliatory tariffs would hit American industry and commerce. China is leading the way in that regard.
The ultimate effects are still unknown. Of course, economic warfare can result in real warfare, and that has been seen time and again, as with the US-Japan situation prior to 1941.
It is not unlikely that the next major war will be between the USA and China.
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[“One of the UK’s biggest police forces has just temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to “boost diversity”. This is ‘positive discrimination’ or some might say ‘anti-white racism’ that could well be lawful. It will also fuel claims of a two-tier justice system.”]
Many of the ethnic “minority” recruits are later dismissed, often after having committed serious crimes.
“Our wonderful police”?
I do not know why the Hamas organization decided to attack Israel eighteen months ago. I have no idea why they did not wait until they had constructed much deeper and much longer tunnels, perhaps reaching as far as the Tel Aviv area.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Good morning! I have never been to NY but, I trust your judgement. Besides, over the years and through other like-minded friends, I got a horrible image of that multirracial sewer known as “New York Shitty” (LOL)
The only valid reasons for me to visit NYC would be (A) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (B) The Frick collection.
https://www.frick.org/art
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Claudius:
There are worthwhile experiences in New York, of course: the Metropolitan, other museums and galleries such as the Brooklyn Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum
the Nikolai Rerich or Roerich Museum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich_Museum
both of which I visited (the latter, twice)
and the New York Public Library, where I also spent much time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_Main_Branch
and the Bronx Zoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Zoo
but for me, the experience of New York (1989-1993 on and off) was a very mixed picture, admittedly not least because my funds were very limited much of the time. Not the whole reason for my disenchantment, though. I always felt that, as with Hong Kong, this was a city of commerce, a city of the machine, where nature, the natural world, exists only here and there, and on sufferance.
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You are right. There are cities dedicated to trade, where the Aryan spirit has vanished. Having said that, London and Venice, great trading centres; preserve lots of beautiful places.
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That arrogant bully called Donadl Trump is talking about how wonderful is the USA´s arsenal and yet he recently said they do not have any hypersonic missiles because “the Russians stole our secrets” (LOL) If that was true, why the Americans did not develop a new generation of hypersonic missiles, considering they supposedly invented them? The stupidity and arrogance of this people is unblievable!
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Talking about the colossal depreciation of the British pound over the last, let´s say 30 years, I found a very revealing and interesting video. I love old, classic car brands like Bentley, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, Cadillac, etc. However, I noticed a horrible trend which started around the early 2000s. Cars became bulkier, bigger and less elegant. Not only that. but they became more expensive. BTW, a brand new Bentley GT in 2005 costed 122.000 pounds, now you can get one in very good condition for 15.000 pounds
Look at this video as an example of both things (A) The depreciation of the pound (B) The garishness of the new “luxury” cars. Most viewers and commentators coincided with me in chosing the old (2004) Bentley over the new (2024) one
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Claudius:
As soon as computers started to calculate wind resistance etc, the designs started to look similar. Even a Bentley or a Rolls looks (relatively) ordinary now.
As far as the “show off” hard-core sports luxury marques are concerned (McLaren, Lamborghini, Bugatti etc), they are not for me anyway, even leaving aside the cost.
Firstly, bulky people like me don’t fit easily into them, second, they are not the dignified kind of car I prefer, thirdly, I can only drive automatics, and my licence does not even allow me to drive standard shift cars.
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I do agree with completely. Cars have become bigger, bulkier and ugly. Besides, as you said, they all look very much the same! What a horrible world we live in!
As an antidote to the ugliness around us, here is a lovely English garden, so simple and beautiful!
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Claudius:
“A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot—
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not—
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine.”
[Thomas Edward Browne, My Garden]
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Thank you very much for that nice poem. From what I read, Sir Thomas Browne was an exceptionally intelligent man and one of the brightest minds of his age. After reading about English social history and culture for nearly 30 years, I am convinced that the English are, as Bryan Forbes put it so eloquently, “…not a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of gardeners”. While on the Continent, gardens tend to be the result of a nobleman´s personal interest or taste, in England, you find beautiful gardens almost everywhere. Correct me if I am wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne
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Claudius:
Not wrong.
I think that, of all the peoples of the world, the English are the most engaged in gardening, and in fact have spread the activity far and wide, as the TV programmes by Monty Don show.
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