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Thought for the day
The so-called “Glorious 12th”, start of the grouse season. A “sport” of which I disapprove, so good luck to all grouse today.
There are those who claim that shooting helps conservation of a number of species [see, e.g. https://www.sykeshousefarm.co.uk/news_stories/why-grouse-is-becoming-more-exclusive-than-ever/] but I feel that there are other ways to do that. In the end, I just feel that to take pleasure in shooting a creature, a warm-blooded one at that, is morally wrong.
In the years 2002-2008, when I was a barrister based in Exeter and (2002-2006) living on the Cornwall/Devon border, prime shooting territory, several of my colleagues in chambers shot. I recall one incident when one member of chambers shot a pheasant which then fell on the head of either his wife or someone else’s wife (I think the latter), the lady in question being knocked out as a consequence.
I cannot now recall whether the shooter was or was not the person who later had an affair with the lady in question, who later left the one barrister for the other (causing a big kefuffle in chambers, as might be imagined; however, this being England and not Texas or the Caucasus, no-one opened fire on anyone else, and no blood was spilt).
Awkward, and I quite liked all three members of chambers involved (one involved simply as another gun on the fateful day; the lady involved was not a barrister, though I think that I did meet her once).
In fact, as someone who does not interfere with other people if it can be avoided, and because in those years I spent half my time at my then home in Finistere, or elsewhere, I was apparently the only member of Chambers for some time unaware of the personal upset that had occurred (though I had heard about the earlier, pheasant-caused, injury).
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For once, I agree almost entirely with everything Andrew Neil says there.
“They” dislike any of their activities being exposed to the light of day. Not only in the Middle East; in the UK and elsewhere as well.
Terrible. I spent several days at Canakkale town in 2001, having driven from England (and then on to Mediterranean Turkey), a more difficult drive at that time than it now is, Turkey, in the past quarter-century, having constructed all sorts of motorways and bridges where none previously existed. Also, most of the states of Eastern Europe were then not in the EU or the Schengen Zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87anakkale
…and the number of “legal” migrants is about 20x that, so at least a million altogether, in about a year…
Disastrous.
Talking point
[“American woman says “I’ve had enough” of the white hate pushed on the population “We’re the only ones that are constantly having diversity shoved down our throats. We are a global minority being replaced in our own countries. And I’ve had enough” “If you would have asked me like nine months ago if I would ever be making pro white content, I would have looked at you like you were insane. Like, the idea of a white person being proud to be white is so foreign to most of us. And it’s really only been conflated with evil and hate and maliciousness. And it’s like you stop and you think about that. White people are really the only ones that are taught to hate ourselves, or the only ones that are blamed for every and all atrocities across the planet over all of time. We are the only ones that are taught to be colorblind. We’re the only ones that are constantly having diversity shoved down our throats. We are a global minority being replaced in our own countries. And I’ve had enough.”]
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“The Theory of (Political) Relativity”, if you like: The Labour Party is ebbing away, especially among real British people, but the equally fake Conservative Party is ebbing away even faster.
Enough for a modest Reform majority.
Only 17% think the present government competent, and only 25% think it is even trying to “do the right thing”…
Mass immigration is the key issue, because it affects all other issues.
[“Great scoop on the procession of Brits bending the knee to the genocidal Ms Hotovely. Lots of interesting names in the disclosed diary besides the names mentioned in the story. Some highlights: The ever repellent Douglas Murray; Jonathan Sacerdoti had a 30 minute briefing with Hotovely on 17 October 2023. He has worked for the Zionist Federation, the Campaign Against Antisemitism and been a member of the Board of Deputies as well as other genocidal Zionist groups; Hotovely had dinner with Lord Bew, the former ‘Marxist’ from the north of Ireland who went on to advise Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, and the Zionist fanatics at the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society; Neil Blair had a phone call with Hotovely. He is the fanatical Zionist who oversees JK Rowling’s business empire and keeps her on the Zionist path, as he does with many of the other clients he acts for. Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Met Police met Hotovely on 14 November 2023. The Met have since done their duty to embed Zionist ideology in policing decisions and to enforce Zionist demands to whip up hysteria about ‘antisemitism’; Dean Godson of the Islamophobic Policy Exchange had breakfast with Hotovely; Matt Jukes, Assistant Commissioner at the Met Police bent the knee in August 2024; A dinner with Beit Halochem was held in the Dorchester in September 2024. It is a British charity sending cash to support the IOF. Andrew Wolfson of the Wolfson family runs it. They own Next, Fatface and Reiss; Remember, whenever you hear a leading Zionist speak, you can be sure their words are authorised or authored by an outpost of the Zionist regime. #DismantleZionism.“]
Interesting. Quite a coup, to get hold of the diary of someone as well-guarded as that.
The Jewish/Israel lobby, though very active even in the 1980s and 1970s, was not then the powerful and corrupting force it is in 2025. Not just in politics and law, either. You see the cultural aspects of it in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and TV etc.
Ukraine news
“In what may prove to be a major breakthrough for Vladimir Putin, Russian sabotage and reconnaissance units punched through exposed defences in eastern Ukraine, slipping as far as six miles behind the front line in just 48 hours, according to battlefield reports.
Kyiv has diverted special forces units to confront the insurgents on the ground in an attempt to prevent any more of Ukraine falling under Russia’s control before the summit in Alaska.
The location, near Dobropillya in Donetsk, is strategically significant. If Moscow’s forces are able to establish a foothold, the breach could allow Russia to cut off the city of Kramatorsk, one of the most vital strongholds in the Donbas still under Kyiv’s control.
If the city falls, it would give Putin almost full control over the Donbas and strengthen his negotiating power when bargaining over Ukraine’s fate with the Trump administration.“
[Daily Telegraph]
As predicted on the blog, the Kiev-regime front is fast crumbling.
Appalling-looking bastards, many of them.
Evil shows itself, sometimes.
Slowly slowly catchee monkee…
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“Currently, according to Bild military observer Julian Repke, the fate of 29% of the territory of the Donetsk region, which remains under Ukrainian control, is being decided.
North of Pokrovsk, the depth of the front breakthrough is already about 18 km, and the Ukrainian armed forces have only a few days to hold their positions before Russian drones and mechanized units are transferred there.“
[Daily Telegraph]
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
Yes, we are not a serious country anymore but this process has been going on for many decades now. The last time we were was when semi-decent, wholly British ancestry, PM, Neville Chamberlain, was in office.
After half-American, thoughtless cretin, Yankee poodle, early version of Bliar, Churchill, became PM in May 1940 the leftwing slide began so here we are now.
This is just the latest example of Britain’s ongoing insanity and police time wasting:
https://substack.com/endtimesprodigy/note/c-144481802
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John:
That link seems to lead nowhere.
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John, I must congratulate you on such an excellent description of Winston Churchill: “… half-American, thoughtless cretin, Yankee poodle, early version of Bliar…”
I remember, when visiting Blenheim Palace in 1999, seeing a large, elaborately framed certificate of the honorary US citizenship conferred to the alcoholic traitor by Roosevelt (who privately despised him) as a “Thank You” for destroying the British Empire and reducing Great Britain to the role of lap dog of Uncle Sam.
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https://substack.com/@endtimesprodigy/note/c-144481802
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John:
That link works.
As you say, absolutely ridiculous. Of course, “catcalling” is vulgar, and (speaking generally) should not happen, but is hardly a police matter, especially looking at what else is happening in the country.
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Why anyone bothers to pay taxes in this country beats me! The ultra-rich are often blamed for having clever accountants to hide their clients’ money in accounts in Monaco, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Switzerland or using other techniques to lessen their taxes but who can really blame the mega-rich for seeking to do that when utterly gormless Labour and so-called ‘Conservative Party’ governments waste our tax money in the way they do?
We here in Essex have a farce of a police ‘force’ led by an total PC moron of a Chief Constable whose main priority is not combatting REAL crimes but investigating people for ‘mean tweets’ and adverse Facebook comments. His ‘force’ is blatantly politically-biased eg a SENIOR officier shouting ‘fascists’ at anti-‘asylum seeker’ protests in Epping a few weeks ago.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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John:
The way the UK now is positively encourages people to ignore the law and to do what works for them.
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Essex County Council charges us a high rate of tax to pay for the local East Germany-like Stazi.
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How appropriate that clip was on LBC! That station ’employs’ Irish, chip on his shoulder to the country that pays his obscene wages, James 0 Brien – an obnoxious, arrogant, PC loony globalist who thinks he knows it all but, in reality, he is an ignorant bastard.
I have a feeling he was abused by his Roman Catholic teachers at Ampleforth College – a posh public school set in acres of lush, North Yorkshire countryside and known as ‘the Catholic Eton College’. This might well explain the disgusting way he treats people on his lamentable show.
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John:
I know about Ampleforth. My one-time girlfriend’s father (now deceased for about 30 years if not longer) was Head Boy when at Ampleforth sometime around 1930. An institution run by Benedictine monks. Now co-ed, apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampleforth_College
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It is a shame that nearly all public schools are now day schools and allow girls to be pupils. Surely, there is still a role for full-boarding and all-boy institutions to play?
Only Eton College, Harrow School, Sherbourne School and Radley College are like this now. Even Sir Oswald Mosley’s old school of Winchester College is now in the process of admitting girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radley_College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College
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John:
Personally, I am not much in favour of boarding schools, but the change has come about partly because, at the height of Empire, there were many parents unable to give their children, especially boys, anything beyond a basic education in Africa, Asia etc, though schools were eventually established on the English model in various colonies. Now, Britain has no Empire, and even the armed forces (the officers of which could have their children educated at English boarding schools at State expense) have been cut back heavily.
My own school, when I attended in the early 1970s, was even then about 3/4 day pupils to 1/4 boarders, and took no girls (one, the daughter of a master, was admitted to the 6th form when I was in the 3rd form, about 1971).
Now, that school is unrecognizable in all sorts of ways. No boarders, co-ed, and with quite a lot of Indians and Chinese (it seems)
https://rbcs.org.uk/
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Labour still has many mentally ill morons who will habitually vote for it even amongst Britons. A large proportion of them are dim, overly emotional women like this example:
https://substack.com/@fergusmason/note/c-144511249
A single picture encapsulates the reasons why a large number of our forebears were so passionately opposed to giving the right to vote to women and why the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein only narrowly passed this right in a men-only referendum in the early 1980’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
By the way, love, despite the fact that many refugees are prone to raping any person with a vagina you, love, are at their bottom of the list because even they have some standards for the kind of women they like to rape and you, like many ultra-liberal globalist women, are not pretty enough!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dopey mare! Mrs Thatcher was so WRONG to close down so many mental hospitals. Her ‘care in the community’ policy is simply NOT working!🙄🙄🙄😡😡😡😡
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John:
That woman must be utterly moronic.
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Sadly, The Labour Party, the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-left/Islamic party still have a large voting pool to recruit voters from.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
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She is definitely certifiable! Can’t we relocate her to Rockall or a small, isolated island somewhere else like Fair Isle or Gruinard Island?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Isle
https://en.wikipedia.org/Gruinard_Island
It is a shame we can’t develop a British version of Alcatraz prison on the island of Lundy but we can’t since it is owned by a private charity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy
https://en.wikipedia.org/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary
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John:
I am more worried about the idiots and/or lunatics in government etc, than those rank-and-file loonies in the street.
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Placards from the ultra-left, so-called Socìalist Workers’ Party as well I see. Typical! They are a sick joke and must be one of the most inappropriately named political parties in world history seeing as about 50% of their members and supporters are unemployed and the other half do not need to work since they are spoilt middle-class brats named Tarquin and Jemina living-off the trust funds of mumsy and dadsy!
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John:
The “Socialist Workers Party”, SWP, was around, jumping into every protest going, almost, even in the 1970s. No obvious change since then. Used to be run by Jews with non-Jew aliases such as “Tony Cliff” (Ygael Gluckstein). Same with Militant, run by “Ted Grant” (Isaac Blank).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Grant
Also, the WRP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Revolutionary_Party_(UK)
I recall some young journalist, in the 1970s, at one time involved with such groups. Her political awakening from those deluded groups came when the WRP held a meeting, and two of Vanessa Redgrave’s cronies turned up in…a yellow Lamborghini!
I have often wondered why the members of such doomed and stupid little “Marxist” parties bother (I mean, apart from police/MI5 infiltrators). They must surely know in their hearts that they are wasting their time for a worthless cause.
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Ian: I have asked myself the same question, but then I realised that the kind of people who join those ultra-Marxist parties are incredibly stupid and would not recognise a wolf dressed as a sheep. As a friend of mine said: “If you are a Communist, you are mentally ill”
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Claudius:
Perhaps, but I would not call such foot-soldiers “Communist” in any sense. They are simply deluded, like the narcissistic gays who make common cause in the West with the extreme Islamists who, given power, would push them off high buildings, as we saw with the ISIS barbarians some years ago.
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I think you are right, up to a point. Some, perhaps most of them, are narcissistic fools who think they are “doing the right thing”, while a few may be quite well-read and sincere Communists or Socialists, although that does not make them any less foolish than the rest.
I am quite sure that those silly “lefties” that you have over there are very much the same as the idiots we have here: middle or upper-middle class, ugly and scruffy. As a French comrade told me once: “Isn´t it revealing that the lefties are ugly, dirty, rude and obnoxious, and we are polite, respectful, clean and, usually, smartly dressed?” As a great French historian said: “Our political ideas are a reflection of our personality”
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Claudius:
Someone, perhaps Valentin Tomberg, called Marxism-Leninism “dummy intellectuality“.
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Or gays who march on the Pro Palestinian marches which do have some Islamist people on them.
Obviously, I am no fan of the Zionist state of Israel or its increasingly disgusting, brutal and continual international law defying behavior but I must concede the fact that Israel is quite a friendly and tolerant country for LGBTQIA people and its record on their rights is a pretty good one though gay marriage is not possible because, rather strangely, ALL weddings in Israel are religious ones.
The Arab muslim countries surrounding Israel have terrible records on LGBTIQA rights in comparison.
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Why do some Jews gravitate so easily to Marxist/Communist/hard-left organisations? Is it because a lot of them feel like outsiders in a gentile society and those philosophies are thought to be rebellious against societal norms?
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John:
An interesting question. There are several possibilities, interweaving.
My own view is that Jews who have the intellectual horsepower to be even interested in such matters tend to have a basically unspiritual intellectuality even when (in narrow areas) it is powerful. Thus we see that many, though not all, of the important atomic scientists of the 20thC were Jews, among them Einstein, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Pontecorvo, Edward Teller etc were Jews. Many of those were also interested in Marxism or Marxism-Leninism.
Likewise, many —though certainly not all— of the top chess players have been Jews.
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No doubt they read that ‘Bible of the Liberal-Left’ The Guardian whilst drinking a Latte coffee and eating their favourite foods of avocado on toast or Tofu!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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We should also seek to dump non-SWP but still ultra-liberal, globalist, open borders supporting nutters like Fraser Nelson on remote islands far away from sane people like us!
He is a one man walking advert for Scottish separatism/English independence!
It is protection for US and them (from themselves) you see! What is not to like?😂😂😂😂
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