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Myerson’s comment is improper. He should be reported (again) to the Bar Standards Board: https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/.
Also, there should be reform of this whole outdated and degraded “KC” stuff.
In the 1920s, only a few (3 or 4) KCs were granted “letters patent” annually. Back then, to be “KC” really meant something. Today, almost everyone and his dog sports the “KC” label:
“In 1959, there were 181 practising Queen’s Counsel. Between 1966 and 1970, the number of practising QCs increased from 208 to 262. Wikipedia states that this number continued to grow, reaching 404 in 1978 and 601 in 1989.
From 1991 to 2000, the number of practising QCs steadily rose from 736 to 1072. In 1995, 71 QCs were appointed.
In 2006, 175 QCs were appointed out of 443 applicants. 33 of these were women, 10 were from ethnic minority backgrounds, and 4 were solicitors.
Between 1995 and 2023, data shows fluctuation in appointments, ranging from 60 in 1998 to 175 in 2006.
In 2021, 101 KCs (previously QCs) were appointed, including five solicitors.
In 2023 and 2022, 95 KCs were appointed in each year.
In 2024, 95 new KCs were appointed.
In 2025, 105 KCs were appointed, representing the biggest cohort in four years.
Efforts are ongoing to increase diversity among KC appointees, with the Bar Council actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups and tracking statistics on women, ethnic minority lawyers, and those with disabilities.“
[Google AI/Wikipedia]
The “KC” label is now almost worthless, though of course merely being a barrister is even less valuable…
Thousands of persons are now carrying the rank “KC”. Degradation, as with titles such as “lord”, “sir” etc…
“Coalition of the Clowns”.
Anyone deliberately starting large-scale wildfires must be dealt with severely.
“French“? Even Goodwin is, apparently, still infected by politically-correct nonsense-language.
(and, no, I don’t care whether the untermensch may possess a piece of paper saying that he is “French”…).
[“A significant number of British and English people are spontaneously “raising the colours” —flying Union Jack and St George’s Flags on their streets and outside their homes This should be seen for what it is —an act of resistance against mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, the decision by politicians to house illegal migrants in the heart of their communities, and the loss of their national identity. The English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton once said “the English are reluctant to display their identity — reluctant to sing their national anthem, to wave their flag, or to affirm their nationhood … But the cost of this reluctance is the steady erosion of something precious —a shared first-person plural.” What he meant by that was the erosion of a “we” —the erosion of a community, an identity, a home. And this is precisely what millions of British and English people now feel, even if many do not yet want to say it out loud—that we are losing a very precious sense of “we”. Mass immigration, open borders, a state policy of multiculturalism that prioritises minorities over the majority, cultural fragmentation, and an aggressive globalism that wants you to believe the only thing that defines people from these islands is not our own distinctive identity, culture, and history but merely welcoming others and celebrating “diversity” … all this has left many people feeling utterly bewildered, lost, demoralised, and in a place that no longer looks or feels like home. This is why some people in Britain and England, on streets like the one below, are “raising the colours”. By flying their flags they are letting us all know that they do exist, they do belong, they do have a home, and there is a “we” they want to reassert and protect, no matter how much the elite class want them and you to think otherwise.“]
“Raise the banners!”…
More Israeli war crimes.
[“Every single Jewish doctor who followed me for at least 6 years, often DMing me for a chat, has either unfollowed or blocked me recently for calling Gaza what it is -an atrocity. Not one of them has ever mentioned starving children in their tweets yet we’ve heard plenty about the hostages. I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be in medicine – they all were (rightly) devastated by the anti-semitism of colleagues after 7/10 yet have shown no empathy whatsoever for innocent Palestinian kids dying of starvation and disease. I’ve kept a very balanced view, sympathy for all sides, always fighting anti-semitism hard but Israel has gone way too far and if you’re standing by that, you’ve lost your way, precious few Israelis are. Israel & Netanyahu are fuelling anti-semitism not girls with leukaemia. If you cannot take a balanced view I don’t want your follow anyway. And tragically the actions of Israel have made it highly unlikely any more hostages will be got out alive.“]
Looks like someone is belatedly and reluctantly coming to certain conclusions about “them”…
Of course, Washington D.C. is largely non-white anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Demographics. Not entirely, though. European-origined people are about 38% of the population, and many more reside in the suburbs, in the states of Maryland and Virginia; places such as McLean.
I have to admit that some of that was new to me.
Yes, and not because Farage or Reform are anything much, but simply because the main System parties are hated now, held in utter contempt, and rightly so.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
Beautiful wild animals.
We set this trail camera on a remote wildlife trail near a beaver pond, and here are the highlights from the past year or so! Notably, we captured many more videos of wolves, bears, deer, snowshoes hares, and more but condensed it here to the best footage captured.
https://x.com/VoyaWolfProject/status/1957422397956436032
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One more good reason to not vote for the fake Conservative Party is that they are even more demented and evil Zionist, pro-Israel lunatics than even the vile Labour Party is. If you are dying as a party like they are why associate yourselves with a country that consistently does not abide with international law, that oppresses and uses brutal and repellent actions against an indigenous population and which is officially guilty of genocide? Also, a country that was built-upon vicious anti-British terrorism, that consciously gave Exorcet missiles to Argentina during the Falklands’ War and which forged British passports even when we had a Jewish Foreign Secretary at the time ie David Milliband.
Israel has NEVER been a popular country with the British and what little support it did have in this country is even less now.
The Conservative Party is not called ‘Britain’s Stupid Party’ for nothing!
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Even under the PC globalist fan of open borders, Edward Heath, the Tory Party was wary and suspicious of Zionists and/or Jewish Supremacists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_British_Conservative_Party
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John:
The real stranglehold came after 1989, with Blair’s rise to power.
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Bliar and so-called New Labour ie dumping socialism and even social democracy to a certain extent and then replacing it with agressive, no British national interest foreign policy abroad and doubling-down on the already strong socially liberal tendencies of the party by adopting a complete free for all open borders policy was a Zionist production. Bliar the war criminal had plenty of Zionist backers with deep pockets.
That Tory election poster with the strapline ‘New Labour, New Danger’ was spot-on but as John Major was a globalist liberal himself and not a proper Tory he banned it from taking a prominent role in the election campaign of 1997.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🙄🙄🙄🙄
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John:
The “New Labour New Danger” or “Devil Eyes” poster was arguably one of the most truthful election posters ever printed in the UK. I heard about it later (I was living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Labour,_New_Danger
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I really like that piece of Tchaikovsky’s music. It must be one of the most famous and most well-liked of all classical music compositions along with another favourite of mine ie Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Swan Lake was used on the opening credits of what is one of the most famous film adaptations of Irish author Bram Stoker’s Dracula ie Bela Lugosi’s version in 1931:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_1931_English-language_film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)
Now, for some musical requests! Can we have a video of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations and one of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, please?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations
I have always liked Enigma Variations. I think it is a favourite of many. Indeed, I wonder if some clever person could provide some words to it and make it into a new national anthem?
God Save The King/Queen is not very stirring and doesn’t mention the country. Perhaps, we could be like New Zealand and have two national anthems one of which would be the ‘Royal’ anthem of God Save The King/Queen?
Mind you, if we did this and did not play the ‘Royal’ anthem then England football matches involving us playing against the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein would be less weird and entertaining as they are now as Liechtenstein has the SAME national anthem as we do but with different words to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
I have always found it quite funny when England and Liechtenstein play each other at football and then the same tune of God Save The King/Queen is played😀😀😀😀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😎😎😎😎
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Of course, the specific Enigma Variations I like is the most famous one ie Nimrod which is played at Remembrance Day services at the Centotaph in London every November.
Can we have a video of that, please?
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John:
Yes, but not today.
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Thankyou!
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a strange little country for many reasons. There is the fact their national anthem has exactly the same tune as ours has though different words, its a world famous tax haven, the Monarch still has considerable executive power he can use thus making the state a semi-constitutional Monarchy and it is the last German-speaking Monarchy left in the world. I would like to visit the place.
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John:
I think I have,, in the past, told you about my one and only visit to Liechtenstein, a single day on legal business (it was in 2001, I think). As you say, a strange little place (Vaduz) almost like a large village in some ways.
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I have just watched this video, and it did not surprise me at all! Particularly the role played by that hypocritical bastard called Nigel Farage. Needless to say, the gutless high brass of the Armed Forces will do nothing; after all, they are always far away from the bullets when the fighting begins…
BEWARE The Secret Deal Takeover – UK IN THE EU ARMY! – YouTube
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Claudius:
Just watched that. Seems plausible. Look at how the nobodies-become-somebodies have all been told (?) to go en bloc to Washington to prolong the Ukrainian war. We are watching a kind of stage-managed show.
As for a “European Army”, the idea that that would be in any way effective is very doubtful. Several languages, uncertain chains of command, a multi-national force without clear political leadership. How would that stack up against even the present Russian Army etc (which is obviously the idea)?
There is a clearly pro-war policy, a hidden hand, guiding what the political pygmies, such as Starmer and Macron, are saying and doing.
I begin to think that Rudolf Steiner was right to predict, though opaquely, that Europe would be devastated in what I think was the 21stC (some ppl thought he meant around 2000, which is or was obviously not the case, but I think he was referring to sometime between 2022 and 2055).
As for Reform UK, that video hints at what I have been saying for some time: Reform is destroying the main UK parties, the System parties, or at least is profiting from that destruction, but Reform is now itself becoming a System party (the Jew/Israel influence, non-European candidates, unwillingness to get rid of non-Europeans en masse if and when Reform becomes the Government here in 2028 or 2029).
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I do not think that the powers that control the EU puppets (Macron et Cie.) will be so stupid as to provoke a 3rd World War where everyone would be destroyed. I think they are bluffing. (I hope so…)
The events that have been taking place over the last three months have exposed the hypocritical nature of Farage. I have watched dozens of videos of different British patriotic persons, and the majority of the people in the comments despise and abuse Farage. Like some people said, “he is a washed-up Tory”.
It is very nice to see how many Englishmen have taken to the streets flying the flag, but that is only the beginning, as you said, the moment is ripe for the appearance of a true leader. Time will tell…
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Claudius:
I agree with both of your main comments.
However, look at the First World War. At root, no-one of significance wanted it, but it happened all the same.
The EU and UK idiots-in-power may be bluffing, may indeed be “just poking the Bear”, but look at where we are. Three years ago, it was “Russia has invaded Ukraine” (leaving aside any nuance). Then it was “Ukraine is fighting back and needs defensive weapons and training“. Then, for a while, it was “Ukraine needs arms, ammunition, money, planes, tanks, missiles to take the fight into Russia“. Then it was “Ukraine needs long-range missiles to be able to hit Russian rear areas”. Now it is “Ukraine needs no-fly zones patrolled by EU/UK/NATO planes, long-range missiles, and thousands of Western troops…”
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