Morning music
Saturday quiz
Well, this week 6/10, trumping political journalist John Rentoul’s 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9, and could not think quickly enough to get the right answers to questions 1 and 4 (which I “really knew” somewhere or other). So 6/10…
Well, looks like the first sign of a thaw…
It is a long time since I studied Public International Law, I think 1985-86, but if I remember aright, seizure of a ship on the high seas (i.e. not in territorial waters) has always been regarded as an act of war. Of course, in many non-oceanic sea-waterways, the waters will be territorial waters, complicating the issue (that’s assuming I remember my studies, of forty years ago, correctly).
The Kiev regime is losing anything up to 2,000 soldiers a day. Perhaps more commonly, 1,000 per day. Still huge. The press-gangs hunt down suitable “recruits” on the streets of towns and cities, but to be “recruited” means brutal though brief training, then a one-way ride to the crumbling front lines of the regime.
[“This is important. The Restore Britain team has been doing vast research on the number of arrests by the following nationalities across every police force. The Government refuses to release the data, so we’ve found it ourselves. Afghanistan. Albania. Eritrea. Iran. Iraq. Syria. In Kent for example, Afghan arrests have soared from 35 in 2017 to 174 in 2024. Albanians? In Kent alone, 35 in 2017 to 413 in 2024. Albanians in Norfolk? Up from 9 in 2017 to a staggering 112 in 2024. We have the data from right across Britain, and we are going to release it in full. These numbers, when fully published, will destroy the remaining argument for mass immigration.“]
I wonder whether Rupert Lowe might have been better to have stayed with Reform, whatever its flaws, until after the next General Election, for tactical reasons.
[“The Times appears to have fully entered Cuckoo Land It can no longer read the mood of the British people Instead of acknowledging how the tectonic plates have moved behind Reform and a repudiation of the Westminster-BBC consensus it clings to the fantasy of a Tory/Uniparty recovery What The Times means when it calls for a return to “solid ground on the pragmatic centre-right” is a place where the British people are not allowed to criticise mass immigration, the collapse of our borders, woke ideology, the ECHR, or a long list of other disasters it’s brand of Boomer Liberal Toryism has inflicted on Britain People are sick of being told to “avoid the culture wars”, “intolerance”, and “populists” by the very people who jammed their failing project down everybody’s throats for years and now have the audacity to criticise those who are actually trying to fix the mess they have created Would like to hear less from the architects of this dismal project and much more from bold new columnists who actually represent the mood of modern Britain …”]
Farage should not welcome Con Party retreads into Reform.
As I have long predicted on the blog, Reform is rapidly becoming part of the System.
The UK is now a banana republic without bananas (and also stuck with an unwanted and/or pointless monarchy).
Oh, great…let’s reduce the IQ level of the country still further…
Ian Robert Millard 