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Question applies to Con Party MPs as well, not just Labour ones.
[“Facial recognition technology to be rolled out across the UK. Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood makes a false analogy here. Finger prints are only are taken from criminals. Facial recognition is taken from all of us, treating us all like criminals. Linked to digital ID it will reinforce the state control. All your digital and physical movements can be monitored.
“A hundred years ago, fingerprinting was decried as curtailing our civil liberties, but today we could not imagine policing without it. I have no doubt the same will prove true of facial recognition technology in the years to come.”]
Police-state encroachment continues.
Rather alarming that Blaise Metreweli, the new SIS/MI6 Chief, seems to think that the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was somehow useful in WW2. Au contraire. Shambolic and mismanaged, with very poor security, and employing officers and agents often distinguished by their amateurishness.
SOE was disbanded very quickly after WW2, because it had outlived whatever usefulness it may have had.
Incidentally, it has been argued that SOE’s main enemy in WW2 was, at least at times, not the German Abwehr and SD orgs, but SIS, Ms. Metreweli’s own organization.
SOE was run by the WW2 Ministry of Economic Warfare, so was administratively separate from SIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Economic_Warfare.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive#Later_analysis_and_commentaries.
That must have given those inscrutable Oriental gentlemen a few laughs.
How many does Israel have?
As often explained on the blog, the 33-year cycle means that the most significant years of the past century or so were 1923, 1956, 1989, 2022. However, what impulse lands on Earth in, say, 2022, may not be obvious for months or even years.
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Naturally, it is easy for the System parties, with their extensive backroom support, to mock new or small parties unable to afford such support, but the main System parties also often do stupid things, “even” when in office.
In a way, a brave move; the by-election is far from cut-and-dried. Proves that I was right a year or two ago, though, when I predicted that Goodwin would join Reform, stand in some by-election, get elected (?), then (after Reform sweeps the next general election, assuming that it does), become a Cabinet minister, possibly even Prime Minister.
If Goodwin wins this by-election, it might be the death-knell for Labour in its “traditional” support-areas.
Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
Interesting scientific news
[Guardian]
That news emerged late last year, but I have only just become aware of it.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Have you noticed how the evil, obnoxious media and the politicians across the Western world, particularly in the USA and the UK, keep telling us that Russia and China are evil superpowers that must be kept in check? What a cheek!
Neither Putin nor Xi Jinping are pushing down our throats filth 24/7, nor are they promoting degenerate behaviour, White-guilt and self-hatred as the (((Western))) media does non-stop.
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Claudius:
Every society has or had its flaws (even the German Reich!). As you say, people are presented by the (((infested))) msm with a one-sided, or black-and-white, narrative, as of course seen in the “Third Reich bad, Western Allies and/or Soviet Union (until 1946…) good” nonsense.
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