Diary Blog, 4 October 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Arutiunian]
[VDNKh, Moscow, after rain]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

[“Medvedev: The most important event for Russia will be victory over Western and NATO forces.

He told Iranian state television that he was referring to the forces that are using Ukraine against Russia.

He particularly emphasized that Ukraine, if it wants a political solution, must officially recognize its neutral and non-nuclear status, abandon its nationalist course, and recognize the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as Russian territories.

He also stated that Kyiv must stop the persecution of the Russian language and return to the principles outlined in the Ukrainian Declaration on Sovereignty from the 1990s.“]

Idiot. How did he ever get to such a high position?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Lapsley

I suppose he or his family knew the right people.

Worth watching/listening to that. Appalling behaviour by Israeli Jew operatives (MOSSAD etc).

Israeli/Jewish influence/power in the USA (and the UK is not very much better, though at least the public is waking up at last).

The American and British taxpayers are subsidizing their own oppressors. In the UK, it becomes more blatant every year.

I doubt that anyone would vote for that dim careerist woman; anyway, the Conservative Party is probably going to lose even the seats (maybe half of them) that it has at present.

Should be taught in schools, both in the USA and UK (but of course will not be, so long as the System rules).

Of course, the money is just a way-station. Power is their objective; to rule the world via money, via the money power.

cf. The Ring of the Nibelungen, and Lord of the Rings.

Interesting travel vlog

As before with those vloggers, there is a certain naivety. For example, they buy two baseball-type military caps with Chinese red stars, and wear them for a while. They would not wear caps with swastika emblems, nor even hammer and sickle emblems, probably.

What always strikes me about such vlogs about China is the scale of the engineering and architecture. The airports and railway stations put Europe, certainly the UK, to shame, frankly. The hotels and cafeterias as well. While I always have in the back of my mind the disregard the Chinese often seem to have for animal welfare (and, sometimes, human rights as well), it cannot be denied that China has leapt ahead in the past 20-40 years.

Another thing that struck me, but about the vlogging couple themselves, is how dependent they are on their mobile telephones. They pay for almost everything, from taxis to hotels, to railways and airline tickets, to food, even snacks such as crisps, using their telephones. One wonders where they would be were they to lose the devices, or have them stolen. Seems insecure, somehow. They even have apps or whatever to interpret for them in various languages.

Of course, I am a sceptic: I had a mobile telephone before most people, in 1993, and I had to have one when I worked as a barrister, but for the past many years have not had one, and do not really need one (I hope). My car has an emergency help facility built in, if I were to break down (unlikely) or have a crash. Have never had to test that out though; hopefully, it works…

Taiwan looks almost deserted in that vlog, despite having 23M people in a country half the size of Scotland. I suppose the main populations live in or around Taipei, in the north. The vloggers are in the west, having arrived from mainland China on a small ferry.

Ah, I see now that I mistook where they were, not on the main island of Taiwan at all, but on Kinmen Island, a very small part of Taiwan that is only about 2 miles from mainland China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmen

Interesting that the mainland Chinese have not invaded that small island. They must be following the maxim of Sun Tzu, “to win without war…this is the supreme excellence“. A saying we in Europe might ponder. There is no overt Chinese aggression towards Europe, but we do see increasing numbers of Chinese living in parts of Europe, not least the UK. Millions of them.

I believe that border areas of Russia, in the (once Chinese) far-eastern parts known from the 1930s to the early 1990s as the Soviet Far East, have seen seepage of Chinese (farmers, traders etc) coming to live there.

Another vlog from the same couple

As with their previous vlog posts about Iran, interesting to see aspects of everyday life there not usually seen on the UK/Western mass media.

Incredible carpet shop in Isfahan. Even less expected, a great hotel (albeit rather glitzy) in the same city.

More tweets seen

All such rioters should be executed in the field, as soon as seen and designated.

So people earning £100,000+ per year are in need of State-subsidized childcare? The Nigerian idiot is even more of an idiot than I had previously thought. £100,000 p.a. (pre-tax) is scarcely a fortune, but it is still 2x-3x what most people are paid in the UK, and 8x-10x what many have to live on.

Also, the lady tweeter is right. The nexus “work hard/high pay” is not at all as firm as many believe.

Kemi Badenoch thinks that all the unemployed are “feckless drunks“. She was caught saying it. Not only very arrogant and dismissive, but actually wrong. Only a small minority are feckless drunks.

I think that you can see there the Nigerian woman’s background coming out. She, after all, is not English and, except that she has a British passport because her parents came to have her born in London so that she could later get a Brit passport (as the law was until 1982), is not in any real sense British. She was brought up in Nigeria and then the USA. She only came here as a teenager of 16-17. Her attitudes are basically pseudo-“libertarian” American, not British or indeed European.

Late tweets

[“Ivor Caplin, former defence minister under Blair during Iraq, and best friend of @peterkyle, has registered as homeless in Hove, after his company went bust with £100,000 debts. The former chair of @JewishLabour blew a fortune on crystal meth while allegedly sexually assaulting a young person in a homeless in a hostel in Brighton. Many @bhlabour members know a lot more than they have told @sussex_police.“]

Links to Mandelson, and therefore to Epstein and Israeli Intelligence.

Already there for many people. Also, it will become very difficult, almost impossible, to live a normal life without being plugged-in to the System matrix via mobile telephones, computers etc. That is almost the case already for many.

The Israeli Jews continue to kill and maim civilians in Gaza and elsewhere and, via their fifth column of Jew-Zionists and suborned non-Jew pro-Israel drones in the UK, to interfere with British political life and freedom of expression.

In 1948, a monster was born.

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2026

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[girls of the Bund Deutscher Madel ride through a German forest in the 1930s]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, my 5/10 this week once again trumped the 4/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9.

Tweets seen

Trump might do anything. One cannot predict it, because he is the personification of random unpredictability.

Europe slides ever-faster down the slope of utter decadence.

Would not be surprised to find that the Israelis, in conjunction with the Jewish lobby in Argentina, are behind this.

So who is in favour?

[“On this day two years ago. Don’t say @s_m_marandi didn’t warn you.

“If the United States gets involved, have no doubt, the US will be swept out of Iraq by the resistance and all its assets in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All these regimes with US bases will be destroyed and the oil and gas markets will cause a situation where the global economy will collapse, so be careful about making stupid mistakes.”]

Marandi is an Iranian academic.

Whatever you give “them”, (((they))) will complain, demand more, and turn on you in the end. Not just “Israel” and nominal Israelis, but also the type as a whole. Look at the behaviour of Zelensky.

Burnham is even a member of Labour Friends of Israel, just like Starmer-stein.

Israel— a rogue state, which has a very wealthy and influential “fifth column” in this country (as in some others).

Whatever the arguments, the fact is that pensioners will be worse-off under Labour after 2030 (when Burnham says the Triple Lock will go) and, quite possibly, before then. Result? 99% of pensioners (a third of the electorate, and maybe as much as 50% of the actually-voting electorate) will not be voting Labour. Largely but not just because of the Triple Lock being dumped. It is the whole direction of travel.

Late tweets

That funny woman tweeter is obsessed with, inter alia, cutting off Triple Lock money going to pensioners. Yes, only 12% of people of 65+ years vote Labour. That will now shrink to about 1%-2%, I expect. That means that 98% of those 65+ will vote somewhere other than Labour. Probably Reform, most of them.

The point, though, previously also made on the blog, is that people aged 65+ mostly actually vote. The other age-groups vote in far smaller numbers, proportionately.

The 65+ age group is about a third of the electorate, and must be at least 40% of those that actually turn out to vote (or vote via postal ballot). Maybe even 50%

Labour will therefore not be getting the votes of anything up to 50% of the total of those (of all ages) that vote, even before taking into consideration the votes of the <65 age groups.

Burnham-Labour has already alienated the under-24 age group by the recently-announced benefit cuts and changes.

Anything can happen in politics, but it would take a near-miracle for Labour to get to 35% of the poll, and that is surely their minimum if they want to be sure of a Commons majority.

That latest poll translates to a Commons with about 342 Labour MPs (so a majority of seats), 155 Reform (official Opposition), 55 Cons, 51 LibDems, and 20 SNP [etc].

Uncertain now how accurate such predictions are. Restore may only be getting 3% of the opinion poll votes, but that is enough to badly damage Reform in marginal seats. As to Labour, I doubt whether its present relative popularity will continue, but there is no doubt that many of Burnham’s recently-announced policies are quite popular:

I myself agree with all but three of the policies listed there.

My feeling right now is that Reform, though so disappointing (pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-finance-capitalism and —in some respects— globalism, is still the main game in town in terms of at least pseudo-national populism. I can see many more presently Conservative votes going to Reform.

If I am right, and the Con vote reduces to, say 12% by 2028/2029, and the Reform vote rises to, say, 30%, then the post-election picture would be very different: that would give Labour maybe 265 MPs (far short of a majority), and Reform would have more MPs than Lab, 281. The LibDems would be on 53, the SNP 23, Greens 3 and the Con Party only 2. Near-wipeout. That would effectively finish off the Con Party.

As to government, Reform would be unable to form even a workable minority government despite having a plurality of MPs, but Labour would just about be able to function as a minority government with LibDem and SNP [etc] support.

I agree with that lady tweeter on that subject. For many years I broadly supported foxhunting as a colourful historical spectacle with long roots in England, but for many years now I have strongly opposed it (and most other field sports) by reason of my love for animals and, in minor key, also my dislike of, or distaste for, all foxhunters that I have ever met (at least as an adult).

[me aged about 2 (?…I am hopeless at judging ages), late 1950s, happily standing amid the foxhounds somewhere in Berkshire]
[late 1950s, also amid the hounds, though looking less happy, or more thoughtful]

I have to say that the bridge attacks are a brilliant tactical move by the Russian side.

Kiev is on both sides of the Dnieper, but the more important part of the city is on the western or right bank.

Late muse

I happened to see a travel show presented by an American of whom I had not previously heard, one Stanley Tucci [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tucci]. Apparently a well-known film-maker and actor (well, I cannot know everything…). A New Yorker whose grandparents or great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to America before the Second World War or, possibly, before the First World War.

It seems that the show was made in 2021, so 5+ years ago.

The programme showed him in Tuscany, then in Sicily. Mostly about the Italian regional cuisine(s). Not terribly dull, though hardly riveting, but of course this is an area covered many times in similar vein (think Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver, and many others).

When in Sicily, this Tucci expressed the view that immigration improves any society! Very wrongheaded. What many now call a “luxury belief” held by those (usually the affluent) who prefer not to see the downsides of mass immigration from backward parts of the world such as black Africa, North Africa etc.

Even without having to hear his wrongheaded views about the migration-invasion of Italy, I have to say that I found the aforesaid Tucci not someone to whom I warmed. He lacked the charm of some similar TV tourists.

Never mind. It filled an empty hour.

History as rarely seen

An historical and historic film sent to me today. Worth hearing or reading (subtitled)

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[Finland, the Northern Lights]

Diary Blog, 2 October 2026, including thoughts about who is “English” and/or “British”

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On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

More “holocaust” fakery exposed

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16176399/Polanski-family-fled-Nazis-grandparents-born-britain-long-war.html

“When Zack Polanski told the heart-rending tale of his ancestors fleeing the Nazis, it earned him applause at last year’s Green Party conference.

But the Holocaust story has raised questions after family history research found his grandparents were all born in Britain long before the Second World War.

On Thursday, Mr Polanski did nothing to clear up the mystery when the Greens declined to answer a request to explain the powerful yet puzzling line in his keynote speech.“

[Daily Mail]

Just another (((liar))).

Ingrained…

Tweets seen

1,000 hryvnia (Kiev-regime funny-money) = about £17 pounds sterling.

Sounds almost reasonable compared to London these days.

Merkel’s legacy.

Probably.

Talking point

“English” (or Japanese, or Chinese, or whatever) is not a mere label, which an individual can stick on themselves and claim to be properly descriptive.

I was born in England of two English parents (and am believed —plausibly but not definitely— to have one German great-grandfather). I am, and have every right to call myself, English.

My wife is English, born of two English parents (one Norwegian grandparent). She was, however, born in the 1950s in the then Tanganyika (now Tanzania), which at the time was a British colony. She came to the UK (to live) aged 14. That does not make her “Tanzanian”, or African!

If someone black or brown is born in the UK, in England, that person is not English or even (passport notwithstanding) British. The person concerned is not English/British but something else, even if born/brought up etc in the UK. Someone such as Kemi Badenoch, who was born in London of 1981 of two Nigerian parents (while they were on a flying visit to make sure that she was born in the UK, which fact —at the time— gave her, under English law, the right to a British passport later in life).

Kemi Badenoch is not English and, in real terms (despite having that “scammed” passport), is not British either.

Kemi Badenoch in fact only came to (or came back to) the UK aged 16-17. She was not even brought up here, and her attitudes are foreign, not that that in itself is determinative.

It would be absurd for me to say “I am Chinese“, even if living in China and having lived there my whole life, even if born there; indeed, even had I a Chinese passport.

Logic alone makes the case, but many of our treacherous scribblers, TV/radio talking heads, and MPs, wilfully refuse to see it.

Late tweets

In a different Europe, the whole mob could just be submachinegunned.

They were born in France. Their parents and even grandparents were born in France. They are not, however, French.

As far as I am concerned, the BBC, if it is to be allowed to survive, must go back to its original Reithian principles: “Inform, Educate, Entertain“, and in that order. In fact, and in view of the multiplicity of other platforms now in existence, the entertainment part might as well be dropped, leaving the BBC with a mission to both inform and entertain. The devil is in the detail, though; at present, the BBC often misinforms, and ill-educates…

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Diary Blog, 1 October 2026

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On the blog 3 years ago

I think that that blog post stands up well, three years on; not in all details (I overestimated the speed of Russian advances in Ukraine), but overall.

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

They really are a horrible tribe.

…and the criminal arrested was…African…

Migration invasion…

Get rid of them, either by dumping them in North Africa or by just eliminating them. Sterilization is vital, in the meantime.

Never had a non-political job. Is not qualified for any profession. Has no background in economics beyond her back-of-postcard PPE degree from Oxford. Member of Labour Friends of Israel. Believed to be or have been involved with lobby activities on behalf of China.

A stupid drunken moneygrubber, in short.

[“Congratulations to everyone celebrating the end of the triple lock.
You won nothing.
You will be pensioners one day. Many of you will be renting in retirement. Your private pension won’t touch what today’s pensioners have.
Cutting the triple lock doesn’t hurt today’s pensioners much. It hits you. Compounding, year after year, until you retire into a system even more inadequate than the one we have now.
As Sam Coates explains here, you just cheered for your own poorer retirement.
Own goal.
“]

Exactly right.

The same is true of cuts to social security/”welfare”, in most cases.

Thoughts out of season

In my view, taking the electorate overall, the voters knew what they were doing in 2024. They were binning the Conservative Party. What were were not doing, in intention, or primarily, was voting for a Starmer-Labour government (which has now become a Burnham-Labour government).

In 2024, the only way to bin the Conservatives led by little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, was to vote against the Conservative candidates. In some constituencies that meant voting Labour, in others for Reform, in yet others LibDem or even Green.

As frequently blogged about over the past 2.5 years, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

Rough figures, obviously. Reform scored about 600,000 more votes than the LibDems, even though the latter ended up with 72 MPs, and Reform only 6, by reason of the absurd voting system in the UK. Likewise, the Greens did not get anywhere near 1 out of 20 potential votes (or 1 out of every 12 cast), but closer to half a vote out of every 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

In short, Starmer-stein had no real mandate. Only 4 out of 12 actual voters voted Labour; 4 out of every 20 potential/eligible voters.

Even if you take it in terms of those that actually voted, Labour was only voted for by about a third of those who voted.

Burnham may be marginally more popular than Starmer-stein, but not much more.

Nature abhors a vacuum. The Cons were binned by the voters mostly voting elsewhere, or abstaining. Labour will probably go the same way. However, Reform is so underwhelming (pro-finance-capitalism, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel) that its ceiling is probably, at highest, 35%, and its popularity presently stands somewhere around 25%.

What matters is not just Reform UK’s popularity, but the unpopularity of, in particular, Labour. I think that most people who want rid of Labour will vote Reform (if they are anti-immigration), or LibDem/Green if they are not very anti-immigration and/or want to rejoin the EU.

How high can Labour’s polling go? It could get up to 30%, but it may well stick, in the end, say next year, around 25%. Hard to see it going as high as 35%.

More tweets

Underwhelming…yes. Unlikely to really be able to do what is necessary…yes. However, much better than LibLabCon…also yes.

I think a majority or at least plurality of voters will take the same view.

Britain in 2026…

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16174789/Heavily-pregnant-woman-refused-emergency-accommodation.html

“A heavily pregnant woman has been left homeless after a council that houses more than 3,500 migrants refused her emergency accommodation, a charity says.

Homeless Project Scotland posted on Facebook claiming the 34-week-pregnant woman, who said she had fled an abusive relationship in London, was snubbed by Glasgow City Council.

The charity’s chief executive Colin McInnes described her plight as one of the most ‘horrific’ he had seen.“

The charity’s chief executive and co-founder described how staff there called the council’s social services helpline and a taxi was sent to collect the woman.

But she was later returned to the night shelter in a taxi after what Mr McInnes described as a ‘four-hour interrogation’.

He said: ‘I explained the situation that there is no way that this lady should obviously be in our shelter – we are at full capacity and this woman cannot sleep on the streets.

‘They told me, “Unfortunately this lady is going to have to sleep on the streets because we won’t be accommodating her.

At that point, I said the rights of every child is important and this child needs to be protected with its mother and the words that the woman on phone said to me and I quote, “An unborn child does not have rights”.’

Mr McInnes said the woman then spent the night sleeping on a mattress on the night shelter’s floor before leaving for the streets the following morning. 

But volunteers later found her and directed her back to social services, he added.

Mr McInnes said: ‘This is not how we behave in the United Kingdom and certainly not how we behave in Scotland that we would leave women who are 34 weeks pregnant lying in the streets.’

Michael Robinson, executive director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: ‘Whatever happened to the SNP’s compassionate society?

‘This is a truly chilling and callous response to the plight of a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn baby.’“

[Daily Mail]

Late tweets

[“The President also reminded that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine, and linked the collapse of the USSR to the naivety of Soviet leaders who tried to please the West, which in turn was only pursuing its own interests. At the same time, the Russian leader noted that “we experienced the collapse of the state system, which was a real tragedy for tens of millions of people.”

Following this, Putin again emphasized the risks:

“The moment when nothing can be changed may come very quickly and unexpectedly for everyone… […] A policy of escalating hostilities and sanctions is never one-sided; destructive actions by one side are always followed by a response from the other…”

The President of Russia also stressed that “armed conflicts, unfortunately, exist and will exist; they are an integral part of human existence,” and that now it is necessary to raise the issue of the rules of conducting such conflicts.“]

Most are not even European, let alone “French”. Shoot them down in the streets.

Bizarre.

Spectacular.

It never had them in the first place, not even in the 1990s.

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