Category Archives: Matt Goodwin

Diary Blog, 13 October 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

On “British” TV etc, you only see the Ukrainian conflict from the Kiev-regime side.

[“MBS IS FINISHED: THE HOUSE OF SAUD FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer, warns that Mohammed bin Salman has entered a death spiral with no way out. A war launched in 2014 for quick military glory has become a 12-year nightmare that is now physically dismantling Saudi oil production. The American umbrella has failed, allies will not ride to the rescue, and the kingdom is losing decisively. The only remaining question is how fast the collapse arrives.

THE CORE VERDICT

Ritter states the demise of Muhammad bin Salman is inevitable.

“He’s finished.”

If lucky he catches the last gold-plated 747 out of Riyadh to a London hideaway or the United States.

If not, his head is removed by sword amid shouts of Allahu Akbar.

“It’s the end of the House of Saud.”

THE 2014 STRATEGIC ERROR

MBS tried to earn his military spurs with a fast victory over Ansar Allah.

The campaign turned into a 12-year nightmare.

His later decision to expand the war by striking Sanaa airfield only accelerated the destruction.

There is no political off-ramp left and no salvation coming.

THE OIL DESTRUCTION

Ansar Allah is no longer limited to blocking Bab el-Mandeb or hitting pipelines and storage.

They are now attacking production facilities and the wells themselves.

“This is the end of Saudi Arabia.”

Without oil the entire Vision 2030 fantasy collapses into what Ritter calls a Bedouin-infested sand pit with nothing left.

NO ALLIES WILL SAVE HIM

The American security umbrella proved nonfunctional.

Saudi forces are ineffective, overweight, proxy-driven and overmatched.

Pakistan faces massive Imran Khan protests and will not send tens of thousands of troops into a losing desert war.

Turkey has no interest in dying for the Saudis.

The Mecca Pact is a joke of maps and chalkboards with no real troop movement.

THE RIYADH PREDICTION

If MBS is removed and internal fighting follows, Ritter says Ansar Allah columns could drive through the streets of Riyadh.

Saudis have feared this outcome since 1990.

“Saudi Arabia is losing this war decisively. And there’s nothing that can be done to save them.”

The world will experience the same shock that hit when the Shah of Iran fell in 1979.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Scott Ritter sees MBS as toast and the House of Saud heading toward the same abrupt end that surprised everyone in 1979. Energy production is being dismantled, no outside force will intervene, and the collapse is already underway. History is about to deliver a shock that almost no one in the West has priced in.”]

Refers to Burnham’s stupid comment to the effect that Russia somehow procured the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote. Now Burnham admits that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that. He is pathetic.

[“Historic Milestone in Florida as Over 80 Orthodox Jewish Families Move Into New $100 Million-Plus Community and Schools Open

More than 80 families from New York have moved into Lakefront Estates, where schools have now opened. Dozens more families are expected in the coming weeks, following reported investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the project.

Located in Glades County near Lake Okeechobee, Lakefront is a purpose-built residential community. The broader development plan calls for up to 1,000 single-family homes and 300 rental units.

The vision goes beyond housing: plans include synagogues, mikvahs, boys’ and girls’ schools, a yeshiva, a kollel, kosher shopping and medical services. Developers are targeting families seeking more space and an alternative to soaring housing costs in established Orthodox neighborhoods.

Hatzalah South Florida has also begun organizing a local branch, meeting with prospective responders who will serve Lakefront. With families arriving and classrooms opening, the focus now shifts from construction to building the services a growing community needs.“]

It has been suggested that there may now be some variety of superinjunction in place, an injunction which prevents being published even the fact of its existence. I wonder. The msm deletions would seem to support that theory, but how can such an injunction cover even the fact that a woman has not only been charged but has been committed for trial?

Apart from that, I have nothing further to say at this time about Lola Salem and the horrible little degenerate, Gove, having said it all in the past few days on the blog, and previously.

Relations between Russia and Japan continue to deteriorate.

If the next general election does not move things in at least a generally social-national way, the British people will be fully justified in taking whatever action is required to save this country.

Latest Nick Griffin blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/in-englands-heart-a-rural-craft-is

About hedge-making etc. Well worth reading.

Incidentally, I noticed a 1942 film about hedge-creation:

Late tweets

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Tubin]
[Jerry Vanderstelt, Rivendell]

Diary Blog, 12 October 2026

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

I blogged about this a day or two ago.

Burnham can fool some of the people some of the time, but those crediting him will be steadily decreasing after this winter…

I noticed it over 50 years ago.

Talking point

Bealtaine Cottage vlog

Late tweets

I never liked her, from what I saw of her on TV etc. A would-be dictator, if given the power.

Idiot.

Why is Britain so cursed with total idiots in ministerial and prime-ministerial positions? It must be the MP selection process and the whole decadent Westminster Bubble thing.

Britain should be doing the same.

You can see what is coming down the tracks, and we shall be lucky (or not, maybe) to live through it.

[“Farage to “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for a corrupt Ukraine – Politico.
The leadership of the Reform UK party will “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for Ukraine, said Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing party.
He stated that Ukraine is “one of the most corrupt countries on earth,” and he is “very concerned” about where some of the British funds have gone.
“]

Kiev-regime Ukraine is a corrupt, shambolic and brutal dictatorship, a fake state which, without the endless EU, UK, US and other “help”, could not exist for more than a couple of weeks.

Hero

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Diary Blog, 11 October 2026

Morning music

[Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Conquerors_of_Space]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Talking point

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16198861/falklands-furore-marine-machine-gun-migrant-boats.html

“The commander who led the land operation to liberate the Falklands has triggered a furore by saying that boats carrying migrants across the Channel should be machine-gunned.

‘I would shoot them,’ Major-General Julian Thompson told a documentary about mass immigration to Britain.

The Home Office warned today that anyone taking the law into their own hands would face ‘serious criminal consequences’, while the Tories stressed that ‘opening fire on migrant boats would be completely wrong‘

Maj Gen Thompson, 92, who headed 3 Commando Brigade during the conflict, said of the thousands of migrants who land on UK shores each month: ‘We could stop them tomorrow if we really had the guts. I’d shoot them, sorry, but I would.’

Asked if he feared a backlash to his remarks, Maj Gen Thompson said: ‘As long as they don’t come around here, I don’t mind what they do.

‘They come over here and rape our girls. One machine-gun blast is all it would take… then they would get the message. I just want them to bugger off. 

‘If they [the Government] don’t stop them then there will be a revolution. Our leaders are just wet.’

He also says Britain is ‘just going downhill’, adding: ‘I’m glad I won’t see it, I’ll be dead.

‘It’s not Britain any more, it’s a sort of funny conglomeration of people, and in a wet country that allows itself to be pushed around all over the place.'”

[Daily Mail]

General Thompson is quite right.

The General has earned the right, at age 92 and with his distinguished military background, to speak the truth regardless of the untruths all around the issues commented upon.

Gove and Lola Salem

[Lola Salem with Gove]

I had never heard of the defendant, Lola May Salem. Turns out that she is of Jewish or part-Jewish background, having written in The Critic magazine that, when a child in Nanterre, a low-income banlieue near Paris inhabited by many North Africans, her brother experienced “anti-Semitism”.

It may well be, speculating a little, that this Lola Salem is of pied-noir origin. Google AI has this: “A Pied-Noir (plural: Pieds-Noirs, meaning literally “black foot” in French) is a person of European descent—including French, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, and Sephardic Jewish origins—who was born or lived in French-ruled Algeria during the colonial period from 1830 to 1962.“

Many pieds-noirs who left Algeria in the early 1960s were of Jewish origin.

One can only imagine what that woman saw in Gove. Someone wealthy and still influential, one supposes. Fairly big age-gap (26 years: she is 33, he 59). Still, these things happen.

Incidentally, the restaurant where Lola Salem and Gove indulged in seafood and public displays of affection seems to have been Sheekey’s [https://j-sheekey.co.uk/our-history/], off St. Martin’s Lane in London. I used to walk past there occasionally. and always thought to try it out, but never did.

Gove must have liked Lola Salem a lot, looking at the prices: https://j-sheekey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/JSheekey_Autumn-Menus_ALC-26_09_26.pdf

The wine list is pretty impressive, too.

Regular readers of the blog will be aware that one of the 5 tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 at the behest of the Jewish lobby (specifically “UK Lawyers for Israel”/”UKLFI” and, in the shadows, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”/”CAA”) was that describing Gove in some such terms as a dishonest expenses cheat and fraud, and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. All true, but that did not save me from a wrongful (and, it later turned out, actually unlawful) disbarment.

At that time (2016), I was unaware that Gove was also a cocaine abuser and, at times, a shambling drunk as well. That only emerged into public view later. He was even filmed on House of Commons TV staggering drunkenly into the Chamber, scarcely able to stand up, but the tweets showing that (I think, YouTube footage too) have disappeared. “They” must look after their puppets.

Well, I cannot comment on the Lola Salem criminal matter as such, firstly because it is now sub judice, but also because I know nothing about it anyway, and first heard of the matter —and the defendant herself— only a few hours ago.

I wonder whether Gove himself was questioned. Perhaps it will come out at the Lola Salem trial; we shall have to wait and see.

The Jewish thing seems to hang around Gove like a clinging cloud of smog. I have never been able to discover for sure the background of Gove’s estranged wife, Sarah Vine (they are separated but not yet divorced; something to do with “paperwork”, apparently…). I have my suspicions, but her origins seem shrouded in mystery.

Gove and Sarah Vine were married in 2001 (in France) and stayed together until 2022. 21 years of marriage. There has never been given, publicly, any specific reason why they split, which was apparently at Sarah Vine’s instigation. I believe that the split happened prior to Gove’s mesalliance or misalliance with Lola Salem, so what was the triggering event?

In fact, it was the Jewish lobby that got Gove into Parliament as an MP in the first place (he is now yet another absurd “lord” in the degraded House of Lords, and Editor of the Spectator). He remains a complete doormat for the Jewish lobby and for Israel.

Tweets seen

The mainstream media are now trying to hide the whole story, even the Daily Mail, which at first splashed it. The (((usual))) mob, of course. For example, the System scribbler Dan Hodges, usually prolific on Twitter/X, has not mentioned the case at all.

You see it whenever the Jew-Zionist lobby wants to cover up something (or amplify something, for that matter).

For example, when dishonest and incompetent solicitor, Mark Lewis was fined and censured by the Tribunal under the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2018. At first, there was nothing at all about it in the msm, not prior to “trial”, and nothing afterwards but Jews complaining about how “unfair” the process and sentence had been.

In fact, the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal bent over backwards to be fair to Lewis (now a wheelchair-bound invalid who lives in Israel much of the time) and even reduced his fine to a third or a quarter of what it would otherwise have been because Lewis’s own pro bono Counsel told the Tribunal that Lewis had no assets at all beyond his own clothes, a private pension worth £70 per week, and a used mobility scooter. No money in the bank. No real property. Nothing.

Even Lewis’s car (one adapted for invalids) was one provided to him via the DWP Motability scheme (until he crashed into someone and, after that, ceased to drive).

Ecce the great defamation lawyer…

The point is that the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby effectively controls or very strongly influences almost all those who scribble for newspapers, edit them, or own them.

I was just looking at Twitter/X. The Lola Salem/Gove matter is not mentioned by Dan Hodges, Andrew Neil, Robert Peston, BBC News, Sky News etc, you name it. News blackout.

Yes, the criminal matter is now sub judice, but even the bare facts of the matter that would be reportable are not in fact being reported.

[“Rupert Lowe has unveiled Restore Britain’s six point plan to overhaul the NHS, calling for an end to mass immigration and tougher controls on access to British healthcare.

The proposals include removing medical school admission caps, prioritising British medical professionals, recruiting exceptional overseas specialists, introducing penalties for missed appointments and expanding private sector involvement to cut waiting lists.

Lowe also wants free hospital parking, an end to foreign language translation services, the abolition of NHS DEI programmes, reduced bureaucracy and stronger accountability for senior managers.

He argues that the NHS must prioritise British patients and that immigration is placing unsustainable pressure on services. Restore Britain says a more detailed healthcare policy is being developed.“]

Should, but will not. The Kiev regime is a cabal-dictatorship.

Loonie.

[“A little park has a Tom cat who is fed by everyone. Last year, he was given the name Silent King. He neither fights with anyone nor has he seen anyone getting scolded. He sits on a parking chair and watches the people coming and going.
One day, a white kitten came to the park. She was very cute, but it turned out that she was blind. She kept bumping into things and didn’t react to sounds at all.

She didn’t seem very lively when she was alone, but she wasn’t lonely either.
The Tom cat noticed her and started staying close to her. Wherever he went, he would walk in front of her so that she would bump into him. He took good care of her.

He would lead her to wherever he was, adjusting his speed so she could follow properly.

Whenever he would go to the road’s other side, he would cover her with his body.

Whenever it rained, he would take the kitten to a safe place and then sit with her.

The vet confirmed that the kitten was blind by birth. If the Tom cat hadn’t been there, she would have died within a week.

People tried to separate the kitten to adopt her, but both of them kept crying.
That’s why it was decided that the community would keep both of them together.
“]

Our animal friends.

Well, at least better than what the main System parties are offering.

Social-national Britain has to prepare to seize power without the formality of elections, the way things are going.

To destroy a whole city, its inhabitants, its animal population etc is a very bad thing to do, or have to do, but one wonders whether Europe really needs the city of Kiev at all.

When the state of Israel was created in 1948, a monster was born, created from the ghettoes, labour camps, and prisons of Europe as it was in or prior to the Second World War.

What is Gove afraid of? What are (((those))) behind Gove afraid of?

See also:

[“This is not an AI-generated video. In reality, it shows the Norwegian ambassador to Ukraine, who was filmed at the Russian-Norwegian border to demonstrate a gesture of “defiance” and express his support for Ukraine.

It looks like NATO is now rolling out the heavy artillery.“]

Good grief.

If that is really the Norwegian Ambassador to Ukraine, one finds it hard to characterize. An idiot, obviously. Decadent, presumably. I also find his age perlexing. I am, at 70 (last month), hardly young, and I do find ages hard to judge anyway, but that idiot looks like a schoolboy (and not a very intelligent one).

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[Arkip Kuindzhin, Dnieper in the Morning]

Diary Blog, 8 October 2026

Afternoon music

[All Souls College, Oxford]

On the blog 3 years ago

https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/10/08/diary-blog-8-october-2023-including-a-look-at-the-upcoming-tamworth-and-mid-bedfordshire-by-elections

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

[“Netherlands Admits Military Reserves Have Been Depleted Due to Aid to Ukraine

According to Military Watch Magazine, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has concluded that military assistance to Kyiv is undermining the combat readiness of the Dutch armed forces and making it more difficult for the country to fulfill its NATO obligations.

The ministry has declined to publicly disclose which NATO targets have been postponed or affected, or to provide details on the current combat readiness of individual Dutch military units. The admission highlights the growing tension between supplying Ukraine with military equipment and maintaining national reserves at levels considered necessary for a major conflict.

According to the ministry, by February 2026, the Netherlands will have provided Ukraine with approximately €11.7 billion in military assistance. The publication also claims that weapons stockpiles across NATO’s European members have been severely depleted, with shortages particularly affecting artillery ammunition, air-defense missiles, anti-tank weapons, and armored vehicles.

Europe is discovering the hard way that weapons sent abroad don’t magically regenerate back home. The bill for rebuilding those stockpiles could be just as serious as the bill for the aid itself.“]

[“Researchers at Stanford University say that, contrary to claims and expectations from the U.S. government and major business leaders, their independent analysis indicates that China could soon catch up with—and potentially surpass—the United States in the development of advanced artificial intelligence models.

The researchers argue that the gap between the two countries is narrowing rapidly, challenging the assumption that the United States will maintain a lasting lead in the global AI race.

The AI race is starting to look less like a marathon and more like a photo finish—with China closing the gap fast.“]

That is, I think, a signal that, should the European states get into a direct war situation with Russia, those European states will not be able to rely on American back-up.

She herself is neither English (that’s unarguable) nor, in any real sense, British. Her parents deliberately came to London for a few weeks so that she could be born in the UK and, as the law was in 1981, then be entitled later on to a British passport (that bad law was changed in 1982, so she only just scraped in before the portcullis was lowered). She then lived in Nigeria and the USA until she was 16 or 17. She is no more British than I am Nigerian.

Her children (who are of mixed-race) likewise.

That is a small taste of what the British people have coming down the tracks at them unless a social-national government, or one very similar, does not seize power pretty soon.

As already blogged…

Having said that, and incidentally, that AI-produced (?) picture of Kemi Badenoch in her supposed ancestral type of dress makes her look a lot better than usual. I have noticed in the past that black women usually look much better in that kind of colourful get-up.

Seems an underestimate anyway. Of course, the “small boat” arrivals are only ~5% of the whole migration invasion. Multiply those figures by about 20, and you get a better idea. Half a million to a million. Every single year.

Our society is already showing stress; by 2030, it may be showing clear signs of terminal stress.

Interesting. Had never seen, nor heard of, that.

Must add up to a massive amount. When I was a barrister, I drafted, at times, contracts for the transhipment of oil from the Middle East to black Africa. Each shipment was worth over USD $80M, and that was over 20 years ago. So maybe USD $150M today. If Iran is getting 20% of the value of every shipload, each one is worth perhaps USD $30M in “transit fees” to Iran. There might be several in a day even under present conditions.

[“Leonkov: Great Britain is gradually getting drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.

IF THERE IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, THE FIRST TARGETS WILL BE BRITISH FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE DRONES AND ROCKETS FOR KYIV.

Boris Johnson, who just the other day claimed he hadn’t started a war, has returned to his old tune: “We must continue bombing Russian oil refineries and power plants. Ukraine is on the verge of victory. Don’t slow down the sale of weapons (to Kyiv).“

Only three countries still believe that Ukraine is capable of confronting Russia: Great Britain, France, and Germany. However, even within those countries, voices are being heard that the conflict, in which Zelensky must remain in power until 2028, is costing them too much.

According to Western estimates, Ukrainian armed forces’ air strikes on Russia in July alone cost them $11 billion. Zelensky is spending a lot of money on these attacks, but his Western sponsors are not satisfied with the results. Everyone understands that Ukraine is losing.”]

There is no way of either proving or disproving my belief that “Boris” Johnson is getting paid large amounts offshore by the Kiev regime and (ipso facto) its backers (to promote the regime by promoting the Western support for it). It stacks up quite well logically, though, knowing what we know of the Kiev regime, its leading members, and the character of Johnson himself.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gipps]
painting by Emma Whitelock]

Diary Blog, 6 October 2026

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[Zeppelinfeld, 1930s]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Looks as though the NWO/ZOG cabals have decided on nuclear war with Russia.

The question is not if, but when…

Alternatively, “local man [did whatever]”…

No decisive lead, though. That poll translates to a Commons with about 308 Labour MPs (18 short of an official majority), 150 Reform (official Opposition), Cons 83, LibDems 52, SNP 27 [etc]. Not completely reliable; Restore, though only on 3%, may cost Reform a few seats here and there.

Still, looks like a Labour minority government, governing with the help of MP votes of the LibDems and/or SNP.

A weak System government of that sort might be the best for the growth of real social-national politics (not the Reform/Restore “controlled opposition” sort).

Reform looks less and less electable now: pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, promoting what amount to Daily Mail-conservative social and economic policies, and with a large number of non-white candidates and officials.

Were (as I think not unlikely) the Con Party to decline from 17% to 12% by the time of a general election, and Reform to go from 22% to maybe 26%, almost matching Labour, Reform would probably get more seats than Labour (both around 250-260), and the Cons only about 8 MPs. However, a similar overall result in that Labour would be governing as a very weak minority government, needing about 75-80 extra votes to get anything passed. The LibDems, SNP, and maybe Greens (etc) would be able to write their own ticket in those circumstances.

That is only the tip of the iceberg. There are now vast numbers of blacks and browns born in the UK, and breeding. Indeed, there are now huge numbers of 2nd, 3rd, even 4th-generation non-whites here.

These facts have been repeatedly published on the blog in response to the attempts by treacherous ministers, MPs, scribblers, talking heads etc to “gaslight” the British people.

The real proportion of the population of the UK that is not really British (i.e. “white”) is not known exactly, but is probably no more than 75%, and in the English towns and cities no more than 60%.

If the police act as the goon squad for migration-invasion and the forces repressing protest and free speech, then they make themselves also enemy forces.

Rioters of that sort in France should be shot down in the street, no matter their age or condition. If a teenager is old enough to use a flamethrower or a bomb or a pistol, he (or she) is old enough to be fired upon, or indeed executed in the field, if captured.

Incidentally, that does not apply to the recent so-called “riots” in England, because they were mere noisy protests, and all that the most rowdy protesters did was throw plastic bottles —not even glass ones— towards the police, or set fire to the odd rubbish bin. Most just pushed the bins, not on fire, towards the police ranks.

Not the same situation as in France.

…and yet, referencing Lenin, “worse will be better“, in that I myself have been attacked, criticized and (until 2018, when a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter) “trolled” by often anonymous or pseudonymous individuals (pretty obviously, from the context, mostly Jews). Well, perhaps now it will be possible to discover the true names etc of some of those individuals. Justice can then take its course, sooner or later. To each his own. Jedem das Seine.

I have always stood up for my views, and for European race and culture, under my own name, and not infrequently alone, without support.

In Court too, I stood alone, with neither solicitor nor Counsel, nor supporters in the public gallery. Difficult, but at least Nietzschean…

[“Merz traveled to Kyiv to demonstrate courage. Meanwhile, Germany is getting used to the idea of war.

Judging by the priorities being set, the German Chancellor is more concerned with preparing for a major war than with domestic problems, despite the fact that even German intelligence does not see any imminent signs of it. Berlin wants to increase the Bundeswehr to 260,000 soldiers and the reserve to 200,000, and has already launched a new system of military service. In September, in Hamburg, the military, along with the police, firefighters, the port, and private companies, practiced the deployment of forces to the eastern flank of NATO. And the medical planning is based on the possibility of receiving several hundred to a thousand wounded per day in Germany; civilian medical institutions are already involved in the relevant exercises.

And in a public and political sense, this is already more of an ideological preparation than a military one. Germans are being accustomed to a simple picture: troops are going east, hospitals are waiting for hundreds of wounded, intelligence is talking about a “shadow war,” and any hesitation by Berlin is supposedly only inviting Moscow to increase pressure. This is how the image of an enemy is being created in the best traditions of the Cold War. However, back then, a real threat really existed. Now, this is a universal justification for another round of militarization.

Against this backdrop, Merz’s recent trip to Kyiv is particularly noteworthy. On October 4, the German Chancellor arrived in the Ukrainian capital along with the Minister of Economy and a business delegation, just as Russia intensified its attacks on the city’s infrastructure. Throughout the day, sirens sounded and explosions were heard, and the North Bridge across the Dnieper was damaged. The much-desired guest announced the provision of another €1 billion in military aid and €350 million for Ukrainian energy.

In Kyiv, the trip was called a “signal of courage,” and the Chancellor himself said that Germany “will not allow itself to be intimidated.” It is easy to create a beautiful story: Merz came to Kyiv almost deliberately to defy Putin and showed Moscow that she is not afraid of it. However, a politician in such a high position is not a blogger who is allowed to risk their own life for the sake of content. He manages the largest economy in Europe. If the head of government deliberately increases their personal risk for a political gesture, this is not a question of courage, but of responsibility to their own citizens.

Moreover, there is plenty to deal with at home. In September, inflation in Germany reached 3.3% – the highest level in almost three years, energy prices rose by 14.9%, and the number of unemployed, adjusted for seasonal factors, again exceeded 3 million. Industrial orders fell by 10.6% in August, mainly due to large contracts; Reuters notes a decline in the automotive industry and a high level of bankruptcies. And yet, it turns out that the Ukrainian conflict is more important to Merz today than the everyday lives of Germans.

It’s a convenient circle. The more Germany gets involved in the Ukrainian conflict, the more the authorities explain to Germans that Russia is becoming more dangerous. And the more dangerous Russia appears to be, the easier it is to intimidate its own society and convince it that spending billions on preparing for war is not a political choice, but the only possible reality.

By Timofey Belov.”]

This is absurd. That Sinkevicius fellow must either be stupid or corrupt. Lithuania, though —just— the biggest of the three Baltic states or pribaltika, is considerably smaller than Scotland. Lithuania as a state is mad to invite even conventional, let alone nuclear, attack.

Spectacular.

Incidentally, were the North African coast as a whole to be under European rule, what a fantastic littoral that would make. It would put to shame the Cote d’Azur and Italian Riviera, if developed well.

Late tweets

Anecdotal evidence: I own a car that runs off diesel fuel. Today, the tank being only about 5% full, I filled the tank at a supermarket filling station, i.e. the cheapest option. Just under £112! A full tank therefore would cost around £118. Appalling. Thank God I rarely do more than 80 miles a week these days.

[“The Swedish Institute for Migration Studies (IFR) has published a forecast: in 20 years, Swedes will become a minority in their own country.

Currently, migrants make up 36.8% of the population. Models based on data from 14 EU countries most open to migration show that Sweden will be the first country where the native population will become a minority. Belgium will follow in 2044, Germany in 2045, and Austria in 2052. Between 2050 and 2060, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, and other countries will also lose their majority.“]

The UK may beat Sweden to it, the way things are going. Don’t forget which (((group))) is mainly behind all that. Not the Muslims. They are, with others, just the battering-ram…

See also:

I think he is drugged much of the time.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov]

Diary Blog, 5 October 2026

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[Volegov, Delicate Amble]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Every. Single. Time.

Does that apply also to U.S. naval forces? I am presuming not.

[“Iranian ballistic missiles can reach the United Kingdom; there is no need for a terrorist bomb at RAF Fairford.

This is just the “demonstrated” range of Iranian ballistic missiles.

Some ballistic missiles in Iran’s arsenal, although few in number and not yet fully optimized, almost certainly have the range to reach the United States.“]

Not a complete answer, of course. A “terrorist” attack can be denied; it is deniable; not so with a strategic ballistic missile attack.

[“European gas storage facilities are only 72% full, which is the lowest level ever recorded for this time of year, compared to an average of 88% in 2021-2025. In Germany, this figure currently stands at 57% — The Economist.

In a truly harsh winter, a government official from the energy ministry warns, “prices may not have a ceiling.“]

Macron has done his job for NWO/ZOG and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan; he can now be dispensed with. See my assessment of him, and his background, written in 2019:

I do not know what is the financial position of the RNLI, but I expect that, once it became clear that the RNLI was ferrying migrant-invaders to our shores, the “useful idiots” of Twitter/X and Blue Sky Social all donated but, at the same time, millions or ordinary British people who oppose the migration-invasion of our country switched off. I suspect that the latter effect will be greater over time.

The RNLI is but one of many British institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, that have been captured by the forces of decadence and treachery over the past 30 years.

[Freikorps]

Whatever one may think of Burnham and/or his announced policies, those Conservative Party rank-and-file members are really weird, with one or two exceptions, arguably (the blonde woman and the old man who distrusts “Fabianss”, though even they seem slightly “not all there”, with the blonde regarding arrogant and wrongheaded Kemi Badenoch as her great black hope). Several interviewees are non-white, and —as has been the case for many years— the young English ones are like wet-behind-the-ears geeks or nerds out of a TV sitcom, or youthful copies of Michael Gove. Utterly pathetic.

I myself think that Con Party support, presently around 17% or so, will decline to 15% or even 12% within a few years, well within the maximum range of this Parliament. The late middle-aged and elderly (both the mainstay of the Conservative vote and almost half of those that vote at all) are defecting to Reform or elsewhere. Many are dying off, too. That might leave the Con Party with only a handful of MPs next time around.

https://tass.com/politics/2197553

Late tweets

Our animal friends.

Blunkett is a horrible person who is, or was, by reason of his blindness, cut much slack by people, certainly when he was an MP.

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

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Quinn_(journalist)#Personal_life

Well, not a fan at all (politically; I have never read his books) but de mortuis nihil nisi bonum…

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

[“An Afghan migrant who stabbed Wayne Broadhurst to death after attempting to murder his landlord in a ‘random, frenzied and entirely unprovoked attack’ has been handed … a hospital order !

Uber driver Dawood Safi arrived in the UK illegally six years ago.

Mr Broadhurst’s beloved spaniel Harry kept vigil by his body as he bled to death in front of horrified neighbours.

Like millions of British people, I am beyond sick and tired of this, of the utterly ridiculous judgements that follow, and of the deafening silence in Westminster.”]

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. All those complicit in it, whether Government ministers, MPs, TV talking-heads, newspaper scribblers, fake “charity” officers and employees, police chiefs…whatever…must be both identified and punished.

Also, never forget the “community” mostly facilitating the invasion. Clue: it is not, mainly, the Muslim community.

The point is that even an “Iron Dome” (or “Britannia Shield”) would not —could not— protect the UK from missiles (I suppose the idiots are talking about Russian ones), if only because Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons alone (mostly, I think, missiles), let alone non-nuclear ones. Most are too fast to be intercepted by any presently-available anti-missile-missiles.

In any case, the UK should be joining, at least informally, with Russia, leaving NATO, and opening up new markets in Russia for British goods and services, as well as buying oil and gas at cost price.

They know, or fear, that Kiev’s days may be numbered.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABcija_Gar%C5%ABta]
[Victor Ostrovsky, Moment of Truth]

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.

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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, 29 September 2026, including thoughts about the Triple Lock and Burnham’s statement about it

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On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Translates to a Commons with about 228 Reform MPs (potentially fewer, by reason of Restore, though Restore is itself on a mere 3%; the model I use has not yet added Restore).

So anyway Reform 98 short of a majority. 217 Labour MPs, 71 LibDems, 69 Cons (so near-irrelevant; unable even to make an arrangement with Reform). SNP 30 [etc].

A weak minority government at best. Might lead to a second election not long after. Good, though, for social-nationalism.

I blogged about all that yesterday. Flagging the removal of the Triple Lock will mean almost all pensioners who might have voted Labour (a smallish minority anyway) will not now vote Labour.

As a personality, Burnham is, arguably, marginally or even somewhat to be preferred to Starmer-stein, but Burnham seems equally clueless.

[“Belarusian cargo heads to China via Russia’s Northern Sea Route

A vessel carrying 77,000 tons of Belarusian cargo has departed Russia’s Ust-Luga port, beginning a voyage to northeastern China via the Northern Sea Route.

The ship is bound for Baiyuan port and is expected to arrive on October 13.

The voyage highlights the growing use of Russia’s Arctic shipping corridor for trade between Europe and Asia, offering an alternative to traditional maritime routes.

77,000 tons, one Arctic route — and another sign that global trade is being rerouted.”]

[“**Kyiv is becoming a frontline city** *The Washington Post* reports that **Kyiv is increasingly resembling a frontline city**, as Russian drone strikes reportedly target facilities linked to Ukraine’s military infrastructure. The attacks are also causing disruption and destruction in the capital, prompting renewed concern over civilian areas and essential infrastructure. The report comes amid continued fighting and Kyiv’s ongoing appeals to Western allies for **more funding and air-defense missiles**. With winter approaching, Ukraine faces another major challenge: **protecting critical infrastructure while keeping the capital functioning under sustained attacks.** **Kyiv is fighting the war at the front — and increasingly, the front is coming to Kyiv.**”]

[“Nigel Farage and I have been referenced in a “hate crime conference” for police officers, which took issue with people questioning the hate marches and the extent of Muslim integration in Britain, the Telegraph reports. Specifically, the Muslim speaker criticised the fact that I dared to share a survey on @GBNEWS showing large numbers of British people question whether Islam really is compatible with British life. Apparently, that is not allowed. Sorry, but this is what we in the West call “free speech”, “free expression”, and “debate”. While Andy Burnham’s Labour is fast-tracking Orwellian measures to shut down these debates, those of us in the Common Sense Majority will never stop having them. And why is the increasingly woke police being given openly biased training sessions like this?

Tell you what. I would happily come along to the “York and North Yorkshire Hate Conference” to share my views and provide a bit of balance. If the organisers are reading, send me a note.“]

The police have been behaving like compliant brainwashed clowns for the past 20+ years. They roll up to “conferences” of that sort, and allow themselves to be ranted at, either by Islamists, or by non-white “multikultis”, or by malicious Jews of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” type (despite the fact that the main personalities of the “CAA” are proven liars and perjurers).

The police as a poundshop Stasi. It has to stop. Get them back doing their proper job(s).

It is in the interest of the police themselves to stop. if not, then when push comes to shove they will share the fate of Britain’s treacherous MPs, scribblers, talking heads, and other riff-raff.

Late tweets

What Burnham and Labour have failed to understand is that, yes, maybe “only” 28% of voters oppose dumping the Triple Lock, but almost all of those are people over 60 y-o.

About a third of the electorate (not the whole population 0-100) is now aged 65+; probably 40% or more are aged 60+. In other words, it can be inferred that a very high percentage of those aged 60+, and almost all of those aged 65+, oppose dumping the Triple Lock. These are the people who always vote (admittedly, I myself am an exception). If 28% of eligible voters are against dumping the Triple Lock, then probably about 40% of voters who are actually going to vote oppose these proposals.

I think that Labour will find that much of their support among the over 60s, maybe also over-50s, will fall away now. Why? Because those getting or about to get the State Pension are really interested in what happens to the Triple Lock, whereas younger people, whatever their views, are naturally not going to be so interested, so their approval of Burnham’s plans is not very important politically, electorally; they have other issues of importance to them.

One point to bear in mind is that the official inflation figures do not reflect the real state of play. Inflation is usually far higher than the official figures suggest, and that particularly applies to the staples that poorer people, and many pensioners in particular, buy regularly.

That last tweeter may be unable to spell but, of course, is correct. Money taken from pensioners will go to, inter alia, “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev), importing and then sheltering and feeding millions of useless black/brown parasites, supporting the USA’s overseas adventures, and then on a myriad projects most of which will not benefit either older or younger (real) British people.

The Burnham cretin has presumably not considered the matter in sufficient detail.

More late tweets seen

[“NEWS: The Islamist organisation 5 Pillars has reported John Cleese to the Prevent Programme after John made factual, accurate and valid statements about Islam

John’s statements on Islam:

“To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with…is not racist. It’s culturalist.”

“traditional British values are under attack from Muslim belief systems, especially the Koranic demands to kill ‘infidels’.”

“I personally prefer a culture that does not approve of Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage and Killing Infidels.”

“Another religious diktat from the Pro-Paedophila Propaganda Department.”

5 Pillars are a vile organisation who should not exist in the UK

We value freedom of speech and expression especially when it comes to criticising ideologies or religions.“]

In fact, John Cleese need not worry about being arrested. If the initial referral to Prevent is then passed to police, and if that initial screening reveals no security threat or “danger of radicalization” (i.e. which might lead to “terrorist” activity), the police close the file, though in some cases may refer the matter to mental health services to to the so-called “Channel” multi-agency outfit.

Cleese can carry on carrying on, in short.

Unusual. Most of the anti-free-speech pressure in the UK comes from the Jew-Zionist pro-Israel lobby. 95%.

I blogged long ago, in 2018, about the stupid “Prevent”/”Channel” nonsense:

If John Cleese is really taken by surprise by that, he must have been asleep for the past 25 years.

True, but don’t just tell the Muslims— tell the Jewish lobby too.

True.

Also true.

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Diary Blog, 23 September 2026

Afternoon music

[swimming-pool Moskva; I myself swam there a few times in the early 1990s; shortly after that, the pool was closed; a cathedral now stands on the site in Kropotkinskaya]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

The Nigerian bad-joke woman now “leading” what is left of the Conservative Party seems to be feeling the chill of the English Autumn. Perhaps she wonders when the bell will be tolling for her. Go back to Nigeria.

[“Britain has spent billions trying to stop the small boat invasion since 2018 — including nearly £1 billion on the French.

And yet this week boats are arriving without interception !!

Labour, like the Tories before them, have completely failed.

It is time to do what Reform has been calling for.

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Repeal the Human Rights Act.

Derogate from the Refugee Convention.

Detain and deport all illegals — including the estimated 1.5 million already in Britain.

Send in the Navy.

Strip the vast majority of welfare benefits from foreign nationals to remove further incentives.

And sack any civil servants who don’t play ball.

If we don’t fix this crisis we will end up in a very dangerous place.

The British state will no longer be seen as legitimate by many people.

Citizens will take matters into their own hands (as we already see).

The protests will spread across the country.

And there will be a colossal breakdown of public trust in police, parliament, and politics.

Stop the invasion.

Vote Reform.

We are the only political party that can win a general election and turn this around.

Everybody else is lying to you.

Everybody else has failed.“]

Things must go far beyond Reform…

Same with the BBC, which runs ads on its own behalf, featuring an evil-looking young South Asian woman talking about “disinformation” and how the BBC is countering it when, in reality, the BBC is one of the worst offenders. Think “Covid”, “Ukraine”, “climate change”, mass immigration etc.

The BBC pays proven liar Marianna Spring in the region of £150,000 p.a. to head its “disinformation” section.

The fish rots from the head. Not (so much) the ordinary police (though they are now often also brainwashed wastes of space), but those of Inspector and above, especially the highest ranks. Not the ordinary troopers etc, but the Army generals. Not the ordinary officers and men of the Navy but the admirals.

Most rotten of all? MPs and ministers in the Westminster monkeyhouse.

Weinstein case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm98626n260yo

“Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant.“

[BBC]

[“It’s antisemitism! Antisemitism!“]

Late tweets

[“This documentary actually mentions the Red Cross gold standard audit that I have personally seen.
It was all bullshit and lies.
By the same people still saying safe and effective as we all drop down dead from cancer’s heart attack attacks and blood clots.
The same people importing a foreign army into Europe .
As general George Patton said shortly before his untimely death – by accident of course..
“we fought the wrong enemy”.
You’re not even allowed to question things and let me tell you truth doesn’t mind being questioned.
“]

Can our society, especially the parts of it with far too much money and far too little culture or any sense of aesthetics, get more decadent? God knows.

[“Gangsterism is the main mechanism of Anglo-Saxon global hegemony”**

A provocative geopolitical argument portrays the rise of the British Empire—and later the broader Western order—not primarily as a triumph of democratic institutions, but as the evolution of a global network of private companies, intelligence services, secret societies and other powerful organizations.

The argument traces this model back to the British Empire, claiming that private actors such as pirates and chartered companies played a major role in overseas expansion and that these mechanisms eventually evolved into modern systems of political and economic influence.

It then takes aim at the modern West, arguing that democracy has become more of a façade, while concentrated networks of political and economic power increasingly determine outcomes behind the scenes.

The text also makes a sweeping historical claim about Marxism, Christianity and the Bolsheviks—claims that are highly interpretive and not established historical consensus.

The broader criticism is clear: when private interests become powerful enough to influence governments, the line between statecraft and organized power politics can become very thin.

Democracy may have the ballot box. **But the real question is always: who controls what happens after the votes are counted?“]

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