Well, this week 6/10, thus trumping the 3.5/10 claimed by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 8, and 9.
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 645 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, and the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/pHQKwStqmhpic.twitter.com/jpw7HJqwwT
**EU urges member states to cut gas and electricity use**
The European Union has called on its member states to reduce their consumption of gas and electricity, as part of broader efforts to curb energy demand and strengthen energy security.
Without Russia, Europe —whether EU or non-EU— will struggle to maintain its living standards.
I did this video about 7 years ago.. it seems quite apt today, with all the talk of who are the English. Take a look, it's not long.https://t.co/JyROXCzXnh
Looks like the next election will be the last chance for the British to vote in a pro-british party.
The Woodlander Initiative is building communities throughout Britain that will be self sufficient and built to preserve our culture and traditions. https://t.co/3XziTpe0Rypic.twitter.com/CYDTWb2VgJ
🚨NEW: British billionaire Peter Hargreaves says he "completely disagrees" with Man Utd part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments that the country is "on the slide", saying "the country isn't on a slide, it's slid. This country is never, ever coming back, it's finished" pic.twitter.com/ZW3XiE9uDD
Re. Islam and free speech— perhaps, but in fact, in the UK, the thin-skinned complainers, whingers, would-be censors, makers of faked complaints to police, professional regulators, public venues etc, and who complain about “a few words” are not (usually) the Muslims, even the “Islamist” ones, but the Jew-Zionists.
For readers of the blog unaware of the facts of my own battles, see a few of my own experiences over the past decade:
I suspect that to a degree, this is bringing out something they already have more out into the open.
We know that the measures taken during COVID were quite Draconian in nature, and the use of agent provocateurs via social media, digital "crowding out" (see NAFO accounts) is a…
[“I suspect that to a degree, this is bringing out something they already have more out into the open.
We know that the measures taken during COVID were quite Draconian in nature, and the use of agent provocateurs via social media, digital “crowding out” (see NAFO accounts) is a govt tactic.
This is just the addition of a more open version of what both the UK and US and most other govts have been doing for years.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey. CIA director . 1987.”]
Quaere: at what point does a supposedly “liberal” “democracy” become effectively an illiberal collegial dictatorship or even tyranny? Also, if a country becomes, in effect, a concealed or semi-concealed dictatorship/tyranny, at what point, if at all, does it then become legitimate to use force to oppose it or to remove it?
Also, will the above questions require different answers if the said collegial dictatorship is, whether deliberately or via its own incompetence, running a once-great country into the ground?
A topical subject at present, nicht wahr?
Talking point
I was just looking at a blog post from 2019, in which I examined the several main contenders for the Conservative Party leadership contest of that year and, therefore, contenders to become Prime Minister.
The post has had many hits over the years, and right up to today. Re-reading it (I also took the opportunity to post an update, the first it has had since 2019), I think that my assessments of the various personalities still stand up pretty well:
Would translate to a Commons with about 318 Labour MPs (just short of a majority; about 8 short); 162 Reform UK MPs; 69 LibDems; 52 Cons (less than half of their MP cadre at present); SNP 23 [etc].
So a Labour-LibDem coalition or arrangement, or maybe a Labour-SNP one. Weak government that may play into the hands of social-nationalism.
Russian forces struck the Epicentr logistics hub in Odessa used for the storage of foreign military supplies with drones as they also attacked a Ukrainian bulk carrier with cargo for the enemy army at sea, Russia’s Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/b7GZSx0H8Jpic.twitter.com/UrccKvofCb
"No Money": The European Union Has Left the Kyiv Regime Without Promised Funds
The Kyiv regime is facing another catastrophic shortage of funds for the purchase of weapons, according to Politico. In the next two months, it urgently needs to find at least $27 billion to fill the… pic.twitter.com/2OThPLWNKl
[“No Money”: The European Union Has Left the Kyiv Regime Without Promised Funds
The Kyiv regime is facing another catastrophic shortage of funds for the purchase of weapons, according to Politico. In the next two months, it urgently needs to find at least $27 billion to fill the gaps in the defense budget.
Finding itself in a desperate situation, the regime is openly pressuring Brussels, demanding that loans be disbursed early. However, the current deficit is entirely the fault of the “Banderites” themselves: they have spent all the remaining funds while Hungary was delaying the approval of the next tranche. Nevertheless, the amount that Zelensky needs has not been found by the European bureaucrats. Brussels has only approved $6.6 billion, and not all of these funds will go directly to the Kyiv regime.“]
Most of the world would fall apart too . The only reason Africa is able to maintain such a high population is due to the White Take us away and you’d have apocalyptic resource wars before they revert to barbarism
The NABU established that businessman Mindich conducted criminal activity using his friendship with Zelensky, according to charges connected to the Mindich case released by Ukrainian lawmaker:https://t.co/D5klpPXZKppic.twitter.com/GCzVYhTlxf
Ukraine under Zelensky’s regime is, literally, both owned and controlled by individuals born in Ukraine but who are not Ukrainian. Call them “Khazars” if you like…
Ukraine’s corruption scandal has "sent shivers" through Europe, one of Kiev’s strongest financial supporters, columnist Ted Snider writes in an op-ed for The American Conservative:https://t.co/FfPLS420oRpic.twitter.com/Z0HomL358m
An emergency census is desperately needed. Data from the last one was collected BEFORE the Boris Wave.
We really need an early one to wake up the whole population to our demographic replacement as some areas still haven’t been hit by mass immigration yet.
I’m really glad that they’re pointing out how this is effecting poorer areas particularly.
I don’t think a lot of people still realise this.
Everyone who has called me racist for my views live in nice areas and are well-off in comparison to myself. They have not had the same… https://t.co/H3E3EDr3hR
Sterilization should be on the table. In fact, the very threat of that might make them take “voluntary” deportation. Worth thinking about. Worth doing, too.
According to Grok.
We have a serious problem regarding severe mental illness down here in Plymouth.
It is quite a poor city and there is a massive drug culture down here as well – and especially in the area this incident happened.
[“We have a serious problem regarding severe mental illness down here in Plymouth. It is quite a poor city and there is a massive drug culture down here as well – and especially in the area this incident happened. Nothing has been the same since lockdown down here. Things drastically changed after and it has just been getting worse and worse since. I speak about how mass immigration has massively impacted Plymouth since the Boris Wave often but we also have problems with some of our own here with committing serious crimes. I have lived here for 13 years and Plymouth never used to be like this.“]
Even when I would drive to Plymouth to appear at the Plymouth County Court (between 2002 and 2007), the city was not a place where I would linger once my work there was done. It could be a great city, but is not, and for several reasons, one being the obvious uselessness of the local government there.
From late 2005 to 2008, I also took the ferry between Plymouth and Roscoff (Brittany) every week or two, because I lived half the time on the French side. I did not visit the city itself much before evening embarkation, though I would sometimes get a fish and chips in the city beforehand.
Neither side in that very unfortunate war should be targeting civilians (regardless of whether that is the case here), but the Kiev regime has been targeting Russian and Ukrainian civilians since 2014, a decade before the war as such, or recognized as such, even began.
Russian forces struck military-industrial and energy sites in western Ukraine in response to Kiev’s attacks on civilian facilities, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jdGW8xQOS9pic.twitter.com/dOrqChUf4M
Bombshell stats show what's REALLY happening in the UK
More and more immigrants are flooding into the UK from radically different cultures outside Europe while record numbers of Brits are leaving their own country
When I was subjected to my free speech trial (in late 2023, and at the instigation of the malicious pack of Jew-Zionists called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”), the rather poor Counsel instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service (some youngish fellow called Phillip Allman) put to me, as part of his brief (and, frankly, unskilled) cross-examination, that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan was a “conspiracy theory“. I retorted that it was not, and that all he had to do was look around him to see that. Collapse of not very stout cross-examination…
You only have to look around you to see the flooding of the UK, especially England, especially the English cities, by the migration invasion.
OUR FREE-SPEECH DOCUMENTARY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
THE RICH MIX CINEMA HAS BANNED OUR PREMIERE, BECAUSE OUR FILM DOES NOT ALIGN WITH ITS ‘VALUES’.
You would think that banning a documentary about free speech would be a bad look for a cultural institution. But that’s precisely what… pic.twitter.com/GZQGqLpIY3
[“OUR FREE-SPEECH DOCUMENTARY HAS BEEN CANCELLED THE RICH MIX CINEMA HAS BANNED OUR PREMIERE, BECAUSE OUR FILM DOES NOT ALIGN WITH ITS ‘VALUES’.
You would think that banning a documentary about free speech would be a bad look for a cultural institution. But that’s precisely what Rich Mix in east London has just done.
We were all set to hold the premiere of our documentary, Think Before You Post, about the rise of the British speech police, at Rich Mix on Tuesday 25 November. But last night, we received an email saying the venue would be ‘terminating [our] booking contract’. ‘Since confirming your booking, it has come to light that the content and speakers featured do not align with our values and mission here at Rich Mix’, reads the email. ‘Our founding objectives are to support marginalised communities (primarily communities facing racial inequity), promote intercultural understanding, eliminate racial discrimination, and foster equality of opportunity through arts and culture.’
Those of you who have watched the documentary might be wondering what this is getting at. After all, the film is about the people who have been arrested, prosecuted and even held on remand for alleged speechcrime – even though they hadn’t said anything the least bit hateful.
Rich Mix claims that the ‘nature of the event was not fully disclosed to us upon booking’. This is despite the fact the documentary was already available to watch online when we snagged the slot. And all of the speakers who were due to take part in the post-screening Q&A were in the film itself.
I wish I could say I was surprised. The cultural sector is overrun with woke scolds who wouldn’t know what free speech is if it bit them on the backside. The gentleman who emailed us about the cancellation naturally had his pronouns in his email signature, too.
This isn’t even the first time our documentary about censorship has been censored. On X, it has been slapped with age restrictions, despite having no age-inappropriate content in it, thanks to the illiberal Online Safety Act.
I suppose we should be happy to have been proven right. But vindication is cold comfort when it comes at the cost of a great evening of screening the film and discussing it with our contributors, friends and – most importantly – supporters.
If you have bought tickets, please bear with us. We are working flat-out to find a new venue for the same night. But if we fail to do so, we will of course refund everyone in full, and postpone for a later date. (If you’d like a refund now anyway, just get in touch and we’ll process it.)
In any case, we are determined not to be silenced. Clearly, the core message of Think Before You Post – for free speech and against censorship – is more important than ever. Even if it doesn’t jive with the sacred ‘values’ of Rich Mix.“]
📢Some personal news: I have taken the difficult decision today to resign from the Conservative Party after 30 years. I have joined @reformparty_uk and will be assisting as Chief Advisor on Global Affairs. Britain needs change. And only Reform can deliver what is required.
So more Jewish/Zionist influence at the heart of Reform UK…
That one is a co-founder, and executive director, of the NWO/ZOG pressure group, the Henry Jackson Society.
For me, Reform is good for one thing only— to smash the long-running System “two main parties” scam. Once that happens, it can fall away and burn, like the booster rockets at space launches.
yes and to say nothing of the "brand damage" for all the very smart politics commentators who spent a full year telling us all how assuredly brilliant starmer and his team were going to be
I wrote on the blog, about 3-4 years ago, that Keir Starmer, “slightly to my surprise“, was turning out to be “utterly clueless“. Was I right or wrong? I think, right…
That msm talking head, Goodall, though, should take into account the sea-change in UK society over the past half-century. I have discussed this on the blog a number of times over the years.
The “industrial proletariat” no longer exists except in small scattered places, like an endangered species. What does exist is the Welfare State’s version of a modern lumpenproletariat, whether white “chavscum” or the equally cultureless, value-less, and raceless, black/brown hordes.
Then we have the associated but slightly different “precariat” of people sometimes employed, sometimes self-employed, sometimes unemployed. People without much job security or life security. Very widespread. Regular readers of the blog may have seen a few of my own experiences in that regard.
What does misnamed (now) “Labour” have to say to all of those? Not much, certainly not since 1989, and even less since Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper took over..
Those demographic elements also suggest considerable political volatility.
Starmer-Labour is a nullity. Stands for nothing. Achieves nothing. Its MPs are little nothings. Starmer-stein himself is spiritually empty, a political and personal nothing, in the pocket of the Israel lobby, and motivated only by careerism and money-grasping.
I’ve been getting a lot of messages recently from people thanking me for speaking up about everything going on.
I never spoke up to get money, notoriety or a career from this. I was just absolutely sick to death with what our country has become and the South West of England in…
[“I’ve been getting a lot of messages recently from people thanking me for speaking up about everything going on. I never spoke up to get money, notoriety or a career from this. I was just absolutely sick to death with what our country has become and the South West of England in particular. I was in a far better position than most to speak out too as I didn’t have much to financially lose in doing so and no children who would be affected if that was to happen. But getting these messages has been nice and especially when I’m having a bad day and questioning if I should have done this face out in the first place. I don’t regret my decision overall, I think my message has spread far more being face out, but it has become quite isolating at times due to a lot of people in my personal life still under the Marxism spell. Things are definitely changing though. A lot more people are getting just as sick as me from it all and I’m seeing a lot more people now adopt a more ethnonationalism approach to our country’s situation. May it continue. Liberate England.”]
He's been an MP for five minutes and yet he thinks he can punish people with life-long conditions. In that short time he claimed rent, utilities and internet. Maybe he can do without that and pay it out of his own pocket.
🚨“We are trying to get rape alarms and hand them out. The illegal migrants come on these buses, drink beer, and leer at the women.”
“My four-year-old daughter was approached by one of these men, who tried to film her. The women and girls are absolutely terrified.”@TVKev |… pic.twitter.com/CxNO2ZNaNl
My blonde granddaughters were filmed in a city park by men dressed as Muslims, sat round smoking a shisha. We left. Then as we waited at a pelican crossing a Sudanese immigrant attached himself to us, then walked with us chatting until I managed to shake him off. It’s terrifying.
— 🇬🇧 Rubio – Party of Women – Suffrage 2.0 💚🤍💜 (@Rubio43210) November 19, 2025
It can only be a matter of time before the people of Britain take matters into their own hands.
“Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.
Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.
[Guardian]
So “conspiracy theories” such as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan will no doubt be examined (with an inbuilt and hostile a priori bias, though…). The brainwashing will probably fail if the children subjected to it open their eyes to what is happening all around them…
“Tory grandees have accused senior figures in their own party of using divisive language that inflamed anger over immigration before the recent rioting, amid warnings that too many Conservatives have “turned a blind eye” to a shift to the right.“
[Guardian]
Alistair Burt and Timothy Kirkhope. Both former solicitors, and both former members of Conservative Friends of Israel.
A slow-motion coup has installed multi-cultural socialism in the West. Britain currently is experiencing its own equivalent of the Prague takeover of 1948. The show-trials of Douglas Murray and Elon Musk (if they can apprehend him) will no doubt soon follow. https://t.co/lcSDMs0PL6
— Tom Gallagher NEW book Europe's Leadership Famine (@cultfree54) August 11, 2024
I saw part of Douglas Murray’s interview. Usually I have no time for him, or for any puppets of Israel and the Jewish lobby, but I have to say that I agreed thoroughly with much and indeed most of what I heard.
I can only imagine that Murray said such unambiguous things deliberately in order to throw down the gauntlet to “two-tier Keir”, to provoke his own, Murray’s, arrest, charge, and prosecution, with the idea that a British jury will never convict him. A gamble, but a calculated one.
Of course, a “British jury” may now contain blacks and browns who may not agree with Murray’s views, and let us not pretend that such cases are somehow objective fora searching for truth— they are purely political, just like the joint trial of Nick Griffin and Mark Collett about 20 or so years ago (they were both acquitted, a smack in the mouth the “Clown” Prosecution Service was not expecting).
However, a British jury might well acquit Murray, if he does end up being charged and tried. That would raise his profile immeasurably. Then, in a few years, he might become a Reform UK candidate (as might Matt Goodwin) in circumstances in which the “elected” dictatorship of “two-tier Keir” and his clowns will undoubtedly be extremely unpopular with everyone outside the msm and the Westminster Bubble. In fact, Britain might really be on the brink of revolt by then.
If, on the other hand, Murray is not arrested/charged/prosecuted, then the poundland “tough guy” image “two-tier Keir” has been trying to project over the past 5-7 days crashes and burns. Indeed, if Murray escapes prosecution, many now charged will be able to plead not guilty in the hope that juries will acquit them for reasons as openly political as many of the prosecutions themselves.
Assuming that Murray’s statements were made quite carefully and deliberately, I think that it can be said that he has made a stunning political move.
The legal arguments at any trial would revolve at least partly around the (apparent) fact that the now-famous interview was filmed in the USA, though broadcast or sent to the UK, and aimed mainly at a UK audience.
During the Black Lives Matter rioting and protests, it was considered entirely legitimate to ask what lay behind black anger. But today, it's apparently illegitimate to ask what lies behind white anger. I think many people see the double standard.
I've done a lot of international media this week and I can tell you that when it comes to how the UK is managing free speech much of the world thinks we're going insane. "You're the home of Magna Carta", a journalist just said. "What the hell happened to you?"
NEW POST. What REALLY lies behind the UK's riots and protests. A collection of counter-cultural perspectives in a national debate that is clearly failing.https://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
“I’m a Lib Dem member of the House of Lords who lives in trendy Islington. I am a citizen of nowhere. All these foreign people benefit from my patronage (lucky them). But none of them is ever invited to my dinner parties. Virtue signal over.” https://t.co/xkxre1PyYM
What we are now seeing might be described as a struggle between Islamists who want to rule Britain (and mainland Europe), and Jew-Zionists who, partly and perhaps to a large extent, and more quietly [own and] rule Britain and much of the Western world generally.
What is wrong with our civilization can be said with one word — unreality. We are in no danger either from the vices or the virtues of vikings; we are in danger of forgetting all facts, good and bad, in a haze of high-minded phraseology.
My own prediction was, and remains, that Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” problem by setting up some kind of fake “processing” lines in France, and/or elsewhere, then rubberstamping perhaps 90% or even 95% of the applications. That ~90% will then enter the UK “legally” (along with the —ten to twenty times the number— existing “legal” entrants), while the others will still cross the Channel without authorization.
The 1.3M+ figure noted by Matt Goodwin is dwarfed by the c.15M who have arrived “legally” over the past 30 years; also, do not forget the question of births to non-European mothers in the UK. Another form of “migration invasion”.
Only a few writers are willing to challenge the established narrative on what is REALLY driving the unrest in Britain. Here are a few of them 👇https://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
The Batley Grammar schoolteacher is still in hiding. Three years after he supposedly “insulted” Islam. Why is no one in the political class talking about this? Because they are abject moral cowards, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/z2cOHtM55Q
It is easy to just laugh at nonsense of that sort, but behind all such manifestations is an urge to lead all of society into the abyss. “Anti-sexism”, “anti-racism” etc. Also, generally, the inferior valued above the superior in terms of cultural value. Historical civilizations and cultures, religions, other belief systems. Music too, and visual art.
Some “artists” have made tens of millions, even hundreds of millions from their “art” of that sort. In Britain we have had Damien Hirst (in my opinion, both a con-man and a fake, as well as mentally-unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst) and Tracey Emin (another fake and money-grubber): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Emin.
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Incidentally, the above piece of “art” by Tracey Emin was auctioned by Christie’s in 2014 for £2.5M. Do we need any further evidence of the decadence of our society?
The existing System in the UK has lionized “artists” of that sort, not only by selling their “art” for millions, but by awarding them System or Establishment medals or titles: Tracey Emin is now a member of the Royal Academy, and its Professor of Drawing. She was also awarded a CBE and later DBE “for services to art“. You couldn’t make it up.
Having said that, I recall a woman whom I encountered occasionally in the 1980s, and who was awarded an MBE around 2006 or 2007, “for fostering relations with Russia“. From what I heard, mainly carnal ones…
Incidentally, the infamous Tracey Emin Bed “artwork” was bought by (((Charles Saatchi))) for £150,000, then later, eventually, sold, as noted, for £2.5M.
Art covers a wide field, and many forms, but the above examples show a degradation not only of art but also of a whole society.
More tweets seen
This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli government’s ongoing coup d’etat is not a “judicial…
— Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🟣⚖️ פניה עוז-זלצברגר (@faniaoz) August 11, 2024
“This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli government’s ongoing coup d’etat is not a “judicial overhaul” but a destruction of the country’s rule of law. The Attorney General was verbally attacked during the meeting, and Ben Gvir called for her immediate dismissal. Netanyahu’s hostile takeover of the Civil Service Commission will mean that evert future appointment will be subject to the appointee’s groveling submission to him personally and to the extreme right’s agenda.”
Israel will not exist at some point in the near or medium-term future. The external pressures already lead to unsustainable internal stresses.
Late tweets
We need to address the root cause of why so many British people feel so unsafe in their own country. We need to fix the borders. We need to end mass immigration. We need to replace the policy of multiculturalism.https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/HuMHFW8XKf
Giant wind turbines, reaching up to 850 feet tall – over 250 feet higher than London's Gherkin building – could soon dominate the British countryside, after Ed Miliband dismissed calls for a height limit. https://t.co/HSb3Fa4Mj7
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Were the 'spontaneous' anti-racism rallies even real? asks Steven Tucker; Richard Dawkins's Facebook account is deleted after a gender critical post; and Boris Johnson says Starmer is "deaf" to immigration concerns. https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2pic.twitter.com/JPIGWQohFp
Specialist police units are scouring social media to clamp down on "hate influencers" accused of inciting the riots seen on British streets. https://t.co/XwC6wxc1QM
BBC News, Sky News are now just propaganda pushers. Reminiscent of Soviet TV. For example, I saw a few minutes on either BBC or Sky this evening. Some little technocrat twerp called Hadley, itching to snoop on and censor social media; the woman presenter a nodding dog, unwilling and probably incapable of challenging said twerp’s police state ethos.
Well, another victory over political journalist John Rentoul this week: Rentoul scored 4/10; my score was 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 7, and 8.
So, in the end, British free speech and civil rights were killed off, not by “Nazis”, and not by Communists (as such), but by a bespectacled, mealy-mouthed, charisma-free, little bureaucrat-lawyer turned Labour Party MP, with a Jewish wife and some buy-to-let properties.
“Sargon of Akkad” (Carl Benjamin) echoing, inter alia, my recent blog posts about the lack of legitimate mandate for Starmer-Labour. As said previously, out of every 20 people eligible to vote at GE 2024, 8 decided not to vote at all, perhaps because no social-national party or movement exists (as yet).
Out of every 20 eligible voters, and out of every 12 voters who voted, only 4 voted Labour (Con 3, Reform UK 2, LibDems 2, Greens 1), in rough terms.
The Starmer-Labour government has no legitimacy, and no mandate.
Well, sad to say, that is nonsense. Human beings cannot live on other planets (the ones we know about) because the atmospheres are poisonous, and because the gravity is either too little or too great (meaning the human body cannot, over time, take the stresses).
There is no soil or water on other known planets which might be available for agriculture.
Other planets in our solar system are either too hot or too cold for human life to survive.
Several known planets are “gas giants”, and have no hard surface on which even to land or locate an artificial colony.
There is no way (short of somehow living in giant glass bubbles) for human beings even to live on the Moon, let alone Mars or Jupiter. There is also no point in human beings living —if they could— on other planets.
This whole idea of interplanetary colonization is a waste of effort. What it comes down to is a few billionaires who, however you look at it, have far too much money, and who are engaged in a puerile competition with each other, the prize seeming to be the status of having been the first to send loads of affluent tourists on joy-trips around the Earth and, eventually, Moon.
Incidentally, using current technology, it would take 200+ days to reach Mars. Jupiter? Between 600 days to get close, but up to 2,000 days to get into Jupiter’s orbit and/or land. So 2-6 years. Uranus? Perhaps 9 years. Neptune? Estimates vary between 9 and 18 years.
Musk and his fellow-ultra-rich should come down to Earth.
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German air force colonel confirms what anyone with even a passing interest in military strategy already knew.
The Kursk "raid" is a waste of men, materiel and time. It's a PR stunt.
“The Russian Army has destroyed a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment that broke through in the Kursk region.
The enemy was moving in the Malaya Loknya area – this is approximately 15-20 km from the border.
The equipment stopped, where it was overtaken. The vehicles were destroyed by Ka-52M helicopters, and the infantry in the forest was finished off by artillery.“
The Ukrainian (Kiev regime) advance appears to have no goal other than to reassure the suppliers of money and weapons in the West: “look what we can do!” etc.
The Kiev regime has insufficient men and armour to penetrate Russia more deeply, and it has no supply capability for such a serious operation. The Kiev regime advance will (even taking it at face value) run out of steam and then be unable to resupply its columns.
If the Wehrmacht in the early 1940s found itself lost in the vast prostor (apparently-limitless space) of Russia, how could Zelensky’s pitiful forces do better?
Is the Kiev regime trying to get Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons (either in the field or on Kiev) as a way of dragging NATO into the war directly? Let us hope not.
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison after he pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred: https://t.co/8fe6PPq9srpic.twitter.com/O1LoHHSTvC
So despite the relatively young age of the defendant, despite the fact that the judge decided not to ask for any pre-sentence reports, and despite the fact that the defendant pleaded guilty, the judge in his wisdom decided to inflict upon the defendant an immediate custodial sentence of no less than 3 years (plus that mean little extra two months). Purely political, emanating from “two-tier Keir”, his recent poundshop-dictatorship speech, and his pathetic “Lord Chancellor” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabana_Mahmood#Early_life_and_career].
I know nothing about the case or the defendant but, in view of the harsh sentence, frankly my feeling is that he might as well have pleaded not guilty and gone for jury trial. He might have struck lucky.
It occurs to me that the present wave of repression in the UK has, as its psychological foundation, the way in which a medically-camouflaged police state structure of law and regulation was set up during 2020-2021; the years of the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic. The System was interested to see how craven most people were, meekly giving in to the demand to “wear a mask!” (in some places but not in others), “keep 2 metres apart!” (in some places) and all the other nonsense, such as the crazy and arbitrary “Rule of 6” made up by stupid poseur “Boris” Johnson. All that and, even more Draconian, the “lockdown(s)”.
We saw during the “panicdemic” how the courts at first went along with all the nonsense, though sense generally prevailed later on. As for the police, their behaviour during the “Covid” scam was nothing short of absolutely disgusting. Now look— they are again acting as a poundland KGB or Stasi.
"The media narrative that endowed the [defunct] English Defence League & right-wing figures with formidable organising resources was & remains the invention of the propaganda machine of the British Establishment. No doubt right-wing activists posted provocative statements & a…
“The media narrative that endowed the [defunct] English Defence League & right-wing figures with formidable organising resources was & remains the invention of the propaganda machine of the British Establishment.
No doubt right-wing activists posted provocative statements & a handful participated in rioting. But their influence has been blown out of proportion to inflate the role & threat posed by the far right”
– Frank Furedi Substack.“
Quite. The bottle-throwers and/or “Tommy Robinson” fans are just an amorphous mass, pointed in this or that direction by those behind the “controlled opposition”.
I predict now that within 5 years criticising immigration, radical Islamism, and our broken model of multiculturalism will be considered "fake news".https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/gozJAO07Hz
This can only end one way, but under the already -considerable repression in the UK, I cannot specify anything without having to endure —yet again— the boring nuisance of having to talk to police drones at my door (as has happened a number of times in the past decade), and must therefore hope that readers can read between the lines, as in all authoritarian/totalitarian states…
“Britain’s almost 60-year experiment in hate-speech legislation is a warning to the world. We first introduced an offence of ‘inciting racial hatred’ in 1965, in the Race Relations Act. Fast forward to today and we now have laws against ‘incitement to religious hatred’, ‘grossly offensive’ online communications and a police force who routinely harass women for calling men men on the internet. Cops have also taken to quietly recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ against citizens’ names, when the pesky law gets in the way of their authoritarianism.
The upshot of this is a scale of speech-policing that is surely unprecedented in our history. In 2017, an investigation by The Times found that nine people a day were being arrested for ‘posting allegedly offensive messages online’ – with 3,395 arrested in 2016 alone. Even then, that investigation was limited to one piece of legislation – the Communications Act – and the real number is almost certainly higher, not least because many police forces didn’t respond to the survey. Greg Lukianoff, president of America’s estimable Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, argues that, on the basis of those partial numbers alone, Britain is comfortably locking up more people today for speech crimes than America did during the first Red Scare.
When people think of hate-speech laws they probably imagine some vicious fascist, being dawn-raided for airing toxic, ancient hatreds. There’s still a bit of that. But as those racist rioters remind us, while they are mercifully small in number, censoring racists doesn’t make racists go away – it just forces them to spew their bile out of sight, at the fringes and in fetid echo chambers, where they can’t be clocked or challenged. What’s more, there are many supposed speech criminals who – while offensive to some – are hardly dangerous bigots. There’s Count Dankula, the YouTuber who was convicted in Scotland for making a ‘grossly offensive’ comedy video in which he taught his pug to do a Nazi salute. Feminist Kate Scottow was convicted of causing ‘needless anxiety’ via persistent ‘misgendering’ – thankfully, that one was overturned. Christian street preachers are often arrested by the police for airing their predictably less-than-liberal views on homosexuality and transgenderism. This has been going on for decades now. Indeed, it’s been almost 20 years since Sam Brown, a student at Oxford University, was famously arrested for calling a police horse gay.
More alarmingly, the British state is increasingly taking an interest in things people say in private. There have been a fewcases now in which people in England have been convicted for racist posts made in private WhatsApp groups. In Scotland, the great, sinister innovation of Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act is that it forgoes the usual dwelling defence – a feature of existing hate-speech legislation that prohibits arrest over speech uttered in your own home. Now, any Scottish dinner-table chat could be a crime scene.
Certainly, incitement to violence, true threats and so on are crimes in every civilised society – even in America, where the First Amendment renders any censorship of speech and the press unconstitutional. But ‘incitement to hatred’ and ‘grossly offensive’ speech are different things entirely. One man’s hatred is another man’s passionately held moral conviction. Offence is always in the eye of the beholder. We all think we know hate or offence when we see it, but at the end of the day everyone will draw the line slightly differently. You’re then left with someone having to decide, and nowadays that means someone like Keir Starmer – a man who until about five minutes ago thought it is ‘not right’ to say that only women can have a cervix.“
[Spiked magazine]
Part of all that is also to do with the numbers of people now in the UK who are actually either foreign and born overseas, or foreign, born of foreign parents, but in the UK.
Such people are now often to be found in public sector jobs, having acquired a degree from one of Britain’s new “universities” (with their ingrained “antifascist”-type bias). Police, probation people, civil servants, lawyers, academics, MPs, “journalists” (ill-informed scribblers), TV talking heads etc.
They are the foot-soldiers of the “woke” police state, and have no centuries of freedom of expression, or the struggles for that, to look back upon. They just have no inbred respect for free speech.
Sadly, their numbers now include English/British people as well, many of whom are entirely ignorant of English history, let alone world history, and have no respect for, or even understanding of, freedom of expression, free speech.
This is an excellent piece by @FraserMyers addressing not just the reality of two-tier policing but the underlying reasons the authorities practice it 👏 https://t.co/IJZUG6UPCg
Keir Starmer is considering a clampdown on “Islamophobia”. That would be a disaster. It would be an intolerable assault on our right to think and say whatever we want. No religion, including Islam, should be protected from blasphemy, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/z2cOHtM55Q
Another step on the UK’s road to perdition. Already, almost any criticism or even observation made about Jews, or Jewish behaviour, is likely to be treated as some kind of “hate speech”, either by police and CPS drones, or by the self-appointed defenders of Jewish/Zionist “entitlement”, such as the malicious and so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
Already, the laws of the UK are such that almost any leading historical thinkers such as Jesus Christ, St. Paul, Luther, Marx, Nietzsche etc would be prosecuted were they alive and living in contemporary Britain.
(An old one, but still relevant on the whole).
Talking point
[nb. in the UK, that —American— figure of 2% should be about 0.25%…]
Late tweets
Labour confirms it is dropping plans to have a "UK connection test", which would have restricted social housing to long-term UK residents
Whatever the nuances of housing supply and demand, mass immigration is the major factor in driving up both purchase prices and rental costs.
Between 500,000 and a million new “inhabitants” in the UK every single year, almost all non-white, non-European, newcomers.
Only idiots such as now-washed-up former MP, Pakistani pro-Israel puppet and Muslim apostate, Sajid Javid cannot see, or refuse to accept, the connection
(Make that 10M+, though, not 4M…)
Let me get this straight:
Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X.
And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload…
“Let me get this straight: Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X. And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload of violent crime all over Britain.“
There is an historical precedent of sorts for what Starmer etc are doing.
In Stalin’s day, the Soviet criminal legal system regarded ordinary, i.e. real, criminals as “class allies“. They got far more lenient sentences for their crimes of acquisition or violence than either the so-called “former people” (aristocrats and the middle classes), i.e. “class enemies“, usually sentenced for what they were, rather than what they had done, or the political prisoners, the most harshly-treated of all, who were regarded as terrorists, saboteurs, or simple traitors, even if they had done nothing but write a socio-political critique, or even a poem.
Counter-offensive against Russia" – Zelensky's most risky decision, which has been secretly planned for months, Kiev is taking risks with the army and technology, according to The Times of London, citing sources
“Counter-offensive against Russia” – Zelensky’s most risky decision, which has been secretly planned for months, Kiev is taking risks with the army and technology, according to The Times of London, citing sources
Main points from the article citing high sources in Kyiv:
Zelensky pressured the military leadership to start an offensive for months in complete secrecy.
In Kiev, they want to change the narrative that Ukraine is losing the war.
Ukraine would attack Russia even without Western permission.
This is the most risky decision since the beginning of the war, because Moscow will do everything to regain the territories.
The forces allocated for this operation range from 6,000 to 10,000 soldiers (probably more in reality).
The military leadership is ready to risk soldiers and expensive equipment in order to achieve something in this direction.“
As blogged previously, this operation is a propaganda/public relations exercise.
The Kiev regime has no military objective in sight, unless it is to reach Kursk, 77 miles from Sudzha where the front-line seems to be at present.
In the unlikely event that the Kiev-regime forces reach and take Sudzha, and then move up the good-quality 2-lane highway to Kursk, all that will happen will be that those forces will be encircled and destroyed by air as well as armour.
The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, even recently recruited (pressed into service) ones. It also has no logistics capability to sustain a deep thrust into Russian territory. Russian air power must be all but unchallenged in the Kursk region.
Still there you are. If you allow a sleazy, corrupt, Jewish former TV comedian to pose as President of Ukraine, expect disasters…
In this 2013 video, Nick Griffin asserts that Zionist neocons tried to bribe him in 2007 to drop anti-Semitism and focuse on Muslims. He refused and the Zionists decided to establish their own Zio-friendly far-right in the shape of EDL and Britain First.pic.twitter.com/4ucIZgW59l
— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) August 5, 2024
I interviewed Nick Griffin, former chairman of the British Nationalist Party, on anti-immigration unrest in Britain.
We discuss Zionist co-opting of the British nationalist groups to drum support for war & how his account @NickGriffinBU was censored for pro-Palestine activism. pic.twitter.com/coaFAGJTTE
The labour leadership is showing itself to have extremely left wing or fascist tendencies in power. They must be removed from office at the earliest opportunity which means in about 4 or 5 years time. Imagine how far they will force the country to move towards 1984 in that time.
There is more than one way of removing a dictatorial regime.
Former Pentagon Analyst: Ukraine Simply Cannot Win, and F-16s Will Be Destroyed on the Ground
Ukraine and its Western partners have no military strategy in the conflict with Russia, former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski notes on Judging Freedom. According to her, Ukraine is… pic.twitter.com/yBNkiIq9rM
“Former Pentagon Analyst: Ukraine Simply Cannot Win, and F-16s Will Be Destroyed on the Ground
Ukraine and its Western partners have no military strategy in the conflict with Russia, former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski notes on Judging Freedom.
According to her, Ukraine is fundamentally incapable of winning — and no F-16s will change that: they will be hit not even in the sky, but at their parking spots.“
The UK Police website is now IP blocking anyone who's not in the United Kingdom. Here's what it looks like from the EU. pic.twitter.com/PLiguLCg2C
Ash Sarkar is put forward as the articulate voice of the (in her case, second-generation) non-European living in the UK. The fact is that, even taking her at face value, she is an example of maybe one out of every hundred if not thousand.
“Out there” on the streets, Britain is becoming a multikulti dustbin, full of those who are not British in any real sense, and not a few who are little more than semi-savages.
Don't believe the hype. Labour is already putting mass immigration on steroids. This is an extreme policy very few people support 👇👇👇https://t.co/bt5seb8wMz
"One after another, self-described “liberals”, “progressives” and even so-called "conservatives" have lined up to declare alternative viewpoints & dissenters be shut down" https://t.co/oA0dZHq2N6
We still need to reckon with the folly of lockdown. The Covid inquiry shows how politicians and experts alike were gripped by 'groupthink'. Too few were willing to question a policy that was bound to cause immeasurable harm, says David Livermore https://t.co/EhvVN01oKB
Not someone in whom I take a great interest, and I only knew of her existence from a relatively few years ago, as far as I can recall. However, she (meaning her life) seems to me to personify certain aspects of what is wrong with this country.
The odd life and downward progress of Katie Price also somewhat reminds me of a far more literate, though I think not very nice person, Jeffrey Bernard, who was once described as “having made a career from writing about dying from cirrhosis“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Bernard.
Bernard’s Spectator column could be, sometimes, brilliantly funny. More often, it was simply absent, with what became the standard apologia, “Jeffrey Bernard is unwell“, below a substituted piece by someone else.
Incidentally, I once had a copy of the book about him, Just the One (referring to his habit of saying —usually inaccurately— that he had popped into a pub for one drink only). Really funny, though sad too in places.
It becomes ever more obvious that nothing much works properly in the UK, from the prison service to the NHS to the legal system to…well, you name it.
This is really damning. As Leader of the Opposition Starmer took the knee for BLM two days *AFTER* the BLM riot that injured 27 police officers. Talk about #TwoTierKeirhttps://t.co/i3R970BgW6
Great thread. I hadn't realised senior police had a documentary exposing Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs pulled many years ago because they thought it could have led to a backlash from white residents. Sounds pretty two-tier to me. 🔽 https://t.co/9iitb4zD6d
Good grief. That is, apparently, “a senior police officer“…
Britain in 2024…
It all raises questions for policing but also for the mainstream media, political elites and "stakeholders". How many girls might have been saved if this 2004 exposé of grooming gangs hadn't been deliberately ignored due to "far-right"? 👇 #TwoTierBritainhttps://t.co/mEWQry0LnA
Look at recent Sky News and BBC News coverage. Almost like TV news in the old Soviet Union or DDR (East Germany).
“Shadows on the wall of the cave”…
During the Harehills riots the lady offered the police tea & ice lollies. She was then arrested for saying 16 years of immigration had ruined the area.
She describes the dehumanisation of her overnight custody.
As in Stalin’s Soviet Union— people arrested who are genuinely puzzled as to why, saying “why am I here?“, or “I haven’t done anything“, or “what have I done?“
To combat this, retweet the crap out of everything, flood the playing field, make the job of the the thought police an impossible game of whack a mole.
That little Director of Public Prosecutions bastard is a typical police-state drone bureaucrat.
Beyond Orwellian. Simply astonishing. I respect open dictatorships a lot more than the "caress" dictatorships that we now see throughout the West. The former own their autocratic reflex; the latter gang rape you whilst whispering sweet-nothings in your ear. https://t.co/B41WBEmtfc
What happens, and what has happened in history, when every form of peaceful socio-political protest, criticism, or even analysis, is shut down? As people say, “answers on a postcard…”
Reminder the assistant commissioner of the Met would have joined a movement whose goal was to dismantle the police. https://t.co/qbbA13KyBd
Incidentally, many will know of that Basu bastard (now only a former policeman), who is sometimes quoted on TV or in the lying Press as an “expert” on “extremism”, “terrorism” etc, and who, risibly, was apparently the UK’s chief of (police) counter-intelligence. He is often spouting nonsense about how almost everything “far right” etc must be repressed. Another supporter of the upcoming (unless stopped) multikulti “woke” police state.
See also my piece from about 6 years ago about the tendency to a police state in the UK, that even then was coming out into the open:
Quite. Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote. Of the 12 that did, 4 voted Labour, 3 Conservative, 2 Reform UK, 2 LibDem, and 1 Green.
The regime of “two-tier Keir” has no legitimacy, no mandate. If the courts and general legal and justice system are not exercizing their proper independence, but are simply obeying the purported diktats of “two-tier Keir” and that bureaucrat-drone who seems to be the new Director of Public Prosecutions, then the courts themselves have no legitimacy.
Good grief. One of the most disturbing things I have ever heard from an MP. Wes Streeting actually detailing how he would push a leading journalist under a train. Was there ever a police investigation? @EssexPoliceUKhttps://t.co/ja8pbvO5Tn
Were I to argue that Wes Streeting (or Starmer, or Yvette Cooper, or other Labour Friends of Israel puppets) should be pushed in front of a train, the police would be (boringly) yet again at my door, no doubt, but once again it is that “two tier” policing…
[Update, 10 August 2024: looks like Allison Pearson may have been prevailed upon to delete her tweet].
As I wonder how many people charged and sentenced by the courts could appeal against their convictions based on what the likes of Streeting, McDonald, Rayner, Philips etc have said…
Starmer has left himself open to challenges to these…
“Two-tier Keir” Starmer is certainly confirming my view of him prior to the recent General Election, ie that he is akin to what Khrushchev said about Malenkov in his memoirs, “a file clerk type; people like that are dangerous if given power.“
Sleazy, racist Labour MP Lauren Edwards joked about William Hague's wife miscarrying their child, and that it "didn't prove he wasn't gay."
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) August 7, 2024
The Labour Friends of Israel should watch that.
Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief: We Are In A War Of Attrition
Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israeli regime's military intelligence directorate, said that Israel will find itself embroiled in a long war of attrition, Israel will continue to have its ruined… pic.twitter.com/hRhdWAke23
“Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief: We Are In A War Of Attrition
Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israeli regime’s military intelligence directorate, said that Israel will find itself embroiled in a long war of attrition, Israel will continue to have its ruined economy, and our standing in the world will fall to a lower level.“
[in fact, Amos Yadlin, not “Yadin“; a natural mistake for a native Russian-speaker to make]
According to the malicious Jewish-Zionist organization, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which (as I said during my free speech trial last November) is effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, somewhere around 94% of the Jews in the UK consider themselves Zionists, and the vast majority of them support the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Thus says the “CAA” itself.
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 9, 2024
Late tweets
🇵🇸 Palestinians are leaving the eastern parts of Khan Yunis en masse due to constant bombardment and fear of renewed Israeli ground army operations pic.twitter.com/GGGxORMSxu
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 9, 2024
Tel Aviv might be like that in 5, 10 or however many years. Maybe only a couple of years.
Mother of many children from Gaza becomes a refugee for the seventh time
Gaza resident Miada Abu Anza has been displaced for the seventh time by Israeli attacks. After another airstrike, the woman and her five children lived on the streets for several days before finding shelter… pic.twitter.com/PF4f8diuzE
I can’t stomach these MPs gloating about incredibly young men being locked up for years. These are lads who feel utterly powerless and disenfranchised, raised in a system that’s taught them they have nothing and can never accumulate anything.
“I can’t stomach these MPs gloating about incredibly young men being locked” up for years
These are lads who feel utterly powerless and disenfranchised, raised in a system that’s taught them they have nothing and can never accumulate anything.
During the Black Lives Matter protests, left-wing commentators argued that protest, vandalism, and even violence were necessary to highlight injustice. I disagreed then, and I do now, but where are those voices today?
There IS an obvious injustice: the British working class has been maligned, slandered, ignored, fobbed off, and lied to for a generation. They can’t buy a house, their kids are in overcrowded classrooms, and they watch as illegal migrants get private accommodation for free. How is that not something to be angry about?
Our political class prioritizes everyone else’s interests over theirs. These politicians are clueless about the real struggles these young men face.
Abandoned, left to fend for themselves, and when they finally lash out, we throw away the key. It’s disgraceful. Instead of addressing the root causes of their anger, they fan the flames, and believe me, they’re not alone in their fury.“
Looking at Diana Johnson’s biographical details for the first time, I notice that she was a salaried barrister 1999-2005 at Paddington Law Centre (West London), where I myself did about half a dozen (unpaid) evening sessions in 1993. I lived only a couple of miles away at the time, in Little Venice.
I will go to bed tonight not knowing if I’ll be woken up at 4am by the police arresting me for controversial social media posts.
That’s the reality of the UK.
That is literally where we are at.
America, don’t become what we have become.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 9, 2024
David Morgan is a brave young man and deserves support.
[Update, 9 August 2026: David Morgan was arrested, as he predicted would happen. Two malicious Jews, one an old woman from North London, one a transplant living near Tenby in Pembrokeshire when not in Israel, persisted for over a year in repeatedly reporting Morgan to the police, and those Jews then arranged to have applied political pressure on the police, effectively compelling them to act.
Morgan —in my view mistakenly— pleaded guilty to racial incitement and was —despite no previous convictions, his youth, his considerable medical vulnerabilities etc, despite all of that mitigation— imprisoned for 20 months in December 2025. A travesty of justice. All for having posted a few cartoons about Jews and Jewish behaviour.
I believe that either he has been released or shortly will be, as of July or August 2026.
I wish that someone who knows him would set up a GiveSendGo crowdfunder for him.
Self-identified liberals, Labour voters & Remainers are consistently more likely than conservatives, Tories & Brexiteers to block, unfriend, & be hostile toward those who hold different views. See Values, Voice & Virtue for evidence. Or my debate with David Aaronovitch. Lol. https://t.co/oTZGczWQDJ
Well, 7/10 this week, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 7, and 10, though I was at least in the right area re. question 7.
That idea, that the online pseudo-political “grifters” (“Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly”, Julia Grace Patterson etc) will have to nuance their begging appeals now that the hated “Tories” have switched places with the supposedly better but actually quite similar (in policy terms) Starmer-Labour, had occurred to me.
I doubt that the online fraudsters need to worry too much, though. Their target audience is almost begging to be cheated, and will accept as true almost any variation in the “facts” put forward. You only have to look at the lies of “Jack Monroe” over the years. Stunningly unbelievable. Like something from a book of fairy stories. Yet the “useful idiots” believe…and continue to send money to her.
NEW POST: The Tory Elite Class is in CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. They need to wake up and smell the coffeehttps://t.co/tnTPO0GwyI
There is a belief around that “mainstream” political parties must aim to be in the non-existent or notional “centre”.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I effectively never use the descriptors “right”, “left”, “centre” etc in that way.
What matters is policy, and what matters to the people is the overall effect of policy on their lives. The Conservative Party failed the people in terms of how their confused policy offering actually affected or changed, or failed to change, the lives and lifestyles of the people. Labour is about to follow suit, in my opinion.
Not that Churchill himself wanted to finish off the British Empire. He wanted, in an ideal world, to destroy National Socialist Germany and, at the same time, the Soviet Union.
Churchill’s strategic ineptitude (seen in numerous examples throughout his career) led not only to the destruction of the German Reich, followed by the division of mainland Europe into a Stalinist sector in the East, and a basically American, or notionally Anglo-American, sector in the West, but also to the destruction of all the European empires, and thus their generally civilizing influence over Asia, Africa (including North Africa) etc
The same basic division in Europe (though into 4 national sectors) was carried out in much of Germany and Austria for several years after WW2, with the capital cities (Berlin and Vienna) likewise divided.
Vienna was divided until 1955, Berlin until 1989, and France was, as a notional Western ally, given one sector despite having been defeated in 1940, partly occupied the same year, and fully-occupied in November 1942 (and having not participated in the defeat of the German Reich).
The end of WW2 led directly to the collapse of European rule across the world. The colonies of Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands etc were decolonized, some almost immediately, some much later. Thus began the environmental degradation and loss of wildlife across Asia, Africa, the Pacific etc, which situation continues even today, as do the wars, civil wars, corruptions and tyrannies of the formerly colonial territories.
Churchill, an educated and erudite man who was also completely wrong in his political judgment(s) was, so to speak, “the wrong man at the wrong time”, though the accepted System/msm narrative says the opposite, of course.
As Barnett points out in one or two of those books, after WW2 Britain would have been able to do one of three things well, possibly even two of those things: maintain its status as a great power; regenerate its economy; create a Welfare State. Britain tried to accomplish all three, but was unable to do so satisfactorily. Britain had been beggared by its war against the German Reich.
These three aims or tasks (or problems) are still with us, in some or another form, today.
Britain today is the “also ran” in respect of its military power, its society (Welfare State, NHS, State education etc), and economy.
As far as Barnett is concerned, I should say that he was right far more often than he was wrong.
Incidentally, Barnett was probably denied a knighthood, a life peerage, and other official honours (he did get a CBE) by reason of his having spoken, or strongly implied, the unsayable— that Britain should never have declared war on the German Reich or, having declared war in September 1939, should have concluded an armistice sometime after Dunkirk, in mid to late 1940, before too much hurt and damage had been done in western and central Europe.
Reform UK
"The blunt reality is that more 2019 Conservatives switched to Reform than the number who switched to Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined. Nigel Farage is the primary threat to the Conservative Party"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"the Tory elite class have never understood where the real centre in British politics lies, or if they have known then they’ve considered it too grubby, too parochial, too insular, too working-class, too low-status for high-status elites like them"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"Farage is very quickly building a serious & sustainable electorate —socially distinctive, geographically efficient, culturally coherent, conservative in outlook, and very hacked off with the Tory elite class"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
Reform UK’s vote suffers from being wide, indeed nationwide (though not so strong in Scotland), but shallow. 14.29% across the board could easily have meant zero seats anywhere, rather than the 5 Reform actually captured.
The LibDem vote, only 12.22% nationally, was nonetheless concentrated here and there. Result— 72 MPs.
In the East of England, Reform UK scored 17.5% of the vote; in the East Midlands, 18.9%.
Indeed, though Reform won no GE 2024 seats in the West Midlands or North-East England, its vote was still high— 18.1% in the former, and 19.9% in the latter (less than half a point behind the Conservative Party). Reform was also not very far behind the Conservative Party in the West Midlands.
Reform UK came second in 98 constituencies, of which 89 were won or held by Labour.
It is not impossible to surmise that, if the Conservative Party vote were to collapse further in those 98 seats, Reform UK might capture some, many, or even all of them.
That would be even more likely, arguende, if Starmer-Labour in government disappoints the mass of the people, as I believe it will.
Late tweets seen
“They’re carrying on like a cross between Pravda and Smash Hits.”
I am glad that I am not alone in having noticed the sickening sycophancy of the “occupied” UK msm towards Starmer-Labour (though would anyway be unconcerned were I the only one).
Today, on Sky News, I caught literally seconds of the end of a piece by some sports journalist woman. Her take was that, with “England” in the final game of some football contest, and a new Labour (New Labour?) government in power, it feels (she claimed) like the dawning of a new era. I believe that was the brainless and derivative way in which she put it.
Of course, Starmer-Labour will probably be in power until 2029, so the msm drones naturally want to curry favour, but I think that the said sycophancy goes beyond even that. I think that many in the msm seriously believe that Starmer-Labour is wonderful and will bring about some minor “golden age”.
I see no real connected thinking in the msm about what happens when the UK is importing literally a million invaders every single year, about what happens when a Labour government is harder on workers, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled than has been the past 14 years of “Conservative” government (etc).
What happens when the lights go out? What happens when lawlessness finally overwhelms a fairly civilized court and legal system which evolved over long periods but which is now already swamped?
Also, with a deadhead like Lammy as Foreign Secretary, what happens to Britain’s already-tattered international standing?
What interests me is what will be happening 2025-2029 under the surface of the Labour Party pseudo-landslide Commons majority.
“Labourites have exposed their arrogance by declaring an ‘end’ to the culture war. What they really mean is that they’re in the driving seat now. That they will accelerate woke, whether we like it or not.”
Ed Miliband lives in an eco-fantasy land. He really thinks that banning North Sea drilling will be good for the UK, creating jobs and boosting energy security. With just one week in power, Labour has already lost its grip on reality:https://t.co/A0Mf7aVnng
Who can forget Ed Miliband at Copenhagen in 2009, bleating outside the UN conference (so badly-organized that he was not allowed in at first) about the fake “3/5/7/whatever years to save the world” narrative? I also recall that little monkey who was the President of the Maldives jumping up and down and clapping once he realized that his country might receive millions in “climate aid” in case the Maldives sank below the waves (nearly 20 years later, though, it is still there).
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the warped priorities of the new Labour government, Joe Biden’s leadership crisis, the madness of the French left and the truth about Lucy Letby.
