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Diary Blog, 11 June 2026

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Afternoon music

[painting by Serge Marshennikov]

A thought out of season

I was just thinking about the Henry Nowak matter. I myself live only about 20 miles from that part of Southampton, though in a very different semi-rural area.

I was also thinking about the Belfast protests or small riots.

The Southampton protests seen on TV and online seem to have involved 50-100 people, I doubt many more. I suspect that either a high minority, or a majority, of people generally are angry or at least concerned by wider aspects of the Henry Nowak case, also the wider aspects of the appalling savagery of the Belfast incident, as well as the incidents themselves, yet all we can see, on the surface, talking about Southampton, is 50 or 100 people (did the crowd ever amount to as many as 150?) confronting and —pointlessly— taunting a police contingent which also seems to have been in the dozens or maybe 100-150 in number.

Southampton itself has a population of about a quarter of a million people. You cannot judge the public mood by the few willing to get involved in street stand-offs (I do not think we can call them “battles”), whether in Southampton, Belfast, or anywhere else. You cannot say that, just because only a couple of hundred people turn out for a street protest in a city with 250,000 inhabitants, that that represents an otherwise-quiescent public. Not at all.

People are getting very apprehensive/concerned/angry about the present migration invasion and its consequences.

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

Thus making Labour strong favourite to win the by-election. On the surface, bad news, in that it strengthens Labour, whose national vote (however stupidly) may rise if Burnham takes over from Starmer-stein.

On the other hand, looking at the bigger picture, it means that well over a third of the people —37%— of that Makerfield area (a traditional Labour area) are now thinking in terms of nationalist politics, though not so many thinking yet in terms of social nationalism; more than are thinking of voting Labour, anyway —only 35%.

The direction of travel is toward national and even social-national politics, and away from the traditional System parties.

In any case, voting “democracy” is only part of the story. All roads lead to Rome, and only white Europeans should be allowed to vote in this country.

See also:

Has Parliamentary “Democracy” (as we have known it until now) Had Its Day in the UK?

Look at the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and, indeed, post-Soviet Russia. Dozens if not hundreds of ethnic groups and languages. Kept together by the knut, one way or another. To the extent that Russia has “democracy”, it is because the Russians constitute the large majority.

USA? Well, until the Second World War, the USA was large-majority white European, indeed —at one time just after the First World War— about 90% white European, albeit with a number of minority European cultures (and also a strong Jewish element in a few cities, but mainly in New York). Now, whites are just about the minority, maybe 48%, and look at how dictatorial the USA has already become.

UK? You decide…

Seems that the police in the county have appealed for information as to the identity of the nasty person who killed a seagull in St. Ives today. It may or may not be the person identified in the above tweet. The sweatshirt certainly looks very distinctive.

A silly little man, a Labourite political careerist, who had no background at all in defence until appointed by Starmer-stein. Ludicrously pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime), too. Incidentally, Healey has always been a member of Labour Friends of Israel. What a surprise…

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

Very true, though a few of the examples cited are ill-judged. For example, that Linehan slug joined in several times with the Jewish-lobby attacks on me after I was both wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016. Linehan is a complete tool of the Israel/Jew lobby, a nasty person through and through.

Like others (e.g. Allison Pearson, Toby Young etc), Linehan pretends to be for “free speech”, but in reality favours the “cancellation” and censorship of whomsoever is hated by the Jewish lobby.

Of course, both Linehan and Allison Pearson are within the msm milieu, so their incomes (I presume that Linehan still has an income of some sort) are dependent on not being targeted by the Jewish lobby; dimwitted Allison Pearson has even made common cause with the malicious liars and perjurers of the so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism”, the main activity of which is to whine and demand for less “free speech”.

Talking point

Saw that the following blog post from over 9 years ago, so one of the first, has had hits. I can still stand by it:

Aspects of the New Society

More tweets

[“The government said the Online Safety Act was about protecting children. We were called conspiracy theorists for saying it wasn’t!

Well er â€Ļ Ofcom is writing to platforms about “crisis situations”, civil unrest and enhanced moderation measures. (Blocking posts they don’t like)

Children aren’t mentioned once. NOT ONCE.

The problem isn’t removing genuine incitement to violence. The real problem is that unelected regulators will pressure platforms to decide what millions of ADULTS can and cannot see whenever a “crisis” is declared.

many platforms will remove perfectly lawful content rather than risk the punishment of Ofcom.

Read the letter for yourself. Link in the thread.]”

The cartoon below was about that sort of situation in the USA, but fits perfectly with the repression of online freedom in the UK:

[“Bloody hell, I’ve been digging more into the government definition of ‘Crisis’ a bit more Soâ€Ļ an unelected regulator is now operating within government where the meaning of “crisis” has become very stretched.

The Cabinet Office Amber Book says an emergency under the Civil Contingencies Act covers serious damage to human welfare, the environment or UK security. (fair enough) But then it has added â€Ļ “For the purposes of this guidance, the terms emergency and crisis are used interchangeably.”â€Ļ INTERCHANGEABLY?

It also says an emergency/crisis can include situations that have not yet been harmful but have the potential to be (they do not define ‘harmful’ This guidance has not been voted for or debated So let me explain why thats so important. it means that almost any situation the government believes could become a problem can now be treated as a ‘crisis’.

And under that broad language, Ofcom has been able to write to platforms about civil unrest, crisis situations and how they will need to beef up moderation, it isnt just about removing illegal content.

Anything could become a “crisis”, no one voted for the widening of the definition and no one had the opportunity to, because thats how government by guidance worksâ€Ļ. hoping you won’t even notice.“]

The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic was the template.

[“Oh lookie hereâ€Ļ. And now the pincer movement. The government wants â€Ļ

A NATIONAL COUNTER DISINFORMATION CENTRE!

The foreign affairs committee says it’s about protecting against foreign interference (sensible) But â€Ļ

the recommendations include cross-government coordination and closer working with private organisations and expanded powers to tackle ‘harmful’ narratives.

Who decides what counts as “disinformation”? Well erm â€Ļ government regulators and approved experts will decide which narratives are acceptable.

The greatest threat to democracy is not the public discourse. It’s the state deciding what discourse is permitted.

Read my book!“]

The BBC has led the way, with a “BBC Verification” department which is itself actually just a System disinformation-broadcasting department.

Late tweets

Translates to a Commons with about 311 Reform UK MPs (about 15 short of an overall majority), 85 Cons (very weak official Opposition), 83 Greens, 67 LibDems, 45 SNP, 32 Labour [etc].

Those figures would mean that about 370 current Labour MPs would lose their seats, including Starmer and, notionally, any Labour MP at Makerfield.

31 current Conservative Party MPs would also lose their seats.

I think that the polling organizations are going to have to place Restore on the board, because the absence of Restore obviously skews the suggested results in terms of seats notionally won at the next GE.

To my mind, with the present System people in place, almost any money spent on defence is wasted, much of the background policy being predicated on the nation that Russia wants to or even intends to invade Eastern or Central Europe, or even Western Europe, and maybe even the UK. It’s all nonsense.

This country should not be wasting money on supporting “Ukraine” (the corrupt, brutal, and shambolic Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian thug regime in Kiev); neither should any money at all be spent on assisting the vicious Israeli regime.

As for those political parasites and chancers such as Daniel Hannan, suggesting that both State pension benefits such as the Triple Lock, and disability benefits for British people, should be slashed and the monies diverted to “defence”, forget it! Crazy, as well as being political suicide for any party entertaining it.

A million migrant-invaders are coming into the UK every year; others are being born here… Our country is quite rapidly now falling to pieces by reason, mainly, of migration invasion. Stop that, rather than building fantasy armies and navies to be deployed in fantasy scenarios about fighting Russia (and its 7,000 nuclear weapons).

On the contrary, Britain should leave NATO and cultivate good relations with Russia, thus ensuring cheap energy for our industries and domestic consumers, and also giving the UK a huge and valuable market in Russia, a market currently closed to the EU states by reason of their mad anti-Russia sanctions regime. It could all be ours.

…and a member, of course, of Labour Friends of Israel.

Like most former officers who become MPs, Jarvis has proven to be a big disappointment in every way (cf. Johnny Mercer— remember him?).

Ah, another resignation. Al Carns looks good on paper (i.e. his background), but I reserve “judgment” (assessment) until more is known.

Seems to be pro the Kiev regime, so I am not too hopeful, but we shall see.

Wall. Squad. End.

Again more villages or hamlets. Russia needs a gamechanger in Ukraine.

A proper social-national government would change course, radically.

Our animal friends.

Late music

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Diary Blog, 8 June 2026

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Afternoon music

Tweets seen

As noted previously on the blog, were the UK to leave NATO and take a “path less travelled”, Russia would supply us with cheap oil and gas, probably at cost price.

What goes around comes around..

As often said on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

Quite.

Good grief. How well I remember attending the evening meetings at Windsor in the early 1970s, about 55 years ago, when I was still at school. I even remember the names of some of the horses; Dhofar was one.

That grandstand has evidently been rebuilt since I was last there over half a century ago. I seem to recall that the Members’ Enclosure included the smaller building to the left. I have been to both enclosures in the long-ago past.

American Jew pontificates about UK housing crisis. Seems that all we have to do is build on our beautiful Green Belt, and all the migrant-invaders, and all their prospective black, brown, or half-caste children will have housing, probably all built by (((speculative developers))).

Every. Single. Time.

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

The general or combined level of “national” political support (Reform, Restore, other smaller parties, and those still voting LibLabCon but unhappily or out of habit) probably exceeds 50% but is, as seen, split. Social-national sentiment is probably no more than 20%, even interpreting it generously, but that is mainly because there is no real and credible social-national party and leader known to the people as a whole.

What matters is ideological and actual discipline, without which nothing is ever possible.

Lifestyle vlog from rural Russia/Siberia

Interesting vlog from a young woman called Anastasia, who lives in Russia, in Siberia I think. I have featured her vlog once or twice before. She seems to have split from her boyfriend or husband (pity; they and their companion animals made a pleasant household), and is now renovating an old Russian village house.

Real Russian people, not the negative caricatures usually seen.

Might also be interesting to those in this country wanting to construct a house of that sort.

Late tweets

Another village. Where are the large towns, and the cities?

As I wrote earlier generally, that poll shows that, in the Makerfield by-election, at least 54% of the voters want a broadly “national”-ideology MP, and between 20% and ~45% want social-nationalism, whether they themselves know that or not.

Intimidation and bribery— the two major weapons of Evil throughout the ages, and therefore “their” two main weapons…

Our animal friends.

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Diary Blog, 7 June 2026

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Afternoon music

[American special forces operative deploying from Hercules aircraft over Germany, 2015]

Stray thought

We are hearing much about the murder of the Polish or Anglo-Polish student, Henry Nowak, killed by a non-white in Southampton a while ago. In particular, people are arguing about what are the wishes of his family now.

It seems to me, not that those wishes (whatever they really are) are unimportant, but that this whole matter goes beyond those wishes (whatever they are) and, indeed, beyond the murder itself.

The matters to be considered revolve around the mass immigration (and subsequent/consequent breeding) of vast non-Brit, non-European populations within the UK, and the wider consequences of all that.

I cannot think of a really multiracial/multicultural society that has lasted long. People talk about the USA, but at the end of the First World War, the USA was about 90% European-origined, and the present very multiracial, if not very “multicultural”, USA of recent decades is already falling into near civil war.

The Roman Empire? Mostly European, of various strands, and it is important to note that the vast bulk of the populations within the Roman Empire did not travel far, or at all.

The main issue is that the UK’s present society is crumbling wherever you look.

I was also thinking about the present wave of arrests and trials of those protesting about the Nowak matter. It seems to me that, as with the not-dissimilar 2024 Southport protests, the System is using the whole arrest and trial process as a “punishment before the punishment”. To put it another way, “the process is the punishment”.

Those protesters arrested (whether pleading Guilty or Not Guilty) have all, I believe, been remanded in custody. There is no proper reason for such remand in any of the cases of which I have read: see Bail Act 1976, as amended. It is obviously being done as a means of repressing further protest by others. Purely political, or socio-political. Improper.

Tweets seen

…and, more importantly, arguably, are almost all just mouthpieces of the Jewish/Israel lobby…

The untermensch will be in prison for the next 21+ years, but a wall, a squad, and an end would be a better outcome; more just, and less expensive for the British people.

I generally disfavour capital punishment, but there may be exceptions. In any case, I distinguish between ordinary judicial punishment, and executive action designed to protect the people.

I myself have been bothered by Hampshire police drones repeatedly (also, once, Essex Police, in 2017, and once by the Metropolitan Police) over the past 14 years, always at the behest of Jewish-lobby “activists” and/or Jewish loonies connected with the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” liars and perjurers.

I do not know to what extent, if at all, the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner was involved (in recent years) in all that; I suspect, perhaps so. We shall see.

In any event, Police and Crime Commissioners are being phased out in 2028. She may even have to get a job (I think for the first time in her life, as far as I have read anyway): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jones_(British_politician).

See also:

Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me
Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing

In fact, such more or less peaceful demonstrations probably accomplish more than the kind of slightly violent confrontations we saw recently and, nearly two years ago, at Southport. There is no point using force when you are too weak to take that to a successful or victorious conclusion.

Britain needs no defence against Russia.

Russia is not the pre-1991 Soviet Union, has no world-conquering ideology such as the old Marxism-Leninism, and no motive to try to rule Central or Western Europe.

Moreover, we can see that Russia is struggling even to subdue the corrupt and shambolic Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, and so far has not managed to occupy most of Eastern Ukraine, i.e. Ukraine east of the Dnieper.

Another point is that, were the UK to leave NATO and stop confronting and provoking Russia in the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russia would supply the UK at cost price with oil and gas, and also provide us with a large market for British goods and services.

Late tweets seen

Assuming that Labour wins at Makerfield (which is quite possible and even probable), it makes no difference in big-picture terms. The Overton window is moving; the fast rise of relatively more radical Restore Britain proves that. More and more people want something at least approaching a social-national world view. Reform UK, with its black/brown candidates and its pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel mindset, is getting left behind.

It may be that, for GE 2029 (or anyway the next GE), Reform and Restore could form a limited-time alliance —call it “Reform-Restore”— to avoid splitting the vote. Were they to do that, the prize could be…Government.

Both Reform and Restore will eventually either give way to social nationalism, or will morph into that to a large extent. Eventually, the will of the awakened people will break through and triumph.

Monkeys-on-sticks like that purport to rule over us…

All roads lead to Rome, but of course there is no “Parliamentary road” to political power in the present rigged system.

Late thought

Earlier, I saw some manic Ukrainian woman, apparently the head of the “Ukraine Forum” at the System “think-tank”, Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House].

Said Ukrainian woman, as expected, spouted her piece about how “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) was “winning” but —wait for it— needs more money, arms, ammunition etc.

One of the problems with the conflict in Ukraine is that the UK mass media is simply giving one side of both news and opinion. All the reporting is from Kiev or the Kiev-regime side, and the Kiev regime’s policy and propaganda is rarely if ever questioned.

Conversely, there is simply no real reportage at all from Russia, Kiev-regime attacks on civilian targets are not covered at all, or only very briefly, and there are never interviews with pro-Russian persons in Russia or anywhere else.

The elephant in the room is that Russia has maybe as many as 7,000 nuclear weapons of various types. Ukraine has none. The whole reporting of the war is akin to a kind of shadow-boxing. Russia has x-troops, the Kiev regime has x-troops; Russia has this or that, but the Kiev regime also has this or that.

You never hear anyone say that, were the order to be given, Kiev and all major Ukrainian cities could be holes in the ground within the hour.

Russia does not want to devastate Kiev and other cities. Why? Because of a thousand years of mutual history, because Russia and Ukraine were effectively one state for most of that time, because they are almost one people ethnically and culturally, and because Russia wants to rule a productive and healthy Eastern Ukraine, not a radioactive wasteland.

However, the way things are going, it may be that Russian leaders feel forced to escalate, if not to a nuclear level —yet— but at least to a more destructive conventional level.

Russia has hundreds of ballistic missiles in its conventional arsenal, and could launch, realistically, in any one day, maybe as many as 100 up-to-date ones, bearing in mind logistical bottlenecks etc; Russian forces already have, since 2022, used up to 70 missiles, including older models, in a night, but not concentrated on a single city or other target area.

Russia produces over 100 new ballistic missiles per month.

Were Russia likely to seriously look as if it might “lose” this war, part of its nuclear arsenal could be used, for example on Kiev. A terrible war crime, true, and it has not happened yet, despite 4 years of warfare, but it could happen, and don’t tell me that NATO —or the USA alone— would take on Russia in a nuclear exchange on behalf of the Kiev regime.

Were Russia to destroy Kiev and Kharkov, that would be terrible and/but also would be the end of the war. It might just happen. If it does happen, the main thing is not to let that slide into a general East-West nuclear war.

Late music

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Diary Blog, 30 May 2026

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Morning music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a clear victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored 3/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 8, 9, and 10.

Talking point

Utter barbarity.

Talking point

Tweets seen

How is this “news”? It has been obvious to all for weeks.

When I had a Twitter account (the Jew-Zionist lobby had me expelled in 2018 after a long and conspiratorial campaign), I found that practically all the “hate” directed against me came from Israel-fanatic Jews, together with a few non-Jew but vicious and/or mentally unstable types such as fake “doctor” Louise Raw, a loonie from Manchester calling himself “DaveAFAF” and a half-crazy part-Jew psychiatrist called Tim G. Stevens of Essex (Epping Forest area), most of whom were also pro the Jewish lobby and Israel.

One especially egregious one was minor Jewish academic Ben Gidley, who was obsessed with me, my views, my Twitter account etc, and set up a number of pseudonymous Twitter accounts (“BobfromBrockley”, “IntheSoupAgain”, “AntiNazisUnited” etc) in order to troll night and day. Eventually, I worked out his real identity, as did, not long afterward, others such as the journalist Peter Hitchens. Gidley had to shut up and go away after that.

Most, in fact almost all, of the vitriol came from Jews, several of which have now, however, died.

See also:

They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

One has to ask why Jews have been expelled, historically, from over 100 states and territories.

Wall. Squad. End.

Numberplate Enthusiasts’ Club

More tweets seen

See also:

Social Nationalism and Green Politics
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Upsetting to think that some (I hope only a small minority of backward) Americans hurt these lovely creatures.

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

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

I have commented previously on the fact that in the UK we are now moving rapidly to a non-civic society, i.e. one where people vote (whether in elections or when on juries) according to racial and cultural loyalties. Call it the “O.J. Simpson syndrome” if you like.

I fully support the jury system, in principle, and was myself a practising barrister for a number of years (1992-2008, based in London and later Exeter when not overseas), but the jury system falls to pieces in a “multicultural” society. The same is true of voting “democracy”, and a police force that can be relied upon.

Talking point

At various times in history, states have promulgated “sumptuary laws”, defined by Wikipedia as follows:

“Sumptuary laws (from Latin sÅĢmptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that regulate consumption.[1] Black’s Law Dictionary defines them as “Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures for apparel, food, furniture, or shoes, etc.”[2] Historically, they were intended to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures, often depending on a person’s social rank.

Societies have employed sumptuary laws for various purposes. They were used to try to regulate the balance of trade by limiting the market for expensive imported goods. They made it easy to identify social status and privilege, and as such could be used for social discrimination and to stabilize social hierarchies.[3][1] They could also be used to prevent, or at least reduce, opportunities for political bribery and corruption.

The laws often prevented commoners from imitating the appearance of aristocrats and could be used to stigmatize disfavoured groups. In cities of the Late Middle Ages, sumptuary laws were instituted as a way for the nobility to limit the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie. Bourgeois subjects as wealthy as or wealthier than the nobility could undermine the latter’s presentation as powerful and legitimate rulers. This could call into question their ability to control and defend their fiefs, thus inspiring traitors and rebels. Such laws continued to be used for these purposes well into the 17th century.”

[Wikipedia]

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

I think there are cogent arguments for similar laws in the UK at present. Let’s stamp on the nouveaux riches types (indeed, all of the excessively-rich) and those aping them and their lifestyles, including “influencers” and “celebrities” of one kind and another.

Society needs calm and reason, and a less-materialistic ethos.

Plain living and high thinking.

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[“BREAKING: its been revealed that Andy Burnham snapped up an ex council flat in Kennington for just ÂŖ215,000 in 2005 while serving as an MP.

He then happily billed taxpayers for the mortgage interest payments because the rules let him get away with it.

That same flat is now worth 480000 to 500000 pounds and he rents it out while insisting the income barely covers his costs and he makes no profit.

Yet this is the same man demanding rent freezes council housing takeovers and lower rents for ordinary people.

Pure hypocrisy from a classic Westminster grifter feathering his own nest on the back of the system he loves to lecture everyone else about.“]

They destroy everything.

Monkeyworld UK. It really is time to recognize that most of them not only cannot create anything worthwhile, and certainly not a better society, but cannot even live in our existing society (even as parasites). Pests. Unwanted pests.

https://twitter.com/receipts_lol/status/2060377027136381005

I had heard previously of how cruel some of the Israeli Jews are to donkeys. Arabs in Egypt can also be callous towards donkeys, if not actively cruel and, as early as 1914, British people set up charities such as the Brooke Hospital to care for the donkeys of the Middle East; the Arabs either could not or would not. However, there is that perversity in the Jews which we see in other areas, such as their cowardly sadism towards children and other defenceless people in Gaza and elsewhere.

Donkeys are, after cats, my favourite animals. Hard to understand why some lower types would harm them, but that is something one learns with life experience(s)— people are not created equal, in any sense.

Talking point

That was first posted by me about 10 years ago, on Twitter (the Jewish lobby goblins had me expelled from Twitter in 2018).

10,000, too! There are “only” 18,000 active barristers in England and Wales anyway, and that is about 3x the number of 50 years ago. “More will mean worse“, as they say…

Incidentally, re that tendentious “Readers added context” note, it all depends on what is “officially” called a “hate crime”…

[“Living in the UK is now incredibly radicalising. This is what we have seen in the last two weeks alone: a gang of Afghans who entered the country illegally on small boats and lorries have been charged with 40 child sex offences: two Muslim men who visibly assaulted police officers have been let off from a further trial; a small boat migrant living in a taxpayer-funded hotel was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women outside nightclubs; an Islamist terrorist who plotted to blow up an army base is being released early; a white British boy was handcuffed by police and bled to death while saying “I can’t breathe” after the Sikh boy who murdered him claimed the white boy was “racist”; a Muslim man who called to “behead the Jews” was released on bail while white British people who tweeted their complaints about immigration have been jailed; a group of [“traveller” Irish tinker] boys who gang-r*ped and filmed two girls escaped jail and were given fines of ÂŖ26; a new study found that for every ONE young British person who is hired in Britain TWENTY-SEVEN young migrants from outside Europe; Islamic prayers are now routinely used to open local councils; another 1,000 illegals arrived on small boats in one weekend; it was revealed the First Lady of Sierra Leone owns a council flat in London while 1.3 million people wait on the social housing list; new data revealed that last year alone 800,000 migrants arrived in Britain while 246,000 British people left, half of whom are aged 16-34 years old; the country’s birth-rate collapsed to a new low of 1.39 while politicians refuse to even talk about how to support British families; a grooming gang in Dewsbury was jailed for nearly 300 years combined after assaulting children as young as 12. Oh, and the entire political class had a nervous breakdown when the British people decided to peacefully protest over what is happening to their country on the streets of their capital city. As I say, radicalising.“]

Late music

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Diary Blog, 27 May 2026

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Morning music

[Raphael, The School of Athens]

Tweets seen

As with less-publicized cases of embezzlement —the (typically?) fat unattractive primary school headmistress who embezzles from her school, the accountant of a small or large charity who embezzles from his or her employer— what strikes one, usually, and certainly in the Murrell/Sturgeon case, are the banalities of the crime.

The purchases made with the embezzled monies in the SNP case included salt and pepper mills made by Lalique (bought for ÂŖ2,600); coffee machines (costing thousands); Montblanc pens; watches.

Then there is the ÂŖ125,000 motorhome…

There is something about the sheer tasteless cheesiness of it all that is a perfect fit with the Sturgeon/Murrell lifestyle, and with the SNP in general. Look at the Sturgeon/Murrell house, for example: a tasteless modern tract-house with no real gardens (just the ubiquitous tiny lawn in the “front garden” etc), and in a soulless neighbourhood that seems, seen on TV news, to be without many trees or bushes.

Regular readers of the blog will know that I usually avoid writing much about Scotland and Scottish politics. I do not follow Scottish matters in detail, and in fact have never been north of Hadrian’s Wall. However, one cannot fail to note how fake the whole SNP thing is— a “nationalist” party, supposedly, that regards blacks or Pakistanis born in, or even just living in, Scotland as more “Scottish” than any Englishman from England (even if living in Scotland), and even if part-Scots by ancestry. It’s mad.

Both the SNP and Scottish Labour have in recent years been led by Pakistanis.

Those parties cannot be taken seriously.

Not that I necessarily oppose Scotland going its own way, though it never will. If it were to do so, it would be a very poor little country, and quite likely ruled by a corrupt and cultureless cabal such as that which coalesced around Nicola Sturgeon and her (equally or even more-) corrupt and dishonest husband.

I have had little contact with SNP supporters over the years. The couple I have encountered (online) were both censorious and ignorant.

Incidentally, I think that Nicola Sturgeon is probably a lesbianka, but I suppose I may be wrong.

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[“Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.

Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.

The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.

Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.

The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.

The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.“]

The world can be very strange.

Britain and Russia should be standing together.

For me, ideology is key, but that is me…

and your point is?…

[“The % of births in the UK where one or both parents were themselves born outside of the UK has officially increased to a new record high of 40.2%.

Of the Top 10 most common countries of origin for foreign-born mothers in the UK, 7 are outside Europe.

They include India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Ghana, & Iraq.

Today, more than 1 in every 3 births in the UK are to mothers who were themselves not born in the UK.

At the same time, the fertility rate in England & Wales has crashed to 1.39 – well below the replacement rate.

This new data, today, from the official Office for National Statistics, is all consistent with my argument in my book Suicide of a Nation (link below), in which I explain how why the historic majority of British people will be demographically replaced in just one lifetime.

These trends will now accelerate unless we change course.“]

“Conservative” Friends of Israel or “Labour” Friends of Israel…

Tell me about it…

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

https://www.givesendgo.com/steve-laws-legal-fund

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Showing Heart]
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Diary Blog, 26 May 2026

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Tweets seen

That first tweeter is a former “Conservative” now gone over to Reform. Sounds like she is pro-Jewish lobby, probably pro-Israel, and not really even anti-immigration.

No wonder Reform’s rise has flattened, when many of its people are like that.

Neither Reform nor Restore is “the answer”; it is merely a question as to which can trash the Con/Lab System scam best or quickest.

Real social nationalism must rise up.

Elections are only one way forward, and not the most important.

Wrong use of “decimated“, but…yes.

Our animal friends.

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[Trevi Fountain by night]

Talking point

“It is not, for me, a question of “hating” non-whites, but of providing a platform for the evolution of consciousness, for the eventual development of what might be called a “super-race”, in the sense of a people whose capacities would be seen by us, today, as “superhuman”.

Only the European people, speaking ethnically, can provide that platform and foundation for the later development. That is why we must oppose importation of non-whites into Europe, not because we “hate” them as such but because, primarily, their presence in Europe makes more likely a mixed-race population, which would make further evolution impossible.”

[from a blog post of early 2024, citing one published years earlier yet]

See also:

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow
[the sacred Swastika, symbol of evolution, including the evolution of consciousness]

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[Rome, the Villa Borghese]

More tweets seen

“#BREAKING Extremely distressing scenes and immense grief following the bombing by occupation aircraft of a group of citizens, resulting in the martyrdom of five in Al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip.”

https://twitter.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/2059178446316617891

Trump seems to need a psychiatrist these days. His messaging to the public appears uncontrolled, ill-judged, and mentally-disordered.

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/2058894888595325171

At present, we have a very unpleasant heatwave. We suffer, but not forever. It will end, and probably within a few days; after that, it will be just a fading memory. The same is true on the larger scale; in history, in society. There may in the future be terrible events, even mass slaughter, but in the end there may be a better society, and a feeling of peace. Those who survive, and/or their descendants, will live on, and in a way perhaps better and happier than previously.

ss

“You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your
fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who
have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the
past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon
the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in
which their bodies have long decayed.

Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can
change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has
inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will
and courage.

You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass
your blood on to your children, for you are a member of
the chain of generations that reaches from the past into
eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent
must do its part so that the chain is never broken.

But if your blood has traits that will make your children
unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the
heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will
lives.”

[SS-Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]

ss
[the river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

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[“Like every other SNP parliamentarian, I gave the party ÂŖ250 per month from my personal income after tax. Adding my party membership fees (paid at an enhanced rate) , I think it came to ÂŖ35,000 over ten years. The ÂŖ250 sub was an obligation for all MPs and MSPs, but I was happy to pay, as I believed it was going to the cause – not to keep Sturgeon in Smythson handbags and Mountblanc pens (stolen goods she was pictured with in this @TheSun report). I had a good salary. But what of all the decent working people – as @joannaccherry pointed out today – who could ill afford the ÂŖ10 or ÂŖ20 donations they made to @theSNP ? It’s disgusting, and requires an internal investigation. Or rather an independent investigation. Who was monitoring the spend within the SNP? How come the former volunteer treasurer and former volunteer officials who questioned the finances were slapped down by @NicolaSturgeon and her acolytes? There remain good people at the top of the party ( of which I remain a member BTW) and I hope they will now abandon their misplaced loyalty to the former leader whose position meant she signed off the accounts, as I understand it. Finallyâ€Ļ..well done to @WingsScotland for triggering the investigation – pilloried from all sides but vindicated today.“]

I am loving the humiliation of that one-time would-be dictator, Nicola Sturgeon, and her entirely fake SNP Scottish “nationalism” (which, for example, looks upon English people as more alien than Pakistanis, so long as the latter were born in, or even just live in, some Scottish urban wasteland).

One can see why Restore Britain is being attacked by the Jewish lobby. That lobby (aka Israel lobby) largely scuttled from the sinking ships of Con and Lab, and onto the new fake-national Reform UK, which now has a “Reform Friends of Israel” section, no less, and which looks like forming a government sometime between now and 2030. At least, that was the situation until a week or two ago.

Now, Reform UK is suddenly being exposed, and is faltering, by reason of its pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel lobby position. The “investment” that the Lobby has made looks like it might become worthless, hence the (((outrage))).

Nick Griffin’s latest blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/all-in-a-good-cause

Interesting travelogue.

Late tweets

Our animal friends.

[“A very sad announcement.

I have just been convicted a second time for ‘hate speech’ and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.

In an ironic turn of events it’s actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.

Call me naive but I didn’t think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.

In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.

Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

That’s a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.

Even the regime media write: “It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove’s main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration.”

You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.

Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.

The only argument they present is that I created a “hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.

Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.

Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than â‚Ŧ420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.

If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.

If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.”]

A different jurisdiction but essentially the same kind of legalized injustice that sent Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative to prison in the UK a couple of years ago.

The System and its drones (MPs, judges, prosecutors, msm scribblers and talking heads etc) have, so far, been able to bully and persecute people in that way without any serious pushback. So far.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]
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Diary Blog, 22 May 2026

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Announcement

Regret to announce that, by reason of a technical problem, my usual personal email is currently inoperative. Those readers who occasionally email me will therefore have to hope, as I do, that I shall be able to read emails again soon.

The (full) blog post itself will be published later today.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_Boyle]
[painting by Volegov]

Tweets seen

As often noted on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

Stray thought

Happened to see an old, several years old, episode of the Celebrity Chase quiz show. One contestant was current affairs presenter (now on BBC Question Time), Fiona Bruce. Embarrassingly ignorant (as were most of the rest). She did not even know which ocean one crosses when travelling from Brazil to South Africa! Yet such idiots presume to present themselves as knowledgeable (and get paid a million or half a million a year). The British people deserve more from both the msm and others (notably, politicians).

Late tweets

Wall. Squad. End.

As for an England that one cannot recognize, I have felt that way, to some extent, for about 25 years or so.

Time for more walls, squads, and ends…

System monkey-on-a-stick and political cretin.

See also:

Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Gavin Williamson Story

Quelle surprise…

The house is, apparently, in the most expensive part of Dulwich.

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

Our animal friends.

“UK Lawyers for Israel” was the named pack of Jews that procured my wrongful and actually unlawful disbarment in 2016. UKLFI colluded in that with the connected pack of Jews called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].

See also:

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates

and

Pro-Israel Lawyers Accused of ‘Legal Intimidation’ of Genocide Opponents

What comfort that tweet must bring to the citizens of London at ground level, who would be incinerated during any real war…

The powers of the cat

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Le Chapeau]

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Diary Blog, 20 May 2026

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[King’s College Chapel, Cambridge]

Tweets seen

The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government seems to do everything and anything that makes life more difficult for the British economy and people. Hopeless.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Themâ€Ļ [frequently updated]

[“I’m genuinely perplexed at how the ignorant horde of Reform shills could possibly go after this program.

“taxfunded horserides” – for severely disabled children, who are typically going to be in the realms of non-verbal, or will have other severe issues.

This is for children who struggle with any emotional depth, the animals are used to give them an emotional bond that they can extrapolate to other social situations.

There aren’t hordes of falsely diagnosed children riding horses for free, this is an utterly bizarre myth from Reformcels.”]

Many Reform UK candidates and voters are the same idiots who, from 2010 onward, voted “Conservative” because it suited them to believe that poor people on State benefits were somehow responsible for the economic problems of the UK.

There is only one reason to support Reform UK at all, and that is to ensure that the Lib-Lab-Con rigged political system is trashed by 2029; even though Reform is itself now —as I long-predicted on the blog— well and truly infiltrated and controlled by the Jewish-Zionist element, via Tice, Farage etc.

Once Reform is in government, and then (inevitably) fails at almost everything, real social-national forces can rise up…

Talking point

i.e. “they” are often the gravediggers of (purely-) European race and culture, and also usually want to control society (wherever they may live).

More tweets

They were right, but almost no-one was listening…

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda#Aftermath

In 1972, thinking people were appalled at the prospect of an influx of 50,000 Ugandan Asians. In the end, about 27,000 arrived (the remainder going to other countries).

In 2026, there are more immigrants than that (27,000) arriving in the UK in any single month; indeed, about that number every week or so.

Exactly. (both tweets…).

If that “Darren” idiot believes all that, he has no business being in government. We could have all the gas we could possibly need from Russia quite cheaply and, if the UK were to leave NATO, that would or could be ours at or below cost price.

Incidentally, I drove through the now-very-odd town or “city” of Brighton the other day, the first time I had seen it since I appeared as Counsel in the County Court there about 19 or 20 years ago. Driving along the seafront, I noticed that the view now includes a whole line of ugly offshore wind turbines in the distance. Horrible.

I say “odd“, by the way, because I have not seen so many peculiar people on the streets since I was last in Oxford. It is as if some social magnet has attracted tribes of “weirdos” to those cities.

Late tweets

An extreme example of the police once again prioritizing the repression of fake or non-crime (a white boy uttering a supposedly “racist” word or two) over dealing with real crime (an untermensch stabbing said white boy).

It might be said that the police did not acquit themselves well in that incident— on the one hand too brutal (the policeman who kicked a prone detainee in the head), on the other hand completely useless (the women police crying like little girls), but there is surely little doubt that the defendants were guilty. I wonder what was the racial/cultural make-up of the jury (I can guess…).

A horrible tribe.

Incidentally, that Biblical reference (the correct form is Revelation 3:9, not “Revelations” 3:9…) is this:

“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.“

Translates to a Commons with about 281 Labour MPs (45 short of a majority), 210 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 49 Cons, 19 SNP, 8 Greens [etc].

That really puts the cat among the pigeons. Labour would have to make an accommodation with the LibDems. Even so, that coalition —or whatever— would still have a mere 15-MP majority.

On those figures, the Greens would really be put back in their box. 8 MPs; only +3 compared to their position now.

As to the Conservatives, on those figures Kemi Badenoch would lose her seat, and her party would have fewer than half the MPs it retained at GE 2024.

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Diary Blog, 19 May 2026

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Morning music

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

Unsurprising (part-Jew; possibly half-Jew): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam

In any case, most of the benefit in those situations of technical economic improvement goes to 1% of the population.

Burnham may be marginally less of a clown than the other contenders for Starmer-stein’s purple, but he is still an oddly-“entitled”, and probably useless, chancer, like the rest.

Talking about useless chancers, here is Lammy again making a fool of himself…

Monkey-on-a-stick. Idiot.

We shall soon see.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Themâ€Ļ [frequently updated]

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[Moscow Kremlin wall]
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Diary Blog, 17 May 2026

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Afternoon music

[Russian special forces operatives deploying at high altitude and in winter conditions]

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

For once, Piers Morgan says something correct, if unoriginal.

Who on Earth would vote “Conservative” now? I presume only people aged 70+ and who take little interest in what is actually happening in the UK, or in what has happened over the past 16+ years.

I am presuming that that half-Jew has been promised a peerage in return for facilitating Burnham’s return to Parliament. If it happens.

Britain must become, or revert to being, an ethnostate, before anything else. That will not solve all of our problems, or solve any of them 100%, but it will solve most of them 95%. Start from there.

Late tweets

Our animal friends.

History, not fake history.

True. The betting market is a poor guide to the likely result of a by-election in particular.

[“To get a license to drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 20,000 landmarks, and the fastest route between any two points in a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. It takes most people three to four years.

A British neuroscientist asked the obvious question nobody had thought to ask. What does that actually do to a human brain?

Her name was Eleanor Maguire. The study changed neuroscience forever.

The exam is called The Knowledge. It was introduced in 1865, and the format has barely changed since.

Applicants ride a moped around London for years with a clipboard strapped to the handlebars, tracing every possible route between every possible pair of points in the city.

They get tested in person by an examiner who can ask them, on the spot, for the shortest legal route between any two addresses in a database of tens of thousands. Half the people who attempt it fail.

The ones who pass have spent an average of four years studying full time and have taken the test 12 times before getting through.

Maguire was watching a TV movie about it in 1995 when she had the idea. These were not ordinary people. They were people running one of the most extreme spatial memory training programs that exists anywhere on Earth.

If the human brain could be reshaped by experience, this was the cleanest natural experiment anyone was ever going to find.

She put 16 of them in an MRI machine.

Their posterior hippocampi were significantly larger than the brains of matched controls. The longer a driver had been working, the bigger the difference got.

A 40-year veteran had a measurably more developed hippocampus than a 5-year veteran, and both had more than someone who had never driven a cab.

Here is why that finding broke a century of consensus.

Until 2000, every neuroscience textbook in the world taught a version of the same idea. The adult brain is essentially fixed. You are born with a set number of neurons. Childhood is the window where the wiring gets laid down. After puberty, the structure freezes, and the rest of your life is just slow decline.

Maguire’s study was one of the first pieces of human evidence that this was simply wrong. Adult brains physically remodel themselves in response to what you ask them to do. Not metaphorically. Structurally. With grey matter you can measure on a scan.

The skeptics had an obvious objection. Maybe people with bigger hippocampi were just more likely to become taxi drivers in the first place. The brains were not changing. The job was selecting for brains that already looked that way.

So Maguire ran the experiment again. Properly this time.

She recruited 79 trainees who were just starting to study for The Knowledge and 31 controls who were not. She scanned all of them at the start. Then she waited four years. Of the 79 trainees, 39 eventually passed the exam and 20 failed. She scanned them again.

The trainees who passed had grown larger posterior hippocampi over those four years. The trainees who failed had not. The controls who never studied had not. The brain change was not selection. It was construction.

The act of memorizing the city had physically rebuilt the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, and the rebuild only happened in the people who actually did the work.

There is a quieter finding from this research that almost nobody quotes, and it is the one I cannot stop thinking about.

The drivers had a bigger posterior hippocampus, but they had a smaller anterior hippocampus. The brain had not magically expanded. It had reallocated. Tissue that was being used for one type of memory had been compressed to make room for another.

When Maguire ran follow-up cognitive tests, the cabbies were measurably worse than controls at certain visual memory tasks unrelated to navigation. They had paid for The Knowledge with something else. The trade was real.

She also ran a second control experiment that is the part of the story most people never hear. She scanned London bus drivers. Same hours behind the wheel. Same city. Same traffic. Same stress. The only difference was that bus drivers follow fixed routes. They do not have to navigate. Their hippocampi looked completely normal.

The cab drivers had not grown bigger hippocampi from driving. They had grown them from the constant, active, effortful retrieval of spatial information from memory.

That distinction is the entire study.

Then in 2020, McGill researchers ran the inverse experiment. They tracked 50 regular drivers and measured how often they used GPS. The participants who relied most heavily on turn-by-turn navigation had measurably weaker spatial memory. When the researchers retested a subset of them three years later, the heavier GPS users had declined fastest.

The hippocampus, the same region the cabbies had built up by ignoring shortcuts, was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them.

The mechanism Maguire spent 25 years documenting works in both directions. Brains grow what you make them grow. They lose what you stop asking them to do.

The taxi drivers were running the most intense spatial memory training program on Earth. Most of the rest of us are running the opposite program without realizing it.

Maguire died in early 2025. UCL’s tribute described the cabbie study as a stroke of creative genius. She had spent her entire career on a single question. What does it physically take to remember something, and what changes inside a person who remembers a lot of it.

The answer is the part that should change how you live.“]

Russian (Siberian) village life in 2026

Late talking point

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[Arnold Bocklin, Ruins by the Sea]