TRUMP promised at a historic rally: I will not wage foreign wars Voting for Kamala Harris would be "gambling with the lives of millions," the Republican candidate said. Former US President Donald Trump promised not to send Americans in war… pic.twitter.com/7v0UdBPFRq
More evidence mass migration is gutting our economy. GDP was 3% higher in Quarter 2 2024 vs Quarter 4 2019 but “adjusting for rising population” GDP per person was actually lower, by 0.6%, over the same period". House of Commonshttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/GoFIsxhEIf
Confused woman supports mass immigration, describes herself for reasons unknown as “upper middle-class“, and seems to be brainwashing her daughter into being a feral freak. Not “everything wrong in Britain in a three-minute clip“, but quite a lot of it…
Was the interviewer the once-prominent “Millennial Woes”? Maybe just someone who looks and sounds like him. Not sure.
If only Africa had had a Congo (river), a Niger, a Nile, a Zambezi, or a “great grey-green greasy Limpopo” (among others)…oh, wait…
An example of Christian Zionism stupidity: A Ukrainian Christian Zionist moved to Israel, joined the IDF, and was killed. Jews are prohibiting the display of a Christian cross on his grave marker because it would "hurt the feelings" of Jewish families. https://t.co/4uBnqNbNNL
Among brown immigrants, I often find that middle-class ones have the greatest resentment towards us. In theory they're more integrated, but that only seems to make them hate us more. https://t.co/iYwhB6gf0D
As the Southern States would once have said, “uppity“…
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false allegations about a Syrian refugee.@skymartinbrunt has the latest.https://t.co/UAPOY9ekp9
People opposed to Tommy Robinson have said on Twitter/X that “Robinson” has crowdfunded about £100,000 for legal defence, only to plead Guilty. Well, I do not know about that, but the implication seems to be that the crowdfunder was a “scam” or “grift”, because of the Guilty plea.
Well, that last seems wrong to me because, firstly, “legal defence” does not necessarily mean that the defendant is going to plead Not Guilty. Also, much of the expense is incurred prior to trial, though of course that will be more the case when the plea is going to be a Not Guilty.
Having said that, £100,000 (if that is the amount raised) is an absurd amount for what was supposed to be a 2-day trial in the magistrates’ court (at the rebuilt former Marylebone mags, now renamed Westminster mags, it seems, looking at video clips; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Magistrates%27_Court). I myself appeared there as Counsel once or twice, but about 30 years ago. All human life passes through there…
[former Marylebone Magistrates’ Court, now Westminster Magistrates’ Court]
So anyway, Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months. 40% of 18 months is around 6-7 months. He will be out again by next May, at latest and, perhaps, not quite £100,000 the richer.
I have often noted on the blog my view of Tommy Robinson, i.e, that he is one aspect of “controlled opposition”, and seems to be pro-Israel, though that may or may not be a tactic to get the Jewish lobby off his back, as with Trump (arguende).
Still, the movement around Tommy Robinson has moved the “Overton Window” a bit, as do all political activities. To my mind, “Robinson” has nothing to offer the British people ideologically or otherwise, but, as with Reform UK, that “Window” has been moved, continues to move, and may (despite the “controlled opposition” or “steam valve” aspects) make it easier for a real social-national movement to emerge and capture hearts and minds, if the British people continue to be let down and frustrated.
…and that is even more true of the real British population. Blacks, browns, Arabs, Jews in the UK all have more children, per capita.
The huge and continuing increase in the UK population is almost entirely by reason of mass immigration. Not only that, but immigration by some of the least pleasant, most backward racial or sub-racial peoples of the world. Britain as dustbin.
Ben Gurion Airport's main terminal will be closed to international flights from November until the end of March due to international airlines suspending flights to the Israel pic.twitter.com/EKs8MwPvTx
In the event of a conflict between NATO and Russia, Finland will disappear from the face of the country, said University of Helsinki professor and geopolitical expert Tuomas Malinen.
" If a war breaks out between NATO and Russia, then Finland will be destroyed by missiles ,… pic.twitter.com/4us4G2VD0R
Result— Europe pays more for the same (often literally the same) product, thanks to the stupid sanctions against Russia.
"We are not at war with Russia, and I don't want to be" — JD Vance
Donald Trump's candidate from the Republican Party expressed his desire for peace with Russia, stressing that the USA is not at war with Vladimir Putin and does not want to be.
It's crushing how many Canadians have died in our euthanasia experiment, but it's hopeful how many other jurisdictions are taking note and working to avoid straying down this nightmarish path. https://t.co/9vuFDdsXDw
Support for Putin is growing in Central European countries. Support for the Russian president is growing in the countries of Central Europe and threatens to spread to the Czech Republic as well, writes "Politico" and emphasizes that it is predicted in Brussels circles that the… pic.twitter.com/MJF9yizJdc
“Support for Putin is growing in Central European countries. Support for the Russian president is growing in the countries of Central Europe and threatens to spread to the Czech Republic as well, writes “Politico” and emphasizes that it is predicted in Brussels circles that the pro-Russian bloc in the heart of Europe will continue to grow in 2025.“
A senior adviser to Foreign Secretary David Lammy has questioned how much people will mourn the death of Prince William, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The comment by Ben Judah, the Labour adviser who has been described as ‘Lammy’s brain’, is one of a string of astonishing remarks he has made that the Conservatives have branded republican and ‘anti-British’.
Mr Lammy is facing a mounting whispering campaign within Sir Keir Starmer’s Government over his future as Foreign Secretary.
He has also caused a headache for Sir Keir with past tweets about Donald Trump – who could be just ten days away from returning to the White House – that included describing him as a ‘woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’ and ‘no friend of Britain’.
One well-placed source said: ‘Lammy will be allowed a bit longer in the job, then someone more savvy such as [Northern Ireland Secretary] Hilary Benn will get the gig.’“
Of course, thick-as-two-short-planks Lammy does need intellectual support: see
A typical scenario, of course.
I have to concede that I agree with the said Judah’s view of the Commonwealth:
“In an article for the Unherd website in 2022, Mr Judah was also dismissive about the Commonwealth – to which Sir Keir has this weekend been paying homage at the summit in Samoa.
Mr Judah wrote about the Queen: ‘We pretended with her and for her that the Commonwealth was real, that there was love and affection for her, or for us, in countries we’d conquered and lost, that we were still a great power.
‘And if not an empire, then she ruled its heir. As she aged, shrinking into her clothes, it became clear there wasn’t enough there, behind the insignia of government, to hold us up in the world.’“
[Daily Mail]
There was, in decades past, a discussion to be had about whether Britain could “punch above its weight”, partly via the Commonwealth. Soft power etc.
One is reminded of how the late great Maurice Oldfield, one-time Chief of SIS/MI6, cultivated foreign students at Oxford or Cambridge likely to become leaders of Commonwealth states. Sometimes, after they had already started on a political-career path. Notably, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore.
However, such activity is largely the filling in of gaps; a substitute for the real geopolitical power exercised by the British Empire.
As things now are, the Commonwealth seems to be largely a way whereby Britain gives money to those who, increasingly, are rather hostile to the British people whose money they take. Some, such as Mozambique, which never were colonies in the first place, have latched onto British aid by joining the Commonwealth.
Better to cut them all loose now. Take away the ricebowls of the former colonies. Stop playing the convoluted chess defence which Commonwealth diplomacy has become.
Final thought: a picture of Britain in its final (?) decline— a thick-as-two-short-planks and massive-chip-on-shoulder black “diversity hire” Foreign Secretary, “advised” by a Jew far more intelligent than his boss. Which is more inimical to the real interests of the British people?
Where are the (real) British?
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This is the late Peter Lynch, a political prisoner of @Keir_Starmer, who apparently committed suicide at HMP Moorland.
Here Peter believes @UKLabour have betrayed the working-class.
The above photograph is of a senior police officer (in the rank of Chief Inspector), recently appointed district commander of the semi-rural and coastal area of Hampshire where I live. Note the “rainbow” pin on his tie, presumably displaying allegiance to, or acquiescence in, the socio-political “woke” agenda.
The police have gradually become overtly politicized, not in party-political terms but in socio-political terms.
“A Ramada Encore chain hotel opened on 10 November 2008, with a 102-bed capacity.[57] It is situated less than ten minutes walk from the Terminal building. However since the closure of the airport it is now used to hold immigrants awaiting decisions on their asylum cases so is no longer open to the public.“
102 beds. A whole, quite large, hotel.
102— not even a third (sometimes, not even a tenth) of the numbers of migrant-invaders arriving on the “small boats” (or ferried in by Border Farce or RNLI boats) every day. That’s not even counting the “legal” immigrants arriving every day (literally thousands every single day).
The political liars, and msm liars, do not even want to seriously confront the issue of the migration invasion (all of it, not just the “small boats” part). Eventually, it will collapse this society, not decades in the future but in a relatively few years. You can already see it happening, gradually but visibly.
Look at that airport hotel. Destined, as it once seemed, to service British people travelling on business or on holiday, but now merely yet another dustbin for rubbish from all over the world.
Britain itself— a dustbin for untermenschen. It makes me both sad and angry.
As for that airport, I have never been there. I was due to fly from Exeter to Doncaster in 2007, and had a ticket, but an unexpected event meant that I had to be a no-show. I believe that the flight-time would have been only about half an hour.
[Doncaster Sheffield Airport, air-side view, before it closed in 2022]
[statue of Robin Hood, by Neale Andrew, at the now non-operational Doncaster Sheffield Airport, originally called Robin Hood Airport]
While the Tory councillor's wife jailed for her X post was vile, someone legal *really* needs to explain to me how a man who *actually* perpetrated violence on *multiple* occasions causing permanent physical damage gets a *shorter* jail sentence than her 31 months. https://t.co/InOta3eRHY
I do not usually repost tweets from notorious Jew-Zionist Twitter/X accounts, but the individual in question has a good point here.
I might add that I have noticed that South Wales seems to have a very serious problem with crimes of violence, most of which (in contradistinction to the situation in London and much of England) cannot be lain at the door of the non-European population.
I suppose that the sentence was so lenient (the defendant will be released within 12 months, i.e. 40% of 30 months) because he has lost his job in the police, has been banned from being a policeman in any Welsh or English force for life, and may well be “on the dole” for years after his release.
For the sake of clarity, I do not agree that the wife and mother who got 31 months for a few tweets that few saw and none acted upon should have been imprisoned (or prosecuted at all).
🇧🇴 Attempt to kill the former president of Bolivia, 14 shots fired
Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, released a video showing several shots being fired into the front of a vehicle on the way to a radio station where he was to be interviewed.
Labour MP Mike Amesbury could face up to 2.5 years in prison and might have to resign, following a shocking incident captured on CCTV.
Amesbury, representing #Runcorn and #Helsby, was seen on video punching a man, knocking him down, and then continuing to hit him while he was… pic.twitter.com/VVSqGl0Hkf
Incidentally, the police state that “no arrests have been made“, which makes me ask, “why not?“… I bet that if I behaved as he has done, the police would arrest me.
Western sources claim to have spotted movements of Iranian missile launchers on satellite images, and that Iran is preparing to attack. pic.twitter.com/e14GraNu7V
A modest 4/10 this week, though still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10 (he awarded himself another half-point for knowing the general region of question 4). I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 8, and 10. I think I knew no.1 (still unsure) as well, and should have got no. 9 too, had I thought longer, but decline to give myself either of those.
“Two of the world’s most notorious and ominous mystics reportedly made the same exact prediction for 2025.
Both Nostradamus and Baba Vanga claim that there will be a deadly war in Europe next year.“
I cannot say that I have much confidence in the accuracy of any of the (supposed) predictions made (read the full feature), but the way the idea of war with Russia is being promoted (mainly by “the usual suspects”) makes me unsettled.
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🇮🇷 Air defenses are working HEAVY over Tehran.
Israeli media reports that an "unknown air defense system" was used to shoot down targets over Tehran province.
This video is fake, and you're misleading everyone—it's actually footage from Beirut, not Tehran. The video I'm sharing now is from just moments ago in Tehran, and let me clarify: not a single missile has hit the city. Russia's S-400 system intercepted most of the missiles fired. pic.twitter.com/GdhcdnEcjT
If it is true that Israel attacked Teheran and that Russian-supplied air defences protected the city, that might be a gamechanger in terms of Israeli capabilities. If it is all true.
Iran's air defenses have successfully shot down adversarial targets in the airspace around Tehran province. pic.twitter.com/nKFFqo1bfB
I do not at all keep up with the changes in the legal landscape, and so it happened that I was surprised yesterday to read that Blackfriars Crown Court closed down in 2019. I appeared there as Counsel a couple of times sometime around 1994.
The Financial Times report mentions that 43% of courts in England and Wales were closed to save money, by decision of the government of David Cameron-Levita, after 2010. I was aware of some of them, having myself appeared in them. Ilford County Court, Penzance County Court, Launceston Magistrates’ Court —a court building more like a deserted mausoleum even when I was there, once only, in (?) 2004, on a County Court civil case relocated there from Plymouth County Court for hearing—; Trowbridge County Court. Some other courts too.
I vaguely recall being sent in 1993 to do some trivial criminal matter at Blackfriars Crown Court, a “Mention”, I think (they usually take a matter of minutes, once you are there and being heard).
With typical contemporary stupidity, the new Blackfriars Crown Court had been temporarily designated as “Knightsbridge Crown Court (sitting at Blackfriars Crown Court)“. The brief had been marked simply “In the Knightsbridge Crown Court“. What a wonderful waste of my time…so I initially went to the court I knew as Knightsbridge Crown Court, in Hans Crescent, near Harrods, only to find that that court building was under repair (prior to being sold and repurposed).
Even more stupidly, Blackfriars Crown Court was not in the Blackfriars area on the north bank of the Thames anyway, but down an obscure side street on the south side of the river. Apparently named thus because Blackfriars Road is nearby. What idiots are employed to make such decisions?
The whole set of assumptions there is absolutely cuckoo.
No, the British armed forces would have no chance at all of repelling an invasion from, say, the German armed forces as they were in 1940, or the Soviet armed forces as they were circa 1975. Certainly not from the Chinese armed forces, should they somehow gather in Northern France in 2024.
The elephant in the room here, of course, is that the above scenarii are simply not the case. China has no plan to attack Western Europe (inc. UK), the Soviet Union ceased to exist decades ago, and Russia now not only has no intention or wish to invade the UK, but no capability to do so, looking at its less than impressive performance in Ukraine.
As for Germany, the Germany of today is not that of 1940, has no interest in invading the UK, and its armed forces are a tiny fraction of the size of those commanded by Hitler (who anyway had no serious intention of invading the UK even in 1940).
Neither do France or Spain, or the Netherlands, historical would-be invaders of England, have any interest at all in invading this country.
Who, then, is this Labour Party military genius, warning us about invasion? Oh, it is one John Healey, a one-time scribbler (for a year), disability rights campaigner (for 6 years) and then a campaigner for a trade union, and also a p/t Open University lecturer. No military experience, of course, unless you include his 4 years as Shadow Defence Secretary and now Defence Secretary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey#Shadow_cabinet.
The only “invasion” happening, which the present government, like the last one, seems powerless to stop, is the worst kind—migration-invasion of the UK by non-Europeans.
Every year, between a half-million and million invaders are arriving in this country: “small boat” illegals, “asylum seekers”, “fiances” and “fiancees”, “work visa holders”, “student visa holders”, “family members” etc. Plus births to non-whites already in the UK.
What is “Field Marshal” (or is that “field mouse”?) Healey going to do about the one invasion that is not only the only one likely to happen, but the only one actually happening? Nothing. Nothing at all.
“A man who blinded an acquaintance with a corrosive liquid at an eco-village has been jailed for 15 years.
Jivan Dean, 24, attacked Raven Riley, 21, with sodium hydroxide – an alkaline also known as caustic soda – in a jealous rage after wrongly believing he had contacted his girlfriend.
Dean was seen heating a liquid in a pan on a hob before hurling it in the face of Riley while he was sitting in a chair at a property in Tipi Valley in Carmarthenshire.
Passing sentence at Swansea crown court, Judge Geraint Walters said Dean was dangerous and passed an extended sentence of 15 years in custody with a further four years on licence.”
Such crimes were very rare here until the mass immigration catastrophe happened. In the instant case, the perpetrator is obviously part-Chinese.
“The number of people who have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year has exceeded the total number that arrived in the whole of 2023, according to figures published by the Home Office.“
[Guardian]
Demonstrations and marches against the madness are OK, but will not, alone, achieve concrete results. In the present conditions of repression of free speech, I prefer to say no more, as yet.
It is clear, though, that the madness cannot continue indefinitely. At some point, this million a year influx (the “small boats” being only a few percent of all immigration) will cause UK society to fall apart.
The Commonwealth is largely a waste of time and money, and always was. A replacement of lesser binding than the Empire, to some extent a consolation for the Monarch (notably, of course, the late Queen): no longer an Empress or Emperor, but still “Head of the Commonwealth”.
If the present members of the Commonwealth (not all even former British colonies) are getting even more “uppity” than previously, then just say goodbye to them and take away their ricebowls, thus saving the poor old British taxpayers (those that still exist) a packet of money.
We are regressing back to the 17th century, just with "Hitler" & "Nazi" now instead of Satan & Beelzebub as the ultimate label of unacceptable evil. Witchfinders can also be found in any HR dept or public institution. https://t.co/JCkWngZSvP
As David Irving said, the real Hitler has been lost to view, and presented by System and/or Jewish/Israeli propaganda (in the form of books, films etc) as a kind of supernatural entity of Evil.
[“the Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
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It really is not. The primary job of historians is to find out and communicate what happened in the past, not to police the past in the perceived interests of the politics of the present. https://t.co/Lg0GtI7iGE
🇫🇷 "Zelensky, return the money!" – French against austerity, war, NATO and the EU A protest was held in Paris against the new budget plan, which envisages harsh austerity measures. pic.twitter.com/TQkk6BOs6L
The Arabs are mostly gagging to become part of “the West”— surely that is obvious. The only thing that impedes such a development is the existence of the Israeli state. Were the USA to stop supporting Israel, a huge reset of the region would be possible.
Iran, Muslim but not Arab, might be the exception, but would probably come to terms.
“Ukraine may have to give up its territories in order to end the war with Russia, said the candidate for US vice president from the Republican Party, J. D. Vance. “The Ukrainians are going to have to make that decision … They’re already too exhausted,” Vance said on News Nation. According to him, such ideas are already appearing in conversations with Ukrainian officials, especially in private discussions. “They’re starting to talk about it now.” They say this can’t last forever. They don’t have people, they don’t have weapons, they don’t have money,” Vance added.”
Reality seems to be breaking into the Beltway Bubble…
According to what I have seen on Twitter/X, the young activist David R. Morgan (@david_r_morgan on Twitter/X) has been arrested by “anti-terror” police after complaints made by the (((usual))) troublemakers.
While I do not agree with everything he posts (manner rather than substance, though, in most cases), to be arrested merely for (as it seems) having posted some satirical cartoons etc would be yet another ludicrous misuse of police “anti-terror” powers in the UK.
Reminiscent of the persecution of satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz and others in previous years.
[persecuted satirist and singer-songwriter, Alison Chabloz, at the piano]
Hopefully, David Morgan will soon be released, if that has not already happened.
The System and the “usual suspects” have not learned the lesson of the champagne cork— the deeper in the swimming pool you push it down, the more powerful its re-emergence.
If Britain ever has a real government, it will have to use some islands off the coast as its own, though hopefully less brutal, version of the Solovetsky Islands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solovetsky_Islands], so numerous are the enemies of our race, culture, and future.
Even that is but the tip of the iceberg. Most minor and some major crimes are never reported to the police, who in any case are often, maybe even usually, uninterested.
I have just finished A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin, bought a while ago in paperback for about 20p from a supermarket charity shelf, and read slowly, a few pages a day, in the car.
In those diaries (quite interesting, but not as fascinating as the more famous ones of Alan Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clark#Diaries), Mullin recalls having visited the “anti-social behaviour” police in his own constituency; a pleasant enough group, but spending much if not all of their time in their office, rarely covering the ground where anti-social behaviour was actually happening.
Talking point
[SS-men escort non-combatant Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Ghetto Uprising of 1943]
Talking point
That is what Jewish-lobby puppet Ian Austin (then MP, now “Lord” Ian Austin) tweeted long ago (now, I believe, deleted, unsurprisingly). Austin was also one of the worst expenses cheats.
A one-time “Labour” MP who accepted his “peerage” from “Boris” Johnson, another Israel-lobby puppet. A contrived “honour” which allows him to continue to receive money, both directly and indirectly.
For the sake of transparency, I should add that, in or about 2019, Austin also actually wrote to the then Director of Public Prosecutions on behalf of the malicious and tiny, though (((very well-funded))), “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] demanding that I be prosecuted for allegedly “antisemitic” tweets (I had a Twitter account until 2018).
It appears that there are serious doubts about Rachel Reeves claim to be an economist: https://t.co/vD0lwOEhcg Surely the way to quash such speculation is for Labour to publish a list of her qualifications & her employment history. We could be in for a long wait.
Today Israel has bombed a school being used as a shelter by displaced Palestinians & killed several children.
But Starmer won't condemn it as a war crime because he's previously said that's not his job (despite having repeatedly condemned Russian war crimes) pic.twitter.com/qCTL21heTa
I have just watched part of a Sky News interview; Starmer interviewed by Beth Rigby.
Starmer was utterly pathetic as he was asked to define the “working people” his government and Rachel Reeves’ budget was intended to help. He said “in my mind’s eye” about 5 times even in the few minutes while I was watching and listening.
Starmer does not know what he is doing. A person both nasty and pathetic, as well as totally out of his depth.
Sometime about a decade ago, some newspaper or magazine referred to me as “the pro-Russian barrister Ian Millard“, but that, I thought, was far too broad to be libellous (it might have been said, to give just one example, merely to refer to my being interested in pre-revolutionary Russian literature, or Russian and Soviet orchestral and other music, which in fact do both apply to me).
I never seriously considered suing in defamation. In any event, I doubt whether such a suit could ever be successful, for a number of reasons. In fact, I took so little interest in the matter that I have forgotten where I saw the comment about me. I was looking for it recently, but had no success.
A man believed to have arrived in the UK on a small boat in July has been charged with murder after a 27 year old woman working at a hotel housing asylum seekers has been stabbed to death.
BBC correspondent reports on deep rift between leaders of Israel.
Knesset member Meir Shetrit: "The only way for Israel is to accept the state of Palestine. Netanyahu was my close friend, he destroyed everything that was done for Israel in the past." pic.twitter.com/BvmGVKxkMW
Western countries are losing the war in Ukraine, but they still don't want to stop it and admit their failure, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. pic.twitter.com/RICzSb9SUM
Lebanon's Minister of Information Ziad Al-Makary: The Israeli enemy waited for journalists to take a night break to kill them in their sleep. pic.twitter.com/CZXdZiyqro
“Elon Musk has been regularly communicating with Putin since late 2022, – WSJ
According to the publication, they discuss “personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.”
The US government is allegedly aware of this, but keeps the talks secret. It is reported that in the fall of 2022, political scientist Ian Bremmer said that Musk told him about his conversation with Putin and the Kremlin’s “red lines.” Another example cited is that in late 2023, the Kremlin asked Musk not to turn on Starlink over Taiwan – as a “favor” to Xi Jinping.
“Musk’s secret talks may confirm Trump’s desire to conclude a large-scale deal with Russia, including on Ukraine,” the article says.”
“Revealed: Almost 300 migrants crossed the English Channel on same day that three died and dozens were rescued in small boat tragedy.”
[Daily Mail]
It becomes evident that (as I have been predicting for the past couple of years) the “Labour” government of Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and other Labour Friends of Israel members has no intention of stopping or even slowing the invasion. Au contraire... the plan is to wave a magic wand and to rubberstamp the invaders as “legal migrants” and “asylum seekers”, partly by processing them before they even arrive in the UK.
We must expect a continuing migration-invasion (500,000-1M a year if you include those nominally “legal”, more yet if you include births to non-whites).
Our society is slated for destruction, slated by secret cabals and conspiratorial circles embedded in government, the mainstream media and elsewhere.
A Prime Minister who knows little beyond tick-box rules and regulations, a Chancellor of the Exchequer who was unable to organise her own interest-free Parliamentary credit card, a Home Secretary who was an expenses cheat and fraudster, and a Foreign Secretary who is not really British and who is as thick as two short planks. Ecce, your “Labour” misgovernment…
The IRGC commander-in-chief warned Israeli leaders, urging them "not to make unwise decisions by relying on the limited power of a few missiles and the THAAD missile system provided by the US." pic.twitter.com/whS2TWcF8w
Israel does have nuclear weapons, though. Will this be the moment when the mask drops, revealing to the world what Israel is really like, even after its present and previous war crimes?
Blinken: We failed to convince Netanyahu. At any moment, events could happen in the Middle East that have not happened in the last hundred years. pic.twitter.com/VzstWfXPhk
Rumors that, Iran will produce Russian fighter jets locally Iran is ready to start domestic production of Russian Su-30 and Su-35 fighter jets. Tehran has reportedly secured a license and is preparing to set up an assembly plant. pic.twitter.com/LdtiFn2Rqj
The United States should consider "direct military action" in Ukraine if North Korean troops invade, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (D-N.Y.) said. pic.twitter.com/pLcqBblLDR
She's economical with l’actualité; plagarised her book, no record of her ever being a chess champion, colleagues at HBOS say she wasn't working as an economist and frankly I don't believe her tale of turning down a job at Goldman Sachs to work in Leeds. https://t.co/hnRDVeEmNU
Rachel Reeves claims that she worked as an "economist" at the Bank of Scotland before entering politics. But a new investigation has discovered she was in fact an administrative support worker, not an economist at all. https://t.co/LGQ6guCzeT
We are facing a fateful choice: will the world be turbulent or will it turn towards peaceful development — Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping referred to Chernyshevsky's work "What is to be done" and noted that one must have the same fortitude as its main character pic.twitter.com/T4aSLjNBRs
Referencing Chernyshevsky (and, thus, Lenin)! In Kazan, and before the Russian government audience, at that. The Chinese can be very clever, diplomatically, and never forget the long-view historical perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky.
Chernyshevsky was born in Saratov, on the Volga, as is Kazan, incidentally. Kazan is an interesting choice of location for the BRICS summit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan.
Different points of view: in Russia and China, their leaders thinking strategically, but in the UK, much of the political and mass media milieu is obsessed with whether some useless, unpleasant and dangerous black gangster should have been shot or not.
Not a matter which I have followed (or know anything about).
NEW POST. What I told Nick Robinson. The British people want to lower immigration, control the borders, and stop the managed decline of their country. And it’s not “far right” to think this way.https://t.co/sQ5a10Y0ai
This week we learn the Labour government is meddling in the US election while appointing yet more cronies to senior political roles. Ever since taking power it’s looked more like a student union than a serious national government.
Yes – I love this too: "Populism is a term used by centrist liberals to describe political blowback from the disruption of society produced by their policies." John Gray, New Statesman 13th July 2022
The idea that Britain’s slide will be stopped, let alone reversed, by “peaceful”, constitutionally-acceptable, or easy methods such as voting for Reform UK (let alone the “Conservative” or “Labour” idiots), seems increasingly just ludicrous.
She made the claim in Parliament on 22 July, when she said by ending the retrospective element of the Duty to Remove in the Illegal Migration Act she would save £7 billion – with a stroke of her pen. But this, as her own department told me, was nonsense. https://t.co/xEcINu7aFipic.twitter.com/geDcQ09o7W
But more significantly, the impact assessment assumes not a single migrant would have been deported under the Duty to Remove – either to Rwanda or their home country – and would instead have remained in the UK in publicly-funded accommodation for ten years. This is clearly… pic.twitter.com/0JCwx6ykP3
I wrote to the Home Secretary about the double counting on 1 September, and asked the Immigration Minister about it on 10 September. On neither occasion did I get an answer.
It is very difficult to see how Yvette Cooper has not misled the House of Commons. pic.twitter.com/SEquR96sbs
Why do HM Govs want migrants here / stay here corrupting the UK values ? Does nobody see this devalue of UK is nobody proud of UK does nobody see this problem ? Are HM Gov hands tied by earlier laws like May’s compact ???
Unsurprising mendacity. Yvette Cooper is not only a longstanding expenses freeloader but an actual fraudster who was lucky to escape criminal prosecution around 2009. A Labour Friends of Israel moneygrubber.
‘The officially approved narrative —that mass immigration, state multiculturalism, globalisation, social liberalism & prioritising elites over citizens are all good for society—has created the mess and declining country that you see around you today.’ https://t.co/OKYKu4nTqS
Ecce the new “Conservative” Party leader— either a Nigerian woman married to a banker, or a corrupt and nasty little supposedly (?) English moneygrubber married to a Jewish woman lawyer. Both members of Conservative Friends of Israel (of course).
Why does the UK governmet(s) turn a blind eye on the British dual nationals who engage in the Israeli war crimes? pic.twitter.com/GAdV9C4HFl
In Britain this month a man was sent to prison for “life” which the judge said was “a minimum of 8 years” for pushing somebody in front of a train, despite having 13 previous convictions, six separate prison sentences and being in the country illegally. Now read that again.
Tatar flatbread kystyby, sturgeon pelmeni and lamb shank will be offered at a gala reception for the heads of state who arrived in Kazan for the BRICS Plus/Outreach summit.
A gala reception on behalf of Putin in honor of the BRICS summit will be held at the Kazan Expo site. pic.twitter.com/to8nMOAUe6
Whatever one may think of “Tommy Robinson” (and I myself consider him to be part of the “controlled opposition”, a kind of “Father Gapon” figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Gapon), he has, and makes, some good points. The above is one of them— a man of 61 chucked into one of England’s crumbling, dystopian prisons, and for doing almost nothing. Sub-Stalinist Britain.
Simplistic, maybe, but correct in broad terms. Starmer, the Jewish-lobby puppet who went down on his knees for the fraudulent “Black Lives Matter” nonsense (alongside thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner).
.@PatrickChristys asks if 'Keir Starmer signed a death sentence for Peter Lynch'…
'He let violent thugs out of prison, so people like Mr Lynch could be squeezed into a cell. He created what many think are political prisoners. And now one of them, Mr Lynch, is dead.' pic.twitter.com/kWzSfBeJ6a
That was, of course, a very wrong thing to have done. It certainly deserved punishment, and quite likely a prison term, but the length of the term imposed is what struck me— 3 years!
Admittedly, as things are, that means that the convicted defendant will serve “only” about 13-14 months, but surely, in all the circumstances, a 20-month term or even a 10-month term would have been sufficient (meaning that the defendant would serve 8 or 4 months). Still unpleasant for her, and still sending a message to others etc.
There is routine over-sentencing in this country, but that is, I concede, combined with under-sentencing for many others, e.g. some people who attack others violently, yet get suspended sentences.
I might add a few well-chosen words, but anything I might say would probably result (via “the usual suspects”) in the poundshop Stasi “thought police” being a nuisance and an inconvenience, and boring me at my door (yet again)…
Now reporting restrictions have been lifted we are able to say Chris Kaba was a notorious violent armed criminal gang member.
We were not allowed to report this until today.
Kaba's mother applied to extend reporting restrictions beyond the end of the trial, but she has failed.
It is, arguably, human nature to want to see one’s enemies eliminated. For example, if one has been harassed by some malicious nuisances for years, and they all, or some of them, start to “snuff it”, one tends to feel happy.
Now, we all know, in theory at least, that all human individual lives are limited in duration. A year, 10 years, 50 years, the “Biblical” 70 years or, in a relatively few cases, 100 years. We know that we ourselves are “in the same condemnation” as the Revelation of St. John the Divine puts it (if I recall aright). Yet we are pleased that our persecutors and other enemies die before we ourselves do.
I suppose that many will say that that is wrongheaded, but it is, au fond, human. After all, those who kill on the battlefield are trying, putting it in the most basic terms, to kill the enemy and also to avoid being killed by the enemy; that despite the fact that those adherent to both sides in a battle will die, if not on the day of battle, then the next day, the next month, the next year, or in x-years’ time.
Arjuna was advised by Krishna, on the eve of battle, and when Arjuna was having conscience-stricken thoughts, that he (Arjuna) must not avoid doing his duty on the field of Kurukshetra. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita.
Evolution requires that we do what is necessary to further, or to fulfil, it.
[photomontage, including stylized head of Adolf Hitler, Savitri Devi, images from ancient Egypt and Asia, and the iconographic “Black Sun”]
[Germany 1945: “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
They want Lebensraum, it seems, and to do that effectively they mean to kill or expel the surviving Arab population of Gaza.
American authorities have promised tens of times less money to Americans affected by hurricanes than to Ukraine and Israel, which were promised 107.3 billion dollars in the last fiscal year, according to an analysis of open data by RIA Novosti. pic.twitter.com/IX69bpmsLE
Thankyou Russia for looking out for Grahame! he’s given everything to show the situation in Donbass to westerner’s and he would obviously be locked away by our government here in the uk.
[a reader’s letter published in a British newspaper from (it seems) 1936]
Of course, the above-claimed situation is not invariably so. There are a number of very wealthy and part-Jewish families in England now, and I believe that was the case even in 1936, at least to some extent. The then Dukes of both Westminster and Bedford were researching, in the 1920s and 1930s, the infiltration of wealthy Jews into the titled aristocracy of England and Scotland.
“During his visit to Kiev, the head of the Pentagon will not announce new military aid and will not give Ukraine permission to use long-range weapons for strikes deep into Russia , the “Wall Street Journal” writes. According to his words, the head of the Pentagon only plans to show the “strong commitment of the US to the military efforts” of Kiev.”
Never forget that this rubbish “Labour” quasi-dictatorship was only voted for by 4 out of every 20 eligible voters.
Is Simon Myerson having a pop at me on behalf of his friend Mark Lewis? About my complaint to the SRA?
Reminder, there were three defendants in my case: – one is dead from suicide; – one is going bankrupt; and – one will lose the home he and his family live in.
“Is Simon Myerson having a pop at me on behalf of his friend Mark Lewis? About my complaint to the SRA?
Reminder, there were three defendants in my case: – one is dead from suicide; – one is going bankrupt; and – one will lose the home he and his family live in.
The case could have settled for zero costs, zero damages and undertakings before any of that happened.
My self-important rant is that the SRA should properly investigate what happened. Maybe to stop anyone else dying? But what do I know…@SCynic1@MLewisLawyer@sra_solicitors“
[James Wilson]
Ha. The sheer lack of self-awareness on the part of Zionist Jews of the Myerson type…Look who’s calling others “self-important“!…
Myerson was sacked as a Recorder (p/t judge) earlier this year because of his toxic online presence, which sometimes almost reaches the levels of toxicity pioneered by washed-up Israel fanatic Lewis.
Both members and/or supporters of the unpleasant Jew-Zionist organizations “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] and “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
Talking point
There is no fair, objective criticism of jews which will not immediately be labeled by jews as antisemitism
CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive. pic.twitter.com/cDBNk4TnB3
A long-time senior Israeli government official and Netanyahu/Liduk adviser, Jordana Cutler, is now the chief of Facebook's US censorship unit on Israel and Palestine.
She repeatedly and aggressively uses that position to demand censorship of Israel critics: https://t.co/5gKdEl2htv
Attacks by the Israeli army on the southern suburbs of Beirut, as well as on locations near the international airport in the capital of Lebanon, are ongoing… pic.twitter.com/7yJlq1x2ly
“Israel” is not just that small country in the Middle East; it is also a global web consisting of the worldwide Jewish-Zionist lobby, and also those in public life whom that lobby has bought or otherwise suborned. Look at the UK. Both remaining contenders for the Conservative Party leadership are Israel-lobby puppets, as is the present “Labour” Prime Minister, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer, and also his close colleagues (such as Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper).
“A city at migration breaking point: An unvarnished dispatch from Coventry – which saw over 22,000 arrivals from overseas in a single year – exposes how housing, schools and GPs are being placed under unbearable strain.
Another development has already started in Bennetts Road in the suburbs of Coventry. ‘There were green fields as far as the eye could see,’ said Gillian Collinge, a former Home Office official.
Today the once idyllic vista is scarred by a brutal two-metre-high security fence just feet from the back gardens of their homes, which have names such as Springfield Cottage, Lilac House and Harefield.
Beyond the metal perimeter are diggers, mud, noise and men in high-viz jackets.
‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking,’ added Gillian, who lives next to the chaos with husband Peter, also 66, a retired software engineer.
The building site – until just over a year ago a green-belt haven for wildlife – is now the location for 3,200 new houses. More than 500 have already sprung up.“
[Daily Mail]
Read the full report. Even those badly affected by migration-invasion are often so sadly brainwashed that they imagine that there is some kind of moral imperative requiring the UK to accept settlement by backward people from all over the world.
“Millions of people are set to be handed smartwatches to track their health as part of Labour’s 10-year plan to save the NHS.
Wearable tech, including devices to track blood pressure, glucose spikes and how cancer patients are responding to treatment, will be issued across the country to help prevent illness and treat more people at home.“
[Daily Mail]
So it begins…
All very reasonable, at first blush. Helps citizens, saves public money etc. However, this may well be one of the first steps to microchips implanted under the skin. Anyone refusing to have one will not be punished directly, at least not at first, but will simply be cut off from accessing most health services. Later, perhaps cut off from receiving State benefits, even pensions. Then, once most people are on the system, your beliefs and political activities will be added to the mix. The “racist“, “antisemitic” etc will be cut off from services and State financial help, and be even more marginalized for their views etc. After that, taken into “protective custody”…
Jewish trans-humanist Yuval Noah Harari outlined the big agenda back in 2022.
[Covid] is what convinces people to accept total biometric surveillance… We need not just to monitor people; We need to monitor what’s happening under their skin” pic.twitter.com/K7ctHuUxcy
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 20, 2024
PETER HITCHENS: Parents are voting with their feet against state school brainwashing. Homeschooling is on the rise.. https://t.co/0SKOHtrds8
Most schools, most of the time, are just useless. For the mass, a school is a place where children are “warehoused” during the day while the parents are (both?) at work making money (mostly for someone else).
Contrary to what many believe, you do not have to send your children to school in the UK, though there are conditions: https://www.gov.uk/home-education.
The Battlegroup Center defeated five brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Donetsk People's Republic in one day and repelled nine counterattacks, the Ukrainian army lost up to 460 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/v389lJLVkVpic.twitter.com/1h6t2CMBvY
No wonder that the Kiev regime has to use press-gangs to “recruit” new cannon-fodder. No-one wants to volunteer, or even be drafted.
An Mi-28NM helicopter destroyed a cluster of Ukrainian troops and armored vehicles near the border in the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said: https://t.co/MHnxeWEhiOpic.twitter.com/CQRJMpTWrC
Nearly 5000 pensioners died of hypothermia last year, that was with the winter fuel payment. 880,000 pensioners are entitled to Pension Credit but don't claim it. One million just over the threshold. Many of these will die, and every excess death is on Labour.
Shane on you for being so ill informed and defending the indefensible. You must be a fan of the Harold Shipman Tribute Act Rachel Reeves MP. https://t.co/pC47k75GoChttps://t.co/soXalAmbsS
Everything to do with Labour. Gordon Brown made WFP a universal payment precisely because of poor take up. Rachel Reeves has decided to take the money away knowing that very poor pensioners who should get the money won't, irrespective of the resulting deaths. 100% indefensible.
A good example, the above Twitter/X thread, of the ever-more-apparent split in the UK between those who see the realities and those who choose not to see them. The fact is that Winter Fuel Payment is or was a great boon to pensioners, and now huge numbers of them are going to be deprived of it; both those who are entitled to apply for Pension Credit but have not done so and those who are above (often not far above) the Pension Credit capital or income cut-off points, and will therefore not now be given WFP.
“Desperate Ukrainian men have resorted to hiding in their houses for up to eight months just to avoid fighting Russia.
Stories include missing a daughter’s birth, avoiding public transport, and not attending weddings – all to get out of being conscripted into the Ukrainian military.
This comes as Ukraine is on the look-out for more fighters as it has struggled to replenish its army while thousands of soldiers from North Korea join Russia.
Roman, 33, an entrepreneur in Lviv, said he pays $1,000 a month to receive an exemption.
He explained: ‘Eighty per cent of my friends who went to fight have been killed and I don’t want to join them. By now we all know what happens.
‘I am lucky I have money and my own business so don’t need to be on public transport or in places where the mobilisation gangs operate. I don’t go to restaurants or weddings.’
Desertions from the Ukraine army are at an all-time high since the recent escalation of conflict began in 2022.
This comes as Ukraine passed a controversial new law in May that requires every man of draft age — 25 to 60 — to register so they can be called up.“
[Daily Mail]
Few if any want to be caught and forced onto the front-lines to fight for the shambolic and corrupt dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky. Who can blame them? 6 weeks of rudimentary training, and then transported (presumably under guard) to the front. I wonder how long the average such “recruit” lasts before being killed or badly wounded, or taken prisoner? A month or two?
Near the end of that clip, a (presumably Jewish) woman shouts out “racist” at the old woman shown. Voice very similar to that of Mandy Blumenthal, the wife of negligent/dishonest solicitor and Israel fanatic Mark Lewis.
Mandy Blumenthal shouted out, at the audience, something similar during her recent attempted Jew-Zionist scam and political stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe show of Reginald D. Hunter.
Were they there, at the above-shown demonstration?
Cuba's energy ministry: The country's power grid has collapsed again as it tries to regulate power across the country. It's at least the fourth time in 48 hours that the grid has been down for millions of people across the country. pic.twitter.com/E4iVZyYhsJ
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. 6/10 as against Rentoul’s 3/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 5, and 6.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 19, 2024
Old Twitter was a leftist echo chamber
New Twitter is a conservative echo chamber
But neither are free speech platforms. The ownership structure may have changed, but Jews remain above criticism on this platform along with almost every other.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 19, 2024
Fascinating how they are pretending that there is not a better way to deal with this sadistic murderer.
“New research suggests that the majority of the world’s modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East.
The new research suggests that most of the Jewish population of northern and eastern Europe – normally known as Ashkenazic Jews – are the descendants of Greeks, Iranians and others who colonized what is now northern Turkey more than 2000 years ago and were then converted to Judaism, probably in the first few centuries AD by Jews from Persia. At that stage, the Persian Empire was home to the world’s largest Jewish communities.
According to research carried out by the geneticist, Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, over 90 per cent of Ashkenazic ancestors come from that converted partially Greek-originating ancient community in north-east Turkey.”
[The Independent]
Explodes the very notion that modern-day Jews have any right at all to the lands of Palestine by reason of ancient occupation. They’re fakes.
but if Ian Leslie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Leslie_(writer)] is so very clever, how is it that he and —apparently— John Rentoul think that Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc are “basically decent“?
Members of Labour Friends of Israel, expenses cheats and freeloaders, buy-to-let parasites, and general moneygrubbers, who want to institute a police state of a dystopian kind (prison time for free speech; encouragement of mass immigration and migration-invasion; enforced weight-loss injections as a condition for getting unemployment or disability benefits; euthanasia; abortion; and much much more).
Germany continues to sell industrial goods to Russia, including machinery for the production of vehicle and aircraft parts and ammunition, according to the Tageschau news portal pic.twitter.com/Xxst3CN525
While the world media was focused on Israel's retaliation against Iran's attacks, Iran quietly began exporting oil from its Jask terminal, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz for the first time. A major turning point in reducing Iran's reliance on Khark Island and the Persian Gulf pic.twitter.com/AR5AHWve7o
God save any civilians, women, children, and animals, under such a brutal bombardment.
🇨🇺 All of Cuba was left without electricity, ten million people in the dark
▪️The entire island of Cuba was left without electricity yesterday, which left ten million inhabitants in the dark, the Ministry of Energy and Mining of that country announced.
Anyone who uses Lewis as a solicitor can expect double-dealing, incompetence, negligence, and dishonesty.
Mark Lewis is a man of straw. When the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal fined and reprimanded him in 2018 (after which he scuttled to Israel, though he keeps returning here to make money, despite the “antisemitism” by which he claims to have been targeted), the Tribunal lowered the level of his fine because, as his own Counsel said to the Tribunal panel, Lewis owned only his own clothes, a £70 a week private pension, and a mobility scooter! Even his car was not his own, but provided to Lewis by the “antisemitic” British taxpayers via the DWP-funded Motability scheme [https://www.motability.co.uk/].
Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea, located 60 km from Tel Aviv, which Hezbollah attacked from Lebanese territory today
Israeli soldiers from the army's medical units have released a video documenting their operations in the Gaza Strip, which shows them shelling and blowing up residential areas and setting fire to the homes of displaced Palestinians in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/hBfy5kJcAG
There are mothers in there one with 5 kids, Wayne o'Rourke got three years and he has a disabled wife and mental health problems, when they release 5000 criminals in October they should release these people who just wanted their country back
As a former barrister (unlawfully and wrongfully disbarred in 2016 at the instigation of the Jewish lobby), I can see that what is happening is that many people involved (often only peripherally or online) with the protests and so-called “riots” of 2-3 months ago are now sentenced to terms of imprisonment (often years rather than months) for having done not very much; in some cases, almost nothing.
I am presuming that most of those sentenced will have had the benefit of legal advice from solicitors and Counsel.
The problem lies in the narrow legal view taken by many lawyers. I suspect that many of the lawyers involved looked at the political climate (eg the intervention on TV by “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer in July or August), looked at the evidence, and then advised their clients to plead Guilty in order to mitigate the sentence.
All good advice, or would be in a “normal”, non-political, case.
The fact is that most of the sentences being given are absurdly harsh, even taking the charges at face value.
In my opinion, the defendants in most of the recent protest cases, at least the ones about which I have read, would have been no worse off, probably better off, had they pleaded Not Guilty.
I concede that one cannot these days rely on the good sense of the traditional British jury, because the brainwashing of the public continues apace, but still I believe that a jury trial would have given many of those charged a good chance of acquittal.
A gamble, true, to plead Not Guilty, but in these “political” cases not so much, because the “message” from on high seems to have come down, “lock them up“… I do not really believe that many of those defendants have been given a real diminution of sentence of a (or the, notional) third.
My own free speech trial in November 2023 (sentence, March 2024) was different, not having been connected to any violent or noisy protests, but it was still a “political” case (instigated by the malicious Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby).
I republish the details here below but, in short, I pleaded Not Guilty to all 5 similar charges, was found guilty (by a District Judge sitting alone) on all 5 counts, and was sentenced to a financial impost amounting to £734, and to a period of, in effect, probation, involving 15 “rehabilitation days”. In the event, the financial penalty was one-third crowdfunded for me (the rest paid off over the past 6 months in instalments), and the “15 days” turned out to be about half a dozen meetings lasting from 20 minutes to a couple of hours.
All now water under the bridge, and the blog continues to be published daily, but would I really have got a lighter sentence had I pleaded Guilty? Frankly, I doubt it. For one thing, the malicious nature of the whole prosecution would not have been laid bare before the Court.