Category Archives: environment

Diary Blog, 15 October 2026

Afternoon music

[Katyusha rockets, 1940s]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

[“Piddington’s own MP just sat on his hands.

Calum Miller spent months calling the MoD Bicester plan for 1,256 men “the wrong site,” “totally inappropriate,” and bad for his constituents. Then when Parliament voted to condemn it, he (and every other Lib Dem) abstained. The women of Piddington were in the gallery. Conservatives and Reform voted against the camp. Their local MP did nothing. Talks a good game. Disappears when it counts.“]

Typical LibDem. Utter waste of space.

https://tass.com/society/2202371

[“”Only about 10% of Germans support further aid to Ukraine. Or, to put it another way, 90% of Germans are against continuing to spend German taxpayers’ money in Ukraine. Act accordingly.”

Alice Weidel, leader of the German party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), delivered a speech in which a significant portion was dedicated to the issue of German support for Ukraine and relations with Russia:

“While you are trying to virtually single-handedly finance a proxy war against the nuclear power of Russia, our European partners are already cautiously showing restraint.

And while you approve one package of sanctions after another, thereby destroying our own economy and state finances, the United States and Russia are negotiating the supply of diesel fuel and concluding other agreements that are beneficial to both sides.”]

Pity the UK has no such politicians.

…and look at the deadhead nodding dogs in the audience!

Very good, but would it not be better to concentrate such purchases in one area?

In any case, soon (if not already), the UK inhabitants of that age-group will be mostly non-white, so non-British in any real sense, with little or no emotional connection to, or respect for, our history and culture. Why would they fight for a Britain that scarcely exists any more?

Those MPs are in the pockets of either the Jew-Zionist manipulators, or the Islamist plotters in their constituencies. In a few cases, both apply.

Westminster monkeyhouse.

How kind those ***** are to themselves!

Drunken cocaine-abuser, fraudster, and doormat for Israel and the Jewish lobby, Michael Gove, I have blogged about several times, many times, over the years. As for Rory Stewart, he just becomes more and more ludicrous. My very popular assessment of Stewart (from 2019, but with updates):

As to Gove’s former (?) girlfriend, Lola Salem, the mainstream media are saying almost nothing about her since she was committed for Crown Court trial a week ago on charges of possessing indecent images of children.

Wall. Squad. End.

Late music

[painting by Walter Martin Baumhofer]

Diary Blog, 13 October 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

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

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

THE CORE VERDICT

Ritter states the demise of Muhammad bin Salman is inevitable.

“He’s finished.”

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

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

“It’s the end of the House of Saud.”

THE 2014 STRATEGIC ERROR

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

The campaign turned into a 12-year nightmare.

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

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

THE OIL DESTRUCTION

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

They are now attacking production facilities and the wells themselves.

“This is the end of Saudi Arabia.”

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

NO ALLIES WILL SAVE HIM

The American security umbrella proved nonfunctional.

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

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

Turkey has no interest in dying for the Saudis.

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

THE RIYADH PREDICTION

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

Saudis have feared this outcome since 1990.

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

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

THE BOTTOM LINE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relations between Russia and Japan continue to deteriorate.

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

Latest Nick Griffin blog post

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

About hedge-making etc. Well worth reading.

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

Late tweets

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

Diary Blog, 7 October 2026, including thoughts about Gaza

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Historical video

Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the YouTube video below:

Talking point

I see that the Jewish lobby is loudly whining and wailing today about the Jews killed on this day 3 years ago in Gaza.

Well, I concede that the incursion into “Israel” from Gaza should not have happened in quite the manner it did, and that some of the acts done by HAMAS were incorrect and insupportable, but the response of the Israeli Jewish state has been brutal, inhumane (indeed, inhuman), and as close to genocide as makes no real difference.

Almost complete devastation of Gaza, most homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed or injured, many injured very badly (loss of limbs etc), and most of those killed or injured women and children.

It seems that many of the Jews killed three years ago were killed (via free-fire protocols) by the Israeli forces themselves. The total Jewish death toll was somewhere around 1,000, a tiny fraction of the number of Gazans killed and wounded in vindictive retaliation by the (Israeli) Jews (egged on by many Jews living overseas, including in the UK).

One has to ask, when on Earth will the Jews (of Israel, and those supporting the slaughter and cruelty from overseas) have had enough blood (in Gaza)?

[part of Gaza City before the (Israeli) Jews devastated it]
[part of the same area after Israeli bombing, shelling, white phosphorus bombing etc]
[part of Gaza City in 2007]

Tweets seen

I find it curious that the Russian missile and drone strikes take place mainly after dark. I should have thought that during the day would be better tactics, in order to cause far more chaos and disruption to transport and to economic life etc. It may be that countermeasures are more effective during daylight hours; I do not know.

[“Royal Mail has announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.

When billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s takeover was approved in December 2024, the government presented the deal as one that would help “secure jobs”, while Jonathan Reynolds said: “We have negotiated something that secures the long-term future of Royal Mail.”

Less than two years later, thousands of jobs are set to disappear.

Britain has spent decades selling off essential national infrastructure on the promise that private ownership would make it leaner, cheaper and better. Too often the result has been the opposite: jobs cut, services hollowed out, prices pushed up and private owners protected, while the public is left carrying the risk when the model fails. Royal Mail is starting to look like another example of the same failed experiment.“]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K%C5%99et%C3%ADnsk%C3%BD

The present Labour government is very little different from the Con Party governments of 2010-2024, or from the Blair/Brown “New Labour” ones. System…

Late tweets

They really are a disgusting tribe.

As far as I am concerned, there is no decent party or, as far as I know, candidate, standing.

The Greens are up against it, now that Galloway is standing. Splits the avowedly anti-Zionist vote.

Last poll I saw had the Cons on 17% nationwide. Would mean they might get as few as 50 MPs, less than half even compared to their present depleted complement.

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

Diary Blog, 5 October 2026

Morning music

[Volegov, Delicate Amble]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Every. Single. Time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Freikorps]

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

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

https://tass.com/politics/2197553

Late tweets

Our animal friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diary Blog, 4 October 2026

Morning music

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

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

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

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

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

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

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

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

I suppose he or his family knew the right people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interesting travel vlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another vlog from the same couple

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

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

More tweets seen

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

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

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

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

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

Late tweets

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

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

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

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

In 1948, a monster was born.

Late music

Diary Blog, 3 October 2026

Morning music

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

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

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

Tweets seen

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

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

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

So who is in favour?

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

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

Marandi is an Iranian academic.

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

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

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

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

Late tweets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Late muse

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

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

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

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

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

Never mind. It filled an empty hour.

History as rarely seen

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

Late music

[Finland, the Northern Lights]

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

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Late tweets

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

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

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

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

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

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

More late tweets seen

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

John’s statements on Islam:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cleese can carry on carrying on, in short.

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

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

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

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

True.

Also true.

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Diary Blog, 27 September 2026

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Latest Bealtaine Cottage vlog

The “traveller” disease

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/26581543.two-donkeys-drugs-counterfeit-cash-seized-selby-area

“Two donkeys, Class A drugs and counterfeit cash have been seized as part of a major police operation in North Yorkshire.

Police carried out an animal welfare warrant alongside the RSPCA, North Yorkshire Council and Trading Standards, where two donkeys were seized over concerns about unnecessary suffering.

The donkeys were found among other animals, and the site was also issued a number of animal welfare notices.

North Yorkshire Police said: “Officers and partners also identified suspected illegal puppy breeding, which is now subject to further investigation and enforcement activity.”

In Selby, officers executed a drugs warrant where a quantity of Class A drugs and counterfeit cash were found.

One person was arrested as part of this investigation, police confirmed.

Meanwhile, officers working with the DVSA filed 14 Traffic Offence Reports in Escrick – one of which involved a vehicle being seized for being driven with no tax and another seized for no insurance.”

[York Press]

The words “traveller”, or “Irish tinker” are nowhere to be seen in that news report. Self-censorship.

The huge nuisance of the so-called “travellers” has to be addressed as a matter of urgency once Britain has a real government, one that cares about the British people, the environment, animals, and birds.

One —yes, admittedly, very unpleasant— day, and the whole problem would be solved forever.

Tweets seen

Well, that probably means that Switzerland will join much of the rest of mainland Europe in being devastated, somewhere not far down the line.

https://tass.com/world/2193617

Russia now has about 2 years in which to conquer and hold (at least) the whole of Eastern Ukraine. Attrition alone cannot do it in the time available.

Images not clear enough to make a definite judgment.

The bigger issue, of course, is whether the UK should be hosting or facilitating American air operations at all. I say not.

The “Socialist Worker” mob, the ever-present and inevitable “Socialist Worker” mob. I can recall them (at least, their nominal forbears in political stupidity) as long ago as 1975, when I was 18. I am now 70.

Complete idiots. The political equivalent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Noisy irrelevances.

I believe that the Socialist Worker Party was started and led at first by a Jew called Ygael Gluckstein, who used the Anglicized nom de guerre “Tony Cliff”. According to Wikipedia, it now has a notional membership of 6,000, of which the core membership is about 2,000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK). I believe that the membership was at one time (1970s) rather higher in number.

The “SWP”, as mentioned, has been a fringe or crank party for about 76 years, under a few names (as “SWP” since 1977). You would think that, after 76 years, its adherents would by now understand that they are going nowhere. I suppose that, as implied, the members are not the most intelligent or mentally balanced in the political realm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)

I see now from Wikipedia that Gluckstein/”Cliff” went up the chimney in 2000, and that others are now in charge of the splintered SWP.

The most recent “leader” of the SWP seems to have been “Comrade Delta”, aka one Martin Smith, who however was removed after he allegedly committed rape and sexual assault against members. The other “leader” noted by Wikipedia is one Alex Callinicos, of partly (Southern African) Greek origin, and who is now 76: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Callinicos. Surprisingly, Callinicos is descended from (is the grandson of) the famous Lord Acton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton.

In the manner of, as already noted, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Salvation Army bands at Christmas-time, the SWP’s presence (being noisy and objectionable) at by-elections seems to be unavoidable.

Incidentally, but interestingly, the Callinicos person is related, via his grandfather Lord Acton, to the Austro-German (though also part-Jew) nationalist Count Arco auf Valley [1897-1945] who assassinated the Jew Kurt Eisner, the revolutionary socialist who became President of the short-lived People’s State of Bavaria (November 1918-February 1919).

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

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

Looking at a longer version of that clip, it seemed to me that the political cretins of the SWP today are in every respect indistinguishable from those of several decades ago. They look the same, have the same or virtually the same placards, shout out the same tired “antifascist”/”antiracist” slogans. Nothing has changed…except the whole world and society around them. They should be in a museum (perhaps with the advances in robotics and AI, they eventually will be).

More tweets seen

Ha ha! Deport Tugendhat to his beloved Israel. He has relatives there…

More seriously, the “Conservative” Party must be getting really desperate now. Latest poll had them on 17%, and personally I should not be surprised if they get only 15%, maybe even as low as 10%, should the next general election only be held in 2028 or 2029.

Much more difficult in a relatively small and crowded country such as Britain. Still, on the right road, I think. I have blogged a bit about “prepping” in the British/European context (as distinct from North America, Australasia etc). Use the search box on the blog.

Starmer-stein’s mandate, as Prime Minister, was very doubtful: in 2024, in rough terms, out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not actually vote, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green. Labour was voted for by 4 out of 20 eligible voters (4 out of 12 actually-voting voters).

Burnham has merely inherited Starmer-stein’s purple (via the equivalent of a palace revoilution) and, naturally (in political reality, if not in strict British Constitutional terms), has far less of a mandate than Starmer-stein. He has no programme beyond that of trying to please as many likely or potential voters as possible. He is totally out of his depth in every way.

Salutary tale

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16154307/Swedish-Piddington-BANNED-migrants-13-years-1988-Sjobo-shocked-Europe-controversial-referendum-Nearly-40-years-later-wish-ban-voted-never-lifted.html

“It is a familiar political story in a place that became infamous almost 40 years ago, when many of its residents voted to reject the arrival of refugees, in a referendum that sent shockwaves across Sweden and Europe.

In 1987, Sweden adopted a new strategy to distribute refugees more evenly across the country, and asked Sjobo, then a town of around 15,400, to take in around 15 people.

‘Anyone can understand that the next generation of Swedes will no longer be blonde and blue-eyed,’ Sven-Olle Olsson, a municipal councillor who was vehemently opposed, said at the time. He organised a referendum on the issue.

The ‘No’ side won the referendum with almost 68 per cent of votes, triggering a political storm in the country.

There are parallels to be drawn from the case in the recent ‘independence’ referendum held in the British village of Piddington in a symbolic protest against plans to accommodate 1,250 asylum seekers in a nearby military site.

Things have changed ‘enormously’ in Sjobo since 1988, according to Ms Ramel, now a municipal councillor herself who is trying to change Sjobo’s image.

She said the municipality now fulfils its requirements by welcoming new arrivals, even taking in more than some other towns in the region.

The anti-migration Sweden Democrats emerged from the election as Sweden’s third-largest party, after winning 62 seats in the 349-member parliament. 

The party won 43 per cent of votes in Sjobo in the 2022 general election, still enjoying strong support in the southern town known for its contentious September 1988 referendum.

That support remained strong in this month’s election, with the Sweden Democrats taking more than a third of the vote in several of Sjobo’s polling districts.

The party won 38.8 per cent in Sjobo Linne, 33.8 per cent in Sjobo Emanuel and 36.1 per cent in Sjobo Farsinga in the parliamentary election.

‘In the end, Sjobo residents were right, if you want to put it that way,’ 89-year-old Bengt Lundgren, who voted for the Sweden Democrats in the recent election, said with a broad grin.

Sweden struggles to integrate its immigrants.

Around 20 per cent of its population is born abroad, according to 2025 data from Statistics Sweden.

The Oxfordshire village of Piddington held its own unofficial referendum over migration on September 16. 

Some 285 of the 312 residents who voted backed a symbolic declaration of independence from Britain, in protest at plans to house 1,200 asylum seekers at a former military base nearby.

The vote had no legal force, but campaigners hope the gesture will send a message to Westminster over the proposed asylum accommodation at the former Ministry of Defence site at Bicester.“

As far as I am concerned, if the Swedes become no longer really Swedish at all, there is no reason for that country to exist. Same goes, mutatis mutandis, for this country. See also:

We know what will have to be done in our country if we are to survive as a people, but we are not “allowed” to express it, let alone do it.

Talking point— free speech

https://www.prosperity.com/media-publications/reversing-britains-free-speech-recession

Worthwhile proposals.

See also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/276bdafc2bc75a7a

Late tweets

As previously blogged, in purely careerist terms, Shabana Mahmood has “played a blinder”: a Pakistani woman whose only legal work background was a 1-year Bar pupillage, followed by a year or two as a “gopher” in a provincial firm of solicitors, gets into the old MP racket and is made “Lord Chancellor” and then Home Secretary! You couldn’t make it up! Now she invites thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, from some of the most backward parts of the world, arguably, to come and live as total parasites off the backs of the British people.

Britain, better said many of the British, seem to have a death wish. Would I be made a Cabinet minister, or even an MP, in Pakistan? I think not (yes, I know that the Mahmood woman was born in Birmingham. Do you really think that makes any significant difference?).

Completely wrong, and politically explosive. The Triple Lock is not “unaffordable“. Stop throwing billions away on “Ukraine” (Zelensky’s dictatorship), on the housing, feeding, and otherwise funding of the now millions of black/brown migrant-invaders; the same goes for other huge wastes of money (Britain just gave £650M to Angola, a country completely unconnected to Britain or its history, so that the corrupt and totally useless Angolans can improve their airport. That is only one of hundreds of examples).

I declare an interest. I myself do benefit, marginally, from the Triple Lock. My State Pension (only about half of the full rate, by reason mainly of my time overseas) does increase by a slightly larger amount by reason of the Triple Lock. We are talking about a few pounds, if that, per week…

Any political party, whatever the reason or excuse, binning the Triple Lock can consider itself binned forever by any voters aged, say, 55+ (pensioners and those who hurtle towards State Pension age).

The idea of a State social care service that works is a good one, albeit one that has been obvious, and the service obviously needed, for many years. It has to be paid for, and there have to be enough employees to operate it. So how will it be paid for, and from where will come the huge number of employees needed?

A corrupt, shambolic, thug-regime.

If the City of London falls away, the UK economy, as it now is, will nosedive.

I do not like to advise young people, say 18-30, to abandon this country, but I should certainly say (as have Nick Griffin and others) that they should at least leave London and the other larger conurbations (which are in any case becoming —or have already become— non-white). I can understand why so many are seeking other locations in the world, especially in the Anglosphere, for medium to long-term residence.

[“Russian missiles and drone aircraft are doubling the cost of the war for Europe.

THE RUSSIAN MILITARY IS INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVELY DESTROYING THE UKRAINIAN ECONOMY AND THE TAX BASE OF THE KYIV REGIME.

We are now truly at a turning point, where the policy of each player is being determined. Continued support for Ukraine will lead to the collapse of the traditional political system in Europe.

Russia should continue to destroy the tax base of the Ukrainian economy, thereby increasing the cost of the war for Europe, so that Europeans can consider whether they can afford to find an additional 30-40 billion at a time when opposition is growing in EU countries.

There is no guaranteed funding for Kyiv for the next year. If it becomes clear that Ukraine cannot last even a year, the question will be raised in the EU: why did we need all of this?“]

Britain could have cost-price oil and gas.

Leave NATO, close down U.S. bases (under RAF or other flag), and stop giving arms, ammunition, money, and other help to the corrupt Kiev regime. In return, cheap gas, cheap oil, and a guaranteed huge market in Russia for British goods and services.

[“Russia has reactivated the “Dead Hand” retaliatory nuclear strike system, according to The Sunday Times.
The publication reports that the secret underground complex, “Facility 1335,” linked to the Soviet “Perimeter” system, has been expanded in the Ural Mountains and is now fully operational again.
Its purpose is to ensure the transmission of retaliatory orders, even after a massive attack on Russia.
“]

Late thoughts

“Wars and rumours of wars“, to quote Revelation. There is certainly a good deal of chatter around. More seriously, i.e. in terms of actual events, the dial is being turned up in various ways: the situation in both the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea; the intensification in and around Ukraine/Russia; the North Polar region (noting the new U.S. bases about to be constructed in Greenland); the uncertainty around the AI technology and the robotics technology (both in itself and around its possible economic and social effects); the continuing mass migration invasion of Europe; the increasing political instability in Europe.

When, rather than if.

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Diary Blog, 25 September 2026

Afternoon music

[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

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Tweets seen

Untermenschen.

Facilitators of invasion. Deal with them. Eliminate them.

[“American journalist Tucker Carlson has renewed his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arguing that the continuation of the conflict reflects the decisions of Ukraine’s leadership rather than the wishes of the Ukrainian population.

Carlson claimed that Ukrainians are being “held captive” by an unelected president, while accusing the government of restricting civil liberties, targeting religious institutions and imprisoning critics.

He also argued that continued U.S. intelligence support to Kyiv is one of the factors allowing the conflict to continue.

These are Carlson’s claims and include disputed assertions that require independent verification.

Carlson’s argument is straightforward: the battlefield may be in Ukraine, but he believes Washington still has a hand on the map.”]

The Western msm portray “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) as some kind of embattled democracy fighting an evil empire, but the reality is that Ukraine, as it now is, is a brutal, corrupt, shambolic dictatorship running a fake state, in fact a non-state, which would collapse within weeks were Western money, arms, and ammunition etc to be withheld.

Damn…my own car is a diesel. Fortunately, I rarely go outside my own local area these days. A full tank lasts me anything up to 2 months.

Nigerian heritage? Forget “heritage”— SHE IS NIGERIAN. She was born in 1981 in London to two Nigerian parents, left with them at once (within days) for Nigeria, then lived there, and in the USA, for 16-17 years before relocating to the UK.

A mere passport has no relevance at all. In fact, the passport law was changed only months after Kemi Badenoch was born. Were she only 6-12 months younger, she would not even be entitled in law to a British passport.

Germany is still controlled or strongly influenced by the Jewish/Israel lobby, and by Israeli/MOSSAD/American-Jewish interference in its affairs. That comes out very strongly in its persecution of aged members of the SS and other organizations from before 1945.

Someone 105 now would have been born in or about 1921, so in 1941 would have been about 19-20, and only about 23-24 when that war ended.

Recent very old defendants of that type have been rear-echelon sentries, typists, office bods etc during the latter part of WW2.

The vindictiveness of the Jewish/Israeli element (which is behind this) seems ludicrous to an Aryan or European eye, of course. “They” have a mindset which is totally different to our own.

[“A father-of-two has become the first man jailed following an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth after admitting throwing a plastic bottle and swearing at police.

Del Somerville, 42, was given a two-year sentence after previously pleading guilty to violent disorder at the city’s crown court following the overnight protest near Eastney Marina on 6 September.

Hundreds of protesters gathered after a boat carrying about 120 migrants was brought ashore near Eastney Beach.

He pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of assaulting a police officer, relating to an incident on 11 September, and will face trial at Portsmouth Magistrates Court at a later date.“]

[RUPERT LOWE:”A father of two children has been jailed after throwing a plastic bottle at the police and swearing at officers during the illegal migrant protest in Portsmouth.

Sentenced to a two year prison sentence.

The judge said it would act ‘as a deterrent’

Now, let me be abundantly clear.

I do not believe that any violence against the police is acceptable.

I also do not believe that a two year prison sentence is appropriate, particularly when we are allowing paedophiles and rapists to roam our streets because of a supposed lack of prison capacity.

The BBC reports the man ‘said he had found the bottle on the ground and was going to throw it into a nearby bush, but was angry and so threw it up into the air.’

Reportedly, he told the officers to ‘f*** off’ and ‘pointed aggressively’ at them (ITV).

I can understand the anger, to be honest. This was happening as illegal migrants were being ferried into his town.

This sentence is unfair, unjust and morally wrong.

Let’s be honest about what has happened here.

The establishment is making an example of this man to deter others from protesting.

A two year sentence is absolutely outrageous – there are far better ways for him to make right the wrong.

The third world invaders are greeted to luxury accommodation as heroes, yet this man will rot in prison.

It’s not right.”]

I agree with Lowe, except insofar as he is too moderate in his views.

What is happening in this country is an invasion, an invasion of a formerly (and to some extent still) reasonably-civilized land by a horde of backward black/brown untermenschen from some of the most savage and uncivilized parts of the world.

Protests, and direct action, by British people are a natural consequence of what is happening, and against a conspiratorial system of —or within— government which is facilitating the invasion, and has been for decades. Google Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

If the police act as the goons of an emergent police state, then they cannot expect the British people to treat them with the politesse, still less respect, that our forbears may have.

Assuming Lowe’s facts to be correct, the defendant was rude to the police, pointed at them, and may have thrown a plastic bottle at their (probably armoured and helmeted) ranks.

For that, the defendant was sentenced to 2 years, so will probably be in prison for the next year. Absurdly and unfairly harsh. The maximum that could be passed in the magistrates’ court.

It is arguable that he should not have been charged at all. If he was to be charged, it should been a charge of insulting behaviour, something which might result in a fine or a suspended sentence.

The sentence passed is akin to one from Ukraine or Belarus rather than one passed by any decent English court.

In my view, both as observer (from afar) of these events and former practising barrister, the defendant, like so many others (eg Lucy Connolly and previously-tried protesters over the past 2 years) made a mistake in pleading guilty (probably on legal advice from some tick-box legal-aid solicitor and/or counsel) to the violent disorder charge.

The fact is that the System is determined to act with utmost ruthlessness and harshness to anyone protesting on the street against the continuing invasion of this country. Look at what has been happening since Starmer-stein demanded such harshness in 2024.

In my view, any credit given for a guilty plea in such circumstances is purely notional. The defendant should have pleaded Not Guilty and taken his chances with a jury (if the matter is one that a jury can hear). In that part of England, he might even have been lucky enough to get an all-white jury (violent disorder can be tried either in “the mags” or at Crown Court; if the latter, a jury trial)…

There is also the point that, to plead guilty is to make things easier for the System. Don’t do it. Don’t play their game. Judges of the sort we have seen over the past 2 years are unlikely to show mercy, or even common sense.

Incidentally, I am not just spouting from an ivory tower. I myself faced trial (in the magistrates’ court) 3 years ago, and for a political offence. I pleaded Not Guilty, but was convicted, being sentenced over two-and-a-half years ago, in March 2024: see

Further thought: almost every day, migrant-invaders are being sentenced (usually to non-custodial sentences) for a wide variety of crimes, including crimes of violence and sex crimes.

I hope that the defendant in this case appeals on sentence and that, in respect of his upcoming second trial (on the other matter, the assault charge), is acquitted by the magistrate.

The judge (I presume a district judge) in this case should be ashamed of himself. A suspended sentence would have been more than adequate.

Look at the case below for comparison:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyzrrnn015o.

Incidentally, I note that Danny Tommo has elected Crown Court trial, trial by (if he is lucky) a British jury: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0lr5r46z5jo.

Nick Griffin interview

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/britains-most-vindicated-politician.

Well worth watching/hearing.

Late tweets

Translates into something like 318 Labour MPs, Reform 120 MPs, Cons 103 MPs, 58 LibDems, SNP 24 [etc]. So not enough for a Labour majority in the Commons, but easily enough for a Lab-Lib coalition or arrangement.

Hard to believe, and slightly dispiriting, to see that over a quarter of the “British” (meaning UK-resident) population is still willing to vote Labour, but of course the UK is now at least 20% black/brown/other ethnic minority. I think that explains most of that. Were only white, i.e. real, Brits to vote, the Labour support would be nearer to 8% or 12%.

As far as the Cons are concerned, most of their voters are long-term Con voters aged 70, 80, 90, stick-in-the-muds whose intellectual landscape is that of the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and even Daily Express. 20% of the electorate today, but might be 15% or even 10% by 2029.

As far as I am concerned, UK elections at this point are not legitimate, so governments “elected” via those elections are likewise not legitimate.

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Diary Blog, 23 September 2026

Afternoon music

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

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

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

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

And yet this week boats are arriving without interception !!

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

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

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Repeal the Human Rights Act.

Derogate from the Refugee Convention.

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

Send in the Navy.

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

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

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

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

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

The protests will spread across the country.

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

Stop the invasion.

Vote Reform.

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

Everybody else is lying to you.

Everybody else has failed.“]

Things must go far beyond Reform…

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

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

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

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

Weinstein case

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

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

[BBC]

[“It’s antisemitism! Antisemitism!“]

Late tweets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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