Reminded of the fact the British public broadcaster went out of its way to paint a very feasible and relatively conservative tree-planting target as being extreme in the run up to the 2019 election https://t.co/VfY0t3Loedpic.twitter.com/WkptYF45Hb
A textbook example of the unreality that was Corbyn-Labour. Tweeter “@jrc1921” actually showcases the calculations of BBC journalist Chris Mason, and does not seek to say that they are inaccurate, but persists in the idea that planting 200 trees per minute (i.e. more than 3 every second!) is both “feasible” and ” relatively conservative”!
True, a British equivalent of the 1970s Khmer Rouge could, in principle, get millions of people planting trees, even on such a scale. 100 million trees per year could be planted, were every single adult of appropriate age to plant 2 trees per year.
The devil is in the administrative detail. That is the unreality. Organizing 50 million people to plant 1 tree each, every 6 months. How? Where?
Not that I am against tree planting. Au contraire. Let’s do some good! Let’s have some fun!
Political reality is what people can accomplish, and so to that extent is flexible, not fixed. Sometimes 2+2 can = 5… To that extent, I agree with the tweeter above, and not only with Chris Mason. Both are right, if you like…
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'The decent campaign to restore our traditions and liberties by leaving the EU was taken over by piratical free traders, and we have swapped being pushed around by Brussels for being pushed around by China' . My @GBnews discussion wiht Nigel Farage' https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
NIgel Farage : 'Nearly everything you write and say is essentially pretty negative' Peter Hitchens . 'Absolutely!' HItchens vs Farage, GBNews : https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
PH talking to Nigel Farage :'I am a British Gaullist . It's extraordinary that this combination of strong defence, national independence, patriotism and a strong welfare state is not more common in politics as it appeals to so many people.'https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
Exactly my position, in the mundane sense. I call it social nationalism.
I think the belief in incessant mask-wearing for the benefit of others is the founding myth of what is effectively a new religion, that health is the highest law. That is why any serious discussion of the Danmask study is greeted as heresy.
2/2 @JoshGlancy The belief that the election was stolen from Trump' is just not comparable to the belief that Parliament, the opposition, the media and the courts all failed to protect liberty under the law, or prevent the pointless throttling of economy and society. https://t.co/CBsPo8jAj5
Not sure why intelligent commentators such as Hitchens persist in trying to squeeze people and policies into the now almost meaningless “Left”/”Right” straitjacket(s).
“No free society regulates opinion.”
Well said Peter Hitchens but sadly this is now exactly what regulators do. https://t.co/WJ4gfPjDK5
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) August 8, 2021
…and guess (((who))) or (((what))) is behind most of the repression of opinion in the UK? The (((You know who)))…
Not a big fan of his generally but I like Peter Hitchens metaphor that the Tories and Labour are two dead corpses propping each other up
Exactly. Two moribund political parties. For the electorate, a false binary choice with, in general, the same sort of policies coming out in the end (in government).
Another e.g. of politicians finally catching up with advice I've given for free for a decade & more. University degrees are worth jack, so get a trade, dodge a mountain of debt & the libtard brain-mincing machine, maximise cash & minimise tax.#resistancehttps://t.co/En7il5KKFm
The early 1960s (or late 1950s) comment about “redbrick” university expansion, by (?) Kingsley Amis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis], that “more will mean worse“, may have been partly snobbism, but God knows what he would have made of the 2021 situation, with so many “McUniversities” that one has not even heard the names of many of them; God only knows, also, what Amis would have thought of a Government minister (James Cleverly), whose “degree” is apparently in “Hospitality Management”; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly#Early_life_and_education.
Well you and other MSM outlets are partly to blame for all of this, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS pouring into the Country every single day and how many times have you covered it? There are people on twitter doing more reporting than you will ever do.🤬
Of course, the young people, say under 21, who support the nonsense put out by Extinction Rebellion and Greta Nut, were only 9 (or younger) when the chaotic and ludicrous 2009 Climate Change conference was held in Copenhagen. I remember it mainly for the little monkey who was President or Prime Minister for the Maldives, and who was constantly excitedly clapping above his head, especially when some delegates said that Europe should direct much money to countries facing inundation (in fact, 12 years on, and the Maldive islands are still there…). https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1220/Chaos-in-Copenhagen-behind-the-scenes-at-global-warming-summit
There may be climate change, in some degree (e.g. Australia is now certainly much hotter than it was in the 1960s when I was there), but that has happened throughout history. Humanity is only partly responsible. Moreover, whatever Britain, or even Europe does, is of small, indeed minimal, importance. Britain’s CO2 “emissions” are about 1% of the global whole.
“Climate change”, like “Covid-19” and other stuff (eg “Black Lives Matter” nonsense) has been distorted and weaponized by transnational conspirators, in order to impose an agenda. Call it “The Great Reset” (in part), if you like.
Over 475 migrants crossed the English Channel in 15 small boats on Thursday, following a record 482 arrivals on Wednesday.https://t.co/FG6DulQpAY
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) August 9, 2021
Ironic. The best way (perhaps the only way) in which Britain’s depleted navy could defend the UK now would be to sink the ships of the UK “Border Force”…
@haydnjones1 I can hardly bear to think about what has happened to the old Waterloo to Plymouth LSWR mainline. I know bits of it still exist, singled down to make them inefficient, but not a day passes when I do not miss the glorious Exeter to Tavistock run over Dartmoor. https://t.co/yHAYTwufuD
Well, I once again triumphed over John Rentoul, who only scored 3/10 this week. I always commend his honesty, though. I myself scored 6/10 this week. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 6, and 9.
Ha ha! “Unusually“?! What about, just off the top of my head, “Boris”, Theresa May, David Cameron-Levita, Trump, George W. Bush, James Callaghan, Sarkozy, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Honecker? Etc… The list is long.
Labour is going nowhere. The next two by-elections (Chesham and Amersham on 17 June 2021, and Batley and Spen on 1 July 2021), should give an idea of the state of play. At present, I am inclined to think that Batley will fall to the Conservatives, and that Chesham and Amersham will result in a Conservative win, and with a Labour lost deposit (maybe).
Football fans won't shut up about it, but how excited is the wider population about #EURO2020 ?
Boris Johnson has said that Joe Biden is "actively engaged" in resolving the row over Anne Sacoolas, who fled the UK after a car crash which killed Harry Dunn
About one and a quarter million acres of private gardens exist in the UK. A crucial reservoir and sanctuary for animals, birds, insects, trees and bushes. These often-modest private spaces are a very important environmental element.
The public vs the private face of the global elite during lockdown. The 'rules' are there for us ordinary folk, not for them.#Resistancepic.twitter.com/mhwgictGCg
That Harwood person seems to be a component of the fake political-cultural debate, there to give the illusion of pseudo-national “takeback”. If you like, the mirror image of Owen Jones (as fake “revolutionary” scribbler), or a more mainstream “Prison Planet” Watson.
Many people are still fooled by the “panicdemic”, which is in a way unsurprising, after nearly a year and a half of truly relentless msm propaganda across the world. All the same, there are many people who can see that the virus scare has been weaponized for other purposes.
No masks, no social distancing, no quarantine before.…. They’ve all come in from other countries.
She sat in church, alone, with a mask for her husbands funeral. The virus is "still deadly" apparently and they are extending lockup, what the hell happened? There's going to be a shortage of piss soon, the elites running this scam seem to have taken it all….. pic.twitter.com/Gsi0sryjjP
"[We are] destroying our ancient edifices to make ready the ground upon which the barbarian nomads of the future will encamp in their mechanised caravans."
I like the bit “do you know how hard it is [to say a few glib words on TV]?”…! These msm idiots are so up their own rear ends, it is not true! Some local TV news talking head marionette in Birmingham.
“In 1915 Feinberg traveled to Egypt and made contact with the British Department of Naval Intelligence. In 1917, he again went to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed on his way back by a group of Bedouins near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.[3] His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.” [Wikipedia].
How about that?! “…his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.“
Well, now that the said Feinberg is apparently an Israeli hero-figure (they even have a stamp with his head on it), the suspicion must be that the bit about the palm tree and the date seeds is some kind of fairy tale. Still, it may well be true. These things happen.
I have not included the above in my blog to make any political or other point; it just struck me as interesting. Still, one could reflect on how one never knows how one’s actions may, long after one’s own death, bear unexpected fruit (in the case of Feinberg, literally, of course).
Israeli elections
Readers of my blog will know that I am usually cautious about commenting about the political situation in countries with which I am not directly familiar (even Scotland), but idly browsing Wikipedia while listening to BBC World Service, I heard about the electoral impasse in Israel. I looked up the state of play on Wikipedia:
It seems that there 120 elected members. What is extraordinary is that Israeli politics is so fragmented that the party presently ruling, Likud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud], has only 30 members out of that 120. Indeed, the whole minority government coalition headed by Likud only has 54 members.
The second-largest party in the Knesset, Yesh Atid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesh_Atid] has only 17 Knesset members. The next-largest party has 9. In fact, there are no less than 23 parties and Independent members represented, grouped into 13 factions.
[Update, 31 August 2024: state of play as of date of update—
…Likud now has 32 seats].
Compare that to the much larger UK House of Commons, where there are 16 parties and Independents but where, out of 650 MPs, 562 belong to only two of those parties.
Why is the Israeli parliament so fragmented? It may be that there is something in the Jewish psychology that tends to dissension, dissidence etc. That was certainly true of the various Marxist factions that used to exist in the Western world, especially in the realms of Trotskyism.
There again, the Israeli proportional representation system has a low threshold for representation: 3.25% (it was 1% at one time). In fact, there has never been a one-party-majority government in Israel.
Another aspect yet is that most of those parties were started not long ago. The main Opposition party, Yesh Atid, was only formed in 2012. Several others were formed even more recently, in the past two or three years. Likud, the presently largest party, was founded in 1973.
Well, there it is. A peculiar country. Interesting though. I am interested generally in countries which are contrived or artificial, as Israel surely is. Singapore would be another example. They tend to be small geographically; Israel is almost exactly the size of Wales (or New Jersey), while Singapore is not even twice the size of the Isle of Wight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore.
Farm subsidies
Listening to some typical farm-owner whining on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Farmers in the UK always want it both ways, to be treated as independent businessmen and women, but given State subsidy or support at the same time. For me, it just does not wash.
One farmer had the right sort of ideas about small-scale farming, biodiversity, organics etc, yet wanted public money, in effect for not being an environmental vandal. Why should the public subsidize farmers at all? Better to impose environmental and animal welfare regulations, restrict imports, and let the farms be real private “businesses”. Alternatively, to put them largely into State ownership but give environment-friendly farmers or collectives long-term (even lifetime) leases.
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Daily Mail tiptoes to the very edge of #antisemitic tropeland, but manages to find one rare example of a church-going vulture capitalist. Close run thing though. "And if you could see them through my eyes…." https://t.co/UAfkxgfxA0
Stop the so-called 'trials' of e-scooters. Anybody with any sense can see that there's no good case for them (they're not green, they stop people taking badly-needed exercise, they're a dangerous nuisance) , and that they will increase the sum of human misery. Write to your MP. https://t.co/ZWjWNrsUev
"It’s time to rename 'Call The Midwife'. It would be a good way of marking its transformation from engaging historical drama to relentless politically correct propaganda vehicle. May I suggest 'Call The Abortionist'?" https://t.co/kH1TzZMoQT
Yes @michaelrosenyes. But I loathe their habit of referring to institutions by the names of their very different modern successors. I went to the Oxford College of Further Education, known to all as the Cowley Road Tech. https://t.co/wBp8RnBJJW
Soon, there will be the Batley and Spen by-election. I shall be blogging about it in a week or so. The Labour Party vote has suffered a gradual decline in that constituency since the rigged by-election in 2016. After the assassination of Jo Cox, the System parties conspired to get another Labour Party MP elected, so an ex-soap actress was parachuted in, and the Conservative and LibDem parties did not stand. Pathetically, “controlled opposition” UKIP also failed to put up a candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batley_and_Spen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.
Now Labour is relying, in the Batley by-election, on a kind of “sympathy vote” by putting up the sister of that assassinated MP. Pretty desperate…
Lisa Shaw, a healthy 44 year old woman, had zero chance of dying from covid.
It is therefore ironic that a vaccine deployed against a virus with a 99.97% survival rate killed her.
Believing in UK government covid propaganda has its consequences.
The gradually-emerging UK police state in operation. Quite normal things criminalized, but real criminal acts ignored. Read The Protocols of Zion and you will be on the right track…
I agree with The Guardian : 'This is the biggest data grab in the history of the health service.'The Guardian view on medical records: NHS data grab needs explaining: https://t.co/Sr1KggToE5
More lunacy from the Thing formerly known as the Church of England. A quick study of how the Puritans dealt with unwanted statues may be instructive here….#williamdowsinghttps://t.co/ONCYaQfF0d
That sort of madness started to erode the Church of England long long ago, which is why scarcely anyone now attends a church except to dance round the customary baptism, marriage and death rituals.
As a ten-year-old, this was the pictorial definition in my French dictionary that I enjoyed the most. pic.twitter.com/3ohZlm0WdD
We really welcome the Species Reintroduction Taskforce announced today. We need to reintroduce more beaver, wild cat, red backed shrike and Golden Eagles – as mentioned by Goerge Eustice – all keystone species which enhance British landscapes. https://t.co/BIUw5k51fnpic.twitter.com/RuEhJshaA1
“We must move the emphasis away from processes which moderate the pace of nature in decline and put in place schemes that deliver nature recovery" ~ George Eustice.#Rewilding Britain is one of the clear solutions! Who is with us? https://t.co/BIUw5k51fnpic.twitter.com/EJbRdOjhlM
Our chicks at @KneppSafaris are growing fast! The parents are doing a great job, especially with all of these storms. Yesterday they were all hunkered down in the nests keeping the chicks warm and dry.@DurrellWildlife@CotsWildTweets@RoyDennisWF
— White Stork Project (@ProjectStork) May 18, 2021
The England Tree Action Plan is finally out. Good bits: – Funding for natural regeneration of trees, not just planting – 'support further reintroductions' of pine marten to control grey squirrel damage to trees
— The Wildlife Trusts (@WildlifeTrusts) May 14, 2021
Find out more about natural tree regeneration and digest our report 'Reforesting Britain: why natural regeneration should be our default approach to woodland expansion' here ⬇️https://t.co/IB6EgMn3XQpic.twitter.com/L4HgFp0yf1
Natural tree regeneration is already happening. When farming stopped in this field at @KneppSafaris , nature came back. The dominant tree species recolonising this field is sallow (hybrid goat, white and gray willows).
🌳Letting millions of trees plant themselves across the country would reduce costs, management, tree diseases and plastic tree guards which are commonly used in tree planting schemes.
We suggest a Three-Step Natural Regeneration Hierarchy to expand tree cover and woodland 👇 pic.twitter.com/0Qzti91rXw
Through grazing, debarking, foraging, wallowing and trampling, the hefty bison boosts habitat diversification.
They also help disperse seeds that stick to their fur 🌾. A true #rewilding superstar! They're extinct from Britain but ready to be reintroduced to England in 2022! 👏 pic.twitter.com/b47tOV280P
Samir Mansour bookstore,one of the most famous bookstores in #Gaza.It was bombed by the Israeli occupation missiles.The occupation is’nt content with robbing people’s lives and destroying their properties,but it also aims to put the survivors in a world of poverty & ignorance. pic.twitter.com/AWo0o30iRH
In the UK and other Western societies, fanatical Zionist Jews exercise their censorship in different ways, such as trying to have anti-Zionists such as Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, David Icke, and me (among others) shut down, “deplatformed”, even arrested and prosecuted.
Hey everyone, if you're an American charity with 30 years of saving thousands of innocent children's lives in #Gaza and your office was bombed yesterday, how would one inform @cnnbrk@nytimes or @MSMBC2 ? Is there a portal or something? pic.twitter.com/1jt0wPKDgv
— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) May 18, 2021
Please tweet #Eurovision while we expose all the Israeli attacks on #Gaza killing children & women, targeting houses & clinics & hospitals. Raise your voice up for #Palestine
I myself have never had any interest in the Eurovision circus, but have also never understood why Israel, a leech state situated in the Middle East, the population of which state is not European, is in Eurovision anyway. Kick it out. Boycott it.
Note the very (((characteristic))) hand gesture made by it.
As a matter of fact, that poster is well out of date. According to an American expert interviewed on BBC Radio 4 PM yesterday, the Jewish state now gets USD $4BN annually from the American taxpayers. A leech state. What a surprise…
In that case, I hope that Murray will now, belatedly, say something in support of people such as Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, David Icke, me, and others, “deplatformed”, disbarred (in my case), even imprisoned (in the cases of Alison Chabloz and Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum).
So far, nothing (because Murray is pro-Jew and pro-Israel…were he not, he would not be where he is, of course…).
There is now, and has been for the past decade or more, a whole raft of “controlled opposition” figures and organizations in the UK, some witting agents of the System, others merely manipulated. Breitbart. UKIP. Brexit Party. Reform Party. EDL. The “Football Lads’ Alliance”. Farage (perhaps the most important and the most wittingly used). Katie Hopkins. Tommy Robinson. Toby Young. James Delingpole. The “Free Speech Union”.
The touchstone is always their attitude to Israel and Jewry. They always support, or pretend to support, Israel and/or the Jews.
The latest catspaw? Laurence Fox.
This explains why BLOCKED @ssilvuk and @grubstreetsteve stalk my account and have done for almost 6 years, they must believe it’s their right? #Shiksa and proud
John Betjeman, poet, saviour of lovely old buildings, Christian, died on this day in 1984: 'But most of us turn slow to see/The figure hanging on a tree/And stumble on and blindly grope/ Upheld by intermittent hope.' https://t.co/QA4Sukm4HA
The sort of literate, thoughtful piece rarely seen on UK television today. I mean there are no blacks and browns to be seen, no references to the “panicdemic” either.
Looks nice. I was probably a fool to have turned down the possibility of becoming an undergraduate there (by a back-door route) in 1984 (I wanted to stay in London for various reasons).
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The latest madness to come out of Sweden:
Living in the UK in 2021, I do not know whether one can say whether Sweden is now officially more mad than the UK…a close-run thing, anyway.
Provoke provoke and provoke, scream anti-semitism and play the Holocaust victim card. Unhinged Zionist supremacists also do the exact same thing online too. #catpissosthttps://t.co/h1OGuduVmH
A self-sown 'wilding' apple (Malus pumila), so heavy with blossom (& pollinators) it positively illuminates this urban copse. 'Wildings' represent a diverse genetic reservoir, both of long lost apple varieties & potential new ones.🌳🐝 @BSBIbotany@wildflower_hour@WoodlandTrustpic.twitter.com/LdHcQr2Jn1
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) May 13, 2021
1/2 @spy_historian If anyone in London had wanted to avoid war, they would have done everything they could to disabuse Poland of its fantasy that Britain and France would come to its aid when it was attacked by Germany. https://t.co/m91v8gaFhm
And you @spy_historian must know that the Polish Guarantee *did* hand Poland carte blanche to drag Britain into war, and that it did do so. Need I remind you that Britain declared war on Germany because Germany invaded Poland? Before the guarantee, we had no such obligation. https://t.co/WiCwMXaXIZ
Churchill’s actions triggered a war which destroyed not only the German Reich but also the British Empire, and the similar empires or overseas colonial arrangements of other European powers (French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish), in the end. The net result has been war, civil war, terrorism, environmental degradation.
Generally, @spy_historian, the British way is resolutely to reserve the title 'doctor' for medical practitioners. Any other use in this country (outside the academic industry) tends to be tinged with irony. https://t.co/hzLEDzYeXZ
Hitchens is right. I have blogged, en passant, about this. In the UK, “Doctor” is reserved for a few (though Hitchens is too restrictive): medical practitioners (even if, in fact, not actually Doctors of Medicine), persons in holy orders who have a doctorate in theology or the like, and bona fide academics.
It weakens the rank or status to have stray persons calling themselves “doctor” just because they have a “doctorate” in some McSubject from a McUniversity. Examples that come to my mind are the tweeter and “antifa” cheerleader (she does little else, I think) “Dr.” Louise Raw, whose doctorate is in one 19thC industrial dispute, and “Dr.” Julian Lewis, an MP whose doctorate is in Strategic Studies; among others (eg “Dr.” Therese Coffey, the present DWP Secretary in the Cabinet).
Part of the problem in the UK is that huge numbers of people now go to institutions called universities, where all get “degrees”‘; not a few go on to get higher degrees, including doctorates.
On the mainland of Europe, especially Germany, the conventions are different. Use of “doctor” is ubiquitous and accepted. For example, Dr. Goebbels, whose doctorate was in History and Literature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Early_life].
[Dr. Goebbels]
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10% of all farmland given over to rewilding. Let nature to its own devices as much as possible.
Just finished reading Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald @Rebirding1 and I have to say its absolutely brilliant Ecosystem restoration and #rewilding are not anti-economy, anti-job market or anti-rural culture. In fact, they promote the economy, job market and rural culture (1/2) pic.twitter.com/fpY4iUzh1m
When it comes to achieving net zero climate change targets, rewilding the ocean is just as important as reforestation, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Societyhttps://t.co/aWaLNldM8Wpic.twitter.com/rKyrtde49G
— Climate Save Movement (@climatesavemvmt) May 13, 2021
Join Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth – https://t.co/BZqCBojCgb Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth invites you to join them to hear a talk from environmentalist and wildlife campaigner Jan Stannard, about the importance of rewilding.
If rewilding ever takes place on a planetary scale, I can think of some good sources of fertilizer, but I think that I shall not cite them here, not just yet…
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Here (below) we see another holder of a Ph.D, but in his case an academic at a recognized university, tweeting incorrect rubbish about the law in England and Wales (and Scotland):
Holocaust denial has been successfully prosecuted in UK under the offence of "sending grossly offensive communications" (see R v Chabloz). It's staggering then that a minister could consider HD worthy of free speech protection. BoJo's ministers are such poor calibre.@simon_schamahttps://t.co/qiSp4YnFgt
In fact, the Crown Court judge (H.H. Judge Hehir) in the Alison Chabloz appeal last year, and the district judge (magistrate) in her most recent case (heard in late March 2021) both made the point(s) that
“antisemitism” is not a crime in this country; and that
“holocaust” “denial” is not a crime in this country.
No doubt, were the matter to be considered and pronounced upon by the higher courts, the same conclusions would be reached.
Alison Chabloz was convicted because the tenor of what was posted was “grossly offensive” (and she is presently appealing that), not because posting historical revisionist or “antisemitic” views (including so-called “holocaust” “denial”) is grossly offensive per se.
What is “staggering” (see the “@DrDMiles” tweet above) is that someone who claims to be knowledgeable about the law can publish such a misunderstanding, and so vehemently.
The Miles character has made rather a fool of himself, in short.
In fact, the said Miles, apparently the author of a book on “constitutionalism”, is, so his Twitter profile says, a “University teacher” (at St. Andrews: https://st-andrews.academia.edu/DavidMiles). Law as such, however, is not his subject. He evidently misunderstands it as applied (misapplied in his case) to so-called “holocaust” “denial”.
Ah, I see now what the said Miles believes in: censorship…
Never mind protecting it, it should be a crime as it is in most European countries.
Surprising that someone with such a limited and narrow mentality should be teaching at a university such as St. Andrew’s but that is Britain in 2021, I suppose.
I believe, subject to correction, that that person used to work at Lloyds TSB, selling financial products of some sort [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mrdavidjmiles].
Here’s a crank singing the same song:
#holocaustdenial is an offence on the 2003 Communications Act if it's communicated. See R vs Chabloz. So whatever you do deniers, don't tweet about it. What kind of fucked up country behaves like this? https://t.co/B4corWWsrQ
— Jonathan (Katie) Brayshaw 🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇩🇪🏳️🌈 (@ModerateUK) May 13, 2021
Another one who has simply misunderstood the law. Claims that she is an “ex-journalist/commentator“. Yeah, right…
Another couple of cranks:
What is wrong with this country?
Some 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust, but in the UK deniers are now being protected under free speech..
Simplistic and kneejerk; no real thought, no nuance, no real understanding of the issues or the real world in general. How does someone like that hold down even a minor academic teaching post?]
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If you think the siege and relentless attacks on #Gaza are only about hatred of non-Jews, you should look at the map of recently discovered gas fields off the coast of Israel. Left alone, Gaza would become a wealthy energy exporter. 💰💰💰 https://t.co/hoeJYJB3YA
Here's a fascinating description of what is now the 'centre' . The events described took place at what might normally have been seen as a 'conservative' institution: Ex-Cambridge chaplain on how his new job became an Orwellian nightmare https://t.co/1A3mlI4mPd via @MailOnline
“Ms Rimington would secretly report him to the Government’s anti-terrorism programme, Prevent, after he delivered a sermon that, he says, moderately and carefully presented the Christian viewpoint on identity questions.
‘I was terrified when I found out,’ recalls Dr Randall. ‘I had visions of being investigated by MI5, of men coming to my house at dawn and knocking down the front door. What was I supposed to tell my family? It was crazy.” [Daily Mail]
“Despite previous assurances, he says that he was told that he had not been included in discussions ‘because he might disagree with [the propaganda line pursued] ’.” [Daily Mail]
The UK, a country in which, in recent years, a barrister (me) can be disbarred for tweeting five completely true and accurate tweets about society generally (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/); a country in which an ex-soldier with an exemplary record in Afghanistan and elsewhere (Jeremy ‘Jez’ Bedford-Turner) can be imprisoned because he had the temerity to suggest that Jews be expelled from the UK in a humorous speech; a country in which a professional singer and entertainer (Alison Chabloz) can lose her job because a few malicious Jews targeted her employer, and later find herself actually imprisoned for posting a satirical song or two on the Internet!
You can see the way the UK is going. It is not going that way by accident…
If the world suffers great calamities soon, it may be necessary to institute a “revaluation of all values” in rebuilding it.
The old institutions have become corrupted empty shells which are filling with Evil. They may have to be eliminated.
I don't think so @balthazargrimm. The largely unconscious embrace of revolutionary ideas by the political classes of the west since 1989 is quite unlike any political development between 1900 and 1960. https://t.co/a8MCut1W2e
Note Hitchens’ timescale. 1989…the last pivotal year; the previous one was 1956, the one before that, 1923. The next pivotal year will be 2022, and the international conspiracy/consensus is trying to seize it, and with it the agenda for the 33 years starting then. Inter alia, the “Great Reset”, and with it, “the Great Replacement” of people in Europe and elsewhere.
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These people should be on our side!
There is no point in refighting the war of 1939-45 (on the Eastern Front, mainly 1941-45). The Reich has passed into history, but so has the Soviet Union, and indeed Sovietism itself. We are where we are. Let’s build a new world together!
At just after 11.00 AM tomorrow (Monday 10th May 2021) on @talkradio, I hope to join @Iromg Mike Graham to resume our conversation about the Continuing Crisis
2/2 @tonyfle13111958 AS for why GCSE results get 'better', they do that for the same reason wages get 'bigger' in countries with high inflation. Anyone who hadn't suffered from a comprehensive education wouldn't need to have that explained.
…and about 95% of students at Oxford and Cambridge now get either “Firsts” or “2:1” degrees. A First was once a coveted rarity. Now? Bog-standard, really. The holders of such degrees may consider themselves highly-educated, but most are not.
35 years on from one of humanity's worst nuclear disasters, the region around Chernobyl has unintentionally become Europe's largest protected nature reserve.
But how are these animals thriving in such a dangerous space?
And it's more than just horses too, as Eurasian lynx, brown bears, European bison, and many other species are being recorded in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
These animals' health is as-yet-unknown, with close monitoring impossible to carry out.
"This is a window of opportunity both for unique, radio-ecological research unlike anywhere else in the world and for the conservation of biological diversity. It's a paradox." pic.twitter.com/c8saEA5OW0
"Home"? For a moment my heart skipped a beat. But don't worry, #diversity is safe. Not even the deadly covid plague can stop our #enrichment. Even though you can forget that corona-killing week in sunny Spain, our incoming borders remain firmly open.https://t.co/TNwuGekglf
The shocking video of Hoffman’s and Damon Lenszner’s abusive behaviour is below. A judge convicted the pair of ‘disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment’, described their conduct as ‘aggressive’ and ‘wholly unacceptable’, fined them and gave them restraining orders. pic.twitter.com/Zp38yFJDGm
A good point. In those tweets, Stephen Applebaum, of the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, supports the bombing carried out against British and other soldiers and civilians in what was then British-controlled Palestine (now “Israel”) in 1946. In that bombing, carried out by (other) Jew Zionist extremists, 91 people were killed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing.
Applebaum was also exposed, a few years ago, as having been a Twitter troll who, using, pseudonymous accounts, taunted people (mainly if not entirely women) online. He was exposed, in the end, during a preliminary hearing in one of the cases brought by the CAA against the persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz. He now tweets mainly from Twitter accounts “@grubstreetsteve” and “@Raven2384”, and is part of a small but quite vicious Jewish-Zionist cabal on Twitter and offline.
[Update, 9 April 2022: the said tweets, justifying the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, have now been deleted, presumably by the author of them].
Something about the First World War. Lieutenant Leefe Robinson, the first person awarded a VC for gallantry performed in or over the UK (in 1916), died in 1918, not from enemy action, but having contracted Spanish Flu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leefe_Robinson
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Marie’s back legs were left damaged by a traumatic birth that killed her mother and her sister.
‘She was hopping around as if she wanted to show everyone she has a strong character and wants to live,’ said Ronja Pohl, who first saw the disabled baby alpaca at a friend’s farm pic.twitter.com/NTjjIBaUda
Laurence Fox, the latest “free speech” (etc) advocate to studiously avoid offering a kind tweet or a single word of welcome or support to those persecuted by the Jew-Zionists: Alison Chabloz, David Irving, David Icke, me…(among others).
Now we see that he is actively hostile to the real interests of the British and other European peoples and to their future.
Laurence Fox now joins the other pseudo-libertarians and pseudo-national wastes of space —Prison Planet Watson, Sargon of Akkad, Breitbart, UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK, Katie Hopkins, “Tommy Robinson”, Toby Young, that Delingpole creature, the “Free Speech Union” etc— in the bin, where they all belong.
My mom is Irish from a long list of Irish ancestors. My dad is English from a long list of British ancestors. Why is my mom a native Irish woman but my dad not a native Brit?
Robert Jenrick again. Corrupt, rather stupid, married to a Jewish woman lawyer, and appointed a Cabinet minister. British politics 2021 in a nutshell…
Allowing our gardens and community spaces to be a bit wilder can really help wildlife. Simple actions such as letting wildflowers grow, leaving a scruffy corner, and ditching the poison will all boost biodiversity. More small-scale rewilding tips: https://t.co/d91h7GzRMb
I have heard nothing as yet about what I apprehend will be Alison’s appeal to the Crown Court from the verdict and sentence handed down by a single magistrate —aka District Judge (Criminal)— on 31 March 2021. Her solicitors and trial Counsel will also, as I believe, be applying for bail pending hearing of such appeal.
In the meantime, Alison has now served over a week of what is effectively an 8-week sentence (18 weeks, of which 9 weeks would normally be spent incarcerated, but minus time spent in court at trial and in preliminary hearings, and also minus time spent in police custody, with part-days counted as full days).
Anyone wishing to send letters, cards, books etc to Alison Chabloz should write or send to:
— Traditional Western Architecture (@Trad_West_Arch) November 19, 2020
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BEAVER DAY💚
We love the beaver. Nature’s busy aquatic architect is a formidable tree feller, river changer and wetland creator. But how does it shape the landscape? Get up close to this rewilding superstar. https://t.co/D7OpEHwnys#InternationalBeaverDay
— Wildlife and Countryside Link (@WCL_News) April 7, 2021
I don't understand the function of these strips of grass. They are everywhere on our estate. They could be wildflowers, or scrub, or trees and bushes… f it's a playing field I understand it, and we need green spaces in urban areas, but why settle for this monoculture? pic.twitter.com/pBRE0OQb6K
Following on from the earlier #rewilding cities tweet – just look at this example. Amanda Sturgeon's architectural goal "to have buildings that are intimately connected to the living systems that have evolved with us"
Slightly underwhelming, but it is a start, anyway…when I was at school, and about 14 years old, I sketched out buildings and developments rather like that, in fact more radical and green than the one shown. That was around 1971. Still, Rome was not built in a day…
"Our cities could be rewilded and become habitats for native species everywhere, even in the densest of city centre environments, while also creating engaging community spaces for people" – how great would this be? 🐝🦇🌿https://t.co/40sXFu1YbH
Green Sod Ireland works to protect land and its #biodiversity for the sake of nature and people, with a focus on community empowerment and #EcologicalEducation.
Hold fire on the lawnmower and that weed killer. As we hit spring, here are a few alternative steps you can take to allow your back garden, and the wildlife within it, to flourish (with help from Richard Bunting of @LGSpace and @RewildingB). https://t.co/nvEXXw6zSA
I've now been sent an astonishing *64* potential temperate rainforest sites in England, which together with sites I've visited myself, takes us to 77 sites and counting… Keep 'em coming! https://t.co/qKwhJscV8Upic.twitter.com/RNKf6nNs9i
1.⚠️ Stay Alert – any habitat can be a home for wildlife – even grass verges could be hiding skylark or meadow pipit chicks 2.🚶 Watch Your Step – stick to paths and bridleways to give nature the space it needs
Leeds man spends day off cleaning up litter because he loves the city.
Seems its ok to give this gent some praise but not others like patriotic alternative who spend many days and hours cleaning up our countryside and parks. https://t.co/yavOqz9zIG
Perhaps so, but if the idea was to prevent “subversives” from taking over the BBC or heavily infiltrating it, the policy was a signal failure in the wider sense. The BBC, at the head of the UK msm, has been the flagship for the socio-political collapse of Britain, and has supported every rotten cause of the past 50 years.
The most necessary thing in the UK is not even, as a first step, a political purge, but a purge of the mainstream media in general. Not just lying news media and “journalist” scribblers but, inter alia, the whole range of “celebrities”, comedians, show business types etc.
Some readers have assumed that I must have or had a personal dislike of Hendron. Not so. In fact, I had never even heard of him until I read about his Old Bailey trial, very lenient sentence, and his even more lenient treatment by the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal(s) before which he subsequently appeared.
My animus, if such it be (and incredulity), is a result of the incredible difference between the way in which I was treated (for having tweeted 5 tweets, completely true and accurate and [but] hostile to Jews or at least Jewish influence) and Hendron’s treatment for his egregious defaults, as chronicled. Read my blog post.
I also found it incredible, reading his tweets, that Hendron seemed incapable of thinking and writing logically, or of constructing a literate English sentence. However, the Bar is now a dustbin, so what more can I say? If the Bar thinks that it is OK to have, as practising barrister, someone of Hendron’s type, unable to write or argue coherently, and of (in several ways) dubious character, then that is a matter for the Bar dustbin-profession as it now is.
Now I see this: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/high-court-overturns-barristers-suspension-due-to-lacuna. It turns out that Hendron had his lenient Bar sanction made even more lenient by reason of the fact that, being already suspended at the time of the proceedings, the Tribunal had no power to notionally suspend him further, or indeed apply ay sanctions to him, because he was not a “regulated person” at the time.
I had an exemplary record as a barrister, received several judicial commendations, was mentioned favourably in the main legal directories, and was never suspended from practice, but when the Jewish lobby (“UK Lawyers for Israel”, nominally) instigated my disbarment (complaint 2014, disbarment late 2016), I had not been in practice since 2008, and had not had a Bar “practice certificate” since that time. The disbarment was a completely politically-motivated msm farce orchestrated by a pack of Zionist Jews (“UK Lawyers for Israel”, many of whom also belong to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” who have persecuted Alison Chabloz for years).
At the said proceedings (more specifically, in the considerable documentation that preceded the actual hearing), I made the point that I had not been “regulated” since 2008 (a point, I might add, that Hendron, in his own case, missed…the Counsel instructed by the Bar Standards Board —very honestly— raised it against his own interest).
I was (wrongfully) disbarred (on that basis and in any case), but (to give them credit at least for that) the Bar Standards Board actually wrote to me a year or two after my highly-publicized hearing (Google “Ian Millard barrister” and read what the msm said about me at the time). The BSB then gave me the chance to apply to have my disbarment overturned, on a basis akin to that of Hendron. I suppose that must have been somehow connected with the internal Bar fallout from Hendron’s matter.
In other words, I would still be a barrister today, had I applied. However, for me, there would have been little point, I having had no intention to resume Bar practice, though I suppose that it would have denied the Jew-Zionist pack and their “antifascist” “useful idiots” the opportunity to describe me on Twitter, frequently, and with unsurprising lack of originality, as “disgraced and disbarred barrister Ian Millard” or, as at least one mentally-disturbed Jewish woman often does, on Twitter, as “disbarred Barista“! Well, if I say so myself, I do make a rather good cup of coffee, though I have never done so as a paid occupation…
As far as the egregious Hendron is concerned, his travails continue, and he is at present again before a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal. I believe that it presently stands adjourned.
I had thought that Hendron was being given very lenient treatment because either he was (I assumed) from a very privileged background, or that he “knew too much” about illicit activities of senior members of Bar and Bench. Well, I read somewhere that Hendron went to some comprehensive school, so that would only seem to leave the “knows too much” theory…
I actually did not know, until yesterday, that supermarkets are open on Good Friday now. The materialistic 24/7 multikulti society…
@attiscusfinch104. They do not *forget*. They understand that they now serve the state, not the people. That's been the outcome, if not always the purpose, of police reforms for the past 60 years. Mainly this happened because those who should have prevented it, failed to do so. https://t.co/GAoTIdJS6g
…and much of the State and society generally in the UK has now been suborned by the “you-know-whos”…look at the Alison Chabloz saga of the past few years; look at the BBC and other msm output, as well.
Well, there it is— the new multikulti panicdemic UK police state, staffed by toytown police drones. Notionally done “for good reasons”, the police and others no doubt imagine…
1/2 The police invasion (on a Covid pretext) of a Good Friday devotion at an RC Church in Balham (apparently with a Polish congregation) must open everyone's eyes to the fact that this is no longer a Christian country.
2/2 I suspect older worshippers were all too familiar with Utopian state hostility to the worship of a rival authority. The officers seemed unfamiliar with church in general. Poignant that Met Police badge is still surmounted by a cross, on the Crown of St Edward.
I'm blocked by @thealiceroberts ,I think because I once won an argument with her abt schools. I'd just like to say 'Thank you' to her for showing once again that so much (not all, but a lot) of atheism is driven by insecurity and hostility. I should know, I used to be an atheist.
As with Professor Brian Cox, there are two sorts of “famous scientists”, the ones who make new discoveries and undertake research of importance, and those who are basically people making careers and money out of appearing on TV, radio, in print, and on official committees. Incidentally, if anyone knows of any great discoveries made by either Brian Cox or Alice Roberts (the latter of whom I had not heard until 5 minutes ago), please let me know and I shall publish a few lines about it. I should not wish to be unfair. I do not wait with bated breath, however.
Yes, but…Monsieur Rentoul, those other crises were not used as a method of bringing in a police state by stealth. The Great Reset and the Great Replacement (etc). The “panicdemic” is being so used, and not only in the UK.
Well, this week I got 6/10, thus again beating John Rentoul who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 6, 7, and 9 (and had to rack my brains to get question 10).
When I lived in Kazakhstan, in 1996-97 (a full year), I invited a friend at the Bar (let’s call him “Teddy”), a train buff par excellence, to visit me in Almaty (former Alma-Ata) by train. I found out what that would entail: a Eurostar journey from London to Paris or Brussels, then a train journey to Moscow, where he would have to change trains by going to another of Moscow’s several mainline stations. Then a 77-hour journey across the Russian countryside and then steppe to Almaty.
Like the character in, I think, one of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Teddy thought that “abroad was bloody”, and told me that, because of his ideological opposition to the Channel Tunnel (I first heard of UKIP from him, maybe a year or two before a lady with whom I lunched told me about it), he would be unable to come. I think that the real reason was that he was nervous about negotiating his way across Moscow alone and with not a word of Russian; that, and the sheer discomfort of 77 hours on a post-Soviet express train. Thus Teddy missed out on seeing a then rather green and pleasant city full of pretty girls.
I quite like trains, though it does help, on a really long journey, if you are lucky enough to have the sort of accommodation used by the Tsars of all the Russias, or that of the Orient Express. When Andrei Sakharov was recruited to Stalin’s hydrogen bomb project, he travelled to the secret town where it was to be made aboard his own train car at the rear of a normal passenger train. The carriage contained a bedroom for Sakharov and his wife, a dining room, a kitchen operated by a cook, a lounge area, and accommodation for his several NKVD bodyguards (or should that just be “guards”?).
My own longest train journey was an involuntary one in the 1980s from Vienna to Ostend, and very uncomfortable it was. On the morning of the second day (departure having been in early evening), I got out at Cologne, wearing only a dressing gown, in order to buy pretzels on the platform. It was then that the train started to move. Had it not briefly stopped about 10 seconds later, giving me time to get aboard (non-central closing doors, thank God), I should have been stuck at Cologne Station with almost no money, no clothes, and no proper shoes; no passport either.
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Update, 22 March 2022
Once again, I look at a fairly old blog post, only to find that many of the embedded tweets have been expunged by Twitter, leaving just blank space. The death of free speech is here, pretty much.
The Astronomical Clock at Hampton Court Palace. Designed by the Bavarian Nicholas Cratzer for King Henry VIII. Installed in 1540 the clock is over 3m in diameter. It shows the phases of the moon its age in the month & the signs of the zodiac. pic.twitter.com/dInQjrN6lY
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) April 1, 2021
The #elk is expanding its range westward from Poland to Germany 🦌#Rewilding Oder Delta just released a factsheet as the first step in understanding the local movement of the animals, laying the groundwork for the comeback of this impressive species 👇🏽https://t.co/pgDKoatAoX
Secondly, the scribbler of the main item writes: “She also mocked Anne Frank and laughed during her earlier trial [i.e. in 2018] as the court heard how she mocked Jews being fashioned into lampshades, having their heads shrunk and being turned into bars of soap.”
The scribbler is mistaken. Alison Chabloz did not “mock Anne Frank” but the largely-forged diary (written by Otto Frank after WW2) attributed to Anne Frank; that is something different. As to the nonsense about bodies of deceased Jews being made into soap, lampshades etc, these were originally “black propaganda” atrocity stories manufactured by a British propaganda unit during the First World War, and then, so to speak, recycled during the Second. Even the Zionists accept now that (in either war) neither happened. The same goes, I think, for the shrunken heads, though it may be that SS-Ahnenerbe possessed a few for scientific reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe.
As previously noted, Alison Chabloz is now at HMP Bronzefield (prison) near Heathrow Airport. She may be transferred eventually, that prison being designated for real criminals (“Category A”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Bronzefield. In any case, it may be possible for her to get out on bail pending appeal of the egregious and harsh sentence passed yesterday by a magistrate (aka “District Judge (Criminal)”).
Finally, I see that a mentally-disturbed Zionist Jewish woman is claiming that I have “taken over” a Twitter account which, she claims, is or was being used by Alison Chabloz.
The above claims are not true. Firstly, as far as I know, the Twitter account in question is not and never was operated by Alison Chabloz.
Secondly, I have not “taken over” or used (ever) that, or any other, Twitter account. I only ever had one Twitter account (@ianrmillard), and that was “suspended” (expelled/removed) by Twitter in 2018 at the instigation of a Jewish Zionist pack which (I believe) included the said woman.
Since mid-2018, I have not posted (under any name or guise) anything on Twitter. I hope that that clarifies the situation.
The sentencing makes Alison Chabloz the first person in the UK to be jailed specifically for Holocaust denial, under the terms of the 2003 Communications Act.
In fact, tweeter “@MarmiteMarmz” is scribbling rubbish: “Speaking in court yesterday, District Judge Michael Snow told Chabloz: ‘I’m not sentencing you on the basis that you are anti-Semitic, I’m not sentencing you on the basis that you are a Holocaust denier…I’m sentencing you on the basis that on two separate occasions whilst subject to a suspended sentence, you participated in a radio programme where you made grossly offensive comments.” [Daily Mail]
As a Crown Court judge said in a previous matter involving Alison Chabloz, neither “holocaust” “denial” nor “antisemitism” are crimes in England.