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.
This is an example of the sort of “wildlife grid” that I have been suggesting for many years. Wildlife corridors and, eventually, a wildlife grid across the UK, becoming gradually more complex.
The Roth clan collectively have a record of extreme racism, but…. "…if you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look #fellowwhite at all".https://t.co/tgndSuLzhp
What was that film again? Something like The Royal Cuck, the Mulatta, the Khazar Assistant, her Husband, and the Fall of the British Royal Family? Something like that. Oh, no…wait.
Never, in the field of human deception, have so many been fed so much outrageous and nauseating bullshit by so few. And if you think it's nearly over, you've not been paying attention to the words and plans of the criminal elite.#GreatResetpic.twitter.com/0WdYP3FYI9
This attempt to audit Covid deaths seems to be a wholly worthwhile enterprise, by a qualified professional, @clarecraigpath, in pursuit of the truth. Those who have relevant direct facts should get in touch. https://t.co/BkjXDUQyGG
Interesting. Davey trying to revive the LibDem “dead man walking” by giving the LibDems a USP to distinguish them from the other two main English parties of the System.
The people of England, drugged by msm propaganda, “elected” (a rigged selection, then a rigged or effectively rigged General Election) a part-Jew public entertainer and jester as Prime Minister. C’est ca…
What more do people expect of an idiot like “Boris”? He has no real ability.
Such traitors do more harm than spies or even terrorists could ever do.
As for thick-as-two-short-planks Priti Patel, her “cunning plan” seems to be to try to discourage small-boat migration-invasion, while allowing in, on an even more lax basis, so-called “legal” immigrants of all kinds, including “asylum-seekers”.
The result of the above is that small-boat invaders will not be returned (anywhere) because most will destroy their papers and/or lie about their origins, while —at the same time— huge new waves of “legal” migration will come. That’s without even thinking about the (up to) 5 MILLION Hong Kong Chinese expected to arrive.
If you cannot see, even now, that this is all part of an international conspiratorial plan, you never will. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. The Great Replacement. The Great Reset.
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I’ve just had my phone grabbed out my hands by 3 boys wearing balaclavas on bikes (Finchley Road & Canfield gardens). They laughed as I shouted to drop it. Im in shock but am insured & privileged. Others are less lucky. Help me find these people & stop them (financial reward).
“Three boys“? Not much of a description. Age? Racial or ethnic origin? I suppose we are supposed to guess…(and, no, a balaclava would not completely disguise the ethnic origin).
Boy, 15, hanged himself after struggling to cope during lockdown. The elite exploitation of covid and#Lockdown mania is far from a victimless crime. https://t.co/dJ5YUAoHuj
The news that a piece of “digital art”, or electronic art, has been sold at auction for USD $69 million was puzzling. Apparently, such art can be copied for free, without any cost at all.
In other words, the $69,000,000 art can be replicated and used effectively without cost. This is not quite the same, or goes beyond, having a paper or other copy of, say, the Mona Lisa. Any copy of the Mona Lisa is probably subtly different from the real one, whereas (according to BBC Today Programme) the copy of the piece of “digital art” will be exactly the same as the original.
It seems that what is auctioned is not the digital art alone but the art plus an electronic key to the original, which allows the owner of that original to access the blockchain for it, blockchain being defined as follows:
“Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset“; or
“In the simplest terms, Blockchain can be described as a data structure that holds transactional records and while ensuring security, transparency, and decentralization. You can also think of it as a chain or records stored in the forms of blocks which are controlled by no single authority” [and see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain].
In other words, what the purchaser has bought for his $69 million US dollars is the right to change the electronic artwork, just as the owner of the Mona Lisa or other material art has the legal right to add a moustache to the subject, or to take up an axe and chop it to pieces.
In fact, thinking about it, presumably the artwork, if copied by a third party for free, can also be changed for free (though not the accepted “original”). That means that the $69 million US dollars is buying only the notional ownership and nothing else.
The auction of of the $69 million artwork challenges our concept of value. To me, buying “digital art” for more than pennies is completely stupid, but I concede, if it is a concession, that paying out 69 million dollars for any artwork is absurd, even if that artwork were the (original) Mona Lisa or, say (a favourite of mine), Man in Armour by Rembrandt (believed by some to be a representation of Christian Rosenkreutz, said to have been modelled by Titus, son of Rembrandt).
Bitcoin can be sold back, i.e. cashed in, though its real world use is limited. “Digital art” can be sold on as well, if the owner of the art, i.e. holder of the blockchain key, can find a purchaser (in my opinion, mug) willing to take it on.
In my first blog post about Bitcoin, I examined money. Why do we value tokens of monetary value such as banknotes? It all comes down to confidence.
In the end, does Bitcoin have less “legitimacy” or “value” than paper banknotes, or electronic entries on the ledgers of known banks? Maybe not, but that is perhaps less a validation of Bitcoin than a criticism of what we call “money value”.
Has capitalism reached, with the auction of digital art (and, arguende, with the sale of “real” art for sometimes hundreds of millions), a stage of decadent absurdity which may be a predictor of worldwide economic and social collapse? For me, the crazed heights at auction (of both types of art) are a sign of poor judgment as much as anything.
It does make me wonder what kind of person would rather have a piece of digital art than USD $69 million! Does that make me a Philistine, or just not a mug?
Is there a case for artworks of designated importance, of more than a certain age (100 years plus?), and valued at more than a designated level, being held and owned only by specified museums and galleries around the world? It’s a idea (of my own), anyway, though of course that would not stop speculation in artworks of younger age (and we have seen works by many quite recent artists, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, even Damien Hirst, go for huge amounts). Neither, of course, would such regulation stop speculation in digital art, not for decades to come, anyway.
For me, this latest art speculation is a societal warning flag.
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Surely I'm not the only one removing such outrageous affronts to human dignity, freedom and common sense? pic.twitter.com/g11AfVT64A
The odd logic of tweeter “@MenziesBj” reminds me of the similar thinking of not a few instructing solicitors when I was at the practising Bar. There is a phrase in use among barristers, “solicitors go elsewhere“, reflective of the fact that instructing solicitors often stop instructing particular Counsel for no obvious reason.
You would imagine that, if as a barrister you do well in a case, then the solicitor who instructed you would instruct you again, and if you did not do well, would not instruct you again. In fact, while that sometimes does happen, often the reverse is true. No-one knows why.
Barristers are, especially when not in the very top sets, very dependent on their own relationship with solicitors. I was once slightly acquainted with one barrister, in a friend’s chambers, who had a very good practice despite (my impression) being not particularly intelligent. 90% of his work (25 years ago) came from one solicitor (not even one firm, but one individual solicitor in one firm).
One fine day, as Kafka put it in The Trial, that solicitor stopped instructing him; according to that barrister, for no obvious reason. Result? A serious problem for the barrister, obviously. 90% of work gone means about 90% of income gone.
That (nameless) barrister was one of those men who combine a relentlessly politically-correct attitude with a certain amount of sex-pestery, as my friend in his then chambers had mentioned to me. Many years later, one of his pupils, a young woman, made an official complaint about him. I do not know all the details, but he was fined £4,000, and may have been lucky not to have been dealt with more severely.
A personal nexus between a solicitor and a barrister, though inherently precarious, can work in favour of a barrister. I knew another barrister, though not well, who was a member of another friend’s chambers. The former had a friend from university who had become a salaried lawyer in a large organization. That employed lawyer directed work to the barrister. In one year, such work totalled, in fees, some £600,000! That was nearly 30 years ago!
Not quite as good as winning the lottery (or being born into a fortune), but almost.
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I am quite certain of this. Indeed the British Foreign Office has shockingly resorted to this smear, as I shall soon reveal in detail @julian_grbichhttps://t.co/odw1ZE0e01
It is very distressing @kynohy. And reminds me of ‘Henry’s Demons’ . The side-effects of the antipsychotics used to treat marijuana users who become ill are pretty grim. This is not just an episode that comes and goes. Lives are wrecked for good. https://t.co/tcOo8KpXPV
Did you know that just a few minutes of being active in nature is a proven mood booster? No matter where you are, urban, rural or anywhere in between, the beauty of the natural world exists amongst all of us and the best thing is, it doesn't cost a thing. https://t.co/MNYZU5Xkoc
Trying their best to hide more of our history,sir Henry Cooper heavyweight boxing trained above this pub now a Chinese restaurant,just as well I knew it was here and enough solid locals to ensure it remains Thomas A Beckett old kent rd se1 pic.twitter.com/53mtMEdMYL
I remember seeing that pub in the 1980s, when travelling down the Old Kent Road in Southwark. So now it is apparently a restaurant?Vietnamese, not Chinese, according to the Internet. Sign of the times.
It may be a Muslim “Scottish” Pakistani who is fronting the new Scottish free speech repression, but I would be prepared to bet that those really behind it are (((something else))).
“Heather Burns, policy manager for the digital rights organisation Open Rights Group, said: ‘It’s needles in haystacks, and this is collecting the entire haystack.
‘We should have the right to not have every single click of what we do online hoovered up into a surveillance net on the assumption that there might be criminal activity taking place.’
Privacy International’s advocacy director, Edin Omanovic, echoed a similar sentiment and said: ‘Make no mistake, as warned, the Investigatory Powers Act (2016) gives authorities across the UK some of the most far-reaching and draconian surveillance powers found anywhere in the world.
‘When the Bill was proposed, we were promised the most transparent surveillance regime in the world. Yet, here we have a secret experiment where two secret internet companies have reportedly been collecting internet browsing data about individuals’ online activities.” [Daily Mail]
“Male curfew”
I missed this latest piece of crazed nonsense, which was being reported upon yesterday, it seems.
“A Green Party peer has suggested a 6pm curfew should be introduced for men in the wake of Sarah Everard’s disappearance.
Baroness Jones of Moulescoomb told the House of Lords that such a move would “make women a lot safer, and discrimination of all kinds would be lessened”.” [Sky News]
So she was an office bod for a number of years, became a mature student and then studied carbonized plant remains for a decade…oh, and she was a member of the pathetic London Assembly for 4 years, and failed to become an MP twice (in different London constituencies, coming 4th in both elections, getting 6.5% of the vote in one, then 2.9% in the other). She also tried to become Mayor of London, but only received about 4% of the overall vote.
Not a stellar political record, but hey!…this is the UK, where serial failure is rewarded so long as the idiot is “anti-racist” and/or (stand up, Boris-idiot!) pro-Israel. So she was elevated to the House of Lords!
Sometimes, I think that this country is terminally screwed.
Her previous utterances? Let’s see…”She was outspoken about numerous issues including what she called mayor Boris Johnson‘s demonisation of youth through the use of “baseless” rhetoric on “soaring gang-membership and rising knife-crime”, suggesting the mayor created an unhelpful climate of fear.[28] ” [Wikipedia].
As for her curfew idea…look at her!
Jesus H. Christ! If I saw that walking towards me after dark, I would go home at once, lock and bolt my door, and impose a curfew on myself!
A nice-seeming young woman having her dreams crushed by the usual Jew-Zionist “claque” and clique, aided and abetted by their “antifa” idiot-serfs.
If you're white they call you a "racist" sooner or later, no one can escape their fate. In an antiwhite system that's how enemies of the regime are designated. It's time to bring down antiwhitism! There is no other way around it!
So sorry you are sanctioned just for being true to yourself Freedom of speech is no longer respected in the UK Hold your head up high You have done nothing wrong 💔
Your views and concerns are perfectly valid, rational and shared by millions. We not a tiny minority they make out. Don't give up you have lots of support.
Amy be really strong and stand up for yourself do not let these people bully you or try to take your place away if they do join another dance academy 💗💐
— Eibhlín Ní Chrualoaí (@EileenCeltQueen) March 12, 2021
I had a similar letter and phone call from the British association of counsellors and psychotherapists about my social media activity I told them where to effing go!!
— Eibhlín Ní Chrualoaí (@EileenCeltQueen) March 12, 2021
British social-national revolution! We know in our hearts what has to happen.
“The number of white terrorism suspects being arrested in Britain has outstripped those of Asian appearance for the third year in a row.
Official figures show that 89 white people were arrested on suspicion of terror offences in 2020, compared with 63 Asian suspects, 15 black suspects and 18 of other ethnicities.“
“Almost one-third of arrests had resulted in a charge by the end of December.” [The Independent]
So only about 20 or 25 white British persons were charged (with something, but not necessarily “terrorism”-related offences).
We have seen, in recent months and years, many people, mainly young, arrested, some charged and (despite a number of acquittals) some sentenced to fairly long periods of imprisonment on the basis of evidence that would have shamed the Star Chamber, or some 1950s socialist satellite-state’s “people’s court”: Swastika-shaped cookie-cutters, Swastika designs on cushions, young men shooting their mouths off in pubs about killing MPs, young men buying Samurai swords (what century is this?!) for supposedly murderous purposes; young women naming their babies Adolf etc…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber].
What I see in the msm is mainly some contrived “cases” based on evidence much of which shows completely lawful activity (see above) which is then twisted into a “terrorism” narrative by police, MI5 perhaps, and the CPS.
Of course, now that political groups can be “banned” by System political decision, all that the police and CPS have to do is weave a web suggesting that X belongs, or has belonged, to Y or Z organization.
If someone decides to commit an offence, then that is their decision and they take the risk of the consequences, but much of what we have seen is quite obviously a manufactured “terror threat” tailor-made for the newspapers and TV to present as a reason to further repress free speech and free political activity by white British people.
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Wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) thrives on this south-facing railway embankment at Maidstone's High Level Bridge Pocket Nature Reserve. Every town & city could create a network of such nature opportunity sites, where less maintenance will enable life to return.🌳@RewildingBpic.twitter.com/vLRKbuNKQH
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 3, 2021
Restoring lost tree cover, including sessile oak, wild service, crab apple & purging buckthorn, to this urban green space on #WorldWildlifeDay2021. Planting of uncommon trees & shrubs (in biodegradable cardboard guards), will be complemented by natural regeneration & rough grass. pic.twitter.com/uY9JnNr0dO
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 3, 2021
I spend much of my time talking to journalists and researchers obsessed with the cultural and political divisions around #rewilding. What is rarely reported is the huge groundswell of interest from young people hoping for a nature-rich future. #GenerationRestorationpic.twitter.com/Luwau1wjJa
A robin perches on signage at Buckland Hill Pocket Nature Reserve. A tiny brown-field site encompassing a part-demolished WW2 air raid shelter, spring-line, wet ditch, pond, hedge, secondary woodland & clearing, bramble thicket, undulating bare ground & tall ruderals.@RewildingBpic.twitter.com/okdgq13s7I
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 4, 2021
White dead-nettle (Lamium album) is an introduced (archaeophyte) perennial, long-established in woodland edges, hedgerows, verges & brownfield sites. It provides important early-season nectar & pollen for bees & other pollinators.🐝 @wildflower_hour@BSBIbotany@Britnatureguidepic.twitter.com/0iyrvr2eOQ
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 6, 2021
The brain was frazzled, the weather was perfect, the bike was calling. 20 mins later, the soul was soothed surrounded by a sea of young pines on the march in every direction across @CairngormsCo. #futureforestpic.twitter.com/VYrLdyXDFH
Well, there’s a surprise! “Antifa” cheerleader Mike Stuchbery interested in the Tarot. Truly, as the Russian proverb has it, “the soul of another is a dark wood“! [чужая душа темный лес].
I was once, especially in the 1980s, very interested in different systems of divination: tarot, astrology, the I Ching etc. I settled on the I Ching as the one that worked best for me, though astrology can be accurate too; I don’t mean the rubbish found in newspaper columns; I used to cast my own charts using ephemeris tables etc (no computer programmes in those days, at least not for me). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching.
The one time head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Maurice Oldfield, was very interested in occult methods or disciplines such as astrology (both Western and Chinese), and in a Chinese system called “Nine Star Ki” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Star_Ki].
Oldfield apparently used a mixture of methods as a way of assessing character. For example, he is said to have remarked upon the fact that, using both Western and Chinese astrology, Kim Philby was a “Capricornian Pig”: see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biography-Sir-Maurice-Oldfield/dp/0356104001. [Caveat: not everyone regards Deacon as the most veracious writer on the subject(s) of espionage and intelligence, but his books are interesting and original; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McCormick].
John le Carre [David Cornwell] had one of his characters call “Control” (the head of the Secret Service in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), “a positive serpent“. Oldfield was certainly (one reads) a very complex character, probably one model for le Carre’s character, “Smiley”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Oldfield;
In that Western/Chinese conflation, I would be a “Virgoan Monkey”! Western (sun in) Virgo, Chinese Monkey (Fire Monkey, 1956).
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Another beautiful day at Bealtaine Cottage! The old #compost heap is almost transferred to it’s new site and I will be moving the #rhubarb to it’s new bed. #herbs are growing and blossom is appearing all over the #permaculture gardens, even on the #Nectarine tree in the tunnel! pic.twitter.com/PZQkDt2rxe
I might not agree with all of that lady’s superficial political views, but her experience of having turned a typically near-treeless Irish landscape into something beautiful and productive is worth examination.
Ian Robert Millard 