Remembrance of times past: I recall my mother playing that (on a gramophone, not a piano!); early 1960s, in between her watching Wimbledon on a black and white TV, the curtains of the French windows closed tightly against the July sun. A softer performance of Chopin, though, by Benno Moisewitsch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno_Moiseiwitsch]
@liberal_leigh🕷️🐢 «BFPE ⛔️⛔️ 🔀No, sweetie, the huge RCT which found that the difference between mask-wearers and non-wearers was not statistically significant, which is why it struggled to find a publisher and has still not been mentioned by the UK's pro-mask media. https://t.co/W4NAXLlTj7
"These were profound attacks on reason. They were also attacks on limited government and the rule of law, which rest largely on the power of reason." https://t.co/JGClajhtOQ
"And those of us who cry out, until we are hoarse, to say that this is a catastrophe, are met with shrugs from the chattering classes, and snarls of “just put on the frigging mask” from the mob."
– Democracy muzzled: Peter Hitchens, October, 2020
Boris Johnson has urged caution ahead of expected lifting of restrictions on July 19 Freedom Day.
Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens: "I'm not at all confident that we will get through to October without it all being brought back again."@Iromg | @ClarkeMicahpic.twitter.com/YFyVJNj90W
As I blogged yesterday, for a government to say “not wearing facemasks is not now unlawful but you really should wear one and are expected to wear one” is not only dishonest but trashes the whole concept of the rule of law as understood for the past several centuries. To use social conformity, whipped on by endless msm propaganda, to coerce people into not doing something notunlawful, is a form of tyranny.
Highways England are managing the Historical Railways Estate of 3,200 disused structures by demolishing or infilling 100s of them. This is an unacceptable destruction of our history and heritage. Let’s make them think again. Please sign the petition! https://t.co/7mgdh6fQxS
Exactly. In fact, the figure may well be far higher. When my mother-in-law, in her late 90s, was admitted to hospital (for a fracture) earlier this year, she was regularly tested for “the virus” during her several weeks there. After a couple of weeks, she tested positive, though showing no symptoms. She was discharged about 2 weeks later. Had she died within 28 days of that positive test, even had she been run down by a car, she would have been part of the lying government statistics, as someone who “died within 28 days of a positive test”.
What I find shocking is how easily even quite intelligent people, supposedly educated people, have been muzzled into conformity. Not only conformity of action (eg the facemask nonsense) but conformity of thought.
Is this the future for airline pilots and nuclear power station workers too? 😱 https://t.co/K3rEoyWQOY
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 12, 2021
The final stage: students told not only what will be questioned on the exam papers, but exactly how to answer…
I've never heard of them. Perhaps if they didn't exist, the government would have to invent them. https://t.co/ItgKCwtjR4
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 12, 2021
The System is already inventing enemies. Labelling organizations. Whipping up fear in the msm. Then any individual who is to be repressed can be incarcerated merely by the police and CPS asserting that he or she either belongs to said one or another organization or “supports” it. We have already seen much of that over the past few years.
In fact there is no “far right” “terrorism” in the UK. Young men talking big in public bars, and/or buying such materiel as samurai swords, does not constitute “terrorism” or even the preparation, and certainly not effective preparation, of or for it.
Well, I myself have taken no interest in the said Schauspiel-for-the-masses, but from what I have read here and there, tweeter “@Episode1point0” may well be correct.
I’ve just voted to block the Tory government’s Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which they’re aggressively forcing through to protect hate speech.
Racist, hateful or discriminatory views will be given free reign without challenge on University campuses -we must oppose
Ridiculous bad-joke MP Claudia Webbe, trying to repress freedom of expression. She does not even know that the phrase she struggles to use is “free rein”, not “free reign“.
First, all cars will be electric. Second, all cars will have computer/radar/microwave control and tracking. All under the guise of health and safety. The 2021 “track and trace” nonsense is but a primitive foreshadowing of all this. A society where the “humanoid insect” will be trackable at all times, when all communications will be monitored (for “criminal” communications such as anything “racist”, rebellious (etc). Third step will be centralized control, so that any car can be stopped by authorities at will, and the occupants abducted or neutralized.
Conspiracy theory? Ha…
My reading of the famous poem, with scenes from Sennen Beach today in Cornwall.
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 13, 2021
I swam there in the early 1960s, when I was maybe 9 years old.
This is being built on the periphery of the tiny Cornish village of St Buryan, a parish that is mentioned in the Domesday Book. This is happening all over GB. White flight is sending affluent boomers into the villages they loved on their holidays and ruining them forever. pic.twitter.com/WVfWGpwei7
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 13, 2021
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 13, 2021
Yes @bloke_on_a_bike. A man did say that, and no doubt this was his belief. But I do not share it. And nor do the countries which have surpassed, or will surpass us in wealth, health, education and general strength. Victory in a football game does not save us from decline. https://t.co/Kh9MYCpE9d
In the decadent days of the Roman imperium, the plebs were distracted by bread and circuses, while the equally decadent upper classes occupied themselves with “celebrity” sportsmen, chefs, and so on. As Hegel wrote, “the lesson of history is that people do not learn the lessons of history” (or something of the sort).
Illustration for the lost sequel to ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’. – ‘Alice Through the Surveillance Camera’ . This surveillance array stands in the middle of Oxford’s lovely High Street. pic.twitter.com/95u5nTg3XA
British poverty charity @Oxfam teaches staff that white women who report rapes & sex crimes to law enforcement are supporting white supremacy & harm of black people. https://t.co/6m0hY9GF4f
Sadly, the charity sector has, over decades, developed into a “rotten borough”. There have been so many scandals. Oxfam alone has had many. Legal and political scandals around “charitable status”; sex scandals; money-related scandals. Why?
I believe that, looking at the larger charities, the basic problem is one of focus, going back to those recruited.
There was always a “campaigning” aspect to many of these charities, inasmuch as many of them have always regarded it as part of their remit to campaign for changes in the law, or changes in public behaviour. Examples would include the Salvation Army, and the League Against Cruel Sports, to name but two.
There is inevitably a grey area between such “political” or socio-political campaigning, and outright politicking. This came to a head in the 1980s when it emerged that Oxfam was spending huge amounts of money (money mainly donated by well-meaning members of the public) not only on direct alleviation of poverty in Africa (etc), and not even on effective but indirect poverty-alleviation (eg supporting schools in Africa), but on political propaganda such as anti-apartheid stuff (the false narrative being that poverty in Africa as a whole was somehow caused by apartheid in South Africa, despite the fact that the Africans in South Africa were often better off than Africans in other African states).
In fact, the now nearly 30 years of (notional) black African rule in South Africa have proven that apartheid was not the only or even main factor holding back 99.9% of South African blacks. The new South Africa has quite as much inequality of capital and income as the old South Africa, together with rocketing crime and corruption. All that and virtue-signalling too!
In the UK charity/NGO sector, there have been all the scandals around money and sex, such as at Save The Children, where the head of the organization was getting about £400,000 a year, and where his cronies at the top were getting £200,000 or more, one such crony being the sex-pest Brendan Cox, the then husband of Labour Party MP Jo Cox (who was assassinated in 2016).
The roots of these problems go back to the kind of people recruited. Typical of our age: virtue-signalling “woke” hypocrites, but who are also very interested in money.
There is, also, a persistent problem with many charity staff, at the higher (careerist) levels, being anti-white, meaning anti-European race and culture.
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
"We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green." G.K Chesterton
Very very lenient. Alison Chabloz recently got 18 weeks, so nearly twice as long, merely for pointing out (albeit undiplomatically) some true aspects of Jewish behaviour on an Internet podcast.
You should be grateful that this country has a leader that has got us out of this mess I suppose you would rather support the CCP What an idiotic comment
And now we face the grim spectacle of the pest control firm that burnt our house down, standing there in the smouldering ruins, insisting it was the right course of action because we didn't get stung by a wasp.
Going? @doctor_oxford. Have you yet to notice the multiple damage done to healthcare, commerce and human happiness by the strangulation of society? https://t.co/XRrmZSlE1S
Khrushchev, in his memoirs, criticized Malenkov as a “filing clerk” and said that that was the worst kind of person to have power given to him. In our society, in the UK of 2021, we have given power to chancers such as “Boris” and little Matt Hancock, but in reality to those behind them, such as the narrowminded medical and statistics zealots of “SAGE” (aka “DUMB”, the Department Under Matt and Boris). Not to mention types such as Dominic Cummings. Result? Misery…
THREAD: Mask clampdown on London Tube today led to two arrests on my commute. Arrest 1 at Vauxhall, man not wearing mask. I arrived part way through this one, he was lacerated on arms, clearly resisted, in huge distress. 10 officers/TfL staff on site pic.twitter.com/MjL8mQiqoB
The UK’s multikulti toytown police state in operation. Pathetic, yet at the same time chilling…
Of course, The Handmaid’s Tale is fiction, literary fantasy, but reflective of a outline of possible future reality, just as The Protocols of Zion are literary fantasy yet in a sense “true”, in that they clothe the reality which is coming to pass via, inter alia, NWO, ZOG, the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, the “Covid-19” “situation” etc.
Incidentally, I see that Martin Daubney’s clip shows Vauxhall Underground Station. I wonder how many, if any (?) SIS staff who use that station, and are not asleep, and see what “British” society now is, have any reservations about defending it?
My latest article: I’m not given to hyperbole, but the coming week is one of the most important in British history – if not the most important https://t.co/RNDYfSmf90 #
Sadly, many British people are now scared rabbits, wearing bloody facemasks even in the open air, even when walking alone. That applies particularly to the older population; as to the younger, “woke virtue-signalling idiots” covers many of them. I expect no revolt from the majority, just frightened compliance, maybe with more “North Korea-lite” clapping on command…
I have not had the vaccine(s); I shall not have the vaccine(s). In youth, I always hoped to die in battle. Who knows…That may now be unlikely, but never say never…
We're testing ONE MILLION PEOPLE PER DAY and only finding this many "cases" which the majority are likely not even ill, 7 deaths in the entire country labelled Covid, yet some people think we need restrictions to continue through summer. They need their heads examined. pic.twitter.com/FC6FYwIi1Y
Forwarded: warning flashing lights # Ireland 🇮🇪 has one of the strictest lockdowns in the world but the youth have had enough. pic.twitter.com/S2uRnd75F0
— NinnyD 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 Waiting~4~the Revolution (@ninnyd101) June 10, 2021
Late tweets
Johnson giving off an aura of abject insincerity and unseriousness there. Simply not good enough to wing it. And doesn’t care enough to have genuine conviction. Just a dickhead who likes being on stage.
After two years of legal hell, Maya Forstater—who was fired from her job at a progressive think tank for expressing the view that males and females are biologically distinct and have different life experiences—has won her appealhttps://t.co/9X1bgVYCFa
Of course the Maya Forstater judgement does not mean that workers are free to abuse or harass trans colleagues. What sort of person would want to do that anyway? But it does mean that workers cannot be punished for stating that sex is immutable. And that is a damn good thing.
In the public mind, the Zeppelin (used as the generic term for lighter-than-air craft) has passed into history. Its heyday is generally thought of as being the First World War, when the airships were used by the Germans in early “terror” raids over English cities. Not only London: my own grandmother (b.1900), who for some reason now unknown had been sent from Berkshire to a boarding school at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, actually saw a Zeppelin over her school, probably in 1916.
[a Zeppelin over the Palace of Westminster, London, during the First World War]
Yet another pile of obsolete junk. Designed not for war but to make more obscene profits for military-industrial complex and the corrupt politicians in its pocket. That giant floating-coffin aircraft carrier is another example.https://t.co/dfhTBZJUNS
Pitiful stuff @iandunt. If you cannot distinguish between the paper provisions of a law and its actual enforcement, you really shouldn't be writing about politics. If you truly believe there is a 'war on drugs' in this country, then you will believe anything. https://t.co/yCAwb1mn6X
Hitchens is correct not only in his main point but also in his view of that Dunt person, who seems (from what I have seen) to have an unerring instinct for coming to the wrong socio-political conclusions.
1/2 I have just watched Sir Piers Morgan's interview of Sir Keir Starmer (it's available on the ITV hub) and was struck by the total absence of any interest shown by @piersmorgan in Mr Starmer's political opinions. And the giggly stuff about drugs, too.
2/2 in fact Sir Keir's politics are both fascinating and deeply revolutionary (see https://t.co/h8Czc39gzy) and could do with a bit more examination. But hey, football is so important, isn't it?
In fact, I do not agree with Hitchens re. Starmer being “deeply revolutionary”. He may well have read and even edited obscure Trotskyist publications when aged 20. Hitchens himself was a Trotskyist at that age, while I, at age 19 and living in a London attic, read, and regularly, everything from the anarchist newspaper Black Flag to the social nationalist magazine, League Review, and many another publication.
You cannot take someone’s views as they were at age 20 as being their settled viewpoints when they are 50, 60, or 70 years old. Keir Starmer may have more radical ideas than Boris Johnson, but for me the difference is that Starmer may actually have a few ideas, however limited, whereas part-Jew chancer, fraud and (ex?) public entertainer “Boris” has no ideas at all, beyond the schoolboy fantasies of bridges over rivers and oceans, artificial islands, tunnels to Ireland etc; the sort of ideas I had when aged about 13.
"Everywhere one looks, in Britain, Europe and America, anti-Jewish hatred is surging."https://t.co/68wIYrQWGu
Incidentally, that Silverman individual (“Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the Jew-Zionist Israel-lobby “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”), was exposed in open court a few years ago as having been behind a number of pseudonymous Twitter and other trolling accounts. Most of the victims were women. He was also behind a malicious complaint made about me to Essex police (he lives in South Essex) in early 2017: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/.
1980 arriving at Ben Gurion the first time, all the passengers applauded the pilots, sang, and many of us kissed the ground.
Their primary, and perhaps only, loyalty is to Israel (whether to the Israeli state as such, or to the Jewish people). At least, that is how it seems to me…”@mlewislawyer” is in fact now resident in Israel.
A fascinating & well-researched account of what really happened in the #TulsaMassacre. The attempt by #JoeBiden to make political capital out of promoting the totally dishonest PC 'evil whites' fantasy version will cost dozens of white lives this summer.https://t.co/X305iz8qzg
If you listen to the ahistorical nonsense that, eg, BBC World Service has been retailing about the above, the blacks in America have been prevented from being more affluent and/or powerful because of that one incident in one minor city 100 years ago. Oh, of course…
Asian-American journalist gets hospitalised by mob. Spokesperson for discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) uses opportunity to mock and try to discredit the victim. Another reminder that the self-declared ‘anti-fascists’ are the fascists. https://t.co/E9QQ7W4x2w
Anne-Marie Waters and Tommy Robinson. Both pro-Israel, anti-Islam one-trick-ponies. Not real nationalists. Well, they are operating in tandem, it seems. Maybe they should get a rabbi to bless their unlikely (?) union…
I may not be the typical man-in-the-street voter, but I really cannot see any candidate so far declared at Batley and Spen for whom I would vote. Not one.
I should really blog in detail about the upcoming by-election, set down for 1 July 2021. Maybe this weekend I shall post something.
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).
Late tweets etc
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
Heard half an hour of what used to be called the BBC’s “flagship news show on radio”. Do they have the cheek to still use that description? I hope not. Terrible. Dull in the extreme: Covid Covid Covid blah blah, Covid Covid Covid blah blah. Rubbish presented as news and “analysis”. Pathetic.
Rachel Reeves, the pro-Israel lobby MP (nominally “Labour”) was on, talking about David Cameron-Levita, Boris Johnson, and the breaking of the Ministerial Code. All very earnest, superficially, and I am sure that a few people in the Westminster Bubble were interested, but not 99% or more of the British people.
BBC Four
Now it seems that the BBC may be about to kill off or ruin one of the few decent parts of the BBC still left, television station BBC Four. Typical. The BBC must be defunded. It is more or less “Soviet TV” now, just a craven mouthpiece of the government in power. It has lost all legitimacy and credibility.
Tweets seen
Blood type is determined by the types of antigens on the blood cells. If mankind evolved from the same African ancestor their blood would be compatible, but it's not. Why does the body of an Rh(-) mother carrying an Rh(+) child reject her own offspring? 🤔 https://t.co/uCflEbRTX9pic.twitter.com/PVunLQQWS0
Interesting discussion. Britain should have a scientific institute akin to the one-time SS-Ahnenerbe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe]. Part of such an institute would be for research into history, archaeology, heredity etc, but another and equally important part would be devoted to research into ways to evolve humanity in general and European/”white” people in particular to higher levels; in other words, the creation of higher race-forms in every way. The “design” of a higher race, if you like.
Mother, 27, dies of cancer after check-ups were halted by pandemic. Congratulations to everyone whose credulity, cowardice and compliance allowed the climate change obsessed elite to impose their insane and destructive 'de-development' scheme on us all.https://t.co/CaZdNEeYKF
Believe it or not, the bastard being discussed is David Cameron-Levita! I thought that there could scarcely be a worse Prime Minister…until Theresa May and then Boris-Idiot came along. All three part-Jew, by the way… [addendum: I have now been told that the PM under discussion was in fact Blair. “Best PM ever“? I think not! A complete NWO/ZOG puppet, whose hastily-passed laws and policies still impede us today].
Government to step up efforts to identify people who are not ill.
It is striking how Waugh's work is becoming less-known these days @michaelvgcollin. Even the TV series of 'Brideshead'(close to the text) was too long for the modern world and superseded by a dire film that missed the point. Waugh wrote for people who love to read, now dying out. https://t.co/WkAA3RxKaa
Startling ignorance of course, though rather highlighting the Hitchens “Oxford” obsession (he lives there). Not everyone knows the sex of even famous people, if the names are unusual.
When I started Bar practice in London in the early 1990s, I was given one of my relatively few Crown Court cases (I always did more public, administrative and civil law, as compared to criminal).
The case involved the sale of counterfeit tapes, and was set down for trial, to be heard at Snaresbrook Crown Court. One of the artistes allegedly copied was Shabba Ranks. My first question to the clerk at Chambers was “who’s she?“. Not a good start (it’s a “he”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabba_Ranks).
That was not my first Crown Court trial (the first having been a case of “s.18” GBH, aka “GBH with intent”, a serious charge carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment), but it was at any rate one of the first few.
I was always lucky in the Crown Court, partly because, as a mainly non-crime barrister, I never graduated to the really serious criminal cases such as murder, terrorism etc. The most serious cases rarely result in acquittal, because the evidence is usually very strong and often overwhelming.
Well, anyway…more by luck than judgment, I did manage to do OK in my counterfeit tapes trial, after (on the first morning), the Prosecution told me that they were discontinuing (on the ground of cost, the cost of proving via forensic science that the tapes concerned actually were not genuine). Thus my defence, based mainly on an arguably implausible alibi, was never tested.
Incidentally, I was also lucky in that “GBH with intent” trial, held in what was then the Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court (the building in Parliament Square now occupied by the Supreme Court of the UK). In that trial, the defendant, despite having stabbed the thuggish “victim”, and then having poured boiling oil over him, was acquitted on the ground of self-defence.
Hard to believe that tweeter “@TimothyNerozzi” is serious but, as Cecil King once said, no-one ever lost money by underestimating the good sense of the British people (it might have been “the intelligence of”…); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Harmsworth_King.
We have a rotten Government and an equally ridiculous official Opposition, but the idea that “the House of Windsor” could rule autocratically is beyond satire. Who exactly? The almost 100-year old Queen and Consort? Charles and Camilla? Surely not Andrew or Edward? The tame thick princelings, William and Harry? I suppose that at least Andrew and William could fly away, piloting their own helicopters, when it all went wrong…
1/2 @Andylaw1976 I often think Germany is the last conservative country in Europe. I suspect it is because they had a preview, in the DDR, of what is planned for the rest of us, and did not much like it. https://t.co/UlNobY2YCT
2/2 @andylaw1976 We think of the Wall and the Stasi when we think of the GDR. But few are aware of the political correctness, the children stuffed into nurseries while their mothers were marched off to wage-slavery, the comprehensive schools and the contempt for the church. https://t.co/UlNobY2YCT
“We think of the Wall and the Stasi when we think of the GDR. But few are aware of the political correctness, the children stuffed into nurseries while their mothers were marched off to wage-slavery, the comprehensive schools and the contempt for the church.”— Take away the Wall and the Stasi and the rest is pretty much the same as 2021 Britain. Maybe that is the point that Hitchens is trying to make, in fact…
It always makes me laugh when some uncultured, semi-educated “antifascist” idiot and/or Jew calls social-national people “knuckledraggers” or the like; low culture, education, or intelligence is at least as common, I would say far more so, on the so-called “antifascist” side.
There seems to be ongoing, and now intensifying, a purge of dissident “radio stations” on the Internet. The noisy “Campaign Against Antisemitism” fake charity yesterday announced that, at its instigation, Devon and Cornwall Police and CPS had charged someone from Cornwall under the Public Order Act 1986.
I was informed by a blog commentator that a former BBC employee who now runs his own “radio station” online from Nottinghamshire, has also been harassed by the police.
We have seen how others who run, or even just talk on, Internet “radio” podcasts are being subjected to similar treatment. Alison Chabloz is on trial, on a similar basis, next week (30-31 March 2021). Good luck and victory to her!
Britain’s toytown police state is gradually developing into a real one, aided by the weaponization of “the virus”, a supine Bar, malleable or complicit judges, conniving mass media, and a non-existent Parliamentary Opposition.
Behind much of the current repression are the “usual suspects”, of course…
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A very belated appreciation of Gordon Callow, brave veteran of Union Movement, the NF and BNP, who I have only just heard died in January. Also known as Tom, together with his brother Brian (who later moved to Cumbria & campaigned with me for the EP) he was a stalwart patriot. pic.twitter.com/CPfdIBmXyX
The “average Joe” still has no idea that what we are seeing in the UK is effectively the extirpation of what have passed as “democracy”, most civil rights etc, and all —supposedly— because of a virus that, worldwide, has killed about one person in every 4,000 people.
In reality, this is all, or almost all, simply an easy way to smooth the way for the NWO/ZOG “Great Reset” of 2022, and to set the agenda for the years up to 2055. An attempt to control the current of the Zeitgeist…
I haven't seen anyone derided as a 'lefty lawyer and do-gooder' for objecting to the Covid Health and Safety State. Perhaps because of the extreme shortage (understatement here) of lefty lawyers doing any such protesting, or of lefty judges allowing cases against shutdown. https://t.co/AwxKAIRptm
Ground zero. A small piece of twisted metal is the only remnant of the tower used for an atmospheric nuclear test in Khrushchev-era Kazakhstan . After the test, the surface of the soil fused into a sheet of black glass, which has since fractured into millions of pieces.. pic.twitter.com/Dsc4gvibzV
‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair…’ dummy buildings on Soviet nuclear bomb test range, near Secret city of Kurchatovsk, Kazakhstan. pic.twitter.com/djBn4bOpnv
I myself had a very good year in Kazakhstan (1996-1997), despite occasional problems and, indeed, a scuffle or two.
Fraser Nelson notes the creation of a ‘biosecurity state’ in today’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ . If I used such terminology I’d be accused of paranoia. pic.twitter.com/7R0tPvG8JU
He faces multiple charges, including criminal attempt to commit homicide, and four counts of aggravated assault. We're wondering why he's not charged with a hate crime… and why the media is largely ignoring the story.https://t.co/fKyjXt1aGd
I am no psychiatrist, but there is a very high incidence of schizophrenia in the black “community”. That may have been the case here (or he may just be a black lunatic who hates white/European people anyway).
'‘We are Big Marijuana,’announced Jamen Shively,a tech entrepreneur, after Washington State’s legalization of recreational marijuana in 2013. ‘We are moving forward with plans to build a national and eventually international network of cannabis businesses.'https://t.co/1V9EIzRms5
Brilliant piece on Big Dope's strong resemblance to Big Tobacco, and on the Marijuana cult which keeps people from grasping this ugly fact, by @MadeleineKearns in the US Spectator: https://t.co/1V9EIzRms5@alexberenson
IF you say so @olfurni, but I had the vaccination solely because I concluded that travel will be imposisble without it, if the borders ever reopen, and I have a particular journey I very much wish to take. https://t.co/rNwLGPJDfJ
The Zionists must love those developments in neurological science. Anyone not falling for “holocaust” fakery will, no doubt, be ordered to have their brain altered to remove all reason and scepticism…Likewise, those remembering that, in general, 1971 was better in the UK than 2001, will have to receive “treatment” in order to “remember” differently…
A straw in the wind? Crazies taking over London? Escape from New York? Still, in any possible future actual civil war or situation of complete chaos, I daresay my side would come out on top in the end. It may be decades since I myself fired an R-1 (overseas), a Browning (mainly at the Kensington Rifle and Pistol Club, now long defunct), or even a shotgun (in Ireland and rural England), but think “riding a bicycle”, I suppose. I am sure that whatever will be left, by then, of the British Army and other arms would be on our side.
Whether such a situation will arise in my own lifetime is an open question.
Is my speculation hyperbolic? Perhaps, but you only have to look at the way in which the London police have all but lost control of ordinary crime, only have to see the way the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense led to columns of black militia parading through the streets (with no police response, despite there having been a clear breach of the Public Order Act 1936) to see the way things could go…
The arguments for the BBC “licence fee” (mandatory/universal impost) are all but worthless. Independence from government? Hardy ha ha! Just look at the BBC in the past 20 years! It is effectively a Government mouthpiece, or loudhailer. Quality, as compared to commercial TV? Again, just look at most of the output! It’s terrible!
Well they have to keep us under control, don’t they? ☹️
I agree actually. Those in power, don’t like giving it up. Whether you agree with him of not, Peter Hitchens said last March, that we would struggle to get our freedoms back. And he was right.
Is cash really dangerous? Ross Clark says here that it isn't: Covid is hastening the creep towards a cashless society https://t.co/Wt1nFa7rSN via @spectator
Alas, @kevinfoyo, that last chance passed many months ago. Civil society failed to do its job in March, April and May last year, and the Health and Safety State, in which we must all obey orders In the Name of the Health of the People hardened into permanence. It has happened. https://t.co/tQBoiBn5Jq
Most 'misunderstandings' are deliberate @chubbychaserlee. People believe what they wish to believe, and blank out what they don't wish to know, and there's not much you can do about it. Hence the growing problems of universal suffrage democracy. https://t.co/KHZ1jCSF59
“Democracy” can only work where reason rules, but emotion trumps reason, and the will trumps both. I have seen, from my own experience of the past decade, that those one would have thought would base their judgments on reason (barristers, magistrates, judges, police, many others) in fact have pretty much thrown away reason, and the wish (or even ability) to use rational thought. Kneejerk reactions, mob emotionalism, and the inability to think, are almost universal now in the UK.
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.
Just a reminder that you don't have to comply just because overweight PC social workers posing as coppers tell you to. #Resistancepic.twitter.com/OYtX5jrvs3
Someone needs a history lesson. I dislike having to correct those, with some of whose views I might be in agreement, but tweeter “@TimWhit22501381” is quite wrong in his dates.
While I do not dispute the murderous nature of the Bolsheviks, nor necessarily the numbers killed under Bolshevik and Soviet rule (though numbers are always unreliable), the Bolsheviks took power in a coup d’etat about 6 months after the first revolution of 1917.
History is important. Historical facts are important.
It is true that the Afrikaaners were a hard people to like (I met quite a few in 1977, when I was in Rhodesia), but the black Africans are not capable of maintaining a civilized society of the “Western” (i.e. white European-origined) type.
The other parts of black Africa quite quickly reverted to savagery or chaos after colonies became “independent” “states”, and after most white people left. What is in black (sub-Saharan) Africa that is not savage or chaotic is, for the most part, like that because European people keep things going, either because they were born there and stayed, or are operating businesses or farms there, or are working for charities and other NGOs in those countries.
South Africa continues to decline, as it must under non-European rule. Slower, true, than has been the case in the rest of black Africa, because the proportion of Europeans is that much higher (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, never had more than about 5% of its population white, a figure now far less than 1%, in fact around a quarter of one percent).
The South Africans I really cannot bear are the English South Africans, who were always whining about both the Afrikaaners and the blacks, and about apartheid, which had its flaws but also its merits.
Now, in the UK, we see many of those English-speaking South Africans working here (eg as doctors in the NHS). They display no intent to return to work in the fake “rainbow nation” beloved of the international conspiracy, yet pretend to love what South Africa has become, and decry “racism”…
If only the South African whites had voted differently in the early 1990s and had rejected what amounted to the ANC/Mandela takeover. The whites-only referendum was close; it might have gone the other way. Then, with Soviet support (money and arms) for the ANC, SWAPO etc gone, South Africa would have been able to crush rebellion and to survive, reforming itself slowly and intelligently, under white European control.
I am more concerned that the vaccine may affect the fertility of the white European populations. I do not say that that is so, but that it may well be so.
I hate to break it to you sleepwalkers but when all the "conspiracy theories " are coming true you need to accept they were facts all along.
Yet more propaganda aimed at the destruction of our white European race and culture: the Google graphic for International Women’s Day (today, 8th of March) shows a large brown/black hand grasping an obviously white and obviously female hand (with painted nails). I suppose that it will be claimed that both hands are supposed to be female and that the picture shows “solidarity” or some such. Deliberately ambiguous…
Not only Rassenschande— another act of war against the future of Europe.
My latest book, since I wrote over half of it and edited the rest. Those who've read the proof copy agree it's even better than Deus Vult – Reconquista of the West. Order your copy today, and thanks for sharing this!https://t.co/7GRPvjNfQ7pic.twitter.com/FHoMgScnWa
I have no idea what that book may contain, but it may be worth reading. I shall probably read it at some point.
Good of you @janinethechef1, but I had hoped for a lot mpore, and there were a couple of moments when it seemed as if there was a resistance forming. But the vast propaganda resources of the other side, and their cynical use of fear, overwhelmed us. https://t.co/i9Cp4foffE
The facemask nonsense is now quite embedded, embedded by a mixture of fear propaganda, legal sanction, and the fact that you cannot even enter a supermarket (in practice) without wearing one, or half-wearing one.
I was at Waitrose a couple of days ago. Rabbits wearing facemasks even in the car park! I even saw one twenty-something jogging in from the street to the Waitrose car park wearing one! Despite the rabbit being that age, and alone in the cold darkness…Truly, those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
The NHS needs a root and branch review. Thin it out and get more money to the front line where it’s needed and not spent on pc jobs and vanity projects
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) March 7, 2021
Migrants have been rioting for 3 days now in France, MSM silent, local media calling it "urban violence". Tommy Robinson telegram pic.twitter.com/uguDfQkLck
— Tribe of Angels 🏴🇬🇧✌🏻 (@TRFlAGSHAGGER) March 7, 2021
Eventually, not today and not tomorrow, not even in 2022, but in 10-20 years, there will be a war of existential survival: European race, culture, and civilization against, not the non-whites as such, but against the enemies of European race, culture and civilization, whoever they are, wherever they are. Survival of Europe and its future, and extermination of all enemies of civilization and positive upward evolution.
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If your qualifier for being "English" is that you were born in London, then what is your qualifier for being Caribbean? https://t.co/DVLL4EBq0P
Lammy is a dim creature. Cannot even spell “Caribbean” properly…
Lammy has displayed his ignorance many times: “In 2013, Lammy accused the BBC of making a “silly innuendo about the race” on Twitter during the announcement of the next Pontiff where the BBC tweeted “will smoke be black or white?” in reference to smoke above the Sistine Chapel. Lammy criticised the BBC’s tweet as “crass and unnecessary.” He subsequently apologised after other Twitter users pointed out the role played by black and white smoke in announcing the election of a new Pope.[52][53]” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lammy#Comments_attracting_criticism].
Thick as two short planks, ignorant, unpleasant, yet there Lammy (a member of Labour Friends of Israel) sits, a Privy Councillor no less, and Shadow Lord Chancellor, though under Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer, Labour is doing even worse than it was under Corbyn, and seems (so far) to have little or no prospect of actually being able to form a government in or before 2024.
The book was written by one Henry Hemming, who has, it seems, written other non-fiction works. A youngish man, 40-41 but looking younger in the photo inside the book’s cover; the book’s blurb says almost nothing of him; Wikipedia is also rather unforthcoming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hemming].
My view? Well, a good read. Nicely written. Previous books have been written about Maxwell Knight, and I have read one of those, but about 20 years ago. Cannot recall much. This book is probably better, and certainly thicker…
There were a few things not to my liking, and which made me question the author’s grasp. One was a passage dealing with the visit of one of M’s agents to the Berchtesgaden area. The book says that there was “...a view of the Kehlsteinhaus, or Eagle’s Nest, where Hitler liked to spend much time.”
[Kehlsteinhaus, Obersalzberg, 2004]
Well, that is wrong. Hitler did not in fact spend much time there, for one thing. He used it mainly to receive (some) guests, rather than at his house, the Berghof, which was at a lower level on the mountain.
Surely Hemming cannot have confused that “teahouse” with another one, which Hitler used almost daily? “Referred to as the “D-Haus”, short for “Diplomatic Reception House”, the Kehlsteinhaus is often conflated with the teahouse on Mooslahnerkopf Hill near the Berghof,[7] which Hitler walked to daily after lunch.[8] The teahouse was demolished by the Bavarian government after the war, due to its connection to Hitler.” [Wikipedia].
The other point is that the name Kehlsteinhaus is a post-1945 one. The unofficial Third Reich name, the “Eagle’s Nest”, is Adlershorst in German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus.
Ian Robert Millard 