Category Archives: historical revisionism

Diary Blog, 5 September 2026

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

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

Only 4/10 this week, narrowly beating the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. The ones I answered correctly were numbers 3, 4, 6, and 7 (I have never seen the TV show in question 3, so my answer was a guess, maybe based on something seen subliminally in a newspaper). I really should have also scored on numbers 1 and 2, but did not recall them.

Rightful ownership?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0zxjp50j6o

A painting which was stolen by the Nazis and only recovered in Argentina last year must now be returned to the heir of its rightful owner, a court has ruled.

The late-baroque Portrait of a Lady was lost for 80 years until it was spotted in photographs of a house for sale near Buenos Aires.

The house belonged to Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of a Nazi fugitive who had fled there after the Second World War, and she has now agreed to return the painting in exchange for not being prosecuted for concealing it from the authorities.

Portrait of a Lady was among over 1,000 artworks looted from the collection of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.”

[BBC]

Is this rightful restitution, or wrongful enrichment of quasi-fraudsters and tricksters?

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Goudstikker

Of course, Argentina is very much in the Jewish/Israeli pocket these days, particularly so since the accession to power of that lunatic, Milei.

Talking point

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Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose this war.

It’s all very well for people to say, “it was ever thus“, that there were always loonies etc, but even if that be so, that does not explain the quantity. The same with stabbings in the UK; yes, there were always a few, but now they happen all over the country, several times daily, often many times daily, and often fatal. Most are done by the blacks, browns, and other non-Brits.

Jason Arday syndrome

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16019307/Ex-Labour-candidate-jailed-serial-NHS-fraud-Walter-Mitty-used-fake-Oxford-degree-land-senior-roles-swindling-taxpayers-170k-claiming-sick-leave-tiredness-anxiety.html

A former Labour parliamentary candidate has been jailed for four years after using a fake Oxford degree to land more than a dozen senior NHS roles – before going on sick leave to avoid doing the jobs.

Amran Hussain, 40, was Labour’s candidate for North East Hampshire in the 2015 general election before embarking on an eight-year campaign of fraud that cost the taxpayer £168,000.

Using fake certificates and fictitious references, he fabricated degrees from the universities of Oxford, Harvard and Birkbeck to blag his way into 13 senior NHS roles across the country…

He secured the roles despite barely doing any work, quickly going on sick leave after each appointment and remaining absent until the contract ended or was terminated.

Hussain took an astonishing 1,332 sick days (70 per cent of his days employed) by claiming he had a litany of illnesses, including post Covid-19 syndrome, tiredness, anxiety, depression, low mood, headaches, neck pain, pelvic pain, vertigo, headaches and dizziness and migraines. 

His deception finally unravelled in 2021, when Devon Partnership NHS Trust offered him a £90,000-a-year role as deputy chief operating officer and carried out checks on his application – discovering no record of his claimed job at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.

[Daily Mail]

Is that really any worse, though, than the activities of so many MPs whose CVs are either invented and full of lies (eg Iain Dunce Duncan Smith) or, while superficially accurate, embellished to the point where the CVs are near-fraudulent (David Lammy, Shabana Mahmood, Angela Rayner, and many many others)?

England’s broken justice system

I happened to see the following newspaper report:

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16102673/GP-manager-stole-designer-avoids-jail-overflowing-prisons.html

A GP practice manager who conned her NHS surgery out of a small fortune and blew it on designer goods has avoided jail because prisons are too full, a court heard. 

Helena Paiva, 33, admitted to plundering £517,260.29 from her NHS employers at the Albion Street Practice in Southwark, London, between January 23, 2023, and July 1, 2025.

Paiva, of Boxley, Kent, was spared jail and handed a suspended sentence after Judge Christopher Hehir said that the UK prisons are ‘full to bursting

Judge Hehir also ordered 20 days of rehabilitation activities and 160 hours of unpaid community work, which was reduced as she currently works as a delivery driver.

He told Paiva, who sobbed as sentence was passed: ‘You have come within a hair’s breadth of going down to the cells.”

[Daily Mail]

As I often reiterate (because many people assume, wrongly, that I believe in judicial harshness), I am generally not a “hanger and flogger”, but here we have an example of how things have slid into near-lawlessness.

When I was initially at the English Bar (early 1990s), it was a given that “breach of trust” cases of embezzlement, especially where the sums were substantial, would normally result in incarceration, yet here we have a case involving over half a million pounds, continuing for quite a while (2+ years), and the defrauding of a medical practice but also 8 actual doctors, and the defendant gets a “suspended”…

In fact, the sentence was little more severe than I got in 2024 for publishing the truth on this blog: see

and

The only aspect more severe is that that embezzler woman will have to pick up litter or do similar work for a few weeks, whereas I was excused any unpaid slave-labour.

My own sentence in 2024 (for telling the truth) was 15 “rehabilitation” “days” (in fact, each “day” was between 20 and 120 minutes, the average being about 30 minutes or so) with a young lady from the Probation Service, and a financial penalty of over £700 (about a third was crowdfunded).

Incidentally, the judge (H.H.J. Hehir) who sentenced the embezzler woman is the same as sentenced satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz in 2019. Over 7 years ago. How time flies! See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-47230443.

Stray thought from 2025

Stray thought

Idly listening in the car to the woman presenter on Radio 3, who mentioned “this Christmas and Hannukah“…

The (((occupation))) is really embedded in this country now…

Incidentally, “Hannukah” has no similarity to Christmas, and is a celebration of an ancient Jewish revolt against, and then military victory over, non-Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah.”

[from this blog; published last December]

I just happened to notice that sub-section from a previous blog post, and I wonder how many members of the general public are aware of the facts noted.

Late tweets seen

I was critical on the blog years ago (and also on Twitter, pre-2018) of pseudo-conservative slither-creature Fraser Nelson. Completely NWO/ZOG.

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Diary Blog, 3 September 2026

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[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia; footpath in a residential zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademgorodok]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

Overall, stands up pretty well 2 years on, if I myself say so.

On the blog 1 year ago

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People laugh, now, but will humanity be laughing at robot creatures with AI capability in 2076 or 2126?

[“Iran is a hard nut for the US because it does not need to win a conventional war. It only needs to make victory too expensive.


It is a large, mountainous country with a population of ~90 million — far harder to invade or occupy than Iraq. Its strategy is attrition: cheap ballistic missiles and one-way drones force the US to spend million-dollar interceptors. The IRGC’s “mosaic” defense is decentralized, so killing leaders does not stop the fight.


The real leverage is the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil normally flows. Iran can disrupt global energy markets with mines, small boats and coastal missiles without matching US air or naval power.


The 2026 war showed the pattern: US and Israeli strikes damaged facilities and killed the supreme leader, but the government survived, reconstituted enough missiles and drones, and used the strait as a bargaining chip.

Sanctions have lasted decades; Iran adapted. Government change or lasting control of the waterway would require costs — troops, munitions, oil shock, regional war — that Washington has so far been unwilling to pay, especially with China as the larger priority.


That is why Iran remains a hard target: not because it is stronger, but because it can outlast the political and economic price of being broken
.”]

More or less what I have been blogging for the past few years.

Berners-Lee instead of Beckham, so to speak. I like that.

…especially if those Western states arm, equip, and fund the dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky, and encourage it in its activities.

Strange photo. Who is Zelensky calling a “cuck”?…

I wonder what might be the provenance of those lawyers…judging by legal activity of that sort in recent years, at least in the UK, probably mostly Jewish.

Individuals of non-European origin should not be allowed to become ministers or MPs, or even to vote.

Candidate A— Jewish. Candidate B— Somalian.

Where are the English?

This country needs revolutionary social nationalism. We have to take back control from a coalition of enemies.

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[aerial view of Akademgorodok, Western Siberia, in winter]

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That Jew is the son of the Israeli Prime Minister of the same name. Remarkable ignorance. The Falklands, whatever one’s views about them, are scarcely “a bunch of rocks“, having an area of 4,700 square miles, about the same size as Devon and Cornwall combined (Israel/Palestine has 8,019 sq. miles).

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

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

Incidentally, Israel is no ally of the UK. It sold Exocet missiles to Argentina during the Falklands War, now supports (for its own reasons) Milei, the mentally-unstable clown who presently occupies the office of President of Argentina, and was built partly on Jew-Zionist anti-British terrorism, as evidenced below:

Enemies of the British people.

We’re back.

Farage is a waste of space, but I hope that he and Reform weaken, perhaps terminally, the old System parties, and the System body politic itself, thus allowing real social nationalism to finally emerge in full strength.

[“IN UKRAINE 🇺🇦 a shootout occurred between 2 law enforcement agencies. Officers from the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) opened fire against officers from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR). At least 10 officers are receiving treatment for bullet wounds. The conflict is related to SBU arresting Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) – a paramilitary special forces unit in GUR consisting of russians fighting for #Ukraine 🇺🇦 The commander of GUR SOF unit “Timur” and the commander of SBU “Alpha” Unit allegedly met and “solved the misunderstanding in relation to the arrest of Kaplunov and agreed on future cooperation. The next morning, SBU officers started arresting unarmed members of GUR. When the GUR officers started resisting, #SBU opened fire – also against unarmed members of #GUR who had “their hands up”.”]

A shambolic and brutal dictatorship which must be crushed as soon as possible.

[“Jason Arday reviewed and approved this student’s PhD thesis, which portrays black women taking trips to London and attending potlucks as forms of “marronage”—the historical practice of Africans fleeing enslavement. The 70K-word thesis is based on conversations with just 3 black women, which were converted into poems and then, after being infused with the author’s own subjective experiences, analyzed via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The thesis can only be described as a tribute to black women such as herself, channeled through an amalgam of slam poetry and activism. She describes her research project in bizarre terms such as: “a lament, a war cry, a chant and a belly laugh” and “a joyful, painful rupture, a disruption, a deliberate transgression, a riff, and a drum beat… a prayer for all we have lost and for all that we can be.”

She is also openly hostile to academic rigor, quoting other scholars when admitting that her project “does not align with notions of ‘neutral’ research or ‘objective’ researchers.”

Academic standards, such as “marking criteria, rubrics and journal requirements that favour written knowledge over that which is communicated creatively (i.e. through painting or performance)” and also “notions that knowledge must be scientifically tested and proven to meet coloniality’s contorted standards of fact” are deemed by her to be forms of colonial oppression.

This raises the question: Why is Cambridge awarding its highest academic credential to a project whose author openly presents accepted academic standards as oppressive constraints to be undermined and resisted? It’s clear the problem of academic standards at Cambridge wasn’t isolated to the case of Jason Arday, but appears to be a form of systemic rot.

Because the thesis was suddenly embargoed for the next 5 years immediately when the Arday scandal broke, we are legally unable to share it in its entirety. So we have performed a very long and thorough exegesis of it, which you can read at the link below. 🔗https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an“]

https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an

It is all very well to talk about academic freedom etc, and in general I approve of it, but it is clear that the universities, Cambridge in particular, have become a swamp which must be drained and cleared of trash.

[“This highlights a very serious problem in higher education brought about via DEI, which is that the damage done by hiring totally unqualified people does not remain isolated.

These people serve on hiring committees, and third-rate academics hire fourth-rate academics.

They also serve on dissertation committees, where they rubber stamp complete ideological nonsense like a PhD theses that converted conversations with 3 black women into poems and anaylzed it via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The rot is so systemic that it can likely only be fixed by tearing up the foundation and starting over. There just aren’t any serious adults in these departments to bring about internal reform. The inmates are running the asylum, as they say.”]

[“The Jewish dancer in Kiev has literally brought Ukraine to the brink of the abyss. Incredible footage.“]

[“Will the people finally say to Russia, “Help, save us”? We’ll see.”]

The Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev has pretty much run out of soldiers (front-line cannon-fodder), so kidnaps men off the street. To be “recruited” and then sent to those crumbling front lines is a near death-sentence, of course. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men daily (dead, badly wounded, or captured). More desert, despite the penalties if caught.

The poor bastard “recruited” in the clip shown will probably not survive until this time next year, or even to the end of this year.

Nick Griffin’s latest blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/demographic-winter-just-how-cold

Important issues. See also:

Talking point

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Never say never“, they say, and they are right; “all comes to him who waits“, they say, and they are right. After all these years, I finally hear Diane Abbott say something with which I am in full agreement.

A number of loosely-connected and supposedly “true” events, many of which however never happened at all, and others which did happen but which were hugely exaggerated. Invented and put out as propaganda during or, mostly, after the Second World War; packaged-up and given the capital letter “Holocaust”; given out to as if holy writ to schoolchildren who are specifically told not to question the supposed “historical facts” taught to them.

Many of the said “facts” are not really facts at all, and many of the supposedly “true events” experienced by so-called “survivors” were hoaxes, made up by the supposed “survivors” in an attempt (in many cases, successful initially) to get money or attention, or both. Another motive has often been to encourage support for the post-1948 Israeli state.

Late music

[Arnold Bocklin, Villa by the Sea]

Diary Blog, 1 September 2026

Afternoon music

[Chopin Memorial, Lazienki Park, Warsaw]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Incidentally, that NHS doctor, Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, will be on trial at the Old Bailey in March 2027. She has a crowdfunder running: https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state.

Tweets seen

https://tass.com/defense/2180265

Clown.

More Israeli war crimes.

Good riddance.

[“SHOCKING: Katie’s Hopkins news this morning following court case.

This is a lesson for all those attempting to sabotage someone’s career and life.

Katie Hopkins has taken to social media with the following statement.

STATEMENT FROM KATIE HOPKINS

A ‘man’ responsible for pressurising my venues to cancel has been found GUILTY of FOUR counts of blackmail by a jury at Southampton Crown Court.

Blackmail is a serious criminal offence and carries a prison term. Sentencing is on 16 October 2026.

I remind those pressurising venues to cancel performers: this is a criminal act.

I require theatres that were cowed by one criminal, to reinstate my fully sold-out shows.

I thank the Crown Prosecution Service and Dorset Police for being splendid.

And to the jury, God speed in all you do.

STATEMENT ENDS

Having worked with Katie Hopkins I am thrilled that the Jury came to the right decision. She is a warm, kind and superb woman with exceptional talent.

This sets precedent and I encourage anyone facing similar challenges to take action.

Finally, go see her show. Best belly laugh you’ll get!

Justice!“]

Of course, most such “cancelling” or pressuring of venues etc is done by the malicious Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, in particularly the liars and perjurers of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

David Icke, Gilad Atzmon, Alison Chabloz and many others have suffered such attacks.

Even I myself, when I was in my early 20s (late 1970s) and had my own small party.

Yes, that does mean that such Jew-Zionist tactics preceded the establishment of the “CAA”. The Jew-Zionist troublemakers were “at it” even in the 1950s (against Oswald Mosley, Colin Jordan etc) and, indeed, in the 1930s (against Mosley and his BUF and others) and even in the 1920s (in the UK, but also, and more so, in Germany, against the then-small NSDAP led by Adolf Hitler).

Years ago, I described Trump as “a loudly squawking parrot in a gilded cage, and guarded by a phalanx of Jews“, and I have seen little since then that might cause me to revise that view.

The System parties, especially Labour, are pretending that the migration invasion is not a major issue, has no real downside, or at least is being “handled”. All lies.

It may be time for a “fourth Reich”…

Late tweets

In the words of the great Basil Brush, “Boom BOOM!“…

Good.

Late talking point

Starmer-stein is utterly clueless both on domestic policy and foreign policy, a fact which I noted on the blog about 5 years ago, long before the bastard managed to fool 4 out of every 20 people to vote Labour in 2024.

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Diary Blog, 31 August 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

Tweets seen

There may be quibbles about details, but correct overall.

In an ideal scenario, the animal-abusing “coachman” (tourist-trap criminal) would be beaten and kicked into the gutter where he belongs.

Those Mediterranean peoples are only semi-European, really.

Ellwood, a former MP (until voted out) NWO/ZOG monkey-on-a-stick, who is a Reserves officer in the manipulative and dishonest 77th Brigade (which pumps out disguised official propaganda on social media etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)

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

Tugendhat similar. A quarter-Jew, Israel-lobby, MP (and one-time “chocolate soldier”).

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

Both seem to have, or have had, links to SIS. I am unable to give much chapter and verse, but look carefully at —even— their Wikipedia entries.

…as predicted several years ago on this blog.

As to the swimming, it is no mystery— their bones are heavier (greater bone density). One reason why many of the top boxers are black.

Israeli? Official or freelance?

This is what the BBC and similar propagandists think is wonderful…

Yes. He’s an idiot, as is hugely overpaid Jeremy Vine. Someone in private security once told me that Madeley was certainly guilty of having been a repeat shoplifter in 1994, despite his having been acquitted by a jury (double hearsay, yes…so be it).

As blogged previously, close down this stupid noisy disruption and, if some of the blacks riot in consequence, shoot them down in the street as consequence. Restore order.

Announcement

Those who occasionally email me should be aware that, for reasons unknown, my email is at present (as of this evening) not working properly. I cannot access any messages.

I have no idea what the problem is, but will keep you informed.

Diary Blog, 30 August 2026

Morning music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations]
[River Severn]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Reminiscence (a blog post from 2018, and about an event in 1992)

Talking point

Keep importing inferior populations from the worst parts of the world and you will soon see how fragile civilization is— and I do not mean by reason of protests or other resistance by English people. I mean that the sheer weight of numbers of the migrant-invaders and the nature of their cultural, political, and religious norms will destroy our civilized, white European, English/British society utterly, even if there were to be no more protests at all by English/British people.

You can see what is already happening in our society, and again I am not referring to the protests. Consider what this society will be like in 4, 5, 10, 20, 50 years. Dystopian.

[from this blog in 2025]

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LONDON, August 29. /TASS/. The number of incidents in which AI agents ignored instructions and lied to users, employing malicious methods to achieve their goals, reached a record high in July, exceeding 330 incidents in a single month, The Guardian reported, citing a study by the UK-based AI Safety Institute (AISI).

The study notes that the number of such incidents nearly doubled compared to the previous month, amid reports of hacking attacks, including those carried out by cutting-edge AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Scientists also uncovered a disturbing incident related to an attack on the machine learning platform Hugging Face, in which more than 700 autonomous OpenAI agents, having gone rogue, continued to secretly coordinate their actions in a private messaging app they had created, sending each other messages like “Boom!” and “Whoa!!” when successful attacks on Hugging Face occurred.”

https://tass.com/society/2179365

[TASS/Guardian]

Stories of that sort should be getting far wider exposure than they are.

Another interesting travel vlog

As with their previous vlog about Iran, aspects of the country not usually seen.

Diary Blog, 29 August 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

This week, political journalist John Rentoul scored one of his rare victories over me: his score was 6/10, mine only 5./10 (and two of those were guesses). My correct answers were numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8.

Talking point

It is rare for me to see the tweets of ex-officer and military-history writer Adrian Weale; even rarer for me to agree with any. Still, credit where due; I saw two yesterday (including 2 retweets) with both of which I agreed…

The first such tweet (and retweet) seen (referring to the effective dismissal of an academic for speaking sense about Jason Arday and similar matters):

See also:

The second tweet (and retweet), which also refers to the Jason Arday nonsense at Cambridge:

[“I think what’s happened is that, for a variety of reasons, the academy has lost the sense of what it is there for, which is to act as the guardian and proponent of best intellectual practice.

Much of that is because of the Gramscian ‘march through the institutions’ which has taken place over the last 80 years or so, which has had a devastating effect. Importing Marxian and Neo-Marxian dogma into the academy was guaranteed to dumb it down catastrophically and has left us, in the social sciences at least, with a self-marking come-as-you-are party for some of the most illiberal, narcissistic, corrupt perverts and weirdos ever to obtain academic tenure.”]

Britain in 2026

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crime-spree-pensioner-kicked-robbery-37605890

A sacked care worker broke into his former patients’ homes to rob them and kicked a blind wheelchair user in spate of robberies days after he lost his job.

Ediongseyene Essien broke into the homes of four elderly and disabled victims the day after he was suspended from work, even smashing down the back door of a petrified couple in their 80s to steal their money. Weeks later, Essien pretended to still be another ex-patient’s carer before kicking him to force his way into the home.

Laura Atherton, prosecuting, said the occupant, a wheelchair user and former patient of the defendant, was in bed when Essien gained entry by using a key stored in a coded safe outside the property. He subsequently took the man’s bank card, which was later used to make a series of purchases at Bargain Booze and L7 Village Market in Fairfield.

Earlier that same day, Essien was said to have called at the home of an 88 year old woman and her 85 year old husband, also a wheelchair user, at around 3pm and let himself in before departing. He returned at 9pm and began “ringing the doorbell and waving through the window” before coming back roughly 20 minutes later, at which point he kicked at the back door until he succeeded in smashing a glass pane.

The female occupant was left screaming for help as a result, with Essien having stolen the man’s wallet, which contained £200, before fleeing. In a statement read to the court on her behalf, she described how the ordeal had “completely devastated their lives”. She added: “We welcomed this man into our house and treated him with nothing but kindness and trust. To have this trust betrayed is heartbreaking.

“The feeling of absolute helplessness in that moment was truly awful. My home, which I loved and cherished, is no longer my safe place. Due to our age, disabilities and severe mobility issues, we are unable to leave the house. We are trapped in the very place this trauma occurred. He robbed an elderly couple of their peace, comfort and safety in their final years.”

Essien was arrested in relation to this series of burglaries before being released on bail, after which he turned up at the home of a blind cerebral palsy sufferer in Edge Hill shortly after 2pm on May 15. Having assumed that someone repeatedly pressing his doorbell was one of his carers, the occupant made his way to his front door in his wheelchair before explaining that he had cancelled his scheduled visits for that day.

Essien insisted he had been “sent to check on” the man and proceeded to force his way inside, kicking the victim out of the way as he did so. He then rushed in and took £90 in cash before fleeing the property.

This victim described in his own statement how he had “not slept properly since” and was now “very nervous and anxious”. With his aunt, whom he had previously lived with for 30 years, having passed away in March of this year, he added: “I just hope he doesn’t get away with it. I’m very wary of new carers. I’m scared he will come back.”

At approximately 5pm the same day, Essien then targeted a “highly vulnerable” woman who was “small in stature” as she made her way home after visiting a nearby shop.

He snatched her handbag, which contained £40 in cash and her bank cards, “forcefully pulling it from her grasp” when she attempted to fend him off with her walking stick.

Her shopping bag was torn during the struggle, sending its contents scattering across the pavement. She told the court in her statement: “I’ve lost any independence I had before. I used to go out to the local shop and attend various community activities.

“As a result of this, I’ve felt very anxious at even the thought of going out on my own. I have to ask staff in my supported accommodation to go out to the shop for me. I’m a very vulnerable person. I feel that the person has seen me as an easy target, which is why he’s attacked me. I fear someone will see me as an easy target again.

Essien admitted two counts of robbery, four of burglary and a charge of fraud. Appearing via video link to HMP Liverpool, he was seen holding his head in his hands before he was jailed for eight years and handed restraining orders which will ban him from contacting his victims for the next decade.

[defendant]

A useless and in fact dangerous low-IQ parasite, let into the UK by “dirty democratic politicians”, in Hitler’s well-known description.

The judge was told that, upon serving a third of his sentence, the defendant would probably be deported. Maybe so (I wonder, though), but I say don’t send it back to Africa. Put it up against a wall. In public.

We, the ever-dwindling real people of these islands, have to retake control, whatever it takes.

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I wonder what today’s equivalent would be. I certainly doubt that reality has much crept in, reading how the trashier parts of the Press (Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Star etc) are enthusiastically advising their (mostly pensioner-) readers about plans to introduce conscription and food rationing by reason of the “Russian threat” (which only exists because UK governments have been provoking Russia since at least 2014 —and, arguably, since 1991).

MAFF was the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food until 2002.

Officialdom , the Westminster monkeyhouse, and the msm in the UK seem to think (or pretend to the public) that fighting a war against Russia (a Russia with ~7,000 nuclear weapons, apart from anything else) and when the UK these days scarcely has an army, navy, or air force, will be a slightly updated version of the Battle of Britain, the Normandy Landings, El Alamein, or even the Western Front circa 1916.

Regular readers of the blog know my views on this: take away Zelensky’s ricebowl, focus on improving relations with Russia, leave NATO, arrange for cost-price gas and maybe oil from Russia, and find in Russia a massive market for UK goods and services (even more so if the EU states and Americans continue to apply punitive sanctions against Russia).

Britain still has a nuclear deterrent with maybe 150 submarine-launched missiles available (altogether), and that (once the Americans are shown the door) can be, for the first time in decades, a truly independent deterrent, akin to the French force de frappe. A backstop. Enough.

Late tweets

[“One evening in the biting winter cold of 2014, I went down to Maidan with my Ukrainian translator and her mother. It was packed, lively like a festival. “What do you think of all this?” My translator asked me as her mother waved a large Ukrianian flag above her head.

“It won’t end well.” I replied.

After covering Libya, Syria, you get to know the political movements that will only lead a country to ruin. An alliance of foreign money, oligarchs and ultra nationalist extremists was clearly in that bracket.

I asked my translators lovely mother why she supported it. She said something along the lines of “Europe is richer than Russia. And I like going on holiday there.” She had little magnets of the places she’d been to on her fridge. London, Paris, Spain. They were sold a dream of a bright European future.

I was there when a statue of Lenin was pulled down in the late evening. With a truck and some chains. Down it fell and people cheered as it shattered on the ground. I picked up a piece. I think I’ve still got it at home. But most Ukrainians didn’t want their statues pulled down. It wasn’t what it was supposed to be about. Or rather it was. But they didn’t know it.

The East rose. Crimea lost. More statues pulled down. And eight years later, the real slaughter began.

The ukrainians I know have already fled abroad. Those who claim to support Ukraine want them to stay and die.

The dream turned to ashes by the inevitable hammer blow of political reality and great nation politics. People manipulated and left for dead for a misplaced chess move on the geopolitical map.

And those who speak sense are silenced. Sometimes fatally. They’ll silence the wise in order to manipulate the politically illiterate. Then give them flags to wave. And nations fall.

Blame whoever you want. But it’s a hell of tragedy. Other nations beware.”]

[“Decisions are not being thought through”

NATO lacks strategic thinking, according to statements made in Europe. The organization is not prepared to take responsibility for the inevitable retaliatory strikes by Russia against Ukraine, believes Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of Southeast Norway.

“What is the point of escalating the conflict by striking Russian civilian infrastructure, when Moscow far surpasses Kyiv in terms of air power, and Ukraine does not even have adequate air defense? These decisions are not being thought through… The NATO elite always goes from euphoria during reckless escalation to crocodile tears when a retaliatory strike is necessary,” he wrote on social media.”]

Diary Blog, 28 August 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

[“Gerasimov “outlines” operation for the final liberation of Donbas.

ATTACK ON THE SLAVYANSK-KRAMATORSK AGGLOMERATION HAS ALREADY BEGUN – A RUSSIAN INVASION OF THE CHERNIGOV REGION IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
Valery Gerasimov

  • A group of Russian units, “South,” has breached the first Ukrainian defensive line in several places near Slaviansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkovka. Around these three western Donbas cities, the Ukrainians have built an entire system of interconnected “deep fortifications.”

Valery GERASIMOV: Troops of the “South” group, advancing along a wide front of approximately 160 kilometers in several directions simultaneously, are now successfully destroying enemy forces east of Kramatorsk. Our forward assault groups are already fighting at the local airport, which is only three kilometers from the city limits. Our artillery is targeting logistical routes, cutting off the Ukrainian garrison from supplies.“]

May be important.

[“Mohsen Rezai, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran: If the blockade continues, we will strike at the economic interests of the United States with 100% certainty and with full force.

During the ceasefire period, we broke through the naval blockade and were able to export approximately 70-80 million barrels of oil.

The volume of oil sales has returned to the level that existed before the sanctions were imposed. In addition, in addition to unloading floating reserves, we have created new export routes, the volume of which is gradually increasing.”]

[“The wealthy buy their way out. The poor are sent to the grinder of war.

In the Ukraine, this has been dubbed “beadification” – when people are taken directly from the streets: near shops, at bus stops, on their way home or to work.

Some end up within this system of forced mobilization because they lack money, connections, and the ability to find alternative options. Others, with resources, find ways to obtain deferments, obtain documents, or avoid participating in combat.

Within Ukrainian society, there are accusations that money can solve problems that, for ordinary people, become a matter of life and death. Amounts ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars are mentioned for various ways to avoid being sent to the front lines.

And this is the main conflict of any protracted war: decisions are made at the top, while people at the bottom bear the most severe consequences.

Some determine the strategy, while others receive summons. Some talk about grand goals, while others find themselves on the front lines.

When the rules become different for those who have money and those who don’t, the word “Ukrainian solidarity” begins to sound increasingly contradictory.

Because any war, first and foremost, tests not only the army but also the fairness of society – are all willing to pay the same price for the decisions that are made?

So, the question to the Ukrainian people themselves: be honest – do you truly believe that the corrupt system is fair, in which some make decisions about the war, others find ways to avoid its consequences, and a third group ends up in the meat grinder for the benefit of Western interests?“]

The corrupt, shambolic, and brutal “Ukrainian” (Kiev regime) dictatorship.

I am disgusted by the behaviour of those in UK political life, such as “Boris”-idiot, Starmer-stein, and stupid Burnham, who are fuelling the Kiev regime.

Quite. Burnham has made the UK far less safe or secure. He is just another monkey-on-a-stick posing as statesman.

A real British government, a social nationalist government, would take control, take charge, clear the streets, and send the feral “chavscum” families involved to concentration camps, or just shoot them.

We cannot honestly say that we shall deal with the criminal predators of black, brown, and gypsy/”traveller” origins, yet not deal with the out-of-control elements within the (real) British population.

Most, if not all, of those involved in this continuing violence are known to the police. They should be either removed from society or eliminated.

They are invaders, and should be treated as such.

Ban it and, if the feral blacks then riot, shoot them down in the streets. (in an ideal world…we know that that will never happen under the existing system, which is suffused with compromise, including compromise with evil).

Incidentally, the woman shown is either a Commander or possibly a Deputy Assistant Commissioner (cannot see her shoulder insignia clearly). I think that her name-tag says “Commander”.

High-ranking, anyway.

The enemies of Western Civilization, condemned out of their own mouths.

Not, however, the only enemies of Western Civilization. Arguably, though, the main enemy.

I wonder what (((type of individual))) instigated that initiative? “They” infest both agencies, and have done for decades.

Talking point

Not to the horde of “anti-racist” dimwits and virtue-signallers who have been ordering advance copies at about £20 a go. Thousands of copies, perhaps tens of thousands, have already been sold, despite the fact that it seems that the book is a ludicrous farrago of lies.

The same types have been contributing to the crowdfunder set up ostensibly for “his family” (though I read that he himself had more or less abandoned them). It reached well over £224,400 before coming to a halt several days ago (still open but no donations for the past 4 days).

The logical end of the untruthfulness contained in “anti-racism”— the truth considered not really important; what matters, they all think, is the stance, the approved line.

Rather like the “holocaust” lies and hoaxes, really. Or the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic. Or 99% of the “trans” nonsense.

One sees a whole society losing its grasp on reality.

The kefuffle around the ridiculous fake “black professor” and his fantasy “memoirs” reminds me of a book I myself bought in 2001— Jihad! I thought when I read it that it did not ring true (small details, adding up), and then the truth emerged on BBC Newsnight and in the Press: it was a fraud by a Walter Mitty who had (I think) never been in (as claimed) the SAS.

Why did Jihad! get published, when the publisher was aware of its likely lack of truth? To make money, as I believe both he and the author did. No doubt the same is true of the Jason Arday “memoirs”.

According to ever-useful Google AI:

“The book you are looking for is Jihad! – The Secret War in Afghanistan, written under the pen name Tom Carew. [1]

The Fraud Exposed

The Exposure: Originally published in late 2000 (and distributed heavily as a bestseller into 2001), the memoir unraveled in November 2001. A BBC Newsnight television investigation exposed his true identity. Real SAS veterans recognized him and publicly debunked his operational claims. He famously walked out of the live television interview when confronted with the evidence

The Author: The book was actually written by Philip Anthony Sessarego, a former Royal Artillery soldier. He had tried and failed the grueling SAS entrance exams twice. [1, 2]

The Claims: Sessarego claimed to be a 14-year veteran of the Special Air Service (SAS). He claimed he had spent the 1970s and 1980s conducting “black bag” covert operations and training the Afghan mujahideen to fight Soviet forces. [1]

After the BBC exposure in November 2001, Philip Sessarego withdrew from the public spotlight and lived a secretive, impoverished life in Belgium until his death in 2008. Because he had already faked his own death once before in the 1990s, his final demise sparked significant mystery and skepticism. [1, 2, 3, 4]

New Alias: Sessarego fled the British media and flitted around Belgium using the assumed name Philip Stephenson.
Odd Jobs: Living in relative poverty, he worked under the nickname “Phil the trooper” around the harbor of Antwerp. He scraped by doing a variety of jobs, running “survival” training courses, and selling ex-army surplus military materials

The Discovery: In November 2008, his landlord went to a rented, wooden lock-up garage in the Ekeren area of Antwerp to collect unpaid rent. Inside, police discovered a severely decomposed body that had lain there since the summer. [1, 2]

  • Cause of Death: Investigators determined that Sessarego had been clandestinely living inside the garage. His death was ruled an accident, believed to have been caused by accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 55 years old.

He must have spent his advance and royalties quite fast to be broke only 6-7 years later.

Ah. Just discovered from Wikipedia that Sessarego’s ghostwriter was Adrian Weale, who has produced a number of military histories and other works, some of which are very hostile to National Socialism.

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

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

Wikipedia seems to have a quite balanced assessment of Sessarego.

As for Weale, despite having been an officer in the (British Army) Intelligence Corps, he (to my mind, anyway) evidently was completely fooled by Sessarego; at least, he seems to have swallowed the “SAS” aspects of Sessarego’s memoirs whole. One has to wonder whether he has been equally uncritical in respect of claims made re. the Third Reich etc.

[Update, same day: amazingly, and completely co-incidentally (if one believes in co-incidences), Weale has, only a day or so ago, been engaging in Twitter/X conversations about the Arday’s memoirs, Jihad!, Sessarego, and like matters:

What makes the synchronicity even more striking is that I have not seen tweets by either Weale or the odd (and derivative) spy fiction/non-fiction writer, Jeremy Duns, for many months; maybe a year or more.]

Late tweets

“They” have to be stopped, both in the Middle East and in Europe (etc).

Late music

[Victor Ostrovsky, Playing it Close; who knows what will be the next card played?]

Diary Blog, 27 August 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Sent by a regular reader of the blog

Worth seeing.

More accurate to say, re. that first vlog post, though, that Correlli Barnett said that, after 1945, Britain could have done one or two of three possible policy choices, but not all three:

  1. Regenerate British industry;
  2. Maintain Britain as a world power;
  3. Establish or increase the scope of the Welfare State.

Britain post-1945 tried to do all three, thus could not properly or fully do any.

The vlogger there, though, persists in saying that Britain “won the war“. Very doubtful in the details: without Soviet power, aided and abetted by vast American power, Britain could not have contemplated even continuing to prosecute the war after 1940, let alone the invasion of mainland Europe as happened in 1943 (Sicily/Italy) and 1944 (Normandy).

It is, however, obviously very true that National Socialist Germany, the Third Reich, lost the war.

Late tweets seen

Untermenschen raus!

Stupid Andy Burnham is now hoping to build 70,000 new social housing units, but most will go to non-whites/non-Brits. Apart from that, the “green and pleasant land” will be trashed even more than at present.

I wonder how many unthinking idiots think that Burnham has “solved” the “asylum hotels” problem.

Well, what did anyone expect?

British governments have not only been giving arms, ammunition, money, and other items to the Kiev regime since 2022, but are now supplying blueprints for long-range and highly destructive missiles, and expressing the hope that those weapons will be used deep inside Russia against Russian civilians and high-value economic as well as military targets.

The anti-Russia policies of the “British” governments, since 2014, in fact —not just 2022— have been mad, and run entirely contra the interests of the British people.

[population expressed in millions of inhabitants]

…and few Ukrainian women are having children. Demographic collapse is likely.

Late music

Diary Blog, 25 August 2026

Morning music

[cows rest in the shade near the walls of Beaulieu Palace House, Hampshire]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Talking point

A revolution is not a sudden eruption, but the accumulation of silent changes that suddenly become visible.”

[Alexis de Tocqueville]

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

Travel vlog— Birobidzhan

Interesting, as with their other travel vlog posts, though —as before— there is a degree of naivety (re. Stalin, Lenin, Third Reich, though in different ways).

In fact, the husband of the vlogging couple, “Matt”, describes the idea of Lenin being Jewish as something put out by “conspiracy theorists“. No, it is not a conspiracy theory but (partly-) true. Lenin was a part-Jew. His mother’s name was Blank, but she too was not full-Jew, just part (and possibly “crypto”).

Turns out that Birobidzhan, the Jewish “autonomous” area set up by Stalin in the Soviet Far East, now has relatively few Jews, the rest having decamped to Israel since the 1980s.

Birobidzhan is actually just the city, not the name of the oblast, but is the name customarily used for both.

The oblast is only small by comparison with the whole of Siberia, or the whole of Russia: 14,000 square miles, so nearly twice the size of Wales (8,000 sq. miles) or New Jersey (8,700 sq. miles).

According to Wikipedia, as of 2021 the oblast had about 150,000 inhabitants, of which half lived in the city, and only 837 of which were Jews.

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

Actually, Birobidzhan, the main town or city, though rather rundown, is not terrible, and resembles most other Soviet or ex-Soviet urban areas.

Tweets seen

The UK is doing more than selling armaments to the Kiev regime. It is encouraging the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime to target, ever more deeply, Russian territory, attacking Russian cities, installations, and civilians.

Giving arms and money to the Zelensky regime is, in context, close to an act of war, as is giving that regime blueprints to make long-range ballistic missiles in the full knowledge (and actually expressed) that those missiles will be, and should be, used against Russia.

What the UK governments, since 2014, and especially 2022, have been doing in relation to the conflict (one-sided support for the Kiev regime) is mad, and counter to all British interests.

In fact, this is an international and multinational NWO/ZOG (New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government) operation, targeting Russia and its future.

What Burnham and virtually the whole political/msm class in Britain are doing is crazy from one point of view (the point of view of what is best for Britain and its people), but deliberate and co-ordinated from another.

“...and none dare call it treason“…

Craig Murray was once H.M. Ambassador to Uzbekistan [2002-2004], did 4 months (of an 8-month sentence) in prison in 2021 for contempt of court arising out of the Alex Salmond sex assault trial, and is now a particularly prolific and financially-successful blogger etc.

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

Old Laurens van der Post certainly seems to have been a bit naughty at times…

See also:

In big-picture terms, all correct.

One might quibble about bits of those tweets, but overall— correct.

Sikorski, a Pole, is married to the Jewish writer, Anne Applebaum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rados%C5%82aw_Sikorski

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

The disconnect between the picture of Kiev-regime Ukraine painted by the UK’s lying mass media (a besieged and brave democracy with human rights, fighting an evil monster ruling an evil tyranny) and the reality (a corrupt, shambolic, brutal dictatorship where elections are never held, where men are kidnapped off the street and brutalized before being sent to die on the crumbling front-lines of an unwinnable war, and where opponents of the regime are locked-up or shot) is staggering.

I can see that the judges are now getting very restrictive about what defendants-in-person and even barristers are “allowed” (by the trial judge) to say in putting the defence case at such trials; “political trials” if you like, or semi-political. The recent Greenstein case, involving alleged vocal support for HAMAS, was one such: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwym4gg7vr1o.

The Greenstein case is interesting also because not only was the defendant, though anti-Israel, a Jew, but so was the presiding judge at trial (H.H.J. Sarah Plaschkes).

A Jewish judge presiding over a trial the subject matter of which was, or involved, Israel, Gaza, HAMAS etc. Was that “justice not only done but also seen to be done“? In the event, the question falls, Greenstein having been acquitted.

Interesting in view of the Jewish/Israeli connections around both Trump and the Argentine President, Milei.

It is suggested that Jewish interests are buying up vast tracts of land in Argentina, a country the 8th-largest in the world (12x the size of the UK), and much of which is given over to cattle ranching.

News which will probably not be reported in the UK msm.

Maybe he would like to follow the lead of his new “friend”, the Jew Zelensky, and simply ban elections. He certainly “does politics differently”…anyone seriously opposing him gets imprisoned or shot.

[“Middlesbrough is a small town

Many if us know our police officers

On Saturday morning almost everyone i have ever known was messaging about the crash on the A66

By midday most of us who live in the area knew who was involved

Many of us have had to put up with their crap everyday for years

Many of us have known about those 5 murderers for a while . . . Including me

So here is a list of their CONVICTIONS prior to Saturday morning

Cole Robert Worthy –

Threatening/abusive language

Failing to surrender

ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER

Driving without a licence

No insurance

Driving without reasonable consideration(using a mobile phone while driving)

Makai Saddington –

Possession of a Class C drug

Possession of a KNIFE in public

Three counts of ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER in October 2025

ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER in June 2026

Racially aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress)

Theo Rae –

12 shoplifting offences

3 thefts from motor vehicles

1 theft of a vehicle

Possession of cannabis

Two counts of aggravated vehicle taking

Conviction of an offence while a youth rehabilitation order was in force- ASSAULT ON A FEMALE POLICE OFFICER

Jacob Matusiak –

Using a vehicle without insurance

Driving without a licence

Some list isnt it?

You are probably wondering how they where still on the streets because you are a rational human being and not some feral mutant?

How where they free men?

How where they in a position to kill two police officers by driving down the wrong side of the motor way at speed?

I have asked myself these questions many times over the last few years

What the list doesnt show is how much they actually get away with. It is so much worse than this

Do you know how messed up you need to be to get 12 shoplifting convinctions?

People barely report this stuff anymore because we KNOW nothing will happen. Look at the convictions and tell me im wrong

So many of them should result in long prison sentences but our prisons are full. We cant put them away. The absolute worst in society are not being punished, they havent been for a long long time

The criminal “justice” system is a joke in this country. It has failed so many of us. Rpists amd murderers being released early. Pdophiles getting community service (yep)

Are we even a real country?

12 arrests were made today. A good start

The town of Middlesbrough needs this numbers to go up by the hundreds and it needs to happen FAST

You know who they are

You know where they live

You know what they have done

You know what they will continue to do

People are being terrorised by them RIGHT NOW as I type this message

Round them up and put them in a dark hole before many more innocent people get hurt

Then apply this to every area of the United Kingdom

Call it operation cockroach, I wont even trade mark the name. Its yours

The knock on effect of putting bad people in jail is monumental

It can change the country over night

Families can breathe
They can walk outside safely
Kids can play outside and make friends
Communities rebuild
Food prices go down
We can have nice things
You could even put a window in a bus stop again
I can take my dog for a walk without his feet BLEEDING from walking on broken glass

Most importantly people who devote their lives to helping others, like PC Tom Clough and PC Matthew Blades did, can come home to their familes

The criminal justice system has failed them miserably

It has failed their colleagues miserably

The criminal justice system continues to fail every single resident of Middlesbrough and the United Kingdom

It is a national disgrace. You have blood on your hands

It has to change.“]

It is true that there is a slide into lawlessness. I just had a look at the local newspaper here (coastal Hampshire/Dorset). A nursing employee who stole the bank card of a care home resident and used it— “avoided jail“; ex-“firefighter” who (online) intimidated a woman whom his son had raped, who also then assaulted paramedics etc and issued threats to kill the same woman, later excusing himself by reason of having been drunk— “suspended sentence“; etc etc.

Incidentally, it interests me that it (seems that it) was only after two policemen were killed that the local police got really active and started to arrest members of the local “chavscum” crime groups.

Yet absurd and pointless “cases”, especially at the behest of the Jewish/Israel lobby, are still going to court occasionally, as seen below:

[“The Jews are horrendous.”

A former @LibDems Councillor has been found to have “posted antisemitic tweets which were likely to stir up racial hatred.”

Pat Marsh, who was arrested in February 2024 after the posts were reported to police, served as a North Yorkshire Councillor and Mayor of Harrogate.

There were a number of antisemitic tweets, including: • “It is shameful the world is silent and the Jews are horrendous.” • “I hope the Jews feel proud of this!!!!! They are evil.” • “The Jews are vile showing they have no care other than for themselves.”

A prosecutor in the case said the posts were “greater than bigotry in the extreme”. Anti-Jewish hatred can have no place in British politics. When antisemitism presents itself, those responsible must be held accountable.”]

I wonder who reported those tweets to the police. Was it the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”? I expect so. They constantly “report” (often invented) matters to police, professional regulators etc.

What the liars and perjurers of the “CAA” do not say in their tweet is that the defendant there is a lady of 78, with no previous convictions; they also omit the facts that, since February 2024 when she was arrested, the defendant developed dementia, as a result of which she was found unfit to stand trial.

The prosecutor (I presume from the Clown Prosecution Service, though it may have been one of the CAA’s abusive private prosecutions), however continued with “a trial of the facts” (I presume in the absence of the defendant), and a jury (half-witted, it seems), brought in a meaningless verdict of Guilty, after which the judge handed down an equally meaningless sentence— an absolute discharge!

Worthy of Alice in Wonderland. A lady in her late seventies actually arrested for those rather mild tweets (probably about the sadistic slaughter being carried out by Israeli Jews in Gaza), but the trial only taking place 2.5 years later, a trial which was entirely meaningless, and served only to allow the “CAA” —proven liars whose sworn testimony has, on occasion, not been believed— to tweet as seen above.

A jury trial over that petty nonsense! Lewis Carroll or Franz Kafka?

See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79g2l40gv3o

It occurs to me that, had the defendant been found fit to stand trial, and had done so, the jury might have acquitted her, but knowing that nothing would happen to her after the pointless “trial of the facts”, took the easy way out and convicted.

More tweets

Literally thousands of virtue-signalling nitwits have already bought copies.

Every. Single. Time.

[“The donkey is the animal the language keeps for when it wants to call a person stupid.

In the spring of 1915, on the worst ground of the century, one of them walked into the guns for three and a half weeks and never once refused.

Gallipoli. Anzac Cove, a strip of stony beach under cliffs the Turks held. The wounded came down a gully so worked over by rifle and shell that the men named it Shrapnel Gully and meant it as a plain description.

Up at the head of the valley the fighting fed a constant traffic of broken men who had to be got down to the dressing station on the sand. There were never enough stretchers or bearers, and the track down lay open to the guns the whole length of it.

Onto that beach on the first morning came a stretcher-bearer, a lad from South Shields who had gone out to Australia and enlisted there under half his name, John Simpson.

On the second day, a wounded man on his back, he found one of the donkeys that had been landed to haul water and then left behind. From that morning until the morning he died, the two of them worked the gully.

Simpson is the half of the story that could weigh the odds and decide to go anyway.

The donkey could do no such thing. It could not read the ground or count the guns. It could only be led to the foot of a track every soldier on the peninsula knew was a killing floor, have a man who could not walk loaded onto its back, and be asked to climb.

And it climbed. In daylight, which no sane man did. At night.

Through fire so heavy that John Monash, commanding at the head of the valley, singled the pair out in writing: Simpson and his little beast, he said, had earned the admiration of everyone up there.

Simpson went in front, singing and whistling as though the bullets were weather. The donkey plodded. At the bottom it was unloaded onto the sand, and then it turned itself round and went back up into the fire for the next one.

It made that climb over and over, day after day, up into the guns and down again with a man on its back, on a track where grown soldiers moved bent double and prayed.

The names change in the telling, Duffy and Abdul and Murphy, and the men at the top knew the little procession on sight. How many wounded came down on that back nobody can honestly say, and the round numbers fixed to the story later, three hundred and the rest, are mostly legend.

What is not legend is that it went on, without a day off, under fire, until the nineteenth of May, when Simpson was shot carrying two wounded men and was buried that evening in the sand at a place called Hell Spit. He was twenty-two.

The donkey lived.

Another bearer took it on, and the work carried on without the man who started it.

When the whole ruined campaign was finally given up and the survivors were taken off that beach, they did not leave it behind for the enemy. They got it onto a boat and away to safety.

Somewhere in the moving of it a soldier buckled a collar round its neck. The collar read: Murphy VC. Please look after him.

That is men who had seen everything a war can do to a body, stopping to ask a stranger to be kind to a donkey.

Eighty-two years later, to the very day, on the nineteenth of May 1997, the RSPCA awarded its Purple Cross, the highest honour there is for an animal, to Murphy, and, as the certificate reads, to all the donkeys used by John Simpson Kirkpatrick.

When the country went looking for one image to carry the memory of that whole catastrophe, out of a campaign full of generals it chose a stretcher-bearer and a donkey. It cast the pair in bronze outside the national memorial, and stood them again in his home town on the Tyne.

We keep the beast as our word for stubborn and stupid.

It was handed the dying on the worst ground of the century, and it carried them down out of the fire, and it turned round, and it went back up for more.”]

Our animal friends.

After cats, donkeys are my favourite animal.

Incidentally, I myself was on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 2001, en route from the UK to southern Turkey by car. It is a completely peaceful peninsula now. My wife and I stayed for a few days at Canakkale, on the other side of the Dardanelles Strait. You had to cross by a small ferry in those days; there is a large bridge now, a few miles away, and the empty dusty roads on the European side, with vast sunflower fields all around, once you leave the peninsula and are in Thrace proper, have been partly supplanted by a motorway or major highway.

Another Israeli war crime.

May be something that could be tried in the UK, but limited to real English/Welsh/Scottish parents.

I hate having Zelensky’s ugly mug on the blog, but there it is.

A horrible tribe, intent on genocide or as near genocide as makes little difference.

If you support the Jewish state, you support that kind of backwardness.

Matt and Julia travel vlog (from today)— Iran

For some reason, will not post.

Try to copy and paste.

Well worth seeing.

Ah…fortune favours the persistent…

Seems that (uniquely, of all the vlogs I repost…so far), this one had to be embedded specifically.

Interesting to see how friendly the ordinary people are to the vloggers, and also to see all the young women strolling relaxedly around in twos and threes, or with family, many not wearing veils, or even headscarfs.

Always interesting to see something other than the usual msm output.

Late music

Diary Blog, 24 August 2026

Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Talking point

The above was written and published on the blog nearly 10 years ago, in November 2016. I think that it still stands up well.

Tweets seen

[“New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham lands in Ukraine for his first foreign visit as PM to meet Zelensky & Chair a meeting of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’.

This means Burnham has broke his old election promise of making Israel his first State visit & also means more UK taxes for Ukraine & continued escalation of the War in Europe.”]

Burnham is just the latest monkey doing the bidding of the (((organ-grinders))).

A complete cretin, even worse than I had anticipated.

“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) should adopt a new flag, incorporating a drawing of a dissolute mendicant friar, begging.

[“The leader of the “Alternative for Germany” party, Weidel, promised that Germany will leave the Schengen Area:

What exactly has been happening in Germany since 2015? Uncontrolled illegal migration, open borders – anyone can enter. This is harming our internal security. To be frank, people are fed up with this situation.

We no longer have legal protection. Public safety is under threat. Women are already afraid to go out on the streets. There are attacks with knives, gang rapes – and these are committed by these people. And since you mentioned Afghans and Syrians: if you look at the crime statistics, the figures are ten times higher.

First and foremost, it all starts with prevention. We are very clear: we will close the borders. And if I see what is happening, for example, in Ceuta, then we will leave the Schengen Area.”]

https://tass.com/emergencies/2176847

As good as Monty Python any day.

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https://tass.com/politics/2177049

A false-flag fake “terror” operation, aimed at pointing the finger at Moscow. Kiev-regime Ukraine is a completely criminal fake state.

[“Ukraine is slowly turning into a “land of the dead,” and this alarming trend is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, according to “Ukrayinska Pravda.” Every year, the number of deaths in the country increases, while the number of lives decreases. At the same time, the Kyiv regime often finds it easier to deal with the dead than with the living.

The author of the article claims that only Fedorov can change the current situation. The former Minister of Defense supposedly has something to offer the country besides empty rhetoric, and can stop the transformation of Ukraine into one large cemetery.

Just look at the faces of the powerful when Fedorov starts sending them to their graves even more actively.”]

Now is the time for Russia to strike at targets of the highest strategic importance: military installations, airbases, ports, railways, and electricity production and distribution hubs.

[“Leading candidates emerge in the French election race.

Ahead of the upcoming French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, leader of the “National Rally,” is the clear frontrunner. This was shown by the results of a poll published on the RTL website. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is in second place.

The poll also shows that conservatives, communists, and the Green party are lagging behind, with ratings that are not even in the double digits.“]

Melenchon’s vote comes almost entirely from non-Europeans— North Africans, black Africans etc.

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