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Diary Blog, 29 June 2026, including some thoughts around Nature, managed Nature, homesteading, permaculture, rewilding, and potential symbiosis of rurality and advanced technology etc

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[Schlosspark Nymphenburg, Germany]

Nature, managed Nature, homesteading, permaculture, rewilding, and the potential symbiosis of rurality and advanced technology

Some of the background to the Nastya and Village Life videos.

Incidentally, that person makes a very good income via YouTube: see

She gets some direct donations, even if only a few hundred U.S. dollars per month. She seems to have an overall income from online activity somewhere in the region of USD $7,000 per month at present, which is decent, to say the least, especially in Russia, and even if (as I expect) it is taxed at about a third.

I had noticed in some of her videos that she (or her now-ex husband or boyfriend) owned a foreign vehicle; her German kitchen appliances etc were also noticed.

Not that I am criticizing. It is very clever to mix a rural life with an income largely derived from the most up-to-date technical advances, such as online vlogging.

Another example of similar or not entirely dissimilar (though more “eco”-oriented) activity would be Bealtaine Cottage, in Ireland: https://bealtainecottage.com.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BealtaineCottage

As a matter of fact, when I had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), the lady from Bealtaine Cottage used to retweet my material sometimes; then the same Jewish cabal harassed her, and tweeted to her about how I was supposedly “mad, bad, and dangerous to know“, as Lady Caroline Lamb said of Byron. The Bealtaine Cottage lady then blocked me. Still, I am bigger than that. #MoralHighGround…

Tree cover in Europe varies from a mere 1% on Malta to 74% in Finland. Ireland has only about 11%, so the example of Bealtaine Cottage is well worth both noting and emulating.

The UK is also deficient in tree cover (about 13.5%, though possibly increasing slightly). I believe that, immediately after WW1, the situation in the UK was even worse, about 5%, which is why the Forestry Commission was established in 1919, though at first only to grow conifers for timber production.

If you see old photos and film of England from the First World War era, or even 1930s, the denudation of the landscape in many rural areas is clear.

Ireland, after WW1, had a miserable tree cover of only 1%, incredibly, so even the 11%-12% presently seen is a huge improvement, even more so than in the UK.

Both countries are moving over to Nature-friendly broadleaf planting now.

Bealtaine Cottage has only 3 acres, in fact (though the dense vegetation makes the plot seem larger), and the lady owner has planted 1,000+ trees herself, mostly from seed or from cuttings. The so-called “power of one”:

The “power of one” indeed, but that just emphasises how much more a group, even a small group, can do (in any area of activity). When scaled-up to a whole society doing things, the available power of transformation can be huge (again, in any field of activity, not just ecological and environmental).

The main point made, though, is that you do not, in the end, need a group or organization. One person can do it, alone.

The cartoons below show what can happen when biodiversity is reduced, but not everywhere is going in the wrong direction.

As far as Bealtaine Cottage is concerned, this is what Google AI has to say:

The lady behind Bealtaine Cottage is Colette O’Neill, a native of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Born into a large family of eleven children, her journey to creating her famous woodland sanctuary involves a fascinating mid-life reinvention. [1, 2, 3]

Early Life & Teaching Career

  • Education: Colette won a scholarship to attend the Loreto Convent Grammar School in Omagh.
  • Life in London: She spent a major portion of her adulthood living in London, raising her three children. As a mature student, she attended Middlesex University, graduating with honours in education in 1992.
  • Profession: Prior to her ecological work, she spent over a decade working as a full-time schoolteacher in London. [1, 2]

The Escape to the “Good Life”

By 2004, tired of the relentless pace of London life and single in her late 40s, Colette plotted her return to Ireland to pursue a simpler, self-sustaining lifestyle. She spent holiday weekends hunting for property, eventually buying a derelict, roofless stone cottage sitting on three acres of severely waterlogged, north-facing bogland in County Roscommon. [1, 2, 3]

Despite having no plumbing, electricity, or local family support, she moved in alone to prove that one person could restore the poorest land into a thriving ecosystem. [1, 2, 3]

Current Identity & Work

Now in her late 60s, Colette has lived at the cottage for over 21 years and identifies deeply as a writer, folklorist, vegan, and Pagan “Tree Mother”. Her daily philosophy has evolved from standard permaculture into what she calls “Goddess Permaculture”—a deeply spiritual, mindful connection to the Earth. [1, 2, 3, 4]

She is a officially recognized artist by the Irish government and funds her lifestyle entirely through her ad-free YouTube channel, Patreon, and Bealtaine Cottage Publishing, through which she has written and self-published several books, including A Cottage and Three Acres and Walking Between Worlds.”

So there you see the practical aspects. Her 3-acre plot does produce quite a lot of food, probably all or most of what she needs. She even sells any surplus locally. Heating is mainly from wood she has planted, cut, and dried.

Apart from that, the Bealtaine Cottage lady has no direct income via her YouTube channel, (ad-free, by her own choice, which is very principled, in view of the fact that she has 90,000 YouTube subscribers). She could otherwise get maybe £1,000-£1,500 per month from that source alone.

Actually, I am seeing ads on her vlogs, but whether she herself profits from them, I have no idea.

She does get donations (at least £300-£400 per month) via Patraeon (~127 subscribers), and a little more via other online donation sites. Her own books, self-published, must bring in some income, and that is all tax-free in Ireland, because recognized artists, writers etc are untaxed.

I do not know whether she gets any direct income via Twitter/X; maybe not.

At age 65-70, that lady must also get UK and/or Irish state pension payments, and probably also has a small private pension from her decade teaching in London.

My point is that the lady has diverse income streams (and few expenses). The Russian lady, Nastya, is more limited in where her income originates.

Ideally, one does not put all eggs in one basket.

I always recall seeing a TV show, circa 2001, about a black American financial specialist adviser. One person advised was a young man from somewhere like Luton or Bedford who had arranged to hire a jet airliner simulator. He then sold blocks of time for 30 minutes at a go, as a novelty. He was making something like £100K a year in the money of 2000 (you could double or triple that in the money of 2026).

He was offered £650,000 in cash (so over £1.5M in 2026 money) for his business —and was advised to accept— but refused. A few months later, the 2001 attack on New York happened, and BA (who owned the simulator) and all other airlines were told by government not to allow any stray people to use flight simulators. The young man’s business collapsed overnight. He vanished into obscurity, having thought of himself as an “entrepreneur”, when really he had just had one lucky and time-limited success.

Eggs. Basket(s).

Another case. I knew via a friend, a middle-aged Scottish lady who thought she knew everything about finance and business, but in reality knew nothing. Her father had owned a very large business in Scotland; it produced hydraulic pit props (for coal mines), I believe. By the time her father died, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, the National Coal Board was not ordering many such props. The business was insolvent. It employed thousands of people.

The lady of my fairly slight acquaintance was a civil servant in London. She took over despite knowing nothing of business. Her motivation, well-meaning but silly, was to try to keep the business going for the sake of its employees. All that happened was that the collapse, which might have been mitigated, was total, and delayed by only months, not years. All the employees were left with neither employment nor even corporate redundancy payments.

After that, the Scottish lady had some money, and a large mansion flat in St. John’s Wood High Street, very close to Regent’s Park. Such apartments, especially of that size, are now valued in the millions. Even then, the value was very high. She sold it and, with a proportion of the proceeds, bought the one-time private residence of Ribbentrop, from when he was Ambassador of the German Reich in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop#Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom. That detached house, in Barnes, just south of Hammersmith Bridge, and down a quiet side road, had a pleasant garden with mature trees, at least by the early 1980s when I saw it a couple of times, and a large number of bedrooms.

The Scottish lady rented out at least a dozen rooms to foreign girl students, cash in hand. I suppose that that would have brought in the equivalent (in 2026 money) of a couple of thousand pounds, perhaps more, each week. In cash. Almost certainly not declared to the tax authorities. Was she satisfied with that? No, of course not…

The Scottish lady conceived the idea of a clothes shop with nice fashions for fat women (to put it bluntly). She herself was enormous. Clothes for very fat women were, at the time, apparently hard to find in the UK, so she went to the USA to source stock.

She actually mortgaged her house in order to launch this doomed venture. A shop was leased, in Marylebone High Street, and its name emblazoned above the doors— Largesse. Maybe not a very diplomatic name…

I myself, then in my mid-twenties and not yet embarked on my law degree, actually slept on the shop’s floor overnight once or twice, because the burglar alarms had not been installed.

Anyway, suffice to say that that shop failed, spectacularly, and the lady eventually died, about a decade later, effectively and maybe actually bankrupt.

Lesson? Self-knowledge prevents too-ambitious an undertaking. Also, that sometimes one can get by quite well on what one has. That Scottish lady had few essential expenses and, in the money of 2026, a cash income, untaxed (in effect) of at least £10,000 per month; significant capital as well.

Compare that to Ms. O’Neill of Beltaine Cottage, who has a small fraction of that income, yet lives, it appears, rather well on it. As a friend of mine at the Bar once remarked to me, “it’s not what you make, it’s what you spend.” Trite, of course, but true.

The way forward for many may be to disconnect as far as possible or convenient from the general society, to link up with others fairly loosely, and to prepare for the quite likely collapse of that general society.

Naturally, everyone will have a pathway that suits the individual circumstances; the knowledge-level of Ms. O’Neill in Ireland is very greatly higher than that of the Russian girl. Both cases, however, are worth studying for what they can impart,

See also:

A recent vlog from the lady at Bealtaine Cottage:

I have only just seen that vlog post, and it answers some of the questions or speculations that I wrote about only today. Synchronicity, perhaps.

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Housing for migrant-invaders, while British people struggle.

As previously noted on the blog, Labour Friends of Israel, Bilderberger, NWO/ZOG, and part of the Mandelson cabal at one time.

System MPs such as Lucy Powell are just clowns, really.

Good grief, just listen to that silly bitch spouting her soundbites about “decent, well-paid jobs“, good housing etc. Meanwhile, in the real England and Wales, migrant invaders are still flooding in, there is a near-collapse of law, order, and previous social norms and, in soundbite language, the rich are getting hugely richer, and almost everyone else is sinking, as shown in the cartoon below from 15 years ago (and still valid):

Anyone supporting the migration invasion should also be placed in a detention centre, if you want to call it that. Or work on projects creating canals, or in forests.

Man… “, meaning African migrant-invader.

As for “what is happening“, what is happening is relatively slow-burn social and political collapse, for which System politicians and (((the usual suspects))) are largely responsible.

Loan“? Ha ha…

Incidentally, I wonder what odds the bookmakers would offer against Ghislaine “Maxwell” getting a Presidential pardon from Trump in his last few days in office in 2029? Might well be worth a good substantial punt, in my opinion. I wonder whether they would offer 10/1. My own assessment of the real chance is nearer 50-50…

Translates to a Commons with about 226 Labour MPs (100 short of an overall majority); 221 Reform UK (strong official Opposition); 57 Cons (about half of the present number); 52 LibDems; 43 SNP; 14 Greens; 12 Plaid Cymru [etc].

A hopelessly hung Parliament. Burnham would only be able to pass legislation with the assistance of all the LibDems, all the Greens, all Plaid, and all SNP (adding up to 121, so even then several short of an overall majority, but about half a dozen more than a bare working majority. Hopeless.

As a matter of fact, I think that a Burnham government is going to become pretty unpopular pretty quickly.

I cannot see Burnham holding a general election at present, i.e. later this year, because I am assuming that Labour’s large present majority would disappear (as it loses 200+ MPs). On the other hand, if Burnham just takes over, as Sunak did from Liz Truss/”Boris”-idiot, and refuses to call an election for years, then we are back to square one, and Labour is toast.

Good for social-nationalism, probably.

Ambiguous (the actual interview).

Another village. Where are the gamechanging moves?

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Quite. All the same, I remain sceptical of the primary assertion. Finland the happiest country? Seems unlikely to me, frankly…

I never use the “right”/”left” terminology, but it is good to see many, especially many young, awakening to reality.

[“SHE NAMED 270 ABUSERS. THE COUNCIL GAVE HER A DIVERSITY COURSE INSTEAD In 2001 a Home Office researcher called Adele Weir mapped a child abuse network in Rotherham. She found at least 270 victims and named the men running it. The Hussain family was on that list. Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police had the names, the cars, the addresses. Their response was to tell Weir to never mention Asian men again and book her onto a two day ethnicity and diversity course. A few months later her files vanished from a locked office. Computer records were altered too. Nobody was ever charged for that either. It took until 2016 for Arshid Hussain to get 35 years and Qurban Ali to get 10. Fifteen years after Weir handed the council the names on a plate. The Jay Report in 2014 confirmed 1400 children were abused in Rotherham. The Casey Report in 2015 called the council not fit for purpose and pointed straight at a culture that put political correctness above child protection. This keeps happening because the playbook never changes. Raise the alarm and you get managed. Stay quiet and you get promoted. Weir did her job. The people whose actual job was protecting children sent her to a workshop. Sources: @thetimes @BBCNews @yorkshirepost.”]

Neither Muslim nor Jewish individuals should be in the police, civil service, or government, whether at local or national level.

The multikulti society can never function properly.

I saw on TV news a clip from the speech. As I have already predicted on the blog, the Andy Burnham Labourite circus, like some wine, does not travel far from its native terroir, in this case Manchester.

As predicted, Burnham is already a disaster, and he is not yet even elected by the Labour MP drones as their chosen leader (and so, Prime Minister by default).

Our present electoral and political system is a (contrived, rigged) joke, as is Burnham.

Of course, behind Burnham stand Labour Friends of Israel. In short, the “you-know-who” (((them))).

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Diary Blog, 26 June 2026

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[Trinity College Cambridge; avenue of linden and cherry trees]

Interesting videos about a Dutch farming family relocating to Russia

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Our animal friends.

Already happening.

In fact, the halfway-through-sentence release has been the norm for some years.

Stray thought

Saw an old Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz show, filmed around 2010. The team consisted of former TV newsreader Angela Rippon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Rippon] and the Jewish consumer finance specialist, Martin Lewis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lewis_(financial_journalist)]. Both were fairly ignorant (but won quite a large sum for their chosen charities) and both were also extremely irritating. If anything, Angela Rippon was even more irritating than the other one.

At least I knew who they were. The “celebrities” on such shows are often persons entirely unknown to me.

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[“Eli Cohen Israeli Energy Minister: We have no intention of leaving Lebanon under any circumstances

  • We have no intention of fully occupying Lebanon, but we seek to impose security control over the entire Gaza Strip.
  • Israel will ultimately gain full control over the entire Gaza Strip, and this is considered part of the regime’s security objectives.
  • The issue of withdrawing from the Lebanese security zone is currently not on the agenda of the Israeli regime
  • Even if Donald Trump requests a withdrawal from this area, Israel will not agree to such a request, and Tel Aviv’s response will be “no.”]

The Middle East, indeed the world, has a poisonous snake in it. Crush that snake.

When will American leaders wake up? I suppose, only when the bribes are no longer being made…

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Another blog post, this time from 2018. I think it is worth republishing it.

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In the past, until 1981, anyone born in the UK could apply for British citizenship later, which is why Kemi Badenoch’s parents deliberately had her born in the UK. She returned 17 years later, and is now the leader of the pathetic Conservative Party.

System stooge. Of course, my attitude towards both Reform and Restore is that they move the Overton Window, so good as far as that goes, but the Jewish/Zionist poison dart is in Reform for sure; maybe in Restore as well. Neither can be relied upon as serious anti-System parties, and that would be so even if Reform “won” a System general election.

Have no idea what that organization may be. On the face of it, though, looks hopeful.

Diary Blog, 25 June 2026

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[Trinity Bridge over the River Cam at Cambridge]

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…and look at that dishonest minder or assistant, as well. He really is both brainwashed (or pretending to be) and brainwashing (intent or facade).

Burnham is a disaster; only idiots will want him to be Prime Minister but, sadly, there are plenty of them around…

Also, note that unthinking and tribal old Labourite drone at the end.

They are not only enemies of the people, but also completely deluded.

Of course, 12 miles is next to nothing in a country larger than France and 2.5x the size of the UK, but Russian troops are —albeit very slowly— advancing in all or almost all areas, and have been for a long time now.

Still, Russia now needs a gamechanger that will shock both the Kiev regime and the general world.

[“Over 70% of England’s water infrastructure is owned by foreign governments, overseas pension funds and international investors.

Your water comes from the ground beneath England.

The profits leave the country.

Northumbrian Water: owned by Hong Kong and a New York investment firm.

Yorkshire Water: owned by Hong Kong and the Singapore government.

Wessex Water: owned by a Malaysian billionaire’s family.

Southern Water: owned by Australian asset managers and US investors.

Thames Water: owned by Canada, Abu Dhabi, China and Australia. £20 billion in debt. Sewage in your rivers.

Only Severn Trent, United Utilities and South West Water are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Nobody voted for this.“]

To hell with international law— confiscate those assets; expropriate them without compensation.

Our animal friends.

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I saw one of my earliest blog posts, which noted transformative vocabulary. First published in 2017. Worth re-publishing, I think.

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In fact, slightly out of date, I think, but broadly correct.

The photo, though, shows Richard Tice, the Reform UK MP who is completely in the Jew/Zionist/Israel pocket.

In the past, some journalists have been exposed as actual MOSSAD agents. Sunday Telegraph scribbler and editor Dominic Lawson, Daily Mirror scribblers in the 1970s and 1980s etc.

Interesting article from Declassified UK about the Jewish/Israel lobby inside Labour.

I think that it is clear that Morgan McSweeney is, or was, an agent of MOSSAD or some other organ of Israeli Intelligence.

[McSweeney at Zurich Airport earlier this month. What was he doing there? Meeting his handlers there, or in some other country? Accessing secret funds? I do not know. Looking at him, you would never guess that he is or was a significant political figure, albeit behind the scenes. Maybe he was trained that way.]

Another corrupt MP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mitchell#Controversies.

https://tass.com/politics/2151461

Typical uncaring cowardly bully-n*g. Many of them only understand force and brute strength. When they are faced with that, they knuckle down or run away quickly enough.

Such untermenschen not only could never create a civilization, and cannot maintain one already in existence (created by white Europeans), but also cannot even live decently —even as total parasites— in one already created by those white Europeans (British or others). At best, parasites (most of them, most of the time), more usually also enemy elements, hostile to the (real) British whom they hate, and they hate us because we are better than them (99% of the time).

That one will enjoy humiliating an old white/British lady, because she cannot fight back. The untermensch needs to be taught a lesson he will never forget.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15929335/Shocking-moment-man-BLOCKS-80-year-old-woman-Tube-station-stairs.html

The Daily Mail, of course, fails to mention that the perpetrator is a black, but the readers’ comments make it clear that they know.

There is only a “housing crisis” because we have a demographic crisis, part of which is a migration-invasion crisis and part of which is a general non-white-population crisis (which itself is a delayed consequence of the migration invasion, going back to the Windrush-era catastrophe).

Add to that the arrests of non-whites (and so-called “travellers”, i.e. Irish tinker-types) with British passports. Huge. The prison population is now largely non-white.

[“It was a time when we were going on the assault & none of us knew if we would return. Every step beyond the perimeter was a step into complete uncertainty. A single thought pulsed in my head: ‘Everything could end here & now’. The outcome of the battle was always shrouded in fog, but we went forward. Assault after assault, step by step — Special Forces ‘Akhmat’ didn’t just hold their positions, they relentlessly moved forward. There were commanders nearby, & comrades at our backs. The tasks had to be carried out at any cost: that’s what our conscience dictated, that’s what a man’s duty demanded.

The hardest time came not in the battle, but immediately after. I remember those moments: we’re sitting in the back of a Kamaz truck, returning from another mission. The road is bumpy, the vehicle shakes, but there’s a deafening silence inside. Everyone is silent. It’s not just physical exhaustion, although it was incredible, leaden. We were silent from the terrible memories that were only 40 minutes old. Someone had just lost their best friend in that thicket or in that ruined house — forever. Someone had seen things that would never appear in a nightmare. Everyone was immersed in their own pain, reliving those 40 minutes & tomorrow, at dawn, we’d go back into that hell to drive out the evil again.

Sometimes I review old footage on my phone. Here’s my brother ‘Black’ — he’s still alive here, smiling. Here’s our commander ‘Tarzan’ standing nearby, confident & calm. ‘Romka’, ‘Gulema’… I had the great honor of serving with real Heroes. These people have forever remained in my heart, their names etched into my memory. The places we took by storm are also engraved in my memory: the children’s camp turned into a fortress by the enemy, ‘Post Office’, the industrial zone, the ‘nameless’ villages and cities. All of this is our blood & our history. I remember how, waiting for the breakthrough, I looked around and thought: what have they done to this land? Nature seemed to have been killed, burned to the ground. It was as if the very spirit of life had left these places. Watching the video where our brother ‘Kavkaz’ is still alive, I ask myself the same question: ‘How come? Why do the best always go first?’. I miss the guys so much that it sometimes takes my breath away. On this series of battles, there was a man who became our anchor. Ismail Suleimanovich (call sign ‘Hunter’) was my first commander. We met in 2022 & he quickly became much more to me than a senior in rank. If you ask me who he is to me, I’ll answer: he’s a brother & a father.

Our journey began with the assault on Rubizhnoye. My first command mission ‘behind the line’ & I immediately ended up in ‘Hunter’s team’. You know, there are those who fight on a map in a cozy headquarters & there are those who are always in the forefront. ‘Hunter’ was one of the latter. His orders were always clear & precise, like a shot.

When we stormed Soledar, he didn’t wait for reports in the rear. We went into the city with BATA… I saw him raise our flag over the liberated city. Under his command, we stormed Soledar. I’ll tell my children &0 grandchildren about him. About a man who taught us to win and to remain human Fighter ‘Yakut’.From the book ‘Memories of commanders & fighters ‘Akhmat’’.

Recently, a very warm meeting took place in Grozny: fighter with the call sign ‘Yakut’ visited his commander — ‘Hunter’. Special Forces ‘Akhmat’ — is a unique combat brotherhood, where the relationship between the commander & the fighter goes far beyond the charter. It’s more than a family. ‘Yakut’ is a soldier of SF ‘Akhmat’ in every cell of his body & entire essence The book describes the most difficult battles, in which ‘Yakut’ & his combat brothers, in the thick of the action, wrested every piece of land from the enemy. These stories are written in blood & sweat & they literally give you goosebumps. Such meetings in the rear prove: the fire of the front, passed together, binds people forever.“]

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

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

Diary Blog, 23 June 2026

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[painting by Volegov]

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Happened to see a blog post published on this day four years ago, in 2022. I think that most of it still stands up pretty well.

Gordon Brown. One of many System politicians who are enemies of the British people and of the future of Europe.

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Our animal friends.

You only have to consider that, under both Sunak and Starmer, Israeli flags in light were projected onto the facade of 10 Downing Street, and Jewish candlesticks were placed in a window.

Look at what Mark Carney has supported: the Gaza genocide by Israeli Jews, Israel generally, the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic “measures” and “vaccines”, and the brutal and corrupt regime in Kiev.

I believe that Carney is part- (((you-know-who))) anyway.

[“The truth: the choreography is the confession.

Prime Minister Andy will kick off with the polite little pantomime at Buckingham Palace, constitutional cosplay for the cameras, king playing his assigned role as ceremonial mascot.

Then the mask’ll drop and the real masters get their audience:

First, Zelensky—to lock in Britain’s blank-cheque loyalty to the Ukrainian meat grinder and the Atlanticist death cult that feeds it.

Then von der Leyen—to genuflect before the Brussels bureaucracy, that rotting late-imperial corpse still twitching with regulatory power.

Then dinner with the hedge-fund crowd — the people whose debt-based capital actually moves the needle while your ballot paper gathers dust.

Only after paying proper obeisance will he deign to lecture the British public about net zero, the greatest corporate wealth transfer ever dressed up as planetary salvation.

This is shareholder democracy working exactly as designed. You are not the principal. You are a minor stakeholder with diminishing returns.

The sophisticated machinery of polling, micro-targeting, narrative management and behavioural nudges exists to keep you compliant and distracted. Fail the real principals—the money, the alliances, the permanent bureaucracy—and the consequences are swift and brutal.

Fail the voters? Just tweak the script and roll out a new slogan. 250k raped girls? Deny. Lost control of borders? Ignore. If caught, point finger and scream racist like Donald Sutherland in The Body Snatchers.

The order of Andy’s first meetings will tell you everything an election-night victory speech never will. Voters give Legitimacy, that’s the idea, not the reality anymore but it is still the script that’s followed. Performance.

The others give Power. And in the chasm between those two things sits the brutal reality of modern governance.

You are a serf who’s been handed a smartphone and told you’re free. Your ancestors clawed their way out of this condition. You’re being slicked and bullied back into it, with the cheerful assurance that your rootless, broke, unsafe grandchildren will foot the bill and curse your name.

Wake up.“]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman,_Ukraine

Talking point

Starmer-stein…

Legally-approved killing

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15923313/Child-12-euthanised-Netherlands.html

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“Caesar’s chariot has arrived!

The more I see, not so much of Burnham himself but more of the hysterical adulation around him and focussed on him, the more I think that his tenure in office will be disastrous, even if it lasts for the full 3+ years until a 2029 General Election.

As for the BBC and Sky wasting large amounts of money on helicopters to follow “Caesar’s” train (“royal train”? or “imperial train”?) and then taxi, that just underlines what a sycophantic propaganda Schauspiel those msm outlets now are.

I have to admit that, on me at least, the general msm lauding to the skies of the new Labour “Caesar from the North” is having an effect opposite to what is obviously intended. I now start to dislike Burnham, those around him, and those praising him.

I note that (as it seems) Burnham is praised for having taken buses and trams (back) into public ownership in Manchester, and keeping fares stable. Yes? What else? Is that it? Underwhelming, in a world (and a UK) with massive challenges on every front.

Talking point

I happened to see that a blog post from over 7 years ago, and which I had thought at least somewhat interesting, has had only a very modest number of hits over the years, which I think a pity, so…

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Wall. Squad. End.

The German Reich knew how to keep its people safe, and how to deal with untermenschen.

…as blogged about several times over recent years.

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Diary Blog, 21 June 2026

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[St. Michael’s Victory Over the Devil, Coventry Cathedral facade]

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BBC TV News reported this morning that the Kiev regime has ordered individuals and businesses not to use fuel; it is reserved for governmental and military use until further notice. Electricity has also been restricted.

The (Russian) government in Crimea has also restricted fuel:

Looks as if the UK’s NWO/ZOG (New World Order/Zionist Occupation) Government is determined to expose the British people to the risk of thermonuclear war. Disgraceful.

If the Kiev regime starts to target Russia more deeply, more heavily, there is every chance that Kiev will be flattened, either by conventional or nuclear weapons. If that were to happen, more might happen.

Stop poking the Bear.

Basic Income will have to become normal at some point in the history of the present society.

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As blogged here in the past. Now confirmed by a leading Jew fanatic-politician.

Gaza to be reduced to rubble, its inhabitants killed or maimed, then the survivors marched into the deserts and/or to Israeli-controlled concentration camps. After that, Gaza to be redeveloped and occupied by Jew settlers from Israel, USA and elsewhere (while Jewish developers make untold millions, of course).

Lebensraum for Jews, but death and destitution for their victims of their violence and large-scale theft.

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Starmer-stein’s Jewish wife and Morgan McSweeney, the latter at the very least an agent of influence for Israel and the Jewish lobby.

Labour Friends of Israel.

(“Lady Starmer“…haha…).

The useful tools of Zionism are dispensed with after they have outlived their usefulness. Occasionally, “with extreme prejudice”, as in the matter of Robert “Maxwell”, often now considered to have been the number one MOSSAD agent in Europe. His daughter, Ghislaine, now languishing in a Federal prison (and, I think, awaiting a Trump Presidential pardon sometime around 2028), apparently believes that MOSSAD killed her father because he “knew too much”. Maybe.

Starmer-stein, though, is probably destined, in immediate terms, not for death but for interment or internment in the House of Lords.

[“Trump has imposed on European budgets the obligation to pay 350 billion dollars for weapons transferred to Ukraine under Biden. This amount exceeds the annual defense spending of most European countries and poses a risk of undermining their financial stability. European governments are not resisting this demand. Their political course remains tied to using the Ukrainian conflict for perpetual confrontation with Russia, even when this requires consent to the further destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and economy and the acceptance of new costs for their own societies.

Official American allocations for programs related to Ukraine amounted to about 188 billion dollars by the end of 2025, of which direct aid to Ukraine was around 127 billion. Trump applies an estimate of 350 billion dollars, which includes the cost of systems withdrawn from reserves. Europe has provided comparable amounts of support. European forces depend on American platforms and intelligence products, which limits the possibility of rapid replacement.

After the cessation of Russian gas supplies, Europe increased its purchases of American LNG. Imports from the US tripled between 2021 and 2025, reaching 75.6 billion cubic meters. This provided American producers with additional income. Germany’s industrial capacity decreased by about 15% compared to 2017. Some production facilities have moved to regions with lower energy costs amid rising prices and the loss of trade with Russia.

The military expenditures of European NATO members in 2025 increased by 14% and reached 559 billion dollars. Germany increased its spending to 114 billion dollars, or 2.3% of GDP. In 2025 alone, Europe sent 21.5 billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. The direct damage to Ukrainian infrastructure by the end of 2025 was 195 billion dollars. The reconstruction needs for a decade amount to 588 billion dollars. The policy does not stop the depletion of the Ukrainian economy and demography.

The demand to pay 350 billion dollars confronts European capitals with the need to accept additional debt burden or enter into conflict with Washington. The American side controls key elements of the European security system. The domestic political environment reinforces the line on escalating support for Kyiv. Any retreat carries risks of internal criticism and reduces the willingness to negotiate.

Accepting the demand without resistance shows that the political commitment to weakening Russia through the Ukrainian conflict dominates over economic sustainability calculations. Europe assumes the role of a financier of the confrontation, the parameters of which are determined outside its borders. The costs are distributed across European budgets and the industrial base, while the direct losses are concentrated on Ukraine. EU policy does not contain points for adjusting the course even when critical obvious losses to its own base accumulate.”]

Interesting video

Worth considering by Western people possessing the right skills.

Incidentally, the toxic plant the woman mentions as infesting her farm is what we call “hogweed”.

Might also be of use to “preppers” etc in other countries.

[“Celebrate the end of Starmer. But be realistic about what’s coming.

A major debt crisis. Record high taxes. Deteriorating public services as we are pushed further into a population trap. Rising unemployment, especially among the young. Selling out British workers through ongoing mass immigration. Tearing up the social contract through ongoing broken borders and two-tier ideology. Continuing the managed decline of the nation.

Changing leaders will not change our political economy. If anything, shifting left will make it worse.“]

You read it here first, of course.

As to “the end of Starmer“, much as I should like to add a few words about that, the conditions of near-State repression now existent in the UK render such comment…inadvisable…

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15916781/Mother-murdered-hotel-worker-told-tone-statement-police.html

Dystopian. Some version of what I fear this country is turning into.

Talking point

The same is true, mutatis mutandis, in the UK (and the rest of Western and Central Europe, including Scandinavia).

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Quite.

Burnham won his by-election on 54.8% of a 58.8% turnout. About 32% of all eligible voters (including non-voters). The other 68% either did not vote (in many cases probably because they wanted something very radical) or voted elsewhere, mostly for Reform or Restore (all other candidates lost their deposits; the Con Party scored only 2.2%, and all others were well under 1% each).

The Guardian hailed that underwhelming result as “Andy Burnham wins huge victory“. Pathetic.

The System newspapers, TV etc are all invested in Burnham as the new Great White Hope, someone whose supposed “vision” will save the existing political system and parties…they hope.

Hard to remember now, for many, but when Starmer-stein became Prime Minister, only 2 years ago, he too was hailed as something wonderful by the msm. Some stupid woman scribbler in the Guardian even gushed about how she felt suddenly sexually attracted to him!

What a difference two years (and reality) make…

In days of yore, before Mrs. Thatcher closed off Downing Street, I occasionally used it as a short-cut. Early 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street#Security_gates.

MSM drones such as Lewis Goodall naturally cannot bear anyone saying or tweeting, or blogging, the truth…

I have said for years that football, and most other sports in the UK, USA, EU states etc, now consist of what my be described as the boast that “my blacks can beat your blacks.”

Ironically, the only sport —racing— in which, at one time, in South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and parts of the Caribbean, blacks were the only participants (young black boys riding bareback as jockeys) is now one of the few (certainly in the UK and mainland Europe) in which there are almost no blacks riding (and I think in the USA too, to a large extent).

The way that Flat season jockeys especially now ride, almost on the necks of the horses, was first developed by those small black boys in the Southern states of the USA in the 18thC.

…together with the fake “Conservatives” (especially under “Boris”-idiot) and the LibDem clowns.

A massive majority” but, crucially, of Commons seats in an outdated and rigged electoral system, not in terms of popular vote.

The Starmer-Labour popular vote in 2024 was only 33.7% of all votes cast (only about 1 point up on the 2019 General Election and Corbyn-Labour), and that gave Labour over 63% of all Commons seats. Ridiculous.

In fact, fewer than 60% of eligible voters even voted. Starmer’s active voter support or citizen support was, even in 2024, no more than 20% in reality. People also voted, mainly, or most of them, to get Sunak and the Con Party out, not specifically to get Starmer-Labour in.

The Con Party vote in 2019 had been 43.63%; that fell to 23.7% st GE 2024.

In short, Starmer-Labour won GE 2024 by default, and won big by reason of the outdated/flawed/rigged electoral system.

What I mean by “rigged” is the boundaries drawn to preserve fake “fairness” and a two-tone, or at most three-sided, result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

Jess Phillips really seems to think that she was re-elected despite Starmer, maybe even despite being a Labour candidate, but when you look at those who lose their main-party approval and try to get re-elected purely on their own popularity, not many do. Corbyn is the only ex-Labour one that comes to mind.

Jess Phillips: pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel, and one of the worst freeloaders in the Commons. God knows why anyone would want her as an MP.

See also:

As previously blogged, nothing Trump now says can be relied upon, not even for a single day.

…and that is just the conventional, non-nuclear, arsenal. Give Russia Eastern Ukraine, the Black Sea littoral, and a condominium status in Kiev, and establish a rump Ukrainian state centred on Lvov. I have been suggesting that as a suitable outcome for 4 years now.

Late thought about BBC TV News

Saw about 10 mins of the BBC TV News broadcast earlier. Some non-white woman was reading the news. I can just about tolerate “Keeev” for Kiev (well, only just— it is ludicrous), and that seems to be BBC house style at present, but the woman then referred to the Colombian capital, Bogota, as something like “Bargaaartar“.

For God’s sake, if you cannot find any educated or semi-educated (real) British people to read out your tendentious propaganda, at least get a non-white who can pronounce such a name as as Bogota without sounding utterly stupid.

Late music

Diary Blog, 18 June 2026

Morning music

[Roman Bozhkov, Morning Music]

Tweets seen

The patience of the Russian leadership with this increasingly-serious shadow-boxing with the Kiev regime must be wearing thin.

(ps. the “Ian” there is not me but another Ian).

I may not “support” “Tommy Robinson”, as such (because he is controlled or too-influenced by the Israel-lobby), but he has a point here, of course.

I hope so, and that that is not a smoke-and-mirrors job designed to keep massive non-European hordes in Europe.

In the present age, trains should be run by the State as a strategic part of the economy, and fares kept reasonably low. At present, in the UK, we are getting the worst of both worlds: high prices combined with poor services (often) and the taxpayers funding private profits.

Those ticket prices London-Wigan are just insane.

Labour ministers and “comms” drones imagine that winning the Makerfield by-election (assuming that they do) will effectively crush both Reform UK and Restore Britain. I doubt it, but even were that so, it will not crush the justified and growing anger of the British people (including, in coming years, those in Makerfield) at migration invasion, environmental collapse, falls in living standards (and all other standards) etc.

Incidentally, “GOTV” = “Get Out The Vote”. Labour is throwing everything at this by-election. Desperate.

As said…desperate…

A few drone strikes, however destructive, on Moscow or other cities, will not change the arithmetic in the overall battlefield space.

I see Russian tweets etc claiming capture of villages, small settlements etc; from the Ukrainian side, not even that. The claimed Ukrainian advances must be either over depopulated areas of farmland and woodland or, at least as likely, non-existent.

The elephant in the room, surely, is the fact that Putin and the Russian leadership are not using more than a few percent, maybe less than one percent, of their potential destructive power. Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons.

Would seem to indicate, if typical, that Russia is losing only 1 soldier killed for every 15 Ukrainian soldiers.

[“Labour has no right to win Makerfield, by @bnhwalker.

If Labour wins in Makerfield it will have been down to one man: Andy Burnham. In the most recent local elections every one of the individual council wards in Makerfield went Reform’s way. Nigel Farage’s party secured 50 per cent of the vote compared to Labour’s 25 per cent. Labour has never done so badly in Wigan. Whatever the capacities of one candidate, Reform should be winning it. The Makerfield constituency polls put Andy Burnham ahead by between 5-12 points.”]

There are 650 constituencies in the UK and Northern Ireland. I do not believe that any Burnham Bounce will swing (even in 2026) more than 50 of them. In any case, once (if it happens) Burnham is “crowned” PM, he will be faced with the same issues as Starmer-stein. Will he have better answers, or outcomes? I very much doubt that.

By 2029, this country will be even angrier and/or more desperate.

[“People vote in extraordinary ways in by-elections. They’ll even vote tactically for a party they can’t stand if it achieves the goal of a bloody nose to the party they backed last time. Honestly the way Labour has flooded Makerfield and the shocking machinations of Simons & Burnham would have me moving from abstention to considering in the privacy of the ballot booth a way of holding my nose to deliver a bloody nose. And as an ex-Tory I’m prepared to give LDs or Labour a hearing, I’m much closer to them on a few things than any of the (very) right-wing parties, that speaks to my natural and growing Burnham antipathy. The Our Andy stuff has been insufferable even from a distance.”]

UK Government aggression towards Russia is veering into the territory of outright war. Supplying the Kiev regime with 150,000 drones (presumably funded by the British taxpayer, at that) is tantamount to the UK taking a very active and direct part in the war. Mad.

As said before, Britain has never had any substantial connection with Ukraine, not in the thousand years of Ukraine’s history as effectively part of Russia, and not in its mere 35 years as a corrupt and shambolic notionally independent state. None.

Now the anti-British “British” government is launching what amounts to a military campaign against Russia in order to support the corrupt and brutal Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev. People should be asking why…

Were I a resident of Kiev, I should be packing my bags. Frankly, if this continues, the same might be said of London.

Exactly.

Exactly.

As said, the absurd thing is that, if Labour wins the by-election, nothing in fact changes and, outside the Manchester area, I doubt that Burnham is much of a gamechanger electorally.

I just read the brief Iran-US agreement. It is 90% in Iran’s favour, if not 100%. After 60 days, fees chargeable by Iran to all other states’ shipping to ship through the Strait of Hormuz; Iran oil exports to start again; Iranian assets to be unfrozen worldwide; a USD $300 BILLION fund (payable presumably by the USA) for the reconstruction of Iran (after the American and Israeli bombing and missile attacks); an Iranian pledge not to develop nuclear weapons (a promise already in place before the war anyway).

The USA has learned a lesson. Do not let the Jews (whether in Israel or the USA itself) dictate your foreign policy. Do not let the tail wag the dog.

A strategic disaster for both the USA and Israel, and the fault for it lies with Netanyahu and Israel, and with Trump. A TV personality and speculative businessman does not a statesman nor a strategist make, in most cases.

F.O.! Hegseth, you idiot— and take your Jews and (now-demented) Trump with you.

Something that, as I have noticed this week, people across the political spectrum agree upon. A horrible crime even in a country of (now) often horrible crimes.

That case also makes it clear that children of any age should never be condemned to be adopted by gay men in performative “marriage” “cosplays” (same goes for crazed lesbian couples).

Our animal friends. It is good to see something natural and pure after so much human degeneracy.

All roads lead to Rome, but…yes.

…or Russian, for that matter.

(in fact, there was never a serious possibility of German forces invading the UK in or around 1940, and there is no possibility of Russia taking over the UK in 2026).

Apparently an AI fake.

[Update, later same day: some msm outlets are now saying it is genuine. If so, mad…].

Incidentally, that “Crewkerne Man” is none other than Joshua Bonehill, or Bonehill-Paine, who used to put himself forward, about a decade or so ago, as a coming sort-of “national socialist”-style “Fuhrer” of the UK.

Bonehill-Paine tried to organize anti-Jew marches and would-be semi-pogroms in Golders Green and Central London (I think that 6 or 7 idiots actually turned up).

Bonehill-Paine was then, after a number of both political and non-political criminal convictions, imprisoned for many months, over a year in fact. In prison, he turned, or was turned, or brainwashed (?), from “antisemitism” to Judaeo-philia.

“Bonehill-Paine first questioned his antisemitic views during his second year in prison, after reading the Bible, and enrolled on a deradicalisation course via his probation officer.[4]” [Wikipedia]

Q.E.D.

Now, recently filmed looking 30+ years older than he did only a decade ago, he is apparently a supporter of the washed-up “Conservative” Party, is ludicrously pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and is even promoted by Israeli media outlets (as seen on his Twitter/X banner).

Very very strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bonehill-Paine

Crewkerne Man meets Manchurian Candidate?

Late tweets seen

Unbelievable.

Mirabile dictu! I actually agree with Ed Davey on something…

Incredible that a supposed “top businesswoman” (Deborah Meaden) can be so dim; there again, it is a common fallacy that the very wealthy (even those who inherited riches) must somehow be highly intelligent, and very knowledgeable. Often, not so.

As for multikulti “Conservative” drone Fraser Nelson, I have written about him on the blog in the past. Nothing he writes is worth reading.

The very terminology is outdated. “Working class” is almost as passé as what Ernest Bevin once called “the jolly old proletariat“.

As noted on the blog for several years, drones have changed the face of warfare, especially infantry warfare. This is only the start.

In the end, Burnham will be same-old, even if he runs Starmer out of town.

At the 2024 General Election, and in very rough figures, for every 20 eligible voters 8 did not vote at all; 4 out of the 20 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

Starmer-Labour, as I blogged 2 years ago, only had the active electoral support of a third of those that actually voted in 2024, and a mere fifth of all of those eligible to vote.

Now? About half of the 2024 figures.

Opinion polling suggests that Labour, even under Burnham, would be the choice of only around 26% of voters were there a GE any time soon.

By 2029, Burnham-Labour, if Burnham does take over, will probably be running in the polls at around 20% at best. Will Labour try to change the rules, as they are presently doing in Manchester re. the mayoral by-election?

There is no “Parliamentary road” for us, but elections may yet be a peripheral part of the way forward.

Our animal friends.

Yes, foxes kill chickens, such is their nature, so just ensure your chickens etc are protected, that’s all. Good fences make good neighbours.

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Makarova]
[Pushkin Boulevard, Donetsk]

Diary Blog,16 June 2026

Tweets seen

Amazing clips of film.

Woolwich Crown Court is high-security. Prisoners are brought to court via an underground tunnel from the nearby Belmarsh Prison. I once had a friend at the Bar who, in the 1990s, did quite a lot of “heavy” crime there, crimes such as security-van jobs and the like.

Craig Murray was H.M. Ambassador to Uzbekistan at one time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray, and is now rather dissident.

As previously blogged, the Ukrainian Ambassador whom I accompanied sometime around 1995 to the UK’s biological warfare (etc) centre at Porton Down, Wiltshire, is now the director of a bio-lab in Ukraine: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko.

If any reader wants more information on that, use the blog search box.

Well said. Political leadership is not the same as being an Army or Royal Marines officer (you cannot simply command people and events, and decisions have to be more nuanced). As the tweeter says, neither is political leadership similar to being a senior legal figure such as the DPP (you cannot simply lay down rules and regulations and/or threaten to use “the full force of the law” when people do not agree).

Come to that, political leadership is also unalike to being a top-level businessman, as Trump is proving to the world. Not everyone wants to “make a deal“. Some people will not “make a deal” under any circumstances, because they or their group, clan, or people are motivated not by a quantifiable outcome such as profit and loss, but by ideology, or religion, or even a wish for “death or (and/or) glory”. Such people often do not much care if they themselves end up worse off (objectively) without a so-called “deal”.

Talking point

People, years ago, thought that Starmer-stein would be a Prime Minister fairly dull but at least intelligent, reliable, respectful of the idea of “a society under law”, and not likely to go off the rails in any serious way.

Well…people got the dull Prime Minister, but they also got a power-mad former bureaucrat willing to have protesters imprisoned for years for doing such petty crimes or non-crimes such as posting “inflammatory” tweets that few read and by which none were “incited”; same goes for idiotic young or not-young men willing to throw a few plastic wheelie bins towards a line of riot police.

The British people got, not a dull but reliable (and ethical) Prime Minister, but a petty tyrant forcing the entire nation to give large amounts of personal information to Israeli and other companies before being “allowed” to post on, or even use and/or read, Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube etc.

They also got a Prime Minister willing to light Jewish-supremacist candlesticks in the windows of 10, Downing Street and in Trafalgar Square, and one willing to throw away enormous amounts of money “supporting” the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev, while British people struggle without help.

The British people also got a crazed Prime Minister presiding over a migration invasion of enormous proportions, one which he has no plan to stop, and no intention of stopping.

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[“Head of the armed forces Sir Richard Knighton today: “We will have to dial back our activities and our exercise and operational activity if the level of resource funding that is available to us does not increase.”

Speaking at the G7 today, Keir Starmer made clear there will be no more money forthcoming.

John Healey’s resignation speech in the Commons later should be box office.”]

Ah, yes…I remember that Knighton person “cosplaying” in camouflage gear in Kiev a year or so ago [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Knighton].

In reality, any money spent on “defence” at present is money totally wasted. There is no threat from Russia or anywhere else to the UK, not in terms of ordinary warfare. The threats are all from the migration invasion or are from within the society— the demographic changes, the exploitative finance-capitalism tearing society apart, and the collapsing fake “democratic” political system.

Britain should not be getting involved in Ukraine, the Middle East, or the Indian Ocean. It is pathetic, anyway, now that our Empire is long-gone, given away by the LabCon traitors now all too ready to wave the flag around to “support” the thuggish and corrupt regime Ukraine, or the appalling Israeli state.

Indicates low enthusiasm for all existing parties. Translates to a Commons with about 284 Reform UK MPs (about 42 short of an overall majority), 93 Cons (weak official Opposition unless they make common cause with Reform, either coalition or other arrangement); Greens 68, LibDems 68, Lab 62, SNP 45 [etc].

That would probably be good for social nationalism. A Reform or Reform/Con government would be a disaster but, as Lenin said “worse will be better“…

Once again, as in all polling for a long time, Starmer would lose his seat on those figures, as would any Labour MP in Makerfield (probably including Burnham, if he wins the upcoming by-election).

Very true, but that is where the vast bulk of the population is.

There may be oblique or indirect ways for people, whether as groups or as individuals (“lone wolves”), to sabotage and rebel.

Again, very true, but “prepping” in the UK is not the same, nor can it be, as prepping in the USA, Canada, Russia etc.

See also:

https://ianrobertmillard.org/category/prepping

See also:

Leaving aside the schools issue, one thing is clear: Labourite drone and careerist Bridget Phillipson knows little or no history, despite her mixed history/languages degree from Oxford.

The Gestapo did not march “hundreds of thousands” (of any types) anywhere. I presume that the idiotic woman is confusing or conflating the Gestapo with the S.S.

The Gestapo was a quite small organization, largely made up of former detectives from the Kripo (criminal police). Its job was to track down spies and saboteurs etc, which it did mainly by sifting through denunciations sent in by citizens.

In fact, 95% of the work of the Gestapo was to examine, then dismiss denunciations made by people either mistakenly or maliciously. There were usually only a few Gestapo officers in even quite sizeable towns.

The Gestapo operated almost invariably in civilian clothes, and did not march columns of prisoners anywhere.

Disappointing but certainly not surprising, these days, to find such ignorance in a woman who not only read History (period studied not known to me), but also is now Secretary of State for Education…

Incidentally, the only non-political jobs that woman ever had prior to getting in on the old MP racket were 2 years as an office worker at her local council, then for about 2 years as manager of a charity founded by her own mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Phillipson.

Another small settlement (500 inhabitants before the war, and now probably few, certainly not more than 100).

Russia needs a gamechanger. Urgently.

[“Starmer’s turning the UK into an authoritarian dictatorship, where people are too scared to speak out

Its planned social media ban is being sold as child protection. Look closer and it affects every adult too.

To keep under-16s off X, TikTok, YouTube and the rest, everyone has to prove they’re over 16. That means tying your ID to your accounts.

We’ve seen where this leads.

Under the existing Online Safety Act, sites like Imgur and several adult platforms simply blocked all UK users rather than handle the verification.

Civil liberties groups like the Open Rights Group are already warning about who holds that data and how it’s protected.

Set that against a country with a track record of arresting people over online posts, and the worry writes itself.

When your name is attached to everything you say, you start watching what you say.

It’s the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook, the same instinct that kept people quiet under every communist regime of the last century.

Starmer calls it protecting children. Funny how the protection always seems to involve knowing exactly who said what.

And the people who do speak out and stand up, like Tommy Robinson? He was arrested under the Terrorism Act so police could seize his devices and see who he’s been communicating with.

The UK is slipping into tyranny, and the voices that can speak out will soon be silenced.“]

You have to bear in mind, also, that those tested were tested after having been prisoners for some time, on restricted diets and, in some cases (Streicher, in particular) subject to ill-treatment amounting to torture at the hands of Jews in American uniform.

I was tested in the 1980s at 156 or 155 (I forget, but think the former), but of course that was about 40 years ago. In any case, IQ is only one factor of importance. “EQ” is also very significant in terms of how the individual functions in society, for example.

Not as straightforward as often thought. Marilyn Monroe was (apparently) on or above the IQ level of Einstein. In the old phrase, “it makes one think“…

“Antifascist”/”antiracist” idiots usually do try the old “racists are knuckledraggers” (etc) line; a couple even tried to characterize me that way on Twitter, many years ago. Not worth discussing; certainly, there is no need for anyone on “our” side of the “argument” to self-validate or self-justify.

Get them out or get them gone. Whatever it takes.

There are several ethno-cultural “communities” in the UK that should be removed (and read that however you like), not just one.

Interesting point, and probably correct.

Like a box of Soviet chocolates: different shapes externally, but all with the same filling.

Those people (and those behind them) would have us at war, and entirely unnecessarily, and hugely devastatingly, with Russia. Healey even mentioned it in that speech (“…war with Russia within 5 years“…).

Russia has 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons of various types, including massive missiles, some of which cannot be intercepted en route. Do those willing to fight Russia (and why? To support the corrupt, shambolic, and brutal Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev?) really want to risk these islands becoming a charred and radioactive wasteland?

No thank you.

Britain should leave NATO, cultivate better relations with Russia, take Russian oil and gas at cost price (I think that easily achievable in the right circumstances) and, in Russia, find a ready and huge market for British goods and services, including our people’s great overall skill-set.

Carns may well climb higher. Exceptional. However, from what I have seen and heard so far, possibly (and, in view of his support for Jo Cox and her activity, probably) ideologically unsound.

I am all in favour of the UK being, in Carns’ own words, “able to defend itself“, but that must be distinguished from fomenting entirely unnecessary wars which are likely to entirely destroy this country and its people.

I can see Carns being appealing to many voters, though.

Carns’ speech is wrong in its characterization of the Attlee government of the mid/late 1940s. That excellent historian, Correlli Barnett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlli_Barnett] made the point in his several books that the UK tried to do three things after 1945 (retain a global military presence, re-tool British industry and commerce, establish or improve the Welfare State), but only had the wherewithal to do two of those properly, and thus did all three but inadequately.

Having said that, Carns made a pretty good speech there, objectively.

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

I have seen, however, from Carns’ tweets and interviews on domestic matters, that he is very weak in areas outside his core comfort-zone of defence etc.

I am generally opposed to the death penalty, but there are exceptions. This is one such exception.

Only social nationalism can save this country now.

At the end of the day, Andy Burnham is really just another Labourite drone, with little or really nothing new to say, let alone do.

What a nice idea.

Israel, as a state, as a society, is no worse than most of the Arab/Muslim states in the region, in overall terms —indeed, in some respects better— but is the hub of worldwide Jewish power and influence. That is why I oppose it.

[“Iran has managed to survive the attacks and even bring Washington to its knees, writes the Ynet portal.

Iran withstood serious attacks and, relying on its remaining strength, managed to bring the United States to its knees,” the portal states.

“The problem lies with the United States. They have shown their weakness: their word is no longer their word, their power is no longer power, and their blockade is no longer a blockade.”

“These were supposed to be the best days of the United States as a world power,” but “the grand names of operations against Iran – the American ‘Epic Rage’ and the Israeli ‘Roaring Lion’ – have been shattered to pieces,” it adds.

According to Ynet, Israel has not seen such a consensus in society for a long time, between the left and the far right, that the American-Iranian agreement, expected to be signed on June 19, is a “strategic defeat” for Israel and a “failure” for the United States and moderate Sunni states in the region.

“Trump is determined to reach an agreement. Hardly any leader of a great power has ever shown such zeal, which is a sign of weakness,” Ynet believes, adding that even “the demonstration of power now boils down to Trump’s AI-generated videos portraying himself as a global superman.

“It’s hard to believe, but that’s exactly how it is: never before has such a powerful state shown such a terrifying weakness towards a country that was considered to have suffered a severe defeat,” the portal emphasizes.“]

Those who live will see“…

[“Zelensky keeps bragging online while frontline troubles mounting for Ukrainian army Fresh off the G7 summit, Zelensky once again tried to rattle President Putin and Russia with threats of a “harsh winter,” projecting an image that NATO’s latest tech upgrades had given him the strategic upper hand. But for all the polished optics flooding Ukrainian and Western media, the reality on the ground tells a very different story.“]

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gara_Garayev; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Beauties_(ballet)]

Diary Blog, 14 June 2026

Afternoon music

[Bauman Garden, Moscow]

Tweets seen

[symbol of The Woodlanders]

What a stupid —and basically performative— action. How many ships owned by UK-based companies sail under flags of convenience? Thousands. What if Russia starts to seize them? This kind of state piracy is not the right kind of thing at all. This is the 21st Century, not the 16th or 17th.

Don’t poke —or keep poking— the Bear.

Actually, not sure that £80K is such a good salary in the UK these days, especially when taxable, but the point stands.

Peter Murrell is now in prison on remand, and awaiting sentence, while his wife or ex-wife, Nicola Sturgeon, the self-important Scottish fake “nationalist”, would-be “world statesperson”, and probable lesbianka, is politically finished, and living in some sort of luxury rental in London (presumably hoping to become a mass media TV talking-head and newspaper scribbler), but the SNP itself staggers on.

In a sense, one can see why the SNP is still riding fairly high in the opinion polls. Labour is washed-up north of the border as well as in England and Wales, the LibDem default-vote joke party is only supported in a few niche and/or former Conservative areas, and few these days will vote fake “Conservative” in most of Scotland. So for whom do Scottish people vote? It is said that both Restore Britain and Reform UK are gaining support, but surely not enough to worry the SNP. There again, between a third and a half of Scottish people still think that they want notional “Independence” from the UK, so that does limit their choice of party.

In the end, the SNP is just another globalist System party; pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-EU, pro-immigration. Same-old, in short. However, at present, enough Scottish people are fooled sufficiently by the fake flag-waving of the SNP (despite it at one point having been led by a Pakistani!) to keep the SNP in play.

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[entrance gate to the former leadership residential compound of the East German communists at Wandlitz, near Berlin, aka “Bonzograd” and/or “Volvograd”; socialism has “mixed” benefits and detriments for most of the population of any country, but for the leadership, and the comfortable strata just below that, could be pretty good…]

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I agree.

Replacing the monkey will not change the music being played, nor the identity of the organ-grinder(s).

Reform could have smashed its way right through the politics of the UK, but Farage and Tice allowed the Jewish/Israel lobby to influence and control them, and also started to flood Reform with non-white candidates. That is why Restore, though also very flawed, is making ground.

What English/British people really want, or rather need, is social nationalism, but most are so brainwashed by decades of Jewish-lobby propaganda on TV, in newspapers etc, and now also in schools, that they themselves are all but unaware of their own needs.

When “Boris”-idiot came out with his “high-skilled migrants” rubbish, I thought that what was really meant was, as I put it on the blog, “Indians that can work a computer“. It turns out that —not for the first time— I was too kind. Even I did not realize quite how low the bar would be set…

When captured— deportation, or sterilization, or whatever else it takes to save the future for British children.

Looks as though, whatever may be said about the recent events, the protesters in Northern Ireland have succeeded, at least in part, in getting rid of their problem…

Life is always surprising.

Talking point

That seems to capture a growing thought-trend in this country…

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[American version…]

Many are waking up to the fact that “our” government is actually our enemy…

Like many of my age-group (69), I am not hugely versed in computing etc, but from what I understand, the skills of the present-day teens are often very considerable, and may enable the under-16 generation to evade any such ban. Certainly, the similar law in Australia has been, or so I have read, a total failure.

Still, I do what I can with such skills as I do have…

Our animal friends.

All the suspicious activity in London, and those “Specials” (volunteer p/t police) chose whoever that is to question. Anyway, he may or may not be harmless. Many people wander around London aimlessly.

As to where it is, I think Soho Square, but am not 100% sure.

Talking point

As a general rule, landlord-parasitism should not be allowed to exist. This is a societal/political choice.

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I have blogged previously about how I accompanied the then Ukrainian Ambassador, one Kommissarenko, to a privatized part of the UK’s biological warfare laboratories at Porton Down in Wiltshire. That was in 1994 or 1995. Use the search box on the blog for more.

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

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

That ambassador was himself from a biochemical or biological scientific background, and I believe is now director of such facilities in Ukraine. I wonder if he remembers our little trip to the Wiltshire countryside, 30+ years ago, in his handsome and fast (130+ mph) black Lexus limousine with its CD plates (enabling us to drive there from the then Ukrainian Embassy near Notting Hill in only about 40 minutes)?

[“Britain’s economic condition is far worse than many appreciate. Government debt has climbed above £3 trillion, exceeding 100% of GDP. Interest payments on that debt have become one of the largest items in the national budget. The tax burden is at its highest level in decades, yet the government still cannot balance the books.

Economic growth has been stagnant for years. Productivity growth has virtually disappeared. Manufacturing continues to shrink as a percentage of the economy while energy costs remain among the highest in the industrialized world. Britain now spends more servicing debt than it does on many essential public services.“]

National revolution. Then, social-national government. Creation of a European-race ethnostate. Strong links with Russia. Leave NATO. Ignore the EU if it is hostile. Eliminate the (((special-interest))) lobby or lobbies. Create an entirely new form of society but at the same time based on the best of the historical traditions.

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Cornwall has plenty of (mostly 18thC/19thC) ruins and follies. My own (sadly only leased) house (2002-2004) near the Tamar, about 4 or 5 miles north of Launceston, had 4 acres of gardens, ornamental ponds, and Victorian grottos and, beyond that, about 80 acres of woodland (with black deer etc), and a small river. Hard to believe, now.

[driveway]

See also:

[“The wish “go lightlys” move into granny’s home.

An elderly woman in her 80s returned from visiting her 102-year-old friend to find a gang of Eastern European squatters had taken over her £590,000 home in Chingford.

They broke in while she was away, refused to leave, and are now living there like they own the place.

Police told her it’s a “civil matter” and refused to help.

She’s now effectively homeless with serious health issues.

Look at them in the photos — bold as brass, moving their stuff in and out of her house like it’s nothing.

This is what happens when we have open borders and a police force that won’t protect British people.

Our elderly worked their whole lives for this country. Now they’re being robbed in their own homes while the system shrugs.

Who’s going to get them out of HER home ?

Disgusting.

Protect our elderly. Deport the invaders.”]

They (again) look like Roma Gypsy types.

Were I to say what should happen to them, I should probably have the “woodentops” at my door (again), and that is pretty boring, especially when I end up having to explain to them what is the law and what are the limits of their lawful powers, so I leave it to the readers of the blog to use their own discretion.

Incidentally, I note that the untermenschen are driving a new-looking BMW X5, a car the cost of which (new) ranges from £90,000 to over £120,000. Assuming that the car is not stolen, from where did the untermenschen get the money?

We all know what has to happen eventually in this country; it is just a matter of time.

Also a good way, however, for police and security services to snoop on people. “Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves“…

Wall. Squad. End.

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[Old Gagra, Abkhazia]

Diary Blog, 8 June 2026

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As noted previously on the blog, were the UK to leave NATO and take a “path less travelled”, Russia would supply us with cheap oil and gas, probably at cost price.

What goes around comes around..

As often said on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

Quite.

Good grief. How well I remember attending the evening meetings at Windsor in the early 1970s, about 55 years ago, when I was still at school. I even remember the names of some of the horses; Dhofar was one.

That grandstand has evidently been rebuilt since I was last there over half a century ago. I seem to recall that the Members’ Enclosure included the smaller building to the left. I have been to both enclosures in the long-ago past.

American Jew pontificates about UK housing crisis. Seems that all we have to do is build on our beautiful Green Belt, and all the migrant-invaders, and all their prospective black, brown, or half-caste children will have housing, probably all built by (((speculative developers))).

Every. Single. Time.

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

The general or combined level of “national” political support (Reform, Restore, other smaller parties, and those still voting LibLabCon but unhappily or out of habit) probably exceeds 50% but is, as seen, split. Social-national sentiment is probably no more than 20%, even interpreting it generously, but that is mainly because there is no real and credible social-national party and leader known to the people as a whole.

What matters is ideological and actual discipline, without which nothing is ever possible.

Lifestyle vlog from rural Russia/Siberia

Interesting vlog from a young woman called Anastasia, who lives in Russia, in Siberia I think. I have featured her vlog once or twice before. She seems to have split from her boyfriend or husband (pity; they and their companion animals made a pleasant household), and is now renovating an old Russian village house.

Real Russian people, not the negative caricatures usually seen.

Might also be interesting to those in this country wanting to construct a house of that sort.

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Another village. Where are the large towns, and the cities?

As I wrote earlier generally, that poll shows that, in the Makerfield by-election, at least 54% of the voters want a broadly “national”-ideology MP, and between 20% and ~45% want social-nationalism, whether they themselves know that or not.

Intimidation and bribery— the two major weapons of Evil throughout the ages, and therefore “their” two main weapons…

Our animal friends.

Diary Blog, 4 June 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_Boyle]
[Bamburgh Castle]

A thought out of season

I was just thinking about those who have declared themselves enemies over the past 14 years. The majority have died; others are almost dead; yet others have suffered various severe blows of Fate.

“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb]

[Tarot, Major Arcana: The Wheel of Fortune]

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Quite a monster. Should I win the Euromillions, I shall think about buying either a bulletproofed one, or the open-top version (depending on my mood).

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

“Someone or other”, back in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, “was right”, was he not?…

Toby Young is a total puppet of the UK Jewish lobby and Israel. Das ist’s!

“Them” (((them))). Again.

[Israel-puppet Starmer-stein, and Angela Rayner, “bending the knee” for black mobs]

I have no idea who that woman is but she parrots the usual Labourite nonsense that one hears from the likes of Lisa Nandy, Rachel Reeves, and other Labour careerist clowns and “multiculturalists”: “our communities“, “our NHS” etc.

They speak a different language, a kind of pseudo-communitarian gobbledegook about how “people” would “get on together” entirely happily, were it not for “divisive rhetoric” from Reform, Restore, or the “far right” (or others).

My strong feeling is that people such as that useless woman are going to be swept away in coming years.

[“Could Henry Nowak have survived? Dr. Krzysztof Magier @DrMagier, a pediatrician and former honorary consul of the Republic of Poland in Cowes, analyzed footage from a police body camera showing Henry Nowak’s death. Dr. Magier heads the pediatric intensive care unit, with experience in combat medicine training and a specialized course in treating severe injuries (including gunshot and stab wounds). He disagrees with the pathologist’s and judge’s opinion that Henry Nowak had no chance of survival and that handcuffing him essentially changed nothing. On the contrary—there is a high likelihood that the police intervention contributed to his death. He analyzed the autopsy report, which points to damage to the subclavian vein as the main source of bleeding, and explains where the problem lies. In a healthy person, venous bleeding occurs under low pressure and often self-limits thanks to the naturally forming clot, while simply approximating the wound edges and compressing the surrounding tissues closes the vein enough to slow or even stop the bleeding. The body camera footage shows that when police arrived on the scene (likely 5-10 minutes after the injury), Henry was conscious enough to speak quite loudly. He was therefore not yet in a terminal state. After his arms were twisted behind his back and handcuffed, the vein was most likely stretched, the clot torn, and bleeding dramatically intensified. Within just about three minutes, he lost consciousness and died. People with suspected internal injuries should never be moved or yanked abruptly—such actions can destroy the natural clot and lead to massive internal hemorrhage. Instead of immediately calling a medical rescue team and handing the patient over to paramedics, the police handcuffed him. If paramedics had arrived first on the scene, Henry’s chances of survival would have been much higher. “50%”—writes Dr. Magier. Paramedics could have quickly started an IV, administered fluids to increase circulating blood volume, and tranexamic acid to stabilize the clot, and if needed, performed needle decompression (inserting a large, long needle into the lung), because the issue wasn’t so much lack of lung function, but compression of the blood-filled lung on the heart and mediastinum, which blocks circulation. Worse still, the incident took place just a few minutes’ drive by car (2–3 minutes by ambulance with sirens) from Southampton University Hospital—a regional Major Trauma Centre equipped with a full team of specialists, procedures, and equipment. “I am convinced that if Henry had arrived there alive, the doctors would not have let him die”—writes Dr. Magier. In summary: the aggressive police intervention, instead of saving a life, led to death through improper handling of a severely injured person, even though world-class care was just minutes away. “I fear the Judge and pathologist were too lenient toward the police”—writes Dr. Magier.”]

Looks like the police might face a civil action on that basis, potentially.

I rarely support what the Israelis do, but had this murder taken place in Israel/Palestine, had the victim been a Jew, and had the murderer been a Palestinian Arab, the house of the murderer responsible would have been demolished by a bulldozer regardless of the culpability or not of the murderer’s family (in this case, the mother has already been found guilty of an ancillary offence, and others of the family have been charged and arraigned).

That stupid Labourite woman on the Peston TV show should see this, though she is the type that is impervious to evidence that challenges her ingrained views. “Second and third generation…” too. Happens in Belgium, the UK, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and elsewhere. We need to clear them out, and save what is left of Europe.

Whatever it takes.

Yes, everything worthwhile in the UK was built by British or other closely-associated white European people. The problem is that lesser breeds are now infesting much of it (the country and its institutions). Politically and socially-subversive types also infest our institutions, often at a high level.

We are on the downward path.

[“The rife anti-white filth that has infected Britain goes so much further than the police – that cancer runs much, much deeper.

Young white men – treated like dirt exactly because they are white. It is blatant racism, and politicians should have the courage to say so.

Our institutions now seem perfectly comfortable judging people by the colour of their skin, provided that skin happens to be white.

Universities. Hospitals. Councils. Military. Police. It is EVERYWHERE.

White British men are told we are privileged regardless of our circumstances. We are told we should sit quietly by whilst opportunities, resources and funds are deliberately allocated to ethnic minorities.

I say no. Enough.

This has happened as a white British boy died in the street, begging for help. Ignored and left to die, because an ethnic minority murderer accused him of racism.

But outlining the issue is not enough. Not now. No more talk. We need solutions.

Identifying the rot is only the beginning. Here is what a Restore Britain Government will do to rip it out.

  • Repeal the Equality Act 2010 in full, and repeal the laws it replaced, especially the various iterations of the Race Relations Act.

Initially sold as a simple non-discrimination duty in public places, these Acts have over time amounted to a series of escalating discriminatory attacks on white people.

The 2000 amendment imposed a statutory duty upon public bodies to ‘promote racial equality’ following the MacPherson Report. We’re told this Act supposedly prohibits racial discrimination, but the principles it enshrined in law are now being used to promote racial discrimination against white people. It is unacceptable, and has reached far beyond its original remit.

The Equality Act 2010 consolidated all of the previous Race Relations Acts into one anti-white monstrosity.

  • Repeal all laws which punish ‘racist’ speech, including Part III of the Public Order Act 1986 – which criminalises ‘incitement to racial hatred’.
  • Repeal law which requires courts to treat racial hostility as an aggravating factor when sentencing offences.
  • Replace it all with one simple act that ensures every British citizen is equal before the law and positively outlaws anti-white discrimination, so as to prevent activist judges from reading their own prejudices into the law.
  • Ban race-based, sex-based and religion-based quotas in public bodies and private companies.
  • Prohibit recruitment schemes restricted to particular ethnic groups.
  • End mandatory DEI training across government, local authorities, police and NHS bodies.
  • Ban positive discrimination in hiring and promotion.
  • Outlaw race-specific graduate schemes and internships.
  • End taxpayer funding for DEI officers or schemes across the entire public sector.

Restore Britain is committed to rooting out all laws, practices, and norms that systematically discriminate against white people.

It will end. I promise you that.

A Restore Britain Government will restore fairness for all.

That includes white people.“]

[Rupert Lowe MP]

Very positive from Lowe.

In fact, the Reform/Restore rivalry, though a problem in terms of vote-splitting at elections, is a great thing in terms of moving the “Overton Window”. Already we see that the public discourse is moving, and quite rapidly moving now.

Farage and Reform are scrabbling to keep up with Lowe and Restore, and the public, many of them, are up front with Restore in terms of their views, in my judgment, even though Reform is still far better known, and has a higher profile (as has Farage). Lowe is also willing to stand up a bit against the Jewish lobby, against kosher/kashrut slaughter etc.

As for the Con-selfservatives, they have been left far behind, despite the recently-increased propaganda support in the msm. Toast.

As said, though, what matters is that the public mood is fast-hardening against the decline in our society.

I agree with Ms. Meaden. No kneeling. Only concrete action.

Another “beggar on horseback” (as in “if a beggar is given a horse, he rides it to death“). Get rid of him and all like him.

Jones is exposed as a complete sycophant, liar, and puppet of Mandelson, the deviant Jew tied in with the sex criminal Epstein and the rest of that Jew/Israeli cabal, who ran a huge Israeli honeytrap, espionage and intelligence operation for years, drawing in everyone from Clinton to “Prince” Andrew (Andrew Windsor) and hundreds of others. Arrest them all.

They think that replacing one joker with another will win the game. I doubt it; the whole pack consists of anti-British elements.

I take little interest in sports, but it is a nice picture.

Quite interesting, and for me reminiscent of the house by Lewisham Park, a Victorian/Edwardian park in south-east London (between Lewisham and Catford), where I lived for a year (1983-84), until I started my law degree at the superannuated age of 28. I had a large room with a kitchenette, a sitting area with sofas and armchairs, and a door onto a tiny high-walled private garden separate from the main garden.

I piled my bed high with soft sheepskins, and subsisted much of the time on grechka (boiled, then fried, buckwheat grains) and lemon tea.

My landlady there was a rather frosty dragon called Mrs. Moore who, in the mid/late 1940s, had been an officer of military intelligence in India. She always called military intelligence “MI“.

Mrs. Moore lived, like me, on the ground floor, and was very strict about her tenants (of which I believe there were several, though I rarely saw or even heard anyone) notifying their presence or absence via a system of wooden slats by the large front door. Those slats said “In”, “Out”, or “Away” by a list of the room numbers; “Away” was for when people expected to be out overnight or longer.

One night I was “away” but notified only “out”, so Mrs Moore did not double-bolt the front door. I was criticized by her for my failure, and the consequent potential security breach, when I returned the following day.

That house was later demolished (late 1980s, I think), and a sheltered housing building, St. Mauritius House, hugely ugly (one can view it via Google Earth), constructed on the site. Today, a passer-by would have no idea that a pleasant little bit of 19th/20thC social history and domestic architecture ever existed there.

Times past…

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_open_spaces_in_the_London_Borough_of_Lewisham (Lewisham Park is not featured, though, oddly).

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Double and triple the guard…lest he return, and with him, the past“…

[“This is the woman who, as a Tory Minister, declared that ‘Trans women are Women’.

She also oversaw a law (for my maternity leave) that described me as a ‘pregnant person’ so as not to offend trans people. Even after backlash, she would not include the word ‘woman’. We had to settle on ‘mother’.

And she plans to come back and lead the Party.

The Conservative Party should be apologising to the country for its Great Betrayal on DEI.

Never trust them.“]

Why are msm outlets giving a washed-up ex-MP like Penny Mordaunt any airtime? Is there really some idea that she might become an MP again? Highly unlikely. A GE might not be until 2029, and she is already 53.

“In April 2025, Mordaunt began a part-time paid role with British American Tobacco, as part of its transformation advisory board; she also started paid work with maritime technology company Sub Sea Craft.[97][98]

In July 2025, she co-authored a report into antisemitism in the UK with Labour peer Lord Mann commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.[99]

In September 2025, Mordaunt was appointed President of the Southend-based charity, The Music Man Project, which provides music education and performance opportunities to people with disabilities. She succeeded former Southend West MP David Amess.[100]

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The Jewish lobby favour her; I suppose that explains why she is still occasionally on TV.

Incidentally, while she was, technically, a Cabinet minister, it was only for 85 days!

I think that the directors of such anti-British companies should be held personally accountable.

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[residential area in Akademgorodok, near Novosibirsk, Western Siberia]