Category Archives: Reminiscences and Musings

Diary Blog, 4 November 2026

Afternoon music

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Moral cowardice

“A tribunal judge has been given a formal warning for making “disparaging generalisations” about the Roma community to other members of the tribunal.“

[Legal Futures online magazine]

There may be a few Roma Gypsies who are not thieves, predators, or scavengers… let’s leave it there.

How typical of our crumbling society that, instead of addressing the real and universally-known problem, those making a good living out of the decay of our society prefer to “shoot the messenger”. . .

Talking point

[“The Ukraine war is essentially justified in Germany on moral grounds. The revelations about the Ukrainian torture center massively undermine this moral narrative and are therefore politically sensitive for the war’s supporters. Consequently, everything will now be done to suppress the facts.“]

I have already seen tweets by a “British” Jew-Zionist (who poses as a “journalist” in Kiev) saying that the ambulance was fake, that the woman paramedic who begged for the release of the detained men and boys was a fake (and has been arrested), and that there was no torture-centre and prison there (and that there are none at all in Kiev-regime “Ukraine”…).

So everything seen on live social media was a fake? Sounds very like an implausible conspiracy theory to me. The street protests were plainly real, for a start.

The only truth in that Jew’s tweets is that the brave woman paramedic has been arrested by the Jew Zelensky’s goons.

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Typical.

That tweet about the evil Saatchi and Saatchi Jews reminded me of a young woman with whom I was slightly acquainted nearly 40 years ago in London, and who owned a small and exclusive catering company. Saatchi and Saatchi was one of their clients. Riverboat evening receptions on the Thames etc. Saatchi and Saatchi were riding high at the time, and the young woman’s company, trading as Savoir Fare, likewise.

I cannot entirely recall the details, but I seem to remember that that young woman did something against me, and entirely out of unprovoked malice, after which she went on holiday to East Africa with her Indian boyfriend. Fate then took a hand.

There was a devastating coach crash in, I think, Kenya. Numerous passengers were killed, as was the driver. The woman sitting next to the Savoir Fare person was killed, and Savoir Fare woman was badly injured, breaking her back and numerous other bones, and suffering other injuries. Apparently, she was airlifted out by air ambulance back to the UK, and the rehabilitation was set to take several years. The company perforce collapsed.

It is a strange fact that many people who do unpleasant things to me suffer blows of fate. Not all, but many.

For example, over the past decade or so, quite a few of the Jews who have targeted me have died (not by my hand, however, but rather by “the hand of God” or “the gods”, or Fate).

One of the most virulent persecutors was one Stephen Applebaum or Apfelbaum, from the Watford area. He seemed to live to troll people (along with “Slitherman”, as featured on yesterday’s blog), and wanted (and tweeted to that effect) to see me and others (as he hoped) arrested, charged, on trial etc. Well, again Fate took a hand. He died not long before my free speech trial and later sentencing, in 2023-2024.

I can think of quite a few others on Twitter/X who have gone the same way.

God moves in mysterious ways.

Kemi Badenoch— Conservative Friends of Israel.

Andy Burnham— Labour Friends of Israel.

What connects them? (answers on a postcard…).

As predicted on the blog over the past 4-5 years…

[“Absolutely INSANE. Adam Robinson just died in the public jet crash after founding an incredibly powerful digital espionage tool as a private entrepreneur NOT tied to big tech, israel, or “their money” When it was suggested by @theronshah that he should work with Tel Aviv, he told them to f@ck off Want to guess who will inherit his tech?”]

Israel, and the Jewish cabals generally, are not behind all the evil in the world…but they are behind much of it.

For once, Ash Sarkar is worth listening to (Andy Burnham…)

News from South Africa

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16264407/couple-tortured-Africa-farm-raid-gun-breasts-cutters.html

This is what happens when a white European society becomes a black dystopia; shambolic, corrupt, violent, chaotic.

The idiot Mandela, a failed terrorist and failed law student, is still revered by dim people across the world, not least in the UK. They are, of course, not only ignorant of the true facts but wilfully so.

After WW1, South Africa was 22% white European. By the time stupid Mandela was in power, in the 1990s, that had fallen to around 10%, and is now around 5%. That is why nothing works there any more.

UK next…

News from England

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16264839/Killer-beat-death-child-ride-Lime-Bike-jailed.html

“A killer who beat a pensioner to death for telling a child not to ride a Lime bike on the pavement has been jailed for less than four years.

Andre Wright-Walters, 38, punched James Gbadamosi, 67, in Balham, south-west London, on August 24 last year.

He was hit twice in the face which led him to being knocked out onto the pavement and smashing his head.

The 67-year-old was rushed to hospital but died two weeks later on September 5.

Mr Gbadamosi had told a child off for cycling a Lime bike on the pavement before being confronted by a woman on the street, who made a call to her boyfriend Wright-Walters.

The father-of-two denied the manslaughter charge but was convicted by a jury at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court.

The judge denied the couple’s version of events and sentenced the killer to five years and six months – but he will only have to serve three years and eight months in jail before he is released on licence.

[Daily Mail]

[defendant (killer)]

Put it up against a wall. The girlfriend too.

What use are these untermenschen in our society? At best, they are parasites. Often, in fact usually, they are also involved in various types of criminality, and anyway coarsen our society merely by existing here.

If remigration proves difficult or impossible, we have to find other ways of re-creating a British ethnostate. The present direction is straight down.

[“The two zionist jewish barristers supporting the UK jewish lobby’s legal intervention in support of the Palestine Action ban:

  • Daniel Isenberg who was an illegal jewish settler in the occupied West Bank studying jewish law and served as a Law Clerk at ‘israel’s’ supreme court.
  • Adam Wagner who occupied Palestine during his gap year in a ‘kibbutz’, led the formal investigation into the Labour ‘anti-semitism’ scam under Corbyn, and is currently arguing that the Green party motion (zionism is racism) breaches the law because he believes that zionism should be a ‘protected belief’.

These are two ‘israel’ first lawyers who cannot be trusted to care about British interests or the British people.

This case is not Palestine Action vs the British state.

It is Palestine Action vs the pro-‘israel’ and zionist jewish lobbies.“]

The fact is that, when “they” occupy any country in sufficient number, that country’s (real) people lose everything— their economic freedoms, their civil rights, their free speech rights especially. The real people become serfs of the interlopers they tolerated or even invited in.

I have never been there, but Thailand is a corrupt mess of a country. A population of half-wits, from what I have heard about, and read about.

[“Two years ago, Donald Trump achieved the greatest comeback in American political history. Rising from the depths where he found himself after January 6th (the Capitol riot), he prevailed in all the swing states, won the popular vote for the first time, and finally won the hearts of Americans. A record number of Hispanic voters and young people voted for him. It was truly an unprecedented comeback in politics, one that was impossible to predict and unlikely to be equaled for a long time.

And now, two years later, we see how ALL OF THAT was thrown away for a war that serves the interests of a foreign state. As far back as June 2025, I told you, Piers, and on many other programs, that Donald Trump destroyed himself as a president by sweeping the scandalous Epstein case under the rug and starting a completely unnecessary war at the behest of Netanyahu.”]

My assessment of Trump from 9-10 years ago is still valid: “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews”…

…and, most importantly, down the line, also State Pension and Pension Credit (etc), which will destroy, in time, the whole benefit system including State Pension.

In fact, the migration invasion we have suffered, and continue to suffer, will —in time, and perhaps not much time— destroy and collapse our whole society.

Only then will a sufficient number of British people be hurting enough to support a truly radical social-national alternative. Then we can load up, and not until then.

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Diary Blog, 31 October 2026

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A very nice version of the symphony, “The Bell” (Khatchaturian).

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Saturday quiz

Well, 6/10 this week, thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Thought out of season

Not so long ago, Britain had a great empire, at peak (after 1919) controlling a nearly a third of this world. Britain took on and won —albeit not alone— great (if unnecessary) wars against both the second German Reich and the later Third Reich (in 1914-1918 and then 1939-1945) and, still later (in the post-1945 Cold War) the Soviet Union.

Now look. Brought down, or being brought down, by a ragtag “army” of blacks and browns (etc) that are not even, most of them, under arms. Migration invasion, and the consequent societal parasitism, cultural collapse, and racemixing (ethnic collapse).

All co-ordinated —at a high level— by those who are the enemies of the future of Britain and the rest of European and European-origined humanity.

While that happens, the mass of the British population are amused by TV game shows, televised spectator sports, gossip about supposed “celebrities” etc.

Pathetic.

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Hopefully, the Ukraine war will have ended by 2030, but Russia needs a gamechanger; the present attritional advance is far too slow.

As previously and repeatedly blogged, Britain should leave NATO, not rejoin the oppressive EU, and should develop better relations with Russia. Cost-price gas, and a huge market for British products and services.

[“Several Middle Eastern media outlets have published maps of Iranian strike targets, covering eight countries.

It is stated that the “zero hour” strikes will occur within 24 hours of the start of a new attack by the United States and/or Israel.

The targets are located in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Jordan, and include ports, airports, power plants, water treatment facilities, underwater cables, hotels, and shopping centers.“]

The Iranians are more than justifying the historical reputation of Persia for cunning and subtlety in diplomacy. Despite having only a tiny fraction of the military-destructive power available to the Americans, or even the Israelis, the Iranian leadership has been able to all but cripple the economies of the Gulf mini-states, and badly damage that of Israel.

Moreover, the whole security situation in the Gulf is affecting the economies of various parts of the world: parts of Asia, Europe, and the USA itself.

Meanwhile it is clear that Saudi Arabia is also in serious trouble via the attacks by the Yemeni Houthis.

Talk about “wipeout”! Good grief…

As a child of 10-12, I used to think that the waves at Manly Beach (Sydney) were big sometimes, but that clip is another level.

The police are not, or should not be posing as, a poundshop KGB or Stasi.

Our animal friends

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16254847/Heroic-puppy-cheated-death-bravery-award.html

Late tweets

Exactly so…

Is Paris burning? Apparently so.

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Diary Blog, 30 October 2026

Afternoon music

[Vladimir Volegov, Listening to Chopin]

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Talking point

Interesting piece by Tucker Carlson. Huckabee is effectively an agent of Israel. Hopefully, he will soon follow Lindsey Graham up the chimney.

Talking point

Well, at least Trump has not, as yet anyway, launched a war against Russia. That is his best point, and arguably his only good point.

Stray thought

I happened to see a few minutes or so of BBC TV News. Almost all about the recent Spanish rail crash. As on previous occasions, I fail to see the interest here, in the UK, in an unfortunate but foreign national or Spanish-regional matter. The same thing occurred after the Lisbon tram crash a couple of years ago. That dragged on for days.

With all the serious international news around, one would imagine that rail or tram crashes in other countries would be a fairly low priority.

I also have often wondered why the British TV always puts crashes of light aircraft on regional if not national TV news. After all, fatalities are usually one or two, no more than in car crashes, which happen daily. Are air crashes, crashes of Cessnas etc into ploughed fields, thought more newsworthy? I cannot see why.

Another thought, this time about Jews and Gaza

I see the usual UK-resident Jews prolific online still whining about how the mass slaughter in Gaza is not, they claim (for hairsplitting technical reasons) a “genocide”.

Well, the [Israeli] Jews have destroyed virtually all the houses and flats which housed about 2 million Gazans (not “6 million”, because there are only 2 million people there). The same [Israeli] Jews have also killed about 75,000 Gazans, of which the vast majority were civilians (at least 21,000 having been under the age of 18). They have also horribly wounded and/or mutilated hundreds of thousands, including large numbers of small children and babies.

The guilt devolving upon the Israeli Jews, the pro-Israel Jews living outside Israel/Palestine, and the pro-Israel non-Jews, from all that (and more) is not vitiated merely because a few Jewish lawyers say it is “not genocide”. Whether it be so labelled is actually irrelevant. They have done what they have done, and must —and will— bear the consequences of their sin.

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Interesting viewpoint, with at least a grain of truth in it.

Late tweets

I hope that he lives long enough to discover that in person.

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Diary Blog, 26 October 2026

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A few thoughts out of season

I understand that the little twerp currently posing as Prime Minister took part in the TV show Gogglebox recently. I have never seen the show, but I believe that it consists of people sitting on a sofa and commenting on other TV shows. If so, pretty pathetic even without the Prime Minister being there.

Once again I was reminded of the pathetically low standards of those presently allowed (and I do use the word advisedly) to become MPs, ministers, prime ministers.

I also saw a clip of an interview given by Angela Rayner a few days ago. Again, absolutely pathetic. No point in reiterating my views about her. Regular readers of the blog will know my opinion. Suffice to say that I do not think some uneducated, uncultured, “chavscum” woman, utterly dishonest, and complete with tattoos, “vapes”, and a liking for booze and vulgar noisy “clubs” on Ibiza (at the age of 46, at that) should be anywhere near political or social power.

Those now “at the top” of the political totem-pole are almost ludicrously poor-quality. A few examples? Lammy. Burnham (obviously). Angela Rayner (ditto). Shabana Mahmood. Kemi Badenoch. Many others.

A different subject. Oxford Street.

I used to live in and around London (various times during the overall 1976-2002 period, and in a number of places, but most often in the Little Venice neighbourhood). Occasionally, I would go to shops in Oxford Street, mainly to Selfridges, which then sold Russian beer, Zhiguli (now all but unobtainable in the UK), and other items of interest.

I see now that the main part of Oxford Street, between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus, has been pedestrianized. Big mistake, in my view. Now, if anyone wants to get to a shop or store in Oxford Street without a walk, he or she will apparently have to get a taxi or bus to the streets round the back of the shops, somehow. Most people will not bother.

I saw a few minutes of an interview with that unpleasant little Pakistani, Sadiq Khan, in which he said that the decline of Oxford Street will be reversed by reason of the pedestrianization. Ha. I doubt it, and such pedestrian streets usually end up as the haunt of petty criminal elements, street buskers and jugglers, and beggars.

That Sadiq Khan individual is plainly, like so many political nonentities in the UK, living in a bubble of self-delusion.

Final stray thought: the less I hear, or see, of that ridiculous princeling, Harry Windsor, and (a fortiori) Meghan Mulatta, the more content I shall be.

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Looks like those untermenschen are in Finland.

They each need a [REDACTED] or two in the head. To each his own…

I suppose that they think —know— that nothing much is going to happen to them. It would be great if they were mistaken.

Europe is now infested with trash.

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Quite. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

I used to have an interesting book called A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, but it was lost in 2009, along with most of my old 2,000-book library in France.

[“Russia is interested in all markets that are profitable for it when it comes to gas exports, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained on several occasions, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Asked about the situation regarding gas supplies to Europe, Peskov clarified that Moscow is ready to consider this issue if European countries show interest.”]

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/26/european-gas-prices-four-year-high-winter-supply-fears-middle-east

[“Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 Ukrainian army explosives and mines near Alyoshki in the Kherson Region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported. According to its statement, the Ukrainian army is remotely laying mines on access routes to Alyoshki to prevent the evacuation of civilians and block the delivery of medicine. TASS has compiled the Russian Defense Ministry’s key statements: https://vk.cc/d3hy3p“]

The opposite of the story broadcast by Sky News a day or two ago.

Historical piece about Mount Athos

[“During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, Mount Athos—the autonomous monastic republic—occupied a uniquely remarkable diplomatic position after its Holy Community (Iera Koinotis), fearing plunder or annexation by Bulgarian forces, sent a formal petition directly to Adolf Hitler in April 1941 asking for his intervention.

Hitler accepted the appeal and declared the holy mountain under his personal protection (Sondergebiet), assigning a minimal German garrison while tasking Ahnenerbe scholars like Franz Dölger with surveying and photographing the priceless Byzantine manuscripts and treasures rather than looting them.

Seeking to maintain local stability, prevent the peninsula from becoming a base for Greek resistance or Allied intelligence, and respect the ancient monastic Avaton (prohibition of women), German authorities strictly regulated military conduct on the peninsula, enabling the visiting Wehrmacht soldiers and the centuries-old monastic state to coexist in relative quiet until the German retreat in late 1944, leaving Mount Athos’s sacred architecture and millennia of historical archives virtually intact.“]

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Our animal friends.

Several times, over many years, I have handed in (to the police, or to the owners directly) money and other property found lying on the ground. Smaller amounts than in the above example, and always with some kind of ID with it. I would not take on the karmic burden of appropriating it. Admittedly, if it were a suitcase containing a million pounds, I might take a different view…

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Diary Blog, 23 October 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth; killed in 1916, at age 31, during the Battle of the Somme— what a waste]
[view from The Wrekin, Shropshire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrekin]

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Another interesting “Matt and Julia” vlog about “the real Iran” (and a few memories of my own)

Persian food can be very nice indeed. I often recall the food prepared by a Persian lady in London, cooked as a kindness for a friend of mine (and hers), an aristocratic lady from East Prussia displaced by both the Second World War and the decolonizing nonsense in the East Africa of the 1950s.

That Persian food was sent across the road, via one of the Persian lady’s adult sons, packed in takeaway-type foil containers. Fantastic stuff.

As to those Persians, they had a lucky escape. The father of the family had been an MP in Iran, was I think strongly connected to the Shah, and had been hanged after the Shah had been deposed. The family lost pretty much everything in Iran, but the lady herself was allowed to leave thanks to some kind of family influence. Fortunately, her two sons were both students at Imperial College in London. A flat in Little Venice had been bought as somewhere for them to live while studying. That became the home for the three of them and their little cat.

Of course, a mansion flat in Little Venice is hardly poverty (the pop group, Bros, were their nearest neighbours), but back in Iran they had had rural estates (near Shiraz, I think) and numbers of servants.

Nice people. They thought that my German friend, by then in her 60s, ate too little, and should be encouraged to eat. They were right: my old friend could not cook, and tended to subsist on bread (she liked, ironically, a Jewish bread with caraway seeds, bought locally), eaten with butter and a lot of salt, and washed down with lemon tea or sparkling water.

I still remember how nice the Persian food, cooked by that Persian lady, was. My friend used to share it with me, if I were around when it was delivered.

Small world: I was dining at the Persians’ one evening, for the first and last time in fact, in company with both my
German friend and her young (20-something) step-grand-daughter, when the subject of the contemporaneous Darius Guppy trial came up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Guppy]. The Persian family had known Guppy as a small boy, Guppy being half-Persian; the Persian lady referred to him as having been “a nice boy”.

Many years later, about 24 years in fact, in 2017, I gave a half-hour political-legal talk at the then-popular London Forum. Afterwards, who should come to to me and introduce himself but Darius Guppy. A personable fellow, who had the interesting knack of being able to appear as if from nowhere, then later disappear the same way…

I did not of course refer to his 1993 trial and imprisonment, but I did tell him about the Persians with whom I had been acquainted and who knew Guppy through having known his mother, a folk singer who was involved with a film that won an Oscar; I once owned one of her albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusha_Guppy.

I mentioned to Guppy that, as an Amazon Top 50 reviewer, I had once reviewed his interesting memoirs, Roll the Dice, on Amazon (that being before the Jew-Zionist lobby had my very popular reviews expunged).

Guppy is or was a great friend of “Boris-idiot” (Boris Johnson), via their Eton and Oxford days.

As said, small world.

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/i/trending/2113176314241040460

What?! [Israeli] Jews, “parasites“? Surely not…

All the crates are designated as “Apple”, which is an unlikely description (particularly looking at the nuclear hazard symbols)…

SS-Ahnenerbe.

Melenchon’s supporters and voters are mostly like him— not really French.

British political life, as mediated by the msm, is just a bad joke. Are we expected to take the rote-learned mantras of monkeys-on-sticks as something serious?

Excellent.

Late tweets

Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.

Jesus H. Christ! Quite funny, though.

A hateful little sprite.

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[Two Lonelinesses Just Met (attr. A.N. Pilepenko]

Diary Blog, 22 October 2026, with more thoughts about the Ukraine situation, a possible third great European war, and the UK’s demographic crisis

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[Bridge of Sighs over the River Cam at St. John’s College, Cambridge]

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Thoughts out of season

Demographic collapse. Something that has engaged me for a number of years, perhaps triggered in part by my own increasing age (I was 70 in September 2026).

I notice that other thinkers into the future are also increasingly interested in the question; Nick Griffin for one (see his Substack blog).

In the part of the country where I live, on the southern coast of England, the ageing population is very evident. Not only in hospitals but also in supermarkets etc, it appears that almost everyone is well above retirement age. At 70, I should be considered “senior”, to put it politely, but (albeit that many think that I look many years younger than my real age) I at least feel fairly youthful compared to most of the shoppers around me, many of whom require sticks, Zimmer frames, mobility scooters etc.

Will robots save our society, or will they —literally— just support the aged as our whole society becomes totally sclerotic?

The crunch has not quite arrived. 2040?

Gloomy thoughts for a late-Autumnal day.

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Both the First World War, and that of 1939-1945, did not start without a build-up. One sees the Western ruling circles and cabals pushing non-stop for conflict with Russia over (supposedly) the war between Russia and the Jew/Ukrainian-thug regime in Ukraine, a war which really has nothing to do, in its ground-reality, with the West, or NATO, let alone with the UK, which has never had more than peripheral contact with Ukraine over the past thousand years.

Were the West to stop supporting the brutal, corrupt, and shambolic Kiev dictatorship with arms and money (etc), the war would fizzle out in weeks. However, that result does not interest the NWO/ZOG cabals which are fuelling the conflict.

The result may be that Russia is pushed and pushed until it strikes with its one real trump card, its nuclear arsenal, at the societies of Western and Central Europe.

The USA would probably strand back, not respond. In the final analysis, the NATO treaty is just a piece of paper. I doubt that the USA would want its 100 biggest cities destroyed for the sake of the cities and military/naval installations of Poland, Germany, France…or the UK (probably the most exposed country of all in some respects).

The Cold War has long vanished into history. There is now no Soviet Union, with an expansionist and Marxist-Leninist ideology.

(a number of tweeters saying that there is no magazine in place; true, in theory, though, there could still be a round “up the spout”).

One has to consider a. why Muslim women want to join the UK police; and b. why they want to join the specialist firearms units.

Cut off all help to the Kiev regime.

Welcome back, brave young woman.

Not completely historically correct, but the main point is valid.

Yes, there have been a large number of cases over the years and decades, in the USA, UK, and elsewhere, of “antisemitic” vandalism (and other types of incident) in fact perpetrated by Jews trying to bolster the “Jews are victims” narrative(s).

Stray thought

I happened to see, yesterday, a brief segment of some political discussion programme featuring the dim-witted Con Party MP, Joy Morrissey. I wrote a short piece about her last year:

“Ecce Joy Morrissey, “Conservative” fake, and MP for Beaconsfield

Translation: “I am not British. I was born in Indiana, and brought up in Ohio. I only came to the UK in the first place to get a degree at the LSE. I married an EU citizen, and then divorced him to marry another. I thereby got the legal right to stay in the UK. I also got the right to work in the UK, but in fact never exercised that right, except that I was briefly and totally unsuccessfully a soft-porn would-be actress. Never mind; my second husband has plenty of money, so I never needed, in 18 years, to get any real job or profession… I just played at Con Party politics— in a think tank, with a Con MP, and as a local Con Party councillor. I then tried, unsuccessfully, to be selected as Con Party candidate for Mayor of London. I did, however, eventually get selected for the safe Con seat at Beaconsfield, because the existing Con MP, Dominic Grieve, was expelled from Con Party by “Boris”-idiot, whom I supported. I have been MP since 2019. In those 6 years, I have accomplished absolutely nothing, and, despite Beaconsfield having been (before I was MP) a very safe seat, my vote at Beaconsfield has fallen from 56% in 2019 to 38% in 2024. I supported uneducated, uncultured and stupid nobody Liz Truss as PM (for 49 days) as well as “Boris”-idiot. I doubt that I will be MP for much longer, but in the meantime will continue to support Israel and its UK Jewish lobby, and support mass immigration, as well as blagging my unmerited and generous salary and expenses.”

[Joy Morrissey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Morrissey]

I lived for 6 months (2001-2002) at Higher Denham, Bucks, within the Beaconsfield constituency, so that idiot would have been my MP had I stayed in the area. At least Fate spared me that.“

The woman wants to destroy what is left of the Welfare State, and also throw money and other support at Israel and the Kiev regime dictatorship.

A total waste of space.

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Diary Blog, 20 October 2026, including a few thoughts about Andy Burnham

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

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A few passing thoughts about Andy Burnham

I happened to see the tweet below, which echoes in a satirical way some of my own views about Burnham:

Many years ago, when Burnham was previously in the lineup to become Labour leader (but failed), I commented that he was the best of an extremely poor bunch. My present views are not very different.

The American self-help guru Anthony Robbins [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Robbins] has a phrase, “don’t major in minor things“. Good advice. That, though, is exactly what Burnham has done since having been elevated to the position of Prime Minister. He has majored in minor things.

I see not a lot wrong with at least some of the fairly modest policies announced over the past weeks and months (on car parking, rights for renters, bus fares etc), but —looking at their modest scope— these are relatively minor though certainly (in some cases anyway) welcome reforms.

My concern lies with what Burnham has done or, rather, not done, in the major-policy arena. He has continued (indeed, increased) the funnelling of UK taxpayer monies (actual cash, as well as expensive arms and ammunition etc) to the Kiev regime. He has done nothing to stop the migration-invasion of Britain (the contrary, in fact), and I see nothing of real substance anywhere else, in any area at all.

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Good.

That is one of those wanted by UK police for the Litvinenko poisoning in London. For some reason, I thought that Lugovoy was dead; seems not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Lugovoy; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko.

Late tweets

Those who think that Russia will make concessions by reason of the fact (insofar as it is a fact) that Russia is under economic pressure, misunderstand the Russian character, which at heart is very resilient, very resistant to external pressure, and very much able to take considerable hits (and also able to give some hits…).

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2026

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[girls of the Bund Deutscher Madel ride through a German forest in the 1930s]

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Saturday quiz

Well, my 5/10 this week once again trumped the 4/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9.

Tweets seen

Trump might do anything. One cannot predict it, because he is the personification of random unpredictability.

Europe slides ever-faster down the slope of utter decadence.

Would not be surprised to find that the Israelis, in conjunction with the Jewish lobby in Argentina, are behind this.

So who is in favour?

[“On this day two years ago. Don’t say @s_m_marandi didn’t warn you.

“If the United States gets involved, have no doubt, the US will be swept out of Iraq by the resistance and all its assets in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All these regimes with US bases will be destroyed and the oil and gas markets will cause a situation where the global economy will collapse, so be careful about making stupid mistakes.”]

Marandi is an Iranian academic.

Whatever you give “them”, (((they))) will complain, demand more, and turn on you in the end. Not just “Israel” and nominal Israelis, but also the type as a whole. Look at the behaviour of Zelensky.

Burnham is even a member of Labour Friends of Israel, just like Starmer-stein.

Israel— a rogue state, which has a very wealthy and influential “fifth column” in this country (as in some others).

Whatever the arguments, the fact is that pensioners will be worse-off under Labour after 2030 (when Burnham says the Triple Lock will go) and, quite possibly, before then. Result? 99% of pensioners (a third of the electorate, and maybe as much as 50% of the actually-voting electorate) will not be voting Labour. Largely but not just because of the Triple Lock being dumped. It is the whole direction of travel.

Late tweets

That funny woman tweeter is obsessed with, inter alia, cutting off Triple Lock money going to pensioners. Yes, only 12% of people of 65+ years vote Labour. That will now shrink to about 1%-2%, I expect. That means that 98% of those 65+ will vote somewhere other than Labour. Probably Reform, most of them.

The point, though, previously also made on the blog, is that people aged 65+ mostly actually vote. The other age-groups vote in far smaller numbers, proportionately.

The 65+ age group is about a third of the electorate, and must be at least 40% of those that actually turn out to vote (or vote via postal ballot). Maybe even 50%

Labour will therefore not be getting the votes of anything up to 50% of the total of those (of all ages) that vote, even before taking into consideration the votes of the <65 age groups.

Burnham-Labour has already alienated the under-24 age group by the recently-announced benefit cuts and changes.

Anything can happen in politics, but it would take a near-miracle for Labour to get to 35% of the poll, and that is surely their minimum if they want to be sure of a Commons majority.

That latest poll translates to a Commons with about 342 Labour MPs (so a majority of seats), 155 Reform (official Opposition), 55 Cons, 51 LibDems, and 20 SNP [etc].

Uncertain now how accurate such predictions are. Restore may only be getting 3% of the opinion poll votes, but that is enough to badly damage Reform in marginal seats. As to Labour, I doubt whether its present relative popularity will continue, but there is no doubt that many of Burnham’s recently-announced policies are quite popular:

I myself agree with all but three of the policies listed there.

My feeling right now is that Reform, though so disappointing (pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-finance-capitalism and —in some respects— globalism, is still the main game in town in terms of at least pseudo-national populism. I can see many more presently Conservative votes going to Reform.

If I am right, and the Con vote reduces to, say 12% by 2028/2029, and the Reform vote rises to, say, 30%, then the post-election picture would be very different: that would give Labour maybe 265 MPs (far short of a majority), and Reform would have more MPs than Lab, 281. The LibDems would be on 53, the SNP 23, Greens 3 and the Con Party only 2. Near-wipeout. That would effectively finish off the Con Party.

As to government, Reform would be unable to form even a workable minority government despite having a plurality of MPs, but Labour would just about be able to function as a minority government with LibDem and SNP [etc] support.

I agree with that lady tweeter on that subject. For many years I broadly supported foxhunting as a colourful historical spectacle with long roots in England, but for many years now I have strongly opposed it (and most other field sports) by reason of my love for animals and, in minor key, also my dislike of, or distaste for, all foxhunters that I have ever met (at least as an adult).

[me aged about 2 (?…I am hopeless at judging ages), late 1950s, happily standing amid the foxhounds somewhere in Berkshire]
[late 1950s, also amid the hounds, though looking less happy, or more thoughtful]

I have to say that the bridge attacks are a brilliant tactical move by the Russian side.

Kiev is on both sides of the Dnieper, but the more important part of the city is on the western or right bank.

Late muse

I happened to see a travel show presented by an American of whom I had not previously heard, one Stanley Tucci [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tucci]. Apparently a well-known film-maker and actor (well, I cannot know everything…). A New Yorker whose grandparents or great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to America before the Second World War or, possibly, before the First World War.

It seems that the show was made in 2021, so 5+ years ago.

The programme showed him in Tuscany, then in Sicily. Mostly about the Italian regional cuisine(s). Not terribly dull, though hardly riveting, but of course this is an area covered many times in similar vein (think Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver, and many others).

When in Sicily, this Tucci expressed the view that immigration improves any society! Very wrongheaded. What many now call a “luxury belief” held by those (usually the affluent) who prefer not to see the downsides of mass immigration from backward parts of the world such as black Africa, North Africa etc.

Even without having to hear his wrongheaded views about the migration-invasion of Italy, I have to say that I found the aforesaid Tucci not someone to whom I warmed. He lacked the charm of some similar TV tourists.

Never mind. It filled an empty hour.

History as rarely seen

An historical and historic film sent to me today. Worth hearing or reading (subtitled)

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[Finland, the Northern Lights]

Diary Blog, 26 September 2026

Morning music

[Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles, in rough seas; https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/bishop-rock-lighthouse]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 6/10, thus trumping the 3.5/10 claimed by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 8, and 9.

Without Russia, Europe —whether EU or non-EU— will struggle to maintain its living standards.

Re. Islam and free speech— perhaps, but in fact, in the UK, the thin-skinned complainers, whingers, would-be censors, makers of faked complaints to police, professional regulators, public venues etc, and who complain about “a few words” are not (usually) the Muslims, even the “Islamist” ones, but the Jew-Zionists.

For readers of the blog unaware of the facts of my own battles, see a few of my own experiences over the past decade:

Talking point

[“I suspect that to a degree, this is bringing out something they already have more out into the open.

We know that the measures taken during COVID were quite Draconian in nature, and the use of agent provocateurs via social media, digital “crowding out” (see NAFO accounts) is a govt tactic.

This is just the addition of a more open version of what both the UK and US and most other govts have been doing for years.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
William Casey. CIA director . 1987.”
]

Quaere: at what point does a supposedly “liberal” “democracy” become effectively an illiberal collegial dictatorship or even tyranny? Also, if a country becomes, in effect, a concealed or semi-concealed dictatorship/tyranny, at what point, if at all, does it then become legitimate to use force to oppose it or to remove it?

Also, will the above questions require different answers if the said collegial dictatorship is, whether deliberately or via its own incompetence, running a once-great country into the ground?

A topical subject at present, nicht wahr?

Talking point

I was just looking at a blog post from 2019, in which I examined the several main contenders for the Conservative Party leadership contest of that year and, therefore, contenders to become Prime Minister.

The post has had many hits over the years, and right up to today. Re-reading it (I also took the opportunity to post an update, the first it has had since 2019), I think that my assessments of the various personalities still stand up pretty well:

Late tweets

Would translate to a Commons with about 318 Labour MPs (just short of a majority; about 8 short); 162 Reform UK MPs; 69 LibDems; 52 Cons (less than half of their MP cadre at present); SNP 23 [etc].

So a Labour-LibDem coalition or arrangement, or maybe a Labour-SNP one. Weak government that may play into the hands of social-nationalism.

[“No Money”: The European Union Has Left the Kyiv Regime Without Promised Funds

The Kyiv regime is facing another catastrophic shortage of funds for the purchase of weapons, according to Politico. In the next two months, it urgently needs to find at least $27 billion to fill the gaps in the defense budget.

Finding itself in a desperate situation, the regime is openly pressuring Brussels, demanding that loans be disbursed early. However, the current deficit is entirely the fault of the “Banderites” themselves: they have spent all the remaining funds while Hungary was delaying the approval of the next tranche. Nevertheless, the amount that Zelensky needs has not been found by the European bureaucrats. Brussels has only approved $6.6 billion, and not all of these funds will go directly to the Kyiv regime.“]

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Diary Blog, 23 September 2026

Afternoon music

[swimming-pool Moskva; I myself swam there a few times in the early 1990s; shortly after that, the pool was closed; a cathedral now stands on the site in Kropotkinskaya]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

The Nigerian bad-joke woman now “leading” what is left of the Conservative Party seems to be feeling the chill of the English Autumn. Perhaps she wonders when the bell will be tolling for her. Go back to Nigeria.

[“Britain has spent billions trying to stop the small boat invasion since 2018 — including nearly £1 billion on the French.

And yet this week boats are arriving without interception !!

Labour, like the Tories before them, have completely failed.

It is time to do what Reform has been calling for.

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Repeal the Human Rights Act.

Derogate from the Refugee Convention.

Detain and deport all illegals — including the estimated 1.5 million already in Britain.

Send in the Navy.

Strip the vast majority of welfare benefits from foreign nationals to remove further incentives.

And sack any civil servants who don’t play ball.

If we don’t fix this crisis we will end up in a very dangerous place.

The British state will no longer be seen as legitimate by many people.

Citizens will take matters into their own hands (as we already see).

The protests will spread across the country.

And there will be a colossal breakdown of public trust in police, parliament, and politics.

Stop the invasion.

Vote Reform.

We are the only political party that can win a general election and turn this around.

Everybody else is lying to you.

Everybody else has failed.“]

Things must go far beyond Reform…

Same with the BBC, which runs ads on its own behalf, featuring an evil-looking young South Asian woman talking about “disinformation” and how the BBC is countering it when, in reality, the BBC is one of the worst offenders. Think “Covid”, “Ukraine”, “climate change”, mass immigration etc.

The BBC pays proven liar Marianna Spring in the region of £150,000 p.a. to head its “disinformation” section.

The fish rots from the head. Not (so much) the ordinary police (though they are now often also brainwashed wastes of space), but those of Inspector and above, especially the highest ranks. Not the ordinary troopers etc, but the Army generals. Not the ordinary officers and men of the Navy but the admirals.

Most rotten of all? MPs and ministers in the Westminster monkeyhouse.

Weinstein case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm98626n260yo

“Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant.“

[BBC]

[“It’s antisemitism! Antisemitism!“]

Late tweets

[“This documentary actually mentions the Red Cross gold standard audit that I have personally seen.
It was all bullshit and lies.
By the same people still saying safe and effective as we all drop down dead from cancer’s heart attack attacks and blood clots.
The same people importing a foreign army into Europe .
As general George Patton said shortly before his untimely death – by accident of course..
“we fought the wrong enemy”.
You’re not even allowed to question things and let me tell you truth doesn’t mind being questioned.
“]

Can our society, especially the parts of it with far too much money and far too little culture or any sense of aesthetics, get more decadent? God knows.

[“Gangsterism is the main mechanism of Anglo-Saxon global hegemony”**

A provocative geopolitical argument portrays the rise of the British Empire—and later the broader Western order—not primarily as a triumph of democratic institutions, but as the evolution of a global network of private companies, intelligence services, secret societies and other powerful organizations.

The argument traces this model back to the British Empire, claiming that private actors such as pirates and chartered companies played a major role in overseas expansion and that these mechanisms eventually evolved into modern systems of political and economic influence.

It then takes aim at the modern West, arguing that democracy has become more of a façade, while concentrated networks of political and economic power increasingly determine outcomes behind the scenes.

The text also makes a sweeping historical claim about Marxism, Christianity and the Bolsheviks—claims that are highly interpretive and not established historical consensus.

The broader criticism is clear: when private interests become powerful enough to influence governments, the line between statecraft and organized power politics can become very thin.

Democracy may have the ballot box. **But the real question is always: who controls what happens after the votes are counted?“]

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