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Saturday quiz
Well, another modest score this week, 4/10, same as that of political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 5, 6, and 8.
Tweets seen
[“BREAKING: We’re on The Telegraph’s homepage tonight—and we’re front-page news in tomorrow’s print edition! FSU General Secretary Lord Young has written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, raising serious concerns about how the Prevent programme is now treating mainstream conservative views as signs of potential extremism. Yes, you read that correctly. In training materials completed by thousands of public sector workers, the Home Office lists “cultural nationalism” as a form of terrorist ideology. That label now applies to anyone who believes mass immigration is threatening British values or social cohesion. Once flagged, individuals—often just teenagers—can have their names and political views logged in police and safeguarding databases for decades, with devastating consequences for jobs, university places, and future prospects. In his letter, Lord Young calls on Ms Cooper to suspend the use of “cultural nationalism” in Prevent guidance, conduct an urgent audit of the programme, and establish a way for wrongly flagged individuals to discover and delete their data. If you’ve got “very Brexity” Douglas Murray books in your house, a strong interest in national policy, and believe immigration is changing this country, the Home Office now says you’re an extremist. This has got to stop.”]
While I agree with the above, the “Free Speech Union” and Toby Young have damaged their own “brand” by failing to stand up for the free speech rights of those persecuted by the Jew-Zionist lobby and particularly the malicious and dishonest “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”. Those conspired against have included me, Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), Sam Melia etc, as well as better-known people and organizations such as David Icke, Dr. David Miller, and al-Jazeera TV.
I wrote about Prevent and its poundshop police state nonsense years ago:
[“The govt’s “Prevent” programme claims being concerned about mass immigration is “terrorist ideology” They want to silence the truth tellers 1 in 100 UK Muslims (40,000) are on MI5’s terror watchlist That’s larger than Hamas’s forces on 7 Oct and ISIS’s army in Iraq in 2014, when it captured Mosul. The number of jihadis on the UK terror watchlist is already half the size of the full-time British Army – and growing. Due to the growth of the Muslim population, it could be larger than the British Army by 2050. Don’t let Prevent deflect attention from the real issue: 90% of the people on the terror watchlist are Muslim. The “far right” is a molehill next to the Islamist mountain. The majority of the British public have justifiable concerns about the importation of vast numbers of culturally incompatible peoples. To malign them – to malign us – in this way is beneath contempt.”]
Time to shut down poundshop Stasi “Prevent”, and to sack its army of wannabee MI5 recruits with degrees from Lancaster University, superannuated ex-cops, ex-army corporals, and other odds and sods. Get them digging canals or stacking shelves.
It seems that YouGov did not offer an “I don’t give a monkey’s flying ****” option.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-dangerous-is-russias-advance-on-ukraines-sumy-region/a-72805880
Just look at them…
[“Posts like this—“Russia’s GDP equals Spain and Portugal’s combined”—may sound punchy and attract clicks but they’re deeply misleading. And it’s precisely this kind of simplistic analysis that’s helped fuel decades of failed Western policy on Russia.
Measured by raw nominal GDP, Russia ranks lower—true. But nominal GDP is influenced by exchange rates, which are volatile and often manipulated or distorted by sanctions, capital controls, or energy prices. The more meaningful metric is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which adjusts for local prices and living costs. By PPP, Russia’s GDP in 2024 was over $6.91 trillion, making it the 4th largest economy in the world (IMF). That’s ahead of Japan and Germany. By contrast: — Spain (PPP): $2.74 trillion — Portugal (PPP): $0.51 trillion — Combined: $3.25 trillion Russia’s real economy is more than double the size of Spain + Portugal in purchasing power terms. And that’s just in official figures. And then there’s how GDP is compiled. Western countries like Spain include estimates for drug sales, prostitution, and other illegal activity in their GDP—since Eurostat guidelines permit it. Russia, on the other hand, excludes a massive shadow economy. From informal labour to grey-market services, under-the-table wages, and barter—none of this is properly reflected in official Russian GDP stats. So the picture is skewed. You have one economy padded with estimated sex work and drug dealing, and another where entire sectors—especially in rural and small business life—go uncounted. Tax dodging is practically a sport in vast swathes of Russia. No one is saying Russia is an economic superpower. But it’s also not Spain + Portugal. It’s a globally significant economy with vast resources, strategic industries, and real industrial capacity. Underestimating that is both lazy and dangerous.“]
Quite.
In particular, you cannot judge the state’s military power by its economic level, or by the standards of living of that state’s population. Stalin said, after Hiroshima, “we must have those weapons, even if we have to eat grass“, a statement echoed in reality almost literally by North Korea in recent decades.
Late tweets
Interesting. Naturally, it is often assumed that Jews would not betray the Israeli state, as the only actually Jewish state, but there are precedents, as when Soviet Intelligence ran a number of agents inside Israel, some of which were uncovered and punished.
Can that be true? What about Israel’s nuclear weapons?
Money from EU and UK (and US) taxpayers, huge amounts too, and completely wasted.
If it is true that, in the UK alone, there are 40,000 seriously and possibly actively pro-terror Islamists, imagine what would happen if even 10% of those, 4,000 of the bastards, were to commit such acts simultaneously. Alarming idea.
The Jew-Zionists of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] etc are a pack of liars and perjurers. They have made innumerable false statements about me to police and others, apparently without ever having been prosecuted for attempted perversion of the course of justice, or even simply wasting police time.
The so-called “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” of the “CAA”, one “Slitherman” (as I call it), has personally made false and unlawful allegations against me in the past. See below for the facts, and the wider picture. Why have the police never prosecuted him? Why is he even now seen on the “almost no-one watches” Talk TV, GB News, Sky TV etc? He was exposed in open court (by the CAA’s own bungling lawyer) as a serial online troll and harasser of (mainly) women. Evil.
Lewis has been involved in trying to “get me” numerous times over the past 13 years, but I am still here, the blog is still being published, while Lewis has suffered quite a few blows of fate in the same period, and I think is now looking down the barrel of bad news.
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Lewis should have been struck off the roll of solicitors many years ago.
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Ian Robert Millard 