I am old enough to remember those little shops. One in particular, in Caversham Heights, near Reading, early 1960s. The sweets were dispensed by the owner, I think an otherwise-retired old fellow, who sold them in small white-paper bags. A wide range, but I either bought small boiled sweets (very small balls of hard candy), or a kind of chewing gum that came with collectable cards depicting (and explaining) battles of the American Civil War of the 1860s. I wanted the cards, not the gum.
Very gory, those cards (as I discovered only when I belatedly read law, 20 years later) were the subject of a legal case (as to whether they counted as “obscene” because of their bloodsoaked content), which case went as high as the House of Lords (House of Lords Judicial Committee, the forerunner of the present UK Supreme Court). That was around 1965, only a couple of years after I used to buy the cards.
I remember that all my friends (who also bought the cards) favoured the Confederate side, but I (alone, I think) favoured the Union. Not sure now, over 60 years later, whether that was because the Union side was more efficient, or more advanced in weaponry, or just because I wanted to go contrary to the views of the mob.
The sweetshop in question was actually made out of the front part of an ordinary late-19thC house, which (I see from Google maps and streetview) has now reverted to being just a house again.
I also remember the little sweetshop because, aged about 7, I sheltered in that tiny shop after I (God knows why, now, but it would have been in self-defence) hit another boy, and then was sought out by the much older, and rather fearsome, brother of the same. In the end, the older boy caught me outside but, after I explained that I had hit his brother in self-defence, he was very reasonable, and let me off. Maybe I had dormant barristerial skills even then (or at least the ability to get out of scrapes)…
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Among others I was widely criticised in the summer for tracing the riots to the fact “we’ve let too many people into our country who hate who we are”
Labour politician here blames conservative for linking immigration with crime while knowing the gvt won’t give us, taxpayers, data on crime by migration & then blames conservative for “dog whistle politics”. People have had enough of this constant gaslighting https://t.co/n5wNFJoNNJ
Thangam “Debbonaire”, an ex-MP who uses a fake name (her real or original name was “Singh”, but she changed it by deed poll, presumably wanting to sound less “ethnic”), and who was kicked out by the voters at GE 2024, is invited onto TV to opine about immigration and public order etc. Why? She has no real locus standi any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thangam_Debbonaire.
What you see on Twitter/X/Westminster today is many of the same people who blamed “far-right thugs” for “misinformation” in August now saying citizens have no right to ask legitimate questions about new information that has come to light, including when, exactly, it was known by…
Working-class men in the West have been smashed on two sides as elites & global firms offshored jobs to exploit cheap migrant labour overseas then imported masses of low skill migrants to exploit cheap migrant labour here at home https://t.co/nn4u7GO5aF
The people instinctively know that the System parties are rubbish, but also feel that, equally, there are no credible non-System parties for which to vote, only the very underwhelming Reform UK. Certainly, there are no credible social-national alternatives.
Look at what “they” are doing in Gaza, in the West Bank, and elsewhere. “They” always do such things when they have power. That is why “they” must never have power and, whenever they do have power, must be removed from having power.
South Korean and Qatari armies held a joint exercise. The South Korean army was represented by K2 tanks and K9A1 self-propelled artillery units pic.twitter.com/72H0FqqTEH
Terrible, but good to see that the lady’s companion animal was also rescued.
US has funded 73% of military costs associated with Israel’s war on Gaza
Washington has provided $22.76bn in military aid to Israel since the Oct 7, 2023 to Sept 30, 2024, according to analysis by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs… pic.twitter.com/fbH5kUDuuh
It is absolutely bananas what we are doing to the UK economy. Think we’re importing lots of high skill workers? That’s a little bit of the blue bar. The rest is a low-skill, low-wage Deliveroo economy that’s sapping our prosperity https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/MDlOxk1o9h
Big tax. Big debt. Big borrowing. Big state. Big welfare. Big immigration. Big regulation. All to get to small growth of around 1.5%. Britain's not working and it's the British people, as usual, who will have to pay the price.#Budget24#Budget2024
The state of Britain is so frustrating that it is tempting to shout “Full Communism Now!“, but that, of course, is not the answer. I recall that the Dowager Lady Birdwood opined that I was a “national bolshevik” (when I was aged about 18, around 1975)!
Don't complain about how much welfare benefits cost. Over 40% of Universal Credit goes to people who are working. No one working should need UC. No one is even trying to solve the real problems in the UK.
True, but the “welfare” bill would be very low were it not for the existence of literally millions of non-white parasites in the UK, both the migrants and the children and grandchildren of migrants and former migrants.
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Former MI6 officer: Unknown air defense system led to failure of Israeli attack on Iran!
Alistair Crook, British diplomat and former MI6 officer:
“The Israeli planes, which were supposed to destroy the air defense systems with long-range missiles at the first stage, did not… pic.twitter.com/VReGzmGgb2
🇱🇧 The Israeli army blew up several neighborhoods of the Lebanese city of Deira with the explanation that it was destroying Hezbollah's infrastructure , reports the Lebanese media. pic.twitter.com/48FgsYilBS
Russian drone drops a net disabling Ukrainian drones in the skies of Donbas. The war in Russia – Ukraine has accelerated the capabilities of drone warfare. pic.twitter.com/KgHcsr5QhY
I noticed that the following blog post from over 6 years ago was looked at overnight by someone somewhere. It has in fact not been much read since I published it in December 2017, which (I think) is a pity. Still, “one human soul is a big audience“…
According to Israeli media, 75% of the settlers who fled northern Israel after the Hezbollah attacks have now started a new life elsewhere. According to official data, about 80 thousand settlers left the north, according to unofficial data – about 250 thousand, and their number… pic.twitter.com/FWBMPe9JoV
Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen claims that Helsinki does not expect Moscow to attack, but still seeks to maintain a strong defensive position pic.twitter.com/wz4NLcj99G
That is OK, in principle, but Finland last year joined NATO, which has moved from being a mainly defensive alliance during the Cold War to its present expansionist and rather aggressive posture.
Member of Israel's War Council, Eisenkot: Only an agreement with Hamas can guarantee the release of the hostages, and Israel must ask itself how it will continue with a leadership that has completely failed.
Administration of Al-Isra University in Gaza: We condemn the bombing of the university headquarters by the occupying forces and the looting of more than 3,000 artifacts inside pic.twitter.com/uJmOKPuEi9
"The Tories now trail Labour, which is not united, and Keir Starmer, who is not charismatic, by a staggering 27-points. They only command the loyalty of one in three people who voted Tory in 2019. And they are now being battered on three sides at the same time—by a growing number…
"Here’s one scenario to consider. What might happen if the Tory vote continues to slide, if Nigel Farage returns to Reform, and if Reform pushes ahead of the Tories in the national polls — much like the Brexit Party came close to doing in 2019? And what happens if, like Douglas…
Hard to believe that anyone ever gave the likes of “Boris” Johnson, Liz Truss, or Theresa May any credibility; same for the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak. There it is, though. Winston Churchill said that belief in “democracy” only lasts as long as a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.
Who are they trying to fool? As soon as he is kicked out, the little Indian money-juggler will be off, with his ultra-wealthy Indian heiress wife, to somewhere like Palo Alto or Bel-Air. Yes, he was born here, went to Winchester and then Oxford, but he has about as much in common with this country as Ali Bongo (the African one).
The boss of the British Gas owner, Centrica, has admitted it is “impossible to justify” his £4.5m pay packet. Politicians can't control pay; but they can and should increase taxes on the super rich.#ToryBrokenBritain#GeneralElectionNowhttps://t.co/5Jloxumqx7
Partly-true, but the State could control pay if that were required (which I think it now is): set limits for pay, with exceptions for genuine inventor-entrepreneurs such as Dyson. People who are just executives could be restricted to somewhere around £500,000 a year (gross), or even as “little” as £200,000 (net). The same goes for the likes of TV presenters, footballers etc.
The vast majority of UK workers and others in this country (eg pensioners, disabled non-workers, unemployed etc) receive net pay and/or benefits of £25,000 p.a. or below. Even my own relatively modest income when a barrister (1991-2008), though sometimes (rarely, though, and expressed in the money of 2024) above £100,000 p.a., was often far far less (sometimes almost zero).
I do not think that many people will be sorry if the high-paid were to be restricted to a net income of, say, £200,000 p.a.
Powerful text from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“Zelensky is demanding peace talks in Switzerland, while warmongers in Washington are desperately trying to fund $60 billion to continue the war in Ukraine.
Unless, of course, the USA and EU take away Zelensky’s ricebowl and stop funnelling arms, ammo, and cash to Kiev. In that event, the war will grind to a halt in a few months.
Russia will prevail whatever is done or not done.
A Bayraktar TB2 belonging to the Malian army neutralized a large convoy of militants preparing to attack in Burkina Faso. pic.twitter.com/snZcR5kZfm
Biden should not copy that. He would snuff it immediately.
I just took two tote bags full of books to my local National Trust second hand bookshop, and the lady working in there said “thank you so much for bringing them, I understand how hard it is to let go”.
When I had to leave behind (in France) almost my entire library of 2,000 or more books (in 2009, 14 years ago— long story), the loss felt catastrophic (and the books were not the whole of the story). Sometimes loss, whether voluntary or involuntary, cannot be avoided, and is a matter of Fate. Sometimes you have to stand before the blows of Fate, then move on, hardened in your resolve.
Strategically, what really challenges the Conservative Party is not that Israel-puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc might form an “elected dictatorship” for 4-5 years starting in 2024, but the fact that, at present, only 10% of those under 50 intend to vote Con. As for those under 30, I do not have the figure to hand, but it is something like 4%.
At the same time, very few of the ethnic minority voters, even Indians, are intending to vote Con; also the ethnic minorities, at present about 20% of the voting public, may soon be 25% or even 30%. A large minority of those under 18 in the UK are already non-white.
That means that, even in the next decade, unless something very big and unexpected happens, the Con Party vote will not even be at 20% (where it now is) but more like 10% or so. LibDem level. UKIP (2015) level. Reform UK level. That is when the Con Party will probably fade out, except for a few outposts here and there. Around 2030.
Germany refused to increase military aid to Ukraine
" We cannot go all or nothing, as some demand. Otherwise, we ourselves will be left without protection. So far we have sent everything we could ", he pointed out.
“…He emphasized that of all the countries of the European Union, Germany made the biggest contribution to Ukraine, and now it is the turn of others.“
France does not have enough shells for Ukraine
▪️A group of senators of the Upper House of the French Parliament made a report stating that Ukraine's position at the front is deteriorating, as well as that the supply of ammunition from France is not large enough to replace the…
The Zelensky regime is toast. Ukrainians outside Ukraine refuse to return to fight for the corrupt, brutal and shambolic dictatorship, and there are few Western mercenaries still fighting; most have returned to their home countries, or have been killed in action, or captured.
🗣 Former MI6: "High Probability" of Israel-Hezbollah War in 2024
"I think that Israel has suffered major setbacks in this period, setbacks in Gaza, setbacks internally. The West Bank is on a knife edge. There are problems that are developing there. The government had a vote… pic.twitter.com/iqJLkLWI0v
“I think that Israel has suffered major setbacks in this period, setbacks in Gaza, setbacks internally. The West Bank is on a knife edge. There are problems that are developing there.
The government had a vote against it in the Supreme Court by one vote. And then it now faces a court case in the Hague accusing it of genocide.
It desperately needs some sort of victory. It needs something to bring people together…This prompts people to want to try and find some military outlet that will provide some sort of semblance, some sort of idea of a success,” Alastair Crooke told#NewRulesPodcast.”
So about twice the number of children killed or mutilated by the (Israeli) Jews since the conflict (this time around) started, in early October 2023.
That seems to indicate that the population growth in Gaza is about (?) 4% per year. Something like that, anyway. If that is true of the Arab populations of the West Bank and elsewhere in and around Israel/Palestine, the Jewish population will eventually be demographically swamped, and then quite likely wiped out or driven out…
The latest situation of the deployment of American soldiers in the region , Kuwait and Qatar have by far the largest number of American soldiers pic.twitter.com/NnBmNV6e1U
When I was first in Qatar, in 2001 (when it was a far more pleasant, sleepy place), the American presence was already strong. As I was being driven across the airport tarmac in a limousine (because I was flying back to London in First Class), I noticed, parked next to my Qatar Airways plane, the American “Air Force Two”, which was (I later discovered) carrying General Colin Powell.
NATO Admiral Rob Bauer warns: “Peace is not guaranteed. We are preparing for a war with Russia and its terrorist groups. Maybe not tomorrow but certainly within the next 20 years. People should be prepared for the first 36 hours”#NATO#Russia#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/OrNssDs6il
A Dutchman, of all things, “warning” that “we” (the populations of NATO member states) are “preparing for a war with Russia“.
It strikes me as odd, a Dutchman fomenting war in this way. After all, the Netherlands was last a major power in the 18thC, 250-300 years ago.
The Netherlands was neutral in the First World War, neutral for the first 8 months of the Second World War, and then was invaded in May of 1940, an operation which took the forces of the German Reich precisely 4 days, on the fourth day of which invasion the Dutch forces formally surrendered.
Now some jumped-up Dutch mariner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bauer] seems to be cheerleading for a war with Russia, which would devastate our continent and much of the rest of the world. Madness. The bastard even admits that our way of life would change out of all recognition, and that civilians would have to be conscripted!
There seems to be a sinister agenda here, promoting a false narrative according to which Russia wants to invade Central and Eastern Europe. It’s rubbish. Indeed, the opposite is the case.
The old Soviet Union gradually lost its expansionist ideology in the 1980s, and the post-Soviet Russia has no expansionist ideology akin to Leninism.
Russia is nationalist in a defensive way, and even the Ukraine war can be seen as defensive, as being within the old imperial boundaries that existed long before the revolutionary upheavals of 1917.
Let us be clear. If there is a NATO-Russia war, among the first countries to be entirely wiped out by nuclear attack would be the UK (because of the American and other bases here) and the smaller states of NATO in Europe. The Netherlands would have no chance.
The UK should join with Russia, but the secretive Zionist and Masonic cabals that rule this country from behind the scenes are completely against any such idea. They stand ready to sacrifice the people of the UK to their evil NWO/ZOG plans.
The most important thing for the future of the world is that a core of people of white European humanity survive and are able to repopulate the world after any such disaster; indeed not only to repopulate the world but also to create the racial-cultural basis for a future superculture.
Ian Robert Millard 