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Diary Blog, 25 March 2026, including some thoughts about NHS dentistry, prescription medicines etc

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[“My toothache got so bad to the point it hurts to even swallow water, the left side of my face has ballooned to the point where I look like I’m morbidly obese and I was up all night with a temperature that I have needed to get medical intervention.

Rang the emergency dentist many times and couldn’t even get through

called 111 and was met with “I’m not medically trained enough other than to give you a text message of what you COULD do”

called the doctors and had to say that I have a learning disability in order to even be able to speak with someone. Then was met with “we don’t deal with teeth” despite explaining that I only needed some antibiotics currently as a dentist wouldn’t touch my teeth anyway until the infection cleared and I can’t get help from them.

pharmacy won’t touch me given it’s not classed as a minor infection

ended up going to A&E to then be told I’m better off at another building on site

they have said they MAY be able
to prescribe me antibiotics given the severity of the situation but they don’t generally do it due to the same rules as the doctors and now I have to wait to see if I can get them

All of these steps could have been avoided if I was already registered under an NHS dentist.

Neglecting dentistry services is damaging the entire NHS ecosystem and partly causing wait times to soar.

The government seriously needs to address this.

There are also people who are not as pushy as myself who would have just given up and likely developed a very serious infection if not treated.

The thought that people could be potentially dying of a tooth infection in a first world country is absolutely appalling.“]

[Sophie Meaden]

A similar problem occurred a couple of years ago, when the only NHS dentist in our wider area (about a 10-mile radius) let down my wife over a Friday afternoon appointment without notice, its reception staff then giving us completely incorrect information about NHS A&E, and also lying about having sent a cancellation in advance.

Fortunately, there was one (only one) private dentist open the next day, a Saturday; about 10 miles away. My wife therefore spent a night in great pain, but was dealt with the following day by the private dentist, and very satisfactorily. We then both de-registered with the NHS place, and registered at separate private dentists, both of which are very good.

All well and good, but what if we had not had the option of going private? The cost was not enormous (I think that my wife’s immediate treatment was about £250 or £300) but I have certainly had times in my own life when I might not have been able to raise that sort of sum (which to many people may seem a trivial amount; but that is, of course, only so if you are not short of money).

On the wider point, I have always questioned why one needs a rubber-stamp from “a man in a white coat” to access medicines at all. Yes, there is a risk when members of the public self-prescribe, so advice should certainly be available, but it is almost ludicrous that one needs a “prescription” from an authority-figure (doctor, dentist etc) in order to get things. State dictatorship (supposedly for people’s own good).

British people (and other people) often tend to assume that the way things are done in the UK (or wherever) is the only way they can be done.

When I lived for a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I needed a few things which, in principle, required a doctor’s certificate or similar. Believe it or not, vitamin C was one! I had run out of multivitamins (bought in London), and found that (at that time, 1996, maybe now it is different) you actually needed a prescription to get some!

I don’t usually put up with bureaucratic nonsense like that if I can avoid or evade it, so I pulled a couple of strings, and managed to have provided some very inadequate Soviet-style capsules, red fluid, which contained about a tenth of the vitamin C of ones easily bought in any supermarket in the UK.

The same happened when I had a sudden and very inconvenient ear-wax problem. In theory, I should have gone through a whole rigmarole to get treatment, but the wife of a Russian colonel I knew took me to an almost deserted large hospital, and had me seen at once, no questions asked.

The third such incident was not really medical at all. I wanted to swim in one of the public pools, and that apparently required a medical examination first! Again, though, a little light influence got me in, though in the event the pool was rather crowded, so I only swam there once.

Actually, the Kazakhs, heir to Soviet rule, loved their rubber stamps. They even had a government office called the Bureau of Rubber Stamps. I had to deal with it once when I needed a rubber stamp for my work. You first had to verify your existence by means of official letters, visas, and certificates, after which you submitted a (suitably verified and stamped) design, after which (if approved), you were directed to places considered suitable to produce the stamp.

On that occasion, I did go through the “proper channels” (in case some later bureaucrat checked), but a colleague with a similar problem just said “**** it!” and had one sent from London.

As I said, though, that was 30 years ago (incredibly); I doubt whether any of that would apply in 2026.

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If there is a massive nuclear war, the proportion of European/white people will be even smaller, because Europe, Russia, North America will be the areas hit worst.

Is that why “they” (((the usual suspects))) are pushing for war with Russia?

A 5-min interview, in all. Worth seeing, especially the naive English idiot at the end, who “only sees the good in people” but wants to emigrate.

I blogged about all that the day before yesterday.

As with many topics in the UK (Muslim takeover by numbers, Jewish exploitation and takeover by other means, and what should be done with most MPs and journalists etc), we are “not allowed” to express our uncensored thoughts these days.

I am surprised that Kemi Badenoch is still the leader of the now all-but-irrelevant “Conservative” Party; thought they would have dumped her by the end of 2025. Seems that the Con Party has lost its once-famous killer instinct.

For me, leaving aside the Israel lobby cover-up, what is astonishing is that (on the facts as claimed) someone walking down Whitehall, the very centre of UK government power (such as it now is) can have his telephone snatched without, it seems, the police even being aware at the time, let alone actually apprehending the culprit. Yet we hear all the time that “London is OK, London is safe“…

Trump is over, anyway. In June, he will be 80-y-o and, by the time of the 2028 Presidential election, 82 but, more importantly, he shows signs of mental deterioration. Biden’s dementia was concealed (though not very well), but Trump is filmed saying things, constantly, and many of those things are the reverse of what he said the day before, or will say the next day.

Kemi Badenoch is a Conservative Friends of Israel member, and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Is she going to re-ignite public interest in what was plainly an Israeli Intelligence operation (the Epstein/Lolita Express/Lolita Island matter)? I think not.

Translates to a Commons with about 320 Reform UK MPs (6 short of overall majority), 83 Cons (weak official Opposition), 66 LibDems, 57 Lab, 50 Greens, 45 SNP [etc].

As with other recent polls, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Quite. “They” are always the “victims”, in their own warped minds, even when killing children or harvesting the organs of real victims.

A perennial whine…

[“They had me fired. Arrested 4 times. Suspended my medical licence. Smeared me in every paper.

Now the British zionist jewish lobby is attacking my fundraiser!

It cost me £90,000 to defend my licence. I live on what remains of my life savings.

I set up a Chuffed fundraiser to tackle police harassment and keep me on my feet. Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is now threatening Chuffed with police action.

They want to destroy me.

I am a Palestinian and a British citizen. I have never had a patient complaint. Never broken the law. Worked for 7 years in the NHS. Cared for my fellow British citizens. Paid my taxes.

My crime?
I opposed genocide and jewish supremacy. Exposed their grip on Britain.

That’s it.

My response:
{فَٱقْضِ مَآ أَنتَ قَاضٍ ۖ إِنَّمَا تَقْضِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَآ}So do whatever you want! Your authority only covers the ˹fleeting˺ life of this world. Qur’an 20:72

I would do it all over again. Everything I did was to save the lives of the Palestinian people being murdered by the jewish occupation. And to stop the British government from using my taxes to arm them.

May justice and truth prevail.
We fear God only.

Free Palestine and Britain from jewish supremacy.”]

[Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan]

The Daily Telegraph is totally (((occupied))).

https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

[“What is happening to this bloody country!!! My daughter has been informed by school that her TWELVE year old daughter (my granddaughter) has been found on a ‘stab list’.

So the son of recent African immigrants, who has only been here maybe a year and has been caught at least twice with a knife at school, has now created a list of girls he intends to stab for shunning his advances.

He is STILL in school. This madness has to end. Either the establishment are on the side of good people or good people will take things into their own hands.

She’s 12yo for gods sake and has to now walk around school with the threat of being stabbed at any moment.“]

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[“Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in case of a land invasion of its territories, including the islands, writes the Iranian agency Tasnim citing a military source.

“The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is considered one of the strategically important straits in the world, and Iran has both the will and the capability to pose a real threat to it; therefore, if the Americans want to solve the Strait of Hormuz problem with foolish measures, they should be careful not to add another strait to their problems and difficult situation,” he said.
Bab el-Mandeb is located between Yemen and Eritrea, connecting the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea. Many ships passing through the Suez Canal go through this strait.”
]

If that were to happen, and it is not unlikely, the economy of much of the world will plummet.

Doubtful as a real deal; more likely is an American withdrawal packaged as a “peace deal” for the American domestic TV audience.

[“Incredible discoveries by Alexander del Valle, geopolitical expert on the current situation in the Middle East:

Israel is running out of time: Israel does not have much time left; supplies of defensive missiles and equipment are running low. Trump must come up with a solution to end the war as soon as possible!

Iran has the capability to disable the defense systems of Israel and countries in the region. Due to the exhausting war and the huge number of drones, their weapon supplies are nearing depletion.

Every day we become aware that Iran, surprisingly, possesses many more drones and missiles than previously reported. These factors are key reasons why a way to end the conflict must be found, which is also Mr. Trump’s goal.“]

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

Late music

[painting by Serge Marshennikov]

Diary Blog, 9 February 2026

Afternoon music

[under the Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn, London]

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Ha ha…

Starmer-stein is moving from being a mere clown to becoming a total joke.

Forget the non-existent “Russian connection”, and concentrate on the real one, the Israeli connection.

Davis also should know that the FSB is a security organization, not primarily a foreign intelligence agency (the main Russian one being the SVR).

I explored the Israel connection to Epstein (Jew) and Ghislaine Maxwell (half-Jew) years ago, and have continued to update: see

They need street-cleaners in Vienna…(Mandelson has toothbrush, and will travel…).

I still think that Starmer-stein will cling on until people start to stamp on his fingers; he will not let go of his own volition.

The ships referred to are naval minesweepers.

I do not doubt that they confessed (whether guilty or not).

Triggers a few memories.

When I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan (1996-1997), I lived on Prospekt Lenina, one of the main boulevards. One day, I heard that an American who apparently lived across the (very wide) boulevard from me had been found tortured to death in an armchair in his own apartment.

At the time, I was sole expat lawyer for a British firm in Kazakhstan. The other office staff, however, about 5 people, were under a Kazakh ex-policeman turned fake lawyer (I am sure that he had either bought or forged his qualifications).

This individual in my office had links to the KNB, the renamed Kazakhstan KGB, and told me that the murdered American had been a gay who had picked up two men at a casino. They had murdered him, thinking that he had cash. They had also stolen items from the apartment.

What interested me most about the story, however, was the assertion that, because the KNB had apparently suspected the American (a supposed journalist, working for an obscure Texas-based journal, of which no-one had ever heard) of being a CIA operative, and so had bugged that man’s apartment (both audio and video). There was therefore both audio and video evidence of the torture and murder, though (sadly for the victim) not seen until the next day. Had the KNB been watching in real time, they would have been able to save the victim.

The murderers were, it seems, arrested the next day, and (of course) confessed. I imagine that they were shown the evidence, but would very likely have confessed even had there been no evidence at all. The Kazakh police are rather rough.

There were few foreigners resident in Almaty at that time. I was told that there were about 50 Brits, and quite a few more Americans (in a city of, even then, nearly 2M inhabitants). I doubt, though, whether I myself was suspected of being more than a boring/innocent expat lawyer, but who knows?

Incidentally, I went for a talk at the British Embassy there, not long afterwards, about “personal security”, given by a visiting expert from London. I was often at the Embassy anyway, had met the Ambassador and others several times (and it was walking distance from my home).

There were about 30 British people, businessmen mostly, assembled to hear the words of wisdom.

The “visiting expert” was a bit of an odd bod, a former member of British Army intelligence, and who wore a brown leather coat with a matching leather hat. He reminded me slightly of von Smallhausen in Allo Allo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%27Allo_%27Allo!_characters#Herr_Engelbert_von_Smallhausen.

“Von Smallhausen” mentioned the murder of the American, cast doubt on the idea that he had been a journalist, and also mentioned the not dissimilar case of a Swiss banker, also murdered in the city not long before.

The “visiting expert” also said that most expats he had met on his brief visit had assured him that Almaty was safe for foreigners, yet he himself had visited a nightclub in the centre of the city a day or two previously and, on exiting the club, had tripped over a dead body.

I have to say that I never had serious trouble while I lived in Kazakhstan (1 year), and what minor trouble I did have was handled one way or another. There again, I usually avoid nightclubs, bars, and casinos in most parts of the world. In fact, unlike most foreigners in Almaty at that time, I not only travelled by car but also on foot and even by local bus, trolleybus, and tram (there was no Metro at the time). My then girlfriend remarked that I had to be the only foreigner in the city with a monthly public transport pass, though I had my own driver to take me to the office and back. I like to wander and explore alone sometimes.

[view of Almaty, Kazakhstan. The boulevard shown is former Prospekt Lenina, now called Dostyk (Kazakh for “Friendship”). I lived on the right-hand side of the avenue, in a kind of Soviet penthouse at the top of the first of the two similar apartment buildings, about halfway up the photo]

Hard-to-believe news

Apparently, Tony Blair has been talking up the possibility of —of all people— Shabana Mahmood taking over from Keir Starmer, and so becoming, by default, Prime Minister! Jesus H. Christ! Has the woman not been over-promoted enough? She has already been appointed as Justice Secretary/Lord Chancellor and, since then, Home Secretary, despite having not practised at the Bar (beyond her one-year pupillage); she was a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors for about 2 years after that.

Actually, I hope she does take over. That would sink the Labour Party completely.

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

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Thought out of season

The Heart that battled here
The Heart that bled
Has conquered Death
And made Man’s peace with Heaven
.”
[Friedrich Nietzsche..early poem on Easter]

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[“I’ve canvassed every day, several times a day, for over 2 weeks

Overwhelmingly positive

Just had my first negative reaction

Labour voter

On the border of Longsight

“fascist!” he shouted

Interesting

The last time I checked the party that backed cancelling elections, scrapping jury trials, two-tier justice, repression through non-crime hate incidents, investing more power in unelected Quangos, presiding over a regime that arrests comedians and parents for merely sharing their views online, and brands its political opponents “extremist” isn’t the Reform party

It’s the Labour Party

Vote Reform, Get Starmer Out, Put Gorton and Denton First“]

That sort of tribal Labourite is more funny than anything. I suppose that the best-known of that type would be the talking-head hypocrite and scribbler, Kevin Maguire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Maguire_(journalist)].

Incidentally, I was just looking at Betfair Politics. I have found that the betting odds are poor predictors of by-election results, but for what it might be worth, the Greens are now favourite, and are marginally odds-on, Reform is now around 7/4, but Labour has now gone way out, and stands at around 17/2 (Advance UK 150/1, LibDems 500/1, Conservatives 1,000/1).

The naivety of the BBC and other msm can be stunning…

They are like a poison in the body politic of every country where they operate.

Late music

[Shishkin, Mordovino Oaks]
[painting by Volegov]

Diary Blog, 6 February 2026

Afternoon music

[river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

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[“I have a Mandelson anecdote from the time when we both attended the University of Oxford.

The college captain of rugby (Welsh) returned from training to find Mandelson and his crowd of self-declared Marxist-Leninist friends having a tea party (ironic or what?) on the second quad lawn of our college.

He asked Mandelson if they needed more water. He replied that they did.

Our rugby captain went and unreeled a high-powered fire hose and doused them.

Mandelson and his chums threatened unconvincingly from a safe distance to ‘do him’.“]

Incredible. “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow“…

[“In 1962, a 37-year-old man from England named Brendon Grimshaw suddenly quit his job and bought a small island in the Seychelles for about $10,000. The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years. Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant. While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism. For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island. Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down. Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts. Photos that will restore your faith in humanity: https://bit.ly/3ILWYi4.“]

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

“The power of one”…

Deborah Meaden, like most of those smug Dragon’s Den speculators and merchants, thinks she is so very clever…

White slavery?

A great deal of transnational crime, from massive fraud to sex crime, to organ harvesting and blood harvesting, is based in Israel.

Exactly. I have been blogging for years that, were the UK to leave NATO and form a loose but close relationship with the Russian Federation, British people would be sold Russian gas at or below cost.

The Kiev regime is, however, losing steadily on the ground, and across the entire front.

The Zelensky regime continues to poke the Bear.,..

Odessa should either become a “free city”, or should be ruled by a condominium arrangement.

[stormy skies over the Black Sea at Odessa]

[“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the situation in Iran:

“We created a dollar shortage in the country. This led to a quick result.

I would say the culmination came in December, when one of Iran’s largest banks collapsed after a mass withdrawal of deposits. The central bank was forced to print money.

The Iranian currency plummeted, inflation soared, and as a result, we witnessed massive protests by the Iranian people on the streets.“]

“War without war”, as Sun Tzu either said or might have said.

The [Israeli] Jews think that (using American money and arms etc) they control, or at least restrain, Egypt. I wonder. I got the impression, in 1998, when I was “not arrested” in Egypt, that the Egyptians would rather like to defeat Israel, if that were possible.

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Maybe Mandelson should book another 4 tickets for his widely-expected fugitive flight to Israel— tickets for Starmer-stein, his Jewish wife, and their 2 children.

Gorton and Denton by-election

My own views about the likely result of the Gorton and Denton by-election have not changed from a day or two ago. Reform seem to be in pole position, and Labour very much on the back foot (every day more scandal), but the Green Party may also be getting not only their own former (2024) voters’ votes (about 13% in 2024) but also votes from both disenchanted English/British former Labour voters and from equally disenchanted Pakistani (etc) Muslim former Labour voters.

That triad of support for the Greens may add up to something formidable, though my money is, I think, still on Reform to win this. For Labour to win would take a minor miracle, the way things are, despite Labour’s 50.8% vote at GE 2024, and despite the history of the area.

Mark Hehir

I am still following the progress of the GoFundMe crowdfunder set up for the “hero bus driver”, Mark Hehir, who was so badly treated by his former employer, Metroline. At time of writing, the crowdfunder stands at not far below £42,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.

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Many well-meaning but fatally-naive people still have a sadly-ingrained respect or deference to anyone in a position such as MP, Cabinet minister, certainly Prime Minister (or “royal prince”…). Unfortunately, the past 16+ years have shown that many, perhaps most, are clowns and/or freeloaders and moneygrubbers. Many, also, are little better, if at all, than Israeli agents and/or puppets of the Jewish lobby in the UK.

A victory for Reform (or even for the Greens) would knock Starmer-stein totally off his perch. I doubt that he would resign, though; he is the kind of box-ticking careerist who will cling on to his job even as people are stamping on his fingers. I think he would have to be dismissed by his own MPs.

[“Labour MPs, ministers and party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry, as over Peter Mandelson’s lies about extent of his Epstein links.

But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this weekend. Where that ends up, who knows.“]

So tweets Guardian scribbler Pippa Crerar. Starmer “a man of public service“? Ha ha. A careerist box-ticker. Also, how is it that the Political Editor of the Guardian cannot spell the word “conscience”? Or was that a Freudian slip?

Israel-puppet Luke Akehurst, desperate for Israel-puppet Starmer-stein and Zionist agent Morgan McSweeney to stay en poste. Hardly surprising.

Treacherous enemies of the British people.

Not so much a “cult” as a conspiracy. Either organized by MOSSAD or by some other political intelligence agency; an operation run out of Israel.

More news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons

A Labour minister commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.

The research was ordered and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was chair of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian.

Simons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who had previously run Labour Together and whose own role in the operation to gather material on journalists is under scrutiny.

In an agreement addressed to Simons, drawn up by the PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the group.

[Guardian]

Josh Simons“: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Simons. Half-Jew, and whose wife is American, probably Jewish, maybe even a US/UK/Israel triple passport-holder.

“Simons has cited “persistent failure” to tackle antisemitism for his resignation from Corbyn’s office.[4][5] He later contributed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission‘s investigation into Labour antisemitism.”

[Wikipedia]

There is every chance that Simons will lose his Makerfield seat at the next general election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Might fly with the electorate. Senior officer (Colonel, but was due for promotion to Brigadier prior to being MP) but still youngish (44; will be 45 in March 2026); MC and DSO; saw action repeatedly in Afghanistan; untainted (so far) by any scandal.

Enlisted, but was commissioned only 3 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns.

Whether that ex-officer’s election as Labour leader would be an electoral gamechanger, hard to say, but it would be far more popular than having Angela Rayner or Wes Streeting, let alone expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, taking over.

Usually, ex-officers are not much good, politically, but who knows, this one might be an exception. It might not save Labour, but might mitigate the damage.

That MP , a traditional Labour MP-type, has little to lose, his GE 2024 majority having been a mere 18 votes, and his win at Poole having been a fluke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Duncan-Jordan really has no chance of re-election, and is about 60 or so, so is free to be honest…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Duncan-Jordan

Morgan McSweeney is, at very least, an agent of influence controlled by Israel. He may even be a MOSSAD agent, simpliciter. £30,000 just to investigate a few journalists? Where did the money come from? Probably Israel itself, either directly or via cut-outs, rich Jews resident in the UK, a “fifth column” in our society.

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NWO/ZOG drone, William Hague, now, apparently, thinks that British people should not be allowed to express views, or discuss anything on social media. Presumably, the little bastard thinks that people should stay (locked-down?) in their houses, watching and listening compliantly to the sort of System propaganda (complete with rigged “discussion”) churned out by rubbish shows such as BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, or BBC Question Time.

Also, what is a “healthy democratic system“?

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Migration invasion news

The Home Office is claiming that 60,000 individuals have either been deported, or have left voluntarily, since Labour came to office in 2024. Perhaps, but in that same time period about 1.5 million immigrants have entered the country, mostly “legally”. Even the small boat invaders have numbered about 100,000, maybe more.

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Shalom, Starmer and McSweeney— your time is up…

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Diary Blog, 28 December 2025

Morning music

Early thought

Just saw a film (available freely on Twitter/X, but apparently banned on YouTube): Europa the Last Battle, Blitzkrieg edition.

Brilliant.

I saw it via the Sophie Meaden Twitter/X account. While I do not agree with everything she posts, her Twitter/X account is one of the best at present.

Wikipedia is, on such topics, infested by vandalistic editing (by “the usual suspects”), but this is what it has to say about the original video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa:_The_Last_Battle.

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[“Let’s address the elephant in the room. We don’t have a two tier justice system, we have an anti-White justice system. “Two tier” just dilutes what’s going on to a degree. I have been guilty of using it myself too, but I’ve been doing some self reflecting over it. Start calling out discrimination against the natives and Europeans. No more anti-White hatred of any kind should be tolerated in our government and institutions. White lives matter.“]

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When I visited that country, in 1977, it was called Rhodesia, was white European-ruled, and was, despite a two-front war against black African (pseudo-) “nationalists” on —and within— the borders, a fully-functioning, European-style country, where everything worked.

We keep reading Twitter/X or newspaper readers’ comments to the effect that “Ukraine is not our business, and we should keep out“, and I agree wholeheartedly with those sentiments, but one has to realize that the governments of the UK, France, Germany etc are not really British, French, or German governments, but NWO/ZOG puppet governments, and that that is why we keep seeing those puppet governments funnelling arms, money etc to “Ukraine” (more precisely, to the Kiev regime).

The same goes for the repeated proposals to deploy British and other troops (officially— a few are already there) to Ukraine.

Talking point

Nothing to do with the 2020-2022 fake “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic, incidentally. This has been a long-running problem in the UK.

The NHS and the allied problem of adult social care must be rethought, and action taken. It just does not cut it to treat the NHS as a a holy object of quasi-religious devotion, or to reference the profit-driven American healthcare system, or the deficiencies of British healthcare before the NHS was established in 1948.

The NHS is merely one example of how Britain’s many old-established institutions are “living off their hump”, and their once-high reputations. NHS, police, courts and legal system (and legal professions), armed forces, monarchy, SIS/MI6, schools, universities, BBC, the degraded Church of England; you name it.

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Bardot was a brave fighter for both animal welfare and the future of European race, culture, and society. The Jews and Muslims attacked her, and procured her prosecution, partly because of her opposition to their cruel halal and kosher slaughter practices.

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

Incidentally, the BBC News weasellers, this morning, claimed that many French people were disturbed by her socio-political views. I doubt it. Mainly Jewish and Muslim inhabitants of France, I dare say.

[Bardot in younger days, in the 1960s]

Time for the Kiev regime junta to get rid of Zelensky, send him to Florida, Israel, or perdition, then to sue for peace. Create a genuine Ukrainian state within the bulk of Ukrainian territory to the west of the Dnieper, with its capital in Lvov. Kiev and Odessa to become demilitarized “free cities”. Russia to rule all Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also a narrow strip of territory along the whole of the Black Sea coast.

Peace that will be sustainable, in short.

Carney is an international NWO/ZOG character, formerly Governor of the Bank of England (despite being of Canadian origin).

If Turkey were to become a nuclear power, Israel would truly be doomed. The Turks already have massive conventional force and numbers at their disposal.

Another stunning opinion poll. Would translate to a Commons with about 401 Reform MPs (massive majority), 56 LibDems (thus making the LibDems the official Opposition, just about), 53 Greens (making them significant at last), 46 SNP, 28 Lab, and 28 Cons [etc].

[“If you’re not from the UK you should know that in the last 48 hours a teacher who showed his politics students a Trump video was referred to an “anti-terrorism” programme while the Labour government is celebrating the “return” of an Egyptian extremist who endorsed killing Jews, “colonialists” and police.”]

Puzzling, and it even occurred to me that that Egyptian might be an (ex-) agent of SIS, and that that might explain the long and consistent efforts to have him released by the Egyptian authorities, but then UK government ministers would, presumably, not be making such a noise about it. Very puzzling, especially as Starmer-stein “leads” a Labour Friends of Israel regime.

I should imagine that the individual in question is more than glad to be released from an Egyptian prison, whatever the truth of it all. I feared that I myself might be “banged up” in one when I was in that country in 1998: see

Surely that Egyptian supposed “extremist” is not being welcomed by the Starmer-stein government of sinister clowns simply in the hope that the UK-resident Muslims (a large part of Labour’s core vote now) will stick with Labour’s electoral candidates, rather than defecting to Corbyn’s “Your Party”, to Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”, or to independent Islamist candidates?

That seems facile, but I admit that I am, for once, puzzled.

Madness. Or is it planned, deliberate, on some level?

Notice. Keep “noticing”…

Two thoughts come to mind. First, that Turkey is increasing its down-the-line military capabilities rather rapidly.

Secondly, that it seems that, in the world of general aviation, freight aviation, and airliners for passengers, the pilot may be on the way out. Pilots will not even be able to retrain to work as bus or taxi drivers, because those vehicles will all be robotic and computerized as well.

Late tweets

God knows how crushingly heavy will be the eventual karmic burden carried by Israel and “World Jewry”.

Typical.

Or does that mean that, whichever side comes out on top, the USA (or NWO/ZOG) will benefit?

Late music

Diary Blog, 17 October 2025

Morning music

Tweets seen

Translates to about 437 Reform UK MPs, 57 LibDems, 46 SNP, 38 Lab, 27 Con, 19 Green, 5 Plaid (etc).

If not an outlier, or anomalous set of results, this is stunning.

The headline result for Reform would be, in the British context, near-revolutionary, and would cause an almost-immediate Constitutional crisis, in that Reform has no peers at all in the Lords.

An influx of hundreds of Reform MPs of very varied views, on that scale, would lead to hard-to-predict events over the succeeding 5 years.

Labour (38 MPs) below LibDems (57 MPs) for the first time (formerly, of course, sub nom Liberal Party) since the 1920s. Hard to believe.

Conservatives with only 27 MPs, but that would be not quite as bad as other recent polls, which have predicted as few as 7 Con MPs. Reform was on 32% in this poll; another recent poll had them on 36%.

Greens with 19 MPs! The “watermelon party”, of course, green outside, but light red inside…

Of course, Labour is being pulled apart by centrifugal forces. The Pakistani/Muslim/Islamist element is defecting to Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”, to Islamist independent factions, to Corbyn’s anti-Israel “Your Party” etc. The craven pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stance of Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government has alienated many of the very voters on which Labour is now mainly dependent: Muslims, non-whites generally, would-be “progressives” etc.

Interesting times in British politics.

[“Anyone who backed him the second time round after Truss and the spies should be shot. That includes Rudd etc. I said to father of children and best friend – who both lost their seats because of Tom – dear lord please don’t back him again. One did, the other was more sensible and entirely where I was on candidates despite being on very different wings of the party. When Tugendhat came to Poole to “help” during the election campaign I made my views known – we could not afford to lose a single vote and having probably the most notorious backed-Truss-for-a-job “helping” was a disaster. We lost by a handful. He partied as colleagues cleared their desks in tears, only interested in canvassing support for a run not a moment of grief for his party. Just disgusting. Ruthless bugger. One of so many reasons I’m glad to be free of this sort of nonsense. There is so little honour left in the Tories and TT is one of the absolute worst. Ugh.“]

Though of course the lady tweeter there would never make the point, Tom Tugendhat, the MP and former chocolate soldier, is a quarter-Jew whose family origins, some of them, are in Bielsko-Biala, Silesia (Poland, but once, pre-1918, part of Austrian Silesia under the name Bielitz ).

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

Incidentally, and as blogged previously, I know the Bielsko-Biala area slightly, having visited twice in the late 1980s, and having spent a total of about 4 weeks there.

Of course, the Conservatives having now fallen well below 20% in the opinion polls, the infighting about who should replace Nigerian chancer Kemi Carpetbagger as Con Party leader does rather look like bald men and women fighting over a comb, especially as 1. some predictions suggest that the number of Conservative Party MPs post-2028/2029 might fall as low as 7; and 2. all of those currently hoping to replace Kemi Badenoch are predicted to lose their Commons seats anyway (as is Kemi Badenoch herself).

Jewish-lobby puppet Michael Gove, a former scribbler and former MP expenses cheat and fraud, as well as a drunk and cocaine-abuser now Editor of The Spectator, weighs in to demand that notorious Israeli Jew football hooligans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, be allowed to have a “rumble in the jungle” in the West Midlands. Nein danke.

Starmer-stein never has explained how his “one in, one out” idea reduces immigration and the numbers here. Of course it cannot. At best (if it ever worked anyway) it would keep the huge numbers (of illegals; “legal” migrants would still flood in) static. Why am I even bothering to discuss this ridiculous scheme? It is just a scam for public relations purposes…

Not so remarkable when you consider the pervasive Jewish/pro-Israel influence over System politics in the UK.

Defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer” [Biblical phrase — adapted from Psalm 72:4— inscribed above the main entrance of “the Bailey” —Central Criminal Court, London, aka “Old Bailey”]

That Egyptian, after some punishment, should be given a choice— back to Egypt, or up against a wall. In fact, maybe just put him up against a wall anyway.

Egypt is still OK for a holiday, so long as you are in a good hotel. Admittedly, I have not been there for about 27 years. As a country, Egypt welcomes tourists, but not political dissidents, potential terrorists, or spies.

My own experiences include the following:

The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts take away monies from various groups of mainly English/British people in order to have money to waste on migrant-invaders, Ukrainians, and Jews (in the UK and in Israel).

Rachel Reeves is evil, as well as being a moneygrubber and an expenses cheat.

As already mentioned, it is hard to see who will be left able and willing to vote Labour. Even “the blacks and browns” are largely charging for the exit. The Muslims certainly are, despite attempts to placate them.

Hard to see many pensioners, or those approaching pensionable age─ say anyone over 55, voting Labour, despite Reeves and Starmer keeping (so far) the State Pension Triple Lock.

The previously very supportive under-30 group of potential voters also seem to be turning their collective face against Labour, and going Green or LibDem; some are now turning to Reform UK as well..

Looked at like that, the at-first surprising (?) recent polling suggesting only 15% of voters intend to vote Labour makes sense.

Late tweets seen

More genocidal actions by [Israeli] Jews.

The Kiev regime must know that, at the end of the day, Russian forces have 6,000+ nuclear weapons. Russia may not want to use any in Ukraine, but the fact remains that, should the orders be given, Kiev and other major centres of population and industry could be reduced, entirely, to rubble and radioactive ash in a matter of, at most, half an hour.

…because Russian forces are slowly but steadily advancing along the entire active front.

Late thought

Just saw the film Oppenheimer, about the atom-bomb scientist. Pretty good, but too long by about half an hour and that last 30 mins or so of typically-American stuff about postwar legal arguments, and Congressional hearings, could have been cut out without loss.

One part of the film struck me, though the specific facts were not new to me, I having read books about the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb spies etc.

The film reminded me that the scientists at Los Alamos in the early 1940s were concerned that the first atom bomb might start a chain reaction which would be unstoppable and cause, inter alia, the atmosphere of the Earth to ignite. Despite that possibility still existing at time of detonation of the first full test, they decided to go ahead. Why? Well, almost all of the important scientists were Jews, and for them the defeat of the “antisemitic” German Reich was more important than the possibility that all life on Earth might be destroyed.

Lesson? For “them”, it really is always “all about them”…

Late talking point

Starmer-stein, for whom real British people always come second, third, fourth, or last…

Diary Blog, 22 April 2025

Afternoon music

[Johann Messely, The Terrace]

Tweets seen

[“I firmly believe the UK is now hurtling toward a major political earthquake. Look at the numbers in the latest polling, compared to the general election last year. Amid the worst cost-of-living crisis since the Second World War, soaring and uncontrolled immigration, deteriorating public services, a glaring lack of social integration, and a succession of scandals that have rocked the Labour government, from the rape gangs to Freebiegate, voters are now on the move. Compared to the 2024 general election, Keir Starmer and Labour are down more than 10-points on just 24%. Kemi Badenoch and the Tories are down 2-points on just 22%, showing no sign of recovery. And the Liberal Democrats are up 1-point, averaging just 13.6%. But now look at Reform. As we’ve been predicting and analysing in our newsletter for two years (showing why people are voting Reform and the areas where it is building strength), Reform is now up 11-points to 25%. And that’s not all. As I explain below, Reform is now hitting both the Tories but especially Labour in unique and powerful ways, looking set for a major breakthrough as it inherits the post-Brexit realignment.”]

Yes, but Reform can only be a transitional party, existing in the space between the existing System parties and a social nationalist movement which, as yet, does not exist.

The next big test will be the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. 9 days from today. Those voters could make history. Will they?

We” are not imposing anything. It has been imposed on us by the System parties, and mainly at the behest of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby…but don’t expect Goodwin to say anything about that

Does “their” thirst for vengeance and retribution never stop?

[“The Ukrainian authorities simply stole, pumped money out of the territories and took it abroad” According to Vladimir Putin, this is where the Kyiv regime’s desire to cooperate with sponsors came from. He noted that the Kiev regime continues to steal money from the Ukrainian people, we are talking about billion-dollar accounts that are located abroad. And Western weapons supplied to Ukraine constantly end up on the black market.“]

If the Kiev regime does not come to terms shortly, then the war will continue until unconditional surrender, or worse.

That could have been predicted.

Late tweets seen

I disagree with the lady tweeter. The “4 MPs” of Reform UK are 4 and not 93 (650 x 14.29%) only by reason of a stupid, illogical, and totally unfair electoral system. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results.

In rough terms, at the 2024 General Election, Reform scored about 2 votes out of every 12 cast. Labour got 4 out of every 12, the Con Party 3 out of every 12. In fact, 8 out of every 20 eligible did not even vote, so Labour was endorsed by only 4 out of 20.

About half of those Labour votes were cast by people who now realize that Starmer-stein lied to them about almost everything. That is why Labour (supported mainly by non-white voters) is now around the same level as Reform UK.

The unfair FPTP electoral system gives the false impression that only a tiny fringe supported Reform at GE 2024; in fact it was over 14%, and the Conservative Party, with all its money and history (and in government until the General Election) only scored 23%.

Widespread and angry political dissent is not going to go away even if Reform does. Popular discontent will simply find another channel to flow down. Another party, or a new movement of some kind, perhaps a social-national movement which goes beyond being simply a political party.

James O’Brien, a radio would-be know-all who is often pretty ignorant.

What’s wrong with the other 53%? Actually, the “53%” is nearer to 33% or even lower, because at least 20% of the whole population is now non-European and their votes should not be taken into account in such a poll.

A good majority of white (i.e. British) people are now firmly hostile to immigration.

At last.

Really? If so, the SVR is not doing its job very well…

Late music

[Great Patriotic War memorial, Panfilov Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan. In the Autumn and Winter of 1996, and the Spring of 1997, I lived on Prospekt Lenina, about 10 minutes’ walk from there (I moved to another address later). A striking example of public statuary]

Diary Blog, 16 May 2024, including thoughts about the UK housing crisis, about Islington North, about Simon Myerson, and about “grifters” such as the now-exposed Depher UK

Morning music

[Clare Bridge over the River Cam, Cambridge]

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/15/landlords-selling-up-england-homelessness-renting

More than 2,000 households a month are facing homelessness in England because private landlords say they are selling up, with some blaming uncertainty caused by government delays to renting reforms.

Official figures show that more than four in 10 families who have asked councils for temporary housing after a private landlord ended their tenancy are in the predicament because the owner told them they were putting the property on the market.

Despite increasing demand, the supply of private housing available to rent is still 50,000 homes below pre-pandemic levels, figures from Rightmove show. The total number of privately renting households, including those in stable accommodation, has hovered around the 4.5m mark for the last decade, according to the English Housing Survey. In that time, England’s population grew by 3.2 million, equivalent to 1.4m households.

[The Guardian]

Look at the effect of mass migration aka migration invasion: In the last decade alone, the UK population grew by 3.2 MILLION…

Islington North

The Labour Party is to select its candidate to fight Islington North in the expected 2024 General Election. Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, sacked from Labour by Israel and Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer, has not been invited to apply.

Corbyn presently sits as Independent, but was elected at Islington North for Labour in every general election since 1983. At that first election, Corbyn and Labour scored a vote-share of 40.4% (Con 25.3%, SDP 22.4%), but since then Corbyn has never received less than 50% of the total vote, and usually above 60%, peaking in 2017 (when he was Labour leader) at 73% (Con 12.5%, LibDems 9%). At the most recent general election, in 2019, Corbyn scored 64.3% (LibDems 15.6%, Con 10.2%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

The huge unknown is what percentage of the voters voted for Corbyn, and what percentage voted for the Labour label.

Usually, voters vote by label. Few indeed are the instances where a candidate who has been cast out by his or her party, and who has then stood as Independent (or for a small party) then been re-elected. Most face ignominious defeat. However, Islington North may be different.

There has never been a case where a party leader has been expelled, in effect, from his own party, and has then stood as Independent in the constituency that he has represented for 41 years and is still, at time of writing, representing.

Corbyn is very high profile, and of course has been the MP since 1983, over 40 years.

It seems that local Labour has been frozen out of the selection process, and that Starmer or his minions on the Labour NEC will select the candidate. Apparently, there are several not-unlikely possibilities, and a few political chancers, such as faux-revolutionary (and System msm drone) Paul Mason, will probably also apply.

Assuming that Corbyn does stand (as Independent), I think that he might be able to win the election, and I should put his likely vote-share at somewhere around 30%-40%. The official Labour candidate will probably also get about 30%-40%.

There is likely to be a Reform UK candidate, who will probably get below 5%, and possibly (as with UKIP and Brexit Party in previous elections) only around 1% or 2%. The Conservative candidate will almost certainly struggle to get over 10% and, in the present circumstances, may be in lost-deposit territory, below 5%.

It is possible that the LibDem candidate will score over 10%; hard to say.

My view is that, if Corbyn does stand, it will be a straight fight between him and whosoever is selected as the official Labour candidate. Corbyn surely has every chance, if he stands (I think that he will).

Tweets seen

As previously blogged, not even 1997 was 1997 (as popularly now understood); Labour received only 43.2% of the popular vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election.

The 1997 General Election passed me by; I was in the middle of living for a year in Kazakhstan, was busy with everyday and not-so-everyday things, and did not have a satellite (or any other) TV; also, BBC World Service radio reception from the UK was very poor by reason of the nearby mountains (Almaty is on the lower slopes of the Tien Shan) and the remoteness from Europe etc.

I was and am willing to believe that “Captain Tom” meant well (though the whole stunt was basically brainless), but his daughter and her husband were very obviously riding it for all it was worth from the start. Disgraceful people.

The msm went along with it all because it tended to reinforce the “panicdemic”/”scamdemic” narrative of the times, the “Covid” craziness, “clapping for the NHS”, and other related nonsense.

See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gxg4jd0ggo, which is well worth reading. An important investigation. These “grifters” should be hounded and prosecuted, not least because they destroy trust in the whole concept of charity and giving.

I myself gave a couple of small donations to that supposed quasi-charitable org. That’s a tenner I shall never get back. Not a fortune, true, but that “grifter” has thereby deprived me not only of a good feeling but also £10 with which I could have bought a couple of Lottery scratchcards. Never mind. If I ever meet him, I shall recover my money from the bastard in person.

I have blogged previously, several times, about this contemporary disease of online “grifters”— “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, the Anglo-Cypriot fraudster known as the “Bootstrap Cook”), “Supertanskiii” (grifts money via her pathetic Twitter/X account which pretends to be doing pro-Labour political campaigning via swearing at “the Tories”), “Man Behaving Dadly” (a Jew called Simon Harris, who “grifted” hundreds of thousands of pounds, like “Jack Monroe”, from gullible members of the public, and also cheated Essex County Council out of about £600,000).

Many others exist, including Julia Grace Patterson, a woman who worked as a very junior NHS doctor for about 2 years before deciding that it was easier to live from online “grifting” in various ways, while also posing online as some kind of champion of the crumbling NHS.

The Essex Police seem to be red-hot when it comes to supposedly “racist” teddy-bears, or jumping on legitimate free speech at the behest of the Jewish lobby, but not much use when it comes to frauds like the above (all based in Essex, apart from Depher UK).

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/.

Well, when they are gone, that’s Ukraine’s future as a nation and people pretty much gone too. The birthrate is already far lower than replacement level, and about a third of the pre-2022 population is now outside Ukraine.

What might be called “the Reduction of the Gaza Ghetto”.

Don’t forget the main one—Israel, aided by the Jewish lobby within the USA, embedded in politics, finance, TV, radio, newspapers, publishing, and business.

Exactly.

Simon Myerson

Many readers will be aware of the social media presence of a Jew-Zionist called Simon Myerson, a barrister and Recorder (part-time criminal and civil judge), whose toxic social media presence has led to his being given formal “words of advice” (equivalent to a caution) by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.

I have blogged a little about Myerson in the past; he used to tweet obsessively about me and others, and is tied up with the two organizations who have tried to persecute me over the past 10-12 years, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”].

Recently, Myerson’s sworn testimony in the civil case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon, and Cantor was discounted by the judge, along with that of other unreliable Jewish witnesses (Nathan Comiskey, Joanne Bell, Adam Cailler).

The Jewish defendants lost out, and at least one may have to sell his family home to pay the costs of the Claimant, he (the defendant in question) plainly having been misadvised by self-seeking Israel-based Mark Lewis and others.

One defendant, Newbon, another obsessed Zionist, committed suicide during the trial. The attempt to ruin a university lecturer, James Wilson, and make money out of it for Lewis and the defendants, backfired spectacularly.

Despite the above, Myerson is still practising at the Bar, and (as far as I know) still sitting as a Recorder.

He is an obsessive, like so many of “them”. Here we are at 1300 hrs on a Thursday afternoon, and Myerson has already tweeted 39 times today by my count, starting at about 0800 hrs this morning. So about 8 times per hour, for 5 hours (so far).

I have no idea whether his practice is busy or not.

Should Myerson be sitting in judgment over the fate of British people?

For more on that specific legal case and the fallout therefrom, see previous posts on this blog and/or the tweets of the successful and brave Claimant in the case, James Wilson: https://twitter.com/per_incuriam2.

More tweets seen

Here’s an angry email from Patron’s partner Alexander Zivancevic. My view is that there is no blackmail, there is no harassment, there are no threats, and there are no mindless emails. My position is: Patron Law led its clients – Mr Mendelsohn, Dr Newbon and Mr Cantor – into disaster. And Patron Law ought to pay to get them out. Mr Zivancevic is annoyed and threatening because all this is going to cost him some cash. But it’s fair enough that he coughs up some cash to protect Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor? What do you think?”

I myself have no idea whether the defeated and possibly insolvent Jewish defendants will now seek to sue Mark Lewis and others, including Patron Law, on the basis of professional negligence, but it seems that that is a distinct possibility, if not probability.

Lewis himself has no property in this country, having “relocated” (fled?) to Israel several years ago. Indeed, just before he left, and at the time of his “conviction” in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018 (for violently insulting people on Twitter etc), and just before he moved “permanently” to Israel, his own Counsel pleaded that he should not be fined too heavily because his “only assets” were his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter. Even his car had been provided for him for free, paid for by the “antisemitic” British taxpayers, via the DWP-connected Motability scheme. The so-called “top libel lawyer” (according to the tabloid Press in years past)…

Egregious on its own, but also interesting in that Lewis is apparently a partner in that Jewish or mainly Jewish law firm, Patron Law, based in West London. If Lewis is sued (successfully), it may be the case that the other partners of that firm will be jointly and severally liable, if joined to the putative or potential action.

I hesitate to be unequivocal on this, because I have not practised at the Bar since 2008, and was (albeit wrongfully and unlawfully) disbarred for political reasons in 2016: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

It is not unlikely that the laws of both libel and business or professional partnership have changed over the past few years. I no longer bother to keep up with most legal changes.

Well, there it is, my opinion (which must now come with a non-governmental health warning…).

I have to say that Mr. Wilson is a far more forgiving man than I am. Those Jewish defendants were trying to ruin Wilson and, even if they have been used and bamboozled and manipulated by their fellow Jews, deserve to suffer the consequences of their own badness, in my opinion.

Blackmail?! Well there’s a coincidence. It is so weird. Before the “meanings” judgment was signed off and approved in my case, reading the draft I could see that it was not going well for the other side, that there would likely be further publicity which might be damaging to them and I did not want to cause them any harm. Like the old Buddhist hippy I am, via my sols, I made an offer that was pretty much in the same terms as the settlement we eventually ended up with, suggesting settlement before the judgment was handed down, and then we could ask the judge if he’d be willing not to hand down judgment in those circumstances. My offer was refused as “blackmail”. The judgment was delivered, and published on the BAILII website. The other side then settled. I don’t get it.” [tweeter Cremant Communarde “@0Calamity”]

…or maybe it’s just a (((you know who))) thing…

Needless to add, a “moral case” would not cut it; only a clear legal case would do that.

I wish Mr. Wilson good luck, and victory.

More music

More tweets

Better.

Regular readers will have seen that I recently had a slight disagreement with my wife over whether we should give to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance via some fellow who knocked uninvited at the door. I was unsure whether he was bona fide or not.

I later tried to contact the air ambulance people, only to discover that their telephone (the real one— I looked it up online) is an automated message which then switches to a line that then goes dead almost immediately. I emailed them via their own website but (about a week on), I have had no reply, nor even an acknowledgment.

I believe their CEO gets about £150,000 a year, maybe more, and that their total administrative staff salary spend (ie not pilots, not doctors etc) is about £700,000 a year. P*** poor.

I myself would never now give to Hampshire Air Ambulance, whether or not the bozo at the door was bona fide.

People should be banned from fundraising at the door anyway; it’s an open invitation to rip off householders.

The same goes for most of the larger charities as well. The higher-up staff are often getting £100,000, £200,000, even £400,000 a year. Forget it.

He has completely missed the point that he owns the house! Is this not fraud? After Captain Tom foundation debacle – nothing is sacred anymore. Money corrupts people. I for one will not give to charities like this again.” [tweeter Martina J, “@MartinaJ70”].

I can only agree.

Ha ha! Tweeter “@ACSpinner” has obviously slept through the past 2-3 years or more, during which time “Jack Monroe” has been comprehensively exposed as not only a “grifter” but a literal fraudster (though for some reason unknown, she has not as yet been prosecuted).

Ah…

Late tweets seen

Quite so. The Kiev regime, as I have blogged for over a year now, is running out of soldiers, even the untrained cannon-fodder which has been pointlessly dying in waves over the past two years. As for those “unprepared defensive lines“, they merely emphasize the shambolic and corrupt nature of the Kiev regime.

The Kiev regime has run out of “useful idiots” willing to volunteer to be killed or crippled on the chaotic and crumbling front lines. The foreign idiot virtue-signallers (unemployed Brit ex-private soldiers and adventure junkies, American Soldier of Fortune readers etc) have long since gone home, or been killed. Kiev now press-gangs people off the streets to be sent —on pain of the firing squad— to the front. Few will return. No wonder they put up a serious fight before they are “recruited” and have to face the guns.

The Russian army is reportedly advancing on the Kharkov front, with reports indicating a storming of Liptsy. Ukrainian sources confirm the developments, stating that Russian infantry is launching attacks from the forest west of Lukyantsy, situated on the eastern outskirts of Liptsy. Heavy fighting is also reported west of Volchansk in the areas of Burgovatka and Starytsya, according to other Ukrainian sources.

Late talking point

A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]

I look at Britain and muse as to whether that can be said (can yet be said) about this country. I am unwilling to say so —yet— but that is probably the heart ruling the head, to be frank.

Crowdfunder

https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABcija_Gar%C5%ABta]
[Shishkin, Gathering Storm]

Diary Blog, 14 May 2024

Afternoon music

[Villa Borghese park, Rome]

Tweets seen

Answer: NO.

Hard, in a sense, to see what that snake-oil salesman would add to Reform UK’s limited popular appeal, especially after his recent frenzied pro-Israel soundbites, but then I am not a typical voter. Parties need leaders, either that or at least figureheads.

If Farage takes up the reins of Reform UK, and if that boosts its vote-share from last week’s 18% to 26%, and if the extra 8 points come equally out of the Con and Lab vote-share, leaving Cons on 14%, Labour on 44%, LibDems on 9% and Greens on 7%, the result might be Labour with 490 Commons seats, Reform UK with 57, LibDem 55, Con 6, and Greens 2. [calculation via Electoral Calculus https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html].

Is that possible? The uncertainty alone speaks volumes. It seems impossible… and yet…

That would put Reform UK into Parliament as second-largest party, and official Opposition. As for the Conservative Party, 6 MPs and a very very poor fourth place; for them, it would probably mean the end of the road.

If Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler, were to lose his seat, he would not even have to find a reason to relocate, with his immensely rich wife, to California. If so, good riddance.

Even were Labour to ebb to 40%, and the Cons to recover to 18% (where one opinion poll had them last week), that would still leave the Cons with a mere 35 MPs (Lab 435, LibDems 58, Greens 2, but Reform UK with 79 MPs!

A party has to get well beyond 20% to get any seats at all under the UK’s FPTP voting system, but if it can get 25%+, it may hit the jackpot.

We shall have to wait and see, but the situation looks dire for the treacherous and incompetent Con Party, and I doubt whether the latest pseudo-1940 “fight on the beaches” appeal, featuring the Indian money-juggler and the Jew Shapps (he of the 5 fake identities and the Israeli Bnai Brith membership) will do anything, except confirm that the voters will vote “ABC” (“Anywhere But Conservative”).

Talking point

I happened to be out early in the car this morning, and tuned in to the Radio 4 Today Programme for a few minutes. I caught most (I think) of an interview with a retired general, only a year older than me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shirreff.

The general seemed to want, or want to risk, a war with Russia, and seemed totally signed-up to support for “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). He wants “the Ukrainians” (Kiev regime) to be given more and more-powerful weapons, so that they can attack Russia, and far deeper inside Russia.

That’s what you do in war, attack the enemy“, proclaimed the desk warrior (his only active “war” command a few months in the Gulf in 1991, as a major, and aged 36).

When the interviewer hesitantly wondered whether that might lead to all-out war between NATO and the Russian Federation, he seemed sanguine about that awful possibility.

The general also seemed to miss the point that, while the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev may be at war with the Russian Federation, we in the UK are not…; not yet, anyway, no thanks to people like him.

Britain has not been well-served by its chocolate soldiers of recent times, and it seems to me that their very limited-in-scope yet gung-ho pseudo-macho posturing might yet lead this country into becoming the target of Russia’s vast nuclear arsenal.

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My 2019 assessment of Esther McVey: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/03/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-esther-mcvey-story/.

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When I started at the (English) Bar in 1993 (I had been Called to the Bar a couple of years before that but was living in the USA), I did some criminal cases, mostly in the magistrates’ courts in London, and also some Crown Court trials. Most of the defendants were non-white. To some extent, that reflected the rather rackety chambers I was in, but not only that; most serious criminal defendants in London were non-white, mostly West Indian. That must be even more so in 2024, over 30 years later. That, despite the fact that, in 1993/1994, the proportion of non-whites in London was probably only about 10% to 20% (it’s 46% in 2024).

As for relatively recent migrants, say those who have “arrived” in the past two decades, it is hardly surprising that they commit a huge amount of crime: most are young or youngish men, few even speak English beyond a “pidgin” level, few have any marketable skills, and few have any money (though they must have had some previously in order to have been able to buy their passage from the people-smugglers).

Russia only needed one crack in Ukraine’s defenses to increase its vulnerability – The New York Times.

Recent Russian offensives in eastern and northeastern Ukraine are beginning to “dangerously” change the geometry of the front for Kyiv. The “sudden” breakthrough of Russian troops in Ocheretino illustrated how even a small crack in the defense line can cause a cascading effect, threatening already stretched platoons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with encirclement from the flanks, writes The New York Times.

The publication spoke with Ukrainian soldiers and commanders on the front line. They acknowledged that they were in a more vulnerable position than at any time since the “first harrowing weeks” of the conflict.

Moscow is trying to use the window of opportunity that has opened. Its army is increasing pressure in the Donbass and is seeking to open a new front by attacking Ukrainian positions along the northern border near Kharkov.

According to the publication, months of delays in American assistance, a growing number of casualties and an acute shortage of ammunition led to dire consequences for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is evidenced by the exhausted faces and tired voices of Ukrainian soldiers.

“To be honest, I’m scared,” the commander of a Ukrainian tank battalion told The New York Times. “Because if I don’t have shells, people, equipment with which my people can fight… then this is the end.

A city suffering blackouts has a strange atmosphere. When I relocated (for a year) to Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1996, blackouts were an everyday occurrence, affecting various areas of the city in turn, even the “Presidentsky District” (the governmental and diplomatic quarter) where I lived. I have blogged in the past about this.

A typical example of the shambolic brutality of the Zelensky dictatorship.

Crowdfunder

https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J

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Diary Blog, 14 April 2024

Afternoon music

The incomparable Sadie Marquardt.

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Tel Aviv, other cities, and some thoughts about “new” cities

The events in Israel/Palestine have sparked a few thoughts.

Not very beautiful, but it is impressive all the same, when one thinks that, 150 years ago, there was very little if any urbanization, though the port of Jaffa, the original town in part of the location, has existed for 1,800 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa.

“In 1906, a group of Jews, among them residents of Jaffa, followed the initiative of Akiva Aryeh Weiss and banded together to form the Ahuzat Bayit (lit. “homestead”) society. One of the society’s goals was to form a “Hebrew urban centre in a healthy environment, planned according to the rules of aesthetics and modern hygiene”.[32] The urban planning for the new city was influenced by the garden city movement.[33] The first 60 plots were purchased in Kerem Djebali near Jaffa by Jacobus Kann, a Dutch citizen, who registered them in his name to circumvent the Turkish prohibition on Jewish land acquisition.[34] Meir Dizengoff, later Tel Aviv’s first mayor, also joined the Ahuzat Bayit society.[35][36] His vision for Tel Aviv involved peaceful co-existence with Arabs.[37][unreliable source]

On 11 April 1909, 66 Jewish families gathered on a desolate sand dune to parcel out the land by lottery using seashells. This gathering is considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv. The lottery was organised by Akiva Aryeh Weiss, president of the building society.[38][39] Weiss collected 120 sea shells on the beach, half of them white and half of them grey. The members’ names were written on the white shells and the plot numbers on the grey shells. A boy drew names from one box of shells and a girl drew plot numbers from the second box. A photographer, Abraham Soskin (b. 1881 in Russia, made aliyah 1906[40]), documented the event. The first water well was later dug at this site, located on what is today Rothschild Boulevard, across from Dizengoff House.[41] Within a year, HerzlAhad Ha’amYehuda HaleviLilienblum, and Rothschild streets were built; a water system was installed; and 66 houses (including some on six subdivided plots) were completed.”

[Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv].

Note, though, how even those first steps by the Jews were accompanied by the acquisition of land by subterfuge: “Jacobus Kann, a Dutch citizen, who registered them in his name to circumvent the Turkish prohibition on Jewish land acquisition“… [Wikipedia].

[Jaffa]
[Jaffa in foreground, with Tel Aviv in background]

The city of Tel Aviv grew rapidly as Jewish immigration increased in the 1920s and 1930s:

[Shadal Street, Tel Aviv, 1926]
[Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, late 1930s]
[Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, 1940]

It could be argued that, like so much of the world, Israel/Palestine would have been better had it stayed under European, in this case British, rule (the British having conquered the region during WW1, and then administered it under League of Nations mandate).

I have seen other “instant” cities, at least cities which have been founded from effectively nothing and then have mushroomed quite quickly (in historical terms). Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) for one.

Incidentally, “Harare” was, pre-1980, the name of an African “township” (poor suburb outside the city).

“[Salisbury] was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923.”

[Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harare]

[central Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1930]
[Jameson Avenue, Salisbury —now Samora Machel Avenue, Harare— in 1970]
[jacaranda trees in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe]

I remember well how struck I was when I saw the flowering trees and bushes almost everywhere in the central and near-central parts of Salisbury. I have never been able to discover what were the quite large dark-green trees with football-sized spherical orange flowers that I saw quite often in 1977. Very beautiful.

[Monomatapa Hotel, Salisbury, Rhodesia, built 1974. I recall having a couple of beers there in 1977; someone abseiled down it for charity the same year; incidentally, that building project was completed despite UN sanctions]
[Eastgate Centre, Harare; only built in 1996, so not there when I saw the city in 1977; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastgate_Centre,_Harare]

In a way, a city such as Salisbury (now Harare) was even more impressive as a testament to human enterprise than somewhere such as Tel Aviv, which after all grew upon an existing port, Jaffa (or Yafa; the Jews call it Yafo). The location of Salisbury was almost terra nullius; only a few African tribesmen were in the area at the time of its foundation as a fort in 1890.

Population increases are always key. The present Harare has over 2M inhabitants; Tel Aviv (including autonomous suburbs etc) about 4M.

Another city, where I lived for a full year [1996-1997] is Almaty, Kazakhstan, founded (like Salisbury) as a fortified stockade in the late 19thC and called, by its Russian founders, Verny. Now, a city of over 2M inhabitants.

[part of Almaty, Kazakhstan]
[part of Almaty]

I find rather fascinating cities —and whole states and societies— which grow from almost nothing in a relatively short space of time. One, which I saw in its construction phase, was Milton Keynes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes]. I knew it for a few months in early 1977; on returning a few times about 30 years later, the difference was incredible. Whole suburbs where only fields were before; a railway station where none existed before; a population of over 250,000 (in 1977, only a few thousand); bus services (in 1977, effectively non-existent); filling stations; large modern hotels.

I appeared as Counsel a couple of times in the years 2002-2007 at Milton Keynes County Court; in 1977, there was no such court; neither was there the whole Central Milton Keynes district where the Court and the railway station etc are now located.

I saw Doha, Qatar, in 2001. A sleepy and not unpleasant city. When I returned in 2008, Doha was already unrecognizable, a city of concrete and skyscrapers. Since then, a further transformation along the same lines. A kind of Manhattan-look in the desert, and on the Red Sea.

One thing I can say which is positive about the Israelis is that much —not all— of their town planning is pretty good, from what I have seen from photos etc. Many of their suburbs and towns seem well-planned, with trees, parks and leisure facilities.

Of course, the foundation and sometimes fast development of cities has a flip side: cities can sometimes disappear quickly as well.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

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This government of Sunak (with those of his predecessors) is a disaster. There is every chance that the Israel-lobby Starmer-Labour replacement will be as bad, or even worse.

Saudi Arabia is a useless, corrupt, decadent and hypocritical pseudo-theocracy.

Retired General Wesley Clark speaks about the USA’s plan to DESTROY 7 countries within 5 years in the Middle-East.

Did you know that the USA wanted us to completely destabilize the middle-east and turn it upside down? Did anyone ever tell you this? Has there been any public dialogue about this? Did Senators or congress denounce these plans!? NO, they have not!!” “They told me that they were invading Iraq and I asked, WHY!? They said, ‘sir, it’s much worse than that, we’re going to destroy 7 countries in 5 years’ : We’re going to start in Iraq, then Syria, then Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia, then Sudan and we’re gonna finish with Iran.

The USA and allies already destroyed and demolished every country on this list except Iran – Who are the real terrorists that are terrorizing the entire planet? How can you hear this and not immediately think : Who the fuck is controlling the USA military and what is their real purpose? Who do they work for?

If you can’t use your critical thinking skills then you really don’t stand a chance at figuring shit out. The mainstream media creates your perception of reality on behalf of the globalists. The media is their strongest weapon of deception. Please STOP letting others shape your view of the world. Use your own brain and understand that we are up against a group of people/cult that runs and controls our world in secret. It’s OBVIOUSLY not easy to see through their deceit or else they wouldn’t have been in control of our planet for 100s, if not 1000s of years.

Most of which is effectively as said by me on Twitter (until the Jewish lobby had me expelled in 2018), and on this blog since late 2016. NWO/ZOG.

One can imagine what might happen were Israel to be more heavily attacked, or invaded.

Well, there’s a surprise…oh, no, wait…

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It seems that the vast majority of cruise missiles and drones (though 99% seems very high) were destroyed in the air either by Israeli forces or by US, UK, French, Jordanian and Saudi aircraft. Such cruise missiles and drones are quite slow. If, however, the Iranians were to use the hypersonic missiles they are said to possess, then it might be a very different story.

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Diary Blog, 18 February 2024

Afternoon music

[painting by Volegov]

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Ha. In a nutshell…

Not as surprising as it seems at first blush. After all, the Gurkhas were and to some extent are mercenaries or contract soldiers in British service. They have now switched, in part, to another employer. “Simples”…

The British Army still employs about 4,000 Gurkhas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha.

Lammy— both brainless and without principle.

Rachel Reeves— careerist and member (and Vice-Chair) of Labour Friends of Israel…

Rachel, why won’t you talk to us?“…answer: because your name is not (((you-know-who)))…

Russia counted on the honesty of its partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said when asked why the special military operation did not start earlier.

We learned the true state of affairs only later, when the former chancellor of Germany and the former president of France said that they did not even intend to fulfill the Minsk agreements, Putin said in an interview with Russia on the 24th.

Speaking about the negotiations, he pointed out that the fighting in Ukraine would have stopped a year and a half ago had it not been for the West’s position, the Russian leader said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it is possible to start the undamaged branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in a week, but Germany shows no interest in that.

Can Nord Stream 2 (launch)? Can! Turn on the valve, say: We want (gas). He will get it tomorrow. It takes a week. But they don’t want to, said the Russian leader.

Sometimes, I think that the “dirty democratic politicians” (in Hitler’s phrase) of Germany are even more stupid than those of the UK, but that would scarcely be possible.

Russia must and will win in the Ukrainian war situation, at the very least to the extent of maintaining its present position (control of Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea regions, and some other —mainly coastal— areas). Indeed, there is every chance that Russia will be able to take over (or regain, if you like) control of the entirety of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper).

The shambolic, brutal, and corrupt Kiev regime headed by the Jew Zelensky is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, above all, soldiers.

Kiev. As the brutal reality of the war sets in on the #Ukranian people. The sadness and needless death imposed up on by Zionists and Anglo-Saxon elites on to the Ukrainian peoples. Ukrainian people and the world is slowly coming to the realisation; they have been taken for a ride.

A lunatic enjoying his “15 minutes of fame”.

There is a kind of ingrained, hypocritical sadism in “them”.

Putin: Ukraine regularly receives money for the transit of Russian gas.

So they say in Ukraine – aggressor, aggressor. But they regularly receive money for gas transit. They don’t smell ,” said President Vladimir Putin.

Putin said that a week is needed to launch the remaining Nord Stream line, but Germany does not want to.

Interesting. So Ukraine (Kiev regime) is still getting money from Russia on a regular basis as transit fees for passage of Russian gas to the EU?! Very convoluted.

I wonder where those millions of US dollars end up?

One of the worst aspects of the collapse of the Soviet Union 35 years ago (the formal termination was in 1991) has been the proliferation of that strange semi-Americanized Russian-language rock and rap music. Ghastly.

The Kiev regime has only two chances: one, to join NATO, and then be able to call upon NATO forces under the Treaty obligations. That is why NATO states will not allow Ukraine to join, because it would lead to a world war before very long.

The second Kiev regime opportunity to avoid defeat would be a revolution or palace revolution in Moscow, and the end of the Putin administration. That is not going to happen.

The Kiev regime should cede to Russia all of Eastern Ukraine, and should then agree to make Kiev and Odessa “open cities” or, failing that, condominia. The present members of the Kiev regime can then fall back on Lvov (or disappear to Israel or the USA).

Nancy Pelosi on Russia’s treachery: Russia has more people in the army than at the beginning, and they will replenish their human resources. They buy these people. They go around the villages, around the outskirts, and they pay them money so that people go to fight.” Instead of honestly grabbing people on the streets and catching them in transport and apartments, as is done in democratic free Ukraine.

Can you imagine a political system so screwed that someone such as Nancy Pelosi can attain to high office? As bad as that in the UK…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi#Financial_status.

Not sure that I agree with that, though fraud (especially one person using another’s postal vote) is obviously a problem, particularly in areas with high non-white and especially Muslim populations.

Sophie Corcoran is a pro-Conservative Party, maybe pro-Reform UK —I don’t know enough about her exact views— talking head. She does not seem to have considered that both Reform UK and (maybe even more) the Conservative Party are those mostly voted for via postal voting, which affects the mostly middle-aged and elderly people most likely to have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Ms. Corcoran’s proposed postal vote ban would therefore probably be the final straw breaking the back of the Conservative Party.

Rochdale is a rather different situation. I shall blog about the upcoming by-election (29 February 2024) before the day.

Something just came unbidden to my mind.

When I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a year (1996-1997) I had, in the course of my work, some limited contact with an Israeli businessman in his sixties or seventies who headed a large energy company with interests in Kazakhstan. The company was based in or near Tel Aviv, maybe at Herzliya.

The Israeli was (I was told by others) a former general in the Israeli Army. I accompanied him to a meeting with the UK Ambassador, at the British Embassy (which I visited fairly often). The Embassy was then in Furmanov Street, Almaty (the capital of Kazakhstan was then still at Almaty).

That Israeli (who from his accent originated in the UK, maybe in London) told me that (unlike the British Ambassador, whom he found insufficiently interested in his problems) every Israeli ambassador is given, by his superiors in Israel, a list of duties including how many contacts, including business contacts, to make in a year, how many business opportunities for Israelis to make or facilitate etc.

“They” are relentless.

Incidentally, I have no idea why he did not use the Israeli Ambassador for what he wanted. Maybe he did that as well. Probably.

Oddly, he did not have (at least with him) a UK passport as well as his Israeli one (I know that); so, despite the semi-“British” accent (and knowledge of London) he was probably not a dual-passport-holder. Not a hugely pleasant person, and (as I believe is common in Israel) rather abrasive in manner.

Well, that Israeli general and international business leech must have gone up the chimney many years ago now. This was in late 1996, over 27 years ago; so, in itself, it is just another of life’s memories.

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True, but the pro-“libertarian”, anti-State, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stances of Reform UK will limit its appeal, in all likelihood.

https://twitter.com/SprinterMedia1/status/1759209106924064985

79 years too late.

When I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s, my first wife (an American) and I drove a couple of times to a small shop outside the centre of Newark, which shop had been left, as if washed up on the shore, after the race riots of the late 1960s, mainly 1967, which had trashed the (then) better parts of the city. That shop sold maybe 50, maybe 100 types of ground coffee. Guatemalan, Zimbabwean, you name it.

At one time, pre-1967, Newark had been fairly decent, but after 1967, 100,000 white people left the city, leaving it a drug-ridden, crime-ridden remnant. Having said that, I sometimes walked in the main streets there, or caught the PATH Line to Manhattan, and I never had any trouble. Maybe I looked too poor or too angry to mug.

[intersection of Broad and Market streets, Newark, NJ, 2005]

My first wife’s office was by the Federal building in central Newark, though we lived at least half an hour’s drive south, in Middlesex County, and close to the Monmouth County line.

Actually, even the “Federal” enclave in Newark was not completely safe. Two FBI agents were held up and robbed at gunpoint in the same supposedly guarded car park that my wife and her small group of colleagues used. Strange; I believe that the FBI are supposed to be armed at all times when in public. Maybe they were caught napping. After the mugging, the local police had a patrol car parked by that car park every late afternoon and evening.

Cities can of course fall into desolation via social factors alone, without war. Drugs, poverty, cultural decadence, breakdown of social trust, breakdown of social order generally. It worries me what I see in the UK whenever I have to go to heavily-urban areas (thankfully now not often). What will Britain be like by, say, 2030, or 2040? God knows.

The flight of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Avdiivka threatens to turn into a serious problem, since the city is of strategic importance, retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said on CNN.

Due to the transfer of the city to Russian control, it will be much more difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to organize attempts at a counter-offensive on Donbass – not to mention the fact that the Russian Armed Forces may move further west after Avdievka.

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[Central Kiev, 1943]