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Diary Blog, 26 September 2023

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12559507/Black-Lives-Matter-organiser-protest-Edward-Colston-Bristol-admits-fraud.html

How is this fraud substantively different from those carried out by the woman who calls herself “Jack Monroe”?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12557713/Our-silent-thoughts-nobodys-business-Catholic-woman-twice-arrested-silently-praying-near-abortion-clinic-says-fears-police-ideologically-driven-vows-carry-doing-weekly-basis.html.

The British police have become far too fond of behaving like a “poundland KGB”, or “poundland Stasi”, playing at “counter-terrorism” etc instead of preventing or solving real crime.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12560879/British-crocodile-expert-Adam-Britton-51-pleads-guilty-raping-puppies-torturing-dogs-Australian-animal-shelter-luring-pet-owners-Gumtree.html.

A British crocodile expert has pleaded guilty to raping puppies and torturing more than 40 dogs – including his own pets Ursa and Bolt – at his Australian animal shelter after luring pet owners to give him custody of their beloved canines.

[Daily Mail]

Shoot the bastard or, if you cannot do that, at least send him to a concentration camp.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12561113/european-migrant-row-giorgia-meloni-slams-germany.html

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she was ‘astonished’ to learn of a German government initiative to finance migrant rescue charity groups operating in the Mediterranean in a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz.”

[Daily Mail]

German“? “Migrant rescue charities“? Join the dots. This is all part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan conspiracy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12557947/Risks-long-Covid-greatly-exaggerated.html

Scamdemic. Panicdemic. The Daily Mail readers’ comments are interesting. The public has awoken, it seems, even if 2-3 years too late.

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The video is from Ukraine, judging by the numbers – from a part of the Zaporozhye region, which is controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A group in camouflage set up a car setup – one falls under the car, his accomplices begin to give the driver nightmares. What they want is not clear: most likely they will bring money to the TCC to send to the front.”

This is obviously the kind of “scam” or shakedown not uncommon in New York. I once saw it unfold right in front of me on 8th Avenue in Manhattan, but that one failed. In 1990. The van driver targeted robustly told the ragged-looking scammer to get lost, so he did not succeed in getting the “get lost money” (probably $20 or $50) he sought.

In the above case, though, we see soldiers doing it. Ukraine is a failed state.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/johnny-mercer-received-8000-in-taxpayers-cash-after-being-sacked-by-liz-truss

As previously blogged, I was once willing to think that Johnny Mercer would be a cut above the usual run of what Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians“, as an ex-officer who appeared to be principled, but now I see him as as bad as any of them— an ignorant and useless little moneygrubber.

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Well put by Griffin.

My own view is based on the need for humanity to go further, to evolve higher.

I see the need now for a foundation to be laid which will, at a future time, be the basis for a quantum leap in evolution, a leap in the evolution of consciousness.

Such a foundation at present must rely on a corpus of white European humanity. White European humanity, however, is not the end-result but a starting-point. The “end-result” (in fact, not the end but merely a higher stage) is a new form of humanity, far higher than any of the race-forms and cultural forms of the present-day. When such a “super-race” comes into existence, it will be far in advance of all presently-existing racial types.

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Well, Goodness Gracious Me!“…

More seriously, Sharma obviously has decided that he has no great political future.

Reading West has returned Sharma in four elections now (2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019), and always with a vote-share above 40%: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s,

However, boundary changes may (I do not know) make the seat more marginal under its new name of Reading West and Mid-Berkshire. In any event, Sharma has obviously decided that the opinion polls look dire for his party, and that therefore he would probably end up as a backbench Opposition MP even if re-elected in 2024. He will probably return to the world of commerce.

Sharma attended the same school as me [https://rbcs.org.uk/] but about a decade later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alok_Sharma.

So the rats continue to scuttle from the sinking Con ship, it seems.

The smart money is now betting that the Kiev regime will not only not “defeat” Russia in the sense of actually invading Russia proper, but will not even be able to retake Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk regions. That being so, US senators must be wondering how to reduce the biull for a seemingly endless war of attrition.

Dream on…

Imagine how much better Africa would be, in every way, under the direct control of Europeans.

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Diary Blog, 10 June 2023

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Battles past

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10, whereas I managed 8/10. I did not know the answer to question 2, and I could not think of the answer to question 3 even though I “really” knew it.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12178353/Migrant-killer-21-suing-Home-Office-ruining-social-life.html

Look at the comments. The British people are getting angry that Britain has become the world’s dustbin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12179613/Nadine-Dorries-resigns-hours-Boris-Johnson-force-election.html

If Nadine Dorries at least is not getting a peerage, that’s one slight mercy.

Still, other rubbish did get through. See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/dame-priti-and-sir-party-marty-the-aides-and-allies-in-boris-johnsons-honours-list.

The Jew Dan Rosenfield [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rosenfield] is to be elevated to the Lords, as is West Indian charity embezzler and failed London Mayoralty (etc) candidate, Shaun Bailey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Bailey_(London_politician)#Career_before_politics].

Some woman called Charlotte Owen, apparently once “assistant” to Boris Johnson, is to be likewise elevated, at the early age of 29. Does that reward merit, or supine mediocrity (or worse)? I wonder.

I notice that Ben Houchen, once seen as a potential political star, has likewise been elevated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Houchen. A consolation prize, I suppose, for losing out on a Parliamentary seat now that the fortunes of the Conservative Party are diving in the opinion polls. The same would have been true of Alok Sharma and, possibly, Nadine Dorries, had their peerages not been blocked. Sharma and Houchen would certainly not have been re-elected or elected, respectively.

Cartoon of the day?

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[Tiger tanks on the Ostfront, 1943]

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One cannot expect loyalty or even basic decency from most people. When I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) in 2016, some 8 years after I had ceased Bar practice, and by reason of a malicious and contrived complaint by a pack of Jews, not one member of the Bar spoke up either to support me or to defend the principles of free speech and freedom of expression. The days of the free and fearless independent Bar of England have long gone. All that remains is a mass of craven careerists, fearful that “the authorities” (suborned by the Jew/Israel lobby) will look unfavourably upon them, and/or that Jewish solicitors will blackball them in terms of giving them work.

Good to see that the appeal fund for Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) continues to grow, albeit slowly.

This war is testing the artefacts of 21stC warfare, and reshaping what warfare is. The use of drones is only one example.

The 1953 Coronation still had something somehow sacred about it, even if perhaps not 100% genuine. Compare that to the Coronation of the new Charles III. He looked uncertain, like someone —to use the current phrase— “cosplaying” the role; an actor in a poor production, an actor slightly miscast.

No clear alternative strategy“? That has been the leitmotif of “Conservative” governments for at least 8 years now, arguably longer, so why not of “Boris”-idiot and his cohorts not in government?

Diary Blog, 9 June 2023, including news about Britain’s often-useless police

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[Cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral]

Battles past

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…but don’t make the all-too-common error of criticizing Jews or Jewish behaviour in Israel and the Middle East generally, but then not criticizing the behaviour of Jews in the UK, USA, France etc…

…or going along with the Jew-Zionist “holocaust” farrago…

Shaped explosives, designed to destroy a particular apartment while leaving the rest of the structure intact.

Jesus H. Christ! The British people will before the end of 2024 have the possibility of, in effect, voting in as Prime Minister either Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak or Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer. Is that a real choice?

Meanwhile, that disgusting creature Stanley Johnson, brainless “ho” Nadine Dorries, and another little Indian, Alok Sharma, are all going to be made members of the House of Lords. What a farce!

Incidentally, Sharma attended the same school as me [Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning, Berkshire], but about 10 years or so after me, so I never knew him. In fact, there were no Indians or other non-whites there at that time, except for two half-Indian brothers, one slightly older than me and one younger. I remember them partly because they lived in the same neighbourhood as me. Their father was a polite and tall Indian, who (if memory serves) worked as a tax inspector or accountant or something similar. As to the mother, I remember a smallish, fat English lady wearing a fur coat, and who pronounced Miami, where they had been on holiday (which was rather unusual in or about 1970) as “Meearmee“.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12176895/Britains-police-need-basics-says-Chief-Inspector-Constabulary-Andy-Cooke.html

Britain’s police were today warned to get back to basics after a damning report found that public confidence in the service is ‘hanging by a thread’ due to their failures to tackle crime.

His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke urged officers to stay out of political matters and stop intervening in Twitter spats, and instead focus on deterring and solving crime and disorder.

In his bombshell report published today, Mr Cooke warned public trust in policing was ‘hanging by a thread’ following a series of scandals and officers not tackling the daily neighbourhood crime most people want them to focus on.

Mr Cooke’s recommendations include: 

  • A ‘back to basics’ approach to ensure the public feel they are receiving a high ‘level of service; 
  • A return to ‘discipline’ including ‘immaculately polished boots’ and ‘custodian helmets’ as the public need to see professionalism to have confidence in officers; 
  • The consistent targeting of local criminals to ensure they are unable to ‘act with impunity’; 
  • Avoiding being ‘dragged into political debates’ and distracted by pursuing ‘non-crime hate incidents’; 
  • Preserving the right to free speech rather than seeking to ‘champion social change or take sides’.

[Daily Mail].

Much of the problem resides with the undue influence currently exercised by the Jew-Zionist element (eg the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and the “Community Security Trust”), using the police and Crown Prosecution Service as a battering ram against dissidents and independent voices such as me. Backstairs slimy slithering, and their constant wasting of police time..

At the same time, many of the police seem all too pleased to not have to bother with real crime, preferring to act as a poundland KGB on behalf of the Jew-Zionist lobby.

Another aspect noted is the actual look of the police. Too many with tattoos, beards etc. Useless creatures.

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I have blogged repeatedly about how Russia, with its huge territories, varied climatic zones, and its large and (overall) reasonably well-educated population, is capable of autarky, should push come to shove.

In War – Resolution , In Defeat – Defiance , In Victory – Magnanimity , In Peace – Goodwill” [Churchill].

Nadine Dorries, that ignorant and brainless “ho”, will now be another useless member of the House of Lords, with its £325 daily payout just for turning up for as little as 15-20 minutes, other expenses payments etc, not to mention its subsidized bars and restaurants, and its opportunities for networking and paid influence-peddling.

The sheer ineptitude of those who, being —or posing as— Cabinet ministers are now at or near the top of our society is an indication of why so many aspects of that society do not work properly.

Ah…more “enriching” “diversity”…

Look at it. Will it ever be of the slightest use to our society? No. Get rid of it. 5.5 year sentence, so out in about 2.5. Only twice the time Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) got simply for being rude about Jews in internet podcasts.

Remember to support “the men behind the wire”…

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Note the multiracial aspect.

Good grief. I am actually in agreement with something said by Anna Soubry, the former MP for Plymouth and Angostura (wasn’t it?).

Is he wrong? Think “Black Lives Matter”, “Covid” panicdemic, the facemask nonsense, the migration invasion, “austerity” 2008-2023 in the UK etc, “Ukraine”, not to mention the contrived “holocaust” farrago.

If every single pro-Trump partisan and/or zealot for firearms were to converge on Washington DC with arms and ammo, it would be game over, but of course that will not happen. Not yet, anyway.

How long before Kiev is attacked by thousands of drones cruising overhead at the same time?

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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, am Berghof]

Diary Blog, 12 January 2022

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On this day a year ago

Boris-idiot

Looks as though the Ides of March have come early this year…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10390811/From-lockdown-parties-No10-misleading-Queen-cocaine-confusion-Boriss-worst-scandals.html

Mr Johnson’s public and private life have been littered with lies, which saw him sacked as a journalist, fired by Tory leader Michael Howard over an affair and eventually thrown out by his wife Marina, who believed he was having an illicit relationship with Carrie Symonds.

His former boss at the paper, Max Hastings, wrote in the Daily Mail in 2012: ‘If the day ever comes that Boris Johnson becomes tenant of Downing Street, I shall be among those packing my bags for a new life in Buenos Aires or suchlike, because it means that Britain has abandoned its last pretensions to be a serious country.’” [Daily Mail].

I have been infuriated for 20 years at the easy ride given to “Boris” Johnson by the mass media. Of course, it was no accident. The Jewish lobby was his mainstay, and Johnson is of course himself part-Jew.

Johnson has also been favoured because, despite the am-dram “English upper class” camouflage, ingrained by his time at Eton and then Oxford, Johnson is actually not only part-Jew but part-Levantine, born in New York City, brought up in New York, Connecticut and Washington D.C., as well as in Belgium. In other words, he has no real “blood and bone” loyalty to England or Britain. He is a “rootless cosmopolitan” in every way. A complete fake.

The international cabals have favoured Johnson for that reason, and because he is very easily bought, suborned, and used.

Looks like his own party members in the Commons realize that their own survival depends on, not so much getting rid of “Boris” but on installing a replacement who is at least semi-competent, before the voters chuck out 100+ Conservative Party MPs.

I expect that Johnson will be out before Summer.

Max Hastings is right, though; I mean not only about Johnson but about Britain. It is now not a serious country. Blacks and browns invade in rubber boats across the Channel, not only unchecked by Border Force, Royal Navy and others, but actually provided with a free shuttle service! The once-fine RNLI, now taken over by traitors, act as accomplices in that, as do a horde of virtue-signalling “refugees welcome” dimwits.

Britain rattles its all but blunt sabre at Russia and China, something which is actually embarrassing when one looks at the disparity in power.

British pensioners, once cheated by the Jew fraud who called himself “Robert Maxwell”, are now royally ripped off by others (mostly though not always Jewish), such as the Jew Green and his family. Who stands up for those poor British people? The “British” political parties? Ha, no! Riddled with “Friends of Israel” MPs such as Johnson, all of his Cabinet, and —arguably even more shameful— “Keir” Starmer and his Shadow Cabinet, Labour Friends of Israel members all. Starmer himself has a Jewish wife (a lawyer, at that), and children being brought up as if fully-Jewish.

Had I any money, I would pay a handsome reward to the first person capturing a photograph of Starmer wearing one of those little skullcaps. What is that I hear? Starmer would never do that? Oh, would he not?… Blair did…

[“fervent” Labour Friends of Israel member, Tony Blair, when he was an both an MP and the leader of the Labour Party]

The System will vomit out Johnson because his total inability to be a Prime Minister of this country is beginning to undermine whatever residual respect, or at least compliance to the System still exists in the public psychology.

Allesia Augello

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/11/catholic-church-condemns-far-right-funeral-coffin-draped-nazi/

A larger image shows mourners lining the street as the casket enters the church

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The USA is so divided that the “winner takes all” electoral system becomes meaningless. The demographic change in the USA over time has meant that what was at one time an almost entirely white (European-race) population (at one time about 90%) has become one where only about half are descended from Europeans (some say less than half). That is not the only division, of course; income, capital, age, and sex are other (but not the only other) aspects.

The principle of the NHS was/is good: free at point of use. However, its maladministration, particularly in the hospitals, has become so bad over many years that one could now almost call the NHS a hit-or-miss health service. That has been made even more evident by the “panicdemic” and the prioritization of the ridiculous mass “vaccination” programme.

Few would want the UK to go to a US-style health system, but the idea that the systems elsewhere, particularly in Western and Central Europe, are not worth even looking at, is just completely wrongheaded.

The UK was one of the countries which led the way in public health provision in the 20th Century, with the establishment of the NHS. Perhaps the UK can now devise a 21st Century public health system that works better for its patients and their families, rather than (often) seeming to be run mainly for the benefit of those who work in it.

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Victory and triumph to the Son of God
Now entring his great duel, not of arms,
But to vanquish by wisdom hellish wiles.

[Milton, Paradise Regain’d]

“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just

[ancient Chinese proverb]

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A question often in my own mind. Part of the answer must be the (((influence))) of a certain infiltrative element…

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Come to that, we presently have a Government, and Cabinet where many, perhaps most, and certainly at the top, are not really British:

Boris Johnson— part-Jew, part-Levantine; Grant Shapps— Jew; Dominic Raab— half-Jew; Brandon Lewis [uncertain];

Could an English person become an MP, let alone minister, in Israel, Turkey, or Greece? I think not.

Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, Suella Braverman— Indian origin.

Could an English person go to India and become an MP or minister? I think not.

Nadhim Zahawi— Kurdish.

Could an English person become an MP or minister in Kurdistan, Turkey, or Iraq? I think not.

Kwasi Kwarteng— Ghanaian origin.

Could an English person go to Ghana and become MP, or minister, let alone describe Ghanaian workers as “lazy” and useless? (and look who’s talking!).

We need to take back our country.

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1481212668769935361?s=20

As mentioned previously, Sumption was not Lord Chief Justice, but he was a Law Lord.

https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1481390505762205701?s=20

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Diary Blog, 1 August 2021

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The readers’comments show what the British people think of this abuse of our good nature…

How can we ever build an advanced country when it is full of the racially and culturally inferior, and backward? That is the key question, and the question is purely rhetorical…

Mediocre minds often, metaphorically or actually, throw good money after bad.

Lockdown /shutdown nonsense

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9847625/KIRSTIE-ALLSOPP-New-divide-want-stay-lockdown-rest-us.html

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Amusing clip from Gilad Atzmon, though nearly four years old now. As for Rachel Eden, who tried so hard to get into the good books of the Zionists, she never did manage to get elected as MP, though she was selected as candidate for Reading West in 2019; she did worse than had Labour’s 2017 candidate, despite the fact that the Conservative (Alok Sharma) got almost the exact same percentage of the vote in both 2017 and 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

Rachel Eden, an accountant with a PPE degree from Oxford (2003), also stood as Labour Party candidate in 2017, in the safe Conservative Party seat of Wantage, where she came in second, with 26.9% of the vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wantage_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

Below, pro-Israel puppet, expenses blodger, former Common Purpose organizer (etc) Chris Bryant MP gets put straight (so to speak):

So many MPs are just self-inflating idiots. Here is Claudia Webbe MP, pretending that she knows something/anything about foreign affairs:

The System puts up ridiculous creatures of that sort as “democratic representatives”! She would have difficulty serving Cornish pasties from a roadside stall.

Notes about Bryant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant#Expenses_claims_scandal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant.

Mary Beard was the academic who claimed, a number of years ago, that the Romans may have had black centurions in Britain (DNA and historical studies render that very unlikely): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist).

Well, because people (even now) tend to believe what governmental or supposedly credible “scientific” figures tell them (even if those same people were stating the reverse only a year previously)…and also because people are too easily stampeded by fear propaganda: https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2021/05/why-are-people-still-wearing-masks-especially-outside-.html.

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Part of the soundtrack of my life c.1972. I rather like TV themes. Another early favourite, but from 1965/1966 (when I was 9) was that of Riviera Police:

A better recording:

I am very sorry to hear about the devastating fires in Turkey. I visited Turkey and Northern Cyprus a few times in the 1990s, and also in 2001 (when I drove to Turkey from the UK and spent 3 months living in Fethiye, on the Mediterranean coast). I hope that this terrible series of fires will be extinguished soon.

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Call No Man Happy Until He is Dead

It is generally believed that the saying “call no man happy until he is dead”, attributed to Herodotus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus], was originally uttered by Solon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon]. Perhaps. Many believe that the saying dates back only to the 19th Century. At any rate, the saying has stood the test of time. The basis of it certainly has.

How often have we seen the spectacle of the “famous”, the wealthy, the “happy” or those we perhaps imagine should be happy, brought crashing down, often to obscurity as well as ruination? It was ruminating on this that caused me to write today. Some may think (assuming much, as many do) that I am thinking of myself, once a barrister, once living in (at various times) a Little Venice house, a penthouse apartment, a Caribbean villa, a large English country house with 26 bedrooms, but now cast down and living in extremely reduced circumstances, on a limited income etc and having to give thought to what things cost and so on.

I am sorry to disappoint those who hate me (usually without reason). My life has been one of considerable ups and downs, particularly financial. Every one of my luxurious habitations was supported, as by bookends, by relative and occasionally absolute poverty at each end. Such irregularity fosters a philosophical and perhaps stoical and/or fatalistic attitude missing in those who, having always known wealth and entitlement (or who achieved the same from humble origins) find their lives as well as livelihoods swept away by Fate. These are those who jump off buildings, massacre their families before shooting themselves etc. People with my attitude just think “tomorrow is another day”.

If even my thoughts and feelings are not truly me, in the Egoic sense, if my body is not me, then how little is my bank balance me, how little are my cars, former dwellings and (now long gone!) Rolex watches “me”? Scarcely at all; not at all.

A few examples:

  • Terry Ramsden, now completely obscure (and, presumably, broke, or maybe not: you never know with his type) but “famous” in the 1980s, and so wealthy that he could bet £500,000 each-way on his own horse at the 1986 Grand National (it came fourth; Ramsden profited by £1 million).

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/apr/03/horseracing.comment3

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

  • Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, born into a wealthy family and with every possible material advantage. Judging purely from what I saw occasionally on TV, I thought her useless and brainless, but others thought quite highly of her, I am told. It was reported that she died alone, having not seen anyone for days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Palmer-Tomkinson

  • Various national leaders: Gaddafi (killed by a mob of Libyans, who first shoved a pipe up his rear end); the Shah of Iran (deposed and everything he had worked for destroyed; died in exile); Adolf Hitler (shot himself when the forces of East and West, that is to say Sovietism and finance-capitalism, burst into his capital, having battered down by air and land everything he had built); Stalin (died surrounded by sycophantic ghouls who feared and hated him; a ghastly death, dragged down by unseen forces).

I think too of others, people I have known personally. For example, in my own class and/or year at school, there have been a variety of outcomes (to date: that is one race still not at the finishing post).

One boy became a police officer, at least one an Army officer; a third became a helicopter pilot, later Captain of the Queen’s Helicopter Flight and, later still, the personal pilot of King Hussein of Jordan (he must always have had the makings of a royal servant, having had at school the nickname “Crawler”…). I suppose several boys became office bods, accountants etc. One unacademic but amusing fellow became a banker in Switzerland, of all things; another one, actually part-(francophone)-Swiss, became a structural engineer with his own firm in Paris. Another became, eventually, a chartered surveyor who has written a series of property-conversion manuals. Several no doubt inherited their families’ businesses. A number became BBC producers etc. Some did time in prison (all for GBH, oddly: was it something in the water?) or so I heard. In fact, that last sentence is wrong, because I did read in the Daily Telegraph about one boy (an Organ Scholar, if I recall aright, who used to play the massive school organ), who became a music teacher and (hence the interest of the Press) when in his thirties was convicted of sexually assaulting one of his piano pupils.

Life is always surprising. Who knows where my next port of call will be?

Afterword [19 July 2018]

In fairness to the school I last attended,

https://www.rbcs.org.uk/

it has, since the 1970s, become rather more organized in sending its charges on their way. In fact, reading “Old Blues’ News” [https://www.rbcs.org.uk/old-blues-association/] and the other newsletters they put out about activities and careers etc is alone enough to make one fatigued, so active and driven seem the sharp-elbowed middle classes reported upon. The ranks of former pupils are now replete with quite well-known and even famous people to add to the commanders of ships and heads of economic enterprises: actors and actresses, TV people, film people, and the odd “celebrity” who is “famous” enough to be known even to me (I suppose that those “Old Blues” would include TV presenter Jeremy Kyle and MP Alok Sharma).