Tag Archives: Andy Burnham

Diary Blog, 2 June 2026

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[William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr]

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I was too kind. I had assumed that the “highly-skilled migrant” route into the UK would be used or misused to bring in (as I put it on the blog years ago) “Indians who can work a computer“. Looks like I really was either too kind or too optimistic.

Feliks Dzerzhinsky would know how to deal with this situation. Himmler, too.

At this point, looking 5-10-20-50 years down the line, it may be that we have to accept that something very unpleasant not only may take place but will probably have to take place, after which those of us that are left can start again from whatever base level we are on.

It is not possible at present to do what I should favour.

The woodentops (police) of the UK are —many and perhaps most of them— now brainwashed on “anti-racism” and other “courses”, including “antisemitism” ones run by the malicious Jew-Zionist pressure group (posing as a fake “charity”), “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (aka “CAA”), which is led by proven Jewish liars and perjurers .

Police personnel wanting promotion cannot now expect any, certainly not above sergeant, unless they have been on such courses and ticked all the “right” boxes.

Even their lies are mediocre and uncreative.

[“Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

People tell me: “Why don’t you work together with the AfD? They agree with you on many issues. You would have a majority in the German Bundestag.”

I will not do that. And there is a very simple reason. This party wants to take Germany back to the time before Adenauer.

With Adenauer, we left the age of nationalism behind us in Germany. And I will not lead the Federal Republic of Germany—and I will not lead my party—back behind the era of Adenauer.“]

Merz is a stupid little man, completely in the pocket of Israel and the Jewish lobby. He is (as Merkel was) presiding over the continuing decline of Germany, which is invaded by blacks and browns, and being degraded in every way. West Germany, pre-1990, was so much better than Germany now; even the DDR (East Germany) was at least German, if nothing else.

It is an open question now whether German society falls to pieces from inside, or will be devastated again from without, and as a consequence of its continuing support for the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev.

[Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin 1945]

Interesting. It is certainly true that, if a party is not given as a valid option to choose, only a few will, of their own volition, mention it.

That poll would seem to indicate that Labour may not revive even if Burnham does replace Starmer-stein. Not so surprising, really. After all, Burnham offers nothing new, just a mish-mash of Blairism, Gordon Brown-ism, general “Northern”-ness, and a vague semi-socialist or social-democratic feeling not amounting to policy.

Of course, the opinion poll will not be accurate if Restore Britain is really running at a higher level of support and if it challenges Reform UK in enough constituencies at the next GE.

Leaving that aside, and taking that poll as offered, the result at a GE would be a Commons with about 338 Reform MPs (reasonable working majority), 67 Greens (extremely weak official Opposition), 65 LibDems, 63 Cons, 45 SNP, and 44 Lab [etc]. That means that no less than 352 present Labour MPs would lose their seats, as would 53 Con Party MPs.

Incidentally, on those figures, both Starmer and any Labour MP at Makerfield would also lose their seats. Burnham might, therefore, not last long even if he does win that by-election.

Hardy-ha-ha. Jew trolls have operated constantly on Twitter/X for years, without the police taking any interest, but if anyone on Twitter/X replies to their trolling, those replying are often bothered by the police, who are triggered by faked-up complaints by those Jews, acting secretly in concert. Some people have even been prosecuted as a result.

Stephen Silverman, the self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”, made a completely untrue allegation of “racial harassment” against me in 2021 (I had never met or even seen the bastard and did not know his address, or any of his contact details).

After much correspondence with the police woodentop dealing with the matter (a uniformed —as well as uninformed— constable), and a ludicrous interview at my local police station, I was never charged (unsurprisingly, as there was not the slightest evidence against me), yet look at the nonsense I had to endure by reason of Silverman’s lies…

I should really have made complaint myself to the police about Silverman’s plain attempt to pervert the course of justice, not to mention his deliberate and malicious wastage of police time, but I never did, and the woodentops were either too much in the Jew-Zionist pocket or too lazy and incompetent to do anything pro-actively about his crimes.

Oh, the police force involved (Gloucestershire Police, where Silverman now lives apparently were also involved) was Hampshire Constabulary, the same force now under fire re. the Henry Nowak murder:

Of course the Jews in question are a tiny minority, mostly if not all (I think all) supporters of that small, malicious and perjuring but (((well-funded))) “lawfare” cabal, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

Basu (half-Indian, half-Welsh) resigned from the police early. “NBG”?

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

Enemy of the (real) British people, in my view. If I am wrong, I am wrong, but that is my view. I have seen his excusing of black and pro-black mob violence and, in any case, why should the death of a black criminal in the USA cause riots —or indeed any concern at all— here? I refer of course, to that George Floyd individual. A contrived System propaganda ploy, of course.

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Vote for Enoch Powell,’ came the counsel from a stage in the West Midlands. ‘Stop Britain from becoming a black colony … Get the foreigners out … I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man.’

Not some ranting nutcase from the National Front, but an inebriated Eric Clapton (now CBE), formerly of Cream and latterly of Hello! magazine. Yes, Clapton – who played the blues, but whose outburst in August 1976 came hot on the heels of another from David Bowie, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to be ‘the first rock star’ and urging that what Britain needed was a ‘right-wing dictatorship’.”

[Guardian, 2007: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/04/race.otherparties]

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I do not understand how that would even be possible, bearing in mind that Madame Macron had three children with her first husband.

For more about the Macrons, see this 2019 blog post:

That would be great. I do not care who wins; I just want fake Labour to lose.

Remember that “Conservative” idiot-MP, Scott-something, who wanted to have GPS tracking inserted into every knife in the UK? I did a Deadhead MPs piece about him years ago; but he lost his seat at GE 2024 and has either reverted to being a postman (a far more useful occupation) or is now unemployed Ah, here it is:

Bravo!

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Diary Blog, 30 May 2026

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week a clear victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored 3/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 8, 9, and 10.

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Utter barbarity.

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How is this “news”? It has been obvious to all for weeks.

When I had a Twitter account (the Jew-Zionist lobby had me expelled in 2018 after a long and conspiratorial campaign), I found that practically all the “hate” directed against me came from Israel-fanatic Jews, together with a few non-Jew but vicious and/or mentally unstable types such as fake “doctor” Louise Raw, a loonie from Manchester calling himself “DaveAFAF” and a half-crazy part-Jew psychiatrist called Tim G. Stevens of Essex (Epping Forest area), most of whom were also pro the Jewish lobby and Israel.

One especially egregious one was minor Jewish academic Ben Gidley, who was obsessed with me, my views, my Twitter account etc, and set up a number of pseudonymous Twitter accounts (“BobfromBrockley”, “IntheSoupAgain”, “AntiNazisUnited” etc) in order to troll night and day. Eventually, I worked out his real identity, as did, not long afterward, others such as the journalist Peter Hitchens. Gidley had to shut up and go away after that.

Most, in fact almost all, of the vitriol came from Jews, several of which have now, however, died.

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One has to ask why Jews have been expelled, historically, from over 100 states and territories.

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Numberplate Enthusiasts’ Club

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[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Upsetting to think that some (I hope only a small minority of backward) Americans hurt these lovely creatures.

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

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

I have commented previously on the fact that in the UK we are now moving rapidly to a non-civic society, i.e. one where people vote (whether in elections or when on juries) according to racial and cultural loyalties. Call it the “O.J. Simpson syndrome” if you like.

I fully support the jury system, in principle, and was myself a practising barrister for a number of years (1992-2008, based in London and later Exeter when not overseas), but the jury system falls to pieces in a “multicultural” society. The same is true of voting “democracy”, and a police force that can be relied upon.

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At various times in history, states have promulgated “sumptuary laws”, defined by Wikipedia as follows:

Sumptuary laws (from Latin sūmptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that regulate consumption.[1] Black’s Law Dictionary defines them as “Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures for apparel, food, furniture, or shoes, etc.”[2] Historically, they were intended to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures, often depending on a person’s social rank.

Societies have employed sumptuary laws for various purposes. They were used to try to regulate the balance of trade by limiting the market for expensive imported goods. They made it easy to identify social status and privilege, and as such could be used for social discrimination and to stabilize social hierarchies.[3][1] They could also be used to prevent, or at least reduce, opportunities for political bribery and corruption.

The laws often prevented commoners from imitating the appearance of aristocrats and could be used to stigmatize disfavoured groups. In cities of the Late Middle Ages, sumptuary laws were instituted as a way for the nobility to limit the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie. Bourgeois subjects as wealthy as or wealthier than the nobility could undermine the latter’s presentation as powerful and legitimate rulers. This could call into question their ability to control and defend their fiefs, thus inspiring traitors and rebels. Such laws continued to be used for these purposes well into the 17th century.”

[Wikipedia]

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

I think there are cogent arguments for similar laws in the UK at present. Let’s stamp on the nouveaux riches types (indeed, all of the excessively-rich) and those aping them and their lifestyles, including “influencers” and “celebrities” of one kind and another.

Society needs calm and reason, and a less-materialistic ethos.

Plain living and high thinking.

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[“BREAKING: its been revealed that Andy Burnham snapped up an ex council flat in Kennington for just £215,000 in 2005 while serving as an MP.

He then happily billed taxpayers for the mortgage interest payments because the rules let him get away with it.

That same flat is now worth 480000 to 500000 pounds and he rents it out while insisting the income barely covers his costs and he makes no profit.

Yet this is the same man demanding rent freezes council housing takeovers and lower rents for ordinary people.

Pure hypocrisy from a classic Westminster grifter feathering his own nest on the back of the system he loves to lecture everyone else about.“]

They destroy everything.

Monkeyworld UK. It really is time to recognize that most of them not only cannot create anything worthwhile, and certainly not a better society, but cannot even live in our existing society (even as parasites). Pests. Unwanted pests.

I had heard previously of how cruel some of the Israeli Jews are to donkeys. Arabs in Egypt can also be callous towards donkeys, if not actively cruel and, as early as 1914, British people set up charities such as the Brooke Hospital to care for the donkeys of the Middle East; the Arabs either could not or would not. However, there is that perversity in the Jews which we see in other areas, such as their cowardly sadism towards children and other defenceless people in Gaza and elsewhere.

Donkeys are, after cats, my favourite animals. Hard to understand why some lower types would harm them, but that is something one learns with life experience(s)— people are not created equal, in any sense.

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That was first posted by me about 10 years ago, on Twitter (the Jewish lobby goblins had me expelled from Twitter in 2018).

10,000, too! There are “only” 18,000 active barristers in England and Wales anyway, and that is about 3x the number of 50 years ago. “More will mean worse“, as they say…

Incidentally, re that tendentious “Readers added context” note, it all depends on what is “officially” called a “hate crime”…

[“Living in the UK is now incredibly radicalising. This is what we have seen in the last two weeks alone: a gang of Afghans who entered the country illegally on small boats and lorries have been charged with 40 child sex offences: two Muslim men who visibly assaulted police officers have been let off from a further trial; a small boat migrant living in a taxpayer-funded hotel was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women outside nightclubs; an Islamist terrorist who plotted to blow up an army base is being released early; a white British boy was handcuffed by police and bled to death while saying “I can’t breathe” after the Sikh boy who murdered him claimed the white boy was “racist”; a Muslim man who called to “behead the Jews” was released on bail while white British people who tweeted their complaints about immigration have been jailed; a group of [“traveller” Irish tinker] boys who gang-r*ped and filmed two girls escaped jail and were given fines of £26; a new study found that for every ONE young British person who is hired in Britain TWENTY-SEVEN young migrants from outside Europe; Islamic prayers are now routinely used to open local councils; another 1,000 illegals arrived on small boats in one weekend; it was revealed the First Lady of Sierra Leone owns a council flat in London while 1.3 million people wait on the social housing list; new data revealed that last year alone 800,000 migrants arrived in Britain while 246,000 British people left, half of whom are aged 16-34 years old; the country’s birth-rate collapsed to a new low of 1.39 while politicians refuse to even talk about how to support British families; a grooming gang in Dewsbury was jailed for nearly 300 years combined after assaulting children as young as 12. Oh, and the entire political class had a nervous breakdown when the British people decided to peacefully protest over what is happening to their country on the streets of their capital city. As I say, radicalising.“]

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Diary Blog, 29 May 2026

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[Volegov, Terrace Cafe]

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Jew-Zionist tribalism. Everything in their culture, religion, upbringing is designed to produce a tribal supremacist outlook. Even the non-Jews in the US foreign policy field (etc) are contaminated by them.

What about the Jaguar car and the £140,000 motorhome? Quite noticeable outside their tasteless “executive” tract house, I should have thought.

Moneygrubbing dishonest lesbianka

Quite funny now to think that Nicola Sturgeon actually saw herself, for a while, not as a corrupt and not very competent provincial politician, but as some kind of world statesperson…

I remember that some old and impoverished Scottish couple won a vast amount, £161M, on the Euromillions lottery in 2011, and gave £1M of that to the SNP. Just as well that that was while Alex Salmond was still leader of the SNP, otherwise Sturgeon and her husband might have stolen it, and made off with it in the motorhome to somewhere without extradition to the UK.

Scottish “nationalism” is basically fake, like the Welsh (Plaid Cymru) equivalent. Pro-immigration, pro-Jewish lobby etc.

Interesting.

I have addressed these points on the blog previously. Many —perhaps most— immigrants are, overall, parasites, but the numbers are so vast now that the minority that work (whether legally or not) take jobs from the native population, and in large numbers.

Europe is dying. Britain is dying.

British people, I mean real British people, are not having the average ~2.4 children (some say ~2) per family required to sustain the population at the same level. The non-whites in the UK have higher levels of reproduction, and are being joined by waves of more blacks, browns etc, who will start to breed. Indeed, that has been happening for some time.

The UK population is still increasing in number, but fewer and fewer real British people are part of that population.

Migration invasion. Replacement. White Genocide.


[“Europe, like the UK, is being demographically transformed. Brand new data from Eurostat shows the sheer speed & scale at which Europe’s native population is essentially being replaced. Europe has now recorded more deaths than births among its native population in every single year since 2012. Europe’s fertility rate, like in the UK, has collapsed to 1.34, down from 1.46 as recently as 20 years ago. It is nowhere near the replacement rate of 2.1 — 1.10 in Spain, 1.14 in Poland, 1.18 in Italy, 1.4 Sweden. Even France, once a demographic success story, just recorded more deaths than births for the first time since World War Two. Meanwhile, since 2010 alone Europe added 24 million foreign-born residents. Roughly three quarters come from outside Europe. Between 2010 & 2024 alone, in just 14 years, the share of foreign-born people in Germany rocketed from 12.9 -> 21 per cent. In Austria, it is 22 per cent. In Ireland, it is 23 per cent. In Sweden, it is 21 per cent. In the UK, thanks to the ‘Boriswave’, it is now 20 per cent.”]

When Britain has a social-national dictatorship willing to put untermenschen up against walls, and get rid of them.

See also: https://x.com/PermaGoddess

Our animal friends.

Many many more people than heretofore are indeed getting very “sick of these maniacs“, and are thinking of how to free the world from them and from the consequences of their mania.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard.

For me, the Makerfield by-election is difficult. I do not explicitly “support” either Restore or Reform. I want Labour to lose, and that is more important than which (other) party wins. At present, the betting exchanges have Labour heavily odds-on to win, something not unlikely now that the broadly national vote is split, and now that the Greens have more or less checked out..

Zac Goldsmith, a part-Jew trustafarian who would probably not even have a basic-level job had he not inherited vast riches.

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

The so-called “traveller” menace will be one of the first problems to be solved by a real British (social-national) government. That problem can, in principle, be (finally) solved within a matter of a few weeks of a real government taking office.

The (((fix))) is in, plainly.

At last.

Never having liked Helen Mirren much as an actress (in the few roles in which I had seen her), I knew little about the woman (except that she is half-White Russian —both in the Tsarist sense and by her father’s origins near Smolensk), and was unaware that she had applauded, or rather excused, Jew ethnic cleansing in Israel/Palestine. It seems that what she actually said was that Jews throwing Arab Palestinians out of their homes in Jerusalem (Al Quds) was “wrong, but…”.

Seems that she had a Jew boyfriend when she was aged 21/22, in 1967, and that they both volunteered to work on a kibbutz for a while in that year, the year of the Six Day War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mirren#Israel

I was also, until today, unaware that Helen Mirren became a U.S. citizen about 9 years ago.

Overall, she is obviously pro-Israel, but I cannot agree with her being buttonholed in the street, at night, at age 80, when walking with her equally-aged husband (aged 81). In any case, she seems as airheaded as many famous actresses. Does it really matter what her political views are?

[“Remember this? Why do you ask?

As 18-year-old Henry Nowak lay bleeding to death after being stabbed by a Sikh invader, three female UK police officers stood over the scene, laughed while he was dying, doubted that he had even been stabbed, and took his phone to search it for “racism.”

Women should not be cops. Full stop. Some truths only sound harsh because this age has declared reality itself offensive.“]

Not sure I would go quite that far, but they should probably be restricted to about 10% of the strength of any force, and limited in both role and rank.

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The AI phenomenon is just that— phenomenal. I have used Google AI recently about people I have known, decades ago in some cases, and mostly not public figures, and have been amazed at the detail that has, within a second, emerged about them, some of which I could myself verify by memory.

I agree, but hope that Kemi Badenoch continues, so that the Con Party is further trashed and stamped upon.

That’s now, in 2026. By 2029, if Burnham replaces Starmer but fails to call a general election in 2026 or 2027, Burnham will be not far ahead of where Starmer-stein now is in the opinion polls.

Pity the Englishman was unable to deploy a suitable means of “neutralizing” the whole pack. He would not accept that behaviour in the UK from white men, so why accept it from a pack of untermenschen?

Is that a Pakistani, or an Afghan, incidentally?

Would it really matter if all of the invaders ceased to exist, or ceased to exist in this country? Would that, after a suitable period of sombre reflection, perhaps one generation, be regarded as having been a very harsh but necessary defence-survival event, perhaps the greatest in British history?

I am, in the conditions of censorship which now prevail in once-free Britain, unable to suggest a solution, but what will be, will be.

A modern reboot of the most decadent aspects of the Weimar Republic of the 1920s.

In any decent society, such decadence would not exist, and those —such as that woman— profiting from it, and also degrading society, and life itself, would be detained or eliminated, preferably the latter.

I distinguish between capital punishment and vitally necessary executive action.

…thus meaning that the remaining white British people in this country will be facing massive increases in local and national taxation, all to provide housing for hordes of racially and culturally inferior invaders who should not be in the UK at all.

Burnham already looking like a complete traitor no better than Starmer-stein.

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Diary Blog, 28 May 2026

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[The Wicker Man (1973)]

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The way England and all Britain, indeed all of the British Isles, and most of Europe now is, it seems to me that the only way forward is a replacement of the existing political/socio-political system by a limited-period social-national dictatorship. It would last for 7 years, after which an intelligently-limited form of “democracy”, based on the Threefold Social Order, would take its place.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.

As to the limited-term dictator, it should be someone with a clear vision into the future, and also someone who, being at least of late middle age, is as devoid of ordinary personal worldly ambition as possible. A “philosopher-king”, if you like, or a benevolent and —usually— clement “papal” figure.

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Britain, as it is, cannot now be governed effectively or properly by the existing Parliamentary system. The problems the UK faces are too complex and serious, and the population too “diverse” and disunited (and becoming ever-less united and cohesive).

Steve Laws

Steve Laws needs help: https://www.givesendgo.com/steve-laws-legal-fund

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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler at the Berghof]
[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[Midnight swearing-in ceremony of SS-men at the Feldherrnhalle, Munich]

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[BDM (Bund Deutscher Madel) girls ride through a German forest, 1930s]

Address this on the basis of reality. The rapists, quite young, are apparently all from the so-called “traveller” “community”, i.e. Irish tinkers. In many cases, predators and scavengers who pose, collectively, a major problem in the UK (and Ireland).

Those rapes and other crimes were planned, premeditated, and then carried out remorselessly.

As the law presently stands, those found guilty cannot simply be put up against a wall and shot, but it is clear even to those in the present pointless and anti-British government that the penalties handed down were too lenient.

The trial judge should probably be retired.

https://news.sky.com/video/uk-spy-chief-almost-500-000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine-war-13548526

Look at that clip showing the —ex-MI5— GCHQ Director.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Keast-Butler

Looks quite loonie to me. Look at the eyes.

She talks about “Russian aggression“, but it is the UK that is flying missions over the Black Sea and Baltic Sea in support of the Kiev regime, and it is the UK that has been funnelling arms, ammunition, and hard cash to Kiev for 4 years now.

Again, listening to her, and watching her, would you trust her or her judgment? I would not.

Apart from that, how typical that the UK’s intelligence and security orgs are still fighting a kind of new Cold War, when the real threat to our “national security” comes from the incipient collapse of society via the migration invasion and other demographic, social and political factors.

Grossman“…

Further comment would be superfluous.

So in order to fuel the Kiev regime and Israel, our senior citizens and the younger poor and/or disabled in the UK have to be further impoverished?

The msm scribblers and talking-heads in this country must one day pay for their subservience to the forces of evil.

[“Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle’s Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers’ rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.”]

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[“Watch as disgraced Former SNP First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon explains to school children, that chubby ‘hubby’ Peter Murrell does all the shopping, but even he is feeling the pinch of the ‘cost of living crisis’ caused by Westminster. Yes after embezzling £450,000 of unsuspecting members of the Scottish public, convicted fraudster and SNP CEO Murrell was being pinched rather than simply feeling it. The psychopathical lies oozing from this woman are quite disturbing. The Sturgeons must have found it so painful stealing others people’s hard earned cash for his Fortnum & Masons £3000 Imperial Hampers, £4000 Mont Blanc pens, £81,000 Jaguar and of course the icing on the cake, £140,000 motorhome.“]

Well, the embezzling Murrell will be sent to prison (in fact, he is already there, on remand awaiting sentence); it is now just a matter of how many years he gets.

As for ghastly Nicola Sturgeon, I am sure her lesbian girlfriend(s) will take away the sting (if any) of her husband’s enforced departure.

Incidentally, I wonder what SNP members, supporters or voters think of the fact that Nicola Sturgeon was, or pretends to have been, blissfully unaware of her husband’s embezzlements, despite the sudden appearance in the home of £2.6K Lalique condiment mills, Montblanc pens, expensive watches and Smythson stationery (they charge up to £300 for a notebook…).

Is a woman as (supposedly) innocently unaware as Nicola Sturgeon is said to have been (apparently even seeing the sudden appearance of a £125K-£140K motorhome outside her modest tract house as nothing requiring any enquiry) the right person to lead a country? Or to lead anything at all?

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We need to see a real British government, one willing and able to cleanse this country from top to bottom. I mean, by that, one willing and able to do whatever it takes, whatever it takes, to clear the decks.

Quelle surprise…

Of course, most black/brown invaders are parasites, but the numbers are so great that naturally a minority do work, often illegally, and usually at low-paid activity.

This country has too many rules and regulations where it does not matter but, at the same time, too few, or rather too little strict enforcement, where it does matter, as seen here.

Britain is not too far now from being uncontrolled, more or less lawless.

Oh, well…one less…

Every day, small villages, or what remains of them, taken by Russian forces, but where are the big victories? Kharkov. Odessa. Kiev.

There has to be a breakthrough.

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[Dresden 1945]

Diary Blog, 25 May 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Hyde]
[painting by Joyce Norwood]

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I do not “support” Reform UK (or Restore Britain) as such, but what matters now is that Labour loses at Makerfield, and that cannot happen if the anti-Labour vote is split in any substantial way. I fear that, as things are developing, that may happen, and that Jewish-lobby System puppet Andy Burnham will “blag” his way to an unmerited by-election victory.

14 words.

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I was just looking at a blog post from about 9 years ago. I still think the same.

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Yes, but what if the surrounding state is so hostile that it uses violence or the law (in the sense of fossilized state violence expressed as “lawfare”) against that white-northern-European community? What then?

Berg“? That must be an “antisemitic trope” (or the truth…).

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The NHS needs radical reform, just like much of UK society. Ring-fenced funding from taxation, but also a cull of the bureaucracy and the “woke”/”anti-racist” and other propaganda, and a clear hierarchy.

Our animal friends.

Even Lenin liked cats.

[Lenin with cat, Moscow region, early 1920s]
[Lenin and cat in the Kremlin in 1920; also Krupskaya, and Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist]
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[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

I agree with her.

That first tweeter, “Angloid” seems to believe that if only “nationalists” never “offended” anyone (Jews, blacks/browns/Muslims, “antifa” loonies and cretins, bien-pensant “normies” etc) then the mass of “normal” Brits would inevitably see the light and the “nationalist” side would triumph almost without having to struggle (no doubt at a “free and fair” general election before which the msm would present the “nationalist” case completely fairly on TV and in the Press)…

They want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“, as Hitler said in the late 1920s.

Well, that tweeter, “Angloid” is apparently 19. When I was 19, I also had some wrongheaded ideas (as well as some correct ones), so I should not wish to be too censorious but, when one is 69, as I now am, such naive thinking has or should have given way to a more realistic outlook, as St. Paul noted.

In an animated cartoon, a bell would, at this point, sound in or above someone’s head…

I am not someone who immediately sees a conspiracy in every situation, but I am inclined to think that both Restore and Reform are “controlled opposition”; however—in the absence of open revolution, or invasion by another state– the existing System parties can only be reduced to unimportance by the rise of a new party, or new parties.

Of course, two parties with (as it might be) 30%-40% of the popular vote split 2 ways are far less powerful a challenge to the System than one party with 30%-40% of that same vote.

Also, yes, that party or those parties may morph into System parties, as I predicted quite long ago would happen to Reform UK, but a Reform triumph (or Restore triumph) would still be far better than a continuation of the old “two/three main parties” scam, because Lab and Con would go, and with them much of the stability of the System.

I hear what Hodges is saying, but I see no evidence that System puppet Andy Burnham actually has any of the supposed great popularity anyway. Burnham may be more popular than both Starmer-stein and Kemi Badenoch, but that is not so difficult, after all. Also, Burnham has been effectively absent from public exposure (at least, for anyone more than 50 miles out of Manchester), so familiarity has not bred contempt…yet.

It does highlight how poorly the UK is provided with socio-political vision, though, that a mediocre fellow such as Andy Burnham is presented (by the msm and/or System) as some kind of Great White Hope.

Both of those tweets have a point.

I thought that that clip was a parody for a brief moment.

That character in the red jacket is a not-atypical kneejerk Labourite, the type to be found, even now, all over the North of England and, at least until a decade ago, in Scotland (I believe).

Look at him! Lives in a rubbish area, wears cheap rubbish clothes, may or may not even have a job, and has probably voted Labour at each and every opportunity.

Makerfield has had a Labour MP uninterruptedly for 43 years, since the seat was created. For 15 of those years, it has also had a Labour government, yet what good has that done for that long-haired “anti-fascist”? He’s still living in a rubbish area, still wearing the cheap shoddy clothing, still probably penniless… (and, voting Labour, probably has a n*****r for a neighbour!)…

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Moment of Truth]

Diary Blog, 24 May 2026

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[Regis Bouvier de Cachard, View of Tower Bridge]

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Bouvier de Cachard, by Colin Wilson

https://johnkersey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bouvier-de-cachard.pdf.

Worth reading.

[Regis Bouvier de Cachard, Fleurs sur le Port St. Tropez]

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As often said on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

I not only agree, but also have always said so, both on the blog and generally.

As regular readers of the blog will know, I have little time for Reform UK ideologically, but see it as the only game in town in terms of destroying Lab and Con by 2029. To that end, I think that people in this by-election —specifically— should hold their noses and vote Reform.

A split anti-immigration (etc) vote at the Makerfield by-election will just let in fake-Labour Jewish-lobby puppet Andy Burnham, and that would substantially reduce the chance of Labour getting near-wiped out whenever the next GE is held (in or before 2029).

This country is so screwed…absolutely unbelievable.

The traitor-politicians of the System have imported millions of untermenschen trash of that sort. They should all be put up against a wall.

Please also refer to previous comment.

Stray thought

Just watched a very short Twitter/X clip of Andy Burnham, and had an immediate and unexpected feeling that, if he wins the Makerfield by-election, and if he then takes over the Labour Party, that…Labour will be finished.

I have no logic behind that; I have to admit as much; it was just a feeling, though undeniable.

[will work it out logically another time].

I suppose the fact is that Labour is washed up whichever careerist clown becomes its leader.

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Nihil novi sub sole

[Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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[“I created a parliamentary petition to stop the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in the beautiful British Victoria Tower Gardens—located within a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It was rejected.

The reason being that: ‘it requests action at a local level.’ The current status of the memorial: In January, the ‘UK Holocaust Memorial Act 2026’ became law and:

– Disapplied section 8 of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900 which legally required the park to be kept strictly as a public garden.

– Formally granted the government the power to use public funds to construct and operate the memorial and underground learning centre (estimated around £147m–£150m).

Important information: The applicant for the project is the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government: Steve Reed. – Steve Reed: • Member of Labour Friends of ‘israel’ (LFI) • 2 funded trips to ‘israel’ • £155,200 from pro-‘israel’ billionaire Lisbet Rausing • £1,800 from pro-‘israel’ jewish billionaire Trevor Chinn.

Reed works closely with the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation (UKHMF) as the expert advisory board appointed by the government to steer the project. The UKHMF is formed from ‘The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission’—launched in January 2014 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron.

The UKHMF is led by two Co-Chairs: The Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles and The Rt Hon Ed Balls. – Eric Pickles: • Current Chairman of the Conservative Friends of ‘israel’ in the House of Lords. – Ed Balls: • Was an active, long-standing member of LFI throughout his time as a Member of Parliament and Shadow Chancellor.

Other members of the board include the following zionist jews: – Chief Rabbi (Genocide) Ephraim Mirvis Incorporates religious zionism into his official leadership role. – Sir Gerald Ronson CBE Major donor to prominent zionist charities. – The Rt Hon the Lord Feldman of Elstree Closely aligned with Conservative Friends of ‘israel’ (CFI). – Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE Funds major institutional and cultural projects in ‘israel’. – Lord David Alliance Maintains extensive business and philanthropic ties with ‘israeli’ institutions.

Since the ‘government’ is the applicant, the next step is for a designated Minister to make the ‘independent planning decision’. That minister is: Samantha Dixon MBE MP, the Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy.

Dixon can make one of the following decisions: 1. Approval with Conditions: Granting permission but imposing strict requirements (e.g., specific building materials). 2. Refusal: Denying the planning permission entirely, forcing the government to find an alternative site or fundamentally alter the project. 3. Call for a New Public Inquiry: If new evidence or massive public interest demands it, ordering a fresh, formal public inquiry before making a final determination.

What we can do next:

1. I am resubmitting a national petition The first was rejected as a ‘local’ issue. The new petition will demand national action: calling on the Government to halt public funding for the project and order a fresh, independent Public Inquiry. I will post the link as soon as it is live.

2. Object directly to the decision-maker Minister Samantha Dixon is legally required to review public objections before making her planning decision. Anyone can submit an objection: • Where to write: Email the Planning Casework Unit at MHCLG (pcu@communities.gov.uk). • What to say: Focus on valid ‘material planning considerations’ so it cannot be ignored. Cite the loss of Grade II-listed public green space, visual disruption to the UNESCO Westminster World Heritage Site, and crowd security risks next to Parliament.

3. Demand a Public Paper Petition from your MP If you collect physical signatures on a paper petition and hand it to your local MP, they can present it on the floor of the House of Commons. This legally forces the government to issue a formal, written ministerial response to our concerns. Victoria Gardens is one of Europe’s ‘Most Endangered’ heritage sites Spread the word. Protect the gardens.“]

Even some Jews, indeed even some Zionist Jews, oppose the building of this ugly piece of degraded architecture, an expression of Jew-Zionist supremacism, which will look like a cross between a public loo and a subterranean car park, and many also oppose its being built on the Gardens right next to the Palace of Westminster.

The project shouts out “Look! We are here! We rule! We own this country!

Notice how “they” use non-Jews as figureheads: corrupt politicians and ex-MPs— Pickles. Balls. A few years ago, that corrupt little pissant Robert Jenrick, too.

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

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https://twitter.com/warfareanalysis/status/2058249788047470831

[“If a non-jewish British citizen said that the pro-‘israel’ jewish lobby controls the police, government, media, national agenda, policies, and law—they are doxed, fired, and arrested.

Yet Campaign Against ‘Antisemitism’ boasts about it openly. And raises £1 million for it.

CAA is a de facto enforcement arm for ‘israel’ on British soil. And it does so while being granted charitable status. Receiving tax breaks. Gift Aid.

Meaning British taxpayers subsidise CAA’s activities.

Our money literally funds their lobbying and legal action against us.

This is how emboldened these zionist political militias are in Britain.

This is why British sovereignty, national independence, and civil liberties are contingent upon shutting down the pro-‘israel’ lobby.“]

Exactly.

Also note how, at a time when many, maybe most, real British people are struggling financially, “they” are able to give, whether as individuals or as families, untold thousands of pounds, adding up to half a million pounds, to support the malicious and perjuring “CAA” Jewish sub-terrorists.

Erratum: the above cartoon was drawn with the US in mind; in the UK, the figures would be about “...80% of billionaires are despite being <0.5% of the population“, so the situation is even more pronounced in this country.

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Oddly, some may think, I agree with much of that, even though it is obvious that the lady’s “Moderates” fantasy political party does not exist and, even if it did, would get nowhere. I suspect that the only members she has are the bottles or empties in her cellar or kitchen.

The Triple Lock is a matter of survival for many over-65s. To want to remove it is not only harsh, even cruel, but also political suicide. Surprising that the ex-wife of a former Conservative MP cannot see that.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Mystery. She seems strangely familiar…]

Diary Blog, 23 May 2023

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[Harriet Lawless, End of a Summer’s Day in St. James’s Park]

Saturday quiz

Well, a modest 4/10 this week, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew only the answers to questions 1,2, 3, and 8.

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From the blog, a year ago

Today, I happened to see, from almost exactly a year ago, a blog post dated 24 May 2025, and referring to a Dunkirk commemoration :

“…Ironic. The System politicians and msm recently lined up to mention the possibility that Britain might have been invaded in 1940, yet pretended not to notice a real invasion that is happening right under their noses, and literally under the noses of the spectators of that Dunkirk tribute show.

As to why Britain was never actually under real threat of invasion in 1940, there were numerous reasons. First of all, Hitler wanted to rule much of the world in alliance with the British Empire; he did not want war with Britain; Britain, i.e. Neville Chamberlain’s Cabinet, declared war on Germany in 1939 and, after mid-1940, his successor, Churchill, was unwilling to consider an armistice.

Hitler was weighing what became the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He did not wan t a two-front war.

Hitler allowed most of the British Army soldiers in the Dunkirk area to escape (my own maternal grandfather one of them). Hitler refused to allow the Luftwaffe and tank columns to destroy that army, the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force or BEF. German ground forces were halted outside Dunkirk by Hitler’s own order (Fuhrerbefehl).

Secondly, the Germans never had enough barge and ship capacity to ferry an army of sufficient size across the Channel.

Thirdly, the Luftwaffe could not guarantee air superiority; neither could the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine much defend any forces ferried across.

Reverting to today’s real invasion, it continues, day after day, and nothing of importance is being done to stop, or even slow, the flow.

If only Britain had been in loose alliance with the Reich. We would have been, today, the rulers of much of the world, and that world would have been a better and happier place by reason of it. The usual evil (((influence))) prevented it from happening. Instead, we sit on our small and beleaguered island, invaded daily by trash from all over the world, we are individually poorer with every passing day and, with every passing day, our society falls apart, more and more.

I wonder how long it will be before there is little that is worthwhile left. At the age of 68, I may not see the ultimate depths of the degradation of Britain, thank God, and I am doing what little I presently can, in my present situation, to avoid the catastrophe, but see around me a society running around like a headless chicken, scarcely aware that it is already, in effect, dead, or at least mortally wounded.

I may, by Grace of God, be able to do more. We shall see. That is a matter of Fate. If the existing society cannot be saved, it may be that seeds can be planted in the rotting corruption, seeds which may germinate at a later time in history.

[from this blog, a post dated 24 May 2023: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2025/05/24/diary-blog-24-may-2025-including-thoughts-about-israel-antisemitism-and-the-continuing-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza/]

The System commends the planned resistance to an invasion that never happened (in 1940), but deplores even verbal resistance to the gradual invasion of our day, invasion by “small boats”, by “legal” influxes, and by births to non-Europeans already in the UK.

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That man did not expressly mention the “JQ”, but how could he, in the climate of self-censorship the Jew-Zionists have imposed on the UK via monkeys-on-sticks political puppets such as Starmer-stein?

Burnham is just a marginally less compromised version of all the fake-Labour politicos, nothing more, nothing really genuine. As Hodges said, Reform would still win this easily, were it not for the Restore candidature.

What I take away from that poll is that, in that constituency, in 2026, about 47% of the voters are at least conservative-national, even if not social-national. At a guess, though, about 30%-40% of the voters are social-national, and would support a social-national government whether it won elections or simply seized power some other way. Another ~10%, maybe more, would also play ball.

Unfortunately, the usual (((poison))) has already been injected into Reform, and the same, at a lower dosage, into Restore. Neither are the answer to the country’s problems.

It is almost funny. The security organs —the police, MI5, SIS counter-espionage etc— put out huge efforts to catch “Russian agents” in a kind of Cold War “cosplay”, and put out more huge effort trying to identify and catch potential “terrorists”, those who might set off a bomb somewhere or other, or stab people in the street, yet all the time, in the background, the migration-invasion is changing the UK day by day, over time completely, and it is happening via “legal immigration”, illegal “small boat” invasion, and via invasion by births.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. The naval and para-naval forces of the System are ferrying in the untermenschen. This is a conspiracy, and one operating in plain view.

Diary Blog, 20 May 2026

Afternoon music

[King’s College Chapel, Cambridge]

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The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government seems to do everything and anything that makes life more difficult for the British economy and people. Hopeless.

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[“I’m genuinely perplexed at how the ignorant horde of Reform shills could possibly go after this program.

“taxfunded horserides” – for severely disabled children, who are typically going to be in the realms of non-verbal, or will have other severe issues.

This is for children who struggle with any emotional depth, the animals are used to give them an emotional bond that they can extrapolate to other social situations.

There aren’t hordes of falsely diagnosed children riding horses for free, this is an utterly bizarre myth from Reformcels.”]

Many Reform UK candidates and voters are the same idiots who, from 2010 onward, voted “Conservative” because it suited them to believe that poor people on State benefits were somehow responsible for the economic problems of the UK.

There is only one reason to support Reform UK at all, and that is to ensure that the Lib-Lab-Con rigged political system is trashed by 2029; even though Reform is itself now —as I long-predicted on the blog— well and truly infiltrated and controlled by the Jewish-Zionist element, via Tice, Farage etc.

Once Reform is in government, and then (inevitably) fails at almost everything, real social-national forces can rise up…

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i.e. “they” are often the gravediggers of (purely-) European race and culture, and also usually want to control society (wherever they may live).

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They were right, but almost no-one was listening…

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda#Aftermath

In 1972, thinking people were appalled at the prospect of an influx of 50,000 Ugandan Asians. In the end, about 27,000 arrived (the remainder going to other countries).

In 2026, there are more immigrants than that (27,000) arriving in the UK in any single month; indeed, about that number every week or so.

Exactly. (both tweets…).

If that “Darren” idiot believes all that, he has no business being in government. We could have all the gas we could possibly need from Russia quite cheaply and, if the UK were to leave NATO, that would or could be ours at or below cost price.

Incidentally, I drove through the now-very-odd town or “city” of Brighton the other day, the first time I had seen it since I appeared as Counsel in the County Court there about 19 or 20 years ago. Driving along the seafront, I noticed that the view now includes a whole line of ugly offshore wind turbines in the distance. Horrible.

I say “odd“, by the way, because I have not seen so many peculiar people on the streets since I was last in Oxford. It is as if some social magnet has attracted tribes of “weirdos” to those cities.

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An extreme example of the police once again prioritizing the repression of fake or non-crime (a white boy uttering a supposedly “racist” word or two) over dealing with real crime (an untermensch stabbing said white boy).

It might be said that the police did not acquit themselves well in that incident— on the one hand too brutal (the policeman who kicked a prone detainee in the head), on the other hand completely useless (the women police crying like little girls), but there is surely little doubt that the defendants were guilty. I wonder what was the racial/cultural make-up of the jury (I can guess…).

A horrible tribe.

Incidentally, that Biblical reference (the correct form is Revelation 3:9, not “Revelations” 3:9…) is this:

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Translates to a Commons with about 281 Labour MPs (45 short of a majority), 210 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 49 Cons, 19 SNP, 8 Greens [etc].

That really puts the cat among the pigeons. Labour would have to make an accommodation with the LibDems. Even so, that coalition —or whatever— would still have a mere 15-MP majority.

On those figures, the Greens would really be put back in their box. 8 MPs; only +3 compared to their position now.

As to the Conservatives, on those figures Kemi Badenoch would lose her seat, and her party would have fewer than half the MPs it retained at GE 2024.

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Diary Blog, 19 May 2026

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Our animal friends.

Unsurprising (part-Jew; possibly half-Jew): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam

In any case, most of the benefit in those situations of technical economic improvement goes to 1% of the population.

Burnham may be marginally less of a clown than the other contenders for Starmer-stein’s purple, but he is still an oddly-“entitled”, and probably useless, chancer, like the rest.

Talking about useless chancers, here is Lammy again making a fool of himself…

Monkey-on-a-stick. Idiot.

We shall soon see.

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[Moscow Kremlin wall]

Diary Blog, 17 May 2026

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[Russian special forces operatives deploying at high altitude and in winter conditions]

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Our animal friends.

For once, Piers Morgan says something correct, if unoriginal.

Who on Earth would vote “Conservative” now? I presume only people aged 70+ and who take little interest in what is actually happening in the UK, or in what has happened over the past 16+ years.

I am presuming that that half-Jew has been promised a peerage in return for facilitating Burnham’s return to Parliament. If it happens.

Britain must become, or revert to being, an ethnostate, before anything else. That will not solve all of our problems, or solve any of them 100%, but it will solve most of them 95%. Start from there.

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Our animal friends.

History, not fake history.

True. The betting market is a poor guide to the likely result of a by-election in particular.

[“To get a license to drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 20,000 landmarks, and the fastest route between any two points in a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. It takes most people three to four years.

A British neuroscientist asked the obvious question nobody had thought to ask. What does that actually do to a human brain?

Her name was Eleanor Maguire. The study changed neuroscience forever.

The exam is called The Knowledge. It was introduced in 1865, and the format has barely changed since.

Applicants ride a moped around London for years with a clipboard strapped to the handlebars, tracing every possible route between every possible pair of points in the city.

They get tested in person by an examiner who can ask them, on the spot, for the shortest legal route between any two addresses in a database of tens of thousands. Half the people who attempt it fail.

The ones who pass have spent an average of four years studying full time and have taken the test 12 times before getting through.

Maguire was watching a TV movie about it in 1995 when she had the idea. These were not ordinary people. They were people running one of the most extreme spatial memory training programs that exists anywhere on Earth.

If the human brain could be reshaped by experience, this was the cleanest natural experiment anyone was ever going to find.

She put 16 of them in an MRI machine.

Their posterior hippocampi were significantly larger than the brains of matched controls. The longer a driver had been working, the bigger the difference got.

A 40-year veteran had a measurably more developed hippocampus than a 5-year veteran, and both had more than someone who had never driven a cab.

Here is why that finding broke a century of consensus.

Until 2000, every neuroscience textbook in the world taught a version of the same idea. The adult brain is essentially fixed. You are born with a set number of neurons. Childhood is the window where the wiring gets laid down. After puberty, the structure freezes, and the rest of your life is just slow decline.

Maguire’s study was one of the first pieces of human evidence that this was simply wrong. Adult brains physically remodel themselves in response to what you ask them to do. Not metaphorically. Structurally. With grey matter you can measure on a scan.

The skeptics had an obvious objection. Maybe people with bigger hippocampi were just more likely to become taxi drivers in the first place. The brains were not changing. The job was selecting for brains that already looked that way.

So Maguire ran the experiment again. Properly this time.

She recruited 79 trainees who were just starting to study for The Knowledge and 31 controls who were not. She scanned all of them at the start. Then she waited four years. Of the 79 trainees, 39 eventually passed the exam and 20 failed. She scanned them again.

The trainees who passed had grown larger posterior hippocampi over those four years. The trainees who failed had not. The controls who never studied had not. The brain change was not selection. It was construction.

The act of memorizing the city had physically rebuilt the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, and the rebuild only happened in the people who actually did the work.

There is a quieter finding from this research that almost nobody quotes, and it is the one I cannot stop thinking about.

The drivers had a bigger posterior hippocampus, but they had a smaller anterior hippocampus. The brain had not magically expanded. It had reallocated. Tissue that was being used for one type of memory had been compressed to make room for another.

When Maguire ran follow-up cognitive tests, the cabbies were measurably worse than controls at certain visual memory tasks unrelated to navigation. They had paid for The Knowledge with something else. The trade was real.

She also ran a second control experiment that is the part of the story most people never hear. She scanned London bus drivers. Same hours behind the wheel. Same city. Same traffic. Same stress. The only difference was that bus drivers follow fixed routes. They do not have to navigate. Their hippocampi looked completely normal.

The cab drivers had not grown bigger hippocampi from driving. They had grown them from the constant, active, effortful retrieval of spatial information from memory.

That distinction is the entire study.

Then in 2020, McGill researchers ran the inverse experiment. They tracked 50 regular drivers and measured how often they used GPS. The participants who relied most heavily on turn-by-turn navigation had measurably weaker spatial memory. When the researchers retested a subset of them three years later, the heavier GPS users had declined fastest.

The hippocampus, the same region the cabbies had built up by ignoring shortcuts, was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them.

The mechanism Maguire spent 25 years documenting works in both directions. Brains grow what you make them grow. They lose what you stop asking them to do.

The taxi drivers were running the most intense spatial memory training program on Earth. Most of the rest of us are running the opposite program without realizing it.

Maguire died in early 2025. UCL’s tribute described the cabbie study as a stroke of creative genius. She had spent her entire career on a single question. What does it physically take to remember something, and what changes inside a person who remembers a lot of it.

The answer is the part that should change how you live.“]

Russian (Siberian) village life in 2026

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[Arnold Bocklin, Ruins by the Sea]