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Diary Blog, 28 July 2026

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[Sally Rosenbaum, Summer Glow]

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Our animal friends.

Such terror attacks on Russian civilians are rarely reported in our “free press” and “free mass media”…

I sense that the Russian side is tiring of fighting the war as it has been fought, and of the constant escalation from the Kiev-regime forces, and may turn to far more destructive attacks on Kiev itself.

I wonder how many wars and lesser crises “they” have caused, historically?

[“WARNINGS FROM A FORMER BRITISH DIPLOMAT AND MI-6 OFFICER
Kruik: The West will not defeat Russia, and a defeat in Ukraine could lead to the collapse of NATO.

Alistair Kruik: “What will failure look like? How will it affect NATO? What state will the alliance be in after the Ukrainian conflict? Well, I don’t think it will come out of that conflict. I think it’s already fracturing, and it will continue to fracture.”

The unity of the bloc is currently maintained solely by the political will of Brussels and the NATO leadership, although the escalation around Ukraine has become a way for the alliance to justify its continued existence.“]

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

[“Support for war with Iran among US citizens has dropped to one-third.

Support for a war with Iran has fallen to one-third among US citizens, which is the lowest level recorded since the start of the US conflict with Iran, according to a Reuters report on July 27th.

When asked if Trump had clearly explained the goals of US military involvement in Iran, 69% said no, including four out of ten Republicans.

According to the same poll, Trump’s approval rating stands at 37%, three points higher than the previous month, when it reached its lowest level during his presidency. The approval rating for the war itself remains below 40% since the US and Israel began strikes against Iran on February 28th.“]

That may be, but the American people have no say in what happens. Look at who is going to visit Trump (again)— the Jews Zelensky and Netanyahu…

Talking point

Evading the press-gangs of the Kiev regime

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/28/ukraine-hunt-for-draft-dodgers-becomes-battle-on-the-street

Diary Blog, 21 July 2026, with material about free speech, freedom of expression, and the pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

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[Temple of Philae and Trajan’s Kiosk on Agilkia Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt]

The pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/20/germany-europe-free-speech-crisis-rainer-zitelmann-afd

Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown

Berlin threatens thousands of Germans with jail for criticising their leaders

Dr Zitelmann is one of thousands of Germans who have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts that fall foul of the country’s political speech laws, which are unusually stringent for an EU member state.

Some of the cases are sinister and farcical in equal measure.

One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a “lying Fritz” under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians.

The furore bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online.

To its supporters, the AfD is only the party that speaks for Germans who are sick of mass migration, political correctness, economic stagnation and the creep of so-called wokeism.

But to its opponents, including many in the government, civil service and intelligence services, the party is a far-Right menace that was recently classified as an extremist group by the country’s equivalent of MI5.

The BfV has been monitoring senior AfD figures through methods such as wiretapping and informants for at least five years.

[Daily Telegraph]

…and guess which “element” is behind most of the anti-free-speech activity, in both Germany and the UK? Yes, “them” (((them))), as usual…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miatta_Fahnbulleh_(politician)

Were I to go to Liberia, or Sierra Leone, would I be able to become an MP and/or Cabinet minister? No. So why do we allow Africans to come here and do so? It is a symptom of a terminal sickness in the body politic.

As Hitler said of the 1920s Weimar Germany equivalents, “...dirty democratic politicians“, and I do not think that this lot are even “democratic”.

Good grief. Look at that lot. I hardly like to have them on the blog.

Apparently, protests against military draft.

The tyrant Ortega should have been eliminated 40+ years ago.

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

Men are kidnapped off the streets to serve unwillingly on the crumbling front-lines of the Kiev regime, so unsurprising that few want to hang around pavement cafes; others have fled overseas to avoid the draft.

Perhaps. The problem is that one cannot believe a word “they” say, especially now that they want the USA to escalate the war against Iran.

Zelensky’s regime is a dictatorship composed of Jews, Ukrainian thugs and, below that level, persons of doubtful provenance such as that terrorist woman.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c141lymnl2yo

Ha. Made me laugh, mainly because it comes close to my own attitude…

(((Typical))) of the decadence which “they” import into both the cultural and political areas of national life (in this case, in Ukraine, but one could point to similar decadence in the UK, USA, France etc).

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This is the kind of madness that has swept across the Western world in, mainly, the past 30 years.

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Our animal friends.

As Valentin Tomberg predicted, the mask of evil has started to come off since the late 20th century.

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

The System and its mouthpieces are now preparing the masses for a pointless and unnecessary war with Russia that might leave this country as a charred and radioactive wasteland. Any MPs or scribblers/talking-heads that are promoting war with Russia are enemies of the people.

The first opinion poll for about 2 years to put Labour clearly into government, albeit in a hung Parliament. Translates to a Commons with about 255 Labour MPs (71 short of a majority), 239 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 67 LibDems, 39 Cons, 21 SNP, 6 Greens [etc].

On those figures, Labour could only rule with the help of the LibDems and others (SNP, Greens etc). A very weak Labour government. In principle, good for social nationalism.

Every single thing that Burnham has announced so far —leaving the merits aside— has been announced or is being done purely to shore up the Labour vote, nothing else.

Another small settlement taken, but Russia needs a real gamechanger now. Time is running out. Trump may be replaced in 2028/early 2029 with a very pro-war new president, willing to again bankroll and heavily arm the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 15 July 2026

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[Steve Henderson, Morning]

Talking point

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15977531/Vietnam-veteran-murder-British-illegal-immigrant-conman-group.html

A British illegal immigrant suspected of being a member of a ‘traveling conman fraud group’ was shot dead by an elderly Vietnam veteran whose home he was working on, cops say. 

Salis Hanrahan, 20, was killed inside 75-year-old George Barr’s home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, last Wednesday. 

Hanrahan, a member of the Irish traveler community who was from Essex in England, was reportedly working on Barr’s home as part of a construction team when authorities said Barr shot him.

[Daily Mail]

[comment redacted…]

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Translates to a Commons with about 238 Reform UK MPs (about 88 short of a majority), 141 Lab (official Opposition), 110 Cons, 69 LibDems, 37 SNP, 31 Greens.

So either a Reform minority government, perhaps ruling with Con support, or some kind of “grand coalition” of almost everyone except Reform and (if they get any MPs) Restore.

I lost confidence in the police once they started being a nuisance to me (around 2014); that is, being the poundshop Stasi, at the behest of the UK Jewish lobby/Israel lobby.

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[from 1973 British film, The Wicker Man]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita#Animal_welfare_controversies

Civilized Europe does not want these backward groups or their cruel and outdated customs.

Get rid of them. Whatever it takes.

Good luck.

We need across-the-board social cleansing.

A single Russian nuclear bomb or missile (Russia has 6,000-7,000+), and those misled British troops will be something akin to the Terracotta Army. Provoking Russia, let alone trying to fight Russia, is a totally wrongheaded policy position.

As for doing so on behalf of the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev, not only stupid but actually evil.

I still see the odd tweet from pro-Kiev cretins referring to the Russians as “orcs” (a reference to the stupid/evil army in the Lord of the Rings books and films).

Those idiot tweeters should take a look at the cultural history (and present-day) of Russia (and Ukraine; compare the two)…

Talking point

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Look and listen to those “simulacra of the human” smugly laughing and joking.

All very (((typical))); they talk about abusing the English legal system in order to bankrupt or make insolvent individuals and organizations they deem hostile to the Jew power-matrices.

The UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) cabal was the one that complained to the Bar Standards Board about my tweets in 2014. They were concerting their actions alongside yet another pack of Jews, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (CAA). The now-washed-up Jew lawyer, Mark Lewis, was and I believe still is a leading member or supporter of both.

The UKLFI whining complaint eventually led to my wrongful and (as the Bar Standards Board itself later admitted) unlawful disbarment in 2016.

Lewis was of course both admonished and fined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2018, after which, and after he was effectively dismissed by the law firm that was employing him in London, he and his wife/carer, Mandy Blumenthal, decamped to Israel.

On the above clip, one of the Jews says that Lewis had relocated to the resort town of Eilat in the south of Israel. I believe, however, that Lewis is currently living in the town of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv. He is not, however, a member of the Bar of Israel.

Contrary to what those Jews in that clip may have said, Lewis is both negligent and dishonest.

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Her photo reminds me of horror films.

The Bar Standards Board has obviously been infiltrated. I have covered this before in relation to “Baroness” Deech (a Jewish woman whose family came to the UK from Poland in 1939) and who, at the time of the UKLFI complaint against me in 2014, was both head of the BSB and a member of UKLFI and, also, a “Patron” of the “CAA”, even at that time featured on its website!

We have seen this kind of thing before, notably in Weimar Germany between the two 20thC world wars; the way in which “they” subvert institutions and whole countries.

Incidentally, by the time my “case” came up before a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal (re. 5 supposedly “offensive” tweets), the BSB had been handed over to some former UK diplomat, a former Ambassador to Israel (wouldn’t you know…) whose main interest was the so-called “restitution” of property supposedly confiscated from Jews during the currency of the Reich.

Justice? I think not.

Actually, the otherwise reasonably-fair retired judge who chaired that Bar Disciplinary Tribunal panel preferred not to properly address the injustice(s) noted above. He deflected the question (raised by me), really.

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

Tell me about it…

It should be illegal for a woman to have a baby then to be given over to horrible deviants of that sort. They should be put up against a wall.

One wall. One squad. One end (well, two, if you like).

A whole evil and decadent stream within society.

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Diary Blog, 1 July 2026, including thoughts about the unnecessary stupidity of provoking war with Russia

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[Mill Colonnade, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic]

I was in Karlovy Vary in 1988, though for less than 24 hours and did not see that colonnade. Pity.

Morning thoughts

Looks as though billions of pounds are now going to be wasted on “defence”, and to be entirely spent on confronting Russia. Everything else, from pensions to social security, to rail and road improvements, to education, to the NHS and elder social care etc, is going to be sidelined so that the New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government (NWO/ZOG) can prod the Bear.

Russia has 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons. Is that a country the UK should be provoking? I say no, and Russia in any case is not our enemy, unless the “British” government(s) make Russia our enemy.

In the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, even 1980s, there was justification for both the existence of NATO and for British defence against a real Soviet threat, however overplayed it often was, of an invasion of Western Europe by Warsaw Pact forces. That threat does not now exist.

We have seen how Russian forces have struggled over the past 4 years to subdue even the ramshackle armed forces of the Kiev-regime dictatorship. What in that leads those who pretend to lead the UK to conclude that Russia might invade any more of Eastern Europe, let alone Central or Western Europe? It’s mad.

Actually, why on Earth would Russia want to take over the gradually (steadily) crumbling British society, even were that possible? Russia has no need to rule Britain’s ever-more-crumbling cities, full of blacks and browns.

We are told that Russia may wish to re-absorb, in some form, the Baltic States or pribaltika, and maybe parts of present Moldavia. So? Actually, I doubt it anyway.

I have always supported the right of the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians (and, indeed, Moldavians) to self-determination, especially culturally, also politically, but the only reason why Russia is now in Cold War-style opposition to those states is because they now belong to NATO, and persist in hostile actions against Russia, actions taken after “consultation” with NATO states (i.e. NWO/ZOG).

There are evil powers in the West pushing for war with Russia. The UK is a large part of that, as can be seen by the fact that huge donations (sometimes called “loans”, but non-repayable, in reality) have been made by the UK and EU to the Kiev regime, and that despite the crying needs of the British people, from whom necessary monies and services have been cut off, with more fake “austerity” to come.

The only real invasion of Britain (and Western/Central Europe) happening, or even likely to happen, is the migration invasion, a deliberate flooding of white Europe by blacks and browns. The “British” government is not only not stopping that, but actually facilitating it, by providing non-Europeans with free houses, money, services etc. It’s treason, in ordinary language.

The Soviet Union had an expansionist military doctrine, a supremacist ideology (Marxism-Leninism), and very powerful conventional military forces, as well as sometimes very effective intelligence agencies. None of those even apply to contemporary Russia.

My preferred policy would be for the UK to leave NATO (which outlived its usefulness by the mid-1990s), and to cultivate closer relations with Russia. We would get cheap or even cost-price oil and gas, as well as a huge market in Russia for British goods and services. We should also be able to redeploy the billions set to be wasted on armament to projects and services, and infrastructure, seriously needed here at home.

Let’s reset British-Russian relations.

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[“Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, set up astroturf groups to persuade advertisers to boycott the Canary website and so stifle close-to-the-bone criticisms of Starmer. The Canary has suffered financially ever since.

Now Lloyds Bank has inexplicably de-banked them.

Don’t expect the British establishment to play fair. It’s got a democracy to hollow out, a genocide to support, and a planet to pillage.”]

Nigel Farage was “de-banked” by Coutts, of course (though had it reversed, and collected compensation). Sam Melia, his wife Laura Towler, Mark Collett and others also suffered in the same way, via high street banks.

A kind of crypto-police state harassment of people, making their lives very difficult for socio-political reasons.

The banks are merely instruments. People, some in those banks, others elsewhere, made those decisions; individual people, and small groups. They should be sought out, identified, punished.

Morgan McSweeney I have already assessed on the blog (use the search box for more). Jewish lobby. Israel lobby. Labour Friends of Israel. Mandelson cabal. Epstein cabal.

Our animal friends.

[“When the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced thousands of people to flee in March 2011, they left with only what they could carry.

Homes were abandoned, farms were deserted, and countless animals were left behind. Many owners believed they would be back in a few days.

They never imagined they would be gone for months, or even forever.

For those animals, every passing day meant more hunger, more loneliness, and less hope.

But one man couldn’t walk away.

His name is Naoto Matsumura. After evacuating, he made the heartbreaking decision to return to the radioactive exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

While the world saw an empty, dangerous place, he saw thousands of innocent lives waiting for someone who might never come.

Every day, he fed abandoned dogs, cats, cattle, ostriches, and other animals that had no one left. Many had spent days searching for the families they had lost. Some ran to him for food.

Others simply stayed close, as if they finally felt safe again. With no electricity, limited supplies, and constant risk, Matsumura devoted his life to caring for creatures that the disaster had forgotten.

His selfless compassion earned him the nickname “The Guardian of Fukushima’s Animals,” but to the animals he rescued, he was something even greater.

He was hope.

In a place where so much had been lost, one man’s kindness reminded the world that even in the darkest moments, humanity can still shine through.

Faith in humanity restored.“]

Our animal friends.

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Burnham already shows every sign of being a disaster even worse than has been Starmer-stein.

Not only the ghastly James Purnell, but even the horrible Alan Milburn are apparently advising Burnham now.

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

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

The human spirit.

May not be so of all Jews, or even all prominent Jews, but it certainly seems to be a widespread sentiment encountered with, or among, many.

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Attrition is still slowly wearing down, and grinding down, the forces of the Kiev regime.

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[Russian Imperial Family, Tsarskoe Selo, circa 1914]

Diary Blog, 26 June 2026

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[Trinity College Cambridge; avenue of linden and cherry trees]

Interesting videos about a Dutch farming family relocating to Russia

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Our animal friends.

Already happening.

In fact, the halfway-through-sentence release has been the norm for some years.

Stray thought

Saw an old Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz show, filmed around 2010. The team consisted of former TV newsreader Angela Rippon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Rippon] and the Jewish consumer finance specialist, Martin Lewis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lewis_(financial_journalist)]. Both were fairly ignorant (but won quite a large sum for their chosen charities) and both were also extremely irritating. If anything, Angela Rippon was even more irritating than the other one.

At least I knew who they were. The “celebrities” on such shows are often persons entirely unknown to me.

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[“Eli Cohen Israeli Energy Minister: We have no intention of leaving Lebanon under any circumstances

  • We have no intention of fully occupying Lebanon, but we seek to impose security control over the entire Gaza Strip.
  • Israel will ultimately gain full control over the entire Gaza Strip, and this is considered part of the regime’s security objectives.
  • The issue of withdrawing from the Lebanese security zone is currently not on the agenda of the Israeli regime
  • Even if Donald Trump requests a withdrawal from this area, Israel will not agree to such a request, and Tel Aviv’s response will be “no.”]

The Middle East, indeed the world, has a poisonous snake in it. Crush that snake.

When will American leaders wake up? I suppose, only when the bribes are no longer being made…

Talking point

Another blog post, this time from 2018. I think it is worth republishing it.

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In the past, until 1981, anyone born in the UK could apply for British citizenship later, which is why Kemi Badenoch’s parents deliberately had her born in the UK. She returned 17 years later, and is now the leader of the pathetic Conservative Party.

System stooge. Of course, my attitude towards both Reform and Restore is that they move the Overton Window, so good as far as that goes, but the Jewish/Zionist poison dart is in Reform for sure; maybe in Restore as well. Neither can be relied upon as serious anti-System parties, and that would be so even if Reform “won” a System general election.

Have no idea what that organization may be. On the face of it, though, looks hopeful.

Diary Blog, 7 June 2026

Afternoon music

[American special forces operative deploying from Hercules aircraft over Germany, 2015]

Stray thought

We are hearing much about the murder of the Polish or Anglo-Polish student, Henry Nowak, killed by a non-white in Southampton a while ago. In particular, people are arguing about what are the wishes of his family now.

It seems to me, not that those wishes (whatever they really are) are unimportant, but that this whole matter goes beyond those wishes (whatever they are) and, indeed, beyond the murder itself.

The matters to be considered revolve around the mass immigration (and subsequent/consequent breeding) of vast non-Brit, non-European populations within the UK, and the wider consequences of all that.

I cannot think of a really multiracial/multicultural society that has lasted long. People talk about the USA, but at the end of the First World War, the USA was about 90% European-origined, and the present very multiracial, if not very “multicultural”, USA of recent decades is already falling into near civil war.

The Roman Empire? Mostly European, of various strands, and it is important to note that the vast bulk of the populations within the Roman Empire did not travel far, or at all.

The main issue is that the UK’s present society is crumbling wherever you look.

I was also thinking about the present wave of arrests and trials of those protesting about the Nowak matter. It seems to me that, as with the not-dissimilar 2024 Southport protests, the System is using the whole arrest and trial process as a “punishment before the punishment”. To put it another way, “the process is the punishment”.

Those protesters arrested (whether pleading Guilty or Not Guilty) have all, I believe, been remanded in custody. There is no proper reason for such remand in any of the cases of which I have read: see Bail Act 1976, as amended. It is obviously being done as a means of repressing further protest by others. Purely political, or socio-political. Improper.

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…and, more importantly, arguably, are almost all just mouthpieces of the Jewish/Israel lobby…

The untermensch will be in prison for the next 21+ years, but a wall, a squad, and an end would be a better outcome; more just, and less expensive for the British people.

I generally disfavour capital punishment, but there may be exceptions. In any case, I distinguish between ordinary judicial punishment, and executive action designed to protect the people.

I myself have been bothered by Hampshire police drones repeatedly (also, once, Essex Police, in 2017, and once by the Metropolitan Police) over the past 14 years, always at the behest of Jewish-lobby “activists” and/or Jewish loonies connected with the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” liars and perjurers.

I do not know to what extent, if at all, the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner was involved (in recent years) in all that; I suspect, perhaps so. We shall see.

In any event, Police and Crime Commissioners are being phased out in 2028. She may even have to get a job (I think for the first time in her life, as far as I have read anyway): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jones_(British_politician).

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In fact, such more or less peaceful demonstrations probably accomplish more than the kind of slightly violent confrontations we saw recently and, nearly two years ago, at Southport. There is no point using force when you are too weak to take that to a successful or victorious conclusion.

Britain needs no defence against Russia.

Russia is not the pre-1991 Soviet Union, has no world-conquering ideology such as the old Marxism-Leninism, and no motive to try to rule Central or Western Europe.

Moreover, we can see that Russia is struggling even to subdue the corrupt and shambolic Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, and so far has not managed to occupy most of Eastern Ukraine, i.e. Ukraine east of the Dnieper.

Another point is that, were the UK to leave NATO and stop confronting and provoking Russia in the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russia would supply the UK at cost price with oil and gas, and also provide us with a large market for British goods and services.

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Assuming that Labour wins at Makerfield (which is quite possible and even probable), it makes no difference in big-picture terms. The Overton window is moving; the fast rise of relatively more radical Restore Britain proves that. More and more people want something at least approaching a social-national world view. Reform UK, with its black/brown candidates and its pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel mindset, is getting left behind.

It may be that, for GE 2029 (or anyway the next GE), Reform and Restore could form a limited-time alliance —call it “Reform-Restore”— to avoid splitting the vote. Were they to do that, the prize could be…Government.

Both Reform and Restore will eventually either give way to social nationalism, or will morph into that to a large extent. Eventually, the will of the awakened people will break through and triumph.

Monkeys-on-sticks like that purport to rule over us…

All roads lead to Rome, but of course there is no “Parliamentary road” to political power in the present rigged system.

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Earlier, I saw some manic Ukrainian woman, apparently the head of the “Ukraine Forum” at the System “think-tank”, Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House].

Said Ukrainian woman, as expected, spouted her piece about how “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) was “winning” but —wait for it— needs more money, arms, ammunition etc.

One of the problems with the conflict in Ukraine is that the UK mass media is simply giving one side of both news and opinion. All the reporting is from Kiev or the Kiev-regime side, and the Kiev regime’s policy and propaganda is rarely if ever questioned.

Conversely, there is simply no real reportage at all from Russia, Kiev-regime attacks on civilian targets are not covered at all, or only very briefly, and there are never interviews with pro-Russian persons in Russia or anywhere else.

The elephant in the room is that Russia has maybe as many as 7,000 nuclear weapons of various types. Ukraine has none. The whole reporting of the war is akin to a kind of shadow-boxing. Russia has x-troops, the Kiev regime has x-troops; Russia has this or that, but the Kiev regime also has this or that.

You never hear anyone say that, were the order to be given, Kiev and all major Ukrainian cities could be holes in the ground within the hour.

Russia does not want to devastate Kiev and other cities. Why? Because of a thousand years of mutual history, because Russia and Ukraine were effectively one state for most of that time, because they are almost one people ethnically and culturally, and because Russia wants to rule a productive and healthy Eastern Ukraine, not a radioactive wasteland.

However, the way things are going, it may be that Russian leaders feel forced to escalate, if not to a nuclear level —yet— but at least to a more destructive conventional level.

Russia has hundreds of ballistic missiles in its conventional arsenal, and could launch, realistically, in any one day, maybe as many as 100 up-to-date ones, bearing in mind logistical bottlenecks etc; Russian forces already have, since 2022, used up to 70 missiles, including older models, in a night, but not concentrated on a single city or other target area.

Russia produces over 100 new ballistic missiles per month.

Were Russia likely to seriously look as if it might “lose” this war, part of its nuclear arsenal could be used, for example on Kiev. A terrible war crime, true, and it has not happened yet, despite 4 years of warfare, but it could happen, and don’t tell me that NATO —or the USA alone— would take on Russia in a nuclear exchange on behalf of the Kiev regime.

Were Russia to destroy Kiev and Kharkov, that would be terrible and/but also would be the end of the war. It might just happen. If it does happen, the main thing is not to let that slide into a general East-West nuclear war.

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Diary Blog, 21 April 2026

Afternoon music

[Ipanema at sundown]

Talking point

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Our animal friends.

[“Extraordinary testimony from Oliver Robbins to the foreign affairs select committee:

  • he was subject to “constant pressure” from No 10 when he arrived in the foreign office to get Peter Mandelson in post asap.
  • fcdo was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo without usual vetting process – but dept pushed back and it eventually went ahead.
  • Downing Street took a “dismissive” attitude to vetting & Mandelson was given access to fcdo, low classification ID & higher classification briefings before he was actually granted clearance.
  • he confirms he had not told anybody in No 10 about the UKSV decision.”]

That translates to a Commons with about 355 Reform UK MPs (solid majority), 78 Greens (very weak official Opposition), 74 LibDems, 49 Cons, 45 SNP, and 23 Lab, meaning that 380 persons currently sitting as Labour MPs are not so far from losing their jobs, losing their status, and losing their salaries, expenses, perks etc. Once again, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Our animal friends.

Says it all. The only mistake in that 3-4 minute clip is where he says that Starmer is a solicitor (he’s a barrister).

Both System parties are running out of road, indeed effectively have run out of road.

All voters on 7 May should vote elsewhere than Lab or Con— whether Reform UK, the loonie fake-Greens, Independent candidates, even the ridiculous LibDems led by a show-off buffoon.

For the red squirrel problem, breed and/or release pine martens, who prey only on the greys (not a full or final solution to the decline in the red squirrel population, but would stop the steep decline).

As to the ever-reducing proportion of real (white, European) British people in Britain, another solution, or other solutions, may be required.

When I lived for several months in Egypt, about 28 years ago, I realized myself, and also was told by others, that the locals not only are careless about the lives and welfare of animals, birds, and sea-life, but actually take pleasure in hurting and killing them. You may or may not decide that the blame lies with backward Islamic culture (they might have developed that way under some other religion/culture), but that is how they are.

Many of the other backward peoples of the Earth are no better and, now that we no longer control them via European imperial rule, we cannot ameliorate, in “their own countries”, the symptoms of their backwardness. What we can do, however, given the will, is to prevent them coming to the UK and other parts of Europe, and also remove or eliminate those already here.

[“This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he ‘identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King’). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image.

He’s just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they’re dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I’ve lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I’m completely indifferent to being disliked by people I’ve never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views.

Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can’t believe that everyone else doesn’t live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we’ve never met, and that as the years have rolled by I’ve been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it’s a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.“]

I wish people in this country would not use Yiddish words in ordinary discourse but, leaving that aside, J.K. Rowling is quite right about that Maugham person. Anyone who (like me) saw his appearance a few years ago on Christmas University Challenge (alumni version of the famous TV quiz show) could not fail to be struck by Maugham’s combination of massive self-esteem and equally huge ignorance on pretty much any topic or question.

I fear that, in this country, the status of “KC” (King’s Counsel), has become as devalued as that of “Professor” and others.

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[“Facial recognition isn’t the end point, it’s the infrastructure.

Let me explain.

Step 1: introduce the technology for a “reasonable” purpose

crime prevention
public safety
efficiency

Step 2: normalise it
“law abiding citizens have nothing to fear”
only used in limited cases, nothing to worry about

Step 3: expand its use
more locations
more databases
more integration with other systems

Step 4: connect it
ID systems
Digital banking Currency
Travel
online access
public services

Step 5: enforce through it
access granted or denied
movement tracked
behaviour monitored

By that point, it’s no longer optional, that’s how digital control systems are built through layers.

Once the infrastructure exists, it rarely stays limited.

What it’s used for today is what it makes possible tomorrow.“]

I see no reason to change my 2016 assessment of Trump as “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews“.

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[Napoleon in Red Square, Moscow, 1812; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812)]

Diary Blog, 19 March 2026, including material on the Iran war, and on Morgan McSweeney, Mandelson, Epstein files etc

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[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia]

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Our animal friends.

One honest man amid a monkeyhouse of puppets of Israel and the worldwide “Israeli” lobby.

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

Hero.

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

Ha. They got the message.

I was just thinking as to whether the Qataris or the Kuwaitis are more useless and/or less pleasant. About the same, I think, judging from those met in the past.

[“Scotland Yard is investigating Lord Mandelson over an email he sent to Jeffrey Epstein about a €500 billion bailout of the eurozone while he was serving as business secretary Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, said that the email represented a “potential criminal offence” and that the investigation would be conducted “without fear or favour” It’s the first time that Scotland Yard has confirmed one of the emails that they are investigating Epstein messaged Mandelson about the bailout on the evening of May 9, 2010 It was formally announced the following morning https://thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/scotland-yard-peter-mandelson-investigation-jeffrey-epstein-eurozone-email-qtrdpdwph“]

Epstein, Mandelson, Ghislaine Maxwell, Israeli Intelligence…the whole set-up was a transnational Jew/Israel mafia, in effect, with both political/military and commercial intelligence the immediate aim. In respect of Mandelson, he obviously gave Epstein advance knowledge of imminent UK Government moves which, if known about in advance of public announcement, could and probably did lead to illicit profits in not even millions of pounds but hundreds of millions.

See also:

Has Mandelson been asked about any offshore bank accounts or trusts he has, or in respect of which he was or is the beneficiary?

Starmer-stein…

Can you imagine? Starmer-stein may be gone by June or July, after which the UK may have its first “chavscum” Prime Minister, complete with tattoos, “vapes”, and a complete absence of any education or culture…

Our animal friends. Yes, foxes will kill chickens etc. The answer to that is to protect domestic fowl appropriately, not to kill foxes.

The solution, for the UK, is to leave NATO and to cultivate better relations with Russia. They will let us have gas at cost price.

As said before, I do not think that I can improve on my 2016 description of Trump: “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, and surrounded by a phalanx of Jews”. That description was on my Twitter account, which was deleted permanently by Twitter in 2018 at the instigation of a pack of Jews connected to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal (and which had conspired for several years to that end).

“They” arrive in this or that country as “refugees”, or as economic migrants and/or businessmen, but over time infiltrate the economic life of the host countries, the universities, the mainstream media, the legal system and professions, and political life.

Trump’s latest idiocy has quite possibly killed off a goodly proportion of the European (and some other) economies.

Some readers of the blog may think that I supported Trump in both the 2016 and 2024 U.S. Presidential elections. In a sense, I did, but for one reason only, namely because I believed that Trump would not ignite a war between Russia and NATO, whereas Hillary Clinton might have, and Kamala Harris (a stupid woman completely under Israeli/Jewish lobby control, just like Biden) also might have. Avoidance of war, a war which might have gone nuclear, was pretty much my sole reason for preferring Trump to the alternatives.

Whatever happens in the present 2-front war being waged by Israel, in the long term, Israel has no future.

Hegseth seems to be utterly idiotic. Amazing what contortions people will make merely for purposes of careerism.

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

…and the rest of their production cannot, at present, be exported, by reason of the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Gulf Arabs now see that they have not only made themselves vassal-states of the American imperium, but also that that quasi-imperial power cannot ultimately protect them.

Puppet? Vassal? Slave? You choose. As soon as an individual compromises with “them”, he is —as far as I am concerned— excommunicate.

Mandelson, Glasman, Epstein, “Maxwell” (etc)— all Jews (well, Ghislaine Maxwell is half-). Morgan McSweeney— no, true, he is not. He is just another Israel-puppet, selected as a favoured house-serf long ago.

He moved to London in 1994 at the age of 17. He first lived with his mother’s sister in Fulham. He worked on building sites. He started university at the London School of Economics but left after two years.[3] He then stayed with his uncle, a priest, in California. After that, he spent several months on the Sarid kibbutz in Israel in the late 1990s.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_McSweeney#Early_life_and_education

In 2017, he formed Labour Together during the Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, where he sought to replace Corbyn and to reduce left-wing influence in the party.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_McSweeney#2015_Liz_Kendall_Labour_leadership_campaign]

McSweeney is regarded as the leading architect of the think tank Labour Together.[8] He became director in 2017, reporting to a board that included Reed, Lisa NandyJon Cruddas and Trevor Chinn [a very wealthy Jew]he determined that it would be possible to peel away the soft left, younger “idealists” of Labour from Corbyn’s support base, eventually picking Keir Starmer as a suitable figure to replace Corbyn as leader.[6][8][5] He composed a three-year plan for Starmer to become Prime Minister after taking control of the party, which involved first performing “immediate CPR” to reform the party’s ranks (which included removing supporters of Corbyn and Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard and excluding them from future leadership contests… He was then recruited to run Starmer’s 2020 campaign for Labour leader, which Starmer won.[2] During this time McSweeney set up the Center for Countering Digital Hate, initially designed to target online antisemitismIn February 2026, it was reported that Labour Together paid the PR firm APCO Worldwide to spy on journalists critical of Starmer. These included reporters from The Sunday TimesThe Guardian and Declassified UK.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_McSweeney#Director_of_Labour_Together]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Chinn]

 “McSweeney and his acolytes saw themselves as insurgents within the Labour Party. As long as Starmer’s private office was functional, they could control the party’s politics themselves — without interference from small-minded Westminster villagers. They knew that Starmer’s real life — his true self — was not the work they shared with him. Their political project was predicated on this unpolitical leader doing as he was told

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_McSweeney#Director_of_Campaigns]

There you have it— Starmer-stein a complete puppet, little better than a ventriloquist’s dummy, and the instructions of the Israelis and the UK Jewish lobby mostly relayed to Starmer via both the Jew Mandelson and, also, an agent unknown at the time to the British public, i.e. McSweeney.

No judge in this country should be Muslim, Jew, or non-white.

[“The Economist is concerned about the rapid depletion of ammunition by the US Army:

The cost of replacing ammunition in the first four days would have been 20-26 billion US dollars.

However, the problem is more about shortages than costs. It is estimated that America used more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first days of the war, but the Pentagon planned to purchase only 57 new ones in the current fiscal year.

Supplies of THAAD interceptors have not been carried out since 2023, and the Pentagon has not placed new orders this year. A total of 39 interceptors are planned to be delivered in 2027 – six years after their order.“]

I still think that the Iranians might have done better to launch everything they had, simultaneously, against Tel Aviv, ben-Gurion Airport, and Dimona, and to have done so before the Israeli/American attacks.

You read it here first.

Britain will soon be unrecognizable“, says Goodwin. It already is. Where have you been for the past 25 years? Oh yes, tweeting, for many years, against “racism,” and supposed “neo-Nazis” (including, a few times, against me, many years ago).

Goodwin’s political career has suffered a setback following the election of a pseudo-Green loonie woman at Gorton and Denton by-election. His public profile has slipped.

Needless to add, Goodwin has never had anything much to say about Israel and the UK Jewish lobby, and the recent Israeli/American attacks on Iran (supported by almost all Jews in the UK) have left him floundering, with really nothing to say. Foreign policy is not at all his forte anyway.

The US did not want war, the Israelis did. The tail wags the dog…

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Diary Blog, 16 March 2026

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Just the place for a holiday or an investment opportunity. Oh, wait a moment…

Were the UK to leave NATO and cultivate friendly relations with Russia, we could have Russian oil and gas at cost price.

What did you expect from Starmer-stein, a clueless careerist and moneygrubber who finds it hard to distinguish between a man and a woman…

Actually, that reminds me of the so-called “Ukrainian rent boys” trial involving Starmer, and which I believe has now been delayed even longer. Will be interesting to see what transpires.

As blogged previously, Starmer is trying to please both his largely Muslim —and other anti-Israel— voters and, at the same time, Israel and the UK Jewish lobby, that put Starmer into the Labour leadership, and so the office of Prime Minister, in the first place.

A house divided against itself cannot stand“…

Not an issue that affects me personally now, though it would do were I still living in the large country house of which I had a lease in the 2002-2004 period. That house had an oil central heating system so complicated that two engineers had to come from the Midlands, maybe Derby, to tell us how to set the controls on the control panel (in the cellars), a panel that looked like something out of an old sci-fi film, or Stingray.

The oil was delivered by road tanker once a month, and they pumped enough to fill the tanks, so the price varied depending on usage, i.e. on the season.

As to the cost (and bear in mind this was well over 20 years ago), one cold January I got a bill for oil, for the month, of not much less than £700. For today’s value, I suppose you would have to add on the cost of coal and logs for the open fires (another £100 at least), then more than double it. Make it £1,600. For one month. That did not even cover heating the whole house, just some bedrooms, drawing room. library, kitchen/morning room area, Victorian conservatory, and the inner hall. We closed off many sections, including the ballroom.

God knows what the actual cost today, and/or soon, might be.

[my rented “splendour” in Cornwall, lived in during 2002-2004]

Quite. The Jews of Israel started this war, Trump concurred because they effectively control him and his increasingly mad administration (they may be blackmailing him re Epstein etc), and they and Trump must now face the Iranians alone.

Incidentally, should Israel fall at some future point, and Jew “refugees” start to play the victim (again) and want to move en masse to Europe, Europe including the UK, Ireland etc, should reply, “NEIN DANKE!

If only we in the UK had done that in the 1930s and 1940s.

[“Professor John Mearsheimer:

We’re not winning against Iran. We’re not winning.

We’re sending a message that we’re a bunch of fools. That we started a war we can’t win.

We didn’t have the required military forces to achieve any of the objectives that we were floating, and we had no plan.

What does this tell the Chinese and what does it tell the Russians?

It tells them that we are incompetent. Of course the Russians have had enough dealings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to fully understand just how incompetent we are.“]

Typical of the sort of nincompoops recently heading and/or now heading the armed services in the UK (maybe other services too, in fact). That one wants the UK to send its few ships to the Gulf to assist the evil Israeli regime and the mad Trump regime to fight Iran. A contrived and unnecessary war which has nothing directly to do with us.

Admirals who send ships into unnecessary wars, knowing they may well be sunk, and generals who send troops to almost certain death when they need not do so are unfit and should be dismissed or (if retired, like that one in the Daily Mail) ignored.

Now imagine the situation were there either an effective police force in this country or, failing that, a kind of British Freikorps, a squad of which would immediately detain and/or eliminate the migrant sex criminal.

Monkeyworld.

A former diplomat/intelligence officer (whose brother was a noted SAS officer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Crooke.

So, possibilities are that Netanyahu has been assassinated, or that he has been hit and badly injured and so is receiving medical treatment in a secret location, or that he is in some bunker or headquarters, plotting his next move.

There has even now been mooted an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran.

If the [Israeli] Jews use nuclear weapons, after having fomented and then started this war, and after their 2.5 years of sadistic destruction and slaughter in Gaza, one thing is sure— the people of the world do not and will not want to hear any more of the old “holocaust” farrago from them.

Ed Davey is a total buffoon, and the LibDems are a joke party, only polling at 10%-15%, but luckily for them their vote is concentrated in 50-100 seats, which therefore gifts the LibDems (at present) 72 MPs.

They should be publicly executed, as a warning to other evil individuals, and to mark societal abhorrence.

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Diary Blog, 11 March 2026

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Lindsey Graham is a paid puppet of Israel and the connected Israel/Jewish lobby within the USA.

No argument…but what about the far more active anti-free-speech Jewish lobby?

See also:

Now remove the “Israelis” from Spain.

[Dresden as it was in 1945, after British bombing and later American aerial attack, the latter also involving German mothers and children shot down in the streets by American fighter aircraft]

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Trump says that the American taxpayers will cover the bill for all such damage. Another “own goal”, thanks to Israel and the American Jewish lobby. Well done, idiot.

Schwerpunkt: Central Israel, especially Tel Aviv and ben-Gurion Airport. Also, in the Negev Desert in the south, the Dimona nuclear plant.

Hold them upside down until all the gold falls from their pockets.

[“Iran has more missiles than anyone thinks Iran’s missile and launcher capabilities are vastly underestimated by the West (IDF, CENTCOM, media). Iran has been building, stockpiling and mass-producing missiles and launchers for 35+ years through a huge ecosystem of state, private companies, startups, universities and research centers — far more advanced and resilient than North Korea’s smaller, fully state-owned program, says analyst Patricia Marins.

Key points:

Claims that Iran is “running out” of missiles or launchers are nonsense — they manufacture 10–12 different models capable of reaching Israel, with some in production for nearly 30 years

Only ~30 launchers have been visually confirmed destroyed so far

Iran has hundreds of hidden underground silos (mapped: ~25 bases with 4–6 silos each; real number likely 50–100 → 200–600 silos total). Many use revolver systems (rotate and reload automatically, ~8 missiles per drum)

Iran hasn’t even started massively using silos yet — deliberately avoiding exposing them to satellites. They still prefer mobile launchers while working to suppress Israeli/US drone/surveillance dominance first

The West keeps repeating the same mistake (like with Russian missiles in Ukraine) — underestimating long-term production capacity and strategic depth.”]

Interesting, if accurate.

I think it far more likely that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has (not for the first time) caught up with Lewis and so he has locked his now-quite-inactive Twitter/X account to avoid the embarrassment of random questions about that from people.

The UK Jew/Israel lobby almost succeeded, at first, in protecting Lewis from publicity (online, and in the Press etc) in 2018, when he was being prosecuted by the SRA for abusing people online. It may be that we shall discover that Lewis is again being put before another disciplinary tribunal, this time on more serious charges.

Incidentally, while Lewis had at one time a flat in Eilat, Israel, more recent information (unverified) seems to suggest that he is based, when not in the UK, in Netanya, near Tel Aviv.

That woman, Fiona-Natasha Syms, is the ex-wife of the former (until 2024) Conservative MP for Poole. Despite, in the past, having been generally pro-Israel, pro-Jew etc, she found that, when she expressed her horror at the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian Arab civilians, the majority women and children, in Gaza, and the injury and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of others, her UK-resident Jewish “friends” all turned against her.

While it cannot be said for certain, it seems likely that either Israeli online hackers or other fanatically-Zionist Jews have targeted her. She, as someone who could not be, plausibly, labelled “antisemitic” (let alone “Nazi”, “neo-Nazi” etc), and as someone once well-connected in the Conservative Party, was a dangerous voice of truth and conscience about Gaza, Palestine, Israel etc on Twitter/X, and has probably been targeted by Jewish and/or Israeli elements for that reason.

[“I have talked to some Israeli officials and read a good deal of Israeli media. Here is how the war in Iran is perceived there so far:

1) On a tactical level, they believe it has gone very well and Israel has destroyed more of the Iranian military capability than expected.


2) They are disappointed that the regime has not been weakened as much as expected and that they remain in firm control. In particular the lack of a “rise up” among the population is a cause of concern.


3) They are finding Trump to be unreliable. While Israel favors a prolonged campaign to ensure total dismantlement of threats, Trump has signaled a desire to end the war “soon,” creating a potential rift in war aims.


4) Hezbollah is stronger than expected. It has hit Israel with drones and missiles and killed soldiers. They have recovered better than expected.


5) The inability of Ben-Gurion airport to withstand closing and chaos has shown fragility in Israeli social cohesion.


6) They are disappointed in the lack of support from Gulf States who want an end to the war rather than the escalation Israel wants.


7) Israel accepts that the regime in Tehran will survive and just hopes that this weakens them in preparation for the next round.


8) There is a growing fear among Israeli strategists that they are winning the war but losing the region. While military targets are being obliterated, the civilian infrastructure damage is causing a backlash.


9) The war is proving very expensive. The need to divert NIS 28 billion ($9 billion) to the military has forced the government to freeze social projects, leading to the first significant anti-government protests since the war began, specifically from the middle class bearing the tax burden.


10) They are aware that the war is very unpopular in the US and that Israel is being blamed. They are concerned about the ramifications for the alliance
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While Netanyahu is painting this as a huge success, it really doesn’t look like one to Israeli strategic planners. The public knows it as well.“]

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[“The removal of historical figures such as Winston Churchill from English banknotes may appear trivial to some.

But it isn’t.

It matters far more than many people realise.

Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated decision about banknote design.

It is part of something much larger: a slow but relentless erosion of our national culture, identity, and collective memory.

As Professor Frank Furedi has observed, we are living through what he calls “the War Against the Past.”

Across the Western world, an assortment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucrats, radical activists, and increasingly compliant public institutions are engaged in a cultural project that seeks to delegitimise our national histories and strip away the symbols that once anchored our collective identity and memory.

The pattern is now familiar.

Statues are toppled.

Historical figures are reframed as morally suspect or “divisive”.

Public institutions rename buildings, spaces, Tube lines.

School and university reading lists are “decolonised”.

The past itself is rewritten to emphasise only its sins while ignoring its achievements.

Even the quiet symbolism of everyday life — the images on our currency, the names of our streets, the monuments in our squares — is steadily edited and sanitised.

What replaces these symbols is rarely anything meaningful.

Instead of historically significant figures who helped shape the nation, we are offered neutral, universal imagery that stands for almost nothing at all — landscapes, wildlife, abstractions.

On the surface this seems harmless.

But symbolism matters.

For centuries, historical figures served as cultural signposts, reminders of the history, struggles and achievements that shaped the nation and its people.

Remove those signposts, and something subtle but important begins to change.

The past becomes distant. Then contested. And then disposable.

Gradually, the story of a nation — its triumphs, failures, and defining moments — is hollowed out.

In its place emerges a new idea of national identity that is deliberately thin: one that defines Britain not through its history or traditions but through the abstract celebration of diversity itself.

In other words, the only thing that is meant to define us is that we have no defining identity at all.

The endpoint of this cultural project is not inclusion but historical amnesia, or cultural erasure.

A society that is detached from its past, uncertain of its traditions, and unsure of what binds it together.

This is what Sir Roger Scruton meant when he wrote: “A society that loses its memory loses its identity.”

And that loss happens gradually, through thousands of seemingly small decisions — a statue removed here, a curriculum altered there, a historical figure quietly replaced on a banknote.

Each individual change may appear insignificant.

But taken together they represent something far more profound: the slow disconnection of a people from their own history and collective memory.

A people who no longer really know who “we” are.

I doubt the bureaucrats who made this decision at the Bank of England fully grasp the cultural significance of what they are doing.

But intention is not the point. The effect is what matters.

When we remove the symbols of our past, we further weaken the very foundations of our identity.

Or Orwell warned: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

This is what is happening and accelerating around us.

This is what Furedi meant by the “War Against Our Past”.

And this is why it really matters.

Not because of one banknote.

But because of the much larger cultural story it represents.“]

[Matt Goodwin]

While I have great hostility to what Churchill did (especially the globally-disastrous war against the German Reich), he was and is still a towering modern historical figure (though arguably not quite as “towering” as his present admirers think).

I certainly not only agree with what Goodwin and others said there but have myself blogged about all of that previously, in some cases years ago. “Mental landscape“, “societal landscape” etc.

To adapt one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms, though, the point is not only to understand what is happening, but to change the direction of travel, and that will almost certainly not be a “peaceful” process.

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The whole idea of “political appointees” to ambassadorial positions (common in the US, rare in the UK) is not a good one.

James Callaghan appointed his son-in-law, Peter Jay, as Ambassador to the US in the mid-1970s. He was a disaster, and his wife, Margaret Jay, even more so, especially when she had a flagrant affair with a Jew journalist: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jay,_Baroness_Jay_of_Paddington#Personal_life and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jay_(journalist).

As a matter of fact, that Jew political scribbler, Bernstein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bernstein], I seem to recall reading somewhere, was also, at one time, I think 1980s, involved with a Czech couple involved with SovBloc espionage, and who also ran some kind of informal group-sex club in the Washington D.C. and nearby Maryland/Virginia areas.

I never met any of the above-named people, I am glad to say, but I recall that someone I knew met, separately and in the course of business, both Margaret Jay and Peter Jay in the 1980s. Margaret Jay was described to me as “a horrid media person“, while Peter Jay (described to me as “a peculiar, excited, rubber-lipped person“) was a kind of glorified receptionist and greeter (sub nom “Chief of Staff”) to the Jewish criminal, speculator, and major MOSSAD asset, Robert “Maxwell”.

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