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I happened to see a film on Channel 4, Wicked Little Letters, a kind of comedy-drama based (very loosely) on actual events in the 1920s. Apparently, the film has been popular.
Well, like not a few films, this one had much going for it —famous actors and actresses, and good locations— yet, in the end, was underwhelming.
The subject-matter is hardly new— poison-pen letters causing turmoil in a small town, in this case on the South Coast of England.
The plot is derivative, and the denouement could be seen coming down the track long before it arrived. The acting, though skilled, was (presumably deliberately) overplayed. Apart from that, the anachronisms were several.
At one point, Timothy Spall’s character reads in his newspaper and comments about the Suffragettes’ campaign going on while “the boys” were fighting in France. Well, the film is set in the 1920s, and we hear that the War has been over for some time. Women of 30+ were given the vote, in principle, in 1918.
Another anachronism: one of the main female characters has a West Indian boyfriend living with her, very unlikely in the 1920s, if only because there were very few blacks in England at the time.
Then we see that one of the local women is also West Indian. In Littlehampton, Sussex. In the 1920s.
The first ever appointed local policewoman, who detects the truth, turns out to be Indian, again very unlikely in that era.
A policeman seen towards the end of the film is a West Indian; in reality, the first black policeman in England joined the (Metropolitan) Police only in 1968, I believe.
Finally, the judge at the eventual trial is also black!
This is more than unintelligent casting; it is cultural sickness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Little_Letters
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A repentant sinner…
What a surprise…or maybe not. I have been blogging about this for some time.
I think not.
Beria’s mother was of Georgian noble stock, and a devotee of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Though it is not completely impossible that his father was a Jew or part-Jew, he was a landowner in Mingrelia and was a Mingrelian (a minority inside Georgia). Again, a Jewish background is highly unlikely.
Why did a German newspaper in 1952 describe Beria as Jewish? Probably part of the early Cold War propaganda output pumped out at the time by the West German intelligence agency called the Gehlen Organization (a CIA ally). A good way to counteract Soviet propaganda etc in postwar West Germany would be to say that Beria was a Jew (many Communists were, of course).
The Gehlen Organization was based at Pullach, near Munich, which makes my theory even more likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
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Interesting philosophical and political exposition
https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/the-slave-on-the-throne
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That tweet shows the problem. Politics is not, or should not be, a game. Those Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians” in the 1920s however regard it as a game, in which “approved” players get careers, money, prestige (even if they “lose” the “game” in relative terms). For the British people, though, this is no game. It concerns their lives, the future of their children etc.
You see the same pathology, or a similar one, in scribblers such as Peter Hitchens, or scribblers-turned-politicians such as Matt Goodwin, when they talk about there being a “debate” about the migration invasion etc. This is no “debate”. It is an invasion and a war.
So far, I concede that Burnham has done two things of which I approve. The first was to ditch the Digital ID policy of Starmer-stein. It had to go, and was not only ludicrously unworkable but also a dystopian intrusion into “the lives of others”.
Liz Kendall has been flying well above her true level (county council or local council) for years. She has no business being in national politics. Thick as two short planks despite her paper education, and an Israel-loyalist (Labour Friends of Israel) as well. She has a history of trying to make the disabled and needy etc poorer, yet she herself lives with an Old Etonian asset manager worth untold millions, and in a house worth millions:
“Kendall is currently in a relationship with Old Etonian and global head of multi-asset solutions at Santander Asset Management, James Ind. She lives in Notting Hill in a Victorian home purchased for £3.9 million in 2021.”
[Wikipedia]
I think that Liz Kendall is at least part-Jew, but have so far been unable to find direct evidence of that.
She is 55 now, so her dismissal probably marks the end of her political career beyond being a backbench MP.
Still, good riddance, as far as it goes.
Lammy gone too. Brilliant. He demeaned every office he held. A thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire”.
Not to forget:
Rachel Reeves too. Good news. Another hard-faced Labour Friends of Israel puppet.
Why would that be? The recent history of women in such roles has not been very positive. Dan Hodges is a woke joke.
If the System wants a war, it will get it, but maybe not the war it wants…
Hey, wait a minute! My own birthday is the 2nd of September…
So far, I have liked what little I have heard from him.
The Kiev regime is pushing Russia too far. I now cannot rule out a nuclear attack on Kiev.
Brief word about 20 July 1944
20 July 1944: an attempt to assassinate Hitler, and to take over the reins of power in the German Reich.
I have made comment about that almost every year since the blog was inaugurated a decade ago. I do not feel inclined to add to what I have said on previous occasions, but readers can use the search box on the blog should they wish to see my previous comments.
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