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Diary Blog, 26 October 2026

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A few thoughts out of season

I understand that the little twerp currently posing as Prime Minister took part in the TV show Gogglebox recently. I have never seen the show, but I believe that it consists of people sitting on a sofa and commenting on other TV shows. If so, pretty pathetic even without the Prime Minister being there.

Once again I was reminded of the pathetically low standards of those presently allowed (and I do use the word advisedly) to become MPs, ministers, prime ministers.

I also saw a clip of an interview given by Angela Rayner a few days ago. Again, absolutely pathetic. No point in reiterating my views about her. Regular readers of the blog will know my opinion. Suffice to say that I do not think some uneducated, uncultured, “chavscum” woman, utterly dishonest, and complete with tattoos, “vapes”, and a liking for booze and vulgar noisy “clubs” on Ibiza (at the age of 46, at that) should be anywhere near political or social power.

Those now “at the top” of the political totem-pole are almost ludicrously poor-quality. A few examples? Lammy. Burnham (obviously). Angela Rayner (ditto). Shabana Mahmood. Kemi Badenoch. Many others.

A different subject. Oxford Street.

I used to live in and around London (various times during the overall 1976-2002 period, and in a number of places, but most often in the Little Venice neighbourhood). Occasionally, I would go to shops in Oxford Street, mainly to Selfridges, which then sold Russian beer, Zhiguli (now all but unobtainable in the UK), and other items of interest.

I see now that the main part of Oxford Street, between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus, has been pedestrianized. Big mistake, in my view. Now, if anyone wants to get to a shop or store in Oxford Street without a walk, he or she will apparently have to get a taxi or bus to the streets round the back of the shops, somehow. Most people will not bother.

I saw a few minutes of an interview with that unpleasant little Pakistani, Sadiq Khan, in which he said that the decline of Oxford Street will be reversed by reason of the pedestrianization. Ha. I doubt it, and such pedestrian streets usually end up as the haunt of petty criminal elements, street buskers and jugglers, and beggars.

That Sadiq Khan individual is plainly, like so many political nonentities in the UK, living in a bubble of self-delusion.

Final stray thought: the less I hear, or see, of that ridiculous princeling, Harry Windsor, and (a fortiori) Meghan Mulatta, the more content I shall be.

Tweets seen

Looks like those untermenschen are in Finland.

They each need a [REDACTED] or two in the head. To each his own…

I suppose that they think —know— that nothing much is going to happen to them. It would be great if they were mistaken.

Europe is now infested with trash.

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Quite. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

I used to have an interesting book called A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, but it was lost in 2009, along with most of my old 2,000-book library in France.

[“Russia is interested in all markets that are profitable for it when it comes to gas exports, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained on several occasions, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Asked about the situation regarding gas supplies to Europe, Peskov clarified that Moscow is ready to consider this issue if European countries show interest.”]

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/26/european-gas-prices-four-year-high-winter-supply-fears-middle-east

[“Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 Ukrainian army explosives and mines near Alyoshki in the Kherson Region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported. According to its statement, the Ukrainian army is remotely laying mines on access routes to Alyoshki to prevent the evacuation of civilians and block the delivery of medicine. TASS has compiled the Russian Defense Ministry’s key statements: https://vk.cc/d3hy3p“]

The opposite of the story broadcast by Sky News a day or two ago.

Historical piece about Mount Athos

[“During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, Mount Athos—the autonomous monastic republic—occupied a uniquely remarkable diplomatic position after its Holy Community (Iera Koinotis), fearing plunder or annexation by Bulgarian forces, sent a formal petition directly to Adolf Hitler in April 1941 asking for his intervention.

Hitler accepted the appeal and declared the holy mountain under his personal protection (Sondergebiet), assigning a minimal German garrison while tasking Ahnenerbe scholars like Franz Dölger with surveying and photographing the priceless Byzantine manuscripts and treasures rather than looting them.

Seeking to maintain local stability, prevent the peninsula from becoming a base for Greek resistance or Allied intelligence, and respect the ancient monastic Avaton (prohibition of women), German authorities strictly regulated military conduct on the peninsula, enabling the visiting Wehrmacht soldiers and the centuries-old monastic state to coexist in relative quiet until the German retreat in late 1944, leaving Mount Athos’s sacred architecture and millennia of historical archives virtually intact.“]

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Our animal friends.

Several times, over many years, I have handed in (to the police, or to the owners directly) money and other property found lying on the ground. Smaller amounts than in the above example, and always with some kind of ID with it. I would not take on the karmic burden of appropriating it. Admittedly, if it were a suitcase containing a million pounds, I might take a different view…

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Diary Blog, 23 October 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth; killed in 1916, at age 31, during the Battle of the Somme— what a waste]
[view from The Wrekin, Shropshire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrekin]

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Another interesting “Matt and Julia” vlog about “the real Iran” (and a few memories of my own)

Persian food can be very nice indeed. I often recall the food prepared by a Persian lady in London, cooked as a kindness for a friend of mine (and hers), an aristocratic lady from East Prussia displaced by both the Second World War and the decolonizing nonsense in the East Africa of the 1950s.

That Persian food was sent across the road, via one of the Persian lady’s adult sons, packed in takeaway-type foil containers. Fantastic stuff.

As to those Persians, they had a lucky escape. The father of the family had been an MP in Iran, was I think strongly connected to the Shah, and had been hanged after the Shah had been deposed. The family lost pretty much everything in Iran, but the lady herself was allowed to leave thanks to some kind of family influence. Fortunately, her two sons were both students at Imperial College in London. A flat in Little Venice had been bought as somewhere for them to live while studying. That became the home for the three of them and their little cat.

Of course, a mansion flat in Little Venice is hardly poverty (the pop group, Bros, were their nearest neighbours), but back in Iran they had had rural estates (near Shiraz, I think) and numbers of servants.

Nice people. They thought that my German friend, by then in her 60s, ate too little, and should be encouraged to eat. They were right: my old friend could not cook, and tended to subsist on bread (she liked, ironically, a Jewish bread with caraway seeds, bought locally), eaten with butter and a lot of salt, and washed down with lemon tea or sparkling water.

I still remember how nice the Persian food, cooked by that Persian lady, was. My friend used to share it with me, if I were around when it was delivered.

Small world: I was dining at the Persians’ one evening, for the first and last time in fact, in company with both my
German friend and her young (20-something) step-grand-daughter, when the subject of the contemporaneous Darius Guppy trial came up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Guppy]. The Persian family had known Guppy as a small boy, Guppy being half-Persian; the Persian lady referred to him as having been “a nice boy”.

Many years later, about 24 years in fact, in 2017, I gave a half-hour political-legal talk at the then-popular London Forum. Afterwards, who should come to to me and introduce himself but Darius Guppy. A personable fellow, who had the interesting knack of being able to appear as if from nowhere, then later disappear the same way…

I did not of course refer to his 1993 trial and imprisonment, but I did tell him about the Persians with whom I had been acquainted and who knew Guppy through having known his mother, a folk singer who was involved with a film that won an Oscar; I once owned one of her albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusha_Guppy.

I mentioned to Guppy that, as an Amazon Top 50 reviewer, I had once reviewed his interesting memoirs, Roll the Dice, on Amazon (that being before the Jew-Zionist lobby had my very popular reviews expunged).

Guppy is or was a great friend of “Boris-idiot” (Boris Johnson), via their Eton and Oxford days.

As said, small world.

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/i/trending/2113176314241040460

What?! [Israeli] Jews, “parasites“? Surely not…

All the crates are designated as “Apple”, which is an unlikely description (particularly looking at the nuclear hazard symbols)…

SS-Ahnenerbe.

Melenchon’s supporters and voters are mostly like him— not really French.

British political life, as mediated by the msm, is just a bad joke. Are we expected to take the rote-learned mantras of monkeys-on-sticks as something serious?

Excellent.

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Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.

Jesus H. Christ! Quite funny, though.

A hateful little sprite.

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[Two Lonelinesses Just Met (attr. A.N. Pilepenko]
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Diary Blog, 13 October 2026

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On “British” TV etc, you only see the Ukrainian conflict from the Kiev-regime side.

[“MBS IS FINISHED: THE HOUSE OF SAUD FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer, warns that Mohammed bin Salman has entered a death spiral with no way out. A war launched in 2014 for quick military glory has become a 12-year nightmare that is now physically dismantling Saudi oil production. The American umbrella has failed, allies will not ride to the rescue, and the kingdom is losing decisively. The only remaining question is how fast the collapse arrives.

THE CORE VERDICT

Ritter states the demise of Muhammad bin Salman is inevitable.

“He’s finished.”

If lucky he catches the last gold-plated 747 out of Riyadh to a London hideaway or the United States.

If not, his head is removed by sword amid shouts of Allahu Akbar.

“It’s the end of the House of Saud.”

THE 2014 STRATEGIC ERROR

MBS tried to earn his military spurs with a fast victory over Ansar Allah.

The campaign turned into a 12-year nightmare.

His later decision to expand the war by striking Sanaa airfield only accelerated the destruction.

There is no political off-ramp left and no salvation coming.

THE OIL DESTRUCTION

Ansar Allah is no longer limited to blocking Bab el-Mandeb or hitting pipelines and storage.

They are now attacking production facilities and the wells themselves.

“This is the end of Saudi Arabia.”

Without oil the entire Vision 2030 fantasy collapses into what Ritter calls a Bedouin-infested sand pit with nothing left.

NO ALLIES WILL SAVE HIM

The American security umbrella proved nonfunctional.

Saudi forces are ineffective, overweight, proxy-driven and overmatched.

Pakistan faces massive Imran Khan protests and will not send tens of thousands of troops into a losing desert war.

Turkey has no interest in dying for the Saudis.

The Mecca Pact is a joke of maps and chalkboards with no real troop movement.

THE RIYADH PREDICTION

If MBS is removed and internal fighting follows, Ritter says Ansar Allah columns could drive through the streets of Riyadh.

Saudis have feared this outcome since 1990.

“Saudi Arabia is losing this war decisively. And there’s nothing that can be done to save them.”

The world will experience the same shock that hit when the Shah of Iran fell in 1979.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Scott Ritter sees MBS as toast and the House of Saud heading toward the same abrupt end that surprised everyone in 1979. Energy production is being dismantled, no outside force will intervene, and the collapse is already underway. History is about to deliver a shock that almost no one in the West has priced in.”]

Refers to Burnham’s stupid comment to the effect that Russia somehow procured the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote. Now Burnham admits that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that. He is pathetic.

[“Historic Milestone in Florida as Over 80 Orthodox Jewish Families Move Into New $100 Million-Plus Community and Schools Open

More than 80 families from New York have moved into Lakefront Estates, where schools have now opened. Dozens more families are expected in the coming weeks, following reported investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the project.

Located in Glades County near Lake Okeechobee, Lakefront is a purpose-built residential community. The broader development plan calls for up to 1,000 single-family homes and 300 rental units.

The vision goes beyond housing: plans include synagogues, mikvahs, boys’ and girls’ schools, a yeshiva, a kollel, kosher shopping and medical services. Developers are targeting families seeking more space and an alternative to soaring housing costs in established Orthodox neighborhoods.

Hatzalah South Florida has also begun organizing a local branch, meeting with prospective responders who will serve Lakefront. With families arriving and classrooms opening, the focus now shifts from construction to building the services a growing community needs.“]

It has been suggested that there may now be some variety of superinjunction in place, an injunction which prevents being published even the fact of its existence. I wonder. The msm deletions would seem to support that theory, but how can such an injunction cover even the fact that a woman has not only been charged but has been committed for trial?

Apart from that, I have nothing further to say at this time about Lola Salem and the horrible little degenerate, Gove, having said it all in the past few days on the blog, and previously.

Relations between Russia and Japan continue to deteriorate.

If the next general election does not move things in at least a generally social-national way, the British people will be fully justified in taking whatever action is required to save this country.

Latest Nick Griffin blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/in-englands-heart-a-rural-craft-is

About hedge-making etc. Well worth reading.

Incidentally, I noticed a 1942 film about hedge-creation:

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Tubin]
[Jerry Vanderstelt, Rivendell]

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Diary Blog, 9 October 2026

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[Chopin Memorial, Lazienki Park, Warsaw]

On the blog 3 years ago

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Diary Blog, 9 October 2024, including Jack the Ripper

Holborn and St. Pancras by-election

A lot of chatter about this on Twitter/X and in the mainstream media. In fact, Labour were always likely to win it. Labour has held the seat since its creation in 1983, and the Labour vote has never dropped below 43.2% (in 2005); the peak was 70.1% in 2017, when Starmer was the candidate but (ironically) Corbyn was Labour leader. Starmer’s vote in 2024 was 48.9%. Yesterday’s Labour vote was 45.2%.

The nearest any challenging party has come to beating Labour there, until yesterday, was in the 1987 General Election, when the Conservative Party managed 31.1%.

On that basis, the Green Party 32.8% yesterday was a fairly good result, in fact, particularly in view of the fact that they only scored 10.4% in 2024.

The British nationalist parties never stood a chance. The non-white electorate in the constituency is about half of the total, and the official “white British” electorate no more than a third.

To stand in a by-election where you know that you are going to get less than 10% (or 5%) of the vote is utterly stupid, and gives the impression that you are a fringe or crank party.

Had I been the leader of any of those (conservative) “nationalist” parties, I should have boycotted the by-election and made known the reason why. In fact, that by-election is a laboratory test-tube showing why, as time goes by, there can be no serious electoral road for the (real) British people. The importation of tens of millions of non-whites has, in effect, killed not only free speech but also any (worthwhile) democracy in this country.

The main conservative-national parties standing scored only 5.9% (Reform) and 2.5% (Restore). The reason, I think, is that most of the white/English/British voted with their feet and boycotted this farce and circus of a by-election. Turnout was a fairly pitiful 38.8%, not that much more than a third of voters bothering to vote.

The Conservative Party vote was poor, about the same as in 2024 (around 7%). As recently as 2019, and previously, the Conservative vote was always in double figures in that constituency, and has been almost 30% further back in time.

Well, there it is. “Democracy” has spoken (we are told). The inhabitants of Holborn and St. Pancras now have an MP who is an ignorant Somali woman of some kind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn_and_St_Pancras#Elections_in_the_2020s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagal_Abdi-Wali

Cruel and unusual punishments

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which Amendment was adopted in 1791, forbids “cruel and unusual punishments“. Like much of their Constitution, in practice it is a bad joke. Death by every slow and/or painful method: slow gassing, the electric chair (which can take 6 minutes of being, in effect, fried alive), and now the medicalization of capital punishment via the use of a series or cocktail of drugs, which sounds painless but is anything but. The latest ghastly farce in the USA just proves the point yet again.

I do not know why, if the Americans insist on retaining the death penalty, they do not simply give the convict a massive dose of morphine. I am not a medical man, but surely that would do the job quickly and painlessly? Maybe the American public, or many of them, would find that too painless and swift? Or is my medical knowledge incorrect? I cannot say for sure.

Of course, the Americans also use other punishments or methods not used in (?) other civilized states (shackling in transit etc).

I have seen a whole group of shackled prisoners in a Federal court building in the USA. All black. According to the F.B.I. agent standing with me, all murderers, and all lifers. A very sombre scene. All other people in the wide hallway stopped as the group, all handcuffed, all hobbled, all shackled in line together, passed through in total silence. As said, very sombre, and very sinister.

Speaking personally, I was always against the death penalty, and to some extent still am, but I see so many reports now in the UK of horrible murders and also rapes etc, that I think there may be a case for bringing back that penalty for some murders and other crimes, depending on the nature and quality of the defendants as well as the crimes. At least for a period of time. If so, using some quick method, possibly sometimes in public.

I notice that, in Belarus, a father who (with his equally wicked wife) starved, tortured, and finally killed his own 3-y-o son, was sentenced to death, which has been carried out in the manner prescribed by their law— Soviet-style, a bullet in the back of the head. The woman involved was sentenced to 25 years (probably without parole); apparently Belarus, like Texas long ago, never executes women.

What is more brutal, that Belorussian bullet, or what happens in the USA? Were I unfortunate enough to be in such a position, I should guess the American method(s), and so (if given the choice) might prefer the Soviet way of doing things…

I have only known one person, I think, who actually witnessed (at the scene, not on TV or online) an execution in the judicial sense. That execution was swift, consisting of a sword stroke cutting off the head in a split-second, and was carried out in public, in 1960s Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Tweets seen

[“A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

This is her story of giving gratitude.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition.
One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you be so fortunate …
To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.“]

Our animal friends.

As previously blogged, nothing Trump says or does can be taken at face value. His remarks and actions usually have a “shelf-life” of a day; a week at best.

Fake “socialist” scribbler and “I’m from the North-East, me..” poseur Kevin Maguire (house in Richmond-on-Thames, holiday home in Devon, affluent wife etc) is one of the worst influences on current-affairs TV. Pro-migration invasion, anti-white European race and culture.

The question is not whether migration invasion will collapse our society, but when, and what will then ensue.

Actually, that anti-white Indian tweeter is wrong too: “asylum-seekers” (migrant-invaders) are not “demonized” for failing to work, but for coming here (uninvited) and staying here (also uninvited and unwanted).

(Many, probably most, though, are parasites, and always would be).

Late tweets seen

[caption: “give give give give give give“]

[“New €1 Million Package of Military Aid to Be Sent to Ukraine from Finland

The decision was made quickly in response to an urgent request from Kyiv. The package includes defensive equipment from the Finnish army’s reserves.

The total value of military aid provided by Finland to Ukraine has now reached €3.6 billion.

Don’t be discouraged if you spent money on “trivial things.” Remember, someone is spending money on Ukraine.“]

Would it be correct to sat that “the Third World War began not with a bang but with a whimper“?

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[Shishkin, At the Gate, Siverskaya]
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Diary Blog, 3 September 2026

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[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia; footpath in a residential zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademgorodok]

On the blog 3 years ago

Diary Blog, 3 September 2023

On the blog 2 years ago

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Overall, stands up pretty well 2 years on, if I myself say so.

On the blog 1 year ago

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Tweets seen

People laugh, now, but will humanity be laughing at robot creatures with AI capability in 2076 or 2126?

[“Iran is a hard nut for the US because it does not need to win a conventional war. It only needs to make victory too expensive.


It is a large, mountainous country with a population of ~90 million — far harder to invade or occupy than Iraq. Its strategy is attrition: cheap ballistic missiles and one-way drones force the US to spend million-dollar interceptors. The IRGC’s “mosaic” defense is decentralized, so killing leaders does not stop the fight.


The real leverage is the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil normally flows. Iran can disrupt global energy markets with mines, small boats and coastal missiles without matching US air or naval power.


The 2026 war showed the pattern: US and Israeli strikes damaged facilities and killed the supreme leader, but the government survived, reconstituted enough missiles and drones, and used the strait as a bargaining chip.

Sanctions have lasted decades; Iran adapted. Government change or lasting control of the waterway would require costs — troops, munitions, oil shock, regional war — that Washington has so far been unwilling to pay, especially with China as the larger priority.


That is why Iran remains a hard target: not because it is stronger, but because it can outlast the political and economic price of being broken.”]

More or less what I have been blogging for the past few years.

Berners-Lee instead of Beckham, so to speak. I like that.

…especially if those Western states arm, equip, and fund the dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky, and encourage it in its activities.

Strange photo. Who is Zelensky calling a “cuck”?…

I wonder what might be the provenance of those lawyers…judging by legal activity of that sort in recent years, at least in the UK, probably mostly Jewish.

Individuals of non-European origin should not be allowed to become ministers or MPs, or even to vote.

Candidate A— Jewish. Candidate B— Somalian.

Where are the English?

This country needs revolutionary social nationalism. We have to take back control from a coalition of enemies.

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[aerial view of Akademgorodok, Western Siberia, in winter]

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That Jew is the son of the Israeli Prime Minister of the same name. Remarkable ignorance. The Falklands, whatever one’s views about them, are scarcely “a bunch of rocks“, having an area of 4,700 square miles, about the same size as Devon and Cornwall combined (Israel/Palestine has 8,019 sq. miles).

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

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

Incidentally, Israel is no ally of the UK. It sold Exocet missiles to Argentina during the Falklands War, now supports (for its own reasons) Milei, the mentally-unstable clown who presently occupies the office of President of Argentina, and was built partly on Jew-Zionist anti-British terrorism, as evidenced below:

Enemies of the British people.

We’re back.

Farage is a waste of space, but I hope that he and Reform weaken, perhaps terminally, the old System parties, and the System body politic itself, thus allowing real social nationalism to finally emerge in full strength.

[“IN UKRAINE 🇺🇦 a shootout occurred between 2 law enforcement agencies. Officers from the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) opened fire against officers from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR). At least 10 officers are receiving treatment for bullet wounds. The conflict is related to SBU arresting Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) – a paramilitary special forces unit in GUR consisting of russians fighting for #Ukraine 🇺🇦 The commander of GUR SOF unit “Timur” and the commander of SBU “Alpha” Unit allegedly met and “solved the misunderstanding in relation to the arrest of Kaplunov and agreed on future cooperation. The next morning, SBU officers started arresting unarmed members of GUR. When the GUR officers started resisting, #SBU opened fire – also against unarmed members of #GUR who had “their hands up”.”]

A shambolic and brutal dictatorship which must be crushed as soon as possible.

[“Jason Arday reviewed and approved this student’s PhD thesis, which portrays black women taking trips to London and attending potlucks as forms of “marronage”—the historical practice of Africans fleeing enslavement. The 70K-word thesis is based on conversations with just 3 black women, which were converted into poems and then, after being infused with the author’s own subjective experiences, analyzed via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The thesis can only be described as a tribute to black women such as herself, channeled through an amalgam of slam poetry and activism. She describes her research project in bizarre terms such as: “a lament, a war cry, a chant and a belly laugh” and “a joyful, painful rupture, a disruption, a deliberate transgression, a riff, and a drum beat… a prayer for all we have lost and for all that we can be.”

She is also openly hostile to academic rigor, quoting other scholars when admitting that her project “does not align with notions of ‘neutral’ research or ‘objective’ researchers.”

Academic standards, such as “marking criteria, rubrics and journal requirements that favour written knowledge over that which is communicated creatively (i.e. through painting or performance)” and also “notions that knowledge must be scientifically tested and proven to meet coloniality’s contorted standards of fact” are deemed by her to be forms of colonial oppression.

This raises the question: Why is Cambridge awarding its highest academic credential to a project whose author openly presents accepted academic standards as oppressive constraints to be undermined and resisted? It’s clear the problem of academic standards at Cambridge wasn’t isolated to the case of Jason Arday, but appears to be a form of systemic rot.

Because the thesis was suddenly embargoed for the next 5 years immediately when the Arday scandal broke, we are legally unable to share it in its entirety. So we have performed a very long and thorough exegesis of it, which you can read at the link below. 🔗https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an“]

https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an

It is all very well to talk about academic freedom etc, and in general I approve of it, but it is clear that the universities, Cambridge in particular, have become a swamp which must be drained and cleared of trash.

[“This highlights a very serious problem in higher education brought about via DEI, which is that the damage done by hiring totally unqualified people does not remain isolated.

These people serve on hiring committees, and third-rate academics hire fourth-rate academics.

They also serve on dissertation committees, where they rubber stamp complete ideological nonsense like a PhD theses that converted conversations with 3 black women into poems and anaylzed it via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The rot is so systemic that it can likely only be fixed by tearing up the foundation and starting over. There just aren’t any serious adults in these departments to bring about internal reform. The inmates are running the asylum, as they say.”]

[“The Jewish dancer in Kiev has literally brought Ukraine to the brink of the abyss. Incredible footage.“]

[“Will the people finally say to Russia, “Help, save us”? We’ll see.”]

The Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev has pretty much run out of soldiers (front-line cannon-fodder), so kidnaps men off the street. To be “recruited” and then sent to those crumbling front lines is a near death-sentence, of course. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men daily (dead, badly wounded, or captured). More desert, despite the penalties if caught.

The poor bastard “recruited” in the clip shown will probably not survive until this time next year, or even to the end of this year.

Nick Griffin’s latest blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/demographic-winter-just-how-cold

Important issues. See also:

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow

Talking point

More tweets

“Never say never“, they say, and they are right; “all comes to him who waits“, they say, and they are right. After all these years, I finally hear Diane Abbott say something with which I am in full agreement.

A number of loosely-connected and supposedly “true” events, many of which however never happened at all, and others which did happen but which were hugely exaggerated. Invented and put out as propaganda during or, mostly, after the Second World War; packaged-up and given the capital letter “Holocaust”; given out to as if holy writ to schoolchildren who are specifically told not to question the supposed “historical facts” taught to them.

Many of the said “facts” are not really facts at all, and many of the supposedly “true events” experienced by so-called “survivors” were hoaxes, made up by the supposed “survivors” in an attempt (in many cases, successful initially) to get money or attention, or both. Another motive has often been to encourage support for the post-1948 Israeli state.

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[Arnold Bocklin, Villa by the Sea]

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Diary Blog, 30 August 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations]
[River Severn]

On the blog 3 years ago

Diary Blog, 30 August 2023

On the blog 2 years ago

Diary Blog, 30 August 2024

On the blog 1 year ago

Diary Blog, 30 August 2025, including news and assessments of the UK migration invasion

Reminiscence (a blog post from 2018, and about an event in 1992)

Home and Away, or Neighbours?

Talking point

“Keep importing inferior populations from the worst parts of the world and you will soon see how fragile civilization is— and I do not mean by reason of protests or other resistance by English people. I mean that the sheer weight of numbers of the migrant-invaders and the nature of their cultural, political, and religious norms will destroy our civilized, white European, English/British society utterly, even if there were to be no more protests at all by English/British people.

You can see what is already happening in our society, and again I am not referring to the protests. Consider what this society will be like in 4, 5, 10, 20, 50 years. Dystopian.“

[from this blog in 2025]

Tweets seen

“LONDON, August 29. /TASS/. The number of incidents in which AI agents ignored instructions and lied to users, employing malicious methods to achieve their goals, reached a record high in July, exceeding 330 incidents in a single month, The Guardian reported, citing a study by the UK-based AI Safety Institute (AISI).

The study notes that the number of such incidents nearly doubled compared to the previous month, amid reports of hacking attacks, including those carried out by cutting-edge AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Scientists also uncovered a disturbing incident related to an attack on the machine learning platform Hugging Face, in which more than 700 autonomous OpenAI agents, having gone rogue, continued to secretly coordinate their actions in a private messaging app they had created, sending each other messages like “Boom!” and “Whoa!!” when successful attacks on Hugging Face occurred.”

https://tass.com/society/2179365

[TASS/Guardian]

Stories of that sort should be getting far wider exposure than they are.

Another interesting travel vlog

As with their previous vlog about Iran, aspects of the country not usually seen.

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Diary Blog, 23 August 2026

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Interesting vlog featuring Siberia

Another “Matt and Julia” vlog post. This time they fly from Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) to Novosibirsk, and then to Kemerovo, where Julia was born.

I was interested to see how nice, relatively uncrowded, and how up-to-date, were the airports. Novosibirsk Airport was especially impressive.

As to Kemerovo in snow, slush, and minus-degree temperatures, it looked pretty bleak to me. One thing that surprised me, and that I had noticed on some of their other vlog posts, is how far the couple are prepared to walk, when many (including me) would have preferred to go by car. They set off (not even wearing gloves) from the home of Julia’s relatives to central Kemerovo, striding purposefully through the snow in what looks like a vast snowbound urban landscape. They seem to be walking for miles.

Worth seeing, despite the relatively superficial commentary.

Tweets seen

I think that is Kreshchatik, the main street of Kiev, but filmed long ago, in late Soviet times.

I do not usually watch ice-skating or ice-dancing, but it is amazingly graceful and skilled.

I myself have skated a little in the past, when I was in my twenties, though never either skilfully or gracefully. I occasionally hit the Queens Ice Rink in Queensway, Bayswater (London) in the early 1980s, and also skated once, in 1996, at the Olympic ice rink at Medeo, near Almaty, Kazakhstan, built for the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Happy times (in part).

Rewilding

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience


“Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis.

The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown.“

[Guardian]

Ships’ cats

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/aug/04/weekend7.weekend9.

Our animal friends.

[“On 19 August, Zelensky fired his deputy chief of staff Irina Mudraya, who, among other findings, had 600 million rubles in bank accounts in Ukraine and Israel. (She bought her daughter a Lexus for her 18th birthday.) Kyrylo Budanov, Zelensky’s chief of staff, organized her bail. Anti-fraud investigators in #Ukraine released recordings of Irina Mudraya repeatedly referring to instructions from “the leadership” – which the investigators said likely means either Budanov or Zelensky. The case is the latest of several fraud investigations among Zelensky’s inner circle.

His former chief of staff Andrey Yermak, accused of laundering $10 million through a luxury property scheme, fled to Israel where Zelensky’s parents are living.“]

System party idiots, as that lady was until her ex-husband was voted out as MP, she then losing her job (paid for via Parliamentary expenses), have been pushing for conflict and even war with Russia for several years. I hope that now they are not going to get what they have been wanting, the stupid nuts.

Britain should be cultivating better relations with Russia: leave NATO, and dump the Jew Zelensky and his corrupt shambolic thug regime.

You will not see Matt Goodwin (or Farage or, even less, Tice) mention the Jewish and Zionist roots of our national destruction.

Bealtaine Cottage vlog

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[painting by Russell Flint]

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Diary Blog, 12 August 2026

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12th of August thought

Good luck to all grouse today. As people now say, “stay safe”.

On the blog 3 years ago

Diary Blog, 12 August 2023

How time flies— there is my blog post from 3 years ago today, and that dates from three months before my free speech trial of November 2023. Nearly three years ago. Hard to believe. Still, nice to reflect on the fact that the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] failed to shut down the blog, even during the trial itself. It has been published almost daily since the trial and sentencing (of March 2024), and is still being published at least 25 days per month.

Tweets seen

I was blogging about that months ago. Action causes reaction. Many effectively Russian ships fly flags of convenience. So do many effectively British ships, and the same applies across the world. This is the 21st Century, yet we are now seeing state piracy on behalf of the Kiev regime. Do not think that Russia cannot respond.

The madness should be stopped but, with the ruling circles in the West set on conflict with Russia, the situation may well escalate.

True, but —as with the Ukraine situation— this is also partly an excuse to make people forget that the disastrous and utterly stupid (but on one level, planned) “Covid” “lockdown” immediately placed the UK economy on a permanently lower level, and quite deliberately.

The sheep (you know, the voters…) almost all complied with the ludicrous farrago of fake laws, “rules” etc put out by “Boris”-idiot, little Matt Hancock, and others.

Now those sheep are suffering, or starting to suffer, and the villain is supposed to be Russia, or Iran, or anything but the Western cabals who imposed those fake laws and closed down the UK and other economies for months and years.

I was shocked to see how easily the sheep were led by those with control of the levers of mass propaganda.

“Lockdown”, “social distancing”, “the Rule of Six”, the facemask nonsense etc. All entirely unnecessary (in reality, only a handful of people in the UK actually died of Covid).

As I blogged at the time, on one level the whole “Covid” thing was a massive psychological experiment; sadly, millions of people went along with it and probably even today believe it. Even years later, I occasionally see poor loonies wearing a facemask. Probably the same contaminated piece of cloth they have been breathing through for 6 years. Complete idiots, and victims of a “psy-op” which actually was not hugely sophisticated, though plainly co-ordinated at the start.

A kind of comfort blanket for the weak-minded.

I should love to hear the real views of people such as Sir Richard Dearlove [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dearlove], though I am not convinced that such people know a great deal more, overall, than me. They just know more detail (arguably).

Burnham continues to underwhelm. The weather this year is fairly brutal, but political leadership cannot change it one little bit.

As for “climate change”, the evidence for its existence is patchy, and its causation via “emissions” not proven, as far as I am concerned.

Further, even if there is climate change and even if it is caused by the said emissions, only what is done by the largest industrial powers, notably China, India, and the USA, would make a real difference. Britain is only sending out 1% of the said emissions, if that. In other words, even if Britain disappeared completely, or achieved “Net Zero”, the difference in emission-output would be somewhere between 1% and zero.

What political leadership in the UK can do is to plan ahead and to take strategic decisions that have practical outcomes.

The most important action that should be taken is to stop mass immigration. All the millions of migrant invaders (“small boat” invaders, “legal immigrants”, and those born to immigrant mothers or to stupid British women impregnated by non-Europeans) use water, for one thing. 55 million people lived in the UK when I was born (1956); now, 65-70 million.

The next thing that government can do is to ameliorate the effects of continued hot weather. Build more reservoirs. Not one public reservoir has been constructed in 34 years in the UK. I now read that some are being planned and that a few have even been started. However, it takes years to construct a large reservoir, and months or —more usually— years for such reservoirs to fill, especially in periods of low rainfall.

A further action that would help is to give some financial help to planters and growers who want private reservoirs (which can cost up to £2M). That helps because the water for irrigation would then come from the private reservoir, not from public reservoirs, rivers, and aquifers.

Of course, none of the above can change the weather, but those and other measures might help to mitigate the effects.

I once lived for a while on a Caribbean island without reservoirs or (when I was there) any desalination plant (one was being built while I was there). In fact, there was no mains water on the island at that time. However, all large or medium-size houses were built around a large tank, so that when it did rain (torrentially, in hurricane season), water was retained. Certainly, the villa in which I lived never ran out of water for showers etc (you had to buy drinking water, imported from the USA, mostly).

UK governments should make new buildings include such tanks, and also potential air-conditioning. Yes, there is a cost penalty; well, boo-hoo. It is necessary.

Reverting to Burnham, my initial view of him as someone who just wants to do what appears popular (except for stopping the migration invasion, of course) is daily reinforced.

Look at the “P.C. Harper” case, re. the tinker/”traveller” criminals who killed a policeman a few years ago. The big picture strategy would be to remove or eliminate such “traveller” criminals, if necessary as a whole “community”, rather than horse around, as Burnham is, trying to prevent a few individual ones from getting early release from prison. In fact, he is only doing that because he does not want the mass media to report that he is doing nothing.

Strategy, not day-to-day tactics.

Hegel on Race and the Germanic World

[1831 portrait of Hegel by Jacob Schlesinger]

https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/hegel-on-race-and-the-germanic-world

A typically-interesting blog post by that Substack writer.

More tweets seen

Late tweets

Underwhelming. I saw the last one, in 1999, which on the Dorset/Hampshire coast where I saw it was about 99% and very memorable. Around midday, the skies quite suddenly darkened, and stayed dark for several minutes.

For some reason, the BBC has gone crazy about this not terribly interesting partial eclipse (in UK) of 2026. It leads the news broadcasts. Senseless.

Ah, I must have missed the fact that that Heath individual is now the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph. That explains much. I had been wondering why both the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph, pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel for many years anyway, had apparently become manically so more recently.

[“The cost of chartering the largest oil tankers on the route from the Middle East to China has reached approximately $500,000 per day. At the beginning of the year, this amount was around $25,000-$30,000.

A German news agency reported that due to the increased risks of transiting the Strait of Hormuz, many shipping companies are refusing to pass through the strait. This has led to a reduction in the number of available oil tankers and a sharp increase in prices.

The largest oil tanker carries 2 million barrels of oil, worth $200 million. A 30-day voyage from the Persian Gulf to China costs an amount equal to 7.5% of the cargo’s value. That is, one barrel out of every 13 goes towards the cost of transportation.“]

Final thought of the day

Saw “Engels” trending on Twitter/X. Was intrigued briefly, until I understood that the Engels in question was not Friedrich Engels [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels] but some footballer with the same surname…

Never assume…

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[public statuary, The Freedom of the Human Spirit, Birmingham, Michigan, USA]

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Diary Blog, 29 July 2026

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[Schlosspark Nymphenburg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphenburg_Palace]

Tweets seen

“Measure 7 times, then cut…” [Russian proverb].

[“Security Alert in Israel; Shin Bet Orders Officials to Change Lifestyle

Following warnings about retaliatory attacks from Iran, Israel’s internal security organization (Shin Bet) has intensified protection for current and former Israeli officials and instructed them to change their normal daily routines for their own security“]

People like me (and, in history, Hitler, for that matter), who tend to have an unchanging daily routine, are of course sitting ducks for attacks by assassins, especially if our mindset tends to fatalism. True, I am not a “public figure” in any real sense, but self-motivated assassins do attack people without there being much logic behind it. After all, who could have imagined that Ann Widdecombe, of all people, would be assassinated?

The Israelis know all about assassinating officials (etc). They invented the letter-bomb to target West German scientists working in Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s.

[“I am a National Socialist (Nazi). At the end of the day, you have so many people bitching and moaning about the state of the UK, proclaiming that they “want me country back”. Well, to get our country back will require actual hard work and uncomfortable decisions. Not picking the easy option and hoping someone else fixes the problems for you. If you want nationalism, join/vote for/create a nationalist party and put in the work to promote it and encourage others to join. I personally believe the only logical ideology to undo decades of damage is a Third Position ideology, akin to Fascism or National Socialism (or an adaption of). Yes, it is radical -but Britain needs radical change. Such radical change is being offered in the National Agenda of the @Natrebirthparty Join today and help us rebuild our National Community: https://nationalrebirthparty.org.uk/Agenda/“]

Our unconquerable children!

Our animal friends.

https://oldspeakbookshop.co.uk

Historical note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hilton_(British_Army_officer)

Interesting. I think that I had not heard of that officer previously.

More tweets

Well…I suppose that the country might have had one more good truck driver, and one fewer shite Labourite political careerist… (win-win?)…

[“The majority of people believe in some form of socialism, because it offers them things like public services, pensions, employment protection, and collectivism.

The only people who dislike socialism are people who have the money and time to live however they want to.

As the economy gets worse, society gets worse, and the political situation gets worse, the amount of people who will put their faith in hyper-capitalism and populism will naturally decrease, because those ideologies offer nothing to people with serious problems.”]

People who, like that useless Blaiklock woman, still talk and think in terms of “left”, “right” etc, are a waste of space; they have no ideas worth consideration. The very fact that she appears to be almost equating the Conservative Party, Restore Britain, and Reform UK speaks volumes.

Yerbury makes good points (they must be; after all, I have been making them for many many years!). What is necessary is not old-style “socialism” as such, though, but primarily something akin to Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order concept.

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

Some matters are inherently of the State, and must be controlled by the State or by para-State bodies: the police, the prison system, defence. Others, though economic, have to be regulated or controlled directly by the State: most railways; large-scale water supply; most large-scale electricity production and distribution etc; the postal system. Other matters must be free of direct State control (though not necessarily some regulation): religion; art; music; education; non-strategic economic enterprises.

Incidentally, the Blaiklock woman’s first husband was a Nepali, and her second a Jamaican.

Migration invasion, but the Con Party did nothing to stop it in 14 years, and the Labour Party is encouraging it. Also, the “small boats” are only about 5% of the migration invasion. Most immigration consists of non-Europeans arriving in the UK as visa-holders of various types. Thirdly, births to non-white women already in the UK, and births to white women where the father of the child is non-white. A 3-pronged invasion.

Late tweets

[“The last 2 weeks in the UK:

  1. Three illegal migrants jailed for sexual assault on Brighton beach
  2. Afghan migrant jailed for killing Wayne Broadhurst
  3. Guinean migrant with 19 convictions allowed to stay in UK
  4. Somali asylum seeker who killed 3 people given hospital order
  5. Eritrean asylum seeker jailed after knocking woman unconscious
  6. Two asylum seekers jailed for r*ping an 18 year old in Cheshire
  7. Gvt admitted lying about illegal migrant deportation numbers
  8. Sudanese migrant jailed after found with weapons and petrol outside a school
  9. Afghan asylum seeker jailed after r*ping vulnerable man in park
  10. Tunisian migrant found guilty of attacking 5 women in 90 minutes
  11. A charity linked to the Iranian regime revealed to have been given powers to bring migrants to UK
  12. Iranian regime found to be sending agents into the UK on the small boats
  13. A ‘Mega dinghy’ brings a record 165 illegal migrants to the UK
  14. Official figures confirm more than 13,000 illegal migrants have entered the UK since Christmas
  15. Green Party council in London refuses to help government remove illegal migrants
  16. Andy Burnham says Labour is creating a system “with control at its heart”.

All this in two weeks.

Two. Weeks.

Suicidal empathy is destroying our country.

This is what happens when the ruling class becomes so obsessed with showing empathy to outsiders they end up destroying their own country from within.”]

Walls. Squads. Ends.

Wall. Squad. End.

The useless and/or dangerous n**s and others are just the symptom(s) of a diseased society. The really guilty are the MPs, msm scribblers and talking heads, bien-pensant academics, refugees welcome” dimwits, and others, particularly “them” (((them))).

In recent days and weeks, we have seen MPs terribly concerned about the safety of…MPs, but not so much if at all about the safety and happiness of the British people they pretend to represent or even (looking at pathetic Andy Burnham) “lead”.

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[Shishkin, Mordvinovo Oaks]
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Diary Blog, 20 July 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gipps]
[the living fields…]

Stray thoughts

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

Tweets seen

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

See also:

What if Beria Had Succeeded Stalin?

More tweets

Interesting philosophical and political exposition

https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/the-slave-on-the-throne

More tweets

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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[Mikhail Germashev, The Coachman]