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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

On the blog 2 years ago

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

On the blog 1 year ago

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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
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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:

Talking point

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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]

Diary Blog, 29 April 2026

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Translates to a Commons with about 310 Reform MPs (16 short of overall majority), 96 Cons (weak official Opposition), 61 Lab, 60 LibDems, 52 Greens, 42 SNP [etc].

As in most recent polls, Starmer-stein would lose his own seat on those figures.

Most voters are unconvinced by Reform and, especially, Tice and Farage (hundreds of non-white candidates, and too tied-in to the Jewish lobby, Israel and, also, Trump’s idiocies), but are desperate to stamp on both Lab and Con.

Labour will probably be utterly trashed in the local elections, and I doubt that Cons will do much better. Only 8 days to go.

“Starmer” and “loyalty” are two words rarely if ever found in the same sentence.

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[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]

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Of course, Russia could end this war overnight, by using a nuclear weapon on Kiev. It does not intend to do that, though, and for several reasons: the millennium-long mutual and indeed joint history of Russia and Ukraine; the close ethno-cultural relationship between Russians and Ukrainians, going back many centuries; also, humanitarian and environmental reasons.

Even discounting all of the above reasons, Russia will not use nuclear weapons in this near-civil war because Russia wants to rule a productive Eastern Ukraine, not a charred and radioactive wasteland.

A horrible example of “them”. Ironically, he himself had problems with Jewish groups.

Thankfully now defunct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev.

I oppose riots and other uncontrolled mob violence. A proper government would deal properly with untermenschen.

Interesting fact.

[“Once Digital ID is accepted for government services and to prevent under 16s using social media it will become normalised. And then of course it just seeps into everyday life. Give it 10 years and this will all seem normal. Your access all areas convenience app … OR

You can’t fill up your car, your permission is only on Wednesdays.

You can’t enrol your child in school, she hasn’t had her vaccine.

You can’t book a flight until you pay a disputed council tax bill.

You can’t hire a car, you have a red flag because of a social media post.

You can’t buy alcohol, you’ve reached your recommended limit.

You can’t renew your passport until your outstanding parking fines are cleared.

You can’t enter the city centre today, your traffic credits are exhausted.

You can’t withdraw cash, your account has been temporarily flagged for review.

You can’t access your bank account, facial recognition verification failed.

You can’t buy a train ticket, your carbon travel allowance has been exceeded.

You can’t sell your house, your property compliance certificate hasn’t been updated.

You can’t access certain websites, your digital wellbeing limit has been reached.

You can’t claim benefits, your activity tracker shows insufficient job-seeking hours.

You can’t enter a stadium, your social trust rating is below the event threshold.

You can’t purchase meat this week, you’ve reached your environmental consumption target.

You can’t open a business, your digital compliance score is too low.

You can’t cross the border, your travel profile has been flagged for unacceptable social media posts.

You can’t vote today, identity authentication failed at digital check-in. Digital ID will mean a permissions based life based on how well you comply to guidelines. Exactly as scoped and planned. It’s the perfect citizen control product.

Focus.”]

I have blogged several times about this in recent years.

The whole “we need workers” propaganda nonsense omits crucial facts:

  1. Many immigrants do not work anyway, but are totally parasitic;
  2. Many who do work, eg in the NHS, then invite (up to 20) non-working “dependants” and “family members” into the UK;
  3. As the immigrant workers age, they themselves will become a burden on the State, thus “requiring” even more immigrants to help deal with them;
  4. Robotics and AI will eventually make most forms of low-paid and even much currently “high-paid” employment unnecessary, leading by necessity to implementation of a “basic income” system, but that cannot work at all when millions of parasites arrive here annually.

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[John Simmons, Titania Sleeping in the Moonlight, Protected by her Fairies]

Diary Blog, 25 October 2025, including thoughts on Gaza, and the lessons of the Caerphilly by-election

Morning music

[Clare Bridge over the River Cam at Cambridge]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 5/10, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 4, 6, 7, and 10. I should have also got question 8, but did not, and question 2 has, in my view, at least three possible answers. Still, there it is.

Talking point

I was just looking at a cartoon, and comment, that I posted on 14 October 2020, so just over 5 years ago.

This was the cartoon:

and this was the comment:

Keir Starmer, who has inherited the leadership of a once semi-socialist (then social-democratic) party which is now just a bad joke. Keir Starmer, freemason and Labour Friends of Israel member, who seems (slightly to my surprise) to be utterly clueless…

[ianrmillard.org blog]

Was I wrong? I think not.

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The [Israeli] Jews have done that over a period of 2 years (supported by their “fifth column” in the UK and USA and elsewhere), and have killed or badly wounded —over 69,000 actually killed so far— about a quarter of a million Gazan Arab people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children. Why? Because Hamas operatives invaded Israeli territory (i.e. land stolen or seized from 1948) on one day in 2023, resulting in the deaths of (or injury to) between 500 and 1,500 Jews (many of them, though, were killed by the Israeli war machine itself, and many of them were uniformed or other military and police personnel).

Look at the huge disproportion. This goes well beyond, hugely beyond, any talk of “a pound of flesh” etc. The ratio of disproportion is somewhere around 250 to 1. Also, the time disproportion— one day as against over two years, a ratio of about 750 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war#Children

When the “postponed” elections in parts of England are held, both Lab and Con are going to be stamped into the ground, where they belong.

As I blogged yesterday, the “Labour” vote at Caerphilly was less than a quarter of what it had been at the previous election; the “Conservative” vote was about one-eighth of what it had previously been.

Apply that to English Westminster constituencies.

To believe, as a few msm commentators seem to believe (e.g. Dan Hodges) that one or both System parties can somehow suddenly become (even superficially) “credible” now, is clutching at straws. The same goes for the idea that Reform UK support has “plateaued“.

Well maybe, maybe not, but even if it has, that level is still between 25% and 36% (its best so far, only a week ago), and that is enough, even if Reform and the Lab/Con parties all get 25% each (and at present Lab and Con are both below 20%), to give Reform a plurality of Commons seats (around 215), though not a majority.

Indeed, were Reform to “plateau” at 30%, with Lab and Con on 20% each, Reform would get about 384 seats (a very good majority), Lab about 94, and the Cons around 40 (the Cons just below both the LibDems and the SNP).

As Macmillan said, “events, dear boy, events!” Continuing migration invasion on a vast scale (hundreds, even thousands, daily, and they are just the illegals…); housing crisis (one consequence of mass immigration). Also, sliding standards in almost all areas of society, and a whole list of other issues.

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Jess Phillips has not the brain to head or chair anything at all. Just a freeloading, expenses-blodging know-nothing loudmouth who, in a better society, would be harvesting Brussels sprouts, or stacking shelves.

My assessment of Jess Phillips from 2019, with updates dating to earlier this year:

The most important story of the year?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-developing-their-own-survival-drive-researchers-say

“...an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”.

…leading AI models – including Google’s Gemini 2.5, xAI’s Grok 4, and OpenAI’s GPT-o3 and GPT-5 – were given a task, but afterwards given explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.

“The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal,” it said.

“Survival behavior” could be one explanation for why models resist shutdown, said the company. Its additional work indicated that models were more likely to resist being shut down when they were told that, if they were, “you will never run again”.

Andrea Miotti, the chief executive of ControlAI, said Palisade’s findings represented a long-running trend in AI models growing more capable of disobeying their developers. He cited the system card for OpenAI’s GPT-o1, released last year, which described the model trying to escape its environment by exfiltrating itself when it thought it would be overwritten.

This summer, Anthropic, a leading AI firm, released a study indicating that its model Claude appeared willing to blackmail a fictional executive over an extramarital affair in order to prevent being shut down – a behaviour, it said, that was consistent across models from major developers, including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta and xAI.

[Guardian]

That should be major news.

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I was onto this, on the blog, some 7 years ago:

Translates to a Commons with about 382 Reform MPs, 95 Lab MPs, 56 LibDems, 45 SNP, 23 Cons, 12 Greens [etc].

A very solid Reform majority.

My assessment(s) from several years ago; 2019:

and

Now stop pandering to the Jewish/Israel lobby and, in particular, the malicious liars and perjurers of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”— “Slitherman”, Falter etc.