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Saturday quiz
Well, 9/10 this week, trumping John Rentoul’s 5 and a half. The only answer I definitely did not know was that to question no. 1. I admit that I “educated-guessed” several, though.
The 2024 Olympics
Not everyone was happy when the Olympic Games were resurrected from the vaults of classical history. Rudolf Steiner, for one, did not like the idea, the form it took and, I think, the aesthetics of what was re-invented.
The modern Games have little in common with what existed over 2,300 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Ancient_Olympics.
The sports have varied over the years. Tug-o-War was once a recognized Olympic sport, for example, and I personally cannot accept several of the present-day sports as real sports. Synchronized swimming and equestrian dressage, to name but two.
To my mind, the main damage was done when the Olympic Games became a competition among nations rather than among individuals. I suppose that the idea was to mirror the original Games, in which Greek villages and city-states sent representative athletes.
The Games developed from an early amateur and folksy festival to a peak of aesthetics at the 1936 Games in Berlin, but since then the whole thing has become an international corporate Schauspiel with little reality.
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They may have a point…
The problem is how to destroy evil and decadence without also destroying everything else.
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Spectator critique of Macron and the 2024 Olympics
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/macrons-olympic-dream-cant-disguise-the-state-of-france
See also my blog post about Macron from when he first became prominent: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jolly_(artist)
That goes beyond even the decadence of the Weimar Republic. Can anyone doubt that there must be a cultural purge throughout the Western world?
Thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire” Lammy:
I don’t care if Lammy has half a dozen tick-box “degrees” or diplomas. I prefer to look at the real person. Just listen to that ignorant [REDACTED]…
Also, it is clear that Lammy cannot think on his feet. Perhaps that is why he never worked as a practising barrister. In fact, I think that he never was actually in practice at the Bar at all, just did a few months as a kind of “diversity”-hire gopher and/or intern at a law firm in California, then a year doing the same thing in London at a different firm. That year or two together constitute the only non-political work Lammy has ever done, when aged about 26, before he latched onto the old MP racket (like so many other useless wastes of space).
Exactly as I predicted would happen. Instead of a highly-visible armada of “small boats” across the Channel, UK “vetting centres” in mainland Europe will rubberstamp 90% of all applicants.
The rest will either be deterred or, more likely, will still try their luck at crossing illegally, but of course the visual and public relations impact will be diminished— 50 a day instead of 500, but with the other 450 coming in “legally”.
Straight treachery.
Starmer-Labour is a kind of bastard progeny of Blair’s trickery.
Incidentally, you can see there what a nest of evil exists in the “British” mainstream media (of which Talk TV would be part, if anyone actually watched it). Most scribblers and talking heads in this country are enemies of the future of the British people.
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As noted many times previously, anyone silly enough to instruct Mark Lewis is to be pitied.
So two spiteful Jews may lose their homes for having made libellous comments claiming “antisemitism”? In the immortal words of Windsor Davies, “oh dear, what a pity, never mind“…
I suppose that the two Jews in question will recoup whatever they can by suing Mark Lewis… [please refer to the Windsor Davies comment above].
However, Lewis has no real property or other assets in the jurisdiction, and is based in the home of so many other frauds— Israel.
Something we see every day now in the UK. I myself have been prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist element for telling the truth. Still, I am still here, the blog is still here, and the truth is still being told.
Only the Aryan can give life.
Incidentally, that young tweeter, “@david_r_morgan” is well worth following, for those with a Twitter/X account (I myself was expelled in 2018, after a long campaign by Jew-Zionists).
Bushido in the modern age
Have not seen that film for at least 25 years. Pretty good.
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I never did.
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Not sure that I agree that the policeman who kicked one compliant suspect in the head and then stamped on the suspect’s head did behave “appropriately“, bearing in mind that the suspect was still, was lying face down, and was presenting no risk.
That two-stage action, the kick and the stamping, can be separated from the main fight, because the recipient of the attacking police actions was effectively a prisoner and not fighting when he was kicked and stamped upon.
Of course it is easy to pass judgment after the event, but that is what has to happen— cool judgment later, whether in a court or tribunal, or in the court of public opinion.
I think that those were “flashbangs”, not grenades as such.
Where was Matt Goodwin when Jez Turner was imprisoned merely for saying that Jews should be deported from the UK? Where was Goodwin when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for creating and posting a few amusing cartoons and songs about Jewish behaviour? Indeed, where was Goodwin when I was prosecuted last year for allegedly having posted “grossly offensive” remarks and cartoons on this blog? Nowhere, that’s where Goodwin (a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish lobby) was…and is.
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The most important immediate task for all in the position of statesmen is to avoid another and even more devastating war in Europe.
Ian Robert Millard 