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Diary Blog, 4 January 2025

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[Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon]

Saturday quiz

https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1875466579137458308

Well, this week 7/10, thus just beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 10. I admit that my (correct) answers to q.’s 4 and 9 were educated guesses.

Blog readers

I am always interested to see from where hits on the blog come. In the past week, from 16 different countries (inc. UK). Of course, with advances in technology, you cannot say for sure where readers are located; some may be, say, in Australia but appear to be in the USA, but I daresay most locations are accurate.

I was just looking at the apparent location of readers since I started the blog towards the end of 2016, so 8 years ago. Readers from 155 countries and territories in the world, so from about three-quarters of the world. There are 195 states in the world, plus some extra territories that do not have that status (such as Antarctica— and, yes I have had the odd hit from there, presumably from some scientist at a polar research base).

I have occasionally mused on who it might be in (inter alia) Lesotho, Antarctica, Greenland, Burkina Faso, the Aaland Islands (maybe I can guess who that particular one is), American Samoa, Chad, Tadjikistan, or Congo-Kinshasa, that is reading my thoughts and ideas.

The largest number of hits has always been from the UK, though (about 70%, with a further 10% from the USA).

The readership of the blog, on a daily basis, is still modest, never reaching over a thousand on any one day, and often not reaching even a hundred (I do not publicize the blog anywhere, and am not on Twitter/X or Facebook etc), but I have always taken the view that “one human soul is a big audience“.

Talking point

My own experiences (in part):

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

Talking point

https://twitter.com/Stock_marketIND/status/1874863106805084196

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/coaiecrete/status/1874468236412244211

There is a good possibility that that dog will be the most welcome border-crosser, and the least problematic.

https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1875494552041377847

Risible how System political scribblers, ivory-tower academics etc really still think that elections in the 2020s are still won by ridiculous local political footsoldiers knocking on doors, disturbing and and irritating householders, or by the voters reading the absolute shite put out on leaflets etc. This is 2024, not 1924…

John Rentoul seems unsure. He neither endorses nor dissents. He probably imagines that people actually read those (mostly) LibLabCon leaflets at election-time. Wrong; most, maybe 99%, go in the bin unread.

As for “average age 61, opposed to net zero“, what about “almost all (real) British” (as well)?

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1875498273248547046

As far as I know, the Kiev regime has not claimed any successes since its very costly incursion into the Kursk region of Russia a few months ago.

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1875458762967785688
https://twitter.com/scott23704/status/1875508330858529255
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1875538271746634165

Political interference (direct or indirect) in sentencing.

“My landmark legal victory against @BristolUni is being appealed. My case established that anti-Zionist beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. The University wants to overturn this. But if we win at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, we’ll strengthen this precedent, which is invaluable and necessary for pro-Palestine campaigners across Britain and beyond.

I need to raise at least £75k for the appeal. If you can help, please contribute here: https://fightingfund.org/supportmiller.”

“They” never change.

“If you want to know how vile @hopenothate, @lowles_nick & researcher, ex-Nazi @MattHopeNotHate Collins are, here’s your chance. Charlene Downes body has never been found. Gang r*ped at 13 by 100, mainly Pakistani heritage men, she probably was murdered & her body put through a kebab mincer in Blackpool. No one has ever been convicted. Ten years later in 2013 her mother Karen failing to get justice went on a march & was associated with the BNP. Collins went out of his way to trash her, & his piece has the menacing title of: “Time for a police investigation”. What odious people. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2013/12/18/time-for-a-police-investigation-karen/.“

Blast(s) from the past

I just re-read the blog post about the infamous New Zealand massacre, which happened nearly 6 years ago, in 2019. Apparently, that blog post has had a rather small, disappointingly-small, number of hits; frankly, I think it is still worth reading. Anyway, here it is:

The New Zealand Attack and Related Matters

See also Ruth Smeeth, also a Hope not Hate figure, now (risibly) elevated to the totally-degraded House of Lords as “Baroness” Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Smeeth. A half-Jewish Zionist agent.

Is there anything that “they” do not steal or want to steal?

https://twitter.com/Syribelle/status/1875633835301597586

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Diary Blog, 5 October 2024, including a few thoughts about the reality of the 1970s (as distinct from the usual “fake history”)

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Morning music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week my 6/10 trumped political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 6, and 8.

Tweets seen

https://irvingbooks.com/product-category/books/

“Accurate… I spent 9 months in East Africa. It’s very hard to pinpoint exactly why it’s such a mess.

They have an infantile mentality and absolutely no commercial sense.

I once went about 10 miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere on the way to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and every 50 meters there was someone selling watermelon. I said to the driver, “Everyone is selling exactly the same product. Why don’t they try making watermelon juice or something different to stand out?” He replied, “But why would we do that? We like melon!”

That attitude was everywhere. In fact, I would sometimes meet Westerners who would say, “Isn’t it amazing how they’ve kept this piece of junk car going for 30 years?” And I’d reply, “It’s more amazing that we have automated car factories with robots.” They literally only focus on the immediate need. “Car not go today, car fixed with string and tape.“

The only two factors preventing Britain and other European countries from retaking direct control of Africa, of all of Africa, are 1. socio-political will and 2. the fact that the (((globalists))) find it more convenient to exploit Africa’s resources via corrupt tiny “elites” in each fake African “state” (and to hell with the environment, the forests, the wildlife, and the African people themselves).

The fact is that European rule would benefit all, not least the ordinary Africans.

Incidentally, it would be a great deal easier than many imagine for Europe to reconquer Africa militarily. Only the two factors already noted make it at all hard.

Illiterate travel

I have just read this, https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/sarajevo-guide-balkans-bosnia-and-herzegovina-b1176081.html, a travel piece in what I still call the Evening Standard, and written by well-known columnist Suzanne Moore. Not hugely interesting anyway, but then absurdly badly-written. An essay by a 10-year-old, at best. Or is the sub-editing to blame? Maybe someone pushed a few of the wrong buttons. Extraordinary. Read it and see.

I have read other pieces by Suzanne Moore which were written properly, so maybe it was the fault of the Standard.

More tweets

Pretty accurate summing-up of “Starmer-ism”, in my opinion, “Blairism without the good bits“, though I do not recall many good bits then either, speaking personally.

As far as assisted dying is concerned, I see it as a generally well-meaning attempt to be kind, which however, put into policy and law, is the start of a slide to, eventually, somewhere down the line, killing people for convenience or money.

HS2 was a vanity project that never should have been approved. As far as I know, though, the other rail projects are or were useful.

She seems to have difficulty identifying the “J” problem…

Again, look at the “usual suspects”…

The “fake history” of the 1970s

That’s because you, “Steve Zodiac”, are apparently telling your grandchildren a load of old hooey…

I have blogged in the past about how very many people (including, weirdly, many who were at least in their teens then, and so actually of an age to remember) say, and even perhaps believe, that the 1970s in the UK were some kind of dark age in which the electricity was off most of the time, in which bodies were left unburied by reason of industrial action, in which trains and buses rarely ran, in which rubbish piled up in the towns and cities, in which there was a “three day week” when offices and factories were closed for four days each week, and in which life was generally miserable (for example, food was terrible, they say).

The above-noted fabled dystopia was, we are told, the result of overreaching trade union power and Labour misgovernment.

Where to start?

First of all, the party in power for the first 4 years of the 1970s was the Conservative Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election, and of course Mrs Thatcher won again for the Conservatives in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election.

In other words, out of the 10 years, Labour was in power for about 6 years. Labour government was in place from the early 1960s until mid-1970, then from early 1974 until mid-1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election.

One interesting fact is that, in the 1966 General Election, the “two main parties” (Lab/Con) got exactly 98% of Commons seats on just under 90% of the popular vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election#Results.

Compare to 2024: 81.8% of seats based on 57.4% of the popular vote.

In 1966, the winning party (Labour) got 48% of the popular vote, the losing Conservatives 41.9%.

In 2024, Labour got 33.7%, and the losing Conservatives only 23.7%.

The electoral system has become not just unfair but also illogical and ridiculous. It no longer reflects reality.

Reverting to the general situation in the 1970s, the much-talked-about “Three Day Week” only affected, directly, commercial operations (which were banned from using electricity on the other four days). The Three Day Week only lasted for two months. Out of 10 years (120 months).

I saw the Three Day Week firsthand. I was working, aged just 18, as supposed assistant manager in a very small commercial intelligence outfit based in the Strand (London). The office only had 5 people including me, though we did have a network of mostly ad-hoc agents all over the southern and eastern parts of England (anywhere south or southwest of The Wash). Much of the work was in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex. The agents were often retired Army officers who, on being contacted, would —eagerly— say something such as “right-oh, old boy. I’ll fire up the Rover and get onto it.”

I must do a blog post sometime about it.

There were, in the early 1970s, strikes by coal miners etc, resulting in a few brief power cuts (“outages”, as the Americans say), but they lasted for a few hours a day, for a few days. Out of 10 years, again.

In the “Winter of Discontent” (1978-79), there were, for a few weeks, situations in some towns and cities whereby rubbish piled up, yes; that much of the “fable” is true, but only for a brief time. As for the “bodies left unburied“, that only applied in Liverpool and Manchester and only for 14 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Gravediggers’_strike.

In fact, though the 1970s had its problems political, social, economic, Britain still had possibilities. The population was still almost entirely white Northern European, new ideas and projects were around or developing (the Milton Keynes conurbation, the Open University, new express trains, cross-Channel hovercraft etc), and the absurd and damaging house-price madness, though it had started, was still in its early stages.

Britain still had a functioning Army, Navy, Air Force (etc), and a police force that mainly did its expected job and was not usually the sort of poundshop Stasi we now see, snooping on or “monitoring” the expression of views and opinions.

Incidentally, the food was OK back then on the whole. Slightly less cosmopolitan, yes, but in the South of England at least, foreign foods such as hummus, taramasalata, olives, Indian, Chinese, etc were ubiquitous. In fact, some food was better and more available back then.

What I find worrying is not only that people who were not there, or were small children, are convinced that England in 1970-1979 was a dark and gloomy place; more that people who were there seem to have substituted, for what actually happened, a kind of folk-tale.

As for Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Largan, who was parachuted into the constituency of High Peak (Derbyshire) and served as MP from GE 2019 to GE 2024, he was only born in 1987.

If people cannot recall accurately the 1970s, how much less accurate must be the “memories”, often publicized, of the 1930s and 1940s.

More tweets

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Diary Blog, 20 July 2022

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On this day a year ago

Diary Blog, 20 July 2021

20 July 1944

It has become traditional on this blog, on this day, to say a few words about the attempted coup of 20 July 1944. I refer readers to the blog posts for previous years: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/07/20/diary-blog-20-july-2021/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/07/20/diary-blog-20-july-2020/; https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/the-20th-of-july-2019-thoughts/; https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/.

Apart from that, all that I want to say today is to commend to my readers, as we traverse this very significant and world-historic year of 2022, the virtues (which are not solely soldierly ones) of loyalty and honour.

Meine Ehre heisst Treue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvxU0LQL70

Tweets seen

A textbook example of how to confirm the view, by spouting nonsense, that you are a fool. The only surprising thing, though, is that this scarcely brilliant —and literally “entitled”— person was actually invited to speak at the UN in the first place.

Ha. A not-uncommon experience. Many people in this world seem to find it possible to live without books. I recall going into what was said to be the best (perhaps the only) large bookshop in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in 1977, only to find that most of the books seemed to be How to Look After your Dog [Cat, Goldfish etc], or the works of Wilbur Smith [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Smith].

Perhaps I was too hard on the locals, who were at the time subject to international sanctions, which meant that few items could be imported; in any case, Rhodesia was short of foreign currency, and what they had could not be used for books, but rather for weapons, ammunition, and fuel.

Having said that, I have found in other parts of the world that some people just do not need books in their life, or maybe just a few paperbacks by Dick Francis or other popular writers.

The same people, in my view, are often those who do not need or love trees.

I am different: I need trees, and I need books, though it will be a long time, if ever, before I replace the 2,000-book library I had to abandon on leaving France in 2009.

More tweets

https://twitter.com/AQuantumCat1/status/1549549407124733958?s=20&t=HI_ZHKwYMgkgmaTO0fSKJw
https://twitter.com/twochuzy/status/1549710069985673216?s=20&t=HI_ZHKwYMgkgmaTO0fSKJw

We all know how this will end, I mean the whole situation, not that specific instance. Somewhere down the line. We cannot even write or speak about it, because the System police have been told to prioritize “community cohesion” (the multikulti society) before all else, which is why people get 2-3 years in prison for putting up stickers, while serious real crimes are either not investigated at all, or result in very lenient penalties.

https://twitter.com/RayShore3/status/1546971780723752960?s=20&t=HI_ZHKwYMgkgmaTO0fSKJw

In the words of Jesus Christ, “you have said it“…

https://twitter.com/Demelza2021/status/1549701195341742080?s=20&t=HI_ZHKwYMgkgmaTO0fSKJw

Ha. “Campaign Against AntiSemitism” [“CAA”] troublemakers fail again.

Not that I support rowdy behaviour (as alleged in the instant case) but those CAA goblins are malicious and politically-motivated. Look at my own most recent experience of their continuing campaign of false and malicious conspiracy to repress free speech: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/.

Incidentally, I wonder why, in the tweet shown, that tribal cabal uses the Union Jack, rather than their own flag.

Talking about the Jew-Zionist lobby, I imagine that they will be sorry, not so much that Suella Braverman failed to become Conservative Party leader (she never had a chance, even among that bunch of nitwits), but rather that she is unlikely to retain her position as Attorney-General. Married to (it seems) a Jew, and completely in the Jewish/Israeli pocket, her trumpeted support for free speech never included support for free speech where the Jewish lobby objected to said speech.

Actually, Suella Braverman has done better (for herself), career-wise, than anyone could have predicted. By the irony of Fate, she not only became an MP, but also Attorney-General, albeit to the most stupid and dishonest Cabinet ever. She also was able to request appointment as QC by reason of the above. Not bad for a pretty humdrum barrister of Indian origins.

Another story of “holocaust” fakery

What can one say? So much of the much-publicized “holocaust” saga is a farrago of fables.

Late tweets seen

Britain is about to undergo another steep decline, and that will be so whether Indian moneygrubber Sunak or mediocre Liz Truss pose as Prime Minister for a while.

https://twitter.com/EternalEnglish/status/1549813646590722049?s=20&t=-iu66WqGKWRuo6BU8d1GJQ

Under Salazar, those untermenschen would have been dragged away and then quietly eliminated.

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1549773086890893312?s=20&t=-iu66WqGKWRuo6BU8d1GJQ

The IRA and Sinn Fein spent a hundred years either fighting the British (and the Irish government) or opposing any British influence over the Republic, but now stay silent (or even support) the migration invasion which has taken over Ireland— even the Irish Prime Minister is a half-Indian (and a gay one at that)! Where are the IRA/Sinn Fein wastes of space now?

https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1549507875722215424?s=20&t=-iu66WqGKWRuo6BU8d1GJQ

Someone could do a “Solomon Grundy” rejig about that.

https://twitter.com/LSW81885618/status/1549714840507355138?s=20&t=-iu66WqGKWRuo6BU8d1GJQ

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