“Britain’s youngest ever female murderer who stabbed a stranger to death when she was just 12-years-old could be freed in days, it has been reported.
Sharon Carr, dubbed the ‘Devil’s Daughter’, knifed 18-year-old Katie Rackliff 32 times in an unprovoked attack as the teenager walked home from a night out in June 1992.
The hairdresser’s murder went unsolved for two years as police officers hunted an adult man rather than the child.
It was only after she attacked another schoolgirl with a knife in Camberley, Surrey, and bragged about killing Katie while in a young offender institute that she was arrested.“
“A cabinet minister faces a police probe over an election leaflet attacking Labour regarding plans to put a traveller site in his constituency.
Locals were asked a number of questions including ‘Would you like to see a traveller site next to your house?’ According to The Times, police have confirmed they are looking into the leaflet.”
Britain in 2023, a country where publishing the truth may result in the toytown police “investigating” you (even if you are a Cabinet minister), instead of doing their proper job.
Well worth reading. I may not much like Jew-Zionist lawyer Dershowitz, but not many know American laws as deeply as he does.
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[Kiev] Ukrainian counter-intelligence authorities exposed the scheme of the organized "escape" of military-capable men outside the country: the head of a department within the headquarters of the Ground Army, as well as a high-ranking official of the Kyiv city administration,… pic.twitter.com/ShExeP27fl
Ukrainian men do not want to go to near-certain death at the front. That speaks more eloquently than the propaganda of the Kiev regime.
is reported that yesterday in Kyiv "Gerani" hit the building of "Ukrgospetssvyaz"
Ukropabliki wrote that in the Solomensky district, a certain “administrative building” was damaged and it was “not particularly important.” pic.twitter.com/euZ5fDIn70
Mike Pence, Trump's former vice president and Republican challenger in the 2024 presidential election who, according to the latest New York Times poll, has only 3% of the support vote, said of the third accusation against Donald Trump that… pic.twitter.com/r7diIxa31m
A US official speaks at length in Seymour Hersh's latest study on Volodymyr Zelensky's "Fools in Ukraine".
It is, the official continued, as if the President of Ukraine were an orphan — “a scoundrel in underwear” — and we have no idea what Zelensky and his people are thinking.…
“The most corrupt and stupid government in the world, with the exception of Nigeria”…
Russian air defense systems in the Kaluga region discovered and shot down the seventh Ukrainian drone since this morning , reports the governor of that region, Vladislav Shapsha.
There are no consequences for people and infrastructure, the governor added.
A heartbreaking stream of posts from simple minded members of the covidian cult, terrified of fresh air with a serious mask fetish. If you don't know that you have brainwashed and manipulated, it's because you have been manipulated and brainwashed. #CovidIsAirborne
As thievery goes, that black’s attempt must be the least skillful ever. The denouement reminds me of that of a scene in the film Taxi Driver:
Anesthesiologist Roland Louis Pinkney, filmed next to TikTok's 'Dancing Doctor' Windell Davis-Boutte, is cleared of malpractice
An anesthesiologist who was filmed dancing beside a doctor to the song 'Cut It' for TikTok during a patient's liposuction has been cleared of medical… pic.twitter.com/WyiL0PHaiI
“The fascinating thing about that story for me was that people read it in two completely different ways,” Caroline Kitchener tells guest host Will Oremus. “You had antiabortion people saying, ‘This is wonderful. There are two babies in the world.… pic.twitter.com/eAq2p0ZsAc
The decline of white European-derived populations in the world (in both absolute and percentage terms) has to be reversed, by increasing their numbers, and by decreasing those of other groups.
In every situation, in every political policy, new immigrants will side with other immigrants, legal & illegal. Indians, Chinese, Latinos, Africans, Europeans, it's all the same. They are all Foreign Invaders. We do not owe them anything & they are not us. #EndMassImmigrationhttps://t.co/o708hyhTei
Kiev-regime Ukraine is one of the most rotten countries in the world. Even in the 1990s, that was so. I was told in 1998 by a Brit who knew it well (I think that he was probably an SIS officer) that an unpleasant American whom I had in fact met several times, a lawyer from Virginia with offices in both Kiev and London, and who was (maybe still is) well-connected with the Kiev government and business circles, regularly paid teenage Ukrainian girls —the same age as his own daughter— to wear nothing but stiletto heels and walk up and down on his back.
I have no reason to doubt what I was told, though by the same token I have no other evidence that such was the case.
The Soviet Union, always very flawed in terms of human ethics, fell apart morally from the 1960s, and what we saw in terms of gangsterism, Jewish “oligarchs” in Russia, other degeneracy, was all an outcome of that in the 1990s and since then.
If Vivek wins, he will be the continuation of a trend in the West, which is our leadership being White Erased with the help of South Asians. UK prime minister = Rishi Sunak London mayor = Sudiq Khan Scotland FM = Humza Yousaf Ireland PM = Leo Varadkarhttps://t.co/CcbgaatzBC
…unless a minority of the German population, even a small minority, starts to do what has become necessary…
Sec for Work & Pensions Mel Stride has tones of Norman Tebbit, saying to those 50+ not in work – get on your bike!! More importantly, Tories have delayed decision on raising Pension age to 68 until after general election. We all know what that means!!!
People 50+ (and especially those 60+) are the only demographic as a group still voting “Conservative” in decisive numbers. If those aged 50-65 not already in employment are now being told to get minimum-wage jobs or else, the Con Party really will be toast at the next general election.
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It’s a shame the Telegraph don’t mention the elephant in the room which everyone else’s can see – the vaccine harms. Apart from that it’s a good article , they can’t listen to the voters as they are bought and paid for.https://t.co/8mk54HIFKJ
“Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “vaccine” dangers are an important issue, but not as important as the continuing mass immigration migration-invasion, the Jew-Zionist stranglehold over the msm, politics, finance, and legal system; also, not so important as the necessity to realign geopolitically, more towards Russia, less towards the USA.
The general tenor of the article is right, though. The System in the UK, vis-a-vis the British people, is now pretty much where the old Soviet and satellite system was in the 1970s/1980s vis-a-vis the populations of Russia, East Germany, Poland etc.
Thank you, @telegraph, for firing me when I tried to defend children against those who wished them harm through lockdowns. Great to see such ethical consistency. pic.twitter.com/RGAl8jQWIV
— Professor Karol Sikora (@ProfKarolSikora) August 2, 2023
Because I don’t give a flying f about what people think of me, I think I actually do forget how vile they were!! Im so glad I was never manipulated about their totally incorrect opinion pic.twitter.com/9KI8d6WeRV
— leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ (@LeilaniDowding) August 1, 2023
The Armed Forces of Ukraine followed the path of the Soviet gunsmith Nadashkevich and reinvented the air-cooled Maxim machine gun, known since 1926 as the PV-1 pic.twitter.com/CRWSFsTZpR
WSJ: Russian economy withstood Western sanctions and showed its strength
As the article says, “the failure of the West to quickly bring the Russian economy to its knees” due to the launch of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine is “identical to the stalemate on the… pic.twitter.com/1pMa0iSYP2
On May 1, I was arrested for my YouTube videos. The photos of my arrest are pretty funny—morning bed-head made me look like a character out of Dr. Seuss.
My crime was making videos critical of the West and their proxy regime in Kiev—and how they are destroying Ukraine.
So far, nothing more on Twitter from Gonzalo Lira. Looks like he has been arrested. It seems naive to have posted the above tweets and then tried to cross the border. It occurred to me that Lira was going to try to cross a different border than the one specified, but that might not have made any difference in the digital age.
The rest of his important Twitter thread:
My indictment explicitly states that all I did was discuss publicly known facts about the war—the epitome of free speech in a democracy.
But Zelensky’s Ukraine is no democracy—it is a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime PRETENDING to be a polite “western” democracy.
In other words, the formalities were carried out scrupulously—while judicial and ethical grotesqueries ruled.
That's Zelensky’s Ukraine. That's what his thuggish regime cares about: The >perception< of democracy and the rule of law, so as to mask the sordid, corrupt reality.
As you can see by the indictment, the video I made that really chapped their ass was “Ukraine: A Primer”, which gives the historical background to the conflict—where I state outright that this invasion wasn't out of the blue. That indeed, it was provoked by the Kiev regime.
I got a cracked rib in my first cell, but it wasn't too bad. The worst stretch was in my fourth cell.
From 1pm on June 21 until 7pm the next day—30 hours—I was beaten and sleep deprived, my arms twisted the wrong way around at the shoulders, and generally beaten pretty bad.
Near the end of this session, one of the thugs struck me in the chest so hard and so repetitively that the beating left a yellow-and-green splotch dead-center on my sternum.
He was >berated< by the cell boss, because he'd left a mark on me—which was a no-no.
The guard told me to remove my shirt so he could look me over. The bruising was really spectacular—but he just nodded and pretended he didn't see a thing.
>Perceptions< He'd checked me, right?
Why was I beaten to the point of torture? Well—it wasn't over my YouTube videos!
So once they had me imprisoned for my videos, the SBU took the opportunity to extort money from me—using the guards as accomplices, who in turn used the prisoners as the muscle.
How I discovered this is too complicated for a Twitter thread. But I'm writing a book about it.
And the US State Department would return me too. I'm not a black lesbian druggie, or a transgender grifter. Besides, Victoria Nuland hates my guts, or so I'm told.
I'm hoping the Hungarians will read my indictment and say, “This is bullshit—we’re not sending him back.”
[Update, 11 September 2025: Gonzalo Lira died in Kiev-regime custody in January 2024, 6 months after he posted the above tweets and tried to escape from Ukrainian territory. Cause of death officially pneumonia (possible in view of the terrible conditions in which he was apparently held), or he might have simply been murdered one way or another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira#Death]
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The cast of Disney's new woke remake of Snow White: "It's not 1937. She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be." 🙄#EverythingWokeTurnsToShit#GoWokeGoBrokepic.twitter.com/XX5NIwGvqH
Part of a huge transnational campaign by the forces of evil, the aim being to trash or replace what are sometimes termed “the Good, the Beautiful, and the True”.
Lush – pushers of trans ideology, general wokery and stink bombs. Gets £5 million government bail out. Gives £4 million in bonuses to its bosses. Hmm…certainly know how to grift!#Lush#GoWokeGoBrokehttps://t.co/qKOwmMgVL3
The help that the US and its allies are providing to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is not enough, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Brazilian television Globo News in an interview last week pic.twitter.com/TfIHDGEgD7
Armed forces of Russia destroyed the stronghold of Ukrainian forces in Zaporizhzhia with the help of an FPV drone , the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced. pic.twitter.com/QWIxSSprT9
An interesting opinion regarding the hryvnia exchange rate is that it is absolutely artificial and does not reflect past and current economic realities. With such a huge volume of external injections, the National Bank of Ukraine can easily support it through the constant sale of…
Ah. That had puzzled me. Here we have a notably corrupt and shambolic “state”, Ukraine, which for 30+ years has become ever-more corrupt and shambolic. That state has now been invaded, a tenth of its territory occupied, and about 20% of the population has fled to other countries. Industry is largely idle, while agricultural produce cannot be, for the most part, exported. Despite all that, the exchange rate of its currency, the hryvnia, has not dropped through the floor. Why not?
Scouts of the Dnepr group hit the enemy's IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system with the Lancet loitering ammunition. pic.twitter.com/gjCW5PqN9q
As far as the medical profession is concerned, very few of such incidents involve (real) British/English doctors, as everyone knows. The case reported on is no different.
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Tory-run Thurrock Council secretly handed £655m to a local businessman.
He spent the money on a private jet, a yacht, a 232-acre mansion, a Bugatti, and loads of other stuff.
Then he wound up the company.
Thurrock Council is now bankrupt and cutting services to local people.
Please, tell me what isn't insulting and patronising about being told to wash the sauce of Spaghetti hoops?
— Sassy Vagrant 🏴🏳️🌈 (@myloveisdrunk) July 31, 2023
People aren't poor because they haven't been 'taught how to look after themselves'. No one knows more about budgeting than people in poverty. And coming from a middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe it's condescending, and damaging to the conversation around poverty.
Jack Monroe refuses to be transparent about missing Teemill charity money, 30p Lee 'legal fund', 3 years unfulfilled Patreon, falsely claimed abject poverty whilst buying luxury goods and begging for money, and blocks anyone who asks reasonable questions.
Online “grifter”, “Supertanskiii”, who apparently makes some kind of living partly via pretending to be an “anti-Tory” “activist” (i.e. she tweets ranting, repetitive, and boring remarks about “the Tories” several times a day, and is, or so I read, sent money by, I also read, pathetic middle-aged men, mostly), engages in dialogue with someone about better-known “grifter” “Jack Monroe”. Note also how “Supertanskiii” uses that stupid “they” thing when she means “she“.
The conversation was all about how MP Lee Anderson (admittedly not someone of whom I particularly approve) was evil etc when he claimed to be able to make food for 30p (while fraudster “Jack” claims to be able to do the same for 11p). Both totally implausible, in my opinion.
Louise Theroux and Nick Fuentes
Saw a recording of a recent Louis Theroux TV show. His usual modus operandi, i.e. try to appear friendly or at least honestly inquisitive, while plotting how to entrap his interviewers and/or make them look stupid. It often works. The only one of his interviewees (from the relatively few of his shows seen by me) who managed to put Theroux in his place was the late Max Clifford.
This show was about one Nick Fuentes and his followers in the USA. I had heard of Nick Fuentes, but knew little of him.
I have to say that Theroux did not have a difficult task this time. Weird people giggling and making jokes out of serious issues, these Nick Fuentes followers (and the man himself) came across more like silly boys aged about 10 (in most cases) rather than young or youngish men in their twenties and thirties trying to put forward serious points and maybe attain to political leadership.
Not that I disliked or disagreed with all that they said. They seemed to be fairly solid on the “Jewish Question”, though their views were pretty superficial.
Nick Fuentes himself seemed reasonably intelligent, and is plainly making a small fortune out of his activities, but some of his views are just mad, and I have nothing in common with the “nothing is serious”, or “making jokes to make a semi-serious point” tactics he and his followers deploy. I also have nothing in common in terms of lifestyle with these “gamers” and their Call of Duty (etc) interests. I have never played such a game, not even once. There again, I am now 66, twice or even three times the age of these —to me— strange young/youngish men (apparently there are a few women, but not many).
They all expressly disclaimed any connection with, or interest in, National Socialism, or what they termed “white supremacism“, or even “white nationalism“. That rang a couple of alarm bells for me. It occurred to me that Fuentes, and the movement as a whole might be a kind of plant, or at least being loosely manipulated as “controlled opposition”.
Here is a movement of the contemporary computerized era: no ideology to speak of (from what I have seen so far), no real programme, no administrative structure beyond whatever is necessary to publish their views online. A rag-tag bunch of followers, though quite numerous (Fuentes was said to be able to gather a crowd of several thousands at short notice, and in any state of the Union).
I enjoyed seeing the scenes of the U.S. Capitol invaded, but that did not amount to a putsch, even on the slightly comic-opera or tragi-comic level of, say, the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 in Munich, which at least had real aims, real ideology, serious people (Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Ludendorff, Rudolf Hess, Dietrich Eckart etc), and real courage and steel.
The U.S. Capitol “riot”, by contrast— no discipline, no ideology, no real leadership; chaotic, and with nothing to fall back upon afterwards.
Not very impressive (both Fuentes’ movement and Theroux’s show). The nagging thought is in my mind— what interests are served by a phenomenon such as that? It may be little more than a safety-valve for the System.
I hope you'll ask direct qus about why Jack, having received cash via Patreon, hasn't delivered promised rewards for years/paused it, & hasn't refunded people contributing to sue Lee Anderson when she failed to sue? Why the VBI hasn't materialised? Why she's so unpleasant online?
“The VBI” refers to the “Jack Monroe” invention (which does not in fact exist) of a so-called “Vimes’ Boots Index” of inflation monitoring of basic or staple products. Another “Jack Monroe” scam, in short.
@rhiroberts – another subject to discuss is her alleged heroics at Grenfell Tower, when Jack Monroe was behind the police cordon.
Why did she delete this from her blog, and never mention it again? Was she even there?https://t.co/FU9vLHV3Zx
Tweeter “Birdy Bart”: joined Twitter late June 2023, and only 1 “follower”. The latest “Jack Monroe” “sock account”. Pathetic, but not as pathetic as the 379 utter mugs still each sending the fraudulent “grifter” between £3.50 and £44 a month, a total of thousands of pounds a month.
Still, the tide has turned.
Last year, “Jack Monroe” was being chucked money by about 850 mugs (she having been endorsed by Jewish “celebrity” “foodies” Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner).
In the latter part of 2022, that ~850 declined to about 400 or so as people started to wake up to the fraudulent and abusive behaviour etc by “Jack Monroe” and her fans; then the number declined further, to 396-397, and stuck there for quite a while, several months. Now— 379. Must still be several thousand a month, though, as noted. Even on the lowest level (£3.50 each), that is still over £1,300 in cash, though, every month, and taxfree. At a guess, she must still be pulling in about £4,000 a month from those mugs.
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They're just stealing bread to feed their families Ian, from the Gucci store… pic.twitter.com/pv845jaa6T
— Millard Roswell™/AbortionisMurder (@MistrJustaguy) August 1, 2023
It was funny, Lee couldn't hit a barn door, that's what ruined his career. As for Baddiel's opinions on a movie actor, it's going along with this new rubbish that actors can't act as someone else. Makes as much sense as needing a dead person to play a ghost.
Because most Africans are incapable of organization.
There are other factors, of course: corruption, wars and civil wars and (yes) exploitation by outsiders, but that is last and least.
The blog has had only one or two hits from Burkina Faso in the past years. Maybe it was that President? Who knows?
“An attack by the Wagner Group on Poland will be regarded as an attack by Russia,” US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, answering a question about a possible outbreak of hostilities in Poland
In the future, say 200 years from now, will 2023 be classed alongside 1941, 1939, and 1914, and will earnest discussion among academics ask “could that war have been prevented?”
Ah…a terrible result for me too this week, one of the worst in the past several years of doing this Saturday quiz. I was even beaten by political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10 points; this week I could manage only a mere 3/10. I only knew the answers to questions 3, 6, and 10. Had I thought longer, I should have got numbers 5 and 8 as well, but there it is.
Incidentally, question 6 may have been wrongly-put anyway (though I still got the answer); some people think that the phrase in question only originated in or about 1964, not 1956. I certainly thought so until today.
Crazed butch lesbian attacks woman, and causes lifelong injury and pain to victim. Gets minor fine and a suspended sentence of 34 weeks. Britain in 2023.
Notice how the Daily Mail headline falsely claims that the criminal has been “jailed for 34 weeks“. No. She has not been imprisoned at all.
The US Weapons are only made to make a profit as they are no good on the battlefield says a former officer, Lost the ability to make good weapons over the past decades as didn't think they would fight this type of war. Only with defenseless countries with no air defense .
The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked targets with "smart bombs" in the Beryslavsky district of the Kherson region, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine place their reserves, equipment and ammunition depots There were powerful explosions pic.twitter.com/swTdO9XodF
The next batch of civilians caught before sent off to 2 weeks NATO bootcamp.
This is horrible….Zelensky making money and gaining influence on the internet while his men fight a conflict they can't win. pic.twitter.com/rldoJ2dnGV
The Kiev regime no longer has adventurers and chancers, and would-be mercenaries, lining up to volunteer, not now that a posting to the front line means a death sentence, so the regime has widened the scope of conscription, and has press-gangs operating, pulling potential cannon-fodder off the streets.
When the US government is much more concerned about the Russian-Ukrainian borders that it forgets it has it's own. pic.twitter.com/TtPMr8Yza8
Georgia should stick to walnuts and wine, and leave war to those capable of engaging in it seriously.
"It's a great job"
"Get all your bills paid for, get a huge salary for no minimum work standards or hours, fill up your second home, employ family members, obtain ££ contracts for your friends, and personally enrich yourself at the expense of the country and everyone in it." https://t.co/kVjbXQWEnz
Piers Morgan talking about “where the line is” on satire, i.e. as to when should it not exist, when might it even be deemed unlawful. Of course, Morgan is just another msm moneygrubber and careerist who knows that, to continue his lucrative nonsense, he has to keep in with the Jew-Zionist cabals which, to a large extent, control and/or influence the TV industry and the msm in general.
TV shows have, for well over 60 years, “offended” the British people. No redress…
…and guess what group, more than any other, has “offended” the British people, slandered them, trashed their beliefs, culture, and way of life? That’s right…
Morgan even has the gall to claim that he supports freedom of expression, presumably excepting from that any situation where a Jew, or a group of Jews, however small in number, claims “offence” (and the “Campaign Against AntiSemitism” is really very small, just a handful of Jew-Zionists tweeting and causing trouble, making false and malicious complaints to police, Twitter, MPs, cafes or local authorities showing anti-Zionist films or hosting anti-Zionist comedians etc; but wealthy Jews stumped up £600,000+ last year so that the “CAA” could continue with what many call “lawfare” against freedom of expression).
ISRAEL
Catholics successfully defend their church from Zionist extremist group 'La Familia', who attempted to sieze Mar Elias Monastery by force
In recent months, priests have been stabbed and assaulted, cemeteries desecrated and churches set on fire in Israel pic.twitter.com/pW8k5YbK9u
You held a screening of 'Moulin Rouge' at Westminster Abbey? Why? Will the Leicester Square Odeon now be holding regular Evensong? https://t.co/8cKXFM3gni
The Church of England stopped being a spiritual organization many many years ago. The pro-Israel, pro-Jew-Zionist C. of E. under Welby is merely the gravestone on top.
The Labour Party, under Jewish-lobby puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, is on track, arguably, to form a government in 2024 (though the fat lady has not yet sung), but that fake “popularity” is wholly by default, because we the people have, at present, a Conservative Party regime so corrupt, shambolic, and useless that even fairly hard-core former Conservative Party voters are either voting elsewhere or, in far greater numbers, abstaining in by-elections.
The “Labour surge” in the opinion polls is purely that— contempt for the Conservative Party government’s uselessness, which has been the case since the 2010 election that brought the part-Jews, David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne to power.
That shambolic inability to govern properly continued under (also part-Jewish) Theresa May and then (this becomes ridiculous) part-Jew Boris Johnson and his cronies. Then, of course, we endured a few weeks of utter nonsense under ignorant little careerist “ho” Liz Truss and her “African at Eton” Chancellor, Kwasi (aka Woollyhead Trussbanger). Liz Truss was then sacked (by any other word) and replaced by Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak, arguably the least convincing of the lot (apart from, obviously, Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger).
In the above-noted circumstances, and after 13+ years (except during the “Covid” “panicdemic” of 2020-22) of “austerity” policies, which were actually counter-productive, it is scarcely surprising that people are more than unenthusiastic (contemptuous, despairing) about the Conservative Party.
There again, Starmer-Labour is now not even promising much of a change from the policies (if they can be so dignified) of the present Conservative Party omnishambles. In fact, the difference is mostly meaningless hot air from Starmer and, mainly, Rachel Reeves.
Labour Party rank-and-file members (who numbered, under Corbyn, about 600,000, but who now number about 385,000 and that number falling fast), may well think “what is the point in tramping round streets canvassing etc, just so that a ‘Con-lite’, Jewish-lobby, Starmer government can be installed and then carry out policies almost identical to those of Sunak?”
This is the moment when, if we had a truly open “democracy”, a social-national party might sweep the board. However, here again we come up against the well-entrenched Jew-Zionist lobby, which makes sure (so far) that anything even mildly “national”, let alone social-national, is demonized, using all the msm puppets and controlled outlets, and ranging from news to (unfunny) comedy. One example would be Baddiel, perhaps, arguably, describable as “the unthinking man’s Jonathan Miller“.
Reverting to the semi-rigged battle between equally-misnamed “Labour” and “Conservative”, it seems to me that, in the expected 2024 General Election, the most important factor will not be ideological division, nor any enthusiasm for either System party, but how many voters will abstain, and where, and why.
The steady and fairly considerable outflow of Labour Party members will not be decisive at its present rate, not before 2025. About 5,000 per month. In 17 months (i.e. until the last possible date of the next general election), that might be 90,000, out of 385,000 members at present.
It may be that, in a general election, voter abstentions on the Con side will be fewer than at the recent by-elections, and that there may be many more than expected on the Lab side. Also, that Starmer and Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper will be quite literally hated so much that many may either abstain, or vote non-Labour, simply to prevent their having power.
I do not describe myself as a “conspiracy theorist”, but it is certainly true that, in the years since I have been running this blog, most of my predictions or those with which I have agreed, have indeed come to pass.
That one sounds like an enemy of the British people. The System gave him an OBE. What does that say? That the System itself is also the enemy of the British people.
“Starmer didn’t inform us that he was joining the Trilateral Commission while serving in the shadow cabinet. If he had, we would have put a stop to it, like we did when he tried to take an inappropriate outside job”—@schneiderhomehttps://t.co/pkUoFOw2cs
🇵🇱 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his fear that the fighters of pvk Wagner who are stationed in Belarus will invade Poland under the guise of illegal migrants. pic.twitter.com/uwrYBdKIPw
Not “insane” exactly, but signed up to a transnational conspiracy which has taken on certain shibboleths: the “trans” nonsense, the whole “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, the “holocaust” farrago and other Jewish-lobby propaganda, “standing with” “Ukraine” (Kiev regime), “Black Lives Matter”, “refugees welcome”, and so on.
Incidentally, interesting that “I stand with Ukraine” is a construction only ever seen otherwise in “I stand with Israel“…
If this isn't racism then nothing is. Yet @lisanandy@Peston and @UKLabour not only think it isn't but ridiculously believe it's racist/antisemitic to call this – or any of Israel's racist policies, racist.
— The Rt Rev'd Mojito🍹 (@childofeternity) July 29, 2023
My view is that there is nothing wrong anyway with being “racist” or “antisemitic” in a defensive way. There is certainly nothing unlawful about either, as such, in England, as judges have repeatedly confirmed.
Hate the Tories, but can't vote people like @lisanandy into power either. I am officially politically homeless
— Repeal The Gender Recognition Act (@WomanRoaringXX) July 29, 2023
If you vote Labour now and/or in 2024 (not in 1926, not in 1945, not in 1966, not in 1979, not even in 1997, but now, or next year), you are voting for people such as Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer etc, who are so intellectually dishonest that they cannot distinguish a man from a woman, cannot distinguish themselves from Sunak and his pack of idiots on policy, and who, just like the “Conservatives”, are totally in the pocket of the Israel lobby.
Putin right now will give exhaustive answers to questions about the grain deal, Ukraine and the special operation – journalists of the Kremlin pool pic.twitter.com/tWUANBtaQ0
At the moment there are no major changes at the front — Putin
“I think that this is due to the fact that the enemy has withdrawn his assault units to the places of restoration of combat capability,” Vladimir Putin said. pic.twitter.com/WIZAJDDLjS
Just so you know, the Leopard is superior to the Abrams. The Abrams uses German technology for some of its parts.
And both of them do not come in comparison to the superior T-90, which has proven to be more efficient and effective than the leopard which hasn't registered a shot. https://t.co/ztMFlTj6SP
🇷🇺🇷🇸 The victory of Russia over Ukraine will be the defeat of the collective West, – Serbian President Vucic
The West cannot allow Ukraine to be defeated, because together with it, "America and the European Union, that is, NATO and the collective West, will be defeated." pic.twitter.com/y1Bt4wdHqb
Sanctions against Russia have mostly hurt the EU, the UK, and the USA, not Russia. Western and Central Europe is facing economic and socio-political meltdown if inflation continues to rise and incomes to drop.
Russia (unlike Ukraine) is a world nuclear power, with maybe 6,000 usable nuclear weapons; it has hundreds of millions of people, and territory nearly twice the size of the USA (and over 70 times the size of the UK).
Much of the world outside the NATO alliance is at least neutral towards Russia, and many states are with Russia on Ukraine.
Russia is benefiting financially from oil and gas sales to non-sanctions countries, and they are benefiting from trade with Russia, trade much of which was formerly USA-Russia or EU-Russia.
Ukraine simply cannot “win” against Russia, however many tanks and other pieces of equipment are supplied to the regime in Kiev. It is a logical impossibility. The only possibilities, in the medium-term, say up to 2030, are Russian victory over the whole of the eastern part of Ukraine, as well as Crimea and the Black Sea coastal zone, or a stalemate, after which US/EU/UK support for the Kiev regime will eventually fall away.
The next US President will probably scale back US support for Zelensky and his regime, and will almost certainly not increase it.
How ridiculous, to move a successful company like English National Opera out of its long-established home to some provincial centre.
Most countries concentrate their cultural treasures in terms of opera, ballet etc in one city, usually the national capital, a concentration of cultural forces. Moscow, Paris, etc. Not all, but the exceptions are countries which were only unified (or created) in the 19thC (Germany and Italy, the USA).
By all means tour around the UK, but base yourself in London. Also, the concentration of cultural companies in London leads to cross-fertilization of the arts.
The most important thing is to keep a bloc of white Northern Europeans intact, because that bloc can be the foundation for a later “super-race”, one far ahead of where we are now. That foundation has to be “post-Aryan” and white European; the other races and groups cannot provide such a foundation. The later “super-race” will be a quantum leap in human evolution. The other races and ethnicities will be left behind, just as, compared to our world of today, previous forms of humanity have been left behind.
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Rachel Reeves implies Alison Rose should be let off because she’s a woman (doesn’t sound much like equality).
Then says she doesn’t know the details of the case. Which is odd, because everyone else in the country does. Plus she’s Shadow Chancellor.pic.twitter.com/TrVcPyXvfu
Israel-puppet Rachel Reeves. She would never acknowledge that a large number of organizations including banks and law firms have been promoting —and, in many cases, over-promoting— women for virtue-signalling and box-ticking reasons for about 30 years. I myself have seen many examples.
One correction: as far as I can see, the only “neo-Nazi problem” that Ukraine has is that so few “neo-Nazis” seem to exist there. If that is wrong, why do they tolerate Zelensky’s corrupt, brutal, and shambolic NWO/ZOG tyranny?
Instructor of PMC "Wagner" and servicemen of the 51st artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/ktamYD3lFo
Interesting. Usually, the “instructor” in such a situation would be the one from the army of the state, not from the private military company. However, who knows from where that “instructor” has come, in career terms? Russian Spetsnaz? The post-Soviet VDV? These are not fake “mercenaries” as once found in Soldier of Fortune etc. They are a very serious fighting force.
“A historic royal census, known as “swan upping”, has revealed a 40% drop in the number of cygnets on the River Thames, compared with last year.
The decline has been blamed on avian flu but also a growing problem of violence, including shootings, catapult attacks and dogs killing swans.“
[BBC]
I was saddened to hear, on BBC Radio 3 news this morning, that same report, i.e. that the number of swans counted on the Thames this year is about 40% lower than in previous years, and that, worse yet, part of the decline is because of “increased violence towards swans“. Jesus Christ! What sort of horrible bastards are cruel to swans?! They should be flayed alive if caught mistreating swans.
Having said that, there was always a small amount of such badness. I remember rowing my inflatable boat, with someone from my school, down the then-still-closed river Kennet in 1971, and seeing a dead swan in the water. The swan was obviously not long dead. That happened somewhere between Newbury and Reading. Not long after having seen the dead swan, we passed an unpleasant-looking young man on the bank, not older than about 20, with some kind of rifle or air-rifle. Were the two sights connected? I think probably they were.
Incidentally, the Kennet, and connected Kennet and Avon, was then only navigable by carrying the boat around disused locks, over barbed-wire fences etc. Since then, volunteers have been able to re-open the waterway to traffic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennet_and_Avon_Canal.
[where the Kennet meets the Thames at Reading; viaduct bridge carrying the mainline Paddington to Reading railway also in the picture]
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'The housing crisis has been caused by mass rapid immigration.' – GB News debate. pic.twitter.com/lxOnRrbkuA
Let’s not forget that Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lied for nearly a YEAR about suing 30pLee, claims she raised less that £1400 for it, but also bought a £2k+ designer dog and a £7k+ watch during that time. How can anyone defend, support or promote this grifter? pic.twitter.com/rLOI0NMHem
Bless her. Faux poverty conwoman & fake fundraising fraudster Jack Monroe bootstrapcook hates it here. Simple solution: Stop using the platform to top up your scam scam sales funnel, delete account, stop patreon, refund #suelee cash, get a job. Easy 👍 pic.twitter.com/ddZJMAAubZ
She hopes that her critics will tire of trying to enlighten the public (including the 397 utter mugs still —as of today— sending her a total of several thousand pounds per month via Patreon). If the critics tire, then she can resume (on a larger scale) her decade-long career of “grifting” and defrauding and embezzling and “cosplaying”, as may be convenient for her; maybe even get onto Question Time again (which does not usually pay, but does tend to validate her with the msm in general and with the uninformed majority of the public.
The MET office established in 1855 didn’t record temperature until 1912. In 1974 climate scientists said we will have ice age in 2000. Man made global warming wasn’t invented until 1985. pic.twitter.com/5fvXzV0sXc
Save this video and send it to @maitlis when she’s quite rightly appalled that she can’t buy food or access basic services. Free speech is defending the speech of those you disagree with the most. Moronic lack of self awareness.
Ignorant Jewish talking head Emily Maitlis, hugely overpaid by the BBC thanks to the outdated and tyrannical “licence fee” system, wilfully fails to see the bigger point about freedom of expression. I can only assume that she is unaware that other people, less famous than Nigel Farage, have also been “cancelled” for having the “wrong” views (i.e. anti-System views), people such as Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative), and others. They all lost their personal bank accounts, and they were not “cancelled” by Coutts but by standard high street banks such as Barclays and (I think) Halifax.
You hear much (and rightly so) about the attempted bank account cancellation of Farage, but where were Laurence Fox, the “Free Speech Union”, Toby Young etc when those other victims had their bank accounts cancelled? Where were those “champions of free speech” when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for posting online legitimate satire about Jewish and Zionist behaviour, or during my continuing persecution at the hands of the Jew-Zionist lobby? Absent.
Coutts (obviously) Rose Starmer Just Stop Oil Simon Jack Dale Vince The BBC Vorderman Maguire Mason Biden Rayner Bray Stonewall Khan O’Brien The BMA ULEZ Lynch Bryant Izzard Packham Harman Brian Cox Cooper Soubry The RMT Yorkshire BS Burley Ellwood Maitlis
Ukraine may not have a single port left in three months – representative of the operational command "South" of the armed forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk
Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot win this war; indeed, without having been propped up by vast amounts of money, arms, ammunition, clothing, food etc from the West, it would already be totally on its knees.
Abandoned Ukrainian T-72M on the outskirts of Rabotino, Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/nnwxai246A
He left out a fourth aspect— Jewish-Zionist control (of banks, businesses and commerce, legal services, newspapers, television, radio, and pseudo-democratic politics).
The remains of NATO armored vehicles in the SMO zone Another column of UAF armored vehicles was destroyed before reaching the positions of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/sndmK0E2a8
Nothing will stop the Russians – ex-Trump adviser Douglas McGregor “And if we decide to whisper to the Poles: they say, well, for the cause, cross the border, go to Lvov. What will happen? I think that Lvov will be easily razed to the ground , and the troops that try to cross… pic.twitter.com/yXp7MNHFlt
In our paper published today, 🏴 @ScotGov proposes an open and inclusive approach to citizenship in an independent Scotland.
One that welcomes people who want to settle in Scotland, rather than putting barriers and excessive fees in the way of individuals and their families. pic.twitter.com/x8kK94lMnh
Pakistani “Scotsman”, SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf, now proposes the flooding of Scotland with new huge numbers of Pakistani and other migrant-invaders.
If that were ever to happen as proposed, many migrant-invaders would take up Scottish citizenship purely in order to, sooner or later, relocate to England. That in turn would entail the building of…a wall…to keep them out. Certainly the construction of border fortifications.
In reality, though, it will almost certainly never happen. Even bearing in mind the pseudo-nationalist idiocy that leads to nearly half of the Scottish electorate voting SNP (that’s right— the SNP has never garnered even half of Scottish votes), this must surely give even die-hard SNP supporters pause.
Yousaf may just have cost the SNP a goodly portion of its votes.
I usually steer clear of commenting on Scottish politics, but think that faux-“Independence” is losing traction.
🇺🇦 "Ukraine may not have any ports left in three months" – said the representative of the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk. pic.twitter.com/3cMGBLSYTy
Ukraine's army has lost almost a fifth of its NATO counteroffensive equipment, including armored vehicles" – Financial Times. pic.twitter.com/uMeMhBgVaz
The Kiev regime’s “big push” may soon become its “long walk home”.
The hilariously miscalculated closure of @Nigel_Farage’s account tells a wider story: one of corporate virtue signalling which, since last February, has weaponised Russophobia for the sake of moral posturing. https://t.co/G85dWnk3Y6
Looks like the North Cornwall beaches are now very different from when my family camped at Treyarnon in, if I recall, 1965. I would have been about 8 years old. Denis Healey also used to camp there with his wife and children in those days, though I do not believe I ever saw him. Imagine a Cabinet minister (he was Secretary of State for Defence) doing that now!
When I later (2002-2004) lived not so far away (having leased one of the largest country houses in Cornwall, about 4 miles north of Launceston), we only rarely visited the not-far-away North Cornwall beaches, and only in the colder months, when most are deserted.
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The ancient sound of the Roman cornu – a horn used for signalling troop movements and announcing the presence of the emperor in military and civilian settings. Each legion had 36 cornu players, as well as other trumpet and horn players. Imagine the noise! pic.twitter.com/didcP6vuWH
The Pentagon dubbed Afghanistan ‘the Saudi Arabia of lithium.’ Now, it is American rivals that are angling to exploit those coveted reserves. https://t.co/pyznhiMTQm
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 22, 2023
On weekends in major cities, both the police and protesters use weapons more and more often, in social networks, many rely on the military and do not rule out a military coup pic.twitter.com/VvmV4Yzsii
Most of Africa was once under European control, and was better for it. All of Africa should be under European control.
Russians had time to build a multi-layered line of defense – Pentagon “There are a lot of complex minefields, dragon teeth, barbed wire, trenches. They have built at least two or even three belts of defense, ” said Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now… pic.twitter.com/wwnmhNUGBP
Former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor: NATO may not come out unscathed from this war in Ukraine, and I believe that there will be a change of governments in Europe and we will see the emergence of new leaders who will say: "Why are we going after these Americans?" If Russia… pic.twitter.com/W32YPW0y6A
Canada tested the world's first passenger train powered by hydrogen.
The Coradia iLint train from the French company Alstom has a zero level of harmful emissions. It runs on electricity generated by mixing hydrogen with oxygen. pic.twitter.com/M3hLvR3Gc9
Wilkerson: NATO will begin to disintegrate in 15 months due to the war in Ukraine Colonel Lawrence WILKERSON is convinced that the dissolution of NATO will enable the emergence of new European leaders who will replace the current ones pic.twitter.com/j7Ze3lonFd
Russian forces continue their offensive on the Kupyansk sector.
Russian troops are advancing from the Liman Pervy side, and there are reports of the capture of several fortified areas by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Artillery is actively engaging Ukrainian positions.
Terrible. It will not always be like that, though.
Stalingrad, largely razed in 1942, recovered, was renamed Volgograd (1961) and is today a thriving city (as are the Japanese cities devastated in WW2— Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki etc): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd
[Stalingrad, early 1943]
[Duma of the Stalingrad Oblast, centre of regional government, in a recent year]
[panorama of Volgograd, contemporary]
[Lenin Square metro station, Volgograd]
[museum of Battle of Stalingrad—ruins of destroyed factory and nearby famous statue-group, with 1940s truck, all as they are today]
[Volgograd— Central Embankment on the Volga]
[Volgograd— trolleybus]
The lesson? That life does, eventually, go on…
The Russian Federation imported 30 times more UAVs from China this year than Ukraine – Politico.
Russian imports of Chinese ceramics, a component used in body armor, increased by 69% (over $225 million). pic.twitter.com/FmrvLjmnVn
“Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons, that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day.” WSJ
These are the people who sit in Whitehall and the Pentagon, and think that they could defeat Russia in three days, and cost-free.
As cluster munitions are now being used in Ukraine. Thought I’d repost this video. Ukraine didn’t target her child. But Ukrainian shelling killed her. This is what such political decisions mean on the ground. https://t.co/01n5Tq8LVs
Excellent thread about Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook’s decade-plus massive fraud, poverty-cosplaying grift and serial thieving of fundraisers https://t.co/Dxoyi6o9dc
A furious German woman took matter into her own hands and dragged a 'Just Stop Oil' climate protester off the road by her hair after the Greta Thunberg cultists blocked a main road in Germany.
Ha ha! Stupid loonie; totally brainwashed. She may be right though, in thinking (feeling) that she has no future…(I daresay that her —probably— affluent parents will bail her out, both literally and metaphorically).
Jack Monroe bootstrapcook you are still being evasive. What is "that time period"? We need DATES not vagueness. Logically we are talking 12 months. Did you honestly make under £1400 from 570k followers in 12 months? Hmmmm unlikely. pic.twitter.com/O8nX3MX1Hu
One of the things that’s so unpleasant about people like Jack Monroe is that they use up what isn’t an inexhaustible supply of empathy and goodwill. Nice people will think twice about helping someone in trouble or extending their sympathy because they got burned by a grifter.
Disgusting. As usual, when cornered by her own lies, Jack Monroe bootstrapcook falls back on the classic narc con artist trick of suicide baiting. https://t.co/kWwaVgE919
“Jack Monroe” has pulled the old “suicide” trick quite a few times, and it always seems to co-incide with occasions when there is much scrutiny of her obvious “grifting” and outright fraud. The depressing thing is that many mugs fall for it every single time.
Donetsk is under attack again
The video shows the consequences of explosions and destruction in the Kuibyshev and Kiev regions, as well as a fire after arrivals in the satellite city of Donetsk, Makeevka. pic.twitter.com/m9S9jEyLYM
The result of the Ka-52M attack helicopter in repelling the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Orekhovo. During the raid, the crew of the upgraded Ka-52M destroyed two foreign-made armored personnel carriers: a Leopard tank and a Bradley infantry… pic.twitter.com/3h8kSQVqpJ
I would be very glad to see Gove “scrapped” (that’s putting it politely); one of the merely five tweets which resulted in my 2016 disbarment (at the instigation of a pack of Jews calling themselves “UK Lawyers for Israel”) was that referring to Gove, entirely accurately, as a Jewish-lobby puppet and expenses cheat.
Truth is no defence, it seems, in such a case. Gove has always been in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist lobby, and as for his being an expenses cheat, the only reason he was not prosecuted in 2009 was that the rules on MP expenses were too-loosely drafted and executed. Parliament cannot even run its own affairs properly, yet purports to be able to run the country effectively.
Gove is, of course, also a drunk and a cocaine abuser, facts of which both I and the public were unaware in 2016.
Look at that photo: careerist Gove, the Jew Miliband, and mentally-unstable part-Palestinian atheist, “pansexual” and LibDem MP, Layla Moran [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Moran#Personal_life], all pretending to applaud Greta Thunberg, the mentally-afflicted Swedish autistic, who has nothing to say that can help anyone or anything . Of course, that was years ago, and Greta Nut is of little interest to the public now (thankfully).
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David Bellamy cancelled for questioning. Truth doesn't mind being questioned. https://t.co/2jdUpZMJmg
“Truth doesn’t mind being questioned“? Very true, but tell that to the Jew-Zionist lobby re. the “holocaust” farrago…
The Russian army released a video of the destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Zaporozhye pic.twitter.com/iBqeCn4mbR
As a result of the catastrophic failure to repel the hypersonic missiles, the Russian defense announced the destruction of mercenary gatherings and drone manufacturing sites in Odessa.
I saw an assessment by some British ex-officer that, were the Russian forces to use nuclear weapons (I presume he means tactical ones) in Ukraine, US and UK forces would respond, directly, by wiping out the Russian forces in Ukraine in 2-3 days! Really? What if Putin decided to raze all major Ukrainian cities, especially Kiev, to the ground, using larger, strategic, nuclear missiles? Would US/UK forces still enter Ukraine (presumably only by air power)?
What if the Russians were to take the “Devil’s alternative” and decided to destroy London and a few key airfields, strategic telecoms centres, and ports? At that point, there is no British Army, navy, or air force to speak of, the UK Government would no longer exist, there would be social chaos in Britain, and it would be all but irrelevant that Russian cities and military facilities would also be eliminated.
If the above were to happen, we would be in world war, “Dr. Strangelove” territory, and the USA would be involved both as target and as nuclear attacker.
This is becoming truly dangerous for avoidance of a real nuclear war, both in Europe and beyond. Are the British ruling circles, for example, really willing to risk a nuclear attack on the UK itself just because they want to deny victory to the Russian forces in eastern Ukraine?
Madness.
The Razor’s Edge
I just wasted 2 hours watching the 1984 remake of the fine 1946 film, The Razor’s Edge, which was based on a novel by Somerset Maugham.
The remake expunged entirely the character of Somerset Maugham himself, who in the 1946 version was both the unseen narrator and also seen in several scenes throughout the film (Somerset Maugham was played by Herbert Marshall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marshall).
Several changes were made, I think not very successfully, in the 1984 version: the film starts at a kind of charity fete, rather than a country club by one of the Great Lakes. The main character, Larry Darrell (played by Bill Murray in the 1984 film, but —far better— by Tyrone Power in the 1946 one) is, in the 1984 version, a former ambulance orderly home from American involvement in WW1 (in the 1946 film, he is a former WW1 American pilot).
The 1984 film leaves out, entirely, the 1946 version’s final parts set on the Cote d’Azur, and resets those scenes in Paris.
The Himalayan scenes, where Larry Darrell seeks and finds enlightenment after consulting with an Indian holy man and “abbot” of an ashram, were much more powerful in the 1946 version; the 1984 film makes the ashram a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and the scene in which Larry Darrell is enlightened on a mountain is just not at all convincing.
I have never read the novel, but I see now from Wikipedia that Darrell’s enlightenment in the book came after encounter with a Hindu spiritual master. The 1946 film leaves it vague as to the religion of the “abbot”, but the “abbey” is described as an ashram.
Even the drink which causes the character, Sophie, to fall back into alcohol abuse, is changed from Pertsovka (pepper-and-honey vodka, called —in the French way— “persovka”, in the film) to Zubrovka (bison-grass vodka). I can only assume that that that is because Zubrovka had become well-known, whereas few people in the USA had or have heard of Pertsovka.
Personally, I would give the 1946 version 8/10 as a film, but the 1984 version 2/10.
Incidentally, the 1984 film was both a critical and commercial flop, making back only half of its production budget, whereas the original 1946 version was nominated for four Academy Awards, and won one (Anne Baxter, playing Sophie); it also won two Golden Globes. The 1946 film was not a huge success commercially, but still made back 4-5 times its production cost.
Sometimes, remakes surpass earlier versions, but rarely. In this case, the 1946 version outdoes the 1984 remake in every way: storyline, acting, music, cinematography (despite the 38-year gap). The script in particular is very crisp in the 1946 film.
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Departure of Tu-22M3 strategic bombers from Mozdok airfield
The UAF member tells how he sees what is happening inside Ukraine, how the Kyiv authorities spit on the lives of soldiers and how corruption eats up the budget from the inside.He comes to the conclusion that he does not feel any patriotism for this country. pic.twitter.com/3MUtlNVT2G
Every 100 meters cost us 4-5 people”: the Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted huge losses in manpower
Medics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain to The Kiev Post that the Ukrainian command advertised its counteroffensive so much that the Russian army foresaw all the steps of… pic.twitter.com/0oloVHxZOy
According to the night strike in Odessa and Nikolaev, you need to understand the following. 1. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have long placed and stored weapons and ammunition in ports and, most likely, were confident that these stocks were safe due to the grain deal. 2. Night…
French company Pazzi has opened its second fully robotic pizzeria in Paris.
A pizzeria where there is not a single living soul in the kitchen has opened in the Beaubourg district of Paris. Each robot is responsible for its part of the work – the first prepares the dough, the… pic.twitter.com/LEF7BX9EqW
Ancient civilizations may be gone, but some of them are still all around us – if you know where to look. These artifacts open a window to worlds that no longer exist.
Well, this week I scored a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 2/10, whereas my score was 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 10. I admit that I guessed the answer to question no.1, but that still counts.
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He is nasty I’ve heard so many people say he’s nasty mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan he was truly awful to them
Now, Biden is demented; back then, in 2019, he was just a very obviously unpleasant person. Were he not a politician, notunder public scrutiny, and were he in, say, an Irish-American bar somewhere, one could imagine him viciously assaulting his interlocutor.
"We have a corrupt and compromised president, rogue Joe Biden dragging us into World War III on behalf of a nation that paid him millions and millions of dollars in bribes " – Donald Trump
Amid the ongoing legal investigation against Trump, his lawyer wants cameras in the… pic.twitter.com/M8gWN7Sgzo
The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, are a pair of one-trick ponies. They are rapidly becoming yesterday’s news, except as a kind of joke.
Electricity prices rise in Germany without Russian gas — Die Welt In the coming years, the cost of electricity in Germany will remain high and may even rise. By 2025, electricity consumption is expected to increase in Germany, and gas is still used for its production. pic.twitter.com/7NSfqRuiQA
So, again, who is hurt by sanctions against Russia? The consumers and taxpayers of western and central Europe. Not Russia or Russians. The gas produced in Russia will still be sold elsewhere in the world, and Russian citizens are, if anything, better off than they were before the sanctions were imposed.
The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine said that food exports from Ukraine decreased by at least 30% after the termination of the grain deal. pic.twitter.com/vJZtAXPN40
Another crack in Ukrainian-Polish friendship — Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. “This is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard,” wrote Denys Shmyhal.
Ukraine will increase the tariff for the transportation of Russian oil through its section of the Druzhba pipeline by 23.5 percent
From August 1, Russia will pay 4 euros more for pumping each ton of oil in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary – the tariff will increase to 21… pic.twitter.com/g8qCa4nwi4
A strange “war”, in which Ukraine (Kiev regime) allows transit of Russian oil exports through its territory (at a price) and, until last week, Russia allowed the Kiev regime to export grain.
Destruction of the artillery arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Chudnov, Zhytomyr region pic.twitter.com/pErEOuUcZH
Two 9-ton furnaces have been restored at the Azovelectrostal plant in Mariupol “The territory has been demined and cleared of destroyed structures. An initial technical and economic audit was carried out. The backbone of the team has been preserved – 250 technical staff," the… pic.twitter.com/bqKupbFUSF
Is it not the other way around? Whatever. The fact is that there is little clear blue water between the two major System parties, a fact many voters have started to realize.
Map of the attacks of the Crimean peninsula by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this one pic.twitter.com/qzkPMs7LJs
I don't know how ANYONE can think it's right for Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to solicit donations under false pretences, refuse to prove where cash has gone & block donors who ask for transparency. Every day, she looks less like just a grifter & more like a serial fraudster https://t.co/J5tuoczDPa
The German army has ordered several hundred thousand artillery shells in agreement with "Rheinmetall" as it works to replenish the stocks emptied by the war in Ukraine, the company announced.
"Rheinmetall" announced that it received a new framework contract for the supply of 155…
The brutal and corrupt Zelensky regime is having to use press-gangs to enforce conscription, there are no more volunteers, and the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder. The front is almost a death sentence; many are deserting.
Head of the Crimean Parliament: We must liberate Nikolaev, Kherson and Odesa HE EMPHASIZED: THERE ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH KIEV – WE MUST TAKE THE ENTIRE COAST OF THE BLACK SEA FROM HIM pic.twitter.com/SWgBUNrWNx
The by-election was triggered by the standing-down of the Conservative Party MP David Warburton, following multiple allegations (some admitted) of misconduct: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Warburton].
In 2019, Warburton received nearly 56% of the vote, with the LibDems in second place on 26%.
Labour has no chance here and, on paper, this would normally be another easy win for the Con Party, but the manner of departure of the last MP, added to the anger across the country aimed at the Con Party government of Sunak, may mean a LibDem by-election upset, particularly as this is merely a by-election.
In 2019, only 4 candidates stood (Con, Lab, LibDem, and Green); at the by-election, there are also Christian People’s Alliance, UKIP, Reform UK, and an Independent.
The bookies’ favourite is the LibDem, a lady from a local farming family who is also a local councillor. She seems to hit all the buttons, even the sex one, being female after the defaults of male MP Warburton (sex pest allegations, and connected cocaine abuse).
The bookmakers have the LibDem, Sarah Dyke, as even-money favourite, with the Con Party candidate on 20-1, and Labour at 250-1. The rest are not even quoted. You could probably get 1000-1 against any of them.
Experience shows that bookmakers are a poor guide to by-election results, but the LibDem looks pretty sure to win this, especially when many Labour supporters will be voting tactically, and many former Con voters displaying apathy and/or unwillingness to vote for the present Government.
The by-election of course triggered by the standing-down of “Boris” Johnson.
The 2019 election attracted 12 candidates, because the seat of the sitting Prime Minister is always popular. “Boris”-idiot won with 52.6% in 2019, with Labour garnering 37.6%. Only one other candidate had a saved deposit (the LibDem, on 6.3%).
The by-election has 17 candidates, among them the TV actor, Laurence Fox, for Reclaim. The bookmakers only rate two seriously— Con and Labour. The Labour Party candidate is quoted at just better than even-money, with Conservative Party candidate at 9/1. The Labour price has not altered much, but the Conservative has gone out from an opening 3/1 to 9/1, and the LibDems are now at 1000/1. The third-placed runner is now Reform UK (but only on 300/1).
“A nurse sitting with her husband drinking coffee said: “The biggest issue is ULEZ. I’ve retired from the NHS after 49 years. What about the carers who can’t make visits any more?”
People in Uxbridge tend not to conform to media stereotypes, for example that the NHS is in an unbearable state of crisis. The nurse said: “If I had my time again I’d do the same job again. I love my job.” As she walks round Uxbridge she is often greeted by her former patients.
How will she vote in the by-election? “Up until Jeremy Corbyn I was a Labour person,” she said. “Labour looked after the schools, the hospitals and the elderly.
“But the party has changed now and I’m afraid I have no confidence in them. Keir Starmer wouldn’t come out and actually go against Sadiq Khan [on ULEZ] in a television interview, when he was asked about him.“
“‘It can’t be any worse’: In Boris Johnson’s back yard, Britons are desperate for a change.
Uxbridge, like Britain, is in a rut.
The town is where the capital’s westward sprawl ends. Two Tube lines serving central London finish their journeys here, as picturesque shades of green mingle with the gray and brown hues of suburban developments. But its high streets are shrinking and the local hospital is one of the worst in Britain – rated “inadequate” by the sector’s watchdog.
And nationwide, soaring inflation, public sector strikes and the aftermath of Brexit have left families poorer and services creaking to the point of collapse. Renewing a passport, taking a train, buying groceries, seeing a doctor – virtually everything is more difficult in Britain than it once was.
Change is in the air, and Labour is set to benefit. Opinion polls confidently predict the party, led by Keir Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, will win power in a general election expected next year.
But Uxbridge is a test case for that theory, and tensions are high. “You can see the national polls, just like I can see, but these are real votes,” Steve Reed, the party’s shadow justice secretary tasked with running the local campaign, told CNN on a hot afternoon on the high street. He predicts a “tighter race” than some media have suggested.
A handful of media outlets, including CNN, were denied the chance to interview Labour’s candidate or join a canvassing session, an unusually skittish move from a party tipped to win a by-election.
“People are not stupid. People understand the challenges facing the country,”
Some voters are more blunt. “They’re basically saying we’ll carry on business as normal,” says Mick, 61, who runs a food stall near Uxbridge station and has voted Labour his entire life. “So why are we voting?”
“I’d like to think [Labour would] like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
[CNN]
Maybe not so obvious as at Somerton and Frome, but here too it looks as if the Conservative Party is facing an uphill struggle. Uxbridge is a more typical contest though, maybe, compared to Somerton and Frome, and one in which many voters despise all the System parties, and particularly Con and Lab. A battle of apathies?
Selby and Ainsty
The Selby and Ainsty constituency is unusual in that it has been represented since creation in 2010 by only one MP, a Conservative, who seems to be abandoning ship in the moral certainty that the national unpopularity of the Sunak government will wash him away at the next general election.
I do not know why the departed MP, Nigel Adams, chose to stand down in 2023 rather than wait until 2024 and the next general election. Maybe he did not want the opprobrium of having been voted out. Rumour has it that he wanted a peerage and, when not given one, resigned in order to lash out at his own party. Maybe.
Adams won his four elections convincingly, and increased his vote share steadily from 49.4% in 2010 to 60.3% in 2019.
Labour scored about a quarter of the vote in 2010, 2015, and 2019 but, interesting to see, managed over a third of the vote in 2017, when Corbyn was still Labour leader.
12 candidates are contesting the by-election, but this will be between Con and Lab. The bookmakers have Labour just better than even-money, but Con on about 13/2. A few weeks ago, the result seemed more speculative.
Political websites and newspapers have taken an interest in the Selby contest, perhaps because it may give a clue as to the Northern “Red Wall” seats.
“I’d like to think they’d like to do more for the working people,” Tracy Peabody, a dental nurse and mother of three young boys, told CNN on a high street in Ruislip Manor. “But I can’t help thinking it’s two wings from the same bird, all singing from the same song sheet,” she added of Labour and the Conservatives.
Just three-and-a-half years after one of the party’s worst-ever electoral defeats, the outcome of Thursday’s vote in Uxbridge will indicate how far Labour has come.“
“Labour and the Conservative party may have found a tougher opponent than one another as they prepare to fight a by-election in Selby and Ainsty this week: entrenched despondency among an electorate that’s tired of Westminster drama and the challenges posed by the cost of living crisis.”
“Selby local Rachel Young paused while walking around the shops to watch the candidates for Thursday’s poll take part in a televised hustings for the BBC in the town centre last week.
She told PoliticsHome that she still has not decided who to vote for, but thinks that many people she knows will simply not bother at all.”
For me, what will be most interesting will be to see whether Labour wins because people have voted out of enthusiasm (unlikely) or simply because former Conservative voters have given up bothering to vote (more likely). The numbers will tell the story.
My guess is that the LibDems will win Somerton and Frome; a meaningless protest vote. As to the others, Labour will probably score in both, but by default only, because former Conservative voters will just stay home. Only very silly people believe that Labour-label in government will be much, if at all, better than the present shambles.
More tweets
Who would vote for a party scared to publish its manifesto? Who would vote for a party whose leader has reneged on all of his leadership election pledges? Who would listen to one word that Polly Toynbee has to say? And who would agree with an endorsement of anything by Streeting?
— Sunderland Labour Left (@LeftSunderland) July 18, 2023
I agree with the second tweet.
You won't stop the boats. This is State sponsored people trafficking. Beyond the control of a politician.
— An Inquisitive Englishman (@JJsViews) July 18, 2023
All the stuff in the msm about barges and cruise liners is flim-flam designed to obscure a few basic facts, such as that one barge can “house” 500 migrant-invaders. On many days, twice that number arrive in 24 hours! So you would need about 400-800 or more barges extra even in one year.
Also, the number of migrant-invaders coming “legally” is ten times the number arriving in rubber boats.
The UK was doomed as a decent place to live once the proportion of non-whites went beyond about 5% (and we are already at about 20%). The same goes for much of western and central Europe.
The myth of the nuclear family is one of those things that is so anti-Black, anti-woman, ableist, & capitalist at the same time it makes me GAG
Western ideology places the entire responsibility of childrearing on 1 woman & fiscal stability on 1 man & wonder why shit DONT WORK https://t.co/Uc8MolYPtF
— Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) July 18, 2023
The above two tweeters might like to consider whether or not our advanced world civilization, which is 95% or even 99% based on white European-origined people, “works” (overall) when compared to the sorts of societies ruled by blacks, such as most of Africa, Haiti, Jamaica etc…
“Deluded” hardly covers it, but it seems that many blacks believe the same as those two, and their crazed beliefs are facilitated by anti-white non-blacks, either white European-origined or (usually) Jewish.
Today we see how the Kiev regime, having lost almost all of its own weapons and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like a drug addict, survives only thanks to the massive pumping of Western weapons – and at the same time pushes with all its might, trying to prove that it can… pic.twitter.com/2XN4VSUZ2Z
The people are right— a majority of them are of the view that a Labour government under Starmer will make their lives no better (or that they do not know).
Meaning— the present Government is trash, and Labour is also trash.
Late tweets
Coming up to day 67 now since she missed the deadline to sue. I expect she’d already stolen all of the stolen money (again). https://t.co/WT2WK8vTgW
Jack Monroe still has quite a way to go until she reaches the grift levels of @Supertanskiii though – £40 a month for Incels and neckbeards to listen to a middle-aged woman with a early-teens level of intellect swear about Tories. pic.twitter.com/HnwqMc53rq
American billionaire Elon Musk called on his Twitter to reveal how American aid to Ukraine is being spent.
"It would be nice if the public had some idea of how the funds are being spent," Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on the news that the US is preparing to announce a new…
Pentagon: The Ukrainian military needs years to reach the level of Russian air forces
Bringing Ukraine's air capabilities closer to Russia's will require years of training for Ukrainian pilots and billions of dollars, said Mark Milley, head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of… pic.twitter.com/z2E8Ud7RBL
Russia prepares 100,000 troops to attack Kharkiv – The Telegraph
The British newspaper admits that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stalled and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can take advantage of the situation and advance towards Kharkov.…
“Human problems aren’t economic. They’re moral and they can’t be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.”
[Frank Buchman, in a 1936 interview]
I suppose that the devil is in the detail. What is “immoral”, in the sense of state policy or implementation? Also, state or political measures or “steps taken” are, arguably, too crudely “clunky” to very easily encompass matters of morality or spirituality. As Saint-Just said, “no-one can rule guiltlessly“.
“An East London man who used his family to hire children as drug runners from his prison cell has been jailed for five more years.“
[My London]
[“East London” man…]
Perhaps they mean the other “East London”, the one in South Africa.
Tweets seen
Zelensky's "Servant of the People" MP Lyudmila Marchenko is trying to get rid of the bribe she is accused of taking. She just threw a wad of dollars over the fence to the neighbors. pic.twitter.com/DPq3uB2Fba
Ukraine has been a corrupt mess since at least 1991.
Ukraine needs a new start. Ideally, the Russians should take all of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper), as well as Crimea, and also a 50-mile-deep strip along the Black Sea littoral. Odessa and Kiev should have some kind of special status, either condominium status or as autonomous cities. A Ukrainian state, presumably based on Lvov, can then exist in the two-thirds of Ukraine west of the Dnieper and north of that coastal strip.
A lot of people are fleeing the US to these places, here are the cheapest countries to live in around the world
The only two of those cities on the map shown that I would ever choose would be Almaty (where I actually did live in 1996-1997), and which is probably still not too unpleasant, though I liked it in its recently-ex-Soviet quieter days, and Buenos Aires, which is at least a basically civilized city (though I have never been there).
I read once that Bangalore is not bad by Indian standards, and I know that it was a prized posting for officers and civil servants during the days of the British Raj, probably because it is in hills, and so cooler than the plains. No doubt it is very much larger and busier these days. It is now the 27th-largest city in the world, and the 3rd/5th biggest (depending on boundary definition) city in India, in fact.
Little cocaine-abusing drunk and Jewish-lobby puppet Gove must have been snorting again. He is said to support this absurd policy idea. As for Policy Exchange pseudo-think tank, it should be crammed into the nosecone of an interplanetary rocket and fired into space.
Paris is more and more indirectly drawn into the war against the Russian Federation – Russian Ambassador to France
“Naturally, such a decision cannot be said to be supported by the entire French society, because everyone is well aware that France is more and more drawn into the…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban: "Instead of supplying Ukraine with weapons, we must finally establish peace … Hungary stands firmly on the side of peace at the NATO summit!" pic.twitter.com/nTi5JynzHh
It's horror, it's a massacre": a foreign mercenary about the Ukrainian counter-offensive
The British TV channel Sky News quoted Rhys Byrne as saying, fought on the side of the Armed Forces. According to him, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate without cover pic.twitter.com/TUzraAYpQq
I saw that report. Pretty hair-raising. No wonder that the Irishman (so they said, though he does not look Irish, particularly) and his immediate group decided to go home. It was not explained why they were allowed to leave Ukraine. Maybe they had fulfilled their contract.
If Paul Mason does stand against Jeremy Corbyn as Labour candidate – I'd be happy to contribute to a fund financing leaflets, detailing Mason's life journey as a Labour traitor https://t.co/rJJANMjYtS
— Oliver ✊🌏🔥 #ClimateAction #EcoSocialist (@tynewrc) July 12, 2023
Well, there it is. I have blogged several times in the past (over several years) about the part-Jew pseudo-revolutionary scribbler and talking head, Paul Mason, and have blogged, inter alia, that he was possibly aiming to become a Labour MP, perhaps ultimately aiming at becoming Chancellor or even Prime Minister.
If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, the blog has been proven right once again.
🇺🇦🇬🇧 British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has proposed that Ukraine should express more gratitude towards the West for its assistance, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky's recent complaints about the lack of a definitive timetable or conditions for joining NATO. pic.twitter.com/IAJ6mDbBjt
I have frequently noted Zelensky’s ghetto style of negotiation.
Do I sense that even the major puppets of NWO/ZOG are tiring of Zelensky and his corrupt cabal? Not least because there is no real prospect of the Kiev regime being able to “recover” the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk.
350,000 Kiev-regime soldiers have been fed into the hell of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk and other areas of the front, and have fallen. Several times that number have been rendered hors de combat by reason of injury. Foreign contract soldiers are now going home, and there are rather few coming to replace them. The Kiev regime is increasingly using press-gangs to force unwilling Ukrainian men into uniform, and has toughened the exemption regulations in order to be able to “lawfully” conscript a wider range of non-volunteers.
Ukraine is by most definitions a “failed state”. It exists, both militarily and in general, only by reason of the Western subsidies. It could well be argued that, as it now is, “Ukraine” is scarcely a state at all.
Asked Ben Wallace a question about nuclear weapons. The answer is very interesting pic.twitter.com/Uimi7Ew0j7
— Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) July 12, 2023
That Ukrainian MP asking the questions must be a complete idiot. He wants NATO to station nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, which would mean that Ukraine would become a prime target for Russian strategic weapons. It would be like painting a huge bullseye on Ukraine.
“Independent” Ukraine has never been blessed with very intelligent politicians (or honest ones), but what can one say?…
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Almost as if pretty much everything Jack Monroe bootstrapcook says is lies…… 🤷♀️ https://t.co/9bm6AYpMer
Day 60 since the deadline to sue Lee Anderson expired. Rich poverty-cosplayer Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lies & harasses those asking for refunds & transparency after taking 100s of 1,000s of donations for 1 year. A decade of lies, fraud & theft – Kickstarter, Teemill, Patreon…
…and the hardcore of 396 utter mugs is still there on Patreon, each sending “Jack Monroe” £3.50 to £44 monthly. Thousands of pounds monthly, for precisely nothing. Not a bad little racket, really.
“@BartBirdy” is probably, and in my opinion almost certainly, “Jack Monroe” herself.
[Update, 13 July 2023: the @BartBirdy Twitter account is already gone. “Jack Monroe” must be using a new “sock account” today].
Late tweets
An attempt to mobilize passers-by in Lviv ended in a fight between representatives of the military department and "deserters".
Those present claim that the man was stopped on the street for a "document check". A member of the military department "couldn't stand" the verbal… pic.twitter.com/v5UR5n84RR
The alliance must control its impulsive urges to expand and respect the legitimate security interests of other countries, writes the Chinese newspaper "Global Times".
Biden said that Ukraine has a problem with the lack of artillery shells and that the US is working on replenishing the stockpile, reports Reuters. pic.twitter.com/v7Q2ub7THR
Lavrov : Russia recognizes the emergence of F-16 in Ukraine as a threat in the nuclear sphere
“ In the course of hostilities, our military will not figure out whether each specific aircraft of the specified type is equipped for the delivery of nuclear weapons or not. The very… pic.twitter.com/97CLHokGwc
Cathryn Ross, one of the two joint CEO's at Thames Water, used to run Ofwat, the water regulator.
Tory MP Derek Thomas asks her: "Does the trend of Ofwat staff seeking high paid jobs in the industry affect the ability to regulate the water industry?". pic.twitter.com/j6mlJQ3uYc
I see that the “BBC presenter” story is still rolling. A couple of things strike me about the story and also about the reaction to it.
Firstly, the sheer hysteria. It seems that the girl involved was 17 at the time, assuming that there is any substance to the story. It is one of the oddities of the English law at present (as I understand it— I admit to being not very au fait with it now, having not practised at the Bar since 2008) that the unnamed BBC presenter could actually have had full sexual relations with the girl (or any girl of 17, or indeed 16) without being in peril of the law, yet if he paid for nude photographs of her (even though she may have taken them herself, and willingly) he might actually be at risk of imprisonment: see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-photos-could-face-jail-term-if-guilty.
To my mind, this makes a mockery of the law. The “photographs” law should surely be in line with the law on sexual relations, and so the age reduced to 16 years.
I am unsure about whether a “photographs” law of that kind was or is necessary at all, or if it is, whether the relevant age should be 16 or lower, as with some provisions of, eg, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
The Protection of Children Act 1978, the present “photographs” law, does not (as far as I know) specify an age, but refers only to “children“.
This was never the kind of law I did when at the Bar, so I may be out of my depth on the detail here but, to my mind, that 1978 “photographs” law (which I have never read in full) seems to be on the face of it yet another badly-drafted law of the past half-century. There are several others, including the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Communications Act 2003, s. 127. Both of those have been superseded or are about to be superseded by newer laws.
I find it strange that the 1978 “photographs” law was thought to be necessary at all. It was brought in 20 years before the Internet was widely available for public use and, after all, photography itself has been around for about 200 years if you include its earlier modern manifestations such as the daguerrotype. Photographs as such have certainly existed since the 1860s, yet only in 1978 did Parliament consider that such a penal law was desirable, or at all necessary. Very odd.
Leaving all that aside, there seems to be a strange dissonance now— UK and general Western society almost eliminating real childhood and/or childhood “innocence”, and yet going mad if someone, especially anyone famous (such as George Osborne), has sexual relations, even if completely lawfully (in Osborne’s case, that is disputed), with a teenage girl of 16 or 17, or if such a person (as alleged of the unnamed BBC presenter) pays a girl of 16 or 17 for some risque photographs.
Well, there it is. To my mind, this “BBC presenter” story is a bit of a storm in a teacup anyway, looking at the challenges our country and society face at present. There are bigger issues.
The other aspect which I find striking about the “BBC presenter” story is that the unnamed defaulter has such a high level of income that he can, and apparently is willing to, pay out £35,000 for photographs of some girl.
The BBC gets almost all of its money from the outdated tax misleadingly called a “licence fee”. Radio licences, dog licences etc have passed into history, but the BBC licence fee marches on. Not only that, but enforced by criminal sanction. There are many people (mostly women) actually in prison because of having not had a TV licence, and then unable or unwilling to comply with the order of a court: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-fee-women-convictions-b1763192.html.
Out of the huge revenues thus raised, the BBC pays its staff well, often very well, and in some cases far too well. Gary Lineker, that loudmouth ignoramus, is paid a million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Alan Shearer, another ex-footballer, gets about half a million. Zoe Ball apparently gets about a million. A number are getting around £400,000. Looking at them, most are, frankly, overpaid.
Why should the public subsidize what is increasingly, “Soviet” TV and radio output, largely unwatchable and unlistenable?
My final thought about this nonsense is that George Osborne must be loving it. The notorious email about his own peccadilloes is now already all but forgotten. I suppose, though, that despite his former, though fairly brief, political prominence, Osborne is now yesterday’s news…just not very interesting to most people.
“It’s deeply worrying that many older people are ending up in hospital due to lack of the right sort of services in the community. No one wants to be in hospital but for older people all too often it can lead to an avoidable deterioration in their health,” said Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director.
Prof Adam Gordon, the president of the British Geriatrics Society, said the report “makes grim reading [and] rightly identifies that older people are currently being let down by NHS and social care services”.”
[The Guardian]
This has been a scandal (and a massive waste of money) for years, certainly since 2010 and probably long before. No care at home means more demand at hospitals. District nurses were once ubiquitous; now they seem hardly to exist at all. I was told by one, a decade ago, that she was fed up with NHS mismanagement, and so was emigrating to Australia, where she would also be paid far more.
As with so many areas of life in England, Government and Opposition talk a good game, but fail to deliver for the people.
“Nearly 10,000 small-boat migrants who reached Britain in the past four months were last night handed an ‘amnesty’ from the Government’s tough new immigration measures.“
[Daily Mail]
More treachery.
10,000 more deadbeats, criminals, potential terrorists, and/or useless millstones round the neck of the British people.
However bad and (at best) useless Starmer-Labour will be, this “Conservative” Party misgovernment really has failed on every metric. It has to go, and I hope that almost all of its MPs will be dumped by the voters. Then a new fight will begin, against the “Labour” version of the System…
Tweets seen
"We have to have a buffer somewhere because if we don’t we know what happens," says Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft, alluding to dangerous overcrowding, disorder and diphtheria at Manston last year
For context, the current "buffer" in prisons is just 1,000 cells
Imports of goods from Russia to the United States in May increased compared to April from $215.6 million to $504 million, according to the monthly report on trade turnover of the main US statistical agency Bureau of the Census,… pic.twitter.com/HTwEKfeEiR
Most of the inhabitants of Poland are against the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO , according to a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the country and published by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Well, there it is. The Poles are sensible after all…
Biden admitted: The US Army is running out of artillery shells
In an attempt to justify his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US President Joseph Biden said in an interview with "CNN" that it is necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because there… pic.twitter.com/N697vRVGzl
Stocks of artillery provided by the West to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out.
US national security adviser Sullivan said that without the supply of cluster munitions, Ukraine will not have enough artillery not only for the offensive, but also for defense. pic.twitter.com/cH1zvh6sJg
and “Labour”, under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, will be saying, in effect, “vote for us…we can make workhouses run more efficiently, and more fairly, and with full implementation of any anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQXYZ measures you can imagine“…
Jeremy Hunt …Yet another multi millionaire politician who knows whatever chaos he brings will have zero impact on him personally …Crooks in Suits… #MartinLewispic.twitter.com/w1lZyIVyf2
2%, though? Surely that (((group))) is more like 0.5% of the population?
Theresa May led a revolt against Rishi Sunak’s small boats bill on Tuesday as she accused the Govt of consigning more people to slavery. The arch-Remainer tried to derail Brexit, and now she’s trying to support the dinghy armada! https://t.co/DWdhCZG5WR
A horrible woman, and completely out of her depth when Prime Minister. I suspect part-Jewish. She strengthened the bad law of Communications Act 2003, s.127 by introducing a 3-year longstop limitation period in place of the formerly-existing 6-month one, which change has emboldened evil little cabals such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which use “lawfare” (abuse of our legal and justice systems) to repress British people.
China, India, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE have increased their imports of Russian oil by 140%, while exports of oil refining have suddenly increased by 26% – The Economist
Against the background of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine, and in order to cover up the catastrophic losses of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime has increased recruitment in the countries of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in…
The number of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war approached 350,000. It is impossible to even think about Ukraine's victory over Russia. There are many Ukrainians who did not want to enter the war. They surrender and go over… pic.twitter.com/7Z9jvnWsr5
Unless NATO forces join in the war (as the Zelensky cabal wants), the Kiev regime has no prospect even of recovering Donetsk and Lugansk regions, let alone Crimea.
If NATO forces were to join in the war, directly, a major conflagration would start across Central and Eastern Europe, maybe even into Western Europe. It might then go nuclear.
Zelensky has failed in his last desperate bid to win an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO – The Guardian pic.twitter.com/x3K5f5D632
This is why I wrote "How Shrinks Think" in 2014. Sometimes, our patients' stories are our stories, and when told respectfully and anonymously, they can do a great deal to reduce stigma.
Ian Robert Millard 