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Diary Blog, 17 October 2025

Morning music

Tweets seen

Translates to about 437 Reform UK MPs, 57 LibDems, 46 SNP, 38 Lab, 27 Con, 19 Green, 5 Plaid (etc).

If not an outlier, or anomalous set of results, this is stunning.

The headline result for Reform would be, in the British context, near-revolutionary, and would cause an almost-immediate Constitutional crisis, in that Reform has no peers at all in the Lords.

An influx of hundreds of Reform MPs of very varied views, on that scale, would lead to hard-to-predict events over the succeeding 5 years.

Labour (38 MPs) below LibDems (57 MPs) for the first time (formerly, of course, sub nom Liberal Party) since the 1920s. Hard to believe.

Conservatives with only 27 MPs, but that would be not quite as bad as other recent polls, which have predicted as few as 7 Con MPs. Reform was on 32% in this poll; another recent poll had them on 36%.

Greens with 19 MPs! The “watermelon party”, of course, green outside, but light red inside…

Of course, Labour is being pulled apart by centrifugal forces. The Pakistani/Muslim/Islamist element is defecting to Galloway’s “Workers’ Party”, to Islamist independent factions, to Corbyn’s anti-Israel “Your Party” etc. The craven pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stance of Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government has alienated many of the very voters on which Labour is now mainly dependent: Muslims, non-whites generally, would-be “progressives” etc.

Interesting times in British politics.

[“Anyone who backed him the second time round after Truss and the spies should be shot. That includes Rudd etc. I said to father of children and best friend – who both lost their seats because of Tom – dear lord please don’t back him again. One did, the other was more sensible and entirely where I was on candidates despite being on very different wings of the party. When Tugendhat came to Poole to “help” during the election campaign I made my views known – we could not afford to lose a single vote and having probably the most notorious backed-Truss-for-a-job “helping” was a disaster. We lost by a handful. He partied as colleagues cleared their desks in tears, only interested in canvassing support for a run not a moment of grief for his party. Just disgusting. Ruthless bugger. One of so many reasons I’m glad to be free of this sort of nonsense. There is so little honour left in the Tories and TT is one of the absolute worst. Ugh.“]

Though of course the lady tweeter there would never make the point, Tom Tugendhat, the MP and former chocolate soldier, is a quarter-Jew whose family origins, some of them, are in Bielsko-Biala, Silesia (Poland, but once, pre-1918, part of Austrian Silesia under the name Bielitz ).

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

Incidentally, and as blogged previously, I know the Bielsko-Biala area slightly, having visited twice in the late 1980s, and having spent a total of about 4 weeks there.

Of course, the Conservatives having now fallen well below 20% in the opinion polls, the infighting about who should replace Nigerian chancer Kemi Carpetbagger as Con Party leader does rather look like bald men and women fighting over a comb, especially as 1. some predictions suggest that the number of Conservative Party MPs post-2028/2029 might fall as low as 7; and 2. all of those currently hoping to replace Kemi Badenoch are predicted to lose their Commons seats anyway (as is Kemi Badenoch herself).

Jewish-lobby puppet Michael Gove, a former scribbler and former MP expenses cheat and fraud, as well as a drunk and cocaine-abuser now Editor of The Spectator, weighs in to demand that notorious Israeli Jew football hooligans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, be allowed to have a “rumble in the jungle” in the West Midlands. Nein danke.

Starmer-stein never has explained how his “one in, one out” idea reduces immigration and the numbers here. Of course it cannot. At best (if it ever worked anyway) it would keep the huge numbers (of illegals; “legal” migrants would still flood in) static. Why am I even bothering to discuss this ridiculous scheme? It is just a scam for public relations purposes…

Not so remarkable when you consider the pervasive Jewish/pro-Israel influence over System politics in the UK.

Defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer” [Biblical phrase — adapted from Psalm 72:4— inscribed above the main entrance of “the Bailey” —Central Criminal Court, London, aka “Old Bailey”]

That Egyptian, after some punishment, should be given a choice— back to Egypt, or up against a wall. In fact, maybe just put him up against a wall anyway.

Egypt is still OK for a holiday, so long as you are in a good hotel. Admittedly, I have not been there for about 27 years. As a country, Egypt welcomes tourists, but not political dissidents, potential terrorists, or spies.

My own experiences include the following:

The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts take away monies from various groups of mainly English/British people in order to have money to waste on migrant-invaders, Ukrainians, and Jews (in the UK and in Israel).

Rachel Reeves is evil, as well as being a moneygrubber and an expenses cheat.

As already mentioned, it is hard to see who will be left able and willing to vote Labour. Even “the blacks and browns” are largely charging for the exit. The Muslims certainly are, despite attempts to placate them.

Hard to see many pensioners, or those approaching pensionable age─ say anyone over 55, voting Labour, despite Reeves and Starmer keeping (so far) the State Pension Triple Lock.

The previously very supportive under-30 group of potential voters also seem to be turning their collective face against Labour, and going Green or LibDem; some are now turning to Reform UK as well..

Looked at like that, the at-first surprising (?) recent polling suggesting only 15% of voters intend to vote Labour makes sense.

Late tweets seen

More genocidal actions by [Israeli] Jews.

The Kiev regime must know that, at the end of the day, Russian forces have 6,000+ nuclear weapons. Russia may not want to use any in Ukraine, but the fact remains that, should the orders be given, Kiev and other major centres of population and industry could be reduced, entirely, to rubble and radioactive ash in a matter of, at most, half an hour.

…because Russian forces are slowly but steadily advancing along the entire active front.

Late thought

Just saw the film Oppenheimer, about the atom-bomb scientist. Pretty good, but too long by about half an hour and that last 30 mins or so of typically-American stuff about postwar legal arguments, and Congressional hearings, could have been cut out without loss.

One part of the film struck me, though the specific facts were not new to me, I having read books about the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb spies etc.

The film reminded me that the scientists at Los Alamos in the early 1940s were concerned that the first atom bomb might start a chain reaction which would be unstoppable and cause, inter alia, the atmosphere of the Earth to ignite. Despite that possibility still existing at time of detonation of the first full test, they decided to go ahead. Why? Well, almost all of the important scientists were Jews, and for them the defeat of the “antisemitic” German Reich was more important than the possibility that all life on Earth might be destroyed.

Lesson? For “them”, it really is always “all about them”…

Late talking point

Starmer-stein, for whom real British people always come second, third, fourth, or last…

Diary Blog, 24 April 2025, with a few thoughts on “it’s a small world” and “six degrees of separation” etc

Afternoon music

[Oleg Lamakin, Laboratory Assistant]

It’s a small world

I was just perusing the online newspapers, looking at a few current crimes and trials. While doing that, I noticed the continuing trial (in fact, retrial) of one Constance Marten, whose retrial has been in progress for a month or so (the original trial stopped in summer 2024).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78e1yq6d2eo

Obviously, the present retrial is in progress and so I cannot say anything by way of comment about the material facts or subject-matter. In any case, I do not know anything of the case, beyond what little I have read in newspapers or seen on TV news from time to time.

No, what struck me was something peripheral to the case.

On reading some accounts of the trial and retrial, I saw the photograph of one of the accused:

[Constance Marten, defendant]

I happen to have very good facial recognition skills. The picture reminded me slightly of someone I encountered a few times in the mid-1980s.

At the relevant time, about 40 years ago, I had a girlfriend who worked as an interpreter at a high level, working —inter alia— with people such as the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (eg when Gorbachev visited the UK), and with organizations such as the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) and various Soviet dance groups, including the Bolshoi.

Thus it was that I encountered a young woman, 20-something, who was also interpreting, but on a lower technical level. More general or social interpreting.

The Bolshoi touring ensemble was, appropriately, large, well over 300 in all, everything from dancers to costume people and even a few persons from the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture, i.e, KGB minders etc. The job of the last group was not really, or primarily, to prevent defections of the kind seen in the 1960s and 1970s, but to guard against anti-Soviet (mostly Jew-Zionist) protestors (re. Shcharansky and other refuseniki) and to stop people getting into trouble. For example, the famous choreographer, Grigorovitch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Grigorovich] once got into a lift in Dublin (I was already there and just about to push a button) when a harassed fat bully KGB type stormed into the lift and rudely took over, pushing the button required to get his (well-drunk) charge back to the right floor.

Such a large ensemble required several interpreters.

Incidentally, I never met Grigorovitch (as such), but always used his wife’s laminated Bolshoi Ballet clip-on lapel pass to get past the security lines and get in to see the shows (fortunately, the individual name was on the other side of the pass, and there was no photograph!). His wife was the prima ballerina, Natalia Bessmertnova [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Bessmertnova]. She was too grand to actually wear or carry her laminated pass.

Incidentally, and incredibly, Grigorovitch is still alive at age 98, despite the abuse his liver must have suffered over nearly a century.

So I met that young woman mentioned, who had the unusual name Amabel (apparently one more common in both the Middle Ages and the Victorian period). I cannot now be sure, but thinking back, I think her surname was Marten or Martin; I had forgotten that until now.

Amabel was a pleasant young woman, I think probably quite a nice person generally, and was from, I was told, a wealthy landowning family who had houses, including large country houses, here and there, both in England and Ireland. In fact she and her —I was told, rather socially unacceptable to her family— boyfriend spent much of their time “looking after” (as she told me) a family-owned country house in some obscure part of the Irish countryside. My own girlfriend’s take on that was that it kept the boozy Irish boyfriend away from the family’s social circle.

I met the boyfriend once, in the large hotel in Dublin where the Bolshoi were all quartered, and where I was (unofficially) also staying (in my case for free). He was all right, and bought me a pint of Guinness, but I could see why her family may have preferred to keep him at arm’s length. I am not good at guessing ages, but anyway some years, several years at least, older than Amabel, with heavy black spectacles, and plainly drunk at three o’clock in the afternoon. In his thirties, maybe late thirties.

I was told that Amabel had told my girlfriend that when she, Amabel, was in St. Petersburg (then still Leningrad), she had been touring the Hermitage [https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/?lng=en; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Museum] when she saw some old English china. Some pieces had a representation of a large country house on them and, as she excitedly recounted to my girlfriend “...it was our house!” (pronounced “ower hice“…), referring to the family’s main seat, in rural Dorset.

Well, I got on rather well with Amabel on the very few times we met (I think only on that tour), and may have occasionally gently mocked her “upper class” background and social circle. Her (I think younger) sister, whom I met once somewhere, in England, I think, was a rather cold formal person (I thought), supposedly a one-time girlfriend of Prince Andrew (she eventually married a merchant banker).

When the Bolshoi ballerinas were relaxing, some were taken to Stratfield Saye, the seat of the Dukes of Wellington, halfway between Reading and Basingstoke, where a former schoolfriend of Amabel happened to be either the Duchess or the wife of the son of the then Duke, and who later succeeded to the title. I think the latter, thinking about it. A favoured few were allowed to ride some of the horses from the stables there.

[main entrance to Stratfield Saye House]
[part of Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire]

After 1985 or 1986, I never saw Amabel again, and I have no idea at all how her life went. The only time I even heard of her was when she and her sister were mentioned (c.1989) by a forthright and wealthy lady who was helping (with others) to save the Rudolf Steiner Bookshop in Museum Street, near the British Museum, in London (that bookshop had to close, but the Rudolf Steiner Book Trust, which I established, and of which I was an unpaid director (with anthroposophist Nelson Willby and his American wife Melissa) for a couple of years, established Wellspring Books, which had premises in New Oxford Street for many years, and which still exists online. https://www.wellspringbookshop.co.uk/.

I remember that forthright lady partly because she would refer to her husband, a Jewish businessman, as “a six-pointer“, as if he had been bred from an unusual breed of animal.

Even that was 35 or 36 years ago now.

It was only today that I thought to see whether Amabel was related to that defendant. Turns out that she almost certainly was or is. The Dorset “hice” seems to be Crichel House (or “hice”):

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

[Crichel House, Dorset]

The house was owned by one Napier Marten or Napier Sturt Marten [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Marten], born about 2-3 years after me, in 1959. He has or had no fewer than five sisters, one of which is or was Amabel Marten. He also has four children, one of whom is Constance Marten.

The house and 400 acres of the estate land was sold in 2013 for £34M to an American billionaire hedge-fund operator, one Richard L. Chilton.

Chinese artworks were also sold, for over £12M.

See also: https://laracon0.blogspot.com/2015/10/crichel-house.html.

See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001464/Chinese-ornaments-sell-12-5m–double-value-stately-home-in.html#ixzz1OpqLK0We

Well, there it is. Looks like the Amabel I encountered a few times in the mid-1980s is or was (I assume she is still around, but who knows?) the aunt of the accused, Constance Marten. Small world.

Latest trial news: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/constance-marten-old-bailey-trial-manslaughter-baby-b1224018.html.

Update, 14 July 2005

(scroll down until you reach the bit about Amabel Marten and her husband, one Kieran (or Ciaran) Clarke etc; he apparently died in 2004 at the age of 52, and may or may not have been the person I met in Dublin in or about 1985 or 1986. It seems that the above house was only bought in 1990 or 1991).

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-of-harmony-in-music-and-in-landscape-1.1142634

“Diverse” Britain

https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/man-punched-piccadilly-line-after-31491200

A man was punched in the face on the Piccadilly line after asking a fellow passenger to move his bags from a seat and a buggy blocking the aisle. British Transport Police are now appealing for witnesses following the attack on board the carriage between 8.20am and 8.40am on Monday, March 31.

The attacker is described as black, with dreadlock hair, wearing a grey tracksuit and was accompanied by a woman with a buggy and suitcase.”

[My London]

“Diverse” Britain

https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-who-licked-31494904?int_source=nba

A terrified woman woke up to find a rapist licking her feet. Ahmed Fahmy, 46, raped and sexually assaulted women in hotels where he worked for over 16 years between 2008 and 2024.

Other reports also heard Fahmy fondled women’s toes. Cops first investigated him in January last year after reports of rape and sexual assault by two women who had been staying at the hotel in West Heath Drive, Barnet, where he worked.

[My London]

“Diverse” Britain

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/croydon-machete-gang-brought-knives-31495746

A Croydon machete gang, who ‘brought knives to a gun fight’, got more than they bargained for during a raid on an Albanian cannabis farm, a court heard. Seven men and one boy – aged between 17 and 32 – were were armed with knives and machetes, while wearing balaclavas and construction gloves, when they faced off with gun-toting Balkan weed farmers, it is alleged.

[My London]

Late tweets seen

Note that Labour, even then, would still have 119 MPs, because the vast majority of non-whites in the UK vote Labour. There must come a point at which this form of “democracy” ceases to be legitimate.

See my previous comment…

Late music

[Chicago by night; lakeside view]