Saw many tweets lambasting Waterstones for promoting the latest Jack Monroe book, Thrifty Kitchen, to be published in January 2023 at a cover price of nearly £20, but already discounted to £9.99. I wonder whether the “Bootstrap Cook” brand is now damaged beyond repair. Still, 665 mugs are still paying Jack Monroe between £3.50 and £10 a month each as an absurd act of virtue-signalling, so I imagine that she is pretty sanguine (so long as the thousands of pounds continue to roll in monthly).
“Mark Lewis Lawyer” is not much of a threat to people who, even if they have libelled someone (not always as clear-cut as many imagine) have defences such as “truth”, “honest opinion”, “publication on a matter of public interest”, and/or either absolute or qualified “privilege”.
I have assessed and written about Mark Lewis several times over the years, though not recently (in fact not since 2018 or 2019). I would dispute that any of what I have written about him is actionable, but in fact he has never even threatened me with a defamation action, no doubt because he knows that he would lose, but also because he knows that my financial circumstances (both capital and income) are now such that even any victory in court would be of little use when any damages and costs awarded could never be collected. See below for more about Lewis.
As for the “Bootstrap Cook”, her libel victory over Katie Hopkins was inevitable. It took no legal skill at all, or very little, in my view, bearing in mind that, as far as the libel itself was concerned, it had occurred because Katie Hopkins had demonstrably said something untrue about Jack Monroe (apparently mistaking her for the obscure socio-political scribbler Laurie Penny) that had caused Jack Monroe serious harm. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_v_Hopkins.
It occurs to me that the “Bootstrap Cook” may have become a little gung-ho about libel actions after her easy victory over Katie Hopkins, who not only had to pay Jack Monroe £24,000 but also to sell her house to pay the £300,000 legal costs of Jack Monroe, a goodly chunk of which went, no doubt, to “Mark Lewis Lawyer”. Probably a third or so.
Not all defamation actions are so simple, or the awards and costs so easily collected.
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I hope that she will be exposed for the fantasist and con artist she really is.
Rishi Sunak says Britain will be punished by the markets unless he whacks up taxes and slashes public spending
"Financial conditions have stabilised because people expect the government to take the decisions that will put our public finances on a sustainable trajectory"
Well, there it is: Indian “clever boy” and money-juggler, Sunak, has no arrows in his quiver, except to make everyone in Britain poorer. The real economy will dive next year.
“If they’re black its a gang. If they’re Italian its a mob. If they’re Jewish its a ‘coincidence’ and you should never talk about it.” 😂 pic.twitter.com/htQzTzhYZM
After that, read the books of David Irving and Correlli Barnett.
.@greengas62. You have a touchingly outdated idea of what the modern police are like, and you also haven’t read the article you are commenting on. You can’t put people in prison unless they have broken the law. Now read it. https://t.co/NbDEboonEn
WHAT have we done?! It will take a long time to clean up the medical misinformation mess but we must start by understanding and tackling it at the root. That according to forensic psychologist Dr Robert Hare is the psychopathic entity that is Big Pharma. We must act NOW 👊👊👊 https://t.co/7MCls2Lgzn
You narcissistic, pathetic man. You’re only bothered because you got caught. Whilst businesses collapsed, people lost jobs, couldn’t see loved ones, couldn’t attend family funerals, missed vital appointments & more,he was getting his end away.
Why would anyone take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously? Just an Austrian bodybuilder who struck lucky in the USA and married into its political Establishment. A puppet on a stick.
Hunt, Sunak and the rest are cardboard cut-out people, empty puppets, frauds, in thrall to shadows. Let's ignore them. https://t.co/aOq1OYWLXC
Fully agree 👍 No doubt Jack Monroe would have set her flying monkeys even more aggressively if she could 🔺️ her. We saw early in the Awfully Molly era that she almost quit the investigative work due to attacks by the FMs.
Tragic. Those idiots thought that their way of life would be mainly upheld if they appeased the ANC. How wrong they were. Gave up their historically-conferred right, and what for? A comfortable life, a swimming pool, rugby, an SUV in the drive, a beer in a sports bar, golf, and no outright war.
Had they only held on for a short while, South Africa as a white European-origin country would have survived. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites meant that funds and arms to the black rebels would have been cut off. Cuba, so prominent in so-called “liberation” struggles in Africa (Angola, Mozambique, South-West Africa/Namibia etc) was also cut off from Soviet funding after 1991, and had to withdraw from Africa.
The white population could have accelerated real apartheid, laagering the white populations mainly in specific parts of the country, as already planned for, and creating autonomous black zones and regions.
South Africa could have defended itself easily, with its powerful armed forces (including a navy, an airforce, as well as army); it even had atom bombs (six, which were dismantled in the mid-1990s). Other very advanced weapons too.
Water under the bridge now? Yes, but the white and the black populations continue to suffer the effects, not of white rule but of black rule.
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I love how meritocratic and open British radio is. Right now, you can listen to Martin Kemp's son on Capital, Johnny Ball's daughter on Radio 2 and Chris Tarrant's son on Radio X 📻
Indeed – Top Jack Monroe Tip pretend to sue a Tory MP, collect a load of cash into your personal paypal account, then never mention it again…#JackMonroeLiespic.twitter.com/AHQyy0v7rD
A black woman accused of doing a very similar thing is due in criminal court in Bristol in January 2023.
Afternoon music
I was partly brought up on, and still love, the lush music of John Barry, the popular easy-listening music of a post-1945 Western civilization now in crisis.
I like this, too:
[painting by Joyce Norwood]
Income inequality can be social inequity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/14/chairman-greggs-millionaires-more-tax-jeremy-hunt “Ten years ago, in the epilogue of my book Bread: The Story of Greggs, I stressed the need for the astonishing increase in top earnings in Britain to be curbed. At that time this was considered a serious problem. Yet despite the best efforts of many influential public voices, this position never translated into policy.
Sadly, since then, the growing divide has become even more extreme.. The richest 10% of households now hold 43% of all the country’s wealth, according to the Office for National Statistics. The bottom 50% hold only 9%. We now have 177 billionaires in this country, up from just 29 in 2010, with a combined wealth of £653bn. The difference between very wealthy and less well-off people has become obscene.”
[Ian Gregg, in theGuardian]
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It happens here too, there are also cases of people setting up their benefits and then going back home and living off that income.
— Tottenham Conservatives (@TottenhamConse1) July 23, 2022
…and that thick creature is now a Bencher of my old Inn of Court, Lincoln’s Inn. He is welcome at the Inn, whereas (by reason of Jewish plotting) I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and so automatically expelled from Lincoln’s.
In what kind of England is a thick non-white such as Lammy more welcome than me? It’s just mad. A system like that does not deserve to survive.
So how does everyone feel, being told that we are going into a recession? whilst we workers (not the government) are funding hotels for male migrants who paid thousands to get here, throwing money at the green agenda and still funding the Ukraine war. It’s past a joke now.
And this has gone on for decades. I recall when I was a student overseas students marrying & bringing in wives & having babies. This has long been a way for better off Africans & Asians to gain a route to permanent legal settlement. They then form a bridgehead family for others.
Are you actually saying thru don’t ? My son has one working with him he gets 3 meals a day. £38 weekly clothing allowance free mobile with £10 credit weekly an he lives in the crowne plaza Heathrow oh yes abs a doctor on call
Seems that even the last bastion of Jack Monroe support – Mumsnet – has fallen. Great to see the scales lifting from the public's eyes and seeing her for what she is, a massive fraud, liar & conwoman. https://t.co/e3jipAwovtpic.twitter.com/AbbG1csWVg
I’ve been suspicious of Jack Monroe’s ‘activity’ for some time. I’ve just read your whole blog which supports some of my concerns. As I’m aware of Jack’s penchant for threatening legal action, I won’t say much more but suffice to say, your blog was a very interesting read.
Are you kidding me? You’ve got more chance of a pig flying over Manchester than Jack showing up to something that isn’t all about her. Plus, why would you want a lying, grifting fantasist supporting you? Matt Hancock has a better moral compass than her.
Yup. Threat of litigation has been Jack Monroe's MO for years. Now she's lost any credibility in that threat, she tends to block like a petulant toddler. Actually that's a disservice to toddlers as they don't scam hundreds of thousands of pounds. https://t.co/l30XnL2hwX
In 1997, during a pre-election conversation with A.Blair, I discovered that he did not even know that they speak Portuguese in Brazil. I doubt if anyone so ignorant of politics, geography, history etc has ever held such high office. https://t.co/bFVTSjm9ug
That tweet is from a year ago, but it bears repetition, especially as Blair now goes around the world touting himself as the great retired statesman, pronouncing on grand strategy and high policy…
Queen Elizabeth II’s first Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was born in 1874.
Her final Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was born in 1975.
What a contrast. In fact I wondered, a day or so ago, what the late Queen had thought of the Prime Ministers she had known— Churchill, that flawed titan; then the others, varying in ability and sincerity but mostly, though not all, at least able to play the part and not look totally out of place: Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Wilson again, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron (-Levita), May, Johnson, and now Truss.
One sees the general decline in stature, though, over those decades.
Hard to bracket Liz Truss in the same sentence, let alone the same office, as Churchill, much as I think that his policy toward the German Reich was completely wrongheaded.
Churchill got Britain and the Empire involved in that disastrous war which killed off not only the German Reich but also the British Empire and indeed, not far down the line, all the European imperia (French, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Dutch), and much else besides.
Liz Truss seems intent on creating conflict, or making worse the relations between Russia and the West, or even fomenting a state of war between Russia and the UK. If that were to happen, we should all be joining the late Queen and Churchill sooner than most of us anticipated. Britain could scarcely survive if there were war on the strategic scale.
Biden’s mother sounds as if she was both quite mad and extremely unpleasant. You get that kind of silliness with some Irish-Americans though. I recall being introduced about 31 years ago to some fat woman in New Jersey, an acquaintance of an American friend. Her first words to me were “well, I’m Irish, so I shouldn’t like you!“. A kind of joke, but with a definite edge.
Of course, Irish-Americans are a lot more American than they are Irish. Many of the more ignorant ones seemed (when I was living in the USA in the early 1990s) to think that “England” (always England, not UK or Britain) was in a kind of war with Ireland.
They had no idea that the “war” between not Ireland but the IRA, and the UK authorities, was confined mainly not only to the six counties of Northern Ireland (Ulster, to use the name of the ancient province) but to a few small areas, mostly urban, within that province, and also confined to quite small numbers of the population.
There were exceptions to the prevailing ignorance. The owner of McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, which I occasionally visited if nearby, was an intelligent man who visited Ireland (the Republic) a couple of times a year (for river fishing). He understood the real situation, but few other Irish-Americans (most of whom had never left American shores, and got their ideas of the world from appallingly-poor American TV news reports) knew any more about it than they did about, say, Iraq.
In origo, so are “council” and “counsel“. The Monarch’s “counsel” was provided by his or her “council”. In Russian, there is still only one word for both “council” (as in a group of advisers and/or a local or other governmental or political body) and “counsel” (as in “advice“)— “soviet” [совет].
Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania 🇷🇴 Built for King Carol I (1839–1914), under whose reign the country gained its independence. pic.twitter.com/Y11J0hngIP
⚡️Donetsk proxy confirms Russian retreat from Izium, Kharkiv Oblast.
Daniil Bezsonov, a Russian proxy leader in Donetsk Oblast, wrote on his personal Telegram channel that Russian troops had withdrawn from Izyum and a few other settlements in Kharkiv Oblast.
– DNR/DPR "leader" Denis Pushilin has left Donetsk few hours ago. Possible reason is panic rumors in russian TG channels about AFU paratroopers landed in.. Donetsk airport. Not yet confirmed. But, this night will bring more news than anyone expected.#Donetsk#UkraineWillWin 2/2 pic.twitter.com/IipgnPl4rP
If these reports (from sources supportive of the Kiev regime) are accurate, the Russian leadership will have to escalate the armament used, and soon, or accept bitter, if relatively localized —and possibly temporary— defeat in large parts of the region.
“...for the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
A brief conversation with @TimesKennedy, Investigations Editor at @thetimes, about why he's not investigating vaccine injuries and deaths.
Remember, it's THEM who are the investigative journalists, and I'm just a troll/conspiracy theorist who needs to be deplatformed. pic.twitter.com/S8gpw3RHJq
@tubewaysrmy. No, I did not. This is what I said: ‘PETER HITCHENS: A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It's time for peace’ https://t.co/ZVtsCksNrB
I would expect this has been done before in private MPs have been able to affirm for ages. But @kulambq, the fascinating thing is that Starmer chooses to make a public stand of his religious opinions. I keep trying to tell people that he’s an actual revolutionary not a ‘moderate’ https://t.co/6d3fn4LKk8
So is Starmer a (?) secret atheist, or possibly even a crypto-Jew? He is, after all, married to a Jewess, and their children are being brought up as if full-Jew. I never was able to discover as to whether, when they hold those ritual Jewish dinners chez Starmer, he wears one of those little round skullcaps (yarmulki).
I really don’t see what China has to do with it. If anything China would benefit from the disintegration of Russia which US policy aims are https://t.co/cvcw7Rmr12
If Russia becomes again as weak as it was in the 1990s, the Chinese will be able to heavily infiltrate, and perhaps in effect take over, the whole of the one-time Soviet Far East, and possibly all of Eastern Siberia. Maybe in time even all of Siberia.
You are such a buffoon. I was the one saying for years before this that Russia’s armed forces were greatly overrated. This has always been my position. Now this is demonstrated, the last 30 years of fear-driven NATO expansion look pretty overdone. https://t.co/Uz2QeSlynE
1/2 @evolutionplants Can’t see why. The origin of the war is the Wolfowitz doctrine, followed by Senate approval of NATO expansion, followed by George W. Bush’s proposal of Ukrainian NATO membership at Bucharest, and then the US-sponsored overthrow of Yanukovych… https://t.co/64HIugohFN
2/2 @evolutionplants Russia is plainly the target, and saying the US didn’t create it is like saying Bismarck had nothing to do with starting the 1870 war. Ukraine’s just a battering ram, and a boxing ring, for outside powers. https://t.co/64HIugnJQf
@andyrob4327914 This is nothing to do with being smart or dumb. It is to do with the death of the sort of general knowledge which used to sustain civil society. https://t.co/4eRd8ytylT
I have seen a few comments on Twitter, mostly from the sort of people who are now quite often in evidence in England, for example from one well-known pro-Labour (Corbyn-Labour, lesbian, and half-caste) activist, to the effect that the death of Queen Elizabeth is of no importance, and that people should focus on energy prices, low pay, inadequate State benefits etc. I disagree.
The death of even one person has meaning, and when the death is that of a truly global figure such as Queen Elizabeth, the State and the society of —in this case— England and Britain is shaken to the core, no matter what else, even of great importance, is happening at or around the same time.
It is not a matter of whether one is a monarchist or not. I myself am not —as such— a monarchist or royalist, and believe that different socio-political arrangements fit national requirements at different times. Neither of my parents was royalist and, in the early 1960s, the royals (mainly the Queen herself, and the Queen Mother), were only glimpsed (by my own family) from afar, both on the TV and at the racecourse (Ascot, Newbury and, occasionally but later, in the early 1970s, Windsor).
All the same, for an Englishman such as myself, born in 1956, only a few years after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, her presence, even though experienced mainly on television or in the Press, has been part of the backdrop for my own life, and the lives of others of my generation, whether we like it or not.
As a person usually described as “social nationalist”, though others say some variety of “national socialist”, and even (per the Dowager Lady Birdwood, circa 1975), “national bolshevik“, I cannot but wonder whether all the inhabitants of these islands are affected similarly by this momentous and very recent event.
While I have met blacks (West Indians and a few others) who were both royalist and also had quasi-patriotic feelings about the UK, my impression is that the bulk of the “blacks and browns” (and other such as Chinese) now in the UK have no such feeling or sentiment.
The young Jamaicans, or other West Indies-origined, of the inner cities, the hordes of more recent Chinese immigrants who have flooded the UK (especially though not exclusively in London and the south of England), the Pakistanis and other Muslims, the fake or other “refugees” of various kinds (eg the recent though smallish Ukrainian or supposedly Ukrainian influx) have no sentiment toward either this country or the Monarchy. To them, even those born here, Britain is a place to live in, benefit from, in some cases work in or make money in. A mere geographic space. Most of them have no patriotic feeling, no knowledge of our history, no real connection at all. They are just…here.
I am talking not about politics, or policy, or power, but of
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England“
There is also an age-demographical point here. The younger English too (and Welsh and Scottish) people around, particularly those aged maybe up to 35, are often emotionally distant not only from the Monarchy, but also from the race and nation.
You see msm vox pop, or Twitter, comments, or appearances on TV quiz shows, from those broadly “young”, let us say 18-30, which are so lacking in basic knowledge of England’s (and the world’s) history etc that those talking might as well have just arrived from Mars.
For many of the “young”, the members of the Royal Family are, as I have blogged in the past, basically denizens of the empty and stupid milieu of supposed “celebrity”, not essentially different from the casts of The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea, or whatever else of a similar nature.
Indeed, with the marriage of “The Harry formerly known as Prince” and “the Royal Mulatta” (Harry and Meghan of that ilk), the two previously acquainted but once very different worlds of British Monarchy and “celebrity culture” have collided, with disastrous results, even so far.
As I have blogged on one or two previous occasions, it is not only the British population that has changed; so have “the royals”.
Whatever one may have thought of the late Queen and Prince Philip, they were traditionally and unmistakeably royal. They could never have been mistaken for “the common people”, not even the most ultra-wealthy “commoners”. They would certainly never have been mistaken for members of the suburban middle classes, or the working class or classes.
It can be seen that that unmistakeable “royality” slid somewhat in the generation of Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. The younger two, Andrew and Edward (born 1960 and 1964), in particular, might be considered similar, at least in some respects, to their neighbours in suburban or semi-rural Surrey or Berkshire. Think of Andrew and “Fergie”, living in their sprawling villa, the so-called “South York”; Edward wanting to run a theatre company; Edward’s wife carrying on (until it became an embarrassment) with her public relations enterprise.
Of course, there have been many other scandals and, most recently, the scurrilous rumours about the next generation, mostly about Prince William.
While the Andrew/Edward generation could be said to be not far, in terms of lifestyle, from the very wealthy of the Home Counties, the William and Harry generation are not so far in attitude and lifestyle from quite ordinary, albeit very wealthy, commoners of their own age. If “Fergie’s” parents were an Army major and a mother, as “Fergie” has said, “from country gentry with a bit of old money“, Kate Middleton’s parents’ origins are that the father, though from a wealthy background (and later wealthy in his own right, via business), worked as a flight dispatcher, while Kate’s mother had been an air hostess.
Subtle differences but, over three generations making, overall, a big difference.
So now we have King Charles III, whom I regard as a basically well-meaning but also incredibly self-absorbed person who is more “at sea” ideologically and/or intellectually than most people think; perhaps more than he himself thinks.
Regular readers of the blog may recall that I blogged once or twice about how I met with and very briefly (a few minutes) talked with the then Prince Charles in late 1996, when I was invited to a royal reception (about 25-30 people) held at the official Residence (not the Embassy) of the British Ambassador in Almaty, then the capital of Kazakhstan.
The new King is 73, and will be 74 in November.
As for the next generation, I once described Princes William and Harry as “tame thick princelings“, signed up to what people now call a “woke” agenda, and I see no reason, several years on, to change that view.
The late Queen was an anchoring presence, not only in what she did but in what she was.
Without necessarily endorsing the following view, it can be said that Queen Elizabeth personified the idea that a monarch, at best, holds a nation together. Britain’s problem now is that it is rapidly ceasing to actually be a nation. It is more like a geographical space within which reside a number of interpenetrating racial, national, social and economic, and ideological, tribes, many of which dislike, or even despise and hate, each other.
“Sweet Thames”
I saw this very worthy historical blog and travelogue about the Thames, “that silver thread that runs through England’s history” as someone may have called it (Churchill called it “the golden thread through our nation’s tapestry“): https://thames.me.uk/Thames1891.htm.
Interesting, I think, not only for those who, like me, spent some of their young teenage years rowing on it.
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Twitter has removed a post from a CMU professor that called the British monarchy a “thieving raping genocidal empire” on the day Queen Elizabeth II died. The removed post from professor Uju Anya said of the queen, “may her pain be excruciating." https://t.co/TTDTDMkJyu
An African woman is being threatened and harrassed today for not showing respect on the death of an English monarch. Even in 2022, colonial supremacy finds a way. Stay strong @UjuAnya, this tribulation is the burden of freedom fighters. https://t.co/b0DxTFO5pE
I believe in free speech, but I do not believe that such a person as this Uju Anya idiot should anyway be taken seriously enough to hold an academic post at a well-known American university.
American academia is very sick, largely because of this sort of nonsense. The usual suspects (((them))) are behind much of it, pulling the strings. The black “academics” (usually retailing pseudo-academic nonsense) are, to a great extent, just the puppets.
Unless America can recover its ethnic white European identity, it is doomed. There needs to be a reset of the white/non-white population-proportion in the USA, getting back to the ~90% white America of the 1920s.
Apart from which, there are times when a decent reserve is the right persona, and when nasty and tasteless jeering is not the right persona.
Sad thing is there will be people in this country celebrating this
For me, the main point is that the tasteless minority pretending to celebrate the death of the late Queen (and a few even hoping, on Twitter etc, that that death was painful) are not only celebrating the death of Elizabeth II, but are also —and in fact primarily— making a truly evil attack on the British people, on our history, on our now-disappeared Empire, on our culture, on our (and all European) culture, and on the overall European way of life. That is why they should all be deported, exiled, or eliminated.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis: When public health experts said you can't protest against lockdowns, but George Floyd riots are OK, “that's when I knew these people are a bunch of frauds.”👇pic.twitter.com/HN0St9jNEj
A nation that erects statues of career criminals like George Floyd while tearing down statues of the patriots and trailblazers who built that nation, won't be a nation much longer.
…and despite that, Jew-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and his deputy, thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner went down on their knees in fealty to the “BLM” “Black Lives Matter” idiocy, as did many others, including members of this country’s police, while on duty at that.
That, of course, was before the transnational conspiracy put up other idols for the unthinking to worship: first the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, and now the present nonsense about Britain’s (non-existent) “need” to “support” the Jew dictator Zelensky and his corrupt and antidemocratic cabal in Ukraine.
The tweets and retweets of the tweeter @DwayneDavidPaul (click below) are instructive. Monkeys like that can only just about live, parasitically, in a civilized society or culture; they could never create one, not in a million years:
The limited Kiev-regime counter-offensive in the south of Ukraine (Kherson area) was joined by another limited counter-offensive in the north-east, in the Kharkov area. Now, however, Russian missile strikes have hit a number of cities.
As for the tweet immediately below here, its judgment would be more convincing had the Kiev regime not been shelling and rocketing the population of parts of the Donbass for about 8 years…
Here is some of the shelling of #Kharkiv by Russia in real time targeting civilians. There is truly no safety for the people when they are not seen as people but targets.
If Russian forces are seriously pushed back on a consistent basis, and if the outcome of this war is in the balance, we can expect to see a massive escalation of force from the Russian side.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah has written quite extensively about how soap operas are powerful tools for influencing society (in whatever way the writers might see fit). Soap operas shouldn't be dismissed as bad tripe.
Fresh off his appearance at Wall Street, where he pitched corporations on the plunder of his country's assets, Zelensky will appear at a conference of arms makers in Texas to present his country's war as a fantastic business opportunity. #SlavaRaytheonhttps://t.co/zSNTT6Kcp3
As blogged many times, Ukraine is a new-ish state (1990s), a failed state, and a shambolic kleptocracy run by a pack of Jew billionaires (like Zelensky, who owns several luxury homes including one in Florida worth USD $40 million).
The Zelensky regime shoots its opponents both in secret and in the street, has banned opposition parties, banned trade unions, and arrested prominent opposition politicians.
Liz Truss wants to waste many billions more of UK taxpayers’ money on the criminal Kiev regime, as did “Boris”-idiot.
Two things that seem to need restating. A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. And the first casualty of war is truth. Everyone used to know these maxims. The modern web generation appears not to know or understand them.
@alexisbrassey Someone has been getting at you. I don't think Britain has any interest in this Russo-American war and I think the peoples of the region, and the world, would benefit from a negotiated peace. I've never got involved in speculation about the military balance. https://t.co/fKqr9ADhDe
My very normie ex said something similar yesterday, out of the blue. "Something bad is brewing and coming soon. I can feel it". Been noticing when I'm at Costco or the grocery store etc there's no energy. People seem to be just going through the motions.
It's the realisation that things will never "go back to normal." You don't have to be a political, economic, or historical student to see collapse coming. It's also the helpless to prevent whatever bad is coming is horrendous something no alive in the west has experienced
I have not been to the Imperial War Museum since the mid-1980s when I was frequently in the vicinity. Since then, the IWM has, I believe, given over a large area to a permanent “holocaust” propaganda display. Once you start purveying that kind of ahistorical fakery, there is no going back, and you end up inviting a taxpayer-funded (why?) bunch of cretins to shout out “anti-racist” (in reality, anti-White and anti-British) black “rap”-crap on Remembrance Day.
The Daily Mail, of course, completely tied in with the Jewish lobby, would never make the connection…
In fact, the nonsense reported on is but part of the frenzied racemixing and anti-European agenda now being promoted everywhere— in TV drama, TV ads, across all msm platforms. The very significant year 2022 is fast approaching, the next key year in the 33-year cycle, and with it the agenda of the transnational conspiracy usually abbreviated to NWO/ZOG.
Not that I favour Churchill’s misconceived and evil war against the German Reich, of course, but I doubt that the rap-crap mentioned that.
Incidentally, imagine the (much greater) furore if a “rap” or other group had launched, at that museum, a satirical or other attack on the baleful influence of Jews or, indeed, blacks, at some point in history. That’s right, neither of those would happen. Then ask yourself why…
Ehrentempel
[“Feierlichkeiten zum 9. November in München. Ehrentempel auf dem Königsplatz”]
I cannot read the names on the U.S. military document below, but some persons without military rank are suggesting destruction of the structure. Probably Jews; who else, arguably, would make such a vandalistic suggestion? “…most offensive” and “dangerous“? Typical language, also arguably. We see the same terms used by the Zionists in 2021 Britain.
In the UK, Jews are at the forefront of the free speech battle, constantly trying to use “lawfare” and undue influence to shut down free speech, in particular any mention of Jews that is not laudatory, as well as any critical examination of their history and behaviour.
I have already blogged to the effect that only a massive window-breaking event (“Kristalltag“?) in Vienna, and soon, might wake up the Austrian people before the biosecurity police state’s grip tightens yet again.
Do you remember the Wuhan videos of people dropping dead? Same strategy to scare and demoralise. Austria is a psyops.
The System will say anything, and apparently do anything, to get enmeshed in Eastern Europe. Remember 1939 (or at least remember reading about it)? The governments of Britain and France gave the government of Poland a worthless guarantee, that is that Britain and France would come to the aid of Poland were it to be attacked.
Well, we know what happened. Germany did attack, and that triggered declarations of war against Germany by Britain and France, but —crucially— no troops or ships were sent to aid Poland. None.
The British and French governments used Germany’s invasion as an excuse to declare war, but Poland was left to sink or swim. It sank, partly because the Soviet Union also invaded, scarcely opposed, from the East. Britain and France did not declare war against the Soviet Union. Poland had no chance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland.
The upshot of the above is that Britain did not help Poland and —again crucially— never could have done. Neither Britain nor France could have opposed the massive forces of the German Reich and the Soviet Union, yet it was the worthless joint guarantee which (together with the refusal by Churchill to conclude armistice in 1940, after the Fall of France) condemned much of Europe to years of war.
Surely the “British” government is not about to repeat in some farcical form its mistakes of 1938 and 1939? NATO is becoming aggressive in the East.
War with Russia could trigger a massive conflagration in which, inter alia, the UK might be almost entirely destroyed.
Trading standards in Wales shut down Cinema & Co @cinemacoswansea because they wouldn’t comply with vaccine passports. Meanwhile, here’s First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford dancing indoors without a mask. #IStandWithCinemaCoSwansea@cinemacoswansea
The Austrian government on Friday announced that the country will go into its fourth nationwide lockdown and will make Covid-19 vaccines compulsory. The Local is following the press conference announcing the measures and will bring you updates. https://t.co/mkkAvJXlNJ
After a bitter standoff between the outgoing conservatives and the incoming government, Germany has signed off on a reform of infection protection laws which will introduce sweeping measures to combat the Covid fourth wave, such as 3G on public transport… https://t.co/2lb1tDerjQ
Eventually, the problem (and similar problems) will only be solved one way, but that is something that cannot (in the new unfree UK) be expressed publicly.
Yes, and ‘The Last Battle’ as well. Lewis often links evil with the unnecessary murder of trees. https://t.co/E28cqTvDzz
Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men and wounded another, was found not guilty of intentional homicide and four other felony charges in a deeply divisive case that fed a national debate over vigilantism, gun rights and the definition of self-defense. https://t.co/5MDh8OyguOpic.twitter.com/8kz9duMhyQ
Kyle Rittenhouse stood before the jury as the verdict was read. He was found not guilty of all charges against him including intentional homicide. https://t.co/tKTlXtpmpdpic.twitter.com/kOSQ2kiRx1
Three very violent assailants attacked Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 riots. One was permanently maimed. Two paid for that assault with their lives. Kyle gets to go on with his. #Justice
I have only one problem with the young man who was on trial, which is that he should have shown more of a stiff upper lip at that trial.
As for Paul Mason, and as I have blogged previously, some of his writings on economics have been interesting, but from the political point of view he is a complete idiot.
Incidentally, I often wondered, when Mason was on TV regularly, and when he posted on Twitter, why he is so venomously against social-nationalism. I discovered that he is part-Jew. That may account for it.
Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.7bn damages in talc cancer case – BBC News…. Those companies making a literal killing without any liability 🤔 look them up.. track records are extremely concerning https://t.co/Wsndot1mJf
— Sarah I ❤️CO2 #PrimaryWater #CarbonCycle (@redundantuk) November 8, 2021
You can’t call people “tin foil hat wearers” when you’re walking around with a cloth diaper strapped around your breathing holes pic.twitter.com/EXRUKafavM
If I am not mistaken, a misquotation (from Marx), but no matter, if the cap fits…
[first time, tragedy…]
[second time, farce…]
Whatever one may say of Churchill, whatever one may say of his being hugely over-rated, especially as a strategist (hopeless), there is no doubt that he was a world-historic personality. “Boris”? A mere footnote to contemporary history, at best.
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Thousands of rare honeybees have been found in the ancient woodlands of Blenheim Palace near Oxford. Scientists didn't even know the species existed, and now hope that more colonies of the native tree-nesting bee will be discovered.https://t.co/5rUYvxJZMx
This is why both conservation and rewilding are essential. Sad that so many who have hundreds of millions, or even billions, would rather make even more money (which at that level means nothing but entries on electronic or other ledgers) than create habitat for wild creatures.
Look, for example, at Zac Goldsmith, the much-puffed eco-champion. Worth maybe nearly (?) a billion, it seems, but not doing anything like as much as he might. He does donate to environmental causes, but he could do a great deal more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Goldsmith#Fundraising.
An acre of “useless” land, or woodland, or farmland in the UK (depending on area) costs £2,000 to £10,000 an acre. Even at the higher figure, £100 millions therefore buys 10,000 acres or more. That’s a tenth (or more) of the size of the Isle of Wight (which totals 148 sq. miles), or nearly a fifteenth of the total area of the National Forest (200 sq. miles, but much of it is not actual forest): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England).
Today's update on the Daily Sceptic is here. The UKHSA dismisses its own ‘biased’ data for showing that infection rates are more than twice as high in the vaccinated, daily Covid cases fall by 22% in a week, and Dr. Noah Carl argues that safetyism kills.https://t.co/AMmv9Q1KmXpic.twitter.com/woLu4dbEcD
Now here's a REAL pollution emergency. But since it reduces fertility and creates gender confusion, and could largely be dealt with at national level, the global elite will do nothing. It's not a crisis with a solution that would boost their power or $£€$https://t.co/Djv0Rbl9dI
[would-be “Stalinist” censor, student Keir Bradwell, aka a little twerp]
If universities think they can silence these guest speakers "harm" others, that is in line with the dangerous online safety bill which will end up silencing everyones free speech online if its "legal but harmful" content.
There is a huge threat to free speech in this country
…and most of the threat to freedom of expression in the UK comes from the Jew-Zionist element. I note that the Keir Bradwell individual cites the so-called “international definition” of “antisemitism”, which in fact has been adopted by only a couple of dozen states out of about 200 in the world.
Most people have not yet noticed, but this (meaning the whole thing, the wider question, not just the Cambridge storm in a teacup) is not a “debate”, nor even a “dispute”, but a war, or the beginnings of a war, or the approach to a war, a socio-political war.
1/2 @spy_historian If anyone in London had wanted to avoid war, they would have done everything they could to disabuse Poland of its fantasy that Britain and France would come to its aid when it was attacked by Germany. https://t.co/m91v8gaFhm
And you @spy_historian must know that the Polish Guarantee *did* hand Poland carte blanche to drag Britain into war, and that it did do so. Need I remind you that Britain declared war on Germany because Germany invaded Poland? Before the guarantee, we had no such obligation. https://t.co/WiCwMXaXIZ
Churchill’s actions triggered a war which destroyed not only the German Reich but also the British Empire, and the similar empires or overseas colonial arrangements of other European powers (French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish), in the end. The net result has been war, civil war, terrorism, environmental degradation.
Generally, @spy_historian, the British way is resolutely to reserve the title 'doctor' for medical practitioners. Any other use in this country (outside the academic industry) tends to be tinged with irony. https://t.co/hzLEDzYeXZ
Hitchens is right. I have blogged, en passant, about this. In the UK, “Doctor” is reserved for a few (though Hitchens is too restrictive): medical practitioners (even if, in fact, not actually Doctors of Medicine), persons in holy orders who have a doctorate in theology or the like, and bona fide academics.
It weakens the rank or status to have stray persons calling themselves “doctor” just because they have a “doctorate” in some McSubject from a McUniversity. Examples that come to my mind are the tweeter and “antifa” cheerleader (she does little else, I think) “Dr.” Louise Raw, whose doctorate is in one 19thC industrial dispute, and “Dr.” Julian Lewis, an MP whose doctorate is in Strategic Studies; among others (eg “Dr.” Therese Coffey, the present DWP Secretary in the Cabinet).
Part of the problem in the UK is that huge numbers of people now go to institutions called universities, where all get “degrees”‘; not a few go on to get higher degrees, including doctorates.
On the mainland of Europe, especially Germany, the conventions are different. Use of “doctor” is ubiquitous and accepted. For example, Dr. Goebbels, whose doctorate was in History and Literature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Early_life].
[Dr. Goebbels]
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10% of all farmland given over to rewilding. Let nature to its own devices as much as possible.
Just finished reading Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald @Rebirding1 and I have to say its absolutely brilliant Ecosystem restoration and #rewilding are not anti-economy, anti-job market or anti-rural culture. In fact, they promote the economy, job market and rural culture (1/2) pic.twitter.com/fpY4iUzh1m
When it comes to achieving net zero climate change targets, rewilding the ocean is just as important as reforestation, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Societyhttps://t.co/aWaLNldM8Wpic.twitter.com/rKyrtde49G
— Climate Save Movement (@climatesavemvmt) May 13, 2021
Join Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth – https://t.co/BZqCBojCgb Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth invites you to join them to hear a talk from environmentalist and wildlife campaigner Jan Stannard, about the importance of rewilding.
If rewilding ever takes place on a planetary scale, I can think of some good sources of fertilizer, but I think that I shall not cite them here, not just yet…
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Here (below) we see another holder of a Ph.D, but in his case an academic at a recognized university, tweeting incorrect rubbish about the law in England and Wales (and Scotland):
Holocaust denial has been successfully prosecuted in UK under the offence of "sending grossly offensive communications" (see R v Chabloz). It's staggering then that a minister could consider HD worthy of free speech protection. BoJo's ministers are such poor calibre.@simon_schamahttps://t.co/qiSp4YnFgt
In fact, the Crown Court judge (H.H. Judge Hehir) in the Alison Chabloz appeal last year, and the district judge (magistrate) in her most recent case (heard in late March 2021) both made the point(s) that
“antisemitism” is not a crime in this country; and that
“holocaust” “denial” is not a crime in this country.
No doubt, were the matter to be considered and pronounced upon by the higher courts, the same conclusions would be reached.
Alison Chabloz was convicted because the tenor of what was posted was “grossly offensive” (and she is presently appealing that), not because posting historical revisionist or “antisemitic” views (including so-called “holocaust” “denial”) is grossly offensive per se.
What is “staggering” (see the “@DrDMiles” tweet above) is that someone who claims to be knowledgeable about the law can publish such a misunderstanding, and so vehemently.
The Miles character has made rather a fool of himself, in short.
In fact, the said Miles, apparently the author of a book on “constitutionalism”, is, so his Twitter profile says, a “University teacher” (at St. Andrews: https://st-andrews.academia.edu/DavidMiles). Law as such, however, is not his subject. He evidently misunderstands it as applied (misapplied in his case) to so-called “holocaust” “denial”.
Ah, I see now what the said Miles believes in: censorship…
Never mind protecting it, it should be a crime as it is in most European countries.
Surprising that someone with such a limited and narrow mentality should be teaching at a university such as St. Andrew’s but that is Britain in 2021, I suppose.
I believe, subject to correction, that that person used to work at Lloyds TSB, selling financial products of some sort [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mrdavidjmiles].
Here’s a crank singing the same song:
#holocaustdenial is an offence on the 2003 Communications Act if it's communicated. See R vs Chabloz. So whatever you do deniers, don't tweet about it. What kind of fucked up country behaves like this? https://t.co/B4corWWsrQ
— Jonathan (Katie) Brayshaw 🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇩🇪🏳️🌈 (@ModerateUK) May 13, 2021
Another one who has simply misunderstood the law. Claims that she is an “ex-journalist/commentator“. Yeah, right…
Another couple of cranks:
What is wrong with this country?
Some 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust, but in the UK deniers are now being protected under free speech..
Simplistic and kneejerk; no real thought, no nuance, no real understanding of the issues or the real world in general. How does someone like that hold down even a minor academic teaching post?]
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If you think the siege and relentless attacks on #Gaza are only about hatred of non-Jews, you should look at the map of recently discovered gas fields off the coast of Israel. Left alone, Gaza would become a wealthy energy exporter. 💰💰💰 https://t.co/hoeJYJB3YA
The media has one purpose and that is to lead your thought in one direction.
If it was a fair and unbiased platform you would be freely hearing two sides of the vax debates, allowing you to decide what is best for you instead of being forced fed one fear driven narrative.
The #GreatReset is just another one of the particularly greedy elite looting sprees seen throughout History: 1066. Enslaving serfs who ran away after the Black Death. Dissolution of the Monasteries. The theft of the Commons. The Clearances. It's what the super rich do. #scumpic.twitter.com/31LCaRyevX
Quite so @daveheller10 . And Professor Ferguson, acting as if he has been vindicated, is treated with deference by the BBC. This is what happens when civil society does not fight to save itself. The rule of drivel. https://t.co/g4DMeSw16l
1/2 A ridiculous misreading of the 1930s by @theeconomist. Channon was a marginal playboy. The upper-classes were mostly not 'pro-Hitler' and were prominent in fighting him personally when war came. The British Left opposed rearmament until the last minute… https://t.co/qwZ5G4VmCO
2/2 UK's then main left-wing newspaper, 'The Daily Herald' attacked rearmament as 'an affront to Germany' in March 1935 (2 yrs *after* Hitler came to power). Clement Attlee, *after* reoccupation of Rhineland in 1936, denounced 'a ruinous arms race leading to war'. https://t.co/qwZ5G4VmCO
Scribblers such as Hitchens would be far more credible were they able to write about how disastrous the Second World War was; and, above all, that it need not have happened….(Hitchens is part-Jew, though, so that may play a part in his reticence). See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/.
…Elliott Cuciurean, for contempt of Court. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal halved his sentence. However, the fact this case exists at all is yet another threat to our freedom to protest. In 2020, he was found in contempt of Court for breaching #HS2’s anti-trespass injunction… pic.twitter.com/nK0RDIcgIM
…he was arrested, while #HS2 were allowed to continue with their felling & #ecocide. He was initially given a six months sentence, which was suspended for a year. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal halved his sentence to three months, suspended for a year, on the basis that …. pic.twitter.com/MfwBdeInx2
…the Judge had not taken full account of the fact that Elliott was engaged in “civil disobedience” against #HS2. The Court of Appeal confirmed the important principle that people involved in civil disobedience must be shown greater clemency by the courts when being sentenced… pic.twitter.com/c7JCbhAwLI
I start with the fact that, yes, a million people have died “of” (with) “Coronavirus” worldwide, but that is out of eight thousand million living on the Earth. In other words, one person out of every eight thousand.
The above fact indicates that what is required first of all is perspective and proportion. Those qualities are precisely those not found in the present “British” government.
The Government shut down most of our society for 5-6 months; but a society is not like something such as a washing machine or a TV set, which can be switched off at the flip of a switch, then switched on again 6 months later none the worse. It is more like a car, which if left unused for months, will probably not start up again without an external stimulus.
Now “Boris” the clown is threatening another national “lockdown”. Contrast with Sweden, which (despite a huge area with small population) is largely urban and suburban (i.e. that is where most people live), like the UK.
Sweden never had a “lockdown”, never insisted on masks, never did any of that rubbish. It did have many elderly people die in care homes. That was its mistake. However, the UK did the same, with similar results.
Now Sweden is close (I read) to “herd immunity”, whereas the countries in Europe that were harsh in having facemasks, “lockdowns” etc (e.g. Spain and the UK, among others) are still in trouble in terms of public health and have ruined their fragile economies.
I should be happy that Boris-idiot and his “Cabinet” (pack of Jews and Indians) are messing things up so royally, because that can pave the way for social nationalism when the economy crashes, unemployment soars and Britain loses whatever is left of its credibility as Brexit crashes and burns.
Two things depress that happiness: first, I hate to see what is being done to the UK, its people, its society and economy. Second, there is at present no credible social-national movement to raise the banners of social-national resurgence.
Scotland is even worse than England, under that ridiculous little tyrant, Nicola Sturgeon.
Actually, I think that many people are uneasy, to say the least, about the latest “Boris” nonsense: the “Rule of Six”, the “rule” that pubs must shut at 10 pm, and especially the idea that neighbours should spy on each other and report, like Stasi inoffizielle Mitarbeiter in the old DDR, or Russian and other Soviet секретные сотрудники of the old KGB.
The very legal validity of the “rules” is in question and may be pronounced upon by the courts soon.
Now “Boris” wants to use what little is left of the British Army to coerce the British people.
The real opposition to all this nonsense will not be brought into being by the nonsense itself though, but by the consequences of that nonsense— the tsunami of socio-economic pain gathering its power on the horizon.
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The “controlled opposition” writes…
Boris and his Government are doing as they please without any opposition and we should be very concerned.https://t.co/Nv1J99vTYH
Locals in #Penally protesting at the govt decision to House 250 illegals in disused army barracks in their small Welsh village were threatened by #covidbully cops with dogs last night.#ShameOnYou indeed. Cymru Am Byth! pic.twitter.com/klCWzIWoWA
Pfeffel Johnson does increasingly remind me of Leonid Brezhnev, physically present but mentally absent during the self-inflicted death of his country, propped up only by rigid adherence to a discredited dogma.
Canute did no such thing @GrumpyPete. He was a truly intelligent ruler who mocked his foolish, flattering advisers for telling him he had the power to control a coronavirus, sorry, control the tide. https://t.co/gYyoOxEK4k
This is where I part company with Peter Hitchens. Yes, many governments are incompetent (though in Europe, the “government” of Boris-idiot stands out as egregiously incompetent), but what has been happening in 2020 goes beyond mere chance and lack of proper administration.
Covid-19 Coronavirus, the facemask muzzling of the population, the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, the constant racemixing propaganda on TV (eg. in TV ads, which have become relentless in that respect…), the hullabaloo around Greta Nut and Extinction Rebellion etc; all of that feeds into what the World Economic Forum openly calls the “Great Reset” of the world. Inter alia, “the Great Replacement”, or “White Genocide”, as provided for in the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/
It is almost pitiful, watching someone I used to think clever, well-informed and amusing, making such an idiot of himself. Could we possibly have known it would be this bad? Who can now go to him and tell him it is time to resign? But it is. He is actually killing the country. https://t.co/JaaDp7op8D
It is a puzzle to me, and always has been, why so many intelligent and well-informed journalists etc thought Boris Johnson so well-equipped to bid for his present position. The few who did not think so tended to say, “Boris has the ability, but does he have the ethical standards?“, whereas I was tweeting and then blogging for years, increasingly angrily, as the idiot flew higher and higher: “WHERE, WHEN, has Boris-idiot ever shown any real ability?”
Answer came there none. Years of incompetence, inability to plan, to execute plans, to explain clearly his ideas (few and all puerile) made no difference. Of course the Jew lobby, aka Israel lobby, liked him not only because he was totally pro-Israel but because he is part-Jew himself. They pushed him in the mass media which they largely control.
“Boris” was always buoyed up by his incredible arrogant confidence. That has now been tested against reality and found wanting. Look at him now. Most of the time now, he looks either like a deflated balloon or (and my apologies for necessary profanity) like a sack of shit.
Actually @martinjrgee, I have campaigned against *compulsion* in such measures. I try to treat those who believe in their efficacy with politeness and consideration. I think there is a disproportionate fear of the virus. https://t.co/b3rkd8pz1I
My Guess is that @SirGrahamBrady MP, interviewed here https://t.co/0poQsIP0Re very recently, will have been gravely disappointed by the Brezhnev-like concrete-headed, unshifting determination to wreck the country shown by Pfeffel today.
Good point. I saw Starmer today on TV, saying what a good little prosecutor he used to be (and so, apparently, what a good Prime Minister he would make). Well, Starmer’s “USP” is basically that he is a better administrator than Boris-idiot. I suppose that he takes me with him on that. Almost anyone would be a better PM than “Boris”. Beyond that, Starmer has nothing to say.
Starmer is a puppet of the Jewish lobby. His wife, a lawyer, is Jewish; their children are being brought up as Jewish. I noticed, if I am not mistaken (I saw only a second or two before Starmer came on), that he was introduced on TV today by the notorious and half-Jewish Ruth Smeeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Smeeth] the former MP (2015-2019) for Stoke-on-Trent North, and an alleged “source” for intelligence officers based at the US Embassy in London (see Wikileaks).
I imagine that Ruth Smeeth is hoping that Keir Starmer will find a safe Labour seat (full of unthinking “me always vote Labour” plebs) for her.
Incidentally, Ruth Smeeth, who since 2015 has been on the Board of the (((well-funded))) “Hope not Hate” Jewish “antifascist” group, is now the Chief Executive (paid about £80,000 a year) of “Index on Censorship”. Irony is not dead…
Speaking of Wikileaks:
Thank you @gcr1068 . I am increasingly shocked by the silence of my fellow journalists about a trial whose outcome could place all of them in grave danger of state kidnap for simply doing their jobs. https://t.co/pJrphsW9J1https://t.co/xZBFND8cXM
Listening to the Prime Minister setting out his plans in the Commons, do you hear a witty, likeable intelligent person or do you hear a jobsworth quacking?
I never thought “Boris” likeable (or particularly intelligent) anyway. I have never seen much evidence of either, especially the latter.
Trying to 'defeat' or eliminate Covid-19 is ' a false and dangerous ambition' and so not a rational goal. The wise Dr John Lee rejoins the debate: https://t.co/8SGb7CpUwZ
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
One hundred million dollars in donations from a single evil asshole is underwriting the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Palestinian population. Now we know the name of that evil asshole: #RomanAbramovich. ~ @davidsheen @ChelseaFC https://t.co/q76L7dZ1lu
The head of BBC was HSBC. The head of MI5 was HSBC. The head of fraud at CoLP is now HSBC. The head of Met Police is now HSBC. Chair of CoE Trust was HSBC. Chair of committee on public standards was HSBC. Oversight of MoD/GCHQ is HSBC
Wonders will never cease. I find that I am actually in agreement with “Dunce” Duncan Smith!
Sir Iain Duncan Smith says the UK has "lost the balance of how we manage risk" since coronavirus: “Getting in a car has about the same risk as getting Covid for all those in the non-risk group in terms of accidents.”
Does anyone actually think we’d be facing the same restrictions if the public sector – including MPs – had to face the same job losses and income cuts as everyone else?
UK: 111 covid triage charts. Still no sign of a surge (or curve steepening) in enquiries in the vulnerable 70+ age group; enquiries for younger cohorts decreasing now that schools are back. pic.twitter.com/ZwMagEB3gE
Pretty startling statistic from Michael Gove in the House just now: just 24% of businesses feel they’re fully prepared for the end of the transition period.
Even before the “panicdemic”, pubs were closing, we heard, at a rate of 10 per day in the UK. In the —extended— area where I live, say a 5-mile radius, I myself have noticed a number of pubs now closed, probably permanently, while others have, I understand, effectively become daytime cafes concentrating on Kaffee und Kuchen, in a bid to avoid the “rules” imposed on pubs. Apparently, those ones are busy with the elderly who make up much of the population here.
Interesting to hear Dominic Raab say that the bar curfew was taken from Belgium, where clearly it isn't really working as intended.
The spread slowed slightly, but has accelerated since.
Where is the evidence? Closing a little early will just hurt so many business owners.
John Edmunds, an epidemiologist whose opinions change with the weather, versus someone who knows a bit about the restaurant business. pic.twitter.com/rf0tXr8VYh
Oh, and on a different topic, look (below) who has crawled out of her sewer again! Priyamvada Gopal, who wants to kill off European people, and who was promoted to full professor status by the traitors at Cambridge University after remarks to that effect. Here you see her intellectual level— pathetically poor:
It's also the same as the 'pat' in Postman Pat, cow-pat and Patricia Hodge
In Russian, there is a more “gender-neutral” word-stem, i.e. “rod”, as in “rodnoy” (m) or “rodnaya” (f), “rod” indicating “native land or place” or “land/place.city etc of birth”.
Julia asks Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab if he knows how many people in England aged under 60 without underlying health conditions have died of Covid-19 since February.
Are these people just running out of lies & losing contact with reality, or do they just enjoy selling the public ever more ridiculous nonsense?#FakeNews#lyingpresspic.twitter.com/b7NUp8w9DX
Thank you @studio_me. Please tell others. In this issue above all, *numbers* count. MPs listen when they fear they may lose their seats. Only numbers can do that. Brief. Polite. Acid: But write now *before* despotic powers are renewed on 30th September. https://t.co/MXpFRgpwmi
Hitchens’ idea, i.e. that people should write to MPs re. the present nonsense, may have some limited effect, but will not change the overall direction of this crazed government of clowns. I know what I want to have happen to most MPs, but am not able to publish it…
Actually, quite apart from the above, there would be no point in writing to “my” local MP, because he is one of the few MPs awake to the sheer nonsense of the Coronavirus “lockdowns”, facemask imposition etc, though he is otherwise a complete deadhead, as well as being a lazy useless slug…
Despotic police powers, suspended elections, bans on public gatherings. Pinochet's Chile?Erdogan's Turkey? No, it's here. Please watch this video and act on the advice, Write now, politely, briefly, firmly, in your hundreds of thousands, to your MPs. Repeal this Act. https://t.co/DJSYcb06a2
Boris-idiot’s am-dram reprise of Winston Churchill was never at all plausible, certainly not to me. Now, it becomes so absurd as to leave a sour taste. I do not think that Churchill made the right decisions in 1940-1945 (in continuing the disastrous and tragic European war) but he was a great figure in both contemporary events and in history. “Boris” is all but irrelevant as a political “leader”, and in terms of history will be a footnote, if that. As Marx said, “First time tragedy, second time farce.”
I agree with Peter. The conspiracy nuts play straight into the government’s hands.
A “conspiracy nut” may be the early stage of a tree of wisdom.
Actually, look at the facts, the way in which powerful transnational institutions have lined up in support of the climate change narrative, the “Black Lives Matter” narrative, the Coronavirus narrative…all at the same time…
Co-incidence? What about the fact that the World Economic Forum now supports the so-called “Great Reset”? This is not “conspiracy theory”; it’s happening in plain sight!
And look below at the way in which the termites are eating away at the freedom and lives of white British people. One word of criticism about the anti-white propaganda campaign being waged, and your bank wants to get rid of you:
.@MarkBrendsTweet Hi Mark. We believe in a society built on mutual respect and are committed to representing the diversity of our members. Please contact us and we can help close your accounts if you do not want to be part of a diverse and inclusive Society. #TogetherAgainstHatehttps://t.co/HDVmLbfHIF
“Diversity” = “no white people”, in the end. Racemixing and the genocide of the European peoples.
The person who tweeted from the Nationwide should be punished.
I also suggest that all white people in the UK avoid Nationwide (which does not value them and chooses to insult its customers) and, if already with Nationwide, switch to another bank.
Lammy, thick as two short planks and also extremely nasty (as well as very interested in money…).
He thinks he's being clever here, but yes, minorities are treated differently – and they should be. Functional societies need a dominant culture that overrides all others, and I don't want my people being reduced to a whining irrelevance in their own country. https://t.co/dG2HayzWiF
should not mean unconditional support of the official opposition. Corruption must be exposed wherever it is found or the same lies will continue to rule our existence.
— Kevin Tulliver#GTTO#NoMoreNeolibLabour#LFC (@KtKevlt) September 23, 2020
“Socialism” in one Twitterverse
One of the most interesting aspects of the “Coronavirus” situation in the UK has been to observe the pathetic and feeble squirming of those who self-describe as “Left”, “socialist” etc., whether adherent to the shell that is the Labour Party, or otherwise.
What is the reaction of the Jewish and “antifascist” Twitterati to the closing down of civil rights in the UK? Craven obedience to Government diktat. What is the reaction of the “Labour” official Opposition? To support every measure this incompetent yet tyrannical Government of clowns has taken, except to say that themeasures should be harsher and better administered. This is not opposition, but fealty…
Actually, that weakness is good for social-nationalism. When the time comes, we can close down our enemies easily, and permanently.
More tweets seen
Pret a Manger boss Julian Metcalfe withering re @BorisJohnson on @BBCRadio4 Wato "This man sitting down with his Union Jack talking utter nonsense…to spout off some Churchillian nonsense that we'll make it through, it's terribly unhelpful.”
Piers @piersmorgan has a second chance to ruin the economy and foul up civil society even more badly than the first time. Does he hesitate? Does he ponder, no, not he, head-first into the empty swimming pool he goes, yet again. Somebody call Albert Einstein . https://t.co/qb9DB6EfEW
Naturally, Piers Morgan does not worry about the economic damage. He gets paid millions for being a TV face. I dare say (speculating, admittedly) that some if not all is paid offshore via tax avoidance measures. He can scarcely recall what life was like before he hit lucky. If the poor and middle earners lose their jobs, well…Piers will still be on TV, raking in his life’s winnings…The same is true of all msm drones, MPs and other parasites.
More about Keir Starmer
Saw part of Starmer’s party political broadcast on TV this evening. Underwhelming…
It seems that the intellectual power behind the Boris Johnson throne is one Dominic Cummings, someone who only came to my attention recently. His new eminence put me in mind of a few similar people in the recent and not so recent past.
Brendan Bracken
Churchill had the egregious Brendan Bracken as his adviser and amanuensis. Bracken was, as such people often are, very strange indeed. He was born into modest but not poor circumstances in Ireland, drifted around Australia, attended Sedbergh School at age 19 (though claiming to be just 15), paying the fees himself, then left after one term, having acquired what the later KGB would have called a “legend” as an Anglo-Irishman who had attended a well-known English school (he let people believe that he had been there for years).
Armed with the Sedbergh “old school tie”, Bracken became a schoolmaster at Bishop’s Stortford College in 1921, but by 1922 was a magazine publisher and editor in London. He became wealthy quite rapidly. Puzzling. Here was a young man who had presumably saved some money while in Australia, and may have had a part-share in whatever his father left, but all the same Bracken’s swift rise to wealth is a puzzle. Still, there it is.
Having attached himself to Churchill, Bracken was instrumental at the vital moment when Chamberlain resigned in 1940:
” When Bracken became aware of Churchill’s agreement to nominate Lord Halifax, he convinced Churchill that the Labour Party would indeed support him as Chamberlain’s successor, and that Lord Halifax’s appointment would hand certain victory to Hitler. Bracken advised Churchill tactically to say nothing when the three met to arrange the succession. After a deafening silence during which Churchill was expected to nominate Halifax, the latter obligingly ruled himself out and Churchill was put forward as Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, having avoided any appearance of disloyalty to Chamberlain.” [Wikipedia, and see Notes, below].
Thus this odd man “from nowhere” was not only present at the pivotal moment, but can be said to have altered the course of the Second World War on the strategic level. Had Churchill not become Prime Minister, Britain would have agreed peace with the German Reich in 1940. The whole history of Europe and indeed the world was thus altered in its course by this now-forgotten man (forgotten by the public, at least).
Bracken was MP for Paddington North (1929-1945) and for Bournemouth (1945-1951). He was Churchill’s PPS from 1940, later promoted to Minister of Information (1941-1945) and was briefly First Lord of the Admiralty in 1945. He was one of the chiefs of the Political Warfare Executive. He was elevated as a viscount in 1952. He was the publisher of, inter alia, the Financial Times, The Economist and History Today.
Bracken was rumoured to have been Churchill’s illegitimate progeny, though this seems to have been a myth not discouraged by Bracken himself. The viscounty granted was hereditary, but Bracken was unmarried and without issue. He died in 1958.
Was this the story only of a remarkably talented self-made businessman and politician or was there more to it? There are hints of the then-concealed New World Order about it all. We shall probably never know.
Steve Hilton
[As with Cummings –see below— Hilton felt the need to display his “I’m an off the wall maverick genius” persona by wearing beachwear or surf dude getup to Downing Street…]
Wikipedia says of Steve Hilton the following:
“Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants whose original surname was Hircsák[7] (which some sources spell “Hircksac”),[8] who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. They came to Britain, initially claiming asylum, and anglicised their name to Hilton. Steve Hilton’s father, István, had been goaltender for the Hungarian national ice hockey team and was considered one of the top ice hockey players in Europe in the 1930s.[7][9] After arriving in Britain, his parents initially worked in catering at Heathrow Airport. They divorced when Steve was five years old[7] leading to what he has described as a struggle and great financial hardship; his mother worked in a shoe store to earn the little money they had, and the two lived in a cold, damp basement apartment. He won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham before studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford.”
“After graduating, Hilton worked at Conservative Central Office, where he came to know David Cameron and Rachel Whetstone, his future wife and Senior Vice-President of Policy and Communications for Uber.[11] He liaised with the party’s advertising firm, Saatchi and Saatchi, and was praised by Maurice Saatchi, who remarked, “No one reminds me as much of me when young as Steve.”[8] During this time Hilton bought the “New Labour, New Danger” demon eyes poster campaign[12] for the Conservative’s pre-general election campaign in 1996, which won an award from the advertising industry’s Campaign magazine at the beginning of 1997.[13] The Conservatives went on to experience their worst election defeat for more than half a century, with some journalists speculating that the poster contrasted unfavourably with Labour’s more positive campaign.[14] In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for EducationMichael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency.”
“Hilton talked of the need to “replace” the traditionally minded grassroots membership of the Conservative Party, which he saw as preventing the party from embracing a more metropolitan attitude on social issues.”
So he was at first, in the 1990s, little better than a gopher, but then he met his wife, Rachel Whetstone. Who is she? She is described in Wikipedia as having been head of communications for Uber taxis. For a number of years until 2015, she was in a similar position at Google. She has more recently joined Netflix.
“In February 2013, Whetstone was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.[4] Whetstone has been featured on PRWeek’s Power List several times, most recently in 2016 at number 14.” [Wikipedia]
“Whetstone is married to Steve Hilton, whom she met after an affair with Lord Astor (stepfather to Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron) in the lead-up to the 2005 election. Cameron is no longer on speaking terms with Whetstone or Hilton.” [Wikipedia]
More interestingly, Rachel Whetstone’s grandfather was one Antony Fisher, not much known to the public, though extremely influential behind the scenes:
“Sir Antony George Anson FisherAFC (28 June 1915 – 8 July 1988), nicknamed AGAF, was a British businessman and think tank founder. He participated in the formation of various libertarian organisations during the second half of the twentieth century, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Network. Through Atlas, he helped establish up to 150 other institutions worldwide.”
Antony Fisher may have been at least part-Jew, and was certainly a Zionist, pro-Israel to the hilt.
Hilton was thought by many to be half-mad. He was lucky to escape with a caution and a small fine after having assaulted someone on a railway platform in England. He had been arrested after the assault and after shouting “wanker!” at staff and police. At the time, this useless creature was being paid £200,000 a year from public funds. There were other incidents of aggressive behaviour during his time at No.10.
“Andy Coulson, the former communications chief who was later jailed over phone hacking, recalled recently in the Telegraph: “I would ask, ‘So how does that work then?’ If I got an answer at all, it was along the lines of, ‘It’ll be fine – just you see.’ That was mildly irritating, as it was my team who would have to get out and sell the latest product from Steve’s dream factory.”” [The Guardian]
“Hilton’s rightwing, free-market ideas certainly infuriated Lib Dems who worked with him, as chronicled in David Laws’s book about the coalition. One Lib Dem former adviser said: “I was unfortunate enough to spend some time in Steve’s thought wigwam and it was not a pretty place. I remember him suggesting we should scrap maternity laws and invest in cloud-busting technology to improve the British weather. I certainly do not remember at any time him raising any points about the immigration policy he is now criticising.”” [The Guardian]
Hilton accomplished nothing, certainly nothing concrete, at Downing Street, and eventually decamped to the USA, where he was, laughably, taken on as some kind of visiting “professor” at Stanford:
“In March 2012, Downing Street announced that Hilton would be a “visiting scholar” at Stanford University‘s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a year.[21] His last memo concerned the advocacy of severe cuts in the number of civil servants in the United Kingdom[22] and further welfare cuts.” [Wikipedia]
At time of writing, Steve Hilton is on the American TV network, Fox News, as a talking head, and is apparently a Trump partisan.
“Had Bernie Sanders been the Democratic nominee, Hilton “probably would have supported him”. Hilton says he is not really a conservative or a liberal: “It’s hard to pin me down because I’m a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.” He’s pro-Trump simply because he was the candidate most likely to “shake things up”” [The Guardian]
Someone who actively likes and promotes chaos, in fact, just like Dominic Cummings [see below]
Steve Hilton, in other words, like the others examined here, is connected with cosmopolitan finance-capital and its intellectual superstructure of “think tanks” (which have proliferated over the years) and with supposed “institutes”, mostly carrying the same sort of message: internationalism, multikulti “get rich quick”-ism, destruction of tradition, race and culture, combined with State repression of those without money.
Dominic Cummings
[above, Dominic Cummings: note the “I’m Too Important To Wear A Tie Or A Jacket” affectation, as with Steve “Hilton”]
As stated at the start of this blog post, I know of Cummings only what I have read. The links are either posted here below or are available easily via Google.
One thing that did interest me was the Wikipedia statement, taken from a biography of Michael Gove, that “Cummings speaks Russian and ‘is a Russophile'”. It seems that he tried to start an airline with the single route line of Samara (a large city on the Volga) to Vienna, an interesting choice of route. We are told on Wikipedia that: “After university, Cummings moved to Russia from 1994 to 1997, working on various projects. In one Russian venture, he worked for a group attempting to set up an airline connecting Samara in southern Russia to Vienna; however, the venture fell foul of the KGB, and was abandoned after only one flight.“
Well, the “KGB” bit is wrong in exact terms, because the KGB was disbanded (reorganized) in 1991. The bulk of the “internal” work of the old KGB was given to the “FSK” which later became the FSB. As to why the revamped FSK/FSB would want to interfere in the activities of a foreign or foreign-connected airline, I wonder. There are, and have been for 2-3 decades now, numerous foreign airlines operating in the former Soviet Union, flying between Russia and other states.
In the 1990s, new “babyflots” (bits of the old Aeroflot) were emerging all the time, as were ad hoc operations such as the German airline “Luftbrucke” (Air Bridge), which transported tens of thousands of “Volksdeutsche” from Kazakhstan and Siberia to new lives in the reunified Germany (those people were mostly the descendants of Germans invited to Russia by Russian tsars, notably Catherine the Great, then deported East by Stalin). Luftbrucke, if I recall aright, also flew from Samara, as also from a host of cities in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, such as Semipalatinsk.
I find the history of Cummings interesting. He graduated from Oxford in 1994 aged 22-23, his degree being in Ancient and Modern History. The very same year he moved to Russia “where he worked on various projects” including the idea “to set up a new airline”.
I admit that I myself have never set up an airline, but I know that you cannot do it without rather a lot of money, even in the conditions of post-collapse Sovietism (I myself was briefly in Moscow in 1993 and also dealt with legal and business matters in Russia and Kazakhstan for several years).
Cummings is said to be the son of an oil rig project manager and a special needs teacher. There is no suggestion of any heavy family wealth. Cummings only left university in 1994, yet by —at latest— 1997, so 0-3 years later, was setting up an airline? In fact, how did he get into Russian-oriented business anyway, with no obvious connections or personal monies. He is able to speak Russian, though. That too raises questions.
I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a year (1996-1997), meeting dozens if not hundreds (and over the years, certainly hundreds) of businessmen, lawyers etc doing work in the various ex-Soviet republics. While most of the diplomats I met spoke at least some Russian, the vast majority of businessmen and lawyers encountered knew no Russian at all really (that was true of both British and Americans). Certainly unable to undertake even simple discussions. I even met some unable to order simple food and drink.
So Cummings leaves university in the UK, where he studied ancient and modern history, somehow speaks Russian (or learns it on the ground), and is at once involved with business activities which seem to go beyond being a mere gopher for others. I have to say that I wonder whether Cummings was up to something other than just being a British graduate drifting about and getting into Russian business speculations almost by chance. Maybe the Russian security people were right to be suspicious of him, as is suggested in his Wikipedia entry.
Anyway, he is now considered to be Boris Idiot’s eminence grise, and looks it (meaning “grey”, if not particularly eminent). In fact, despite being only 47, he looks 10+ years older than me, and I am now 62. His political career is summarized here:
I have to say that I agree with his view of many of the leading political and official figures (he described Iain Dunce Duncan Smith as “incompetent”, for example).
It seems that Cummings married a lady of the North Country gentry who is or was Deputy Editor of the Spectator. They live in Islington, in what the Daily Mail is pleased to call a “£1.6 million house” (though in London, what does that mean? I lived for years in a house in Little Venice now (over)valued at £4 million! Madness). Other details about Cummings are few.
“What is clear is that this character is right now in the maelstrom of chaos and action that he loves so much. A defender quipped that he’ll be thrilled with upheaval – it’s the only way he sees people being forced into action. His friend once heard him quote Lenin: “The worse the better.” [Reaction magazine]
The Prophets of Dystopia
These “advisers” (of whom I have selected a mere few from a larger pool) and their connected “think tanks” etc are, even when some of their critique of society is justified, basically destructive. The same applies to the people themselves. Admittedly, Brendan Bracken left a less obviously destructive legacy, but then, after the huge and unnecessary war which he, from the shadows, did so much to bring about, what more need he do to be adjudged a negative force?
Look at Steve Hilton, Dominic Cummings etc. Where are their real achievements? Leaves blown away by the wind. These people may themselves have acquired riches, but only or mainly because they married wealthy wives, then used their own political attachment and profile to become highly-prized TV, radio, press and online “gurus” . They themselves have not established anything solid, whether in commerce, industry, academia, the arts, the sciences, charitable work or anywhere else. They are creatures created from the chaos and decadence in society. They prosper from the decadence and weakness of the political system in the UK and attach themselves to stupid, weak, posturing politicians vainly trying to reach to statesmanship, people such as David Cameron-Levita and Boris-Idiot. They are a symptom of dark days ahead. Social nationalism must rise up to exterminate evil and to found a better and better-organized society.
Is it fanciful to compare the sliding society we now have (look at the past few days…) and the prominence of these odd characters such as Hilton and Cummings, whose academic and patchy work histories are at best underwhelming, with the sliding Russia of the last few years before the Revolution(s) of 1917? Perhaps, but in late-Tsarist Russia too the government, civil service, certainly the politicians, were paralyzed, helpless to do anything positive, and so the influence grew of odd characters: tarot practitioners, mystics and occultists, fortune-tellers of all kinds, persons believed to have arcane knowledge and unorthodox ways to make politics work via persuasion and peculiar ideas and methods. The starets (he was never a monk or priest) Rasputin was only the most important of a whole host.
In fact, I agree with some of what Cummings has said:
“We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree...” That is true, though I have nothing against degrees in the humanities, but the whole idea of the “generalist” (almost always armed with a degree from Oxford or Cambridge) has blighted UK political, cultural and even industrial life for 70 years, perhaps 100 years. The Soviet Union tended toward the same behaviour (the politically-OK “Man From Moscow” who could “direct” anything from a tyre factory to a Young Pioneer camp or the building of the Moscow Metro), and look what happened there (the Metro in Moscow admittedly being a —rare— success of the Soviet system).
Of course, the worst single example of the generalist might be Cummings’ present employer, Boris-idiot, who has proven that he is incapable of doing anything properly, but who can do it while quoting a bit of rote-learned Ancient Greek, or using an English word no-one else has ever heard of (he must trawl the OED for those silly words, I expect…what a complete waste of space he is!). As the journalist writes,
“All evidence goes out the window. The grandest ever Oxbridge egomaniac of them all (with not even a very good humanities degree, as it happens) is seeing only the flickering shadows on the news on the wall. It is not even day 14 and already we have beaten a hyper-accelerated march to the world of crap policy for political gain.“
The journalist continues, citing a recent Times article by Cummings:
“Elsewhere, in that same Times article, we read: “We must train aspirant leaders very differently so they have the skills and experience of managing complex projects.””
“And here he is, bringing in policies that would make Norman Tebbit look enlightened, working for a leader whose skill at “managing complex projects” so far extends to some rolling windowless sauna buses, a cable car to nowhere, and a ghost garden bridge that may or may not take you to a demented airport that has never and will never be built.“
Seems that my blog was (again) prescient, if I say so myself: not a day or even part of a day goes by now without someone publishing something in the newspapers about Dominic Cummings (though Steve “Hilton” is old news and Brendan Bracken ancient history).
'Sources close to the prime minister tell me that he cried when he heard the news' – fascinating @jennirsl insight into the moment Boris Johnson heard his brother was resigning in the national interest https://t.co/LUNDmcPJeR
“Through his system, as yet unexplained – “I will go into what I think this vision could be and how to do it another day” – he will turn a nation of average people into one of the most successful countries in the world. He will sweep away the suffocating postwar mainframes of politics, and build something capable of withstanding the unknown crises ahead. Or so he would wish. In truth, he may be little more than a survivalist in the woods, soldering wires together in the belief he is saving us all.
Is Dominic Cummings a visionary or a fool? The remarkable fact is that the Conservative Party has risked its future, and the country’s, on which one Cummings turns out to be.” [Harry Lambert, writing in The New Statesman]
Dominic Cummings dresses down (even more) in Downing Street on the day of the Saturday sitting of the Commons (today). Not sure whether the bimbo is Boris Johnson’s girlfriend or a lookalike.
All he lacks is a few copies of The Big Issue and a plastic cup for tips. Oh, no, wait, he’s holding the cup…
[Update, 28 March 2026: Well, I have now identified the young woman seen with Cummings in that photo. Not Carrie Johnson (as she now is), but Cleo Watson, a government Special Adviser (SpAd) at the time of the photo; she is from an affluent background in Herefordshire, has written 2 novels of the romans-a-clef type, and is now around 35 years of age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Watson.]
Update, 3 November 2019
I very much doubt that Dominic Cummings works or worked for Russian Intelligence…au contraire.
September the 9th, 2018. 79 years and 8 days since the famous German attack on the Polish radio station at then Gleiwitz; 79 years and 6 days since Britain (and so the entire British Empire) and France declared war on Germany; about 78 and a bit years since the German defeat of France, since the British retreat from Dunkirk; 78 years since the air Battle of Britain.
What weakens the usual System-history narrative about the history of those times is the a priori assumption or, if you like, a Grundnorm [basic underlying concept or belief, often unquestioned or deliberately made impossible to question], that the declaration of war by Britain and France was unquestionably both “the right thing to do” and unavoidable.
The typical, conventional System view, as displayed above, is of course grounded on an even deeper-held belief or Grundnorm, that is that the German government of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP was so evil that it had to be destroyed. That view (at the time and really until the 1970s at least –talking about British attitudes–) was based on the opinion that Germany was again trying, for the second or third time in memory, and as a continental power, to take over mainland Europe. More recently, the more Jewish-influenced attitude has held sway, because of the Jewish control or veto over the worlds of publishing, academia, politics, msm etc in the West: that Germany had to be confronted and defeated because of its policy re. Jews.
The whole “Germany had to be defeated because of the ‘holocaust'” nonsense is of quite recent date. Not often (i.e. never) mentioned to the brainwashed masses or to their equally brainwashed offspring in British schools, is the fact that not one of the world leaders or the most important military leaders (e.g. Churchill) made any mention of “extermination programmes” or “gas chambers” in their spoken remarks or post-war written memoirs. The Jewish-Zionist element has taken control of the historical narrative and completely twisted it. That is why “they” hate any historical revisionism. They present a weight of mutually-quoting fakery as if it were a weight of evidence. In any case, even the Zionist propagandists do not claim any German “extermination plan” or programme for the Jews until 1941.
Returning to war and peace in 1939-40, we see that the big picture shows a world far more than today split between European empires. The British Empire ruled between a quarter and a third of the world. Most of the rest (leaving aside the Soviet Union, the USA and China) was ruled by other Europeans: empires of the French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Belgians. The depredations of the early imperial days had begun to give way to the idea of stewardship. The native peoples were beginning to be looked after, the wildlife the same. All that (which became so positive in the 1950s) was ruined by the Second World War and its aftermath. Decolonization, globalist finance-capitalism etc have been disastrous for the peoples and environment of Africa, South America, Asia.
In Europe too, we see how disastrous was the decision to go to war in 1939. Immense destruction, huge loss of life (some estimates say 80 million), cruelties, hardship etc. Also massive economic dislocation.
We often hear half-baked nonsense about how “the war” stimulated inventions and technological progress. Most of this is either not true or is at best half-true. In both Europe and USA, huge strides were being made in the 1930s. What the war did was to change priorities: planes built for speed rather than comfort, housing built on a utilitarian rather than an aesthetic basis etc.
In the UK, much nonsense is talked about the Welfare State in this regard. In fact, social housing (which had existed in limited forms for centuries) was being created on quite a large scale in the UK of the 1930s, particularly in and around London. As for the NHS etc, that was already being prepared in studies etc, though the war may have concentrated minds and so on.
The Phoney War
The Phoney War, also called the Bore War and (in Germany) Sitzkrieg, lasted from September 1939 to April 1940. At that point, few people, even in the armed services of either side (meaning UK/Germany) had been killed. Any bitterness or venom (mainly on the British side and stirred up by relentless propaganda) was small compared to what existed later. There could, after Dunkirk, have been an honourable peace, an armistice. Germany could then have turned its full attention to destroying Stalin’s regime the following year. The Russian people would eventually have come to a concordat with the German Reich. Only the Jewish commissars etc would ultimately have lost out.
Conclusion
Britain lost out hugely by going along with Churchill’s ridiculous adventurism. Terrible loss and turmoil during the years of war, 10 years of “austerity” after the war ended. The perceived “need” (in fact a conspiracy) to import blacks and browns in the 1950s and thereafter in order to make up for those killed and injured in that wholly unnecessary war. Slow poisoning of the folk.
Britain and France declared war on Germany, ostensibly, to protect the independence of Poland. It never happened. Poland was split between the German Reich and the Soviet Union at first, later taken entirely by the Reich, then later still taken entirely by the Soviet Union. Instead of one or two weeks of war, Poland was strafed by 6 years of it. Only since 1989 has Poland regained anything like full political sovereignty. When I myself visited Poland on several occasions in the late 1980s, one still met older Poles who might mention those worthless guarantees of 1939.
Had an honourable peace been found in 1939 or 1940, the British Empire would have wound down more gradually, as would the other European empires. There would not have been so much war and misery across the world, the American cultural death-impulse would not have been so powerful and destructive; also, the environment would not have suffered anything like as badly. Above all, Europe would be fully European and have a fully-European future.
Ian Robert Millard 