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Diary Blog, 6 February 2026

Afternoon music

[river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

Tweets seen

[“I have a Mandelson anecdote from the time when we both attended the University of Oxford.

The college captain of rugby (Welsh) returned from training to find Mandelson and his crowd of self-declared Marxist-Leninist friends having a tea party (ironic or what?) on the second quad lawn of our college.

He asked Mandelson if they needed more water. He replied that they did.

Our rugby captain went and unreeled a high-powered fire hose and doused them.

Mandelson and his chums threatened unconvincingly from a safe distance to ‘do him’.“]

Incredible. “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow“…

[“In 1962, a 37-year-old man from England named Brendon Grimshaw suddenly quit his job and bought a small island in the Seychelles for about $10,000. The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years. Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant. While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism. For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island. Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down. Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts. Photos that will restore your faith in humanity: https://bit.ly/3ILWYi4.“]

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

“The power of one”…

Deborah Meaden, like most of those smug Dragon’s Den speculators and merchants, thinks she is so very clever…

White slavery?

A great deal of transnational crime, from massive fraud to sex crime, to organ harvesting and blood harvesting, is based in Israel.

Exactly. I have been blogging for years that, were the UK to leave NATO and form a loose but close relationship with the Russian Federation, British people would be sold Russian gas at or below cost.

The Kiev regime is, however, losing steadily on the ground, and across the entire front.

The Zelensky regime continues to poke the Bear.,..

Odessa should either become a “free city”, or should be ruled by a condominium arrangement.

[stormy skies over the Black Sea at Odessa]

[“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the situation in Iran:

“We created a dollar shortage in the country. This led to a quick result.

I would say the culmination came in December, when one of Iran’s largest banks collapsed after a mass withdrawal of deposits. The central bank was forced to print money.

The Iranian currency plummeted, inflation soared, and as a result, we witnessed massive protests by the Iranian people on the streets.“]

“War without war”, as Sun Tzu either said or might have said.

The [Israeli] Jews think that (using American money and arms etc) they control, or at least restrain, Egypt. I wonder. I got the impression, in 1998, when I was “not arrested” in Egypt, that the Egyptians would rather like to defeat Israel, if that were possible.

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Maybe Mandelson should book another 4 tickets for his widely-expected fugitive flight to Israel— tickets for Starmer-stein, his Jewish wife, and their 2 children.

Gorton and Denton by-election

My own views about the likely result of the Gorton and Denton by-election have not changed from a day or two ago. Reform seem to be in pole position, and Labour very much on the back foot (every day more scandal), but the Green Party may also be getting not only their own former (2024) voters’ votes (about 13% in 2024) but also votes from both disenchanted English/British former Labour voters and from equally disenchanted Pakistani (etc) Muslim former Labour voters.

That triad of support for the Greens may add up to something formidable, though my money is, I think, still on Reform to win this. For Labour to win would take a minor miracle, the way things are, despite Labour’s 50.8% vote at GE 2024, and despite the history of the area.

Mark Hehir

I am still following the progress of the GoFundMe crowdfunder set up for the “hero bus driver”, Mark Hehir, who was so badly treated by his former employer, Metroline. At time of writing, the crowdfunder stands at not far below £42,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.

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Many well-meaning but fatally-naive people still have a sadly-ingrained respect or deference to anyone in a position such as MP, Cabinet minister, certainly Prime Minister (or “royal prince”…). Unfortunately, the past 16+ years have shown that many, perhaps most, are clowns and/or freeloaders and moneygrubbers. Many, also, are little better, if at all, than Israeli agents and/or puppets of the Jewish lobby in the UK.

A victory for Reform (or even for the Greens) would knock Starmer-stein totally off his perch. I doubt that he would resign, though; he is the kind of box-ticking careerist who will cling on to his job even as people are stamping on his fingers. I think he would have to be dismissed by his own MPs.

[“Labour MPs, ministers and party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry, as over Peter Mandelson’s lies about extent of his Epstein links.

But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this weekend. Where that ends up, who knows.“]

So tweets Guardian scribbler Pippa Crerar. Starmer “a man of public service“? Ha ha. A careerist box-ticker. Also, how is it that the Political Editor of the Guardian cannot spell the word “conscience”? Or was that a Freudian slip?

Israel-puppet Luke Akehurst, desperate for Israel-puppet Starmer-stein and Zionist agent Morgan McSweeney to stay en poste. Hardly surprising.

Treacherous enemies of the British people.

Not so much a “cult” as a conspiracy. Either organized by MOSSAD or by some other political intelligence agency; an operation run out of Israel.

More news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons

“A Labour minister commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.

The research was ordered and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was chair of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian.

Simons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who had previously run Labour Together and whose own role in the operation to gather material on journalists is under scrutiny.

In an agreement addressed to Simons, drawn up by the PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the group.“

[Guardian]

“Josh Simons“: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Simons. Half-Jew, and whose wife is American, probably Jewish, maybe even a US/UK/Israel triple passport-holder.

“Simons has cited “persistent failure” to tackle antisemitism for his resignation from Corbyn’s office.[4][5] He later contributed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission‘s investigation into Labour antisemitism.”

[Wikipedia]

There is every chance that Simons will lose his Makerfield seat at the next general election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Might fly with the electorate. Senior officer (Colonel, but was due for promotion to Brigadier prior to being MP) but still youngish (44; will be 45 in March 2026); MC and DSO; saw action repeatedly in Afghanistan; untainted (so far) by any scandal.

Enlisted, but was commissioned only 3 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns.

Whether that ex-officer’s election as Labour leader would be an electoral gamechanger, hard to say, but it would be far more popular than having Angela Rayner or Wes Streeting, let alone expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, taking over.

Usually, ex-officers are not much good, politically, but who knows, this one might be an exception. It might not save Labour, but might mitigate the damage.

That MP , a traditional Labour MP-type, has little to lose, his GE 2024 majority having been a mere 18 votes, and his win at Poole having been a fluke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Duncan-Jordan really has no chance of re-election, and is about 60 or so, so is free to be honest…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Duncan-Jordan

Morgan McSweeney is, at very least, an agent of influence controlled by Israel. He may even be a MOSSAD agent, simpliciter. £30,000 just to investigate a few journalists? Where did the money come from? Probably Israel itself, either directly or via cut-outs, rich Jews resident in the UK, a “fifth column” in our society.

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NWO/ZOG drone, William Hague, now, apparently, thinks that British people should not be allowed to express views, or discuss anything on social media. Presumably, the little bastard thinks that people should stay (locked-down?) in their houses, watching and listening compliantly to the sort of System propaganda (complete with rigged “discussion”) churned out by rubbish shows such as BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, or BBC Question Time.

Also, what is a “healthy democratic system“?

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Migration invasion news

The Home Office is claiming that 60,000 individuals have either been deported, or have left voluntarily, since Labour came to office in 2024. Perhaps, but in that same time period about 1.5 million immigrants have entered the country, mostly “legally”. Even the small boat invaders have numbered about 100,000, maybe more.

Late tweets seen

“Shalom, Starmer and McSweeney— your time is up…“

Late music

Diary Blog, 25 October 2025, including thoughts on Gaza, and the lessons of the Caerphilly by-election

Morning music

[Clare Bridge over the River Cam at Cambridge]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 5/10, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 4, 6, 7, and 10. I should have also got question 8, but did not, and question 2 has, in my view, at least three possible answers. Still, there it is.

Talking point

I was just looking at a cartoon, and comment, that I posted on 14 October 2020, so just over 5 years ago.

This was the cartoon:

and this was the comment:

“Keir Starmer, who has inherited the leadership of a once semi-socialist (then social-democratic) party which is now just a bad joke. Keir Starmer, freemason and Labour Friends of Israel member, who seems (slightly to my surprise) to be utterly clueless…“

[ianrmillard.org blog]

Was I wrong? I think not.

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The [Israeli] Jews have done that over a period of 2 years (supported by their “fifth column” in the UK and USA and elsewhere), and have killed or badly wounded —over 69,000 actually killed so far— about a quarter of a million Gazan Arab people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children. Why? Because Hamas operatives invaded Israeli territory (i.e. land stolen or seized from 1948) on one day in 2023, resulting in the deaths of (or injury to) between 500 and 1,500 Jews (many of them, though, were killed by the Israeli war machine itself, and many of them were uniformed or other military and police personnel).

Look at the huge disproportion. This goes well beyond, hugely beyond, any talk of “a pound of flesh” etc. The ratio of disproportion is somewhere around 250 to 1. Also, the time disproportion— one day as against over two years, a ratio of about 750 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war#Children

When the “postponed” elections in parts of England are held, both Lab and Con are going to be stamped into the ground, where they belong.

As I blogged yesterday, the “Labour” vote at Caerphilly was less than a quarter of what it had been at the previous election; the “Conservative” vote was about one-eighth of what it had previously been.

Apply that to English Westminster constituencies.

To believe, as a few msm commentators seem to believe (e.g. Dan Hodges) that one or both System parties can somehow suddenly become (even superficially) “credible” now, is clutching at straws. The same goes for the idea that Reform UK support has “plateaued“.

Well maybe, maybe not, but even if it has, that level is still between 25% and 36% (its best so far, only a week ago), and that is enough, even if Reform and the Lab/Con parties all get 25% each (and at present Lab and Con are both below 20%), to give Reform a plurality of Commons seats (around 215), though not a majority.

Indeed, were Reform to “plateau” at 30%, with Lab and Con on 20% each, Reform would get about 384 seats (a very good majority), Lab about 94, and the Cons around 40 (the Cons just below both the LibDems and the SNP).

As Macmillan said, “events, dear boy, events!” Continuing migration invasion on a vast scale (hundreds, even thousands, daily, and they are just the illegals…); housing crisis (one consequence of mass immigration). Also, sliding standards in almost all areas of society, and a whole list of other issues.

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Jess Phillips has not the brain to head or chair anything at all. Just a freeloading, expenses-blodging know-nothing loudmouth who, in a better society, would be harvesting Brussels sprouts, or stacking shelves.

My assessment of Jess Phillips from 2019, with updates dating to earlier this year:

The most important story of the year?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-developing-their-own-survival-drive-researchers-say

“...an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”.

…leading AI models – including Google’s Gemini 2.5, xAI’s Grok 4, and OpenAI’s GPT-o3 and GPT-5 – were given a task, but afterwards given explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.

“The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal,” it said.

“Survival behavior” could be one explanation for why models resist shutdown, said the company. Its additional work indicated that models were more likely to resist being shut down when they were told that, if they were, “you will never run again”.

Andrea Miotti, the chief executive of ControlAI, said Palisade’s findings represented a long-running trend in AI models growing more capable of disobeying their developers. He cited the system card for OpenAI’s GPT-o1, released last year, which described the model trying to escape its environment by exfiltrating itself when it thought it would be overwritten.

This summer, Anthropic, a leading AI firm, released a study indicating that its model Claude appeared willing to blackmail a fictional executive over an extramarital affair in order to prevent being shut down – a behaviour, it said, that was consistent across models from major developers, including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta and xAI.“

[Guardian]

That should be major news.

Late tweets

I was onto this, on the blog, some 7 years ago:

Translates to a Commons with about 382 Reform MPs, 95 Lab MPs, 56 LibDems, 45 SNP, 23 Cons, 12 Greens [etc].

A very solid Reform majority.

My assessment(s) from several years ago; 2019:

and

Now stop pandering to the Jewish/Israel lobby and, in particular, the malicious liars and perjurers of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”— “Slitherman”, Falter etc.