If I say so myself, that blog post from a year ago has held up rather well.
Tweets seen
I mean, you all know you're being played every time, say, a weapons manufacturer bankrolls a gay pride rally, but full marks to The Times for allowing the Emperor to display his new clothes with such humiliating irony.
Hence all the terror in 2016. When they all suddenly remembered it's not quite fully buttoned-down, just yet. We still have democracy.
— Adam Hibbert, SDP PPC Sevenoaks (@adhib) April 2, 2022
(Oh, that last tweeter is referring to the “Brexit” referendum, which has been circumvented: EU immigration has dropped back, but has been replaced by the importation of even-greater numbers of blacks and browns. Cheap EU labour is no more (in the UK), but huge numbers of black/brown illegals are now working for below minimum wage. Etc. I do not agree with his view that “we” do have “democracy“, in any real sense).
Sooner or later, reality has to break through, and will break through, this miasma of socio-political fakery. The whole “caring sharing” pseudo-liberal cloud of corporate and central government/local authority c**p and bs.
Look at that moneygrubbing fake in the photo, with his secondhand, “me too” virtue-signalling, and his “hey, guys, just off to the Student Bar” dress-down.
Meanwhile, the bastard sacks useful skilled workers in order to get more money for himself and (other) shareholders.
[Update, 5 August 2025: the bastard apparently now drags down about £9 MILLION a year and more, and yet is still hypocritically virtue-signalling about it…: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_O%27Shea].
Our fake “democracy” now stands helpless before the money power. Only a real politics, preferably some contemporary —and probably non-uniformed— variant of the historical National Socialism (which proved to be generally far better than old-style Marxist-Leninist socialism/”communism”) can deal with such elements and the problems they personify.
We see unreality everywhere, and often there is evil hidden within it. “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, all the anti-British Empire stuff, the Covid “panicdemic”, the “anti-racism” nonsense, “anti-sexism” nonsense, “trans” nonsense and the rest.
The System msm drones will not even report that, because it does not easily fit inside their anti-white agenda.
Orbán is a dictator who manages to unfairly get 2/3rds of the vote by doing what people want. He must be stopped. https://t.co/uN2AbRKhNO
— Climate Warrior🐬 #ClimateJustice🇵🇸#BDS⚧️ 🌈🇺🇦 (@ClimateWarrior7) April 4, 2022
During 23 years of their governments these three have invaded 9 sovereign countries, killed 11 million people and NO ONE calls them WAR CRIMINALS … and yes … they "export" democracy. pic.twitter.com/ZDlfoRwmvv
Last Friday Zelensky spoke of consequences for any civilian found to have been collaborating with the Russians. Any surprise that there have been so many dead civilians with white armbands (which indicates support for Russia) being found in Kiev suburbs days after Azov retook it? pic.twitter.com/73jZu68wz0
Russia’s top priority, I would have thought, would have been to eliminate Zelensky from the start. Now, he may be too well-guarded and/or camouflaged.
Today in 1940 Stalin & Beria (see below) started the murder of 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights & the chief executioner wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. As we absorb todays Russian killings of Ukraine civilians, it’s hard not to think of the past… pic.twitter.com/9bncjYaN9B
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) April 3, 2022
Simon Sebag Montefiore neglects to mention that the Soviet Union’s propagandists did a pretty efficient job of falsely blaming the forces of the German Reich for the Katyn massacre. As late as the 1970s, there were still many (in the UK) who preferred to believe that Germans were responsible.
I remember that, when I was at school in the early 1970s, there was a British documentary, maybe from BBC Panorama, about Katyn, which still failed to place the blame where it by then obviously lay, with Soviet persons. In fact, I remember a rather silly boy in my class, one Jones, who had acquired the affectation of being simultaneously (semi-)anarchist and (semi-)communist, cursing the “fascists” (meaning, inaccurately, German National Socialists) for the Katyn massacre, after the subject came up in discussion.
I suppose that that implausible mixture of (pseudo) “communist” and “anarchist” was not infrequently found in schools of that type and at that time. See, for example, the film If [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If….]:
Of course, Montefiore’s mention of Katyn does beg the question. Have the Russian forces killed “innocent civilians” in Ukraine, or have the Ukrainian/Kiev-regime forces killed those seen as “traitors”, or have both sides been killing civilians? I do not know.
MPs claiming costs for their own homes can claim expenses of up to £5,480 a year for utility bills, council tax, service charges, phone lines and internet connections.
A few minutes of J.S. Bach to welcome in the New Year and the new decade.
That music always makes me smile. When I did a couple of days of parachute training in deepest Wiltshire in 1978, that piece was used as the soundtrack to a short film showing a stick of men and women exiting a plane in a string and then freefalling, eventually joining up to create a star-shape. Quite something.
Not quite what they imagine…
I don’t particularly like Kasparov, but of course he is (mostly) right here:
It's nice they have opinions about communism now, because once you're living in it you don't get to have an opinion about it anymore. https://t.co/YjFFwFxSFj
Having said that, most UK “millennials” have a pathetically-low level of political and historical knowledge anyway. They have been filled at school with ahistorical semi-fantasy such as the supposed evils of National Socialist Germany (complete with “gas chambers” that never existed and of which there is no credible evidence). The Soviet Union? GULAG “archipelago”? The purges and other killings which characterized Sovietism from 1917 right up to, say, 1956 (some would say the 1980s)? The “millennials” know little or nothing about that.
The (or those particular) “millennials” seem to have a fantasy-politics idea about “Communism” (and by that do they mean “socialism” as practised in the various states espousing it since 1917, or do they mean the Marxist end-game “Communism”, with the State “withering away” etc? Hard to say, and we are not told).
I suggest that they read GULAG Archipelago, Under Two Dictators, Into the Whirlwind, The World I Left Behind etc. Of course, few will…
There is another point here. Since, mainly, the early Blair years, freedom of expression has become conspicuous by its absence in the UK. Look at the cases of Jez Turner, imprisoned (and for a year —in reality, 6 months— at that) merely for saying in a rather humorous speech that Jews should be expelled (for the second or third time) from England;
or Alison Chabloz, prosecuted and actually convicted (it’s a bad joke…) for singing some funny songs about Jews, “holocaust” hoaxes and similar fakery.
Then look at this! An unfortunate fellow actually charged, prosecuted and convicted of “incitement” for making what seem to have been (judging from the newspaper report) fairly unexceptionable remarks on Facebook and Twitter:
That unfortunate victim of political “justice” was sentenced, incredibly, to TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT by a judge who admitted that the sentence was meant to “deter others” (from making socio-political statements of an anti-multikulti and radical nature). Pure political theatre on behalf of the Devon & Cornwall Police (who evidently have too much time on their hands), the CPS and the Court. Save perhaps for the sentence, this could have been a “troika” of the NKVD in 1937, a “show trial” of the same period, or indeed a session of the “People’s Court” in 1944 Germany.
Another political prisoner in the UK.
RIP, free speech…
Or look at me, come to that: disbarred (albeit years after I gave up Bar practice, so be it) merely for having tweeted, as a private citizen, 5 particular tweets (out of at least 150,000 tweeted), e.g. tweeting that Michael Gove is a pro-Jew, pro-Israel, expenses cheat. All of which was true! He was. He is (except that Parliament has made it harder to commit fraud since 2010). He is also, as we now know, a “former” cocaine abuser (I think that the bastard is still using, in fact, looking at him):
Let us be clear here: the Jewish-Zionist lobby was behind both of my encounters with “authority” detailed above. Collusion between that lobby and others (probably all freemasons) and also, in the Essex case, the police.
Freedom of expression has already been severely restricted in the UK, an outcome of both the post-1997 extension of power by the Jewish lobby, and also the increasingly “diverse” nature of the UK. A “diverse” society is either a shambles or a dictatorship, or both.
Freedom of expression is arguably the most important issue in the UK at present.
Obituary
I just read, 6 months late, this obituary of the scribbler and historian Norman Stone, whom I recall reading (though probably only in The Spectator) 20-30 years ago. The obit is a good read; also quite surprising!
Watched a University Challenge featuring alumni teams from Wadham College, Oxford and Trinity, Cambridge, including the journalist Anne McElvoy (who usually appears as a talking head on politics shows, looking terribly pleased with herself), the Jew scribbler Jonathan Freedland (Guardian columnist) and other writers, academics etc.
I got more questions right than than both teams put together, possibly because the questions were easier than usual and/or because there was a paucity of detailed scientific/technical/mathematical questions. I see that I was not alone:
When the Jewish-Zionist “claque” on Twitter had me expelled (mid-2018), I had about 3,000 “followers”. I never had huge illusion about the “influence” Twitter gives. Very little, really. For many, it is not an adjunct to doing something, but a substitute for it. Slacktivism.
We see that thousands inveigh against evil bastard Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Esther McVey etc. What has happened to them? Nothing. Now we see that the British Government has become a repressive ZOG regime under Boris Johnson, a part-Jew public entertainer who is the most egregious political con-man since Horatio Bottomley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Bottomley], and that is even counting Nigel Farage and Robert “Maxwell”. Thousands take to Twitter to denounce Boris-idiot and his Cabinet of “Israel First”-ers. What happens to Boris? To Priti Patel? To Sajid Javid? Nothing.
The fact is that, though it has its educative uses, Twitter, from a political viewpoint, is mainly a waste of time, a distraction, and a diversion.
Labour leadership
YouGov polling:
Labour party membership, first preference for leader:
K. Starmer: 31% R. Long Bailey: 20% J. Phillips: 11% Y. Cooper: 7% C. Lewis: 7% E. Thornberry: 6% L. Nandy: 5%
After all other candidates have been eliminated, and votes re-allocated Keir Starmer has 22 point poll lead over Rebecca Long-Bailey in the final round pic.twitter.com/sec5nu89RT
Leaving aside my own preferences, I should say that, objectively, there are four solid candidates: Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy. The other three are just a joke.
Of the four real candidates, I despise Yvette Cooper because she
was a proven expenses cheat, along with her husband Ed Balls;
is a “refugees welcome” idiot and also hypocrite, who falsely claimed that she would put up “refugees” (migrant-invaders) in her own home (not that I would like her any the more if she actually did so);
is completely in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist element;
is a would-be dictator (among other flaws an enemy of freedom of expression).
As to Keir Starmer, yes, in a sense he could be termed a solid candidate, in that he:
looks the part;
has a solid background in law and government;
was born on the same same day of the year, 2 September, as me —though in 1962, not 1956— (only joking, though I was born on 2 September).
What are Starmer’s views on free speech? I do not know, though he has written a book partly about that. I saw this tweet, which is not encouraging…
We stand together with all of our Jewish residents and our whole community in saying these cowardly pedlars of hate do not represent Camden and our values.
Overall? I cannot see Keir Starmer energizing the voters. Rather a dull fellow. If he becomes Labour leader, which seems quite likely, I imagine that Labour will improve slightly in the opinion polls, that the Jew-Zionist element in the msm etc will not give Labour such a hard ride, and that Labour will then lose the next general election gracefully…
What about Rebecca Long-Bailey?
For me, she is the best overall candidate, but only out of a poor bunch. She at least has (a few) ideas and some commitment to positive change, and is not entirely a System/Establishment stooge:
There are many lessons to learn from our defeat, but we must not return to the politics of the past.
We need a bold agenda that returns wealth and power to the people and delivers pride in our communities.https://t.co/K7A4JmM3aF
has seen some of the less privileged aspects of UK life (though she herself worked as a solicitor for years, in the property field, inter alia);
does at least seem to want a better society (well, it’s a start; many Conservative and Labour MPs do not even make it that far!)
As against that, Rebecca Long-Bailey
was caught out lying about watching her father worry about losing his job, then doing so (in fact, those events happened when she was 2 years old!), which was not only untrue, but a rather stupid claim (because easily disproven);
seems to be (?) not opposed to mass immigration (migration-invasion);
seems a humourless type, a possible or would-be dictator (cf. Yvette Cooper).
I am not sure whether she would stand up to the Jew-Zionist element. Probably not.
I cannot see Rebecca Long-Bailey attracting huge numbers of voters, but you never know. It may be that younger voters might favour her.
Lisa Nandy
fairly presentable;
a System politician through and through;
pro-immigration;
looks like a throwback to the Blair-Brown years.
Not likely to inspire many voters to vote Labour.
So there they are, “the candidates”. Labour looks like continuing its downward spiral, but the younger voters favour Labour at present and I cannot see most of the dispossessed young morphing into Conservative voters, even as they age, so the Labour Party may still have life in it in the medium term (meaning the next few years).
I had no intention of writing about Cuba or Castro following the recent death of “Fidel”. However, the public and mass media reaction, much of it an outpouring of adulation and “me-too” faux-liberal compromise, has impelled me to write.
There is no doubt that Cuba before Castro was corrupt and, for many, poor. Before Castro there was Batista and before Batista, Prio (Carlos Prio Socarras), of whom the British historian Hugh Thomas wrote, memorably, in his mammoth history of the country, that he “fell like a rotten fruit, full of its own corruption.” Prío himself later said of his presidency: “They say that I was a terrible president of Cuba. That may be true. But I was the best president Cuba ever had.”[see Arthur M. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. New York: Houghton Mifflin (2002) p 216].
Prio was in fact someone who tried to keep to constitutional proprieties and it was his decision not to act extra-judicially which allowed the harsher figure of Batista to seize power in 1952, Prio himself having been elected (by free and contested election) in 1948.
Cuba in the 1950s was sometimes described as somewhere between a Latin American country and a detached, poorer, part of the United States, the latter for long its effective suzerain.
It would be easier to make a quick judgment of Castro’s rule had the United States not (and typically) engaged in ham-fisted great-power and quasi-colonialist geopolitics over the island. Those American interventions continue to muddy the waters: attempts to assassinate Castro, the Bay of Pigs “invasion” of 1961; above all, the partial embargo (which Cuba called a “blockade”) imposed initially in 1960.
No-one can say for sure whether Cuba would be much different had it had the chance to trade freely with the USA, its neighbour and natural main trading partner. Probably not much. Venezuela is another and more recent example of the inability of a Latin American socialist economy to perform adequately for long.
The bien-pensant “usual suspects” in the UK (the absurd Tariq Ali, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn etc) are now saying that the Castro dictatorship was sort-of acceptable because Cuba had good education and good medical services. On that basis, they should be very kind indeed to German National Socialism, which provided the same and in fact far more (and with far less repression, in reality).
In fact, long before the Soviet subsidy disappeared, Havana was falling to pieces, as were the Cuban roads and railways. I myself had fleeting and peripheral contact with Cuba, otherwise seen by me only from the sea (between Cuba and the Bahamas) and the air (flying over Cuba between Tampa, Florida and Grand Cayman).
I was asked, when a practising barrister in London circa 1995, to help a scientific start-up based at Porton Down, Wiltshire, the high-security biological warfare facility, then recently partly-privatized. A small company of scientists had a bacterium which turned biomass into fuel (unscientific me calling it the turning of straw into gold). I thought of Cuba with its sugar-cane detritus, lack of fuel and high technical-education levels. Unfortunately, the Cuban Embassy in London did not respond, unlike the Ukrainian: I visited Porton Down with the then Ukrainian Ambassador, Mr. Komisarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko]. Nothing came of that in the end, but it seems that, in more recent years, a company called Havana Energy, headed by ex-Labour Party MP Brian Wilson, has been producing energy that way in Cuba. The Cuban Embassy’s unresponsiveness told me all I needed to know about the Cuban bureaucracy: unalert, lethargic, useless, bearing in mind the country’s crying need for fuel.
Since the early 1990s, Cuba has gradually been moving towards a capitalist economy. No doubt that process will continue. Eventually, some kind of greater rapprochement with the USA will happen.
In this blog post, I am more interested in the puerile reaction of the kind of people in the UK who are letting off Castro on human rights and economic efficiency because Cubans have a health service and a school system. Jeremy Corbyn has excelled himself in ignorant misunderstanding. He just digs himself deeper with every statement.
The mass media and in particular the BBC is, as one might expect, doing its bit to eulogize about Castro, saying that he “turned a small island into a major force in world affairs.” Where does one start in unpacking such nonsense?
The reaction to Castro’s death tells me something else: those in the UK who think themselves “socialist” are willing to turn a blind eye to historical, political and economic realities so long as the label is right.
Ian Robert Millard 