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Diary Blog, New Year’s Day 2026

On the first day of 2026, Happy New Year to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.

В первый день 2026 года, поздравляем всех доброжелательных читателей блога с Новым годом!

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Russian village life

Quite a pleasant little vlog.

It occurs to me yet again how incredibly useful is the Internet in linking people around the world, in this case linking a young couple in the deep obscurity of the Russian countryside with people in the UK, USA etc.

It may also be that, with 165,000 (albeit unpaid) subscribers on YouTube, the lady posting may be able to derive a modest income from the channel. (nb: since writing that last, a few hours ago, I have discovered that YouTube has cut off all income to Russia-based YouTube channels).

Tweets seen

Those who live will see“…

How can any of that be denied?

[Gaza 2025]

Ha. I bought a copy not long ago for £1 from a Tesco supermarket charity bookshelf. Interesting read.

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Absolutely incredible.

“Do you think your country could pull this off?

—you must be joking (sadly).

(cf. HS2…).

https://tass.com/defense/2067597

[“MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army carried out a drone attack on a cafe and a hotel in the village of Khorly in the Kherson Region, where civilians were celebrating the New Year, Governor Vladimir Saldo said.

According to preliminary reports, over 24 people, including a child, were killed, and another 29 people, among them five kids, suffered injuries.”]

[TASS]

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/world-news/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-killing-24-in-new-year-drone-strike/

Will the UK msm be reporting that? Why not? Because it does not fit the 100%-biased, one-sided pro-Kiev-regime narrative they prefer to pump out?

Ambassador of Israel for the Gaza holocaust…

For once, I commend Morgan.

Good grief. What will this world look like in 50 years’ time?

Looks as if, maybe, Russia is building up Iran so that American attention (and aid) is diverted away from the Kiev regime. After all, those planes may be carrying nuclear technology, fissile material, or even…nothing at all.

Christmas University Challenge and Celebrity Mastermind

Watched another Christmas University Challenge match between teams of alumni now in prominent positions. Incredible ignorance. Same goes for the (supposed) “celebrities” on Celebrity Mastermind. Depressingly poor standard.

Late tweets seen

Zelensky and his cabal should have been eliminated on the first day of this terrible, protracted and arguably unnecessary war.

Like a David Attenborough programme, but without the greenery.

Surprised to see such disorder.

Not just Jews in Israel, but a high proportion of those living outside Israel.

That is especially true of the USA, where the major TV news networks never give a balanced view, particularly on the situation in the Middle East. There is always a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish slant, at the very least.

[“Ritter: No negotiations with Kyiv after the attack on Putin’s residence Negotiations with Kyiv are impossible after the Ukrainian attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence, said former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter. “The current Ukrainian government should not be seen as a party to negotiations, but as a terrorist organization that must be completely destroyed”, he wrote.”]

2025 brought a new reality, though. Iran showed that it could penetrate Israeli defences. Iran is now building up its offensive capabilities. Hypersonic missiles etc. In the long term, maybe even medium term, Israel is doomed.

2066? I say closer to 2040, the way things are going.

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[painting by Joyce Norwood]

Diary Blog, 21 December 2025

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Tweets seen

The pernicious campaign inciting war between the West including, perhaps especially, the UK, and Russia, is ubiquitous. Such a war would be even more disastrous than the Second World War.

Far fewer than usual. Either the Kiev regime is running short on drones, or is planning a spectacular mass attack, using hoarded drones. Probably the latter.

[“Bondarenko: Western Europe is preparing for a new Northern war against Russia and therefore insists that Ukraine has 800,000 soldiers The Ukrainian political analyst Konstantin BONDARENKO: The war will be fought for control over the Baltic Sea, to deny Russia access to that sea. This was confirmed to me by sources in the European expert community. They are not for peace there, only for a ceasefire. For freezing the conflict – with a subsequent thaw The Euro-Atlantic region is forced to watch as the Ukrainian project, once considered a pillar-support in the fight against Russia, turns into an uncontrolled and toxic mechanism capable of dragging down everyone involved in its artificial maintenance.”]

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE,%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

Adolf, please come back“…

The Iranian forces must be digging very very deep, in order to protect their missiles and their nuclear programme. Israel is doomed.

From the horse’s mouth. Israel will be using Jews who live outside Israel to “monitor” non-Jews in their own countries; that Israel/”diaspora” nexus will not only be “monitoring” anti-Israel content, but trying to suppress it, and to repress those posting it. That nexus will also be creating false narratives etc.

It is already happening, in fact. AIPAC in the USA, the “CST” and malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] in the UK etc. You see it elsewhere too, France, Australia etc.

Ukrainians are fighting and dying on the front-lines, while “they” sing and dance and profit.

Not as silly as it may sound to some.

[American political, CIA, and business leaders at the Bohemian Grove rituals in Northern California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove]

Russia’s world leadership will not arrive for another 1,500 years but, in the meantime, Russia must be allowed to develop in its own way, not as a field of exploitation by Western profiteers.

In short, they are a millstone around the neck of the British people.

By that, Goodwin means vote for Reform UK. OK…but that may not be enough, in the end.

“...a message they will understand“? I think I had better not say too much, now we in the UK live in a rapidly-emerging police state…

It seems to me that both main (or formerly “main”) System parties are living in a world of delusion in which, after events or scandals or propaganda attack ads, the disenchanted British voters will ditch their new-found support for Reform and the Greens, and will return to the old comfortable (?) fold as Con and Lab voters. Not going to happen, in my view. The old loyalties and habits have been shattered by the betrayals by both Lab and Con (and their palpable incompetence, as well).

Late tweets seen

[“NEW: The Government is set to announce the “biggest animal welfare reforms” in a generation – Ban puppy farming by reforming dog breeding rules – Ban electric shock collars on pets pending a consultation – Ban trail hunting amid concerns it is being used as a smokescreen for illegal fox hunting – Introduce humane slaughter rules for farmed fish to prevent avoidable pain during killing – Phase out colony cages for laying hens, which restrict movement and natural behaviours like nesting and perching, and pig farrowing crates, which confine mother pigs and stop them turning around after giving birth – Ban snare traps that can catch pets and cause suffering for animals – Reform the use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs after evidence it causes distress and suffering – Ban shooting hares during the breeding season (roughly from February to September) so young hares are not left without mothers.”]

For once, I thoroughly approve of all the new government measures (re. animal welfare) but, as tweeter Sophie Meaden says, both Muslim halal and Jewish kosher slaughter must also be banned.

Naturally, Starmer-stein’s government would not ban “Semitic” forms of slaughter, because 1. this is a totally “occupied” Labour Friends of Israel government which 2. in terms of numbers of actual votes is dependent on UK-resident Muslims.

I might add that I suspect that these (otherwise welcome) animal welfare measures are being brought in partly to —so to speak— shoot the Green Party’s fox, and cut some support ground from underneath the Greens.

Quite. By the same token, while I am sorry for those with disabilities, I oppose the near-worship exemplified by the Paralympics. The Olympics are supposed to be “Faster, Higher, Stronger“, so having a kind of parallel for-the-disabled sports-fest does not seem to be quite right, though I take little interest in sports anyway, so that is not a major issue for me.

As to comedy, I have no idea who the featured individual is (or what she is saying, as tweeter Sophie Meaden says) but Ms. Meaden’s view is surely correct.

There is a kind of madness abroad in this country now. It is seen in various realms, and was very obvious during the truly ridiculous and absurd “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022. Examples: the range of ludicrous “measures” taken (facemask nonsense, “social distancing”, “furlough” payments, fraudulent business loans or grants, the toytown police of the toytown police state checking people’s shopping, and arresting people out of a drive or a walk or sitting on benches at the seaside).

Mad. All mad. Oh, and who could forget the ridiculous “clap for the NHS” nonsense?

As to comedy, it dies when the State, or the System, mandates what cannot be said, or who can or cannot be laughed at. Thus the Soviet Union had a magazine called Krokodil, supposedly satirical, but it could only laugh at approved targets, so not the CPSU (Communist Party), not socialism as a system etc. The same thing has now happened (since the early 1990s) in the UK. Example: the lame Have I Got News for You show. Private Eye magazine, too.

No comedian who wants to be on TV or radio, or even in theatres, can make fun of Jews, blacks, or a range of other groups or events or types.

We now have an ever-tightening noose of censorship. The “bad law” Communications Act 2003, s.127, for example, is frequently abused by the malicious Jew-Zionists such as, in fact mainly, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

In fact, the Jewish/Israel lobby is behind much, though not all, of the anti-free speech activity in the UK. The Muslim element too, though much less so. Then there is the pervasive “political correctness” or “woke” influence.

I have a few good cartoons illustrating all that but, because they featured as Prosecution evidence in my 2023 free speech trial, I prefer not to republish them at present. Q.E.D.

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Somewhat different from other polls of the past few months. Translates to a Commons with about 283 Reform UK MPs (about 30 short of an overall majority), Cons 111 (far better than all other recent polls; not far short of their present position; and they would be the Opposition, if not in some kind of compact with Reform, which would be not unlikely), 64 Lab, 60 Greens, 50 LibDems, and 44 SNP [etc].

Lord Ashcroft’s polling has been accurate in the past. It may just be that the electorate is very volatile at present.

Good point.

The untermensch should be put up against a wall.

[killer]

Apparently, the judge, a “senior circuit judge”, no less, even got the victim’s name wrong, referring to Andrew Clark as “Ryan“…

[“Warsaw, Poland — In one of the most politically charged trials in recent Polish history, MP and nationalist leader. @GrzegorzBraun_ delivered a dramatic and controversial defense statement in court. He directly referred to the writings and teachings of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — whose portrait was displayed in the Polish Parliament — arguing that the ideology expressed in those texts discriminates against non-Jews and violates the Polish Constitution. Prosecutors accuse Braun of hate-motivated offenses and disruption of a religious ceremony during the 2023 Hanukkah event inside the Sejm. His immunity has already been removed by both Polish and European institutions, opening the way for a full criminal trial.“]

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

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Vengeance is mine: I shall repay