“Police officer“; just look at that silly little snot, and his “bearded wonder” colleague (see full report). The only surprising thing is that they are out, presumably patrolling, at all, rather than sitting inside somewhere “monitoring” online “wrongthink”.
“We’re all sick of living in a 21st-century criminal equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah. Please, make us safe again.“
Pseudo-liberal feminist wakes up to some of the consequences of what she has been promoting for most of her life (and from which she has made a very good living, thanks to the BBC).
Great clip. Whoever this young man is he is well informed and absolutely correct. Owen Jones however comes across as authoritarian, ignorant and anti British. Which he is of course, he’s a communist antifa supporter. pic.twitter.com/lLYkONEHDY
Owen Jones represents what's wrong with this country now. A smug little establishment metropolitan media twat who's tries to pass himself off as Che Guevara. The guy disgusts me, he doesn't represent the "working class" & neither does that middle class comic "The Guardian".
While I generally despise Conservative Party members, I would prefer that young man to any of the existing Cabinet of fools.
We should stop warning about “losing” our constitutional democracy. It’s long gone. What’s left is nothing but an illusion. This is an authoritarian regime and the dissidents are being arrested. Wake the hell up, people. https://t.co/8g28uBY2IW
🇩🇪BREAKING: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON GERMAN RIGHT WING POLITICIANS 🚨
Tino Chrupalla, the co-chairman of ‘Alternative for Germany’ (the only ‘true’ right-wing party in Germany), has been hospitalized after an assassination attempt with a syringe before he was due to speak at an… pic.twitter.com/QQwkVeQFwS
“Tino Chrupalla, the co-chairman of ‘Alternative for Germany’ (the only ‘true’ right-wing party in Germany), has been hospitalized after an assassination attempt with a syringe before he was due to speak at an election rally in Bavaria today.
Another suspected assassination attempt on his co-chairwoman, Alice Weidel, has recently been thwarted. The authorities took her out of her apartment last weekend to ensure her safety.
A few weeks ago, Andreas Jurca, another politician from the same political party, was rushed to the hospital after being beaten to a pulp in an organized attack on his life by a group of migrants who recognized him.
All of this is extremely shocking, but unsurprising. It is the result of the extremely hostile narrative that is created by the media and the establishment surrounding right wing politicians and dissidents. It reminds me of what happened back in 2002 in The Netherlands, when climate activist Volkert van der Graaf shot right wing politician Pim Fortuyn in the head in broad daylight.
Van der Graaf – mind you -is already freely walking the streets again. We have to realize how serious the situation is for us on the right in Western Europe. We’re dealing with an enemy that wants to and is prepared to kill us for our political beliefs. These assassination attempts are a clear declaration of war against the European right. And this is just the beginning. These people will use any means possible – including violence and death – in order to silence our voices. We cannot let it happen.”
This is not a debate but a war.
In the UK, so far, the System is using the method of putting people on trial, charged with saying, writing, or doing something somehow “unlawful”, or of belonging to proscribed groups (another typical police state “crime” which never used to exist in the this country).
The (((usual suspects))) in the UK so far mostly rely on triggering State action by making false allegations, persistently harassing officials until the officials launch investigations, prosecutions etc.
In the future that may change, and the nature of the conflict may well change; perhaps not far into the future. Look at the present battle in London over the ULEZ cameras.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” [U.S. President John F. Kennedy].
Contemporary Egyptian claims descent from Egyptians of the remote past. DNA tells a different story.
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[Hitler arrives at the Berlin Olympics, 1936]
“ They couldn’t understand how an otherwise reasonable man suddenly got this idea in his head to fight an entire world of realities ” – A.H pic.twitter.com/y3ZmIjozwu
It would be funny were that half-caste girl not part of a huge tranche of the UK population, especially under-30s, that are like her (including white British, incidentally). They have been through the UK “educational” system, probably attended some spoonfeeding “uni”, and think that the only reason Haiti and Liberia (etc) do not invent anything, and do not send rockets to the Moon, is because “racism” from European/white people has somehow held back the blacks…
These people should be on our side! Europe (and Europeanized Eurasia) against Zionism, Islamism, Chinese hegemonism, and the American-based New World Order!
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Peter Hitchens does a grand job with a plea for an end to anti-Russian sabre rattling, condemnation of the Afghan shame, & truth about Shirley Williams & David Cameron.
@s017actnow NATO is a bluff. The famous clause 5 allows each nation to take 'such action as it deems necessary' if another member is attacked. US would never have signed it otherwise. Congress might well deem no action at all necessary. https://t.co/cOuNxTAQUU
The sordid history of NATO expansion and the pointless Western recreation of tension in Europe. Almost nothing you have been led to believe about this episode is true: see: https://t.co/uQpbkWbBZx
Indeed, but Hitchens wants to keep his newspaper column, and so will not (I think) ever mention Zionist Occupation Government(s) (aka “ZOG”), the New World Order (NWO) or Bilderberg…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting]. NATO is on the label, as is “US power”, but the content is NWO…
Why did it take sleaze to make people realise that David Cameron was a disaster? Politicians should fall because their policies are bad. And we should learn from this. Destruction by sleaze teaches us nothing. https://t.co/asgt9DKpqh
1/2 What the Danish mask study actually said,verbatim: '4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point' . https://t.co/CzrrsgFy8A
There is a very obvious Jewish strain in the British royal family. You only have to look at some of them. Princess Margaret was the most obvious of all, arguably.
At present it seems more likely than not that the persecuted singer-songwriter, satirist and commentator will be released early, on an electronic tag, next week; so far, she has been in prison for nearly three weeks since her recent conviction and sentence. If she is not so released, either next week or thereafter, she will stay in prison until the latter part of May.
Alison Chabloz is appealing her conviction and sentence; the appeal is likely to be heard, in Crown Court, on or about 3-4 June 2021.
[Alison Chabloz]
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…When restrictions go, the Bristol model shows only a small rise in infections… (2/3) pic.twitter.com/kLoviz1C91
In reality, almost all of the dictatorial measures taken in 2020 and 2021 in the UK were and are useless in terms of the “panicdemic”, and yet have trashed much of the economy, and much of society as well, including our cherished illusions about being a society under law, and our equally cherished ideas about our civil rights.
Imagine the outrage if white-bashing Oxford University ran a course called 'Dismantling Blackness' or 'Dismantling Jewishness'. https://t.co/SDLwQTrIjn
— Tony #BBBx #FBPE #woke #prochoice#worldcitizen (@TonyFBPE) January 14, 2021
UK set to ban all travellers from South America – but by the time the Govt do it the latest 'new strain' will already be here, giving them the excuse for weeks more lockdown dictatorship.https://t.co/FU1xai10hQ
Dorset. Police arrest a woman strolling along the beachfront with an elderly companion and, nearby, another woman sitting on a bench looking out to sea. If this doesn’t make you uneasy about what is going on in our country, nothing will. pic.twitter.com/ZCLuRkP5tm
Still think that you are living in (what people long ago called) “a free country”? Police state.
Yes, at present only a “toytown” police state, but steadily becoming a real one. Tyrannical government, no real Opposition in Parliament (quite the reverse, in fact), the Press, TV, radio almost entirely pumping out System propaganda, the police becoming a Stasi-lite, the law corrupted or ignored, Government wishes (sub nom “guidance” and “advice”, or made-up “rules”) treated by the police as if “law”, while the courts are silent or craven.
At present it is “iron fist in velvet glove”, but for how long?
A debate which has been around for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. On the one hand, cities are the fount of organized culture and science, along with other desirable things; on the other hand, cities are sinks of dirt, corruption, decadence and evil.
Marx referred to “rural idiocy”, a point of view arguably typically Jewish; the Jews have long been associated with urban life, though not exclusively: there were once plenty of rural Jews in the Pale of Settlement (Western Russia and what is now Belarus), and also in Poland and Ukraine.
On the other hand, writers, poets and thinkers have always existed who were ready to extol the country life, and even life in the wilderness. Virgil, Rousseau and Thoreau among many others.
Perhaps the best way to look upon these questions of urbanization and rurality is to say that there can be decent and aesthetically-pleasing cities, and there can be a rural life with high cultural and living standards. There must be the will to create both.
Hodges @dpjhodges seems actually to have *forgotten' that he said : 'And there isn't a shred of epidemiological evidence their incarceration will prove effective.' He claims his misgivings were about sustainability. https://t.co/sn9gmLFZ8X
Inquiries now show that the mysterious disappearance of followers on Twitter (often against their will) is *not* limited to conservatives. So that obviously changes things a lot. But it is still plainly wrong. I'd ask *everyone* affected to unite against it. @thecarolemalone
Dyson is but one example of very wealthy persons buying lands in huge quantity in England and also Scotland at present. I myself have noticed how few large estates are on sale for long before being bought. I am sure that it is partly by reason of a drive for security. London is becoming a zoo. Who knows how long it will be safe for the wealthy? Also, in circumstances of socio-economic and/or socio-political meltdown—which may develop— rural estates are safer than London houses.
There is also the point that land is a hedging asset in a way that cash and equities (shares) are not. The pound must be sliding from now. Not just the “panicdemic”, but mishandled Brexit/Brino as well. We have just been told that the UK economy contracted by nearly 3% recently. Yes, the Government can borrow to distribute largesse— for a while. Not indefinitely, though.
I was just reading some American anti-Gates Twitter accounts talking about these issues. One fellow said that he has bought 1 acre and intends to build his own home on it and grow things. Fine, though an acre is very little, but, while that may be straightforward in parts of the USA, in Western Europe there are so many factors etc to overcome. God help the man who buys an acre of Devon or Dorset and just builds his own home on it without planning permission etc.
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Below, “Antifa” cheerleader (always from a very safe distance) and serial grifter, Mike Stuchbery, attacks the memory of Ashli Babbitt, an American woman who, though unarmed, was shot dead at the US Capitol building recently:
She was a violent thug who attacked a federal facility with the intent of harming elected officials, @PatrioticTalk14. She died a traitor's death. No wonder you Patriotic Alternative lemons are trying to turn her into Horstina Wessel. pic.twitter.com/YpEas8tybY
Stuchbery, who used to pose as “historian” and “journalist” (in fact, he was briefly a “supply” —i.e. temporary— teacher, who was sacked for reasons unclear) is now living off German welfare payments in Stuttgart (he also seems to scribble a bit for politically-tendentious online websites). I have blogged about him previously (he later sent, a couple of times, puerile and would-be threatening messages to me as a result): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/
Quite funny. First of all, and despite her extensive education (her father was a wealthy timber merchant, of the sort mentioned in Russian literature of the 19thC), Rosa Luxemburg was an idiot. She died before she was able to see most of the devastation wrought by Soviet socialism. Her own ideas were, arguably, typically Jewish, tending to protest, dissolution, revolution and chaos. Even had she been gifted power, she would have been unable to do anything positive with it.
Incidentally, her Wikipedia entry initially describes her as “Polish”, rather than “Jewish”, because of her having been born in Poland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg]! The (((influence))) is very obvious in parts of Wikipedia.
Sad. Give the bird a chance. It can always be prevented from mating, if that is the problem. There’s no do-gooder “conservationist” as extreme as an Australian one (unless it’s a German one).
Ironic, though. A poor pigeon makes an epic journey to Australia and will be killed, but the idiots in Australia have let in every kind of ethnic riff-raff, and those idiots in Canberra and elsewhere pat themselves on the back for being so “hospitable” and “diverse”!
[update: it turns out that the pigeon was probably not from the USA, and so will not now be killed].
Thank you @theblogmire. In this @dpjhodges says he tried to buy an imitation gun because he was so scared by the Covid crisis. And yet he cannot grasp that the same fear kept thousands away from doctors and hospitals, so that they missed key scans, referrals and treatments. https://t.co/8ihDZhG4Qw
Yes, it is @dpjhodges . Talks to ministers, Goes on about it as if it's a big deal consorting with nonentities. Doesn't know people are finding it hard to get medical treatment all over the country he lives in. https://t.co/cfx3UUNKlV
This is the problem not only in relation to the “panicdemic” but also in relation to other issues which scarcely impact on the very wealthy, and only peripherally on the merely very affluent Westminster denizens, whether politicians or msm drones. Immigration. Poor roads. Poor public transport. Crime (mostly committed by immigrants and/or their offspring). Declining quality of the NHS. Poor pay for most. Poor education.
In fact, the very wealthy don’t necessarily care much about most of those issues. Immigration? No problem (cheap labour inc. domestic help; and no immigrant “communities” live anywhere near them or in the same buildings). Poor rail and roads? No problem (private planes and helicopters, supplemented by chauffeur-driven or other Range-Rovers and other expensive cars). Crime? No problem (private security, expensive alarms etc). NHS problems? No problem (private healthcare, money for medicines unavailable on NHS…). Poor pay? No problem (inherited or other wealth). Poor education? No problem (anyone with wealth can pay for expensive schools and/or private tutors).
I took an online quiz purporting to show to what extent one is “a difficult person”. My result: “You are a very difficult person to get along with (68.7%)“! If I am honest, I really do not think that that is so.
I probably judged myself too harshly…
Such tests are amusing and interesting, but probably do not mean much.
Intrigued (as people often are when it is “all about them”, as with popular astrology), I took another such test, this a Jungian one. The result: “Versatile, dynamic, and quirky, you are tireless in your pursuit of the untested, the untried, and the fight against the status quo. You love to interact with all kinds of people and you carry yourself in an expressive and warm manner that ideally sees lots of affirmation flowing both ways. Charismatic and imaginative, you tend to have a well-honed ability to see the world through the eyes of those who do not normally have an advocate to speak for them. You are interested in the potential of others and you often long to help them develop their own aspirations more fully. Ever-inquisitive and appreciative, you have a love of fantasy and adventure and are easily bored by the business-as-usual routines of the corporate and business world. Your own enthusiasm and energy for finding a new and better way arises spontaneously and can often be quite contagious. However, you tend to have little love for resolving the factual specifics of a case, preferring to work by pure inspiration and bursts of energy instead.“
Again, interesting, but I think that I took a similar test last year and came up with a slightly (though admittedly not very) different result.
This is addictive! I did a “Harry Potter” test too, but because I do not know the characters well (I have seen one or two of the films, on TV, but was probably not really concentrating) had to look up the one supposedly (according to the online test) most like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Eater#Lucius_Malfoy
Bottom line: you cannot create an advanced society with a backward population. The migration invasion over the past 70 years has badly damaged the quality of the UK population.
A connected point: if you are employed, or in a “regulated” profession, you are never free. Even the formerly quite free occupations of a professional nature, such as the Bar, are now “regulated”, which means in effect under Jew-Zionist control.
A self-employed person in an occupation unregulated by malicious parasites is in an inherently better position, whether he (or she) is a car repairer, plumber, small business owner, estate-owner, farmer or smallholder (etc), than is an employee or “regulated” professional.
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"Has the BBC provided 'impartial news and information' about the Covid 19 situation, as required by the BBC Charter?"
Anybody who can read and think knows that @fenman3. The research (a recent very large RCT conducted by pro-maskers) provides no evidence that masks have any statistically signifcant ability to safeguard wearers from infection. As there already wasn't any evidence, that's it. https://t.co/nIbxCXVEjo
Japan simply has not strangled its economy and society to the extent that we did @stevene38505742 and it is naughty of you to suggest it has. The damage is nothing like as great. Also, its non-lockdown did not lead to huge numbers of deaths. Rather the reverse. https://t.co/j0R7unTRoB
Do you not see @stevene38505742 that this only works if it is established that lockdowns reduce pressure on the NHS, and do so in a way that is proportionate to the problem? It is not established. We know the govt believes this, but the govt believed there were WMD in Iraq. https://t.co/qaTGxqpmPC
I saw a temporary parking restrictions sign also "due to covid 19", which I found bizarre. Not sure if its still up or not but I might check at lunchtime if we're collecting weird and unnecessary covid measures.
Reminiscent of a scene in the film of The Cruel Sea, in which scene the waiter at the Trocadero (I think), asked about dust in the water brought to accompany whisky, says “Oh, I’m so sorry, Sir. It’s the War, you know“! [the particular clip, I could not see on YouTube]
Some of Britain's oldest cheesemakers are at risk of closure, as #COVID19 restrictions and uncertainty over Brexit take their toll https://t.co/0jqSbmAUgv
These tiers don’t work, lockdowns didn’t work, wearing a mask everywhere doesn’t work, how about we protect those that are vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives
Fences going up at London hospital. Are they expecting an announcement that the 'mutant strain' actually kills more than 0.06 of 'victims'? Are they aiming to shut out heart attack, stroke & RTA victims? Or is it just another piece of ill-judged crisis acting grandstanding? pic.twitter.com/WTfKBBHGXy
Interesting to read this Time article fr 13 March:
"But others question the cost of China’s containment, and are asking if it’s worth turning to draconian measures that indiscriminately infringe on citizens’ civil liberties and cripple their livelihoods."https://t.co/bJlCgtlMve
In any case, China is (obviously) a huge country with a huge population, and only small parts were “locked down”. The main Chinese economy was not much impaired. In the UK, the economy has been crippled by “lockdown” and other nonsense, the effects of which are mostly yet to be felt.
Pure sentimentality @usambuk. Those of us who witnessed the Clinton administration's ruthless strongarming of this country over a visa for Gerry Adams (as I did) will never be taken in by that sort of syrup again. https://t.co/vU3hWButAJ
Until I went to stay and live in the USA (on and off, mainly in 1989-1993, but also in 1999-2002), I thought that the “Special Relationship” was at least to some extent real. I soon understood, however, that to Americans, even Anglophile ones, and certainly to the broad mass, the UK was down the other end of the telescope, hardly visible.
Long ago, in the mid/late 1970s, I was friendly with a lady of unusual and obscure Eurasian origins (part-Afghan, I believe; part-Irish too), who lived in London (in Kensington). She had been a journalist at one time in her youth, covering the Algerian conflict, unusually, mostly from the side of the Algerian rebels rather than from that of the French government and so-called pieds-noirs (French and other Francophone people long-settled in Algeria). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War
It was not until years later that I knew that, on one side, her descent was from the mediaeval Norman rulers of Cyprus. Her maiden name had been de Lusignan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan].
Strange to think that, under other circumstances, this odd but rather fascinating (at times) woman (I should add that I was a possibly impressionable teenage boy of 19 when we first met) might have been a princess or whatever of a royal house.
Those memoirs are a good read, by the way. Incidentally, also, Wyatt’s daughter, Petronella, now a more or less washed-up journalist, was once and notoriously involved with the person presently posing as the Prime Minister of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronella_Wyatt.
Petronella Wyatt, however, is not descended from the Plantagenets.
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Thread on how easy it is to get tricked into haemorrhaging money from your bank account after an online purchase – and why financial regulators seem to be behind the curve on this.🧵💸💻
Forgive the personal story, but I think it's relevant…1/
Rentoul got 3/10 this week (he claims an extra bit because he got part of question 4 right…). I usually beat Rentoul, but did no better this week, also 3/10, I think the worst I have ever done on these Saturday quizzes (I only knew the answers to questions 2, 5 and 6).
Alison Chabloz
The latest song from persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz:
Pretty poor, as with previous alumni matches this Christmas. I did far better than either team. Amazing how ignorant many of these “respected commentators”, TV journalists, novelists etc, are.
Or maybe, lockdown and stupid tier restrictions don't bloody work. Repeat the same exercise get the same result. Virus is gonna virus like they have for thousands of years. And yet humanity still exists.
With this and wailing about overwhelmed hospitals while admissions are at a 5 year low & the #NightingaleHospitals are being dismantled, even the most gullible sheeple should begin to see it's all about money for cronies & power.https://t.co/gwu1tjW9Xh
Yes,we're all very touched @michaelrosenyes by your profound concern for the detailed planning of a sensible policy that (alas) is not even being tried, contrasted with your passive acceptance of the mad strangulation of our society,economy, NHS and schools. Which is happening. https://t.co/LBKdBDEHgP
It is very strange that all or virtually all the Twitter accounts of Jews, that I have seen, are very much pro-“lockdown”, the facemask nonsense etc, just as they are for censorship, and the prohibition of “unapproved” opinion. I do not know why that should be, unless it is something ingrained…
BBC R4 this morning played a recording of FDR's great pronouncement 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' . How odd it sounded on a BBC that promotes fear 20 times a day, under the rule of a government that openly uses fear to obtain compliance.
1/2 @quaintpondering. You *presume* that the problem requires a vast, centralised Chinese-style response rather than the individual exercise of choice, initiative and experience which is normal in a free society. Why? https://t.co/eInNc36Wri
Conservatism is a communitarian political ideology.
It values the bonds of community and seeks ways to nurture and protect them.
This does not necessarily require that the state protect and promote communities, but it often does when rampant market forces threaten them. pic.twitter.com/GavTrwpoNE
Instead of getting a grip on out-of-control immigration, the government is OPENING a range of uncapped visa routes, even for people from around the world to go into the lowest-paid jobs as youth unemployment rises… 😳
The present UK Government is a Jewish-lobby, finance-capitalist cabal. On that premise, the importation of millions more unwanted migrant-invaders is almost guaranteed…
What’s the point of taking back control of immigration if we don’t reduce it?https://t.co/mbZmW3nfxg
ahhh, comedians going after the very thing that made them rich. Like Sacha Baron Cohen, once they achieved their goal they turn their backs on free speech and free expression. Exploiting the system until they cannot longer benefit from it. Then acting holier than thou https://t.co/xqml1NxaRO
— Skinny Legend (a non-man person) (@BrookeMedusa1) December 27, 2020
Ah, Cohen…I wonder what kind of “person” that is?…
Britain, 2020…
Along the same lines, I was watching the TV game show Only Connect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Connect] yesterday. At one point, a clue involved the Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the accompanying picture showed two blacks!
Something to look forward to: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reign will end in 2021, after 16 disastrous years.
The Christian Democrat leader has done more damage to Europe than anyone since her WWII predecessor. Hard to exaggerate how awful she's been.
And nowhere has her misrule been more damaging than in Germany itself.
In a nutshell…(see below):
Neoliberal ideology assumes that with the demolition of trade barriers & the encouragement of global economic integration, economic benefits will accrue to all in the world economy.
They are conspicuously silent on how to ensure that these benefits get fairly distributed. pic.twitter.com/Jbx3frU0ih
“The head of the WHO emergencies program, Dr Mike Ryan, said: “The likely scenario is the virus will become another endemic virus that will remain somewhat of a threat, but a very low-level threat in the context of an effective global vaccination program.“
Went to Waitrose. Slightly busier than usual in the evenings. Still a black-clad and mask-wearing Handmaid’s Tale militiaman stationed by the entrance, presumably to deter non-wearers of facemasks.
Later, watched this evening’s alumni match of University Challenge, this time the Courtauld Institute against St. John’s, Oxford. Once again, both teams not much good, in fact downright poor. I certainly did better than both. An Indian woman called, I think, Ghoswami, was notably poor (she thought that Baku might be the most northerly major city of China, among other hopeless answers!); as for the other team, a Jewish woman called Klein knew almost nothing, though admittedly she did correctly identify a painting by Veronese which I thought was probably by Raphael.
"Public Order" offence. Has there ever been a more deliberately ambiguous and catch-all law? They can literally arrest you for anything they like under this and lockdown has opened the floodgates.
While I myself am not a member or, as such, “supporter” of “Patriotic Alternative”, I feel that these mostly young people are basically on the right lines. A political party is one route, setting up community or communities is another; there are other ways too. Those routes are not opposed to each other but complementary, like the fronts in a major military campaign or war.
I have never been to the south of Cyprus. I have been, though long ago now, to Northern Cyprus, at that time (the winter of 1999-2000) not as popular with visitors as it now is. I was able to hire a car and drive all over on empty roads, once right along the Karpat Peninsula, the eastern end of which is only 60 miles from Latakia in Syria.
I went to the Castle of St. Hilarion (a Crusader fortress) and to the ruined castle of Buffavento (a 2+ hour trek up a mountain path); that one, on the very summit of a tree-clad mountain, really deserved its name (“buffeted by the winds”).
I also visited most of the small towns: Kyrenia, Famagusta, Guzelyurt, as well as the capital, Nicosia, then split in two, completely demarcated and guarded, like Berlin before the fall of socialism. I remember going to the “Museum of Barbarism”, a memorial to the young daughters (and Greek Cypriot wife) of a Turkish Cypriot officer of the (British) militia force. They were murdered right there by a sectarian gang led or directed by (I think) Nikos Sampson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Sampson]. You can see the holes in the wall left as the submachinegun rounds struck, including holes in the wall of the bathroom, where one of the victims, a girl of 9 (if I recall aright) had been hiding when she was shot dead.
Sobering. If only our Empire and all other European empires had not been given away… The result of that withdrawal from Empire, even before it fully happened, was chaos across much of the world. In Cyprus, displacement of populations, and division of the island after the invasion by Turkish forces in 1974, which division continues today, though I believe that tourists can now go from one side to the other easily enough.
A land, as I remember, of warm winter sun, just about warm enough for a quick swim in a not very warm Mediterranean, at a completely deserted beach somewhere west of Kyrenia. Not bad for January. A land of both olives and oranges, the latter colourful but unripe on the trees (my then girlfriend picked one to taste it). A land of (also deserted) ancient Greek amphitheatre ruins. I rather liked it. Warm during the day (despite a cool breeze at times), though rather cold at night.
Boris Johnson is a blatant liar and should never have been allowed anywhere near government. Let’s hope his days are numbered. #BorisJohnsonMustGohttps://t.co/a2ciBkzwyB
Cheaper consumer goods as a result of cheaper labour. Ultimately the pigeons will come home to roost and you will find yourself paid less for your labour (see the past decade and below inflation pay rises).
My weekend reading, Jack Finney’s devastating parable of creeping conformism and the death of dissent – the original idea for two great films. pic.twitter.com/3NcxgdHZRK
And trips to Coventry Cathedral, I see, @barbarbar1. The loss caused by the destruction of the grammars (especially the girls' grammars) and the closing of the Direct Grants to free state pupils, is incalculable. It makes me so angry. Perhaps I should write a book. https://t.co/LxScEwMFzR
But the referendum has enthroned wild free-traders, not conservatives. Will this country be more conservative after January 1 @newpaulhearn? https://t.co/rodOVGZ9cr
'If the Tory Party was your fridge, all your food would go bad. If it were your accountant, you'd be bankrupt. If it were your lawyer, you'd be in jail'. No consumer good could survive if it failed so utterly to do what ti said on the package.' https://t.co/lGgryIYmps
'When people complain to me about the unpleasant features of our society, I ask them how they voted in 2010'. When they say, as they do often do, that they voted Tory, I tell them that they have got what they voted for. Tough.' https://t.co/lGgryIYmps
Yes. Well worth reading, though the content is not news to me; nor, I apprehend, to many many others:
“Our Politicians Must have Passed an Examination in Stupidity to obtain their Positions.“
“In 30 years, it will be much easier to say this, but this must be the stupidest era there has ever been in British politics. Oh, yes, some modern politicians can make classical allusions or dance nimbly about when interviewed.
But they do not really know anything, or understand anything. They live entirely in the present. They know little of other countries and less about the past. They idolise Winston Churchill but are in fact ignorant about him or his era, and the huge price in power and wealth which he rightly paid for our survival in 1940. Worse still, they think they are clever.
This has something to do with the way we pick our leaders. I have long suspected that they have to pass an examination in stupidity before being allowed into Westminster. But in fact the selection procedures of the major parties achieve the same thing. They demand servile conformity with the idiotic beliefs which now govern our country. Show the slightest sign of spirit or independent thought, on any topic, and you are out.
So here we are, fresh from six months of determined self-harm and illiterate panic over the virus, on the brink of making it even worse.
Anyone who knew anything about the EU issue said years ago (as I did) that our best way out of Brussels rule was to copy Norway – stay in the Single Market and get rid of all the political and legal baggage.
Zealots, who treasure the delusions that we are still a major power with a thriving economy, derided this. No, they said, we must have a total breach, and then we will soar free, our Victorian greatness restored. Few of them ever grasped what it will mean to leave the Single Market, into which our economy has been totally integrated for decades, and they will shortly have a fascinating lesson in that. The trouble is, the rest of us will have to have that lesson too. And it is hardly surprising that France, which has so long resented our standing in Europe and the World, sees this as an opportunity to take us down a peg or two. But remember, before complaining, that we gave them this chance.” [Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday].
Some people have asked me whether I “support” Patriotic Alternative. My response: I would not say that I “support” PA directly or wholeheartedly, but they are at least mainly on the right track, in my view. Also, it is good to see young people (including a considerable cadre of intelligent young women) coming to social nationalism, which should not be solely the preserve of middle-aged Kirsch-drinkers like me!
A busy couple of weeks ahead with overtime at work, visits/visitors and general preparations for Christmas so I'm taking a twitter break from today. I probably won't return until after Christmas is over. I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful time what ever you may be doing. pic.twitter.com/QafU5nIP5i
On this day 1909 British Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII. A triumphant year for him, knighted as part of King's Birthday Honours, published in issue 28321 The London Gazette. Polar Medal continues to be awarded today also found in same publication pic.twitter.com/Am0UegXVQ7
Also on this day 1643 Battle of Alton of took place (see 1). Church of St Lawrence in Alton Hampshire is were where Boles's men were forced to seek refuge & make desperate last stand. Boles was killed along with most of remaining men. Parliamentarians won losing only a few men. pic.twitter.com/s2OOdZXhar
Continued Mr Butterworth's achievements include winning Best Picture award at the British Society of Painters Exhibition for 3 years in a row. Elected to The Royal Society of Arts & also The International Guild of Artist’s. An Associate of the British Watercolour Society. pic.twitter.com/P0jgDD4S4L
Such closely-representational art is not the only kind of painting which one can esteem, but it is certainly a breath of fresh air after the msm lionization of frauds or scam-artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, whose prominence was bought by Jewish backers such as Saatchi.
So many non-Europeans, in this case half and half, his father having come from Borneo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wong_(ethnobotanist)] seem to hate us, even if (as in this case) the individual was born in the UK and had every advantage here…
There is a huge hostile bloc of varied type within the UK.
Batten is quite wrong, though, in agreeing to “moderate and appropriate” immigration into the UK. Britain needs no immigration at all. Now, if the British person wants to marry a foreign person, and it is a genuine connection (not a scam), and if that person is not unsuitable for whatever reason, then come here.
Likewise, if Britain needs a particular and truly highly-qualified scientist, then yes, come, even with immediate family, and help us advance to the future.
One person, a few dozen, even a few hundred (especially if of European descent), but not thousands, let alone millions, of non-Europeans.
Batten was briefly leader of UKIP. You can see why UKIP failed. Not because of Batten, as such, but because people like Batten always want to be “moderate”, “respectable”, “lawful” etc. No go. It does not work.
Still, Batten was one of the better UKIP people, albeit no intellectual.
Sounds like the Franco-British dispute could go nuclear; not literally, but with tit-for-tat reprisals, eg on UK citizens living (as I once did) in France. I foresee a collapse in French property prices in Brittany, Normandy, maybe elsewhere, once British purchasers dry up.
Already, since 2016, there has been little interest. In fact, when I was last in Brittany, sometime in 2015 (I think), I was told that British people were finding it hard to sell property, especially inland from the coastal towns such as Roscoff. Example: a house and bar with B&B rooms (maybe half a dozen or so bedrooms in all, including owners’ accommodation), about 15 miles inland, in a quiet hamlet, unsold despite having been on the market for only around £70,000; on the market for 5+ years. I spent a couple of days there myself, the only guest.
Dominic Raab asked whether there will be shortages of medicines and vaccines because of a no-deal Brexit, replies that "there may be shifts” in supply. #Marrhttps://t.co/oh5BukmlR5
In fact, I can think of no situation where academic freedom or freedom of expression were seriously imperilled when these frauds have spoken up. Nor have I seen any of them use their right to free speech to challenge power.
The above academic termite, enemy of free speech, enemy of the British people, has obviously never read my blog! I suppose that my voice is not “loud” enough! Hardly surprising when I have been expelled from Twitter and am not able to publish my views on any msm platform…
By the way, on the change from 'respect' (bad idea, I agree) to 'tolerate', NOPE. I won't be tolerating racism, sexism, Islamophobia, eugenics, or transphobia any time soon. So fire me. Go on. https://t.co/stIFkTKKfQ
The writer John le Carre has died. I regret now that I was not able to hear him speak in the early 1980s at the GB-USSR Association, a now-defunct para-diplomatic body funded by the Foreign Office, and of which I was a member. I was told that it was the best talk anyone could remember having been given there.
Late tweets
You're mad that white people are starting to see how every aspect of society is tilted to dispossess and destroy white people.
' ‘More than one in four (27%) young people in England and Wales have received private or home tuition'. I wonder how many of these private tutors have contributed to the allegedly 'good' results of low-grade comps. https://t.co/WvP5J9HJZK
I wonder whether, with the likely increase in home working (for adults), and also unemployment (for various reasons), and also now that we have the Internet, many TV channels (some of which could be repurposed) etc, the school, as an institution, needs to survive at all.
Surprising numbers of people *still* fail to grasp the significance of the Blairisation of the Tory Party after 2003. My book 'The Cameron Delusion', boycotted totally by the review mafia on publication, and so widely unknown, explains all. Blackwell's(01865 792792) can supply it pic.twitter.com/PzG483xDGQ
In the Soviet Union, most boxes of chocolates contained individual chocolates of several different shapes, but were identical inside; the filling was the same for all. Apply to UK System political parties…
MP has six homes but claims for a hotel when she visits Commons, says Times. All within rules, says spokesperson https://t.co/6aq7bKnkWf
The problem with Boris's brinksmanship is it's one sided. We're the one's threatening to walk away, not the EU. So every time he says "this is the final deadline" and it isn't, it's his credibility that takes the biggest hit.
If I got to come back after my death, I would like to return as a murmuration. One bird for every good deed in my lifetime, perhaps. https://t.co/TS9xHLg4iO
Ian Robert Millard 