Radek Sikorski has an unusual background. Granted asylum while a student in the UK in 1982, he went to Oxford (how?) and, despite lack of personal or family wealth, somehow became a member of the wealthy yob society, the Bullingdon, along with part-Jews “Boris” Johnson and David Cameron-Levita. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rados%C5%82aw_Sikorski.
[According to David Dimbleby, until Cameron-Levita and Johnson joined, the Bullingdon had been “a club for young gentlemen“, which however was then perverted by the pair mentioned].
Was Sikorski helped to get on terms with young aspirants to the “British Establishment”? If so, by whom— and why?
Was Sikorski spotted as a talented young Pole who might be able, down the line, to advance a Westernizing agenda in Poland, as a wedge into the then-monolithic-seeming Soviet imperium? I wonder.
After graduation from Oxford, Sikorski was soon writing for major publications in the UK, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. He was also working as a freelance foreign correspondent in places such as Afghanistan.
Sikorski is married to Anne Applebaum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum], the well-known American Jewish writer and analyst who was apparently so struck by my tweets when I still had a Twitter account (a pack of malicious Jews had me chucked off in 2018) that she blocked me (for no obvious reason that I can recall).
I have a couple of her books.
A couple completely tied in to the NWO agenda, it seems.
He’s really asking for it. Poland was not a passive victim in 1939. There had been years of abuse before that, directed at Germany and at the German population trapped in the Polish Corridor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Corridor]. Now Sikorski, like the Polish officials of the 1930s, attempts to stoke tensions, this time mainly with Russia. Not a very clever move.
Keir Starmer, the Jewish lobby puppet now leading the Labour Party, wanted a perfectly stage-managed “Conference” (show or Schauspiel) for the msm to relay to a bemused public. Barring a couple of hiccups such as the above (a fixed non-vote), he got what he wanted.
In fact, the public only see, and only want to see, a few seconds on the TV news anyway.
Starmer need not worry. Most British people are content, at least so far, to be bamboozled by a mainly Jewish-manipulated binary choice between equally-fake “Conservative” and “Labour” (with the odd “dustbin” alternative as necessary, the LibDems).
The Liz Truss government was doomed from its inception, and Starmer thinks, with some justification, that all he need do now is wait.
Some people, rightly or not, have questioned Alison’s judgment, but none can question her courage.
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Who would have thought that all those times Boris Johnson was being hailed as the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had, Liz Truss was waiting in the wings thinking: “Hold my beer…”
When I said Liz Truss was going to be the 4th consecutive PM to claim the "worst PM in UK History" title, I never expected she be able to claim it within a month in office. It took Cameron 6 years, Theresa May 11 months, Boris Johnson 10 months. Truly amazing.
— Max 🇺🇦🇪🇦🇪🇺 waiting for sanity to return…. (@MaxMigliorato) September 27, 2022
Tory MP: "the party has been possessed by some sort of evangelical zeal. It defies all scientific and economic logic – it's utterly humiliating."
Tory MP: "I thought Boris Johnson's Cabinet the worst in history. That one's just beaten it."
Interesting “moral maze” point. “Boris”-idiot was behaving with disgusting and petty intent; Kwarteng is a woolly-headed n****r who knows no better, arguende.
Having said that, Kwarteng’s negligence or sheer stupidity (assuming that this is not all part of the overall conspiracy) will have far worse effects on the UK.
The only advantage of Boris Johnson’s pathological narcissism was that it subordinated political ideology. You can’t say that about Truss and Kwarteng. These people really believe what they’re doing and they’re going to keep doing it. In the end, that’s what’s fucking terrifying. pic.twitter.com/5P44QMl2e9
I am getting excited. If a social-national party can emerge, credible and with ideologically correct and firm leadership, it might find a ready audience —at last, at long last— in a Britain completely blasted by fake “liberal democracy”. Everything could change almost overnight.
As Lenin said, “worse will be better”.
Never forget that, as late as 1928, the NSDAP was getting a national vote of only 2.6%, and that year had elected only 12 members of the Reichstag, out of 491.
I myself also recall my visits to Eastern Europe in the late 1980s (mainly 1988 and 1989). In 1988, those states were potentially unstable, but still apparently securely fixed in terms of who was in power. By late 1989, they had all collapsed, politically and, indeed, socially.
True, but such comparisons do not butter any parsnips, in the North British saying.
Lots of commentators on here currently hurling themselves about over the 'insanity' of economic policy.
All the same people who endorsed shutting down the economy for 2 years, destroying small businesses and paying millions to stay off work because known liars cried 'pandemic'.
What a time to have an international crisis of the present magnitude. The leader of the USA and, in effect, NATO and/or the Western world, is at least half-demented, the Prime Minister of the UK is a stupid and ignorant woman completely out of her depth, and the leader of Russia is being painted into a corner and is frankly unpredictable.
As a matter of fact, I expected better from Neil. Despite his pro-Jewish Lobby rants on TV in the past few years, I thought that he believed at least in a reasonable level of personal and social liberty. Apparently not.
I suppose that one man’s “reasonable restrictions” are another’s “Covid police state”…
At the end of the day, Neil is part of the System, speaking broadly.
Incidentally, Neil has (though on another issue) become rather litigious of late; I therefore give fair warning (in re the —admittedly highly unlikely— contingency of his taking any legal action against me), that I have effectively no assets any more, and so am as good as “unsueable”. I also know how to make bullying litigation very expensive for those launching it.
So the mainstream narrative was natural mutation, while the secondary narrative (as retailed by Sir Richard Dearlove and others) is that Covid-19 was produced in a Chinese laboratory, and that it then escaped somehow.
What about a third idea (and that is the one I tend to favour): the virus was produced in a Chinese laboratory, but did not escape accidentally. It was released deliberately, but that outbreak was, as planned, brought under control quite quickly in Wuhan and other parts of China.
Meanwhile, though, the same virus somehow made its way to the very places, meaning the Alpine ski resorts, best situated a. to incubate new cases and, b. as launch pads from where the virus might be spread quickly throughout the western and central parts of Europe.
Now how was it that that virus jumped from provincial China to the ski resorts of the Alps? We could be looking here at a scenario not far removed from the background of films such as The Cassandra Crossing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cassandra_Crossing]. Incidentally, “This film was very famous in China with Chinese dub in 1980s” [Wikipedia].
As to why such a “conspiracy theory” might have a basis in reality, there are several possibilities.
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It’s been almost SIX MONTHS since I queried why my elderly aunt was hospitalised after a fall with ‘all obs fine’ – no human contact for 13 days – then put in a Covid ward and had Midazolam & morphine put in her PRN (list of anticipatory meds).
Don’t make it seem as if inept “Boris” actually has a “plan”; the only plans are in the minds of those who control the “Boris” show from behind the scenes. Look at the organ-grinders, not the monkeys.
…and already the international or transnational conspiracy is thinking about how to introduce mandatory subcutaneous microchips as a form of “Covid passport” (but really as a means of tracking the individual 24/7).
I have not watched a full Question Time since I returned to live full-time in the UK, well over a decade ago, and saw the televised lynching of Nick Griffin. The mask of the BBC and other msm fell off there and then, and the influences behind most of the msm were exposed to the light.
Incidentally, I see that the System’s oft-seen “Auntie Tomasina”, Bonnie Greer, who was seated (obviously deliberately) next to Griffin on that TV show trial, is still tweeting her stuff, now supporting both the “Covid” police state and the “black lives matter” nonsense-propaganda…
The entire system has to collapse and go into the dustbin of history. There's nothing worth saving. Without genuine leadership, we cannot play a meaningful part in that process.
He is right. The UK needs a social-national government. That means that a real social-national movement must exist. That movement can only exist if there exists both a leader and a support-base.
…and when Tom Watson was finally pressured to give up being an MP (he had been a huge expenses cheat, and was also involved with several other forms of questionable behaviour), he was appointed, in 2020, head of UK Music, the umbrella organization for commercial interests involved in music. A body permeated with Jewish interests and influence. The outgoing head of UK Music had been Michael Dugher, also a former “Labour” MP, also a member of Labour Friends of Israel…
Indeed, the same Michael Dugher became, in 2020, the Chief Executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, the main lobby group for the gambling industry, another commercial area riddled with Jewish money and influence.
Further, in September 2020, Tom Watson was also appointed “senior advisor” to Flutter Entertainment, which controls the huge gaming businesses Paddy Power, Betfair, and Sky Bet. Before Flutter Entertainment opened its wallet, Watson had been very critical of the gaming industry. For bastards like Watson, money really talks…
Watson was blackballed, in effect, from becoming a member of the House of Lords, by reason of his activities and behaviour, but it seems that he may yet reach the Lords at some point, the present “Labour” leader, Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer, having re-nominated him.
Look at the key thread running through the above four paragraphs: Jewish money, power, and influence, suborning corrupt and venal MPs and others.
Oh, many would…the kind of Twitter twits often seen calling for almost permanent “lockdown”, facemask nonsense, weekly “boosters” of the supposed “vaccines” etc…in other words, the System’s willing slaves.
Eventually, the USA will either break down, or break apart, if it does not impose dictatorial order; not because all blacks are evil, or murderous, or because there are no intelligent blacks at all, but because a society with a majority black population (which is the direction of travel) simply cannot sustain an advanced culture and civilization. We in the UK are seeing the emergence of similar problems and manifestations, though arguably at a less-serious stage.
In other words, that black woman is saying “buy only from blacks” or “boycott non-black businesses“…Imagine if she were saying the reverse. The skies would have fallen in!
[SA-men in 1930s Germany, supporting boycott of Jew-owned businesses: the placard says “German! Defend yourself! Don’t buy from Jews!“]
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Hitchens is entirely right here, Britain – along with Australia – is an appendage of not only US military force but increasingly subject to its sovereignty too. Exit from the EU will massively intensify this, as does confrontation with China. https://t.co/dRkjzlL4X2
I’ve often thought that, for any of its downsides, social media would make it much harder to perpetrate illegal wars based on lies like in the early 21stC. The public response would be different, and successful.
Now I think @Twitter would simply close down dissenting accounts.
What does Bastani mean Twitter “would” close down dissenting accounts?! A pack of Jew-Zionists conspired together to get Twitter to “suspend” (expel) me in 2018. David Icke, Katie Hopkins, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Alison Chabloz, and legions of others have gone the same way.
Incidentally, I see that the recently-replaced head of Twitter, one Dorsey, supposedly has a fortune of about USD $9 BILLION! Yet Twitter, since it started has, overall, made a massive loss…
“US-based microblogging and social networking service Twitter reported a net loss of $536.7 million in the third quarter of 2021, according to its financial results released Tuesday. The results showed a steep decline from net income of $28.6 million in the same period of last year.” [US financial Press]; and
“American micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it had suffered a net loss of $1.14 billion in 2020 representing a net margin of -31 percent. On the other hand, Twitter’s costs and expenses saw an increase of 19 percent year over year totaling $3.69 billion while revenue amounted to $3.72 billion.” [US financial Press].
What is really going on here?
The problem with the Bastani type is that —in his case— not being really or fully British (half-Iranian), and with a head full of fake post-1989 pseudo-“Marxism”, he just struggles to connect with the real British psyche. See, for example, the tweet below:
Why does the British elite get so excited about killing small, cuddly mammals? Genuinely weird idiosyncrasy. https://t.co/ibbhiramvE
He does not understand that it is not “the British elite” who are animal-lovers, but virtually the whole British people. Indeed, it might well be argued that the wealthier Brits are more selective in their love for animals than the poorer ones (who do not, most of them, hunt, shoot or even fish).
Looking at Bastani’s tweet, it is more ambiguous in meaning (not so good for a journalist…) than it seemed when I first saw it. Does he mean that “the British elite” like to kill animals (as when foxhunting), or that they get worked up or agitato in opposition when others do it? In the idiom of today, “whatever”…
In fact, Bastani’s organization, Novara Media, seems (from what I have seen on Twitter etc) to be mainly composed of non-Brits, and indeed anti-Brits, people such as Ash Sarkar.
“Communism” (which those people claim to support or espouse), has certainly gone the way Marx predicted: “first time tragedy, second time farce“…
Says it all…those idiots love to “deplatform”, then one fine day it happens to them. Same is true of the Jew-Zionists on Twitter. Oh, what a (typically-Jewish) fake-victim scream goes up when one of their pack is expelled or suspended from Twitter!
Having said the above, Bastani is right at times, as in this tweet:
Great video from @PoliticsJOE_UK. ‘Anti politics’ of sleaze only goes so far. The sado-populism of the Tories is taking a distinctly S & M feel for some here. pic.twitter.com/HSqqOfMNDq
Never underestimate the political stupidity of the British people: those Con voters would vote Con under any conceivable circumstance, just as, until recently, there were swathes of the UK where voting “Labour” was a community tradition, rarely dissented from.
The problem people have is that there is no credible alternative to even Boris Johnson’s ludicrously-poor government. The Israel-first Starmer Labour Party would be a worse elected dictatorship even than the “Boris” one.
“Boris” is not credible, his government is not credible, but then neither is the shadow government of Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer. Imagine Starmer as PM, Angela Rayner as a Cabinet minister, dictatorial Yvette Cooper as Home Secretary etc. I’m angry just thinking about it, even though I truly despise “Boris” and all his Cabinet.
Bastani and his lot are correct, though, in my view, in saying that the Corbyn-style Labour Party was no less “electable” than that of Starmer. Maybe more electable.
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Just as Israel held their 'Omega Virus War Game' 13 days before 'Omicron' hit the scene, Israel is now leading a 10 country “simulation” war game of a major cyberattack on world financial markets.https://t.co/B2agSbuHSk
This whole thing, the “panicdemic”, has become a test of how stupid and how easily duped the British people really are…and it is not going well, frankly.
We are back where we were over a year ago. I blogged about it then: either “Boris” will cave in to the EU, in which case he will reprise Chamberlain returning from Munich and waving his piece of paper at Heston Aerodrome (until today, I thought that he returned to Croydon Airport) in 1938 (“peace with the EU in our time“), or will fail to agree terms, in which case the idiot will be again reprising the role of am-dram Churchill, poundland Churchill, and “we shall never surrenderto the EU“. Pathetic…
Question for social historians/people with long memories. Did the National Front get to make these points on 70s version of @bbcquestiontime?? I remember it as being scary-skinhead-racists..but I’m fascinated now by how this was regarded as racist on 1970. But not in 2016..
Question Time? Is this journalist so naive? The Jew-Zionist element would never have allowed that! Oh, and the only reason they allowed Nick Griffin on in 2009 was to ambush him. It was a planned, conspiratorial disgrace. In fact, it showed clearly how notionally “traditional English” types like David Dimbleby collude, for their own benefit, with the Jew-Zionists and other gravediggers of our race, culture, and society.
In fact, there was nothing “scary” about the National Front. I recall going to a meeting held in a pub in Leicester (far from where I lived, but I was invited by a member) in 1975. Very pleasant ordinary people, mostly in the 25-45 age group, though the only one I recall as an individual was a pretty dark-haired lady aged about 35, who collected donations during the evening (well, after all, I was an 18-y-o, though hardly “impressionable”!).
Strange that Carole Cadwalladr and others think that that NF programme of 1970 is being carried out by the Boris-idiot “elected” dictatorship! Really?
“Stop immigration“? Since when? The bastards are flooding in, hundreds of thousands each year. “Reject Common Market“? The EU Referendum validated that by popular plebiscite but so far we only have BRINO (Brexit In Name Only), but we shall see. “Restore capital punishment“? No possibility unless a civil war renders it necessary to put people up against a wall (I myself tend to be anti-capital punishment anyway but “never say never”). Certainly the present government has not introduced it. “Make Britain great again“? The present government may parrot the idea but has no plan to make it happen. “Scrap overseas aid“? Even the recent reductions suggested leave official aid at a figure many times what it was in 1970. “Rebuild our armed forces“? They have never been weaker, not for hundreds of years. It will take more than a few more large ships to make the UK a real military power again.
Incredibly, Carole Cadwalladr is thought of as a journalist of some standing. She has even won awards. She must have a few good sources, admittedly.
Costa Rica! In the 80's they had a huge deforestation problem… 25 years later they have turned it around & run at 98% renewable energy @Visit_CostaRica
— Julia Bradbury I HAVEN'T BOUGHT BLUE TICK💙 (@JuliaBradbury) December 7, 2020
#JAILED | A killer who stabbed a young man to death as he enjoyed a night out with friends was jailed for life today, as the victim’s family asked us to share video of the attack as a stark warning about the misery that knife crime inflicts. pic.twitter.com/x4q56227Cz
Man arrested for positing words on Facebook about the BLM pathetic knee nonsense at Millwall. Unbelievable. Britain in 2020 where you get arrested for words that might offend on Facebook 😂 https://t.co/ItakQV0AxC
That “DamienBlackLivesMatter” half-caste is a typical untermensch, who should not be in the UK, nor in any part of Europe. His type is empowered by the current nonsense propaganda.
Most of the abusive accounts (often Jews) on Twitter use pseudonyms to troll and abuse non-Jews. A few use their real (though Anglicized) names, either because they are known publicly as journalists or MPs, or because they have been exposed in court (like Stephen Silverman aka @ssilvuk, and Stephen Applebaum aka @grubstreetsteve, aka @rattus2384).
#Antifa & Lefties want to Trash our History & Destroy Statues, Police do a Knee to them! They get the Soft Police. Riot Police come out for the #Patriots & #MSM Support & Encourage. The Indigenous are Thinking, but Stay Silent in Fear of the Race Card; but That's Changing. pic.twitter.com/gOk8n9cXIz
No, because the best parts of England (especially) are being trashed already, and any new homes will go to unwanted immigrants, meaning migrant-invaders.
Edgar Graham, a barrister, unionist politician and law lecturer, who was murdered by the IRA on Queen's campus on December 7 1983, because he was talented, liberal and they thought him a challenge. In the student's union, republicans were heard cheering the news. https://t.co/cO5km9Eggu
One of the key parts of strengthening a person or a people, is to instill in them a sense of heritage identity, that their resistance and survival, is part of who they are.
That way any contemporary regime state cannot tell them otherwise and make them cattle.
We’re facing something much darker than a virus. 1 in 4 young adults are suicidal. Unemployed workers could lose $150 billion in 2021 and 40 million people are facing eviction. Elites are building a feudal society and telling us to give up everything that makes life worth living. pic.twitter.com/rio0yZ88hi
The upshot (no pun intended) is that an employed barrister who took “upskirt” photos of a woman on the Underground was not disbarred, though he was suspended for six months.
I have no quarrel with the sentence of the Tribunal, though some may think it lenient. However, compare that with my sentence in 2016 for having tweeted a few home truths about, inter alia, Jews, and about that snivelling little cocaine-snorting doormat, Michael Gove: I was disbarred, for having tweeted 5 tweets! I have blogged about it previously: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/
In December 2007, I made my last appearance as a barrister in court, a three-day construction case at Central London County Court, situated in elegant Park Crescent, near Regent’s Park.
The case should never have been allowed to proceed by the (Indian) solicitors involved. I was asked to take on the case at very short notice. I saw the brief on a Saturday, to appear 1-2 days later on Monday morning!
The judge was a bad-tempered man called Collins (I may be wrong but think that he was later elevated to the High Court bench if that was the same Collins (not sure). He was scathing about my clients’ case (quite rightly, it must be admitted, but he might have been a little more polite about it).
Not bad though: no less than 8 acres of private gardens…in Central London!
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Gigantic anti-lockdown rally in Prague. Why on earth do people keep paying to watch state propaganda networks that refuse to show us such real news?#DefundTheBBC#CancelSkypic.twitter.com/DLUYVU7S5J
Nine months too late, after untold needless deaths, savagely divided couples and families, tens of thousands of destroyed jobs, thousands of wrecked businesses conventional 'journalism' awakes. Of course I'm glad, but boy, have they taken their time. @pestonhttps://t.co/UCy2Z2yCJz
Conventional 'journalism' slowly comes round from its stupefied 9-month slumber. I on the other hand *am* saying that strangling our society and economy was a grave and irreparable mistake, disproportionate & wholly avoidable if people such @Peston had been awake at the start. https://t.co/RoRtdUI82V
One of the tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 was that describing Sarkozy as “a gesticulating little Jew” (actually, half-Jew, I believe). Well, members of the jury, was I right or wrong?
I have just now watched a BBC TV show, Putin’s Russia with David Dimbleby. In the programme, Dimbleby goes around Moscow interviewing a variety of people and asking their opinion of V.V. Putin. He started off by interviewing a lady who has had, I think, 10 children, thus ensuring her a medal, significant State financial benefits and a title which is different from but in essence the same as the old Stalin-era one, Mother Heroine of the Soviet Union. Fairly predictable opening gambit.
Dimbleby interviewed a number of dissidents: Yevgenia Albats, a fairly obvious Jewess and anti-Putin journalist; then another woman, who was arrested for 5 minutes, then released without charge, for going to the Duma (Parliament) with a satirical cardboard cutout of a pro-Putin politician accused informally of sexual offences. Hardly Stalinist repression: the same could happen in the UK. Finally, he interviewed an anti-Putin think-tank personage, who says that, while there probably was government interference in the recent Russian Presidential election, Putin would have won anyway. The dissident political figurehead Navalny was mentioned by Dimbleby. Navalny’s poll ratings have usually been well below 20% and his electoral showing as Presidential candidate was about 1%.
On the pro-Putin side, Dimbleby interviewed a smoothly duplicitous Russian Orthodox prelate who would not have been out of place in the Roman Catholic Curia c.1600. It should come as no surprise that the Russian Orthodox Church supports the Russian state. After all, the slogan of late-Tsarist official Pobedonostsev was Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality [Православие, самодержавие, народность]. The Russian Orthodox Church Church (that is, the small part not repressed during the Jewish-dominated years of the Revolution, Civil War, 1920s New Economic Policy and 1930s Stalinism) supported Stalin –or pretended to– during the 1940s, though ignorant peasant Khrushchev again repressed the Church during the late 1950s, the “Thaw”, a period otherwise thought of as “liberal”.
Dimbleby also visited a class of children being taught weapons handling and maintenance, mixed with some patriotism and religion, an ironic twist on non-urban America. Dimbleby went on to talk with others: one ultra-nationalist whose interview was short and not-so-sweet; a group of young people, all Putin supporters. However, his most telling interview was with an Englishman working for RT, who was comfortable with his job and role.
It was pretty irritating to see Dimbleby, mouthpiece of the BBC, which is itself a mouthpiece for the UK Government and (like the UK government) riddled with Jew-Zionists, criticize lack of journalistic and individual liberty in Russia. He himself was party to the planned ambush of (arguably, naive) Nick Griffin on BBC TV Question Time, which (again, arguably) finished off the BNP, until then on a roll. Dimbleby was scathing about what happens in Russia to those who say the “wrong” things. Perhaps he missed the several recent criminal trials in the UK of anti-Zionist dissidents such as Jez Turner of The London Forum (sentenced to 1 year’s imprisonment for making a speech partly about Jews), or Alison Chabloz, convicted of singing satirical songs about the “holocaust” scam and the Jewish fraudsters who make money out of it. Ironically, Alison Chabloz is in court in London tomorrow, for sentence. The last two people named have also had their Youtube channels taken down. Alison Chabloz has also (like me) been expelled from Twitter. “Long live freedom”…
Anyone who was in Russia or the Russophone area in the 1990s (I was: a week in Moscow in 1993, a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1996-97) knows that, at that time, Russia was a wreck of a state, looted by (mainly) Jews. People starved by the million, especially the elderly. Yeltsin was a corrupt puppet. Putin may not be the perfect philosopher-king, and he does have both personal and ideological flaws, but his rule was and still is necessary.
Postscript
Dimbleby also criticized the lack of an independent judiciary in Russia. I was unable to compare that to the English system, in particular to the Alison Chabloz case, in which the defendant, a satirical singer-songwriter persecuted by the Jewish-Zionist lobby, was in court for –in effect– singing songs, because the matter was still before the court. Now that she has been sentenced, I can mention the fact that, at first, she was before the Chief Magistrate for London, one Emma Arbuthnot. The latter is married to a Conservative Party MP who, like 80% of such, is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel; the couple have been on all-expenses-paid trips to Israel. Alison Chabloz, via her lawyers, objected to Mrs Arbuthnot presiding, and she recused herself (stepped down from the case). Arguably better than Russia, but not much.
Ian Robert Millard 