Tag Archives: Dominic Beer

Diary Blog, 6 April 2025

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Labour Friends of Israel member. A Starmer-stein favourite.

…and the Runcorn and Helsby by-election only 24 days away…

[“You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months? 6! 4 of which are paedophiles. Labour MPs: 1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sexual offences, child abduction, and misconduct in public office. The allegations pertain to incidents from the 2000s and a rape allegation from the 2020s. Norris has been released on conditional bail while the investigation continues, and the Labour Party has suspended him, removing the party whip. 2.Mike Amesbury: In February 2025, Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to assault by beating. The incident occurred in October 2024, and Amesbury was suspended by the Labour Party following his arrest. Labour Councillors: 1.Lee Laudat-Scott: In July 2024, Lee Laudat-Scott, a councillor in Hackney, resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a child under 13. His arrest marked the second paedophile scandal in Hackney Council within a year. 2.Ricky Jones: In August 2024, Ricky Jones, a councillor in Dartford, was arrested and subsequently charged with encouraging violent disorder. This followed a speech he made at a counter-protest in Walthamstow, where he allegedly called for violence against far-right protesters. The Labour Party suspended him pending the outcome of legal proceedings. 3.David Graham: In early 2024, David Graham, a senior Labour councillor in Fife, Scotland, was arrested and charged with alleged child grooming offences. Following his arrest, the Labour Party suspended him, and he was due to appear in court at a later date. 4.Desmond Gibbons: In late 2024, Desmond Gibbons, a former Labour councillor on Gedling Borough Council, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after being found with over 600 indecent images of children, some as young as three years old. Gibbons had resigned from the Labour Party and his council position prior to his sentencing.“]

Goodwin omits to say which (((element))) has been profiting from it all, though. Not only (((the usual element))) but 90%, anyway.

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[Hakenkreuz/Swastika; the sacred symbol of positive evolution]

London. Zoo. (London jungle)

Walls. Squads. End.

Can it be that ridiculous and unpleasant little pissant Darren Jones thinks that the NHS is somehow an economic contributor to the UK economy, when it is really something (albeit necessary, so be it) taking out resources overall? Worrying that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury seems to have no grasp of basic economics.

(Israeli) Jews lying? Surely not…

Interesting, but I am more interested in both the present main culture, i.e. our own, the “Germanic-Anglo-Saxon-American” (as Rudolf Steiner put it), and the next main culture (which still lies fifteen hundred years in the future), the Russian/Slavonic.

At present, the Russian culture is almost entirely a borrowing from older cultures, mainly the Graeco-Roman culture and our present “Western” culture, just as Northern Europe only had “borrowed” Graeco-Roman culture until around 1400 AD (or “CE”) and the eruption of the Renaissance, which was essentially a brief recapitulation of the Graeco-Roman age.

There are, as yet, only indications, seen here and there, of that future Russian culture.

Were there more limited foreign aid being sent, were vast sums not being wasted on the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, were there no migration invasion, were there few non-whites living here, and were the UK a fundamentally white European ethnostate, this country would be hugely better off in every way; not only economically but also socially and culturally.

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The trade unions stopped standing up for British workers about 50 years ago, certainly 35 years ago. The unions moved to being just another load of “anti-racism” “anti-sexism” pro-immigration and pro-LGBTXYZ drones. As for supporting higher pay and better working conditions, forget it. The unions long ago stopped seriously pushing for those, and had no power to do so anyway. A waste of space.

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[a painting by someone I knew as a small child, who was the same age as me, who was also a neighbour and, much later, an eminent psychiatrist, but who died in his fifties]

Diary Blog, 27 January 2024

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[El Greco, Adoration of the Holy Name]

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A convincing drubbing of political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored a modest 4/10, which I trumped with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 8, and 9 (and admit that my correct answer to question 5 was an educated guess).

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Ha ha! Many of them actually think like that. The 2,000-3,000 years (or more) of European history and culture are, for most of them, a closed book; they know almost literally nothing about it, and so about us.

Meanwhile, in London, the zoo is no longer that place in Regent’s Park.

…and both Starmer and Angela Rayner got down on one knee in sign of fealty to that nonsense…

Alex Kotlowitz…99% of that sort of propaganda comes from “them” (((them))).

…but say so, and (((someone))) will make a contrived complaint to the otherwise all but inactive police, and you may find yourself in court as a defendant…

A point already made on this blog a day or so ago.

Gideon Rachman

Every. Single. Time.

As noted previously, many of them really believe that, or some version or variant of that…

…and that is what it would be like in France under Marine le Pen, in Germany under the AfD, and in the UK under Farage or Reform UK. Controlled opposition. The touchstone is what any political group says about Israel, the Jew-Zionist lobby, and generally the “JQ”. If they are ideologically unsound on that, you can chuck them in the bin.

It is, apparently, “antisemitic” for non-Jews to play Jewish roles such as Robert Oppenheimer (the nuclear physicist) in a recent TV series, but Jews play white European roles all the time. Apparently, that’s OK (and, no doubt, to prevent that or even complain about it would be —you guessed it— “antisemitic“).

Blacks too, can play any European role (however absurdly), but I have yet to see a European actor playing Nelson Mandela or Muhammad Ali… That will never happen; if it did, our cities would burn to the ground (be burned to the ground).

As noted many times on this blog, the propaganda is not aimed at the adult audience, primarily; the main target is the under-18 demographic, especially children, and the aim is to normalize the existence, and prominence, of non-whites in every part of our society, even when (as in almost any European historical setting) there were no blacks at all. Also, to normalize mixed-race breeding.

It’s almost funny…just as the Soviet Union and the whole “East bloc” (and almost all Western observers) pretended, during the 1980s, that its system, way of life etc would go on pretty much forever (only to find that all that collapsed almost, not quite, overnight in various socialist states in 1989, 1990, 1991), the UK ruling groups are themselves pretty much stuck in a bubble of belief not unalike that Soviet/socialist mindset.

I saw the “East bloc” a few times in the late 1980s, and had a lot of contact with Soviet and ex-Soviet people all through that decade. I get a similar feeling looking at our UK society. The facade is still there, but it is held together with string and glue…

Look at this latest “conscript the British public to fight Russia” nonsense. To some extent, it may be an attempt to prevent the wipe-out of the Conservative Party at GE 2024, but it goes much wider than that. Similar nonsense has come out of Washington, Brussels, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in the past 2 weeks.

In the UK, there seem to be Army top brass, as well as many members of the public, who believe that not only should the UK “fight Russia” but that “we” can (also, note the illusion that the UK is still a “nation”…). Also, that the projected (promoted?) Third World War (against Russia) will be somewhat like a conflation of WW1 and WW2. The usual mistake— “fighting the last war”.

I have as yet seen no colourful graphics from the Daily Mail, Express etc describing vividly what the blasted and irradiated remnant of the UK might be like after a nuclear war…

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Sounds desperate. Maybe, though, that is how John Rentoul and the other Westminster Bubble people really think— that the past 10-20 years in the UK has been really great… maybe life has been, for them and, overall, about 5% of the population…

So a general heating of the political/military atmosphere of the world this year.

Always interesting to see the areas where such events took place. En route back across Europe by car (Turkey to UK) in the summer 2001, my wife and I stumbled upon a small family-run hotel in the Ardennes.

On its own, with no houses nearby, and on a minor road. All around, the country was heavily-wooded, and the hotel (a large 19thC house with a pleasant garden) had had a small restaurant extension added circa 1960 (I think), looking like —and furnished in— the style of some of the scenes in the film North by Northwest.

As we dined, initially alone in the restaurant (later, one other couple appeared, but I think that we were the only other hotel guests), we were told by the waitress (a young woman, one of the owning family) that during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, that house had been the headquarters (or one such) for the American commander, Patton, and that we were occupying the room that Patton himself had used as a bedroom during part of those times (either during or after the actual battle; the exact details were not specified).

The norm in the past has been for the opinion polls to narrow as a general election approaches. This time, with only 10 months to go, and possibly only 8 months, the polls are widening. Why?

For me it is clear that the widening is not because the voters love fake (and Zionist-ruled) “Labour”, and/or wishy-washy bureaucrat-dictator Starmer, but because they —including many former Con voters— actually now hate —and I do mean hate— this incompetent and hopeless “Conservative” government, and want to stamp on it until it dies. They want to kill off (politically) as many Con Party MPs as possible.

No point in going again through all the reasons, but part of, or added to, that long list would obviously be the endless pseudo-“tough” talk on immigration combined with no action whatsoever. Also, now, the craven “support” given to the evil Israeli regime and the UK Jewish lobby; also now the billions (more) being wasted on “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), together with the suggestion that the UK should be placed on a war footing (notionally against Russia), with whatever civil rights still existing removed (eg the fast-disappearing free speech rights). Even the reintroduction of conscription or “National Service”. Madness.

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Rain, sleet, and no shelter or any food for many. Meanwhile, the Jews (both in and out of Israel) claim that their ancestors had it worse in early/mid 1940s Poland, and that their actions in Gaza are legitimate “self-defence”…

That should be the stance taken by all European political leaders.

“Containment” is not at all necessary, because Russia in 2024 has no ideology that would make expansion in any way its national goal, as contrasted with pre-1990s Soviet Marxism-Leninism.

“Ukraine” should really consist of only the territory west of the Dnieper.

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[painting by Dominic Beer]

Diary Blog, 24 August 2023

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I knew the (now-deceased) painter (and leading psychiatrist) Dominic Beer when we were both 5-6 years old. I have previously briefly blogged about him.

Battles past

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That is very true. I have known several mixed-race persons in my life; most if not all were not only very different from their parents (where I also knew them) in both looks and temperament, but had considerable psychological problems.

See also: https://archive.org/stream/aebhw25/aebhw25_djvu.txt.

Looks as though Putin is reasserting control after what I called at the time a modern-day “revolt of the Streltsy” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising] a few months ago. Not exactly a coup or putsch, but something more akin to a demand for privileges and participation in policy-making.

All the same, Putin may regret the apparent passing into history of the Wagner Group. It fought well, despite having been composed, in part, of persons with little conventional military experience.

The brunt of the fighting in Ukraine (and possibly beyond) will now fall upon armoured units, artillery, and air power, not mass infantry formations such as Wagner Group.

Russia cannot “lose” the Ukraine war, unless there is upheaval and/or revolt in Russia itself. Putin seems to have taken the view that Wagner Group had to be dispersed in power and its leaders removed.

Of course, it may be that the air incident was simply an accident, or an assassination by others, eg Kiev-regime services, but those possibilities seem less likely.

Well, they look cheerful enough, not obviously “defeated”, but that group is surely little more than a rabble.

Amazing. Something I have never seen, nor even heard about, previously.

A good cause…

https://www.gofundme.com/f/our-resident-aunt-fannys-cat.

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The tweets refer to an interview with Trump and the “alt-Right” commentator Tucker Carlson.

No matter which candidates win the Republican and Democratic nominations, and no matter who ends up as the next U.S. President, the victor will have to stop the present slide to nuclear war. Take away the Jew Zelensky’s ricebowl. Stop giving money and arms to “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). Stop supporting Israel, too.

On a lighter note…

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What happens if Trump now receives the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 election? What happens if he then wins?

Is he expecting a nuclear war in Europe? Is the rat leaving the sinking ship?

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[the Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation]

Diary Blog, 11 February 2023

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5(Prokofiev)]

On this day a year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul: I scored 8/10 as against his 4/10 (he says “4 and a half“). I did not know the answers to questions 1 and 7.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738375/DAVID-JONES-investigates-bloody-death-Swedens-liberal-dream.html.

Sweden is now full of useless and/or hostile trash, just like the UK. Jews such as Barbara Lerner Spectre were behind much of it in Sweden, and Jews and Jewish groups are behind much of the “refugees welcome” propaganda in the UK too.

Those Swedes (and British) who still support mass immigration and a mixed-race society can mostly be dismissed as total “shitheads”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738145/Protesters-clash-cops-outside-asylum-seeker-hotel-Merseyside.html

Talking of “shitheads”, read the comments of System MP, George Howarth [Lab. Knowsley]. A complete deadhead and System drone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Howarth.

“Grifter” and disgraced “refugees welcome” “ho”, Clare Moseley, was also at the scene, it seems. She has been doing this for years: see https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3924505/married-calais-jungle-charity-boss-who-romped-with-toyboy-migrant-fears-for-her-life-after-refugee-lover-tried-to-burn-down-her-hq/.

Meanwhile…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11737185/Health-tourists-155-countries-run-219million-unpaid-NHS-bills.html.

Mostly maternity services, i.e. blacks (mostly) who come to the UK to have babies at NHS expense, and so that their offspring will be able to get UK passports later. What a ******* disgrace that the System allows this to happen— and indeed encourages it.

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I still doubt that anyone can feed a family of 4 adequately (for a whole week) for £20, but who knows—maybe I am mistaken…

Wars and rumours of wars“?

The next great war is in the pipeline, being pushed by, mainly, secretive Western cabals and ruling circles. The Jewish element, though only part of that, is unmistakably there; you only have to look at Twitter. The “Ukrainian” regime in Kiev is predominantly (and even confessedly) Jew-Zionist, and is headed by the Jew Zelensky, a quasi-dictator as well as figurehead.

Those cabals want to not only hit Russia but to control its development into the future. We are still in the first third of the 5th Post-Atlantean Age. Russia will lead the better or more advanced part of the world in the 6th Post-Atlantean Age, from about 3500 AD. The evil powers behind those secretive cabals want to stunt Russian development of soul so as to control whatever emerges in the next Age.

According to a large 28,000-person poll conducted at the turn of the month by FindOutNow and statistically modelled by Electoral Calculus for The Telegraph, the Conservatives would win just 45 seats in an immediate general election, while the SNP would have 50.

[Professor Sir John Curtice, in the Daily Telegraph]

“...in an immediate general election“. “Immediate“…aye, there’s the rub, because there is not going to be an immediate general election.

True, it is hard to see what rabbit can be pulled out of the hat in the next 20 months, but anything is at least possible. As the Professor concedes. “In truth, we are in unchartered waters. Given the unprecedented scale of the fall in Tory support, nobody can be sure what the outcome in seats would be if the current polls were reflected in the ballot boxes.”

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As I noted yesterday, “Jack Monroe” really is the “grift” that keeps on giving or, rather, taking…

Oddly, “Jack Monroe”, who is now back on Twitter after her latest “exhausted” “mental breakdown” (or cosplay thereof), the third or fourth one in a year, I think, is now tweeting that her non-existent “libel case” against Conservative MP Lee Anderson is “a very clear-cut case, according to my lawyer” (who may or may not be self-promoting Jew, Mark Lewis, who acted for her years ago in the child’s-play Katie Hopkins matter).

The remarks Lee Anderson made about “Jack Monroe” may have been libellous on their face, but not only would Lee Anderson have the defence of those remarks having been true, and other defences perhaps, but also there is the time limitation. The remarks were made on or before mid-May 2022, so any action brought has to be started (proceedings issued) by the same date in 2023.

So far, according to what I have seen on Twitter, not only have no proceedings been brought, but no pre-action correspondence has been received by either of the two suggested defendants, Lee Anderson and (political commentator) Martin Daubney.

Practice notes suggest that any libel action begun very late in the day will result, even if successful, in costs consequences against the claimant (“plaintiff”, as was).

There now stand 3 months only before mid-May 2023.

My opinion? As blogged previously— that “Jack Monroe” will not be suing Lee Anderson or Martin Daubney. Which raises the question of how much money “Jack Monroe” raised from mugs on the promise of her suing Lee Anderson et al, and where that money went.

Msm idiots, this time from the ipaper, still regarding that copperbottomed fake as some kind of “expert” on poverty…

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Unfortunately, “Jack Monroe” is pretty ignorant about almost everything, including what is or is not libellous, and what is or is not actionable libel.

Incredibly, as of today, two more utter mugs have signed up to send “Jack Monroe” money via Patreon; so that’s 500 mugs, all sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month. As “earners” (or scams) go, not bad…

…and tweeter “@AngeinParis” is not only “in Paris” but also, despite saying that she is “still poor“, lives in fact in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, one of the most affluent suburbs of Paris. Typical “Jack Monroe” fan, in fact. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Why would “Jack Monroe” give up the “cosplay” that is “earning” her (via Patreon alone) between £1,750 and £22,000 a month? Probably around £6,000, each and every month. Plus any writing for newspapers and magazines. Plus interviews. Plus stray donations. Plus royalties on her 7 or 8 books (though the latest one has bombed, now that her credibility is shot).

As already noted, as of today, the number of Patreon “patrons” (utter mugs) sending money to the “Bootstrap Cook” is exactly 500.

[quotation from the recent interview “Jack Monroe” gave to the Guardian]

Which makes the offer to her of (presumably, paid) writing work, made by the ipaper (the short version of the Independent) even less comprehensible. “Jack Monroe” has no credibility left (there again, though, neither has the ipaper!)…

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Snake-oil salesman Farage is of course correct here, though it does not say much for his alma mater, Dulwich College (he did not attend university), that he uses the verb “portend” wrongly (using it as a noun)— the correct word would have been “portent“.

Still, Farage is quite right about the System importation into the UK of completely useless and often dangerous and/or hostile blacks, browns, and others.

Incidentally, I notice that the above tweet was retweeted by a tweeter calling himself “Ian Millard” and “@IanMillard100”.

In case anyone is wondering, that “Ian Millard” is not me. I presume that it is just someone with the same, or a similar, name. When I was on Twitter (until the Jew element had me expelled in 2018), there was yet another “Ian Millard” also on Twitter, who worked, I believe, in a small Tesco store in Bedfordshire, and who (no doubt to his great irritation) often received some of the flak put up on Twitter by Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other mindless nuisances, and intended for me.

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https://katieroche.net/jack_monroe_investigation_part_two.html

In the old London argot, “bang to rights“! That report should be sent to, inter alia, Jessie Hewitson of the “ipaper“.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11730793/Nurse-suspended-NHS-course-health-chiefs-saying-white-doesnt-make-racist.html

A Christian nurse was left with ‘crippling anxiety’ after she was ‘bullied’ by ‘woke‘ NHS chiefs for saying that being white doesn’t make you racist.

Amy Gallagher, 34, a mental health nurse from Orpington, Kent, was on a forensic psychology course training to be a psychotherapist at the Portman clinic, which is part of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline Amy has revealed how NHS bosses caused her ‘crippling anxiety’ after she challenged their ‘racist’ and ‘offensive’ views in lectures she was forced to attend.

Lecturers at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust told her ‘whites don’t understand the world’ and ‘Christianity is responsible for racism because it’s European’ in a series of ‘politically biased’ talks.

One of the Tavistock’s seminars was even called ‘Whiteness — a problem for our time’ and included a description on the Trust’s website that ‘the problem of racism is a problem of whiteness’.

When Amy challenged these controversial views she was ‘bullied’ by staff and suspended from the course, pending an investigation into whether she is safe to work with patients. 

Almost a year later, no investigation has taken place.

It means her dream of becoming a psychotherapist is hanging by a thread.

As if that wasn’t enough, a course lecturer also tried to get her banned from her day job as a practising mental health nurse.

[Daily Mail].

Whites don’t understand the world“? Do they mean the world we, the white Europeans, largely created, certainly in the past 2,000 years?

Who exactly were the guilty? What race-groups were they from? They shouldc be named and more than merely shamed.

We need a revolution, a social-national revolution in this country. I think that it could happen. People have been pushed and pushed, pushed against the wall. Look at that report (and hundreds of similar cases); look at Knowsley and the whole continuing migration-invasion; look at what happened at the Tate (now “Tate Britain”). People are sick of it all, and before long will be saying “...and I’m not going to take it any more!“. We need to deal with all of the **** at once.

Also, look at the state of the police, the judicial bench, and the Westminster monkeyhouse.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11739567/Riot-sparked-local-fury-schoolgirl-posted-video-saying-sexually-harassed.html.

We know what has to be done, nationwide, but the facts cannot be expressed because we live in a creeping police state, and it worsens by the day.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11739361/Right-wing-protesters-clash-outside-Tate-Britain-drag-queen-story-telling-children.html.

Look at the readers’ comments to those reports. Most of the real British people are with us, at least subconsciously and, increasingly, consciously.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/metropolitan-police-sam-grigg-bondage-twickenham-court-b1059424.html

More from the world of “our wonderful police”…

More yet? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/high-court-edinburgh-england-b1059475.html.

More yet? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-buckinghamshire-scotland-southwark-crown-court-perthshire-b1059144.html

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[St. Petersburg in winter]

Diary Blog, 10 January 2022, with more reminiscences about early contemporaries

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On this day a year ago

If I say so myself, another blog post that has worn very well indeed.

From 2019

I see that the blog post about the Jew-Zionists plotting in the Labour Party, below, from almost three years ago, has had a few hits. Having just reread it, I think that it, also, has stood the test of time rather well: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/11/9853/.

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I have still not worked out why almost all Jews, at least on Twitter, are fanatically pro-lockdowns, the “vaccines”, and pro the facemask nonsense (almost all facemasks are useless, as can be seen easily in cold temperatures, where the vapour is seen escaping as people breathe; “Covid” is water-borne…).

No doubt the Jews concerned would claim that they hold those views because they are terribly intelligent and/or educated, but my experience of them as a group leads me to think not…

A puzzle.

Basically, a billion pounds a year wasted on a horde of uninvited, useless, often hostile interlopers and invaders. While British people freeze in doorways, sleep in cars, and otherwise struggle.

The “refugees welcome” dimwits, and moneygrubbing cheats such as expenses fraudster “lord” Dubs (a Jew who entered the UK just before WW2). should be placed before a people’s court.

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1939. Bette Davis looked very different when I saw her close-up in the flesh, about 47 years later.

“Call no man happy until he is dead”

Nearly 4 years ago, I posted a blog article with the above title. In it, I examined, inter alia and I hope humorously, the post-school life-courses of a few people I knew as a teenager. https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/07/02/call-no-man-happy-until-he-is-dead/

Now, the fates of a few other people I knew, but this time I knew them between the ages of 5-10. Of the three people noted, two are already dead, despite having been my contemporaries. A reminder that we must all do what we can for the race and the world during our short incarnations.

The first is Dominic Beer, who when I knew him, aged 5-7, was a small child of a like age, who lived across a wide road from my own home in Caversham Heights, now and even then a suburb of Reading, situated on high ground across the Thames, a few miles from the town itself and on the border of Oxfordshire.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Heights].

Dominic was a dark-haired, quick-witted, clever child, quite friendly, who seemed older than his years. As I recall, his mother was smallish and dark-haired too; I do not recall his father (maybe I never saw him), though I vaguely recall that Dominic had a (younger?) sister.

Not sure why, but I got the impression when visiting his home, if I recall aright (this was around 1961-62, i.e. 60 years ago), that there was something different, perhaps foreign, about Dominic and his family. I now know that Beer can be German or Jewish, but I would not have known that then.

I knew no Jews, and the only German I had ever encountered, outside the realms of comic books and war films on black and white TV, or watching my All Our Yesterdays [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Our_Yesterdays_(TV_series)] with my grandparents (my grandfather having been both at Dunkirk and in Burma during WW2), was my mother’s German part-time au pair, Ilka, a kind, bespectacled girl of about 18, who really worked for (and lived with) another family in the neighbourhood, but with whom she did not get on well; Ilka therefore split her time.

I still remember that, when she returned to Germany, Ilka gave my brothers and me little wash-bags with items such as coloured soap in the shape of a puppy-dog. Very German, I suppose. A nice girl. She must be, if still alive, about 78 now.

Be that as it may, I lost touch with Dominic Beer (despite the physical proximity of our homes) after his parents moved him from Caversham Primary School (a couple of miles away) to a private prep school called Hemdean House (not very far, maybe a half-mile, from our homes). I think that, before that, when still aged about 5, we had shared, with a couple of other children, rides to and from school in an ancient green car known as “Mr. Shute’s taxi”. Old Mr. Shute had a garage (I think no fuel, and mainly repairs done) some distance away, but still within the area.

Dominic apparently went on to the well-known school, Leighton Park, a Quaker establishment in Reading, the alumni of which have included Michael Foot (one-time Labour Party leader), Richard Rodney Bennett (composer), David Lean (film director), and Nathaniel Parker (actor), among many others.

Whatever his origins, Dominic was apparently “converted” to active Christianity while a student [Wadham, Oxford]. I saw this:

Dominic went to Wadham College, Oxford in 1975 to study German and History, but even then was considering medicine. Discovering that having no science A-levels did not necessarily disbar him, he started 1st MB at Guys in 1978, and graduated in 1984. He developed an interest in psychiatry and began a training rotation at Guys, interrupting this with Wellcome Foundation support to gain his MD in the history of psychiatry.

In 1994 he was appointed consultant at Bexley Hospital, Kent, for a locked 15-bedded ‘challenging behaviour’ ward, and shocked by the lack of purpose and definition, the bad conditions, and the siege mentality, he and colleagues researched psychiatric intensive care units nationally. This led to founding the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care and Low Secure Units (NAPICU) and to co-editing the first textbook in the field, Psychiatric Intensive Care.

As his career progressed until early retirement on medical grounds in 2011, he held many teaching, lecturing and examining posts within London University; published some 70 research papers; refereed for journals; took on more management and fund-raising responsibilities; and was recognised as a leader who modelled his concern that patients requiring psychiatric intensive care should be treated in ‘a decent and concerned way’. That same colleague described his light touch in tricky situations (‘extraordinary legerdemain’), his calming presence, and his being always unflappable. They still ask sometimes ‘What would Dominic do?’ “[See also: https://www.cmf.org.uk/resources/publications/content/?context=article&id=26079].

So when, in the mid/late 1970s, I was struggling with political matters and theory, while also working in low-level occupations, or travelling and having misadventures in places like Rhodesia, Dominic was a medical student. Was my life “the road less travelled”?

I saw this, too:

Dr Dominic Beer was a consultant psychiatrist with Oxleas Mental Health Trust for many years. He was a PICU and challenging behaviour expert but also a cricketer, historian, artist and family man. He died in April 2013 from cancer and is survived by his loving wife and four children, parents, sister, friends, innumerable clinicians and patients whose lives he touched with his counsel and wisdom.” [http://www.beerharrismemorialtrust.org/dominic.htm].

Dominic Beer was also, in later life, a noted painter.

Dominic died, it seems, in 2013, from cancer.

[Addendum, 18 January 2022: just saw this Daily Telegraph obit., but it is behind a paywall, and I refuse to pay, so have not read it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10186242/Dominic-Beer.html].

Another child I knew up to the age of 9 or 10 was one Michael Streather, who was like a 50-year old professor at the age of 8! He later attended Christ’s Hospital and then, after degrees at Bristol, York, and City University in London, became another one involved with mental health, though as strategic analyst of health services, his last title being “Head of Intelligence (Mental Health)”, based at Cambridge, where it seems that he was also an active member of the Labour Party:

I am pretty sure that he is the one wearing sunglasses in the above tweet photos.

Michael Streather died, it seems, in 2019, at age 62 or so.

A third contemporary, Mark Burgess, is still living, and thriving; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Burgess_(children%27s_author).

Like Michael Streather, a Christ’s Hospital scholar, and another child who always struck me as middle-aged despite being only 8 or so. I remember him as someone who had a serious problem with his legs (he used crutches) at age (?) 7 or 8. A serious child, by my recollection.

His Wikipedia entry does not, oddly, mention either the crutches or his home in Caversham Heights from when he was aged 7 or 8 until at least the age of 14 (in 1970, when I last met him at his parents’ large but seemingly slightly gloomy —just an impression from long ago— house, walking distance from my own, after my family returned from Australia).

It seems that Mark Burgess has written and illustrated 30 books and illustrated nearly 40 others as well. Quite an achievement.

Interesting, to track people through life.

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I have read, over decades, enormous quantities from Americans about how their supposed Constitutional right to bear arms guarantees their liberty etc. How is that working out? Not well, I think. As Hitler said, “it’s not the weapon, it’s the man behind it [that matters].”

The spirit of Ned Kelly needs to rise up again…

I was blogging about this only yesterday.

Another (((one))), methinks…

As I have been blogging for a while, the transnational conspiracy has exactly such tactics in mind. The “Covid” “panicdemic” is one way of introducing a global or at least “Western” police state, but there are other ways too, the fear of “terrorism” being one. The whole “climate change” narrative, too.

I blogged about the present Pope (actually, an “antipope”) a while ago, and about how, inter alia, the Jesuit Order has finally conquered the Papacy: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/11/07/diary-blog-7-november-2021/.

[Papal coat of arms of Pope Francis, showing the Jesuit coat of arms dominating centrally]

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