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Diary Blog, 13 June 2026

Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10 (two of which being “educated” guesses), thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 5, and 7.

Tweets seen

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. A global conspiracy.

[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[girls of the BDM (Bund Deutscher Madel) riding in a German forest, 1930s]
[Hitler signs autographs for some young supporters near Berchtesgaden, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Should read “...Muslims and Jews and the government“, of course…

Sophie Meaden. A young Valkyrie.

The bad-joke “Talk TV” online-only “television” channel, which not only crowed along with the malicious lying and perjuring Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” after my 2023 free speech trial and subsequent 2024 sentencing, but tweeted (completely wrongly and, indeed, libellously) that I had been “imprisoned“. In fact the penalty imposed on me was both a financial one (amounting to over £700), and also a fairly brief (in the event) and not too onerous “community order”: see

“Talk TV” is an Israel-lobby front, and often invites the liar and perjurer Stephen Silverman, of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” fake “charity”, a volunteer arm (some of them are paid, in fact) of the Israeli Embassy in London.

Reverting to the Reform/Restore situation, my attitude to Restore is not very different to how I see Reform, i.e. a useful tool in moving the overall Overton Window, meaning moving the general weight or bias of public opinion. Even if Reform or Restore were to win a general election, the (((usual fix))) is already in, certainly in Reform, and possibly soon in Restore.

What matters is not the next GE, or which party “wins”, but what happens when the party that wins that GE is unable to improve the degenerating situation in this country, and so loses both credibility and control. Then…

Good point(s).

More good points. See also:

More tweets

For over 30 years, living standards in the corrupt and shambolic Ukrainian fake state have been declining. Only now, and only in the regions under Russian rule, are they starting to improve.

[“NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read

— Andy Burnham is planning to move quickly after Makerfield to secure a coronation. His supporters think John Healey’s resignation kills off Keir Starmer’s chances of survival. They think Wes Streeting and Al Carns don’t have the numbers, and that Burnham can quickly get 250+ Labour MPs and most of the cabinet to back him.

— Starmer insists he’ll fight, but the question is what the cabinet does. Burnham’s supporters want them to tell the PM to agree a handover. Before Healey resigned, Starmer’s allies hoped he could battle on because most of the cabinet would back him to stay. Aides suggest the calculus is changing and Healey’s brutal exit makes it more likely they tell Starmer it’s over.

— Even Starmer loyalists are very critical of the PM. They wish he’d been bolder, found the defence money from welfare, net zero or elsewhere, and sacked Ed Miliband. Several allies say they can’t believe Miliband and Shabana Mahmood (who they say privately plotted with Burnham and Miliband to oust Starmer) are still in the cabinet, but Healey isn’t. One says that’s the final evidence of his lack of authority, political judgment and decision-making ability.

— Starmer’s relationship with Rachel Reeves has been tested to the limit. Her resistance led Starmer to renege on his Munich speech and overrule Healey and Jonathan Powell. She effectively buried his survival strategy of focusing on security. Reeves allies argue it’s her job to make the numbers add up and if Starmer wanted more money for defence he could have imposed more departmental cuts but was unwilling.

— Burnham will not keep Reeves on as his chancellor, despite her allies pitching her to stay. Reappointing her would not be the change he’s promising, one Burnham supporter says. They say they spoke to Reeves around the locals and came away believing she would help them persuade Starmer to go, but she didn’t follow through.

— The turmoil is rattling UK allies. European diplomats contacted British counterparts in recent days complaining about the uncertainty over the UK’s defence spending plans, the slow pace of the uplift and Healey’s departure. They’ve also asked for information about Burnham’s plans for foreign policy and defence but got no answer.

— If Burnham does become PM he’ll face the same problems. His critics say he’s never uttered a word of substance on defence or foreign policy, shows no interest in it and has no plan. It is not impossible that in the next few months the British PM has to join negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. “Can you imagine Burnham doing that?” asks one official, especially with Powell likely to leave with Starmer.

— Starmer’s chaos also distracted from what might otherwise have been a bad week for Burnham. He got away with his WASPI gaffe thanks to Healey. Labour MPs are also critical of his plans on immigration. One aide said his proposal to end asylum hotel contracts and move responsibility for housing migrants to local authorities is amateurish and toxic.

— It all leaves Labour MPs in a state of total despair. Starmer looks finished but Burnham has no obvious plan and keeps making basic mistakes that foreshadow another troubled premiership, one said. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour appears to have no other options.“]

Interesting, but fails to make the point that any money spent on “defence” at this point is simply money thrown away.

The “threats” to our country and society do not come from Russia, not at all (that’s just msm propaganda nonsense) but from demographic change, the change from being a relatively civilized white European society to a multikulti dystopian mess, an approaching near-anarchy made worse by falling living standards and migration invasion.

Our animal friends.

Ed Miliband. That crazy Jew.

Incidentally, I have never found an answer as to where the family money came from. I have tried to analyze it on the blog previously. We are told that the Miliband father arrived in the UK during the early stages of WW2, young and as a “penniless” “refugee” who had lost his family wealth by reason of the “Nazis”. However, not long after WW2, in the 1950s, certainly by the early 1960s, the family (mother was also supposedly a “refugee”) was in a house in expensive Primrose Hill, and then in —really?— The Boltons, Kensington, one of the most expensive addresses in the country.

Did the Milibands, like so many Jews, have money secreted overseas/offshore? We do not know. What about today, in 2026?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak

I remember that, sometime around 2010 or 2012, Jeremy Paxman interviewed Ed Miliband, and made an oblique reference to the Miliband family wealth, but Miliband deflected and tried to laugh it off.

Many of Britain’s ultra-wealthy have considerable funds offshore.

Actually, on a personal and not directly-related point, I remember being told, prior to a flying visit to Liechtenstein in 2002, that the person I was flying out to see (you have to fly to Zurich and then drive to Vaduz, which takes another ~2-hours), a quintessentially-English-named Mr. Jeeves, who was in the offshore industry and was also the Honorary Consul (British Consul) in Liechtenstein, was also an agent of, or at least source for, SIS.

Mr. Jeeves apparently dealt with large amounts of offshore (i.e. tax-avoiding) monies on behalf of some very or ultra-wealthy British people, including the then Queen (Elizabeth II) and Mick Jagger. So I was told, anyway.

Looking up today, online, the global Jeeves Group, though, I notice that the person I went to see in 2002 is not now directly involved in operating the organization; he and his brother were at least in their sixties, I should imagine, and may well be deceased, 24 years after I met one of them.

Wouldn’t those “antifa” cretins get a massive shock if [REDACTED BY REASON OF UK POLICE-STATE CENSORSHIP]…

[“The British People are fully on board with deporting all illegal migrants. Good.

Now it’s time to turn to the reality that legal migration is the far bigger problem.

There are approx 14 million third-world descent migrants in Great Britain.

If we do not urgently reverse legal migration, we will soon become a minority in our homeland. We are already a minority in a quarter of schools.

Some might say that remigration is extreme, but I would argue that being willing to give up our only homeland is far, far more extreme.

Without the Native British People, there is no Britain.“]

Losing“? That boat sailed long ago, Goodwin. A major factor has been the promotion of mass immigration for 80+ years (mostly, though not entirely, by the Jewish element in politics, law, and the mainstream media).

Only wading through very unpleasant swamps will now save the British people, and I doubt that Reform UK is up to what may need to be done.

[“What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process:

-an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast
-while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life

-then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either
-while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was rped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan -while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for rpe
-while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12
-and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run
-and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley.

That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK.”]

A couple of point: first, the “Bulgarians” mentioned were almost certainly Gypsies from Bulgaria, not ethnic Bulgarians. Bulgarians, like Romanians, are often tarred, very wrongly, with the brush that should be reserved for the Gypsy element from both countries.

Second, why does Goodwin never mention the fact that Jews such as now-dismissed p/t judge, barrister Simon Myerson of Leeds, have actually set up “charities” to import more Afghans etc?

In fact, Goodwin always avoids criticism of Israel and of any Jews (with the exception of the Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, but Polanski is one of those Jews other Jews love to hate).

In my view, one element that really does need to be addressed, urgently, by Government in the UK is not black or brown (etc)— the nasty Irish-origined tinker/”traveller” element. In fact, properly “addressing” that problem might encourage some of the blacks and browns (etc) to depart “voluntarily”.

Apocalypse Now

Saw a long recording of the final director’s cut of the famous film, Apocalypse Now. More than impressive, and makes much more sense than the usual much-cut-down version that I have seen in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Apocalypse_Now_Final_Cut

Quite many films have been butchered; to what extent, you only understand once you see fuller versions: The Wicker Man (1973) is far far better in the rather longer versions. I once had a copy of the Director’s Cut version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man#Director’s_cut

Same goes for Taxi Driver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver

One film that I thought only just made sense when I first saw it in France is Les Rivieres pourpres. I read later that the director had cut out a high proportion of the film as originally made; as far as I know, no longer cut exists in the public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Rivers

A great pity.

Late tweets

Look at them. As I suspected, not “Bulgarians” but Gypsies from Bulgaria.

Now, those little Scottish girls have been vindicated, the Gypsies convicted, and Police Scotland (and Humza Yusaf) shamed (yet again).

All the msm etc are talking about the Makerfield by-election as if the whole future of the UK rests on it. No, because even if Burnham wins, which is now probable though not certain, he has, and Labour has, nothing much in the tank. Same-old, really.

Good point.

People are getting desperate for a real Britain and a real British political vehicle. Unconsciously, they want social nationalism but are, by reason of a century of mostly Jewish anti-“Nazi” propaganda, mostly completely unaware of that.

I believe the graph. When I was in the Caribbean, I was told that, if a local (i.e. black) man marries a woman with existing teenage or even pre-teen daughters, it is almost expected that the girls come with their mother as a kind of sexual package deal for the man.

Incidentally, why do so many “woke” cretins not understand “per capita“? Must be an educational failure.

Not hard to believe at all. It is simply that Starmer-stein has outlived his usefulness by reason of not only his own incompetence but also that of his entire Labour Friends of Israel Cabinet.

By reason of Starmer’s failing credibility, the organ-grinders need a new monkey to draw in the punters…Arise, Andy Burnham…

Oh, I see that System mouthpiece and “asset” Paul Mason is there too. What a surprise…(use the search box on the blog to see my assessments of Mason).

Always. The “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, for example, has repeated “form” for claiming thousands on the streets at their events, when the true number has, at times, been no more than 100 or even 50.

I repost that tweet despite the individual in question having repeatedly tweeted against me a decade ago. #MoralHighGround.

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Diary Blog, 27 December 2025

Morning music

[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week— 6/10, as against political journalist John Rentoul’s 3/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, and 7. I guessed the first two words of question 7, but not the final one.

Tweets seen

Amazing.

Human ingenuity is amazing.

Ha ha! Brava!

Keir Starmer”? Oh, him! Starmer-stein…

I wonder how many have faked qualifications etc.

System politicians know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Russia must win this war, but neither side should be directly targeting civilians (if that is what that was; seems unclear; it might have been a legitimate military target, such as a general’s or intelligence official’s apartment). The Kiev regime engages in drone terror attacks against Russian civilians almost daily, so itself does not have clean hands.

Whatever Zelensky says or does, and whatever referendum is held, and whatever the result, Russia is not going to cede control of the Donbass or any other territory.

The Kiev regime is quite plainly now losing the war, its troops are deserting or being killed, and all territorial gains are in one direction.

Once the USA cuts off funding and arms supplies, the game is up (whatever may be then done by pitiful Starmer-stein, Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, or that peculiar creature who now poses as German Chancellor).

(((Quite)))…

Well said. Brava!

Superficially, yes. What difference would 150 make? No difference. The Kiev regime loses about 1,000 in a day, on average. About the same number via desertions.

In fact, were there ever a Russia-NATO conflict, one of Russia’s 6,000+ nuclear weapons would vaporize the base of the new recruits on the first day, or in the first week anyway.

Anyone joining the NWO/ZOG “British” Army at this time, especially in the ranks, is almost certainly a mug.

Late tweets

[“OFFENSIVE ON ALL FRONTS” — Russian General Staff on the advance of their troops Russian troops are conducting an offensive on all fronts of the special military operation, in the face of the futile attempts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to contain their advance, reported the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, on Saturday.“]

[“If the Kiev authorities do not want to end the matter peacefully, we will solve all the tasks facing us during the Special Military Operation by armed means – Putin The Russian President stressed that, given the pace of the offensive, Russia’s interest in withdrawing the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the occupied territories is reduced to zero.”]

Israel is doomed.

Remigration is one solution, and a difficult one to accomplish.

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Diary Blog, 19 August 2025

Morning music

Tweets seen

Starmer, Macron, Merz, other puppets and political frauds “leading” nations of, mostly, so far, sheep.

I begin to think that the hidden hand guiding Europe to a massive and unwinnable war with Russia will not be thwarted, that Europe will (as Rudolf Steiner seems to have predicted) be devastated, and that all we, as social nationalists, can do is to form post-Aryan communities and withdraw from the main society; build for the future.

That may seem like defeatism, but we must be realistic. The “democratic” (Parliamentary road) way forward is under (((control))) in several ways (look at Reform UK).

Don’t forget that Gideon Falter has not only lied many times in public, but also has committed perjury more than once (though, admittedly, he has never been charged with the latter). The Rowan Laxton appeal case, 15 years ago, was one matter in which Falter’s sworn testimony was “not accepted”. The judge, in allowing Laxton’s appeal from earlier conviction in the magistrates’ court, gave little or no weight to Falter’s sworn testimony. Laxton, a member of the Foreign Office, later became an ambassador.

https://www.thejc.com/news/foreign-office-man-wins-appeal-against-race-abuse-claim-gyp2ql35

Falter and “Slitherman” (the two main public faces of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) are both hardened and prolific Jew-Zionist liars. They seem to have forgotten the Mosaic injunction “Thou shalt not bear false witness“…

This whole “proscription” thing is a mess. People should be punished for what they do (in concrete terms) not for saying things “in support” of this or that organization, or for belonging to something.

There you see, in Israel-puppet scribbler Dan Hodges, the sheer unreality of much of the UK milieu(x) of scribblers, talking heads, dim MPs etc. Especially in relation to the Ukraine conflict.

Hodges wants, or thinks he wants, to confront Russia, a state which possesses as many as 7,000 nuclear weapons. He seems to think it the acme of Realpolitik to pretend that the UK is “up for” war with Russia. “Bring it on“, say Hodges and dim politicos such as Ben Wallace, the ex-MP and (ludicrously) one-time Secretary of State for Defence.

Wallace, whose highest military rank was captain (in the Guards), was heard drunkenly proclaiming that the Scots Guards had beaten the Russians in some skirmish about two centuries ago, and could do so again. He was Secretary of State at the time…

I think that British people should require a far higher standard of both education and intelligence from those who aspire to political leadership.

As for Hodges, his view appears to be that not only should the UK and EU states stuff even more taxpayer money into “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), and ever-more arms and ammunition, but even have British troops stationed there; maybe even actually fighting.

Needless to say (?), that would spark, if not WW3, then Russian attacks on both the British troops Hodges wants stationed in Ukraine, and possibly on the UK itself, depending on what those British troops were to do.

Incidentally, Ukrainian losses on the front-lines are between 1,000-3,000 per day. How long do you imagine British troops (the contingent of which would probably only be a few thousand, because most of the British Army is far from battle-ready) could last, if exposed to actual fighting?

Do scribblers such as Hodges have any conception of what might happen in a NATO war with Russia? To mention only one factor that might interest Hodges (who lives at Blackheath, S.E. London), the almost immediate annihilation of everything in the London area.

I might add that, looking at Trump’s smoke signals, there is every possibility that, in a war with Russia, NATO itself would be conspicuous by its absence. It might well be “the Coalition of the Willing” (coalition of clowns such as Starmer and Macron) against Russia, with the USA itself standing back (along with China etc).

“Coalition of the Willing” v. Russia. Which one would you bet on, in a major war? We are talking about a coalition of the degraded nations of the UK, France, Germany, a few others. The idea is pathetic, and also rather dangerous if the politicians involved really believe in it.

Hodges thinks that a war with Russia is a risk worth taking, to protect the Kiev regime in Ukraine. There is a kind of mad delusion in this. Hodges is not the only victim. It is rife among Brit MPs and msm scribblers.

Ukraine has only existed as a state for 34 years, during which years its ordinary population has been consistently among the poorest in Europe (while a tiny percentage, often Jews like Zelensky, have amassed billions), and while it has been, consistently, the most corrupt “state” of Europe.

Kiev-regime Ukraine has abandoned elections (effectively forever), banned trade unions and all real opposition parties and voices, and kidnaps men off the street to serve on open-ended forced “commitment” on the crumbling front lines. In fact, few serve for long before being killed, badly wounded, or captured.

Is “Ukraine” worth supporting as it now is? I say no.

Would mean 333 Reform MPs, 134 Lab, 69 LibDem, 46 Con (etc). Reform majority in Commons— 7 (bare) or ~21 (working).

[“Can anyone help explain what was going on here. Today I was driving near High Wycombe. A Thames Valley police car was behind me for a minute or so. As I came to a complicated set of mini-roundabouts, it turned on its blue lights and set off its siren, forcing me to pull over in a dangerous section of road between the roundabouts. A policeman came over, bent down by the window and asked in the chummiest of tones: “Are you having a good day?” I said I was until he showed up. He asked if my name was Jonathan Cook. He then asked what I was doing here. I responded that I was visiting family. Was that a problem? He answered that it was routine to make checks on what he called “cross-border activity”. When I asked him what he meant by “cross-border activity”, he said the car was registered to an address in Bristol, and that was a two and a half hour drive away – it’s not, it’s 1 hour 45 minutes away. He added that it was a long way to come. I must have looked slightly stunned. He told me not to worry, wished me well and – with a smile – said I could continue on my way. Have others had a similar experience? Is it now normal to be stopped in the UK simply because you’re driving more than 90 minutes from home?“]

Low-level (political?) intimidation. I have no idea who is the tweeter, but his Twitter/X bio-details say “Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Bristol / Nazareth“.

The poundland police state in the UK, which has mainly emerged since Blair took power in 1997, and which became both overbearing and totally stupid during the 2020-2022 years of the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, is still rather velvet glove and not (yet?) iron fist, but the essence is still police-state-ism. That police car stop was really saying “We know who you are, we know where you live and [unspoken] we know you take an interest in Israeli/Palestinian matters”…

A shot across the bows, in short.

I now see that the original tweeter is indeed interested in Palestinian matters:

Anyone, from central government, local government, the Press, the TV or radio, or wherever, encouraging or facilitating the migration invasion of this country, is a traitor to the future, and must be designated as such.

Maybe twits such as Ben Wallace and Johnny Mercer might like to re-read that at their leisure.

The lady has still not cottoned-on. No-one, or almost no-one, is intending to vote for Reform UK, as such. The voters are intending to vote against both Lab and Con, and the method for doing that effectively is via voting Reform UK. Das ist’s

As for that lady tweeter’s #Moderates label, it seems to be a party, or intra-Conservative caucus, which exists only in her own mind.

Late tweets seen

Witless” better describes both Ben Wallace and pro-Israel scribbler Camilla Tominey.

The System TV shows are full of “experts” saying how many troops it might take to “contain” Russian advance forces. 100,000-300,000, apparently. If push comes to shove, Putin could just drop nuclear bombs on those forces and then…no EU/UK army left. All gone.

There is no need for “the West” to “protect” Ukraine. We have nothing at all in common with either Ukraine or the Zelensky regime. Nothing. As for “Putin” (Russia) invading Central and Western Europe, the very idea is nonsensical.

Quite. Largely (though not entirely) because of “them” (((the usual suspects))).

Starmer-stein and Yvette Cooper will now put the invading hordes in British social housing ahead of needy Brits who deserve it so much more.

Some of the protesters interviewed there were politically brainless, true, judging from that report, but the people have just had too much, too much of being trampled on.

Surely Goodwin does not expect humility or indeed integrity from a Jewish-Zionist scribbler such as Finkelstein?

As Hitler said, “they” have never created a civilization, but have destroyed many.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 6 March 2025

Morning music

Tunes of glory…

[Carbisdale Castle, Sutherland; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbisdale_Castle]

Tweets seen

[“A woman from Ghana has won the right to remain in the UK after organising a proxy marriage to an EU national, in Ghana, 12 days before the Brexit deadline. Neither she nor her “husband” attended the wedding.“]

As Katie Hopkins puts it, “Batshit Bonkers Britain“…

Increasingly, I can agree with the idea of England, or England & Wales, becoming a separate republic. Let those north of Hadrian’s Wall, and those across the Irish Sea, go their own way (without the subsidy from England), particularly as many of the Scots seem, in their delusion, to not only be willing to accept migration-invasion by blacks and browns but even (ludicrously) to welcome it! I certainly see little or no serious Scottish opposition to the invasion, even at the low level of opposition so far seen on the streets of England.

[“I’m hearing language like ‘we have to be prepared for a b******’, that’s Donald Trump, ‘to do mad things’”. @Nicholaswatt says there’s concern among both Labour and Conservative MPs over the US President’s approach to Ukraine and global diplomacy. #Newsnight“].

Ha ha. For decades, certainly since Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, the UK has been the poodle of the ZOG/NWO American governments. Now, suddenly, the USA is going its own way, in a direction NWO/ZOG, at least in Europe, does not like. Suddenly, Europe, both EU and UK etc, finds itself almost powerless, and squashed (as was mainland Europe in 1945) between the (?) all-powerful USA and a somewhat powerful Russia.

I should like Europe to find its own way forward in a social-national way, independent of both USA and Russia (but closer to the latter) but, at present, Europe is under ZOG control— pro-Jewish Lobby, pro-Israel, pro the Jew-Zionist regime in “Ukraine”. The present European power structures have to be taken down before a better Europe (call it “Christendom” or “Grail Europe” if you like) can arise.

Funny-looking creature, that Rennie journalist. Had not previously heard of him. Turns out that his father was the Rennie who was the Chief of SIS/MI6 from 1967-1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rennie_(columnist); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rennie_(MI6_officer).

Rennie senior’s other, and elder, son was arrested, charged, prosecuted and (presumably; nothing online about it) convicted of a large-scale heroin importation conspiracy in 1973: https://time.com/archive/6840716/britain-cs-busted-cover/.

Charles Tatham Ogilvy Rennie was later adjudged bankrupt (discharged in 1978).

As for the Economist, one of the most important “house journals” of the New World Order conspiracy (despite the fact that the Economist is usually wrong in its predictions, a fact that I started to notice as early as the 1980s).

Further to above:

Only in rare instances have the links between the Hong Kong opium firms, British intelligence, and the Chinese Communist Intelligence Service come to public light. Where they have, the results put the best pulp thrillers to shame. One illustration is the story of the luckless Rennie family, Scots traders who sold their operation to Jardine Matheson in 1975. The Rennies are old Africa and Asia hands both in merchant ventures and the British colonial service, with major operations in South Africa, through Rennies Consolidated Holdings Ltd. (7).” 

[https://endtimealert.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/dope-hong-kong-the-worlds-drug-capital/]

Annoying

I have mentioned this before, though long ago, on the blog. There is a tweeter with the same or similar name to me, and who tweets as “@IanMillard100”. I understand that he is an IT specialist resident in Bath.

It is of course not his fault that he has the same name as me and that he tweets (I myself have not tweeted since expelled from Twitter in 2018), but I find it slightly irritating, simply because some people may think that he is me and that his tweets are from me. He occasionally replies to tweets from Elon Musk etc.

Anyway, if any readers were wondering whether “@IanMillard100” is me, he is not me. Over and out.

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A now-deceased friend of mine who, as a young girl from a prominent East Prussian —i.e. German— aristocratic family, was a hostage in the Soviet Union from 1939-1942, used to recall that song from her time there. She was at first under NKVD detention, later and briefly a worker on a state farm —not a collective farm— and later still a student nurse —aged about 14-15— before managing to escape by mingling with the Anders Army families allowed to get out of the country: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%27_Army.

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[“Without new supplies from Washington, Kiev could run out of Patriot missiles in a matter of weeks, CNN reported, citing a Ukrainian official: https://vk.cc/cJnwa3“— TASS]

[“Russian troops liberated the community of Andreyevka in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJp1TR“— TASS]

Every day, more ground is taken and held.

…and so much for the “Ukrainian culture” that we hear about in the msm etc…

Compare Russia and Ukraine, culturally. No comparison…

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Freuding

A schoolroom general. Chocolate soldier.

Germany should declare neutrality.

If there is going to be a “two-tier” justice system, then it should be in the other direction, favouring real British people.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe

[“No! Wait! I voted Labour in 2024!“, cried the mug as Rachel Reeves killed him]

Try telling that to “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations”…

[“Lavrov: “If European troops enter Ukraine, this won’t be a proxy war anymore. It’ll be NATO fighting Russia directly”]

Do the little men and women pretending to statesmanship —Starmer, Macron, Tusk, Ursula von der Leyen etc— understand what that might mean? Tactical and possibly strategic weapons, Russian weapons, being used against the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium etc. Yes, there would be damage to Russia too, but let’s not pretend that NATO (without US involvement) can take on Russia and “win”, or even survive.

The USA under Trump is not going to back up the UK and EU states if they get into a shooting war with Russia.

Indeed, the belligerent calls from Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, and London for fast rearmament, and especially nuclear weapons increases, are likely to make Russian strategists think that those capitals, and connected nuclear weapons production and launch sites, should be eliminated before such proposed nuclear rearmament takes place…

Forget “Tommy”. Time for real social nationalism.

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Despite all the usual problems one has in Life, I feel very very happy today!

Katie Hopkins

I do not always agree with her (though I do today) but she usually makes me laugh.

[“Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as the US aligns with Russia in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job. Read the story: https://politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/“— Politico Europe]

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The Speaker of the House of Commons is invariably a self-important and greedy nobody. This one is no different to his predecessors. Remember the Jew Bercow and his “ho” wife? Then there was Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. I wrote a blog piece about him in 2019:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Evans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bercow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Hoyle

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Lewis should have been struck off the solicitors’ roll many many years ago.

Lest we forget— the Jew-Zionist 5th column in action in London

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098082/Astonishing-undercover-video-captures-diplomat-conspiring-rival-MP-s-aide-smear-Deputy-Foreign-Secretary.html

I would bet my bottom dollar that the treacherous Maria Strizzolo is or (if now defunct) was of Italian-Jewish origins.

See also:

If he had any self-awareness, he might consider whether it would not have been far better had Britain and its Empire stayed neutral in the period 1939-1945, or even joined with the German Reich to rule much of the world. The world would have been in a far better condition had that happened.

[“Shock horror. Controversial guidelines suggesting that people from ethnic minorities should get softer sentences were drawn up on the back of recommendations by … Labour Minister David Lammy —The Times, tonight“]

Thick-as-two-short-planks Lammy, again…

Russia can do that because its ultimate security and sanction rests on its vast geographic size, its large population, its large armies and other forces and, crucially, on 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons.

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Diary Blog, 5 February 2025

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[Tower of London; Traitors’ Gate]

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I wish that people would not misuse the word “decimate“, though; Goodwin, a former academic of sorts, should know better.

Reform will probably do a lot more to the number of Labour MPs than simply “decimate” it…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan

Who is now in charge of the Home Office? The Home Secretary, Labour Friends of Israel expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, who wanted British people to be forced to take migrant-invaders into their modest homes…

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Unless there is an armistice or peace agreement in 2025, the Zelensky regime in Kiev will collapse, and then become just a footnote in 21stC history.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Finzi]

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Jew-Zionists often make false and malicious complaints of “racial harassment”. Several have done the same to me over the years, the latest (of which I am aware, at least) having been made by Stephen Silverman, self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement at the tiny but (((well-funded))) fake charity, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], which complaint to police about me amounted to an attempt to pervert the course of justice. I have no idea why the police let Silverman and the “CAA” get away with stunts like that. He/Gideon Falter/”CAA” have been doing it for 10+ years, not only against me but also against many others (on various legal bases)— David Icke, Al-Jazeera TV, and many many other people and organizations

That faked complaint against me, on the entirely false basis of “racial harassment”, was back in 2021. The false complaint failed, as did all the others, but was then quite wrongfully twisted into a complaint against me on a different legal basis, which eventually led to my free speech trial of 2023. See below:

I hope that P.C. Plod and the “Clown” Prosecution Service are now, even if belatedly, aware of the malicious and troublemaking character of Silverman and his “CAA” pressure group.

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In the circumstances, all those convicted of “rioting”, forceful protesting, pushing against police riot shields etc etc and imprisoned should be released on licence forthwith, at the very least.

Look at it….and the country now harbours many many like it…

Wall. Squad. End.

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Diary Blog, 29 January 2025

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El Gato

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/farewell-to-el-gato-corbyns-cat-with-a-cult-following

‘The Cat’ sadly passed away this week, and so here is the Islington North MP’s own tribute to his feline companion.

[Islington Tribune]

[El Gato]

Truly, the bond between human and cat passeth all understanding…

The “traveller” menace

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14334773/villagers-accuse-police-abandoning-70-masked-yobs-rip-fields-weekend-terror.html

Traumatised villagers have accused police of abandoning them after scores of suspected travellers drove cars through fields, set fire to vehicles and even attacked two fire engines while hare coursing.

Up to 70 masked people in abour 25 4x4s brought terror to Fenland communities in Cambridgeshire as they took part in the illegal sport.

Locals left cowering in their homes felt powerless as police failed to respond to dozens of 999 calls.

[Daily Mail]

The “traveller” situation is one of the biggest public order challenges in the UK. The police are not only unwilling (at senior, “woke”, level) to deal with it; in some cases they seem to be pandering to these unpleasant criminal nuisances.

Look at that Daily Mail report. The police unwilling or even unable to help the real people of this country. Also, note what the “woke”-contaminated Fire Service says; they call that huge disorder “a minor incident“.

There is a solution to the nuisance but, in our “free” country, I am not allowed to publish it…

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What Goodwin fails to add is that the “one in three” figure does not include those whose parents, though non-European (i.e. non-white), were born here. The real figure for 2050 will therefore be nearer to one in two.

The true situation is and will be far worse even that that.

Anyone, whether Prime Minister, Cabinet minister, MP, newspaper scribbler, TV talking head, or “woke” nobody, who encourages mass migration invasion of these islands must be called traitor.

“Boris” should have been put up against a wall years ago.

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Diary Blog, 24 January 2025

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[“Wenn die SS und die SA aufmarschiert“— “When the SS and the SA march away“]

Historical compilation

[Women sort gifts and create parcels for troops on the Eastern Front or Ostfront in 1942]
[Zeppelinfeld, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“, 1930s]
[Girls welcome Adolf Hitler into Vienna after the Austria-Germany Anschluss of 1938]
[1930s conversation]
[Hitler as Chancellor, early 1930s]
[Hitler with some young people]
[A young supporter greets Hitler]
[Obersalzberg, 1930s— Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth, boys hunt for autographs]
[Berlin Olympiad, 1936; acclamation]
[Hitler and Professor Troost plan the reconstruction of Berlin]
[House of German Art, Munich, opened 1938 (arch. Professor Troost)]
[autobahn, Germany, late 1930s]
[building, Nuremberg, 1930s]
[Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne, Berlin, now renamed Waldbuhne (“forest stage”), one of hundreds of new cultural venues constructed in Germany during the six years of peace 1933-1939; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldb%C3%BChne]
[Reichskanzlei or Reich Chancellery, Berlin, remodelled 1940]

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[“From Finland to the Black Sea“]

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The Israelis are said to do the same.

According to Electoral Calculus, the result of that, replicated in a general election, would be Labour— 179 Commons seats; Reform UK— 170 seats; Conservatives— 165 seats; LibDems 72; Greens, 7.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

So a hung Parliament. Any of the top three could try to rule as a very weak minority government. Alternatively, Reform could ally itself in some form with the Conservatives, and get over the line that way. Maybe even a “grand coalition” of the System parties (LibLabCon). In that event, Reform would be the official Opposition, with every chance of later, after a further election, becoming the governing party.

Reform UK is morphing into a System party anyway, but the Overton Window is moving. Reform UK is part of the journey, not the ultimate destination.

Incidentally, were Reform to go from 26% to 27% (and all other parties stay where they are), the result would be Reform UK— 202; Labour 165; Conservatives 147; LibDems 72; Greens 7.

Untermensch.

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…because we do not have a truly British government; we have a Labour Friends of Israel NWO/ZOG/WEF “elected” dictatorship.

If Reform UK can become largest party in the Commons, they would have no need to “merge” with the Con-servative Party. They could govern as a minority government. If the System parties refuse to play ball, Reform could simply blame those other parties for the inability to govern, then call another general election, with every chance of getting a majority.

If the weakness of governments continues, that might be the opening a social-national movement needs in order to rise up.

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Diary Blog, 18 January 2025

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Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 3/10, whereas my score is 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 9.

Interesting CIA story

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14297085/secret-cia-book-adam-eve-story-end-world-theory.html

“A book classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end

‘The Adam and Eve Story,’ written by former US Air Force employee, UFO researcher and self-acclaimed psychic Chan Thomas, was written in 1966 but its publication was halted by the agency.

It was quietly declassified in 2013, at least in part, but remained hidden in the CIA’s database — until now.”

[Daily Mail]

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In other words, migrant-invaders from Africa and Asia give Europe nothing, and are a millstone round our collective neck.

Quite impressive; like something in a James Bond film.

That would be very pleasing…

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Diary Blog, 15 January 2025

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[from a Palekh box]

Housing crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/14/councils-keen-to-help-home-office-move-asylum-seekers-out-of-hotels

Councils across England and Wales have said they are keen to help accommodate asylum seekers as the government attempts to move as many as possible out of hotels, in part to try to ease community tensions.

The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said that while it had not been briefed about a possible shift away from the current model, councils would be keen to help if it happened.

“Councils have a proud history of supporting new arrivals across the current range of asylum and resettlement programmes,” said Louise Gittins, a councillor and the chair of the LGA.

[Guardian]

So there it is. If you cannot get a lease of a local authority council property, or indeed a fairly-priced private lease or rental, you know why— migration-invasion.

Look at the words of that Louise Gittins idiot, i.e. that the way to “ease community tensions” (meaning fool the English/British into believing that they are not being swamped) is to, in effect, prioritize invaders over British or, at very least, to allow them to have social housing on the same basis as those who live here, those whose ancestors lived here, and who pay —through the nose— into the system…

This country’s government, both central and local, is riddled with both idiots and traitors.

Thus spake, in effect, Sajid Javid, a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby Pakistani and apostate Muslim. Now politically binned, but there are plenty more where he came from, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajid_Javid#Israel_and_Palestine.

The System parties and their MPs are all the same. In rough and ready language, traitors.

Honour and honours

Take a look at this once-quite-famous British actor, who performed courageous feats in the jungles of South Asia in the Second World War, was also a well-known actor, and an early campaigner for animals and against cruel zoos etc, yet in his whole life was awarded only an MBE, and ask whether the current crop of fake “peers”, “knights” and others have not been over-rewarded…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Travers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Travers#Military_service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Travers#Animal_rights_campaigner.

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Ukraine has no future as an independent state, at least not on the basis of its present borders. If it withdraws to west of the Dnieper, and is centred on Lvov, maybe.

Electoral Calculus has the result of that (with Greens at a notional 8%) as: Labour 230 seats, Cons 197, Reform 93, LibDem 70, Greens 6.

Hung Parliament. Labour, even with LibDem and Green support, could only form a minority government (even in full coalition, only 306 seats, about 16 short of a majority).

Early days, though. If Reform UK could get to 26% (and all other unchanged), the result would be: Lab 190, Reform UK 172 (official Opposition), Cons 160, LibDems 69, Greens 6. In that scenario, Labour, 136 short of a majority, could only govern on the say-so of either Reform UK or the Conservative Party. In fact, in such a scenario, a Reform UK-Conservative Party coalition or agreement would be far more likely, producing a joint majority of about 10 seats.

Sooner or later, real social nationalism must break through. When people have suffered even more.

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They call it “democracy”…

Emma Reynolds, another Labour Friends of Israel puppet. Moneygrubber, too.

Useful advice.

When I first drove in England, aged about 43, I had never had to parallel park for a driving test, and drove as long as I could on my foreign licence.

In the end, because the DVLA would not allow me to simply swap my licence for a UK one, I had to accept that I would have to get a UK licence and also take the UK driving test, which however I passed without difficulty, and perhaps unsurprisingly, having driven extensively both in the UK and overseas (including UK to Turkey and back, a trip more difficult in 2001 than it would be now, with the new motorways that now exist, extended Schengen Zone etc).

The one difficult aspect was the parallel parking, but I employed a driving instructor for 2 brief afternoon sessions, and he taught me how to parallel park to a higher standard than I already knew.

Deutschland erwache!

Ecce “democracy”…

Look not only at the “Presiding Officer” but also at that ghastly Welsh Labour hag (at the end of the clip), whoever she is. Plainly an enemy of the people.

Seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eluned_Morgan.

A couple of points.

I was never a sparkling wine drinker, but Sekt is as good as anything else except the best Champagne. Also, on a partly-personal point, not many people know that, when Ambassador in London, Ribbentrop, apart from his residence in the German Embassy (then at Carlton House Terrace near The Mall), kept a private house in Barnes (the area the other side of Hammersmith Bridge; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes,_London).

The modestly spacious detached house, with gardens, and situated in a side-road, was later owned by a lady with whom I was slightly acquainted (the friend of a friend). I visited it once, perhaps twice. She later sold it (mid/late 1980s) to a Jew, who knocked it down and built a small block of two or three-storey flats on the site.

Incidentally, I was just looking at Wikipedia; nothing at all in it about Ribbentrop’s residence in Barnes. “Unknown history”, it seems, though of course MI5’s files would have the details, as far as the 1930s are concerned.

Mandelson

As readers will be aware, the Jew Mandelson has been appointed Ambassador to the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson.

By way of contrast, this, below, is the calibre of person who used to be appointed to such roles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freeman_(British_politician).

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Interesting.

I think that that may be part of it. Also, the sinister conspirators trying to implement the Coudenhove-Kalergi agenda have made a determined effort to flood the British countryside with non-whites, as witness the National Trust and similar organizations.

The British countryside is one of the few redoubts of white British people, surrounded by urban and suburban non-white swamps. Farmers in the UK are almost entirely a white British community. This makes them a target.

I myself have criticisms of farmers in some respects, but that does not mean that I want them “replaced” by migrant-invaders and/or corporations interested only in the bottom line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan

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…and the Bar, the BBC, academia, and almost everywhere else. The biggest sharks in that anti-free-speech pool are those of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, by the way.

In that case, people will start to take “measures” to remedy the situation and to deal with it.

Our fake form of “democracy” has pretty much had its day. I raised the question on the blog, years ago:

Wall. Kader. Ende.

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Gerry Adams

What is there to say? Instead of being [REDACTED] as he well deserves, he is quite likely going to get “compensation” out of British taxpayers’ money.

Can this country’s System parties do anything right?

Few today will be aware that, when Adams headed both Sinn Fein and the IRA in Belfast, he was getting social security payments from the equivalent of the present DWP. Petty, maybe, but it does show how “careful” the British governments of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s were in dealing with these people.

The Northern Ireland situation was handled, mainly, in the way the British state handled, for example, the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe situation. Gather as much intelligence as possible. Don’t be too harsh or extreme. Try to get the parties to come to agreement. Manage the situation.

That may sound all very reasonable, but it does not work when you are dealing with the likes of Mugabe or Adams. Fact. It leads to poor resulting conditions.

Northern Ireland stopped actually fighting 25 years or so ago mainly because the IRA had run out of steam, the civilian population wanted an end to it all, and the British Government was willing to throw huge amounts of money at the province in terms of public sector jobs, social welfare, social housing etc, and also willing to let the convicted fighters/terrorists/whatever out of prison. The Good Friday Agreement. “Peace” at a price.

The British Government was also willing to allow, in effect, the IRA into government. Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams etc.

Oh, well. Northern Ireland is a sideshow anyway, but it is irritating.

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Diary Blog, 5 October 2024, including a few thoughts about the reality of the 1970s (as distinct from the usual “fake history”)

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Well, this week my 6/10 trumped political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, 6, and 8.

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https://irvingbooks.com/product-category/books/

Accurate… I spent 9 months in East Africa. It’s very hard to pinpoint exactly why it’s such a mess.

They have an infantile mentality and absolutely no commercial sense.

I once went about 10 miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere on the way to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, and every 50 meters there was someone selling watermelon. I said to the driver, “Everyone is selling exactly the same product. Why don’t they try making watermelon juice or something different to stand out?” He replied, “But why would we do that? We like melon!”

That attitude was everywhere. In fact, I would sometimes meet Westerners who would say, “Isn’t it amazing how they’ve kept this piece of junk car going for 30 years?” And I’d reply, “It’s more amazing that we have automated car factories with robots.” They literally only focus on the immediate need. “Car not go today, car fixed with string and tape.

The only two factors preventing Britain and other European countries from retaking direct control of Africa, of all of Africa, are 1. socio-political will and 2. the fact that the (((globalists))) find it more convenient to exploit Africa’s resources via corrupt tiny “elites” in each fake African “state” (and to hell with the environment, the forests, the wildlife, and the African people themselves).

The fact is that European rule would benefit all, not least the ordinary Africans.

Incidentally, it would be a great deal easier than many imagine for Europe to reconquer Africa militarily. Only the two factors already noted make it at all hard.

Illiterate travel

I have just read this, https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/sarajevo-guide-balkans-bosnia-and-herzegovina-b1176081.html, a travel piece in what I still call the Evening Standard, and written by well-known columnist Suzanne Moore. Not hugely interesting anyway, but then absurdly badly-written. An essay by a 10-year-old, at best. Or is the sub-editing to blame? Maybe someone pushed a few of the wrong buttons. Extraordinary. Read it and see.

I have read other pieces by Suzanne Moore which were written properly, so maybe it was the fault of the Standard.

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Pretty accurate summing-up of “Starmer-ism”, in my opinion, “Blairism without the good bits“, though I do not recall many good bits then either, speaking personally.

As far as assisted dying is concerned, I see it as a generally well-meaning attempt to be kind, which however, put into policy and law, is the start of a slide to, eventually, somewhere down the line, killing people for convenience or money.

HS2 was a vanity project that never should have been approved. As far as I know, though, the other rail projects are or were useful.

She seems to have difficulty identifying the “J” problem…

Again, look at the “usual suspects”…

The “fake history” of the 1970s

That’s because you, “Steve Zodiac”, are apparently telling your grandchildren a load of old hooey…

I have blogged in the past about how very many people (including, weirdly, many who were at least in their teens then, and so actually of an age to remember) say, and even perhaps believe, that the 1970s in the UK were some kind of dark age in which the electricity was off most of the time, in which bodies were left unburied by reason of industrial action, in which trains and buses rarely ran, in which rubbish piled up in the towns and cities, in which there was a “three day week” when offices and factories were closed for four days each week, and in which life was generally miserable (for example, food was terrible, they say).

The above-noted fabled dystopia was, we are told, the result of overreaching trade union power and Labour misgovernment.

Where to start?

First of all, the party in power for the first 4 years of the 1970s was the Conservative Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election, and of course Mrs Thatcher won again for the Conservatives in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election.

In other words, out of the 10 years, Labour was in power for about 6 years. Labour government was in place from the early 1960s until mid-1970, then from early 1974 until mid-1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election.

One interesting fact is that, in the 1966 General Election, the “two main parties” (Lab/Con) got exactly 98% of Commons seats on just under 90% of the popular vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election#Results.

Compare to 2024: 81.8% of seats based on 57.4% of the popular vote.

In 1966, the winning party (Labour) got 48% of the popular vote, the losing Conservatives 41.9%.

In 2024, Labour got 33.7%, and the losing Conservatives only 23.7%.

The electoral system has become not just unfair but also illogical and ridiculous. It no longer reflects reality.

Reverting to the general situation in the 1970s, the much-talked-about “Three Day Week” only affected, directly, commercial operations (which were banned from using electricity on the other four days). The Three Day Week only lasted for two months. Out of 10 years (120 months).

I saw the Three Day Week firsthand. I was working, aged just 18, as supposed assistant manager in a very small commercial intelligence outfit based in the Strand (London). The office only had 5 people including me, though we did have a network of mostly ad-hoc agents all over the southern and eastern parts of England (anywhere south or southwest of The Wash). Much of the work was in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex. The agents were often retired Army officers who, on being contacted, would —eagerly— say something such as “right-oh, old boy. I’ll fire up the Rover and get onto it.”

I must do a blog post sometime about it.

There were, in the early 1970s, strikes by coal miners etc, resulting in a few brief power cuts (“outages”, as the Americans say), but they lasted for a few hours a day, for a few days. Out of 10 years, again.

In the “Winter of Discontent” (1978-79), there were, for a few weeks, situations in some towns and cities whereby rubbish piled up, yes; that much of the “fable” is true, but only for a brief time. As for the “bodies left unburied“, that only applied in Liverpool and Manchester and only for 14 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Gravediggers’_strike.

In fact, though the 1970s had its problems political, social, economic, Britain still had possibilities. The population was still almost entirely white Northern European, new ideas and projects were around or developing (the Milton Keynes conurbation, the Open University, new express trains, cross-Channel hovercraft etc), and the absurd and damaging house-price madness, though it had started, was still in its early stages.

Britain still had a functioning Army, Navy, Air Force (etc), and a police force that mainly did its expected job and was not usually the sort of poundshop Stasi we now see, snooping on or “monitoring” the expression of views and opinions.

Incidentally, the food was OK back then on the whole. Slightly less cosmopolitan, yes, but in the South of England at least, foreign foods such as hummus, taramasalata, olives, Indian, Chinese, etc were ubiquitous. In fact, some food was better and more available back then.

What I find worrying is not only that people who were not there, or were small children, are convinced that England in 1970-1979 was a dark and gloomy place; more that people who were there seem to have substituted, for what actually happened, a kind of folk-tale.

As for Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Largan, who was parachuted into the constituency of High Peak (Derbyshire) and served as MP from GE 2019 to GE 2024, he was only born in 1987.

If people cannot recall accurately the 1970s, how much less accurate must be the “memories”, often publicized, of the 1930s and 1940s.

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