"These elites [in France, Germany and the UK] aren't gearing up for war with Russia because they care about freedom—they're doing it because their grip on power is slipping, and fast." 🎯
"Their economies are breaking, the middle class is crushed, people can't afford rent, food pic.twitter.com/WWE5EJQxcN
The collective West seeks after strategically defeating Russia, using the Kiev regime as a ram, but it will not succeed, Sergey Lavrov said during talks with Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev:https://t.co/dXucRXLICOpic.twitter.com/Iq2Z2gNWNW
Israel suffered direct losses exceeding $3 billion as a result of Iranian missile strikes during the 12-day war. According to a June 25 Jewish media report, the damage could reach $5 billion. Indirect losses due to business interruption amount to $1.5 billion. The Weizmann… pic.twitter.com/JpW3pPX2ym
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
Better tap the American taxpayer again…
Large-scale logistical preparations and expansion of US military infrastructure in western Saudi Arabia are underway in anticipation of a possible protracted conflict with Iran — The New York Times Specifically, this involves the establishment and rapid development of the… pic.twitter.com/EUHRvAuRAP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
I am surprised that Iran has (apparently) not thought of using 1980s-style Soviet-engineered atomic “suitcase bombs” in both the USA and Israel. The original ones were powerful enough to destroy anything within a radius of about 1-2 miles of the point of detonation.
Overnight, Russia launched another massive wave of aerial attacks on Ukraine.
The attack reportedly involved over 450 drones (mostly Shahed/Geran kamikaze drones) and at least 40 missiles. pic.twitter.com/vvWNCbklkB
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
Quite dispersed. At least 6 or 7 target zones. I have seen tweets suggesting nearly over 500 actual points of impact.
Remember Clausewitz. Concentration of forces. Schwerpunkt.
"Disabled people should have been at the heart of the matter from the beginning"
People generally are pretty tired of that whole hypocrisy of government saying that cuts to disability and other State benefits are somehow being “kind” or “caring”. Not so. At best, callous and aimed at “saving money” (which will then be really wasted, elsewhere). At worst, a refined form of cruelty and indeed sadism. Ian Dunce Duncan Smith, a fraud, an expenses cheat, and a total deadhead, was one of the first to do this.
In the end, some form of Basic Income, even if very modest, must be the way forward. End the bureaucratic nonsense of jumping through hoops, snooping, “assessments” etc.
It was unwise of PM to say he “deeply regrets” the “island of strangers” phrase – & even more so to admit that he doesn’t always read his speeches before delivering them https://t.co/85PPuNwMxS
Starmer-stein— no ideals, no ideas, no decency, no honesty. Just a freeloading, careerist, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel, little bastard. Utterly clueless and incompetent as well.
Not often I’m with Simon Heffer, on this I am. They’re not terrorists. https://t.co/3PUxquRHPH
I too agree. As I blogged at the time of the Brize Norton incursion, had the MOD or RAF had even one dozy security guard or policeman, unarmed but awake, on duty, the protesters would have been scared off or, even if not scared off, easily detained or arrested within a few minutes, once back-up had been summoned.
Only the Jew-Zionist lobby (effectively saying what the Israeli Embassy says) is calling Palestine Action “terrorist”, when in fact they are just protesters utilizing direct action. If they damage anything, then charge them with criminal damage, not “terrorism”. That’s just ridiculous.
I agree. Save the term terrorist for those who genuinely are. Not troublemakers and vandals. Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant | Home Office | The Guardian https://t.co/ZtN3dKKzZ8
Fixing it? Starmer-stein’s little cabal of pro-Israel freeloaders is doing even worse, incredibly, than the brainless “Conservatives” during 2010-2024.
If I were Patron Law or its insurers, I’d be bricking it about what might happen as a result of Lewis’ conduct coming to light.
If Lewis has been running cases to cause financial harm to others – and it seems he has – then it could prove very costly.
Mark Lewis, very far from the hotshot lawyer persona he has been “cosplaying” for many years, backed by other Jews in the mass media etc. A lawyer at best semi-competent, really quite incompetent, indeed professionally negligent, and utterly dishonest. In fact, just another Jewish fraud. Also, a malicious maker and facilitator of false complaints to police etc.
I’ve just published ep #8 about the litigation.
In this one I explain why being Mr Lewis’ client might be like being trapped on a plane with an incompetent pilot.
And thanks to the "Hannibal Directive" it is estimated that as many as half of the festival goers killed at the Nova festival were killed by Israeli forces.
Ah. Interesting. Looks as though the numbers of alleged victims have been edited down. I thought that the Jews/Israelis were still claiming that about 1,000, or even 1,500, had been killed. Seems that (as happened at the “reconstructed” site of the early 1940s Auschwitz camp, where a “4 million victims” sign was officially altered to about a quarter of that figure), the 1,500 supposedly killed by Palestinian Arabs in southern Israel in 2023 is now 378, at least at the festival itself. The other hundreds of victims, if they existed at all, were presumably killed by the brutal Israeli armed forces themselves as “collateral damage”.
None of that, though, explains how the Israeli Jews (and those supporting them in the UK and elsewhere) think that the deaths of 378 Jews etc by a particular paramilitary/political group somehow justifies the killing by Israeli Jewish forces of anything up to 200,000 Palestinian Arabs, mostly civilian, mostly women and children (about half of the victims being under 18 years of age). Retaliation? Revenge? Blood lust? Cruelty and sadism?
The disproportion is incredible.
Bombing, white phosphorus bombing, flamethrower attacks, drone attacks, shooting, grenade attacks, cutting off of medical supplies, cutting off of food, cutting off of water, shooting people lining up for food and water.
“They” are still whining about (alleged) German actions 80-95 years ago, yet look at what is happening now in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran etc!
Of course, the Israeli Jewish game-plan seems to be to kill as many Gazans as possible, and to incarcerate the rest in concentration camps (under some such name as “safe areas”), so that Jews can colonize Gaza again.
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 27, 2025
I missed that ridiculous jamboree in Venice. Thankfully.
Bezos reminds me a bit of that Steve Jobs character [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs], another one who thought he was a kind of “master of the Universe”, but who died aged 56 of pancreatic cancer which first manifested itself when Jobs was 48.
Bottom line is “you can’t take it with you“…
'White Britons will be a minority by 2063'
Professor Matt Goodwin says demographic projections predict white Britons becoming a minority by 2063, with Muslims comprising a quarter of the population by 2100.
The United States has canceled sanctions against Russia that obstructed construction of the Paks-2 nuclear power plant in Hungary, Peter Szijjarto said:https://t.co/gVkdfg66Txpic.twitter.com/NAeSvwWKjY
Abdolrahim Mousavi, the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Armed Forces:
"We have serious doubts about the continuation of the ceasefire and are prepared to respond to any aggression". pic.twitter.com/nw9CWGDsa4
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
A ceasefire merely permits Israel to catch its breath and to resupply.
Israel awakened a sleeping giant when it attacked Iran and this KEY stat proves it
“The full magnitude” of Iran’s defense power “has yet to reveal itself,” with JUST A FRACTION of its potential revealed in the recent war with Israel, IRGC deputy commander for coordination… pic.twitter.com/7kEE89VqLj
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
[“Israel awakened a sleeping giant when it attacked Iran and this KEY stat proves it “The full magnitude” of Iran’s defense power “has yet to reveal itself,” with JUST A FRACTION of its potential revealed in the recent war with Israel, IRGC deputy commander for coordination Mohammad-Reza Naghdi said. “Less than five percent of our country’s defensive capacity was actually activated” in counterstrikes, the brigadier general revealed. “And by ‘activated’ I do not mean ‘spent’. It merely means that five percent of our defense units became engaged with the enemy.“]
Words. They may be true, they may not be true. We shall see.
Tel Aviv after Benjamin Netanyahu's brilliantly conducted operation "Rising Lion pic.twitter.com/vi7qYnGuaP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
Starmer-stein and his Cabinet and whips can hardly, at least credibly, threaten Labour rebels with deselection etc, when all present polling is suggesting that, come the next general election, only about 100-150 Labour MPs out of the present 403 will retain their seats anyway.
Seems that even Labour MP-drones, some of them, have some residual decency, and are appalled by the flagrant indecency of the Israeli Jews killing mothers and babies, and the UK Government torturing and effectively killing the sick and disabled.
Or is all of that just a convenient way of dumping Starmer-stein and “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves?
BREAKING: The US intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials 'remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected', according to Washington Post report.
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) June 29, 2025
Surely, the American attack, preceded by the Israeli attacks, has sent a message to Teheran, and the message is “strike Israel and the USA in a way both will find absolutely devastating“. That would not be the intended message, of course, but I think that that is the message Teheran actually received…The Iranian response may not come for years but when it does, it will be something really game-changing.
No. I don’t think anybody can become English by signing a few papers & being here for 5 minutes. Britishness & Englishness are different things -identifying with a nationality is not the same as belonging to an ethnicity. We allow every group around the world an identity except…
The “Israeli” is carrying out violent strikes across north Gaza, including in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and Jabalia. At least two schools sheltering the displaced have been targeted and casualties have been reported. pic.twitter.com/MwvzzKrihg
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
Only one thing will stop “them”.
Putin: It's not Russia, but the West that is aggressive. The "one-sided game" with the West is over, he added. pic.twitter.com/VHnwCiUxkB
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
A very nice story and also, beyond that, an interesting example of how animals both have a homing instinct and also (beyond even that) a connection with their humans that goes beyond “mere” homing (amazing though that alone is). In some cases, animals have found their way across hundreds, even thousands of miles, to their humans’ new homes, homes to which, and in places to which they, the animals, have never been. There should be research into this.
Could it be that, apart from the more obvious ways in which animals navigate, or may navigate, animals such as cats and dogs, often personally connected with particular humans, can find those with whom they feel a connection via some kind of “silver cord” based on (?) brainwaves or some other emanation?
The strange military ballet which takes place daily at the border between India and Pakistan.
At least 94% of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, and people in the north of the Palestinian enclave have practically lost the opportunity to receive any medical care, the WHO said in a report:https://t.co/LSwssEROnBpic.twitter.com/9UNYs5sikr
Even now, in the face of such devastation, bombing of hospitals, and starvation of children, and plans to drive out (to where?) the entire Palestinian Arab population, you see online and on TV the bleating of Zionist Jews living in the UK, USA etc that that is all “self-defence” and that any criticism of it is “antisemitic” and should be banned.
Now for reform to embrace mass deportations and we may finally be getting somewhere.
— The Last True Roman (@LastTrueRoman) May 23, 2025
The more I think about it, the more I think that the way forward is not the UK parliamentary democracy of (arguende) 1832-present, not Sovietism, not even National Socialism (in its original clothing), but a synthesis of the best elements of those, suffused with interest in, and knowledge of, the supernatural world, as noted in my blog piece from many years ago about my personal history:
[“Ian Millard is now determined to put forward ideas and views for a positive future society in the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.
Ian Millard’s world-view comes out of both wide reading and the experience of living and working all over the world, and is composed of a synthesis of political ideologies, religions, philosophies and studies, prominent among which are the ideas and ideals contained in Anthroposophy, National Socialism, pan-Europeanism, and non-denominational Christianity, particularly Christic and Grail occultism.
Society in the advanced countries (and, therefore, the rest of the world) has come to a dead end, except in strictly technical fields.
A new society must arise, based at least fundamentally on the Threefold Social Order concept of Rudolf Steiner and on a mainly European population in the European or Eurasian lands.*
*”Eurasia” in this context refers mainly to Europe, Russia (including Siberia), Ukraine, Kazakhstan and some other Russophone areas.“]
Stray thought (aka “why is nothing in the UK thought through properly?”)
I should say that a major problem of both local and central government (and orgs under both) in this country is the apparent sheer inability to think things through; particularly policies, but it extends to what Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious“.
Yesterday, I drove 15 miles to visit someone at a major hospital, the recorded telephone message of which starts with some pointless propaganda about how £400M or £500M is being spent on new buildings etc.
So, anyway, after a slow, incredibly congested drive to the place, I find that there are indeed new buildings still under construction, but that a good part of what had been public parking has now been built upon. No doubt the usual bureaucratic box-tickers think that that is wonderfully “green”, and have little interest in the inconvenience of people visiting, or needing to stay, in the hospital.
The next problem was in finding the patient I was visiting. I just cannot believe that a major NHS hospital apparently has no main reception desk! Perhaps (?) one will exist, once all the changes have been made, but for now at least, no reception. Beyond belief. In France, in the USA, the reception desk is inescapable. The UK prefers the “Hampton Court Maze” approach.
I asked some foreign (Malaysian?) nurse or other uniformed person where was reception. She had difficulty in repeating the word, then directed me to what was (inevitably) the wrong direction, in view of the fact that, as I then discovered, there was no reception…
Finally, another person told me to find A&E, and the A&E desk would look up the patient’s name for me. I did that, and was given the number of the ward and bay. Thank you. Where would I find that ward? They were unable to tell me! They did not know the layout of the hospital, and apparently had no map or plan to hand.
I had to stumble around, asking random uniformed personnel, until I was told— at the other end of the large complex (of course).
En route to my destination, I noticed a sticker or poster proudly proclaiming that the hospital had been awarded 5 stars (the maximum) for cleanliness. I have to say the place did not look too clean.
Signage— terrible. Architecture. Almost rock-bottom.
Just one example. I could cite so many others. Yet Britain not so long ago completed Crossrail (now, the “Elizabeth Line”), a very impressive, very complex rail project. I can only assume that people who knew what they were doing were in charge of the rail project, whereas in the NHS, local authorities, and in respect of central government direct policy (immigration etc) you are dealing with the —often-clueless— bureaucrat element and the —even worse— political-idiot element.
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✍️ 'If foreign criminals and illegal immigrants can use the ECHR, a distressed mother should be able to' | Writes @IsabelOakeshott
How times have changed. Today we are expected to praise a “fall” in net migration to 431k. Back in 2010, the “record high” was 250k! pic.twitter.com/TuEJiuFIaT
— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) May 22, 2025
Walk down almost any street, in almost any part of the country. Even in the shopping streets of or near affluent areas, many on the streets are blacks, browns, Chinese. This is not only migration-invasion, but also migration-occupation.
In any case, that 431,000 number is arrived at by including (and setting-off) those white British/European people who are leaving, whereas almost all of the immigrants coming to the UK are black/brown/Chinese, so the reality is even worse.
Almost none. Statistical zero. Over time, they and their offspring will be, at best, parasites, at worst criminal or terroristic.
No Jewish person could sensibly agree to be treated by Dr Clarke. Blood libels which are shown to be lies but aren’t deleted or apologised for make a clinician unsafe. https://t.co/5dLjQrVUr1
Simon Myerson is the malicious and vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister from Leeds who was sacked as a recorder (p/t judge) because he was unwilling, or perhaps unable (by reason of his character or mentality), to stop his online abuse of and insult to people.
Actually, looking at Myerson’s tweet, it is surely libellous on its face. It is not unlikely that Dr. Clarke henceforth will be avoided by Jewish patients etc who have seen Myerson’s tweet, and who may take seriously the allegation that she is “unsafe” (meaning, in this context, likely to deliberately cause injury to them).
There is surely, in potentio, direct financial damage there, and career damage, as well as reputational damage.
I think that Dr. Clarke should consult her solicitor without delay. Myerson has plenty of cash and property with which to satisfy any damages and costs that might result from a successful claim in defamation.
Incidentally, in English law there is no such thing as a “blood libel“, which is a term used only by Jews (or their puppets) to describe criticism by non-Jews of bloodletting, or alleged bloodletting, by Jews.
A barrister, Jewish or otherwise, should not be making up law and broadcasting the nonsense online (or elsewhere), thus misleading the general public.
I also think that Dr. Clarke would be within her rights to refer Myerson to the Bar Standards Board. I also think that she should.
Patients are desperate to see a doctor, yet up to 1000 new GPs are likely to face unemployment this summer after completing their training – yes, you read that right – because of gross NHS workforce mismanagement.
Myerson should be reported to both the Bar Standards Board and the court where that trial is to take place (I think, not sure, the Central Criminal Court/Old Bailey).
Here is a link to something written by Rachel Hewitt, Pete Newbon’s widow. Some of it refers to his involvement with Labour Against Antisemitism. If you read it, please try to read to the end. Also, offensive comment = instant block.https://t.co/9xYSSwFdZd
Myerson was involved as a witness in the civil trial in which Newbon was a defendant. The trial judge did not believe a word Myerson said (or the testimony of several other Jewish witnesses), though said judge expressed his assessment more diplomatically than I have done.
Newbon, a vicious social media troll and pro-Israel fanatic, committed suicide before the trial ended (in defeat for the three defendants, the two still alive and Newbon). The James Wilson who has tweeted above was the successful claimant in that trial.
Sorry, this is just a straightforward lie. Labour hasn't halved migration, and Keir Starmer knows it. This is a product of decisions taken before he entered office. https://t.co/IdMzl3Sy4U
Russian troops liberated six communities over the week of May 17-23, including the settlement of Radkovka in the Kharkov Region in the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/b6lWmmLf0fpic.twitter.com/pILB5d6jWu
Аs many as 270 Russian service members, 120 civilians, including Kursk residents captured by Ukrainian troops, return to Russia in prisoner swap. pic.twitter.com/ZEVQGuWvZn
🇨🇳 China successfully tests heavy unmanned transport aircraft CH-YH1000 The cargo drone is capable of carrying 1,200 kg of cargo, and its flight range is 1,500 kilometers, writes the Global Times pic.twitter.com/W9586zbIBP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 23, 2025
Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I trumped that with 9/10. The question I did not get was number 8, but when I looked it up I realised that I did know it after all, in the back of my mind. Never mind.
Most Read on the Stack this week. What happened to me in Hungary? They asked some questions that tell us a lot about the dire state of Britain https://t.co/MkJjaO1yzc
As of this morning —a total of 9,099 migrants have crossed the Channel in 162 boats this year, 45 % more than this time last year and 81% more than 2023. There have been 2,246 crossings this month alone
The US and other Kiev's allies intend to approve a plan for a complete ceasefire in Ukraine at a meeting in London next week, the New York Post reported, citing a Washington administration official:https://t.co/vF8VsDrM3kpic.twitter.com/wrAvCXOT54
Washington’s threats to walk away from the negotiation process on Ukraine are directed against the Kiev regime rather than Moscow, the Axios portal said, citing European officials:https://t.co/puZSgv5edDpic.twitter.com/HbuIiN0FdV
For the first time in its history, Russia showcased its Gerani-2 suicide drones, mounted on launch pads inside Kamaz trucks, during the Victory Parade in Red Square. pic.twitter.com/veRDiTpJBf
Drones have changed the face of warfare; land-roving robots and AI will change it even more.
The EU is falling apart due to growing disagreements, and along with Europe and NATO, said former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter pic.twitter.com/lIDoJQiJUm
Israeli media reported that clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli army forces in eastern Gaza City have resulted in numerous casualties among the Israeli forces, and Israeli helicopters are currently evacuating the dead and wounded. pic.twitter.com/3mLotFnh3l
Why is the supposedly cash-strapped NHS spanking £40 million on “diversity officers”? Why is it training senior staff in “white allyship”? Why is it restricting leadership programmes to minorities? Why is it two-tier? https://t.co/tOvO7pNhet
Look at what’s happening in Runcorn. Nobody voted for this. Nobody wants this. Nobody deserves this. Send Westminster a message on May 1st 🇬🇧👊 pic.twitter.com/PKtGsvvP4n
Goodwin should, arguably, have been the Reform candidate at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. I have a feeling that he is seeking out a potentially safer seat, maybe somewhere in the East or North-East of England.
Here’s the incredibly brave father, Sep van Lier, giving a heroic address at the municipality of Maashorst to fight for justice for his daughter.
Eventually, the peoples of Europe will rise up and put paid to both the alien predators and to the System politicians and others who have imported them and are protecting them.
The IMF just CONFIRMED what the elites denied for years:
Mass immigration is driving down living standards.
Wages squeezed.
Housing pressure exploding.
Social cohesion eroding. For years, they told you it was “enriching.” They told you it was “necessary.” They called you a bigot for asking questions. Now? Even the IMF admits it’s hurting you.
This isn’t mismanagement — it’s betrayal by design.
And it’s time to hold every liar, every enabler, and every policymaker ACCOUNTABLE.“]
I agree.
See also: Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
All Western European states, Scandinavia, parts of Central Europe too, are riddled with traitors, many in positions of power and influence in politics, the civil service, the legal professions and judiciary, the mainstream media, the police, academia etc.
Israeli strikes on Gaza in the last 48 hours have killed more than 90 people, Palestinian health officials in the enclave said. pic.twitter.com/kPtyMEeHm5
Ukraine will not become part of NATO; the issue of Kiev's accession to the alliance is not under discussion, according to Keith Kellogg, the US presidential special envoy for Ukraine and Russia:https://t.co/BIIgCA32Jwpic.twitter.com/YEw7twzjct
[“A civilian that suffered injuries in a drone attack has died in the hospital in Vidnoye outside Moscow, regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov said: https://vk.cc/cJBdl9“— TASS]
[“Более 90 украинских беспилотников сбили над Москвой и Подмосковьем за эту ночь, сообщили в Минобороны. В результате атаки погиб один человек, ранены трое“— Zona Media]
[“More than 90 Ukrainian pilotless drones shot down over Moscow and the Moscow region in the night, announced the Ministry of Defence. As a result of the attack, one person died.“]
Pure terrorism from the Zelensky cabal. Deliberate targeting of residential buildings.
[NEW POST. Bombshell stats the state doesn’t want you to see. They accuse you of “misinformation” while hiding the awkward reality. Mass immigration is driving crime“— Matt Goodwin]
Crimes in the UK by nationality of perpetrator:
Everyone at the Bar of England and Wales knows this, at least in outline, but the Bar is now so packed with craven “me-too” careerists and/or scaredycats that none will say a word. If any do, they get disbarred (as I was), especially if a pack of malicious Jews make complaint (as they did about me).
My reading of that opinion poll is that the voters are unimpressed by all existing political parties. There is a vacuum at present. Reform UK was leaping ahead; it has now stalled. It too much tries to be “reasonable” and “moderate”.
If voters want “centrist” bs and lies, they can vote LibLabCon. Why would they vote Reform? Reform’s leaders are too much focussed on “small boats” etc. Not that that is not a major issue, but “legal” immigration is 20x “illegal”. Yes, 1,000 or even 2,000 migrant-invaders hit the beaches daily now but, on the same day(s), 20,000 or even 40,000 arrive superficially “legally”.
Also, some of the main figures in and around Reform UK are non-whites. That’s no good, and sends a mixed message.
Either Reform UK goes social-national or it will go the same way as both UKIP and Brexit Party. “Conservatism-plus” is not a vote-winner.
Incidentally, that latest opinion poll translates, via Electoral Calculus, into a Commons with 188 Lab seats, 174 Con, 155 Reform, 68 LibDem (Greens 4, SNP 35 etc). Hopelessly hung Parliament, so maybe a Reform/Con coalition.
“A businessman who dismissed antisemitism as “meaningless”, questioned the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and cast doubt on Hamas atrocities has been handed a seat in the Legislative Council of the Parliament – or Tynwald – on the Isle of Man.
Gary Clueit’s appointment to the island’s upper chamber on March 4 has sparked outrage, with Manx Jewish community member Michael Josem condemning the Member of the House of Keys (MHKs) who nominated Clueit as “incapable of the judgement required for Tynwald.”
[Jewish Chronicle]
“They” hate even one person dissenting from the narrative they want to broadcast and perpetuate.
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[Pretty clear that Twitter/X has been sabotaged, probably by (?) those Kiev-regime bastards, and that the tweet-embed problem is part of all that. Musk and Trump should cut off all military and intelligence aid to the Zelensky cabal; let Russia take all of Eastern Ukraine, including Kiev]
(((Mark Lewis))) and (((Daniel Berke))) are both fanatical Jew-Zionists. As far as Lewis is concerned, he is both professionally negligent and dishonest. It has been obvious for years. He should be struck off the solicitors’ roll.
I have no idea whether Lewis is in the UK or hiding out in his beloved Israel (he pretended to emigrate there 7 years ago because, said he, there was so much “antisemitism” in England; yet he seems to spend more time here than in OccupiedPalestine Israel).
I cannot imagine who would be silly enough to retain Lewis. He himself admitted in his 2018 Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal proceedings that, at times, he had had no idea what he was writing or doing (by reason, it was claimed, of prescription drug use)! He was actually or effectively sacked by, I believe, all the firms for which he worked, and at the said Tribunal, in 2018, his own Counsel told the disciplinary panel that Lewis should not be fined too heavily (for making many crazed attacks on social media) because his sole assets were his (cheapish, showy) clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth £70 a week!
For once, I agree with her. Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall (all Labour Friends of Israel members) are evil, and should be punished for what they are intending to do.
[“Not only is this Cameron Osbourne style austerity shit appalling but Labour has spent weeks drip feeding this to the media, scaring some of the most vulnerable people in the process. I am absolutely disgusted with them. It is absolutely indefensible. #DisabilityBenefits.“— Supertanskiii]
[“Yes, I’m going to voice this in my content. It’s not what we voted for. Those with life changing disabilities were brutalised and demeaned under 14 years of shocking Tory misrule. They’re not the people with the “broadest shoulders”. They’re the reason we have a welfare system.”— Supertanskiii]
[“I’m furious that of all the places they could raise money (yes, there’s obv other ways) that they’d target the severely disabled who, funnily enough, won’t be magically be cured by a call with a work coach. PIP was bad enough before I shudder to think what will happen now.“— Supertanskiii]
Well, I doubt that I have ever reposted anything from that tweeter unless to criticize it, but truth is truth.
As I myself have recently blogged, there really is no clear blue water between this “Labour” (Friends of Israel) government and that of the Conservative Friends of Israel ones 2010-2024, and particularly that of David Cameron-Levita and George Gideon Osborne, 2010-2015.
[“It feels like a rerun of austerity and I’m worried about that.” Neil Duncan-Jordan, Labour MP for Poole, says cuts to benefits will create more poverty and says there will be Labour MPs who will vote against welfare benefits cuts. #Newsnight“]
Looks like there are at least a few genuine Labour-style MPs around (but, I am guessing, not many).
Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are the main criminals in all this, and then, of course, Starmer-stein.
[“Labour Welfare Reforms latest: Keir Starmer says he’s had enough of people expecting free handouts, so presumably he’ll be sending back all those suits and football tickets.”]
[“Oil supplies to Hungary from Russia have been resumed, while the damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline attacked by the Ukrainian armed forces has been repaired, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said: https://vk.cc/cJCvQU“— TASS]
[“Ukraine’s massive drone attack on Russian regions has exposed Zelensky’s agonizing attempts to pander to his Western patrons by killing civilians, the Russian foreign ministry said: https://vk.cc/cJCwCX“— TASS]
They use the language of social class but the real agenda seems to be to deprive children of even occasional contact with life-giving white Northern and general European culture. Evil plans from evil people. What should be done with those evil people?
Look at the destruction the Israeli Army and air force has wrought in only 14-15 months; including the deaths of about 150,000, the majority women and children, including many of under 5 years of age.
Fanatical Jews, including Jewish lawyers in the UK masquerading as “human rights” barristers, say that what has been done is not really “genocide” but justified military action. Their Talmudic argumentativeness convinces few (not even many Jews). Look at the facts (and the photos) rather than legalistic labels twisted by Jew-Zionist lawyers for tribal purposes.
OVER 150,000 SCUMBAGS HAVE NOW INVADED OUR COUNTRY VIA DINGHY SINCE 2018!!!!
I PREDICT THERE WILL BE NEAR TO 150,000 INVADING DURING 2025 ALONE!!!!
WE REALLY ARE DOOMED!!!!!
— REFORM ARE THE ONLY SHOW IN TOWN!!!! (@yq888111) December 27, 2024
The “small boats” migration invasion is only 5%, if that, of the whole. Maybe only 2% or so. There are, in rough figures, a million or more invaders coming in every year, mostly “legally”.
Then there are the huge numbers being born to foreign mothers or fathers in the UK, some of the parents themselves having been born in the UK. The future looks dark, the future looks orange black and brown.
The human mind cannot imagine what the militants are doing to the Alawites on the coast of Syria. Such videos are terrible. One video of bullying. pic.twitter.com/GWVIwpy2SR
After what the Israeli Jews, and their many Jewish supporters in the West, have been doing and/or supporting, no-one wants to listen any more to their nearly 100-year-old whining about Adolf Hitler, Germany, the NSDAP, the SS, or the endless “holocaust” stories, many of which are untrue anyway.
I would love for something bad to happen to that bastard.
Incidentally, the more I think about his (2020) “near-death” from (supposedly) the “Covid” virus, the Iess I believe it, and the more I think that it was probably an “am-dram” performance, designed to frighten the public; amateur theatricals, similar to his caricature aping of Churchill’s mannerisms, speech, gait etc.
Well, this week I merely equalled John Rentoul’s 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 7, 8, and 9. I was unsure about questions 4, 5, 6, and 10, and had no idea at all about question 2.
“A fellow at the University of Cambridge who has sparked backlash with his comments on race has been dropped by Emmanuel College where he was a research associate.
Nathan Cofnas, an early career research fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy, is understood to have had his relationship with the college ended following an investigation into his conduct.
Mr Cofnas came under fire in February after he published a blog post which claimed the number of black professors at Harvard would ‘approach zero’ in a meritocracy, and that ‘Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.’
He also dismissed equality between people of different ethnicities as a ‘thesis’ that is ‘based on lies’.
Mr Cofnas, who describes himself as a ‘race-realist’, is understood to have been informed of the college’s decision by letter on April 5, which stated his posts were in violation of its diversity and inclusion policies.
Last month, the first black man to ever be appointed to the head of a Cambridge College, Lord Simon Woolley, principal of Homerton College, held an event with students and the master of Emmanuel Doug Chalmers to discuss their concerns.
Lord Woolley, who was previously appointed by then-Prime Minister Theresa May to head the UK Government’s Race Disparity Unit, told the assembled students that free speech must be protected, but this did not extend to ‘abhorrent racism’.
Emmanuel’s Master Mr Chalmers had initially backed Mr Cofnas’ right to freedom of speech, but the college soon launched an investigation, alongside other probes by the University and the Leverhulme Trust, which provided him with a research grant.”
So the “diversity hire” has no understanding of the concept of free speech, or the concept of academic freedom, yet has been appointed principal of a Cambridge University college…
What a surprise, in the UK of 2024. Not.
The “Readers’ Comments” on that Daily Mail report are interesting. Almost every one supports the researcher, as do the votes on those comments.
Incidentally, the researcher in question is Jewish, so he cannot be described very plausibly as “Nazi” (nicht wahr?). See also a piece written on another subject by him: https://thecritic.co.uk/twilight-of-the-liberal-jew/.
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"How did we get to the point where Putin just decided he was going to invade Russia? Nothing like this has happened since World War II!” pic.twitter.com/p9XFqshZYA
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Biden really ought to retire.
Russian drones undermined symbol of US military power
Drones, which are actively used in Ukraine, have changed modern warfare. They also began to inflict fatal damage on one of the most powerful symbols of American military might – the Abrams tank, writes The New York Times.… pic.twitter.com/v9qY8Hl281
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
After Netyantyahu's unfortunate rash act, the settlers began to stock up on everything they needed, as they were confident that there would be a response from Iran pic.twitter.com/QT727rf9vR
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
“Have you got a light, mac?” (“no, but I have a dark-grey overcoat“…boom boom…)
There is no plan B without the USA – Kiev
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba, stated that this was the message he conveyed to his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken.
However, he reiterated that for Ukraine there is no alternative to US military… pic.twitter.com/li1sk4g9bg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
“There is no plan B without the USA – Kiev.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba, stated that this was the message he conveyed to his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken. However, he reiterated that for Ukraine there is no alternative to US military support, which already amounts to over 111 billion dollars since the beginning of the conflict with Russia in February 2022.“
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Rishi wants to get tough on the 850,000 more people on long term sick after 'the pandemic.' 1) You literally paid them to sit on the sofa & then wonder why work ethic changed. 2) You mandated novel interventions that have killed & injured people & increased the long term sick. 3)… pic.twitter.com/RKdA7KZXQR
“Rishi wants to get tough on the 850,000 more people on long term sick after ‘the pandemic.’ 1) You literally paid them to sit on the sofa & then wonder why work ethic changed. 2) You mandated novel interventions that have killed & injured people & increased the long term sick. 3) Universal credit costs about £80 billion. You wasted £310-410 billion over-reacting to ‘the pandemic.’“
The little Indian money-juggler is trying to ape the vulgar and unpleasant attacks on the sick, disabled, and unemployed that characterized the 2010-2015 government of Cameron-Levita, Osborne, and Dunce Duncan Smith.
If Sunak thinks that this tired and derivative form of “gutter politics” will fly, he is very mistaken. I was looking at the “Readers’ Comments” in the Daily Mail on this. Only about 1% support the policy and/or think that it will ever be possible (or desirable) to implement it.
We read that there is currently an “epidemic of shoplifting“. What does Sunak imagine will be the result of cutting off the last peanuts lifeline to people, leaving them totally desperate, destitute, homeless etc?
If Sunak and the Conservative Party are trying to improve their electoral chances by this, they are in cloud-cuckoo land. The only people who will be impressed will be the hard core of unthinking Con voters aged 60+, and they will vote Con anyway.
Of course, none of the announced policies will be implemented, or implementable, prior to the General Election. The question therefore devolves to the response from Starmer and Rachel Reeves etc, who will probably be forming the next government. If they follow in Sunak’s footsteps, there could be something akin to an uprising eventually; certainly social upheaval.
Bismarck introduced the skeleton of a Welfare State in Germany 150 years ago, not because the Iron Chancellor was soft, or very kind-hearted, but because he wanted to divert any revolutionary sentiment in the masses. Looks like the UK’s pygmy politicos are going the other way.
He and his ilk have also overseen mass immigration that has stifled growth in pay, exported goods jobs, pushed accommodation, health etc costs through the roof and massively increased taxes etc making many feel little or no benefit from actually working/striving for success.
“A group of self-styled ‘Robin Hoods’ are bragging on social media that they stole from Marks & Spencer to give to food banks.
Campaigners from Everybody Eats, a group calling for direct action on food poverty, claim they launched their first raid at an M&S Foodhall in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
They also claim they will replicate ‘this all across the country’ until the government answers their demands on food security, The Telegraph reported.
Everybody Eats claimed that food banks were aware that the goods were stolen and suggested its members had been asked to help.“
Most politicians will lead us to believe that we’re all useless idiots. Not true, there are lots of wonderful people out there. Have a great weekend. https://t.co/xVscfCDxNb
Now, more information. Seems that the egregious Israel-based Jew-Zionist solicitor, Mark Lewis, was involved (I was unaware of that until today, though did wonder when I saw a few tweets in the past week). He has messed up…again.
It seems Mr Lewis thought Mr Cantor had no assets and had financial immunity for my costs even if he lost.
The “misunderstanding” is catastrophic for Mr Cantor and his family because he must sell his house to pay my costs.
My opinion is that Mr Lewis should pay the costs! 2/2.
Lewis is actually a pretty poor lawyer anyway in my opinion (based partly on what I have read about him over the years), and he has in the past admitted that at times — apparently by reason of his prescribed medications, in part— he has, or has had, no idea of what he is or was doing.
Looks now as if that Cantor individual (of whom I know nothing, and of whom I had never heard until this case finished recently) will or might have to take legal action against Lewis himself if he is not to become homeless after his failed attempt to ruin a university academic. What a great pity…
It is not for me to pronounce on whether Lewis was negligent and/or dishonest in this particular case, but (once again) it seems that he has, shall we say, “questions to answer”.
Lewis, though now based in Israel, has a foothold in the UK as “partner” of a small law firm in West London.
Lewis is basically a self-publicist: see my previous (years ago) blog mentions of him.
That blog post contains links which detail many (though I think not all) of Lewis’s defaults.
There is a notorious Jew-Zionist cabal on Twitter/X, and in the UK mass media, which has been determined for years to present Lewis to a gullible Press readership, TV-watching public etc as “hot shot lawyer”, or (as often described) “top lawyer“.
The fact is that, when Lewis finally left the UK for Israel (to live in Israel) about 5 years ago, his own Counsel said (at his “trial” before a Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in London, at which Lewis was found guilty of having posted savagely violent social media posts) that Lewis had “no assets” except his own clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth £70 a week. Even his car was being provided to him by the State disability benefit service, Motability.
Oddly (not), Lewis’s appearance before, and “conviction” by, the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal was not covered at all by the “occupied” UK msm, and only briefly by a few law magazines…
More:
Wow! Mark Lewis acted for Daniel Miller and Nina Power against Luke Turner. Lewis’ clients lost in spectacular fashion. Mr Miller is now bankrupt. I am not sure about Ms Power.
It is awful the same will happen to Mr Mendelsohn and Mr Cantor!
Seems that James Wilson is, on the face of it, a little too kind. Those Jew-Zionist fanatics (the defendants Cantor and Mendelsohn, whoever they are —I had heard of the unpleasant Newbon) were, after all, quite willing to ruin Mr. Wilson if they could.
As for Lewis, he is, in my opinion, repeatedly unprofessional, quite apart from, also in my opinion, being very far from as effective as his fellow-fanatics try to make him appear.
Lewis’s Third Witness Statementsays it— he “misunderstood“…
Mr Cantor was on a CFA with Mr Lewis, so if he settled with me for nominal damages and zero costs, he had to pay me almost nothing and his solicitor absoutely nothing.
Why would he have rejected this settlement in principle?
Lewis is no better than an “ambulance-chaser”, in my opinion.
For context. Mr Lewis referred to me as £19 Wilson because my maximum cost was £19/hour whereas his was £600/hour. And the Defendants – or perhaps Mr Lewis – refused mediation for two years until they lost the strike out application.
I keep seeing on Twitter/X that Lewis must be a great defamation lawyer because he “won when representing ‘Jack Monroe’ against Katie Hopkins, who lost and had to sell her house.”
True, Katie Hopkins did lose that case, and did have to sell her house to pay the legal costs supposedly incurred by that fraudulent purveyor of 10p-a-dinner swill, “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, before she changed her name).
What that story leaves out is that, firstly, Katie Hopkins was either badly advised or, as I believe was the case, not advised at all; she had no lawyers, and so persisted with a defence which was bound to fail. She never stood a chance, but her pride got in the way.
As for Lewis, a child could have won that case against Katie Hopkins.
So Lewis was trying to blag £600 an hour for his most recent defective advice? Well, he will get nothing now (again); he will have to keep the lights switched off in his flat in Eilat, and “collect the pennies on the empties”, as people used to say.
Unfortunately this is necessary because I am dealing with unreasonable people. This message shows Pete Newbon’s total faith in Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) of Patron Law (@LawPatron) to look after him in the litigation. Pete guessed he had to trust Mark Lewis. pic.twitter.com/6uNzvceSj4
Typical Lewis: tries to intimidate people who have no assets beyond (perhaps) a residential property; they, he hopes, will settle and, crucially, pay supposed “costs” to Lewis, who then gets money without having had to win at trial.
The defamation case won by James Wilson, included references in the court judgment that Rachel Riley had promoted the crowdfunder by the defendant (who’d committed the libel) to employ lawyer Mark Lewis.
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) April 19, 2024
Lewis should be (at long last) struck off the solicitors’ roll; as for Myerson, the matter should be placed before the Bar Standards Board. I hope that Mr. Wilson complains formally to the BSB about him. In the meantime, Myerson should not be permitted to sit as a Recorder (if he still is so permitted after his previous defaults).
Yet another instance of Lewis having been, if not dishonest (?), then certainly negligent. That, at least, was the view of yet another High Court judge.
The world has had capitalist societies, socialist societies, feudal societies etc, but now, in the UK, has emerged a new form of society— the permanently “offended” society of fake “diversity”.
Most of the faked “offence” is taken by “the usual suspects”, of course.
The Daily Mail and Jewish/Zionist so-called “charities” (including the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) are whining because someone convicted (on evidence that would have shamed the Star Chamber) in 2018, and then sentenced to 6.5 years, is being released a few months before the end of his full term expires.
Most prisoners are released at, or even before, the halfway point. In this case, that would have meant release in 2021, three years ago.
I hope that the State will not be so cruel as to deny the young couple the right to have their child returned to them. To do that would be absolutely evil.
If the newspaper report (penned by one Iwan Stone, incidentally) is correct, the couple intend to live in Portugal when they can. Good luck to them as they move on from all of this.
Have they not suffered enough?
Literary thought
For no obvious reason, The Merchant of Venice springs to mind. I have not seen a proper production being put on for quite a while.
Othello seems to be more popular.
Perhaps it always was; it has also inspired more adaptations and variations, as in this old noir:
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I fully support what Stephanie said. It’s sound. We all like to project when we communicate online and maybe resist the urge to project your biases and ego defences onto Stephanie because she dared to tweet a thing about child development and maternal attachment. https://t.co/tscEDjE8ye
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
Zelensky admitted that the residents of Ukraine are tired of the military conflict with the Russian Federation.
Regarding fatigue, I won’t lie, it’s there. 📃 – Zelensky said in an interview with Brazilian journalists. pic.twitter.com/PzsWfES9pJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2024
No matter how much money the U.S. Government sends to the Kiev regime, no matter even how much armament and ammunition is sent, the Kiev regime cannot “win”, even to the extent of occupying the Donbass and Crimea.
The Kiev regime army is flagging as many desert the field, and many more avoid conscription. To be recruited by the Kiev regime army is to be sent to quite likely death or life-changing injury on the front-lines, which are now starting to collapse.
Ukraine is producing few children, and a quarter or more of its pre-2022 population is living outside Ukraine. If American and EU aid stopped, there would be no fighting within a few weeks, followed by either a negotiated armistice or Russian victory. As it is, it looks as though this brutal war will smoulder on for months, maybe even a year or two.
In the end, though, Russia will “win”, in the sense of taking over all of Eastern Ukraine, and possibly the coast as far as, and maybe beyond, Odessa.
I watched a few minutes of a very biased BBC World News report about the war. The reporter, some bearded fellow whose name I did not catch, did say something about why Ukrainians try to avoid fighting. Apart from the obvious dangers, open-ended service (no way of getting out) and poor conditions generally.
What, however, made the report farcical was said reporter’s then assertion that Ukraine is a “genuine democracy“. Hardy ha ha… A “genuine democracy” that now refuses to hold elections, has banned trade unions, which press-gangs people up to age 60 and beyond to serve as cannon-fodder on the collapsing front-lines, and which shoots dissidents, or holds them without trial in unpleasant camps and prisons.
Units of Russia’s Battlegroup West moved to more advantageous positions in the past day, repelling three Ukrainian attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/NtpVJaDTpMpic.twitter.com/967XucMRt1
I happened to watch an edition of Celebrity Chase quiz show (from about 6 years ago). As usual, I did not know even the names of a couple of the “celebrities”, but “Eddie the Eagle” was there and, also, Michelle Dewberry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Dewberry].
I believe that Ms. Dewberry is now employed by GB News TV as presenter of a current affairs show.
Sadly, Ms. Dewberry proved herself entirely ignorant about politics, and pretty much everything else. Even worse than I was expecting.
Full of unwarranted self-confidence, but empty of intellectual content. Totemic of the present-day (think “Boris” Johnson, for one…).
The presenter of The Chase, Bradley Walsh, introduced Ms. Dewberry as “businesswoman and TV presenter“, I think. True up to a point. She did have a business, though I think an unsuccessful one, about 15 years ago. She is best known for having won, in 2006, The Apprentice, the TV competition run by Jewish businessman Alan Sugar.
My problem with all that is that she is one of a number of people with considerable public profile, and who opines about politics, Britain’s future etc, and yet is entirely ignorant in almost (?) all areas.
I suppose that I have to be honest and admit that, in the commonly-heard (on TV at least) phrase, “she scrubs up well“, anyway.
I see now from Wikipedia that Ms. Dewberry is now in a personal relationship with a once-successful and still affluent businessman, who is also, inter alia, a TV/radio presenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jordan.
Ms. Dewberry seems to be an example of a widespread problem in the UK these days, namely people posing as business successes, political experts etc when they are nothing of the sort; but it suits the msm to present them as such.
Most such people are boosted by the msm and/or politicians because it suits an agenda, in Michelle Mone’s case as an example of a *woman from *a deprived or poor background, who *via her own efforts *became “successful” and *wealthy. The David Cameron-Levita, George Osborne, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith (etc) ideology personified— and as fake as those cheats.
In fact, Michelle Mone is a fake through and through, and always has been, as seen even in her Wikipedia entry. That, however, has not stopped her from having been —ludicrously, so be it— elevated to the House of Lords; nor has it stopped her from making hundreds of millions of pounds from useless hospital equipment, sold to the NHS via contacts in the Conservative Party, together with her present husband: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Barrowman.
There is something wrong about a country that seems not to care whether someone prominent, and/or in public life proper, is a fake. Look at Iain Duncan Smith. That man has so many layers of fakery that to examine them all in detail would require a book by someone such as Tom Bower [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bower].
We see now how history is not only misunderstood, but often faked in both its overall purport and in details. I am referring not only to the WW2 “holocaust” farrago, but to, for example, the attempts now made to present a one-sided view of European (including British) colonialism as something entirely bad, with no redeeming features.
When history is faked, how can present-day politics and intellectual life be unaffected?
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Scott Benton MP has LOST his appeal against a 35-day suspension. He was filmed in Times investigation offering to lobby ministers and leak confidential information for money: https://t.co/7pIZb4aTYa. Paves the way for likely by-election in Blackpool South (Tory majority = 3,690) pic.twitter.com/paR9n7Nbir
As in the many previous cases involving corrupt and moneygrubbing MPs, what always amazes me is how easy they are to entrap. They must have very little caution (perhaps as a result of their feeling of “entitlement”).
As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic’s creatures, “dirty democratic politicians“…
Incredible, or perhaps not, that the only penalty the House of Commons itself has imposed on Benton is a 35-day suspension. Of course, the real penalty will be if there is a by-election and he loses his seat, though he would have lost it —or will lose it— at GE 2024 anyway.
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Forget 30,000 dead in Gaza, tens of thousands more in prison without charge, five MILLION in stateless serfdom, forget 75 years of torture, rape, dispossession, humiliation and occupation, ITS ALL ABOUT YOU, Bella
How woke will Labour go? Tomorrow I'm doing a deep dive on some of the most divisive, insane policies that will likely be delivered by a Labour government. Get it herehttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
Retired US Air Force General and B-52 fighter pilot:
Even a B-52 flight over the Middle East could not change Iran's policy.
Our weapons systems are not designed to fight Iranian drones.
The United States has not yet been able to understand Iran, the resistance forces and this… pic.twitter.com/1iDrV9dorj
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 20, 2024
It may be that, in time, huge fleets of drones will attack Tev Aviv, Jerusalem, and Dimona.
A large crowd of protesters has gathered in front of the Supreme Court in London, UK, demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Assange is unwell and was unable to attend in person or online. In December, the WikiLeaks founder was so ill that he broke a rib while… pic.twitter.com/gwaZFFzFAy
The UK/US extradition treaty is, in practice, a one-way street. Abrogate it.
Incidentally, there was a time, mostly though not entirely in the years 1993-1995, when I appeared as Counsel pretty much weekly at the Royal Courts of Justice (always in the High Court). Seems long ago now, and indeed is. A different time, and a different world.
I see Kate Andrews is on #politicslive advocating zero-hour contracts and wants less regulation for employers
She is getting a lot of use with her #BBC politics season ticket, maybe the BBC board have her on speed dial pic.twitter.com/mFj3LUBYm2
— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) February 20, 2024
I blogged briefly about Kate Andrews a year or so ago:
I agree with tweeter “Betty’s Hotpot”/”@BigThickSlices” too. Reform UK is not properly social-national. I do not value it highly, certainly not to the extent of Matt Goodwin. Britain needs a social-national party which, sadly, does not even exist, at least as yet.
“A woman was left in shock after police allegedly told her to retrieve her stolen £30,000 Lexus car herself.
Alexandra Vlad, 32, woke up on February 6 to find her Lexus UX missing from her driveway in Newham, East London. Using a tracking app on her phone, she found the last known location of her car in Hackney, about six miles away. She called the police and provided all the information but claims she was then instructed to go and get the car herself.
Alexandra, who works in corporate finance, said: “I was more shaken by the experience of dealing with the police than the car being stolen itself. I told them what happened, and that I could see the last location of the engine. They told me they wouldn’t be there for at least an hour. It was a dodgy part of Hackney. I felt unsafe.“
[Daily Mirror]
The police are a prime example of how things generally do not work properly now in Britain, though there are many others— NHS, banks, insurance companies, the whole political and electoral system, repair of the roads, the non-existent border defences etc.
I remember that song. 1967; I was a 10-y-o child living in Mosman, a North Shore suburb of Sydney. Different times (look at the comments appended to that YouTube video).
“Major French magazine L’Express has revealed that its prominent former editor, Philippe Grumbach, was a KGB spy for 35 years.
He counted presidents, actors and literary giants as close friends. He was a legendary figure in journalism who shaped the editorial direction of one of France’s most successful publications. When he died in 2003, Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon said Grumbach had been “one of the most memorable and respected figures in French media”.
But he was also “Brok”, the KGB spy.
Extensive proof of Grumbach’s duplicitous life can be found in the so-called Mitrokhin archive.
Born in Paris in 1924 into a Jewish family, Grumbach fled France with his mother and siblings in 1940 – the year Nazi Germany invaded and Marshal Philippe Pétain took power in Vichy with a collaborationist regime.“
[BBC]
The Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections
At Wellingborough, a convincing win for Labour. I thought that it might go closer than it did. Labour 45.9%, Conservatives 24.6%, Reform UK 13%. All 8 other candidates lost their deposits; the LibDems came closest with 4.7%. A local Independent, Marion Turner-Hawes, scored 3.7% and probably would have beaten the LibDems had she been the only Independent standing. The Greens, as usual, were nowhere (6th) on 3.4%, and Britain First was even more “nowhere” on 1.6%.
The Conservatives were let down partly by the choice of candidate, the girlfriend of unpleasant former MP, Peter Bone. Having said that, the main reason for the electoral upset was that people want a change, even if it is really not much of a change, or the wrong change. They wanted, also, to stamp on the Conservative Party.
The Conservative candidate tried to make “stopping the boats“, i.e. the continuing cross-Channel migration-invasion, the issue. Of course, the fact is that the cross-Channel invasion is only a tenth, if that, of the main invasion— the enormous influx of “students”, “family-members”, “highly-skilled workers” (Indians that can work a computer) as well as supposed “asylum-seekers” etc.
Also, the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024 have not even seriously tried to “stop the boats”, let alone the main migration-invasion. Not far short of a million a year now.
A better candidate, and one not tied up with Peter Bone, might have scored higher, maybe well over 30%, and so lost less embarrassingly.
A real social-national party, if one existed, might have won. Turnout was only 38%; a huge 62% of those eligible to vote did not bother, or showed their contempt for the whole system via abstention.
No need to “analyze” the Britain First vote— pathetic. As for Reform UK, it is going to have to do a lot better than that if it is going to start winning seats. Another pro-Israel scam-party by Nigel Farage.
Overall, the result is another nail in the coffin of the Rishi Sunak government, and the Conservative Party (and Sunak himself, of course).
I should be ready to bet that, if voters aged 65+ (many of whom would have voted early by post) were taken away, the remaining Con Party vote would have been no more than 10%.
Kingswood, north of Bristol and in effect an outer suburb of Bristol, also returned a Labour MP yesterday. Pointlessly, of course, because not only will there be a general election this year but, also, the constituency is being abolished.
The result was Labour 44.9%, Conservatives 34.9%, Reform UK 10.4%, Green 5.8%, LibDems 3.5%, UKIP 0.5%.
Turnout was 37.1%, even lower than at Wellingborough. Almost two-thirds of those eligible could not be bothered to vote, and/or despise the whole circus.
The Labour candidate had the advantage of being of local origin, more or less, combined with not being a Conservative. His unusual personal life (gay, and having converted from Roman Catholicism to Judaism to fit in with his Jewish “civil partner”) seems to have been disregarded by the voters (meaning the 11,176 who voted for him, out of about 80,000; the other ~68,000 were eligible to vote but either did not vote or voted for other candidates).
The Conservative Party candidate came closer than I had expected. His own local origins can probably be thanked for that. The Farage vehicle, Reform UK, came third, but again seems to be —time after time— the “also ran” party…
The Greens saved their deposit and beat the LibDems into 5th place. The rump of UKIP came last, and one has to wonder why candidates for no-hope parties like that even bother.
Yet another nail in Sunak’s political coffin, of course.
Taking away the local aspects of both by-elections, for me the “takeaways” are that this “Conservative” government is toast, that Sunak is toast, and that the Conservative Party is toast. Also, that the LibDems are seen as dull and, except where they have a good tactical chance against a Conservative candidate, unappealing to voters.
More? Well, that Reform UK is not exciting enough people, not yet anyway, to start being a major player. Also, that the Greens only appeal to around 5% of the electorate, if that.
Finally, for me the point is that, in both of these by-elections, only just over a third of people even bothered to vote; without postal voting, that 37%/38% would probably have been nearer to 20%. The voters most interesting to me are those not presently energized to vote.
What do these results say about GE 2024? That Labour must be en route to victory, though a victory not welcomed by all, or even a majority, of the voters. A feeling of dull meaninglessness, perhaps. A hollow victory?
For the Conservative Party, these results must mean that the bulk of their MPs are on the way out. 50 may survive, maybe 100.
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The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City.
A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/vn0oL0bnU5
Putin: NATO has lost its purpose of existence – it is only an instrument of US foreign policy
EMPHASIZED THAT FOR MOSCOW, BIDEN IS PREFERABLE TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE THAN TRUMP
He stated: "When I met with Biden in Switzerland – it was three years ago – and then some were… pic.twitter.com/kOtrUY1HTG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
A picture of the Shahid-191 flying drone assembly line that has been published on social networks. pic.twitter.com/qlROQXZkfD
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The time may come when Israel faces thousands of such drones.
"When you ignore the wishes of your core voters, when you treat them with contempt, when you promise them one thing only to do something else entirely, they will soon find another home. And that’s what they’re doing by switching to Reform"https://t.co/58R0TO4UNh
I agree with the first bit, but only partly with the second. Many 2019 Con Party voters seem to be switching, in despair, to Reform UK, but that would be only a small minority of the overall electorate. Look at the turnout figures from yesterday. Only a third (just over) of eligible voters even voted. Reform UK, with its limited “conservative nationalism” “cosplay”, its pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby attitude, and its semi-“libertarian” economics, will never inspire even a half of the voters. Maybe 10%, maybe 20%. I doubt that it will go higher.
The fact is that, even at Kingswood, where the result scarcely mattered in itself (a general election this year, and the seat then ceasing to exist), Reform UK only gathered in 13% of the votes, i.e. about 5% of all possible votes. The Wellingborough result was similar: 9.4% of votes cast, i.e. about 3% of all possible votes.
Only a fully-credible social-national party might be able to energise and inspire the British people. That party does not exist.
NEW POST. Sunak's Sinking — By-elections, recession, and a party in decline https://t.co/UkQl6UYyjf
“Today, the Tories are only holding half the people who voted for them at the last general election, in 2019, and only a little more than one in three of the people who voted for Brexit, in 2016. These are supposed to be the party’s core supporters. But many of them are now abandoning Sunak in droves, running for the hills.
And do you blame them? Seriously? Given some of the other events this week it’s not hard to see why. For a start, Sunak’s failure to control Britain’s borders was reflected in the remarkable finding that just 1.3% of the illegal migrants who entered Britain on the small boats since 2018 have been removed from the country.
And then came the latest data on the dire state of the economy, which confirms Britain is in recession and suffering the longest hit to living standards since records began, in 1955. Contrary to Sunak’s pledge to deliver economic growth, this week we learned that throughout his first year in office Britain’s economy grew by just 0.1%, while GDP per capita —which adjusts for population growth — fell by 0.7%.
This, too, will prompt many voters to ask Sunak some tough questions. Where is the growth you promised? Where is the strong economy? And where is the growth the Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and countless other experts told us would surely arrive if Britain opened its doors to unprecedented immigration?
The answer is it’s nowhere to be seen, partly because rather than deliver the high-skill, high-wage, highly-selective, and highly productive immigration the Tories have been promising since Brexit they’ve instead delivered low-skill, low-wage, non-selective, and unproductive immigration from outside Europe, which has been shown to be a net fiscal cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies.
...more and more [voters] are turning off and tuning out. Just look at the rates of turnout at the latest by-elections. Labour and Keir Starmer are not setting Britain on fire, far from it; the Tories are staying home.
These voters aren’t idiots. They know they’ve been led down the garden path by a Conservative government and a Conservative prime minister which have routinely overpromised and underdelivered.
These voters want decent economic growth and an economic model which prioritises British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have given them more of the same.
These voters want much lower and manageable rates of immigration. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories keep putting mass migration on steroids. And these voters want strong and secure borders and a government which prioritises the security of the British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have lost control of our borders, largely because they refuse to reform laws and leave conventions which make it impossible to remove illegal migrants and foreign nationals who commit crime, as we saw with the shocking case of Abdul Ezedi.“
[Matt Goodwin, on his Substack blog]
In any case, the UK needs no immigration at all. It needs to educate and train real British people to a far higher level, and then provide suitable employment for them. British people, real British people.
Suitable employment, appropriate and decent pay; decent housing; decent transport; decent medical care; decent social care; also, decent architecture and town planning.
Labour has two more MPs after by-elections this week – but this is by default, because Tory voters didn't bother to turn out. Labour also is less popular.
Tories lose two more by-elections – but don't believe Labour's propaganda https://t.co/NITSBTJKwt
BREAKING: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said https://t.co/L0YtgkcjKMpic.twitter.com/x7xFV3UERB
The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said that Navalny 'felt unwell' after a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp, about 1,200 miles north east of Moscow. Navalny, the prison service said, had lost consciousness almost immediately pic.twitter.com/xtHflzjNC7
Defying the Kremlin can be dangerous. The story that Navalny “felt unwell after he went for a walk” is obviously unlikely.
The daytime temperature in that region today is about -20C. Cold weather for a stroll, even for a Russian.
As to Navalny himself, I knew nothing of him beyond what was occasionally on TV news or in the newspapers. I was unable to understand why he returned to Russia after he had recovered from having been poisoned in Russia and flown to Germany for treatment.
My conclusion (beyond the apparent fact that Navalny was a braver man than me— and a more foolish one, arguably) is that he had a huge amount of egotism. He probably wildly over-estimated his popularity in Russia (in fact only about 5% supported him), and may have thought that arriving in Moscow on a private jet with a horde of Western reporters on board would probably protect him, especially as thousands of his supporters (mostly Moscow-based) would be awaiting his arrival at Vnukovo (one of the four main airports in the Moscow region: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_International_Airport).
I may be wrong, but I think that Navalny may have thought that his return to Russia would be akin to that of Lenin in 1917. However, Lenin was never in any danger of arrest and detention in 1917, and had not only supporters but an armed guard force at his historic speech at the Finlandsky Station in Petrograd. Also, the Tsarist Government had already effectively fallen. There was no-one to arrest him.
Navalny has, by reason of his imprisonment and probable murder, achieved the status of martyr, but had he ever become leader of Russia, might have been as harsh, and probably less effective, than Putin.
I am old enough to remember how the usually-wrong Western msm thought, in the 1980s, that Andropov would be “liberal” (mainly because he was said to like jazz). The same or similar was said in the late 1970s of the African tyrant Robert Mugabe (“well-educated” by Jesuits, and a “democrat” by African standards. So they said…). Indeed, look at how the globalist msm lauded thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela…
Well, there it is.
One interesting aspect to the news coverage in the UK today is that it has been so extensive. In a way, surprising, when Navalny had no real support base in Russia, and never had a real chance of deposing Putin.
Were I more of a conspiracy theorist than people think I am, I should suspect that the UK TV people are using the Navalny matter to talk less about yesterday’s by-election results.
Also, the Kiev-regime forces are crumbling on the Ukrainian front-line.
Many, even perhaps I myself, might think that a retaliatory strike by Israel on Gaza, immediately after the October 2023 incursion, meaning in the following few days, would probably fall into the “self-defence” and “proportionate” area (leaving aside the behaviour of the Israeli Jews since 1948), but what has happened since then is a cruel slaughter and devastation worse than the much-criticized Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943. The Germans did evacuate most of the non-combatant Jews before killing or capturing the rest (saboteurs, terrorists, and rebels) and then levelling the area.
Which of the following do you think would make the best prime minister?
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that would still leave the Con Party with 117 MPs. Maybe. One or two points can make a big difference. For example, if the Con/Lab numbers were 23% and 45% respectively, the Cons would have only 97 MPs.
Also, these polls always over-estimate the Green vote. When and where (except at Brighton Pavilion) did the Greens get anywhere close to 8%? 5% is more usual; or lower.
Gee, I thought of Julian Assange who was put in the worst prison in the UK on April 11, 2019 for the crime of reporting true information about our government crimes. But we don't do what the Russians do, right?
After Guantanamo, Bagram, Kabul, Abu Ghraib etc, the U.S. Government can say nothing about human rights abuses.
Israel admits 200 of the burned bodies that Israel used as an excuse to commit the genocide in Gaza were for Palestinian fighters. This means the IDF is responsible for the Israelis that were burned alive not Hamas #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/45GsdKUHbL
Well, anyone can make a “mathematical error”, as when a number of, say, six million becomes one of four million and then, later, one and a half million…anyone could make such a mistake, I suppose…
Why was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered the directorship of the company that stores the data of the British Foreign Office, the Home Office, Ministry of Defence, and even the NHS? pic.twitter.com/b7srH1Ums8
— Euen Herbert #Windrush #HostileEnvironment #FBPE (@LaserMike) December 15, 2023
…and here is Emily Thornberry living the high life with a pack of Zionists in London, including the former Israeli Ambassador, Regev (centre of photo):
Labour, “the party for working people”??
Yes & the far right ( today's tory party) broke it I'm not a great lover of Starmer's Labour but it has to be better that the last 14 years of corruption
Why exactly does it have to be better? History tells us that it will be considerably worse. And I (& I suspect you too) remember when the Labour Party actually contained some really clever & gifted politicians. Smith, Foot etc. Now it’s a refuse dump for morons.
— Jules de Barsham- I Stand With Israel🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@DeBarsham) February 16, 2024
For me, the main thing is to break the rigged “two main parties” system (scam). So if the Conservative Party is trampled upon and left almost powerless at GE 2024, good, even though that would be at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship” for up to 5 years. With one large party reduced to almost nothing, the System’s rhythm will be disrupted. No more the idea that “the other lot” will be better. With the Cons deflated, and the LibDems already on the floor, other ideas, social-national ideas, will come through, one way or the other.
NEW. The % of Brits who think "immigration has been too high" hits a new record of 64%, while the % of Brits who think "immigration has been mostly good for Britain" slumps to a new low of 21% (YouGov).
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
My thoughts are with him. He may not be quite my sort of person, but he is a martyr for truth. The UK should ditch the one-sided UK/US extradition law.
France will allocate an additional 3 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2024.
▪️Macron added that the "security" agreement was signed for a period of ten years and will be valid until Ukraine joins NATO. pic.twitter.com/SBHYIjkDFg
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The Kiev regime may collect money, but on the front-line its soldiers are being gradually defeated, and the UKR ranks are thinning daily.
Gandalfian wisdom: “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” pic.twitter.com/kxYq4fWwK8
A step in the right direction, but only when the Zionist and pro-Israel lobby is confronted and defeated can there be free speech again in the UK. The Jew-Zionist lobby is the primary anti-free-speech concentration in this country.
Tweets seen
We all know who, but if we say it then we'll be put in jail for 2.5 years like Sven Longshanks.
— ⊕AJ Grumblestilch⊕ 🏴🇬🇧🏴☠️ (@AJGrumblestilch) May 28, 2023
In other words, (((the usual suspects))).
Talking about Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), it is good to see his resettlement fund growing:
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
3 buildings that were reportedly hit in Moscow are located in these areas (Atlasova, Profsoyuznaya streets & Leninsky Avenue). pic.twitter.com/9omEdozVl2
Russia's capital Moscow was under attack by several drones overnight. 8 drones were launched at Moscow. 5 of them were shot down by Pantsyr SAM. 3 were diverted by electronic warfare means. pic.twitter.com/u6dCu2hRVu
Putin and the ruling circles in Moscow may now have to consider whether they will actually need the city of Kiev intact at the end of this war.
War is horrible, and had this war been planned and executed properly from the start, it would have ended after a few weeks with complete Russian victory, and with relatively slight harm done. Now, it may have to end with the ancient city of Kiev again being levelled (as also happened —in central areas— in 1943).
Come what may, Russia now has to fight on until it achieves victory, even if that victorious end is bitter.
To the bitter end…
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So hold up! You mean to say that at the height of one of the deadliest of "pandemics," excess deaths were close to normal. But 2 years later, it's significantly up??? Hmmmm, I wonder why? And why is MSM not talking about this? https://t.co/JVnrTwNuCk
BREAKING: Russia is claiming that at least 8 drones have targeted an area in Russia centered around Moscow. Other, unconfirmed reports claim there were up to 32 individual UAVs used in the attempted attack.
On another aspect of the present conflict, I see that the pound sterling now buys about 100 Russian roubles. When I was last in Moscow, in 2007, the (tourist) rate was a fifth of that, 1:20.
Having said that, the mass of the Russian population is as good as unaffected by the long-term slide of the rouble. As I have blogged previously, Russia could even survive quite well as an autarky, and that is not presently necessary, because trade between Russia and much of the world has not only continued but expanded. China, of course, is key.
Historian and Johnson's biographer Sir Anthony Seldon: "I don't think Boris Johnson's reputation can go much lower. Most members of the public know that he was a liar and not fit for purpose. He didn't have the integrity, skills, or judgment to run this Great country." ~AA pic.twitter.com/57hcxzdaoI
According to the head of state, the drone attack on Moscow was an attempt to retaliate, but the air defense system of the capital worked… pic.twitter.com/3pRxzCGK38
🇷🇺 Ukrainian army have lost more than 16,000 military personnel, 16 aircraft, 466 drones and more than 400 tanks over the past month – Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
🗣 Kiev's regime overlords demand that Ukraine go on a counteroffensive despite its significant losses- Shoigu pic.twitter.com/G6i6Z9zn45
Everyone knows Boris Johnson is a liar. Now Rishi Sunak is showing that he is an even better dissembler and bullshitter. He and Simon Case are currently obstructing the Covid inquiry that they themselves set up. You couldn't make it up! #WATO#r4todayhttps://t.co/NZuEOfh3R4
— Kevin Anthony The Big Brexit Lie 🇺🇦🇫🇮 (@KevinAn48751902) May 30, 2023
For me, the whole “Partygate” thing is a classic Westminster Bubble pseudo-scandal, and in any case the “pandemic” was a “panicdemic”, if not a “scamdemic”; but, having said that, it is remarkable the extent to which decent administration and governance has vanished from the UK in the years since both Government and Opposition became packed with Jews, Indians, Middle Easterners of various kinds, and blacks. Co-incidence?
It must be a grave temptation for Putin and his group to say, simply, “**** it!” and fire all nuclear missiles at the USA, London, Kiev, Warsaw, Tel Aviv etc. Fortunately for Europe, Putin is far more measured than that.
Sometimes, “liberation” and “a desert” are not far apart, as Tacitus noted (more or less) over 2,000 years ago.
Let us hope that Europe as a whole does not look like that in 2030…
Vladimir Putin will be able to come to South Africa for the BRICS summit without fear of extradition to the International Court of Justice in The Hague – Bloomberg . pic.twitter.com/XM4XgvYRyZ
If I were Putin, that is one task I would delegate.
Russia has launched a radar satellite that will conduct reconnaissance of all Ukrainian military installations regardless of weather and time. On average, it will pass over Ukraine twice a day and is able to wirelessly photograph military sites within a radar range with an…
The armed forces of Russia are reacting with maximum ferocity to terrorist attacks on Russian citizens carried out by Ukrainian militants using NATO weapons, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. He recalled that on May 22, during a counter-terrorist operation in the… pic.twitter.com/Pv5NVFXbqk
It seems obvious to me that today’s attack on Moscow was designed to irritate and cause fear to the ruling and wealthy Muscovites who live in neighbourhoods such as Barvikha, where many leading members of the General Staff and other institutions live.
The aim of the attack seems to be to show Putin and his immediate circle as weak, and unable to protect, crucially, those who themselves support his power.
Belogorovka taken in pincers. There are active assault operations along the Seversky Donets River. The infantry of the RF Armed Forces is advancing from the northeast and southeast of the settlement. There is a "probing" of the defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the… pic.twitter.com/75OZHSWAVu
Since the beginning of the year, the Russian Navy has received 6 ships and vessels of various classes – the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
As planned, about 30 more warships, boats and support vessels are expected by the end of 2023, the agency said on the…
Compilation of the destruction of warehouses, ḫhangars with weapons, military equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Kherson region, which is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/400lS8dP6O
I have just been listening to a rather disturbing Hard Talk interview on BBC World Service radio, in which BBC man Stephen Sackur interviewed the co-founder and (?) de facto leader of “Extinction Rebellion”, Roger Hallam.
Extinction Rebellion
I have blogged previously about Extinction Rebellion:
The Wikipedia entry is not very detailed, saying nothing about Hallam’s life before 2017 (he is, at time of writing, 53, having been born in 1966) except that:
” Hallam was previously an organic farmer in Wales; he attributes the destruction of his business to a series of extreme weather events.” [Wikipedia]
Strange. When I was about 25, I worked for a couple of weeks (unpaid) on an organic farm in West Wales. That farm, Blaencamel Farm, in 1982 a rather pathetic though beautiful 24 acres (now, I notice, 50 acres) in Ceredigion, has become (as I heard on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today a couple of years ago), a highly-successful business which is also the hub of the organic movement in that part of the world:
Apropos of nothing, I notice that the farmer at Blaencamel Farm, Peter Segger (who had previously, that is before he bought that farm in 1979, been a mainstream food industry executive, buying shiploads of Arctic fish etc), seems to have mellowed considerably and, though still recognizable, has aged considerably (haven’t we all?) in the past 37 years!
I suppose that the point is that there are numerous successful or at least sustainable organic farms in West Wales. I have no idea whether Hallam farmed 500 acres, 50, or lived on a 5-acre smallholding. I suspect nearer 5 than 500, which if so would make his farming inherently unsustainable from a strictly business viewpoint. In fact, when questioned by the Daily Mail in April 2019, Hallam said that ” ‘No-one wants to get arrested. I want to get back to my farm. I’m just a poor farmer, nothing special.” So he still has a farm? I thought that he was supposed to have lost it? Does it mean that he still owns a farm but does not farm it? We do not know.
[Update, 17 September 2020: Hallam’s Wikipedia entry now reads “Hallam was previously an organic farmer on a 10-acre (4-hectare) farm near Llandeilo in South Wales.” So it seems that my guess that Hallam’s farm was “nearer 5 acres than 500” was pretty close to the mark.]
In any event, he first came to public attention in 2017: “Between at least 2017 and early 2019 he was studying for a PhD in civil disobedience at King’s College London,[5] researching how to achieve social change through radical movements. In January 2017, in an action to urge King’s College London to divest from fossil fuels, Hallam and another person, using water-soluble chalk-based spray paint,[4] painted “Divest from oil and gas”, “Now!” and “Out of time” on the university’s Strand campus entrance.[7][5]They were arrested in February when they again spray painted the university’s Great Hall,[7] charged by the state with criminal damage and fined £500.[8] In May 2019, after a three day trial at Southwark Crown Court, they were cleared by a jury of all charges, having argued in their defence that their actions were a proportionate response to the climate crisis.[5] In March 2017, Hallam went on hunger strike to demand the university divest from fossil fuels—the institution had millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels but no investment in renewable energy.[8] Five weeks after the first protest, the university removed £14m worth of investments from fossil fuel companies and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025.”
Now I have no objection to older people studying, though I am surprised that King’s College London offers a Ph.D. in Civil Disobedience (is this 2019 or 1969?), but for someone in his fifties to spraypaint the interior and exterior of his college with activist graffiti seems not so much youthful as puerile.
In the Hard Talk interview, Hallam sounded fanatical and inflexible. He kept referring to “the Science” (with a capital “S”), repeating it like a religious mantra, yet he himself is not even a scientist. He referred to himself as “a sociologist” at one point. So…here we have someone who got a sociology degree from somewhere (either in recent years or perhaps in the 1980s), and is now an almost perennial student aged 53 who has taken 2 years, it seems, to get a “doctorate” in “Civil Disobedience”, and yet (in the radio interview) lectures the interviewer on the need to believe The Science (which Hallam may or may not understand and —at least judging from his rather unintelligent radio persona— probably does not). He certainly does not think that there can be any doubt about what he says that The Science tells us about “climate change” (formerly “global warming”), despite there being a degree of scientific debate on the subject.
I have to say that I found Hallam’s style disturbing. Did the Levellers of Cromwell’s time sound like that? Or the true believers in Trotsky, Lenin or Stalin, circa 1920 or 1930?
Hallam referred, in the interview, to his belief (he said “fact”) that 6 billion people would die if the UK (and the rest of the world?) did not reduce “carbon emissions” to zero by 2025. When challenged by Stephen Sackur about how that would mean that, within 6 years, the UK would have to have no (or very few) cars, planes, trains, or centrally heated (by gas) houses, Hallam just retreated into his bubble of unreality and said that it was a matter of political will! I suppose that the last country to try that was mid-1970s Cambodia, sub nom “Democratic Kampuchea”, the Year Zero society of The Killing Fields etc.
Hallam claimed that the UK produces 10% of “emissions”. That is plain wrong if he meant 10% of the world’s carbon emissions. The real figure is about 1% (he may, however, if I take the role of Devil’s advocate, have meant 10% of all EU emissions). In other words, even if the UK disappeared into a black hole tomorrow, the other 99% of “emissions” in the world would still be there. That is taking “The Science” at face value, as Hallam obviously does.
What Hallam and his fellow Extinction Rebellion types fail to see is that in fact only the removal of 90% (maybe 80%) of the world population will “save” the planet now. Man-made climate change (taking it as Extinction Rebellion believe it to be) is not caused, at root, by cars, planes etc as such, but by the billions of people in the world, as well as their farmed animals, cars, planes, central heating etc. Numbers.
I agree that there is an environmental crisis, though “global warming”/”climate change” is only part of it. I have blogged about it, as well as the need to create what would be seen as a “super-race”, i.e, evolution of the species combined with evolution of consciousness:
It is as plain as day that Hallam and many of his fellow leading Extinction Rebellion zealots are basically fanatical drop-outs and misfits, most of whom have and have had no profession or occupation (or much academic background) to speak of (see the Daily Mail report in Notes, below):
Hallam himself, ex-farmer and now a superannuated “student” aged 53: “Mr Hallam has also claimed paralysing traffic will eventually cause food shortages and trigger uprisings” [Daily Mail];
Simon Bramwell, 46-47, a former builder, now “bushcraft instructor”;
Gail Bradbrook, 47-48, a mother of two teenage children, who divorced her husband and became an “activist” after an hallucinogenic-drug trip to Costa Rica;
Tasmin Osmond, 34-35, “a veteran of ‘direct actions’ such as Occupy London, the poverty protest which set up a camp outside St Paul’s cathedral in 2011. The granddaughter of Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees, Omond [sic] went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read English.” [Daily Mail] (no actual profession or occupation ever, apparently; presumably a trustafarian);
George Barda, 43-44: “He is a post-graduate student at King’s College in London and the son of classical music and stage photographer Clive Barda…Mr Barda is also a dedicated revolutionary who camped outside St Paul’s cathedral in the Occupy London campaign. Today, he is a director of XR parent company Compassionate Revolution and regularly appears on Russia Today.” [Daily Mail]. So again no profession or occupation, another “eternal student”…;
The XR “strategy”
I see that none of those noted above, or the others reported on by the Daily Mail, are climate scientists or anything similar (Gail Bradbrook apparently has a Ph.D. in molecular biology).
More accurately, they have a “programme” for protest action, or how to create a kind of anarchic situation, but no programme for what to do if, in some parallel reality, they were to attain to political power. They say that they want 3.5% of the population to create a momentum for change. 3.5%? From where does that come? Popular “philosophy”? Some paperback sci-fi novel? A brainwave by someone such as Hallam? Or a vision seen by the lady noted in the Daily Mail report below, in Notes, Gail Bradbrook, while on ibogaine, ayahuasca, peyote or magic mushrooms? We are not told.
I do not mistake labelling for understanding, but what do we call Extinction Rebellion, ideologically? Perhaps the closest is “anarcho-syndicalism meets treehugging” (and I favour treehugging far more than I do anarcho-syndicalism).
Were Extinction Rebellion actually able to stop government, society and economy from operating in the UK, the result would indeed be the deaths of millions, not from “climate change” but from disruption of supplies of food, water, medicine, not to mention huge lawlessness. That in turn would certainly lead to political dictatorship if not tyranny, as the “huddled masses” start to cry out for, not freedom, and most certainly not for “zero emissions” (!) but for safety, security, food, water, heat etc.
Maybe these Extinction Rebellion cranks think that they and their “3.5%” of (?) “woke” “activists” will become that dictatorship (once they understand that popular mass meetings cannot run a society of more than a couple of hundred people). More likely, they would be among the first to be put up against a wall and shot.
As I said earlier, I am very much an environmentalist and very concerned about the state of the planet in that way and in other ways, but this silly “reduce emissions to zero” idea will get nowhere in itself (even if it were to be put somehow into effect worldwide). In six years? Fantasy politics. As for “Extinction Rebellion” leading some mass movement, that is also complete fantasy:
as in… “ALL TOGETHER NOW!— “WHAT DO WE WANT?”; “NO CARS, PLANES, TRAINS, DECENT FOOD, ELECTRICITY OR HEATING!”; “WHEN DO WE WANT [TO LIVE LIKE STONE AGE PEOPLE]?”— “NOW!”
I cannot see many begging for that. Certainly not Emma Thompson, achingly politically-correct actress and “XR” supporter. She would not want that (at least not for herself and her contrived multikulti “family”). My God, it might mean that she would not be able to fly First Class from LA to London to speak at the, er, Extinction Rebellion protests! She might even have to give up some of her half-dozen luxury homes around the world!
Roger Hallam, in interview, bravely opined that “young people” support XR, but quite a few of the XR activists are over 60 and most seem to be over 40 anyway, though I do not have statistics to support that provisional view. Hallam stood as an Independent for the London constituency, during the EU elections. His vote? 924 votes (out of 2,241,681), a vote-share of 0.04%, so not even a half of a tenth of one per cent… Seems that only 4 in 10,000voted for Mr. Hallam. Statistical zero. Eloquent testimony.
The Extinction Rebellion protesters were (belatedly) cracked down on by the Metropolitan Police. Not for several days, though. Why? Was the fix in, as with so-called “activist” on climate change, the weird 16 year old Swedish autistic, Greta Thunberg, who has had a remarkably smooth ride, meeting leading politicians, receiving respectful attention, despite her obvious mental problems and what seems to me to be scarcely-concealed malice. [I shall blog separately about her].
Previous claims that “we have x-years to save the planet”
Silly people ranging from Ed Miliband and Al Gore to Prince Charles all said, back in or around 2009, that “we have 3/5/7/etc years in which to save the planet”. Then the planet yawned and the silly people went away again. There is too much of an attempt, a repeated attempt, to panic us (white Northern Europeans) into accepting lives that are not worth living. Yes there are too many people on this Earth at present. My view is that the advanced peoples should live, procreate and evolve higher. The backward peoples and races (who are by far the more numerous) are not required.
Accusations of “terrorism”; analogy with Greenham Common
One senior policeman said, after the London protests, that XR was, or was close to being, “terrorist”. I think that he was right. Look at these people. Listen to the Stephen Sackur interview. These people are willing to do anything to achieve their ends, even though their ends (insofar as they have “ends”) are in fact unachievable, certainly via protests etc.
The Greenham Common women in the early 1980s thought that they were stopping cruise missiles being based in the UK, whereas their protests (which were hell for the local people— much the lesbians and/or feminists cared…) actually achieved nothing. The missiles were removed by reason of NATO-Warsaw Pact negotiations. The “Women’s Peace Camp” was a complete waste of time and effort.
“A series of meetings held during August and September 1986 culminated in a summit between United States President Ronald Reaganand the General Secretary of the CPSUMikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11 October 1986. To the surprise of both men’s advisers, the two agreed in principle to removing INF systems from Europe and to equal global limits of 100 INF missile warheads.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, which led to the removal of all nuclear missiles from the base. The last GLCMs at RAF Greenham Common were removed in March 1991, and the 501st TMW inactivated on 4 June 1991.” [Wikipedia]
Incidentally and incredibly, even though the last missiles left Greenham Common in 1991, even though the Americans left Greenham in 1992 and even though the UK Ministry of Defence closed the base in 1993, putting it up for sale (the area being almost all designated by 1997 as public parkland), the “Greenham Women” stayed, some of them, until 2000! To me that proves that without their having “political activism” to do, some of them had nothing to do with their time or their lives. They were unable to accept that their protests (for 19 years!) had actually achieved nothing and in any case had been superseded by large-scale international events. Like the Japanese soldier in the 1970s, fighting a lone war in the jungle, 30 years after the Pacific War had ended.
Extinction Rebellion protesters are obviously not entirely peaceful. Some are willing to use violence or force to achieve their immediate aims, eg to shut down London. Hallam has, it seems, mooted the shutting down of Heathrow Airport using drones. This is not Gandhi’s “non-violence”. If 10,000 protesters are willing to shut down London by obstruction or inertia, if 1,000 are willing to be even more disruptive, then it may be that 100 are willing to use drones or other means to attack airports, electrical supplies etc. Is it not at least possible that, out of the 10,000, 10 might be willing to use violence of a directly and unambiguously terroristic kind “to save the planet”? I would not bet against it.
We shall soon know. The big “XR” protests are scheduled for October 2019.
"A petition being submitted by hundreds of independent climate scientists and professionals from numerous countries to heads of the European Council, Commission and Parliament declares "There is No Climate Emergency."" https://t.co/NELzaEpm09
“The Metropolitan Police have described the protests as “unprecedented” in their scale and length and warned that they will arrest those breaking the law.
However, Extinction Rebellion has told its protesters not to co-operate with so that they have to hold them in the cells and cannot arrest another activist.
The group wrote on their website: “There are roughly 1,000 jail cells in London – we filled many of them in April.
“Police could often only arrest 100-200 people a day because the cells were full. If we fill them every day – the streets will remain ours. That it is why we refuse bail, to fill up the cells and to show our open defiance of the system that is killing us.”” [Daily Telegraph]
My solution? If the arrested refuse bail, then stuff them ten to a cell like they do in Egypt. And if that is not enough, stuff them twenty to a cell. This is war.
For once, I agree with Boris-Idiot…and while we are on the subject of idiots, what about the one featured in the report below? Pathetic does not even start to cover it. He must have mental problems.
She has elected Crown Court trial (jury trial) despite the risk of a heavier sentence on conviction. She obviously hopes for a sympathetic jury. I see that the Daily Mail, itself ever-sympathetic to the middle classes, calls her a “molecular biologist” because she has a degree in the subject (though I doubt whether she has ever worked in that field or any other).
Update, 20 January 2020
Hallam now wants “a World War 2 mobilization of society”, with rationing and “confiscation of private property”. He says that “Nuremberg” trials should be set up for anyone “guilty” re. climate change, and that some people should “get a bullet in the head”.
What about people who just own a car, or central heating? Do they get a bullet too, or just deportation to re-education camps? In short, this Hallam character is not only an idiot, he is a dangerous idiot.
“What are the dangerous and shadowy links between the UK Government’s Rwanda flights and a heartbreaking war over resources in Africa that is also fuelling the climate crisis and destroying vital ecosystems? Today Extinction Rebellion activists answered that complex question. The group staged a protest in the House of Commons pretending to hold guns to their heads and unfurling a banner saying: ‘STOP FUNDING RWANDA WAR IN D.R. CONGO’.”
“Police have arrested six Just Stop Oil activists at a supposed soup night in London this evening.
Hackney Police has detained a number of key organisers for the group who had allegedly been plotting to cause mayhem for thousands of holidaymakers this summer by disrupting airports across the UK.“
[Daily Mail]
Just Stop Oil, connected to Extinction Rebellion.
It is clear that MI5 has people in there, and reporting.
Ian Robert Millard 