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Diary Blog, 23 August 2025

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 6, and 9.

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[“The reason Substacks and new media are thriving is because millions of people are utterly sick of the same liberal centrist dross being served up and shoved down our throats —from the BBC to much of the MSM—and then presented as some kind of “insight” when, in reality, it reflects the worldview of a 5-10% elite minority who still think we are living in 1997 and have failed to see that, actually, people don’t want liberalism on steroids. This elite minority is filled with people who went to the same schools, the same universities, who all basically think the same, live in the same postcodes, and are so obsessed with conforming to the Groupthink or their own social status that they never come close to representing or understanding the wider country. The only thing they want to do is maintain a dismal status-quo that was largely built by this elite class to serve the interests of this elite class. You can criticise me, that’s fine, but this is also why we are now one of the largest independent politics newsletters in the West (http://mattgoodwin.org), and why many others are also emerging, because people see through the Blob and they’ve had enough of it. Because they are the ones having to live with the reality of what this elite class has done to the country —an elite class that now also has the gall to say “yes we get your concerns but don’t be too annoyed/we don’t like your tone”. Do you see how utterly deluded large parts to legacy media now look to everybody else? Look for example at the stuff your own paper has been pushing on immigration. It is so obviously biased and disconnected from the mounting pile of evidence that it is embarrassing to read and, even worse, the reason you won’t change your tune is because you view the truth as “low status” and everybody can see it. Do you have one columnist, a single columnist, who genuinely reflects the mood of the average voter right now? Nope. Hence why the Tories are collapsing. Hence why legacy media is haemorrhaging viewers and listeners. Hence why liberal centrists (sorry, “conservatives”) are sitting around, scratching their heads, wondering why nobody is interested in them anymore. Still, the failures of MSM are what is driving the success of new media and the realignment of politics so keep doing what you’re doing …“]

Finkelstein, a Jew-Zionist who has “done rather well” for himself while the UK has gradually been sliding into the mire over the past decades.

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

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

We are the “Noticers”…

Good, but not enough.

The “rubber boat” invaders are only 5% of the overall problem; indeed, if births to non-Europeans are taken into account, even less.

I think that the British people have largely made up their collective mind: Farage and Reform are slightly underwhelming, but are the only game in town to vote for in order to hit out at the System parties that have done so much damage. Everyone now knows that, at every by-election, and every local election, from now until the next general election, and then at that general election, the way to stamp on both Lab and Con is to vote Reform.

The Reform vote at the next general election will probably be between 30% and 45%, and even the 30% level will be enough to sink Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel regime.

“Labour” ceased to be “the party of the working man” a long long time ago, and certainly no later than 1997.

Travelogue by train

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An utter cretin.

I shall be interested and amused to see the progress, if any, of the new party being set up by Corbyn and the comedic-named Zara Sultana. I am told that about a quarter of Labour members will join, defecting from Starmer-Labour. A quarter of members, maybe, but I apprehend that only about a tenth of Labour voters, if that, will defect at the next general election. At present, official Labour is registering about 20%-28% in the opinion polls. That seems to put Corbyn-Labour on maybe 2% or 3%. I doubt that Corbyn’s new party will attract more than 10% of the entire election vote; maybe 5%. Even 10% may not result in more than one or two MPs. Corbyn himself, and maybe Ms. Sultana, in both of whose constituencies the vote may be more concentrated.

[“If you are not from the UK then you should know there are currently dozens of protests happening right now across the country against illegal migration, broken borders, the sexual assault of our children, and the fact our own government is using our own money to outbid our own people in our own housing market by bankrolling private firms to put illegal migrants into the heart of our communities with more favourable rental contracts, all while giving us a bill of £7 BILLION a year and calling us “far right” if we say anything about it.”]

Impressive, but no more so than the one that stood in the garden of my parents’ house at Reigate Hill, Surrey, circa 1980. The house itself was called Sequoiah (the Native American name for giant redwood). I think that tree was about 100 years old at the time.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Distraction]

Diary Blog, 15 December 2024

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[David D. Pearce, Bird Souk, Cairo. Pearce was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, latterly at ambassadorial level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Pearce]

Announcement

As of today, my 9-month “community order” has expired, though in reality it ended 3 months ago, in mid-September 2024.

Regular readers of the blog will be aware of the background. For those who are not, see:

Despite my having been subjected to false accusations from the Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (amounting to attempted perversion of the course of justice from its “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”, one Stephen Silverman), despite my having had to suffer “voluntary” interview by police, despite my having been (quite wrongfully) put on trial (and convicted), and despite having been sentenced to a “community order” (and a financial penalty) in mid-March 2024, the blog continues, and has been published on a near-daily basis throughout.

24/7 surveillance of the citizen

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14193881/air-fryer-gadget-spying-investigation.html

They are the must-have kitchen gadget of the moment – but your air fryer might just be spying on you.

Now the UK’s data watchdog is planning new rules after a shock investigation revealed just how much information apparently innocuous gadgets have been harvesting.

Consumer magazine Which? discovered several popular models were capable of snooping on their owners, listening in to conversations via their associated phone apps.”

[Daily Mail]

If this is happening in 2024, what might things be like in 2034, 2044, or 2124?

Thick as two short planks (Angela Rayner)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14194041/Angela-Rayners-plans-build-1-5million-homes-2029-leave-Britain-risk-drought.html

Angela Rayner’s plans to build 1.5 million more homes by 2029 will leave Britain at risk of drought, experts said last night.

The extra households will create demand for an extra half a billion litres of water every day.

Yet the Environment Agency says the UK is already heading for a shortage of more than a billion litres a day by the end of the decade.

An industry source said: ‘This country hasn’t built a reservoir in 30 years despite the population surging. 

‘Ofwat and the Government have got to step up this week if the country is to avoid this catastrophe.”

[Daily Mail]

Stop mass immigration. Start “remigration”. The two essential measures to be taken. After that or, rather, at the same time, nationalize the water industry.

What to do with the pro-immigration traitors

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14192629/PETER-HITCHENS-Heres-need-people-supported-mass-immigration-need-pay-terrible-consequences-themselves.html

PETER HITCHENS: Here’s what we need to do to the people who supported mass immigration – and why they need to pay for the terrible consequences themselves…

[Daily Mail]

Behind a paywall, so not read by me. Anyway, I have my own view on what should happen to those who have supported mass immigration into the UK. Including those in the present Cabinet. ‘Nuff said…

Interesting commentary on Syria

https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/al_qaeda_israel_s_private_army

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In the UK, they try to shut down free speech; in occupied Palestine, they try to burn out non-Jews.

Soon, they will be charging the Syrians rent…

Life goes on.

I shall not believe that any “revolution” (of any type) has happened, if Harriet Harman and her type are still free to talk on TV or to sit in Parliament.

@matthewjgoodwin

They’re gaslighting us—labeling our valid concerns as “misinformation” while hiding the facts. Demanding answers isn’t “misinformation”—it’s our right as taxpayers! Here’s a sneak preview of what I told the @reformparty_uk Conference in Wales this weekend. #MattGoodwin #ReformUK #Wales #EnoughIsEnough #ShowUsTheData

♬ original sound – Matt Goodwin – Matt Goodwin

As for that peculiar-looking young woman, Marianna Spring, before she became the face of BBC disinformation she committed a fraud by inventing details on her CV to try to get a job. She was found out, but still (later) hired by the BBC as its “truth verification” person! You really could not make it up!

Looking at her, I think that she must be (((the usual))) or partly so.

Whatever the truth of that, she must somehow “know the right persons”.

Outrageous. An academic claims he was “sacked” by a university after writing a paper that was negative about foreign migrant workers. Professor Steve Fothergill said his contract was terminated by Sheffield Hallam University after he found that half of the jobs in former coal mining areas were taken up by immigrants. Unfortunately, this does not surprise me at all. As I show in my new book “Bad Education”, out in February, academics who challenge the left-wing consensus on campus are routinely sacked and shunned https://amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1787635244/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=” [Matt Goodwin]

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

Seems that, finally, much of England is awakening to the facts obvious to me for half a century or more.

https://twitter.com/Ted_Wellread/status/1868262019444695075

Historical interest

https://www.netfilm.store/film-62803/

Die Deutschen Wochenschau (German weekly newsreel) from 1941, including, at 06:09, Hitler meeting, at the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs.

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Diary Blog, 13 August 2022

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On this day a year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, I again beat political journalist John Rentoul this week— 5/10 as against his slightly shocking 2/10.

I would have scored 7/10 had I been able to recall the answer to question 7 (which I basically knew) and had I been more observant in the many billiard rooms I have seen, and so been able to answer question 4.

Apart from those questions 4 and 7, I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 10.

NHS

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11107205/Father-two-waited-20-hours-E-told-GP-suffering-leukaemia.html

A father-of-two who waited 20 hours in A&E only to be told to see his GP ‘refused to leave’ the hospital without vital blood tests – which revealed he was suffering from terminal cancer.

Following the diagnosis he says the treatment and care he has received has been ‘amazing’.

[Daily Mail]

The NHS is a fine idea, which in practice is often also very good, but which is also often terrible.

The “free at point of use” foundation I support completely, but not for blacks and browns who come to the UK to get free healthcare off the back of the British people.

Increasingly, it seems that NHS healthcare is very hit-and-miss, and for many years there has been both terrible mismanagement and/or maladministration. There has also been a widespread (and from what I have seen) justified perception that basic matters, such as hospital cleanliness, have been left undone, or not properly done.

Further, not all NHS staff exhibit the compassion that they should, and that others do.

“Covid”, even now, has become and remains the go-to excuse for poor service, whether seeing a GP or using a bank branch (my own bank has now reduced its hours to those last seen c.1980).

American “pay or die” healthcare (a simplification, of course) is unsuitable, but so is an NHS which is now little more than a skeleton service.

What matters is what works for the people, “for the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].

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As I blogged when Starmer became Labour leader, even if you leave aside the fact that he is a puppet for the Jew lobby, the bastard is as dull as ditchwater, and has no vision, only pettifogging detail work to offer.

Wait until you see the lazy reporting from Ukraine…

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[Dutch people welcome the Waffen SS, Amsterdam, 1940].

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An effusion, though, which took its force from Brooke’s class origins (without wishing to seem “Marxist”). The poorer classes were considerably repressed at that time, arguably more so than in some other countries, even European countries (e.g. France).

Brooke, though not an aristocrat or very wealthy, was from the reasonably-comfortable middle classes, arguably the most loudly-“patriotic” strata of English society in that era.

Incidentally, while looking up a few things about Brooke, I happened to see this Wikipedia entry about a young lady with whom it seems that Brooke had an affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Laird_Cox. Interesting character.

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A brief observation about the intolerable weather

As blogged previously, I have not only visited, but lived and/or worked in hot countries, albeit at a younger age, but there is something exceptionally oppressive about the heat this time.

I had to go out yesterday afternoon. Walking to the car, I felt the sun to be as fierce as I remembered it to have been once or twice in places such as Qatar. The sun felt, on the head and back, like some active and hostile force.

Disturbing to have such a feeling in England.

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I blogged as much a few days ago.

How can Ukraine “win”? What would a Kiev-regime victory look like? All Russian troops pushed back into Russia proper? All Russian people deported? Crimea (and its 90%+ Russian population) placed under Ukrainian martial law (or rule, without law)?

If Crimea is attacked seriously and heavily, or if Russian forces in the Donbass region are pushed back and out, Russia will probably resort to “battlefield” or “tactical” nuclear weapons.

What would be worse for Russia, Ukrainian cities —including Kiev— flattened, or Crimea occupied by Kiev-regime forces, or Russian troops and civilians pushed out of Ukraine? I think, that for Putin at least, defeat is unimaginable, and he will do anything to prevent it.

Ha ha! A trifle crude, but true all the same.

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