All most of them understand is the sjambok. The country has had a harsh history, not all of which was the fault of the white settlers.
Southern Africa, in fact all of Africa, is not for the white man any more, not in the medium-term at least. It is slowly descending back to savagery.
Who’s bright idea was it to flood our country with millions of immigrants ?which has created a housing crisis, crime/rape/murder crisis, NHS crisis, School place shortage crisis, trillion pound debt crisis & a National identity crisis?
— 🇬🇧 National Housing Party U.K. 🏴 (@NHPUKOfficial) May 28, 2023
Can you imagine what sort of useless ****-up will get that job?! Ha ha!
One day the current power structure will fall, and all of its protected classes and client groups will suffer the same retribution they always do in history
Probably worse.
It is inevitable – and to a degree they know it. It’s implicit in their hysteria.
It would be funny if those latter-day Sinn Fein idiots, nearly 30 years after the end of the main “Troubles”, ended up being stood up against a wall…
New trove of Epstein documents reveal the pedophile scheduled meetings with the following people:
Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Chris Rock, David Blaine, Prince Andrew, Woody Allen, Irina Shayk, Sean Parker, Wendi Murdoch and Richard Branson. https://t.co/id1dqqpUn8
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 30, 2023
Russian forces must hit strategic military and infrastructure targets, not civilians.
An American veteran living in the once great power of the United States says he is very sad that he fought for what has now become of his country… pic.twitter.com/OIrAvfhqYW
Never forget what happened to Sven Longshanks in Wales, recently sentenced to 2.5 years for having a right wing podcast. His crime was to potentially insult someone. The insulting words were not specified and no one complained to police about his podcast.https://t.co/izKYHpM3B8https://t.co/vCD6flyyWV
I am due to question Jack Monroe on Wednesday 14th June 2023. It will be a private hearing—no press or public allowed—but hopefully I will be able to establish what her finances actually are (based on Paypal/Patreon and not the performative "89p bank account" screenshots) and get…
Well, I asked Greenbelt on Facebook why they were still platforming Jack Monroe and apparently they’ll be making a statement explaining soon. pic.twitter.com/K5aFikbnZE
If anyone is shocked that #JackMonroe is a nasty, lying grifter, you shouldn’t be – she’s been doing this for years. This is one of her begs during Covid – when she was living in a big house with her C4 exec partner. Anyone seen any sign of the ‘campaign’ she was working on? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/apGTKrJ9UK
As fraudster and “grifter”, “Jack Monroe” is in a league of her own.
James Bond
One TV executive told GB News: “I think the days of a white Bond are over I’d be particularly surprised if it was a white, clipped, upper middle class English actor”
But why? Isn’t that who the original role of James Bond was created for?
The James Bond character was of course absurd, albeit brilliantly so, and Ian Fleming knew very little about real intelligence work, despite having been made, via his family connections, Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence (and given an instant naval officer rank) during WW2: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming#Second_World_War).
Fleming was an early example of the type of which we now see frequently, especially in UK politics. Talked a good game, full of unmerited confidence (born of his family money, Eton education etc), but pretty ignorant, and more of a bullshitter than anything.
Having said that, the James Bond character of Fleming’s books, twisted and moulded by the film-makers, took on a life of its own (the James Bond of the books is a rather unpleasant and bitter character, more like Fleming himself, in fact).
The films, at first very loosely based on the Fleming books (though later not based on any books) have become, over about 60 years, a quite major industry; they reflected, however distortedly, a definite Englishness. Now, like England itself, the James Bond concept and character has pretty much been stamped out of shape. A pity, in a way.
Why not? The books are based on a British white male, not that I have anything against black actors, but why must every white role be replaced by black? Goodbye James Bond, it was nice knowing you.
— Deedy 🏴🇬🇧🏴 (@Deedy2201) May 31, 2023
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While bullshit politicians are playing 'tough' on Russia, the German economy is now in a recession.
“Affected“, not “effected“. Never mind. The point is made.
Ukraine begins to undertake a creeping counteroffensive, artillery and sabotage groups have become more active – adviser to the head of the DPR Yan Gagin
Mines can be dangerous for decades, if left. There are still actively-dangerous mines in Egypt left over from WW2, 80 years ago, as an officer of the Mukhabarat told me over Arab coffee when I was “not arrested” in 1998: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.
Prigozhin proposed to announce a general mobilization in Russia
“You can walk to Kyiv if you do everything right. If you mobilize the entire society, turn on the full leverage of production. Announce general mobilization, because when we come to mobilization, the mobilized again… pic.twitter.com/Qdi2PlnYzP
British counter-terror police detained & interrogated @KitKlarenberg for over 5 hours for the crime of doing real journalism – the same reason British authorities have imprisoned Julian Assange for the past 4 years & kept him under siege for 7 before that https://t.co/YhoVCoU1u9
Private Eye did not cover neocon Nick Cohen's habit of molesting female underlings because Cohen wrote anonymous columns for them – including one defending security state collaborator Paul Mason, and smearing Kit and me as Russian spies
One Jew(ess) defends another Jew. Entirely typical. One sees it constantly on Twitter, and in the Press. 99% a “clan” attitude. Where one goes, the rest usually go, like a shoal of fish.
Pro-lockdown Observer columnist Nick Cohen left the paper in November for 'health' reasons. Turns out, seven women complained they'd been harassed by him. Now, the New York Times has accused his bosses of a 'cover up'. https://t.co/FXdigUVFlF
“They” (((a certain alien element))) took over the UK msm long ago…
This is just typical abuser stuff by Nick Cohen. Deny, attack, make yourself the victim, minimize, make excuses. It's all bullshit. First off, his predations continued after sobriety as I understand it, second even if they didn't he'd still be accountable. pic.twitter.com/Kosx7ETX36
— Against the Palestinian Genocide (@chrisiousity) May 30, 2023
Sooner or later, a ground-to-air missile given to the Kiev regime by a Western state, then sold on, will take down an airliner in the UK, USA, France or Germany. Odds-on.
The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flanks of Artemivsk was suspended a few days ago – Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar pic.twitter.com/0V0MPLpl90
Former US Vice President Mike Pence will announce next week that he will run in the Republican primary for the US presidential candidate. pic.twitter.com/JblaQD63gq
"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." -Democrat Senator Edward Kennedyhttps://t.co/jjzBfWSYhJ
Do you have the impression we are constantly being bombarded by obvious falsehoods and crazy stuff that makes no sense? It’s because we are the target of Marxist, woke, and globalist psychological warfare that has been going on for decades. https://t.co/nLbmS3tgB0
Take a look at the evidence from Western Australia where there was no cases of Covid and extremely high levels of ‘vaccination’. This proves the levels of serious adverse effects from the ‘vaccine’. https://t.co/ZusG1rdjkA
Words carved over the main gate of what was then Manchester College, Oxford, in 1891. Would anyone allow -or understand – such a combination now? pic.twitter.com/xT2luX2O06
Russia may mobilize up to 1 million more soldiers for the war against Ukraine , the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) warns.
"The mobilization potential of Russia is a reserve of up to a million fighters, if the Kremlin considers it necessary," German intelligence warns. pic.twitter.com/x3Rw881xl1
Olaf Scholz flees the Bundestag hall in disgrace after being criticized by Amira Mohamed Ali over Arms deliveries to Ukraine, sanctions against Russia, skyrocketing gas prices, derailed negotiations, and the Germans' deplorable living standards. pic.twitter.com/54RMiZzkjw
Good morning to everyone especially President Trump for going to East Palestine, Ohio today and actually caring about the American people over illegals and Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin revoked a 2012 decree that in part underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the future of the Transdniestria region – a Moscow-backed separatist region which borders Ukraine and where Russia keeps troops https://t.co/WHqlRKUfB3 1/5 pic.twitter.com/kYsiyv8j6D
“Tony Blair sparks anger with ‘creepy’ plan for every Briton to be issued with a ‘digital ID’ to hold their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work status.
The former prime minister, together with ex-Tory leader William Hague, has called on the Government to introduce a digital ID that people can have on their phones.
This would hold details such as their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work status.
But critics hit back at the push for digital IDs, with ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry branding it ‘a creepy state plan to track you from the cradle to the grave’.
Campaign group Big Brother Watch condemned Sir Tony for ‘reviving failed proposals for an intrusive mass digital identity system and a database state’.“
[Daily Mail].
The ZOG state is constantly circling our laager with various proposals to create a society of what amounts to disguised but effective serfdom.
“The Pentagon‘s UFO office is investigating historic reports of mysterious objects interfering with key nuclear missile silos.“
[Daily Mail]
Are higher beings or more advanced civilizations trying to save the Earth from nuclear destruction? One can only hope so.
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a video introducing a new gallery called “salam eskandrani” or Alexandrian Greetings highlights Alexandrian culture in relation to its music and folkloric dances and stories, and how Egyptians influenced the arts within Alexandria. Gallery open from Nov 7-17 @ Bsayra for Arts pic.twitter.com/8pSmggNd9p
Peter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary:
“The European Parliament is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world!” pic.twitter.com/tbnjKnUqEa
— Make Peace Now; alternative news (@AlternatNews) February 13, 2023
⚡️🇭🇺 Many are worried that the USA plans to initiate a coup in Hungary. I see it may have been forgotten from recent memory. But this was what present-day Hungary arose from. pic.twitter.com/croxs502gR
“Rishi Sunak faces renewed pressure on immigration after a new fast-track scheme for 12,000 asylum seekers – including Channel migrants – was dubbed an ‘amnesty in all but name’.
In a bid to begin clearing the massive asylum backlog, the Home Office will launch a streamlined system which will see migrants granted refugee status on the basis of a 10-page questionnaire.
…one senior source said: ‘This is an asylum amnesty in all but name. One major issue here is that it will encourage people from these nationalities who are not yet in the UK to come here and attempt to get asylum.
‘It will also push up immigration figures because once these 12,000 have been granted refugee status they’ll be able to bring relatives here through the family reunion scheme.‘”
[Daily Mail].
As I have repeatedly predicted: the “illegals” will be made “legal” at the stroke of a pen.
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan again.
What more can one expect from an Indian money-juggler completely tied-up with Jew-Zionism and transnational conspiracy?
Late tweets
Every White cop who remains a cop is complicit in what is happening to us.
And they should be shown no mercy when the hour of their judgement comes. https://t.co/jGjA91uWe4
That woman, a Councillor Taylor, is the kind of pseudo-democratic cretin ubiquitous in this country. She probably applauded the 2010-2023 attacks by the Conservative Party on the lives of British unemployed, sick, and/or disabled people, but now the bitch says that it is not “kind” to try to defend Britain and its people, and their future, from invasion and occupation by horrible untermenschen.
Bob we need your support here too in the UK. We are setting up co ops in and around the UK. Just need to get the word out. We can do this if we are all on the same page. pic.twitter.com/VahwKdwuML
Trump is on the ground in Ohio forcing the federal govt to act. Joe Biden is in Ukraine spending your taxpayer dollars to make the military industrial complex rich & making corrupt Ukrainian officials richer, & transportation sect Mayor Pete can’t be bothered yet… 19 days later. pic.twitter.com/iO4my2IKfC
Trump delivering goods needed in Ohio before his visit. The Resident delivered money to #Ukraine… Trump, once again, delivers for the American people 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/TVg0O66Bb4
Take away the fake titles from them, at least. She is a mulatta, who was previously married to a Californian Jew business parasite; “Harry” is as thick as two short planks, and mentally unstable. Both hate Europe’s peoples. Reduce their pretensions to rubble.
"food charity Sustain found farmers made less than a tenth of a penny in profit from a supermarket loaf selling to consumers for £1.14, and just a penny in profit from a £2.50 block of mild cheddar cheese" https://t.co/uEeJwxzFSg
The “role of Government” changes along with circumstances, or should do.
I do not know what I despise more about Therese Coffey— her callousness, or her stupidity (read my assessment above); perhaps even more than those, her sense of (completely unmerited) entitlement.
[Therese Coffey at play; such are the blots on humanity presently thought worthy to rule over the UK]
As Lenin said, “a revolution without firing squads is not worth much“.
Labour has no real answers to Britain’s problems, but this present government is just so useless that it would take a miracle to save it, looking at its deadhead ministers, about which the public is surely now fully aware.
So weird that she posts shit like this, but I can't put my finger on why exactly. You're lying in bed next to your kid and you need to tell your 500,000 (but not really once you account for the bots) followers about it? You continue to overshare personal matters, @BootstrapCook. pic.twitter.com/9f8wgOshOj
In my opinion, using that situation (assuming that it is true) to deflect questions about the money she is alleged to have taken from vulnerable people, and in return for basically nothing. “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” has already tweeted (in order to fill up her Twitter timeline with supportive messages) about 1. polishing a copper kettle, and 2. her new hairstyle.
It seems to me that the “Bootstrap Cook” has been dropped by most of the msm now, but wants to hang on to those (as of today) 641 Patreon mugs, all paying her between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month.
The puzzle is why the mugs do it, now that the facts are becoming better-known.
6/ That means that as a minimum Jack has collected between £38,325 (minimum possible) and £482,800 (maximum possible), whilst providing no rewards at all.
Unfortunately, we cannot tell precisely how much, as Jack doesn’t display her earnings, contrary to what Patreon recommends.
7/ In August 2022, despite banking tens of thousands of pounds over the previous 21 months and providing nothing, Jack claimed to have “lost the password”. pic.twitter.com/DPYmRIyfvO
And was she really waved through the cordon at Grenfell? Did she really have the building plans at hand, and was "howling" down the phone? Or was this a lie too far, even for Jack Monroe, so she deleted it from her blog?https://t.co/FU9vLHDsAX
I myself have no idea whether “Jack Monroe” is so mentally disturbed that she scarcely knows the truth from untruth, or whether she is consciously “pushing the envelope” quite often, and actually mocking her “patron”-mugs by making up ever-more outrageous untruths; examples would include pretending to have been involved in investigating the Grenfell Tower fire, and boiling down soap to make shower gel and so (supposedly) save money.
People and hotel owners need to remember their contracts will be with SERCO not the Government. Good luck taking on a multi-million pound company to get your property sorted.
Yes.The usual short sighted greedy carrot chasing.Not one thought for the people of the area just money.Another complicit traitor who still didn’t seem to get it.
“Prosecutors said those detained formed a ‘terrorist organization with the goal of overturning the existing state order in Germany and replace [sic] itwith their own form of state, which was already in the course of being founded.’
The suspects were aware that their aim could only be achieved by military means and with force, prosecutors added.
Some of the group’s members had made ‘concrete preparations’ to storm Parliament with a small armed group, the prosecutors said.“
[Daily Mail]
An interesting straw in the wind. In 1923, the “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich was regarded by many in Germany with derision, yet less than a decade later, Hitler and the NSDAP were in power.
I thought @BootstrapCook Jack Monroe wanted to visit and you turned her down. Is that correct? Also, what happened about you defaming her on here and her taking action against you?
The idea, put about by well-publicized “enablers”, that a person can be fed on about £5 a week, is just nonsense. Even leaving aside the need for a balanced diet, with many vitamins and minerals, a pack of cheapest pasta is (I think) about £1, which might last someone a couple of days. The cheapest sauce would be at least £1, even if you made it last a week. That leaves £3 for everything else. Bread for a week must cost £1 if not £2. What else could you get? A jar of peanut butter? A pack of cheap butter? A couple of pints of milk? A couple of bunches of bananas?
While having little income (at first no income at all), I had to find food for myself while also finding a new contract (job), while somehow travelling around London (mainly to the City of London from Holland Park “borders”, near Shepherd’s Bush). I have to admit that it was hard going and, without being too detailed, I concede that I did “cut a few corners” here and there. Needs must…
Today I got to quiz the Albanian Ambassador over the 12,000 Albanians who have arrived here illegally. He could not answer a straight question. Its all here on my Youtube channel.https://t.co/GG5yZh2BnY
He expected an Albanian, a diplomat at that, to “answer a straight question“? Ha. Hope truly does “spring eternal“, at least in rhetoric.
This is not a fake video. I was there when Labour MPs said it was cruel to deport foreign rapists and murderers at Christmas. Sorry I think its a great Xmas present. I await the excuses pic.twitter.com/wFOA8lnSE8
The clip(s) show a few examples of the “elected” cretins who rule over us.
Let's hope your prison cell is eco-friendly. But if it gets too cold you could always ask the guard to put another bar on the window. Go to jail. pic.twitter.com/SNd9zBETSU
Ironically, the contrary might be the case, if it means that the Border Force (or Border Farce) take a break from “rescuing” (ferrying to the UK) the migrant-invaders in the Channel. Assuming that the weather becomes more stormy.
Migrant INVASION set to ascend to a new level of FARCE as the Royal Navy will take over from striking Border Force officers and bring illegal immigrants into Dover and Ramsgate. pic.twitter.com/sPcRSBoz51
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) December 4, 2022
Private soliders, who earn £21k are expected to cover public service roles hit by strikes.
For context, average base wage:
🚑 Paramedic £36k 👩🏼⚕️ Nurse £32k 👨🚒 Fire Fighter £28k ✈️ Border Force £27k
True, but private soldiers and junior NCOs do get or can get free or subsidized accommodation, food, transport etc (unless that has changed; I believe that it was the case, anyway).
It's social media entrepreneurial skills, not a grift thank you very much.
It took quite some time for the likes of me, Jack Monroe and Dr Ju to figure out the best way to sucker cash out of the stupid ones, but we've done very well from it and we deserve some credit and praise.
The Elves and the Shoemaker is surely the kindest of all the fairy tales – a story of giving and gratitude, with no villains. #RobertLumleypic.twitter.com/fIyg7q5kqT
A great part of the problem in the “West” is that those very pillars of liberty under law have been eroded, largely by the embedded Jew-Zionist element. It may be objected that other elements are also involved, and guilty, and that I do not deny, but the main rot in the whole system is the Jewish-Zionist element.
.@crockejo . I invariably choose the side of my own country and people, who do not benefit at all from the USA's absurd and ill-advised policy of goading Russia, or from its increasingly damaging and dangerous economic and political consequences. https://t.co/P5oJ2RQl85
Zelensky has been named TIME's Person of the Year. What a joke. This is a man who refuses to attend peace talks and is working overtime to start a nuclear WWIII. He should be named the most dangerous person of the year. pic.twitter.com/HGy0LjHGQf
A Jew-Zionist dictator, whose government is admitted by its own spokesmen to be “80% Jewish“. A dictatorship that has closed down opposition parties, imprisoned or killed dissidents, closed down trade unions, and attacked Russian civilians in the Donbass for 8 years. The Jew Zelensky also has several opulent villas in the West, including one valued at USD $40 million in Florida. A complete puppet of the NWO.
💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: Nothing has changed. @NATO is determined to keep the Russians “out,” while the Americans dream of keeping not only the Germans, but the whole of Europe “down” – and have in fact already enslaved the entire European Union.
A commentator on the blog reminded me of the clip below, not seen for a long time:
[when not accepted as a “world leader”…]
I still think that the most telling thing about Greta Thunberg is how the decadent mainstream media, politicians etc at least pretend to take this uneducated and afflicted girl (now 19) as some kind of sage, when actually she has nothing to offer. It says something about the world we are in today.
I thought that it was worth reposting those tweets, which refer to the Twitter storm around “Jack” Monroe, aka “Bootstrap Cook” (mentioned in yesterday’s blog).
I have no particular animus against “Bootstrap Cook”, and I should imagine that many find her recipes and other advice very useful [see https://cookingonabootstrap.com/category/recipes-food/], but it is clear that she herself is not (now) in what most people would regard as poverty.
Was I myself “in poverty” when I returned to London? It certainly seemed so!
Think living in a single room in a flat (provided by a friend of a friend— eventually, and very belatedly, months later, paid for by Housing Benefit). Think living largely off tiny State benefit for 3-4 months (monies also delayed for weeks). Think having to be a little bit “creative” in finding ways to travel around London, and equally “creative” in finding out how to increase supply of food and reading material (mainly books).
Yet only a few years before, I had quite often been paid, as Counsel, £1,000 or more for often quite brief (less than half a day) appearances in the High Court or elsewhere.
Later, living in the former Soviet Union in 1996-97, my home was a kind of large penthouse with a very wide wraparound balcony, I had a former MVD car and driver to ferry me to my office etc, a Rolex Seadweller on my wrist, and I rarely carried less than USD $5,000 on my person.
Incidentally, barristers reading this might sneer at the modesty of those High Court fees (perhaps a tenth or a twentieth of the fees some now get and even back then received), but this was 1993-95, nearly 30 years ago, and I was only just out of pupillage (on-the-job training). Anyway, it seemed good at the time to me.
What those born into wealth usually fail to know, having never experienced it, is how quickly a comfortable lifestyle can disappear, without personal capital or family money as a safety net.
When I was living on pennies —and my wits— in the London of March-June 1998, I often walked past Julie’s restaurant in Notting Hill, a restaurant patronized by film stars and other “celebrities”, and a place which I had previously visited several times, only 2-3 years before, and arriving in a large white Mercedes (a girlfriend’s car).
Maybe 3 years later, in 1998, I would have been unable to buy a coffee in the same restaurant, and I wondered whether those staring out of the windows could perceive somehow just how poor I was (maybe a subjective and resentful thought: after all, the Rolex may have gone, but I was still clad in an Austin Reed overcoat and Dents leather gloves etc).
There is no need for me to say more about that very pinched time in my life. Adolf Hitler had it worse, in the Vienna of 1909-1912. Eventually, my several months of poverty came to an end and then, less than a year after I had returned penniless to London, I was spending time living in a villa in the Caribbean, with a private beach (in effect), though those sometimes pleasant months sadly did not become sybaritic years (though I did spend much of 1999 in and around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico— several Caribbean islands, and the Gulf Coast of Florida).
I later had more ups and downs, but that is enough for today.
I do not know a great deal in detail about “Jack” Monroe, the Bootstrap Cook, but I would guess that she knows a lot about “precarious” life in the Britain of today. Occasional poverty, occasional plenty, but not much security either way.
Many many people in Britain in 2022 are part of that “precariat”. This has political implications. Labour was the party of the industrial “proletariat”, mainly, a class which is now all but non-existent. “Bootstrap Cook”, leaving aside her personal predilections, is in that sense far more typical of the masses than would be the Soviet-style miner, rail worker, or other member of the organized labour force, insofar as such people still exist in the UK.
If there were a credible social-national movement in the UK, the “Bootstrap Cook” would probably not support it, but the “precariat” in general would, especially as inflation, low pay, and low State benefits all start to bite.
However I am always baffled by the house sale she had which made £3000. I'm in my mid 30s and I don't think the 2nd hand value of everything I own gets to £3k, and her sale was 10 years ago. She either had a lot of stuff or it was all very expensive stuff.
…on the other hand, Bootstrap Cook is, after all, from Essex, the home of “bling”…
Meanwhile, though the @norfolkchatter1 Twitter account has disappeared, the storm around the Bootstrap Cook has, if anything, intensified, with many Twit-people (including the terminally “woke”) supporting her, but also with many others either criticizing her or demanding to know exactly how much capital or income she really has at her disposal, and asking whether she is exploiting people who donate to her when they really cannot afford to do so.
[Incidentally, I do not know anyone involved in either of the two GoFundMe appeals above; I just happened to see them].
“Covid” “panicdemic”
Looks like reality has started, finally, to break through…
If thousands had been killed, millions more injured, families torn apart, economy & health service wrecked, the moral fabric of society left in tatters and I was the little shit who paid for it all, I probably wouldn’t dare pipe up later to say, “Well that was stupid wasn’t it.”
And it’s not as if they can claim not to have heard us. They very much acknowledged us. They referred to us, labelled us, othered us, chastised us, sacked us, cancelled us, censored us.
Truly tragic. Must have been the heat of global warming, or car exhaust fumes, or competition stress, or too much adrenaline, or smoking a cigarette when he was 15. Certainly not connected with pzifer jabs, because the political & media elite say its not.https://t.co/hPCyFqeznK
Sometimes I wonder what, WHAT, would make the mass of British people wake up to the “panicdemic”, the nonsense measures such as facemask-wearing that were part of the scam, or to the “support Ukraine” propaganda or, as in that tweet, the very real dangers of the “Covid” “vaccines”, but I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that nothing, nothing at all, will awaken the masses. A “victory” by a football team, or whatever absolute shite is on “reality” (unreality) TV that week, and the real and important issues are forgotten again.
Maybe after the nuclear war with Russia that so many have been brainwashed into (as they imagine) wanting to see, the survivors will see their reality more clearly.
I was just laughing again at the following clip from Mastermind:
Lammy is no mastermind! His Wikipedia entry is too kind to him, and shows (yet again) the error of relying too much on superficial paper qualifications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lammy.
I first posted the above clip about 6 months ago, and then wrote that, “Good grief! Someone sent me the clip below. I knew that Lammy was/is a deadhead, and in fact I have been meaning for a long time to add an assessment of him to my “Deadhead MPs” series, but…well, see for yourself!” and “People will say, “oh, but he is a barrister, has several degrees etc”…yes, and one of the most stupid (and ignorant) people I ever met was a former Sierra Leone diplomat, a High Commissioner to the UK when in London, and ambassador to some other state. That African had degrees from one of the most famous English universities, one from the Sorbonne, one from either Harvard or Yale (I forget).” Then I added, “Imagine Lammy as either Lord Chancellor or Attorney-General! Still, now that Keir Starmer is running what is left of Labour into the ground, such appointment is unlikely.”
The most obvious box-tick is the number of blacks and browns in leading roles: the captain of the nuclear submarine Vigil is a black, while the medical officer on board is an (?) Indian woman. Ashore, about half the Scottish (Glasgow) police detectives are non-white, and of the two main MI5 officers in the drama, one is seemingly Pakistani or something else.
Another box-tick is that, of the two women police detectives, the older one, a grieving quasi-widow, has a lesbian affair with the other. Well, such things happen, and there are, no doubt, both Glasgow detectives and naval officers (and MI5 personnel) who are non-white. In such proportion, though? In every TV drama?
A few other points about Vigil caught my attention. The GRU officer caught in Glasgow was interviewed about a murder (in which he was the only obvious suspect) without a lawyer present (despite having asked for one), and apparently without having been cautioned, and the interview was plainly not being taped (as far as I could see). At least three serious breaches of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, aka PACE. Not very good for a “police procedural” type of drama.
Again, the GRU [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRU] officer under diplomatic cover, caught in Glasgow in activities “incompatible with his diplomatic status”, did not, on being caught, immediately proclaim his diplomatic status (and so immunity); neither did he demand to be released at once, or to have contacted for him the Russian Consulate, as a real one would have done.
Not that such “demands” are always treated respectfully. When I myself was arrested (or as the Egyptian army and secret police said repeatedly, “not arrested”) in Alexandria in 1998, and held for about 11 hours by Egyptian Army intelligence/security and then the Mukhabarat (secret police), I asked repeatedly for the British Consul, only to be told (also repeatedly) that I was “not arrested”, but just “answering a few questions“, or “a fewmore questions“; also, that “the Consul will be very busy…“, and “the Consul is only for the most serious cases…you do not want to be treated as a serious case, do you?“…
In a sense, execution is too quick for those and similar monsters. The best thing that can be done to prevent such crimes is to ensure that such creatures cannot be born in the first place.
Quite. A silly fellow making a pointless and silly (and ahistorical) protest, but why should he not be allowed to do so? The present Home Secretary is an ever-more ballooning Indian woman of surpassing stupidity, incompetence, and ignorance (as well as being, effectively, an agent of Israel). Put that on your placard, you idiot!
More idiots. These ones are so ineffective and ridiculous that they cannot even be said to be “controlled opposition”. Just 5-minutes-of-fame (15 would be too long) political bad jokes. The Monster Raving Loonies are at least amusing when they show up.
I do not know what is more disturbing, that half-Jew office bully Raab is spouting “woke” nonsense, or that someone who has attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities, and is —even if ludicrously— presently Lord Chancellor, does not know the meaning of the word “misogyny”. Another sign of the times?
On my way home and feeling so angry. What has happened tonight over a ‘technical’ issue will have a huge societal impact on the people of Wales. It’s a disgrace. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywherepic.twitter.com/lvhks5ZSQr
The old Communists caused economic disaster by changing the OWNERSHIP of the means of production. #BorisJohnson & his #GreatReset cronies are ABOLISHING them. The results will be many times worse. Evil or just insane? You decide, but you'll suffer as well.https://t.co/TF3lOPhbLp
I suppose that one could take issue with the first part of Griffin’s tweet: it was not the State ownership of the means of production that crippled socialist economies, but the fact that the State, the political sphere if you like, operated companies etc, in other words made all the important decisions. Admittedly, in many such cases that will be the same as “ownership”.
I wonder if they'll make the unvaccinated wear a special badge so they can be identified and singled out for further 'special treatments.
It is noteworthy that Jews in the UK are among the most fervent supporters of Covid vaccination(s) and vaccines, the facemask nonsense, and all the repressive measures introduced by this crazed government of clowns since early 2020. I am not sure exactly why that should be, but it is a fact that I have noticed. Also, the pro-EU hard-core “Remainers” seem to be facemask zealots etc. Again, hard to see why, unless it is a wish to not have to think for themselves. Preparation of future karma?
Sometimes, I can see why people less polite than me want to kick in the heads of some members of the Parliamentary monkeyhouse… The sheer cheek of many MPs infuriates many members of the public and —in my view— rightly so.
Look at this cretin!
Although he said he currently is not struggling financially, he believes the situation is ‘desperately difficult’ for his newer colleagues.
Admittedly, £81,000 is not a fortune these days, especially when taxable etc, but bearing in mind that average UK pay is only about £31,000 (and the median far less even than that, and less again if those dependent on State benefits and pensions are included), I doubt that many will think MPs are hard done by. Even less so when one considers how many have other sources of income, such as second jobs, “consultancy” “work”, money from scribbling or being TV talking heads etc; not to mention the very many who have large monies via inheritances.
Many MPs are also buy-to-let parasites.
In the end, MPs are volunteers. If they think that they are worth more than £81K p.a., let them go and get it on the open market. Few can do so, which is why so many are found sinecures in state employment, or in quangos (via cronyism) when they lose their seats.
Enjoyable, if slightly slow in places. Generally watchable. A team of Swedish and Danish counter-terror officers try to track a team of Islamist terrorists who are planning to use a stolen missile warhead mounted on a drone, and to attack a target not yet known to the authorities.
What made me laugh is how a huge amount of skill and ingenuity is used to try to catch the terrorists, but no-one ever questions the presence in Scandinavia of large populations of alien Muslims, without which situation, and regardless of the fact that (?) 90% or more are neither terrorists nor supporters of terrorism, the terror plot in the TV series would never have been possible…
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1/2 @matthew_lees. Many governments murder and/or torture their people(as well as other people's people). And we trade with them, subsidise them and invite them to stay with the Queen. Therefore our reason for intervening in Syria cannot be that. https://t.co/mJ41tRiH3W
The 'West' was displeased enough by Morsi's election to condone Sisi's seizure of power, and to accept without serious protest his large-scale massacres, so showing that their supposed objections to dictators, 'killing their own people' are in fact selective and not principled. https://t.co/uYtA2tKjTs
Nobody wants to see a repetition of US policies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen and Syria that have resulted in horrendous bloodshed and have given rise to the terrorist scourge and the refugee problem in Europe.
Let us take a country, unnamed. In that country, freedom of expression is gradually whittled down to almost nothing, especially on certain topics that are the mainstay of a certain ethno-religious minority within the unnamed country. Malicious prosecutions are bulldozed past lazy, dozy, incompetent, or suborned police, prosecutors and even courts.
In the unnamed country in question, the newspapers, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, are virtually all controlled or very strongly influenced by that same ethno-religious minority. In any case, a government organization has regulatory power over TV and radio and works to the agenda of that same minority.
In that country, the political system is likewise controlled, making the formation and operation of a “democratic” political party almost impossible, and certainly (combined with control of the msm) making political success in the ordinary peaceful way all but impossible.
Online, the same group (in fact, a small subset of the minority mentioned), in that same country, makes sure that dissidents are removed from major social media platforms. Any payment pages they have are also interfered with, and donations made difficult.
At the same time, malicious complaints are made about any dissident persons holding views inimical to the same minority mentioned above. Such complaints are made to social media platforms, to employers or business clients of the dissidents, and also to police, as already mentioned.
In such a situation of unfreedom, what is to be done, in what has become, in that unnamed country, an emergent police state, effectively controlled or influenced (to a degree amounting to near-control) by a small and clearly-defined minority?
I 'liked' tweets today that were offensive in nature about the use of the British flag as a backdrop in a government interview this morning. I have since removed these 'likes'. This do not represent the views of me or the BBC. I apologise for any offence taken. Naga
In fact, of course they represented her views and those of the “ZOG” BBC, which is now an organization wholly inimical to British and all other white European people.
To be fair, why should “Naga Munchetty” (real name Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah) be favourable to the Union flag? After all, though born in London, she is not British by origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Munchetty. She is, basically, alien.
The problem with Naga Munchetty is not her view of the Union flag (discourteous though that was) but the fact that she and others who are basically not British —and are fundamentally anti-White race and culture— are on the BBC and other TV and radio stations at all (certainly in the numbers they are).
Also, why are mediocre people such as Naga Munchetty and her English or Irish fellow sofa-sitter paid large amounts to sit looking stupid, and asking banal questions, on morning TV? A side point, but another irritating aspect all the same.
Still, her behaviour (not for the first time) is rather rude, and also rather churlish, bearing in mind the opportunities —and the luxury lifestyle— which this country has provided for her.
The Naga Munchetty storm in a Twitter teacup has brought all the political loonies and deadheads out! Here are a few:
All the people giving it "if you don't like the union jack, you don't have to live here" – where do they think people can just go? YOU TOOK THE AUTOMATIC RIGHT TO LIVE AND WORK IN 27 OTHER COUNTRIES AWAY
Oh, yes, the right to work in Slovakia, Portugal, Finland. I am sure that millions of Brits are gnashing their teeth that they can no longer do that! What world do these pro-EU idiots inhabit? Yes, true, I myself lived in France for years (though worked elsewhere, mostly in the UK), but the British masses never realistically had the opportunity to work in mainland EU. Only a few here and there (if you leave out the sad chancers trying to do B&B in Spain or France).
Here’s another:
To my mind the Union Jack has now started to look as sinister as the Nazi flag.#ToryDictatorship
Well, I do not think that the Hakenkreuz (Swastika) is “sinister” anyway, and neither is the Union flag.
“In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be “a symbol of our own struggle” as well as “highly effective as a poster.” On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party. In Mein Kampf, Hitler described the Nazis’ new flag: “In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic.” [National Museum of American History;https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1357427].
The above two tweets represent a current within the UK which is or was probably most concentrated in Corbyn-Labour. A cartoon view of both history and contemporary UK politics.
The anti-Union Jack people may be (?) in the majority on Twitter, but in the real world are a small minority. I myself am not a devotee, particularly, of conservative faux-nationalism, nor of monarchy for that matter, but it is irritating when aliens, and/or those with no alternative to speak of, attack either in a silly way. I’m English, you see…
Tweeter “@Helen121” is an example of a quite commonly seen phenomenon: the (almost certainly) white British person who sincerely, though wrongheadedly, believes that decent civic values, culture, law, order etc can survive migration invasion by (and subsequent breeding by) million upon million non-Brits; non-Europeans who have (even when born here) no real connection to our history, culture, beliefs, or values.
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I was struck by a final remark from Prof. Seedhouse in the very balanced HART review.
" …we desperately need to shift away from this monomaniacal obsession with one single respiratory virus and reclaim the vast array of choices that make up a worthwhile life"
Well, here we are, almost a year since the start of the “panicdemic”, and travel internationally has been made almost impossible. Tony Blair (“it’s that man again”…) is now proposing that only those carrying a “vaccine passport” be allowed to travel.
“A report by his non-profit organisation the Tony Blair Institute said the “only way to navigate allowing people to travel internationally again” is creating a global travel pass showing each individual’s COVID-19 status.
The idea has been mooted before but was rejected by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove just last month, when he told Sky News: “I certainly am not planning to introduce any vaccine passports, and I don’t know anyone else in government who is.“
Since then, the Sunday Telegraph reported the government is funding at least eight separate firms to develop such a product, which is already in use in countries in the Middle East and Asia.” [Sky News]
What?! Surely cocaine-snorting, expenses-cheating, often-drunk, little puppet of the Jewish lobby, Michael Gove, would not lie (again)?…
“Turning his attention to what happens next, Mr Blair’s institute said the UK should “place the creation of a global COVID-19 travel pass as a key item on the G7 agenda”, when leaders from the US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada congregate in Cornwall later this summer.” [Sky News]
So soon there may be one international passport, at first a document, but perhaps later something akin to a cat or dog “chip” under the skin, without which you will be unable to travel. Maybe eventually you will be unable to travel even internally, between regions, unless you have it.
People will say, “well, it’s for public health, that’s all“. Is that really all, though? Once such a system is in place, it will be easily expanded. How? By saying “we have a terrorism problem“, or “we have a worldwide child abuse problem“, or (fill in whatever), and so have to restrict travel by those the authorities say might be involved in such activities.
We see the same “mission creep” in the field of restrictions on freedom of expression:
In fact, there is a constant push now, eg in the UK, to go beyond restricting free speech by those who (under already very strict laws) are said to have written illegal things, to those who write things which are not (even under the present quite repressive laws) illegal, but merely “extreme” politically or socially.
Reverting to the “international Covid passport” idea, it could (would) eventually be expanded well beyond travel itself to, for example, whether people can attend universities, use NHS facilities, or even sell things to the public:
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.” [Wikipedia, citing the Revelation of St. John] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast
Ironically, my full name (Ian Robert Millard) adds up to 666 (according to one system of numerology)! Yet here I am, trying to fight against that force or tendency. Paradoxical?
These things do not always go the way the Western cabals want, as when Bush snr. proclaimed the New World Order in early 1990, only to see it derailed several years later by both the rebirth of Russia as a truly independent state under Putin, and also by the Islamist upsurge which resulted in, inter alia, the 2001 New York attack. However, these attempts by the powers of Evil are cyclical, and return in renewed and usually more powerful forms later in history.
Migration-invasion. This is not a “debate”; it is an existential struggle, a war.
Are merit & quality 'artificial racist constructs', or is this a ghastly combination of brainwashing & shakedown? But don't complain, #homeschool and take back control.https://t.co/7yTiADN1ah
@vanessagray99, While I share your distress at such cases (I believe there are many) please don't call for imprisonment. It help create an atmosphere of intolerant revenge. We have a democratic system which allows us to remove governments which fail. https://t.co/YGjicT7Yfn
In fact, Peter Hitchens is entirely wrong here. The System does not “allow us to remove governments which fail”, but merely (if at all) allows the people to vote once every few years for an almost-identical set of System drones and puppets. Cuckoo-clock binary. Con-Lab-Con-Lab-Con-Lab…
The pseudo-democratic MPs and ministers (in Hitler’s words, “dirty democratic politicians“) have been allowed to get away, in the past decades, with importing millions of blacks and browns etc, and so just ruining this country; allowed to get away with cheating and stealing millions individually; allowed to get away with reduction of pay and State benefits to levels below basic decency; allowed to get away with all the police-state “panicdemic” nonsense now imposed.
MPs have not been punished.
You think I should be *prosecuted* for drawing attention to and doubting the exaggerated warnings issued by Imperial College in March? @currancathie. https://t.co/Z3425w81dH
One fact which is not known to many is that DNA from Egyptian relics, notably Tutankhamun’s remains, shows that modern Europeans have more in common, ethnically, with ancient Egyptians than the latter have in common with modern Egyptians, who basically just crawl over the fallen and ruined stones of ancient greatness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
The white population of South Africa (mostly the English/British South Africans rather than the Afrikaaners, but both) gave in to the forces of the New World Order [NWO] by installing the semi-reformed terrorist Mandela as head of state. Mandela was an ineffective President (also, as thick as two short planks: “Having devoted his time to politics, Mandela failed his final year at Witwatersrand [University] three times; he was ultimately denied his [law] degree in December 1949” [Wikipedia]).
If only South Africa had held out for another year or two! Once the Soviet Union collapsed, the funding tap for sub-Saharan black power movements was cut off. White South Africa might have won out.
The Jews in South Africa, typically, wanted it all ways: they enjoyed a pleasant affluent lifestyle under “apartheid” (though there never was real or complete separation); often supported anti-White causes; owned newspapers that were anti-White; infested TV as soon as it arrived in South Africa; owned much of the commerce and industry; switched to support the corrupt ANC as soon as the Whites stupidly ceded power to it; either left to go to London, USA, or Israel when things got sticky, or hired more security guards and turned their estates into fortresses, while parkig their money overseas.
Our @AliDriverUK will be participating in @ClimateActionNE's Trees and Bees event (19 March) on behalf of Rewilding Britain. 2021's theme – forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being. Find out more & how to get tickets here 👇https://t.co/yetnQr8Bvh
In part 6 of our series about the #LakeDistrict’s missing wildlife, Site Manager Lee Schofield writes about #wildcats, a species that was common in our woods and fells until surprisingly recently.
I ask myself, how could anyone support a government policy that causes so much misery. The bankruptcies, the unemployment, the mental health burden, the collapse of the education system. And the simple answer is, the lockdown hawks don't care. They. Don't. Care.
Single mother of three Kristen has been forced to shut down her hair salon as a result of the lockdown, and is now living on Universal Credit. She tells Julia how she "spent a fortune" on making her business Covid-secure before being told she had to close again.@JuliaHB1pic.twitter.com/If9038xtxa
Lockdown zealots want to stop you from working, close your business, stop you seeing family and friends, ban your kids from school, ban you from playing sport, but THEY are the reasonable ones. Give me a break.
The msm campaign to push blacks in everything intensifies. Sky and Channel 4 now has “Black History Month“, despite the fact that “black history”, when set against the rich real history of both Europe and Asia (not to mention the pre-Columbian Americas), is at best peropheral.
I happened to be in Waitrose recently, and glanced at the magazines on sale there. There was one entitled Exploring History, which featured ancient Egypt. The headline? “Explore Africa’s iconic civilization“. Africa? Geographically, yes, but culturally, ethnically, racially, no. Again, there is a deliberate attempt, and has been for about 20-30 years, to call the North African countries, the countries north of the Sahara, simply “African”, when in most respects there is a fairly sharp dividing line between the countries and cultures of North Africa and those of “black Africa” south of the Sahara.
As a matter of fact, when scientists conducted DNA tests on the remains of Tutankhamun and others, it was discovered that their DNA was fairly similar to that of modern Europeans, speaking in broad terms; however, those ancient Egyptians had little DNA in common with the Egyptians of the present day.
If one spends time in Egypt, especially away from the cloistered tourist hotels, it becomes very obvious very soon that the modern Egyptians have little in common with their great ancestors…
Look at any police-connected Twitter accounts: all “black this, black that”. Propaganda from what is now a State/System militia.
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Palestinian kids help a cat drink from a public fountain on the Temple Mount.
Jews have been prevented and barred from drinking at this fountain several times, only muslims are allowed to drink from it.
Part-Jew, part-Turk/Levantine, a scribbler and public entertainer. Not a real Prime Minister at all. Not even a halfway-decent human being.
Another Trump supporter shot dead & the left cheer
Remember they want you jobless, broke & dead
They have rendered me jobless & broke. Antifa doxxing my home address & calling a nazi is encouraging that last one to take place. Then they will cheer
All this isn't accidental. What sort of people are behind all this? If you can't answer that, isn't it time you did some digging, thinking and judging? pic.twitter.com/RBIvgPTZ9O
Obviously, I have no time for the “QAnon” people, but I do like their motto: “Where we go one, we go all“. Ungrammatical perhaps, but the sentiment is great. If only the best white British people really lived up to that, we the people would be defended, our enemies exterminated, and a decent future secured.
‘I wear this to protect you’ – Yeah, selflessly discarded muzzles found on Cornwall’s coastline. pic.twitter.com/3vY51iGvno
Been some bizarre stuff in politics over the past few years. But this is now the weirdest I’ve ever seen. Almost no-one in Government – Ministers, MPs, advisors – thinks the current Covid strategy is working, or will ever work. But it carries on anyway. Government by auto-pilot.
The Muslims in Europe and the Jews in Europe (as groups, not individuals) differ in their aims: the one group wishes all Europe to come to Islam; the other (as a “tribal” or ethnocentric religion) has no such aim, but wishes to control Europe for reasons of group profit and benefit.
If there were an enemy dictator waiting for the right moment to strike, this would be it. Peak madness (?). Frightened young rabbits afraid to dance face to face even while wearing facemasks or muzzles.
Man regurgitates government propaganda. The whole thing was a mistake from the start, and there is not one half ounce of evidence that any of it did any good at all. Tons f evidence that it did great harm . @entoprofhttps://t.co/3OXCKluZNx
'The mad shutdown measures are visibly not working, because you might as well seek to control the wind by law as try to control a virus by shutting pubs or wearing a damp nappy on your face.'https://t.co/EWHJ6iWshX
As you awake on this fine Sunday morning in the land of muzzles, job loses, home imprisonment, and national cowardice. I’d like to remind you of a life you once had, just earlier this year. A life now taken from you. Welcome to Sweden! 🇸🇪
A random tweet seen just reminded me of when I met a group of Jews in a desert oasis. It happened like this: I was in Egypt for several months in the winter of 1997-98. I started off in charming Aswan, spent a week or two under canvas in a then-remote part of the Red Sea coast, and then a month or so in Alexandria (an experience recounted, in part, here: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/).
I left Alexandria to visit the remote oasis of Siwa, in the Western Desert not very far from Libya, southwest of the Qattara Depression and only a mile or two from the first great dunes of the Great Sea of Sand:
I lived for a month, maybe longer, in a kind of small concrete chalet in the garden of the very small hotel I used. The hotel garden was sand but planted with closely-situated date palms. I discovered that dry date palm fronds, fallen from the trees, burn easily. Thus I inadvertently started a “tradition” of having a fire around which people gathered and talked in the cool of the evening.
Most visitors to the oasis would arrive on the one bus (a luxury Mercedes coach) in early evening, stay only one or two nights, then return to Alexandria (an 8-hour journey via Marsa Matruh on the coast). By the time I left, I had spent at least a month there and was the longest-resident foreigner save for a Finnish person who did Tai Chi on the flat roof of the hotel (well, maybe you have to be a little unusual to stay long at Siwa!) and an Anglican nun who wanted to set up a Christian centre there (not a very good idea even if the authorities approved it, which was almost inconceivable). Turned out that she knew a man who had tried (unsuccessfully) to teach me Physics when I was at school in the early 1970s. Small world.
I met a number of mostly young people there. I myself was an arguably youthful 41. Apart from the Finn and the English nun, I recall quite a few others who stayed at the oasis for longer than average. Some were more eccentric than others.
There was an odd young man from somewhere near Lancaster. When in the UK, he lived in a caravan on a red squirrel conservancy and had inherited a small legacy (£12,000, I think) from his grandmother. He had lived for eight years on that, in India. He said that India was both cheaper and dirtier than Egypt. I found both statements hard to believe.
Another oddity, also English, was someone about 28, whom I at first took to be some sort of evangelical Christian, but who in fact was a militant atheist. Very militant. He had bicycled across vast expanses (including the Kazakh steppe), using a specially-built bicycle which had water storage inside its frame. He had cycled from Alexandria and was planning to cycle from Siwa to the next oasis, Bahariya, a journey of some 250 miles to the East, on a desert road used only by occasional Egyptian Army patrols, perhaps once weekly. Not a good place to get a flat or run out of water. I wonder whether he made it.
One young lady, a very attractive French girl from Rennes, the capital of Brittany, was rather interested in me, but had a boyfriend with her, a pleasant young fellow from Montpellier, so our animated conversations did not lead anywhere, or any further…
We temporary “local expats” would eat such as molokhiya, a rather slimy but oddly tasty soup made mainly from green vegetables (jute leaves); more often we might have falafel, and maybe drink helba, a kind of yellow-green herbal tea made from fenugreek (Siwa was dry in both senses).
So what about those Jews? They were tourists from Israel, travelling in a group. Students. There seemed to be about 8 of them. None of them seemed to be overtly attached. The girls were quiet, pleasant, modest; the boys slightly less quiet. Only one was extremely unpleasant, a transplanted New York Jew aged about 25, with beard and carrying at all times a thick and obviously unread paperback about “the holocaust”. I cannot recall the exact title, something about the SS and “holocaust” anyway. This particular Jew was studying at some university at Jerusalem and within minutes had marked me as a probable enemy! My copy of Alan Clark’s Barbarossa probably triggered his interest.
The others in that Israeli group, in discussion with other tourists (including my French “girlfriend” who never became a girlfriend), seemed to be reasonable in that they were not looking for war with the Arab world, but of course the unspoken elephant in the room was the historical basis: the migration of millions of Jews to British Mandate Palestine and later Israel, which displaced the previous occupants.
Still, in that milieu, by the “camp-fire”, one could briefly believe in an Arab-Israeli concordat. Only the occasional presence of the American Jew Zionist fanatic disturbed that pacific fantasy. He personified the Zionist fanatics who never quite get around to moving permanently from New York, Los Angeles or London to “Eretz Israel”, yet they are the ones who, as much or more than the “native” Israelis, push the hardline Zionist agenda. Look at the recent film featuring the former heads of MOSSAD, Shin Beth etc. They seem, in principle, less warlike than both the American (etc) “diasporic” Jew fanatics and Israel’s own political leaders.
Ian Robert Millard 