The Chief of the SIS/MI6 said, just a few days ago, that “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) has “the will to fight“. Ha. Most Ukrainians are trying to avoid or evade the draft (and we could save many billions in two ways— 1. by taking away Zelensky’s ricebowl; 2. by cutting back severely the huge amounts wasted on a “Secret Intelligence Service” that seems to accomplish nothing much of the time.
[note: before I could publish, the tweet above was either unpublished or (more likely) censored in some way. The video clip showed the thugs of the Kiev regime chasing a “draft-dodger” (a person who, wisely, decided not to go easily to his death on the front-lines, fighting for Zelensky’s dictatorship].
That tells you all you need to know about Labour MPs. They were never on the side of their constituentsđĄ https://t.co/Y4Pq145kZ3
The Labour MPs are just as bad as the “Conservative” rabble. Craven venal nobodies.
Leaving aside early-release prisoners, our country is being flooded with young men. Over 80% of small boat arrivals are blokes, the majority (by far) Afghan. Womenâs safety has been sacrificed so that Starmer can make a political point (âlook what Iâll do to my criticsâ). https://t.co/TnEURa1XO3
In Tottenham Court Road. How wonderfully “diverse” London now is. It could only be more “diverse” if it were in a total state of socio-economic collapse and disorder, with non-white, machete-wielding mobs rampaging. When will that be? 2044? 2034? Next year?
Why does he keep buying things? Sorry, I just donât understand it! GB News, which he was a big investor in, was loss making. So whatâs the goal? Huge sums altogether (GB, UnHerd, now ÂŁ100m on Spectator). What is the âreturnâ in an age of loss-making media?https://t.co/TFhKkf5vCj
Someone with hundreds or thousands of millions wants more than money; he wants power and influence. Whole cabals may be the same. Look at Twitter/X. Until Elon Musk bought it (I do not know the situation since then), it only made a profit in one quarter of one year, out of about 60 such quarters. Profit was obviously not the motivation.
Pensioners freezing to death. Energy bills going up despite promises to cut them. Dangerous criminals being released onto the streets. The highest taxpayers fleeing the country. Howâs that Labour vote working out for you?
The “Conservative” rabble had to go, and that was the reason people voted to bin them. However, it has to be repeated that, of every 20 eligible voters, only 4 voted Labour.
Starmer-Labour has no real or genuine mandate.
We are releasing 5,000 prisoners early this autumn while there are 10,400 foreign nationals in UK prisons. We should be deporting the latter to make room for the former and keep the British people safe.
In fact, a very high proportion of UK prisoners who are “British” nationals are also non-white, a fact which I noticed when I started at the Bar over 30 years ago. White British people are probably no more than half of the UK prison population, if that, despite comprising, still, maybe 80% of the UK population as a whole.
NEW POST. Ahead of tonight's CRUNCH debate Kamala Harris is in serious TROUBLE What the latest polling says about the race for the White https://t.co/j4IWu5Np2A
The pro-Kamala Harris vote is simple: non-whites who will vote for her because she is non-white (part-Jamaican, part-Tamil Indian), and women who will vote for her because she is a woman.
Democracy at its least-logical, least-valid.
Behind it all, huge amounts of money, and (of course) “the usual suspects”…
âUK police are recording too many hate crime incidents, getting involved in disputes that include âhurt feelingsâ and violating âcommon senseâ, police watchdog warnshttps://t.co/823JvdgqHz
In my last decade or so, or “time of troubles”, I have had the unsought opportunity to assess at first-hand the abilities and attitudes of what now passes for a “police force” in England. Unimpressive. Semi-educated young (mostly young) men and women, their little heads full of “diversity” and “anti-racism” nonsense, purporting to lay down the law (which they plainly often do not even know or understand), and acting, pathetically, as a kind of poundshop Stasi.
As far as doing their proper job is concerned, the police in the UK are almost useless. On the two occasions over the past 15 years when I have been the victim of acquisitive crime (once when a whole wheel was stolen from my car, another time when a previous car was broken into and the door almost wrenched off), the police did nothing but record the incident and give me a number for my insurers, not even when (in relation to the wheel theft) I passed on, online, very cogent evidence as to the likely “type” and almost exact location of the likely perpetrators.
Useless. Not worth their salt.
Woman is attacked. Instead the police focus on the womanâs use of language about said migrant that had just attacked her. Lord alive. pic.twitter.com/QlN26loeMd
“Capitalism” is too broad. Call it “finance-capitalism”. When I was 20, I did not think there was any real difference. I am 68 now, as of a week or so ago, so older and, dare I say, wiser.
London may lift sanctions against Moscow if their ineffectiveness is established. This was reported to Izvestia by the British Embassy in Russia. However, the House of Lords warns that it is not worth expecting a change in the United Kingdom's approach to the Ukrainian conflict,âŚ
Statement by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
"I am beginning to think with horror that if the Israeli attack is not stopped, it could lead to the destruction of almost the entire population of Gaza within the next two years."
…and if that were to happen, the Jewish “human rights” lawyers and their dupes, in the UK, will still be quibbling and saying that that is not, technically, “genocide”…
Think of Starmer. Not a Jew, but a former supposed “human rights” specialist married to a Jewish or part-Jewish woman; he, more recently, thought it perfectly acceptable for the (Israeli) Jews to cut off water to the people of Gaza, including the civilian population .
Zelensky’s only chance is to foment a direct NATO-Russia conflict. If that were to occur, it would quite likely go nuclear. If so, “Goodnight Vienna” (and Moscow, and London, and Berlin, and Paris, and New York, and Washington (etc).
Today is a dark day for the UK. It's a day that must be remembered and not forgotten. It's the first time I've seen far left, centre, and right in politics united in disgust. Anyone who voted for this must look in a mirror and ask the question. #StarmerOut#WinterFuelPayments
Were I to post on the blog what I think should happen to Starmer, Angela Rayner etc, I should no doubt receive yet another pointless and boring visit from Britain’s new poundland Stasi, formerly known as “the police”…
I ask my readers to make up their own minds about Starmer’s “elected” dictatorship (voted for by 4 out of 20 eligible voters).
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In July Yvette Cooper presented bogus statistics to the Commons to justify ending the deportation of illegal immigrants, and hiding those granted an asylum amnesty in the welfare system. In a speech today I explained how her policy will cost ÂŁ17.8 billion – and more in future. pic.twitter.com/OKEin7HRHX
Yvette Cooper (yet another Labour Friends of Israel member) is repeatedly dishonest. In the 2005-2010 Parliament, she and her husband, Ed Balls, were major expenses cheats and fraudsters.
Having said that, I sometimes muse as to whether treacherous evildoers such as Yvette Cooper have really thought through the consequences of what amounts to the treason of swamping the UK with ever-greater numbers of backward people from all over the world. I mean, as to what the socio-political situation here might be like in 5, 10, 20, 50 years. If they have, then their evil is even more culpable.
REMARKABLE revelations in parliament today: -The department for Work & Pensions has stopped publishing data on welfare claims by nationality -HMRC have stopped publishing tax paid & tax credits received by nationality -the Home Office will not answer questions on the immigrationâŚ
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of launches from the Bastion complex, as well as Granit missiles and the Kalibr-PL cruise missile from the Omsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky submarines during the Okean-2024 exercises. pic.twitter.com/L0oigY3Y0a
[F.B.I. special agent, 1930s, practising at the range, probably at Quantico, Virginia, and using the famous Thompson sub-machine gun, probably the 50-round drum magazine version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Academy#History]
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Watched The Cranes Are Flying (1957) for the first time last night and still thinking about the astonishing cinematography. How did they do this shot? pic.twitter.com/RZfdJpqXIw
Dan Hodges seems to have forgotten (assuming that he ever knew) that, in the Soviet Union, in Stalin’s day and even afterward, ordinary criminals were often treated better than “politicals”.
In any case, the “police state” aspect in question is not Hodges’ “early release” red herring but the incarceration of people for minor disorder, or for tweeting comments etc.
The present UK situation is similar (don’t forget Starmer’s extreme pseudo-socialist ideological background): the real criminals are being released after having served only 40% —with other measures in place, as little as 20%— of their headline sentences, but —by any other name— political, or treated as political, prisoners are being swiftly incarcerated, and are being more harshly sentenced as well.
Incidentally, not only those convicted following the recent protests and/or “riots” (nb. I myself do not consider saying “boo!” to a police riot squad operative, pushing at his plastic shield, looting a sausage-roll shop, or even overturning the odd police car, a “riot” nor indeed a “political protest” as such).
A while ago, I read that a young man had served his entire headline sentence (6 years, I think), having been convicted on one of those trumped-up bs pseudo-“terrorism” charges the UK police and Clown Prosecution Service seem to love today (they often involve an accusation that the accused shared some or another “terrorist” material online, and at the same time owned completely lawful objects such as copies of Mein Kampf or a picture of Hitler; random pieces of circumstantial “evidence” put in to bamboozle a typical low-IQ rubber-stamp “British” jury).
More broadly, the lack of real knowledge of history is widespread now. As G.K. Chesterton said, he feared the uneducated less than he feared the badly-educated.
The “Chaser”, Jenny Ryan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Ryan], fluffed the question “which of these three was first to be named as Time magazine Man of the Year in 1923?“, the three being Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.
I thought Mussolini (because of the October 1922 March on Rome, after which Mussolini became Prime Minister), and that turned out to be the correct answer. However, it occurred to me that there was at least a possibility that the correct answer would be Hitler (because of the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923).
However, Jenny Ryan, “the Vixen”, thought that Stalin was the right answer, afterwards commenting that she had “thought that Stalin was a much bigger figure back then“, thus showing ignorance of the history of all three countries concerned (Stalin’s more or less supreme power in the Soviet Union only dated from about 1928, though it increased from 1924; in 1923, Lenin was still alive, and the leadership still somewhat collegial). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#1924%E2%80%931927:_Succeeding_Lenin.
“The Vixen” later made another mistake on the same show, in failing to choose Offa as the answer to a question on Anglo-Saxon history; she chose “Cnut” (Canute), but he was not even an Anglo-Saxon king (though admittedly a king during the Anglo-Saxon period). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa_of_Mercia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut.
That’s the problem with such quiz shows, esp. The Chase. The “Chasers” and others have memorized lists, and (some) facts, but generally have no real in-depth background. I have noticed that with other Chasers, such as “The Beast”, Mark Labett.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing“, especially in political journalism.
Au contraire. Starmer and his pack (Yvette Cooper etc) do care about free speech— about shutting it down, that is.
This government response to a letter from over 500 academics concerned about the repeal of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is disappointingly partisan and ill-informed. https://t.co/ingyVTTbaWpic.twitter.com/9GqW8udVrO
In the end, though, the Starmer-Labour government, for all its “massive majority” triumphalism, only got the votes of 4 people out of every 20 (eligible), 4 out of every 12 people (that voted). Quite a number of even the voters that voted Labour only did so to make sure that the Conservative Party lost the election.
The real support for Labour is about 10% of the population. The real support for the attack on free speech etc is even smaller, only a few percent of the whole population.
Starmer and Labour have no legitimate mandate.
Israeli media is scrambling to remove the âHamas beat meâ references đ¨ Screenshots and the internet archive are forever 𼲠pic.twitter.com/u0Cx5LKzlK
The “British” mass media is utterly infested, of course. The UK msm routinely parrots Israeli and UK Jewish/Zionist lobby propaganda.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be coveredâno hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law. pic.twitter.com/GmqupXlJms
Being one of these pretend Deputy Mayors has to be the best jobs in Britain.
A total doddle, spending your time going on jollies, taking home six figure. Truly the modern aristocracy. Donât pretend you arenât jealous. https://t.co/C3lrODx1mB
Storming a plane, arresting someone, & sentencing them to prison for 20monthsâŚFor being âamong a group of peopleâ & âthrowing a single itemââŚ
“Storming a plane, arresting someone, & sentencing them to prison for 20monthsâŚFor being âamong a group of peopleâ & âthrowing a single itemâ⌠Then Police making a social media boast video, complete with music, about it (while turning comments off). http://What.On.Earth ?! Did I fall asleep & wake up in China or something.
Meanwhile⌠A) You can literally be filmed (allegedly) battering police officers in an airport & be released on bail to do press conferences etc, whilst still weeks later remaining uncharged. B) You can sexually assault children in the sea and go without even being described in the press. Tho people are supposed to be âhelping look for youâ. C) You can be a convicted child rapist and avoid jail if you break your license terms âbecause there is no spaceâ.
This country is becoming a complete basket case. Shame on anyone who celebrates this situation.”
I agree.
The police and Clown Prosecution Service love the “performative” stuff such as “storming” a plane to arrest someone (rather than waiting until the passengers disembark and go through immigration in the normal way, then quietly detaining the suspect).
It’s all part of the Starmer-Labour poundland police state and TV/Press show for the masses. Pretending that throwing a plastic bollard or a wheelie bin is “terrorism” etc.
A Muslim guy hit a waitress in the face with a plate in Nando's in front of his wife and child. What a wonderful example of an integrated community. The police have done nothing because they couldn't find evidence of right-wing opinions. https://t.co/lp20EubGjr
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) August 23, 2024
Import them, and you also import their behavioural patterns.
Didnât have this on my 2024 bingo card, but here we goâŚ
Chris Cuomo actually speaks the truth, exposes Democrats/Republican Uniparty swamp. đ pic.twitter.com/deE7HhrhnE
— David Morgan đ´ó §ó ˘ó ˇó Źó łó ż #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 23, 2024
If you are struggling to put food on the table, take comfort in knowing over the last two years weâve given Ukraine $2.3 trillion.
— Kamala Harris Press Release (Parody) (@joebldenpress) August 18, 2024
If ever you needed confirmation that Lily Allen is a truly awful human being itâs her getting rid of her dog because her own stupidity meant she left passports in a place that the dog could get to them https://t.co/97M5QPM5iM
I know (and want to know) little about Lily Allen, but everything that I have heard or read about her makes me despise her.
*MUST LISTEN* Lily Allen adopts puppy from a shelter. Creates an insta for the puppy to get likes. Leaves passports within puppies reach, when puppy chews the passports she returns puppy to the shelter, then laughs about it on a podcast whilst discussing getting a new puppy. pic.twitter.com/wa3Kkg9FTp
Let us hope that something unpleasant happens to Lily Allen.
I shall be hoping that bad luck strikes her.
cosplay council estate accent â blamed her kids for cancelling a tour â evicted a family in time for Xmas â not-so-secret-anymore Tory doner â and now she mistreats animals too â
is there a worse female celebrity anywhere on earth?
That whole area of complex-sounding but meaningless bs is its own “industry” of nothingness now. It has ballooned over the past half-century, mostly in quiet corners of academia and the civil service. People may call me “biased”, but I should like to bet that much of it (if not all) started with “the usual suspects” (((them))). (cf. Freudian psychoanalysis).
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“Them”…
Condemned out of their own mouths.
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Keir Starmerâs failure to protect public safety while targeting social media critics is disgraceful, especially given his long tenure as a prosecutor. His problem is heâs a prosecutor trying to play PM with a lock-'em-up attitude, betraying public trust.
Who would have thought it? Still, no doubt (in the tiny little minds of Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and ludicrous “lord chancellor” Shabana Mahmood) that real criminals doing real crime is the better option, as compared to middle-aged housewives and others being released and then making socio-political remarks on Facebook or Twitter.
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âźď¸ Brian May documentary shows Government and its agencies are letting everyone down on bTB
Government departments are not fit for purpose and need a complete overhaul to end misinformation and confusion about bovine TB crisis for farmers
“Gypsy and Roma traveller pupils are to be referred to as ‘mobile children’ under new government guidance.
New pupil absence advice issued by the Department for Education uses the term to refer to students ‘of no fixed abode’ who miss school while their parents are ‘travelling during the course of their trade or business’.
The law allows children to be away from the classroom while their parents are travelling for occupational reasons.“
[Daily Mail]
The whole problem, not just the child aspects, of those “communities” is one not properly addressed by the present System parties in government.
He isnât far wrong. Itâs these kind of publicity stunts that end up making us Jews a more appealing target. My real concern though is that Lewis is clearly not well, but was roped in by his partner to make that misguided trek.
Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal wanted to 1. make up a fake “antisemitic incident” for tribal political reasons, 2. have that publicized in the Daily Mail etc by dishonest Jewish scribbler Sabrina Miller (see earlier blogs), 3. make money out of it all via “compensation” payments (as they had done on previous occasions).
The Daily Mail should sack Sabrina Miller at once.
nb. I have blogged on previous days about the attempted scam and/or stunt.
Until I can show as much as I can – as one person going through – this sort of tweet might sound a bit weird. Dramatic also: the only way I can describe it is like visiting "The Underworld", then coming back up again and trying to tell everyone what you saw.
We get it. You like cycling. To the point where âcyclistâ could go on a psychiatric manual as a personality type – psychopathic â , aggressive â , selfish â , obsessive â . But why are we allowing these freaks to dictate travel around the UK? https://t.co/YKG9ZXLUlG
Starmer's Labour now plan to bring back Free Movement, allowing under-30s from across the EU to live & work in Britain. Why not? We basically have free movement with everywhere else in the world
Incidentally, this will mean that any non-European —African, Afghan, whatever— with some kind of ad hoc EU travel document will be able to enter the UK…
The ONE AND ONLY solution for the West
Sealed borders
Not a single foreign-born entry
White people having lots and lots of babies
Anyone talking about tax on tips or some other meaningless garbage is your enemy.
— David Morgan đ´ó §ó ˘ó ˇó Źó łó ż #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 22, 2024
Autarky is possible for Russia; it is also possible for Europe as a whole. The UK can link to one or the other, or both.
Trump is on the wrong side of history. Israel is not a friend of the United States. Friends donât lure you into wars that cost trillions and ruin you. Friends donât turn your politicians into prostitutes and friends donât brainwash your population with the media they control.
Nonsense. You just don't like what he said. That's your privilege.
1. "Britain is under occupation" incites nothing, whatever it is printed over. You may not like the stickers but that's no reason to get heavy-footed law involved. 2. He can display the picture of any grown⌠https://t.co/77x3pELc8Y
“Nonsense. You just don’t like what he said. That’s your privilege.
1. “Britain is under occupation” incites nothing, whatever it is printed over. You may not like the stickers but that’s no reason to get heavy-footed law involved.
2. He can display the picture of any grown adult he likes in his home.
3. He incited no violence or disorder and no violence or disorder resulted. He was jailed for the act of “intention”. Intention is thought. Criminalising thought is thoughtcrime.“
Stray thought
I was just reading the crime reports in the My London online newspaper. See if you, dear readers, can spot the common factor re. almost all of the defendants and suspects: https://www.mylondon.news/all-about/crime.
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For God's sake. Please can someone data savvy plot a graph of crimes to sentence time. You would hope there was a positive correlation between how violent crimes are and the latter. But I'll bet a graph would show a small change towards negative correlation. The Starmer Effect. https://t.co/Qy5oaO220O
It is broken and has been broken for the last 14 years. The Tories and their empty claim to be the party of law and order has always been a lie, and now we've got Starmer and his diktat to judges.
I'm starting to think no one can count. I can see no other explanation for the number of ppl ignoring supply and demand. It's highly discombobulating. Like living in a matrix where everyone says you should wear underpants on your head – and you saying "no" makes you a bigot. https://t.co/ILjkpn6nq4
âThe number of asylum seekers granted refugee status has hit the highest level since records began nearly 40 years ago. 68,000 asylum claims were granted, more than triple the 21,000 the previous yearâ
The next step will be Two-tier Keir and Yvette Cooper rubberstamping 90% or more of all applications, whether here, in France, or elsewhere. Whoopee! The “small boats” will only rarely be seen crossing the Channel, because 95% of their passengers will be arriving in the UK by air or ferry. They will still be arriving, though…
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[painting by Roman Bozhkow; it reminds me of the time, in the Spring of 1982, when I slept in an empty birdwatchers’ hut, or hide, in the middle of a small lake almost right on the border of East and West Germany. It too had such a rickety wooden bridge joining it to the shore; a cold wet night, and the hut had no glass in the windows]
@Fox_Claire we don't live in a democracy! It's a lie we are given as an illusion of choice otherwise people would riot. The Blue , Green , or Red pill options all lead to the same path. Look at Brexit never happened. Thats why riots are happening, then the law starts to work!
When Starmer was booed at the Southport commemoration – thatâs his next five years. And if the rozzers arrest people for booing, they will just maintain a stony silence.
— Viscount Toad KG đ¸đŽđą (@cheshiretoad) August 14, 2024
Or not.
I think an awful lot of people are even angrier than before.
This 53-year-old woman, a full-time carer with no previous convictions, wrote on Facebook 'Blow the mosques up'. It was a wicked thing to say, and she deserves public shaming. But 15 months in jail? When violent thugs are often given suspended sentences? https://t.co/lwPDd1y9Uo
People have already lost faith in the UK political process, and the police. Until now, the courts have retained a measure of public respect. Will the courts and the judges now go the way of the politicians and police?
“Respect” is not quite the same as “fear”. Judge Jeffreys was feared but not respected. Look what happened to him.
“George Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysPC (15 May 1645 â 18 April 1689), also known as “the Hanging Judge“,[1] was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). His conduct as a judge was to enforce royal policy, resulting in a historical reputation for severity and bias.”
The judge said: "Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that youâŚ
“This is how ludicrous things have become. The judge said: “Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you spat at anybody. But it is accepted by you that you were a party to this disorder and I have to sentence you on that basis, and you know that anyone party to it has to receive a custodial sentence.â Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a yearhttps://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/youngest-female-rioter-13-court-mother-step-father/“
I was not familiar with the facts of the case until (just now) reading the above link, but if the defendant did actually nothing, neither by deed nor by word (of incitement, though he did say things of an insulting and profane character), then how could any judge, properly directing himself, either find the defendant guilty (even on a plea of guilty, which may have been procured by fear of a heavier sentence yet) or hand down any custodial sentence?
I see now, in the Daily Telegraph report, that the defendant did in fact push at a police riot shield, though once only.
The judge was fair enough to have gone into recess at the trial, until further video evidence was screened.
Surely appealable, at least on sentence.
Indeed, if the defendant’s only action had been to be at the scene, and even if, so to speak, “silently in agreement” with the acts done by others, then that surely would not be enough? His words actually said were at worst ambiguous, in my view. Meaning that, on those premises, arguende, there was no actus reus sufficient in law (?). However, the pushing of the riot shield might (and obviously did) change that, in the mind of the judge. Rather thin, though.
Even if the judge felt impelled to imprison that defendant, surely 3 months would have been more than enough? He would then have been released within 4-5 weeks. Now, he will be spending about 5 months in prison, unless he gets bail pending any appeal on sentence.
Strongly favours migration-invasion, and mass immigration generally. Pretends to think that it actually benefits this country! An enemy of Britain’s future.
@Fox_Claire on @BBCNewsnight just pointed out that while there are dedicated squads of police trawling social media for people to prosecute, if you call the cops because someone has burgled your house or stolen your car they're always too busy.
Victory of @elonmusk over #GARM is an enormously significant moment in the struggle to preserve free speech – Gerald Warner in @reactionlife. Have made this piece free to read. https://t.co/tKZhvCZ1tZ
(to British families or individuals only, though, not to migrant-invaders or any other non-Europeans).
A 53-year-old woman, the primary carer for her husband, who led a "kind and compassionate lifestyle". Sentenced to 15 months of prison time for a quickly deleted FB post. As she was convicted, she replied, âThank you, your honour". Just awful. .https://t.co/7dTwlaI049
Again, plainly excessive. A suspended sentence would have been appropriate; the immediate 15 months, in all the circumstances, and seeing the strong personal/family mitigation— savage. As it is, the defendant will only be released after 5 months (minus a few days).
Starmer and his compliant judges may have repressed the recent protests (which were coming to an end anyway— the (((Hope not Hate))) cabal just invented the spectre of 100 more “far right” protests— but, in my opinion, people are getting even angrier, albeit under the surface, and with both the general situation in the country and about the “elected” dictatorship (“elected” by a mere 20% of eligible voters) of Two-Tier Keir.
People are just wary of openly saying or publishing online anything now, because of the open repression of free speech, and because of the police-state over-reaction by both Two-Tier Keir and those judges who have recently been giving out Cold War East European-style “People’s Court” sentences (for political “crimes” only).
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He really sickens me , do this to pensioners and curtailing the British natives freedoms hard won , such as the freedom of expression our freedoms set down in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/nHbXjgmc1p
đşđŚZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
“ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
When the CIA learned of the plan they told Zelesnky to abort it, however it still went ahead. According to senior Ukrainian defense and security officials, the pipelines were a legitimate target. They are jointly owned by Russian, German, French, and Dutch companies, and the explosion caused 800 million cubic meters of gas, equivalent to about 3 months of Danish gas supplies, to escape.
It’s a problem for Germany, as a senior official said: âAn attack of this scale is a sufficient reason to trigger the collective defense clause of NATO, but our critical infrastructure was blown up by a country that we support with massive weapons shipments and billions in cash.â Ukraine still officially denies involvement in the attack.
The vulgar mercantilist influence comes out in the language, and has for a number of years.
Apart from that, throwing money at a trade union or its members, in order to ensure a period without strikes, is easy enough, and not some masterstroke of Labour Party industrial relations.
You have until Monday to apply to be in charge of the UK's trade with Poland: a top-15 UK trading partner with ÂŁ31 billion (up 15% YoY) and buffer against Russia.
Pay: ÂŁ33k.
Otherwise, a nearby Billâs restaurant is advertising for a sous chef: ÂŁ40k https://t.co/9gTRkXsVfP
Wow. Reform is ahead of Tories in 2nd. Labour 33%, Reform 21%, Tories 20% (WeThink)
"Farage is winning over cultural conservatives who are economically populist, who loathe mass immigration and think global corporates are taking them for a ride"https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
You consistently opposed the one law that created a legal duty on UK universities to promote free speech& protect scholars who do not support the woke orthodoxy. So we shall take no lectures on free speech from you. https://t.co/dxoYS3KRmn
Then compare that to the equally inaccurate and one-sided BBC and Sky News (etc) reportage about the Ukraine conflict, the migration-invasion and much else.
Other than in the most egregious cases, such as where there is clear evidence of incitement to violence or law-breaking, I don't think anyone should be sent to jail for something they wrote on social media. That is a hill worth dying on.
I agree completely. The UK has gone slowly mad in that regard over the past 50 years and especially the past 25 years.
.@simoncalder. But the poor old taxpayer has to fork out far, far more on the pretend private rail franchisees( who delay my journeys far more often than any union does) and their bonuses. And drivers drive trains.Iâve never worked out what the operating companies do for me. https://t.co/YWcq7OmJr3
Example(s) of and from what Katie Hopkins calls “Batshit Bonkers Britain”.
Quite remarkable to see so many colleagues on the left reveal themselves as true "hang 'em, flog 'em" reactionaries after spending years berating me for the same thing!
As frequently noted on the blog over the past 7 years, the self-describing “Left” has almost nothing left except hysterical demands that “the authorities” should “deplatform” anyone of whom they disapprove, or who is not of the “woke” orthodoxy. It even came out during the “Covid” hysteria of a few years ago.
The once-socialist so-called “Left” and/or “antifascist” tendency has actually nothing to offer the British people. No ideals. No ideas. Just witch-hunts.
Incidentally, anyone wanting to confirm that those sorts of individuals really are of “Batshit Bonkers Britain”, read this
During the past night there was a new eruption of Etna volcano in Sicily. Due to the emission of ash into the atmosphere, the airport in Catania was closed until 18:00 pic.twitter.com/oghP9qmYl6
The lady in the white bikini better start running…
Megregor: The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress
đşđ¸ It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor. The⌠pic.twitter.com/bLAjIz8Wf7
“The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress.
It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor.
The goal of the operation is to create the illusion of success so that warmongers in Washington will continue to send money to Ukraine, he emphasized.“
Exactly.
A group of over 100 Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian settlement near the city of Kalkilja in the West Bank. Burn houses and cars. pic.twitter.com/uvNGJ9Ktbd
“Call this justice? Family of millionaire travellers who kept homeless men as slaves in filthy caravans are ALL out of jail and back at work – while 15 of their victims have died without ever getting compensation.”
[Daily Mail]
Parasites, scavengers and predators. I should like to offer a solution here but, sadly, “the usual suspects” and their political, police, and CPS puppets, have almost destroyed free speech in the UK, making any comment difficult, presently.
Shows how the left creates and uses sensible-sounding legislation to censor. See it says nurses can withdraw care for âdiscriminatory behaviourâ. But parts of the Left think discrimination includes things like not addressing someone by their âchosen pronounsâ. https://t.co/FXmbN2PSXv
That sort of thing is being driven by relatively small groups within each occupation, profession, and vocation.
I cannot say anything directly on the blog because we now have so little free speech in the UK (by reason, indeed, of those same “small groups”), so I shall just say “are you thinking what I am thinking?“…
A man has been jailed for posting 3 memes over 2 days showing real images of Asian gangs with the words "Coming to a town near you".
This is becoming like a scaled down and ridiculous copy of Stalin’s purges. As Marx noted, first time— tragedy, but second time— farce [Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon].
Of course, that poor fellow quite wrongfully sentenced to 8 weeks in prison, will not see the (unfunny) joke, even though his 8 weeks will in the end be something like 3 (he will be out after 40% of the headline tariff).
In my opinion, the defendant should have pleaded not guilty. Unfortunately, he seems to have pleaded guilty (perhaps on advice of his solicitor) to get a notional sentence reduction from 12 to 8 weeks.
Starmer’s thoroughly wicked and unconstitutional suggestion (almost a demand, at least an expressed presumption) that anyone pleading not guilty to any charge arising —however peripherally— out of the recent protests) would be remanded in custody until trial (which these days might be months or even a year later) was a direct attack on the rule of law. Plainly intimidatory, and designed to make defendants cave and plead guilty.
The latest I heard, something like 700 arrests have been made. How many charges, I do not know.
Compare those sentences of imprisonment merely for giving out a few online opinions (though the Court, “Clown” Prosecution Service and politicized police all try to make the “offences” seem far worse) with those handed down for real crimes committed in the same area, such as this one:
“A thief told the manager of a Carlisle Co-op store who had caught him stealing alcohol that he would return and âstab himâ if he called the police, magistrates heard.
The defence lawyer representing prolific offender Elijah Ali, 34, told the cityâs Rickergate court that the defendant denied making the threat. He did, however, plead guilty to the theft and to using threatening behaviour.
Prosecutor George Shelley outlined the facts.
He said the defendant and a second unknown male walked into the Central Avenue branch of Co-op at around 9.30pm on August 5 and began brazenly stealing alcohol from the shelves, picking up ânumerousâ bottles of booze and putting them in Aliâs jacket.
This prompted the storeâs manager to make a 999 call, reporting that a theft was in progress and requesting urgent help.
The second male left the store but as he left, said Mr Shelley, Ali told the store manager: âIf you call the police, Iâm going to come back and stab you. That placed [the manager] in a state of fear.â
Aliâs record comprises 98 previous offences, 25 of them thefts and kindred crimes. âHeâs a prolific offender,â said Mr Shelley.
Magistrates imposed a ÂŁ200 fine and told Ali to pay the Co-op compensation of ÂŁ200 as well as ÂŁ85 costs and a surcharge.“
So a few online comments about a news item results in immediate imprisonment, but for a “prolific thief” (called Ali) with 98 previous convictions, and who threatened to stab a shop manager, only a minor fine (probably paid off at ÂŁ5 a week).
Any comment, “Prime Minister”? That’s you, two-tier Keir.
I donât understand this. Why does the Crown Prosecution Service âstand withâ any community? Itâs supposed to be an impartial body taking decisions based on the law of the land. Why does the CPS need âpanelsâ? Who is on the panels? What influence do they exert? Worrying. https://t.co/1hx2LcA55w
The language gives it away (“our communities” etc).
I DARE YOU: Call me a racist! đ @ThatAlexWoman is apoplectic. She breaks down mass immigration, women's safety & Two-Tier Kier. Pls share because the media WON'T show this.
Exactly. Some completely blameless tweets by seemingly blameless middle-aged ladies, and which I reposted on the blog, are now gone completely (including from the blog, because I usually embed them). The ladies in question seem to have been frightened into deleting not only the (entirely lawful) tweets but also their Twitter/X account(s).
“Two-tier Keir” is a hateful bastard. Yvette Cooper is no better. They are conspirators, trying to impose a “woke” multikulti police state upon this country.
Todayâs authoritarianism knows no boundaries. Londonâs Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests â to include American citizens. Simultaneously, theâŚ
“Todayâs authoritarianism knows no boundaries. Londonâs Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests â to include American citizens.
Simultaneously, the EUâs Censorship âKommisarâ Thierry Breton just told Elon Musk he canât allow EU citizens to witness tonightâs interview with President Trump.
The elites who want to decide what is permissible to read and watch justify their censorship by labeling dissenting opinions as âmisinformation,â âhate speech,â âfar right,â or âextremist.â
During the lockdowns, MI-6 designated me and other health freedom activists as potential âterrorists.â But the label applies more closely to themselves, as they try to scare us into submission again with bird flu hoaxes, debt-fueled financial collapse, and ever more dangerous imperial wars of choice.
His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, once said this:
Something about which Britain’s new “Labour” government (“elected” by only 20% of all eligible voters and a mere 33.7% of those who voted) might care to think.
Three white police officers were discriminated against because of their race.
A judge ruled they were passed over for promotion in an anti-white racist decision, where bosses chose an Asian instead to "boost diversity". Disgusting anti-white racism. https://t.co/PQxbQzYeVp
Journalists should be reading the signs about growing authoritarianism instead of enabling it. Unfortunately many are ideologically identical to the people they're paid to criticise. https://t.co/UlZDALPcNW
The point is that the UK’s authoritarian/totalitarian laws and procedures have, in many cases, yes, been in place for some time, but have not been extensively used; in fact used mainly during and after the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022.
NEW POST. Here comes the free speech CRACKDOWN which we must RESIST. How Labour and the left plan to undermine our hard-won freedoms https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
One reason I challenge the elite consensus on mass immigration and broken borders is because unless people feel respected and safe in their own country they will find other ways to express their frustration https://t.co/6S1tPfCRHdpic.twitter.com/J4eckNLR5z
Bureaucrat-drone-dictator Starmer thinks that, by repressing free speech following the recent protests (and their riotous offshoots), he has somehow “solved” the problem that came across his desk. No. Every one of those recently sentenced, or sitting in some overcrowded jungle prison awaiting trial or sentence, now resents and hates Starmer and also the multikulti police state which he, Yvette Cooper, and Rachel Reeves, now head.
What does Starmer imagine will be happening in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, with British people scarcely able to make a living, to pay exorbitant rents, to buy houses the cheapest of which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, or to walk the streets of their own cities safely?
Every day, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrant-invaders arrive illegally on our shores. Thousands more, every day, enter at least quasi-“legally”.
Britain is heading for a dystopian conflict never seen before.
"The Labour government will soon expand the definition of âIslamophobiaâ, creating a blasphemy law that will shut down debate about Islam, not least as it tries to appease its shaky coalition of Muslim and radical woke voters"https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
Maybe also making “holocaust” “denial” (i.e. examination and historical revision, particularly of events of the 1940s and 1930s) illegal in the UK. Don’t forget that Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, and that his wife is Jewish.
"You're really no longer a country if you don't have a secure border"
703 illegal migrants entered Britain yesterday, the biggest daily number since Labour took power. Total this year now 18,342, 13% up on same point last year.
As I said, this crisis is only going to get worse until somebody takes control of our bordershttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Don’t forget the others, the ~1,000,000 migrant-invaders that entered “legally” in the past year, or the births to non-European mothers.
Israeli media reports that the psychological war between Hezbollah and Iran continues. Iran's psychological warfare has completely taken over Israel's social media. pic.twitter.com/ZSFatgotyG
He would have been justified in smacking her in the face, in the circumstances. Not immediately, but by the end of her contrived and sustained confrontation.
Kiev-regime announcement
The Kiev regime has announced that it “is not interested” in hanging on to the little strip of land it recently invaded in the Kursk region of Russia.
Translation: the forces of the Kiev regime only made the incursion so that Zelensky and his cabal could claim to Western mass media that they are “winning”, or at least continuing to fight.
In reality, the Kiev-regime incursion forces, mostly press-ganged and poorly-trained serf-soldiers, have been mainly wiped out, and the rest are —literally— dying to be able to drive back over the border to Ukraine and relative safety.
The Kiev-regime incursion was never sustainable; the territory gained for a day or two, or a week or two, could never have been held.
I am worried, though, for the dim Ukrainian soldiers and their grieving, or soon-to-be-grieving families, and also for the Russian civilian families in the Kursk border region, their lives disrupted by this stupid publicity stunt.
At the same time, the Russian advance in the south-east continues steadily.
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Now it's a fight for simple human decency…perhaps already lost…thanks in part to degenerate media class..I know as I worked in it
“Just walked through Huddersfield city centre. Really struck by the starkest of contrasts.
Some older women sat outside a Merrie England cafe (remember âem?), trying to enjoy a civilised afternoon tea.
They were surrounded by the stench of weed, people shouting in foreign languages, couples in tracksuits hurling abuse at each other, gangs of lads hanging around, beggars off their faces.
Nothing noteworthy about the scenario – just everyday stuff in yer standard Red Wall town. But I was impressed by the dignity and stoicism of the women. The rest of it almost reduced me to tears.”
[Dr. Philip Kiszely]
I would suggest a few things, but no doubt that would bring the boring police drones to my door once again, as has happened several times in the past decade. They are the footsoldiers of the multikulti “woke” police state now re-energized by Starmer.
Had a break from Twitter for a couple of days just to come back and see the censorship brigade quote tweeting me hoping for my arrest. đ¤Ł
Thanks to the trolls for the almost 1 million impressions, you just paid my rent this month. đđť https://t.co/KpUdTZRB5m
— David Morgan đ´ó §ó ˘ó ˇó Źó łó ż #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 12, 2024
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đDundrum, Tipperary.
This tiny Irish village of 200 people was forcibly planted this morning. 280 âasylum seekersâ are to be housed in this hotel, replacing the local population overnight.
Why is pathetic Sinn Fein supporting the migration-invasion of Ireland, and certainly not properly opposing it?
I really want someone to do this. There are a number of projects that are going to need to be people-led as 80% of the media seem to have abdicated their duty. We need better statistics to understand patterns, authority failures; to diagnose etc. https://t.co/c9SmOc0T0N
I remember seeing this sorta thing a few years ago and it worrying me, due to my "Patsy from Ab Fab" ways. Somehow in July last year I gave up booze. Everything improved! You don't need a "rock bottom" or epiphany. You can just feel "blurgh". Tomorrow could even be the day đ https://t.co/7VLtoJ9Qtn
Strange. I have read about the increase in alcohol consumption during the “lockdown” nonsense or 2020-2021. I went the other way, almost stopping my relatively-modest consumption.
There have been times in my life when I drank little or nothing, other times when my consumption was quite high. I suppose the latter was true of when I was living in the former Soviet Union, in the Caribbean, and in France, as well as when I was practising at the English Bar (during the years 1992-1996 and 2002-2008).
Now, most days, I drink no alcohol at all. No particular reason predominates. It may be partly a function of increasing age (I shall be 68 next month, ironically on the same day as the birthday of “two-tier Keir” Starmer, though he is six years younger than me).
Another reason is that the wines, especially the red wines, that I once liked, such as Chateau Margaux, are extremely expensive (I suppose they always were, but that I notice it more now), or are hard to source (some Moldavian and Georgian wines).
One kind of booze I do like is what the French term eaux de vie, such as 40%+ Kirsch and Poire Williams etc.
A Central and Eastern European taste too, that I must have picked up somewhere or other, is Slivovitz (plum spirit), which UK Lidl had on sale recently (I bought 2 bottles, 42% alc.), and what the Hungarians call palinka, fruit spirit, which may be distilled from one fruit, or a mixture. Apricot is probably my favourite, though I have not had any for well over 20 years.
On a hot day, though, beer is often the best drink (apart from water). I used to like (30-40 years ago), Zhiguli beer from Russia, which was at that time sold in the UK, in Selfridges. Czech beer is pretty good, of course, as is some Polish.
When I was living in Turkey for a few months, I liked Tekel beer, made by a State enterprise. It no longer exists, at least in that form.
One type of wine that I liked a lot in the 1980s, and early 1990s, was the kind of white wine produced in Australia at that time, especially heavily-oaked quality Chardonnay. Harder to find now, of the same type. Maybe tastes have changed, and the producers have followed suit..
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The people cheering on the destruction of #FreeSpeech in the UK (because they think it gives them power over their peers) reminds me of the crowds cheering Mao's regime as it murdered citizens and erased history.
The most frightening revolutions happen to the sound of applause.
As I noted on the blog during the “Covid” hysteria, the self-describing “left”, including almost all of the “human rights” tribe, were all in favour of more severe “lockdowns”, more severe penalties, dissidents and people ignoring the “Covid” hysteria to have all civil rights taken away, deprived of all medical treatment, even when entirely unconnected to “the virus” etc.
Indeed, the self-describing “left” has lost of of its former ideology and direction, and seems to exist purely to cheer on the right labels (“Covid”, “Ukraine”, “BLM”, “trans”-whatever) and of course “Labour”, despite Labour (also) having lost all or 99% of its former ethos. That, and to “deplatform” from everywhere possible any people who are labelled derogatively by them.
I agree. She was scapegoated. I'm not saying her tweet was fine. When I saw it, then her mistake, I thought, bloody hell. But NEVER did I imagine her being carted off for police questioning. I think the fact she's wealthy & good looking plays into some of the glee over her arrest https://t.co/Xx4JfqCvha
Professor Tettenborn is someone I met a couple of times in Exeter circa 2002-2003. He was at that time the professor at the law faculty of Exeter University. I was in a small set of barristers (now very much larger and, under another name, the largest in the South West outside Bristol; the former head of my old set is now a Circuit Judge).
I sat with Professor Tettenborn and another as a notional “Lord Justice of Appeal” at a moot competition held in the Guildhall at Exeter in mid-2002. My only day as a Lord Justice of Appeal, or indeed any sort of judge.
Incidentally, the winner of the moot (out of three student contenders) was a young Anglo-Armenian who had engaged in some sharp practice during the competition. We three “Lords Justices of Appeal” discussed disqualifying him, but in the end relented. As a student advocate, he was head and shoulders above the other two students, and we thought that that had to be recognized.
A few years later, as a young barrister, the same person got into trouble over allegations of sex harassment (not in my own Chambers but another set), I heard. Not sure whether that went to the Bar Standards Board (I think it did), but the person in question is still, I believe, at the Bar and still based in Exeter; I think that he was also, quite a few years ago, an unsuccessful Conservative candidate for MP at Exeter.
All a long time ago now.
Professor Tettenborn also made a very cogent case at the Law Commission inquiry as to whether the very bad law known as Communications Act 2003, s.127, should be repealed. That was what was recommended, but the section has so far not been repealed, and is regularly misused either by the police/CPS or by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
“Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.
Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against âputrid conspiracy theoriesâ.
[Guardian]
So “conspiracy theories” such as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan will no doubt be examined (with an inbuilt and hostile a priori bias, though…). The brainwashing will probably fail if the children subjected to it open their eyes to what is happening all around them…
“Tory grandees have accused senior figures in their own party of using divisive language that inflamed anger over immigration before the recent rioting, amid warnings that too many Conservatives have âturned a blind eyeâ to a shift to the right.“
[Guardian]
Alistair Burt and Timothy Kirkhope. Both former solicitors, and both former members of Conservative Friends of Israel.
A slow-motion coup has installed multi-cultural socialism in the West. Britain currently is experiencing its own equivalent of the Prague takeover of 1948. The show-trials of Douglas Murray and Elon Musk (if they can apprehend him) will no doubt soon follow. https://t.co/lcSDMs0PL6
— Tom Gallagher NEW book Europe's Leadership Famine (@cultfree54) August 11, 2024
I saw part of Douglas Murray’s interview. Usually I have no time for him, or for any puppets of Israel and the Jewish lobby, but I have to say that I agreed thoroughly with much and indeed most of what I heard.
I can only imagine that Murray said such unambiguous things deliberately in order to throw down the gauntlet to “two-tier Keir”, to provoke his own, Murray’s, arrest, charge, and prosecution, with the idea that a British jury will never convict him. A gamble, but a calculated one.
Of course, a “British jury” may now contain blacks and browns who may not agree with Murray’s views, and let us not pretend that such cases are somehow objective fora searching for truth— they are purely political, just like the joint trial of Nick Griffin and Mark Collett about 20 or so years ago (they were both acquitted, a smack in the mouth the “Clown” Prosecution Service was not expecting).
However, a British jury might well acquit Murray, if he does end up being charged and tried. That would raise his profile immeasurably. Then, in a few years, he might become a Reform UK candidate (as might Matt Goodwin) in circumstances in which the “elected” dictatorship of “two-tier Keir” and his clowns will undoubtedly be extremely unpopular with everyone outside the msm and the Westminster Bubble. In fact, Britain might really be on the brink of revolt by then.
If, on the other hand, Murray is not arrested/charged/prosecuted, then the poundland “tough guy” image “two-tier Keir” has been trying to project over the past 5-7 days crashes and burns. Indeed, if Murray escapes prosecution, many now charged will be able to plead not guilty in the hope that juries will acquit them for reasons as openly political as many of the prosecutions themselves.
Assuming that Murray’s statements were made quite carefully and deliberately, I think that it can be said that he has made a stunning political move.
The legal arguments at any trial would revolve at least partly around the (apparent) fact that the now-famous interview was filmed in the USA, though broadcast or sent to the UK, and aimed mainly at a UK audience.
During the Black Lives Matter rioting and protests, it was considered entirely legitimate to ask what lay behind black anger. But today, it's apparently illegitimate to ask what lies behind white anger. I think many people see the double standard.
I've done a lot of international media this week and I can tell you that when it comes to how the UK is managing free speech much of the world thinks we're going insane. "You're the home of Magna Carta", a journalist just said. "What the hell happened to you?"
NEW POST. What REALLY lies behind the UK's riots and protests. A collection of counter-cultural perspectives in a national debate that is clearly failing.https://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
âIâm a Lib Dem member of the House of Lords who lives in trendy Islington. I am a citizen of nowhere. All these foreign people benefit from my patronage (lucky them). But none of them is ever invited to my dinner parties. Virtue signal over.â https://t.co/xkxre1PyYM
What we are now seeing might be described as a struggle between Islamists who want to rule Britain (and mainland Europe), and Jew-Zionists who, partly and perhaps to a large extent, and more quietly [own and] rule Britain and much of the Western world generally.
What is wrong with our civilization can be said with one word â unreality. We are in no danger either from the vices or the virtues of vikings; we are in danger of forgetting all facts, good and bad, in a haze of high-minded phraseology.
My own prediction was, and remains, that Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” problem by setting up some kind of fake “processing” lines in France, and/or elsewhere, then rubberstamping perhaps 90% or even 95% of the applications. That ~90% will then enter the UK “legally” (along with the —ten to twenty times the number— existing “legal” entrants), while the others will still cross the Channel without authorization.
The 1.3M+ figure noted by Matt Goodwin is dwarfed by the c.15M who have arrived “legally” over the past 30 years; also, do not forget the question of births to non-European mothers in the UK. Another form of “migration invasion”.
Only a few writers are willing to challenge the established narrative on what is REALLY driving the unrest in Britain. Here are a few of them đhttps://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
The Batley Grammar schoolteacher is still in hiding. Three years after he supposedly âinsultedâ Islam. Why is no one in the political class talking about this? Because they are abject moral cowards, says Brendan OâNeillhttps://t.co/z2cOHtM55Q
It is easy to just laugh at nonsense of that sort, but behind all such manifestations is an urge to lead all of society into the abyss. “Anti-sexism”, “anti-racism” etc. Also, generally, the inferior valued above the superior in terms of cultural value. Historical civilizations and cultures, religions, other belief systems. Music too, and visual art.
Some “artists” have made tens of millions, even hundreds of millions from their “art” of that sort. In Britain we have had Damien Hirst (in my opinion, both a con-man and a fake, as well as mentally-unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst) and Tracey Emin (another fake and money-grubber): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Emin.
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Incidentally, the above piece of “art” by Tracey Emin was auctioned by Christie’s in 2014 for ÂŁ2.5M. Do we need any further evidence of the decadence of our society?
The existing System in the UK has lionized “artists” of that sort, not only by selling their “art” for millions, but by awarding them System or Establishment medals or titles: Tracey Emin is now a member of the Royal Academy, and its Professor of Drawing. She was also awarded a CBE and later DBE “for services to art“. You couldn’t make it up.
Having said that, I recall a woman whom I encountered occasionally in the 1980s, and who was awarded an MBE around 2006 or 2007, “for fostering relations with Russia“. From what I heard, mainly carnal ones…
Incidentally, the infamous Tracey Emin Bed “artwork” was bought by (((Charles Saatchi))) for ÂŁ150,000, then later, eventually, sold, as noted, for ÂŁ2.5M.
Art covers a wide field, and many forms, but the above examples show a degradation not only of art but also of a whole society.
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This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli governmentâs ongoing coup dâetat is not a âjudicialâŚ
“This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli governmentâs ongoing coup dâetat is not a âjudicial overhaulâ but a destruction of the countryâs rule of law. The Attorney General was verbally attacked during the meeting, and Ben Gvir called for her immediate dismissal. Netanyahuâs hostile takeover of the Civil Service Commission will mean that evert future appointment will be subject to the appointeeâs groveling submission to him personally and to the extreme rightâs agenda.”
Israel will not exist at some point in the near or medium-term future. The external pressures already lead to unsustainable internal stresses.
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We need to address the root cause of why so many British people feel so unsafe in their own country. We need to fix the borders. We need to end mass immigration. We need to replace the policy of multiculturalism.https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/HuMHFW8XKf
Giant wind turbines, reaching up to 850 feet tall â over 250 feet higher than London's Gherkin building â could soon dominate the British countryside, after Ed Miliband dismissed calls for a height limit. https://t.co/HSb3Fa4Mj7
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Were the 'spontaneous' anti-racism rallies even real? asks Steven Tucker; Richard Dawkins's Facebook account is deleted after a gender critical post; and Boris Johnson says Starmer is "deaf" to immigration concerns. https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2pic.twitter.com/JPIGWQohFp
Specialist police units are scouring social media to clamp down on "hate influencers" accused of inciting the riots seen on British streets. https://t.co/XwC6wxc1QM
BBC News, Sky News are now just propaganda pushers. Reminiscent of Soviet TV. For example, I saw a few minutes on either BBC or Sky this evening. Some little technocrat twerp called Hadley, itching to snoop on and censor social media; the woman presenter a nodding dog, unwilling and probably incapable of challenging said twerp’s police state ethos.
I predict you will be the most ineffective Home Secretary in the history of British political history. Although if uttering the words âshocked and appalledâ after every incident and then doing fuck all about it were a measure of success, youâd be way out in frontâŚ
How much of all that, though, has been caused or made far worse by the invasion of the UK by “migrants” (migrant-invaders)? An invasion which, by the way, has been fully supported and encouraged by Jewish-lobby puppet Yvette Cooper.
Her predecessors as Home Secretary were no better, as seen below— weird Israel fanatic Sajid Javid:
Day 3 of 56. Mark Lewis and Patron Law have not yet paid my costs.
At Lewisâ disciplinary case it came to light he had been sending lots of highly offensive messages on social media. He messaged a Jewish man âOh f**k off you stupid c**tâ, said he hoped the man would die and said⌠https://t.co/gbMr5TUJfxpic.twitter.com/3kdhRqVxGP
Living conditions in 1940s Paris were certainly austere at times, at least for some, but life went on, e.g. under German military occupation:
[Paris in 1941: an unarmed Wehrmacht soldier relaxedly chats with a stylish Parisienne on the terrace by the Trocadero Gardens, beneath the Palais de Chaillot, and across the river from the Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower]
[Palais de Chaillot and Jardins du Trocadero, Paris 16-ieme]
Iâve spoken to many many Americans and other people from outside of Europe who simply donât travel to Paris anymore because they know itâs too dangerous now. And theyâre right.
Itâs an absolute disgrace whatâs become of Europe. We need mass deportations. Now. https://t.co/J5t8Ncq302
In 1970, and 1971, Paris was distinctively not only French but also specifically Parisian. By the 1980s, and especially 1990s, I noticed that it had become less so, more a “convergence” Euro-metropolis. Now? God knows. From what I hear and read, a multikulti nightmare, at least in part and in parts.
"Labour is only moving to squash the Free Speech Act before of pressure from radical trade unionists who themselves refused to condemn the shocking treatment of academics like Kathleen Stock. Labour is eroding, not upholding, free speech in Britain"https://t.co/UTOoSOiZbc
Not many voted them though so âI told you soâ isnât helping. The people had no choice. The system was already in place over the many years that slowly it has been building. Our basic laws are being changed so that we will live in a large mousetrap.
Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.
At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.
That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.
Tell that to the academics who have been recently suspended or dismissed due to the content of a taught course or of writings in their field. I know of at least one case at the University of Cambridge and one at University College London.
“Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the governmentâs immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.
The prime minister said on Thursday he was open to the idea of Britain processing claims offshore, after a day spent discussing illegal migration with fellow European leaders at Blenheim Palace. Those talks, as part of the European Political Community summit, included a meeting with Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, whose country processes asylum claims on behalf of Italy.
But he said a deal to return refused asylum seekers to the EU was low on his list of priorities, as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned his country was not willing to shoulder the additional burden.
âBut look, Iâm a practical person. Iâm a pragmatist. And Iâve always said weâll look at what works and where cases can be processed closer to origin, then that is something which of course ought to be looked at.â
[The Guardian]
As I have been predicting for many months on the blog, Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” migration invasion, meaning get it off the TV news agenda, by simply “processing” the applications of the invaders long before they reach the UK, whether that be in France, in Albania, in Italy, or even in Africa.
“Processing” will mean, in this context, rubberstamping 90% or more of the applications. Probably more, looking at how about 80% of the applications of the present wave of invaders are eventually approved once they land in the UK (and the rest not deported anyway).
What about those, the small minority no doubt, who apply for asylum in those extra-territorial processing centres or offices but are refused? Is Starmer pretending that they will be content to stay in, or return to, their native countries? Of course they will not. They will simply make their way to the English Channel and then try to cross it.
What I can say is that – if the messages between the defendants in my case are right – the advice of Mark Lewis of Patron Law was terrible. He appears not to have understood fundamental aspects of my claim. @MLewisLawyerhttps://t.co/NznpEQpOTfpic.twitter.com/SVwBbdsngA
Only one thing can save Western culture and civilization, and the root-stock on which they both depend— social nationalism, and a consequent “revaluation of all values”.
Happened to see the above photo of the Thames just below Benson Lock, Oxfordshire. My mind at once returned to the summer of 1971, when I was there, aged 14, rowing my inflatable yellow neoprene boat downstream.
53 years ago. Over half a century. Does not seem possible, in a sense.
At least that little corner of England has not yet been trashed, or built upon.
More tweets seen
So the Ukrainian parliament just passed for further proceeding a law that would de facto legalize corruption under the guise of fighting corruption. And this came from Zelenskyyâs support party. This is beyond absurd. Should this become law expect an exodus of Western⌠https://t.co/OHz6MiJLMZ
“Ukraine” (Kiev regime)— a shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy” that values civil rights etc.
Moscow does not rule out deploying nuclear missiles in response to the deployment of long-range US missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters:https://t.co/U3h6IiWbv7pic.twitter.com/drRDoD671m
Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russiaâs Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/8OqWFq5YxV
Behind Donald Trump, entirely different forces are at play. He represents an alternative to Biden and globalisation, diverging significantly from the policies of both Democratic and Republican forerunners.
I often worry that I may be too old to take a leading part in the national revolution by the time it happens, at least to take an active leading part; I am already 67 (68 in September). Damn.
I can understand some people often make a steeple with their hands but this is simply an unnatural thing to do, especially when sitting down. This is no real IT 'outage', the prep is being done for more lockdowns.
— cognitivedissonanceeverywhere (@Vercovicium) July 19, 2024
Elon Musk has evidently had a very different experience of living in the USA than I ever did…
One of my favourite buildings. Beauty in public buildings shouldnât be a nice to have extra but a core part of their function. https://t.co/KctTLbBOxr
Mirabile dictu! Former-MP and Israel-puppet Largan has said something with which I can agree.
I have noted in the past on the blog the inadequacy of so many post-1945 public buildings in the UK, for example the court buildings in both London and the provinces. Some are OK, or even impressive, but more are not. Compare them to most of the American court buildings, such as the Federal court building in Trenton, New Jersey, where I was, several times, over 30 years ago:
So ugly, one is prompted to speculate, “Britischer Architekt?” Still, quite large and impressive at least.
I see that that 1980s building is named after a former Governor of the state, who was also at one time Chief Justice of New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hughes_Justice_Complex#Dedication. I was very slightly acquainted with one of his sons, who himself became a Federal magistrate in 1991, a year or two after I was introduced to him; I met him again, en passant, a few times, in the years 1989-1991: https://www.pli.edu/faculty/hon.-john-j.-hughes-i1305491. He was all right, but not the most social person in the world, to be frank. Not sure that I would have liked to have been a defendant in his court…
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last https://t.co/hoGQ84EsYt
Well, amazing. A second tweet of Largan that I like. Two in one day. Amazing.
If those poetic lines are original, from Largan himself, then he has a poetic sophistication, though not unflawed, at which I should not have guessed, to be frank.
Huge crowds marching to the GardaĂ station in Collock.
— Tommy Robinson đŹđ§ (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Cheers from the Irish tonight as the building that was to be used to house unvetted migrant men in Coolock catches fire again đ¤ˇđťââď¸ bloody climate change eh? pic.twitter.com/KR8ikRXqTW
— Tommy Robinson đŹđ§ (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 19, 2024
Surprise surprise. When it comes to claims linking a ban on puberty blockers to increased suicide Jolyon Maugham & other activist lawyers have been talking total bollocks https://t.co/iLQhUifqzV
Even if that were not so, the ban is obviously the right thing to do, whatever the collateral damage.
"While the British Tories have lost their way, failing to grasp how the tectonic plates of politics are on the move, Team Trump have doubled down on and expanded the post-2016 political realignment"https://t.co/V5XZ2cc81p
The United States may stop providing aid to Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a fireside chat at the 2024 Aspen Security Forum:https://t.co/G9NOsXzQz7pic.twitter.com/6WxrHJBRVm
After Trump’s courageous immediate response to the attempted assassination, his stock among the American voters must surely rise.
I just landed and missed an assignation attempt. Holy shit. What a bad ass reaction from Trump. The election is over. He's the next president. The Dems should give up. They can't beat him now. pic.twitter.com/omtbue191d
This must surely seal the Presidential race for Trump, even if the Democrats replace Biden with someone compos mentis.
Having said that, were Biden to be replaced by someone such as Michelle Obama, popular —God knows why— among the non-whites who are now the majority of the American population, it is possible that Trump might lose, I suppose, but that really might see an actual civil war develop.
Have we just seen and heard, in those popping shots at the Trump rally, the first shots of the second American Civil War, akin to the shot fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina in 1861, or even that fired by the cruiser Aurora in 1917?
Is anything Liz Truss may think even worth reporting? Her rise to prominence, then —briefly— power came as a result of peculiar and particular political circumstances; and, after all, she only became an MP in the first place on her back.
Were her crazy idea about pension age ever to be implemented, it would cause an electoral, and perhaps actual, rebellion that would make the rise of Reform UK look like the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.
More music
[Loon Lake, Oregon]
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David Lammy is quite simply not up to the job. Foreign Secretary is one of the great offices of state. It is vital that all language used is accurate, moderate, and coherent.
— Juanita Fogarty âď¸đđşđŚ (@wheatnotincl) July 14, 2024
Thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire” Lammy is not only a barrister and a member of Lincoln’s Inn (as I was from 1986 until my wrongful and unlawful disbarment in 2016, when I was automatically expelled) but I think now even a Bencher there. He is welcome there; I am not. Could one imagine a more absurd example of where our society has gone wrong?
As Matt Goodwin has predicted, the Starmer-Labour government will crash and burn very quickly. It has no real mandate anyway, despite its Commons majority. Only 33.7% of the popular vote. People wanted rid of the fake “Conservatives”, that’s all. Few really wanted Starmer-Labour. Don’t forget that Sunak’s “Conservatives” also had a large Commons majority.
How is it that a Zionist Jew such as Aaronovitch can post that, and nothing happens, but a comment or cartoon about Jewish behaviour, allegedly posted by an English blogger, causes the suborned UK police and/or CPS to go mad?
Oh…
I refer readers to the posts re. my free speech trial of 2023.
After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, like after Robert Fico in Slovakia, a not insignificant chunk of the legacy media class has become a joke. Do journalists see this? Do they understand how they have eroded public trust? Why don't they ever talk about it? pic.twitter.com/GugzeNQGZY
Compare and contrast Donald Trump's strength and courage after an assassination attempt to Joe Biden's fumbling and bumbling performance as president. That's what millions of Americans will be doing right now.
Of course, both Biden and Trump kow-tow to the Israel lobby, but at least Trump would or will avoid war with Russia and, I hope, take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
MOST READ #2 this week. The realignment is OVER. 10 KEY messages from the 2024 electionhttps://t.co/hjoHoqJtxM
The Labour hegemony in the younger age-groups (highest in the 25-34 age-group— 46%) will not last. The wider 18-44 group —where Labour support was, at GE 2024, over 40%— will soon defect or fall away when Labour fails to improve the housing crisis, or improve the poor deal renters get in the UK, among other issues.
Farage
I see that the little world of UK Twitter/X is going mad because Farage is going to visit Trump. According to those Twitter-twits, Farage is neglecting his duties as MP and, in particular, neglecting the constituents of Clacton by briefly going to the USA. They obviously have no idea that a great many MPs either do nothing at all for their (notional) constituents, or send pro-forma letters back to them, explaining why they can do little or nothing. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions to the general rule of uselessness.
Late tweets
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who recently survived an assassination attempt, about the attack on Trump:
"The script is like a copy. Trump's political opponents are trying to shut him down, and when they fail they just incite society until some poor guy takes up arms." pic.twitter.com/uzWfigmq81
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
I think so. Of course, it is a gamble, but one at reasonable odds.
Trump announced that he will go as planned to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee pic.twitter.com/i27MYlJk0M
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Meanwhile, poor old Biden has decided to cancel his engagement tomorrow in Texas…
American culture has begun to bring the topic of the assassination attempt on Trump to the masses pic.twitter.com/jeTX1ejMTM
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Trump intends to raise $1 million for the family of the slain firefighter Donald Trump's organizational team has launched a "GoFundMe " campaign that will serve to collect donations to support the victims of the shooting in Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/qFd4nb0mIl
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) July 14, 2024
Russia and the USA are in a phase of deep confrontation, for now there are no preconditions for getting out of it, said Dmitry Peskov. " One day, that time will come ," said Peskov, adding that more and more countries in the world do not want to choose between the West and⌠pic.twitter.com/6AGUBdIyQ4
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) July 14, 2024
Following Iran's attack on Israel last Saturday, Israelis began receiving calls allegedly from representatives of the Israeli army asking for donations to purchase missiles for the Iron Dome. Allegedly, the army was very wasted in repelling the attack and now they need the help⌠pic.twitter.com/pmTQq7vRla
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 16, 2024
MATT GOODWIN: Police shutting down a Conservatism conference in the heart of the EU was a tactic straight out of the Soviet playbookhttps://t.co/WdkFUvqONu
True, but I do not recall Matt Goodwin complaining at any time over the past years when the Jewish lobby (which he seems to support 100%) has had closed down meetings, speeches, conferences, even musical entertainments; not to mention “their” continual harassment of various people, including me.
Turkish President Erdogan is now speaking menacingly and powerfully in the Turkish parliament to stormy applause:
Our lives have been spent in the struggle for Palestine, and our lives have found meaning in the cause of Palestine! pic.twitter.com/UNzAccbQ61
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Former British Ambassador to Tehran: It was natural for Iran to react to the attack on its consulate.
It is not in Britain's interests to interfere in such an issue. We should not have interfered in the conflict between Iran and Israel.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Ukrainians view the West's promises to support Kiev "as long as necessary" as an empty story, Politiko writes.
" Due to the weakening of Western support, Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage not only of weapons and men, but also of the fighting spirit of the soldiers.⌠pic.twitter.com/0n568hdjRu
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
“Ukrainians view the West’s promises to support Kiev “as long as necessary” as an empty story, Politiko writes. ” Due to the weakening of Western support, Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage not only of weapons and men, but also of the fighting spirit of the soldiers. Neither the population, nor the soldiers, nor their leadership anymore believe in the victory of Kiev. Russian leader Vladimir Putin may never have been closer to his goal “, the paper writes.”
The Western states may supply arms and ammunition but cannot supply fighting soldiers. The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, and new recruits. It can only be a matter of time before there is a general advance of Russian forces across both Eastern Ukraine and the Black Sea littoral towards Odessa.
“A barrister who was jailed for asking clients to sell him drugs has failed in a bid to overturn his 14-month prison sentence.
Henry Hendron, 42, sent messages asking for help with drugs supply, after meeting the men through his work as a criminal lawyer.
Delivering the ruling, Recorder of Sheffield Judge Jeremy Richardson, sitting with Lord Justice William Davis and Mr Justice Calver, said Hendronâs case is âuniqueâ and added: âIt is to be hoped that remains the case.â
Dismissing the appeal, the judges concluded: âThe sentence here is not excessive, still less manifestly excessive in all the circumstances.â
Hendron had built up a profile as a barrister to the stars, with prominent clients including the Earl of Cardigan and Tory MP Nadine Dorries.
But Hendronâs career floundered after his 18-year-old boyfriend Miguel Jimenez was found dead at the flat the couple shared in Pump Court, Temple, in the City of London, after taking a lethal cocktail of so-called chemsex party drugs.
He admitted buying ÂŁ1,000 worth of M-cat or Meow Meow and GBL from award-winning former BBC producer Alex Parkin and was handed a community order with 140 hours of unpaid work at the Old Bailey in 2016.
The Court of Appeal noted that Hendron had not been disbarred after that conviction, noting âunusual and very seriousâ feature of his case.
He was suspended by the Bar Standards Board for three years following his 2016 convictions.
He was reprimanded and prohibited from undertaking public access work for two years following a disciplinary hearing in 2021 after holding himself out as a barrister on websites while suspended.“
In that blog post, I speculated as to whether Hendron knew something discreditable about senior figures or, perhaps, was being treated leniently by reason of some other kind. I am still none the wiser on that, however.
It seems, on the face of that Evening Standard report, though, that Hendron is still not disbarred. Curiouser and curiouser.
Elon Musk has enormous amounts of money, but when it comes to society and politics, he simply howls into the void like many another on Twitter.
In order to have real impact, an “uber-wealthy” person of that sort has to engage directly, either by funding people and projects (Bill Gates), or by himself becoming a kind of political figure (Donald Trump).
đŹđ§âWhat started with Brexit is slowly, but inevitably, going to morph into a second big rebellion against the establishment on this specific issue of migration. This is the dividing line in British politics in the years ahead,â @GoodwinMJ says at @NatConTalk 2024 pic.twitter.com/eD8IAoAZza
"My friend grew up in New England where they have pigeons. Apparently they also hate them. He was always saying bad things about pigeons until I pointed something out that he never thought of before:
We domesticated pigeons. They are (nearly) all over the world because HUMANS⌠pic.twitter.com/sMlZEJtFwA
“My friend grew up in New England where they have pigeons. Apparently they also hate them. He was always saying bad things about pigeons until I pointed something out that he never thought of before: We domesticated pigeons. They are (nearly) all over the world because HUMANS BROUGHT THEM THERE. And, they were more than pets. They carried messages. People raced them. They lived spoiled lives as honored human companions for centuries. Then we got telephones and we threw them out like trash. Literally, we threw them away. Their species had already been fully domesticated and they could not survive in the wild; they lost all their survival instincts during the centuries that they lived caged by people. That is why they live in cities with people instead of in a forest somewhere. It’s OUR fault. And not only did we throw them away, but now humans curse them as “winged rats;” casting them as pests. But they don’t know how to live without us, and their instincts tell us that they should trust us. So, they continue to come up to humans and beg for food, because it’s the only survival skill left in their genes. They love us because they were bred by us to feel that way, and yet we hate them.”
Good points. Urban pigeons can be a nuisance, true, but they also clear up rubbish people throw away or drop in the streets, like crisps and chips. In the end, they are God’s creatures.
Late tweets
Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal asked the West for air defense âto protect Russian citiesâ:
âWe need artillery and ammunition to reach parity with the Russians, we need F-16s to shoot down Russian planes near the front line, we also need air defense systems to protect Russian⌠pic.twitter.com/M6dyXJ0D2n
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
“Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal asked the West for air defense âto protect Russian citiesâ: âWe need artillery and ammunition to reach parity with the Russians, we need F-16s to shoot down Russian planes near the front line, we also need air defense systems to protect Russian cities…
Sorry, Ukrainian cities where civilians live and where enterprises are located that are under threat from the Russian side. All of this will help us achieve victory, and will also set the stage for recovery, growth and prosperity.”
Freudian slip.
Let's end the day with two problematic polls for Biden:
Michigan: Trump increases gap by 6% (42 vs. 36 for Biden)
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Uncharted waters. Trump is on trial on serious Federal charges, yet seems likely to win the 2024 Election. I suppose that, if elected, and also convicted, he can pardon himself! Not a mere jest; it is a long time since I passed an exam in U.S. Constitutional Law (1991 or 1992), and that topic was not on the paper (needless to add), but I think that there would be nothing to prevent Trump at least purporting to pardon himself (and/or those involved in the events at the Capitol several years ago).
This is California, USA.
Areas of California that were once one of the most beautiful places in the world have now become a living hell due to the right-wing policies of neoliberal capitalism. pic.twitter.com/SD7PL54eGj
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 17, 2024
Ian Robert Millard 