Well, I did much better than political journalist John Rentoul this week— 7/10 as against his claimed “4 and a half out of 10” (not sure how he managed to give himself a half-point for no.7; still, there it is). I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 9; I might have got no. 3 had I thought about it (but did not, because I jumped at Francesca di Rimini which was composed a couple of years earlier).
Tweets seen
❗️ Russia poses no threat to the UK: neither in its waters, airspace, nor streets & certainly not to Britain's long-suffering NHS.
We have no need to do so. It is the UK government that needs these fabrications to avoid dealing with the country’s real social & economic problems.… pic.twitter.com/elmTGLwXZo
Right to praise WW2 fighter pilots, wrong to attack the young. My father had enormous sympathy for depression etc and never criticised his children for weaknesses or just being young & silly. He never got the chance to be really silly during a war.https://t.co/PEp4bUYSIs
Unpleasant Jew “restaurant critic” (what a silly job) talks about “our” (i.e. British) “Battle of Britain bravery“. He, of course, has never served in any armed force; neither have any of his family (not in this country, anyway; I suppose that it is possible that he has relatives serving in the Israeli forces).
I was unable to read the full article, by reason of the paywall; why would anyone pay to read that sort of ignorant rubbish?
Worth watching Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff accusing Keir Starmer of being simplistic, posturing and posing. Adds Starmer suffers from a notion of needing to be like Winston Churchill with Russia threatening to march across Europe, a scenario Witkoff describes as preposterous.… https://t.co/HQ543WvtGG
Roughly what the “cut” in welfare spending looks like: blue before; red after; rising from £74.9bn to £95.7bn instead of £100.7bn https://t.co/zoWtLPfhK8 Table 5.10 memo line: health and disability benefits pic.twitter.com/DbQZ2OdKqc
Rentoul, as usual, supporting pseudo-“moderate”/”centrist” Labour-label. Making out that the spending cuts are not really cuts at all. Tell that to people who will now be deprived of much or all of their income because of this Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment (Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and, of course, Starmer-stein himself).
Others may get more, yes, and more will be spent on keeping alive, sheltered, and fed, useless and hostile migrant-invaders by the million. British people needing help will, in many cases, not get that help, or much of it.
The Israeli Air Force has been carrying out large-scale airstrikes on cities and towns in southern Lebanon for several hours now pic.twitter.com/nnf70XiUtZ
At least 130 Palestinians have been killed and 263 wounded in the last 48 hours during Israeli attacks on Gaza, the enclave's Health Ministry said pic.twitter.com/74TzAfjIIz
Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, admitted that the majority of residents of Donbass and Crimea have expressed a desire to join Russia.
In a new interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff called the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the Zaporizhia and Kherson… pic.twitter.com/Vf29BukKBP
This tribunal ruling in favour of Peter Wilkins reveals just how aggressively gender-critical scientists are silenced. His experience at Porton Down—branded a "security risk" for believing in biology—is shocking but increasingly familiar. Time to restore reason to science. pic.twitter.com/j8TA4qx42J
You would think Porton Down, a govt. facility specialising in biological weapons research, would understand sex. But no. Peter Wilkins, a "scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins legal battle". https://t.co/GhZeF05JHfpic.twitter.com/uPUbbLASkD
Paul Kealey, Head of Counterterrorism at Porton Down told Wilkins that while staff were permitted to hold gender-critical beliefs, it was “not OK to express such views in the workplace” 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/kXiOFNKb3X
Let me give an example. Mark Lewis ticked the box to say his client had complied with the pre-action protocol. Here is his email after he was instructed where he basically refuses to comply with the pre-action protocol.
Another scandal that govts of all colours have lacked courage to tackle. Council tax is outdated, regressive, and grossly unfair to those living in poorer regions and in cheaper properties.
There it is. Disgraced sex-pest Jew ex-MP praises a woman, Jewish again, who wants Russia and Russia people beaten and humiliated. One would imagine that Newmark would shut up and keep his head down, but that is not “their” way…
Incidentally, quite a few years ago, that tweeter was some kind of office manager for her then husband, a “Conservative” MP, her no-doubt generous salary paid for out of his MP expenses. Well, they are now no longer married, and he is no longer an MP. She appears to have set up some “organization” (possibly consisting only of herself) called “the Moderates”, which seems to lie politically between the LibDems and the David Cameron-Levita Conservative Party “compassionate Conservatism” scam of 2010-2015.
Only just beat political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored “5 and a half“, he says, while I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 7, and 10. In fact, I had read about no.7 a while ago but forgot about it, and also should really have guessed no.10.
The destruction of beauty, and the creeping growth of housing
Earlier this week, I blogged about the horrible destruction of trees in Armada Way, Plymouth by a corrupt local council. Now, while reading a report about the recent suicide of a headmistress of a school attended by me 60 years ago, I saw something equally unpleasant about Emmer Green, just north of Reading.
Northwest and north of Reading, across the Thames, there are two basically suburban areas abutting the open woods and fields of Oxfordshire: Caversham Heights (where I lived at times as a child) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Heights], and Emmer Green [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer_Green]. About two or three miles of more or less open country separates the two. Within that couple of miles there was, inter alia, a golf course, Reading Golf Club, which in the 1960s and 1970s was the only golf course on that side of the Thames and that close to Reading.
I myself was a junior member of Reading Golf Club for a year or so around 1972, when I was 15-16. My golfing equipment was old and rudimentary, given to me by family friends, I think: one or two woods (drivers), an oddly-short no.3 iron, an ancient and wood-shafted mashie niblick (no.7 iron)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_golf_clubs#20th_century_wood-shafted_irons], and a putter (also wood-shafted). Out of date even then.
That golf course was rather beautiful, I thought, with plenty of majestic trees framing the fairways of the 18 holes, and even a very small valley, from which one drove from the tee on one side to the hole on the other. A very unusual par as well— 2 par, if I recall aright.
That hole must have been some kind of anomaly, because 3-par is the lowest par usually designated: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score). Maybe I just remembered wrongly, and it was 3-par; no matter.
I managed (by luck, really) to get a hole-in-one on that, though it hardly counts, arguably, not being a more typical sort of hole.
Be that as it may, I was discomfited to read yesterday that not only has that golf course now closed (and been subsumed, as a club, into a new golf club with a course a few miles away) but the area of the old course has been designated for housing— 223 new houses. There is strong local opposition from nearby residents calling their protest group Keep Emmer Green: https://www.keepemmergreen.org/.
[the old Reading Golf Club, Emmer Green, more or less as I remember it]
We see this all the time now, especially in southern England: “infilling” of green areas around or in towns and cities, usually so that housing can be built for profit. Mass immigration, births to existing UK residents, the collapse of the traditional family. Overall result— pressure to build more housing.
In the end, will there actually be an England worth saving or defending? A question members of the armed forces, and the intelligence and security services, might pose to themselves in a lucid moment.
Incidentally, since the early 1970s, I have rarely played golf, and own no golf clubs (both my younger brothers are keen players, though).
“Covid” “panicdemic” nonsense, migration-invasion nonsense (fake “refugees” put up in hotels etc), general “Ukraine” nonsense (arms, ammunition, medical supplies, and hard cash, all being funnelled to the corrupt and dictatorial regime of the Jew Zelensky). Etc.
NEW Pre-Budget Westminster Voting Intention.
LAB 48% (+3) CON 32% (+3) LD 8% (-2) GRE 2% (-1) SNP 3% (nc) REF 3% (-1) Others 5% (-1)
Prediction of the result of a general election not due to be held for possibly 20 months is a fool’s game, of course, but at present it certainly looks like a shoo-in for Labour, and most policy announced by the “Conservatives” seems to play into Labour’s hands despite Labour itself being so lacklustre.
Seems to be useful public health advice. I myself have no liver problem, but am posting those tweets as a general warning to anyone who, or who knows someone who, is in that situation.
Wow! What a nice little earner. £71,410 per annum to sit at home tweeting (playing) whilst publishing the odd blog. Money for nothing really?! Kudos to Craig for publishing the amount his grift garners, though. Unlike Jack Monroe. https://t.co/WObazrfOuO
Better pay than being “His Excellency” the Ambassador to [somewhere]. While a few British ambassadors get nearly £150,000, most are below £100,000, and some receive as little as £60,000, though they do get reasonably-nice, sometimes very nice, ambassadorial residences, and there are a number of perks. Also, diplomatic immunity. I should have appreciated that a few times myself, when working overseas. Very convenient.
I believe that Murray was appointed to Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 2002.
Murray seems to be someone highly principled (according to his own lights), and a bit awkward, like one or two Quakers I encountered several decades ago. The Diplomatic Service was almost certainly the wrong career for him.
Labour never polled in local elections as high as its GE opinion polls even in the Blair era (if it gets 40%+ in May I will be impressed), but the year's seat gain trends are pretty clear https://t.co/xOBPSEavEB
Your going back to 2022 try looking at the last few weeks . It looks like the greens or independents are taking the majority . If this continues labours lead isn't 20 points
We survived one of the most sophisticated psyops in the history of the world. pic.twitter.com/4LWbbbSUWB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 18, 2023
From where I sit, it appears Vladimir Putin is the one man standing between what’s left of a “free” world, and a totalitarian, tyrannical, murderous one-world government body.
Social security benefits in the US are on track to be reduced by 20%, which will hit the elderly and the vulnerable the hardest.
But there's always money for war. And there's always money for Zelensky.
Hopefully, by now, you can see that the people in power hate you.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
God… and most of those people have so little anyway, and amid such wealth. The USA in some ways is “the Great Satan“, as the Islamic crazies sometimes claim. Not in every way, but in some. I myself have experienced a little of both the more comfortable and less comfortable sides of American life. The USA needs radical reform.
So much for “Biden the great humanitarian”. Not that he has invented such hypocrisy— Clinton was there first.
Incidentally, the (typically labyrinthine) American bureaucracy pays out to people in need (those that can get it at all), a very modest amount, in many cases just a few hundred dollars a month: see https://en.as.com/en/2022/01/22/latest_news/1642820139_262174.html.
(that’s cash; other programmes exist in parallel, such as Medicare, Medicaid etc).
I get messages from young people daily thanking me for speaking out. No matter how much I get attacked, insulted, defamed, I will never be intimidated. Because this isn't about me – It's about the truth. They fear a great awakening, especially among the young. We won't back down.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
Of course, tweeting (or blogging, or vlogging, or writing articles, or even launching doomed public law claims) does not frighten MPs. What does? Well, I am not going to say anything, but think back over the past decade…
This was the House of Commons today during a debate about the harms caused by the mRNA gene therapies. I counted less than 20 MPs present out of a total of 650.
$128 billion in military aid to Ukraine (more than double the entire Russian budget) & their soldiers are using 19th Century gatling guns in the defence of Bakhmut. Astonishingly, or perhaps not, no western journalist has asked the obvious question…https://t.co/ebwY8oGbY9
Ukrainian troops using M113 and YPR-765. Footage allegedly from the Bakhmut region. Imagine that as a Russian cannon fodder soldier you have to run against this.
True. Brutal. However, it seems that some fighters on both sides might be termed “cannon-fodder“. In fact, we in the West, subjected to the usual msm lies and spin, are not getting the true measure of the Ukrainian/Kiev-regime losses. Massive.
#Ukranian soldiers asked Zelensky and Zaluzhny to return him. The Armed Forces also confirm Dome's statements in an interview with the Washington Post about sending untrained replacements to the army and about heavy losses in the brigade. Slavyangrad
In the interview with WP, he complained about lack of ammo on the front, fresh recruits being sent to the front without proper training, some even don't know how to shoot a weapon. After a year of war, the unit had roughly 100 KIA and 400 WIA.https://t.co/5jevIm2XSf
A maverick officer, too honest for his notional superiors. Every army has a few. General Lebed, a Soviet and, later, Russian Army commander, was like that. He would have made a good President of the Russian Federation but, like others before him and since, he died in an apparent “accident” (in his case, a helicopter crash). Maybe it was an accident. Maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed#Political_views.
Volunteer Mykhailo Storoznuk evacuates animals from the most dangerous frontline regions, including Bakhmut.
Volunteer Anastasia Tykha cares for them, treats their injuries and makes them feel safe.
There must be room for compassion and active help for the animals in war zones. None of them volunteered for this.
Late tweets seen
⚡️Ukrainian reinforcements reportedly in the Bakhmut direction.
Why?
The only military reason for it would be that the defensive lines after Bakhmut are not capable of holding back Z forces and thus are at risk of getting captured easier. pic.twitter.com/UI6YOLdp6o
I knew there was a strong correlation between attitudes/policies on Covid and Ukraine. Anybody can sense it even in intraparty debates within the libertarian and right-wing bubbles. But this is remarkable. https://t.co/Jfsmb6dCTe
A black man was arrested for allegedly spraying neo-Nazi, lynching & anti-gay graffiti on a black Atlanta church. James McIntyre was quickly released without bail. Some people online blamed white supremacy & white people for the hateful messages. #HateHoaxhttps://t.co/C1kufoP3Om
Of course, over the years quite a few Jews have actually been exposed and/or arrested for attacking Jewish graveyards, with the aim of inciting other Jews (via newspaper reports) to get excited about “antisemitism”, as well as the aim of goading the authorities to crack down on so-called “far right” (social-national) people or parties and groups, as well as repressing freedom of expression.
I have never understood why any social-national people would attack Jewish or any other graveyards. What is the aim? To kill dead Jews? Very strange.
What's even more Clown World is that Hitler never intended to harm UK
Germany only ever attacked as we declared war on them, attacked them & refused all peace offers
Ian Robert Millard 