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Diary Blog, 4 December 2025

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Is that to be, quite soon, the fate of our own present civilization?

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Genocide, Israel is your name“…

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[defendant, ludicrously described by a Lincolnshire newspaper as a “Stamford man“…]

Well said.

I assessed that careerist little blot, Darren Jones, on a previous blog post. As the Germans say, “put a beggar on a horse and he rides it to death“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Jones.

Married to a “grifting” businesswoman, one Lucy Symons-Jones.

Are there any honest MPs or MP-spouses? Maybe, maybe not.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_(song)]

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Brave girl.

The enemies of humanity may get their punishment sooner than they imagine.

Kim Leadbeater is a dim lesbian ex-PE teacher who is only an MP because she got sympathy votes after her sister, Jo Cox, was assassinated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Leadbeater.

She will lose her seat at the next election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spen_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Translates to a Commons with 348 Reform UK MPs (a solid majority), Labour 127, 53 LibDems, 42 SNP, 38 Cons, 6 Greens, 5 Plaid [etc].

So Labour seeming to recover slightly compared to other recent opinion polls (surprisingly), Greens therefore slipping quite a lot, and Cons still standing (just) with about a third of the MPs they have at present.

May be accurate, may not be. Even 1 point more for Reform, and 1 point less for both Lab and Con, would give Reform another 30 MPs, and slash the Con and Lab numbers accordingly.

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Well, a rather different polling result. Greens on 18%?! Can that be right? Who knows, these days?

This one translates to a Commons with about 400 Reform UK MPs, a tremendous result for Farage (if it happens); Greens 58 (making the Green Party the official Opposition); LibDems 48; SNP 44; Cons 39; Labour 25…[etc].

I may be wrong, but that poll seems to me, if anything, more plausible than the earlier one featured today, despite this second poll being quite “off the wall”.

Quite right. Idiots such as Nadine Dorries should be cold-shouldered by Reform UK.

Once the System parties are crushed, Reform can fail and fall, leaving the way open for social nationalism.

[“This is not a trope. This is important information on how the the speech I gave in Leeds this August ended up being unlawfully used as a reason for my arrest today. The Leeds jewish representative council, CAA, CST, JLC and other pro-‘israel’ lobby groups and individuals worked together to make it happen. This is how: They had initially hauled in the: deputy mayor, councillor, MP and Chief constable to have the rally banned or to have us arrested. When this failed, they released a statement demanding a meeting with all the above (attached below). The Jewish Chronicle reported on this coordination and showed how the police did not have an issue with my speech or believe there was any reason to arrest me (initially and for 4 months after): • ‘West Yorkshire Police have said that no offences were committed at the ‘Northerners demo for Palestine’, which took place on Saturday. • The Community Security Trust and Jewish Council: Jewish security group CST told the JC, however, that in its view Aladwan gave an “antisemitic and extreme speech” at the rally. • Pro-‘israel’ jewish Simon Myerson KC, the chair of Leeds Jewish Rep Council: ‘Criticised the police for rejecting a full investigation and “dismissing the possibility of offences.’ ‘Myerson criticised the police response to the speeches. He said: “I was surprised to read the police statement. I have seen and studied the videos. In describing Zionism as ‘Jewish supremacy’, saying Western governments are occupied by Zionism (therefore by Jewish supremacy) and calling for armed resistance, it seems to me that the offences of putting people in fear of violence, harassment and encouragement of terrorism are all worthy of serious consideration. (Critical fabrication: *There was no call for armed resistance*) Myerson: “That would demand a full police investigation. By dismissing the possibility of offences on the say so of an unnamed ‘senior investigating officer’ that investigation is bought to a juddering halt. “I am also mindful of the fact that the police, having refused to act to prevent these speakers making these racist remarks, are now marking their own homework. Any arrest would be bound to raise the question of why this was allowed to happen when the police were warned about it. The obvious conflict is so apparent that I am surprised that West Yorkshire did not ask a different force to take over this investigation. “I am meeting the police on Tuesday morning and I will see if I can get any response to any of these questions then.”’ • Campaign Against ‘Antisemitism’: A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “Dr Rahmeh Aladwan’s reported rants about Zionism being a form of ‘Jewish supremacy’ and a quarter of MPs being funded by the ‘Israel lobby’ bring the medical profession into disrepute. • The Jewish Leadership Council: Leo Brosh, the JLC’s Yorkshire Regional Manager, said: “On Saturday, two NHS doctors spoke at a demonstration in Leeds City Centre. In the speeches, Jewish schools were singled out and conspiracy theories about our community were amplified. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan also called for the destruction of the state of Israel through armed resistance. These remarks must be taken seriously by West Yorkshire Police and the GMC should finally step up and protect Jewish patients.” – Have a read of the attached post below for more information on the coordination. It took 4 months, but they finally got the arrest they demanded. Free Palestine. Free Britain.“]

[“This morning at 7AM, 10 police officers stormed my house to search the property and arrest me for a speech and X posts – again. This is the second arrest in less than 2 months. The order was from the London Met Police – they travelled to a different city to arrest me – again. I was questioned on X posts mentioning: – jewish supremacy & jewish supremacists – ‘israel’ – ‘israelis’ and ‘israeli’ jews – and their feelings. – Melanie Phillips, the Chief Rabbi: Eprahim Mirvis, Wes Streeting, the General Medical Council (GMC), Emily Schrader – and their feelings regarding my posts responding to them. – Armed resistance (Palestinian) and Oct 7. – The Thawabet (principles of Palestinian liberation) – The Palestinian Naional Charter (1968) – The repatriation of jewish settlers from Palestine One of the posts was my response to Emily Schrader saying ‘FAFO’ with a picture of the martyred Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi. I began crying when I saw his picture and the interview had to be stopped for 10 minutes. I was held for over 7 hours and released on bail conditions (pre-charge): – Not to publish, post, or communicate material or statements that incite hatred, discrimination, or harassment against any individual or group based on race, religion or ethnicity. I told the officer that I do not agree that I have done any of the above and therefore do not know what I am signing for. I was told: ‘ Posts on jewish supremacism’. I do not believe any of the above has much to do with Britain but the majority of the interview was centred on ‘israel’ and ‘israelis’ including their feelings, their entity, and their future. Just to reiterate: I am a British citizen. I am an NHS doctor with 0 patient complaints or clinical errors who has just been suspended for 15 months after a 2 year campaign by the pro-‘israel’ lobby. I am part-Palestinian. I have just witnessed the mass murder of my people by the ‘jewish state’/’israel’ and the IOF – using my tax pounds. I have never incited violence or harm. I have criticised a foreign entity, individuals who identify with and/or support this foreign entity and the genocide it is committing, and the system of oppression underpinning the 100+ years of dispossession, murder, violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Palestinians are enduring. Our freedom of speech and expression, our freedom of assembly and our civil liberties in Britain are under attack. Free Palestine. Free Britain.”]

Yet more Israeli war crimes.

…and just who, which group, is behind most of that, Katie Hopkins? Yes, the “you-know-who” (((group))), which controls Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.

Ecce the “free” “democratic” Kiev-regime “Ukrainian” (Jew-Zionist) failed state, which bans trade unions, bans dissident political voices, shoots dissidents too, is totally shambolic and corrupt, and which abducts men off the street to be brutally forced onto the crumbling front lines of a lost war.

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[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia]

Diary Blog, New Year’s Eve 2024

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[Early 1940s: French girlfriend of an Untersturmfuhrer (2nd lieutenant) of SS-Totenkopf, wearing his uniform tunic and cap, presumably as a joke, and to have her photograph taken]

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/30/russia-ukraine-swap-prisoners-exchange-deal

Russia and Ukraine swap at least 300 prisoners in exchange deal. Some of the freed Ukrainians had been held since war’s early days, while Russians were captured in Ukraine’s Kursk offensive.”

I am sure that they are all happy to go home. Incidentally, I notice that the Ukrainian prisoners shown in the photo —released by the Kiev-regime side— look well; not just happy but also in good health. It rather gives the lie to the stories, put about by the Zelensky regime, that Ukrainian POWs are being starved, brutalized etc by the Russians.

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The latter tweeter, a propagandist for Israel and the Jewish-Zionist lobby [https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/alex-hearn-claims-to-oppose-antisemitism-but-undermines-the-fight-against-it/] says that “antisemitism” is a crime, which is not the case in England and Wales (or the rest of the UK). That has been re-iterated on several occasions by judges at both magistrates’ court and Crown Court level. Incidentally, the same is true of so-called “holocaust” “denial” (historical revision or revisionism re. some events of the early/mid 1940s).

I have no idea what Dutch law may say about that, though Jewish influence has always been pervasive in the Netherlands, a result no doubt of the country’s history of banking and commerce.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14236783/Saudi-Arabias-NEOM-suicide-rape-murder-report-claims.html

A report has claimed that migrant camps built to house construction workers building Saudi Arabia‘s $1trillion NEOM megacity are ‘plagued by gang rape, attempted murder and suicides’.

More than 100,000 workers, mainly from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, live in the nightmarish camps where crime and drug use allegedly run rife.

If you took away the unmerited unearned riches the Gulf Arabs have had from the oil and gas found, developed, and refined by Europeans (including European-origined Americans), they would be back riding camels and living in tents. Men of straw.

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The destruction wrought by Israeli forces in Gaza can truly be called “Biblical” in both scale and intent, as when the tribes mentioned in the Old Testament fought genocidal wars.

It is idle for Jew-Zionist lawyers (ludicrously, often those who pose as “human rights” specialists) to say that, because of X, Y, and Z, the Jewish/Israeli destruction and continuing slaughter in Gaza (for nearly 15 months now) is notgenocide” for various hair-splitting reasons. What has happened, what is still happening, speaks for itself.

Look at what has happened all around Israel/Palestine for years, for decades. “They” always bring degeneration and destruction to others.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Sowande]

Played today on Radio 3. The BBC presenter made an apparent error, saying that the composer served in the RAF during the Second World War. If Wikipedia is to be believed (and its version does seem far more credible), Sowande in fact worked at that time as musical adviser and composer in the Colonial Film Unit of the Ministry of Information in London, as well as giving talks on the BBC Africa Service.

Not bad. Showing, at least in my view, the influence of several British composers, including Vaughan Williams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novooleksandrivka,_Kramatorsk_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast

Every day, more of the same. The names of the villages mean little to most people, even in the former Soviet Union, but the upshot is that, every single day, Russian forces advance by a few miles, as the Kiev-regime forces fall back.

On that front, once the Russian forces, pushing north, get close to Kharkov, the Kiev-regime forces will be squeezed from at least two sides. Eventually, Kharkov must fall.

Once Kharkov falls, the whole of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper) will fall to Russian control.

Incidentally, though Kharkov itself is not very well-known to the Western public, it is the second-largest city in Ukraine, and the 19th-largest in Europe (by population).

[Kharkov]

Indeed, 4 of the 10 largest cities in geographic Europe are located in the former Soviet Union (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Baku). Minsk is ranked as no.11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_population_within_city_limits.

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The present Attorney-General is a Jew. Does that mean that he will be rubberstamping more politically-motivated anti-free-speech trials? Possibly. Watch this space…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hermer,_Baron_Hermer#Early_life,_family_and_education

Toby Young (etc) never stood up for my rights of free speech, nor those of Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, and other martyrs. Still, his point is still valid.

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

What a horrible, limited mentality so many of such pro-multikulti, “woke”, anti-British persons have…they hate us, so we are not only entitled, but duty-bound, to hate them…

Look at that. Total Jewish/Zionist ethnic supremacism. There you see the real rulers of Kiev-regime Ukraine. For now.

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It may seem trivial to be concerned about this very typical 2024 story, but it says something about the decline of Britain over, particularly, the past 20 years, as does the decline of that once-proud chocolate brand, Cadbury’s (now “Cadbury”), bought by a basically Jewish American company (Kraft), then trashed, its production moved to Eastern Europe and Asia, the British factories closed, the British workers sacked, the tradition and pride gone. “Cadbury” is now part of a global brand-owner called Mondelez.

It all betokens a shrinking of horizons, a decline, a sell-out in every way.

Late thoughts on New Year’s Eve

[“Hold up, Guv’nor! 2025 is about to start, and Ian Millard’s still blogging!“]

More seriously

God knows what 2025 will bring to the world, to Europe, to Britain, and to each of us, but we must all keep in mind the necessity for continuing human evolution, and that requires an ethno-cultural and socio-political foundation for a society which, over time, can create the basis for an eventual quantum leap in evolution, a race and society far ahead of any presently in existence.

On that basis, I wish every well-intentioned reader of the blog a Happy New Year!

Diary Blog, 8 December 2022

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On this day a year ago

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Well, in view of the fact that, per head, and thanks to subsidies from England (in effect), Scotland’s population has about 20% more spent on it as compared to the population of England, that is unsurprising. Try keeping that level of service going when Scotland achieves its faux-“Independence” (if it ever does).

Seems as if at least one moneysaving expert has missed something in the past few months…

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Barack Obama is only half-“black”, but Meghan Markle, the “Royal Mulatta”, probably even less than half: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex#Early_life_and_education.

Get rid of the brainwashing, and the brainwashers.

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It is amazing, when one thinks of it, how much of that which we take for granted as the backdrop of our lives is actually relatively new in the world. After all, the American “Wild West” was in the 19th Century; the American Indian wars (effectively a genocide) around the 1870s. Only about 150 years ago.

Likewise, much of Africa, though partly known in outline to Europeans for hundreds of years, was only colonized and developed over the past 150 years or so, and some only over the past century or so.

Australia, as a European colonized development, only goes back a couple of hundred years or so. As for Antarctica, its very existence was unknown until a Russian ship spotted it in, I think, 1808.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

Radio— as a mass product, in the past century; TV— for most people, since the 1950s; Internet etc— for most people, since the mid-1990s, not even 30 years ago.

I personally do not have much confidence that our present form of civilization and/or society will last much longer. I am now 66, meaning that it is moot as to whether I myself shall be able to contribute directly to the creation of a new society (rather than merely inspiring “our unconquerable (ideological) children“) to create anew.

It may be, that it will only be possible to lay down the basis in this incarnation, akin to planting a seed, with the expectation that the seed will only germinate at a later period of history, when we shall reincarnate in order to carry through the project to a victorious conclusion. We may have to accept that.

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Reichsburger news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11516129/German-far-right-coup-plotters-wanted-EXECUTE-chancellor-Olaf-Scholz.html.

A small indication of what is coming.

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My country is not a country; it is the winter” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Pays].

Honour them.

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[Dresden, 1945, after Allied bombing and firestorm]

Diary Blog, 15 December 2021, including brief assessment of the North Shropshire by-election

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[The Lion, Forbury Gardens, Reading; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiwand_Lion]

Interesting travelogue

Lyrics unintentionally amusing in places…

Us and Them

A fairly hard-hitting video by Paul Joseph Watson, “@PrisonPlanet”. I do not rate Watson very highly from the strict political point of view, but his interesting vlogs have awoken many, at least from unquestioning acceptance of the propaganda pumped out by the System.

On this day a year ago

Another ghastly crime against a small child

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10310411/TWO-tragic-children-murdered-failed-system.html

This time, the crime involved crazed lesbians, one of which (the actual murderess) was from some (unspecified but looking at the photo probably Irish tinker-“traveller”) “gypsy” origin, according to the newspaper report.

Dismissed as ‘racist homophobes’, the great grandparents who tried to save Star Hobson: Toddler’s injuries were ignored FIVE TIMES by social services after gipsy lesbian stepmother ‘convinced them relatives who raised alarm were malicious’ [Daily Mail].

Is there more of this sort of terrible abuse now, as compared to, say, 1960, or 1930? I do not know. The breakdown of society, and social norms, may be part of the problem, but there is a dearth of reliable information.

The cost of the panicdemic/scamdemic “measures” and relief

Still think that the “Boris”/Sunak “furlough” giveaway, and other nonsense such as “Test and Trace”, has been cost-free to individual members of the public? Think again: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10310253/Ministers-consider-plans-raise-state-retirement-age-born-1970s-seven-years.html.

North Shropshire by-election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_North_Shropshire_by-election.

The by-election in North Shropshire is taking place tomorrow. I have not bothered to blog about it because the seat has until now been considered safe for the Conservative Party. I have just read an appreciation by a Professor Jennings: https://news.sky.com/story/north-shropshire-by-election-could-a-surprise-be-on-the-cards-12495468.

There are 14 candidates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_North_Shropshire_by-election#Candidates.

The Conservative candidate is one Dr. Neil Shastri-Hurst, who seems to be of mixed origins, and who is both a barrister and a medical doctor (former Army doctor): see https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-branded-callous-over-25530760. The election is plainly his to lose, given the history of the seat.

Conservative Party candidates have won every election for the seat since 1832 (the seat was not in existence between 1885 and 1983), and the Conservative Party vote peaked in 2019 at 62.7%.

Labour, though traditionally usually coming in in second place, came close to ousting the Conservative candidate in 1997; only about 4 points separated the top two that year.

In 2019, the Labour candidate received a vote-share of 22.1%, but the same candidate had scored 31.1% in 2017.

The Conservative Party vote-share has risen uninterruptedly since 1997, whereas the Labour vote has generally declined; the 2017 Labour vote-share was higher than in most years.

It follows that, should the “unthinkable” occur and Shastri-Hurst not be elected, the shock to the Conservative Party (and “Boris”) would be seismic.

Among the 14 candidates are Reclaim Party (the Laurence Fox vehicle), Reform UK (the latest Nigel Farage pop-up), the rump of UKIP, and Heritage, as well as Green Party and the LibDems, whose best result in effect (as Liberal Party) was a second-place 31.6% in 1983.

In the past, it was likely that serious tactical voters would go Labour rather than LibDem, Labour having the higher likelihood of success in the seat, but that is an open question this time. The bookmakers put the Conservatives and LibDems neck-and-neck, and it seems that confidence is not high in the “Boris” camp. Having said that, bookmakers are often a poor source for election predictions, their odds reflecting (mainly) bets placed, many of which are placed far from the constituency.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/13/bookies-make-lib-dems-favourite-in-north-shropshire-poll-owen-paterson-byelection.

Naturally, newspaper reports such as that, showing that the LibDems have a good chance, tend to encourage tactical voting.

As to how much the Conservative vote will be impacted by the smaller quasi-conservative parties such as Reform UK, Reclaim, UKIP and Heritage, hard to say but probably no more than 20% altogether. Still, that notional 20% could be crucial.

Turnout is forecast to be low, not least because many usually Conservative voters seem to despise “Boris” and his misgovernment, and so, unwilling to vote Labour or even LibDem, may simply abstain.

My assessment? I think that the LibDems must have a chance, anyway.

The usual Conservative vote may not turn out (though many will have voted by post already), the overall turnout may be low (favouring other parties), the majority of voters in such a seat will never vote for post-2010 Labour, and the four smaller baby-con parties will tap votes which would otherwise go Con.

The LibDems are not quite as zealous about Covid “restrictions” and “measures” (such as the facemask nonsense) as are the present Government and its Labour “enablers”. That may help the LibDems.

The Conservative candidate is non-white (apparently half-English) in a 95% white English constituency, though that may be of only peripheral importance, looking at non-white “Conservative” MPs elsewhere. I had never heard of him until today but, reading about him, he seems to be very much a “head over heart” person; the voters may not warm to him.

There again, many people just want to give both the “Boris” circus and the Labour “enablers” (who have just saved the Government’s bacon yet again) a good kick. That has to favour the LibDems. Still, fairly open even now.

It will be interesting to see how misnamed “Labour” does, too. About 31% in 2017, but only 22% in 2019 (both times under Corbyn). Now, under “Covid” zealot Starmer? If Labour cannot get at least 20%, it will be significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency).

[Update, 14 December 2022: well, the above analysis stood up pretty well: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_North_Shropshire_by-election. In the event, the LibDem won “a famous victory” (famous for 5 or perhaps 15 minutes) with 47.2% of the vote (2019, 10%). The Con Party candidate crashed and burned (31.6%, down from 62.7% in 2019). Labour came in third, with a mere 9.7% (down from 22.1% in 2019)].

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So to get a peerage now, if you cannot donate a million to a System political party, you have to do noteworthy things such as…set up a charity or “good cause” which closes after a year or two with all its monies “gone” under suspicious circumstances, then fail to become either an MP or Mayor of London, and then…oh. that’s it, except that it helps to be black or brown these days.

[Update, 1 February 2024: Well, he was indeed made into a “plastic peer”, in the 1922 Resignation Honours List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Bailey,_Baron_Bailey_of_Paddington].

It has been a little while since antifa cheerleader Mike Stuchbery mentioned me on Twitter. Well, one “good turn” deserves another! https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/.

At least Stuchbery has given up describing himself as “historian“. Now it is “journalist/content editor“…

A rigged contest between an incompetent government and the official opposition that is enabling most of that government’s dictatorial “Covid” laws and regulations.

I have blogged before about potential minority Labour governments which would depend on SNP support. Problem would be that the SNP would like another Independence referendum, or even actual Independence. The hypothetical minority Labour government could not of course grant the latter without a referendum. As to the former, the SNP would probably make the holding of such a referendum a sine qua non of any Commons support.

Were a Scottish Independence referendum to be held, and were the SNP to win a majority for breaking away from the UK, as soon as the break happened, there would be no SNP MPs at Westminster. That Labour government would then fall.

On the figures modelled, Labour could then govern with LibDem support, but recent elections have shown the Conservative Party far larger in the Commons than Labour. No SNP might mean no Labour government ever again. An interesting conundrum for Labour, if those modelled figures were to match electoral reality in the next 2-3 years.

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That Tom Harwood person is obviously a “slithey tove”, and careerist, who is quite knowingly “controlled opposition”.

Pretty sad that a government can use the Whittys and Fergusons to give faked “credibility” to their agenda —or rather the agenda of a transnational conspiracy of which “Boris” and his clowns are mere puppets— and then use scribblers and talking heads to spread the fake news.

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For some reason, far more hits on the blog today than usual; several hundred, in fact. The other unusual statistic is that two-thirds today are apparently from Germany, which is very anomalous. There are usually a few hits from Germany, but not hundreds! Deutschland erwache!?

For those who may be interested, this blog usually gets about 80% of its hits from the UK; the rest come from all over the world, though most are from the USA, Australia, and a few other countries (France, Germany, Canada, and —oddly?— China are usually represented). I have had hits from almost every country, even places such as Burkina Faso, Paraguay, and (once only, I think!) Antarctica. Perhaps Adolf, emerging from an Antarctic opening from the hollow Earth (by submarine or flying saucer?), with devotees of the Welteislehre! Only joking…

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The atomization of the population, and the sophisticated tools now in use for repressing any collective political or socio-political dissent, may lead to a wave of “lone wolves”, unless a proper social-national movement comes into existence soon. That possible wave of lone wolves would be a pity, because only a social-national movement can save us.

Just imagine…that could, and in fact would, be President of the USA if Biden were to snuff it while in office! Still, look at Biden himself. Come to that, who are we to talk, looking at Boris-idiot, Gove, and the rest of that pack of clowns?

I would compare these venal MPs to members of another old-established occupation, but at least those others give their customers pleasure, and/or a presumably required service, and at least the public does not end up footing the bill.

I did not know that, not that that matters, I not being a voter in North Shropshire.

I have a better and more just idea, but do not think that I can express it. I might add that I am surprised that Griffin, a Cambridge graduate, cannot spell the word restaurateur.

Already, Oxford is very different to what it was, not in the time of Zuleika Dobson, or that of Brideshead Revisited, but to what it was in the early 1960s.

I recall going once or twice with my mother in or about 1962 to some kind of Oxfam volunteer thing on, I think, a Saturday (we lived between Reading and Wallingford, so not hugely far from Oxford). I recall tables strewn with donated clothing in some kind of church hall or the like. People were sorting them, I think.

I do remember fairly empty roads, even in Oxford itself. I think we drove past the famous meadow track where the 4-minute-mile had been broken in 1954; my mother remarked on it. Anyway, the point is that the city and surroundings seemed uncrowded, quite different to the congested Oxford of today, where driving and especially parking is a nightmare.

Inflation 5%…not very long ago it was about 2.5%. Then we have the “proposal” to increase the pension age more rapidly than had been planned before the “panicdemic”.

Still think that “furlough” payments, and the rest of the “Covid” madness, came at no cost to the individual citizen? Think again…

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Incidentally, the hall where that noble performance of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony was recorded, on 7 October 1944, was destroyed by Allied bombing only weeks, or even days, later. There is now nothing left of the Beethoven-saal but a few stones and a couple of plaques. Wikipedia has the date of its destruction as 1 January 1944, which is probably a mistake (it may have been 1 January 1945).