Morning music
Saturday quiz
Well, only 4/10 this week, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a mere 2/10. I answered questions 2, 6, 7, and 8 correctly, no. 7 being at best an educated guess. In the back of my mind I also knew the answers to questions 4 and 9, but could not exactly recall the names.
Talking point
https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-political-carl
“A nation begins to die the moment it forgets who its enemies are, because identity is shaped not only by what we are, but by what we are willing to reject.
Carl Schmitt, the brilliant German jurist and political theorist, warned that all politics begins with distinction—the drawing of a line between friend and enemy, between those with whom we share fate and those who threaten our survival. To erase that line is not an act of progress or enlightenment, but an act of surrender, the first step in the dissolution of any real order.“
[Chad Crowley’s blog on Substack]
An interesting blog in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
Britain, 2025
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/light-fingered-north-london-secretary-31596352
“A light-fingered secretary who funnelled away £53,000 while working for a top legal firm has avoided jail after the judge took pity on her abusive upbringing. Aminata Pungi, 36, a serial shoplifter who told a probation officer she could not remember her previous convictions for theft, received an 18-month suspended sentence at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday (May 8).
Facing a three-year starting point, due to her previous convictions and the cross-border nature of the fraud, defence counsel Sahara Fergus-Simms did enough to convince Mr Recorder Campbell that her client should avoid jail, telling the judge about Ms Pungi’s 18-week pregnancy and her difficult upbringing after fleeing war in her native Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ms Fergus-Simms told the court Ms Pungi was fostered by family in the UK, but allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of her aunt and her partner, who fled the UK before he could face a trial. Describing one particularly disturbing incident, Ms Fergus-Simms said Ms Pungi’s aunt attended her school ‘wielding a knife’ while Ms Pungi was told to hide in a cupboard by her PE teacher.
Ms Fergus-Simms also claimed Ms Pungi’s shoplifting started as a way to feed herself without support from her family, but this became ‘a habit that stuck’.
Sparing her prison, Recorder Campbell said: “The greatest punishment you have is you are unable to pursue your dream career in the law.”
Ms Pungi was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, with no compensation order. Prosecutors also declined to pursue the money through the Proceeds of Crime Act, as there was no realistic prospect of the cash being recovered.”
[My London]
My first thought is that the defendant really ought to go out and buy a lottery ticket…
My second thought is that Britain is now largely a dustbin full of trash.
I do have a third point. How could the sentencing judge have imagined that the defendant could have had a career in law, had she not now been convicted (again) ? She had a number of previous convictions, for one thing.
Tweets seen
Oh dear…
In fact, Goodwin is partly right, but only partly. The answer to his posed question is “No!” or, at best, “50-50“.
The problem is that, while Goodwin notes the dangers to free speech emanating from “woke” or “politically-correct” directions, and also from Muslim/Islamist directions, he (as usual) omits to mention the direction from which the main danger to free speech in the UK comes— Jewish Zionism.
GB News itself is well and truly (((infiltrated))).
A few of my experiences, over more than a decade, of the troublemaking of that evil pack:
There is no “exodus”. Au contraire.
Migration-invasion. Migration-occupation.
Going beyond what Goodwin says there, if there were a real unblinking review of the social effects (crime, single mothers, abandoned children, “social parasitism” etc) of having a non-white or mixed-race population (not just recent migrants/invaders) in the UK, the British people would be shocked, not least because it would totally contradict the lying propaganda pumped out in schools, newspapers, radio, TV, and by System drones there and in Parliament etc.
See also:
A good cause
https://www.gofundme.com/f/h4th5-help-support-lily
which relates to this story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14618571/sporty-medical-student-quadruple-amputee-sepsis.html.
Simon Mann
I notice that the famous “contract soldier”, Simon Mann, has died at age 72. Looks like he had a heart attack while pursuing a “keep fit” regime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8dn03478qo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann
I read his book, Cry Havoc. Pretty poor.
I believe that he was from a wealthy family based in the New Forest. I read in his book that, either after his return to the UK or just before, his Jewish wife managed to sell his, I think inherited, country house for a very high sum (if memory serves, about £9M), which was a financial lifesaver for him.
Mann made millions from his hazardous activities, and certainly showed grit, especially during his imprisonment in the unpleasant state of Equatorial Guinea. In the end, though, you go out from this world with nothing material, just as you entered it. A fact that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, the “Russian” and “Ukrainian” Jew oligarchs, and other mega-wealthy, might like to ponder upon.
[Addendum, 25 May 2025: https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/lymington-army-officer-who-took-part-in-failed-equatorial-gu-9417199/]
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 