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Diary Blog, 26 August 2026

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On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

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[“To understand the current conflict, one must listen to Colonel Douglas Macgregor explain why the globalists are determined to destroy Russia and replace Putin… Ukraine is just a sacrificial pawn.

“Their agenda is to destroy Russia. Why? They would like to replace Putin because Putin leads the last great power in Europe that possesses a national identity, a national language, a national culture founded on Orthodox Christianity. That makes Russia the enemy of the globalists.”

“What have the globalists done to us? “They have flooded our countries with non-Europeans for the specific purpose of diluting us, destroying our national identity, eliminating our culture. Of purging any remaining cultural power that Christianity might still exert in the West, and they want to do the same thing to Russia.

“That’s what they want to do to Russia because Russia has enormous resources—mineral, agricultural, oil, gas, and rare metals. Those who could push Putin aside could strip the country of its resources and get rich. That’s why Russia must disappear. But Russia is resisting…”]

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

One thing about Kiev that I have noticed over the past few years is that, whenever the Jew con-man Zelensky speaks, and/or welcomes foreign visitors such as Burnham, or “Boris”-idiot, that central bit of Kiev is completely closed to ordinary Ukrainians, and to foreign tourists (if any), with the exception of a few actors playing the part of ordinary people who just happen to be passing by (supposedly)…

If so, it will be because the “British” (treacherous) governments have persisted in “poking the Bear” for 30 years, and especially since 2022.

Leaving aside U.S. power, any contest between the UK and Russia can only end one way: Russia has maybe 7,000 nuclear weapons, Britain has about 150.

By the way, were major population centres and/or ancient cities in Russia to be destroyed, there would be no real incentive for Russia to leave any Western or Central European capitals untouched. Something for Macron, Merz etc to think about.

Any political party that obviously wants to end the Triple Lock ?(or does so) will be alienating, immediately, at least 20% of the population (pensioners) and possibly 30-40% (pensioners, plus those within 10 years of reaching pensionable age). Politically impossible.

Stop wasting billions on “Ukraine” (the corrupt/shambolic/brutal Kiev regime), stop wasting billions on black and brown migrant-invaders.

I rather like the thought of those enemies of the British people that are hiding in our institutions cringing and fearing…

Late tweets

Happened to see this old tweet from one Mark Watts, at one time a muck-raking TV and tabloid newspaper scribbler:

2016. Well, Watts was sacked by online news outlet Exaro in 2016.

I am not necessarily saying that the two are causally connected, in that Watts’ unfair dismissal case against Exaro was a few months prior to my wrongful and unlawful disbarment (the Bar Standards Board later admitted by letter to me that the disbarment had been unlawful, and offered me the chance to have the matter reheard but I, politely, told them to stuff it.

Having said that, Watts was hoping for money by way of compensation but though, in early 2017, he was awarded about £60,000, he was unable to collect because Exaro had become insolvent. He did get something via the state fund for unfair dismissal, but that would have been a maximum of c.£22,000, and he may not even have collected that much.

Watts is now completely washed-up as a (former) journalist/scribbler/snooper. He has done little or no work for a decade.

Looking back over the past decade or so, I have noticed that many who tweeted against me have died, have had unexpected losses and/or injuries, have become insane and/or have stopped or almost stopped tweeting (about anything).

(Call me a “Twit“, you fuck-up?…).

Some of the worst offenders, however, still await justice to be visited upon them.

Macron. Burnham. Interchangeable NWO/ZOG monkeys on sticks.

[“Iran and Russia are intensifying cooperation on the Caspian route

In recent weeks, cooperation between Iran and Russia has significantly increased, according to Channel 14 of Israel. The key area is the Caspian route between the Iranian port of Amirabad and the Russian port of Olya.

According to sources, Iran is supplying Russia with military equipment and spare parts, including components for drones. In return, it is receiving goods, financial resources, and intelligence data, including information on American targets.

This strengthens Iran’s resilience to US sanctions and raises questions about possible coordination between Russia and other countries in countering American pressure.”]

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Incredibly, Glazunov wrote that symphony when aged only 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov.

[Русская красавица]

Diary Blog, 11 August 2026

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[“A glorious day for opponents of transparency in public life.

MPs have removed the names of their parliamentary staff from a decades-old public register – meaning we do not know who these people are and are left to accept the word of their employer when they say (as in the case of the prime minister, here) that said staff do not have any outside earnings or private interests.

“All staff have confirmed they have no registrable interests”: oh, well that’s that then.

No way of determining if true; no way of finding out if MPs employing family members; no way for anyone other than MPs themselves to uphold standards or examine who is operating in the Palace of Westminster on their behalf.

The decision was driven by … you guessed it … MPs themselves, following behind-closed-door consultations with staff trade union representatives – not media or anti-corruption organisations.

Echoes of the time that decided among themselves – with nil meaningful debate – to exempt themselves from the centuries-old system by which those arrested would be named before the Commons.

Parliament being sovereign it is always free to take such steps without consultation or engagement with the public – the hope is they decide not to abuse their positions and proactively seek criticism or counter-views.

In this instance, sadly, MPs have demonstrated they cannot be trusted to do so – they have put us out of step with comparable democracies without anything approaching scrutiny.“]

The corrupt and near-useless Westminster monkeyhouse.

Allister Heath is, I believe, fully or part-Jew, though Wikipedia says nothing on the subject. In fact, there seems to be nothing easily-available anywhere in the public realm about that aspect. May be a “crypto”.

Born and brought up in Alsace, he only came to the UK aged 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allister_Heath.

It is not for him to make such statements. He has no locus standi.

Someone who completely appears to disregard the value of race and culture, substituting for it a dollar bill. His main foray into international relations seems to have been support (according to Wikipedia, “vocal“) for the recent Israeli war of near-annihilation in Gaza.

Such are those who are given public platforms (and money) in our society.

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There is little discussion about the necessity to preserve the familiarity of the mental landscape in relation to the high streets. Bank branches, post offices, police stations. For example, banks should be compelled by law to maintain at least one branch in every city or town; God’s sake, they make enough profit to be able to give a little back to society.

“Buffoon” seems to me the more accurate term. An ex-Guards captain posing as statesman and quasi-field marshal; he wants war with Russia, apparently. So “crazy (and/or drunken) buffoon”, maybe.

Perhaps ex-Guards captain Wallace would like to lead his company “over the top” and into battle on the side of the crumbling Kiev-regime army?

[“Trump Secretly Flees Turkish Airport in a Catering Truck

The American newspaper The Washington Post reported that after the NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump, due to security concerns and a possible threat of assassination by Iran, left the airport in an unusual way as part of a deception operation.

According to the report, Trump initially boarded the presidential aircraft Air Force One to create the impression that he was leaving Turkey on that plane.

Then, Trump secretly disembarked from the plane and was transported to a military transport aircraft, the C-32A, in a special vehicle used for transporting and loading catering supplies.

Meanwhile, Air Force One, carrying journalists and some members of the presidential team, took off towards the United Kingdom to maintain the impression that Trump was on board.“]

Sounds serious. When Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met in Teheran in 1943, there was a developed German plan to kill all three, but it never took flight.

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

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

[“Israel has informed the U.S. about Turkey’s increasing military presence in Syria, including air-defense systems that could threaten Israeli operations.

Syria recently conducted its first aerial exercise involving fighter jets and a Turkish helicopter, near the Turkish border.

Turkey has reportedly urged Syria and Lebanon to make agreements with Israel to gain time for military buildup ahead of potential confrontations.

This follows the creation of a new defense pact among Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.”]

In the long term, Israel is doomed. It may be that all of the present Middle East, even the Near East as well, will face massive devastation.

The bringing into existence of the State of Israel, together with Arab/Muslim nationalism, and the oil discoveries of the 20thC, have created a bomb just waiting for the right fuse.

Multiply by 10-20x to get the true or full picture (and don’t forget about the real British people who, in despair, are now leaving).

Britain in 2026

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16043785/Drunk-diversity-rep-crippled-Afghan-veteran-police-officer.html

Drunk diversity rep who crippled Afghan-veteran police officer by dragging him along road with her Range Rover during traffic stop avoids prison

Candace Desilva, 37, of Anfield, drove off with the officer clinging to the side of her Range Rover in an attempt to flee after being stopped for traffic offences. She caused PC Simon Ward serious injuries and placed his life in danger, before moaning ‘I just wanna go home to my children’ when she was finally stopped. Desilva had told him: ‘See, there is nobody else coming. You’re not f***ing searching me. I’m going. You can’t stop me.’

[Daily Mail]

How can a half-caste “diversity rep” (whatever that is) afford a Range Rover anyway? The police should pick up on clues like that to catch those who are probably up to all sorts of criminal activities (but whether that is so or not, we do not want untermenschen of that sort in this country in any case).

[defendant]

More from Britain in 2026

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16044069/Student-police-officer-23-allegedly-bundled-woman-car.html

A student police officer ‘bundled’ a woman into his car before raping her and then driving off at 125mph with her still inside, a court heard today.

Mohammad Hassan, 23, was arrested on the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire on Saturday after a police pursuit which followed a 999 call from the Manchester area.”

“Hassan, who has been suspended by Greater Manchester Police, is described by the force as being of Asian-Pakistani ethnicity.”

[Daily Mail]

Can anyone deny (honestly deny) that this country needs a massive purge, carried out by a real social-national government?

Jess Phillips MP (Labour Friends of Israel member)

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16044337/Ex-minister-Jess-Phillips-admits-pulled-sickie-avoid-having-defend-Peter-Mandelson-Commons.html

Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has admitted pulling a sickie so she wouldn’t have to defend Peter Mandelson in the House of Commons.

The Labour MP, who quit her Government role earlier this year, revealed how she once pretended to be ill in order to avoid being quizzed about Britain’s then-ambassador to the US.

Horrible woman: see

See also:

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[The Wicker Man (1973 British film)]

Late tweets

Falter is not only a proven liar, but also a proven perjurer as far as I am concerned, albeit that he has not actually been convicted of perjury. The fact that he is invited to write his Jew-Zionist propaganda in the once-weighty Daily Telegraph says much about the state of this country.

https://twitter.com/sophiemeaden/status/2087290260690481484

Burnham is just one more enemy of the people.

Ignorant and overpaid TV talking-head, Kay Burley, says that Andrew Windsor was “a war hero“. Really? He was in the active war zone in the Falklands for about 6 weeks and apparently never in real danger, though admittedly only those there at the time can really assess that correctly (arguably).

Anyway, that was 6 weeks out of 65 years of freeloading and silver-spooning and, moreover, those 6 weeks were 44 years ago now.

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[Arno Breker, the Hanover Lions; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker]

Diary Blog, 23 June 2026

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[painting by Volegov]

Talking point

Happened to see a blog post published on this day four years ago, in 2022. I think that most of it still stands up pretty well.

Gordon Brown. One of many System politicians who are enemies of the British people and of the future of Europe.

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Our animal friends.

You only have to consider that, under both Sunak and Starmer, Israeli flags in light were projected onto the facade of 10 Downing Street, and Jewish candlesticks were placed in a window.

Look at what Mark Carney has supported: the Gaza genocide by Israeli Jews, Israel generally, the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic “measures” and “vaccines”, and the brutal and corrupt regime in Kiev.

I believe that Carney is part- (((you-know-who))) anyway.

[“The truth: the choreography is the confession.

Prime Minister Andy will kick off with the polite little pantomime at Buckingham Palace, constitutional cosplay for the cameras, king playing his assigned role as ceremonial mascot.

Then the mask’ll drop and the real masters get their audience:

First, Zelensky—to lock in Britain’s blank-cheque loyalty to the Ukrainian meat grinder and the Atlanticist death cult that feeds it.

Then von der Leyen—to genuflect before the Brussels bureaucracy, that rotting late-imperial corpse still twitching with regulatory power.

Then dinner with the hedge-fund crowd — the people whose debt-based capital actually moves the needle while your ballot paper gathers dust.

Only after paying proper obeisance will he deign to lecture the British public about net zero, the greatest corporate wealth transfer ever dressed up as planetary salvation.

This is shareholder democracy working exactly as designed. You are not the principal. You are a minor stakeholder with diminishing returns.

The sophisticated machinery of polling, micro-targeting, narrative management and behavioural nudges exists to keep you compliant and distracted. Fail the real principals—the money, the alliances, the permanent bureaucracy—and the consequences are swift and brutal.

Fail the voters? Just tweak the script and roll out a new slogan. 250k raped girls? Deny. Lost control of borders? Ignore. If caught, point finger and scream racist like Donald Sutherland in The Body Snatchers.

The order of Andy’s first meetings will tell you everything an election-night victory speech never will. Voters give Legitimacy, that’s the idea, not the reality anymore but it is still the script that’s followed. Performance.

The others give Power. And in the chasm between those two things sits the brutal reality of modern governance.

You are a serf who’s been handed a smartphone and told you’re free. Your ancestors clawed their way out of this condition. You’re being slicked and bullied back into it, with the cheerful assurance that your rootless, broke, unsafe grandchildren will foot the bill and curse your name.

Wake up.“]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman,_Ukraine

Talking point

Starmer-stein…

Legally-approved killing

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15923313/Child-12-euthanised-Netherlands.html

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“Caesar’s chariot has arrived!

The more I see, not so much of Burnham himself but more of the hysterical adulation around him and focussed on him, the more I think that his tenure in office will be disastrous, even if it lasts for the full 3+ years until a 2029 General Election.

As for the BBC and Sky wasting large amounts of money on helicopters to follow “Caesar’s” train (“royal train”? or “imperial train”?) and then taxi, that just underlines what a sycophantic propaganda Schauspiel those msm outlets now are.

I have to admit that, on me at least, the general msm lauding to the skies of the new Labour “Caesar from the North” is having an effect opposite to what is obviously intended. I now start to dislike Burnham, those around him, and those praising him.

I note that (as it seems) Burnham is praised for having taken buses and trams (back) into public ownership in Manchester, and keeping fares stable. Yes? What else? Is that it? Underwhelming, in a world (and a UK) with massive challenges on every front.

Talking point

I happened to see that a blog post from over 7 years ago, and which I had thought at least somewhat interesting, has had only a very modest number of hits over the years, which I think a pity, so…

Late tweets

Wall. Squad. End.

The German Reich knew how to keep its people safe, and how to deal with untermenschen.

…as blogged about several times over recent years.

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Diary Blog, 4 April 2026

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 3/10; my score was 4/10, being questions 2, 4, 8 (an educated guess), and 10.

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Translates to a Commons with about 331 Reform UK MPs (small majority), 71 Greens (extremely weak official Opposition), 64 LibDems, 62 Cons, 50 Lab, 45 SNP [etc].

As in all other recent polls over the past couple of months, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Interesting. In the UK, you would probably get a response within an hour, or a few hours, or be directed to some online website, but nothing would actually be done for weeks, or months, if at all.

Historical note: “Eisenhower’s Holocaust – His Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans

https://rense.com/general46/germ.htm

Nick Griffin’s blog

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/its-the-maps-stupid

Worth reading.

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An American museum, established in New Orleans in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_WWII_Museum.

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Late tweets

Starmer’s lukewarm stance or fencesitting stance re. Iran/Israel and the war will please few, if any.

Starmer is being pulled both ways, and his misgovernment is all over the place.

You read it here first (some time ago).

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[painting by Leonid Afremov]

Diary Blog, 10 January 2026

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[Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad, c.1950]

Saturday quiz

This week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 5/10 as against his 4/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 6, and 9.

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They must be afraid of Russian invasion. Very mistaken. Those times are long gone.

Madness. I had thought better of them.

Motzfeldt“?

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

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

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

There is no doubt that, if the USA assumes power over Greenland, the geopolitical position of the USA in the Arctic region will have improved, though it already has a base there; however, that presumed geopolitical advantage will have been bought (perhaps literally, if the Greenlanders are to be bribed) at the cost of (also) US relations with Denmark and most of the rest of Europe.

Like something out of Stalin’s Russia (arguably, though Stalin’s secret police usually tried to abduct people by stealth); perhaps more akin to the forced “recruitment” drives by the Kiev regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3

Elon Musk is not wrong. Shocking, and also embarrassing for the UK.

Most of the repression of free speech in the UK, 90% or more, maybe even 99%, is driven by the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, and is carried out by, or by reason of, the “activism” (suborning by, demanding by, whining by) Israel-connected and Israeli Embassy-connected orgs such as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”].

The pro-Israel Jews call it “lawfare”, meaning the abuse of English and Scottish laws, and legal systems, including prosecutors and police, to shut down views which they want silenced.

More applicable to the UK than USA.

I would say that there should be free speech, i.e. speech and other expression, free of criminal sanction, and on any social, political, medical, scientific, or historical topic. The only spoken or written words that should attract criminal sanction would be direct threats to individuals, or to small groups (e.g. the local sports team, a particular team of Sky News or BBC News journalists, a specified individual church building or other specified religious building); there may be a few exceptions to that general rule of freedom, e.g. official secrets.

I cannot agree with Goodwin on several topics, including a few expressed there, in that short clip, but he is right about Starmer-stein’s fake Labour. Hopeless, anti-British, and incompetent to boot.

Our animal friends.

Nick Griffin’s blog

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/venezuela-power-without-justice

Well worth reading.

[n.b. originally published on the following American website: https://libertarianism.uk/about/]

Late tweets seen

Anything is possible.

Very good.

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The Chinese have always been known to be a clever people, at least as a collective.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/karl-turner-labour-prime-minister-government-times-radio-b2897989.html

The Independent’s 20-something scribbler also writes that Karl Turner is “a former barrister”. Wrong (as any real journalist should know). Once a barrister, always a barrister unless (like me) disbarred for whatever reason or at own request (in my case, wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred after a politically-motivated complaint by a pack of Jews), and that remains so even if (like Turner) someone fails to complete pupillage (on-the-job training) or is not actually working as a barrister for some other reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Turner_(British_politician)#Early_life_and_career

As for Turner’s MP-life, the next election in Kingston-upon-Hull East will be between Labour and Reform, and Labour will face a fight whether he is their candidate or not: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_East.

I suppose that he might even fight as independent Labour or the like.

Translates to a Commons with about 393 Reform MPs (very solid majority), Lab 87 (very weak official Opposition), 54 LibDems, 45 SNP, 21 Cons, and 15 Greens [etc].

Promising, from my point of view…

Give up Eastern Ukraine to Russia, and negotiate for Kiev and Odessa to be either free cities or ruled by Russian/Ukrainian condominium agreement.

Late thought

So the USA under Trump is apparently willing to attack, invade, or otherwise take on, simultaneously, Venezuela, Greenland/Denmark, Iran, and even Russia, even China, not to mention smaller states such as North Korea and Yemen, and maybe even Canada.

The phrase or maxim about “taking on more than you can chew” comes to mind…

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Diary Blog, 15 August 2025

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Neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

Britain is little better, these days. The influence of Jewish-lobby, Israel-lobby orgs is pervasive, not only in politics but also in the mass media, law, and other areas of society.

Stunning. Translates to about 394 MPs for Reform UK, an official majority of 68, in reality about 80.

Labour 83 MPs (the lowest predicted in recent times, I believe; in 1931, Labour scored only 52 MPs). Labour’s predicted 83 MPs result is all the more stunning following Starmer-Labour’s 411 MPs, elected only a year ago, at GE 2024.

LibDems are predicted to get 56 MPs, Cons 43, SNP 40, Greens 8 (etc).

As I have been saying for years on the blog, we in the UK, particularly in England, are in a negative-voting situation, in which people vote against, not for.

It just so happens that both the main System parties have pretty much burned their boats with the voting public. That does not mean that people really enthuse much about Reform UK and Farage etc. It means, simply, that most white English people, especially, are now completely hostile to both Lab and Con. They are willing to vote Reform as a last throw of the “democratic” dice. If —and when— Reform govern, or try to govern, and fail, then the people will be ready to turn to a proper social national alternative.

This puts Farage and Reform in a strong position. Because people are well aware that Farage and Reform and, indeed, most Reform candidates, MPs etc, are rather underwhelming, little scandal can really touch them, because the voters seem now very ready to vote against both Lab and Con, and because Reform is the only game in town that carries any weight at present, electorally.

I agree, overall. However, the pro-Reform vote is really, and as Goodwin’s own argument shows, a vote against the System parties and against mass immigration, inter alia. It is not really a vote for any particular policy programme.

Not that that really matters in electoral terms. If it comes to pass, that poll means that 328 Labour MPs will be binned in or before 2029, as will 77 Conservative Party MPs (including Alex Burghart, James Cleverly, Dunce Duncan Smith, Christopher Chope, Mel Stride, Simon Hoare, Helen Whately, David Davis, Caroline Dineage, Kit Malthouse, Julian Lewis, Desmond Swayne, Rishi Sunak, Nick Timothy, Andrew Mitchell, Katie Lam, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and, last but not least, Carpetbagger Kemi Badenoch herself).

If it happens, that must mean the end of the Conservative Party as a serious political force, notwithstanding its long history and the predicted bloc of 43 surviving the cull of two-thirds of the Con Party MPs.

Even now, in 2025, the Conservative Party appears totally irrelevant.

The predicted huge cull of Labour MPs would include such names as Angela Rayner, Jess Phillips, Christian Wakeford, Mary Creagh, Ed Miliband, Mike Tapp, Luke Akehurst (one of the most “controlled” Israel puppets), John McDonnell, Bridget Phillipson, Wes Streeting, Rachel “from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves, Liz Kendall, Nia Griffith, Yvette Cooper, Anna Turley, Chris Bryant, Paul Waugh, Sarah Champion, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Kim Leadbeater, Gareth Snell, Heidi Alexander, Angela Eagle, Lisa Nandy, and Emma Reynolds.

Many deserving “victims” there, most of them Israel-lobby puppets.

Any barrister, at least any barrister grounded in reality (I myself am no longer any kind of barrister, a wrongful and unlawful disbarment having been instigated by a pack of Jews in 2016), can tell you why a jury has acquitted that anti-white black agitator who called openly in the street for white British people to have their throats cut.

The chances are that the jury was mainly or entirely composed of non-whites. I used to appear from time to time at Snaresbrook Crown Court in the early 1990s and, in 1992, as a Bar pupil (trainee), was there several times a month, my pupillage having been part-criminal.

[Me as newly-minted barrister, 1992 or 1993, when I was often to be found in places such as Snaresbrook Crown Court; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaresbrook_Crown_Court]

Even in the 1990s, the juries at Snaresbrook were often, in fact usually, at least partly non-white. Scroll on about 32 or 33 years and one can imagine that that is now even more the case.

Add to that the fact that many jurors in London are now people who are quite opposed to “law and order” generally (and that applies even more to Snaresbrook Crown Court, the catchment area for jurors of which being East London; Snaresbrook has a relatively high acquittal rate).

Remember the O.J. Simpson original trial in California? Despite the American msm bs (I was in the USA at the time), the fact is that the defence, shorn of a huge amount of (mostly) nonsense, amounted to “the victim was white, the defendant black, so the black jury should acquit the black of killing the white“. Which is what happened.

From an original jury pool of 40 percent white, 28 percent black, 17 percent Hispanic, and 15 percent Asian, the final jury for the trial had ten women and two men, of whom nine were black, two white, and one Hispanic.” [Wikipedia].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_trial_of_O._J._Simpson

Society in the UK is going the same way, mutatis mutandis.

Incidentally, this is what that half-caste incited:

…and look at all those white English people, many of them women, weak “me-too” idiots, clapping as the untermensch incited throat-slitting British people. They should all be in a concentration camp, as should the untermensch.

That is the sort of brainless bimbo we are expected to accept should rule over us via the EU or other supra-national body. Another one is the former Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, a complete idiot. Both puppets of NWO/ZOG, of course.

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

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

The monster will, in effect, do about 1 month inside for every sexual assault he has done, or rather the ones in respect of which he was caught and convicted. There will inevitably be other offences for which he was neither caught nor convicted.

The monster will be out in about 7-8 months, if not 6 months. My solution? Wall. Squad. End.

Backward untermenschen of his type should not be living in this country at all.

If truth be known, I had no idea that either was still alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Penhaligon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Mills.

I used to go occasionally to the very small (and now shut down by reason of spending cuts) Penzance County Court about 18-23 years ago. I think the last case I did there was about the loss, and valuation, of a rather expensive diamond ring.

Penzance is OK, but I do not think I should like to live there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penzance.

Incidentally, among the courts closed since 2010 have been the following (see link): https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-07/119601.

Adjournments.

In any case, a judicial review has the quasi-automatic consequence that criminal or civil cases likely to be affected by the outcome are stayed until the judicial review (and any appeal from the decision therefrom) is decided.

It would be good were reporters, journalists etc to know a little basic law before they start to comment.

I noticed that some Jew called Krassenstein, with a million “followers” on Twitter/X, has tweeted that the U.S. Government should have had Putin shot by a sniper after his plane landed in Alaska. Hard to believe that an idiot like that could be taken seriously (?) by a million people, even if they are American.

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

I think that Russia should keep going until it controls all of Eastern Ukraine (i.e. Ukraine east of the Dnieper).

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[painting by Arnold Bocklin]

Diary Blog, 24 July 2025

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[Clare Bridge, river Cam at Cambridge]

Stray thought

I wonder whether the vitriol he has recently been experiencing from the Zionist Jews has woken James O’Brien up a little to the menace to free speech that they represent?

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Israeli war crimes. Whether the overall war on civilians be called or labelled a “genocide” or not is almost immaterial. The cruelty and/or sadistic brutality of the Israeli Jews (and that of the Jew-Zionist support cabals in Europe, North America etc) speaks for itself.

Rubio is a staunch supporter of Israel. He is a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution expressing objection to the UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of international law.[328] Rubio condemned Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel and expressed his support for Israel and its right to self-defense.[329] He called for the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza.[330] When asked if there was a way to stop Hamas without causing massive civilian casualties in Gaza,[331] Rubio said Israel cannot coexist “with these savages…. They have to be eradicated.”[332]

[Wikipedia]

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

A bloody Cuban.

Rubio is a semi-lunatic and, like almost all prominent American politicians, a puppet of Israel and the American Jewish lobby.

[“An Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post: “Turkey’s agreement to purchase 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets isn’t a game-changing threat to our Air Force. The Typhoon is a capable but not superior aircraft compared to our fighter jets. But it’s a clear and worrying signal that Turkey is accelerating its arms buildup in a way that could eventually challenge Israel’s military edge in the region. The deal isn’t an immediate threat, but still a headache for Israel”.]

This is the sort of thing that matters, not well-meaning people holding up placards in the UK to protest against the evil actions of the Israeli Jews in Gaza or the West Bank.

Eventually, both Turkey and Iran will have the means available to stamp on Israel and kill it off, very likely, notwithstanding Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Iran’s power rests, at long distance, on missiles, presently conventional, but perhaps eventually nuclear; Turkey’s power rests mainly on very powerful, and becoming more powerful, conventional forces; millions of soldiers, 2,500 tanks, and ever-more-powerful military air fleets.

I fully expect the Jews to be driven out of the Middle East eventually, but that will not, of course, be the final chapter.

Does Trump really think it effective grand strategy to threaten Russia, China, and Brazil (among other states) at the same time?

[“Peter Kyle – Labour MP for Hove and Portslade (East Sussex). Peter has been an MP for ten years and is now the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. Peter previously worked for children’s charities and helped set up an orphanage in Rumania. He held senior positions while Labour were in opposition. Peter is also a Parliamentary ‘officer’ and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. Peter was a persistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the party. The @ElectoralCommUK donations page shows that Peter has received £270,596.59 in donations and perks. In 2023/24/25 these have included: £118,433.22 from the Labour donor, banker and founder of Albourne Partners Simon Ruddick. £16,000 from international banker Anthony Watson. £13,000 from the @CWU, £99.840 from @PublicDigitalHQ to cover a staff secondment. The individual concerned was a ‘policy fellow’ at the Trevor Chinn funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium; @LabourTogether £5,000 from banker and Chief Executive of Coutts & Co. Michael Morley £5,000 from Baron Patrick Carter. £15,000 from Simon Kime. £10,000 from Labour donor Lord Matthew Oakenshott. £10,000 from political donor Susan Ruddick. £13,665.57 from Lord David Sainsbury for international trips by air and on the Eurostar. £3,584 in hospitality and tickets from The Football Association for the Brit Awards and Taylor Swift and Madonna concerts.£1,835 from @SkyArts for hospitality and tickets to various events. £2,758.95 from the intelligence linked firm @HakluytCompany for a trip to San Francisco to meet with personnel from the tech industry. With his £93,904 salary, expenses, allowances, perks and very generous donations, there’s no doubt that Peter is living the good life as a Labour MP. ‘Poverty in Hove, part of Brighton & Hove, is a significant issue, with child poverty rates being a particular concern…Brighton & Hove has higher levels of pensioner poverty than the national average and contains the ward with the highest level of pensioner poverty.’ On 9th July 2025, Peter voted for the welfare/PIP cuts that will result in further distress and hardship for people who are disabled and unwell. Peter also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to pensioners and voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK. @UKLabour @peterkyle.”]

“Oakeshott”, not “Oakenshott“, though [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Oakeshott,_Baron_Oakeshott_of_Seagrove_Bay].

Peter Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade, is a typical member of the present Labour Friends of Israel government (arguably the least competent UK government in memory). A freeloader, out for what he can grab.

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

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[elevated view of Stratford-upon-Avon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon]

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…and which (((group))) is pushing that the hardest, at root?

…which many will misuse in order to commit street crime, shoplifting, sexual offences etc.

I had already considered that possibility. Would probably give Reform over 300 —maybe even 350— MPs, Labour perhaps 100, Cons and LibDems about 75 each, and the new “Corbyn” party maybe (at most) 10. Something like that. Not as much difference as one might have imagined, but cementing Reform’s presently-likely triumph.

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[“Everything Corbyn always was in a nutshell. Never a leader, always an activist. And whilst I think Gaza is an abomination and tragedy beyond measure and I personally would’ve both suspended arms to Israel and sent the Israeli Ambo home by now, it does not belong in the mission statement of a new British party. He’s had a lifelong obsession with Palestine and lost his political career over anti-Semitism. It will continue to cost him. Who isn’t in favour of helping Gaza? Nobody.”]

Who isn’t in favour of helping Gaza? Nobody.”

Really? Nobody?!

The lady tweeter seems to have forgotten about Israel, certainly the Netanyahu government, almost certainly most of the Israeli Jews, and (probably) most of the Jews in the UK and elsewhere.

As far as Corbyn being an “antisemite” is concerned, I wish he had been; he might then not have been so easily removed by a conspiracy consisting of Labour Friends of Israel MPs, murky Jew-Zionist orgs circling like vultures overhead, and Israel-lobby msm scribblers, talking heads etc; also, pro-Israel mass media platform-owners such as Murdoch, Desmond and others …

From my perspective, Corbyn is not really “antisemitic” at all, or only marginally.

Wow” indeed…if that opinion poll is accurate (and it may be), Reform would get 436 MPs at a general election (a Commons majority of 110), Labour 78, LibDems 55, SNP 37, Cons 15, Greens 4 (etc).

Any result like that would certainly spell the end of the long-lived Con Party, would knock the stuffing out of Labour, and would write Reform UK a blank cheque (subject only to the House of Lords, where Reform has no peers at all, out of 836 peers at present. However, Farage could just create hundreds of new Reform peers, or simply abolish the Lords).

Among the hundreds of Labour MPs who would be booted out would be Stephen Kinnock, Angela Rayner, Dan Jarvis, Jess Phillips, Ed Miliband, Luke Akehurst, Stephen Timms, Andrew Gwynne, Bridget Phillipson, Liz Kendall, Nia Griffith, Maria Eagle, Angela Eagle, Lucy Powell, Yvette Cooper, Anna Turley, Paul Waugh, Sarah Champion, Kim Leadbeater, Gareth Snell, Torsten Bell, Emma Reynolds, Wes Streeting etc.

Interestingly, Starmer-stein might survive, but no doubt would resign as Labour leader. He would not be interested in staying on anyway.

Prominent Cons in the bin would include Dunce Duncan Smith, Mel Stride (the Con “moderates'” great white hope), Kemi Badenoch (present Con leader and “great non-white hopeless”), Suella Braverman, Jesse Norman, Oliver Dowden, Julian Lewis, Desmond Swayne (my own local MP, and entirely useless, though I do not disagree with him on everything), Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Jenrick, Rishi Sunak, Mark Francois, Andrew Rosindell, the deadhead Gavin Williamson, “chocolate soldier” Tom Tugendhat, Nick Timothy, James Cleverly, Alex Burghart, David Davis, Jewish-lobby minor puppet Alec Shelbrooke etc.

Some LibDems and Greens would also be binned, but none of them is of the slightest consequence.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

If “Carpetbagger Kemi” does that, the Con Party, presently on 16% public support (almost all of which consists of people over State Pension age), will fall to 6%. Oblivion.

Incidentally, David Gauke, yet another puppet of the Jewish lobby, yet another expenses cheat, yet another shameless freeloader, was chucked out of Parliament in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gauke; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Hertfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

I sometimes feel ashamed at my country these days, once a world leader, once ruler of a great empire, when I see the new trains, train lines, bridges, roads, cityscapes etc in China, Russia, and even some parts of Europe, as compared to the UK. (ps. I regard Russia as sui generis, not —as such— part of either Europe or Asia).

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

Diary Blog, 23 May 2025

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock_(Faur%C3%A9)]
[scene from Act 1 of the French play, Shylock, an 1889 adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Haraucourt]

The cat came back

A very nice story and also, beyond that, an interesting example of how animals both have a homing instinct and also (beyond even that) a connection with their humans that goes beyond “mere” homing (amazing though that alone is). In some cases, animals have found their way across hundreds, even thousands of miles, to their humans’ new homes, homes to which, and in places to which they, the animals, have never been. There should be research into this.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Journey_(film).

Though The Incredible Journey and the novel on which it was based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Journey] were fictional, there are similar accounts which are not fictional.

Could it be that, apart from the more obvious ways in which animals navigate, or may navigate, animals such as cats and dogs, often personally connected with particular humans, can find those with whom they feel a connection via some kind of “silver cord” based on (?) brainwaves or some other emanation?

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

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The strange military ballet which takes place daily at the border between India and Pakistan.

Even now, in the face of such devastation, bombing of hospitals, and starvation of children, and plans to drive out (to where?) the entire Palestinian Arab population, you see online and on TV the bleating of Zionist Jews living in the UK, USA etc that that is all “self-defence” and that any criticism of it is “antisemitic” and should be banned.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the way forward is not the UK parliamentary democracy of (arguende) 1832-present, not Sovietism, not even National Socialism (in its original clothing), but a synthesis of the best elements of those, suffused with interest in, and knowledge of, the supernatural world, as noted in my blog piece from many years ago about my personal history:

[“Ian Millard is now determined to put forward ideas and views for a positive future society in the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.

Ian Millard’s world-view comes out of both wide reading and the experience of living and working all over the world, and is composed of a synthesis of political ideologies, religions, philosophies and studies, prominent among which are the ideas and ideals contained in Anthroposophy, National Socialism, pan-Europeanism, and non-denominational Christianity, particularly Christic and Grail occultism.

Society in the advanced countries (and, therefore, the rest of the world) has come to a dead end, except in strictly technical fields.

A new society must arise, based at least fundamentally on the Threefold Social Order concept of Rudolf Steiner and on a mainly European population in the European or Eurasian lands.*

*”Eurasia” in this context refers mainly to Europe, Russia (including Siberia), Ukraine, Kazakhstan and some other Russophone areas.“]

Stray thought (aka “why is nothing in the UK thought through properly?”)

I should say that a major problem of both local and central government (and orgs under both) in this country is the apparent sheer inability to think things through; particularly policies, but it extends to what Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious“.

Yesterday, I drove 15 miles to visit someone at a major hospital, the recorded telephone message of which starts with some pointless propaganda about how £400M or £500M is being spent on new buildings etc.

So, anyway, after a slow, incredibly congested drive to the place, I find that there are indeed new buildings still under construction, but that a good part of what had been public parking has now been built upon. No doubt the usual bureaucratic box-tickers think that that is wonderfully “green”, and have little interest in the inconvenience of people visiting, or needing to stay, in the hospital.

The next problem was in finding the patient I was visiting. I just cannot believe that a major NHS hospital apparently has no main reception desk! Perhaps (?) one will exist, once all the changes have been made, but for now at least, no reception. Beyond belief. In France, in the USA, the reception desk is inescapable. The UK prefers the “Hampton Court Maze” approach.

I asked some foreign (Malaysian?) nurse or other uniformed person where was reception. She had difficulty in repeating the word, then directed me to what was (inevitably) the wrong direction, in view of the fact that, as I then discovered, there was no reception…

Finally, another person told me to find A&E, and the A&E desk would look up the patient’s name for me. I did that, and was given the number of the ward and bay. Thank you. Where would I find that ward? They were unable to tell me! They did not know the layout of the hospital, and apparently had no map or plan to hand.

I had to stumble around, asking random uniformed personnel, until I was told— at the other end of the large complex (of course).

En route to my destination, I noticed a sticker or poster proudly proclaiming that the hospital had been awarded 5 stars (the maximum) for cleanliness. I have to say the place did not look too clean.

Signage— terrible. Architecture. Almost rock-bottom.

Just one example. I could cite so many others. Yet Britain not so long ago completed Crossrail (now, the “Elizabeth Line”), a very impressive, very complex rail project. I can only assume that people who knew what they were doing were in charge of the rail project, whereas in the NHS, local authorities, and in respect of central government direct policy (immigration etc) you are dealing with the —often-clueless— bureaucrat element and the —even worse— political-idiot element.

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Walk down almost any street, in almost any part of the country. Even in the shopping streets of or near affluent areas, many on the streets are blacks, browns, Chinese. This is not only migration-invasion, but also migration-occupation.

In any case, that 431,000 number is arrived at by including (and setting-off) those white British/European people who are leaving, whereas almost all of the immigrants coming to the UK are black/brown/Chinese, so the reality is even worse.

Almost none. Statistical zero. Over time, they and their offspring will be, at best, parasites, at worst criminal or terroristic.

Simon Myerson is the malicious and vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister from Leeds who was sacked as a recorder (p/t judge) because he was unwilling, or perhaps unable (by reason of his character or mentality), to stop his online abuse of and insult to people.

Actually, looking at Myerson’s tweet, it is surely libellous on its face. It is not unlikely that Dr. Clarke henceforth will be avoided by Jewish patients etc who have seen Myerson’s tweet, and who may take seriously the allegation that she is “unsafe” (meaning, in this context, likely to deliberately cause injury to them).

There is surely, in potentio, direct financial damage there, and career damage, as well as reputational damage.

I think that Dr. Clarke should consult her solicitor without delay. Myerson has plenty of cash and property with which to satisfy any damages and costs that might result from a successful claim in defamation.

Incidentally, in English law there is no such thing as a “blood libel“, which is a term used only by Jews (or their puppets) to describe criticism by non-Jews of bloodletting, or alleged bloodletting, by Jews.

A barrister, Jewish or otherwise, should not be making up law and broadcasting the nonsense online (or elsewhere), thus misleading the general public.

I also think that Dr. Clarke would be within her rights to refer Myerson to the Bar Standards Board. I also think that she should.

Myerson should be reported to both the Bar Standards Board and the court where that trial is to take place (I think, not sure, the Central Criminal Court/Old Bailey).

Myerson was involved as a witness in the civil trial in which Newbon was a defendant. The trial judge did not believe a word Myerson said (or the testimony of several other Jewish witnesses), though said judge expressed his assessment more diplomatically than I have done.

Newbon, a vicious social media troll and pro-Israel fanatic, committed suicide before the trial ended (in defeat for the three defendants, the two still alive and Newbon). The James Wilson who has tweeted above was the successful claimant in that trial.

Starmer-stein has done the near-impossible— made Boris-idiot, Liz Truss and others seem (relatively) honest. Hard to believe (in both senses).

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Diary Blog, 3 March 2025

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At 17 he falls in love quite madly
with eyes of azure blue,
At 24 he gets it rather badly
with eyes of a different hue.
At 36 you’ll find him flirting sadly
with two or three or more;
When he fancies he is past love,
It is then he meets his last love,
And he loves her as he’s never loved before
.”

1917, a different age, and with rather different use of language, looking at the title of the song!

[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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I disagree with Goodwin there on one point: “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) does not need to be involved in negotiations to end the war, because Zelensky’s cabal has no legitimacy and, crucially, without outside help the Kiev regime side would collapse in weeks, maybe even in days. The Kiev regime is only a player in the war by proxy, not by reason of its own power.

[“Self-propelled Gvozdika artillery of the battlegroup North destroyed Ukrainian military equipment and infantry and disrupted an ammunition delivery near the border in the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said: https://vk.cc/cJg2CT“]

[“At least two people were killed and 25 injured as a result of a car hitting a crowd in the city of Mannheim in southwestern Germany, the Bild newspaper reported citing security sources. TASS has compiled the main facts about the incident: https://vk.cc/cJhM2r—TASS]

Again…

Deutschland erwache!

Both Islamism and Zionism are antipathetic to Europe’s destiny, as are the sweepings of Africa and elsewhere.

Topical?

Ostalgie

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[“FM Sergey Lavrov: Over the past 500 years – as the West has more or less taken the shape as we know it today, with certain modifications, of course – all the world’s tragedies have originated in Europe or have occurred because of European policies. http://t.me/RusEmbUK/2045“— TASS]

At least half-true but, by the same token, almost all the great advances of civilization over the past 500 years were achieved in Europe by Europeans, or by Europeans operating elsewhere, e.g. North America.

As Rudolf Steiner said, “Europe is the head-organism of the world“.

[“We give them a de facto NATO membership”: Finnish President @alexstubb shares his idea for a Ukraine security guarantee.“]

Do idiots like that Finn, or Starmer, understand that, if European states give the Kiev regime a “security guarantee” (because the USA will not), and that then leads to direct conflict with Russia without any US backing for Europe, those European states might end up devastated by nuclear weapons, with the US taking no part.

Don’t pretend that even all the European NATO states combined could “win” (in any sense) against Russia. In any case, only a few states are truly on board with this stupid “fight Russia” idea.

That smug Finn thinks he is so clever, when he seems to me to be utterly stupid.

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[The Slavs invite the Varangian/Viking Rurik to be their ruler: “We are rich but divided; come and rule over us“]

Diary Blog, 7 November 2024

Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/german-government-on-brink-of-collapse-after-olaf-scholz-sacks-finance-minister

The German government was left on the brink of collapse after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, unexpectedly sacked his finance minister, plunging Europe’s largest economy into political disarray.

“The situation is serious,” Scholz added. “There is war in Europe, tensions are increasing in the Middle East. At the same time, our economy is stagnating.”

[Guardian]

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I could suggest something about certain parts of London (mostly North and North-West), but in view of the fact that free speech in the UK is all but dead (by reason of the activities of “a certain tribe”), I think that, today at least, I prefer to keep my views to myself.

Russia only wants Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper river) and the coastline across to and including Odessa.

Historically, what is now Western Ukraine (based on Lvov) has made several different rulerships, including both Russia and Austria-Hungary.

While Putin would probably prefer to take all of Ukraine, I think that he would accept a peace agreement with a Lvov-based rump Ukraine willing to be neutral in future. That used to be called, from 1945 to 2023, “Finlandization”, and worked quite well for everyone until, quite recently, the Finnish government went mad and joined NATO.

That is a good thing. America is at its best when it is isolationist.

October Revolution

7 November (in the Gregorian calendar) is the day on which, in the Soviet Union, was set aside to commemorate the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 (old-style, Julian calendar).

There were always parades in Moscow. I recall watching Soviet TV news in the old Channel 4 newsroom (then in the old ITN building in Wells Street, near Oxford Street) as a kind of guest, in 1984.

40 years ago, almost half a lifetime.

I recall it mainly because of the excellent picture quality on the satellite link; also because I had come directly from a tough afternoon taekwando session taught by a candidate-competitor black-belt destined for the 1988 Seoul Olympics (I don’t know whether he eventually went, though).

It was interesting to see people normally seen by me only on TV broadcasts. Peter Sissons, for one [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sissons]. I remember how surprised I was that he seemed rather fat when encountered in person.

When the Bolsheviks seized power from the Kerensky government in 1917, a tide of anger and unrest poured across, first Russia, then the rest of the world.

The history of the 20th Century was, to a large extent, the outcome of the fight against, or for Sovietism. The rise of National Socialism was also, to a large extent, the result of Bolshevism and the struggle to resist it. An Abwehr or “parrying”.

Even after the events of the Second World War, the subsequent “peace” revolved around the need in the West to “parry” Sovietism— the Yalta and other agreements, the Cold War, the “Finlandization” not only of Finland itself but also of Austria and Yugoslavia. The taking out of Central Europe, and the reduction of Europe into East and West.

Of course, Sovietism itself changed too, internally: Bolshevism and Leninism became Stalinism (with Trotskyist offshoots overseas), then post-Stalinist Sovietism under Khrushchev and his successors.

International revolution against finance-capitalist reaction became big-power and then superpower rivalry.

By the time I watched that 1984 TV news broadcast, the Cold War was still going strong, superficially, but the Soviet Union had only 5 years left. (Officially, the Soviet Union lasted until 1991, but it was dead by late 1989). It did not necessarily seem so at the time. The Dzerzhinsky Regiment (MVD troops) led that parade (the bit I saw), and the Soviet power still gave the impression of being fearsome. However, as a character notes in one of my favourite films, The Russia House, adaptation of a John le Carre novel, the Soviet knight was dying inside his armour.

Now we are in a rather different world. Still, after a 1989-2022 gap, the superpower rivalry is again there (if it ever went away), but this time as a conflation of a rump-Sovietism with a Great-Russian nationalism, bumping horns against an expansionist NATO led and ruled over by a USA which is, in effect, NWO/ZOG (New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government).

Where now? The front-lines of the conflict are in Ukraine (which the Western power wants to subsume into its sphere of influence) and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East.

Europe needs a new direction. So does Russia. The answer must be a Eurasian ethno-state, Europe joining loosely with Russia against the areas of the world which are comprised of peoples, in very broad terms, now the enemies of positive evolution.

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[painting by Monet]